LONDON - When Rohini Anand took over diversity programs at multinational catering company Sodexo in 2002, she had one goal: To prove that it pays for a company to have equal numbers of male and female managers. Sodexo, which has 419,000 employees in 80 countries, says she's done just that. A company-wide study last year found that units with equal numbers of men and women in management roles delivered more profits more consistently than those dominated by men.
"It has become embedded now. It's not just me talking about it anymore, Anand says with "I told you so satisfaction.
Apple CEO Tim Cook, who came out as gay last year, told PBS it was important to hire people who "complement you, because you want to build a puzzle.
"You don't want to stack Chiclets up and have everyone be the same, he said.
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How do I make sense of the conflicting aspects of my personality? That's a question that has been occupying me on and off since I began to introspectively analyze myself following suspicion and later confirmation that I am autistic.
Believe me, being in a non-verbal state is as frustrating for me as it must be for anybody trying to communicate with me. It is usually a symptom of stress, of emotional overload, so the worst way to react is in any fashion that increases my stress – becoming emotional, speaking louder or more insistently, coming too close and encroaching on my personal space. If you must try to interact with me at least speak quietly, unemotionally and without approaching too closely or making sudden movements.
Any hint of threat, whether it is a raised voice or unexpected proximity, only makes me feel more anxious and ensures that the episode will last longer. If I do manage to force some words out then don't assume I've come out of it – this can be a delicate moment as I start to regain some control and pushing me – giving me the third degree – will only send me deep back down into my uncommunicative state.
Above all, don't take my lack of responsiveness as a sign of indifference, ignorance or antipathy towards you: it is not. It is simply that my faculties are fully occupied dealing with my own mental turmoil and there is no spare capacity to handle interacting with people. I don't enjoy being non-verbal: because of the continual commotion inside my head it is mentally exhausting, and the muscular tension that results also causes physical tiredness. It is absolutely draining and leaves me in need of peace and quiet to relax. The fact that I might have been sat there, hardly moving or uttering a word, for hours does mean that I am ready to jump back into "normal" activities from the get go. Without some down time to recuperate it is very likely that even a small trigger will push me back over the edge.
Recognition of the causes and effects involved coupled with a little understanding makes it quicker and easier for me to work through the effects of the stress overload, and that has to be a good thing all round, doesn't it?
At this point I either come across as "normal", following the conversation, or I just dropped a spanner in the works and confused the heck out of you. And I never know which it's going to be! The problem is that if there's any distraction – background noise or movement in particular – then I fail to distinguish the speaker's voice. I know they're talking to me, I can see their lips moving and hear sounds, but even concentrating intently I can only interpret the odd word and have to guess the rest from context.
More often than I care to admit somebody will say something to me and I'll respond with some acknowledgement. It's several seconds later that I finally work out what they said and can tell whether my response was appropriate. Or whether I just looked stupid again.
__________ impairment ___ social _________ stereotyped and restricted patterns ______ activities and interests, and _____ally signi_____lay in cog______opment or general _____ language.
The thing is, I don't have hearing problems. I can pick up faint sounds like the clock ticking at home. I score in the average range in hearing tests. But if somebody says something while the TV is on – or there's music playing or other conversations going on around us – then although I can hear all the sounds, I can't separate them very well. It's a problem with processing the sensory input and I find it hard work and very frustrating, so I often keep out of conversations in noisy environments. In fact I prefer to avoid noisy social environments altogether.
With all this it's no surprise I prefer to communicate in writing – through email, text or similar mechanisms. The words are in front of me, not obscured by noise, and there is no need for an immediate response. I can take the time to compose my reply, re-reading their comment if necessary and thinking of le mot juste – the right word that will exactly convey my intended meaning.
I suppose, people being people, that other Aspies have tried to explain how the condition affects their functioning in some way, such as difficulty reading non-verbal signals, only to hear, "I, like, get that too, you know: maybe I'm a bit Aspergers." Even after ignoring the involuntary wince that is triggered whenever language is tortured in my presence, I struggle to respond to that. While I don't want to dismiss out of hand the possibility that they might be correct, it can be hard to explain how AS (and autism) are about more than being awkward in social situations.
What I want to say to these people – but can't because my AS makes it too difficult to formulate an adequate response without zoning out for too long and dropping out of the conversation – is that I doubt very much whether they do have AS. AS is not like a salad bar where you get to choose how much of each symptom you want. It's not something I chose to have – I have it, live with it and cope with the challenges as best I can. Each symptom taken in isolation does not define the condition: it is called a pervasive disorder for a reason. It is a set of symptoms, usually with varying degrees of severity, and having AS means you pretty much got the lot.
[…] a pattern of symptoms rather than a single symptom. It is characterized by impairment in social interaction, by stereotyped and restricted patterns of behavior, activities and interests, and by no clinically significant delay in cognitive development or general delay in language.
This doesn't even attempt to explain why these symptoms occur: it is just a "pattern" that recurs and has been labelled as Asperger Syndrome. The label is a convenience, nothing more, to cover the effects of particular cognitive differences. It does not describe the differences between individuals with AS, the varying degrees of difficulty we face in everyday situations. Couched in the most general terms it says nothing about how it feels from the inside – how exhausting it is to deal with "normal" life, to feel so often that we have to consciously act "normal" with other people so that we are not seen as alien, to face censure for "inappropriate" behavior when we don't conform to their "normal" standards.
I doubt that any sighted person would describe themselves as "a bit blind" because they close their eyes occasionally. Likewise, they are not "a bit Aspie" because they sometimes feel awkward in social situations or have a fanatical interest in, say, football. There is evidence that the Aspie label is somehow becoming seen as "cool" – I can't understand why this should be so, because I know first-hand that the reality is that even in a mild form it causes significant difficulties for those directly affected, and also indirectly for those such as partners in relationships.
Saying "No" doesn't come naturally to me. Whenever people come up to me and ask me to help them in some way my instinctive response is to go along with whatever they want. I actually feel anxious even thinking about refusing their requests – I worry that refusing will lead to argument or confrontation.
So I end up doing things for others – not that I mind most of the time – but it takes time and energy that I ought to be spending doing other things. It can be a problem for me at work when I get people coming up to me or phoning me to ask for technical assistance when I am in the middle of some other piece of work: I end up taking longer to complete my tasks because I'm spending time on unrelated issues. I even raised it as a problem at my recent annual performance review.
One of the biggest problems with interruptions at work is that it can take me out of a flow state which then means I spend fifteen minutes or so trying to get back into it. Just four interruptions over the course of a day can lose me about an hour of productive working time.
I guess that invariably saying "Yes" to people actually makes things worse for me because it encourages them to ask for favors more often. In contrast I very rarely ask anybody to do things for me – I feel uncomfortable imposing on them.
I need to learn how to say "No" without causing myself stress as I fret about the possible consequences. Experience tells me that a simple, blank refusal doesn't work in most instances – particularly in a social situation. The person will just repeat the request, often with some attempt at emotional coercion – a deliberate attempt to engage my sympathy. And it works – I then feel that I would be letting them down by continuing to turn them down, which upsets me. It could be labelled emotional blackmail. I consider it a particularly devious, underhand means to get one's own way, but it seems to be a depressingly common tactic.
Some people have suggested that I invent some prior commitment that would preclude my assistance at that time; however that would mean lying which makes me even more uncomfortable so it's not a viable option. If only people would take a simple "No" as an answer and drop the matter there and then instead of arguing about it and trying to change my mind. I really need to find some stress-free way to refuse, because otherwise I will just continue to take the (for me) easy way out and assent to their wishes.
I have an involuntary urge to jump in and correct people when I notice errors in what they say. It hasn't escaped my notice that this often irritates the person I correct, but I have a hard time checking the impulse.
I'm not sure whether the cause of this is pedantry, perfectionism or simply attention to detail. Too much attention to detail sometimes because I end up getting distracted from the conversation by concentrating on the mistake. Interrupting the speaker to correct them also tends to distract them from what they were saying, halting the conversation.
Thing is… I'm trying to be helpful when I correct people. Accuracy is important to me – more important than saving somebody's feelings – and I subconsciously expect that other people feel the same and would appreciate my efforts. Publicly correcting people can engender a hostile response – it embarrasses them, triggering a defensive reaction. In conjunction with my social anxiety, fear of this kind of response prevents me from speaking up in front of strangers. But it doesn't prevent me feeling very uncomfortable about the error.
It's the same with errors in writing – things like shop signs that might have spelling or grammatical mistakes. I have been known to take a pen and make editorial corrections to notices – the urge to do so can be impossible to suppress.
I find that people mistake my motivation – while I only strive for accuracy, they see me as a know-all who wants appear superior. They may even see me as arrogant. For the record, I'm not trying to impress people with my knowledge or make them appear ignorant and stupid. I just have an obsession for precision in language.
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PHOENIX — Appearing for the last time as chairman of the American Teleservices Association, Tom Rocca assured members yesterday that the ATA had rebounded financially and was prepared to fight for the industry in the future.
Rocca, who spoke here at the ATA's 20th Annual Convention and Exhibition, is at the end of his term. He will be replaced by vice chairwoman Lisa DeFalco of TPG Telemanagement for the 2003-04 term.
Rocca said that the convention, which has drawn $350,000 in sponsorships, was more successful than it had been in years. The ATA's last two conventions were hurt by outside events — stormy weather in the case of last year's show in New Orleans, and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001 that came just two weeks before the ATA show in Las Vegas.
The ATA also has rebounded from the chairmanship of Gordon McKenna, who left under a cloud of criticism about the handling of his company in 2001, and from a financial controversy under the former management of J. Scott Thornton that nearly bankrupted the association in 1999.
Rocca praised ATA executive director Tim Searcy, who took over the association's management earlier this year from Management Options Inc. and is credited with building the ATA's strategic defense fund to pay for its legal challenge to the national no-call list.
"We're trying to get back to the strength we once had," Rocca said.
New ATA board members introduced at the convention include Steve Eulie of J.P. Morgan/Chase; Orlando Zayas of GE Financial Assurance; Phil Grudzinski of Sears Life Insurance; Mark Boehmer of Verizon; and Todd Schubert of Bank of America.
The additions are notable because they come from telemarketing user companies instead of telemarketing service and technology providers or consulting agencies.
"A lot of it is just image and perception," Rocca said. "We want to show that there are a lot of Fortune 500 companies — even Fortune 50 companies — that use this media channel."
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The Riverway Lagoons and Riverway Arts Centre, including Pinnacles Gallery have been CLOSED to repair damage from the unprecedented flood.
These facilities will be closed until further notice until repairs have been completed and it is safe for residents to use the facilities.
Located in Thuringowa Central on magnificent Ross River frontage, Riverway is one of Townsville's most exciting destinations, offering a dynamic combination of residential, commercial, cultural, sports and leisure activities.
Visit the pages below for more information on this unique precinct and all it has to offer.
Swim in the lagoons, walk the boardwalk along the river, visit the gallery.
Tony Ireland Stadium is home to AFL and cricket matches at local, regional, state and national levels.
A legacy project as part of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, the Indigenous Games Trail aims to promote an increased awareness and understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait culture.


Enjoy a break from driving at this roadside park, offering washrooms, a kitchen shelter and a boat launch. Stop and rest on the picturesque shores of Great Slave Lake to take photos or simply to relax with a picnic. Be sure to look around you – the scenery abruptly changes here from rolling, well-treed Mackenzie lowlands to the granite of the Canadian shield. This is a prime waterfowl nesting area.


Mission Hill Family Estate presents an evening to celebrate the arrival of spring flavours. Join us for a welcome reception with live music and canapes. Mingle our winemakers and viticulturists, learning more about spring in our vineyards and at the winery. Then enjoy a decadent five-course wine-paired dinner, seated in our elegant visitor's centre.


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When it comes to keeping your family healthy and protected from illnessin Chicago, it's important to remember your annual influenza (flu) vaccination. The flu can strike suddenly and spreads through coughing, sneezing, and close contact. Symptoms vary, but can include fever, chills, sore throat, muscle aches, fatigue, cough, headaches and a runny or stuffy nose.
A flu vaccine is needed every flu season. Ethnic minority populations don't get their annual flu vaccinations nearly as often as the general population. Close to 5,000 African-Americans and 2,000 Hispanics die each year due to flu and pneumonia-related complications. Many of these deaths could have been prevented with the flu vaccine to protect against flu viruses.
It takes about two weeks for protection to develop after vaccination, and protection lasts through the flu season.
Protect yourselves and loved ones from the spread of germs by getting the flu shot every year. Visit one of our 35 ACCESS health centers located throughout the greater Chicagoland area for your flu vaccine.
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Over the past few years, it seems bath bombs have been popping up at every skincare shop out there. Bath bombs leave your bathwater cleansing, soothing and delightfully fizzy. With their soothing scents and fun fizzy effect, it's no wonder bath bombs are such a huge hit. .However, boutique bath bombs can be expensive and include a fizzing ingredient called citric acid that can be harsh on your skin. .
It's easy to make on your own using ingredients found at your local supermarket, and you can omit the citric acid. This recipe calls for cream of tartar (which is sold in the baking aisle in Asda!), which, when combined with baking soda, will give you the same fizzy results.
Combine the bicarb soda, cream of tartar and Epsom salts in a mixing bowl and mix thoroughly.
Add up to 20 drops of your choice of essential oil (or up to your desired scent) and two teaspoons (7g / 11ml) of coconut / olive oil. If you have any dried lavender or any other dried flowers, you can add them at this point.
Once all the ingredients are thoroughly combined, test the mixture by squeezing a small amount in your hand. If the powder easily compresses together without separating, it is ready to place in the moulds. However, if the mixture crumbles apart, add a single spray of water / Witch Hazel at a time until you can compress it into a ball. You shouldn't have to add more than five sprays of water / Witch Hazel.
Now pack the mixture tightly into the silicone moulds. You will find that the back of a metal spoon will help compact the mixture in to all corners of the mould.
Leave the mixture in the mould for a full 24 hours to dry.
Once the bath bombs have dried for 24 hours in the mould, carefully remove them and allow them to air dry undisturbed for another 24 hours. Then, drop one in your bath and enjoy the fizz!
It's Gnings' last day in school tomorrow, as he is breaking up for Christmas. I can't believe how quickly it has come around!
I've been struggling for ideas on what he should give to his teacher, and two teaching assistants, as a gift for Christmas; and with money being a bit tight too (I'm still on maternity leave), I didn't really want to spend a lot. So I thought, everyone loves biscuits, so that's what we'll do. And that's what we did!
I think I managed to make about 50 stars, and 35 "gingerbread" biscuits. The stars cost approx. 50p, and the "gingerbread" ones about 75p.
Preheat your oven to 190C (170C for fan assisted).
Line a baking tray (or two) with greaseproof paper.
Place the butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl, and cream together, using the back of a large, wooden spoon.
Sift in all of the flour, in one go, and stir it all together using the spoon (this is also the part where you will add the coconut – if you are going to. This worked absolutely wonderfully). When you're unable to stir any more, use one of your hands to start "bringing the mixture together", in to a dough.
Add just a drop or two of water – just enough so the mixture starts to meld nicely. Don't add too much, otherwise it'll end up all sticky, and icky.
Once the dough has formed a lovely ball, turn out on to a work surface, that has had a 'scattering' of icing sugar (powdered / confectioners sugar), and roll out with a rolling pin, so that it's about 1cm thick.
Cut out your required shape(s) – squares, rectangles, circles, stars, etc. – and place on the lined baking tray.
Lightly prick the top of the biscuits with a fork, and sprinkle a little more caster sugar on the top of each.
Throw them in the oven (well, not literally) for 15-20 minutes, or until a golden brown colour.
Allow to cool fully before digging in. Be careful though! They are incredibly moreish.
1. Grease a 20cm square tin (or line with greaseproof / baking paper).
2. Put the sugar and syrup in to a deep pan, and stir over a gentle heat until the sugar has completely dissolved. Try not to let the mixture bubble.
3. Once the sugar crystals have melted, turn up the heat and allow to boil (whilst stirring continuously) until the mixture becomes an amber colour.
4. Remove the pan from the heat, and using a wooden spoon, QUICKY beat in the bicarb soda until you can no longer see the powder. Be careful, as the mixture will start to foam, and will burn you if it touches you.
5. Scrape the mixture in to your greased / lined tin and allow time for it to harden (around 1 to 1 and a half hours or so). Do NOT put it in the fridge.
I turn around for 2 seconds, whilst I go and find my gift bags, only to find this little Gning running off with the honeycomb..!!
I'm currently on a creative streak, where I'm making all sorts of fashion jewellery, accessories and other crafty bits and pieces to take to a craft fair on 1 June. I'm rather proud with the amount of items I've created so far, but this one I have to share with you.
I'm not giving you a set amount of ingredients, as it varies depending on the size of the jar you are wanting to use.
1. Ensure the jar(s) and lid(s) you are using is fully cleaned. Try to soak in boiling water to sterilise the jar(s). Dry thoroughly.
2. Add the salt, rice, baking powder and lavender buds at 1 tablespoon each; 1 teaspoon of citric acid; 6-7 drops of lavender essential oil.
3. If your jar is still not full, continue to add salt, rice, baking powder and lavender buds in equal quantities until full.
4. Put the lid on the jar and shake until the mixture is fully blended.
2. Add your feet and allow to soak for 15-20 minutes.
3. Dry your feet thoroughly.
Perfect for tired feet. Enjoy!
Looking for an exciting homemade gift for Father's Day? Father's Day is on Sunday, 16 June this year… This is a very simple idea that you and your little one can make.
1. Preheat the oven to 120°C / 100°C for fan assisted / 250°F. Line the baking tray with greaseproof paper.
2. Mix the salt, flour and water together thoroughly in a bowl. If the dough is too sticky, add small amounts of flour until the mixture is doughy and pliable. Be careful not to add too much flour as the mixture may dry out and crack.
3. Shape the dough into a ball in your hands, and flatten on the greaseproof paper to approximately 1/2 inch thick.
4. Carefully select pieces of stone to create the words "DAD ROCKS". Press them firmly but gently into the dough.
5. Bake your paperweight for 2 – 2.5 hours until completely dry.
6. Remove from the oven and allow to completely cool before handling.
Optional. You can spray / paint your creation with a clear coat sealer or acrylic sealer.


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Welcome to our team. These indivduals work independently as well as in collaboration with the centre in order to promote mindfulness as a therapy, a technique and as a lifestyle, supporting others in their efforts to regain as well as maintain a sense of balance and mental wellbeing. The below team are people who work as honorary volunteer advisors. Without these wonderfully dedicated individuals our work would not be possible.
Robert Gebka – Dorset Mindfulness Centre director
Robert is a Qualified MBSR Teacher with the University of California San Diego Medical School, USA (UCSD CFM). He is former Buddhist monk who lived, worked and trained for five years at the Nan Hua Zen Buddhist monastery before joining the NHS. It is during this time that he was fortunate enough to meet HH the 14th Dalai Lama. He is an accredited counsellor and has completed a two year self-directed research project in Mindfulness Based Interventions in an NHS psychiatric hospital with a clinical population. He is also the author Managing Depression with Mindfulness for Dummies. Robert studied the neuroscience and physiology of mindfulness with Neuragy UK. Read about Robert HERE.
Dr Julia Forster, Ph.D. – Education Advisor
Julia bega n her career in mental health nursing during which time she became very interested in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) as an empowering tool for those with anxiety, depression and eating disorders. Moving on to teach nurses and then into further education and teacher training, Julia's interest in CBT extended to consider how such approaches could be adapted to support professionals in managing the emotional complexities of their roles. In 2013 Julia completed a Ph.D. at Southampton University investigating the impact of a CBT toolkit for supporting trainee teachers to more effectively manage challenging student behaviour. She completed the 8 Week MBSR programme as well as the Professional Mindfulness Practitioner training with the Dorset Mindfulness Centre and has developed a passion for exploring how mindfulness can be used to advance learning and development.
Dr Shantha Perera, M.D., Ph.D – Science and Medical Advisor
Shantha is a S enior Lecturer in Immunology at the University of Wolverhampton. He has a medical degree and masters and doctoral degrees in Immunology and Genetics. His current research interests include looking at the effects of mindfulness on several biochemical and immunological markers such as cortisol and interleukin. Shantha has been meditating since an early age and is very interested in secular Buddhist philosophy and practice and their integration into everyday life. He has completed the Dorset Mindfulness Centre Professional Mindfulness Practitioner training in 2017 and is exploring the use of Mindfulness Based Interventions within medicine.
Caroline Rice-Varian – Mindfulness Based Pain Management Advisor
Caroline is an NHS occupational therapist (OT) and works as a psychological therapist in a pain management service providing one to one pain psychology interventions to people with persistent pain problems. She also facilitates the pain psychology sessions on the Fibromyalgia Pain Management programmes in this service. She is a Cognitive Analytic Therapist (CAT) and CAT Supervisor and is also trained in Eye Movement and Desensitization Therapy (EMDR). She has completed her MBSR Teacher Training with Bangor University Centre for Mindfulness and has graduated from our Certified Mindfulness Practitioner training with the Dorset Mindfulness. .
Helena Edwards – Young Person's Advisor
Helena is an Occupational Therapist working in the field of child and adolescent mental health, where she specialises in Sensory Integration Therapy. She is an experienced yoga, mindfulness and somatic movement teacher and has been successfully integrating these practices into her therapy work for quite some time. Helena has practiced yoga and mindfulness since her teens and is deeply dedicated to her personal practice. She is currently completing a Masters degree in Mindfulness with the University of Aberdeen. She loves working with children and young people and is especially interested in compassion-based mindfulness techniques drawing from both Tibetan Buddhist practices as well as the work of Professor Paul Gilbert and Kristen Neff.
Dr Louise Baker-Martins, Ph.D., D.Clin.Psych – Research Advisor
Louise completed her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Exeter and specialises in interventions for poor sleep/insomnia. She has worked in various NHS mental-health services in East Dorset and has developed and delivered sleep interventions incorporating Mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Prior to clinical training, Louise completed a PhD at the University of Southampton which involved research into the impact of insomnia symptoms on cognition and emotion. It was during this time that her interest in Mindfulness began and she completed an MBSR course which was a transformational experience. She has been very pleased to work with Dorset Mindfulness Centre on her recent research; a qualitative investigation into how the process of MBSR is experienced by those with complaints of poor sleep.
Deborah Howard – Business Development, Health & Social Care Advisor
Deborah is a Senior Management Consultant and Interim supporting public sector organisations. After starting out her career as a Mental Health Social Worker, she progressed into leadership roles in NHS Provider Services and NHS and Local Authority Commissioning. She worked for Dorset HealthCare as Deputy Director for Mental Health Services, and later worked for NHS Somerset CCG and Somerset County Council, as Joint Head of Mental Health and Learning Disabilities. Deborah completed the MBSR training with Dorset Mindfulness Centre as well as the Professional Mindfulness Practitioner training. She enjoys supporting the Centre with Business Development mentoring and advice.
Linda Kinsella – Natural Health Advisor
Linda is a natural health practitioner with over 20 years experience in integrative healing. She specialises in radionics therapy and shiatsu massage as well as nutrition for mind-body health. Her interest in food as therapy has also led her to qualify as a chef. Linda has a strong interest in positive and energy psychology and enjoys supporting others on their journey to emotional wellbeing. Her creative approach empowers individuals to find a great sense of unique self-expression. She lives in Bournemouth has completed the 8-Week MBSR course with the Dorset Mindfulness Centre. She teaches her own style of mindful movement exercises called Creative-Flow.
David Mayes – Mindful Leadership Advisor
David is a qualified coach and works in the field of Learning and Development, specialising in leadership development and coaching. He has experience of working across multiple industries and with both private and third sector organisations. In early 2017 David set up his own business and it was during this time that he became interested in mindfulness, completing the Dorset Mindfulness Centre's 8 week MBSR course before building his understanding by undertaking the centre's Professional Mindfulness Practitioner Programme in 2018. David is particularly interested in the concept of 'Mindful Leadership' and is exploring how mindfulness may help those in leadership positions become more effective and resilient in our ever increasingly complex and fast paced world.
Dr Xun He, Ph.D. – Experimental Psychology Advisor
Dr Xun is a lecturer in psychology at Bournemouth University. He has a Ph.D in biophysics from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences which explored perception and attention. He has a very strong in interest in psychology and human behaviour as well as as the underlying neural mechanisms involved in both. Xun has extensive experience both with functional brain mapping (fMRI) and intervention of brain functions (e.g., TMS), as well as extensive expertise in human brain electrophysiology, specifically the event-related potential (ERP) and steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) techniques. Recently his research has gradually oriented itself towards experimental social psychology and social neuroscience.
Jonathan Stock – Innovation & Development Advisor
Jonathan is a mindfulness based counsellor. He is also a former Head of the English department at the London School of Management and Science. He has received training in both psychoanalysis at Middlesex Universtiy as well as in Core Process Psychotherapy at the Karuna Institute, Devon. Jonathan worked as a counsellor at the Nan Hua Buddhist Monastery supporting students in their academic and personal development and has also had the experience of working with young adults, supporting their emotional and psychological wellbeing. Jonathan lives in Bournemouth working as a teacher of English and also enjoys practicing Tai Chi and reading on psychology, philosophy and science. Jonathan completed the centre's 8 Week MBSR course and is the co-designer of the Professional Mindfulness Practitioner training.
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Earlier this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) posted information about a product recall initiated by a food distributor in Gardena, California. The recall was launched after tests conducted by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) found that some of the company's products possibly contained ingredients derived from eggs that were not labeled on the packaging.
A total of 21 different noodle and ramen products from the company are part of the recall. The company has announced that distribution and selling of these products was suspended until the FDA and the firm is certain that the problem has been corrected.
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Two men charged with stealing containers worth $2.2 million from USPS
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Baltimore, Maryland – A federal grand jury has indicted Aaron Keith Howard, age 52, of Brooklyn, Maryland, and Roland Michael Muir, age 57, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, on charges of conspiring to steal, and theft of, aluminum carts from the U.S. Postal Service. The indictment was returned on May 6, 2014. Muir was arrested today. Howard was previously arrested, detained in federal custody and pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on May 9th.
The indictment was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Postal Inspector in Charge Gary R. Barksdale of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service – Washington Division; and Anne Arundel County Police Chief Kevin Davis.
"Theft of mail transport equipment is a serious crime," said Gary Barksdale, Inspector in Charge, U.S. Postal Inspection Service – Washington Division. "The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and cannot afford to replace valuable equipment to provide reliable customer service. Postal Inspectors are charged with protecting the U.S. Postal Service's infrastructure and we will continue to aggressively pursue those who threaten the financial and operational health of America's mail system."
The U.S. Postal Service used and stored mail transport equipment, including large aluminum carts known as over-the-road containers. Muir worked for a private mailer company located in Baltimore, driving a box truck.
According to the two count indictment and affidavit in support of the complaint, Howard and Muir drove in Muir's employer's box truck to U.S. Postal Service bulk mail centers in Capitol Heights where they stole the over-the-road containers and loaded them on the truck. Beginning in November 2013, Howard rented a 26 foot moving truck and drove it to the bulk mail centers in Capitol Heights where he stole the containers and loaded them onto the truck .
The indictment and affidavit allege that from April 2012 to April 2014, the defendants sold 1,765 containers containing 383,286 pounds of aluminum to metal recyclers in Maryland, including the Arundel Recycling Center in Anne Arundel County. They received $223,717 in cash. The defendants painted over U.S. Postal Service identifiers on the containers to avoid suspicion. The replacement value of the scrapped containers to the U.S. Postal Service is alleged to be over $2.2 million dollars.
The defendants face a maximum sentence of five years in prison for the conspiracy and 10 years in prison for the theft charge. An initial appearance has been scheduled for Muir at 4:15 p.m. today in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.
An indictment is not a finding of guilt. An individual charged by indictment is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty at some later criminal proceedings.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein praised the U.S. Postal Inspection Service – Washington Division and Anne Arundel County Police for their work in the investigation. Mr. Rosenstein thanked Assistant United States Attorney Paul E. Budlow, who is prosecuting the case.
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Loyola College of Law to honor Moon Landrieu
The Loyola University New Orleans College of Law will celebrate its 100-year anniversary by honoring one of its most important and influential graduates, former New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu '52, J.D. '54.
Landrieu will receive the St. Ives Award, the law school's highest honor, at a luncheon Jan. 31 at 11 a.m. at the Ritz-Carlton New Orleans.
The St. Ives Award is presented annually to alumni who have volunteered services to the College of Law or the university and maintained the highest standards of the legal profession.
Landrieu was instrumental in the fight to desegregate city government and public facilities in the 1970s. Following his graduation from the College of Law, Landrieu served in the U.S. Army and practiced law until 1970, when he was elected mayor of New Orleans.
Since 1960, he has served as a Louisiana state legislator; councilman at large for the city of New Orleans; secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; and judge of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal for Louisiana.
To attend the luncheon, register online at law.loyno.edu or call 861-5741. Other events this year include a Mardi Law Centennial Celebration party Feb. 21; the Law Alumni Association's Centennial Cocktail Reception during the Annual Louisiana State Bar Convention in Sandestin, Fla., June 3; and a reunion weekend Oct. 10-12.


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I always liked to draw faces. The face is the most important difference in people.
In this series of paintings, I painted random people who I remembered and betrayed them with a fantastic view.
The first picture is a random person whom I presented as selectioner.


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Q: Trying to find longest string in a list using recursion. Why am I getting none? Why am I getting none?
def find_longest(long:list):

    for i in range(len(long)):
        if long[i] == '' or long[i] == []:
            return long
        elif len(long[i])>len(long[i-1]):
            max_length = find_longest(long[i])

            return long.append(max_length)

print(find_longest(longest_strings))

A: Append doesn't return anything. You need to append then return the list.
def find_longest(long:list):

    for i in range(len(long)):
        if long[i] == '' or long[i] == []:
            return long
        elif len(long[i])>len(long[i-1]):
            max_length = find_longest(long[i])
            long.append(max_length)
            return long

The reason for this is because list is a mutable data type and append simply mutates the list not create a new instance of the list with the new data attached.
A much better way to find the longest string would be something along these lines:
def longest_string(strings):
    return max(strings, key=lambda x: len(x))

values = ['a', 'ab', 'abc', 'abcd']

print longest_string(values)

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The Ducky
D. C. Jackson
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For the teenagers of the small Ayrshire town of Stewarton, there's change in the air.
Rab's back from Cambridge. He feels alienated there; he feels alienated in his home town, too. Michelle's returned to spend some time with her great-gran while she can. She reckons university isn't all it's cracked up to be, too. Meanwhile, Norma's sweeping up in the local hairdresser's until she works out what to do.
Two years is a long time in a teenager's life.
The second play in the trilogy which includes The Wall and The Chooky Brae, D. C. Jackson's The Ducky premiered in a Borderline Theatre Company production at the Palace Theatre, Kilmarnock, in May 2009.
For the teenagers of the small Ayrshire town of Stewarton, there's change in the air. Rab's back from Cambridge. He feels alienated there; he feels alienated in his home town, too. Michelle's returned to spend some time with her great-gran while she can. She reckons university isn't all it's cracked up to be, too. Meanwhile, Norma's sweeping up in the local hairdresser's until she works out what to do. Two years is a long time in a teenager's life.The second play in the trilogy which includes The Wall and The Chooky Brae, D. C. Jackson's The Ducky premiered in a Borderline Theatre Company production at the Palace Theatre, Kilmarnock, in May 2009.
The first play in D. C. Jackson's 'Stewarton Trilogy' for Borderline Theatre Company, The Wall, won the Best Ensemble at the 2007-8 Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland and was shortlisted for the Saltire Society/ Royal Mail Scottish First Book of the Year Award. It was followed by The Ducky in 2009. The Chooky Brae completed the trilogy in 2010. My Romantic History was staged earlier in the same year by the Bush Theatre and Sheffield Crucible. He has also had short plays produced by Oran Mor (Matinee Idle, Drawing Bored, Out on the Wing and Company Policy) and the Arches Theatre Company (Hello, part of Spend a Penny). He is working on new plays for BBC Radio 4, the National Theatre of Scotland and the Royal Court, and was the Pearson Writer in Residence at the Royal Court for 2008.
The Chooky Brae
My Romantic History


A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on September 03, 2018, on page 1.
Lebanon Sunday joined the global condemnation of the recent U.S. decision to cut all funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, denouncing it as an attempt to deny Palestinians their right of return.
Lebanon also praised Germany's recent decision to increase its aid to UNRWA.
UNRWA was founded after the 1948 War surrounding Israel's creation, to serve some 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were uprooted from their homes.
Palestinian officials strongly condemned the U.S. decision, calling it an attack on the Palestinian people and an attempt to remove sensitive core issues from any future negotiations.
Israel's prime minister meanwhile welcomed the decision, accusing the U.N. agency of perpetuating a crisis that lies at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The European Union said the decision was "regrettable," but expressed hope the U.S. would reconsider its decision.


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The Jewish Community of Madrid, titleholder of our School, was established in 1920 by a small number of families from diverse origins. The current Jewish population in Madrid is estimated at around 10,000 people. Jews form an integral part of the Madrid landscape and of the Spanish culture in general. Our institutional organization was established to ensure that future generations maintain close ties to our community, to their heritage and the land of Israel.
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Our school history
What began as a small nursery school in 1965 has grown into a fully accredited Preschool, Elementary and Middle School and International Baccalaureate (IB)
Because of continuous growth in the Jewish population during the 1970s, our Community required greater organization and new school infrastructure needs arose. During this time the primary school was opened, the school moved to its current location in the prestigious suburb, La Moraleja (an area where many of the best private schools in the city have recently moved their campuses) and additional grades were added in purpose-built secondary building thanks to private donations.
In 2001 a new sports complex, the David Varsavsky Gymnasium, was donated to support the growing athletics program including basketball, football, volleyball, and martial arts, among others.
In 2005 a number of local families donated the Sefer Torah that is housed until today in the Rambam Synagogue which opened its doors to accommodate the growing number of families establishing their homes in the vicinity of the school.
In 2011 the school library underwent a major renovation, thanks to a private donation. Today our library forms an integral part of the school curriculum, housing an important collection in Spanish, English, Hebrew and French.
Final milestone: Grades 11 and 12 complete the cycle
At the end of 2010 a strategic decision was taken to extend our program to include grades 11 and 12 for 16-18 year olds.
In June 2013, we were delighted to witness the first 12th grade graduating class in the history of our school and in the history of Spain
In 2017 we added the International Baccalaureate Programme with excellent results.
What was a dream now became a reality and we thank all of those who made it possible.
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Judge Drops Hope Solo Domestic Violence Charges
A Kirkland, Washington, judge dismissed domestic violence charges against goalkeeper Hope Solo on Tuesday.
"Today's decision brings closure to what has been one of the most difficult and emotionally draining times of my life," Solo reflected on Facebook. "I always had faith that once the facts of the case were presented, I would be cleared of all charges and I am so happy and relieved to finally have it all behind me."
Not all of her fair-weather Facebook friends welcomed the news.
"Yeah, I still think it's lame that you were eligible to play while some under similar circumstances were not," one commenter opined. "Load of crap." "You're a drunk abuser!" another alleged. "The judge had no options but dismiss because witnesses failed to appear. No facts were reviewed at all."
The two-time Olympic gold medalist faced the charges after a July incident involving a nephew and half sister. Neither Nike nor the US women's soccer team dropped the goalie despite similar charges derailing the careers of male athletes.
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Soyuz set to depart station bringing crew of three back to Earth
October 3, 2018 William Harwood
Members of the Expedition 56 crew gather for a meal of "cosmic sushi" earlier this week. From left to right: Drew Feustel, Serena Auñón-Chancellor, Sergey Prokopyev, Oleg Artemyev, Ricky Arnold and Alexander Gerst. Credit: Oleg Artemyev/Roscosmos
A cosmonaut and two NASA astronauts finished packing up their Soyuz ferry ship Wednesday and prepared to undock from the International Space Station early Thursday for a fiery descent to touchdown on the steppe of Kazakhstan to close out a 197-day mission that included four spacewalks, a full slate of research and an emergency leak repair.
With commander Oleg Artemyev at the controls, flanked on the left by flight engineer Drew Feustel and on the right by Ricky Arnold, the Soyuz MS-08/54S spacecraft was scheduled to detach from the station's space-facing Poisk module at 3:57 a.m. EDT (GMT-4) to kick off a three-hour 48-minute trip home to Earth.
Feustel, outgoing commander of the Expedition 56 crew, turned over command of the station to European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst on Wednesday, thanking flight controllers and research teams at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Moscow, Munich and Japan.
"Thanks to those who have trained us and those who have supported us while in space," he said. "With over 350 investigations credited to the expedition, we should all be proud of our accomplishments together. We would also all like to thank our families for supporting us throughout this great adventure. Without their love and support, none of us would be here today."
Gerst, a veteran German astronaut, thanked Feustel "for being a true leader. It was an honor to serve under your command, and it was fun at the same time."
"I want to wish my friends and crewmates, Oleg, Ricky and Drew, a fantastic ride home and (a) soft landing," Gerst said. "You are dearly missed down there on Earth and you will be dearly missed up here in space."
After undocking, Artemyev and Feustel planned to move the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft a safe distance away from the space station before firing up the ferry ship's braking rockets 6:51 a.m.
The four-minute 39-second burn is designed to slow the Soyuz by about 286 miles per hour, dropping the far side of its orbit into the atmosphere on a trajectory leading back to Kazakhstan.
After a half-hour free fall, the spacecraft's three modules will separate and the central crew cabin, the only one with a protective heat shield, will slam into the discernible atmosphere at an altitude of about 62 miles.
If all goes well, the descent module, suspended beneath a single large parachute, will settle to a rocket-assisted touchdown near the town of Dzhezkazgan at 7:45 a.m. (5:45 p.m. local time). That would result in a mission lasting 196 days and 18 hours, covering 3,152 orbits and 83.4 million miles since blastoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on March 21.
As always, Russian recovery crews were expected to be waiting nearby to help the three returning station fliers out of the cramped cabin as they begin readjusting to gravity after six-and-a-half months in space.
Following brief medical checks, all three will be flown by helicopter to Karaganda where they will be officially welcomed back to Kazakhstan. From there, Artemyev will fly home to Star City near Moscow while Feustel and Arnold head back to their homes in Houston.
With touchdown, Artemyev's total time in space over two station visits will come to 366 days. Feustel, veteran of three flights, including a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, will have logged 226 days aloft. Arnold's total over two station flights will stand at 210 days.
During their stay aboard the station, the trio welcomed three crewmates to the outpost — Gerst, Soyuz MS-09/55S commander Sergey Prokopyev and NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor — two SpaceX Dragon cargo ships, a Russian Progress freighter, a Northrup Grumman Cygnus supply ship and a Japanese HTV cargo craft carrying replacement batteries for the station's solar power system.
They also staged four spacewalks. Feustel and Arnold carried out three excursions in March, May and June to perform routine maintenance while Artemyev joined Prokopyev in August for work on the Russian segment of the station.
Feustel has now walked in space nine times totaling 61 hours and 48 minutes, moving him up to third on the list of the world's most experienced spacewalkers.
The Expedition 56 crew also dealt with a small leak in the Soyuz MS-09/55S spacecraft that carried Prokopyev, Gerst and Auñón-Chancellor to the station in June. The leak was discovered in the upper module of that ferry ship, prompting a quick repair job by Artemyev and Prokopyev who sealed it with epoxy-soaked cloth.
The leak appeared to be the result of a hole deliberately drilled into the side of the module, but an investigation is not yet complete. Dimitri Rogozin, director general of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, stirred controversy when he suggested the hole could have been drilled on the ground or in space.
That prompted a pointed response from Feustel during a media interview later.
"I can unequivocally say that the crew had nothing to do with this on orbit, without a doubt, and I think it's actually a shame and somewhat embarrassing that anybody is wasting any time talking about something that the crew was involved in," Feustel told ABC News.
"The only thing the crew did was react appropriately, follow our emergency procedures, eventually locate that leak and plugged the hole," he said. "In doing so, we assured the continued operation of the space station, we ensured the ability of our crew all to remain on orbit and continue doing the great work that we do … on the International Space Station."
Prokopyev, Gerst and Auñón-Chancellor will have the space station to themselves until Oct. 11 when Soyuz MS-10/56S commander Alexey Ovchinin and flight engineer Tyler "Nick" Hague arrive six hours after launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Soyuz spacecraft are designed to crews of three, but in this case a cosmonaut specially trained to work with a new Russian laboratory module was pulled from the MS-10 flight because the lab's launch has been delayed.
Gerst and Hague plan to venture outside on Oct. 19 and 25 to install the six batteries that were carried up aboard the HTV-7 cargo ship. That will set the stage for the long-awaited debut of new commercial crew ferry ships being build by SpaceX and Boeing to end NASA's post-shuttle reliance on the Russian Soyuz for transportation to and from the station.
Late this year or early next, SpaceX hopes to launch its commercial crew Dragon ferry ship on an unpiloted test flight to the station. The capsule is expected to rendezvous with the laboratory and autonomously dock with the outpost before returning to an ocean splashdown about a month later.
In the meantime, station crews will continue to rotate up and down aboard Soyuz spacecraft. On Dec. 13, Prokopyev, Gerst and Auñón-Chancellor plan to return to Earth aboard the Soyuz MS-09/55S spacecraft. They will be replaced by the Soyuz MS-11/57S crew, made up of commander Oleg Kononenko, NASA astronaut Anne McClain and Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques. They are scheduled for launch on Dec. 20.
Boeing hopes to launch its Starliner crew capsule on an unpiloted demonstration flight early next year that will mirror SpaceX's, complete with an autonomous rendezvous and docking. If all goes well with those flights, the companies will press ahead with preparations to launch the crew Dragon and Starliner on piloted test flights later in the spring.
On April 5, the Soyuz MS-12/58S spacecraft will deliver Oleg Skripochka, NASA astronaut Christina Koch and a United Arab Emirate guest astronaut to the station, temporarily boosting the lab's crew to eight. Ovchinin, Hague and the UAE crew member will return to Earth April 15 leaving five aboard the lab complex.
It is roughly around this time that SpaceX hopes to launch the crew Dragon on its first piloted test flight, carrying shuttle veterans Bob Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the space station. They plan to test a variety of manual and automated procedures to verify the spacecraft's readiness to begin routine crew ferry flights later in the year.
According to current schedules, Boeing may be ready to follow suit with the first piloted flight of its Starliner spacecraft in the early summer timeframe. On board will be Eric Boe, Nicole Mann and Boeing vice president Chris Ferguson, commander of the final shuttle mission in 2011.
NASA already has modified Boeing's contract to protect the option of extending the first crewed Starliner flight, making it a long-duration operational mission if significant delays are encountered in the commercial crew program. NASA may exercise a similar option with SpaceX.
However it plays out, the final currently contracted Soyuz flight with NASA-sponsored astronauts aboard is scheduled for launch July 24 when the Soyuz MS-13/59S spacecraft carries Alexander Skvortsov, European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA's Drew Morgan into orbit. Two more Soyuz launches are planned before the end of 2019, but NASA has no seats booked on those missions.
While the advent of U.S. commercial crew ships will end NASA's sole reliance on the Russians for crew transportation it will not end it.
The station requires at least one U.S. astronaut and one cosmonaut aboard at all times to operate their respective systems. Because of the possibility of an emergency that could force a Soyuz or U.S. commercial crew ship to depart early, two cosmonauts are expected to launch each year aboard American spacecraft while two astronauts fly aboard the Soyuz.
That strategy will ensure at least one American astronaut and at least one cosmonaut are on board the station at all times, even if a medical emergency or some other problem forces one ferry ship to depart ahead of schedule.
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Russian capsule brings home three space fliers
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Gisela Piltz (* 3. Dezember 1964 in Köln) ist eine deutsche Politikerin (FDP).

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Ausbildung und Beruf
Nach dem Abitur 1983 auf dem städtischen Luisengymnasium in Düsseldorf machte Gisela Piltz eine Ausbildung bei der Stadtverwaltung Düsseldorf für den gehobenen nichttechnischen Dienst, die sie 1986 als Diplom-Verwaltungswirtin beendete. Anschließend war sie bei der Stadt Düsseldorf als Inspektorin tätig und begann 1987 ein Studium der Rechtswissenschaft an der Universität Bonn, welches sie 1993 mit dem ersten juristischen Staatsexamen beendete. Nach Ableistung des Referendariats bestand sie 1995 das zweite Staatsexamen und wurde 1996 Leiterin des Abgeordnetenbüros von Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig. Noch im selben Jahr wechselte sie als Projektmanagerin zur UFA-Theater AG in Düsseldorf und war anschließend von 2000 bis 2002 bei der Projektgesellschaft "Kai 18" in Düsseldorf tätig. Seit 2003 ist sie selbständige Rechtsanwältin.

Parteilaufbahn
Piltz trat bereits als Schülerin 1980 in die FDP ein und engagierte sich zunächst bei den Jungen Liberalen. Bei den Wahlen zum Bundesvorsitz der Jungen Liberalen erhielt sie 1989 in der Urwahl durch die Mitglieder zwar die meisten Stimmen, verfehlte aber die absolute Mehrheit. Sie musste sich daher auf dem Bundeskongress der Julis einer Stichwahl durch die Delegierten gegen den in der Urwahl zweitplatzierten Hermann Brem stellen, in der sie unterlag.

Zwischen 2004 und 2014 war sie Kreisvorsitzende der FDP Düsseldorf und von 2005 bis 2013 stellvertretende Landesvorsitzende der FDP Nordrhein-Westfalen. Seit Juni 2007 gehört sie außerdem dem FDP-Bundesvorstand an.

2006 gründete sie zusammen mit Liane Knüppel, Hartmut Knüppel, Daniel Bahr, Hans-Joachim Otto, Joachim Stamp und Johannes Vogel den Verein Netzwerk 80 e.V. als Zusammenschlusses aller Bundesvorstandsmitglieder und Bundesgeschäftsführer der Jungen Liberalen seit 1980.

Abgeordnetentätigkeit
Von 1999 bis 2003 gehörte Piltz dem Rat der Stadt Düsseldorf als Fraktionsvorsitzende der FDP-Fraktion an.

Am 11. November 2002 rückte Gisela Piltz für den ausgeschiedenen Abgeordneten Ingo Wolf in den Bundestag nach, dem sie sodann bis 2013 angehörte. Sie war in den Jahren 2005–2010 Sprecherin der FDP-Bundestagsfraktion für Innen- und Kommunalpolitik und Mitglied des Beirats der Bundesbeauftragten für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen DDR. Ab 2005 war Piltz Vorsitzende der Landesgruppe der FDP-Bundestagsabgeordneten aus NRW. Am 26. Oktober 2009 wurde sie von der Bundestagsfraktion der FDP zur stellvertretenden Vorsitzenden gewählt.

Von 2009 bis 2013 war Piltz Mitglied des Bundestags-Innenausschusses und des Geschäftsordnungsausschusses. Zudem war sie die innenpolitische Sprecherin der FDP-Fraktion mit den Schwerpunkten Datenschutz und innere Sicherheit.

Daneben war Piltz seit dem 13. Dezember 2012 Mitglied im Parlamentarischen Kontrollgremium, das für den Bundestag die Nachrichtendienste des Bundes kontrolliert, und im Vertrauensgremium, das die Wirtschaftspläne der Nachrichtendienste des Bundes beschließt. Piltz war damit die erste Frau in dieser Position.

Bei der Bundestagswahl 2013 scheiterte die FDP an der 5-Prozent-Hürde. Gisela Piltz verlor damit ihr Abgeordnetenmandat.

Entsprechend ihrer politischen Schwerpunkte hat sich Piltz besonders in den Bereichen "Datenschutz", "Bürgerrechte" und "innere Sicherheit" engagiert. So stellte die FDP-Bundestagsfraktion auf ihre Initiative hin am 14. November 2007 (16. Wahlperiode) eine Große Anfrage an die schwarz-rote Bundesregierung zum Thema "Achtung der Grundrechte". Darin kritisierte Piltz, dass die Balance von Freiheit und Sicherheit zu Ungunsten der freiheitlichen Grundrechte der Bürger schwinde.

Nach Ende ihrer Tätigkeit als Bundestagsabgeordnete 2013 erwog Piltz zunächst die Rückkehr in den Düsseldorfer Stadtrat. Die Ratsfraktion positionierte sich jedoch auf der Seite von Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann.

Politische Positionen

Vorratsdatenspeicherung
Zusammen mit der FDP-Fraktion lehnt Gisela Piltz die Vorratsdatenspeicherung ab. Für Piltz entspräche eine anlasslose, präventive Sicherung der Kommunikation sämtlicher Bürger nicht dem rechtsstaatlichen Grundsatz der Verhältnismäßigkeit. Zudem würde die Unschuldsvermutung ausgehebelt und das Recht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung verletzt. Die Vorratsdatenspeicher wäre ein großer Schritt Richtung "gläserner Bürger".

Piltz hat sich an der Klage gegen das von der große Koalition beschlossene Gesetz vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht beteiligt.

Reform des Melderechts und Adressdatenhandel
Im Juni 2012 stand Piltz neben Hans-Peter Uhl (CSU) im Zentrum der Kritik an der Meldegesetz-Reform durch den Bundestag. Sowohl der Inhalt als auch die Art und Weise der Verabschiedung standen im Fokus der öffentlichen Kritik. Die Gesetzesvorlage, die unter anderem das bisher länderspezifisch geregelte Meldewesen in die Zuständigkeit des Bundes übertragen soll, wurde von lediglich 17 anwesenden Abgeordneten beschlossen, die den Fraktionen der Union und FDP angehörten. Die 10 anwesenden Oppositionsabgeordneten von SPD, Grüne und Linke stimmten dagegen. Da keiner der anwesenden Abgeordneten bzw. Fraktionen die Beschlussfähigkeit des Bundestages offiziell anzweifelte, ist die Abstimmung trotz der geringen Zahl der teilnehmenden Abgeordneten nicht ungültig.

Auslöser der Kritik waren die nur einen Tag zuvor eingebrachten Änderungen am zu verabschiedenden Gesetzestext. Die Gesetzesvorlage der Bundesregierung verlangte ursprünglich, dass Bürger den Meldeämtern ausdrücklich die Erlaubnis dazu erteilen müssten, ihre Daten an Dritte für Werbezwecke und den Adresshandel weitergeben zu dürfen. Am Vortag der Abstimmung der Gesetzesvorlage legte Piltz jedoch zusammen mit Hans-Peter Uhl im Innenausschuss einen Änderungsantrag vor, in dem er die verbraucherfreundliche Zustimmungsregelung in ihr Gegenteil umkehrte: Die Meldedaten der Bürger sollten demzufolge für Werbezwecke und für Adresshandel herausgegeben werden dürfen, es sei denn, der Bürger hätte der Herausgabe im Vorfeld ausdrücklich schriftlich widersprochen. Und selbst dieser Widerspruch wäre unwirksam gewesen, wenn ein Adresshändler seine bereits vorhandenen Datenbanken lediglich aktualisieren wollte. Dieser handstreichartig eingebrachte Änderungsvorschlag wurde im Innenausschuss von CDU/CSU und FDP gegen die Stimmen der Opposition angenommen und die so geänderte Gesetzesvorlage wurde am nächsten Tag vom Bundestag in nur 14 Sekunden in dritter Lesung ohne Aussprache angenommen.

Am 9. Juli 2012 Focus Online zitierte einen Mitarbeiter Uhls Mitarbeitern mit den Worten "Hätten wir die Einwilligungslösung gemacht, hätten ja alle Versandhändler aufgeschrien." Der Satz musste später entfernt werden. Unter dem Artikel hieß es in Folge: "Zwei Zitate eines Mitarbeiters, die in der ursprünglichen Version dieses Artikels standen, wurden auf Bitte des Büros Uhls mit dem Hinweis auf ein Missverständnis entfernt."

Aufgrund der heftigen Kritik in der Öffentlichkeit distanzierte sich die Bundesregierung und die CSU-Verbraucherschutzministerin Ilse Aigner von dem neuen Meldegesetz und gab bekannt, dass sie hoffe, der SPD geführte Bundesrat würde die Gesetzesvorlage stoppen. Die FDP erklärte daraufhin, dass für die Änderung der Widerspruchsregelung in erster Linie Hans-Peter Uhl eingetreten sei und den Innenminister von seiner Linie überzeugt habe.

Internetsperren/Zugangserschwerungsgesetz

Im Rahmen der Diskussionen zur Sperrung von Seiten mit Missbrauchsdarstellungen von Kindern ("Zensursula") 2009 und dem daraus entstandenen "Zugangserschwerungsgesetz" der schwarz-roten Koalition hat Gisela Piltz sich stark gegen die vorgeschlagenen Regelungen und damit gegen die Einführung von Internetsperren engagiert. Sie war maßgeblich am Entschließungsantrag der FDP-Bundestagsfraktion beteiligt. Darin wird als Alternative zur Bekämpfung von Missbrauchsdarstellungen von Kindern im Internet das Prinzip "Löschen statt Sperren" unter Berücksichtigung der bereits verfügbaren rechtlichen Möglichkeiten, sowie weitere präventive Maßnahmen gefordert. Hierzu sollen die bestehenden strafrechtlichen Verfahren vorrangig bei den Inhalteanbietern selbst und, soweit dies nicht möglich ist, eine Löschung bei den Host-Providern (also den Speicherplatzanbietern) durch die Länder angestrengt werden. Nur so könne effektiv gegen die Verbreitung von Missbrauchsdarstellungen von Kindern im Internet vorgegangen werden. Die Sperrung von Internetseiten mit solchen Inhalten löse das Problem nicht, da das Material nach wie vor – bei Umgehung der Sperren – verfügbar sei. Zudem käme durch den Vorschlag der Liberalen das Problem des "over-blockings" (also das versehentliche Sperren von eigentlich legalen Seiten) gar nicht erst auf. Auch wäre so die weitere inhaltliche Durchregulierung des Internets gestoppt. Im Zuge der Debatten war von einigen Politikern bereits angedacht worden, zukünftig auch andere Seiten, beispielsweise Seiten von bestimmten Computerspielen oder Glücksspielseiten zu sperren.

Bei dem vorgeschlagenen "Zensursula"-Gesetz von Union und SPD würden überdies auch erhebliche verfassungsrechtliche und operative Zuständigkeitsfragen zwischen Bund und Ländern aufgeworfen, monieren Piltz und die FDP-Fraktion in dem Antrag – denn eigentlich sind die Länder für Gefahrenabwehr und Regulierungen von Medieninhalten zuständig. Somit wären weder der Bundesgesetzgeber für den Regelungsinhalt, noch das Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) für die Zusammenstellung einer Sperrliste und die daran anknüpfenden Verfügungen von Netzsperren verfassungsrechtlich zuständig. Eine Kompetenzerweiterung des BKA auf die Gefahrenabwehr stünde somit der Verfassung entgegen. Der Vorschlag der FDP hingegen sieht vor, dass sich die Bundesregierung zusammen mit den Ländern für die effektive Strafverfolgung von Inhalteanbietern von Missbrauchsdarstellungen von Kindern im Internet einsetzen soll. Dazu sollen auch die IT-Kompetenzen und die IT-Ausstattung der Sicherheitsbehörden verbessert werden, damit diese die Strafverfolgung wirksam gewährleisten zu können.

Da das Problem internationale Dimensionen hat sollen die zuständigen Behörden auch weltweit tätig werden und die Bundesregierung sich in diesem Zuge auch international für eine bessere Bekämpfung und eine strikte weltweite Ächtung von Kindesmissbrauch und der Verbreitung von Missbrauchsdarstellungen von Kindern einsetzen.
Ebenso wird in dem Entschließungsantrag ein Fokus auf die Prävention von Kindesmissbrauch gelegt, beispielsweise wie in Projekten "Kein Täter werden" der Charité Berlin und auch Kinder gestärkt, unterstützt und geschützt werden, möglichst bevor sie Opfer einer Straftat werden.

Im Zuge der Regierungsbeteiligung nach der Bundestagswahl 2009 hat sich Piltz mit der FDP gegenüber der Union durchsetzen und so eine Zensur des Internets verhindern können. Das Prinzip "Löschen statt Sperren" wird nun angewandt um Missbrauchsdarstellungen von Kindern auch im Internet keinen Raum zu gewähren. Dass dies für Inhalte auf inländische wie ausländische Seiten ein probates und erfolgreiches Mittel im Kampf gegen Missbrauchsdarstellungen von Kindern im Internet ist wird beispielsweise durch die Statistiken des BKA belegt. Zu dieser Thematik hat die FDP-Bundestagsfraktion mit Gisela Piltz ebenso ein Eckpunktepapier verfasst.

ELENA
Nach dem noch unter Rot-Grün verabschiedete Konzept ELENA (elektronisches Entgeltnachweis-Verfahren) sollten Unternehmen eine Unmenge von personenbezogenen und höchst sensiblen Daten ihrer Arbeitnehmer monatlich an eine zentrale Speicherstelle übermitteln. Auch Sportvereine sollten Daten ihrer Übungsleiter melden, wenn Sie mehr als 175 Euro Entschädigung erhalten. Damit drohte die lückenlose Dokumentation des Alltags aller Berufstätigen. Besonders für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen bedeutete diese Pflicht zur Datenübermittlung einen unverhältnismäßigen Aufwand und hohe Kosten.
Vor allem aus Datenschutzgründen lehnten Piltz und die FDP-Fraktion das Verfahren ab und sorgten in der Koalition mit der Union (17. Wahlperiode) dafür, dass ELENA abgeschafft und sämtliche bereits erhobene Daten rückstandslos gelöscht wurden.

Stiftung Datenschutz
Wie im Koalitionsvertrag (17. Wahlperiode) zwischen Union und FDP verabredet wurde ein Antrag zur Realisierung der Stiftung Datenschutz 2012 verabschiedet, an dem Gisela Piltz maßgeblich beteiligt war. Dahinter steht der Gedanke, dass in Zeiten der immer stärkeren Nutzung des Internets und der globalen Vernetzung Datenschutz nicht alleine von staatlicher Seite gewährleistet werden kann, sondern auch in diesem Bereich aufgeklärte und selbstbestimmte Verbraucher auf der einen und datenschutzfreundlicher Angebote auf der anderen Seite erfordert.
Die Stiftung Datenschutz soll nun gemeinsam mit Vertretern der Verbraucherzentrale, Stiftung Warentest, Wirtschaftsvertretern und anderen einen breiten und kooperativen Ansatz finden, um ein Gütesiegel zu entwickeln, das Verbrauchern Orientierung zur Datenschutzfreundlichkeit von Produkten und Dienstleistungen gibt. Daneben hat die Stiftung Datenschutz auch die Aufgabe, die Sensibilität der Menschen für den Schutz ihrer eigenen Daten zu verbessern und Selbstdatenschutz durch Bildung zu stärken.

Videoüberwachung und mobile Ortung
Gisela Piltz sprach sich mehrfach gegen die Ausweitung bei der Videoüberwachung von öffentlichen Plätzen aus. Zuletzt in der Debatte im Dezember 2012, nach dem Anschlagsversuch am Bonner Bahnhof, als von verschiedenen Seiten eine stärkere Videoüberwachung des öffentlichen Bereichs gefordert wurde. Piltz sagte dazu, dass mehr Videoüberwachung nicht automatisch mehr Sicherheit bringen würde, dafür aber die Menschen immer stärker in ihren Bürgerrechten beschneiden würde. Stattdessen sollten mehr Polizeikräfte eingesetzt werden, die bei gefährlichen Situationen direkt eingreifen können – nicht wie eine Kamera, die Taten nicht verhindern kann und zudem Kriminalität oft nur verdrängt.
Ebenso sprach sich Piltz stark gegen Pläne des Mobilfunkkonzerns Telefónica im Oktober 2012 aus, Nutzungsdaten der O2-Kunden ungefragt anonymisiert zu vermarkten. Bei einer solchen Datennutzung sei eine ausreichende Anonymisierung nicht gewährleistet und könnte dazu führen, dass Bewegungsprofile von den Nutzern erstellt werden könnten.

BKA-Gesetz/Sicherheitsarchitektur
Den Einsatz des sogenannten "Bundestrojaner", also die Online-Durchsuchung Deutschland, kritisierte Piltz zuletzt im Oktober 2012. Hier müssen die strengen Vorgaben des Bundesverfassungsgerichts eingehalten werden, mit der Privatsphäre von Bürgern dürfe nicht stümperhaft umgegangen werden, nur weil das BKA die technische Kompetenz nicht besitze.
Piltz und die gesamte FDP-Bundestagsfraktion haben in der 16. Wahlperiode geschlossen gegen die Novelle des BKA-Gesetzes von Union und SPD gestimmt. Gisela Piltz kritisierte, dass Union und SPD das BKA durch die Novelle zu einem 'deutschen FBI' umwandeln wollten – also eine zentrale Polizeibehörde mit quasi-geheimdienstlichen Befugnissen. Damit werde jedoch das föderale Prinzip umgangen, nach dem die Länder für die polizeiliche Gefahrenabwehr zuständig sind.

Zum Thema der Sicherheitsarchitektur hat der FDP-Bundesvorstand mit Piltz zuletzt im Januar 2012 ein Papier mit dem Titel "Mit Sicherheit für die Freiheit – Für eine moderne Sicherheitsarchitektur in Deutschland" beschlossen. Daneben wurde von Gisela Piltz das Positionspapier "Mit einer transparenten und föderalen Sicherheitsarchitektur die Balance von Freiheit und Sicherheit stärken" eingebracht, das die FDP-Bundestagsfraktion im November 2012 beschlossen hat.

Sonstiges Engagement
Piltz gehört seit 2014 dem Kuratorium der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit an.

Weblinks
 Website von Gisela Piltz

Einzelnachweise

Mitglied des Vertrauensgremiums
Mitglied des Parlamentarischen Kontrollgremiums
Mitglied des Innenausschusses (Deutscher Bundestag)
Bundestagsabgeordneter (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
FDP-Bundesvorstand
Mitglied im Kuratorium der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung
Mitglied der Jungen Liberalen
Politiker (Düsseldorf)
Rechtsanwalt (Deutschland)
Deutscher
Geboren 1964
Frau


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Q: Re-rendering 3rd field with change event of  I am trying to update a duration (difference of two dates being captured by .  When I add the fireDrillEvacTime to the rendering of the following stack trace dump:
    JBWEB000309: type JBWEB000066: Exception report

JBWEB000068: message <f:ajax> contains an unknown id 'fireDrillStartTime,fireDrillEvacTime' - cannot locate it in the context of the component fireDrillStartTime

JBWEB000069: description JBWEB000145: The server encountered an internal error that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

JBWEB000070: exception

javax.servlet.ServletException: <f:ajax> contains an unknown id 'fireDrillStartTime,fireDrillEvacTime' - cannot locate it in the context of the component fireDrillStartTime
    javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:606)
    org.monarchnc.filter.LoginFilter.doFilter(LoginFilter.java:41)
JBWEB000071: root cause

javax.faces.FacesException: <f:ajax> contains an unknown id 'fireDrillStartTime,fireDrillEvacTime' - cannot locate it in the context of the component fireDrillStartTime
    com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.AjaxBehaviorRenderer.getResolvedId(AjaxBehaviorRenderer.java:289)
    com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.AjaxBehaviorRenderer.appendIds(AjaxBehaviorRenderer.java:276)
    com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.AjaxBehaviorRenderer.buildAjaxCommand(AjaxBehaviorRenderer.java:218)
    com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.AjaxBehaviorRenderer.getScript(AjaxBehaviorRenderer.java:88)
    javax.faces.component.behavior.ClientBehaviorBase.getScript(ClientBehaviorBase.java:103)

Here is my xhtml file:
                <h:outputLabel for="fireDrillStartTime" value="Fire Drill Start Time:"/>
                <rich:calendar value="#{fireDrillBean.fireDrill.fireDrillStartTime}" id="fireDrillStartTime"
                        popup="true"  datePattern="yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"
                        enableManualInput="true" required="true"
                        showApplyButton="true" cellWidth="24px" cellHeight="22px" style="width:200px">
                         <f:ajax event="change" execute="@this"  bypassUpdates="#{true}"  render="fireDrillStartTime,fireDrillEndTime"/>
                </rich:calendar>
                <h:outputText value="*"/>

                <h:outputLabel for="fireDrillEndTime" value="Fire Drill End Time:"/>
                <rich:calendar value="#{fireDrillBean.fireDrill.fireDrillEndTime}" id="fireDrillEndTime"
                        popup="true"  datePattern="yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"
                        enableManualInput="true" required="true"
                        showApplyButton="true" cellWidth="24px" cellHeight="22px" style="width:200px">
                        <f:ajax event="change" execute="@this"  bypassUpdates="#{true}"  render="fireDrillEndTime,fireDrillEndTime"/>
                </rich:calendar>
                <h:outputText value="*"/>

                <h:outputLabel for="fireDrillEvacTime" value="Fire Drill Evac Time:"/>
                <h:outputText id="fireDrillEvacTime" value="#{fireDrillBean.evacDuration}" style="width: 175px;"/>
                <h:outputText value="" />

Here is the setter/getter:
public Long getEvacDuration() {
        return evacDuration;
    }

    public void setEvacDuration(long evacDuration) throws Exception{
        try{
            if (this.fireDrill.getFireDrillStartTime() != null && this.fireDrill.getFireDrillEndTime() != null){
                evacDuration= fireDrill.getFireDrillStartTime().getTime() - fireDrill.getFireDrillEndTime().getTime();
                evacDuration = timeUnit.convert(evacDuration,TimeUnit.SECONDS);
                this.fireDrill.setEvacuationDuration(evacDuration);
            }
        }
        catch (Exception up) {
            throw up;
        }
        this.evacDuration=evacDuration;
    }

I am new to this, and have searched on how to calculate the date, but having a hard time with figuring how to get a rich:calendar to execute an ajax call when either of the dates are changed to rerender the fireEvacTimeTime without having to click a calculation button. What am I doing wrong?

A: Hej Azulitabijou,
i wrote a small example for you. It is working, but you'll have to adapt it to your needs.
I left out all the patterns and evaluations..
The Controller Class
package de.professional_webworkx.so.controller;

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

import javax.enterprise.inject.Model;
import javax.enterprise.inject.Produces;
import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
import javax.faces.event.AjaxBehaviorEvent;
import javax.inject.Inject;
import javax.inject.Named;

@Model
public class FireCalendarController {

    @Inject
    FacesContext context;

    private Date startDate;
    private Date endDate;
    private long duration;

    @Produces
    @Named
    public Date getStartDate() {
        Logger.getLogger(getClass().getSimpleName()).log(Level.INFO, "MSG");
        return startDate;
    }

    public void setStartDate(Date startDate) {
        this.startDate = startDate;
    }

    @Produces
    @Named
    public Date getEndDate() {
        return endDate;
    }

    public void setEndDate(Date endDate) {
        this.endDate = endDate;
    }

    @Produces
    @Named
    public long getDuration() {
        return duration;
    }

    public void setDuration(long duration) {
        this.duration = duration;
    }

    public void doSomething() {
        duration = endDate.getTime()-startDate.getTime();
        Logger.getLogger(getClass().getSimpleName()).log(Level.INFO, "Start was " + startDate);
    }

}

UPDATE
create your own calendar component like this and place it under webapp/resources/emcomp/calendar.xhtml:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
    xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
    xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich"
    xmlns:composite="http://java.sun.com/jsf/composite">

    <!-- INTERFACE -->
    <composite:interface>
        <composite:attribute name="date" />

        <composite:clientBehavior name="date_change" event="change" targets="#{cc.id}"/>
    </composite:interface>

    <!-- IMPLEMENTATION -->
    <composite:implementation>
        <h:panelGrid columns="2">
            <h:outputText value="Startdatum" />
            <rich:calendar id="#{cc.id}" value="#{cc.attrs.date}"  datePattern="dd.MM.yyyy"></rich:calendar>
        </h:panelGrid>
    </composite:implementation>

</html>

And use your calendar-component like this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
      xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
      xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j"
      xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich"
      xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
      xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
      xmlns:composite="http://java.sun.com/jsf/composite"
      xmlns:em="http://java.sun.com/jsf/composite/emcomp">

<h:head></h:head>
<h:body>

    <rich:panel>
        <f:facet name="header">
        fireDrill at SO ;9
        </f:facet>
        <h:form>
        <h:panelGrid columns="2">
        <h:outputText value="Startdate:" />

        <!--
            <rich:calendar value="#{fireCalendarController.startDate}"></rich:calendar>
         -->
        <em:calendar id="start" date="#{fireCalendarController.startDate}">

        </em:calendar>
        <em:calendar id="end" date="#{fireCalendarController.endDate}">
            <a4j:ajax event="date_change" execute="start,end" render="duration"/>
        </em:calendar>

        <h:outputText value="Duration" />
        <h:outputText id="duration" value="#{fireCalendarController.duration}" />
        </h:panelGrid>
        </h:form>
    </rich:panel>
</h:body>
</html>

I hope this will help you to go on working.


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Home Entertainment Check out Cate Blanchett As Lilith From The Borderlands Movie…sort of
Check out Cate Blanchett As Lilith From The Borderlands Movie…sort of
I still refuse to believe that the Borderlands movie is happening, but here we are. Eli Roth calling the shots behind the camera, a stacked cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Black, and Kevin Hart as headliners, and a classic story of treasure hunters on a backwards alien planet looking to score some sweet loot from an alien vault.
The only question is, will this film nail the signature style of Borderlands? Sort of judge for yourself, as Jamie Lee Curtis has shared a behind-the-scenes image from the set that shows Cate Blanchett in her Lilith costume. Which apparently generates mini-eclipse events:
Welcome to BORDERLANDS & a secret BTS shot I took of Lilith, our legendary heroine, psycho blasting, vault hunting vixen with a bad attitude.#cateblanchett
From the brilliant minds of @borderlandsfilm @therealeliroth@gearbox @picturestart @Lionsgate
Arad Productions pic.twitter.com/R193HTGBZj
— Jamie Lee Curtis (@jamieleecurtis) June 1, 2021
That silhouette looks like it was rendered in an Xbox 360 game, which kind of looks…perfect? Can't wait to see the full reveal, because Blanchett's shape is cutting a brilliantly authentic Borderlands pose right there for her part as the Siren known only as Lillith. On that topic, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford took to Twitter again to remind people that while the Borderlands film may be based on the games, it won't be a part of the canon of that universe.
Instead, Pitchford already has Disney dollars in his eyes and refers to this film as being a part of the Borderlands Cinematic Universe. "It's parallel and related to the video games, with authentic characters and themes, but independent canon from the video games," Pitchford tweeted. What this basically means is that Borderlands will cherry-pick the best bits from the games, and use it to create its own lore and narrative.
Some of us working on this are starting to refer to the realm of movie story as "within the Borderlands Cinematic Universe" (or BCU). It's parallel and related to the videogames, with authentic characters and themes, but independent canon from the videogames. https://t.co/mHsDVoxrkZ
— Randy Pitchford (@DuvalMagic) June 1, 2021
"We are authentic to characters, tone and style, but allow for independent storylines. The mediums are not the same, so the content should not be bound to the same rules," Pitchford said in a previous post back in April.
The movie is canon to the cinematic universe. The games are canon to the video game universe. There are parallels between them, but also differences. It's okay. Consider how Marvel has handled movies versus comic books for reference if this is hard for you to understand.
Borderlands is currently shooting scenes and disposable stuntmen in Budapest, so it'll likely be a while before any other details or even a trailer pops up. Will we see Claptrap confounded by his greatest nemesis, stairs? By the vaults, I do hope we get that scene.