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Inside Google Cloud
05 November 2018 | 7:52 pm
The Google cloud is designed as a multi-layered security system, It is a comprehensive approach from the ground up that offers safety and peace of mind for businesses. Here are 6 things to know about Google Cloud:
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France fines Google 500 million euros in news copyright row
The French Competition Authority imposed a fine of 500 million euros on Google on Tuesday for not having negotiated in good faith compensation for the media for the use of its news content, something a national law requires.
La Palma volcano: Flights canceled due to ash cloud
Commercial flights to the Canary Island have been called off due to an "accumulation of ash" in the air. A recent volcanic eruption on the island has forced the evacuation of thousands of residents.
Google CEO announces $1 billion investment in African internet access
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announces that the tech giant will invest $1 billion over the next five years to allow for faster and more affordable internet access and support entrepreneurship in Africa. Internet reliability is a problem in Africa where less than a third of the continent's 1.3 billion people are connected to broadband, according to the World Bank. But the continent, where nearly half the population is under 18, is a promising market.
Large ash cloud rises from Canary Islands volcano
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While Chinese papers hail the country's launch of a $233 million biodiversity fund, the Guardian warns that China is rowing back on its commitment to reduce carbon emissions. We also look at the tragic deaths of three migrants who were hit by a train in south-western France. Meanwhile, employees from Google and Amazon call on their companies to abandon a project with Israel. We end with the most striking winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards.
Queries over Google's planned billion-dollar investment in Africa
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A man of extraordinary and seemingly limitless talents—musician, inventor, composer, poet, and even amateur mycologist—John Cage became a central figure of the avant-garde early in his life and remained at that pinnacle until his death in 1992 at the age of eighty. Award-winning biographer Kenneth Silverman gives us the first comprehensive life of this remarkable artist. Silverman begins with Cage's childhood in interwar Los Angeles and his stay in Paris from 1930 to 1931, where immersion in the burgeoning new musical and artistic movements triggered an explosion of his creativity. Cage continued his studies in the United States with the seminal modern composer Arnold Schoenberg, and he soon began the experiments with sound and percussion instruments that would develop into his signature work with prepared piano, radio static, random noise, and silence. Cage's unorthodox methods still influence artists in a wide range of genres and media. Silverman concurrently follows Cage's rich personal life, from his early marriage to his lifelong personal and professional partnership with choreographer Merce Cunningham, as well as his friendships over the years with other composers, artists, philosophers, and writers.
Kenneth Silverman is professor of emeritus of English at NYU. He is the author of biographies of Edgar Allen Poe, Houdini, and Samuel F. Morse, and he has received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Bancroft Prize in American History, among other prizes. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.


Move-in day for first-year students is always memorable. This year, the hundreds of students and their families converging on campus August 28 contended with an unexpected element: temperatures well above 90 degrees and extreme humidity.
At 8 a.m., the first vehicles loaded with school supplies, clothing, and dorm furniture pulled up outside resident halls and were greeted by staff and student volunteers who were on hand to keep the process moving along.
At Freeman Hall, Catherine Wood '86, of Pasadena, Calif., stood with Virginia '22, one of her two daughters who will be attending Wellesley this year. Her older daughter, Marney '21, is a sophomore transfer student. "This is a very exciting day—three Wellesley women in the same household," she said.
Tom and Laurel Webster, from Tacoma, Wash., were dropping off their daughter, Abby '22. They said the already hectic day was all the more trying because of the heat. "This is not weather that we're used to," he said.
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by University of Sheffield
New research led by the University of Sheffield has discovered how a hospital superbug evades the immune system to cause infection – paving the way for new treatments.
The study, led by the University of Sheffield's Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, investigated how Enterococcus faecalis (E. faecalis), bacteria commonly found in the digestive tracts of humans, cause life-threatening infections.
While E. faecalis is harmless in healthy carriers, it is also an opportunistic pathogen that frequently causes hospital-acquired infections such as heart valve infections, urinary tract infections and bacteraemia – the presence of bacteria in the blood. Scientists currently do not fully understand how this happens.
Treatment of E. faecalis infection is difficult as it is highly resistant to several key components of the immune system and resistant to multiple antibiotics.
Now, new research led by Dr. Stéphane Mesnage from the University of Sheffield's Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, has discovered a mechanism used by E. faecalis to hide from the immune system of the host.
The study revealed that the bacteria changes a component of its cell surface in order to evade the immune system, enabling the spread of infection. The findings could pave the way for novel treatments for infections caused by E. faecalis.
Dr. Stéphane Mesnage, Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, said: "E. faecalis is an opportunistic pathogen. It is naturally resistant to a wide range of antibiotics including synthetic penicillin derivatives and is acquiring resistance to the last resort antibiotic vancomycin. Following an antibiotic treatment, E faecalis can out-compete other microorganisms to cause an infection.
"Our study shows that this organism modifies its polysaccharide surface, which is essential for causing an infection. Bacteria whose polysaccharides are unmodified are quickly recognised and engulfed by the cells of our immune system, whereas by modifying the polysaccharide, E. faecalis can evade the host immune cells and spread infection."
Dr. Mesnage added: "Hospital-acquired infections caused by bacteria resistant to last resort antibiotics are on the rise. Our work suggests that targeting the mechanism that modifies the surface polysaccharides could be a novel strategy for developing new treatments to fight E. faecalis infections."
The research, "Decoration of the enterococcal polysaccharide antigen EPA is essential for virulence, cell surface charge and interaction with effectors of the innate immune system," is published in the journal PLoS Pathogens.
For bacteria, smaller is better for causing superbug infections
More information: Robert E Smith et al. Decoration of the enterococcal polysaccharide antigen EPA is essential for virulence, cell surface charge and resistance to innate immunity, PLoS Pathogens (2018). DOI: 10.1101/479022
Journal information: PLoS Pathogens
Provided by University of Sheffield
Citation: Scientists discover how superbugs hide from their host (2019, May 2) retrieved 16 January 2021 from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-04-scientists-superbugs-host.html
Researchers uncover how innocuous gut bacteria mutated to become deadly blood infectors
Manganese plays a key role in bacterial infection
Enzymes act like a switch, turning antibiotic resistance on and off in enterococci
Pheromones produced by gut bacteria found to kill resistant variants of its own kind
Copycat fungus deceives immune system and deactivates body's response to infection

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Q: increment Child Node field group by Parent Node Need  to get a output CSV file from xml using XSLT 2.0
My problem is i need to print relation ship field  increment by one
issue Worker Node and dependent nodes are sub-nodes and need to print worker record then print corresponding dependent records. Relation ship filed values should increment based on number of dependents. Please help Me Thanks
Input XML:

<Master>
        <Worker_group>
            <Emp_ID>1001</Emp_ID>
            <E_Name> Worker1 </E_Name>
        </Worker_group>
        <date>05-01-2019</date>
</Master>
<Master>
        <Worker_group>
            <Emp_ID>1002</Emp_ID>
            <E_Name> Worker2 </E_Name>
        </Worker_group>
        <date>04-25-2019</date>
        <Dependents_group>
            <Dep_Emp_ID>1002<Dep_Emp_ID>
            <D_Name> Dependent1 </Name>
        <Dependents_group>
        <Dependents_group>
            <Dep_Emp_ID>1002<Dep_Emp_ID>
            <D_Name> Dependent2 </Name>
        <Dependents_group>
        <Dependents_group>
            <Dep_Emp_ID>1002<Dep_Emp_ID>
            <D_Name> Dependent3 </Name>
        <Dependents_group>
</Master>
<Master>
        <Worker_group>
            <Emp_ID>1003</Emp_ID>
            <E_Name> Worker3 </E_Name>
        </Worker_group>
        <date>06-23-2019</date>
</Master>

Using Xslt:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:output method="text" indent="no"/>
  <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:text>id, relationship, Name, Date
</xsl:text>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="/Master/Worker_group">
    <xsl:value-of select="Emp_id"/>
    <xsl:text>, </xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select= ?????/>
    <xsl:text>, </xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="E_Name"/>
    <xsl:text>, </xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="Date"/>
    <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="/Master/Dependents_group">
    <xsl:value-of select="Dep_Emp_id"/>
    <xsl:text>, </xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select= ?????/>
    <xsl:text>, </xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="D_Name"/>
    <xsl:text>, </xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="Date"/>
    <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

output
id, relationship, Name,date
1001,1,Worker1,05-01-2019
1002,1,Worker2,04-25-2019
1002,2,Dependent1,04-25-2019
1002,3,Dependent2,04-25-2019
1002,4,Dependent_3,04-25-2019
1003,1,Worker3,06-23-2019

```

A: Given a well formed (!) XML input:
XML
<Root>
    <Master>
        <Worker_group>
            <Emp_ID>1001</Emp_ID>
            <E_Name>Worker1 </E_Name>
        </Worker_group>
    </Master>
    <Master>
        <Worker_group>
            <Emp_ID>1002</Emp_ID>
            <E_Name>Worker2 </E_Name>
        </Worker_group>
        <Dependents_group>
            <Dep_Emp_ID>1001</Dep_Emp_ID>
            <D_Name>Dependent1 </D_Name>
        </Dependents_group>
        <Dependents_group>
            <Dep_Emp_ID>1001</Dep_Emp_ID>
            <D_Name>Dependent2 </D_Name>
        </Dependents_group>
        <Dependents_group>
            <Dep_Emp_ID>1001</Dep_Emp_ID>
            <D_Name>Dependent3 </D_Name>
        </Dependents_group>
    </Master>
    <Master>
        <Worker_group>
            <Emp_ID>1003</Emp_ID>
            <E_Name>Worker3 </E_Name>
        </Worker_group>
    </Master>
</Root>

the following stylesheet:
XSLT 1.0
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="text" encoding="UTF-8"/>

<xsl:template match="/Root">
    <!-- header -->
    <xsl:text>id,relationship,Name
</xsl:text>
    <!-- data -->
    <xsl:for-each select="Master/*">
        <xsl:value-of select="Emp_ID | Dep_Emp_ID"/>
        <xsl:text>,</xsl:text>
        <xsl:number count="*"/>
        <xsl:text>,</xsl:text>
        <xsl:value-of select="E_Name | D_Name"/>
        <xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
    </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

will return:
id,relationship,Name
1001,1,Worker1
1002,1,Worker2
1001,2,Dependent1
1001,3,Dependent2
1001,4,Dependent3
1003,1,Worker3

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Big Air and Endless Winter: How Rumble Slopestyle Skier Yuki Tsubota Finds Adventure Year-Round
What do you do when the conditions you need for your sport are only available in Canada a few months of the year? Hit the road!
25-year-old Rumble athlete and Canadian National Team skier Yuki Tsubota was born and raised in BC. As a former Olympian, Yuki lives in Whistler and follows winter around the globe for her training camps.
We caught up with her to find out more about her sport and how she balances life on and off the slopes.
Q: You started skiing when you were three - is your mom a big skier?
A: She is! My mum originally came to Canada/Whistler in 1992 to ski, but two years later after meeting my Dad, they moved to Vancouver to have me. We lived in Vancouver until I was 3, but after my parents split up my mum and I moved back up to Whistler and that's when I was put on skis for the first time. We skied together almost every day when I was a kid but as I grew up my activities and ski competition became quite expensive and my mum worked a lot so I could do what I loved. After I moved out of the house when I was 17 she found much more time to herself and now she's back out in the mountains she loves! She has found a huge passion for backcountry skiing which I think is badass and beats me up the hill every time.
Q: When you were 19, you competed in your first Olympics in Sochi - what was that like?
A: Sochi was surreal. I had just transitioned over to Slopestyle skiing three years before from Moguls. When I made the switch my goal was to make the 2018 Olympic Team, but the years leading up to 2014 went exceptionally well for me and I was able to qualify for those games. The competition itself didn't feel very different from any other contest that happens throughout the season, but having everyone back at home and friends around the world being able to watch was awesome. Opening ceremonies was my favorite part; walking into the stadium with the rest of Team Canada was a proud moment I will never forget.
Q: Did you already know many of your fellow Team Canada athletes before Sochi?
A: Besides my team, the rest of Freestyle Canada and a couple of snowboarders, no. Both the Olympics I went to (2014 and 2018) the athletes were split into two villages so I didn't have the chance to meet many non-mountain sports athletes. I would say I friended 'sliding' athletes the most and since I see them quite often throughout the year at various events and around Whistler.
Q: Are you hoping to compete in Beijing in 2022?
A: At this moment that isn't the plan. I've been on the National team for 8 years now and my body is definitely feeling it, I'm 25 and oldddddd…… I've started to take a couple university classes online and would like to continue that as well as trying to get myself into more of the backcountry skiing side of things. I grew up skiing a little bit of everything and think bringing my park tricks to natural features would be fun.
Q: Slopestyle skiing is known for its aerial jumps and tricks - were you a bit of a daredevil as a kid?
A: That probably depends on who you ask haha. According to my parents and people around me yes! But to me and my friends, no that was just normal. I did lots of sports where my feet stayed on the ground like swimming, tennis, and hockey but the fun ones were mountain biking, rock climbing, skiing, and skateboarding. The adrenaline rush is what gets me and I often catch myself getting caught up in it trying to go absolutely as fast as I can go on my bike and skis and I have to take a step back and remind myself that one wrong move and I could be seriously injured. I've been very lucky with my ski career in that I haven't had any major injuries (knock on wood). At the 2014 Olympics I did break my cheek in two spots by kneeing myself, but given the crash I had, it could have been much worse.
Q: Did you have a lot of experience with slopestyle before switching from moguls?
A: Before switching to moguls I had probably only done a handful of slopestyle events but slopestyle also wasn't really as big as it is now. We had the big air contest which was just one jump and we had rail jams. When I did do those events I had decent results, so when I wanted to make the switch I had enough points to qualify for the BC park team. Coming from a mogul background we spent a lot of time nailing the timing of your pop and creating air awareness, so jumping was my strength when I made the switch to slopestyle.
Q: What are the rules of slopestyle?
A: There really aren't any rules of slopestyle and that's what I love about it! It's an event that allows you to be creative. I mean if you want to get a good score you have to hit all of the features but you can hit features in whichever way you would like. The 2018 Olympics was a perfect example of this. At most events, there are usually three sections or rails with 2-3 options at each but in Pyeongchang, they set up trannies in all different spots so people could get very creative with their rail line.
Q: What's the hardest or scariest part of a run?
A: I'm not sure there is a hardest or scariest part of a run for me. Possibly the rail section but it's more due to the fine line of being off balance by the smallest hair and not making it to the end of the rail. We practice all of the tricks so many times before we do it in our run that I'd say we are pretty confident with it. I usually 'blackout' during a run (I don't remember much at the end) - I think its a mixture of all the adrenaline and focus during it.
Q: How do you get into the right headspace before big competitions?
A: I've always been an easygoing person before competitions. I don't have any routine that I follow, I just go about it as if it's any other day. I've had this come to my advantage a few times, especially at high profile events like the Olympics. Athletes put so much pressure on themselves at these events, that many usual finalists don't even make it in.
Q: Have you had any bad injuries? How'd you get through recovery?
A: I've had two bad-ish injuries. In Sochi I came up short on the last jump on my final run, kneeing myself in the face and breaking two bones in my cheek. I don't remember much of it since it also came with a bad concussion, but I had to have surgery once back in Canada to pop it back out. I was skiing within a month of that one. The other one was in 2016 where I had an old injury that got worse. I originally had a small crack in my femur that eventually chipped and began locking up my knee so I had a scope to remove it. The recovery on that took about 4 months to regain full strength and motion. I don't like to jinx anything but all in all I have been very lucky with injuries.
Q: Do you have an off-hill training regimen, or is skiing your training?
A: Skiing is my training but we also utilize other facilities such as airbags to learn tricks before we do them on the snow. Off snow, we spend lots of time in the gym staying strong to prevent injuries and I will bike as much as I can to stay fit through the off-season.
Q: What do you do in the summer when there's no snow?
A: We really only have about a month off in the spring, a couple of weeks in July, and a month off in the fall - the rest of the time we chase the snow around the world. We will spend a couple of weeks on the glacier in Whistler, go south in mid-August, and head over to Europe for most of the fall. In that downtime between training camps I try to get out camping, hiking, biking and adventuring with my dogs as much as possible - things I hope I can make more time for in the future.
Q: You compete internationally - is there anywhere you haven't skied yet that you're dying to try?
A: Japan! My mum is from Japan so I have been there about 8 times to visit family but never to ski. I am absolutely dying to go and can't believe I haven't been. Japan is the mecca of powder skiing so now that I will have more time in the winter without my hectic competition schedule I'll have to make it a priority.
Q: What are your favorite ski hills? Any hidden gems we should know about?
A: I think it would be rude if I didn't call Whistler Blackcomb my favorite. I have traveled around the world to different mountains and nothing ever beats home.
I did get a trip last winter with some friends to a place across the border called Alpental and it was time! We hit the place right after a huge storm and had a friend hook us up with this guy Andy who showed us around. The place only has two lifts and has that tight-knit community vibe that you don't get at home.
Q: How does Rumble fit into your diet?
A: Rumble is my go-to whenever I'm in a rush to get out the door or don't feel like having a full stomach but know I need to get fuel in me to get me through the day.
Q: When not skiing, how do you like to #feedthegood?
A: I'm all about getting out and living a healthy lifestyle. I'm passionate about eating healthy, staying active and making small changes in my day to day life to be better for the planet!
Follow Yuki on Instagram: @yuki_tsubota
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What do you think of when you hear the word delegation? Maybe, "oh great more work getting passed my way, I can't wait." When I first became a manager I thought that if I delegated work to others that it would seem like I was dumping on them, that was before I really understood about working effectively as a team.
Delegation involves entrusting another person with a task for which the delegate remains ultimately responsible. An effective manager or team member must monitor a delegated project or task still assuming responsibility while allowing the delegate to work independently. When choosing a delegate for a task or project that you need done you need to assess whether the person you are picking is fully capable of performing the task.
An example would be, if you need to type business marketing letters to potential clients, you would want to make sure that the person you delegated this task to was someone who not only knew how to type but had the skill of how to draft excellent marketing materials. Having appointed a delegate you must ensure that they are allowed sufficient independence to undertake the task in their own way, subject to an initial briefing and progress reports until the task is finished.
There is a difference in assigning a task and delegation. When you assign a task you are asking the person to do something a certain way and then report when the task is complete. When you delegate you not only are assigning work you are giving the team member the full responsibility to carry it out. They need to come up with a plan and execute it to complete the task and desired outcome, they are allowed to own it and be creative.
Why delegate? You cannot do it all by yourself (I learned this the hard way). My favorite saying when it comes to teamwork is "None of us is a good as all of us." Trying to do everything yourself can lead to burnout, stomach ulcers, heart attacks and nervous breakdowns.
There are times we do not delegate because we think or know that we can do the job better. That may be the case, but your time and energy could be spent on other things that would make the office run more efficiently.
Each team member has talents and skills that contribute to your team's performance. By delegating assignments you give team members the opportunity to use those skills and shine in a spotlight of their own.
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Robredo vows to rally support for Duterte administration
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Vice President Leni Robredo pledges to rally support for the Duterte administration in her speech at the Tapatan sa Aristocrat on July 4, 2016. (Photo courtesy of the Leni Robredo Media Bureau) MANILA — Despite her political differences with President Duterte, Vice President Leni Robredo on Monday said her main duty was to rally the people to support the administration. "This administration deserves our support. This is not only for President Duterte but for the entire country," the Vice President said in a speech at the "Tapatan sa Aristocrat" forum in…
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Duterte, NSC to discuss PH win over China on sea row
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte interacts with unit troops in formation during his visit in Brgy Palayan Fort Magsaysay , Nueva Ecija. INQUIRER PHOTO/JOAN BONDOC PRESIDENT Duterte will discuss with the National Security Council (NSC) today the country's next steps on vital issues, including the peace process, war on illegal drugs and the country's arbitration court victory over China with regard to the West Philippine Sea. The meeting this afternoon will be the first time the NSC is convened in the Duterte administration, according to the Presidential Communications Office. The 35-member council…
Watch Duterte tighten the screws when Biden takes over
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Richard Heydarian is an Asia-based academic, columnist and author of "The Rise of Duterte: A Populist Revolt Against Elite Democracy" and the "The Indo-Pacific: Trump, China and the New Struggle for Global Mastery." Like other strongman leaders across the world, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte definitely did not want to see Joe Biden win the U.S. presidential election. For Duterte, four more years of fellow populist Donald Trump was a much more preferable outcome. In tepid congratulations issued via his spokesman, Duterte emphasized the need for "mutual respect" and "mutual benefit," a…
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Duterte threatens to cut funding of UP if students refuse to go to class
President Duterte has threatened to cut off the funding of the University of the Philippines (UP) if the students refuse to go to class and instead participate in anti-government protests. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (ROBINSON NIÑAL/ PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO) The President issued the warning after resenting that the state university has supposedly become a recruitment ground for communist rebels. ""Yung mga eskwelahan, UP? Fine. Maghinto kayo ng aral (The schools, UP? Fine. If you stop going to school), I will stop the funding," Duterte said in a televised address Tuesday night.…
Duterte to participate in virtual APEC Summit on Nov. 20
After skipping a few sessions at the recently concluded regional summit to attend to the country's calamity situation, President Duterte is expected to participate in the virtual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit on November 20, Malacañang said Monday. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (RICHARD MADELO/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO) The President is expected to attend two sessions of the APEC Economic Leaders' meeting this Friday, according to his spokesman Harry Roque. Leaders from 21 Asia Pacific member economies will convene virtually this week in the forum hosted by Malaysia. This will be the fist time APEC…
Duterte backtracks on Department of Disaster Resilience, says he can make do with the present setup
President Duterte is prepared to make do with the government's present disaster response system after some lawmakers opposed the proposed creation of a new department to handle such concern. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (SIMEON CELI JR./PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO/ MANILA BULLETIN) The President admitted that there has been a "resistance" in Congress to the proposed Department of Disaster Resilience due to supposed redundancy. The bill seeking to create new department related to disaster risk reduction and response is one of the priority bills earlier endorsed by the President. "We're having a resistance, sa Congress mismo.…
Duterte to Asean: Arbitral ruling can't be ignored by any county
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte delivers his remarks during the virtual plenary session of the 37th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN Summit) and Related Summits hosted by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam at the Malacañang Golf (Malago) Clubhouse, Malacañang Park in Manila on November 12, 2020. KING RODRIGUEZ/ PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO MANILA – No country can ignore nor diminish the Philippines' arbitral victory in the South China Sea case, President Rodrigo Duterte said Thursday. Duterte asserted the country's arbitral win in his speech during the virtual plenary session of the 37th Asean…
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No country can ignore or diminish the arbitral ruling on the South China Sea conflict no matter how big or powerful it is, President Duterte declared Thursday at the start of a virtual regional summit. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (ARMAN BAYLON/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO/ MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The President brought up the country's arbitration victory against China's sweeping claims in the territory when he attended the the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit and related meetings via video conference. The arbitration ruling, Duterte stressed, has already become part of the international law. The Southeast…
Duterte extends Philippines' military deal with US
MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte has decided to extend the Visiting Forces Agreement with the U.S., Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said on Wednesday, amid continuing tensions with China in the disputed South China Sea. The extension would give Manila and Washington, which will usher in a new administration under Joe Biden as President in January, more time to discuss options for the troops deal, a key aspect of their defense alliance, an analyst said. Duterte early this year ordered the abrogation of the 1998 agreement, which facilitates…


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As this year's (2018) Academy Awards began, people were still talking about the moment during last year's Academy Awards when Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty presented the Oscar for Best Picture to the wrong cast. The moment, known as Envelopegate or the most shocking moment in Oscar history, was perhaps best captured in this photograph (Meryl Streep and the Rock's eyes are the best).
As movie stars were dumbfounded by the blunder, people quickly looked for the person to assign fault and responsibility to for the biggest blunder in Oscar history. From the announcers, to the person who handed them the envelope, to the guardian of the envelope, to those who planned the event, opinions varied as to who was responsible, but someone needed to absorb the wrath of the moment. Whenever something goes wrong, people immediately look for someone to blame, for someone to pay.
Compared to the struggles and evils in our world, the blunder at the Academy Awards in 2017 is small and inconsequential. Beatty and Dunaway did not intentionally bring chaos to the Awards. No one planned to hurt the cast of La La Land or Moonlight. The blunder was a mistake. And if mistakes require people to be held accountable, how much more does willful rebellion against our loving and holy God? Our sin is much bigger and much deeper than a mistake; it is rebellion against God. And someone has to pay.
Humanity has always had a sense that we fall short and that someone must pay for our sins. During the mythical Trojan War, the goddess Artemis punished Agamemnon, the Greek general, for evil deeds his soldiers committed. On their way to the war, Artemis caused the winds to stir, and the Greeks' ships were knocked violently into one another. To appease the wrath of Artemis, Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter to the goddess, and Artemis' wrath was transferred from the winds and the waves to Agamemnon's daughter. Because the anger of the goddess was quenched, the ships reached Troy without any more difficulty. The Trojan War legend was written about 1000 years before Christ was born, and it shows that people throughout history, even those who believed in multiple gods, believed their sins must be dealt with, that the wrath of the gods must be satisfied.
As J.I. Packer pointed out in his classic work, Knowing God, our God is very different from the gods depicted in Greek mythology. Our God does not demand that we make things right and bring a sacrifice. We cannot make things right. Instead, in His great love, He pursued us and offered His Son as the sacrifice for our sin. God did not demand our sacrifice, but gave One. All the punishment that we deserved was given to Jesus, and all the blessings and rewards that Jesus deserved were given to us. He is our atoning sacrifice. He has taken the wrath for all our sin.


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2016 Miss South Florida USA and Miss South Florida Teen USA Pageant Hollywood, FL — Presenting the new winners Miss South Florida USA, Lisa Opie, and Miss South Florida Teen USA, Victoria Kontzamanys, crowned at Hollywood Studios Florida.
The competition featured 10 contestants throughout South Florida. Both winners will advance to the state pageant of Miss Florida USA® and Miss Florida Teen USA®, preliminaries to MISS USA® and MISS TEEN USA®.
Victoria Kontzamanys is a 17 year old dual enrolled student at Terra Environmental Institute and Miami Dade College. She is member of her school's dance team, FBLA, and Emeralds Cheerleading. She is also a member of the Miami Dade County Youth Commission.
Her hobbies are dancing with Dance Empire of the Miami, cheerleading, and community service. She has been awarded Mayor's Scholar Award, Duke of Edinburgh, and Silver knight Nominee. Her platform is to work with American Cancer Society after recently losing her father after battling cancer. Her career goal is to become a Marketing Director in the Sports Industry.
She is the proud daughter of Tracey Cerchiai Kontzamanys. Victoria formerly held the winning titles of Miss North Miami Beach Teen USA and Miss Clay County Outstanding Teen, preliminary to Miss America Outstanding Teen.
Lisa Opie is a 23 year old graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science. Lisa was awarded Full scholarship to the Youth Leadership Institute's in Washington DC and a full scholarship for her Yoga Teacher Training. She is the founding director of Academic Achievement for her sorority, Zeta Tau Alpha and also formed her owned organization called Japan Circle for Japanese students embracing her Japanese heritage. She is now resides in Miami, Florida currently working her dream jobs as a Full-Time Actress, Fashion Model, and Swimwear Designer.
She is the business owner of her company Vizcaya Swimwear and Founder of Anti-Bullying and Women's Empowerment Organization called Lady Code. In the future she would like to obtain her Juris Doctor and run for Public Office. Lisa is the proud daughter of Kayoko and George Opie.
The other contestants placed were first runner up teen, Lauren Montalvan and first runner up, Jazmin Abuaf.
The contestant that took the winning titles of both "People's Choice" and "Amity" was awarded to Isabella Siniscalchi.
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Life expectancy has risen exponentially in the UK in the past 50 years. One in six people are currently over 65 years. By 2033 that figure is projected to rise to 25% of the UK's population. While the population can, on the whole, look forward to longer years of good health, many people will be living with one or more chronic condition contributing to disability, diminished quality of life, and increased impact on social services.
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Leading experts in the field of healthy ageing will be discussing different programmes and strategies to promote a healthy and independent lifestyle and how to reduce the societal and individual costs. This will include current policies, community initiatives, chronic pain management and care for mental health, which is one of the most daunting and potently costly consequences of ever-longer life expectancies.
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Dandeli – a holiday-goers' delight!!
The amazing holiday destination, Dandeli, is located in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka. Dandeli, a small town, is set on an elevation of approximately 1551 feet above sea level. The town boasts of some of the best of adventure activities that the town's tourism encompasses to attract tourists. The best among all is white river rafting on River Kali. Tourists flock to the town to experience the thrills and joys of river rafting.
Reaching Dandeli is not a problem at all. It is situated at about 125 km from Goa. The hot holiday destination is well-connected for Indian as well tourists coming from abroad via Goa, Bangalore or Mangalore.
Since Dandeli is a hot tourist spot, there is a plethora of activities for the tourists to indulge in. There is the Dandeli Wild Life Sanctuary, River Rafting, Nature Camp, Shopping, Trekking, Nature Walks, etc. Likewise, there are many hotels in Dandeli which offer the best accommodation and there are some which offer packages which encompass the river rafting, jungle safari, camping activities too. The type of hotel that you can choose depending upon the purpose of visit, whether the holiday is with family or friends, budget, etc.
Nature Nest in Dandeli offers the best homestay facilities. The Nature Nest Homestay is located amidst the lush green landscaping of unexplored jungles. Nature Nest is barely 12 km from Dandeli. Nature Nest Homestay offers the best of accommodation with rooms that are done up aesthetically. The rooms at Nature Nest in Dandeli offer a panoramic view of the fascinating jungle.
The Jungle Nature Nest is also very close to the Dandeli Wild Life Sanctuary where you can get to experience the feel of a natural habitat of the rare species of animals that are India's pride.
Make you holiday a memorable one for yourself and your family. Visit Dandeli and have fun-loaded holiday!!!


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Brainiac On Banjo: Make Room! Make Room!
Posted on December 9, 2021 December 8, 2021 by Mike Gold
There once was a science fiction writer named Harry Harrison. He is best known as the author of "Make Room, Make Room," which was turned into the 1973 movie Soylent Green, starring Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, and that guy who says we can take his gun out of his cold dead hands now.
The story was about overpopulation and how there was no space for anybody to live, eat or, ironically, procreate. It was set in 2022. That's 22 days from now.
Harrison also was a comic book and comic strip writer, and much of his artwork – for EC Comics and others – was inked by Wally Wood. He wrote the Flash Gordon comic strip in the 1950s and his s-f novel, The Stainless Steel Rat, was adapted into a long running series in the UK weekly comics 2000 AD.
I agree with his story's message. In fact, I do not believe we have a shortage of any natural resources per se. I believe we have a massive overabundance of human beings. This planet wasn't built to house and feed 7.9 billion people (as of November 2021). Indeed, the number of humans who stalk the Earth octupled in the past 200 years. Make room, indeed. And never forget: soylent green is people.
Not everybody agrees with me. For example, take Elon Musk, a man who has been dramatically unable to pull his rabbit out of his hat.
Yes, he's the guy behind the Tesla, the wonderfully named, vastly overpriced and pathetically underperforming wondercar that is supposed to eliminate the need for both gasoline and drivers. Someday it might do that, maybe, perhaps… but thus far it is one of the most recalled automobiles of this century. Thus far, his six-figure four-wheeler has killed at least 221 people (source).
His SpaceX company appears to be more successful – unless you're paying attention to Elon Musk. A couple weeks ago, he told his SpaceX employees that his Starship engine crisis is creating a "risk of bankruptcy." Start updating your résumés, kids!
So it is with some amusement that I find Elon's latest pronouncement that "so many people, including smart people, think that there are too many people in the world and think that the population is growing out of control. It's completely the opposite. Please look at the numbers – if people don't have more children, civilization is going to crumble, mark my words." He said this at the Wall Street Journal's annual CEO Council while he was promoting his newest baby, the Tesla Bot, which, according to Musk, is a "generalized substitute for human labor over time."
More people but less human employment. This is a billionaire's stickiest wet dream.
I should note Elon has six children. Well, at least he puts his, ahhh, dick where his mouth is.
The global birthrate fell by 4% in 2020, and it's been slowly declining for the previous 60 years. To me, this sounds like great progress. Slow progress, to be sure, but slow enough to be in Elon's comfort zone. Except it isn't.
Musk also notes "it is important for us to die because most of the times, people don't change their mind, they just die… If they live forever, then we might become a very ossified society where new ideas cannot succeed."
I'm not exactly sure how he came to this conclusion as it's not backed by anybody's experience, but I can make an educated guess as to which orifice had incubated his speculation.
Bottom line: P.T. Burnum put on a better show.
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When managing new change initiatives within an organization, I use a productive process called "springboarding" to launch the project in the right direction. Essentially, I repurpose the well-known project "post mortem" exercise and use it at the start of an initiative to evaluate and avoid possible weaknesses in the process.
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He defended his Dream lightweight title with consummate ease this past weekend. Despite having Muay Thai experts Chatri Sityodtong, Namsaknoi Yudthagarngamtorn, and Muangfalek Kiatvichian in his corner, Aoki never got to demonstrate his new found stand up fighting skills. Instead he put on a ground fighting clinic, taking the former WEC champion to the ground seemingly at will before finishing him late in the first round with a neck crank.
"Kru Chatri Sityodtong, Yuki Nakai, and Ryo Chonan came up with the game plan and strategy for this fight and it has lworked perfectly. I feel much more confident going into a fight since I started working with Chatri. The fight turned out exactly like he told me it would and the plan was for me to apply forward pressure and to make McCullough backpedal. Chatri wanted me to take McCullough down and to control McCullough on the ground and submit him late in the round and that's exactly what happened," Aoki said.
Aoki has now won his last six fights and is, without doubt, the top pound-for-pound fighter in Asia at present. Aoki feels that he has joined the top camp in the world and that this will help him become the top lightweight. Aoki has been working with a number of former Muay Thai champions at Evolve MMA, including Namsaknoi Yudthagarngamtorn, Lamnammoon Sor Summalee, Attachai Fairtex, and Orono Wor Petchpun and many others. Footage of him training in Singapore was shown in the Dream 17 promo and people were amazed to see a fighter, who was once seen as having limited ability on his feet, hitting the pads with such speed and power.
"I feel I am a completely different fighter from the one I was before I joined the Evolve Fight Team. A lot of people in Japan saw the video of me working with Yodsanan Sityodtong, who is a former boxing world champion, and said that they could not believe how much better my boxing was. What they don't see is me practising every day with the team of BJJ world champions like Zorobabel Moreira, Leandro Issa, and the rest of the world-class BJJ Black Belts at Evolve MMA. As a result, my ground game has gotten even better and I have learned new things for my submission game" he said.
"I believe that Evolve MMA is the number one camp in the world right now. In Japan, it is difficult for me to find that sort of world-class training in every discipline of MMA. At Evolve MMA, I have teachers and training partners in every discipline such as Muay Thai, BJJ, MMA, etc. So my overall game has improved dramatically," he said.
Aoki is already universally recognized as being a top five lightweight in the world. Interestingly, he reached that position without ever having to work too hard on his stand up game. Now that he joined a fight team where he can work on every aspect of mixed martial arts with high calibre trainers, Aoki's potential is scary. With Evolve MMA in his corner, his win streak looks like it could last a long time.


Fonts can make a big difference on a website. And, if you rely on themes for most of your designs, fonts may be an area where you've allowed yourself to compromise on what you really want.
Sure, you can hack into the stylesheet to make changes to the fonts… but yuck! If you're like me, one of the main reasons that you use themes is so that you're not stuck custom coding.
The Fontific plugin gives you a coding-free method to manipulate the CSS on your theme. You can customize the fonts used throughout your site to get the look you really want from whatever theme you like.
When I find a new theme – I get obsessed with it. So, I end up using it over and over again. As you can see in the titles circled above, Fontific helps me make each of the sites look different, while still being able to use the theme options I'm gaa-gaa over at the time.
What I love most about this plugin is that you don't have to touch your stylesheet. You simply enter the tags you want to override, and tell Fontific what you'd like to see instead of your theme's settings.
The font choices come from the Google Web Font directory – and though the entire database isn't available, there is a decent selection to chose from.
As you make changes on this panel, you'll see the preview font on the right change (the red script in the example above) to show you what you've selected. Saving the new settings updates your site automatically. Both of these features make it easy to "play" with the look and get it exactly as you'd like it.
2 – Above, you'll see that I circled the H1 tag. The first time that I logged in, it wasn't clear that the blank space there at the top of the rounded-corner box is where the tag should go. Again, just one of those things that can take you a minute the first time around.
3 – It doesn't pull a list of tags from your stylesheet. Now, I'm probably asking for too much here… but it would be nice to not have to open the stylesheet at all, or not need to guess at what all the tags might be.
Despite these factors, the tool is easy to use and can help you remove a point of compromise from your decision making process when choosing a new theme – or will allow you to reuse a theme over and over again without it looking like the same theme over and over again.
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The case is well known, that well known in fact that one only needs to look up Wikipedia or go through a standard MBA curriculum to see I am not giving you news. It's general knowledge. It is the story of the victory of cunning improvisation over adherence to plan. While researchers, using the case as a Rohrschach to project into it what they want d it is a huge success story of flexibility and serendipity allowing for innovation and enforcing the luck of the brave and bold.
After the war, the Japanese market was ablaze with small motorcycles. One of the huge hits was the Honda Super Cub. Honda was a dominant player on this market. And so Honda learnt very well how to produce such models with small capacity with great quality and which markets to reach out to.
In the USA at the same time, motorcycles and especially Harley-Davidsons where selling big time, even though with different models and image than one might assume today.
Directly following Harley Davidson were British companies, selling around 50% of the bikes in the US. Japanese producers did not matter. Japanese world export of motorcycles was less than 4% of the Japanese production.
Growing sales in Japan after the war inspired Honda, much more so growing sales in the US. Less inspiring was the own share in these sales numbers. So Honda tried to enter that market. They researched the market intensely and tried to come up with models matching the market – or rather the understanding they had from the market. The consequence was big bore machines.
But this strategy brought no success. Sales were way below expectations. And another problem came up additionally. Not used to building big bore machines, technical problems came up. The engines heated up and seized. Honda then decided to send all affected machines back to Japan. While it was horrible to have to send back all machines to Japan, the way of uncompromised quality was rewarded by the sales partners. This was important for a new kid on the block, such as Honda, that just won its first sales partners.
Now an additional effect set in: While the heavy machines didn't attract American buyers, the small ones that the sales guys were using to visit the sales partners, drew the attention of these and clients to them. This was the Honda Super Cub, later the American Honda 50.
And now a tipping point was reached and one thing led to another. Instead of serving the market like intended, Honda turned bad into good and revised its plans completely. Now they started selling the Honda 50 instead of the big machines, which they were used to produce in high quality and sell in large quantities at home. Of course, they could not oust the larger machines. Instead, Honda came up with the marketing towards citizens and claimed that 'you meet the nicest people on a Honda'. This made sense, as the image of the big bores already was coined by the rough guys. But there's space for both sectors.
Marketing was driven by the then well known agency Grey Advertising. And this turned the image of a complete industry, amplified by the uber clean appeareanc eof Honda sales partners, completely in suits, shirts and tie.
In Words: The yearly production of the Honda 50 for the US grew from zero to 900.000 in the five years from 1958 to 1963.
Hiding behind 'wonderful staff', "people who can make the organization work" and "decision to build its own sales network" is: A learning organization, reading the and responding to the market and going for bold decisions, abandoning an existing plan when necessary to follow the goals in other, unusual, unforeseen ways.
The possibility of all this in a huge enterprise may encourage one or the other depressed soul, currently being choked in much smaller companies. Without boldness and a lack of any knowledge of the customer.
Disruption needs space to breathe and the option to learn by serendipity, needs to enforce the luck of the bold mover and so enforce and then catch the upside options.
The main ingredient for this is a culture of learning, empowered by multiple safe to fail experiments and the dedication for radical, unusual decision coupled with patience and the oversight to be in the game in the long term rather than chasing the random short term over night success.
It is not without irony that the 'stay in the plan' researchers from BCH read the story completely different as only they can read it. The thought this turnout was the result of perfect upfront planning to conquer that niche. In fact it is the perfect example of improvised thinking rather than scripted thinking. It demonstrates the power of serendipity, boldness flexibility and a learning organization. Honda itself knows what and how it accomplished this market entry and why. You can read about it here. Nowadays, Eric Ries would call this a perfect example of knowledge accounting.
The whole story is a little unintuitive, as Honda did actually not adjust its product to the US market. Rather they had the chance to simply draw an existing option which had better market fit, but for a new submarket in that market that they actually created by chance. They just had to change the product a little and adjust marketing to the American culture to achieve the breakthrough. Smart dreams about this to the current days and sits in its niche – uninspired.
I got aware of the story for the first time while reading the great book on team collaboration 'Group Genius' by Keith Sawyer. He tells the story to highlight the power of improvised thinking over script thinking – aka sticking to the plan. We will review the book in detail in one of the next blogs. In short: BCG completely missed the point: Honda was successful because they left the plan. Had they stuck to the plan, they would have lost the option. Givng up the old plan meant success. Lets remember this.


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South Africa, Kenya and Zimbabwe: Repression and state...
Maverick Citizen Op-Ed
South Africa, Kenya and Zimbabwe: Repression and state violence are not public health strategies
Members of Not In My Name SA Movement protest in solidarity with Zimbabweans at the Zimbabwean Embassy on August 07, 2020 in Pretoria, South Africa. It is reported that the group protested against the alleged human rights violations taking place in Zimbabwe. The country is facing challenges with the decaying economy, the health system has collapsed and the unemployment rate is alarming. (Photo by Gallo Images/Lefty Shivambu)
By Tasneem Essop on behalf of the Anti-Repression Working Group of the C-19 People's Coalition
In July 2020, a victim of a house demolition south of Johannesburg declared: 'We are human beings. The president said wear a mask and stay at home. What do you do when they take your home away?'
The securitised interventions by the South African, Kenyan and Zimbabwean governments are fundamentally out of tune with the needs of the moment. Equally, they are ineffective in dealing with the pandemic's multiple crises.
All three countries opted to rely on repressive means to address an unprecedented public health crisis. From local government officials to police and other security forces, the response has been eerily similar; lockdown regulations have been used as a cover for cracking down on legitimate concerns around the socio-economic fallout from nationwide lockdowns that have decimated livelihoods and disproportionately affected the poor.
In mid-July 2020, with South Africa's confirmed Covid-19 cases rising rapidly, the World Health Organisation (WHO) emergencies chief, Michael Ryan, warned that this could be a precursor for an acceleration in new cases across the African continent.
Kenya began to see a spike in infections since the phased reopening of its economy, announced on 6 July 2020. Since then, infections have more than trebled from just over 8,000 cases to 30,120 (at the time of writing).
Despite easing some restrictions, the Kenyan government announced new measures in July, including the banning of alcohol sales in restaurants, closing bars and an extended dusk-to-dawn curfew.
South Africa has had its own ban on alcohol sales – which will be lifted in the coming week – and a night-time curfew following the phased opening of the economy that has since seen confirmed cases rising to 587,000 and over 11,000 deaths, according to the latest statistics.
The Zimbabwean government has also put in place a dusk-to-dawn curfew as new cases began to increase there too.
These announcements are part of a series of measures implemented in all three countries. However, elements of managing the health crisis have also seen incidents of police brutality, repression, forced evictions and other incidents of violations by security forces.
This pattern of conduct calls into question the use of securitised approaches to the global health emergency and what it means for the broader public health response that is needed.
Many in South Africa expressed outrage at images of Bulelani Qolani being dragged out of his shack naked during an eviction and shack demolition by law enforcement officials in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. This was the latest in a wave of evictions ordered by municipalities across South Africa during the Covid-19 lockdown. These brutal evictions have been ordered despite being prohibited under lockdown Levels 4 and 5. Under lockdown Level 3, the execution of eviction orders granted has also been suspended until the end of Level 3. As a victim of a house demolition south of Johannesburg in July 2020 declared: "We are human beings. The president said wear a mask and stay at home. What do you do when they take your home away?"
The C-19 People's Coalition – a broad civil society collective established as the pandemic began in South Africa – has been recording abuses by security forces during the lockdown. To date, over 90 such incidents have been recorded, most of which are assaults.
The public interest litigation hotline has recorded a further 53 cases of police brutality and unlawful arrest. In May 2020, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) stated that they had received 376 cases pertaining to the lockdown, 10 of which are deaths as a result of police action and 280 of which are assaults by the police.
The now well-known judgment in the Collins Khosa case – following the brutal assault and killing of Khosa at the hands of South African soldiers – found in favour of the family and highlighted the problems with unclear lockdown regulations and the heavy-handed and overly securitised enforcement of the regulations. The Khosa family approached the courts for justice, but also sought relief that would urgently address the rampant police and army brutality witnessed during the lockdown. Among other findings, the far-reaching judgment required the government to develop a code of conduct to guide lockdown enforcement and to publicise their commitment to upholding the right to life.
Meanwhile in Kenya, in early May 2020, authorities demolished hundreds of homes and evicted over 8,000 people in two informal settlements in Nairobi, sparking widespread outrage and protest. Like South Africa, these mass evictions took place despite there being a court order barring them. Both the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing and the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights have called for states to declare an end to all evictions during the Covid-19 pandemic, highlighting that "in the face of this pandemic, being evicted from your home is a potential death sentence".
The police also came under fire for excessive use of force when implementing lockdown regulations. In a judgment handed down in April 2020, the High Court of Kenya (Nairobi) declared, among other things, that the unreasonable use of force by the police in enforcing a Covid-19 curfew was unconstitutional. The Kenyan judgment followed numerous reports of police brutality and abuse that has left at least six people dead in just the first 10 days of the curfew imposed on 27 March 2020.
A few hours before the first night of the curfew, police reportedly harassed and beat people, and fired teargas at commuters in Nairobi. In one case, a 13-year-old boy, Hussein Moyo, was shot while he was on the balcony of his family home. Since then, Kenya's Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) reported in June 2020 that the police were involved in killing 15 people since the curfew was imposed and that 31 people were injured.
As mass Black Lives Matter protests gripped the US following the killing of George Floyd at the hands of white police officers, demonstrations were held in other countries – both in solidarity with protestors in the US and to highlight police brutality in their domestic contexts.
In the Mathare informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, a similar message was put forward by protesters around police brutality. The curfew and restrictions, however, brought another wave of violence. As protestors and organisations such as the Mathare Social Justice Centre have pointed out, extrajudicial killings, especially of young people in places like Mathare, long preceded the pandemic.
The pandemic has exacerbated existing economic, social and political fault lines in Zimbabwe: Food shortages have reached unprecedented highs and the healthcare system has all but collapsed. Health workers have been on strike over personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages, poor working conditions and poor salaries recently.
In the latest Covid-19 regulations, the Zimbabwean government announced a curfew from 6pm to 6am, with those breaking the curfew "liable for severe punishment". Critics argue that this has been done not only to curb the spread of the virus, but to also curb the planned protests.
As #ZimbabweanLivesMatter trended on social media during the first week of August 2020, international attention turned to the human rights violations by government and security forces in Zimbabwe. On 13 May 2020, three young women opposition activists were allegedly abducted and sexually assaulted by state security agents after being stopped at a roadblock following a protest against the government's failure to provide social protection during lockdown. Later, President Emmerson Mnangagwa denounced what he termed "illegal, reckless and unwarranted demonstrations for political grandstanding" during the Covid-19 pandemic.
On 20 July 2020, news broke that freelance journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and opposition party leader of Transform Zimbabwe, Jacob Ngarivhume were arbitrarily arrested and charged with inciting public violence. Chin'ono had been working on exposing government corruption, most recently in relation to Covid-19 interventions. At the time of his arrest, Ngarivhume was leading the call for nationwide anti-corruption demonstrations planned for 31 July 2020.
Undeterred by Ngarivhume's arrest, protestors vowed to go ahead with the demonstration. On 31 July 2020, Zimbabwean Lawyers for Human Rights reported that "scores of people were arrested", including "pro-democracy campaigners, opposition party members and ordinary citizens". On the eve of the protests in Harare, security forces cleared the streets and forced shops to close and a list of human rights defenders wanted for questioning was published.
More of the same, even in a global pandemic
In South Africa, Kenya and Zimbabwe, the brutality and heavy-handedness of the security forces is not new. It must be understood as stemming from systemic and long-standing problems with policing, repression, and failures of accountability. In particular, the criminalisation and brutalisation of poor communities is a common feature, and activists and those openly critical of their governments are usually targets of state violence.
The range of violations dealt with here – forced evictions, arbitrary arrests, the unlawful use of force, police brutality and efforts to stifle protest – are now taking place during a global pandemic. This crisis requires an effective public health response based on education to develop public understanding and support, and not a strong-armed approach.
Lessons can be drawn from the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa, where research has pointed to the success of initiatives that centred on engagement with civil society, religious and other organisations. The experiences from the Ebola outbreak illustrate the importance of responses driven by local community engagement and management.
During this crisis, these three governments have permitted national security forces to act in violation of international human rights law. The conduct of the security forces has violated the principles of legality, necessity and proportionality in relation to the use of force. The pattern of evictions in poorer communities has violated international human rights law on the right to adequate housing and violations of freedoms of assembly, association and speech have also violated human rights law. None of these measures have advanced the urgent need for an effective health response to the pandemic at all.
The moment requires a public health response built on effective communication and education. What it does not require is a policing approach that deepens patterns of state violence and abuse, and undermines efforts to curb the virus by rendering people homeless, or throwing many, unnecessarily into jails. DM/MC
This article was collectively written by members of the Anti-Repression Working Group within the C-19 People's Coalition.
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Natalie Lister (nee Blanch) is an NHMRC Early Career Fellow at The Children's Hospital at Westmead Clinical School. She is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian and has a PhD in Nutritional Science from the University of South Australia.
Natalie's research interests include investigating dietary interventions that will prevent and manage obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular risk in children and adolescents. Other interests include investigating the role of eating behaviours, dietary components, and diet quality in improving health.
Natalie's research is in part supported through a Sydney Medical School Foundation grant.
What, when, and how to treat adolescents with obesity: generating evidence for clinical dietetic practice; Lister (nee Blanch) N; National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/Early Career Fellowships.


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Radio announcer shot dead in the Philippines | radioinfo
Radio announcer shot dead in the Philippines
Radio broadcaster Joey Llana (pictured) was shot and killed while driving his car to Legazpi for his radio program on 92.3 FM Home Radio Legazpi when he was ambushed.
Police said Llana, 43, was shot 14 times with a .45-caliber gun and a 9mm pistol by unidentified gunmen.
The journalist sustained several gunshot wounds in the head and in the body. First responders to the scene declared Joey dead at about 6:05 am.
Superintendent Benito Dipad, Daraga chief of police, said the victim had received death threats but the latter dismissed them.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) had deemed the Philippines as the deadliest country for journalists in Asia, with 4 Filipino journalists killed for their work in 2017.
The Philippines was also included in the top 5 dangerous countries for journalists – together with Mexico, Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan.


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5 Reasons To Watch Gurnam Bhullar & Neeru Bajwa's Kokka
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by Kiddaan.com Team 2022-05-18, 10:51 PM
Gurnam Bhullar and Neeru Bajwa starrer 'Kokka' is all set to hit the floors on 20 May, 2022. The film boasts off a strong starcast. Neeru Bajwa is undoubtedly one of the greatest actresses of cinema history while Gurnam Bhullar is the new big thing.
Whenever a movie is announced, the audience decides whether to take out some time from their busy schedule and watch it or is it not worth it. So, here are 5 reasons that will make your decision easier in case of Kokka.
5 Reasons Why Kokka Is A Must Watch
1. Gurnam & Neeru
Gurnam Bhullar is without a doubt one of the finest actors of the modern Punjabi cinema. His roles in Main Viyah Ni Karona Tere Naal, Lekh, Surkhi Bindi, Guddiyan Patole and many more have made him a fan favourite. There is hardly any actress who has come close to the stardom of Neeru Bajwa in the Punjabi film industry. She has been a part of movies that brought revolution in the Punjabi Cinema. The two absolute brilliant actors coming together is a big enough reason to watch Kokka at the theatres.
2. Unique Storyline
Kokka is not a casual Punjabi comedy. Neither is it a film about issues of a family in a village. It is about a 40-year woman, falling in love with a much younger guy and the aftermath of that. There are some movies that try to jump out of the room filled with the crowd, and Kokka is surely one of those.
3. Breaking Stereotypes
A follow-up of the second point, the unique storyline of Kokka also means that the team has gone out of the way to break some stereotypes. An older woman marrying a younger man might have become common these days, but there's still some stigma in people regarding this, especially Punjab. Kokka is an effort to break those stereotypes.
4. Good Music
When artists like Gurnam Bhullar, Raj Ranjodh, The Landers are working on a project, how come it is not going to be a blast. The songs Tu Te Mai, Darling, Sohna Koi Nahi are all amazing and the audience has already fallen in love with them.
5. Twists
A storyline is incomplete without twists. Nobody can sit for 2-3 hours with their eyes stuck to a screen if they are not going to see unpredictable plot twists and the trailer of Kokka has shown us that the movie has huge twists in its plot. Gurnam and Neeru initially fall in love with each other and then suddenly, when everything seems to go well, everything's spoiled! Wouldn't you like to know what happened?
Kokka is all set to hit the cinemas on 20 May, 2022. Above are 5 reasons why we recommend you to watch the movie at your nearest theatres. We hope Gurnam and Neeru bring out a film to remember.
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Brandon Pon scored a second place finish and set a new La Verne record in the 1650 freestyle.
La Verne Swimming and Diving closed out day three of the SCIAC Championships.
Mary Hanna set a new La Verne record in the 200 IM.
The Leopards were in action on the first day of the SCIAC Championships.
The SCIAC Championships begin tomorrow at the Brenda Villa Aquatic Center.
SCIAC Swimming and Diving Championships start Wednesday, February 21.
The Leopards celebrated their eight seniors.
The Leopards competed at Occidental Saturday morning.
The Leopards were recognized by the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association.
The Leopards competed against one of the nation's top teams Saturday afternoon.
The Leopards will take on Pomona-Pitzer at the Sagehens' home pool.
The La Verne swimming diving team finished with five top-three finishes on day three.
Mary Hanna finished third in the 100 yard backstroke.
The La Verne swimming and diving teams opened up the Collegiate Winter Invitational Friday.
The Leopards opened home competition Saturday.
The La Verne swimming and diving team opened up SCIAC competition against CMS and Whittier.
The Leopards get ready to swim at CMS.
The Leopards had a solid start to the 2017-2018 season.