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Donald Marshall Jr. (Sídney, 13 de septiembre de 1953-ib., 6 de agosto de 2009) fue un hombre mi'kmaq condenado injustamente por asesinato. Su caso inspiró una serie de cuestionamientos en contra del sistema de justicia canadiense, especialmente por tratarse de un indígena. De acuerdo con la Corporación Canadiense de Radiodifusión, el nombre Donald Marshall es prácticamente un sinónimo de "condena injusta" y de la lucha por los derechos indígenas en Canadá. Este caso también dio lugar al libro Justice Denied: The Law Versus Donald Marshall (Justicia denegada: La ley contra Donald Marshall), de Michael Harris, y posteriormente la película Justice Denied (Justicia denegada). Su padre, Donald Marshall Sr., fue Gran Jefe de la nación mi'kmaq desde 1964 y hasta su muerte en 1991.

Juventud
Donald Marshall Jr. nació el 13 de septiembre de 1953 en la región mi'kmaq de Membertou, en Sydney, Nueva Escocia. Fue el mayor de los trece hijos de Donald Marshall Sr., Gran Jefe de la nación mi'kmaq y su esposa Caroline (née Googoo).

Condenado injustamente
Marshall fue sentenciado a cadena perpetua por asesinar a una conocida, Sandy Seale, en 1971. Marshall y Sale, de 17 años en ese entonces, caminaban al anochecer por el parque Wentworth, en Sídney, Nueva Escocia, con la intención de "emborracharse", según dijo Marshall en su juicio. Entonces se enfrentaron a Roy Ebsary, un hombre mayor con quien se cruzaron en el parque. Se produjo una pequeña pelea y Seale cayó herida de muerte tras ser acuchillada por Ebsary. Ebsary nunca admitió el haber acuchillado a Seale, y tras mentirle a la policía, ésta se enfocó en Marshall, quien anteriormente ya había tenido incidentes con la autoridad. La policía planteó que Marshall, en un ataqué de ira, asesinó a Seale. Desde un principio, las autoridades se mostraron decididos a comprobar la culpabilidad de Marshall.

Marshall pasó 11 años en prisión antes de ser absuelto por el Tribunal de Apelación de Nueva Escocia en 1983. Un testigo declaró que había visto a otro hombre apuñalar a Seale y varias declaraciones anteriores de testigos que acusaban a Marshall fueron retractadas. En esta apelación, que le absolvió del cargo de asesinato, se mostró que Marshall había mentido en su primer juicio sobre sus actividades y las de Seale en la noche de la muerte de ésta. La acusación era que él y Seale se habían acercado a Ebsary con la intención de robarle y estaban en el parque esa noche. Ebsary fue entonces juzgado y condenado por homicidio. Cuando la condena de Marshall fue anulada, el juez de la sentencia culpó a Marshall por fallas de la justicia, llamándolo "el autor de su propia mala suerte". Esto fue visto como un grave error en el reporte de la Comisión Real. Anne Derrick, consejera de la reina y una reconocida abogada luchadora por los derechos sociales, fungió como representante legal de Marshall. Clayton Ruby, de la Orden de Canadá, fue co-abogado de Marshall durante este proceso legal en 1989.

El hecho de que el Fiscal de la Corona no proporcionara información completa a la defensa (declaraciones contradictorias y coaccionadas por los testigos porque creían que las pruebas no proporcionadas no tenían relación con el caso) produjo cambios en las leyes canadienses de evidencias con respeto a la divulgación. La fiscalía entonces debería de proporcionar la información completa sin determinar lo que puede ser útil para la parte defensora (eso le corresponderá determinar a la parte defensora).

Compensación y secuelas
Marshall finalmente recibió una pensión vitalicia de $1.5 millones en compensación. Su condena dio lugar a cambios en la Ley de Evidencias en Canadá, que fue enmendada para que cualquier evidencia obtenida se presentara a la defensa en la divulgación. Antes de este caso, los abogados de la Corona tenían discreción para presentar lo que determinaban que era pertinente a un caso. Después de 1983, el Fiscal de la Corona debe proporcionar toda evidencia, sin determinación sobre su utilidad. La razón de ser de la ley es que es más apropiado que la defensa determine qué puede o no ayudar a un acusado.

En respuesta, se formó una Comisión Real para investigar lo que había causado las fallas en el sistema de justicia. Esto condujo a un relevante caso sobre la independencia judicial en Canadá.

Batalla por los derechos de pesca
Posteriormente, Marshall ganó aún mayor relevancia como el principal peticionario en el icónico caso R.v. Marshall (1999) 3 RCS 456 de la Corte Suprema de Canadá, con respecto a los derechos de los tratados que permitían a los indígenas capturar y vender pescado bajo los tratados pertinentes. El derecho del tratado fue establecido y Marshall fue absuelto.

Arrestos posteriores
En enero de 2006, Marshall enfrentó cargos de intento de asesinato, amenazas de muerte y conducción peligrosa después de una fiesta de fin de año en la que fue acusado de atacar a un hombre con un vehículo. Los cargos fueron anulados después de que ambos hombres acordaron participar en un círculo curativo.

Referencias

Criminales de Canadá
Personas condenadas injustamente por asesinato
Activistas de Canadá


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Elis (from the Greek Elias and the biblical Elijah) was a popular medieval name, having been adopted by some early saints. It became in Old English Elys or Elis and then Ellis. In Wales this surname seems to have absorbed forms derived from the Welsh personal name Elisedd, meaning one who is kindly and benevolent.
Ellis developed from an early time as a surname in North Wales and in the West Ridings of Yorkshire.
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Wales. The Welsh patronymical style, such as Ellis ap Griffith, first applied. Ellis as a surname dates from about 1600 at Ystumllyn near Criccieth in Carnarvon.
The name later was to be found more in Merioneth (present day Gwynedd). This rural part of Wales became a hotbed first of nonconformity and then of nascent nationalism. The farmer Rowland Ellis, a convert to Quakerism, left Dolgellau for Pennsylvania with a hundred like-minded enthusiasts in 1686. They settled in Bryn Mawr, named after his farmhouse in Dolgellau and now a famous women's college. Other Quaker Ellises left for Pennsylvania in 1690 and 1707.
Land evictions were a problem in the 19th century. Tom Ellis, the son of an evicted Bala tenant, was elected MP in 1886 on a nationalist program at the tender age of 27. Sadly he died young before his promise could ever be fulfilled.
England. The Yorkshire Ellises were equally as numerous.
Yorkshire Sir John Ellis built Kiddal Hall near Barwick in the late 14th century and it stayed with the family for nearly four hundred years. There were clusters of Ellises in Halifax and elsewhere in the West Ridings. Ellis was a common name around Ossett. Joshua Ellis from Ossett bought into the Savile woollen mill in Dewsbury in the 1820's. The mill of Joshua Ellis and Company, one of the oldest in Yorkshire, lasted into the 21st century but was closed down recently.
A Quaker Ellis community established itself in Rotherham and later, further south and in a more substantial way, in Leicester. Starting as farmers, branches of this family in Leicester moved into a variety of merchant and banking businesses. John Ellis began the Leicester and Swimmington railway in the 1840's and became an MP and mayor of the borough.
Less monetary-minded were a Quaker couple from Bradford, James and Mary Ellis, who moved to the west coast of Ireland at the time of the potato famine and embarked on a Quaker relief program for the people of Letterfrack.
Elsewhere There was as well an early Quaker Ellis community in Cornwall near St. Just. The Ellis name was to be found from the 1620's in Penzance and Redruth and in the Scilly Isles. And the Ellis name also cropped in Dartmoor villages such as Modbury, Chagford and Belstone in Devon.
An Ellis family in Cambridgeshire has been traced back to Bourn where they held a manor around the year 1500. They were prominent landowners at Meldreth in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Ireland. Ellis appeared as Elys in Dublin in 1283 and has recurred frequently in Irish records in subsequent centuries in Dublin, Cork, and in various parts of Ulster.
Patrick Henry Ellis from Dublin was one of the first English settlers in South Africa, arriving there with British troops when they occupied the Cape in 1795. An earlier rover was Henry Ellis, from an English family in Monaghan County, who became a slave trader and was appointed governor of the British American colony of Georgia in 1757.
Canada. Ellises from Ireland were early immigrants into Newfoundland, from the 1790's. The town of Elliston is named after the Rev. William Ellis, a Methodist missionary from county Down. William Ellis ran a construction business in St. John's and helped rebuild the town after a devastating fire in 1892. He was appointed mayor of St. John's in 1910.
Edward and Mary Ellis were early settlers in Puslinch township southwest of Toronto. Edward donated the land for the Ellis Methodist chapel that was built there in 1861.
There were a number of Ellises who headed west as the 19th century proceeded; such as Robert and Eliza Ellis who homesteaded near Fort Walsh in Saskatchewan in 1885; and Thomas and Sarah Ellis who moved to Calgary in 1886 and then onto Nanaimo in British Columbia in 1894.
America. Ellis Island in New York Harbor was the arrival point for immigrants to America in the late nineteenth century. The name was nothing special. A New York tradesman, Samuel Ellis, had bought the uninhabited island in the 1770's and gave it his name. But he resold the island thirty years later.
There were Ellis arrivals there or elsewhere on the East Coast from England, Wales, and Ireland:
the descendants of John Ellis were to be found in Sandwich, Massachusetts for many generations. A branch ended up in Maine.
Edward Ellis arrived in Virginia in 1636. Later Ellises settled in Tennessee and North Carolina. Daniel Ellis of Tennessee spun his Civil War stories into a popular book, The Thrilling Adventures of Daniel Ellis, that was published in 1867.
and Archibald Ellis was one of the pioneer farmers of Butler county, Kansas in the 1860's.
Texas Other Ellises moved onto Texas. In fact, by the 20th century, the state of Texas had the largest number of Ellises in the United States:
Richard Ellis had left Virginia for Texas in 1834 while it was still part of Mexico. He set up his cotton plantation in Bowie County, attended the Texas convention in 1836, and was the one who signed the Texas Declaration of Indeprendence.
William Ellis ran his sugar plantation in what is now Sugar Land before the Civil War on slave labor and after the war on convict labor.
while later arrivals included MG Ellis, who started a cattle business in north Fort Worth, and James Ellis, who was a property developer in south Dallas at the turn of the century.
Other Ellises. Ellis is sometimes in America a Jewish surname, probably originating from Lithuania. Abraham Ellis and his family were recorded as arriving in New York from Lithuania in 1888.
The name could also be Mediterranean. Toufic Kmeid was an immigrant in the 1920's from Lebanon who changed his name to Ellis (after his grandfather Elias). He started out as a travelling peddler and, after making some money, was able to buy his own store in a small town in upstate New York. In Kisses from a Distance, Raff Ellis chronicled this family history, his parents' marriage and migration to America and their struggle to raise a family and make ends meet during the Great Depression.
Caribbean. John Ellis was an early settler in Jamaica, having arrived there from Wrexham in the 1670's. The Ellises became one of Jamaica's leading planter families in Jamaica (as well as holding estates in Curacao) until the 19th century when their estates became saddled with debts.
The Ellis name has lived on in Jamaica - with Alton Ellis, the godfather of Rocksteady, and Hortense Ellis, who is acclaimed as Jamaica's First Lady of Songs.
South Africa. Patrick Henry Ellis arrived in the Western Cape with British troops in 1795 and married a local Afrikaans woman. They have many descendants in South Africa.
Australia. Elias and Rebecca Ellis were early Jewish migrants to Australia. They arrived from England in the 1820's and made their home on Pitt Street in Sydney. Louis Ellis became sheriff of Victoria and his daughter Constance one of the first woman doctors in Australia.
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Sir John Ellis was the forebear of the Yotkshire Ellises in Kiddal Hall.
Rowland Ellis led the Welsh Quaker migration to Pennsylvania in the 1680's.
Samuel Ellis (or Dutch Sam) is the boxer credited with having developed around 1800 the uppercut punch.
Richard Ellis was the signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence in 1836.
John Ellis was a prominent Quaker businessman in Leicester.
William Webb Ellis was the Victorian clergyman often credited with the invention of the game of rugby football while a schoolboy at Rugby School.
Dowel Ellis was the mayor of Johannesburg after whom Ellis Park, South Africa's national rugby stadium, is named.
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85,000 in the UK (most numerous in Essex)
70,000 in America (most numerous in Texas).
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Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha Adjourned On First Day Of Parliament's Winter Session
Before the lower house assembled, the prime minister walked up to the Opposition benches and was seen having a brief interaction with Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav, and others.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the opening day of the winter session of the Parliament in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018.
NEW DELHI — Both Houses of Parliament were adjourned on the first day of the Winter Session Tuesday after paying homage to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee and several sitting and former members who passed away recently.
Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan paid tributes to Vajpayee, Chatterjee, Union Minister Ananth Kumar and three sitting members.
Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu remembered the contribution of former prime minister Vajpayee, the former Lok Sabha Speaker and several former members.
Read: PM Modi Wants 'Debate, Discussion, Dialogue' In The Parliament's Winter Session
While reading out the obituary reference for Vajpayee, who passed away on August 16 after a prolonged illness, Mahajan said he was one of the most outstanding member of Parliament and enjoyed respect across the political spectrum.
In the Rajya Sabha, Naidu recalled the contribution made by Vajpayee during his long parliamentary career and as his tenure as prime minister for three times.
Both the House also paid rich tributes to former Lok Sabha Speaker Chatterjee and Union Minister Kumar.
The Rajya Sabha Chairman got emotional while reading out the obituary to Kumar. An almost similar scene was witnessed in the lower House where the Speaker paid homage to Vajpayee in a choked voice.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and most of the Union Ministers were present in the Lok Sabha during the obituary references.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi was also present in the House during obituary references.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and BJP President Amit Shah were present in the Rajya Sabha.
In the Lok Sabha, tributes were also paid to three sitting members Bhola Singh, M I Shanavas and Mohammad Asrarul Haque, who passed away recently.
The Upper House also paid obituary to its former members -- R K Dorendra Singh, Karma Todpen, Kuldip Nayyar, Nandamuri Harikrishna, Darshan Singh Yadav, Ratnakar Pandey, Satya Prakash Malaviya, Ram Dev Bhandary, Malti Sharma, N D Tiwari, P K Maheshwari and Baishnab Parida -- who passed away recently.
The Rajya Sabha also remembered those who lost their lives in the Cyclone Gaja in Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
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Functions like recruitment, performance management, compensation, rewards, collaboration, and recognition are rapidly moving to the cloud. Using a well designed SaaS solution can improve efficiencies by doing existing processes faster, better and cheaper. Additionally it can deliver cost-savings and benefits by enabling a rapid deployment of new solutions and processes, integrating seamlessly with other technology used in the organization and free up management bandwidth to focus on the strategy rather than get bogged down in execution problems.
Traditionally HR has been one of the last functions in the enterprise to adapt new technology. Indeed I still know a few organizations where important HR functions are run using good old Excel (and these are not start-ups with a handful of employees). Multiple copies of the same spreadsheet floating around in various inboxes and nobody has a clue which is the most recent version – you can imagine the situation when the organization wide annual appraisal happens. This situation typically arises because not too many IT resources are assigned to HR – in fact, sadly, most of the time there is hardly any dedicated IT budget for HR.
In an article published way back in 2011 – HR in the cloud: It's inevitable, Deloitte Consulting** pointed out that an astounding 84% of the companies they surveyed were transforming or planning to transform the way they handled human resources functions. The main motivators of this change were cost-savings (85%) and better-effectiveness (75%).
SaaS solutions are able to address the technology needs of the new age HR department while sticking to the IT budget the CFO wants and delivering the security the CIO demands. There are several practical drivers behind this trend of SaaS driving HR transformation.
Cost: Compared to proprietary solutions, the cost of deploying a SaaS based solution is substantially lower. The old approach would require not just investment in expensive hardware and software, but also in a team to maintain and upgrade the systems. In a SaaS solution, the product is typically available off-the-shelf and the costs are usually a function of the scale of deployment. Most SaaS solutions are multi-tenant and the supplier is thus able to deliver the solution at a much lower cost by leveraging associated economies of scale. This makes SaaS an especially attractive solution for small and medium sized firms with limited HR-IT budgets.
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While SaaS can help transform the way HR functions, there are a few pitfalls that organizations must be aware of. Remember SaaS as an approach towards technology, is an enabler and not a magic wand to fix all problems. While evaluating SaaS as a tool to take your HR function to the next level, consider the following.
As with any investment in new technology, HR should establish their requirements and business case for migration to SaaS.
HR teams should involve themselves in the overall technology strategy of the organization. Any solution that is deployed will deliver much better benefits when integrated well with other HR systems and technologies being used by other departments and functions. Today most systems talk seamlessly to each other but achieving this should not be an afterthought.
The cost benefit of SaaS is achieved when there is a rapid deployment of the solution and a tight feedback loop which enables further configuration or activation of new services as required. The difference between customization and configuration should be appreciated and embraced in the true sense.
HR-SaaS solutions are today enabling a radical redesign of HR delivery. The paradigm shift in the IT architecture lets HR transform their talent strategies, revenue growth and operational excellence while becoming competitive globally. Organizations looking to be market-leaders and ahead of the curve in engaging their workforce, should be cognizant of the emerging capabilities of cloud based solutions and take advantage of these flexible, scalable and affordable architectures.
Image courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos.net, *source: Wikipedia, **'HR in the cloud: It's inevitable,' is a single article extracted from a broader collection of articles from the Deloitte 'Human Capital Trends 2011' publication.


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Starlink satellite internet grants instant sign-up for eligible Canadians
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Depending on where they live, some Canadians can now sign up for Starlink's satellite internet service.
Starlink, the new high-speed internet service provided by Elon Musk's U.S.-based SpaceX firm, recently expanded its first public testing stage to Canada in these coordinates:
Latitudes (°N)
Alberta 49.0 – 51.5
British Columbia 48.4 – 51.7
Manitoba 49.0 – 51.1
New Brunswick 45.3 – 47.6
Nova Scotia 45.0 – 46.0
Ontario 43.1 – 51.0
Saskatchewan 49.6 – 50.7
But as Tesla North reported with notes from a Reddit thread, the updated Starlink registration website now asks users for their exact location as part of the invite process. Users within certain zones can sign up immediately. Currently, users in the following areas have seen the most success:
Ontario 44.52; 45.3; 44.1; 43.1
Manitoba 50.01
Alberta 50.71
Once approved, the eligible users can purchase the necessary Starlink hardware, which includes a satellite dish. The Satellite dish costs CA$649, and the service is CA$129 per month.
In a CBC article, some Starlink subscribers have reported service speeds of up to 150Mbps.
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunication Commission (CRTC) granted Starlink's operator, SpaceX, a Basic International Telecommunications Service (BITS) license in October 2020. The license allows SpaceX to provide telecommunication services in Canada but does not allow it to operate as an internet service provider within the issuing nation.
SpaceX granted basic telecom license in Canada
Starlink says it aims to establish a global network by using a massive constellation of satellites. The satellites float at low earth orbit, which both cuts down on signal latency and can more easily return to earth once they're decommissioned. But stargazers are worried that the massive amount of satellites could obscure the view of the night sky.
The company has expressed a keen interest in providing internet service to rural and underserved areas in Canada and the United States. It's currently extending beta testing offers in Canada, U.S. and U.K.
Starlink says it has launched 955 satellites so far.
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In the wake of the global financial crisis, monetary and fiscal policies were used aggressively to counteract the effects of the crisis on economic activity. Policymakers look at a number of indicators to guide them in assessing an economy's level of activity relative to its productive capacity. But trying to figure out the position of the economy in real time is often quite challenging, with consequences for setting policy.
Obviously, they didn´t look at the one that "tells it all"! That´s NGDP growth falling way below trend!
The IMF Tells the Bank Of Japan To Hit The Gas? What About The U.S. Federal Reserve?
The International Monetary Fund on May 22 badgered the Bank of Japan to adopt a more-aggressive growth stance, even though the island nation posted Q1 real GDP growth of 2.4%, and an annual inflation rate of 2.3%—along with an unemployment rate of 3.4%.
Moreover, under the leadership of Governor Haruhiko Kuroda, the BoJ is buying about $83 billion in bonds a month, a quantitative easing program equal in size to that of the U.S. Federal Reserves' Q3 at its peak—except that Japan has an economy one-half the size of the United States.
Fair enough. Maybe the BoJ needs to really pour it on.
Um. What About the Fed?
So, the United States' posted Q1 real GDP dead in the water, and many are forecasting Q2 not much better. The core PCE deflator is now running at 1.3% YOY, with headline deflation, and the Fed has not reached its 2% inflation target for seven years, except once, and that fleetingly. The U.S. producer price index has been in deflation for several months. The U.S. unemployment rate is 5.4%, and a squishy figure at that.
BTW, also from the Fed: "Industrial production decreased 0.3% in April for its fifth consecutive monthly loss." Capacity utilization is at 78.2%, below the long-term average.
Yellen has new definition of "overheat," and that is any room temperature warm enough to melt ice cream. And the IMF…well, what can you say. They appear seriously confused.
The International Monetary Fund's spring meetings are turning into a depressing affair. By April every year in the wake of the financial crisis, it seems the world's top finance officials and central bankers are busy revising down expectations for annual growth and navigating some brewing financial storm. And so it is in 2015. Washington's cherry blossoms are in full bloom and so is economic angst and frustration.
Unfortunately, world growth forecasts are still "shrinking", so it "could get worse"!
The focus of our conference will be instead on the architecture of policy when (hopefully) policy rates have become positive again, and most countries are growing and have stabilized debt-to-GDP ratios.
In other words, how will/should macro policy look once the crisis is finally over?
Economists are fast getting into the fiction business!


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The Eternal "Illmatic"
By James Guida
Hip-hop abounds with birthday references. Most involve partying, birthday suits, and, though food in rap is its own great subject, cake. Others are about hard times—Biggie Smalls's recollection that in childhood, "birthdays was the worst days," or Outkast's Big Boi on not being invited to the birthdays of his own child. Then there's "Life's a Bitch," a whole birthday verse from Nas. Like a lot of "Illmatic," the album on which it appears, the song is discreetly ambiguous. The chorus is, "Life's a bitch and then you die, that's why we get high / 'cause you never know when you're gonna go." Not the rosiest of birthday sentiments, but the song's other elements—the mellow production; the verses of Nas and AZ, the guest emcee; and Olu Dara's horn, at the end—all conspire to give it a twist. Quietly, the cynicism fizzes with hope. Nas had made it to … twenty. "Life's a bitch," the track says. "And yet, look, I'm here."
"Illmatic" came out in 1994. The album was critically hailed, but sales were modest (it only went platinum years later), and it at first seemed destined to remain the preserve of cerebral fans and rappers' rappers. Today, it's everyone's favorite. In honor of the twentieth anniversary, a new reissue is out, and Nas has been making the rounds performing "Illmatic" in concert, including two shows at the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra. "Time is Illmatic," a low-key and interesting documentary about the record's conception, opened the Tribeca Film Festival. Now with eleven albums, Nas has a fellowship in his name at Harvard; his voice stars—awfully, perfectly—in commercials for Hennessy. He's both bound to and a world away from his past in Long Island City's Queensbridge Houses.
Rap fans will be quick to point out that "Illmatic" wasn't the only memorable record from 1994, which also saw works by Pete Rock & C. L. Smooth, Outkast, Gang Starr, The Notorious B.I.G., and others. The Wu-Tang Clan débuted the year before, Jay Z two years after—how many birthday hugs do we need to give? Yet, with all respect to the field, "Illmatic" is a special case. The album introduced a striking voice—a diamond ground in the pestle of a filthy ashtray—with a remarkably assured delivery, the lyrics managing to sound at once channelled and rhythmically free. It united some of the best producers, cohesively, without opting for easy hits. And by serving one small, pressurized landscape as a whole, as if seen from every angle, "Illmatic" bottled a time.
The anniversary buzz is funny, though: it reminds you that the album was a salute to the music that came before it. Nas signalled this in the intro, with a snippet from the 1983 graffiti film "Wild Style," and an argument over an old-school song on the radio. After repeated listens, it's clear how ingrained the theme of tribute is throughout: the talk of park jams, the samples of past emcees, the bit in "Represent" that begins, "Before the BDP conflict with MC Shan / around the time that Shanté dissed the Real Roxanne," as though time unfolds according to a New York hip-hop calendar. But, wait—wasn't this some gangster-reportage rap, all crack vials and artillery? It was, and it was partly that content that made the eighties love unobvious. The beats were of their moment, while Nas's rhymes, even as they drew from un-shouting veterans like Kool G. Rap and Rakim, meant a whole new level of writtenness for the genre.
The album's cover has a seven-year-old Nasir Jones, a preternaturally adult glare on his face, transposed over the Queensbridge projects. In the music, Nas darts around in memory. He might be dwelling on the mayhem of crack ("I lay puzzled as I backtrack to earlier times"), flexing gangster bona fides ("I used to watch 'Chips,' / now I load Glock clips"), or just touching on childhood days in freestyle. The reflection rounds out an otherwise elusive persona, one that sounds young and old, and so equally involved and detached that it can be confusing. The voice of "Illmatic" boasts a crew yet seems solitary, celebrates the projects and draws them as a prison, talks hard while lamenting crime's havoc and saying that the streets have him "stressed something terrible." Improbably, this voice feels like a flood of real life.
Only part of what compels in hip-hop reveals itself with a literary comb, of course, and it's good to listen to Jon Caramanica, the Times critic, when he notes that " 'Illmatic' became something of a blank slate.… It became what the listener wanted it to be as much as, if not more than, what Nas intended it to be." But that doesn't mean that the album's strengths are all subjective. For one, there's the gift with phrase. Take "Memory Lane," in which Nas says that he rhymes "for listeners, blunt-heads, fly ladies, and prisoners." The first and last words are conspicuously formal, and by being sandwiched between them the slang ones flash their strange originality. Elsewhere in the song, Nas says that a friend was, quite simply, "shot for a sheep coat." In a few quick and understated words, the absurdity of the incident is pressed home.
"Illmatic" is also praised for storytelling, which is a way of saying that it contains "One Love." In that song, over a sublime Heath Brothers kalimba loop by way of Q-Tip, Nas composes letters to friends in jail, and then tells of returning from time away to find a twelve-year-old selling drugs on the project benches. The boy is in a jam and wants advice; he's already in deep, so Nas gives him a chillingly practical kind. Especially fascinating is how the elder views this "little bastard": he is dismayed that the kid admires him. Other tales are brief and go nowhere in particular, and yet they engage through their momentum and vivid touches. In "New York State of Mind"—a phrase that now evokes the nineties crime warren of Nas and DJ Premier as much as the nostalgia of Billy Joel—a shoot-out ends with escape into a building lobby. The latter is "filled with children, probably couldn't see as high as I be." Are the kids a further threat or just some random background pathos? The lines that follow could support either view, but either way the image is hard to get out of your mind.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, after such a venerated début, Nas's work has gone in all sorts of directions. He's adopted and shed a kingpin alter ego, rhymed some iffy sentiments over iffy beats, dueled with Jay Z, and courted controversy. But it only takes one song, like "Get Down" or "Made You Look," for fans to be reminded of the arresting singularity of his best stuff. "Life Is Good," his most recent album, grapples spiritedly with the present: there's a warm-hearted divorce track, plus one that reveals what it's like trying to raise a teen-age daughter who knows all about her father's life and music. Though the coming-of-age world of "Illmatic" was heavier, in a way, it was also simpler—qualities that may contribute to the record's appeal. When Nas performed it live after the film-festival screening of "Time Is Illmatic," he wore the clothes of his earlier self. It made for a curious picture, a sort of negative of the classic's cover: a portrait of the rapper long grown, now free to visit youth.


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STAGGERING IMPLICATIONS: THE DECEIT OF AHMED CHALABI
With no on-the-ground intelligence assets (meaning "spies") of our own in Iraq, the Bush Administration relied on the intelligence-gathering network established – at American taxpayer expense – by Ahmed Chalabi, the leader of the Iraqi National Congress, an organization of Iraqi exiles. Although Chalabi had not actually been in Iraq for over 25 years, the United States government paid him $338,000 every month – for a total of over $33 million – to set up and operate his network. It was information from Iraqi "defectors" supplied by Chalabi's network (and especially one particular defector who went by the code-name "curveball") that provided the Bush Administration with the justification it was looking for to invade Iraq – that Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of "Weapons of Mass Destruction", or WMDs, and programs to develop more. In return for his information, the Bush Administration placed Chalabi on Iraq's Temporary Governing Council – and on the fast track to become the new leader of Iraq. Chalabi was in fact so highly regarded by the Bush Administration that he was seated directly behind First Lady Laura Bush at the President's "State of the Union" speech in January, 2004.
It was just the latest in a long string of embarrassing developments in Iraq, however, when the Bush Administration began publicly distancing itself from Chalabi. Then all further monthly payments to Chalabi were stopped. A few days later, U.S. military forces backed up Iraqi security forces as they raided Chalabi's home and office – a raid that yielded computers, documents and the like. In a stunning announcement following the raid, the Bush Administration revealed that there is now "rock solid evidence" that Chalabi had passed United States military secrets to Iranian intelligence – specifically, the knowledge that the United States had successfully broken Iranian codes and was listening in on the Iranian military's communications. Broken codes are considered the "crown jewels" of intelligence-gathering, making this an especially grievous act against America. Bush Administration and military officials have told the news media that this information was so sensitive that "only a handful of top officials" had access to it.
So who among this "handful" gave the information to Chalabi? Did they have Administration approval to do so? If so, why? If not, will they be punished? As disturbing as these questions are, other questions raised by this situation are even more devastating.
The first question would seem to be obvious: Why did we trust this guy? Members of Congress, along with some State Department officials, had warned the Administration about him, but Chalabi had friends in high places at the Pentagon, such as Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, and Douglas Feith, and this fact seems to have carried the day. Now it turns out that Chalabi had already been convicted of bank fraud in Jordan, and can never return there. Did we not know this? If not, why the hell not? American soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines were put in harm's way based on this guy's word, and we didn't bother to check into his background? Whose brilliant idea was it to give him the time of day, much less $33 million and the trust of a nation? In another twist to this bizarre tale, Chalabi has also been indicted by Iraq's new government for printing up counterfeit Dinars (the old Iraqi currency). Chalabi, who was in – surprise! – Tehran at the time the indictment was handed down, says he is innocent and will return to Iraq to stand trial.
The second question is, in my view, the most troubling: If Chalabi is really working for Iranian intelligence, how long has this been going on?
The implications are staggering.
First, a little history: While both Islamic, Iran and Iraq are not ethnically alike (in general, Iraq is Arab and Iran is Persian), and they are nowhere close to friendly – the two nations fought a bitter 8-year war during the 1980's, a war that essentially ended in a draw (with the edge going to Iraq.). The United States got involved when we decided to "re-flag" Kuwaiti oil tankers to transport Iraqi oil out of the Persian Gulf under our protection (Iran had taken to blowing up tankers transporting Iraqi oil), by selling weaponry and supplies to Iraq, and by sharing intelligence information on Iranian troop movements and other information to Iraq. This was right after the fundamentalist Islamic revolution had overthrown the Shah of Iran (one of our closest allies in the region), and Iranian "students" had taken 52 Americans hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held them for over a year (releasing them the day Ronald Reagan was sworn in as President – the conspiracy theorists had a field day with that one). So, basically, we hated Iran more – at that time – than we hated Iraq. Iran's leadership has, of course, not forgotten whose side we were on, and had certainly not come to trust Saddam Hussein, who had started the Iran-Iraq war by invading Iran in the first place, and had even used chemical weapons against Iranian forces and villages (and his own people) during that war.
Now back to our question: How long has Chalabi been an Iranian agent?
Chalabi's former top intelligence chief, Aras Habib, is known to have ties to Iranian Intelligence, and the FBI is investigating whether Chalabi and Habib have been working for Tehran all along. Habib, it seems, has now "disappeared" from Iraq. If Chalabi has been an Iranian intelligence agent from the get-go, as now appears possible, then it seems that our involvement in Iraq may have been the result of Iranian manipulation from day one. Iran wanted spies inside Iraq; we paid $33 million to set up and operate a spy network run by an Iranian intelligence agent. Iran wanted Saddam Hussein removed from power; we believed the "information" provided by the Iranian-run spy network, invaded Iraq, and removed Hussein. Iran wanted to control a post-Hussein Iraq; we put an Iranian intelligence agent on the fast track to become Iraq's new leader.
Could it be that we were duped so badly? Is it really possible that the United States of America has been manipulated into this whole Iraq misadventure? Over 900 Americans have given their lives in Iraq, believing that they were fighting for America. What a compounded tragedy it would be if it turned out that they gave the "last full measure of devotion"… fighting for Iran.
UPDATE (1/24/2006): The number of Americans that have given their "last full measure of devotion" in Iraq has risen to over 2200, with over 15,000 severely wounded. No one is sure how many Iraqis have died – President Bush himself estimated the number at 30,000.
Chalabi was elected to Iraq's 275-seat National Assembly in the January, 2005 election, and made a run at the Prime Minister's post. He wound up as Deputy Prime Minister – a position he still holds – and played a significant role in the development of Iraq's new Constitution. In the December 15th Parliamentary elections, the first to take place under Iraq's newly-ratified Constitution, Chalabi was elected to the Parliament, and is now serving as Iraq's Oil Minister on an interim basis. That's right – an Iranian agent and convicted embezzler is now in charge of Iraq's oil. You've got to love the irony…
For more information on Ahmed Chalabi, click here.
© 2004 by David Bleidistel. All rights reserved.
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The Amber Amulet by Craig Silvey
Craig Silvey was catapulted into author stardom with the release of his award winning gritty novel, Jasper Jones (2009).
Authors often have a set formula which they follow in order to create the ultimate novel. It seems this is not the case with Silvey. His latest offering, The Amber Amulet, is different in almost every way to his famed Jasper Jones. The only similarity is that his readers, particularly the boys, will enjoy both.
In the age of eBooks it is a joy to see such a tactile book. Together the illustrator, Sonia Martinez, and Silvey have created this beautiful gem of a book packed full of letters, maps and illustrations. The striking front cover resembles covers of noir detective fiction.
The premise behind The Amber Amulet is to eliminate unhappiness, an insurmountable task for most, but twelve year old Liam McKenzie is not daunted, rather he feels it is his calling. As dusk falls Liam McKenzie transforms into the Masked Avenger of Franklin Street as he embarks on his mission to save the local residents. He turns off sprinklers, checks tyre pressure and even takes out the rubbish. Here's hoping this book inspires a generation of boys to save the residents in their street. It would be most welcome.
Beneath the humour of Liam's story lies a more intricate one. Liam realises that Joan, a lady in his street, is crippled with unhappiness. As any true Masked Avenger would, he feels it is his duty to eliminate the negative energy responsible for causing her state of unhappiness. He drops a questionnaire into her letterbox, as the Masked Avenger, and awaits her response. Is Joan finally in safe hands? Will the positive energy counteract her unhappiness?
The Masked Avenger must now rescue Joan. He straps on his Amazing Powerbelt full of the essentials necessary for the task. Precious materials such as graphite, nickel and other potent gems make up his power source. With his trusty Powerbelt in place the Masked Avenger will unlock his superpowers on the peaceful neighbourhood of Franklin Street. Truth, determination and strength are necessary to save the world, and Joan.
The Masked Avenger could not even hope to achieve world saviour status without the help of his trusty sidekick, Ritchie the Powerbeagle, whose Thunderjacket wards away dark energy. Together they patrol Franklin Street making sure that the balance between Good and Evil remains as it should and never swings towards the forces of Evil.
Full of pathos and humour, Silvey has written a touching story that celebrates childhood.
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In a high-performance setting, the family must rely on employees to provide ideas for continuous improvement.
We consultants used to think that the first step family businesses had to take when they grew beyond a certain size was to professionalize. The standard prescription called for establishing budgets and systems of control, job descriptions, a board of directors, and all the rest.
Today those requirements for structuring an organization are necessary but not sufficient. To survive in the business climate of the 1990s, a company must develop a high-performance environment. The two main elements of that environment are total quality management (TQM) and continuous innovation in products and services.
The path to quality management and innovative organization is well traveled. The basic principles for getting there are well understood and have been applied across industries and cultures. We know, for example, that quality products result when employees feel "ownership" in developing them.
There are many technical skills that need to be mastered in the search for total quality. Methods of measurement have to be set; employees have to be trained in statistical processes to control deviations from the norm; new sourcing methods may have to be adopted to ensure the quality of materials from suppliers. In addition, jobs have to be defined, as do standards of performance. And teamwork has to be encouraged at all levels of the organization.
To a great extent, creativity is the result of a defined set of organizational conditions. But many good ideas come from those closest to the work. A salesman, for example, may recommend a new product to satisfy what customers tell him they need. A line worker perceives that a small change could streamline an assembly process.
The modern organization must rely on all employees to contribute ideas for value-added service and continuous improvement in processes and products. And people will contribute more if they are secure in their jobs and feel their ideas will be rewarded.
1. We must stay in control. Family members often feel that giving any authority to employees threatens family control. "After all," they say, "it's our business and it represents all that we have." In fact, many family owners have a tendency to over-control. The organizational credo is "My way or the highway." 'Me emphasis is on punishing deviation from standards rather than rewarding achievement. In such an atmosphere, creativity does not blossom.
2. We have all the ideas we need. Family owners tend to say "We've been in this business forever — we must know best." Besides, they may add, "Haven't we been successful so far?" In the long history of a company, 99 percent of all innovations may have come from the top. But when a company gets big enough, the family doesn't have enough eyes and ears to see all the possibilities for innovation.
3. We are very private. To be successful at TQM, you have to share information. People need to know how their jobs relate to the work that others are doing, to what the customer needs, to management's plans and goals. They also need to know whether or not they are getting results, which means they need financial information. If you don't trust them with the financials, they may be unwilling to put their hearts and souls into creating a better company.
4. Father knows best. In some companies, a paternalistic attitude encourages dependency and immaturity. Employees behave like children and join in psychological games played by family members. This is hardly an environment that encourages an individual to take responsibility for work and offer ideas for improvements.
When businesses grow beyond the management power of a few people, the best way to maintain quality and flexibility is to decentralize some responsibility. That often means the family leadership has to get out of the way and let the people on the firing line do the job.
One successor once told me that he turned his family's insurance business around simply by telling his people to solve problems themselves and then giving them space to do it. The company went from a $6 million loss in one year to a $6 million profit three years later. Though he helped employees define problems, this man gave them credit for coming up with the great share of solutions.
The gap between TQM and family paternalism is a big one. But the effort to close the gap is full of possibilities. It requires a vision of the future that the family can share. It takes a lot of training, which is expensive. It demands a new style of leadership in which those at the top spend a lot of time in the trenches. It takes a concerted effort to pull down walls between departments and build problem-solving teams.
One of four favorite exercises is to take an entire middle management of a business away on retreat — without their bosses — and break them up into their work groups. We then pair up groups that have dealings with each other and ask: "When you think about your interactions with the other group, of what would you like them to give you more, less, or the same amount?"
In this exercise, the participants tackle the challenge of working directly with their counterparts in the other group, rather than through the bosses. A floodgate opens and many constructive ideas pour out.
Of course, the family must manage the environment in which these changes take place.
But for me, this means primarily establishing performance standards and goals, building teams, and doing what is necessary to break through the walls of passivity and to diminish fear.
The experience of being a leader in a family business is changing. In a TQM culture, the business is no longer yours to do with as you please — not, at least, if you want to ensure its continued viability. Materially, it may be yours. But in psychological and organizational terms, it must be shared with those who can help make it a success. All this takes some getting used to. But the payoff can be considerable.
The General Accounting Office, which does research for the U.S. Congress, recently did indepth studies of 20 companies that have employed TQM strategies. The study concluded that with the aid of TQM, these companies, on average, increased market share by 13.7 percent; reduced customer complaints by 11.6 percent; lowered order-processing time by 12 percent, and cut the number of product defects by 10.3 percent.
The competitiveness of many family companies will hinge on the successful adoption of these strategies. The clever blending of TQM with the family culture may produce uniquely dynamic organizations that can compete with the world's best.


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Course 3 of 6 in the International Business Essentials Specialization
This course provides the essential mathematics required to succeed in the finance and economics related modules of the Global MBA, including equations, functions, derivatives, and matrices. You can test your understanding with quizzes and worksheets, while more advanced content will be available if you want to push yourself. This course forms part of a specialisation from the University of London designed to help you develop and build the essential business, academic, and cultural skills necessary to succeed in international business, or in further study. If completed successfully, your certificate from this specialisation can also be used as part of the application process for the University of London Global MBA programme, particularly for early career applicants. If you would like more information about the Global MBA, please visit https://mba.london.ac.uk/. This course is endorsed by CMI
This course brushes the basics of maths such as equations, functions, differentiation and matrices!
It was tough but I learned very valuable understanding of the quantitative methods
An important topic in many scientific disciplines- including economics- is the study of how quickly quantities change. The concept used to describe the rate of change of a function is known as the derivative. In this lecture, we will define the derivative of a function, and share some of the important rules for calculating it.
Lecture: Derivatives - An Introduction4:29
1. Slopes of Curves3:20
2. The Geometrical Interpretation of Tangents and Derivatives1:31
3. Increasing and Decreasing Functions1:41
4. Derivatives as a Rate of Change3:03
5. Continuity1:23
6. Simple Rules of Differentiation2:05
6.1. The Derivative of a Constant Function1:29
6.2. The Graphical Representation of the Rule2:18
6.3. Examples2:32
6.3.1 Derivatives: Examples, Part 110:16
6.3.3 Derivatives: Examples, Part 36:40
6.4. The Power Rule4:32
6.5. Sum and Difference2:42
7. The Product Rule9:08
7.2 Matrices15:17
8. The Quotient Rule3:05
9. The Chain Rule6:25
10. Higher Order Derivatives2:00
Lecture: Derivatives - Summary3:37
George Kapetanios
Professor of Finance and Econometrics
Let's see some example incase we need to derive a constant,
the general rule is the derivative with respect to x of A is equal to 0.
And then the derivative with respect to x of 5 is equal to 0.
If g(x) = square root of 7, then g' (x) = 0.
In the case of the additive constant the latter disappear.
The general rule is the derivative with
respect of x of A + f ( x) is equal to
the derivative with respect of x, f of x.
The derivative with respect of x of 8+ f(x) is equal to f prime x.
The derivative with respect of x of f(x) minus 2 over 4 is equal to derivative
with respect of x minus two-fourth plus
f(x) equal to f prime (x).
In the case of multiplicative constants, they are preserved.
Then, y = Af (x) will be equal to
y prime = Af prime (x).
The derivative with respect of x of 6f of x will be 6f prime (x).
Minus f of x over 7 will be equal to the derivative,
with respect of x of minus f of x, over 7,
equal to the derivative with respect to x minus 1 over 7n,
f of x equal to the minus 1 over 7, f prime ( x).
A f of x plus B over C, will be derivative of respective x of A,
f(x) plus B over C will be equal to A f prime ( x).


There was a telling moment in yesterday's Prime Minister's questions when, after repeated attempts at interruption, David Cameron told Angela Eagle to "Calm down, dear". Cue faux outrage on the opposition benches at this sexist slur from our pig of a Prime Minister. Ed Balls made much of looking particularly upset, as if someone had made a pass at his wife. Well, I would. It reminded me of my days at the Polytechnic - or the University of The West of England as it likes to style itself - and the Labour students who would roam the campus, desperately searching for something new with which to be insulted.
But it struck me that if we're going to look at this silly incident seriously, it's the Labour Party's attitude to women we should worry about. Tim Farron, one of those nice Liberal Democrat MPs, recently gave a speech describing the "organised wickedness" of Margaret Thatcher's government. I'll pass on his obviously stupid commentary, but provide it as evidence of the nasty things politicians of different political parties sometimes say about one another. The front benches insult each other on a regular basis, and Labour's stance suggests they think women unable to cope with this hurly burly of politics. Now that's patronising.


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Without Blood es una próxima película de drama bélico estadounidense-italiana, dirigida y escrita por Angelina Jolie, y basada en la novela Sin sangre de Alessandro Baricco publicada en 2003. Está protagonizada por Salma Hayek, Demián Bichir y Juan Minujín.

Sinopsis
La historia gira en torno a Nina, quién sobrevivió a una guerra solo para descubrir que su trauma alimenta su venganza años después contra quiénes la lastimaron.

Reparto
 Salma Hayek como Nina.
 Demián Bichir como Tito.
 Juan Minujín como Salinas.
 Alfredo Herrera

Producción

Pre-producción
El 9 de junio de 2022 los productores Luca Fortunato Asquini, Luca Fortunato Asquini y Roberto Malerba anunciaron que estaban desarrollando una nueva cinta basada en una famosa novela italiana. El 10 de junio se anunció a través de GQ que la productora Fremantle había firmado un contrato por tres años con la actriz y directora Angelina Jolie para encargarse de un proyecto. Ese mismo mes se reveló que desarrollaría la adaptación a la gran pantalla de la novela Without Blood de Alessandro Baricco, fungiendo como guionista, además se dio a conocer que los mexicanos Salma Hayek —con quién trabajó previamente en Eternals— y Demián Bichir protagonizarían la cinta, a la que describieron como un "thriller de violencia y venganza". El 7 de julio Juan Minujín y Alfredo Herrera se unieron al elenco en papeles no revelados.

Rodaje
El rodaje comenzó en junio, teniendo como locaciones Roma, Basilicata y Puglia, en Italia.

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Enlaces externos

Películas rodadas en Italia
Películas de Estados Unidos
Películas de Italia
Películas de 2023

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Met PC who shared photos of dead sisters made racist cover-up boast | Metropolitan police
A police officer jailed for sharing photos from the murder scene where two sisters lay stabbed, tried to impress his friends by using racist language and claiming police covered up an attack on Asian men.
The private messages on WhatsApp from the former Metropolitan police constable Deniz Jaffer were discovered after he was arrested last June by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC). He and fellow PC Jamie Lewis were ordered to guard the scene where the bodies of where Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman were discovered in north London. Instead, they took photos, some showing the bodies, and shared them in two WhatsApp groups, calling the victims "dead birds".
Both men were jailed last week for two years and nine months after admitting misconduct in public office. The sisters' mother said Jaffer and Lewis had dehumanised her daughters for their own amusement by taking and sharing photos of them.
Sources confirmed that an investigationof Jaffer's phone after his arrest found he had used racist language in a message in which he bragged to friends about a cover-up of an attack on Asian men by white men. Investigators believe the cover-up allegation was most likely false and in interview he said he made it up, sources said.
In a message on 13 June 2020, days after he took and shared the photos, Jaffer wrote on a WhatsApp chat that five Asian men, whom he referred to using a racially abusive term, had been attacked.
In leaked extract of an IOPC report, which was first quoted by the Times, Jaffer wrote: "Three white fellas arrested for ABH [actual bodily harm] but we have had a chat off the record.
"We will release them under investigation and close it later saying victim unwilling without contacting the P*****."
That aspect was investigated by the Met. In a statement the force said it had no record of the incident nor any arrests: "The allegations relating to the WhatsApp message from June 13 2020 were investigated by the IOPC and MPS. The IOPC encompassed the derogatory racial references within their investigation of PC Jaffer.
"The Met's directorate of professional standards (DPS) investigated the reference to the alleged incident in the message sent by Jaffer but nothing was found to corroborate the arrests or that the incident had happened."
Jaffer had claimed the group he sent the message to were people he knew and trusted and contained holiday friends.
Jaffer, 47, joined the Met in March 2018 and had just over two years service when he took four photos of Henry and Smallman when he was supposed to be guarding them. He resigned on 18 August 2021, and was sacked by a tribunal in November and barred from being a police officer for life.
Before joining the Met Jaffer worked as a financial trader for 20 years and had claimed being a police officer was a lifelong dream.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/13/met-pc-who-shared-photos-of-dead-sisters-used-racist-language-in-cover-up-boast-deniz-jaffer
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Once I started reading this book, there was no putting it down. But I can't figure out whether to classify this as a murder mystery thriller or a book that talks about a very serious, common and close to home issue- alcoholism.
So I'm not going to talk about the murder mystery much, but about the subject that I thought the author wanted to highlight in the book, via the story of a murder mystery- the struggles of dealing with an addiction. I loved how the author has taken this subject from the point of view of the person suffering from it, and she has also explored multiple reasons of how and why a person can go down the route of an addiction.
She has shown all the darkness and social stigma associated to being an addict- in this case an alcohol addict and at the same time, she has tried to make sure not to brand her characters as good or bad, but as a shade of grey. I think she wants the readers to think, about these characters and how we perceive them in real life. She wants us to ask ourselves, do we know who we are? This was the part that I liked about the book so much, because it is a subject that is very personal to me as well. I have someone very close in my family, who has this problem, or should I call it a disease? I know this person since I was a child and I still think of them as one of my idols. This person is intelligent, smart, funny, and very kind. And yet, somehow came under the control of alcohol in the later years of their life. I can see how much this person wants to rid of this habit, but I can also see the helplessness in trying to control it now.
Coming to the murder mystery element, it starts with a very Jack the Ripper style storyline, but the ending wasn't what I expected to be- just in terms of the whodunit factor. But overall, I thought the writing was good, simple and fast paced (easy to read for readers like me whose first language is not English:)), and the underlying message was a strong one. Will recommend this if you can deal with the trigger warning of alcoholism.


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Chroly (; ) ist ein Dorf in der ukrainischen Oblast Charkiw mit etwa 2600 Einwohnern (2001).

Das 1917 gegründete Dorf gehört administrativ zur Landratsgemeinde Ponomarenky () im Rajon Charkiw.

Die Ortschaft liegt auf einer Höhe von  am Ufer der Studenok (), einem 20 km langen, linken Nebenfluss des Udy, 9 km östlich von Besljudiwka und 15 km südöstlich der Stadtmitte des Rajon- und Oblastzentrums Charkiw.
Südlich und östlich vom Dorf verläuft die Fernstraße M 03. Im Dorf befindet sich die orthodoxe St.-Nikolaus-Kirche.

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Ort in der Oblast Charkiw
Rajon Charkiw
Gegründet 1917


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Joining us now is Hussein Kanji. Hussein is the founding partner in Hoxton Ventures our young London high performing venture capital firm and who's saying welcome. It's fantastic to have you with us today. >> It's great to be here. >> You're on record is embracing the path to freedom and to self sufficiency for entrepreneurs, why? >> Well, the best way to control your own destiny is to be free of capital requirements or capital financing needs, which means that if you near the profitability you're get to control your own destiny. People should be lining up to give you money versus you having to look for money. It's always a much better way to be, but it's hard, it's very difficult for a company to got to that kind of scale. >> Yeah, so, if you can get to where you have customer traction. If you can get a young venturer to where there's traction, how materially, does that change the terms of which they can raise money from people like you? >> I think generally the more attraction you see in a the more condensed fashion, the easier it is to raise money. So it's one thing if you're, say, a software, as a service business and you're raising your first round of capital. Your first kind of institutional round of capital. The average benchmark is about a million of recurring revenue on an annualized basis, about 100,000 a month. >> If you can do that in the course, if you can get to the million in very short amount of time and get to 4, 5, 10 million AAR before you actually ever need to raise any capital. You end up with a queue of investors, because you're outperforming by a wide margin the market and everyone understands what the market is. And so anytime you out-perform the market and you can do it in a condensed period of time, >> You're in good shape. >> Yeah, it sends a signal, you're special. >> Yeah. >> And we're all looking for the special thing, >> Yeah. >> As it turned out to be unicorns. >> [LAUGH] so you sit in the heart of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in London. As you look at the concepts of businesses that are raising capital here, what kind of businesses do you see doing this process that you've described. Bootstrapping in the early days, getting money from customers, and then raising capital from institutions later. >> It's very, very, very varied. We've seen companies that are doing antique businesses. That's very popular right now, mostly because London has a lot of creative agencies, a lot of adverting here, and so you can sell technology into them. You don't actually need tons of capital to be able to build a product in those cases, you can find sectors. Harder to raise institutional capital mostly because those companies don't turn out to become the billion dollar companies of tomorrow. They turn to be acquisitions for other folks so they scale, but they scale up to a finite amount. So it's easy to get started hard to scale. We see a lot of software as a service businesses or companies that are selling enterprise software to folks. Again, in the old days it used to take 5 or 10 million in capital to be able to build a product. Today because of the Cloud, it's much cheaper. So those companies if they work they can actually motor and so we see a bunch of those. We see consumer business in London as well. Those I think, easy again to build product, really hard to scale because you have to fund your customer acquisition. And so once you start getting customers, unless you're one of these viral, very organically driven things, like a Facebook or a Dubsmash, that's one of the things that's scaled in Europe. You generally tend to need to put a lot of money behind customer acquisition, which means you kind of need an investor from day one. >> So, getting to scale, you argue requires money in those kinds of businesses, how about getting started? Can you get them started at some level without, outside Monty. >> Yeah, getting started in easy, getting started in enterprise software easy, getting started in consumer also very, very easy. Mobile development tools they're pretty widespread at this point. >> And they don't cost very much. >> They don't cost very much. Even putting together a small team of two or three people won't cost you that much money. The down side of consumer business is they don't generate revenue till they hit scale usually. So you've got to finance that loss for a while but the loss can be very minimal and to be fair it could be pure developer. It could be you and one other person, and the next thing you know you have something like an Instagram that starts taking off. The viral ones are very easy to do without any funding whatsoever and again those are the companies, the WhatsApp, the Instagrams, the Snap Chats, that had a queue of investors lining up because it's never getting traction without spending anything. The other ones tend to need money to come in through the door. You build the next generation travel site, very easy to build these days but you're going to have to go spend money on advertising to get people to to walk through the door. It's no different than say a retail business in that sense. You gotta spend money on advertising. >> Right, so Hussein, can we talk about an example there? >> Yeah, so one of my companies that I ended up investing in personally was a company called Yieldify. It was a super easy business, all they do is have a shopping cart abandonment tools. Something like 70% of the people that are shopping for products online don't bother checking out. >> 70%. >> It's really high, it might even be close to 80%. It's a very, very, very high number and the best in class guys, the Amazons of the world, know how to get you over the finish line and actually get you to check out. The average retailer online suffers from this. >> Doesn't know. >> They just don't have that DNA or technology inside. Amazon's very good about guiding you through the process. So these guys, young guys, at that point they're in their twenties, built software, and in fact he outsourced some of the development to Cairo so it was very low-cost. And built something, and then figured out a sales engine to get the retailers to start adopting this. They got to about 10,000 pounds a month when I was looking at them, come entirely bootstrapped. It was just them plus their developers, but they were generating enough money to be able to hire the and plus one developer and then after a certain amount of development, they came in plus one sales. By the end of the next year, they are doing about $800,000 a month in revenue entirely bootstrap. >> Still bootstrap and customer funded? >> Yeah entirely customer funded. 135 employees I think, no it might have been about 80 employees at that point and then they kept going and this is one that got to 800k a month, this is almost, almost 10 million ARR business. Skipped all the venture guys in Europe cause they didn't, the venture guy's in Europe would pay premium for them. Went straight to New York and actually the way found the New York guy's, they didn't actually pitched they got to New York, they started doing really well signing up retailers, so word of mouth spread and eventually. >> They got found. >> And they got found by multiple folks, at which point they call me and say, maybe we should run a proper process and talk to some more folks. So, they got found by 2 or 3 people and they talked to about 10 people and they raised an 11 million dollar round from Google and Soft Bank. And a pretty high number. But up until that point, minus a little bit of money that had been raised from some angels. And most of the angel money was not for the money, it was for the advice and the help. So it's myself and another fellow Robin Klein who was a partner at that point at index and that was his own fund. And they didn't raise very much from either of the two of us, but they wanted us there for [INAUDIBLE]. >> They wanted you on board. >> Exactly, exactly. >> Yeah. >> So and now I think is on track to do 2 million a month in revenue, another six months later. So phenomenal growth, I think now about 200 people. >> Fantastic story. >> Yeah. >> Yeah, what about SAS business? You have quite a number of them in your portfolio. >> Yeah, so the nice thing about the SAS business is, they can do this. So Yieldify is an example of a SAS business. I think the hard part about SAS is that you have to crack sales. So sales don't come automatically even if you're an online business. You've gotta do content marketing, you've gotta do direct sales, you've gotta do indirect sales. You've gotta build the machine and I think most entrepreneurs spend a lot of time building the software and it's. >> And not building the customer base. >> Exactly. And I think the customers will come. To be fair, most customers should come. But you've got to build a sales engine that's going to attract and you've got to do it in a low cost way that'll allow you to grow organically. It can be done. It's not as well understood in Europe as it is in the US on how to do it. because most sales guys here are order takers. Most sales guys in the US can actually build a book a business. Care if you're working for a large technology company, you tend to walk in the door and they've kind of already heard of you, and you're there to pick up the check and pick up the order, not to build a book entirely from scratch. So, our training here is a little bit different. We've found the best guys are really young kids another one of their companies which is also single digit millions a month in revenue. We invested nearly 100 k in under a month. They hire these kids, they train them up. >> Let them go >> Let them go, if the software is really good, the software will sell. You do need the person to knock on the door, be aggressive and hustle. But this offer will sell itself so there is truth to that to selling itself and you need the machine more than anything else. And that's hard. I mean that's the hard part about SAS business. >> Well, nobody said being an entrepreneur is easy, right? >> And if you do it well, you can do very well. So, that's the upside. >> What about subscription businesses, where people keep sending a check, other than SAS.


I was happy to kick off our 2012 wedding season at Grace Restaurant in Portland with Tracee and Chris on Saturday.
I was so impressed with Tracee's resourcefulness and DIY talents, including finding her adorable J. Crew bridesmaids' dresses on ebay and making her own gorgeous brooch bouquet. She was totally humble about it all, but it was clear that a lot of thought and care went into planning her wedding day. She's also beautiful and one of the sweetest people you could meet! She was just a joy to be with that day. And Chris pulled out some serious swing dance moves for their first dance, gotta love that.
I was happy to be joined by Steve as a second photographer at Grace and let me tell you, he came through in a pinch. I walked into the ceremony area, on the bottom level of Grace, and noticed a dumpster visible through a window right behind where the ceremony would be taking place! I mentioned this to Steve and he said "Oh, I'll go move it", no big deal. He put down his camera gear and didn't mind getting a little dirty to help out.
With all of the beautiful Grace Restaurant to themselves, Tracee, Chris, and their guests enjoyed great food and dancing into the night. As I photographed the exterior, many a passersby were oh-so-curious about what private occasion was going on inside. I'm just thankful I was included on the exclusive guest list!
Beautiful coverage! I love that massive group shot!
Megan's anniversary at emilie inc.