We are smitten kittens when it comes to The Pronovias Wedding Dress collection. Each season is better than the last and here is their latest wedding dress collection. We've picked our fave wedding dresses below. Lots of beautiful ball gowns, sumptous laces & organzas, ruffles & scallops. We see a trend here!
Revisited classics, romantic designs and touches of 50s glamour.
Imperial line and camisole-style dresses skim the silhouette using lace, double silk organza, French lace and chiffon with guipure. For volume, the skirts and trains are full of scallops and frills. A majestic option not lacking in regal fabrics with a subtle shine, such as Mikado silk, organza or soft satin.
The neckline has its own personality with strings of gemstones, flowers or natural feather appliqués.
We absolutely adore Opulence, it's our most popular range by far and magazines can't get enough of it. It was an easy decision to feature this luxury range as the first of our monthly 'In the Spotlight' wedding stationery blog posts.
In a series of spotlight posts we're going to focus on one design each month to give prospective clients a close up & detailed view of the collection, including close up images, information on the design and just what makes the Opulence wedding collection so special.
We have sourced the globe for the finest lace and the silkiest satin to use in our luxury wedding range. Naturally, the crystal dobbers used on the design are very heavy (an indication of their quality) you can tell from just holding the invitation that this design really is the business. The crystal brooches are very sparkly and have the 'wow factor' which is the first thing that your guests will get from these invitations, followed by how beautiful and incredibly well made they are. This is becoming a regular in the feedback that we receive from our Brides after their big day and often from their guests who feel that they must contact us to let us know that they have received an invitation and want to tell us how gorgeous they are! It takes a lot for someone to do this which shows how irresistable this design is. The crystal brooch forms the central feature in this luxury design.
For Brides/Grooms who love the vintage lace style but not wanting something so bling, we have a sister collection called 'Vintage Lace' luxury lace wedding invitations (click on the name to view) which features all the key materials for a vintage and lace wedding theme but without the luxury crystal and without the luxury price tag. Vintage Lace invites start from £4.35 (we will spotlight on this collection another time – Vintage Lace image shown below far right image next to the Opulence invitation).
Opulence Invites feature our specially imported vintage lace. The lace has a fine weave and floral design, carefully finished on both edges with a deckle finish. We can design your invitations with either ivory lace, black lace or white lace to reflect your wedding theme.
When it comes to the ribbons used on our ribbon luxury invitations, we use the finest double-faced satin ribbon in the world which is spun in 100's of colours. These ribbons are super silky and we are able to supply reels of ribbon in your matching colours if you want to carry on the theme of your wedding stationery for your venue decoration, flowers etc.
Our ribbons are supplied by the world's leading ribbon manufacturer, who we chose because quite simply their ribbons are the silkiest, most rich in colour and exquisitely made satins that we have found. And we're in good company, many exclusive fashion boutiques, designer fashion houses including Chanel & D&G also choose these ribbons. The chances are if you have bought something from one of the exclusive shops on Bond Street, London, you will have come across the ribbons in their products and exquisite packing.
The Opulence luxury wedding invitations collection is set on thick quality board (300gsm) with a pearl finish, accompanied by matching insert paper available in ivory or white (as well as bespoke colours on request).
We use special thermal printers with solid wax ink to print your invitations. This has it's advantages as the finish of the print is superior to laser or inkjet printing. This gives a waterproof finish (helpful for any tears from guests when they open your beautiful invite and any accidents which may occur when it's on display in your guests home!) as well as a slightly raised print for maximum clarity to give crisp printed text. Invitations are printed with your personal details (which does not cost any extra). We can personalise your invitations with the Bride & Grooms names and wedding date on the front of your invitations and all the necessary details printed inside. If you're stuck for what to include in your wording we have some invitation wording templates on our website which can help.
Invitations can be supplied with matching pearlescent envelopes (slightly larger that the invite to accommodate the 3d nature). If you plan to post your wedding invitations to guests, we strongly recommend that you opt for the boxed invitation. We feel that this design is too beautiful to risk sending in a paper envelope. Though, many clients have sent their invitations out in envelopes and have been very happy to do so. We supply boxes for only 50p each to allow you to not have to compromise on the design. Boxed invites and enveloped invites can be posted as Large Letter Size (Royal Mail).
When we receive your paid order, please email your wording to be printed. We will start work on a proof for you to be able to see how your wording will look. Once you are happy and sign off your proofs, your order will go to print & design. We typically need 4-6 weeks for the design of orders although we may be able to reduce these lead times a little bit for urgent orders. Please enquire before placing your order to enquiries@madewithlovedesigns.co.uk . Priority slots are available which will guarantee your order for 14 working days costing £60. Please add this priority service to your shopping basket to ensure the speedy design slot is added to your order.
We have many colours available to design the perfect luxury invitation for your special day and recommend that you order a sample invitation in your colours. We will send free ribbon swatches with your sample, which are carefully chosen by our designers to reflect your colour scheme for you to compare (you may find something different in these swatches which you love or the swatches will re-confirm to you that you have made the right choice).
Love this design? Order luxury invitations online today from here. In this collection we do: luxury save the date cards; invites; luxury breakfast Menus'; Luxury table plans; Favours; Luxury table names/numbers; Luxury thank you cards; and the full range of luxury stationery for your day.
We also have over 40 wedding invitation collections on the Luxury wedding stationery and luxury invitations for weddings which can be personalised to match your perfect day.
Oh! to be in Vogue.
It's been a whirlwind week at Made With Love. It's the first week in our new studio and we're just about settling in.
And and and… Our luxury lace & diamonds Opulence Wedding Invitations have been listed in British Vogue Magazine's May 2011 issue Royal Wedding Special: 'Love is in the Heir… Vogue's guide to a wedding fit for a princess'. Our Union Jack Queen Anne Wedding throne chair and footstool got a mention too. Horray!
It's still amazing for us when we see our work in any magazine. But Oh! to be in Vogue… this one definitely gave us chufty badges!
Marry me ? Pop the question in a card.
Some lovely news this week here at made with love. We're used to dealing with wedding stationery and anniversary cards, so imagine our excitement when we received an order through for a personalised bedazzled card with the wording "Marry me" on the front – A marriage proposal in a card!
We're incurable romantics here at made with love and so we had to contact James (who ordered the card) for his story. James met Laura a year ago when he started working in the office where she worked. It was all a bit of a whirlwind and before long they had moved in together and things were going swimmingly.
James is planning on taking Laura out for a meal and when they return the room will be decorated with candles and fairy lights, taking centre stage will be a ring and a made with love bedazzled card asking Laura to marry him.
The following day James is whisking Laura on holiday for her birthday, could this story get any more romantic…..we hope so. We'll update you all as soon as we know the outcome.
We are extremely excited to introduce the most luxurious wedding stationery collections ever by Made With Love Designs! Featuring specially imported lace, vintage brooches, luxury crystals, diamante clusters, sumptuous satins and pearls… our new lace wedding invitations collections really are something else.
The first staionery collections to be unveiled this week is The Opulence Collection. A timeless vintage lace wedding stationry collection suitable for vintage inspired weddings, luxury themed weddings and available to personalise to suit your wedding colours. Opulence is truly beautiful and is going to be a huge hit for Brides looking for something a little bit special for their big day.


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Nov 7, 2020; Austin, Texas, USA; Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger celebrates his 17-13 win over West Virginia at Royal-Memorial Stadium on Saturday November 7, 2020. Mandatory Credit: Jay Janner-USA TODAY NETWORK
Chris Williams, Publisher – Iowa State 27, Texas 24
A true toss-up game in my mind. The key for Iowa State is how the Cyclones perform up front. Last Saturday Iowa State was utterly dominant over Kansas State in that aspect of the football game. Another effort like that would go a long way. The time is now. Cyclones move onto the Big 12 title game.
Jared Stansbury, Managing Editor – Iowa State 31, Texas 30
Holy crap, I'm nervous. I think these teams are as evenly matched as they possibly can be. If the Cyclones play their game and don't shoot themselves in the foot, I feel like they come out with a win. Limiting Texas' big plays will be huge, as will stopping the Texas pass rush. Regardless of which way it goes, I see this game being a classic.
Rob Gray, Senior Writer – Iowa State 35, Texas 31
This is a very different Iowa State team than the one that went down to Austin with a trip to the Big 12 title game on the line two years ago and got flattened, 24-10. The 2018 Cyclones had frontline stars such as David Montgomery (in the second half only, because of the Baylor brawl) and Hakeem Butler, but lacked the widespread dynamism on offense to give the Longhorns much of a game. Fast forward to now. Star power is there, but it's a moot point. The Cyclones' program in year five under Matt Campbell and Co. has simply matured and I think is ready to meet this moment. Talent is spread everywhere and quite evenly. Trouble is, the same can be said about veteran Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger and the rest of Tom Herman's team, too. So I'll decide how to pick based in which team has the better defense and that's Iowa State. One turnover either way could swing this, though. I expect it to be that close — and a classic.
Jay Jordan, Football Analyst – Texas 27, Iowa State 21
Tough game to pick because these teams have so many similarities. Get past the star ratings and you have two solid football teams with a tendency to be their own worst enemy. It comes down to line play. Who protects and creates creases. I think Texas is better in big games with high stakes. Barely.
Jeff Woody, Football Analyst – Iowa State 30, Texas 26
Everything comes down to this: pressing. Who does it more? Iowa State, for likely the first time ever, is better than Texas. Period. Texas has a lot of talent, but that talent hasn't sharpened up like ISU's has. However, Texas has had essentially 3 must-win games in a row (all close wins vs. Baylor, OSU, and WVU), followed by 3 weeks of sitting on their hands (due to a bye and a COVID postponement with Kansas) and watching ISU and OU rack up wins. Iowa State has placed themselves solely in the driver's seat over the last month, but this one game could derail that. Those situations lend themselves to both teams feeling the importance of this game.
But the fun thing? No matter how much "in the driver's seat" ISU may be, Texas still feels the pressure more. They're still *Texas,* and in their minds, Iowa State is just some nobody who doesn't deserve to hang around. Losing to Iowa State is still a sin in Austin. Let it be that way. We know what the Cyclones are.
So long as Sam Ehlinger has a pulse, no team is going to run away from Texas. But so long as Jon Heacock is the DC, no team will run away from Iowa State. Whoever plays more sound, fundamental, in-scheme, mistake-free football will win a close one.
'Clones win one for the ages.
Kevin Fitzpatrick, Contributor – Iowa State 35, Texas 17
As the only CF expert to accurately predict no K-State offensive points last week (look it up), I know you are all eager to see my prediction for this game. With reckless abandon, I am being dangerously optimistic and predicting Iowa State makes the biggest statement performance in program history. A large margin of victory for the good guys in this one, in a game that fans will look back on in years to come as the true "we arrived" point in Matt Campbell's tenure. Dallas, here we come.
Kirk Haaland, Contributor – Iowa State 27, Texas 24
Texas as an institution, program, and football team can be intimidating. The money, the history, the stature… everything. This moment can be even more daunting with all of the chips in the middle of the table. Alternative scenarios exist but for the Cyclones this game represents a winner takes all pot to punch their ticket to the Big 12 Championship game. An accomplishment that seemed impossible when the Big 12 went to the ten-team round-robin format for the northernmost institution in the conference. With Matt Campbell's arrival in 2015, none of us could have ever dreamed that this football program could be in this position. Alone at the top of the standings at the end of November with one game to clinch the league.
Is the program ready for the moment? The situation? The opponent? Despite the prestige that drapes the Longhorns, these two teams are very evenly matched or likely, the scales really tip in the favor of Iowa State. Offensively and defensively the Cyclones hold the advantage in available yards gained percentage and points per possession scoring. As usual, turnovers and special teams will be pivotal. But if Iowa State is even or at an advantage in those two areas the opportunity will be there for the taking. The trip to Austin two years ago presented a similar opportunity that the team and program were not ready to stand up to. Two years later with many of the same personnel are they now ready for the task? As Blum and Williams have been saying, we don't want the back door entrance, we're knocking on the front door ready for a game.
Previous WBB: Joens hits 25, Cyclones overcome slow start to win opener
Next Lessons from ISU's season-opening loss helped propel it to where it is now: First in the Big 12
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Q: Double conditional expectation Problem! Let $X_1,...,X_n$ be independent Random Variables and let $Z:=f(X_1,...,X_n)$, where f is a function $ f: \Omega^n \rightarrow \mathbb{R} $.
Let $Z \in \mathcal{L}^2$ and denote $E^{(i)}[Z] := E[Z \vert X_1,...,X_{i-1},X_{i+1},...,X_n] $ and $E_{(i)}[Z] := E[Z \vert X_1,...,X_i] $.
I already proved: $E^{(i)}[E_{(i)}[Z]]=E_{(i-1)}[Z]$.
with this i need to prove:
\begin{equation*}
E[Var^{(i)}(E_{(i)}[Z])]=E[E_{(i)}[Z]^2-E_{(i-1)}[Z]^2]
\end{equation*}
My Attempt was:
\begin{align*}
E[Var^{(i)}(E_{(i)}[Z])]&=E[E^{(i)}[E_{(i)}[Z]^2]-E^{(i)}[E_{(i)}[Z]]^2] \\
&= E[E^{(i)}[E_{(i)}[Z]^2]-E_{(i-1)}[Z]^2]
\end{align*}
but now i dont know what i can do with this $E^{(i)}[E_{(i)}[Z]^2]$ Term. I tried to show with the defintion of the conditional expectation that:
$E^{(i)}[E_{(i)}[Z]^2]=E_{(i)}[Z]^2$ but i failed. Can someone help?

A: For an integrable random variable $Y$ and a $\sigma$-algebra $\mathcal F$,
$$
\mathbb E\left[\mathbb E\left[X\mid \mathcal F\right]\right]=\mathbb E\left[X\right].
$$
Apply this to
$$
X= \left(E_{(i)}[Z]\right)^2;\quad \mathcal F:=\sigma\left( X_1,...,X_{i-1},X_{i+1},...,X_n\right).
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Study Concludes 80 Percent of ICOs in 2017 Were "Scams"
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Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)–The bad news for ICOs continues to roll out this summer.
Last month, TechCrunch published a review of the crypto industry, concluding that over a thousand projects were already considered dead, despite some still having a presence on exchange and coin listings. The overwhelming majority of failed projects were in the form of short-lived ICO projects, which barely made it out of the fundraising period before dying in the interim following coin issues.
Research out of the Boston College Carroll School of Management supported this claim, when they found that over half of all ICOs die within the first four months of issuing their tokens. Only 44% of the projects were able to sustain any sort of growth or momentum past the four month mark, with the survival rates dipping even further thereafter. While they concluded that the profits for ICOs are still substantial relative to the traditional stock market (about 82% ROI in 2018), there is a significant drop-off in return from 2017, where some investors were collecting four-digit percentage gains on their investment. In addition, the risk of investing in ICOs has steeply increased despite the fall in return, which the researchers found antithetical to good investment practice. They also found that most of the profit surrounding ICOs occurred in the first week of token issues, with a steep drop off past the two week and two month-mark, thereby recommending that ICO investors sell their coins as quickly as possible to insure the greatest risk/reward return on investment.
All of this is troubling given the growing landscape of ICOs in 2018, already surpassing the total volume of projects issued in 2017 despite being only halfway through the year. As prices for established cryptocurrencies continue to plummet, more developers are drawn to the industry of cryptocurrency via the ICO format as an unregulated road to riches in the volatile market. However, a new study concludes that the majority of these "developers" are more akin to scam artists, and that the entire industry should be vigilant in promoting and reviewing ICO projects.
Issued by the ICO advisory firm Statis Group, the research concluded that 80% of ICOs in 2017 constituted a scam. The study cites the exponential growth of cryptocurrency projects as leading to the variability in quality, up from just 14 crypto assets in 2013 to over 1500 currencies at present. While the study examined the full breadth of ICO existence in 2017, from initial proposal of the project to when the coin was ultimately available for trading on exchanges, the evidence was damning: only 20% of initial coin offerings during the year passed the criteria for being a legitimate project; the rest were scams. Three percent of the total ICO volume was declared "dead" by the end of the year, which the researchers referred to as no longer being listed on exchanges for trading. Which means, in less than a year, some coins had managed a proposal, funding, and token issue only to be such a colossal failure that exchanges would no longer list them for trading.
On a positive note, the research concluded that the majority of monetary value was being funded to projects that the analysts rated "higher-quality", despite the total volume of projects skewing heavily towards being a scam,
Over 70% of ICO funding (by $ volume) to-date went to higher quality projects, although over 80% of projects (by # share) were identified as scams.
While ICOs represent the current avenue for innovation and new development in the space of cryptocurrency, the vast majority of projects being labeled scams in addition to the high rate of failure is likely to draw more attention to the need for regulation in the space of crypto fund-raising.
Over Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months of Token Sale
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Initial Coin Offering (ICO)–The health of the ICO market is looking even more bleak. Initial Coin Offerings, the gold standard for raising money in the un-regulated market of cryptocurrency, has created a contentious landscape over the past year. The Boston College Carroll School of Management has released a study on over 4000 ICOs and found that the majority of projects were considered dead within four months of issuing their token to buyers, and cause a significant decline in value for investors who hold their coins longer than 60 days.
The beginning of this month brought about the report that over a thousand cryptocurrency projects are considered dead or dying, littering the landscape with empty coins that can still be traded for real value on exchanges. In addition to the decaying landscape of crypto-projects, ICO volume throughout the first half of 2018 was revealed to have eclipsed that of the entire year of 2017, despite the bear cycle cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from the market capitalization. The end result is even more projects at risk of failing in the brief window following their token issue, with fewer new ICOs able to establish themselves in the depressed market despite the flood of development teams looking to capitalize on the quick riches of last year.
Tezos, the controversial coin that broke records in July 2017 by raising 232 million USD in its ICO, has just finally issued tokens to investors before subsequently experiencing a roller coaster of price swings in the first week of trading.
The study by Boston College researchers reveals that while ICOs provide a decent return on investment, traders are forced to act quickly in selling their coins. Rather than hold on to ICO tokens out of a belief in the technology or anticipation of further price appreciation, invetors benefit the most from selling their coins within the first several weeks of trading, with ROI severely declining past the two month mark. In an interview with Bloomberg, researcher and co-author Leonard Kostovetsky recommends investors sell within the first several days to guarantee the safest form of return,
"What we find is that once you go beyond three months, at most six months, they don't outperform other cryptocurrencies. The strongest return is actually in the first month."
It is interesting to wonder whether ICO investors are creating the panic-sell and subsequent fall off in price in anticipation of market behavior that has historically characterized ICO token issues, i.e. investors sell because they believe everyone else will sell. Given the dramatic drop in price following most ICO releases, it creates the appearance that few investors believe in the underlying technology or any sort of interest in the project being funded, and instead view the process of ICO investing as a race to sell as soon as possible.
As Bloomberg points out, while the fastest investors to sell are the ones to benefit, the majority are left behind in the price movement. Given the limited exchange availability most tokens face upon ICO release, some investors do not have the ability to sell from the get-go. Others are not even able to participate as individual investors in the ICO, leaving them at the mercy of the market to purchase tokens belonging to up-and-coming projects they find some value in. Tezos exhibited similar behavior last Monday when it was first listed on the solo exchange Gate.io. The price quickly plummeted from 4.00 USD to 1.22 USD, before making a recovery over the weekend.
Overall, the study also concludes that the ROI for ICO investing is in steady decline and becoming a much more risky prospect relative to the volatility of the traditional crypto market. Speaking again with Bloomberg, Kostovetsky warns against investors looking for guaranteed riches by going the ICO route,
"People often look at returns and say this is a great deal, but we teach in finance that return is a compensation for risk. These are stakes in platforms that have not yet been built, that have no participants yet. There's a lot of risk. The majority of ICOs do fail."


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The Her Majesty's Plate is a Listed flat horse race in Ireland open to thoroughbreds aged four years or older. It is run at the Down Royal over a distance of 1 mile and 6 furlongs (2,816 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in July.

The race was run over 12 furlongs until 2003 (except in 2002 when it was run over 10 furlongs) after which the distance was increased to 13 furlongs. Prior to 2018 it was open to horses aged three years or older.

The race was awarded Listed status in 2016 and increased in distance to 14 furlongs. In 2018 it was closed to three-year-olds as part of changes to enhance the European programme of stayers' races.

Records
Most successful horse (2 wins):
 Master of Reality - (2020, 2021)

Leading jockey (4 wins):
Declan McDonogh – Coat of Honour (2004), Masafi (2005), Dabadiyan (2013), Master of Reality (2021)

Leading trainer (4 wins):
John Oxx  – Beldarian (1998), Mkuzi (2002), Zanderi (2006), Mourad (2008)
Aidan O'Brien - Trojan War (2009), Chicago (2012), Order Of St George (2015), Perotan (2022)

Winners

See also
 Horse racing in Ireland
 List of Irish flat horse races

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You don't just think by faith, you live by faith.
As difficult as faith can be at times, it is, by comparison, relatively easy to "think by faith" than it is to think biblically about life, believing God for your life and circumstance.
Thinking by faith is not the same thing as living by faith. If thinking by faith does not translate to living by faith – it is not really faith at all, is it?
Thinking by faith is necessary to live by faith; but thinking by faith is not necessarily followed by the action of living by faith.
This is akin to being a hearer of the word but not a doer of the word as James tells us (James 1:22). It is a form of personal deception.
Thinking by faith can be relatively passive while living by faith is putting our faith into action.
Be blessed and live by faith today.
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France's highest court has rejected a bid to move a court of appeal case of French Polynesia's president, Gaston Flosse, away from Tahiti.
His lawyers had claimed that the situation in Papeete would undermine the chance of a fair trial.
In January, the criminal court gave Mr Flosse a five-year prison sentence and a 110,000 US dollar fine for corruption as it did to a French advertising executive, Hubert Haddad.
The businessman had paid about two million US dollars in kickbacks over 12 years to Mr Flosse and his party to get public sector contracts.
Mr Flosse admitted receiving some funds but said it wasn't for personal use but to pay alimony to former mistresses.
Both men were jailed for weeks during the investigation after the French senate lifted Mr Flosse's parliamentary immunity.
France's highest court is meanwhile due to release its verdict in another appeal against a corruption conviction related to Mr Flosse's four-year suspended jail sentence for being part of an illicitly funded system with so-called phantom jobs to advance the policies of his party.
If the conviction is upheld, there is no more appeal avenue left and Mr Flosse has to quit political office.
Also see: France insists French Polynesia's Gaston Flosse is tried in Tahiti
French Polynesia's Flosse corruption case deferred until next year
French Polynesia's court of appeal has deferred a case brought by French Polynesia's president, Gaston Flosse, to the end of June.
The businessman had paid about two million US dollars in kickbacks over 12 years to Mr Flosse and his party to get public sector contracts from the OPT telecommunications company.
Last week, the defendants failed in their bid to get France's highest court to move the appeal case away from Tahiti after claiming they wouldn't get a fair trial.
However, they succeeded in putting off the case by eight months, arguing that lawyers based in France were not all available.
Only some of the defendants were present, including the tourism minister, Geoffry Salmon, and Gaston Flosse's secretary, Melba Ortas, who used to collect the cash payments from Hubert Haddad's company.
The lawyer acting on behalf of the OPT, James Lau, has meanwhile been relieved of his duties amid suggestions that it was a political decision, reflecting Gaston Flosse's election win in May.
Labels: corruption, France, French overseas territories, French Polynesia, Pacific
Vieques violations brought before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Groups claim US rights violations on Vieques
The (U.S.) National Lawyers Guild and other groups have filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights against the U.S. government in a case involving Puerto Ricans living in the island of Vieques, an emerging tourism hub which was once used as a bombing range.
The petition accuses the U.S. of abuses following decades of live-fire training on the island by the U.S. Navy, which left in 2003 after an errant 500-pound bomb killed a security guard in 1999.
Guild attorney Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan told The Associated Press on Tuesday that families on Vieques suffer serious health conditions because of a toxic environment left by Navy bombing. The petition was in part filed to force the U.S. government to release more information about the extent of the military's activities on Vieques and its impact on people, she said.
"There's a lot of information that remains unknown regarding toxic contaminants," she said. "People are unaware of what is causing their health issues and the continuous contamination of the island."
The petition was filed Monday on behalf of 10 Vieques residents who had cancer or have relatives who are sick. The residents also accuse Puerto Rico's government of neglecting Vieques after the Navy's departure.
The groups are asking the commission to determine whether the U.S. violated any human rights, said Annette Martinez Orabona, director of the human rights clinic at Puerto Rico's InterAmerican University's law school. If that occurs, the commission would make a list of recommendations that the U.S. government would be bound to follow, she said.
"We're not asking for specific reparations, but at some point we will," she said. She said they are not focused on money but rather on changes including improved health care and more efficient transportation from Vieques to Puerto Rico.
Martinez said the main goal is to get the U.S. government to acknowledge that the military's target practice adversely affected people's health.
"That is something that they have denied over and over again," she said.
Navy spokesman Jim Brantley did not immediately return a request for comment.
A U.S. agency issued a long-awaited report earlier this year saying it found no proof that decades of military practice bombing on Vieques sickened residents who blame it for high rates of cancer, asthma and other illnesses.
The report was released in March and follows four previous assessments and several updates by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry that reached similar conclusions.
Local residents and officials, who blame the military for health problems, have vowed to keep pushing the U.S. government for more studies analyzing the impact of the now-ceased Navy activity on Vieques, which lies east of the U.S. territory's main island. About 10,000 people live there.
The Navy occupied the island's eastern and western areas in 1941-2003, using it for warships and aircraft to practice firing live bullets, artillery rounds, rockets, missiles and bombs, according to the report.
The Navy has said its forces accidentally fired 263 rounds of ammunition tipped with depleted uranium in 1999, violating federal law.
That same year, a pilot dropped a bomb on an observation tower and killed a civilian, setting off years of angry protests that led President George W. Bush to end military activity on Vieques in 2003. The property once owned by the Navy is now a national wildlife refuge.
The U.S. has since removed more than 16.5 million pounds of munitions in a cleanup expected to last through at least 2025.
The agency's director, Dr. Christopher Portier, said the 169-page report reached two conclusions: that there is credible evidence people in Vieques have poorer health than elsewhere in Puerto Rico and that scientists could not find a link between military operations and people's health.
"That doesn't mean those linkages don't exist," he said. "It means we can't find credible scientific evidence to support that."
The agency said that the public water supply was safe and that there were no air contaminants. However, it recommended additional soil testing in residential areas, stating there was still uncertainty about soil contamination because current data were inadequate.
Officials said they found mercury in local seafood, but blamed it on the general presence of the metal worldwide. They also noted that there were no unusually high concentrations of mercury in a fish sampling.
Officials said they did not analyze the possible effect of absorbing a mix of chemicals through food, air and water, saying they did not know the levels of chemicals that residents might have been exposed to.
The agency "recognizes the possibility that this report cannot address accurately the effects of mixtures and cumulative exposures on the health of Viequenses," the report stated.
During 2001-2003, the U.S. government released four reports stating it found no health hazards in Vieques' air, soil, seafood and drinking water. Several scientists from the University of Puerto Rico, the University of Georgia and Yale University disagreed, saying residual contaminants were affecting the health of local residents.
In February 2012, a U.S. appeals court upheld a decision to dismiss a lawsuit in which 7,100 residents of Vieques accused the federal government of causing illnesses.
The agency's report said a higher mortality rate especially from cancer could be partly blamed on a lack of access to adequate medical care.
Puerto Rican doctors want Obama
to clean up military contamination
Caribbean 360
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Thursday October 31, 2013 – Doctors in Puerto Rico have sent a letter to US President Barack Obama requesting him to launch by executive order the decontamination of Vieques and Culebra islands and provide adequate treatment for those harmed by the pollution.
The remedial work in the islands, used for decades as testing grounds by the US Army, would "be the best substantiation of your many times expressed concern for the wellbeing of all the Latino people living in the United States," wrote Eduardo Ibarra, head of the Puerto Rico College of Physicians and Surgeons.
The professional body said it had communicated this same request to President Obama on previous occasions, without receiving an appropriate response.
Medical professionals claim that islanders have shown higher incidences of cancer, hypertension, diabetes, cirrhosis and epilepsy as a consequence of exposure to contaminants.
The latest communication reminded the president that an adequate and permanent clean-up was never carried out on Vieques, which was used for experiments with live munitions and as a practice bombing range, and which left significant contamination.
"As is well known around the world, our pristine Islands of Vieques and Culebra were during more than half a century utilized by the armed forces of the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to practice air to land, water to land and land to land live bombing and also as dumping grounds for military materials," the letter says.The letter adds that a number of scientific studies have shown that "the population of those thin paradisiac islands have been the innocent victims of high exposure to extremely dangerous contaminants, particularly and conspicuously Mercury.
"As a direct consequence of such contamination of their environment, its population has shown unacceptable higher incidence and prevalence of cancer, hypertension, diabetes, cirrhosis and epilepsy," the letter states.
The US Navy left Vieques a decade ago, and since then only five percent of the contaminants are said to have been removed.
Labels: Caribbean, dependency governance, human rights violations, Latin America, military, Organization of American States, Puerto Rico, United States
France seeks to exploit the natural resources of its Pacific colonies
Illustration by Hawaii.edu
"Claims by France to the resources of its Pacific territories violate international law which provides that the natural resources of a territory, including its marine resources, are owned by the people of the territory - not the cosmopole. This has been confirmed in rulings of the International Court of Justice (ICOJ), and in annual United Nations (U.N.) resolutions. Just last December, the General Assembly expressed its deep concern for 'any activities aimed at exploiting the natural and human resources of the Non-Self-Governing Territories to the detriment of the interests of the inhabitants of those Territories.' It should be clearer than ever as to why the French Government fought (unsuccessfully) to prevent the U.N. re-inscription of French Polynesia as a colony - control of the resources of the five million square kilometres of the Pacific Ocean can be a significant deterrent to compliance with the rule of law."
- a Decolonization Expert
France advised to expand seabed zone
for rare earth mining
The French Economic, Social and Environmental Council has urged the government to secure resources in the seabed off France's overseas territories.
In a report, the Council says the Law of the Sea allows for France to lay claim to an additional two million square kilometres, half of which are in French Polynesia. It says France would be negligent not to profit from this as French Polynesia has rare earths, whose reserves are held by China in a near monopoly.
The report also points to cobalt off Wallis and Futuna and hydrocarbon deposits near New Caledonia. However, the report says the area is contested by Vanuatu.
Labels: aboriginal, France, French overseas territories, French Polynesia, indigenous peoples, Ma'ohi Nui, natural resources, non self-governing territories, Pacific, Self-Determination
Spain and Morocco plan oil exploration near Canary Islands
thecanaryislands.info
The Spanish and Moroccan governments are moving forward with plans to explore for oil near the Canary Islands despite opposition from the tourism industry and environmentalists in the Spanish archipelago.
The two governments have authorized oil exploration projects in the area even though the maritime boundaries are not set, with territorial limits established by an imaginary line equidistant between the Moroccan coast and the Canary Islands, which belong to Spain.
Some residents of the islands, whose economy relies on tourism, are concerned about the possible effects of an oil spill, while others contend the energy industry would create jobs in a region dealing with an unemployment rate of 33 percent.
The fields in the area could hold up to 1.4 billion barrels of petroleum and produce 140,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude, helping Spain meet 10 percent of its daily demand for oil, Spanish oil company Repsol said.
Morocco, meanwhile, said Scottish oil company Cairn Energy planned to begin exploration work in the next few weeks in blocks adjacent to those granted by the Spanish government to Repsol some 60 kilometers (37 miles) off Lanzarote and Fuerteventura.
The Cajun Express rig leased by Cairn Energy will begin operations in early October some 555 kilometers (about 345 miles) northeast of the Canary Islands.
The start of exploration by Repsol, which is working with Germany's RWE and Australia's Woodside, is still pending completion of the environmental review process.
SEE ALSO: No 0il Canarias
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Labels: Africa, Canarie Islands, energy, periphery, small island developing states, Western Sahara
Virgin Islands Hunger Action for reparations for Danish Slavery
African-Caribbean Reparations
and Resettlement Alliance (ACRRA)
RE: Failure of USVI (U.S. Virgin Islands) Senate to Act on Reparations
WHO: Senate President Shawn-Michael Malone
Members of the 30th Legislature of the USVI
ACRRA President Mr. Shelley Moorhead
WHAT: REPARATIONS HUNGER ACTION
WHEN: October 23rd, 2013 – Until Favorable Senate Action on Reparations is Taken
WHERE: USVI Capitol Building (St. Thomas Legislature)
WHY: To inspire USVI lawmakers to act on matters relevant to the pursuit of reparations by the territory and to bring awareness to the outstanding and unresolved colonial injustices which foster underdevelopment in the former Danish West Indies.
HUNGRY FOR REPARATIONS
The African-Caribbean Reparations and Resettlement Alliance (ACRRA) will commence a hunger action on October 23, 2013 at the grounds of the Capitol Building in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas. Purposed to inspire U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) lawmakers to act on matters relevant to the seeking of reparations by the territory, the hunger initiative will be carried out by ACRRA's president Mr. Shelley Moorhead.
In a letter notifying Senate President Shawn-Michael Malone of the organization's planned action, Moorhead writes, "I will be invoking my constitutional right to petition our government and abiding by all applicable U.S. Virgin Islands laws." The longtime Virgin Islands reparations leader gave notice on October 4th and informed Senator Malone that he will "remain there without eating or consuming food for as much time as will be necessary for senators to take favorable action on reparations legislation."
It has been more than eight (8) years since the USVI Legislature firmly decided to seek reparations from Denmark by resolution unanimously passed by the body on May 4, 2005. Yet, to date, no action has been taken by the institution to pursue reparatory justice for the people of the territory who are descendants of Africans enslaved in the Danish West Indies. For as many years as the senate has not acted on reparations, ACRRA has been on the forefront of the issue advocating locally and internationally for the socioeconomic and humanitarian repair of Virgin Islanders by the Kingdom of Denmark.
In an October 4th letter to Malone, ACRRA's president outlines nearly a decade of gross neglect and inaction on the part of many USVI senators. He writes, "It has not been the manipulation of the Danish state or any stalling on the part of institutions at Copenhagen, but rather, it has been the failure of the first branch of our government in the U.S. Virgin Islands to, as it has legislated, 'Seek Reparations from Denmark' which has been the primary delay of reparatory justice in the territory."
Moorhead in his letter recalled the mandate Senator Malone issued the reparations leader on June 16, 2005, when he wrote to him urging, "I encourage you to exhaust all your resources to try to find measures to make amends for the immeasurable years of suffering and disdain" experienced by Virgin Islands forefathers. "These measures", Moorhead replies, "I have found and all my resources have I exhausted at your encouragement. Certainly, as my elected representative and the man of good moral character that you are, you have not asked of me that which you yourself are unwilling to do for our people."
With Caribbean governments throughout the region having formed reparations committees, and now preparing the moral and legal cases for compensation and educating their publics accordingly; what has the 30th Legislature of the U.S. Virgin Islands done to mobilize the seeking of reparations for its people? What can the descendants of enslaved Africans in our territory expect from this representative body as it pertains to reparations for slavery? These questions Moorhead will attempt to get answered by senators during his multi-week reparations hunger action.
In August to September of 2008, the ACRRA president carried out a 34-day hunger action on the steps of Government House on St. Croix. Refusing to leave, to eat, or consume food until Virgin Islands reparations issues were adequately addressed, Moorhead held the de Jongh administration to task receiving two (2) weeks into his hunger action a 3-page letter from Governor John P. de Jongh, Jr. outlining his administration's position on reparations.
ACRRA Media Team
Email: acrra.vi@gmail.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/acrra
Shelley Moorhead, President of ACRRA
Email: shelley.moorhead@gmail.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/shelleymoorhead
Tel. +1 340.513.3114
Labels: Africa, Caribbean, Colonialism, Denmark, emancipation, reparation, Self-Determination, US Virgin Islands
Bonaire group petitions for self-determination referendum
Foundation "Nos Ke Boneiru Bek"
Lieutenant Governor of the Public Entity Bonaire
The Government of Bonaire
The Island Council of the Government of the Public Entity of Bonaire
Mr. Ronald Plasterk, Minister of Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK)
Mr. Wilbert Stolte, Office of the Kingdom Representative
Permanent Committee Members,
Permanent Committee Members of the 1st and 2nd Chamber,
Kralendijk, 10 Oktober 2013
Dear Authorities,
Today, October 10, 2013 is exactly three (3) years that the people of Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba has been incorporated or annexed in the Dutch State Order, Polity,and without her explicit and legitimate consent. Your responsibilities as representatives of our people to their welfare is priority and paramount in this context but also extremely important is that you are aware of and realize that right for self-determination does not belong to administrators and politicians but to peoples.
worldatlas.com
Leading to the transition on10-10-10 and since then until now there were several individual, group and other protests, demonstrations, signatures actions, protest letters etc. directed to you with the aim to gain attention on this unfinished discussion and trying to get your collaboration to help resolve this impasse and to reconcile and reunite the people again. This is another serious attempt to do so and hopefully the last as it seems that is seems not possible to force further the patience of our kindhearted and humble people.
On behalf of Foundation"Nos Ke Boneiru Bek" (CoC regnr: 8472) a platform for groups and organizations and individuals of our society and with the statutory objective "to the letter and the spirit of Article 73 of the Charter of the United Nations to achieve self-government of the people of Bonaire " we bring the following to your attention:
The Country of the Netherlands Antilles originally existed since December 15th 1954 and was comprised of six islands (Curacao,Aruba, St.Maarten, Bonaire St.Eustatius and Saba), which each formed a separate administrative unit, called "eilandgebied" (island territory). As such, each Island Territory had its own local government. In addition, there was a central government for the Netherlands Antilles, as well as a senate that was comprised of representatives of all six (6) islands.
In 1986, Aruba became a separate Country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, while the other five islands remained within the Netherlands Antilles.
In the early nineties, there were discussions within the Netherlands Antilles regarding the constitutional status of the Country as a body. There were referendums held on all five (5) islands. All islands had the opportunity to choose between:
A. Remaining part of the Netherlands Antilles. However, the Netherlands Antilles would then be restructured;
B. Separate status and as such becoming a country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands;
C. Direct ties with the Netherlands;
D. Independence.
All islands of the Netherlands Antilles, including Bonaire, opted to remain in the Netherlands Antilles. As the intended restructuring of the Netherlands Antilles did not take place, discussions among the islands once again took place regarding remaining within the Netherlands Antilles as a country. St. Maarten was the first to have its referendum in June of 2000, which sparked the other islands to have their referendum in 2005.
During the referendum in Bonaire the following options were provided, which yielded the following results: voters turnout of 56.1%:
Option Votes %
A: Remain part of the Netherlands Antilles 853 15.94%
B: Direct constitutional ties with the Netherlands 3182 59.45%
C. Autonomous country within the Kingdom 1290 24.10%
D: Independence 27 0.5%
Following the referenda on the various islands, the first Round Table Conference between the islands, the Netherlands Antillean government and the Netherlands took place on November 26th 2005. It was agreed that Curacao and St. Maarten would become countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, while the three other islands would become directly part of the Netherlands as a "Public Entity".
Around 33 % only of all the people of Bonaire that could have voted, including 16 & 17 years old and foreigners without a Dutch nationality, had chosen for a direct link with Holland. However, it was decided that Bonaire instead of direct constitutional ties with the Netherlands would be integrated as part of the Netherlands.
The Netherlands Antilles ceased to exist on October 10th 2010. The islands, with the exception of Bonaire & St Eustatius, obtained the status which they voted for during the 2005 referendum. As mentioned, it was decided upon that together with Saba and St. Eustatius, Bonaire (together referred to as the BES islands) would become a part of the Netherlands. As such, each one of the BES island would be a "public entity" of the Netherlands.
Unlike the situation of the Netherlands Antilles whereby Bonaire would have a representative in the parliament - and depending on the coalition, also a representative in government - Bonaire does not have any representative whatsoever in the Parliament or the Senate of the Netherlands. Nevertheless, said bodies - the legislature - create and implement laws that are applicable on Bonaire.
It was agreed upon by all partners within the Kingdom of the Netherlands that there would be an evaluation of the current status after a period of 5 years. As such, the evaluation will take place in 2015.
In light of the aforementioned, the people of Bonaire are adamantly of the opinion that they have not exercised their right to self-determination. And as such have denied said right, as they have not freely determined their political status or the chance to decide how to pursue their own economic, social and cultural development. According to the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1541 (XV), any change of status should "be the freely expressed wishes of the territory's people acting with full knowledge of the change of their status…"
According to Resolution 1541 of the United Nations every change in the status shall be the result of "freely expressed wishes of the territories peoples acting with full knowledge of the change of their status..."
By this we are requesting, in the name of all attached signees - and all others who could not co-sign for one or other reasons and also holds the same right to self-determination- for the local government of the Public Entity of Bonaire to put all arrangements in place for the free exercise of the right to self-determination, through a referendum, so that the people of Bonaire can decide democratically their own future in accordance with International Standards of Human Rights, the principles of International Law and the Charter of the United Nations.
Integration with full political rights, independence, and free association are the three legitimate alternatives which constitute the internationally recognized options of political equality under the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1541 (XV). As such, the aforementioned options should be among the choices for the people of Bonaire to vote upon during a constitutional referendum.
We consider it the duty of our government to provide the necessary information to its people prior to the constitutional referendum, so that the population is aware of the ramifications of the status options contained in Resolution 1541, and so that the population would be able to make an informed choice between the various status options.
We invite you, that have Bonaire's interest at heart, in the name of all the signees,to do everything within your possibilities to honour this request and organize as soon as possible a referendum for the People of Bonaire.
Awaiting a positive reaction from you, I remain,
James Finies, president and coordinator Foundation "Nos Ke Boneiru Bek"
Kaya Mamore 3
Email: jamesfinies@gmail.com or info@noskierboneirubek.com
Attached: Copy list signatures petition referendum Bonaire 2013
Copy list signatures petition referendum via internet
Copy list individual reasons of signees via internet
why a referendum
FUNDASHON NOS KE BONEIRU BÈK A ENTREGA LISTA DI FIRMA NA GEZAGHÈBER
Kralendijk—Djaluna último 14 òktober 2013, Fundashon Nos Ke Boneiru Bek a hasi entrega na gezaghèber sra. Emerencia di firma nan kolekta den último lunanan pa sostené e petishon na nos gobièrnu i gobernantenan pa organisá un referèndem konstitushonal pa e pueblo Boneriano.
T'asina ku sr. Finies a duna splikashon na gezaghèber di Boneiru dr. Lydia Emerencia ku segun e organisashon e struktura ku Boneiru ta den aktualmente no ta loke ku pueblo di Boneiru a skohe pe, p'esei nan a sali na fabor di pueblo di Boneiru pa haña Boneiru bèk. Komo ku pueblo di Boneiru e keda mal informá pa polítikonan di turno.
A logra akumulá mas ku 3500 firmante ku ta di opinion ku mester bini un kambio mas rápido posibel mirando e direkshon i kiko a resultá despues di 10-10-10, kaminda e pueblo di Boneiru a hañ'é konfrontá ku a traspasá su teritorio, e isla di Boneiru i tambe su poder i derecho demokrátiko di sigui desaroyá su propio gobernashon i goberná su mes na Hulanda. Segun Finies, e traspaso i akto aki 10-10-10 ta ilegal pa motibu ku no tabatin outorisashon di e pueblo Boneriano, ku ta e úniko ku por disidí esaki i no a hasi´é te asina leu.
Pa nos di "Nos Ke Boneiru Bèk" e fecha di 10-10-13 tambe ta marka final na e trayektoria di buska firma pa sostené un petishon popular pa un referèndem pa asina korigí i kambia loke a bai robes i alabes kuminsá un etapa nobo. E "Revolushon Boneriano", un etapa kaminda ku nos lo ta bek riba e ruta di liberashon i pa rekobrá nos teritorio i derecho di por goberná nos mes.
Ku e sosten di parti di firmantenan ku ta apoyá e lucha sagrado aki i tambe esnan ku no a òf no por a firma pa un òf otro motibu pero ku tambe ta mantené e mesun derecho pa nos rekobrá nos Boneiru i nos propio gobernashon bèk. Segun e fundashon di " Nos ke nos Boneiru bèk", nos ta di opinion ku nos tin e derecho di eksigí f demanda nos derecho ku inhustamente òf ilegalmente, a keda kita o sekuestrá for di nos pueblo Boneriano. Awor nos ta konvensí ku e mensahe kla aki lo yega i komprendé dor di nos gobernantenan i ku lo rekonsiderá e posishon aktual i rekonsiliá i uni e pueblo por lo mínimo ku sigur lo tene debido kuenta i respetá e pueblo su derechonan i deseonan.
Un gradisimentu ta bai na tur persona ku a yuda ku e proseso aktivamente pa buska sosten i tambe un pabien na firmantenan tur ku gran determinashon i kurashi a mustra ku nos tin suidadanonan, Bonerianonan balente i tambe hendenan di tur parti ku ta sostené i ta stima Boneiru i su pueblo.
Fundashon "Nos Ke Boneiru Bek"
Labels: Bonaire, Caribbean, dependency governance, Latin America, Self-Determination
U.N. General Assembly Fourth Committee adopts 2013 decolonisation resolutions
The administering powers which administer most of the remaining territories worldwide, continue their pattern of voting against U.N. decolonisation resolutions.
GA/SPD/533
Sixty-eighth General Assembly
Fourth Committee
8th Meeting (AM)
FOURTH COMMITTEE CONCLUDES ANNUAL CONSIDERATION OF DECOLONIZATION, FORWARDING PACKAGE OF 11 DRAFT RESOLUTIONS TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR ADOPTION
Reiterating its conviction of the need for the eradication of colonialism, the Fourth Committee today concluded its annual consideration of the question of decolonization, and forwarded 11 draft resolutions to the General Assembly, six of them approved without a vote.
Continuing its tradition, the Committee approved by consensus its omnibus draft resolution on Questions of American Samoa, Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Guam, Montserrat, Pitcairn, Saint Helena, Turks and Caicos Islands and the United States Virgin Islands.
That text would have the General Assembly reaffirm that, in the process of decolonization, there was no alternative to the principle of self-determination, which was also a fundamental human right, as recognized under the relevant human rights conventions.
In a series of provisions concerning the administering Powers of the 17 Non-Self-Governing Territories on the United Nations list, the Assembly would reaffirm those Governments' responsibility to promote the Territories' economic and social development and take all measures necessary to protect their environments. The Assembly would call on the administering Powers to participate in and cooperate fully with the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization.
Speaking in explanation of position after the text's approval, the question was raised about the application of principles other than that of self-determination to the Territories. The representative of Spain said that although the delegation had joined the consensus on the draft because it supported the right to free self-determination, the principle of territorial integrity should also be applied in some cases, such as in that of Gibraltar.
Also speaking on that draft was Argentina's representative, who expressed support for the right of self-determination in the Territories as outlined in the omnibus draft resolution, but, drawing attention to General Assembly resolution 1514 (1960), said that the principle of self-determination was only one of two guiding tenets applicable to Non-Self-Governing Territories. The question of the Malvinas* was a "special and particular" case, whereby the territorial integrity principle, as established by numerous General Assembly resolutions, was also to be considered.
Also speaking in explanation after passage of the draft was the representative of the United Kingdom, called the approach of the Decolonization Committee "outdated" because it failed to take into account how the relationship between the United Kingdom and its Overseas Territories had modernized. Also, he added, the United Kingdom did not accept the assertion that the people of Gibraltar did not have the right to self-determination.
The Committee also approved without a vote a draft resolution on French Polynesia — reinstated just this year on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories. By its terms, the General Assembly would reaffirm the inalienable right of the people of French Polynesia to self-determination and also recognize the significant health and environmental impacts of nuclear testing conducted by the administering Power in the Territory over a 31-year period.
Other draft resolutions approved without a vote today included three more on specific territories — New Caledonia, Tokelau, and Western Sahara, as well as a fourth draft text on study and training facilities for inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories. A draft decision on Gibraltar would be considered at a later date.
Requiring a recorded vote was a draft resolution on information from Non-Self-Governing Territories, which would stress the importance of timely transmission of adequate information relating to the Territories by the administering Powers. A decision was taken to forward it to the General Assembly, by a vote of 149 in favour to none against, with 4 abstentions (Israel, Rwanda, United Kingdom, United States).
By a recorded vote of 107 in favour to none against, with 51 abstentions, the Committee approved a draft resolution on the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples by the specialized agencies and the international institutions associated with the United Nations.
A text on dissemination of information on decolonization was approved by a recorded vote of 156 in favour to 3 against ( Israel, United Kingdom, United States) with no abstentions.
Also requiring recorded votes were resolutions on economic and other activities affecting the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories — 153 in favour to 2 against (Israel, United States), with 2 abstentions (Rwanda, United Kingdom);
and on the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples — 158 in favour to 3 against (Israel, United Kingdom, United States), with no abstentions.
Prior to action, the Committee also heard from several delegates as its general debate on decolonization concluded. Broadly speaking, the representative of Algeria said that the "pretexts and red herrings" used by the occupying Powers must be denied. Concerning Western Sahara, it was pointless to hide the national aspirations of the Saharan people. The United Nations, he added, must engage them in a genuine exercise of self-determination.
The representative of Morocco stated that a tiny minority persisted in seeing the Western Sahara issue through its own fantasies rather than through historic facts. Morocco's autonomy initiative represented a historic compromise with "a win-win focus" and was still on the negotiating table.
Also participating in the discussion were representatives of South Africa, Viet Nam, and Palau.
Speaking in exercise of the right of reply were the representatives of Spain, United Kingdom, Argentina, India, and Pakistan.
The representative of the European Union delivered a general statement ahead of action on the Western Sahara text.
READ THE FULL UNITED NATIONS PRESS RELEASE HERE .
Labels: Caribbean, Colonialism, Decolonisation, dependency governance, French overseas territories, non self-governing territories, Pacific, Self-Determination, United Kingdom, United Nations, United States
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Marauders #4: Storm. Finally.
In Comics, Reviews
Wendy Browne
In the last issue, I said that all the pieces were on the board, but, unsurprisingly, that grandiose statement was wrong. In Marauders #4, we discover that there's a whole other chess board that the Hellfire Corporation and mutantdom may not be ready to handle. Marauders #4 Federico Blee (colorist), Russel Dauterman (cover artist), Gerry
In the last issue, I said that all the pieces were on the board, but, unsurprisingly, that grandiose statement was wrong. In Marauders #4, we discover that there's a whole other chess board that the Hellfire Corporation and mutantdom may not be ready to handle.
Marauders #4
Federico Blee (colorist), Russel Dauterman (cover artist), Gerry Duggan (writer), Matteo Lolli (artist), Tom Muller (design), VC's Cory Petit (letterer)
Once again, Russell Dauterman graces Marauders with a gorgeous cover, this time focusing on Storm. Given my frustration over her treatment since the series began, this cover replenishes my soul and revitalizes my hopes. Thankfully, the regal and powerful appearance of the character extends into this issue. Though it's only for a few pages, you'll have to forgive me for getting a bit emotional when I see Storm front and centre, with her full elemental glory on display (though I must give a nod to Pyro making dramatic use of his flames as well, with support from Lockheed).
But stepping back a moment to the opening info page, Marauders #4 gives me another moment that brings me joy. Though it's relegated to an X-Desk report, we learn that Emma Frost has been causing a buzz on the streets of New York's fashion district and on social media because she's been spotted with four-armed mutant fashion designer Jumbo Carnation, buying up swaths of red and white fabric. When I first saw Emma Frost's outfit on the cover of Marauders #1, it immediately gave me hope for a fashionable future for the White Queen and I am so pleased to learn that this is indeed happening in Dawn of X. And, while this scene is only manifesting in my imagination, the continued talk of fashion in relation to the Hellfire Corporation has me all a quiver.
But the Hellfire Corporation isn't all about fabulous aesthetics. Kate continues her campaign to get Bishop to join her as the Red Bishop. Bishop has no desire to get mixed up in the Hellfire's inner circle, but there is merit in having someone to support Kate on the inside. Bishop is also more concerned about the mission at hand, which he's been pursuing since the first issue. In Taiwan, an anti-mutant hate campaign is being fired up by a woman who claims that her non-mutant husband vanished through a Krakoan gate. Fueling the hatred with propaganda, Chen Zhao also has some interesting connections going on behind the scenes that will be added to the growing list of problems for the X-Men. Finally creating that mutant utopia still has a lot of kinks to work out, but there are a number of factors that weren't considered or are just now being discovered as non-mutants adapt to deal with people they still perceive as a threat.
Fight sequences are a highlight in Marauders. Matteo Lolli seems to favour panels featuring Kate using her combat tactics combined with her mutant powers and finding new ways to have her uncomfortably embed things into people's bodies. However, backgrounds take a beating during a particular fight scene that occurs within a sterile white panic room. Overuse of lines of motions and inexplicably varied colours, combined with big sound effects, make the scene feel more like the 1960s Batman TV show that doesn't enjoy the benefit of Batman's campy humour.
Still, Marauders #4 stays the course as part of a fun, action-filled series, and Gerry Duggan continues to subtly seed the story with small insight into the more serious goings on outside of Krakoa. However, we remain bound by the X-Men's point of view, gaining insight only in so far as Kate and her team take us. Through data pages, we learn that intelligence agencies remain at a loss on how to deal with Krakoa and the gates, we know about mutant-worshipping human cults, and we know that Zhao has gained enough of a following to pack a stadium. But the big picture outside of Krakoa's boundaries has not quite revealed itself.


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Behind the distrust between Pakistan and Afghanistan
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By: Dr Raza Khan
Of late bilateral relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan nosedived after several terrorist attacks in Pakistan in which Afghan nationals were found involved — leading subsequently to the closure of the Durand Line border between the two countries.
Ties between Islamabad and Kabul have never been smooth and there have always been issues in mutual relations mainly due to historical distrust between them.
The distrust is rooted in their respective national narrative, which has historically been dominated by their undemocratic and non-representative power elite. Pakistani power elite is composed mostly of its civil-military bureaucracy and the agriculture and industrial classes. The Afghan power elite have traditionally been composed of its civil-military-intelligence establishment and so-called politicians, mostly members of Communist
groups, without having a political constituency plus certain pseudo-intellectuals.
In order to have legitimacy, the undemocratic power elite in Afghanistan supported by the national media networks and in pursuit of their vested commercial interests, have been fanning sentiments of hatred among Afghans against Pakistan. Consequently, Afghanistan, without any legal ground, since Pakistan's emergence in 1947, has been raising irridentist claims on large tracts of Pakistani territory. This was the origin of the distrust between Islamabad and Kabul. Otherwise, before getting independence Muslims of areas comprising Pakistan had had a great reverence and emotional attachment with Afghans. For instance, Chaudhry Rehmat Ali while proposing the name PAKISTAN included Afghania or Afghan as a main component in the terms or concept of Pakistan. Consequently, since the early 1970s Pakistan, equally without any legal justification, has been trying to locate strategic depth in Afghanistan by making the state its virtual dependency. However, one aspect of these relations is quite clear that it was Afghanistan which initiated issues between the two countries, thinking Pakistan as one of the successor states of British India would be weak.
It proved otherwise however for Afghanistan.
In order to pursue their respective interests the power elite of Afghanistan and Pakistan have also been creating and supporting proxy militant and terrorist groups to create conditions for realisation of these objectives. Therefore, Afghanistan started by hosting and cultivating Pakistani Pashtun separatists by forming a terrorist group 'Zalmay Pashtun' to carry our terrorist attacks in Pakistan in the 1970s to create conditions for secession of Pashtun areas of Pakistan and formation of a pro-Afghanistan, Pashtunistan state besides hosting and nurturing Pakistani Baloch separatists.
Pakistan responded by hosting anti-government Afghan clerics in Pakistan and militants trained them to create trouble in Afghanistan followed by hosting, training and arming anti-Soviet Afghan Mujahideen (1980s) and the Taliban (since 1994) to capture state power in Afghanistan and thus to provide Islamabad strategic depth in Afghanistan vis-a-vis India. Thus it has been the undemocratic and unrepresentative power elites of Pakistan and Afghanistan which have been formulating policies regarding the other state, which have been to the detriment of common Pakistanis and Afghans and thus regional peace and stability. However, the realities of international politics also played a significant role in the relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan in which both states have been pursuing their perceived national interest rather than having friendly or good neighbourly ties with the other. The Democratic Peace Theory of International Relations contends that two democratic states do not go to war and create conflict and try to resolve their disputes pacifically. Whereas, the theory of liberal economic interdependence argues that trade between states creates economic interdependence and disincentives war and conflict between and among states. Another theory Material Incentives as Drivers of Political Violence (Humphreys and Weinstein, 2008) argues that groups resort to violence in order to get material incentives. All these theories are quite relevant to the undemocratic power elite-dictated relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
To sort out the distrust between Pakistan and Afghanistan there is a need for continued democratic institutionalisation, which is possible in turn through enhanced participation of Pakistanis and Afghans in the democratic processes, which in turn is possible through informed public opinion to know the objectives of their power elite policies regarding each other's state. Moreover, that the trans-boundary water and energy projects in Pakistan and Afghanistan are mutually beneficial; therefore they must be supported. Unfortunately, little development is taking place in Afghanistan regarding democratic institutionalization. Moreover, while Pakistan has shunned its policy of locating strategic depth in Afghanistan as unequivocally announced by Adviser to Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz some months back, Kabul is still refusing to recognise the Durand Line as the permanent border between the two countries. In this situation distrust cannot be removed.
Source: https://tribune.com.pk
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Busy 2011 Fire Season in Mexico
Earth Observatory, NASA
© Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
May usually marks the end of the fire season in Mexico. Sometime during the month, the first wet-season rains begin to fall, followed by a soggy five months. Yet, on May 20, 2011, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite took this image, the fire season was still going strong. Fires, marked in red, were burning throughout the country, casting a smoky haze from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico.
The widespread fires shown here are evidence of the extreme fire season 2011 turned out to be in Mexico. By May 19, more than 530,000 hectares (1,300,000 acres or 2,000 square miles) of land had burned in the country since the beginning of the year, said the Mexican government. In terms of area burned, 2011 surpassed every year since (and including) 1998, making it one of the most challenging fire seasons in 30 years.
What made the 2011 fire season so extreme? In part, the answer lies in the 2010 rainy season, one of the wettest on record. Rains from Hurricane Alex flooded northern Mexico in July, and then torrential rains caused widespread flooding in southern Mexico in September. All of this excess water allowed thick grass to grow. During the dry season, which begins in October and lasts through May, the grass dried, providing ample fuel for fires.
In April and May, hot, dry, and windy conditions allowed fires throughout the country to surge out of control. Many of the fires started as agricultural fires, traditionally used to clear farm or pasture land, said the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. The widespread nature of the fires in this image suggests that people deliberately started many of them.
Most of the land burned in 2011 was grassland. This means that even though the fires burned a greater area in 2011, the ecological impact is far smaller than the last severe fire season in 1998, when large tracts of rare forest burned. The grasslands will recover in the next rainy season.
AFP. (2010, September 9). Mexico's worst ever rainy season to intensify: president. Accessed May 23, 2011.
Comisión Nacional Forestal. (2011, May 19). Reporte semanal de resultados de incendios forestales 2011. Gobierno Federal, Estados Unidos Mexicanos.
Presna Latina. (2011, May 22). Incendios forestales dañan miles de hectáreas en México. Accessed May 23, 2011.
Rodriguez, D.A. and Pyne, S.J. (1999, March). Mexican fires of 1998. International Forest Fire News, no. 20. Accessed May 23, 2011.
Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales. (2011, May 9). Com. 219/11. - La temporada de incendios 2011 ha sido difícil, pero se mantiene bajo control: Semarnat. Accessed May 23, 2011.


The Liebster Award is given to bloggers who are new or are up and comers in the blogosphere and have fewer than 200 followers. The award is then passed along to other bloggers of the same criterion. I am so thankful that Kimbo from It Is Interesting To Note believed my blog a worthy candidate - many many thanks to Kimbo!
1. I have a small addiction to Coke. Especially cold coke on ice. I am particularly fond of the Large Coke from McDonald's because it comes in a styrafoam cup.
2. I love this time of year. My favorite of scenarios is cold, snow, and sunshine. Only God can create such a beautiful day as that. I also enjoy the lack of humidity, and I love to wear layers.
3. I once skinned and dissected a cat for a science class in high school. Once my lab partner and I got past the fact that it was a poor little kitty, it wasn't so bad. I'm not certain I could do it again though.
4. I have great fingernails. I inherited them from my grandmother. I never wear fingernail polish because the whites of my nails are naturally white and strong. They grow well and even break well. I rarely use nail clippers - I can just break them when it's time.
5. I'm not at all good with indoor plants. I am the worst for remembering to water them. I also struggle in the summer to remember to water our hanging baskets and flowers.
6. I grew up on a farm and was a member of 4-H. Each summer, my brother and I each took a steer to the county fair. The fair was the absolute best week of the summer. It was huge in our community and it seemed like everybody was a part of it.
7. I come from a family of deer hunters. I've actually been a few times, but I never was "successful." When out in the woods, my father would have to constantly tell me to pay attention and stop making so much noise.
8. I make brownies just so I can eat the batter. I'll eat so much of the it that I really don't even want any actual brownies once baked.
9. I love office/school supplies. Instead of pens, I use pencils. I prefer regular pencils to mechanical ones, and I really like for them to be freshly sharpened.
10. I always become physically ill when I am subconsciously stressed or apprehensive. For example, in college I would always be prepared for a test, but regardless of how ready my mind was, my body wasn't. It is something I cannot control - so I'd end up sick to my stomach.
11. I love to make people smile and laugh. I will say things and act in ways that I know are absolutely ridiculous just to entertain. As shy as I am, once I'm comfortable, even I have a hard time reeling myself in.
1. What household chore do you hate the most? I do not like to iron - at all. I put it off for as long as I am able. We opt for the wrinkle free clothing for my husband, but it's not always all that it's cracked up to be.
2. What was the last movie, TV show or book that made you cry or tear up? I do this a lot - it really doesn't take much. But I think the last time was on the NCIS episode where Zeva's father was killed. I also cried on the last book I read, Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks. And I cry on just about every Hallmark movie that I watch.
3. What's the best/worst gift you've ever given/received? The best gift I have given was a group gift to my mother-in-law a few Christmases ago. My husband and I and his sisters purchased for her a laptop. She loved it so much and even teared up when we gave it to her - so of course I cried too. She had no idea it was coming and I love how excited and surprised she was. The worst gift is probably the nonexistent gift. A few Christmases ago, my husband and I agreed to not get each other anything. I stuck with that - he did not. He had put a pair of super cute muck boots and a pair of gloves under the tree for me, and I had absolutely nothing for him.
4. What do you miss most about being a kid? I think I miss how active I was and how in shape I was as a result. I really enjoyed playing sports and being competitive.
5. What story does your family always tell about you? I've heard my mother share on more than one occasion how I taught myself to swim in a baby pool in the backyard at a pretty early age.
6. At what age did you consider yourself an adult? I'd say around 27. At that point in my life, I was starting to feel responsible for things and people other than myself.
7. What's one thing you wish you could "un-know"? I wish I didn't know anything about regret. Regret for things I've done, for things I didn't get to do, and for things I should be doing.
8. Where would you like to go on a dream vacation? I'd love to go to Hawaii someday. Disney. And maybe even on a Cruise.
9. What is your first memory of being really excited? My memory is not awesome, but I do vaguely remember my first pet. We brought the cutest dog home from the pet store when I was in grade school. We were inseparable. I was incredibly excited when my parents said okay to my pleas to have him.
10. What was the first thing you bought with your own money? No clue. Candy?? As a teenager, I'd say probably clothes.
11. What was the last experience that made you a stronger person? Being the only one present when my grandmother passed away. I know she waited on me before leaving this world.
2. If you had to watch the same movie over and over for a day, which would it be?
3. Do you prefer living in the city, the country, or somewhere in between?
4. If you could choose any profession, meaning you'd have the skillset required and money was not a deciding factor, what would you do?
5. How is your driving? Are you aggressive behind the wheel or are you patient and generous? Have you gotten any speeding tickets???
6. What life lesson do you find yourself having to learn over and over again?
7. Do you prefer Coke or Pepsi?
8. Do you have a favorite Bible verse? If so, what is it?
9. Which do you prefer - physical books or e-books?
10. What one thing do you absolutely not leave home without?
11. What one thing scares you the most?
It's entirely possible that any one or more of the above bloggers have received this award before - I think you deserve it again. And I based the follower quota on GFC.
Have a lovely day! And thanks for reading.
Congratulations on getting this award! You deserve it! And cold Coke on ice is the bomb.
Thank you! You are so sweet to think of me. I've already come up with answers for some of the questions.
Congrats on your award and thanks for tagging me! I'm totally addicted to cold Coke on ice too. And Pepsi is *not* an adequate substitute.