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Taiwan: Parliamentary Candidates Campaign In Taipei. 1972
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The ruling Kuomintang Party, which fielded more than half the candidates, was expected to remain in power as polling closed on Saturday night (December 23) in taiwan's first major general election in twenty-three years.
GVs & SVs Posters on walls
SVs Candidate on car moving along street (2 shots)
SV Firecrackers exploding
Candidate arrives at speech scene and speaking (5 shots)
SV Car along street with candidate
LV & SV Other candidates speaking at market (3 shots)
SV Candidate shaking hands with supporters (2 shots)
SV Campaign workers hand out leaflets (2 shots)
Initials ESP/1959 ESP/2010
Background: The ruling Kuomintang Party, which fielded more than half the candidates, was expected to remain in power as polling closed on Saturday night (December 23) in taiwan's first major general election in twenty-three years.
One-hundred-and-thirty-three candidates were competing for the eighty-nine parliamentary seats - fifty-three in the National Assembly and thirty-six in the Legislative Yuan. Sixty-five of the candidates were nominated by the Kuomintang Party, one by the Young China Party and the remaining sixty-seven are running as independent entries.
Campaigning began early in December, but in the week before the election large numbers of posters and cars equipped with loudspeakers were ???aking last minute attempts to sway votes.
Sixteen magistrates and four mayors are also being elected. Results of the voting are expected to be known on Sunday (24 December).
SYNOPSIS: Posters appeared on walls in the cities and towns of Taiwan last week as candidates made last minute attempts to capture votes for Saturdays's general election - the first held in twenty-three years. Candidate mounted cares and addressed rally as part of their campaigns.
One-hindered and thirty-three candidates were competing for eighty-nine parliamentary seats - fifty-three seats in the National Assembly and thirty-six in the Legislative Yuan... The ruling Kuomintang Party, which fielded more than half of the candidates, is expected to remain in power.
As in any election, the candidates went to great lengths to win over the voters. In addition to making speeches, many candidates personally greeted their supporters.
Campaign workers supplemented the efforts of their particular candidate by handing out leaflets.
TAIPEI.
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Have You Bought Yours? AKA Mr Bonar Law At Guildhall
Prime Minister Bonar Law launches the National Housing Bonds Campaign.
Us Election Campaign
American election campaign - Truman, Dewey & Warren.
Senator Mcgovern Campaigning
Various shots of Senator George McGovern on the campaign trail.
Politics Nixon, Brown Launch Campaigns AKA Nixon Launches Campaign
Campaigning in the United States by President Nixon and Governor Edmund G. Brown.
Glasgow University Rectorial Campaign
Students campaigning during Glasgow University rectorial campaign.
Labour man campaigning for 1970 General Election.
Member Of The Air - Mr Pemberton Billing
Some kind of political election campaign
Energetic election campaigns in German city.


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The Confirmation Bias: Why People See What They Want to See
The confirmation bias is a cognitive bias that causes people to search for, favor, interpret, and recall information in a way that confirms their preexisting beliefs. For example, the confirmation bias can cause someone who is presented with a lot of information on a certain topic to only remember the bits of information which confirm what they already think about that topic.
This bias is widely prevalent in many areas of life, and has a powerful effect on the way people make decisions and shape their beliefs, so it's important to understand it. As such, in the following article, you will learn more about the confirmation bias, about why people experience it, and about how it relates to other cognitive biases. Then, you will see what you can do in order to reduce the influence of the confirmation bias, both in other people's thought process as well as in your own.
Understanding the confirmation bias
The confirmation bias promotes various problematic patterns of thinking, such as people's tendency to ignore information that contradicts their beliefs. There are four primary domains of cognition in which the confirmation bias affects people:
Biased search for information. This means that the confirmation bias causes people to search for information that confirms their preexisting beliefs, and to ignore information that contradicts them.
Biased favoring of information. This means that the confirmation bias causes people to give more weight to information that supports their beliefs, and less weight to information that contradicts them.
Biased interpretation of information. This means that the confirmation bias causes people to interpret information in a way that confirms their beliefs, even if the information could be interpreted in a way that contradicts them.
Biased recall of information. This means that the confirmation bias causes people to remember information that supports their beliefs and to forget information that contradicts them, or to incorrectly remember contradictory information as having supported their beliefs.
Examples of the confirmation bias
"When men wish to construct or support a theory, how they torture facts into their service!"
– Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
There are many examples of how the confirmation bias affects people in various domains:
The confirmation bias affects the way people view political information. For example, people generally prefer to spend more time looking at information which supports their political stance, while neglecting information that contradicts it.
The confirmation bias affects the way people conduct scientific research. For example, scientists often demonstrate a confirmation bias in the way they conduct research, when they selectively analyze data in a manner that allows them to confirm their preferred hypotheses.
The confirmation bias affects the way people assess their pseudoscientific beliefs. For example, people who believe in pseudoscientific theories tend to ignore information that disproves those theories.
The confirmation bias affects the way people decide how to invest. For example, investors rely more strongly on information which confirms their preexisting beliefs with regards to the value of certain stocks.
The confirmation bias affects the way people form clinical diagnoses. For example, doctors often search for new information in a selective manner that will allow them to confirm their initial diagnosis, while ignoring signs that this diagnosis could be wrong.
Overall, the confirmation bias can affect people in different ways, and in different areas of life. The varied examples that we saw above demonstrate how prevalent this bias is, and show that it can affect anyone, including people who we generally assume assess information in a purely rational manner.
Why we experience the confirmation bias
There are generally two primary cognitive mechanisms which are used in order to explain why people experience the confirmation bias:
Challenge avoidance- this signifies the fact that people don't want to find out that they are wrong.
Reinforcement seeking- this signifies the fact that people want to find out that they are right.
Both of these factors are related to the same underlying principle, and specifically to people's desire to minimize their cognitive dissonance, which is the psychological stress that people experience when they hold two or more contradictory beliefs simultaneously.
Challenge avoidance, for example, can help people avoid cognitive dissonance by prompting them to ignore information which contradicts their beliefs, and which would therefore increase the dissonance that they experience.
Reinforcement seeking, on the other hand, can help people reduce cognitive dissonance that they are experiencing or that they might experience, by prompting them to find support for their original stance, which could help them cope with any dissonance that arises when they later encounter contradictory information.
Moreover, in addition to challenge avoidance and reinforcement seeking, the confirmation bias can also occur due to flaws in the way we test our hypotheses.
Essentially, when people try to find an explanation for a certain phenomenon, they tend to focus on only one hypothesis at a time, and disregard any alternative hypotheses, even in cases where they're not emotionally incentivized to verify their initial hypothesis.
This can cause people to simply try and prove that their initial hypothesis is true, instead of trying to actually check whether it's true or not, which causes them to ignore the possibility that the information that they encounter could disprove this initial hypothesis, or support alternative hypotheses.
For example, a doctor who forms an initial diagnosis of a patient might then focus solely on trying to prove that this diagnosis is right, instead of trying to actively determine whether alternative diagnoses could make more sense.
This explains why people can experience an unmotivated confirmation bias in situations where they have no emotional reason to favor a specific hypothesis over others. This contrasts with a motivated confirmation bias, which occurs when the person displaying the bias is motivated by some emotional consideration.
In the case of the motivated confirmation bias, an additional reason why people experience the bias, from a cognitive perspective, is that the brain suppresses neural activity in areas associated with emotional regulation and emotionally-neutral reasoning, which causes people to process information based on how their emotions guide them to, rather than based on how their logic would guide them.
Overall, people tend to experience the confirmation bias primarily due to their desire to minimize their cognitive dissonance, which is the psychological stress that they experience when they accept information that contradicts their beliefs. Accordingly, the confirmation bias is motivated by people's avoidance of information which proves that they are wrong, and by their seeking information which proves that they are right.
Furthermore, the imperfect way in which people test their hypotheses also contributes to the occurrence of the confirmation bias, by causing people to fixate on confirming a single possible hypothesis from the start, while ignoring the possibility that this hypothesis might be wrong.
The distinction between challenge avoidance and reinforcement seeking
When it comes to understanding the underlying causes of the confirmation bias, it's beneficial to understand the difference between challenge avoidance and reinforcement seeking.
Though the two are strongly related, and though both behaviors revolve around the attempt to reduce the cognitive dissonance that a person experiences, challenge avoidance and reinforcement seeking are not inherently linked to each other, and they do not have to occur at the same time.
This means that if someone tries to avoid information which challenges their beliefs, they might also try to actively seek information that supports those beliefs, but that's not necessarily the case. Similarly, if a person tries to seek information that confirms their beliefs, they might not actively avoid information that contradicts those beliefs if they encounter it.
Furthermore, there is an important difference in how people respond, from a cognitive perspective, to challenging information compared to confirmatory information.
Specifically, exposure to information which supports a person's beliefs simply affirms that person's sense of correctness, and therefore has only a relatively minor positive impact in terms of reducing their cognitive dissonance. Conversely, exposure to information which challenges a person's beliefs leads to a powerful emotional reaction, and therefore has a relatively large negative influence in terms of increasing cognitive dissonance.
Moreover, people react differently to these two types of information, since in order to mitigate the negative emotions and resolve the cognitive dissonance that occurs as a result of encountering contradictory information, individuals look for ways to discount this information, something that they do not have to do when encountering confirmatory information.
Overall, while reinforcement seeking and challenge avoidance are two related behaviors that stand at the core of the confirmation bias, they are distinct from one another, since each of them affects people's thought process differently, and since they can occur independently from one another.
Related cognitive biases
Since the confirmation bias can influence people in a variety of ways, there are many cognitive biases that are categorized as subtypes of the confirmation bias.
For example, consider the backfire effect, which is a cognitive bias that causes people to strengthen their support for their preexisting beliefs when they encounter evidence which shows that these beliefs are wrong.
This bias can, for example, cause people to increase their support for a political candidate after they encounter negative information about that candidate, or to strengthen their belief in a scientific misconception they encounter evidence which highlights the issues with that misconception.
The backfire effect occurs because when people argue against unwelcome information strongly enough, they end up with more arguments to support their original stance. As such, the backfire effect is essentially a subtype of the confirmation bias, since it represents one way in which people react to new information in a manner that confirms their preexisting beliefs.
Another example for a cognitive bias which is based on the confirmation bias is the halo effect, which is a cognitive bias that causes people to let their impression of someone in one area to influence their impression of that person in other areas.
This bias can, for example, cause people to assume that if someone is physically attractive, then they must also have an interesting personality, or it can cause them to give higher ratings to an essay if they believe that it was written by an attractive author.
The halo effect occurs because being exposed to a certain trait of an individual causes people to immediately form an initial impression of that person, which they then attempt to justify by interpreting that person's other traits in a way that confirms the initial impression. As such, the halo effect is also considered to be a subtype of the confirmation bias, since it represents another way in which people interpret new information in a manner that confirms their preexisting beliefs.
Overall, the confirmation bias can affect people in many different ways, and accordingly, there are many cognitive biases which represent different subtypes of the confirmation bias. Essentially, every time a cognitive bias causes people to process information in a way which confirms their preexisting beliefs, it means that that bias is likely a subtype of the confirmation bias.
How to reduce the confirmation bias
So far we saw what the confirmation bias is, how it affects people, and why people experience it. Because of its notable influence and widespread prevalence, it's important to also know how to mitigate this bias.
In the next two sections, you will first learn how you can reduce the confirmation bias that other people experience, before moving on to see how you can reduce the confirmation bias that you experience yourself.
How to mitigate the confirmation bias in other people
There are several methods that you can use in order to reduce the influence that the confirmation bias has on others.
These methods all revolve around trying to counteract the cognitive mechanisms that promote the confirmation bias in the first place. As such, these methods all entail trying to get people to overcome their initial tendency to reject contradictory information or to focus on confirmatory information, while also encouraging them to conduct a valid hypothesis-testing process.
Accordingly, some of the most notable techniques that you can use in order to reduce the confirmation bias include the following:
Encourage people to avoid forming a hypothesis too early. As we saw above, once people have a specific hypothesis in mind, they tend to try and confirm it, instead of trying to formulate and test other possible hypotheses. As such, you should encourage people to try and process as much information as possible before forming their initial hypothesis.
Ask people to think about various reasons for why their hypothesis might be wrong, or why alternative hypotheses might be right. This is an especially beneficial course of action if the other person already has a preexisting hypothesis. Essentially, asking people to think about possible issues with their existing hypothesis makes them more willing to internalize information which contradicts that hypothesis, and reduces the probability that they will reject contradictory information without proper consideration.
Encourage people to process new information in a conscious and unemotional manner. As we saw earlier, one of the main reasons why people experience the confirmation bias is their tendency to reject contradictory information and to favor confirmatory information due to emotional reasons, and specifically due to the desire to minimize the cognitive dissonance that they experience. Therefore, by encouraging people to be active participants in their reasoning process and to rely on conscious and emotionally-neutral processing rather than on emotional intuitions, you reduce the risk that they will suffer from the confirmation bias.
Different debiasing techniques will be more effective in different situations, and you can sometimes use more than one technique at a time in order to achieve the best outcome possible, in terms of reducing the confirmation bias.
Note that the techniques which are outlined above represent some of the most common techniques that you can use in order to debias people who experience the confirmation bias. However, there are many other general debiasing techniques that you can use to help people overcome their confirmation bias.
Similarly to the techniques that we saw above, most of these debiasing techniques revolve around encouraging people to undergo a proper reasoning process. Such techniques involve, for example, getting people to slow down their reasoning process, standardizing the decision-making process, and creating favorable conditions for optimal decision making.
The guide to debiasing explains more about these techniques, and about how they can be used to reduce both the confirmation bias as well as other cognitive biases that people experience.
How to mitigate the confirmation bias that you experience
The techniques that you would use in order to mitigate the confirmation bias in yourself are similar to those that you would use in order to mitigate it in others.
For example, you can avoid forming a hypothesis too early, or you can force yourself to come up with reasons why your initial hypothesis might be wrong, since doing these things can help reduce your confirmation bias.
In some ways, debiasing yourself using these techniques is easier than debiasing others, since other people will rarely be as open to your debiasing attempts as you yourself are. At the same time, however, debiasing yourself is also more difficult in some ways, since we often struggle to notice our own blind spots, and to objectively identify areas where we are affected by the confirmation bias.
As such, the first and most important step to overcoming your own confirmation bias is to be consciously aware of your reasoning process, and to constantly ask yourself whether you are distorting the way in which you process information, in an attempt to confirm your preexisting beliefs. Then, you can use the debiasing techniques that we saw above in order to reduce the influence that the confirmation bias has on you.
For example, if you find yourself immediately disregarding a news article whose headline contradicts your beliefs in some way, you could ask yourself why you did that, and whether you should read it instead of disregarding it immediately. You can even go further than that, and decide that for each article that you read which supports your point of view, you will read one that contradicts it.
Beyond helping you overcome the confirmation bias, doing this has the important added benefit of helping you understand the opposing point of view better. This is crucial to your ability to defend your own stance and to communicate about the topic with others, and it's something that very few people bother to do.
The confirmation bias is a cognitive bias that causes people to search for, favor, interpret, and recall information in a way that confirms their preexisting beliefs.
The confirmation bias affects people's thinking in every area of life. For example, it can cause people to disregard negative information about a political candidate that they support, or to only pay attention to news articles that support their pseudoscientific beliefs.
People display the confirmation bias because they want to minimize any cognitive dissonance that they might experience by having to deal with contradictory information, and because they tend to fixate on only one hypothesis at a time.
To mitigate the influence of the confirmation bias, you can encourage people to avoid forming a hypothesis too early, ask people to come up with possible reasons why their initial hypothesis might be wrong or why alternative hypotheses might be right, and prompt people to process new information that they encounter in a conscious manner.
You can also use general debiasing techniques in order to reduce the influence of the confirmation bias. These techniques include, among others, encouraging people to slow down the reasoning process, standardizing the way in which people make decisions, and creating conditions which facilitate an optimal reasoning process.
If you found this article interesting and you want to learn more about the topic, take a look at a book called "Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts", which shows how the confirmation bias, together with related cognitive biases, influences people's thought process.
The Backfire Effect: Why Facts Don't Always Change Minds
The Halo Effect: Why We Often Judge a Book by its Cover
The Overkill Backfire Effect: on the Danger of Having Too Much Evidence
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Keywords: white collar crime Australia, white collar crime reforms, penalties.
For some time now, it has been observed that there are perceived legal and procedural deficiencies concerning the way in which white collar crime is dealt with in Australia – significant changes however have been proposed by the Senate Economics Reference Committee in 2017.
After years of numerous enquiries into the most appropriate ways to handle reform, the Senate has released a report that contains several recommendations which appear to seek to address the perceived inadequacy and inconsistency of penalties, among other regulatory changes.
What is the background to the report?
In March 2017, the Senate Economics References Committee released a report entitled Lifting the fear and suppressing the greed: Penalties for white collar crime and corporate and financial misconduct in Australia.
The report was compiled based on submissions from many stakeholders, including the federal government, law enforcement and corporate bodies.
It recommends that Australian penalties on white collar crime be increased and made consistent across the board, in line with the treatment of similar crimes by many other countries, including the US and the UK.
These proposed reforms aim to reduce or even eliminate the purported perception that it is "easy" or without real consequence to commit white collar crime in Australia.
What changes are likely to occur regarding white collar crime in Australia?
Increasing the range and quantum of civil penalties provided for in the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). Although there are potential criminal penalties for more extreme white collar crime, successful prosecution can be difficult to achieve and often results in alleged wrongdoers failing to meet the criminal burden of proof, and thereby avoiding any real penalty. Increasing the amount of civil penalties and the range of offences which these could apply to will have a broader deterrent and punitive effect than the current system.
Changing penalty structures so that there is a correlation between the amount misappropriated and the punishment imposed on wrongdoers, particularly having regard to the fact that at present maximum civil penalties for individuals under the Corporations Act are capped at $200,000 – which some have observed represents a only a small percentage of what most high-level executives and company directors receive in salary. The maximum penalty of $1 million for corporations (dating back to 2004) may be construed by many larger companies as the simple cost of doing business, and it has therefore been argued that it does not achieve the desired punitive or deterrent effect. Further, these maximum penalties are inconsistent with other federal legislation such as the ASIC Act, whose maximum penalties are $360,000 for individuals and $1.8 million for corporations. The Corporations Act penalty structures, many of which have been in place since the introduction of the legislation in its current format in 2001, need to be updated to reflect inflation and the severity of the crimes to which they relate. Specifically, it has been proposed that fines reflect a multiple of the financial benefit received by the wrongdoer.
Requiring those involved in non-criminal matters to disgorge profits made, or losses avoided, from their crimes. As set out in the report, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) anticipates that this will have a particular deterrent effect on corporations who may otherwise be prepared to risk a fine or penalty, even a significant one, in order for a large financial gain.
Introducing uniformity in procedures and rules for civil penalty proceedings across all Australian regulators. This represents a change from the current system, where different criteria may apply depending on whether ASIC, the Australian Prudential Regulation Agency, the Australian Taxation Office or the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission are prosecuting a claim.
Improving whistleblower protections, with an intended focus on making it easier to detect and prosecute white collar crimes. An ongoing enquiry into whistleblower protections is presently being undertaken by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, the findings of which will steer the direction of this proposed change to the white collar crime system.
Introducing deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs) for certain serious corporate crimes. These DPAs would effectively take the form of a negotiated settlement between a prosecutor and an alleged corporate wrongdoer. The intention is for the defendant company to pay an applicable penalty, implement changes in the organisation to avoid any recidivism, and obviously cooperate with any investigation.
Improving and changing ASIC's register which records persons banned and disqualified from having roles of responsibility in companies, specifically by improving search functionality and user ease of access.
While it's not yet certain what action the government will take as a result of the report, the recommendations are intended to change the way in which white collar crimes are prosecuted. Similarly, reviews of penalties and the introduction of other punitive measures appear to be intended to remove inconsistencies in how different offences are treated by the courts.


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And actions by the DNC to favor Hillary Clinton would have been the 'fixed politics' Bernie Sanders talked about, no? Hillary Clinton to 60 Minutes, "Again, I don't have any, I don't have any information about this."
60 Minutes decided you weren't going to see this.
Guess it depends on what your definition of favor is.
And yet - better than that other 60 Minutes appearance.
Though, still, Robby Mook talk Putin is painful.


The Land Titles Amendment Regulations 2003 were introduced in October 2003. They extended Regulation 13(1)(i), where a witness to an application or dealing already had to provide their full name address and occupation, to cover all parties to an application or dealing. The amendment is unfortunately in response to solicitors' refusal to comply with a requisition for names and/or addresses of transferees on the basis that there was no legislative authority for such a requisition. The Amendment Regulations provide the requisite authority.
The residential address is used for identification purposes. "Residential address" is the term for address used by the Office of Parliamentary Counsel.
Requisitions will only be raised when required. In effect it will be business as usual, with common sense continuing to be used when raising requisitions.
However, it is still the case that addresses should be given in all instances for transferees, mortgagors, etc.
It should be noted that addresses are required for the purposes of section 168(2) of the Land Titles Act 1980 in relation to the service of notice.


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Zambia: Honest concurrent use or special circumstances
A recent Zambian Court of Appeal (CA) trade mark judgment, United States Polo Association v LA Group Limited (7 December 2018), deals with registration on the basis of honest concurrent use or special circumstances.
Section 17(1) of the Zambian Trade Marks Act provides for a refusal on the basis of a prior registration covering the same goods or description of goods. Section 17 (2), however, says that the Registrar may allow registration of a mark that would otherwise be refused 'in the case of honest concurrent use or other special circumstances.'
The issue was whether the US Polo Association was entitled to the registration of a polo player device mark in classes 18 and 25, in the face of LA Group's earlier registration for a polo player device mark in the same classes. The Registrar allowed registration on the basis of Section 17 (2). The matter eventually found its way to the CA.
The CA started off by considering some European jurisprudence, including the famous case of Sabel BV v Puma A.G Rudolf Dassler Sport. It said that the likelihood of confusion must be appreciated 'globally' and through the eyes of the 'average consumer', who normally 'perceives a mark as a whole and does not proceed to analyse its various details.' It said that the assessment must be 'with reference to the overall impressions created by the marks bearing in mind their distinctive and dominant components.' It said that a 'lesser degree of similarity between the marks may be offset by a greater degree of similarity between the goods or services, and vice versa.' When it comes to the goods, it said that you need to consider the uses of the goods, the physical nature and the trade channels.
The CA then made this observation: 'We are of the view that there is a likelihood of confusion where the public can be mistaken as to the origin of the goods. The main function of a trade mark is to distinguish or identify a product or service on the market. It is desirable that signs requiring registration are not similar to those already registered.'
The CA said this of the trade marks: they 'share common denominators', they both 'depict the game of polo', with the one showing 'a horseman device holding a mallet in the air', the other 'two polo players (horsemen device) holding mallets/clubs in the air.'
The CA agreed that registration under Section 17(2) was appropriate. It referred to a decision in Singapore, Future Enterprises Pte Ltd v McDonald's, where the court held that 'an appellate court should not disturb the findings of fact of a trade mark tribunal unless there is material error of principle.'
The court said this: 'Having analysed the reasons advanced, we cannot fault the Registrar... he considered the special circumstances, namely the fact that the opponent's trade mark has achieved sufficient commercial success so as to stand out and be distinguished from subsequent marks as those of the applicant and the fact that co-existence of the marks in question has proved to be attainable in other jurisdictions namely the United States of America, Germany, United Kingdom and Japan.' It went on to say that it can 'take judicial notice of the fact that many trademarks world-wide with the word ''polo'' whether or not involving goods covered by class 18 and 25 have been registered.'
Some may be surprised at the finding that 'commercial success' and co-existence in other countries constitute 'special circumstances' that warrant registration. Especially as the CA also expressly acknowledged the principle of territoriality, when it said that 'it is trite that intellectual property rights are territorial, that is, only effective within the territory where it is registered.'
But Zambian courts do make some interesting decisions. In recent years we have seen a Zambian court hold that a trade mark application cannot be opposed on the basis of common law or unregistered rights. We have seen another court arguably acknowledge that international registrations are not valid in Zambia due to the country's failure to properly incorporate the Madrid Protocol into its national law.
It is worth noting that a new Zambian Trade Mark Act has been in the offing since 2011. Although this proposed legislation will significantly modernise Zambian trade mark law, the concept of honest concurrent use will seemingly be retained.
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'Into the Dark' Anthology Series Renewed for Season 2 at Hulu
Twelve new episodes will be released on a monthly basis starting in October
Margeaux Sippell | August 21, 2019 @ 4:54 PM
Hulu has renewed its anthology series "Into the Dark" for a second season.
The horror event series, produced by Blumhouse TV, releases one feature-length installment a month, each inspired by a holiday featuring the "Blumhouse signature genre/thriller spin on the story."
According to Hulu, 12 more episodes have been ordered, which will continue to release on a monthly basis starting in October.
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The next episode, "Pure," is set to release Sept. 6 and is inspired by the holiday "Daughter's Day."
Hulu's description reads: "In this female coming-of-age horror story, several teen girls perform a secret ritual at a purity retreat and, when one of them begins to see a supernatural entity, the terrifying question emerges, what is more dangerous: the demon they've unleashed, or the pressure to conform to their fathers' expectations."
"Pure" will star "NOS4A2" actress Jahkara Smith, as well as McKaley Miller ("MA," "Hart of Dixie"), Scott Porter ("Friday Night Lights," "The Good Wife"), Annalisa Cochrane ("Cobra Kai," "Heathers"), Ciara Bravo ("Wayne," "The Long Dumb Road," "To the Bone"), Jim Klock ("Wounds," "Son of the South") and T.C. Carter ("Blocks," "Assassination Nation").
The last episode, "School Spirit," aired Aug. 2 and celebrated the first day of school. July's installment was "Culture Shock," was released July 4 and focused on Independence Day. Previous episodes include "They Come Knocking," "All That We Destroy," "I'm Just F-cking With You," "Treehouse," "Down," "New Year, New You," "Pooka!," "Flesh and Blood," and "The Body."
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In the gym, surrounded by others, but stranded alone on the island that is her platform. This loneliness can be somber and cold, but it may also be the most freeing position in the world. Just a girl with a steel barbell, loaded with weights. Manipulating the levers of the human body in an effort to defy gravity rep by rep and propel a weighted steel object over her head. An object that could kill the untrained in the flash of an eye. Instead it kills the athlete slowly, digging them deeper into a hole of their own dreams. It comes in torn callouses; aching knees; impinged hips; bulging discs; twinging shoulders.
The longer you defy death, the stronger you become, but at a cost of time. You cannot cheat it forever. For this reason you cannot be wasteful in the time you are allotted. Training may be a marathon, but opportunity cannot be ignored when it knocks. There may be a tomorrow. But it also may never come.
She embraces the grind; the mundane consistency required in order to prepare for a singular moment of excellence. The sacrifice comes in time away from other endeavours, perhaps family, friends, and, often overlooked, finances. Training is rarely a profitable enterprise, though this seems to be changing. More than this, the ability to travel to qualification events simply doesn't materialize from the ether. The tickets are booked, the room reserved, and the hour is approaching. Upon landing however, she is informed that there have been some changes. What was originally designated an "end-all-be-all" showdown now has some new exceptions. Success here, may not mean attainment of the original goal. Unphased, she performs and excels, securing a newly unsecured spot on the World Team. Good, but not safe.
With five weeks to prepare, a training program must resume in order to replicate a peaked performance. Another ticket must be booked, another room reserved. Less time spent in preparation for the ultimate goal now, instead a period of uncertainty. A sort of weightlifting purgatory. Ignoring these circumstances, she repeats and secures her fate. This brave young woman is going to the World Weightlifting Championships. She did it. Not once, but twice damnit. A sigh of relief accompanies her fulfillment. It is now time to prepare to represent her country on the penultimate competitive stage.
The preceding is a bit dramatic and takes a great deal of poetic license on my part. But I feel we cannot ignore the efforts great athletes make every day in the sport of weightlifting and the obstacles they overcome. This isn't about Marissa or Sarah. This about the sacrifices all athletes make everyday and the arrogance of others who take that for granted.
In case you missed it, it would appear that Sarah Robles has been made an alternate for the Women's World Team via a secret meeting and vote held by the Board of Directors. Despite the fact that the original and even revised qualification periods don't allow Sarah's recent totals to be counted for consideration, this detail seems to have been ignored, and a number of athletes in line appear to have been leap frogged. She shouldn't be eligible to be an alternate on the World Team. The current world rankings as publicly listed by the USAW do not reflect this new ranking.
But fortunately we have new t-shirts that do.
Referring to the Athlete Handbook, which has not been updated since 2014, reflects this clause under Athlete Selection and Qualification.
There currently exists no clause that overrides the above. Which makes this all very puzzling. Marissa has publicly stated that her coach received a call from USAW CEO Michael Massick informing them of the Board's decision to make Sarah an alternate. Furthermore he suggested that Marissa consider giving up her spot in order to allow Sarah to compete in her stead. After giving some time for consideration, this call was followed by another stating that regardless of Marissa's decision, she will be scratched from competition and Sarah will be made eligible. If these statements are true, if the CEO of our national governing body really believes that this is a way to treat an athlete who earned the right to be compete internationally, then I can't say I support his continued employment. This treatment is not becoming of someone deserves our confidence and trust to guide the sport into the future.
Most troubling, is the absence of board minutes for this alleged secret meeting, in which sources indicated a vote of 6-2 decided in favor of moving Sarah into an alternate spot. As a nonprofit corporation, laws dictate that this information must be publicly disclosed. At this point, what is taking place within the organization is not plain incompetence, but teeters over into criminal territory.
Can we, as the membership base, allow a body to violate its own bylaws, without public statement or explanation for the violation of these bylaws? My answer would be no, and this offense of withholding information justifies dismissal from duty. Allowing this action to carry on with impunity sets a dangerous precedent.
The issue I've discussed so far is one of procedure, incompetence, and inconsistency in the decision making process that affects the lives of real human beings. This isn't about pitting Marissa against Sarah, but about recognizing who is responsible for putting these great athletes into such a difficult position. I have not at any point suggested that Sarah Robles does not deserve to be on the World Team. That would be stupid. For those new to weightlifting, Sarah is a London Olympian and damn fine weightlifter. Her recent totals do in fact put her at the head of the rankings, and if I'm not mistaken she currently has the third highest total in the world for 2015 in the 75kg+ class. Then why wasn't she automatically ranked on the team? That sounds crazy. Well here's why.
Per USADAs website. But Sean, wasn't it just DHEA? That could be filed under Anabolic Androgenic Steroid right? No. It couldn't. Because that's a completely different compound. But in case you're not sure, here's the sanction detailed from the IWF, itemizing the substances.
The most unfortunate part of this was that these were testing results from the Pan American Championships where Sarah took gold. This cost the ladies some team points which made spots for the Pan American Games limited. This drug suspension kept Sarah from competing at the National Championships, which were supposed to be the final qualifier for World selection. As we now know, they were not the final qualifier it was decided that Sarah would still not be allowed to compete in the "Final" World Team Trials. Sarah has served her sentence and since been tested at least three times in 2015. She's done her time, continues to excel as an athlete, and is adhering to the rules.
Furthermore, Team USA needs Sarah Robles. As it stands, the US Women have only earned 51 team points at the 2014 World Championships. It is projected, that in order to attain 3 spots for our women at the Rio Olympics, Team USA will have to score a total of 110-120 points. At 51 points, the women must earn at least 59 points at the 2015 Worlds. To put it gently, we are behind pace, and Sarah represents a huge boost in our potential to send 3 women to the Olympics, something everybody wants.
If that's not argument enough, if the US women don't earn 3 spots, they will likely be left to earn 1 through continental qualification, which means that barring serious injury, or another drug sanction, there is a very high probability that Sarah Robles will be filling that sole spot.
Culturally, Americans appear sensitive to the idea of "unfairness" in sport. We want thorough drug testing, everyone on a level playing field, no one under inflating footballs, etc. We like the idea, especially in the amateur athlete domain, that hard work alone will define success. But sport, not unlike war, is unfair by nature. There will always be superiorly gifted athletes, or those with better access to modalities that improve their performance. The very existence of the United States repeated success in olympic sport is as much affirmation of our economic dominance as it is our athletic prowess. It is inherently unfair that Marissa played by the rules and still won't get credit for her hard work. But we don't stand out by the podium saying it's unfair that Ilya Ilyin is just that much better than everyone else. That's sport. You don't win with fair, and yet the American public is very supportive of winning.
Despite knowledge well in advance of when Sarah's drug suspension would be up, no provisions were made to include her in qualification events for 2015. It was easy to predict exactly when she'd be eligible to compete, and not too difficult to scout what kind of shape she was in. Anyone with an Instagram could've had a rough idea. It was also not difficult to calculate that she could forge her own way to the Olympics by qualifying for a Grand Prix event and the 2016 Pan American Championships.
It is entirely understandable that the intricacies of running a body such as the USAW may be overwhelming, and oversights can occur. If the Board had come out and and publicly overridden their own qualification procedures, presenting a strong argument about why this is the best thing for Team USA, that would be a very different story. But instead they chose to conduct these matters in secret and hide in the face of questioning. That's what cowards do. And cowards should not be leading our sport.
How do we prevent this mess from happening again? The USAW has grown exponentially the past few years and with growth comes pains from unseen complications. There have been a lot of improvements made to the structure of the organization, particularly in regards to Athlete Support and employing an outstanding event manager in Phil Andrews. However, if this sport is expected to thrive, further changes must be made beginning with a restructuring of the board and several important positions such as HPD and CEO. Performing these duties require a lot of work and effort and I think provisions should be made to compensate those filling these positions so that they more exclusively focus on said duties.
A tax audit from 2013 shows that the USAW appears to spend a mere $36,494 on "Governance". I don't know if this figure is still relevant but it is grossly underfunded if that is the case. Being in a Board member for a several million dollar corporation should be an actual job, and the compensation should reflect such.
A National Calendar, something you will find in many other sports, should be established well in advance to better organize ahead and prevent issues like this or the 900+ athletes currently registered for the American Open. We have 15 men and women preparing to take stage in Houston in three weeks or so who don't even know how we're going to pick athletes for the Olympic Team.
Although further bureaucracy could be crippling, the creation of an independent oversight committee could lend a sense of accountability to the governing body that doesn't currently exist. Something such as an athlete and coaches union could serve to strike balance between interests. Exploring other means to improve the governing bother escapes the scope of this already lengthy discourse.
We as a membership can choose to settle for a gradual regression into mediocrity or we can do the things necessary to solidify the future of this sports success. I can do nothing but train on my platform and write these words in hopes that I challenge all of you to action for the sport we love.


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Record Breaking 2018
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It's official: 2018 was the fourth warmest year on record for global temperatures. This is according to various organizations such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the World Meteorological Organization. (WMO). The global average temperature in 2018 is the fourth warmest since 1880 which is just behind years 2016,2017 and 2015.
According to reports, the world was 1.5 Fahrenheit or 0.83 Celsius warmer in 2018 than the average set between years 1951 to 1980.
Naturally, experts are alarmed at the rising global temperature trend as it reflects the effects of climate change. The 20 warmest years on record have been in the past 22 years. The degree of warming during the past four years has been exceptional, both on land and in the ocean," said Petteri Taalas, secretary general of the WMO. "Many of the extreme weather events are consistent with what we expect from a changing climate…This is a reality we need to face up to. Greenhouse gas emission reduction and climate adaptation measures should be a top global priority," he added.
Fortunately, there are serious efforts from many countries and even the private sector to meet commitments to the Paris Climate Change Agreement in 2015 where leaders agreed to limit global warming to just under two degrees. Various countries and big global firms are in the last three years are working hard to cut down on human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide by shifting to renewable power.
In fact, 2018 was record-breaking too for corporate renewable energy deals. Â According to Business Renewables Center of Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), the United States renewables market has almost doubled its figure of corporate off-site deals since 2015.
The contracted capacity for renewables by private firms in the US amounted to 6.43 GW last year. Corporate renewable energy buying came in the form of green power purchases, power purchase agreements, outright project ownership, and green tariffs.
2018 was the fourth hottest year on record. Photo c/o http://www.mysinchew.com/
Corporate giants AT&T, Facebook, Walmart, Microsoft, and ExxonMobil are the top five firms leading the clean energy purchase. Facebook, the biggest buyer last year closed several deals that amounted to 1,8495 megawatts. And the social media giant is proud of its accomplishment.Facebook is proud to contribute to the record-breaking year of corporate renewable energy deals. We believe companies can and should set big commitments to drive our national transition to a clean energy future," stressed Rachel Peterson, vice president of data center strategy at Facebook.
The impressive figures from global brands only show that large firms are serious about their commitment to a sustainable and clean future according to the CEO of RMI Jules Kortenhorst. These companies are not going to wait for public policy on climate issues to catch up," they are taking the initiative to accelerate toward a prosperous, low-carbon economy, he added.
Clean energy investments worldwide in 2018 was also remarkable. The Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) noted that investments in clean power last year amounted to $332.1 billion. The figure is eight percent lower than the amount recorded in 2017, but BNEF notes that 2018 was the fifth consecutive year that the investment exceeded the $300 billion mark.
China and the US were the two biggest investing countries with investments of $100.1 billion and $64.2 billion, respectively.
Other countries also recorded high increases in their clean energy investments. The Netherlands, for example, had a 60 percent increase in RE investments at $5.6 billion while South Korea's jump was at 74 percent with investments worth $5 billion. Even our neighbor, Vietnam had impressive 18-fold growth in clean power investments last year.
It's not surprising of course that the Philippines is not in the list of countries that saw major increases in renewable energy investments. As I have been saying, our regulatory environment and lack of government support for clean power hamper the growth of renewable power development in the country. Nevertheless, as a clean and sustainable power advocate, it's gratifying to see that global brands and governments understand clearly the value of renewable power. After all, renewable energy is a sustainable business practice that also helps the world combat climate change. And as I have expounded repeatedly, it will lower power cost for everyone.
When will change come to the Philippines?
https://solarindustrymag.com/report-2018-a-record-breaking-year-for-corporate-renewable-energy-deals/
https://about.bnef.com/blog/clean-energy-investment-exceeded-300-billion-2018
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/06/global-temperatures-2018-record-climate-change-global-warming
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Te Papa is giving football fans in Wellington the chance to immerse themselves in the perilous past of New Zealand's fierce Mexican opponents.
The two-for-one bonus means anyone who buys an adult ticket to Te Papa's Aztecs: Conquest and Glory exhibition can now take another adult for free.
Mexico was built on the legacy of the ancient Aztecs, who played high stakes ball games, where the losing coach, or the entire team, could be sacrificed.
While the All Whites aren't facing the same prospect in their last chance World Cup qualifier with El Tricolor, supporters of both teams can still celebrate a win or console themselves with a look at rarely-seen Mexican treasures.
New Zealand is the first country to see the exhibition, involving more than 200 of the Aztecs' most sacred objects from museums throughout Mexico. The show, which was years in the planning, heads to Australia in February.
Cultural treasures , recently unearthed archaeological finds and dramatic multimedia give visitors a taste of everyday life in the market place, at the GreatTemple or on the ball court in the empire's capital, Tenochtitlān.
The two-for-one Aztec ticket bonus is available from Wednesday 20 November to Sunday 24 November (Adults tickets $18).


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Between Surrealism and Abstraction: New Perspectives on the Enigmatic Art of Charles Howard
Explore the arresting art of Charles Howard in this fresh, wide-ranging look at the themes and changing contexts of his work as he navigated among figurative, Surrealist, and abstract currents. Topics include his stylistic synthesis of chaos and order; his relation to both American and British modernism; and his connections with the San Francisco Bay Area art world of the 1940s.
Presenters are Apsara DiQuinzio, BAMPFA curator of modern and contemporary art and Phyllis C. Wattis MATRIX Curator, who organized the exhibition; Douglas Dreishpoon, chief curator emeritus, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Lauren Kroiz, UC Berkeley assistant professor of art history and contributor to the exhibition catalog; and Jeff Gunderson, special collections librarian and archivist at the San Francisco Art Institute. Noted author, speaker, and curator Alexander Nemerov, chair of Stanford University's art and art history department, moderates the program.
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The anticipation for Jordan Peele's sophomore effort, Us, was greater than anything I've ever seen for a director's followup to a horror movie. But that was the cultural impact of 2017's Get Out that Peele has so quickly become a director whose films are appointment viewing. Us had a record-breaking debut over the weekend with a massive $70.25M, more than double Get Out's $33M launch. It's biggest premiere weekend ever for an original horror movie. That's also more than triple the film's meager $20M budget, and the second-largest debut ever for an original live-action movie. It's also further evidence that movies featuring mostly black casts can be tremendously successful, following on the trend started by Black Panther. Peele is out here creating movies audiences have never seen before, and it's the kind of thing we always say we want more of yet fail to support. But Peele has tapped into something and it's safe to say all eyes will be on what he does next.
Captain Marvel continues to soar, adding another $35M to give it $321M domestic. Worldwide the $1B mark looks like a certainty, with $910M earned in only three weeks!
Expanding into just over 650 theaters is the Julianne Moore-fronted drama Gloria Bell, with $1.8M. The film is a remake of the acclaimed 2013 film, written and directed by the same filmmaker, Sebastian Lelio. Moore plays a middle-aged divorcee who is adventurous in getting her love life back on track. It's a good movie and targets an audience that is rarely catered to these days. I'll be curious to see if it expands further.


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Wrong, wrong, wrong
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Wrong to assume
The Prince Edward County Field Naturalists are wrong. Ontario Nature. Nature Canada. Both wrong. Dr. Robert McMurtry is wrong. The South Shore Conservancy is wrong. So too is the Prince Edward Point Bird Observatory. Alvar, bird, butterfly, turtle and bat experts are all wrong. The municipality of Prince Edward is wrong. As are the majority of County residents who believed Crown Land at Ostrander Point should be preserved—rather than industrialized for the profit of one corporation.
And now we have learned that Ontario's own Environmental Review Tribunal is wrong. A Toronto court has said so. This ought to keep Premier Kathleen Wynne up at night.
The Tribunal's Robert Wright and Heather Gibbs spent more than 40 days hearing evidence, challenging testimony and witnesses and weighing competing claims. They began their task in a snowstorm in February; and delivered their decision on a hot July day last summer. Wright and Gibbs visited Ostrander Point. They walked around. They saw, with their own eyes, what was at stake.
They dug deep into the evidence. They weren't satisfied that the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) had sufficiently scrutinized the developer's plans before issuing it a permit to "harm, harass and kill" endangered species, including the Blanding's turtle.
They discovered that mitigation measures proposed by the developer to ensure overall benefit to the species were untested and worse, according to evidence presented before them—unlikely to work, particularly for the population at Ostrander Point.
However, the Toronto court ruled that Wright and Gibbs should have given the MNR the benefit of doubt.
"In my view, the Tribunal ought to have assumed that the MNR would properly and adequately monitor compliance with the ESA (Endangered Species Act) permit," wrote Justice Ian Nordheimer in the decision.
But Wright and Gibbs, after listening to 40 days of testimony and examining nearly 200 documents entered into evidence, concluded they could not make that assumption.
The Tribunal's error was that it didn't believe the MNR would adequately look out for the Blanding's turtle.
Wright and Gibbs had gone backward and forward through the proposals prepared and submitted by the developer and accepted by the MNR. They concluded the "Blanding's turtle at Ostrander Point Crown Land Block will not be effectively mitigated by the conditions of the REA [Renewable Energy Approval]."
The court didn't say Wright and Gibbs were wrong about their conclusions, but that they should have "accepted the ESA permit at face value" or explained better why their conclusions were different than the MNR.
"The Tribunal was obliged to explain how the fact that the MNR had concluded under the ESA that the project would lead to an overall benefit to Blanding's turtle (notwithstanding the harm that would arise from the project) could mesh with its conclusion that the project would cause irreversible harm to the same species," wrote Justice Nordheimer.
This is the bit that ought to send a cold shiver through Premier Wynne and anyone else who is worries about the welfare of endangered species in this province.
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There's nothing like a spectacular kitchen failure, replete with leathery meat, disintegrated vegetables, or, worse yet, billowing smoke to drive home the importance of timing in cooking. Most every smartphone, tablet, oven, or microwave has a timer these days, so why use a dedicated kitchen timer? Kitchen timers are more durable and moisture-resistant than other electronics, and they're more versatile than appliance timers, with extra features like the ability to track multiple things at once, longer ranges, or the capacity to count up once the timer has sounded to track elapsed time.
When we last tested digital multi-event kitchen timers, the American Innovative Chef's Quad Timer Professional was the winner. But it's not perfect (it's a bit confusing to operate and can't be set for less than 1 minute), and so a slew of new options inspired us to take another look at these products.
We rounded up 12 new digital timers, choosing those that could track between two and four events at once, and pitted them against our old winner. All models were priced between $11.49 and $49.95. We were hard on our timers, because a good kitchen timer should be brutishly durable, unfailingly accurate, and dead easy to use. To see how easy the timers were to use in a hot, busy kitchen, we used them to make pizza dough that required five different timing increments and soft-boiled eggs that cooked for precisely 6 minutes and 30 seconds. We also knocked them off kitchen counters, smeared them with sticky dough and flour, and mopped them up with sopping wet dish towels.
Two factors, accuracy and durability, were nonnegotiable—a broken or inexact timer is about as useful as a mesh umbrella. We tested each unit's timers against the official time kept by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and were pleasantly surprised to find that all the timers were accurate. They also all emerged from our durability testing intact. But that didn't mean we liked them all, as a surprising number of secondary factors decided each timer's fate.
Most important was how easy the timers were to set and reset. We found that some timers had extra "confirming" steps; for example, if you wanted to set the time for 1 minute, you also had to confirm that you wanted zero seconds, instead of just entering 1 minute and pressing "start." The best products took three steps: select one of the timers, enter desired time, and press "start." Resetting some timers required us to press multiple buttons simultaneously; others had us hold down one button for a length of time. Testers preferred obvious "clear" buttons that they could hit once with a single finger.
The final factors were small but important design elements that made timers easy to use: legible displays; comfortably audible alerts; compact, stable formats; large, clearly labeled buttons; and displays that showed all of the unit's timers simultaneously.
One model had everything we wanted, plus a unique innovation. Most timers had hours, minutes, and seconds buttons that you press and scroll through to set; better models can reverse so that if you overshoot your time you don't have to start over, but our new winner was the only timer with a direct-entry keypad with numbers 0 to 9, so users can type in the exact time they want without scrolling.
We have no doubt that technology will continue to develop; at some point, smart devices will be more durable and appliance timers more sophisticated, so we will continue to monitor their development. But until then the accurate, durable, stable OXO Good Grips Triple Timer ($19.99) is the best you can buy. We especially love its direct-entry keypad and smart, simple design that makes time your friend, not your foe.
Our testing panel evaluated 13 timers, rating them on how easy they were to understand, use, see, hear, and clean, as well as how intelligently they were designed. In the kitchen we used each timer while making our recipe for thin-crust pizza dough, which requires five different timing increments ranging from 2 seconds to 10 minutes, while simultaneously using each unit's secondary timer to make soft-boiled eggs, which cook for precisely 6 minutes and 30 seconds. We smeared each timer's screen and buttons with a teaspoon of sticky pizza dough, dusted them with a tablespoon of flour, and then mopped them up with a sopping cloth to see how easy they were to clean. Lastly, we knocked each timer off a counter three times to evaluate durability.


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Slowes - Times EP
The music world is awash with electro-pop, which raises the question: Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Of course, that is a trick question because the answer depends on the songwriting and performance. When we sorted through new electro--pop recently, the duo that seems to us to drip with promise is Slowes. The multifaceted Copenhagen duo has just delivered their debut EP Times, and we have it on repeated plays. Opening song "Anymore" and the third track, "Enough", offer perfectly crafted, glossy, neo-R&B synth pop. The title track presents moody, dubby experimental pop. Track four is "U", a bittersweet new wave song about wanting someone who wants someone else. The EP's mood becomes slower and more contemplative with "Heartbreak Again" and "OOX", the second of which is a slow burner that is becoming a favorite around here. Love and loss with solid melodies and beats and R&B influenced vocals -- a very good debut and highly recommended to start your weekend.
Slowes is Jack Kilburn (vocals) and Anders Hamann (beats). Times EP is out today via Distiller Records.
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Sea Pinks - Watercourse
We consume a lot of music here at WYMA World Headquarters. Hell, we consume even more music than beer and pizza, and we consume so much beer and pizza that we are working on our beer budget for October -- October 2023, to be exact. And what we are looking for is the magic that makes an indie band worth recommending over other indie bands. The magic can be a specific attribute of a musical work or, more often, a combination of attributes.
Today's special magic is brought to us by the Northern Irish imagineers known as Sea Pinks. The trio's sixth album, Watercourse, quite simply does what its predecessors have done, only better. And that is transporting us to a special place where you hear the sea, feel the sun and wind, and celebrate being alive. It isn't so much a time and place, although there are plenty of echoes of '80s and '90s guitar pop and hints of California rock. The guitars jangle, chime, and crunch, while the propulsive rhythm section provides a solid backbone. The lyrics are bittersweet, yearning, and searching, not so much offering answers as setting the stage for your own musings -- perhaps with some sly guiding. Fittingly for a band inspired by sea grass, the arrangements are relaxed, although by no means languid. In fact, this may be the most forward of the Sea Pinks albums in memory, suggesting some Glasgow/Postcard Records and Dunedin in the DNA, but leavened with some surf and country rock touches. The magic is the performances that only hint at influences and leave us with the impression that this is Sea Pinks music, and nothing else. And we think it is the perfect soundtrack for whatever action you have planned for summer days.
Sea Pinks are Neil Brogan (guitar/vocals), Steven Henry (bass), and Davey Agnew (drums). Watercourse is out Friday, May 26 via CF Records. See the Bandcamp link below for details. May and June tour dates for the British Isles and Europe are listed below.
Bandcamp for album
25 May - Rosin Dubh, Galway
26 May - The Grand Social, Dublin
29 May - Bush Hall, London
31 May - Supersonic, Paris
1 Jun - Bar Hic, Rennes
2 Jun - DIY Cafe, Lille
3 Jun - De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam
4 Jun - Coin Aux Etoiles, Mons
5 Jun - Gruner Jager, Hamburg
6 Jun - Internet Explorer, Berlin
7 Jun - Kunstkeller, Furth
8 Jun - Schuur, Lucerne
9 Jan - Hirscheneck, Basel
10 Jun - Le Salopard, Biel
11 Jun - Handmade Festival, Guastalla
17 Jun - Black Box, Belfast
"So Long" by The Popguns
One of the many things I've learned in life is that there is never a bad time for a new song from The Popguns. And the theorem has been proved right again with the arrival of "So Long". Flowing, melodic, bittersweet -- it is classic stuff from one of the the best indie pop bands. It is available for a few more days as a free download from the Bandcamp link below. If you want both tracks, or if you fail to act before this Thursday, you can still buy the single, comprised of "So Long" and companion track "Sugar Kisses" as a digital download. For a bit of cold cash, you also can get a CD with "So Long" and "Sugar Kisses" if you are lucky enough to act before the very limited supply of CDs is gone.
And in June, Matinee Recordings will release the new album, Sugar Kisses, which will include both of these tracks plus eight other gems. June is looking good to us!
Bandcamp for "So Long"
Matinee Recordings page for Sugar Kisses
Jessica Says - Do With Me What U Will
Jessica Venables writes, records and performs under the name Jessica Says. Possessed of an excellent voice and captivating delivery, the young Melbourne singer's brand of intense pop understandably draws comparisons to Kate Bush. Venables is a classically trained cellist, and on her new album, Do With Me What U Will, she favors rich arrangements and high gloss production which provide an interesting contract to her direct lyrical content. The song styles are varied among cabaret, pop, and even dance (see "Queen of the Night" and "Collarbones"). This is an album that reveals new delights with every listen, and we never tire of hearing Jessica's voice.
Do With Me What U Will is Jessica's second album. The long span between her 2009 debut and this release is due to severe injuries she suffered in a fall. The album is out now via Chapter Music. See the Bandcamp link for details.
Do With Me What U Will by Jessica Says
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The Left Behind BBC: 'We have a choice' Creator defends portrayal of far-right
THE LEFT BEHIND airs this evening on BBC One and now the cast and crew have opened up on why they wanted to make such a harrowing drama following on from the success of their previous endeavour, Killed By My Debt, and why they definitely haven't glamorised it.
By Helen Daly Helen Daly
PUBLISHED: 15:42, Wed, Jul 10, 2019 | UPDATED: 16:14, Wed, Jul 10, 2019
The Left Behind looks at the rise of the far-right in the working class youth.
It's a harrowing look at society today in a certain part of the world. This drama is set in Wales, but it could have been located in any working class community across the country.
The drama makes for an extremely harrowing look at life as a working class, white, male, who can't get anything more than a zero-hour contract in his home town.
What's more, he is made homeless because of the situation, while a Muslim family moves in across the street from his rented accommodation, which is around the point The Left Behind starts.
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Throughout the story, viewers see the circumstances around which the lead character, Gethin (played by Sion Daniel Young) turns to right-wing hate crimes.
The BBC drama does not by any chance suggest this is a correct way to act, but it does shine a light on communities that have been left behind.
Director, Aysha Rafaele, spoke at the recent press screening and discussed the techniques they used to avoid creating acceptance for the right-wing's actions.
She recalled: "We've had the privilege of working with some amazing people on our productions. In terms of the standpoint of the things you work with editorially, we all know what we're trying to do with a film like this and we know we could be accused of 'giving people a platform'.
"As a British-Pakistani Muslim, the answer is, no, we should not be burying it. For Muslim people, the best thing that can happen is people with power can listen to communities who have grievances because that's the only way Muslims will become safe. For us, it's not about shutting those voices down because why should you be shutting those voices down?
"The big divide in this country at the moment is really about the effect of what globalisation is doing; there's those who are totally indifferent to it and then some who are directly affected by it. It's our responsibility of filmmakers and a particular privilege from BBC3 to allow voices and POVs you don't usually hear for us to be able to express and explore that."
The Left Behind BBC: 'We have a choice' Creator defends portrayal of far-right (Image: BBC)
The Left Behind BBC: Alan Harris explained why it's important to show all sides of a character (Image: BBC)
Furthermore, with the show always teetering on the edge of being sympathetic towards Gethin, who commits some of the worst crimes, writer, Alan Harris, believes it's merely important characterisation.
He passionately explained: "I get a bit fed up of seeing two-dimensional baddies, 'This guy is very much in the wrong so we're going to condemn him.' All of these things have to be in a drama even though there might be stuff we don't like. It needs to be a three-dimensional character."
What the drama does achieve is showcasing various points of view. Gethin very much is representative of the forgotten working class, while his on-screen love interest Yasmin (Amy-Leigh Hickman) portrays working class muslims.
Filmmaker, Joseph Bullman, explained: "There are these people out there in the country who feel humiliated, excluded, left behind, and they reach wrong conclusions.
"Their difficulties are resolved by the fact there's migrants in the country. What they have to say about their own lives, we've stopped listening to.
"It's the politics of silencing where you have dodgy views so we're not going to listen to you, and you know what? That hasn't worked.
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The Left Behind on BBC shows the rise of the far-right (Image: BBC)
The Left Behind airs this evening on BBC One (Image: BBC)
"The right-wing is on the move - we have a choice. We can continue to do that or we can treat these people as humans and listen to them.
"I encourage people to think about what people have to say and understand the underlying cause about their situation."
Regardless of which side of the debate a viewer falls on, The Left Behind makes for compelling viewing. As a drama, it's a spectacular fly-on-the-wall affair, with superb and nuanced acting.
As a piece of social commentary, like it's predecessor, Killed By My Debt, it will no doubt make an appearance at the 2020 BAFTA Awards for its honest and thought-provoking tale about a group that really isn't touched upon.
The Left Behind airs this evening on BBC3 and BBC iPlayer at 10pm before airing on BBC One at 10.35pm.
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Absence, presenteeism and stress all on rise: CIPD study
New research from the CIPD and Simplyhealth suggests wellbeing at work is under pressure, with presenteeism - people attending work when unwell - tripling since 2010, and mental ill-health increasing.
Ruth Holmes
Almost nine in ten (86%) of the over 1,000 respondents to the CIPD/Simplyhealth Wellbeing at Work survey said they had observed presenteeism in their organisation over the last 12 months. This latest figure continues a growing trend. In 2010, the figure was just 26%, rising to 72% in 2016. "It's concerning to see that levels of presenteeism have risen significantly over the last eight years and more so that fewer employers are taking proactive steps to discourage it," said Pam Whelan, director of corporate at Simplyhealth. The CIPD is also concerned about the uptick in presenteeism, explaining it is associated with higher reporting of common mental health conditions and stress-related absence, which are among the top causes of long-term sickness absence according to the survey.Significantly more respondents (55%) have reported an increase in common mental health conditions, such as anxiety and depression, among employees in the last 12 months, compared with 2016 (41%). The survey also shows a rise in the average level of employee absence to 6.6 days per employee per year from 6.3 in 2016.
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As well as blighting people's lives, these upward trends could open more employers to employment tribunal cases, impact company performance and employer brand. They also coincide with a growing number of reports that suggest workloads are increasing, especially for Millennials and "stressed" senior and middle managers.Alongside increasing presenteeism, the survey also found "leaveism" such as people using annual leave to work, is a growing problem. More than two-thirds of respondents (69%) reported this has occurred in their organisation over the last year.Rachel Suff, senior employment relations adviser at the CIPD, comments: "The survey shines a light on the shocking scale of presenteeism and leaveism we have in the UK, as people feel under even more pressure at work."Increasingly, the threats to wellbeing in the modern workplace are psychological rather than physical, and yet too few organisations are discouraging unhealthy workplace practices and tackling stress, which is strongly linked to health conditions such as anxiety and depression."Only 27% of those who have experienced leaveism say their organisation is taking action to tackle it. Similarly, just a quarter of respondents that have experienced presenteeism (25%) say their organisation has taken steps to discourage it over the last year, a figure that has almost halved since 2016 (48%). Equally worrying is that less than six in ten (58%) respondents say their organisation is currently meeting the basic legal requirements for reducing stress in the workplace.
Remedying workplace ill-health
More encouraging is the survey found a focus on employee wellbeing as a whole can reduce unhealthy workplace practices. Respondents who agreed their senior leaders and line managers have brought into the value of employee well-being were twice as likely to report that steps have been taken to reduce presenteeism compared with those who disagreed. Leaveism is also less common in organisations that are more focused on employee wellbeing. Despite this, nearly one in five respondents (18%) report that their organisation isn't doing anything to improve employee health and wellbeing, compared with just 8% in 2016."In order to encourage a healthy workplace, organisations need to look beyond sickness absence rates alone and develop a solid, evidence-based understanding of the underlying causes of work-related stress and unhealthy behaviour like presenteeism," says Rachel Suff. "Without this evidence base, efforts to support employees and improve their health and well-being will be short-lived."
Workplace wellbeing a leadership issue?
"Good leadership and people management practices form the bedrock of healthy and resilient workplaces, so every employer needs to focus their attention on these areas if they want long-term, sustainable change,' Rachel Suff continues."It's positive to see that employers who are taking action against unhealthy workplace practices are seeing the benefits of doing so, but we know that that employee wellbeing is still too low down the agenda for many other organisations."If employers want to build a workforce that is happy, healthy and productive, the wellbeing agenda needs to be a priority and employee wellbeing practices must be integrated in the organisation's day-to-day operations."The report shows that organisations where senior leaders and line managers recognise the importance of wellbeing as a whole are more likely to report a reduction in presenteeism and leaveism."Therefore, in order to tackle these unhealthy work practices, we would encourage employers to invest in a wider health and wellbeing approach that is embedded into their culture and one that supports a preventative approach to employee health and wellbeing."
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29.11.2019 - Swiss Federal Patent Court recognizes claims in patent infringement case regarding ventilation cockpits for Hamilton Medical AG against imtmedical AG
Swiss Federal Patent Court recognizes claims in patent infringement case regarding ventilation cockpits for Hamilton Medical AG against imtmedical AG
On March 23, 2017, Hamilton Medical AG ("Hamilton") filed a lawsuit against imtmedical AG, Buchs, Switzerland ("IMT") at the Federal Patent Court in Sankt Gallen, Switzerland.
In this lawsuit, Hamilton asserts that IMT has infringed Hamilton's European Patent EP 1 984 805 B1 regarding a device ("ventilation cockpit") for simplifying a diagnostic assessment of a mechanically ventilated patient.
The Swiss Federal Patent Court's ruling of November 1, 2019 mainly recognizes Hamilton's injunctive and disclosure claims against IMT. The judgment includes a ventilator for mechanically ventilating a patient with ventilation air, comprising the following features:
a screen,
a sensor system for measuring the pressure, volume and flow of the ventilation air,
a device controller,
wherein the device controller is designed, in combination with the sensor system, to detect at least the following three variable values during the mechanical ventilation of a patient:
the volume change of the ventilated lung at each breath,
the compliance of the lung,
the respiratory frequency,
and wherein the device controller is further adapted to display at least three detected values together on the screen in a single graphical element comprising at least one visual representation of a lung shape so as to display them,
in that the change in volume of the ventilated lung detected with each breath is represented in animated fashion by a change in the size of the lung shape corresponding to this change in volume,
a qualitative statement about the compliance of the lung is represented in animated fashion by a varying formation of a contour line of the lung shape, and
the respiratory rate is represented in animated fashion by the change in the size of the lung shape associated with the respiratory rate.
The appeal period runs until December 6, 2019. Hamilton's claim for compensation against IMT forms part of the second part of the pending proceedings.
Hamilton reserves the right to take actions against alleged third party infringers where appropriate and necessary.
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Ashkan Dejagah (født 5. juli 1986 i Teheran, Iran) er en iransk fodboldspiller, der spiller som angriber eller offensiv midtbane hos Nottingham Forest i England. Han har tidligere spillet for blandt andet Hertha Berlin og VfL Wolfsburg i Tyskland samt Fulham i England.

Dejagah var i 2009 med til at føre Wolfsburg frem til klubbens første tyske mesterskab.

Landshold
Dejagah har (pr. april 2018) optrådt for Iran 44 gange og scoret otte mål. Dejagah besidder også tysk statsborgerskab, og har spillet for flere tyske ungdosmlandshold.

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Bundesligaen
 2009 med VfL Wolfsburg

Eksterne henvisninger

Fodboldspillere fra Tyskland
Fodboldspillere fra Iran
Deltagere ved verdensmesterskabet i fodbold 2014
Deltagere ved verdensmesterskabet i fodbold 2018
Fodboldspillere fra Hertha BSC Berlin
Fodboldspillere fra VfL Wolfsburg
Fodboldspillere fra Fulham F.C.
Personer fra Teheran

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