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A Collective Madness
There was a fleeting moment during the Shit Show Spectacle that was this week in Toronto politics.
A shot of the mayor's brother, Councillor Doug Ford, as he watched the police chief's press conference that confirmed the existence of the video as described in the media purporting to show the mayor smoking what seemed to be crack, uttering racist and homophobic slurs. The proverbial smoking gun, now up against this administration's head.
Despite my views of Councillor Ford as a detestable politician and, by extension, probably a disagreeable person, I assumed there must be some human feelings contained within. This couldn't be easy. From a political angle, everything he'd been working for, any future he might be contemplating, now in jeopardy, under dark, dark clouds. Personally? Confirmation that his little brother was battling serious demons.
Fuck it. It made me just want to hug the guy. Sorry man. This must really, really suck.
But the sympathetic feeling passed at about the time Mayor Ford emerged from his office, brother Doug at his left shoulder, to announce that there was no reason he knew of why he should resign. Everything's fine. Anything else?
Then Friday morning brother Doug took to the airwaves to challenge the police chief to produce the video and back their lawyer's earlier assertion that the police chief ought to be the one to resign since he was the one that stepped over the line, talking about the video and, I guess, having put the mayor under surveillance and revealing him to be spending a lot of time with an accused drug dealer and extortionist.
"Like we all have, Johnny over the years," the councillor told talk radio show host John Oakley, "we use bad judgement sometimes and yes, Rob's probably used bad judgement sometimes. I'm just concerned politics are playing a big part in this."
Rob's "probably used bad judgement sometimes"? You think? The mayor's apparently smoking crack and cavorting with known criminals but his brother's real concern is about the politics 'playing a big part in this'?
Sure, my brother is prone to bad judgement that leads to bad decisions but, dammit, stop playing politics with it! This isn't about Rob. It's about you.
A shocking refusal to accept any sort of responsibility. It's always somebody else's fault. This is probably why the mayor is so obviously sloppy in his public displays of questionable behaviour. He never gets called onto the carpet for it, never faces a reprimand or consequences for his actions.
Especially galling considering the Fords' usual pro-law and order, never hug a thug stance toward anyone else but themselves or their close associates. For them it's all about the police stepping over the line, playing politics, acting like judge and jury. Of all the things to be concerned about that came to light over the past few days, the thing Councillor Ford was most concerned about were the police chief's comments.
This isn't just about a white hot glowing hypocrisy or double standard. No, no. We're talking about a complete and utter lack of conscience. There is no ability or requirement to distinguish between right and wrong. Caught with your hand in the cookie jar? Hey. You don't want your cookies stolen, don't leave them within reaching distance.
"I know one thing, Rob is an honest man," Councillor Ford told Oakley, "I think that anyone who knows him, knows he is an honest man." Rob, meaning the mayor, the councillor's brother, the guy who flatly denied in May there was any video showing him smoking crack, this same video that the councillor was now demanding be released to the public, is an honest man. One of the most honest politicians in the country, Councillor Ford claimed a few days before the truth of the video surfaced.
There's an untetheredness to reality in these people who lack any conscience. Theirs is an untruthful truth. If they claim someone is honest, it means they're honest, all the blatant lying aside.
Alice Through the Looking-Glass bordering on the delusional. A shared madness perpetuated by fellow believers that assist in stitching together a collective alternative reality. Witness the Toronto Sun columnist Joe Warmington's Mad Hatter act (ironically without his trademark fedora) in defense of the mayor.
"Listen, you're not going to fool me," the tough as nails, seen it all journo states. "This is a political script to take down the mayor. That's all this is. There are people who are friends with the chief of police that are using him as a political tool to get their people in."
Sure, Joe. Whatever. If it's easier to believe that a police chief is being used as a puppet by some nefarious entities to subvert democracy than it is to imagine a guy with significant substance abuse problems veering out of control (with ample proof to back that view up), have at it. No one can tell you otherwise.
It's not just crank Toronto Sun columnists. Listen to Ford Nation resident Joy Green stand by her man, believing what she wants to believe and ignoring anything that might undermine that belief. "My support is based on service to this city," she tells the CBC's Rick MacInnes-Rae. "I'm sad that this video does exist," Ms. Green says, "I don't necessarily believe that anyone can prove that he was foolish enough to partake in something like crack but…"
I accept there is a video of Mayor Ford doing something I don't believe he's foolish enough to be doing.
Later on in the interview MacInnes-Rae suggests that we now know why Mayor Ford doesn't provide a daily schedule to the public. "Because somedays he's not at the office," he points out. "He's out driving around, or has been, with Sandro Lisi. Seems to me, some might argue, that might affect the way you do your job." "I'm sure some might argue that. You're correct," Ms. Green responds. "And you?" MacInnes-Rae asks. "No," Ms. Green states. "Because?" "Because I don't know that's a fact."
What the mayor and Sandro Lisi were doing during all that time they spent together, in the SUV, at soccer games, convenience stores, in empty parking lots, on the telephone, is, at this point, purely conjecture. You can make a pretty educated conjecture but it would only be that. Conjecture.
What you can't dispute is that Mayor Ford and Sandro Lisi spent a lot of time together, driving around, hanging out, talking on the telephone. There are pictures and surveillance data to prove it.
Belief, like beauty I guess, is now in the eye of the beholder.
Lying, reality denying politicians like the Fords have salted the earth around them, killing any possibility of a serious, honest debate about all aspects of governance in this city. Those pitching their tents on that ground, political allies and supporters alike, who remain defiant in the face of even the most incontrovertible truth from the most reliable of sources – their eyes and ears – are nothing less than disablers of democracy. This is now about right and wrong not you said, I said. Forget poor judgement or bad decisions, we're talking a complete lack of ethics and morals.
To refuse to accept or see that makes you not only someone of questionable character but a bad citizen with a destructive bent to inflict irreparable damage on the city you call home.
— sick and tiredly submitted by Cityslikr
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The Fishin' Politician? Seriously?!
Look. I don't begrudge Mayor Ford the perks of the job. Despite my demand for perfection from those holding the office, it is, ultimately, a thankless position. You can never make everybody happy. There is unceasing scrutiny and criticism from assholes like me. (I'm thinking that should be an 'I'. Assholes like I am?) The pay level is far below what someone with this kind responsibility and oversight would get in the much vaunted private sector. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, and all that.
Nor do I take exception to journalists covering the local political scene the fun outing that occasionally crops up in their line of duty. Have at it, folks. Embrace the breaks from the usual grind of the job.
But along with the fringe benefits come the odd bouts of doing the more mundane aspects of the job. Like, I don't know, forging a consensus across political lines. Leading the discussion on the city's more pressing problems like transit. Attending events you don't necessarily share an affinity with.
Because our mayor seems to have an allergy to that particular aspect of his job description, I then resent the times he enthusiastically goes about doing the things he so clearly enjoys. And the journalists and their news outlets who so willingly play along and give Mayor Ford an unfettered platform to deliver the Everyman schtick he loves to play. Hey, everybody! It is all fun and games.
I watched Jamie Strashin's coverage of the mayor's Sportsmen's Show outing yesterday with dumb amazement. Lookit. Mayor Ford fishes! Mayor Ford's apprehensive around skunks! Owls love Mayor Ford! Mayor Ford shoots a target with an air rifle! Mayor Ford loves the Sportsmen's Show. It's Mayor Ford's favourite show after the Super Bowl halftime show!
Again, I get that part of the mayor's role is as an ambassador for the city, a promoter of all things Toronto. I'm sure in that capacity David Miller did likewise. Touting Toronto FC. Hanging out at the Wine and Cheese Show. Proclaiming a David Suzuki Day.
But why does the normally prickly with the press Mayor Ford get a free pass when he finally deigns to make a public relations appearance? Oh come on. Leave the guy alone. He's having a little fun. Hey, Mayor Ford? What do you think of the city worker caught surfing porn while on the job? Keep it in your pants, boys, until you get home.
"And with that, the mayor was gone. Out of the wilderness and back to City Hall."
Am I being a killjoy here? Clearly I don't understand the relationship etiquette between the mayor and the media. Coverage on the mayor's terms. He's available when he's available, take it or leave it. And if you don't mind lobbing up a couple softball questions for him, it'd be much appreciated.
I probably could've let it all pass unremarked on had I not read fedora sporting Joe Warmington's Sun scribblings. Why did I do such a thing on this beautiful wintery day? I cannot tell you. Maybe I was up too early this morning. Hadn't had my cuppa before turning on the interwebs. My bad. Serves me right.
Talk about taking direct aim at a political foe.
Even it was just an air-powered pellet gun, it was a very clear message sent:
Hunters and sportsmen and women are very welcome in the city of Toronto.
And take that, former mayor David Miller. Councillor Adam Vaughan, too.
What a contrast from three years ago when the legal gun owners and law-abiding hunters were discriminated against.
So yesterday's outing wasn't simply an exercise in mayoral city building and promotion. It served as a dog whistle to his supporters that he was out erasing all traces of the previous administration while sticking it to his political rival, Councillor Adam Vaughan. Bet Vaughanie's never petted a possum.
It seems rather than combat 'murderous gangster gun crime' in the city like Mayor Ford was by shooting an air rifle at targets, the Millerites banned the gun loving Sportmen's Show from city property at the CNE. They exiled it all the way north of the lake and a few blocks east to the Convention Centre. Fucking downtown elite despots. Enough was enough.
"I told [Sportsmen Show chair] Walter Oster if I am mayor it will be back here," said Ford with a Cheshire Cat grin. "I am a man of my word and it's back here at the CNE where it never should have left in the first place."
"Bang, bang."
Yep. Political correctness by damned. Sportsmen shouldn't have to be subject to no stinkin' trip to a convention centre when they want to battle a fish on a television set. They should be allowed to roam free in the cavernous halls of the Direct Energy Centre. As God intended.
If the mayor's going to load even the most innocuous of outings with politics, the press can't just stand idly by, playing along and dutifully noting his exploits. That's what I would call, if you'll excuse my Joe Warmington attempts at punning, court reporting. (Think about it for a sec.) Just because Mayor Ford refuses to buckle down and do his job, doesn't mean the media should too.
— poor sportingly submitted by Cityslikr
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Days Of Sue-Ann Supreme
In future days, will this be the face of the Toronto Sun?
DEVILITATOR
One might argue it already is but I'm referring specifically to the paper's former editorial page editor, Rob Granatstein's thoughts on the most recent cuts to Sun Media's newspaper chain.
The cuts have crushed the local newsrooms. When the latest victims of downsizing are gone, Toronto will be down to three general assignment news reporters, according to people in that newsroom, unless staff is reassigned. That's flat out ridiculous. The Sun will rely even more on its columnists to generate the news going forward. [Bolding ours.]
The Sun. Columnists. Generating news.
Information flowing forth, free of context, full of personal opinion. News from top down not bottom up.
This isn't just about it being the Toronto Sun. Any newspaper working with a skeleton crew of reporters and teetering precariously with op-ed writers isn't a newspaper. It's, well, an organ of opinion, both informed and otherwise.
It would be just like… All Fired Up in the Big Smoke. Only with inkier fingers.
Frankly, I wouldn't be able to do whatever it is I do without piggy backing on the work of Daniel Dale, David Rider, Robyn Doolittle, Kelly Grant, Elizabeth Church, Don Peat and a handful of other reporters who tirelessly dig up the dirt and parse information on Toronto politics on a seeming 24 hour, 7 day schedule. I'd hazard a guess neither could the bigger names a couple paragraphs up. The less reporting that gets done, the more, what would you call it?, PRing happens?
Picture Toronto, with the discourse only consisting of the views from the likes of Sue-Ann Levy, Joe Warmington, Royson James, Christopher Hume, Rosie DiManno, Chris Selley, Matt Gurney, Christie Blatchford, Marcus Gee, Margaret Wente?
"Columnists have found themselves out of jobs because they were too agreeable to those in power," says Granatstein in this week's Grid profile of Ms. Levy, "and it makes for weak reading. Wearing the Ford colours has hurt Sue-Ann…That means she struggles to get the other side of the story sometimes. People don't feel she gives them a fair shake."
While at the moment this may be a bigger bind for Sue-Ann because she's in so deep with Team Ford, this can be a ditch all opinion writers must fight not to steer into. I'm sure the Star's Christopher Hume has problems gaining access to the mayor and his staff. His colleague, Royson James, could hardly be considered an honest broker back in the day with the Miller administration. Remember his one-man, moralistic crusade to de-rail Adam Giambrone's mayoral bid?
But that's not really why we read columnists, is it? For impartiality or objectivity? We're looking for opinions. Hopefully ones based on at least a semblance of reason and reality but we certainly don't view their words as gospel or final on any given topic. Their purpose really is to either make our blood boil or confirm our biases.
Newspapers stressing op-eds over real reporting are nothing more than modern versions of olde thyme pamphleteering. And, if I do say so myself, that's kind of our bailiwick, over here on the interwebs. We need newspapers to remain newspapers. Otherwise, we'll all just be making shit up to push forward our agendas, unchecked and unsupported.
— opinionatedly submitted by Cityslikr
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A Section 37 Set-To
I hesitatingly wade into the cold and murky waters of Section 37 fees, knowing that almost immediately I will be out of my depth.
But hey! If the Toronto Sun can do it, why not me?
Much has been made recently in the pages of our little tabloid that could about… how did they put it?… 'the wild west', 'shakedowns', 'legalized extortion', 'bribery' and '… getting away with murder forever'!
Holy cow. It sounds like Tammany fucking Hall down there. Dirty politicians with their greasy, grafty hands, reaching into developers' pockets to pay for their personal yachts and country estates. Corrupt Ward Bosses.
Or, as many devoted Sunshiners would say: Councillor Adam Vaughan.
Make no mistake, the Toronto Sun's new found civic activism has less to do with improving the quality of life in this city than it does on zeroing its sights on a potential 2014 rival for their beloved and beleaguered mayor. Councillor Vaughan is knee deep in section 37 funds, his ward 20 in the midst of a development and intensification boom. And of course, Mayor Ford stands vigorously opposed to Section 37 money. "I've never liked Section 37 (funds)," the mayor said yesterday. Except when he does. Back in 2010 as a councillor, Ford used $75,000 in Section 37 money to build change rooms at – you pretty much guessed it already – Don Bosco High School.
But look, I'm not here to exchange tits-for-tats or defend Councillor Vaughan. As written, the guidelines on the protocol of Section 37 funds – intended to mitigate the downsides of permitting taller development with higher density than bylaws allow — are both much more thorough than the Sun and critics would have you believe and more open to interpretation than some defenders might care to admit. Although, evidence of nefariousness in the use of the funds or the building of political pet projects is in scant supply in the accusations hurled at Section 37 practitioners.
Still, should the system be examined and other options explored? Sure. "It's fair to say the process needs to become more clear and it ought to be administered by city staff," said Toronto's Chief Planner, Jennifer Keesmaat. "In part, because city staff are not in a conflict of interest when administering it." (Again, I'd like to see more concrete examples of conflict of interest than simply theoretical possibilities.) Ms. Keesmaat also believes that Section 37 funds could go to city wide infrastructure needs. Not long ago, I was talking to a councillor staffer from a left-leaning, heavy development ward who suggested spreading Section 37 funds more equitably city wide might help in easing downtown-suburban tensions.
Fair enough, I say.
Let's talk about all that.
While we're at it, however, I'd like to ask suburbanites and those representing them at City Hall what they're prepared to give up in return. It seems to me to be all a little one-sided at the moment. Bulk up all you want, downtown wards, Willowdale, Scarborough Centre, Mimico. But share the proceeds with us. A casino would be a great source of jobs and revenue. Put it downtown where we don't have to deal with any of the negative aspects of it.
It's almost like, parts of Toronto adapt to being a big 21st-century city, divy up the benefits of doing so with the other parts that just want to remain as is. Give us money from your densification. Accommodate our single rider car travel. Give us subways. Don't you dare try to impose on our single family, detached homes and cul de sac communities.
"It's about equity and fairness," Councillor Mike Del Grande said. (And I'm trying to stifle a derisive snort here.) "This money should improve all of Toronto."
Absolutely, councillor. But as you might say yourself, shouldn't improvement start at home? This tilt he's undertaken smacks a little of the 'widow and orphan' syndrome he brushed aside during previous budget cycles. Demanding something for nothing.
I'm all for spreading the wealth. For this city to prosper, it has to prosper for everyone. That can only happen, however, when every part of the city contributes to its evolution from 6 bickering municipalities to a unified whole at the centre of a global metropolitan region. It's a willingness that has been in short supply from some quarters, who seem more intent on exploiting the inequities for political reasons rather than addressing them for the greater good.
— brokeringly submitted by Cityslikr
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On Casinos And Safe Injection Sites
Everyone say it along with me:
Casinos good. Safe injection sites bad. Casinos good. They help pay for our kids' education and to tend to our sick. Safe injection sites bad. They're full of sick people. Sick, sick people who have no sense of self-control and just want to get high all day long on the taxpayers' dime. Safe injections sites bad. Casinos good.
The glaring hypocrisy of this is stunning.
Hey! Hey! Just hold on a second there, you left wing pinko nut. Gambling is legal. Illicit drugs like heroin aren't. Therefore, casinos are perfectly legitimate, helping people take illegal drugs isn't. So, up yours, screaming about hypocrisy.
A quick history lesson. Until about the late 1960s, gambling was viewed as a vice, punishable by law just like the taking of non-prescription drugs. Over the course of the last 40+ years, there's been a gradual if grudging acceptance of the activity. A kind of, if you can't beat it, join it, control it, profit from it change of attitude.
Safe injection sites are a step in that direction, tiny, tiny, tiny steps, mind you. Despite what you hear from Sun media appointed experts in the field like, say, Toronto's Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday, safe injection sites don't throw open the doors to rampant drug use, extending an invitation to all those people who have thought they might like to dabble in intravenous drugs but needed an official sanction to proceed.
"[Deputy Mayor] Holyday warns like in Field of Dreams, if you build this crazy party centre, you just know they will come.
"And from everywhere," he said. "We give them free food, shelter and now free drugs? It may be a lifestyle people across the country would take to take us up on."
Welcome to the Big Syringe! A 'crazy party centre'?! Free drugs?? If you write and say things like that about safe injection sites, it's just a frank admission that you know absolutely nothing about drug use and addiction, and you should just shut up, sit back and listen to what people who've studied the matter have to say. You know, the actual experts.
"We are always prepared to listen to good advice, and we make our decisions based on evidence," Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews said. "[But] experts continue to be divided on the value of the sites."
Wait, what? No. No they aren't, Minister. Actual experts in the field aren't divided on the issue. That's just you not wanting to take a bold step, make a positive move, and summoning the groundless argument that not everyone agrees and more studies are needed. The very same argument climate change sceptics make. This province's Minister of Health is a safe injection site sceptic.
Compare her response to that of Ontario's Finance Minister when it comes to pimping extolling the virtues of building a casino in Toronto. "It [Toronto casino] will likely be unparalleled in the country," Dwight Duncan said. "These places have some of the finest shopping, restaurants, convention facilities, park spaces, open spaces — imagine an anchor that could create a golden mile on Toronto's waterfront and that's quite possible." You know, like all those other casinos in Ontario that have magically transformed their surroundings into veritable Disneylands of wonder and awe, enchanting destinations that draw in thrill seeking pilgrims the world over.
Evidence based decision making, indeed.
I get the 'politics' of it. In these days of austerity where governments are scrambling to find every penny, casinos are an easy sell. Cash pretty much straight into the coffers. Set up a video terminal somewhere. Print off a stack of scratch and sniff ticket. Ka-ching! You're off to the (horse) races.
All the costs, and there are costs to widespread and easily accessible gambling, are mostly back end, hidden. A bankruptcy here, a nervous breakdown there. A child going to school hungry because dad's blown a paycheque on the slots. Those numbers can be buried, swept under the rug, left for someone else to clean up.
It's the exact opposite with safe injection sites. The money's upfront, establishing a clinic, staffing it. Savings come later with cleaner needles, safer drug use, people weaned from their addiction and, fingers crossed, becoming more productive citizens. Indirect savings that are long term which, these days, is anathema to our politicians.
Besides, there's the morality of it. We don't approve of drug use. Safe injection sites condone that kind of behaviour. As if there's any morality in leaving people to get sick or die of their own devices, to deny prevention of an accidental overdose or transmission of a communicable disease because it offends our sensibilities.
'We're not in the business of being drug pushers,' Dewayne L. from Casinoville, ON writes to his local MPP.
Yeah, we'd love to help here, do the right thing but it won't go over well with our rural and small town voters. The government shouldn't be in the business of pushing drugs. A gambling addiction? We're just fine with that.
To govern is to lead, to make the best decisions possible using the best evidence available. Otherwise, you're just pandering; playing to inherent and ill-informed preconceptions and illogical bias. That's the exact opposite of good and responsible governance.
In a perfect world full of imperfect human behaviour, responsible governments would be wary of involvement with the gambling business. There's no slam dunk evidence showing the pros of it outweigh the cons. Not so, safe injection sites. That one's a no-brainer.
Unfortunately, our governments seem more concerned with making risk free decisions rather than the right ones.
— indignantly submitted by Cityslikr
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"""
SYNOPSIS

    build_server_scripts.py [START_TEMPLATE] [STOP_TEMPLATE] [SERVICE] [KB_RUNTIME] [KB_TOP] [SERVICE_DIR] [OUTPUTDIR]

DESCRIPTION

    Get a KBase deployment config variable.  The config file location is set
    by the deployment config environment variable KB_DEPLOYMENT_CONFIG.  Useful
    for getting service configuration variables in Makefiles

AUTHOR

    Michael Sneddon <mwsneddon@lbl.gov>

LICENSE

   See LICENSE.md
"""
import sys
import traceback

DEPLOY_CFG = 'KB_DEPLOYMENT_CONFIG'

def usage():
    print('Usage: python get_kb_config.py  [START_TEMPLATE] [STOP_TEMPLATE] [SERVICE_NAME] [KB_RUNTIME] [KB_TOP] [SERVICE_DIR] [OUTPUTDIR]')

def main ():
    if len(sys.argv)<8:
        print('Not enough arguments.')
        usage()
        return

    if len(sys.argv)>8:
        print('Too many arguments.')
        usage()
        return

    # create the start_service.sh script
    with open (sys.argv[1], "r") as template:
        startTemplate=template.read()

    startScript = startTemplate.format(
        service_name=sys.argv[3],
        kb_runtime=sys.argv[4],
        kb_top=sys.argv[5],
        kb_service_dir=sys.argv[6],
        )
    with open (sys.argv[7]+'/start_service', "w") as start_service_file:
        start_service_file.write(startScript)

    # create the stop_service.sh script
    with open (sys.argv[2], "r") as template:
        stopTemplate=template.read()

    stopScript = stopTemplate.format(
        service_name=sys.argv[3],
        kb_runtime=sys.argv[4],
        kb_top=sys.argv[5],
        kb_service_dir=sys.argv[6],
        )
    with open (sys.argv[7]+'/stop_service', "w") as stop_service_file:
        stop_service_file.write(stopScript)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    try:
        main()
        sys.exit(0)
    except KeyboardInterrupt as e: # Ctrl-C
        raise e
    except SystemExit as e: # sys.exit()
        raise e
    except Exception as e:
        print(f'ERROR: {e}', file=sys.stderr)
        traceback.print_exc(file=sys.stderr)
        sys.exit(1)

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The General Data Protection Regulation requirements apply to each Member State of the European Union, aiming to create more consistent protection of consumer and personal data across EU Member States. In April 2016 the GDPR were adopted at EU level. The GDPR came into effect on the 25th of May 2018 and will replace the Data Protection Act. Companies that fail to achieve GDPR compliance before the deadline may be subject to penalties and fines.
This subject is relevant to those responsible for processes involving personal data including Human Resources Managers, Marketing Managers, IT Managers, Compliance Officers, Internal Auditors, and Administration Officers.
Selecting and negotiating with a service provider: contract clauses and security measures.
Handling subject access requests and requests for rectification or erasure.
Data breach detection and incident management.
Managing data retention; archiving and record pseudonymisation.
Maintaining a record of processing activities.
For more information one can refer to: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/data-protection-eu_en or contact the Office of the Information and Data Protection Commissioner.


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Honda's Super Bowl Ad Taps Celebrity Yearbook Photos to Celebrate the CR-V
The star-studded ad features Steve Carrell, Jimmy Kimmel, Viola Davis, and other A-list celebs.
By Christian GilbertsenFebruary 3, 2017
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Honda's new Super Bowl ad is a celebration of America's best-selling SUV, its very own CR-V. Entitled "Yearbooks," this 60-second spot takes a handful of celebrities—Stan Lee, Viola Davis, Jimmy Kimmel, Steve Carrell, Tina Fey, Magic Johnson, Amy Adams, Missy Elliott, and Robert Redford—and essentially sends them back in time to their high school days.
Talking to the viewer from their yearbook photos, each celebrity speaks encouraging words, pulling from their personal stories of ascending to stardom, all while underscoring's brand motto—"The Power of Dreams."
"Since its introduction in 1997, CR-V has set the standard for efficiency, practicality and driving fun, becoming a customer favorite and taking the title as America's best-selling SUV over the past two decades," said Susie Rossick, assistant VP at Honda Auto Marketing. "To celebrate the all-new, fifth-generation CR-V, we wanted to share inspiring stories that bring to life what we mean when we talk about The Power of Dreams."
"Yearbooks" airs this Sunday on the first break of the second quarter, but you can watch it below before it airs on TV.

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I always liked that Joe Walsh song, "Walk Away." It has one of the very first really good guitar licks that I remember hearing as a youngster. I watched a film the other night that was an Eagles performance – from their last tour with Glen Frey. Joe Walsh absolutely nailed "Walk Away." I like when things age well. Joe got sober and seems to keep getting better every time I see him play. I saw him play a few years ago and was amazed at how good he was. Sobriety looks really good on you Joe.
I walked away from booze almost 10 years ago. That was a game changer for me. I found God and a lot of really good people who would literally give you the shirt off of their backs. People like Pete or John, or the other John or my Sister or my Dad, who said to my sister, "You need to talk to your brother about his drinking." I remember reading the first Big Book she gave me while I was drunk.
I finally learned how to slow down and actually read and pay attention to the words. But it only happened after she gave me a third copy of the Big Book. She wrote a note inside of it for me. I had to read it, felt like I owed it to her. It was time for me to do some work.
I was so tired of drinking. Sick and tired of being sick and tired. I walked away, but only because there were a lot of people there holding out their hands and keeping me strong. I learned to accept the things that I could not change. And, I also discovered the courage that it took to change the things I could – like my behavior. It takes great wisdom to know the difference between what we can change and what we cannot.
I walked away from a lot of old stuff. It was time. Timing is Divine, even when we don't realize it at the time. I also learned to put other's needs ahead of my own. That was a biggie. I learned the importance of service work and I carry that same feeling with me today as I watch people heal from within. It's an honor to serve.
I've walked away from many things over the years. I walked away when the two owners of a company I worked for put me in the middle of their ping pong game of hate. I had to walk away. I remember driving home one night from work and accepting the fact that I was probably going to have a heart attack that night. Stress? I could tell you stories. I walked away.
How ironic that I now offer people and animals stress relief. It's amazing. That was a long time ago when I was so wound up. I was a young, stressed out businessman whose health was quite different than it is today. Stress kills and I'm grateful to be alive today. To relieve the stress of another being brings me inner peace that heals at a very deep level. I am so grateful for Reiki.
I guess I've always been a risk taker. But each risk that I have taken was about taking action on something I really believed in. If something was an obstacle, I walked away, and chose another path. I have fought a lot of corporate battles with companies of all sizes. I learned to follow my passion as I walked away from the best paying position I ever had, so I could get closer to Reiki.
I kept walking away so I could actually get into the flow of Reiki and allow enough room for things to happen. It's hard to explain. You kind of have to experience it. I try my best to put it into words. But Reiki really is something you need to experience. It's so personal with everyone who receives the healing energy.
Today, when I walk away from something, it's because that something is just not in the flow of my life at that moment. All things need to be in the flow of Reiki in my mind, body and spirit. I'm a Reiki Master Teacher, and I don't take this position lightly. I spent way too much time trying to go against the flow just to prove that I could do it. I'm much more energy efficient these days. That's just part of getting older and being a Reiki practitioner. We learn to let it go, let it flow and let it be.
Don't be afraid to walk away from toxic situations or anything else that is keeping you from being on your right path. You know the right way to go. Deep down you have always known. Sometimes, we need to run, sometimes we slow down and sometimes we just walk away.
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Richard W. Johnson
Five reasons President Trump's effort to promote employer retirement plans could boost retirement security
Retirement savings are crucial to financial security later in life. But only about half of workers participate in a retirement plan at work, and 50 million workers lack access to an employer retirement plan. The Obama administration worked to promote and protect retirement savings, but some of those promising efforts have since been eliminated.
In spring 2017, President Trump signed legislation rescinding recent rules that provided regulatory relief to state- and municipal-run individual retirement accounts (IRAs) for workers without access to employer retirement plans. That summer, the administration also dismantled the new myRA program, which allowed workers without a workplace retirement plan to contribute to a retirement account through automatic payroll deductions.
And last June, a federal appeals court struck down the Obama administration's pending fiduciary rule, which would have required financial advisers to act in their client's best interests when managing retirement accounts, after the Trump administration delayed implementation.
But on August 31, President Trump took an important positive step to help workers save for retirement, signing an executive order that could make it easier for small businesses to set up retirement plans for their employees.
The order directs the Labor and Treasury departments to consider easing regulations governing multiple employer plans (MEPs), through which employers can jointly offer retirement accounts to their employees. By allowing employers to work together, MEPs can reduce the start-up, administrative, and compliance costs of an employer-sponsored plan, especially for small businesses, likely boosting employee coverage rates.
MEPs already exist, but current rules require employers to share some bond, such as operating in the same industry, to participate together in a MEP. President Trump wants to eliminate that restriction to expand their reach.
President Trump's initiative could significantly boost retirement savings for several reasons.
1. Most people save for retirement through workplace accounts.
Our analysis of data from the 2016 Survey of Consumer Finances shows that half of people ages 55 to 64 without a retirement account have less than $500 in savings. In contrast, half of people that age with a retirement account have more than $100,000 in savings. Enrolling more workers in retirement plans would raise retirement savings.
2. Few small businesses offer their employees a retirement plan.
Bureau of Labor Statistics data indicate that in 2017, only 46 percent of private-sector establishments employing fewer than 100 workers offered a retirement plan, compared with 94 percent of private-sector establishments with at least 500 workers. One-third of employees work at establishments that employ fewer than 100 workers.
3. More small businesses would likely offer their employees a retirement plan if they could join a MEP.
In a 2017 Pew survey of small and medium-sized employers that did not offer a retirement plan, 71 percent cited start-up costs and 63 percent cited administrative costs as reasons for not sponsoring a plan. Small businesses could reduce the cost of providing their workers a retirement plan by joining a MEP.
4. MEPs are generally more effective than the myRA program at getting workers to save.
Unlike the defunct myRA program, MEPs allow employers to automatically enroll employees, raising the chances that they will participate and save part of their paycheck for retirement. Behavioral economics teaches us that defaults shape behavior, as many people simply follow guidelines from employers and the government. Evidence shows that employers can raise participation in 401(k) retirement plans more than 25 percentage points by automatically enrolling employees. Employees can opt out, but few do.
5. Employees would likely save more in MEPs than in state-run IRAs.
MEPs, unlike state-run IRAs developing in many places, enable employers to match a portion of their employee's retirement accounts, increasing the likelihood that employees will participate and that they will accumulate significant retirement savings.
An important first step
The financial problems facing Social Security and Medicare, coupled with forecasts of growing federal budget deficits, make expensive new public initiatives less appealing. But extending tax breaks to more workers through employer-sponsored retirement plans would modestly reduce federal tax revenues, creating a window for potential bipartisan agreement.
President Trump's executive order won't accomplish much on its own. The Treasury and Labor departments must hash out the details and determine how much they can do without congressional approval to make MEPs more available. But the president's action is an important first step in addressing the nation's retirement savings shortfall.
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OPEN LETTER to Cllr Derek BASTIMAN
Letters August 9, 2018 Letters, Scarborough Borough Council
by TIM HICKS – at a time when the local Johnston Press 'newspapers' are in an apparently terminal decline, with the Whitby Gazette reduced to a single staff-member, working from home. Only the North Yorks Enquirer provides detailed and documented scrutiny of Scarborough Borough Council, widely considered corrupt even by some of its own elected members.
Cllr Derek Bastiman
Town Hall,
St Nicholas Street
Scarborough,
YO11 2HG
Dear Councillor Bastiman,
SBC misuse of RIPA and policy on designating all NYE Contributors as collectively causing distress to Councillors and Council employees
I hope this e mail finds you in good health and not suffering with the weather.
I write in response to the recent letter by Councillor Michelle Donohue-Moncrieff published in the North Yorks Enquirer, in which she alleges that the 'Leader and Cabinet Members' Briefing' from the council's Communications Officer has crossed the line into party political activity by officers on behalf of the ruling Conservative Group. I would ask that in the interests of openness, accountability and local democracy, you publish a copy of the 'Leader and Cabinet Members' Briefing' in the NYE along with any rebuttal you may want to make, so the electorate can come to its own conclusions.
I would like to raise again, a related issue.
Under your leadership SBC follows a policy that:
"it is the Council's position that the collective actions and behaviour of persons who contribute to the NYE website are causing and have caused nuisance and distress."
This passage was obviously drafted by a lawyer and the use of the term "distress" is not accidental. The statutory definition of criminal harassment contained in Section 7 of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, specifies that anyone who causes "distress" to another person is committing an offence of harassment. The effect of this policy is that the Council is treating anyone who contributes any article to the NYE in whatever capacity, as committing a criminal offence of harassment of Councillors and Council employees. Thereby bringing all contributors to the NYE within SBC's powers under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act and criminal prosecution.
SBC has separate processes for dealing with harassment and the Council has a policy on this, which allows for prosecution if necessary. The approach currently adopted by SBC under your leadership is I believe, contrary to that policy. It is also unsupported by any other Council policy or ratification by any Councillor from any other party. It appears to have been implemented covertly by the ruling Conservative party as a group punishment of anyone that has the temerity to use their right of free speech to criticise SBC.
You have consistently refused to comment on this.
The inevitable end result of this is to withhold information from the public domain that the electorate are entitled to know. This supresses lawful scrutiny of the Council and its actions, by local people and community journalists, by withholding information. It is essentially an attack on freedom of speech. After all, if the Council has any concerns about harassment, it should deal with them through the Council's formal policy on harassment that exists specifically for this purpose.
There is a wider issue here.
The NYE has a policy of allowing local people to write in it and have their views published. Numerous people including seven Councillors from the Labour, Independent and Green Party groups also write in the NYE on a wide range of issues, many unrelated to SBC.
Cllrs Barnett [L], Murphy [I], Cluer [G], Cross [I], Donohue-Moncrieff [I.I], Vesey [G] and Randerson [L]
The presence of a free and independent local press is important and an asset to the Borough. This will on occasion result in SBC being criticised in the local media. I can understand some Councillors and Council Officers resenting this and getting a bit hot under the collar about it. But that is part of life in a free and democratic society. The approach that SBC has adopted of covertly defining anyone that writes for the NYE as being members of a pressure group whose stated aim is to cause nuisance to SBC and to harass Councillors, and Council employees has implications which are deeply concerning.
Inevitably any criticism of SBC implicitly criticises the Conservative party, because it is the ruling political grouping in the Council.
I have previously alleged that this approach has been applied to me because I had a major role in exposing former Conservative Councillor and Mayor of Scarborough – Peter Jaconelli – as a rapist and a paedophile. Which has damaged the political interests and reputation of the Conservative Party in Scarborough. You have not commented on this. However, whatever the rights and wrongs of this, withholding information from journalists restricts their ability to hold SBC to account and serves the political interests of the ruling party. In short, you have a conflict of interest and could appear to be using the Council's powers for party political purposes. Essentially a similar allegation to the one made by Councillor Donohue-Moncrieff I refer to above.
I would therefore ask that this policy is re-considered independently and that you issue a full and comprehensive response to this email. Again, in the interests of openness, accountability and local democracy, I will arrange for any rebuttal of my views or any comment on this that you or any other Councillor wishes to make, to be published in the NYE.
On a personal note, I am sorry we are still at issue over this and look forward to hearing from you in due course.
Freelance journalist and contributor to the North Yorks Enquirer
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UPDATE 04/16/09: Alameda police have suspended their search for the owner of a dog that bit an 80-year-old woman on March 21 as she walked along Bay Farm Island. Police cited a lack of leads as the reason for suspending their investigation into the death of Dolly Newell, who died three days after the dog bite became infected. A separate article reviews aspects of Dolly's life, her family members and her upcoming memorial service.
Alameda police are still attempting to locate the owner of a dog that bit an elderly woman as she walked on Bay Farm Island, causing an injury that led to her death. Police received numerous phone calls last week when the media reported that 80-year old Dolly Newell died March 24, just three days after the wound became infected. But no one who called knew the dog or its owner, Alameda police Sgt. Don Owyang said Tuesday.
It's anyone's guess what type of dog owner authorities are seeking. Possibly the same type of owner whose dog has a bite record; would flee the scene after an attack; would fail to come forward to save the victim from rabies shots; would stand by while their dog attacks; would blame a cougar for an attack instead of their own dog; would sic their dog on a child because its "funny" and would blame the victim for not having insurance.
Dolly Newell is dead because she protected this dog owner. Now this dog owner won't come forward; that makes 2 abominations.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Newell did go to the hospital, but instead of telling doctors about the bite, she told them "she had injured herself while gardening." Doctors stitched her up and sent her home. A few days later, a friend found her semi-conscious. She was taken back to the hospital, where she died of an infection from the bite. Investigators said Newell did not report the bite because she did not want the dog to be quarantined.
Alameda, CA - In a painfully tragic story, an 80-year-old woman died yesterday after a dog bite became infected and caused her to slip into a coma. The victim, Dolly Newell, did not go to the hospital. Instead, she treated the injury herself, which ultimately lead to her death. Newell told a friend that she did not contact authorities because she did not want the offending dog to "get into trouble." This may be the same reason why she did not go to the hospital.
Always receive medical attention after a dog bite. The infectious nature of a dog bite, as witnessed here, can be deadly.
Investigators are now trying to locate the dog that bit Newell on Saturday. Newell had been walking her black rottweiler and police suspect that she was bit after she stopped and talked with a fellow dog-walker. "We think that she was likely petting the other person's dog and it snapped at her," Alameda police Sgt. Don Owyang said. Currently, police do not have a description of the dog or its owner. They hope someone may have seen the incident.
After Newell was bit on her left hand, she went home and treated the injury herself. According to Owyang, she told a friend that she did not contact authorities because she did not want the dog to "get into trouble." Investigators believe Newell was bit about 1 p.m. It may have happened on a path near the Harbor Landing Shopping Center or the Safeway supermarket or as she walked in the area of Fir Avenue and Holly Street near Doc Harrington Park.
This horrible story about a woman's sad ignorance is made even more tragic because she didn't want the DOG to get in trouble. I'm continually amazed by people who put the welfare of a dog over human beings lives. She did this and it cost her life. What insanity.
I am sure she only did so at the bequest of the other dog owner. Hmmm. The other dog owner did not want to get reported because the animal already had a bite record? For some reason a "poodle" owner does not come to mind.
This kind of insanity falls right into the lap of types like Best Friends and Bad Rap.
They TELL people that the attacking dogs are blameless and will get "massacred" if people report.
They are basically telling people to hide attacks!
This is what this insanity is coming to.
My God…this woman paid with her life. The owner of the dog that bit her will likely never step forward. This is how horrifying the situation has become. Protecting a dog over a human life. LYING to doctors to protect a biting dog? Then dying of paralysis and coma.
What are the odds this dog will bite again? Likely pretty darn good. It's highly likely the dog already had a bite record which is why Dolly agreed to LIE about the bite. This whole incident is truly awful and truly representative of the absolute lack of concern some dog owners have over human life.
The ole the dog "pays the price argument" is a classic Pro Mauler one. It assumes the mauler is killed for revenge or punishment purposes. It is not, the humane euthanization is for public safety purposes.
The nutters are just trying to get society to feel guilty and accept thier Level 5 and 6 maulers. It is unfortunate that society has to cull the dogs they refuse to.
I also wonder if it wasn't her own dog that bit her. Unfortunately, now we'll never know the truth. If there is some other dog owner out there whose dog was responsible for this, that person is basically a murderer. I hope they never get another good night's sleep again, but sadly, most pit nutters and that ilk don't bat an eye at this sort of thing. He or she probably blamed the victim.


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Grand View University is adding a skywalk over East 14th Street in Des Moines.The school is holding a celebration at 1 a.m. on Thursday as the last part of the 159-foot long structure is moved into place. It's expected to be one of the longest unsupported stretches of skywalk in Des Moines.The skywalk will connect the east and west parts of campus at the new Student Center to the Rasmussen Center.School officials said the new Student Center is the capstone to the 15-year campus master plan.The new skywalk is expected to be open to pedestrian traffic about Oct. 1. The Student Center will be open for use by the beginning of the Fall semester in August.Watch time-lapse video of the construction here.Grand View skywalk timelapse
DES MOINES, Iowa —
Grand View University is adding a skywalk over East 14th Street in Des Moines.
The school is holding a celebration at 1 a.m. on Thursday as the last part of the 159-foot long structure is moved into place. It's expected to be one of the longest unsupported stretches of skywalk in Des Moines.
The skywalk will connect the east and west parts of campus at the new Student Center to the Rasmussen Center.
School officials said the new Student Center is the capstone to the 15-year campus master plan.
The new skywalk is expected to be open to pedestrian traffic about Oct. 1. The Student Center will be open for use by the beginning of the Fall semester in August.
Watch time-lapse video of the construction here.
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Protected Areas explores the reaction to the spanish government's propose to modified to change the abortion law for part of women than see limited their rights. Protected Areas is also a multimedia about the analogy between the woman body and the public area, it's proposes the metaphoric relation between both than struggle area for the politic and ideologic dominant powers in the actual spanish society.
Protected Areas is a work of the spanish authors Victoria Herranz (Madrid, 1983) photojournalist, Jose Mansilla (Sevilla, 1974) anthropologist and David Cordero (Murcia, 1979) filmmaker.
In collaboration with doSIguALes Producciones.
Protected Areas from Victoria Herranz on Vimeo.


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Agriculture Club
Hawaiian Fresh Farms' Tristan Reynolds is planting seeds for the future of farming.
Farming has been a lifetime labor of love for me," says Tristan Reynolds, Hawaiian Fresh Farms farmer and founder, of his familial value: appreciation for the land. "I've always been involved in some form of agriculture in my life, whether it was growing a garden, or just participating in, what I like to call, 'being a fruit tramp' (laughs), or just picking fruits."
From honey to pesto, Reynolds' edibles regularly satisfy market shoppers (photo by Nathalie Walker).
Reynolds is the good-natured front-man behind Hawaiian Fresh Farms, a network of farmsteads rooted in sustainability and committed to harvesting the freshest produce, bringing them from the farm to your table. Its crops and livestock operate under a "stewardship of the land" philosophy, borrowing methods from the traditional Hawaiian ahupua'a system, permaculture, agroforestry and hugelkultur, to produce wildflower honey, vanilla beans, quail eggs, goat cheese and various legumes.
Jargon aside, Hawaiian Fresh Farms' stewardship is all about equilibrium: i.e., replenishing valuable nutrients into the soil and practicing animal husbandry, or giving animals the things they need to thrive while simultaneously using them as effective resources.
"A long time ago, Hawaiians lived here [in Hawai'i] completely sustainably without any imports and hardly any exports. With that in mind, I know it can be done—where we are self-sustainable. It's just going to take time and a cooperative effort to really be able to do that," Reynolds states.
In its essence, Hawaiian Fresh Farms aims to improve the food industry and create a more diverse habitat for flora and fauna through small plots of veggies, respectively.
"Having a perpetual harvest and different techniques, such as companion planting, really leads to a desirable crop," Reynolds says. "Working with diversified veg really gives us a line of vegetables, not just a one, like in a traditional monocrop. So when you have, say, 15 different vegetables, you really get some interesting harvests."
One such crop is white Vienna kohlrabi, which Reynolds explains are similar to radishes and often used in Asian cuisine. "We are also known for growing our watermelon radishes, as well as our chilled beets, red beets and golden beets, so our beet mix is very, very popular."
Fostering strong relationships with restaurant chefs is another field where Hawaiian Fresh Farms thrives. "Everything that we grow, we are able to work with local chefs who will buy it directly from us," says Reynolds, acknowledging the need for premium produce. "So I ask chefs, What do you want to use? What do you want to have on your menu for the upcoming season?' And then, I grow it for them. "
Aside from its strong culinary partnership, Hawaiian Fresh Farms has sprouted its popularity with general public through value-added products: super food pesto, kombucha, etc., available at Eat The Street, Night Market, farmers' markets, and through its newest branch, wedding catering. Of Hawaiian Fresh Farms' exciting nuptials venture, Reynolds shares: "We use local ingredients to craft truly unique and dynamic meals that accentuate our local cuisine."
Quality food aside, Hawaiian Fresh Farm's true success springs from people of passion. "Having those people who do have a great potential to effect change, those are our real tools and resources here," Reynolds states. "With business, I know that people are really the only asset that actually accrues value. For example, if you were able to buy a tractor, the day you start using it, it actually depreciates in value. With a person, the more you invest in them, they become worth it—not only for the company, but also for themselves."
Th us, Hawaiian Fresh Farms is nurturing its team to flourish as businesspeople and agriculturalists, or as Reynolds calls them, the "agripreneurs" of tomorrow.
www.hawaiianfreshfarms.com


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Cardiff City mauve and yellow army.
A Cardiff City blog covering seven decades of supporting the club in association with The Owl Centre.
Cardiff City and the definition of madness.
by The other Bob Wilson
I think I've used that line about the definition of madness being to keep on making the same mistake time after time and expecting a different outcome on here in recent weeks and applied it Cardiff City – if I haven't, I'm sure there are very many supporters of the club who have done. However, I'm going to go for a variation of it this time and say that the definition of madness for a Cardiff City blog writer is to watch the same old, same old week after week, have nothing new to say on the subject, but still write reams and reams of stuff that, in essence, is a repeat of what you said the pr ..read more
Seven decades of Cardiff City v Millwall matches.
With yesterday's claims that City tried to get Emiliano Sala insured the day after his fatal plane crash (I should say that the club have put out a statement on their website denying the allegation), things have reached a stage which I thought they never would – I get more enjoyment out of doing these quizzes than the match reports these days! We've got yet another of those home games which are being called "must win" tomorrow. The same label was applied to the previous three league matches at Cardiff City Stadium and we didn't win any of them. With what seems to be a week of aimless drift si ..read more
You'd have thought it was impossible, but feeble Cardiff hit a new low.
Well, Mauve and Yellow Army has been going for nearly thirteen and a half years now and I think I'm going to set a blog record tonight for the shortest piece ever for a first team game. I'm reaching the stage now where I'm running out of things to say.My football club is a complete shambles on and off the pitch and I think we're now in a situation where a hierarchy with a woeful record in all facets of the off field management side of the game and a worse one when it comes to on field matters have to come up with an inspired choice for our new manager because morale among players, other ..read more
Mark Hudson sacked following bleak, mid winter draw with bottom of the table Wigan.
All City fans know what happened in 1927 and I would guess that a fair number of them also know what happened two years later. For those who don't, we were relegated, but it wasn't just any old relegation, this was going down with the best defensive record in the top flight! Goals were more common place in football in the late twenties than they are now, so, although fifty-nine goals conceded from forty-two matches doesn't sound anything special, no one in the old First Division could better it – not even Champions Sheffield Wednesday (they were called The Wednesday in those days apparently ..read more
Four decades of Cardiff City v Wigan matches.
Wigan are one of a handful of clubs that present a challenge with this quiz in that we've only been playing them for the past forty years or so, but I always try to come up with the usual seven questions and I've done so again this time – the answers will be posted on here on Sunday. 60s. The sixth of eleven children, this prolific winger never got to play against the place(s) that bore his surname or for the city of his birth and the suspicion is that the latter was for reasons that had nothing to do with his playing ability. Instead, he turned out for a team which sounded like a means of wa ..read more
A rare good day for Cardiff City fans.
I would have entitled this a perfect day for City fans were it not for a disappointing loss last night by the youth team at Oxford United in the Fourth Round of the FA Youth Cup – this is not the first time in recent years that our youngsters have gone out of that competition to a club with a lower Academy status than us and it came after we'd got the perfect start by taking the lead on just three minutes thanks to a long range goal by Will Spiers. However, two goals in a two minutes early in the second half turned the tie around and another one with around fifteen minutes left saw City bow o ..read more
City shadow team restores some pride as Premier League Leeds gain late FA Cup draw.
It's typical of how things are at Cardiff City these days that a goal in added time prevented them from giving the whole club a huge lift with a "giant killing" win in the Third Round of the FA Cup this afternoon, but, truthfully, it would have been something of a case of daylight robbery if we'd hung on to beat Leeds. Still, it's pleasing that, in a cup weekend that has had some memorable televised live games, we were involved in what must have been a good watch for any neutrals and, despite a team selection which suggested otherwise, this was also a tie at which the usual criticisms about C ..read more
Now I know what it feels like to watch your side play with a lack of hope.
In a strange game at Elwood Park this lunchtime in which the size of the crisis at Cardiff City Stadium become even clearer, City were deservedly beaten by a one goal margin by a Blackburn Rovers side whose third place standing in the current table is as much evidence as you need that, the runaway top two apart, it's a very, very ordinary Championship this season. I mentioned a one goal margin, but you don't need to be a genius to work out what the score was from that. It goes without saying of course that it was1-0. The goal had more than an element of luck to it and City had a go once they ..read more
Seven decades of Cardiff City v Blackburn Rovers matches.
The team which cannot stop drawing lately travels to the side with the most remarkable record out of the ninety two this season tomorrow. In fact, I would argue that Blackburn Rovers have the most remarkable record of this and any other season in recent memory. Despite their current position of third in the table, Blackburn have lost more games than City have this season – in fact, only Huddersfield and Wigan have lost more than them. However, because the Lancashire team can back up their twelve losses with thirteen wins, they find themselves right in the running for a Play Off spot. Normally ..read more
Gritty defending ensures good away point, but Cardiff City's failings are still there for all to see.
Cardiff City emerged from their last game of 2022 at Coventry tonight with a good point. A fourth consecutive draw since the resumption of fixtures is an okay return overall, but the result was the most impressive thing about this game as far as City are concerned – it's best to draw a veil over the performance. Of course, the most likely result if this team draws is 0-0 and so it was tonight. I suppose the two City efforts on target, as reported by the BBC, is an improvement on Monday's none, but we had some good chances against QPR, whereas I can only recall a single decent opportunity for ..read more
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Trial of Russian dissident accused of possessing thousands of indecent images of children postponed again
The trial of the anti-Soviet author and activist was previously delayed because of his ill-health
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Vladimir Bukovsky is accused of making and possessing thousands of indecent images of children
A new court date has been set for a Russian dissident accused of making and possessing thousands of indecent photographs of children.
The trial of Vladimir Bukovsky was due to start today (July 24) with a new jury at Cambridge Crown Court.
A previous hearing in December was delayed after the defendant was admitted to hospital with pneumonia.
Defence counsel Francis FitzGibbon QC said at the time that his client was a "very unwell man" who also suffered from congestive heart failure and diabetes.
Trial of Russian dissident accused of downloading indecent images of children to begin on Monday
Judge Hawkesworth agreed to discharge the jurors and said Bukovsky would stand trial before a new jury when, and if, he was fit enough.
But the case has been postponed again because of the 74-year-old's health, with a court appearance rescheduled for February 12 next year.
Mr Bukovsky denies five counts of making indecent images of children, five of possessing indecent images of children and one of possessing a prohibited image of a child.
Trial of Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian dissident accused of downloading indecent images of children, is abandoned
The Soviet dissident allegedly accessed still and video images over 15 years, some of which were being downloaded at the point of his arrest in 2014.
The Russian-born author and activist became internationally recognised as a vocal critic of the Soviet regime.
He returned to the UK from Germany to face the charges against him as he had been receiving private medical treatment abroad.
The defendant is considered a hero by some who pursue democratic reform in Russia and a handful of his supporters were present at his last hearing in court.


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DUP: Confidence and supply renewal talks to include military covenant plea
Nigel Dodds made the comments in the Commons on Tuesday
By Josh Thomas and George Ryan, PA Political Staff
Talks on renewing the DUP's confidence and supply arrangement with a Tory-led UK Government will include legal underpinning of a military covenant in Northern Ireland, according to Nigel Dodds.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/dup-confidence-and-supply-renewal-talks-to-include-military-covenant-plea-38297738.html
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The DUP's Westminster leader made the pledge as MPs debated amendments to the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill connected to the armed forces and Troubles-related investigations.
Speaking in the Commons, Mr Dodds said: "We are looking for the Government to report on progress on that matter and to ensure there is a legislative underpinning of the military covenant.
Extension of military covenant is being blocked on sectarian grounds: DUP MP
DUP will battle for veterans: Donaldson
"Indeed I noticed today the campaign, I think it was in The Sun newspaper, for legislative underpinning of the covenant.
"I think I'm right in saying that both the leadership contenders, certainly one of them, has signed up to that, and I warmly welcome that."
He added: "Certainly, it is a matter that we will be sitting down to discuss as part of the renewal of confidence and supply, as to how we can actually in detail move these things forward."
Conservative MP Julian Lewis (New Forest East) spoke in favour of his amendment which would require the Government to provide a report on introducing a "presumption of non-prosecution" when it came to veterans who have already been investigated for incidents relating to the Troubles.
He added: "Where matters have been looked at previously and where there is no compelling new evidence a line should be drawn."
MPs later approved an amendment from Tory MP Julian Lewis by 308 votes to 228, majority 80, which requires the Government to report on the options available that ensure Troubles veterans can assist in a truth recovery process, for the benefit of bereaved families, without fear of prosecution.
Mr Lewis said during the debate: "Where matters have been looked at previously and where there is no compelling new evidence a line should be drawn."
For Labour, shadow Northern Ireland secretary Tony Lloyd said: "There can never be a question of moral equivalence between a member of our armed forces and somebody engaged in terrorism on behalf of a paramilitary organisation."
Mr Lloyd said members of the armed forces sign an oath to "uphold the Queen and effectively the laws of Her Majesty".
He said only a small minority of soldiers "transgress the law".
Tory former defence secretary Sir Michael Fallon added: "In my view, the distinction should be clear. Armed troops are not civilians, they have a duty to the state. The must obey the chain of command.
"They are issued with lawful weapons, they are trained to use lawful weapons, and indeed they are punished if they are found to be misusing them. They do not, unlike the terrorist, set out each morning with the intent to kill.
"The terrorist, by contrast, has at some point acquired an unlawful weapon, an illegal gun or a bomb, and would only be doing that if he or she intended to do harm with it."


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'I wouldn't say I've got aspirations; it's a really tough job' - Nottingham Forest assistant David Weir rules out managerial return (for now)
Former Sheffield United boss says he enjoys working alongside Mark Warburton
Nottingham Forest assistant manager David Weir (Image: Dan Westwell)
Nottingham Forest assistant boss David Weir says he currently has no "aspirations" to return to management – but wouldn't rule it out in the future.
The 47-year-old had a brief spell in charge of Sheffield United back in 2013, but since then has formed a formidable working relationship with Mark Warburton.
The pair have worked together at Brentford, Rangers and now at the City Ground, where they linked up again with sport director Frank McParland.
Nottingham woman 'shocked' by surprise arrival of 'hideous' plate decorated with Paddy McGuinness' face
Weir says he enjoys his role of No.2 to Warburton. And given the hiring-and-firing culture which exists in football, it seems he is reluctant to think about taking on the managerial reins again himself just yet.
"I wouldn't say I've got aspirations. It's a really tough job, that's what I'd say," he told the 'grand old team' podcast.
"I've been an assistant manager for three or four years now at some really good clubs and had some really good experiences.
Nottingham Forest manager Mark Warburton with assistant David Weir (Image: Dan Westwell)
"I enjoy working with Mark Warburton and Frank McParland, who's the sporting director.
"I'm enjoying doing that.
"But who knows. I'm definitely learning, as you always are in football, trying to make myself and the team better.
"I would never say never, but I'm also conscious that it's a really difficult job.
"You don't get a lot of time to actually turn things around and put your stamp on it; try to have a team that's a fair reflection of what you want to do."


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News - National
Rwanda Enacts Law To Protect Fugitives Property
byDan Ngabonziza and Simon Kamuzinzi Kamuzinzi December 04, 2015 at 2:13 pm 0
A commercial structure in Kigali city abandoned by businessman Tribert Rujugiro
Despite bearing a criminal record, the Rwandan government says it will guarantee the safety of property left behind by exiled Rwandans.
The Justice Ministry says in case the fugitives return home, they can claim their assets, at least by a recently enacted law.
"Should those who abandoned their properties come back home, they will immediately retain their properties," Odette Yankurije, head of Access to Justice Services department at the Justice Ministry told KT Press.
She added that; "the ministry of justice has the authority to even return properties that were auctioned without owner's presence."
The Ministry of Justice says it has traced hundreds of abandoned properties and will ensure their safety. Also, owners could claim and retain them once they return back home.
Statistics indicate that there are 653 abandoned properties of dead people and those who fled the country without declaring legal custodians of their assets.
Most of these assets, according to Yankurije, are farms, buildings, forests and plots of land.
"We are still surveying more properties around the country," said Yankurije.
In 2013 alone, the government reclaimed 290 units of abandoned property, including land, houses, money and bank accounts that had been unclaimed by legal owners.
The government is working with financial institutions to establish a secure bank account to keep all revenues from abandoned properties, 50% worth commission going to government for collecting the revenues, Yankurije told KT Press.
"The current law provides that government takes 50% of revenues from abandoned properties, unlike the previous law that determined 1/3 of revenues. This portion is meant for refurbishing these properties in case of damage. The remaining amount will be put on the owners' accounts," Yankurije told KT Press.
Some big assets abandoned around the capital Kigali include the famous building of Felicien Kabuga, the alleged chief financier of the genocide, and self-exiled tycoon Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa's Union Trade Center (UTC) mall, which was declared an abandoned property.
Meanwhile, out of the 653 abandoned properties, 19 of them have been returned to their owners, while Rwf1.7 billion has been generated as revenues from these properties.
According to the law, the government automatically hands the property back to the owner within 60 days, in case the claimant declares with proof.


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 Anton Tomšič (1842–1871), slowenischer Zeitungsverleger
 Bernard Tomšič (1811–1856), slowenischer Schriftsteller
 Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak (* 1940), slowenische Pianistin
 Emanuel Tomšič (1824–1881), slowenischer Dichter
 Franc Tomšič (1838–1917), slowenischer Bauingenieur

 Franjo Tomšič (1848–1908), slowenischer Eisenbahningenieur
 Gabrijel Tomšič (* 1937), slowenischer Mathematiker
 Ivan Tomšič (Jurist) (1902–1976), slowenischer Jurist
 Ivan Tomšič (Pädagoge) (1838–1894), slowenischer Pädagoge
 Jakob Tomšič (1897–1994), slowenischer Dichter
 Janez Tomšič (Pädagoge) (1908–1988), slowenischer Pädagoge
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 Jožef Tomšič (1699–1742), Krainer Dichter in lateinischer Sprache
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 Štefan Tomšič (1853–1915), slowenischer Lehrer
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Comedy Mashup returns to The MAIN for another great evening of comedy and improv. Headliner and supporting comedians to be announced.
This month: We're bringing you Jermy Scippio! He's been seen on Funny or Die, Hulu and has a new album on Spotify "Happens to the best of us". We are also going to have from Comedy Central's Roast Battle, Jay Light and our host Is going to be Nolan Culver as seen in ABC's American Housewife, The Pasadena Ice house and The Hollywood Improv.
A little more about the cast: Comedy Mashup is a group of working comedians and improvisers from all over the Valley and Hollywood that come together once a month to put on a show that is one half stand up and the other half improv comedy. The improvisers work in the television, movie and theme park industries as well as the following venues: iO West, UCB and The Groundlings. The comedians work weekly at some of the biggest clubs in Los Angeles: The Comedy Store, The Hollywood Improv, Pasadena Ice House and Flappers.
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// Reviews // 13th Feb 2011 — 8 years ago // By Neil 'Wedge' Hetherington
101 in 1 Sports Party Megamix Review
Well here we are with another Nordcurrent 101 in 1 cavalcade of disappointment and depression. The format is similar to that of the DS version, the review of which can be read here. You're offered a handful of sports to compete in, the aim is to finish in first place in things like skeet shooting, archery, curling etc. so that you may unlock further obscure shovelware sports.
The games may be played with up-to four players, that's if you really want to subject three other unfortunate souls to this drudgery. Four players flailing Wiimotes around like they're performing the secret Team America signal for trouble in order to play horse racing or rock climbing is not an ideal evening of fun.
It's also worth noting that the majority of the games contained on this disc actually require the use of the nunchuck controller along with the Wiimote, also there's no option to play as your Mii, just a generic model that barely resembles a human being. The games also have no method of fluid continuation, it is essentially play X game then drop back to the main menu to select another, and because most games last about as long as a slice of cake with a fat kid your experience is continually interrupted by constant traversing of the menus to select another game.
The graphics are basic at best, they wouldn't even push 16 bit generation consoles nevermind current generation hardware, they are simply Tesco Value visuals and that is really the nicest thing I can say about the rather crude visuals you have on display. The sounds aren't much better either while offering some margin of realism to the sport you're playing, they simply play the role of being functional rather than helping to immerse you into the game.
Overall 101 in 1 Sports Megamix is a very poor shovelware title which offers little to no entertainment value at all and leaves me wondering why development companies like this exist as they clearly can't be generating any form of sustainable revenue from titles like these. The price of this title would have more value funding a demolitions school in Albuquerque, at least then you would get more bang for your buck!
1.50/10 1½
101-in-1 Sports Party Megamix (Reviewed on Nintendo Wii)
The score reflects this is broken or unplayable at time of review.
Neil 'Wedge' Hetherington
A purveyor of strange alcoholic mixes and a penchant for blowing shit up in games. Proud member of the glorious PC master race.
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An act or failure to act that breaks the law of the land.
Actions that do not conform to the norms or expectations of members of society.
In groups, carry out the Quiz on Crime and Deviance.
What conclusions can you draw from your discussions?
A Criminal Act can become a deviant act and some deviant acts can become criminal.
Some acts can be both deviant and criminal. Can you think of examples?
What is the difference between a criminal act and a deviant act?
Now , in groups, discuss worksheet 2.
Did you draw any conclusions this time?
Is crime a choice . or an impulse beyond the criminal's control? Why do gangs develop in some areas of a city and not in others? How does a thief learn the tricks of the trade? Why do employees support questionable business practices? What sorts of values are held by drug traffickers? ? ? ?
Laws state clearly which activities are criminal…….
Laws can change. There are many examples of how deviant or criminal acts have become normalised.


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