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How Ilhan Omar Fits Into Trump's New Culture War The New York Times
In the On Politics newsletter: Mr. Trump has taken the old culture war mantra, "God, guns and gays," and transformed it into "immigration, identity and ...

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Hi. Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. I'm Lisa Lerer, your host.
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President Trump isn't known for following the traditional political playbook. So, it was slightly surprising to see him spending Tax Day talking about … well … taxes.
But while Mr. Trump's words may have stayed on message, his political sights were aimed elsewhere: Representative Ilhan Omar, one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress.
That Mr. Trump held his tax event less than 20 miles outside Ms. Omar's district in Minnesota, a state that narrowly went for Hillary Clinton in 2016, was no accident. Nor were his recent attacks on Ms. Omar, a former state representative who has spent a little more than 27 months in any kind of elected office.
Mr. Trump's appearance Monday in Minnesota, an early salvo in his re-election campaign, highlights a fundamental question he faces as we head into the 2020 race: Will his base be enough this time?
Rallying conservatives used to revolve around a three-word slogan — "God, guns and gays" — which served as a shorthand for the type of cultural issues that sent voters streaming to the polls.
Mr. Trump has taken that culture war mantra and supercharged it: "God, guns and gays" has become "immigration, identity and Islamophobia."
Mr. Trump has a long history of incendiary comments against Muslims. (This 2017 timeline from The Washington Post details nearly a decade of his statements.) He opened his campaign calling Mexican immigrants "rapists" and, since then, has repeatedly cast immigrants as criminals and drug dealers. And from sexual harassment to N.F.L. protests, he has intensified hot-button issues of race and gender by throwing fiery comments into our national debates.
Some of these stances can be attributed to the president's personal beliefs and temperament. But there's also a calculated political strategy at play.
It's worth taking a look at some numbers from the 2016 exit polls. When Pennsylvania voters were asked whether minorities are favored in the United States, 31 percent of the electorate — or around 1.9 million voters — agreed. Of those, 1.6 million supported Mr. Trump.
Pennsylvania, as many of you may remember, went for Mr. Trump by less than 45,000 votes.
We don't know how many of those 1.6 million voters flipped to Mr. Trump. What we know is the belief that white people are under attack — which exit polls showed was shared by Trump supporters in Wisconsin and Michigan — has helped animate his support.
That brings us back to Ms. Omar, a woman at the intersection of all three elements of the new culture war. A refugee from Somalia, she's a hijab-wearing Muslim and is closely identified with the Democratic Party's left wing.
Her comments last month before the Council on American-Islamic Relations led Mr. Trump to post an inflammatory video implying she trivialized the horror of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
She has also divided members of her own party, having made several statements that repeated historically anti-Semitic tropes. Their responses to Mr. Trump's video, cataloged here by my colleague Astead Herndon, ranged from fierce to more milquetoast.
Regardless of the complicated politics surrounding Ms. Omar, though, the freshman congresswoman has a decent shot at re-election. Her Minneapolis district hasn't voted for a Republican in nearly six decades, and her profile will make it fairly easy for her to raise the kind of money that scares off primary challenges.
The bigger political unknown is whether this benefits Mr. Trump quite as much as he may expect.
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"Having money's not everything; not having it is."
— Kanye West
Monday is the day we've been waiting for: Federal Election Commission campaign finance reports are due. The public will finally get to see the full picture of something that's been leaking in bits and pieces — how much each candidate raised during the first three months of the already-crowded 2020 race.
Typically, happy campaigns file early. That's why we received Mayor Pete Buttigieg's information early this morning and President Trump's last night.
These reports include all kinds of data beyond just how much each candidate raised. We can see what they spent on, how many people they've hired and how much is left in the bank. It's a fascinating peek into each campaign that gives an early sense of their operations.
Money isn't everything, as Mr. West points out. Hillary Clinton raised nearly double what Mr. Trump did in 2016. But in politics, it certainly does help.
Here's what we know so far:
• The top fund-raisers in the first quarter of the year were Mr. Trump, whose campaign raised $30.3 million, and Senator Bernie Sanders, who raised $18.2 million.
• Mr. Buttigieg raised $7.1 million in the quarter, and spent modestly, ending the period with $6.4 million in cash on hand.
• Some lesser-known candidates face a steep challenge: Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington raised $2.25 million in the quarter; former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado raised just over $2 million; and Julián Castro, the former housing secretary, raised $1.1 million.
The New York Times will be up through the night reporting on the filings as they come in. You can follow along here.
• While climate change affects everywhere, some areas in America will be less affected than others. That's the argument they're making in Duluth, Minn., in a science-backed bid to spur the city's growth.
• As a "Game of Thrones" tourist in Northern Ireland, you can see how the magic of a fantasy realm has eclipsed the history of the actual place.
• The Times won two Pulitzer Prizes, including one for our 18-month investigation into President Trump's history of tax dodging. You can see all the winners here.
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ATLANTA – When NERC is contemplating a brand new reliability commonplace, it invitations meeting teams which are heavy for engineering and system operation. Last week, the NERC brought its eighth annual Human Performance Conference to firefighters, psychologists, and airline audio system.
At the beginning of the conference, Jim Robb, CEO of NERC, signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with NATF, a peer evaluation of 7,400 subjects to promote "excellence and continuous improvement".
Almost 90 NATF corporations function 80% of 200kV and better transmission. "It's an impressive number of members," stated Tom Galloway, CEO of NATF. "If we get a forum that focuses on the topic, we can typically move the ball pretty well."
Representatives of MISO, Arizona Public Service, and Tri-State Era and Transmission Association reported their experiences by inviting NATF to go to. 19659004] John Rymer of MISO, who had beforehand worked for Duke Power's transmission stations, stated he asked the NATF to assist transfer human performance (HP) instruments from the subject to the RTO's cockpit. "These help visits will help you find out exactly where to focus your efforts," he stated.
Rymer stated he was on the lookout for "little hanging fruit" when spreading HP's message in the real-time and management room. "You can move up or down in our organization because engineer, information technology, all these groups can take advantage of the same tools," he stated.
Sage Williams, Director of the Tri-Land Japanese Service Area. "HP cannot only affect field workers. It's your entire organization: engineer, system operation, "he stated.
"When its strong character improves security and reliability," former line manager Jeff White, now an HP Applied Learning Science marketing consultant, informed him how his truck turned sideways when the smooth land gave it underneath  When the crew used another truck to get the first again to their tires and worn out the mud, the main lineman leader advised White and other crew members that they might not report the incident. "" This was inaccurate. What you simply proved, you take away from your memory. ""
"What if these turntable bolts – half of them are broken and we can't see them? What if there are facts in the steel that we can't see? I need to talk, White said.
Mike Buntz, MidAmerica's liner crew, reported an animation that had an almost tragedy that occurred in a replaced rotten assistant. The truck came to full power when the boom touched the top wire, placing the grass around it in a fire. Fortunately, no one was hurt.
"It wasn't one of my proudest moments," Buntz said. "But I agreed [to participate in the animation] hoping that I could help someone on the road." , Director of MidAmerican Performance Improvement Program. MidAmerican also uses GoPro cameras that are installed on hardhat to produce training videos.
Peter Jackson, Georgia Power's HP Coordinator, said that utilities often have "fragile systems" that take 100% flawless performance.
He demonstrated a pilot program using visualization technology that transforms the iPad into a contextual tool that displays real-time information about the health and other indicators of substation devices.
"We think this really helps our friends build deeper information about tasks and how to do it right," he stated. "We are also of the opinion that all applications are troubleshooting [simulations of] for high-risk tasks."
Michelle Miller and former colleague Monika Bay reported their efforts to improve the safety of staff at Baltimore Fuel and Electric after an worker's electrical shock.
oyees you will not succeed, "stated Bay, who left BGE a yr ago to start his personal company, Security & Operational Danger Solutions.
Bay stated that healing is by far the largest part. Indeed, the line leaders hold the language alive – holding these concepts alive in their very own workgroups. "
After her and Miller's work, the workers in the industry began to bring them risks, Bay said.
The BGE's gas pipelines are supposed to be buried 2 feet below ground. In practice, however, the lines may move, which means that an employee who expects to cut a gas line may end up with an electric shock by cutting the electric cable. The only apparent difference between the two: The gas pipe has four tracks; Electric cable only three.
"2 o'clock in the morning, I have a fuel mechanics, I have two ft down into the gap, it's raining and muddy, and I inform the difference," Bay said. "
"It wasn't just this: We had 16 pairs of property where gas and electricity looked very similar."
"System design often poses a risk to the employees' hands," he stated. "Sometimes we don't know the risk that frontline guys are dealing because they just handle it."
Christian Vehrs of Delta Air Strains reported how an plane upkeep employee blended right into a gasoline heating valve with an virtually equivalent engine anti-freeze valve due to a faulty guide and its own reinforcements.
"These manuals are 20 years old and we still find mistakes," he stated.
David Marx, End result Engenuity, used the cube to describe flexible methods. The more cube he rolls, he stated, the extra redundancies – like setting lots of the alarm bells to forestall entry.
Termination by several "dice" is important in aviation. With a chance of 1 billion failure, "no one can design a part that will never succeed."
Marx used the expertise of Chesley's pilot "Sully" Sullenberger, which fell famously on the Airbus A320 Hudson River, when his engine failed to strike a putting Canadian geese shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia airport in 2009.
Airline engines are only anticipated to fail once 50 Each 000 hours. Because the machines should have two engines, the failure of each ought to be 50 0002 at the similar time, or certainly one of 2.5 billion, Marx stated.
In the case of Sullenberger, nevertheless, LaGuard was close to a bird-littering landfill, that is, the dice have been "jammed together," Marx stated. (Airport officers raised their killing packages after the event) bought underneath the trade identify Versed.
Nursing procedures set 4 "dice" beginning with drug-equipped automated dosing. The nurse mistakenly selected the flawed drugs when the auto refill perform gave her choices by typing the letters "V-E."
The nurse might then not verify the drug at the dosing website or later when he delivered it to the affected person. Lastly, the fourth demise was the nurse's failure to stick with the patient in his reaction to the drugs.
"What should have been four came to say – an active failure in choosing the wrong medicine." the nurse has not completed the different three protection.
Marx stated the event described why many of us ignore velocity limits, however decelerate once we see a police automotive.
Fourteenth and 18th in the fourth quarter have been 36 seconds. Auburn Head Coach Gus Malzahn asked the passport to get the first down, which might have put the group in the objective area. And the meant receiver was open when the second receiver went deep, drawing a triple blanket. Marshall desperately threw the ball deeper into the receiver, but two Georgian defenders crashed, one pouring the ball into the receiver's hand, which ran to the finish area with out touching.
Marshall was comfortable in this case, but from his arms, the Judgment finally showed his rejection because too lots of his passports ended. "That's why he doesn't play on Sundays" at NFL, Sowers stated. As an alternative, he calls the Canadian Soccer Association Saskatchewan Roughriders.
. Scheduling subscription choices for the entire week as an alternative of all on Mondays. He doubled the workforce to 4 per change as he assessed Dominion's employees for comparable corporations.
He also added simulator coaching, began virtually missing reporting and training in primary evaluation, and eliminates work that did not add value by automating 6000 calls per week.
Operator hiring improved testing and screening, including extra complicated behavioral interviews.
"We invest a lot of steel and copper, but not much for people," Alfayyoumi stated. "Choosing an operator is important for human performance, because you can't correct bad choices. If you hire the wrong operator, there's nothing you can do to make him better, "he stated.
Marketing consultant Jake Mazulewicz made the case "adaptive" "procedural" methods. The dialogue with the employee about the anonymous company that complained had develop into too dependent on the procedures.
"No one even interferes with reading new procedures … because it doesn't matter because it changes," Mazulewicz continued.
In the considering of the system, he stated, "If you see a mistake … You don't assume who's flawed, you assume it's a sign that … my system might use some enchancment. … Virtually each case we are talking about is brought on by a human error, but it's due to many different things: hidden organizational weaknesses, earlier selections, such issues.


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According to Dutch State Secretary of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations Raymond Knops, the Netherlands should have worked more closely with the Caribbean territories in the period just after 10-10-10 to achieve certain results and prevent certain situations. He stated this in a review of ten years after the introduction of a new constitutional structure, whereby Curacao and St. Maarten became autonomous countries in the Kingdom, while Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba became special municipalities of the Netherlands.
In his view, people both in the Netherlands and on the islands were convinced that after 10-10-10 life would get better, certainly, because they worked hard on it in previous years. Knops added that the Netherlands was initially reluctant to get involved in the new autonomous countries. "Perhaps government was afraid to intervene at the time. This also had to do with the sensitivities on the islands. As soon as the Netherlands intervenes, people immediately say that it is neo-colonial behaviour."
The state secretary said he can imagine that Dutch politicians were therefore more careful and less likely to interfere with the islands in order not to be accused. "With today's knowledge, we know that it would have been better if we had worked together more on some points. It is easy to talk afterwards, but we must learn from it and from now on work together on the well-being of the population on the islands."
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Kateryna Rozhkova is the First Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.
She has been working in Ukraine's banking system since 1998.
For more than 12 years, she held a variety of management positions in the private and public sector. These have included working as a deputy chair, board member, and advisor to the chairman of the board at Erste Bank PJSC, deputy chair of the board at Finbank PJSC, and acting chair of the board at Platinum Bank PJSC. In 2009, she worked as the director of the NBU Off-Site Supervision Department for six months. Between 10 June 2015 and 18 January 2016, she held the position of director of the Banking Supervision Department at the NBU. Between 25 October 2016 and 15 June 2018 she worked as the NBU Deputy Governor in charge of prudential supervision before being promoted to her current role of First Deputy Governor.
Kateryna Rozhkova graduated from the Kyiv National Economic University with a major in Finance and Credit – Bank Management.
She also holds a degree in International Business Management (MBA) from the International Institute of Management (IMI-Kyiv).
I am the First Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), responsible for prudential supervision throughout Ukraine's banking sector. I joined the NBU following two decades of experience working for Ukrainian commercial banks.
It hasn't actually been finance all the way. I started my career as a schoolteacher but knew it wasn't my calling. I went back to university and changed my life totally, embarking on a new career after graduating. I started off as an economist, rising to the position of Director of the Finance Department at Aval Bank, and then at Platinum Bank in Ukraine.
I left the private sector in 2015 and joined the NBU as part of the bank's agenda of change and reform to build a modern Ukraine, following the Revolution of Dignity 2014. I've not looked back since – it's been an exciting, challenging effort and I know my work is having a measurable improvement on the lives of everyday Ukrainians. It's a very rewarding role.
I think my career has been a combination of my determination to pursue my interests and the support of those around me. I knew I had an interest in finance and economics early on and when I finished my Masters, I was really excited to get my first role at a bank and have the chance to apply everything I had learnt. Since then, I have worked very hard but my peers, my colleagues and my family have been invaluable in shaping my career. Without their encouragement, I might not have thought to apply for certain jobs or seek new avenues for career development.
The work that the NBU has done in Ukraine has faced numerous challenges and obstacles from old elites who did not wish the situation to change. By playing such a high profile role in the clean-up of the banking sector, I've faced a lot of criticism. I've been targeted online, I've been threatened and been harassed. Unfortunately, this has not been unique to me – it's happened to colleagues both male and female. I think that we all gain strength in the fact we've experienced such negative reactions together. A good team makes challenges like these much easier to bear. As long as we continue to support each other as a team, continue to work hard and continue build a better future for Ukrainians, criticism is easy to brush off.
I'd recommend turning to your team if you find yourself facing any problems. The people around you are your biggest source of strength and encouragement in any workplace.
I wish there were more opportunities for women to access finance around the world. Being able to access finance means women can start their own businesses and engage with the economy on a level playing field. We've often all got intense schedules, and we regularly have to combine work and family commitments in a way that men don't. Here access to finance is crucial, to give women the flexibility to shape their own working life and build a career that works for them, rather than somebody else. Women are incredibly entrepreneurial and I'd like to see more of us flexing these muscles!
In my role at the NBU I've been made aware of an emerging group of female entrepreneurs across Europe, who are building apps and digital financial services for women. These apps and services offer additional options and resources for women looking to finance their enterprises – making working and living easier. I look forward to watching these technologies develop. The more opportunities there are for women to access capital, the more women will be able to thrive in their professional lives.
I wouldn't be where I am today without the help of the many mentors I've had over the years. I've been very lucky at the NBU: I had the brightest, most shining example of a successful women to look up to. Valeria Gontareva is our ex-Governor, and has been one of the leaders of reform in Ukraine. Her professionalism and leadership have been praised by our international partners, international donors, financial experts and the global academic community. She's been the driver of huge, often very difficult (but very much needed) changes in the financial sector. She is an excellent role model not only for me – but for all Ukrainian women and girls interested in finance.
I make sure that I act as mentor whenever I can. I work with so many brave and ambitious women, and it is an honour to help them foster their talents. Ukraine is a fairly unique case, in that we do have a high percentage of women who've been able to climb the corporate (and political) ladder. In Ukraine's government, the Vice Prime Minister for European Integration, the Ministers of Health and Education, as well as many deputy ministers are strong female leaders who keep driving changes in the country. We all agree how important it is that women continue occupy seats at the top table – and so we work hard to bring the next generation with us.
When our reformist team took over the NBU in 2014, the central bank faced a huge task. Ukraine was facing a perfect storm, with macroeconomic, currency and banking sector challenges combined. A deep recession set in following Russia's annexation of Crimea and armed conflict breaking out in the East of the country – just in the first quarter of 2015 Ukrainian GDP fell by 17.6% compared to a year earlier. In the banking sector, supervision was weak and money laundering was rife. Urgent action was needed to clean up the financial system and ensure its stability.
My team had to take decisive and dedicated action to address problems that had been building up for decades. We conducted stress tests and comprehensive asset quality reviews across the top banks in the country. We have improved our investigations capability to make sure that we can identify malpractice and deal with it effectively. We had to close down nearly 50 percent of all banks in the country and bring in new regulations to make bank ownership transparent. It has been a long and arduous task, and we've faced much opposition, but overall the NBU's actions have helped secure the stability of my country. I couldn't be more proud of this work.
I received a promotion from Deputy Governor to First Deputy Governor in June 2018, and I've got a lot to look forward to as I take on this new role. With the successful completion of the clean-up of the banking sector under my belt, we're now looking to build on this solid foundation and do more to support economic growth and financial stability in Ukraine.
We're going to push forward with regulatory reform. Our current priorities include boosting bank lending to the real sector of the economy and ensuring that our new foreign exchange liberalisation policy makes the country more attractive to international investors. To achieve greater integration into the European economy, and our place globally, Ukraine must operate at the same level as its European counterparts. This means transparent operations, investor-friendly regulation and the financial stability required to work together with international businesses – and to stamp out corruption. With the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement now fully live, European banking regulations and corporate governance standards must become the norm across Ukraine's banking sector and its economy more generally. It's incredibly exciting and I relish the challenge.


Held annually, the Sovereign Asian Art Prize invites mid-career contemporary artists - nominated by a carefully selected board of independent art experts from the region - to enter up to three artworks online. Entries are then shortlisted by a small judging panel consisting of world-class art specialists, who select the best 30 artworks from a range of digital images. These 30 artworks are exhibited in a prominent public space in Hong Kong, where the pieces are judged a second time, in person.
The Grand Prize winner is revealed at the annual sell-out Gala Dinner in Hong Kong. The winning artist receives US$30,000, along with the coveted award. All artworks are then auctioned to the public - with the exception of the winning entry, which becomes the property of the Foundation and is used to further its charitable aims.
This exhibition brings together two Singaporean artists who have developed distinctive painting styles in their approach to represent the landscape. The environment where the artists live has a direct impact on their senses, their emotions, their relationships with nature and wider culture. Being a tiny island city-state constantly in a state of construction and renewal, the notion of development and progress has given rise to a long-standing dilemma regarding solutions on modern living and the impact it has on the natural environment. The works in this exhibition attempt to capture nature, not only as they experience it – magnificent, enchanting, unpredictable – but to immerse in its whole and to engage the viewer in a contemporary interpretation of their environment's ongoing transformation through paintings.
This exhibition will feature a small collection of paintings and sculptural works by 3 artists who have worked consistently for over 2 decades forging a personal and distinctive artistic vision.
The environment where the artists live has a direct impact on their senses, their emotions, their relationships with nature and wider culture. Singapore is an island city-state constantly in a state of construction and renewal. The notion of development and progress has given rise to a long-standing dilemma regarding solutions on modern living and the impact it has on the natural environment. The works in this exhibition attempt to capture nature, not only as they experience it – magnificent, enchanting, unpredictable – but that the reality in nature lies within a state of randomness.
Singapore Art Scene: Three Generation.
The Mirage #1. 2016, oil on linen, 150x120cm.
The Mirage #17, oil on linen, 142x74cm.
The Mirage #3. 2016, oil on linen, 120x150cm.
A selective group show of portable, collectible fine art by established and emerging Singapore and Asian artists, now in its third year.
To celebrate the release of '100 Painters of Tomorrow' – a project that has been 2 years in the making – Kurt Beers and the entire team at Beers Contemporary is thrilled to be collaborating with these talented and internationally-based painters in two coinciding exhibitions in London and New York. Entitled, '100 Painters of Tomorrow' (London/New York) these two unique exhibitions will showcase a cross-section of selected work by the majority of artists included in the publication. The work of these talented painters spans an extraordinary range of styles and techniques from abstraction to figuration, minimalism to magical realism, traditional oil-on-canvas and mixed media, to performance and installation-based painting.
Are angels a genuine subject of interest today? How do you make an exhibition of that concern? These are the two questions Tony Godfrey wants to talk about. Surveys in the USA and elsewhere show over half the population believe in them - Christian, Muslim Hindu, Buddhist. So this is a real issue! do we believe in them and what are they? What do they do? They are talked about in art but evasively as allegories (Benjamin's angel of history) or something highly personal (Rilke's terrifying angels) or as a device to look at this work (Wim Wender's Wings of Desire). Is the problem that we don't know how to picture them anymore? Like the angel in Wender's film they seem to have lost their wings. If I have given the artists a question that can be answered yes, no or perhaps I have also given them a problem: how to make a work of art about this. As the artists come from a diverse background and many countries. It is also an occasion to say something about them. I am after all surely the only person who knows all of them - or nearly!
Do You Believe in Angels? is co-presented by MO_. and Equator Art Projects. The exhibition will open on February 8, and will run until March 9, 2014 at Mo_.
Tony Godfrey has published several books on conceptual art, painting, drawing and irony. He is currently writing a book on Contemporary Indonesian Painting and planning a book on the history of Contemporary Art. He ran an MA programme at Sotheby's for many years and moved to Singapore five years ago. He spends an increasing amount of his time in the Philippines.
Participating Artists:Arahmaiani, Felix Bacolor, Muhammad Fatchi Baraja, Sebald Beham, Sze Yang Boo, Lyle Buencamino, Zean Cabangis, Annie Cabigting, Dennis de Caires, Valeria Cavestany, Maria Chevska, Mariano Ching, Heman Chong, Ay Tjoe Christine, Lena Cobangbang, Graça Pereira Coutinho, Jeffrey Dennis, Heri Dono, Heloise Godfrey-Talbot, Mark Golamco, Filip Gudovic, Louise Hopkins, Nilo Ilarde, Geraldine Javier, Mark Justiniani, Jonathan Lasker, Lucas van Leyden, Lawrence Liu, Joy Mallari, Keiye Miranda, Elaine Navas, Alan Oei, Gary-Ross Pastrana, Phil Power, Milenko Prvacki, David Reed, Zusfa Roihan, Ivan Sagito, Arturo Sanchez, Jeremy Sharma, Yasmin Sison, Aminuddin "Ucok" Srinegar, Andre Tanama, Bridget Tay, Willy Tay, Estelle Thomson, Wire Tuazon, Bambang "Toko" Witjaksono, Ian Woo, Raymond Yap, Mm Yu, Zhao Renhui, Ma. Jeona Zoleta.
As the longest established arts school in incubating the art of Singapore, NAFA plays an important role in the cultural development of our society. In celebration of NAFA's 75th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee, this commemorative exhibition aims to reflect the visual span in broad and pluralistic perspectives. It will feature the multidisciplinary works of NAFA alumni across generations, including outstanding visual artists who have shaped the local and regional art scene since the 1990s, and also its fresh graduates who have demonstrated remarkable energy and creativity.
The exhibition, The Little Joys of Singapore showcases a collection of artworks by Singapore artists. The works are selected from the studios of established senior artists such as Lim Yew Kuan and Chong Fah Cheong to mid-career contemporary artists Boo Sze Yang and Terence Tan Chee Wah, across a variety of media. The exhibition, curated to address what the city means to them, as well as challenges the artists to express many familiar signs and sounds of Singapore through their works. By pairing senior artists and their younger counterparts, we hope to show how inspirations, while similar, could result in extremely different interpretations that are dependent on individual experience.
"Periodically we hear the cry "painting is dead!" or (most recently) in Straits Times "There is no Painting in Singapore any more." This is very odd because I meet a lot of painters both in Singapore and elsewhere in my travels. As far as I can tell they go to their studios most days and rather than sitting down head in hands and wondering what they should do now painting is finished they actually carry on making paintings! In fact, I know they do because I have seen quite a few of those paintings!!
'There are painters on this island (as there are elsewhere) who have both a good critical awareness of the various traditions of painting and the imagination and dexterity to make new things within those traditions. To give a sense of what is going on in the Singapore painting community I asked the five Singapore based painters I have worked with before (Jane Lee, Milenko Prvacki, Jeremy Sharma, Guo-Liang Tan and Ian Woo) to each show a painting and also nominate another painters. They nominated Boo Sze Yang, Lee Young Rim, Ng Joon Kiat and Willie Tay who will also each show a painting.
Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China.
Curated by Chinese curator, Feng Boyi, the exhibition puts the focus on the strategies of representations deployed by contemporary artists of Singapore, and proposes more complex ways of viewing their works. The exhibition offers a platform to engage with art as more than mere reflections or mirror images of reality but to discern an entire landscape or realm that artists have created that often go beyond ostensible appearances. Through the use of myth and allegory, visual story-telling devices, and through the creation and honing of a unique, idiosyncratic visual language through paint, sculpture, performance and new media, these artists have created entire vocabularies and a remarkable range of representations, expressions and communication. These works expose certain assumptions we carry about gender, sexual, national, ethnic identities, and suggest ways of resistance to the usual habits of relating to the world around us. The works compel us to question our relationship with cultural legacies, with the environment as well as heighten our wareness that the visual idioms of painting and sculpture are continually shifting and recharged by the current generation. The exhibition proposes ways of viewing the image and appreciating works of art, to discern the vision, ideals and ideologies embedded in such representations.
The selection features 15 veteran artists, Cultural Medallion recipients and cutting-edge contemporary artists who have forged strong practices in painting, sculpture, performance art and mixed media works.
THE three award-winning artist friends had long talked about doing an exhibition together. One paints with charcoal, the other with Chinese ink and another with oils. And the core of their themes tended to explore the significance and meaning of space.
Inaugural art exhibition at the OCBC Art Space featuring Boo Sze Yang, Chankerk and Tay Bak Chiang.
Boo Sze Yang's first solo art exhibition in Melbourne, Australia will features a selection of paintings from the artist's House of God and The Mall series, most of them completed in the last two years.
The ExtraOrdinary is a series of paintings of ordinary and everyday objects which the artist encountered in his daily living. We live and learn in an environment where we never fully see or grasp the entirety of an object. Our life is a series of assumption and belief about what we see, who we are and how we should go on living. We take certain things for granted simply because we can't question them. Sometimes we take the wrong things for granted and we will never know if the life we lived is actually just an illusion.
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Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Galleries 1 & 2.
80 Bencoolen Street. Singapore 189665.
giving up full-time teaching to focus on his practice.
brushwork and subdued grey palette with over 40 works of cathedrals and shopping malls, where side by side, they seem strikingly similar. The artist proposes that the glitzy shopping mall is the new cathedral, both are cavernous venues full of "glitter and awe" that promise fulfillment for the modern man and woman.
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The Department of Computer Science and URC Ventures have built a 3D reconstruction of the world's landmarks using computer vision and 3D modeling techniques. Using Yahoo's publically available collection of 100 million crowd-sourced photos and a single PC, the 3D Computer Vision research group and URCV created a new software process able to build 12,903 3D models of some of the world's greatest landmarks in just six days.
A degree from UNC Computer Science can lead to some magical careers. Just ask Mark Mine (Ph.D. 1997), executive in the Creative Technology Group at Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) and the head of WDI's Creative Technology Studio.
Since 2010, the number of computer science majors at UNC has increased by more than four hundred percent. Lecturer Kris Jordan (B.S. 2007) draws parallels between his role as a COMP 110 lecturer and that of a tour guide.
The UNC Department of Computer Science and the UNC School of Media and Journalism hosted one of the largest all-female hackathons in the nation in March. More than 400 college- and high-school-aged women from 15 states attended. Approximately one-third of the participants had never coded before, and 60 percent were attending a hackathon for the very first time.
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PARNU – Barsy have been looking to capture their first win for a while now, and although they did get close to doing just that, they'll have to wait just a while longer. In the only game of the night the Kazakhs fell after a hard-fought battle against Port of Parnu, 73-78.
It took a while for both teams to get into rhythm, as they started off shooting really poorly. Both teams fixed that in the second part of the first period and went neck-to-neck, with Parnu making the final shot of the quarter to pull up by three.
Parnu managed to gain some grounds in the second quarter, as their lead improved to 10 with five minutes remaining in the half. However, the second part of the period belonged to Barsy, as they rushed off to a 15-0 run to end the quarter and go up by 2, 35-40.
It was a very close affair after halftime as well, and neither side could really take a position of control. While it was mostly Port of Parnu up in the quarter, the margin between the two teams was just two points before the final fourth.
The home side managed to push up ahead in the beginning of the fourth quarter, as they held a six point lead, but, obviously, having invested so much into the game, the Kazakhs were not about to let up. They battled back and the fate of the game was decided in the final minutes.
With a minute remaining, it was just two points between the clubs, as Vaidotas Volkus took a stand at the free-throw line to extend Parnu's lead to four. The teams traded bad possessions, and time wasn't on the visitors' side. Parnu extended their lead with free-throws and captured their second victory.
Edvinas Seskus had a terrific game, scoring 19 points on 8-of-12 shooting. Fellow countryman Vaidotas Volkus added 17 points to the tally, as Norman Kabin chipped in with 14. Saimon Sutt ended the game with 13, while Reinar Hallik finished with 10 points despite attempting 11 three-pointers.
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Election Commission of India to throw open challenge: Check our EVMs
To confront the allegations of manipulation and tampering of electronic voting machines in elections, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has decided to soon give an "open challenge" to test the faithfullness of machines, said sources. "We will fix a date soon for this challenge. In 2009, too, the ECI had thrown an open challenge for all to demonstrate how EVMs can be tampered with but no one could prove it. Since such allegations have been raised once again, we have decided to repeat the exercise to put all doubts to rest," said sources in the poll panel.
In this challenge representatives from political parties, people who know the technology, organisations and individuals who have raised doubts about the integrity of the commission's EVMs will be invited. On Monday, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had challenged the commission to make the EVMs available to the party for 72 hours and claimed that "we will read the code and rewrite it too".
Following the party's underwhelming performance in the Punjab assembly polls, Kejriwal had earlier alleged that the EVMs could be manipulated. Prior to that, BSP chief Mayawati also blamed faulty EVMs for her party's rout in the UP assembly elections, with the charge being endorsed by the SP and the Congress. These parties have demanded that EVMs should not be used for elections unless equipped with a Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) facility.
These allegations found more strong on Saturday with the reports that a VVPAT machine used during a trial in Madhya Pradesh dispensed slips only with the BJP's poll symbol. However the Commission has repeatedly denied the allegations, and dismissed Kejriwal's latest charge as "baseless" on Monday.
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Ontario's Ombudsman released his office's annual report on Tuesday. It outlines the mediations, complaints, and initiatives taken by the Ombudsman and members of staff to address the issues facing the province's population.
However, of all the complaints received, one new government body stood out as the most maligned by Ontarians: The Crown corporation, the Ontario Cannabis Store.
In the report's introduction, Ontario Ombudsman Paul Dubé writes that the "OCS was our single most complained about agency in 2018-2019, with 2,411 cases."
In fact, the OCS came in third overall for most complained about topic period, behind only municipalities and correctional facilities, respectively.
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"They worked collaboratively with the Ontario Cannabis Store as it struggled in the first weeks after the federal government legalized recreational cannabis," Dubé wrote. "Not only were we able to resolve the bulk of these quickly, we helped the OCS and partners like Canada Post address serious service gaps."
Of the complaints, 2,100 came within the first week of legalization. These consisted mostly of problems with delivery times, lack of communication. and a "customer service process that was unhelpful and difficult to access."
Many complainants also expressed dissatisfaction with the province's rollout of legal cannabis, and some also raised concerns about privacy breaches, billing issues and product quality.
The report says that in order to deal with the large volume of complaints quickly, the office established a dedicated team to "triage and prioritize these complaints," and worked with senior staff at OCS and the Ministry of Finance to resolve the issues.
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Meet Fabriq, a New Pop Duo Who Will Have You in Your Feels All Summer
Every summer has that song, and this year's may just come from up-and-coming pop duo Fabriq. Comprised of L.A. natives Daniel Davila and Cooper Bell, they just released Get Behind the Feeling, a soulful pop song reminiscent of Prince with a pop-funk vibe of recent Calvin Harris.
Both recent graduates of USC, Daniel and Cooper met while playing together for various projects and are inspired by crooners like Maroon 5, Jamiroquai, and Bruno Mars. As Fabriq, they've released three singles in their first year as collaborators, premiered their first music video with Billboard, and have racked up over 1.3 million impressions from their music alone.
To celebrate the release of the acoustic version of pop hit Get Behind the Feeling, we sat down with Cooper and Daniel to learn more.
BTI: Where did you grow up and where do you live now?
Cooper: I grew up a huge beach rat just outside of L.A. on the coast in Malibu. If you ever look out over Santa Monica Bay to the north the farthest point you see is Point Dume. That's where I grew up, and my mom actually still lives out there. I still have my place in South Central near USC, too.
Daniel: I was born in a small suburb outside of Chicago, one of those towns where everyone knew each other. I moved to L.A. when I was 7 years old—needless to say, the two places couldn't be more different. Being a musician, you end up commuting everywhere for shows and sessions, so before I get into specific cities and confuse people, I'll just stick to LA.
BTI: Walk us through how Fabriq began.
Daniel: We met while playing together on various projects. Coop's been a keyboard player and co-writer in the L.A. scene since his early teens, and I've worked as a session vocalist on everything from iPhone applications to television shows. It wasn't until we received an opportunity to pitch a song for Tesla, that we collaborated on what became our first single, Electric Flow.
Cooper: The name "Fabriq" came from a spiritual question about dance music. Dan and I were contemplating the relationship between artist, their creations and their listeners.
In all art, but especially in dance music, audiences are part of the art itself. If no one feels the beat, it's not dance music. So the "Fabriq" between the audience and artist is essential to the genre.
BTI: How have your childhood or heritage played a part in your passion for music?
Cooper: My father is an actor and singer, and my mother was a choreographer back in the day for some of the first MTV videos. So I grew up constantly infused with the music they listened to. My dad is into the old rock and folk music from the 60s and 70s (Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bob Dylan, The Band)m and my mom is into the dance music of that same era. I can't tell you how many times she had me dancing around our house to the likes of Prince, Earth Wind and Fire, Parliament, Michael Jackson, etc. I think a lot of my writing comes from their dueling influences. My father will stop listening to a song right away if it doesn't have a meaningful lyric…and my mom needs the groove to get down. So working on Fabriq with Daniel keeps the whole family happy.
Daniel: Both my parents were born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. I grew up listening to a lot of salsa artists like Ruben Blades and Celia Cruz; however, my parents also loved rock concerts growing up. I still wear my dads old "Rolling Stones in Puerto Rico" T-shirts from the 80s. With that being said, a lot of these influences played a huge part in why I had an inclination for music. I started playing guitar at 12 because of my love for Queen and Freddie Mercury. My dad told me if I learned the Bohemian Rhapsody solo, he'd buy a Gibson Les Paul, but when I learned it about 6 months into playing, he miraculously changed his mind. Later on I started getting more into salsa music, and picked up percussion instruments as well. I think Coop and I have found a cool way of integrating these influences all creatively.
BTI: Now, let's talk Get Behind the Feeling. Tell us about that song. Where did the inspiration come from? What's it all about?
Cooper: Get Behind the Feeling is a song critiquing hookup culture. The concept was adapted from ultimatums given to us by our significant others almost simultaneously—with eerily similar contexts. There is this weird power structure in relationships now where people value control or autonomy over trust. The song addresses our generation's fear of vulnerability as well as those who put their emotions on the table while unsure about their significant other's intentions. Both sides of the conversation bring their own sense of problems and pain.
Daniel: We do think the hookup culture is here to stay, however, which is cool in a certain way because it's creating a sense of sexual revolution within our generation. But we also have to consider the negatives and become more aware of ourselves…specifically our addiction to a casual romance.
It's okay to live your love life however you want to, as long as you come to terms with the fact that you're never going to progress emotionally without there being some element of vulnerability - and hey, some people are cool with that.
BTI: How did you come up with the concept for the video?
Cooper: The video is about an imbalanced relationship via the story of a couple negotiating the imbalance instead of ignoring it. It was also important to us that the story go against the normal dramatized masculine lack of "caring" and stigmatized feminine abundance of "caring." This is why we decided to draft the story around Michael trying to bring Becky closer…instead of vice versa.
Daniel: The classic excuse of "being in different places in life" seems to be the biggest "out" in the game. But when you get down to it, some relationships just become one sided. The important thing for us to show was the pain and anxiety that comes from either side of that scale.
When you care about someone, and they're clearly expressing more interest than you, it's a difficult place to be in… and vice versa. The video tells that story…and focuses on having empathy for every perspective in emotional limbo, not only the less vulnerable one.
Every era has its own sexual revolution and emotional confusion. The track is really just an observation about our generation's version of that.
BTI: Why was it important for you to record and release a video for the acoustic version of the song?
Cooper: We thought it was important to record an acoustic version in order to create an appropriate sequel to the original Get Behind the Feeling storyline that was left somewhat open ended. We had a question: "Could you 'Get Behind the Feeling'?" So we needed an answer of some sort. This is why we shot the video on the same set as the original, but stripped the interior to reveal that the couple had in fact moved on. Losing love is one of the hardest experiences any of us have to endure in life, and we wanted to tell that side of the story in a more intimate and vulnerable setting. Intimacy comes naturally when you strip everything down to its basic elements.
BTI: You guys just graduated college, so what's next for you?
Cooper: L.A.'s swarming with aspiring musicians, so we've been doing a lot of production work lately. But it really hit us recently that we really need to step away and focus on our writing. Being in the writing room with Daniel is always such a wild time because the music we write just keeps getting (for lack of a better term) "weirder." Some of that stuff is already recorded so we're looking forward to getting those tunes out down the line in our release schedule.
Daniel: Fortunately, Cooper and I had the opportunity to go to college in L.A., which has allowed us to work a lot while being in school. We'll be doing the same daily routine, without the blue books and classroom times. Hopefully this allows us to be even more productive and start writing, producing, and playing out even more.
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But to relatives in Baguio City, Robin Lim, the CNN Hero of the Year for 2011, is "very Filipino".
The 54-year-old Filipino-American midwife, fondly called Mother Robin or Ibu Robin, drew applause for her work in the Yayasan Bumi Sehat (Healthy Mother Earth Foundation) health clinics in Indonesia, which extend prenatal care, birthing services and medical aid to impoverished women. She particularly promoted traditional healing practices and offered her services in Nyuh Kuning, a small village on Bali island.
Named this year's hero by the American cable news channel after an 11-week vote on CNN.com, Lim will receive $250,000 for her foundation, on top of the $50,000 she and other honorees got for making it to the Top 10.
Lim is the second honoree of Filipino descent to be included in CNN's roster of heroes.
In 2009, educator and social worker Efren Peñaflorida Jr. was named CNN Hero of the Year for his exceptional advocacy of educating Filipino out-of-school youths through his so-called "pushcart classes." Peñaflorida, who grew up in the slums of Cavite province, founded the Dynamic Teen Company, which also supported Lim's nomination.
In one of her letters to the Inquirer Northern Luzon Bureau, Lim described her campaign for the CNN Hero title as a crusade she made on behalf of every mother in the world.
Lim accepted her award on Monday in an event dubbed "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute" at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
"Lim's nomination and selection as CNN Hero of the Year is a victory for all of us because she is so proud of her Filipino ancestry. Her mother was born in Baguio. Her late maternal grandmother, Vicenta Munar Lim—whom she idolized—is pure Filipino," according to Robin's cousin, Remy Lim.
Remy said Lim often gave credit to her grandmother, Nanang Vicenta, a midwife who served in Baguio during World War II, in all the literature about the nonprofit, village-based organization that she organized in 2003.
Lim's family in the Philippines had also campaigned for her bid in the CNN search through social networking sites, Remy added.
Part of the campaign was last month's showing of the film "Guerrilla Midwife," a documentary about Lim's natural child birth advocacy, at the Mt. Cloud Bookshop on Baguio's Session Road.
"Much love and big congratulations to Robin Lim!" Mt. Cloud said in a message posted on its Facebook account.
The company also invited the public to get "more insights into Robin's life" by reading her novel, "Butterfly People." Launched by Lim at the bookshop in November last year, the novel set in Baguio City is based on the life of her grandmother and their family's history, it added.
"We hope that with her winning the CNN Hero title, Robin will be able to pursue her dream of putting up a clinic in Baguio… I hope that the people here will support her if she ever pursues her dream," Remy said.
"Today on our Earth, 981 mothers in the prime of their life will die… I'm asking you to help change that. Every baby's first breath could be one of peace and love. Every mother should be healthy and strong. Every birth could be safe and loving, but our world is not there yet," she said.
Lim also noted that the high maternal and infant mortality rates in Indonesia, for example, were due to medical costs rising beyond the reach of many women.
Eddie Canales, who founded Gridiron Heroes, an organization that helps paralyzed young football players in Texas.
Taryn Davis, who established the American Widow Project, which extends assistance to young military widows.
Sal Dimiceli, who supports 500 people a year with food, rent, utilities and other necessities through his charity column for the Lake Geneva Regional News in Wisconsin.
Derreck Kayongo, who created the Atlanta-based Global Soap Project that has provided about 150,000 bars of soap for communities in 10 countries.
Diane Latiker, who formed the antigang violence community program Kids Off The Block and opened her home on the south side of Chicago to get the youth off the streets.
Patrice Millet, who put up a nonprofit youth soccer program in Haiti that offers coaching and food to hundreds of participants from the slums.
Bruno Serato, who has been serving free pasta dinners to poor children at the Boys & Girls Club in Anaheim, California.
Richard St. Denis, who founded the World Access Project, which has provided hundreds of wheelchairs and mobility aids to people with disabilities in rural Mexico.
Amy Stokes, who has helped orphans rebuild their lives through the nonprofit organization Infinite Family, which connects with volunteer mentors via the Internet.
Presenting this year's honorees were comedians Jerry Seinfeld and George Lopez, actors JR Martinez and Chris Colfer, musical artists Ice Cube and will.i.am, model Christy Turlington Burns, former NFL quarterback Kurt Warner, and actresses Laura Dern, Mary-Louise Parker and Sofia Vergara.
Burns, founder of Every Mother Counts, a campaign to boost education and support for maternal and child health, introduced Lim's video tribute during the show.


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National Rifle Association endorses Culver (AUDIO)
September 27, 2010 By O. Kay Henderson
Governor Culver speaks during NRA endorsement announcement.
The National Rifle Association has endorsed Democrat Chet Culver's bid for reelection.
This past spring Culver signed a bill the N.R.A. had lobbied for, a bill that sets up a uniform system for issuing permits to Iowans who want to carry a concealed weapon.
In the past, Iowa's 99 county sheriffs had broad discretion to approve or deny the permits and many of the N.R.A.'s 75,000 Iowa members lobbied for the bill Culver signed.
"We have gone further than any administration in 100 years to protect the Second Amendment by passing and I was honored to sign the 'Shall Carry' legislation this year," Culver said this morning.
Governo Culver talks with NRA members.
Culver is comparing his record on gun rights with that of his Republican opponent, former Governor Terry Branstad. "For 16 separate legislative sessions, time after time, he would tell the National Rifle Association that he supports that bill and time after time after time he broke his promise and he failed to deliver to those Iowans who support the Second Amendment," Culver said. "That's precisely why the N.R.A. endorsed my candidacy, my reelection effort, because we made a promise as a candidate in 2006 and we delivered on that promise."
Culver spoke this morning at a news conference held outdoors. Culver wore a camouflage jacket, as did some in the crowd. "We're not worried about the pollsters and pundits. I've got people like this behind me every day and I appreciate the members of the NRA, the members of unions and labor organizations that have come this morning to stand with me because I have great faith in the people of this state," Culver said. "It's the issues and the record and the vision that should determine who wins and loses elections, not the false promises that Terry Branstad continues to make."
After the news conference, brown caps with "Sportsmen for Culver" printed on the front in blaze orange were handed to participants. About half an hour later, Branstad was holding a news conference of his own, standing in front of a handful of Des Moines policemen wearing black t-shirts with "Police Officers for Branstad" in white lettering.
"I am a longtime NRA member. I'm a gun owner and I expect to get the support of the vast majority — most these law enforcement officers are, I know they're gun owners and I think a lot of them are probably NRA members, too, so I expect to get the support of the vast majority of sportsmen and gunowners in the state of Iowa," Branstad said. "And my record on their issues has been very solid and consistent."
Terry Branstad meets Des Moines police officers.
Branstad directly addressed Culver's charge that he hadn't delivered on the bill about conceal-to-carry permits. "I never got the opportunity to sign a bill like that. I certainly wouldn't have vetoed it if I'd gotten the opportunity to sign it," Branstad said. "It never came to me when I was governor."
Branstad was endorsed today by the Des Moines Police officer's political action committee, representing about 600 current and retired officers. The PAC endorsed Culver in 2006, but the Des Moines police officers are upset Culver vetoed a bill that would have expanded their ability to bargain, through their union, for additional contract items, like coverage for protective gear. Branstad, however, promises to do as Culver did and veto such a bill.
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Q: Catchable fatal error: Object of class mysql could not be converted to string How to remove catchable error in php.I working on php code get catchable error.CAn some one help me to remove this remove.I am using class call in other file when I make its object I got error.I see this is simple error can that is I call to function mysql_coonect but still problem error.

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Immigration rejects 355 visa applications from 'job hoppers' in Jan-Feb
By Vir B. Lumicao
Immigration says it sent home 319 job hoppers last year despite the pandemic
Foreign domestic helpers planning to change employers for flimsy reasons should read this before they take the leap.
Immigration figures show that a total of 355 applications for FDH work visa applications were rejected in the first two months of the year, more than the total number recorded for the entire 2020.
And just this Tuesday, Mar 23, Immigration said it held a joint operation with the Labour Department to inspect "relevant" employment agencies and remind them not to encourage or induce FDHs to engage in job hopping.
"If there is sufficient evidence to prove that EAs have induced FDHs to job-hop or have other misconduct, the ImmD and the LD will take enforcement actions as appropriate," Immigration said in a statement sent to The SUN.
No mention was made as to why or how the agencies were targeted for the operation.
But Cynthia Tellez, general manager of the Mission for Migrant Workers, has consistently said there is no such things as "job hoppers."
In her view, which she reiterated Thursday night in the online show "Talakayang Migrante", migrant domestic workers will only leave if their employers have been treating them badly.
No amount of incentive, either from an agency or an employer, would make them take the chance of changing employers if they're being treated well by the one they currently work with, Tellez said, citing the long wait for processing a new work visa as one of the reasons.
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Immigration said its special duties team has strengthened its assessment of visa applications from FDHs who change employers frequently in view of recent concerns about job-hopping.
To compare, the team reportedly rejected 165 visa applications for suspected "job-hopping" in 2018. The rejection cases increased to 267 in 2019, and rose further to 319 last year.
This was despite Immigration's relaxation of its two-week rule (which dictates that FDHs whose contracts are pre-terminated without justifiable reason should leave within 14 days) amid pandemic-related travel restrictions in 2020.
Priscilla Leung is one of the legislators demanding a crackdown on 'job hoppers'
But amid complaints from some legislators that FDHs were taking advantage of the relaxed rules to job-hop, Immigration announced in December that it was tightening visa application rules for FDHs again.
According to the Immigration statement, its special duties team will take into account a number of factors, including the number and reasons for the premature termination of contracts, the workers' conduct and the previous records of both the employer and helper.
FDHs suspected of job hopping will be denied a new employment visa and required to leave Hong Kong.
"ImmD will also strengthen communication and exchange of information with LD with a view to combating job-hopping in a more proactive and focused manner," the statement added.
Immigration said it has all along been rigorously processing employment visa applications of FDHs, refusing those from applicants with adverse records or breaches.
The department also reminded FDHs who wish to sign up with another employer after finishing their existing contract that they must, in general, leave and return to their place of origin after submitting a new work visa application to Immigration.
Visa applications from FDHs who have not returned to their place of origin as required will normally not be approved except in exceptional circumstances, said the statement.
The advisory came with the warning that FDHs who overstay their visas will be prosecuted.
The seeming crackdown, however, may still be blunted by employers' strong preference for FDHs who are already in Hong Kong, due to the worrying coronavirus situation in sending countries like the Philippines and the high cost of bringing them over.
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Endgame Nears In EU's Antitrust Showdown With Gazprom
February 11, 2014 12:59 GMT
By Charles Recknagel
Gazprom CEO Aleksei Miller attaches a Russian flag to a pipe of the Nord Stream pipeline near Vyborg, Russia. The EU is now looking to make the gas giant play by its rules in Europe.
The Russian natural-gas giant Gazprom has long had its way in Europe, dominating the continent's energy market and, according to critics, flaunting its rules with impunity. But that all might be about to change.
A long-standing showdown between Gazprom and the European Union over alleged price fixing and monopoly practices -- a dispute pitting Russia's post-Soviet business model against the EU's standards of free-market competition -- is quickly coming to a head.
The dispute is expected to heat up considerably this spring when the European Commission is due to release the findings of a two-year investigation into Gazprom. And the findings are not expected to be pretty, analysts say.
"I think we are going to see, first of all, a spectacular lump of bad publicity for Gazprom, because the complaints will list all of the bad things that Gazprom has been doing, then we will have fines, which may be very substantial, and there will also be the opportunity for the companies that have been overcharged for gas to launch lawsuits against Gazprom over the extortionary prices that they have been charging," says Edward Lucas, international editor at the British weekly "The Economist" and author of the book "Deception: Spies, Lies, and How Russia Deceives the West."
Lucas, who has followed the dispute closely, says he expects the commission's findings to be published in May. After that, he adds, things should move quickly, because Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger and Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, who are pressing the case, want to wrap it up before they leave office in November.
A negative report could have deeply unpleasant consequences for Gazprom, including hefty fines, bad publicity, and evidence competitors can use in lawsuits against the gas giant. It could also force the state-controlled company to change its long-standing practices on the continent.
Seeking to avoid this, Moscow is furiously trying to reach a preemptive settlement with the European Commission. Russian delegations have visited Brussels several times in recent months but the details of the negotiations have been shrouded in secrecy.
Busting Up The Monopoly
Brussels for years has let Gazprom operate with monopolistic practices in Central and Eastern Europe due to both historical and market realities that have been hard to change.
Workers weld together two giant pipes in Serbia, north of Belgrade. Brussels will expect EU-applicant Serbia to enforce its antitrust laws retroactively.
The main pipeline that brings Siberian gas across Ukraine to Eastern Europe was built in the Soviet era and is wholly owned and operated by Gazprom. The gas giant alone decides which providers in addition to itself can export gas through the trans-Ukraine pipeline and through the Nord Stream pipeline under the Baltic Sea to Germany.
That monopoly allows Gazprom, not free competition, to set the price its European customers pay. It also makes the gas giant tough to challenge, because it is the sole provider in much of its market and supplies a quarter of the European Union's gas overall.
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So why is Brussels so ready to challenge Gazprom now? Agata Lokot-Strachota, an energy-policy analyst at the Warsaw-based Center for Eastern Studies (OSW), says one factor is a new sense of confidence within the European Commission's offices for energy and competition. "Brussels wants its law to be enforced, including in the gas sector," she explains. "And it does not really want an exceptional relation with any actor if it means that would require that some laws are not enforced."
Specifically, the EU wants to enforce its "third energy package" legislation, which went into force in late 2009 and aims to protect third-party access to pipelines. The legislation also aims at "ownership unbundling," or separating companies that produce energy from companies that transmit it.
East To West, Then Back Again
There are also economic reasons for Brussels to take a harder line with Gazprom. Thanks to its monopoly position in EU members states that once were Soviet satellites, customers there pay an average of 1 1/2 times more for their natural gas than do EU states farther west. The western EU market has multiple gas sources, including the North Sea, North Africa, the Middle East, as well as Russia. Transport includes both pipelines and liquefied natural-gas (LNG) import terminals.
Stephan Meister, a Russia expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin, says that the EU would like to open Eastern Europe to similar competition among multiple suppliers. "If there would be more liberalization there could be other companies, there could be Azerbaijani companies or Turkmen companies, or from elsewhere in Central Asia that send gas through [the Gazprom] pipelines," he notes. "So there are several possibilities to use the pipeline system [to promote competition] and other options are LNG terminals, which are discussed in Poland and in the Baltic states."
The South Stream gas pipeline has opened a new front in the dispute between Brussels and Moscow.
In one immediate measure to break Gazprom's stranglehold on Eastern Europe, Germany is planning to send Russian gas it buys relatively cheaply from Russia thanks to competition to countries like Poland, which are locked into higher Russian gas prices due to Gazprom's monopoly. The idea of any "reversed flow" of Russian gas from west to east infuriates Moscow, but the first such Polish imports of gas from Germany are due to start on April 1.
An Unstable Equilibrium
Finally, Brussels is pushing now to tame Gazprom because the EU wants to keep it from expanding its monopoly still further in the future via its planned South Stream pipeline under the Black Sea to Southeastern and Central Europe.
Moscow already has angered Brussels by concluding bilateral transit agreements with numerous new and prospective EU member states for South Stream. The bilateral deals, which pay no heed to EU antitrust legislation, have also strained relations between Brussels and the states that have signed them: Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia, and Slovenia.
Edward Lucas says Brussels still expects the EU states served by South Stream to enforce antitrust laws against Gazprom retroactively, no matter what the bilateral accords say today. "If Gazprom wants to spend a lot of shareholders' money on building a pipeline in Europe at vast expense, that is fine, but it will be subject to EU law and any agreements with governments that contradict EU law will be illegal," he says. "South Stream isn't built yet, so no law has actually been broken. What [Brussels] will say is that if you go ahead and build this pipeline it will operate according to EU law."
The European Commission has become increasingly assertive in enforcing its antitrust laws against powerful foreign companies of late, most recently with the U.S.-based Internet-search giant Google. In an effort to avoid a heavy fine, Google was forced accept several antitrust measures, including agreeing that whenever it promotes its own search services on its pages in the EU, it will display the services of rival companies in a comparable way.
Will a similar approach work with Gazprom? The OSW's Lokot-Strachota says the problem is that in this case, the two sides have fundamentally different approaches to business. "Both the EU and Russia represent completely different ways of thinking, there is a systemic difference between them," she explains.
"We can say that we will be living in equilibrium because both sides need each other, but it is quite an unstable equilibrium because both sides will try to persuade the other to make deals according to own rules. So it is quite hard to say what will be the final outcome of all that."
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Abstract: This study assessed the efficacy of two exogenous hormones, gonadotropin releasinghormone analogue (GnRHa) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) to induce spermiation and spontaneous spawning in captive yellowfin bream 'Acanthopagrus australis' (Sparidae). The effect of activating gametes at different salinity levels on egg fertilization, hatching, larval development and survival was also examined to determine the feasible salinity range of water that could potentially be used by hatchery operators for spawning in captivity, egg incubation and early larval rearing until the time of first feed. Adult yellowfin bream underwent gametogenesis in captivity and by the onset of the natural spawning season males were sperimating and females had developed vitellogenic oocytes. Males and females were injected on a body weight (bw) basis with either saline (control) or a single dose of either GnRHa (25, 50, 75, 100 μg kg⁻¹) or hCG (250, 500, 750, 1000 IU kg⁻¹). Milt and blood samples were collected from males to assess the effects of hormone treatment. Males did not respond to saline or treatment with hCG. Whereas, treatment with GnRHa at a dose of 100 μg kg⁻¹ bw significantly increased milt volume at 48 hours post injection (h p.i). The cumulative number of sperm produced by the 100 μg kg⁻¹ bw over the 48 h sample period was also significantly elevated. In contrast to saline and hCG treated males, all GnRHa treatment groups had elevated plasma levels of and 11-ketotestosterone (11-KT) by 24 and 48 h p.i. Levels of testosterone were not elevated among treatment groups. These results suggest that as for other teleosts, gonadotropin-dependent production of 11- KT is the major mediator of spermatogenesis in the yellowfin bream.


At IT Works, we make sure to keep an eye on the latest trends in research funding. As 2015 comes to an end, here are a few trends we've noticed this year.
Many universities are reporting record research funding.
For the 2014-2015 fiscal year, many universities set new records for the amount of research funding they received. UC Riverside announced that they received $97 million in federal grants, approximately $19 million more than they received during the 2013-2014 fiscal year. These grants came from such organizations as the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Defense, and were used for research involving such topics as behavioral and cognitive diseases, energy production, investigating the health hazards of electronic cigarettes, and more.
Northwestern University's sponsored research funding hit an all-time total of $620 million. The university noted that this is a four percent increase over last year and a 63 percent increase in just the past nine years. During the past fiscal year, around 3,400 research proposals were written at Northwestern, totaling $2.5 billion. Approximately 50 percent of the total funding comes from the National Institutes of Health. Northwestern hopes to bring in additional funding as well as additional research space. To that end, they have started construction on a new biomedical research center on their Chicago campus.
Rutgers University noted that their research funding for fiscal year 2015 is up to $612.5 million, an 18.3-percent increase over fiscal year 2014. They attributed much of the increase to the 2013 acquisition of most of the state's medical university, which allowed for more research and collaboration.
The University of Maryland hit $550 million in outside research funding in fiscal year 2015. This was an increase of more than $70 million over the previous year. The 2015 total is $5 million greater than the university's previous record, which was set in 2010, a year when research universities across the United States received an influx of federal stimulus money.
Recent studies have shown that more focus needs to be placed on inclusivity in research, as well as in awarding grant funding.
Several studies this year have made note of the fact that researchers need to be more inclusive when designing their studies. The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently reported that that National Institute of Health (NIH) needs to do more to ensure that women are sufficiently represented in research trials. Women account for over half of the United States population; however, they have long been underrepresented in clinical research. Therefore, GAO noted, the research has not identified potential differences in men and women when it comes to subjects such as disease manifestation and treatment reactions. GAO's report recommended that "NIH examine and report more detailed data on women's enrollment in NIH-funded studies, and collect, examine, and report data on the extent to which these studies include analyses of potential differences between women and men." NIH agreed to implement GAO's recommendations.
Recently, using data obtained from the NIH through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco noted that minorities are less likely to be successful in receiving funding from NIH, and that this fact has hardly changed in the past 30 years. NIH notes that since 2011, they have allotted over $500 million to programs to study how to attract and retain minority researchers, and that the agency is also studying the biases that might affect peer review of grants.
Funding has an impact on research focus and results.
A survey of researchers at the University of Minnesota noted 51% of respondents thought problems in obtaining funding influenced the focus of their research, and 55% felt the impact of their research was restrained by an absence of funding. Researchers suggested the formation of a faculty union to assist in advocating for academics on campus.
New research from the University of Chicago shows pressures researchers feel to avoid controversy and to show positive results in order to get their next grant have caused them to avoid taking risks and to use research strategies that are not efficient. They noted as an example that a young researcher who is pressured to publish often will prefer incremental research that journals are more likely to accept, rather than research that is more risky and potentially more groundbreaking.
No matter how much research funding you have or what subject you're using it to study, that funding still needs to be monitored and managed properly. The best way to do that is to use grant management software. To find out more about the software offered by IT Works and how to use it to help your grant management process, contact the IT Works team today.