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SHOPPER'S DELIGHT: After 12 years and counting, the Liguanea Art Festival inspires and satisfies
PICTURE THIS: Culture minister Olivia 'Babsy' Grange inspects a Bob Marley-inspired art piece, with photographer Howard Moo-Young.
"I can't leave my tent for a minute," says Richard Atkinson, giving us a tour of his booth, chock-full of eye-catching artworks – his life-size sculptures and papier-maché creations. Atkinson was among the dozens of artists, artisans and other exhibitors who brought out their finest wares to showcase at Sunday's 12th renewal of the Liguanea Art Festival at the Lane Plaza in St. Andrew.
As expected, the event drew a throng of patrons who got to interact with the artists, as they made their pre-Christmas purchases, enjoyed live drumming and other family-friendly activities.
For Atkinson, the event represents a boon for him as a struggling artist, putting hundreds of buyers directly within his reach. "I'm definitely impressed by the turnout. They should have it more often at this time of year. An event like this is important because we're making money. I can't leave my tent. You're meeting a lot of customers and networking with other artists in a pleasant atmosphere. It doesn't get any better than this."
Of course, the Kingston native is not alone in his assessment of the art lovers' extravaganza, which was last held at the Chinese Benevolent Association in 2014, took a break last year and has now returned to its original stomping grounds. "I missed it last year. Whenever you attend Liguanea Art Festival, there's always so much to see. The best fine artists in Jamaica are here, but [the organizers] never leave out the children," observes Carmen Williams, standing by the face-painting tent. "It's something for the whole family."
Twelve years ago, the festival first appeared on the scene as a mini art fair. For that initial outing, founders June Wong (right) and her photographer husband, Tony, invited only a handful of photographers and other artist friends to take part. A little over a decade later, it has evolved into the single largest outdoor arts-based event on the island, bringing together established and emerging talents.
Here are veterans Gene Pearson, Howard Moo-Young, Franz Marzouca, Craig Phang Sang and Laura Facey sharing the grounds with up-and-comers like Damian Cunningham and the Element Photography Club, a youthful bunch out of Portmore. If nothing else, it's a brilliantly diverse marketplace to browse and shop at your leisure.
"It's good when you take a break," June Wong tells us, basking in the ambience. "From morning, it's just been wonderful. People were coming in from 9:30 and we don't open until 10. And as you can see, we got a good crowd. And the artists are just amazing. Our festival continues to attract the best."
This year's staging also benefitted from contributions by the National Works Agency, the Institute of Jamaica and the Jamaica Tourist Board. "The Tourist Board came on board fully this year," June Wong notes. "They've always endorsed it, but this year they brought in some international journalists to cover it and help us with the publicity."
What began as a hobby for Tony and June Wong, has now taken on a life of its own. "It's now at a standard that we're very proud of. We try to put a little sophistication to it and fix up the surroundings, so the artists and the patrons are comfortable," she explains, before hinting that the festival's next staging could be in May 2018. "It takes a lot of commitment, but the end result is worth it."
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Archive for July 21st, 2008
Movie Review: The Dark Knight
Categories: 2008, cinema, film, movie releases, movies and Uncategorized
Tags: aaron eckhart, art, batman, christian bale, cillian murphy, cinema, comic book based, dark knight, dc comics, entertainment, film, heath ledger, info, joker, maggie gyllenhaal, michael caine, morgan freeman, movie news, random musings, review, scarecrow, two face, views, warner brothers
This one's in a world all its own.
Starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Gary Oldman. Directed by Christopher Nolan
The story: some time has passed in Gotham City since "Batman Begins." Rachel Dawes (now played by Maggie Gyllenhaal) is working with and dating head D.A. Harvey Dent (Eckhart). "The Batman" has been cleaning up the streets of Gotham, inspiring copycat fanboy crimefighters. The police (except for Gordon) aren't sure what to make of Batman. The city's crime bosses are dwindling block-by-block and are propositioned by a Hong Kong national named Lou to hold their money since the police are catching them one-by-one using irradiated money. Batman/Bruce Wayne is dealing with the copycats, Rachel being with Dent, and his internal struggle of being the "hero of Gotham City," and the police.
Entering the scene is The Joker (Ledger in his final performance). Maniacal and scheming, he (in the words of Michael Caine) "just wants to watch the world burn." Whatever he plans on doing the only person who knows the plan is him, and he's not letting anyone in on it. Anyone.
That's as much as I'm going to tell you about the story. There is so much going on in this film that to tell you anything else you may want to see it more or may want to see it less when this is the type of film that can't entirely be presented on paper; it is truly an experience. The Nolan Brothers (Chris and Johnathan) have a nearly perfect script. The theme of "what is a hero?" resonates so much between Dent and Wayne; the "White Knight" and the "Dark Knight" of Gotham.
And everyone does as well as they had in "Batman Begins." Gyllenhaal did a good job as Rachel Dawes. Some may prefer her to Katie Holmes but when it comes down to the line, the character is so small it doesn't make a lot of difference who plays her.
And you, dear reader, are wanting to know my thoughts on Heath Ledger's performance. I'll be the first to say that I have never really followed him in too many movies; I've seen him do a part here or there, but that was about it. Saying that, the Joker that Ledger portrays is something else entirely. Any time he's on the screen, the film's tone suddenly shifts. If you didn't know Ledger was playing the character, you wouldn't have known it was Ledger.
As for Bale, this time around Batman is more menacing; lower, more whispering/gravelly voice and hatred in his eyes. "Batman Begins" was apparently a warm-up.
I'll take a moment to talk about the Bat Pod (Bat Cycle). Before I saw "Batman Begins" I saw the "Tumbler"/Batmobile. I thought the design sucked. Watching it in "Batman Begins," I was like, "Dude, where do I sign up for one of those?" Same thing applies to the Bat Pod. Once you see it on screen it's way cooler.
I do have one complaint on the movie: The Scarecrow. So much time was spent in the first movie building up this villain who used a hallucinogenic compound to incite his terror. He gets a small scene in the beginning of the film where he gets captured along with a gang and Batman wannabes. A cameo for the sake of a cameo? I thought Nolan was above that.
Should you see this? It's dark, brooding, but with clever action sequences. This movie is on a plane of existence of its own. Should you watch this just for Heath Ledger? Only if you get nothing from watching a Batman movie. Is this better than "Batman Begins?" It's just as good. Who's my favorite actor to play "The Joker?" No comment.
My grade: A
Movie Review: Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?
Tags: 30 days, afghanistan, art, bin laden, cinema, documentary, film, info, iraq, israel, morgan spurlock, movie, news, osama, pakistan, palestine, random musings, review, saudia arabia, super size me, views
Not what I expected.
Starring Morgan Spurlock. Directed by Morgan Spurlock.
I remember back a few years ago when a documentary called "Super Size Me" was released. In it a guy from New York City (Morgan Spurlock) wanted to see what would happen if he ate McDonald's fast food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for a period of 30 days. Contrived, true, but never before had a documentary shown as what we do to ourselves. Following that FX network gave him a show and he produced "30 Days," where various people did things for 30 days to see what would happen to them: one mom did binge drinking to show her newly college-attending daughter would would happen, a guy became Muslim, and even Morgan and his wife decided to see if they could live on minimum wage (both him and his wife ended up in the hospital). When he announced he was going after Public Enemy #1, Osama Bin Laden, I had high hopes for what he would find, if anything.
"Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden," falls short of expectations. Spurlock, expecting a baby within a few months, decided that he could try making the world safer for his kid if he could hunt down and bring to justice OBL. Whether you believe in his reasoning or not (a little past contrived if you ask me) you're in for a trip to countries that hate us, or rather the American government (a resentment felt even inside the U.S.)
From New York to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Tora Bora, Tel Aviv, and back Spurlock finds what citizens in other countries really think about us: they hate the American government, not so much the people. Through animated sequences an explanation is given as to who the U.S. Sided with and why, which leads to understanding why others can be so pissed at us. And with the fact that the American people are shielded from this information (or blissfully ignorant) we have a deeper look into ourselves.
My complaints about this movie: the beginning starts with immature computer animation. In it a CG Spurlock does battle with a CG Bin Laden "Mortal Kombat"-style, using everything from "Redneck Power" to a "power mustache." This would have worked better if it had been restructured to the end of the film; it was amusing, but not needed.
Once you get past that Spurlock goes on the hunt for OBL but twenty minutes it becomes "I'm an expecting father. What advice to do you have for me? By the way, what do you have against America?" The actual "hunt" seems to be derailed by constant worry about becoming a dad and missing his wife's delivery which brings me to ask, why did he leave so close to the end of his wife's pregnancy?
What did impress me about the film is the fact that rich people not caring about the lower levels/citizenry is a concept not confined to the U.S; the Middle East has malls as well as shantytowns. Then again, they also have villages wiped out by tanks and artillery. If Spurlock wants to visit places that have that "third world feel," he should do more traveling across the States.
I'll recommend this film for people who want to see what other cultures think of us. For those who already know here's another factoid for ya: they love wrestling. Who knew?
Does he find the Notorious OBL? His "journey" ends in Pakistan where all "intelligence" points to (except the Pakistanis, who say he's in Afghanistan). Looking at a giant metal sign that says "Attention Foreigners: No trespassing beyond this point…" Spurlock stops and turns around. "I've got a kid coming. It's not worth it."
My grade: C+/B-

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Côte d'Ivoire's October 2020 Presidential Election: Any Danger Ahead?
by Arsène Brice Bado	October 16, 2020
With less than one month to go before the October 31, 2020 election in Côte d'Ivoire, there are several factors causing widespread concern within and outside the country. These factors are critical in determining whether the elections would have a peaceful or violent outcome for a country that went through two civil wars shortly over a decade ago. The foremost issue is the question of the legitimacy of presidential candidates – including actors in past conflicts1Côte d'Ivoire has experienced two armed conflicts: the first, from September 19, 2002 to March 4, 2007; and the second, from November 28th, 2010 to April 11th, 2011. – contesting the October election.
The sudden death on July 8, 2020 of Amadou Gon Coulibaly, Prime Minister and presidential candidate of the ruling party Rally of Houphouëtists for Democracy and Peace (RHDP), turned the whole political and electoral game upside down, when President Allasane Ouattara, aged 76, who had spent two five-year presidential terms in office, renounced his previous decision not to run for a third term.2Voir Adresse du Présent de la République sur l'état de la Nation, Yamoussoukro, 05 mars 2020. Accessible sur: http://www.gouv.ci/doc/1583420766adresse-du-president-alassane-ouattara-sur-l-etat-de-la-nation-yamoussoukro-le-jeudi-05-mars-2020.pdf. Consulté le 25 juillet 2020. The announcement on August 6, 2020 by President Ouattara accepting his party's nomination to stand as its candidate for the presidential election, by evoking a "case of force majeure,"3Voir le discours du Président Ouattara à la Nation le 06 août 2020: https://news.abidjan.net/h/677747.html. Consulté le 07 août 2020. is likely to further complicate the tense political atmosphere in the country as evidenced by many protests across the country which have already claimed some lives.4AFP/VOA, "Quatre Ivoiriens morts lors des manifestations contre le 3e mandat de Ouattara", voaafrique, 13 août 2020: https://www.voaafrique.com/a/des-morts-dans-les-violences-lors-des-manifestations-contre-le-troisi%C3%A8me-mandat-de-ouattara/5542372.html; consulté le 14 août 2020. The presidential electoral contest has entered a fragile phase and urgent actions are needed to lower the high level of political tension in the country before the vote. Added to this is the fact that former President Laurent Gbagbo (who lost to Ouatarra in the 2010 election and had to be forcibly removed after refusing to hand over to the winner, and currently living in exile in Belgium) has announced his candidacy for the presidential election. Even though he was acquitted of charges of war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC),5Cf. Communiqué de presse du 15 Janvier 2019 de la Cour Pénale Internationale: https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/item.aspx?name=pr1427&ln=fr. Gbagbo remains under legal proceedings in Côte d'Ivoire where he was tried in absentia and sentenced to 20 years in prison.6André Silver Konan, "Côte d'Ivoire: Laurent Gbagbo condamné à 20 ans de prison pour le "braquage" de la BCEAO", Jeune Afrique, 19 janvier 2018; accessible sur https://www.jeuneafrique.com/515829/societe/cote-divoire-laurent-gbagbo-condamne-a-20-ans-de-prison-pour-le-braquage-de-la-bceao/; consulté le 11 septembre 2020. The same is true of Guillaume Soro, former president of the National Assembly who was tried in absentia and also sentenced to 20 years in prison,7Guillaume Soro condamné à 20 ans de prison: https://www.bbc.com/afrique/region-52464985. who like Gbagbo has also announced his candidacy for the presidential election. The probable rejection of their candidacies by the Constitutional Court will lead to violent demonstrations by their supporters within the country. Given the roles each of these men played in the civil wars that plagued the country in the past, their reemergence as presidential candidates is capable of reviving old divisions and animosities, which are capable of threatening the peace and development that the country has enjoyed since the end of the war.
Apart from the question of the candidacy of old political enemies, the democratic nature of electoral competition is yet to be consolidated in Côte d'Ivoire. The somewhat heated political discourse shows that the political parties are busy positioning themselves for a decisive confrontation. Rivals almost tend to be seen more as enemies than adversaries, thus giving the impression that we are in a winner-take-all logic where electoral failure is not being considered by any of the sides: "We win, or we win!" While it is legitimate to contemplate victory when entering a political competition, it equally makes sense to consider its democratic character and the possibility of failure to win should be part of the equation. In this regard, the dignity as well as the rights of the political adversaries should be respected as part of the rules of the game: elections. The spirit of democratic participation and competition must be respected by the various political actors to exorcise the spirit of revenge which is perniciously reflected in certain political rhetoric and messages.
The consensus around the role of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) in the coming election is still yet to be built. It is fortunate that the debate among the parties contesting the presidential election has continued on the issue of reforming the IEC. This is evidenced by the use of legal channels to resolve the dispute. The new judgment of the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights of July 15, 2020 on the reform of the IEC,8Voir le communiqué de la Cour Africaine des Droits de l'Homme et des Peuples: https://news.abidjan.net/h/676400.html. Accédé le 30 juillet 2020. hardly seems to have settled the dispute definitively, by subtly calling on the various actors to continue the political dialogue on a less ideological bases. A quick compromise between electoral stakeholders should be found on the issue of composition of the members of local IECs.9Georges-Armand Ouégnin, « Réforme de la CEI, l'opposition exige la dissolution de toutes les commissions locales », publié le 24 juillet 2020 : https://www.7info.ci/reforme-de-la-cei-lopposition-exige-la-dissolution-de-toutes-les-commissions-locales/, accédé le 05 août 2020. The same is true of the other elements of the electoral normative framework on which viable compromises should be found before the votes.10Parmi les éléments du cadre normatif électoral en débat, il y a: la question du parrainage des candidats, le fichier électoral, les conditions de validation des candidatures et notamment celles de candidats déclarés mais qui sont sous des poursuites judiciaires, etc.
The October elections also have some implications for the country's economic fortunes. According to the World Bank,11World Bank, "Côte d'Ivoire Economic Outlook: Why the Time Has Come to Produce Cocoa in a Fully Inclusive and Responsible Manner," July 19, 2019, accessible on https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/cotedivoire/publication/cote-divoire-economic-outlook-why-the-time-has-come-to-produce-cocoa-in-a-responsible-manner; Accessed on September 10th, 2020. with a growth rate of 7.4% in 2018 and 7.2% in 2019, Côte d'Ivoire is ranked slightly behind Ethiopia and ahead of Rwanda and Senegal, which makes Côte d'Ivoire a leader in terms of its economic performance on the continent. This impressive economic growth rate is what is best known about Côte d'Ivoire in foreign media. However, the economic outlook sharply contrasts with the political situation, which is characterized by a low level of political dialogue between political parties, and the difficulty in building compromises around the electoral process. This feeds into a high level of tension between political actors, and the lack of a substantive reconciliation since the last civil war which ended in 2011 after claiming the lives of more than 3,000 people. In such a fragile sociopolitical context, any pressure or stress placed on the system raises the risk of both negative repercussions on the economy, as well as a possible regression into conflict, as could be the case, if unfortunately, the presidential election scheduled for October 31, 2020 is mismanaged.
In the coming weeks, the question will remain whether the originally scheduled date of October 31 for the presidential election will be kept. Even if the IEC does not seem to be worried about the logistical organization of the election in October,12Voir entretien réalisé le 29 juin 2020 avec Monsieur Alain Dogou, 2ème Vice-Président de la CEI en charge de la logistique, de l'informatique et de la sécurité. more voices are being raised among civil society groups and political parties to demand the postponement of the election to a later date. As noted by Mr. Gaudet, President of the Ivorian Foundation for Human Rights and Political Life (FIDHOP), "This postponement of the presidential election will allow all parties to agree beforehand on the role of the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI), its powers and its composition, to agree on the electoral code and above all to do a complete grooming of the electoral list in order to extract all non-Ivorians."13Voir interview de M. Gaudet du 07/07/2020 accessible sur: https://aip.ci/cote-divoire-aip-la-fidhop-exhorte-a-un-report-de-lelection-presidentielle/; accédé le 02 août 2020. The Democratic Party of Ivory Coast (PDCI) has also issued calls for a postponement of the election saying that "the political climate is tense in Côte d'Ivoire.14Voir interview de Jean-Louis Billon sur VOA Afrique du 23 juillet 2020: https://www.voaafrique.com/a/c%C3%B4te-d-ivoire-vers-un-report-de-la-pr%C3%A9sidentielle-du-31-octobre-/5515231.html. Consulté le 02 août 2020. In his speech to the Nation of August 6, 2020, President Ouattara maintained the date of October 31, 2020 would be kept. In any event, it is important that a consensus be found on whether or not to postpone the date of the election in order to relax the tense political climate and reassure the political actors on the need to a peaceful approach to elections.
Finally, although this is difficult to assess, there is no doubt that the current Covid-19 pandemic is negatively affecting the electoral process. For example, the pandemic has made the President of the Republic modify the Electoral Code by ordinance, as explained by the Secretary-General of the Presidency on March 19, 2020.15Voir communiqué du Secrétaire Général de la Présidence du 19 mars 2020: https://www.rti.ci/info/4-economie-info-economie-info/politique/26665/la-loi-portant-modification-de-la-constitution-ivoirienne-promulgee-par-le-president-ouattara. Consulté le 02 août 2020. The pandemic has limited the capacity of political parties and civil society organizations to embark on mobilization campaigns for political support and organizing meetings and programs aimed at sensitizing the electorate to their rights as well as the need for peace. Hopefully, however, the social distancing measures and fear of the contagion of Covid-19 will not affect the turnout of voters. There needs to be communication and awareness on this subject in order to find adequate and healthy ways to ensure better voter participation in the votes.
With the first round of the election taking place later this month, there is limited time for political stakeholders in the electoral contest to reach an amicable agreement on how to proceed. It is therefore necessary to find ways and means to renew or intensify the political dialogue between the different actors in order to consolidate peace around the electoral process. Pre-election, election-related, and post-election violence are not inevitable; it will all depend on the will of the various political actors who are free to choose peace or violence, to choose to settle their disputes either through legal and institutional channels, or through extra-institutional channels that lead to violence. The political class and the security agencies hold all the cards in hand to make this election a peaceful or non-peaceful process. Hopefully, the choice made will be in the interest of peace for the country.
1. ↑ Côte d'Ivoire has experienced two armed conflicts: the first, from September 19, 2002 to March 4, 2007; and the second, from November 28th, 2010 to April 11th, 2011.
2. ↑ Voir Adresse du Présent de la République sur l'état de la Nation, Yamoussoukro, 05 mars 2020. Accessible sur: http://www.gouv.ci/doc/1583420766adresse-du-president-alassane-ouattara-sur-l-etat-de-la-nation-yamoussoukro-le-jeudi-05-mars-2020.pdf. Consulté le 25 juillet 2020.
3. ↑ Voir le discours du Président Ouattara à la Nation le 06 août 2020: https://news.abidjan.net/h/677747.html. Consulté le 07 août 2020.
4. ↑ AFP/VOA, "Quatre Ivoiriens morts lors des manifestations contre le 3e mandat de Ouattara", voaafrique, 13 août 2020: https://www.voaafrique.com/a/des-morts-dans-les-violences-lors-des-manifestations-contre-le-troisi%C3%A8me-mandat-de-ouattara/5542372.html; consulté le 14 août 2020.
5. ↑ Cf. Communiqué de presse du 15 Janvier 2019 de la Cour Pénale Internationale: https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/item.aspx?name=pr1427&ln=fr.
6. ↑ André Silver Konan, "Côte d'Ivoire: Laurent Gbagbo condamné à 20 ans de prison pour le "braquage" de la BCEAO", Jeune Afrique, 19 janvier 2018; accessible sur https://www.jeuneafrique.com/515829/societe/cote-divoire-laurent-gbagbo-condamne-a-20-ans-de-prison-pour-le-braquage-de-la-bceao/; consulté le 11 septembre 2020.
7. ↑ Guillaume Soro condamné à 20 ans de prison: https://www.bbc.com/afrique/region-52464985.
8. ↑ Voir le communiqué de la Cour Africaine des Droits de l'Homme et des Peuples: https://news.abidjan.net/h/676400.html. Accédé le 30 juillet 2020.
9. ↑ Georges-Armand Ouégnin, « Réforme de la CEI, l'opposition exige la dissolution de toutes les commissions locales », publié le 24 juillet 2020 : https://www.7info.ci/reforme-de-la-cei-lopposition-exige-la-dissolution-de-toutes-les-commissions-locales/, accédé le 05 août 2020.
10. ↑ Parmi les éléments du cadre normatif électoral en débat, il y a: la question du parrainage des candidats, le fichier électoral, les conditions de validation des candidatures et notamment celles de candidats déclarés mais qui sont sous des poursuites judiciaires, etc.
11. ↑ World Bank, "Côte d'Ivoire Economic Outlook: Why the Time Has Come to Produce Cocoa in a Fully Inclusive and Responsible Manner," July 19, 2019, accessible on https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/cotedivoire/publication/cote-divoire-economic-outlook-why-the-time-has-come-to-produce-cocoa-in-a-responsible-manner; Accessed on September 10th, 2020.
12. ↑ Voir entretien réalisé le 29 juin 2020 avec Monsieur Alain Dogou, 2ème Vice-Président de la CEI en charge de la logistique, de l'informatique et de la sécurité.
13. ↑ Voir interview de M. Gaudet du 07/07/2020 accessible sur: https://aip.ci/cote-divoire-aip-la-fidhop-exhorte-a-un-report-de-lelection-presidentielle/; accédé le 02 août 2020.
14. ↑ Voir interview de Jean-Louis Billon sur VOA Afrique du 23 juillet 2020: https://www.voaafrique.com/a/c%C3%B4te-d-ivoire-vers-un-report-de-la-pr%C3%A9sidentielle-du-31-octobre-/5515231.html. Consulté le 02 août 2020.
15. ↑ Voir communiqué du Secrétaire Général de la Présidence du 19 mars 2020: https://www.rti.ci/info/4-economie-info-economie-info/politique/26665/la-loi-portant-modification-de-la-constitution-ivoirienne-promulgee-par-le-president-ouattara. Consulté le 02 août 2020.
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Arsène Brice Bado Ph.D., is the Vice-President for Academic Affairs at CERAP/Université Jésuite in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. He is a 2018 recipient of the SSRC's APN Individual Research Grant, and a 2019 recipient of the SSRC's APN Book Manuscript Completion Fellowship. Prior to his time at CERAP, Bado was a Southern Voices Network (SVN) Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, in 2015. He was also a visiting researcher at Yale University during the 2014-2015 academic year. Arsène was the 2017-2018 Anna and Donald Waite Endowed Chair at Creighton University in Omaha. His research interests include democracy, ethnic pluralism, conflict analysis, forced migration, electoral processes in conflict ridden societies, and foreign aid in Africa. His publications have appeared in the Journal of International Migration and Integration, Mediterranean Politics, Revue Études, Revue Relations, Débats-Courrier d'Afrique de l'Ouest, and La Civiltà Cattolica. In addition, he has contributed chapters to several books; in 2015 he edited a book titled Dynamiques des guerres civiles en Afrique: Une approche holiste, Paris: L'Harmattan. He is the author of Dignity across Borders: Forced Migration and Christian Social Ethics, Denver (Colorado): Outskirts Press, 2010. He obtained his Ph.D. in political science from Laval University in Canada in 2016. Brice.bado@gmail.com http://bricebado.org @bricebado
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On August 23, 2018 Forbes published the article Midterm Election Hacking – Who is Fancy Bear? The article examines the history and labeling of Russian hacking group Fancy Bear. It also covers the methods and aims of the group. For a link to the full text, please see below.


We have all heard of gentlemen callers and the concept of a man courting a woman. Those were the days when it was unheard of for a woman to ask a man out on a date. Of course, all that has changed in recent years. Not only is it socially acceptable for a woman to ask a man out, but the terms referring to dating and relationships today are totally different from what they used to be.
I hear so many different words referring to "dating" now. During my time at the University of Dayton, I've heard the word "talking" more times than I have my entire life. This kind of talking does not just mean exchanging pleasantries. Rather, it refers to two people texting back and forth and occasionally flirting and "hooking up," but not actually going on dates or being in a committed relationship. Most of the time, it means that the two are not talking exclusively either.
I used to think that talking and dating were synonymous, but after two semesters at UD, I figured out that is not necessarily true. Talking is often thought of as the step before dating.
People can still be friends once they decide to stop talking as well, unlike the nearly impossible feat of sustaining a friendship after a breakup. Although if you ask me, when two people engage in any kind of emotional or physical intimacy, it is hard to go back to being friends no matter how casual the relationship is.
Talking is not to be confused with texting, which typically can be compared to the old-fashioned term courting – when two people have feelings for each other and exchange flirtatious comments and gestures. Rather than court or be courted in person, however, today this step takes place via typed messages through a cell phone, and the gestures are expressed through emoticons.
"I think it's inventive, but I don't think it's as genuine as courtship used to be," sophomore intervention specialist major Morgan Kurtz said.
It seems as though the overall dating concept has vanished, particularly on college campuses such as our own. With hook ups in the Ghetto that lead to texting that lead to talking and that inevitably lead to simply claiming the relationship status, there isn't any time for actual dates.
However, some students believe that dating is the same thing as being in a monogamous relationship.
The very meaning of the word "dating," though, is just that – to go out on dates. Just because two people went to dinner together a few times doesn't mean they have to drop everyone else they may be interested in and commit to that one person.
With all these rules surrounding dating and relationships, it's almost as if we have to make the distinction between "dating" and "dating around." Since when did that one word make all the difference?
If anything, college is the time for people to broaden their horizons and date different people. And if they happen to go out with someone one weekend, and then another someone the next weekend, so be it! Is that not the whole point of "defining the relationship," or "DTR," as it is commonly referred to?
It seems as though there are still some people who agree that all this relationship vocabulary is confusing and too convoluted, and yet so many UD students claim these roles without even thinking about them. This is how we, as college students, live without a second thought to spare on the matter. But shouldn't we take a breath and wonder what it would be like to just take a chill pill and not worry so much?


Western Iowa Congressman Steve King was on hand in Council Bluffs yesterday to welcome home a group of soldiers who've been serving in the Middle East. About 30 members of the 915th Transportation company are returning after 13 months on duty in Iraq and Kuwait. King says the soldiers should be thanked for helping preserve our freedom. King says there's nothing better than to see the arms of a little boy or girl wrap around a soldier who's wearing desert fatigues. King says he tells the soldiers that hug is also an expression of gratitude from a grateful nation. King says if Americans ever lose sight of the sacrifice of these soldiers, the country will be doomed.King says he sees a lot of patriotism and commitment among the soldiers. King, who is a republican from Kyron has criticized the media and other members of Congress for focusing too much attention on the Iraq prison abuse scandal and not enough on the positive things happening in Iraq.


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Suspected serial killer linked to more deaths of elderly people, lawsuit alleges
Billy Chemirmir, 46, is already charged with 12 murders. A lawsuit against a senior living center says he's also responsible for six others.
Author: Tasha Tsiaperas, Rebecca Lopez
Published: 9:33 PM CDT June 25, 2019
A 46-year-old suspected serial killer posed as a maintenance worker at an upscale senior living center to rob and murder eight elderly people in a four-month span, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday against the center.
Billy Chemirmir is connected to the deaths of seven elderly women and one elderly man from July to October 2016 at The Tradition-Prestonwood, the suit says.
Chemirmir has already been charged in two of the cases mentioned in lawsuits filed by relatives of six former residents of The Tradition in far north Dallas.
The families filed suits against The Tradition and Jonathan Perlman, the chief executive officer and founder, alleging the senior living center failed to provide adequate security and hid Chemirmir's connection to the robbery and murders of eight people.
Attorney Trey Crawford said staff at the senior living center failed to protect its residents and wanted to keep the string of suspicious deaths quiet for the sake of leasing out more residences.
"In this case you are talking profits over the safety and security of the most vulnerable residents in our community, the elderly," Crawford said Tuesday.
Chemirmir was indicted in May in the deaths of 11 elderly women. He has been in custody since March 2018, when he was charged in the smothering death of 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris.
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Court records show each woman was killed in the same way — smothered by a pillow.
Authorities have said Chemirmir could be linked to other cases but have not said whether he is connected to the deaths of those newly named in the lawsuits filed Tuesday.
The Dallas County District Attorney's Office did not comment on whether Chemirmir is linked to any new cases, citing the pending capital murder cases.
A spokeswoman for The Tradition said the company has cooperated with authorities and denied the allegations that staff hid the details of the deaths.
"The allegations against Mr. Perlman that he withheld information are absolutely false," said Merrie Spaeth in a written statement.
Spaeth also said the deaths were "attributed to natural causes" by authorities.
"The deaths by an alleged serial killer in peoples' homes and at multiple senior living communities in the D-FW Metroplex is a true tragedy," Spaeth said in the company's statement.
Fake maintenance worker
The suit alleges Chemirmir often posed as a maintenance worker at The Tradition to burglarize people's residences. The Tradition staff boasted the facility offered "exceptional security," the suit says.
But Chemirmir was able to get into the senior living center undetected and rob and murder eight people, many of whom lived on the fourth floor, which did not have security cameras, court documents show.
Chemirmir has been charged in the deaths of Doris Gleason and Norma French, who were found dead in their homes at The Tradition.
The lawsuit alleges Chemirmir is also responsible for the deaths of Margaret White, Glenna Day, Juanita Purdy, Leah Corken, Joyce Abramowitz and Solomon Spring, who were all residents at The Tradition.
Authorities have confirmed the six other deaths are connected to Chemirmir, according to the lawsuit.
The suit alleges staff at The Tradition concealed that "the stranger they allowed into the premises, Billy Chemirmir, ended up being a serial killer."
The seven women found dead at The Tradition all appeared to have been smothered, the court records show.
And relatives said those who died suddenly were in good health -- a couple had even gone dancing the night before they were found dead.
Solomon Spring died under different circumstances. Spring was discovered in a pool of blood inside his residence, and though homicide detectives had been called, according to the lawsuit, staff at The Tradition did not tell investigators about the four prior deaths and burglaries.
Maintenance tools were found in Spring's bathroom at the time of his death, but there was no record of an order for maintenance, the court records show.
Those who died at The Tradition:
Joyce Abramowitz, 82, on July 20, 2016
Juanita Purdy, 83, on July 31, 2016
Leah Corken, 83, on Aug. 19, 2016
Margaret White, 87, on Aug. 28, 2016
Solomon Spring, 89, on Oct. 2, 2016
Norma French, 85, on Oct. 8, 2016
Glenna Day, 87, on Oct. 15, 2016
Doris Gleason, 92, on Oct. 30, 2016
Credit: Dallas County lawsuit
Lawsuits filed against The Tradition detail the timeline of deaths linked to suspected serial killer Billy Chemirmir at the upscale senior living facility.
String of burglaries
In the months before the sudden deaths, staff at The Tradition knew about seven instances of criminal activity, the lawsuit claims.
Two of the women believed to have been killed by Chemirmir reported burglaries before their deaths, police records show.
In November 2015, three female residents reported their storage units had been burglarized. More than $7,000 worth of property was stolen from the units, including the belongings of Glenna Day, who was found dead on Oct. 15, 2016.
There were several other burglary cases. An 80-year-old resident reported $2,650 worth of jewelry stolen from her closet.
Joyce Abramowitz reported in April 2016 that her apartment had been burglarized and thousands of dollars worth of jewelry was stolen from a box in her closet.
And a vehicle was reported stolen from the parking garage, which is where Chemirmir is believed to have accessed the residences, the court records show.
When the families did report their loved ones' belongings were missing after the deaths, staff at The Tradition blamed paramedics, prompting internal investigations, the suit says.
'Hollow assurances'
Staff at The Tradition offered "hollow assurances of safety and security" and hid that there were suspicious circumstances around the deaths of residents, the lawsuits say.
Even when relatives told the staff that valuables had been taken and their loved ones' deaths appeared strange, The Tradition employees assured the families that nothing was amiss.
In one case, a relative pointed out that her mother could not have died "peacefully in her sleep" Saturday night as she had been told, because the Sunday paper and a full cup of tea indicated the woman had woken up at some point the day she was found dead.
In another case, a woman reported that her mother's wedding ring was missing and that her mother's body was in a strange position.
"That's how old people fall when they die," the daughter of Leah Corken was told, according to the lawsuit.
"No one was told the whole truth about what was happening," said Crawford, an attorney representing the families.
The attorney said he believes if The Tradition staff had been honest about what was going on, police would have been investigating Chemirmir for the string of murders sooner.
Some of the deaths could've been prevented, he said.
Chemirmir has been indicted in the deaths of:
Phyllis Payne, 91, on May 14, 2016
Phoebe Perry, 94, on June 5, 2016
Minnie Campbell, 83, on Oct. 31, 2017
Carolyn MacPhee, 81, on Dec. 31, 2017
Rosemary Curtis, 76, on Jan. 17, 2018
Mary Brooks on Jan. 31, 2018
Martha Williams, 80, on March 4, 2018
Miriam Nelson, 81, on March 9, 2018
Ann Conklin, 82, on March 18, 2018
Lu Thi Harris, 81, on March 20, 2018
Deaths of 12 elderly women linked to suspected serial killer
Doris Gleason's death was ruled a homicide and linked to Billy Chemirmir
Phyllis Payne's death was ruled a homicide and linked to Billy Chemirmir.
Phoebe Perry's death was ruled a homicide and linked to Billy Chemirmir.
Norma French's death was ruled a homicide and linked to Billy Chemirmir.
Rosemary Curtis' death was ruled a homicide and linked to Billy Chemirmir.
Carolyn MacPhee's death was ruled a homicide and linked to Billy Chemirmir.
Martha Williams' death was ruled a homicide and linked to Billy Chemirmir.
Ann Conklin's death was ruled a homicide and linked to Billy Chemirmir
Minnie Campbell's death was ruled a homicide and linked to Billy Chemirmir
Miriam Nelson's death was ruled a homicide and linked to Billy Chemirmir
Lu Thi Harris (Texas DPS)


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Landscape Systems
The ARCH7151 Landscape Systems course frames 'landscape' as an assembly of natural systems (geological, hydrological, climatic, and ecology) in continuous dynamic interaction with human systems (building development, urban infrastructure, materials / waste). Through multiple landscape case-studies, readings, and technical exercises, the class examined some of the theories that underpin our ideas of landscape, and explored the relationships between the built and the natural, at site, district and territorial scales. The course also focused on foundational skills in 'reading' landscapes and assessing specific qualities and functions of landscapes. In addition to developing our landscape architectural language, we reflected critically on terms commonly used (and abused) in practice today such as 'sustainability' and 'resilience', 'performance', and 'productivity. We centred our landscape mapping and description studies on Shek O, the historic village set on the exposed southeast corner of Hong Kong Island, where both the landscape and the village are very much he project of the environment.
'Landscape', can be understood as a dynamic assembly of natural systems in continuous interaction with human systems, operating at multiple scales (from site to territory) and across different time periods. Landscape planners, designers and managers need to be able to recognize these systems, their interrelationships and the forces behind them, so that they can anticipate change and develop responses that generate resilient outcomes. In this studio we explored the landscape systems of the Port Shelter Area of Sai Kung, and saw how the form of urban development has responded to the natural, e.g. how the surface water drainage system is based on the natural hydrological pattern; how the design of the sea wall responds to tidal actions and storm events; and how the form and orientation of the buildings takes account of patterns of sunlight and seasonal winds. From this we developed a series of management and design strategies for varied sites around the Inner Port Shelter that were responsive to anticipated environmental and societal changes. The studio helps develop foundational skills in 'reading' landscapes and ultimately for assessing their specific qualities and functions, as well as reflecting on the language of landscape architecture. Through selected landscape case-studies, readings, and technical exercises, we examined theories that underpin our ideas of landscape, and explored relationships between the built and the natural, at multiple scales and across time.
Productive Cities
Resources required to sustain urban life are increasingly supplied from a vast hinterland of productive landscapes well beyond the city's boundaries. The ecological footprint (food- water- energy- footprints) of a high rise high density city should now be considered at a global scale. Cross boundary resource dependence, however, is subject to political considerations. This thesis stream explores the city as a site of production and asks what could we produce from the fabric of the city and to what extent could a city ever be self-sustaining. Although urban agriculture (in its multiple forms) is the most well-known form of production, we can also think of the city's capacity to collect water, generate power, derive material resources (through waste), sequester carbon and even produce social capital (happiness) and physical wellbeing. Further, in identifying these potential urban products, we should consider both how and by whom. Can landscape architectural (re-)thinking at site – district – city scales help transform and shape cities so that the idea and form of production become integrated into the physical, ecological and social urban fabric.
East Java Studio: Landscape Strategies for the Urbanizing Tropics
In this studio, students considered landscape architecture's capacity to engage with environments undergoing rapid change. Through map analysis and literature review, students revealed the ways in which landscape systems, cultural practices, and patterns of human settlement are intertwined, reflecting on the role of strategies and proposals to achieve alternate, more sustainable, more just outcomes. In particular, students examined the impact of modernization, development, and governance on determining natural and cultural landscapes. The study area, the Banyuwangi Regency at the eastern tip of East Java, is a territory that encompasses a dynamic volcanic landscape rich in biodiversity, agricultural productivity, and mineral resources, and is home to a culturally diverse community of some 1.6 million people, with a society built from old kingdoms and founded on Hindu and Islamic traditions and values, scattered across it in a complex 'desakota' system of urban-rural sprawl. As with much of Indonesia, it is a territory that is undergoing sudden and dramatic (post-Suharto) changes, modernization, commercialization and internationalization, brought on through urbanization, trade, resource exploitation and tourism. Drawing on current landscape planning and urbanism theory, including critiques of sustainability, ecological urbanism, and green infrastructure, students looked first to understand and document this landscape through its physical components, its systems, flows, assets (and liabilities), actors, patterns and trends, etc. Later exercises developed a strategic landscape section/transect summarizing the physical, hydrological, and socio- economic considerations anticipating any intervention. Finally, students worked to develop specific projects through which portions of an intervention strategy might be realized. Critical to this studio was a week-long study visit during which students and instructors toured the region, meeting local communities and government representatives to understand the region and its landscape systems, and to identify specific points of intervention.
Elevating Urban Agriculture
Numerous small-scale rooftop farms have spontaneously appeared over the last ten years on buildings in high-density urban districts worldwide. This wide-ranging study documented, tested and codified rooftop farms, and investigated the motivations of participants. Environmental and community limits in the design of rooftop farms were determined, together with their potential contribution to enhancing urban environmental and community well-being. Key conclusions of the study revealed both that extensive farmable roof space existed within dense (and aging) urban populations, and personal social values motivated participants to initiate rooftop farms, indicating that government policy on urban agriculture policy should shift their focus on the generation of social capital rather than food production.
These findings indicate that urban agriculture could help address some mental health challenges that high density cities face. The conclusions, along with technical design information, were disseminated through an award-winning book and website. Through these outputs, practitioners inside and outside Hong Kong have developed communities of practice that allow them to coordinate their efforts and to advocate for the formalization of the practice with land and building processes.
The study was instrumental in encouraging Hong Kong Government to expand its 2016 New Agricultural Policy to include these new forms of urban agriculture, and actively promote them within development proposals. The study has attracted media attention from both local and international news organizations, and has been recognized with design awards both internationally and in Hong Kong. It has also helped to broaden thinking about the role of landscape architects in high density cities, and demonstrated the efficacy of community-enterprise projects and spaces generated through the activation of grassroots organizations.
The resources required to sustain urban life, food, water energy are supplied from an increasingly large hinterland of productive landscapes well beyond the city's boundaries. The ecological footprint (water- energy- footprints) of a high rise high density city should now be considered at a global scale. Cross boundary resource dependence, however, is subject to political considerations. This thesis stream looks at the city as a site of production and asks the question, to what extent can a city be self-sustaining. Although urban agriculture (in its multiple forms) is the most well-known form of production, we can also think of the city's capacity to collect water, generate power, derive material resources (through waste), sequester carbon or even produce social and physical wellbeing (happiness). Further, in identifying these potential urban products, we should consider both how and by whom. Can landscape architectural (re-)thinking at site – district – city scales help transform and shape cities so that the idea and form of production become integrated into the physical, ecological and social urban fabric.
East Java Studio: Paradise Lost
In this studio students looked at the concept of 'Landscape as Framework': how natural landscape systems can determine and order human settlement and activity (and in turn be determined by them); and how we might develop meaningful strategies and proposals to achieve and sustain a balance between the two. In particular, we examined the impact of modernization and development on high value natural landscapes and traditional culture, and the roles that Landscape Architects might play in managing these processes to achieve the most relevant and resilient outcomes possible. We took as our study area the BanyuWangi Regency, at the eastern tip of East Java, a territory that encompasses a volcanic landscape rich in ecological biodiversity, scenic landscape beauty, agricultural productivity and mineral resource, but is also home to a culturally diverse community of some 1.6 million people, with a society built from old kingdoms and founded on Hindu and Islamic traditions and values, scattered across it in a complex 'desakota' system of urban-rural sprawl. As with much of Indonesia, it is a territory that is undergoing sudden and dramatic (post-Suharto) changes, modernization, commercialization and internationalization, brought on through urbanization, trade, resource exploitation and tourism. Drawing on current landscape planning and urbanism theory, including core concepts such as sustainability, ecological urbanism, landscape topology, we looked first to understand and document this landscape through its physical components, its systems, flows, assets (and liabilities), actors, patterns, trends, etc., then to develop a strategic landscape framework / guide plan for possible intervention, and finally to find specific projects through which portions of the strategy might be realized. Core to this studio was a 10-day study visit, during which we toured the territory with local communities and government representatives to increase our understanding of the region and its landscape systems, and to identify specific points of intervention.
Cities have traditionally been conceived simply as venues for mass human occupation and activity. Under the umbrella concept of 'urban agriculture' they are increasingly being re-thought as sites of production. Remnant farms within Chinese cities, rooftop farms in high rise Hong Kong, edible urban forests in Seattle, Dutch vertical pig farms, commercialized food production from back yards of private homes in Los Angeles, are a few examples of the thousands of small-scale, community-based initiatives to produce food from vacant and under-utilised corners of the city. Urban agriculture is often cited now as a core component of the sustainable or biophilic cities. The suggested benefits of urban agriculture extend well beyond food supply, and include a diverse range of: environmental and climatic (Colding and Barthiel 2013); social and community (Hou, 2017) therapeutic and public health (Webster et al 2015); ecological and biodiversity; urban greenery and rural linkage benefits. Many of these are, in themselves, forms of production, and offer such potential to a sustainable urban future, that food production is becoming something of a secondary consideration. In this thesis stream I would like to explore research questions such as: To what extent are small scale urban agriculture initiatives scalable to the city level (spatially and operationally)? How can we effectively codify, evaluate and represent (graphically or otherwise) the various benefits? What other forms of production might be possible from the physical fabric of the city – e.g. power, water, soil, biota? What is the best role for the landscape architect in urban agriculture, and what research is needed to support that role? and As a consequence of these benefits, could urban agriculture be used as a catalyst for urban change and be used proactively as an urban design tool?
East Java Studio
Taking the concept of 'Landscape as Framework', this studio looked at how natural landscape systems can determine and order human settlement and activity (and in turn be determined by them), and how we might develop meaningful strategies and proposals to achieve and sustain a balance between the two.We took a broad north-south corridor of land (some 150 km long and 70km wide) on the Indonesian Island of Java as our initial study area. This vast territory encompasses a volcanic landscape rich in biodiversity, scenic beauty, agricultural productivity and mineral resource, but is also home to a culturally diverse community of some 10 million people, scattered across it in a complex 'desakota' system of urban sprawl. Drawing on current landscape planning and urbanism theory, students looked to understand and document this landscape, not just through its physical components, but though its systems, flows, assets (and liabilities), actors, patterns, trends, etc. From this they developed strategic framework proposals for the landscape.Core to this studio was the week-long study visit, centred on the former colonial hill town of Malang where we partnered with staff and students from U. Brawijaya. Excursions to the Mt Bromo volcano, the Lapindo mud volcano at Surabaya in the north, teak plantations, water management infrastructure and the resort beaches of the southern coast, and the rich agriculture of the upland Batu Valley, allowed us to interact with local communities, record (in drawings and video) the landscape and its people, and to develop our understanding of the territory and its landscape systems. From this students were able to identify specific issues and projects which became their final projects.
Landscape, Biophysics
In this studio we explored the physical and biological elements and systems that make up our world, and the forces that shape them. In particular, we sought to understand how they interact and how they change over time. While examining them, we worked out best ways to describe and represent them, graphically. This gave a basis for manipulating them (by design), and understanding the likely consequences of any changes. To do this we investigated two environments: one mostly natural (Pokfulam Valley) and one largely man-made (Queens Road, HK). We studied the nature of the elements and processes within each, and the commonalities and differences between them. In each place students proposed an intervention. In the natural environment they looked to modify it to allow for human occupation, in the man-made environment they look to re-introduce natural elements and make occupation by humans easier. Through these interventions they were able to understand the fundamental relationship between nature and man. Some of the models and design from the final assignment were exhibited as part of the 'Liveability of Design' Exhibition held at HKSAR Central Government Offices in September 2017.


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The name of the society shall be: The Student-Run Computing Facility.
The Society's aims shall be: to provide UN*X/Linux/BSD services for all members of the society, including webspace, a central server, and training activities, and to do such other things as conduce to the attainment of these objects.
Membership of the society shall be extended to all members of the University and any others who may apply to the Committee. Use of the facilities provided by the society shall be restricted to members and may be subject to an annual fee, which the Committee shall determine, and which may vary according to the type of use made of the facility. The Committee may also set an annual membership fee of the society, and in addition may offer honorary memberships and life membership to any persons as it sees fit. It shall not refuse an application for membership on the grounds of race, sex, sexual orientation, disability, religion, or political views. It may, however, expel any member for behaviour likely to bring the society or university into disrepute, for acting in a way that is damaging to the integrity of any of the facility's machines, or for breaking any of the relevant rules relating to the use of computers in the University. The administrators may suspend the account of anyone they suspect of the above, pending the decision of the Committee. For official communications of the society email shall be sufficient, and it shall be the responsibility of members of the society to provide the Secretary with an appropriate email address. All members shall have full voting rights at society meetings.
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The Annual General Meeting of the society shall be held each year in the Lent Term. The time and venue of this meeting shall be publicised by the Committee at least fourteen days beforehand.
Ordinary Meetings shall be held as and when the Committee sees fit. Such meetings may be social, training, or anything else the Committee feels is relevant to the aims of the society.
An Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) of the society may be called by the Committee, or by at least six members. A notice calling for an EGM must: (1) include a clear statement of the purpose of the EGM, (2) state the date (which must be in Full Term), time (which must be reasonable), and venue (which must be in Cambridge) of the EGM, (3) be signed by those calling for the EGM, and (4) be presented to the Committee at least ten days before the EGM, but no more than fourteen days before. The Committee must circulate the notice verbatim to the society at least seven days before the EGM. An EGM may conduct any business necessary for the purpose it was called.
The Committee shall be elected at the AGM by Single Transferable Vote with a RON as defined by the University. Nominations must be submitted to the Secretary at least three days before the AGM (in the absence of other nominations for any post, nominations shall be accepted at the AGM for that post), either by email or on paper, to reach the Secretary by that deadline signed by proposer, seconder and nominee. Any member of the society may be nominated for any Committee post (a proposer and seconder are needed).
The Chair of the AGM shall appoint two tellers at the AGM. The Committee may co-opt additional Committee members as it sees fit, and shall be responsible for the appointment of system administrators, who shall be responsible to the Committee. The Committee must have a majority of members who are current CU undergraduate or postgraduate students or are members of the Regent House and the majority of principal officers: Chair, Secretary and Junior Treasurer must be current students.
Committee members shall hold office until they are replaced by a successful candidate in an election or by-election. Committee members may signal intent to resign their post on paper or by email to the Chair, or in the case of the Chair to the Secretary, upon receipt of which the Chair or Secretary (as appropriate) shall communicate this to the rest of the Committee and the Committee shall make arrangements for an EGM with by-election to be held in accordance with Article 5.4.
If no candidates are nominated for a post in an election or by-election, or the election/by-election for a post is won by the option to re-open nominations, or a Committee member signals intent to resign their post as laid out in Article 5.3, the Committee shall call, in accordance with the timeframes set out in Article 4.3, an EGM whose stated purposes shall include the holding of by-elections for that/those post(s) and which shall be held within fourteen days of the AGM (or, if the current Full Term is to end within fourteen days, within seven days of the start of the next Full Term). The by-elections shall be conducted as in Article 5.1, with all references to an AGM to be replaced with references to the EGM.
The Committee shall consist of Chair, Secretary, Junior Treasurer, and PR officer. It shall meet at least once per term, and may invite any other persons to attend Committee meetings as it sees fit. The Senior Treasurer shall always be invited to attend Committee meetings if (s)he wishes to.
In addition there shall be a Senior Treasurer, who shall be a resident member of the Senate or other person approved by the Junior Proctor. The Senior Treasurer shall make arrangements for the Society's Accounts to be properly audited, either by himself or herself, or by some other person approved under University Ordinances. The Senior Treasurer shall not be liable for any financial debt or other obligation of the Society unless he or she has personally authorised such a debt in writing.
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Businesses of all shapes and sizes utilize shipping services at one point or another. Some businesses struggle with shipping, especially during growth, expansion, or fluctuating busy times of the year. Transportation logistics and support can help reduce the amount of money and time you spend moving your products from one point to another and truly allow your business to focus on its core competencies.
If you're unsure of how to handle your logistics, understand that it's quite rare for a business to take care of their entire logistical process on their own. Most businesses simply don't have the money, time, and resources to do so.
That's where logistics companies come in. A logistics company may be just what you your business needs to effectively move your products. Shipping and logistics providers come in several varieties. Understanding the differences between logistics providers will empower you to make the best decisions for your business.
A freight company is a broad term used to generally describe a business focused on moving freight from one place to another. Some freight companies may specialize in international shipments while others will only ship goods domestically.
Depending on the type and location of freight being shipped, the mode of transport may further narrow the focus of the freight company. Goods can be moved by air, sea, rail-lines, or trucks on the road. Some freight companies can offer more than one transportation option, while others will have a singular focus.
Freight forwarders can be a valuable partner to businesses shipping internationally. Their expertise and relationships will likely save time and money for those choosing to utilize their services.
Unlike freight forwarders, the carrier will handle the freight shipment directly. Carriers make money by moving products around the country and world. Trucking companies, rail services, ocean freight, and air freight are all examples of carriers. In most cases, shipments require multiple carriers to reach their final destinations.
Third party logistic providers or 3PLs provide outsourced logistics for all of or a part of the supply chain logistics function of a business. The services and depth to which a 3PL is able to integrate into your supply chain will vary. Some will offer transportation and storage services for freight, while others will integrate technology products or be the logistics department of a business. 3PL's will typically customize their services to meet the ever-evolving needs of a business. Depending on the size, type, and services offered through a 3PL, they may be able to handle international shipping, but the majority are focused on domestic freight shipping and management.
Many 3PLs offer other services that assist with the product or procurement of goods. You can count on a 3PL to schedule in and outbound deliveries, take care of all of your documentation, and ensure deliveries are on time and free of hassles. A 3PL may give your business the opportunity to focus on your core competencies and provide you with the peace of mind of knowing your supply chain functions are in good hands.
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Jaan Tallinn is a founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa. He is a founder of the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and philanthropically supports other existential risk research organizations such as the Future of Humanity Institute, the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute and the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. He has also served on the Estonian President's Academic Advisory Board.
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We have technology to thank for all the ways in which today is better than the stone age, and technology is likely to keep improving at an accelerating pace. We are a charity and outreach organization working to ensure that tomorrow's most powerful technologies are beneficial for humanity. With less powerful technologies such as fire, we learned to minimize risks largely by learning from mistakes. With more powerful technologies such as nuclear weapons, synthetic biology and future strong artificial intelligence, planning ahead is a better strategy than learning from mistakes, so we support research and other efforts aimed at avoiding problems in the first place.
We are currently focusing on keeping artificial intelligence beneficial and we are also exploring ways of reducing risks from nuclear weapons and biotechnology. FLI is based in the Boston area, and welcomes the participation of scientists, students, philanthropists, and others nearby and around the world. Here is a video highlighting our activities from our first year.
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BENEFICIAL AI 2017
In our sequel to the 2015 Puerto Rico AI conference, we brought together an amazing group of AI researchers from academia and industry, and thought leaders in economics, law, ethics, and philosophy for five days dedicated to beneficial AI. We hosted a two-day workshop for our grant recipients to give them an opportunity to highlight and discuss the progress with their grants. We followed that with a 2.5-day conference, in which people from various AI-related fields hashed out opportunities and challenges related to the future of AI and steps we can take to ensure that the technology is beneficial. Honoring the FrieNDA for the conference, we are only posting videos and slides below with approval of the speaker. Learn more about the Asilomar AI Principles that resulted from the conference, the process involved in developing them, and the resulting discussion about each principle. (It looks like we'll be posting almost everything, but please be patient while we finish editing and uploading videos, etc.)
Thursday January 5
All afternoon: registration open; come chill & meet old and new friends!
1800-2100: Welcome reception
Friday January 6
0730-0900: Breakfast
0900-1200: Opening keynotes on AI, economics & law: Progress since Puerto Rico 2015
Welcome Remarks by Max Tegmark (video)
Erik Brynjolfsson (MIT) (pdf) (video)
Yoshua Bengio (Montreal) (pdf) (video)
Viktoriya Krakovna (DeepMind/FLI) (pdf) (video)
Stuart Russell (Berkeley) (pdf) (video)
Ryan Calo (U. Washington) (video)
Group photo
1200-1300: Lunch
1300-1500: Breakout sessions
1500-1800: Economics: How can we grow our prosperity through automation without leaving people lacking income or purpose?
Talk: Daniela Rus (MIT) (video)
Panel with Daniela Rus (MIT), Andrew Ng (Baidu), Mustafa Suleyman (DeepMind), Moshe Vardi (Rice) & Peter Norvig (Google): How AI is automating and augmenting work (video)
Andrew McAfee (MIT) (pdf) (video)
Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia) (pdf) (video)
Panel with Andrew McAfee (MIT), Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia), Eric Schmidt (Google) & Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn): Implications of AI for the Economy and Society (video)
Fireside chat with Daniel Kahneman: What makes people happy? (video)
1800-2100: Dinner
Saturday January 7
0900-1200: Creating human-level AI: Will it happen, and if so, when and how? What key remaining obstacles can be identified? How can we make future AI systems more robust than today's, so that they do what we want without crashing, malfunctioning or getting hacked?
Demis Hassabis (DeepMind) (video)
Ray Kurzweil (Google) (video)
Yann LeCun (Facebook/NYU) (pdf) (video)
Panel with Anca Dragan (Berkeley), Demis Hassabis (DeepMind), Guru Banavar (IBM), Oren Etzioni (Allen Institute), Tom Gruber (Apple), Jürgen Schmidhuber (Swiss AI Lab), Yann LeCun (Facebook/NYU), Yoshua Bengio (Montreal) (video)
1500-1800: Superintelligence: Science or fiction? If human level general AI is developed, then what are likely outcomes? What can we do now to maximize the probability of a positive outcome? (video)
Shane Legg (DeepMind)
Nick Bostrom (Oxford) (pdf) (video)
Jaan Tallinn (CSER/FLI) (pdf) (video)
Panel with Bart Selman (Cornell), David Chalmers (NYU), Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX), Jaan Tallinn (CSER/FLI), Nick Bostrom (FHI), Ray Kurzweil (Google), Stuart Russell (Berkeley), Sam Harris, Demis Hassabis (DeepMind): If we succeed in building human-level AGI, then what are likely outcomes? What would we like to happen?
Panel with Dario Amodei (OpenAI), Nate Soares (MIRI), Shane Legg (DeepMind), Richard Mallah (FLI), Stefano Ermon (Stanford), Viktoriya Krakovna (DeepMind/FLI): Technical research agenda: What can we do now to maximize the chances of a good outcome? (video)
1800-2200: Banquet
Sunday January 8
0900-1200: Law, policy & ethics: How can we update legal systems, international treaties and algorithms to be more fair, ethical and efficient and to keep pace with AI?
Matt Scherer (pdf) (video)
Heather Roff-Perkins (Oxford)
Panel with Martin Rees (CSER/Cambridge), Heather Roff-Perkins, Jason Matheny (IARPA), Steve Goose (HRW), Irakli Beridze (UNICRI), Rao Kambhampati (AAAI, ASU), Anthony Romero (ACLU): Policy & Governance (video)
Panel with Kate Crawford (Microsoft/MIT), Matt Scherer, Ryan Calo (U. Washington), Kent Walker (Google), Sam Altman (OpenAI): AI & Law (video)
Panel with Kay Firth-Butterfield (IEEE, Austin-AI), Wendell Wallach (Yale), Francesca Rossi (IBM/Padova), Huw Price (Cambridge, CFI), Margaret Boden (Sussex): AI & Ethics (video)
1300: Depart
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Max Tegmark
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Victoria Krakovna
PROFESSOR, UC SANTA CRUZ
Anthony Aguirre
SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD alan alda;; nick bostrom humanities oxford ;; erik brybjoffson from mit to stanford;george church genetic harvard;; sandra faber astrophysucs santa cruz;; morgan freeman;; alan guth physics mit; christof koch allen institute brain science;; elon musk;; saul perlmutter physics berkeley;; martin rees cosmology cambridge;; francesca rossi ibm research & U Padova;; stuart russell ai berkeley; franz wilczek physics mit
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DIRECTOR, OXFORD FUTURE OF HUMANITY INSTITUTE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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PROFESSOR OF GENETICS, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
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Elon Musk is the founder, CEO and CTO of SpaceX and co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors. In recent years, Musk has focused on developing competitive renewable energy and technologies (Tesla, Solar City), and on taking steps towards making affordable space flight and colonization a future reality (SpaceX). He has spoken about the responsibility of technology leaders to solve global problems and tackle global risks, and has also highlighted the potential risks from advanced AI.
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Visual of new clubhouse with shutters. Designed with regard to maximum security on site.
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Hampton Hill C C is over 150 years old and is proud of its position in the local community as a sporting and social resource. Sadly on October 8th 2010 the club was the subject of an arson attack that left the clubhouse in ruins and treasured club possessions lost forever. Fortunately the building was insured and plans are in place for the replacement building that will hopefully include enhancements to facilities during this process. A project team was established to construct a new clubhouse on the same site to continue the long history of the club as a sport and community facility with Macdonald Design appointed at the end of 2010.
Following this appointment, the project team embarked upon a consultation exercise with a host of Local and National organisations including The Royal Parks, The ECB, Middlesex County Cricket Club, Surrey County Cricket Club (the club's league teams play in the Surrey County League), The London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames and a host of Local Associations and Organisations. The brief was to design a new clubhouse that meets the requirements of all of these parties as well as those of Hampton Hill Cricket Club.
As with any clubhouse looking to receive ECB grant-aid funding, the design has had to abide by TS5, the ECB document that stipulates a certain criteria by which each new clubhouse is designed. These factors have now been met and a design has been agreed upon by all with special consideration given to the need to ensure high security for the pavilion with shutters in place throughout.
The project has now secured planning and is now undergoing a tender process with a number of contractors. The visuals above illustrate how the pavilion will look upon completion and will restore HHCC to its iconic position in Bushy Park.
We will be updating on the project progress via our blog and with through regular photo updates posted on this page.
The links for the blog are below:
BLOG ONE – GETTING DESIGN APPROVAL
BLOG TWO – CONVERTING TRADITIONAL DESIGN INTO SIPS
Sports Projects
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HAMPTON HILL C.C.
ASHTEAD C.C.
HEATHCOAT C.C.
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CALL TO ORDER: Chief Buchert called the meeting to order at 6:45 a.m. Motion to excuse Giles Seith from meeting made by Linda Schilling, 2nd by Marty Hura, all ayes. February 24, 2011 minutes were reviewed. Motion to approve minutes by Marty, 2nd by Linda, all ayes.
Appropriation for Gas – Chief brought to committee attention with the increase of gas prices up $1.00 gallon since last year, appropriations do not allow for this increase. We could be approx. $3,000 short by end of year. Just wanted committee to be aware.
Chief talked to Village Solicitor reference the "No Left Turn" on Main Street. He was advised the Village can do it or the state may also do it. Committee discussed and decided since it was late in the school year to wait until next year and see if problem still exists. Marty asked about no left turns on both streets, Glenwood and Grand Elm. Committee agreed to further observe until next year.
Nothing new on easement from Barky Mart, his attorney has it.
Repair of decks- Copy of Court Order passed out to Committee. Subjects involved are not to have contact with each other so they cannot assist in repair of the decks.
Quotes for security camera for Glacier Eskar Trail and water plant area were handed out. Cameras will not be able to see all decks, maybe one. Committee discussed and advised to forward info to Parks Committee and let them decide.
Budget for 2012- Chief handed out copies- No major changes. The only big purchase for 2012 is new patrol cars. Will start bidding in September 2011. Money is put aside in Capital Improvement to help support the purchase of cars. This will help so we won't have to borrow as much. Committee reviewed and agreed to forward it to Mayor and Clerks Office.
Currently training two new part time dispatchers.
Chief is currently talking with Lexipol, a risk management service, that writes operating manuals, training and policies for Police Departments. Ohio Municipal League has joined with Lexipol and would pay a portion to write manuals for safety forces. They make sure everything is up to date and there is daily training for officers thru internet services. Changes in ORC are made daily. There has been 69% fewer legislation claims filed with someone who has Lexipol. Police Departments using this service has seen a 43% reduction of liability issues. Approximately $2350.oo would be Village responsibility, which could probably come out of Police Capital. Committee discussed and agreed, advised Chief to go ahead.
NEXT MEETING: APRIL 28, 2011 @ 6:30a.m.
ADJOURNED: Meeting adjourned at 7:20 a.m. Motion to adjourn by Linda, 2nd by Marty, all ayes.


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Operators to see increased growth in content subscriptions
The number of transactional exchanges for video content have been steadily declining since 2001, and the erosion likely will continue as consumers increasingly opt for subscription models to acquire their content.
Ben Keen, chief analyst for media research at IHS Research, told an audience at the IHS European Technology Media and Telecommunications summit in Paris, France, that retailers will increasingly be squeezed as telcos and other content distributors pick up more customers buying into subscription plans.
He said transactional spending--consumers buying physical media or renting video-on-demand content--made up 66 percent of the market in 2001. That's slid to 45 percent today and is forecasted to reach 40 percent of the market by 2016, with subscriptions picking up increasing share.
"Subscription is a powerful business model," Keen said. "It's sticky, and people don't have to think too much. When you only have to ask a person one time a year, 'Do you want to buy this,' rather than every time they want content, it's much easier."
And, he said, telcos are going to continue to benefit from that subscription growth, both as they offer faster broadband service and more content options.
On a related note, Keen pointed to Apple, which, so far, hasn't offered a subscription service for content.
"Apple is laser focused right now on their hardware sales, it's not focused on being a content and services company," he said. But, he pointed out, its video sales and rentals already give it a 9 percent share of the market.
"Their early attempts saw some significant pushback from rights holders," Keen said. "Content owners were worried about the business model, it just wasn't right yet."
In late 2009, Apple reportedly began shopping the idea of a $30-a-month subscription service to TV networks. Apple was looking to leverage the more than 65 million users it already has on iTunes, but network execs weren't buying.
The iTunes offer from Apple received mixed reviews from execs hungry for new revenue streams, since they were concerned about the possible problems it might create with existing content delivery partners like cable operators.
Keen said that although no subscription service exists for video content through Apple, the current charge of entry into the Apple ecosystem is its devices.
"For Apple, it's about the user experience, the user interface, the hardware," he said.
DVDs are dead, long live online video
A chicken in every pot and an Apple TV in every living room
Has online video become the light at the end of the tunnel for pay-TV, programmers?
U.S. consumers trend toward renting, rather than owning online movies
Apple, Amazon and Sony join race for VOD prize
Apple's 99 cent iTunes video play changes pay-TV forever
Rumor mill: Apple near deal on new 99-cent content, iTV rollout Sept. 1
Rumor mill: Subscription Hulu is coming to iPad
Apple TV for $99 plus a subscription service could be a game changer
Apple online TV service gaining momentum
Apple shopping $30-month online TV subscription play