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Zimbabwe frees some inmates to reduce COVID-19 risk in jails
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Source: Zimbabwe frees some inmates to reduce COVID-19 risk in jails – WGAU
Virus Outbreak Zimbabwe Prisons Amnesty Female prisoners wave goodbye to their fellow inmates following their release from Chikurubi prison on the outskirts of Harare, Saturday, April 17, 2021. Zimbabwe began the release of about 3,000 prisoners under a presidential amnesty aimed at easing congestion and minimizing the threat of COVID-19 across the country's overcrowded jails. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi) (Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
By FARAI MUTSAKA
HARARE, Zimbabwe — (AP) — Zimbabwe has begun releasing about 3,000 prisoners under a presidential amnesty aimed at easing congestion to reduce the threat of COVID-19 in the country's overcrowded jails.
About 400 prisoners were released from Chikurubi prison and other jails in the capital, Harare, on Saturday with more coming from other prisons countrywide.
Zimbabwe's prisons have a capacity of 17,000 prisoners but held about 22,000 before the amnesty declared by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Those to be released had been convicted of non-violent crimes. Those convicted of crimes such as murder, treason, human trafficking, and sexual offences will not benefit.
All females imprisoned for non-violent crimes and who served a third of their sentences are to be released, as will all disabled persons convicted of non-violent crimes. Mnangagwa also commuted death sentences to life sentences for many prisoners on death row. Zimbabwe still has the death penalty but has not hanged anyone in years.
The amnesty "will go a long way" to reduce expenditure and the threat of the spread of the virus in prisons, said Alvord Gapare, the commander for prisons in Harare. He said prisons in the capital had recorded 173 confirmed infections and one death.
Zimbabwe has recorded 37,534 cases of COVID-19, including 1,551 deaths by Apr. 17, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Authorities have suspended visits to prisons while plans are made to vaccinate inmates as part of measures to combat the spread of the virus, said Gapare.
The suspension of the visits was "tough" for inmates, said Patience Gabhure, who was among those released on Saturday.
"There is never enough food in prison so the lockdown meant we had to go hungry because our families could not bring us food. It was the hardest moment in my prison life," said Ghabure, who had been jailed for six months for assault.
Political activists who have been sent to prison as part of a government crackdown on dissent have spoken of dire conditions, which they said put inmates at risk of both starvation and disease outbreak.
In another response to the pandemic, Zimbabwe has cancelled the Independence Day celebrations planned for April 18 to combat the spread of COVID-19.
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FBI arrests Capitol rioter, 22, accused of stealing Nancy Pelosi's laptop from her office to 'sell it to Russian spies' after she went on the run from her mom's house
Bed Bath & Beyond, Kohl's and Wayfair STOP selling MyPillow over CEO Mike Lindell's support of voter fraud theories - as Dominion Voting threatens to sue him over 'baseless lies'
Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen suggests National Guard members might 'want to do something' to Biden during his inauguration because they are 'mostly white Trump supporters'
QAnon fanatics 'discussed posing as one of the 25,000 National Guard soldiers at Biden's inauguration' as FBI warns of growing 'lone wolf' concerns following deadly Capitol siege
Anthony Scaramucci says he turned down an invite to Trump's 'farewell event' on inauguration day morning after being sent a 'mass email' from aides 'looking for people' to attend
'Don't you dare buy into that.' Frank Biden says brother Joe refused to let Hunter feel guilty for scandal that might have ruined White House run, and reveals president-elect bit off sister's toy Lamb Chop's ear in fit of anger as a child
Investment firm VP, 49, kills his nine-year-old son in murder-suicide amid bitter custody battle with child's mom after becoming an 'anti-vaxxer on joining a Bay Area "new age" group'
Trump is 'livid' at Biden's star-studded inauguration line-up of Lady Gaga, Tom Hanks and Jennifer Lopez: President 'fumes at aides over celebrities' in his final hours in office as stunning Field of Flags is lit up on the National Mall
Trump is 'STILL ranting that he won the election with just 48 hours left in office - and calls GOP House leader Kevin McCarthy a 'p***y' because 10 of his caucus voted to impeach
Palm Beach cops detain man outside Mar-a-Lago just hours after moving trucks arrived and started to unload with the President planning to snub Biden and fly to Florida hours before inauguration
Biden blocks Trump's bid to allow visitors from the UK, Brazil and Europe into the US for the first time since March and dashes hopes of millions by saying he will STRENGTHEN Covid travel restrictions
Bill Barr finally quit after telling Donald Trump his claims of election fraud dreamed up by 'clownish' legal team were 'bulls**t'
Christian girl, 12, who was 'kidnapped, raped and chained up in a cattle pen for five months by Muslim man, 45, who forced her to marry him', is rescued in Pakistan and taken into care
Trump's 1776 Commission slams schools for trying to paint the US as 'evil' with 'distorted histories' on slavery, defends the Founding Fathers and urges teachers to reject 'activist propaganda' in MLK Day report
Sitting Bull, Buffalo Bill and Samuel Colt to sit alongside Christoper Columbus, John Wayne, RBG and Rosa Parks in Donald Trump's very eclectic 'garden of heroes'
Trump-appointed US Census Bureau director resigns early after he was accused of trying to manipulate data on undocumented immigrants to please the president
'Lil Wayne? Some Medicare fraud from Florida? Don't degrade yourself on your way out': Tucker Carlson urges Trump to reconsider his pardons as Pamela Anderson pleads with the president to help get Julian Assange out of jail
Snoop Dogg is lobbying Trump to pardon Death Row Records co-founder Michael 'Harry-O Harris after three decades behind bars for murder
Trump leaves office with just 34% approval - the lowest rating of his term - after a 12-point slide while he sought to overturn the election
Trump prepares list of up to 100 pardons that doesn't include himself or his children: Lil Wayne, corrupt politician Sheldon Silver and a fraudster eye doctor are expected to get clemency - but Steve Bannon is 'TBD' and Julian Assange may miss out
Martin Luther King Jr. would be 'greatly disappointed' in our nation and Trump for 'bringing people together to intercept the government', his eldest son says on MLK Day
Vending machines selling COVID home testing kits are coming to several major cities including NYC, LA, and Dallas within weeks - but will cost up to $149 EACH
Guatemalan troops try to stop caravan of 8,000 Hondurans reaching the US as Biden prepares to expand refugee admissions, offer 11 million immigrants an eight-year path to citizenship and give Dreamers Green Cards on his first day in office
Can you spot the President-elect? Invisible man Joe Biden (in hat, sunglasses and mask) is joined by wife Jill, daughter Ashley, and granddaughter Finnegan at a food bank on MLK Day
Queen's envoy 'Baroness Brazen' is entangled in honours scandal: Title given to Commonwealth chief's crony is 'reviewed' after she is accused of abusing the system
MoS investigation revealed Baroness Scotland is entangled in honours row
'Dear friends' with Anthony Bailey who is abusing his Antiguan knighthood
Bailey received knighthood after a £1.1m investment in school programmes
But despite it being granted by Antigua, he insists on being called Sir in UK
The Palace ordered him to stop giving impression of being a British knight
MP said Baroness must 'take responsibility for any role she had' in the row
By Ned Donovan and Ian Gallagher For The Mail On Sunday
Published: 17:57 EST, 28 May 2016 | Updated: 07:09 EST, 8 July 2016
The new political head of the Commonwealth, Baroness Scotland, has become entangled in an extraordinary row over abuse of the honours system.
A Mail on Sunday investigation has discovered that the former Labour Cabinet Minister was involved in Anthony Bailey obtaining an honour from Antigua, which he is now abusing to masquerade as a knight in the UK.
Baroness Scotland and Bailey, who has described her as a 'dear friend', collaborated on the charitable work that earned him the honour, an Antiguan knighthood.
But he has insisted on being called 'Sir' in the UK, flouting convention and angering Buckingham Palace, which has ordered him to stop giving the impression of being a British knight.
Honour: Baroness Scotland is received by Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace on her appointment as Commonwealth Secretary-General. She had become entangled in an honours row over Anthony Bailey
Upset: Bailey received the honour following a £1.1 million investment in schools and church programmes from a charity of which both he and the Baroness (pictured with the Queen) were senior members
Prince Charles and David Cameron are among those who have been effectively duped into wrongly referring to him as 'Sir Anthony'.
Following The Mail on Sunday's investigation, he now faces the ignominious prospect of having his knighthood withdrawn by Antigua.
Two of his associates, who received their knighthoods at the same time, have had their honours revoked pending an investigation.
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Last night Baroness Scotland faced questions about her role in the affair. Bailey received the honour following a £1.1 million investment in schools and church programmes from a charity of which both he and the Baroness were senior members.
But she denied being 'party to the granting of a knighthood to Anthony Bailey or anyone else, and has no opinion on how private individuals comport themselves'.
Tory MP Stuart Andrew said Baroness Scotland 'appears to have been particularly brazen in her actions' and said the peer's involvement placed a question mark against her judgment. 'Baroness Scotland needs to take responsibility for any role she had in this business,' he said.
'If Anthony Bailey is continuing to use this title in the UK it's disrespectful in the extreme to people who have knighthoods who absolutely deserve them. It makes a mockery of the honours system.'
This business has caused considerable anger at the Palace and Foreign Office. This man is passing himself off as a knight in Britain and won't listen to advice to stop.
Government Minister
A Government Minister said last night: 'This business has caused considerable anger at the Palace and Foreign Office. This man is passing himself off as a knight in Britain and won't listen to advice to stop.'
But Bailey – who has strong links to foreign governments, as well as the Saudi royal family and the Vatican – has ignored all warnings about the misuse of his award. In response he launched an astonishing attack on the Foreign Office and Royal Household, accusing them of conducting a 'dirty tricks' campaign.
Tory Andrew Rosindell has also become embroiled in the saga, as the Romford MP asked no fewer than seven Commons questions about Commonwealth honours in just over a month, at the height of Bailey's dispute with the Royal Household. He said last night: 'While I have received representations from an array of individuals, including Anthony Bailey, regarding the issue of the recognition of knighthoods, I would like to stress that my only interest in this matter is over the principles involved and is not personalised to an individual in any way.'
Baroness Scotland previously hit headlines in 2009, when she was Attorney-General. It was then revealed that she employed an illegal immigrant from Tonga on a paltry wage of £6 an hour. She was prosecuted for breaking immigration laws that she had helped draft, and fined £5,000.
She took up her position of Commonwealth Secretary-General, a position which comes with an £160,000 salary and a grace-and-favour Mayfair home, last month.
Row: Anthony Bailey obtained an honour from Antigua, which he is now abusing to masquerade as a knight in the UK. Pictured, Bailey receiving the knighthood at Government House in Antigua in November 2014
The peer previously had Antigua's support to take the job, but it was withdrawn following a change of government on the island. Bailey and his friends were knighted in November 2014 by Antigua's Governor General Sir Rodney Williams – who is married to Baroness Scotland's cousin.
Sources close to Bailey said last night that he is entitled to use the title 'Sir' which features on his passport, and said the Foreign Office had never tried to stop him. A question on this topic was one of those asked by MP Mr Rosindell.
But last night the Foreign Office insisted that Bailey was not entitled to use the title 'Sir' in the UK. A spokesman said: 'The convention that British recipients of knighthoods from other countries cannot use the title "Sir" in the UK dates back to 1813. There has been no change to the convention since then and it applies to everyone.'
The convention that British recipients of knighthoods from other countries cannot use the title "Sir" in the UK dates back to 1813. There has been no change to the convention since then and it applies to everyone.
Foreign Office spokesman
Baroness Scotland declined to say last night whether she was aware Bailey was intending to use the title in the UK, or if she thought it appropriate. A spokesman added that she did not petition for his honour, saying: 'No argument was made on behalf or Anthony Bailey, nor was she involved in the process in any other way.'
Antigua's Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, confirmed that the knighthood awarded to Bailey – who once raised funds for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown – is now under 'review'.
He said that when his party came to power in June 2014, one of its first acts was to switch its support for the Commonwealth Secretary-General job from Baroness Scotland to Sir Ronald Sanders, a senior Antiguan diplomat.
Two of Bailey's wealthy friends who were knighted with him in Antigua have already had their honours revoked pending an investigation.
All three knighthoods had been arranged prior to Browne's election. 'By the time we came to office, this was a fait accompli and we honoured the arrangements without any knowledge of the prior discussions,' the Antiguan Prime Minister said.
One of the other men is Nadmi Auchi, who was convicted of fraud and bribery over the Elf Aquitaine corruption scandal in 2003. The other is Bulgarian businessman Spas Roussev. Mr Roussev's spokesman said he was 'approached and offered an Antiguan honour in exchange for supporting local charitable projects'. However, Mr Roussev had 'questions about the arrangement from the start'.
The spokesman added: 'It became clear that all was not well, the process involved was irregular and not as originally described. Mr Roussev therefore withheld all payments and asked to return the honour, but this was refused. He has been pursued for payment ever since.'
All three men who were knighted were, along with Baroness Scotland, part of a delegation from an ancient Catholic order, The Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George, which was revived ten years ago by Bailey, who also styles himself 'His Excellency'. The peer and Bailey flew to Antigua for his investiture as part of a delegation from the order.
On the organisation's website, the Baroness takes personal responsibility for introducing the order to Antigua. After the 2014 trip to the island, she issued a statement saying she was 'truly delighted' with the visit which had only come after her 'pleas' to Bailey and the other leaders of the order.
Anger: Bailey is flouting convention and angering Buckingham Palace (pictured), which has ordered him to stop giving the impression of being a British knight
Royal: Two of Bailey's wealthy friends who were knighted with him in Antigua have already had their honours revoked pending an investigation. Pictured, the royal family gathered for the Trooping the Colour parade
Last Monday, the Order of St George and Bailey hosted a dinner in Draper's Hall in London for the president of Hungary. Tory MP Oliver Letwin read out a letter from David Cameron, which referred to 'Sir Anthony Bailey'.
In the official registers the next day, the event is listed as being hosted by 'Sir Anthony Bailey.'
Earlier this year, Bailey posted on his Facebook page an invitation from the Duchess of Cornwall to a charity event at St James's Palace. Again, he was referred to as 'Sir Anthony'. He lists no fewer than 35 honours and awards on his personal website – including the 'First Class Grade of the Syrian Order of Outstanding Merit' from President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
In 2007, the 46-year-old married Austrian princess Marie-Therese von Hohenberg, the great-granddaughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination led to the outbreak of the First World War. The couple have a six-year-old son. At the wedding, Bailey is said to have worn his full papal knight uniform, which he was awarded in 2009, complete with ceremonial sword.
Anthony Bailey (pictured in Notting Hill, London) lists no fewer than 35 honours and awards on his personal website
The social climber came from relatively modest beginnings. The son of an engineer, he attended a Catholic comprehensive school in Ickenham, Middlesex, before studying at University College London.
He went on to work for global PR firm Burson-Marsteller, before setting up his own companies advising states and private bodies including Saudi Arabia, Russia, Yemen and Bahrain, weapons manufacturer BAE Systems, and oil company Shell. He is reportedly able to charge clients £500 an hour.
'I do the job of a diplomat with the usual embassy, government and royal access, but I charge commercial rates,' he once told a journalist. The interviewer wrote: 'Anthony Bailey's connections make Peter Mandelson look like a Welsh hermit.'
Mr Bailey was a key fundraiser for Mr Blair and is credited with raising £8 million for his flagship city academies project. However, in 2005, Bailey's £500,000 donation to the Labour Party was rejected over fears that he was acting on behalf of foreign businessmen. He subsequently received a letter of apology from Labour's then chairman, Hazel Blears, saying it should not have happened. A year later he had a £50,600 donation to the party accepted. In 2007 he made a £10,000 donation to Ms Blears and in 2010, he also made a £50,000 donation to David Miliband for his failed leadership campaign.
A spokesman for Baroness Scotland – who is no longer active in the Constantinian Order – said: 'Patricia Scotland has been a member of the order for over a decade and had a long-standing hope that the order's good charitable works could be extended to the Caribbean, which pre-dated any consideration of being Commonwealth Secretary-General
'She was asked to join the visit of the order to the Caribbean to mark the start of their work there and was happy to do so. She did not identify nor select those who received the institutional honours. Patricia Scotland had not met, and did not know, Mr Auchi and Mr Roussev prior to attending the ceremony.
'She did not make any introductions on their behalf nor has she ever advocated for them in any way. If their honours are now being questioned then due process should be followed. As Commonwealth Secretary-General, she has no say in how sovereign member states resolve these matters and will not comment on them.
'Patricia Scotland has not been and is not now a "close ally" of any particular administration in the Caribbean, current or former. At the time of her appointment as Secretary-General, the government of Antigua was actively supporting a different candidate for the job, so that point is moot.
'Patricia Scotland was not party to the granting of an institutional knighthood to Anthony Bailey for his role with the Constantinian Order, or anyone else, and has no opinion on how private individuals comport themselves.'
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Wine sellers use the word "fruity" at their peril. Red wine drinkers, especially, seem put off by the notion that a wine should express its origin in a grape; instead, they want "powerful," "earthy," "big" wines.
I do too, but not all the time – not even most of the time. Most of the time, I want to enjoy my meal, contribute to the conversation and leave the table refreshed enough to put my kids to bed and remain happy once the alcohol kick has left its jubilance phase.
"Fruity," it seems, connotes superficiality, sweetness and childishness, whereas "dry" connotes intelligence, complexity and dank Tuscan cellars. Like "dark-roasted" with coffee, the association of "dry" with profundity is simplistic. I call a wine "fruity" if it's sprightly, fresh-tasting and young, and if the soul of the fruit itself is present in the wine.
Generally, these wines emphasize vigor and charm. Not only is this OK (doesn't mean you're not a complex person), it's preferable for the current season: still summer, but steering toward harvest time. In our foods as well as our wines, we are moving from all things crisp and tingly to slightly more heft and bass-note oomph.
Wines with prominent, balanced fruit provide the perfect bridge: The flavors are of things above ground (plants, fruits) rather than below (minerals, earth). The body is supple and less aggressive, and the tannins are subtle. The following reds show what fruit has to offer when transformed by a firm hand; they're evidence that anyone who thinks fruity wines are childish must not like children.
Clos Lojen 2008, Manchuela, Spain, $14 (Wicked): Immediate, accessible notes of licorice, dried mint, pepper, leather and thyme. But as delightful as those components are, they're ultimately just clothing for the wine's (lithe, sinewy) flesh of super-fresh, ripe black plums and Bing cherries.
Made from 100 percent biodynamically farmed Bobal, a grape unique to Manchuela, it's an all-natural wine, with no sulfites added. The 29-year-old winemaker (and fourth-generation Bobal grower) uses carbonic maceration, a process traditionally employed to make Beaujolais – the queen of delightfully fruity, food-friendly wines. The Clos Lojen is for Labor Day barbecues of burgers, chicken and pork, then on to winter squash, cranberries and root vegetables.
Camille Cayran Secret de Campane 2008, Orange, France, $12 (Nappi): You know how fruits often gain complexity when treated with spices such as star anise, cardamom and cinnamon? This wine is like that – a late-summer plum tart sprinkled with autumnal spices.
A little smoother in the mouth than the Clos Lojen, and a little more antique-y in profile – I imagine its home at a wooden bar banquette rubbed smooth by generations of loyal drinkers. But it retains that necessary liveliness.
A blend of Grenache, Carignan, Cinsault and Merlot, it effortlessly combines two personalities: your smart uncle who's traveled to places and met people you never will, and your sly niece who's always running faster than you can.
Trappolini Cenereto 2008, Lazio, Italy, $14 (Devenish): This is the most rustic, Old-World-y of the bunch, but still alert and fresh. A terrific cinnamon-and-leather earthiness from 50 percent Sangiovese mingles with 50 percent Montepulciano to provide ripeness, tomato and deep, dark fruit. A light-to-medium body keeps it August-ready, prepared to pair with day-after grilled meats still cool from the fridge.
Or, when your garden tomatoes start moving away from their prime, the best treatment is oven-roasting with some herbs, garlic and bread crumbs; here's your wine. A roast-beef sandwich with Russian dressing or red-sauce pasta dishes would have no better friend.
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Continuing with the Protest theme. The Island stage was set with an eclectic panel of Protest Artist. Among them, Sarah Harmer, and the front man of Protest music, Billy Bragg. Both played in turn amongst Leonard Sumner, and Lisa LeBlanc. I will touch more on Lisa LeBlanc in another post.
Billy Bragg has been a protest singer/songwriter out of the UK, with roots in punk rock, and folk since the 1970's. His no care, and his, has something to say attitude, has won him followers ever since.
If you're an alternative lover like me, you may remember a band from the early 90's called 'Weeping Tile'. Sarah Harmer was their lead singer, and for a few years toured with various changing members. After 1998 Sarah went on to becoming a solo artist, together with her band focused on a softer more folk sound.
Later that day Sarah and Billy had their own set at the main stage.


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Ladies in White to participate in the pilgrimage of the Virgin of Charity
[person_bio image="https://fhrcuba.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/damas-de-blanco.jpg" name="Damas de Blanco" url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies_in_White"] is an opposition movement in Cuba consisting of wives and other female relatives of jailed dissidents. The women protest the imprisonments by attending Mass each Sunday wearing white dresses and then silently walking through the streets dressed in white clothing.[/person_bio]
The Ladies in White have expressed their participation in the pilgrimage of the Virgin of Charity.
"Well, to make a pilgrimage means to leave passivity, abandon resistance to change, overcome indifference, go searching, construct a project, recuperate ideals, have aspirations and revive the forces…"
"We will celebrate with joy and jubilation the 400 years since the discovery of the image of the Virgin of Charity, Patron of all Cubans."
"We will go the house of the Virgin of Charity, the house of Jesus, the house of God the Father and the house of all of us his daughters and of all of us Cubans who want a better Cuba. We will ask and implore that our prayers, our petitions for the end of abuse, maltreatment, violence, repression, and cruelty toward us by the government all be heard. We will ask that political prisoners be liberated and that the right of the Cuban be valued," they have expressed.
"We will be there on September 8th, walking and taking our hearts to our late leader, Laura Pollán, who will walk alongside us," says her daughter Laura Maria.
September 8th marks one year since Laura Pollán Toleda, alongside her daughter and a group of Ladies in White from the eastern part of the country, were verbally and physically assaulted outside the shrine of the Virgin of Charity of Cobre in Santiago of Cuba. These two women were taken prisoners and withheld for eleven hours in a police unit of that province.
Laura Pollán and her daughter remained standing in silence those eleven hours in protest and repudiation of the cruelty that has been committed to them and the rest of the women, violations now and again of their right to walk and exercise freely through the streets of their homeland.
Laura Maria Labrada Pollán once again denounces the Cuban government and the security of the state for the atrocities that took place that 8th of September of 2011, an event that enormously impacted the health of her mother, Laura Pollán.


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Dutch unveil giant vacuum to clean outside air
One of the group's Managing Partner Peter van Wees posing next to a system he created to filter fine and ultra-fine particles from ambient air at the Offshore Energy 2016 Exhibition & Conference in Amsterdam Dutch inventors Tuesday unveiled what they called the world's first giant outside air vacuum cleaner—a large purifying system intended to filter out toxic tiny particles from the atmosphere surrounding the machine. "It's a large industrial filter about eight metres (yards) long, made of steel… placed basically on top of buildings and it works like a big vacuum cleaner," said Henk Boersen, a spokesman for the Envinity Group which unveiled the system in Amsterdam.
The system is said to be able to suck in air from a 300-metre radius—and from up to seven kilometres (over four miles) upwards. It can treat some 800,000 cubic metres of air an hour, filtering out 100 percent of fine particles and 95 percent percent of ultra-fine particles, the company said, referring to tests carried out by the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) on its prototype.
"A large column of air will pass through the filter and come out clear," Boersen told AFP, speaking on the sidelines of a major two-day offshore energy conference in Amsterdam.
Fine particles are caused by emissions from burning wood and other fuels as well as industrial combustion, and have "adverse effects on health," according to the European Environment Agency.
About 90 percent of EU residents are exposed to levels of such particles—which can be carcinogenic—above those recommended by the World Health Organization.
As for ultra-fine particles, they are released by emissions from vehicles as well as aeroplanes, according to Envinity, and can "damage the nervous system, including brain cells, and also cause infections."
Governments, businesses and airports are already interested in the project, Boersen said.
Another air-purifying system called the "Smog Free Tower" was installed in Beijing last month and launched by the Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde.
Using patented ozone-free ion technology, it can clean up to 30,000 cubic metres of air an hour as it blows past the tower, collecting more than 75 percent of the harmful particles, Studio Roosegaarde said in a statement.
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It's not often that an artist's work takes you to online physics forums, but this is Madeline Hollander we're talking about—an artist deeply engaged with science and technology, along with everything else—and a few scientific facts furnish useful background to her latest work. Standing still, the average human body gives off 250 British thermal units (BTUs)1 of heat, or roughly the amount of energy needed to light up a 100-watt bulb. When exercising, humans radiate seven times hotter, around 1,800 BTUs, since we then burn calories and metabolize food more quickly. The extra energy has to go somewhere, and mostly comes out as sweaty heat. An air conditioning unit sized to cool a small room subtracts 8,000 BTUs of heat per hour. Its motor and compressor use energy to change refrigerant from liquid to gas, and somewhat miraculously, the entire system gives off about three times the cooling energy as the compressor uses.
Visual artist and choreographer Madeline Hollander's New Max (2018) involves four air-conditioning units and four dancers. Humans and machines perform together in four- hour intervals every Saturday from 2–6pm for a six-week period. If we typically think of choreography as sequencing the movement of dancers' bodies, in New Max choreography is more akin to an operating system: how dancers will move in relation to A/C units, overhead lights, temperature, and the coming and going of visitors. Like cybernetic and systems art of the past, Hollander's work is concerned with the shared circuits between the living and the technological. It also alludes to system crisis in the age of the Anthropocene, in other words, our warming planet.
New Max is installed in the Artist's Institute's sunroom, using an adjacent gallery for exhaust. All of the objects in the work are infrastructural: hanging PVC strips, A/C units, temperature sensors, sandbags, as well as the room's overhead fluorescent lights. As a system, New Max is an artwork organized around a series of temperature goals; various Fahrenheit readings are reached in cycles that become increasingly higher, hotter.
The starting temperature in the sunroom is 65 degrees Fahrenheit, museum standard for storing works of art. From this point forward, Hollander's choreography dictates that, through a series of scripted movements whose byproduct is body heat, four human dancers must raise the room's temperature to 85 degrees. This change takes place over a series of sixteen rounds, each with a new min and max temp. The goal of Round 1 is to get to 70 degrees, at which point the A/C units will turn on and cool the room to a new min of 66 degrees. Thus begins Round 2. So the pattern goes, like this, in 5-degree increments, all the way up to 85 degrees.2 Dancers can track their progress by the room's lights, which are hooked to a temperature sensor and get brighter as the room heats up or dimmer as the room cools down. Once a max temp is reached, it's lights out, A/C units on, dancers at rest. When a min is reached, it's lights on, A/C units off, dancers in motion.
As in all of Hollander's other work to date, the dancers' choreography references or "cites" everyday physical activities. The references in New Max are all warming-related: frost-bite prevention techniques, boxing and baseball warmups, tropical storm patterns, boiling points, fusion, core-strength workouts, wind power generation, microwave rays. Hollander translates each reference into a basic expressive form, and then makes an overall sequence that is repeated as many times as needed to complete a round. A pair of boxers duking it out is followed by the whooshing rotation of a windmill is followed by bouncing molecules. The bouncing molecules happen to look a lot like the crossings of Samuel Beckett's Quad—and in New Max, cultural and biologic signifiers often overlap, with cannily juxtaposed allusions aplenty if your reference bank is large enough.
An essay by A.E. Benenson entitled ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ accompanies New Max. It is printed on-demand with a direct thermal printer.
1. A British Thermal Unit (BTU) is the standard measurement of thermal energy. Specifically, it is the amount of energy needed, at sea level, to raise the temperature of 1 pound of water exactly 1 degree Fahrenheit.
Madeline Hollander is a careful observer of everyday gestures. Not just the way that people move, but the way that everything does, from vibrating molecules to rockets launching into space. Since 2013, Hollander has been adding to Gesture Archive, a long-term research project that, in short video portraits, surveys expressive human movement in all its variety. Subjects wave, scroll (as if on an iPhone), shrug, knuckle-crack, and so on, their gestures documenting the spectrum of embodied consciousness. Hollander's choreography draws its kinetic vocabulary from many sources, including interaction with touchscreens (Illegal Motion, 2015); sports refereeing (Mile, 2016); building evacuation diagrams (Drill, 2016); and ballet dancers' sign language and magicians' sleight-of-hand tricks (Closeup, 2017). She also stages performances in which nonhuman actors, such as beach-combing trucks (Arena, 2017) and cement mixers (365, 2017), move in concert with human dancers. Madeline Hollander comes to the visual arts from classical dance; she danced professionally with the Los Angeles Ballet and with Angel Corella's Barcelona Ballet. She is currently studying the emergence of silent crickets in Kauai, whose mating dances are changing as a result of climate change.
Marielis Garcia was born in NYC. She received her BFA in Dance from Marymount Manhattan. Marielis currently dances with Madeline Hollander and Peter Kyle Dance and is in the Brian Brooks Moving Company. She also creates her own work and teaches dance at Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts and in NYC public schools.
Katie Gaydos is a Brooklyn-based dance artist and writer. After graduating from UC Berkeley she danced with Yannis Adoniou's KUNST- STOFF, Robert Moses' Kin Dance and most recently with Madeline Hollander. She has presented her own work at KUNST-STOFF Arts and Triskelion Arts. She is also co-editor of the performance publication Emergency INDEX by Ugly Duckling Press and is pursuing her master's at Hunter College's Silberman School of Social Work.
Lauren Newman is a dancer based in New York. She received her BFA in Dance from Southern Methodist University and was a member of the Martha Graham Dance Company from 2011–2016. Lauren currently teaches dance at LIU Brooklyn and is also a certified Gyrotonic Instructor.
Jeremy Pheiffer is a dancer for Madeline Hollander. In June he'll be performing a twice-revived dance, THEM, choreographed by Ishmael Houston-Jones in collaboration with Chris Cochrane and Dennis Cooper.
Asami Tomida was born in Japan and received her BA from Nihon University College of Art in 2009. She graduated from Hunter College in New York as a Dance major in 2013 and has worked with choreographers Stefanie Batten Bland, Donna Uchizono, Julian Barnet, Yuki Hasegawa & Doug Varone, Samuel Pott, and Ray Sullivan.
Madeline Hollander would like to thank Olya Petrova Jackson, Stephen Froese, A.E. Benenson, Emily Schubert, Jenny Jaskey, Christopher Aque, and Sam Hart for their generous help with the production of New Max.


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Relief at government assurance on academies
28 April 2016, The Tablet
'New approach necessary' to understanding homelessness
Catholic youth homelessness charity, Depaul International, has called for a national debate on "hidden homelessness", demanding that the issue be taken far more seriously than it is now.
Its report "Danger Zones and Stepping Stones", launched in parliament last week, recounts the stories of 18 young people who have experienced danger while living in temporary accommodation.
"These experiences are often termed 'sofa surfing', a phrase which does not adequately capture the high levels of risk young people are experiencing," explained Depaul's UK president, the former ITN newsreader Sir Trevor McDonald. Hidden homelessness, he added, is "the invisible iceberg of which rough sleepers form the tip".
"This vital report is just the beginning: Depaul UK is making clear recommendations aimed at preventing young people from enduring these experiences and is calling for a national debate on hidden homelessness," he said.
Homelessness Minister Marcus Jones MP said, in an address at the launch, that the report made an important contribution to government understanding of the "highly complex causes of youth homelessness". "Our priority is to support young people at risk and we are committed to work with the sector to prevent young people becoming homeless," he added.
Labour MP Kate Hoey, who co-hosted the event, said she was adding her voice to the call for a national debate on the issue.
Chief executive for Depaul UK, Martin Houghton-Brown, said: "Our report shows that one size does not fit all when helping young people who find themselves without a place to call home … No young person should have to stay in an unsafe place." The report includes recommendations that policymakers ensure there is adequate emergency accommodation for young people.
Other charities and local authorities are calling for changes to the law to support the growing numbers of people on the brink of homelessness, including the thousands of "sofa surfers" who are currently denied official help. Representatives from Crisis, Shelter, local councils and the National Housing Federation called for a "prevention duty" that would oblige councils to support anyone at risk of homelessness.


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require 'graphql'
require 'active_record'

module GraphQL
  module Functions
    class Base < ::GraphQL::Function
      class << self
        def create
          fail_on_model_not_set unless @model
          new(@model)
        end

        def model(model)
          fail_on_wrong_class_model unless model < ActiveRecord::Base
          @model = model
        end

        private

        def fail_on_model_not_set
          raise(
            ArgumentError,
            "'model' not set. Forgot to add 'model ::ModelClass' ?"
          )
        end

        def fail_on_wrong_class_model
          raise(
            ArgumentError,
            "'model' superclass mismatch. It must be 'ActiveRecord::Base'"
          )
        end
      end

      private

      def initialize(model_class)
        @model_class = model_class
      end
    end
  end
end

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


25 Gram Bag of green that glows green for up to 7 hours, depending on the build up of pigment and exposure to bright light. Treats 1 pint of clear binder, no UV protection!
This mixes into any clear base, blender or binder. Also try them in epoxies, resins, glycerin and polishes. Keep your gun agitated for best spraying results without the pigment settling or clogging the gun. Add marbles if you use a siphon feed.
Since Paint With Pearl has been doing the pigment thing for so many years, we are proud to again announce the Glow-in-the-dark pearls. These are opaque powders that glow at night. Well, we now offer so many custom paint Glow-in-the-dark pigments, that we have to dedicate a whole part of our site to them. This is a Green Glow that Glows Green, and glows for up to 7 hours. Who wants to have the first all-night glowing Green car? The innovation going on in the coatings world is amazing! Many of our ideas have been copied over the years, but this is a unique opportunity to show off your good work. We always believe that getting your name out there should be free when you shop at https://paintwithpearl.com . So send us your pictures!
So this cool green custom paint pigment that is described as a light green, also glows a sweet green color after dark. Boy does it gets heads to turn! This one truly glows green and is possibly the most unique of all the glow pigments.
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This is one of the coolest pigments you can get. It is a Green to Green Glow in the Dark Paint pigment. That is to say, it is green in the day, glows green.


Yesterday, I met Gingerbread Man at Westfield... or Westlife as London Aunt calls it.
For out-of-towners, Westfield is a massive shopping centre in a strange location with very little parking spaces and questionable transport links.
For in-towners, or me at least, it's bizarre.
It also has mini sitting rooms dotted about with comfy retro sofas and armchairs, where men were sat reading newspapers while, presumably, their other halves shopped, got lost or used the circular layout for track running.
But all this, in Zone 2, just felt weird! London is about the hustle and bustle of the streets, the belching buses, the facades of buildings that once housed tailors and snuff box shops becoming enveloped with the bright lights of Tesco Express. It's about rain, tourists holding gigantic maps, and Evening Standard sellers.
To me, Westfield could have been anywhere in the UK and I actually had to force my brain to accept that outside the clinically white walls of this gigantic building really was the bus-belching London with all it's variety and everchangingness (not a word, I know).
But perhaps this will make Westfield a success – after all, it kind of removes the boundaries of who can go where. In London, Bond Street is littered with posh, rich beautiful people and a fair few ugly ones. But, as an ordinary person, it would never occur to me to do anything other than window shop there – I would feel like an imposing impostor! And, I am sure I am not alone in this. Those shops are so intimidating – the staff seem to check you out to see if you really are capable of spending money.
But in Westfield, Miu Miu and Mulberry all rub shoulders with H&M and New Look, and it's easy to wander into any of them. Which means people will, and before they know it, they'll own a £600 handbag not a £6 one!
In these credit-crunch times, it's easy to avoid Prada and favour Primark – you just go to Oxford Street instead of Bond Street but in Westfield there's no getting away from it, so unless you have steely strong willpower the money will be spent – I think I am going to avoid Westfield altogether.


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Chondrostoma oxyrhynchum är en fiskart som beskrevs av Kessler, 1877. Chondrostoma oxyrhynchum ingår i släktet Chondrostoma och familjen karpfiskar. IUCN kategoriserar arten globalt som livskraftig. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

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oxyrhynchum

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I am happy to share with you that Luvs is offering opportunities to save on diapers with a $1 print at home coupon offer. Print the coupon at home and use it at any mass, discount or grocery stores where Luvs Diapers are sold Luvs diapers are available in sizes newborn through 6, feature fun designs in every pack.
Luvs knows that between laundry, snack time, play time and nap time, you don't have time for leaks. Luvs makes it so much easier for busy Moms by helping to keep leaks in the diaper where they belong, so baby stays dry and comfortable, even overnight.
I have heard about Luvs from other bloggers and they have all commended how absorbent the nappies are and what good value for money. It is great to hear about the coupons as well!
I don't have children, but I know how costly diapers can get. That is great that there are coupons for these and that the diapers are worth the money, great to know for the future!
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I've never tried this brand before and it would have been nice especially since I have twins. They no longer wear diaper these days but it's awesome that Luvs is giving parents a discount. Diapers aren't exactly cheap and this will definitely help them save money.
Great opportunity to get a good deal on Luvs. It was my preferred diaper when I had little ones.
Luvs diaper is always out offering discounts and coupons to parents and I think that's amazing. Diapers aren't cheap and it's nice that Luvs is doing this.
i agree.. the official diaper of experienced moms! thats good to hear that they're offering coupons!
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Pretty good deals on Luvs! I will share this with friends and family for sure.
Oh diaper prices can be crazy, so it's awesome that this brands offers coupons. I'm sad that this doesn't exist in Europe, I'd love to try it.
My husband I have been buying diapers for my grandson and you're right .. it can be crazy expensive. We'll be taking advantage of this deal! Thank-you!
Having the great diapers product that more absorbent and have best leakage protection, with reasonable price is a big favour for the parents with small children. The fact that Luvs not only give the best quality but also give money back guarantee is a big plus.
I don't have children yet but I imagine that finding the right diapers will be one of the important tasks then!
My baby is on Pampers but I have friends who swear on Luvs! I'll definitely check it out when baby is a bit older!!
LUVS was the only diaper I ever used. They were the best, and they still are.
When my son was in diapers we always use this brand! They give you the most bang for your buck. I never hardly ever had any problems and if it was it was because he either drink too much or was sick. I would highly recommend these diapers anybody.
Luvs are great diapers. They're affordable but they work just as well as the pricier brands do.
I haven't had anyone in diapers in a long time, but I have some little nephews and nieces so I'll definitely pass this along to my sisters in-law!
I always used Luvs when my kids were babies. This coupon will come in handy. I'll have to pass it on to my friends with babies.
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looks like a great brand, which is important for diapers (no messes, eww!) my kids are out of the diaper phase, but I'll keep these in mind for others.
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I remember buying Luvs brand when my kids were still in diaper stage. I am glad they are now out of that expensive stage lol.
Wow, these are great deals! Always good to find a good deal on diapers since they are expensive.


I was analyzing last remaining WildFly failures against JDK 12 RC and I identified one SSL deadlock we are observing in our test suite.
For some reason thread dump on JDK12 didn't work for me because of some weird maven surefire bug.
In order to identify the root cause of JVM freeze quickly I decided to debug it manually and use debug logs from custom OpenJDK local build.
This custom branch helped me to produce debug log (I'm attaching - openjdk.debug) where I discovered this SSL issue.
and thread invoking that deplete() method will never succeed with inner class intrinsic lock acquisition.
When I remove the deplete() method synchronization everything works for me.
It would be great if that issue could be backported into JDK12 RC too.


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Global Information Society Watch
Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) is a collaborative community committed to building an open, inclusive and sustainable information society.
Who's Watching
2014 - Communications surveillance in the digital age
Authored by:
Fabrizio Scrollini
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Penumbra: Surveillance, security and public information in Uruguay
In July 2013 a local newspaper revealed that the Uruguayan government had purchased in secret surveillance software called "El Guardián". 1 El Guardián (or The Guardian) is a radical shift towards online and phone surveillance, and the challenges it represents remain largely out of public debate. This report aims to analyse the most recent developments in terms of the use of technology for surveillance in Uruguay. It will provide a description of key events and regulations that have recently emerged in Uruguay, analysing challenges to privacy. Finally it will provide a set of issues to develop an agenda for privacy according to the International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance. 2
Government surveillance in the Uruguayan context
Uruguay is considered a stable and relatively transparent democracy by several indicators available, including that offered by Transparency International. 3 Uruguayan democracy was regained from military rule in 1985, but the country's democratic tradition goes as far back as the beginning of the 20th century, when Uruguay was one of the few democratic nations in Latin America. During the past military dictatorship (1973-1985) the Uruguayan government ran extensive surveillance programmes in order to monitor its citizens. According to the weekly publication Brecha, a former intelligence officer revealed that the dictatorship managed to develop profiles of at least 300,000 Uruguayans. 4 Access to these files is still contested in Uruguay, but increasingly they are becoming available to people who were under state surveillance.
Uruguay has recently being portrayed as liberal and progressive country. In the last five years it has passed laws legalising same-sex marriage, abortion and the cultivation and sale of cannabis. Furthermore, Uruguay passed a law on free and open source software which requires that the government use free and open source software in all its activities. Regulations in line with this law are still to be developed so that it can be implemented. Montevideo City Hall was one of the leading cities in advancing open source and open data policies in the country.
Uruguay set up a monopoly in terms of internet provision run by the state-owned telecommunications company ANTEL. 5 ANTEL is implementing a wide-ranging programme to provide internet access through optic fibre to the whole country. Previously ANTEL had secured connectivity across the country and established a scheme to provide basic access to the internet for every citizen. Today, 58% of the population has direct access to the internet, and 18% of Uruguayans are regular internet users. 6 Furthermore, the establishment and development of the Ceibal programme has allowed every child in Uruguay access to devices (i.e. netbooks) to connect to the internet in their schools, homes and also public squares. Ceibal is fostering a new kind of education which relies heavily on the internet. In the next 10 years a new generation of digital natives with full access to computers and the internet will emerge in Uruguay.
The country has a strong judiciary system with a long tradition of upholding the rule of law. Uruguay also has a relatively strong privacy law, although there is no systematic evaluation of its implementation. Nevertheless, technological change has outpaced the capacity of government watchdog institutions to keep an eye on several developments emerging, mostly in the areas of security and defence. Most of these developments are justified in public discourse as new tools to fight organised crime and possible external threats, as well as to improve policing services through technology. The Uruguayan government, similar to governments in many other Latin American countries, is under heavy pressure to deal with several security issues, most notably around street crime. In this context there are three developments that offer a set of challenges to privacy and democracy:
The purchase and use of digital technology (software) to potentially spy on the civilian population. 7
The development of surveillance systems using CCTV cameras and drones to foster public safety and better policing. 8
The development of a cyber-crime law which effectively outlaws a set of behaviours considered "dangerous" and limits liberties in the digital age. 9
The aforementioned developments are taking place in a context of a lack of regulation and understanding of a number of human rights issues on the part of the authorities, the judiciary and institutions defending human rights.
The Guardian: Software for surveillance
In July 2013, the local newspaper El País broke the news about the secret purchase of The Guardian software by the Uruguayan government. 10 The Ministry of Home Affairs ( Ministerio del Interior), which is responsible for security issues, classified this purchase as secret under the access to information law, hiding it from official records. There was no tender as it was a direct and exceptional purchase. The cost of the software licence was USD 2 million and there is a yearly service fee of USD 200,000. The Guardian is a system designed to monitor several networks, allowing up to 30 people to work simultaneously on mobile phones, landlines and emails. The software was designed by a Brazilian company called Digitro Tecnologia. Uruguay has recently passed a "free software" law, which essentially suggests that the government should use free or open source software unless a good justification exists. The Guardian does not comply with this regulation as it is proprietary software.
According to El País, Digitro also provides services to the Brazilian Federal Police. In Brazil there has been intense debate about the use of The Guardian. The army and the police in Brazil openly admit that they use the tool. 11 Several accountability agencies are worried about the extent to which the software is being used on its civilian population and how exactly several state units at the national and state level are using it. 12 For instance, there were concerns that it was used in the context of the last Confederations Cup football tournament in Brazil, and the social unrest that erupted in several cities. Privacy Latam, a specialised blog dealing with surveillance in Latin America, reports that according to General José Carlos dos Santos from the Brazilian Army's Centre for Cyber Defence, "the monitoring islegal and justified on the grounds of national security policies and actions." He also claims that the software is adapted and customised by the user and is not used to monitor citizens in general, and that it was "used only during the 2013 Confederations Cup." 13
In Uruguay, the authorities have reassured the media that the surveillance software will be used within the traditional legal framework, which implies that the judiciary would need to authorise surveillance activities. In the words of the Secretary of the Presidency of the Republic: "This system will centralise surveillance through telecommunications and will provide more guarantees to subjects during this process. Technology is much more advanced than we currently have in Uruguay. But we are going to keep using [as required] an order from a competent judge or a request from the public solicitor, with the consent of the telecommunication operator. Guarantees remain in place." 14
Since then the media and the government have been relatively silent about the use of The Guardian. While the assurances that there will continue to be a legal framework that respects basic liberties and due process are comforting, there are serious challenges ahead. There are still no regulations concerning the specific use of this tool for intelligence gathering by authorities. Currently Uruguay is in the middle of a discussion about how to structure security and intelligence services and as a result the use of these kinds of technologies is poorly regulated. At the same time, the triangulation of data collected through different security services such as the new CCTV system in place and drones is a matter of worry. A set of key questions emerge:
How will this complex set of surveillance technologies be deployed? What is the protocol for deploying them and will it reflect the proportionality and necessity principles?
What are the basic accountability arrangements for security officers operating these technologies?
How will Uruguayan agencies cooperate with other intelligence agencies around the world and the region, and to what extent?
Another set of questions emerge about how the current privacy laws apply in this setting. There is a need to rethink privacy in the context of surveillance of communications, particularly where private information is held, and for how long Uruguayan authorities will be able to hold this information.
The fact that this software was purchased using a secret procedure with no parliamentary control or the involvement of other oversight bodies shows that it is necessary to rethink the accountability arrangement in this sector. Furthermore, while the Ministry of Home Affairs argues that the software is auditable, there is no specification of how it is auditable, who would perform such an audit, and whether the results of these audits are going to be available to the public.
The debate about surveillance, intelligence gathering and privacy is ill-informed in Uruguay. Authorities are reacting to a regional and global trend to use software to monitor telephone calls and networks for security purposes with no clear guidance or strategy (at least known to the public) that reflect human rights concerns. While public reassurances about upholding the rule of law are a good sign, the complexity of the matter calls for better regulation and engagement with civil society organisations and human rights institutions, in order to work on a human rights approach to surveillance in an age of technological change. The Uruguayan government and civil society organisations are not prepared to have a proper debate on the matter yet. On the other hand, due to its tradition of upholding the rule of law, Uruguay presents an opportunity to foster appropriate and proportionate regulation in this field.
Action steps: A call for a human rights-centred vision of security in the digital age
Denying the challenges that the state faces in an age of transnational crime is foolish and irresponsible from a citizen's perspective. But granting "carte blanche" to government authorities for surveillance with no restrictions is equally irresponsible. Uruguay has a history of less technologically developed but equally damaging surveillance during the 1973-1985 dictatorship. Until now, the release of these files and access to the records for people who were under surveillance remain problematic. In the context of a progressive democratic society, as Uruguay portrays itself, it is time to have a serious debate about privacy and security in the digital age.
The following steps are recommended to advance a human rights-centred agenda on this topic:
Foster dialogue about principles for the use of The Guardian and other surveillance technologies between human rights institutions (such as the Ombudsman), the intelligence community and civil society, to identify common ground on this issue.
Define clear protocols to use these tools and clear lines of accountability for public officials involved in the surveillance process.
Define clear lines of democratic accountability and transparency on surveillance processes involving the parliament, the Ombudsman and civil society. In particular, establish a minimum of transparency around surveillance activities and a yearly report open to public scrutiny.
Review the current privacy law and identify gaps and best practices in the context of surveillance and security activities. Consider progressive frameworks in terms of data retention and access to data for people potentially subject to surveillance.
Promote the use of auditable (ideally open source or free software) technologies to manage data retention and secure critical data for intelligence and surveillance activities.
For a democratic society, the way forward implies allowing access to knowledge around surveillance activities, as well as keeping agencies in check when these technologies are developed. The aforementioned recommendations are the starting point for much-needed dialogue and debate on these issues in Uruguay.
1 Terra, G. (2013). Gobierno compró "El Guardián" para espiar llamadas y correos. El País. www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/gobierno-compro-guardian-espiar-llamadas-correos.html
2 https://en.necessaryandproportionate.org/text
3 www.transparency.org/country#URY
4 Sempol, D. (2008). Article in Brecha, 16 May, cited in Zabala, M., & Alsina, A. (2008). Secretos Públicos. Montevideo: Fin de Siglo, p. 46.
5 Administración Nacional de Telecomunicaciones: www.antel.com.uy
6 El Observador. (2013, April 3). Uruguay a la cabeza deLatinoamérica en penetración de internet El Observador. www.elobservador.com.uy/noticia/247366/uruguay-a-la-cabeza-de-latinoamerica-en-penetracion-de-internet
7 Terra, G. (2013). Op. cit.
8 El País. (2014, April 21). Así vuelan los colibríes de la Policía uruguaya. El País. www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/asi-vuelan-colibri-drones-ministerio.html
9 Presidencia de la República. (2014, June 30). Ejecutivo remitió al Parlamento proyecto de ley que pena los delitos cibernéticos. Presidencia de la República. www.presidencia.gub.uy/comunicacion/comunicacionnoticias/seguridad-informatica-proyecto-ley
10 Terra, G. (2013). Op. cit.
11 Lobo, A. P. (2013, July 17). Exército usou software Guardião para monitorar redes sociais. Convergência Digital. wap.convergenciadigital.com.br/cgi/cgilua.exe/sys/start.htm?infoid=34302&sid=11#.U5ZMmS9htb0
12 Veja. (2013, May 6). Conselho do MP investiga uso de grampos por promotores. Veja. veja.abril.com.br/noticia/brasil/conselho-do-mp-investiga-uso-de-grampos-por-promotorias
13 Monteiro. (2014, February 13). Brazil monitors protests against the 2014 World Cup. Privacy Latam. www.privacylatam.com/?p=200
14 Portal 180. (2013, July 30). Gobierno: Guardián centraliza vigilancia electrónica pero mantiene garantías. Portal 180. www.180.com.uy/articulo/34766_Gobierno-guardian-centraliza-vigilancia-electronica-pero-mantiene-garantias
Notes: This report was originally published as part of a larger compilation: "Global Information Society watch 2014: Communications surveillance in the digital age" which can be downloaded from http://www.giswatch.org/2014-communications-surveillance-digital-age.
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Don and Maggie Thompson At Last! Half a Century Ago
Don Thompson Met Maggie Curtis 55 Years Ago Today
Ed, Mary, Betsy, and Maggie Curtis, Don Thompson
This is a year of anniversaries for me - and one of them is today. At about this time 55 years ago, Mom was offering to give Don a ride as far back as our house on his way back to Titusville - an invitation he gladly accepted. Yesterday, Gary Colabuono asked on Facebook for what amounted The Tale of Don and Maggie Thompson - or at least the first chapter. So ... Mom (science-fiction writer Betsy Curtis - no, you've never heard of her) drove to Kinsman, Ohio, thinking that an announced picnic of science-fiction fans and pros was being held at the home of Ed Hamilton and Leigh Brackett. That turned out not to be the case. One of their relatives lived across the road, Mom made inquiries, and it was revealed that the picnic was at the home of Basil and Virginia Wells. What to do? Mom commented later that, if Dad had been along, we'd have probably given up - but it was just Mom, my two younger sisters, and me. So off we went to the Wells home. Other picnic attendees included P. Schuyler Miller and Andre Norton - and a fan named Don Thompson, who'd hitchhiked there, invited as a member of the National Fantasy Fan Federation.
Don, it turned out, was not only a fan of Mom's but also shared many other pop culture interests (before that term was even used). He and I talked pretty much nonstop on topics ranging from SF to fantasy to movies to radio shows to pulp magazines to detective fiction to comics to Mad magazine - and so on. He'd just finished his sophomore year in Journ School at Penn State, where he worked on the radio station and belonged to the SF club. And, yes, he was 21 and I was 14. (When this information was included in Dark Horse's Between the Panels, I was told, lawyers going through the preliminary draft circled it as a possible legal concern for publication. Hee!)
As noted, we drove him as far as our house - whence he continued his hitchhiking travel to his home. Next communication from him: a copy of Humbug #1 folded to fit into a #10 envelope with a note asking whether I'd seen it - which I hadn't. Over the next while, we wrote now and then, and he visited a few afternoons during vacation breaks. Again, nonstop conversation about SF, fantasy, movies, radio ... Yep, more pop culture chat. I graduated from high school, we started dating in 1960, and he graduated from Journ School. Mom even included him in the 1960 WorldCon "Best Group"-winning costume group shown here. (It's "The Five Fannish Senses": Dad as Sense of Science, Mary as Sense of Humor, Mom as Extra Sense, me as Sense of Wonder, and Don - Well, Don was 35 to 50 Cents, the price of science-fiction magazines.)
So I started college at Oberlin in the autumn of 1960, and Don went to work for the Cleveland Press, taking the bus each weekend and staying at an Oberlin bed-and-breakfast (well, I don't think he got breakfast there, but you get the idea) each Saturday night. Till we got married June 23, 1962.
Hey, that means I get another anniversary this month! Hot diggity!
Anonymous, June 8, 2012 at 6:29 PM
Cannot wait to read the next installment.
Gary, June 22, 2012 at 12:22 AM
Great beginning, Maggie. When were you convinced that this sf-loving, comic book fan and journalist was the guy for you? From the first moment? I only ask because I'm a believer in love at first sight.
Oh and I love that we share anniversaries. 39 years for Patty and me.


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Episode 273: A Whole Lot of Cooking
The Bon Appétit Foodcast covers it all: the restaurant scene across the country, a peek inside the minds of the world's best chefs, the cooking techniques you should be trying out at home, and a behind-the-scenes look at how our writers and editors do what they do. The podcast is our moment to relax and chat... and get really opinionated about mac & cheese. And chicken wings. And butter. Episodes air every Wednesday.
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Gabe T. and Carla are back, sharing with Adam all the things they've been cooking since they've been at home. Then, Adam calls up Christina Chaey for another round of Over/Under, where she decides whether things like, cleaning the house, board games, and homemade sourdough, are overrated, underrated, or, well, just rated.
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2014 Folklife Festival, China, Kenya,
Favorite Festival Moments from Folklife Center Staff
July 24, 2014 | Kendra Speak | Comments
Even with a million things to do to ensure that the Folklife Festival goes off without a hitch, the staff of the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage still find opportunities to experience exciting things on the National Mall. After two weeks of early mornings and late nights, we finally got a chance to sit back and reflect upon the amazing interactions and learning opportunities that took place at the Festival. With the passing of time, certain interactions have remained imprinted in our minds as moments we'll cherish forever.
The mingling of Kenyan and Chinese participants at their hotel every evening led to some incredible cross-cultural interactions and jam sessions.
Photo by Isabella Gatti
"At the hotel after the Ralph Rinzler Memorial Concert I was sitting at a table with Quetzal Flores, Radmilla Cody, Abigail Washburn, and the Mongolian group Ih Tsetsn. They started this beautiful harmonizing that ended in a loud raucous sing-along, and afterwards they were all hugging and clapping. No words were spoken, but it was this wonderful uniting moment."
—Sabrina Lynn Motley, Festival director
One of the Ramogi Dancers of Homa Bay County dances with a young Festival visitor.
Photo by Josue Castilleja
"A six-foot-tall Ramogi dancer with an elaborate headdress was dancing during a story circle in the Kenya program along with the other dancers. He asked for volunteers to come up and join the group, and this one little boy stood up. He looked scared of these large men at first, but once they started to dance and gave him a flywhisk, he became comfortable and excited. It was amazing to see this little boy have the courage to join in and dance with them."
—Josué Castilleja, art director
Kenyan participants celebrating the completion of the dhow with song and dance.
Photo by Walter Larrimore, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution
"After completing the Kenyan dhow from Lamu, the ship builders invited visitors to join them in a big spontaneous celebration and were rejoicing with song and dance."
—Masatomo Yonezu, Kenya program intern
Alatenggaridi, Stephen S. Moiko, and Dabuxilatu pose for a photo after a cross-program on herding culture at the Boma Stage.
Photo by Mu Qian
"During a cross-program discussion on herding culture, the two Mongolian participants asked the Kenyan Maasai participant what types of animals he has in Kenya. They asked the question in Chinese, but while they were waiting for it to be translated, one of the Mongolians put his two index fingers on his head like horns, imitating a goat, in an attempt to ask if the Kenyans had goats. Everyone was laughing."
—Emily Fuller, education intern
Kite maker Zhang Wenzhi prepares to fly his kite on the National Mall.
Photo by Hillary Cleary, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution
"On a sunny afternoon, kite maker Zhang Wenzhi took up position in the middle of the National Mall. Yang Zhengchao, a lusheng player still dressed in brightly decorated clothing for his performance, stood nearby having just helped Zhang to reel in the kite line. Zhang clutched his kite and turned toward the Hong Kong flower plaque. He gazed upward, focusing on the flags atop the large bamboo structure. At a certain moment, when the wind caught the flags just right, Zhang broke into a fast, deliberate run, kicking up dust from the ground as his banyao whistle kite sailed up behind him into the sky."
—Sojin Kim, China program co-curator
Festival visitors dance with Ih Tsetsn singer and qobuz player Dabuxilatu during a performance at the Moonrise Pavilion.
"Near the end of their set, Ih Tsetsn would always play 'The Handsome Horse,' which is an upbeat, lively song. One of the members would always jump down from the stage and dance with all of the visitors, teaching them different dance moves."
—Max Lenik, video production intern
A tai chi performance at People's Park.
Photo by Meg Boeni
"As a co-curator, I rarely had time to sit and savor any one activity in particular, which means that many of my Festival memories are now blurs of moving hither and yon. But I distinctly remember one minute of quietly standing just inside the China program's east gate and marveling at how much was happening all around me: explosive sounds from the Dragon-Lion Cart, animated learning activities in Family Style, graceful movements of tai chi in People's Park, a lively discussion in Teahouse Commons, and many moments of mutual discovery among visitors and participants in the crafts demonstrations areas. All of those are for me the essence of a Smithsonian Folklife Festival."
—Jim Deutsch, China program co-curator
Collected and edited by Kendra Speak, a special events intern for the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.


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