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Discover the missing back-story of the dawn of The Three Stooges in this groundbreaking full-length biography of Ted Healy.
Millions of comedy movie fans still enjoy watching The Three Stooges, but few know the Ted Healy story or the mysterious circumstances that surrounded his untimely death. He began his show business career in Vaudeville and climbed to the pinnacle of fame as a movie star, appearing in dozens of films, such as Dancing Lady (1933) with Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, Fugitive Lovers (1934) with Robert Montgomery, Operator 13 (1934) with Gary Cooper and Marion Davies, Reckless (1935) with Jean Harlow, and the Academy Award-winning San Francisco (1936) with Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, and Gable.
Healy's sudden death at age forty-one just days after the birth of his son has long been surrounded in mystery and scandal. Was his death by natural causes or did foul play involving an alleged MGM/Wallace Beery murder cover up the truth?
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Includes a richly detailed biography that draws from many never before seen sources, a Filmography, photos and illustrations, an Index, and a Bibliography
"If he is remembered at all, Ted Healy is known as the man who assembled the trio that came to be known as The Three Stooges. Little is known about the comedian himself, a boyhood friend of Moe Howard who went on to achieve considerable success on stage and screen. Bill Cassara, a retired police Internal Affairs sergeant, has employed his investigative skills and keen interest in movie comedy to research biographies of Edgar Kennedy and second-banana Vernon Dent. Now he turns his attention to Healy and comes up with "the goods." He even devotes an entire chapter to the rumors and lore surrounding his mysterious death in 1937. Comedy buffs will welcome this thorough biography, filled with rare photos and newspaper clippings, along with a wonderful new drawing of Healy by Drew Friedman."
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Internal Medicine Meeting 2013 | June 2013
Making sense of movement disorders
From uncontrollable urges to move to a struggle to make even basic gestures, movement disorders cover a wide range of problems.
By Jennifer Kearney-Strouse
At a session titled "Approach to the Patient with Movement Disorders" at Internal Medicine 2013 in April, Martin A. Samuels, MD, MACP, described one way that he evaluates patients with bradykinesia: He holds a staring contest.
"I compare my eye blink rate to the patient's eye blink rate," he said. "I watch them blink, then I blink, and then we see who blinks next. And you'll find that these people will win every time."
Martin A. Samuels, MD, MACP. Photo by Kevin Berne
Kidding aside, Dr. Samuels, who is the founding chair of the department of neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, also asked the audience to do an experiment to simulate how a bradykinetic patient feels.
"It's an extremely unpleasant sensation," he said. He asked everyone to sit without moving, swallowing or blinking for 15 seconds, then listen to all of the "makeup" sounds of shuffling, position shifting and throat clearing when time was up.
His demonstration drove home his point. "The nervous system is meant to move," he said. "[Bradykinesia] is an active suppression that's happening, which is actually painful and difficult. If you had to do that for a minute or two minutes or five minutes, you would find it extremely uncomfortable."
The lack of movement characteristic of bradykinesia leads to dry eyes, difficulty swallowing and the need to think about everything you do, including remembering to move your arms when you walk, Dr. Samuels said. It's most easily recognized by simple observation.
"You have to become good at seeing bradykinesia," he said. "It's subtle when it's early. So you're looking for reduced movements, reduced blinking, these complaints related to not being able to move spontaneously."
Bradykinesia is synonymous with parkinsonism, but Parkinson's disease is only one cause, Dr. Samuels pointed out. Drugs can induce parkinsonism, and it can develop after encephalopathy. Lewy body disease, multiple system atrophy, progressive supranuclear palsy and cortical basal ganglionic degeneration can also cause it, he noted.
Another movement disorder, rigidity, can be caused by three different kinds of increased tone, Dr. Samuels said: spasticity, lead pipe rigidity and paratonia.
"Spasticity can be very disabling," he said. "It can be worse than paralysis. Some people who have spinal cord injuries will tell you that their weakness is bad but the spasticity is worse, that the stiffness is so severe that they can't uncross their legs, for example, to do personal hygiene."
Physicians can detect spasticity by moving the limb quickly, said Dr. Samuels. If you move the limb more slowly, you won't feel the same degree of stiffness, since the disorder is velocity-dependent. He also noted that patients with spasticity will have increased reflexes and Babinski sign, but no wasting of the limb. Baclofen and tizanidine, which act on GABA receptors, can help relieve spasticity without adding to the patients' weakness, Dr. Samuels said.
Lead pipe stiffness, however, has nothing to do with velocity, Dr. Samuels said. It's independent of the speed at which a limb moves and often presents in the neck. "A lot of people attribute this to cervical arthritis, but it's really a movement disorder," he said.
Paratonia, which is effort-dependent, is a kind of stiffness in which "I push, he pulls," Dr. Samuels said. For example, if you tell a patient to relax and then you try to move the affected limb, the patient will push you away. The stiffness disappears if you distract the person, Dr. Samuels said.
Paratonia can be due to a lesion in the frontal lobe or can be the result of a patient trying to fake muscle weakness, he said. "I've never met a person who could imitate spasticity or lead pipe stiffness," he said. "I don't think it can be done."
Tremor, Dr. Samuels said, is defined as an involuntary oscillation around a fulcrum. Tremors can be proximal or distal, and slow enough to count or so fast they can't be counted by the naked eye. To help attendees simplify tremors, Dr. Samuels referred to the classification system developed by the 19th-century neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, which divided tremors into two main types, those that are obvious in a position of repose (for example, relaxing in a chair) and those that require action.
Tremors that are obvious in repose can get better on action or can get worse, Dr. Samuels said, while those that require action can involve goal-directed action, such as trying to touch something, or antigravity movements that are completely unconscious. Tremors that result from antigravity movements can be normal, that is, enhanced physiological tremors, or can result from disease that runs in families.
"And that's it. That's tremorology," Dr. Samuels said. "If you know this, you can understand all tremors."
Myoclonus and asterixis
Dr. Samuels also addressed myoclonus and asterixis, which are caused by synchronous multiple motor-unit firing and emanate from the central nervous system. They are very quick, very asymmetrical and unpredictable, Dr. Samuels said: "With a lot of them, people look like marionettes. They just are jumping all over."
Asterixis is the exact inverse of myoclonus, Dr. Samuels said: "Most people call it negative myoclonus." In myoclonus, the limb moves in an antigravity fashion, and with asterixis it drops with gravity.
The two disorders are often seen together, Dr. Samuels noted, and it can be difficult to tell which is which. However, he said, "It doesn't matter, either. They're the same. In neurology, when you have two events, two phenomena, which are exactly the opposite, it's very likely you're looking at the same pathophysiology, with an interposed inhibitory neuron in the spinal cord."
Dr. Samuels noted that asterixis and myoclonus can be seen with all types of metabolic encephalopathies, as well as pulmonary disease and renal failure. In addition, many drugs, especially opioids and valproic acid, can cause myoclonus and asterixis, so "Round up the usual suspects," Dr. Samuels said. These disorders are hard to treat, although benzodiazepines can be effective, he noted.
Chorea and ballism
Chorea and ballism involve fast, usually proximal movements, with ballism being the more pronounced of the two. "Ballism is just big chorea," Dr. Samuels said. They have many potential causes, including drugs, infarcts in the basal ganglia, Huntington's disease and autoimmune disease, such as lupus.
"You can see it pretty easily," Dr. Samuels said. "It's very obvious in most cases, and if you have people walk it often comes out." With ballism, he said, a limb "suddenly flings into space," as if you're throwing a ball or a Frisbee. Chorea can be normal in women during pregnancy, he noted.
Dystonia, athetosis and akathisia
Dystonia and athetosis are characterized by twisting movement and postures, Dr. Samuels said. Athetosis is considered a moving dystonia, while dystonia may be a tardive dyskinesia.
"Almost all real dystonia is caused by genetic disease or known etiologies," Dr. Samuels said. "If it's very focal you can treat it with botulinum toxin and just weaken the muscles, and if it's generalized you have to use some kind of generalized treatment, drugs. Lately we've been using deep-brain stimulation very successfully for very bad, genetic dystonia."
Dr. Samuels joked that he's a good example of another movement disorder, akathisia, or the inability to keep still, usually manifested by pacing back and forth. Akathisia is a common tardive dyskinesia and is often part of the Ekbom syndrome, he noted. "If you give neuroleptics, you can make it worse," he said.
Tics and fasciculation
Dr. Samuels also said that tics are one of his favorite areas to discuss because "it's in the zone of neurology and psychiatry. It's in between the two." Tics are semivoluntary movements and, unlike with other movement disorders, patients will take responsibility for them, Dr. Samuels said.
"If you say 'Why are you doing that?' they say, 'I do it because I need to.' It relieves some kind of inner tension. The trouble is [the relief] doesn't last. [The tension] comes back again," he noted.
Tics are highly associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder, Dr. Samuels said, and very severe cases can often be treated successfully with deep-brain stimulation. "Some of the patients do amazingly well and feel so much better," he said.
Dr. Samuels also discussed a movement disorder that's not a disorder at all: fasciculation, or muscle twitching.
"The word that you should write in your notes next to the word 'fasciculation' is the word 'normal,'" Dr. Samuels said. "Everybody here has had one."
Fasciculation, which emanates from the motor unit and is related to cramp, is meaningless when not accompanied by weakness and wasting, Dr. Samuels said. "It's hard to cure something which isn't a disease," he said. "It isn't our job to stop everything on earth."
If patients with fasciculation want to try to stop it, they can take quinine or magnesium, and antiepileptic drugs might work, Dr. Samuels said. "But you're really hitting a mosquito with a sledgehammer."
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Cedaw People's Tribunal: Muslim women, migrants and domestic violence victims lives destroyed by no legal aid
Posted on June 23, 2021 by davidhencke
Successive governments' decision to cut drastically the legal aid budget has caused enormous damage to diverse women and girls groups according to witnesses who gave evidence today to the CEDAW People's Tribunal.
They cover the plight of Muslim women who are forced to seek divorces at Sharia Courts because they cannot afford to go to a civil court, migrants denied access to legal aid and married women fleeing domestic violence going to family courts over the custody of children and divorce settlements. The tribunal is looking at how the Un Convention on the Elimination of all forms of discrimination can be put into UK law.
Legal aid ban putting Muslim women at the mercy of patriarchal fundamentalism
Pragna Patel founder and director of Southall Black Sisters (SBS)
[SBS is, a multi-award-winning women's organisation founded in 1979 to address the needs of black and minority women experiencing gender violence.
It successfully campaigned for the release of Kiranjit Ahluwalia, a landmark case in which an Asian woman was convicted of the murder of her violent husband. The case reformed homicide law, creating greater awareness within and outside minority communities.]
A damning indictment of the drastic effect of legal aid cuts which had created formidable barriers for all women – but especially black and ethnic minority women – was made by Pragna Patel.
She was particularly critical of the plight of Muslim women fleeing a marriage and unable to access the civil courts because of the lack of legal aid. Instead decisions were taken by unofficial religious courts dominated by conservative patriarchal fundamentalists. " The woman has no status there, no right to keep her children, no property rights and no inheritance rights. This completely contravenes human rights."
She cited a case of one woman who has only had a religious marriage – which had never been followed by a civil marriage. As a result when she went to a civil court to get her rights – the court could not rule on the marriage as it has never been legally recognised. The case has gone to the Law Commission but it has so far not ruled on it.
She also attacked the funding system – having won a judicial review against Ealing Council – when it withdrew funding. She said most of the money was now given to " generic services " based on getting results set by targets rather than specialist services offering long term support to people.
"Domestic abuse perpetrator given custody of children at his former wife's expense"
Dr Charlotte Proudman – barrister at Goldsmith Chambers
Dr Proudman highlighted the lack of legal aid holding back women to defend their rights in family courts after quitting their marriage over domestic abuse. She said there was an inequality of arms when they had to appear as a litigant-in-person because they could not afford to pay a barrister. She also said the courts had the discretion on who should pay and where the children should reside in cases – leaving in one instance a woman who had left her husband because of domestic abuse having to pay for her children to be looked after by her abuser – her husband.
She was highly critical of the lack of training for barristers and judges on handling domestic abuse cases – and the failure of the government after the passing of the Domestic Abuse Act to specify what training will be given. She also said that many of the lawyers eyes glazed over when they the issues of women's rights and certainly CEDAW were mentioned.
She also thought that judiciary was dominated by elite men -" male, pale and stale" – educated at private schools and Oxbridge. She said most of the women were also from the same elite -privately educated and with Oxbridge degrees – meaning neither knew much about the life of the people who came before their courts. She came from a working class background and had gone to a state comprehensive school.
Equality Act has left people working in silos
Esua Jane Goldsmith
Esuantsiwa Jane Goldsmith, from Anona Development Consultancy on International Developments on Human Rights. Esuantsiwa was one of the first black VSO volunteers, serving as a teacher in Tanzania 1977-79. Esua was a leading figure in the UN process for women, attending the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing 1995, as a member of the UK Government Delegation representing Development INGOs. She was founder and Chair of the Beijing Forum which co-ordinated the input of UK development NGOs. She was the first black woman Chair of the Fawcett Society, Chair and Co-founder of the Gender and Development Network
Esua has highly critical and disappointed by the failure of the 2010 Equality Act. She had great hopes that the Equality and Human Rights Commission by putting all the equality issues together would be a big improvement. But instead she said it was still working in silos and relying on individual litigation.
She thought putting CEDAW into domestic law would create a much more holistic approach bringing together business, politicians, civil society, ngos and the women's sector together by breaking down barriers.
She was scathing about the lack of progress of BAME women in Parliament – 35 out of 650 MPs. She also attacked the way white males trolled and pursued prominent black women like Diane Abbot, just because they were powerful people.
Dramatic rise in on line sexual abuse during the pandemic
Kelly Johnson – researcher
Dr Kelly's areas of research/expertise include domestic and sexual violence, policing, and more broadly violence against women and girls; including Rape Crisis. She has particular research experience in the policing of domestic abuse, image-based sexual abuse (including 'cyberflashing', so-called 'revenge porn' and 'upskirting') and feminist theory.
An alarming picture of the rise in " revenge porn" during the pandemic leading to sexual violence against was women during the pandemic left the police unable to have the resources to act to control it, Dr Kelly told the tribunal. She said this caused "significant and devastating harm for women". Black and ethnic minority men were disproportionately involved and many of the attacks were misogynistic with a sense of male entitlement that they could do what they wanted.
When sexual violence followed this the police were not always able to cope – with basic resources like police cars in short supply – so they couldn't get out to see people. Perpetrators were getting away scot free and were also using on line dating sites.
She called for long lasting cultural changes including much better education of young boys, teaching them the need for consent.
Media stereotyping of women puts pressure on women politicians at national and local level
Sofia Collignon -politics researcher
Sofia is Co Investigator in the ESCR-funded Representative Audit of Britain project, part of Parliamentary Candidates UK and principal investigator in the Survey of Local Candidates in England. Fields of expertise: Gender equality, Participation, Policy design and delivery
The media were criticised for stereotyping women politicians and putting extra strain on women in public life. Some times they were the victims of a campaign of disinformation or not given the opportunity to reply. She called on journalists to be more accurate and carefujl in their reporting of women ;politicians and local councillors.
She said that though there were more women MPs -originally from a low base – an analysis of candidates standing for Parliament showed they were often given unwinnable seats so never got elected. She praised three countries -Sweden, New Zealand and Mexico – for giving women politicians a pro active role. Mexico was particularly praised for having a gender equal role which saw a massive increase in the number of women politicians.
She thought Parliamentary candidates should have compulsory training in equal rights before they stood for Parliament – as part of an initiative to bring CEDAW into domestic law.
The secret UK world of polygamous marriages
Yasmin has worked for more than 30 years predominantly on violence against women, race, faith and gender, and human rights. She has acted as an expert witness in legal cases providing expert reports on faith based abuse and Muslim marriage practices including polygamy and temporary marriage. Yasmin is chief Executive Officer at JUNO WOMEN'S AID (formerly Women's Aid Integrated Services).
An extraordinary picture of the unknown scale of polygamous marriages in the UK was given to the tribunal by Yasmin Rehman.
She said nobody knows the scale of the marriages and the government is blind to the problem. It is hidden because Imans often give secret ceremonies for Muslim men who have one civil marriage to marry other women. There is also a ban on sex outside marriage for Moslems, she said, – which is why there are some additional marriages. Other polygamous marriages avoid bigamy laws – as UK men with a wife and family at home, marry another woman in countries where polygamous marriages are allowed.
She said the religious practice was harmful to women who are given a subordinate role – but the real problem was the clash between the freedom of practices allowed by religion with gender and equality issues. Worse there was some evidence that women were trafficked into the UK for forced polygamous marriages.
" The issue is seen to be in the too difficult box which is why there is not a single politician who is prepared to take the issue up."
She said only one politician – the former Tory Chancellor, Sajid Javid – had raised part of the issue – but only over children being forced to marry an older man.
Other witnesses
Baljit Banga, executive director of Imkaam, a UK based black feminist umbrella organisation, gave a detailed run down on what was wrong with the Domestic Abuse Act and why there is a need for a much better alternative and Dr Annette Lawson, chair of the national Women's Commission, abolished in 2010 on why there is a need for some successor funded body to pull all women's groups together to implement CEDAW.
The hearings are now over and the next stage is to draw up a report.
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naylor1954 says:
It all looks promising David, but frightened to get my hopes up anymore as they have been dashed so many times. While this Government is Funding Boris & Carrie's lavish lifestyle and lucrative contracts for their chums, we have no chance of getting what is rightfully ours, it stinks. Thank You for your continued support and regular updates, you are amazing.
bernice fitsell says:
Bless you for all support, without doubt a lot of us would have given up. You have followed our plight, through it all. A big thank you for all you have done. We now have to wait and see what happens.
J M BROOKFIELD says:
Thanks so much for your superb summary David. It is much appreciated.
Karen Bowman says:
Thanks again David for the great summary.
It was empowering to hear and see these capable women's advocacy and evidence.
Best wishes to the judiciary. In 1930 women began to be considered as 'persons' now we need to be considered ' equal to other persons', esp. BAME women or victims of abuse and harassment or women with one of the other so called 'protected' characteristics. Scottish government will be awaiting the outcome ..hope Westminster ( all parties) and government in UK pays heed!
Rosemary Marshall says:
Hello, David, I haven't had a chance to read up all the comments from this week on CEDAW, but I wanted you to know how much I appreciate the effort you put into keeping us informed, and the informative and insightful recent radio interview.
it's not just the minorities/ majorities that have had their lives completely destroyed….I'm a 'middle aged white man', what hope have i got for getting any semblance of a life actually back?
It is time that foreign aid to Egypt and such countries be stopped as the women there are denied freedom.
THe UN has a lot to answer for and can make a big difference by denying Aid to those countries
limiting freedom for women
why on earth would you think that would make the problem any better, presuming that is what you really do think? lets do the same for all those countries that make your clothes and employ children….zero bowl of rice and no roof over their heads does tend to result in death fairly quick I would think, so why would you just kill millions of children? I know the road to hell is paved with good intentions and all….but please LOOK AT THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS OF HISTORY AT LEAST! or the last two decades at a minimum….


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Barbara Byrd-Bennett went to prison for steering $23 million in contracts in exchange for cash and gifts. She tried to steer more than $6 million in additional contracts to friends, according to a new report.
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CHICAGO — The infamous former head of Chicago Public Schools tried to steer millions of dollars more in contracts to two friends than has previously been reported, the district's top watchdog said Wednesday.
Barbara Byrd-Bennett, the former CEO of the district, abruptly resigned her position and was subsequently sentenced in 2017 to 4-½ years in prison for steering $23 million in contracts for principal training in exchange for cash and gifts. In one email, she brazenly said: "I have tuition to pay and casinos to visit (:"
Byrd-Bennett, now 71, was allowed to leave prison early this year because she could potentially be exposed to coronavirus in jail.
But nearly six years after her resignation, CPS Inspector General Will Fletcher said this week his office is still uncovering crimes committed by Byrd-Bennett "to enrich herself and her friends through lucrative CPS contracts."
The report details Byrd-Bennett's "brazen disregard" for CPS procurement rules in steering business to two close friends, only identified as "Friend A" and "Friend B" in the report.
Byrd-Bennett directed $6.3 million to an unidentified company "because Friend A and Friend B worked there," according to the report. Although the contract was awarded through a competitive bidding process, the report states Byrd-Bennett along with other CPS officials engineered the process to award the contract to the company.
An attorney for CPS and a network chief created a request for proposals modeled after a document provided by Company 1, and emails sent before the awarding of the contract show Company 1 executives knew they would win the contract before the request for proposal was released to the public, according to the report.
In the year leading up to Company 1 winning the $6.3 million contract, the report states the two friends "repeatedly met" with Byrd-Bennett, a CPS network chief and a top aide, including several dinners at Chicago steakhouses paid for by Friend 1.
After her two friends had a falling out with Company 1, Byrd-Bennett then explored ways to give the work to a new company formed by the two friends, but was rebuffed by the district's attorneys, according to the report.
Byrd-Bennett then pressured Company 1 to award $5 million of the business to be awarded to her friends' new company as a subcontractor. When she was unsuccessful, she instead awarded them $25,000 in CPS business, the Inspector General alleged.
Undeterred, Byrd-Bennett then attempted to pressure a third company to hire her friends as sub-contractors for a new $3.8 million contract. Ultimately, Company 3 did not enter an agreement with the two friends to carry out the work, but the report says the company's executive misled investigators about the nature of her relationship with Byrd-Bennett.
Beyond Byrd-Bennett, an attorney working in the district "participated in the improper steering process" before leaving the district and taking a job as general counsel for the company owned by the two friends, according to the report.
The unidentified executive told investigators she only knew Byrd-Bennett in passing, but emails and text messages show the two women were "friendly and communicated often."
The two also dined together at the Pump Room ahead of the contract being awarded, despite the executive initially saying she had never dined with Byrd-Bennett.
The report does not identify the names of the companies involved in Byrd-Bennett's schemes or the names of her friends. The Sun-Times identified Company 1 as Knowledge Delivery System.
In response to the Inspector General's findings, CPS has moved to place more players involved in the schemes on do-not-hire lists and is in the process of "initiating debarment proceedings" against the two friends, their company and executives of Company 1, preventing them from obtaining future business with the district, according to the report.
The Board plans to place the executive of Company 3 on a two-year suspension from engaging in business with the district.
Company 3 is still in business with the district, and the board agreed to hire an independent monitor to review its work.
Wednesday's annual report includes a review of sexual misconduct cases reviewed by the OIG, including 430 new cases opened by the office during the last school year that led to four criminal charges and 13 ongoing investigations.
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Governance, 12 results 12
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141 Archival description results for South Africa
20 results directly related Exclude narrower terms
Address by ANC President Nelson Mandela to the ANC National Conference on reconstruction and strategy
ANC National Conference on Reconstruction and Strategy
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, at the opening of the 37th Congress of South African Jewish Board of Deputies
37th Congress of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, at the presentation of the Freedom of Miami Beach Medallion of Honour
Presentation of the Freedom of Miami Beach Medallion of Honour
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, to ANC Business Summit
ANC Busines Summit
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, to the International Solidarity Conference
International Solidarity Conference
Address by Former President Nelson Mandela during the opening of the WaterDome, WSSD : No Water, No Future
Address by President Nelson Mandela at North West Stadium
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a breakfast meeting of the Foreign Correspondents Association
Breakfast meeting of the Foreign Correspondents Association
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a luncheon hosted by the Conference of Editors
Luncheon of the Conference of Editors
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the 5th National Congress of COSATU
5th National Congress of COSATU
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the ANC's Manifesto Launch
ANC's Manifesto Launch
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Annual Gold Award Ceremony of the President's Award
Annual Gold Award Ceremony of the President's Award
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Johannesburg opening of the Anne Frank Exhibition at Museum Africa
Opening of the Anne Frank Exhibition
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the South African Freedom Day Celebrations
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the United Nations International Drug Control Programme South Africa's legal workshop on sub-regional cooperation againist drug trafficking
UN International Drug Control Programme South Africa's legal workshop on sub-regional cooperation against drug trafficking. Speech delivered by Minister of Justice Dullah Omar on behalf of the President
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the book launch of the series on southern African leaders: "They Fought for Freedom"
Book launch of Series on Southern African Leaders: "They Fought for Freedom"
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the opening of the Congress of the South African Agricultural Union (SAAU)
90th Anniversary of the South African Agricultural Union (SAAU)
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the snap debate on the Shell House incident
Snap debate on Shell House Incident
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the Anniversary of the Soweto Uprising on 16 June 1976
Anniversary of the Soweto Uprising on 16 June 1976
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the opening of the second session of the democratic Parliament
Opening of Second session of Parliament
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the 1995 National Conference of Institute for a Democratic South Africa (IDASA)
1995 National Conference of IDASA
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the Annual Conference of the Methodist Church
Annual Conference of the Methodist Church
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the National Assembly on the occasion of the President's Budget Debate
President's Budget Debate
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the South African Chamber of Business Banquet
South African Chamber of Business Banquet
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the Workshop for Human Rights Education
Workshop for Human Rights Education
Address by President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, at the World Economic Forum, Southern Africa Summit
World Economic Forum, Southern Africa Summit
Address delivered by Nelson Mandela, Deputy President of the African National Congress, at the graduation ceremony at MEDUNSA
Address of Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress, on receiving an Honorary LLD Degree at the University of Fort Hare
On receiving an honorary LLD Degree
Address of Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress, on receiving an Honorary LLD Degree at the University of the Witwatersrand
Address to CODESA by Comrade Nelson R Mandela, President of the ANC
Address to the nation by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, on the assassination of Martin Thembisile (Chris) Hani
Africa, colonialism and war
Occasion - Natal Peace Conference
Summary - Imperial powers exploit Africa for its raw materials, its strategic value as military bases and its cheap labour. Africa is used as an instrument of war and the first casualties are its people. There is a link between the struggle for peace and the struggle against colonialism in Africa.
Closing address by President Nelson Mandela at the 49th National Conference of the African National Congress
49th National Conference of the African National Congress - closing
Closing address of Comrade Nelson R Mandela, Deputy President of the ANC, at the National Consultative Conference, 16 December 1990
Abridged version
Closing addressby Former President Nelson Mandela at the 13th International AIDS Conference : Aids: From Rhetoric to Action
Concluding remarks by President Nelson Mandela during the closing session of SADC Heads of State and Government Summit
Closing of SADC Heads of State and Government Summit
Intervention of the President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, at the second session of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)
Second Session of CODESA
Keynote address by Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress, to the conference of the Broad Patriotic Front
Conference of the Broad Patriotic Front
Keynote address of Comrade Nelson R Mandela, Deputy President of the ANC, to the ANC National Consultative Conference, 14-16 December 1990
Keynote address of the President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, to the Umkhonto we Sizwe National Conference
Umkhonto we Sizwe National Conference
Negotiations, the ANC vision of a new South Africa and the Indian Community : Keynote address by the President of the African National Congress, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Gathering of Indian Community
Nelson Mandela' speech at the launch of the Masakhane Campaign
Launch of the Masakhane Campaign
Nelson Mandela's Closing Address to the 48th National Conference of the African National Congress
Nelson Mandela's Opening Address to the 48th National Conference of the African National Congress
Nelson Mandela's addres on the Senate President's Budget Debate
Senate President's Budget Debate
Nelson Mandela's address at the State Banquet for President Mugabe
State banquet for President Mugabe
Nelson Mandela's address to Bloemfontein Attorney's Association
Bi-Annual dinner of Bloemfontein Attorneys Association
Nelson Mandela's address to Cape business leaders
Address to Cape business leaders
Nelson Mandela's address to South African business executives : Options for Building an Economic Future
Conference convened by the Consultative Business Movement on the theme "Options for Building an Economic Future". Over 300 executives attended the Conference
Nelson Mandela's address to rally in Bloemfontein
Text in CAPITALS indicates where the address was delivered in Sotho.
Nelson Mandela's address to rally in Cape Town on his release from prison
First public speech by Mandela in 27 years, after his release from prison. Mandela ends this address with a quote from his speech from the dock given at Rivonia trial in 1964. Note he is quoting from the prepared speech and not as he actually delivered at the trial. Both the verbatim and prepared speeches are reproduced.
Nelson Mandela's address to rally in Durban
Occasion: First address in Durban after his release from prison
Text in CAPITALS indicates where the address was delivered in Zulu. Pangas referred to in the text are machetes, widely used in Natal's sugar growing areas for cutting cane. Rev. John Langalibelele Dube, first President of the ANC and Pixley ka Isaka Seme, ANC founder member and its President between 1930-7, are referred to in paragraph 5. The "1986 Indaba solution" was a proposal for a change in the structure of regional government in Natal "Asinamali", means we have no money, and was a slogan of the 1983 campaign against rent increases in Durban townships.
Nelson Mandela's address to rally in Soweto, 13 February 1990
Welcome home rally after Mandela was released from prsion
Nelson Mandela's address to the Conference of Young Presidents Organisation
Conference of Young Presidents Organisation
Nelson Mandela's address to the General Meeting of Union of Radio and Television Networks in Africa (URTNA)
General Meeting of URTNA
Nelson Mandela's address to the International Press Institute Congress
International Press Institute Congress
Nelson Mandela's address to the Summit of the Patriotic Front
Summit of the Patriotic Front
Nelson Mandela's address to the youth
Nelson Mandela's notes for speech at Port Shepstone Rally
Port Shepstone Rally
Nelson Mandela's speech at unveiling of Gandhi Memorial
Unveiling of Gandhi Memorial
Nelson Mandela's speech to the Free Ethiopian Church of Southern Africa
Centenary celebration of the Fre Ethiopian Church of Southern Africa
Nelson Mandela's address to the people of Cape Town on his election as President of South Africa
Rally at the Grand Parade in Cape Town to celebrate Mandela's election as President
No Easy Walk to Freedom
Occasion - Presidential address to the ANC (Transvaal) Congress
Summary - The political climate has changed from the successes of the Campaign for the Defiance of Unjust Laws of 1952 and the ANC must be prepared with a new approach and with a strong and disciplined membership. The new approach is called the "M" Plan and calls for active recruitment and action at the grassroots level. This will enable the ANC to function without calling attention to itself. There is no place in the ANC for those opposed to the "M" Plan.
Notes for Nelson Mandela's closing address: President's Budget Debate
Closing address of the President's Budget Debate after 100 Days in Office
Notes for President Nelson Mandela's closing address on the occasion of the President's Budget Debate
Notes for address by President Nelson Mandela at a breakfast of the Raadzaal Rotary Club
Breakfast of the Raadzaal Rotary Club
Notes for address by President Nelson Mandela at the Durban Point Easter Festival
Durban Point Easter Festival
Notes for address by President Nelson Mandela at the Gauteng Community Leaders Summit
Gauteng Community Leaders Summit
Notes for an address at a rally at Alexandra Stadium
Rally at Alexandra Stadium
Notes for speech at the Kimberly Rally
Kimberly Rally to pay tribute to people for ANC election victory
Notes for speech at the Namaqualand Rally
Namaqualand Rally to pay tribute to people for ANC election victory
Notes for speech by President Nelson Mandela at the funeral of the victims of the isithebe shootings
Funeral for the victims of the Isithebe shootings
Opening Address by ANC Deputy President, Nelson Mandela, at the African National Congres/Inkatha Freedom Party Summit
Opening Address by Former President Nelson Mandela at the National Civil Society Conference
Opening Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Conference on National Environment Policy
Conference on National Environmental Policy
Opening address by ANC Deputy President, Nelson Mandela, to the Sub-Saharan Oil and Minerals Conference
Opening of the sub-Saharan Oil and Minerals Conference
Opening address by President Nelson Mandela at the President's Conference on Small Business
President's Conference on Small Business
Opening address by President Nelson Mandela at the Sub-Saharan Oil and Minerals Conference
Sub-Saharan Oil and Minerals Conference
Opening address to the Law Society of the Transvaal delivered by the President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela
Address to the Law Society of the Transvaal
Opening speech by President Nelson Mandela at the Business Initiative Against Corruption and Crime
Business Initiative against Corruption and Crime
Opening speech by President Nelson Mandela at the Euromoney Conference
Euromoney Conference
Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the 49th National Conference of the African National Congress by Nelson Mandela
49th National Conference of the African National Congress
President Mandela's address to the banquet in honour of Prime Minister of Britain John Major
Banquet for John Major, Prime Minister of Britain
President Mandela's speech to the PWV 5th Provincial ANC Conference
5th PWV Provincial ANC Conference
President Nelson Mandela's acceptance speech on the occasion of the presentation of the Africa Peace Award
Africa Peace Award ceremony
President's budget debate opening address by President Nelson Mandela : 100 Days Speech
Budget Debate Opening Address (after 100 days in office)
Presidential Address at the Annual Conference of the African National Congress Youth League
Occasion - Annual conference of the African National Congress Youth League
Summary - This address outlines the main threats in the world (imperialism, capitalism), in Africa (colonialism), and in South Africa (fascism). African Nationalism is seen as the response to these threats and the Youth League is seen as the guardian of this ideology. The Youth League should not continue to debate African Nationalism as an ideology but rather focus on how to mobilise the masses in a national struggle, how to respond to the Suppression of Communism Act and how to organise and discipline its members.


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The meeting was called to order at 19:16 CDT by President Rich Maier KC9NW.
Minutes of the meeting of 15 June 2009 were presented in print and accepted as presented by consensus.
N9ATQ reported the new repeater controller has been paid for.
The bill was approximately $1450.
K9PT reported he had been in contact with Steve at Link Communications. The new RMRA controller that had been sent back was on the workbench and the new chips had been installed. Tests appear to be going well. Based on this it was decided not to cancel the order.
KC9NW reported that he and K9PT concluded that the 145.41 repeater should be installed at a temporary height until funding for full installation.
With the removal of 145.41 from Rib Mountain, NASA Shuttle audio will be carried on 147.06.
K9DB Reported that the duplexer loan agreement with BRARA will come due in September. It was decided by consensus that the duplexer agreement be extended for another year under the existing terms. K9DB will pursue with BRARA.
K9DB proposed waiving first year RMRA membership dues for all newly licensed Amateurs. He said he believed such a policy would not require a change to the bylaws as they give the board the authority to set the dues schedule.
N9ATQ said that with the call for nominations coming in September, a mass mailing would be appropriate. He volunteered to start assembling a list of all area Amateurs.


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Cashless Payments [Article 3] The Future of the Cashless Society as Seen through Advanced Use Cases in China―Individual Authentication for Payments Creates New Business Opportunities
China's Retail Industry Evolving from O2O to OMO
When cashless payments spread to brick-and-mortar stores, customers' purchasing behaviors can be predicted based on their brick-and-mortar purchase histories in the same manner as online e-commerce sales activities, and what customers want can be accurately understood and predicted. However, online and brick-and-mortar stores have different strengths and weaknesses; shoppers want to make the most of each.
Jack Ma, founder of leading EC conglomerate Alibaba Group, noticed this change worldwide; at the end of 2016, he announced the New Retail strategy. New Retail refers to a new retail business strategy that combines online and offline activities and aims to provide an attractive purchasing experience by making full use of IT based on data analysis of shoppers' purchases. This movement is not limited to Alibaba Group: JD.com, Alibaba Group's competitor, has launched a similar initiative. New Retail is a strategy to improve synergy between the Internet and the physical world. At first, this strategy was regarded as O2O (Online to Offline: attracting customers from online stores to brick-and-mortar stores), but these days, it is more often called OMO (Online Merges Offline: unification of online and brick-and-mortar stores).
Hema Xiansheng, GMS representative of Alibaba Group's New Retail strategy
This GMS is composed of a building that houses a supermarket and a restaurant, an online store, and a shipping service for items purchased at the store.
7FRESH, a New Retail GMS operated by JD.com, a company funded by Tencent
Payment Information Is Important Personal Information―Also Used for Credit Scores in China
The spread of cashless payments leads to the accumulation of individual payment histories. This data can be used as important evaluation information for credit management. In fact, Alibaba Group has been gathering payment information through Alipay and Tencent through WeChat Pay. Both companies have launched businesses to collect various types of personal information, including such payment information, and to calculate individuals' credit scores, or degrees of trust. Alibaba Group's service is named Sesame Credit (operated by Ant Financial, an affiliate company of the Alibaba Group) and Tencent's service is called Tencent Credit. The Chinese government started to operate the Social Credit System as a national policy in 2014 to improve credibility throughout society. Alibaba Group's and Tencent's credit score businesses are in line with this government policy, and they utilize various types of personal information disclosed by the government to calculate credit scores.
Various types of information affect credit scores. Sesame Credit lets users register various pieces of information to change their scores, including IDs, academic records, company addresses, work experience, driver's licenses, car information, real estate properties, insurance, and credit cards. As privileges, people with high credit scores do not have to pay deposits when reserving hotels or renting mobile batteries.
Example of a Sesame Credit score: Scores range from 350 to 950.
Plans to Launch Information Banks in Japan
This new credit score business may be unique to China, but in Japan, information banks, a new type of business that aims to manage and utilize personal information, will be launched in 2019. Information banks are a new kind of business whose main activities are collecting and managing personal data. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications revealed that they will accept applications from companies that want to operate information banks in December 2018 and give authorization around March 2019. Since payment information is part of important personal information, it will be treated as data that information banks should collect and manage.
Companies that have never operated banks are expected to enter the information banking industry. For example, Fujitsu has participated in an information bank demonstration experiment in cooperation with AEON Financial Services, with Fujitsu as the information bank operator and AEON Financial Services as an operator that utilizes personal data.
Information bank users entrust their attributes (e.g., age, place of residence, and family structure) and personal data (e.g., hobbies, preferences, daily moods and physical conditions) to information banks voluntarily. In the demonstration experiment, users were paid with FUJITSU coins in accordance with the content and amount of entrusted information as well as the number of approved companies that information was disclosed to.
Use of Personal Information and Level of Security Being Tested
A cashless society offers various social advantages (e.g., a lower incidence of cash crimes) because of the difficulty of carrying out unauthorized transactions due to the elimination of highly anonymous cash purchases. However, it also has a disadvantage―a higher risk of privacy violations because transaction information, which is part of privacy information, remains at stores and payment service providers. From this perspective, it makes sense to leave the management and operation of personal information up to what are expected to be highly secure information banks.
Just as careful attention is paid to the management and operation of money in today's cash-based society, the management and operation of various types of personal information, including payment records, must be taken more seriously to ensure peaceful living in the future cashless society.
Tetsushi Hayashi
Cleantech Institute
NIKKEI BP Intelligence Group
Graduated from Tohoku University's Faculty of Engineering in 1985 and joined Nikkei Business Publications, Inc. in the same year. As a reporter and assistant editor for Nikkei Data Pro, Nikkei Communication and Nikkei Network, he wrote about advanced technologies related to communication/information processing as well as trends in standardization/commercialization. Chief Editor of Nikkei Byte in 2002, Chief Editor of Nikkei Network in 2005, and Chief Editor of Nikkei Communication in 2007. Publisher of ITpro, Nikkei Systems, Tech-On!, Nikkei Electronics, Nikkei Monozukuri, Nikkei Automotive, etc. before becoming Director of the Overseas Business Division in January 2014. Has been in his current post since September 2015. Writing the series Jido unten ga tsukuru mirai (A Future with Self-driving Cars) since August 2016 on Nikkei Online Edition. Issued Sekai jido unten kaihatsu project souran (An Overview of Global Self-driving Development Projects) in December 2016 and Sekai jido unten/connected car kaihatsu souran (An Overview of Global Self-driving/Connected Car Development) in December 2017. Has been serving on the CEATEC Award Review Panel since 2011.
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Mrs. P's Favorite Things of the Year - from National Headlines to Social Media Interactions with Literacy Advocates!
As 2017 comes to end, I like to reflect back on the year. It gives me an opportunity to really think about what made an impact on me. This year, there were many stories that touched my heart. The year was hard on a lot of people, with the hurricanes and fires, and so much bullying. But some amazing people and companies came forth with their messages and made a difference. I wanted to share these stories with you. I've also put their Twitter handles, so you can follow them too.
The next story that caught my eye was the New York Public Library along with Brooklyn and Queens forgiving the fines of children. What a decent gesture, and such an important one. Providing kids continued access to books, what could be more important?
A cat lover I am, so seeing this story about Max the library cat go viral, just made me smile. Someone on Twitter even made this cat his own library card! So I had to have it on my list.
Through my Twitter community of literacy advocates, I've met some of the most amazing and collaborative teachers, librarians and companies. Here are some stories or events that I found powerful or just pure fun this year.
I've met all of the sponsors of my writing contest through social media connections. What would I ever do without these amazing and generous companies that help fill classrooms with much needed books?
I know there were so many, many amazing stories out there this year, but these are the ones that really touched me. It may be in part because I feel like many of the these people have become my friends, though we've never met. But that is the positive power of social media isn't it? I've had a very positive experience because I am in a wonderful and supportive community.
I'll leave you with this happy story and video to close out my year of memorable moments! It is from Brinda Adhikari, one amazing mom. Wouldn't we all love a bedtime story that was this much fun!


Off To School is a painting by Emily Reynolds Thompson which was uploaded on January 15th, 2010.
Fantastic work Emily!! Congrats on your sale.
What a fun piece and the colors are terrific and its so great to see them all going together where in this world if you are different you just do not fit in,again its a great painting !
... also a wonderful work, Emily ! Congratulations !


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In Publications
Statement on Monetary Policy
Forecasts archive
Financial Stability Review
Payments System Board
Council of Financial Regulators
Research Discussion Papers
About RDPs
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Housing and Housing Finance
Bank Funding, Fees and Margins
Economic Activity
Payments System
Statement on Monetary Policy – February 2015 Box B: The Decline in Bond Yields and Inflation Expectations
In SMP February 2015
International Economic Developments
Box A: The Effects of Changes in Iron Ore Prices
International and Foreign Exchange Markets
Box B: The Decline in Bond Yields and Inflation Expectations
Domestic Economic Conditions
Box C: The Effects of the Fall in Oil Prices
Domestic Financial Markets
Box D: The Impact of Recent Commodity Price Movements on
Price and Wage Developments
Box E: Unemployment Rate Forecasts and Confidence Intervals
Yields on bonds issued by governments of developed economies have declined significantly over recent months across the whole yield curve. As a result, securities issued by a number of governments – among them Japan, most core euro area economies, as well as Sweden and Switzerland – have recently traded at negative yields for maturities up to five years (Graph B1). In total, around US$7.6 trillion, or almost one-quarter of developed markets' sovereign debt, has recently traded with yields at or below zero. This includes almost half of Japanese sovereign debt and about two-thirds of German sovereign debt (Graph B2).
While the magnitude of these falls in sovereign bond yields is difficult to explain, the declines reflect developments in both supply and demand for such securities. On the supply side, government debt issuance in major economies (with the exception of Japan) has decreased over recent years as budget deficits have narrowed. For example, the German Government plans to issue only €26 billion of new debt in 2015, compared with €50 billion five years ago, while the supply of new US Treasury paper is expected to be less than half what it was five years earlier.
On the demand side, yields over shorter maturities are heavily influenced by expectations for central bank policy, and European yields have declined as the European Central Bank (ECB) has lowered its policy rate to zero. Yields on medium-term bonds in Europe and other economies have also been depressed by growing expectations that policy rates in these economies will remain close to zero for an extended period.
At longer maturities, demand for sovereign bonds has increased due to direct purchases of such bonds by the Bank of Japan and US Federal Reserve, and expectations of such actions by the ECB. Partly reflecting this, term premiums – the compensation that investors receive for holding long-maturity bonds, rather than holding a series of equivalent short-maturity securities – have declined to around zero.
These influences have also depressed yields on inflation-linked bonds, which have turned negative in most developed economies. However, the declines in yields on nominal bonds have been larger, particularly in the United States and euro area. Accordingly, the compensation that owners of nominal bonds receive for inflation has fallen sharply since mid 2014. This is even true when considering long-term measures of inflation compensation, such as those calculated for a five-year period beginning five years from today (Graph B3). Indeed, the compensation that owners of long-term bonds now receive for inflation is lower than the relevant central banks' inflation target in some cases.[1] These falls in long-term inflation compensation have coincided with a sharp fall in the price of oil and a number of other commodities over the second half of last year, although this appears to explain only some of the recent falls in inflation compensation.
Inflation compensation is commonly used as a measure of inflation expectations. However, the fall in inflation compensation is at odds with survey-based measures of long-term inflation expectations for the United States, euro area and the United Kingdom, based on responses from market participants as well as economists and households, which have been relatively stable (Graph B4).[2] A possible reconciliation comes from the fact that measures of inflation compensation derived from bond markets reflect both expectations of future inflation and a premium to compensate investors for the risk that realised inflation may deviate from these expectations. Given this, it is possible that the fall in inflation compensation implied by bond yields largely reflects a fall in the premium investors demand for exposing themselves to any given level of inflation risk, rather than a fall in these investors' central expectation for inflation. Unfortunately, it is not possible to accurately disentangle these two components with available data and so it is not entirely clear why bond yields have fallen to the extent they have.
In the United States, inflation-linked bonds reference the consumer price index (CPI), which tends to grow by around half a percentage point faster than the personal consumption expenditure deflator that the Fed uses for its 2 per cent inflation target. In the United Kingdom, swaps reference the retail price index, which the Bank of England forecasts to grow around 1¼ per cent per annum faster than the CPI, the measure for its 2 per cent inflation target. [1]
Inflation expectations in Japan have been rising, though measures of inflation compensation have still declined recently. [2]


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