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"Unruly Relations" at Kunsthaus Glarus
Artists: Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda, Selina Grüter & Michèle Graf, Birgit Megerle, Stuart Middleton, Stefan Tcherepnin, Ramaya Tegegne, Jan Vorisek
Venue: Kunsthaus Glarus
Exhibition Title: Unruly Relations
Date: February 14 – May 8, 2016
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Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.
Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda
Jan Vorisek
Ramaya Tegegne
Birgit Megerle
Images courtesy of Kunsthaus Glarus
Friendships are determined by their ambiguous nature. In the context of art, they form social frameworks, are theme of the artworks themselves, are an (un)productive factor of artistic work and a determining element for models of community authorship. At the same time as they are invested with romantic notions of a bond freed of purpose, the possibility of failure is always inherent; they are fractious, uncontrollable, hardly calculable from scratch. This essential ambiguity of friendship also determines the relationship between objects, materials and narratives that encounter each other in any group exhibition and that are, at best, engaged in a dialogue. Unruly relations are self-willed social constellations that play completely different roles in the works displayed. The group exhibition Unruly Relations addresses the ambivalent nature of friendship as a social construction but also as part of artistic practices. Invested with romantic notions, the concept of friendship is a much discussed social model of the present, a principle that is both co-opted economically as well as publicly. The exhibition is not based on any specific theories of friendship but instead poses questions: What are the productive and unproductive possibilities of failure and success that friendship or more general social constellations and communication provides? What is the relationship between friendship and authorship?
Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda and Selina Grüter & Michèle Graf make their friendship or the wider community generated by it both the subject and material basis of their work. The conceptual practice of the artist couple Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda (born 1976 in Madison US and 1977 in Nagoya JP, live and work in Berlin) focuses among other things on mechanisms of artistic authorship and social conditions of artistic production and is based on their friendship, which dates back to the time they studied together. The series of flags displayed in the exhibition was produced to mark the tenth anniversary of their collaboration, for whose celebration both artists appeared as the main sponsors of a horse jumping contest in Ladeburg. The constellation of ten horse pairs always wears the same hats, but different ones on each flag. Some Made Up Names (2015) was produced in connection with the short film series The Sixth Year (2013), created by Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda in collaboration with other artists. It is a series on artists' careers and the New York art world, whose screenplay is based on real interviews, which are, however, reproduced in the film without references and as anonymized anecdotes and observations. The panel with arbitrary, possibly fictitious names suggests a social space of artistic production and reception.
The performance practice of Selina Grüter & Michèle Graf (born 1991 and 1987 in Zurich, live and work in Zurich), ever reflective of the aspect of performing, is based on the involvement of individuals from their immediate surroundings and examines the role of the individual within different communities and relationships. The two-part performance Cyber and Victory – An Incorporation for 11 Characters and Voice (2016) results in two videos each presenting a different subjective perspective on the respective live events that are shown in the exhibition. A group of performing individuals—drawn from the network of both artists—recites in a complex system of repetition and overlaying a short dialogue from Ken Russell's film Gothic (1986). The vocal space generated in the moment of reciting not only embodies the two characters of Cyber and Victory, but forms through the transcendent, yet individual voices an unique ‹voice› detached from the dialogue. The second monitor is only activated after the second performance takes place.
Birgit Megerle (born 1975 in Geisingen, lives and works in Berlin) portrays friends in her paintings but also wellknown figures she doesn't know personally. A private network is presented in artificial, stage-like paintings and juxtaposed with media codes as well as decorative symbols. The difference between reality and artificiality, between public and private is blurred in a form of painterly ‹reduction›. Through her practice Megerle questions not only issues concerning painting but also the imperative of the artist's particular social mode. Backdrop for New Theatre 2 originated as a stage set for the musical Hotel Moon (2015) for the New Theatre in Berlin, founded by artists Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff, where artists, musicians, actors, and curators developed collaboratively conceived plays, musicals, and performances.
Stuart Middleton's (born 1987 in Crewe UK, lives and works in Frankfurt am Main) sculptures, films, and models suggest communities and living environments defined by ‹sociologies›, without naming or evaluating these more precisely. The sculpture sad sketch for Raoul Moat (2016) belongs to a group of works of explicit yet ambivalent representations of interpersonal contacts. Knotted together limbs of multiple bodies form table legs on which simple round table tops are mounted. Conceived as objects in the process of falling over, created in papier mâche in a true-to-detail fashion, the outside and inside, above and below suggest social and public spaces encountering one another. The title Sad Sketches is a reference to the title of a series of drawings by the serial killer Dennis Nilsen making it possible to read them as metaphors for the visibility and invisibility of certain social structures. In the animated film I am just going outside and may be some time (2016)—a kind of interior monologue without text—being alone is a potential (or perhaps exemplary) form of sociality.
The two figures Protagonist From the Learning Movie (2016) and Fat Frog (Phantom Twin) (2016) by Stefan Tcherepnin (born 1977 in Boston, lives and works in New York) also make an attempt at socializing and retreating while traveling. The Cookie Monsters rise from his film Learning Movie (2014), where the Sesame Street protagonists wander through deserted landscapes and an equally empty restaurant in the form of a Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome in order to become, in the exhibition space, monumental, monstrous sculptures whose communication is monitored by the Committee (2016). Allusions to the Buckminster Fuller Dome are present in the lamps, which cast large shadows on the walls. The installation is a continuation of Hypocrisy Ladders (2014), an installation whose title is a reference to the Stendahl novel Black and Red (1830), which describes hypocrisy as an ambivalent social practice that contributes to identity formation in a highly productive manner.The works of Stefan Tcherepnin refer loosely to literary or other linguistic and cultural references. The artist moves between different communities of collaborators as a musician and artist and deals not least with the question of how forms of collaboration or the eschewing of such influence their own authorship.
Ramaya Tegegne (born 1985 in Geneva, lives and works in Geneva) explores the intangible factors of art production in her work often based on text and art historical references. She examines, for instance, the function of rumors and the role of friendships in artistic networks. Ménage à trois (2016) consists of furniture from her studio not currently in use. The studio is not only the location where artistic production takes place, but is also one of social interaction as a component of artistic practice. The book Reynaud-Dewar is a reprint of an out of print book by Guillaume Dustan. Originally published in French the novel Dans ma chambre (1995), is based on autobiographical experiences and reveals the intimate life of the author, which takes place here in a ‹closed› yet exposed space. Ménage à trois is not only an homage to Dustan, but also to the artist Lili Reynaud Dewar, with whom Ramaya Tegegne maintains a close friendship and professional relationship. Dewar uses the same text for her installation I Am Intact and I Don't Care (2013), where she reads scenes from the book in a bedroom installation.
Jan Voriseks (born 1987 in Basel, lives and works in Zurich) subtle spatial installations are created for specific exhibition settings and are therefore temporary. With these assemblages, consisting of used and found materials, as well as sound-producing devices, the artist reflects on the fluctuation of (recycled) materials and sound, in which fragile compilations of materials can be read as physical analogies and where a social use is inscribed in each material. Continually reappearing in material from terrace (2016), organized into collages, are popular symbols such as the hurricane emoji. These are recycled, openly interpretable (linguistic) signs, changing and circulating in various operating systems, which serve individualized, albeit standardized, ostensibly universal communication. In the pond in front of the Kunsthaus, objects reminiscent of miniature cocktail tables for smokers are transformed into elegant figures situated somewhere between minimalist abstract sculpture and the no longer decipherable functional object, stripped of its function.
Link: "Unruly Relations" at Kunsthaus Glarus
Tags: Birgit Megerle, Europe, Glarus, Group Show, Institution, Jan Vorisek, Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda, Kunsthaus Glarus, Ramaya Tegegne, Selina Grüter & Michèle Graf, Stefan Tcherepnin, Stuart Middleton, Switzerland
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You are here: Home » Blog » Health » Is Stevia Safe or Healthy?
We all know that sugar isn't healthy, especially in excess, but increased awareness about the problems with sugar consumption have led to the development and use of sugar substitutes.
Some of these substitutes are harmful, and some are beneficial alternatives. Most alternative sweeteners on the market are artificially created and have a host of side effects. Others, like honey or maple syrup, have slightly more health benefits than processed sugar but are still high in naturally occurring types of sugar such as fructose.
Unfortunately, while stevia leaf (in fresh or dried form), is a natural herbal sweetener, many modern forms of stevia based sweeteners are powdered and processed. In fact, popular powdered stevia sweeteners go through dozens of steps during processing from bleaching to chemical alteration.
There are two compounds in stevia that are responsible for the sweetness: Stevioside and Rebaudioside A.
Rebaudioside A is most often extracted and used in stevia powders and sweeteners, but it is not usually the only ingredient. In fact, most stevia sweeteners on the market contain added erythritol from corn, dextrose or other artificial sweeteners.
Stevioside only makes up about 10% of the sweetness in stevia but also has the unusual bitter aftertaste that many people don't like in stevia. It also contains most of the beneficial properties of stevia that are credited with the health benefits and is the most well studied.
To answer this question, it is important to differentiate between processed forms of stevia and the naturally occurring herbal form.
Stevia as the green plant that you can grow in your backyard or find as dried leaf or tincture form is considered safe and has even been studied and found to have health benefits.
Powdered and bleached stevia, though FDA approved, has not been studied and undergoes an extensive chemical process to reach its final white powdered form.
Another study found that stevia may have the potential to reduce breast cancer cell growth, though this hasn't been extensively researched yet.
Even in natural form, there are also some potential risks of using stevia.
It has an extremely sweet natural taste but doesn't affect blood sugar levels. While this would logically be a good thing at first glance, there is a potential downside to this. The body expects a blood sugar change when consuming sweet foods. Some experts speculate that it might be stressful to the body when it expects a blood sugar rise and it doesn't occur, though this hasn't been proven.
There is evidence that steviol glycosides have contraceptive effects in both males and females. In particular, one specific steviol glycoside, called stevioside, has been shown to have potent contraceptive properties in female rats, implying that stevia may have an impact on estrogen, progesterone or both.
While small and occasional consumption of stevia likely has little to no impact on general health, it should not be consumed on a regular basis especially by those with altered hormone balance and dysfunctional immune systems.
The only studies I found on this hormone aspect indicated that extremely large amounts of the Stevioside part of the plant would be needed to affect hormone balance (and Stevioside only makes up 10% of the sweet compounds in the plant), so I don't think this is a tremendous concern, especially for moderate or occasional use.
Even though studies show that only extremely large amounts of stevia would be needed to cause temporary infertility or hormone problems, I would still personally avoid stevia if I struggled with hormone problems or infertility.
No human studies have ever shown any problems from pure and natural forms of stevia and dozens of studies have shown potential benefits from it.
Personally, I feel safe using stevia in leaf form or tinctures made from leaf form but avoid the white processed and powdered versions.
What do you think? Does your family use stevia?
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professional experience With The Happy Show, he shared his rousing quest for happiness with the audience in 2016.The exhibition was a cooperation between the Museum Angewandte Kunst and the MAK, Vienna.It was curated in Vienna by Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel and was coordinated by … As my education progressed in the Design field I started to follow and research Sagmeister work more often and I realize that his work is unorthodox and sometimes provocative even very intimate in some cases. The Stefan Sagmeister collection is available beginning in November in the following formats 2 espresso cups at the suggested price of $65.00 2 cappuccino cups at the suggested price of … Stefan Sagmeister formed the New York-based Sagmeister Inc. in 1993 and has since designed for clients as diverse as the Rolling Stones, HBO, and the Guggenheim Museum. 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Sagmeister goes on a year-long sabbatical around every seven years, where he does not take work from clients. Long ago, Sagmeister, whose motto was "Style=Fart," replaced style with attitude. His motto is "Design that needed guts from the creator and still carries the ghost of these guts in the final execution.". Solo exhibition, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, 2003 She began coding and designing websites at age 11 and went on to study graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).. Career Sagmeister & Walsh. At the end of October, Sagmeister posted about Alex Gibney's investigative documentary Totally Under Control which took a critical look at the US government's response to Covid. His approach towards the solution of a design problem and his understanding of graphic design quickly turned him into a renowned star of the graphic design world. Sagmeister studied graphic design at the Higher Federal Institution for Graphic Education and Research. Sagmeister designed in Sri Lanka and through that, got a job at M&Co., in New York City. Sagmeister: We held our final class exhibit in a building called the light tower, a 10-story renovated factory building with an added 5 story glass cube on top, situated in the Friedrichshain section of East Berlin, a young area comparable to Williamsburg in New York. Toggle navigation Museum für Gestaltung Zürich . Stefan Sagmeister is a New York-based graphic designer, storyteller, and typographer. 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Solo exhibition, Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland; Solo exhibition, DDD Gallery Tokyo[2], 2012 Co-founded Sagmeister & Walsh with Jessica Walsh . this.src='Images/icons/social/insta_31_color.png'; Stefan Sagmeister is one of the most imaginative and original creative thinkers around today. The joke, according to Fast Company, involved having a sign language interpreter assigned to his talk "interpret a story about a manatee giving itself a blowjob", with repeated requirements to the interpreter to use gestures to indicate the sex act. He has designed album covers for the musician such as Jay Z, Lou Reed, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne and Aerosmith. He explains the often overlooked value of time off and shows the innovative projects inspired by his time in Bali. Artist, Designer | Sameister & Walsh. Sagmeister received a Grammy Award in 2005 in the Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package category for art directing Once in a Lifetime box set by Talking Heads. We will update you soon. Stefan Sagmeister (born 1962) established his own office in New York in 1993 after his education at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Stefan Sagmeister is also listed along with people born on 6-Aug-62. Join Facebook to connect with Stefan Sagmeister and others you may know. University of Wisconsin-Whitewater800 W. Main Street Whitewater, WI 53190-1790 Directory Assistance: (262) 472-1234 Maps & DirectionsCampus Building AddressesCampus InfoContact Us All Material © 2020 UW Board of Regents. New York-based graphic designer & typographer. He has also earned practically every important international design award. this.src='Images/icons/social/twitter_31_color.png'; Design Biannual, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, 2001 Georg Büchner Schule. FREE Shipping on your first order shipped by Amazon. The 1960s were an era of protests. $("#footer-social-youtube").hover(function(){ Menu. ** *On-demand October 21–22 only In 1993, he returned to New York to work with Tibor Kalman's M&Co design company. He has designed album covers for Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Jay Z, Aerosmith and Pat Metheny. Stefan Sagmeister Roadtrip Nation interview. One of the precious celeb listed in Graphic Designer list. ** David Tennant, multi award winning actor, shares his thoughts on creativity and where he finds inspiration. Stefan Sagmeister (born August 6, 1962) is a New York-based graphic designer and typographer. Having been nominated eight times, he finally won two Grammys for the Talking Heads and Brian Eno & David Byrne package designs. After earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts from RISD in 2008, Walsh moved to New York City. 1962 Bregenz, Austria; lives New York) is a designer who blends typography and imagery in striking, fresh, ambitious, and unsettling ways. Stefan Sagmeister: The Happy Film Pitch Book. Stefan Sagmeister Schedule From March 2-6, 2020 the inspirational and intriguing designer Stefan Sagmeister, recognized for his unusually provocative designs that tweak the norm and elevate the designer's role in society was on campus as the 2020 Annette and Dale Schuh Visiting Artist. In 2012 designer Jessica Walsh became a partner, and the company was renamed into, CARES Act Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund Reporting, The Annette and Dale Schuh Visiting Artist Endowment, 2020 Annette and Dale Schuh Visiting Artist: Stefan Sagmeister. to intern at the notable design firm Pentagram. Several years ago he decided to dedicate 25% of his work to the art world, things like books and publications for galleries, another 25% to the scientific community, 25% to social causes, and the remaining quarter has stayed dedicated to the music industry. – Stefan Sagmeister will present a lecture at 4:30 p.m. Monday, March 16, in the upper auditorium of Hillside Auditorium, on the University of Arkansas campus, as part of the Fay … Stadtallendorf. Stefan Sagmeister & Jessica Walsh have had a huge impact on design for so many people, myself especially. [4] Webstock organizers also followed this apology up with a longer statement on their blog.[5]. Sagmeister teaches in the graduate department of the School of Visual Art in New York and lectures extensively on all continents. Georg-Büchner-Schule, Stadtallendorf. Join us on Thursday, April 4, when acclaimed designer Stefan Sagmeister explores the essence of beauty and the transformative power of beautiful design while talking about the just-released book he co-authored with Jessica Walsh titled Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty.. Stefan Sagmeister, of Sagmeister & Walsh, is a designer and art director from Austria who currently lives and works in New … [3] The organizers apologized to the interpreter in person, and to attendees following the incident, and on Twitter. }); Sagmeister's love affair with graphic design started when he applied to the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Walsh was born in New York and raised in nearby Ridgefield, Connecticut. At the age 15 he knew he wanted to be a graphic designer. He has spent many years designing for the music industry. Good Design is Good Business is hosted by Adobe Evangelist Matthew Gyves. Establish experience as a credible form of education and equip you with the tools necessary to transform our world. Stefan Sagmeister. He has designed album covers for Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Jay Z, Aerosmith and Pat Metheny. The show transgresses the boundaries between science, design, and everyday culture, stretching across the museum spaces into the Toni-Areal. }, function(){ Stefan Sagmeister has long fit this "bad boy" bill. Mention his name to any graphic designer and chances are you will get enthusiastic words of admiration and respect… and with good reason! Sagmeister teaches in the graduate department of the School of Visual Art in New York and lectures extensively on all continents. }, function(){ It was shocking (and funny), but he had the smarts to back up the provocation—and it had the desired effect, both for his business and his reputation. Stefan Sagmeister is a Austrian Graphic Designer from Austria. Der Sohn von Vorarlberger Kaufleuten studierte an der Wiener Angewandten und in New York. [2], Sagmeister became the subject of controversy after his performance of a lewd joke about animal fellatio at the annual web conference Webstock in Wellington, New Zealand, in February 2017, embarrassing a sign language interpreter and upsetting some in the audience. The exhibition Stefan Sagmeister The Happy Show follows presentations at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania (April 4-August 12, 2012) and the Design Exchange in Toronto (January 9-March 3, 2013), and will open at MOCA Pacific Design Center on March 20-June 9, 2013. Early life and education. The show transgresses the boundaries between science, design, and everyday culture, stretching across the museum spaces into the Toni-Areal. this.src='Images/icons/social/youtube_31_color.png'; Stefan Sagmeister: "The latest negative tweet does not mean that we are living on the brink" We find the optimistic designer in reflective mood as he discusses new work with coffee brand Illy, taking on less commercial work and commuting (ascending his spiral staircase). Stefan Sagmeister. The Happy Show, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia[13], 2015 The Happy Show, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, 2015 The Happy Show, Museum für angewandte Kunst Frankfurt[14], 2018/2019 Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna[15]. }); One of the precious celeb listed in Graphic Designer list. He has designed album covers for Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, The Talking Heads, David Byrne, Aerosmith and Pat Metheny. ... Sagmeister furthered his artistic education in one of America's leading Art and Design universities as he received a scholarship at the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn. }, function(){ Postponed: A lecture by Stefan Sagmeister for March 16 has been postponed and is expected to be rescheduled in the fall. There, he became the senior designer with the "legendary" designer, Tibor Kalman. Stefan Sagmeister (born 1962) established his own office in New York in 1993 after his education at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.His approach towards the solution of a design problem and his understanding of graphic design quickly turned him into a renowned star of the graphic design world. Stefan Sagmeister (born 1962) established his own office in New York in 1993 after his education at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.His approach towards the solution of a design problem and his understanding of graphic design quickly turned him into a renowned star of the graphic design world. 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EC to Recover €180M of CAP Expenditure from Member States
EU - A total of €180 million of EU agricultural policy funds, unduly spent by Member States, is being claimed back by the European Commission under the so-called clearance of accounts procedure.
However, because some of these amounts have already been recovered from the Member States the financial impact of today's decision will be some €169 million.
This money returns to the EU budget because of non-compliance with EU rules or inadequate control procedures on agricultural expenditure.
Member States are responsible for paying out and checking expenditure under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and the Commission is required to ensure that Member States have made correct use of the funds.
Main Financial Corrections
Under this latest decision, funds will be recovered from 15 Member States: Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Finland and the United Kingdom. The most significant individual corrections are:
€ 40.4 million charged to UK for weaknesses related to the Land Parcel Identification System – Geographical Information System (LPIS-GIS), to the on-the-spot checks and to the payments and sanctions in Scotland
€ 39.2 million (financial impact1 : €30.4 million) charged to Poland for weaknesses related to the LPIS-GIS, administrative cross-checks, payments, application of sanctions, retro-active recoveries and the lateness of on-the-spot checks
€ 18.6 million (financial impact2 : €16.6 million) charged to UK for deficiencies in the allocation of entitlements
€ 11.5 million charged to Denmark for deficiencies in the LPIS and in the on-the-spot controls.
Member States are responsible for managing most CAP payments, mainly via their paying agencies. They are also in charge of controls, for example verifying the farmer's claims for direct payments.
The Commission carries out over 100 audits every year, verifying that Member State controls and responses to shortcomings are sufficient, and has the power to claw back funds in arrears if the audits show that Member State management and control is not good enough to guarantee that EU funds have been spent properly.
For details on how the clearance of annual accounts system works, please click here, and the factsheet Managing the agriculture budget wisely, is available here.
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Unnao woman, set ablaze by men accused of raping her, dies
A 23-year-old woman, who was set on fire by men accused of raping her at a village in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao district, died in a hospital in New Delhi last night.
The woman, who suffered 90 per cent burns after she was set ablaze on Thursday, died of a cardiac arrest at the Safdarjung Hospital at 11:40pm Indian time, reports our New Delhi correspondent.
Also read: Indian Vet's Rape, Murder: Police kill 4 suspects
"She suffered cardiac arrest at 11:10 pm and we tried for half an hour to resuscitate her but she could not survive and at 11:40 pm she died," said Dr Shalabh Kumar, Head of Department (Burns and Plastic), Safdarjung Hospital.
The woman, who was brought to Delhi by an air ambulance on Friday evening, had told the police that she was thrashed and stabbed before being set on fire by five men near her village in Unnao, including two she had accused of raping her and their fathers.
The victim was on her way to a court hearing in her rape complaint when the men surrounded her near a railway station.
She, in her burnt state, was conscious all the way to the hospital, where she gave a statement to the police identifying all five attackers.
One of the two men accused of raping her last year was granted bail 10 days back. The other man had been on the run. All the five men involved in the Thursday morning attack were arrested within hours of the crime.
The woman had said in her statement to Sub Divisional Magistrate Dayashankar Pathak that she was attacked when she reached Gaura turn near her home.
Harishankar Trivedi, Ram Kishore Trivedi, Umesh Bajpai, Shivam Trivedi and Shubham Trivedi set her afire, she had said.
She alleged that Shivam and Shubham Trivedi had abducted and raped her in December 2018. The FIR, however, was registered in March.
In a tweet, the Uttar Pradesh police had said the victim had lodged an FIR alleging that she had been raped between January 19 and December 12, 2018, by one of the accused on the pretext that he would marry her.
The sight of the woman running for help down an Unnao road sent shivers down the spines of local people. Ravindra, a local resident sitting by the roadside, said he called the police and the woman herself talked to them on phone.
The incident of setting the woman in Unnao on fire came a day after a 25-year-old veterinarian was raped and set ablaze near Hyderabad.
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Agriculture education programs spreading in Nebraska
By Associated Press - Sunday, September 6, 2015
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) - More than a dozen schools across Nebraska have added agriculture education classes this year, a change that teachers say reflects a growing interest in the state's largest industry.
State Director of Agriculture Education Matt Kreifels tells the Grand Island Independent (https://bit.ly/1XyAcIY ) that 13 schools added new programs this fall in the biggest jump since the 1950s.
And Kreifels said three other schools wanted to start a new program but couldn't because they weren't able to find a teacher.
"Agriculture is such a good industry to be involved in," Kreifels said. "That's one of the reasons we have people wanting to add ag and FFA to their schools."
The recent successes of farming in the state along with the variety of careers related to agriculture have helped boost interest in the field, the newspaper reported. Roughly 300 different occupations are classified as part of the field.
"They need people, future employees and business owners, to go into agriculture in order to sustain our economy," Kreifels said.
Juliana Loudon grew up in Lexington where her parents ran a feedlot and farmed, and now she teaches agriculture classes in Wood River.
"In recent years, (agriculture education has) been growing," Loudon said. "People are seeing a need for it."
Loudon teaches classes in natural resources, biotech and plant science and food science. She has a core group of 15 FFA members and an average class size of 17.
Dave Johnson, the agriculture education teacher at Doniphan-Trumbull, came out of retirement to help establish the program there. Previously, he had taught for 25 years in the Wilcox-Hildreth school district.
"It's a very progressive farming community," he said. "There's a lot of youths that are going to go back into the field, and it's a good thing for them to have the experience of agriculture."
The teachers hope their students will gain a better understanding of the field of agriculture even if they don't pursue it as a career.
"We need informed, proactive young people to spread the word about agriculture and what it has to offer," Johnson said.
Information from: The Grand Island Independent, https://www.theindependent.com


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ConsenSys Health Appoints Former HHS ONC Branch Chief, Debbie Bucci, as Chief Data Officer
Today, ConsenSys Health, a ConsenSys Mesh portfolio company creating decentralized patient-centric healthcare networks, announced that it has appointed Debbie Bucci to serve as Chief Data Officer (CDO), focusing on the utilization and governance of patient health and health-relevant information across the company's forthcoming Data Integrity and Learning Networks (DILNs).
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Bucci has served as the company's Technical Director, Patient-Mediated and Institutional Data Exchange since its venture-backed spin-off from larger blockchain concern, ConsenSys, on March 2nd, 2020. In her new CDO role, she will lead the company's efforts related to data quality, data governance, master data management, information strategy, and data science. In particular, Bucci's team will oversee the collection, analysis, protection, use, and dissemination of confidential health information processed by ConsenSys Health in its aim to accelerate the industry's advancement toward the learning health system vision.
Bucci has decades of experience in the healthcare information technology space, including most recently at the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), where she served as Branch Chief, Privacy and Security Office of Technology, Standards Division. An early visionary in the blockchain space, while at ONC Bucci was a prime mover behind the 2016 white paper challenge that helped launch this worldwide industry.
Before ONC, Bucci held leadership positions at the United States National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). At NIST, she was a Program Advisor for the National Strategies for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) Program Office. While at NIH, her key contributions included serving as Program Lead for the Integration Services Center, a interoperable middleware initiative that provided integration services between financial and grant systems in support of the broader life science research community. Bucci was also the Program Manager for NIH iTrust, the first fully-federated gateway validation and single sign-on (SSO) service in the United States Federal government. NIH iTrust was an acclaimed Federal service, a winner of the NIH Director's Award, the InfoWeek Top 20 Federal Innovators Award, and the Kantara Identity Deployment of the Year (IDDY) Award.
"I am passionate about extending my professional experience with health data integration and interoperability to enable a next generation industry data architecture. We are at an inflection point where it is impossible to ignore data decentralization approaches. As such, we have the opportunity to create a new, more equitable and inclusive data economy that benefits public and private healthcare and life science enterprises and patients everywhere," says Debbie Bucci, now CDO at ConsenSys Health.
The CDO role is an emerging executive leadership role where a key function is to govern the usage of health information. CDOs manage how healthcare provider and payer organizations access data, harmonize data definitions across data models, identify and integrate new data sources, and work to ensure the healthcare delivery system as a whole continuously improves data availability, quality and integrity.
At the United States Federal level, the importance of the CDO role has been recognized through the creation by statute of the Federal Data Council via the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018. Drawing on her extensive public sector experience, Bucci will play a key role engaging with the Council and its agency members to elevate and clarify long-standing healthcare information issues due for reconsideration in the rapidly advancing decentralized technology paradigm, such as patient privacy assurance, self-sovereign identity, transaction-specific fine-grained consent and delegations of authority, automation of data standardization and normalization, verifying AI training data provenance and AI explainability, federated-first decentralized data architectures, and more.
"It is my honor to recognize Debbie's substantive contributions to the industry and to ConsenSys Health and to further empower her in this strategic new role. Her tremendous range of experience at HHS and NIST, including her work with the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) and other aspects of the 21st Century Cures Act, makes her uniquely qualified to inform our continuously evolving offerings at the intersection of multiple families of emerging technology and health data. This is ultimately about unblocking each patient's ability to create personalized clinical value through the privacy-preserving aggregation, curation, and monetization of decentralized self-sovereign data. This is a primary function of our Data Integrity and Learning Networks (DILNs), beginning with the Veterans Incentivized Coordination and Integration (VICI) DILN, undertaken in partnership with Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services and the Linux Foundation Public Health," adds Heather Leigh Flannery, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ConsenSys Health.
About ConsenSys Health
ConsenSys Health, a ConsenSys Mesh portfolio company, is building next generation critical infrastructure for healthcare and life sciences. Their Elevated ComputeTM platform, leveraging decentralized AI, blockchain and confidential computing, is implemented to form Data Integrity and Learning Networks (DILNs)™ that address chronic industry pain points. A founding member of the Decentralized Trials & Research Alliance (DTRA), ConsenSys Health is focused on privacy-preserving clinical trials matching, e-consent, and precision medicine applications. They partner with advocacy groups to prioritize enhancing the wellbeing of underserved populations. Consensyshealth.com.


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Crêpes Choupette to return
Myles Odermann 1:18 am, Sep 07, 2017
Myles Odermann
Crêpes Choupette — the creperie that has won the hearts of Yale students — will soon return to campus, this time as a kiosk on the Broadway Triangle.
The Crêpes Choupette food cart closed in June after the city began enforcing new zoning regulations governing food vendors in the city. But now, owner Adil Chokairy plans to open a crepe stand by Dec. 1 on the parcel of land enclosed by Elm Street, Park Street and Broadway. The kiosk will function as a to-go eatery with longer hours and more dining options than the crepe cart was able to provide.
Chokairy, who currently only sells crepes out of his brick-and-mortar location on Whitney Avenue, said the stand allows Crêpes Choupette to return to serving crepes to its original customers: Yalies.
"When the cart couldn't operate, I felt a bit disconnected from my first loyal customers, who are the students of Yale," Chokairy said. "I feel super, super excited in being extremely close to everyone again."
In addition to being closer to students, Chokairy will be seeing them for longer periods of time. The crepe kiosk will operate during breakfast, lunch and dinner, extending hours late into the night until 12 a.m., he said. These hours are significantly longer than those of the cart, which was only open during lunchtime.
But like the cart, Chokairy's kiosk will sell both sweet and savory crepes, which will range from $4 to $8, depending on the customer's choice of toppings. The stand will add hot drinks, such as coffee, cappuccinos, lattes and hot chocolate, to its repertoire of products. The wider array of food and drinks, as well as the longer hours, is feasible since Chokairy and his employees will be working in an enclosed kiosk, rather than on an exposed food cart, he said.
The stand will be permanently located on the Broadway Triangle, which is managed by University Properties — the Yale-owned real estate manager of many retail shops surrounding campus.
"Yale University Properties is delighted to expand our relationship with New Haven resident and entrepreneur, Adil Chokairy," said Lauren Zucker, associate vice president for New Haven Affairs and University Properties, in an email to the News.
By working with local tenants such as Chokairy, she added that University Properties is committed to sustaining a "vibrant downtown" and supporting New Haven's economic development.
Chokairy expressed gratitude and appreciation for University Properties and the broader Yale community's trust in his product and concept.
"I'm extremely thankful to the opportunity Yale University has given me and am very thankful, as well, to my loyal friends and customers who are the Yalies: students and professors," Chokairy said.
Local crepe enthusiast Roger Lopez '18 said he is thankful, too, for the opportunity to again dine on crepes close to campus and for the diversification of retail options at The Shops at Yale on Broadway. Lopez added that he thinks Yale students will benefit from "the convenience of this new source of sweet and savory crepes."
And purchasing crepes could become even more convenient if Chokairy gets his way at City Hall, as he is currently trying to negotiate with the city to bring his crepe cart back to where it started — at the corner of College and Wall Streets.
Chokairy started selling crepes from his tricycle-pulled cart in June 2014.
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This Dumb New App Lets You Pay People to Eat Maggots
On Eristica, viewers can use cryptocurrency to pay "daredevils" to do stupid shit.
by Aleks Eror
31 January 2018, 12:12pm
Screenshots via Eristica'sYouTube channel
If Johnny Knoxville and Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel were to pool their respective talents to launch a tech startup, the outcome would look a lot like Eristica. The Russian platform allows users to set each other challenges in exchange for cryptocurrency, and since launching in 2015 has attracted some 1.2 million users and quickly filled up with videos of people snorting raw eggs and eating mould for the entertainment of faceless strangers.
Conceptualised by 25-year-old Muscovite, Nikita Akimov, Eristica is available on Google Play and Apple's App Store, and allows users to pick from a pre-set list of around 200 challenges before daring another user to attempt one. Whoever sets the challenge offers up some cryptocurrency as a prize, which is automatically released to the "daredevil" when video proof of the completed dare is uploaded. Users get degrading content, Eristica takes a 3 percent fee, everyone's happy.
At least, that's how it's supposed to work. At the time of writing, the transaction feature hasn't been implemented yet, but the Erastica team is currently in the process of an Initial Coin Offering – an "ICO", cryptocurrency crowdfunding – and hope to process transactions in-house once they secure some more investment. "Right now, the platform works without money, so people post challenges and do them just for fun," Nikita tells me over Skype. "They have an option to connect with each other and negotiate on the prize privately somewhere together, on messaging platforms. We don't really care – that's none of our business."
In case you're wondering who would debase themselves free of charge, most of Eristica's daredevils (who account for roughly 3 percent of its total user base) are prominent Steve-O imitators who already post dumb shit to YouTube and have a proven track record of converting self-degradation into internet engagement. Nikita tells me that the Eristica team specifically targeted these adrenaline-driven influencers (of which there are plenty in Russia) to drum up interest in the platform without having to pour bundles of cash into marketing. They've also helped draft many of the dares currently available on the app, which is part of the reason why they tend to be so humiliating.
Although Eristica also offers up entirely benign challenges involving skateboards and musical instruments, these, predictably, don't get nearly as much attention as videos of people drinking their own piss through a tea bag. When I ask Nikita why he thinks this is the case, he points out that "we would never have [had] this interview if I just showed you guitar tricks and skateboard stunts. You would see that and think, 'Oh, is this a video compilation or what?' Right?" Right.
Just as Jackass kicked up a moral panic when it first appeared on MTV, this aspect of Eristica's model has been a magnet for criticism. Chris Messina, a prominent Silicon Valley designer whose resume includes stints at Google and Uber, has compared the app to the technology that "the Unabomber warned us about". When I put these criticisms to Nikita, he seems entirely unfazed: "We provide people the platform, we provide the instrument for them to show off their talents. If someone decides that he's going to make bad stuff, we're going to fight that, but that's a question for society rather than the platform," he replies nonchalantly.
This stance is very much the default position across Silicon Valley. From Mark Zuckerberg's initial denials that Facebook-driven fake news helped elect Donald Trump, to Google's deflections that its anti-semitic search suggestions are simply "a reflection of the content across the web", Big Tech regards its platforms as inherently neutral, with any problematic consequences arising out of them being the fault of users abusing their capabilities, rather than any issues with the platform itself.
While this argument is full of holes, I can't help but wonder what sort of human being would actually pay to watch someone humiliate themselves for their personal amusement – especially when countless hours of such material already exists across the web. It's this personalised element that makes Eristica so twisted: when we watch Ryan Dunn shove a toy car up his ass, we are passive observers. But if you pay another Eristica user to go cook up a maggot omelette, you're an active participant in their discomfort.
According to Nikita, the majority of the platform's users are aged between 13 and 22, and roughly three-quarters of them hail from Russia, while the rest are scattered mainly across India and south-east Asia. The geographical component doesn't really offer much insight: the reason why Eristica is so popular in this region is because its creators actively targeted these specific markets and not because of any cultural peculiarities. But it's quite telling that its user base consists primarily of teenagers and those clinging onto a prolonged adolescence. This is roughly the sort of age that people do really moronic shit to impress their peers. Playground dares are a childhood right of passage, a duel of one-upmanship and bravado where we jostle for a position on the social hierarchy by proving who has the most bottle. Or, at least, they used to be, for those old enough to remember a world before smartphones and non-stop internet connectivity.
It's well known that social media has a way of mimicking IRL human interaction while quietly alienating us from our peers. As more of our lives are transferred online, certain rituals become consigned to the pre-digital past. But while these rituals may disappear, the impulse that drives them remains. This might be what makes Eristica so appealing to its users: it gives a generation who've grown up planking alone an intimacy that they've been denied by the internet era.
And therein lies the brilliance of Silicon Valley: for all their spiel about changing the world, what tech and app developers really do is drive a wedge between people with their products and then monetise our estrangement by charging us for the things we used to do face-to-face for free.
So, I guess, props to Eristica for spotting a gap in the market.
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How I Created an Edited Volume in Record Time: Less Than Two Years from Idea to Print
Many academics will tell you to steer away from creating an edited volume. Yet, judging by academic catalogs, clearly, some academics continue to create edited books. Why would any academic pull together an edited volume?
The reason is that there are some cases when creating an edited volume makes sense. I recently edited a volume for Oxford University Press and I will explain in this post why I did it, how I did it, and why I am extremely gratified to have edited this book.
I decided to create Forced Out and Fenced In: Immigration Tales From the Field because I had an abundance of rich stories from my research with deportees that I wanted to share. I thought about writing a popular book that highlighted deportees' stories, but I did not think that I had enough stories to fill a book. Moreover, I had just published a book based on deportees' stories and did not want to try and spin another book out of that research. I did, however, want to reach a broad readership with the stories.
As I thought about how to get these stories out to a broader audience, I asked myself if other researchers might also have stories that needed to be told. It turns out they did! When I reached out to my colleagues, I received an enthusiastic response both regarding the desire to tell these stories and to hear the stories of others affected by immigration law enforcement.
In this case, it made sense to edit a volume as opposed to writing a monograph because I wanted to highlight a broad range of stories of people affected by immigration law enforcement, and I wanted a combination of historical and contemporary stories. This kind of project requires a team.
It is also critical that the team was excited. This book gave the contributors an opportunity to share parts of their research that may not fit into a typical academic article or even a monograph. Forced Out and Fenced In highlights people's stories. The argument and historical context form the backdrop. The contributors were excited about the opportunity to try a different kind of academic writing.
This enthusiasm then translated into what might be the most seamless production of an edited volume in the history of book publishing. Forced Out and Fenced In: Immigration Tales From the Field was created in what must be record time due to the enthusiasm of the contributors and the extraordinary efforts of the team at Oxford.
This volume took only a year to put together—practically lightning speed in academic publishing. In early September 2015, I sent a note to Oxford University Press editor Sherith Pankratz to ask if she might be interested in an edited book on immigration enforcement. She said she was. In mid-September, I sent a query out to twenty-five scholars. By mid-October, twenty-one of them responded and said they were willing to contribute essays. The other four politely declined. I wrote a full proposal and sent it to Sherith, along with a sample contribution. She got back to me with reviews in mid-December 2015. By January 2016, we signed a contract.
I then reached out to the contributors and asked them to send me their contributions by mid-March. If you have ever worked with academic authors, you will find the next sentence surprising. All of them sent in their chapter drafts on time. We sent the full manuscript out for review, asked the authors for revisions, and they consistently met every single deadline multiple times. This is practically unheard of in academia. By mid-October 2016, every single author had sent me the final version of their chapters and we were able to get this book into production by the end of November 2016.
The book was released in June 2017 – less than two years from idea to publication—which must break all kinds of records for edited volumes in academia. I was fortunate to have secured contributors who are not only at the top of the field, but are also timely and responsive.
In case you are curious, the Table of Contents is below. If you are in the humanities or social sciences, you will see that I was able to recruit an amazing group of folks!
Foreword - Roberto Lovato
Introduction: Forced Out and Fenced In - Tanya Golash-Boza
Part I: Migration Histories: How Did We Get Here?
1. Wong Foon Chuck: Making Home in the Borderlands between China, the United States, and Mexico - Elliott Young
2. Lost in Translation - Mae M. Ngai
3. Rebel, Deportee, Governor: The Life of Antonio I. Villarreal - Kelly Lytle Hernández
4. Mexican Migrants, Family Separation, and US Immigration Policy since 1942 - Adam Goodman
Part II: Families Torn Apart: How Do Deportation Laws Affect Families?
5. Becoming American - Lisa M. Martinez
6. 'Til Law Do Us Part: Immigration Policy and Mixed-Status Family Separation - Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz
7. Double Jeopardy: Deportation and the Life-Course Rituals of Twin Sisters - Kara Cebulko
Part III: Living Without Papers: How Do Undocumented People Navigate the Challenges They Face?
8. The Law Doesn't Care About Love: Intimate Relationships in Cities with Restrictive Immigration Laws - Angela S. García
9. "It's a Strange Condition": Being in College Under a Cloud of Uncertainty - John S. W. Park
10. How Will I Get My Skull Back? The Embodied Consequences of Immigrant Policing - Nolan Kline
Part IV: Seeking Refuge: What Does It Take to Get Asylum in the United States?
11. "Is This America?": Asylum-Seeking in an Era of Humanitarian Decline - Sarah M. Lakhani
12. When American Dreams Are Shattered - Tanya Golash-Boza
13. The Power of Law: How Immigration Policy Shapes Salvadorans' Experience of Family and Motherhood - Maya Pagni Barak
Part V: Gendered Exclusions: How Are Deportation Experiences Gendered?
14. Gendered Exclusion: Three Generations of Women Deported to the Dominican Republic - Yolanda C. Martin
15. Caging Paloma: Illegality and Violence Along the United States–Mexico Border - Heidy Sarabia
16. The Ripple Effects of US Immigration Enforcement: A Young Mexican Deportee's Story of Isolation, Precarity, and Resilience - Christine Wheatley
Part VI: Deporting DREAMers: How Do "American" Youth Navigate Their Lives in Mexico after Deportation?
17. I Used to Believe in Justice - Juan Carlos Guevara, Angela Stuesse, and Mathew Coleman
18. No Place Like Home: From High School Graduation to Deportation - Alexis M. Silver
19. Call Centers, Transnational Mobility, and (Neoliberal) Citizenship - Jill Anderson
Part VII: Returning "Home": What Happens to Migrants Who Return to the United States After Being Deported?
20. No hay otro: An Ecuadorian Tale of Repeated US Immigration - Nancy Hiemstra
21. Barred Por Vida: María Inez's Battle to Find Health and Well-Being - San Juanita García
22. Sergio Rodriguez's Dream Deferred: Illegality, Deportation, and the Long-Term Impacts of Lives in Limbo - Roberto G. Gonzales
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The resource curse comes to Mozambique
By Other News Sources on June 10, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )
Hidden foreign aid to an incompetent and dishonest government is set to rob Mozambique of its gas treasure as no one can explain what happened to billions of dollars the country borrowed for a series of price-inflated, murky projects. The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) reports.
By Peter Fabricius, ISS Consultant for The Institute of Security Studies (ISS)
Mozambique, which was poised to take off as the world's third-biggest natural gas producer, is instead now teetering on the brink of a major sovereign debt default, which is threatening to jeopardise its eagerly anticipated gas-fired boom.
Barely a decade after international creditors wrote off over US$6 billion of loans to the country as part of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative, Mozambique is showing alarming signs of plunging back into unserviceable debt.
In April this year, the Mozambican government disclosed previously hidden, government-guaranteed loans exceeding US$1 billion (possibly as much as US$1.4 billion) to state defence and security companies.
As a result, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which had been working with Maputo to help it repay a previously disclosed debt of US$850 million, suspended the second instalment of a US$282 million dollar loan to the country.
Fourteen others donors and financial agencies who used to give direct support to the Mozambican state budget have also interrupted disbursements indefinitely.
This cut in foreign aid compounded a large drop in the world market price of some of Mozambique's key exports and of foreign direct investment. The result has been a severe shortage of foreign currency. This has knocked the Mozambican currency, the metical, down from 2.8 meticais to the South African rand recently to more than four meticais currently. Since most food is imported from South Africa, this will increase food inflation.
Mozambique is showing signs of plunging back into unserviceable debt
The loans to state or parastatal companies were secretly guaranteed in 2013 and 2014 by the previous government, led by President Armando Guebuza. The Mozambique Tuna Company (Ematum) borrowed US$850 million, apparently from Credit Suisse to buy 24 seemingly grossly overpriced fishing vessels, and six naval patrol boats from France.
Proindicus, a company which is supposed to provide maritime security to oil and gas companies operating in the Rovuma basin, borrowed US$622 million, mostly also from Credit Suisse but some from the Russian bank VTB. Mozambique Asset Management (MAM), set up to provide maritime repair and maintenance, borrowed US$535 million from VTB. This totals over US$2 billion.
But some analysts believe this debt could rise to around US$2.35 billion with further revelations. This has pushed public debt to alarming levels; US$11.64 billion, of which US$9.89 billion dollars is foreign debt.
Servicing the debt is already proving unmanageable. On 23 May, Mozambique defaulted on a repayment of US$178 million dollars to VTB for the MAM loan. The government had already restructured the other loans in March and is frantically negotiating to re-structure the MAM loan too.
President Filipe Nyusi's government is contemplating defaulting on the loans entirely on the grounds that they were illegally contracted by its predecessor, violating legal debt limits.
This week, the Mozambican Parliament is holding an emergency debate on the public debt. The Attorney-General's Office has already launched investigations into Ematum, Proindicus and MAM, and opposition parties have called for Guebuza's arrest.
An IMF team is expected in Maputo this month to assess the IMF's future relationship with the country. And Bloomberg reported last week that the international gas exploration companies Eni and Anadarko, which are among the biggest potential investors in Mozambique's huge gas reserves, were re-considering their investments in light of the expanding debt crisis.
'The uncertainty in country does create a challenge on the way forward,' it quoted Chris Bredenhann, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Cape Town, as saying. 'The project is pivotal for the development and growth of Mozambique.'
However, the same article also quoted South Africa's Sasol as saying it was forging ahead with its plans to spend US$1.4 billion on tapping its Temane and Pande gas fields in northern Mozambique; and pumping the gas through its 865km pipeline to South Africa's power-starved commercial hub, Gauteng.
Texan company Anadarko also looked likely to go ahead with its planned investment, the article suggested, though Italian Eni seemed more hesitant. Far richer markets than South Africa beckon, mainly in the East.
Judging by the history of its fellow lusophone state in southern Africa, Angola, the lure of huge profits will eventually bring energy investors to Mozambique, regardless of the integrity or otherwise of the government. So perhaps the real question of this debt crisis is, what does it mean for ordinary Mozambicans?
The answer seems to be that an incompetent and dishonest government will rob them of their gas treasure as it has robbed Angolans of their oil and diamond patrimony. For no one can explain what happened to the billions of dollars that the country borrowed for these murky projects. The harbour facilities in Maputo and Pemba, which MAM was supposed to build, have not materialised. Proindicus has apparently not signed a single contract. Last year Ematum – which was budgeted to catch US$18 million of tuna a year – caught just $450 000 worth.
And the government has just announced that the 24 boats will have to be re-fitted in South Africa to meet European Union (EU) specifications so it can export tuna to the EU. But how is it that boats supplied by France did not meet such specifications to begin with?
Analysts say a large chunk of the Ematum loan was diverted into security agencies. All of these companies appear to be fronts for the defence and security agencies, and most of the money seems to have been siphoned off into the bank accounts of senior Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo) officials of the Guebuza administration.
As IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde told the BBC last month, by hiding the loans, the Mozambique government was 'clearly concealing corruption.' So the debt crisis has not only economic, but also developmental and security implications.
Renamo (the Mozambican National Resistance) has once again returned in part to the bush, and is up to its old tricks of ambushing vehicles on the south-north highway. This week it opened up a new front, attacking a train.
The apparent theft of millions of dollars of state funds in the Ematum affairs will only serve to underscore its casus belli, that the Frelimo government is not serving the people's interests and should be removed – by whatever means.
University of South Africa law professor and Mozambique expert André Thomashausen says: 'The loans – at unusually high interest rates of 12% – have bankrupted the fifth most underdeveloped nation globally, according to United Nations Development Programme data.
'With less than half the loan amounts, Mozambique could have easily funded the economic and social developments and reintegration measures needed to turn the country away from the very imminent danger of a renewed civil war.'
The resource curse, which has ruined so many other African countries, is visiting Mozambique with a vengeance.
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Von der Leyen personally pays PR firm for social media advice
Critics say arrangement raises ethics and transparency questions.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen | Olivier Hoslet/AFP via Getty Images
By Cristina Gonzalez
April 24, 2020 6:25 pm CET
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is personally paying a PR firm founded by an-ex editor of Germany's Bild tabloid to advise on her social media presence, a spokesperson said Friday.
Von der Leyen first hired the company, Storymachine, to advise her in the transition period before she took over as head of the EU executive last December. The Commission disclosed von der Leyen is still using the agency following a report by Switzerland's Aargauer Zeitung.
Ethics campaigners criticized the arrangement, which they said is not transparent and raises questions about whether von der Leyen is trying to circumvent rules on hiring external advisers.
In confirming the arrangement, Commission chief spokesperson Eric Mamer sought to dismiss those concerns. He said the agency's role is limited to giving suggestions for improvement about every 6 weeks on items such as "how her personal appearance and range of her posts can be improved, e.g. via tags and links" and how to achieve the best mix of "text, video, images, templates, graphics, etc."
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"The service provider has no influence whatsoever on the political content of the social media presence. It also plays no role in operating the [social media] accounts," he stressed.
Critics questioned von der Leyen's decision to retain the firm, given the Commission's extensive in-house expertise and communications services.
Storymachine was co-founded in 2017 by Kai Diekmann — a longtime editor-in-chief of Bild who also previously served in the same role at weekly newspaper Welt am Sonntag — and two associates.
The Commission declined to provide details about the contract, including its cost.
"It is very strange for the Commission president to hire a PR firm in her private capacity," said Olivier Hoedeman, researcher and campaign coordinator at Brussels-based civil society organization Corporate Europe Observatory. "The president engaging an adviser in 'private capacity' could appear as a way to bypass the governance around special advisers."
The Commission has a procedure for hiring external special advisers, who are disclosed on the institution's website. But Mamer said those rules did not apply to an individual retaining a company privately.
He also insisted the arrangement did not raise any questions of conflict of interest. "She is paying the company for their advice, not the other way around," said Mamer. "Conflicts of interest generally works in the other direction."
Neither Storymachine nor Diekmann responded to a request for comment by the time of publication of this article.
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