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How to visit the Epcot Food & Wine Festival with kids... and all enjoy it!
Our calendar has turned to September, which means the 22nd annual Epcot International Food and Wine Festival is underway! Like many others, we'll be taking an adults-only trip to the festival a bit later this fall. We've visited the Food and Wine Festival with our kids many times though; so if you find yourself at Epcot between now and the middle of November on a family vacation, don't worry. You should absolutely check out the festival while at Walt Disney World with your kids.
If you're headed to the Festival with the whole family in tow, you may be wondering if it will be worth a visit, or if they'll be totally bored and unwilling to try anything "exotic". Let me assure you, as you might expect: Walt Disney World has built the Festival in anticipation of visits from guests of all ages.
Prior to last year, stamps were awarded in the Marketplace Passport at the register of each booth. Now, each passport comes with stickers representing each country. Of course you that means you don't technically have to stop at every booth to check it off, but where's the fun in that?! We found last year that the introduction of stickers versus stamps definitely made the process at the registers more streamlined.
Kids of all ages enjoy working through the booths in this way every year. I may know an adult or two that are fans of checklists and "unlocking achievements" that also make it their mission to collect as many stamps/stickers as possible! Not that I'm naming any names.
Hide and Squeak maps are available for purchase from several locations within the park. Guests then locate statues of Remy throughout the World Showcase, answering a few questions along the way. When you're finished, turn it in as instructed for a special prize!
Pro tip: the prize is included in the purchase price, and you do not need to complete any of the activities in order to receive it. But since you're here looking for Food and Wine Festival Activities to do with the kids, I suggest you actually do it. My kids can't wait to do it again!
No, I haven't lost my mind. Of course the beverage seminars and mixology courses aren't appropriate for kids, and many kids won't be interested in watching a lot of the specialty seminars.
It's true, there are a lot of unique offerings at the marketplace booths; it's a great time to finally try escargot or kimchi. That shouldn't deter children, though – or picky eaters of any age. Chicken and naan, Belgian Waffles, Cheddar Cheese Soup with a pretzel roll, Peanut Butter and White Chocolate Mousse, and the Liquid Nitro Chocolate Almond Truffle are just a handful of menu items that my kids are looking forward to when they visit later in the year.
That said, maybe the event is also the perfect time to help family members and friend expand their horizons! There are often special symbols on the booth menus that point out which items might be the "easiest" for apprehensive eaters to try.
The ever-popular Kidcot Stations are still available during the event. If you've visited Epcot before, you may already know about the Kidcot program. In short, each pavilion has a table attended by a representative from each nation. Children (and adults!) can color a puppet, learn how to write their name in another language, and talk to cast members about their home and cultures. It's one of our favorite things to do in Epcot, and it's educational, too!
The much-anticipated Frozen attraction opened last year in the Norway pavilion, and it's truly delightful. You'll probably want to grab a fastpass for that one in order to be as efficient as possible, but the reality is there will be plenty of opportunities for rides, performances, characters, and other attractions as you walk through World Showcase.
It's no secret that we are all big fans of Epcot, no matter what time of year we visit. I hope that if your trip falls during the Food & Wine Festival, you won't shy away from it. There are plenty of wonderful (and yummy!) memories to be made as a family.
Check out last year's must-do activities for the Epcot Food & Wine Festival, for some ideas of what to expect during your visit!
If you want to get a head start on your planning, be sure to head over to the Disney Food Blog to check out the incredible dining guides they offer… including an ebook just for the 2017 Festival and year-round snack choices at Epcot!
This is great! I think kids can have a great time at the Food and Wine Festival, too!
This year was my first time visiting during Food & Wine. It was so much fun! I loved looking for Remy at each pavilion. I was only able to try a few of the food booths, but it was fun putting my stickers in the passport. And the food was so yummy!
If you must visit Epcot with children during the food & wine festival, absolutely do NOT go on a weekend! We made that mistake and ended up leaving after only an hour. I was shocked at the t-shirts everyone was wearing that Disney would even allow! It was upsetting to my child to see things like the fairy godmother saying "Bibbity Bobbity Booze" or Belle and the Beast with the caption "Beauty and the Booze" among a host of other non-Disney Disney booze-related T-shirts. What a great family place that was!
Then all the drunks there. Wow. One guy was walking with cup in hand, barely standing and spilling his drink everywhere. It's pretty sad when a 9 year asks you, "Why do they keep selling them alcohol if they're drunk?" After that, we left. Luckily, I had the Park Hopper option so we could hop to another park without worrying about having just wasted one day of our multi-day ticket.


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Q: One Observer not being created, but another identical one is Using rxjs with Angular 2 RC.1 and I'm creating a few Observer's. I have the following in a service:
taxRates$:  Observable<TaxRate[]>;
taxTables$: Observable<TaxTable[]>;
private _taxRatesObserver:  Observer<TaxRate[]>;
private _taxTablesObserver: Observer<TaxTable[]>;

constructor(private http: HttpService) {
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The _taxRatesObserver is created correctly, but _taxTablesObserver is not. When I inspect the dev tools, I see this:
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I'd expect to also see _taxTablesObserver:Subscriber but if I log it via the console, it always shows as undefined. TaxTable, if it matters, looks like this:

export class TaxTable {
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}

A: From docs:

subscribe the function that is  called when the Observable is initially subscribed to.

_taxRatesObserver and _taxTablesObserver are initialized after subscription to taxRates$ and taxTables$ correspondingly.
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Suspect in crash that killed police officer had 4 OWIs, was recently cited for speeding in same area
The driver suspected in the crash that killed off-duty Milwaukee Police Officer Kou Her Tuesday has been identified
Suspect in crash that killed police officer had 4 OWIs, was recently cited for speeding in same area The driver suspected in the crash that killed off-duty Milwaukee Police Officer Kou Her Tuesday has been identified Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2019/06/19/driver-who-fatally-struck-mpd-officer-kou-her-identified/1498104001/
Keith Schubert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 10:01 a.m. CT June 19, 2019 | Updated 12:43 p.m. CT June 22, 2019
The man suspected of running a red light early Tuesday morning and causing the crash that killed an off-duty Milwaukee police officer has been booked on a preliminary charge of homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle.
Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales said Tuesday that the man arrested in connection in the death of Officer Kou Her was 34 years old and had four previous OWI convictions, including one in May 2017 for which he was still on probation.
Dante L. James, 34, of Milwaukee (Photo: Courtesy of Milwaukee County Jail)
According to the booking log at the Milwaukee County Jail, Dante L. James, 34, had been booked Tuesday on a preliminary charge of homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle.
A check of online court records showed that James' criminal record matched with the one described by Morales.
The cause of his 2017 OWI conviction was also James running a red light at a high speed. A witness said she saw James, who was driving a Chevrolet Malibu, traveling along West Capitol Drive at a "high rate of speed, disregard a red light" and nearly strike another vehicle. In an effort to avoid the other vehicle James crashed into a tree on May 3, 2017, at 3:05 a.m.
James had no memory of the accident, court records show.
He was immediately transferred to Froedtert Hospital where he was in a coma for five weeks due to injuries from the crash, including a traumatic brain injury. After waking up from the coma, he was confined to bed for several months, according to a sentencing memorandum.
James was sentenced to two years probation, including one year in jail with work-release privileges, his license was revoked for three years and he was to have an interlock ignition on his car, meaning he must pass a breathalyzer test before being able to start his car, for his 2017 OWI conviction, court records show.
Milwaukee Municipal court also issued James a $174 ticket on Thursday for an April 28 speeding charge that happened near the location of the Tuesday crash.
A curbside memorial honors Milwaukee Police Officer Kou Her, who was killed by an alleged drunk driver on his way home from work. It's at North 60th Street and West Capitol Drive in Milwaukee, looking east along Capitol. (Photo: Michael Sears / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Along with the four OWIs, one of which was from Ohio, James also has a felony possession of a firearm conviction and a felony charge of trying to escape law enforcement custody, according to court records.
After finishing his shift at the Police District 4 station, Her was driving home about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday when James ran a red light at North 60th Street and West Capitol Drive, striking Her's vehicle, Morales said.
RELATED: Aldermen call on Mayor Barrett to offer plan to address reckless driving
Contact Keith Schubert at (414) 223-5451 or kschubert@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at @keithsch94
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By Aref Mohammed December 23, 2020
Iraq to Sign $2.625 Bln Port Contract with S.Korea's Daewoo
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Iraq's government has agreed to sign a $2.625 billion contract with South Korea's Daewoo Engineering & Construction to build the first phase of a giant cargo port in the south of the country, a port manager said on Wednesday.
The long-planned and repeatedly delayed Grand Faw port is one of several projects that Iraq hopes will create a shorter transportation corridor between the Middle East and Europe, bypassing the Suez Canal.
Under the contract, expected to be signed on Sunday, Daewoo E&C will handle construction works that include building five berths to unload ships and a yard for containers, Farhan al-Fartousi, Iraq's director general at the General Company for Ports, told Reuters in Basra.
Daweoo will also carry out dredging and drilling works to create an access navigation channel, Fartousi said.
The first phase should allow the port to receive three million containers, he said, adding that the three construction phases in total should be finished in less than four years and that Iraq was ready to sign contracts with "any interested company" for the other phases.
For now, to receive cargo ships, Iraq has to rely mainly on the port of Umm Qasr in the south of the country, which sits at the top of the strategic Gulf waterway.
(Reporting by Aref Mohammed; writing by Ahmed Rasheed; editing by Jason Neely and Barbara Lewis)
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Maps to the Stars (Blu-Ray Review)
ByDominic Griffin
Jan 29, 2015 Canadian Cinema, David Cronenberg, John Cusack, JULIANNE MOORE, Maps to the Stars, Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson
Late period David Cronenberg seems to get better and better with each passing film at finding an ornate brand of delirium in the tedious, frustrating oddity of real life. Squarely aiming his gaze at the literal strangest place on Earth, Hollywood, Cronenberg takes the scathing dark comedy of Bruce Wagner's screenplay and transforms it into a modern ghost story, where the ghosts feel less like supernatural apparitions and more extravagant manifestations of a very specific mania. It's an examination of the insular, peculiar other-world of Los Angeles, and the industry that bends regular people into fictional constructs, that perverts memory and truth into doubt, that purports to turn dreams into magic, but hides backstage the dark art that feeds those same dreams into the cosmic sausage grinder to get what you all love so much up on the screen.
Maps To The Stars principally follows Agatha (Mia Wasikowska), a strange girl who wears arm length gloves to hide mysterious burn marks, and her entry into the LA scene. Agatha behaves like a rube, throwing down major coin to have aspiring actor/writer Jerome Fontana (Robert Pattinson) chauffeur her around in the limo he drives to pay the bills, but underneath her odd exterior and her medication rituals, she appears more knowledgeable than she pretends to be. She's friends with Carrie Fisher (playing herself) from Twitter, and this connection gets her a job working for actress Havana Segrand (Julianne Moore) as her new "chore whore." Segrand is struggling through the pathetic way Hollywood treats women of a certain age, as well as childhood trauma she believes she suffered at the hands of her famous mother, Clarice Taggart (Sarah Gadon), who died in a fire in the 70s. Stafford Weiss (John Cusack) is her psychologist, helping her work through these memories with some particularly hands on therapy, while his wife Cristina (Olivia Williams) handles their famous child actor son, Benjie (Evan Bird), a Bieber-esque terror fresh out of rehab at fourteen and trying to regain control of the Bad Babysitter franchise that put him on the map.
It's essentially the tale of two warped and dysfunctional families, exploring the ways, both symbolic and literal, they're entwined. There are some twists that we'll leave unspoiled here (you may be able to assume them yourself just based on the above block of text), but they're not left field paradigm shifts so much as buried baggage floating to the surface of the plot. For as much as Maps is structured like a psychology pot boiler, it functions like a dark comedy. Most of the more twisted, genre appropriate moments of transgression you'll be anticipating from the trailer and marketing material are saved for the third act, constantly seeping in with the foreboding tone at the corner of your eye, but the meat of the film is, in its own fucked up way, seriously hilarious.
When we first meet Benjie, he's meeting a Make-a-Wish kid at the hospital. When she tells him how much she liked his Bad Babysitter movie, he responds, "We did 780 million worldwide. Not many people realize that." From that moment forward, you realize how scathing a look at the industry and its inhabitants this film is going to be. In an informercial we glimpse in the background on more than one occasion, Dr. Weiss refers to a patient of his who "lives under the sword of Damocles we call AIDS." The expertly obsessed patter of Hollywood small talk (deceitful pleasantries rife with dramatic subtext) shifts from casual vulgarity (in any of the scenes with Benjie and his child star friends who all curse like Mamet-penned sailors) to the off kilter poetry of Segrand's insults to a rival actress ("Do you know how she got famous? She let them stick their cocks in her ass and pee!") The film is full of brilliantly incisive lines of dialogue that are delivered with stone faced honesty by the cast, which fits the overall moody tone and enhances the comedy. A lot of movies that poke fun at Hollywood have a kind of manic self awareness that feels like winking and it detracts from the comedy, creating an unnecessary buffer of ironic distance. In Maps, these characters are funnier and more disturbing by how normal they present themselves to be. This is a film where Julianne Moore erupts into a celebratory singalong of "Na Na Na Na Hey Hey-ey Goodbye" over the surprisingly fortuitous death of a small child.
There's some brilliant acting on display here. Julianne Moore captures the histrionics of an actress who, being cast aside by Hollywood, is slowly driving herself insane. John Cusack, finally starting to fucking age after decades of impervious boyishness, makes his Dr. Weiss the most despicable and humorous role he's ever inhabited, discounting that one time Lee Daniels thought he should play Richard Nixon. Wasikowska takes what could be a pretty one note role and imbues it with a lot of nuance and heart, but the real revelation is Evan Bird, whose Benjie Weiss is the best performance in the entire film. Rather than just a running gag on Justin Bieber and similarly insipid kid stars, Benjie one of the few characters in the film who you can actually feel sorry for, and Bird maintains just the right balance of assholishness to illicit sympathy and scorn owing to the needs of the scene. In his second collaboration with Cronenberg, Robert Pattinson continues to show his chops, but is given considerably less to do here than he had in Cosmopolis.
Cronenberg does some fascinating stuff here, particularly in the way he straddles than the line between horror and hilarity. There's a scene late in the film (the details of which you'll discover on your own) where a character discovers another character on fire, and the way the sequence 180s from abject fright to laugh-out-loud slapstick is downright scary. As Segrand and Benjie are both haunted by their pasts (Segrand, by her mother, and Benjie, the aforementioned Make-a-Wish kid), we're treated to some truly perturbing imagery that, while clearly psychological in nature and linked to no paranormal elements, color the film's proceedings with just the right amount of spookiness. There's something pervasively impersonal about Hollywood (something you feel sharply in a scene where Segrand hugs Carrie Fisher and the camera immediately cuts to a reverse angle from inside a nearby coffeeshop) and what it does to its inhabitants that just can't be contained in a slice of life style narrative.
By taking this sprawling, generational tale and letting the laughs and scares occupy equal time, Cronenberg and company have crafted a film about Tinsletown that doesn't have to rely on inside baseball to paint a portrait of the single weirdest place in the world.
Maps to the Stars is released on DVD and Blu-Ray on February 2nd via Entertainment One.
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By Dominic Griffin
Dominic Griffin is a pop culture polymath who lives on the internet. He writes about film, music, television, comics, and professional wrestling at Deadshirt and anywhere else that will support his unhealthy obsessions with Drake, Michael Mann, and the X-Men. You can find him on Twitter (@captain_fuck) probably talking about Kanye West.


Flying-bird game, Flappy Bird, was developed was developed in 2013 and is currently topping the App Store's freebie's list.
The first time I played Flappy Bird I died a dozen times trying to propel myself between a single pair of Super Mario Bros.-pilfered pipes. I'm no gaming wallflower, so when I say this is an onerously difficult game from the get-go, I mean it makes other onerously difficult games you've maybe heard about — say Demon's Souls — seem breezy. It's as if the developer, doubtless as startled as I was to see Flappy Bird topping the App Store's freebie list, decided the game needed no learning curve, sort of like putting the vanishing platforms, black holes, UFOs and monster cannons in Doodle Jump first.
Generally speaking, unless you're trying to be cute, that's a game design no-no. I'll assume irony isn't the intention here and take Flappy Bird seriously. So…why aren't those initial pipes a smidgen further apart, you know, to help lubricate the inanity?
That's it, really, because that's all there is to it: Clear successive gaps at varying heights by fighting a punitive control scheme whereby you propel a leaden bird a few millimeters upward per tap. Let up and the bird nosedives like a cartoon bomb. Hit a pipe and it's game over. There's no input leeway, no secondary control scheme (say a way to briefly glide) and, like an endless runner shorn of any frills whatsoever, nothing more to see unless putting pastoral Super Mario Bros.-ish backgrounds on a running loop floats your boat. Each pipe-space cleared conjures a Mario-coin-snagging pling, incrementing your score by one, and you can win a few medals for scoring so many points, or do the Game Center "how many did I clear versus my friends" thing, but that's it: sort of like Cow Clicker without the satire valve.
In the meantime, my high score is now six. Six! And at six I'm beating most of my friends, who, miraculously, seem to have bothered to download and play Flappy Bird at all. But what's really impressive: all those players, of over 18 million total listed, with game maximum leaderboard scores of 9,999. Mind you, that's 10,000 taps out of your life — 83 minutes of consecutive tapping if we assume two taps per second maybe doing something like this — that you can never, ever have back.


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The burqa affair in the international press
25/02/2010 | Maria Laura Conte
In an article titled The many faces behind the veil, The Independent looked at the issue through the eyes of a number of Muslim women from different social and cultural backgrounds, some in favour, others against the full veil. The outcome is a colourful and varied picture of Muslim women, but one that fails to address the deeper essence of the French debate, which is, "Whether or not women should be fined for wearing a veil in public or in the streets? Is such a veil a religious symbol or not? Why does France appear to fear something that has religious resonance? Ultimately, The Independent appears to back the idea that the burqa is more than a symbol of women's submission, that it might actually be a liberating way to express one's own identity.
Using its usual hyperbole, The Economist depicts the issue as a war. In The war of French dressing - France's ban on the burqa, the British magazine looks at the intriguing shake-up France's proposal to ban the burqa in public places has had on American commentators who hitherto thought Europe too complacent towards the spread of Islam. According to The Economist, the issues raised by the would-be burqa ban go beyond secularism. For Sarkozy, but also Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Paris Mosque, the veil is not a religious sign or a religious prescription of Islam but embodies an invasion by salafism. The Economist ends its article noting that whilst all liberal democracies have to make compromises to balance freedom and security, an anti-burqa law in France might be seen by some as an attempt to impose Western norms on people who come from other traditions.
In Parting the Veil, the Wall Street Journal backs the view that women should be able to dress the way they want. Otherwise, the state runs the risk of trying to enforce "liberation" on people who do not feel oppressed. "[B]anning the veil is something of a symptomatic cure," it writes, adding that France will not solve its Muslim question with a dress code. However, for the WSJ, by pushing for the ban, the French are at least forcing open a radically important question, namely "How much tolerance do Western countries owe to a too-often intolerant minority in their midst?"
The NewYork Times jumped into melee with a caustic piece titled The Taliban Would Applaud, arguing that a woman's human rights are as much violated when the Taliban forced women to hide their faces under a burqa, as they would be if the French ban went into effect and barred them from using public services or public places. "People," the NYTimes writes, "must be free to make these decisions for themselves, not have them imposed by governments or enforced by the police." In the end, it argues, "The Taliban would be pleased. The rest of the world should declare its revulsion." For the newspaper, the burqa debate is but pretext by a government looking for ways to deflect public attention away from problems like unemployment and turn it towards Islam.
For Laurent Joffrin, editor of Libération, anyone proposing a ban of this kind is a national identity maniac. It is not enough that Muslim women are victimised by having to wear the veil, but now they would also be criminalised and fined in public. Muslims would view such a ban as directed against them.
Le Figaro lets religious groups express themselves. For the latter, a law like this would be neither good nor helpful (Burqa: les religions ne voient pas l'efficacité d'une loi, by J.M. Guenois). It also cites Yazid Sabeg, French commissioner on diversity and equal opportunity, who said that such a law would be a true political mistake. Another paper, Le Parisien/Aujourd'hui en France agrees with this view.
For Le Monde, the Muslim community feels estranged from the ongoing debate (La communauté musulmane entière se sent prise en otage par le débat sur la burqa by Laure Belot and Stéphanie Le Bars), which would only marginally affect it. It points out no consensus on such a law would be possible and that the burqa is symptomatic of some immigrant Muslims' failure to accept Western norms (La burqa, symptôme d'un malaise by Abdennour Bidar).
In the last few months Al Watan, an Algerian newspaper that publishes in both Arabic and French, published a number of articles on the issue. Among them the titles of two stand out as indicative of its position of support for the ban: La burqa emprisonne la femme, by Syrian scholar Randa Kessis, who views the burqa as a threat to the separation of state and religion, and Interdire la burqa pour éradiquer le « cancer » islamiste, by Fadéla Amara, a secretary of state in the French government, whose views were also carried in an interview with Britain's Financial Times.


Some men are feeling collective guilt as women are coming forward about their experiences with sexual harassment and assault. They are asking themselves questions such as the following: Have I caused harm? I thought I was flirting, just wanted to date her. Aren't men in our culture the ones to initiate a relationship? How do I do that without being charged with wrong doing? Is it different with each woman? How am I to know? Women seem angry, and I'm confused, baffled.
Misogyny, objectification, discrimination, chauvinism, sexism is deep seated in our culture, and it shows itself in virtually every aspect of our lives. The recent testimonies of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh can be added to the extensive research that has been done on the ways in which aggressive behaviors in men result in praise; the same behaviors in women result in denigration.
We can get the feeling that something is not right with this picture without being aware that biology, sociology, and psychology are all at play here within an historical context.
I'd like to make suggestions for men to begin a process of reparations. And if reparations is too harsh a word, perhaps some readers prefer repair or redress or atonement.
• Start monitoring your behavior. What are you saying or doing that is offensive?
• Always ask. This seems simple but involves not pushing, coercing, or threatening – overtly or covertly.
• We can insult people by the way in which we refer to them. Don't call her ma'am if you refer to others in your workplace as Jose or Mr. Castillo.
• When the guys are huddled up at the water cooler or go for a beer after work to discuss the assets of the latest female interns or new female employees, don't participate. If you're in the group, you are participating, endorsing the behaviors.
• When you receive emails at work with jokes and cartoons that disparage women, tell the sender to take your name off his/her list.
• Always stand up for inclusion whether the work group is small and relatively unimportant or large and extremely important.
• In meetings say, "Let's hear from Sandra" after she has been interrupted, cut off by others. Give credit where credit is due. If the idea is hers, help her claim it.
• Don't set higher performance standards for the female employees than you have for male employees.
• Acknowledge to yourself the reality that the biology of women means that some women have PMS, are pregnant, are nursing, or are menopausal. Don't, however, make a big deal about any of this. As I've already indicated, it's a biological reality.
• Take mentoring off the golf course, out of bars and sporting events, and do it in environments where women are comfortable and can, thus, benefit.
• If women are a rare phenomenon in your work world and one is standing alone prior to the beginning of a meeting or in a business social setting, talk to her.
• As important as the scribe is in any meeting, rotate that role. Yes, men can use keyboards now- and do.
• Remember choosing sides for competitions in elementary school? Were you ever the last to be chosen? Chose women for your team.
• When you initiate a hookup under the influence of booze, recreational drugs, or street drugs, you are setting yourself up to be compromised. If your behavior results in a lawsuit and you find yourself pleading your case before a judge and a jury of your peers, they will not look favorably upon you – even if grass is legal in your state or that opiate you have been prescribed for your aching back indicates it has a side effect of loss of inhibitions.
These are challenging times as we continue to adjust to the changing roles of women and men.
In the November 2018 issue of "Vanity Fair" Lisa Borders, first president and CEO of Time's Up, was interviewed. In response to an inquiry about the organization, she responded, "This is about bad behavior. We are talking about making systemic cultural and societal change with regard to women, how they are treated in the workplace, how they are perceived, how they are received. We want to be true to our mission, which is making sure the world is comprised of safe, fair, and dignified workplaces for women. So anything that jeopardizes that or displays the negative of that, we're going to push back against it." Well said, President Borders.


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Posted on June 23, 2014 by Jeanette Plant
Car manufacturers are extremely supportive of introducing eco-friendly vehicles that are low in carbon emissions as well as being more fuel-efficient. It is great to hear when they are also helping the environment in other ways.
MINI has installed solar panels at its Oxford plant – Image credit: stuad70.
For instance, last November we made reference to the fact that Toyota had installed a 4.1 MW solar farm at its Burnaston operation.
We now hear that MINI has had installed 11,500 solar photovoltaic panels at their plant in Oxford. The company's body shop only commenced operations towards the later part of 2013.
The solar panels cover an area of in excess of 20,000 square metres and have a capacity of in excess of 3 MW. The solar panels have been roof mounted. This level of capacity would be enough to have provided electricity for about 850 homes.
It is large solar arrays like this that are necessary to help the UK meet its carbon emission and renewable energy targets going forward towards 2020. So, the more car manufacturers as well as other industries that are able to support the green initiative the better.
It cannot be left to members of the public to be the main focus to have solar panels installed on their homes as the above figures confirm just what a significant difference large commercial solar plants can make to assisting the UK meet its green targets.
In the past, we have also commented on the importance of solar farms being installed in the countryside but, of course, that is on the basis that it would be preferable that such installations have the support of the majority of the local community. It is vital that, as a nation, we all work together towards the previously mentioned targets being achieved.
We would like to hear of any other significant solar panel developments that either have been built or are going to be so that we can make our readers aware.
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If you're into Alvvays and Sunflower Bean then this album should be so far up your street that you'd say hello to it when you crossed paths.
Detailed like a fine painting, this is an impressive LP.
Filled with a mixture of Scandic-Pop hallmarks and dreamy synths to whisk you off your feet, the debut album from 22-year-old Stockholm-based Boys - or Nora Karlsson as her parents call her when she's in trouble - is one of the best things to come out of Sweden since the chef from The Muppets. Heady sounds echoing the top end of the current indie pop market abound as Boys flitters around from intimate singer-songwriter refrains to grand strings arrangements, via excursions which psyched-out synths that would have the almighty Focus nodding in approval.
'End Of Time' is a perfect example of Karlsson's potential as she's able to portray both a sense of vulnerability and musical genius in a track that brings a real peak to an already dominant release. Followed up by the freaky fantasy of 'Love Isn't On My Mind' and radio-ready next single 'That Weekend', she shows off a real versatility while the hazy vocal effects act as the handy rope guiding you through the songs to let you know you're definitely still on the right track. It never feels like there's a rush or any urgency and yet you're never quite sure the road the album will be taking, that essence of unpredictability making this far more interesting than your regular indie pop record.


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Man gets 6½ years' jail, 6 strokes for pushing baby off bed, breaking his skull
Franklie Tan Guang Wei was jailed for 6½ years with six strokes of the cane for pushing a baby off a bed and breaking his skull.ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
Sep 19, 2016, 1:37 pm SGT
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SINGAPORE - A man who pushed his girlfriend's one-year-old son off a bed with so much force that the baby landed on the ground 2m away with a broken skull was on Monday (Sept 19) jailed for 6½ years with six strokes of the cane.
The infant had bleeding in his brain, but, rather miraculously, survived that ordeal on March 25 last year after undergoing emergency brain surgery.
Now aged three, the boy is in foster care. He is still undergoing rehabilitative therapy - including speech therapy, physiotherapy and music and play therapy.
His tormentor Franklie Tan Guang Wei had pleaded guilty earlier this month to one charge of causing grievous hurt and three of ill-treating a child.
He also admitted to another count of child abuse, which was taken into account in sentencing.
District Judge Hamidah Ibrahim said a deterrent sentence is needed to signal society's disapproval and reprobation over Tan's conduct.
She said: "The most glaring and obvious aggravating factor is the fact that these acts of abuse were committed against a defenceless and vulnerable child...
"His only crime was the fact that he cried, a natural thing for him to do at his age, and could not be consoled, which (Tan) found frustrating."
The child and his 25-year-old mother cannot be named to protect the boy's identity. He was born in mid-2013, after his father lost contact with his mother.
In August 2014, she got into a relationship with Tan. The next month, the infant's behaviour changed.
"(He) appeared to be fearful of males and started having nightmares in his sleep," Assistant Public Prosecutor (APP) Dillon Kok said.
Two nannies who looked after him also found bruises on his body. "When (the mother) was questioned, she denied that (he) had been abused and claimed that there were 'spirits' in the flat."
In November 2014, the mother got pregnant with Tan's child and moved in with Tan and his mother.
On Nov 8, the baby's cries woke the couple. Tan slapped him once, leaving finger marks on his cheek and bruising near his ear.
Three days after the incident, a nanny took photos of the bruises and swelling. When confronted, the mother said he fell off the bed.
The nanny made a police report about the injuries on Nov 19 and the Child Protective Service (CPS) was informed. The baby was then put in the nannies' care, and the mother and Tan were allowed only weekly supervised access.
But in January last year, they were suspended from all contact after he was found with scratches on his thighs after a visit.
They were granted supervised access again the next month. But on March 8 last year, Tan's grandfather left the infant at Tan's flat. That night, frustrated with his cries, Tan threw the baby at his mother, who was about 2m away. The infant fell against her body.
Later, Tan and the mother were allowed to spend nights with him. But on the morning of March 25, angered by the baby's cries, Tan hit his buttocks twice, causing a bruise.
After the mother went to work, leaving the infant alone with Tan, the baby vomited on the bed. Angry, Tan forcefully pushed him off the bed with his right arm.
The infant landed face-up about 2m away and vomited again. Tan took him to the toilet to shower, but did not check the water temperature first, scalding his upper back.
Later, Tan noticed the baby to be in a daze and semi-conscious. He was also vomiting repeatedly. Tan told the mother, who went home to find the infant weak and very pale. They took him to hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery.
The mother has been charged with two counts of permitting Tan to ill-treat the baby. Her trial is scheduled to begin on Sept 26.
It is not known if Tan and the mother are still together.
APP Kok had asked for seven years' jail and six strokes of the cane. He noted, among other things, that Tan had no qualms about continuing his abuse of the baby, which began in November 2014, despite knowing that CPS was investigating him.
Defence lawyer Gino Hardial Singh, meanwhile, asked for not more than 3½ years' jail and three strokes of the cane. He submitted a psychiatric report which stated that Tan has persistent depressive disorder, poor emotion regulation and low intelligence.
Tan was also physically and emotionally abused, and neglected when he was younger, the lawyer noted.
For causing grievous hurt, Tan could have been jailed for 10 years and fined and caned. For ill-treating a child, he could have been fined $4,000 and jailed for four years per charge.
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It's the cover-up that is the real story, right?
The Telegraph is reporting, and kudos to them for following the real story, Nashua police have released audio and transcripts relating to the case of Nashua New Hampshire Democrat David Campbell.
Here are my articles to date (mowing, no contest, fled the scene, Duck Irony) following the story, which looks like this.
On the way there he mows down five mallards in front of at least one witness, who is feeding the ducks he just killed.
The guest follows him to confront him because the driver did not stop, as if he either didn't know he killed the ducks or he did and realized his circumstances. Campbell parks his BMW, retreats to his office in the nearby office park (on foot) and calls a friend, who just happens to be a Nashua Police Commissioner. The commissioner sweeps by, scoops up Campbell, who is then ferreted away to an as yet undisclosed location from where he is conveniently "unable to contact police" for a really really long time.
The Telegraph adds to the story.
The recordings, which were obtained by The Telegraph, also cast doubt on statements made last week by Police Commissioner Thomas Pappas, who said he asked police during a phone call after midnight Dec. 24 whether Campbell should visit the station to speak with police.
No one knows where Democrat House Rep David Campbell was taken by the commissioner or why there was no landline or other means to contact police.
It seems obvious that Campbell plead no contest and paid his fine to get this past him.
It seems just as likely that he was driving while intoxicated, fled the scene, called his police commissioner buddy to help him hide from it until he dried out, and is continuing to engage in a cover up of his indiscretion.


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Remote Learning During COVID-19 Lockdown is Preventing Learning Loss in Nigeria – World Bank Group
"The e-learning classes were very good, and I enjoyed them." Isaac, a pupil of Adesuwa Primary School, Benin City, Edo Nigeria.
© Sanumioluwa Modupe Dawodu, The World Bank
BENIN CITY, Edo State, Nigeria, December 8, 2021—When the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly forced schools and businesses to close across Nigeria in March 2020, school girl Aisosa thought Christmas had come early.
Like for most students worldwide, her school closure presented an extended period of holiday and unlimited hours of playtime with her friends.
But the Edo state government in south-south Nigeria had other plans. It saw an opportunity to further the development of its digital education drive and used WhatsApp, among other platforms, to organize e-classes.
"When we come online, we exchange greetings with our teacher, after which she sends a lesson to us and explains it; we solve, snap and send it to her", explained Aisosa. "Then, later at 11 a.m., we have a virtual class."
Despite her initial hopes of an endless holiday being dashed, she never missed any of her virtual classes – which became her new way of schooling – as 11 a.m. on weekdays became her favorite time of the day.
Aisosa, a pupil of Obaseki Primary School, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. © Sanumioluwa Modupe Dawodu, The World Bank
The Pandemic Offered an Opportunity to Do Things Differently
Aisosa's online class is part of the EdoBEST initiative, launched in 2018 by the Edo State Government to improve the public education system by building teacher capacity, expanding the curriculum, and developing infrastructure in schools. The program was in its second year when the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020, necessitating a switch in its implementation.
With the World Bank's financial and technical support to the tune of $75m over four years, through the International Development Association, things moved fast to include digital learning. "We had to quickly launch [email protected], our online learning alternative to offline schooling," stated Dr. Joan Osa Oviawe, the chairperson of Edo State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB).
Learning materials such as study guides, interactive storybooks, questions, and audio lessons were uploaded through the agency's website. Teachers created more than 7,000 virtual classrooms. "Our interactive quizzes have been very popular, attracting more than 20,000 pupils per week," said Dr. Joan Osa Oviawe.
Dr. Joan Osa Oviawe, the chairperson of Edo State Universal Basic Education Board, now promoted to Commissioner of Education in the Edo state because of her excellent work in implementing online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nigeria.
Most of the lessons were conducted over the platform, either through older siblings' or parents' phones, as the majority of pupils do not own mobile devices.
"The online lesson felt as if I was in the classroom", noted Aisosa. "I always cried to my daddy to buy data on the phone. If he said there was no money, I felt sad, he would then buy data".
Another student that benefited from the e-classes was Shulamite, a Primary Four student of Adesuwa Primary School in Benin City, who commandeered her mother's phone for her assignments: "Our teacher sends us math problems to solve; then she will mark and send it back. Sometimes, she will ask other questions and we will text the answer to her."
"We learned basic science and technology, maths and writing practice."Shulamite, a Pupil of Adesuwa Primary School, Benin City, Edo Nigeria. © Sanumioluwa Modupe Dawodu, The World Bank
Helping Teachers to Adapt
Despite the fact that remote learning completely disrupted their routine, teachers share the same enthusiasm for this new way of teaching. More than 11,000 teachers like Rosemary Ezehiwele of Obaseki primary school in Benin had been through a rigorous training to be able to deliver online lessons. And over 150 Quality Assurance Officers and Learning and Development Officers make rounds daily to monitor the schools as part of the reforms in the educational sector.
"We learned so many management techniques for the pupils, the modern way of teaching, and we have applied them in the classroom. It has been wonderful," she said.
She was also able to navigate the challenges of the e-classes and asynchronous teaching, as the government provided the tools needed to get the job done.
"Data was never an issue to browse or to send messages to the students, thanks to a telecommunication provider and the Edo state government which was the facilitator," she said. Learning ports were created where there were challenges, such as communities without internet facilities.
On their own, the teachers learned to get creative while using WhatsApp to teach, and it was exciting for the students. For instance, in a physical classroom situation, there is a roll call every morning to know those present in class, and it was not different for the e-classes over WhatsApp. They innovated ways of using emojis to replicate the same thing.
"When we resume in the morning, the teacher would call out the names and we will raise our hands with emojis," said Aisosa.
By matching the emojis against the different replies in the group, a teacher can tell which student is in class and who isn't. Teachers have also used emojis generously to encourage and motivate pupils during classes.
"Any question we get wrong, she uses the word INCORRECT, and then she corrects us", explained Aisosa, her voice rising to mimic that of her teacher. "Any right answers we get, she uses the word CORRECT," again, her voice rising and never missing a beat.
"Then she gives us cheers like: love cheer, raise the roof cheer, para panda cheer, hero cheer, thunderstorm cheer."
Edo state records more than 90% attendance rate at primary schools, one of the highest in Nigeria. © Sanumioluwa Modupe Dawodu, The World Bank
A Long-Term Solution Despite some Challenges
The ambitious plan for e-classes also came with challenges.
Edo State has about a million children and teenagers in school, and though access to online learning platforms was what the government wanted for all of them, it was not feasible.
"We started at the primary school level, and now we want to expand to the junior secondary school level", stated Dr. Joan Osa Oviawe. "We want to be able to provide additional learning materials to our pupils and students."
"We also want to provide digital devices to them, particularly those at the upper-grade level to facilitate more independent learning when they get home and using gamification for them to develop their love for Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)."
One of the gains of the e-classes was, increased parental involvement in children's learning in certain areas. Like Blessing Osagie, who has three children: "Though my data was depleting fast, it was a good thing. I was afraid that the children would be playing all through and I was planning for a private teacher for them", she said. "But Paying a private teacher 10,000 to 12,000 naira would have drained me financially, and it would be for two to three days a week, so thanks to EdoBEST whose teaching was Monday to Friday every week."
"I prefer using the EdoBEST platform because they teach me more than what a private teacher would have taught." Adesuwa, a pupil of George Idah Primary School, Benin city, Edo Nigeria. .© Sanumioluwa Modupe Dawodu, The World Bank
The Edo State government is unrelenting in its digital education drive. Plans to adopt what Dr. Joan Osa Oviawe described as a hybrid learning system are already being implemented since schools re-opened under COVID-19 guidelines.
"Students go to school, but at the end of the day or weekends, they can still access materials on the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) website to continue their development," she said.
For a state with 8.6% of its primary school-aged children out of school, having a strategy in place, such as EdoBEST, will hopefully further reduce that number.


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tv Conflict Zone - Guest Mevlut Cavusoglu Deutsche Welle August 2, 2018 8:30am-9:01am CEST
major power in italy i want influence continues to. be economically and militarily. truly. there i'd like. iraq. i ask because. turkey is not an easy ally for the west to manage viciously insulting if it doesn't get its way it alternates between pressing hard for e.u. membership and pretending it no longer needs it my guest here in the german city of this will go off is the turkish foreign minister met lute travel scholer all the differences between turkey and the e.u. becoming impossible to reconcile.
troubleshot of welcomes conflicts on thank you to recognize these comments not says them is still widespread in the west the netherlands are nazi remnants and fascists now those are the capital of fascism. two lips were sent to holland from turkey during the time of the ottomans it seems that the tulips have not made the prime minister and racist politicians in the netherlands real mad well comments from you and your president do you see any reason why the e.u. should deal with you as a candidate member if you're going to insult them like this while last year when the netherlands didn't want to allow us to meet the turkish people in the netherlands there was a tension and rhetorical was very high and it was coming from both sides and i didn't start that and when the what did take when you end it what they call you
when the prime minister of the netherlands. told me that i can go to the netherlands to see the tulips but i cannot see the turkish people how can you define that rich rich stand that with democratic seats that country reached their rooms no they can decide where they will have a sovereignty sovereignty no it is not it is not it is when when when the when there is a case such cases you can criticize any country when there is this isn't going to says and this is vicious it is not as he wishes it is vicious is no it is not you know that you this is how you do your people know this is diplomacy your hairstyle is it you have your own you have your own understanding of democracy and when you. while the democratic stand that you said it is so and so how can you
try to teach democracy to turkey then who gives you the right then. if you have if you think that you have the right to criticize turkey for this and that you should also accept that i can criticize any country then they while a democratic standards you have to do it you have done more damage to your relations with europe because two months no i didn't the european commission reported that bilateral relations with several e.u. member states not deteriorated at times offensive and unacceptable rhetoric you mean one example this is what they say two months ago just as what the european union that what they were european countries and what they were european union says is right and whatever we say wrong such as it was a said this is this is your problem you think that you are the boss you are the first class country you are the first you are the first class nations turkey is the second class country turkish people suddenly are going about second class this is
this is called your second class you don't have to say directly but this is we receive this from the very the from the point that you are how you are treating turkey and turkish people and our you know i have tried to be an hour late being treated for exercise their right to tell you whether you can give a speech which you know would have security implications how about the freedom of assembly. freedom of speech and you are trying to see me less is of this is this is your double standard is no it is not my levels are the reasons i will stand it you are you are complaining about a lack of democracy if you are after the live the double standard of the europe and the rest unfortunately at this moment which i will surely you are complaining about a lack of democracy in europe at the same time as the united nations is telling you that you have violated the rights of hundreds of human rights of hundreds of thousands of people in your own country no that is not so so this is a talk received an anonymous email is not hypocrisy it is your hypocrisy for sure
the united nations is a hypocrite is a you know we face the terrible attempted coup and then i had to take the measures my security secretary or my people is important more more important than your comments and your understanding you didn't want to understand what happened in turkey and many countries in the us supported the plotters now many countries in the us actually giving different type of status asylum to all these plotters including the former military officials why don't why didn't you would support the democracy in turkey when we faced this military coup so should i sit and stay there until they come back and they took over they took through or were the democratically elected government and demagogue this to destroy the democratic institutions in turkey so they look like you are showing is your lie and i mean what was i saying later latest i didn't hear it it because german foreign minister
foreign ministers have been working with me and i have been working with them i had been normalizing my the turkish way she is with us ria because the new foreign minister has to try charlotte don't know country let me know i am letting you are a big but no you are not i'm trying to ask you some cause you are not yet you are not letting the speak you asked the question after my first sentence you cop and you make me. no comment then i put the question let me answer and if you have to respect you don't even have respect. to me and you don't have plenty of respect no i'm just trying to get an answer to a question is not the way to make the interview you said ask the question make your comment and wait until i give the answer this is how we do the interview if you think that now you are trying to foreign minister late in the foreign minister of turkey like this this is not the way and i'm not trying to humiliate her she said what you have been trying to ask you are in such a long ago that question here's a question here's
a question that put the question last july yeah foreign ministers in my gabrielle of germany complained about your imprisonment of the dual national journalist danny as usual and he said your president was trying to muzzle every critical voice so mr other one hit back telling him he should know his limits who are you to talk to the president of turkey he said how old are you. do you expect european governments to bow down and flatter your proud well when we can size the german authorities and we get also similar similar comments and they have been also insulting me from the time and it's victorious high unfortunately you see the statements coming from such statements come from both sides this is why i later on i worked with the same foreign minister league matter gabrielle to normalize the relations i visited him at his house he offered me a key and turkish did and we worked together to normalize the relations and we have
made a lot of progress why don't you focus and pay more attention to this process but only the negative aspect of our relations which was in the past what is extraordinary in the light of your comment over the last two years is that you are now pressing to join the e.u. within the next five years this is according to your deputy prime minister ratchet as tag what he told the german newspaper developed a few days ago he accused the e.u. of acting unfairly allowing several balkan countries to join first and he said turkey deserves to join the e.u. earlier than any other contest turkey has been waiting for sixty years and in the last sixteen years we made a lot of reforms when we had the best relations with the unification union i mean two thousand and six immediately after we started the negotiations and some countries france and also european union commission bloc several chapters and those
days we didn't have any better relations with the europeans it was excellent so what he is trying to do that is to say that my deputy prime minister is one when we do the reforms and when we reach the opening and closing benchmarks of the chapters unfortunately due to the political obstacles we haven't made any. yes so why don't you respect his opening he's the deputy prime ministers and you question every statement of one turkish politicians but the one you never question the european side or the obvious doesn't have of course we question the european side but you don't represent europe so i don't notice and we were i don't know because you are an incentive of turkey i must tell you about things i am planning member of the council of europe my friend and i share the parliamentary assembly of the council a beautiful two years when you are foreign minister and you are also a member of nato we are member of the o.e.c.d. and we are the party iotas we are not asking for us either we are part of the
europe major like it or not we're part of that you are mr foreign minister why if you want to continue did your president tell parliament in ankara last october to tell the truth we don't need the membership anymore so which is it you want to involve you or you don't want to do anymore which is a this is the reaction. this is a reaction. when european union behaves turkey that on the turkey needs european union turkey needs european union and european union needs turkey we are everywhere of this but some european countries unfortunately don't see the fact so why so you don't leave you any man or you said you don't need real time trees in the european union actually against turkey your membership may have big my shirt off the e.u. countries you member states actually are in favor of turkish if you were going to actually you know one membership anymore he said you struck not us last year as it
was the reaction to this is the reaction of the country who has been waiting at the door for sixty years ok sixty years so as a way that it is turkey's mistake so why do so many years so why threaten europe in march last year when the diplomatic pressure on what can what kind of threatening in march last year when there is a sematic route with germany was at its height your president said that if europe continues this way no european in any part of the world can walk safely on the streets that's what he said. that's a threat now it's a direct threat no it is not a truck and that not be a threat it is not a threat it is the actually he is warning the europe if you are in hypocrisy in our fight against terrorism and if you are allowed the terrorists active to be active in your countries if you. believe that the batteries but is the best one if you allow them to raise money forcibly if you are there illegal
activities in your countries and indifferent. then nobody will be safe because what the president wanted to say that do not support the terrorist organizations and take the same measures against all the terrors all sorts of terrorists without any double sided residency i think what is it is not that threatening this or are you like to interpret in april you received the most damaging assessment of your progress so far by the european commission they spoke of major steps in the wrong direction and said turkey had suffered serious relapses in the areas of justice rule of law fundamental rights and freedom of expression and cited measures taken since the attempted coup has widespread dismissals arrests and detentions all of which raise serious concerns though i do not buy i do not want to reject what these
critics is why should i what should i do with the persons who are actively involved in the attempted go. they're working into the two hundred twenty three thousand people have been arrested no that is not true not because of the there are people who are sellers up to banks there are murderers there are rapist there are the rock traffickers you know do you know took what they are what they do what do you do with this kind of people in your country do you have to tell someone that it's a guy right there was good question let me give you you asked me a question yes i cannot speak who has used it and i'm trying to answer it and what would you do for the people who are involved in the crime in your country there are more than two thousand turks from turkey not the turks living in germany in the prison why did you put them in the prison then why because maybe they are involved in the crime i cannot say that they are innocent because you have the additional he rest of the world isn't buying these explanations is that the chief human rights if
you like and i justify it if you like i say the question if you don't like you don't you don't buy it this is the offer do you think a senior boss yeah not the boy i'm talking about or syria i'm talking about the senior human rights official of the united nations who is concerned by arbitrary mass dismissals of civil servants and private sector employees arbitrary closure of civil society organizations arbitrary detention the use of torture until treatment during pretrial detention restrictions on free expression and movement arbitrary expropriation of private property those are things that he is concerned about not me he's concerned i'm talking about the chief security right sophisticated or my people is more important than what he's saying and he's a biased person and there's a conflict of interest i know him very well ok and these people this associations belong to the top which also which is who i don't know is for total federal and
that's all i don't know is a terrorist organizations and i was a motorist because people don't know because many. western countries were very happy. on that night ok because. he attempted to coup but he failed and in the morning many western countries who like him very much regretted that the coup failed therefore for you he is a good man but for turkish people which western country rejected for the core who is a good man and poor others and for turkish people and for many other friendly countries this is a terrorist organization that's why many countries are closing their networks and the schools in those countries which guess which western country hailed the which western country approved of the coup unfortunately the majority of which which was given a meal and even that no one even if you can't name me one no i can't give you which one which one of many european kind which one many of i love almost all of you
can't you can't give me one you walk a mile saying why nobody came to visit us after the coup you can't give me a single one almost all of them really yes and you can't give me a single name almost all of them you can pick one get one almost all of them pick one almost all are sensors almost all of the really yes you have no evidence for that whatsoever i have the evidence of that many ministers that night actually question me three o'clock in the morning how turkey was going to treat these plotters instead of asking me how i was doing personally and how the situation was in turkey who do you think people are going to believe the u.n. human rights official who speaks out against human rights violations in the world or you representing in the ministration which is charged with massive abuses of human rights you ask it is going to going to be up to you and it is up to the people you think you think human rights are just artificial obstacles known to you
know because your president said in a recent interview i call on the e.u. to remove these artificial. obstacles artificial obstacle means the particular obstacles to the rise of racism islamophobia some countries are against turkey's membership this is a exactly what i meant you know president is what he's saying that turkey is ready to continue their relations with the european union on the basis off the stand that's democratic standards but if you look at it off the cols because of cyprus or because of sarkozy because of that all of them are after official and the political one ok mr foreign minister let's talk about settler girl and the islamic cleric in the states you've asked the states to the terrorists are going to have values now that you tell me i know can i give you the question first
yes but you have asked that i have to disagree with you have asked us just as well that i didn't look it when you were close to us these are an authorized his is a he's a promoter and he's a terrorist i understand what you say you like what he did in china that's why you said islamic cleric this is exactly what i meant now you answer i'm not you i'm not going to use your leg now you are answering the here in that you put yourself you want the us to extradite him yes. what is causing increasing concern in the united states is the fact that in april twenty sixth you're arrested an american missionary andrew branson apparently to hold a bargaining chip unless and until the u.s. extradite school and the reason we know that is because you know that this is what's how this is what you're this is what your president admitted in the speech last autumn he said about the americans give us the pass the back they say you have one pastor as well meaning delenn given to us then we will try him branson and give
him to you what is that if not hostage diplomacy is not how all of this diplomacy my friend what is it that branson offering an example is accuse and the indictment is there if you have if you spare five minutes to read the indictment you will see what kind of accusations there are in the indictment it is a poorly judicial process it is not a politically motivated process so why are you offering to trade you know we didn't we never offered you get no we didn't give us a pastor back no have one we have given to us we never try and we're given to you he never did that but when that there are agreements with between the countries including between turkey and the united states actually to extradite the people or to xchange of the prisoners to him to sometimes when the prisoner a sentence for instance you can send it to him or her to. her or his
host countries these are the agreements it can happen but if you're offering not we had we didn't offer an i am telling you that there are a limited no no no no give you no support i gave you the quote this is how you are interpreted and really i have we have never been in this kind of bargaining with any country my friend and only sometimes the intelligence is actually walk together to. dight some terrorists or when there is a serious situation this is a kind of cooperation between the countries but pastor is has been detained he has not been charged but there are serious accusations you read the indictment and you can see yourself what kind of if you show how on earth an exchange minister let's talk about syria you're playing you said a leading role in the political process with syria you therefore have to take some of the blame for the fact that this process has got precisely nowhere has it geneva
a stand such as the russians have allowed president assad to basically keep winning the war and have cemented his position you said you wanted assad out you are further away from achieving that goal that any time or two well we believe that. cannot rule this country anymore because he has killed almost one million people and it is it is not only after me you know you're playing a leading role in the talks that i'll tell you it is up to the syrian people actually at the end to decide whom actually who should going to rule the country maybe that's why we need to prepare the country for the democratic elections turkey has been playing an important role crucial role at different platforms and since aleppo we have been working we started working with russia then we included iran as well because you're like it or not iran is also an important actor we disagree with
iran on different issues including as that but this is a major issue this is this is the issue and they are well i want your interest of but they now you have got your best friend this is that not they are not my best friend i have been working with them but you don't have to agree on everything with a country or person to work together sometimes you can put this this egg. it's in the brackets but asked on a process for instance have been very helpful to actually. consulate that the ceasefire the escalation zones and also extra to take some confidence building steps between measures between the regime and the opposition in libya the power law the man who has killed a million people to your by your accusation you cement his power that's no no no that's not true it's about that is after we have never changed our position the
russians are not going to let russia all in your know that this is a very serious problem syria it is not only my problem i'm trying to explain what the situation is and what we have been trying to do ok asked an arcade such as it was only once and wheeling sochi to geneva the problem is nobody is paying enough attention to geneva i mean the political process now it is not only about russia and iran it is also about our allies in the coalition so without i mean get in without taking any steps forward all making any progress or achievements in geneva how can we be sure about the political solution now the constitutional committee has to be formed. and i am i pessimistic about everything year no not not very pessimistic in almost a year and a half we made a lot of progress but we still must do
a lot more together all right and if they're not already going out of time i can i just and then well you know there was racial pay it call attention to both fighting terrorists and also to the political process one last question in this to your elections are coming up in june parliamentary presidential elections you've invited the o.s.c. e the organization for security and cooperation in europe to monitor these elections as we said before. as you did before and the ransome of europe and the parliament as you rejected their criticism out of hand when they said to you that the vote last year had not lived up to the standards of the s.c. and the council of europe your president said i do not see hear or acknowledge reports by the i.c.e. observer mission so why bother to invite them once again when you are going to reject any criticism no i don't object to criticism and we have been in whiting or e.c. or e.c. order and parliamentarism of the council of europe to monitor the elections in
turkey every single elections when there is a local elections actually the council of europe it again or observes the elections last year some of the members of this at the committees unfortunately participated to campaign or. prop ekk party d.p. including under who go who is a german policy you don't like what they say you accuse so of being pro peace or play saw the observers should be or projective and balance they cannot take a site they cannot part i also observe elections in many countries during my years at the council of europe so. should be objectively and balanced we can not take a site we cannot participate the campaigns of any particular party and no less than give all the results you want they're going to be by and large at your call go out if you participate at the p.k. k. propaganda you are biased if you support the p.k.
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Report: Chris Brown Held By Police In France Due To Rape Accusation
An unidentified woman says she was assaulted by the singer.
By NewsOne Staff
Singer Chris Brown and two members of his entourage are reportedly being held in France due to rape and drug offenses. According to published reports, an unidentified woman is claiming she was raped by Chris Brown.
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TMZ reports, "French authorities confirm to TMZ Brown has been detained and is in custody for alleged aggravated rape and narcotics offenses. Authorities go on to say he is being processed, which appears to be the French version of arrested and booked."
Allegedly, a woman claims she and the 29-year-old met overnight between January 15-16 at club Le Crystal. They allegedly went back to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel and the woman says she was raped. TMZ reports investigators have two days to decide if they will release Brown. One of Brown's bodyguards has also been detained.
Back in 2009, Brown was arrested hours after he was accused of beating Rihanna following an arguement the two allegedly had over another woman. The singer later pleaded guilty to felony assault. The incident sparked a national conversation about domestic violence. A 21-year-old Rihanna famously told Diane Sawyer on ABC's "20/20" in 2009, "There was no person when I looked at him. He had no soul in his eyes. Just blank."
In 2013, Chris Brown told Matt Lauer about the 2009 assault, "I've been humbled by the whole experience," he said. "From me losing everything, you know, to me having to regain public opinion or whatever it is but most importantly, you know, knowing that what I did was totally wrong and having to kind of deal with myself and kind of forgive myself in the same breath and being able to apologize to, you know, Rihanna and being able to be that man that can be who is a man, you know?"
Brown had many run-ins with the law since then. In 2013, he spent two and a half months in jail after he was arrested for reportedly assaulting a man outside of the W Hotel in Washington D.C. However, he was finally off probation in 2015.
Brown or his team have not released a statement on the recent arrest.
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So, the director of the forthcoming t.A.T.u. film used to work on Coronation Street. Perfect.
It's a good Fall for music: I like the Sugababes album (though it does seem a little mean of them to have stolen Mutya's idea of making a northern soul record), and I'm obviously eagerly anticipating the new Britney and Girls Aloud records that are on their way. Meanwhile, the Russian version of the new t.A.T.u. album is out, and I fear I'm a little underwhelmed, although I have enjoyed transliterating the song titles. The previously released tracks, "Белый Плащик" is fairly good and "220" is extremely good. Other tracks show promise, such as "Снегопады," which starts fairly well, and has what sounds like a rather good bridge, which unfortunately fails in one crucial aspect, because the song doesn't have a chorus for it to lead in to. On the whole, though, I don't find myself being grabbed by the album as much as I would have expected; perhaps it's just the estrangement effect of it being in Russian. A friend of mine suggested I learn Russian, to test that theory.
There is, though, one significant exception to this indifference: "Fly on the Wall" is absolutely fantastic. All the elements of the song work together perfectly: the tense build-up of the verse spills over into the psycho-sexual bass rumblings of the chorus; better still, the industrial clanking of the drums suggests a social context for the whole thing.
I think the only thing that could make Girls Aloud better would be if they started filming their videos in Britain's decaying industrial heritage.
In other music news, two great Alabama 3 remixes.
The disadvantage of not posting anything for a while is that whatever post you write inevitably takes on the mantle of being a post worth breaking your silence for. Luckily, this problem was solved for me by finding something I couldn't not post: a preview of the tATu film.


OK Its Friday – we are installing on Sunday – St. Patrick's Day is Monday. Hmm. Pressure is on!!!!!!
Brian has been in the paint shop for days – not sure if he's seen daylight. But it's payin' off! After all the priming Brian started mixing the paints and spraying. Time is running out but we're almost there. We have a crew out today installing the bracket on the building so Sunday we can focus on transporting and hanging this 200lb baby.
The colors are amazing and the finish is incredible. We 3D cut the face of the ribbons and left the accent lines of the font on the ribbon. This way it would create a dramatic depth when the letters get placed in. Brian hand painted the gold details and the filigree.
The main body of the sign is painted and its time to attach the front face pieces and the grill.
The LED's are inserted and it comes alive!


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The power of multiple perspectives in life and in business
A brief exchange with my 5-year-old daughter Ava reminded me again how lucky we are to be alive at this moment in time.
We were listening to NPR in the car on the way to school. The reporter was talking about the POTUS and various world events. Out of the silence, she asked "Daddy, has there ever been a girl president?"
"No," I said. "Not yet. But there will be."
She thought about that for a few seconds then asked, "What would I have to do to be president?"
"You would have to become a good leader and learn to take care of people and be kind," I replied. "You would also have to help make laws. Do you want to be president someday?"
"Nope!" she chirped with no further explanation before occupying her mind with something much more interesting than talk about presidents with her dad. If she doesn't change her mind about being president, that's America's loss. She's the kind of smart, kind person who will make one heck of a fine leader of the free world if she someday chooses to go that route.
"Choose" is the operative word there. Despite all of our flaws as a society, we've at least progressed to the point where it doesn't occur to little girls to ask whether a woman can be president, only has there been one yet.
That's progress. Incremental progress, but progress still.
If she was older and our conversation had continued, I probably would have mentioned my belief that a female president – when we finally are evolved enough to elect one – will be a wonderful and welcome change for our nation, not because it would check some imagined diversity box, but because I think it'll be extremely interesting to what a different perspective brings to that most difficult of jobs.
I'm a big believer in the power of different perspectives – in life, politics, and business. I believe and have always believed that no one type of person has all the answers. When it comes to business, I find that top businesses do everything they can do to attract and keep top talent. But the very best businesses make sure their talent pool is also rich with people from varied backgrounds and perspectives. Why? Building a roster of different perspectives is simply smart business. According to a 2015 McKinsey & Co. report of 366 public companies, those in the bottom quartile for gender, racial and ethnic diversity were less likely to show above average profits. Those in the top quartile were more likely.
It's easy to understand why. Working in a non-homogenous environment makes us better by forcing us to re-examine our closely held perspectives and truths. I've experienced it in my career over and over again. I may not initially enjoy the feeling of someone suggesting changes to my thinking – few people do. We'd all prefer to be told our perspectives are flawless and brilliant. We all love hearing our perspectives echoed back to us. It feels good.
But direct feedback and well-articulated perspectives different from our own help us grow by disrupting "confirmation bias," our very human tendency to favor information that confirms what we already believe. Having this bias disrupted is a gift that ultimately makes our positions stronger or reveals their weaknesses. Either way, we're the better for it.
A good way to think about it is to imagine a chorale with only sopranos, tenors or baritones. I'm sure it would sound fine. But probably not as fine as the sound garden made by the combination of all three.
I guess that's another way of saying vive la difference.
P.S. Ava for president!
Note: If you want to learn more about diverse groups, I found two Harvard Business Review articles particularly helpful: Why Diverse Teams Are Smarter and Diverse Teams Feel Less Comfortable — and That's Why They Perform Better.