A full-service public relations and consulting firm producing world-class results since 2002.
Great entertainment PR takes more than time: it takes attentive listening to our clients, captivating conversation with journalists, formidable writing abilities, relentless follow-through, and dedication to working as hard as you do, whether you're performing and recording music, writing books, creating videos, developing products, producing shows, or touring throughout the world.
This is what you want us to do. Waldmania! does it with style.
Through more than 25 years of experience in media relations, Elizabeth has developed a creative approach that is born of both the art and the craft of publicity. Armed with solid industry knowledge and a vast network of contacts, she arrives at solutions based on a delicate interplay of the intuitive and the tried and true. At the heart of this highly personalized approach are her skills as a good listener and her artistic vision.
Elizabeth earned a B.A. in Theatre and Dance, studied drama in Ireland, appeared in Chicago Off-Loop theatre productions, and acted in nationally syndicated radio plays produced by National Radio Theatre. While at NRT, she moved into production work, research, script writing, grant writing, editing, and publicity. She later returned to Ireland, earning a certificate at the Yeats International Summer School in Sligo. She considers her accomplishments as an artist the foundation of her approach to working with others.
Waldmania! today represents a natural and happy evolution from Elizabeth's previous activities and experiences, which also included positions in media relations at WFMT-FM (Chicago's fine arts radio station) and the station's sister company, Chicago magazine, the Ravinia Festival, the Oregon Bach Festival, and the Chamber Music Series at the University of Oregon. For a period of time, Elizabeth presided over her own concert artists' management, with a roster of classical and jazz musicians.
Elizabeth's media placements in print, broadcast, and online include People, USA Today, USA Weekend, Time, Newsweek, The Today Show, Live with Regis and Kelly, Reuters TV, NPR's 'All Things Considered,' Huffington Post, Associated Press, Entertainment Weekly, Us Weekly, The New York Times, New York Daily News, New York Post, Newsday, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, L.A. Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Dallas Morning News, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Detroit Free Press, Philadelphia Inquirer, Baltimore Sun, Houston Chronicle, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, The Star-Ledger, Christian Science Monitor, Atlanta Journal Constitution, San Jose Mercury News, Seattle Times, New York Magazine, Variety, Entrepreneur, Business Week, Southwest Airlines Spirit, Alaska Airlines Magazine, US Airways Magazine, Chatelaine, Parents Magazine, KIWI Magazine, Scholastic Parent and Child, FamilyFun, American Baby, Fit Pregnancy, Pregnancy & Newborn, Canadian Family, Canadian Living, New York Family, L.A. Parent, Chicago Parent, Washington Parent, Cool Mom Picks, Red Tricycle, Apartment Therapy, POPSugar Moms, The Bump, School Library Journal, Booklist, Teaching Music, and many more.
Richard Frazier's experiences as a performer and conductor reflect an eclectic mix of classical, jazz, popular, and folk music in settings as diverse as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Houston Astrodome. As an educator he has taught music in a variety of public and private situations at the elementary, secondary, music conservatory, college and university undergraduate and graduate levels. In workshops, clinics, and master classes he has worked with musicians ranging from kindergarten to retirement age. His work as a writer has been widely distributed and has received exceptional recognition.
Richard was a founding member of Chicago Chamber Brass and toured internationally as tubist with CCB for more than fifteen years, recording several highly acclaimed albums along the way. He is also a performer on all of the orchestral stringed instruments, and he is currently a member of the bass section in San Francisco's Symphony Parnassus. He teaches private music lessons to a host of individual students ranging in age from five to sixty-five.
Richard Frazier has appeared throughout the country as a conductor, adjudicator, clinician, coach, and performer. His former students number in the thousands and enjoy vital, music-filled lives performing in community orchestras and bands, chamber music groups, military ensembles, and professional orchestras, including the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
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I am so thrilled that Elizabeth has become an integral part of my team at Two Tomatoes Records. She is clever, interested, detailed, prompt, creative, efficient and always professional. On top of all that, she gets results. I have been continually busy with interviews, appearances and other PR opportunities since the day we began working together. I'm proud to be working with you, Elizabeth!
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Thanks!!! I just wanted to say thanks so much for all your hard work. The show was a huge success. The venue was so packed people couldn't even get in.
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I feel deep gratitude to Doctor Noize's PR agent Elizabeth Waldman Frazier for the wonderful work she's done promoting "Phineas McBoof Crashes the Symphony." We're at 70 media publications nationwide and counting, and all 70 have been glowing — due in no small part to Elizabeth's professionalism and how she treats people. Finding a PR expert who's a creative intellectual and truly understands the purpose and value of our project has been an unexpected pleasure.
We just wanted to take a moment and recognize all of the wonderful press that has been cropping up and the work you have done to tie up loose ends beyond the timeframe of our contract. Thanks for everything!
Through her boundless energy and creative thinking, Elizabeth offers her clients invaluable guidance with project-specific strategies that produce unique results every time. Using her extensive network, she got my music exposure beyond my expectations. She is both a publicist and a friend!
As THE top publicist for children's musicians, Elizabeth is by far the most organized, punctual, and hardest worker on the entire planet. Having her on my team has helped bring my career to the next level, and I'm so very grateful.
Elizabeth is absolutely everything you need and want in a publicist. She knows the landcape, has a meticulous attention to detail, is flexible, creative, and incredibly thorough. She was a mentor, a champion, and a fan throughout our first album release. She gave us national exposure in print, on the air, and online, and she was a huge part of our success. I cannot recommend her enough.
I cannot say enough wonderful things about Elizabeth Waldman Frazier. She is a pro at working with the media, delivering exactly what I need each and every time. She is one of the very few PR professionals whom I consider a friend, and look forward to speaking with, whether it's to secure a cover story for one of her clients, or simply to catch up. Simply put, Elizabeth is a lovely person, and one of the biggest powerhouses in PR.
Thank you so much for all your unending hard work. I can't tell you how grateful we are for all you've done for us. The experience we had working with you far exceeded our expectations. You were already helping us before our start date, and I'm sure I will call on you for advice/additional PR in the future. (Thanks especially for the Houghton-Mifflin licensing deal. That was huge for us and wouldn't have happened if it weren't for you!) You are the best!
Thank you so much for all that you did for us! You worked so hard and got us into so many cool places, and we really appreciate it! You rock! We'd love to work with you again in the future.
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Elizabeth Waldman Frazier's wonderful writing ability and tremendous marketing skills resulted in excellent and far-reaching reviews of my newest CD in the LA Times, Washington Post, and other high profile publications. More importantly, however, for me, she demonstrated the sensitivity of an artist in her understanding and appreciation of the music. She truly believes in the value and importance of the music and musicians she represents. In this commercialized and formulaic world, Elizabeth provides a genuine and honest voice for unique and beautiful work, bringing a refreshing current into the mainstream.
Before meeting up with our fairy godmother, Elizabeth Waldman Frazier, The Hipwaders were merely a pair of ill-fitting rubber fishing pants. Having Waldmania handle the publicity campaign for our album, Educated Kid, was easily the best investment our band ever made. Elizabeth Waldman Frazier, through her extensive knowledge of the business, her connections, and especially her exceptional writing style, has gained The Hipwaders not only local and regional exposure, but exposure in the national media we never dreamed possible.
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Elizabeth Waldman Frazier is an outstanding publicist. Her dedication, integrity, and personality, coupled with an attention to detail and thorough grasp of the field have produced exceptional results in her work for the California Youth Symphony.
I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for the utterly fabulous and professional job you have done this past season with the California Youth Symphony as Publicity Director. The numerous citations in the press, as well as the listings for concerts (always a chancy proposition, as we know), were always there, and your dedication to your work and to the group is an inspiration to me. You have my total support and gratitude for a job that is expertly done. Having been in the business for over 20 years now, I have worked with numerous publicity directors and assistants, and you are definitely a cut above the rest!


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It's Time to Stop Hating the Shirley Temple
(illustration: Justin Shiels)
The Indispensables is Liquor.com's series devoted to the classic cocktails drinkers of every skill need in their arsenal. Each installment features one signature recipe, assembled from intel by the best bartenders. The Indispensables may not save the world, but it'll surely rescue your cocktail hour.
The status of a celebrity icon does not often outlast its time period. Case in point: When I asked my 15-year-old niece if she wanted our upcoming movie marathon night to be a bevy of Julia Roberts flicks, she responded, "Julia who?"
This applies even if the celebrity in question gets a drink named after her. How many people, for instance, know who the sweet, silent actress Mary Pickford was when sipping on the eponymous drink of white rum, maraschino liqueur, grenadine and pineapple juice? Do images of a sultry Jean Harlow immediately come to mind when a bartender mixes equal parts rum and sweet vermouth, decorated with a slender lemon twist? Probably not.
But sometimes celebrity drink status actually begins to eclipse its namesake, and in no drink is that more apparent than the Shirley Temple. The classic mix of ginger ale and grenadine with a squeeze of lemon or lime topped with maraschino cherries (plural, please!) is the world's first mocktail. And it's alive and well.
Why has this sugary sweet concoction stood the test of time, even if its ringleted child superstar namesake hasn't? Temple herself shed her former image, leaving filmdom to become the United States ambassador to Ghana and, later, Czechoslovakia. Her name even took on a shade of seriousness when she married and became Shirley Black.
"Sorry to say, I doubt you're going to find anyone doing anything exciting with that drink," says Jeffrey Morgenthaler, the owner of Portland, Ore.'s Clyde Common and champion of woe-begotten cocktails. And while that seems to be true, so too is the fact that many drinkers prefer it for precisely that reason: its sweet familiarity.
"I think when people go to a bar and don't know what to order, they order something familiar, with or without alcohol," says Tara Heffernon, the co-owner of Duke's Spirited Cocktails in Healdsburg, Calif. The interesting thing about Duke's Shirley Temple is that the bar's license is the type that forbids anyone under 21 from entering, and yet the Shirley Temple sits on the bar list with other more bespoke booze-free drinks.
Heffernon says she definitely makes more vodka-spiked Dirty Shirleys than regular nonalcoholic ones, but still they're made with care and requested enough to keep on regular rotation. "We serve it tall in a soda fountain glass with our 1 1/4-inch Kold-Draft ice cubes topped with Fabbri amarena cherries," she says. And it goes without saying that Duke's grenadine is house-made from fresh pomegranates.
It's the familiarity and ease of order that are the keys to the Shirley Temple's longevity. Also: Kids just love it. "Children see a parent drinking a cocktail, and they want one too," says Colleen Kenny, the bar manager of Nostrana in Portland where she serves a version dubbed the Don't Call Me Shirley with house-made club soda, homemade grenadine, fresh lemon and lime, and amarena cherries.
"It's a fun way to let them drink something that's special when they're eating out. I drank them all the time when eating out with my parents. It's always consistent," says Kenny. "We call ours Don't Call Me Shirley because you're not getting the scary, cloying syrup that people are used to. It's been really successful. We've had it for many years now."
Where did the world's most famous mocktail make its debut? Temple was infamously unfond of her namesake drink and put the blame for its invention on the departed Hollywood see-and-be-seen eatery The Brown Derby. Others have taken credit for its invention, like Chasen's in Hollywood and The Royal Hawaiian hotel in Waikiki.
And then there was the vague mention of a bartender named Smith "Smithy" Lowther of Palm Desert who claimed in a 1985 letter to former Desert Sun newspaper columnist Larry Boodry that he invented the drink when working at a Hollywood hot spot, although he didn't mention particulars like where, when and how. A search for ol' Smithy to confirm his claim is as fruitless as a jar of formaldehyde-soaked maraschino cherries.
Don't Call Me Shirley
Temple, who died in 2014 at the age of 85, disliked the drink so much that she wound up in court twice, fighting a couple of enterprising companies that wanted to bottle the famed nonalcoholic treat with her former child-star name on it. She won both battles. Would cans of Shirley Temples have been as popular as Coca-Cola? Hard to say. But while Temple's charming black-and-white films are a dusty remnant of a bygone era, the drink she so disliked has kept her name in permanent rotation, with no end in sight.
"Having accessible ingredients is a good reason why it has lasted," says Heffernon. "It doesn't require fresh juicing or any ingredient that people don't already have. "It's sweet, fruity and simple, so any bar can have it." And she points out, despite what many parents want to believe about their kids' innate superiority, most don't have sophisticated palates. "Kids aren't usually ordering a nonalcoholic Collins or an Arnold Palmer."
At Duke's, though, there are no kids allowed; Shirley Temple couldn't order a Shirley Temple there. But even grown-ups appear to crave the sweet familiarity and comfort of the known.
"When we talk about our nonalcoholic menu, we're focusing on what guests like in a cocktail experience. And we like to support that," says Heffernon. And as to that familiarity, well, that's part of the charm too. "My best friend hasn't had alcohol for 10 years, and the Shirley Temple is her fave. Even at a dive bar, she can get something familiar that's not just soda water. Every person should get to feel the magic of a cocktail experience created for them, instead of just handing someone soda water and calling it a day."
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Loyola University New Orleans Faculty Exhibit Research Collection at DNC�s �Politicalfest�
Loyola press release - July 22, 2016
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Faculty from Loyola University New Orleans will exhibit rare historic documents and ongoing research about at the Democratic National Committee's bi-partisan Politicalfest, which will be held in Philadelphia July 22-27, 2016 in conjunction with the Democratic National Committee convention. During these five days, Loyola University New Orleans Visiting Honors Professor Stanley Yavneh Klos and Dr. Naomi Yavneh Klos, director of the University Honors Program, will exhibit a collection of letters, invitations, images and other ephemera at the National Liberty Museum, where the "core themes for young people and adults include leadership and good character; diversity and inclusion; peaceful conflict resolution; and civic engagement."
The exhibit, entitled "American Hospitality: 1776-1976," draws from the couple's collection of founding documents, as well as the papers of Mary Edith Wilroy, who was manager of the Blair House, from 1961 to 1976. The Blair House, located across the street from the White House, has served as the President's guest house since World War II. Visiting heads of state, ambassadors and other world leaders stay there when visiting the nation's capital.
"The exhibit, entitled American Hospitality: 1776-1976, tells the story of how hospitality has shaped policy, and highlights how this arena allowed women to play an important role in public policy even when it was seemingly unthinkable for a woman to run for higher office," Dr. Naomi Yavneh Klos said.
"For example, Sarah Livingston Jay, wife of John Jay, developed close ties with the Marquis and Marquise de La Fayette during the negotiations of the Treaty of Paris, building important social capital for our nascent country, and, in fact, wrote the toast for the celebratory ball upon the Treaty's signing. Sarah could not attend that event, however, because she had just given birth to a healthy baby girl. (Multi-tasking has always been a part of American women's lives.)," the professor said.
"And we will also get to talk about the "Forgotten First Ladies" – the wives of the Presidents before George Washington,-- including the story of Lady Christina, daughter of the Earl of Traquair and wife of the last president under the Articles of Confederation. which Loyola undergraduate student Michael Pashkevich helped me to explore this year during his study abroad in Edinburgh, Scotland, performing research and exploring historical documents archived at the Castle Traquair."
In a Jesuit "twist," Dr. Naomi Yavneh Klos was contacted by Mary Edith Wilroy's daughter, Jennifer Paquette, DM, Director of Mission at St. Joseph's Hospital, Tampa. Dr. Paquette will be coming to Philadelphia on July 25, to see the exhibit and share her mother's story.
The exhibit draws heavily on current research funded through a university fellowship awarded to Dr. Naomi Yavneh Klos. The Rev. James C. Carter, S.J. Fellowship, named for Loyola President Emeritus James C. Carter, was established to help Loyola faculty continue scholarship through research.
Dr. Yavneh Klos' husband, Stanley, also created an exhibit for the 2000 Politicalfest, also held in Philadelphia in conjunction with the Republican National convention. He has keynoted numerous special events including the Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center Museum's grand opening and the 2003 re-entombment of First Lady Martha & President Samuel Huntington.
Pictured in photo on homepage: Dr. Naomi Yavneh Klos, professor and director of the University Honors Program at Loyola University New Orleans, greets former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell at the Democratic National Convention's "Politicalfest," where she is exhibiting her research.
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Secretary of Defense Mattis remains diplomatic over Turkey's assault on Afrin.
by Kurt T Feb 5, 2018
When Secretary of Defense James Mattis was questioned about Turkey's offensive against the Syrian Kurdish controlled region of Afrin, he responded with, "When rockets come over a border, or insurgents come over a border — and not just in — in this Syria complex situation, but also out of northern Iraq and all — then we are with Turkey 100 percent." Mattis's comment comes in light of a recent rocket attack against Turkey, an attack the SDF vehemently denies it was behind. Turkey is currently attacking the U.S. led- coalition backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the Syrian Kurdish territory of Afrin.
Secretary of Defense Mattis continued with, "Turkey, number one, is a NATO ally; number two, they're the only NATO ally that confronts an active insurgency on their own home territory. Number three, it is by a group of PKK, a named terrorist group by the US State Department, and they have murdered innocent Turks," and, "That is the legitimacy of the Turkish concern." Clashes between Turkey and the Kurdish PKK, a labeled terrorist group, have been going on since before the Islamic State.
Mattis continued to express his displeasure withe situation in general with, "See, right now, we're at a point where ISIS is on the ropes, we need to keep the pressure on." He added, "So this is a distraction in an area that we thought had been relatively quiet, Afrin. Oftentimes when you get up to the level of decision-makers in governments, you don't get the choice of great decision or bad decision, it — it's how do you balance the competing interests?"
The Secretary of Defense also expressed concern over Turkey's actions, attacking the Kurdish territory of Afrin, "Obviously it risks exacerbating the humanitarian crisis that most of Syria is going through," and, "In the Afrin area, we had actually gotten to the point where humanitarian aid was flowing, refugees were coming back in … the Turkish incursion disrupts that effort." Mattis claimed the destabilization could create a situation that, "could be exploited by ISIS and Al Qaeda."
It remains to be seen if the United States will intervene in the conflict between the Turkish military forces and their own proxy force, the SDF. The situation in Afrin has come after the collapse of the Islamic State and the recapture of Raqqa by SDF forces. As of now, Turkey has not been able to breach the Kurdish defenses in Afrin or Manbij through direct attacks or use of their proxy force, the Free Syrian Army (FSA).
About Kurt T
Spent 4 years with the United States Marine Corps and an additional 3 years with the Kurdish Peshmerga and Ukrainian Army.
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Governments at a 'tipping point' for cloud
Security is often cited as an obstacle for public sector cloud deployments, but research shows security in the cloud often trumps that of on-premise — and public clouds can better enable digital government platforms to meet rising expectations for performance and value.
Expert Blogger Patricia MacInnis / February 8, 2016
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When the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency migrated its IT systems to the cloud for all 17-member agencies, the US$600-million effort made headlines around the world. It was a bold move for a risk-averse intelligence organization, but the CIA's IT team heralded the cloud services model as "more secure and capable than legacy systems."
Beyond improved security, the modern platform will "usher in a new era of cooperation and coordination, allowing agencies to share information and services much more easily and avoid the kind of intelligence gaps that preceded the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks," wrote Frank Konkel in an article for The Atlantic.
No doubt, cost was also a consideration for the CIA. By some accounts, up of 75 per cent of government IT budgets are allocated to maintaining legacy systems. In economically challenging times, governments need to demonstrate judicious spending from the public purse.
Indeed, cost savings — along with improved service and support — was a main motivator for the U.S.'s adoption of a cloud-first procurement policy in 2010.
A recent Forbes Insight report suggests there's strong evidence that when it comes to cloud adoption, government agencies are fast approaching a tipping point. Agencies have been migrating cautiously, and many now have cloud experience on a limited or pilot basis.
"Pioneers are reporting that the savings are real, and the cloud earns similarly high marks for cost savings, scalability, device agnosticism — all amid outstanding, and often enhanced, levels of data security," the report states.
Neville Cannon, research director with Gartner, says governments in this country trail behind their U.S. and U.K. counterparts when it comes to adopting a cloud-first mindset.
Governments tend to be more risk-averse in general, but that's even more pronounced in Canada where "there are deep reservations about sharing information."
Not so in some countries where governments have moved comfortably to cloud services, even with systems that expose the most sensitive kinds of data.
"In some Middle East countries you can get a passport within an hour," says Cannon. "You authenticate your identity via the mobile phone and all the information is linked in the back end."
Gartner's research shows that for governments around the world, security is becoming less of an obstacle and more of a driver for cloud adoption.
Public cloud options now offer the scalability, computing power, storage and security to better enable digital government platforms and meet rising expectations for performance and value, according to Gartner.
What's more, says Cannon, the big providers have the financial muscle to invest heavily in security, much more so than the average cash-strapped municipality, provinces or even federal agency.
"Many cloud service providers … invest heavily in incorporating higher levels of security into their products to continue building confidence that their data is more secure," he says. "Many of these providers can invest more than what most nations could afford, let alone the average government agency."
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TX: Man Attacks Woman, Smashes Through Electronic Gate, Then Gets Shot By Another Woman in Self-Defense
This incident occurred shortly after midnight this past Wednesday outside a laboratory in Pasadena, TX. A man was outside the business yelling at a woman and beating on her car window. We don�t know what his motive was, but she was able to get into her car and drive away.
The suspect then got into a car, drove through the business�s electronic gate, and crashed into multiple vehicles in the parking lot.
Another woman witnessed this, grabbed her gun, and confronted the man. She then shot the man in self-defense, who was transported to the hospital, where he died.
We can fix the Supreme Court's misfire
Even under Heller and Bruen, there are a number permissible if there is public and legislative will. These might include bans on assault rifles, military-style automatic weapons, high-capacity magazines and body armor; and weapons buybacks, red flag laws, expanded background checks, licensing of all handguns and non-sporting long guns, mandatory gun safety education for licensing, reasonable restrictions on public carry and even liability insurance.
Given the interstate nature of gun violence and trafficking, federal legislation would be preferable but, lacking that, the states could act.
SD: Gun Disconnection?
While the governor and Republican-led Legislature push to expand access to firearms in South Dakota, a majority of voters favors restrictions such as waiting periods and age limits for some gun purchases, according to a statewide poll co-sponsored by South Dakota News Watch.
The poll of 500 registered voters showed that 60% of respondents support establishing a two-week waiting period to buy an AR-15 � a semi-automatic rifle originally designed for military use � and 54% support a minimum age of 21 for AR-15 purchases.
NY: Leaked memo states that in NYC anyone carrying a firearm, legally, is now presumed guilty until proven innocent
The new guidance highlighted in the leaked memo proves that almost anywhere in New York City � public or private � is a gun-free zone.
It basically states that unless someone is a police officer or a former cop, no one can bring their legal firearm out of their house for protection, like on public transportation.
The memo, titled New York State Restrictions on Carrying Concealed Firearms, states very clearly in its �key points�:
�Anyone carrying a firearm is presumed to be carrying unlawfully until proven otherwise.�
CA: Two Gun Control Bills Fail on Final Day of 2022 California Legislative Session
A bill restricting concealed carry rights, Senate Bill 918 by Sen. Anthony Portantino (D-La Ca�ada Flintridge), was dead in early August, until it was moved out Assembly Appropriations with 32 pages of 185 new amendments.
SB 918 creates a new issuing process for concealed carry weapons licenses (CCW licenses) following the June 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in New York Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen. According to Sen. Portantino, SB 918 �seeks to address the U.S. Supreme Court�s ruling in the Bruen case wherein it rejected a good cause standard for the issuance of a CCW license.�
NY: Big turnout for Sullivan County meeting on state gun laws
New York�s updated laws include tougher training requirements to obtain a firearms license, gun-free zones for designated areas and increased vetting for potential gun owners.
After hours of public comments, the legislature passed a non-binding resolution stating its support for the Second Amendment. It also directed the county manager to determine what county properties allow people to have weapons while on the premises.
The updated gun laws face legal challenges in the courts.
37 Months Straight: America Is Buying 1 Million Guns a Month
According to newly released FBI data, background checks exceeded 2.51 million in August, which was consistent with the previous two summers. However, Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting (SAAF) estimates August 2022 U.S. firearms unit sales were at about 1.4 million units, a year-over-year decrease of 3.8 percent relative to August 2021. The decrease affected the handgun segment (−2.7 percent) significantly less than it did the long-gun segment (−7.2 percent). SAAF�s firearms unit sales estimates and forecasts are based on raw data taken from the FBI�s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
DE: Delaware offers cash to owners of newly illegal large-capacity gun magazines
When Delaware lawmakers and Gov. John Carney banned gun magazines that hold more than 17 bullets in June, the law authorized the state to compensate owners for their now-illegal devices.
While Second Amendment advocates are planning to sue over the ban, as they have with a new law outlawing assault-style weapons, the state this week released what officials call a �fair market� offer to buy the newly outlawed magazines. It�s an offer that could change depending on feedback from the public.
The proposal by the Department of Safety and Homeland Security, published in the state Register of Regulations, depends on the size and type of the magazines.
Clearly� ATF Needs to Go as 4 Million+ Face Gun Registration
According to an exclusive story published by AmmoLand News, the ATF is about to force millions of gun owners to register their pistol braces as short-barreled rifles, which will then be regulated by the National Firearms Act.
To be clear, this is exactly the type of jack-booted thuggery we�ve come to expect from a morally bankrupt federal agency, which has outlived its usefulness.
According to the AmmoLand News story, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) calls their monumentally stupid idea an �amnesty� because they won�t charge the normal $200 fee for an NFA tax stamp.
Biden Rhetoric An Opportunity That Must Be Taken Seriously
President Biden�s speech Tuesday (Aug. 30) had a fair bit of harsh rhetoric for Second Amendment supporters. The upcoming one Thursday (Sept. 1), will likely have a lot of rhetoric aimed at Second Amendment supporters as well.
We need to take this shift in tone seriously. By labeling his opponents �fascists,� Biden has escalated the rhetoric in a very irresponsible manner. The stigmatization that has been wielded against us will increase, and it looks like things have moved beyond stigmatization to property damage. Hopefully, things don�t escalate further than that.
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions
In 2014, a Pennsylvania man shoots two state troopers, killing one. During the 48-day manhunt, police seize the man's parents' guns. Police don't claim that the parents or their guns were involved in the crime and never use the guns as evidence against the son. Nevertheless, police refuse to return the guns, now eight years after the crime and after the son lost his last direct appeal. Third Circuit: Which is an unconstitutional taking as well as an infringement on the parents' Second Amendment right to keep arms.
OR: Gun measure requiring permit-to-purchase and banning high capacity magazines up on November ballot
There's renewed attention on Measure 114 after a gunman opened fire at a Safeway in Bend.
The shooting left three dead, including the gunman.
Measure 114 calls for requiring permits issued by law enforcement to buy a firearm; requiring photo ID, fingerprints, safety training and a criminal background check to apply for a permit; and prohibiting manufacturing, purchasing, selling, possessing and using magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition.
Expect Silicon Valley Censorship To Ramp Up with �Civic Integrity Policy�
With the news that Twitter is bringing back its �Civic Integrity Policy,� Second Amendment supporters need to be ready for censorship to ramp up. This is something that has been building up for a long time.
Of course, this is just one possible avenue of attack. There have been other revelations about censorship � at least on Twitter�s part � that Second Amendment supporters should take note of. If anything, these revelations, at a bare minimum, will need some serious oversight by Congress, and some serious corrective actions will be needed.
CA: SAF Files �All Writ� Petition To Challenge California Gun Suit Law
Attorneys representing the Second Amendment Foundation and its partners in the case of Jones v. Bonta, challenging a California law restricting the rights of young adults to purchase long guns, are asking the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for an �All Writ� enjoining the state from enforcing a new state law that penalizes plaintiffs in cases contesting state gun laws.
SAF is joined by the Calguns Foundation, Firearms Policy Foundation, Firearms Policy Coalition, Inc., North County Shooting Center, Inc., Beebe Family Arms, and Munitions, LLC, Poway Weapons and Gear and PWG Range, Thomas Furrh, Kyle Yamamoto, and Matthew Jones.
CA: California Zoo Criticizes Police for Shooting Mountain Lion That Lunged at Them
�This is the 20th mountain lion to come to Oakland Zoo in need of help as another victim of human-wildlife conflict,� wrote the zoo in a Facebook post. �We are heartbroken with the tragic loss.�
The Hollister Police Department responded with a Facebook post of their own. �[The zoo�s] choice of words is careless at best and misleading at worst,� they wrote. �It characterizes our actions as having been reckless and impatient and none of that is true�Our officers exhibited patience, care, and concern for the mountain lion and the public, and they followed the lead of the outstanding officers from the CDFW. We operated and acted thoughtfully in the best interests of every living being, both animal and human.�
NY: Manhattan D.A. To Prosecute Domestic Violence Victim for Murder After Saying It Wasn't Murder
After a national outcry, Bragg dropped the charges. But McCarter has not been fortunate enough to attract the same outpouring of attention, notwithstanding the fact that her case also looks like a textbook definition of self-defense, and notwithstanding the fact that Bragg specifically leveraged her misery to distinguish himself from his predecessor.
McCarter was arrested in March 2020 after stabbing her husband, James Murray, who reportedly entered her home, where he did not live, heavily intoxicated, and allegedly threatened her life. She was found trying to administer CPR while screaming for assistance, and her neighbors say Murray had been on a bender in the building.
IA: Oppose Iowa's gun legislation to protect the public
Citizens across Iowa are concerned about the rising level of gun violence in our state. The last thing we need is to tie the hands of our lawmakers as they consider commonsense gun-safety legislation. Yet that is exactly what the proposed Public Measure No. 1 would do, limiting any attempts to regulate gun rights for years to come.
Public Measure No. 1 does not simply replicate the language of the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights, that �the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.� It adds that �any and all restrictions of this right shall be subject to strict scrutiny,� a stringent standard of judicial review that threatens the few gun-safety regulations Iowans have left as well as any yet to be proposed.
TX: Beto O�Rourke confronts a formidable GOP firewall as he woos rural Texans
In 2018, Beto O�Rourke put more work into campaigning in rural Texas than perhaps any statewide Democratic candidate ever has. He visited all 254 counties, campaigning in far-flung communities where many had not seen a Democrat running for senator in their entire lifetime.
Still, he lost rural Texas by the same kind of landslide that met Democrats who came before him. O�Rourke lost to U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz statewide by 3 percentage points, but the margin was 51 points in counties with fewer than 50,000 people � virtually the same deficit Hillary Clinton had against Donald Trump in those counties two years later.
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. � Tacitus (A.D. 55?-130?)


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Clearly, a short article like this can never cover every aspect of depression. My intention is to provide you with insights that can give you footholds out of the pit. If you would like any further information or help please write in via the contact page.
Most of us are a combination of extrovert and introvert. There are two main introvert types: the Phlegmatic and the Melancholic. It is the Melancholic that is most prone to depression so we will take a few moments to understand this particular temperament, to find out why it is subject to depression and what we can do about it.
The Melancholic is a wonderfully rich temperament: rich in talent, creativity and sensitivity. It is also incredibly negative: sometimes about others, often about life and especially negative about themselves. And this negative approach to themselves shows itself most particularly in their struggle for self-worth.
This issue of self-worth lies at the heart of depression. It is not worth getting out of bed today because my value is so low that I am sure it will make no difference to anyone else whether I do or not. What is the point of getting up if that is what you feel about yourself?
Now, as we have said, most of us are a combination of extrovert and introvert. So we use our extrovert to get ourselves out of bed. Fair enough, but it does not address what we really feel. So we get into the day and we keep ourselves going, driving hard in the extrovert, not allowing ourselves to think or feel too deeply. When the need to keep going is gone we slump back, exhausted with the effort, and we are straight back into the depression.
Now, if the issue of self-worth lies at the heart of depression then we have to look more closely at this subject. We have seen that our temperament can give us a greater tendency to be negative about ourselves but that is not the whole story. We have to look at two other factors: how others responded to us as we grew up and how we respond to others and to life as a whole now.
Unless our parents understood themselves well there is a good chance that they struggled to understand the Melancholic child. Often parents deal with, and relate to, the extrovert part of who we are and have difficulty understanding the introvert. Melancholic children can also make it difficult for parents to get to that inner part as they protect their sensitivity and low self-worth by using their extrovert as a defence. Whilst parents can go out of their way to praise their child that praise often only registers in the extrovert and fails to build up the value of that child at the deepest level.
As that negative view continues to develop then life is viewed from a distorted perspective. Because there is an anticipation of criticism, it is detected even when it is not present! Because you are already rubbishing yourself every mistake is treated as confirmation that you are useless. Every flaw stands out in stark profile. You may have a day in which ten things go brilliantly well and one slightly wrong. You know which one will be going round in your head at the end of the day!
Now the human spirit cannot take that kind of endless devaluing. Something has to give. Ironically, one of the qualities of this temperament is the ability to be self-sacrificing but who feels like giving themselves away when you feel so bad about yourself?
So we turn inwards and go deeper into our negative feelings. We have conversations in our minds as to why we cannot do this or that or as to why someone else is much more capable than we are. And so it goes on. Things that have nothing to do with us we manage to make 'our fault'.
As we have seen, we can try not to look at what is going on inside us. And we tend to use our extrovert temperament to avoid facing the realities within. There are two extrovert temperaments: the Choleric and Sanguine. If we have the Sanguine temperament we will probably try to meet those deep emotional needs physically; for example using sport, drama, activity, food, drink or even drugs. If we have the Choleric we will get into tangles in our minds as we struggle to create order out of the confusion within.
Recognise that the tendency is part of the temperament. Its roots are in the fact that you feel everything keenly but what you feel is unduly negative. The messages that your feelings are sending you about yourself and your situation are not accurate. Now, you may be in a very difficult situation, indeed, you may have made some horrendous mistakes but none of that merits the strong feelings that you have about your value. That is a different subject.
Perhaps you feel you were not heard or understood when you needed to be but that does not affect your value – only what you feel about your value. And that is a vital distinction. Our value is constant. It is not built on how we perform or the way we look. We have value anyway, given by God. And no one can take it from us. The real issue is whether we believe we have that value and live accordingly or whether we believe what our negative emotions are telling us.
I want to drive this point home. Perhaps as a child your older brother or sister was noisier and more demanding and therefore got all the attention and maybe you did get somewhat overlooked because you were so quiet. Now, as an adult, you can choose to believe that things were like that because you have no value or because your parents were not perfect!
Perhaps an unhelpful relative, teacher or former friend said hurtful things to you, and maybe they hurt deeply but you do not have to believe that those things are true. In other words, you have the power to choose what you believe about yourself. Of course, others have a powerful influence over us and affect our view of ourselves but we do not have to remain subject to that influence for the whole of our lives. If others failed to affirm us in our value then that does not stop us from affirming our own value now.
Start to set yourself free now by looking the negative thoughts and feelings straight in the eye and disagreeing with them.
Recognise there is an alternative thought or feeling that you can begin to embrace. Instead of having negative conversations with yourself, put in the positives.
Instead of listing all the reasons why you cannot or should not do this or that, start asking 'why not'?
Do not use your negativity to play games with your qualities. The people who are the most talented are often the ones who run themselves down the most.
Begin to think positively about who you are, your true value and what you can do.
Catch yourself during the day saying, doing or thinking things that are 'running yourself down'. Pull these weeds out of your life – they spoil the garden!
Make sure you have some 'positive' friends rather than those who will keep you negative.
The old way of feeling about yourself will take time to change. Keep working at it. If you fall back into old patterns do not stay stuck. There may be days when you are peering over the edge into the pit of depression but that is a much better place to be than stuck at the bottom.


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Posted on January 18, 2017 by Derek Gregory
Four years ago I described Project THOR (Theatre History of Operations Reports), Lt Col Jenns Robertson's remarkable attempt to transcribe, standardise and integrate the available records of US Air Force strike missions – see here (scroll down) and (especially) here.
His databases have now been incorporated into Defense Digital Service's data.mil, described as 'an attempt in open defence data': it's also an experiment, which invites not only use but interaction and comment. You can now access the THOR databases – and find the backstory – here.
In 2006, Lt Col Jenns Robertson and his team in the Pentagon faced a daunting task. Every week, the Air Force's Chief of Staff and other senior military officers would ask for the latest on the air war in Iraq and Afghanistan – how many aircraft had flown that week, which ground units they supported, and what munitions they had dropped.
Working in the Air Force's Operations Directorate, Robertson had access to a wide array of classified data sources, yet the weekly report was tedious to produce. Data was not easily searched and often contained only half the picture, forcing Robertson's team to assemble the report manually every week over the course of several days. He knew there was an easier way.
In his spare time, Robertson began creating the Theater History of Operations Reports (THOR), initially a simple Excel spreadsheet that eventually matured into the largest compilation of releasable U.S. air operations data in existence. Robertson tested his database with his team, asking them to generate the Chief's weekly report twice — once manually, and again using THOR. The result was impressive: THOR cut the report work from three days to just under an hour.
After receiving Department of Defense approvals, Robertson was able to post THOR files online so interested public citizens could search the data for their own purposes. Robertson understands the vast potential benefits of opening such a large compilation of previously inaccessible data to the public. "I can't envision all the ways this can be used".
One of the first (once forbidden) fruits of releasing this data to the public is a remarkable map by Cooper Thomas plotting 3.1 million US bombing and ground attack missions (including Close Air Support and aerial interdiction) in North and South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia between 1966 and 1974:
Cooper promises further explorations of this and other THOR databases; if you know of any others, please let me know [see UPDATE below].
Data.mil is promising to release a new 'data story' each month – next month should see the release of a military casualty database. The site went live in December 2016, and Mary Lazzeri and Major Aaron Capizzi explain the background:
Mary: Major Aaron Capizzi, USAF had the idea to use open data principles to solve Department of Defense (DoD) problems after attending a panel discussion at the Harvard Kennedy School sponsored by former Deputy CTO, Nick Sinai. In addition, I had been looking to seed an open data effort at DoD. Aaron's idea, coupled with the opportunity to present the Theater History of Operations (THOR) bombing data in a new and interesting way, provided a perfect opportunity to put energy behind the effort.
We're looking to use this pilot to jumpstart a larger open data effort at DoD. The beta site is a working proof-of-concept. The next step is to show the larger DoD community that open data merits investment.
Aaron: Our approach is unique in two ways. First, Data.mil will test various ways of sharing defense-related information, gauging public interest and potential value, while protecting security and privacy. We will quickly iterate and improve the data offerings on data.mil, using public feedback and internal department discussions to best unlock the value of defense data. Our goal is to provide all data with enough context that users, both the public and defense employees, can understand the potential value and get started using data quickly.
Second, Data.mil will prioritize opening data using a demand-driven model, focusing on quality rather than standard quantity metrics. The Department of Defense regularly reports on the significant challenges we face in defending the nation, which range from attracting talented recruits to developing game-changing technology within constrained budgets. Most of these aspects of defense business generate large amounts of unclassified data which, if released, can encourage collaboration and innovation with public and private sector partners.
Mary: The site is built using an open data storytelling platform, LiveStories. Rather than simply posting a list of datasets, the goal of Data.mil is to tell stories with data. The site provides narratives to complement the data so users can more quickly understand and begin using it. LiveStories was selected for its visualization and data analysis features allowing us to present an engaging site for its users. In addition, it's easy to use. Non-technical staff can use the platform to share their data and tell their stories.
We want to compel collaboration from military components, industry partners and the public. The partnership with data.world enables that collaboration providing the social media tools to support exploration and a community discussion of the data.
Conversely, it's also worth thinking about how digital platforms are now used to plan and execute air strikes. As the origins of Project THOR show, there are crucial links between retrospective reporting and prospective mission planning.
UPDATE: I've since discovered this map of Allied bombing raids over Europe in the Second World War by Dimitri Lozeve, also drawn from Data.mil's THOR database (click on the link for an enlarged version):
You can zoom in; here are two close-ups:
The map comes without a key; all I know is that the original tabulations include 'U.S. and Royal Air Force data, as well as some Australian, New Zealand and South African air force mission' 1939-1945 and refer to tonnages dropped: more discussion here.
On the global scale, Data Is Beautiful has a GIF showing 'every bomb dropped by Allied forces in World War II); you can view it as a video here, from which I've grabbed these screenshots that capture the shift from the European to the Pacific theatre:
Data World's Ian Greenleigh has kindly alerted me to a similar treatment of the THOR database for Vietnam by his colleague Mark DiMarco here:
Our point-of-view is from high above the South China Sea, where much of the US Navy fleet was stationed.
By giving the user a bird's eye view, we can clearly see up and down the Vietnamese peninsula, and the neighboring countries of Laos & Cambodia, and precisely see where these missions took place.
Each frame of the visualization is a single day's worth of missions. Some days had as many as 1,500 missions, while the records for some days are completely missing.
The colors of each of the circles dictates what type of mission took place.
The GIF is here; screenshot from the interactive:
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GAH! I'm so burnt out! I'm sorry I've been a slacker at posting here... I just feel so completely TIRED and overwhelmed with everything right now. I need a big ol' break. (The roadtrip with my brother was postponed due to Alison being in the hospital with an infection, poor thing...) So no breaks quite yet.
Moving has been much more stressful than I anticipated. The expenses were ungodly, then Colin's motorcycle was stolen, we pay way too much rent for such a bummer apartment and miss our network of friends in Indy. That and the fact that I lost the BIGGEST job of my career half-way through completion (client changed direction mid-way through) and then we got an offer on the house that sucked, but were forced to take it because of the up-coming slow time due to holiday season and the fact mentioned above that our rent is too high. So big stink-bombs all around lately.
Maybe I lost that big job because I needed the free time more than I needed the money or good portfolio piece... Maybe we are lucky to get ANY offer on the house at this point (I mean, as soon as we're through inspection it will be done and we can move on). And maybe living in this tiny apartment in a bad neighborhood is teaching me to really appreciate things when they are good.
Those things seem so easy, don't they? They seem like things I want to do, but I find it SO hard to do them! I'm like a magnet to over working ... always being productive, but never refilling my cup. I need to control that more... Who's with me?!
Tell me the little things you do to build down time into your life. How do you achieve balance? What do you do for YOU?


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Universal Periodic Review: HRW Submission on Azerbaijan
16th UPR session, April - May 2013
Azerbaijan's human rights record has been on a continual decline since the previous UPR in 2009, casting serious doubt on the government's willingness to abide by its commitments and to reform. The long-repressive atmosphere for independent journalists, political activists, and human rights defenders has grown acutely hostile, with authorities using imprisonment as a tool for political retribution and clamping down on freedom of assembly, breaking up peaceful demonstrations, often violently. Excessive restrictions on freedom of expression and religion persist; torture and ill-treatment remain a serious problem; and the government's "beautification" campaign in Baku has resulted in the forcible eviction of thousands of families and illegal demolition of their homes.
During the previous UPR, Azerbaijan accepted the recommendation to "take effective measures to ensure the full realization of the right to freedom of expression and of the media." It also committed to "modifying or repealing the criminal legislation on defamation to take away the possibility of depriving anyone of his or her liberty on accounts of opinion" and to ensuring that libel law is not used "in such a manner as to stifle honest and professional reporting." These recommendations have not been implemented by the government of Azerbaijan.
Three years on, the atmosphere for journalists and other critics in the country remains extremely hostile. Journalists in Azerbaijan continue to face prosecution on bogus charges, harassment, intimidation, and physical attacks.Defamation remains criminalized. While authorities have released a handful of wrongfully imprisoned journalists (see below case descriptions), and a social media activist, Bakhtiar Hajiyev was freed in June 2012, a steady flow of criminal cases brought against journalists on what appear to be politically motivated charges shows the problem continues:
In September 2012 a court sentenced Aydin Janiyev, a reporter with the newspaper Khural, to three years in prison on hooliganism charges, apparently in retaliation for his journalism. Janiyev was released in December 2012 following a presidential pardoning decree. Meanwhile,AvazZeynalli, Khural'seditor, in custody since his October 2011 arrest, was tried on dubious extortion charges brought by a member of parliament from the ruling party and sentenced on March 12, 2013 to nine years' imprisonment.Khural, which regularly published allegations of government corruption, wasclosed in October 2011 when a court ordered the seizure of its property to pay fines imposed in three defamation cases.
In March 2012 police arrested Vugar Gonagov and Zaur Guliyev, executive director and editor-in-chief of Xayal TV, on charges of organizing social unrest and abuse of authority. The charges are linked to a video posted to YouTube showing the governor of Guba insulting local residents in a speech, which many believe was the catalyst for large protests in Guba in March 2011. On March 15, 2013, Gonagov and Gulyev were convicted and given a three year probationary sentence.
In June 2012 a court convicted Anar Bayramli, a journalist for the Iranian satellite television station Sahar TV, on trumped-up charges of illegal drug possession. His two-year prison sentence was subsequently halved on appeal. He was released in December 2012 following a presidential pardoning decree.
Hilal Mammadov, editor-in-chief of Tolishi Sado newspaper, was arrested in June 2012 on bogus drug possession charges and remains in custody pending trial.
In June 2012 police also detained Mehman Huseynov, a blogger and photographer at the Institute for Reporters' Freedoms and Safety, a local media monitoring organization, and released him pending investigation on trumped-up charges of hooliganism.
In August 2012 a court sentenced Faramaz Novruzoglu, a freelance journalist, to four and a half years in prison on bogus charges of illegal border crossing and inciting mass disorder, stemming from Facebook postings in spring 2011, made under a pseudonym, calling for riots and claiming he would set himself on fire. Novruzoglu has denied the allegations and claims they are retribution for his investigations into business ties of high-level officials.
Intimidation and attacks against journalists are also commonplace in Azerbaijan and occur with impunity. According to the Institute for Reporters' Freedoms and Safety, a local media monitoring organization, 50 domestic and foreign journalists were harassed or attacked in 2011 alone. Rafig Tagi, a journalist with SanetWeekly, was attacked and died after being stabbed 6 times near his home in November 2011. His death, as well as the 2005 murder of editor-in-chief of the independent journal Monitor, Elmar Huseynov, remains unresolved. More recently, in April 2012, police and private security personnel brutally attacked and beat unconscious Idrak Abbasov, a journalist, as he was attempting to film a forced eviction in a Baku neighborhood.
In March 2012, unknown persons attempted to blackmail Khadija Ismailova, an outspoken journalist with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), through a vicious smear campaign mounted in apparent retaliation for her investigation into the business holdings of the president's family and close associates.
On January 29, 2013, officials from Yeni Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan's ruling party, called on Akram Aylisli, a member of the Azerbaijani Writers' Union and author of Stone Dreams, a novel which contains a description of violence by ethnic Azeris against Armenians during the 1920s and at the end of the Soviet era, to withdraw his novel and ask for the nation's forgiveness. A pro-government political party leader established a bounty for the writers' ear and public book burnings of Aylisli's works, some organized by the ruling party, took place in several cities. Aylisli's wife and son were fired from their jobs.
In September 2012 the opposition daily Azadlig faced eviction threats from its premises at the state publishing house for failing to pay its outstanding debts, while at the same time a court fined the paper 35,000 AZN (approximately US$44,000) in a defamation suit brought by the head of the Baku metro system.
In 2009 the government banned foreign radio broadcasting, including the BBC and RFE/RL, from FM frequencies, a move Azerbaijan was asked to "reconsider" and "permit broadcasting by non-Azeri outlets on FM frequencies."
Freedom of assembly is severely limited in Azerbaijan, with authorities breaking up peaceful protests, in some cases violently, and indiscriminately arresting activists and passersby. In November, the parliament increased sanctions for participating in and organizing unauthorized protests, establishing fines of up to 1,000 AZN ($1,274) for participation and 3,000 ($3,822) for organizing. The Azerbaijani government routinely refuses to grant permit request for protests in central Baku and has used force to break up protests, detaining dozens. This practice goes against a number of recommendations accepted by Azerbaijan in 2009, including that it "uphold the respect of the right to peaceful assembly and ensure that the right is effectively implemented," which the government of Azerbaijan has failed to carry out.
While the constitution stipulates that groups may peacefully assemble after notifying the relevant government body in advance, authorities interpret this provision as a requirement for prior permission, effectively banning demonstrations in the capital for years. In March 2012, at the first sanctioned opposition protest in the capital since 2006, police detained two popular musicians as they played at the peaceful gathering. Police beat and denied them access to their lawyer. They were released after five and ten days of detention.
In April 2012 police detained twenty activists distributing flyers encouraging people to attend an opposition rally. Courts sentenced seven of them to 10 to 15 days of detention; others were fined or released.
In the days before and during the Eurovision Song Contest held in Baku in May 2012, police broke up several protests in the city's center and rounded up dozens of peaceful demonstrators, forcing them onto buses and beating some in the process. Some were released hours later, while others faced administrative charges for petty hooliganism.
Authorities also arrested hundreds of people in connection with peaceful protests inspired by the popular uprisings in the Middle East in March and April 2011, imprisoning over a dozen. Of those arrested, fourteen were sentenced in unfair trials to up to three years' imprisonment. Though nine of them were released shortlybefore the publication on June 26, 2012 of a report by the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly on political prisoners in Azerbaijan, police continue to suppress freedom of assembly, detain protesters, and violently disperse gatherings.
On March 14, 2013, Rashad Hasanov, a youth activist with an opposition movement NIDA, was arrested on charges of possessing illegal weapons and faces up to eight years' imprisonment in prison if found guilty. On March 18 Asabali Mustafayev, Hasanov's lawyer, reported that he was denied access to his client following his arrest. The NIDA movement describes itself as an organization thatcampaigns for democratic reforms, a free civil society, and social and economic reforms.
On March 8, 2013, police arrested NIDA activists Bakhtiyar Guliyev, Shahin Novruzlu, and Mahamad Azizov on charges of planning to incite violence at a rally announced for March 10 to protest the deaths and alleged abuse of military conscripts. Two of the activists administer a Facebook page, "The Heydar Aliyev Page," named after a former president. The page is a platform for caricature, satire, and criticism of the government. On March 9, a Baku court remanded the activists to three months in pretrial detention.
On March 30 and April 1, the Nasimi District Court of Baku sent another three NIDA activists, Uzeyir Mammadli, Rashadat Akhundov, and Zaur Gurbanly to three months' pretrial custody on bogus charges of illegal weapons possession.
On February 27, 2013, a court sentenced Bakhtiyar Mammadov, a human rights lawyer, to eight years in prison following a trialthat appearsto have been politically motivated. Mammadov represented several residents who were forcibly evicted from their homes in the capital, Baku, which were demolished in early 2012 as the government was building a performance hall for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. Mammadov's clients had challenged the government compensation package, and Mammadov alleged corruption by a high-level official involved in the compensation funds. Mammadov was arrested on December 30, 2011, and has been in detention ever since.
On February 4, 2013, Baku's Nasimi District Court remanded Ilgar Mammadov, a political analyst and chair of the opposition group "REAL," and Tofig Yagublu, deputy chair of the opposition political party Musavat and a journalist with opposition daily Yeni Musavat, to two months' pretrial custody.Mammadov and Yagublu were charged with "organization of or participation in actions inciting social unrest" and "violence against an official" in connection with a January 24 protest in Ismayilli, where several clashes took place between law enforcement and protesters calling for the governor's resignation. The protest followed a car accident that occurred on January 23 allegedly involving a close relative of the Ismayilli region's governor. Mammadov's and Yagublu's pretrial custody was extended on March 14 and March 18 respectively by another two months.
The Azerbaijani government is deeply hostile to human rights work and independent civil society groups face frequent interference and harassment by the authorities. These practices show that the government of Azerbaijan has failed to implement recommendations it acceptedduring the UPR in 2009 to "guarantee freedom of assembly and association, to respect the work of human rights defenders" and ensure "that legislation concerning NGOs is implemented accordingly."
In March 2013, President Ilham Aliyev signed into law amendments to the Law on Nongovernmental Organisations requiring local groups to inform the authorities of funding or donations above 200 manat (approximately US$250) and sign a formal contract with donors. A failure to meet these requirements could lead to confiscation of property and exorbitant fines.
In March 2011 the Justice Ministry suspended the nongovernmental organization Azerbaijan Human Rights House, a member of the International Human Rights House Network and a registered organization, which served as an important training and resource center and conference venue for local groups. Human rights defenders also frequently become the target of criminal prosecution in apparent retribution for their civic activism. Recent cases include the following:
Ogtay Gulaliyev and Ilham Amiraslanov, two defenders associated with the nongovernmental group Kur Civil Union, were arrested in, respectively, April and June 2012, in apparent retribution for their work protecting flood victims in southern Azerbaijan. Gulaliyev was released pending investigation in June, while a court in September sentenced Amiraslanov to two years of imprisonment on spurious charges of weapons possession. Both men have alleged ill-treatment in custody, which authorities have failed to investigate.
Taleh Khasmammadov, a blogger and human rights defender from Goychay, was sentenced in April 2012 to a four-year prison term on charges of hooliganism and physically assaulting a public official. Khasmammadov investigated allegations of abuse and corruption by law enforcement officials. He was released under a presidential pardoning decree on 26 December 2012.
VidadiIsganderov, also from Goychay region, was sentenced to a three-year prison term following his August 2011 conviction on false charges of interfering with parliamentary elections.After running for office in the November 2010 parliamentary elections, Isganderov submitted a complaint to the authorities alleging vote rigging in his district. They failed to investigate even though video footage and other materials support Isganderov's allegations. Instead, they brought charges against him, and he was found guilty of interfering with the elections. Isganderov was released in December 2012 pursuant to a presidential pardon.
Ill-Treatment and Deaths in Custody
Torture and ill-treatment continue with impunity, with at least two known cases of death in police custody in 2012 alone. In the first eight months of 2012, the Azerbaijan Committee Against Torture, an independent prison monitoring group, received 136 complaints alleging ill-treatment in custody. In many of the cases of arrested journalists and activists that Human Rights Watch has documented, there were credible allegations of ill-treatment in police custody. However, none of them were effectively investigated. This goes against the 2009 recommendation to the government to establish a "system to follow-up complaints of allegations of torture."
Forced Evictions and Unlawful House Demolitions
Since 2008 the authorities in Azerbaijan have been implementing a program of urban renewal in Baku in the context of which they have unlawfully expropriated and demolished hundreds of properties, primarily apartments and homes in middle class neighborhoods, to make way for parks, roads, and luxury residential buildings. Multiple egregious abuses have characterized this process, including lack of notice or court decision validating the expropriations, willful disregard for health and safety of those evicted, and refusal to provide fair compensation.
In 2009 Azerbaijan accepted the recommendation to "take fully into account the recommendations of the special rapporteur on freedom of religion aimed at promoting and fully ensuring freedom of religion for all religious communities throughout Azerbaijan." However, freedom of religion is tightly controlled, and the government introduced further restrictions since the previous UPR. Constitutional amendments passed in 2009 and 2011 tightened restrictions on all religious activity, requiring all religious communities to reregister, dramatically increasing fines for unauthorized religious activity and requiring all religious groups to seek prior authorization from the government to gather. Unwarranted raids continue to take place across Azerbaijan, closing down various houses of worship and fining members of their congregations.
In December 2011 the president signed legislative amendments criminalizing the illegal production, distribution, and import of religious literature not approved by the state; they previously were administrative offenses. A new criminal code article punishes the creation of a group that undermines social order under the guise of carrying out religious work. According to Forum 18, an independent international religious freedom monitoring group, police raided several private homes on religion-related grounds.
In November 2010 the government banned women from wearing headscarves in schools and universities, leading thousands to drop out.
Ensure full respect for freedom of expression in line with Azerbaijan's international commitments, including by:
decriminalizing libel and establishing reasonable monetary caps on civil defamation awards;
ensuring that all journalists may work freely and without fear of retribution for criticism or coverage of topics that the government may find sensitive;
allowing foreign media broadcasts without restrictions and ensuring unfettered access to the country for journalists.
Repeal the amendments to the Law on Nongovernmental Organisationsand do not adopt further laws unjustifiably interfering with NGO activity.
Immediately and unconditionally release journalists, human rights defenders, and other civil society activists held on politically-motivated charges.
Promptly disclose any credible evidence the authorities have that would indicate Mammadov and Yagublu's engagement in activities that constitute criminal wrongdoing, so as to address concerns that the charges are spurious and politically motivated. Release Mammadov and Yagubly pending an independent investigation into the charges against them.
Ensure thorough, effective investigations into attacks against, harassment of, and threats against journalists, including RFE/RL journalist Khadija Ismailova, Idrak Abbasov, Rafig Tagi, and Elmar Huseynov.
Allow peaceful assemblies andinvestigate all incidents of use of excessive force by law enforcement during demonstrations.
Thoroughly investigate all allegations of torture and ill-treatment of detainees and hold perpetrators accountable. Make a statement at the highest level condemning torture and ill-treatment.
Stop all forced evictions and house demolitions until expropriation can be done in a way that ensures the dignity and rights of those affected and that provides adequate and fair compensation; resolve, in a fair and transparent manner, all complaints related to expropriations, evictions, and demolitions, and provide homeowners with fair compensation that reflects the actual values of their homes.
Lift undue restrictions on freedom of religion.
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Q: Difference in years between start date and system time I have the dates of when employees have begun working at a zoo, however i need to figure out how long they have been working there for. I have done my research and know what i need to do, but i cant seem to figure out the syntax for incorporating the NOW() function within the DATEDIFF function. I have to display all active employees and the amount of years (with 2 decimal places) they have been working for.
I have two columns, Joined (Date) and Resigned (date, where may equal null if employee is active)
So lets just say that someone started working on 1996-09-18 (yyyy/mm/dd).
please help, thank you kindly.

A: (assuming you are using MySQL - from the NOW() function)
I think you need to use COALESCE() function so either Resigned or NOW() is used in the calculation by DATEDIFF():
DATEDIFF(COALESCE(Resigned, CURDATE()), Joined)  AS days

So, you could have something like:
(DATEDIFF(COALESCE(Resigned, CURDATE()), Joined)) / 365   AS years

or:
(DATEDIFF(COALESCE(Resigned, CURDATE()), Joined)) / 365.25   AS years

If you want to be extremely accurate about extreme cases and leap years, a more complex calculation will be needed.

A: Years with 2 decimal places (Assuming TSQL)
SELECT ROUND(
         CONVERT(FLOAT,
            DATEDIFF(day,joined,ISNULL(resigned,GETDATE()) ))/365,2)

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Home » Headlines » World » North Korea under sanctions threat after the UN's anticipated resolution
North Korea under sanctions threat after the UN's anticipated resolution
By Daniel Contreras / Tuesday, 01 Mar 2016 10:33PM
The United Nations Security Council has delayed the meeting scheduled to vote on the new resolution on North Korea's recent nuclear missile tests.
The United States and Chinese' resolution would dramatically expand the already existing UN sanctions on North Korea's Pyongyang. In spite of this, due to a required procedural review of the resolution invoked by Russia, the vote was delayed for a day.
The vote, originally scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, will now take place at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, according to the council. The United States presented the United Nations council with the draft resolution in response to North Korea's nuclear tests and rocket launches. The resolution is necessary and it needs to be adopted by the Security Council due to incoming challenges from North Korea, said Russian U.N. ambassador Vitaly Churkin told reporters.
The United Nation's Security Council. Photo: United Nation's Information Centre
The draft resolution would require mandatory inspections for every U.N. member of all cargo involved in any convoy passing through North Korea's territory. A much tighter control regime considering that previous sanctions only require such inspections are there's probable cause of illicit cargo.
As the country's leader Kim Jong Un continues to isolate from any relationship with other countries, it's impossible to negotiate clearly. Once the resolution gets put to vote, there's no doubt it will be passed unanimously. If passed, the sanctions on North Korea by the United Nations would be the strongest U.N. sanctions rule in over 20 years.
North Korea's power under menace
The new vote to tighten existing sanctions on North Korea would have a massive impact on the countries' means for survival. Amongst mandatory cargo inspections, the sanctions would also include the expansion of banned weapons, export restrictions and having many North Koreans individual put on the blacklist.
The list would also include the expansive banning of luxury goods including recreational vehicles, luxury watches and recreational sports equipment, according to a Reuters publishing. The United States, alongside China, have agreed to support the severe measures taken by the U.N. intended to convince North Korea to abandon its atomic armaments.
Yet North Korea's foreign minister Ri Su Yong has announced the boycotting of any session of the U.N. Human Rights Council that examines its record. He went on to accuse the United States, Japan and South Korea of sending agents into his country. Apparently for Minister Yong, infiltrated agents in his country are recruiting criminals in order to defeat North Korea.
"We shall no longer participate in international sessions singling out the human rights situation of the DPRK (North Korea) for mere political attack," said Minister Ri Su Yong as he addressed attendees during the 70th session of the U.N. General Assembly.
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