Home Advertising Is NFC (Near-Field Communication) the next great lead generation/marketing thing?
Trend-seekers are observing (and some are pontificating) that Near-Field Communication (NFC) may be an important marketing device, especially as mobile devices continue their increasing importance and prices for the technology decline.
Some aren't so certain (including me).
NFC is supposed to be better and more effective than Quick Response Codes, which allow mobile devices to interface with printed media. A couple of years ago I became truly excited about QRC's potential — and even published some tools and resources about implementing QRCs on one of our websites — because I considered it to be one of the potential saviors of print media advertising. While QRCs have indeed some value in the marketplace, facilitating information gathering and scanning, their use is hardly widespread today. They serve some worthy functions, however, and when applied properly, make it easier for you to connect the dots from an initial impression to a valid sales lead.
NFC uses embedded chips or tags that you stick on objects where you want people to "read" you are there. The mobile device owner simply needs to tap the mobile device against the tag to link to your site. Tags are somewhat more expensive than QR codes (which don't cost anything to implement on printed media) but their cost is still quite low – perhaps $1.00 to $2.00 a piece (less in bulk).
Some examples of NFC at work include transit payment systems and lead-gen at trade shows. Instead of having exhibitors scan visitor badges (if you use the tools provided by trade show contractors, at a truly expensive price), you simply provide a visible "tag" or tags at your booth, and users can connect with their smartphones to your offer.
Novelty appeal: Always helpful to be first with anything. Can attract interest and awareness, especially if your market is within a technologically-enlightened community.
Growing market influence potential: Mobile devices are continuing to be the leading edge of business-marketing development. Consider the resources for example that Google is pouring into mobile devices and media technologies.
Inexpensive: You won't need to break your budget to set up a simple test NFC system. You can purchase tags and access software for less than $20.00 — if you are playing with this stuff on a corporate scale you will find the cost is insignificant in budget terms.
The gimmick factor: NFC has been around for some time, but take-up hasn't been as rapid as other technologies. Maybe marketers think we need this technology more than we actually want to use it.
Do the alternatives work better? I noted earlier my initial excitement with QRC technology — we set up with a QRC offer last year to receive perhaps two or three inquiries. We haven't totally given up on QRC, but don't spend much energy with it now. Maybe the simplest approach — talking to people, scanning their badges, or taking their (paper) business cards, still work best especially for business-to-business lead generation.
It won't cost you much to experiment. Additional (low-cost) lead generation options and tools are obviously never a bad idea and as a rule it is always best to be first at an activity within your niche. But I think the jury is still out on whether NFC will truly change things, or just be a minor marketing blip.
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There's only so many times that you can hear the phrase "I wish I knew how to quit you."
i love how all of the "brokeback mountain" parodies are popping up everywhere!
it's actually funnier if you've seen the movie!
i wonder if the academy saw this version because i think it was WAY better than "crash."
I saw the movie and the bunnies were much better.
I was very bored. Regardless of what the Academy says, or anyone else for that matter, it was not a good movie.


An image scanned from a black and white photograph of Belle D'Arcy, an actress who began her acting career in New York in 1895 while studying music. She performed throughout the world for several years and in 1910 she began playing at the Jefferson Theater and Keith's Theater in Portland, Maine.
In the 1920s she made a number of tours to Europe and appeared in motion pictures. In 1931 she retired from the stage, but made a number of radio broadcasts with both NBC and CBS. She died in Portland, Maine on November 2, 1936.


Drawing 2,000 jugglers every year, the Israeli Juggling Convention is the second largest juggling festival in the world. It takes place in Gan HaShlosha National Park, a large site with hot springs, ancient Roman ruins, and a large gymnasium – perfect for juggling!
Jugglers camp all over the national park's grounds – a huge city of tents filled with circus artists. The festival draws hundreds of families, hobbyists, and professional performers who live together throughout the five day festival. Meals are communal, provided by a volunteers working in a giant makeshift kitchen tent. Since the festival takes place over Passover, food is kosher and vegetarian. Some prefer to cook on their own, and at night you can see folks grilling meat by their tents under the stars.
If the circus world is small, the juggling world is even smaller.
The internet is full of juggling videos, juggling forums, juggling hashtags, and juggling celebrities. You're a click away from contacting jugglers directly – and they'll usually write back right away. This was my first time going to the Israeli convention, and managed to finally meet some friends I'd been talking to for years. We just hadn't been in the same place before.
The IJC is a truly international event. This year's participants came from Israel, Spain, Canada, the UK, Denmark, the Netherlands, the Ukraine, Taiwan, Finland, Argentina, the US, Germany, and beyond.
The International Gala is crown jewel of the Israeli Convention. I was invited to host the show this year – an honor, a privilege, and an incredible delight – emceeing a show with a cast of some of the best performers from around the world.
Juggling conventions and the community that they support are one of the reasons I still juggle today. Haven't been to a convention before? Check out this excellent list of events curated by our pals over at the Juggling Edge – you might be surprised to find one in your hometown!


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Point Roberts, WA - November 21, 2017 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Investorideas.com, a global news source and investor resource covering cannabis and hemp stocks issues a sector news alert on companies with new drug discoveries and developments in the sector.
How will cannabis impact the big pharma industry moving forward? According to a study by the University of Georgia entitled 'Medical Marijuana Laws Reduce Prescription Medication Use in Medicare Part D', it will lower costs.
"The savings, due to lower prescription drug use, were estimated to be $165.2 million in 2013, a year when 17 states and the District of Columbia had implemented medical marijuana laws. The results suggest that if all states had implemented medical marijuana the overall savings to Medicare would have been around $468 million."
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In an era where drug costs are skyrocketing in the US and Canada, a lower cost solution that is also potentially easier on the patient's body is creating a stir in the industry.
Veritas Pharma Inc. (CSE: VRT; OTC: VRTHF; Frankfurt: 2VP), an emerging pharmaceutical and IP development company, just announced that its research arm, Cannevert Therapeutics Ltd., signed a letter of intent with the Fundación de Investigación (FDI) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to conduct the first human study of CTL-X, its lead cannabis strain that targets pain.
Puerto Rico is well-known as one of the world's best known pharmaceutical production and development centers with a growing biotech presence.
The company says the study will be done in two stages to assess the analgesic effects of this lead strain. The first stage will have an open label design to look at the feasibility of two doses of CTL-X in 5 subjects while the second stage will use a randomized, double-blind, crossover design to assess one dose of CTL-X against a placebo control strain in 16 subjects who will be exposed to various modalities of acute pain.
Veritas's CEO Lui Franciosi stated, "We are pleased to see Cannevert's lead strain for pain is finally heading into human trials. It's important to us to move quickly into this next phase of providing clinical proof of cannabis' effectiveness, this after our chemical and animal assays delivered favorable results. FDI is a reputable group of clinicians and clinical trialists with a long history of evaluating treatments for major pharmaceutical companies. The Puerto Ricans are becoming world leaders in investigating and selling cGMP medical cannabis and their insights will be valuable. We aim to provide physicians and patients with scientifically tested and clinically proven cannabis therapies targeting pain. In the next year, Veritas's goal is to have a branded analgesic strain in which its dose and method of administration are standardized to actively compete with over-the-counter analgesics as well as potentially reducing or eliminating opioid use in the acute and chronic pain markets."
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On November 14th, 2017 Zynerba Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZYNE), a company developing and commercializing pharmaceutically-produced transdermal cannabinoid medicines reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2017 and provided an overview of recent operational highlights.
"We announced important data during the third quarter, including remarkable Phase 2 data from our FAB-C study of ZYN002 in children and adolescents with Fragile X syndrome," said Armando Anido, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "We achieved the primary endpoint and numerous secondary endpoints with statistical significance compared to baseline, and anticipate moving into a pivotal program in Fragile X in the first half of 2018. Additionally, we look forward to outlining our path forward in Epilepsy, and meeting with the FDA to discuss our OA pivotal program in the first quarter of 2018."
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zynerba-pharmaceuticals-reports-third-quarter-123000574.html
On November 16th, 2017 Tetra Bio-Pharma Inc. (TSXV:TBP.V; TBPMF), a company in cannabinoid-based drug development and discovery, announced that Rx Princeps™, a unique blend of dried medical cannabis used in its PPP001 clinical trials, is now available through licensed producer Aphria Inc. (TSX:APH.TO; APHQF) under Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (ACMPR).
Based on the most recent ACMPR market data from the Government of Canada, it is estimated that the sales of dried medical cannabis in Canada from April 2017 to March 2018 will be over $188M; Tetra is now entering this lucrative market and plans on progressively grabbing a significant share of it over the next two years. Mr Fortier, CEO of Tetra, stated last week "We are expecting to generate around $1.5 million in sales, in fiscal 2018 in our initial launch. Through our promotion and education efforts in Quebec, New Brunswick and part of Ontario, we estimate that over eight thousand patients will start using Rx Princeps™ under prescription from their doctors over in the next twelve months."
Rx Princeps™ is a new option for doctors who want to prescribe medical cannabis. Prescribing Rx Princeps™ with the Rx Princeps™ inhalation device enables their patients to optimize the benefits of medical cannabis through the intake of a fixed dose of product, thereby ensuring consistency of treatment with a standardized high-quality product.
Aphria (TSX:APH.TO; APHQF) grows and produces medical cannabis under a strict quality management program. Tetra chose Aphria as its partner because their production processes were adopted from the highly restricted and regulated pharmaceutical industry, and go above and beyond cannabis industry regulations mandated by Health Canada. As a result, Aphria's products are in line with the strict quality standards Tetra is establishing for the medical community and its patients.
200,000 patients are already registered under the ACMPR program and around 1.5 million adults in Canada suffer from chronic pain and are considered non-responders to opioids; medical cannabis could be a new therapeutic choice for those patients but physicians need bioavailability and safety data to prescribe medical cannabis with confidence. According to Health Canada, less than 3,000 physicians actually prescribe cannabis to their patients. Tetra is committed to provide them rigorous safety and bioavailability data. Tetra has begun educating pain clinics and the medical profession across Canada on Rx Princeps™, including its advantages for patients.
On October 31st, 2017 GW Pharmaceuticals plc (NASDAQ: GWPH), along with its U.S. subsidiary Greenwich Biosciences, announced it had completed the rolling submission of a New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Epidiolex® (cannabidiol) as adjunctive treatment of seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) and Dravet syndrome, two highly treatment-resistant forms of childhood-onset epilepsy.
GW has received Rare Pediatric Disease and Orphan Drug Designations from the FDA for Epidiolex in the treatment of both LGS and Dravet syndrome. Additionally, GW has received Fast Track Designation from the FDA for Epidiolex for the treatment of Dravet syndrome.
"The submission of the Epidiolex NDA is an important milestone for patients with LGS and Dravet syndrome in that a potential new treatment option is within sight for these very difficult to treat and devastating conditions," stated Justin Gover, CEO of GW Pharmaceuticals. "On behalf of all those patients, clinicians and GW employees who have supported the Epidiolex program, we are pleased to submit this promising therapy for FDA review and we look forward to working with the FDA throughout the review process. This regulatory submission is a demonstration of GW's commitment to developing innovative cannabinoid-based treatments that have the potential to address significant unmet medical needs."
The NDA for Epidiolex is supported by data from three Phase 3 safety and efficacy studies, each of which met their primary endpoint. Epidiolex was generally well tolerated in these trials. The NDA includes safety data on approximately 1,500 patients, with approximately 400 patients on continuous therapy for more than one year. Beyond pivotal safety and efficacy data, the NDA includes a comprehensive clinical pharmacology, pre-clinical and toxicology package. The CMC section of the NDA incorporates the Company's recently expanded UK manufacturing facilities.
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Colour and texture at the service of the senses. Conceived by the Austrian designer Erwin Leo Himmel, this collection has opted for intense colours to imbue the bathroom space with happiness and a free-and-easy air. What is more, its harmonious forms and textured finishes appeal to the most demanding sense of touch. Vincent Gregoire, creative manager of the renowned agency Nelly, has chosen a range of colour schemes to make this series a genuine gift for the senses.
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German architect Wilfried Wang critiques Herzog & de Meuron's Museum of the 20th Century extension in Berlin
(Courtesy Herzog & de Meuron / vVgt Landschaftsarchitekten AG)
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Herzog & de Meuron's winning proposal for the Museum of the 20th Century extension in Berlin has been called into question by German architect Wilfried Wang, the co-founder of Berlin-based Hoidn Wang Partner and (since 2002) the O'Neil Ford Centennial Professor at UT Austin's School of Architecture. Wang believes the Swiss firm's design is severely lacking in both architectural and urbanist respects.
Speaking in The Competition Project (whose editor translated Wang's commentary, which first appeared in the German journal Bauwelt last year), Wang first discusses the project's relationship with its immediate surroundings: Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie (completed in 1968) and the Hans Scharoun's Berlin Philharmonic concert hall (completed in 1963).
By extending the form of this introverted structure to cover the entire competition site, little or no value is added to the immediate environs. To the contrary, that and the immense surfaces of the facades, right up to the edge of the pedestrian walkways, only serve to diminish the importance of the surrounding buildings. All the trees to the south of the site will disappear, and 90% of the outer walls of the building, regardless of the suggested use of porous brick detailing, are completely closed off.
Interior programming. (Courtesy Herzog & de Meuron / vVgt Landschaftsarchitekten AG)
Next in the firing line was the proposal's program:
The corridors stacked over one another, labeled "Boulevards" by the architects, are connected in the quadrants by smaller corridors and stairs. The metaphor, "Boulevard," is as misleading as was Le Corbusier's "rue intérieur." Boulevards are accessible 24 hours a day as open public spaces. In the evenings these corridors will be closed to the public. Rectangular exhibit areas are placed on three levels—not easily accessible to the visitor as a result of the labyrinth-like circulation plan.
Wang wasn't too pleased with much of the competition's submissions either. Few, he argued, failed to mediate space between the two already existing icons that inhabit the vicinity. New York studios SO-IL, Snøhetta, and REX were in the running for the $218.8 million project, along with British firms Zaha Hadid Architects and David Chipperfield Architects.
The most extreme anti-urbanistic example honored by the jury with a merit award was OMA's pyramid-like scheme, completely blocking any relationship between Mies and Sharoun by inserting their own icon in between the two.
OMA's submission. (©OMA via Competitions)
By contrast, the shortlisted designs that entered the fray during the first open competition, Wang argues, were "more modern, sensitive, and led one to assume that a different solution would be in store." These notions did filter into the competition's final stage, said Wang, with SANAA and Sou Fujimoto's (both from Japan) less disruptive proposed interventions.
Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA's submission. (Courtesy SANAA via Competitions)
Note: For his Master's degree in 1981, Wang researched six cultural centers including London's South Bank Centre, Paris's Centre Beaubourg and Berlin's Kulturforum. In 1992 he published a monograph on the work of Herzog & de Meuron.
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5 Finalists Selected for the 2017 EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award
Five European projects have been selected as finalists for the 2017 EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. Chosen from a shortlist of 40 projects, the five finalists were lauded by the jury for their ability to "respond to the concerns of today's European society."
"Our instincts could be summed up by the words of Peter Smithson: 'things need to be ordinary and heroic at the same time,'" said Jury Chairman Stephen Bates. "We were looking for an ordinariness whose understated lyricism is full of potential'."
Through April, the jury members will visit each finalist project to evaluate the buildings firsthand and to see how they are used by the public. The Prize Winner will be announced in Brussels on May 16.
The five finalists are:
deFlat Kleiburg; Amsterdam, The Netherlands / NL Architects + XVW architectuur
deFlat Kleiburg; Amsterdam, The Netherlands / NL Architects + XVW architectuur. Image © Stijn Spoelstra
Ely Court; London, UK / Alison Brooks Architects
Ely Court; London, UK / Alison Brooks Architects. Image © Paul Riddle
Kannikegården; Ribe, Denmark / Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects
Kannikegården; Ribe, Denmark / Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects. Image © Anders Sune Berg
Katyn Museum; Warsaw, Poland / BBGK Architekci
Katyn Museum; Warsaw, Poland / BBGK Architekci. Image © Juliusz Sokolowski
Rivesaltes Memorial Museum; Rivesaltes, France / Rudy Ricciotti
Rivesaltes Memorial Museum; Rivesaltes, France / Rudy Ricciotti. Image © Kevin Dolmaire
"The Jury's selection consolidates the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award as a strategic element by which to promote research into, debate on and dissemination of contemporary architecture in Europe," explained Anna Ramos, Director of the Fundació Mies van der Rohe.
"Issues such as collective housing, the complexity of the European city – both contemporary and historical – and the ability of architecture to create symbolic spaces provide us with the opportunity to extend the debate on the finalist works beyond architectural circuits, because they respond to the concerns of today's European society."
Malgorzata Omilanowska, art historian, former Minister of Culture in Poland and member of the Jury, added: "social housing, memory and the problem of context and new constructions in the old city centres have proven to be important to us as a Jury. The finalist works show the problematic of our time; what has happened in the last year reveals the really deep problem of populism and the lack of memory. These 5 projects show the problem that we face as citizens, not only as architecture specialists, but as members of today's society."
New for this year's awards program, the 5 finalists and the Emerging Architect award buildings will be opened to the public between May 20th and 28th to meet the architects and Prize organizers and get a chance to learn more about the projects.
Established in 1987 by the European Union, the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe – Barcelona, the 60.000€ Mies Van der Rohe award is one of the most prestigious and important awards for European architecture. The prize is awarded biennially to works that have been completed in the past two years. Previous winners have included the Barozzi / Veiga's Philharmonic Hall Szczecin (2015); the Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre in Reykjavik (2013), designed by the Danish architectural firm Henning Larsen in collaboration with the Icelandic practice Batteríið and the artist Olafur Elíasson; and the Neues Museum in Berlin (2011), designed by David Chipperfield Architects and Julian Harrap.
Learn more about the Prize here.
News via Fundació Mies van der Rohe.


Low Force is an impressive series of falls in the Tees Valley about a mile downstream from the more famous High Force waterfall.
We drove over the Pennines which were enshrouded in cloud and covered in a blanket of snow to reach a drizzly Tees valley. Luckily the rain paused long enough for us to get some photography done. The rocks were extremely icy so I had to be careful positioning myself. The peat stained water powers through these falls and you really wouldn't want to fall in.


From Sunday July 8, Found will be gathering at the New Farm Neighbourhood Centre.
For almost 12 months we've been meeting at, and supporting, Cup From Above – a charitable social enterprise that exists to champion disadvantaged people in our community. However, has made the decision to close their retail cafe to focus more specifically on their client group.
The New Farm Neighbourhood Centre also provides a range of services to the local community and we're pleased to be able to meet there and support their work.
Located at 967 Brunswick Street, opposite New Farm Park – the venue is close to the ferry and local buses.
Take bus 195, 196, 197 to Stop 16 or catch the City Cat Ferry to New Farm Park then walk 200m up Brunswick Street.There is ample on street parking outside the Centre and a bike rack for your convenience.


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Charles McDowall (c. 1862 – 13 July 1916) was an Australian businessman and politician who was a Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1908 until his death, representing the seat of Coolgardie.

Early life
McDowall was born in Ballarat, Victoria, to Bridget (née Devine) and Charles McDowall. He and his parents moved to New Zealand when he was a small child, but after 18 years in New Zealand he returned to Australia in 1884, living in Melbourne. He worked as a real estate agent, and in 1891 served on the Nunawading Shire Council. McDowall came to Western Australia in 1896, settling in Coolgardie. He served on the Coolgardie Municipal Council from 1901 to 1904, and then as mayor from 1904 to 1906. He also briefly served as president of the state branch of the Australian Natives Association (ANA), with which he had been involved in Victoria.

Politics
McDowall first ran for parliament at the 1901 state election, contesting the seat of Mount Burges as an Oppositionist (an opponent of the government of George Throssell). He was defeated by Fergie Reid, the endorsed Labor candidate. At the 1904 Legislative Council elections, McDowall was the endorsed Labor candidate for South Province, but was defeated by William Oats.

At the 1905 state election, McDowall defeated the sitting member in Coolgardie, Henry Ellis, for Labor preselection. Ellis subsequently ran as an independent, and their candidacies split the Labor vote, allowing Ministerialist William Eddy to win the election by 23 votes. However, the election was declared void on petition in May 1906, due to voting irregularities. McDowall was the sole Labor candidate at the resulting by-election, but was again unsuccessful, finishing with 47.5 percent of the vote. He had received an endorsement from the Orange Order (a Protestant organisation) before the election, and this was believed to have caused a number of Catholics to shift their vote.

McDowall eventually entered parliament at the 1908 state election, defeating Eddy in Coolgardie with 60.1 percent of the vote. He was re-elected at the 1911 and 1914 elections, at the latter being returned unopposed. McDowall remained an MP until his death in July 1916. He died suddenly at his home in West Perth, the cause being given as Bright's disease. He had married a widow, Rebecca Chescoe (née Avery) in 1893, with whom he had four children.

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(1) Whoever kidnaps any minor or, not being the lawful guardian of a minor, obtains the custody of the minor, in order that such minor may be employed or used for the purposes of begging shall be punishable with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
The section punishes kidnapping or maiming a minor for the purpose of begging. Clause (1) of this section says that whoever kidnaps any minor, or if he is not the lawful guardian of the minor obtains the minor's custody, in order that such minor may either be employed or used for the purposes of begging, shall be punishable with simple or rigorous imprisonment for a term extending up to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine. According to clause (2) of the section, whoever maims any minor in order that such minor may either be employed or used for the purpose of begging shall be punishable with imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to fine. Clause (3) of the section states that where a person who is not the lawful guardian of a minor either employs or uses such minor for the purposes of begging, in the absence of proof to the contrary it shall be presumed that he either kidnapped or otherwise obtained the custody of that minor in order that the minor might be employed or used for the purposes of begging. Clause 4 (a) of the section defines 'begging' and says that 'begging' means (i) either soliciting or receiving alms in a public place, whether under the pretense of singing, dancing, fortune-telling, performing tricks or selling articles or otherwise, (ii) entering on any private premises for the purposes of either soliciting or receiving alms; (iii) exposing or exhibiting, with the object of obtaining or extorting alms, any sore, wound, injury, deformity or disease, whether of himself or of any other person or of an animal; (iv) using a minor as an exhibit for the purpose of either soliciting or receiving alms. Clause 4 (b) of the section defines minor and says that a 'minor' means (i) a boy under sixteen years of age and (ii) a girl under eighteen years of age.


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Protection of the Environment and the International Salvage Convention, 1989: An Assessment
Document Cited authorities 18 Cited in Related
Author: Eghosa Osa Ekhator
Position: Eghosa Osa Ekhator, PhD (Hull), LL.M (Hull), LL.B (Benin); barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
Protection of the Environment and the
International Salvage Convention, 1989:
An Assessment
Eghosa O. Ekhator 
This article focuses on the International Salvage Convention and the protection of
the environment in salvage operations. The article traces the evolution and history
of the law of Salvage to its present status by using the UK as a case study. In
essence, the article seeks to ascertain the extent of current international regime on
salvage in protecting the environment. The question that this article poses is: Does
the International Salvage Convention 1989 accord enough protection to the
environment against the backdrop of global efforts to promote environmental
protection and sustainable development? The article begins with a brief synopsis
of the underlying principles of salvage including the rule of 'no cure-no pay'
followed by an appraisal of the events that culminated arguably in the development
of the International Salvage Convention 1989 to safeguard the environment in the
course of salvage operations. A systematic analysis of the defects inherent in the
International Salvage Convention 1989 vis-à-vis protection of the environment are
analysed and a number of reforms are highlighted.
International Salvage Convention, England, Environmental Protection, Pollution
and Environmental Salvage Award
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/mlr.v10i1.3
This article focuses on the International Salvage Convention and the protection
of the environment in salvage operations. The article traces the evolution and
history of the law of Salvage to its present status, and it uses the UK as a case
study. The article seeks to ascertain the extent of current international regime on
salvage in protecting the environment. The first section focuses on the history
and evolution of salvage. The modern concept of salvage which can traced to
the United Kingdom (hereinafter 'UK'),1 (especially England) hence the city of
 Eghosa Osa Ekhator, PhD (Hull), LL.M (Hull), LL.B (Benin); barrister and solicitor of the
Supreme Court of Nigeria.
1 The origins of salvage are ancient and existed in old legal systems such as the Roman
epoch amongst others. The Law of Salvage's core principles were established in the
nineteenth century and the Admiralty Courts in England played major roles in the modern
74 MIZAN LAW REVIEW, Vol. 10, No.1 September 2016
London occupy special place in the international salvage paradigm. The second
section briefly discusses the subject matter of salvage. Definitions of terms such
as 'vessel', 'ship' or 'maritime property' will be elucidated upon. A major
reason for focusing on these definitions is to highlight the evolution of the
different meanings ascribed to these terms.
The third section highlights the three core elements of the law of salvage:
danger, voluntariness and success. Section 4 focuses on environmental
protection in salvage operations. Many salvage operations have had negative
impacts on the environment, thus, this section highlights the role of the
International Salvage Convention 19892 in protecting the environment. The fifth
section suggests some reforms to improve protection of the environment in the
international salvage paradigm. The article also considers if the development of
a separate environmental salvage award can be the panacea to some of the
weaknesses in environmental protection in salvage operations.
1. The History and Evolution of Salvage
Salvage is traditionally concerned with the salving or preservation of property in
peril at sea3 and it is unique to maritime law.4 If a person willingly rescues the
property of another person on land, he gets no reward. However, if the same
service is performed at sea, the person salving the maritime property, the
'salvor', will be entitled to a reward, not exceeding the value of the property
salved.5 Salvors are provided special in centives in addition to the compensati on
development of the law of Salvage. Generally, see Olivia Lennox-King (2007) 'Laying
the Mark to Port and Starboard: Salvage under duress and Economic duress at Contract
Law' 21 Australian & New Zealand Maritime Law Journal 31, 32; Catherine Swan (2009)
'The Restitutionary and Economic Analyses of Salvage Law' 23 Australian & New
Zealand Maritime Law Journal 99. See also George F. Steckley (2014) 'The Seventeenth-
Century Origins of Modern Salvage Law' 35(3) The Journal of Legal History 209. Thus,
some scholars aver that the 'first recorded salvage dispute dates fro m 1601'. See Yin-
Cheng Hsu (2016) 'Developments in International Cultural Heritage Law: What Hampers
the Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage.' 3 Edin burgh
Student Law Review 116, p. 125.
2 International Convention on Salvage, 1989. Drafted by the Comite Maritime International
(CMI) under the auspices of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). Also referred
to as the Salvage Convention 1989 or the London Salvage Convention.
tml> accessed 1 January
3 Geoffrey Brice (2003) Brice on Maritime Law of Salvage (4thedn, Sweet and Maxwell)
5 Simon Baughen (2012) Shipping Law (5th edn, Routledge) p. 274. However, under Article
8(1) (c) and (d) of the 1989 Convention a salvor, in appropriate circumstances, is required
to seek assistance and accept the intervention of other salvors'.


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This report, published by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, sets out a definition and vision for how to achieve parity of esteem between mental and physical health in practice.
The report asserts that in our society mental health does not receive the same attention as physical health. People with mental health problems frequently experience stigma and discrimination, not only in the wider community but also from services. This is exemplified in part by lower treatment rates for mental health conditions and an underfunding of mental healthcare relative to the scale and impact of mental health problems.
In this report, an expert working group defines 'parity of esteem' in detail, and examines why parity between mental and physical health does not currently exist and how it might be achieved in practice.


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Irika Sinha, honored by the UW College of Arts & Sciences as Dean's Medalist in the Natural Sciences.
The summer before her freshman year, Irika Sinha (BS, Chemistry, Biochemistry, 2021) began her UW education by joining a research team in the UW Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology. She has since has worked in four more research labs, gaining experience ranging from the study of solar cells in a chemistry lab to engineering T-cells for potential treatment of cancer at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. All the while, she excelled in demanding course sequences in chemistry, biochemistry, calculus, and physics.
"Irika consistently performed at an astonishing level and earned 3.9-4.0 grades in almost every course," says Munira Khalil, chair of the Department of Chemistry and Leon C. Johnson Endowed Professor of Chemistry. "This is all the more impressive in that she chose honors chemistry and biochemistry course sequences when possible."
These accomplishments have not gone unnoticed. Sinha's long list of awards and scholarships includes a coveted Goldwater Scholarship, an honorable mention from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, the Husky 100, five scholarships from the Departments of Biochemistry and Chemistry, and more than half a dozen other honors. In June she was honored by the UW College of Arts & Sciences as Dean's Medalist in the Natural Sciences.
Irika is one of a kind. ...She never seems to duck a new challenge, and grows with each of them.
Despite her deep dive into the fields of chemistry and biochemistry, Sinha also made time for other pursuits at the UW. She joined the UW Climbing Team as a sophomore and worked as an illustrator at The Daily, the UW student newspaper. In the Department of Chemistry, she served as a teaching assistant and as vice president of the undergraduate chemistry club. She helped other students as a tutor at the UW's Center for Learning and Undergraduate Enrichment (CLUE), the largest free tutoring program at the University.
"Irika is one of a kind," says Alan Weiner, professor emeritus of biochemistry. "I don't quite know whether to describe her style as life in the passing lane, life on fast forward, the hyperkinetic life, or perhaps the omnivorous life. She never seems to duck a new challenge, and grows with each of them. She is a sure bet for success and excitement in the years to come."
This fall, Sinha will begin a PhD program in neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University and is interested in investigating the neuroimmune mechanisms of dementia.
His knowledge of ancient languages led Andrew Glass (2006) to a specialized technology job at Microsoft.
Industrial design alum Adam Kingman demonstrated skill and creativity on the TV show Making It.


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require_relative "../spec_helper"
require_relative "../promises_aplus"

dummy = { dummy: "dummy" }
sentinel = { sentinel: "sentinel" }

describe "2.2.4: `onFulfilled` or `onRejected` must not be called until the execution context stack contains only platform code." do
  include PromisesAplus

  describe "`then` returns before the promise becomes fulfilled or rejected" do
    before { done! and skip "don't know how to delay execution yet" }

    PromisesAplus.test_fulfilled(self, sentinel) do |promise, done|
      thenHasReturned = false

      promise.then ->(v) {
        thenHasReturned.must_equal true
        done.call
      }

      thenHasReturned = true
    end

    PromisesAplus.test_rejected(self, dummy) do |promise, done|
      thenHasReturned = false

      promise.then nil, ->(r) {
        thenHasReturned.must_equal true
        done.call
      }

      thenHasReturned = true
    end
  end

  describe "Clean-stack execution ordering tests (fulfillment case)" do
    before { done! and skip "don't know how to delay execution yet" }

    it "when `onFulfilled` is added immediately before the promise is fulfilled" do
      d = deferred()
      onFulfilledCalled = false

      d.promise.then ->(v) do
        onFulfilledCalled = true
      end

      d.resolve(dummy)

      onFulfilledCalled.must_equal false
      done!
    end

    it "when `onFulfilled` is added immediately after the promise is fulfilled" do
      d = deferred()
      onFulfilledCalled = false

      d.resolve(dummy)

      d.promise.then ->(v) do
        onFulfilledCalled = true
      end

      onFulfilledCalled.must_equal false
      done!
    end

    it "when one `onFulfilled` is added inside another `onFulfilled`" do
      promise = resolved()
      firstOnFulfilledFinished = false

      promise.then ->(v) do
        promise.then ->(v) do
          firstOnFulfilledFinished.must_equal true
          done!
        end
        firstOnFulfilledFinished = true
      end
    end

    it "when `onFulfilled` is added inside an `onRejected`" do
      promise = rejected()
      promise2 = resolved()
      firstOnRejectedFinished = false

      promise.then nil, ->(r) do
        promise2.then ->(v) do
          firstOnRejectedFinished.must_equal true
          done!
        end
        firstOnRejectedFinished = true
      end
    end

    it "when the promise is fulfilled asynchronously" do
      d = deferred()
      firstStackFinished = false

      f = Fiber.new do
        d.resolve(dummy)
        firstStackFinished = true
      end

      d.promise.then ->(v) do
        firstStackFinished.must_equal true
        done!
      end

      f.resume
    end
  end

  describe "Clean-stack execution ordering tests (rejection case)" do
    before { done! and skip "don't know how to delay execution yet" }

    it "when `onRejected` is added immediately before the promise is rejected" do
      d = deferred()
      onRejectedCalled = false

      d.promise.then nil, ->(r) do
        onRejectedCalled = true
      end

      d.reject(dummy)

      onRejectedCalled.must_equal false
      done!
    end

    it "when `onRejected` is added immediately after the promise is rejected" do
      d = deferred()
      onRejectedCalled = false

      d.reject(dummy)

      d.promise.then nil, ->(r) do
        onRejectedCalled = true
      end

      onRejectedCalled.must_equal false
      done!
    end

    it "when `onRejected` is added inside an `onFulfilled`" do
      promise = resolved()
      promise2 = rejected()
      firstOnFulfilledFinished = false

      promise.then ->(v) do
        promise2.then nil, ->(r) do
          firstOnFulfilledFinished.must_equal true
          done!
        end
        firstOnFulfilledFinished = true
      end
    end

    it "when one `onRejected` is added inside another `onRejected`" do
      promise = rejected()
      firstOnRejectedFinished = false

      promise.then nil, ->(r) do
        promise.then nil, ->(r) do
          firstOnRejectedFinished.must_equal true
          done!
        end
        firstOnRejectedFinished = true
      end
    end

    it "when the promise is rejected asynchronously" do
      d = deferred()
      firstStackFinished = false

      f = Fiber.new do
        d.reject(dummy)
        firstStackFinished = true
      end

      d.promise.then nil, ->(r) do
        firstStackFinished.must_equal true
        done!
      end

      f.resume
    end
  end
end

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You were a gift and all I could do was watch you. Couldn't speak. Literally lost my voice. Had a cold. Wanted to leave you my number to talk at a later date.
We literally bumped into each other on Denman St. After a much too fast mutual apology and a quick smile, you were gone a half block away. As fate would have it, I caught up with you at a bus stop on Davie. We smiled at each other again and I joked that I was fine. I wanted to ask if you'd care to get coffee but somehow my words came out as "enjoy the rest of your day". So....coffee?


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Nikkei Chronicles #4 — Nikkei Family: Memories, Traditions, and Values
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George Nakamura turns 88
By Raymond Nakamura / 5 Oct 2015
George with wife Terry and offspring at his 88th Birthday party (photo: Vince Noguchi)
My dad turned 88 this year, so we had a big party for him. Turning 88 is perhaps not so rare as it once was, but it is still a pretty big deal, especially in Japanese culture, where it is called "beiju," meaning "rice age." This refers to the way the characters for "eighty-eight" resemble the character for "rice," a symbol of goodness and abundance. We were delighted that his health is still good enough to enjoy the party. To commemorate the event, I wrote up this summary of his life so far, based on his own recollections.
Salt Spring Island, BC
George was born so long ago that the tale is shrouded in legend. His birthday certificate says June 7, 1927, but his mother always claimed he was born a month earlier, on May 7, during strawberry picking time. For a long time, our family celebrated two birthdays, until a doctor friend insisted that since he was born in a hospital, the paperwork must have been done properly.
You'd think his mother Taki would know such things, but maybe it was hard to keep track, because George was their seventh child. His Japanese name, Hichiro, means seventh kid in the Yamaguchi dialect, as though his parents were just keeping inventory. His English name, George, was the name of the King of England at the time, whose picture was probably in the rooms at the Lady Minto Hospital on Salt Spring Island, BC, where he was born.
George on his father's knee on Salt Spring Island, c. 1928 (Nakamura family collection).
George grew up on a rented 10-acre farm on Salt Spring, where his enterprising father Shinkichi made a living growing vegetables, laundry, and cutting wood, while his mother sold moonshine to seasonal labourers. George was left to play with his younger sister Haru in a sand pit, using a piece of wood with three nails hammered into it for a car.
His mostly white childhood friends had names like Hippo, Cow, and Spider. George was known as Jeep, after the magical cartoon character in Popeye. He loved cars that are now dinosaurs and learned all their names: Durant, Whippet, Nash, De Soto, Hudson.
An annual highlight of life on Salt Spring was the July 1st celebration on the Ganges fairgrounds, which included sheep shearing contests and most importantly, races for the kids. George and other poor kids kept their eyes on the prizes of vouchers that could be cashed in at local stores for new sneakers and so on.
When George was around ten, he began working for a British family on Saturdays, removing rocks from their field for ten cents an hour. His favourite part was tea time at ten and three, with milk and cookies. He still enjoys tea at these times, even though he doesn't have to sweat for it anymore.
Around this time, his father became ill and went back to his ancestral home on Oshima Island in Yamaguchi prefecture, where he eventually succumbed to throat cancer in 1938. Nisan (meaning older brother), as George called his eldest brother Bill, 17 years his senior, became head of the family.
About a year later, Nisan moved the family to Victoria where he had acquired a dry-cleaning business. George, his mother, and Haru, along with Nisan and his young wife and baby, started a new life in a two-bedroom apartment behind the shop.
George went to Central Junior High. Every day after regular school, he went to Japanese school, run by the Japanese United Church minister Ogura and his wife. George had not studied much Japanese before and got stuck with the little kids.
George at Sunday School in Victoria, near the middle of the second to last row, 1942 (From Ann-Lee Switzer)
In the summer, he picked vegetables on a farm outside of Victoria run by a Nikkei named Kakuno. George saved enough money to buy his own treasured Raleigh bicycle, which he rode with his pals after Sunday school.
In early December 1941, George and his family heard the news on the radio about Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. George wasn't allowed to go to school and the Japanese schools were closed. Nisan sold his business and whatever else he could for whatever they could get. In April 1942, with 72-hours' notice, George, like the two hundred or so other Victoria Nikkei, packed up his one allotted suitcase and boarded the ship to Vancouver. He joined the hundreds of other Nikkei detained in buildings at Hastings Park. Somehow George was still able to take his bicycle.
Hastings Park, BC
George stayed with other boys between 13 and 18 in an exhibition building which still stands on the PNE grounds. He slept in one of the rows of crude wooden bunks on mattresses stuffed with straw and covered with a coarse grey blanket. He ate in a mess hall and took a correspondence course under the supervision of Nisei university students. Other boys from Victoria hung out together and for him, it was a big adventure. Sometimes they would get a pass to walk down to the big Nikkei hub on Powell Street, which according to Google maps, it would take over an hour.
Popoff, BC
In September 1942, the family took a long, smokey train ride on hard benches to Popoff, a camp near Slocan, in the interior of BC. They lived in one of the hundreds of shacks hastily built with green wood sidings. With only tar paper between the joists and planking, it was freezing in the winter. The 8' x 28' shack had three rooms. George, his mother, two sisters, and brother slept in one room with three bunk beds. On the other side, slept Nisan's young family. And in the middle was a shared kitchen. It had a wood stove and electricity, but no plumbing, so they had to fetch pails of water for cooking and cleaning. They had an outhouse out the back.
Every morning, George walked a mile or so to the high school in Slocan city run by nuns from the Sisters of Assumption. The sisters were kind and George learned a lot. In camp, he became involved with a boys club and helped build a community centre where he did judo and other activities.
George second from the right in the second to last row in his judogi in front of the community centre he helped build in Popoff, 1945 (Nakamura family collection)
Chatham, Ontario
The war with Japan ended in 1945, but Nikkei still had their rights restricted. The federal government forced them to choose between the rocks east of the Rockies and the hard places in Japan. George was relieved his family chose to stay in Canada, despite all that had happened. They moved across the country to work on a farm in Chatham, Ontario. The whole family was hired for the dirty, back breaking work of harvesting sugar beets and other crops. George never felt clean, but at least they always had a big spread of food.
When restrictions to the movement of Nikkei were finally lifted in 1949, the family moved to Toronto, where Nisan found a house with three floors and nine rooms. Busy place. George found a job at Silverware Products where he worked his way into developing skills in engraving and mould making.
The most important day of George's life was January 28, 1961, when he married Terry Yamashita. He had originally met Terry back in 1949, through his brother Gord, who was seeing Terry's pal Harumi Tomotsugu. At some point in that first go round, George and Terry had a falling out, but as Shakespeare said, "The course of true love never did run smooth." Eight years later, they met again by chance, at a funeral. They decided to try again and this time it took. This may be why they are always attending funerals. They splurged on a honeymoon in Hawaii and then scrambled to pay it off on their return.
George and Terry in Hawaii on honeymoon in 1961 (Nakamura family collection)
Between 1962 and 1966, they had four boys. Busy times. George bought out his brother-in-law Kiichi to start his own company in acrylic embedments, which he called Clearmount Plastics. He rented a 600 square foot space with three rooms in an alley with the auspicious name of Crystal Arts Square. Terry had the office skills to set up the bookkeeping, though at first their income was still from mould making and engraving. When George actually got orders for his new business, he hired Jack Watanabe who lived at brother Bill's place, and also brother-in-law Asakichi Ashizawa, beginning a long tradition of exploiting the sweat of family members.
On the home front, George bought a partially converted schoolbus that he finished up for camping. They enjoyed visiting places like Sand Banks Park, later Gravenhurst, and even travelled as far as New Brunswick.
With the business growing, George found a new location at 13 Musgrave near Danforth and Victoria Park. At 3,000 square feet, it seemed huge, but with the Centennial coins minted in 1967, the souvenir retail business was good.
All this hard work was not without side effects. George developed ulcers, and in 1969, while Neil Armstrong was walking on the moon, suffered a gall bladder attack. Nowadays the operation is a much more elegant procedure, but in those days, he ended up with a scar like a zipper from the middle of his chest to below his belly button. But soon he was back to business, pleased his staff were able to carry on in his absence.
After seven years at Musgrave, with rumours of the complex being sold, George found another building at River St. and Queen. It took a lot of work to renovate, but fortunately George had good Nikkei construction connections and the transition went smoothly.
In 1980, George and our family went to Japan on a tour with the Toronto Japanese Language School. This was his first visit to Japan and the villages in Yamaguchi prefecture where his parents grew up. He visited relatives living and dead and saw the family crest in the ceiling of the local temple.
Following the Redress settlement in 1988 for government injustices committed during World War II against Canadians of Japanese descent, George and Terry used their proceeds to take the family on a tour of England. A highlight for George was golfing at the legendary St. Andrews golf course in Scotland. He shot an 86 with his 15 handicap and had the score made into a plaque.
The following year, George was delighted to be able to sell off his business, after being in operation for 25 years. So at the ripe old age of 62, he retired and began a life of leisure with Terry. They began travelling in earnest, seeing many places throughout the world, including Egypt, China, and Australia. In recent years, his travel has been more of the armchair variety, but he still gets out to bowl and golf, and the old dog has been learning new tricks in the kitchen. At the party, he invited everyone to his 99th birthday party.
*This article was originally published in the Nikkei Images (Summer 2015, Volume 20, No. 2), a publication of the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre.
© 2015 Raymond Nakamura
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Raymond Nakamura lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. When he is not personal assistant to his daughter, he writes Vogon poetry, draws cartoons rejected by the New Yorker and gives tours of Powell Street, the Japanese community where his mother grew up before World War II. He has a poem about being an ice hockey goalie in a children's sport poetry anthology called And the Crowd Goes Wild. www.raymondsbrain.com.
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Coming Soon: Malgorzata Szumowska's 'The Other Lamb' test a woman's strength
by Nikoleta N. Morales
Malgorzata Szumowska's horror film The Other Lamb will be available to stream on VOD and other digital platforms April 3 and is a part of our Women's History Month series – films that can be watched at home in an effort to support female filmmakers.
The Other Lamb is the test of female strength; a story of rebellion against patriarchy, the film portrays a smart and strong woman and the fight against anything that stands in her way.
For her entire life, teenage Selah (Raffey Cassidy) has known only an oppressive and dangerous cult that has shaped her worldview and way of life. Along with many similarly cloistered young women, she is cut off from modern society and presided over by a man named Shepherd (Michiel Huisman), a controlling, Messiah-like figure with a sick and twisted dark side. But when her inner world is rocked by a series of visions and disturbing revelations, Selah begins to question everything about her cult and the life she has been living for so long —including her loyalty to the increasingly dangerous Shepherd.
In an interview with FF2 Media, Polish film director Szumowska says she was drawn to the concept of Catherine S. McMullen's script, one delegated to the Black List in 2017, "I was struck by how the story is very much an allegory for the present moment — a moment where women across the world are rewriting history by coming forward in droves about the abuses that they have faced at the hands of powerful men over the years."
When Szumowska saw Raffey Cassidy and her big blue eyes in other films, she found her striking and perfect for the role. "[Raffey] has a screen presence that is unabashedly wild and modern, which exists in stark contrast with the tradition and severity that Michiel brings," she said. For the male cult leader, she wanted someone sexy, attractive and able to hide his intentions. In finding Michiel Huisma, she cast an actor that did not fit the typical old, unattractive male lead one would expect.
The film is beautifully done with picturesque cinematography – precisely what the director wanted to achieve. Szumowska wanted to find something similar to her home and her culture in Poland that connects the European style and her beliefs. She wanted to apply it to the Ireland landscape, which helped her "create her poetry" in the film.
"Cinematographer Michael Englert and I worked closely together to develop a world that reflected this particular sensibility," she said. "We drew great inspiration from a wide range of artists that have produced landscape work including contemporary photographers Jeff Wall and Gregory Crewdson. The film is also steeped in rain, fog, and rotten leaves, which adds a raw texture to the atmosphere that further complements Selah's growing defiance."
The beauty of female empowerment, even in the midst of submissiveness and male dominance, is woven into the film as a reflection of what women go through even today. "The cult operates as a microcosm for the physical and psychological horrors that women must contend with throughout their lives."
Szumowska brings her own personal strength into the film as a woman who had to fight male dominance and chauvinism in her own country. "I wasn't treated very seriously [as a female director] in the beginning. When I started I was 25. Everyone tried to ignore me. I was fighting from the beginning but I am very strong. I was trying in Poland in a very patriarchal society after communism. But I didn't care. I was stronger than my colleagues," she said.
While she spent 20 years fighting her way as a female director, now Szumowska feels she is contacted more because she is a woman. "Now is a moment when many authors are coming to me because I'm a female director. But it is kind of late. I was working for this for 20 years and they tried to ignore the fact that I am a woman and now I get work because I am a woman. My way is the international way," she said.
While never looking for success in America, Szumowska seemed to find it when she least expected it. "I didn't know I was going to do an American movie. With this story, I felt really connected even though it was very difficult to do the project.The film finally happened and I appreciate it!"
Even though times are tougher now for the entertainment industry because of COVID-19 and social isolation, Szumowska remains hopeful and inspired about the future while staying at her village in Poland, working on her next film.
"Be yourself and don't be pushy. That's what I did. Now is a different moment of history. Feel confident. It's our time, our moment. We can get more jobs than before. You don't have to prove anything to anyone," she said.
Born in Kraków in 1973, Malgorzata Szumowska is one of the most prominent Polish directors. She has been honored with several international awards, including the Teddy Award for "In the Name Of" at the 2013 Berlin Film Festival and the Silver Leopard Award for "33 Scenes From Life" at the 2008 Locarno Film festival. Her film, "Elles" (2011), featuring Juliette Binoche and Anaïs Demoustier, was sold to over 40 countries. "Body" (2015) won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 65th Berlinale and her most recent film, "Mug" (2018), was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Berlinale.
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The biggest scandals that rocked Facebook over the past 15 years, from Mark Zuckerberg's infamous leaked Harvard IMs to a $5 billion fine
Rebecca Aydin
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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Facebook has weathered numerous scandals in its 15 years of existence.
In 2004, CEO Mark Zuckerberg sent IMs calling early Facebook users "dumb f----" for sharing their personal information with him, and he was famously sued by the Winklevoss twins.
In 2018, the Cambridge Analytica scandal came to light, Zuckerberg testified before Congress, and Facebook was criticized for not moderating hate speech and calls for genocide of the Rohingya in Myanmar.
On Wednesday, the FTC fined Facebook $5 billion for mishandling user data.
We rounded up the biggest scandals in Facebook's history.
The time between launching a social media network in your college dorm room to getting served one of the Federal Trade Commission's highest-ever fines is just 15 years in the case of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Thefacebook.com launched in 2004, and ever since it's been weathering scandal after scandal, including: a lawsuit from identical, Olympic-rowing twins, an exodus of founders from startups Facebook acquired, and having to testify before Congress. People's personal data has been leaked, hate speech has run rampant on the platform, and now, the FTC has officially hit Facebook with a $5 billion penalty for its privacy mishandlings.
Read more: Facebook just got clobbered with a record $5 billion penalty over the Cambridge Analytica data breach
It's a lot to keep track of, so we rounded up the biggest scandals Facebook has survived in its 15 years of existence.
Let's dive in:
2004: Zuckerberg calls early users of The Facebook "dumb f----" for sending him their personal information.
Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images
In 2010, Business Insider uncovered IMs between a teenage Mark Zuckerberg and a friend that were sent just after thefacebook.com was launched at Harvard:
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb f--ks.
Even back in 2010, Facebook was facing criticism for its privacy policies, so these messages from Facebook's founder relaying a lack of concern for privacy were not well-received. Zuckerberg said he regretted the sentiment in a September 2010 New Yorker profile, saying that he had "grown and learned a lot" in the past six years.
Source: The New Yorker, Business Insider
2004: The Winklevoss twins sue Zuckerberg, claiming he stole their idea when creating Facebook.
Brian Snyder/Reuters
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, the identical Olympic-rowing twins who attended Harvard with Zuckerberg, sued the Facebook CEO in 2004 claiming he agreed to help with their idea for a social network and then created Facebook instead. The New York Times reported in 2007 that "Mr. Zuckerberg and Facebook's lawyers say that there was no binding contract between the two parties." But their 2008 settlement resulted in the twins $45 million in Facebook stock and $20 million in cash.
The lawsuit was covered in Aaron Sorkin's 2010 film about Facebook, "The Social Network."
Source: New York Times, New York Times, CNBC, Wired
2012: Facebook conducts a psychological experiment on users' emotions.
Facebook/Tech Insider
Facebook tested around 700,000 users for one week in 2012 to see if presenting more positive or more negative content on their News Feeds would alter their emotions.
The experiment showed a direct correlation (i.e. positive content made people feel better), as opposed to people feeling sad about seeing positive content because their lives weren't measuring up.
A study about the experiment titled "Experimental Evidence of Massive-Scale Emotional Contagion Through Social Networks" was published in 2014. When users found out about the experiment around this time, they got upset. In response, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg apologized for how Facebook "poorly communicated" the research.
Sources: Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, PNAS, Forbes
2016: Former news curators at Facebook say the platform was purposefully excluding conservative news from its trending news list.
Mitt Romney.
Associated Press/David Goldman
Former employees told Gizmodo that even though the trending news section outwardly appeared to be simply an algorithm-controlled module for listing popular topics on Facebook, workers were asked to manually add certain stories to that module, and to exclude any news about Facebook itself. Mitt Romney and Rand Paul were among the conservative politicians boxed out of Facebook's trending stories list, Gizmodo reported.
In a Facebook post the week after the Gizmodo article was published, Zuckerberg shared that he had met with more than a dozen conservative leaders.
"I know many conservatives don't trust that our platform surfaces content without a political bias," Zuckerberg wrote in the post. "I wanted to hear their concerns personally and have an open conversation about how we can build trust."
"Facebook was clearly spooked by the attention, and the consensus today among tech journalists is that by activating conservatives, the Nuñez story (for Gizmodo) set the tone for Facebook's and Twitter's refusals for years to excise racist and fascist trolls from their ecosystem," John Cook wrote for HuffPost in 2018.
Source: CNN Business, Facebook, Gizmodo
2017: Oculus founder Palmer Luckey leaves Facebook.
Palmer Luckey, founder of VR company Oculus.
In 2016, The Daily Beast reported that Palmer Luckey was "putting money behind an unofficial Donald Trump group dedicated to 's---posting' and circulating internet memes maligning Hillary Clinton."
Luckey left Facebook in 2017. In April 2018, Zuckerberg said Luckey's departure was independent of his political views, according to The Wall Street Journal. In October 2018, Luckey told CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin, "it wasn't my choice to leave."
Sources: The Daily Beast, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Business Insider
2017: A Facebook content moderator dies of a heart attack on the job.
In June 2018, The Verge reported that Keith Utley — a 42-year-old employee at a Facebook moderation office operated by Cognizant in Tampa, Florida — died of a heart attack on the job a year prior.
The Verge also reported the job site was home to poor working conditions, where content moderators are tasked with watching hours of graphic footage that had been posted on Facebook in an effort to keep the content clean of anything that violates its terms of service.
Fast Company reported five days after the Verge piece that Facebook was expanding its tools for content moderators, with the goal of buffering the negative psychological effects of consuming disturbing Facebook posts, and that these tools were underway before the Verge story.
Sources: Fast Company, Business Insider, The Verge
March 2018: The Cambridge Analytica Scandal comes to light.
Whistleblower Christopher Wylie, left, and Mark Zuckerberg, right.
A former employee of Cambridge Analytica, Christopher Wylie, blew the whistle on the data analytics company improperly obtaining a trove of Facebook user data. The New York Times and The Guardian broke the story, reporting that 50 million Facebook users' data had been leaked; the number is actually closer to 87 million users.
The New York Times characterized Cambridge Analytica as a "voter-profiling company" that promised it had "tools that could identify the personalities of American votes and influence their behavior" — it used Facebook user data to perfect those tools, which ultimately were used in Trump's successful 2016 presidential campaign.
Cambridge Analytica got this user data from personality quizzes offering OCEAN (openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism) tests to Facebook users.
In April, Zuckerberg testified before Congress about the scandal, as well as Russian influence campaigns and allegations of anti-conservative bias.
Sources: Wired, Wired, New York Times, The Guardian, Vox, Business Insider
July 2018: Zuckerberg says he doesn't think Facebook should take down posts from Holocaust deniers because he doesn't think they are necessarily "intentionally getting it wrong."
Justin Sullivan / Getty Images
Here's the full quote from Zuckerberg's interview with Recode's Kara Swisher:
"I'm Jewish, and there's a set of people who deny that the Holocaust happened. I find that deeply offensive. But at the end of the day, I don't believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong. I don't think that they're intentionally getting it wrong."
Zuckerberg reached out to Swisher the next day via email to clarify: "I personally find Holocaust denial deeply offensive, and I absolutely didn't intend to defend the intent of people who deny that."
Sources: Recode, Business Insider, Recode
August 2018: Reuters finds that Facebook did not adequately moderate both hate speech and calls for genocide of the Rohingya minority Muslim group in Myanmar.
Rohingya refugees carry their child as they walk through water after crossing the border by boat through the Naf River in Teknaf, Bangladesh.
Mohammad Ponir Hossain / Reuters
According to the Human Rights Watch, nearly 700,000 Rohingya refugees have fled the Rakhine State of Burma because of a military-led ethnic cleansing campaign since August 2017.
Reuters uncovered thousands Facebook posts attacking the Rohingya, including pornographic images. Reuters said these posts were still on Facebook months after the UN found that hate speech on Facebook was being used to incite violence against the Rohingya people and after Mark Zuckerberg assured Congress that Facebook was working on fixing the problem.
Source: Human Rights Watch, Business Insider, Reuters
September 2018: Instagram cofounders quit Facebook.
Instagram cofounders Mike Krieger, left, and Kevin Systrom, right.
Chris Saucedo/Getty Images
According to The New York Times, Instagram founders Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom chose to leave Facebook over disagreements about changes to the service and staffing. The Times also reported that the founders weren't happy about the level of control Zuckerberg had begun to assert over Instagram.
"Kevin and Mike are extraordinary product leaders and Instagram reflects their combined creative talents. I've learned a lot working with them for the past six years and have really enjoyed it," Zuckerberg said in a statement. "I wish them all the best and I'm looking forward to seeing what they build next."
Source: Business Insider, The New York Times
July 2019: The FTC officially announces Facebook will pay a $5 billion penalty to settle its investigation into the social network.
Associated Press/Francois Mori
The FTC fined Facebook for its mishandling of user data in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, as Facebook had a 2012 agreement with the FTC saying it wouldn't give third parties user data without user consent.
At $5 billion, this is the largest fine the FTC has ever served a tech company for a privacy violation. Beyond the penalty, Facebook has agreed to making improvements toward protecting users' data and increasing transparency.
"The agreement will require a fundamental shift in the way we approach our work," Facebook wrote in its response. "It will mark a sharper turn toward privacy, on a different scale than anything we've done in the past."
Zuckerberg himself also posted on Facebook in response, writing "we're going to make some major structural changes to how we build products and run this company."
Sources: Facebook, Business Insider, The Verge
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In school Mark was always a straight - A student, dazzling everyone in his junior year at Ardsley High School with academic brilliance. A multi-lingual Mark recited lines from Greek epic poems such as The Iliad 'just for fun', and even captained the fencing team. Jack-of-all-trades!
Relaxing with a beer with work-mates and eating junk in the canteen, he sure does sound like a cool boss!
Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room on February 4, 2004. Reportedly, earlier inspiration for Facebook could have come from Phillips Exeter Academy, the private high school from which Zuckerberg graduated. The school published its own student directory, "The Photo Address Book", but the students called it "The Facebook"
Based on Facebook and its founding years, "the social network" unfolded a fictionalized account of Zuckerberg's life. Though Jesse Eisenberg playing Mark seemed quite convincing, how much of it is true is yet unknown. When asked about the truth in the critically and commercially acclaimed film, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin told New York magazine, "I don't want my fidelity to be to the truth; I want it to be to story telling. What is the big deal about accuracy purely for accuracy's sake, and can we not have the true be the enemy of the good?"
When told about the film, Smart Alec Mark responded by saying "I just wished that nobody made a movie of me while I was still alive."
The Social Network is based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich. The book is largely publicized for being "big juicy fun" rather than "reportage."
Zuckerberg has turned down many offers by large corporations to buy Facebook. One of his profound reasons is, "It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me."
In 2010 Facebook hit the 500 million users mark and Vanity Fair magazine named Zuckerberg number 1 on its 2010 list of the Top 100 "most influential people of the Information Age"
Mark is quite the efficient Facebooker himself. Posting pics for general delight is one of his favourite past-times!
In India last year, Mark discovered the explorer in him as he roamed the streets. He captions his Facebook image as, "I'm in India this week for vacation. I'll be attending a good friend's wedding and checking out a few cities while I'm here."