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Q: Role {687992085416116235, 687622939985838080} is required to run this command. [discord.py + python] Написал админ команды и задал @commands.has_role(config.ADMIN_ROLES). Есть ли у меня или нет роли - не имеет значения, всё время ошибка. Как можно исправить?
# Ошибка
Role {687992085416116235, 687622939985838080} is required to run this  command.

# Роли, заданные в конфиге
ADMIN_ROLES = {
      687992085416116235,
      687622939985838080,
}

# Код команды
@client.command(pass_context = True)
@commands.has_role(config.ADMIN_ROLES)
async def clear(ctx, amount=1, limit_amount=1):
    await ctx.channel.purge(limit=amount+1)
    await ctx.channel.purge(limit=limit_amount)
    author = ctx.message.author
    await ctx.send(f'```Сэр, пропали сообщения, я не знаю сколько, может вы знаете?\n' + f'P.S Кол-во({amount})\n' f'P.S.S Удалил - {author}```')

A: Надо вставлять названия или ID ролей вручную.
@commands.has_any_role(687992085416116235, 687622939985838080, ...)


WelCom June 2017: A Day of Prayer for Refugees and Migrants is set aside each year by the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference to fall as close as possible to World Refugee Day on 20 June. This year, the prayer day is on Sunday, 18 June.
In the Northern Hemisphere the world prayer day for refugees and migrants is in January. In New Zealand, we align our day of prayer to be the Sunday closest to the UN day in June as January is not an ideal time to bring attention to the critical issue of refugees and migrants because of our southern hemisphere summer.
Pope Francis's theme for the 103rd World Day of Migrants and Refugees is 'Minor migrants, vulnerable and voiceless'. As followers of Christ, we are called to reach out to and pray for all migrants to emphasise the unity of the human family and the values of acceptance, hospitality and love of neighbour.
Visit the Vatican website – tinyurl.com/PopeFrancisRefugeeMessage –to read His Holiness' message.
The Coat of Arms of Pope Francis: Miserando atque eligendo – 'by having mercy, by choosing him.
Since February 2016 Catholic and Anglican Dioceses of Wellington have set up 116 homes for former refugee families resettling in Wellington. Their work continues this year.
Here is the story of one family who have successfully immersed themselves into Kiwi way of life.
Fearing for their future due, to violent wars and persecution, Mohamad Morad, his wife Imane, his mother Gazala and sons Diaa and Ahmed, crossed the border from Syria into Lebanon seeking refuge.
In March 2016, as refugees, Mohamad and Imane applied for resettlement and were accepted into New Zealand.
A year later Imane says, 'We feel settled in New Zealand and my children are continuing their study, which is the most important thing'. Eldest son Diaa has enrolled in university for a career in medicine and their youngest son Ahmed is thriving at school. Mohamad and Imane are taking classes daily to improve their English.
Imane said, 'Our favourite thing about New Zealand is the safety – no matter how long the night or day, we know we are safe and nothing scares us'.
New Zealand welcomes about 750 refugees every year, with 600 additional places for Syrian refugees over a two-year period from 2016 to 2018.
Charlotte Jakicevich is a Challenge 2000 gap year student working on placement with Wellington Catholic Social Services.
Palmerston North is one of the six resettlement areas for former refugees making their new home in New Zealand. The other areas are Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Nelson and Dunedin.
The biggest challenge from my experience in working with former refugees is the language and the isolation. Most families do not have any family members here when they come. That is why it is important to support the Manawatu Reuniting Refugees Families Trust, which is a new trust for this area. The other bigger areas have similar Trusts that have been operating for a while.
Antoinette Umugwaneza, originally from Rwanda, works for the Red Cross in Palmerston North.
The Manawatu Reuniting Refugee Family Trust is a charitable trust. It was set up in 2016 to help with financial assistance for former refugees living in the central North Island to bring close family members to New Zealand.
Palmerston North – and the wider Manawatu – has been a resettlement area for 'quota' refugees since 2006. Families have come from as far apart as the Republic of Congo, Burma, Bhutan and Afghanistan. Sometimes these families have been separated by conflict – a distressing experience. If family members are later located, they can be reunited with their loved ones here in New Zealand. The cost of the process can be many thousands of dollars and the families here must meet all the expenses, including medicals, police certificates and airfares.
The Trust raises funds to help with this process and allocates them to families according to their needs. Since October last year we have committed funds to help reunite three families. Fundraising has come from church groups, applications to trust funds, school mufti days, individual donations and a successful joint fundraising dinner with the Red Cross team in Palmerston North.
With the help of the Afghani community we organised a fundraising Valentine's Day dinner, with an Afghan theme. There was so much interest that all 150 tickets were sold. The cooks, kitchen staff and waiters all wore traditional costumes, which added to the beautiful quality of an enjoyable evening for everyone.
The Wellington-based Refugee Family Reunification Trust has been helping refugees for more than 16 years. The charitable trust has approved nearly 500 applications for assistance from former refugees living in Wellington needing help with the cost of bringing their families from overseas to join them. Some 220 families have been reunited, including paying the airfares to Wellington for around 625 family members, many of whom were children and young people.
Since it was established, the Trust has raised more than $1,570,000. 'We are particularly proud of this achievement, as not a single dollar of donations has been used to generate this income,' says Amanda.
The housing shortage across New Zealand is affecting new refugee families arriving in Wellington. A number of families are in overcrowded situations, and struggling to navigate our complex system for finding suitable housing. The Trust works closely with partner agencies to identify suitable housing options for refugees.
One success story is the model housing project between Dwell Housing Trust and the Sisters of Compassion, which the Reunification Trust supports on a non-financial basis. A flat in Island Bay provides transitional housing for former refugee families resettling here. Since this started in 2012, six families arriving in Wellington have been helped, including families originally from Somalia, Afghanistan, and Eritrea.
St Joseph's, Mt Victoria, has supported two refugee families – from Rwanda and Eritrea – with low-rent housing in a parish property.
The Sisters of St Joseph have been working on a similar project to provide a home. They have fully refurbished and furnished a four-bedroom house in Miramar – formerly used by the Sisters – for a refugee family to live in.
The Sisters of St Joseph decided to offer our house in Miramar to a refugee family, and contacted Amanda Calder to see if we could assist her Trust in some way. She said because the house was free-standing and roomy it would be ideal for the large refugee family of 10 she was trying to get reunited with their parents and grandparents already settled in Wellington. The family had been living in a refugee camp in Kenya for more than 16 years in desperate circumstances.
With significant financial assistance from the sisters of the Little Company of Mary we refurbished the house and furnished it with donated goods from Wellington Catholic Social Services and from the Sisters of St Joseph around the country.
We have entered into a partnership with the Dwell Housing Trust and pay them to provide the management and maintenance of the house. We are delighted to see this family settled in at last, and will continue to provide what assistance we can especially in pastoral care. The Little Company of Mary are continuing to provide financial support.
Caritas New Zealand Aotearoa have witnessing the continuing crisis in Syria and the impact of drought and civil war in South Sudan that has led to the displacement of over 1.5 million people.
In his message for the 2017 World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Pope Francis reminds us to consider child migrants and the vulnerable and voiceless.
ChangeMakers Wellington has been running a women's driving programme called 'Turning the Curve' for former refugees for four years. The programme is also run in Palmerston North.
The idea came from a women's steering group who were feeling isolated and unable to fully engage with their families in New Zealand life.
Changemakers works with Multicultural Learning & Support Services in Wellington to identify people who should join the programme. MCLaSS runs free English classes to help former refugees to learn the road code.
Visit crf.org.nz and mclass.org.nz for more information.
There are more than 800 asylum seekers and refugees at Manus Island detention centre, Papua New Guinea.
Australia's St Vincent de Paul Society is calling on its government to resettle them in Australia. The government is closing the PNG centre soon.
SVdP said it is now a matter of upmost urgency as no other option is available to these detainees. It is well known that refugees who have already tried settling into the PNG community have found it too hard or too dangerous and that returning to their place of origin is likely to result in persecution or harm.
In line with criticism by UNHCR, SVdP is particularly critical of forced deportations occurring without an appropriate review.
All he expected was a quiet life, one day following another.
no upheavals, staying in his home place.
and beauty, its infinite variety.
Four times his dreams disturbed him.
Four times a message changed his life.
coping with visitors, strangers from afar.
the casual slaughter of the sucklings.
but always, always trusting in the Lord.


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The AmericasNov 16th 2013 edition
Violent crime in Latin America
Alternatives to the iron fist
How to prevent an epidemic
MOST parts of the world are getting safer. Not Latin America and the Caribbean, where the murder rate rose by 11% in 2000-10. This "epidemic of violence", as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) calls it in a new report, has gone hand in hand with an increase in crime in general and in the fear of it. With poverty, unemployment and inequality falling, insecurity has become perhaps the single most pressing problem facing the region.
In the decade to 2010 more than 1m Latin Americans died as a result of criminal violence, according to the UNDP. Around four-fifths of murders are committed with firearms, which are readily available. Robberies have tripled in the past 25 years, six out of ten of them involving violence. The vast majority of crimes are not reported to the police, in whom citizens have little confidence. Murder rates vary widely between and within countries, and in some cases have fallen (eg, in Colombia and more recently in Guatemala and El Salvador). Nevertheless, a poll commissioned for the report suggests that nearly two-thirds of Latin Americans avoid going out at night for fear of crime, and one in eight (about 75m people) has moved house in order to feel safer.
Some of the factors behind this tidal wave of crime, such as drug-trafficking, are well known. Others, such as low wages, lack of schooling and family breakdown (often associated with domestic violence) are less remarked. The UNDP surveyed prison inmates in six countries and found that although most were in work when arrested, half had dropped out of school and started work aged 15 or younger. Between 10% and 30% never knew at least one of their parents.
Many Latin Americans have demanded that their governments adopt mano dura ("iron fist") policies to tackle crime. But flaws in the police, courts and prisons mean that this often backfires. The UNDP points to the success of strategies that have focused on crime-detection and prevention. By mapping violence in Belo Horizonte, in Brazil, researchers found that six of the city's 81 favelas accounted for most of it. Colombia's Plan Cuadrante, a national neighbourhood-watch scheme, and a similar effort in the Dominican Republic ("Barrio Seguro") have helped police to home in on hotspots.
This approach depends on co-ordinating the work of police and other government agencies, both local and national. Crime can be cut by such diverse measures as lighting streets, training young people and closing bars early. For such approaches to work, though, "people have to have trust in the police", says Rafael Fernández de Castro, a Mexican academic who is the report's author. So police reform is often the essential first step. The UNDP concludes that countries should set up "national agreements for citizen security", involving government, political parties and social groups. Crime is too important to be left to the police or the government alone.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline "Alternatives to the iron fist"
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Of conservation and cash
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Silicon linings
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The country has already seen over 600,000 excess deaths
Andrés Manuel López Obrador's policies have led to shortages of medicine
Around 60 peaceful pro-democracy protesters, some as young as 16, face years behind bars
He also wants to pump more oil and dig up more minerals
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It was a face, fiend-like, full of smiling malice, yet bearing the semblance of features that she had known full well, though seldom with a smile, and never with malice in them.
It appears to me—who have been a calm and curious observer, as well in victory as defeat—that this fierce and bitter spirit of malice and revenge has never distinguished the many triumphs of my own party as it now did that of the Whigs.
It was a look so intelligent, yet inexplicable, perverse, sometimes so malicious, but generally accompanied by a wild flow of spirits, that Hester could not help questioning at such moments whether Pearl was a human child.
There are no more uses of "malicious" in The Scarlet Letter.


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Metaverse: time for the first assessment
January 22, 2023 by tetracyclinepill.com
On October 18, 2021, Meta (parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram) announced the creation of 10,000 jobs in the EU over the next five years to invest in new talent and help build the metaverse.
A year later, Mark Zuckerberg announces the elimination of 11,000 jobs, triggering the first wave of layoffs and acknowledging the most difficult changes in the company's history.
But a recent report by McKinsey estimates the metaverse market at $5 trillion by 2030, equivalent to the world's third-largest economy behind the US and China. The investments are estimated at more than 120 billion dollars. The Metaverse project exceeds the ambitions of any single company, no matter how large.
Recognized retailers and brands such as Nike, Balenciaga or Louis Vuitton have positioned themselves in these virtual spaces. Companies such as Microsoft, Amazon or Google have confirmed their investments. Since the situation is ambivalent, let's decipher the differences in the perception of the metaverse and examine the ingredients that can contribute to its success.
Why doesn't the metaverse meet the expected success?
The first source of ambiguity is linked to the simple fact that we do not all agree on the definition of the metaverse. The metaverse is a concept under construction, and no one really knows what it will look like, or even what should be included behind this term. Web 3, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and blockchain are all modern creations that revolve around the metaverse. The lack of knowledge about these technologies and the blurred boundaries between these concepts and metaverses do not make it easier for the public to understand.
In May 2022, Ipsos published the results of a survey indicating that only 28% of French people were familiar with the concept of metaverse. While large corporations, states and the EU are investing, 62% of the French still do not see the point of virtual worlds. It is therefore important to inform citizens to better understand the metaverse and the associated technologies.
The mission's interdepartmental report on the development of metaverses published in October 2022 defines the latter as "an online service that provides access to real-time, shared and persistent 3D space simulations where we can live immersive experiences together".
This definition places the virtual experience at the heart of the matter. However, virtual reality headsets are still little used and have obvious limitations (cost, autonomy, weight). In a desire for inclusion, the major players present a metaverse that is accessible via a virtual reality headset, but also from a browser or a mobile application. While immersion is necessary according to some actors, according to others it would be a brake on the democratization of the metaverse.
An example of a metaverse: Roblox.
An example of a metaverse: Roblox
To date, several hundred metaverses can be identified, and the largest (Roblox, Second Life, Zepeto, Minecraft, Fortnite) have millions of users. The colossal numbers that we see circulating are inflated by the success of massively multiplayer online gaming. However, one may wonder if the latter can be considered metaverse. This issue needs to be discussed, especially since some articles have highlighted the very low participation of platforms regularly cited as metaverse (Decentraland, The Sandbox). Although these numbers have been contradicted, we are not reaching the level of engagement we were hoping for.
What does metaverse success require?
Metaverse adoption is too slow for observers. Anticipation is high as big players showed up early and made a long-term bet. Despite the record high of 400 million monthly active users by 2022 (equivalent to the number of Internet users at the turn of the year 2000), mass adoption is a long way off. Recently at the DealBook Summit, Mark Zuckerberg hinted that the metaverse would not be profitable until 2030 at the earliest.
A study by Gartner shows that 25% of people will spend an hour a day in the metaverse by 2026. Its method bicycle hype (curve describing the development of a new technology) placed the metaverse as a new technology. It estimates that its productivity plateau will be reached in more than ten years.
Businesses looking for better productivity can be a key driver of adoption. A large number of players believe that the metaverse is about to revolutionize remote work. The health crisis has largely contributed to the acceleration of the adoption of this type of format. According to a Forrester report, at least three of the next four flagship solutions, Zoom, Slack, Webex and Google Apps, will add metaverse-like functionality by 2023. A recent PwC survey revealed that 51% of companies are in the process of integrating virtual reality in their strategy or have already integrated virtual reality in at least one industry. Institutions of higher education have also identified beneficial effects of the metaverse.
Technology usage patterns remind us of the importance of usability criteria as well as usability. To date, these have not really been fulfilled. The effort to enter the metaverse will no longer be a brake when our motivations are sufficient. For those who have taken the leap, Capgemini indicates that three-quarters still use it and will continue to do so.
Among the many conditions that allow the large-scale propagation of Metaverse, the following criteria are presented regularly.
The metaverse must be interoperable. This means that designers and platforms that enable the creation of virtual universes should rely on common protocols to make it easy to modify virtual space. Eventually, navigating from one site to another should be as simple as navigating from one web page to another. This work is ongoing with the efforts of the Open Metaverse Alliance (association based in Switzerland) or the Metaverse Standards Forum (industry consortium).
In order to achieve a satisfactory experience, it is essential to be able to benefit from an interaction in (almost) real time. The number of operations per second is a fundamental limit. Playback and timing of scenes depends on the technical performance. The Metaverse, in order to reach a large audience, will therefore have to rely on increasingly efficient technologies. This also raises the question of energy consumption in virtual universes. The latter will have to register as best as possible within the framework of digital sobriety.
Technological developments will also need to find solutions to reduce cybernetosis (a term adapted from motion sickness – a mismatch between visual perception and the vestibular system that generates motion sickness), which nearly 40% of users suffer from, as well as visual fatigue, muscle and mental strain. Similarly, theft of data, digital assets or breach of privacy due to security or ethical issues can lead to loss of trust among users and investors.
The tools must be more easily accessible without unnecessary complexity. It needs to be more intuitive to create a cryptocurrency wallet, buy NFTs and create virtual experiences.
An expected advance is the finer capture of our senses, including touch, smell and spatial sound. Haptic vests are starting to appear, helping to feel virtual interactions in the physical world. They allow, for example, to feel the sensation of the wind or even the rain. Omnidirectional mats allow you to run, swim and move around virtual universes with real movements.
Today, video games are a gateway to the metaverse, already winning over the youngest, but struggling to convince other audiences. The metaverse is in the hands of young people, as almost 51% of users in some virtual universes are under the age of 13. If the metaverse is regularly confronted with waves of skepticism, the new generation already seems immersed in the virtual universe and actively participates in its construction.
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Oregon State rewards Jonathan Smith with new deal after 9-3 season
Oregon State coach Jonathan Smith has agreed to a new six-year contract, the school announced Sunday.
Smith's deal comes after leading the Beavers to a 9-3 record and will include guaranteed compensation of $4.85 million annually, beginning March 1. It will increase by $100,000 each year, eventually landing at $30.6 million for the life of the contract.
"Coach Smith has taken the Oregon State football program to new heights, and we knew it was important to reward him and his staff to keep the momentum moving forward," Beavers athletic director Scott Barnes said in a statement. "The success they've achieved on the football field has been evident, and Coach's Smith leadership and the work of his staff also has changed the culture of the program in the classroom, the weight room and the community."
Oregon State, which will take on Florida (6-6) on Saturday in the SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl, is Smith's first head-coaching position after a quick climb through the ranks as an offensive assistant elsewhere.
Smith, 43, who played quarterback at Oregon State from 1998 to 2001, coached quarterbacks at Idaho before graduating to offensive coordinator at Montana. He settled back into a quarterbacks coach role at Boise State before landing the offensive coordinator position at Washington. He was hired to run the Beavers' program in 2018.
With the exception of the COVID-19-shortened season of 2020, Smith's teams showed progress in victories from one year to the next. In 2018, the Beavers stumbled to a 2-10 finish before a 5-7 2019 campaign gave way to the shortened 2-5 season. Last year, the Beavers finished 7-6 and lost their bowl game. This season, they reached nine wins with an emotional victory in the regular-season finale against rival Oregon.
"The program is in a way better place, so it is really meaningful," Smith said in advance of this season's senior day. "I can't list all of them right now, but I just think about some of these guys that have done some really special things and worked at it."
As a player, Smith was under center for one of the more memorable offenses in 2000. A junior at the time, Smith led the Beavers to an 11-1 record and a No. 4 finish in the final Associated Press Top 25 poll. The high-flying offense also featured wide receivers Chad Johnson and T.J. Houshmandzadeh, who both graduated to the NFL. That team ended its run with a 41-9 victory over Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl. Smith was named the game's MVP.
"I want to thank Scott Barnes and the Oregon State administration for continuing to support this football program and everyone who works tirelessly for our student-athletes and all of Beaver Nation," Smith said in a statement Sunday. "We are proud of what has been accomplished, but the work is not done and we'll continue to put in the effort and do it the right way."
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Category / slashers
04 03 2015 by flares
There's No Place Like Elm Street
film, film reviews, films, Horror, horror films, slasher films, slashers
1991 films, Film, film reviews, films, horror, horror films, nightmare on elm street, Rachel Talalay
"Welcome to Prime Time, bitch."
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (Rachel Talalay, 1991)
Popular culture relies on repetition with difference and there is perhaps no subgenre that is quite so repetitive as the slasher – the crime in the past, the discrete/isolated setting, the gender ambiguous and curiously mobile villain and their double the gender ambiguous final girl, the increasing number of unmissed teen victims… and every so often one has to find a new set of teens to slash and eventually decided that an origin myth is needed. Or another origin myth.
What's new about this film? It's directed by a woman. This shouldn't be an issue but there aren't a whole lot of female directors for some reason. There's an unfortunate almost collision between the bitch allusion title screen and this being A Rachel Talalay Film. I'd noticed the b-word being thrown around in the previous film and the language here is sweary. Talalay had been production manager on the first two Nightmare films, went on to Tank Girl (1995) and has reached the giddy heights of directing two Doctor Who episodes.
So, all the teenage kids of those who killed Freddy being killed, Krueger has now gone after all the other teens in town, with only one left in Springfield (was the town named before? I'm not sure.) The last teenager is escaping by plane, John Doe (Shon Greenblatt, how about that for Renaissance self-fashioning) and finds himself sucked out through a hole in the roof before awaking in a house that is in midair á la Wizard of Oz. Never knowingly underplaying a reference, Krueger (Robert Englund) does his wacky witch impression. Doe, having left the house next to the Thompson's, in knocked out and amnesiac on the outskirts of town. Just as the manner of the killings in inexplicable save in terms of spectacle, so his survival is inexplicable, although this lacks spectacle.
Doe is taken to that other space that ideology send those who have not fitted into bourgeois family, the children's home, home to the hearing impaired Carlos (Ricky Dean Logan), the drug-using Spencer (Breckin Meyer) and the sexually-abused Tracy (Lezlie Dean). One of the case worker, Maggie (Lisa Zane), with nightmares of her own, takes Doe back into town with the three teens stowing away. It turns out that there are no teens in town — the children's home has missed this somehow — and, even worse, Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold cameo.
Freddy is back, clearly, with thus four more potential victims, but it is a sign of the depths to which the series has sunk that Carlos being stalked without hearing aid is played for laughs rather than menace. Johnny Depp, cameoing from the first film, gets to do an anti drugs message, the height of hypocrisy on the part of the film on acknowledging its post-Craven conservatism. Back at the home, no one seems to have heard of the three teens and Yaphet Kotto brings a much needed gravitas to the film as someone who tries to control his dream.
Unmentioned in the earlier films, it now turns out that Freddie had a child who was taken away from him and is part of the reason he is behaving so badly. Talk about over determination. The answer is to travel into hell and 3D effects and bring him back into reality where he can be killed. But by now we know that that second death is impossible — any death is temporary when it suits the plot. Or the studio, for that matter. Watch this space for daddy's return.
Alice Doesn't Sleep Here Anymore
1989 films, eighties, film, film reviews, films, slasher films, slashers
1989 films, film reviews, films, horror, horror films, neoconservatism, nightmare on elm street, slasher films, slashers, stephen hopkins
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (Stephen Hopkins, 1989)
Popular culture relies on repetition with difference and there is perhaps no subgenre that is quite so repetitive as the slasher – the crime in the past, the discrete/isolated setting, the gender ambiguous and curiously mobile villain and their double the gender ambiguous final girl, the increasing number of unmissed teen victims… By now we're onto a new generation of teens — Alice (Lisa Wilcox) has been handed the baton — and since the opening sequence is a blue-tinted* sex scene with Dan (Dan Hassel) you can do your own double entendres. You'd think this would mark her for death and when she jumps in the shower that seems to be her fate, only she becomes part of a more complicated dream sequence.
There's this thing in Jacques Lacan about being between two deaths and the impossibility of the second death. It's a variant on what is called the death drive, although the death instinct is a better translation. Nature, according to Sade according to Lacan, demands a total anihilation. Everything must return to dust. Lacan discusses Antigone, who is bricked up alive for the crime of burying her dead brother when this was expressly forbidden (and also she's being made to carry the can for her dad Oedipus' shenanigans). Bro had not had the proper rites read and thus his soul cannot rest — he needs the right rites. Antigone is a kind of Schrödinger's heroine.
Think of all those horror films when characters have been buried alive or put to death with some kind of curse or rite. Some idiot comes along and reads the rite and brings them back — the undead being then seeks revenge. The only way to sort things is out — having read the wrong rites — read the right rites, right? But you never know when someone else will come along and read them again.
So here, as the cast point out twice, Freddy Krueger has murdered children and been burnt alive, without a proper burial. His spirit cannot rest and seeks revenge until the rites are read — in Part III. Of course, Jason the dog comes along and pisses on the corpse — writing being much the same as pissing*** — and brings him back until the rites are read again in the form of the climax to Part IV. But that second death remains impossible. Freddy continues to go after Alice's friends in baroque ways and has Dan in his sights.
Of course, he's not the only one unshrived. Agnes Krueger, his nun mother, had been raped by lunatics at the asylum and sought peace through the end of her son in Part III. We see her haunting — even though we've also seen a gravestone. There is still unfinished business clearly. The mother — a distant relation of Mrs Vorhees, one assumes — is now the double to Alice as the latter finds herself pregnant with, presumably, Dan's child. Paradoxically this makes her safer, as Freddy is using her foetus's dreams to come back. Abortion is rejected as an option, however. Meanwhile, in dreams, Dan/Freddy seem to merge and the transformation of Freddy from bogeyman to father figure continues. (The following year, of course, Edward Scissorhands emerges as tragic hero.)
Theory aside, the film is visually impressive — with some of the dream sequences channelling M.C. Escher. The comic geek Mark Grey (Joe Seeley) seems to have reacted to nominative determinism by wearing rainbows — which one might assume was indexical of his sexuality, but for his desire for supposed potential supermodel Greta (Erika Anderson). Before we can say, "beard", we can admire the transition from live action to comic books, but the duel rapidly turns silly. But then, of course, most of this is about the spectacle.
[I'll paste in the Lacan reference later]
* Or white/gold.**
** This "joke" will make little sense sooner or later. It's something about a dress and colour perception.
*** Especially when snow is involved. Cf. the excuse "I'm writing my name in Narnia."
The Dream of Solidarity
1987 films, film reviews, films, horror films, slasher films, slashers
1987 films, Chuck Russell, film reviews, films, neoconservatism, nightmare on elm street, slashers, Wes craven
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part III (Chuck Russell, 1987)
Popular culture relies on repetition with difference and there is perhaps no subgenre that is quite so repetitive as the slasher – the crime in the past, the discrete/isolated setting, the gender ambiguous and curiously mobile villain and their double the gender ambiguous final girl, the increasing number of unmissed teen victims… A Nightmare on Elm Street Part III (Chuck Russell, 1987) sees Wes Craven's return to the franchise, along with Nancy (Heather Lagenkamp) and Donald Thompson (John Saxon). Craven's initial suggestion was for the film to be about a supernatural menace on the set of a slasher movie, but clearly that would never fly. Instead the scene shifts to an asylum.
As the first two films in the franchise show, the most significant ideological crucible of youth is the family home, followed closely by the school. For those who don't conform there is a fate worse than death — the army, the police station (and cells), the prison, the hospital, the asylum. In the construction of the norm as sane, law-abiding, healthy, clean, heterosexual, there are heterotopias to which the abnormal may be exiled. Here we have a group of traumatised teens, all children of Krueger's killers, fearful of sleeping lest he come after them. Nancy arrives to help them, suggesting they band together to fight back.
Each of the teens has their own secret identity, their ego ideal to fight against Freddy's id, and at times it is unclear whether the film is laughing at or with them. Meanwhile a doctor (Neil Gordon (Craig Wasson)) and an ex-cop (Saxon) act as policing forces to give Krueger's corpse a proper burial with what will pass for a proper rite.
There's a moral here about collectivity and solidarity, although perhaps this can still be seen as trumped by patriarchy, whether in the form of the good doctor or the bad father who needs to be redeemed.


Landscaping with food is beautiful as it is useful. Why plant poisonous ornamental flowers, trees, and shrubs, when you can have the same beauty with the added nutritional benefits of edible landscaping? You can easily reduce living expenses, while beautifying your environment with these edible landscaping ideas. And don't forget: edible landscaping is both physically and mentally beneficial.
Edible landscaping is a creative approach to beautification that includes all forms of edible plants: trees, shrubs, and even herbs. With an edible landscape, parents are free to let their young ones wonder about and be their normal curious selves.
With the pressures of today's economy, it's no wonder landscaping with food has a distinct appeal because of the potential savings it offers. People are always looking for creative ways to cut costs and increase their income.
With the right selection of edible plants, fruit trees and herbs, your landscape will provide for the needs of you or your family. You'll now enjoy yummy fruits, vegetables and herbs you no longer have a need to purchase. You can also sell some of your extra produce for additional income.
Surprisingly, edible gardening has a positive effect on the human body: both physically and mentally. The delight of sitting under a fruit tree, eating freshly picked fruit on a sunny day cannot be easily mimicked. To say the least, it is priceless.
The health benefits of eating fresh organic fruit are well known. By cooking with natural herbs and spices picked fresh each day as meals are prepared, you replace processed salts and seasonings and help reduce high blood pressure.
Planting a food garden provides positive mental stimulation through several senses: your eyes, ears, and certainly your nose.
Here are some of my favorite flowering herbs.
Edible landscaping is the green approach to outdoor beautification: it has amazing benefits for the environment as well as for people. Having a splash of bright red, yellow and green apples dazzling your horizon complemented by the scent of your rosemary bush could only make you smile after a long hard day.
With edible landscaping, you not only stretch your dollar, but you could also create an income, while improving your health. It is possible to create a stimulating and vibrant environment full of so many different colors and sweet aromas.
Chives are great in salads or as garnish in soups and other foods.
Rose hip is great for jelly and the berries make delicious tea. It's good for your health, just like these plants.
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Ibrahim Khadra
Country of residence : United Kingdom
Ibrahim Khadra (born 3 May 1981 in the Gaza Strip) is a Palestinian journalist who currently works as a correspondent for beIN Sports in the United Kingdom, covering the latest Premier League news. Prior to joining beIN Media Network; Ibrahim went through a number of experiments with other international channels, especially the BBC.
Ibrahim Khadra was born on the morning of May 3, 1981 in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, and his origins go back to the city of Ashkelon in the northern Gaza Strip, from which his grandparents sought refuge in the Strip after the 1948 war. Ibrahim grew up and grew up in Gaza and witnessed a number of wars launched by the Israeli occupation on the Strip. In spite of that, he completed his primary, secondary, and university studies at Al-Azhar University in Gaza, where he obtained a BA in Computer Science.
Parallel to his studies; Ibrahim was a player with the Gaza Youth Sports Club and graduated with him until he reached the first team before he moved to defend the colors of the Al-Abbas Mosque Club, with which he shone remarkably, but his football career stopped after he left Palestine towards the countries of the European continent to search for better life opportunities.
Ibrahim Khadra started his career early, initially appearing on Palestine TV as a reporter and presenter of various segments in social programs aimed at addressing university youth issues. Later, he obtained a travel visa that enabled him to head to Moscow to work with Russia Today, which had announced its launch a short time ago. Ibrahim succeeded with the Russian channel, as he presented a series of news reports from his idea, in which he talked about the lives of Arabs and Muslims in the Russian Federation. Day after day; Khadra was able to impose himself, which prompted the channel to promote it and make it a major news presenter, in addition to conducting a number of interviews and press dialogues, on top of which was a special meeting with the then Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sana'a. Ibrahim also covered the issue of maritime piracy off the Somali coast, and a series of other reports reflecting Political, cultural and social life in the state of Yemen.
Ibrahim traveled to London at a later time to work with the prestigious BBC network and began his official work there by preparing a report on what was known at the time as the "Gaza Appeal" to collect donations for the benefit of the Palestinian people in the Strip. During his stay in the UK and in conjunction with his work at the BBC; Ibrahim Khadra joined the Faculty of Humanities to specialize more in the political field, and later studied at a special faculty of languages to learn new languages besides Arabic, his mother tongue, English, as well as Russian.
Later Ibrahim joined Al Jazeera Sports Channel with its old name and started his work there as a news and programs editor. He remained with the channel, which later developed itself and changed its name to the beIN Media Network and succeeded in obtaining new contracts for major European leagues, led by the English Premier League, and appointed Ibrahim as a correspondent for the channel there, so that the Palestinian journalist became one of the network's most prominent correspondents in the United Kingdom. Khadra is now covering all the news related to the Premier League, including exclusive and live coverage of matches, especially the big ones, in addition to the rest of the transfer news, contracts and more. Khadra's work in the channel is not limited to the English Premier League matches, but extends to the rest of the international competitions and competitions, where Ibrahim periodically participates in their coverage, including the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, as well as the 2018 World Cup in Russia and other continental competitions of all kinds.


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Eur J Pain. 2015 Sep;19(8):1095-100. doi: 10.1002/ejp.632. Epub 2014 Nov 20.
Use of prescribed opioids by children and adolescents: Differences between Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Mahic M1, Fredheim OM2,3,4, Borchgrevink PC2,3, Skurtveit S1,5.
Department of Pharmacoepidemiology, Division of Epidemiology, The Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.
Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
National Competence Centre for Complex Symptom Disorders, Department of Pain and Complex Disorders, St. Olav's University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.
Department of Palliative Medicine, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway.
Norwegian Centre for Addiction Research, University of Oslo, Norway.
There are few studies on the use of opioids among children and adolescents. The aim of this study was to determine the 1-year prevalence of prescribed opioid dispensing in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and to compare gender and age differences in the use of weak and strong opioids between the three countries.
Data on the dispensing of opioids were collected from the websites of the complete national prescription databases in the three countries. All individuals aged 0-19 with at least one prescription of opioids during the study period were included.
The 1-year prevalence of opioid use among young individuals aged 0-19 years increased during the study period (2006-2012) in Denmark from 2.5 to 3.4 per thousand, in Norway from 10.7 to 13.4 per thousand and in Sweden from 5.9 to 7.1 per thousand. In all three countries, more boys than girls used opioids between the ages of 0 and 10, whereas girls were the major users in the age range 11-19. Use of opioids in all three countries was dominated by weak opioids, codeine being the most dominant in Norway and Sweden and tramadol in Denmark.
The 1-year prevalence of prescribed opioid use among children and adolescents in Norway was far higher than in Denmark and Sweden. During the study period, an increasing use of opioids among children and adolescents was observed in all three countries.
© 2014 European Pain Federation - EFIC®
10.1002/ejp.632
Analgesics, Opioid/therapeutic use*
Denmark/epidemiology
Drug Prescriptions/statistics & numerical data*
Drug Utilization
Norway/epidemiology
Sweden/epidemiology
Analgesics, Opioid


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Information about applying and getting a student or exchange visa.
Amongst the U.S non-immigrant visas, student and exchange visas are also very demanded. Educational qualifications in the U.S are highly prestigious and this makes students across the world want to attend U.S institutions.
The United States visa system is very specific and detailed, categorizing every type of foreigners that wish to enter the country according to their purpose of entry.
The main condition to apply for such a visa, is that the applicant must already be accepted into one of the above mentioned educational institutions. And also proof that he or she has strong ties with his / her country and does not intend to further stay in the US upon graduation.
Citizens coming from countries that are part of the Visa Waiver Program also need an F-1 visa in order to be allowed to study in the US.
As per every other type of visa, there are some special requirements of the F-1 visa too, which the applicant must fulfil in order to be able to obtain a study visa in the US.
As aforementioned, the applicant must be accepted at an educational institution in order to be able to obtain the visa. Moreover, that institution must be accepted by the Student Exchange Visitor Program, which lists the schools, universities and other institutions that meet the conditions to accept international students.
Therefore, before applying at an educational institution, check if it qualifies under the SEVP.
You will have to prove that you have strong ties with your home country. If you have a family, partner / fiance / spouse, job, children, property in your home country, it will be easier for you to prove that you do not plan to remain in the US after you graduate.
You must show proof that you will have sufficient funds to cover your financial needs during your stay in the US. This could be a bank statement or if you have already won a scholarship which will partially / fully cover your needs you should submit evidence to prove that too.
You cannot attend a US educational institution if you aren't proficient in English. Therefore, you must prove language proficiency by taking standardized English proficiency tests such as the TOEFL or the IELTS.
You can apply for an F-1 Visa 120 days prior to the start of your program, and no earlier.
Duly complete the DS-160 form online with the necessary information about your visa status.
You have to pay $160 for the F-1 student visa fee. Keep the receipt you get because you will need it later.
Your university will register you at the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) upon your admission. You will have to pay the SEVIS I-901 fee, which costs $200 for the F-1 visa.
Schedule an interview as soon as possible, collect the required documents and show up at the embassy or consulate on time. During the interview with the consular officer, he will ask you questions to try to find out whether you intend to return to your home country upon your graduation or not.
Any other course which is considered vocational.
The requirements are just the same as for the F-1 Visa.
Firstly, the applicant must be accepted at an institution that offers vocational courses that is under the Student Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP).
The applicant must have a high English proficiency and capable to financially maintain himself / herself during the whole stay in the US.
Again, the applicant must prove having very strong ties with his / her home country and has no intention of remaining in the US after graduation.
The M-1 visa application process is similar to that for F-1 visa as well. The applicant must submit the DS-160 form online and pay the visa fee which is again $160 and the SEVIS I-901 fee which is $200.
The applicant has to schedule an interview, collect the required document and show up at the embassy or consulate on the interview day.
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Those who come to the US under this visa program cannot bring dependents to the US.
The Q-1 visa or else known as a Visa for Participants in an International Cultural Exchange Program, which gives the opportunity to adult internationals to come work and train in the US and also the opportunity to share their culture and traditions with people in the US.
Since the Q-1 visa programs are administered by USCIS, all procedures must go through USCIS. There is no cap for the Q-1 visa, therefore the applicant only has to fulfil the criteria to be eligible to get the visa.
The application process for a Q-1 visa includes both the applicant and the sponsor again. The process must be initiated by the sponsor who has to get e permission from the USCIS to hire the visa applicant.
The applicant must submit the form DS-160, and pay the application fee of $190. An interview must be scheduled as soon as possible. The applicant must show up at the embassy or consulate with the required documents.
The validity for a Q-1 visa is 15 months at most. However, if you have received a visa for a shorter period of time, once in the US, you and your sponsor can apply to get it extended. After 15 months you must return to your home country and you cannot apply for another Q-1 visa for another 1 year.
The Q-1 visa holder cannot bring dependents with to the US.


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The Repercussions of Not Outsourcing Workplace Investigations: Two Case Studies
July 1, 2019 jobfinder Case, Investigations, Outsourcing, Repercussions, Studies, Workplace
As misconduct scandals involving high-profile persons within blue-chip organizations continue to proliferate, companies are scrambling to keep up with the rapidly changing ideas around how to handle workplace misconduct.
Whereas misconduct investigations were once the work of low- or mid-level HR generalists, they now demand much higher degrees of attention, care, and independence. Current best practices dictate these investigations be conducted by neutral third-parties unaffiliated with the organization.
Below are two real-life case studies in which organizations mistakenly attempted to conduct workplace investigations internally. The highly damaging consequences resulting from this decision in each case should give any organization considering an internal investigation reason to reconsider.
Case Study No. 1: A Prominent Face of the #MeToo Movement Comes Under Fire
On March 11, 2019, Politico reported that, in the summer of 2018, a female aide resigned from the office of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand — an outspoken supporter of the #MeToo movement — in protest over how Gillibrand's staff had handled her sexual harassment complaint.
The aide alleged that Gillibrand's personal driver had repeatedly made unwelcome sexual advances toward her and had made inappropriate remarks about other female staffers. The aide claimed that when she complained to her supervisor about the behavior, a sham of an internal investigation was conducted by members of Gillibrand's own staff. The investigation resulted in a demotion for the driver, which the aide felt did not adequately address her concerns.
Additionally, the aide who complained of the behavior had recommended that former female staffers who had also been sexually harassed by the driver be interviewed as part of the investigation. However, Gillibrand's staff never spoke to these women. Moreover, the relationship between Gillibrand and the driver accused of harassment was a close one, which created concerns among some of Gillibrand's staff members as to whether the investigation was truly fair and impartial.
The aide resigned soon after the investigation was concluded, and she sent a sharp and pointed letter to Gillibrand herself, excoriating her for publicly presenting herself as a defender of women while allowing harassment to exist within her own workplace.
Publications like the Washington Post labeled Gillibrand a hypocrite and questioned her commitment to the #MeToo movement. All told, this case study is a high-stakes example of the damage that can result from not outsourcing employee misconduct investigations.
Case Study No. 2: Decades of Student Abuse at Ohio State University
On May 17, 2019, Ohio State University (OSU) announced the results of an independent investigation conducted after a former OSU student athlete alleged that former university doctor Richard Strauss had sexually abused him and other athletes while they were students at the school. To date, more than 170 former students have come forward to make similar allegations against Strauss.
The independent investigation, conducted by an outside law firm, spent a great deal of time analyzing a prior investigation conducted in 1994 by OSU's director of sports medicine into sexual abuse allegations against Strauss at that time. The 1994 investigation concluded the allegations were unfounded, although the evidence is now irrefutable that Strauss had been abusing young men at the school for at least a decade by that point. The person who conducted the 1994 investigation was a colleague of Strauss's. The two had worked together for many years.
Whether due to a lack of investigative expertise or the workings of internal campus politics, the 1994 investigation was erroneous and hugely damaging. The incorrect conclusion drawn from that investigation allowed Strauss to continue his disturbing and abusive behavior for years afterward.
These real-life case studies should show the danger of not outsourcing employee investigations. Internally conducted investigations can fail for a wide range of reasons, from lack of know-how to the influence of personal relationships between investigators and the accused.
Mishandled investigations not only allow for misconduct to persist, but they can also erode employees' trust in organizational leaders. This, in turn, damages employee morale and increases turnover rates, as more employees will begin to search for healthier workplace environments.
Additionally, poorly handled investigations can open organizations up to significant legal liabilities. For the safety of both the organization and its employees, it is best to let misconduct investigations be handled by independent third-party investigators.
KiaRoberts, JD, is the founder and principal of Triangle Investigations.
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Report Scores America's Biggest Restaurant Chains On Antibiotic Use In Food
By Sandee LaMotte, CNN October 31, 2019 at 10:48 am
Filed Under:Antibiotics, CNN
(CNN) — Many of our favorite fast food and restaurant chains continue to contribute to the growing threat of antibiotic resistance, according to a report released Thursday by advocacy groups.
The World Health Organization calls the development of bacteria that can't be killed by some of our current medicines "one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and development today."
Fifteen of America's favorites received an "F" for their lack of action in reducing the use of beef raised with antibiotics, including Burger King, DQ, Jack In the Box, Pizza Hut, Olive Garden, Chili's, Sonic, Applebee's and the pizza chains of Domino's, Little Caesars and Pizza Hut.
Only Chipotle and Panera Bread, who were early leaders in using only antibiotic-free beef and chicken, received an "A."
This is the fifth year that six public interest groups have graded the 25 largest US fast food chains on where they stand on antibiotics. The report, called Chain Reaction V, focuses on antibiotic use in both poultry and beef food items.
Antibiotics are routinely given to animals to keep them healthy while they fatten up for slaughter. In fact, nearly two-thirds of the medically important antibiotics sold in the US go to food animals.
When antibiotics are overused, some bacteria learn to survive, multiply, and share their resistance genes with other bacteria even if those have not been exposed. Those so-called "superbugs" enter our system when we eat undercooked meat or veggies that have been exposed to irrigation water contaminated with animal waste.
And suddenly, antibiotics that once cured our infections no longer do their job.
Despite the severity of the problem, the US lacks appropriate laws to regulate overuse of antibiotics in our food chain. Thus advocacy groups have turned to some of the largest buyers of raw beef and chicken — restaurants — and asked them to use their purchasing power to force change.
Fewer antibiotics in chicken we eat
And it works. A huge success story over the past five years is the reduction of chicken raised with antibiotics in many of our favorite restaurants, said Lena Brook, director of food campaigns for the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the groups who sponsor the study. Others include Consumer Reports, the Milken Institute School for Public Health and the Center for Food Safety.
According to the report, 90% of the chickens raised last year received no medically important antibiotics. Compare that to 2014, when "nearly half of the nine billion broiler chickens produced in the US annually were raised on a full array of antibiotics, including medically important drugs," the report stated.
For consumers, that means antibiotic-free chicken is served in 13 of the 25 restaurants included in the study, including such heavy hitters as Chick-fil-A, KFC, McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's.
Four more restaurants are on their way to keeping their commitment to serve antibiotic-free chicken. However, eight restaurants still have no policy in place.
The early push by Chipotle Mexican Grill and Panera Bread, followed by Chick-fil-A, McDonald's and Subway, began a domino effect that encouraged major chicken supply companies to get on board, the report said.
"In spring of 2015 Purdue and then Tyson made a really big splash when they committed to limiting antibiotic use in their chicken suppliers and they're two of the five largest chicken companies in the country," Brook said. "So now we're looking for that kind of shift in the beef industry."
High use of antibiotics in beef
It's only the second year that the report has focused on beef, but some progress has been made. As in past years, the only two As were awarded to Chipotle Mexican Grill and Panera Bread.
The two chains have consistently stood above the rest by making sure that the beef, poultry and pork used in their foods are raised without antibiotics.
Despite their success with chicken, most of the top burger chains and restaurants, such as Burger King, DQ and Jack in the Box, failed to take any action to reduce the use of beef raised on antibiotics in their supply chains. Others didn't respond to the survey at all, just like last year.
Subway and McDonald's received a "C" for making a commitment to begin the process of using antibiotic-free beef in their food items.
Having a major player like McDonald's announcing they plan to create a comprehensive antibiotic use reduction policy is a "gamechanger," the report said.
"They're one of the largest beef buyers in the world," Brook said. "So if they do this right, they're going to have a critical impact not only in the United States, but in lots of places around the world in reforming antibiotic use practices."
McDonald's is in the pilot phase of their commitment, Brook said, with plans to announce reduction targets by the end of 2020. The promise to act jumped their score from an "F" to a "C."
Taco Bell, another big buyer of beef, said it would cut 25% of medically important antibiotics in their beef supply chain by 2025. That underwhelming commitment got them a "D" for minimal effort.
"We would love to see such a modest commitment be implemented faster," Brook said. "Six years feels like a long time to wait for a mere 25% reduction."
Wendy's received a "D+" for a confusing promise to act that didn't really accomplish much, Brook said.
"They're cutting one drug by 20% in less than a third of their beef supply. This is taking token steps to address the problem," Brook said. "We're really worried that Wendy's is greenwashing, or giving lip service to an environmental action so their company looks better.
"The fact remains other companies are figuring it out," she added. "So we know it's doable, and given the gravity of the threat posed by the antibiotic resistance crisis, there really is no excuse for inaction."
CNN reached out to all of the restaurants mentioned in the report. Subway said it had no comment at this time. Domino's Pizza sent a statement saying they believed in letting farmers and ranchers raise the animals, although "they do have a number of internal policies that we don't currently post publicly; nor do we engage in unsolicited surveys."
Panda Express told CNN they had added two menu items using antibiotic-free chicken and were working to add more such individual items to their menu.
Dine Brands, which owns Applebee's and IHOP, said that "in 2018 we made significant strides in reducing the routine use of medically important antibiotics in both poultry and pork and began work to address our beef supply in 2019 … unfortunately, Chain Reaction's questionnaire timing precluded us from reporting this work."
In a statement supplied to CNN, Keith Kenny, global vice president of McDonald's Sustainability, said: "Through our latest commitment, we are proud to work with our beef supply chain around the world to accelerate the responsible use of antibiotics, while continuing to look after the health and welfare of the animals in our supply chain."
None of the other restaurants responded before the publication of this story.
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Lawyers Judging Experts: Oversimplifying Science and Undervaluing Advocacy to Construct an Ethical Duty?
My focus is on an apparent trend at the intersection of the fields of evidentiary standards for expert admissibility and professional responsibility, namely the eagerness to place more ethical responsibilities on lawyers to vet their proffered expertise to ensure its reliability. My reservations about this trend are not only based on its troubling implications for the lawyer's duty as a zealous advocate, which already has obvious limitations (because of lawyers' conflicting duties to the court), but are also based on the problematic aspects of many reliability determinations. To expect attorneys - and this is what the proponents of a duty to vet experts expect - to do sufficient scientific research to create their own reliability controversy, make a determination as to the ultimate reliability of their own experts, and face ethical sanctions if they err is going too far. While it is easy to choose examples that support a compelling argument for a responsibility to vet experts, the complexity of the scientific enterprise, in terms of its diverse methodologies, probabilistic conclusions, and genuine scientific disagreements, counsels against a broad, new ethical duty. Indeed, some of the arguments for that new duty seem to rest on unrealistic assumptions about science and the ease with which reliability determinations can be made. Moreover, a broad duty to vet experts would represent a serious and problematic departure from the lawyer's role as an advocate.


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File photo: A female worker walks with a pesticide sprayer on her back at a palm oil plantation, in Sumatra on September 8, 2018 Twitter
Many beauty and personal goods companies have largely remained silent when it comes to the plight of female workers
The 16-year-old girl describes how her boss raped her amid the tall trees on an Indonesian palm oil plantation that feeds into some of the world's best-known cosmetic brands. He then put an ax to her throat and warned her: Do not tell.
At another plantation, a woman named Ola complains of fevers, coughing and nose bleeds after years of spraying dangerous pesticides with no protective gear.
These are the invisible women of the palm oil industry, among the millions of daughters, mothers and grandmothers who toil on vast plantations across Indonesia and neighboring Malaysia, which together produce 85% of the world's most versatile vegetable oil, reports UNB citing AP.
Palm oil is found in everything from potato chips and pills to pet food, and also ends up in the supply chains of some of the biggest names in the $530 billion beauty business, including L'Oréal, Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Avon and Johnson & Johnson, helping women around the world feel pampered and beautiful.
The Associated Press conducted the first comprehensive investigation focusing on the brutal treatment of women in the production of palm oil, including the hidden scourge of sexual abuse, ranging from verbal harassment and threats to rape. It's part of a larger examination that exposed widespread abuses in the two countries, including human trafficking, child labor and outright slavery.
The AP interviewed more than three dozen women and girls from at least 12 companies across both countries. Because previous reports have resulted in retaliation against workers, they are being identified only by partial names or nicknames.
Situation in Malaysia and Indonesia
The Malaysian government said it had received no reports about rapes on plantations, but Indonesia acknowledged physical and sexual abuse appears to be a growing problem, with most victims afraid to speak out. Still, the AP was able to corroborate a number of the women's stories by reviewing police reports, legal documents, complaints filed with union representatives and local media accounts.
In both countries, the AP found generations of women from the same families who have served as part of the industry's backbone. Some started working as children alongside their parents, gathering loose kernels and clearing brush from the trees, never learning to read or write.
'He threatened to kill my whole family'
The 16-year-old girl who described being raped by her boss in 2017 said it happened when he took her to a remote part of the estate.
"He threatened to kill me," she said softly. "He threatened to kill my whole family."
Nine months later, she sat by a wrinkled 2-week-old boy. She made no effort to comfort him when he cried, struggling to even look at his face.
The family filed a report with police, but the complaint was dropped, citing lack of evidence.
The AP heard about similar cases on plantations big and small in both countries. Union representatives, health workers, government officials and lawyers said some of the worst examples they encountered involved gang rapes and children as young as 12 being taken into the fields and sexually assaulted by plantation foremen.
While Indonesia has laws in place to protect women from abuse and discrimination, Rafail Walangitan of the Ministry of Women Empowerment and Child Protection said he was aware of many problems identified by the AP on palm oil plantations, including child labor and sexual harassment.
Malaysia's Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development said it hadn't received complaints about the treatment of women laborers so had no comment.
Silence of beauty brands
Many beauty and personal goods companies have largely remained silent when it comes to the plight of female workers, but it's not due to lack of knowledge.
The powerful global industry group Consumer Goods Forum published a 2018 report alerting 400 CEOs that women on plantations were exposed to dangerous chemicals and "subject to the worst conditions among all palm oil workers."
Most cosmetic makers contacted by the AP defended their use of palm oil and its derivatives, with some attempting to show how little they use of the roughly 80 million tons produced annually worldwide. Others pointed to pledges on their websites about commitments to sustainability and human rights or to efforts to list their processing mills in the name of transparency.
The AP used US Customs records, product ingredient lists and the most recent published data from producers, traders and buyers to link the laborers' palm oil and its derivatives from the mills that process it to the supply chains of almost all big Western brands -- including some that source from plantations where women said they were raped.
Abuses were even linked to product lines sought out by conscientious consumers like Tom's of Maine and Kiehl's, through the supply chains of their giant parent companies Colgate-Palmolive and L'Oréal.
Coty Inc which owns CoverGirl, did not respond to multiple AP calls and emails. And Estee Lauder Companies Inc, owner of Clinique, Lancome and Aveda, refused to disclose which products use palm oil or its derivatives, but have acknowledged struggling with traceability issues in filings with a global certification association that promotes sustainable palm oil.
Both companies, along with Clorox, which owns Burt's Bees Inc, keep the name of their mills and suppliers secret. Clorox said it would raise the allegations of abuses with its suppliers, calling AP's findings "incredibly disturbing."
Some of the women on plantations regularly haul tanks of toxic chemicals on their backs weighing more than 13 kilograms, dispensing 80 gallons each day.
A number who use agrochemicals daily had milky or red eyes and complained of dizzy spells, trouble breathing and blurry vision. Activists reported that some totally lost their sight.
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