How can one claim to be the paragon of virtue when one has allowed all these frauds to take place during one's term?
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Chairman Prof. G.L. Peiris, in an interview with the Dailymirror, spoke about the controversial bond transaction, its implications and the Supreme Court's opinion on the President's term. Following are excerpts of the interview done with Prof. Peiris.
QWhat is your position on the Supreme Court's opinion that President Maithripala Sirisena's term is five years?
This is typical of the quality of advice the President acts upon. The law is crystal clear. The President simply invited a stinging rebuke which no other President received. It is a magnificent victory not only for the Joint Opposition, but also for the integrity of our court system and vitality of democratic system.
QIn the backdrop of the Presidential Commission that probed the Bond Scam presenting its report, how do you view it?
There is no doubt that the two bond scams have shaken up the public opinion in the country. It is by far the largest scam in the history of the country. The fallout from this will affect at least two generations. President Maithripala Sirisena, in his address to the country, raised expectations to a high level that action was to be taken. The damage has been done. The public are going to pay for it through higher interests rates, inflation and devaluation of the rupee.
The President appears to be taking an aggressive stance. It does not matter who is responsible. Whoever it is, the President said the person would be dealt with severely.
What are the minimum things the President has to do? An unavoidable step is to dismiss the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister must resign. Unless he resigns, he has to be removed from office. That is the clear duty of the President. None of the things the President spoke of can be done while the Prime Minister holds office. Simply to say that the report of 1400 pages will be sent to the Attorney General for necessary action means nothing.
QThe Government says the report is now with the Attorney General. It says it is up to the Attorney General. What is your response?
There is further investigation so the Attorney General can proceed with investigations. There is follow-up work to be done prior to the institution of criminal proceedings. There is no way that can be done objectively with the Prime Minister in charge. He has influenced the Attorney General by summoning him to his office. Then, the FCID has a lot of work to do. When it comes to the FCID, the Prime Minister is a critical player. He has been directing operations, giving directives. He is very much a central figure in all of this. As long as he is in office, no tangible action can be expected. There has been extensive debate in the country with regard to the two scams. There is one aspect that has not received the attention that it warrants. That is the orchestrated massive cover-up. The cover-up is a greater offence than the crime itself because it involves the cynical use of the state machinery. That cover-up is bound to continue so long as the Prime Minister continues to be in office.
QHow do you substantiate your allegations in this respect?
The public must remember the sequence of events. The storm broke because it was taken up by the primary dealers. The immediate response was to threaten the primary dealers. After that, the Prime Minister tried to whitewash the entire fraud by appointing three lawyers very close to him at Sirikotha. That was an obviously clumsy effort which attracted no credibility whatsoever. Then, the Joint Opposition became very active in this matter. It was taken up in Parliament. There was a no-confidence motion moved against Arjuna Mahendran. There was an adjournment motion. Then, the Prime Minister and the Leader of the House were flippant on this matter. They were frivolous. These efforts were held up to ridicule. D.E.W. Gunasekara was the then COPE Chairman. The Prime Minister said that Mr. Gunasekara violated the parliamentary convention and that he would be reported to the Speaker. The Prime Minister got the President to dissolve Parliament then. Had that report been submitted at that time, the second fraud which was twice as big as the first fraud would not have taken place. What did the Prime Minister do under the new Parliament?
He got his members in COPE to add footnotes to scuttle these operations. An attempt was made to go to the court and prevent a report from being compiled. He got a member of COPE to step down and be replaced by one of his men. He was then prevailed upon to write a book totally exonerating PTL. This was the extent of the attempted cover-up.
The COPE members made hundreds of telephone calls to Perpetual Treasuries Ltd (PTL). The public must not forget the amount of money PTL was planning to spend on the cover-up. They paid their CEO Kasun Palisena Rs.100 million as bonus for one year. Then, how much would they have paid to influential members of the Government to sweep this under the carpet?
The COPE is the custodian of public finances. COPE is investigating PTL. At that time, COPE members were having communication with the main suspect. Some people said they were collecting material to write a book. The book has been published beforehand. The Ministers, Deputy Ministers and State Ministers are in discussion with PTL while sitting as COPE members. There is no difference between the UNP Ministers and the SLFP Ministers. The SLFP Minister admitted that PTL contacted him over the phone. After that the Minister concerned met them. It is already a question of credibility and public confidence in COPE. It is similar to a trail judge meeting with the accused in private. COPE Chairman Sunil Handunnetti said he was unaware that any member met Arjun Aloysius.
If not for the sustained role of the Joint Opposition, these secret meetings would never have been exposed. The JO kept pursuing this all the time. This is the extent of the cover-up.
QBut, it is the President who appointed this Commission?
The President said he was wielding the sword. All these are his ministers. It is he who appointed them. It is he who has power to remove them.
The country is looking to the President to turn his words into action. Is that going to happen or not?
All of these are happening in a particular context. They criticize each other regarding the scam. Yet, there is collusion with each other. They criticize each other virulently. When it comes to the survival of each other, they are all together in order to reap the benefits collectively. Take for example the Finance Minister of the time! The Commission now says two things about him. One is that he must be prosecuted under the Penal Code for forgery for deliberately giving false evidence before the Commission . Then, he must be hauled up before the Bribery Commission. Currency notes of Sri Lanka bears the signatures of Ravi Karunanayake and Arjun Mahendran. Look at the insult to the nation!
Nevertheless, there is a compelling need to continue with this arrangement, to somehow tie it together to prevent it from disintegration. There is a reason for that. In terms of the 19th Amendment, if it is a one party Government, there is constitutional restriction on the number of ministers. That should be 30. You can add 40 odd deputy and state ministers. If they part company, many of them will lose company. In order to retain office and enjoy perks, this arrangement continues. It is simply to share the spoils.
If this is unacceptable to people, there is no point in supporting one party of the Government. Whether you support the blue elephant or the green elephant, they all are together. There is an interval of 13 months between the first scam and the second scam. President Sirisena dissolved Parliament to protect his Prime Minister.
As for the appointment of Ravi Karunanayake as the Finance Minister, it is a very bad appointment from the beginning. It is impossible to disentangle the UNP from the SLFP and palm blames solely and exclusively on the UNP. The public cannot vote for an integral part of the incumbent Government.
QBut the President made references to the Prime Minister. Then, the President said there had been the embezzlement of money from the COPE during the former rule which you also represented. What is your response?
The behaviour of the Presidential Secretariat has been totally inconsistent and confusing. That is a characteristic feature of this Government. They do not know what they are doing. They cannot make up their mind. The President made the statement. Then, a faithful translation of it was published. After that, they removed the paragraphs that were critical of the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister. Again, they put it back on the website with reference to the Prime Minister and omitting the part critical of the Prime Minister. All of that shows how much juggling goes on in regards to this matter. That is a far cry from openness and candor. It is a political game. Now the truth must be discovered. Offenders must be pursued.
The period between 2008 and 2014 was completely outside the terms of reference of the Commission. This is a red herring across the trail. The Prime Minister violated all parliamentary ethics by making a statement on the floor of Parliament when the Commission completed receiving evidence and began the task of preparing the report.
"The President said he was wielding the sword. All these are his ministers. It is he who appointed them. It is he who has power to remove them. The country is looking to the President to turn his words into action. Is that going to happen or not? All of these are happening in a particular context. They criticize each other regarding the scam.
QAre you trying to say that the President tried to clear the UNP of all allegations, and instead placed the blame on PTL?
I do not think he has made up his mind on what he wants to do. He appears to be in a confused and disturbed state of mind. He wishes to harm the UNP politically. The UNP and his party are now contesting against each other. He has a vested interest in damaging the UNP. His original statement did that up to a point. But, at a certain point, he had to restrain himself. He has to work with the UNP. He is where he is today because of the UNP votes. That is a fundamental fact. In his mind, there are competing forces at work.
His principal aim is to blame the previous Government. There is already a report submitted by the Auditor General. If he wants to go into matters during the 2008/2014 period, he can do that.
QThere is a belief that the President acts in collusion with the Joint Opposition (JO) to bring the UNP to disrepute. What is your view?
The President isn't cooperating with the JO at all. The JO only forced the President to appoint the Commission. Had it not been for the very vigorous campaign by the JO, it was impossible to believe that this commission would have been appointed.
The appointment of the Commission cannot be presented as the massive virtue. How can one claim to be the paragon of virtue when one has allowed all these frauds to take place during one's term? One is trying to lock the door once the horse has fled.
Now, Arjuna Mahendran has been allowed to flee the country. He is allowed to come and leave at will.
We do not see this as an act of virtue. It is an act of necessity and expediency.


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Korean War Key Debates
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Why did the Korean War break out?
Kim Il Sung frequently claimed that the Korean War broke out because the South attacked the North at Haeju in June 1950. However, there is little evidence to support this and even if there were, it would do little to justify the DPRK's full scale invasion across the 38th parallel in the same month. North Korean aggression is an obvious cause of the conflict but its roots are more complex. Korea was scarred by decades of colonial oppression at the hands of the Japanese and when they withdrew in 1945, they left a volatile and divided nation in their wake. Both superpowers were determined that Korea should not become an ideological and economic ally of the other and this led to the divide along the 38th parallel because neither the USSR or the USA would trust the other to oversee Korea's transition to independence. Although it was Kim Il Sung who ordered the opening of hostilities in 1950, his aims were ironically similar to those of Syngman Rhee; both leaders were discontent with the supposedly temporary divide that had been created after WW2 and both wished to reunite the country under their own style of government. By facilitating the creation of two diametrically opposed regimes, America and the Soviet Union must bear some responsibility for what followed, particularly because Stalin gave Kim the green light for the invasion to occur. Nevertheless, the conflict was essentially a civil one, fought between two indigenous leaders with a very different vision of the country's future.
Essays on the Cause of War
The Causes of the Korean War in 1950
Why did the US intervene in the Korean War?
Within two days of the northern invasion, the US were pressing the UN for intervention and offering to provide the vast majority of troops. Their willingness to get involved can be understood on a number of levels and there were strategic and domestic explanations operating alongside Truman's determination to contain communism. The essence of communist ideology threatened the American way of life by challenging the need for international trade and abandoning democratic principles. If Kim Il Sung's regime was able to dominate the whole of Korea, it would increase the vulnerability of US allies in the region, including Japan and Taiwan. It would also suggest that communist aggression would be tolerated, bolstering the confidence of both the USSR and China. Despite Dean Acheson claiming that Korea lay outside of the US' planned defensive perimeter in Asia, there may well have been a desire to protect Rhee's regime. The South Korean leader was by no means democratic but he spent his youth and early career in America and they had championed his bid for leadership as they withdrew in 1948. Domestically, Truman was under a great deal of pressure to appear tough on communism after he failed to prevent Mao's triumph in China and as McCarthy's supposed exposure of Soviet spies within the State Department caused alarm amongst the public. He also firmly believed in the monolithic (rigid) nature of communism and therefore perceived that the war was being directed from Moscow. It is possible that the rich resources of tin, tungsten and aluminium reserves further motivated the US President but this was unlikely to be decisive; more must have been at stake if so many US lives were to be risked.
Essays on US Intervention
How far was the USA's military involvement in Korea the consequence of a desire to defend democracy?
To what extent did the Domino Theory cause continued US support for South Korea in the period 1950-1953?
What was the impact of Chinese involvement in the Korean War?
The People's Republic of China had backed Kim Il Sung's invasion plans prior to the war but they did not commit to sending troops until the conflict neared the Chinese border. The entry of Chinese fighters on October 25th 1950 had a dramatic impact on the conflict, firstly by turning the tide of UN progress through a resounding defeat at the Battle of Unsan (1st November 1950). Mao's decision also encouraged the Soviets to become more heavily involved as the USSR began to provide air cover for Chinese and North Korean fighters. Undoubtedly, Chinese involvement prolonged the conflict because by the spring of 1951, it was evident that neither force was strong enough to defeat the other and a stalemate developed. The potentially limitless supply of both UN and Chinese troops meant it was difficult to see how this stalemate could be broken and so Chinese involvement perhaps also encouraged both the Koreans and the UN to enter into peace negotiations. It seems likely that the UN efforts beyond the 38th parallel would have succeeded if the North Koreans had faced the assault alone and so Chinese involvement was crucial to the survival of Kim Il Sung's regime and also the subsequent reinstatement of the 38th parallel itself. For China itself, the consequences of involvement were mixed. 150,000 soldiers were killed and the conflict caused significant financial strain. However, the Chinese proved their loyalty to communist allies and also demonstrated their strength to the world, raising their prestige
Essays About China
How significant was Chinas intervention in deciding the course and outcome of the Korean War?
Was the Korean War a Product of the Cold War tensions?
Who were the main winners and losers of the Korean War?
Ultimately, the Korean War was a conflict without winners. Neither Kim Il Sung nor Syngman Rhee were content with the reinstatement of the 38th parallel but both knew it was preferable to having lost the conflict altogether. To some extent, the willingness of both the UN and the Chinese to intervene to support their respective allies offered both Korean nations some level of protection by acting as a deterrence against future attack. Although there have been skirmishes and threats, the Korean people have experienced relative peace in the years since the 1953 armistice, suggesting some gains from the war. However, the Korean people suffered greatly during the three years of fighting, with approximately 140,000 South Korean soldiers dead and at least twice that for the North. In addition to this, 2.5million civilians lost their lives, predominantly in the North. Regardless of which side of the border they were on, the war did little to bring political freedom to the country, with both regimes being led by dictators who relied on force to maintain their position. For the US, the war achieved containment but not rollback, and their decision to cross the 38th parallel appeared to make the latter their aim. It also led to 36,534 US deaths and contributed to the losses the Democrats suffered in the 1952 election. However, intervention not only dissuaded Kim Il Sung from further invasion but also offered some level of security to other allies in the region, including Japan and Taiwan. For China, the extensive loss of life has to be balanced against the extent to which they proved their military abilities and potential role on the world stage.
Essays About After The War
Consequences of the Korean War.
International Human Rights Laws - North Korea.

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«The work of art lives longer than us, and if you are engaged in it for a long time, you eventually become a part of its biography. It is not yours, but you belong to it. Your task is to stay near it, take care of it, and at some point you cease to belong to yourself, following the interests of only the works for which you are responsible» (Elena Kuprina-Lyakhovich, Colta)
«If I am asked today what the ideal collection of art in Russia should be, I will answer that it should consist 70-80% of national art works and 20-30% of foreign ones. And foreign works should be of the top quality. Why? Everything is very simple and cynical. If the collection contains unique works by famous world stars, it will inevitably be in the spotlight of recognized western experts who will also get acquainted with the national art » (Elena Kuprina-Lyakhovich .Monolog. ArtGuide)
«I am extremely interested in fine arts, because, in my opinion, it is primary among other areas in culture. In order to express his idea, the artist applies only visual means, which do not require translation and are clear for everyone. I am convinced that the artist always translates the present time. However, any real art should not be divided into old and contemporary one. Leonardo da Vinci and Picasso can't be called antiques » (Elena Kuprina: "One of the main goals is to create a fashion for contemporary art". Http://izvestiaur.ru)
Curator and organizer of art exhibitions, private collections consultant, founder and director of EK ArtBuro.
Elena Kuprina-Lyakhovich is a graduate of the first set of the famous Moscow School of Curators created by Victor Misiano.
Curated more than 150 personal and group exhibitions. One of the most important of her projects is the exhibition "Field of Action. Moscow conceptual school and its context. 70th - 80th years of the twentieth century " which took place in 2010 in the Cultural Foundation" Ekaterina", Moscow. In 2014 she acted as curator-tutor of the exhibition of young artists "Moscow Tells", and in 2016 of a youth exhibition "Izhevsk Tells".
Member of the Supervisory Board of the III and IV sessions of the Competition "Factory Workshops", organized by CTI "Fabrika".
In 1991 she founded the gallery EKArtBuro. Since 2015 she works as the director of the National Museum of Mani (Moscow Archives of New Art) and also advises several art collections.
The publisher of the youth portal on ArtUzel, the founder of the online school MosArtSchool.
2006 — "Caution: Glass". The Pushkin State Museum of Art. Moscow, Russia
2009 — "Interpretation of the object in the Moscow Conceptual School". Fabrica Project. Moscow, Russia
2010 — "Field of action. Moscow conceptual school and its context. 70th - 80th years of the twentieth century ". Cultural Foundation "Ekaterina". Moscow, Russia
2011 — "Five MANI Folders: Experience of Modeling Cultural Space". Cultural Foundation "Ekaterina". Moscow, Russia
2011 — "Field of Action. The Moscow Contemporary School in Context. " Special adaptation for Calvert 22. London, the UK
2014 — "Moscow tells. Exhibition of young artists». Cultural Foundation "Ekaterina". Moscow, Russia
Nominee of the VI All-Russian Contest in the Field of Contemporary Art "INNOVATION", nomination "Curatorial Project" (together with Alexandra Danilova)
Graduated from the Moscow School of Curators.
Director and founder of the ANO "EK ArtBuro."
Director of Mani Museum.


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OK lets get right to it!
Take a look at the items you have for sale in your closet and analyze them from a buyers point of view.
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Are the items in my closet desirable brands and styles?
Are they all the same size? Variety of sizes?
Are my items priced competitively?
Once you go through your closet and take a look at it from a buyers point of view you might start to notice a few things that you can fine tune to make certain items more desirable.
Updating the title of your listing from "cute dress" to "Ann Taylor LOFT Denim Button Down Dress Sz 4." Being as descriptive as possible & using lots of key words will help your item get more exposure when a buyer is searching for it online.
Looking up "Solds" and researching the item you have listed to get a better understanding of what the same item or a similar item has sold for.
Finding out the "Style" name of a particular item and making sure you name it in the title and description.
All it takes sometimes is going through your listings and catching any mistakes or improving them by adding the small details that buyers are really looking for.
When I say "Be Consistent," I dont mean to just be consistent with Listing, Shipping, and Sharing. Those are things you should already be doing on a daily basis! Being consistent with the overall presentation and look of your closet is just as important.
Be consistent with the pictures you are taking. A solid background will best display the item you are trying to sell and the use of props or styling your items will bring a unique feel to your listings. Having different backgrounds and not being consistent with the lighting of your pictures can make your closet look unorganized.
Be consistent with the over all vibe of your closet. Just like a store is consistent with their brand you should be consistent with the look and vibe of your closet. Who is your buyer? Is she a mom? Does she dress causal or is she more career oriented? Is the girl you are selling to in College? Does she go out on Saturday night with her friends to a club and pop bottles? Or does she chill with her friends at her local bar? Am I sparking any thoughts? Thinking about who your buyer is and catering to a particular style not only draws customers that fit those wardrobe needs but will also help you source better items for your closet.
This tip is straight to the point and I can't stress it to you enough. Loving the items you are buying to list in your closet is so important! If you don't absolutely love an item the chances of you being excited to list it will be slim to none.
My best advice to you is to ONLY pick up items that you know are great pieces. Items that you would also wear, style, and that would be a great addition to your Poshmark Closet. If you cant see YOUR closet without the item then I'm 100% sure there is a market for it online and that probably means its a total score! Go with your gut and LOVE WHAT YOU LIST.
When it comes to sourcing and buying items to list for your Poshmark closet having standards on what to purchase is very important and goes hand in hand with loving what you list. When you're out at thrift stores or retail stores make sure you are inspecting each item and really doing your research. I know I'm not the only one guilty of getting carried away with finding great deals that I simply just walk out with every single item in my cart without making sure that all items are in great condition! Don't make that mistake! PLEASE go over every item you want to purchase and I promise you by the end of your inspection you will feel so much better. This will help you not only save money but save yourself from that heartache of getting home and realizing you purchased something with a flaw!
Relisting is something that I always thought was just a waste of time. I have already done the work of listing the item so why should I delete it and list it again? There is also that haunting guilt after deleting a listing with lots of likes! YIKES! After 5 years of being on Poshmark I have come to my own conclusion that LIKES don't matter as much as you might think they do! Do you have items that been sitting in your closet for 6 months with little to no likes & have been price dropped 3 different times? If your answer is yes then now is the time to get to RELISTING the item with a higher price and different pictures! NEW listings always get a great deal of attention on Poshmark so why not relist those items that have been sitting stale in your closet? Think of it as regular closet upkeep!
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Stereo Conversion is Awe Inspiring and You Should See It.
In a darkened IMAX3D theater I saw Star Wars: the Force Awakens for the second time. My first viewing was at the Motion Picture Academy screening with JJ Abrams, Kathleen Kennedy, Roger Guyett, and many others. I was already pretty impressed with the film, and I had a few complaints, but they were minor. As I watched it again, on a gigantic IMAX screen, at twice the brightness of a standard 3D projector, drowned in chest thumping sound, I was hooked. I took a moment to look around, as a full-screen Star Destroyer poked out into the theater. Most of the time people just look at the screen, but as I looked away, I noted that the spacecraft floated above all the audience members before me. My nine-year old inner child leapt with excitement, and the magic of the movies had me.
What surprised me most were the quiet scenes seen for months in online trailers. The interior of the fallen Star Destroyer was already fairly impressive, but now it truly had a sense of scale that you only get from a location by being there. That is what the stereo version of the film provides, that its 2D counterpart misses: that sense of being there. Unlike a well done VR experience, in which by all account you ARE there, this fits in the same experience as memory of that trip to the Grand Canyon, or the Grand Tetons, or your first walk under the Eiffel Tower. You can't really go inside, but stand back in awe at how large it is, and focus on the people in it. Best of all it is never distracting, and feels natural. The rules of perspective seem to be intact, even when they are artfully crafting the depth for greater impact. The reflections are deep, and the sand dunes treacherously tall. It is extremely well done. There are a few flaws that only the trained eye will grasp, but they are minor and I would rather not sully your experience when seeing it by telling too much.
Although 3D conversion has improved over the years, by watching the trailers for several other upcoming movies, you can see a wide variety of quality. I feel that there is still an arm of Hollywood production that does not understand the medium, and would rather slap the 3D title on a film that did not give enough time for the conversion team to complete their jobs, and grab a bunch of money from higher price tickets. Lucky I am one of the only people who really know what I am talking about, and can comment on it, as I did it first.
I created much of the stereo3D conversion methodology out of existing VFX techniques for IMAX films by 2002. I left BOSS films in 1996, and pursued the medium, as I had a fascination with stereo photography since I was 9 (and Star Wars too…hmm). After spending 10 years of my career in the stereo 4K VFX industry I figured it was time to move out of the science centers, and get back into mainstream VFX. Few people anticipated the explosive growth of 3D content following James Cameron's Avatar. On its heels came an avalanche of shoddy product (Looking at you, Clash of the Titans) barely based on that methodology (which some have patented after the fact — we will see how that plays out). I quickly got back in to the field, and figured we had five years to save it. It was s struggle at times to do so.
Happily, the quality of stereo3D films jumped dramatically in approximately three years, and now conversion is the primary way 3D films are produced. In conjunction with photographed, and rendered stereo content, there is a wide wonderful world of sculpted movies jumping across our screens, but many are still missing some of the lessons the Star Wars team is getting right, and it is almost always evidenced in the trailer.
I saw the Ant-Man trailer in 3D theaters around the same time I was seeing the 3D trailers for Star Wars the Force Awakens, and although Ant-Man was a good 3D film because of its rendered 3D stereo VFX, its conversion sections suffered from pushing too much depth in shots photographed with longer "zoom" lenses. That choice pulled me out of the film. Alternately the Star Wars 3D trailers promised exactly what I have been writing about above. The trailer sells the movie. It sells the quality VFX. It also sells the 3D experience you expect (which is one of the big failures of the recent Conan film, which had a fantastic 3D trailer, and poor 3D conversion for everything else).
As an example compare these two Star Wars and Ant-Man reviews to illustrate the popular reception.
Several 3D trailers shipped with Star Wars. I'll share my reaction to them as an analysis of how much attention they demonstrate is being paid to this part of the film experience. This is not intended to denigrate the film, or its final 3D version, but to inform what the current state of the industry is, and what the trailers are selling as far as a 3D experience goes.
Warcraft 3D trailer. From just watching the trailer in front of Star Wars, it is obvious that someone wants MAXIMUM 3D out of this film. They are not analyzing the way the depth budget is moving across the edit, or what the lens and perspective dictate to the eye, but rather keep nearly the same 3D volume for every single shot. Very distracting when the depth is not content aware. My eyes are watching all the backgrounds, and not focusing on the characters in the foreground, which is where the rules of perspective and depth tell me I should be looking. The thing with the greatest depth tells you if something is close to your head, and by default your mind pays attention to it. Hopefully this is just the first pass, or the particular chosen shots just seem to all be the same, and were not balanced for a trailer.
Batman vs. Superman 3D trailer. This one is a mixed bag. Since so many different lenses are used in this franchise, there seems to be a smattering of spot-on, and distracting 3D converted content. Most Directors of Photography favor longer lenses to reduce the distortion of an actors face a wide lens produces, but then someone pushes the overall 3D volume in post— which is apparent here — rather than giving more of that depth budget to the expensive actors they paid for, and want us to look at. Overall the feeling is good, and the film may warrant a 3D viewing, as this is only a trailer.
Independence Day: resurgence 3D trailer. What a fantastic 3D trailer! The character volumes are intact, the depth well used, and the sense of scale within the scenes rivals that of Star Wars. This is a 3D must-see.
Captain America Civil War 3D trailer. Following in the footsteps of most of the Marvel 3D content (except the poor First Avengerconversion), this film seems to have a good sense of 3D depth, sculpture and balance, and is on my must-see 3D list.
Looking at these examples, although out of the water, it seems stereo3D converting live action films is not totally out of the woods yet. I look forward to every film on that trailer list. In my mind my ticket is already purchased, but unless you can approach the quality of 3D content Star Wars 7 just gave audiences worldwide, you may be literally selling yourself short. Even if trailers are examples of incomplete conversion, please learn the lesson from the controversy the first Iron Man created showing incomplete VFX too soon — and spend time on the trailers to sell the 3D. I believe Orson Welles used to push "Never sell a wine before its time." So true that is for VFX and Stereo conversion. (Interesting to note that the first Iron Man, and Jungle Book are both Jon Favreau films).
Productions should find the money. Find the way. Find the time to make your 3D experience actually that: an experience. Give us scale. Give us characters we want to look at even closer. Give us a sense of being there. Give us what you see in Gravity, and Star Wars the Force Awakens. Make it a stereo3D experience to write about!


WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, Rep. Tom Reed, announced he has joined colleagues reintroduced the School Resource Officer Act to assist law enforcement agencies in hiring additional school resource officers (SROs) by directing funds for cost-share grants to pay the salaries and benefits of SROs.
The School Resource Officer Act: Reauthorizes the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program at the Department of Justice at $300 million each fiscal year for FY2020-FY2023; Designates 30 percent of COPS hiring funds for grants to pay the salaries and benefits of SROs; Grants award 75 percent of salary and benefits for an SRO with a 25 percent local match requirement; and maximum federal share cap is increased to $125,000 per officer position.
Reed was joined by Paul Mitchell (R-Mich.), John Rutherford (R-Fla.), Neal Dunn (R-Fla.), Lloyd Smucker (R-Pa.), Don Bacon (R-Neb.), Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas), Chris Collins (R-N.Y.), and Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.) to reintroduce the bill.
"Our children deserve the right to be able to attend school without the fear of being harmed. This legislation is a step in the right direction towards protecting our children and providing schools with the resources they need to hire officers that will help stop violence from occurring within their walls. I am proud to join my colleagues as an original co-sponsor of this legislation that will keep our communities and children safe," Rep. Chris Collins said.


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Bash ShellShock (CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169) is the latest security vulnerability that has consumers worried and organizations scrambling for fixes. The Bash Bug is massive, infecting Linux/Unix systems, servers, embedded devices, OS X and potentially mobile devices. Many security researchers believe the bug poses a bigger threat than Heartbleed.
What exactly is the Bash Bug and why is it so dangerous?
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According to the global survey on Immigration, People have opined differently, totally 57 percent have supported immigration and 32 percent of the people have considered it as unfavorable. Around 69 countries of the world have participated in the opinion polls, out of them 42 countries have opposed the immigration and only 27 have Supported the Immigration.
African countries have been favorable to immigration when the people from the rich countries have been questioned, out of 17, only nine favored immigration and eight countries have opposed the immigration. In these countries, people draw an annual salary of over $35 000, and people are leading a happy life and more qualified than the local citizens of the country.
Though there is a split opinion on Immigration, world countries cannot go without immigration. Immigration has become an economic imperative, and people love to immigrate for good economic prospects and future.
Twenty-one countries of the European Union have been opposing the Immigration. Despite the opposition from the local citizens, there is massive immigration from the European countries and large-scale immigration is being welcomed annually by the countries.
Many countries have made up to welcome immigrants to fill the gap in its industries. Skill shortages are the drawback of many industries. To mitigate the issue related to skills, countries welcome immigration. Economic migration to the countries has been the growing trend. Several countries invite immigration for economic progress, and the most of the world's immigrant population reside only in the developed countries.
There are several classes of migration that help countries grow, but illegal immigration becomes an economic burden to the country. People are against the immigrants who take away their job welcome the immigrant class who well integrate with their local culture.


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Good news for fans of mobile technology. Samsung started producing chips using 14nm process technology LPP (Low-Power Plus), the second generation of 14nm FinFET Samsung technology . Samsung will produce chips Exynos Octa based on the new process technology and Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 820, expected to be integrated into devices in the first half of this year.
Integrating to a three-dimensional FinFET of the transistor structure provides increased performance and lower power consumption. New Samsung 14nm process LPP provides speeds up to 15 percent higher and consumption up to 15 percent less, unlike previous LPE 14nm technology, thanks to improvements in transistor structure and process optimization. In addition, using FinFET transistors offer more possibilities in the production process, and this will avoid scaling limitations.


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Barbie® dolls of the Dolls of the World® Landmark Collection® collection
17 November 2011 29 September 2014 JAA	Leave a comment
demoiselle d'plastique (actually, this one is not horrible)
Midway through the convulsions brought on by Museum Collection Barbie® (see it here if you dare) we came upon this fresher hell: significant cultural landmarks have been channelled through the special aesthetic vision that can only be described as Barbiesque®. As reported by MoT's only news source for all things Barbie®, Barbie Collector, Barbie® commemorates the 30th Anniversary of Dolls of the World® collection with the Landmark Collection®, featuring Barbie® dressed in gowns inspired by famous architecture (no "®"–architects do not enjoy such rights over their creative property as designers of plastic dolls).
The broader framework represented by the World Culture Barbies® is a project that reveals the global reach of Mattel's objectification of women. The "ideal" is defined by the blonde-haired, blue-eyed Beauty Queen-Computer Scientist-Racecar Driver-Cheerleader from Malibu. Mattel allows some variations from this standard to reflect differences of ethnicity (as long as they're not too ethnic, of course): Barbie® doesn't have to be blonde (like Diwali Barbie®); she might even have textured hair (like Nigerian Barbie®); occasionally she may have dark skin and dress like a hippie (like Kwanzaa Barbie®). But most denizens of the Barbieverse® stick pretty close to the exemplar. Even the All-Purpose Asian ("Oriental" in Barbie-speak) is not overly-ethnicized. Still, the greater number of World Cultures deemed worthy of Barbification® leans heavily toward the Eurozone, but in highly caricatured versions. Barbie française is cancan-ready (in a progressive move, the more recent France Barbie® Doll wears better-fitting shoes and stockings than her thirty-year-old mother, Parisian Barbie®); Scandinavia is represented not by a contemporary Ikea manager with excellent maternal-leave benefits, but instead as Princess of the Vikings. MoT's house ethnographers are rather fond of Italy Barbie® Doll, mostly for their theory that (1) she is modeled on Giada de Laurentis and (2) could probably take any of the blonde Barbies in a fight. A curious representative for America almost looks like a progressive political statement, until one realizes that cross-dressing George Washington Barbie® is just a weird and possibly misguided exercise in patriotism.
It is within this rich cultural milieu that Barbie® makes her homage to world architecture through the Landmark Collection® collection, although the results (not surprisingly) don't really live up to their advertisement. The dolls wear clothes that are inspired by architectural things, but not exactly architecture–i.e., buildings. All of their sources are recognizable in a tourist-post-card kind of way, and decent enough examples of what they represent, but they're not all really the most extraordinary landmarks out there. Once again, Mattel reaches for the low fruit on the inspiration tree. Although–or maybe because–drawing fashion inspiration from architecture is not a new idea, the lackluster way these exercises mimic and parody cultural landmarks is kind of a joke.
What did Utzon say about "Blunderland"? (Google it)
Sydney Opera House Barbie® is the only doll in the collection that is tricked out like a whole real building, although it is a structure with only limited visual interest as a one-note achievement. The mildly daring and definitely expensive structural shells of the Opera House are translated into paper plates that have blown off a picnic table and stuck to her bodice (we suspect Vegemite). Her skirt is colored like the harbor over which the opera perches ("ocean blue chiffon," we are told).
Only two points about her design keeps MoT from falling asleep: (1) the fact that her hair is not just sprayed from here til Tuesday, but is meant to be perpetually windswept, like she's by the water. (Get it? Get it?!) And then there are the shoes. MoT is impressed by the shoes. Do they come in size 8.5, for real people, perchance?
Even with these small items of interest, Sydney Opera House Barbie® is a pretty indifferent interpretation of the only vaguely relevant architecture from this little nation. Sorry, Australia, we're just not that into you.
Give me your ugly fabric, your wretched pleats, your dreadful draping yearning to breathe free. . .
la tour de pouvoir
The closest-to-right Barbie® in this collection is the French offering. Eiffel Tower Barbie® actually reveals some real inspiration from her monument–along with some significant missteps that sort of ruin it all. MoT can really do without the cheap earrings and definitely would scrap the oversized charm bracelet that looks like Barbie® could not bring herself to say non, merci to the tschotske hawkers on the Champ de Mars. And then there's the print on the dress: sacre bleu, another giant picture to say I AM A MONUMENT (suddenly we are inspired for Robert Venturi Barbie®). All this is very sad when the profile of the dress already echoes the graceful curve of the building, and the actually clever detail of the fish net sleeves recall the metal latticework of the original monument while still being like clothes. And although the actual thing is a tired and nasty sort of brown-bronze, they just went black and white here. As if a designer did this work.
The Dolls of the World® Landmark Collection® Collection is disappointing as a lost opportunity for something fun and interesting and clever to happen with architecture in popular culture. Although the problem is probably shared between the somewhat lackluster models chosen for inspiration and their interpretation by somewhat lackluster designers, perhaps some blame should be laid at the tiny feet of the doll herself. It coud not hurt to get a new doll. Perhaps one should not call in a plastic princess to do an Empress' job.
Zaha doll (should be an action figure) by Olivia Lee
The Barbieriffic® Barbies® of the Museum Collection Barbie® Collection
19 October 2011 29 September 2014 JAA	3 Comments
What was "Starry Night" missing? A perfect pedi, duh!
MoT staff entered their adult years at a point of truce with Barbie®. We've healed the childhood scarring of the Unachievable Barbie Figure®, and overcome the aesthetic damage wrought to our architectural sensibilities by Barbie's Dream House®. We went our way, Barbie® went hers. Or so we thought. Had Barbie® remained in her rightful place in her Stepford Wifesque alternate universe, we would never had said a word. Then Architect Barbie® was foisted upon us, and we had no choice but to respond. And now, what fresh hell is this? It's Museum Collection Barbie®, here to aggravate us in all new ways.
It's one thing to do a stupid cartoonish interpretation of women in a profession which is historically unsupportive of its female minority as a glib marketing ploy dressed up as some kind of grrl-power actuator; it's another thing to blaspheme three treasures of art history. We are not amused.
"inspired by Leonardo da Vinci"
Museum Collection Barbie® is the brainchild of Mattel® designer Linda Kyaw®, whose career appears to be based on watering down and stealing (oops, we mean "adapting") the work of actual artists. This series of three dolls "inspired by" the work of Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh and Gustav Klimt is the worst kind of re-heated schmuck. What was the inspiration, besides some memo from a CEO hoping someone would breathe some life into this horrifyingly outdated brand? According to the giddy writeup on "Barbie Collector," Ms. Kyaw® "wanted to do something different." Well of course. So where does "different" start? We suppose, the difference is, instead of looking to dune buggies and malt shops for inspiration, she looked to "the most iconic paintings of all time." Well of course! Oh wait, here's the twist: "with an emphasis on fashion."
That's definitely what we also learned in Art History 101: art is about fashion, especially if a lady is in the picture, cuz ladies are there to wear pretty clothes. Or, at least, maybe that's what we would have learned if we had cut most of our Art History 101 classes to go to the mall.
If that was the case, we too might be more open to the fluffy treatment of, say, Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest creative and inventive minds ever in the history of the universe. Speculation about the identity and meaning of his most famous and enigmatic portrait, commonly known as Mona Lisa (ostensibly the inspiration for ye olde damsel doll, but you be the judge), has prompted untold hours of conversation in graduate seminars and countless thesis pages. But it poses only one question to Ms. Kyaw®: what's she wearing on her legs? That is the mystery posed by the Mona Lisa: no one knows what's she's wearing below the waist! Could it be goucho pants? A hot mini? Capri pants? Jeggings? oh please let it be jeggings!!! Alas, no, it's just the big skirt of a big dress that makes Mona Lisa Barbie® appear to be all decked out to serve mead at the Renaissance Faire. To the credit of painter Ei Fong, at least she is not made up as if she just got her free Urban Decay Makeover at Ulta, like most Barbies®. But that's the best we can say for her. Come on: even Dan Brown's goofball treatment of Leonardo's art is more intellectually stimulating than this. Next!
"inspired by Vincent Van Gogh"
The second Museum Barbie® Barbie® actually did call for interpretation, since there is no pretty lady in Iconic Painting Number Two: Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night of 1889. What's the challenge for Ms. Kyaw® here? It could have been an interesting study on the trope of the woman's body as landscape, or something to do with an interpretation of Van Gogh's stunning brushwork. But no: it's an effort to make this masterpiece of Post-Impressionism "trendy" and "to fuse the original painting with an edgy dynamic." Because nothing honors the memory of a tragic genius (and probable suicide who suffered epilepsy, delusions and various psychoses) like an edgy dynamic. What form does this trendy edginess take? Starry Night Barbie® gets a twirly circle skirt that swirls around, get it, like the swirly sky in the painting. Get it?!?!? And then that hard part again, with the legs sticking out under the place where the frame would have been. Oh I know, swirly shoes! And her Barbie Blonde® hair is all curly-swirly too! And an inexplicable black crud crawls up her dress like sea weed or something? Wait: a sea metaphor? I thought we were looking at the sky? Maybe that's part of the edgy dynamic as well. If Van Gogh was alive today, perhaps he'd take that knife that he used to whack off his left ear and gouge out his eyes to save himself from seeing this nightmare. Oh that's it, let's call it Starry Nightmare! Oh, you guyz, that's so mean!
"inspired by Gustav Klimt"
And then there's the third one, from just a few years after the Van Gogh, since apparently Barbie's® Barbie Art History® knows nothing before the Renaissance, and the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries are like so boring, and then the greater part of the twentieth century would be just too hard to figure out! 😦 So here is Gustav Klimt's first Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer. Thank goodness, another lady in a pretty dress. Not only is she a pretty dress, it's a sparkley dress, and she has a nutty hair-do that pretty much means the doll designs herself! (That's so awesome, since it must have been exhausting to work out that Starry Nightmare dress and shoes.)
Oh but here's the weird thing, that Adele lady was a real lady. A Jewish lady in Austria. (Could this be the first Jewish Barbie®? Who missed that marketing opportunity?) This is where it gets a little weird if you bother to look into the actual, what's the word, biography. Mae West, Marilyn Monroe, maybe even eventually Katy Perry (oh you know she's dreaming of it) sort of put themselves out there as characters that are amenable to the glamour-doll treatment. But Adele isn't like that. Adele died young, in 1925, which means she at least didn't have to witness the nastiness with the Nazis. She died with the wish that her paintings (this and another portrait by Klimt, and three Klimt landscapes) would become available to the public, specifically the public in Vienna. But her husband had to flee the Nazis, and like so much art during that period, ownership of Adele's things was confused and contested, and it took significant work by lots of people for the rightful heirs to get their art back . . . so that they could take it to America, celebrate capitalism, and sell them for bajillions. (Adele's famous portrait went for $135 million, the highest price paid at that time for a single painting; it is on view in New York at the fabulous Neue Galerie; the others are in the hands of private collectors.) Klimt's Adele 1 is more than a fancy lady in a pretty golden dress. It's the centerpiece of a story of real artistry and political chaos, the rights an responsibilites of governments and individuals to the public, and as explained in this good article, "justice and redemption after the Holocaust" as well as "another tale of the crazy, intoxicating art market."
Setting aside the tragedy and sadness of its historical context, the story of Adele's portrait is a story of ownership. Ultimately, who owns art? Who has rights to its inspiration? Where is the line between homage and plagiarism? Or respectful deference and cheap knock-off? The three paintings featured here have withstood time, critics, war and changing tastes to emerge as major landmarks in western art. Their reward: a broader audience than they were first created for, some of that gained through cheap reproductions on tote bags, t-shirts, coffee mugs. At least, most of the time, such reproductions are relatively true to portraying the original, and one might hope, raise some cash to support the museum that houses the thing. At best, they inspire contemporary artists to do something new, in that competitive spirit that has moved art along since Knossos. At worst, they are bastardized into flagrant commercial enterprise with no redeeming value above and beyond pop culture, which has plenty of other shallow pools to drink from. At the very worst, they glamorize a noble remnant of tragic history at the national and personal levels. These dolls represent neither imaginative play nor clever collector activity. If Barbie® is going to venture into the land of art history, she ought to get at least one of those things right. But her art is lazy, and her history is shameful.
Adele Bloch-Bauer (1881-1925)


I go through my early morning routine today feeling a bit in a fog. I had one of those longer nights that come with babies. I kiss Josiah goodbye at the door and feel a bit of the cold fresh air and hear birds singing their songs. It's too cold for that, isn't it? Too grey, at least.
This Spring has been a slow one in coming. Everyone knows that — it's basically all everyone talks about. When will it warm up? When will the sun shine? When can I start gardening? When can I stop paying to heat my house? We obviously know that at some point it will change — the temperature won't hover around freezing for always, snowflakes won't dance about on a daily basis, and green will be the color that surrounds instead of grey and brown, but it's hard in the waiting.
We humans aren't very good at waiting, are we.
Yesterday morning I finished The Jesus Storybook Bible with the boys for probably the 4th time through. (And time to take it up to the next level for my Adrian who's taking in more and more these days!) It ends highlighting how the Bible ends — with the words, "Come, Lord Jesus!" I tell the boys what that means: Come, take us home. Come, bring us to the place You're preparing. Come, we long to be with You. Come. It's the Great Wait, if you will. But it's the knowing & believing that what He said is true that gets us through the long days (and seasons!). Hope is a beautiful thing. And knowing what you hope in is true — that's the perfect sort of hope.
This slow-to-come Spring is a good reminder to me — "He who promised is faithful." We wait, looking with anticipation toward Home, Rest, Peace. And it will come. He will come.
And we'll get there, Northern folks. Look for the small signs — life that's working so hard to make its way through cold soil, birds singing more and more, and daylight growing longer and longer. Soon. And sometimes, it seems like we appreciate things in life more when we find ourselves having to be patient and not lose hope. There's good that comes in waiting, too.


Grace Christian Academy at Thompson's Station is now accepting applications for the 2019-2020 school year. Once you've submitted the application and admissions fee, we will contact you to schedule Shadow Days (1st-4th grade).
The Kindergarten visit day will be on February 11th. Admissions testing is required of all students. Kindergarten testing is scheduled for February 8th and testing for 1st-4th grade is February 2nd and 24th.
Upon completion of the above mentioned items and once we've received all required documents as outlined on the Admissions Checklist, Parent Interviews will be scheduled.
For more information about our Thompson's Station campus, please email: TScampus@gcalions.com.


Carbon Minerals Limited was listed on the ASX in 1980. It has been involved in a range of energy and base & precious metals exploration throughout Australia, but since 1990 has concentrated on seam gas exploration - mainly in NSW, and mainly in the Gunnedah Basin via its wholly-owned subsidiary, Australian Coalbed Methane Pty Limited (ACM). Click here for a summary of the company's corporate history.
In 1993 ACM drilled the first dedicated seam gas well - ACM West Quirindi DDH1 - in the Gunnedah Basin, in 2002 we drilled what remains the only seam gas well in the NSW portion of the Murray Basin (ACM Noonameena #1), and in 2004 made the exciting discovery of a biogenic seam gas fairway in the Gunnedah Basin. In 2007 the company entered a farmin agreement (FIA) with Australia's second largest petroleum company and the country's largest gas producer, Santos.
The Gunnedah Basin is set to become one of the country's largest seam gas resources, to which the ACM tenements are destined to be a major contributor. In partnership with Santos, which with its recent acquisition of Eastern Star Gas Ltd has become the dominant operator in the basin, these assets are in competent and responsible hands.


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Lulama Xingwana
Minister of Women, Children and People with Disabilities. Former Minister of Arts and Culture.
More by user: aismail
Created: 13th May 2009
Modified: 1st Nov 2010
Art, Government
Women, Children and People with Disabilities Minister
Date of Birth: Sep/23/1955
* Replaced Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya as minister of Women, Children and People with Disabilities on 31 October 2010.
* Former Minister of Arts and Culture of the Republic of South Africa since 11 May 2009.
* Member of African National Congress Women's League (ANCWL) National Working Committee (NWC) since 1993.
* Member of Parliament since 1994.
* Bachelor of Science degree from the University of the Witwatersrand (1985).
* Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Development and Leadership Studies from Zimbabwe, Harare (1998).
* Post Graduate Diploma in Economic Principles from the University of London (2002).
* Enrolled for Master of Sciences in Development Finance at the University of London.
* Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs of the Republic of South Africa (22 May 2006 10 May 2009).
Career/Memberships/Positions/Other Activities
* Worked for the Learn and Teach as a Tutor, trainer and running classes for the Domestic workers in the Northern Suburbs of Johannesburg and rural areas. (1985 -1987).
* Worked for the South African Council of Churches as Director, Women's Development Programmes (1987).
* Member of the Federation of South African Women (1981 - 1991).
* Member of the United Democratic Front (UDF) (1983 - 1991).
* Member of (ANCWL), Head of Development Section (1991 - 1994).
* Chairperson of Sports, and Recreation Portfolio Committee (1994 - 1999).
* Chairperson of Malibongwe Rural Development Project for women (1998 - 2000).
* Member of Gauteng Provincial Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC) (1998 - 2001).
* Member of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Portfolio Committee (1996 - 2004).
* Chairperson of Parliamentary Women's Caucus (1999 - 2004).
* Member of Defence Portfolio Committee (1999 - 2004).
* Member of Minerals and Energy Portfolio Committee (1999 2004).
* Chairperson of Joint Monitoring Committee on Improvement of Quality of Life and Status of Women (2002 - 2004).
* Chairperson of Southern African Development Community (SADC) Regional Women's Caucus (2002 - 2004).
* Member of the Cabinet Committee on Investment and Employment (2004).
* Member of the Cabinet Committee on International Relations, Peace and Security (2004).
* Member of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Sector (2004).
* Deputy Minister of Minerals and Energy of the Republic of South Africa (2004 - 2006).
* Former member of National Executive Committee (NEC)of ANC (1993 - 2007).
Source: Ministry of Agriculture and Land Affairs
President Jacob Zuma has announced a major reshuffle to his cabinet. A few ministries have new ministers and a host of new deputy ministers have been appointed
The Wooden Camera (2003)
Klein Genot Wine And Country Estate
Guesthouse, South Africa
Hiking, Shopping, ...
Monkey Town
South Africa, Entertainment, Wildlife
Reneilwe Letsholonyane
Soccer, South Africa
Mohamed Bacar
Comoros, Government
Philani Mhlanga
South Africa, Zimbabwe
Letsie III
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Félix Houphouet Boigny
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openpolitics.com
Why Liberals Oppose Ben Carson
Trump's HUD nominee grew up poor, and he knows public housing isn't where people prefer to live.
The main objection to school reformer Betsy DeVos, Mr. Trump's pick for education secretary, is not that she's never been a classroom teacher but rather that she wants to expand school choice, which threatens union control of public education.
.. His upbringing doesn't make him a housing expert, but like the general who knows war and is therefore less likely to venture recklessly into a new one, Dr. Carson's background does make him better able to empathize with the plight of the poor.
.. Besides, if the state of inner-cities is any indication, the last thing low-income residents need is more of the same so-called expertise that Dr. Carson lacks.
.. HUD and other agencies equated racial disparities in loan approvals with racial discrimination, even if there were no actual complaints of racism from would-be borrowers. To keep the federal watchdogs happy, lenders came up with ways to meet the government's numerical targets. All of this was of course done in the name of helping minorities. But when you make it possible for people to receive loans they can't really afford, you also risk saddling them with foreclosed homes and bad credit ratings.
.. There are few if any federal agencies in greater need of a makeover than HUD, and that makeover is unlikely to come from the type of "expert" at the helm who would appease Dr. Carson's critics. It's HUD's view of housing that is warped, not Dr. Carson's. Mr. Trump has tapped a nonpolitician to clean up a mess created by political pros and bureaucrats who have an agenda that often differs from the needs of the poor. Let's see if Dr. Carson is up to the job.
Source: www.wsj.com
Tags: ben-carson, experts, housing
Donald Trump says he wants to fix cities. Ben Carson will make them worse.
While Carson was on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University medical school, located in one of the nation's poorest and most troubled big cities, he took little interest in urban issues. In his ill-fated primary campaign, he railed against "social engineering," a swipe at efforts to open housing in mostly well-to-do, overwhelmingly white communities to minority home buyers and renters.
.. Trump's selection of Carson echoes Ronald Reagan's choice of Samuel Pierce as his HUD secretary. Like Trump, Reagan had lashed out against inner cities and pledged to slash social spending. Like Trump's supporters, the majority of Reagan's voters did not live in cities. And like Trump, he had little support among African Americans. But like Trump, Reagan wanted a black face in a high place for a little legitimacy in a post-civil-rights-movement White House. And, like Trump, Reagan had pledged to loosen housing and financial regulations.
.. HUD was an easy target for Reagan, as it is for Trump. It had been created by Lyndon B. Johnson at the peak of his Great Society to meet the huge demand for affordable housing in American cities and to grapple with the ravages of mass suburbanization, nearly complete racial segregation and capital flight from cities, all of which had been heavily bankrolled by the federal government.
.. In 1968, HUD took on the additional responsibility of "affirmatively furthering fair housing," the gargantuan task of undoing decades of discriminatory real estate and home-lending practices.
.. None of these missions was popular: Republicans criticized HUD as a meddling "big government" agency. Southern Democrats railed against its civil rights goals. And suburban whites fiercely resisted even modest efforts to open the housing market to racial minorities.
.. the department became a bastion of crony capitalism, particularly under Republican presidents.
.. real estate speculators and politically connected developers, who sold shabby houses to desperate buyers at above-market prices, backed by inflated appraisals
.. One of Pierce's assistant secretaries resigned when it came out that HUD staffers had helped him type and proofread his book, "Privatizing the Public Sector."
.. Staffers directed money to Republican-connected lawyers, consulting firms and developers. One of the dozens swept up in the resulting investigations by federal prosecutors and Congress was Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort , who had successfully lobbied for about $43 million in federal subsidies for a shabby New Jersey housing complex. He received $326,000 in fees
.. Like Pierce, Carson is shaping up to be a token black Cabinet member. Trump has not appointed any other black officials so far
.. We don't know much yet about how Carson will run HUD, but his lack of experience with urban policy, his bromides about socialist planning, his indifference to fair housing and his calls for individual boot-strapping don't bode well for the future of metropolitan America. And in a climate of privatization and deregulation, championed by the country's new real estate developer in chief, Carson's inexperience could be a serious liability.
Tags: ben-carson, corruption, housing, inexperienced, paul-manafort, racism, samuel-pierce
The dark side of the boom
Rock-bottom interest rates have made big mortgages look less expensive, lighting a fire under house prices. But for many homeowners, when rates start rising, it won't end well.
A recent survey by Manulife found that one-quarter of people have just $1,000 set aside for emergencies, a dismally inadequate amount by any standard of financial planning.
.. "You're arguing with success on a huge scale," says Moshe Milevsky, finance professor at York University's Schulich School of Business and author of several books on personal finance and investing. "There's nothing that people could have done that would have resulted in a better return than housing over the past five years."
.. The credit-monitoring firm TransUnion reported recently that 718,000 people with debt would be seriously affected if interest rates rose just 0.25 of a percentage point, and one million people would struggle to cope with a rise of one percentage point.
.. Canadians owed a record $1.68 for every $1 in after tax income.
Source: www.theglobeandmail.com
Tags: bubble, canada, housing
Trump's pick of Ben Carson is beyond baffling
IT WAS less than a month ago that a spokesman for retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson told reporters that the erstwhile GOP presidential candidate would not be serving the Trump administration in anything but an unofficial advisory capacity. "Dr. Carson feels he has no government experience," Armstrong Williams said, "he's never run a federal agency. The last thing he would want to do was take a position that could cripple the presidency."
.. Mr. Carson, however, comes equipped with little more than the generalities about abolishing "dependency" that he spouted on the campaign trail.
.. Certainly it would help if the next HUD secretary were an expert on the housing market capable of weighing in against the more dubious plans being floated for Fannie and Freddie.
.. Mr. Carson needs to be given a thorough, searching examination by the Senate over his approach to housing policy, which, though certainly not brain surgery, does present complexities that would challenge a nominee far more experienced than he.
Tags: ben-carson, housing
What effect the Trump administration will have on the housing market
At a meeting of the National Association of Home Builders in August, Trump said that "there's no industry, other than probably the energy industry, that is more overregulated than the housing industry." However, changing those regulations may be beyond his scope.
.. "He could try to use his power to ease it, but a lot of the problems are at the state and local levels," Goodman said.
.. Goodman said the two biggest issues the housing market faces are supply constraints and credit availability.
.. But Trump's stance on immigration could have a detrimental effect on housing supply.
"Immigration plays a big part in the labor force for construction," Smoke said. "It's one of the constraints we have in new construction."
.. Something to watch under Trump could be what happens to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Reform efforts have stalled the past several years. But hedge-fund billionaire John Paulson, who is part of the president-elect's economic policy team, could push for action. Paulson bought shares of Fannie and Freddie in the hope of cashing in when they regained their independence. Since being placed under government control, the mortgage-backers have sent nearly all their profits to the U.S. Treasury, not investors.
"Paulson cares passionately about this, given his positions," Goodman said.
Tags: fannie-mae, freddie-mac, hedge-fund, housing, immigration, investors, john-paulson
Explaining it all to you: The persistence of Vox…
In fact, people nowadays have lots of information. Too much, even. No, your problem is the opposite. Your problem is that you cannotinterpret the information you have. You lack the guiding hand of expertise. You need a vox dei, a little Voice of God whispering in your ear, helping you along, telling you what it all means.
.. Klein rejects what he calls the "More Information Hypothesis," the idea that a better-informed citizenry could have more productive political debates. In fact, because we see facts through partisan lenses, facts alone are useless. People are irresponsible with knowledge; facts just make them "better equipped to argue for their own side."
.. Vox is therefore an exercise in the simultaneous having and eating of cake; it wishes to both make strong value-laden assertions and be trusted as neutral and dispassionate. This means that Vox inherently practices a crude and cruel form of rhetorical dishonesty: it treats matters of profound complexity as if they are able to be settled through mereexpertise. If anyone disagrees with what the wonks have concluded, they must be dumb, delusional, or both.
.. As Fredrik deBoer says in his critique of Vox, the "explainer" stance is insidious, because it disguises partisanship as objectivity, falsely assuming that there can be such a thing as a "view from nowhere."
.. He shows how Vox used selective and highly unreliable empirical data in order to attack Bernie Sanders, while cultivating the illusion of rigor and neutrality. For example, by producing a calculator showing people how much each candidate's policies would cost households in taxes, without disclosing how much these policies would save households elsewhere, Vox made it look as if Bernie Sanders was simply planning to drain families of all their money.
.. "The whole notion of ideology-free explanation of complex subjects is of course itself ideology-laden… The pretense of neutral explanation simply deepens the potential dangers of bias."
.. It should be no surprise that the main thing these explainers love to explain is "policy," the more complicated the better. Policy wonks love policies because they get to explain them. Everyone else hates complicated policies, because everyone else has to be subjected to them. The more inscrutable and byzantine the policy (and the more confusing and misery-inducing those policies are for ordinary people), the more jobs there are for wonks.
.. Whenever I meet a progressive wonk-type, I always make sure to ask them: "If you could wave a wand and fulfill your every political goal, what kind of world would you build?" The answers inevitably consist of more policy. "A nationwide jobs program," "universal pre-K," or "guaranteed annual income." (And those answers are from the true dreamers and visionaries among the wonks. Frequently their utopias consist of things like "a 2% drop in the unemployment rate.")
.. Focusing on "the weeds" is sly, because it carefully avoids having to discuss and defend your underlying moral assumptions. And by keeping the focus on "explanation" rather than "discussion," one can avoid difficult questions that might force the interrogation of one's preconceptions.
.. Vox's factual unreliability is not merely a product of Klein's sloppy oversight, however. It is in many ways inherent to the site's model of content production, which depends entirely on having incredibly young writers assume a position of omniscient expertise.
.. James Fallows, in his deliciously scathing 1991 look at The Economist, suggested that the magazine's intentionally anonymous bylines "conceal[ ] the extreme youth of much of the staff," quoting Michael Lewis' observation that "if American readers got a look at the pimply complexions of their economic gurus, they would cancel their subscriptions in droves."
.. Yglesias is perhaps the man whose work is most synonymous with the "#SlatePitch," the intentionally irritating, click-hungry denunciation of some perfectly innocuous truth or convention (hence "The Case Against Eating Lunch Outside").
.. Immediately after the 2013 collapse of the Bangladesh garment factory that killed over 1,000 people, Yglesias took to Slate to explain why workplace safety regulations actually inhibited the operation of free markets. Yglesias explained that high-risk jobs have high compensation, and just like people might choose to be lumberjacks, they might choose to work in highly dangerous garment factories for a premium. Thus "it's good that different people are able to make different choices on the risk–reward spectrum." The article was accompanied by a photograph of Bangladeshis loading dead bodies onto a truck.
The column was classic Yglesias, in managing to be both ignorant and appalling.
.. I once attended a public talk Yglesias gave on housing policy to promote on his (62-page) book The Rent Is Too Damn High. Yglesias was placed in conversation with Yale Law School professor Robert Ellickson, a bona fide expert on housing and zoning with approximately four decades of experience in the field.
.. But watching Ellickson flay Yglesias, I was most struck by the fact that Yglesias was completely unfazed. Far from being ashamed at his humiliating defeat, Yglesias did not even seem to acknowledge that he was even being defeated or humiliated. He didn't attempt to defend himself. He just… kept talking, as if the numerous arguments that had been made proving him wrong simply didn't exist.
.. This refusal to back down or admit fault is apparently characteristic of Yglesias generally.
.. When confronted, instead of apologizing, Yglesias doubled down, falsely accusing others of twisting his words. Yglesias is an enthusiastic practitioner of one of the most obnoxious tendencies in the human character: the belief that if people hate you, it must be because you're right rather than because you're an asshole.
.. Thus when people criticize you for taking the opportunity of a deadly factory disaster to explain why workplace safety standards are Actually Not As Good As You Think, your default reaction is not contrition or self-doubt but annoyance that people fail to recognize your rationality.
.. It is the same tendency that afflicts mansplainers generally: the refusal to entertain the possibility that it could be you who is wrong. "Explanation" implies certitude. For the explainer, information flows in a one-way channel, from the mouth of the explainer to the ear of the explained-to. Vox does not need to listen; Vox knows.
.. and of course it will survive. It will survive because we are all insecure and confused, and promises of explanation and certitude are appealing in a chaotic world. Ezra Klein is right that we do not know what to do with the barrages of information we encounter every day, and his let-me-explain-it-to-you business model is savvy.
.. But the more Vox persists, the less hope there is for American politics. The Vox model is premised on the idea that people shouldn't think for themselves, that the important parts of political thought and decision-making should be outsourced to experts. Inevitably, these experts will produce solutions nobody likes, because the moment one is convinced that all opposition must be founded in ignorance, one will always be right no matter how many people are hurt or how many people complain. The point of politics is no longer to help us live together and understand one another. The point is policy, and our job is to listen to the explainers. After all, they have the facts. They've got them here in 5 charts. It's everything you need to know.
Source: www.currentaffairs.org
Tags: certainty, clickbait, housing, matthew-yglesias, vox
Can Hillary Manage Her Unruly Coalition?
"What I really took away from this was the fact that in order to get subsidized housing into the suburbs, you have to be sneaky about it," Robert Strupp, the executive director of Baltimore Neighborhoods Inc., a liberal fair housing advocacy group, told The Sun:
Because if they found out about it in advance, they wouldn't let it happen. That's the sign to me that discrimination still exists. It's classic Nimbyism. That's today's reality just as it was in the 1950s and 1960s.
.. There is no way the Clinton campaign wants housing integration to become a central issue of the 2016 campaign. The same is true of the more general issue of poverty.
.. The agenda as stated does not address the fundamental problem that is at the root of the concentration of poverty — the ability of local governments to effectively exclude lower-income people from their communities through zoning and restrictive land use policies.
.. But the Republican Party has been most successful when it has been able to drive a wedge between competing Democratic constituencies,
.. Then, on the other hand, there are the competing goals of black Democrats in the Sandtown-Winchesterneighborhood of Baltimore, home of Freddy Gray — where 51.8 percent of the residents in 2012 were out of work. These Democrats enroll their kids in a public school system where 79.5 percent of the high school students have not met proficiency standards in English, and 90.2 percent have not met those standards in Algebra.
Source: www.nytimes.com
Tags: democrats, hillary-clinton, housing, inequality, poverty
Commentary: I study liars. I've never seen one like Donald Trump.
The real reason Donald Trump lies
Joint Session of Congress for Counting of Electoral College Ballots
How will Trump's Mar-a-Lago-neighbors enforce the 1993 covenant that he cannot stay more than 21 days a year and 7 consecutive days when he has spent 130 days during his presidency and it is registered as his permanent Florida address?
What would the mob of 1/6/2021 in Washington DC have to have done in order for the coup attempt to be successful? Or was there never a chance?
Was the 2020 Election Stolen?
Did Philadelphia Use Dominion Voting Machines in the 2020 Election?
Donald Trump & Joe Biden 1st Presidential Debate 2020 (Transcript)
President Trump's "Peaceful Transfer of Power" "Bluff"
Naked Quotations
US could have a digital currency in 12-18 months.
Investment Portfolios: Diversification Strategies
What will Democrats have to pay Trump to leave?
Why Did Corporations "Waste their Capital"?
Why did corporations borrow to buy back their stock rather than invest it for productive purposes?
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The 21st Century has seen a massive turn out to communication as the greatest skill in every facet of life. As a teacher, you have to master the skill to make a teaching effective. As a manager of a company or an organization, how best you communicate your opinions to your subordinates will go a long way in determining the success of your organization in achieving its targeted goals.
Information and Communication are two different words which go hand in hand but contrary to many beliefs, they are not the same.
Information is passing across, giving out, while communication is getting through. Telecommunication acts as a bridge between the two, it encompasses both aspects.
Telecommunication is the act of transmission of a signal over a long distance for the purpose of communication using various media such as telephone, radio, television, cellphone and many other latest gadgets and devices used in communication.
The telecommunication industry is imperative and fundamental to the economy and social advancement of any societies. It is broader than it was in the last decades; it covers multiple service providers such as telephone companies, internet service providers, wireless carriers, cable system operators, and satellite operators.
It also encompasses software-based applications with intermediate software layers incorporated into an end-to-end communication service.
Suppliers of telecommunication equipment and gadget, software products developers, and telecommunication service providers are also part of the telecommunication industry.
The technologies used for telecommunications have evolved over several years of intense research.
Venturing into research on semiconductors, digital electronics used in the telecommunication industry along with the analog representations of voice, images, texts, and videos has drastically improved by digital representations.
Now, all types of media can be sufficiently represented in the most basic form–bits and efficiently represented using a common infrastructure commonly known as Internet Protocol (IP) or data streams.
The advancement in telecommunication technology has seen telephony carried out in various places through the use of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and other cable networks.
Our communication world has transmogrified from the use letters and telegram as the principal means of communication, instant messaging, live chat, video conferencing and fast automated mail have substantially replaced the archaic methods. We all embrace and desire quicker responses to our requests; no one likes waiting for too long; clients want it and want it now!
It has been statistically proven that a company that invests in standard telecommunication devices stands a higher chance of achieving greater customer satisfaction than those that do not.
Choosing a telecommunication company to patronize can be a great challenge to consumers as the market is just too wide. Consumers should look for ones with a great reputation, outstanding customer service, quality and durable products.
None fits the bill perfectly like AT&T which is the largest telecommunication company in the world. AT&T stands as the second largest mobile telephone service provider and also the largest provider of fixed telephone services in the US.
AT&T Products include AT&T Business Optical Fiber, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), AT&T Dedicated IP Internet (ADI), AT&T IP Flexible and many others.


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namespace BeyondEarthApp.Web.Api.MaintenanceProcessing
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