If every man has the absolute right to his justly-held property it then follows that he has the right to keep that property — to defend it by violence against violent invasion.
Absolute pacifists who also assert their belief in property rights — such as Mr. Robert LeFevre — are caught in an inescapable inner contradiction: for if a man owns property and yet is denied the right to defend it against attack, then it is clear that a very important aspect of that ownership is being denied to him. To say that someone has the absolute right to a certain property but lacks the right to defend it against attack or invasion is also to say that he does not have total right to that property.
Furthermore, if every man has the right to defend his person and property against attack, then he must also have the right to hire or accept the aid of other people to do such defending: he may employ or accept defenders just as he may employ or accept the volunteer services of gardeners on his lawn.
How extensive is a man's right of self-defense of person and property? The basic answer must be: up to the point at which he begins to infringe on the property rights of someone else. For, in that case, his "defense" would in itself constitute a criminal invasion of the just property of some other man, which the latter could properly defend himself against.
It follows that defensive violence may only be used against an actual or directly threatened invasion of a person's property — and may not be used against any nonviolent "harm" that may befall a person's income or property value. Thus, suppose that A, B, C, D … etc. decide, for whatever reason, to boycott the sales of goods from Smith's factory or store. They picket, distribute leaflets, and make speeches — all in a non-invasive manner — calling on everyone to boycott Smith. Smith may lose considerable income, and they may well be doing this for trivial or even immoral reasons; but the fact remains that organizing such a boycott is perfectly within their rights, and if Smith tried to use violence to break up such boycott activities he would be a criminal invader of their property.
Defensive violence, therefore, must be confined to resisting invasive acts against person or property. But such invasion may include two corollaries to actual physical aggression: intimidation, or a direct threat of physical violence; and fraud, which involves the appropriation of someone else's property without his consent, and is therefore "implicit theft."
Thus, suppose someone approaches you on the street, whips out a gun, and demands your wallet. He might not have molested you physically during this encounter, but he has extracted money from you on the basis of a direct, overt threat that he would shoot you if you disobeyed his commands. He has used the threat of invasion to obtain your obedience to his commands, and this is equivalent to the invasion itself.
It is important to insist, however, that the threat of aggression be palpable, immediate, and direct; in short, that it be embodied in the initiation of an overt act. Any remote or indirect criterion — any "risk" or "threat" — is simply an excuse for invasive action by the supposed "defender" against the alleged "threat." One of the major arguments, for example, for the prohibition of alcohol in the 1920s was that the imbibing of alcohol increased the likelihood of (unspecified) people committing various crimes; therefore, prohibition was held to be a "defensive" act in defense of person and property. In fact, of course, it was brutally invasive of the rights of person and property, of the right to buy, sell, and use alcoholic beverages.
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Once we bring in "threats" to person and property that are vague and future — i.e., are not overt and immediate then all manner of tyranny becomes excusable. The only way to guard against such despotism is to keep the criterion of perceived invasion clear and immediate and overt. For, in the inevitable case of fuzzy or unclear actions, we must bend over backwards to require the threat of invasion to be direct and immediate, and therefore to allow people to do whatever they may be doing. In short, the burden of proof that the aggression has really begun must be on the person who employs the defensive violence.
Fraud as implicit theft stems from the right of free contract, derived in turn from the rights of private property. Thus, suppose that Smith and Jones agree on a contractual exchange of property titles: Smith will pay $1,000 in return for Jones's car. If Smith appropriates the car and then refuses to turn over $1,000 to Jones, then Smith has in effect stolen the $1,000; Smith is an aggressor against $1,000 now properly belonging to Jones. Thus, failure to keep a contract of this type is tantamount to theft, and therefore to a physical appropriation of another's property fully as "violent" as trespass or simple burglary without armed assault.
Suppose, for example, that A and B make an agreement, a "contract," to get married in six months; or that A promises that, in six months' time, A will give B a certain sum of money. If A breaks these agreements, he may perhaps be morally reprehensible, but he has not implicitly stolen the other person's property, and therefore such a contract cannot be enforced. To use violence in order to force A to carry out such contracts would be just as much a criminal invasion of A's rights as it would be if Smith decided to use violence against the men who boycotted his store. Simple promises, therefore, are not properly enforceable contracts, because breaking them does not involve invasion of property or implicit theft.
"Simple promises, therefore, are not properly enforceable contracts, because breaking them does not involve invasion of property or implicit theft."
Debt contracts are properly enforceable, not because a promise is involved, but because the creditor's property is appropriated without his consent — i.e., stolen — if the debt is not paid. Thus, if Brown lends Green $1,000 this year in return for the delivery of $1,100 next year, and Green fails to pay the $1,100, the proper conclusion is that Green has appropriated $1,100 of Smith's property, which Green refuses to turn over — in effect, has stolen. This legal way of treating a debt — of holding that the creditor has a property in the debt — should be applied to all debt contracts.
Thus, it is not the business of law — properly the rules and instrumentalities by which person and property are violently defended — to make people moral by use of legal violence. It is not the proper business of law to make people be truthful or to keep their promises. It is the business of legal violence to defend persons and their property from violent attack, from molestation or appropriation of their property without their consent. To say more — to say, for example, that mere promises are properly enforceable — is to make an unwarranted fetish of "contracts" while forgetting why some of them are enforceable: in defense of the just rights of property.
We conclude that the shopkeeper's shooting of the erring lad went beyond this proportionate loss of rights, to wounding or killing the criminal; this going beyond is in itself an invasion of the property right in his own person of the bubblegum thief. In fact, the storekeeper has become a far greater criminal than the thief, for he has killed or wounded his victim — a far graver invasion of another's rights than the original shoplifting.
"It would clearly be grotesque and criminally invasive to shoot a man across the street because his angry look seemed to you to portend an invasion."
Should it be illegal, we may next inquire, to "incite to riot"? Suppose that Green exhorts a crowd: "Go! Burn! Loot! Kill!" and the mob proceeds to do just that, with Green having nothing further to do with these criminal activities. Since every man is free to adopt or not adopt any course of action he wishes, we cannot say that in some way Green determined the members of the mob to their criminal activities; we cannot make him, because of his exhortation, at all responsible for their crimes. "Inciting to riot," therefore, is a pure exercise of a man's right to speak without being thereby implicated in crime.
On the other hand, it is obvious that if Green happened to be involved in a plan or conspiracy with others to commit various crimes, and that then Green told them to proceed, he would then be just as implicated in the crimes as are the others — more so, if he were the mastermind who headed the criminal gang. This is a seemingly subtle distinction which in practice is clearcut — there is a world of difference between the head of a criminal gang and a soap-box orator during a riot; the former is not, properly to be charged simply with "incitement."
It should further be clear from our discussion of defense that every man has the absolute right to bear arms — whether for self-defense or any other licit purpose. The crime comes not from bearing arms, but from using them for purposes of threatened or actual invasion. It is curious, by the way that the laws have especially banned concealed weapons, when it is precisely the open and unconcealed weapons which might be used for intimidation.
In every crime, in every invasion of rights, from the most negligible breach of contract up to murder, there are always two parties (or sets of parties) involved: the victim (the plaintiff) and the alleged criminal (the defendant). The purpose of every judicial proceeding is to find, as best we can, who the criminal is or is not in any given case.
Generally, these judicial rules make for the most widely acceptable means of finding out who the criminals may be. But the libertarian has one overriding caveat on these procedures: no force may be used against non-criminals. For any physical force used against a non-criminal is an invasion of that innocent person's rights, and is therefore itself criminal and impermissible.
"Coddling criminals" then becomes, in actuality, making sure that police do not criminally invade the rights of self-ownership of presumptive innocents whom they suspect of crime. In that case, the "coddler," and the restrainer of the police, proves to be far more of a genuine defender of property rights than is the conservative.
We may qualify this discussion in one important sense: police may use such coercive methods provided that the suspect turns out to be guilty, and provided that the police are treated as themselves criminal if the suspect is not proven guilty. For, in that case, the rule of no force against non-criminals would still apply.
Suppose, for example, that police beat and torture a suspected murderer to find information (not to wring a confession, since obviously a coerced confession could never be considered valid). If the suspect turns out to be guilty, then the police should be exonerated, for then they have only ladled out to the murderer a parcel of what he deserves in return; his rights had already been forfeited by more than that extent. But if the suspect is not convicted, then that means that the police have beaten and tortured an innocent man, and that they in turn must be put into the dock for criminal assault.
In short, in all cases, police must be treated in precisely the same way as anyone else; in a libertarian world, every man has equal liberty, equal rights under the libertarian law. There can be no special immunities, special licenses to commit crime. That means that police, in a libertarian society, must take their chances like anyone else; if they commit an act of invasion against someone, that someone had better turn out to deserve it, otherwise they are the criminals.
"Police must take their chances like anyone else; if they commit an act of invasion against someone, that someone had better turn out to deserve it, otherwise they are the criminals."
As a corollary, police can never be allowed to commit an invasion that is worse than, or that is more than proportionate to, the crime under investigation. Thus, the police can never be allowed to beat and torture someone charged with petty theft, since the beating is far more proportionate a violation of a man's rights than the theft, even if the man is indeed the thief.
It should be clear that no man, in an attempt to exercise his right of self-defense, may coerce anyone else into defending him. For that would mean that the defender himself would be a criminal invader of the rights of others. Thus, if A is aggressing against B, B may not use force to compel C to join in defending him, for then B would be just as much a criminal aggressor against C.
This immediately rules out conscription for defense, for conscription enslaves a man and forces him to fight on someone else's behalf. It also rules out such a deeply embedded part of our legal system as compulsory witnesses. No man should have the right to force anyone else to speak on any subject. The familiar prohibition against coerced self-incrimination is all very well, but it should be extended to preserving the right not to incriminate anyone else, or indeed to say nothing at all. The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.
If no force may be used against a noncriminal, then the current system of compulsory jury duty must also be abolished. Just as conscription is a form of slavery, so too is compulsory jury duty. Precisely because being a juror is so important a service, the service must not be filled by resentful serfs. And how can any society call itself "libertarian" that rests on a foundation of jury slavery? In the current system, the courts enslave jurors because they pay a daily wage so far below the market price that the inevitable shortage of jury labor has to be supplied by coercion.
The problem is very much the same as the military draft, where the army pays far below the market wage for privates, cannot obtain the number of men they want at that wage, and then turns to conscription to supply the gap. Let the courts pay the market wage for jurors, and sufficient supply will be forthcoming.
If there can be no compulsion against jurors or witnesses, then a libertarian legal order will have to eliminate the entire concept of the subpoena power. Witnesses, of course, may be requested to appear. But this voluntarism must also apply to the defendants, since they have not yet been convicted of crime.
1. For a development of libertarian principles of the law of adulteration, see Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Law In A Free State (London: Macmillan, 1895), pp. 132–58.
2. For a further development of this thesis, see the section "Property Rights and the Theory of Contracts," pp. 133–48 below.
3. This requirement recalls the scholastic doctrine of the double effect. See G.E.M. Anscombe, "The Two Kinds of Error in Action," Journal of Philosophy 60 (1963): 393401; Philippa R. Foot, Virtues and Vices (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978), pp. 19–25.
Am I right in saying that a man has forfeited his own rights (to the extent of the aggression he has committed) in attacking the rights of others? … It may be very difficult to translate into concrete terms the amount of aggression, and of resulting restraint; but all just law seems to be the effort to do this. We punish a man in a certain way if he has inflicted an injury which lays me up for a day; in another way if he takes my life…. There is generally underlying it [the law] the view (which is, I think, true) that the punishment or redress — both in civil and criminal matters — should be measured by the amount of aggression; in other words that the aggressor — after a rough fashion — loses as much liberty as that of which he has deprived others.
6. For a development of this theory of punishment, see the section "Punishment and Proportionality," pp. 85–96 below.
7. This prohibition against coercing an unconvicted person would eliminate the blatant evils of the bail system, where the judge arbitrarily sets the amount of bail, and where, regardless of the amount, poorer defendants are clearly discriminated against.


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Posted June 28, 2017 by dcplatest & filed under Current thinking.
In deciding an appeal against the refusal of planning permission for seven houses in north London (DCS Number 400-015-723) an inspector has highlighted the primacy of the development plan.
The proposal did not make provision for a contribution towards affordable housing, the developers drawing attention to national planning policy in the Written Ministerial Statement (WMS) of 28 November 2014, which states that "Due to the disproportionate burden of developer contributions on small-scale developers, for sites of 10-units or less… affordable housing and tariff style contributions should not be sought". The inspector recorded that the WMS, taken together with the related sections of the Planning Practice Guidance are clear and unequivocal statements of national policy, and as a consequence are considerations to which he attached very considerable weight.
The inspector also, however, referred to the recent judgement of the Supreme Court [Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government v Hopkins Homes Ltd; Richborough Estates Partnership LLP v Cheshire East Borough Council – also known as Suffolk Coastal DC v Hopkins Homes Ltd [2017] ], in particular paragraph 21, which makes clear that national policy "cannot and does not purport to, displace the primacy given by statute and policy to the statutory development plan. It must be exercised consistently with, and not so as to displace or distort, the statutory scheme."
The inspector decided, accordingly, that whilst the WMS and PPG were both material considerations in the case they did not automatically displace the statutory primacy of the development plan in his assessment of the planning merits of the appeal. The appeal was dismissed.
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A decision on whether to develop a "spatial vision" for the Oxford to Cambridge growth arc has still not been made, ministers have confirmed, just a few days after the government's infrastructure adviser warned that failure to do so could compromise the success of the project.
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Now who really wasn't looking forward to this next episode after what we got last week? I know I was! Demon Slayer is a series that keeps you coming back for more because almost every episode delivers in their ability to show you that you haven't seen anything yet. I could easily understand why this was actually trending on Twitter. It deserved this spotlight. Which brings us to what comes next. They had my full attention wondering what the heck was meant by "As Tanjiro crawls towards Nezuko, who lies on the ground, riddled with wounds, someone appears before him".
When that episode wrapped up, I'm sure all of us were left with the impression that this was it. How else would you proceed from Rui getting his head taken clean off? Sometimes it's good to be wrong, and I'm sure those who read the manga were just waiting for our reaction to seeing that things were not quite as they seemed. From the start of the episode they wasted little time throwing us back into a state of panic since as we know, Tanjiro was supposed to have nothing at all left once he stopped moving. It was terrifying to think that things were not over and there was nothing he could do to defend himself from what came next. Obviously Rui would not be in the best moood after being bested like this, and the expression of his voice showed it. There was only one way that this could have really ended. Knowing that this was not going to be Tanjiro's time meant that a certain someone had to make his presence known in the nick of time. From there you could at least appreciate that the action could proceed just a bit more, which was satisfying because once more we were seeing how these two Hashiras are on a completely different level of power in contrast to everyone else on this battlefield.
One thing that I did expect from this episode was seeing what would happen when it comes down to Shinobu versus the elder spider demon sister. This was never going to be much of a confrontation considering her power level, so your interest level was aimed more towards what Shinobu is like when she faces down an actual opponent. This was the stuff of nightmares because it was one thing to know that she is a bit psychotic about the way she talks, but it is another thing entirely to see her when she has shifted from that playful attitude to something a little more cold. Even her ability was terrifying as someone who does not fight the same way as most Demon Hunters. In spite of her fight happening pretty quick, there was still some animation to admire from the way that she moved gracefully like an actual butterfly. The way her robes moved like wings was pretty awesome in motion.
The story of Rui and his family was chilling, and I'm glad that they found the time to tell it properly by the end. It helped that they also told this through the perspective of the elder spider demon sister. If they did this with Rui, it probably would not have had the same impact on us since he is the main aggressor and past any point of sympathy. I mean it hit you right in the feelings to see this families story unfold to understand what kind of hell they all stepped into when agreeing to his kind of bond. I hated the fact that I could feel bad for them, but there was no denying the beautiful execution of this scene and the emotion put into it.
This week's episode came and went in contrast to some of the others, but there was also a lot to take in in a short amount of time. I had to take a second to properly reflect on everything they gave us so that this arc could begin to reach a conclusion. I hope that next week we get some time to begin building a bridge between Tanjiro, Inosuke, Zenitsu, and slayers of a higher rank.
Aside from that, once more the animation was impressive. First off, the elaborate deigns of Rui's webbings are awesome. For a demon of this one's power, you would think a single web would be more than enough to throw at an enemy, but here he is getting creative with every patter till the bitter end. The last one getting so complex as to show the desperation and power he only now decided he needed to dig deep for. When it came to Shinobu, I admired the swordsmanship they showed from her. Not even for just what she did in combat, for just what she showed capable of when being only flashy.
Demon Slayer "Pretend Family" put the focus on this demon spider family, and created an engaging exploration into just how these bonds were both created and maintained. At the same time it managed to leave some of us anime viewers shook about a fight that did not end the way the previous episode led us to believe. Now would be the time where I would say that this was a fight for the history books. This could have easily been one of those big battles where the hero dug deep to overpower an overpowered villain, and they hit us with a twist that further dodged this among other things that help Demon Slayer break the mold.
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2015 Audi RS 7 Sportback revealed in Europe
After only weeks of Audi's 2015 A7 update, the Ingolstadt, Germany-based premium brand has revealed the latest version of
the sweptback five-door coupe's sportiest iteration, the 2015 RS 7 Sportback.
What's not changing is the car's powertrain, but this was hardly a sore point. The twin-turbocharged, direct-injection, cylinder deactivation-capable 4.0-litre (4.0 TFSI) V8 continues to produce a very healthy 560-horsepower and equally robust 516 lb-ft of torque, while a quick-shifting paddle-shift actuated eight-speed automatic transmission puts all that thrust down to the tarmac via Audi's legendary Quattro all-wheel drive system. The result of all this go-fast goodness is a sprint from standstill to 100 km/h in just 3.9 seconds and a top speed that ranges between 250 and 305 km/h.
the difference in top speed? The 2015 RS 7 Sportback will offer two optional Dynamics packages, upping top speeds to 280 km/h or optimally 305 km/h, neither of which will be much use here in North America. Just the same, these packages may become available here (we'll let you know when Audi releases information about the Canadian-spec RS7) for those who want to play Russian roulette with their drivers' licenses. Other options include adaptive dampers, dynamic steering, carbon-ceramic brakes, and 21-inch alloys (replacing the standard 20s).
"The Audi RS 7 Sportback confirms the reputation of the RS models as the superior, top athletes of our brand," commented Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg, Member of the Board of Management for Technical Development of AUDI AG. "The combination of a powerful four‑liter V8 engine with cylinder on demand technology,
quattro drive and intelligent lightweight design makes the RS 7 Sportback an outstanding piece of sports equipment for any fan of dynamic and yet efficient driving."
Standard 2015 RS 7 Sportback fare in European markets is a new MMI infotainment system with 4G LTE connectivity and a Bang & Olufsen sound system, while the HVAC vents have been redesigned, as have the shift paddles. Standard in all markets will be the new RS7's freshened exterior styling, with a revised horseshoe grille featuring a narrow aluminum-rimmed quarter section at the bottom for a unique look, highlighted with the "quattro" script boldly written across its mesh black grille insert, as has been done with other recently updated RS
models. New Matrix LED headlamps and revised taillight lenses finish off the look.
For RS 7 buyers concerned with fuel economy, Audi claims a premium unleaded combined city/highway consumption rate of 9.5 L/100km, with 221 grams CO2 per kilometre. Considering the engine's performance, such a rating is very good. Audi points to its new Cylinder On Demand (COD) cylinder-deactivation system, which will "shut down four cylinders during partial load operation."
While this new version of the RS 7 Sportback will be given the 2015 model year in Europe, it won't make it to North America until the 2016 model year, so start saving your pennies.


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To be announced (TBA), to be confirmed ou continued (TBC), to be determined ou decided ou declared (TBD), ainsi que d'autres variantes, sont des termes génériques utilisés de façon très générale dans la planification d'événements pour indiquer que même si quelque chose est prévu ou prévu d'arriver, un aspect particulier de ce qui reste à être organisé ou confirmé.

TBA vs. TBC vs. TBD
Ces expressions sont semblables, mais peuvent être utilisées pour différents degrés d'indétermination :
 To be determined ou To be decided (TBD) : la pertinence, la faisabilité, le lieu, etc. d'un événement donné n'a pas encore été décidé.
 To be announced (TBA) ou To be declared (TBD) : des détails ont peut-être été déterminés, mais ne sont pas encore prêts à être annoncés.
 To be confirmed (TBC), To be resolved (TBR) ou To be provided (TBP) : les détails ont peut-être été déterminés et éventuellement annoncés, mais ils peuvent encore être modifiés avant d'être finalisés.

D'autres expressions similaires, parfois utilisées pour véhiculer le même sens et utilisant les mêmes abréviations, incluent « à déterminer », « à arranger », « à juger », « à faire », « à décider » et « être déclaré ».

L'utilisation de l'abréviation « TBA » est officiellement rapportée dans un ouvrage de référence au moins dès 1955 et « TBD » de la même manière dès 1967.

Exemples
Ces différents termes réservés sont souvent utilisés pour indiquer au public qu'il reste à pourvoir un poste vacant dans une composition de conférenciers, de musiciens ou d'autres artistes. Les termes indiquent également fréquemment qu'une œuvre créative, telle qu'un album ou un film, est à paraître, mais que la date de sortie n'est pas encore connue. Si le projet à venir n'est pas encore nommé, ces espaces réservés peuvent être utilisés pour indiquer que le nom n'a pas encore été sélectionné, bien que le projet puisse également être désigné comme « untitled » (« sans titre ») dans l'attente de cette détermination. Les termes sont également utilisés dans les programmes sportifs, en particulier lorsqu'une équipe a verrouillé une position dans un calendrier de séries éliminatoires, mais que son adversaire ne peut pas encore être déterminé car plusieurs équipes peuvent se qualifier pour la place en fonction de leurs victoires ou défaites restantes pour la saison, ou parce que d'autres équipes n'ont pas encore participé aux séries éliminatoires qui détermineront qui fera face à l'équipe bloquée. Au gouvernement et dans les entreprises, les termes peuvent être utilisés pour indiquer qu'un poste vacant dans une organisation doit être pourvu, ou inversement, une personne en particulier occupera un poste non encore créé.

Type d'investissement
Le terme « TBA » (qui signifie « to be announced ») est également utilisé pour décrire un type spécifique d'investissement hypothécaire simple, le titre adossé à une hypothèque à terme. Il sert à indiquer que l'investisseur acquiert une partie d'un ensemble de prêts hypothécaires non encore spécifiés, qui sera précisée à une date de livraison donnée. Cet usage existe au moins depuis les années 1980.

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Preventing prison suicide
Prisons in England and Wales have seen an unprecedented number of deaths through suicide in recent years.
We've been working to prevent this tragic loss of life in future by exploring how police, the judiciary, prisons and health services can collaborate to save lives.
In a series of four briefings, we spoke to current and former prisoners, staff and prison mental health service providers, to identify the factors behind these worrying figures and possible solutions.
Prisoners described numerous historic and current risks, including mental health problems, trauma and abuse, growing up in care and drug use, as well as concerns about their children's wellbeing.
You had this conversation with your kids earlier on and you are not in a position to do anything…as a mother it is a natural instinct to be there for their child... In prison that is taken away and you rely on authorities to do what you were doing…you are trying to juggle this from a distance over the phone, by letters, by visits… You think, 'What the hell, I can't do anything for my kids, I can't help them... What is the point?' If you've had one of those days, and you're behind the door, all those things rushing all at once…
There's very little mental prep for going back to the outside world. That needs to be addressed because it can be very scary.
Loss of liberty, feeling unsafe, isolation, and high-risk periods around arrival and release, were all highlighted as factors which exacerbated prisoners' vulnerability.
Staff shortages appear to be increasing the risk of suicide in prisons. In 2016 the Prison Reform Trust revealed that "the number of frontline operational staff employed in the public prison estate has fallen by over a quarter (26%) in the last six years". As a result of staffing shortages, prisoners are spending more time in 'lock down' in their cells and missing health care appointments because of a lack of people to escort them.
Staff shortages have also led to more subtle but significant changes, such as reducing the capacity of a staff member to interact and build relationships with prisoners. They were therefore less likely to pick up on subtle changes in a prisoner's mood.
Prison culture
The prisoners we spoke to described a culture where distress was not believed or responded to with compassion. Self-harm and suicide attempts have sometimes been viewed as manipulative, rather than the communication of distress. Research indicates that this approach from staff can significantly impact the way in which risk is managed.
Staff confirmed this, with some describing "underlying prison cultures" where "prisoners were seen as the scum of the Earth". Several participants discussed how mental health care teams became enmeshed in the prison culture:
…the brutalisation of the system affects the clinicians carrying out that assessment…
The impact of working in demanding circumstances – with limited training, a depleted workforce and a vulnerable population, who may be presenting disturbing behaviour such as violent self-harming, was described as having a "profound and toxic effect on staff". officers were described as having no "safe space" to "be honest about the impact of their work".
How can prison suicides be prevented?
A change to prison culture is required, where difficult behaviour is no longer viewed as manipulative but as a sign of distress.
Prisoners have multiple needs but may not reach a clinical threshold for mental health services. Therefore, the whole prison estate needs to be engaged in working towards a stepped-care approach that attempts to support people with the most appropriate service when they need it, 'stepping up' to intensive/specialist services as clinically required.
Prisons need to become 'psychologically informed environments' with an emphasis on the quality of relationships.
All prison staff need mental health training and support to enable them to maintain a caring and non-judgemental approach and to look after their own health.
Initial assessments on a prisoners' arrival must be robust to address the heightened risk of suicide early on in custody.
The Centre is calling for a profound culture shift in prisons from a primarily punitive approach, to one centred around recovery, wellbeing and rehabilitation. Ultimately, we will only see a reduction in prison suicide rates when the potentially traumatising and retraumatising impact of prison is recognised and addressed.
Read briefings on preventing prison suicide produced with the Howard League; one on prisoners' perspectives and one on staff perspectives.
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PLAY AND YOU'RE IN
Australian national team manager Ange Postecoglou says that the players looking to get into the national team squad for the World Cup 2014 should be playing at the highest level on a regular basis. Postecoglou was recently appointed as the national team manager after a poor run of results left Australia facing early exit from the World Cup even before the tournament started. Since the nation qualified for the 2006 World Cup, they have been regarded as one of the strongest from the oceanic group.
Postecoglou's latest comments come as a warning for players like Lucas Neil and Tom Rogic. They have the option to secure a regular first-team football by moving away from their respective clubs. While Lucas Neil is one of the established stars of the national team, Rogic is someone who is seen as a player with bright future. The manager has said that the players should at least try and secure a loan move and play regularly.
The manager undoubtedly has a tough job on his hands since Australia have been grouped in one of the toughest groups at World Cup 2014. It features the likes of Spain and the Netherlands, while South American team Chile will also be hopeful due to the home advantage.
"There's quite a few that are in that boat who have to make some really important decisions about their futures. have said all along, I really need players playing and fit around selection time. For Lucas and others in the group, there are some pretty big decisions to come. Whoever is playing well and in form I will have a look at, whether that's the A-League, Europe, or Asia. 'I will be looking at individual's form, their fitness and how they are going," said the former Brisbane Roar manager, who is regarded as one of the finest from Australia.
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Magnet fishing (also called magnetic fishing) is a sport/hobby in which a person throws a strong magnet (typically neodymium) into a water source (generally a river, lake, etc.) with the intent of attracting ferromagnetic materials. This mainly includes iron as well as other materials such as nickel and cobalt. Magnet fishing is quickly becoming a very popular hobby.
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Top 10 Romance Anime But With FUNNY MOMENTS!!
10 ROMANCE/COMEDY ANIME
TO WATCH
Looking for an Anime Where you gonna have fun and at the same time Romantic!! check the article below you will find a total of 10 anime about that.
NOTE : you can recommend any anime in the comment section below...
[10] JINSEI LIFE CONSULTING :
EPISODES : 13
DURATION : 24
Yuuki Akamatsu decides to join the newspaper club at his school. Nikadou Ayaka, the club's manager, assigns him the duty of steering the discussions for the columns.
Yuuki now needs to work with the three girls, Ikumi, Rino, and Fumi, to discover solutions to the questions that his classmates' letters to the club raise. This sometimes bothers him a lot.
[9] I'M THE VILLAINESS, SO I'M TAMING THE FINAL BOSS :
EPISODES : ??
In reality, Irene Loren D'Autriche's annual winter banquet, at which the conclusion of yet another academic year is to be commemorated, ought to be a completely ordinary evening. Cedric Jeanne Elmeier, her fiancé, then abruptly says he wants to marry Lilia Rainworth instead of her.
Irene discovers that she has been reborn as the antagonist of her then-favorite otome game when she regains her memories of her former existence. Additionally, she will suffer a terrible death at the hands of Claude, Cedric's brother and the so-called "Demon King," in less than three months.
The young woman, however, is not willing to put up with this and devises a plan to alter her destiny: Irene intends to seduce Claude in order to avoid being killed by him because, if he falls in love with her, he will undoubtedly leave her alone. Will she be able to find happiness in this weird world and will her plan be successful?
[8] PSYCHIC PRINCESS :
Qian Yunxi is the eldest child of a prominent royal court family. She was exiled to the mountains with a small group of people (an old servant and a maid) to a spiritual teacher when she was seven because her family saw her ability to feel spirits and control supernatural energies from an early age as a deadly threat. She was then abandoned by the house employees and her family, and was not permitted to return to her parents' home until she was of age.
But when her younger half-sister Qian Yunshang is about to wed Ye Yuming, the country's young prince, her stepmother recognizes her. The prince is a notoriously eccentric and ruthless womanizer, and the wedding is a political event. As a result, Qian Yunshang has no desire to even get to know him, much less marry him. So it is decided to pose as the younger daughter and take the elder daughter to court. At first, Qian Yunxi concurs, but with one stipulation.
The royal family is unaware of the upcoming instability at court, which is happening right now.
[7] THE MAID I HIRED RECENTLY IS MYSTERIOUS :
The new maid, Lilith, has a problem. Her wealthy employer's son Yuuri is adamantly convinced of that. He is wary of her because she is too gorgeous, her food is too good, and she anticipates all of his needs before he can even ask for them.
However, Lilith continues to smile and tease Yuuri about his paranoia despite this, and soon a very special friendship forms between the two.
[6] NO DOUBT IN US :
The emperor and a queen are ambushed by a plot, which forces them to cooperate despite their dislike for one another. They exchange souls as they tumble into a magical lotus pond together.
Therefore, the emperor transforms into a daring warrior who gallops into every fight, and the lovely queen is forced to leave her tranquil life behind and survive as a cunning man.
[5] NO-RIN :
Kousaku Hata, a high school student and die-hard follower of the Yukatan idol, is the main character of the anime. But he is devastated when she says she's retiring. Meanwhile, though, the idol Yukatan enrolls in his class as a brand-new pupil.
[4] THE TATAMI GALAXY :
An unidentified Kyoto student is reminded of his disastrous university years, when he made a lot of bad choices and had nothing but stress and troubles to deal with, when he sees a "god of marriage." What if everything hadn't gone tragically wrong and he had joined the proper club right away?
He is told to go back to the beginning of his university days after reaching the peak of his musings. He is given a second opportunity, and he may now choose wisely to locate the woman of his dreams and stay away from bad choices. But what if he also blows this opportunity?
[3] DAMEPRI ANIME CARAVAN :
Years have passed before a peace treaty is finally to be made between the land of Inako, the powerful military nation of Mildonia, and the theocracy of Selenfaren.
Princess Ani Inako is dispatched to the event to oversee the proceedings, but sadly, she keeps getting into trouble when she runs upon misbehaving princes from various nations. Can she withstand them and complete the ritual properly?
[2] D-FRAG! :
Kazama Kenji considers himself to be a true "culprit." Strangely, those around him appear to agree with this viewpoint as well. Kenji and his "group" start the story by making out with four incredibly strange chicks. Whatever reputation Kenji may have, it is nothing compared to the remarkable behavior of the females.
Chitose, Sakura, Minami, and Roka are anything but average. He thus feels obliged to join their "Game Creation Club," and ever since, he has daily encounters with bizarre tales that have turned his routine school life on its head.
[1] SAEKANO :
The first chapter of the Blessing Software team's visual novel is finished, but there is still a lot of work to be done as the winter comic approaches. Everyone still has a lot of work to do, whether it be writing, art, program code, or music. However, the team's collaboration is still anything from smooth: Utaha and Eriri continue to quarrel over the story's specifics, the accompanying paintings, and of course Tomoya Megumi frequently feels left out and Michiru isn't even very interested in the game.
Making crucial choices for the team is now entirely up to Tomoya. Will he be able to inspire his group and get the job done in time?
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SALT LAKE CITY—With a recent Gallup poll indicating only 2 percent of his party supports his candidacy for president, Jon Huntsman confided to staffers Tuesday that he was secretly relieved to be faring so poorly among the die-hard GOP base. "When I saw the numbers and realized Republicans weren't embracing my message, I breathed easily for the first time in months," the former Utah governor and ambassador to China said. "They're terrifying. We're talking about people who blame the unemployed for their own predicament and literally applaud the idea of letting those who don't have health insurance die. What would it say about me if they gravitated toward me personally or approved of my political principles?" Huntsman added that it was a huge weight off his shoulders when Herman Cain surged ahead of him in the polls, noting that it could easily have been him.


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Final Wooden House, Nakano, Japan
Sou Fujimoto Architects' innovative bungalow in Japan
One of the most talked about projects submitted for the World Architecture Festival Awards was Sou Fujimoto Architects' Final Wooden House which subsequently won the Private House category. Here Sou Fujimoto explains the design concept...
I wanted to create an ultimate wooden architecture. I thought through this bungalow, which can be considered as a small and primitive house, it was possible to do a primitive and simultaneously new architecture. 350mm square profile cedar is piled endlessly. At the end of the process appears a prototypical place before architecture became architecture.
Wood is amazingly versatile. Due to its versatility, wood is used in a conventional wooden architecture by intentional differentiation in various places. Not only in structures, such as columns and beams, but it can also be used in everything else from foundation, exterior wall, interior wall, ceiling, flooring, insulation, furniture, stairs to window frames. I posit that if wood is indeed multifaceted, then conversely it should be possible to create architecture that fulfills all functions by one process, and by one way of using woods. It is an inversion of versatility. From that originates, new architecture that maintains an undifferentiated condition of the harmonized whole before function and role underwent mitosis.
350mm square profile cedar has an amazing impact. It transcends what we usually call "wood" and becomes "an existence" of an entirely different material. While the dimensions adequately display its materiality as wood, 350mm squared is simultaneously the dimensionality directly corresponding to human body. Thus, three-dimensional space is created out of 350mm increments. This stepped space was a long fascination of mine for couple of years as its defining characteristics are the generation of a sort of spatial relativity and a new sense of various distances unachievable by coplanar floors.
There are no categorization of floors, walls, and ceilings here. A locality that was thought as a floor transforms into chairs, ceilings, and walls from different perspectives. Floor levels are relative and people reinterpret the spatiality according to where they are. People are three-dimensionally distributed in space and will experience new sensations of depths. Spaces are not divided but is rather produced as a chance occurrence within fusing elements. Inhabitants discover various functions within those undulations. It is a place akin to nebulous landscape. This resonates with the undifferentiated condition of above-mentioned architectonic elements. Both as a constructional methodology and experiential space, this architecture is synthesized by the fusion of various undifferentiated elements. Here, conventional rules of architecture is nullified. There is neither a plan nor a stabilizing point. This is possible purely because the wood is that versatile. Perhaps it is only possible with wood to be simultaneously the insulation and the structure, the finish and also the furniture. By being composed of the wooden blocks instead of slabs, the method of creating the undifferentiated condition was made clear.
I think this bungalow ceases to be within the domain of wooden architecture. If architecture made from wood is to be considered wooden architecture, then this bungalow is the wood itself that transcends the architectural convention to directly become a place for humans. It is of primordial existence before architecture. That is to say, rather than new architecture, it seeks new conception, a new existence.
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With five years between Wed 21 and Juana Molina's last album, Un Dia, one might expect a jarring stylistic shift or new direction. Fans of the Argentinian alt-rock musician will find not just a thread of continuity here, but an even more robust expression of the artist's craft. Songs thrum and hum; loops of acoustic guitar notes and braided vocal parts envelope listeners in an intimate cocoon of artisanal nü-folk. Molina's delicate whispered coos make great bedfellows to the subtle washes of woozy synths and percussion inflected with a Brazilian spice. What keeps Molina's music from being sweet, predictable, or pure folk is her kind of wild-card aesthetic: it's not too far from that of Wildbirds & Peacedrums or the punky folker Micachu. There's a jazzy element, a playful mix of ideas, and a boldness to Molina's work. But every part is there for a reason; every tonal twist or dash of sour or bittersweet is carefully planned. Wed 21 is smart and a bit addictive, and it may send some non–Spanish speakers to nearby classrooms to learn how to sing along.


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White Coat Ceremony Welcomes First Class At NYU Long Island School Of Medicine
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NYU Long Island School of Medicine first-year medical students are presented with a white lab coat at the inaugural White Coat Ceremony to mark the start of their medical education and training.
The newly accredited NYU Long Island School of Medicine (NYU LISOM) opened its doors to its first class of students this week, welcoming a new generation of aspiring physicians in an inaugural "White Coat Ceremony"—an emotionally moving rite of passage for students entering medical schools the world over. Of note, this year's ceremony marked the official kick-off of New York University's flagship medical school on Long Island—a school offering full-tuition scholarships with an innovative, accelerated three-year curriculum exclusively devoted to training primary care physicians.
"NYU Long Island School of Medicine is the realization of a bold vision to make medical school attainable—without financial hardship—to attract the brightest and best students from diverse walks of life into the medical profession," said Andrew Hamilton, president of NYU.
NYU LISOM received more than 2,400 applications for the 24 available slots this year. It has already begun recruiting for next year's class, which will include 32 students. The inaugural White Coat ceremony included each of the 24 new students reciting a version of the Hippocratic Oath—acknowledging their commitment to serving humanity with honor, compassion, and dignity, after which a white medical coat was draped upon each students' shoulders. The event took place at the Mineola campus of NYU Winthrop Hospital, in a beautiful, new contemporary-designed space. During the ceremony, students were surrounded by family and friends, as well as school leadership and faculty.
"In the decade ahead, there is expected to be a significant shortage of primary care physicians nationwide, NYU LISOM hopes to inspire its graduates to help fill that void in the New York metro area and on Long Island," said Dr. Steven Abramson of the program, which offers an accelerated three-year curriculum, allowing physicians to get into the field of their choice earlier, during their most productive years, and with less debt. "The tuition-free initiative, along with the three-year curriculum, are critical milestones in transforming medical education and addressing the dramatic changes in the healthcare delivery system."
NYU Long Island School of Medicine is the second to open under the auspices of NYU.
Additionally, full-tuition scholarships were offered to all students at NYU LISOM, regardless of merit or financial need. The new school's curriculum, with its primary-care focus, will concentrate on internal and community medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN, and general surgery, as compared to more traditional four-year schools that tend to focus on other specialties. All students are offered a conditional acceptance to an NYU Winthrop Hospital residency slot upon matriculation; it is believed that NYU LISOM is the only school in the nation to offer such a conditional guarantee.
—Submitted by NYU Long Island School Of Medicine
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We thank Mr Colin Loh Yoon Fui for his feedback ("Tailor job schemes to help PMETs"; June 2).
The Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) has available a range of programmes and services to help professionals, managers and executives (PMEs) be adaptable and employable, and to take charge of their career development.
These include professional conversion programmes (PCPs) designed for job seekers to reskill themselves and to obtain the necessary knowledge and competencies to take on new jobs.
Many of these PCPs are offered in place-and-train mode, where PMEs are first hired by employers before commencing training to gain the necessary skills for the job.
Currently, WDA has worked with the industry and partners to introduce PCPs in a range of occupations and industries, in a total of 12 sectors, to cater to a wide spectrum of the workforce. These include animation, childcare, nursing, game design, infocomm technology and intellectual property.
PMEs, including those who wish to switch careers, can also tap WDA's P-Max programme, which matches them with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
We also encourage PMEs to make use of available self-help resources to access job opportunities and career-related information.
One such resource is Jobs Bank (www.jobsbank.gov.sg), which facilitates job matching between employers and local job seekers. Another is www.careerresource.sg, a one-stop portal offering employment services, upgrading courses and programmes, career tips, and labour market information relevant to PMEs.
Those who require more customised or dedicated career or training advisory services may seek assistance from career coaches at WDA's career centres, CaliberLink or NTUC's Employment and Employability Institute (e2i).
PMEs can also look forward to a number of upcoming SkillsFuture initiatives, such as the SkillsFuture Mid-Career Enhanced Subsidy and SkillsFuture Credit, which can help them stay adaptable throughout their careers.
WDA will be providing more details of these initiatives soon.
WDA will continue to explore new or enhanced ways to help PMEs improve their employability and take charge of their career development.


There is this big misconception that adding geeky touches or doing a fandom themed, geek wedding means tacky or cheap looking wedding. I strongly disagree. I believe first and foremost that it is your day, and it should represent you in every sense and form. Luckily, these days it's becoming far more popular and common to see details or full themed weddings. From Star Wars to Doctor Who, to science or just your favorite irrational number, there is no detail or idea too crazy to showcase your favorite things.
As a wedding photographer who specialize in these kind of weddings, I had the chance to see these ideas first hand. Today I want to share with you some of my favorite ways my couples have incorporated these details into their day.
Save-the-Dates are a great way to be creative without interfering with the theme of the wedding. You can use them as a teaser of what it is to come for your super-theme-wedding or just to add that touch of geekiness.
When I got married 9 years ago, I wore blue shoes and I thought I was such a rebel. Today, couples use their imagination to come up with different ideas for shoes on their day. Like these wedges that the bride herself "Star Wars-ified by taking a piece of fabric and modify the wedge and adding some rhinestones.
Converses are becoming more common for geek weddings these days but how about matching with your companion and embroider them with your names or last names.
This is the easiest way to add the geeky touch, specially if you are wearing a suit. Now days you can find accessories to match your fandom obsesion easy, thanks to places like etsy or just by doing a little research online.
The cool thing about adding that geekiness in your boutonniere is that it doesn't clash with the rest of your wedding. You can get as creative as you can, and it would add the perfect touch to your day.
And as for the bouquets, there are no rules anymore (don't let you be told otherwise). You don't want flowers? How about a wire bouquet with charms representing your favorite things or loved ones. Or if you are like Ariel, the little mermaid, and have a lot of thingamabobs or whozits and whatzits galore, how about creating your bouquet out of it!
Or if you love Doctor Who and his blue box, how about this amazing cake stand? All custom made by the bride and groom out of scrap wood and thrift store finds!
I know there are supposed to be the bad guys but aren't they adorable? Darth Vader is made by combining a Pez head with some molding chocolate and the Stormtrooper is completely made from scratch!
You can add little details to honor to your favorite things through elements like the seating chart or guest book.
This couple had a Pi Number Seating Chart for their ultimate Pi day Wedding (it was actually on 3/14/15!).
Or the periodic table if you are into Science and Research!
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While patrolling the 3600 block of Stardust Thursday (10/3/2013) night, an officer of the Hannibal Police Department discovered a 56 year old Hannibal woman deceased, in her vehicle, in the parking lot of a local business. At this time there is no indication of foul play.
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Empire to publish 30 covers celebrating three decades of seminal films
Covers depict movies that have wielded commercial and cultural influence.
Empire: 1989's Batman and 2018's Black Panther
Empire is celebrating three decades of film coverage by publishing 30 magazine covers for its September issue, each featuring a different blockbuster or indie movie.
Each cover of the Bauer Media title represents a year of publication, from 1989 to 2018. The films were chosen by Empire's experts and are all significant for their influence, be it commercially, artistically or culturally.
The cover for 1989, when Empire was first published, features Tim Burton's Batman starring Michael Keaton, followed by the 1990 cover depicting Martin Scorsese's gangster epic Goodfellas. The three most recent covers are Moonlight (2016), Get Out (2017) and Black Panther (2018), which mark a watershed in black cinema.
They will all be available to buy on newsstands from 8 August, but impatient film fans will be able to order copies online via Great Magazines from today (2 August). Readers who want multiple editions will be offered a 25% discount if they purchase five or more.
Empire has conducted new interviews with the filmmakers behind each of the movies and pulled content such as interviews and set-visit editorial from its archives.
Readers were asked to vote online for their favourite cover and chose prison drama The Shawshank Redemption (below).
Terri White, Empire's editor-in-chief, said: "How do you sum up 30 years of cinema and 30 years of Empire? It turns out it took several rows, a few sulks and the odd impassioned plea for the Empire team to agree on the 30 films that should grace our covers – just one from each year.
"Even at a glance, it's a story of how film has evolved, starting with Tim Burton's Batman, journeying through Toy Story, The Matrix, Spirited Away, Avatar, Gravity and ending on Ryan Coogler's Black Panther. What a 30 years it's been, for both us and for cinema."
A gallery of all 30 covers can be viewed on Empire's website.
The full list is:
1989 – Batman
1990 – Goodfellas
1991 – Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1992 – Reservoir Dogs
1993 – Jurassic Park
1994 – Shawshank Redemption
1995 – Toy Story
1996 – Scream
1997 – Titanic
1998 – Blade
1999 – The Matrix
2000 – American Psycho
2001 – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002 – Spirited Away
2003 – Lost in Translation
2004 – Shaun of the Dead
2005 – Brokeback Mountain
2006 – Pan's Labyrinth
2007 – No Country for Old Men
2008 – The Dark Knight
2009 – Avatar
2010 – Inception
2011 – Bridesmaids
2012 – Avengers Assemble
2013 – Gravity
2014 – Whiplash
2015 – Mad Max: Fury Road
2016 – Moonlight
2017 – Get Out
2018 – Black Panther
Empire has been celebrating its 30th anniversary since January, when it announced a list of the 30 most adventurous filmmakers, which included Edgar Wright, Quentin Tarantino, Kathryn Bigelow, Patty Jenkins and Jordan Peele.
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HomeWorld NewsCanada's opposition demands that the Defense Minister should be sacked
Canada's opposition demands that the Defense Minister should be sacked
Sexual misconduct within the Canadian soldiers has led to the Conservative Party leader calling Harjit Sajjan as an "incompetent minister" who has lost the arrogance of the military.
Canada's opposition has demanded that minister of national defence Harjit Sajjan either resign or be faraway from his post by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as an institutional crisis associated with sexual misconduct within the military continues to roil the country.
Speaking within the House of Commons on Tuesday, leader of the opposition Erin O'Toole said the military was "literally falling apart" under Sajjan's watch and he should "do the honourable thing and resign".
The Conservative Party leader also described Sajjan as an "incompetent minister" who has lost the arrogance of the military.
That demand came after controversies over sexual misconduct within the military still trouble Sajjan.
The latest episode involved major-general Dany Fortin who was removed in mid-May from his position as vice-president for logistics and operations with the general public Health Agency of Canada, thanks to an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct that occurred three decades earlier.
Fortin had led Canada's vaccination programme after being seconded to the PHAC last November. Now, his lawyers have filed a case during a court alleging improper interference into the military chain of command with Sajjan, health minister Patty Hajdu and Trudeau, along side the senior-most bureaucrat within the country, the Clerk of the council , taking the choice for political reasons.
As Fortin's legal team challenged the govt , general officer Mike Rouleau, the second-in-command within the Canadian soldiers or CAF, resigned after it had been discovered he went golfing with retired general Jonathan Vance, the previous chief of staff. In fact, the whole controversy started with reports of Vance's alleged sexual misconduct. Vance resigned in January amidst allegations of impropriety of a sexual nature and is facing an investigation.
Sajjan has come under severe criticism during this matter after the military ombudsman of the time revealed that the defence minister was informed of the then CAF, Vance's alleged "improper conduct" with a subordinate in 2018. In May, an adviser to Trudeau testified before the House of Commons defence committee that she was conscious of the allegations. there have been accusations that Sajjan didn't act against Vance thanks to their long relationship, as they both served together in Afghanistan.
Sajjan has defended himself, as he continued to try to to on Tuesday. When confronted with O'Toole's harangue, he said, "We take all allegations very seriously, as I did and brought the immediate information to the acceptable officials."
Those explanations have done little to dampen criticism of Sajjan within the media and by the opposition, as O'Toole tweeted on Tuesday, "The behaviour of minister Sajjan is disgraceful to the institution we both once served. He has covered up sexual misconduct within the CAF and has lost the respect of members of the CAF. It's time for the prime minister to point out some leadership and fire his defence minister."


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NY will lift COVID restrictions when 70% get first vaccine shot, Cuomo says
Sarah Taddeo
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New York will lift its remaining COVID-19 restrictions in most settings when 70% of the state's adult population has received at least one vaccine dose, a mark the state could hit within days.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the new benchmark at a news conference Monday, making clear the state's emergency social distancing, health screening and cleaning rules will be rescinded for most businesses and social situations once the state meets the mark.
Currently, 68.6% of New Yorkers ages 18 and over have received at least one shot, an increase from 64.4% on Thursday.
For reference, the state's one-shot vaccination percentage was around 50% two weeks ago, on May 24.
"We have never been in a better position vis-à-vis COVID-19 than we are today," Cuomo said in Manhattan. "But we have to work to bring New York back. This is not an automatic recovery."
Once the state hits the 70% mark, businesses will have the option to keep the COVID protocols in place or remove them.
The general restrictions to become optional would include social distancing, masking, capacity restrictions, health screenings, COVID-19-related hygiene and sanitation procedures and the collection of contact information for contact tracing.
There are significant caveats, though.
New York's existing COVID-19 health protocols will remain in effect for large venues, schools, public transit, homeless shelters, correctional facilities and health care settings, Cuomo said.
Already, New York has rescinded most capacity restrictions for businesses, instead limiting them only to the six-foot social distance requirement, which still acts as a capacity cap of sorts.
Unvaccinated people would still need to wear masks and maintain six feet of distance even after the state hits the 70% mark, according to Cuomo's office. The Department of Health continues to strongly recommend masks and six feet of social distancing in indoor settings where vaccination status of a group is unknown.
The state will mirror guidance coming out of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to the governor.
The vaccination rate in the state has slowed dramatically, Cuomo said.
The state plans to focus its outreach efforts in key ZIP codes where the rates are the lowest, including areas in the city of Rochester, the city of Buffalo, Spring Valley in Rockland County, Far Rockaway in Queens and Delavan in Cattaraugus County.
The state's lowest 10% of ZIP codes by vaccination rate all have rates under 36%; nearly half of the state's overall rate, Cuomo said.
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Here's how you can install the Reddit Browser Kodi addon on your Kodi 17.6 Krypton the right way in 2018.
This addon it's designed for the enthusiastic Live tv lover out there who wants to consume vast amounts of media. Inside here you will find every live stream that you need to waste away those hours in front of your Kodi .
The Reddit Browser Kodi addon lets you stream any media you want from Reddit Website including movies, TV, and live IPTV and sports through the use of AceStream!
. Videos, pictures, audio and executable modes. Mode changer provided for convenience.
. Caching improving performance with adjustable setting, while reducing the number of requests to Reddit.
. Quick, Advanced, History modes of searching for both media links and text posts. By default only link/media searches are performed.
. Tokens revocation function acting as logout.
. VOD playback with the help of URLResolver.
. P2P acestream/sopcast playback with the help of Plexus (optional).
. Full-screen and windowed image modes display.
. Comprehensive context menu with various actions such as subscribing to subreddits, opening nested threads, refresh current directories, etc.
Let's jump right in and take a look at the steps in order to get this Kodi add-on installed on your Kodi setup.
Step 4: Choose the Hounds source that you added earlier. Scroll and locate > repo > kodi-repos > english > repository.xbmchub-x.x.x.zip. Once you select this, Kodi will install from it and give you an alert when successful.
Step 5: Head back to the Add-on browser screen and select Install from repository . Select the TVADDONS.co Addon repository and then Video Add-ons. Inside of here, you will find an add-on called Reddit Browser . Select it to view its dedicated page.


The Minnesota Department of Transportation says continued high water levels on the St. Croix River may delay plans to close a gap on the Stillwater lift bridge.
A release said MnDOT had planned to replace the bridge's span No. 6 - two spans east of the lift span - on Nov. 1. The bridge, which is being transformed into a bicycle/pedestrian crossing, is not operational due to repairs already underway. But replacing the span would effectively end the 2018 lift schedule for most large marine traffic.
According to the release, the span was floated out of position and anchored parallel with the east bank of the river in late July to allow for repair work and repainting on the lift span. With the lift span closed, the removal was needed to provide access for river traffic to move up and down the river unimpeded for the remainder of the boating season.
When the span is returned to its original location, the release said only smaller watercraft will be allowed to move up and down the river beneath the bridge. Signs will direct those boats to the proper location to safely pass as parts of the bridge will have scaffolding hanging underneath.
Repairs to the lift span are expected to be finished over the winter. The hope is for the lift bridge schedule to resume in late April 2019.


A square format is my favorite. It has a tranquil proportion. Though a proportion with a little dramatic is sometimes called for.
With Johnson and MacEoin I imagined what it might be like to run my fingers, instead of my eyes, over the surface – to think of the tactile instead of visual. Would it be like running my fingers over piano keys or a xylophone?


Let's draft Sarah Palin of Alaska to run for president in 2016. Here are the top 5 reasons she would make a great president?
Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate was asked by ABC News if she's interested in running for the White House.
"Of course," she said during the interview, which was conducted as she served wild boar chili to the homeless in Las Vegas.
"Yeah, I mean, of course, when you have a servant's heart, when you know that there is opportunity to do all you can to put yourself forward in the name of offering service, anybody would be interested," she said.


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Pay TV only subs on the slide as SVOD-only base rises
Pay TV-only subscribers are continuing to decline, while the number of people who only take subscription video-on-demand services is increasing, according to Ampere Analysis's latest Barometer.
Ampere's latest Barometer bulletin, focusing on cord-stacking – individuals creating their own 'bundles' made up of various OTT services – in 11 countries, found that the number of consumers taking SVOD only grew to 17% in Q3, up from 14% for the three months to June, while the number taking pay TV services only fell from 28% to 26%.
The proportion taking both OTT TV and pay TV subscriptions was stable quarter-on-quarter at 38%.
In Australia, SVOD-only homes made up the highest proportion of homes with subscription services. In the 10 other countries surveyed, the proportions varied. In the US, nearly half of all subscriber homes have pay TV and SVOD, while in France almost half of subscriber homes take pay TV only.
Ampere surveyed 23,000 respondents in 11 markets in Q3.
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Goodyear to Invest $250 Million, Retain 1,400 Jobs at Kansas Plant
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Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company will make capital investments of up to $250 million at its factory in Topeka, Kansas, according to Kansas commerce officials. The company has agreed to this investment as part of a deal in which the state will provide up to $14.2 million in training incentives. With the deal, Goodyear will retain 1,400 jobs at the plant for 10 years; the jobs have an average annual salary of $50,000. The agreement allows Goodyear to take advantage of an existing state program, rather than petition the state legislature for new incentives. "Goodyear appreciates the efforts and support of Governor Sebelius, Secretary of Commerce Kerr, and the leadership of the Kansas House and Senate to develop a proposal that would provide assistance for a potential modernization project at the Goodyear-Topeka plant," says Tim Davis, plant manager. The Associated Press reports that without the upgrades at the plant, Goodyear officials said they might have to cut 700 jobs there. The company says it will continue discussions with state officials to refine the agreement.
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The Extra Soul of All We Do
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March 13, 2018 | By The Fellowship | Article of Interest | IFCJ | IFCJ in the News
The Fellowship helps thousands of needy Israelis, many of them elderly or new olim (immigrants). But the aid and care we provide would not be possible without our thousands of volunteers. The Jerusalem Post's Rachel Cohen takes a look at some of these wonderful people and the love they bring to Israel's neediest:
Beyond the hundreds of Israelis in need served by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (the "Fellowship"), the group has thousands of volunteers who provide those people with much-needed time and care. That is "the extra neshama [soul] of all that we do," Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder and president of the Fellowship, told The Jerusalem Post in a recent interview.
Two of its flagship programs, among the many the Fellowship offers, are aimed at Israel's elderly population and new immigrants.
"Our volunteers are there to alleviate the profound loneliness experienced by the elderly," said Eckstein. "Loneliness is an illness among the elderly, and the fact is that some of these people go days – even weeks – without seeing another human, which hurts them emotionally and cognitively."
This is where the Fellowship's volunteers work their magic. The simple act of visiting a homebound elderly person for an hour or two helps maintain their dignity and save them from the crippling effects of loneliness. Such companionship can transform their twilight years into something positive and meaningful.
One of these volunteers is Yevgeny.
He lives in Nazareth Illit and has been volunteering with The Fellowship for the past two years.
He goes once a week to meet with an elderly man to keep him company and help him with odds and ends if he needs. Over time they became close friends.
For Yevgeny, it's all about giving back to this often-forgotten segment of the population. "I believe that you need to help older people. I feel that volunteering is good for the people you help and to the volunteers as well," he said.
"This has been a meaningful experience that empowers me as a person to help another person who is in need…"
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Khadi: Pride and Prejudice
For Indians, the term 'Khadi' has a patriotic notion attached to it that finds its roots in the Swadeshi movement spearheaded by Mahatma Gandhi during India's Freedom Struggle way back in the early twentieth century. Mahatma Gandhi spun Khadi deep into the hearts of Indians to generate the feeling of self-reliance and independence which provided the much needed strength to revolt against the foreign rule. It thus gained huge prominence by the time Indians got their independence in year 1947. However, the prominence didn't flourished for too long and became dormant with the passage of time. So much that even Gujarat, very the birth state of Mahatma Gandhi, has witnessed a drastic decline in the commercial activity related to Khadi in the recent years.
But it seems that the government has now decided to come out of its coffin. It has objected to the use of Khadi as a trademark by a German C ompany named Khadi Natureprodukte for selling a series of products that includes kajal and lipsticks, under the trademark Khadi in European Market. As per the Indian records, trademark Khadi is registered by Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) for various categories of goods that includes both textile as well as non-textile goods. However, in Europe, KVIC doesn't enjoys such protection. It seems that the Government has realized the apprehensions and has thus decided to seek protection under several countries by filing an application under the Madrid Protocol.
Khadi issue is an addition to an array of controversial goods like Neem, Turmeric and Haldi that have developed a unique genre of their own under Indian IPR regime. Where Neem and Turmeric have been invoked as a part of India's Traditional Knowledge to bar patenting of their uses by MNCs, several patents related to processing of Basmati Rice granted to a Texas based company were cancelled due to vehement opposition by India on the grounds of Bio-Piracy. The establishment of Traditional Knowledge Digital Library has been a direct result of the neem/turmeric controversy.
Nevertheless, unlike earlier cases, the situation in Khadi issue is little more complex. European company's description of goods for the mark doesn't includes textile goods or fabric. India has to protect its interest under Common Law as unregistered trademark user for which it has to show that it has been using the trademark for the similar goods before the date on which the European Company has made its filing. This is going to be an arduous task. It can possibly get protection under EU only after it's able to strike off the already existing trademarks from latter's records permanently. And since trademarks are territorial in nature, the same process has to be pursued for the US also, where the same company has procured similar trademark registrations. Meanwhile, it's also worth noticing that a GI application for the mark Khadi is already pending with the Geographical Indications Registry. But its registration would mean jeopardizing the already registered trademarks, which can enrage various trade associations and individual traders.
An adage in law says that "the equity aids the vigilant, not those who slumber on their rights". Where the German company had been ardently protecting its rights on an international level, the Indian authorities were sleeping with their heads down. The indolent attitude is apparent from the fact that several domestic proprietors have got through the registration process for their marks bearing the term Khadi, without any opposition from KVIC. This episode also makes it clear that the establishment of KVIC and Khadi Board has turned out to be a complete disaster. Had they done their job properly, Khadi might have garnered enough popularity to be categorized as a "Well Known trademark".
It's noteworthy that Europe is not the first country to grant protection to use Khadi for selling goods in its territory. The alleged German company had registered the marks KHADI and KHADI NATURAL PRODUCTS FROM INDIA with the USPTO in year 2013 and 2011 respectively. Indian authorities should stop reacting to situations after they occur. It's high time that they become proactive in their approach. Merely presenting Foreign Premiers with Khadi Waistcoats and Khadi-Bound Bhagwathgitas, or conducting fashion shows may not suffice. This unique material is a matter of pride for India, not a mere piece of fabric.
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