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This Day in History – April 3 – Hijinx, Humor, and Insight
2 April 2021 by Gary Jenneke
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY… APRIL 3
1043 – Edward the Confessor crowned king.
He passed the crown on to his son, Harold, after having promised it to his cousin, William, Duke of Normandy. The cousin, William the Conqueror as he became known, invaded England and at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, took the crown.
I think our leaders should follow in the tradition of more descriptive names. Say Trump the….Nah, that's too easy, I'll let it go.
1860 – The Pony Express begins delivering mail and other communications between St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California.
It was in operation for only 19 months before the telegraph eliminated its need.
Some kids grow up wanting to be a fireman, or doctor, or astronaut, or whatever. Me, all I ever wanted to be was a Pony Express rider. Being born a hundred years too late put a severe crimp in that career goal.
1963 – The movie Mondo Cane is released in New York City. A documentary, or shockumentary as some called it, the movie depicted bizarre rituals from around the world.
Gross and exploitive, it was an international success, mostly because of hype and not good filmmaking. It featured bad taste rather than political correctness and such a film would more than likely meet with much opposition today.
Spring, 1965. I was living temporarily in the Southern California area after my discharge from the Navy. Saving money for a trip to Europe, I was renting a cheap apartment in North Hollywood. An elderly woman lived in the apartment below mine. She'd dress up in a gown, long gloves and garish makeup, and head out to who knows where. She reminded me of the delusional Gloria Swanson character in "Sunset Boulevard."
I had read about "Mondo Cane" and one Sunday afternoon I went to it. It was showing at what once had been an elegant opera house in Los Angeles. With two balconies, ornate handrails, box seats on the side, it was of magnificent design. Now it was fading into decay with torn, dirty seats and sticky floors. Turns out it was an appropriate setting to view "Mondo Cane."
Afterwards, disgusted with myself for having sat through it, I started to drive home. I had a small, red Renault, a tinny French four-door. Suddenly a woman ran out into the street in front of my car, waving her arms frantically. I stopped and she ran up to the car. "My friend, my friend, she needs help!" She was a very large woman and she spoke with a British accent. Thinking medical emergency I indicated I would help and tried to form a mental map of where a hospital might be. She ran off and quickly returned supporting her friend. Both women were tall and while the first was merely husky, the second was massively obese with mounds of flesh threatening to explode from a too tight dress. I also realized, with dismay, that they were drunk, the second woman helplessly so.
They both climbed in the passenger's side of the car. Now, I'm a small man. So with close to five hundred pounds of drunken womanhood on one side and just me on the other, the poor little Renault tilted at rather a pronounced angle. And when I started driving the car had a tendency to pull to the right. Woman #1 gave me directions and I deduced that we probably weren't going to a hospital. Both women were Brits, and both had about twenty years on me. Woman #1 became giddy, and then to my horror, flirtatious. Woman #2, jammed into the back seat, laughed hysterically for a while before it dissolved into a crying jag. I felt that somehow I had been dropped back into the middle of "Mondo Cane."
"Here, we're here," the first woman said to my relief. She opened her purse and showed me a bottle of Canadian Club and in a coy voice that didn't work for her at all, asked if I wanted to come up into their apartment. The second woman was still sobbing uncontrollably. I could be adventurous at times, but this was way out of my comfort zone and I declined. Now the problem became how to get the crying woman, who showed no inclination of wanting to move, out of the car. It occurred to me that maybe she was stuck. I was to leave for Europe in two weeks and had to sell the car because I wasn't returning to California. The car wasn't worth much and I thought about just walking away. Leaving it to sit on the street with a large, drunk, crying woman in the backseat and letting somebody else deal with it. Eventually however, she was persuaded and pried out and I made my escape.
And then when I got home I saw the Gloria Swanson character again. Dressed up in a lacy gown that swept the ground, gloves up to her elbows, lots of makeup, she paraded past me down the dirty, trash-strewn alley as if she were walking on a red carpet to a movie premier. I thought about following her to see where it was she went but then thought it would probably be too sad to know. All in all, it had been a Mondo Cane Sunday afternoon.
1858 – Matthew Ricketts. 1st African-American in Nebraska State Legislature.
1927 – Wesley Brown. 1st African-American graduate of U.S. Naval Academy.
1928 – Earl Lloyd. 1st African-American player in the National Basketball Association.
April 3rd, it seems, was a good birthday date for African-American pioneers. It's sad that we as a people have to mark these milestones. It is also sad that there are still those in our midst, even in our government, who lament these achievements, and are busy promoting language of exclusion that help some justify their hate.
Note: Gary Jenneke is going on a trip. The next posting will be around April 12th or 13th. Until then, enjoy Gary's other "Days" below.
ABOUT GARY JENNEKE
At various junctures of his life, Gary has been an indifferent grade school student, poor high school student, good Navy radioman, one-time hippie, passable college student, inveterate traveler, dedicated writer, miscast accountant (except for one interesting stint at a Communist café), part-time screenwriting teacher, semi-proud veteran, unsuccessful retiree and new blogger.
You can reach him at gary@newswhistle.com.
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* Edward the Confessor (seal) – Morphart Creation / Shutterstock.com – "Seal of Edward the Confessor, vintage engraved illustration. Colorful History of England, 1837."
* Pony Express (engraving) – Everett Historical / Shutterstock.com – "Pony Express rider passes a telegraph construction crew that put the overland mail service out of business in October 1861, wood engraving with modern watercolor."
* Mondo Cane (video clip) – Vulture Graffix / YouTube.com
* Outro (Man-In-Museum Cartoon) – SkyPics Studio / Shutterstock.com
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The 2020 Women in Rail Awards has become the latest victim of the Covid-19 epidemic as the charity has taken the decision to cancel the event for this year.
Originally planned to take place in May, the sold-out event was moved to 22 September at the same venue, London's Camden Roundhouse. However, the ongoing Covid-19 Coronavirus situation means it may still be unsafe for guests to gather in a closed space.
The charity had been looking forward to celebrating and rewarding individuals, teams and companies who, in the last few months, have made a significant contribution to improving gender balance, diversity and inclusion within the UK rail industry. The Women in Rail Trustees feel that cancelling the event is the right decision, given that the health and safety of all the Awards guests, their families and colleagues remains a priority.
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ASIA: Human Rights Mechanisms need practical actions on domestic institutional developments for administration of justice
ASIA: Actual protection of indigenous people within the framework of SDG Goal 16
BANGLADESH: Claim of economic growth without protection of human rights is a fallacy
MYANMAR/BANGLADESH: Rights, dignity, and future of genocide survivors at stake
BANGLADESH: Free expression and free assembly cost high price
BANGLADESH: Judiciary abdicates independence
INDIA: Government must end violation of bodily integrity and health of women
INDIA: Knee-jerk reactions to deal with violence against women will not help
INDIA: Human trafficking and threats to anti-trafficking activists a grave concern
INDIA: Human rights of migrants under threat
INDONESIA: Extreme poverty in Asmat regency has caused measles and malnutrition
INDIA: Right to freedom of opinion and expression deteriorating
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ASIA: Protection of rights of the minorities requires capable justice institutions
ASIA: Protection of children from violence and armed conflicts require sincere and comprehensive actions by states
ASIA: Failure to uphold truth and justice and prevent genocide would endanger the existence of human beings in future
ASIA: States encroach into personal privacy for so called security without securing the citizens' rights
ASIA: Protection of right to food is out of agenda as environmental rights are undermined for corruption-friendly policies
MYANMAR: Victims of crime against humanity deserve justice
ALRC/AHRC Alternative Reports
This section contains alternative (shadow) reports submitted by the Asian Human Rights Commission and/or Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC).
AHRC and ALRC Alternative Reports to the Human Rights Committee (HRC)
ALRC Alternative Report on Thailand to the HRC in 2005
ALRC Alternative Report on Sri Lanka to the HRC in 2003
AHRC and ALRC Alternative Reports to the Committee on Elimination on Racial Discrimination (CERD)
Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination India
ALRC Alternative Report on Nepal to the CERD in 2003
AHRC and ALRC Alternative Reports to the Committee Against Torture (CAT)
ALRC Supplementary Document concerning Torture in Nepal in 2005
ALRC Alternative Report on the Philippines to the CAT in 2009
ALRC Alternative Report on Sri Lanka to the CAT in 2005
ALRC Alternative Report on Indonesia to the CAT in 2005
ALRC Alternative Report on Cambodia to the CAT in 2003
BANGLADESH: Arbitrary Detention used as a complementary tool for the unelected government and a coercive law-enforcement system
BANGLADESH: Victims of Enforced Disappearances Denied Access to Justice
BANGLADESH: Access to justice amidst COVID-19 for pro-opposition litigants are dealt with draconian laws and discrimination
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MYANMAR: Protect rights, ensure dignified repatriation and justice of the Rohingyas
CAMBODIA: The roots of Cambodia's persistent rights violations: Impunity of the powerful
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CAMBODIA: Comments on the Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review of Cambodia
INDIA: Country must bring its missing children back
INDIA: Government must officially recognize manual scavengers in order to end the practice of scavenging
INDONESIA: Twenty two years of unresolved enforced disappearances while the offender enjoys impunity
INDONESIA: Protection of peaceful assembly and association needs serious evaluation
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NEPAL: Repeated tenure extensions of transitional justice bodies without much progress, has been frightening victims and national and international communities
PAKISTAN: Rising violence against children
PAKISTAN: Rights defenders remain at high risk
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PHILIPPINES: Acceleration of extra-judicial killings of jurists in the Philippines
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SRI LANKA: UNHRC view asking the Sri Lankan government to pay compensation to the victim of sexual abuse and rape.
SRI LANKA/WORLD: Josefina Bergsten's documentary "The Activist"
THAILAND: Unforgotten in Thailand – Ensure truth, justice, and reparations for victims of enforced disappearance
THAILAND: End Arbitrary Arrest and Arbitrary Detention against pro-democracy activists
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42nd Session - September 20`9, ALRC AT THE UN, Thailand, Written Submissions September 9, 2019September 9, 2019 admin
A Joint Written Submission to the 42nd Regular Session of the United Nations' Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre and Lawyers Rights Watch Canada
1. Introduction: Persistent impunity for enforced disappearances
A pattern of impunity for enforced disappearances1 persists in Thailand despite years of promises to ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (UNCED)2 and to pass legislation making enforced disappearance a crime.3 The United Nations (UN) Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) reports 82 unresolved cases of enforced disappearances since 1980.4 This number represents a fraction of Thailand's enforced disappearances since the 1950s,5 as families and witnesses remain silent for fear of reprisals. Those most vulnerable to enforced disappearances belong to minorities or indigenous peoples.6 Also at risk are human rights defenders (defenders) or peaceful government critics.7 Thailand's current laws foster impunity for enforced disappearance; when a body is not found, murder charges are not laid.8 No public officials have ever been held accountable for suspected involvement in enforced disappearances. The persistent pattern of impunity for enforced disappearances constitutes a grave violation of Thailand's obligations under customary international law and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) to which Thailand acceded in 1996.9
The risk of enforced disappearances is heightened by the practice of incommunicado detention of political opponents, suspects in national security cases, and suspected insurgents in southern provinces.10
This statement lists several disappeared persons, including lawyer Somchai Neelapaijit, disappeared since 2004; indigenous defender Porlajee (Billy) Rakchongcharoen, disappeared since 2014; Siam Theerawut, Chucheep Chivasut, and Kritsana Thapthai, pro-democracy political activists, disappeared since 8 May 2019; and several political activists disappeared between 2016 and 2018. Enforced disappearances constitute continuing crimes as long as perpetrators conceal the fate and whereabouts of the victims.11 Family members constitute victims of the crime of enforced disappearance and are entitled to reparations.12
2. Thailand's international law obligations and promises
In 2005, the UN Human Rights Committee (HR Committee) expressed concern about lack of remedies in Thailand for attacks against defenders, community leaders and others, "including intimidation and verbal and physical attacks, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings,"13 in violation of ICCPR Articles 2, 6 and 7. The HR Committee recommended "full and impartial investigations" and "adequate redress" to the victims and relatives of disappeared persons to fulfil Thailand's obligations to ensure effective remedies for violations as required by ICCPR Article 2(3). Effective investigations should be conducted in accordance with the 2016 Revised UN Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-Legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions (Minnesota Protocol).14
At the time of its 2011 Universal Periodic Review (UPR)15 by the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), Thailand announced its 9 January 2012 signing of the UNCED. Thailand stated its intention to seek Parliamentary ratification of the UNCED and to pass legislation to implement the treaty.
On 6 January 2016, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) called on Thailand to fulfil its commitments ratify the UNCED and to criminalize enforced disappearance in line with international standards. The UNHCHR pointed out Thailand's responsibility "to ensure the fair prosecution and punishment of perpetrators, and to commit to stamping out the deplorable act of enforced disappearances."16 During its May 2016 UPR, Thailand again promised to ratify the UNCED and pass legislation to implement it.17
Thailand's adoption of a draft Prevention and Suppression of Torture and Enforced Disappearance Act has been suspended since 28 February 2017 with no time frame for completion.18 The draft law requires revisions to ensure compliance with Thailand's international human rights obligations.19 In March 2017 the National Legislative Assembly unanimously resolved to ratify the UNCED.20 It remains unratified. In April 2017, the HR Committee expressed concern about delays in enacting criminal legislation to criminalize enforced disappearance.21 Thailand's government established a Committee to Receive Complaints and Investigate Allegations of Torture and Enforced Disappearance in May 2017, but this committee has not taken effective actions.22
Since 30 June 2011, the WGEID has made repeated requests to conduct a country visit to Thailand. Thailand has not yet accepted this request despite WGEID reminders on 8 November 2012, 2 September 2013, 28 October 2014, 27 November 2015, 18 November 2016 and 19 January 2018.23
Thailand's failure since 2012 to ratify UNCED or implement effective measures to investigate, remedy, and prevent enforced disappearances, allows for continued use of enforced disappearance, impunity for perpetrators, and denial of remedies for victims. Family members of victims whose disappearances have been inadequately investigated continue to experience violation of their right to the truth and denial of other remedies guaranteed by international law binding on Thailand.
3. Case examples
This section outlines prominent examples of unresolved enforced disappearances from 2004 to 2019:
a. Disappearance since 12 March 2004 of Somchai Neelapaijit, human rights lawyer, Vice President of the Human Rights Committee of the Law Society of Thailand, and President of the Muslim Lawyers Club of Thailand. Mr. Somchai was abducted by a group of police officers on 12 March 2004 and disappeared.24 Prior to his disappearance he had received death threats due to his criticism of martial law in Thailand's southern provinces. Thai authorities have failed to uncover Mr. Somchai's fate or whereabouts. Investigation has been marked by delays, lack of competence, procedural obstruction, and harassment of Mr. Somchai's wife, Ms. Angkhana Neelapaijit.25 Several police seen abducting Mr. Somchai were charged with "robbery" and "coercion" but acquitted by the Supreme Court. No murder charges were laid, as there was no proof of death. Thailand's Department of Special Investigation (DSI) closed its investigation on 13 October 2016.
b. Disappearance since 17 April 2014 of Porlajee (Billy) Rakchongcharoen, a Karen land rights defender. Mr. Porlajee disappeared on 17 April 2014 after National Park officials detained and questioned him while he was travelling to meet Karen villagers to discuss a court case alleging unlawful destruction of villagers' homes and property by a National Park official. Park officials claim they released him, but there is no evidence of release. Mr. Porlajee's wife, Ms. Pinnapha Phrueksapan, was subjected to death threats. On 31 January 2017, the DSI announced it would not investigate,26 but national and international attention prompted DSI to open an investigation on 28 June 2018.27 On 11 July 2019, DSI's deputy director-general stated that as "most of the witnesses are too afraid to speak out, we are finding it very challenging to obtain new evidence" in the five-year-old case.28
c. Enforced disappearances in 2018-2019: Siam Theerawut, Chucheep Chivasut, and Kritsana Thapthai," Thai pro-democracy political activists living in exile in Lao People's Democratic Republic (Laos), were reportedly detained by Vietnamese authorities for illegally crossing the Laos-Vietnam border in early 2019, and handed over to Thai authorities on 8 May 2019.29 Neither Vietnamese nor Thai authorities have acknowledged their detention. Their fate and whereabouts remain unknown. The three men are political activists associated with the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD). All three may be facing charges of lèse majesté (Penal Code Article 112) and sedition (Article 116) as a result of their political activism. A well-grounded fear of lèse majesté charges (considered political in character) is among the grounds for potential grants of refugee status by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.30The three are believed to have moved from Laos to Vietnam after enforced disappearances in Laos of political activists Surachai Danwattananusorn, Kraidej Luelert, and Chatchan Buphawan in late 2018. The murdered and mutilated bodies of Kraidej Luelert and Chatchan Buphawan were discovered in northeast Thailand in late December 2018. Enforced disappearances in Laos of Thai activists Itthipol Sukpaenin in June 2016 and Wuthipong Kachathamakul in July 2017 remain unresolved.
LRWC requests that the Human Rights Council urge Thailand to immediately:
a. Ensure independent, impartial and thorough investigations of all enforced disappearances in accordance with the Minnesota Protocol.
b. Accept the WGEID's request for a country visit in 2019;
c. Ratify the UNCED;
d. Ensure revision and adoption of the draft Prevention and Suppression of Torture and Enforced Disappearance Act in accordance with international human rights standards;
e. Guarantee protection from harassment for all relatives and others seeking justice for victims of enforced disappearances, and ensure reparations for family members of the disappeared;
Guarantee defenders in Thailand the right to conduct human rights activities in accordance with the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, free from judicial harassment, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, or other reprisals or intimidation, and adopt a law to protect defenders based on the Model National Law on the Recognition and Protection of Human Rights Defenders.31
[1] WGEID – 115th session (23 April–2 May 2018), A/HRC/WGEID/115/1, 16 August 2018, http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=A/HRC/WGEID/115/1&Lang=E;
[2] UNCED, https://www.refworld.org/docid/47fdfaeb0.html.
[3] UN Human Rights Committee, Concluding observations on the 2nd periodic report of Thailand: Addendum. Information received from Thailand, CCPR/C/THA/CO/2/Add.1, 10 August 2018, https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CCPR%2fC%2fTHA%2fCO%2f2%2fAdd.1&Lang=en.
[4] WGEID, A/HRC/30/38, 10 August 2015, p 13, 88, https://www.refworld.org/pdfid/55ed8ba54.pdf.
[5] Working Group on Justice and Peace, Enforced Disappearances in Thailand, May 2012, p. 5, https://issuu.com/wgjp/docs/enforced_disappearances_in_thailand_03; Tyrell Haberkorn, In Plain Sight: Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand, University of Wisconsin Press, 2018, pp 165-188.
[6] Human Rights Watch (HRW), Thailand's Failed Pledges to End 'Disappearances', 29 August 2018, https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/08/29/thailands-failed-pledges-end-disappearances.
[7] WGEID, A/HRC/22/45, 28 January 2013, Para 464, http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/22/45.
[8] LRWC, Thailand: Official impunity for enforced disappearances of human rights defenders, 20 June 2016, https://www.lrwc.org/thailand-official-impunity-for-enforced-disappearances-of-human-rights-defenders-statement/; Angkhana Neelapaijit, Impunity remains victims' obstacle to real justice, Bangkok Post, 12 March 2019, https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/1643044/impunity-remains-victims-obstacle-to-real-justice; Haberkorn, see note 5.
[9] ICCPR, https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b3aa0.html.
[10] HRW, see note 6.
[11] WGEID, General Comment on Enforced Disappearance as a Continuous Crime, A/HRC/16/48, http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Disappearances/GC-EDCC.pdf. Enforced disappearance is also defined as a crime against humanity in Article 7 (1) (i) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; WGEID, General Comment on the definition of enforced disappearance, A/HRC/7/2, 10 January 2008, para 26, https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G08/101/05/PDF/G0810105.pdf.
[12] WGEID, A/HRC/19/58/Rev.1 of March 2, 2012, para. 58, 60, https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session19/A-HRC-19-58-Rev1_en.pdf.
[13] UN Human Rights Committee, Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 40 Of The Covenant: Concluding observations of the Human Rights Committee: Thailand, CCPR/CO/84/THA,
8 July 2005, paras 10, 19, https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CCPR%2fCO%2f84%2fTHA&Lang=en
[14] OHCHR, Minnesota Protocol on the Investigation of Potentially Unlawful Death (2016), https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Executions/Pages/RevisionoftheUNManualPreventionExtraLegalArbitrary.aspx.
[15] Report of the Working Group on the UPR: Thailand, A/HRC/19/8/Add.1, 6 March 2012, http://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/session12/TH/A_HRC_19_8_Add.1_Thailand_E.doc.
[16] OHCHR, Zeid urges Thailand to fully investigate enforced disappearances, 6 January 2016, https://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=16924&LangID=E
[17] Report of the Working Group on the UPR: Thailand, Addendum: Views on conclusions and/or recommendations, voluntary commitments and replies presented by the State under review, A/HRC/33/16/Add.1, 7 September 2016, p. 3, http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=A/HRC/33/16/Add.1&Lang=E.
[18] WGEID 115th session A/HRC/WGEID/115/1, 16 August 2018, Annex, para 10, see note 1.
[19] International Commission of Jurists, Letter to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice, 30 August 2017, https://www.icj.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Thailand-ED-Day-letter-Advocacy-open-letters-2017-ENG.pdf
[20] WGEID, Annex, para 15, see note 18.
[21] UN Human Rights Committee, Concluding observations on the 2nd periodic report of Thailand. CCPR/C/THA/CO/2, 25 April 2017, paras 19-22, https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CCPR/C/THA/CO/2&Lang=En.
[22] WGEID 115th session, A/HRC/WGEID/115/1, 16 August 2018Annex, para 11, see note 1.
[23] Report of the WGEID, A/HRC/39/46, 30 July 2018, para. 135, http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/39/46; WGEID – 116th session (10–14 September 2018), A/HRC/WGEID/116/1, November 2018, para , 163, http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/WGEID/116/1
[24] See a timeline of the cases of Mr. Somchai and Mr. Porlajee until June 2016 at LRWC, see note 8; International Commission of Jurists, Ten Years Without Truth: Somchai Neelapaijit and Enforced Disappearances in Thailand, March 2014, https://www.icj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Ten-Years-Without-Truth-Somchai-Neelapaijit-and-Enforced-Disappearances-in-Thailand-report-2014.pdf.
[25] Ibid ICJ and LRWC; UN SG 2018 report on reprisals, A/HRC/39/41, Annex I. 16, para. 53, http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/39/41.
[26] DSI refuses to accept case of disappeared Karen activist, Prachatai, 31 January 2019, https://prachatai.com/english/node/6886.
[27] Cross Cultural Foundation. Fifth anniversary of Porlajee "Billy" Rakchongcharoen's enforced disappearance shows Thailand has failed to investigate this crime and bring perpetrators to justice, 18 April 2019, https://voicefromthais.wordpress.com/2019/04/18/public-statement-fifth-anniversary-of-porlajee-billy-rakchongcharoens-enforced-disappearance-shows-thailand-has-failed-to-investigate-this-crime-and-bring-perpetrators-to-j/.
[28] DSI admits 'difficulties' in solving activist's disappearance, The Nation, 11 July 2019, https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30372830.
[29] Siam's parents are demanding help from agencies to search for their son, TLHR, 14 May 2019 https://www.tlhr2014.com/?p=12366&lang=en; Unknown fate for 3 more Thai Dissidents, ILaw, 23 May 2019, https://freedom.ilaw.or.th/en/blog/unknown-fate-3-more-thai-dissidents; Human Rights Watch, Thailand: Critics Feared 'Disappeared', 9 May 2019, https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/05/09/thailand-critics-feared-disappeared.
[30] UNHCR, Guidance Note on Refugee Claims Relating to Crimes of Lèse Majesté and Similar Criminal Offences, 2015, https://www.refworld.org/docid/55ee8a254.html.
[31] International Service for Human Rights, Model National Law on the Recognition and Protection of Human Rights Defenders, 2016, https://academy.ishr.ch/upload/resources_and_tools/ishr_Model_Law_for_the_recognition_and_protection_of_human_rights_defenders_en.pdf.
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WATCH: Daya Talks About Fame, Meeting James Corden, Staying Humble & More
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Daya is only 18 years old, but she has already done so much in her young career. The "Sit Still, Look Pretty" singer sat down with us backstage at the Firefly Music Festival this weekend for an exclusive interview.
Daya collaborated with the Chainsmokers on "Don't Let Me Down," and the song won the GRAMMY for Best Dance Recording earlier this year. She told us that it sounds weird when somebody refers to her as a "GRAMMY winner," but she still has met her fair share of condescending people.
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NH should accept planning grant
Serious doubts persist over the ability of a health insurance exchange to help lower costs in New Hampshire under President Obama's health care bill.
Nonetheless, the Governor's Executive Council should approve a request by N.H. Insurance Commissioner Roger Sevigny to accept federal grant money. The funds would be used to make plans for the exchange, which has a deadline of 2012.
Twice before, Sevigny has placed the issue on the council's agenda, explained Fred Kocher of AARP. Both times, Sevigny has pulled it because there weren't enough votes to accept approximately $600,000 of the $1 million allocated to New Hampshire.
Acceptance is urged because it comes with no strings and no added costs to New Hampshire. Should the Granite State fail to plan its own exchange, the health care bill gives the federal government the authority to do so on the state's behalf.
It is that loss of control which concerns Kocher, along with Jeanne Ryer and Karen Ager with the Endowment for Health.
Given the government mandate for the health care bill, which has yet to be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, it would be judicious for the Executive Council members to accept the grant money and start the planning. Regardless of one's feelings regarding the new health care bill, New Hampshire would be remiss in at least not planning for its implementation.
Geraldine Ferraro's legacy
Former vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro died late last week after a fight with cancer. With her vanished one more vestige of the civil age of dialogue which once held sway in American politics.
While the presidential ticket of Walter Mondale and Ferraro was decidedly to the left, it was not so consumed with its own ego as to prohibit a campaign based on the issues.
For Ferraro's part, her tone and demeanor paved a smoother way for her gender — Hillary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice and others.
While Ferraro never served as vice-president after the ticket's loss to Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, she let it be known there was no longer room for gender bias when running for high office, let alone any office.
Ferraro broke barriers for women and Italians in the way John F. Kennedy did for Irish Catholics.
Beyond the impact of being the first woman vice-presidential candidate for a major party, Ferraro was a class act. This was perhaps best exemplified in her dying days as she went public with her battle against blood cancer to set an example for others and promote more research.
Geraldine Ferraro will be missed — as a politician, mother, grandmother and role model. But the impact she has had on society and politics will live on.
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Kids These Days: Generation Z Most Conservative Since WWII
by motivatedandfree Nov 13, 2018 Nov 13, 2018
Around the world.
For at least a decade, Millennials have been stereotyped as lazy, entitled, and stuck on social media. In Nigeria, our President had already tagged us to be lazy youths with no ambition. While that may not be entirely fair, they are notoriously liberal, overwhelmingly supporting left-leaning candidates and favoring policies like nationalized healthcare and same-sex "marriage."
But Millennials are also getting old—relatively speaking. The first are now reaching the ripe old age of thirty-five! And sometime between 1995 and 2000, the millennial generation ended, or at least stopped being born, and a new generation began.
Members of "Generation Z" are now beginning to graduate high school, and 2016 was the first time any of them were old enough to vote. At seventy million and counting, they're also about to outnumber their predecessors.
So, what's so intriguing about this new brood? Well, according to a growing body of research, they may be, by certain measures, the most conservative generation since World War II—more than Millennials, Generation Xers and even the Baby-Boomers.
Millennials were raised in a time of roaring prosperity, when video cassettes were a bigger influence than digital technology, and many came of age before the age of radical Islamic terror. Gen Z kids, by contrast, are "digital natives." They've never known life without the Internet, and have grown up surrounded by instant access to the world's harsh realities on their smart phones.
These young people are products of conflict and recession. They can only remember a news cycle "marred by economic stress, rising student debt… and war overseas." As a result, they've taken on what one team of Goldman-Sachs analysts called a "more pragmatic" and conservative outlook on the world.
Of course, generalizations at this stage are very early and very subject to development.
And get this: According to one British study conducted by global consultancy firm, The Guild, almost sixty percent of Gen Z respondents in the U.K. described their views on "same-sex marriage, transgender rights and marijuana legalization" as "conservative" or "moderate," compared with a whopping 83% of Millennials who called themselves "quite" or "very liberal" on these issues. The Gen Z participants were even ten times more likely than Millennials to dislike tattoos and body piercings!
These are good trends, but these students still need discipleship and catechesis. A tendency toward traditional values, by itself, means nothing unless those who believe in revealed Truth, the Gospel, the natural family, and political and religious liberty step forward and train the next generation to articulate and live out these truths.
What is clear from this emerging data about the young is that they don't fit neatly into rhetoric about the "right side of history." As Columbia University sociologist, Musa Al-Gharbi writes, trends like this are deeply troubling for those so recently crowing that the future belonged to one political party.
No one knows what the future holds, except the One Who holds the future! And the fact that so many were apparently wrong about the right side of history is just another reminder that He alone is God, Whom the Psalmist called "faithful throughout all generations."
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In the second part of our look at Tottenham' s connections with Argentina we discover some more games with their club sides, some guest players and a steam ship.
But we start with our last meeting with one of their sides which occurred in South Korea.
The last time we met a side from that country was in 2005 when the famous Boca Juniors were our opponents in a 2-2 draw during the Peace Cup held in South Korea. 2005. Mido and Defoe scoring for us that day as we went on to win the trophy.
As well as Ossie singing 'Come on Tottingham" which is how he pronounced it when he first arrived in the country even thou he now said it correctly he recreated it for the recording. Sadly his return to the club as manager and his desire to play beautiful football arrived at the same time as off the field problems for Spurs and his reign only lasted from June 1993 to November 94.
Hoddle & Waddle, as well as future Spurs players Fenwick, Hodge and Lineker all played for England in the 'Hand of God' game at the World Cup in 1986.
In which one of the most famous players in the world Maradona showed the ugly side of his game.
Right - Maradona in a Spurs shirt.
Another South American legend and team mate from the 1978 World Cup Mario Kempes played for Spurs on trial in 1984. At thirty years of age he played in a game V Enfield but didn't score in our 7-0 win. He had previously played on our tour in Norway and scored a hat trick V Stjordal Blink. He also featured in a game in France. Enfield was however his only UK appearance.
Other England V Argentina connections - 1991 Gary Lineker captained and scored for England in a 2-2 draw.
Then in 2000 when the teams drew 0-0 at Wembley one of the Argentinean substitutes was Mauricio Pochettino coming on after 34 minutes. He also started the World Cup game in 2002, England winning 1-0.
Left - Pochettino in 1997 / 98 pictured with Espanyol.
Tottenham's Glenn Hoddle and Alf Ramsey both played and managed England in meetings between the two countries.
While Jimmy Greaves and Gary Lineker have both scored during their time as Spurs players against the South Americans for England.
The Argentina national side were guests at White Hart Lane in May 1951 for the game between Spurs (the new league champions) and Liverpool a couple of days before they played England at Wembley, (see part 1).
At the time of writing the club have two players from the country registered, Erik Lamela who is currently injured, unfortunately at a time when he was starting to exhibit the skills that attracted Spurs, and thus his statistics until the end of the 2016/17 season will read 222 games and 44 goals.
The other is Federico Fazio, who joined us in 2014. In doing so he upset the Sevilla chairman where he had been captain and won three major trophies including the Europa League and was banned from their stadium. He has won the under 19 World Cup and Olympic titles. He also has two under 23 and two full caps. Strong in the air and aggressive on the floor it was a surprise when he did not make more of an impact at Spurs and after eighteen months he was loaned back to a forgiving Sevilla (winning the Europa League again). The following season he was loaned to Roma. Whilst he remains a Spurs player it seems unlikely he will return to the club having made 32 appearances.
If you know of any other connections please contact me.
Top Picture - Maradona, Lamella, Ardiles and Villa.
Above left - Kempes in action @ Enfield. Right - A more recent picture of Ardiles, Pochettino and Keith Burkenshaw the manager who brought the Argentinians to England in 1978.


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'An Existential Threat To Our Civilisation' by David Cromwell
This well-written article can be found on the Media Lens website, as follows:
http://medialens.org/index.php?option=com_acymailing&ctrl=archive&task=view&mailid=467&key=9243acbd759507514ab4ebc4a1e901a1&subid=9459-27247f5ad5910317f882bc7ac4e817e1&tmpl=component
and has been circulated widely. David Cromwell is an oceanographer at Southampton University.
"Undoubtedly, what will appal future historians most is that the urgent calamitous risks of human-induced climate change were well known, but that nothing was done to stop the looming chaos. Worse than that: powerful private business, financial and economic elites, and the governments they had essentially co-opted, forged ahead with policies that accelerated the climate crisis.
The evidence has already been unequivocal for many years. In November 2017, a comprehensive review of climate science by thirteen US federal agencies concluded in a 477-page report that evidence of global warming was 'stronger than ever'. They said that it was 'extremely likely' – meaning with 95 to 100% certainty – that global warming is human-induced, mostly from carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.
One climate scientist said:
'A lot of what we've been learning over the last four years suggests the possibility that things may have been more serious than we think.'
The language was couched in typical scientific caution. But the horror at what was unfolding was surely not far from the surface of academics' minds.
And yet, in a further sign of the short-term insanity that drives state and corporate policy, governments continued to channel huge sums of public money into planet-killing industries. European states, including the UK government, gave more than €112bn (£99bn) every year in subsidies to support fossil fuel production and consumption.
In 2016, gas companies spent €104m in intensive lobbying campaigns to try to encourage European policymakers to accept the myth that natural gas is a 'clean fuel' in an attempt to 'lock in' fossil fuels for decades to come. Moreover, fossil fuel companies lobbied hard behind the scenes of the Paris climate talks, as well as follow-up negotiations, to manipulate outcomes in their private favour. After all, cynical corporate madness has no boundaries when profits are the overriding concern. Absurdly, the text of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change did not even include the words 'fossil fuels'. Scientists warned that fossil fuel burning is set to hit a record high in 2017.
Meanwhile, it has been reported that 2017 is set to be one of the top three hottest years on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization. The WMO also noted that atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide have 'surged at unprecedented speed' to the highest level in 800,000 years.
The signs of ecological breakdown are all around us. Last month, a new study revealed that the abundance of flying insects has plunged by three-quarters over the past 25 years. The results had 'shocked scientists'. This matters hugely because flying insects are, of course, a vital component of a healthy ecosystem upon which we are crucially dependent for food, water and oxygen. Robert Hunziker observes succinctly that this ecosystem, 'the quintessential essence of life on our planet', is breaking down. Our life support system is being destroyed.
One of the many symptoms of this breakdown that is likely to overwhelm human society is mass migration as a result of climate change. Tens of millions of people will be forced to move because of climate disruption in the next decade alone. This flood of human refugees will make the numbers of those who fled the Syrian conflict into Europe look like a trickle.
Sir David King, the former chief scientific adviser to the UK government, said:
'What we are talking about here is an existential threat to our civilisation in the longer term. In the short term, it carries all sorts of risks as well and it requires a human response on a scale that has never been achieved before.'
However, if governments really were motivated to protect the public, as they always claim when amplifying the threat of terrorism, they would have already announced a halt to fossil fuels and a massive conversion to renewable energy. A landmark study recently showed that global pollution kills nine million people a year and threatens the 'survival of human societies'. If terrorism was killing nine million people every year, and the very survival of human society was threatened, the corporate media and politicians would be reacting very differently. But because it's global pollution, merely an economic 'externality', private power can continue on its quest for dominance and profits.
The situation now is truly desperate. We are literally talking about the survival of the human species. There will be those who declare, either with black humour or a morally-suspect flippancy, that 'the planet would be better off without us'. But we surely cannot so casually dismiss the lives and prospects of literally billions of people alive today and their descendants too.
Government policies are driven primarily by short-term political gain and corporate power, so there needs to be a massive public demand for control of the economy towards sustainability. The alternative is no human future. But just at a time when public resistance and radical action are most needed, social media networks owned and controlled by huge corporations are suppressing dissent. A major part of the struggle for human survival, then, will be to overcome the unaccountable media corporations and tech giants that are attempting to define what is deemed 'acceptable' news and commentary."
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Procedure and House Affairs
Procedure and House Affairs Committee on Feb. 27th, 2018
Evidence of meeting #91 for Procedure and House Affairs in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was security.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Interim Estimates 2018-19: Vote 1 under House of Commons, Vote 1 under Office of the Chief Electoral Officer and Vote 1 under Parliamentary Protective Service
Committee Business
MPs speaking
Larry Bagnell
John Nater
Blake Richards
Geoff Regan
David Graham
David Christopherson
Scott Reid
Scott Simms
Marc Serré
Andy Fillmore
Marc Miller
Also speaking
Robert Graham Administration and Personnel Officer, Parliamentary Protective Service
Superintendent Jane MacLatchy Director, Parliamentary Protective Service
Michel Patrice Deputy Clerk, Administration
Charles Robert Clerk of the House of Commons
Stéphane Perrault Acting Chief Electoral Officer, Elections Canada
Michel Roussel Deputy Chief Electoral Officer, Electoral Events and Innovation, Elections Canada
David Christopherson NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
Thanks, Chair.
I agree that there are some detailed questions that are best asked and answered in camera. But there are some general questions, I think, that can be asked. For instance, I know a little bit about security from past life, and I would imagine that you're working with the national security agencies which is where our state of the art best efforts would be. We also know that there's very little that we do completely independent of our allies, particularly the U.S.. It's reported today, I just want to know if this applies. It's reported today that the President of the United States has still not given an absolute direction to the security forces of the U.S. to take whatever action necessary. That straight up order has not yet been given, as I'm reading in the news today. I'm just wondering if they haven't issued that order and their national security apparatus isn't seized of the issue formerly on direction from the commander in chief, then how much is there for our security agencies to tap into if they're not doing anything? In other words, I doubt we would do it alone. We would want to do it in concert. We're allies. We have common international opponents. Therefore I would think we would do things in concert if they don't have that order and aren't moving forward, where does that leave us? Is that a huge problem for us that the U.S. has not engaged in the way the world would kind of expect on their own cyber problems, and how does that relate to us given the overlap of our security apparatus with theirs?
Acting Chief Electoral Officer, Elections Canada
Stéphane Perrault
A couple of elements to answer. It's not just going to be a full answer to that. We have been working very closely with the communications security establishment. They provide, first of all, standards that we need to meet. Second of all, they assist us in the procurement of technology, and they do supply chain integrity for us. We know that we're buying from trusted partners. Thirdly, they provide advice. We've included aspects in our procurement. Whether it's the poll books that we're going to use at the polls or the hosting services, they've advised us on including certain requirements in the RFP which are some of the costs that I referred to. We're getting the advice from the real experts with this communication security establishment, and we're also having a third party come in and do an independent audit. So we're being very careful about that.
In terms of security partners, I've asked to start engaging with our partners in Canada. CSIS, the RCMP, PCO, I expect meetings to occur very shortly where we will begin a conversation leading up to the next election. We do that at every election. This election is a bit different than others perhaps because of the experience around the world. But we go through scenarios and explore roles and responsibilities and the interventions that may be required. This is something that we should be starting in the coming months.
Okay. I'll follow up, but I think the details of that should be best in camera.
I have one last question, Chair, before we go in camera.
In your report, you mentioned two bills outstanding in Parliament. You can't answer this but I'm going to take the opportunity, since we have a gaggle of parliamentary secretaries today, which Mr. Bittle was good enough to give me a heads-up on. Since we are blessed with such power concentrated in this one little committee today, perhaps one of them can give us the assurance that, notwithstanding the politics of the House and everything, the government's intent is that this legislation will be passed in a timely enough fashion for Elections Canada to act on.
Andy Fillmore Liberal Halifax, NS
Thank you, Mr. Christopherson, for that. I have to apologize. I was deep in thought on a previous point you had made and missed your final point. Were you talking about—
You were sleeping again through my comments.
I was enjoying thinking about your prior comments. Which piece specifically are you talking about?
The report this morning says there are two bills. I'm trying to think of the numbers. I think one of them—
An hon. member
It's Bill C-33.
Thanks, Bill C-33, and there's another one. Anyway, those two bills have been through us, but they're waiting. They need them passed, and I'm just asking if we can get some assurance from the government that they're going to be made law so that Elections Canada can act, because time is running out.
February 27th, 2018 / 12:55 p.m.
You can predict the answer. Of course, we want to move them as quickly as we can to get them both in place for the next election, but many variables are beyond our control. This committee is one of them.
I think they're already past this committee. They haven't even been to this committee. Bill C-33 has got a lot of the big changes. Is this going to be a problem, Chair? I'll leave it open ended, but I've got to tell you there's going to be hell to pay if we went through all that work and Elections Canada is raring to go and that legislation doesn't get through Parliament. You can blame the opposition all you want; you're the majority government; you control the House; you control everything. I'm a little disappointed that one of you isn't confident enough in your own government's ability to pass legislation so you'd give us that assurance today.
The Chair Liberal Larry Bagnell
Mr. Miller.
Marc Miller Liberal Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs, QC
I can guarantee that I'll wield the immense power that I hold within government to move this forward.
Thank you, Mr. Christopherson.
Yes, well it's funny until it doesn't get done and then it's not so funny.
Before we go in camera, and so we don't have to come back in public, can we do the votes that we have to do on the estimates?
We'll do the votes 1 for the House, for Elections Canada, and PPS.
HOUSE OF COMMONS Vote 1—Program Expenditures..........$86,751,081
(Vote 1 agreed to on division)
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ELECTORAL OFFICER Vote 1—Program Expenditures..........$7,692,230
PARLIAMENTARY PROTECTIVE SERVICE Vote 1—Program Expenditures..........$20,700,000
Shall I report the votes of the interim estimates to the House?
Some hon. members
We'll go in camera quickly. Don't leave your seats.
[Proceedings continue in camera]


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| HERBERT: Major key alert
Michael Herbert
HERBERT: Major key alert
Michael Herbert 12:13 am, Apr 20, 2016
What a time to be alive! So sang Drake, and after my four years at Yale, I have to agree. I was here to see Mathematics Professor Ronald Coifman educate a tenth of the student body about how networks are structured, to witness the rise and fall and rise again of Saybrook College and to eat lunch in a Commons with as many birds as an aviary. I was here for incredible times.
Reflection and introspection can quickly become self-indulgent, but ingratitude is also problematic and often a sign of arrogance. I don't like the pageantry and hoopla surrounding graduation and commencement — I think they have the net effect of psyching students out about leaving — but appreciate the importance of a fitting conclusion.
This column concludes my tenure as a staff columnist for the News. I hope that I was able to provide our University leadership with some helpful suggestions on common sense issues such as saving Christmas and serving weekly chicken tenders. I was elated to see the New York Times endorse my proposal for beer at the Yale Bowl, albeit in more general terms. I was unsurprised to see students flee CS50 like rats off a sinking ship, after predicting that a Harvard class on a Yale projector was sure to be a misadventure.
Indeed, through my columns and other extracurricular involvement, much of my time and effort here was focused on identifying and advocating for various improvements on campus. Our school is a troubled institution, and student voices are an integral component of making progress. However, we should also see the forest for the trees and recognize what an incredible blessing and privilege it is to learn here.
I am most grateful for my friends, particularly those who taught me the keys to success. Those of us who have seen the DJ Khaled snapchat videos know what I'm talking about, and candidly, I think they provide more wisdom than any Yale course. I am not nearly as talented of a mentor as the man who is sometimes referred to as "hip hop's Oprah," nor my personal mentor Brandon Sherrod '16, who introduced me to the DJ Khaled snapchats earlier this year. But I want to use my final column to share one key that made biggest difference to me.
In Rocky III, after Rocky's trainer Mick dies, Apollo Creed, a former Rocky opponent, takes the lead in training Rocky so that he can reclaim his title as the heavyweight champion of the world. Rocky's effort is half-hearted, though; following years of victory, he has grown complacent and tired. He is no longer hungry enough to put in the work needed to "ride through the journey of more success," to invoke a classic DJ Khaled line. However, with Apollo's help, Rocky ultimately rediscovers the eye of the tiger and once more becomes the heavyweight champion of the world.
We each need to have our own eye of the tiger as well. Yale is a place with a lot of social pressure and consequently, many of us feel afraid to fail, or afraid to take risks, even for the sake of things we believe in. But former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, named by ESPN as the "Coach of the Century," noted that the team that makes the most mistakes usually wins, because doers make mistakes. From my dabbling in psychology and cognitive science, I learned that while we are more likely to regret action in the short-term, we regret inaction more in the long-term.
I have seen and been inspired by students at this school hungry to create a better community. I am inspired by those who worked tirelessly last year to secure improved mental health resources. I am inspired by the efforts of students this year to address the epidemic of sexual misconduct revealed by the 2015 Association of American Universities' survey.
We all need our own eye of the tiger to be our best selves and create our best Yale. To my peers and mentors who helped me cultivate one for myself, and who used their own to improve our school, I am sincerely grateful.
Michael Herbert is a senior in Saybrook College. This is his last column for the News. Contact him at michael.herbert@yale.edu .


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"The lordly tree" of silk painting guild
Jenna Duong 17:59, 2021/05/09
Starting in the early 20th century, silk painting is one of the fine arts which has been practiced by many local painters. Among them, painter Nguyen Thi Mong Bich is considered as a veteran of the art with impressive works telling stories of the people and histories of the country.
Born in 1933, painter Mong Bich has lived through two centuries with the ups and downs of painting history, especially silk paintings. She is considered as "the lordly tree" of the silk painting guild.
Portrait of painter Mong Bich (1933). Photo: L'Espace
When studying in the 1950s at the École Supérieure des Beaux Arts de l'Indochine, which is now Vietnam University of Fine Arts, founded in 1925 by the French, painter Mong Bich nurtured her passion and knowledge of art from her lecturers who were famous painters such as Tran Van Can, Nguyen Do Cung, Hoang Lap Ngon, Luong Xuan Nhi, Nguyen Phan Chanh, Nguyen Duc Nung, among others. She is one of the few typical female painters in Vietnam with the traditional realism style.
"The Old Woman" (1993)
Painter Mong Bich skillfully expressed depicted reality on silk, a quite new material at that time, making her paintings exceptional and outstanding. She was interested in the paiting of portraits and characters of people from all walks of life. They have been brought into her paintings with different stories.
She paints very slowly and carefully like getting to know them through each line of the brush. There are some paintings that took her months to complete.
Painter Mong Bich paints with her instinct and full of emotions, according to painter Tran Van Can. Those emotions have touched viewers' hearts through famous portraits such as: "Mother and Child" (1960), "Portrait of a Cham Girl" (1980), "Grandmother and Grandchild" (1985), "The Old Woman" (1993), "Portrait of the People's Artist Quach Thi Ho" (1995), among others.
Old women and mothers always inspire Bich. She believes that they are the heroes as they have devorted their whole life to their family members.
"Portrait of the People's Artist Quach Thi Ho" (1995)
Cultural researcher Phan Cam Thuong once said about Mong Bich's paintings: "Paintings of Mong Bich do not bring anything new about the art, however the characters are portrayed very strongly. It makes people think about human life and the growth from individual to society."
Painter Mong Bich is one of the few female artists of her time who have won important painting awards of the country, such as the first prize at the Viet Bac of the Viet Bac Interregional Service of Culture exhibition in 1961 for the picture "Mother and Child" or the first prize at the Vietnam Fine Arts Exhibition in 1993 for the picture "The Old Woman".
A still life painting by Mong Bich (1997)
After 60 years of painting, painter Mong Bich had the first exhibition with the theme "Between Two Centuries" organized in 2020 in Hanoi by L'Espace, the French Culture Center. It exhibited her works from the 1960s to the present day, recounting her experiences across the country and recording the diary of life and people for nearly a century through her uniquely sensitive and caring eyes.
Over decades, her works are still full of artistic and historical value, not only appreciated by painters in the country but also in the world.
Professor Nora A. Taylor from the Art Institute of Chicago said at her age, painter Mong Bich not only lives longer than most of her colleagues, but she is also an embodiment of change of Vietnam's art and history over the past century. Her paintings have been out of all movements in which most generations have joined. They are a beautiful reminder of the popularity of human values.
At the age of nearly 90, painter Mong Bich still paints whenever she is inspired by something beautiful in life. "Now I am as old as the old women that I painted once. For me, anything that touches my heart can be a picture", she said.
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If we practice our leadership only occasionally we will not inspire others to lead. Leadership is about transition. It requires the continual practice of learning to lower our walls by becoming less resistive, judgement and attached to outcome.
Our ability to connect with our emotions comes from what we do, our actions, not what we think. We turn thoughts into things and Vision into reality by taking action that often requires us to move outside of our comfort zone. If we know exactly what we want we can achieve it once we have established a strong emotional attachment to that desired result.


A ST NEOTS man whose baby boy fought for his life after surgery to correct a cleft palate is hoping to raise money for families with children in hospital.
Ben Vogel, now 16 months old, was in intensive care connected to a ventilator for four days after surgery left him unable to breathe independently.
The youngster was born with a cleft palate and a recessed jaw, which meant he had difficulty breathing and could not be breast-fed.
For the first seven months he had to be fed through a tube and suffered severe weight loss, dropping 1lb 10ozs from an original weight of 9lb 13ozs.
An operation to correct his palate at Addenbrooke's Hospital, in Cambridge, was successful but left his airway temporarily blocked.
Ben is now fighting fit and his father Tony, 30, is determined to give something back to the Cleft Lip and Palate Association, and the Sick Children's Trust, by jumping 10,000ft from an aircraft.
Both charities supported the family throughout their ordeal. The Sick Children's Trust provided a nearby room at Acorn House for Mr Vogel and wife Michelle, 30, to use.
Mr Vogel, of Wintringham Road, said: "When Ben was in intensive care, we hated walking away from him at night. Without the Sick Children's Trust we would have had to drive 30 miles home.
"Addenbrooke's is one of the main hospitals for sick children, so there were families who travelled hundreds of miles to go there.
Royal Mail worker Mr Vogel will be doing the tandem freefall parachute jump on June 17, and will be holding a Chocolate Tea Party at the Priory Centre, St Neots, on April 20 between 3pm and 5pm.
There will be a bouncy castle, children's entertainer, a Becca Bakes cake stall, plus one from Domino's Pizza.
Mr Vogel is also looking for raffle prizes.
INFORMATION: To sponsor Mr Vogel or to offer a raffle prize go to www.mycharitypage.com/tonyvog or call 01480 211230.


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TRAPPED TERP: Geiger can only delay inevitable with Krivak
Ken RosenthalTHE BALTIMORE EVENING SUN
Andy Geiger took the high road with Joe Krivak last year, and now he's reluctant to exit. Morally, he's right. Ethically, he's right. Realistically, his problem won't go away.
If Krivak remains football coach at Maryland, he's almost certain to face renewed questions about his job security next season. As any baseball manager can attest, once these things get rolling, they're hard to stop.
Geiger, the Maryland athletic director, was praised for giving Krivak a four-year contract a year ago, but now the Terrapins are 2-8, and a grisly 2-8 at that. In many ways, Joe must go. But it's not that simple.
So here's Geiger, his program a mess, saying he's "95 percent" certain Krivak will stay. Frankly, he doesn't have much choice, not with Krivak fulfilling his overall mission, not with a contract guaranteeing him nearly $300,000 over the next three years.
But how long can this go on?
Geiger plans to start reviewing the entire program Monday, and plain speaker that he is, he dismisses the notion of "blind loyalty." In fact, he admits it's "not unfair" to question his decision to extend Krivak four years.
"That's what he wanted so he could go out and recruit, sit in the living room and assure prospects and their moms and dads that, 'I'm Joe Krivak. I'm a person of integrity. I have values. They've given me time to build this thing, and I'm going to be there,' " Geiger said Tuesday.
"If I had known then what I know now, maybe all of us would be thinking about something different," Geiger said. "But that's impossible. You have to go with the evidence at hand."
A year ago, the evidence at hand was Maryland's first winning record and bowl appearance since 1985, the promise of new facilities and the belief that a coach with long-term security would boost recruiting.
A year later, the situation is as unsettled as ever. Geiger's honesty is refreshing, but rival schools no doubt will advise recruits hat Krivak is on shaky ground -- exactly the opposite of the original plan.
Naturally, Geiger would prefer to be more supportive, but Maryland has lost its three most recent games by a combined score of 111-14. The season mercifully ends Saturday at No. 22 North Carolina State. Another rout seems likely.
Yes, the young players might develop. Yes, the injured players will return. But the first six opponents next year are Virginia, N.C. State, West Virginia, Penn State, Pittsburgh and Georgia Tech. An 0-6 record is possible; 3-3 would be a miracle.
Krivak, 56, is 20-32-2 at Maryland, with only one winning season in five. The level-headed alumni types at the Terrapin Club already are howling for his dismissal. Even some Maryland players are saying it's time for a change.
"It's a tough business, but I've been in it a long time," Krivak said. "I think I can handle that stuff. It's ups and downs. It's part of the game. If you treat it any other way, you drive youself crazy."
Coaches, of course, occasionally reverse such sentiment, but not often. For that reason, Geiger probably wants to fire Krivak now. It's not that he's afraid to admit his mistake. It's just the wrong climate to make a move.
First, dismissing Krivak would be a cynical admission that his only job is to win. Maryland is the state's flagship institution at a time when education is a national concern. Krivak consistently draws high marks for keeping his priorities straight, no small matter in the post-Bias era.
Second, Geiger can hardly justify paying off three years of a contract as the university increases tuition and state workers lose their jobs -- and as the self-supporting athletic department faces a $4.75 million deficit as it upgrades facilities.
Thus, Geiger is stuck, with no relief in sight. It would help if he could schedule a couple of easy wins, but that too is easier said than done. Next season Maryland begins an eight-game conference schedule that includes Florida State, leaving only three open dates.
No one wants to drop a non-conference rival like West Virginia or Penn State. And no one wants to risk playing a I-AA patsy, for the NCAA now requires bowl teams to post six I-A wins. North Carolina is one short entering its finale with Duke Saturday. So much for beating William & Mary.
Geiger wants to increase the home schedule from four games to five. He insists Maryland won't play on the road for money after getting "crushed" at Michigan last year. But he concluded, "I don't think you can look at the schedule necessarily to make the coaching job at Maryland an easier job."
An overmatched coach. A long-term contract. A brutal schedule. It's a fine mess Maryland is in, and it's not likely to improve anytime soon. Joe must go, Joe will go. One way or another, these things always turn out the same.


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Geek of the Week – David Savard
by Terry Campkin on October 4, 2015
Would you like a solid all-around defenseman that you can pick very late in your draft?
It's hard to believe, but this is already the last preseason installment of Geek of the Week. By this time next week, we will be in the midst of our Week 1 matchups. With a number of leagues already having drafted, most GMs are probably sitting and waiting for the season to start, but a shrewd fantasy GM might take this time for one last addition to get their team in the best position to start the season. Today, I am going to show you why David Savard is a great candidate to fit that bill.
David Savard is largely under the radar currently, going undrafted in 80% of all leagues. When he is drafted, guys like Jeff Petry, Kris Russell and Niklas Hjalmarsson are regularly being picked ahead of him, which is crazy when you consider that those are all depth or shutdown defensemen, and Savard is destined for some good powerplay minutes in Columbus. I have to admit, Savard wasn't on my draft board either; that is until I ran my league through Fantasy Hockey Geek. For a standard 12 team Yahoo! league (G, A, +/-, SOG, PPP, PIM) here is how Savard looked:
Savard wasn't exactly a fantasy stud last year, but with an overall value of 99, he certainly deserves to be drafted in more than 20% of the leagues out there. FHG calculates him as having been the 32nd most valuable defenceman in this league last year, which makes him a very solid D4 or serviceable D3. Considering how hard it is to get good defencemen in most leagues, I find it unfathomable that this guy continues to sit unowned on the waiver wire. He probably flies under the radar because he didn't break the 40-point barrier, but the contributions David adds in PIMs and PPPs help to bring his value up. It also helps that his points are weighted towards goals, which are hard to come by than assists. A lot of rival GMs may not realize this about Savard, but with the help of FHG we can see that they are missing out.
Here are some other things to consider with Savard:
He hits as well: Only three defencemen in the entire NHL had over 190 hits as well as at least 35 points (Dustin Byfuglien and Travis Hamonic were the others). This is what makes Savard so valuable. You don't want to waste a roster spot on a specialist like Roman Polak just to boost your hits category; you want to have a guy who can boost your hits while still contributing across the other key stats and Savard does just that. Savard contributes to a wide variety of categories so he is likely valuable in your league no matter what categories you measure. Enter your league into FHG to determine just how much he can do for you.
Columbus is good: Last season Columbus struggled with injuries and consistency, but this is a good squad that I think will turn a lot of heads this year. Savard was already a valuable own in most fantasy hockey leagues last season when the club struggled. As the Jackets improve this season, Savard's value should follow.
No more Wiz: With James Wisneiwski out of the picture, things are opening up for Savard and in fact this already started last season. After the 2015 all-star break, Savard put up 20 points in 37 games, which is a 44 point pace. He also went +13 after having been -13 to start the season and his PIMs went up to one per game.
What all of this tells me is that we have a perfect scenario for a late round flyer/waiver pickup. If Savard doesn't improve at all and simply repeats what he did last season, his combination of points, powerplay contribution and PIMs make him a very valuable D4. There is a lot to suggest that Savard could be in for a career year, though, and if he breaks out in the season you draft him then you are going to be the one looking like a genius in March. Savard could easily blossom into a Dion Phaneuf type fantasy asset (and make no mistake, Phaneuf is still valuable in fantasy) but he is only being drafted about one-fifth as often as Dion is. Get Savard on your board now and thank me later. To find more last minute gems like Savard, enter your league into FHG and see who's out there. Good luck to all in the upcoming season!