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Founder & CEO, Garibaldi Capital Advisors
Brent has been in the technology finance industry for 24 years and is the co-founder and CEO of Canada's first technology-focused boutique M&A advisory firm, Garibaldi Capital Advisors. Founded in 2013, Garibaldi helps private technology companies across Canada grow by planning and executing on their capital strategy needs and assisting them through M&A transactions. With offices in Vancouver, Toronto and Saint John, Garibaldi has completed 18 transactions in 4 years across Canada.
Brent spent five years prior to founding Garibaldi doing technology transactions for Capital West Partners in Vancouver. Before that, Brent was a technology focused venture capitalist, raising over $40 million with two other partners in 1999 to invest in 15 early stage companies. In the Internet 1.0 days of the mid-90's Brent helped found an Internet Software company, later known as Maximizer Technologies and worked for BDC's venture capital group before founding his own fund.
He has an MBA from the University of British Columbia and an Honours Bachelor of Science from Western University in his original hometown of London, Ontario.


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Anthony Stanonis Travel Scrapbook and Diary Collection
Identifier: Collection 65
J. Edgar and Louis S. Monroe Library, Special Collections & Archives
This collection contains correspondence, daily calendars, diaries, journals, pocket notebooks, photograph albums and scrapbooks related to travel, tourism and daily life as recorded by the creators of the items. The correspondence is mainly letters sent by active military from World War II to a fiancé or significant other. Albums and scrapbooks related to travel cover regional and cross-country trips in the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe by automobile, train, plane and boat. The date range of the collection spans from 1890 to 1987, but the bulk of the traveling ranges from the 1930s to the 1960s. All items were bought by Anthony J. Stanonis from eBay for academic research related to travel and tourism.
Created: 1890-1987
Other: Majority of material found in 1930-1960
Other: Date acquired: 08/11/2013
Stanonis, Anthony J. (Anthony Joseph) (Person)
The collection is open for research use.
Physical rights are retained by the J. Edgar & Louis S. Monroe Library, Loyola University New Orleans. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. Copyright Laws.
Biographical or Historical Information
Anthony J. Stanonis received a B.A. in history from Loyola University New Orleans in 1997, then an M.A. in 1998 and a Ph.D. in 2003, both in history, from Vanderbilt University. In 2007 he began teaching Modern United States History at Queen's	University in Belfast where he continues to teach and reside.	Stanonis' research interests have centered on the cultural and economic implications of urban tourism. Around 2004, in an effort to collect primary sources related to tourism from the perspective of the tourist, Stanonis began purchasing travel diaries, scrapbooks and correspondence from eBay. While originally focusing on the South and regional travel, the scope of this collection widened to encompass the rest of the United States. A portion of the diaries and scrapbooks were referenced by Stanonis in his forthcoming publication entitled Faith in Bikinis: Politics and Leisure in the Coastal South Since the Civil War (University of Georgia Press, 2015). Stanonis also gathered ephemera related to the tourism industry in New Orleans for his dissertation, which resulted in the publication of his book, Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of	Modern Tourism, 1918-1945 (University of Georgia Press, 2006). He donated his ephemera collection (Collection 21) to the Monroe Library Special Collections & Archives.
19.72 Linear Feet (25 boxes)
Language of Materials
For this collection, the arrangement scheme was imposed during processing for preservation purposes. Items have been placed in order appropriate for long-term storage according to size and/or condition.
Source of Acquisition
Stanonis, Anthony J.
Accruals and Additions
Not anticipated
Travel -- History
AM. Archives & Manuscripts
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Waxman, Jennifer
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The British Advertising Standards Authority has banned the Ryanair ad below for…lying.
Arguing that the "sunny" destinations wouldn't get much warmer than 6-9ºC (42-48ºF), the government body has banned Ryanair from publishing similar "misleading" ads in the future.
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The Ryanair ad is a bit misleading, but can you point to an ad campaign that does not exaggerate? And who in their right mind would book a trip to Barcelona or Oslo in March and expect to go sunbathing on the beach? I think the ASA would be well-served going after Ryanair's hidden fees rather than nitpicking about the graphics used in the airline's ad campaigns.


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 Abir - Meaning of Abir, What does Abir mean?
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Suspect in Washington state woman's decapitation found dead in California
Suspect Jacob Gonzales' car was found abandoned near Yreka prior to a manhunt that began in northwest Washington last spring. Now investigators believe they have identified his body.
Posted: Apr 17, 2019 12:41 PM
YUBA CITY, Calif. — More than a year after law enforcement made a tragic and gruesome discovery in northwest Washington state that prompted a multi-state investigation, forensic evidence from a Sheriff's Office in California may have closed the convoluted case.
The timeline of events related to 26-year-old Katherine Cunningham's death and ensuing manhunt may somewhat hard to follow, as the true order of events and that of investigator's discoveries do not align:
March 3, 2018: Cunningham's decapitated body is found near a bunker filled with guns and ammo in Camano Island, Washington. She is believed to have been killed in mid-February.
Investigators begin looking for a person of interest in the case, 34-year-old Jacob Gonzales. The two may have been living together on the remote property. Gonzales is believed to be armed and driving his own vehicle, a 1990 Mitsubishi Montero.
March 12, 2018: Investigators announce that they have connected Gonzales to a 1998 Honda Civic 2-door found abandoned near Yreka, California. This was confirmed to be Cunningham's car. Caifornia Highway Patrol had actually recovered the vehicle prior to the discovery of Cunningham's body in Washington.
Cunningham's car is returned to Island County in Washington, where investigators obtain a search warrant — finding a "samurai" sword wrapped in a blanket inside. The sword matched wounds found on Cunningham's body, and forensics found her DNA on the blade, Gonzales' DNA on the handle.
April 7, 2018: Law enforcement recovers an unidentified body floating in the Feather River in Yuba City, California. The body shows signs of "severe decomposition" and there are no identifying documents. The body is listed as a "John Doe."
For a period of months, there does not appear to be any movement in the search for Gonzales or the investigation into Cunningham's death.
Now, more than one year later, the Sutter County Sheriff's Office has announced that the body has been positively identified as belonging to Gonzales, the homicide suspect wanted in Washington.
Sutter County Sheriff's Office said that it did not become aware of Gonzales as a suspect until November of last year, after which investigators began to compare some identifying features.
"Gonzales was suspected of beheading his girlfriend and possibly matched the description of our unidentified 'John Doe,'" the Sheriff's Office said. "After numerous conversations with other law enforcement agencies, it was determined that the information they provided pertaining to their homicide suspect matched identifiers belonging to our unidentified 'John Doe.'"
Using DNA from John Doe, investigators compared it to DNA on file in Washington state gathered from Gonzales.
"On April 16, 2019, our office received confirmation from the Department of Justice DNA Missing Persons Unit that the subject we classified as 'John Doe' was Jacob Gonzales, the homicide suspect wanted in Washington State," Sutter County said.
Statements from the law enforcement agencies involved did not mention Gonzales' cause of death, nor did they indicate that the investigation into Katherine's murder or Gonzales' death would continue.
Authorities Identify Suspect in Decapitation Murder
UPDATE: Car Found Abandoned in Yreka Belonged to Decapitation Victim
Missing Washington Woman Found Dead on Oregon Coast
MIssing Ashland Woman Found Dead
Last Missing California Family Member Found Dead
UPDATE: Suspect Found Dead After Florida Shootout
Missing Woman from Phoenix Found Dead
Man who slipped into California river found dead
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It's a Wonderful Life (4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Review)
Frank Capra's perennial holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life hardly needs an introduction at this point. The 1946 drama beloved by families the world over and a mainstay on television screens every holiday season starred James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who's had a fanciful imagination and dreams of adventure since boyhood. Through various circumstances out of his control, George must set aside his dreams of traveling the world and seeking adventure to run his late father's small-town bank in Bedford Falls and protect his business and the townsfolk from the avaricious businessman Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore). But when a costly mistake pushes George to greatest depths of despair, an angel is sent to show him what life in his little town would have been like had he never existed. George is shaken and awakens to realize that, despite all his pitfalls, he has indeed had a wonderful life, with a wonderful wife (Donna Reed) and children, and a wonderful group of friends.
The film was not a success upon its release, a bit of a box office failure and not very well-liked by the critics despite garnering 5 Oscar nominations. A slow turnaround came over the years as it maintained a cult status and eventually was allowed to lapse into the public domain, which is when it really took off. Television rescued the film, making it impossible to escape around the Christmastime festivities and New Year's Eve.
But there is a lot more to It's a Wonderful Life than simply being a feel-good holiday film. There is an undercurrent of darkness that permeates the film and that is perhaps why it has been able to survive for so many decades. It peers into the stresses of the middle class, the class distinctions and income inequalities bubbling up between the two World Wars, that would only be briefly addressed in the immediate aftermath with the Post-World War II boom, before being scaled back only a decade or two later. It examines despair, suicide, domestic discontent, financial ruin. The film is now firmly a part of the popular culture
James Stewart, Donna Reed, Carol Coombs, Karolyn Grimes, Jimmy Hawkins, and Larry Simms in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
According to the press release, It's a Wonderful Life was painstakingly restored for over a year utilizing the original nitrate negative as well as two fine-grain masters made in the 1940s. Each element was carefully scanned with the latest technology to both preserve the original delicate negative and create the best possible digital image. 13 of the 14 original reels of the original negative survived, but portions had begun to deteriorate so the best image was selected on a shot-by-shot basis.
What we are presented with on the 4K Ultra HD disc is a 1.37:1 HEVC 2160p (4K) encodement with Dolby Vision (compatible with HDR10) that is just shy of a miracle. I had already seen this film streamed in 4K with Dolby Vision via iTunes on my Apple TV 4K, so I knew what to expect. I was still surprised at how crisper and cleaner the disc looked. Both of my displays, be it my primary reference display (LG OLED) or secondary display, (Toshiba Fire TV w/ Dolby Vision) both support Dolby Vision, so that's the only HDR format I saw this film in. The black and white imagery is given an excellent amount of nuance in shadows and an added bit of contrast by the Dolby Vision. No, you don't that dazzling 'pop' you see in contemporary films or nearly innumerous shades of color, obviously, but the shades of grays, whites, and blacks are better delineated. We also see a little more sparkle in lamplights and headlights of cars. The film grain is rather consistent and organic throughout even as detail remains crisp, apart from the few frames that are from slightly lower quality sources that themselves have been blended in brilliantly.
The Audio
It's a Wonderful Life comes with a Dolby TrueHD 2.0 mono audio track. This isn't going to blow up your sound system, but it is authentic and fairly clean, with intelligible dialogue and very little evident pops, clicks, or hiss.
The on-disc supplements for It's a Wonderful Life are few, but they are solid features that offer up a lot of information on the film and its restoration.
Blu-ray w/ colorized version of the film
Restoring a Beloved Classic (1.78:1; 4K/HDR; 00:13:03)
Secrets from the Vault: It's a Wonderful Life (1.78:1; 1080p; 00:22:11)
It's a Wonderful Wrap Party (1.78:1; 1080p; 00:08:04)
The Final Assessment
It's a Wonderful Life has never looked better. The film is a classic that just about everyone loves so, ahead of this holiday season, I highly recommend picking up this disc even if you already own the digital version that has been available, because this one is a step up in visual quality still.
It's a Wonderful Life is out on 4K Ultra HD Combo October 29, 2019 from Paramount
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Frank CapraDirector
Frances Goodrich (screenplay) | Albert Hackett (screenplay) | Frank Capra (screenplay) | Jo Swerling (additional scenes) | Philip Van Doren Stern (story) | Michael Wilson (contributor to screenplay) (uncredited)Writer
130 Mins.Run Time
$25.99MSRP
29 October 2019Release Date
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English Audio Description | French DD 2.0 Mono | Spanish DD 2.0 MonoSecondary Audio
English | English SDH | French | SpanishSubtitles
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George Bailey (James Stewart) sacrifices a life of adventure to run the family bank in the small community of Bedford Falls, and protect the townsfolk from the greedy businessman Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore), but despite marrying his childhood sweetheart and having a wonderful family, a costly financial mistake pushes him to the depths of despair when an angel steps in to show him what life in his quaint town would have been like without him. A failure upon its release, Frank Capra's 1946 classic has in the intervening years become a perennial classic and critical darling that is presented here in a stunning new 4K restoration with HDR.
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livewire Battle Over The Census
DOJ 'Disappointed' In Judge's Decision Blocking Census Citizenship Question
By Tierney Sneed
The Justice Department issued a statement Tuesday that said it was "disappointed" with a federal judge's decision to block the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
"Our government is legally entitled to include a citizenship question on the census and people in the United States have a legal obligation to answer," DOJ spokeswoman Kelly Laco said in the statement.
The Census Bureau moved to add the question in 2018 at Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross's direction, and the Department of Justice defended the administration in the case U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman decided Monday, which was a consolidation of lawsuits brought by advocacy groups and a multistate coalition.
Here is the full DOJ statement:
"We are disappointed and are still reviewing the ruling. Secretary Ross, the only person with legal authority over the census, reasonably decided to reinstate a citizenship question on the 2020 census in response to the Department of Justice's request for better citizenship data, to protect voters against racial discrimination. Not only has the government asked a citizenship question in the census for most of the last 200 years, 41 million households have already answered it on the American Community Survey since 2005. Our government is legally entitled to include a citizenship question on the census and people in the United States have a legal obligation to answer. Reinstating the citizenship question ultimately protects the right to vote and helps ensure free and fair elections for all Americans."
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bylaws (administrative records) (31)
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questionnaires (20)
administrative records (19)
outlines (documents) (19)
clippings (information artifacts) (15)
speeches (documents) (14)
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YWCA of the U.S.A. microfilm records (299)
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Community Division Committee minutes and reports
The Community Division of the YWCA of the U.S.A. is responsible for services to associations in communities, towns and rural areas. These services include responsibility to the registered YWCA's acting in place of employed secretaries and board members, analyzing work in community associations and identifying trends, advising community associations on the development of their members, managing the affiliation and disaffiliation of community associations and advising associations on their community relationships and their relationship to the national organization. Committee meetings of the Community Division include updates on community associations, discussions of personnel and leadership, reports from conferences and conventions and discussions of the needs of community associations.
microfilms, minutes (administrative records), reports
reports, microfilms, minutes (administrative records)
City Department minutes and reports
Minutes and reports of the YWCA of the U.S.A. City Department concerning the needs of city associations, visitation reports, plans for the dissemination of pertinent information to city associations and matters of personnel and management of the department. Following the depatment minutes are secretaries reports arranged alphabetically by secretary's last name. Secretaries visiting city associations submit visitation reports that assess the status of the association, describe any challenges and successes and summarize the association's programs. The visiting secretaries often visit more than one association in each trip and may include several associations in one report.
American Committee and Joint Committee: Formation of National Board
Documents concerning the American Committee's involvement with the Joint Committee and the formation of the YWCA of the U.S.A. National Board. Proceedings and reports recommend that the American Committee affiliated groups unite with the International Board resulting in the National Board of the Young Women's Christian Association. Additional materials concern the decision to unite, recommendations for moving forward and background information on the merger. Also included are summaries of the agreement between the International Board and the American Committee and blank applications for association membership.
microfilms, minutes (administrative records), reports, correspondence
Foreign Division, India section minutes and reports
The India section of the Foreign Division of the YWCA of the U.S.A. is responsible for studying the conditions for women and girls in India, identifying urgent needs and opportunities and determining the role of the YWCA in India. In addition, they support the National Committee of the YWCA of India in its development. Reports from YWCA of the U.S.A. secretaries in India describe the development of their work, the conditions in their community of work and possible future needs.
Education and Research Division minutes and reports
The Education and Research Division of the YWCA of the U.S.A., established in 1921 following a national reorganization, seeks to carry out the YWCA of the U.S.A.'s goal of developing the lives of women through education. The division is a carry over of the Department of Research and Methods that existed prior to the reorganization. The minutes of the first meeting of the Education and Research Division record the discussion of the name of the division and the defining of the division purpose and tasks. Subsequent meetings of the division concern the overarching themes of education in the YWCA of the U.S.A. and their role in furthering the educational purpose of the organization. Education and Research Division reports summarize the division's activities, describe challenges and successes and makes assessments of future needs. Staff meetings of the Education and Research Division concern the more specific duties of the staff members, report on the needs of local associations and member groups and make personnel and travel arrangements.
Minutes and reports of the YWCA of the U.S.A. City Department concerning the needs of city associations, visitation reports, plans for the dissemination of pertinent information to city associations and matters of personnel and management of the department. Following the depatment minutes are secretaries reports arranged alphabetically by secretary's last name. Secretaries visiting city associations submit visitation reports that assess the status of the association, describe any challenges and successes and summarize the association's programs. The visiting secretaries often visit more than one association in each trip and may include several associations in one report. The microfilm contains a note stating that the City Department minutes are missing for the year 1911.
National Board minutes and reports
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Cooperating Committee for the Central Club for Nurses minutes and reports
In response to a call for work with women in the nursing profession, the National Board of the YWCA of the U.S.A. authorizes a two year experiment in operating a club for women in the nursing profession. Minutes and reports assess the progress of the program, discuss the operation and administration of the project and evaluate the effectiveness and role of the Central Club for Nurses.
Board of Trustees minutes and reports
Minutes and reports of the annual meetings of the Board of Trustees of the YWCA of the U.S.A. The Board of Trustees is responsible for the endowments, investments and holdings of the YWCA of the U.S.A. At the annual meetings board members hear reports from the Board of Trustees treasurer, National Board treasurer and comptroller and carry out the elections and nominations of officers and committee members.
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UPR Submission - Kyrgyzstan 2019
Submission to the 35th Session of the Univeral Periodic Review, January 2020
Date Submitted: 17 July 2019
Download the UPR Submission
Introduction and key concerns
1. This submission focuses on the situation of human rights defenders (HRDs) in Kyrgyzstan and covers developments from January 2015 to June 2019.
2. Front Line Defenders believes that the overall situation of the defence of human rights has not improved since the last UPR cycle and has identified the following key points of concern:
A restrictive legal framework enabling reprisals for human rights work, including legislation on extremist activities and legal provisions on the dissemination of false information, both of which are used against HRDs;
- High-level smear campaigns and stigmatisation against HRDs. Although draft laws on "foreign agents" and "anti-gay propaganda" were not adopted, discussion around them helped to fuel hatred and resulted in smear campaigns targeting NGOs and defenders of the LGBTI+ community;
- Specific targeting of human rights defenders working on LGBTI+ and sex worker rights;
3. Despite the efforts of President Sooronbay Jeenbekov, who took the office on 24 November 2017, to engage with civil society representatives, long-term human rights issues and measures impacting on the work of HRDs, as outlined in the last UPR cycle, have not been effectively addressed.
4. Deep-rooted corruption remained a serious challenge to strengthening the rule of law in the country. Aggravated by a difficult economic environment, the issue of corruption was visible in the work of the judiciary and law enforcement authorities, including in cases where HRDs working on LGBTI+ issues were subjected to extortion under the threat of violence or the threat of having their sexual orientation or gender identity reported to their families.
5. Although no new violent ethnic clashes were registered in the period under review, the authorities failed to comply with international standards in providing access to justice and a guarantee of the right to a fair trial in the aftermath of the violent conflict between ethnic Kyrgyzs and Uzbeks in the south of country in June 2010 which left more than 400 people dead. Prominent HRD Azimjan Askarov, was arrested in the aftermath of the violence and sentenced to life imprisonment on false charges of organising mass riots, instigating ethnic hatred and being involved in the murder of a policeman. The government has consistently refused calls to release Askarov, including from the UN Human Rights Committee, which issued an opinion in March 2016 calling for his release. The authorities have also failed to conduct an effective investigation into the reported torture of Azimjan Askarov.
Developments since previous UPR cycle
6. During the last review, Kyrgyzstan accepted seven recommendations regarding the protection of HRDs, all of them relating to ensuring a safe and free environment for the exercise of their peaceful and legitimate work1. However, throughout the given period a number of cases were reported to Front Line Defenders revealing Kyrgyzstan's failure to adhere to these commitments. HRDs in the country have faced intimidation, threats, smear campaigns, harassment and physical attacks in reprisal for their human rights work, coming from both state and non-state actors. Despite Kyrgyzstan accepting recommendations from Lithuania and Ireland to promptly investigate attacks and allegations of harassment, torture and ill-treatment of HRDs, defenders reported a reluctance of law enforcement authorities to open investigations and a lack of results in cases when such investigations were opened.
7. Eight recommendations concerning freedom of association were accepted by the state. During the last cycle, a draft law known as the "foreign agents bill", which proposed a number of restrictions on and additional obligations for human rights NGOs receiving funding from abroad, was the main point of concern in relation to freedom of association. Although the bill was rejected by Parliament on 12 May 2016, the long-lasting discussion around the proposed amendments significantly contributed to the stigmatisation and suspicion of human rights organisations. In the absence of new restrictive NGO-specific legislation, the authorities have employed existing law, including legislation on extremist activities and terrorism, to obstruct and ban the activities of human rights NGOs, which have also faced illegal searches of their offices, surveillance and other forms of harassment. For example and in a clear act of reprisal for interacting with United Nations mechanisms, on 5 January 2017 a report submitted by the Anti-Discrimination Centre "Memorial" to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Migrant Workers was labelled as "extremist material" which resulted in a ban on Centre's activities in Kyrgyzstan.
8. The state accepted 22 recommendations in relation to torture and ill-treatment. However, the authorities failed to adhere to these commitments. As in the case of Azimjan Askarov, allegations of torture and ill-treatment reported to law enforcement authorities were frequently not properly investigated. HRDs working on issues of torture reported difficulties in accessing detainees, and threats and harassment in relation to their work coming both from state and non-state actors. Although Kyrgyzstan accepted a recommendation from Sweden to investigate cases of violence, torture and degrading treatment against LGBTI+ persons, the authorities were in fact often perpetrators of such violence, creating an especially difficult environment for HRDs working on issues of the LGBTI+ community. Front Line Defenders received several reports of attempts of extortion by police officers targeting LGBTI+ HRDs, but the victims declined to report these cases to the police or make them public out of fear of reprisals against them.
(a) Restrictive legal framework
9. The current legal system in Kyrgyzstan does not include laws directly restricting or banning peaceful and legitimate work of HRDs. However, the authorities have used the existing legal system to judicially harass defenders in order to restrict their activities.
10. Legislation on extremist activities and terrorism has been employed to disrupt the human rights work of HRDs. On 27 march 2015, the apartments of human rights lawyers Valerian Vakhitov and Khusanbay Saliev, as well as the office of the organisation Bir Duino at which they were working, were searched in connection with the case of an American journalist who was tried for extremist activities. Although the HRDs had minimal connection to the case and did not face any charges, documents relating to more than a hundred legal cases on which they were working were seized in the course of the searches.
11. Given the history of ethnic conflict, the state has strong legislation relating to incitement of ethnic hatred. However, Front Line Defenders has documented cases where this legislation has been used against HRDs working to protect the rights of ethnic minorities. On 9 June 2016, the representatives of human rights organisation Spravedlivost were questioned by the police in relation to a complaint they had received claiming that Spravedlivost had been inciting inter-ethnic hatred. This came as a result of the organisation's work on the protection of ethnic Uzbeks whose property had been demolished or who were under threat of an eviction without fair compensation by the municipality.
12. For his work documenting human rights violations in the 2010 Kyrgyz-Uzbek ethnic conflict, as well as investigating and reporting cases of police abuse and poor prison conditions, Azimjan Askarov is serving a life-sentence (see above) and has also reported being subjected to torture. While his health has deteriorated in detention, his family has faced harassment and threats of eviction from their home. Moreover, lawyers working on his case including Nurbek Toktakunov, Tolekan Ismailova and human rights organisation Bir Duino have faced smear campaigns, threats and mob-attacks in relation to the case. In February 2019, a video with intimate content was posted anonymously and circulated on Internet. It aimed at presenting Toktakunov as a "drug addict"; he was targeted because he was Askarov's lawyer.
13. Legal provisions on libel, defamation and reputational damage were used by the authorities to curtail freedom of expression in the given period. On 20 April 2017, the Office of the General Prosecutor filed a criminal case on charges of "offending the dignity of the President Almazbek Atambayev" against human rights lawyer Cholpon Djakupova in relation to a public statement she made calling on the President to respect freedom of association and assembly at an event organised by the Human Rights Ombudsman. In February 2018 the house of the human rights defender was put up for auction to cover the costs of compensation ordered to be paid to the President. In May 2018 the President dropped his request for compensation from Djakupova.
(b) Smear campaigns and stigmatisation
14. Although the draft law on "foreign agents" was not adopted by the Parliament, the discussion on this issue at the highest levels of the government contributed to the stigmatisation of NGOs' human rights activities and created an atmosphere of suspicion around their activities. State representatives have frequently discredited the work of HRDs, publicly accusing them of promoting the interests of foreign states and institutions thus compromising national interests, security and values. On 14 May 2016 the President accused HRDs Tolekan Ismailova and Aziza Abdirasulova of serving the interests of foreign donors. This statement fuelled a smear campaign in the media and on social media directed at the two defenders. On 23 May 2019, a meeting organised by the Coalition against Torture was interrupted by the Youth Patriotic Movement of Kyrgyzstan, a nationalist youth group; the group claimed that the meeting had been financed by Western countries and was aimed at destabilising peace in Kyrgyzstan.
15. A discriminatory draft law on "anti-gay propaganda", proposing administrative and criminal prosecutions for dissemination of any information that contributes to a positive attitude towards non-traditional sexual relationships, has been neither declined nor accepted since its submission to the Parliament in 2014 and has caused long-lasting discussion. Given the conservative nature of Kyrgyz society, the bill not only fuelled hatred against the LGBTI+ community but also significantly stigmatised and endangered HRDs working on their protection. Front Line Defenders received reports from HRDs who were physically attacked in reprisal for their outspoken position against the proposed law. As in other such cases reported to this organisation, the HRDs did not want the incidents to be made public for fear of their own safety.
16. On 28 January 2017, HRD Izzatilla Rahmatullaеv was verbally assaulted by a member of a radical nationalist group on the grounds of his ethnic origin and human rights work. The attacker shouted that 'all Uzbek people must be executed by a firing squad' and that he should be imprisoned similarly to Azimjan Askarov. As a result of the verbal attack Izzatilla Rahmatullaеv, who is an elderly man, suffered a collapse.
(c) Human rights defenders working on LGBTI+ and sex worker rights
17. Although same-sex relationships were decriminalized in Kyrgyzstan in 1998, HRDs working with the LGBTI+ community have been operating in an environment of extreme hostility, which has manifested itself in discrimination, violence and hate speech against them based on their gender identity and sexual orientation. Front Line Defenders received reports on cases of physical attacks on individual HRDs and organisations working on LGBTI+ issues, threats against them and their families, as well as defamation campaigns emanating from homophobic and nationalist groups and their own families.
18. While the rate of violence against LGBTI+ HRDs as reported to Front Line Defenders has been high, such cases were often not reported to the police. Many HRDs working to protect LGBTI+ rights have expressed a high level of mistrust towards the police. This is a result of low level of protection afforded to the LGBTI+ community from the law enforcement authorities and threats, insults and even attacks and extortion perpetrated by them.
19. Kyrgyz authorities have also failed to provide sufficient protection of the right to peacefully assemble to representatives of the LGBTI+ community. A permission-based procedure for the organisation of meetings and peaceful gatherings allows authorities to be selective about the issuance of such permission, which has resulted in few LGBTI+ public gatherings being permitted to take place. Furthermore, when such gatherings do occur, they have been subjected to attack a number of times by the radical groups, as reported to Front Line Defenders.
20. Following the establishment of the Department for Combating Human Trafficking and Crimes Against Public Morality as a new police unit in 2014, police restarted the formerly abolished practice of forcibly testing sex workers for HIV and STIs. Defenders of the rights of sex workers doing outreach work in sex trade "hotspots," have been arrested in brothels and hotels. Defenders report that in several instances between 2015 and 2017, dozens of sex workers and sex worker rights defenders were arrested at once, and subsequently detained, physically and sexually assaulted, and violently subjected to forced medical tests in police stations, often without the consultation or presence of a trained medical professional. Sex worker rights defenders report that by 2016, the vast majority of police departments and units were empowered to raid sex work establishments, demand bribes from workers, confiscate their identity documents, and refuse to return the property or release the workers until they submitted to medical test. These mass arrests and forced HIV tests drastically reduced sex worker rights defenders' ability to conduct their work safely and effectively.
21. Sex worker rights defenders coordinating emergency response after mass arrests and those accompanying detained sex workers through court proceedings have been detained, harassed, and threatened by police. During a 2018 research mission, Front Line Defenders documented cases in Bishkek, Osh, Karakol, and Jalal-Abad of police officers threatening sex worker rights defenders with arrest or sexual assault if they did not stop their human rights work. When responding to emergency calls from sex workers being held in police stations, sex worker rights defenders receive sexualized comments and verbal harassment from police officers, and have been touched and groped by police officers outside of court rooms when they accompany fellow sex workers to trials.
Recommendations to the Government of Kyrgyzstan:
22. Front Line Defenders calls upon the member states of the UN Human Rights Council to urge the Kyrgyz authorities to prioritise the protection of HRDs, and, in doing so, to:
- Take measures to ensure that the existing legislation is not misused to limit the legitimate work of HRDs, with a view to ensure its compliance with international human rights standards;
- Take measures to ensure that the judicial system is not used to restrict the legitimate and peaceful work of HRDs, including by refraining from charging defenders with extremism and libel with the purpose of disrupting their work;
- Carry out an immediate, thorough and impartial investigations into all reported instances of attacks, harassment and targeting of HRDs, following their human rights work as a main investigation line;
- Take all the necessary measures, including legislative, to ensure the protection of human rights defenders working on LGBTI+ and sex workers rights from violence, ill-treatment, torture and stigmatisation;
- Ensure access to justice for those unfairly prosecuted in the aftermath of 2010 Kyrgyz-Uzbek ethnic conflict; immediately release Azimjan Askarov and quash his conviction;
- Take swift measures to hold the law enforcement officials accountable for abuses against human rights defenders and ensure an effective prevention of such abuses in the future;
- Publicly recognize the positive and legitimate role of HRDs in a democratic society and ensure that public officials refrain from engaging in stigmatisation and smear campaigns against HRDs and ensure that they publicly apologize in cases where they do so;
- Adopt appropriate measures to ensure that HRDs under its jurisdiction can exercise in practice their right to freedom of opinion and expression;
- Guarantee in all circumstances that all HRDs in Kyrgyzstan are able to carry out their legitimate human rights activities without fear of reprisals and free of all restrictions including judicial harassment, and ensure full respect for the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders;
1 These recommendations were made by Lithuania (117.26, 119.24), Austria (117.102), Uruguay (117.111), Belgium (117.112), Denmark (117.113) and Ireland (117.114).
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I think Firefox 2 should be tagged as End-of-Life. It received its last security update on 18 December 2008. With the release of Firefox 3.0.6 on 3 February, vulnerabilities were patched that aren't patched in Firefox 2. Firefox 2 is insecure because it's unpatched. It should be tagged as End-of-Life because no security patches are planned.
Am I reporting this in the right place for providing feedback to the Secunia team?
Last edited on 1st Mar, 2009 08:27 Agreed. And I am sure someone will see this. Remember, Secunia OSI and PSI are not version checkers. They only report programs where serious security flaws have been demonstrated.
Remember, Secunia OSI and PSI are not version checkers. They only report programs where serious security flaws have been demonstrated.
Good point, Bob. I wouldn't be surprised if the last version of Firefox 2 has many if not all of the vulnerabilities patched in Firefox 3.0.6. I think they haven't been reported only because there's no Firefox 2 specific patch available. Secunia is making a mistake here by not reporting these as Firefox 2 vulnerabilities too. Surely the bad guys know about them, now that they've been publicized by the Firefox 3.0.6 patch and vulnerability report.
After further consideration, I think Firefox 2 should be tagged as Insecure instead of End-of-Life. After all, it's "patched" by Firefox 3.
Insecure vs End of Life is splitting hairs. It should be flagged for action either way.
The hair might be thick enough to matter. It seems like some, if not all, End-of-Life programs aren't reported in the Simple interface mode. I have one like that on my system. In the case of Firefox 2, it's especially important that non-advanced users be informed they're using a browser with multiple Highly Critical vulnerabilities.
Last edited on 1st Mar, 2009 19:42 Which is why I use the Advanced User Interface. That is not splitting hairs.


O. Henry - one of my favorite writers and this is one of his best stories - albeit very long. This is Part 2. For the rest of the story, here's Part 1 and Part 3.
Whither it led he knew not, but he was resolved to leave Vernoy far behind that night. He travelled a league and then passed a large chateau which showed testimony of recent entertainment. Lights shone from every window; from the great stone gateway ran a tracery of wheel tracks drawn in the dust by the vehicles of the guests.
At length he crossed a great bridge and set his foot within the smiling city that has crushed or crowned more poets than all the rest of the world. His breath came quickly as Paris sang to him in a little undertone her vital chant of greeting--the hum of voice and foot and wheel.
One afternoon he was returning from a foraging trip to the lower world, with bread and curds and a bottle of thin wine. Halfway up his dark stairway he met--or rather came upon, for she rested on the stair--a young woman of a beauty that should balk even the justice of a poet's imagination. A loose, dark cloak, flung open, showed a rich gown beneath. Her eyes changed swiftly with every little shade of thought. Within one moment they would be round and artless like a child's, and long and cozening like a gypsy's. One hand raised her gown, undraping a little shoe, high-heeled, with its ribbons dangling, untied. So heavenly she was, so unfitted to stoop, so qualified to charm and command! Perhaps she had seen David coming, and had waited for his help there.
Ah, would monsieur pardon that she occupied the stairway, but the shoe!--the naughty shoe! Alas! it would not remain tied. Ah! If monsieur _would_ be so gracious!
"Yes, madame. I--I think so, madame."
"Madame, do not say so. I live in the--"
"Let me tell you, then, for you need no excuse," stammered the poet. "I live in the top floor--the small room where the stairs turn."
by the others as Captain Desrolles.
"To-night. To-night as he goes to midnight mass. I am tired of the plotting that gets nowhere. I am sick of signals and ciphers and secret meetings and such _baragouin_. Let us be honest traitors. If France is to be rid of him, let us kill in the open, and not hunt with snares and traps. To-night, I say. I back my words. My hand will do the deed. To-night, as he goes to mass."
"You, countess?" said the marquis, raising his eyebrows. "Your devotion is great, we know, but--"
While the conspirators were thus engaged, David was polishing some lines addressed to his _amorette d'escalier_. He heard a timorous knock at his door, and opened it, with a great throb, to behold her there, panting as one in straits, with eyes wide open and artless, like a child's.
"Monsieur," she breathed, "I come to you in distress. I believe you to be good and true, and I know of no other help. How I flew through the streets among the swaggering men! Monsieur, my mother is dying. My uncle is a captain of guards in the palace of the king. Some one must fly to bring him. May I hope--"
"Go to the south gate--the south gate, mind--and say to the guards there, 'The falcon has left his nest.' They will pass you, and you will go to the south entrance to the palace. Repeat the words, and give this letter to the man who will reply 'Let him strike when he will.' This is the password, monsieur, entrusted to me by my uncle, for now when the country is disturbed and men plot against the king's life, no one without it can gain entrance to the palace grounds after nightfall. If you will, monsieur, take him this letter so that my mother may see him before she closes her eyes."
"Give it me," said David, eagerly. "But shall I let you return home through the streets alone so late? I--"
"No, no--fly. Each moment is like a precious jewel. Some time," said the lady, with eyes long and cozening, like a gypsy's, "I will try to thank you for your goodness."
"Take this," said the marquis, drawing from beneath his cloak a shining, great weapon, ornamented with carven silver. "There are none truer. But guard it closely, for it bears my arms and crest, and already I am suspected. Me, I must put many leagues between myself and Paris this night. To-morrow must find me in my chateau. After you, dear countess."
On the south steps of the palace they moved to seize him, but again the _mot de passe_ charmed the watchers. One among them stepped forward and began: "Let him strike--" but a flurry among the guards told of a surprise. A man of keen look and soldierly stride suddenly pressed through them and seized the letter which David held in his hand. "Come with me," he said, and led him inside the great hall. Then he tore open the letter and read it. He beckoned to a man uniformed as an officer of musketeers, who was passing. "Captain Tetreau, you will have the guards at the south entrance and the south gate arrested and confined. Place men known to be loyal in their places." To David he said: "Come with me."
"I--I would be a poet, sire."
Hear Pan blowing at his reed.
In the branches of the--'"
is all about her; when she leaves, there is chaos and a scent of hawthorn blossoms. She came to see me in the Rue Conti, number twenty-nine."
On the _qui vive_ in a house at the corner of the Rue Esplanade was Captain Tetreau with twenty men, ready to pounce upon the conspirators when they should appear.
king's carriage, thrust his weapon against the body of the dark figure inside, and fired.
For the rest of the story, here's Part 1 and Part 3.
More of O. Henry's stories can be downloaded for free from Guttenberg Library.


Steel wheels -- good source??
Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting' started by cyberpriusII, Apr 13, 2019.
I can't speak to "rural Oregon", but in any major city Craigslist is full of steel wheels that people took off their cars to install "rimz"
Look for Corolla or 2G Scion xB wheels. Direct fit, ought to be cheap.
You're close to the 49th parallel, @Mendel Leisk should be selling his Corolla Steelies this year to make way for the PIP rims he has in the shrine .
I'm sure he'd cut you a deal .
@Stevewoods seems happy with his Subie .
Drive what makes the most sense to you and if it is an Outback, enjoy .
The Prime we just got I can tell will be enjoyed for many years to come .
I found with the exposed hub opening things were rusting badly, found a 2" (nominal size, ID is 2.375") black ABS end cap (Home Depot) covered it nicely. It's slightly loose fit, but I found cutting a rubber band from an old bicycle inner tube, pushing on the hub opening rim, then pushing the end cap on, it was a snug fit, and stayed on.
Also, the open-ended lug nuts mean the wheel stud tips are exposed, start to rust-bloom. After install putting a drop of three-in-one oil on the tip of each, brushing it around with an old tooth brush, they're pretty much protected, halfway through winter. Reapply in a couple of months to be sure.
Kris, since you are planning to buy snow tires and steel wheels, why not buy from tirerack.com ? Call them and ask for a package price.
When I was shopping for dedicated snow tires on its own wheels, I thought basic steely is the cheapest. After doing some comparisons, I ended up purchasing tires and wheels package from Discount Tire. It turned out, the least expensive alloy wheels are less expensive than steel wheels after discount and rebate deals they had. I got 4 alloy wheels, 4 Michelline Xice3, installation kit, tires mounted balanced shipping included total after discount and all the rebate for ~$450.
Given the crazy winter snow storm we had this year I agree. I drove a Honda Odyssey with Blizzaks on it that was just amazing - much better than a 4wd pickup truck with 'snow rated' all weather tires. Subies with snow tires would be fantastic.
Use the search term "take offs" when searching ebay for steelies (or alloys) for the Subie, and find out what other models use the same tire/wheel size.
I did this when buying replacment tires for my usta-truck.
I maintain that you can get a set of OEMs for cheap and mount snows on them.
Their TPMS sensors might be more easily reprogrammable too, since "snows" are a Subie kinda thing.
They just did a 'yuuge' makeover for the 2020 model year Outback and so the "leftover" G5s will be relatively cheaper.
Loss of power to wheels, traction light, main engine light, power steering light. Help please!
Cleaning your windshield? DO NOT use 000 steel wool!
Using steel rims, which lugnuts for spare?


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Q: convert decimals into negatives? I'm scaling an image in css with transforms.
The scale goes from 0 to whatever, with 0 through 1 being smaller than the image.
I need to get the scale into negatives, so that 0 is the same size as the original, 1 is double the size, and -1 is half the size.
I have vars:
var cssScale, factorScale;

How to get cssScale into factorScale and vice versa?
Thanks.

A: Seems like you want 2-to-the-power-of-n:
cssScale= Math.pow(2, factorScale);

To get back the other way would be log-base-2, which you'd have to implement using log-base-E:
factorScale= Math.log(cssScale)/Math.LN2;

A: Sounds like cssScale = Size * (2 ^ factorScale).

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Q: Django: PYTHON_EGG_CACHE, access denied error I am deploying my django application on a server, and on last stages I am getting this error:
ExtractionError at /admin/

Can't extract file(s) to egg cache

The following error occurred while trying to extract file(s) to the Python egg
cache:

[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/.python-eggs'

The Python egg cache directory is currently set to:

/.python-eggs

Perhaps your account does not have write access to this directory?  You can
change the cache directory by setting the PYTHON_EGG_CACHE environment
variable to point to an accessible directory.

Request Method:     GET
Request URL:    http://go-ban.org/admin/
Exception Type:     ExtractionError
Exception Value:

Can't extract file(s) to egg cache

The following error occurred while trying to extract file(s) to the Python egg
cache:

[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/.python-eggs'

The Python egg cache directory is currently set to:

/.python-eggs

Perhaps your account does not have write access to this directory?  You can
change the cache directory by setting the PYTHON_EGG_CACHE environment
variable to point to an accessible directory.

Exception Location:     /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pkg_resources.py in extraction_error, line 887
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Maybe someone come across similar issue?
The strangest thing here is that I am using another django site on this host with no such error :(
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A: Well, you are using some strange setuptools-enabled library.
But anyway, is there a problem for you to setup PYTHON_EGG_CACHE environment variable to any directory writable for application user?


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Victoria's Airbnb legislation not strong enough, says community group
16 August 2018 Eliot Hastie
The Victorian Labor government's recent short-stay regulations have been slammed by a local lobbying group as not being strong enough.
The lobbying group We Live Here represents apartment owners in 300 Melbourne buildings and said that the new legislation was some of the weakest in the country.
Airbnb in Victoria is a huge business, with 36,000 active listings and is used by nearly a third of Victorians.
Marshall Delves, one of the directors of We Live Here, said that the legislation was weak and only existed to support Airbnb.
"The legislation the government has brought down is an absolute Mickey Mouse legislation that protects a multinational company that pays no tax in this country," Mr Delves said.
Mr Delves said that the legislation washes Airbnb of any responsibility and places the responsibility on the owner of the property who can then choose to prosecute the guests.
"So, an owner has no rights because they will have no knowledge of the person who was there causing the issues and therefore they can't be prosecuted," the director said.
Mr Delves said that due to the nature of Airbnb, most renters are short-term and then go back overseas, making it impossible for an owner to prosecute them for unruly behaviour.
"You've gotta be able to find out who the person was that caused the problems and then track them down and take them to VCAT, and it just won't happen. How are you going to chase someone down who has gone back home to Europe or America or Canada or even Tasmania or interstate?"
Mr Delves said that the group was not against Airbnb, but only to the way it is managed and the commercial operators that use the platform.
"If you google 'Inside Airbnb', you will see something like 20,000 listings in Melbourne and will see that some people have over 100 apartments. They are commercial operators running a commercial business with these residential buildings," the director said.
An Airbnb spokesperson said that the data quoted from Inside Airbnb could not be relied on as it was scraped data which cannot differentiate between many factors on the site.
"The scraper, whether it is Inside Airbnb or Airdna, cannot factor in how hosts use their calendars," the spokesperson said.
Airbnb's head of public policy for ANZ, Brent Thomas, said that it welcomed the introduction of the laws but said that it was not the final step.
"Passing these laws is a good step but not the last step. We look forward to working with the government on implementing these laws and taking further action against anti-social behaviour," the public policy head said.
Mr Delves said that he wanted We Live Here to be invited to the discussion on future legislation, as currently they weren't being listened to.
"The frustrating part is the government won't talk to us. They will not engage us. They don't get it," the director said.
Eliot Hastie