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23 Nov 2019, 09:35 GMT+10
WASHINGTON - An FBI lawyer is suspected of altering a document related to surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser, a person familiar with the situation said Friday.
President Donald Trump, who has long attacked as a "hoax" and a "witch hunt" the FBI's investigation into ties between Russia and his 2016 presidential campaign, immediately touted news reports about the allegations to assert that the FBI had tried to "overthrow the presidency."
The allegation is part of a Justice Department inspector general investigation into the early days of the FBI's Russia probe, which was ultimately taken over by special counsel Robert Mueller and resulted in charges against six Trump associates and more than two dozen Russians accused of interfering in the election. Inspector General Michael Horowitz is expected to release his report on Dec. 9. Witnesses in the last two weeks have been invited in to see draft sections of that document.
The release of the inspector general report is likely to revive debate about the investigation that has shadowed Trump's presidency since the beginning. It is centered in part on the FBI's use of a secret surveillance warrant to monitor the communications of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
"This was spying on my campaign - something that has never been done in the history of our country,'' Trump told "Fox & Friends" on Friday. "They tried to overthrow the presidency."
The allegation against the lawyer was first reported by CNN. The Washington Post subsequently reported that the conduct of the FBI employee didn't alter Horowitz's finding that the surveillance application of Page had a proper legal and factual basis, an official told the Post, which said the lawyer was forced out.
A person familiar with the case who was not authorized to discuss the matter by name and spoke to AP only on the condition of anonymity confirmed the allegation. Spokespeople for the FBI and the inspector general declined to comment Friday.
The FBI obtained a secret surveillance warrant in 2016 to monitor the communications of Page, who was never charged in the Russia investigation or accused of wrongdoing. The warrant, which was renewed several times and approved by different judges in 2016 and early 2017, has been one of the most contentious elements of the Russia probe and was the subject of dueling memos last year issued by Democrats and Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee.
Republicans have long attacked the credibility of the warrant application since it cited information derived from a dossier of opposition research compiled by Christopher Steele, a former British spy whose work was financed by Democrats and the Hillary Clinton campaign.
"They got my warrant - a fraudulent warrant, I believe - to spy on myself as a way of getting into the Trump campaign," Page said in an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox's "Mornings with Maria" "There has been a continued cover"-up to this day. We still don't have the truth, but hopefully, we'll get that soon."
FBI Director Chris Wray has told Congress that he did not consider the FBI surveillance to be "spying" and that he has no evidence the FBI illegally monitored Trump's campaign during the 2016 election. Wray said he would not describe the FBI's surveillance as "spying" if it's following "investigative policies and procedures."
Attorney General William Barr has said he believed "spying" did occur, but he also made clear at a Senate hearing earlier this year that he had no specific evidence that any surveillance was illegal or improper. Barr has appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham to investigate how intelligence was collected, and that probe has since become criminal in nature, a person familiar with the matter has said.
But Trump insists that members of the Obama administration "at the highest levels" were spying on his 2016 campaign. "Personally, I think it goes all the way. ... I think this goes to the highest level,'' he said in the Fox interview. "I hate to say it. I think it's a disgrace. They thought I was going to win and they said, 'How can we stop him?'"
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What Does 'The Great Reset' Mean for the US Economy?
Vatican ambassador to the United States Carlo Maria Vigano (L) and Vincenzo Paglia (R) listen to Pope Francis speaking at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pa., on Sept. 26, 2015. (Vincenzo Pinto/AFP via Getty Images)
Catholic Church Is Infiltrated by Globalists: Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano
By Ella Kietlinska
January 8, 2021 Updated: January 11, 2021
"There is a group of conspirators who have worked and still work in the heart of the church" for the interests of the globalist elite, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano told "War Room." He called this group the deep church and explained that their goal is to demolish the papacy and secure power.
"Most of them are identifiable, but the most dangerous are those who do not expose themselves, those whom the newspaper never mentions," Vigano explained in an interview (pdf) with Steve Bannon, host of "War Room."
The deep church has also cooperated with the "deep state" in America and their contacts were facilitated in the 1990s by a former American cardinal carrying out political missions in China on behalf of the U.S. administration, said Vigano, a former Vatican ambassador to the United States. The deep state is a term some use to reflect the belief that there are influential people behind the scenes controlling government policy.
Vigano believes that the agreement on the appointment of bishops in China between the Vatican and the Chinese regime that, in his words, "deprived Chinese Catholics of the indefectible defense that the Papacy had always been for them," is an act of complicity of the deep church with the Chinese communist regime allied to the global deep state.
"Up until the papacy of Benedict XVI, the papacy had not made any agreements with the Beijing dictatorship, and the Roman Pontiff retained the exclusive right to appoint bishops and govern dioceses," the archbishop continued.
The Vatican and China entered into an unpublished agreement in 2018 which gave the Chinese regime the authority to appoint bishops and granted the Pope the right to veto its appointments, according to a 2019 report (pdf) of the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China. The agreement was extended in October 2020 for another two years.
"The dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party [CCP] is allied to the global deep state on the one hand so that together they can attain the goals that they have in common." On the other hand, the deep state's plans for the Great Reset are an opportunity for the CCP to increase the economic power of China in the world, beginning with the invasion of national markets, Vigano said.
"China is pursuing a domestic plan to restore the Maoist tyranny, which requires the cancellation of religions (primarily the Catholic religion), replacing them with a religion of the state which definitely has many elements in common with the universal religion desired by globalist ideology," Vigano continued.
"We find ourselves faced with an infamous betrayal of the mission of the church of Christ, carried out by her highest leaders in open conflict with those members of the Chinese Catholic underground hierarchy who have remained faithful to our lord and to his church," Vigano said.
Vigano praised Cardinal Joseph Zen, the bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, who advocated against the Vatican-China deal calling the cardinal "an eminent confessor of the faith."
Before the agreement extension, Zen traveled to the Vatican with plans to meet with the Pope to update him on the situation in Hong Kong and the Catholic Church in China. However, Zen was not granted an audience with Pope Francis.
"The idea of striking accords with Beijing is insane," Zen told Daily Compass about the Vatican-China deal. "It's like trying to make a pact with the devil."
Globalism Versus Nationalism
Vigano criticized the European Union for its recent business investment deal with the Chinese communist regime known for systematic violations of human rights and violent repression against dissent. As a part of the deal concluded at the end of December the Chinese regime made commitments to improve market access for EU investors.
China's President Xi Jinping (R) shakes hands to Founder and Executive Chairperson of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab (L) prior to delivering a speech during the first day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 17, 2017. (Fabrice Coffrini /AFP via Getty Images)
In January 2017 at the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland, Chinese Communist Party's General Secretary, Xi Jinping gave a speech which was lauded by all attendees, Steve Bannon, former White House Chief Strategist and host of "War Room" told The Epoch Times.
The meeting in Davos is "the most elitist gathering of the world's financial business and political and cultural community that exists," he said.
In his speech, Xi touted the globalization projects and China's role as the railhead of them, seeing other countries as "all kinds of tributary states" and telling the audience the projects will allow them "to make more money than ever," Bannon said.
However Xi foresaw one problem which could hamper those projects: populist nationalism, Bannon said. "All the unwashed masses who are not trained or not elites like [the audience] want to have a say," Bannon said, explaining Xi's reasoning.
U.S. President Donald Trump takes the oath of office as his wife Melania Trump holds the bible and his son Barron Trump looks on, on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 20, 2017. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Three days later President Donald Trump gave his famous American carnage speech at his inaugural ceremony. His speech was at its heart the concept of a sovereign nation-state, "a defense of the nation-state, a nation-state as a unit, that man can get the most freedom in a very imperfect world, [man] can have the most freedom possible," Bannon said describing Trump's vision presented in the speech as a nationalist project.
Every person participating in the annual WEF meeting in Davos knows all about the concentration camps for Uyghurs, persecution of house Christians, forced organ harvesting, the suppression of the underground Catholic church, the suppression and the torture of the Falun Gong, and the democracy movement, and the situation in Hong Kong—they have perfect information on everything and they don't care, he said.
The Chinese business model is based on the slave labor of the people of China, who are underpaid and forced to work incredible hours in factories, Bannon said.
"The slave labor of China goes throughout the world as export and allows the world's workers whether they're in India, or Western Europe or the United States to never get pay raises. This was the miracle of Donald Trump to actually get blue-collar workers to pay raises," Bannon said.
These two speeches represent "two diametrically opposed ways that the world should be organized. One is based upon hundreds of years of freedom as imperfect as it's been, right, versus a totalitarian," Bannon said.
President and Founder of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, during an interview with The Associated Press in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 15, 2017. (Michel Euler/AP Photo)
The Great Reset is a concept to move from "shareholder capitalism" to "stakeholder capitalism," using wealth taxes, regulation, and fiscal policies geared toward equality and sustainability, promoting more equitable outcomes, and using the Fourth Industrial Revolution to address health and social challenges, Klaus Schwab, the founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF) explained on the organization's website.
"Now is the time for a Great Reset," Schwab, a Professor of Business Policy at the University of Geneva and a co-author of the book "The Great Reset," announced on the WEF website in June 2020.
"The changes we have already seen in response to COVID-19 prove that a reset of our economic and social foundations is possible," Schwab said.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution will incorporate mobile devices, with unprecedented processing power, storage capacity, and access to knowledge to give governments "new technological powers to increase their control over populations, based on pervasive surveillance systems and the ability to control digital infrastructure," Schwab wrote.
It will also pose challenges to people's privacy because the tracking and sharing of information about people is a crucial part of the new connectivity, Schwab wrote. "The revolutions occurring in biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) … will compel us to redefine our moral and ethical boundaries," Schwab added.
The Great Reset architects use the mainstream media as an indispensable ally to make people believe "that the radical changes they want to impose have been made necessary by a pandemic, by climate change, and by technological progress," Vigano said.
Schwab wrote, "We must build entirely new foundations for our economic and social systems," to address crises caused by the pandemic, climate change, and social crisis.
"We must all become aware of how much the proponents of the New World Order and the Great Reset hate the inalienable values of our Greco-Christian civilization, such as religion, the family, respect for life and the inviolable rights of the human person, and national sovereignty," the archbishop said.
Joshua Phillip and Alexander Zhang contributed to this report.
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I'm writing from the PBS history series American Experience. We are working on a film about the 1936 Olympic Gold Medal rowing team from the University of Washington and also featured in the book "The Boys in the Boat." We are looking for radio recordings of the races the UW Crew team participated in from 1934 through 1936. The LOC has already provided us the radio coverage of the Olympic race. I have a long list below describing the races we are looking for copies of the radio coverage. Some of the detail information was provided by the LOC and Marist College. If anyone has an idea of where we might be able to find the audio files of these races we would greatly appreciate it. Thank you for your time. Best – Pam Gaudiano (sorry this is a long email)
Rowing Races Radio Coverage 1934 – 1936
April 13 Pacific Coast Regatta of 1934 - First Freshman Race (our boys boat) - Lake Washington, Seattle - The freshmen defeat California
June 16th, 1934 Saturday, Poughkeepsie, Intercollegiate Rowing Association Annual Regatta  - Freshman Eight-Oared Shells - 4:30 pm - Two Miles
Order of Finish:1. Washington, 2. Syracuse, 3. Cornell
WJZ 760 (New York) covered the regatta at 7:15pm with a program called "Description Poughkeepsie Regatta on Hudson River; Crews of Columbia, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Syracuse, California and Washington Universities and U. S. Naval Academy."  It was also broadcast at 7:30pm on WABC.(WJZ 760 later became a WABC station)
Graham McNamee covered the regatta and he worked primarily for WEAF (New York), which later became WNBC (it may be WNBC or WEAF covering the regatta that year.)
April 13, 1935 -  Pacific Coast Regatta, Oakland Estuary, CA
The JV's (our boys) led their race from the outset and won by six lengths
April 18, 1935 the city of Seattle held its version of a ticker-tape parade. The Washington Athletic Club on Union Street held a special luncheon - Sports writer Royal Brougham was the master of ceremonies and the proceedings were broadcast live on the radio.
June 18th, 1935, Poughkeepsie, Intercollegiate Rowing Association Annual Regatta - Junior Varsity Eight-Oared Shells - 5pm - Three Miles
Order of Finish: 1. Washington, 2. Navy, 3. Cornell
Sports Writer Royal Brougham called the race for NBC
WEAF 660 (New York) covered the regatta with the program, "Description Poughkeepsie Regatta" at 7pm (these recordings should be part of the same collection as the Graham McNamee coverage in 1934).  This was jointly covered by NBC (most likely WEAF) and KECA (Los Angeles) with Graham McNamee representing NBC and Ford Bond representing KECA at 3:15pm (I think this was 3:15pm Pacific Time as I retrieved this information from the Los Angeles Times).
April 18th, 1936 Pacific Coast Regatta - on Lake Washington, Seattle.The Varsity crew (our boys) finished the sweep with a three length victory over California.
NBC broadcast of the varsity race on KOMO Seattle
"At 4:15pm the NBC Red Network went on the air with coast-to-coast pre-race coverage."
June 22th, 1936, Poughkeepsie, Intercollegiate Rowing Association Annual Regatta  - Varsity Eight-Oared Shells - 7pm pm - Four Miles. Order of Finish:1. Washington, 2. California, 3. Navy
WOR 710 (New York) presented a program at 8pm entitled "Description, Poughkeepsie Regatta; Crews Representing Navy, Columbia, Cornell, Syracuse, Pennsylvania, California and Washington."
There was also coverage by KHJ a CBS station based in Los Angeles, with Royal Brougham announcing at 8pm.
July 5, 1936 (the Olympic Trials) UW Huskies win at Lake Carnegie at Princeton NJ
Crews in the race: University of Washington, Pennsylvania Club Crew, New York Club Crew, and California
Royal Brougham broadcast the race live to fifty stations around the country on the CBS network.
It aired on Station WJZ on July 5, 1936 from 5:00 – 5:23 pm.
Pam Gaudiano
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Date: 27.11.17 Written by: Nigel Jarrett Posted in: Reviews, Music, Performing Arts
LIVE | WNO Orchestra: Shostakovich & Mahler
St David's Hall, Cardiff, 23 November, 2017
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera
Mezzo-soprano: Tara Erraught
Conductor: Tomáš Hanus
Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C (the 'Leningrad')
Some estimates put the number of children who died in the siege of Leningrad at upwards of 400,000. They were scattered among both the citizens who stayed and the 1.4 million, mainly women and the young, evacuated from the beleaguered city yet still decimated by starvation and artillery bombardment. The final casualty figures, possibly under-estimated because of lost records and the numbers of immigrants entering the city in flight from turmoil elsewhere, beggar belief. In addition to those who perished in the evacuation, 1.5 million were to die among those who stayed. Prolonged silence, at least more than the sixty seconds of formal remembrances, might appear to be the only response, were it not for music's ability to say more than words about the horrors of human suffering.
The pairing of music by Mahler and Shostakovitch at this concert in the International Series at St. David's Hall (one, incidentally, that counts the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera as deserving of inclusion beyond the convenience of having the company domiciled just down the road) was on the nail. It was also part of the ongoing Russian17 commemoration in Wales of 100 years since the Revolution.
From the start of his composing career, Mahler was fascinated by death. Joy was always tempered by despair, and this was reflected in his juxtaposing method of composition, in which different musical materials and emotions jostle. If it were not for the back-and-forth sweep of the scythe as the German salvoes rained down on Leningrad, the choice of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, a song cycle of poems by Rückert on the death of children, might have been the obvious prelude. (Two of the poet's children died of scarlet fever and eight of Mahler's siblings were to die young). Instead we were offered the composer's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesselen (Songs of A Wayfarer), an equally bleak outlook punctuated by leavening relatives. The singer, like the one who carries the burdens of the lovesick in Schubert's Winterreise, oscillates between memories of happiness and disillusionment. It may be an inward-looking anguish, but it surveys the same landscape. In matters of the heart, it has to be said, Mahler was a rum cove.
For this cycle of four songs, the Irish mezzo Tara Erraught was a model of composure, intent on narrowing her range of tonality, not always to the good, and allowing the voice to do everything unaided by over-much facial expression and other body language. This was especially effective in the first song, Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht (When My Darling has her Wedding Day) and the final one, Die Zwei Blauen Augen (The Two Blue Eyes), representing the start and finish of almost unrelieved despondency were it not for the respite of Ging heut' Morgen über's Feld (I Walked Across The Fields) and that late clambering into the light, which might have been made more of. One always feels that these utterances of love's disillusionment in music belong to the young, though it is often older singers who can bring to them the element of reflection on experience, albeit with some loss of immediacy. And it's always good to hear the distaff side's take on matters. The plunge into psychodrama of the third song, Ich hab' ein glühend Messer (I Have a Red Hot Knife) was, however, headlong, and made any sort of return from the depths welcome. By the end, the orchestra, everywhere intensifying the singer's isolation and distress, had prepared for what was to follow.
Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony, the 'Leningrad', is as long as its survey of soul-stirring and its depiction of the siege itself are broad and epic. But, as always with this composer, not everything is as it seems. Once more, the WNO orchestra and its music director and conductor Tomáš Hanus, fully armed and battle-ready, were in for the duration, as they were for a memorable Mahler Resurrection Symphony at the same venue last year in the MD's company début. Take that silly clockwork tune in the opening allegretto, for instance, brilliantly tick-tocked here and reaching its proper cacophony: is it the Wehrmacht on its way to obliterate the city, or the robotic motions and increasing oppressiveness of the Russian state headed by Stalin? (It would be a ready accompaniment to a platoon of pen-pushers interminably signing death warrants, followed by the savage purges themselves.) And was not the symphony's gist and its main material gotten before the war in the light of the brutalities of the 1930s? Whatever. Such caveats are in some ways digressive insults to the memory of those who died in the two-year Blokada Leningrada.
Perhaps more relevant today is whether or not the symphony's ever-spreading canvas, with all that means in the need for cuts and compression, trumps as music its historical place and the stories surrounding it. After all, most propaganda music – and the Seventh was even loud-speakered to the besiegers – usually enslaves its purely musical content. But somehow, not this one. Hanus made sure there was no ambivalence in that first movement. This was war, as denoted in the movement's original title, though the killing machines had further to roll than those in the opening of Holst's The Planets suite. It's always a fatuous comment, but opera company orchestras know how to set the scene, even with the multitude of players here assembled, which could never be accommodated in your average theatre pit. Not for nothing does Shostakovich employ such vast numbers. The end of the opening allegretto under Hanus's direction was at the end riotous with terror and dread, and for the conductor a tribute to the disciplined use of the orchestra in layers, transforming the apparently banal to the horribly grotesque.
It's in the second and third movements that the performance gave notice of the music having travelled far, with the listener wondering how things were going to turn out and whether further progress was to be circular. In the third particularly, the scene-painting, though later on edgy, took us to a place of relative safety and calm. By this time, it had become clear from the beginning that sombrely-played solo instruments, catching moods almost to perfection – violin, piccolo, bassoon, side-drum, oboe, cor anglais, flute and bass-clarinet – were exemplars of how the few could arise from the many and speak truth for them. At the end it was everyone on board for noisy exultation and celebration of whatever victory the music is recognising over whatever form of evil. Opera orchestras also know how to make a drama out of a crisis and press home an ending. More interesting times ahead, one suspects, for the WNO with Hanus in charge of the music.
Nigel Jarrett is a freelance writer and regular contributor to the Wales Arts Review. He is a poet, novelist, and story writer. His latest collection of stories, Who Killed Emil Kreisler?, was published last year. He is a winner of the Rhys Davies prize for short fiction and, in 2016, the inaugural Templar Shorts award. He also writes and reviews for Jazz Journal. Next year sees the publication of his short fiction pamphlet, A Gloucester Trilogy.
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Rights and education, justice, social protection and the environment
What is the relation between human rights, rights-based approaches and education, justice and the environment? How do human rights perspectives influence approaches to social protection as a preventative, protective, promotive and transformative set of interventions?
Much of the literature concerning these links offers donor policy statements, guidance and advocacy papers arguing that a rights-based approach helps to enhance existing sectoral work and that the indivisibility or interdependence of rights demonstrates that cross-sectoral working is essential for the realisation of rights. Rights help to move beyond predominantly technical approaches, to recognise the need to address the wider political and social environment within which programmes occur. Rights often necessitate the use of new language or ways of thinking about how to make decisions and prioritise, with implications for policy formation.
The application of rights-based approaches in these sectors places an emphasis on social mobility, access, equity, equality of opportunity, the role of the state (or other institutions) in recognising human rights, and the role of citizens in demanding their rights be realised. However, recognising and demanding rights is only part of the story: it is essential that different actors possess an awareness of what the implications of human rights are within different sectors. A good example of where rights-based approaches can be realised is in social protection interventions, which are thought to encompass 'transformative' elements which challenge unequal power relations and lay the ground for equity in all service delivery sectors.
Tomasevski, K., 2004, 'Manual on Rights-based Education: Global Human Rights Requirements Made Simple', UNESCO, Bangkok
How can rights-based strategies be used for furthering the goal of Education for All (EFA) by 2015? This manual argues for mainstreaming human rights in education in order to contribute both to EFA and to the fulfilment of the right to education. It highlights the relevant human rights standards and how they could best be translated into education practice at the micro level. It also points to the key human rights questions that ought to be addressed at the macro level.
Gauri, V., 2003, 'Social Rights and Economics: Claims to Health Care and Education in Developing Countries', Policy Research Working Paper 3006, World Bank, Washington
What are the foundations and uses of social rights in development? What are the differences and similarities between the rights approach to health care and education, and the economic approach? This article analyses both approaches and their policy consequences, and looks at the questions economics poses for rights approaches. It argues that there is considerable overlap between the two and that the differences are not irreconcilable.
UNICEF. (2007). A human rights-based approach to education for all. A framework for the realization of children's right to education and rights within education. New York: UNICEF.
This document brings together the current thinking and practice on human rights-based approaches in the education sector. It presents key issues and challenges in rights-based approaches and provides a framework for policy and programme development from the level of the school up to the national and international levels.
The Right to Education project conducts research and provides access to information and resources on education rights, legal accountability, and social mobilisation.
UNDP, 2008, 'Making the Law Work for Everyone', Volume 1, Report of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, United Nations Development Programme, New York
How can legal empowerment reduce poverty? This report explores the relationship between poverty and access to justice. Four billion people cannot better their lives because they are excluded from the rule of law, their work and assets insecure and unprotected. A renewed anti-poverty agenda is needed to include the majority of the world's population in the systems of rights and obligations that foster prosperity.
Tomasevski, K., 2005, 'Strengthening Pro-poor Law: Legal Enforcement of Economic and Social Rights', Human Rights and Poverty Reduction Background Paper, ODI, London
How can human rights legislation expose and oppose violations of economic and social rights? This paper looks at the key lessons that can be learnt from the relatively recent processes of human rights litigation worldwide. Importantly, the legal enforcement of human rights can support anti-poverty policies, since the poor are more victimised by violations of rights than the rich.
Piron, L-H., 2005, 'Donor Assistance to Justice Sector Reform in Africa: Living Up to the New Agenda?' Justice Initiative, Open Society
Is donor assistance to promote justice sector reform grounded in an adequate and appropriate understanding of African realities? Does it complement or conflict with the new poverty reduction agenda? This paper outlines the history and current status of justice sector aid in sub-Saharan Africa. Justice sector aid could be a pro-poor, long term, developmental endeavour that contributes to the realisation of human rights, but only if key changes take place.
Olsen, T., Payne, L. and Reiter, A., 2010, 'The Justice Balance: When Transitional Justice Improves Human Rights and Democracy', Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 980-1007
Evidence from the Transitional Justice Data Base shows that specific combinations of mechanisms – (1) trials and amnesties, and (2) trials, amnesties and truth commissions – improve human rights and democracy. These findings suggest a 'justice balance' approach to transitional justice – that trials provide accountability and amnesties provide stability. Truth commissions alone have a negative impact on human rights and democracy, but contribute positively when combined with trials and amnesties.
Prada, M. F. (2011). Empowering the poor through human rights litigation. Paris: UNESCO.
Following consultation with more than 200 NGOs worldwide, this manual aims to define the content of economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights and to empower the actions of NGOs working to tackle poverty. It elaborates standards for poverty eradication extracted from comparative case law by highlighting the interpretation techniques used by judges throughout a series of landmark cases on ESC rights around the world. It aims to support advocacy and training initiatives.
Danish Institute for Human Rights. (2012). Informal justice systems: Charting a course for human rights-based engagement. UNDP, UNICEF and UN Women.
This study, based on a literature review and country case studies, seeks to identify how engagement with informal justice systems (IJS) can build greater respect and protection for human rights. The study also examines the value of informal justice systems in offering, in certain contexts, flexible structures and processes, cost-effectiveness and outreach to grassroots communities. Each kind of IJS is likely to have weaknesses and strengths for programming. Development partners need to be alert to engagement with informal justice systems that directly or inadvertently reinforce existing societal or structural discrimination.
Brinks D. M. & Gauri, V. (2012). The law's majestic equality? The distributive impact of litigating social and economic rights (Policy Research Working Paper 5999). Washington DC: World Bank.
Optimism about the use of laws, constitutions, and rights to achieve social change is high among practitioners. But the academic literature is sceptical that courts can direct resources toward the poor. Using data on social and economic rights cases in five countries, this paper finds that not all courts are the same. Countries and policy areas characterised by judicial decisions with broader applicability tend to avoid the potential anti-poor bias of courts. The study finds that the more a system relies on litigation that is expected to have only individual effects, the more that litigation will centre on high-end state benefits rather than low-cost goods, and thus will be less progressive. Overall, however, the study finds that the results of litigation are more positive for the poor than conventional wisdom would suggest.
The GSDRC's topic guide on justice contains information related to human rights, particularly on its access to justice and transitional justice pages.
Piron, L-H., 2004, 'Rights-Based Approaches to Social Protection', Overseas Development Institute, London.
What can rights based approaches (RBAs) offer to social protection agendas? This paper explores the relationship between human rights standards, principles and programming and policies and interventions for social protection in countries worldwide. RBAs offer normative standards and principles, analytical tools and operational guidance and there is a strong congruence between RBAs and social protection.
Sabates-Wheeler, R. and Devereux, S., 2007, 'Social Protection for Transformation', IDS Bulletin, vol. 38, no. 3, pp.23-28
Ginneken, W. V., 2009, 'Social Security and the Socio-Economic Floor: Towards a Human Rights-based Approach', Global Social Policy, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 228-245
Sepulveda Carmona, M., Nyst, C., & Hautala, H. (2012). The human rights approach to social protection. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland.
The Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights provides a human rights framework for social protection, identifying best practices and disseminating lessons learned. Her approach applies the central human rights principles to the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of social protection systems. This publication synthesises the key findings and recommendations from the following reports of the Special Rapporteur to the UN Human Rights Council and General Assembly: 1) Human rights and cash transfer programmes; 2) The role of social protection in the face of the global financial crisis; 3) A human rights framework for non-contributory pensions; 4) The importance of social protection measures in achieving the MDGs, with a particular focus on gender-related concerns; and 5) The human rights approach to recovery from the global economic and financial crises.
Cecchini, S., & Martínez, R. (2012). Inclusive social protection in Latin America: a comprehensive, rights-based approach. ECLAC.
This book identifies the scope and role of social protection in extremely unequal societies with a high incidence of persistent poverty. Social protection, seen from a rights-based perspective, is linked to the fight against inequality in a number of ways: it greatly reduces the probability of failing to cope with a contingent risk; it curbs the vicious circle of poverty and inequality by preventing families from mortgaging key assets for human development, such as health and education; and it facilitates the implementation of strategies for empowering the most vulnerable groups to cope with risk, particularly children, elderly people and women. The book concludes by providing a normative basis on which to build more just societies that guarantee to protect, as a public good, essential welfare standards.
The GSDRC's Social Protection topic guide provides more detailed information on how social protection can facilitate the realisation of human rights within development.
An emerging topic of discussion and policy concern is how human rights are challenged by environmental problems. Climate change is threatening the realisation of internationally protected human rights, including the right to life and security; the right to food; the right to subsistence; and the right to health. Moreover, those most affected by climate change are individuals and groups whose rights protections are already precarious.
Raworth, K., 2008, 'Climate Wrongs and Human Rights: Putting People at the Heart of Climate-Change Policy', Oxfam Briefing Paper 117, Oxfam International, Oxford
What do human rights principles imply for states' responsibilities in tackling climate change? What rights-based policy approaches and actions are needed? This paper argues that rich countries are violating the human rights of millions of the world's poorest people by failing to tackle climate change. Excessive greenhouse-gas emissions cause climatic events which are set to undermine people's rights to life, security, food, water, health, shelter, and culture on a massive scale. Human rights principles must be put at the heart of climate change policy-making and international legal mechanisms must adapt to global interconnectness in order to stop irreversible damage to humanity's future.
International Council on Human Rights Policy, 2008, 'Climate Change and Human Rights: A Rough Guide', Versoix, Geneva
How can human rights principles help to focus climate change policymaking? This report discusses the human rights impacts of climate change and maps research agendas. Climate change responses can be made more effective if policymakers include human rights thresholds (minimum acceptable levels of protection) when assessing future impacts of climate change and of adaptation and mitigation strategies.
Cameron, E., 2011, 'Development, Climate Change and Human Rights: From the Margins to the Mainstream?', Social Development Working Paper 123, World Bank, Washington DC
What are the social and political implications of a discourse linking climate change and human rights? How is this discourse relevant for development practitioners? The human rights lens has rapidly emerged from obscurity to prominence and has succeeded in broadening the scope of climate change debate. This paper predicts that vulnerable groups worldwide will increasingly use arguments based on human rights to demand action. However, this discourse will need to adapt and demonstrate practical value for policymaking in order to achieve substantive outcomes.
Bell, D. (2011). Does anthropogenic climate change violate human rights?. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 14(2), 99-124.
A human rights perspective on climate change contrasts sharply with the dominant cost–benefit analysis approach. The human rights approach recognises human rights to life, physical security, subsistence and health that should be protected from violation by human action. If anthropogenic climate change threatens to violate these basic rights, each person has a duty to pay their fair share of the costs of preventing anthropogenic climate change. Moreover, climate policy will have a very different goal: protecting human rights rather than maximising welfare. Four objections to this argument are examined: the 'future persons' objection; the 'risk' objection; the 'collective causation' objection; and the 'demandingness' objection. This critical examination leads to a more detailed specification and defence of the claim that anthropogenic climate change violates human rights.
See also the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights report on human rights and climate change submitted to the General Assembly in 2009.
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The American Society of Baking (ASB) names Kent Van Amburg executive director, succeeding Kerwin Brown who served as interim executive director.
"We are extremely excited to have Kent as the next leader of ASB," says Rowdy Brixey chairman of ASB and director of engineering and maintenance of Kansas City, Mo.-based Bimbo Bakeries USA. "His diverse association management experience will help ASB increase value to Society members and as well as their respective companies. Kent has the leadership skills, intelligence and energy to build on ASB's storied history while taking ASB in exciting new directions."
Van Amburg most recently served as the executive director of the Gases and Welding Distributors Association (GAWDA). A certified association executive (CAE), he worked with the leadership of GAWDA to significantly increase member participation while restoring the group to financial health. He also has served a variety of senior management positions with medical professional societies and the American Trucking Associations.
No stranger to the food industry, Van Amburg graduated from Kansas State University with a degree in agricultural economics. He has worked for the Grains Council and the United Soybean Board and holds an MS in agricultural economics from Purdue University.
"ASB is deeply indebted to Mr. Brown for his tremendous service to the society during this interim period," Brixey says. "We will continue to call on him for advice and counsel during the transition period to Kent's leadership."
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Rene Lalique Jewelry and Unique R Lalique Objects from 1900 and earlier are the focus of the Lalique Exhibition (and a couple of other guys stuff as well) titled Artistic Luxury, which we have written about several times previously in this R Lalique Blog (Lalique Exhibitions). This great Lalique Exhibition started out in Cleveland at the world class Cleveland Museum of Art, and moved earlier this year to the Legion of Honor Museum near the Bay in San Francisco where it will remain on view until May 31st.
What a great opportunity on so many levels. First and foremost was the chance to see some amazing unique R.Lalique objects that we may never have a chance to see again. And conveniently, we have been promising the whole staff here at RLalique.com some well earned all expense paid travel, for the great work on the website. Even more conveniently, San Francisco is but a short flight from the Arizona desert, but a world away in too many ways to recount fully in this article. A great vibrant City with hustle and bustle, crowds, traffic, noise, high rise buildings, and a really big body of water close at hand. None of these things are associated too often with our usual surroundings; the Sonoran Desert. All things considered, we had a trifecta of great excuses to shut things down for a week, and head to the hills (literally and figuratively).
So, RLalique.com journeyed en masse and incognito (that's right – incognito – so no press conferences, no scholarly lectures, no private tours, no autographs, no glad handing of Museum personnel, no local TV appearances, and no photos of our wonderful staff, 🙂 for a great tourist visit to the exhibition.
We encamped in toto at the first great hotel in the heart of the City that was able to set aside, in spite of our last minute request, the floor of view rooms we needed (see photo from the floor window). And in moments, RLalique.com World Headquarters West was rolling. With the flip of just one electronic switch, the mountain of Lalique information from thousands of places around the globe that daily pours into the desert oasis that we usually call home, was re-routed across hill and valley, freeway, lake, and mountain, and dumped onto the top floor of our new temporary lodgings. And of course, in between 10 miles a day of walking, 50 cable car rides, a highlight tour of San Francisco Steakhouses (well, the tour was one stop per day at the dinner hour and was self conducted), as well as Muir Woods, Napa, Sonoma, Fisherman's Wharf, Knob Hill, Chinatown, Haight-Ashbury (yes, there is still the smell of marijuana in the street),
Golden Gate Park (who says the homeless have no home… they are at home – in Golden Gate Park, and we spent a lot more time talking to the people in the park than to anyone else on the trip with the exception of a nice couple from Devon England discussed below), the Japanese Gardens (green tea with sweet and spicy treats in the finest outdoor garden atmosphere), Castro Street and Alcatraz (expected to see some people we know there, but turns out they closed the prison a while back and don't have any criminals there anymore), and other activities that are but a San Francisco foggy memory in the blur of an insane tourist adventure, we managed to spend several hours at the exhibition. And yes, that is the longest run-on sentence we could construct.
Of course we didn't forget that we walked the Golden Gate Bridge one end to the other and back, our group joined by a honeymooning couple from Devon England that we met while hanging out on the pier. Above is a photo of Mr. Incognito himself, contemplating the distant Golden Gate Bridge from his perch on the Alcatraz Ferry in San Francisco Bay while pondering the upcoming traverse!
A small side note to the Fisherman's Wharf visit. Our newest intern, a refugee from an east coast institution of higher learning (higher on what we have know idea), smarmily whispered to another staff member upon arrival at the Wharf: "Now I know why we're here, those must be Lalique Seals!" Will Rogers famously remarked that it takes most people at least five years to get over a college education. NI (newest intern) might take a bit longer!
Which brings us to the first mistake of trip. Landing in typical San Francisco bad weather on a Tuesday morning (see the accompanying photo of the Golden Gate Bridge – OH! You can't see the bridge? That's because it's totally foggy, a rather persistent condition apparently in SF, and to be fair to the weather, maybe cold, wet and foggy is considered good weather up there, don't really know), we headed over to the exhibition after a great lunch in a small neighborhood establishment in one of the run down areas of town where the locals are great and the food is better, AND we were the only tourists in sight. Of course, in a re-enactment of a longstanding San Francisco tradition, it took longer to find parking spaces for the RLalique.com convoy than to eat lunch. But it was worth it. The sun broke thru the clouds for 7 minutes and 46 seconds as we enjoyed sidewalk dining (well, technically we were eating off of tables and not the actual sidewalk) at its finest. Seriously, a few small tables, great food and great service. Sorry, but the restaurant is so small we cannot give out the name here, as with our extensive worldwide audience, the place would be over-run in days, all the locals and regulars would be crowded out, and when the excitement died down, the owners would have a bunch of mad locals that found somewhere else to hang out and our endorsement would be a curse instead of a blessing. And most importantly, when we make our way back up north for SF II, sequel to the movie, at some point in the next decade or two, the restaurant might not be there anymore for our encore appearance if all of the above occurred! So we promised the owners that we would not spill the beans.
Anyway, off to the Legion of Honor Museum we go, the entire RLalique.com caravan sans police escort (think incognito), making only one detour along the way to peruse the lodgings at some upscale little housing development along the water. We arrive in the drizzle of course, only to find out that Tuesday is FREE admittance day to the museum. That is the good news. The bad news was a bit bigger. First, FREE museum does not mean FREE exhibition! Apparently, the basement of the museum is not part of the FREE area. OK, the $10 "Special Exhibition" charge was obviously no big deal and was half what we expected to spend on each ticket, BUT it turns out that to save the regular museum charge of $10, which would have been on top of the Special Exhibition charge of $10, a lot of San Francisco people go to the Exhibition on FREE Tuesday to pay half the normal total price of admission. So it was crowded. Which is a good thing in the big R Lalique picture, but which caused some minor inconvenience in viewing each of the great items close up and in the preferred casual and relaxed manner. And to think they had other people there! Hmmmmmm! At first, we thought the crowd was there because word of our visit had leaked, and the staff opinion is still split 50/50 about whether a leak occurred or not. It's still one of the many great unknowns of the trip.
Notwithstanding the mob scene and the true reasons for the huge crowd, it was a great assemblage of amazing R.Lalique objects, which half the staff feels is probably why there was mob scene! And here is a photo of your humble correspondent in deep thought over this whole perplexing "Leak or Lalique" situation (as it came to be known by our security staff), while sitting in front of the Legion of Honor Entrance!
Ignoring those other guys whose stuff was on exhibit, the Rene Lalique items were GREAT! What can you say about the apparently unique black glass scarab vase with the rust red coating lent to the exhibition by the Musee des Art Decoratifs in Paris, which acquired it directly from Rene Lalique in 1911 for 1000 French Francs? Which was sitting right there next to the unique Grenouilles Et Nenuphars Vase recently acquired by the Cleveland Museum for it's permanent collection (having sold at Christies New York in December 2006 on a very cold New York day)!
The coolest and most striking Rene Lalique object was the "sugar bowl" owned by the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. The body is constructed of writhing serpents, with glass blown inside the open serpent framework, and sporting an incorporated lid. The entire staff of RLalique.com unanimously voted this to be the one object most needed to compliment our World Headquarters Tea Set. No sugar, no tea you know. Of course we would purchase this great Lalique unique object in two seconds if it came up for sale, which is easy to say in the most braggadocio fashion because the Gulbenkian doesn't sell it's works of Rene Lalique! 🙂
The Lalique Jewelry (yes, and the Lalique jewellery) was fantastic as well, and there was a lot more Rene Lalique unique jewelry than unique objects. Amazing items, delicate in a way that Lalique's contemporaries did not match, and stylish and refined in a way no one has ever equaled! Fabulous all 'round. And we all still want to meet a beautiful woman wearing a large and unique Rene Lalique 'bodice ornament".
If you have time before the 31st, it's a wonderful trip and a great opportunity to view some of the finest output of the great Rene Lalique. Where else do you see the lily of the valley at the museum and at the Japanese Garden on the same day?
And of course, if you want to purchase the catalogue book of the Exhibition, the amazing 372 page complete hardback version with great color illustrations and some highly insightful commentary, just visit the Rene Lalique Books Library right here at RLalique.com and check it out, along with the other fabulous Rene Lalique exhibition books and catalogues we have assembled and made available to you from around the world.
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The winners of the Dahlightful Stories Competition were announced by Ken Skates AM, Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure, at an event held in the Senedd that showcased the highlights of the vibrant Roald Dahl 100 Wales celebrations throughout 2016.
Ella Forster, of St Dogmaels Community School, Pembrokeshire, was the overall winner of the English-language Primary Category with her Dahl-inspired story The Squenguanaflion (Runner-up: Nikita Averell Radchenko). Daniel Jones, from Ysgol Ffridd y Llyn, Bala, won the Welsh-language Primary Category with his story Does Neb yn Gwybod (Runner-up: Mari Williams). In the Secondary Category, Josh Kenny of Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bryntawe, Swansea, impressed the judges with his tale of Grandad's Rocket and was chosen as overall winner in the English-language Secondary Category (Runner-up: Ffion Haf Davies). Finally, Chloe Stacey of Ysgol Gyfun Garth Olwg, Pontypridd, took first prize with her story Melltith Stryd Fawr in the Welsh-language Secondary Category (Runner-up: Emily Fullard-Jones).
The winning and shortlisted entries of the competition will be published in an anthology that will be available throughout Wales by September 2017. For more information please see Anthology section of this website.


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Lo USS William D. Porter (hull classification symbol DD-579) fu un cacciatorpediniere della United States Navy appartenente alla classe Fletcher, entrato in servizio nel luglio 1943 e attivo durante la seconda guerra mondiale.

Dopo un breve periodo in Atlantico, il cacciatorpediniere fu assegnato alle operazioni contro l'Impero giapponese nel teatro bellico dell'oceano Pacifico, prendendo parte alla campagna delle Filippine e alla battaglia di Okinawa.

Impegnato in missioni di protezione della flotta al largo di Okinawa, il Porter cadde vittima di un velivolo kamikaze il 10 giugno 1945, affondando pur senza perdite di vite umane tra il suo equipaggio.

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Servizio in Atlantico

Impostata nei cantieri della Consolidated Steel Corporation di Orange (Texas) il 7 maggio 1942, la nave venne varata il 27 settembre 1942 con il nome di William D. Porter in onore dell'omonimo commodoro statunitense distintosi durante la guerra di secessione; madrina del varo fu Mary Elizabeth Reeder. La nave entrò quindi in servizio il 6 luglio 1943, svolgendo prove ed esercitazioni nelle acque dei Caraibi per poi raggiungere a fine mese la base di Norfolk dove entrò in forza alla Atlantic Fleet.

Il 12 novembre 1943 il Porter lasciò Norfolk insieme ad altri due cacciatorpediniere per scortare la nave da battaglia ; quest'ultima aveva a bordo il presidente statunitense Franklin Delano Roosevelt, diretto alla conferenza del Cairo e alla conferenza di Teheran con gli altri leader degli Alleati. Durante un ciclo di esercitazioni, il 14 novembre il cacciatorpediniere lanciò inavvertitamente un siluro in direzione della Iowa, che tuttavia fu in grado di evitarlo; dopo questo incidente, al Porter fu ordinato di lasciare la formazione e dirigere su Bermuda per sottoporsi alle investigazioni del caso.

Servizio nel Pacifico

Dopo essere rientrato a Norfolk il 25 novembre, il 4 dicembre seguente il Porter salpò per dirigere nel teatro bellico dell'oceano Pacifico; dopo essere transitato per il canale di Panama, il cacciatorpediniere raggiunse San Diego il 19 dicembre, per poi trasferirsi nella base di Dutch Harbor nelle Isole Aleutine in forza alla Task Force 94. Il cacciatorpediniere trascorse i primi quattro mesi del 1944 in missione di pattugliamento e di esercitazione nelle acque delle Aleutine, senza far registrare eventi di sorta. Il 10 giugno 1944 il Porter compì, unitamente al resto della TF 94, un'incursione contro le installazioni giapponesi nelle isole Curili, partecipando il 13 giugno al cannoneggiamento dell'isola di Matsuwa; dopo una sosta ad Attu per fare rifornimento, la TF 94 tornò nelle acque delle Curili il 26 giugno per bombardare la base giapponese sull'isola di Paramushiru. Una terza incursione alle Curili della TF 94 fu annullata il 2 agosto seguente a causa delle pessime condizioni meteo e dell'avvistamento della formazione da parte di un ricognitore giapponese.

Dopo un altro mese passato in infruttuose missioni di pattugliamento anti-sommergibili nelle Aleutine, il Porter si diresse a San Francisco per un ciclo di riparazioni di routine, per poi arrivare il 2 ottobre nella base di Pearl Harbor. La nave si trasferì quindi nella base avanzata di Manus nel Pacifico occidentale, da cui salpò all'inizio di novembre per dirigere a Leyte nelle Filippine dopo aver fatto tappa ad Hollandia. Il Porter prese quindi parte alle operazioni navali della campagna delle Filippine, agendo principalmente come unità di scorta per i convogli tra Leyte, Hollandia, Manus e Mindoro; il 21 dicembre il cacciatorpediniere dovette sostenere ripetuti attacchi aerei giapponesi mentre scortava un convoglio da Leyte a Mindoro, senza riportare danni.

Il 2 gennaio 1945 il Porter fu assegnato alla forza navale d'appoggio incaricata di scortare e appoggiare le unità anfibie dirette a sbarcare nel Golfo di Lingayen a Luzon; il 5 gennaio la formazione statunitense fu attaccata dai velivoli nipponici, e il Porter rivendicò l'abbattimento di tre aerei nemici. Il 6 gennaio il cacciatorpediniere compì bombardamenti d'artiglieria in preparazione degli sbarchi a Lingayen, abbattendo nel mentre altri due velivoli giapponesi; dopo gli sbarchi della forza anfibia il 9 gennaio, il Porter fu più volte impegnato in missioni di supporto d'artiglieria ai reparti a terra, oltre che di protezione antiaerea e anti-sommergibili per la flotta. L'unità lasciò quindi le acque di Luzon il 15 febbraio, dirigendo prima Guam e poi a Leyte per prepararsi alla prossima missione, l'invasione anfibia dell'isola di Okinawa.

Operazioni a Okinawa

Il Porter lasciò le Filippine il 21 marzo, raggiungendo le acque delle isole Ryūkyū il 25 marzo dove supportò lo sbarco incontrastato dei reparti statunitensi sulle piccole isole dell'arcipelago di Kerama. Dopo alcune missioni di scorta antiaerea e anti-sommergibili attorno alle Kerama, il 1º aprile il cacciatorpediniere partecipò all'assalto anfibio a Okinawa come unità di protezione ai gruppi di dragamine impegnati a ripulire le acque dell'isola e fornendo ripetuto fuoco d'artiglieria d'appoggio ai reparti sbarcati; tra il 1º aprile e il 5 maggio il Porter sparò non meno di 8.500 proiettili dai suoi pezzi principali da 127 mm, sia contro bersagli a terra che contro le formazioni di velivoli nipponici che attaccavano ripetutamente la flotta statunitense. In questo periodo l'unità rivendicò l'abbattimento di altri cinque aerei giapponesi.

A partire dal 5 maggio il Porter fu distaccato in posizione avanzata rispetto alla flotta per fungere da picchetto radar, onde avvertire in anticipo le unità statunitensi delle nuove incursioni aeree nipponiche in arrivo e guidare i velivoli intercettori statunitensi verso il nemico. Il cacciatorpediniere era ancora impegnato in questo compito quando, alle 08:15 del 10 giugno, finì sotto l'attacco di velivoli kamikaze: un vecchio bombardiere Aichi D3A giapponese sbucò improvvisamente dalle nuvole e si gettò in picchiata sul cacciatorpediniere; il Porter riuscì a evitare un impatto diretto con il velivolo che si schiantò in mare nelle sue vicinanze, ma l'esplosione delle bombe imbarcate sull'aereo nipponico causò comunque gravi danni al cacciatorpediniere e appiccò diversi incendi a bordo.

Per tre ore l'equipaggio lottò contro le fiamme sull'unità, immobilizzata e senza energia elettrica, finché il comandante non ordinò di abbandonarla. Due cannoniere Landing Craft Support mossero in soccorso dell'equipaggio, evacuato al completo benché con 61 feriti nei suoi ranghi; la nave quindi affondò nella posizione 27º 06' N, 127º 38' E.

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Collegamenti esterni
  USS William D. Porter (DD-579), 1943-1945  in history.navy.mil
  The 5 Craziest War Stories (All Happened on the Same Ship) in cracked.com

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I'm working a job for a guy who's got a rather extensive database of business listings that I need to get into an SQL database. What I'm faced with is how to import that huge chunk of data. He and his partner will reformat it however they need to so I can just pretty much click and import it, but I'm trying to figure out a good way to go about this. Basically, is there an easy way for them to arrange the data in something simple like Excel or Access and I just convert that to a .sql and import it?
Usually if you use a good tool frontend they'll let you import CSV (comma-separated values) data. Sometimes even Excel data. phpMyAdmin supports the former and possibly the latter for MySQL, for example.
If it's any sort of "flat" file why not just read it and insert it via a script. At least this way you can control and/or format the information as you pull it in.
I figured it out, it was just a matter of preping everything just right before hand. Excel and/or OpenOffice Spreadsheet work well for this. You have to remove the headers from the spreadsheet before exporting it to a .CSV file. As ShadowFiend said, phpMyAdmin makes it pretty easy to import, you just have to make sure you've already created the table and that the fields match the columns perfectly.


Are you as hooked on quinoa as I am? If you haven't yet joined this new food craze, it's far time you do so. Quinoa is a fantastic little ingredient, which works like any other grain (think rice, barley etc…) and is absolutely PACKED with protein and fiber. If you haven't tried it yet, look for it in your local grocery store; it's even sold now at Costco!
The recipe I have for you today is a colorful, delicious, and healthy side that is sure to please. With bright greens, yellows, and reds from the fresh zucchini, yellow squash, and cherry tomatoes, this beautiful quinoa salad is light and refreshing and comes together in minutes. You can enjoy this salad hot or cold, as a side for dinner or as a hearty lunch. Each way is equally delicious and a perfect addition to your recipe box.
If you haven't cooked with quinoa before, make sure that you rinse the little grains well in a fine mesh strainer, otherwise it may have a bitter taste. I use my reusable coffee filter, which works great, but any strainer with VERY small holes will work!
In a medium-large sauce pan, combine quinoa and water/broth and prepare as directed on package.
Meanwhile, preheat 1 tbls. olive oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat.
Add onions and sauté 2-3 minutes.
Add zucchini and squash to onions. Sauté until all vegetables are tender, seasoning with salt and pepper to taste.
Add minced garlic and halved cherry tomatoes for the last minute of cook time. Remove from heat.
In a small bowl whisk together lemon juice and remaining olive oil.
In a large bowl combine cooked quinoa, sautéed veggies, olive oil/ lemon juice mixture, fresh parsley and parmesan (if using). Stir to fully combine.
Season with salt and pepper to taste, and enjoy hot or cold.
I love quinoa! I've never actually rinsed mine before though… I'm terrible;e about that.
I'm definitely a quinoa fan too. It's often served as a side in place of polenta here. I never rinse my quinoa either. As long as you boil it enough, the "bitterness" disappears.
Interesting! I had some quinoa that tasted just TERRIBLE when I didn't rinsed it, but then I found some all natural stuff from Costco (believe it or not) that doesn't have any of the bitter taste at all. I must have just had a strange batch before.


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Israel Society for Astrobiology and the Study of the Origin of Life
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Register for the conference here.
About ILASOL:
ILASOL (Israel Society for Astrobiology and the Study of the Origin of Life) is an Israeli scientific society, devoted to perhaps the most profound riddles ever facing science - life's origin and early evolution, and its existence and dispersal in the universe. Astrobiology has been established as a field of study a few decades ago, and the Israeli scientific community has been at its forefront ever since.
ILASOL was established in 1987 and has been a member of FAO (the Federation of Astrobiology Organizations) since January 2005. ILASOL holds an annual gathering every year, in which astronomers, physicists, biologists, chemists, geologists, and researchers of other disciplines present works related to life's origin and astrobiology.
The next conference will be held on April 20th, 2021, at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.


In the previous article we have discussed how to perform firmware update on different routers. In this tutorial, we will show you how to update the firmware of 3 more different routers in simple and easy steps. Scroll down for more details.
2-Type "www.linksyssmartwifi.com" or "192.168.1.1" in the URL bar.
3- From "Router Settings", click on "Connectivity".
4- With your mouse, stand on the "Basic" tab which is located on the left, and then select the "Firmware" option.
5- Check for firmware update.
**N.B: you can tick on the checkbox next to "Automatic" to enable automatic firmware updates if you do not want to go through this process again.
1- Launch your browser (e.g: Chrome, Firefox, etc).
2- Type "routerlogin.net" or "192.168.1.1" in the URL field, and then hit "Enter".
3- Next, insert your username (admin) and password in order to login.
4- Navigate to the top of the screen, and then click on the "Advanced" tab.
5- From the left-side pane, choose "Administration".
6- Select the "Router Update" option.
7- Finally, click on the "Check" button.
1- Launch your browser (e.g: Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, etc.).
2- Type "tplinkwifi.net", "192.168.0.1" or "192.168.1.1" in the URL field, and then hit "Enter".
3- Head over to the top of your screen, and then click on the "Advanced" tab.
4- Click on "System Tools" followed by a click on "Backup & Restore". You need to first backup your data before upgrading your firmware on a TP-Link router.
5- Once the backup process is completed, you can now return to the "Settings" tab.
6- Click on "Check for Upgrade" option.
7- After successfully upgrading your firmware, go back to "System Tools, Backup & Restore".
8- Click on "Factory Reset".
9- Finally, you need to restore your settings. You can do that by going to "Backup & Restore" menu.
10- Click on "Browse", and then locate your file.
That's all! A lengthy procedure, but you did great! Well done!


Somewhere in my mid forties I realized that my old workout plan just didn't work for me anymore. It was harder to maintain my "fighting weight," and when I worked out hard enough to stay in shape, I needed a lot more time to sleep, rest and recover. With a busy schedule, it sometimes just didn't happen.
Meanwhile, I was watching my parents aging, slowing down, and losing some of their youthful vigor. That's when it hit me. Fitness isn't about the number on the scale, how many pounds you can bench press or how many miles you can run.
Fitness is about feeling good, preventing illness, and maintaining your independence, vigor and quality of life for as long as you can.
The time to start your fitness journey is now, because it's an adventure that will last the rest of your life and take you places you never imagined!
I've built my business and created this site with one goal in mind: to help you feel better every day for the rest of your life by finding the fitness program that works for you. My fitness plans always include elements of strength, endurance, balance and flexibility. We need all four qualities to live a well-rounded life—especially the older we get.
Whether you're struggling with your weight or low back pain, trying to manage high blood pressure or diabetes, trying to improve your balance and flexibility, or just trying to make it through 18 holes of golf, I'd love to help you make fitness a part of the rest of your life.
To learn more about how Prime of Life fitness programs can help you, check out the Prime of Life Fitness Manifesto and What is Feel-Good Fitness?


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Why Are We So Obsessed With English? And How Is It Impacting Our Schooling?
Tags: English, Pakistan
Hussain Saeed July 1, 2019
The other day, while brainstorming some topics to cover, we all started to reminisce about our school years.
A couple of us were in the English debates circuit, which became the center of our reminiscing session. While going down memory lane, one of our team members asked a simple question that caught us all off guard; how was the Urdu debate circuit?
The truth is, none of us could answer that question. We remembered that there was a circuit, but it was much smaller than ours. Fewer teams, fewer competitions and as a result, fewer opportunities. And while we'd like to blame the debating circuit for its own failure, it becomes apparent that this is a symptom of a much bigger problem within society-local languages are sidelined at Private institutions.
The effects of Pakistan's colonial history
Pakistan's colonial history has played a huge role in why English is still given precedence over local languages. During colonization, The British enforced their cultures onto the population they were controlling by making structural systems that incentivized assimilation and punished dissent. While we were able to throw out the British, 200 years of colonial thought cannot just disappear. Those structures that were used to control us during colonization still exists. Most of our laws are written in either English or Urdu, both of which are considered languages of the elite.
To this date people who speak English are perceived as smarter than those who do not. Furthermore, local languages are seen as "dirty". Our society's perception of our local languages is still through a colonized mindset. And these types of thoughts seep into our education system. For example, just a couple of years ago, a Beaconhouse campus banned Punjabi, a regional language, from being spoken on campus.
Neo-colonization plays a role
This isn't just about colonial times though. Neo-colonialism has also played a huge role in how people perceive languages. After the fall of the British Empire and Nazi Germany, the United States became the ruling world power. This change in the World Order didn't effect the dominate language much though, with English remaining. Most forms of communication are still in English, making it essential for success in the global market. Let's couple that with a more globalized world, and you create an environment where private institutions feel the need to concentrate on English.
Private institutions train their students to be able to go to the best universities- to be able to compete with the best of the best. As a result, English is given a massive amount of important, as knowing it will help the student to compete on the world stage.The best indicator of such a change is how the newer generation of private school students have more Americanized accents while older students accents are more British-showcasing the change in the new world order. Moreover, just compare the importance schools give to their English teachers and their Urdu teachers.
In the end, the only way to break away from the colonial mindsets is questioning and being aware of what all is around you. If you're reading this, chances are you're probably a benefactor of this system. Recognize that.
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We didn't need a comedian he was that funny!
Had an excellent evening with Mark Crossley, who arrived well before the evening really got started to meet a number of the guests before the event got underway. A very nice touch.
He went onto tell many very funny stories of his footballing career and everyone said how much they had enjoyed Mark on the night.
From a personal point of view I would have no hesitation in recommending Mark to anyone wanting a good night out listening to funny footballing syories.


An 18-year-old man died after his red SUV went off the road in the 200 block of Highway 288 and wrecked into a tree about 2 p.m. Tuesday, Lake Jackson.
With the help of fundraising and donations, the Brazosport ISD Education Foundation surprised 18 district employees for a total of $75000 in its third grant cycle.
CLUTE — Linda Vinas, Daughters of the American Revolution Fort Velasco Chapter's *Service* for Veterans chairwoman, sponsored Brazoswood High School Jr.
Brazoswood High School sophomore Augustine "Augie" Jesus Faragoza was a carefree and loving 16-year-old, family members said.
As his final year of scouting comes to an end, Ralph Bratton received one of the highest honors an employee of the Houston Astros can receive Friday night.
The Brazoswood Band receives the prestigous Sudler Flag of Honor.
The suspects who posted threats on social media related to Brazoswood High School have been identified, according to the school district.
Alondra Rosales made history Friday, becoming the first female to play baseball in a Brazoswood High School uniform.
Police in Clute are investigating a man's shooting death that they are calling the town's first homicide in a year.
Swimmers from local schools will begin their quests for berths at the UIL Swimming and Diving State Meet this weekend at their respective district competitions.
Brazoswood High School junior Jacob Borow finished second Wednesday at the prestigious Texas Junior Amateur Championship.
WEST COLUMBIA — Twenty years after hosting the first Brazoria County Veterans Day parade, the event will return to West Columbia for the first time Saturday.
Students from Brazoswood High and Lake Jackson Intermediate recently advanced to the state level in Science Olympiad competition.
A 16-year-old Brazoswood High School student is dead, hours after smoking synthetic marijuana.
The Brazoswood High School freshmen was one of 78 student musicians selected for NYO2, a summer program for outstanding instrumentalists age 14 to 17.
Dedication and coaching from her big sisters are behind Minnie Tran's success in the pool, the 14-year-old said.
Two people have been arrested in connection to the death of an 18-year-old in Clute.
CLUTE — Danny Massey said the job title is the only change people will see as he takes over at least temporary leadership of Brazosport ISD.
Brazosport Christian junior setter Trinity Oliver started playing volleyball when she was a middle-schooler in Pearland.
Koby Richardson's buzzer beater earned the Angleton Wildcats the Silver bracket championship Saturday at the Brazosport ISD Holiday Classic.
With the holiday break in the rear-view mirror and cold weather sweeping through, basketball season is truly heating up as district play approaches.
The signs of compassion, heartbreak and love have been evident for anyone who knew three Manvel High School students who died in a vehicular crash.
Alexa Lezak would like to return some day to La Serena, Chile. She left her old self there.
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