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Uganda's Transitional Justice Policy Development Process and the International Criminal Court
Saghar Birjandian
Apr 21 2020 • 496 views
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Critical studies of the International Criminal Court's (ICC) work in African contexts show that some of its personnel and proponents argue or assume that the Eurocentric international criminal justice system administers better justice for atrocity crimes than domestic courts and so-called 'alternative' responses (Nouwen, 2013). The justifications for this superior position often rely on the liberal underpinnings of the Court's mandate and how it does its work (Clark, 2018). African and non-African critics continuously expose and explicitly resist this form of cultural imperialism. However, when discussions about the ICC's work dominate a post-conflict state's public policy landscape or 'policyscape' (Sharp, 2019), it can implicitly undermine domestic processes working to address mass violence in contextually appropriate ways. A case in point is Uganda's National Transitional Justice Policy where the Government of Uganda (GoU) outlined various ongoing and anticipated legal and non-legal responses to address cycles of conflict in the country's turbulent history. The Court's intervention in this context preceded and coincided with the entirety of the transitional justice (TJ) policy development process (2008-2019).
In the broadest terms, TJ comprises 'a set of moral, legal, and political dilemmas involving how best to respond to mass atrocities and other forms of profound injustice in the wake of periods of conflict and repression.' (Sharp, 2018: 1) In the Ugandan context, critical commentators highlighted such dilemmas in relation to the Court's adverse effects on a number of alternatives. However, save for Anna MacDonald's rich empirical analysis, few commentators examine the adverse effects of the ICC's intervention on the state-led TJ policy development process specifically (MacDonald, 2016). As this article argues, the Court's intervention implicitly established the liberal peace as the teleology (i.e. assumed purpose) of Uganda's TJ Policy. The liberal peace framework referred to here assumes that increasing the number of societies that promote human rights, rule of law, democratic governance, and market driven development also increases the likelihood of finding peaceful solutions to domestic and international conflicts (Richmond and Franks, 2009: 3-4). Consequently, these parameters unjustifiably relegated certain conflict-related problems of crucial concern to many Ugandans as beyond the scope of TJ.
Among others, three major factors created the conditions where the ICC could help to produce this effect. First is the Court's symbolic role as a beacon of the so-called 'mainstream' approach to TJ. Second, is the self-ascribed or imposed position of the ICC in the infamous 'peace versus justice debate' where a series of academics and practitioners thoroughly discussed the legal, political, and moral dilemmas of sequencing TJ initiatives in Uganda. Third, these ICC-centred debates raised a number of liberal critiques about how justice ought to be administered for atrocity crimes as the most relevant TJ problems to address. This encouraged a technocratic approach to TJ strategy development, which in turn kept proponents and critics of the Court distracted from the liberal peace parameters limiting the scope of problems that benefited from public debate.
It is important to note here that my analysis is not meant to apportion blame to specific types of actors like 'international experts' or ICC personnel. Phil Clark, Sarah Nouwen and MacDonald provide persuasive evidenced-based accounts of how a range of other actors, particularly the Ugandan government, influenced the Court's intervention to their own ends. Instead, I highlight how ICC-centred debates in general narrowed the scope of conflict-related problems discussed in Uganda's TJ policyscape without this being a purposeful decision by Ugandans writ large. This ultimately undermined the national scope of the Policy and as mentioned limited the utility of public policy discussion on TJ. My analysis draws on three years of experience as a practitioner observing the height of Uganda's TJ policy development process and five years of in-depth empirical and secondary research analysing societal problems stemming from mass violence that require TJ response in this context.
The ICC as a Beacon of Mainstream Transitional Justice
In 2003, the Court operationalised itself in a landscape of international intervention promoting the 'rule of law' as a pillar of liberal democracy in conflict and post-conflict African contexts. The world witnessed a shift in international intervention in the nineties as the end of the Cold War encouraged bodies like the United Nations to promote western liberal democracy as the legitimate social order. Throughout this 'decade of international law', international tribunals were used to combat impunity for atrocity crimes across post-conflict contexts. In addition, international peacekeeping operations meant to maintain an absence of armed conflict evolved into a more robust peacebuilding apparatus where peace agreements and post-conflict development strategies commit so-called 'failed states' to liberal reforms (Paris, 2002; Sabaratnam, 2011). Representatives from the UN and the Court have openly expressed the ICC's central role in advancing this agenda in post-conflict settings (UNSC, 2004; UNGA, 2004).
Alongside the advent of the ICC, the TJ industry solidified itself through the establishment of various centres, non-government organisations, research programs, international conferences, and a reputable academic journal. A crucial part of the mainstream marketing scheme in the early 2000s was to disseminate how-to-guides and frameworks to help practitioners develop strategies under the rubric of "transitional justice". Consequently, there is a prevailing approach to defining TJ as the mainstream framework in the practical realm. This dominant framework takes for granted that the purpose of any TJ intervention is to further consolidate a liberal democratic social order. To achieve said ends, it promotes responses to human rights violations in line with certain themes, namely accountability, truth-seeking, reparations, and institutional reform. These 'themes' are often associated with ideal-type 'tools' such as trials, truth commissions, symbolic or material compensation schemes, and liberalising executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government, respectively. Although this menu offers an array of potential responses, the liberal underpinnings of this approach prioritizes 'accountability' as western-style investigations and prosecutions. As such, the ICC functions as a beacon of mainstream TJ in conflict and post-conflict settings, which is demonstrated in the context of the 'peace versus justice debate'.
The Normative Parameters Set by the Peace versus Justice Debate
The current GoU entered a hostile political environment in 1986 when it successfully seized state power using guerrilla tactics to liberate Ugandans from the tyranny of predecessor regime(s). There were many insurgent groups vying for political control at the time that continued to fight the newly installed National Resistance Movement. One of these groups was the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) that emerged from earlier insurgencies and coexisted with others. In this web of conflict between the state and different groups across the country, the LRA – operating predominately across northern Uganda – received the most international attention because of their extreme forms of violence against civilians.
The GoU referred the situation in northern Uganda to the ICC in 2003 as the atrocities across the north increased dramatically. After its preliminary investigations, the Court only issued five arrest warrants for senior leadership of the LRA even though state-military personnel also perpetrated similar crimes such as murder, rape, and torture. This step launched a global debate about the appropriateness of the ICC's intervention as critical commentators illustrated its adverse effects on establishing peace and administering comprehensive justice in this context. This would come to be known as the 'peace versus justice debate' where the ICC assumed the label of 'justice' and alternative responses were associated with 'peace'. Some commentators reject the peace versus justice dichotomy altogether as it fails to reflect how conflict-affected agents in Uganda interpret their experiences of violence and determine appropriate response (Porter, 2016). However for the discussion here, the binary helps to show where the narrow scope of problems prioritised in Uganda's TJ policyscape came from.
At least three prominent iterations of this debate produced the major liberal critiques that helped to implicitly established the liberal peace as the parameters for a legitimate TJ strategy. The first iteration juxtaposes the ICC as 'justice' on the one hand and amnesty as 'peace' on the other. The initial blanket amnesty program offered any Ugandan citizen that has participated in or waged an armed rebellion since 16 January 1986, the chance to voluntarily turn in their weapons and renounce their participation in such activities. In return, they are freed from the threat of prosecution and given a small resource package to help reintegrate back into the community (Amnesty Act, 2000; Clark, 2018: 193). This helped the GoU to pacify insurgents within and beyond the LRA's ranks. It was understood as a 'blanket' amnesty program as no conditions were placed on amnestied persons to undergo some kind of process where they are held 'accountable' for the harm they caused. For example, by confessing their wrongdoings or sharing information that unravels the truth of what happened. As the GoU considered whether to refer the situation to the Court, there was a growing concern about having a blanket amnesty program coexist with the ICC's arrest warrants for senior LRA commanders.
Proponents of the Court referred to Uganda's constitutional, regional, and international obligations to investigate and prosecute atrocity crimes, meaning that any amnesty program is insufficient (HRW, 2006). Critics raised concern as abolishing amnesty also meant depriving many loved ones that were forcibly recruited into the LRA using various forms of torture, their chance to return home (OHCHR, 2007). Among myriad views, the normative stance adopted by some mainstream proponents was if Uganda is to have any amnesty process, it should be 'conditional' (ASF, 2014). This was one way to ensure that Uganda fulfils its obligations to combat impunity for atrocity crimes as even if amnestied persons do not undergo prosecution, they can be held 'accountable' through participation in a prospective truth commission or so-called 'traditional justice mechanisms' (TJMs).
In the TJ discourse, TJMs often refer to a select few customary dispute resolution mechanisms that are depicted in ways that resemble western-style courtroom justice but with a stronger emphasis on restoring broken relationships between conflict parties. This iteration of the peace versus justice debate portrayed the ICC as a form of 'retributive justice' and 'justice' more broadly as it is associated with punishment. TJMs then assumed the label of 'restorative justice' and 'peace' in general terms. Proponents of TJMs argued that customary processes hold perpetrators accountable through public admissions of guilt, some form of material and/or symbolic compensation, and participation in cultural rituals that cleans residual effects of violence. Among many responses from mainstream proponents, a widely held normative stance in relation to TJMs is that if Uganda is to use these alternatives, then they must adhere to mainstream standards and norms. These standards essentially refer to international 'fair trial' procedures including witness and victim protection and respect for the rights of the accused, among others.
These first two iterations of the peace versus justice debate graphed onto the third and most prominent iteration, which pitted a negotiated peace settlement against the ICC, respectively. The peace talks between the GoU and LRA delegates started in 2006 and were held at Juba, southern Sudan. In the backdrop, there was a blanket amnesty process, TJMs increasingly being discussed as viable alternatives for accountability, and the ICC's pending arrest warrants. Critics raised concern that the outstanding warrants decreased conflict parties' trust in the negotiated peace process, particularly LRA delegates. However, proponents and critics seem to agree that initially, the warrants encouraged delegates from both sides to begin negotiating in the interest of finding internationally acceptable alternatives to the ICC (Birjandian, 2020). This is the entry point where the liberal critiques in the peace versus justice debate became the most pressing conflict-related problems for Ugandans to address through their TJ policy.
Establishing the Liberal Peace as the Purpose of Uganda's TJ Policy
The ongoing peace versus justice debates put significant pressure on the mediation team facilitating the Juba peace talks to insert an agenda item that specifically deals with 'accountability and reconciliation'. Although another agenda item on 'comprehensive solutions' seemed more important to delegates and many Ugandan observers, the agenda item on accountability received much more negotiation time (Gissel, 2017). The consequent Agreement on Accountability and Reconciliation (AAR) is predominately concerned with getting commitments from delegates – primarily the GoU – to recognize Uganda's obligations under the Constitution, the Rome Statute, and other international and regional agreements to ensure some form of redress for atrocity crimes. The amnesty program is not mentioned at all save for one sentence recognizing the capacity of the Amnesty Commission to implement certain parts of the agreement without reference to specific examples. TJMs are mentioned as one of many alternative justice mechanisms; 'alternative' to formal courts established under the Constitution. The major commitments in relation to TJMs is to modify these systems in accordance with the principles of the agreement. The majority of the AAR is dedicated to getting conflict parties to cooperate with 'formal' investigations and to commit the GoU to a series of liberal principles and norms in its approach to administering accountability.
The Annexure where more details about how to operationalise the commitments in the AAR were outlined does much of the same work. It goes further to mention establishing an international crimes division of Uganda's High Court and also commits the GoU to examining how TJMs work to identify their role and to factor in their impact on women and children. Commitments like these then became TJ policy problems primarily because mainstream proponents resourcing the policy development process (e.g. Development Partners Group) and the GoU treated the AAR as the appropriate launching pad for TJ.
For the first five years of the policy development process (2008-2013) government and non-government entities primarily conducted studies about the types of crimes committed during the LRA war and the associated effects on conflict-affected communities across the north. They also garnered citizens' views across the country about how to address the liberal critiques mentioned above. The findings of these studies showed a range of views in conflict-affected communities; some supporting liberal critiques for practical and moral reasons and other challenging them or deeming them irrelevant to their daily lives (Birjandian, 2020). A smaller drafting team within the fifty-member TJ Working Group housed at the Justice Law and Order Sector, drew from these policy studies to develop a working document for public scrutiny. From 2013 to 2015, the third, fourth, and fifth drafts were circulated among a network of TJ civil society organisations primarily based in Kampala and across the north. The fifth draft was the most widely disseminated and representative of the mainstream influence.
The fifth draft of the Policy addresses gross human rights abuses committed from 1986 to date. The first third provides a general background as a series of conflicts pre-and-post independence and outlines relevant domestic, regional, and international legal frameworks. The second third breaks down the problems requiring intervention into thematic areas namely, formal justice, traditional justice, truth telling, reparations, and amnesty. In relation to reparations the policy identifies institutional, legal, and policy gaps that need to be addressed. In relation to formal justice, truth telling, TJMs and amnesty, it mentions similar liberal critiques to those coming out of the peace versus justice debate. For example, it problematizes the lack of gender equity and human rights observance in traditional justice processes. The amnesty law was also problematized because it does not take 'into consideration the nature of crimes committed' (JLOS, 2013: 25). The last third then outlines measures for the GoU and non-government service providers to address the gaps and critiques in the previous section. For example, under formal justice, the government commits to enacting 'legislation on witness protection and victim participation' (JLOS, 2013: 28). Under traditional justice, the government commits to developing guiding principles and checks and balances; increasing the semblance of TJMs to formal courts. Under the amnesty section, the Policy states in bold letters that 'there shall be no blanket amnesty and Government shall encourage those amnestied, to participate in truth telling and traditional justice processes.' (JLOS, 2013: 30)
Even though each theme was significantly 'contextualised' by non-mainstream drafters of the policy, the themes themselves, the problems listed under them, and the responses in the last section reinforce that the implicit purpose of Uganda's TJ intervention is to further consolidate a liberal democracy. More overtly, the overall goal in the fifth draft is 'to enhance legal and political accountability, for gross human rights abuses and violations to promote reconciliation, foster social reintegration and contribute to peace and security.' (JLOS, 2013: 26) Central concepts in this goal like 'peace' and 'security' and the goal itself were not adequately debated in the TJ policyscape. Instead, their meanings were assumed or at best deduced from various policy studies and debates centred around the ICC and the technical issues of accountability. The irony of the Policy's limited purpose is that core conflict-related problems that move beyond liberal critiques were raised throughout the policy development process, but they were largely treated as the beyond the scope of TJ.
Missed Opportunities in Uganda's TJ Policy Development Process
A crucial missed opportunity is in relation to the discussions on 'comprehensive solutions' during the peace talks. The resultant Agreement on Comprehensive Solutions (ACS) identifies the lack of inclusiveness in government and regional disparities as core issues the GoU needs to address. These challenges have been identified by many Ugandans as causes and effects of atrocity violence since the colonial period. In a context where there is no regime change and the GoU is culpable for diverse forms of violence against its own population, government delegates taking responsibility for these wrongdoings is an underappreciated accomplishment of the Juba talks. In addition, lack of inclusive government could be interpreted as a violation of civil and political rights for certain portions of the population, which is a concern for mainstream TJ. However, because of ICC-centred debates, the societal problems discussed under 'comprehensive solutions' were treated as something separate from the technical issues of 'accountability'. Further evidence that the issues in the ACS are relevant is their inclusion in Uganda's National Policy on Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention, which was in part developed as a response to the perceived regional scope of the TJ policy. For example, it problematises the ethnicisation of politics, which is a fundamental cause and effect of violence during the colonial era and post-independence. But yet again, the issues in the Peace Policy were treated as beyond the scope of TJ without sufficient public deliberation. This leads us to the most crucial unaddressed tension in the TJ Policy: is the scope regional or truly national as the drafters intended?
The policy problems were primarily derived in relation to the LRA war and the liberal critiques in the peace versus justice debates. Consequently, the liberal peace implicitly defined the purpose of the Policy making the regional/national question unimportant as regardless of the scope, the mainstream's teleology remains the same. This unresolved tension makes it difficult to convince Ugandans writ large that the Policy is relevant to their diverse experiences of violence. Key figures in the drafting process such as Lyandro Komakech stated in retrospect, that a national conference after the Juba talks ended would have been a more appropriate departure point for the policy development process (Birjandian, 2020). In addition, civil society organisations produced materials and facilitated events that could have been used to give the policy the national framing many Ugandans desire. For example, Refugee Law Project's Compendium of Conflicts or African Youth Initiative Network's National War Victims Conference could have been effective launching pads for TJ problem-mapping. However, these materials and platforms only enriched the Policy's pre-existing framework as an outcome of the AAR.
The mainstream influence died down significantly in 2016 as the election cycle drew service providers' attention toward contemporary human rights issues. In addition, by this time, the LRA commander Dominic Ongwen's trial at the Hague showed Ugandans how limited the Court actually is in practical terms. By 2017, public engagement on TJ significantly subsided and drafts of the Policy circulated among parliamentarians and other decision-makers. The Ministry of Internal Affairs then helped to revise the draft before its anti-climactic adoption by Cabinet in June, 2019. Some notable changes that reinforce the limited scope of the fifth draft include the insertion of a foreword and a distinct problem statement explaining the Policy's national scope; deletion of any timeframe limiting the choice of relevant conflicts; and a change in the oversight mechanism from a prospective TJ Commission to the extant Amnesty Commission.
As the ICC is a beacon of the mainstream approach to TJ, it would be beneficial for commentators to substantively define the meaning of 'transition' in post-conflict contexts where the Court is active and a TJ strategy is being developed. However, to be effective, commentators should ideally generate a grounded definition of 'transition' in each case that reflects the social change conflict-affected agents associate with responding to societal problems stemming from mass violence. This can help to prevent inadvertently generating parameters that limit the scope of problems deemed relevant for TJ response. It can also help to prevent an implicit mission creep of the liberal peace without deliberate commitment from those who would ultimately sustain it: conflict-affected agents.
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Saghar (Sara) Birjandian is a PhD candidate with the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS, University of London. Her research reconceptualises 'transitional justice' in Uganda using a contextualised approach to problem analysis for policy development. She can be reached at 632281@soas.ac.uk.
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Secondly, where in the effective area would DeKalb county find land big enough to build a whole different hgh school? As well, a whole new high school by your plan would not only displace Henderson/Evansdale students but everyone in the county – just for the sake of going back to your protected 1960s vision.
Bigger is inevitable. If they need more land then purchase neighboring houses.
I can't find a point of contact or email address for Educate DeKalb on this website. Could you please provide one?
Greetings from the DeKalb County School District. Thank you for your interest in the Lakeside High School Addition Project. DCSD would like to share a series of clarifications to the information on this website. Is there a direct contact to recieve this information? Thanks?
Just want to be on the e-mail reminder list!
Son graduated 2005 in the smaller sized LHS; his was the first 9th grade class with no M2M. I oppose huge warehouse schools . We do not want anonymity for our kids, no Columbine environment. Keep it local! All the kids now residing in the City of Tucker should attend Tucker schools.
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These Were the Top-Selling Country Songs of 2020
Billy Dukes Published: December 15, 2020
Collaborations dominated the best selling songs in country music in 2020. In fact, four of the top five songs on this list crossed over thanks to some additional help from a pop heavyweight.
Charlie Puth, Gwen Stefani and Justin Bieber are three of them, aiding Gabby Barrett, Blake Shelton and Dan + Shay respectively. The lone solo country artist song inside the top half of this list belongs to Luke Bryan. The hitmaker's summer drinking song proved to be a must-have in every fan's collection this year.
Chris Stapleton's "Tennessee Whiskey" stands out on this list of the best-selling country songs of 2020, because it was released five years ago but continues to rank among country music's best. The Traveller album does, too, and so do albums from some of the other artists found below. Morgan Wallen, Sam Hunt and Jason Aldean all had great sales years.
The No. 1 song goes to a country music newcomer who had a very big year professionally and personally. Can you guess who it is without peeking? All sales data is courtesy of Billboard's year-end tallies.
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TikToker Gabriel Salazar, Who Died After Police Chase, Was Carrying Illegal Immigrants
Conor Skelding, New York Post, October 2, 2021
Gabriel Salazar was fleeing police north on U.S. 83 when he ran off the road, rolled over, and his car ignited in Zavala County, according to reports. The area is about 90 minutes from the Mexican border.
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Study in United Kingdom with University of Bath
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University of Bath Programs, Courses and Schools
Engineering, physical sciences, mathematics, and technology have been the University of Bath's key academic strengths. The institution now has a strong presence in management, humanities, architecture, and social sciences as well. The University of Bath is split into four faculties, each with its own set of departments.
The following is a list of University of Bath schools and departments:
Faculty of Engineering & Design
University of Bath Achievements/USP
The University of Bath's USP is its research, which has been recognized by REF 2014. REF 2014 confirmed its research excellence, with 87 percent of its research being classified as world-leading or globally excellent.
The University of Bath is ranked 9th out of 135 universities in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022. In terms of graduate prospects, they are placed seventh.
17 of its subjects are ranked in the top 10 by The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022, including:
First place in Architecture and Criminology
Second place in Psychology, Sociology, and Sports Science.
3rd place for Civil and Mechanical Engineering
University of Bath Notable Alumni
The following are the names of notable Alumni University of Bath:
Ash Atalla
Keith Christmas
Sean Li
Russell Senior
Jonty Usborne
Chuck Pfarrer
Peter Butcher
Sandra Gidley
Julia Reid
Paul S Allen
Robert Fry
Tan Hooi Ling
Stewart Till
Doug Altman
Nigel Healey
Marcus Bateman
Steve Borthwick
Luke Charteris
Kate Howey
James Hudson
Sean Gelael
University of Bath infrastructure & services
University of Bath Campuses
The main campus of the University of Bath is located on Calverton down, around 1.5 miles from Bath's downtown. The site is small, and it takes fifteen minutes to walk from one end to the other. The Library, located in the heart of campus, is a 24-hour resource that provides computing capabilities, information and research aid, as well as books and journals. Around the parade are restaurants, bars, and fast-food cafés, as well as two banks, a union store, and two small supermarkets, as well as academic buildings. The names of the buildings are determined by their location and proximity to the library.
University of Bath Libraries
The University of Bath Library is located in the heart of campus. The Security Desk is one of the supplementary services provided in the facility. The main library at the University of Bath is open 24 hours a day, giving computing services, information and research aid, as well as books and periodicals.
Here is the detail information about University of Bath's Library:
https://www.bath.ac.uk/locations/the-library/
University of Bath Housing services
On-campus housing is available at the University of Bath. There are various housing alternatives available to undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Here are some names of on-campus housing options:
For Undergraduates:
Brendon Court
Polden Court
The Quads
Osborne House
Carpenter House
John Wood Building
For more information you can visit here:
https://www.bath.ac.uk/student-accommodation/choose-your-undergraduate-student-accommodation-options/
For Post Graduation:
Aquila Court
Green Park House
Polden
Pulteney Court
Foe detail information you can visit here:
https://www.bath.ac.uk/student-accommodation/choose-your-postgraduate-student-accommodation-options/
University of Bath Medical services
The University of Bath Medical Center provides medical services to students. Its doctors have a cumulative professional experience of more than 70 years, having given healthcare services all over the world. Blood tests, contraception guidance and pills, routine blood pressure checks, assisted self-help for moderate mental health concerns, sexual health screening, travel immunizations, and cervical smears will all be provided by the nursing team. They can provide advice on a range of health problems and hold clinics on asthma, diabetes, sexual health, and travel health throughout the year.
https://umcbath.co.uk/services/
University of Bath Students clubs
The Students' Union (The SU) at the University of Bath has over 160 student clubs to join. This is a fantastic way to meet new people, learn new skills, and do something you enjoy.
Here are the names of various University of Bath student clubs:
American Football Club
Athletics Club
Backstage technical Services
Bath University Labor Club
University of Bath location
Claverton Down,
Bath BA2 7AY,
University of Bath different campuses locations
The main campus of the University of Bath is at Claverton Down, on Bath's east side. Bath is the largest city in Somerset County. Bath is located 97 miles (156 kilometers) west of London and 11 miles (18 kilometers) southeast of Bristol, in the Avon Valley. In 1987, the city was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and in 2021, it was added to the transnational World Heritage Site known as the "Great Spa Towns of Europe."
University of Bath top landmarks nearby, top companies, airports nearby
Bristol International Airport is the nearest airport to the University of Bath. You can take the A4 Air Decker bus directly from the airport to Bath. To go to Bath by train, take the Bristol Flyer Airport Express from the airport to Bristol Temple Meads rail station.
University of Bath International student's info
University of Bath courses offered
The following are the names of the University of Bath's undergraduate courses:
Electronic and Electrical engineering
Modern language
The following are the names of the University of Bath's Post graduate courses:
Sociology, Social Policy and Social sciences
Sports, Exercise and health
University of Bath student support
The University of Bath's Student Services department support students with a variety of aspects of student life. Student Services provides counseling and mental health support, as well as disability support, money management and foreign student advice to students.
https://www.bath.ac.uk/professional-services/student-services/
University of Bath visas & immigration support
Students should read and understand the information provided by the University of Bath about the University's responsibilities to students and the UK government, as well as your personal responsibilities while studying in the UK on your visa. Students at the University of Bath are given as much information as possible about visas and immigration.
Here is some information about the visa and immigration processes:
https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/how-to-apply-for-a-student-visa/
https://www.bath.ac.uk/professional-services/student-immigration-service/
University of Bath international student contact
Students can contact here regarding any qery:
University of Bath Student life
University of Bath student society
Here are the names of many student societies at the University of Bath:
African and Caribbean Society
Aquae Sulis Society
Bath City FC Supporters Society
Bath Computer Science Society
Bath Consulting Society
Bath Economics society
Bath Finance Society
Bath Hindu Society
Bath Indian Society
Bath Malayalee Society
Bath University Cocktail University
Bath University Debating Society
University of Bath sports and fitness
Students at the University of Bath place a high value on sports and fitness. The renowned, fully accessible £35 million Team Bath Sports Training Village (STV) is located in the heart of the University of Bath campus and is open seven days a week to the general public, students, staff, and elite athletes. The STV is a world-class multi-sport training facility with fitness, coaching, physiotherapy, and sport science facilities all under one roof. It has indoor and outdoor facilities to accommodate more than 50 sports, hosts major international competitions such as the Fed Cup tennis and Modern Pentathlon European Championships, and is home to a number of Olympic, Paralympics, and World medalists.
https://www.teambath.com/facilities/
University of Bath Health & Wellbeing
The University of Bath places considerable emphasis on its students' health and well-being. All students receive wellbeing and welfare advice and support from the university. Students can talk to a well-trained counselor about anything that is worrying them.
You may find out more about the University of Bath's health and well-being services by clicking here:
https://www.bath.ac.uk/professional-services/wellbeing-service/
University of Bath Residential Life
Residential life at the University of Bath is full with life-long learning opportunities; you will feel more at ease and secure if you live in the University of Bath residence hall and accommodations. The University of Bath's residential life department runs a residence life program to help you adjust to university halls, establish a feeling of community, and make the most of your time together as a student. Social events and activities, welcome into halls, life skills, peer to peer responsibilities (Student Living Assistants), student support and engagement are all part of its responsibility.
If you want to know more you can visit here:
https://www.bath.ac.uk/professional-services/student-living-support/
University of Bath food & drink
On campus at the University of Bath, there are numerous food and drink options:
4W Café
Claverton Rooms
Sports Café
The Bath Bakeaway
The Pitstop
CAFÉ at Polden
The Hut on The Green
The Lake Hut
University of Bath short term getaways
Roman Baths
Thermae Bath spa
Jane Austen Centre
Pulteney Bridge
Great Pulteney Street
Royal Crescent
Sion Hill
Holburne Museum of Art
Assemble Rooms
University of Bath Part time jobs
Students at the University of Bath can work part-time while attending classes. Part-time jobs at the University of Bath can be found here: https://www.thesubath.com/jobs/.
Many employment at the university and the Students' Union (SU), as well as jobs around Bath, are mentioned here. The search option is really useful, and each job's details are clearly stated.
University of Bath Student Safety
Bath is one of the safest cities and campuses in the United Kingdom. Throughout the year, the University's uniformed Security personnel are available to assist at all University sites on and off campus, 24 hours a day, and seven days a week. Students can dial 666 from a landline or 01225 383999 from a mobile phone in an emergency.
Crime Around the area
Bath is the safest significant town in Somerset, and the 31st most unsafe of the county's 414 towns, villages, and cities overall. In 2021, Bath's overall crime rate was 64 offences per 1,000 people.
University of Bath Famous courses
Bath has 15 "outstanding" subjects, according to government ratings (the highest on the scale).
Architecture and Civil Engineering
Statistics and Operational research
University of Bath Campus recruitment
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The Careers Service at the University of Bath hosts a variety of presentations and seminars from a variety of employers and Careers Advisers. All undergraduates and postgraduates are welcome to attend. Careers Fairs are a part of the famous CareerDiscovery program at the University of Bath, where you may meet and network with top employers to find your dream job.
Throughout the year, the university hosts many fairs, including:
Autumn Careers and placements fair
Law and Patent Attorney fair
Spring Placements fair
Jobs and Career fair
PGT Recruitment fair
Famous companies who recruit directly from University of Bath Campus
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University of Bath Brochures & applications
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Station Deinze is een spoorwegstation langs spoorlijn 75 (Gent - Kortrijk - Rijsel) in de stad Deinze. Van hier vertrekt ook spoorlijn 73 (Deinze - De Panne) naar de kust.

Het station is gelegen in de vroegere gemeente Petegem-aan-de-Leie en heette aanvankelijk dan ook Deinze-Petegem.

Het huidige station is ontworpen door Dirk Servaes en werd geopend op 25 maart 1983. Het bestaat uit een grote luifel waaronder op het eerste verdiep de perrons gelegen zijn. Op de begane grond bevinden zich de loketten. Net zoals bij veel stations loopt vervolgens een verbindingsgang loodrecht onder de sporen waarop men dan met een roltrap of reguliere trap de sporen kan bereiken.

Het concept is afgekeken van het Nederlandse station Breda. In de jaren 70 en 80 is het door de NMBS in België op enkele plaatsen toegepast (onder andere Genk en Roeselare). Het is evenwel vlug afgevoerd omdat reizigers vaak klaagden over de tocht (de wind heeft in zulke hallen vaak vrij spel). Ook vinden velen dergelijke stations donkere oorden.

De sporen bevinden zich zoals gezegd verhoogd, dat is gedaan uit praktische overwegingen. Het station ligt namelijk in een verstedelijkte omgeving en om geen overwegen te hebben loopt de spoorlijn in Deinze over een talud of viaduct. Naast het station bevinden zich onder het spoorwegviaduct bovendien het parkeerterrein, de busterminal en een afzetstrook.

Deinze beschikt ook over een seinhuis (blok 12). Door het nieuwe concentratieplan, dat het aantal seinhuizen in België tot 31 moet terugdringen, zal het seinhuis in Deinze in de nabije toekomst verdwijnen.

In 2013 werd het station opgefrist. De overkapping werd herschilderd en oogt lichter, de perrons werden verhoogd en vernieuwd. Deze werden afgewerkt in beton, wat de perrons luxueuzer doet ogen en er werden ook nieuwe trappen en roltrappen geplaatst. In de toekomst zal ook het stationsplein vernieuwd worden.

Sinds 2022 stoppen de toeristentreinen tijdens de zomerperiode enkel nog tijdens de week en niet langer tijdens het weekend in het station van Deinze.

Galerij

Treindienst

Busdienst
Bij het station rijden verschillende buslijnen van De Lijn, onder meer naar Kortrijk, Gent, Tielt, Zottegem en Oudenaarde.

Reizigerstellingen
De grafiek en tabel geven het gemiddeld aantal instappende reizigers weer op een week-, zater- en zondag.

Bouwwerk in Deinze
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Petegem-aan-de-Leie

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Q. Diana is an appealing heroine, determined, accomplished, and yet aware of her own weaknesses. In what ways, if any, does Diana reflect your own experience or personality?
Q. How did you become interested in the intersection of alchemy, magic, and science? Historically, what do you see as the relationship between science and religion or mysticism?
In college, I had a wonderful professor who taught a class on these subjects. To kick off the class, he asked us, "How do you know what you think you know?" I've spent the last quarter century trying to answer that question. Because the world is a mysterious place and our relationship to it is not always clear, people have often turned to science, faith, and magic for answers. They help people find responses to the questions of Who am I and why am I here?
Q. You've written two well-received scholarly books. What inspired you to write a novel?
It's pretty hard not to notice the popular preoccupation with witches, vampires, and things that go bump in the night. But we aren't the first to be fascinated with these creatures. Today, we often imagine them into fantastic otherworlds, but the people I study believed that such magical beings were living alongside them in this world. So I started thinking, if there are vampires and witches, what do they do for a living—and what strange stories do humans tell to explain away the evidence of their presence? A Discovery of Witches began with the answers to those questions as I essentially reimagined our modern world through the eyes of medieval and Renaissance people.
Q. What prompted you to include both first-person and omniscient narration? What does each method of storytelling contribute to the book?
Early in the process of writing the book I realized that vampires must be secretive and protective creatures. For Matthew, this means he has both a strong instinct to hide from Diana's questions and a need to protect her from threats. The only way to show that dynamic in Matthew (without making the reader very impatient with him) was to take Diana out of the picture temporarily and show him interacting with others who knew him in other ways. Since Diana is the first-person narrator, this caused some problems that omniscient narration solved. I think the combination of the two narratives works surprisingly well and gives the reader the immediacy of Diana's experience along with some answers to their questions about Matthew.
Q. Elias Ashmole and Ashmole 782 are taken from real life. Who was Elias Ashmole? Why did you base your novel on this particular manuscript?
Elias Ashmole was a seventeenth-century English antiquarian and scholar. He gave major bequests to Oxford University, including the collection of books and objects that provided the foundation for the Ashmolean Museum (which is still in operation today). Ashmole's books and manuscripts were first kept at the museum and then moved to the university's Bodleian Library in the nineteenth century. The Ashmole manuscripts include numerous rare alchemical texts. One of the manuscripts, Ashmole 782, is currently missing. As a scholar, I've done a lot of research in the Ashmole alchemical manuscripts and always wondered what Ashmole 782 might contain.
Q. From the publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula in the nineteenth century to the current Twilight series, vampires have always fascinated the reading public. What is the appeal of the occult novel? What kind of freedom from the ordinary does it provide, both for readers and writers?
Vampires are relative newcomers among the supernatural creatures who have fascinated readers. The word "vampire" wasn't even used in English-speaking countries until the early eighteenth century. Before that, readers were far more interested in ghosts, devils, witches, daemons (and demons), and exotic hybrid creatures like dragons and the basilisk. The appeal of all these creatures—and vampires, too—is that they help to explain the inexplicable. Readers and writers are given the opportunity to suspend belief and wonder How do I know there aren't witches? and even more important What if there are?
Q. Diana and Matthew's story ends on a mysterious note. What do you see as the next step in their adventure?
Diana and Matthew have known each other only for forty days. That's not much time to get to know someone and fall in love. Besides, falling in love is rather easy compared with staying in love and growing into a relationship. The next step of their adventure will begin just where their last step left off—and the adventure will involve all kinds of new discoveries about themselves, each other, and the creatures who share their world.
While I'm on book tour, I'm working on a sequel to A Discovery of Witches. It will be a trilogy.
Where did the idea for A Discovery of Witches come from?
I was in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico during the rainy season, which I did not know in advance, and I was trapped inside my hotel because of the rain. It was the fall of 2008, and the world was very much obsessed with vampires. I started thinking to myself, "You know, if there really are vampires, what do they do for a living?" I didn't believe they could all be private investigators. That's what led me into the book, and I started building a world around the answering of that question.
It's really a book about accepting who you are and not living in a way that closes off options or that is safe. Living in way that takes risks—the power that is in daring to do what it is that you are uniquely meant to do.
How long was your playlist?
145 songs. Some of them are on my website. [On the page titled "The Characters"] There are links to YouTube playlists for songs on Diana's iPod and songs on Matthew's iPod. And, largehearted boy published a playlist for A Discovery of Witches.
I know that a lot of advice says to read, but I would say to write. What I see as a teacher a lot is people preparing to write, people doing research to write, people finding the right chair to write in, people thinking of the right time of day to write. You really just have to actually write. It's scary and it's awful, there's a blank screen or blank page, but you really just need to write.
Write about anything, write about everything, write blogs. At some point something will start clicking and snapping, and if you're still trying to arrange your desk the way you want it, you're going to waste it.
I wish more people would ask, "Why did you choose to do blank?" People have an incredibly emotional response to fiction. You read it and think, "I don't like this, I don't like that, I don't like him or her." Usually, writers have a reason that they've decided to do something. If there's something really bugging a reader about the book, it would be interesting to have a conversation about why I'd gone that way. Not because it may solve the problem for them, but they would know that it wasn't a thoughtless decision. It would be fascinating to discuss the decision-making process for the book.
Can you talk about the different kinds of writing you do, and how you juggle those projects?
Well, I started my wine blog accidentally, like most things I do in life. When I got stuck on my nonfiction I would switch over and work on the wine blog. I was teaching, wine-blogging, and writing A Discovery of Witches at the same time. For me, I need escape hatches. I need to be able to move around and have little changes of scenery. I only had writer's block working on A Discovery of Witches once and I think it's because I was doing different things.
I love to cook. I am slowly working my way through Melissa Clark's In the Kitchen with a Good Appetite. When you cook something, immediately it's there. It's wonderful; you don't edit it, you just eat it.


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BTS' RM announces forthcoming vinyl release of debut studio album 'Indigo'
BTS member RM's debut solo studio album 'Indigo' – which was released on CD and streaming platforms last month – will arrive on vinyl later this year.
READ MORE: RM of BTS: "My whole twenties were an exhibition… but I chose to be a star"
Pre-orders for the vinyl edition of 'Indigo' went on sale earlier today (January 9), and copies are expected to start shipping in May of this year. Each edition will contain one vinyl LP containing 'Indigo' along with a booklet, lyric poster, instant photo, photo card and more.
In a message from label Big Hit Music announcing the forthcoming vinyl release, they explained that the exact release date may vary by country and region, due to "vinyl records [taking] a substantial amount of time for production".
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'Indigo' was released on December 2 and marked RM's third solo release following a pair of mixtapes: 2015's eponymous 'RM' and 2018's 'Mono'. The 10-track album featured guest appearances from the likes of Erykah Badu, Anderson .Paak, Tablo of Epik High, Mahalia and more.
NME praised 'Indigo' for "focusing on building its own inimitable world" rather than following "current trends and sounds most likely to score a hit" in a five-star review upon its release.
"It's too early to tell if the record will help the BTS leader achieve his goal of creating something truly timeless but, in this moment, 'Indigo' feels like a masterpiece with the potential to be remembered as a classic".
Following the release of 'Indigo' last month, RM launched the record with an intimate concert at Rolling Hall in Seoul, with only 200 fans permitted to attend, and fan photography and filming not allowed. The performance was later released as an hour-long concert film. "This was my dream concert hall," RM says at the beginning of the film. "Finally."
The same month, RM also shared another live video in which he performs several 'Indigo' tracks at the Dia Beacon museum in New York City, including 'Wild Flower' and Anderson .Paak collaboration 'Still Life'.
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UK Grime Artist Rapman To Direct 'Blue Story' For Paramount & BBC Films
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UK artist/director Rapman, a.k.a Andrew Onwubolu, is set to direct Blue Story, a feature film which he also wrote based on his short video trilogy of the same name. Paramount Pictures acquired the worldwide distribution rights and is aiming to release the pic sometime this year. BBC Films developed and co-financed the project, which will film at locations in South London.
Damian Jones of DJ Films and Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor of Joi Productions are producing the film, while Charles Moore and Paul Grindey of Viewfinder, Rose Garnett and Eva Yates of BBC Films, and Rapman will serve as executive producers.
Pulling from his own personal experiences and aspects of his childhood, Rapman depicts a tragic tale of a friendship between Timmy and Marco, two young boys from opposing postcodes. Timmy, a shy, smart, naive and timid young boy from Deptford, goes to school in Peckham where he strikes up a friendship with Marco, a charismatic, streetwise kid from the local area. Although from warring postcodes, the two quickly form a firm friendship until it is tested and they wind up on rival sides of a street war.
Rapman will star in the film, which will feature his own style of narration and rap, opposite a cast of up and coming talent that includes Stephen Odubola (The Legend Of Tarzan), Micheal Ward, Khali Best (EastEnders), Max Fincham (Pokemon Detective Pikachu), Kadeem Ramsay (Sex Education), Karla-Simone Spence (Wannabe), and Eric Kofi-Abrefa (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom).
Rapman gained attention through his music and short film trilogies, culminating in 2018's YouTube sensation Shiro's Story, which has amassed over 7 million views. Set to his original music and lyrics, Shiro's Story is a tale of love and loss set amidst the toughest streets of South London. The project led to Rapman being signed by JAY-Z's global entertainment and management company and label, Roc Nation.
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Huggins Hospital, Carroll County Coalition for Public Health and Team Wolfeboro have developed a local coalition, Eastern Lakes Region Coalition for Healthy Families, dedicated to supporting families and our communities through the issue of substance misuse.
The Monday before Thanksgiving, the coalition hosted a forum for families at the Kingswood Arts Center in Wolfeboro. The event, called Straight Talk: A Call to Action, included a panel of local experts hoping to provide the information families need to address the problem of substance misuse. Resources from the event are available on the Coalition's webpage at www.hugginshospital.org/support/ELRCHF.
Associate Director of the Kingswood Youth Center Zach Porter discussed a few of the programs the Center offers that also help children cope with stress and learn more about substance misuse including a prevention program with the help of White Horse Addiction Center of Center Ossipee. Children from Kingswood Youth Center presented to the crowd during the event, discussing why they participate in the programs. They said they go to make new friends and feel comfortable being themselves. Strong friendships and identity are proven protective factors that help youth build resilience and make healthy choices.
After an energetic round of applause for the children, Carroll County Coalition for Public Health's Prevention Resources Coordinator Jennifer Selfridge spoke about what prevention means and how it can be many different things including the Kingwood Youth Center, the recreation departments, everyday interactions and more. "We're very lucky in the Wolfeboro and Carroll County area because we have intelligent and passionate people who are coming together to support the community," said Selfridge.
Closing the panel discussions, White Horse Addiction Center's licensed clinical social worker and master licensed alcohol and drug counselor Melissa Fernald provided techniques and offered advice for children, parents and community members. "Communication is key," said Fernald. She urged children to talk with their parents as opposed to their peers for accurate information and urged parents to truly listen. Fernald also recommended that parents talk to each other about substance misuse and to speak to their pediatrician about their children's behavior.
The evening wrapped up with questions from the audience. The audience and the members of the speaking panel thanked the coalition for the event. For more information about the Eastern Lakes Region Coalition for Healthy Families and to find resources from the event, please call Huggins Hospital's Senior Philanthropy and Community Health Officer Susan Houghton, Ph.D. at 603-569-7560 or visit the coalition's webpage at www.hugginshospital.org/support/ELRCHF.


Digital release of the second album by the duo of Geoff Mullen & Keith Fullerton Whitman, recorded over the course of a single day in 2009, then issued in February 2010 via Dan "Chuck Person" Lopatin's Upstairs CDR; everything presented here in its original, glorious 24/96 master-tape iteration.
Also included are the two side-length tracks from the Summer 2010 "Take Me To Your Dealer" cassette on Jeff "Rene Hell" Witscher's Agents of Chaos (originally credited to Any Given Sunday), also recorded that day, as well as a couple of unreleased pieces from the same session.
Geoff Mullen and Keith Fullerton Whitman welcome you to the new-domestic. the moving hallway is dotted with tif frames and leads you to a center room location radiating with CMYK hum. This sonic-grand-tour was recorded live to glass, over one day in Providence, Rhode Island; a machine groove epic in movements that offers up total sonoronarrative immersion while kindling thoughts of Paul Verhoven-like industrial safehouses in which doomed plans are made.
Coming from inside the walls of this micro-future, GM/KFW surge a permeating drive that shows lost footage and reveals forgotten locations, levels below. the CS-50/MT-68 combo-splices finally unveil the screen -- tomorrow into gateway. The chimes from within lead you deeper and the screen behind you shuts off. The finale take on almost a dare I say Haruomi vibe; West meets East without overt crystallization of dialectic black helicopters and blurred out kanji. Nice and wide and deep stereo balance to boot. Seminal synth war/drama action from east coast legends that commit to the landing and stick it.


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CALL FOR ENTRIES - Photography Competition launched by Dodho Magazine has been recently opened for entries for 2018 like very year looking for photographers of all cultures, points of view and over 18 years of age - only requirement is quality and to be willing to take giant steps in its career.
After the phenomenal acceptance by the industry and an unprecedented success of past editions Dodho Magazine calling for entries once again looking for photographers of all cultures, points of view and over 18 years of age - the only requirement is quality and to be willing to take giant steps in its career.
The print edition of Dodho Magazine is the only photography publication exclusively devoted to professionals and experts in the photographic industry around the world. This has become a benchmark for selection and discovery of extraordinary photographers with delicious projects and fantastic stories from around the world. This printed version is not a magazine, it is a powerful talent distribution tool, focused and calibrated to the millimeter to turn your dreams into opportunities.
The purpose of Dodho Magazine is to disseminate and promote the work of emerging and established photographers from around the word. Their vocation is the constant search for photographers and works with potential deserving a global promotion.
Every day the Dodho Magazine team reviews the projects and portfolios presented and selects the best ones to be published in the online version, this is an excellent opportunity to give visibility to your work quickly.
• All photographers must send images or portfolios in high-resolution format, in addition to the authorization and consent duly signed for your work´s publication. All shipments must be provided as soon as possible.
• You can send as many works as you wish, with no limit on the volume of participation. It can be presented in the Cover format, in the Magazine format or just in both. The decision is up to you.
• Each project or portfolio should consist of 10 to 20 compressed photographs in a folder in .ZIP format, each of the photographs must have a minimum size of 1200px on its largest side. The maximum weight of each .ZIP file must be 25Mb. Instead, If it is a single image, you can upload it in .JPG format.
• There are no restrictions on the use of digital manipulation.
• It's recommended that you include a description of the project.
• There is no temporary restriction based on when an image was taken. You can present images taken at any stage of your career. Furthermore, if your work has already been published in Dodho Magazine or in other media it is accepted.
Organizer are looking for the most impressive image to make it the cover of this new edition. It's accepted any type of photographic genre in color or black and white. Without a doubt, the cover is the most direct way to promote your personal brand and style. Send us the images you think may work well as the cover of this edition.
Organizer looks for the best projects or portfolios to be presented in the inside pages of this new edition. Your work will be presented through 20 pages dedicated exclusively to your work on paper of the highest quality and in a magnificent edition. You can present several photographic projects with a common thread between the images or several portfolios without the need for a connection between them. It's accepted all kinds of photographic genres and formats.
A great international judging panel will select the best images and portfolios. All the portfolios and photographs received in the two modalities Cover and Magazine will be valued through four decisive elements - technical factors, composition factors, emotional factors and style factors. After the presentation period ends, the finalist works, and portfolios will be reviewed again, for the final selection of the photographers presented in the new edition.
The deadline for submission will be from September 1 to November 30, 2018. The issue 06 is scheduled to be published next December 15, after the deadline for submission, works and finalist images will be evaluated again, the jury's decision will be communicated during the first week of December to all selected photographers.
Entry fee for a single image cost 10$, for a 3 images is 20$, and for a 5 images is 30$.
Dodho Magazine is looking for photographers of all cultures, points of view and over 18 years of age.
Your photographs and your personal brand will promoted at the highest level from Barcelona to New York, from Tokyo to Dubai, from Los Angeles to Sydney. Galleries directors, photo editors, book editors, festival directors, curators and agents will have your work in their hands. Your name and your pictures will go around the world in record time.


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El castell de Javakhaant (en georgià: დრისის ჯავახაანთ ციხე) és una fortalesa situada al cim d'una roca, sobre la riba esquerra del riu Tedzami, a 400 metres a l'oest del llogaret de Chqopiani, districte de Kaspi, a la regió de Xida Kartli, Geòrgia. El complex consta d'un castell, una muralla, una església, una torre i un palau. Des del 2006, la fortalesa ha estat reconeguda com a Monument Cultural destacat de Geòrgia.

Història i arquitectura
La fortalesa data de l'edat mitjana i no n'hi ha gaires referències històriques. Va pertànyer a la família Jawahavishvili. El complex tenia un mur amb decoracions intricades. Els constructors van utilitzar capes rocoses en totes les parts. Tots els edificis, llevat de l'església, estan construïts amb pedra arenosa i llambordes. Al nord es troba una torre, i al sud hi ha un palau, que ara com ara està força arruïnat. L'església, que és a la part superior del castell, és de tipus de planta de saló i està construïda amb un quadrat de tosca tuf verda. Porta el nom d'església de Sant Jordi i la seva entrada és en la paret oest. El complex també allotja edificis agrícoles que han estat seriosament danyats.

Es pot arribar al castell des de l'est per un viarany a través del bosc, així com des de l'oest, encara que el camí és molt més difícil. A l'est del castell, a poca distància del barranc al costat oposat del pujol, n'hi ha una petita església amb una entrada al sud.

Referències

Bibliografia
 Zakaraia P., Enciclopedia soviética georgiana, vol. 3, p. 639, Tb., 1978.
 Descripción de los monumentos georgianos de historia y cultura, vol. 5, p. 219-220, Tb., 1990.
Monuments culturals destacats de Geòrgia
Edificis de Geòrgia


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Senator Rubio targets Huawei over patents
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Marco Rubio filed legislation on Monday that would prevent Huawei Technologies Co Ltd from seeking damages in U.S. patent courts, after the Chinese firm demanded that Verizon Communications Inc pay $1 billion to license the rights to patented technology.
Under the amendment - seen by Reuters - companies on certain U.S. government watch lists, which would include Huawei, would not be allowed to seek relief under U.S. law with respect to U.S. patents, including bringing legal action over patent infringement.
On June 12, a person briefed on the matter said Huawei had told Verizon that it should pay licensing fees for more than 230 of the Chinese telecoms equipment maker's patents and in aggregate is seeking more than $1 billion.
It appeared to be a new strategy in Huawei's ongoing battle with the U.S. government. National security experts worry that "back doors" in routers, switches and other Huawei equipment could allow China to spy on U.S. communications. Huawei has denied that it would help China spy.
Rubio, one of the Republican party's leading foreign policy voices, filed the measure as an amendment to the annual National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, a massive bill setting policy for spending by the Department of Defense.
While the measure is several steps from becoming law, lawmakers have successfully used the NDAA in past years to crack down on the Chinese firm.
(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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Confession time. I like hearing praise. Crazy, huh? I'm betting you like it too.
I'm not talking about the "everyone gets a trophy because we all have value," empty praise. That has been proven to actually hurt future performance. I'm talking about earned praise for a job well done.
That got me to thinking: When's the last time I gave someone earned praise for a job well done? Too long.
The New One Minute Manager has a great tip on one minute praises. Yes, you can do it in one minute, make someone's day and really make a difference. You can use this at work, with your family or with friends. Here's how it works.
Praise the behavior as soon as possible when you see it.
Say how good it makes you feel to see their success.
Pause to let them enjoy your comments.
Encourage them to keep up the excellent work.
Is there someone you can use this with today? Why wait?