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Egypt's FM discusses Turkish escalation in Libya with counterparts in Gulf, Cyprus, Greece
Shoukry also spoke to US National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien on Thursday about the issue
Egyptian parliament condemns Turkish parliament's approval of sending troops to Libya
'Turkey is trying to destabilise the region armed with slogans of Ottoman legacy and the support of the radical groups in the region, above all the Muslim Brotherhood,' read the statement
Egypt foreign ministry condemns Turkey decision to allow troop deployment to Libya
Egypt said the Turkish military intervention in Libya threatens Arab national security in general and Egypt's national security in particular, which requires taking all measures to protect Arab interests
English Premier League results & scorers (21st matchday)
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Toronto gears up for first Arab Film Festival
The festival will take place in April 2020
Academy begins voting on nominations for 2020 Oscars
Five films tackling the issues of the Arab world made it to the shortlist last December, while the final list of nominees for the 2020 Oscars will be announced on 13 January
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Lows are predicted to hit 9 degrees Celsius in the capital over the weekend
Sudan PM says Khartoum, Cairo on same page on GERD
Interviewed by Editor-in-Chief of Al-Ahram newspaper Alaa Thabet, the Sudanese premier said any impact resulting from the GERD will affect Sudan first
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Cairo launches campaign to lift abandoned vehicles from streets
Confiscated cars the owners of which do not request their retrieval will be sold at public auction
Egypt's foreign ministry spokesman criticises Tripoli government for thanking only some Arab countries
The Libyan government expressed its appreciation to Qatar, Sudan and other Arab countries for what it called their supportive stance towards Libya during the meeting of the Arab League on Tuesday
Special edition of Diwan Al-Ahram marks 10th anniversary
Diwan Al-Ahram has emerged as one of the most prestigious Arabic language publications specialised in the history of culture and world and Egyptian heritage
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Red Star's films produced over the past years and screened in 42 countries include award winning titles such as Nawara, Poisonous Roses and Photocopy


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Share this Story: The Montreal mission to restore once hidden, forbidden Afghan films
The Montreal mission to restore once hidden, forbidden Afghan films
The Cold War era films were spirited to Montreal where Ariel Nasr is creating a documentary and digitizing as many as possible for posterity.
Catherine Solyom • Montreal Gazette
Jan 15, 2019 • July 15, 2020 • 4 minute read
"It's always more complicated than you think," Ariel Nasr, here in Kabul, says of the archive of Afghan films he viewed. "Ideological divisions don't tell the whole story." Photo by Handout /Sergeo Kirby
The negatives, dusty and brittle after being hidden away for so many years, reveal the stark contradictions of modern Afghan history, from footage of dance parties in 1970s-era Kabul, to shots of the nascent mujahedeen army, training in the mountains above — arguably the first "jihadi" videos.
Now these forgotten films of the Cold War era are being brought back to life, both in a documentary by Montreal filmmaker Ariel Nasr, and through a unique collaboration between Afghan Films and Canada's National Film Board to digitize the films and preserve them for posterity.
The Montreal mission to restore once hidden, forbidden Afghan films Back to video
Nasr, an Afghan-Canadian whose previous films include Good Morning Kandahar and the Boxing Girls of Kabul, said he hadn't imagined Afghanistan had had such a vibrant cinema culture — or that these films even existed.
"You see men training with weapons, singing cheerful songs, young, healthy and idealistic. … Then you realize this is literally where (Osama) Bin Laden got his start," Nasr said in an interview in Montreal.
But you also see what life was like under communism, "that Kabul was a sanctuary, where women were empowered, and where there was art and music and cinema — while in the countryside there was carnage."
The Forbidden Reel
Nasr's film, The Forbidden Reel, to be released in 2019, tells the story of the state-run Afghan Films organization, and this special period of history, from the perspective of two filmmakers. Latif Ahmadi — who studied engineering before becoming a filmmaker — remained president of Afghan Films after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and continued to make films under Soviet rule. At the same time, Siddiq Barmak fled to the mountains and went on to film the mujahedeen, as well as the horrors of the civil war.
Ariel Nasr with director of photography Duraid Munajim, on location in Afghanistan. Photo: Sergeo Kirby Photo by Handout /Sergeo Kirby
Both men, remarkably, remained best friends, communicating over enemy lines, Nasr explains, their passion for cinema transcending politics.
(Barmak's later film, Osama, about a girl who disguises herself as a boy to support her family during Taliban rule, won the Golden Globe for best foreign-language film in 2003.)
But The Forbidden Reel also showcases some of the most important films in the Afghan archives, now being digitized in Montreal.
Ahmadi's film Woman, for example, shows the empowerment of women under Soviet rule, featuring images of female soldiers wielding Kalashnikovs.
The House of History, meanwhile, by Qader Tahiri, showed the civilian casualties of the war and the mujahedeen's destruction of Kabul.
Tahiri, who now lives in Laval, was very moved as he watched a recent edit of The Forbidden Reel, Nasr said. His film was banned by the Taliban.
None of these films would have survived, however, were it not for those who risked their lives to save them.
As Nasr tells the story, after the Taliban took power in 1996 — and before they destroyed the 6th-century Buddha statues of Bamiyan in 1999 — Afghan Films was "tipped off" that the Taliban would come after the film archives the next day.
Overnight, archivists built a fake wall to hide the reels, removing lights from the adjacent hallway so no one would suspect there was another room. When the Taliban police arrived, staff gave them only foreign films and unimportant prints — not negatives — despite the threat that they would be killed if a single film was missing.
In a special twist, Nasr recently discovered that the tip had come from none other than the head of the Taliban's television and film authority.
"It's always more complicated than you think," Nasr says. "Ideological divisions don't tell the whole story."
The reels remained hidden until the overthrow of the Taliban regime in 2001.
Some 17 years later, they have made it to Montreal.
The NFB steps in
Nasr says the project started when he got to know Ahmadi in Afghanistan.
"We became friends, he collaborated with me on (Oscar-nominated film) Buzkashi Boys — and through the process I realized they needed help preserving films that had come very close to annihilation."
The NFB, with whom Nasr works, wanted a deeper relationship with its Afghan counterpart, and invited the then-president to come to Montreal to see how the NFB digitizes its own films using state-of-the-art equipment.
Ariel Nasr overlooking the city of Kabul. Photo: Sergeo Kirby Photo by Handout /Sergeo Kirby
The president brought that expertise back to Afghanistan, Nasr says, but he also brought 18 films — the most important ones — to Montreal in October 2017.
Unfortunately, digitizing films — in this case, restoring the film stock to its original quality and creating a digital master for use in any format — is an expensive endeavour.
Nasr and his producers devoted part of their film budget to digitizing some of the films, he said, but fell far short of the estimated $250,000 needed to digitize all 18.
A crowdfunding initiative through Indiegogo, which ended Dec. 17, was widely shared but received only about $3,000 in donations.
So far, only six of the 18 films have been digitized.
It's not everyone's top priority, Nasr said. The U.S. has invested more than $1 trillion in Afghanistan since 2001, but Kabul still doesn't have a public sewer system.
"But I am a filmmaker and this is where I can help. … Every film that is digitized to high quality is one more film for posterity. And for Afghans like me who are so far away, it is a tangible piece of heritage that in many ways is more meaningful to me than a piece of statuary."
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FBI Barely Tried to Hack San Bernardino iPhone Before Going to Court With Apple
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, reporting for Vice in 2018:
The FBI argued that it had no technical way to unlock the phone or hack into it without Apple's help. Apple argued that helping the FBI would've put all iPhone users in danger because it would've required the company to weaken the security of all iPhones. The battle ended with a whimper when an unknown "third party" gave the FBI a way to hack in and the FBI abandoned its legal request.
As it turned out, the FBI's own hackers didn't start working with vendors to find a way to hack into Farook's iPhone until "the eve" of the FBI's initial court filing demanding Apple's assistant on February 16, 2016. Moreover, two different teams within the FBI's Operational Technology Division (OTD), a department tasked with giving technological assistance to investigations, didn't communicate with each other to find a solution until late in the investigation, according to the OIG report.
The tech team initially helping with the case was the Cryptologic and Electronics Analysis Unit (CEAU). It was only after a meeting on February 11 that another hacking team within the FBI, the Remote Operations Unit or ROU, started looking into it and started contacting contractors and vendors asking for help.
It beggars belief that today's FBI is struggling to breach an iPhone 7 Plus and an iPhone 5, the latter being a model of smartphone that is eight years old and is stuck on iOS 10. That's especially suspicious given that investigators in another case were recently able to unlock an iPhone 11 Pro. What is it about the much older phones in this case that are proving so iron-clad against the United States' elite digital forensics teams? Are they even trying? Or does the Department of Justice just want to fight?


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Breaking New Bad Days: Two Women And A 4-Year Girl Hit By Stray Bullets In Broad Daylight Shooting In Times Square
May 8, 2021 May 9, 2021 / JQ LLC
Three people — two women and a four-year-old girl — where hit by stray bullets when a gunman took aim at another man in Times Square on Saturday afternoon, police said.
Police were called to the area near W. 44th St. and Seventh Ave. around 4:55 p.m.
The victims were rushed to local hospitals. Two victims taken to Bellevue Hospital, including the little girl, did not suffer life-threatening wounds, said police.
None of the three victims were known to each other, law enforcement sources said. One of the injured woman is 23 years old, and the other is 42 years old.
The mayhem began when two men on a street corner started arguing, and one of them pulled a gun, said police sources.
"I heard three loud shots," said Sandy Espinoza, 42, a visitor from Illinois who says she was standing at W. 46th St. and Seventh Ave. when the gunfire erupted.
"Everybody was running," Espinoza said. "People were panicking and screaming. It was like a stampede of people. We were worrying we were going to get run over by people. We ran with everyone else."
One of the wounded woman screamed, "My leg!" recounted Khadim Sakho, 25, a street vendor from Manhattan.
Sakho believed the child was also hit in the leg.
"They were bleeding and the lady was crying," he said.
The 4-year-old, who is from Brooklyn, was in a stroller and accompanied by members of family, said police sources.
Seems like bad old days again in the new Times Square…
Why wait for Broadway to re-open and spend a grand on Hamilton when you can see a duel between two shitty gunmen on the street?
Looks like none of the 80 extra cops the NYPD deployed in the area to tamp down on vagrancy were not around to catch these two thugs when they started squabbling.
de Blasio's new vaccine program to encourage tourists to get shots on Broadway is sure coming back to haunt him now.
But not more than this bon mot he vomited about the rise in gun violence at his last media availability two days ago:
"Anyone who doesn't believe in New York City doesn't know what the hell they are talking about."
It isn't that nobody believes in New York City, it's that no believes you.
Enjoy your birthday, Blaz. Fucking asshole.
New Bad Update:
Turns out only one man had a gun, and he's still on the loose and armed of course.
In something that hasn't been seen in probably decades, Commissioner Shea held a news conference. Even though he implied how reform laws are causing upticks in crime, he still liberally peppered most of reporters questions about the gun violence coming to Times Square with the same b.s. exclusivity talking points about how NYC is the safest in world
Conspicuous by his expected absence was the Mayor of New York City, who decided to hide and tweet from his celly instead of standing by Shea and other NYPD high brass to avoid being accountable for his defiant insouciance of the gun violence and other violent crimes rising fast during his recovery for all of us.
Also nowhere to be found was Speaker Corey Johnson or any of the City Council cronies. But maybe it's better because most of them have been arrogantly acting like their law forcing the closing of Rikers is not having a deleterious impact on the streets and subways.
Among all this blather about the greatest safest city and anemic and lack of responses by elected officials, it had to take a young teenager of color to bring the knowledge about what this recent brazen daylight shooting signifies about the existential state of violence and fear that's gripping this city in a news brief from PIX News:
"It's terrible because it shows you the state that New York's in, you know. And it really, you know, hints towards a lack of leadership from any of our representatives, you know, who really don't seem to care about repetitive events such as these going around in our city" (It gets cut off there, because PIX needs to maintain brevity to make time for their daily 8 segment weather reports on each hour newscast)
This kid sounds more in touch with the realities on the streets than anyone in City Council and certainly more than the oblivious mayor and at least 8 candidates running in the Democrat primary for mayor right now. All he's said here basically that the progressive answer to solve the daily gun violence is for them to act like they give a shit about it as much as to acknowledge and recognize it instead of looking at this crisis (as well as other sociological crises) through ideological prisms (unless a stray bullet finds it way to crack them).
Which shows that the leadership the city lacks will continue in perpetuity.
Same as it ever was.
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I haven't been to Times Square since even before the debacle with those painted naked chicks (so, we're talking maybe about six, seven years?). I could tell even then that the bad old days were on their way back. I saw a NY Press in a pile on the ground next to a guy and grabbed a copy (remember, NY Press was free). The guy said, "It's a dollar." I thought he was kidding and laughed, but then as I walked away he screamed, "GIMME MY DOLLAR!!!" Luckily, it was so crowded that I just blended into the crowd before the guy could assault me. That was the last time I went out there.
It seems as though just not NYC but all of the United States and even the world wants to go back to the bad old days, be it the Cold War, Nazi Germany, Jim Crow South, Confederacy. Imagine how sick the world is today to romanticize everything that was bad in the past and want to bring it all back. I am seriously thinking of becoming a recluse the way things are going.


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What Are Epidemiological Determinants
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Architecture Student's 'River' Sculpture Is a Hidden Gem
By Anna P. Kambhampaty | February 17, 2019
'River' can be located by solving this riddle: It's not on flat ground, it would flow if it was actually a river.
A Journey of Indian Textiles at the Johnson
By Varun Biddanda | February 17, 2019
Perhaps the most moving aspect of the exhibition lies in understanding how much truly went into the production of these fabrics.
J.I.D to Perform at Ithaca College
By Peter Buonanno | February 4, 2019
The J. Cole prodigy is set to take the stage this Saturday at Ithaca College.
Max Greenfield Loves Challah French Toast
By Jeremy Markus | February 3, 2019
Max Greenfield dropped out of college, couldn't land a role for years and almost quit his acting career.
'Queer Eye's' Jonathan Van Ness Charms Cornell With Self-Care Tips and Childhood Stories
By Arts & Entertainment Department | January 2, 2019
In an hour-long conversation in November with Prof. Samantha Sheppard, performing and media arts, organized by Cornell University Program Board, Van Ness brought the audience back to the Midwest and to his childhood days.
Sara Holdren Talks Directing and Theater Criticism in Q&A
By Andrea Yang | October 24, 2018
Theater director and critic Sara Holdren talked about both aspects of her career in a Q&A on Monday, part of the Professional Directions Series held by the Performing & Media Arts Department.
This Year's 10-Minute Play Festival Is Both Funny and Brutally Honest
By Olivia Bono | September 29, 2018
The Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts was shut down on Monday and Tuesday of this week to deal with a mold problem. Because of this, it would be understandable if the actors of this year's 10-Minute Play Festival were under-rehearsed, or unfamiliar with the space in which they performed, but the opposite was true. At the festival on Thursday night in the newly mold-free building, I was impressed by the range and depth of the productions. None of the plays shy away from hard topics, and I should issue a warning that the second play, Tian, gets heavy, covering sexual abuse and abortion. The festival took place in the Black Box Theatre, a dark room in a sub-basement of the Schwartz Center.
Homecoming 2018: A Tale of Two Acts
By Viri Garcia | September 24, 2018
Whenever someone asks me if homecoming weekend is fun, I say, "It's overrated. If you have work to do, just do that instead. It happens every year and you won't miss much." While I skipped all other homecoming activities this weekend, the only one I thought was worth getting out of bed for was the concert — and not just because I had a free ticket. Back when the lineup was announced for the homecoming concert, I could not believe that Cornell students chose CupcakKe to headline such an important event. CupcakKe is a female rapper from Chicago and her sexual, vulgar lyrics are unlike anything else (perhaps her most popular song is called "Deepthroat").
Hold On to Your Dentures: Roomful of Teeth at Bailey Hall
By James Robertson | September 16, 2018
The small a cappella ensemble brought their big guns right away, with each member speaking in rhythm, creating a wall of chatter that in an instant, gave way to raucous polyphonic vocals. After a few iterations, rhythmic spoken word became interspersed with small vocal phrases. The piece was chugging along and it was clear that Roomful of Teeth had a very important message to share with the audience that evening. Roomful of Teeth, the Grammy-winning vocal octet, visited Bailey Hall on Friday night to kick off the Cornell Concert Series 2018-2019 season. The group was founded in 2009 with a goal to explore the expressive potential of the human voice.
Cornell's Fifth Centrally Isolated Film Festival Showcases Student Films
By Lev Akabas | April 18, 2018
Ithaca is often considered to be in the middle of nowhere, but the work of student filmmakers from across the Northeast were on display at the fifth Centrally Isolated Film Festival at the Schwartz Performing Arts Center last weekend. A wide variety of short films ranging from documentary to animation to live-action narrative by students from more than a half-dozen schools were screened. "In this area, there aren't a lot of film festivals, especially for student filmmakers, which is the entire idea of the Centrally Isolated Film Festival," student organizer Isabel Pottinger '19 said in an interview. "This year we made a very concerted effort to be in contact with a lot of different schools to try to get as much diversity in terms of the people involved in the film festival as possible, and we really reaped the rewards of that."
The student organizers from the Film Festival Production Lab course, which focuses on running the film festival, including learning how to objectively judge films, pared down a list of over 100 submissions. "We talk about things like: is the sound good, is the cinematography good, does the director accomplish their artistic vision, do we know what their artistic vision is?" Pottinger explained.
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Losing the UEFA Europa League on the Legal Turf: Parma FC's bitter defeat by Giandonato Marino
6. June 2014 Antoine Duval International Sports Law Cases, International Sports Law Commentaries (0)
This year the race for UEFA Europa League places in Serie A was thrilling. In the final minutes of the last game of the season, Alessio Cerci, Torino FC striker, had the opportunity to score a penalty that would have qualified his team to the 2014-2015 edition of the UEFA Europa League. However, he missed and Parma FC qualified instead. More...
Olympic Agenda 2020: Window Dressing or New Beginning?
4. June 2014 Antoine Duval (0)
Shortly after his election as IOC President, Thomas Bach announced his intention to initiate an introspective reflection and reform cycle dubbed (probably a reference to former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's publicly praised Agenda 2010) the Olympic Agenda 2020. The showdown of a year of intense brainstorming is to take place in the beginning of December 2014 during an IOC extraordinary session, in which fundamental reforms are expected. More...
The French collective agreement for professional Rugby tackled by Kelsen's Pyramid - Guest Post by Patrick Millot
28. May 2014 Antoine Duval International Sports Law Cases, International Sports Law Commentaries (0)
Pursuant to Kelsen's famous pyramid, the authority of norms may be ranked according to their sources: Constitution is above the Law, which is in turn superior to the Regulations, which themselves stand higher to the Collective Agreement etc…Under French labour law, this ranking can however be challenged by a "principle of favourable treatment" which allows a norm from a lower rank to validly derogate from a superior norm, if (and only if) this derogation benefits to the workers.
On 2 April 2014, the Cour de Cassation (the French Highest Civil Court) considered that these principles apply in all fields of labour law, regardless of the specificity of sport[1]. In this case, Mr. Orene Ai'i, a professional rugby player, had signed on 13 July 2007 an employment contract with the Rugby Club Toulonnais (RCT) for two sport seasons with effect on 1 July 2007. More...
Quantifying the Court of Arbitration for Sport - By Antoine Duval & Giandonato Marino
23. May 2014 Antoine Duval International Sports Law Commentaries, International Sports Law Material (0)
Graph 1: Number of Cases submitted to CAS (CAS Satistics)
Dahmane v KRC Genk: A Rough Translation
22. May 2014 Oskar van Maren International Sports Law Cases, International Sports Law Material (0)
Dahmane v KRC GENK
Court of Labour of Antwerp (Hasselt district) 6 May 2014
Chamber 2
Algemeen rolnummer 2009/AH/199
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UEFA may have won a battle, but it has not won the legal war over FFP
21. May 2014 Antoine Duval International Sports Law Commentaries (0)
Yesterday, the press revealed that the European Commission decided to reject the complaint filed by Jean-Louis Dupont, the former lawyer of Bosman, on behalf of a player agent Striani, against the UEFA Financial Fair Play (FFP) Regulations. The rejection as such is not a surprise. The Commission had repeatedly expressed support of the principles underlying the UEFA FFP. While these statements were drafted vaguely and with enough heavy caveats to protect the Commission from prejudicing a proper legal assessment, the withdrawal of its support would have been politically embarrassing.
Contrary to what is now widely assumed, this decision does not entail that UEFA FFP regulations are compatible with EU Competition Law. UEFA is clearly the big victor, but the legal reality is more complicated as it looks. More...
The Nine FFP Settlement Agreements: UEFA did not go the full nine yards
19. May 2014 Oskar van Maren Blog, International Sports Law Commentaries (0)
The UEFA Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Regulations have been implemented by UEFA since the season 2011/12 with the aim of encouraging responsible spending by clubs for the long-term benefit of football. However, the enforcement of the break-even requirement as defined in Articles 62 and 63 of the Regulations (arguably the most important rules of FFP) has only started this year. Furthermore, UEFA introduced recently amendments to the Procedural rules governing the Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) allowing settlement agreements to be made between the clubs and the CFCB.
On Friday 16 May, UEFA finally published the nine separate settlement agreements between the respective clubs and the CFCB regarding the non-compliance with the Financial Fair Play (FFP) break-even requirements. More...
FFP the Day After : Five (more or less realistic) Scenarios
17. May 2014 Antoine Duval Blog, International Sports Law Commentaries, International Sports Law Publications (0)
Yesterday, UEFA published the very much-expected settlements implementing its Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations. Today, we address tomorrow's challenges for FFP, we offer five, more or less realistic, scenarios sketching the (legal) future of the FFP regulations. More...
Dahmane v KRC Genk: Bosman 2.0 or Storm in a Teacup?
14. May 2014 Oskar van Maren Blog, International Sports Law Cases, International Sports Law Commentaries (0)
Mohamed Dahmane is a professional football player of French-Algerian origin, who has played for a variety of European clubs, including French club US Mauberge, Belgian club RAEC Mons and Turkish club Bucaspor. However, he will mostly be remembered as the player whose legal dispute with his former club (Belgian club KRC Genk) revived the debate on football players' labour rights. More...
Get Up, Stand Up at the Olympics. A review of the IOC's policy towards political statements by Athletes. By Frédérique Faut
The Olympic Games are a universal moment of celebration of sporting excellence. But, attention is also quickly drawn to their dark side, such as environmental issues, human rights breaches and poor living conditions of people living near the Olympic sites. In comparison, however, little commentary space is devoted to the views of athletes, the people making the Olympics. This article tries to remediate this, by focussing on Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter which prevents athletes from freely expressing their (political) thoughts. More...
In my introductory blog I point towards historical, cultural, and of course the legal explanations as to why redistribution was established, and why it might be held onto despite obvious flaws. In my second blog, I point out how the training compensation and solidarity mechanisms work in practice through an African case study, as well as the hindrance caused and the Eurocentricity of the regulations. The key take-away from my third blog on the non-application of training compensation in women's football might be that training compensation should apply to both men's and women's football, or neither. The sweeping generalisation that men's and women's football are different as justification for the non-application to the women's game is not palatable, given inter alia the difference between the richest and poorest clubs in men's football. Nor is it palatable that the training compensation mechanism is justified in men's football to incentivise training, yet not in women's football.
In the fourth blog of this series, I raise concerns that the establishment of the Clearing House prolongs the arrival of a preferable alternative system. The feature of this final blog is to consider alternatives to the current systems. This endeavour is manifestly two-fold; firstly, are there alternatives? Secondly, are they better? More...
Revisiting FIFA's Training Compensation and Solidarity Mechanism - Part. 4: The New FIFA Clearing House – An improvement to FIFA's training compensation and solidarity mechanisms? - By Rhys Lenarduzzi
28. January 2021 Antoine Duval Blog, International Sports Law Commentaries, International Sports Law Material, International Sports Law Publications (0)
Editor's note: Rhys Lenarduzzi recently completed a Bachelor of Law (LL.B) and a Bachelor of Philosophy (B.Phil.) at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney, Australia. As a former professional athlete, then international sports agent and consultant, Rhys is interested in international sports law, policy and ethics. He is currently undertaking an internship at the T.M.C. Asser Institute with a focus on Transnational Sports Law.
In September 2018, the Football Stakeholders Committee endorsed the idea of a Clearing House that was subsequently approved in October of the same year by the FIFA Council. A tender process commenced in July 2019 for bidders to propose jurisdiction, operation and establishment. Whilst many questions go unanswered, it is clear that the Clearing House will be aimed at closing the significant gap between what is owed and what is actually paid, in respect to training compensation and solidarity payments. The Clearing House will have other functions, perhaps in regard to agents' fees and other transfer related business, though those other operations are for another blog. It will hence act as an intermediary of sorts, receiving funds from a signing and therefore owing club ("new" club) and then moving that money on to training clubs. Whilst separate to FIFA, to what extent is unclear.
I have landed at the position of it being important to include a section in this blog series on the soon to commence Clearing House, given it appears to be FIFA's (perhaps main) attempt to improve the training compensation and solidarity mechanisms. As will be expanded upon below, I fear it will create more issues than it will solve. Perhaps one should remain patient and optimistic until it is in operation, and one should be charitable in that there will undoubtedly be teething problems. However, it is of course not just the function of the Clearing House that is of interest, but also what moving forward with the project of the Clearing House represents and leaves unaddressed, namely, the issues I have identified in this blog series. More...
New Event! Zoom In on International Skating Union v. European Commission - 20 January - 16.00-17.30 (CET)
14. January 2021 Antoine Duval Blog, International Sports Law Cases, International Sports Law Commentaries, International Sports Law Events (0)
On Wednesday 20 January 2021 from 16.00-17.30 CET, the Asser International Sports Law Centre, in collaboration with Dr Marjolaine Viret, is organising a Zoom In webinar on the recent judgment of the General Court in the case International Skating Union (ISU) v European Commission, delivered on 16 December 2016. The Court ruled on an appeal against the first-ever antitrust prohibition decision on sporting rules adopted by the European Commission. More specifically, the case concerned the ISU's eligibility rules, which were prohibiting speed skaters from competing in non-recognised events and threatened them with lifelong bans if they did (for more details on the origin of the case see this blog). The ruling of the General Court, which endorsed the majority of the European Commission's findings, could have transformative implications for the structure of sports governance in the EU (and beyond).
We have the pleasure to welcome three renowned experts in EU competition law and sport to analyse with us the wider consequences of this judgment.
Guest speakers:
Dr. Ben Van Rompuy (Leiden University & representative of the complainants before the EC)
Dr. Katarina Pijetlovic (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Prof. Stephen Weatherill (Oxford University)
Dr Antoine Duval (Asser Institute)
Dr Marjolaine Viret
Zoom In webinar series
In December 2020, The Asser International Sports Law Centre in collaboration with Dr Marjolaine Viret launched a new series of zoom webinars on transnational sports law: Zoom In. You can watch the video recording of our first discussion on the arbitral award delivered by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in the Blake Leeper v. International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) case on the Asser Institute's Youtube Channel. Click here to learn more about the Zoom In webinar series.
Revisiting FIFA's Training Compensation and Solidarity Mechanism - Part. 3: The Curious Non-Application of Training Compensation to Women's Football – By Rhys Lenarduzzi
10. December 2020 Antoine Duval Blog, International Sports Law Cases, International Sports Law Commentaries (0)
Editor's note: Rhys Lenarduzzi is a final semester Bachelor of Law (LL.B) and Bachelor of Philosophy (B.Phil.) student, at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney, Australia. As a former professional athlete, then international sports agent and consultant, Rhys is interested in international sports law, policy and ethics. He is currently undertaking an internship at the T.M.C. Asser Institute with a focus on Transnational Sports Law.
As recently as September 2020, questions were raised in the European Parliament on the non-application of training compensation to women's football. Whilst this blog will predominantly consider potential inconsistencies in reasoning for and against training compensation in men's and women's football, the questions before the Commission were largely on the theme of disrespect and discrimination. Somewhat unfortunately, the questions raised were side-stepped, with Ms Gabriel (Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth) simply stating that: "The TFEU does not give the Commission the competence to interfere in the internal organisation of an independent international organisation such as FIFA." This might be true in theory, though one might feel some degree of uneasiness if privy to the Commission's role in the 2001 FIFA regulatory overhaul.
It is currently explicit in the regulations and the commentary, that in women's football, signing clubs are not required to compensate training clubs for developing players, through the training compensation mechanism that exists in men's football. Though it is a contentious comment and as will be expanded below, this may not have always been the case.
At Article 20 of the FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players (RSTP), one will find that the principles of training compensation shall not apply to women's football. Further, in FIFA's recently released Women's Football Administrator Handbook (the handbook), it states that disputes relating to training compensation are limited for the moment to male players only.[1]
Regulations on solidarity contributions on the other hand do apply to women's football, but given transfer fees are not so common, the use of the mechanism is not either. As an indication of how uncommon the activation of the solidarity contribution mechanism in women's football might be, FIFA reported in the handbook just four claims with the Players' Status Department in 2016 (three claims involving the same player), and zero since.[2] That is in comparison to hundreds of claims made per season in men's football, where signing and owing clubs had not fulfilled their obligation to pay the solidarity contribution.
Given the aforementioned, this blog will largely focus on training compensation and how it came to be the case that this mechanism, often presented as critical in the context of men's football, does not apply in women's football. To do so, I will first discuss the reasoning advanced in an unpublished CAS award, which one may reasonably suspect played a fundamental role in shaping the current exemption. I will then turn to FIFA's timely response to the award and the adoption of its Circular No. 1603. Finally, I will point out the disconnect in FIFA's decision to adopt two radically different approaches to the issue of training compensation in male and female professional football. More...
New Event! Zoom In on Transnational Sports Law - Blake Leeper v. IAAF - 4 December at 4pm (CET)
The Asser International Sports Law Centre in collaboration with Dr Marjolaine Viret is launching a new series of zoom webinars on transnational sports law: Zoom In. The first discussion (4 December at 16.00) will zoom in on the recent arbitral award delivered by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in the Blake Leeper v. International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) case.
In this decision, reminiscent of the famous Pistorius award rendered a decade ago, the CAS panel ruled on the validity of an IAAF rule that places the burden on a disabled athlete to prove that a mechanical aid used to compete in IAAF-sanctioned competitions does not give them an overall competitive advantage. While siding with the athlete, Blake Leeper, on the burden of proof, the CAS panel did conclude that Leeper's prosthesis provided him an undue advantage over other athletes and hence that the IAAF could bar him from competing in its events.
To reflect on the key aspects of the decision and its implications, we have invited scholars with different disciplinary backgrounds to join the zoom discussion.
Confirmed guests
Prof. Christophe Lazaro (UC Louvain)
Prof. Wolfgang Potthast (University of Cologne)
The webinar is freely available, but registration here is necessary.
Last call to register to the 2021 edition of the Sports Law Arbitration Moot - Deadline 1 December
27. November 2020 Antoine Duval International Sports Law Events (0)
Our Slovenian friends (and former colleague) Tine Misic and Blaž Bolcar are organising the second edition of the Sports Law Arbitration Moot (SLAM).
The best four teams of the SLAM competition will compete in the finals, which will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 30th and 31st March, 2021.
This is a great opportunity for students to familiarise themselves with the world of sports arbitration, to meet top lawyers and arbitrators in the field, and to visit beautiful Ljubljana.
You'll find more information and can register at https://sportlex.si/slam/en
The Olympic Agenda 2020: The devil is in the implementation!
The 40 recommendations of the Olympic Agenda 2020 are out! First thought: one should not underplay the 40 recommendations, they constitute (on paper at least) a potential leap forward for the IOC. The media will focus on the hot stuff: the Olympic channel, the pluri-localisation of the Games, or their dynamic format. More importantly, and to some extent surprisingly to us, however, the IOC has also fully embraced sustainability and good governance. Nonetheless, the long-term legacy of the Olympic Agenda 2020 will hinge on the IOC's determination to be true to these fundamental commitments. Indeed, the devil is always in the implementation, and the laudable intents of some recommendations will depend on future political choices by Olympic bureaucrats.
For those interested in human rights and democracy at (and around) the Olympics, two aspects are crucial: the IOC's confession that the autonomy of sport is intimately linked to the quality of its governance standards and the central role the concept of sustainability is to play in the bidding process and the host city contract. More...
UEFA's tax-free Euro 2016 in France: State aid or no State aid?
18. November 2014 Oskar van Maren Blog, International Sports Law Commentaries (1)
Last week, the French newspaper Les Echos broke the story that UEFA (or better said its subsidiary) will be exempted from paying taxes in France on revenues derived from Euro 2016. At a time when International Sporting Federations, most notably FIFA, are facing heavy criticisms for their bidding procedures and the special treatment enjoyed by their officials, this tax exemption was not likely to go unnoticed. The French minister for sport, confronted with an angry public opinion, responded by stating that tax exemptions are common practice regarding international sporting events. The former French government agreed to this exemption. In fact, he stressed that without it "France would never have hosted the competition and the Euro 2016 would have gone elsewhere". More...
The New Olympic Host City Contract: Human Rights à la carte? by Ryan Gauthier, PhD Researcher (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Three weeks ago, I gave a talk for a group of visiting researchers at Harvard Law School on the accountability of the IOC for human rights abuses caused by hosting Olympic Games. On the day of that talk, Human Rights Watch announced that the International Olympic Committee ("IOC") would insert new language into the Host City Contract presumably for the 2022 Olympic Games onwards. The new language apparently requires the parties to the contract to:
"take all necessary measures to ensure that development projects necessary for the organization of the Games comply with local, regional, and national legislation, and international agreements and protocols, applicable in the host country with regard to planning, construction, protection of the environment, health, safety, and labour laws."More...
The UN and the IOC: Beautiful friendship or Liaison Dangereuse?
The IOC has trumpeted it worldwide as a « historical milestone »: the United Nations has recognised the sacrosanct autonomy of sport. Indeed, the Resolution A/69/L.5 (see the final draft) adopted by the General Assembly on 31 October states that it "supports the independence and autonomy of sport as well as the mission of the International Olympic Committee in leading the Olympic movement". This is a logical conclusion to a year that has brought the two organisations closer than ever. In April, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed former IOC President, Jacques Rogge, Special Envoy for Youth Refugees and Sport. At this occasion, the current IOC President, Thomas Bach, made an eloquent speech celebrating a "historic step forward to better accomplish our common mission for humanity" and a memorandum understanding was signed between the UN and the IOC. This is all sweet and well, but is there something new under the sun?More...
Image Rights in Professional Basketball (Part I): The 'in-n-out rimshot' of the Basketball Arbitral Tribunal to enforce players' image rights contracts. By Thalia Diathesopoulou
7. November 2014 Oskar van Maren Blog, International Sports Law Cases, International Sports Law Commentaries (0)
A warning addressed to fans of French teams featuring in the recently launched video game NBA 2K15: Hurry up! The last jump ball for Strasbourg and Nanterre in NBA 2K 15 may occur earlier than expected. The French Labour Union of Basketball (Syndicat National du Basket, SNB) is dissatisfied that Euroleague and 2K Games did not ask (nor paid) for its permission before including the two teams of Pro A in the NBA 2K15 edition. What is at issue? French basketball players' image rights have been transferred to SNB, which intends to start proceedings before the US Courts against 2K Games requesting 120.000 euros for unauthorized use of the players' image rights. SNB is clear: it is not about the money, but rather to defend the players' rights.[1] Strasbourg and Nanterre risk to "warm up" the virtual bench if this litigation goes ahead.
Source: http://forums.nba-live.com/viewtopic.php?f=149&t=88661&start=250 More...
Sport and EU Competition Law: uncharted territories - (II) Mandatory player release systems with no compensation for clubs. By Ben Van Rompuy
The European Commission's competition decisions in the area of sport, which set out broad principles regarding the interface between sports-related activities and EU competition law, are widely publicized. As a result of the decentralization of EU competition law enforcement, however, enforcement activity has largely shifted to the national level. Since 2004, national competition authorities (NCAs) and national courts are empowered to fully apply the EU competition rules on anti-competitive agreements (Article 101 TFEU) and abuse of a dominant position (Article 102 TFEU).
Even though NCAs and national courts have addressed a series of interesting competition cases (notably dealing with the regulatory aspects of sport) during the last ten years, the academic literature has largely overlooked these developments. This is unfortunate since all stakeholders (sports organisations, clubs, practitioners, etc.) increasingly need to learn from pressing issues arising in national cases and enforcement decisions. In a series of blog posts we will explore these unknown territories of the application of EU competition law to sport.
In this second installment of this blog series, we discuss a recent judgment of the regional court (Landgericht) of Dortmund finding that the International Handball Federation (IHF)'s mandatory release system of players for matches of national teams without compensation infringes EU and German competition law.[1] More...
The CAS Ad Hoc Division in 2014: Business as usual? – Part.1: The Jurisdiction quandary
29. October 2014 Antoine Duval (0)
The year is coming to an end and it has been a relatively busy one for the CAS Ad Hoc divisions. Indeed, the Ad Hoc division was, as usual now since the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996[1], settling "Olympic" disputes during the Winter Olympics in Sochi. However, it was also, and this is a novelty, present at the Asian Games 2014 in Incheon. Both divisions have had to deal with seven (published) cases in total (four in Sochi and three in Incheon). The early commentaries available on the web (here, here and there), have been relatively unmoved by this year's case law. Was it then simply 'business as usual', or is there more to learn from the 2014 Ad Hoc awards? Two different dimensions of the 2014 decisions by the Ad Hoc Division seem relevant to elaborate on : the jurisdiction quandary (part. 1) and the selection drama (part. 2). More...
Sports Politics before the CAS II: Where does the freedom of speech of a Karate Official ends? By Thalia Diathesopoulou
On 6 October 2014, the CAS upheld the appeal filed by the former General Secretary of the World Karate Federation (WKF), George Yerolimpos, against the 6 February 2014 decision of the WKF Appeal Tribunal. With the award, the CAS confirmed a six-months membership suspension imposed upon the Appellant by the WKF Disciplinary Tribunal.[1] At a first glance, the case at issue seems to be an ordinary challenge of a disciplinary sanction imposed by a sports governing body. Nevertheless, this appeal lies at the heart of a highly acrimonious political fight for the leadership of the WKF, featuring two former 'comrades': Mr Yerolimpos and Mr Espinos (current president of WKF). As the CAS puts it very lucidly, "this is a story about a power struggle within an international sporting body"[2], a story reminding the Saturn devouring his son myth.
This case, therefore, brings the dirty laundry of sports politics to the fore. Interestingly enough, this time the CAS does not hesitate to grapple with the political dimension of the case. More...
The new "Arrangement" between the European Commission and UEFA: A political capitulation of the EU
15. October 2014 Antoine Duval Blog, International Sports Law Commentaries (1)
Yesterday, the European Commission stunned the European Sports Law world when it announced unexpectedly that it had signed a "partnership agreement" with UEFA named (creatively): 'The Arrangement for Cooperation between the European Commission and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)'. The press release indicates that this agreement is to "commit the two institutions to working together regularly in a tangible and constructive way on matters of shared interest". The agreement was negotiated (as far as we know) secretly with UEFA. Despite recent meetings between EU Commissioner for sport Vassiliou and UEFA President Platini, the eventuality of such an outcome was never evoked. It is very unlikely that third-interested-parties (FIFPro, ECA, Supporters Direct etc.) were consulted in the process of drafting this Arrangement. This surprising move by an outgoing Commission will be analysed in a three-ponged approach. First, we will discuss the substance of the Arrangement (I). Thereafter, we will consider its potential legal value under EU law (II). Finally, and maybe more importantly, we will confront the political relevance of the agreement (III). More...
Sports Politics before the CAS: Early signs of a 'constitutional' role for CAS? By Thalia Diathesopoulou
It took almost six months, a record of 26 witnesses and a 68 pages final award for the CAS to put an end to a long-delayed, continuously acrimonious and highly controversial presidential election for the Football Association of Thailand (FAT). Worawi Makudi can sit easy and safe on the throne of the FAT for his fourth consecutive term, since the CAS has dismissed the appeal filed by the other contender, Virach Chanpanich.[1]
Interestingly enough, it is one of the rare times that the CAS Appeal Division has been called to adjudicate on the fairness and regularity of the electoral process of a sports governing body. Having been established as the supreme judge of sports disputes, by reviewing the electoral process of international and national sports federations the CAS adds to its functions a role akin to the one played by a constitutional court in national legal systems. It seems that members of international and national federations increasingly see the CAS as an ultimate guardian of fairness and validity of internal electoral proceedings. Are these features - without prejudice to the CAS role as an arbitral body- the early sign of the emergence of a Constitutional Court for Sport? More...


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Production Moves
Katie Bell joins Grand Large, Serial Pictures signs Daniel Askill
By Alexandra Jardine. Published on February 12, 2019.
Credit: Grand Large
Commercial and music video director Katie Bell has joined Grand Large for U.S. representation. Bell joins Grand Large after several years working freelance from her London base. Recent spots include a campaign for Amazon's Alexa, as well as ads for John Lewis, Danone, Kraft, Walmart and Minute Maid. She started her film career at MTV Europe and has worked on music videos for artists such as The Bee Gees, Boyzone, Girls Aloud, Rachel Stevens and Myleene Klass.
Daniel Askill has joined production company Serial Pictures for North American representation for commercials, branded entertainment and music videos, as well as its partner company Anonymous Content for film and television literary management. Most recently repped by RadicalMedia, Askill has directed advertising campaigns for Audi, Dior, Smirnoff, XBox and Sony, and his music videos include Sia's "Elastic Heart" and "Chandelier" starring Maddie Ziegler. His work has received nominations and awards including The Grammys, MTV VMAs, D&AD and Cannes Lions. Askill, who was born in Australia, now splits his time between Los Angeles and New York, where the creative collective Collider Studio, which he co-founded, is based.
Skunk has added comedy director Mike Maguire to its U.S. roster. L.A.-based Maguire became a director following work as a copywriter and associate creative director. As well as music videos, short films and a feature film, he has helmed commercials for brands including Nike, Budweiser, Fox Sports, Ikea and Volkswagen. His work has received awards at Cannes, The One Show and D&AD.
Blinkink has added three new directors to its roster. Stevie Gee and Essy May are illustrators who made their directorial debut with a music video for heavy metal band Mastodon that combined animation and live action, racking up over three million views on YouTube. They have also worked on spots for Channel 4 and Stand Up to Cancer. Robert Hunter is an illustrator with a client list ranging from the V&A to Guinness, whose work includes co-directing a music video for Jon Hopkins with fellow Blinkink director Elliot Dear and creating a set of animated visuals for Elbow's album "Little Fictions."
Reza Rasoli
Animation and production company Laundry has added Reza Rasoli as creative director and live-action director. Rasoli has previously been repped at companies including Pet Gorilla, Brand New School and Blind, and has collaborated with clients such as Google, IBM, HBO, Vans, Virgin America, and GE. More recently, his anthem spot for UnityPoint Health aired during the Super Bowl in the Midwest region. Rasoli was part of the directing collective Three Legged Legs, which he co-founded in college with two other artists, and was repped by Green Dot Films. He has also worked on scripted comedy-driven animation for Disney and Nickelodeon.
Jonathan Barenboim
Venice Beach-based production company Rodeo Show has signed director Jonathan Barenboim for U.S. commercial representation. His signing follows his recent collaboration with Rodeo Show on two campaign spots, "Our Labels" and "Always Valid, Never Optional," for FDA's "This Free Life" campaign. His work includes spots for brands including Coca-Cola, Reebok, Nike, McDonald's, Chevy, Diner's Club, Doritos, Nielsen and Ford Motor Company. Being fluent in Spanish, he also works on campaign spots across the Hispanic/Latin-American markets, including a Purina campaign that aired in Mexico and Argentina.
Ting Poo
Editorial and post-production house Cartel has added partner/editor Adam Robinson and editor Ting Poo to its team. Robinson joins founders Andy McGraw, Leo Scott and Lauren Bleiweiss as partner. He joins from Work Editorial which he joined in 2015. Prior to that he spent 10 years with Whitehouse Post. His credits include commercial work for Gatorade, Dick's Sporting Goods, Liberty Mutual and the YMCA, as well as music videos for Katy Perry, Kanye West and J. Cole. Ting, who joins from Spot Welders, has worked on commercials including Facebook's "Friends Day" campaign and Super Bowl spots for both Bud Light and NBC Sports. In 2014, she edited Kathryn Bigelow's "The Protectors," a VR film about elephant poaching.
Renee Samms
Content studio and commercial production company Stun has opened a new division, Digital 360, to be headed by Renee Samms. Samms was previously a digital media, cross-platform strategy, branded content and influencer marketing consultant in New York, Los Angeles and Barcelona, working on behalf of such clients as UnInterrupted (Spring Hill), Captiv8, Utopia, De Mille Group, The NoiseHouse,and Trap Nation (The Nations). She has also worked on marketing for entertainment companies such as Lionsgate, IMDB/Amazon, Walt Disney Company and Maker Studios.
K.C. Gulino
Tom Colabraro
New York production studio Versus has made two new hires: K.C. Gulino as senior business development executive and Tom Colabraro as senior producer. Gulino joins Versus from King and Country and before that worked as an independent rep with SuperPowers NYC, representing such companies as Blue Rock Editorial, King and Country, Comma Music and other production and post houses. Colabraro has spent the last 14 years as a freelance producer and consultant, managing projects for clients such as Converse, ESPN, HBO, Nike, Samsung, Uniqlo and Red Bull.
Will Mok
Post- company Ntropic has hired Will Mok as senior producer. He will collaborate with Ntropic's New York and L.A. teams, including colorist Nick Sanders, to further strengthen the company's color, VFX and design capabilities. He is a former member of Ntropic's production team, who has meanwhile held senior production roles at companies including The Mill (NY and London), Gretel and Click 3X.
Julienne Guffain
NYC-based creative audio studio Sonic Union has hired sound designer / mix engineer Julienne Guffain. She brings over a decade of experience in audio post production, having worked on TV, film and branded projects for clients such as Google, Mountain Dew, American Express and Cadillac, at companies inlcuding Hobo Audio and Crew Cuts. Her work includes the documentary feature "Public Figure," which examines the psychological effects of constant social media use and is slated for a festival run later this year.
Alexandra Jardine
Alexandra Jardine is the associate creativity editor, U.K. at Ad Age.


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package org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.process.traversal;

import java.util.function.BiPredicate;

/**
 * Predefined {@code Predicate} values that can be used as {@code String} filters.
 *
 * @author Daniel Kuppitz (http://gremlin.guru)
 */
public class TextP extends P<String> {

    @SuppressWarnings("WeakerAccess")
    public TextP(final BiPredicate<String, String> biPredicate, final String value) {
        super(biPredicate, value);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(final Object other) {
        return other instanceof TextP && super.equals(other);
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return null == this.originalValue ? this.biPredicate.toString() : this.biPredicate.toString() + "(" + this.originalValue + ")";
    }

    @Override
    public TextP negate() {
        return new TextP(this.biPredicate.negate(), this.originalValue);
    }

    public TextP clone() {
        return (TextP) super.clone();
    }

    //////////////// statics

    /**
     * Determines if String does start with the given value.
     *
     * @since 3.4.0
     */
    public static TextP startingWith(final String value) {
        return new TextP(Text.startingWith, value);
    }

    /**
     * Determines if String does not start with the given value.
     *
     * @since 3.4.0
     */
    public static TextP notStartingWith(final String value) {
        return new TextP(Text.notStartingWith, value);
    }

    /**
     * Determines if String does start with the given value.
     *
     * @since 3.4.0
     */
    public static TextP endingWith(final String value) {
        return new TextP(Text.endingWith, value);
    }

    /**
     * Determines if String does not start with the given value.
     *
     * @since 3.4.0
     */
    public static TextP notEndingWith(final String value) {
        return new TextP(Text.notEndingWith, value);
    }

    /**
     * Determines if String does contain the given value.
     *
     * @since 3.4.0
     */
    public static TextP containing(final String value) {
        return new TextP(Text.containing, value);
    }

    /**
     * Determines if String does not contain the given value.
     *
     * @since 3.4.0
     */
    public static TextP notContaining(final String value) {
        return new TextP(Text.notContaining, value);
    }
}

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The Donnas
Bitchin'
Purple Feather
his is what happens when you regret growing up. From 1997 to 2002 the Donnas made a gradually improving series of snottily backward-looking albums. The faux-sibling nomenclature was the Ramones, but the rest of the band was the Runaways, and if the shtick lacked the freshness and complexity it had in the '70s, in a way it was freer for it, candy requiring little analysis before sucking. Which was why Gold Medal was so dismaying: the Donnas heterogenized their names and got defensive about their status as a Real Band, which all bands are until they think there's a chance they aren't.
Gold Medal wasn't a disaster—major-label money was good for this band, gave their mixes depth and their handclaps oomph, and on some tracks they retained their old habit of bopping airily though clichés and bad meter before suddenly saying something really funny—but it wasn't a record that needed to be listened to. Even it didn't seem to think so.
Bitchin', meanwhile, reacts so nakedly and aggressively to Gold Medal's failures—the band's even off Atlantic—that these women should really all be named Donna again. That would be ridiculous and embarrassing, but it would be a lot like the record, less ragged and boring than its predecessor but surrounded Pig-Pen-style by fetid pastiche and the worst kind of knowing smile. First of all it's called Bitchin', which bodes badly enough before you see the cover, which aside from being kinda half-assed (ho ho) doesn't look designed by someone who misses the 1980s but by someone who thinks they were just as dumb as everyone says.
The music is the same. As immediate and worthy as some of these songs are, the chugging guitars and oar-bank handclaps and background HEY!s don't sound like the work of a band that really likes this music and wishes it'd been around to make it at the time and probably deserved to be, the way the Donnas' old jailbait anthems could; they sound like bad one-liners. It's a strange and narrow line the album crosses, because of course it's not as if the Donnas didn't know they were joking when they put on pyjamas and lolled around in a fake bedroom and called an album Spend The Night—but the old aggressive faith in their heroines is gone, as if with Gold Medal they put away childish things and can't remember where.
Only when they go so far over the top it's as funny as they think do the new Donnas succeed—when they scream "G-I-R-L T-A-L-K" over what sounds like a foundry it's kinda great—but since they can't do anything else without sounding like they're making fun of Lita Ford Bitchin' has no nuance or range or dynamism. They used to want to be Lita Ford.
So there are moments: "Don't Wait Up for Me" and "Girl Talk" and "Smoke You Out" all deserve their wacky-choice places on mixes, and "Love You Till It Hurts" isn't bad at limning and selling sadomasochism, but smirk like this for a whole album and your face is going to freeze that way. Whether it's worse than Gold Medal depends on whether you prefer dullards to cynics. It's about as unnecessary.
Reviewed by: Theon Weber
Reviewed on: 2007-09-25
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Court: Don't be fooled by "hot drama star" in film and television investment
By yqqlm yqqlm
The court issued a typical case involving film and television investment disputes: Don't be fooled by the "hot drama star"
"Major production, zero risk, guaranteed return…" Film and television investment projects are often full of With temptation. On December 8, a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily learned from the press briefing on typical cases involving film and television investment disputes held by Beijing No. 3 Intermediate People's Court. Compared with other investments, film and television drama investment has strong professionalism, diversified capital flow, and production cycle. Risks such as long-term, record-filing approval, and information asymmetry inside and outside the film and television industry make it easier for the public to misjudge investment risks. Therefore, in recent years, cases involving film and television investment disputes have increased year by year.
According to Xue Qiang, vice president of the Beijing Third Intermediate Court, from January 1, 2016 to November 21, 2020, the court concluded 111 cases involving film and television investment disputes. In the investment boom, there are some situations such as irregular production and distribution of films, inadequate management of investment funds, and inability of projects to respond to changes in the market environment in a timely manner. This has triggered disputes in the performance of contracts, resulting in an increase in the number of film and television investment disputes. In addition, in cases involving film and television investment disputes, the contracts signed by the parties often have various names, making the types of cases involving film and television investment disputes diversified.
In addition, this type of case also presents the characteristics of easily triggering group disputes, intersecting civil and criminal charges, and obvious similarities in appeals.
"Ordinary investors are not professional enough to identify investment risks." Chen Jinxin, President of the Fourth Civil Division of Beijing No.3 Intermediate Court, pointed out that ordinary investors lack professional understanding of the film and television industry and their awareness of risk prevention is relatively weak. On the one hand, some practitioners or intermediary parties package film and television investment into "zero-risk" "capital-guaranteed financial products", paralyzing investors; on the other hand, non-professional institutional investors and individuals lack film and television investment experience and are likely to be "hot The gimmicks such as "drama" and "famous characters" are attracted. Before signing the contract, they did not fully understand the qualifications of the main creative company of the film and television drama, the status of the project record, and whether the transfer of the income share exceeded the reasonable premium range, etc., and followed the investment. In the case of financing film and television projects through a collective fund plan, film and television investment institutions often design multi-level investment rights, and the investment rights of some investors also come from the transfer of others. The multiple levels of investment rights and interests have undergone multiple transfers, making it difficult for investors in the middle and lower reaches of the investment transaction chain to follow up the progress of the project in time, unable to accurately grasp the actual situation of the production and distribution of the film and television drama, and increasing disputes based on distrust.
In the typical case published by the court, there was a dispute caused by the fact that the practitioner concealed the true investment situation. From January to March 2019, a cultural company obtained a 5% investment share and the right to profit from the film by signing a "transfer agreement" with a person outside the case. Later, in order to attract investment, the cultural company falsely promoted that it enjoyed all the copyrights of the film And distribution rights, the film will be distributed worldwide, and promised that Yang will invest 500,000 yuan to obtain 0.2% of the copyright income rights. After investigation, the film was only released in China, and the cultural company was not the producer or producer of the film. In the end, the court found that the cultural company was fraudulent when it signed the "Cooperative Investment Agreement" with Yang, and supported Yang's litigation request to cancel the agreement and return the investment funds.
Judge Jiang Jun of the Beijing Third Intermediate Court reminded that in the investment promotion of film and television projects, if the practitioners deliberately conceal the true situation of the investment project or deliberately inform investors of false information, investors may make mistakes. If an investment contract is signed for value judgment, if it meets the conditions stipulated in Article 54 of the Contract Law, the investor has the right to cancel the investment contract within one year from the date when he knew or should have known the reason for the cancellation.
In addition, Judge Jiang Jun also stated that the long investment cycle of film and television, the low transparency of project operation, and the slow rate of return of funds are likely to cause some investors to have insufficient ability to provide evidence during litigation, which will increase the risk of losing the case. risk. Therefore, in the important stages of investment, production, approval and issuance, all parties involved should increase their legal awareness and keep evidence in a timely manner to prevent subsequent difficulties in safeguarding rights due to insufficient evidence.
Text/Reporter Zhu Jianyong
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