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Overcoming Shame: Our Dwelling Place Offers Sober Living Home in Eau Claire
new home will offer support for those in recovery
Rebecca Mennecke, photos by Joel Pearish | December 23, 2020
FINDING HOME. Founder Lydia Bethmann outside Our Dwelling Place, a new sober living home in Eau Claire.
"I was filled with immense feelings of shame," said Lydia Bethmann, founder of Our Dwelling Place in Eau Claire, "to face that I was an addict and that I couldn't function OK without alcohol, and I couldn't figure out how to stop on my own. So it was a really uncomfortable process to be dropping everything I had known, dropping my job, leaving my family, my friends, all those comforts, and just going to a new place, scary place, new people, new routines, and really focusing on some deep emotional things and working through those things."
Bethmann, a UW-Eau Claire graduate, sought treatment for an alcohol abuse disorder after receiving her social work degree. As a part of her recovery process, Bethmann decided to live in a sober living home – a shared residential space where people recovering from substance use disorders can keep each other accountable in their recovery processes – but the closest one was in the Twin Cities.
It's a model community,
and it builds community for people in recovery to really get a strong foothold in recovery while they're working through that hard stuff.
LYDIA BETHMANN
founder, our dwelling place
After her transformative and supportive experience at her sober living home near St. Paul, Bethmann decided to come back home and start her own sober living home in the Chippewa Valley: Our Dwelling Place, which will open in January.
"Each year, I'm reminded of that connection, and I can see it in other people," she said. "I was inspired to start building some of that connection in Eau Claire. I love Eau Claire, I think it's such an awesome community, but we all know that there are issues with drinking in Wisconsin around here. … I think that being able to create a space for healing for those issues in our community is something I felt called to do."
The need for sober living homes in the Chippewa Valley – and more generally, Wisconsin – is apparent, according to Bethmann. Hers is only the second sober living home to open in the Chippewa Valley, just behind Eau Claire Sober Living, which opened in July.
Wisconsinites use alcohol at a rate that is higher than the national average, according to Wisconsin's Department of Health Services (64.4% regionally vs. 55.6% nationally), binge drink at higher rates than nationally (21.9% regionally vs. 16.1% nationally) and yet perceive great risk from their habits at a lower percentage than nationally (38.7% regionally vs. 44.9% nationally). In 2019, alcohol was the most-used substance by a margin of 9,745 people (with marijuana next in line).
And alcohol abuse isn't the only issue affecting Wisconsin: Since 2014, the rate of deaths relating to drug overdose have steadily increased. However, Wisconsin has only 216 sober living home facilities, as compared to Minnesota, which has 280 – and yet, in a 2018 study, Wisconsin was ranked the second drunkest state in the country. Minnesota was ranked sixth. "The current reality is that there's not a lot of sober living options available," said Jill Gamez, the executive director of Arbor Place, a treatment center based in Menomonie. "So there's certainly more of a need than there is availability."
"The current reality is that there's not a lot of sober living options available. So there's certainly more of a need than there is availability."
Jill Gamez
Arbor Place
There are rules to living in Our Dwelling Place: No drugs, and no drinking. There are drug tests and breathalyzers to help residents keep each other accountable. There are chore expectations to keep up the house, curfews, and it's mandatory for residents to participate in outside support groups, which helps them become more integrated with their community.
But the purpose of sober living homes isn't to offer treatment (as most sober living homes are nonprofessional living spaces); it's to offer support. "It's a model community," Bethmann said, "and it builds community for people in recovery to really get a strong foothold in recovery while they're working through that hard stuff outside with their counselors."
Community is an important part of the recovery process of many drug and alcohol users, according to Gamez. And, since the pandemic hit in March, many facilities have had to cancel or limit numbers of participants in their group meetings, and close many residential treatment facility options, making the recovery process more challenging.
"Alcoholism and addiction feed off of isolation and fear," Bethmann said, "and I think there's going to be a greater need for this kind of support."
Bethmann hopes by the end of 2021 to have a certification from the Wisconsin Association of Sober Homes. Keep up with progress on the home on Instagram at @sobergalz.


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Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and the Post-2015 Agenda: What's Next?
Guest post by Françoise Girard, President of the International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC)
Women's rights advocates at the 58th session of the Commission on the Status of Women on March 21, 2014. Photo credit: UN Women/Jeca Taudte
"You've done remarkably well!" Those were the admiring words of an incredulous high-level United Nations (UN) official, when a colleague and I met him a few weeks ago to discuss the outcome of the Open Working Group (OWG) of the General Assembly on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). "We," of course, are the women's groups (organized as the Women's Major Group) who've fought long and hard to ensure that a standalone goal on gender equality would feature in the SDGs proposed by the OWG. The inclusion of gender equity was not a given, but it was achieved.
We had also pressed governments to ensure that sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) would be included as targets under both the gender goal (SDG 5) and the goal on health (SDG 3). We came away with a significant, if partial result: Under SDG 3, governments agreed, by 2030, to "ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes" (target 3.7). Under SDG 5, they also agreed to "ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the ICPD and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences" (target 5.6).
Governments also agreed to "eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilations" (target 5.3). Other important targets included to eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls (target 5.2), reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births (3.1), end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria (3.3) and achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health care services, and access to safe, effective, quality, and affordable essential medicines and vaccines (3.8). Compared to the Millennium Development Goals, the proposed SDGs represent significant progress, addressing critical areas for action that, if implemented, will transform the lives of women and girls globally. They also put the lie to claims that "we could never get today the agreements we obtained in the 1990s." We have in fact gone beyond them.
What now? The General Assembly will begin its final negotiations on the final post-2015 development agenda early next year, for adoption in September 2015. Governments from the global South have clearly indicated that they expect the outcome of the OWG to be the basis for negotiation, and would not tolerate attempts by the Secretary General's staff to "streamline" its 17 goals and 169 targets. That is good news for SRHR, because these targets were the most thoroughly debated and negotiated in the OWG. What emerged on SRHR from the OWG certainly represents global consensus, despite objections from a handful of opponents led by the Holy See and Saudi Arabia.
The OWG document can and should be improved upon. Human rights, the rule of law, and access to justice were not sufficiently established as key aspects of development. As noted by several governments last month at the UN General Assembly's first ever panel discussion on child marriage, preventing child, early, and forced marriage should be its own target since it has multiple, far-reaching causes and consequences. "Sexual rights" (i.e., the right of everyone to have control over matters related to their sexuality, free of coercion, discrimination, and violence) were omitted from the SDGs, despite having been agreed to by governments at Rio+20 and recent ICPD Beyond 2014 reviews in Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Non-discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, which the UN Human Rights Council has just again denounced, should be included. Finally, adolescents and their right to sexual and reproductive health services and information, including comprehensive sexuality education, must be addressed if the post-2015 agenda is to be relevant for the 2.4 billion children under the age of 19 alive today.
The freedom to determine what happens to our own bodies and to make decisions about sexuality, relationships, and childbearing are fundamental facets of our lives. By investing in and promoting these rights, governments can unleash the power of women and girls and transform societies.
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Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Key to Achieving Sustainable Development
By Suzanne Petroni, Senior Director for Gender, Population, and Development at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
Last month, the global community celebrated the 20th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). The ICPD, which took place in Cairo in 1994, led to an historic agreement by 179 governments to place women—and importantly, their reproductive health—at the center of the sustainable development agenda. Five years later, while at the State Department, I served as the U.S. government's "officer in charge" for the five-year review of the ICPD, where we exulted when the global community agreed to advance the ICPD agenda through promoting access to safe abortion, comprehensive sexuality education, and youth-friendly reproductive health services, among other critical areas.
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Meeting the Family Planning Needs of Women and Couples Affected by HIV
Guest post by Tricia Petruney, Technical Advisor, FHI360
Like all women and men, people living with or at risk of acquiring HIV have the right to determine the number and timing of their children and to safely achieve their reproductive intentions. Yet many women and couples affected by HIV lack access to family planning (FP) services and experience disproportionately high rates of unintended pregnancy and abortion. Why is this so? One major challenge is that myths, misinformation, and stigma with regard to the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) rights of people affected by HIV continue to persist among healthcare workers.
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Research has shown that healthcare providers often have poor knowledge, attitudes, and behavior with regard to providing contraception to clients affected by HIV. For example, they often (incorrectly) emphasize condoms as the sole FP option appropriate for these women and couples. Moreover, most do not routinely discuss the importance of dual method use, offer other more reliable contraceptive method options, or provide emergency contraception.
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Q: Javascript - Issue with Arrow Function I'm beginner with Javascript and my teacher gave me this code :
var z = (x=>(y=>2*y)(x)+3)(5);

(Sorry for my English, I'm a French guy with a bad level of English ^^)
I have to re-write this code with simple functions but I'm not sure of myself.
For me, I can re-write this code like :
var x = 5;
var y = 2 * x;
var z = y + 3;

But, it's not re-write with simples functions.
My question is : can you help me to understand how arrow function works in this case and give me an idea how to re-write this code with simple functions.

A: Arrow functions that have a => b form implicitly return b when called. You can imagine them like:
function (a) { return b }

Additionally, your code sample is wrapped in () and immediately invoked, pattern known as the Immediately Invoked Function Expression (IIFE):
(a => b)(3)

which is the same as
(function (a) { return b })(3)

Where both functions get defined and invoked immediately, hence the name.
Now all you have to do is use these two ideas, implicit returns and IIFEs for arrow functions, to re-write your example as plain functions with explicit returns and regular IIFEs.
In other words:

*

*Add return statements where they are assumed to exist (implicit in arrow functions)

*Add function() around each arrow function's arguments.

Here's what is happening in your code sample in plain English:

*

*Pass 5 into an IIFE which takes x

*Pass that x down to another IIFE which takes y

*Return 2 * y from the second IIFE

*Add 3 to what was return from second IIFE

*Return result from the first IIFE

Or as a math formula:
z = x = (2 * y) + 3

A: We have:
var z = (x=>(y=>2*y)(x)+3)(5);

The arrow function definition says that x=>(....) means (function(x){ return ...})
So
var z = (function(x) {
    return (y=>2*y)(x)+3;
})(5);

We have now another arrow function y=>2*y, that means (function(y) { return 2*y}).
So
var z = (function(x) {
    return (function(y) {
            return 2*y;
        })(x) + 3;
})(5);

And that's all.
Remember that (function(){})() it's an anonymous function declaration executed immediately. So at the end, the var z is a simple number.

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Making OxyContin 'Tamper Proof' Helped Spread Hepatitis C
MONDAY, Feb. 4, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- An effort to make the opioid painkiller OxyContin harder to abuse drove addicted patients to heroin and caused a dramatic increase in hepatitis C, a new study suggests.
In a classic case of unintended consequences, Connecticut-based Purdue Pharma reformulated its powerful and popular drug OxyContin for the right reasons. It became harder to crush or dissolve, thus making it harder to snort or inject for a fast high.
But that change left millions of addicted patients without their drug of choice, so they turned to another opioid -- heroin. Heroin users inject the drug and often share needles, which has spread hepatitis C and resulted in outbreaks of HIV, experts say.
"The fact that we are seeing a rise in hepatitis C infection rates suggests that even if we could stop fatal overdoses, we're going to have long-term public health consequences, because hepatitis C has long-term and very costly effects," said the study's lead researcher, David Powell. He's a senior economist at the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research organization.
Powell said the OxyContin reformulation probably wouldn't have had this effect if there weren't a readily available, cheap substitute like heroin.
After the reformulation, Powell's team found that in states with high rates of OxyContin abuse, rates of hepatitis C increased three times faster than in other states.
Although the study can't prove cause and effect, the researchers said they found a direct link between the changes in OxyContin and the swell of hepatitis C infections.
Hepatitis C causes liver disease. It's responsible for more deaths in the United States than any other infectious disease -- 20,000 in 2015. The rate of new hepatitis C infections remained unchanged for years, but began to rise alarmingly in 2010, when OxyContin was reformulated, the researchers reported.
Many addicts now need treatment for both their addiction and for hepatitis C, Powell said. But today's hepatitis C drugs are very expensive, which can put them out of the reach of those who need them most.
A recent report from the University of Washington put the cost of a full course of hepatitis C treatment at as much as $94,000.
"These results should steer the public and policymakers to increasing access to [addiction] treatment," Powell said. "If more treatment were available, maybe we could shift more people into treatment than into illicit drug markets."
For the study, Powell and colleagues analyzed hepatitis C rates in each state from 2004 to 2015.
States with high rates of OxyContin abuse before the reformulation saw a 222 percent increase in hepatitis C cases after reformulation, the findings showed. States with lower abuse rates saw a 75 percent increase in hepatitis C infections during the same time.
Reformulation of OxyContin coupled with pressure on doctors to stop prescribing opioids left some people with a desperate choice, said Dr. Alysse Wurcel. She is an infectious disease physician at Tufts Medical Center in Boston.
"When you cut people off from a medicine that is sustaining them, they will turn to other methods as a way to feel normal," Wurcel said. "We did not provide any method of rescue to these people."
The spike in hepatitis C is a consequence of that, Wurcel said. She believes addicts have a medical problem that needs care, and should not be stigmatized as criminals or weak-willed.
"There are not enough options for people who have opioid disorder to get treatment," Wurcel said.
Ricky Bluthenthal is a professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles. He agreed with Wurcel.
"We need to improve the availability of medication treatments," Bluthenthal said. He mentioned methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone -- the three drugs approved for addiction treatment -- and suggested "syringe exchange programs on a national scale."
Also paramount, Bluthenthal said, is more accessible hepatitis C treatment.
Wurcel seconded that. "The cost of treating hepatitis C is one of the most solvable issues," she said. "There's no reason why it has to be that expensive."
The report was published Feb. 4 in the journal Health Affairs.
For more on hepatitis C, visit the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse.
SOURCES: David Powell, Ph.D., senior economist, RAND Corporation, Arlington, Va.; Alysse Wurcel, M.D., infectious disease physician, Tufts Medical Center, Boston; Ricky Bluthenthal, Ph.D., professor, department of preventive medicine, Institute for Prevention Research, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Feb. 4, 2019, Health Affairs
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Saba Sharma August 8, 2018 August 27, 2018 Interviews
One of the key moments of the academic year 2017-18 was the UCU (Universities and Colleges Union) strike action in February-March 2018. As academic staff went on strike for a total of 14 days to defend their pensions (under threat from university managements' decision to undermine defined benefits), it raised questions for students, researchers and staff alike about the role of the university, and the meaning of public good. Here we present two interviews (conducted by Mathilda Rosengren and Saba Sharma) from the last day of the strike at the Downing Site picket, one with two lecturers at the Geography department, and another with undergraduate students.
https://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/infrastructure/blog/wp-content/uploads/UCU-Strike-18-Charlotte-and-Mia.mp4
In the first interview, with Mia Gray and Charlotte Lemanski, both lecturers at the Department of Geography, a key theme emerges about the importance of education as a public good, and the need to defend this idea in the universities. Both emphasised that the strike was as much about protesting the overall privatisation of education as it was defending the pensions of lecturers themselves. For Mia, this was important not just for themselves, but also to safeguard pensions for early career academics who would be the worst hit by the cutbacks. And as Charlotte correctly pointed out, it was also in solidarity with precarious workers elsewhere, who did not have the legally sanctioned right to strike as they did.
Both lecturers were quick to relate the strike back to their own research and academic interests as well. Mia looks specifically at unions themselves, and how they create solidarity and social infrastructure, and are driven by a sense of the public good. Charlotte's work is also concerned with social injustice (in India and South Africa), but she also sees academics themselves as having an important public role in speaking up for these issues, within and beyond their research.
https://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/infrastructure/blog/wp-content/uploads/UCU-Strike-18-Student-interview-subtitles.mp4
Both Charlotte and Mia were keen to emphasise the solidarity they had received not just among staff, but from students, who were frequently seen visiting with coffee, baked goods, or just spending some time at the pickets. For the second interview, we met four such students at the site (all third-year undergraduates), each of whom agreed with the striking staff. While they acknowledged the strike was disruptive, this, they asserted, was the point. They directed their frustration around this at university management instead of their lecturers. All saw the industrial action as an important moment at which to reflect on the privatisation of education, and the need to raise voices against this trend.
(Video editing and subtitling by Mathilda Rosengren, text by Saba Sharma)
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Jim Chase, President of MN Community Measurement to step down in 2017
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MN Community Measurement (MNCM) announced that Jim Chase, who has led the organization since it was launched in 2004, plans to step down in 2017. Chase has developed MNCM from a pioneering startup to a nationally recognized model for public reporting on health care quality and cost. He will continue to lead the organization until the Board of Directors appoints a new president.
"After more than a decade of service, Jim has advised the board that it is the right time for him to pass the reins to a new leader," said Tim Hernandez, MNCM board chair. "We are grateful for his vision in improving the quality of care in our state and we are confident that his successor will have a strong foundation on which to build."
MNCM started as a pilot project in 2003. That year, it became the first in the nation to use electronic medical records to begin collecting and publicly reporting on health care quality from clinics across the state. In 2004, it released its first quality report. It provided information about care in areas such as asthma, diabetes, breast and cervical cancer and well child visits.
"MNCM has a solid foundation to continue to lead towards better value in health care especially as Medicare and other organizations move towards greater transparency around quality and cost," said Chase.
MNCM has developed more than 70 measures, collects information about quality and patient experience and reports results from more than 1,500 clinics, 500 medical groups and 135 hospitals on MNCM's public reporting website MNHealthScores.org.
Under Chase's leadership, other accomplishments for MNCM include:
National endorsement. The National Quality Forum (NQF), considered the gold standard for health care measurement in the United States, endorsed nine MNCM measures for conditions including knee replacement, spine surgery and care for diabetes, depression, asthma and heart and arteries.
Adopted by Medicare. The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services has adopted MNCM measures for diabetes and depression to be used nationwide.
Cost of Care. MNCM launched the nation's first statewide public reporting of a total cost of care measure by medical group. The measure is endorsed by the NQF and is now being used by organizations in 35 states.
Health disparities. The MNCM Health Care Disparities Report measures care for patients with commercial insurance compared to patients enrolled in government programs.
Health equity. The MNCM Health Equity of Care Report has information about the care for patients based on race, ethnicity, preferred language and country of origin.
Physician ratings. Consumer Reports magazine published MNCM physician group ratings in 2013 and 2016.
Transparency. The Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute gave MNCM an A rating for transparency.
Screening for teens. MNCM was among the first in the nation to report clinic data on screening for obesity and depression in teens.
Patient experience. MNCM launched and publicly reported the largest survey of patient experience by clinic.
The board is conducting a national search for Chase's successor and has convened a search committee. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Interested candidates should send a letter of introduction and a resume to the selection committee via email to jstevenson@ucare.org or by mail to Jamie Stevenson, Human Resources Department, P.O. Box 52, Minneapolis, MN. 55440-0052.


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I love roasted cauliflower and beets, as they both get so sweet and tender. Mix that with the crunchiness of the crispy chickpeas, the saltiness of the feta, and the savoriness of the harissa, and you've got a bowl exploding with flavor as well as nutrients.
1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit. Spread chickpeas on a small, aluminum foil-lined baking sheet. Drizzle 1 tablespoon olive oil over chickpeas, and top with pepper, oregano, and salt.
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3. While vegetables and chickpeas are roasting, prepare harissa by combining tomato paste, garlic, chili powder, cumin, paprika, caraway, lemon juice, and olive oil until a smooth paste forms. Make sure garlic is finely chopped so it mixes in evenly.
4. When vegetables and chickpeas are done, combine in a bowl. Top with feta cheese and parsley, and drizzle with about 2-3 tablespoons of harissa, or as desired. Serve warm or chill.


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Between the Individual and the Collective: for a more encompassing history of individual criminal responsibility and the protection of civilians
Maja Spanu July 31st, 2017
Maja Spanu discusses the common history of protection and prosecution norms.
In the contemporary study of the ethics of war, revisionist Just War theorists and some lawyers have started to direct their focus on the rights and responsibilities of individuals. Critics claim that this focus is problematic, as it does not sufficiently appreciate the importance of collective structures, such as broader social, legal and political contexts, in which individuals are embedded.[1] In any case, it is undeniable that individual rights and responsibilities have acquired a central place in legal, political, and moral discussions on war. Two developments, in particular, exemplify this "individualization of war": first, the increasing focus on the rights of individuals as members of civilian populations that ought to be protected, and second, the increasing focus on the responsibilities of individuals accused of being guilty of war-related crimes.
While these developments are often presented as relatively recent and associated with the post-1945 development of human rights, I want to argue that the push towards an individualized approach to rights and responsibilities in war precedes the post-World War II era. As we are about to see, individual and collective understandings of rights and responsibilities in war have coexisted at least since World War I. The purpose of this short piece is to open space for a more encompassing historical account of the tensions that follow from this coexistence. To do so, I bring individual criminal responsibility and the protection of "vulnerable" populations into one discussion. From this viewpoint, the tensions between individual and collective rights and responsibilities in war appear more intertwined and older than we often think.
Criminal responsibility and the protection of civilians at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference
Differing from standard accounts, I suggest that by looking back at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, we see that discussions on individual responsibility vs. collective guilt as well as debates on protecting populations were already present. At the Peace Conference, the coexistence of individual and collective understandings of the responsibilities of state/military officials and the rights of domestic populations crystallised in two separate spaces: first, the Commission on the Responsibility of the Authors of War and on Enforcement of Penalties, which combined discussions on the Laws of War and nascent international criminal law; and second, the Committee on New States and the Protection of National Minorities, which debated the creation of new states following the dissolution of Empires and the granting of specific rights to domestic populations deemed vulnerable.
In 1919, the Council of Four of the Paris Peace Conference (Italy, France, the US, and the UK) decided to bring together legal advisors from different Allied and Associated countries to form a commission that would assess the crimes and responsibilities of World War I. The Commission had four main tasks and was thus divided into four subcommittees. First, it had to determine whether heads of state and high officials could be held legally responsible for waging aggressive war. Second, the Commission had to report on violations of the laws and customs of war committed by the Central Powers. To do so, it was charged with gathering information from the fronts and occupied areas. Third, it had to determine the degree of responsibility carried by members of "general staffs" and other individuals ("no matter how highly placed"[2]) for violations of the Laws of War directed at the Allied Forces. The Commission was to assess whether commanders, government officials, and heads of state were responsible for ordering violations or for failing to prevent them. Fourth, the Commission had to figure out what kinds of courts and rules could be used for prosecutions.
If, a priori, the tasks of the Commission seemed clearly defined, confusion quickly emerged. First, the separation of the tasks that every sub-commission had to deal with was not entirely obvious. Discussions on the possibility of trying the German Kaiser were a major issue of contention, but nowhere were the modalities of his extradition and prosecution discussed. Moreover, rather than debating actual measures, several committees ended up spending much time discussing the exact scope of their tasks. Second, views among legal advisors varied hugely. Unlike the US, most of the European delegates agreed, at least in principle, on the idea of prosecuting individuals for the crime of aggression. However, they did not necessarily agree on to how to do so or how to deal with other war-related crimes. At the time, moreover, no legal system existed to internationally prosecute individuals.
A third issue of contention was whether prosecutions for "crimes against humanity" should be part of the post-World War I settlement. Delegates in the Commission broadly agreed on prosecuting the crime of aggression and violations of the laws and customs of war as defined in nineteenth century treaties. However, the Canadian delegate on the Commission suggested that, in addition to these two crimes, the Central Powers should also be prosecuted for the commission of "crimes against humanity." The term was used loosely and, with all the similarities, did not refer directly to Hersch Lauterpacht's later definition. Interestingly, though, the idea of "humanity" did encompass reference to the earlier Marten's Clause, as well as to Russia's usage of the term in the context of the Armenian genocide (in May 1915, the Triple Entente had warned the Ottoman Empire that "in view of these new crimes of Turkey against humanity and civilisation, the allied governments announce … that they will hold personally responsible for these crimes all members of the Ottoman government as well as those of their agents who are implicated in such massacres"[3]). Not all European advisors supported the creation of a legal category of "laws of humanity". US Secretary of State, Robert Lansing, moreover, fiercely opposed the Canadian proposal. Similar to its position in the preparatory works of Nuremberg, the US disputed the idea of laws of humanity for two reasons: first, as they would imply the prosecution of crimes committed within the boundaries of a state; and second, as they would unfairly imply individual responsibility, whilst downplaying collective guilt.[4]
Relatedly, another major point of contention in the Commission's work was whether the agents to be prosecuted should be states or individuals. Was it possible to prosecute individuals only for specific crimes or should they be prosecuted for all crimes, despite national bureaucracies behind them? Should all individuals officially involved in war-related crimes be prosecuted, no matter their rank, or just heads of state? The issue that triggered most controversy was whether the individual that many regarded as the main culprit for the outbreak of World War I should be prosecuted: the German Kaiser. Among the Allies, views differed as to his degree of responsibility (and ensuing punishment measures). This, Mark Lewis reveals, was less because of clashing visions of international justice, than for personal and political interests.[5] For example, David Lloyd George had already entered the British electoral campaign with the slogan 'hang the Kaiser!'. Could the result of the trial be a different one? Even if less forcefully, other British and French delegates took similar lines. That, though, was not the position of the US. After all, punishment was not part Wilson's post-war settlement plan. US delegates thus simply denied the legal possibility of internationally prosecuting heads of states.[6]
In 1919, international law did not specifically allow for the protection or prosecution of individuals. The Paris peacemakers were therefore unable to legally enforce the international prosecution of the Kaiser, though they proposed that this should happen in some form. The compromise that was reached was to include article 227 in the Treaty of Versailles, which stated that a trial for Kaiser Wilhem II ought to be organised specifically for a "supreme offence against international morality and the sanctity of treaties." This was not more than a statement and did neither include violations of the laws and customs of war, nor the "laws of humanity". However, article 228 of the Treaty did refer to the right of the Allies to bring before military tribunals persons accused of having committed violations of the laws and customs of war. Ultimately, the Netherlands never extradited the Kaiser, arguing that they did not recognise in their legislation any of the points discussed in Paris. Still, the final report of the Commission on Responsibility, published in the American Journal of International Law in 1920, stated that:
"all persons belonging to enemy countries, however high their position may have been, without distinction of rank, including heads of states, who have been guilty of offences against the laws and customs of war, or the laws of humanity, are liable to criminal prosecution."[7]
In its report, the Commission proposed a legal order not so dissimilar from Nuremberg. After all, it suggested trying individuals, including heads of states, for violations of the "laws of humanity" by a high tribunal. It proposed that this tribunal would operate on the basis of an international law derived from the Marten's Clause. The report did not necessarily mark a legal transformation – especially since collective sanctions were imposed on the losers of the war (see, famously, article 231 of the Versailles Treaty). However, the report did foster discussion on individual prosecutions. We should also remember that, even though repudiated by the Allies, German authorities did hold trials in Leipzig to judge alleged German war criminals. Although the Leipzig trials were widely perceived as ineffective and poorly organised, they reveal that a notion of individual criminal responsibility in war was developing.
However, there was another question that had to be dealt with, namely, how to conceive of the population that had not taken part in the war, but survived it. The point I want to make is that some civilian populations came to be viewed as victims deserving protection. This recognition of supposedly vulnerable population groups did not follow the combatant/non-combatant distinction. Rather, it followed the belief that specific groups, defined along ethnic and religious lines, deserved recognition and legal protection due to their particular vulnerability. Accordingly, discussions on this matter did not take place in the Commission on Responsibility, but in the Conference Committee for the creation of new states arising from the breakdown of Empires (and resulted in the signing of Minority Treaties). The point has been made that until 1919, the standards of humanity and civilisation as stated in the Marten's Clause were perceived as sufficient to protect civilian populations, at least in Europe.[8] However, with the creation of new states in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, the Allies claimed that new standards needed to be constructed.
The Allies (and US President Wilson in particular) argued that in order to maintain international peace and order, new states should be defined along ethnic lines and smaller groups within these states should be granted international guarantees for protection. This may have been a sign that the Allies perceived the new states as inexperienced and unable to guarantee the equal protection of their population. However, the argument that the Allies advanced was that ethnicity was the most suitable ground for politics of recognition, given the imperial past of that part of Europe. The formal recognition of the new states was thus made conditional upon the signing of treaties granting protection to specific minority groups. In case of mistreatment, recognised members of these minorities would be entitled to directly address petitions to the League of Nations – either collectively or individually. While the decision at the Paris Peace Conference to enforce Minority Treaties was taken without direct reference to the Laws of War, this matter might require further attention. After all, the codification of the Minority Treaties took place in a peace conference that was the direct result of a long-lasting and destructive war – a war in which groups of civilians had been persecuted because of their religious and ethnic origins. Denationalisation, mass murder, and the rape of members of specific population groups were regularly reported to the Commission on the Responsibility of War. Interestingly, these are crimes that came to be internationally recognized after World War II.
The problem with the Minority Treaties was that they were codified on very contradictory grounds. Without discussing all problematic aspects of the treaties, I want to briefly sketch the elements most relevant for our discussion. Each treaty was different and dealt with the specific domestic context of every new state. Hence, every treaty was supposed to set out rights for members of specific national minorities, as well as the duties of state authorities to guarantee these rights. However, due to the inexperience or prejudice of the Paris peacemakers, not all previously recognised minorities were acknowledged in the treaties. It remains unclear how the selection was made. As Carole Fink has suggested, acknowledging the rights of certain groups while ignoring others gave rise to the problem of the "named and unnamed minorities, protected and unprotected people".[9] But this may not have been a matter of much concern in 1919. The process of drafting the treaties and having them ratified by the new states, which regarded them as international intrusion into their domestic affairs, was complex enough.
Similarly, how the Minority Treaties would be implemented was not a matter of much concern and no international implementation mechanism was set up. After all, when the representatives of the new states signed their respective treaty, they were asked to give two basic international guarantees. First, they had to guarantee that the treaty would be integrated into their domestic legislation. Second, they had to give assurance that minority protection would be an obligation of international interest, under the guarantee of the League of Nations.
Things, though, did not really go that way. Both the Minority Treaties and the two bilateral agreements on exchanges of populations signed under the auspices of the League are cases in point. Eric Weitz remarks that, ironically, recognition of minority groups and deportation of populations emerged together in Paris.[10] It might well be, therefore, that the influence of the post-World War I twin notion of recognition & protection has been underappreciated because of the ambivalence of the Minority Treaties. While they led to recognition and empowerment of individuals through the allocation of special rights, they also led to exclusion and deportation. This dark part of the story of protecting "vulnerable" populations needs further elucidation. In the following decades, lawyers and international actors dealt with this dilemma through the formalisation of individual human rights that grant protection beyond national allegiances and group membership. But the post-1945 tension between genocide (a crime committed against groups) and crimes against humanity (focused on the individual beyond group allegiance) shows us that what happened before 1945 remains relevant today.
Conclusive remarks
My point in bringing the protection of civilians and individual criminal responsibility together into a single historical account has been to show the existence of old interlocking tensions between notions of individual responsibility, collective guilt, innocence and protection. Joining the two sides of a not so different story helps to uncover the many legal, political, and moral difficulties in comprehending the reality of war. Embracing such complexity might also prove helpful as it reveals how much the protection of civilians and individual criminal responsibility in war share. Moreover, it reveals that the issues discussed in 1919 are not so different from the issues that we face today.
[1] See the debate between Michael Walzer and Jeff McMahan on Philosophia 34 (2006)
[2] AAVV, La paix de Versailles: La responsabilité des auteurs de la Guerre et Sanctions. La documentation Internationale, vol. 3 (Les Editions Internationales 1930), 5.
[3] Quoted in Peter Holquist, "Crimes Against Humanity: Genealogy of a Concept", unpublished working paper, University of Pennsylvania
[4] See for a detailed account of these debates Mark Lewis, The Birth of the New Justice, (Oxford University Press 2014).
[5] Lewis, The Birth of the New Justice, 36-49
[6] AAVV, La paix de Versailles, see the debates of the second sub-committee of the Commission.
[7] "Commission on the Responsibility of the Authors of the War and of Enforcement of Penalties", The American Journal of International Law vol14, no1/2, 1920 (95-154)
[8] Helen Kinsella, The Image before the Weapon: A Critical History of the Distinction between Combatant and Civilian (Cornell University Press, 2011), Chapter 5.
[9] Carole Fink, Defending the Rights of Others : The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938 (Cambridge University Press, 2004), 73.
[10] Eric Weitz, "From the Vienna to the Paris System: International Politics and the Entangled Histories of Human Rights, Forced Deportations, and Civilizing Missions," The American Historical Review 113: 5 (2008): 1313–43.
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The Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow: For Those Who Struggle During Christmas, You Are Not Alone
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Like many people celebrating Christmas, whether as a spiritual discipline or social experience, there is no calm before the storm for me. In fact, it seems like Christmas Eve EVE might even be the storm before the calm. Every year I commit to getting everything done early, but more times that not, I'm right in the mix of the final gift buying frenzy, braving the crowded grocery store fighting over that forgotten ingredients and mentally preparing for the interaction marathon that Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and the Day After Christmas that is my family's life.
And breathe.
In many ways, this rush is part of the experience, or at least part of what Christmas has become. Sometimes it makes me sad to see how much about Christmas is not about the hope, joy, love and peace that I understand it to be, while at other times, I am tickled by the genuine change in the tone of interactions that happens during this time of the year. From the skip in a business person's walk, to the tough guy in a Santa hat, whether you think someone has declared war on Christmas or you are declaring your own war on those who have declared war on those who are declaring war . . . this is a pretty wonderful time of the year time of the year.
But, I know, not for everyone.
As I go into these last days, like everyone else, I try to remember the many people for whom this is not a joyous time of the year. With themes of joyous parties, happy families and generous giving surrounding us, those who struggle with depression, estranged family and/or economic survival are often forgotten. I don't lift this up in order to compel feelings of guilt or to cast aspersions on folks who are living large during this time, but simply as a nod and a word to those who struggle with these times to say that you are loved.
You are loved by this stranger.
You are loved by people that you might not expect.
You are loved by God.
And yes, I know that my words offered on a blog post will not heal your spirit, reconcile families or feed your body, but in this, I hope you know that there are many who show this love not only during the holidays or not only with words, but who are there for and with you when you need them. I don't know where the words and actions will come for you, but I believe there are those people for all of us: it might be your neighbor who has invited you to join them for a meal, or maybe it's that stranger sitting at the table next to you at the cafe with whom you share a brief conversations or when it is really bad, it's that suicide hotline that you never would have imagined that you would ever need.
So, while I wish those who are struggling all of the joy, peace, hope and love that I can muster, my greatest hope is that you know deep in your soul that you are not alone.
In fact, if you click on over to this link on my Facebook Page, feel free to say hello, share your story and I bet some folks will hang out with you for a bit.
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The hub protein loquacious connects the microRNA and short interfering RNA pathways in mosquitoes Academic Article
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes vector several arboviruses of global health significance, including dengue viruses and chikungunya virus. RNA interference (RNAi) plays an important role in antiviral immunity, gene regulation and protection from transposable elements. Double-stranded RNA binding proteins (dsRBPs) are important for efficient RNAi; in Drosophila functional specialization of the miRNA, endo-siRNA and exo-siRNA pathway is aided by the dsRBPs Loquacious (Loqs-PB, Loqs-PD) and R2D2, respectively. However, this functional specialization has not been investigated in other dipterans. We were unable to detect Loqs-PD in Ae. aegypti; analysis of other dipteran genomes demonstrated that this isoform is not conserved outside of Drosophila. Overexpression experiments and small RNA sequencing following depletion of each dsRBP revealed that R2D2 and Loqs-PA cooperate non-redundantly in siRNA production, and that these proteins exhibit an inhibitory effect on miRNA levels. Conversely, Loqs-PB alone interacted with mosquito dicer-1 and was essential for full miRNA production. Mosquito Loqs interacted with both argonaute 1 and 2 in a manner independent of its interactions with dicer. We conclude that the functional specialization of Loqs-PD in Drosophila is a recently derived trait, and that in other dipterans, including the medically important mosquitoes, Loqs-PA participates in both the miRNA and endo-siRNA based pathways.
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Description: This experiment is an integral part of BBSRC Exploiting Genomics grant: 233/EGA16203. Functional genomics shoot meristem dormancy. Dormancy is an active state in which cell division is repressed. We are interested in the regulation of the transitions of dormancy and activity in shoot meristems in seeds. Abscisic acid (ABA) is involved in the dormancy process. Different general ABA biosynthesis and sensitivity mutants have been characterised in Arabidopsis showing reduced dormancy levels (aba1-1, abi1-1 and abi3-4) (Leon-kloosterziel et al 1996, Holdsworth et al 1999), viviparous fus3-8 mutant seeds (Baumlein et al 1994), and also seed-specific no dormant mutant seed rdo2 (koornneef et al 1996). We will compare the transcriptome of wildtype dormant seed with those of freshly harvested seed of the non-dormant mutants abi1-1, aba1-1, rdo2 and viviparous mutant seeds fus3-8 and abi3-4. This will allow us to distinguish germination-related genes from genes specifically expressed during seed dormancy.
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Since 1981, the Office of Administration of the Executive Office of the President has actively pursued a rigorous program of rehabilitation of the EEOB. The additional the constructing is from a fiber optic route, the extra it would value and the longer it can take to provide service. Recent and ongoing tasks embody the fifty two-story River Point office tower and three-tower Wolf Level blended-use growth, both along the Chicago River downtown, and the Youngsters's Memorial Hospital redevelopment in Lincoln Park. Plans for a four-story office constructing on the banks of Reedy River in Falls Park would include a mixture of brick and glass. Many startups and tech firms will not even consider leasing an workplace that doesn't have a minimum of one SLA-based mostly Internet service accessible.


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Kremlin-linked Russian businessman Vladislav Klyushin was extradited from Switzerland to the United States on Saturday, the Swiss justice ministry said, a move Russia said was part of an ongoing hunt for Russians by Washington.
US police officers accompanied him from Zurich on a flight to the United States, where he faces insider trading charges, the ministry said in a statement.
Klyushin was arrested in Switzerland in March, following a request from US authorities, which officially asked for his extradition in April.
Russia said it was deeply disappointed with the Swiss decision and Klyushin's hasty extradition.
"We are forced to state that we are dealing with another episode in Washington's ongoing hunt for Russian citizens in third countries," the TASS news agency cited Vladimir Khokhlov, a spokesperson for the Russian embassy in Switzerland, as saying on Sunday.
Klyushin is accused of insider trading worth tens of millions of dollars with several accomplices, the Swiss ministry said.
The businessman owns M13, a Russian company that offers media monitoring as well as cyber-security services. Its website says its services are used by the Russian presidential administration and government.
Klyushin's appeal against the extradition was dismissed by the Swiss federal court on Dec. 10.
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"The Greek and Latin puns to be found in these lectures are sufficient to show that Dr. Duport was the author of them, for it is well known that learned professor loved to play upon words. He used to call his two maids his Janissaries, because their names were Jenny and Sarah." Memoirs of Literature, vol. IX. p. 156.
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Twenty-four American women and men will become victims of intimate-partner violence in the minute it will take you to read this story. If it takes you two minutes, the number jumps to 48.
Rape, physical violence and stalking in relationships are much more prevalent than previously thought, reports the Centers for Disease Control in a survey released last week. In comparison to U.S. Department of Justice data on reported crime, the numbers are exponentially higher in some categories such as rape, which is seven times higher.
The data do not particularly surprise Heather Wagner, director of the Mississippi Attorney General's Office Domestic Violence Division.
"It's difficult seeing it in print like that," she said. "... (But from) what we're hearing from the courts and from law enforcement and from advocates, it kind of jives. I was surprised, but not really."
The CDC completed interviews for this first "National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey" in 2010, culling data from talking with 16,507 adults (9,086 women and 7,421 men). The survey elevates domestic violence from a .crime to a serious public-health issue. Not only are the numbers startling--more than a third of all women and a quarter of all men have experienced violence from an intimate partner--IP violence affects victims' health long after the event. Victims are more likely to suffer from frequent headaches, chronic pain, difficulty sleeping, and poor mental and physical health, among other ailments, than those who did not experience such violence.
Sandy Middleton, executive director of the Center for Violence Prevention in Pearl, has seen the results of domestic violence on victims and their children. Many exhibit post-traumatic stress symptoms, similar to what soldiers present after battlefield experiences.
Middleton also said that victim calls for assistance at the center doubled this year. She attributes much of the increase to community involvement and providing better responses.
"We're beginning to understand the issue, and more and more people are getting educated on what domestic violence is," she said. "... Typically, victims don't come forward because they don't trust the system. When the system starts to turn around, and they get it, then victims say, 'Oh, well, I can call for help.'
"It's always been my thinking that the real victims are the ones you don't hear from until you turn the system around."
In 2009, Mississippi ranked No. 16 in the nation (tied with West Virginia) for domestic murders at 23, down from No. 5 in 2008, reports the Violence Policy Center, a Washington, D.C., non-profit that works to stem the tide of gun violence "through research, advocacy, education and collaboration."
The organization has reported domestic murders in its annual When Men Murder Women reports since 1998. The most recent report, issued in September, uses 2009 data.
But murders are just one end result of domestic violence. One in five American women and one in 71 men said they had been raped in their lifetime. More than half the female rape victims surveyed by the CDC reported that it was their intimate partners who had raped them, and about 40 percent said the perpetrator was an acquaintance. Among male victims, more than half reported an acquaintance had raped them. About a quarter of the women and 14 percent of the men report being victims of other physical violence, such as being punched, beaten or slammed against walls.
"The ultimate power and control is rape," Middleton said. "It stands to reason that it's a cousin to domestic violence."
Stalking--especially through harassing calls and messages--also takes a toll, with 16.2 percent of women and 5.2 percent of men reporting it. In looking at the survey conclusions and recommendations, Wagner is confident that Mississippi is on the right track.
"The laws are there," she said. "It's just a matter of making sure they're enforced uniformly across the state."
Wagner mentioned Mississippi's new domestic-violence data system, which went on line this year. The NISVS cites strong data systems as a crucial tool to evaluate and understand trends, and to use when planning prevention and interventions programs. "That's definitely moving in the right direction as far as we're concerned," she said.
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are Super Bowl LV champions after destroying the Kanas City Chiefs, 31-9. It was last Sunday where the GOAT, Tom Brady would make history and reaffirm his HOF status by claiming his seventh ring. The Bucs also became the first NFL team to win a Super Bowl in their home stadium. While the game wasn't the pound-for-pound offensive slugfest many were hoping it would be, the night still provided plenty of entertainment from Brady and Gronkowski's legendary touchdown connection to the amazing halftime show from The Weeknd.
Right out the gate, many knew they were in for a special night when Tom Brady threw a touchdown to tight end, Rob Gronkowski. It was Brady's first time throwing a touchdown in the opening first quarter in a Super Bowl. Tom Brady ended the game throwing for 201 yards and three touchdowns, two to Gronk and one to Antonio Brown. Throwing for more than 201 yards at the ripe age of 43 is an outlandish thing even for Tom Brady. Even when pressured, Tom Brady stepped up to the challenge to keep his team-leading well into the late night.
The Bucs rushed for more than 145 yards on the ground. On 16 carries, Leonard Fournette rushed for 89 yards and one touchdown. The Bucs stayed with the momentum all night thanks to their defense. The defense held the top-ranked NFL offense of Kansas City to just 107 rushing yards.
For the Kansas City Chiefs, this wasn't the ending many fans were hoping would close out their impressive season. The young promising quarterback Patrick Mahomes struggled under the brightest of lights. Mahomes threw for only 270 yards with no touchdowns, leading to the team's only points coming in the form of field goals. Although Travis Kelce managed to get over 133 yards on 10 receptions, the Bucs' defense proved to be too much. The defense kept star receiver Tyreek Hill to just under 80 yards. Mahomes was in need of much-needed help in the offensive line department, getting sacked three times and forcing two throws which ended in interceptions.
What Tom Brady has done is unmatched by anyone else in football history. With him winning his fifth Super Bowl MVP and seventh Super Bowl, there's no debate about the impact and influence Brady has had in the NFL. This year proved Tom Brady is more than the sum of the men around him (looking at you, Belichick) and in a league of his own. Tom Brady was the cause of the success in New England all along and now has his sights set on building a Tampa Bay dynasty. With the Super Bowl officially over, many are left to wonder can this old boxer step into the ring again with Father Time and go toe for toe in another bout to cap off one of the best sports careers ever by an athlete?
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Empowering eGovernment with Mobile Identity
Published By: Entrust Datacard Published Date: Oct 24, 2016
All of these elements of growing connectivity have the potential to significantly increase productivity, streamline operations and enhance service levels to citizens and stakeholders. But these benefits are only one side of the story. The added complexity of the new eGovernment environment also creates many new challenges, as government agencies search for effective ways to secure and control access to the rapidly growing number and variety of gateways to their ecosystems.
Part 3 - A Buyer's Guide to Mobile Identity Solutions
Today, mobility is no longer a trend. It's an established reality reshaping the enterprise. This white paper is the third in a three-part series on enabling the mobile enterprise while securing information and protecting your organization.
The Mobility Quandary: Balancing Mobile Workforce Productivity with Security
The pace of business is faster than ever before. Due to the rapid adoption of cloud and mobile computing, driven by consumerization, operational needs, and security requirements, ESG believes that Identity and Access Management (IAM) is undergoing a profound transition. Download this ESG whitepaper to learn why organizations should combine Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solutions to adapt to the influx of workforce mobility without interfering with user experience or compromising security.
Securing Productivity in the Borderless Enterprise
Before you transform your business with mobility services, you need to consider both the management and security challenges you'll face from the combination of mobile devices and cloud-based apps. In this IDC report, you'll examine enterprise mobility management technology—offered through solutions such as the Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite—and how it helps manage the security risks of your mobility strategy. Learn about these critical benefits: •	Provisioning and configuration devices and users—across platforms •	Ensuring only authorized users access data with identity system integration •	Ensuring only compliant devices access the corporate network through conditional access policies •	Allowing mobile applications to deploy in a more secure, streamline manner with enterprise app stores •	Providing security for data at rest, within workflows or over wireless networks, using granular policies around applications
mobile, cloud, best practices, productivity, technology
Identity as the New Perimeter: Securely Embracing Cloud, Mobile and Social Media
Cloud adoption, mobility, social media and the consumerization of IT are transforming many business activities for enterprise employees, partners and customers and eliminating the traditional network perimeter. Organizations have to change how they manage security and user identities if they want to keep their data and applications secure. Read this eBook to discover how a centralized identity and access management service can help you create a new identity perimeter.
ca technologies, identity, identity management, user provisioning, security, mobile, cloud computing, social media, mobility, security management, access mangement, identity perimeter
Identity-Centric Security: Enabling and Protecting the Business
Today's trends, including cloud, mobile, social media, and big data, are causing huge changes in the way that identities need to be managed. As a result, the previous notion of a network perimeter is disappearing. With the advent of cloud and mobility, identity has become the new perimeter. This trend will have profound impacts on the business and IT organizations. This paper describes an identity-centric approach to security that can help you grow your business while protecting your key assets from improper use.
ca technologies, identity, identity management, user provisioning, identity centric security, security, cloud
The Impact of Identity Theft in an Always-Connected World
Published By: LifeLock Published Date: Mar 02, 2015
Today's workers and consumers conduct more transactions online and through mobile devices than ever before. Their always-connected lifestyles free them to work and play as they like, but may increase the risk of identity fraud.
Combatting Identity Fraud in a Virtual World
Mobile devices enable workers to take care of business from virtually anywhere, at any time. But, what's the catch? Mobile, social media-savvy employees and customers may be more likely to become identity fraud victims.
Top 5 Reasons to Automate Identity Lifecycle
Published By: Okta Published Date: May 09, 2016
Cloud-first, mobile-first organizations are seeing huge benefits from taking a more distributed approach to IT. Business units are given more freedom to evaluate and select SaaS applications that will enable efficiency and growth. Users are given more freedom to use the devices that make them the most productive. When this trend started, most IT organizations were able to implement some basic, manual processes to administer and govern IT in this best-of-breed distributed environment. However, as the number of touchpoints increases, IT needs to automate to keep pace. This paper goes into more detail on the top 5 reasons to automate identity lifecycle and identity administration and build a solid foundation for future cloud-first, mobile-first IT.
A User-Centric Approach to Integrated Identity and Mobility Management
Part of a strong foundation for cloud-first, mobile-first IT includes supporting BYOD. BYOD can improve end user satisfaction and enable employees to work anywhere from any device. To really get these benefits though, the end-user experience must provide seamless access to the applications end-users want and need. Accomplishing this starts with extending app provisioning to mobile devices, and automatically deprovisioning mobile access as part of the identity lifecycle. For the best user experience, you'll want automatic configuration of native mobile applications with mobile SSO, security settings and app settings like usernames, URLs and tenant IDs. Provisioning devices to users should be simply an extension of the foundational identity lifecycle management system. And, mobility management should enable IT teams to implement simple policies to enable and secure access from mobile. This eGuide provides an overview of how Okta can power BYOD programs with integrated identity and mobili
4 Pillars Behind the Evolution of End-User Computing
The mobile-cloud era is here. It is not merely about delivering apps; it is about simplifying processes so you can accomplish more. The mobile-cloud era is redefining productivity by enabling workflows through the key foundations of identity and contextual experiences, mobile collaboration, united endpoint management and security, and windows apps and desktops. Today people work primarily from mobile sources and expect a strikingly continuous experience across all their devices, regardless of which device they select to best accomplish any given task. Once access is established, organizations are looking to transform processes to mobile so they can increase efficiency and workflows for end users, thereby driving productivity to the next level.
Tolly Evaluation: IBM Security Access Manager
Web applications are often the most vulnerable part of a company's infrastructure and yet are typically given direct paths to the internet, thus leaving these vulnerabilities exposed. IBM commissioned Tolly to evaluate IBM Security Access Manager for its Web protection effectiveness and performance as well as its identity federation, risk management and mobile one-time password capabilities. Tolly found that IBM Security Access Manager provided effective, high-performance threat protection while conveniently providing identity federation features and flexible risk-based access options.
access manager, identity federation, risk management, authentication capabilities, threat protection
Part of a strong foundation for cloud-first, mobile-first IT includes supporting BYOD. BYOD can improve end user satisfaction and enable employees to work anywhere from any device. To really get these benefits though, the end-user experience must provide seamless access to the applications end-users want and need. Accomplishing this starts with extending app provisioning to mobile devices, and automatically deprovisioning mobile access as part of the identity lifecycle. For the best user experience, you'll want automatic configuration of native mobile applications with mobile SSO, security settings and app settings like usernames, URLs and tenant IDs.
identity, idaas, iam, identity lifecycle management, mobile, provisioning, active directory, security, cloud applications.
The Foundation for Cloud-first, Mobile-first IT
Within 6 months of starting to use Okta, customers on average will connect more than 10 applications for single sign-on. Once single-sign-on is tackled, cloud-first IT organizations can start to tackle the next set of problems. These next challenges are all about how you manage identities across all connected systems, how to determine who has access to what, and how you maintain control over user access. Some of the largest organizations in the world spend millions of dollars building out complex workflow systems to manage these processes. Even then, they depend heavily on manual work to actually get the job done. With Okta, there is a better way to do this, and it's accessible to organizations of all sizes. Okta Provisioning gives you a foundation for cloud-first IT that brings sanity to your IT processes and enables you to encourage business groups to keep adopting more applications and users to bring the devices of their choice to work. App management, mobility management, and authe
best practices, business optimization, business management, productivity, cloud services, mobile, identity, idaas, iam, identity lifecycle management, mobile, provisioning, active directory, security, cloud applications.
OpenID Connect 1.0 for Enterprise
Published By: Ping Identity Published Date: Feb 12, 2016
In order to meet the challenges presented by the use of mobile apps and cloud services in the enterprise, a new generation of identity protocols has been developed. OpenID Connect 1.0 uses the same building blocks as the modern application architectures and APIs it secures—REST and JSON. This allows it to profile and extend OAuth 2.0 to add an identity layer—creating a singular, cohesive framework that promises to secure APIs, mobile native applications and browser applications. This paper introduces OpenID Connect (Connect), detailing its features and its application in enterprise use cases.
ca technologies, identity, identity management, user provisioning, identity centric security, security, cloud, network provisioning, network security, access control, application security, authentication, security management, cloud computing
Mobile devices are ubiquitous and end users keep tend to keep them close at hand. This represents both an opportunity and a challenge with regard to security and authentication. There is an opportunity to leverage mobile devices to provide out-of-band authentication methods for access to sensitive applications and data. There is also a growing challenge to provide user convenient authentication directly from mobile devices. This eBook will discuss these use cases and how they fit into your overall mobile authentication strategy
ca technologies, authentication, password management, bring your own device, byod, mobile security, security, mobile device, access control, application security, mobile authentication, identity management, security management, web service security, wireless security, mobile device management
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Joint media release - Property Council of Australia and Leading Age Services Australia
Stakeholders invited to provide feedback on new accreditation standards
The Property Council of Australia and Leading Age Services Australia (LASA) are inviting industry, residents and stakeholders to provide feedback on the retirement living sector's proposed new set of accreditation standards.
The Australian Retirement Village Accreditation Scheme (ARVAS) draft standards have today been released publicly for feedback, following an extensive industry-led process to develop a new, independently audited benchmark for assessing the quality and consistency of services and support provided for retirement village residents.
Ben Myers, Executive Director – Retirement Living at the Property Council, said the draft standards have been designed to be a practical and relevant tool for retirement village operators who want to demonstrate a real commitment to operating their villages in a high quality and consistent way.
"The draft ARVAS standards have been broken up into seven quality areas," Mr Myers said.
"From the operator's ability to manage the community and induct staff and volunteers, to a resident's ability to provide feedback on the running of the community, and to general safety and security, the ARVAS standards cover it all.
"Importantly, the standards directly reference the new Retirement Living Code of Conduct, which is the first step in the sector's new quality framework."
Sean Rooney, Chief Executive Officer at LASA, said care and personal services had been included in the retirement living sector's accreditation standards for the first time.
"With more retirement villages either providing or facilitating the delivery of care-related services, it made sense to ensure our accreditation scheme reflected this evolution in the retirement living sector," Mr Rooney said.
Stakeholders are encouraged to provide their feedback to the Property Council (retirementliving@propertycouncil.com.au) or LASA (retirementliving@lasa.asn.au) no later than Friday 12 April 2019.
"A diverse and experienced group of industry professionals have consulted extensively on the development of these new standards, and we encourage the entire industry to contribute their thoughts so the scheme can be as effective as possible."
The draft ARVAS standards can be downloaded here.
Andrew Lowcock | M 0447 666 902 | E alowcock@propertycouncil.com.au
David O'Sullivan | M 0427 138 024 | E davido@lasa.asn.au


You can configure the capacity scheduler queues to scale a Hive batch job for your environment. YARN uses the queues to allocate Hadoop cluster resources among users and groups.
This queue is used for short-duration queries and is assigned 50 percent of cluster resources.
This queue is used for longer-duration queries and is assigned 50 percent of cluster resources.
Select YARN > Configs > Advanced, and in Filter enter yarn.scheduler.capacity.root.
On the command line of the node where YARN is installed, go to the YARN /conf file, and open the capacity-scheduler.xml file.
Define the hive1 and hive2 queues, and set the maximum capacity to 50 percent of the queue users with a hard limit.
If the maximum-capacity is set to more than 50 percent, the queue can use more than its capacity when there are other idle resources in the cluster.
Configure usage limits for these queues and their users.
The default value of 1 for user-limit means that any single user in the queue can at a maximum occupy 1X the queue's configured capacity. These settings prevent users in one queue from monopolizing resources across all queues in a cluster.
From the Ambari dashboard, select ADMIN > Manage Ambari > Views.
Click the URL for the view named AUTO_CS_INSTANCE, which is the capacity scheduler view.
In the YARN Queue Manager, click Add Queue.
Enter the queue path, which is the name of the first queue hive1, and then add the hive2 queue.


The 2019 Radical Australia Cup calendar has been unveiled with an exciting six round championship to highlight the eleventh season of the popular one-make prototype Series that just recently saw a change in management along with the signing of a new Category Management Agreement with the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport.
For the sixth season, Radical Australia Cup will begin on Australia's most iconic circuit – Mount Panorama – as part of the annual Bathurst 12 Hour program, before going to Sydney Motorsport, Phillip Island and The Bend Motorsport Park – where there is some likelihood of a twilight meeting – with the season ending once more at the popular Highlands Motorsport Park venue in New Zealand.
There will be a number of changes to the category for season 2019, not the least being at management level with one of the leading men behind the emergence of the category resigning his role in RA Motorsports – former Cup regular Greg Smith.
With a new Category Management Agreement now in place until the end of the 2021 season, Medland also confirmed that the 2019 season would also see the introduction of Hankook as the control tyre supplier for Australia, as well as an increased involvement with the Radical factory in the UK.
"I've just come back from a dealer meeting in the UK and they again reaffirmed their commitment to Australia and ensuring we have all the tools we need to take the sport forward this year," Medland explained. "We've made a number of changes to the calendar specific to what our drivers were looking for, things like two events at Sydney Motorsport Park – the home circuit of many of the drivers – and more track time at a number of events across the year. There was also a lot of excitement around a return to Highlands Motorsport Park which over the last few years proved to be a very popular destination for the drivers.
With former Supercars driver Karl Reindler continuing to lead the category into the new season, things are looking good for the year ahead, a season which will once more offer the champion an opportunity to compete on some of the world's most famous circuits as part of the European Radical Masters Series.
"Kim Burke did a brilliant job this season, no doubt aided by his journey to Europe last season, something which has pushed a number of our former champions even further on their return, and it's something which has been a fantastic addition to the category each year," Medland added.
Along with the unveiling of the dates for the eleventh season of the Cup, comes confirmation of the bulk of dates for the popular NSW SuperSports series, an event which provides an ideal platform for drivers to gain valuable additional miles on some of the most popular circuits in the country, something which 2018 champion Mitch Neilson used to good effect in his progression in the Radical Australia Cup this season.
For now the season comes to a close with the annual presentation evening in Pyrmont in Sydney on Wednesday 5 December ahead of the annual Gala event at Sydney Motorsport Park tow days later where the Radical regulars can turn valuable pre-season laps ahead of the new year.


Company is coming! Quick! Clean the house!
Yep, that's where we are at as the weekend draws near. I decided (or maybe I finally admitted to myself) that I hate cleaning. HATE IT. We don't spend much time indoors during the summer. Heck, we even cook and eat outside. And now I am in a race to clean the cobwebs that appeared since spring.
It was soooo worth it.
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Excellent! Glad to know that I am not the only one!
Wow! What a great photo! Hummingbirds are smart and awesome!
Thank you! It took a fair bit of patience and quiet.
I can imagine it must have required a lot of patience.
Beautiful! So worth the wait…I remain jealous of that lens you have and your gift for capturing stunning shots! Show your guests your photos and they won't even notice the cobwebs!
WOW! What a fabulous fabulous shot . .so glad you waited outside, and who carers about housework, only have to do it again in a week or when the next set of visitors arrive!!!!
So true Becky! Thank you!
This is SO interesting… just day before yesterday we were sitting on our deck and a humming bird came to visit. We don't have a feeder, it just came onto the deck and hovered for a bit then headed onward.
Now about the cleaning. It's always been the bane of my existence. Even when I was a kid, it took constant nagging from my mother to clean up my room. And just like you, when company was coming, she'd be scurrying around, dragging all of us into the fray, so the house would be presentable. Which is why, now, in my elder years, I decided that hiring a cleaning crew was just the treat I needed. They come once a month and give the house a great cleaning, and in between visits, I keep up on doing the kitchen and bathrooms. Or at least the counters in these rooms. So the work isn't quite so odious.
Thats so cute that the hummingbird came to check you out. 😊You know it's really great to know that I am not the only one that doesn't like cleaning. It never has been my Forte and probably never will be. I think I need bigger closets, or less stuff…Haven't decided yet 😊 Now for the cooking…wouldn't you know that hubby has really stepped up in that regard. I discovered that if I am busy outside he will generally start supper…it helps that he has a faster metabolism and gets hungry sooner I think. So the garden has been a bit of a salvation from the kitchen for me. I just don't know what I will do when winter comes..Thanks for the conversation today Fimnora. Always a pleasure!
Thank you both for the compliment and understanding!
What better way to avoid housework than to lie in wait at the hummingbird feeder?! Lovely photo.
I seem to linger outside there…even now. 😊 Thank you for the compliment.
What housework? It can wait. Got to take that shot before it disappear.