A stone sitting-out place/ stone look-out place, stone sitting circle (as described by J.H Hutton, The Angami Nagas) of the Angami Nagas, which is called "Tehuba", "Tsiephe/Tsekhwe", or "Daho" in the local dialect forms an indispensible part of traditional identity.
Typically, this stone sit-out places is an art of masonry wherein it is firmly built with stones and mud fillings and arranged with tiers of stone seats in a circular manner but without the use of mortars which was unknown to Nagas in the olden days. Perhaps a dozen of feet high or higher, it is usually situated in a higher point of a village location and forms a central figure of the khel. It is found in every khel of the village.
When asked, village elders said they have no account of when the multipurpose stone-builds were built but it has remained since time immemorial or has stretched to more than a century for in the formation of any khel, a tsekhwe/ daho/kehuda was erected and in the preceding times, additional structures were added or clinging parts were repaired and retained from time to time. During the days of yore, the long-standing stones were carried to the villages from river-beds and deep mountains.
It served as a multiple meeting place. Usually on a day off from the fields, during gennas or in the evening villagers would come to the Daho/Kehuda/tsephe with local rice beer or the food to relish, converse or sing together. It also served as an important meeting place. It formed a coign of vantage for disputes settlement. However, today it has been replaced by Panchayat halls. One significance of it being built high was to make announcement on meetings, gennas etc or prompt of any impending danger which was usually done by the "Vivo", the eldest person in the khel. During the olden days, it served as a binocular or look-out from which the approach of possible enemies or raiders could be easily seen, more over it also served as a bird-eye view of the whole village, its fields and far off distant villages.
Although the tsiephe/ tsekhwe/daho are still seen in almost all the villages in the Angami region, it has remained only as a sitting and relaxing place. Imminent meetings that took place in this place have now been replaced by panchayat halls or other meeting halls that came up the British administration. Today the public utilities that are constructed are more focused on housings which have also hampered the importance of this traditional endowments and productively using our past.
A young man said, "we have a better appetite when we bring our food to eat together here with our peers, also the very fresh view from here gives a different feeling." Our history can begin to become great by reminiscing thoughtful drawing on the past and demonstrate a community's symbolic honoring of the same. So do we need to attempt to reconstruct the avenues of our deferred maintenance of history?


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Reporters question Tomlinson as he leaves CPB's boardroom. (Photo: Current)
Reporters question Tomlinson as he leaves CPB's boardroom. (Photo: Current)
Embattled CPB Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson opened last week's CPB Board with remarks designed to rebut widespread assumptions that he's a greater promoter of Republicanism than of public broadcasting.
"When people with partisan traditions come to institutions like CPB, they leave these traditions at the door," he said. "The best way to encourage support for public broadcasting is to encourage this bipartisan tradition."
By the end of last week, dozens of Democratic lawmakers and liberal activists had said they'd rather encourage bipartisanship by seeing Tomlinson resign.
Anti-Tomlinson sentiment ran rampant even before June 23, when the board hired his choice for CPB president, former Republican Party Co-chair Patricia Harrison. Two days earlier, 16 Democratic senators sent a letter to President Bush asking him to fire the chairman. "We urge you to immediately replace Mr. Tomlinson with an executive who takes his or her responsibility to the public television system seriously, not one who so seriously undermines the credibility and mission of public television," the senators said. The White House confirmed that Tomlinson will not be dismissed, according to press reports.
Earlier that afternoon, Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) called for Tomlinson's dismissal at a Capitol Hill rally for public broadcasting.
The lawmakers' requests came one day after progressive groups Common Cause and Free Press presented acting CPB President Ken Ferree with a petition accusing Tomlinson of "abusing his position to pursue a partisan agenda" and asking him to quit. The petition had more than 100,000 signatures.
Tomlinson, who had little comment for the reporters who swarmed him after the board meeting, did say that he had no plans to step down.
"I'm confident the inspector general's report will conclude that all of my actions were taken in accordance with the relevant rules and regulations and traditions of CPB," he said, referring to the ongoing CPB investigation requested by Reps. David Obey (D- Wis.) and John Dingell (D-Mich.).
There's no date set for the report's release, said Sandy Keith, counsel in the inspector general office. CPB Board member Beth Courtney said she expects it in late July.
Press reports documenting the chairman's secretive efforts to monitor pubcasting balance and influence legislation fueled the anti-Tomlinson sentiment.
The New York Times revealed the chairman contracted with several consultants with right-wing ties without the knowledge of the CPB Board.
Fred Mann was hired to monitor the political affiliations of guests on Now with Bill Moyers, the Times reported. Mann worked until last year at the National Journalism Center, a journalism training program operated by conservative groups.
Republican lobbyists Mark Buse and Brian Darling gave strategic advice on legislation Tomlinson opposed that would have increased stations' representation on the CPB Board, according to the Times. Buse and Darling formerly worked for Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Mel Martinez (R-Fla.), respectively.
CPB reps and Tomlinson have said they won't comment on specific charges until the IG's report is released. At the board meeting, Tomlinson explained that he kept his actions under wraps to avoid controversy that would damage pubcasting.
"I sought to keep the discussion over balance within the public broadcasting family but as events have proven, this is such an explosive issue that we could not contain it within the family," he said.
CPB has also declined to share results of the much-discussed Now study.
However, Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, which oversees CPB, said Tomlinson sent him raw data from the study after the senator requested information.
In a Senate speech, Dorgan said the study seemed more concerned with identifying "pro-Bush" or "anti-Bush" guests on the PBS program than giving their actual political affiliations. In the data, he said, Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) was classified as a liberal because he disagreed with part of the president's policy on Iraq.
"This is pretty unseemly, frankly, spending public money on a consultant who then sits down and looks at all of these programs to see if something is being said that might be critical about a president or Congress," Dorgan said.
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Kenneth Tomlinson, CPB chair at center of scandal, dies at 69
Tomlinson, a former Reader's Digest editor and CPB Board chair who mounted a behind-the-scenes campaign to balance what he saw as a liberal bias in PBS programming, died May 1 in Winchester, Va., after a long hospitalization.

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In Maryland, the official source for the state statutes is the Annotated Code of Maryland. All Maryland law libraries and many Maryland public libraries (see SAILOR, Maryland's Online Public Information Network sponsored by Maryland public libraries) carry the Annotated Code of Maryland in print. For your convenience, this guide provides links to Maryland's statutes in a free web database maintained by Lexis-Nexis.
Keep in mind, however, that the print version may be more useful in your research because they provide summaries of cases interpreting the statute and their citations. The free web version does not give summaries of case law.
For more information on researching Maryland statutes, see Finding Statutes and Finding Maryland Laws When You Don't Have a Citation.
The Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation ("SDAT") appraises taxable property at market value and certifies property values to local governments for tax purposes. The SDAT's regulations are published officially in Title 18 of COMAR (the Code of Maryland Regulations). The print version of COMAR is available in all Maryland law libraries and many Maryland public libraries (SAILOR). SDAT's regulations are also available electronically here.
The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development ("DHCD") offers assistance to persons developing or improving housing. The DHCD's regulations are published officially in Title 5 of COMAR. DHCD's regulations are also available electronically here.
The Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation regulates mortgage lenders, bankers, and brokers. The Commissioner's regulations are available in the print version of COMAR, and electronically here.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development offers grants, loans, and other assistance to persons purchasing, developing, or improving houses. It also investigates complaints against deceptive contractors and housing discrimination. The Department's regulations are published officially in Title 24 of CFR (the Code of Federal Regulations). The print version of the CFR is available in all Maryland law libraries and many Maryland public libraries (SAILOR). The Department's regulations are also available electronically on the GPO Access home page.
Zoning laws (laws about where, when, and how different types of structures may be built) are controlled by local laws. Your local law library or public library will probably have a copy of your city's or county's ordinances, in which you can research zoning issues. Ordinances are another word describing local laws. The Baltimore City Code is available on the web. A list of other Maryland municipal codes are also available online. You can also find contact information, including links to web sites, for many local government offices by checking the Maryland Manual Online.
Residential Real Estate Transactions / Young Lawyers' Section, Bar Assn. of Baltimore City; Searle E. Mitnick, Ann Clary Gordon, editors. 3rd ed. Baltimore, Md.: Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers, 1995- (looseleaf for updating).
HUD Complaint Forms. For housing discrimination, faulty manufactured housing, deceptive contractors, etc.
The resources below may help you understand home ownership law. Keep in mind, however, that books explaining the law are no substitute for the law itself. You should always verify what the authors of these books say by looking up the statutes, cases, and regulations the books cite. Some of these books may also include sample forms.
Mastering Real Estate Titles and Title Insurance in Maryland / Lawrence s. Conn, Gordon B. Heyman, J. Paul Rieger, Jr. Eau Claire, WI: National Business Institue, 2000.
Residential Real Estate Transactions / J. Paul Rieger, Jr., Thomas D. Gibbons, editors. 4th ed. Baltimore, Md.: Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers, 1995- (looseleaf for updating).
There are several ways to begin your research on home ownership case law. One way is to find the statutes that apply to your situation in the Annotated Code of Maryland, the United States Code Annotated, or the United States Code Service then look at the case summaries following them. You can find additional cases by reading books that explain the law and noting the cases they cite. Another method of finding cases is to search the Maryland Digest, a subject index to Maryland case law, or the Federal Practice Digest, a subject index to federal case law. The Digests arrange summaries of published cases based on their legal issue using the "topic and key number" system. Once you know the topic and key number combination for your issue, look up that topic and key number in the Digest to find a list of case summaries that discuss your legal topic. Each summary includes a citation to the full text of a case.


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Interactions among plant hormones, carbon dioxide and light in the relief of thermoinhibition of lettuce seed germination: Studies in a flow-throught gaseous system
Saini, D., BASSI, P. K., Consolacion, E. D. & SPENCER, M. S., 1986, In : Canadian Journal of Botany. 64, 10, p. 2322-2326 5 p.
gibberellins
plant hormones
INTRA‐ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS IN LOCAL AUTHORITIES: TOWARDS A NEW APPROACH
STOKER, GERRY. & WILSON, DAVID., 1986, In : Public Administration. 64, 3, p. 285-302 18 p.
Leaf litter decomposition across broad thermal gradients in southeastern coastal plain streams and swamps
Hauer, F. R., POFF, L. & Firth, P. L., 1986, In : Journal of Freshwater Ecology. 3, 4, p. 545-552 8 p.
Measurement Of Total Antimony In Marine Organisms And Waters By Stibine Generation And Atomic Absorption Spectrometry
Maher, W., 1986, In : Analytical Letters. 19, 3-4, p. 295-305 11 p.
Norethisterone treatment to control timing of the IVF cycle
Wardle, P. G., Foster, P. A., Mitchell, J. D., Mclaughlin, E. A., Williams, J. A. C., Corrigan, E., Ray, B. D., Mcdermott, A. & Hull, M. G. R., 1 Nov 1986, In : Human Reproduction. 1, 7, p. 455-457 3 p.
Fertilization in Vitro
Oocytes
Patterns of morphology and behaviour in a cicada guild: A neutral model analysis
MAC NALLY, R. & DOOLAN, J., 1986, In : Australian Journal of Ecology. 11, 3, p. 279-294 16 p.
Planning for traffic through networks using a microcomputer
CHO, G., 1986, p. 1-24. 24 p.
Research output: Contribution to conference (non-published works) › Paper
Preparation of water soluble fractions of crude oils for toxicity studies
Maher, W. A., 1986, In : Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 36, 1, p. 226-229 4 p.
Requirement for ethylene synthesis and action during relief of thermoinhibition of lettuce seed germination by combinations of gibberellic acid, kinetin and carbon dioxide
Saini, D., Consolacion, E. D., BASSI, P. K. & SPENCER, M. S., 1986, In : Plant Physiology. 81, 4, p. 950-953 4 p.
Social support, dementia and depression among the elderly living in the Hobart community
Henderson, A. S., Scott, R., Wilson, J., Rickwood, D. & Kay, K. D. W., 1 Jan 1986, In : Psychological Medicine. 16, 2, p. 379-390 12 p.
Species Recognition by Song in the Veery (Catharus fuscescens: Aves)
MAC NALLY, R., Weary, D. M., Lemon, R. E. & Lefebvre, L., 1986, In : Ethology. 71, 2, p. 125-139 15 p.
vocalization
functional properties
Steele Rudd
PUTNIS, P., 1986, The 50 men and women who most helped shape modern Australia. Kramer, L. (ed.). Sydney: Angus and Robertson, p. 175-179
Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Chapter
The Labour Party and neighbourhood decentralisation: Flirtation or commitment?
Beuret, K. & Stoker, G., 1986, In : Critical Social Policy. 6, 17, p. 4-22 19 p.
public expenditures
The Progress of Political Science
Dryzek, J. S., 1986, In : The Journal of Politics. 48, 2, p. 301-320 20 p.
scientific progress
Trace metal concentrations in marine organisms from St. Vincent Gulf, South Australia
Maher, W. A., 1986, In : Water, Air, and Soil Pollution. 29, 1, p. 77-84 8 p.
Trace metal export in urban runoff and its biological significance.
Liston, P. & Maher, W., 1986, In : Bulletin of Environmental Contamination & Toxicology. 36, 6, p. 900-905 6 p.
Trace metals
Use of ethylene and nitrate to break seed dormancy of common lambsquarters (Chenopodium album)
Saini, D., BASSI, P. K. & SPENCER, M. S., Jul 1986, In : Weed Science. 34, 4, p. 502-506 5 p.
seed dormancy
Why is it that entrainment is not related to internal wave energy?
Lemckert, C. J. & Jones, I. S. F., 1986, p. 47-50. 4 p.
Age stereotyping: Are we oversimplifying the phenomenon?
Braithwaite, V., Gibson, D. & Holman, J., 1 Dec 1985, In : International Journal of Aging and Human Development. 22, 4, p. 315-325 11 p.
Semantic Differential
Arsenic in coastal waters of South Australia
Maher, W. A., 1985, In : Water Research. 19, 7, p. 933-934 2 p.
Australia in the British Press
PUTNIS, P., 1985, In : Media Information Australia. 35, 1, p. 28-35
Building Comments
WEBBER, R., 1985, In : The Post. 1 p.
Characteristics of selenium in marine animals
Maher, W. A., 1985, In : Marine Pollution Bulletin. 16, 1, p. 33-34 2 p.
'Come and get it': distributional biases in social service delivery systems.
Gibson, D. M., Goodin, R. E. & Le Grand, J., 1 Jan 1985, In : Policy & Politics. 13, 2, p. 109-125 17 p.
mobile social services
Communication Studies in Britain: Courses and curriculum issues
PUTNIS, P., 1985, In : Australian Communication Review. 6, 2, p. 38-43
WEBBER, R., 4 Dec 1985, In : The Post. 1 p.
Dementia and depression among the elderly living in the hobart community: The effect of the diagnostic criteria on the prevalence rates
Kay, D. W. K., Henderson, A. S., Scott, R., Wilson, J., Rickwood, D. & Grayson, D. A., 1 Jan 1985, In : Psychological Medicine. 15, 4, p. 771-788 18 p.
Dune vegetation of the Swan coastal plain, Western Australia.
Cresswell, I. D. & Bridgewater, P. B., 1 Jan 1985, In : Journal - Royal Society of Western Australia. 67, 3-4, p. 137-148 12 p.
Endometriosis and ovulatory disorder: Reduced fertilisation in vitro compared with tubal and unexplained infertility
Wardle, P. G., Mclaughlin, E. A., Mcdermott, A., Mitchell, J. D., Ray, B. D. & Hull, M. G. R., 3 Aug 1985, In : The Lancet. 326, 8449, p. 236-239 4 p.
Footing Damage to Residential Buildings
WEBBER, R., Nov 1985, In : The Post. 1 p.
Habitat and microhabitat distributions in relation to ecological overlap in two species of Ranidella ( Anura).
Mac Nally, R. C., 1985, In : Australian Journal of Zoology. 33, 3, p. 329-338 10 p.
quaternary soils
volcanic soils
volcanic soil
microhabitat
Internal Colonialism in the Circumpolar North: The Case of Alaska
Dryzek, J. & Young, O., 1985, In : Development and Change. 16, 1, p. 123-145 23 p.
PUTNIS, P., 1985, In : Australian Studies Project Bulletin. 2, p. 17-18
Owner Builders
WEBBER, R., 13 Nov 1985, In : The Post. 1 p.
Physiological influences on carbon isotope discrimination in Huon Pine (Lagarstrobos franklinii)
Francey, R., Gifford, R., Sharkey, T. & Weir, B., 1985, In : Oecologia. 66, 2, p. 211 - 218 7 p.
carbon isotope
photosynthates
branchwood
Repeat and Serial Singing Modes in American Redstarts (Setophaga ruticilla): A Test of Functional Hypotheses
MAC NALLY, R. & Lemon, R. E., 1985, In : Ethology. 69, 3, p. 191-202 12 p.
Setophaga ruticilla
Reproduction and reduced body size of reptiles in unproductive insular environments.
Georges, A., 1985, The biology of Australasian frogs and reptiles. p. 311-318
Rising Dampness
WEBBER, R., 11 Dec 1985, In : The Post. 1 p.
Rites of association: A conference review
PUTNIS, P., 1985, In : Communication Studies Bulletin. Autumn, p. 1-5
Seed germination in Chenopodium album L. further evidence for the dependence of the effects of growth regulators on nitrate availability
Saini, H. S., BASSI, P. K. & SPENCER, M. S., 1 Jan 1985, In : Plant, Cell & Environment. 8, 9, p. 707-711 5 p.
Seed germination in Chenopodium album L.: Relationships between nitrate and the effects of plant hormones
Saini, D., BASSI, P. K. & SPENCER, M. S., Apr 1985, In : Plant Physiology. 77, 4, p. 940-943 4 p.
Selenium in Macroalgae
Maher, W. A., 1985, In : Botanica Marina. 28, 7, p. 269-274 6 p.
Siting of Dwellings
WEBBER, R., Nov 1985, In : The Post.
Some macroeconomic implications of wage indexation: a survey
Hawkins, J., Fahrer, J. & Carmichael, J., 1985, Inflation and Unemployment: Theory, Experience and Policy Making. Argy, V. & Nevile, J. (eds.). Oxford: Routledge, p. 78-103 25 p.
Wage indexation
Institutional factors
External shocks
Song Repertoires and Song Sharing by American Redstarts
Lemon, R. E., Cotter, R. C., MAC NALLY, R. & Monette, S., 1985, In : Condor. 87, p. 457-470
The Australian snapping tortoise Elseya latisternum: a successful predator on the introduced cane toad?
Hamley, T. & Georges, A., 1985, In : Australian Zoologist. 21, 6-7, p. 607-610 4 p.
The Dormouse Syndrome—Restructuring the Dependency of the Elderly
Gibson, D. M., 1 Jan 1985, In : Journal of Sociology. 21, 1, p. 44-63 20 p.
The Effect of Insufficient Sub floor Ventilation
WEBBER, R., Oct 1985, In : The Post. 1 p.
The presence of arsenobetaine in marine animals
Maher, W. A., 1985, In : Comparative biochemistry and physiology. C: Comparative pharmacology. 80, 1, p. 199-201 3 p.
The replacement of Stenonema spp. By Caenis diminuta walker as the numerical dominant in the mayfly assemblage of a thermally-stressed stream
POFF, L. & Matthews, R. A., 1985, In : Journal of Freshwater Ecology. 3, 1, p. 19-26 8 p.
Caenis
heat sums


This blog post describes some initial steps you can take to learn Puppet, particularly to control Windows machines. I'm currently learning Puppet via the Puppet 5 Beginners Guide (Third Edition) book by John Arundel.
The book provides you with a Vagrant Ubuntu VM in order to experiment with Puppet. Below I have recreated some of the examples from the book but with minor changes necessary for them to work under Windows. It should therefore (hopefully) serve as a good initial guide to getting started with Puppet for controlling Windows machines. That being said I strongly recommend you also get the book, which is excellent and goes much further than I will cover below.
Before you can start using Puppet, you need to install the Puppet agent on Windows. Puppet supports master/slave and master-less architectures, the latter of which is simpler for testing purposes.
It should probably go without saying that Puppet is a tool with the power to make significant changes to your machine (both constructive and destructive). As such I strongly recommend you use an isolated testing machine for playing with Puppet.
Open a PowerShell window (as administrator).
run puppet config print config to output puppet's configuration file path.
run puppet config print modulepath to output the default module directory paths.
If you copy this in to a text file and save is as hello.pp you will have written your first puppet manifest (congratulations!).
You will see Puppet start and compile a catalog for your manifest. Puppet will then check if hello.txt exists under c:\temp. If it doesn't exist, it will create it. If the content of the file is not the text "hello, world" followed by a new line, it will modify it to be as such (note, any existing contents will be replaced entirely).
In case you are not aware, Puppet is an example of an idempotent configuration management tool. As such it will only make the minimum changes necessary to bring the system in to the state declared in your manifests. Once hello.txt exists with the content we defined Puppet will not attempt to change/rewrite it unless a subsequent run finds it to be out of compliance with your declarations.
The RESOURCE_TYPE is how you tell Puppet the type of resource you're declaring. There are a large number of built-in resource types and the Puppet 5.3 ones are listed in a single page here.
..and many more (including the ability to make custom ones).
The TITLE is the name that puppet uses to identify the resource internally. Every resource must have a unique title. With file resources this is typically the full path to the file (which is therefore unique by nature).
The attributes describe how the resource should be configured. These vary by resource (and there are more for file than were shown above). All resources support ensure but the possible values for it vary by resource.
If the file existed but would be modified by Puppet the above would only show you that the MD5 hashes of the files were different than what it expected it to be.
To see what actual changes it would make to files, you can add the --show_diff switch. However while this simply works on a Unix system, for Windows you need to have a 3rd party diff tool and the Puppet diff setting to be properly set.
It's generally best practice to use forward slashes in paths as shown here because it's easy with a backslash to accidentally end up escaping a character by mistake. Another option is to use double quoted strings and then double each of the back slashes.
Alternatively if you install the Puppet Chocolatey module you can use Chocolatey as a package provider.
Up to now you might have been writing your puppet manifests with something like notepad. I recommend using Atom as it's a much more powerful editor. We could of course download it's installer and install it manually, or if you've already followed the above you've just installed it with Puppet.
If we want to use Puppet to remove some software, we can change ensure to be ensure => absent. You can use ensure => latest to always get the latest available version, but it's generally considered best practice to specify a specific version so that your packages aren't being automatically updated whenever the source version changes.
When you want to remove something with Puppet it's important to remember to change it's configuration to be ensure => absent and then to apply that via Puppet. Simply removing the configuration for something from the file is not going to uninstall/remove it, it just removes Puppet from evaluating/controlling it. This is true for all resources.
This will output a Puppet manifest with the current state of the named resource. In fact if you don't specifcy a specific title you get a manifest for all resources of that type. Try puppet resource package for example.
Beware the title field (and other fields) in your manifest can be case sensitive. I was originally referring to Atom as 'atom' in my Package declaration, but doing so stopped ensure => 'absent' from working. When I ran puppet resource package atom I could see that Puppet was identifying it as 'Atom'.
The above will ensure the Windows Update service is always running and enabled.
On Windows you need to use the short name for the service, not the display name (e.g wuauserv not Windows Updates).
Service is an example of a fairly generic Puppet resource. The declarations are very similar on Unix or Windows and Puppet knows what underlying provider to call in the OS to manage the services. On Windows, that is net.exe which should always be present by default.
Returns a description of the service resource and a complete list of all the attributes and their associated valid values.
Now that you know how to manage files, packages and services you have the three tools that in general allow you to manage software. This is referred to as the 'package-file-service pattern'.
This uses package to install MySQL, file to make changes to it's configuration file and service to ensure it's running.
The example above also introduces the notify attribute. This is a way to define dependencies between different parts of your configuration. It ensure that if the package or configuration file change that the service is also restarted. Puppet wouldn't do this by default because the service would already be running so (due to idempotency) it would see no reason to modify it's state. Using notify in this instance ensures that config or install changes take an immediate effect by also restarting the service. It performs a restart because that is the default action performed on a service when it is notified.
You can use the puppet user resource type to manage local users and groups (whether you should though is worth considering). You can't use this to manage domain users, but you can define domain users to be members of local groups.
Depending on your local security policy you will need to specify a password of a certain complexity.
Under Unix you can specifiy gid and uid properties respectively to ensure that the unique ID for users and groups are consistent across systems. You can't do this on Windows, these properties are visible via puppet resource user <name> but are read-only.
The scheduled_task resource can be used to create Windows Scheduled Tasks. This is the equivalent of cron in Unix. The book suggests using cron to set up a routine task to apply your puppet manifests. This is how you might use Puppet in production to ensure your systems remain compliant on a routine basis. This isn't strictly necessary in a Windows environment as by default Puppet Agent runs as a service and applies the manifests every 30 minutes.
The Puppet 5 Beginners book also suggests that (for a master-less setup) you store your puppet configuration in a source control system like Github and then as part of this task pull the latest changes from the repository with Git before running puppet apply.
You may also need to configure this scheduled task to run as a user with elevated permissions, particularly if your Puppet manifests are managing packages.
This is a little different to the other resources which model some concrete state of the system, while exec can run any arbitrary command or script. This might change the state of something or it might not.
As a result Puppet (ideally) needs a way to know whether it should trigger the exec. This is done via either a creates, onlyif or unless attribute.
creates => specifies a path or file that should exist after the exec has completed successfully. If this exists then it acts as a flag to Puppet that it doesn't need to be run again unless it does not exist.
onlyif => specifies a command for puppet to run and the exec is executed if it returns a success (zero) exit status.
unless => is the opposite of onlyif. The command specified causes the exec to be triggered unless the command specified returns a success (zero) exit status.
Without one of these conditions, the exec will run on every run of the puppet file which is generally undesirable.
Another way to control an exec resource is to add a refreshonly => true attribute. When this is present the exec will only execute if another resource triggers it via the notify attribute.
Because it is difficult for Puppet to know the state of things changed by exec you should use it with care and consider whether creating a custom resource type might be better.
Hopefully this guide has given you a useful Windows-centric starting point for Puppet. Beware the above is only a partial summary of what is covered in just the first four chapters of the Puppet 5 Beginners Guide (Third Edition) book, so again I strongly recommend you pick it up, even if your focus is on Windows.


miss a chance for some jubilation! Second, a tech-fest has all kinds of events. From quizzes to seminars to exhibitions, tech-fest includes almost every event based on public perception. So, even if someone still gets bored by the 'geeky' things around, there is always something to do. Therefore, no one gets bored. (In addition, if you can watch Transformers' movies and Star Wars' Back to back episodes and don't get a single yawn). Third, you never know where you'll go. Maybe you are so amazed and literally bowled over by what you see in expos or listen to in seminars or even witness in the multitude of events around that your life takes a turn and you find yourself much drawn into what you formerly called 'the area of nerds'. Therefore, for the third time I say every college should have a tech fest. Like our college has Innovision. Innovision '13 according to public opinion was almost partially successful. The organizing team was approved just a few weeks before the fest and they did the best that they could with limited manpower, resources, and extremely limited time. Time and money went off like puffs of smoke. Even though the hard work and dexterity of the organizing team is much appreciated, the low attendance and the indifference of NSITians towards attending their fest is very unfortunate. Also in 2013, Innovision was held along with the cultural fest, Moksha. And Moksha with its larger budget and an array of events eclipsed Innovision. Although, I wasn't there at the time of Innovision '13, according to most accounts it was a disappointing affair where, sadly, the diligence and the agility put in by the organizing team failed to materialize. Moving towards the present, Innovision '14 has knocked on the doorstep. With a lot more events in the fray, Google nexus tabs on the prize tables and comparatively more time and hopefully more funds on the organizing team's hands', I sure do hope it becomes a great success. May the force be with you.


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Home » Local News » Venoco Bankruptcy Ends Major Source of Tax Revenue, Philanthropy — and Eases Environmental Worries
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Venoco Bankruptcy Ends Major Source of Tax Revenue, Philanthropy — and Eases Environmental Worries
Oil company's generosity engendered appreciation in some, but its operations spawned concern in others
by Sam Goldman | Noozhawk Staff Writer | @Sam__Goldman May 24, 2017 | 9:25 pm Updated January 5, 2023 | 5:33 am
Platform Holly, 2-1/4 miles off the coast of Goleta, will be decomissioned by the State Lands Commission. (Sam Goldman / Noozhawk photo)
Venoco, Inc. has had an interesting relationship with the Santa Barbara community.
The Denver-based energy company has engendered appreciation in many for its philanthropic involvement locally, but its operations have spawned concerns from residents opposed to oil development in their environmentally sensitive backyard.
The company's second bankruptcy filing, announced last month, effectively ended offshore oil and gas drilling in the Santa Barbara Channel's state waters, as well as a steady stream of tax revenues and philanthropy.
Dozens of jobs and plenty of tax revenue are being lost, though the possibility of an oil spill or gas leak will be mitigated.
The bankruptcy announcement came almost two years after the May 2015 rupture of a pipeline near Refugio State Beach that spilled more than 123,000 gallons of crude oil along the coastline and into the ocean.
Venoco used the Plains All American pipeline to transport oil and gas to refineries, and shutting down the pipeline curtailed more than 50 percent of its production.
The company's principal assets are oil facilities located offshore and onshore in Southern California.
Just before initiating the bankruptcy process, Venoco quit-claimed its leases in the channel back to the State Lands Commission, along with Platform Holly and its infrastructure of piers off the shores of Goleta.
At one point, Venoco employed about 80 people in its Carpinteria office, and had 80 to 90 people out in the field, including those who had worked for ExxonMobil before Venoco took over the oil giant's leases.
Now, there are fewer than 20 employees left in Carpinteria, according to the company's operations manager, Larry Huskins.
Before the Refugio spill, he said, Venoco was consistently one of Santa Barbara County's top three tax generators. He put the total revenue the state has received in royalties at over $150 million.
According to the Santa Barbara County Treasurer and Tax Collector's Office, Venoco has paid more than $20 million in property taxes going back to 2010.
"Venoco's renowned from the state, as well as the federal authorities, as one of the best operators in California," Huskins said of his company's safety standards and procedures.
Venoco's 2016 Crystal Apple Awards honored educators from all over the county. From left, Marybeth Carty, Venoco's community partnership manager, with the South Coast Crystal Apple winners: Hope School Principal Barbara La Corte, Marilyn Garza of Santa Barbara Junior High School, Gwen Patterson of Peabody Charter School, Tracy Schifferns of McKinley School and Maria Pacheco of the Santa Barbara County Education Office. (Venoco photo)
Venoco's community partnership manager, Marybeth Carty, described to Noozhawk a corporate culture of volunteerism. Employees will continue their volunteering and involvement with nonprofit boards "right up into the bitter end."
Carty said Venoco would match employee donations and volunteer hours with its own dollars.
The company benefited Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital's remodel and expansion, the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara, Girls Inc., the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County and the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara.
"Over 20 years, we've donated $12 million and reached well over 200 organizations," Carty said, noting that lost revenue after the Plains spill increasingly curtailed her company's philanthropic reach.
"There are organizations that will definitely feel the pinch."
Partners in Education, a county program that leverages corporate, foundation, government and individual resources to prepare students for post-school life, received ongoing support from the company.
"Venoco has consistently stepped up to the plate for education, giving nearly half a million dollars to our organization since 2001," the organization's executive director, Chelsea Duffy, told Noozhawk in an email.
"Venoco was especially instrumental in ensuring that our Computers for Families program — which has delivered more than 11,000 refurbished computers to local families — could continue in perpetuity."
Duffy called out Carty as an especially dedicated volunteer and board member who has "personally volunteered nearly 200 hours through Partners."
Carty called the bankruptcy procedure "a process of actively liquidating and selling assets," many of which are not necessarily headed back to the State Lands Commission.
The future of Venoco's Ellwood Onshore Facility in Goleta will be determined during the bankruptcy process. (Tom Bolton / Noozhawk file photo)
The fate of facilities off the Carpinteria coast and the Ellwood Onshore Facility near Haskell's Beach and Sandpiper Golf Club in Goleta, which processed the oil and gas extracted by Platform Holly, will be determined during that process, which Venoco has estimated will take six months to a year.
The city of Goleta has for a while been looking to shut down the EOF. The facility is considered a legal-nonconforming use of land that is zoned for recreation, and many residents fear it could cause some sort of spill or leak.
Now, with Venoco throwing in the towel, oil and gas production in the Santa Barbara Channel's state waters has come to an end.
"This is definitely something that is a huge relief to the community," said Linda Krop, chief counsel of the Santa Barbara-based Environmental Defense Center.
Even as environmentalists hail the end of Venoco's production, Krop said there are 23 other platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel region, 15 of which are still operating.
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"You can plan and have the best measures in place to try to prevent an oil spill, but accidents do happen," said Jenna Driscoll, watershed and marine program associate with Santa Barbara Channelkeeper. "Anytime we can move away from extraction techniques to more sustainable development is a good thing."
Venoco's bankruptcy was also the final nail in the coffin for the company's proposal to alter the boundary of its lease in the channel. If approved, it would have allowed the company to end its operations after about 25 years instead of the anticipated 40 years.
The tradeoff would have been allowing Venoco to extract 40 million more barrels of oil than it otherwise could have — a big driver of residents' oil spill concerns.
It now falls on the state to decommission Platform Holly, which will take an estimated three years, depending on funding and the environmental review process.
Especially with the platform sitting in a state marine sanctuary, the overarching consideration is what course of action would be most environmentally friendly.
Completely removing Platform Holly down to the seafloor would disrupt the marine ecosystem that has developed around the platform's submerged infrastructure, said Milton Love, a UC Santa Barbara research biologist who studies fish populations around reefs and platforms.
Platform Holly sits in water over 200 feet deep, and its 30 wells reach thousands of feet below the sea floor. (Sam Goldman / Noozhawk photo)
Those in shallow waters like Platform Holly serve as nursing grounds for hundreds of thousands of young fish in addition to a multitude of invertebrates such as sea stars, Love said.
Platforms also enable the comeback of over-fished species, with Holly likely aiding bocaccio, widow and canary rockfish.
Completely rooting out the platform would be expensive and require running charges down to its base, more than 200 feet below the surface, and blowing it all up. The huge amounts of destroyed materials — covered in dead sea life — would then have to be lugged somewhere that would accept them.
That would kill off virtually all of the life attached to the platform, with repercussions for the wider ecosystem.
Love said the idea of shearing off the top 100 submerged feet of Platform Holly has been tossed around, which should save the fish nursing below, but kill the mussels and associated organisms above.
The task is further complicated by having to make sure large ships can coast over the remains without scraping their hulls, or, should the whole platform stay, the money it would take to maintain the above-surface infrastructure. That's an option Love said he hasn't heard anyone raise.
"All the platforms off of California harbor many species of fishes, and then this very robust invertebrate life," Love said. "It'll be intellectually fascinating to see how this whole process starting with Holly plays out."
Krop told Noozhawk that the State Lands Commission informed her that the first step will be immediately plugging the 30 wells. She said the Environmental Defense Center is committed to the facility's full removal — the course of action she said she expects the state to propose.
She said there are too many competing uses in the water there for partial or no removal to be entirely safe.
— Noozhawk staff writer Sam Goldman can be reached at sgoldman@noozhawk.com. Follow Noozhawk on Twitter: @noozhawk, @NoozhawkNews and @NoozhawkBiz. Connect with Noozhawk on Facebook.
Oil continuously seeps up to the surface of the Santa Barbara Channel — here, in the form of bubbles that pop and leave the substance floating on the water. Venoco officials say the natural process will worsen without drilling equipment to suck it out manually. (Sam Goldman / Noozhawk photo)
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Greta's Andrew Tate Takedown Shines Light On Toxic American Males
Greta Thunberg dealt a knock-out blow online to self-proclaimed "misogynist" Andrew Tate. However, taming the spread of toxic masculinity online is not as simple.
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Two rounds, two knockouts in the all-out verbal dustup that saw Greta Thunberg win the year (or at least, the internet) in the final moments of 2022.
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"Hardly anyone is as skilled as Greta Thunberg when it comes to making supposedly grown men cry with rage," writes Spain's El Pais.
This, then, is a tale of Tate's tears told in four tweets.
Greta v. Tate
First, the American boxer, social media influencer, and self-proclaimed "misogynist" Andrew Tate lashed out at the Swedish climate activist, gratuitously tweeting a picture of himself fueling a sports car. Noting that he had 33 such cars, Tate tauntingly offered to send the teenage Thunberg an account of their combined emissions.
Thunberg responded in a language both Tate and his audience would understand: "yes, please do enlighten me. email me at smalldickenergy@getalife.com." It's a response that has since become the fourth most liked tweet in history, and one that Tate could not ignore.
He fired back with an insult and a picture of himself in a bathrobe, smoking a cigar, with a pizza box in front of him. Visible on the box was the Romanian pizza shop that he had ordered from.
Just hours later, Romanian police raided Tate's property in the country and arrested him on charges of human trafficking. He is still being held, and his precious car collection was seized.
Though police later denied that the photo was central to their operation, Thunberg had enough time in between news of the arrest and their statement to pounce again, posting to her account: "this is what happens when you don't recycle your pizza boxes."
The dark side of the Tate brothers
You might not have been familiar with Andrew Tate before the incident — but an alarming number of teenage boys certainly have heard of him and others who share his ideology.
"Inspirational monologues, defense of capitalism, and misogynist theories: 'masculinist thought,' which is based on the idea that there is a crisis affecting traditional social conceptions of masculinity, is spreading on social media and targeting a younger and younger audience via Twitter accounts, Telegram groups, and short videos spread on Instagram and TikTok," Pauline Ferrari wrote last summer in an extensively reported piece for Le Monde.
Online propaganda is centrally linked to recent right-wing terror incidents in the U.S. and Slovenia.
In the United States and elsewhere, far-right influencers have turned to TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, appropriating memes and online lingo, as a way of targeting — mainly male — teenage youth with their ideas, writes Nicolas Baygert of the Université Libre de Bruxelles in The Conversation.
As France's Libération reports, Europol, Europe's cross-border police agency, sees online propaganda as centrally linked to recent high-profile, right-wing terror incidents in the U.S. and Slovenia.
Romanian publication Puterea dug deeper into the dark underbelly of the "eccentric Tate brothers", pointing out that their influence is built on "a bonafide industry, whose sole purpose is to promote pornography and pimping … Not only are they interlopers, supported by a real marketing machine, they're dangerous mobsters, who promote prostitution and pornography."
Toxic masculinity
Other European sources explored what Tate's popularity reveals about how toxic masculinity is spread online. Swedish Expressen's Helen Ablatova expressed alarm about how many men see Tate as a role model. "If there's one thing young men need, it's not Andrew Tate and his harsh rhetoric … Yes, Andrew Tate's sudden popularity is terrifying. I'd like to say I'm surprised but unfortunately I'm not. The fact that someone so blatantly, openly and extremely sexist has become so famous just shows how few male role models there are in the world. A grim, grim truth."
While Aftonbladet questioned whether excessive coverage of Tate was inadvertently helping his views reach more people: "Shall we talk about him? Write these types of articles? Or should we rather not give 'flat-Earthers' extra space for their conspiracy theories?"
However, German Der Freitag pointed out that social media was not the only cause of toxic masculinity: "Social media must be understood as a place of anti-feminist radicalization. But the advertising industry, or the film industry, also echo the binary gender logic and thus strengthen power relations. This suggests, especially to young men, that it is okay to strive for competition and control."
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📰 UP, FRONT PAGE AND CENTER
As the House proceeds to more votes for Speaker today, Europe's papers (like the Frankfurter Rundschau here) have taken note of the "chaos" caused by the inability of the House Republican majority to get on with what should be the simplest of tasks: electing a leader.
🏈 A CONTACT SPORT INDEED
Ankle sprains, knee injuries, concussions, fractures, herniated discs … In the wake of Buffalo Bills star player Damar Hamlin suffering a cardiac arrest during a game on Monday, El Universal draws a list of the most frequent injuries in futbol americano — a "contact sport that can be very dangerous," as the Mexican daily writes.
❄🗽 CHILLY LIBERTY
The "once-in-a-century" blizzard that struck the U.S. in late December and early January inspired Algerian daily Le Soir d'Algérie's cartoonist Karim Bouguemra.
Eyes On U.S. — How The World Is Tracking A High-Stakes Midterm Election
The international media is tuning in closely to Tuesday's U.S. midterms, with global ramifications for everything from the war in Ukraine to action on climate change to the brewing superpower showdown with China.
PARIS — It's becoming a bi-annual November ritual: International reporters touch down in some small American town or so-called "battleground state" that we're told could decide the fate of the next two or four (or more) years in the United States — and the world.
Reporting for French daily Le Monde, Piotr Smolar was in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where "culture wars" were infecting the schools ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections. Meanwhile, Smolar's French broadcast colleagues at France Info were in the ever crucial state of Florida, talking to locals at the grocery store about the economy.
"The prices are crazy. I'm a veteran, I spent 16 years in the army and this is what I get when I come home," said a man named Jake in the city of Melbourne, Florida. "We're counting every penny. It's Biden's recovery plan that put us in this situation."
Yes, it will likely be local issues that determine the results of the midterm elections, where Republicans have a strong chance of taking back control of Congress and deal a potentially fatal blow to some of President Joe Biden's signature policy objectives.
But the reverberations of the outcome will once again be felt across the world. A sweep by the Republican party still under the spell of former President Donald Trump would likely have serious consequences on several key issues on the global agenda: from the war in Ukraine and environmental policy to relations with China.
After the world watched the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, and Trump and his allies refusing to accept Biden's victory, the very health of democracy is at stake as well.
🇺🇦 First up: Ukraine
The Biden White House is Kyiv's most crucial partner in the war with Russia, not only in arms supplies and financial aid, but in touting the importance of a Ukraine victory for the cause of freedom and democracy.
According to the Ukrainian edition of European Pravda, the Republicans taking control of Congress, with the Trump wing gaining strength, carries enormous risks for Ukraine — all the way up to the war's outcome. The last important vote on aid to Ukraine resulted in 11 votes against in the Senate and 57 in the House of Representatives. So the main risks for Ukraine may arise in the House of Representatives.
Nothing will change for us after the midterms.
Still, others believe that Washington will remain solidly behind Ukraine, even with a Republican majority in Congress. On Oct. 1, the Lend-Lease Act came into force, which allows military equipment to be loaned or leased to Ukraine under simplified export control procedures. In an interview with RBC-Ukraine, former Permanent Representative to the United Nations and former Ambassador to the United States and Russia Volodymyr Yelchenko sounded optimistic on the stability of U.S. support.
"Nothing will change for us after the midterms. Some aspects regarding the use of funds, increased control by the Republicans may be. But there is a land-lease program, even if the Republicans would want, they will not gain the necessary majority to cancel it," he said.
"Trump dictates the elections without participating," titles Dutch daily de Volkskrant.
⛽ Will climate action continue?
Though Russia's invasion of Ukraine has resulted in an immediate uptick in Europe's use of coal as a result of spiking natural gas prices and concerns about supply, Russian President Vladimir Putin may have inadvertently sent long-term investment in renewable energy into overdrive, reports German weekly Die Zeit.
For the first time, the Paris-based International Energy Agency sees CO2 emissions peaking in 2025, in part because of the investments various countries are making in moving definitely away from fossil fuels imported from Russia.
However, here too, global emissions scenarios hinge on U.S. Congressional action. In Germany, where in September 2021, 47% of voters saw the environment as the most pressing political issue, Deutsche Welle reports that a Republican victory would threaten recent steps the U.S. has taken to invest heavily in renewable energy.
🇨🇳 China lurking in the shadows
Beyond the immediacy of assistance to Ukraine and the urgency of climate action, the results of the U.S. midterms have implications for the rising tensions between the U.S. and China. Unlike Ukraine, it's less about disagreement and more about the two U.S. parties trying to outdo each other to be "tough on China," writesThe Diplomat, Southeast Asia's magazine of reference for geopolitical views.
📌 All politics is local, democracy is global
Despite the global importance of the results, the international press is well aware that it is the sharp U.S. political divisions and economics that will be decisive. For U.S. voters in 2022, the major issues at play are social issues like abortion, and skyrocketing inflation. Spain's El Pais notes that all of Biden's economic successes — job creation, growth, drop in unemployment, increase in exports — "pale next to the sharpest price rises in four decades."
Still, these are the first federal elections since the question of democracy itself was put into question by Trump and his supporters, with certain Republicans on the ballot Tuesday refusing to say they will accept the results if they lose.
Trumpism has bright days ahead of it.
The Japan Timesworries about an election taking place in an environment so tense — and so filled with disinformation and conspiracy theories — that armed activists are patrolling absentee ballot-drop locations—and perhaps intimidating would-be voters in the process. Spain's El Diario, meanwhile writes that the "culture of misinformation has cast doubt on the U.S. electoral system and subjected officials from Nevada to Michigan to harassment and threats."
The elections are also being watched from Brazil, coming off its own highly contested election, where incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro has followed Trump's lead by refusing to concede the election or congratulate the winning candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. On Thursday, alongside the latest developments from Bolsonaro, Rio de Janeiro-based O Globo daily reported on the speech by President Biden, warning that democracy was at risk when candidates don't accept election results.
For French observer Dominique Moïsi, none of the profound divisions in U.S. society or politics will be soon overcome. Even if Trump's own future is uncertain, he writes, "Trumpism has bright days ahead of it."
🇩🇪 IN BRIEF
Wunderbar! After the havoc wreaked by the Trump presidency on the international scene, Germans and Americans are seeing eye to eye again — although their views still diverge on several important points.
Eight German citizens out of ten currently consider the relations between the two countries to be good — that's four times what it was just two years ago. Such is the result of a joint survey by the U.S. opinion research institute Pew and the Körber Foundation, as reported in Germany's Augsburger Allgemeine.
And the feeling is mutual, as 81% U.S. citizens see the relationship as positive. However, the daily notes, opinions still vary widely on issues such as the environment and policy vis-à-vis China.
U.S. President Joe Biden is bumping fists — and butting heads — with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the front page of French daily Libération, as they get ready for a "crude duel" after OPEC+'s decision to cut oil production drew Washington's ire on Saudi Arabia.
😅 SO AMERICAN
Ever heard of a country named Listenbourg? That's probably because this land purportedly located in the vicinity of Portugal and Spain only exists on Twitter. A French user invented a new map with the imaginary land of Listenbourg and the caption "I bet Americans don't even know the name of this country," to poke fun at Americans' notoriously bad grasp of geography. The joke went viral on the social media platform, with other users inventing a history and a national anthem for the fake nation, and the official account of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games welcoming Listenbourg among the national delegations.
📰 UP, FRONT PAGE AND CENTER, PART II
The financial supplement of Monterrey-based Mexican daily Milenio displays U.S. President Joe Biden's "anguish" on its front page, worrying that his "economic achievements" may not be enough to see the Democrats through the midterms.
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World Front Pages As Ukraine Marks Independence Day & 6 Months Of War
Ukraine is marking a somber independence day that coincides with the six-month milestone of the Russian invasion. Here's how newspapers around the world are covering the event.
Every year on August 24, Ukraine celebrates its 1991 independence from the Soviet Union. The anniversary of the peaceful transition is traditionally marked by military parades and other displays of patriotic pride across the country.
But this year, celebrations will be subdued, as the event coincides with the grim milestone of six months since Russia launched its large-scale invasion of the country.
With the conflict at an impasse and the specter of renewed Russian attacks looming over Ukraine, here's how newspapers across the world are covering the six-month milestone:
POLAND - Gazeta Wyborcza
"A parade of Russian wrecks" — Gazeta Wyborcza
THE NETHERLANDS - De Volkskrant
"Hit hard, grown strong" —De Volkskrant
GREECE - E Kathimerini
"Fights on Independence Day" - E Kathimerini
BELGIUM - Le Soir
"How the Ukraine invasion shook the world" - Le Soir
GERMANY - Rheinische Post
"6 months of war" — Rheinische Post
LUXEMBOURG - Luxemburger Wort
"Death, suffering and destruction" — Luxemburger Wort
SWITZERLAND - Tages-Anzeiger
"6 months of war: Kyiv afraid on its national holiday" — Tages-Anzeiger
AUSTRIA - Kleine Zeitung
"Six months of war: the grueling struggle for freedom" — Kleine Zeitung
FRANCE - Libération
"6 months of conflict in Ukraine: Life in war" — Libération
PORTUGAL - Público
""The war that was supposed to be quick has now been going on for six months" — Público
U.S. - USA Today
CANADA - The National Post
CANADA - The Toronto Star
The Toronto Star
COLOMBIA - El Espectador
"No wind of peace" — El Espectador
"Half a year at war" — Diario 24 Horas
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Face In The Mirror: Dutch Hairdressers Trained To Recognize Domestic Violence
Early detection and accessible help are essential in the fight against domestic violence. Hairdressers in the Dutch province of North Brabant are now being trained to identify when their customers are facing abuse at home.
TILBURG — The three hairdressers in the bare training room of the hairdressing company John Beerens Hair Studio are absolutely sure: they have never seen signs of domestic violence among their customers in this city in the Netherlands. "Or is that naïve?"
When, a moment later, statistics appear on the screen — one in 20 adults deals with domestic violence, as well as one or two children per class — they realize: this happens so often, they must have victims in their chairs.
All three have been in the business for years and have a loyal clientele. Sometimes they have customers crying in the chair because of a divorce. According to Irma Geraerts, 45, who has her own salon in Reusel, a village in the North Brabant region, they're part-time psychologists. "A therapist whose hair I cut explained to me that we have an advantage because we touch people. We are literally close. The fact that we stand behind people and make eye contact via the mirror also helps."
That intimate contact is one of the reasons why The Netherland's Child Abuse Taskforce and the Sterk Huis (Strong Home) aid organization want to make use of hairdressers to detect domestic violence. People often go to the same hairdresser for years, exchange remarkably intimate stories, and feel a strong bond of trust. A lot of experience has already been gained in Anglo-Saxon countries and thousands of hairdressers have been trained.
Preventing femicide
In front of the room, today's trainer is moving restlessly, one hand hidden in her sleeve, the other rubbing a leg. She tries to teach the hairdressers to recognize signals and open up a discussion about them through role-playing. They find it difficult: someone with a bruise could have fallen, couldn't they? How do you start a conversation? The trainer helps them: "Don't start with your feelings or judgement. Emphasize what you hear or see."
On November 25, the United Nations campaign against violence against women started for the 21st time with its tagline "Orange the World" and buildings lit up in orange to draw attention to the issue. But despite years of awareness-raising campaigns, task forces and national programs such as 'Geweld hoort nergens thuis' (Violence has no place in the home), violence rates are hardly decreasing.
According to figures from The Netherland's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), 5.5% of adults have been victims of domestic violence at least once in the past five years. It happens to both women and men, but when it comes to structural partner violence, women are six times more likely to be victims than men. Women are also more likely to suffer serious injuries, sometimes fatally. Of all murdered women in the Netherlands, 80% are killed by their partner or by a family member. That is why it is called femicide. Reports from social workers show that 119,000 children (3% of the total number) have experienced child abuse. In reports that ask children directly, the figure goes up to 12%.
Why are domestic violence and child abuse (which often go hand in hand) so difficult to tackle? And are there new methods that do work?
An intimate relationship
Domestic violence is an immensely complex problem, according to researchers and social workers. It hardly ever involves a single blow being dealt. "It has so many forms," says Nelleke Westerveld of the Movisie center for social development. It ranges from physical violence to psychological violence, from intimate terrorism — in which the man usually exerts far-reaching control over the woman – to stalking, sexual or honor-related violence. "Some forms of violence are clearly based on stress and risk factors, such as poverty, addiction or psychological problems," says Westerveld. "But power also plays a role. Care workers must therefore properly map out the situation, because all these forms require a specific approach. At the same time, it is not written on someone's forehead what kind of violence they are dealing with."
"You often see that people have been in a situation of violence for years, on average seven years, before they finally decide to ask for help," says Teun Haans, cluster manager at Sterk Huis, which together with the Child Abuse Taskforce organizes the training courses for hairdressers. "We also know that the longer the violence lasts, the more difficult it is to change the situation. So you have to get to it much earlier. The environment, in particular, can play a crucial role."
Research also shows that people who are close to the victim have the biggest impact. "Neighbors, teachers, sports coaches or caretakers who replace a door for the third time. They should ask themselves: what is going on here?"
Too much respect for privacy
In the southern region of North Brabant they are aiming for a broad approach: domestic violence should not be an issue that only professionals deal with, but one for society as a whole. So far, the fire brigade and the housing association's caretakers have been trained, and this month is the turn of hairdressers. Whether this training leads to more reports is yet to be investigated.
But what Haans does know is that 'Veilig Thuis Midden-Brabant' (Safe Home Central Brabant), the regional department of the national organization that reports and advises on domestic violence and child abuse, is the only organization in the Netherlands that did not receive fewer reports during the lockdowns. In the rest of the country, that number did drop. Not because the violence decreased (there is every reason to assume that it actually increased because of being locked down together), but because the police, social workers and teachers no longer visited people.
We Dutch people have the thickest front doors in Europe.
The idea for the broad approach was developed together with Experts By Experience. For years, social workers spoke about the victims. But nowadays, those who have lived experience of abuse are the new experts who are sitting at the table and contributing. "They told us over and over again: the baker, the teacher, the neighbor, they all knew, but nobody ever asked if they could do anything," says Haans. "We Dutch people have the thickest front doors in Europe. We are terrified to interfere with someone's private life."
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Permanent fear
Daniëlle (34, a self-employed accountant) is an Expert By Experience. As a child, she was neglected by her mother, who suffered from mental health issues and locked her up out of powerlessness. When she was with her father, her stepmother would beat her and drag her down the stairs if she did something wrong. "The worst part was not the blows, because I knew: those will be over soon.
The permanent fear, that was the worst." She believes in the Brabant approach: "I had totally ruined teeth because nobody taught me how to brush them, yet the dentist never noticed something else was up." According to her, bystanders often think they must save you, that they have to solve the problem, which is why they prefer to look away. "But they don't have to. It would have helped me so much if someone had pointed out to me that this was not normal, and that I did not have to blame myself."
Daniëlle experienced the power of such a gesture once. Her internship supervisor at a travel agency had noticed that she did not offer clients coffee. "I said I couldn't do that because I was sure I would drop the cup. I didn't mention it was because, as a child, I got beaten up if I dropped anything. 'What if I drop the cup?' I said. 'Then we'll just get a new one,' she replied. She not only taught me that I could serve a cup of coffee, but — more importantly — that I could change something."
It's about opening the conversation, Haans explains. "That can be the start of a change." The hairdressers are also urged to do so. It is not the intention that they start calling Veilig Thuis hotline as soon as their customers have left. When Sterk Huis, the organization Haans works for, posted a call on Facebook for the hairdressers' training, it caused a commotion: were hairdressers going to 'report' their clients? Of course, that's not the intention, says Haans. "But you can let them know that they can chat and call Veilig Thuis for instance, and you can bring up the topic again the next time they get a haircut."
Fast help needed
Does this broad approach help to bring down the figures? Based on a 2020 report (The long-winded issue: can domestic violence and child abuse really be stopped?), one could make a cautiously optimistic prediction. Researcher Katinka Lünnemann and her colleagues at the Verwey-Jonker Institute followed over the course of three years 576 families who had been reported to Veilig Thuis. In one third of the families that received help, the violence eventually stopped. The violence also decreased in families that, for some reason, did not receive direct help (but were monitored), but to a lesser extent. According to Lünnemann, an explanation for the latter is that the report alone may have set something in motion: the silence is broken, "and we know that awareness is the first step towards change".
The Netherlands was shocked
At the same time, despite the help, serious and frequent violence still occurs in 50% of families: both partner violence and child abuse. And that is serious, because the longer the violence continues, the more harmful it is. Chronic stress causes changes in the brain, which makes it harder for children to learn and solve difficult problems. They are also more likely to become stressed even when performing normal tasks.
One of the problems is that, in the Netherlands, many institutions such as Veilig Thuis and the Jeugdbescherming youth protection agency do not provide any help themselves. "Victims are often directed to other organizations," says Lünnemann. "There is a lack of fast, concrete help."
Three murders
This was also one of the conclusions of her research into the situation in Rotterdam. In 2018, the city was rocked by the murders of three young women, including 16-year-old Hümeyra, in close succession. The Netherlands was shocked. How could things have gone so wrong?
With the formation of Veilig Thuis in 2015 and the decentralization of youth care to the municipalities, it was precisely the intention to organize help that was closer to the people. But an extra layer was added. In Rotterdam, citizens cannot go directly to the community team; they need a referral form from, for example, Veilig Thuis. A lot of expertise was lost as a result of this organizational change," Lünnemann concluded.
The danger of the broad approach in North Brabant therefore lurks in the follow-up process, Lünnemann fears. "I hold Sterk Huis in high esteem, but we are already seeing a shortage of real assistance. So if you start training all kinds of groups in society to recognize domestic violence, there will be more reports and you have to make sure that the extra help is ready." That extra help is not there yet, confirms Haans of Sterk Huis.
The broad approach is good for raising awareness in society, that is indisputable according to Lünnemann. But the real solution lies in the recommendations she made for Rotterdam: there must be more actual help, real cooperation and, perhaps most important of all, accessible physical places where women at risk can go.
Code phrase
At the Schiedamsedijk in Rotterdam, such a place became available recently. Those who report to the municipal health services desk with the code phrase "I'm here for Filomena" are taken by hostess Gaby to a bright living room with pastel-colored furniture and a playpen with baby toys and plants. Only the large posters of the traveling photo exhibition on domestic violence give away that this is no ordinary living room.
Not only is this the only place in the Netherlands where victims can walk in without an appointment, but all parties — the police, a forensic doctor ("Many victims take photos of their bruises themselves, but these are not legally valid"), Veilig Thuis, a psychologist and a trauma specialist – are under one roof. This way, the case manager, together with the victim, can literally 'check all the boxes', and can complete the entire investigation in no more than seven days, instead of the usual months. "The victim does not have to tell her story over and over again," says care manager Christine Clement of Filomena, Centre for Domestic Violence and Child Abuse. "And there is no talking about the victim in her absence: she is always there."
A woman comes forward to make her first report in the presence of her friend: she tells her story for the first time. She has no injuries at the time, but her partner has attempted strangulation before. "That's when all the alarm bells go off, because that is often a signal that there is a risk of femicide," Clement says later. The woman faces intimate terrorism and reveals that she has a tracker on her phone: her partner keeps an eye on where she is. With an excuse that she had to be in this neighborhood, she got away.
there is no talking about the victim in her absence: she is always there.
The woman has an hour at most. Veilig Thuis makes a safety assessment on the spot and determines what needs to be done. "At a time like this, you can see why it's so important that everyone is here," says Clement. "Because sometimes you have to act quickly." It is decided that she will go home, as not to arouse suspicion. All contact will be through her friend because the partner checks the victim's phone. In the meantime, Filomena arranges for a place in a shelter.
Three days later, she is taken to that safe place "somewhere in the Netherlands," so that there is less chance of her partner finding her. She has a new mobile phone and gets help to cope with the effect the violence has had on her, Clements says. "And of course, she has the support of the other women in the shelter."
*With the cooperation of Monique van de Ven. For privacy reasons, some interviewees are only referred to by their first name. Their full names are known to the editors.
**This article was translated with permission of the author
If you are in an unsafe situation or are looking for help, here is an international directory with the names and links of organizations dealing with domestic abuse around the world.
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New Climate Alert: "Low Country" Netherlands Facing Major Sea-Level Rise
The Dutch meteorological institute has released an alarming report in a country that is particularly prone to flooding.
In its native Dutch language, the Netherlands is called Nederland, which means "low countries" and for good reason: approximately one-quarter of the coastal nation is below sea level, and more than half is susceptible to flooding.
This makes, even more, alarming a new report of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) that sea levels off the Dutch coast will rise between 1.2 and 2.0 meters by the end of this century if the planet does not succeed in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Dutch national broadcaster NOS reported this week.
The expected sea level rise is an upward revision, as the institute had previously concluded that the maximum sea level rise would be one meter. The updated findings, released just days before the opening of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, are based on the latest report by the UN climate panel IPCC.
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COP26: Northern Europe to Caribbean
According to Steven van Weyenberg, the State Secretary for Infrastructure and Water Management, "the urgency had been underestimated. The climate crisis is already with us," Amsterdam-based daily het NRC reports.
The rising sea level is not the only risk mentioned in the report; so is the increase in dangerous weather events. Responding to these changes must become a top priority of the government, says Rogier van der Sande, chairman of the Union of Waterboards, an association of 21 governmental boards that govern regional water management in the Netherlands.
A sense of urgency
Van der Sande pointed to major flooding this summer in Limburg, North Holland and Friesland regions to show that "extreme weather is already causing problems today."
De Volkskrant newspaper also mentioned the report's research on the Caribbean islands that are special territories of the Netherlands, where the strength of hurricanes will increase.
This same risk also applies to small neighboring countries and other island nations that tend to have more at stake (and risk) in the upcoming COP26 talks, but less political power. For Dutch meteorological expert, Sybren Drijfhout, the summit cannot be another missed chance to make bold choices: "I hope the countries have this sense of urgency when they gather in Glasgow for the climate summit."
Foreign Students At Dutch Universities Are "Homeless" - Blame Brexit
Brexit has doubled the cost of studying in the UK for Europeans, which means many more students are heading to Dutch universities, which offer multiple programs in English. That's caused hundreds to arrive at universities in the Netherlands this month without promised housing.
With their sleeping bags in hand, dozens of students occupied the main administration building of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the Netherlands this week to protest the lack of housing for international students. The situation is dire according to local organisation Shelter Our Students (SOS), as more than 600 international students at Groningen have started their studies this September homeless, Dutch daily NRC reports.
The Netherlands was already an increasingly popular destination for international students as it offers a wide variety of English-taught degrees. But this year, Dutch campuses are particularly overflowing with foreign students for two other reasons: Brexit, which has made UK universities suddenly very expensive for European Union residents looking to study in English; and the end of COVID-19 restrictions is bringing students back to class.
As a result, there are now 344,000 university students nationwide (last year it was 327,000) of which 72,400 (21%) come from abroad, writes het NRC. But some universities had a larger increase than others. The Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the north, for instance, saw a 25% increase in registrations.
And yes, all of these students need accommodation, especially now that universities are switching back to in-person lectures after a year of online classes. A Romanian student named Paul told the Dutch broadcaster NOS that he's been trying to find a place to stay since he first heard he was accepted back in the spring of 2021. "It's like finding a needle in a haystack," he said. "Of the dozens of website ads, only a few are open to international students. Most student houses don't want foreigners."
Paul has been able to find temporary accommodation with the help of Shelter Our Students, but he's one of the few. Most international students are sleeping on air mattresses in the already tiny dorm rooms of their friends, writes De Volkskrant. Others are staying in hostels or hotels: clean and safe, but not cheap.
Report: Russia Hacked Dutch Police Systems During MH17 Probe
Police in the Netherlands were working at the time of the cyber attack on the investigation into the downing of flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down on July 17, 2014 over eastern Ukraine.
AMSTERDAM — Russian hackers penetrated deep into the Dutch national police's digital system in 2017, during a period that Russian separatists were being investigated for the downing of a Malaysia Airlines flight that had departed from the Netherlands, Dutch daily De Volkskrantreports in an exclusive investigation.
The cyber attack, reportedly carried out by hackers belonging to the Russian security service SVR, was particularly troubling, De Volkskrant reports, because the police were working on the criminal investigation into the downing of flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down on July 17, 2014 over eastern Ukraine.
Of the 283 passengers and 15 crew that were killed on July, 17 2014, when MH17 was shot down, 196 were Dutch. Multiple investigations have shown that MH17 was hit by a BUK missile, fired from a field in eastern Ukraine that was in the hands of pro-Russian separatists at the time. Russia has been blamed for consistently trying to undermine the enquiries.
The news of this new hack comes to light following the opening day of the Dutch MH17 criminal trial.
The Latest: Global Mob Sting, Internet Crash, Canadian Hate Crime
Welcome to Tuesday, where an encrypted messaging app leads to a major global organized crime bust, many of the world's biggest websites were hit by global internet outages and there's a new basketball-court-long dinosaur in town. Jeune Afrique also dives into the Rastafari ital diet, a precursor to some current food trends.
• Report: Intelligence breakdown prior to U.S. Capitol insurrection: A bipartisan Senate investigation has outlined how thousands of protestors were able to breach the Capitol building in January. New revelations show that intelligence agencies, including Capitol police, had greater prior knowledge than previously thought that violence could erupt.
• Global internet outage downs leading websites: A number of major websites such as Amazon, Target, CNN, Reddit and Twitch have been affected by global internet outages. Many of the impacted websites are displaying the error code: "Error 503 Service Unavailable." Early reports link the issue with the Cloud service, Fastly.
• Hundreds arrested in organized crime sting after cops enter encrypted app: More than 800 organized crime suspects have been arrested after communicating using ANOM, a messaging app infiltrated by the FBI. Law enforcement in the U.S., Europe and Australia were able to monitor encrypted messages on the app, many of which were related to organized crime.
• Killing of Canadian Muslim family premeditated, hate crime: A driver struck five people in Ontario, Canada, killing four of them on Monday. Police believe the attack was planned, and the victims are thought to have been targeted due to their Islamic faith.
• "Butcher of Bosnia" faces verdict: Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb warlord who took part in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2017 after being found guilty of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. A final decision on Mladic's fate will be made today when the Hague announces its verdict on his appeal against genocide charges.
• U.S. recovers most of ransom paid to hackers: After the Colonial Pipeline hacking last month which severely impacted oil and gas production, particularly for the U.S. east coast, authorities have been able to recover 63.7 Bitcoin ($2.3 million). The ransom had been paid to the hackers from the eastern European based group, DarkSide, with the seizure being viewed as a potential message to dissuade future cyber criminals.
• Basketball-court length dinosaur discovered in Australia: Palaeontologists in Australia have discovered a new species of dinosaur: the Australotitan cooperensis. The dinosaur is among the top five largest to ever be discovered, measuring two stories in height and 82-98 feet in length — the equivalent of a basketball court.
"Let's also vaccinate children," titles Slovakian daily Dennik as the country opens vaccination for children aged 12 or more.
The ital diet, a rastafarian recipe for eating right
For a combination of spiritual and political reasons, Rastas developed a diet based on healthy, local ingredients that was a precursor, it turns out, to some current food trends, reports Eva Sauphie in weekly news magazine Jeune Afrique.
The "ital diet" was born with the Rastafari movement in the 1930s. The word "ital" is a contraction of "vital" and "I" (the unifying English pronoun "I" favored by Rastafaris), and the diet that goes with it consists mainly of vegetables and unprocessed products. Homemade is the key word for ital followers. "For Rastas, preparing their own food means rejecting consumerist society," says Alexandre Grondeau, founder of reggae.fr. "We can see a political interpretation, because to consume what we produce is to be anti-Babylon, anti-colonial."
Cooking at home, cultivating and eating locally: a triptych that is reminiscent of the consumption patterns encouraged by environmental protection activists in the context of the current ecological crisis. Like vegans, followers of ital cuisine do not eat meat or animal products such as milk and eggs. Environmentally-friendly before its time, their approach is less political and social than spiritual.
At a time when being a city dweller in Western capitals is synonymous with chia seeds and yoga, the ital diet is slowly beginning to be accepted in practice. But for a long time it was an oddity, something associated with out-there 1970s eating habits. "Today, concert organizers no longer receive Jamaican artists the way they used to, by laughing at them and serving them platters of cold cuts," says Alexandre Grondeau. "Society has changed its view and has understood that Rastas were avant-garde in their way of eating."
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24,000 years
Russian scientists have discovered that microscopic animals called Bdelloid rotifers have gotten their fair share of beauty sleep — 24,000 years of it! Found in Siberia's deep permafrost, these tiny multicellular creatures were previously thought to only be able to survive 10 years when frozen.
Face masks for burping cows, a new way to fight climate change
For more than a year now, humans around the world have been masking up to limit the spread of COVID. Now, masks may be deployed among another species to combat a very different global ill: cow burps.
The agricultural multinational Cargill is inaugurating a new kind of face mask designed to absorb cows' gaseous emissions. The idea might sound odd, but as French radio station RTL reports, the blue masks could help cut down as much as half the world's farming gas emissions. Contrary to popular belief, it is indeed the belching part of a cow's digestive output that is responsible for most of its noxious methane (yes, bovine farts get more laughs, but cause less damage to the environment).
All in all, the methane produced by cows — whichever way — is said to be responsible for 14% of the greenhouse gas emissions in the world.
This led the British start-up Zelp to develop a muzzle-mask which relies on small ventilators, powered by solar batteries, able to absorb and filter the ruminants' burps. Fixed on the cows' nostrils, the masks allow them to keep grazing and drinking at leisure.
"Our research shows that these masks don't affect our milk production," Cargill France's director of technology additives Deplhine Melchior tells RTL.
Starting this summer, farmers will be able to start renting the masks deployed by Cargill, at 65 euros a piece, reusable for a year, with at least part of the cost covered by environmental subsidies. And if you hear extra moo-ing while driving past the pastures, it may just be the anti-maskers among the herd...?
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University of Winchester contacted EA Group seeking a long-established security company that could offer the specific products, good communication and long term maintenance that they actively required after several failings in installation and communications from their previous suppliers.
EA Group were tasked to design and install an automatic bollard entrance system to the West Downs campus in keeping with the existing three systems on their adjoining estates
The EA hydraulic bollard systems offer the client a reliable, safe and secure entrance system, the bollards are 600 mm tall when raised and come complete with electronic buzzer and LED light rings for activation safety. Coupled with the bespoke traffic light and control unit tower specially designed for the university, the access control entrance pillar and complete electronic safety system including the three buried induction loops, EA Group were able to offer the university the exact entrance they required.
EA Group discussed the installation with the university to prior to ensure that road closures and disruption were kept to a minimum, the project was delivered from start to finish in the discussed timescales which ensured the university could open for the new term without disruption.
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The First Annual Brock University Black Girl Magic Conference is taking place on Saturday, March 18th and everyone who is passionate about Woman of Colour empowerment and leadership are welcome to attend (yes, you can be white and/or a male to attend). This event is also FREE.
This day will involve presentations, workshops, and performances from Brock students and community members along with a keynote presentation from Akio Maroon, a recognized human rights advocate focusing on equity, anti-oppression and inclusion, and social justice.
All bodies are not considered equal, all bodies are not valued the same and all bodies are not subject to the same regulations and control. The State places restrictions on what you do with your own body and what others can do to your body with/out your consent. This may be acted out through the guise of protection, public morality, in the name of nationalism, security or religion, but the limitations placed on some bodies and not others, and the impunity for violence to some bodies and not others, makes it clear that oppression, discrimination and subjugation are not only at work but sanctioned through state protections.
Join ex-prisoners, academics, activists, artists and health care workers for discussion and strategies toward the abolition of the prison industrial complex in this March 6 pre-International Women's Day event.
In honour of International Women's Day (March 8), "A Symposium for Women, Punishment and Prison Abolition: How gender Structures the Prison System" (March 6) draws on Angela Davis' observation that gender is at the heart of structuring the prison industrial complex. With the incarceration of women and gender non-conforming persons statistically outpacing that of men, the 21st century is continuing an upward trend that started in the late 1980s. While women and gender non-conforming persons are 5 percent of all prisoners in Canada, their numbers are growing. Among other issues, this leads to overcrowding, underfunding of in-prison health resources, low emphasis on in-prison programs and pre-release planning, high recidivism due to under-resourced post-release programs, and, negative impacts for women's families and communities.
We will be examining local and international rise of fascism and counter resistance through groups such as the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) and the Movement for Black Lives specifically Black Lives Matter. From base building to mass disruptions, how to identify one's role in dismantling oppression and re-envisioning the future. We will discuss an A-Z approach to organizing through pivoting at the base of privilege while cultivating resiliency.
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3 women charged with beating airline security officer at JFK
NEW YORK (AP) — Three women are facing federal charges of attacking an airline security worker who tried to block them from boarding a flight at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport in September because of what prosecutors say was problematic behavior, including a refusal to wear a face mask properly.
The three were released on $25,000 bond each after arraignment Thursday in federal court in Brooklyn. Messages were sent Friday morning to their lawyers.
Prosecutors said in court papers that the women were trying to board a Delta Air Lines flight to San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 22. They had ordered a total of about nine alcoholic drinks in four hours at airport bars while waiting for a delayed departure, according to prosecutors.
When the three arrived at the departure gate, the flight crew decided they shouldn't be allowed on because they were acting belligerent, one wouldn't wear her mask as required by federal regulation, and another appeared disoriented and was having trouble walking, prosecutors said.
A Delta security officer and a gate agent approached the trio in the jet bridge and asked them to go back, saying they could get a flight later in the day, according to prosecutors' court papers.
They said the women refused, one of them hit the security officer in the head with his two-way radio, another punched the gate agent in the face when the agent tried to intervene, and the third stepped on the security officer's face as all three kicked and hit him after he fell to the floor. The flight crew eventually pulled him behind some jet bridge doors and held them shut as the women lashed out at the crew, according to prosecutors.
The gate agent and the security officer were taken to a hospital and haven't returned to work.
"The extreme and aggressive behavior in connection with our air travel is out of control," Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said in a statement.
Airlines reported more than 5,000 episodes involving unruly passengers last year, including over 3,600 cases of people allegedly refusing to wear face masks as required.
Airlines and their worker unions have been pushing authorities to be more aggressive about criminal prosecution in severe cases of air rage.
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