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On July 9, 2004 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague issued an Advisory Opinion by a vote of 14-1, with the American judge the lone dissenter, as if there would have been any doubt about such identity even if not disclosed. The decision rendered in response to a question put to it by a General Assembly resolution declared the separation wall unlawful, and that compliance with international law would require it to be dismantled and Palestinian communities and individuals compensated for harm incurred. As with the identity of the dissenting judge, the failure of Israel to comply with the decision was as predictable as the time of tomorrow's sunrise.
Only slightly less anticipated was the American government response, which adopted its customary hegemonic tone, to instruct the parties that such issues should be resolved by politicalnegotiation, which even if heeded would end up as Israel wished, given the hierarchical relationship between Israel as occupier and Palestine as occupied. It doesn't require a legal education to dismiss the American argument as fatuous at best, cynical at worst. The question put to the ICJ was quintessentially legal, that is, whether the construction of the separation wall on occupied Palestinian territory was or was not consistent with the Fourth Geneva Convention governing belligerent occupation.
Although the decision is labeled as an 'advisory opinion' it has the authoritative backing of a fully reasoned and documented consensus of the world's most distinguished jurists as to the requirements of international law in relation to the construction of this 700km wall, 85% of which is situated on occupied Palestinian territory. The degree of authoritativeness of the legal analysis is enhanced by the one-sidedness of the decision. It is rare for a legal controversy before the ICJ to produce such near unanimity given the diversity of legal systems of the 15 judges and considering the civilizational and ideological differences that haunt world order generally.
This legaloutcome in The Hague was overwhelmingly endorsed politicallyby the General Assembly mandating Israeli compliance. It is disappointing that Israeli defiance of both the ICJ, the world's highest judicial tribunal, and the General Assembly, the organ of the UN most representative of the peoples of the world, should have occasioned so little adverse commentary over the years. It is not only a further confirmation that the UN System and international law lacks the capacity to deliver even minimal justice to the Palestinian people but that such institutional authority is subject to a geopolitical veto, that is, international law without the backing of relevant power becomes paralyzed with respect to implementation.
When considering the constitutional right of veto given to the five permanent members of the Security Council as augmented by the informal geopolitical veto enabling dominant states to shield their friends as well as themselves from the constraints of international law, the dependence of law on the priorities of power becomes obvious, painfully so. It helps us grasp the perverse ways the world is currently organized. It is truly pathetic that only the weak and vulnerable are subject to the constraints of law, while the strong and those shielded by the strong are the lawless overlords of this unruly planet.
The wall a notorious international symbol of coercive and exploitative separation, as epitomized by the apartheid security structures imposed on the Palestinian people as a whole has a grotesque pattern of implementation. Its ugly structures slice through and fragment Palestinian communities and neighborhoods, separating farmers from their farms, and creating a constant and an inescapable reminder of the nature of Israeli oppression.
It may put the issue of the separation wall in historical perspective to recall features of the Berlin Wall. During the Cold War it came to epitomize oppression in East Germany, and more generally in Eastern Europe. If the East German government had dared extend the wall even a few feet into West Berlin it would have meant war, and quite possibly World War III. And finally, when the wall came down it was an occasion of joyous celebration and a decisive moment in the historical dynamic that let the world know that the Cold War was over. It is helpful to appreciate that the Berlin Wall was designed to keep people in, while the Israeli Wall is supposed to keep people out.
There is also the question of motivation. As many have pointed out, the wall remains unfinished more than 15 years after it was declared necessary for Israeli security, which tends to support those critics that pointed out that if security was the true motive, it would have been finished long ago. Even if the claim is sincerely, in part, motivated by
security, it illustrates the unjust impacts of 'the security dilemma': small increments of Israeli security are achieved by creating much larger increments of insecurity for the Palestinians. Beyond security, it is obvious that this is one more land-grabbing tactic of the Israelis that is part of the wider Israeli strategy of treating 'occupation,' especially of the West Bank, as an occasion for 'annexation.' Even more insidiously, is the apparent Israeli intention to make Palestinian life near the wall so unendurable, that Palestinians relinquish their place of residence, 'ethnic cleansing' by any other name.
What messages does this anniversary occasion deliver to the Palestinian people and the world? It is a grim reminder that the Palestinian people cannot hope to achieve justice or realize their rights by peaceful means. Such a reminder is particularly instructive as it comes at a time when intergovernmental efforts to find a political compromise between Israeli expectations and Palestinian aspirations has been pronounced a failure. This failure, again not surprisingly, has meant a dramatic shift in approaching 'peace' and 'a solution' from diplomacy to geopolitics, from the Oslo flawed diplomatic framework to the Trump 'deal of the century' or as Kushner has rephrased it, 'peace to prosperity.' Or more transparently phrased, it is 'the victory caucus' that Daniel Pipes and the Middle East Forum that he presides over has promoted so successfully in recent months, in effect, advocating a final betrayal of the rights of the Palestinian people, an approach that has evidently found a receptive audience in both the U.S. Congress/White House and the Israeli Knesset.
This geopolitical strategy is a thinly disguised attempt to satisfy Israel's expectations as to borders, refugees, settlements, water, and Jerusalem while repudiating Palestinian rights under international law, including their most fundamental right of self-determination, supposedly a legal entitlement of all peoples in the post-colonial era.
The question that remains is 'how much longer can the Zionist Project swim against the strong historical current of anti-colonialism?'
The answer in my view depends on whether the global solidarity movement, together with Palestinian resistance, can reach a tipping point that leads Israeli leadership to reconsider its 'security' and its future. Such a point was reached in South Africa, admittedly under quite different conditions, but with an analogous sense that the Afrikaner leadership would never give up control without being defeated in a bloody struggle for power.
Tags: Advisory Opinion, Berlin Wall, Daniel Pipes, ICJ, international law, Kushner, Separation Wall, UN authority, Victory Caucus
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Toward a New Geopolitics?
During the Cold War the main geopolitical optic relied upon by policymakers and diplomats was associated with a bipolar structure of hard power. There were supposedly two superpowers with overwhelming military capabilities compared to all other sovereign states, and each controlled an alliance of subordinate states that staked their survival on global crisis management and territorial containment skills of either the United States or the Soviet Union. This framework was an extreme version of the balance of power system that had sustained global order in the West with mixed results during prior centuries. The Cold War nuclear version of the balance of power was frighteningly vulnerable to accident or miscalculation creating a lingering illusion that the current possession of nuclear weaponry on the part of nine sovereign states is a tolerable and stable situation in global affairs.. This statist framework, evolving from the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, was partly based on the juridical idea of the equality of sovereign states while being fully responsive to the geopolitical facts of life that placed stress on the gross inequality of states. This dimension of inequality produced an historical succession of hierarchies in the relations among sovereign states, quite often taking the form of regional and globe-girdling empires.
The UN from its outset was a constitutional reflection of the Old Geopolitics, with the General Assembly organized according to the logic of sovereign equality while the Security Council incorporated inequality via the veto power conferred upon its five permanent members, who incidentally achieved this status because they were regarded as the main winners in World War II. These state soon justified their status by passing the new litmus test of hard power—that is, becoming the first five countries to acquire and stockpile nuclear weapons. The Old Geopolitics was built around the institutions pratices of warfare: victory on the battlefield, superior weaponry and military capabilities relative to others, levels of industrialization as a prime indicator of war fighting potential.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union a few years later, the bipolar construction of world order no longer provided a summary description of world order in hard power currency. Still, the idea and behavioral patterns of the Old Geopolitics persisted, but the new structure of power was redescribed by security specialists as 'unipolar' with the organizing authority in the world now concentrated in the government of 'the sole surviving superpower,' which Michael Mandelbaum, a respected international relations scholar, glorified as a virtual and benevolent 'world government.' It was a romanticized way of acknowledging that America's hard power dominance of global scope and its projection of hard power to the far corners of the planet, on and under the oceans, and into space, was truly the first world state of global proportions, but it was not a Westphalian state as its boundaries were geopolitically delimited rather than fixed territorially.
When Iraq invaded and annexed Kuwait in 1990, a collective response successfully was organized by the United States at the UN, and its character reflected the operating procedures of this post-Cold War situation of unipolarity. At the time this undertaking was rendered feasible by what the American president at the time inappropriately called the 'New World Order.' What George H.W. Bush clearly meant by the phrase was the capacity of the UN to act collectively in peace and security situations in accordance with Washington's wishes, and was no longer gridlocked by the Cold War standoff. But this was not a genuine shift in the direction of collective security, the global rule of law, and an empowered United Nations. It became very clear as the response to the Iraqi aggression unfolded that it was nothing more dramatic than an enactment of a new phase of the Old Geopolitics, that is, interpreting world order priorities and security policy almost exclusively as an expression of the current distribution of hard power capabilities among states. In the 1990s the Old Geopolitics was dominated by the United States, and operationally administered from Washington, continued despite the collapse of colonialism to be West-centric when it comes to the shaping of global security policy. In effect, the Old Geopolitics did not immediately register the momentous historical consequences for world order of the collapse of the colonial order that irreversibly weakened the relative position of the West.
THE EMERGENT NEW GEOPOLITICS
A number of developments on the global stage are suggesting that a New Geopolitics is indeed struggling to be born, although unable at this stage to challenge seriously the reign of the Old Geopolitics. The New Geopolitics is premised on the primacy of soft power criteria of influence and status, and is more universalistic and less statist in the composition of actors providing global leadership and influencing policy. The prominence accorded to the BRIC countries of Brazil, Russia, India, and China is one expression of a shift in the understanding of a more multi-polar structure of world order. The claims of these states to such an acknowledgement of first tier influence is not based on their military capabilites or the potency of their alliance affiliations, but is primarily associated with their economic rise that consists of their astonishing recent record of growing achievements in GNP, trade, investment, and financial settings. Such a trend is also being institutionally recognized in relation to economic globalization and a network of the industrialized leading states, with notable shifts from a Cold War Group of Seven, to an enlarged Group of Eight to accommodate Russia, and finally to the present Group of Twenty to incorporate into the dynamics of global economic policy formation a more globally representative group of states.
Parallel to this evolution in relations among states has been efforts by private sector actors and civil society representatives to establish their own institutional arenas so as to put forward alternative policy agendas, promote interests and values, and indirectly erode the Westphalian notion that states, and only states, can be fully participating members of world order. The Davos World Economic Forum is one influential expression of a private sector initiative to shape global economic policy in a manner responsive to corporate and banking wish lists. In contrast the World Social Forum, held annually in a city somewhere in the global South, asserts people-oriented visions of a post-Westphalian world order and mounts sharp critiques of capital-oriented globalization.
A striking example of New Geopolitics was the ad hoc realignment that took center stage in the closing days of the 2009 Copenhagen UN Conference on Climate Change. It was there that the United States sought to circumvent unwieldy and uncongenial procedures involving 193 states by selecting the participants in a hegemonic coalition that consisted of itself, China, India, Brazil, and South Africa. It mission was to put before the conference a proposed consensual agreement to deal with the challenge of global warming. There was widespread resistance to this approach at Copenhagen, especially from the states that felt excluded by this maneuver and resented the clumsy effort to circumvent the agreed procedures that had been relied upon to prepare the negotiating documents for the Copenhagen conference. This statist backlash was centered in that part of the Old Geopolitics associated with the idea of the equality of states as the basis of legitimate multilateral lawmaking in the 21st century.
In effect, this wider community of states, essentially the membership of the UN General Assembly, were unwilling to give their assent to such a geopolitical coalition formed without their authorization and behind their back, despite the fact that for once it was not West-centric. Partly of the objection was to a perception of shifty backroom politics that demeaned the hard work of a UN inclusive statist effort to find global common ground on climate change, and partly it was an unwillingness to go along with the proposed shift in climate change policy from the mandatory emission reductions associated with the Kyoto Protocol to the proposed voluntary system of governmental pledges that was contained in the Copenhagen Accord presented to the Copenhagen Conference by the American president. At the same time, the hierarchical side of the Old Geopolitics was strong enough to avoid a direct repudiation of the Copenhagen Accord, which was presented to the assembled delegates at the last minute as a matter of 'this or nothing.' Clearly, these governmental representatives preferred to go home with the Accord, however annoyed they were by its process and content, than to return to their capitals empty handed.
There is much graffiti on the walls of the Old Geopolitics, and it signals a gradual and partial loss of historical control. The successful challenge of the colonial order by various movements of liberation throughout Asia and Africa strongly established a trend in conflict resolution in which the West, although the militarily superior side, was being compelled in the end to accept political defeat. This amounted to a radical reversal of the experience of conflict during the colonial era in which hard power realities shaped, usually with minimal effort, the outcomes of political conflict to the advantage of Europe. This enhancement of soft power stature was reinforced up to the present moment by a series of failed wars undertaken by the United States in particular. From the outcome of the Vietnam War in the mid-1970s to the recent winless withdrawals of the United States from Iraq and Afghanistan it is evident that hard power superiority, even total military dominance, is no longer able to reach desired political outcomes in violent conflicts at acceptable costs. In other words, relying on the staple currency of the Old Geopolitics, military power, seems recently to bring frustration and defeat, not victory as of old. These outcomes discredit and infuriate the geopolitical leaders, but rather than adapt to changed circumstances, these governments struggle to find new battlefield tactics and weaponry to satisfy their traditions strategic ambitions and somehow demonstrate anew that military superiority (rather than law or justice) serves the world as the arbiter of international conflicts. The aged architects of the Old Geopolitics for a variety of reasons are unable to learn from failure, and so the cycle of war and frustration goes on and on with disastrous human results.
Reinforcing these developments, and their interpretation, was the earlier impact of nuclear war on the conduct of international relations. Nuclear weaponry, the Omega point in the Old Geopolitics, actually had the paradoxical effect of excluding hard power solutions from political struggles between principal geopolitical rivals, radically modifying the emphasis of grand strategy in the direction of war prevention and deterrence so as to avoid the mutual disaster of nuclear warfare. Even in military conflicts waged in non-Western settings on the geographic periphery of the Old Geopolitics, which constituted the proxy wars between East and West during the Cold War, there was a restraining fear. There were worries that such conflicts as the Korean War and Vietnam War might unintentionally escalate if it was allowed to approach the nuclear threshold. Such concerns interfered with entrenched belligerent habits of the Old Geopolitics that had long been preoccupied with winning wars rather than settling for stalemates and ceasefires.
As a telling sign of the emergence of the New Geopolitcs as now defining contemporary strategic goals, Brazil is far more interested in acquiring a permanent seat in the Security Council than becoming a member of the nuclear weapons club. Such a shift in great power aspirations has long characterized the global ambitions of the main losers in World War II. Germany and Japan were enabled by their defeat and destruction to learn the lessons of a transformed world setting far better than did the winners. Perhaps it was enforced learning as their post-war policy options were restricted by coercive occupations that installed governments that would not revive their past militarist behavior. At present such rising political actors as Turkey and Indonesia, seem more concerned with gaining recognition by winning diplomatic battles to land prestigious posts in the United Nations System than they do in acquiring the latest weapons systems or embarking on expansionist military adventures. Turkey, in particular, has gained greatly enhanced stature by pioneering what might be called 'compassionate geopolitics,' by engaging with Somalia at a time when it was discarded as 'a failed state' by the United States. Turkey has stepped in to a chaotic internal situation, and embarking on a major joint state-building venture that seems to have made unexpected and significant gains to date. Turkey has also come in difficult circumstances to the economic and diplomatic rescue of the abused Muslim Arakan minority in distant Myanmar.
SOFT POWER AND THE NEW GEOPOLITICS
Two crucial tendencies are evident: soft power achieves the most important gains for a society seeking to accelerate its development and raise its status on the global stage of diplomacy; hard power is increasingly frustrated when tested by determined nationalist forces, even those with seemingly modest military capabilities. These factors are given greater historical weight by several other considerations. The greater complexity associated with globalization has created new political spaces that are being filled in various ways by both civil society representatives and private sector actors. Such patterns of participation exert strong pressure to move the New Geopolitics toward more peaceful and less war oriented standard operating procedures. The civil society vision of the New Geopolitics inclines strongly in the transformative direction of Global Democracy, making all institutions of governance subject to the imperatives of transparency, accountability, stakeholder participation, rule of law, and attention to the human interest/global justice/climate change diplomacy. A first institutional step toward Global Democracy could involve the establishment of a Global Parliament that would directly represent people, not governments.
In effect, we have two models of the New Geopolitics:
–Minimal Model envisions the persistence of a state-centric world order that is deWesternized and more inclusive, determining status by a greater reliance on soft power criteria of status and influence, trending toward nonviolent geopolitics, but at the same time continuing to be dominated by a few state actors and remains responsive to the prescriptions and values of neoliberal globalization;
–Maximal Model is dedicated to institutions and practices that rely upon nonviolent geopolitics, establishing by stages Global Democracy, while reorienting Economic Globalization in relation to sustainable development by putting people and earth first, and giving an equitable priority to those most vulnerable and deprived when it comes to the allocation of public resources.
At this point, global politics is in a transitional phase. The Old Geopolitics has certainly not disappeared as is evident from the war dangers that remain in the world's main conflict zones, but it is also rarely capable of translating its preferences into desired outcomes. At some point, hopefully short of global catastrophe, strategic failure in warfare will produce a turn, even in Washington, toward the New Geopolitics. In the interim the prospects are not encouraging, including perhaps the menacing last hurrah of global militarism, its practices and technological innovations that are rapidly turning the world into a borderless and terrorized war zone. The Old Geopolitics fashioned a dysfunctional set of responses to the 9/11 attacks on the United States. These devastating attacks posed a problem that could not be effectively addressed in the customary manner of the Old Geopolitics, that is, by a reliance on hard power–waging wars against distant countries as if the adversary was a series of territorial sovereign states rather than a non-territorial network of political extremists. In this regard, the threats posed by such anti-system forces of resistance can only be successfully neutralized if a primary reliance is placed upon soft power methods of response. These methods must include the identification of legitimate grievances that induced recourse to such desperate violent political behavior in the first place. To harden territorial boundaries to protect the homeland against hostile encroachment while engaging in a series of failing and bankrupting wars around the world is an almost certain recipe for authoritarian rule at home and intensifying intensifying insecurity elsewhere.
THE OLD GEOPOLITICS PERSISTS
In this regard, we live at a perilous historical moment. The Old Geopolitics is relying on hard power regardless of cost or risk, and unable and unwilling to heed experience, while the New Geopolitics is struggling with the torments of infancy and growing pains. The minimal model of the New Geopolitics is itself not yet sufficiently clear about how to reconcile national interests with human interests, and so does little to arrest the drift toward ecological catastrophe, systemic shock by systemic shock. The maximal model of the New Geopolitics has not established deep enough political roots to set forth, much less enact, its agenda of Global Democracy, and thus cannot challenge the Old Geopolitics or shape the New Geopolitics. At this point, we need to encourage the utopian imagination, and begin the hard work of initiating the hard political project of transition to the New Geopolitics.
The aftermath of the Arab Spring illustrates this clash between the old and the new. The rise of the people in country after country in the region reflected an attachment to the ideals and practices of substantive democracy. The unexpected regionalization of this challenge gave a glimpse of a new transformative politics, including distrust of military and police methods of sustaining public order and opposition to Western manipulations to control from without and within. The bloodthirsty backlash of regimes, as in Syria, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, and to some extent, Egypt, manifested the resilience and cruel harshness of hard power tactics of governance, and their purpose of ensuring the counter-revolutionary restoration of the Old Geopolitics.
Whether the Libyan intervention should be seen primarily as a Western reversion to Old Geopolitics or some kind of amalgam of Old and New, with the Gulf countries and the UN enlisted as partners in liberating a people from cruel tyranny, will remain a matter of controversy and uncertainty for years to come. Similarly, with Syria, whether to consider the external moves for and against the Assad regime in Damascus as expressions of the New Geopolitics or some toxic blend of new and old is difficult to discern given the complexities and unknowns of this ongoing bloody struggle that is a blend of a cynical proxy war and bitter internal struggle for state power. Popular support for the idea of protecting a vulnerable people against the crimes against humanity of a vicious governmental regime can be understood from the perspective of human solidarity, an aspect of the maximal model of the New Geopolitics. In contrast, military intervention by external actors with a variety of suspect strategic motives and the use of interventionary weaponry that is likely to magnify the violence, is clearly in the spirit of the Old Geopolitics.
There are no signs at present that the New Geopolitics in either of its main variants will soon replace the Old Geopolitics, but there is plenty of evidence of a sharpening tension between these two main modes of sustaining security and development in the early 21st century. We can expect a gradual discrediting from within of the main centers of Old Geopolitics, but as such a process gains leverage, it is almost certain to produce the opposite effect—a tightening of control at home, and an intensification of military operations abroad, exactly the pattern being enacted in the United States by successive presidents from both main political parties in response to the 9/11 attacks. And within the domain of the New Geopolitics it is likely that there will be a parallel intensification of tension as the minimalists seek realignment without attending to social and economic inequities, while the maximalists insist on the long march to Global Democracy but lack sufficient transnational mobilizing traction to move their endeavor very far.
The Chinese proverb is correct in its chilling reminder that 'it is a curse to live in interesting times,' but given the changing historical experiences with warfare, the growing sense of great ecological hazard, and the strengthening attachment to global justice agendas, maybe just this once, the fascinations of our age will turn out to be 'a blessing.'
Tags: Berlin Wall, Cold War, geopolitics, New World Order, Russia, Soviet Union, United States, World Social Forum, World War II
Categories Commentary, Global Governance, Reflections, Turkey
Rejecting Neoliberalism, Renewing the Utopian Imagination
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 two dismal consequences followed that have been rarely acknowledged:
–neoliberal orthodoxy became unchallenged and unchallengeable in the formation of global economic policy; the World Economic Forum, convening annually in Davos, became the true capital of world order after the ending of the Cold War. Global policy priorities were set at Davos as capitalist materialism infused what became known as 'globalization,' a predatory consumerist that was capital driven rather than people-oriented. The Occupy movement is seeking to reverse this ordering of priorities, insisting on an economy for the 99%, insisting on governance that is accountable, participatory, transparent, and ecologically and ethically responsible, insisting on 'real democracy.'
–the utopian imagination was repudiated as inevitably leading to the sorts of demonic politics that was associated with Stalinist rule in the Soviet Union. Not only was utopian politics linked to Stalinism but also to any promise of social and economic justice premised on human equality, and specifically, of course, to the socialist tradition. Instead, what emerged as dominant was a new brand of realism that encouraged accommodation with injustice, a delegitimation of any politics of aspiration, and an extremely alienating and demoralizing political atmosphere that rewarded the ethics of the casino and punished the energies of the workplace. The Occupy movement, whether consciously or not, is restoring the utopian imagination to its rightful role as the patron goddess of desire, the essential spiritual core of any restorative planetary politics of sufficient gravitas. Such a goddess has contempt for what 'realists' call realism, and aligns herself with a militant politics of impossibility.
This is not meant to be a lament for the end of the Cold War or the collapse of the Soviet internal and external empire. After the historical achievement of overcoming colonialism, the greatest advance in the struggle for a more humane world was ending Communist rule in Eastern Europe and freeing the various subjugated republics and nationalities that made up the Soviet Union. Two further positive legacies also can be connected with this ending of the Cold War: the lessening of the threat of a major nuclear war and the emergence of a new geopolitical landscape that was the scene of the gradual dismantling of the Western architecture of world order in the early years of the 21st century.
Critique and reshuffling the relations among states and regions, while necessary is hardly sufficient. The adjustments that have been made are hemmed in by the statist preoccupation with horizons of feasibility that lack will and capacity to meet such globally constituted challenges as climate change, nuclear weapons, global disease and poverty, governmental criminality, and militarism. These fundamental deficiencies of our current circumstance are only perceived in their fullness of menace if we indulge the utopian imagination that alone is able to illuminate distant horizons of necessity and desire.
Tags: Berlin Wall, Cold War, Davos, Eastern Europe, Soviet Union, Stalinism, United States, World Economic Forum
Categories Commentary, Global Governance, Reflections


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While I strongly support preventing Internet companies from blocking or slowing consumers, the 2015 order relied on a 1930s portion of law, which was never intended to regulate the Internet. Using outdated regulation to police Internet companies threatens innovation and investment in the Internet. The FCC's latest decision provides a new opportunity to find a way forward on bipartisan legislation that permanently prevents companies from blocking or slowing consumers. I support such a legislative approach to ensure this issue is resolved once and for all instead of leaving it up to the whim of the FCC.
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Yes, there was a subtle issue that caused a problem on the Google Play version (locally deployed builds were fine ). Anyway, that's been resolved now and the version that's available now should start and play just fine.
Duuuude! Im excited. Did you update both Steam and HiB? EDIT: Wait, I haven't had coffee yet... _I'm_ going to update. EDIT: Hours later, I can report it works! Thank you No prob! For folks w/ HD 3000 on 10.7.5, we're still grinding through this. Dan or I will post more here if/when I find a good solution.
Betafrogg, you should update to the latest point release for Mountain Lion. The bug you're having should have been fixed in 10.8.3 (and hopefully still fixed in 10.8.4).
Are you running it in Win95 compatability mode? If not, do so and it should fix you up.
Thanks for the bug report. Looks like somehow the Linux version on Steam wasn't updated properly. We're in the process of fixing and testing that.
Well, crap. Looks like the depth buffer diver bug is still alive. I'll have to fully downgrade one of our Macs to investigate this. I'll keep you posted, but probably will take another week or so to resolve as I'm helping out other projects at the moment.
Can you post your system specs (especially OS and GPU version)? Also, try going into the game's visual options and disable features like SSAO, Shadows, etc. Let me know if disabling any particular feature fixes these depth buffer issues for you.
Steam versions auto-update, but HiB must be manually redownloaded.
Can you post your system specs here? Are you also running 10.7.5 on system with an HD 3000 GPU?
This should be fixed in the Steam versions. HiB versions are supposed to be updated this week (we're sending them fixed builds now), but I'm not sure on the exact timing.
I have no idea what's causing that but I suspect you have some sort of background process that's running and forcing itself into the foreground. Maybe a chat application? Or anti-virus/malware scanner? Or something?
You can't slow it down, but many cutscenes can be paused and upaused to work around this issue.


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@interface BIDatasourceFeedTableViewTestCase : XCTestCase

@property (nonatomic, strong, nullable) BITableView *tableView;
@property (nonatomic, strong, nullable) BIMockDatasourceFeedTableView *datasource;

@end

@implementation BIDatasourceFeedTableViewTestCase

- (void)setUp {
    [super setUp];
    self.tableView = [[BITableView alloc] initWithFrame:[UIScreen mainScreen].bounds style:UITableViewStylePlain];
    self.datasource = [BIMockDatasourceFeedTableView datasourceWithBITableView:self.tableView];
    [self.datasource load];
}

- (void)tearDown {
    self.tableView = nil;
    self.datasource = nil;
    [super tearDown];
}

#pragma mark - Test Inits

- (void)test_inits {
    BIDatasourceFeedTableView *datasource = [BIMockDatasourceFeedTableView datasourceWithBITableView:self.tableView];
    XCTAssertNotNil(datasource);
    datasource = [[BIMockDatasourceFeedTableView alloc] initWithBITableView:self.tableView];
    XCTAssertNotNil(datasource);
    XCTAssertEqual(datasource.tableView, self.tableView);
}

#pragma mark - Test createNextBatch

- (void)testCreateNextBatchCallback {
    __block BOOL wasCalled = NO;
    __block BIBatchRequest *batchRequest;
    self.datasource.createNextBatchCallback = ^() {
        wasCalled = YES;
        batchRequest = [[BIBatchRequest alloc] initWithCompletionBlock:nil];
        return batchRequest;
    };
    [self.tableView triggerInfiniteScrolling];
    XCTAssertTrue(wasCalled);
}

#pragma mark - Test fetchBatch

- (void)testFetchBatch {
    __block BOOL wasCalled = NO;
    self.datasource.fetchBatchCallback = ^(BIBatchRequest * __nonnull batch) {
        wasCalled = YES;
    };
    [self.tableView triggerInfiniteScrolling];
    XCTAssertTrue(wasCalled);
    XCTAssertEqual(self.tableView.infiniteScrollingState, BIInfiniteScrollingStateLoading);
}

#pragma mark - Test fetchBatchCompletedWithFailure

- (void)testFetchBatchCompletedWithFailure {
    __block NSError *returnedError = nil;
    NSError *error = [NSError errorWithDomain:@"" code:0 userInfo:nil];
    BIBatchRequest *batchRequest = [[BIBatchRequest alloc] initWithCompletionBlock:nil];
    BIMutableBatchResponse *batchResponse = [[BIMutableBatchResponse alloc] initWithBatchRequest:batchRequest];
    batchResponse.error = error;
    self.datasource.handleFetchBatchResponseWithFailureCallback = ^(BIBatchResponse * __nonnull aBatchResponse) {
        returnedError = aBatchResponse.error;
    };
    [self.tableView triggerInfiniteScrolling];
    self.datasource.currentBatchRequest.completionBlock(batchResponse);
    XCTAssertEqual(returnedError, error);
}

#pragma mark - Test fetchBatchCompletedWithSuccess

- (void)testFetchBatchCompletedWithSuccess {
    __block NSArray *returnedItems = nil;
    NSArray *sentItems = @[];
    BIBatchRequest *batchRequest = [[BIBatchRequest alloc] initWithCompletionBlock:nil];
    BIMutableBatchResponse *batchResponse = [[BIMutableBatchResponse alloc] initWithBatchRequest:batchRequest];
    batchResponse.indexPaths = sentItems;
    self.datasource.handleFetchBatchResponseWithSuccessCallback = ^(BIBatchResponse * __nonnull aBatchResponse) {
        returnedItems = aBatchResponse.indexPaths;
    };
    [self.tableView triggerInfiniteScrolling];
    self.datasource.currentBatchRequest.completionBlock(batchResponse);
    XCTAssertEqual(sentItems, returnedItems);
}

#pragma mark - Test fetchBatchCompletedCommon

- (void)testFetchBatchCompletedCommonPullToRefresh {
    BIMutableBatchRequest *mutableBatchRequest = [[BIMutableBatchRequest alloc] initWithCompletionBlock:nil];
    mutableBatchRequest.options |= BIBatchRequestOptionPullToRefreshRequest;
    BIMutableBatchResponse *mutableBatchResponse = [[BIMutableBatchResponse alloc] initWithBatchRequest:mutableBatchRequest];

    [self.datasource handleFetchBatchResponseCommon:mutableBatchResponse];
    XCTAssertFalse([self.tableView.pullToRefreshControl isRefreshing]);
    XCTAssertNil(self.datasource.currentBatchRequest);
}

- (void)testFetchBatchCompletedCommonInfiniteScrolling {
    BIMutableBatchRequest *mutableBatchRequest = [[BIMutableBatchRequest alloc] initWithCompletionBlock:nil];
    mutableBatchRequest.options |= BIBatchRequestOptionInfiniteScrollingRequest;
    BIMutableBatchResponse *mutableBatchResponse = [[BIMutableBatchResponse alloc] initWithBatchRequest:mutableBatchRequest];

    [self.datasource handleFetchBatchResponseCommon:mutableBatchResponse];
    XCTAssertEqual(self.tableView.infiniteScrollingState, BIInfiniteScrollingStateStopped);
    XCTAssertNil(self.datasource.currentBatchRequest);
}

- (void)testFetchBatchCompletedCommonInsertOther {
    BIBatchRequest *batchRequest = [[BIBatchRequest alloc] initWithCompletionBlock:nil];
    batchRequest.insertPosition = 1;
    BIMutableBatchResponse *batchResponse = [[BIMutableBatchResponse alloc] initWithBatchRequest:batchRequest];

    [self.tableView triggerInfiniteScrolling];
    [self.tableView triggerPullToRefresh];
    [self.datasource handleFetchBatchResponseCommon:batchResponse];
    XCTAssertEqual(self.tableView.infiniteScrollingState, BIInfiniteScrollingStateLoading);
    XCTAssertTrue([self.tableView.pullToRefreshControl isRefreshing]);
    XCTAssertNil(self.datasource.currentBatchRequest);
}

#pragma mark - Test load

- (void)testLoad {
    XCTAssertEqualObjects(self.datasource.cellClass, [BITableViewCell class]);
    XCTAssert(self.datasource.cellIdentifier.length);
}

@end

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1 commercial "bib style" poly/cotton twill apron (no pocket on the bib).
I purchase mine commercial apron blanks in 3-packs from our local SAMS Club. At the time of my purchase each 3 pack of aprons was well under $15.00. Check your local SAMS Club for availability.
opening along bottom raw edges, begin stitching again, pivot at corner, stitch up the other 5.5" side as shown below.
Carefully clip corners & press bottom seam allowance back on both sides as shown below.
Turn pocket right side out through opening in bottom edge. Gently push out corners, smooth & press flat.
Prepare apron for positioning pocket by folding the bib in half vertically. Match bib side edges and top edge, press center fold to form a positioning (fold) line. Fold & press pocket in half for pocket positioning (fold) line.
Open apron and lay bib flat. Open pocket and match pressed (fold) lines, as shown below. Use the top-stitching line on the apron bib for pocket top edge placement OR if your apron does not have top stitching, measure approximately 2" from bib top edge so that the pocket is centered and aligned across the bib. See image below.
Top stitch pocket to apron bib. If a pen slot is desired, mark a line 1" parallel to the pocket top stitching line, see below. Stitch pen slot, secure stitching at top and bottom, clip thread tails.
Fold bib and neck strap in half vertically to find center of the neck strap. Cut at center point.
Fold raw edge of each strap over .5 inch. Use a wide zigzag and satin stitch along raw edge on each strap end to secure well.
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HINT: Apply the stiff/hard side of the Velcro to the outside of the strap that faces up (or AWAY) from your neck. Apply the soft side of the Velcro on the inside of the strap that will face down (or toward) your neck.
Apply a floating appliqué motif if desired.
If your novelty fabric has a large focus shape/image, consider applying a floating appliqué on your apron. Simply cut out the shape. Determine where you want to place your floating image. Apply using your favorite fusible web product; finish edges with satin stitch or zigzag.
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Johnny Depp's dogs to be seized by Customs
By Kim Stephens
Updated May 14, 2015 — 1.56pm first published at 7.28am
Johnny Depp meets flying fox
Johnny Depp should have employed own scissorhands
In scenes akin to a Hollywood blockbuster, a showdown is looming between Pirates of the Caribbean actor Johnny Depp and Australian Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce over two tiny Yorkshire terriers.
The minister has given the Hollywood superstar a deadline of just 50 hours to get his beloved pets Pistol and Boo out of Australia, otherwise, he says, they will be destroyed.
Depp failed to declare his dogs to customs authorities when he and his wife, Amber Heard, returned to Queensland by private jet last month.
Deadline set to 'bugger off'
iO Tillet Wright is a close friend of Amber Heard and Johnny Depp. Credit:Getty Images
"It's time that Pistol and Boo buggered off back to the United States," Mr Joyce said.
"He's now got about 50 hours left to remove the dogs. He can put them on the same charter jet he flew out on and fly them back out of our nation."
The Hollywood superstar returned to the Gold Coast set of Pirates of the Caribbean 5: Dead Men tell No Tales last month after flying to the United States to seek treatment for an injured hand sustained during filming.
It is understood Depp disembarked from his private jet at Brisbane's old international terminal, which was used to greet delegates during last year's G20 leaders' summit.
Pistol and Boo, with dog groomers Lianne and Ellie Kent, who unwittingly alerted authorities to their presence in the country. Credit:Happy Dogz
Both the Brisbane Airport Corporation and Hawkers Aviation, which handles VIP arrivals and departures at the airport, referred queries to Australian Customs.
Minister takes tough line
Dog threat: Barnaby Joyce. Credit:Andrew Meares
Mr Joyce did not mince words in expressing his displeasure in Depp bypassing strict quarantine laws, accusing him of sneaking them into the country.
"We found out he snuck them in because we saw him taking them to a poodle groomer," he said.
Johnny Depp with one of his Yorkshire Terriers. Credit:Pinterest
"Now Mr Depp has to either take his dogs back to California or we're going to have to euthanise them."
Groomer sad for Depp and dogs
Dog groomer Lianne Kent, from the Happy Dogz salon in Gold Coast's north, says Depp and his wife, model and actor Amber Heard, must be having a hard time dealing with the situation.
"I'm upset about it. I feel sorry for them," Ms Kent said on Thursday.
"I can't imagine what they'll be going through."
Ms Kent said the dogs - Pistol and Boo - looked immaculate when she groomed them on Saturday.
"Dogs usually come in messy when I groom them, but they looked beautiful," she said.
"They smelled amazing.
"I did a full groom, bath and trimming. They were just gorgeous dogs - they'd just sit there."
However, Ms Kent may have inadvertently tipped off officials to the dogs' Australian adventure by sharing photos of them at her salon with the media.
Public support for Pistol and Boo
Mr Joyce's euthanasia threats do not appear to have won much public support.
A change.org petition directed at Mr Joyce titled, "Save Johnny Depp's dogs from being euthenized [sic] by the Australian Government!" gathered more than 1500 signatures in just three hours on Thursday morning.
A parody Twitter account has also been established in the dog's names.
Stars aren't above the law: minister
Mr Joyce quipped that he was unlikely to be invited to the premiere of the latest instalment in the highly successful Pirates of the Caribbean franchise but said Depp's star status did not exempt him from obeying quarantine laws.
"Just because he's Johnny Depp does not mean he's exempt from Australian law," he told 612 ABC Brisbane.
"There is a process if you want to bring animals in, you get the permits, they go into quarantine and then you can have them.
"You start letting in movie stars, even though they have been the sexiest man alive twice, who come into our nation, why don't we just break the laws for everybody.
"If dogs come in and they have rabies ... the whole life in Brisbane changes. They won't be so sympathetic to Depp at that point in time," he said.
"Think how close it is, it's in Bali, just next door, it's not fanciful stuff. Therefore, we are very diligent about what comes into our nation."
Mr Joyce said Boo and Pistol's presence in the country was discovered when they were taken to Gold Coast dog groomers Happy Dogz and accused Depp of sneaking them in to the country.
'We rely on people being honest'
"He has decided to bring in to our nation two dogs without actually getting the proper certification and proper permits required. It basically looks like he snuck them in," he said.
"In my view, he's a great actor, Jack Sparrow, wonderful, but this is not an excuse for breaking our laws.
"We rely on people being honest ... most reasonable people say, 'I do have a couple of dogs, I'd better put that on the piece of paper.' "
"If he really can't live without Pistol and Boo, if life is impossible without Pistol and Boo, he has to get them to go through the appropriate quarantine process where they would hold them in quarantine facilities like all the other dogs."
Minister rules out offering 10-day quarantine
The minimum quarantine period for animals entering Australia is 10 days but Mr Joyce said he would not offer the option of Depp's dogs now going into quarantine.
"I'm dead against that idea and this idea that I break the law and then we go in another direction just because I'm a movie star; I don't like that," he said.
"If you want to obey the law, you have 10 days to quarantine."
Media camped out
A large media contingent has set up camp outside superbike star Mick Doohan's sprawling Gold Coast estate, all desperate for a glimpse of Depp's suddenly famous dogs, Boo and Pistol.
Eleven cars, even more journalists and the odd helicopter are staking out the 18-hectare Coomera property in the hope the Pirates of the Caribbean star ventures out to hand his pooches in to customs officials.
A Channel Nine crew in a chopper reportedly spotted the Yorkshire terriers through a window but otherwise, there's been no sign of the most talked about pets since Paris Hilton's chihuahua, Tinkerbell.
Those in the handful of cars to drive past the boab trees and through Doohan's big white gate haven't given anything away but one found the situation amusing enough to pull out his phone to shoot some video of his own as the cameras rolled.
- with Jorge Branco, Cameron Atfield and AAP
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Kim Stephens
Kim Stephens is Chief Breaking News Reporter at brisbanetimes.com.au
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Archive > Issue 43 > Frozen Moments
Frozen Moments
by Maureen Freely
Original essay by Yıldırım Türker
NTV Istanbul, 2009
Famous for his atmospheric films set in stark landscapes, Nuri Bilge Ceylan is now attracting attention with his photography. Maureen Freely leafs through the pages of a fine limited-edition album of his enigmatic, painterly scenes
Admirers of Turkey's most fêted film director may not be surprised to hear that Nuri Bilge Ceylan has a second calling as a photographer. In this new limited edition of 97 images taken between 2003 and 2009, mostly while scouting for locations, he takes us back into the world of his films. Here again are the panoramic landscapes of Uzak, Climates and Three Monkeys – the great curving rivers, roads and hills along which the eye, too, must travel before it can take in the whole. Here, too, are the snow-covered shorelines, flooded pastures, arid plains, ancient sites and ghostly city streets that serve as backdrops to his dramas.
On the page, as on the screen, it is the human figure that draws the eye: the schoolgirl standing on the almost flooded train tracks, the newlywed behind the great curve of her washing line, the boy in the alleyway whose half-shadowed face calls to mind a masked bandit. Most look as if they have agreed to pose for the camera, but their trust in the photographer seems fragile. There is a challenge in their eyes, and in their stance. The peasant mother is ready to defend her two innocent daughters. The man standing tall in his best suit would be a good friend – and a bad enemy. The fun-loving boys near Ahlat would like to know what this inquisitive stranger sees through his lens, though it does not seem to occur to them that he might be just as interested in the landscape.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's father was the only member of his family to get an education. An agricultural engineer, he chose to leave a promising career in Istanbul in the early 1960s, returning with his wife and two young children to work (and, he hoped, transform) his father's lands in Yenice, near Çanakkale. Ceylan's older sister, Emine (herself a distinguished photographer), has written of their father's intense engagement with nature, rivalled only by his love affair with his Chevrolet, imported with some difficulty from the US. It was in this Chevrolet that he took the family to see all the great sites of Anatolia. His idea of a happy day was to wander off into the ruins for hours on end. The children were left wondering what he saw, and what he was seeking.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan has captured other silent quests of this order, sometimes in places of undisputed beauty (as with the shepherd with his umbrella, standing on the hilltop, gazing down at his sheep amidst the toppled columns of a Roman ruin) and sometimes in landscapes recast by snow, wind or the setting sun.
He has a particular genius for finding the painterly in the real, and whatever he finds he enhances. His wide-screen digital images revel in their sharp, colliding edges and their sweeping curves. Printed on rag paper, coloured by archival pigment inks, they seem lit from within. Though some of his Istanbul street scenes seem to echo those of Ara Güler (Ceylan loves his ferries, his streetcars, his old wooden houses and his windswept city streets), his images are never at pains to deny the picturesque. Ceylan's modern city does not seem to be at odds with the old city crumbling beneath it. There is, instead, an assumed unity and an unabashed celebration of the gorgeous. Instead of repudiating the postcard view, Ceylan reframes it, so that it is no longer the white peaks of Mount Ararat that draw the eye but the flock of men chasing that football on the vast plain beneath. The Blue Mosque recedes into the mist as tense figures fight their way through the snow in the foreground. Each image invites a question. Why is the farm girl posing so happily in front of her family's rough-hewn house as her sister glowers from the wall some way behind her? And what of that figure in the far background, raking hay? Is he their protector, or is he their fate? The portraits are riddled with tension: each detail, each pair of eyes complicates the story, just as each "pure landscape" suggests a story on a grander scale. Why is this horseman racing across the steppe? How long has this carriage been travelling through the blizzard, and how long will it be before he can see the lantern in the little shack? Each picture withholds a story, though there are clues and suggestions.
This is an enthralling collection, artfully arranged, with no expense spared. It is deserving of its own table, so that it can be leafed through at leisure, again and again.
Maureen Freely is the author of six novels, of which the most recent is Enlightenment. A Professor at Warwick University, she is perhaps best known for her translations of Snow, The Black Book, Istanbul: Memories of a City, Other Colours and The Museum of Innocence, all by Orhan Pamuk
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's films: The European film world was quick to see Nuri Bilge Ceylan's potential. His first film, Cocoon, was an official selection in the short-film competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995. His first full-length film, The Small Town, won the Caligari Prize at the Berlin Film Festival three years later. It was with Uzak, the third in his so-called "provincial trilogy", that he gained international recognition. The film was awarded the Grand Prix and Best Actor Prize at Cannes in 2002. In 2006, Ceylan was back at the Cannes Film Festival with Climates, this time winning the Fipresci Prize. His most recent film, Three Monkeys, shown at Cannes in 2008, was awarded the prize for best director.
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The Massachusetts Appeals Court has deemed newspaper delivery drivers of a Braintree distributor to be employees, not independent contractors, under state law. The decision makes the carriers eligible for a number of employment benefits and raises important concerns with respect to minimum wage, insurance, worker's compensation, and other issues. The decision may have a far-reaching impact on the distributor, GateHouse Media, and companies like it.
A driver who delivered the Patriot Ledger brought this class action claiming that GateHouse failed to pay its carriers a minimum wage, violated state tip-sharing laws, and improperly charged certain fees. GateHouse publishes and distributes newspapers pursuant to written agreements with carriers, wholesale to stores, and online. Associate Justice Peter Sacks, authoring the decision for the court, concluded that GateHouse failed to prove that the work the carriers perform is outside the usual course of its business. As such, the carriers were deemed employees under the Massachusetts independent contractor law, G. L. c. 149, § 148B. The court did not consider whether federal law preempted part of the statute, concluding that GateHouse had waived that argument by not raising it earlier.
The decision is Carey v. GateHouse Media Massachusetts I, Inc., AC 17-P-82 (Mass. App. Ct. Feb. 28, 2018). For more information about the proper classification of workers as employees or independent contractors, refer to Johanna Matloff's prior post discussing the MA Independent Contractor Law.


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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appoints Stevie Wonder as a messenger of Peace at UN headquarters in New York.
UNITED NATIONS -- To mark the International Day of Persons With Disabilities, the United Nations has appointed the acclaimed American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder as a Messenger of Peace.
Though the designation is largely symbolic, Wonder, who was born blind and has won a record 22 Grammy Awards, vowed to use his new status to help make the world more aware of the challenges faced by people with disabilities.
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At the appointment ceremony, he also promised to compose a hit song for the cause.
"And this challenge is like writing another song," he said. "At the end of the day if I'm challenged to write a song that's a hit, it's going to be No. 1. So we are going to win on this one, too."
Wonder rose to fame in the 1970s, and as he used his soaring popularity as an African-American musician to work for numerous civil rights causes. He was also a strong supporter of Barack Obama's presidential campaign. And the affection is mutual. When President Obama was asked by "Rolling Stone" magazine to name his biggest musical influence, he named Wonder.
Wonder was also one of the most popular Western performers in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union long before the fall of the Berlin Wall. He was among the very few American popular artists whose songs were played somewhat regularly on the radio in former communist countries.
And his 1976 double album, "Songs In The Key Of Life," was even issued in limited vinyl editions in the Soviet Union and Bulgaria in the mid-1980s.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon presented the award to the acclaimed singer at UN headquarters in New York on December 3 and told the musician he was a great fan.
"He's also a great humanitarian who has campaigned against apartheid, for children in need and for persons with disabilities," Ban said. "We are very lucky to have him to join our fight for disability rights. All of us at the United Nations look forward to work with Stevie Wonder."
Ban said that he would be delighted if Wonder would allow his 1970 hit song, "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" to be played at the UN's upcoming climate summit in Copenhagen. Ban said it would be the "perfect soundtrack" for negotiators.
Also at the ceremony was Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the UN. She described Wonder as a man with the dream of a world where every child, no matter their ability, can get a good education, where people apply for jobs without fear of discrimination, and where people live in their communities without fear.
"Through songs of romance, of heartache, of injustice and heroism, through songs of soul, songs with funk and songs of hope, Stevie Wonder has encouraged all of us never to lose sight of our dreams of a better world," Rice said.
"I think Stevie Wonder captures the significance of this day best with his words when he said, 'Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision."
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Wonder himself said in an age when humans travel in space, it is unacceptable that people with disabilities are discriminated against or not accepted as equally productive members of society.
"It is beyond my ability to fathom that 10 percent of people of this world don't matter to the other 90 percent of the people in the world. I'm not able to believe that," he said.
"And the only way that we can show our caring about that 10 percent is by doing something to make the world more accessible and for people to be accepted with disabilities by committing ourselves to opening all the doors and all the possibilities for those who are physically challenged in any way."
Wonder's figure of 10 percent is actually low. According to the UN, 800 million people -- or approximately 13 percent of the world's population -- live with a permanent disability.
Ban said those 800 million are among the most disadvantaged, poorest, and ostracized members of society. He urged all UN member states to implement the landmark UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
In the last 30 years, the United States and several European countries have passed laws that protect the rights of people with disabilities.
Too many other countries have not.


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Calfield and the Sheriff before we went the journey, but upon our coming into the country, Secheverell adds to his certificate that he has built three houses and placed tenants in them, and is building a stone house, and has competent arms in his house.
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The Spirit of Annie Ross - A Comedy by Bernard Farrell
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Where: Howick Little Theatre, 1 Sir Lloyd Drive, Pakuranga, Auckland
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NZ Actors' Equity members (with ID): $26.00
Adults: $29.00
Senior Citizens: $26.00
Students: $15.00
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Directed by: Jan Saussey
"The Gerry Ryan Show" on a local radio station has set a challenge for a number of people to stay overnight in a haunted house. Each participant has his or her own reason for taking part in the challenge, and, as the night progresses, their psychological ghosts appear. This is a mysterious, hilarious world from which there is no escape, where characters are forced to explore their own personal hauntings as they unravel the ghostly past of Annie Ross.
The unseen heroine is not the legendary jazz singer but a maid who died in the 1930s, having murdered the master and aborted his child. So now, this quartet is to spend the night in the house to see if Annie's ghost still walks, and, to raise money for a charity - the Let Us Feed the Starving Children of Africa project.
Not suitable for children under 12.
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