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MainAll NewsDefense/SecurityANALYSIS: ISIS preparing for radioactive and biological attacks
ANALYSIS: ISIS preparing for radioactive and biological attacks
ISIS is re-emerging as a guerilla force and threatening chemical warfare.
Yochanan Visser, 09/12/18 23:34
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A year after the 'defeat' of the Islamic State Jihadist organization the group is witnessing a revival, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.
The organization succeeded in maintaining a significant force of 30,000 armed terrorists who are in control of less than one percent of the territory of the self-proclaimed Caliphate in both Syria and Iraq, but it is "re-emerging as a guerilla force that is returning to its insurgent roots" the Pentagon warns.
This weekend, ISIS terrorists in eastern Syria managed to stave off an offensive by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against the town of Hajin, the group's last stronghold in the eastern Syrian desert near Deir Ez-Zur and re-capture parts of the town.
The SDF offensive against ISIS' last strongholds in eastern Syria has been going on for three months and has caused most of the civilian population of Hajin to flee via safe passage corridors created by the Kurdish-dominated militia.
The US-led coalition against Islamic State has already carried out 1000 airstrikes on Hajin, but the Jihadists are not willing to surrender and have vowed to fight to the death.
Using scores of suicide bombers, the Jihadists succeeded in chasing the SDF out of some neighborhoods of Hajin, which had been already seventy percent liberated by the American-backed force.
Elsewhere in Syria, the pro-Assad coalition is slowly advancing against what the Arabs call 'Daesh' an acronym for ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah fī 'l-ʿIrāq wa-sh-Shām (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant).
In the Sweida Province, also referred to as the 'Druze Mountain', Assad's forces are steadily eliminating the last ISIS hubs after routing Islamic State in the Yarmouk Basin a few months ago, but the Jihadists continue to stage suicide attacks.
In Iraq, Islamic State has succeeded in maintaining footholds in the desert in the Anbar Province and its fighters continue to stage attacks on the Iraqi army and the predominantly Shiite militia Hashd al-Shaabi.
The Jihadis have also established "a mountain state" in Qara Chokh, an uninhabitable area in the most northern part of Iraq.
Islamic State terrorists are living in caves in what locals call 'Kandahar,' the Afghan Province famous for gruesome violence and its support for Jihadist movements such as Al-Qaeda.
The Institute for the Study of War says that ISIS maintains similar 'bases' in other parts of Iraq such as the Hamrin Mountains in Diyala Province, the Hawija District, and eastern Salah al-Din Province.
In Mosul too, ISIS is still active but reportedly lost its main communications channel this weekend when Iraqi security forces arrested a senior ISIS leader, who was in charge of spreading the Jihadist ideology of the organization among the Sunni population of the city.
ISIS is also restructuring its command and is now relying on non-Iraqi commanders after most of its local brass was eliminated by Iraqi security forces and the US-led coalition.
The Long War Journal, meanwhile, reported that ISIS cells carried out 659 operations during a six-week period in September, October and November 2018 killing a staggering 2,770 people in multiple suicide bombings as well as targeted assassinations and attacks with improvised explosive devices.
In Nigeria, for example, ISIS cells - and not its affiliate Boko Haram - were responsible for a spate of deadly attacks against the Nigerian army, killing 118 soldiers by the end of November.
The Islamic State group is now threatening to stage biological and radio-active attacks to finish off the anti-ISIS coalition.
The organization's Al-Taqwa Media Foundation last week started to publish new inciting material, including animation videos depicting a burning capitol building and abandoned military vehicles as well as civilian cars - as ISIS terrorists raise their black banner.
The images also showed four symbols to warn against biohazards which were placed on a nearby building and three barricades near the burning target.
A text accompanying the images read:
O Crusaders, you have realized the danger of the Islamic State. But you did not know the treatment, and you will not know the treatment, because there is no treatment! By fighting it, it gets stronger, and by leaving it, it blooms and stretches more."
"While Trump promised defeat of the Islamic State, Obama has lied before and our Lord -- the Almighty -- promised victory, and here we are. This campaign is your last campaign, and it will fail by the permission of Allah. As all your campaigns have been broken before and failed, but this time we are going to invade you, and you will never invade us ever," ISIS warned in the video.
A poster released by Al-Taqwa depicted a destroyed house with crows circling in the air above the structure.
The image also showed three radio-activity warning symbols which were attached to a signpost and to the destroyed house while a text on the poster stated: "We will soon do this."
ISIS issued similar inciting material ahead of the attack in Melbourne, Australia, when a restaurateur was killed in a stabbing attack.
More than 17 years after the United States, and eventually other Western countries, started to combat what was first called "terror" after the Al-Qaeda attack on the U.S. on September 11, 2001, the number of Jihadists in the world has risen significantly, not decreased, a recent study found.
The number of Islamist radicals has risen by a staggering 270 percent since the Ql-Qaeda Attack on the Twin Towers in New York and stands now at 230,000, while they reside in no less than 70 countries across the globe.
The report by Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) warns that the Salafi Jihadists are "far from defeated" and suggests that the military effort to eradicate the Jihadist groups in the world is "failing".
CSIS says that it has been a mistake to focus on a military campaign only and makes the case for "improving local governance in territories where Sunni Islamism is rife".
"The US and its allies continue to engage "in a seemingly endless [military] confrontation with a metastasizing set of militant groups, they face seemingly endless waves of militants, who are becoming increasingly capable of resisting Western conventional military force," according to the bipartisan CSIS report.
Tags:chemical warfare, biological warfare, ISIS


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Settlement – for a man who entered a coma when given an excessive amount of anesthesia during surgery in Erie.
Awarded for the wrongful death of a young Parma man who died from the doctor's failure to properly treat pancreatitis.
Settlement for the wrongful death of a woman who was inappropriately anesthetized during child birth at a Cleveland hospital.
Awarded for the wrongful death of a woman who died due to a punctured bladder while undergoing a simple laparoscopic procedure.
Settlement for a young child whose physician, in Beachwood, failed to diagnose his condition of hydrocephalus.
Family received this for the wrongful death of a Lorain woman who died as a result of an undiagnosed heart condition.
Settlement – for a Westlake Ohio man who suffered injuries from being negligently catheterized.
Awarded for a Huron woman who died as a result of an overdose on the drug of Tylenol.
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Settlement for a man who suffered severe burns from an overdose of the drug Velban during cancer treatment.
Awarded to a Ravenna man injured by a catheter prior to surgery.
Settlement against Cleveland Hospital for negligent damages from a punctured gland during nasal surgery.


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Q: Preserve width of box plot in ggplot when varying number of boxes Is there a way to preserve the width of boxplots in ggplot? By default, the width will vary depending on how many boxes that are included in the plot.

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This is the view of the new M74 motorway extension, currently being built through the Southside of Glasgow, looking from Cathcart Road, near Eglington Toll, towards the City Centre. It's used to illustrate the contrast between a regressive 'rear-view mirror' approach to urban design (above), and some possibly more productive, definitely more progressive, and certainly more democratic approaches to planning, referenced online.
The first is Pop-up Landscapes, a collective of artists and designers using interactive installations to address issues of urban survival, and provide a tactile, hands-on way for people to engage with the design of their environment.
Planners Network UK (PNUK) are creating a 'disorientation guide' — a wiki of progressive planning resources — and in a similar vein, this article logs some of the ways online tools can be used in democratic Urban Planning.
While on the subject, likeminds have attempted to look at how cities could be designed 'by wiki', and more firmly in the visual communication realm, zucker und pfeffer have created these posters and promotional materials for this conference, the posters being infused with the smell of gasoline.
And this is an idea about what you could do with the M8.
Brand Avenue is great, I feel like I need a few days to read it all now!
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Richard Layzell
@richard_layzell
rescen.net/routeplanner
Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm - Hardwick Campus
In 2009 Richard Layzell lived and worked in a designated 'square mile' of Shanghai for 2 months, only occasionally leaving the small unfashionable part of the city, and rarely seeing other Westerners. Through this experience he gained an in-depth understanding of contemporary Chinese culture.
WP is a multi-media installation involving video, photography, text and sculptural assemblage. In this new work Layzell reflects on his own relationship to China; the recent tragic death of one of his students, Mavis Qu, who was studying in London; and on Europe's complex, often prejudiced, view of China.
The Chinese word for tea is 'cha'. China became 'china' and was linked with a polite domesticity. Tea drinking, originally a refined aesthetic experience in the East, became everyday in the West. We think nothing of a cuppa cha in a china mug. The identity of Chinese culture in the West has been absorbed, tamed, diluted, confused and trivialised. An example is in the commonplace 'willow pattern' design found on crockery (the WP of the title). This is often assumed to be Chinese, but was actually invented by a British manufacturer, along with a fictitious 'story of the willow pattern.' And not so long ago it was common to have Chinese people as the butt of jokes and insults.
In this exhibition Layzell investigates and challenges these preconceptions.
Join Richard Layzell in discussion with Dominic Thomas, Fiona O'Rourke, Stuart Wilding and Hiroki Yamamoto on Tuesday 5th May, 4.30 – 6.30pm.
Richard Layzell is a London-based artist who works in installation, video and performance internationally. He pioneered a series of innovative artist residencies in industry, defining the role of the 'visionaire'. He is the author of Enhanced Performance and Cream Pagesand is an artist/researcher with ResCen at Middlesex University. He is currently the lead artist for the innovative King's Lynn 'Aspire' project. He has been commissioned by Tate Britain, Ikon Gallery, Serpentine Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, and Firstsite.
Richard Layzell, WP – liu hua Preview @ Hardwick Gallery – 23/04/2015:
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Richard Layzell in conversation with Dominic Thomas, Fiona O'Rourke & Hiroki Yamamoto @ Hardwick Gallery – 05/05/2015:
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Preview: WP
23/04/2015 | 5pm-8pm // Performance 6.30pm
Free Drawing Session: Richard Layzell
27/04/2015 | 10am-12pm
Richard Layzell in conversation with Dominic Thomas, Fiona O'Rourke, and Hiroki Yamamoto.
Public Symposium & Discussion: WP – liu hua

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We hold our place as top Cincinnati Custom Home Builder for a reason. With our Platinum Building Experience promise, we pride ourselves on always doing what's right for you the customer. Here's more about our Cincinnati custom home builder processes.
First of all, when you choose Hensley Custom Building Group to create your dream home, we handle the heavy lifting of the design details, specification listings and subcontractor vetting and bidding.
Plus, we walk you through every stage, from purchasing land to designing your home, to the construction process. From before you break ground until after you move in, we work to make your experience seamless.
Using your final plans, we request all the necessary permits. Then, we stake the house out on your site. Excavation of the foundation can then begin. Once the foundation walls go up and underground plumbing is installed, the work is approved by an inspector.
Wall framing happens next, then we complete the subflooring installation. At this point, we walk through the project with you. This is an exciting time and an opportunity for you to get a feel for the home's layout.
As the custom home process continues and materials arrive, we coordinate all inspections of framing, electric, HVAC systems and plumbing. Additionally as a top Cincinnati custom home builder, we work with the best and know the most trustworthy and dependable pros in the business.
Now the many moving parts of your home project come together: The crew hangs drywall and finishes it with primer. Cabinetry and plumbing is installed. Appliances, bathroom fixtures, tile and flooring arrive on site. Also, we stain the wood floors and install lighting. Also, we button up exterior finishes and our pro teams pour the concrete driveways and walks.
Finally, the last inspection is complete. The certificate of occupancy is produced. Your home is ready for our final walk-through with you.
Finally, as part of our Platinum Building Experience, we create a punch list during this visit of any outstanding issues to address. Most noteworthy, we don't rest until it is completed to your satisfaction.
Finally, it's time to close on the sale of your home, and for us to hand over your keys. In contrast however, our relationship with you doesn't end. Because every product in your home carries a manufacturer's warranty, and because we offer a one-year builder's warranty on the home's construction, we will walk through your home again in one year to ensure that it is living up to your expectations.
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Build the dream. Love the journey.
Some of our clients seek to bring a level of environmental awareness to their new custom homes. At Hensley Custom Building Group, we follow our green and sustainable building practices. And, we are happy to incorporate those practices and products into your new custom homes.
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With buzz growing that he could run for governor next year, U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., the chairman of the U.S. House National Security Subcommittee, has taken aim at Iran in recent days.
Last week, DeSantis brought out the "State Sanctions Against Iranian Terrorism Act" to ensure states can continue to keep sanctions on that Middle Eastern nation. Gov. Rick Scott has signed legislation ensuring the Florida Retirement System does not invest in companies working with the Iranian government which DeSantis noted as he unveiled his proposal on Wednesday.
Five Republicans in the Florida delegation--U.S. Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart, Bill Posey, Francis Rooney, Dennis Ross and John Rutherford--signed on as original co-sponsors. The bill was sent to the House Financial Services and the Rules committees last week.
DeSantis did score a win last week as the House included his proposal banning the U.S. from purchasing heavy water from Iran was included in the Defense appropriations bill.
First elected to Congress in 2012, DeSantis has garnered attention as a possible candidate for statewide office in the future. A graduate of Yale and Harvard Law School, DeSantis served as in the Navy JAG Corps. DeSantis waged a brief campaign for the Republican nomination to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., last year. When Rubio decided at the last moment to run for a second term in the Senate, DeSantis dropped out of the race and ran for a third term in the House. DeSantis is generating buzz as a potential candidate for state office in 2018, being urged by the conservative Madison Project, which backed his Senate bid, to run for governor. He's also considered a possible candidate in next year's state attorney general's race.
Rep DeSantis seems to be an Israeli Firster. Is he funded by AIPAC? Is this why he's picking on Iran. Israel has to have a boogey man to keep getting those BILLIONS of dollars from us. Bring our boys and girls home and forget the imperialistic aims of the USA and the Zionists!!!!~! As a Christian I'm with Pastor Chuck Baldwin. Read your Bible and stop supporting the synagog of Satan.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, he certainly is qualified for both positions. He has my vote for governor should he choose to run.
Mr. DeSantis should stay in D.C. where he fits in rather than attempting to run for Governor of Florida. While he's not being considered for the Homeland job, I agree that he should be but, he'd have to make the commitment to the post OR Governor's job.


Together with Fife Council and The Scottish Government, Sopra Group decided to organise the recent Digital Participation event held in Glenrothes, Fife on 2nd October. Sopra Group leads the Digital Participation Action Group (DPAG) Older People's Work Stream, which includes representatives from: Fife Council, NHS 24, Patient Opinion, ScotlandIS, Edinburgh University, Mydex and Virgin Media.
This event was organised to help kick-start the Older People Workstream and brought together public, third and private sector organisations with an interest in promoting digital participation for older people in support of their health and wellbeing.
Chaired by Joe Fitzpatrick, Head of Education (Communities), Fife Council, the event included speakers: Colin Cook, Deputy Director of Digital Strategy and Programmes, The Scottish Government; Charlie Anderson, Head of ICT, Fife Council and Stella Clark, Medical Director of Primary Care for NHS Fife and Clinical Lead for Mental Health Services, NHS 24.
The interactive networking/speed-dating session and main focus of the day, was introduced by Alison McLaughlin, Sopra Group's Head of Public Sector and Chair of the DPAG Older People's Work Stream. During this interactive session public and third sector organisations were able to showcase the work they are doing in support of digital participation for older people. The interactive style of the session ensured that organisations that were looking for support for their initiatives could be matched with the right private sector companies that were keen to pledge their support in the form of either practical skills (consultancy time) and/or funding or equipment.
Sopra Group's, Alison McLaughlin commented: "The event was a big success. It was great to hear of all the work already underway to get people digitally engaged in Fife. Attendees also shared knowledge and experience and some good connections were made for joining up activities. After hearing about ongoing projects, businesses and organisations pledged their support. By using a speed dating approach, we matched needs with commitments of support that will enable more over 55s in Fife to get online."
All requests made by the public/third sector organisations for support were met on the day, and Sopra Group is very pleased to have helped make this event happen and pledge our support in the way of consultancy to Fife Elderly Forum and the Disabled Persons Housing Service and by providing equipment (tablets) for Age Concern Glenrothes and Fife Employment Access Trust.
The success of the event in Fife was a great first step in promoting digital participation for older people, and Sopra Group hopes to broaden this out and expand it to include other parts of Scotland.


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IT'S A BIRD, IT'S A PLANE...
'Supergirl': Jeb Bush's Favorite Superhero Delivers
The CBS series was derided for its girly girl conceit, but you'll be sold on Melissa Benoist's Supergirl within the show's first 10 minutes.
Melissa Leon
Entertainment Editor
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When Supergirl finally takes flight Monday night, its heroine Kara Zor-El will have already endured months of derision for everything from GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush's boneheaded "she's pretty hot" comment to her show's early resemblance to a girly girl-parodying SNL skit. The sight of a Kryptonian bustling through crowded streets carrying coffee for her Miranda Priestly-lite boss, apologizing frantically to grumpy Earthlings for bumping into them, was a sign of clichéd inferiority, we were told. (Though, it's worth noting, no one leveled this claim at Barry Allen in CW's The Flash, who is introduced as an adult onscreen in almost the exact same way.)
The message was clear: A female superhero shouldn't be girly. Romances, costumes with skirts—ugh, sissy stuff, amirite?
But Supergirl, to its infinite credit, never shies away from its charming, bubbly protagonist's hyper-femininity, even in a culture that still, somehow, perceives girlish women as intellectually inferior and frequently condescends to and underestimates them. In fact, the show makes a spectacle out of directly answering accusations of anti-feminism, in everything from its choice of villain to Kara's costume to a pointed meta exchange between Kara (Melissa Benoist) and her boss, high-powered media magnate Cat Grant (Calista Flockhart).
"I don't want to minimize the importance of this," Kara says after learning that Cat has branded her alter ego Supergirl. "A female superhero! Shouldn't she be called Superwoman? … If we call her Supergirl, something less than what she is, doesn't that make us guilty of being anti-feminist?"
Cat, sporting stilettos, a form-fitting dress and a killer blowout, answers, "What do you think is so bad about 'girl?' I'm a girl. And you're boss and powerful and rich and hot and smart. So if you perceive Supergirl as anything less than excellent, isn't the real problem you?"
The dialogue is almost painfully on the nose, but then again, it needs to be. Putting a woman in a cape on TV for the first time in 13 years is an inherently political act—even long after news of yet another supermale-driven movie or TV show has become old hat.
Going a step further and asserting that said woman-in-a-cape can fly in bright, sunny skies with a smile on her face (a superhero actually enjoying her gifts?!), wear cute skirts to work, and go on dates—all while wielding enough power to shoot heat rays from her eyes and stop a speeding big rig with a single punch? Now that takes balls. (The figurative kind, of course).
Executive-produced by Greg Berlanti (Arrow, The Flash), Andrew Kreisberg, and Ali Adler, Supergirl picks up with 13-year-old Kara the moment she blasts off the planet Krypton to look after her baby cousin Kal-El on Earth. Her mother, a scientist named Alura (Laura Benanti), bids her a tearful goodbye and perishes, but her memory looms large over the rest of the episode. Ultimately, she becomes the reason Kara is targeted on Earth by an escaped group of Kryptonian convicts.
Kara's ship, you see, was derailed from its Earth-bound course by a shock wave from her exploding planet, which landed her in an area of the galaxy called the Phantom Zone, where time doesn't pass. She spends 24 years there before being miraculously dislodged and sent back on her way to Earth—along with a floating space prison full of the galaxy's deadliest criminals.
Back on Earth, we're introduced to Kara's adoptive family, the Danvers, her co-worker/confidant Winn Schott (Jeremy Jordan), and the new, impossibly handsome Jimmy Olsen—er, sorry, James Olson (Mehcad Brooks), Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and Metropolis-to-National City transplant.
Unlike most other superhero origin stories, Supergirl isn't about a hero discovering her powers. From the very start, Kara already knows exactly who she is and what she's capable of, though she's kept her powers hidden her entire adult life. But we still get the pleasure of watching Kara morph from a civilian into a superhero, squealing with pride at the sight of herself on the news saving a burning plane.
We watch her choose a costume with the help of Winn who, naturally, has a hopeless crush on Kara. (In one of the episode's most pointed and funny moments, Kara tries coming out to Winn as a superbeing, only to have him interrupt her and scream, "Oh my god, you're a lesbian! That's why you're not into me!" Male solipsism, your name is Winn.) She rejects a pair of hideous hot pants and a crop top ("I wouldn't even wear this to the beach. Where's my cape?") in favor of long sleeves and a miniskirt—a more sensible ensemble representative of Kara's personality and Supergirl's history.
And we watch her face her first superpowered enemy—a bald Kryptonian named Vartox (Owain Yeoman), who calls women "females" and tries to exploit Kara's Superman-induced inferiority complex: "Fighting him would be an honor," he tells her. "Fighting you is just exercise."
But the actual fight, positioned as the climax of the episode, pales in comparison to the breathtaking, plane-saving stunt Kara pulls within the first 10 minutes. And the Superman question is frustratingly omnipresent in the otherwise Supergirl-centered narrative. Leaving him out of the series entirely is a smart choice—otherwise every episode would be plagued by anticipation for a cameo from the Big Guy—but evoking his name, photograph, backstory, and cape over and over creates a big S-shaped hole in the story. You can't have your cape and eat it too.
The pilot suffers from a number of other flaws—CBS ominously provided critics with only the pilot—involving sometimes-clunky dialogue, cheesy special effects (Kara's heat vision so strongly resembles the possessed schoolboys in "Total Eclipse of the Heart" that I had to laugh), and an irritating reliance on Kara's lack of self-confidence to raise the dramatic stakes. There are only so many times you can listen to the most powerful woman on Earth say "I can't do it" before rolling your eyes.
Still, The Flash—the Berlantiverse show most similar to Supergirl in its hopeful, optimistic tone—managed to recover from like flaws and is now the most purely enjoyable supershow on TV.
And, 40 years after Lynda Carter first took up the mantle of Wonder Woman—and one month before Marvel premieres its own first superheroine-led title, Jessica Jones—broadcast TV has been graced by the image of a 24-year-old woman, striding forward confidently as bullets bounce off her chest.
Kara Danvers may not be hardened like Mad Max's Imperator Furiosa or haunted like Jessica Jones, but she doesn't have to be. Superheroines of every shape, power, and personality save the world every day—we just haven't had enough of them onscreen to know that yet.


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Smallville Review – "Onyx"
Smallville is back, but the countess isn't. Let the peasants rejoice!
Tom Welling as Clark Kent
Kristen Kreuk as Lana Lang
Michael Rosenbaum as Lex Luthor
John Glover as Lionel Luthor
Annette O'Toole as Martha Kent
John Schneider as Jonathan Kent
Jensen Ackles as Jason Teague
Allison Mack as Chloe Sullivan.
Written by Steven S. DeKnight.
Directed by Terrence O'Hara.
Original Airdate
Onyx originally aired on Wednesday, April 13, 2005.
Lex accidentally creates some black kryptonite, which allows the Luthors to explore their true natures.
Lex tests Lionel's worthiness.
Security cameras with that kind of coverage, and no charges are filed? The syringe was right there? The killer didn't keep up the act long enough to stick around and feign concern? That should have been handled differently.
This wasn't an original set-up. Anyone who has watched such obscure shows as Star Trek or Buffy the Vampire Slayer has seen the device in use before. For once the characters had the "what happens if I kill him?" thought from the outset, but otherwise, we've seen it all before. I give it 2 out of 6.
The effects were pretty good, but not great. The black kryptonite sequences looked like special effects, and the concrete still moved like styrofoam when tossed around. I give it 4 out of 6.
The story is where things start to pick up. We've now seen more than a glimpse of what Lex will become, including how he responds to lies from those close to him. If he was lying in his last conversation with Clark, then we've got a very solid push in the direction he is destined to go. There was also the inclusion of a nifty little carcinogen that the comic fans will likely enjoy. I give it 5 out of 6.
The acting was better than usual this week. That could simply be due to the amount of time spent on the Luthors, but Kreuk's decent work in her scenes (particularly the first) was good to see, too. I give it 5 out of 6.
The emotional response was great. The witch plot was gone, and the story I've most wanted to see from this series since the pilot took centre stage. This was the show I was hoping Smallville would be. I give it 5 out of 6.
The production was nice. The lighting was the bright world of Superman, and the cellar (which really should have had a more definite placement within the Luthor mansion) was built in a style consistent with what we've seen from the rest of the mansion. The only editing gripe was from the second transition from Lex's study to the cellar, but that's probably due more to physical constraints in set construction than anything else. I give it 4 out of 6.
Overall, it's a good episode, and hopefully a harbinger of things to come. I give it 5 out of 6.
In total, Onyx receives 30 out of 42.
Published by W. Blaine Dowler, in Superman/Smallville.
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12 replies on "Smallville Review – "Onyx""
y42 says:
The Quote
Lets not go too deep in spoiler town, but I loved the Lex quote, when he tells Clark in the loft that he has "abilities far beyond those of mortal men!" : )
hernang7542 says:
One more "movie" quote…almost
Anyone else notice that during the final scene in the basement with Clark and the 2 Lex-es. Evil Lex says something along the lines of:
"I offered you a chance at greatness…"
I may be reading into it, but that echoed General Zod's speech to Jor-El in the beginning of Superman – The Movie.
nkuzmik says:
I suspect that my will be the minority opinion in this matter, but I think I shall miss the kinder, gentler Lionel Luthor.
I rather liked watching him use his charisma and force of personality for charity and such.
Okay, I'll stop talking… for now.
Babbster says:
Re: Thoughts
I can only speak for myself, but I like my Luthors evil. This show needs more nice regulars like it needs a long, drawn-out plot about Lana Lang being possessed…
Cerberus7 says:
I'll miss him, too. I was looking forward to a continued role reversal as Lionel fought to make Lex "stay good, Lex! Stay good!"
But, it is nice to see evil Lionel again, if just for the performance given by John Glover. I'm so torn!
Abednigo says:
I certainly cannot deny the brilliance that is John Glover. The same with Michael Rosenbaum (I don't count that stupid movie where he played a dude dressed as a chick, just the previews turned me off). Both of them can do evil and good amazingly well. Turning them on and off in a second and switching. Truly amazing. I'll be really sad when this show ends (rumors are that'll be next season). But I'd like to see them follow Clark and the gang all through college.
Umm…I don't remember
Possible spoilers, but I don't think they are.
First, I will miss the nice Lionel. It was very cool (and excellent acting!) to have the evil, heartless Lionel for so long, and it provided a good balance to Lex's ever increasing evil. Lionel goes good, Lex pushes the evil envelope. I liked it, and will miss it. But evil Lionel does add much more drama to the overall situation.
Now, regarding my subject title. I said to a friend halfway through the episode, after Lex saw Clark lift the concrete off him and Chloe, that, "If they use the amnesia excuse again, I'm gonna be pissed!" And sure enough…
Why do they feel the need to do that? It's very possible that Lex was lying to Clark, but he would have also had to lie to Lana and everyone else. Amnesia is being used far too often now to cover up people finding out Clark's secret.
vanyel says:
Re: Umm…I don't remember
My low point was the fundamental plot, which, as noted, is about as unoriginal as it gets short of going back to caine and abel. Which, now that I think about it, is pretty close to the same story too.
But they did do it well. Especially from the shot of Lex at the very end, I think there was just enough of a hint of a smirk that it's basically evil Lex in control, learning from his mistakes with just enough help of good lex to keep control. If that makes sense.
I like the irony of getting apparently getting good lex back only to have dad turn bad again, though I was really hoping that the good guy dad was an act that would be revealed to be some devious plot. It would be perfectly in character…
However, judging from the previews, I think it's premature to be going "ding dong" about the witches… I don't think that story line has gotten wrapped up and I'd at least like to see it finished.
My low point was the fundamental plot, which, as noted, is about as unoriginal as it gets
My low point was: "Oh no! The experiment is going wrong! The heat is rising uncontrollably! I'll take off the safety goggles and stand in front of the out-of-control laser!".
What the hell was that?!?
I have faith that it'll be wrapped up by the end of the season. They've got to know that if they keep pushing the witch angle the show is going to stop being about a kid who's going to be Superman and start being Charmed v2.
TechnoGirl says:
I'd give big bucks if….
…. they could just work the following line into some episode some time,"Good Lex, evil Lex… I'm the guy with the gun ,Baby" {g}
Re:And My second thought was….
Maybe evil Lex should grow a goatee??
(and my third thought was…. maybe originality is a lost cause?)


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Superkarts! USA National SKUSA SuperNationals SuperNationals 22 Track Layout Confirmed by Superkarts! USA
SuperNationals 22 Track Layout Confirmed by Superkarts! USA
The unofficial theme of the 22nd edition of the Superkarts! USA SuperNationals is that of 'returning home'. Nine previous editions of the race have been run at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, including the breakout 2002 event which brought the SuperNationals into the city from its former permanent facility home in the desert on the outskirts of Las Vegas. For 2018, the unique location at the Rio will once again welcome over 500 SKUSA competitors from North America and around the world for what is the single biggest karting event in the world. This year, the action begins on Wednesday, November 14 when the karts hit the hotel's parking lot that faces the famed Las Vegas Strip, with the winners being decided on SuperSunday, November 18.
The development of the SKUSA SuperNationals 22 track layout was once again managed by three guest track designers. The veteran trio of Howie Idelson, Bonnier Moulton, and Wesley Boswell were again selected by SKUSA's Tom Kutscher to help in the design of the circuit for the 2018 edition of the SuperNationals. A driver with countless victories and championships over his decades of karting, Idelson competed in the first 20 editions of the event before sitting out last year for the first time to focus his son Dane's program. Moulton is now the only competitor to have raced at all 21 SuperNationals, winning the prestigious event on three occasions. Boswell won the 2003 SuperNationals at the Rio, and remains a key figure in the karting industry.
The circuit for the Superkarts! USA SuperNationals 22 measures out to just under eight tenths of a mile and features 12 challenging turns. What stands out the most is the direction of the course. For the first time in the SuperNationals' history at the Rio, the track will run in the counter-clockwise direction, continuing the trend that began in 2015 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The track design is a mixture of circuits from the Las Vegas Convention Center and those of previous Rio editions. A long backstraight leads into the fast sweeping final left-hand corner that has provided clean starts and exciting finishes during the last three editions of the race. Two 180-degree hairpin turns follow and then lead into the 'pit lane' straight, which was a staple of the original Rio circuits in 2002 and 2003. The second half of the track fills out the middle portion of the parking lot, including two sections of esses that pour into the tight turn 10 that leads onto the back straight.
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What was Scandal, a 5-year-old mare with a 0-for-15 record doing in an allowance-level race against winners of as many as four races to open the Thanksgiving Day card at Del Mar?
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Stretched out beyond 1 1/8 miles for the first time in the 1 3/8-mile turf race, Scandal ($8.60) went wire-to-wire from the No. 1 post to nose out favored Bombilate and Hall of Famer Gary Stevens.
Prior to Thursday's victory, Scandal had been second nine times in her 15 career starts for Claiborne Farm and Ramona Bass while compiling earnings of $127,850.
Smith had Scandal three lengths in front after the first quarter mile, nursed the diminishing lead to deep in the stretch and then got a winning surge after Bombilate appeared to take a slight advantage.
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A brief introduction to search engine information retrieval processes
By Dan Taylor, Head of Technical SEO
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In the early days of the internet, websites were just a collection of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) websites that users could use to upload an download HTML files.
In order to find a specific file, users had to navigate through each one, like finding a book in a library. Shortcuts did exist, and some frequent users learned the exact file addresses, or URI (unique resource indicator) of each HTML file they wanted or looked at regularly. This system assumed that the user knew what they were looking for, and had little room for speculative or research based queries.
In 1990, Alan Emtage of the University of Montreal created Archie, which we can consider to be the first search engine available on the internet — although by today's standards, we wouldn't class it as a search engine at all.
Archie downloaded a directory of all the anonymous FTP website documents and files from a given computer network, and stored them in a user-friendly, searchable database.
In 1991 the idea of Archie was taken one step further by Mark McCahill, who created Gopher. Gopher was a program that indexed plain-text documents, which later became some of the first websites publicly available on the internet.
Both VERONICA and JUGHEAD were hugely important in the early days.
Gopher however, created another problem as much as it solved another, users could search by document title but not by the contents of the documents. The solution to this came in the form of VERONICA (Very Easy Rodent Orientated Net Index Computerised Archive), and JUGHEAD (Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation Display).
Both VERONICA and JUGHEAD worked in the same way and created plain-text indexes based on the content within the HTML documents being indexed by Gopher. This was the first step towards the search engines that we know and use today.
In 1993, Matthew Gray developed Wandex, which was the first search engine to combine both the functionalities of Gopher and one of the plain-text referencing programs into one.
Based on the World Wide Web Wanderer, Wandex was written in Perl script and for all intents and purposes, Wandex was the modern search engine usable for the World Wide Web.
Wandex was designed to establish the size of the internet, and the search engine functionality almost came as a secondary feature.
The methodology of online information retrieval and storage isn't too dissimilar from the basis that all search engine crawlers work on today.
The first "full text" crawler based search engine however was WebCrawler, which was released in 1994.
The informational retrieval process
A search engine is a piece of software that uses custom applications to collate information (such as plain-text, page layout, meta data, external and internal linking structures), as well as other marked indicators as to the page's content.
For an internet search engine, data retrieval is a combination of the user-agent (crawler), the database, and how it's maintained, and the search algorithm. The users then views and interacts with the query interface.
An overview of how Google processes data. Source: Paul Haahr SMX West 2016
Following the production of a Search Engine Results Page (SERP), modern search engines (focused on providing a positive user experience), both validated and scrutinised the behaviour of users in order to improve user experience and results quality.
The user-agent
The task and processes of collating information is performed by a user-agent, that we call a crawler (or spider, or bot). The user-agent's job is to identify and look at every URI and URL (unique resource location) on the internet, and extract the data.
A common misconception occurs here with the belief that every website has a defined "crawl budget", when in reality, it has a crawl resource and a crawl limit, which can be used to manage and encourage crawling specific areas of your website (much like how a webmaster used to use the rel="nofollow" attribute to sculpt PageRank to commercial pages.
Typically the more authoritative your brand is online and how competitive you are within your vertical (and how competitive and trafficked your vertical is), the higher your crawl resource and limits are.
Every search engine user interface is connected to a system of databases, where all the information collated by the user-agents is stored. These are massive storage areas that contain numerous data-points about each URL, as search engines primarily operate on a URL by URL level.
In principle the modern day search engine databases are not too dissimilar from Gopher and Wandex, but the number of data-points and the ability of the user-agents to not only crawl but also render HTML documents has improved dramatically.
As the years past, the ability to search grew massively.
The algorithm
When SEO professionals talk about algorithms, it's very easy to get sucked into the realm of talking about the named algorithms, such as Penguin, Korolyov, Pomegranate etc. In reality, search engines make multiple changes often on a daily basis that go relatively unnoticed by the wider search community.
In technical terms, search algorithms can be classified as list search, tree search, SQL search, informed search, or adversarial search.
Like a tree has branches that pan out, a tree search algorithm searches the database from broadest to narrowest, and vice versa. Databases are similar to trees and a single piece of data can connect to multiples of other data-points that are related. This is very much how the Internet is constructed, and is to an extent how linking works.
Tree searches are typically more successful for conducting searches on the web than some of the other processes, but they are not the only employed and successful informational retrieval process.
The query interface
On the front end of the application, the search engine has a user interface where they can enter a query and find specific information relating to what they have typed.
When a user clicks "search", the search engine retrieves results from its database and then ranks them based on various weightings and scores attributed to data points on the HTML document. Modern search engines also apply personalised search aspects to queries as well, so ranking one to 10 is no longer linear or exact.
All search engines provide a different user interface and varying special content blocks. It's also important to note in some cases that there are less then 10 "classic blue link" results on a SERP.
The user query interface is what 99 per cent of internet users think of when you talk about search engines, as it's the page they interact with and take value from.
Query interfaces can come in multiple forms, ranging from the standard and simplistic search bar that a lot of us are accustomed to (e.g. Google), to more visual concepts (e.g. Bing), and very busy pages that act as information hubs without a query even being performed (e.g. Yahoo).
The fundamentals of search
It's important to remember that as SEOs we're not trying to gain advantage within Google, we're trying to gain advantage in one of the most sophisticated informational retrieval softwares that has ever been created.
While we talk about technical being the core, the core is understanding how information retrieval works (as both a practice in computer science and library science).
By understanding this functionality we can understand how to create technically excellent websites before building the necessary signals for the target search engine to weight HTML document data-points in our favour (and give us higher rankings).
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Garry has been in the building inspections Taupo business for over 38 years now. Having had run his own Business, Garry has now decided to put away the tools and travel another path of becoming a Building Inspector. With his experience Garry strives to give the best of his knowledge and back up service to all of his Clients.
Garry and Kerry work as a Team. Garry doing the Building Inspections, Kerry who is Qualified in Meth Testing as well as being the Office and Admin Person.
Garry and Kerry provide the full range of building inspections Taupo reports for their clients including: pre-purchase building inspections, pre-sale building inspections, Methamphetamine testing and Asbestos sampling.
Like all of Betta's home and building inspectors, Garry and Kerry come to the role with a wealth of practical building experience and is easily able to explain any aspect of his inspection and resulting report.
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Over the weekend I did a thing.
In the grand scheme of things, all I did was go and run a few miles. But in my little world, this thing was pretty big. Those few miles were actually 31 and change. And this run kicked off my 2017 season.
24 Hours of Palmer Lake is really not what I would consider my "style" of race. Until I did it. The course is about as flat as you will find in Colorado. I usually prefer the mountains and their long, steep climbs, and fast technical descents. The course is a 0.80-ish mile loop. I don't do real well with loops. The mental aspect doesn't work real well for me. Because this race is not what I like and not what I consider myself "good at," I decided I should do it. Because there's no way to get better at it until you do it, right?
Plan A was to get there at the start, and see if maybe I can crank out a 50k broken into three 10-mile sections… Perhaps I should back up.
We talked about plan A. Well, Plan A didn't take into account kids activities. So I didn't get to the starting line until the event was about seven hours old. On the drive down I realized I had forgotten lunch, and forgotten water so I could hydrate on the drive, and any sort of substantial snacks for the event. So lunch was a grocery store pre-wrapped sandwich. Sure. Why not? It had worked on so many training runs two long years ago.
So Plan B starts to unfold. I still have the stretch goal of 50k. The number is rather arbitrary, but based on my goals for the year, something in that area is where I need to be training wise. I haven't ramped up to there, so it's a stretch goal. My primary goal is to show up, do 10 miles, take a break to let the muscles get sore and stiff, and then go out for a few more laps. If I can turn that second outing into another 10 miles, that'd be great. Then I'll rest again, and repeat. Plan B is born.
Based on my facebook feed, I knew there would be a lot of people at the race that I knew. There would be very few strangers. What I didn't expect was the feeling of coming home to a family reunion. If there's one single thing that I love most about the ultra community, it's the sense of community. And here it was on display. Many of these people knew something about my struggles over the last year. And many more hadn't seen me since 2015. There were smiles, hugs, and handshakes. I was home. I was where I belonged. And I hadn't even gotten to the registration table yet.
The registration table is where my doubts and fears were laid to rest. I had shown up to the race with questions. Many deep and troubling questions about myself, my goals, my capabilities, and the world I find myself living in. And the race director hands me my bib. Number 42.
I take this as a sign. I smile. I breathe. It's simply time to start running. I am meant to be here today. I will find answers, possibly to questions I didn't know I needed to ask.
In the past I've written out long race reports. This won't be like that. (Well, OK. It's wordy enough to be called long as it is. But it won't be a race report.) I started at about 2:00 PM. I followed my plan. I finished the 50k about 11:00PM with two good breaks, a bit of goofing off, and a whole lot of great conversation.
Now to get my training back on track so I can head out and crush some goals for 2017.


As China shifts its development model from focusing on economic growth at all costs to a model in which economic growth is balanced with solving pressing societal and environmental problems, there is an increasing need for management research on building sustainable organizations in China. This collection of papers focuses attention on the role of business in promoting sustainable economic development, highlighting a number of key processes including: the factors that foster transparency and CSR reporting, how stakeholders can influence corporations to abandon their CSR commitments, the benefits of environmental branding and labeling, and the antecedents and performance consequences of proactive environmental strategies. In this introductory essay we reflect on recent trends in sustainability research in China, and to encourage this important movement, provide recommendations for future research directions.


Time for another update! I can't believe it's been a week already. I definitely feel like this pregnancy has been faster than Wyatt's. It must be because I have a crazy 2 year-old to chase around.
Exercise: Only worked out once, bad! Wyatt had a severely runny nose for a few days, and I felt bad bringing him to the gym. I should have worked out at home but I just wanted to take advantage of his nap by watching Married at First Sight... my #1 guilty pleasure show!
Sleep/Dreams: Sleeping pretty well! I wish my 6:00 am alarm clock would sleep in once in a while though.
Symptoms: The headaches continue, ugh. I had a doozy over the weekend.
Food cravings: I really want a burger... but haven't had one yet.
Food aversions: The cold chicken thing still, but that's it.
Maternity Clothes: Those jeans in the photo are maternity jeans from my pregnancy with Wyatt. My first Stitchfix went okay. I liked a lot of it but most of it was unflattering. Review coming tomorrow!
Best moment this past week: Our weekend in Destin!
What I am looking forward to this week: Madre coming for a visit before her big European vacation.
I love your belly shots, they are always so adorable.
I heard about that show! I should check it out. I remember thinking that it looked interesting!


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Representation Matters! Girl Raises Thousands To Buy Multicultural Crayons And Books For Schools
She was inspired to start the fundraiser after being frustrated by the lack of black and brown characters in books and movies.
Kristen Burns
Madison Wilson was tired of seeing only 'peach people' in drawings at her school. So, when she heard that Crayola was coming out with a new box of multicultural crayons, she wanted to make sure her school had a good supply.
With the support of her mother, Vashti Tameka Wilson, Madison started a fundraiser called "Help Fill Madi's Treasure Box" to help purchase multiple boxes of the 'Colors of the World' crayon boxes and a selection of books with diverse characters for her school.
Crayola's new 'Colors of the World' box features 32 colors that represent skin tones of people all over the world. GoFundMe
"Sometimes, there are only books with peach kids, and there should be books with brown kids like me, too," Madison wrote on her GoFundMe page.
Crayola's 'Colors of the World' box is scheduled to be released in July and will offer 24 crayons with shades like Almond, Golden and Rose to represent different skin tones from around the world.
Madison lives in Solvang, CA, and while she's one of only a few black students at her school, there are many families of Native American and Asian backgrounds who she hopes will be able to accurately draw themselves using the new crayons.
Madison got the idea to start the fundraiser after talking to her mother about why there aren't many black or brown characters in books or movies. Vashti Tameka Wilson/Facebook
"She's one of three black children in her entire school," Vashti told GMA. "She said crayons are either too dark or too light for her and so she wanted all the kids to be able to find something that would match them."
Madison's original goal was to raise a few thousand dollars to provide coloring supplies to her school, but after holding a few fundraising events and giving a passionate speech at her community's Juneteenth celebration, she's raised over $18,000. That's enough to donate books and art supplies to every classroom for at least three schools in her area.
So far Wilson has raised over $18,000 to buy crayons and more diverse books for schools in her area. Vashti Tameka Wilson/Facebook
Madison said she got the idea for the fundraiser after a conversation she had with her mother about the lack of diversity in movies and books.
"If you look at the movies, the books, the protagonist is usually a white woman or white male and [if there's a black character] it's usually a supporting character," Vashti said. "When you're a kid and see this, it's almost like a small paper cut. Paper cuts hurt and those little hurts build up over time."
Here's Madison speaking at her community's Juneteenth celebration about her fundraiser...
Along with starting 'Help Fill Madi's Treasure Box,' Madison spends her time as CEO of her own company, Dino Explorerz, where she creates science kits to make learning fun for kids of all ages.
We love stories of young people, like Madison, who are making a difference in their communities. We can only imagine the amazing things she'll accomplish in her lifetime!
Madison also is the CEO of Dino Explorerz, a company that makes learning about science more fun. Dino Explorerz/Facebook
You can donate to Madison's fundraiser by clicking here.
Also, if you're the parent of a young person, why not suggest purchasing some of the 'Colors of the World' crayon boxes for their school? Likewise, you can sign up to be notified when the crayon boxes will be available for purchase by clicking here.
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UK Finally Releases Russia Report
Michael Kans Cybersecurity, Data Protection, data security, Russia, Telecommunications July 22, 2020 9 Minutes
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A committee of the United Kingdom (UK) Parliament issued its report on its investigation into Russian interference and rendered a scathing indictment of disengagement by the British government on the challenges and threats posed by the Russian Federation going back to early this century. The Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament (ISC), a joint body consisting of nine members of the House of Commons and the same number from the House of Lords, had been tasked with investigating the extent to which Russia has been interfering with the UK, including the Brexit vote in 2016. The ISC has returned with a record of half-measures, often uncoordinated between agencies and entities inside the British government, that have proved ineffective. The ISC is calling for a range of policy, strategic, and legislative changes to counter the threat posed by Russian activities, many of which occurred in cyberspace or digitally. Presumably, these changes would also help the UK deal with other nations that are aggressive in cyberspace, including the People's Republic of China (PRC), the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Iran, and others.
This report follows the four of five volume report the United States Senate Intelligence Committee has released on Russian interference with the 2016 US Presidential Election in favor of the Trump Campaign and to sow discord and distrust generally. In October 2019, the Committee transmitted its report to Prime Minister Boris Johnson who would "now consider whether there is any information in the report which, if published, would be prejudicial to the continued discharge of the functions of the security and intelligence Agencies." In its press release today, the ISC stated "it is a matter of great regret that it was not published last November, ahead of the General Election."
In the report, the ISC explained the report "covers aspects of the Russian threat to the UK (Cyber; Disinformation and Influence; and Russian Expatriates) followed by an examination of how the UK Government – in particular the Agencies and Defence Intelligence – has responded (Allocation of Effort; Strategy, Co-ordination and Tasking; A Hard Target; Legislation; International Partnerships; and Engagement with Russia)."
The previous ISC wrote the press release the current ISC issued:
ISC questions whether Government took its eye off the ball on Russia, finds that they underestimated the response required to the Russian threat and are still playing catch up:
Russian influence in the UK is the new normal. Successive Governments have welcomed the oligarchs and their money with open arms, providing them with a means of recycling illicit finance through the London 'laundromat', and connections at the highest levels with access to UK companies and political figures.
This has led to a growth industry of 'enablers' including lawyers, accountants, and estate agents who are – wittingly or unwittingly – de facto agents of the Russian state.
It clearly demonstrates the inherent tension between the Government's prosperity agenda and the need to protect national security. While we cannot now shut the stable door, greater powers and transparency are needed urgently.
UK is clearly a target for Russian disinformation. While the mechanics of our paper-based voting system are largely sound, we cannot be complacent about a hostile state taking deliberate action with the aim of influencing our democratic processes.
Yet the defence of those democratic processes has appeared something of a 'hot potato', with no one organisation considering itself to be in the lead, or apparently willing to conduct an assessment of such interference. This must change.
Social media companies must take action and remove covert hostile state material: Government must 'name and shame' those who fail to act.
We need other countries to step up with the UK and attach a cost to Putin's actions. Salisbury must not be allowed to become the high water mark in international unity over the Russia threat.
A number of issues addressed in this published version of the Russia Report are covered in more depth in the Classified Annex. We are not able to discuss these aspects on the grounds of national security.
The previous ISC continued in its press release:
[T]his Inquiry found it surprisingly difficult to establish who has responsibility: the defence of the UK's democratic processes has appeared to be something of a 'hot potato', with no single organisation identifying itself as having an overall lead. We understand the nervousness around any suggestion that the intelligence Agencies might be involved in the mechanics of the democratic process, but that does not apply when it comes to the protection of those processes. And without seeking to imply that those organisations currently responsible are not capable, the Committee have questioned whether DCMS and the Electoral Commission have the weight and access required to tackle a major hostile state threat. Democracy is intrinsic to our country's success and well-being. Protecting it must be a ministerial priority, with the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism taking the policy lead and the operational role sitting with MI5.
In terms of responsibility, it was noted that – as with so many other issues currently – it is the social media companies who hold the key but are failing to play their part. The Government must establish a protocol with these companies to ensure that they take covert hostile state use of their platforms seriously, with agreed deadlines within which such material will be removed, and Government should 'name and shame' those which fail to act.
There have been widespread allegations that Russia sought to influence voters in the 2016 referendum on the UK's membership of the EU: studies have pointed to the preponderance of pro-Brexit or anti-EU stories on RT and Sputnik, and the use of 'bots' and 'trolls', as evidence. The actual impact of such attempts on the result itself would be difficult – if not impossible – to prove. However what is clear is that the Government was slow to recognise the existence of the threat – only understanding it after the 'hack and leak' operation against the Democratic National Committee, when it should have been seen as early as 2014. As a result the Government did not take action to protect the UK's process in 2016. The Committee has not been provided with any post-referendum assessment – in stark contrast to the US response to reports of interference in the 2016 presidential election. In our view there must be an analogous assessment of Russian interference in the EU referendum.
What is clear is that Russian influence in the UK is 'the new normal': successive Governments have welcomed the Russian oligarchy with open arms, and there are a lot of Russians with very close links to Putin who are well integrated into the UK business, political and social scene – in 'Londongrad' in particular. Yet few, if any, questions have been asked regarding the provenance of their considerable wealth and this 'open door' approach provided ideal mechanisms by which illicit finance could be recycled through the London 'laundromat'. It is not just the oligarchs either – the arrival of Russian money has resulted in a growth industry of 'enablers': lawyers, accountants, and estate agents have all played a role, wittingly or unwittingly, and formed a "buffer" of Westerners who are de facto agents of the Russian state.
There is an obvious inherent tension between the Government's prosperity agenda and the need to protect national security. To a certain extent, this cannot be untangled and the priority now must be to mitigate the risk, and ensure that where hostile activity is uncovered, the proper tools exist to tackle it at source and to challenge the impunity of Putin-linked elites. It is notable, for example, that a number of Members of the House of Lords have business interests linked to Russia, or work directly for major Russian companies linked to the Russian state – these relationships should be carefully scrutinised, given the potential for the Russian state to exploit them.
In addition to the Putin-linked elites, the UK is also home to a number of Putin's critics who have sought sanctuary in the UK fearing politically-motivated charges and harassment, and the events of 4 March 2018 showed the vulnerability of former Russian intelligence officers who have settled in the UK – one of the issues we address in the Classified Annex to our Report.
It has been clear for some time that Russia under Putin has moved from potential partner to established threat, fundamentally unwilling to adhere to international law – the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006 and the annexation of Crimea in 2014 were stark indicators of this. We therefore question whether the Government took its eye off the ball because of its focus on counter-terrorism: it was the opinion of the Committee that until recently the Government had badly underestimated the response required to the Russian threat –and is still playing catch up. Russia poses a tough intelligence challenge and our intelligence Agencies must have the tools they need to tackle it. In particular, new legislation must be introduced to tackle foreign spies: the Official Secrets Act is not fit for purpose and while this goes unrectified the UK intelligence community's hands are tied.
More broadly, we need a continuing international consensus against Russian aggressive action. Effective constraint of nefarious Russian activities in the future will rely on making sure that the price the Russians pay for such interference is sufficiently high: the West is strongest when it acts collectively, and the UK has shown it can lead the international response. The expulsion of 153 'diplomats' from 29 countries and NATO following the use of chemical weapons on UK soil in the Salisbury attack was unprecedented and, together with the subsequent exposure of the GRU agents responsible, sent a strong message that such actions would not be tolerated. But Salisbury must not be allowed to become the high water mark in international unity over the Russia threat: we must build on this effort to ensure momentum is not lost.
In the report, the ISC explained
As a result of our scrutiny, we have reached conclusions as to what is working well, where there is a need for more, or different, effort, or where a strategy may need updating, and we have commissioned a number of actions. These are embedded throughout the Report. We note here, however, that there have been a number of cross-cutting themes which have emerged during the course of our work:
Most surprising, perhaps, was the extent to which much of the work of the Intelligence Community is focused on ***. We had, at the outset of our Inquiry, believed they would be taking a rather broader view, given that it is clearly acknowledged that the Russians use a whole-of-state approach.
This focus has led us to question who is responsible for broader work against the Russian threat and whether those organisations are sufficiently empowered to tackle a hostile state threat such as Russia. In some instances, we have therefore recommended a shift in responsibilities. In other cases, we have recommended a simplification: there are a number of unnecessarily complicated wiring diagrams that do not provide the clear lines of accountability that are needed.
The clearest requirement for immediate action is for new legislation: the Intelligence Community must be given the tools it needs and be put in the best possible position if it is to tackle this very capable adversary, and this means a new statutory framework to tackle espionage, the illicit financial dealings of the Russian elite and the 'enablers' who support this activity.
More broadly, the way forward lies with taking action with our allies; a continuing international consensus is needed against Russian aggressive action. The West is strongest when it acts collectively and that is the way in which we can best attach a cost to Putin's actions. The UK has shown it can shape the international response, as it did in response to the Salisbury attacks. It must now seek to build on this effort to ensure that momentum is not lost.
The Committee is pursuing additional inquiries that could also result in proposed changes in how the UK handles cyberspace threats:
an Inquiry into national security issues relating to China;
an Inquiry into Right Wing Terrorism;
an examination of the current threat from Northern Ireland-Related Terrorism; and
a case study on GCHQ procurement.
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Why we can't talk about one without the other: Sexual and reproductive rights and women's economic empowerment
Preethi Sundaram
September 2nd, 2016 Gender, Her Series, Violence Against Women and Girls, Women's Economic Empowerment
So far in our Her Series we've touched on various issues from the effects of unpaid care to gender equality and global institutions. Now, Preethi Sundaram from International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), shares with us her thoughts on the links between sexual and reproductive rights and women's economic empowerment.
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The sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of women and girls are too often not considered central to women's economic empowerment (WEE). However, the fulfilment of these rights- the freedom to decide if and when we marry and have children, to live free from violence, to make decisions regarding our bodies- are key to empowering women economically.
Recent studies point to the positive influence of lower fertility in women's economic participation; globally, female labour force participation decreases with each additional child by about 10% to 15% points among women aged 25 to 39. [1] Despite this trend, the extent to which women's work is empowering depends on the context and conditions of women's work, both of which are related to women's sexual and reproductive lives.
Why 'caring' about SRHR matters
The care economy, which includes paid and unpaid care work, is primarily undertaken by women and girls, and has an impact on their opportunities outside of the home. Care work describes the unpaid reproductive labour that is disproportionately undertaken by women and which includes, but is not limited to, child care, elder care, taking care of ill family members, cooking and cleaning.
The level of care work affects women's access to sexual and reproductive health services; women and girls who are shouldering the lion's share of care work in the home may not have the time or the resources to go to a clinic, to access contraceptives or to receive critical ante and post-natal services.
Without access to essential services such as family planning, women cannot choose if and when and how many children to have. This can increase their care burden and exacerbate already existing inequalities in women's share of care-giving, as well as the health and economic consequences that result from unplanned and/or frequent pregnancies, such as unsafe abortions.
Women's care burdens affect their ability to find and stay in work. For example, a woman may be unable to commit to a formal job at regular times every day because she is required to be at home to look after others and perform household tasks. This may lead her to take up work in the informal sector which offers more flexibility (for example, in working hours, location and so on), but more insecure and precarious working conditions. Work in the informal economy tends to offers fewer benefits than work in the formal wage economy, with specific effects on sexual and reproductive health and rights. For example, domestic workers and sex workers are often particularly vulnerable to sexual assault and other forms of abuse, as well as greater exposure to HIV.
Without access to essential services such as family planning, women cannot choose if and when and how many children to have
Supporting women in work
Given the role of care work in women's lives, it is unsurprising that studies find that women's empowerment in formal wage employment is tied to the presence (or lack) of regulatory frameworks that support women's sexual and reproductive rights and caring responsibilities. The most frequently cited policies are parental leave, child care and access to contraceptives, as they ease the care burden that many women face. Lack of these policies, together with a lack of policies which seek to distribute care work evenly (both between women and men and between the state and private households) are cited as reasons that women in many regions remain in the informal or agricultural sectors, and are therefore more vulnerable to poverty, ill health and precariousness.
In addition to targeted child care and maternity leave programmes, on-site health programmes can also support women in work.
For example, in Cambodia, thousands of young women from rural areas move to cities to work in factories. These women often do not know where to go for sexual and reproductive health services and, for many, the services remain inaccessible due to cost or limited opening hours. IPPF's Member Association, the Reproductive Health Association of Cambodia (RHAC), is responding to this unmet need by providing information and free services to women working in factories. RHAC has established formal partnerships with 30 factories in three major urban areas of Cambodia. The factory workers are given vouchers for a range of free sexual and reproductive health services including contraception, post-abortion care, cervical cancer screening and treatment, HIV counselling and testing, referrals for antiretroviral treatment, and testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections.
Similarly, in Nepal, a series of youth-led classes on sexual and reproductive health and rights for female factory workers, which included information on safe abortion, was not only successful in itself, but the young women who were trained as peer educators also gained additional organizational and mentoring skills. [2]
Opening up opportunities
The High Level Panel on Women's Economic Empowerment presents a unique opportunity to shine a spotlight on the central role that SRHR plays in empowering women economically. What is required to change the reality of women's lives on the ground, is increased political prioritization and investment in SRHR, an area of that is too often considered politically toxic or irrelevant. Ultimately, investing in women's SRHR pays off by opening up opportunities for us to make informed choices about our bodies, our families and our livelihoods.
[1] Grepin KA and Klugman J (2013) Investing in Women's Reproductive Health: Closing the Deadly Gap Between What we Know and What we Do. Washington: World Bank. Available at Accessed 14 January 2015.
[2] Ipas (2013) Empowering Women Workers through Youth-led Education on Reproductive Health and Safe Abortion in Nepal. Available at Accessed 16 December 2014
To read more about the SRHR, gender equality and women's empowerment, see IPPF's landmark report, 'Sexual and reproductive health and rights- the key to gender equality and women's empowerment'
To read more about how SRHR is critical to macro-economic policy, read the Bretton Woods Project's latest briefing paper, 'The IMF and Gender: A Critical Analysis'
Preethi is Policy and Advocacy Adviser at the International Planned Parenthood Federation. She is responsible for authoring global policy publications and leads the Federations' global advocacy with multilateral institutions such as the World Bank.
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