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9 Iranians Charged with Hacking into Universities, Govt. Agencies
Geoffrey Berman, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York speaks about the nine Iranians charged with conducting massive cyber theft, during a Washington press conference on March 23. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Federal agencies issued criminal charges and sanctions Friday against nine Iranians accused of hacking sensitive information from hundreds of universities, private companies and U.S. government entities.
The Iranian defendants, accused of working at the behest of the Iranian government-tied Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, hacked the computer systems of about 320 universities in the U.S. and abroad to steal expensive science and engineering research that was then used by the Iranian government or sold for profit, prosecutors said.
More than 100,000 professors worldwide were targeted with spear-phishing emails, making the hacking scheme one of the largest state-sponsored cybercrime cases ever charged by the Justice Department, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The affected professors and universities were not identified.
The Justice Department said the hackers stole roughly 31 terabytes of academic research and intellectual property that was then sent to servers outside the United States for profit. That amount of data is said to far exceed the total content of the Library of Congress.
"Just in case you're wondering, they're not admiring our work," FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich said. "They're stealing it, and they're taking credit for it, and they're selling it to others."
The information that was stolen, which was sold through two websites to customers in Iran, cost U.S. universities about $3.4 billion to procure and access.
The hackers are also accused of breaking into the networks of government organizations, including the Department of Labor, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the United Nations and private sector entities, including 36 American companies, the Journal reported.
The Justice Department said the hackers were affiliated with an Iranian organization called the Mabna Institute, founded by two of the defendants, which prosecutors said contracted with the Iranian government to steal scientific research from other countries.
"By bringing these criminal charges, we reinforce the norm that most of the civilized world accepts: Nation-states should not steal intellectual property for the purpose of giving domestic industries an advantage," Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said in announcing the charges.
The defendants are unlikely to ever be prosecuted in an American courtroom since there's no extradition treaty with Iran. But the grand jury indictment, filed in a federal court in New York City, is part of the government's "name and shame" strategy to publicly identify foreign hackers, block them from traveling without risk of arrest and put their countries on notice.
"People travel. They take vacations, they make plans with their families," Bowdich said. "Having your name, face and description on a 'Wanted' poster makes moving freely much more difficult."
On Friday, the U.S. Treasury Department also imposed sanctions against the nine defendants and the Mabna Institute, the Journal reported. The sanctions block their access to U.S. companies and entities, including financial transactions.
Tehran responded with Bahram Ghasemi, spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, condemning the move and calling it "provocative, illegal and without justification."
Ghasemi said the charges are "another sign of hostility of the U.S. government towards Iranian nation." He said the U.S will not take any benefit from the move aimed at "thwarting" scientific growth of Iran.
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Music ministry is a celebration of God's love and gifts through music. An important part of the liturgy, the music – from the entrance and closing hymns, to the responses, to the Gloria and Gospel acclamation – enhances the celebration and declares the glory of God. We are each uniquely gifted by God and those in music ministry share their gift of song and joy in music through dedication and commitment to the Church and the Lord. It is our mission, as recipients of God's grace, to serve the Lord and proclaim His abundant love and grace for all.
In Music Ministry we are blessed in many ways. Through the act of giving of our time and talent to provide music for the Lord, we are given the opportunity to enrich our own spiritual lives, as well as the spiritual lives of those in the parish community.
The Music Ministry plays a vital role in the life of the parish. We are primarily responsible for all of the music at the weekend Masses and other special liturgies
The Adult Choir currently sings for the 11 am Mass each Sunday. Rehearsals are Thursday evenings at 7:00 pm.
We always need more voices to sing in the choir and serve as a cantor or song leader at the Mass.
Children's Choir (Ages 5-14)
The parish children's choir meets on Wednesday @ 6 pm. The Children's Choir is growing! They sing for OLQM's Christmas Concert, The Christmas Mass at 5 p.m., and for the other special liturgies.
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Nuts for texture – Wait…are those…cookies?!
My favorite part of Indian food is the dessert.
Once (not that long ago… ahem, possibly less than a month), my family went out for Indian food at this ridiculously delicious place in LA… and I was goaded encouraged to order dessert before dinner… and then a dessert for after dinner. And I thought, why not?! Because I always get so full with naan and curried goodness and end up eating dessert anyway, and then I can't move for a week. Or maybe a few hours but it feels like a week.
So this time I got smart!! A bowl of kheer to start the dinner… and a bowl to end it. A proper way to do things, if you ask me.
Anyway. This isn't exactly like the kheer you find in Indian places—it's made with quinoa and rice milk rather than white rice and dairy (which obviously gives it a nutritional bump), but it's close enough that I love it anyway. Give me some textural, lumpy puddingy thing and I'm totally sold. Seriously. I can't stand mousse or regular pudding, but tapioca?! Oh yes. Rice pudding? In a heartbeat. Bread pudding? Bring it. You see? Nuts for texture.
Gluten free, high protein, refined sugar free, and dairy free (if you sub in vegan butter)! What's not to love?
Melt butter over medium heat in a thick-bottomed saucepan. Add chopped dates and cardamom, and saute for just about a minute. Toss in quinoa, almond milk, coconut sugar, and honey, stirring to combine. Bring to a boil, stirring frequently, then reduce to a simmer. Let it simmer, uncovered, until the liquid has reduced significantly (you'll be able to tell—it will become thicker, with a more puddingy consistency. It will still thicken as it cools, so I stopped mine when it was reduced by about a 1/3). Stir frequently as it simmers, as the milk will scald if left too long. Let cool at room temperature, then stick it into the fridge for another hour or two. Serve chilled with chopped pistachios!
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Alaska's Susitna-Watana Hydro will take years to license, build and bring online. The process is clearly mapped out and already well-underway.
This summer, Susitna-Watana Hydro achieved a significant milestone as field teams began implementing some of the 58 studies recently approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Susitna-Watana Hydro will take years to license, build and bring online. The Federal Energy & Regulatory Commission mandates a complex, multi-year process for applying for a hydro license. The Alaska Energy Authority hopes to complete the study phase of the project by the end of 2016 so a license application can be submitted to FERC in 2017. AEA's goal is to bring Susitna-Watana Hydro online by 2024.
Susitna-Watana Hydro is a large hydro project that would provide long-term stable power for generations of Alaskans. The project will have an installed capacity is 600 megawatts (MW). As proposed, Susitna-Watana Hydro would include construction of a dam, reservoir and related facilities in a remote part of the Susitna River, 184 river miles from Cook Inlet, 87 river miles beyond Talkeetna and 22 to 32 river miles above Devils Canyon which acts as a natural impediment to salmon migration. Transmission lines connecting into the existing Railbelt transmission system and an access road would also be constructed.
In 2010, the Alaska State Legislature adopted a renewable energy goal for Alaska. It calls for generating 50 percent of Alaska's electricity from renewable sources by 2025. Today, about 22 percent of the state's electricity comes from hydro-power.
The State through the Alaska Energy Authority (AEA) is the funder of the studies and planning required to advance the project. The approving regulator is the federal government (FERC).
This contrasts with the general approach in Canada where the territorial and provincial governments assign the proponent role to the state-owned energy corporations and the regulatory approval to the utilities Board. A weakness with the Canadian approach with regard to the three northern territories is that these entities are too small to pull off the planning/approval of a major hydro project. They are too small in the sense that a large project costing a few hundred million compares to an existing asset base which is smaller. Additionally, the small rate base would be hard-pressed to absorb the regulatory costs of a large hydro project. Financially, the territorial governments would need Ottawa's help to finance any large hydro project.
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Experts have urged anyone struggling at Christmas time to reach out for help.
IT'LL be business as usual for Lifeline volunteers on Christmas, as feelings of loneliness and the pressure to be happy heighten amid the festivities.
The mental health service is expecting a whopping 2500 calls on Christmas Day and more in the days after as people's difficulties appear more "acute".
"It's a time when there's a lot of societal pressure to celebrate," Lifeline spokeswoman Ina Mullin said on Sunday.
"This pressure can bring people to breaking point when they're already feeling overwhelmed.
"We usually find more people call us post-Christmas. This may be because in the lead up to Christmas there is plenty of change to routine."
"Pressure and stress can build up due to housing more people, shopping, cooking, entertaining or travelling," AMA president Tony Barton said.
"This can place severe pressure on people, which can lead to symptoms of anxiety, anger, and difficulty sleeping.
"The key is to get organised and delegate the jobs where possible."
Meanwhile, Health Minister Greg Hunt said the government was exploring the creation of "safe spaces" for adults with mental health issues.
"Over this period, I want to encourage those seeking help to visit the Head to Health website - a dedicated online destination that helps people find free or low-cost online and phone mental health services in a private, secure and anonymous way," Mr Hunt said.
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Flame – Firefox OS Reference Phone
Posted on 2014/05/28 2019/01/01 by Asa Dotzler
Attending the Mozilla Summit 2013 and talking with our community about the exciting future of Firefox OS, the one concern I heard voiced most often was the difficulty of participating in Firefox OS. It was simply out of reach to most people I talked to.
No doubt, Firefox OS is an open source project. The code's been there since before day 1. But access to source code does not a successful open source project make. Firefox OS felt to many I've spoken with to be far less participatory than Firefox the browser. The primary reasons for this, IMO, are the lack of widely available Firefox OS hardware and regular Firefox OS testing binaries.
With Firefox the browser, anyone anywhere in the world can download and get updates for a Mozilla-hosted binary of Firefox on a daily basis. They can download the active development "Nightly" build to see the changes that landed in the browser since yesterday. They can also download and get updates for the more stable "Aurora" and "Beta" channels. And because Firefox runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux, most people had no problem trying it out on their existing computers.
Firefox the browser is easy to try out. Firefox OS is not.
With Firefox OS, only Mozilla employees or employees of Mozilla partners can download development builds and get updates. This is because there are a few pieces down in the phone's software stack that are not Mozilla's code and for which Mozilla doesn't have license to distribute. And, even if our community could download development builds of Firefox OS, the hardware to put that on has been very limited. If you're not in a region with a Mozilla partner shipping Firefox OS phones, your options were very limited.
Mozilla tried to hack around the problems a couple of times over the last year, with limited success.
Flame is Mozilla's investment in solving those problems for real.
Mozilla partnered with a company called Thundersoft to design, build, and update a phone that contains all of the hardware we're targeting in the next year or so. Thundersoft has already made and delivered 2,000 Flame phones to Mozilla and we are rolling those out now to the core Firefox OS teams and community. We've got the retail site up which is selling an additional 5,000 Flame phones, and we're hard at work on making nightly builds available to these devices.
The Flame phone won't fix everything, but it should go a long way towards empowering our community to participate in Firefox OS and to generate the kinds of community impact on scale that we've seen in our Firefox browser community for years.
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20 thoughts on "Flame – Firefox OS Reference Phone"
Jonathan Watt says:
This is a very positive step forward. It's great to hear that nightly builds will be available, especially since building is such a huge pain. Big thank you to everyone who has worked on making this happen!
kats says:
Are we going to be publishing full nightly builds for Flame to the public?
Asa Dotzler says:
kats, our partners will be.
jeena says:
I kind of don't like the sound of "our partners will", I have a One Touch Fire from Poland from last year and I'm still on Firefox OS 1.1.0 because this partner doesn't release the newer updates, even though you guys already released 1.3.0 (and 1.2.0 half a year ago). I'm really hoping that this will be different but I'm sceptical.
We never had any agreements with our consumer launch partners like we do with our partner on this developer phone. We have contracts that say they *will* support this phone. For consumer products, it's up to your operator/carrier to manage all of that. This isn't a consumer product, it's a Mozilla designed reference device program that was designed to do exactly what the consumer phones in market weren't doing — support our developer community.
Steve Lee says:
Asa, can you unpack 'and update' a little? Will they be pushing several channels of OTA updates so we can choose which we want (release, nighlty etc)?
Are the blobs still non redistributable so we'll need to do a full build with a device connected to access it's blobs (1st time)?
Phones ship with release and will get automatic OTA/FOTA updates as new major versions are available. Developers and other community members will want "developer builds" so they'll go to a website, download a developer image for the tip of master (2.0 today) flash that, and then receive OTA/FOTA updates. There will be an in between channel that is a tested known working nightly that'll be updated approximately once a month or so for people who want to see the latest and greatest before it's released and in time to give feedback but can't handle the instability of daily tip updates.
stevealee says:
Perfect! Thanks Asa.
Devs can also save and restore release if required.
alfredkayser says:
Where can I download this developer image for my Firefox Flame phone?
And how to flash?
matejcepltest says:
OK, the conclusion of the post gives a bit hope, but otherwise " there are a few pieces down in the phone's software stack that are not Mozilla's code and for which Mozilla doesn't have license to distribute" … well, get the license. You provide the partners with OS, they should be able to give you little and give your right to distribute binary blobs. Is it too much to ask?
DCR says:
Hi Aza, do you know the difference between the Flame phone for Japan and the Flame phone for the rest of the world? Thanks, D.
Tomer Cohen says:
I agree with the previous comments. While Mozilla should trust its partners to support the device for long periods, in the reality it doesn't always happen. You see, the whole Android ROM ecosystem is about supporting older devices with the most up-to-date software and providing better features than these the shipped with the device.
Mozilla is known for its Open-Source friendly behavior, and I think we should find how to provide updates without full support from the manufacturer/partner. For example, they should provide updates to the binary blobs and Mozilla will take care of everything else, from the kernel itself to the operating system. Also, at the same time, I suggest that Mozilla should try to convince partners to open its binary blobs codebase, so Mozilla could provide the whole stack and these devices will have longer lifetime.
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DB1 says:
Hi Asa,
I've received my Reference phone and the home screen UI is not working properly. Unlike the OS 1.3 Simulator, I can't seem to "tap and hold" to move and/or delete icons, however I'm still able to "tap and hold" and drag when I'm in the browser so it can't be the physical screen malfunctioning.
Are you aware of this issue? I'm also trying to build the latest version of 1.3 on my phone but it's proving difficult as I keep getting a bunch of build errors.
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
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Robbie MacKayie Mackay says:
> For consumer products, it's up to your operator/carrier to manage all of that. This isn't a consumer product, it's a Mozilla designed reference device program that was designed to do exactly what the consumer phones in market weren't doing — support our developer community.
I love that your trying to solve this issue for the developer community. I just got my Flame, and I love that I can get it updated to a 2 day old build. However I think assuming this is only a developer problem is incorrect. Normal users still want regular updates, not just at the whim of the manufacturer.
This is one of the problems the Android market has: other than the nexus phones, few devices ever see more than 1 or 2 updates. This works badly for the entire ecosystem (particular when devices never get security updates!)
Aleksandar Kostadinov says:
Totally agree. It's irresponsible to leave them without security updates. It's no different from a desktop computer or a laptop. People use them a lot even for banking. Maybe apple has some advantage in that regard – only allows apps from a single verified source. But that limitation is also not acceptable. Android and other more open devices do definitely need more guarantees about security.
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K-pop is many things to many people: It's a purring economic engine for South Korea, a baffling cultural phenomenon for some music fans, and a lifesaver for teens in search of dance music and earnest, just-sexy-enough young men to fuel their fantasies. EXO are one of the genre's innumerable prefab groups. Their economic acumen is clear: They doubled their impact early on by releasing songs in both Korean and Mandarin. But EXO are also supported by a small army of talented songwriters and producers who have crafted some of the most beguiling, niche-filling pop on the planet.
EXO saw instant success with their 2013 debut, XOXO, and their third album, 2016's EX'ACT, was so hotly anticipated it exceeded half a million preorders—no small feat. The dark hit "Monster" gave fans deliciously cryptic, stalker-esque lyrics to obsess over, but it's just one of many kinetic songs, including the dreamy R&B-esque "Cloud 9" and "Artificial Love," a knotty, funky dance track that wouldn't be out of place on a Justin Timberlake album.
The songcraft here is frequently spectacular—and that's because of one of K-pop's better-kept secrets: EX'ACT's stable of producers and songwriters includes some of the best in the business. Among them: the production duo LDN Noise; Dwayne Abernathy Jr., who's worked with Anderson .Paak, Dr. Dre and Janet Jackson; and Timothy Bos Bullock, who worked on a little album called Lemonade that was released around the same time as EX'ACT. These are heavy hitters, and their influence has helped EXO transcend—some might even say shatter—their prefab roots.
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Artificial Love
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Monster (Instrumental)
Lucky One (Chinese Version)
Monster (Chinese Version)
Artificial Love (Chinese Version)
Cloud 9 (Chinese Version)
Heaven (Chinese Version)
White Noise (Chinese Version)
One and Only (Chinese Version)
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Stronger (Chinese Version)
Lucky One (Chinese Version) [Instrumental]
Monster (Chinese Version) [Instrumental]
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Universe – Winter Special Album, 2017
Hey Mama! (The 1st Mini Album) - EP
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The mind of one freethinker can possess a million ideas, the minds of a million fanatics can be possessed by a single idea: - Anon.
Interviewed on UK Television the director and former Monty Python Flying Circus member Terry Gilliam said he did not like anything among the recent output from Hollywood. While this made a refreshing change from the usual sycophantic, self regarding babble we hear from Hollywood people, Gilliam's point was had a wider significance that a mere comment on recent movie releases.
"I don't know what they are about," he complained, "there is a car chase, a few fights, a threat to civilisation and the hero saves the world." Continuing to critique the formulaic Hollywood blockbuster genre Gilliam said films, books and plays ought to be about ideas.
His own work has never been short of ideas, the vision future society portrayed in "Brazil" made in 1985 and now hailed as "prescient" due to so many of its depictions of social breakdown having become reality, is a fine example of how his films tackle abstract theme that ought to be difficult to bring to the screen even for directors with Hollywood blockbuster sized SFX budgets to play with. Gilliam manages to pull off such unlikely fantasies as Brazil, Baron Munchausen and the more recent extravaganza The Imaginarium of Dr.Parnassus on much smaller budgets simply because he understands the philosophical notions his works are vehicles for. Realism and authenticity go out of the window but the images communicate the essence at the heart of surreal fantasies successfully.
If novelist Franz Kafka had been an animator and film director and perhaps a member of Monty Python's Flying Circus he might have made films like those of Terry Gilliam. Brazil depicts the kind of outrageously dystopian satire one could easily imagine Kafka creating. Time and again Gilliam captures visually the paranoid-subversive spirit of Kafka's The Trial in this nightmare-comedy about a meek government clerk named Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) in a bureaucratic dictatorship, whose life is destroyed by a simple bug. Not a software bug but a real bug of the same genre perhaps as Kafka's Metamorphosis insect, that gets squashed in a printer and causes a typographical error unjustly identifying an innocent citizen, one Mr Buttle, as suspected terrorist Harry Tuttle (Robert De Niro). When Sam becomes involved in unravelling this bureaucratic tangle, he himself winds up labelled as a criminal. The movie presents such an unrelentingly imaginative and savage vision of late 20th-century bureaucracy and it's implacable demands and for conformity and total compliance with myriad trivial and pointless rules and regulations that it almost became a victim of bureaucratically minded studio management itself, until Gilliam surreptitiously screened his cut for the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, who named it the best movie of 1985 and thus coerced Universal into releasing it.
But how did Gilliam learn to make such movies? Surely he must have attended some very special school or perhaps at art college been a student of somebody who studied under Salvador Dali or Luis Bunuel. Actually no, he had a standard renaissance education based on the same model as Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, JMW Turner and Thomas Edison. Sometimes known misleadingly as the liberal arts education this model curriculum aims to provide a broad grounding in language, mathematics, natural sciences and culture that will equip the pupil to pursue a variety of interests in later life. The aim of this education method is to produce well rounded individuals by encouraging pupils to learn by themselves rather that force feeding a diet of dry facts and forcing curious, lively young minds to specialise at far too early a stage in their development.
One of the reasons why education has "dumbed down so much over recent decades is that the shroud of a giant central bureaucracy rests heavily on the minds of pupils and teachers alike, imposing dull conformity, obsessing over targets, statistics and league tables instead of teaching.
As an information technology manager I used to notice the marked difference between young people who came to us from private schools or areas in which the local authority had retained some independence and still operated a selection at eleven policy, and those from areas whose schools operated the standard state education curriculum. Sending the pupils with a more abstract mindset (not necessarily the brightest ones,) into a system in which they would receive that broad education and benefit from it, seemed to work. The people who came from private schools were gobby, confident, sometimes a pain in the arse, the ones from select schools were confident but not as arrogant and often were in love with learning, glad of for the privilege of being able to ask experts in a field about developing software, managing data and operating networks in my department, in others about engineering, business administration, design, research and development and a range range far beyond the designated field of practical inquiry governed by the the need to pass an impending test. The ordinary state school pupils were more usually sullen, resentful, liable to go missing for whole days, and at first generally disinterested. Many changed once out of the full - time education environment, largely because when they asked why they must do something, it would be explained rather than their being told, "Because the curriculum says you must."
Now defenders of the state system might say that the pupils I found rewarding enjoyed comfortable homes and a high standard of living provided by affluent parents at all times, had access to books and the Internet, and benefited from the latest technology to assist them in pursuing their studies.
At the same time those from poor homes had heard left wing politicians talking about how the system was failing people in poor areas, how much more money needed to be spent on schools, and all the usual excuses for the failure of progressive education. Eventually the old mantra of the left satirised by Steven Sondheim in West Side Story with the line "I'm depraved because I'm deprived," became reality.
But did the children from poorer homes not feel an even greater incentive to learn and so increase their chances of getting out of the poverty trap. Alas it was not so. They had no introduction to stimulating ideas you see, their education, with it's heavy emphasis on , equal rights, social justice and other irrelevancies had inculcated dependency on the state and the authorities. It had been drummed into them that individual enterprise was somehow to be frowned on. They had learned we are not being fair and egalitarian if we have ambition.
Another thing I noted, to get back to Terry Gilliam's point is that in their literary studies, the privately educated pupils had been introduced to the classics, were familiar with Chaucer and Milton, could discuss religions and ethics critically and usually had an understanding of our intellectual history, incorporating the wisdom and intelligence of the larger culture that ultimately sustains us, the world in which we live and which so many are encouraged to take for granted. This caveat applies to members of the teaching profession which has largely surrendered to the idiotic notion of student "empowerment" and other politically correct notions as a way of maintaining the status quo. By failing to teach ways of learning so that rather than being the stock - in trade of the education system, learning becomes a lifelong process and pupils continue to develop as individuals after leaving full time education. As the brilliant Frank Zappa once said, "If you want to get laid, go to college; if you want an education go to the library.
It is worth mentioning that the set reading on the school literature curriculum now shows a strong left wing bias. Novels about racism, trade union struggles against the evils of capitalism, turgid feminist tomes, books about disability and a whole library of stories about poverty and oppression abound. There is nothing there to present a broader picture of human life, to suggest that other points of view may be valid.
Educationalists, and the teachers lower down the pecking order do not understand the private education sector cannot provide enough highly educated people to keep a modern society running not can those people contribute enough in taxes to support the great uneducated mass who have been given only one idea, that they should never have to do anything they do not want to do, to steer them through life.
The bond between teacher and student has completely unravelled. The unwritten covenant between the participants in the noble game of intellectual discourse has been superseded by a mutual understanding that the life of a "disadvantaged person" should by right be based on the instant gratification of impulses and that to try to offer another way based on self discipline and personal responsibility is a violation of human rights. The teacher has to assume the role of surrogate parent, counsellor, therapist and nursemaid to classes of unwilling, disruptive and easily distracted who "know their rights" but little else.
This malaise extends into the university system. Few graduates emerge without having their heads fill with Marxism - lite ideology while employers are complaining that degree studies are so dumbed down they no longer offer an advantage in the jobs market. With occupations such as writing, acting or film making now being degree entry professions is it any wonder Terry Gilliam complains of a dearth of ideas. Experience has been replaced by indoctrination. What we are seeing is the paranoia of the new elite in action. Having emerged as a new social class the managerial and public sector professions now fear losing the control they have established. Knowing their ancestors struggled out of poverty and drudgery only two or three generations ago they now fear the descendants of those who were left behind.
As technology puts the squeeze on skilled jobs and globalisation means the labouring classes are priced out of the market, the professional and managerial classes are eliminating the competition through supporting state education policies that dumb down the children of those who cannot afford to go private. In the 1950s and 60s, when I was growing up, there was far more social mobility, more opportunity for people from the lower levels of society to improve their lot, than there is now, in spite of all the politically correct blabber about fairness and equality. And ideas were traded freely, developed, personalised and cherished.
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Although the UN continues to repose its faith in the capacity of big business to promote sustainable development and has entered into a compact with TNCs which have a notorious record of environmental and human rights violations, the push for an international convention to regulate corporate activities continues.
A PROPOSAL for an international framework convention on corporate accountability created a stir of excitement amongst otherwise diffuse proposals and talk of partnerships with business that pervaded the second preparatory meeting for the UN's World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in January.
Most of the groups gathered for the Multi-stakeholder Dialogue (MSD) perked up when the initiative was proposed by the NGOs during the first session of the MSD. Friends of the Earth International had previously raised the issue at a three-day meeting of NGOs prior to the MSD. The idea found widespread support from those attending and groups rapidly set to work to make this a key issue at the PrepCom. At the same time, New York newspapers were reporting daily on a string of Enron executives being summoned to testify before the US Congress for a host of possible crimes in the biggest corporate bankruptcy in the country.
The most muted reception unsurprisingly came from the business and industry group, represented by the newly-formed Business Action for Sustainable Development (BASD), a joint entity of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). An initial cautious response to the proposal for a framework convention on corporate accountability was followed in later sessions by a studied attempt to act as if it had never been mentioned.
Nonetheless the threat had been duly noted. In a speech two weeks later at the Business in Environment Conference in the UK, Lord Holme of Cheltenham, Vice Chairman of the BASD and a former director of mining giant Rio Tinto, tried to present the suggestion for a framework convention on corporate accountability as the proposal of a 'fundamentalist minority...who see all capitalism as evil and...want to bind Gulliver hand and foot' forced onto a much more reasonable 'majority' who wish to see Gulliver tread more carefully and avoid squashing people.
Far from missing the mark on the driving forces of concern for corporate regulation, Holme was seeking to shift the poles of the debate to suit the ends of the big-business community (the BASD primarily represents transnational corporations). By attempting to single out a portion of his opponents as a 'fundamentalist minority' amongst a liberal majority, Holme was seeking to divide his opposition and force them to conform to his terms.
This divisive strategy worked effectively in the early days of the so-called 'anti-globalisation' movement with the debates over protest violence (against police and property). It further had the effect of strengthening the legitimacy of moderate corporate accountability groups based in the (usually developed) metropoles versus grassroots campaigners and communities who faced corporate criminality on the ground (e.g. mining, industrial agriculture, logging, big dams, biopiracy, tourism). Like the debate in the anti-globalisation movement, the judgement arrived at is not so much on the methods of resistance but, more dangerously, on who holds a 'valid' viewpoint or critique of the problem. Radical ideas thus get sidelined by association with radical actions.
Holme's point was to engineer a situation where regulators only listen to the voices big business would like them to hear rather than those who have valid contentions of justice and accountability that could unseat the privilege big business presently enjoys.
The last decade has been a prolific one for transnational corporations (TNCs). The neoliberal policies of the Reagan and Thatcher era facilitated the transition to an orthodoxy of economics and governance that allowed corporations even freer rein than they had previously enjoyed. The fall of the Soviet Union in 1989 marked the beginning of a 10-year partnership with governments to show serious cracks by the time of the protests that marked the November 1999 Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
Corporations learned to enjoy deregulation (sometimes with beneficial re-regulation thrown in when they expanded corporate rights and freedoms as seen in the Uruguay Round/WTO agreements), the rise and rise of the New Economy underlay the promise that the West was 'dematerialising' and what was good for the West was good for the rest. Developing countries caught the fever and thought that they could leapfrog into the Internet Revolution. The 'best' companies abandoned real and dirty material products for the virtual world of trading speculative derivatives.
Then the bubble burst, 'dot-coms' became 'dot-bombs', telecommunications firms went bust, and Enron, it was revealed, was not the champion of a new paradigm of production (selling energy futures instead of energy) but a failed exemplar of the age-old paradigm of wealth creation, the swindle. The Enron swindle struck at the heart of dreams of the democratisation of American-style corporate capitalism that ownership and control would increase for the workers through stock ownership. It was not envisioned that this would provide greater opportunities for the private sector to appropriate the earnings of workers and drain them away in the frantic stocks gold-rush of the 'technology bubble', or, in the particularly egregious case of Enron, forcing workers to buy company stock while directors were selling theirs.
Enron turned out to have made and even unmade rules, but it got too greedy and it got caught. The majority of commentators in American and British papers have tried desperately to avoid confronting the well-known fact that Enron and Arthur Andersen were not 'aberrations' in capitalism but the white-collar standard tendency.
Arthur Andersen's other 'Big Five' accounting siblings have been rather silent on its discrepancy. Could it be that they are silently contemplating the injunction 'let he who has not sinned throw the first stone'? The Big Five have spread so widely that they are in many cases flirting with conflicts of interest: the same firms that help corporations avoid taxation are also commissioned to audit the finance ministry accounts in several countries. No surprise then that Arthur Andersen (now facing death-by-merger) has been dropped from several government contracts.
These recent events have given the movement for corporate accountability the shot in the arm that it needed to bring a more critical viewpoint to bear.
Along with the 'dematerialisation' of the 1990s came the re-invention of those companies who continued with the 'dirty' real production. Companies were presented as being no longer the source of major environmental problems or precipitators of political coups (like United Fruit). Instead, they were part of the solution to the world's problems, they possessed the 'skills' and 'creativity' to 'deliver progress'. Big business managed to sell the world the myth it made of itself.
One of the most lasting early coups in the 'greenwashing' of business was the conquest of the 1992 Rio 'Earth Summit' (the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, UNCED). Chairman Maurice Strong, a Canadian businessman, granted a privileged place to the newly formed Business Council for Sustainable Development (BCSD). The BCSD had been assembled out of the world's largest transnational corporations - Shell, Rio Tinto, Dow, Societe Generale, 3M, Nippon Steel, DuPont, ABB, ALCOA, Procter & Gamble, and others - by Swiss millionaire Stephan Schmidheiny in order to present the 'business case' at Rio. The aim was precisely to secure for transnational corporations an inviolable position on matters of sustainable development. Without this foothold sustainable development would end up as a process largely determined by the UN, its member states and non-commercial civil society.
The unsustainable production paradigm practised and promoted by the BCSD's members would have been the first to come under the microscope. It was a situation that big business and industry had to stop before it got out of hand.
Schmidheiny is now largely forgotten, and his flagship book Changing Course has proved to be nothing more than a miserable distraction. He was nonetheless successful in his mission; rather than reconciling capitalism and the environment, the 10 years after Rio have led to an intensification of a protectionist trade agenda institutionalised in the WTO and a deepening environmental and social crisis in the Third and ex-Second Worlds.
The BASD is the direct heir of the BCSD and plans to maintain at the Johannesburg WSSD what its predecessor achieved at Rio. The presentation of the 'business case' has led to no progress whatsoever since Rio. Given the chance at Johannesburg, it will ensure that the next decade will be even worse as the implementation crisis of sustainable development continues unchecked.
Greenwashing by business has become an industry standard since Rio. It has in fact spawned a sub-industry of its own comprised of accountants, consultants, faux-experts, auditors, and advertisers. It has generated a massive revisionist machinery that obscures profound issues of social and environmental justice, and the development crisis of the South. It has shaped the view of Third Way thinkers that Margaret Thatcher was right, 'there is no alternative' to the neoliberal project, unfettered capitalist expansion is the only possible solution. This is supported by a depoliticised language of 'corporate social responsibility', that business only has to 'improve performance' through 'voluntary initiatives'.
By believing that presenting a good face, producing reports and showing compliance with self-established values constitute a viable standard of accountability of the world's most powerful economic organisations, ones which can affect the fate of countries, Holme is asking for an inordinate amount of trust for companies which have consistently prioritised profit at the expense of the environment, labour rights and the political freedom and development rights of host countries. It is akin to saying we should trust Enron CEO Kenneth Lay because he was a successful businessman and denies any knowledge of 'wrongdoing' in Enron. Of course corporations will show their 'best face' as long as they can to avoid scrutiny. Can we honestly take a proposal seriously that asks us to accept the words of people who are strongly inclined to pursue financial interest over other values, even human life?
Unfortunately Holme's excuses have proven powerfully effective at cowing governments and swelling the ranks of the corporate social responsibility sector. It has forced governments to engage in a policy of appeasement.
Consequently efforts at corporate accountability and regulation have been forced to bend to the prevailing current of the times which tended to view widespread environmental destruction, corruption and labour exploitation as anomalies rather than the mainstream of transnational business practice. However, it has proved impossible to sustain this. The popularity of Naomi Klein's No Logo was symbolic of a much larger understanding that all was not well 'when corporations ruled the world'. The eruption of the Seattle and Genoa protests were deeply unsettling to the big business forces and their Third Way allies. The 11 September events granted only a temporary respite from the increasing pressure on big business to be made accountable.
The belief that the big-business community can make a constructive voluntary contribution to sustainable development still remains accepted by the UN after a decade of increasing evidence to the contrary. Nonetheless Moody-Stuart was joined in the BASD launch by Nitin Desai, Secretary-General of the Johannesburg Summit. Ten years after Rio it is not the Secretary-General of the Summit who has awarded business a special place. This time it is the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who recently appointed Moody-Stuart as one of 11 business magnates on the 17-member Global Compact Advisory Council.
The UN has shown worryingly little resistance to the prevailing corporate ideology of the 1990s. The Global Compact initiative launched in 2000 has gone further than Maurice Strong's strategy for the Earth Summit; now the entire cash-strapped UN has been opened to 'public-private partnerships'. Cosmetics firm Aveda can partner with the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) to conserve worldwide 'beautiful faces' (i.e. heritage sites), Coca-Cola partners with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) to narrow the digital divide in the Third World (still dreaming of leapfrogging into the Internet Revolution), and there is talk of corporations funding civil society organisations.
The initiators of the Global Compact saw it as a non-binding way to bring corporations into the fold of the UN by getting them to agree to support nine principles derived from key UN agreements. Kofi Annan hoped to use it to bring corporate behaviour in line with universal values. The Compact would provide the model for future UN-business partnerships. Partner companies, whose membership was kept largely secret (until criticisms led to the publishing of the list on the Compact website), have had the opportunity to use the UN logo on publications even though Global Compact officials have insisted that the use of the logo is strictly controlled.
A simplified version of the logo has already been used without attribution by DaimlerChrysler, photos of CEOs with the Secretary-General are already a powerful visual currency in the 'bluewashing' of mega-corporations, and several known members of the Global Compact have already violated principles since joining the Compact.
US-based CorpWatch, on behalf of the Alliance for a Corporate-Free UN (see box), has produced Greenwash+10: The UN's Global Compact, Corporate Accountability and the Johannesburg Earth Summit, which has detailed the concerns over the UN-business partnership. Global Compact violators include Aventis, Nike, Rio Tinto, Norsk Hydro, Unilever and the International Chamber of Commerce, which have betrayed principles on human rights, the precautionary approach to environmental challenges, environmental responsibility, freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining.
The Alliance has also called for a framework convention on corporate accountability and has attempted to engage with the Global Compact office on tightening the corporate accountability factor within the UN.
The Global Compact displays some of the worst trends in the corporate appeasement ideology of the 1990s by granting business the institutional legitimacy it desires in exchange for non-legally binding adherence to principles. It is only marginally different from the trust-based 'accountability without regulation' that Lord Holme calls for.
Many of the flaws stem from the Global Compact's origins as a derivative of 1990s business school orthodoxy which really believed that large corporations were dynamic engines of skill and creativity which aberrantly found difficulty in adhering to universal values such as respect for human life. Corporations bore the burdens of the world now that states had relinquished their responsibilities (rather than being often forced to do so), and all they wished for was less restrictive regulation in order to do good deeds (which were somehow achieved by improving the mysterious 'shareholder value'). Theirs was not to question why (there was regulation), theirs was but to serve. This naive-pragmatist model positions the Global Compact as a 'multi-stakeholder learning network' in which corporations can absorb universal values presumably by osmosis.
By transplanting a business school fantasy into the highest level of an intergovernmental body with the reach and scope of the UN, its architects have recapitulated the defining folly of the 20th century, that good intentions and fine ideas will suffice to save the world. Our reality is far more remorseless than that, we are often wisely reminded that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. The call for a framework convention on corporate accountability to emerge from the WSSD is the product of decades of peoples' movements who no longer wish to suffer from the greed of large corporations. Experience has shown that talk of good intentions is always compounded with bad faith. The call for strict business regulation is more than a fine idea, it is an absolute and urgent necessity. No less than the fate of the planet and its people hangs in the balance.
THE Alliance for a Corporate-Free UN is a global network of human rights, environmental and development groups working to address undue corporate influence in the United Nations, and to support UN initiatives to hold corporations accountable on issues of human rights, labour rights and the environment. The Alliance Secretariat is hosted by CorpWatch.
· A second meeting of NGOs during the September 2000 Millennium Summit in New York, at which the Alliance agreed to formalise the coalition as the Alliance for a Corporate-Free UN.
· Receives adequate funding from governments.
· Monitoring and exposing corporate partnerships and undue corporate influence at the UN.
· Taking action to pressure the UN to avoid such partnerships and influence.
· Promoting and supporting UN-related measures to hold corporations accountable.
CorpWatch, on behalf of the Alliance, has produced two reports, Tangled Up in Blue: Corporate Partnerships and the United Nations and Greenwash +10: The UN's Global Compact, Corporate Accountability and the Johannesburg Earth Summit, which are available on its website in text and PDF format (www.corpwatch.org/un).
The Alliance has also written to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on a number of occasions voicing its concern over corporate influence over the UN. The letters and responses from the UN can be found online at www.corpwatch.org/un.


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You are here: Home / Figures / Did you know? / What percentage of Brussels inhabitants eat the recommended daily amount of fruit and vegetables?
The World Health Organisation recommends eating at least 400 grams of fruit and vegetables every day, which equates to 5 portions.
In 2013, only 18% of Brussels inhabitants achieved this recommended amount, although this is still better than the inhabitants of the Flemish and Walloon Regions, where respectively 11 and 12% of the populations ate the recommended daily amount of fruit and vegetables.


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Hannah Keil is no stranger to politics.
Hannah Keil (R) and Dean Amy B. Hietapelto after Keil was awarded the David A. Singer Memorial Scholarship during the 2014-2015 LSBE scholarship awards ceremony.
The LSBE senior human resources and finance major has been involved in the UMD Student Association (SA) since her freshman year. As a junior, she was appointed by SA as UMD's student representative to the University of Minnesota Board of Regents. This year, she's not only serving a second term on the Board of Regents Student Representative Committee, but she's also chairing it.
"Having the opportunity to represent UMD at the Regent level has allowed me to voice student concerns and talk about topics that matter to every University of Minnesota student," said Keil. "I really enjoy being the liaison between students and the Regents."
The Student Representative Committee comprises eight student reps from the University of Minnesota's five campuses. The group meets to discuss issues that are important to students and then presents these findings – along with recommended proposals for improvement – to the Board in the form of a Student Representative's report.
As chair, Keil's primary responsibility is to coordinate development of the report. She also serves as the main point of contact for the Regents Office, determines committee assignments, leads Student Representative Committee meetings, and more.
"Being a Student Representative is a huge responsibility, and I feel honored to have the opportunity to represent students at the Regents level," said Keil.
Corbin Smyth, associate vice chancellor for the UMD Office of Student Life, is advisor of the UMD Student Association. Smyth says Keil's professionalism, especially in working with high-level administrators and campus leaders, reflects well on the Student Association.
"Student Association members rely on Hannah to be their representative, and she serves them with a grace and professionalism that is not always seen in student leaders," said Smyth.
LSBE is proud to have one of its students serving at such a high level within not only UMD but also the entire University of Minnesota system.