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Special childcare help for parents on irregular hours
Adam Gartrell, National Political Correspondent
Nov 30 2015 at 10:03 AM
Parents who work irregular hours will not miss our on childcare subsidies under the forthcoming Jobs for Families package. Photo: Peter Braig
Special arrangements will be put in place to ensure parents who work irregular hours – such as shift workers and fly-in, fly-out workers – don't miss out on the Turnbull government's new childcare subsidy.
Fairfax Media understands the government is finalising work on protections to make sure that these sectors aren't short changed under the $3.5 billion Jobs for Families package.
Both cabinet and the Expenditure Review Committee have recently approved the package, which has undergone some fine-tuning since it was unveiled by the Abbott government in the May budget. The package is expected to go to the Coalition joint party room and then be introduced into Parliament this week.
The government wants the package passed next year so the new system can begin in 2017.
Under the package, family eligibility for the new subsidy will be determined by a three-tiered "activity test". Parents will need to work, train or study between eight and 16 hours a fortnight to be eligible for up to 36 hours of subsided childcare, between 17 and 48 hours to be eligible for 72 hours of subsidies and more than 49 hours to be eligible for up to 100 hours.
It's believed the government is considering special administrative arrangements that would allow some families working irregular hours to average their activity over a three-month period, rather than over a fortnight.
Originally the brainchild of Treasurer Scott Morrison, when he was responsible for the social services portfolio, the government's package is now spearheaded by Education Minister Simon Birmingham.
"We are focused on ensuring all those Australians who are working irregular hours in a number of different full, part time or casual roles are not disadvantaged," Senator Birmingham told Fairfax Media.
"There are a number of Australians who might work significant hours one fortnight and then much reduced the following fortnight and we will ensure that this work is recognised and these families supported with regular hours of subsidised care.
"Similarly, those in regular fly-in, fly-out work arrangements would be expected to be treated as ordinary full-time workers, ensuring regularity of care and learning experiences for their children."
Parents can currently access 24 hours of the means-tested Child Care Benefit per child per week with no activity test.
To access the non-means tested Child Care Rebate, both partners need to work or train "at some time" during the week – but there is no minimum number of hours.
- SMH
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Da Nang is Southeast Asia's top beach destination
The Vietnamese central coast city of Da Nang has beaten Phuket and Bali to the throne of most popular beach destination in Southeast Asia in 2018. According to a travel agent quoted in the Nikkei Asia Review, "The pace of growth in Da Nang has far exceeded that of Phuket and Bali thanks to the city's good public safety record and lower risk of natural disasters."
In the summer of 2918, a sudden storm off the island of Phuket (Thailand) caused a tourist boat to capsize and sink in an accident that killed 47 Chinese tourists. As a result of the accident and a number of negative media stories about Thailand's tourism industry, Thailand saw a record decline in the number of Chinese tourists who visited the country.
Da Nang City at night
In nearby Indonesia, frequent volcanic eruptions and earthquakes across the archipelago created an exodus of Indonesian's and expats and caused many people to think about visiting the country.
• On August 5th, a 6.9 earthquake struck Lombok Island (near Bali) that killed more than 500 people with another 1,500 being injured
• On Sept. 28th, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province triggering a tsunami and landslides that caused widespread destruction and loss of life. More than 2,000 people are known to have died and 4,400 were seriously injured
• On Dec. 22nd more than 400 people died after a tsunami struck western Java and the southern Sumatra Islands. The tsunami was caused by undersea landslides following an eruption at the Anak Krakatoa volcano
Against this background, travel in Vietnam looks safe, secure and peaceful. According to Airbnb, tourism has increased in Da Nang by 250% during the last 5 years and their bookings have increased 300% during the same time frame.
Other tourism reports state that Da Nang received 7.6 million tourists during 2018. International tourism arrivals were estimated at 2.87 million visitors, an increase of 23% over 2017. In terms of market segments, South Korea was the largest group of international visitors, while Chinese were in second place.
Tourism industry officials are extremely optimistic about Da Nang's tourism future and about the potential of visitor growth from other Asian countries. New international flights are being launched that will connect Da Nang to mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Korea.
Da Nang is also seeing that investments in business and infrastructure are also successful in creating media buzz about the city.
• The APAC summit was successfully held in Da Nang in November 2017 with world leaders, international business people and international media visiting the area
• Da Nang is becoming an IT hub and the city is being developed as one of Vietnam's "smart cities" and a part of the "ASEAN Smart City Network"
• An increasing number of international conferences and events are being held in the city
• My Khe Beach has been voted as one of Asia's most beautiful beaches
• The ancient town of Hoi An, near Da Nang has been positioned a "cool" and "hip" place to visit
Da Nang City's My Khe Beach
International media have also highlighted Da Nang:
• Finder, an Australian travel website listed the city among 10 trending global destinations
• Live and Invest Overseas voted Da Nang among the world's most livable cities
• The New York Times included Da Nang in its 52 best places to visit in 2019
• Multiple domestic and international media have highlighted the Golden Bridge on Ba Na Hill since it opened in June 2018
• Da Nang is embarking on a branding campaign around its annual International Fireworks Festival and positioning Da Nang as "The City of Fireworks"
Importantly, there's a lot of tourism construction happening around the city with new condotels, hotels and resorts being built along and near the city's many miles of beaches. The Da Nang government has also asked for increased funds to continue to expand and upgrade the airport and other facilities and is reaching out to travel agents in China, Japan and South Korea to make sure that the city is "top of mind."
Da Nang tourism officials expect 2019 to be another positive year and are optimistic that tourism growth will continue unabated through the next 5-years. Da Nang has the potential to continue to be ranked as a great place to visit and the industry is making a concerted effort to maximize the city's potential.
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THE DPRK LEADERSHIP SUCCESSION: ROK OBSERVERS DIVIDED ON WHO WILL SUCCEED KIM JONG-IL, WHEN HE WILL DO IT
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UNCLAS SEOUL 000595 SIPDIS SENSITIVE SIPDIS NSC FOR CHA E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL, PINR, MNUC, SOCI, KN, KS SUBJECT: THE DPRK LEADERSHIP SUCCESSION: ROK OBSERVERS
DIVIDED ON WHO WILL SUCCEED KIM JONG-IL, WHEN HE WILL DO IT SUMMARY ------- 1. (SBU) ROK academics interviewed in recent weeks by poloff were divided on whether North Korean leader Kim Jong-il would name his successor in the near future, and on whether Kim would choose one of his sons as his heir or seek outside the Kim family. Most believed Kim Jong-il's second son, Kim Jong-chul, was the most likely heir, although one scholar asserted that third son Kim Jong-un was his father's favorite. Others argued, however, that Kim's sons are too young and inexperienced to develop the credentials needed to assume leadership and predicted Kim Jong-il would reach outside his family for a successor. A senior South Korean diplomat managed to predict both outcomes at the same time, saying Kim would install one of his sons as a figurehead leader while real political power would lie elsewhere. There was also no consensus on the timing of the succession, with some of our contacts emphasizing that Kim Jong-il's advancing age mandated rapid moves toward designating a successor, while others believed the DPRK would need to secure a more favorable security environment for the regime and improve the nation's abysmal economic conditions before any serious discussion on succession could take place. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) A flurry of recent South Korean and foreign reports have speculated that North Korea was signaling its leader, Kim Jong-il, would soon name his successor. Poloff engaged the following Embassy contacts over the past few weeks to discuss these reports and solicit their views on the succession issue: - Dr. Choi Jin-wook, Senior Research Fellow, Korea Institute of National Unification (KINU); - Dr. Chon Hyun-Joon, Senior Research Fellow and Planning and Coordination Division Director, KINU; - Dr. Cho Myungchul, Head of the Office of International Cooperation for Korean Unification, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIIEP); - Dr. Lee Sang Hyun, Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asian Security, Sejong Institute; - Dr. Koh Yu-hwan, Professor of North Korean Studies, Dongguk University; and - Dr. Ryoo Kihl-Jae, Dean of Academic Affairs, College of North Korean Studies, Kyungnam University. . VIEWS DIVIDED ON "WHEN" AND "WHO" --------------------------------- 3. (SBU) The South Korean academics were sharply divided on the questions of who would succeed Kim Jong-il and when the DPRK would announce the successor. Half thought KJI's second son, Kim Jong-chol, was the most likely heir, while the other half were split among those who believed KJI would choose as his successor one of his other two sons or a well-qualified technocrat who was not related to the Kim family. They also diverged in their views on the timing of announcing a successor, from as early as next year to a non-specific point in the future when, after the DPRK presumably resolved many outstanding security and economic issues, KJI would feel more secure about revealing his heir. . SUCCESSOR COULD BE NAMED AS EARLY AS 2007 ----------------------------------------- 4. (SBU) Some of the analysts believed KJI was close to naming a successor and that the announcement could come as early as 2007, timed to the 95th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung on April 15. Dr. Chon Hyun-Joon, Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Institute of National Unification (KINU), observed that: - KJI was getting old; - his sons, all relatively young, would need to begin "preparing" for succession; - KJI went through a lengthy and arduous process of consolidating his support base before and after being named successor to his father, as well as before and after his father's death; and, - the DPRK tended to mark special anniversaries (such as the 95th year since Kim Il Sung's birth) with grandiose political events. Chon concluded from the totality of these factors that the 95th anniversary of his father's birth would be an appropriate time for KJI to announce his successor, partly because he could not afford to waste any more time in preparing his heir, but also because the imagery of Kim Il Sung during the celebratory events would act as a visual reminder to the masses that the Kim family legacy should live on. . "SIGNS" FROM PYONGYANG ---------------------- 5. (SBU) Dr. Lee Sang Hyun, Senior Research Fellow at Sejong Institute, opined that it could take ten years or more for any of KJI's sons to build up the credentials necessary to garner the political support from high-ranking party and military officials that would be required to be viable as a successor. Since KJI was 64, even if he were to begin the succession process immediately, he would be in his mid-to-late 70s by the time his son established his credentials. These factors all argued in favor of rapid moves to establish a successor. 6. (SBU) In fact, Lee argued, there were indications from Pyongyang that preparations for the succession had already begun. First, a personality cult had formed in 2002 around KJI's third mistress, Ko Young-hee, who was the mother of KJI's second and third sons (Kim Jong-chol and Kim Jong-un). This was reminiscent of the deification of KJI's mother, Kim Jong-suk, shortly before Kim Il Sung named KJI his successor, Lee said. Second, KJI removed his brother-in-law, Chang Song-taek, and Chang's close aides from their offices in the KWP and the military in 2004. Chang was not seen in public until January 2006, when he reportedly assumed a different position in the KWP but with far less authority than before. Lee said this was KJI's clear warning to Chang -- widely thought to have been the second most powerful figure in DPRK politics until his purge -- to stay out of the succession issue. Third, the DPRK's 2006 New Year's joint editorial and other forms of official propaganda made repeated references to "the third and fourth generations of the revolution," possibly hinting that preparations for succession would begin in 2006. Finally, KJI had replaced many KWP and cabinet "elders" from the Kim Il Sung era with younger officials, beginning with Pak Pong Ju as Premier in 2003; these younger officials would presumably be more welcoming to a younger heir than would their older colleagues. . BAD TIMING: KJI WANTS BETTER SECURITY AND ECONOMY FIRST --------------------------------------------- ---------- 7. (SBU) Most of the scholars, however, believed that available evidence of a succession process was still inconclusive. Dr. Koh Yoo-hwan, Professor of North Korean Studies at Dongguk University, was skeptical that KJI or his confidantes would be in the right frame of mind to contemplate succession, given the DPRK's urgent security and economic concerns. Noting reports that KJI had effectively wrested most real political power from his father years before Kim Il-sung's death, Koh added that KJI would be acutely aware of the potential for political realignment if he were to announce his successor prematurely. Before he would risk becoming a lame duck, KJI would want to ensure that DPRK economic conditions improved and the nation's security concerns were resolved through the lifting of U.S. economic sanctions, removal from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, advances in U.S.-DPRK relations, and normalization with Japan. Given the current stalemate in the Six Party process, real movement toward naming a successor was therefore highly unlikely. 8. (SBU) Similarly, Dr. Choi Jin-wook, Senior Research Fellow at KINU, asserted that the DPRK did not appear to be preparing for a successor. He cautioned that most observers predicting a 2007 succession based their argument on some generous assumptions, rather than on solid evidence. Indeed, given the uniqueness of its political structure, Choi expressed doubt that the DPRK even had any specific long-term plan on succession. KJI maintained a constant vigil against any attempts by officials to challenge his authority under the guise of supporting his heir. An example of Kim's extreme paranoia about insubordination, Choi said, was KJI's practice of delegating responsibility for all key cabinet ministries and KWP departments to his cronies as first vice ministers and vice directors. These officials all reported directly to KJI, sidestepping the ministers and directors, who were elder party officials kept in place primarily as figureheads. This system of close monitoring by KJI effectively prevented anybody from even mentioning succession without risking retribution. Moreover, KJI's reported order in December banning all discussion on succession was a clear indication that only he would select his heir, and that he would do so at a time of his choosing. . SON NUMBER TWO? --------------- 9. (SBU) Four of the six academics we consulted thought KJI would choose his successor from among his three sons, with three of the four picking 24-year-old Kim Jong-chol, KJI's second son and the eldest of Koh Young-hee's children, as the heir apparent. Sejong Institute's Lee asserted that a combination of factors made Kim Jong-chol the favorite, despite the presence of an older half-brother, Kim Jong-nam. The reports of a personality cult forming around Koh Young-hee, Kim Jong-chol's mother, as well as his positions in the KWP Organization and Guidance Department and the Propaganda and Agitation Department -- both offices in which KJI had begun his own career before being named successor -- were strong evidence that Kim Jong-chol would succeed KJI. If accurate, recent reports that Kim Jong-chol's picture was displayed along with KJI's in party officials' offices, that he accompanied KJI to China during his January visit to China, and that the young Kim visited and laid flowers before the grave of Kim Jong-suk, KJI's mother, would further support the argument that he would succeed KJI, Lee said. 10. (SBU) Dr. Ryoo Kihl-Jae of Kyungnam University's College of North Korean Studies echoed Lee's analysis. Noting that Korean tradition typically favored the eldest son in matters of family inheritance, Ryoo argued that KJI's first son, Kim Jong-nam, was effectively put out of the running when he was deported from Japan in 2001 for traveling on a falsified Dominican Republic passport. Even without the fiasco in Japan, however, the fact that his mother, Song Hye-rim, had ended her relationship with KJI on a bad note was already a disadvantage for Kim Jong-nam, Ryoo argued. . PERHAPS EVEN SON NUMBER THREE ----------------------------- 11. (SBU) Despite Kim Jong-chol's clear advantages, KJI's third son, the 21-year-old Kim Jong-un, ought not be dismissed, asserted KINU's Chon Hyun-joon. A number of observers, such as KJI's former Japanese chef Kenji Fujimoto, asserted that KJI showed greater affection for Kim Jong-un than for his other children. Fujimoto wrote in his memoirs that KJI adored Kim Jong-un for resembling himself, both in image and in personality. KJI thought Kim Jong-chol, in contrast, was "too effeminate" to be a strong leader. In fact, noted Chon, Kim Jong-chol might have problems with the levels of estrogen in his system, as recent reports indicated that he exhibited female secondary sex characteristics. This would seriously impede his chances of succeeding KJI, who would frown upon any "unmasculine" characteristics from someone whom he would trust to continue his military-first policy. . FORMER DPRK ACADEMIC ALSO PREDICTS DYNASTIC SUCCESSION --------------------------------------------- --------- 12. (SBU) Dr. Cho Myungchul of the Korea Institute for International Economic Research, a former professor of economics from North Korea's Kim Il Sung University who defected to the ROK in 1994, said that in the DPRK's cultural and political context, the successor to KJI would undoubtedly come from among his sons. The entire Kim family was idolized in the North, meaning that the people of North Korea automatically revered all offspring of Kim lineage. It naturally followed that officials would be able to rally support immediately for a son of KJI if he were to assume a high-profile position. The only real question was which son KJI would choose. 13. (SBU) Cho argued that a second reason why succession had to take place within the family was the history of succession in the former Soviet Union, which demonstrated that non-dynastic succession resulted in severe criticism of former leaders by their successors. KJI, who had every interest in ensuring that both his accomplishments and his idolization remain untouched after his passing, had no choice but to choose from among his offspring. . FIRST TO GRAB OFFICE, WAVE FATHER'S FLAG WINS THE CROWN --------------------------------------------- ----------- 14. (SBU) Cho, based on his experience living among the DPRK elite (his father was former Construction Minister Cho Chul Jun), believed that whichever son was the first to consolidate his position and display absolute loyalty to his father would become KJI's heir. Having attended school with KJI's half-brothers for years, Cho recalled from his school days that, up until high school, Kim Il Sung heavily favored KJI's half-brother Kim Pyong-il as successor. Kim Song-ae, second wife to Kim Il Sung and Kim Pyong-il's mother, even arranged to have Kim Pyong-il, who was 13 years younger than KJI, begin government work early by shortening his primary and secondary school education from 12 years to a total of 11, and allowing early graduation from KIS University. By the time Kim Pyong-il graduated, however, KJI had already seized control of all key areas and convinced his father that he was the only one fit to succeed him. . OR PERHAPS A TECHNOCRAT ----------------------- 15. (SBU) Choi Jin-wook of KINU argued that another generation of dynastic succession was unlikely, as KJI's children probably did not have the ability to grapple successfully with the current challenges before the DPRK, as well as those that would arise with the resolution of the nuclear issue and improved economic conditions. The sons would not have sufficient time to develop the ability to manage large-scale changes in the DPRK. The ideal candidate would therefore ascend from the ranks of the military, the cabinet or the KWP. He would also need to have demonstrated absolute loyalty to Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong-il, and their legacy for the DPRK. 16. (SBU) Koh Yoo-hwan of Dongguk University likewise believed that KJI's successor would be a technocrat with well-established credentials. Noting that KJI wrote extensively on his "successor theory" in the years leading up to his own ascension, Koh stressed that KJI's own writings provided the best indication of the ideal qualities for his successor. KJI expected his successor to have demonstrated absolute loyalty to himself and to the workers' revolution. The successor needed to demonstrate leadership and strong ethics, a thorough knowledge of both Kim Il Sung's and KJI's ideology, and a full grasp of both international and domestic affairs. He also had to enjoy absolute confidence from the public through real achievements. Under such criteria, KJI's sons were probably not viable candidates. For example, most, if not all of the sons had studied in the West, allowing critics to argue that they were "ideologically impure." Furthermore, Koh argued, no official DPRK publication had ever declared the need for dynastic succession. 17. (SBU) Both Choi and Koh acknowledged that it was far more difficult to identify potential candidates to succeed KJI among technocrats than among his sons. No DPRK official was sufficiently visible at the moment. They noted, however, the rapid rise of an official named Paek Se-bong, a mysterious individual who seemingly appeared out of nowhere to become a member of the National Defense Commission in 2003, bypassing a number of senior military and KWP officials. The academics speculated that Paek Se-bong could be the pseudonym of somebody being groomed by KJI to succeed him. (NOTE: Paek need not be a technocrat; some observers have suggested Paek is a pseudonym for one of Kim's sons. END NOTE.) . THE JAPAN MODEL --------------- 18. (SBU) A former National Security Advisor predicted to us several months ago that the DPRK would resolve the succession issue by adopting the "Japan model" of an imperial family acting as head of state, while real political power lay elsewhere. Under this hypothesis, KJI would install one of his sons as a figurehead leader, thereby securing the legitimacy of the regime in the eyes of the people, ensuring the well-being of his children, and protecting his own legacy. Recognizing that none of his sons were equipped to run the country, however, KJI would put one or more technocrats in charge of the government. Like the Japanese Imperial Family, the Kim family would reign but not rule. Cho Myung-chul, however, did not believe such a system was viable for the DPRK, as it would contradict KJI's own writings on both party ideology and successin theory. VERSHBOW
UNCLAS SEOUL 000595 SIPDIS SENSITIVE SIPDIS NSC FOR CHA E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL, PINR, MNUC, SOCI, KN, KS SUBJECT: THE DPRK LEADERSHIP SUCCESSION: ROK OBSERVERS DIVIDED ON WHO WILL SUCCEED KIM JONG-IL, WHEN HE WILL DO IT SUMMARY ------- 1. (SBU) ROK academics interviewed in recent weeks by poloff were divided on whether North Korean leader Kim Jong-il would name his successor in the near future, and on whether Kim would choose one of his sons as his heir or seek outside the Kim family. Most believed Kim Jong-il's second son, Kim Jong-chul, was the most likely heir, although one scholar asserted that third son Kim Jong-un was his father's favorite. Others argued, however, that Kim's sons are too young and inexperienced to develop the credentials needed to assume leadership and predicted Kim Jong-il would reach outside his family for a successor. A senior South Korean diplomat managed to predict both outcomes at the same time, saying Kim would install one of his sons as a figurehead leader while real political power would lie elsewhere. There was also no consensus on the timing of the succession, with some of our contacts emphasizing that Kim Jong-il's advancing age mandated rapid moves toward designating a successor, while others believed the DPRK would need to secure a more favorable security environment for the regime and improve the nation's abysmal economic conditions before any serious discussion on succession could take place. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) A flurry of recent South Korean and foreign reports have speculated that North Korea was signaling its leader, Kim Jong-il, would soon name his successor. Poloff engaged the following Embassy contacts over the past few weeks to discuss these reports and solicit their views on the succession issue: - Dr. Choi Jin-wook, Senior Research Fellow, Korea Institute of National Unification (KINU); - Dr. Chon Hyun-Joon, Senior Research Fellow and Planning and Coordination Division Director, KINU; - Dr. Cho Myungchul, Head of the Office of International Cooperation for Korean Unification, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIIEP); - Dr. Lee Sang Hyun, Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asian Security, Sejong Institute; - Dr. Koh Yu-hwan, Professor of North Korean Studies, Dongguk University; and - Dr. Ryoo Kihl-Jae, Dean of Academic Affairs, College of North Korean Studies, Kyungnam University. . VIEWS DIVIDED ON "WHEN" AND "WHO" --------------------------------- 3. (SBU) The South Korean academics were sharply divided on the questions of who would succeed Kim Jong-il and when the DPRK would announce the successor. Half thought KJI's second son, Kim Jong-chol, was the most likely heir, while the other half were split among those who believed KJI would choose as his successor one of his other two sons or a well-qualified technocrat who was not related to the Kim family. They also diverged in their views on the timing of announcing a successor, from as early as next year to a non-specific point in the future when, after the DPRK presumably resolved many outstanding security and economic issues, KJI would feel more secure about revealing his heir. . SUCCESSOR COULD BE NAMED AS EARLY AS 2007 ----------------------------------------- 4. (SBU) Some of the analysts believed KJI was close to naming a successor and that the announcement could come as early as 2007, timed to the 95th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung on April 15. Dr. Chon Hyun-Joon, Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Institute of National Unification (KINU), observed that: - KJI was getting old; - his sons, all relatively young, would need to begin "preparing" for succession; - KJI went through a lengthy and arduous process of consolidating his support base before and after being named successor to his father, as well as before and after his father's death; and, - the DPRK tended to mark special anniversaries (such as the 95th year since Kim Il Sung's birth) with grandiose political events. Chon concluded from the totality of these factors that the 95th anniversary of his father's birth would be an appropriate time for KJI to announce his successor, partly because he could not afford to waste any more time in preparing his heir, but also because the imagery of Kim Il Sung during the celebratory events would act as a visual reminder to the masses that the Kim family legacy should live on. . "SIGNS" FROM PYONGYANG ---------------------- 5. (SBU) Dr. Lee Sang Hyun, Senior Research Fellow at Sejong Institute, opined that it could take ten years or more for any of KJI's sons to build up the credentials necessary to garner the political support from high-ranking party and military officials that would be required to be viable as a successor. Since KJI was 64, even if he were to begin the succession process immediately, he would be in his mid-to-late 70s by the time his son established his credentials. These factors all argued in favor of rapid moves to establish a successor. 6. (SBU) In fact, Lee argued, there were indications from Pyongyang that preparations for the succession had already begun. First, a personality cult had formed in 2002 around KJI's third mistress, Ko Young-hee, who was the mother of KJI's second and third sons (Kim Jong-chol and Kim Jong-un). This was reminiscent of the deification of KJI's mother, Kim Jong-suk, shortly before Kim Il Sung named KJI his successor, Lee said. Second, KJI removed his brother-in-law, Chang Song-taek, and Chang's close aides from their offices in the KWP and the military in 2004. Chang was not seen in public until January 2006, when he reportedly assumed a different position in the KWP but with far less authority than before. Lee said this was KJI's clear warning to Chang -- widely thought to have been the second most powerful figure in DPRK politics until his purge -- to stay out of the succession issue. Third, the DPRK's 2006 New Year's joint editorial and other forms of official propaganda made repeated references to "the third and fourth generations of the revolution," possibly hinting that preparations for succession would begin in 2006. Finally, KJI had replaced many KWP and cabinet "elders" from the Kim Il Sung era with younger officials, beginning with Pak Pong Ju as Premier in 2003; these younger officials would presumably be more welcoming to a younger heir than would their older colleagues. . BAD TIMING: KJI WANTS BETTER SECURITY AND ECONOMY FIRST --------------------------------------------- ---------- 7. (SBU) Most of the scholars, however, believed that available evidence of a succession process was still inconclusive. Dr. Koh Yoo-hwan, Professor of North Korean Studies at Dongguk University, was skeptical that KJI or his confidantes would be in the right frame of mind to contemplate succession, given the DPRK's urgent security and economic concerns. Noting reports that KJI had effectively wrested most real political power from his father years before Kim Il-sung's death, Koh added that KJI would be acutely aware of the potential for political realignment if he were to announce his successor prematurely. Before he would risk becoming a lame duck, KJI would want to ensure that DPRK economic conditions improved and the nation's security concerns were resolved through the lifting of U.S. economic sanctions, removal from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, advances in U.S.-DPRK relations, and normalization with Japan. Given the current stalemate in the Six Party process, real movement toward naming a successor was therefore highly unlikely. 8. (SBU) Similarly, Dr. Choi Jin-wook, Senior Research Fellow at KINU, asserted that the DPRK did not appear to be preparing for a successor. He cautioned that most observers predicting a 2007 succession based their argument on some generous assumptions, rather than on solid evidence. Indeed, given the uniqueness of its political structure, Choi expressed doubt that the DPRK even had any specific long-term plan on succession. KJI maintained a constant vigil against any attempts by officials to challenge his authority under the guise of supporting his heir. An example of Kim's extreme paranoia about insubordination, Choi said, was KJI's practice of delegating responsibility for all key cabinet ministries and KWP departments to his cronies as first vice ministers and vice directors. These officials all reported directly to KJI, sidestepping the ministers and directors, who were elder party officials kept in place primarily as figureheads. This system of close monitoring by KJI effectively prevented anybody from even mentioning succession without risking retribution. Moreover, KJI's reported order in December banning all discussion on succession was a clear indication that only he would select his heir, and that he would do so at a time of his choosing. . SON NUMBER TWO? --------------- 9. (SBU) Four of the six academics we consulted thought KJI would choose his successor from among his three sons, with three of the four picking 24-year-old Kim Jong-chol, KJI's second son and the eldest of Koh Young-hee's children, as the heir apparent. Sejong Institute's Lee asserted that a combination of factors made Kim Jong-chol the favorite, despite the presence of an older half-brother, Kim Jong-nam. The reports of a personality cult forming around Koh Young-hee, Kim Jong-chol's mother, as well as his positions in the KWP Organization and Guidance Department and the Propaganda and Agitation Department -- both offices in which KJI had begun his own career before being named successor -- were strong evidence that Kim Jong-chol would succeed KJI. If accurate, recent reports that Kim Jong-chol's picture was displayed along with KJI's in party officials' offices, that he accompanied KJI to China during his January visit to China, and that the young Kim visited and laid flowers before the grave of Kim Jong-suk, KJI's mother, would further support the argument that he would succeed KJI, Lee said. 10. (SBU) Dr. Ryoo Kihl-Jae of Kyungnam University's College of North Korean Studies echoed Lee's analysis. Noting that Korean tradition typically favored the eldest son in matters of family inheritance, Ryoo argued that KJI's first son, Kim Jong-nam, was effectively put out of the running when he was deported from Japan in 2001 for traveling on a falsified Dominican Republic passport. Even without the fiasco in Japan, however, the fact that his mother, Song Hye-rim, had ended her relationship with KJI on a bad note was already a disadvantage for Kim Jong-nam, Ryoo argued. . PERHAPS EVEN SON NUMBER THREE ----------------------------- 11. (SBU) Despite Kim Jong-chol's clear advantages, KJI's third son, the 21-year-old Kim Jong-un, ought not be dismissed, asserted KINU's Chon Hyun-joon. A number of observers, such as KJI's former Japanese chef Kenji Fujimoto, asserted that KJI showed greater affection for Kim Jong-un than for his other children. Fujimoto wrote in his memoirs that KJI adored Kim Jong-un for resembling himself, both in image and in personality. KJI thought Kim Jong-chol, in contrast, was "too effeminate" to be a strong leader. In fact, noted Chon, Kim Jong-chol might have problems with the levels of estrogen in his system, as recent reports indicated that he exhibited female secondary sex characteristics. This would seriously impede his chances of succeeding KJI, who would frown upon any "unmasculine" characteristics from someone whom he would trust to continue his military-first policy. . FORMER DPRK ACADEMIC ALSO PREDICTS DYNASTIC SUCCESSION --------------------------------------------- --------- 12. (SBU) Dr. Cho Myungchul of the Korea Institute for International Economic Research, a former professor of economics from North Korea's Kim Il Sung University who defected to the ROK in 1994, said that in the DPRK's cultural and political context, the successor to KJI would undoubtedly come from among his sons. The entire Kim family was idolized in the North, meaning that the people of North Korea automatically revered all offspring of Kim lineage. It naturally followed that officials would be able to rally support immediately for a son of KJI if he were to assume a high-profile position. The only real question was which son KJI would choose. 13. (SBU) Cho argued that a second reason why succession had to take place within the family was the history of succession in the former Soviet Union, which demonstrated that non-dynastic succession resulted in severe criticism of former leaders by their successors. KJI, who had every interest in ensuring that both his accomplishments and his idolization remain untouched after his passing, had no choice but to choose from among his offspring. . FIRST TO GRAB OFFICE, WAVE FATHER'S FLAG WINS THE CROWN --------------------------------------------- ----------- 14. (SBU) Cho, based on his experience living among the DPRK elite (his father was former Construction Minister Cho Chul Jun), believed that whichever son was the first to consolidate his position and display absolute loyalty to his father would become KJI's heir. Having attended school with KJI's half-brothers for years, Cho recalled from his school days that, up until high school, Kim Il Sung heavily favored KJI's half-brother Kim Pyong-il as successor. Kim Song-ae, second wife to Kim Il Sung and Kim Pyong-il's mother, even arranged to have Kim Pyong-il, who was 13 years younger than KJI, begin government work early by shortening his primary and secondary school education from 12 years to a total of 11, and allowing early graduation from KIS University. By the time Kim Pyong-il graduated, however, KJI had already seized control of all key areas and convinced his father that he was the only one fit to succeed him. . OR PERHAPS A TECHNOCRAT ----------------------- 15. (SBU) Choi Jin-wook of KINU argued that another generation of dynastic succession was unlikely, as KJI's children probably did not have the ability to grapple successfully with the current challenges before the DPRK, as well as those that would arise with the resolution of the nuclear issue and improved economic conditions. The sons would not have sufficient time to develop the ability to manage large-scale changes in the DPRK. The ideal candidate would therefore ascend from the ranks of the military, the cabinet or the KWP. He would also need to have demonstrated absolute loyalty to Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong-il, and their legacy for the DPRK. 16. (SBU) Koh Yoo-hwan of Dongguk University likewise believed that KJI's successor would be a technocrat with well-established credentials. Noting that KJI wrote extensively on his "successor theory" in the years leading up to his own ascension, Koh stressed that KJI's own writings provided the best indication of the ideal qualities for his successor. KJI expected his successor to have demonstrated absolute loyalty to himself and to the workers' revolution. The successor needed to demonstrate leadership and strong ethics, a thorough knowledge of both Kim Il Sung's and KJI's ideology, and a full grasp of both international and domestic affairs. He also had to enjoy absolute confidence from the public through real achievements. Under such criteria, KJI's sons were probably not viable candidates. For example, most, if not all of the sons had studied in the West, allowing critics to argue that they were "ideologically impure." Furthermore, Koh argued, no official DPRK publication had ever declared the need for dynastic succession. 17. (SBU) Both Choi and Koh acknowledged that it was far more difficult to identify potential candidates to succeed KJI among technocrats than among his sons. No DPRK official was sufficiently visible at the moment. They noted, however, the rapid rise of an official named Paek Se-bong, a mysterious individual who seemingly appeared out of nowhere to become a member of the National Defense Commission in 2003, bypassing a number of senior military and KWP officials. The academics speculated that Paek Se-bong could be the pseudonym of somebody being groomed by KJI to succeed him. (NOTE: Paek need not be a technocrat; some observers have suggested Paek is a pseudonym for one of Kim's sons. END NOTE.) . THE JAPAN MODEL --------------- 18. (SBU) A former National Security Advisor predicted to us several months ago that the DPRK would resolve the succession issue by adopting the "Japan model" of an imperial family acting as head of state, while real political power lay elsewhere. Under this hypothesis, KJI would install one of his sons as a figurehead leader, thereby securing the legitimacy of the regime in the eyes of the people, ensuring the well-being of his children, and protecting his own legacy. Recognizing that none of his sons were equipped to run the country, however, KJI would put one or more technocrats in charge of the government. Like the Japanese Imperial Family, the Kim family would reign but not rule. Cho Myung-chul, however, did not believe such a system was viable for the DPRK, as it would contradict KJI's own writings on both party ideology and successin theory. VERSHBOW
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Trustee Vacancy Announced By Thames Valley Air Ambulance
Thames Valley Air Ambulance (TVAA), which provides emergency medical care for people who live, work and travel in Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, is looking to appoint a new Trustee to work with the current board and be responsible for the oversight of clinical governance arrangements.
The perfect candidate would be a registered clinician, particularly a Paramedic or Doctor, with a background in the provision of emergency services, medicine and prehospital care. TVAA is open to an applicant looking to expand their Trustee work along with those seeking their first appointment.
The charity's vision is to push the boundaries of medical intervention, helicopter aviation and on-scene patient care to deliver a unique life-saving service where, and when, it is most needed.
It was the first Air Ambulance Service to operate at night while introducing new equipment and techniques, including the carriage of blood, plasma and ultrasound. Now, the team are working with neighbouring charity Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance (HIOWAA) to provide coverage across the region every night until 2 am.
Trustee appointments are normally for 6 years. Trustees are unpaid, but reasonable out of pocket expenses can be reimbursed. Alongside Committee meetings, the successful candidate will also occasionally be part of Clinical Governance Groups. The board are very collaborative.
As a result, the successful candidate will want to be part of a highly committed and creative team, wholly dedicated to the communities they serve.
If you are interested in the role, please contact retained consultant Simon Bell on simon@grayssearchandselection.com or call 07766 714 951 for an initial discussion.
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Rijken M. Hujala A. van Ginneken E. Melchiorre MG. Groenewegen P. Schellevis F. (2018). Managing multimorbidity: Profiles of integrated care approaches targeting people with multiple chronic conditions in Europe. HEALTH POLICY, 122 (1) , 44-52. 10.1016/j.healthpol.2017.10.002.
In response to the growing populations of people with multiple chronic diseases, new models of care are currently being developed in European countries to better meet the needs of these people. This paper aims to describe the occurrence and characteristics of various types of integrated care practices in European countries that target people with multimorbidity.
Data were analysed from multimorbidity care practices participating in the Innovating care for people with multiple chronic conditions (ICARE4EU) project, covering all 28 EU Member States, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland.
A total of 112 practices in 24 countries were included: 65 focus on patients with any combination of chronic diseases, 30 on patients with a specific chronic disease with all kinds of comorbidities and 17 on patients with a combination of specific chronic diseases. Practices that focus on a specific index disease or a combination of specific diseases are less extensive regarding the type, breadth and degree of integration than practices that focus on any combination of diseases. The latter type is more often seen in countries where more disciplines, e.g. community nurses, physiotherapists, social workers, work in the same primary care practice as the general practitioners.
Non-disease specific practices put more emphasis on patient involvement and provide more comprehensive care, which are important preconditions for person-centered multimorbidity care.


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If you were one of the lucky ones, you got a chance to drive a Mazda Rotary Pickup. The idea was simple: add a lightweight 1.3-liter Wankel dual rotor engine to a PA136/small pickup truck chassis, give it some unique touches and you have a special, sporty truck. The Mazda Rotary Pickup's fenders were flared and the battery sat beneath the bed (there was an access door on the passenger's side of the bed). A unique front end and sportier interior were part of the package too.
The tiny Wankel rotary engine had a four-barrel (two-stage) carburetor and a unique exhaust system. A four-speed manual and three speed automatic transmission were the initial transmissions available. The 13B twin-rotor engine made 110 horsepower and got a maximum 19 mpg highway. It was not very emission friendly, gas mileage was poor for a small truck and there was no four-wheel drive variant.
Mazda kept things fairly light with the curb-weight of the Mazda Rotary Pickup weighing under 2,800 lbs. Oddly, it was about 300 lbs heavier than the regular Mazda B1600. The Mazda Rotary Pickup had a gross payload capacity of 1,400 lbs. Mazda used a different frame on the Mazda Rotary Pickup which was wider than the one used on the B1600.
The Mazda Rotary Pickup was only built from '74 through '77 and, for a time, Mazda sold a variety of other rotary-powered vehicles such as the rotary wagon, coupe and the popular RX7. Near the end of its life-cycle, Mazda enlarged the cab by four-inches, added a five-speed manual, changed the rear diff and updated the electronics. About 15,000 Mazda Rotary Pickup trucks were built with a vast majority being sold to North America.
I had the good fortune to work at a foreign auto-wrecking yard in California. The West Coast was a popular place to find these little trucks and one of my buddies often frequented the wrecking-yard looking for replacement parts. I got to drive the 1975 Mazda Rotary Pickup quite a few times and it was a hoot. Sure, it was the smaller (interior), earlier model with a four-speed manual – it revved like crazy and was easy to toss into a corner. It danced (for a pickup tuck) and you could squirt it out of the corner with a "zing!"
No, it was not a rocket – it just felt like one. The rotary was smooth and it sounded sporty, especially at high RPM. I'm fairly sure the Mazda Rotary Pickup was only offered as a rear-drive vehicle in North America. Maybe it was too much of a niche vehicle for the times as the sales were slow.
Mazda never revisited the small rotary pickup tuck idea.
I'm glad these little trucks are now being coveted by collectors. It truly was a slick little machine with a fun character. If you have one, or if you are familiar with the Mazda Rotary Pickup, drop us a line below!
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By the way, the easiest way to tell a Mazda Rotary Pickup apart from a regular Mazda B1600 pickup is the rear taillights; the rotary had round taillights.
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Yesterday I didn't get to ride my bike due to a huge swollen muscle in my thigh that flared up as I started to get on my indoor trainer to ride on Zwift. My thy muscle stayed swollen all through the day even after hot sokes, stretches, and massage. I decided to rest it through the day since today and Monday are filled with bike riding and hiking with Annika and our son and his wife. We did get some time to head down to one of our favorite restaurants "Hanny's" to enjoy some pizza before coming back home to call it a chill movie night.
The plan today is so sweet! Annika and I are doing an adventure bike ride this morning for anywhere between 20-30 miles. When we return from our bike ride we're taking our son and his wife out to Dreamy Draw to do some hiking. We've never hiked the area however it looks beautiful and they have a ton of trails there to enjoy. We will hike til about dark as long as we all have the energy, we were also talking about one morning starting real early and doing an all-day hike with a picnic in between.
After we return from the hike we will kick back to some chill family dinner followed by a night of rest so that Monday morning Annika and I will get back on our bikes again, so far our weekend plan is going well.
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Did Raj Kundra figure out this method to show Porn Films after the app was banned?
In the Raj Kundra pornography case, Mumbai Police is constantly investigating by including new hyperlinks. On Monday morning, Raj Kundra is being questioned as soon as once more in the Crime Branch property cell of Byculla Jail. Mumbai Police is now investigating whether or not Raj Kundra was not importing his movies on another app after the shutdown of 'Hotshots' app. Police suspect that Raj Kundra was doing enterprise with 2-3 such apps which stream porn movies. Along with this, the work of scouting the financial institution accounts of Raj Kundra's firm Vian Industries can also be occurring.
Doubt deepens about the distribution of movies
According to the report of a information portal, when the 'Hotshots' app was faraway from the Play Store and Apple Store, Raj Kundra had entered right into a enterprise take care of different such apps and was importing his pornographic movies there. Following the arrest and interrogation of Kundra's IT head Ryan Tharp, the police are attempting to figure out the full recreation of distribution of porn movies. Shilpa Shetty was additionally questioned in this regard.
Raj Kundra Porn Case: Problems will enhance for Raj Kundra, 4 workers of the firm change into police witnesses
Shilpa's financial institution accounts may even be investigated
Shilpa Shetty, nonetheless, has defended her husband Raj Kundra throughout the interrogation. He has denied that Raj used to make porn movies. Shilpa has reiterated what Raj Kundra's lawyer Subhash Jadhav is saying. Shilpa says that Raj was making erotic movies and that can not be known as porn. Police investigation can also be occurring concerning Shilpa Shetty. Shilpa had resigned from the put up of director of Viaan Industry a number of months again. Doubts and apprehensions have began from right here as to why this occurred. Shilpa's financial institution accounts may even be probed in order that it may be ascertained whether or not she has additionally obtained the good thing about incomes from porn movies.
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Raj Kundra was arrested on the night time of final Monday, July 19. The subsequent day he was produced in the courtroom. Earlier, he was despatched to police custody until July 23, whereas it was later elevated to July 27. Raj Kundra's attorneys have approached the Bombay High Court for bail, which can also be to be heard on Monday.
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The interstate supporters club is in many ways now turning in to a Blockbuster Video store or a presenter on The Footy Show for relevance in the modern age. Created for fans from elsewhere to meet up it has become more of a struggle with all footy now live in your living rooms and the corporate beast widening the gap between average fan and goals of a modern club. I guess it's another example of the ever growing gap between the modern corporate club and the common fan. Do we hold on to the beliefs and memories that made us fall in love with the club in the first place or do we need to evolve with the club to wanting to be at the big table and competitive no matter what the cost is to the quirks and nuances of the club that we cherish. When do we have to just let some things go and stop being retrospective hoarders.
I've pondered this a lot in the past few years as President of the Perth Cats. The club turned 25 this year and was started by Geelong alumni Marshall and Farmer in 1991 run by volunteers and forever strong as a meeting place and safe haven for Cats in the West to get together and watch games or when the boys are in town having a pre-game knees up. At the Irish Club in Subiaco last Friday this was no exception. Brian Cook talked to fellow pivotonians about stadium upgrades and extraordinary dollar amounts to make it all happen. Fans watched in faded old AFL jumpers, badges attached to the scarves over the years and other indicators that their love of team will hopefully survive and transcend the club and stadium's eventual morphing in another corporate entity. There was no mention of swapping hot dogs and pies for lashings of pheasant and plastic cups of swans blood just yet though. Some fans expressed their justified dismay to Cook about the way fans in WA are treated with no open training sessions or chance to meet the players meaning it's harder to not have their kids morph in to an Eagle or Docker. Some were proud to have someone like Cooky steer the club to premierships and a brave new future albeit saddled with debt. More than a couple wanted to make sure the standing room down at Kardinia Park would survive in some way. Cooky promised a roof and that's it.
I spent most the time running around organising things, briefly meeting Mr Peter Flynn from the Almanac and managed to convince the quiet lad that comes down to the club most weeks to watch games that he does in fact bear a remarkable resemblance to Cam Guthrie and could he draw the raffle prizes for the club seeing as it was his 100th game. Now after all the effort to put the event together we all just wanted the Cats to win the game.
I was late to the game and finally got up to a primo spot in the second tier stand to sit with Elliot the hate filled Docker and his old man (see the 2013 Footy Almanac). I was disappointed to miss out on Mack and Guth's banner for their respective milestones. I was further disheartened to see the Dockers had kicked out to a two goal lead early and my first image of the game was seeing Cockatoo get caught holding the ball. The Cats seemed to be continuing their form that could only be described as poxy-at-best with Dangerfield and Enright seeming to be the only ones standing up as Barlow, Walters and Taberner had the home side up by three goals at quarter time. The locals were happy with the start yet there is something missing from the Dockers crowd as opposed to previous times I've been here. The cold embrace of a rebuild? Worrying if Ross can lead said rebuild? Every game getting closer to the end for Pav? This season would be like swallowing battery acid after the brave new world of 2013-2015.
In the second half with a bit of a breeze the Cats are better but still passing the ball around poorly leaving the receiver to mop up a hurricane of piss more often than not. They were also not handling the extra defender well at all. Son Son is everywhere. Cocky, booed off the field here at Subi in the pre-season after cleaning up Johnson, ran in from 50 and nailed a goal before quick thinking by the Dockers defence didn't quite work out and Stanley ran in to kick another after a lovely fist from Freo boy Shane Kersten. Pav restored the balance as the crowd dabbed eyes over the old workhorse before the Cats got another through Smith with those strong hands. This game at the start of the season was one where I thought we would not only lose but our small defenders would struggle and they do with Kolo's kick out of the defence meant for Hawkins intercepted and ending up a goal for the dashing Weller. The Cats were getting on top but Freo seemed to have the easy answer before Dangerfield, again, became the difference.
The Cats locked the Dockers down in their own defensive 50 pressuring their young defence in to mistakes which Tommy Sheriden excels in 'anytime anywhere'. One of his errant kicks resulted in a strong mark and goal to Danger in the square. Then two minutes later Paddy collected a ball in the pocket heading out of bounds from a Crozier fist and used brute strength and suspect Russian athletic like pace to run in to the goalsquare and goal giving the Cat hoards at the city end of Subi more voice and the team the lead. Was it out? From my position I could not see but the Dockers around me were incensed and had their excuse ready to go should they lose. The umpires had it in for them apparently. A howler by Boris at the back gave Ballantyne a chance to lay a self-abusing tackle and gave the lead back to Freo right on half time and Ballantyne a broken nose to make it a more than interesting second half.
In the third term Geelong again dominated the stoppages and pressured the Dockers defence with Motlop and Menzel kicking goals mainly thanks to the anticipation and safe intercepting hands of Northampton's finest Harry Taylor. The Dockers lost Barlow after a clash of shoulders with little Lincoln and then in an accidental clash the ever reliable Hendo flew and crashed hard knocking himself out in the process. The Dockers tried to follow Ross's plans but handballs sold teammates in to trouble and switches to the other wing would be intercepted or trundle out of bounds. Son Son was still everywhere taking down a screamer that should have been paid. Groans emanated throughout the crowd, the look on every face one of resignation and betrayed feelings. Arms folded everywhere like a massive game of 'Simon Says'. Danger goaled again and a host of chances were spurned to have the Cats almost comfortable at three quarter time. The Dockers around me seemed to have reset back to old discussions at breaks such as 'anyone but the Eagles in September' on top of bagging out Danger. He was only back in Geelong to chase the money you know. The free agent system was going to kill football you know. How dare a young man with a new bride return to be based near Moggs Creek to raise a family. How dare Geelong get involved in the free agent system much like Freo may have to at the end of this season.
The Dockers tried to grab the ascendancy back in the final term missing some chances with Hill particularly dominant in the times he wasn't sold in to trouble by his less experienced/skilled teammates. The ever respectable Mundy snapped a captain's goal to cut the Cat's lead to less than a goal with a wicked bounce very much helping. The crowd found some voice to try and get their misfiring side home. Some 50-50 umpiring decisions went the Cats way that had the Dockers fans all fire and brimstone and all of a sudden a Josh Cowan kick in to their 50 was marked strongly by Smith with the goal restoring a gap that the Dockers couldn't seem to make up with their injury hit side. A snapped goal to Hawkins put the game almost to bed and showed that he had emerged from the same place Mayne was hiding. Time ticked away and the Cats were just home with a goal to Murdoch making it looking a little better and a few more cynical Cats fans hoping that junk time goal would mean he was safe in the seniors for another week.
All in all a closer game than many expected but nothing to write home about for the Cats. Our first win over Lyon in the West is something I should've been jumping off the walls about but there's still something missing with the Crows back home next week that will hopefully jolt us back in to form. The Chicken Littles that support Geelong won't be convinced in any way that it isn't the end of the days after this effort. The Cats premiership hopes aren't dead, they just smell funny.
Honourable mentions to Son Son for the Dockers and Hendo for Geelong before he was concussed.
Den – I have always liked you until i read Mifka as part of the triple holy helix. I mean…like…wtf?
As for the game Cats were just better: better chains of play, more class, more entries to score, more composure. I can't wait for the season to end to be honest…..Danger was v good.
It changes from time to time. It seems almost everyone I know when younger run foul of him when he was on duty as a cop.
Composure from quarter time on definitely. You could see what the Dockers were trying to achieve but they just can't carry out the plan because of the skills. One plus for this season for your lot is hanging on to Neale. A shame injuries and incident in Leederville have stopped Yarran having a cracking at the top level.
Was looking like a train wreck early, Denis, and we're still not on track (as it were), but as you say – a win is a win.


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Monkey See, Monkey Doo-Doo: How VOGUE "Honoured" LeBron James by Smearing Black People with White Supremacy & Gorilla Feces
March 31st, 2008 | Blogs, Controversy, Culture, Design, Fashion, Film, Journalism, Magazines, Media, Pop Culture, Race, Sports
Everything but the helmet: LeBron James meets his doppelganger
"Vogue spokesman Patrick O'Connell said the magazine 'sought to celebrate two superstars at the top of their game' for the magazine's annual issue devoted to size and shape.
"'We think Lebron James and Gisele Bundchen look beautiful together and we are honoured to have them on the cover,' he said."
"But magazine analyst Samir Husni believes the photo was deliberately provocative, adding that it 'screams King Kong." Considering Vogue's influential history, he said, covers are not something that the magazine does in a rush.
"'So when you have a cover that reminds people of King Kong and brings those stereotypes to the front, Black man wanting white woman, it's not innocent,' he said."
—"Vogue cover starring LeBron James is called racially insensitive by some," Megan Scott, The Associated Press
"Lying," photographer Annie Leibovitz's late lover, Susan Sontag, famously said in an essay, "is an elementary means of self-defense."
Perhaps knowing this is why both Leibovitz, right, creator of VOGUE's controversial April 2008 cover photo, above right, and Anna Wintour, VOGUE editor-in-chief, below, both 58, have remained absolutely mute since accusations began to fly, over a week ago, that their coy image—featuring Cleveland Cavaliers point forward LeBron James, 23, and supermodel Gisele Bündchen, 27—was a less-than-subtle piece of racist indoctrination.
In other words, maybe they knew that an elementary self-defense—a lie—couldn't cut it, so they've said nothing. ("Time For Leibovitz To Confess" prodded Gawker.com.) This, particularly, once it became clear through a trickle on Thursday, then a flood on Friday, that VOGUE's cover picture not merely insinuated LeBron "King" James play Kong to Bündchen's Fay Wray—MEDIA ASSASSIN readers remember we covered this on March 20—but was arguing something far more sinister: A relationship of kind between James and illustrator H.R. Hopps's topless-white woman-clutching, club-dragging, bloody-pawed, drooling ape, from his notorious, 1917 Destroy This Mad Brute—Enlist poster. (The image is rendered above, directly comparing it to LeBron James cover, and below on the newly-in-paperback Typecasting: On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality by SUNY/CUNY professors Stuart and Elizabeth Ewen.
Furthermore, as we reported on MEDIA ASSASSIN when the VOGUE story first broke, but seemingly few if any sites have also done, Leibovitz and Wintour's calculated blurring of Black people and monkeys comes mere weeks after Stanford professor Jennifer Eberhardt, working with fellow scientists from Pennsylvania State University and the University of California-Berkeley published a paper, based on six years of research, concluding that many Americans subconsciously associate Black people with apes.
The study—actually a set of six—ran in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology's February 7 edition. The monthly is published by the American Psychological Association.
Titled "Not Yet Human: Implicit Knowledge, Historical Dehumanization and Contemporary Consequences," the paper argued, apparently a little too soon, that "historical representations explicitly depicting Blacks as apelike have largely disappeared in the United States."
An accompanying Stanford press release says that this white, subconscious, imaginary link between Black people and apes
has devastating consequences for African Americans because it "alters visual perception and attention, and it increases endorsement of violence against black suspects." For example, the paper's sixth study showed that in hundreds of news stories from 1979 to 1999 in the Philadelphia Inquirer, African Americans convicted of capital crimes were about four times more likely than whites convicted of capital crimes to be described with ape-relevant language, such as "barbaric," "beast," "brute," "savage" and "wild." "Those who are implicitly portrayed as more ape-like in these articles are more likely to be executed by the state than those who are not," the researchers write.
Good white people, whatever those are, might smugly mount that perhaps Leibovitz & Wintour should have read Eberhardt's paper, or Ewan & Ewan's Typecasting, before embarking on their dark journey into mass mediated racist symbolism. (Or that James, the first Black male in front of VOGUE in its 116-year history, and initially "pleased" by the cover, thinking the controversy was overblown, should have studied these texts.)
Facts or knowledge do not blunt racist intent. This is a truth daily and ancestrally familiar to Black people. Ewen & Ewen quote journalist Walter Lippmann, who "observed [that] 'any disturbance of' deeply ingrained stereotypes constitutes, for most people, 'an attack on the foundations of…[their] universe." Ewen & Ewen then add that "one of the most unrelenting exemplars of such highly pliable symbols is that of an animalistic and alien enemy ravishing a helpless white woman."
As such, many white bloggers were initially skeptical of the VOGUE cover racism charge. (This suspicion is also wearily same to Black people.) "Vogue Cover (Mini?)-Controversy" read the N.Y. Observer's online space. "Media 'racism,'" read another. "LeBron James Vogue Cover Is Racist, According to Racist People," read another.
Even mainstream sites that addressed the issue open-handedly posted comments of incredulity by the hundreds. "The only thing offensive is people thinking this cover is offensive," said "Tom," typically, on ABCNews.com's "Is Vogue's LeBron Cover Offensive?" "Here's someone else waving the race card. no wonder people have turned a blind eye to true issues of racial discrimination," said "bree." Both comments ran before Friday's wide release of the Hopp's poster image, but not long after a white art professor, James Rosenfeld, eloquently likened the VOGUE image to Emmanuel Frémiet's 1887 Gorilla Carrying off a Woman, above. Readers were unmoved. "Mr. Rosenfeld," said "DC," "with all due respect, sir, you really need to find something better to do with your time."
Even the sight of the gorilla propaganda poster left "mcgeorge" unmoved on Gawker.com. "It is supposed to represent, GERMANY, people. … the idea that it is racist is pretty laughable." mcgeorge should take this up with Stuart Ewen, who, earlier than almost anyone, except Jezebel.com, linked the two images, arguing VOGUE's artwork "resuscitates time-worn race hatred as a fashionable entertainment of the first order."
It's also interesting: This is not the first time Leibovitz has been singled out for what one site called "artful borrowing", but you might name biting: Look, here, at her May 2006 Vanity Fair cover portrait of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Al Gore. Now, compare it to Irving Penn's 1948 "Ballet Society" photo of artist Corrado Cagli, composer Vittorio Rieti, dancer Tanaquil LeClerq, and choreographer George Balanchine. Anything look familiar?
However, when I first saw the direct evidence from Leibovitz's pilfering of historical sources, it immediately reminded me of another like incident, almost exactly twenty years ago.
In February 1988, Fleming Companies, a food wholesaler based in Oklahoma City, distributed a poster depicting a ruddy-looking blond cowboy to its stores. With the caption, "America's Meat Roundup," the poster was the lead edge of company's attempt to market meat-eating as a patriotic pastime.
The graphic was put together by an outside agency, and all went well for a few months, until, out in New Jersey, a college student thought that the image looked strangely familiar.
When the company got wind of the rumor that their meat roundup poster was lifted, down to the pixel, from a Hitler Youth poster out of the Nazi Third Reich, the first thing the executives did was say that the image had come from a live model. So, someone floated over the original image. As you might imagine, from comparing the two paintings, here, the jig was immediately up. Fleming offered a maroon-faced apology, destroyed all the images, fired the ad agency, and made other efforts to repair the damage from this grotesque incident.
That is what Conde Nast needs to do, right now, but cubed.
What they potentially have on their hands is something that could make the Rutgers "nappy headed hoes" controversy look like a sunny day out in the park.
This isn't college basketball players fighting Imus over ill-chosen words. This is the world's greatest photographer making a white supremacy salute behind the back of arguably the world's biggest athlete, employed by one of the world's biggest advertisers, on the cover of the world's biggest fashion magazine.
This is gutter, Five Points-level racism; worse than a politician ending a phone call with a Black supporter by saying, "Talk to you later, Buckwheat." This is the kind of thing that ends dynasties. Annie Liebovitz needs to call in her career at VOGUE and Vanity Fair, maybe shoot some high school graduating classes for a while. Anna Wintour needs to go wherever Michael Richards is right now, and maybe let him run the magazine.
Conde Nast needs to show that the blinding whiteness that is their company is merely a temporary setback, one they can readily manage and repair as quickly as they do anything else.
What these two women have performed is a cowardly act, an indifferent, flip assault against what little dignity racism allows non-white people under the present arrangement. This must not stand or rest. When assaulted, every person has the right to an elementary means of self-defense.
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#1 Chinou Yamale on 03.31.08 at 9:53 am
You know you started something with this pic. The media is saying "the critics are outraged….". Your the critic who started it!
So proud of you!
People shouldnt get away with negatively portraying us througout the media like that. Shame on Lebron for not knowing better!
#2 Lena on 03.31.08 at 11:00 am
This is really good reporting – both now and before the scandal broke.
I, do however, believe that VOGUE and Liebovitz will "get away with this" unscathed – unless LeBron's legal people step up and get involved…which probably won't happen.
I also think that LeBron's PR team needs to get canned. This mockery was dead-on and so easy to spot. How did they miss this? Oh, yeah…that's right, they were blinded by the VOGUE bling.
And, why the HELL hasn't LeBron made a statement about this???
#3 Testify on 03.31.08 at 11:06 am
Great coverage. I couldn't agree more that this cover deliberately perpetrates a vile stereotype. But the fashion industry is pretty vile overall, so I can't say I'm surprised. And Annie Liebovitz as "the world's greatest photographer"? Harry, you're too kind!
#4 Ray Winbush on 03.31.08 at 2:29 pm
Excellent coverage and good insight! Like Lena asks why doesn't *LeBron* say something insightful about this??!! Where are the Black athletes like John Carlos, Tommie Smith, Muhammad Ali and Curt Flood who were not only athletic but political as well?
Gone are the days…
#5 The Voice of Harlem on 03.31.08 at 2:39 pm
This is yet another despicable example of the insensitive ways black people have been depicted in the American media since D.W. Griffith's racist film, "Birth Of A Nation" made it "ok". But it's not ok and the excellent work of journalist like Harry Allen are greatly needed to expose and explain how one of Americas biggest magazines has dealt from the D.W. Griffith deck. Annie Lebovitz spends tens of thousands of dollars to shoot Vanity Fair & Vogue covers like this and hundreds of pictures are taken to get the desired shot. I can imagine her and Anna Wintour looking through the images from this shoot to get this vile picture. I wonder what the well known Vogue editor at large and close friend of Anna Wintour, Andre Leon Talley, thinks of this?
We won't let this one fade away!!
#6 You Know on 03.31.08 at 5:20 pm
If it bothers you, write a letter to Vogue.
Vogue Magazine. 4 Times Square, NY, NY 10036.
Or e-mail talkingback@vogue.com. Include your name, location, daytime phone number, etc.
The only way to get their attention is to have a definitive public outcry. Take it to the top!
#7 Sabrina on 03.31.08 at 6:18 pm
Harry, thank you for your thorough, scientific, timely, comprehensive, investigative analysis and expose of this visual depiction of the reminder "call to arms" for the system of racism/white supremacy. Your title, Media Assassin, is well-earned.
RWSWJ
#8 Serena Kim on 03.31.08 at 10:32 pm
"This is the world's greatest photographer making a white supremacy salute behind the back of arguably the world's biggest athlete, employed by one of the world's biggest advertisers, on the cover of the world's biggest fashion magazine."
THANK YOU HARRY ALLEN!!!
I would be curious to know what Wintour's best buds, Andre Leon Talley and P. Diddy have to say about this.
#9 Blackgirl on Mars on 04.01.08 at 2:18 am
Thanks for this–but I do have to say that the reason why images like this persist is because they "work" for the status quo–the majority of people respond to it on a subliminal level and since it confirms (subliminally ofcourse) their belief about race and gender, it settles them. That's why photographers like Leibovitz did it (I doubt that she was even articulate enough to know what she was subscribing to at the time–but through your examples you can see that she, like so many others before her, are merely using images that placate the status quote. Hey, you used the quote yourself, many Americans still see as as apes–so how can we be surprised? Vanity Fair is not written for us. It has rarely ever been inclusive and it panders to ideas of white supremacy, as does our education system (and many many other institutions). In the end, when I look at the cover I am unmoved. LeBron is caught up in something way over his head and sadly, like many of us,he has no idea of his history and how it has been and continues to be institutionally erased from our memories and souls. In the very least, maybe this whole episode will aid his awakening. Otherwise, thanks for the GREAT commentary and in the end, Vanity Fair merely aired its true color(s) and that is what? White, of course.
#10 hoodoo goddess on 04.01.08 at 5:21 am
Your words are passionate and on point in so many ways what you fail to recognize is the view of white women who have grown even more fearful of the black
and this cover serves as a mantra to help them not be scared of all that big blackness
if a 100 pound white girl can smile in the arms of the most terrifying thing that exist in their consciousness then aint life grand!
its yoga for the psyche
lebron james gets it- so if this is what it takes to relieve their fear of the black then show the beast for'um and make that monies!
anyway thats my take
it aint nuthin to call out the biggie brigade – lol
chile u know white folks crazy and black folks feed off their insanity in ways that are destroying the planet
just know that all we speakin about is energy
and energy heats
energy cools
energy creates
energy destroys
#11 Michael Fisher on 04.01.08 at 7:44 am
Good analysis, Harry. You're on point as always.
Could you do me a favor and shoot me over some of that Brazil video footage from 1992?
Would be greatly appreciated.
#12 JDingle on 04.01.08 at 3:06 pm
Hey Harry,
I love fashion and lifestyle magazines and this is one of the reasons I created one. "We have to have our own things." In 1996 or 97, Mademoiselle,a fashion magazine for 20something women, did a feature on the history of women with braids. There was no illstration, photo nor mention of black girls, nor Africa. Now I had tolerated enough from these editors, so I wrote a long letter. The following month, as if to taunt me personally, they did a feature on locks. The story started with a Pomondor, the dreadlock dog. (I was so upset I called Kierna.) The next two pages were white girls with locks and the last was Bethann Hardison. I love Bethann, but that was the black person they knew and I felt like they threw her in there to appease me, personally. They don't think about us and when they do, it is so often skewed by monkey business.
I do wonder if Lebron was shown this inspiration. If they had the nerve to show him this image? If so LeBron, his people and Leibowitz and certainly, Wintour are bold and crazy. I have always loved Leibowitz's work, but this cover had an ill-vibe on sight. Thanks Harry for solidifying what I wanted to ignore.
Joicelyn
#13 Kate Stone on 04.01.08 at 3:20 pm
Harry left a reasoned comment on my website where I asked "What the fuss" about the photograph. I recognize that I am one of a few who did not view the photograph as racist but rather saw it as a provocative slash at racial stereotypes. I realize, though, how this cover can be seen as racist and remain appreciative of the many who did see it that way. Leibovitz also photographed her partner, Susan Sontag, as she lay near death. Some of us thought that was going too far. As I mentioned in my post, Tina Brown caught huge flak for a cover of Vanity Fair showing an Orthodox Jew kissing a Black woman.
Controversy sells and Vogue is a business. Still, I don't want to believe that Leibovitz personally set out to perpetuate racism and that LeBron James helped her to do so.
#14 norell giancana on 04.01.08 at 4:54 pm
Lebron James did actually make a comment about the photo pre-Army Enlistment poster debut: http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/sports/120626264122660.xml&coll=2
and if you're interested in a great analysis of Lebron's "politics" aka why he isn't bothered at all by this blatant racism check out:
http://www.edgeofsports.com/2007-05-17-251/index.html
#15 Me on 04.03.08 at 11:25 am
If you are biased enough to see a similarity with a black man and an ape, you are racist. All you people saying, "Oh no, I saw it immediately", you're raciest. If no one had pointed it out, I never would have thought, "Gee… That kind of looks like King Kong and Fay Wray". Call me gullible, but I would have thought it was a basketball player showing how tough he is. Never would have seen King Kong in there. Think you for pointing out how racist all of you still are. Quit being so hyper sensitive and trying to start trouble. Read up on Annie Leibovitz. See who she is. Then ask yourself if you think it was intentional or are you reading something into the picture that's really something in you.
#16 Jason M. on 04.03.08 at 7:12 pm
"Everything I put my name on is going to be looked at in a bad way and a good way" James told a Cleveland newspaper, "who cares what people say". Annie Lebowitz is a photographer who is known for her close collaborations with her subjects. Obviously no one involved has a problem with the cover. Lebron (a.k.a. KING James) is extremely intense on the court and it appears that he is bringing his emotions to the cover. I don't think that James is an idiot who was tricked into doing something that he didn't want to, he actually seems very intelligent and articulate during his interviews. Some of the other options for the cover that I've seen are very boring and this one may have been chosen for its potential controversy.
#17 Nikcole N. on 04.04.08 at 8:47 pm
Hoodoo Goddess…get a clue…who cares if whites are scared of blacks…that is their own hang-ups. LeBron is young…he just does not see things as they should be seen because of the life he lives. He is an acceptable black male. What I don't understand is why the people that are suppose to have his best interest at heart; i.e. his family, did not say anything about this. In-terms of the people at Vogue, although I have never worked at a fashion magazine or any magazine for that matter, I have sense enough to know that it is not just two people that look at prospective photos before they get published. So why wasn't there a break in the chain. The voice and or voices of reason or the mole to contact someone in LeBron's camp to let them know.
For the six people who took six years to research to show that american still view African Americans as apes…really come on…you could have gone to any urban community and spent a week and base on that week have enough material to write articles for the next millenium.
#18 artdodge on 04.05.08 at 8:52 pm
I have seen no reaction to the interpretation of the club of Kultur, in the original, as the basketball LeBron James wields in the Leibovitz.
Or that the American government was so willing to openly savage German Kultur in it's depiction of the Kaiser that Americans understood they were to dispose of their former unrefined identities as Europeans and immediately don the manufactured conformity and repression of American Culture.
Annie Leibovitz is making so many astounding statements in this photograph, and leaves them at our doors to digest.
#19 Jason Rosenfeld on 04.08.08 at 10:06 pm
An excellent synopsis and critique of the controversy so far.
Many thanks for your good reporting.
#20 Vega on 04.08.08 at 10:49 pm
I have to say, if I didn't work at a publication, I'd be more inclined to believe they did this intentionally. But I've worked as a photo editor for Vibe and Time Magazines, both of which have gotten into its own controversies for its photos. I have to admit these things are taken out of context and is always read far more than what was intended, usually intent is innocuous. I am not at all trying to play naive to the negative messages that the media has conveyed to its readers, yet the criticisms aren't always correct.
#21 Ralph on 06.14.08 at 11:56 pm
Yeah.. it never would occur to me that this was meant to mirror Kong and Fay Wray. EVEN now seeing them side by side. This is really reaching. I'm sorry, if this is what you SEE, you are the one who sees black people as apes. This is disturbing, and ironic.
#22 Will on 04.24.09 at 9:46 am
They obviously did get away with it. Months later & nothing has changed, nothing has happened to the perpetrators. I live overseas, read lots of online papers & still heard nothing about this.
This photo IS racist.
It plays on an exisiting racial stereotype. To those that try to make us protestors out to be racists for noticing it please wake up. They are alluding to a very well known long existing stereotype.
I know both the WW1 poster & sculpture concerned, I see the massive similarities with the photo. The white woman is still a white woman yet the (black) ape becomes a black man. White slavery is a much played on fear, white women stolen by Arabs & Africans (see: apes) & can be seen again in modern films like last years "Taken".
The photo is posed in the same way as the poster & yet there seems to be no acknoledgement of the source & no defence of it after the event.
But maybe I'm biased, I see less racism in Leni Reifenstahl's work than I see in a lot of Liebovitz's work!
#23 Peter Boulding on 08.05.09 at 12:56 am
I think the choice of the word i.)"shape" and the ii.)"(not)" are part of the message to enhance the sublimal message. i.) the words APE and the negative beside the positive You are says their true meaning. The big 87 could invoke the year 1987 the film Interacial Sex came out.
#24 DebBev on 01.11.10 at 6:54 pm
Thank you for your much needed scholarship, particularly your closing statement. LeBron and Gisele are too young to remember, many of us are not including Annie and Anna … and thousands more Vogue readers.
#25 Cait on 11.16.10 at 6:50 pm
Ummm… I obviously haven't read the article since I don't read Vogue, but how is the cover racist? It's a black guy and a white girl, so what? I think people are reading too much into it.. Relax folks.
#26 Danielle on 11.18.10 at 1:44 am
Looking back on this, I'm disgusted by this bias in which you write with. If you look into something deep enough with the frame of mind you have, you'll see what you want to see.
#27 Patrick on 06.21.13 at 8:02 pm
This is a very accurate portrayal. Lebron is a big ape, get over it.
#28 Arminius on 05.20.15 at 8:54 pm
Is this a joke the WWI propaganda poster refers to Germans as brutes not blacks!
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