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Bears stay alive in post-season with Game 3 win over Hounds
Abby Soyko scored the winner for the Bears on Monday.
The Prince Albert Northern Bears added at least 60 minutes of life to their 2018-19 season.
On Monday at the Art Hauser Centre in Prince Albert, the Bears staved off elimination from the Saskatchewan Female Midget AAA Hockey League playoffs with a 3-2 victory in Game 3 of a best-of-five first round series with the Notre Dame Hounds. With the win, the Bears cut the Hounds lead in the series to 2-1.
Notre Dame will have its next chance to wrap up the series hosting Game 4 on Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the Duncan McNeill Arena in Wilcox. If the Bears are able to win that contest, the two squads would meet in a series deciding Game 5 on Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Art Hauser Centre.
The Hounds claimed Game 1 of the series by a 3-2 score last Thursday in Prince Albert, and took Game 2 by a 5-1 score last Saturday in Wilcox.
In Monday's encounter, the Bears took a 1-0 lead in the first period on a goal from Miranda Heidt. The hosts went up 2-0 when veteran forward Jasper Desmarais scored on the power play at the 6:57 mark of the second period.
Before the second intermission rolled around, the Hounds cut the Bears lead to 2-1 on a goal from star forward Lyndsey Janes.
At the 9:11 mark of the third period, star captain Abby Soyko put the Bears up 3-1 with a power-play goal.
Jada Livingston scored for the Hounds with 6:10 remaining in the third period to cut the Bears lead to 3-2. Notre Dame was unable to net the equalizer from that point.
Lexi Beuker turned away 15 shots to pick up the win in goal for the Bears, who were 17-9-2 during the regular season. Star netminder Kaitlyn Ross turned away 31 shots to take the setback in goal for the Hounds, who were 12-13-3 in the regular season.
During the series, Soyko was named a second team SFMAAAHL all-star at forward. Bears forward Jadyn Kushniruk, who is playing her final season of midget AAA eligibility, was named the winner of the Carol Scheibel Top Scholastic Player award.
The Bears off-ice crew of Dwight Sachkowski, Gary Schwan, Ron Wildey and Lloyd McBeath won the Esso Volunteer Award.
The winner of this series will advance to face the defending SFMAAAHL champion Saskatoon Stars in a best-of-five semifinal series. The Stars finished first overall in the SFMAAAHL with a 27-1 record.
Wildcats sweep away Sharks in OT
Taylor Lind is the MVP of the SFMAAAHL.
The Swift Current Diamond Energy Wildcats punched their into the SFMAAAHL semifinal round in dramatic fashion.
On Sunday at the Fairview Arena in Swift Current, the Wildcats downed the Battlefords Sharks 2-1 in overtime in Game 3 of a best-of-five SFMAAAHL first round series. With the win, the Wildcats swept the best-of-five set 3-0.
In the series clinching win, sophomore 15-year-old forward Baylee Kirwan scored the winner on a power play at the 2:22 mark in overtime to deliver the Wildcats to victory. Sara Kendall and Maddy McCleary picked up assists on the winning tally.
Star captain Taylor Lind gave the Wildcats a 1-0 lead scoring a power-play goal 40 seconds into the second period. Brooklyn Rublee and Ryleigh White had assists on Lind's tally.
Veteran forward Ensley Fendelet, who is playing her final season of midget AAA eligibility, potted the equalizer for the Sharks to force a 1-1 tie and overtime with 2:18 remaining in the third period.
Harper Davey stopped 20 shots to pick up the win in goal for the Wildcats, who were 17-10-1 during the regular season. Haylie Biever turned away 37 shots to take the setback in goal for the Sharks, who were 11-13-4 in the regular season.
The Wildcats are 14-1 including action in the regular season and playoffs since returning to play after the Christmas break.
During the series with the Sharks, Lind was named the winner of the Hayley Wickenheiser Most Valuable Player award, a first team SFMAAAHL all-star at forward and formally received the Kelly Bechard Top Scorer award. Sharks captain Ali Aitken was named a second team SFMAAAHL all-star at forward.
The Wildcats will face the Regina Rebels in a best-of-five SFMAAAHL semifinal series. Game 1 of that series is set for 4:45 p.m. at Saturday at the Co-operators Centre in Regina.
Rebels douse Prairie Fire in three games
Neena Brick is the top rookie of the SFMAAAHL.
An offensive explosion allowed the Regina Rebels to sweep the Melville Prairie Fire out of the SFMAAAHL playoffs.
On Sunday at the Co-operators Centre in Regina, the Rebels broke a 1-1 tie scoring three times in the third period to down the Prairie Fire 4-1 in Game 3 of a best-of-five SFMAAAHL first round series. With the win, the Rebels sweep the best-of-five set 3-0.
Brooklyn Stevely gave the Rebels a 1-0 lead at the 2:29 mark of the first period. Samantha Thompson netted the equalizer for the Prairie Fire scoring on the power play at the 13:23 mark of the first period to force a 1-1 tie.
Facing elimination, the Prairie Fire ensured the 1-1 score held up heading into the third period.
The Rebels scored three times in the first 5:18 of the third to cement the final outcome. Neena Brick scored twice and Samantha Sichkaruk had a single in the Rebels three-goal surge.
Payton Schlamp turned away 21 shots to pick up the win in goal for the Rebels, who were 17-7-4 during the regular season. Cheyenne Jamieson turned away 38 shots to take the setback in goal for Prairie Fire, who were 10-16-2 during the regular season.
During the series, Brick was named the winner of the Dana Antal Top Rookie award, while Stevely was named a first team SFMAAAHL all-star defender.
Prairie Fire veteran defender Allison Hayhurst was named a second team SFMAAAHL all-star. Melville head coach Casey O'Brien claimed the Shannon Miller and Wally Kozak Top Coach award.
The Rebels advance to face the Swift Current Diamond Energy Wildcats in a best-of-five SFMAAAHL semifinal series. Game 1 of that series is set for 4:45 p.m. at Saturday at the Co-operators Centre in Regina.
Canada just short of women's hockey gold at Universiade
🇨🇦🥈 Medalist in Women's 🏒 at @Krasnoyarsk2019.
Final is 2-0 for 🇷🇺.
3rd consecutive silver at Winter Universiade and 7 for 7 in Final Universiade games for #uCAN
4th 🏅 of this Universiade for 🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/eGOHUwiWXK
— U SPORTS Team Canada (@USPORTSIntl) March 11, 2019
A heroic 40 save performance from Jessica Vance wasn't enough to capture a gold medal for Canada's women's hockey team at the FISU Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
Vance, who is the star netminder for the University of Saskatchewan Huskies women's hockey team, made 40 saves on Monday as Canada fell 2-0 to host Russia in the gold medal final at the Winter Universiade. Canada's women's hockey team captured a silver medal in each of the last three Winter Universiades.
Thanks to Vance's puck stopping, Canada and Russia entered the third period locked in a 0-0 tie. At the 6:53 mark of the third, Canada was given a delay of game penalty for shooting the puck over the glass while in the defensive zone.
On the ensuing power play, Liana Ganeeva scored to give Russia a 1-0 lead. Alevtina Shtareva scored into an empty-net inside of the game's final 15 seconds to seal a 2-0 win for the host side.
Nadezhda Morozova turned away 34 shots to pick up the shutout win in goal for Russia.
Besides including Vance, the Canadian roster contained Leah Bohlken, who is a star defender for the Huskies, and Kaitlin Willoughby, who was the former star captain with the Huskies and now plays professionally for the Calgary Inferno of the Canadian Women's Hockey League.
Vance and Willoughby are both alums of the Prince Albert Northern Bears female midget AAA team. Before joining the Huskies, Bohlken spent time in the SFMAAAHL briefly with the Weyburn Richardson Pioneer Gold Wing and mainly with the Regina Rebels. She also played for the Notre Dame Hounds entry in the Junior Women's Hockey League.
Willoughby was the captain of the Canadian team and was a member of Canada's women's hockey team that won silver at the 2017 Winter Universiade in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
With the conclusion of Monday's gold medal game, the 2018-19 hockey seasons for Vance and Bohlken have come to an end as the Huskies were eliminated from the U Sports playoffs back on Feb. 23.
Willoughby's season still has one more game. She will join the Inferno to play for the Clarkson Cup to become CWHL champions on March 24 in Toronto against Les Canadiennes de Montreal. The Clarkson Cup is a one-game championship final.
Labels: Abby Soyko, Battlefords Sharks, Canada, FISU Winter Universiade, Melville Prairie Fire, Notre Dame Hounds, Prince Albert Northern Bears, Regina Rebels, Russia, SFMAAAHL, Swift Current Diamond Energy Wildcats
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The contents of this page will - except for the "Exploring EU Foreign Policy" resource guide - not be updated anymore as of January 2014 as the TOTAL Chair ceased to exist. Professor Keukeleire will, however, continue teaching at the College of Europe as a Visiting Professor.
The mission of the Chair was to promote education and research on the foreign policy of the EU. The Chairholder offered a course and supervised theses in the Master's programme EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies. The Chair conducted research, organised conferences and produced academic publications in the field of European foreign policy.
The main objective of the Chair was to analyse the development, relevance and effectiveness of EU foreign policy in a changing European and international context. The European context has been characterised by the establishment of a new institutional framework (such as the European External Action Service) following the Lisbon Treaty, while the international context has been marked by the emergence of new types of foreign policy challenges and new structural powers (including the BRICS countries). Another objective was to strengthen the analytical toolbox for studying European foreign policy by developing 'structural foreign policy' as an analytical framework and by integrating non-Western perspectives and attention for the societal levels in the analysis. Adopting an 'outside-in perspective' is considered a necessary counterweigh to the predominant Western-centric approach in both the conduct and analysis of EU foreign policy. These themes were reflected in the inaugural lecture "EU Foreign Policy beyond Lisbon: The Quest for Relevance" (March 2011) and in the conferences organised by the Chair.
20 May 2014: Book launch event for the second edition of The Foreign Policy of the European Union (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 'The European Union Series').
On 15-16 November 2012, the TOTAL chair co-organised the international conference on "The Neighbours of the EU's Neighbours: Diplomatic and Geopolitical Dimensions beyond the ENP".
On 7-8 May 2012, The TOTAL Chair of EU Foreign Policy organised the "EU-BRICS/IBSA/BASIC" section of the International Conference "Strategic Challenges in the EU-Brazil Relationship".
On 24 February 2012, the TOTAL Chair organised an international conference on "Understanding Political Islam in Arab Mediterranean Societies: Challenges and Prospects for EU Foreign Policy". This conference gathered specialists of political Islam as well as Arab and European practitioners to discuss the position of Islam in Arab Mediterranean societies and its implications for the EU. Programme and Summary.
In April 2011, the TOTAL Chair of EU Foreign Policy was one of the co-organisers of the international workshop on "Conceptualizing and Analyzing Strategic and Structural Diplomacy" organised in the framework of the Jean Monnet Multilateral Research Group on "The Diplomatic System of the European Union" (DSEU).
In the framework of the TOTAL Chair of EU Foreign Policy, the Chairholder prepared a new edition of the widely used book The Foreign Policy of the European Union, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, ('The European Union Series').
(2014) 'The BRICS and other Emerging Power Alliances and Multilateral Organisations in the Asia-Pacific and the Global South: Challenges for the European Union and its View on Multilateralism', Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 52 (with Bas Hooijmaaijers).
(2013) 'De "veiligheid-ontwikkeling nexus" en de securitisering van het EU-beleid ten aanzien van ontwikkelingslanden', Res Publica, 55(4), 541-544.
(2013) 'The Security-Development Nexus and Securitisation in the EU's policies towards developing countries', in Carbone, Maurizio (ed.), 'Special section: The EU and the Developing World', Cambridge Review of International Relations, 26(4), pp. 1-17. (with Kolja Raube).
(2012) 'EU-India relations and multilateral governance: where is the "strategic partnership"?' New Delhi, The Foreign Policy Research Centre Journal, no. 13, 2013, pp. 118-122, (with Hooijmaaijers Bas).
(2012) 'EU Foreign Policy and the Challenges of Structural Diplomacy: Comprehensiveness, Coordination, Alignment and Learning', DSEU Policy Paper, 12 February 2012 (with Justaert Arnout).
(2012) 'Analysing the position of the European Union in the United Nations system - analytical framework', in J. Wouters, et al. (eds.), The European Union and Multilateral Governance: Assessing EU Participation in United Nations Human Rights and Environmental Fora. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 25-45. (co-authors: Schunz Simon, Bruyninckx Hans, Basu Sudeshna, Wouters Jan).
(2012) 'The Common Security and Defense Policy: Development, Added Value, and Challenges', in Federiga Bindi (ed.), The Foreign Policy of the European Union: Assessing Europe's Role in the World, Washington: Brookings Institution Press (co-author: Kolja Raube).
(2012) 'Informal governance and networks in EU foreign policy', in T. Christiansen and C. Neuhold (eds.), International Handbook on Informal Governance, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishers, 2012 (with A. Justaert).
(2011) The EU Foreign Policy towards the BRICS and other Emerging Powers: Objectives and Strategies (Ad Hoc Study). Brussels: European Parliament, Directorate-General for External Policies, 2011 (with K. Mattlin, B. Hooijmaaijers, et al).
(2011) 'The European Union's policy on Kosovo', in P. Koutrakos (ed.), European Foreign Policy: Legal and Political Perspectives, Edward Elgar Publishers (with A. Kalaja and A. Çollaku).
(2011) 'The European Union, the BRICs, and the Emerging New World Order', in C. Hill and M. Smith (eds.), International Relations and the European Union, Oxford University Press (with H. Bruyninckx).
(2013) 'The EU's Rule of Law promotion in its Neighbourhood: a Structural Foreign Policy Analysis', EU Diplomacy Paper, no. 4/2013, Bruges, College of Europe, January 2013 (with Stephan Keukeleire and Charles Thépaut).
(2013) 'Ensuring Energy Security in Europe: The EU between a Market-based and a Geopolitical Approach', EU Diplomacy Paper, no. 3/2013, Bruges, College of Europe, January 2013.
(2012) 'Beyond enlargement, does Turkey matter? An EU neighbourhood policy perspective', Europe – 27 etc, Slate.fr, 2 November 2012.
(2012) 'Rivalités régionales et opportunités globales: la mer Caspienne au centre d'un nouveau Grand jeu en Asie centrale', La Revue de Téhéran, n°78, mai 2012.
(2012) 'Only big EU policy changes will give it a voice in Arab politics', Europe's World, 25 October 2012.
(2011) 'L'UE et les soulèvements arabes', Le Jeu De L'Oie, n°4, December 2011, pp. 42-43.
(2011) 'European Diplomats Abroad: A Diplomatic Corps?', in Quinn, Paul (ed.), Making European Diplomacy Work: Can the EEAS Deliver?, EU Diplomacy Papers, no. 8/2011, Bruges, College of Europe, December 2011.
(2011) 'Can the EU pressure dictators? Reforming the ENP Conditionality after the Arab Spring', EU Diplomacy Papers, no. 6/2011, Bruges, College of Europe, October 2011.
(2010) 'Promoting Civil Society across the Borders of the EU Neighbourhood', Geopolitics, 16(1): 176-192 (with Liam O'Dowd).
(2010) 'Cultural Bordering and Re-Bordering in the EU's Neighbourhood: Members, Strangers or Neighbours?', Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 18 (4): 463-481.
(2010) 'The EU's Paradoxical Promotion of Civil Society in Morocco', Special Issue, Journal for European Integration, 32 (5): 523-539.


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What will the next year of #MeToo bring?
In just one year's time, the #MeToo moment has had a lasting impact on U.S. society. Elizabeth Schulte considers where the struggle against sexual violence will go next.
IT'S ONE year since the #MeToo movement began — and we're still feeling the impact of survivors of sexual assault stepping forward and finally having their long-silenced voices heard.
From Hollywood actors shining a light on some rich and powerful abusers, to McDonald's workers coming together for a one-day-strike, to the thousands who took the streets to oppose Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, survivors have found their voice, supporters of women's rights have seen their power in numbers — and we've also learned how far we still need to go.
For all the people who sat glued to the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings when Dr. Christine Blasey Ford described Kavanaugh's assault — and then saw Kavanaugh's defiant response — there could be no question that we have a fight on our hands.
Donald Trump — himself accused of sexual misconduct by at least 19 women — made it clear what he thought about the accusations against Kavanaugh when he mocked Blasey Ford's testimony at a campaign stop.
Protesters take to the streets of Los Angeles on International Women's Day (Molly Adams | flickr)
He later declared: "It is a very scary time for young men in America, where you can be guilty of something you may not be guilty of...What's happening here has much more to do than even the appointment of a Supreme Court justice."
Campaigns for conservatives running in the midterm elections are echoing Trump's message. One Republican ad portrayed Blasey Ford's testimony as: "The liberal mob: pushing their extreme views, trying to hijack our democracy and steal seats on the United States Supreme Court. Despicable lies. Disgusting character assassination. A new low, even for them, falsely accusing an innocent person of being a sexual predator."
In other words, the right wing sees Kavanaugh's nomination not as an ugly page in the already ugly history of Republican Supreme Court nominees, but a rallying cry for their side — and they're using the example to fuel sexism among their supporters.
This is about more than winning elections. The right is trying to push back the #MeToo movement and the survivors who have stood up to be heard — and counted in the streets, too, this year.
THE DEMONSTRATIONS and actions against Kavanaugh's nomination this fall represented the largest expression of #MeToo in the form of protest so far — much of it organized from the bottom up.
Demonstrators took on lawmakers in Senate elevators and on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, as well as occupying their senator's local offices, as protesters did at the West Virginia offices of Democrat Joe Manchin. A day of action on October 4 turned out thousands of demonstrators for walkouts and marches in several cities.
These actions didn't turn back Kavanaugh's nomination, but they did show the potential for #MeToo in the streets and the seeds of the kind of movement for women's rights that we've needed for a long time.
In this way, something that originally drew national attention with the stories of a handful of Hollywood actors has become more than that.
What was originally written off by some — on the right and on the left — as the concerns of a few celebrities has turned into a mass social awakening, as many more survivors of sexual assault and harassment added their voices to the hashtag #MeToo.
Not only women, but also LGBTQ survivors — particularly transgender survivors who are disproportionately the target of abuse — and men raised their stories and breathed more life into a hashtag created more than a decade before by Tarana Burke, a Black survivor of sexual assault and lifelong advocate for young abuse victims.
The sexual abuse and harassment faced by working-class women found a platform that it didn't have before.
Renowned Hollywood actors helped get these voices heard by appearing at the Oscars with working-class survivors of sexual assault beside them and creating the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund to help low-wage workers with cases against their employers.
According to the National Women's Law Center, $22 million has been raised and 50 cases are underway. Some 40 percent of those seeking assistance are women of color, and 65 percent are low-income.
Working-class women had been organizing against sexual abuse in their workplaces before #MeToo became a phenomenon, but their examples will now have a greater hearing.
Before #MeToo, Chicago hotel workers represented by their union, UNITE HERE, proposed an ordinance requiring that hotels provide housekeeping staff, who often faced dangerous situations alone in rooms with guests, with panic buttons. The ordinance passed the City Council a year ago.
In fighting for better conditions in the fields for Florida farmworkers who pick tomatoes used by big fast-food companies like Taco Bell and Wendy's, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers has long raised the issue of rampant sexual harassment alongside fair wages and dignity on the job.
As part of its Fair Food Program established in 2011, workers have demanded that companies sign onto a labor agreement that meets farmworkers' demands for an end to violence, coercion, slavery and sexual assault. This agreement includes a 24-hour hotline monitored by an independent council — with the idea that workers monitor their own right to work in an abuse-free environment.
#MeToo also helped women workers to show all of us how to fight sexual harassment and abuse on the job.
In September, McDonald's workers organized the first strike against sexual harassment in the #MeToo era.
The campaign began in 2016 when the Fight for 15 initiative published reports of widespread abuse at the fast-food giant. In May of this year, workers filed 10 complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Women workers then formed committees at dozens of McDonald's, where they voted to approve coordinated walkouts and protests.
THE YEAR of #MeToo has shown how a spark can be fanned into a wildfire. But it also underlines how far we have to go to keep the fire burning.
There is still much organizing to do to pose the kind of challenge we need to take on Trump, Kavanaugh and all the workplace abusers.
Some of this organizing will take place in individual workplaces and schools — following the lead of the women organizing in low-wage workplaces and those who challenged college administrations turning a blind eye to abuse on college campuses.
Already, there is evidence of the impact that #MeToo has had on ordinary people's lives, as women and men re-examine sexual relationships, how they should be treated, and how they should treat others.
The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network reports that its National Sexual Assault Hotline experienced a 30 percent increase in calls since #MeToo began last year. The day after Blasey Ford's testimony was its busiest day in its 24-year history.
People are speaking out about their cases of sexual assault — and finally being heard — but they are also examining what it would mean to have a society in which women are treated with dignity. That requires men and women questioning some of the ways they have been socialized in our society, and also how relationships are shaped by the inequality between men and women.
Publications like the New York Times and many others have published accounts by men who regret what they've done in the past — some of whom came to understand what they did in the wake of #MeToo.
AT THE same time, there has been pushback. A lot of it comes from the right, which wants to paint #MeToo as an attack on all men. But plenty come from people who otherwise consider themselves progressive, but oppose #MeToo because it might identify men they support.
That was the case with Minnesota Democratic Sen. Al Franken.
When Franken was accused of committing sexual harassment, some Democratic women came to his defense, claiming that #MeToo constituted a "moral panic," and that women would lose much more if Franken — who never even apologized for what he had done — weren't in office.
Liberal Harper's magazine gave former NPR commentator John Hockenberry, who lost his job over charges of sexual misconduct, an almost 7,000-word space to opine about his firing from public radio and mourn the loss of "romance" in the #MeToo era, among other things.
Some on the left put forward criticisms of #MeToo that sadly came close to what the right had to say. One publication compared the movement to the anti-communist witch hunts of the McCarthy era.
The early criticism that #MeToo flouted due process ignored the reality that for women, there was never any due process to begin with.
The power of #MeToo wasn't that every man was now under suspicion of sexual assault, as some conservative and liberal commentators claimed, but that women who had been abused could finally be heard.
Women finally gained the confidence to speak out — and in the process, some powerful predators were taken down. But something even more important happened — a system of protections far more powerful than those individuals was also exposed.
When brave women came forward, we learned about deeply entrenched mechanisms that sweep allegations of sexual assault under the rug for rich and powerful serial predators like Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.
In Washington, D.C., #MeToo exposed the hoops that women working on Capitol Hill had to jump through to report sexual harassment. The strict deadlines on complaints, confidentiality agreements and the rest had led many women to drop complaints before they were even taken up.
For women at work, #MeToo exposed how few resources were available to those who wanted to make a complaint or escape harassment and abuse on the job — and in some examples, how their unions let them down, as was the case with Ford workers in Chicago who faced years of abuse.
SOCIALIST POLITICS has a lot to offer a new movement against sexual assault and for women's liberation.
An analysis that shows how women's oppression is fundamental to the continued exploitation of all workers under capitalism — and that argues the fight for women's liberation should be every workers' fight — would go a long way toward making our movement strong, and making the socialist movement stronger to boot.
A socialist understanding of the role of the state and the systematic criminalization of Black and Brown communities also shapes the kinds of solutions we put forth.
A system of police, laws, courts and justices which target the poor and working class, particularly people of color, can't possibly be expected to provide justice for sexual assault survivors, especially those who are poor, working class and people of color.
We should put forward solutions that challenge the conditions which leave women isolated or powerless in the face of abuse or harassment — and make connections with the fight for women's equality in general, like equal pay, affordable housing and access to health care, including reproductive rights.
This kind of organizing recognizes the limitations of individual complaints pursued through the "proper channels" — and focuses on the way women can build networks and organize collectively against harassment at work.
There is still much more to be discussed, debated and organized in the coming months.
The pressure is on for those who opposed Kavanaugh in September and October to vote for the Democrats in November. The Democratic Party wants the legacy of the #MeToo movement to be its victory in the midterm elections.
But the lessons of the anti-Kavanaugh fight isn't the importance of electing Democrats in November. It's building a movement large enough and strong enough to convince Democrats and Republicans that they have no other choice but to do the right thing. They don't feel that pressure now. Why will they after November, unless we organize to make them feel it?
The lesson of the #MeToo struggle is that we have to wage our own fight — and when we do, we're a powerful force to be reckoned with.
Nicole Colson
Turning defeat into determination
Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed to the Supreme Court — and how we respond will make the difference in whether we can defend our rights.
The fight against these sexists is just beginning
Regardless of whether Brett Kavanaugh is approved, there's a new movement against sexual assault that we must build upon.
Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists
#MeToo in the Middle East
Women across the Middle East are taking inspiration from #MeToo and standing up against gender-based and sexual oppression.
Maddie Fenn and Elizabeth Schulte
#MutingRKelly is about believing Black women
Black women survivors of sexual assault are getting a long-need platform with Surviving R. Kelly and the #MuteRKelly campaign.
Why we walked out against sexual assault
High school students in St. Paul, Minnesota, describe their protests in the wake of Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination.
How the 1 percent rules
We know the 1 percent runs Wall Street and Corporate America, but their control extends into the supposedly democratic political system as well.
Welcome to the new normal
My mom has found herself among the long-term unemployed who are struggling in the suburbs where the American Dream is supposed to thrive.

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hey everyone!!! I am soooo happy! i get to go to my 1st akc agility trile tomarrow and HELP THEM!!!! i also just got a new baby guinea pig its a boy his name is Dusty (hint my name) and i dont know what breed he is (my mom boght him at a feeders and surprised me with him) he is soo sweet i had him out and i did not know my dog was in the room and i turnd around and they were sleeping culd up in little balls it was too cute. to bad i just missed getting a picture. i think the reson my dog didnt try and eat him is because i trained him not to chase the cat and only track the hamster when she gets loose not bite or eat her!
Congratulations on your new guinea pig. Just be careful with small animals around your dog, wouldn't want anything bad to happen.
Welcome to PETTALK Dusty !!


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«Рождённый побежда́ть» () — фильм чешского режиссёра Ивана Пассера, снят в Нью-Йорке (США) в 1971 году. Картина на грани чёрной комедии и детектива рассказывает о злоключениях опускающегося наркомана. Это первый фильм Ивана Пассера, эмигрировавшего из Чехословакии после подавления Пражской весны.

Сюжет
Фильм о парне по кличке Джей Джей, опускающемся наркомане. Время от времени за необходимую дозу героина он выполняет мелкие поручения нарко-дельца и сутенёра Вивиана. Во время доставки очередной партии наркотиков по поручению Вивиана, он попадает в сети двух нечистоплотных полицейских, которые вынуждают его стать информатором. Наркомания Джей-Джея прогрессирует, ещё сильнее увеличивается его презрение к самому себе.

Актёрский состав
 Джордж Сигал — Джей Джей
 Пола Прентисс — Вероника
 Карен Блэк — Парм
 Гектор Элизондо — Вивиан
 Роберт Де Ниро — Дэнни

Критика
«Хороший-плохой фильм, замысел которого не всегда срабатывает, но содержит несколько блестящих сцен» Роджер Эберт, «Рождённый побеждать» // Чикаго Сан-Таймс (14 марта 1972 г.)

Дополнительные факты
 Фильм в прокате разных стран имеет и альтернативные названия, в том числе «Рождённый проигрывать» () и «Наркоман, рождённый побеждать» ().

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Фильмы на английском языке
Фильмы США 1971 года
Фильмы Ивана Пассера
Комедийно-драматические фильмы США
Фильмы о наркотиках
Фильмы о Нью-Йорке
Фильмы United Artists

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Tuesday Talkies – PK – Is it a Waste of Time?
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Aamir Khan, Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Boman Irani; you mix all these ingredients in a recipe and its dish is going to be a sure shot hit. PK is that hit movie.
But, are you just expecting it to be a hit? Or, you were expecting fireworks from it?
Don't know about you, but I was expecting Fireworks and I was let down a bit. Why? I will soon delve into that, but lets first go through the basics of this movie – PK.
PK is Indian Film Directed by Rajkumar Hirani and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra along with Siddharth Roy Kapur and Hirani himself. This movie stars Aamir Khan in the lead role of PK; while Anushka Sharma, Sushant Singh Rajput, Boman Irani and Saurabh Shukla plays important part in this movie. Sanjay Dutt has also done a crucial cameo in this movie, but is completely wasted in this movie.
PK – Is it a Waste of Time?
PK, played by Aamir Khan, is an alien who got stranded on Earth when someone stole his remote control device; his only way to call back his spaceship. PK then embarks on a hilarious journey of finding his remote. He goes to Police and every common man he can encounter, to get clues for finding remote, but only answer that he got was, "Only God can help you find it".
Thus he decides to first find God and then he will take God's help to find remote. Now,the big question is, Where is God? He went from Temples to Churches, from Mosques to Gurudwara, but to no avail. Until one day he accidentally bumps into a Baba's aashram where he saw his remote projected as Shiva's Manka/bead from Himalayas. Comes Anushka, who then plan a plot to help PK get his remote back from Baba, and in doing so they expose Baba and his claim of talking with God.
What works for the movie?
This movie is a full on entertainer. It will make you laugh, cry, question and will evoke so many emotions inside you. Hirani has chosen an apt way to use an alien to see our world from the perspective of an outsider. It gives an objectifying view of the whole spiritual corruption that is happening around us.
Aamir Khan is always flawless. He can be a student, or a magician or he could be an alien. whatever role you will give him; he will be that character to the hilt. Anushka and Sushant are the also in their best form. Anushka has looked confident in front of Aamir. Movie on a whole is good and watchable.
What does not work for the Movie?
One of the drawbacks of this movie is that it is following in the footsteps of '3 Idiots', and Munnabhai genre. It's just not upto that standard. Reasons are many –
To start with, first half of the movie is tight and edited well. It is right on point in showing an objective picture of our religious differences and dogma attached to them. Comes second half and film loses its objectivity to an illogical emotional drama.
This movie sets a pace where at the end you are waiting for that big climax; where our protagonist PK will silent the Godman and his followers, once and for all, by his quick wit and logic. But alas, that climax was never there. Instead there was all this 'Rona-Dhona', India-Pakistan, Love Story, Baap Beti emotional drama and all.
That last scene could have made a lot of difference. It could have taken this film to a height where Hirani's other films are, atleast. They could have written down an extraordinary debate where Godman could have shown to acknowledge his defeat.
Most absurd is the love story shown between Anushka and Sushant. Who in his right mind break up like that? You are left at the altar and you will not even ask why?? Infact, they were kind of shown living in together and the very next day they just left the country without even seeing each other. If I would have to leave a country, it would take me a week just to pack my stuff.
Some Hindu religious organizations/groups are protesting against this movie as it show Hinduism in bad light. To be fair, it does show each religion that way; but their main villain/protagonist being a Hindu Godman (only), does raises eyebrow. Hirani and Aamir for once could have taken a bold step and shown representative of every religious leader in the final debate. But again, the end is not at all what I would expect from this combo.
One more fact that is not highlighted about the movie is, that the character of PK was loosely based on 'Abraham Kovoor', who was responsible for running a campaign against so called Frauds and Godman. His most popular target was 'Sathya Sai Baba'. Thus if you translate it into a film, you can relate to the Saurabh Shukla character more.
My suggestion to those who are protesting against this movie – Do not protest on social platform. You are only promoting this movie by doing so. Remember when it comes to films, every publicity is a good publicity.
Suggestion to viewers – Go watch the movie but do not expect sparks flying the way they it happened in ' 3 Idiots'.
PS. I still couldn't understand why Anushka Sharma have gone through duck lips for this movie. It just doesn't make any sense.
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After ending up yesterday, crude prices were down in early trading today, with the WTI at $42.35/bbl and Brent at $45.06/bbl.
The White House plans to auction off drilling rights to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
Foreign firms, stung by supply chain vulnerabilities during the pandemic, could incur over $1 trillion in costs to relocate their supply chains from China over the next five years, according to Bank of America.
Chevron is in talks to explore for oil in a southern province of Iraq, OPEC's second largest oil producer, while high-quality oil reserves are cheap during the pandemic and energy recession.
The White House pledged to provide tax incentives to companies that return jobs from China and to impose tariffs on companies that create jobs overseas, further straining U.S./China relations and portending disruption in global supply chains.
China's share of global exports has shrunk from 25% last year to 22% this year, and its share of consumer goods exports has fallen from 46% to 42 % as U.S./China geopolitical tensions mount.
Amazon continues to expand its delivery capacity, handling 66% of its package shipments in July, up from 61% in the second quarter.
The FDA gave emergency approval to SalivaDirect, a faster and cheaper COVID-19 test developed at Yale University that uses saliva as a test specimen and is expected to cost about $10 for lab analysis.
Just-reopened schools across the country are spawning COVID-19 clusters that are infecting students and faculty alike, forcing thousands back into remote learning and quarantine.
New Jersey's COVID-19 infection transmission rate climbed above 1.0, a signal that the infection is spreading again.
New York has incurred the highest COVID-19 death rate by far:
Walgreens is offering flu shots at all of its pharmacies as the CDC warns of the health risks of a "twindemic" as the COVID-19 pandemic collides with the normal influenza season.
Mortgage delinquencies in the second quarter rose more than 8% year-over-year, a nine-year high, while FHA delinquencies among first-time buyers surged 16% to a record high.
Optimism rose among home builders, marked by a rise in the National Association of Home Builders housing index from 74 in July to 78 in August, driven by historically low interest rates and a migration of some urban dwellers to suburbs.
Employment in Hawaii and Nevada, with their large tourism industries, has been hardest hit by the pandemic:
Walmart reported stronger-than-expected second-quarter results fueled by a near doubling of online sales and strong performance by its industry-leading grocery business.
Five automakers comprising 30% of U.S. automobile sales — Ford, Honda, BMW, Volkswagen and Volvo — signed an agreement with California to comply with the state's tailpipe emission rules that require them to raise their average fleet efficiency from 37 miles per gallon today to 51 miles per gallon by 2026. The state regulations are stricter than recently scaled back federal rules.
Uber and Lyft are considering franchise business models for California if a court backs a new state law declaring that the ride sharers' drivers are employees and not contractors.
Back-to-school spending, boosted by remote learning requirements, is expected to hit an all-time high this year:
COVID-19 has infected mink at two mink farms in Utah, the country's second largest mink producer, where farm workers also have been detected with the virus.
Major retailers are trending to returnable reusable packaging as an alternative to recycling to drive sustainability.
Global COVID-19 cases neared 22 million today.
Add "wing-shaped" to "v-shaped" and "u-shaped" as descriptions of the economic rebound, as Europe's recovery falters in the wake of rising COVID-19 infection rates and renewed social distancing restrictions, subpar trade and consumer concerns.
Germany, Europe's largest economy, experienced the highest number of new COVID-19 infections in four months yesterday, prompting concerns about Europe's economic recovery.
Officials in France are urging citizens to honor face mask and social distancing restrictions with recent infection rates in the country exceeding 3,000 a day, twice the rate at the beginning of the month, with 30% in the 17-44 age group.
Israel's economy shrank at an annualized rate of 28.7% in the second quarter, the steepest contraction since 1975.
Global air travel remains down 85% from this same time last year, and the industry is expected to incur $84 billion in losses in 2020.
South Korea is banning worship services and closing bars and restaurants in several cities to fight an alarming surge in COVID-19 infections.
A man has been sentenced to five months in prison for violating quarantine and bringing a mutated form of COVID-19 to Malaysia from India. Scientists are unsure if the mutated strain of the virus, which pervades in the U.S. and Europe, is more contagious or transmissible than the initial strain.
Thousands of U.S. nationals residing in China who left during the pandemic are now stranded by the country's border restrictions, posing challenges for their employers and mitigating a buffer to U.S./China geopolitical tensions.
Coca-Cola introduced its new CanCollar packaging solution in Europe, a recyclable paperboard collar for multipack cans.
Scientists in Australia studying various types of seafood detected plastics in every sample tested.
Italy experienced a 10% drop in garbage during its lockdown in March and April, despite a large rise in plastic waste from safety gear and single-use items.
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James O'Brien's Comical Response To Donald Trump's Military Parade
After Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to prepare a parade of America's military might, James O'Brien had this hilarious response.
Last year, James said that the way Mr Trump was acting, there would "be military parades by Christmas".
He followed that us by joking that he'd be wearing a uniform next. But now, James genuinely thinks the President will genuinely get a Mugabe-style uniform.
James O'Brien. Picture: LBC
He said: "That something that two years ago would have struck terror into your very heart. The idea of a Western democratically-elected political leader holding a military parade, full of tanks and weaponry.
"It's the kind of thing we used to laugh at the North Koreans and the Russians for doing. Which of course are not Western democratically-elected leaders, they are totalitarian oppressive regimes. And now Donald Trump is doing it.
"I told you about that, but I've got to be honest with you. I keep doing all these I told you sos... I had my tongue in my cheek.
"When I said it will be a military parade by Christmas, I was out obviously by a few months, but I genuinely said it. I also said don't be surprised if he turns up in a uniform and I'm going to say that again, but going to take my tongue out of my cheek. I think Donald Trump might get a uniform.
"I would not be amazed if he gets a kind of Mugabe-esque uniform, full of medals that don't really mean anything but look great, like Ceausescu. I mean just look at the history of the same kind of politician."


Still from an Intergenerational Trauma Animation which was launched at The Healing Foundation's #OurFuture Youth Webinar on 24 July 2018.
Professor Helen Milroy, a descendant of the Palyku people of Western Australia's Pilbara region, was recently a Commissioner on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
In the post below, she talks about how a recent forum with young people on intergenerational trauma sparked a conversation that she would like practitioners across all service sectors to be more involved with, in order to close the gap in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.
She foreshadows new research that she says is building a very disturbing picture of disability, poor health and economic disadvantage for the Stolen Generations and their descendants and urges a renewed emphasis on the strengths and protective factors that have allowed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to survive − despite trauma and adversity.
Milroy, a professor of child psychiatry, talks about intergenerational trauma also in this video produced by The Healing Foundation.
Last week I took part in a Youth Webinar, exploring the impacts of Intergenerational Trauma in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
The digital forum, hosted by The Healing Foundation, brought together young leaders, community organisations, students, teachers and trauma experts, keen to contribute to a conversation about how we can break the trauma cycle.
It's a conversation that I'd like to see practitioners across all service sectors get more involved with.
Why? Because tackling Intergenerational Trauma is the key to Closing the Gap for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and trauma-informed practice is essential to making sure our people have access to health services to treat complex health needs.
Developing an understanding of what drives behaviour, rather than labelling the behaviour itself, is a common problem we face when working with young people.
But in the context of Intergenerational Trauma, within a cross-cultural environment, the challenges are far greater.
The complexity of life and development makes it harder to work out what all the issues are and where an effective intervention can be applied. To work effectively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people and their families, practitioners need to take a comprehensive approach, involving an understanding of cultural frameworks and the historical legacy of colonisation.
For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people, the causes of trauma didn't occur in a single generation. They reach back for 230 years, in the shape of frontier violence, massacres, disruption from homelands and more recently, the extensive forced removal of children from their families, the Stolen Generations.
This series of traumatic events didn't just occur to an individual, they affected whole families and communities, meaning the trauma is both collective and cumulative.
Listening to the stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people during the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, I was struck by the accounts of generational removal and disruption − where up to five generations of one family were sent to institutions.
It's really not surprising that we are still experiencing the impacts of trauma today, when parents, children and grandchildren are all affected by both shared and individual experiences, which are compounded by ongoing racism.
And we most definitely are still feeling the impacts.
Through my work with The Healing Foundation, I'm aware of some new research being collated by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare that's building a very disturbing picture of disability, poor health and economic disadvantage for the Stolen Generations and their descendants.
When released, it will be the first time we've had comprehensive data to illustrate the link between forced removal and the symptoms of Intergenerational Trauma, such as mental health problems, suicide and family violence.
For example, the report shows that the descendants of the Stolen Generations are almost twice as likely to have experienced violence and 1.3 times more likely to report poor mental health than other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, who are already at a disadvantage in Australia.
The data might not be much of a surprise to those of us who have been living the experiences or working in the field, but it will be essential in driving and designing new healing programs.
What we need to get back to is an emphasis on the strengths and protective factors that have allowed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to survive − despite the trauma and adversity they have experienced.
Factors like extensive kinship systems, cultural and spiritual strengths, traditionally strong child rearing practices and early autonomy and self-reliance.
We also need to develop the cultural healing programs that will help us to move forward.
At a recent international mental health leaders' conference, many people were calling for inclusive, compassionate, respectful and holistic models of care.
This is what Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities had for generations and continue to develop today − strong systems of care and healing at a community level, and an ecological framework of being in balance with the environment.
Based on our innovative track record already in health and wellbeing, I really think we can lead the way in regard to healing trauma − we just need to develop those old ways, in the context of a modern Australian society.
Last week's webinar renewed my confidence in that belief for a brighter future. Our young leaders never fail to impress me with their drive, innovation and level of awareness, and I encourage everyone to access the recording of the webinar to hear their experiences and ideas firsthand.
You will also find a suite of new resources, developed by The Healing Foundation, that explain where Intergenerational Trauma comes from and guides trauma- informed practices through videos, timelines and factsheets.
Because of the magnitude of traumatic events linked to our history of colonisation, there are fewer adults in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities today to buffer children, creating a massive burden on young people to lead the way.
They're up to the challenge, but as professional practitioners, we need to help reduce that burden and we all have a role to play. By understanding the complexity of issues facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people, you can identify your role in making a difference.
• Helen Milroy is a descendant of the Palyku people of WA's Pilbara region. She is a professor of child psychiatry at the University of Western Australia's Medical School and a commissioner with the National Mental Health Commission. Helen was recently a Commissioner on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
This is a great article Helen. Thanks so much for posting this.
On the back of the Apology to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people which the Australian Psychological Society delivered in 2016, Tanja Hirvonen and I have developed a workshop which we'll be delivering at this year's APS Congress to look specifically at what practitioners can do in their practice to be more engaging and effective with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
This is a crucial issue which we need to take very seriously. Clearly we need to start acting differently if we want different results. In our workshop we'll be picking up on many of the important issues that you raise such as the impact of colonisation and the importance of focussing on strengths.


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Avira Phantom VPN review
Robert Barnes November 30, 2020
Avira Phantom VPN review: When surfing the web, it's easy to make sure no one is looking over your shoulder. But attackers can intercept your data without your knowledge, while advertisers and your ISP are indeed engaged in similar activities. With a VPN (a virtual private network), like the Avira Phantom VPN, you are protected against many network threats. This subscription VPN service is easy to use and affordable but leaves something desired in terms of performance and features.
Avira Phantom VPN review: Privacy and logging
Avira Phantom VPN makes a good start in the field of privacy with a free account that does not need to be registered. The service does its job to protect your traffic with support for the OpenVPN protocol, although your inability to change or modify it in any way (e.g., by choosing new ports) can be a problem for experts.
Avira's free plan does not give you a kill switch, which means there is a small chance that your identity will be given away if the VPN connection is lost. However, this is not a problem if you upgrade, and the free and paid editions both give you competent DNS leak protection. We have checked the desktop and mobile clients with IPLeak, DNSLeakTest, and DoILeak and found no privacy leaks of any kind.
Avira has a small amount of no-logging detail in it. How small? This is what it says: If you use Avira Phantom VPN, we do not collect any data about the web pages you visit or the services you use on the Internet. The information we need for our billing system only tells us when someone was online and what data volume was used.
In other words, there is limited session logging (connection and disconnection times, data used), but the company does not record any data about what exactly you do online. We would like to see this in more detail, but it is generally still good news.
Avira Phantom VPN review: Performance
Avira makes no specific claims about its unblocking ability, so we put it to the test by looking at several popular sites. The results weren't bad at all. Sure, Phantom VPN failed with Amazon Prime Video and BBC iPlayer, but the US Streaming location did give us access to US Netflix content, US YouTube and Disney+, which is better than we see with some specialized providers.
Download speeds in the UK were slightly below average at 50-55Mbps on a 75Mbps test line. Top VPNs typically manage 10-15Mbps more. However, performance has always been instrumental, with a peak of 40Mbps for UK-US connections and even UK-Australia roundtrips averaging 17Mbps. We checked our results by re-running the tests from a European data center, but despite a 350Mbps connection, the downloads peaked at 70-90Mbps.
So Avira Phantom VPN is not going to break any speed record, but it was always acceptable, with every location we tried to give us more than enough performance for most tasks.
Avira Phantom VPN review: Pricing and plans
Whatever you think of Phantom VPN's features, there is a clear advantage in his free account. By default, this has a crippling 500MB/month data cap (plus you get five extra free minutes after hitting the limit, before disconnecting), and you're not able to choose a location – the app automatically connects to your nearest server. However, no registration or email address is required: all you have to do is download, install, and connect. Just register with your email address, and you'll get 1 GB. You will still not be able to stream anything, but maybe while traveling, it may be enough for the occasional use of low bandwidth.
Upgrading to a paid account gives you unlimited data, a kill switch to reduce the chance of a data leak if the VPN connection fails, and technical support to make everything run smoothly. The service is priced at $10 and drops to $6.50 if you pay a year in advance, or up to $5.99 to cover Android and iOS devices only. Buy the service this way, and it looks expensive. Private Internet Access' annual plan 'only' covers up to 5 devices (mobile or desktop), but it's much cheaper for a significant $2.85 for the first term, $3.33 for renewal.
Avira's best deal comes in its a complete bundle of every application and service it sells antivirus, internet security, password management, device cleanup, and more. You can buy it for $75 in the first year, so cheaper than the VPN alone, rising to a still decent $100 a year after that.
For $10, Avira offers much of what we are looking for in a VPN at a reasonable price. It allows unlimited devices per account, has no problem enabling P2P or BitTorrent on any server and provides a free version are all excellent temptations. The precise data logging policy is also reassuring. That said, the app needs a visual revision, and the server offerings are far from robust. If you have many devices or do a lot of torrenting, be sure to look at Avira. That's it for our Avira Phantom VPN review.
Avira Phantom VPN secures web browsing from as many devices as you like, and allows you to torpedo to your heart's content, but it's light on features and probably won't please speed, conscious users.
The free account doesn't require registration
Reasonable performance
Connect as many devices as you need
Unblocks US Netflix, Disney+
Free account limited to 500MB/ 1GB a month
Can only be used with the official apps
Few features
Can't unblock BBC iPlayer, Amazon
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package io.kubernetes.client.openapi.models;

import io.kubernetes.client.fluent.VisitableBuilder;

public class V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationListBuilder
    extends V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationListFluentImpl<V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationListBuilder>
    implements VisitableBuilder<
        V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationList, V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationListBuilder> {
  public V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationListBuilder() {
    this(false);
  }

  public V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationListBuilder(Boolean validationEnabled) {
    this(new V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationList(), validationEnabled);
  }

  public V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationListBuilder(
      V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationListFluent<?> fluent) {
    this(fluent, false);
  }

  public V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationListBuilder(
      V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationListFluent<?> fluent, Boolean validationEnabled) {
    this(fluent, new V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationList(), validationEnabled);
  }

  public V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationListBuilder(
      V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationListFluent<?> fluent,
      V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationList instance) {
    this(fluent, instance, false);
  }

  public V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationListBuilder(
      V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationListFluent<?> fluent,
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    this.fluent = fluent;
    fluent.withApiVersion(instance.getApiVersion());

    fluent.withItems(instance.getItems());

    fluent.withKind(instance.getKind());

    fluent.withMetadata(instance.getMetadata());

    this.validationEnabled = validationEnabled;
  }

  public V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationListBuilder(V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationList instance) {
    this(instance, false);
  }

  public V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationListBuilder(
      V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationList instance, Boolean validationEnabled) {
    this.fluent = this;
    this.withApiVersion(instance.getApiVersion());

    this.withItems(instance.getItems());

    this.withKind(instance.getKind());

    this.withMetadata(instance.getMetadata());

    this.validationEnabled = validationEnabled;
  }

  V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationListFluent<?> fluent;
  Boolean validationEnabled;

  public V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationList build() {
    V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationList buildable = new V1MutatingWebhookConfigurationList();
    buildable.setApiVersion(fluent.getApiVersion());
    buildable.setItems(fluent.getItems());
    buildable.setKind(fluent.getKind());
    buildable.setMetadata(fluent.getMetadata());
    return buildable;
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}


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package com.kilfat.web.model.deserializer;

import static com.kilfat.web.model.deserializer.DeserializerHelper.getField;
import static com.kilfat.web.model.deserializer.DeserializerHelper.getLongField;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.ObjectCodec;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonDeserializer;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import com.kilfat.web.model.UserRoleDTO;

import java.io.IOException;

public class UserRoleDeserializer extends JsonDeserializer<UserRoleDTO> {

    @Override
    public UserRoleDTO deserialize(JsonParser jsonParser, DeserializationContext ctxt)
        throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
        ObjectCodec oc = jsonParser.getCodec();
        JsonNode node = oc.readTree(jsonParser);
        UserRoleDTO userRoleDTO = new UserRoleDTO();
        userRoleDTO.setUserRoleId(getLongField(node, "userRoleId"));
        userRoleDTO.setUser(getField(node, "user"));
        userRoleDTO.setRole(getField(node, "role"));
        return userRoleDTO;
    }
}


Did you know that about one in five people in Australia have a disability? Well, it's true and we need to ensure that these people have access to the vast array of assistive technology that is available to do day-to-day tasks. This technology allows for greater independence, communication and connectivity. AHRC disability discrimination commissioner Alastair McEwin said people with disability don't need to be told what they want or need, they simply need to be provided with the environment and tools to grow and be independent. "We need to make sure the system is better at supporting people with disabilities to make systemic change," McEwin said. It is clear to us here at Disability Tek that we need to get rid of the 'one fits all' mindset because it doesn't work. Look at Microsoft for example, they realised that people with disabilities were unable to use the normal XBOX controller so they made the XBOX adaptive controller which has a 'plug in' component. This allows for any kind of switch, joystick, etc. to be used, providing a customised set up for each individual. Nowadays, we're looking forward to artificial intelligence where robots can assist us to do stuff. McEwin said "technological advancements, innovation and a 'digital revolution' were already transforming the lives of people with disability, and therefore when I think of the future I envisage a world with unlimited possibilities and opportunities". We here at Disability Tek are very proud to be part of this revolution and we hope that people that visit our site will continue to see the value we can add both now and in the future.


"They who supply the seed will find that it multiplies, increasing the harvest of righteousness.
for they administer public benefit and see to the needs of the Church.
Their generosity overflows in much gratitude to God."
God has given us many gifts and calls us to use those gifts to build up His Kingdom. Our faith identifies us as stewards and gives us a relationship with God. Many of these gifts are given for our needs; others are given for the needs of others. Stewardship is a ministry by which we nurture and share our gifts of time, talent and treasure.
There are many ways to give of your time and talent. The "Ministries" tab on this website lists all of the parish groups and ministries that you may consider becoming involved with. Please call the parish office at 440-886-4434 for more information, or click the stewarship icon below, download our "Parish Interest Form," and return it to the Parish Office.
Donating to St. Bridget of Kildare Parish and/or School in lieu of flowers when handling funeral arrangements.
A charitable IRA Rollover to St. Bridget of Kildare Parish upon your death to let your legacy live on.
Funding a scholarship to assist a struggling school family with tuition.
Donating to a specific fund, such as the Liturgical Fund.
The Liturgical Fund is used to help decorate and create art and environment for the church during each liturgical time (i.e., flowers, plants, vases, altar cloths, vestments, fabrics, banners, candles and other decorations). It is also used to purchase sacred vessels and other items needed for liturgy. Any individual or parish group is welcome to contribute money to this worthy fund. You may simply donate, or you may give in memory of a loved one, in honor of a blessing received or prayer answered, or in thanksgiving of a wedding anniversary or other special occasion. Simply fill out the "Liturgical Fund" envelope located in the back of the church and deposit it in the offertory collection basket, or drop it off at the rectory office. Donations to the Liturgical Fund are listed in the Sunday bulletin.
Donating to a specific Parish ministry, such as the Good Samaritan Ministry.
Please call the Parish Office at 440-886-4434 if you would like more information. Thank you for your generosity.
Contributing online is an option through your online banking "automatic bill pay" method. There is no paperwork to complete at the parish office. Please click the icon below to learn more.


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