This week marks the 4th Annual Toronto Palestine Film Festival. The festival opens with the debut film Pomegranates and Myrrh by acclaimed Palestinian director Najwa Najjar. It tells the story of a newly married dancer and her struggles with society's expectations of a wife whose husband is imprisoned. The jailed husband is played by Ashraf Farah, who will be in attendance.
The festival closes with Nana Dankwa's documentary Hip Hop is Bigger than the Occupation. It captures a ten-day tour of rappers through Palestine. Many of the featured rappers will be in attendance and will perform afterwards at the closing night party.
Other highlights include Dahna Abourahme's documentary Kingdom of Women about the women of the Ein El Hilweh refugee camp during the years 1982-1984. Stray Bullet which stars TIFF Audience Choice Award winner Nadine Labaki, will be followed by a panel with the film's director Georges Hachem and Ashraf Farah.
The festival will also hold industry events including a Brunch with Music and a panel discussion of Arab Women in Film featuring director Ruba Nadda and Professor Nahla Abdo.
The festival continues until Friday, October 7.
Actor Ashraf Farah (Ziad) in attendance.
Wedded bliss ends abruptly for dancer Kamar when her husband Zaid is taken prisoner for resisting the confiscation of his family's land. Defying society's taboos, Kamar returns to her dance where she is confronted with Kais, a Palestinian returnee from Lebanon and the new dance instructor. Life for Kamar becomes increasingly complicated as Zaid's sentence is extended and the legal case against the land confiscation places the annual harvest in jeopardy. This beautiful film captures Kamar's intensely personal turmoil as she becomes increasingly attached to Kais, and is torn between her desire to dance and society's expectations of a prisoner's wife.
Audience Award Best Arab Film Doha Tribeca Film Festival. American premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and European premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival.
The year is 1982 and Israel has invaded Lebanon. Ein El Hilweh refugee camp is destroyed and its men imprisoned. This is the story of the women of the camp during the years 1982-1984. The film documents their community and organizing spirit during this period, how they were able to rebuild the camp, and protect and provide for their families while their men were held captive. Weaving between past and present, animation and daily life, the documentary focuses on seven of these women and honours how women continue to contribute to the survival of the Palestinian community in exile.
Athens, 1983. It is reported that four-year-old Bashir Mraish was killed in the brutal assassination of his father, a top PLO lieutenant. What if this is not the end of his journey? Twenty-five years later this surreal film explores the life of Mraish – as a political cartoonist in Jordan digging deeper into his father's struggle for the Palestinian Right of Return, and the sequence of events that led to his assassination. This experimental documentary pushes the boundaries of its genre to tell a very personal story of Mraish and his father and the political struggles of the Palestinian people. Winner of Muhr Arab/ Documentary, First Prize, Dubai International Film Festival.
These films are accompanied by excellent short films. See program for more information.
A Japanese-American filmmaker confronts startling echoes of his own family's World War II internment as he joins the fight and captures the dramatic twoyear struggle to free Palestinian activist Farouk Abdel-Muhti, detained in a post-9/11 roundup of Muslim immigrants.
Through conversations with Israeli conscientious objectors and former soldiers, and Palestinians living under occupation, the film explores the Israeli social environment that creates heightened militarism and leads to attitudes of fear, racism, and ultimately aggression. The film also looks at the Israeli anti-militarist movement and Israeli youth refusing conscription and orders, and partnering with a growing grassroots Palestinian campaign of civil disobedience to defeat the occupation.
The film documents a 10-day musical tour through Palestine to teach resistance through the arts. Staying in the heart of Balata Refugee Camp at the Yafa Cultural Center in Nablus, the group witnessed and experienced the day-to-day struggle of Palestinian life. Accompanying the filmmakers are acclaimed hip hop artists including: M1 of Dead Prez, Lowkey, Shadia Mansour, Marcel Cartier, Mazzi of S.O.U.L. Purpose, DJ Vega Benetton, SWYC, University of Hip Hop, Jody McIntyre and many more….
A film made by the students of the Dance on Camera workshop in Ramallah, Palestine.
behind the culture and politics of the popular resistance.
Animal Farm interpreted with a Palestinian twist.
The University of California at Berkeley saw the USA's first public debates over a resolution advocating the divestment from companies militarily supporting Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory.
During the 1948 Nakba, Hind Al-Husseini came across a large group of young children in Jerusalem - survivors of the massacre in Deir Yassin. Husseini took them in and established the Dar al-Tifl al-Arabi, the largest Palestinian orphanage.
Part of a larger project, this experimental short tells the story of an un-named individual who travels to Beirut to write a love story but fails.
Easter egg games is justifiable in light of his good intentions for the eggs won.
Younis, a smuggler on his last tunnel run, ends up trapped in the middle of the "Whale" tunnel after an Israeli attack. Younis is left to ponder existential questions about fate and being alive underground.
Faced with Israeli checkpoints, obstacles to exporting goods from the West Bank and competition from Chinese keffiyeh manufacturers, the last factory in Palestine might not outlive its 76-year-old owner.
year's festival line-up. This program shines a light on another part of the Arab world with a cutting-edge film from an up-and-coming Arab filmmaker. TPFF has selected the award-winning Lebanese film Stray Bullet by Georges Hachem and starring acclaimed Lebanese director/actor Nadine Labaki (Caramel; Where do we go now?).
Best Film Muhr Arab Award winner at the Dubai International Film Festival (2010), Hachem's debut film is a poignant socio-politically charged drama that unveils a family in turmoil in the midst of wartime tensions. It's the end of summer 1976 in a northern suburb of Beirut. Noha (Labaki) is engaged to be married and her overbearing family is relieved she will not end up an old maid like her sister. Wedding preparations appear to be going to plan until, on that Sunday, fifteen days before the nuptials, Noha changes her mind. Noha's selfactualization triggers a cascading set of events that fractures her and her family.
Following the screening, TPFF will host a panel with director Georges Hachem and Pomegranates and Myrrh actor Ashraf Farah. They will discuss their films, which address themes of personal and national conflicts, as well as, trends, opportunities and obstacles for filmmakers and artists working in the Middle East on projects presenting a social commentary.
reviewed 93 HARBORD. The dining experience will be accompanied by a special live performance by award-winning composer, pianist and electronic musician, John Kameel Farah.
John Farah - Classically trained in composition and piano performance at the University of Toronto and the Royal Conservatory, Farah received the Glenn Gould Composition Award twice during his studies. Toronto's NOW Magazine named him as Best Pianist 2006 for his unique fusion of renaissance and baroque counterpoint, experimental improvisation, middle-eastern texture, ambient minimalism, Electronica and electro-acoustics. More recently, Farah was awarded the 2011 K.M. Hunter Artist Award by the Ontario Arts Council. To date, Farah has released two albums, Creation and Unfolding and is looking forward to releasing his next album in 2011. Visit his website and myspace page for more information.
The Toronto Palestine Film Festival and NOW Magazine are proud to present Arab Women and Media Representation, a panel discussion with filmmaker and director Ruba Nadda and Professor and Arab Feminist Activist Nahla Abdo. Moderated by NOW Magazine's Entertainment Editor Susan Cole, the discussion will centre on the degrees of representation of Arab women in mainstream and alternative media and entertainment. By asking these critical questions of how Arab women are presented and represented in film and media from the perspective of an academic and a filmmaker, we hope that our audiences will have an opportunity to engage with our panellists and leave with a new way of looking at representation in media.
Ruba Nadda is an Arab Canadian film director. She was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to a Syrian father and a Palestinian mother. She has made several awardwinning short films, including Lost Woman Story, Interstate Love Story, So Far Gone and Damascus Nights before writing and directing features I Always Come to You, Unsettled and Sabah. Her movie Cairo Time won the Best Canadian Feature Film award at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. She is known for shooting feature films in very short time spans. She is currently working on a new film.
Nahla Abdo (Ph.D.) is an Arab feminist activist, Professor of Sociology at Carleton University. She has published extensively on women, racism, nationalism and the State in the Middle East with special focus on Palestinian women. Among her recent publications is the recently released book Women in Israel: Gender, Race and Citizenship (Zed, 2011). Professor Abdo is the founder of the Gender Research Unit at the Women's Empowerment Project/Gaza Community Mental Health Program in Gaza. She is also the cofounder of Women Against Occupation in Canada.
Actor Ashraf Farah will be in attendance at the screening.
Ashraf Farah's breakthrough film was as the lead in the award-winning film "Pomegranates and Myrrh", by director Najwa Al Najjar. More recently, Ashraf starred in the Julian Schnabel latest film, "Miral" which received its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, 2010. Ashraf also stars in "Balkis", one of the leading TV historical series in the Arab world this year. He also has extensive theatre credits.
Director Konrad Aderer will be in attendance at the screening. Bio below.
May Shigenobu, featured in the film, will be in attendance at the screening. May Shigenobu is the daughter of Fusako Shigenobu (Japanese Red Army) and a Palestinian fighter based in Lebanon. She spent a portion of her childhood in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon where she lived in hiding to evade Israeli reprisals against her mother. She studied journalism in Lebanon and is fluent in Arabic. After her mother's capture she returned to Japan in 2001, where she earned her PhD in Media Studies (2011), currently works as MBC's Tokyo correspondent, as well as advocates for Palestine.
Rappers Shadia Mansour, Mazzi, Yassin will be in attendance at the screening.
See Closing Night Party for bios.
Art is a form of representation; artists mark the canvas with paint, the paper with a photograph and blocks into sculptures. The strong meaning behind each artwork increases its valubility and has been throughout the years. The TPFF Traveling Art Show aims to highlight the visual artists' that mark their emotions and feelings towards Palestine through artwork. A well rounded array of powerful paintings, printmakings, photography and more will be shown and coupled with the film screenings will uniquely convey the message of love.
Directed by Jackie Reem Salloum, Slingshot HipHop tells the stories of young Palestinians living in the West Bank, Gaza and inside Israel as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. From internal checkpoints and Separation Walls to gender norms and generational differences, these young people cross the borders that separate them through music. Slingshot HipHop premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival where it was nominated for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury prize. The film screened to a sold-out theatre at TPFF 2008 where it won the Audience Choice Award.
This free outdoor film screening is being organized as part of TPFF's campus program and being copresented by our partners at York University: Future Cinema Lab @ York University, Community Arts Practice (CAP) program @ York University, Cinema Politica - York, OPIRG - York.
The Toronto Palestine Film Festival and the Faculty of Art at OCAD University proudly present the works of the Jenin Freedom Theatre. Founded in 2006 by Arna Mer Khamis and her son Juliano Mer Khamis, the Freedom Theatre is located in the Jenin refugee camp in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The refugee camp houses 16,000 Palestinian refugees, over half are under the age of 18 years of age. The camp's young people have grown up experiencing the consequences of occupation including violence, poverty, isolation and trauma. The Freedom Theatre was established to offer youth in the camp a safe and creative way to express themselves and build valuable skills.
More recently, the theatre itself has come under threat with the murder of Juliano Mer Khamis and attacks by the Israeli army. Despite this, the theatre continues to demonstrate steadfastness and dedication by continuing its much needed work in the community.
TPFF, in partnership with the Art Creates Change series at OCAD University, is pleased to showcase the works of new filmmakers from Jenin Freedom Theatre. While many films are made about Palestinians, TPFF shares the films made by Palestinians and the stories they want to tell. In many instances, they tackle issues inside the Palestinian community, which are exacerbated by occupation, including gender inequality, poverty, racism, and the role of arts in the community.
Shadia Mansour, the "first lady of Arabic Hip Hop", is a British born Palestinian MC. She is reknown for her natural ability to switch between rapping and singing Arabic Phrases of loss, longing, struggle and life. Shadia started singing at age of 5, appearing on various Arabic, British, American TV and radio shows. She is currently working on her highly anticipated album featuring many top producers of the industry. Shadia has opened up for Busta Rhymes and Mobb Deep at the Palladium Club in New Rochelle, NY, and completed a highly successful US tour last summer. Shadia also took part in the Annual Pre Black August Concert in NYC with DJ Johnny Juice (Public Enemy). In May of this year Shadia was invited to take part in 'Symphony Arabica' and performed in a sold-out 4 city tour with an 200-person orchestra and a children's choir. Shadia opened this years Annual Black August Benefit for Political Prisoners alongside major hip hop legends such as Q-Tip, EPMD, Bilal, Blackmoon, Smif N Wessun and Immortal Technique.
Mazzi, of S.O.U.L. Purpose, hails from Jersey City and has been performing since 1995. He has performed with, or opened for, many top hip hop talents including: Eminem, G-Unit, Black Eyed Peas, RUN DMC, Ghostface, D12, Mos Def, Xzibit, Common, Flava Flav, Talib Kweli, Dead Prez, Faith Evans, Erykah Badu, Big Daddy Kane, Suheir Hammad, among many others. Albums include the successful "The Construction", "City Permits" and "The Inspection". In addition, Mazzi has used his musical talents and album proceeds to support many charities and social activism initiatives.
Invincible Voice (I-Voice) started rapping in 2001, performing their very own genre - Trap (Tarab Rap), which integrates Tarab (classical Arabic music) into Hip-Hop through instrumentation and choice of beats. Yassine is one of two rappers that make up I-Voice, which was formed when he decided to build a record studio and headquarters for learning and teaching sound, recording, beat-making, and mixing in the Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon where he grew up.
Najwa Najjar is a filmmaker living in Palestine. Pomegranates and Myrrh is her first feature film. It's the story of a woman's search for freedom and hope," she says. "I wanted a Palestinian story, a story different to what the world was used to seeing — about people trying to live ordinary lives under extraordinary circumstances." Her previous works include several award-winning films screened at film festivals worldwide, including Yasmine Tughani, Naim and Wadee'a, Quintessence of Oblivion, Blue Gold, A Boy Called Mohamad and They Came From the East.
Mohammad Bakri, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, is one of the country's most prominent actors and directors. He has been fighting for his democratic right to free expression since 2002 when he made the world-famous film Jenin Jenin. Bakri performed in theatres in Israel and the West Bank. After a few years of acting in Palestinian and Israeli films, Bakri began to act in international films. Bakri also directed documentary films including the controversial Jenin, Jenin. Almost all of Bakri's films have been influenced by the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and internal struggles of the Palestinian people.
Mahmoud al Massad was born in 1969 in Zarqa, Jordan. When he was 18 years old, he moved to Europe where he worked in the film industry in Romania, Italy and Germany, making 12 short films. Al Massad divides his time between Jordan and the Netherlands. Since 2002, al Massad has returned to Jordan to work on his film projects, including Shatter Hassan, Jackie & the 40 Yellow Cabs, Certificate, Ritual, Human Landscape, White Wall and Sufi, among others. Al Massad is currently working on a new project, This is My Picture When I was Dead, supported by the Sundance Documentary Institute.
Institute of Chicago, and the American University of Cairo. Her work wavers between fiction and fantasy to experiment with non-linear narratives that explore subjective experiences in relation to political landscapes.
Tahani Awad is from Nahr el Bared Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. Her short film was declared the winner of a film competition organized by the United Nations to mark World Refugee Day.
Hazim Bitar An award-winning Jordanian-Palestinian producer and founder of the Amman Filmmakers Cooperative and the Jordan Short Film Festival. In 2007 the Institut Français du Proche-Orient selected Bitar as one of Jordan's leading cultural influences.
Sahera Dirbas is a filmmaker living in Jerusalem but hails originally from Haifa.
Riham Isaac is a Palestinian actress from Bethlehem who made her short film on the Heel Side as part of the Dance on Camera workshop in Ramallah, Palestine, during the 2011 International Dance Festival.
Firas Khoury, a Palestinian from Israel, won the Adam Fint Treatments Competition with the screenplay of "The Flag" during the Tel Aviv 12th International Student Film Festival. He also attended the Talent Campus of the Berlin Film Festival.
Jenin Freedom Theatre, located in Jenin Refugee Camp, is developing the only professional venue for theatre and multimedia in the north of the West Bank. The aim of the theatre is to empower youth and women in the community and to explore the potential of arts as an important catalyst for social change.
Georges Hachem graduated from the National School Louis Lumière, in Paris, and also studied drama at the Lebanese University. He has created and directed several short films in acting workshops that he has coached since 1992 in Paris and Beirut. Since returning to Beirut in 2006, he has been in charge of the audiovisual department in the Antonine University. He also promotes the works of Lebanese playwrights. In 2009, he wrote and directed a 20-minute short film, Evening Mass, followed by his first feature film, awardwinning Stray Bullet.
Since 2005, Ester Gould has focused on directing documentaries. Originally from the Netherlands, she studied film, television and theater in Amsterdam and New York. Gould completed a Masters in Journalism and has worked with the current affairs program NOVA. Sabine Lubbe Bakker's passion for the Middle East took her to Damascus to write her thesis, which dealt with rebellious student movements in Syria. In addition, she made two short films. Sabine worked in Brussels for the documentary programme Panaroma, and as a freelance researcher and director for Amsterdam-based BNR News Radio. Nowadays she works as a freelance documentary filmmaker.
Konrad is a documentary filmmaker and video producer. With production company Off Ramp Films he has worked on projects for the United Nations, the ACLU and other NGOs and nonprofits. As a freelancer he has created promotional videos for nonprofit and corporate clients including RMJM Hillier. Konrad's independent documentaries have screened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the New York Museum of Modern Art, and at film festivals across the U.S. and internationally. His work has been supported by grants from the Center for Asian American Media, the Fledgling Fund and New York State Council of the Arts.
Zlutnick, a California native, has been making films under the name of Upheaval Productions since he was 16. He has worked with numerous independent print publications, co-founded The Friendly Fire Collective, and has been published in a variety of media outlets including Democracy Now! and CounterPunch among others. A founding member of Colectivo Media Insurgente, David worked to produce multiple films through this organization that were shown widely both within the United States and internationally.
Nana Dankwa, hailing from Ghana/Kenya, moved to the UK and then New York where he discovered his passion for in telling stories through film and music. He has been involved in many projects including documenting Afrika Bambaataa's visit to the UK, produced films for adidas promoting new talent, directed music videos and is currently working in a pan African TV station. He was approached by a grass roots organization called Existence is Resistance to go to Palestine to document the tour. Existence Is Resistance is an internationalist organization determined to promote non-violent resistance through cultural arts.
Ruben Amar is a multi-awarded director and screenwriter of six short films shot in London, New York, Paris and Tel Aviv. His movies have been screened in more than 50 international film festivals. Ruben is currently shooting his first indie feature with Lola Bessis.
Sheryle Carlson is a Canadian filmmaker who engages in issues surrounding corporate/governmental responsibility, environmental sustainability, and social justice. Her filmmaking and art focuses on communicating ideas, facts and ideals often obscured or hidden by an onslaught of mass culture and the homogenization of consumerist tendencies that limit diversity and in some cases, free thinking. She recently worked with the Alternative Information Center in Palestine, then as associate director at Sierra Club Prairie in Canada. She is currently completing her masters in Human Ecology: Power, Culture and Sustainability in Sweden.
Johan Eriksson is a filmmaker working with the United Nations' agency UNRWA in Palestine.
been living in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. His work has been published in Marie Claire, Le Monde and La Presse.
Anne Paxton is the Director of Metier Productions, specializing in documentaries on human rights and social justice issues.
Animation from the International Film School of Wales where he made his major short film "Missing".


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A different look at Robert Indiana's iconic "Ahava" sculpture.
Robert Indiana's Ahava (Love) sculpture (1977), photographed before and after sunset. A lot of my sunflare photos didn't turn out well because I forgot to clean the filter. Important to remember!


Artistic-urbanistic strategies, (Public) art projects, urban interventions, programs and organizations of diverse cultural and geopolitical backgrounds worldwide for locating and connecting urgent urban issues, discussing critical and innovative approaches, and analyzing urban tools and methods at the intersection of art, urban planning, critical political involvement and theory for employing new artistic-urbanistic methods in a process orientated urban planning.
In particular, urban-matters.org investigates the potential of "unplanning" as a possible new strategy for dealing with today's urban challenges. "Planning" seems no more an adequate response to today's challenges of a multilayered society permanently on the move. Yet, critical projects developed during the last decade by architects, urbanists and artists continue to be a parallel production to conventional planning methods which are predominantly investor-orientated. How can we develop new visions for urban and regional matters – counteracting the dominant pragmatics of neoliberal economy?
a new positioning of artistic practices, exploring the diverse and often conflictual interests as potential for a new role: the urban practitioner. www.urban-matters.org also serves as information platform for current urbanistic issues between research, theory and practice, transferring the experience of specific local contexts to urban and regional issues, public space and society to other specific contexts worldwide.
www.urban-matters.org collects information and data of public art organizations, institutions, biennials, as well as projects or initiatives by individuals, dealing with urban issues, in order to create a complex and comprehensive overview from the perspective of various and transdisciplinary backgrounds like artists, architects, urban designers, sociologists, theoreticians. We are especially looking for projects/ initiatives exploring critical artistic and spatial strategies (see Jane Rendell) reconsidering and counteracting the principles of decision-making currently dictated by neoliberal economic interests, for establishing innovative methods of urban planning as major element for producing a more just society.


Posted by KG in comedy, news, religion.
During his live 1996 HBO special, "Back in Town," he raged over the shallowness of the '90s "me first" culture — mocking the infatuation with camcorders, hyphenated names, sneakers with lights on them, and lambasting white guys over 10 years old who wear their baseball hats backwards. Baby boomers, "who went from 'do your thing' to 'just say no' …from cocaine to Rogaine," and pro life advocates ("How come when it's us it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken it's an omelet?"), were some of his prime targets.
Posted by KG in design, econ, environment, food, health, news, science, tech.
WALK THE WALK: In many parts of the country, walking has become as quaint a pastime as spinning yarn or playing the bagpipes. Between 1977 and 1995, the number of daily walking trips taken by adults declined by 40 percent — while more than a quarter of all car trips are now shorter than a mile. Those under-a-mile journeys fall into the zone that new urbanists call "walkshed": the area a person can reasonably cover on foot. People whose walksheds teem with shops and restaurants have more reason to walk than those whose don't, so it was only a matter of time before someone tried to quantify a neighborhood's pedestrian-friendliness. Last summer, a trio of Seattle software developers started walkscore.com, which calculates the number of potential destinations within walking distance of any given address and then produces a rating. If your neighborhood scores 90 or above, you can easily live there without a car; if it scores under 25, you'll be driving to the backyard. More than a million addresses were searched in the site's first month. Matt Lerner, one of the site's developers, knew the concept had arrived when a condo in Seattle hung out a gigantic banner that said "Walk Score 100." "People react really negatively to phrases like 'density,' " he says, "but they react really positively to phrases like 'walkability.' "Walk Score's popularity may be a sign that walking is making a comeback, fueled by both rising gas prices and widening waistlines.
Posted by KG in 2008 Elections, foreign policy, international, iraq, iraq war, news, politics, terrorism, Uncategorized.
During Bush's second term, a strange disconnect has arisen in liberal foreign-policy circles in response to the president's so-called "freedom agenda." Some liberals, like Matthew Yglesias in his book Heads In The Sand, note the insincerity of the administration's stated goal of exporting democracy. Bush, they observe, only targets for democratization countries that challenge American hegemony. Other liberal foreign-policy types, such as Thomas Carothers and Marina Ottaway of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, insist the administration is sincere but too focused on elections without supporting the civil-society institutions that sustain democracy. Still others, like Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch, contend that a focus on democracy in the developing world without privileging the protection of civil and political rights is a recipe for a dangerous illiberalism.
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what the article does not mention is whether students must serve their five years immediately following graduation/passing the bar. i assume it does, but also think that the scheme would make more sense without a time limit. why not allow recent graduates to make partner first, then transition into public interest work?
economically, foregoing five years' salary at Whiteman & Douche LLP for a $40k waiver is a pretty dumb decision – think of the compound interest you'd be missing out on. by the time burnout from corporate law firms sets in, however, slower-paced public interest work may become more appealing.
Posted by KG in 2008 Elections, econ, legal, news, politics.
The origins of the business community's campaign to transform the Supreme Court can be traced back precisely to Aug. 23, 1971. That was the day when Lewis F. Powell Jr., a corporate lawyer in Richmond, Va., wrote a memo to his friend Eugene B. Snydor, then the head of the education committee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In the memo, Powell expressed his concern that the American economic system was "under broad attack." He identified several aggressors: the New Left, the liberal media, rebellious students on college campuses and, most important, Ralph Nader. Earlier that year, Nader founded Public Citizen to advocate for consumer rights, bring antitrust actions when the Justice Department did not and sue federal agencies when they failed to adopt health and safety regulations.
Posted by KG in arts/culture, immigration, international, interviews, media, news, politics, radio.
Act Four. Just One Thing Missing.
Reporter Douglas McGray interviews a college student in California with good grades, an excellent work ethic, but no possible way to get a legal job. She's lived in the U.S. since she was little, but her parents are undocumented; and she is, too. Most of her friends and teachers don't even know. Douglas McGray is a fellow at the New America Foundation.


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While making the video, two friends of mine assisted me at the camera. What would I have done without Albert Ewert and Ralph-Joachim Edler von Görbitz! I could not have filmed myself on the swing or during the skating episodes at Tempelhofer Feld! So I'm really grateful to them for their help. In my opinion they did a great job!
One Saturday morning in late July I went to the visitor platform at Tegel airport. Surrounded by families with little children, I recorded film material of planes during take-off. Holding my camcorder, I felt a slight pain in my heart. How I wished to be on board of one of those planes! Instead, I travelled just a few kilometres to shoot a beautiful sequence at the shore of lake Wannsee.
On the EP The Muse "I'm Gonna Fly Away" was chosen to be track 5, the link between "Deine Blauen Augen" and the Croatian version "Tvoje Plave Oči". One thing is for sure: I have to fly away in order to produce my next video!


The Royal Ontario Museum is the largest and most visited museum in Canada and attracts more than one million visitors every year.
Vasa was built between 1626-1628 to fight against Poland and Lithuania. She was designed to become the greatest vessel of Swedish fleet. Richly decorated and well equipped with cannons was to pay high price for Gustav Adolph ambition. The ship was unstable, and she foundered on her maiden voyage after mere 1,200 yards. The loss was so big, that Swedes believed, it had been caused by Polish sabotage.
The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is one of the well known landmarks of Spain. Who was Guggenheim?
Solomon R. Guggenheim was born into a wealthy mining family. He founded the Yukon Gold Company in Alaska among his other businesses. He retired in 1919 to devote more time to art collecting and in 1937 established a foundation to foster the appreciation of modern art.
In which Nordic country was this photo taken?
The Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo houses vessels and maps from the 1964 Kon-Tiki expedition, during which Norwegian etnographer Thor Heyerdahl sailed 8,000 km (5,000 mi) across the Pacific Ocean in a self-built raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands.
The British Museum was opened to the public on 15 January 1759. The covered central quadrangle is called the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court. It has a tessellated glass roof designed by Buro Happold, covering the entire court and surrounds the original circular British Museum Reading Room in the centre. It is the largest covered square in Europe.


Increase your skills and confidence in supporting people living with dementia in emergency situations.
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Intouch Solutions Adds Executive Powerhouses to New York Team
By Haley Haislet | Category: Press Releases	|
NEW YORK, NY (July 12, 2018) Intouch Solutions is proud to announce the recent hires of Wanda Cruz, senior vice president of marketing intelligence, and Karen Kranack, vice president of user experience. A leading marketing agency serving the pharmaceutical industry, Intouch has seen rapid expansion over the past five years. The addition of Cruz and Kranack further expands the 750-person firm.
As senior vice president of marketing intelligence, Cruz will lead the marketing intelligence group. In this role, she will focus on business development, including analytics, data science and field experience strategic support. Ultimately, Cruz is responsible for elevating Intouch's offerings to drive revenue through new business opportunities while supporting organic growth efforts.
A seasoned professional within the healthcare industry, Cruz possesses more than 18 years of experience. Most recently serving as the associate director of marketing at Valeritas, Cruz holds expertise in areas related to digital strategy, brand marketing, sales enablement and EHR. She has held positions with several global, multibillion-dollar companies and start-ups, including Novo Nordisk, Novartis Oncology and Johnson & Johnson.
"I am delighted to join the team at Intouch for what is going to be exciting times ahead," said Cruz. "Analytics, data and data science have become one of Intouch's many differentiators, elevating our ability to offer more strategic value to our clients. I look forward to leading the marketing intelligence group to drive more results for Intouch and its clients alike."
As vice president of user experience, Kranack leverages 18 years of knowledge in the digital, user experience and product development realms to refine the user experience vision and strategy across Intouch. While promoting innovation in user experience thinking across the agency and building client relationships, Kranack also serves as a mentor to her team.
Before joining Intouch, Kranack served as vice president of strategy and research at Modus Agency, where she created and oversaw the agency's research and strategy practice, led multi-disciplinary project teams, and managed user experience project strategy and vision, from conception and research to development. Kranack also previously served as the global head of user experience for Estee Lauder Corporation, and ran her own consulting firm.
"I'm tremendously excited by Intouch's dedication to design thinking," said Kranack. "I'm thrilled to push our user experience expertise to the next level in creating digital experiences that support client goals while servicing customer needs."
"With the formation of the marketing intelligence group and the continued development of our user experience offering, I'm elated to welcome Wanda and Karen to our Intouch family," said Faruk Capan, CEO of Intouch Solutions. "Wanda and Karen both possess a wealth of experience and knowledge within their respective fields. We are fortunate to have them on board. I have no doubt they will help grow Intouch and deliver outstanding results for our clients."
About Intouch Solutions
Founded in 1999, Intouch Solutions is a leading marketing and advertising agency with offices in Kansas City, Chicago, New York City, London and Mumbai. Intouch Solutions is part of Intouch Group, a privately held network of 750 employees across six affiliates. Specializing in solutions for the life sciences, Intouch is redefining what marketing means to these industries. Contact Intouch at getintouch@intouchsol.com or visit them on the Web at www.intouchsol.com.
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This Montessori school has tremendous room for growth through marketing and advertising. Annual estimated revenue for 2018 is $288,257 with annual Seller's Discretionary Earnings for 2018 are estimated to be $136,172. Growth can be achieved by expanding the age of children to include younger children to feed into the Montessori program, as well as, adding an after-school and summer camp program for school age children in the area. Expanding the hours of operation and services provided would increase revenue. The revenue has been on an upward trend since the opening and is continuing to grow. The purchase price includes the land and building as well as the furniture, fixtures and equipment of the school with the business. This would be a perfect buying opportunity for someone who wants to buy a school with huge growth potential.


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Q: Python CSV export 4000 line limit As per this question I posted a while back I'm parsing through JSON formatted data and extracting it to CSV files in the format as needed.
I'm noticing now that working with larger JSON extracts that the CSV file which the data goes to just stops creating records after line 4000, but the JSON raw data file certainly has many more rows it should extract than 4000. . .  so that's what I thought and was wrong about. I ended up adding an answer to this question below for what applied in my case, the vendor suggested fix, and my actual applied fix that resolved the problem.
Related Questions

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*Is there a 4000 line export limit or line read limit using the Python methods listed below?

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with open(RawDataFile,"r") as file:
    data = json.load(file)

with open(CsvFile,"w",newline='') as file:
    csv_file = csv.writer(file)

*Is there any way to workaround issue where all rows can be exported to the file regardless of the number of records/rows?

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*I'd even consider logic that would put each set of 4000 records into it's own file is the last part of the file name could be iterated automatically with a count number e.g. <filename1>, <filename2>, <filename2>,and so on with each having no more than 4000 records.

*Ideally I'd like to stay with Python even if using a different method than this to get all the data into one file as CSV parsed accordingly.

Full Python Logic (changed a little though)
I need to be able to export all records to a flat file and not just the first 4000. The format using the below gets me exactly what's needed format wise.
import json
import csv
import sys

RawDataFile = sys.argv[1]
CsvFile = sys.argv[2]

with open(RawDataFile,"r") as file:
    data = json.load(file)

with open(CsvFile,"w",newline='') as file:
    csv_file = csv.writer(file)

    for dev in data["devs"]:
        for tag in dev["tags"]:
            if "history" in tag:
                for hist in tag["history"]:
                    csv_file.writerow([tag['TagId'], hist['date'].replace('T',' ').replace('Z',''), hist['value']])

Environment Specs

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*Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 (unfortunately)

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*144 GB of RAM

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*Python 3.5.2 (v3.5.2:4def2a2901a5, Jun 25 2016, 22:18:55) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)]

A: I'm not sure because I don't know what your data is like, but there is a limit on field size for csv that you can change. In python 2.7 the default is:
import csv
print csv.field_size_limit()

output: 131072
This seems to be the maximum for python 2.7. Maybe by using newline = '' you are inadvertently concatenating lines and thusly creating a large field.

A: There is no Python CSV export 4000 line limit
My issue was just as @juanpa.arrivillaga suggested; the data files I got were cutoff just at the 4000 record level so Python was parsing the JSON data to CSV just fine based on what data it had.
I confirmed with vendor support that the device we call the JSON file from via a URL API call with parameters, etc. cuts off at 4000 records for some reason.
Therefore, I made a bad and unverified assumption that I had all the data from the date and time frame parameters passed in the URL call to the device as the support documents mentioned the limitation. In fact, I was told there was not a limitation with this method until I sent them the URLs to support for them to try and then they confirmed themselves exactly what I saw.
Suggested Fix
The suggested fix in my case was to call a different URL but that URL did a sync and didn't allow calling data based on date and time stamps.
Applied Fix
I build some logic to make a call for a 24 hour time period for any given date based on each one hour period per day it's run from 00:00:00 - 00:59:59, 01:00:00 - 01:59:59, all the way through 23:00:00 - 23:59:59 iterating accordingly in one hour increments. It seems that data within a one hour time frame never exceeds the 4000 record limit so in my case this sort of solution is a workaround to the records limitation of the device /server services that gives the called records.


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Discussion in 'Wireless & RF Design' started by BR-549, Apr 14, 2019.
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This is more than interesting. I have been reading on this a little, but most is for GHz. I am wondering about HF, MF and LF QRP.
And the lower VLF bands. Easy and common communication thru mountains and water is intriguing.
Anyone fooled with this before?
Looks more like near-field electric induction than far-field EM wave propagation.
The physics of antenna radiation resistance into free space vs physical size sets hard limits on em wave efficiency even for a dielectric resonator antenna.
I used VLF stations all the time back in the 70's for fleet broadcast message reception at sea.
You remind me of the experimentation we did in the unlicensed 1750 meter (~160kHz) band when I was a kid. We didn't have much luck but we managed a couple of miles.
I'm tempted to try again.
The results in the actual paper mirror what I thought about near-field induction effects and antenna radiation resistance.
In addition, a portable system open to the ambient environment is used to measure the electric and magnetic field versus range (see supplementary Fig. 7). Input lead lengths and effects from RFI are minimized. The magnetic field drops off as 1/r2 and the electric field drops off as 1/r3 as anticipated in the electric dipole near field (see Fig. 8). We have separately confirmed that the magnetic field continues to fall as 1/r2 to >80 m. A fit to the electric field data gives the measured value of dipole moment, 7.5 mA-m. Discrepancies between the measured and calculated dipole moments occur due to effects of nearby structures, deviations of the resonator from an ideal dipole, and drifts of the Q during operation.
The frequencies are not getting enabled through the module and by the post we can see that the issue needs to be fixed. The main thing is that we have to know the basic aspects of this before implementing.
It looks like a sine applied to rod. Then a capacitor at base of rod is switched in and out at base band rate.
A fancy spark transmitter or a Alexanderson Alternator with fast frequency control.
This DAM system is a cool proof of concept but we already know a lot (since at least 1906) about actual VLF transmission engineering. All of the generation technology can be miniaturized but the physical antenna for far-field wave propagation can't.
We'll just use (waves hand) nano-fractal antennas with huge exposed edges in tiny spaces.
Capture? Don't bother me with details, I am trying to get round one funding.
Is amplitude modulation irrelevant in (modern) digital TV antenna systems?


Have you ever thought that it would have been so much better if we didn't have to carry our baggage to trips and that it would magically transport itself to the destination? Well this prospect is no longer just a fragment of our imagination. Baggage delivery services have brought forward this unique service whereas one can plan to have their baggage delivered to the pre decided destination even before their arrival. So is it just because we are lazy to carry our own baggage that one opts for the baggage delivery services?
Well the answer is No! There are lots of merits that make this service a lucrative deal. Firstly it saves you a great deal of time at check in and check out. You do not have to wait in long lines at the airport for the arrival of your baggage. Secondly, these services allows you to do away which the headache of restricted baggage that per person can carry on flights. In case you are a heavy traveller it is an expensive affair to pay for extra baggage which you can eliminate by the help of these services. It also rules out the age old problem of the airlines losing your baggage.
With baggage delivery services it becomes the responsibility of the service provider to handle and deliver your baggage on time to the designated destination. One can ship any item from suitcases to golf gear to snowboards to bicycles. Through this service to can be rest assured that your baggage will reach before you whether you plan to go to a vacation or a business trip. All you have to do is contact the service provider, book your baggage shipment, give details of the destination and arrival specifications, prepare your baggage and have it picked up from your place.


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Marquel Dismuke appeared in seven games as a sophomore in 2018, seeing time on both defense and special teams. Dismuke totaled 10 tackles on the season, including four special teams tackles. Dismuke made his season debut against Troy and posted two tackles at No. 19 Michigan the next week. Dismuke added tackles on kickoff coverage against both Purdue and No. 16 Wisconsin. He totaled a season-high three tackles - all solo stops on defense - at Northwestern. He was a force on special teams in the Huskers' win over Illinois, making a pair of tackles on kickoff coverage and blocking a punt that resulted in a safety. Dismuke's block marked the first blocked punt by a Husker since 2015. Dismuke concluded his sophomore season with a tackle on kickoff coverage at Iowa.
Dismuke appeared in all 12 games and made one start as a contributor in the Husker secondary and on special teams. Dismuke did not record a tackle in the first five games, but he did recover a fumbled punt to set up Nebraska's first touchdown against Northern Illinois. Dismuke made his first career tackles against No. 9 Wisconsin, finishing with a career-high nine tackles against the Badgers. He added six tackles against No. 9 Ohio State the next week before totaling three stops at Purdue.
Dismuke tallied seven tackles in his first career start against Northwestern, then had six total tackles and a career-high five solo stops at Minnesota. Each of Dismuke's 34 tackles came over the final seven games of the season, including four games with six or more tackles. Thirty-one of his tackles came at safety, and he added three tackles on special teams, making two stops on kickoff coverage and one tackle on punt coverage.
Dismuke redshirted and worked on the scout team in his first season in Lincoln.
Dismuke had a standout prep career at Calabasas High School in California, and was regarded as one of the top defensive back prospects in the state after his play for Coach Casey Clausen.
Dismuke provided a dominant defensive presence for Calabasas in 2015, registering 66 tackles, including two tackles for loss and a sack. He also had four interceptions, returning one of the picks for 67 yards, while posting a team-high 11 pass breakups. The outstanding play of Dismuke helped the Coyotes to a 13-2 record. Calabasas won the Southern Section Canyon Division and was the CIF Southern Section West Division playoff winner. Calabasas eventually lost in the Division II-A state title game.
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Just like many modern app ecosystems, such as Google Play and iTunes, educators will be able to rate and review educational apps. They'll also be able to discover which apps are popular with other educators in their particular fields.
In a blog post on e-Literate, Phil Hill says the Learning Commons marketplace is an attempt to change the way apps for classrooms are procured — an a la carte approach over the top-down distribution processes of the past.
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Many business owners (not all) are technicians, that is, experts in their space. These technicians started their businesses based upon a skill or capability. This is particularly true in the contract manufacturing services industry.
Being a technician doesn't always come in handy when it comes to planning for business growth and developing a go-to-market strategy. Owners definitely know their area of expertise whether it's machining, materials, applications, tolerances and manufacturing but often, the big challenge for them is how to differentiate between their offerings and their competitors.
Evaluate revenue coming from a core group of customers that hold an uncomfortably high percentage of overall business. The loss or decrease of revenue from these core clients can have a significantly adverse effect on a business. Planning for diversity is key.
Develop a clear strategy for demand or revenue generation.
Suppliers need to differentiate themselves from one another, especially within the contract manufacturing or 'job shop' sectors.
Change is process though it can be met with resistance at times. Understand the reason for the resistance and whether it is coming from internal or external sources, and move toward lean adoption concepts to lighten stress.
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They are not all easy to implement and would need careful consideration and consultation with our fellow Ealing residents.
However, each demand is crucial to the health and safety of people living in Ealing, whether they are cyclists or not.
Ealing Council has been making positive movements in the right direction, but needs a Green voice to push the current initiatives further, and drive for new ones like a CSH quality segregated cycleway along Uxbridge Road, and the Mini Holland already specified in our original 2014 Mini Holland bid.
Therefore, the Ealing Green Party will commit to endeavouring to meet these demands, and influencing other parties to implement them, should we be elected to the council in May.
Demands 1 and 3 refer to the creation of a 'Mini-Holland' and newly protected cycleways.
Ealing Council and Ealing Cycling Campaign have already carried out a lot of analysis and planning for their Mini Holland bid in 2014 and we will update and adapt this existing plan. Uxbridge Road is a prime candidate for a properly protected cycleway. We will insist that the current patchwork of substandard cycle route is upgraded to CSH standards.
Demand 7 refers to the danger of left-hand turns. We would fully support the introduction of protected left-hand turns and T-junction bypasses at traffic lights for cyclists where they don't currently exist and audit the ones that are currently in place. We will push for the publication of the Uxbridge Road safety audit and ensure that its recommendations are actioned quickly and effectively.
If we are successful at implementing demand 1 and 3, we believe the safe left-hand turns should be addressed at the same time. In areas where we have not yet secured protected cycle lanes, we would want protected left-hand turns and bypasses created as soon as possible in consultation with the local community to better understand where these are most needed.
As part of our commitment to safer cycling, we currently support Cycle Superhighway 9 from Brentford to Kensington Olympia via Chiswick. In consultation with Ealing residents, we would also ask TfL for our own Cycle Superhighway for Ealing along Uxbridge Road.
Demand 4 asks for a 20 mile per hour speed limit throughout the borough and Demand 6 asks for a traffic-free high street with a cycleway through it.
Given much of Ealing is currently under 20mph limits we would work to ensure the 20mph limit is implemented Borough-wide. We would also work with the Police to start to enforce this limit.
Driving in London is extremely frustrating as it is so congested, and drivers often forget that everywhere they go there will be people walking and cycling. With the 20 miles per hour speed limit we would greatly reduce the risk of accidents by vehicle collisions. People in Ealing are taking to walking and cycling at an increasing rate, we hope that safer roads will encourage even more people to do so. We believe this will help decrease the number of cars on the road.
Many high streets in other areas of London and throughout the UK have become pedestrianised successfully. We would support pedestrianisation of Ealing high streets in close consultation with local residents and businesses. Since West Ealing has won the Liveable Neighbourhoods funding we will work to ensure it delivers on its initial promise and provides a safe, liveable active travel area for all ages.
Demand 2 of the 8 for 2018 campaign asks that the equivalent of £20 per person per year is spent on protected cycling infrastructure in the borough from the Council's budget. Promoting cycling is a high priority for the Ealing Green Party in the view of air pollution reduction, health benefits through exercise, and reduction of risk of traffic accidents. We would, therefore, support this demand and commit at least £20 per person per year is spent on protected cycling infrastructure.
Demand 5 and 8 refer to the vehicles used by the council itself.
Demand 5 asks that the council encourages its staff to go to and from council business by bicycle instead of motor vehicle, where practical. We strongly support this. With the government's Cycle Scheme in the workplace and initiatives such as the Santander Bikes and the newly introduced Mobikes, we feel people have genuine access to bicycles and therefore have no substantial reason for getting into a car. Especially with the right infrastructure, cycling to and from meetings will be much more time effective than cars or even public transport for short distances, and following their introduction in other councils, Ebikes for longer journeys.
Demand 8 refers to blind-spot equipment in the HGVs owned by Ealing Council, their contractors and their subcontractors. Ealing Council has already installed Cycle Safety Shield System in all its large vehicles and Ealing Green Party will insist that all HGVs that work within the Borough are equipped with the system or similar.
However, we do believe that HGVs and cyclists should not be sharing the same road space in the first place, so this demand would be implemented in parallel our efforts to create segregated and protected cycle paths. We do not want a false sense of security that blind-spot equipment could potentially provide and we do not want this demand to detract from the need of protected cycle paths.
Will you draw up and submit a bid for funding from the London Mayor's Healthy Neighbourhoods Fund, plans to create a mini-Holland and a linked genuine Quietway route with roads closed to through vehicular traffic and removed parking, in Ealing (Name locations of proposed Mini-Holland and Quietway route) in the first year of new administration?
Will you commit to spend the equivalent of a minimum of £20/person/year on protected cycling infrastructure in the Borough from your Borough's own funds, to complement the funding committed by the London Mayor?
Will you commit to creating and completing a fully protected new cycle-lane, connecting with the proposed expanded London's Mayor's Protected Cycle Network along a major road maintained by the Borough? (Name the road/route you will create this on).
Will you implement a 20mph speed limit on all Borough maintained roads?
Will you initiate a programme to ensure staff vehicular travel on council business will instead be undertaken by bike, where practical?
Will you create a new vehicular traffic-free high-street with cycle-route through it? (Name which local high-street).
Will you introduce protected left-hand turns and T-junction bypasses at traffic light controlled junctions where there are low levels of pedestrians, as standard practice on relevant borough controlled junctions?
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Thirty years into a moratorium on commercial whaling, hundreds of the marine mammals, some endangered, are killed every year – some in open defiance of the ban, others in the name of scientific research.
The moratorium, monitored by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) which closed its 66th meeting in Slovenia on Oct 28, is credited with having saved tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of whales.
It has allowed the recovery of many species hunted to near-extinction in the 20th century for their meat, and for blubber used in soap and fuel.
Japan is the only country to hunt under an exemption to the moratorium which allows IWC member governments to issue special permits to kill whales for research.
It has netted more than 15,000 whales since 1985, which critics say are for sushi rather than science – about 500 whales per year. In 2014, the country was chastised by the International Court of Justice.
The exemption stipulates the meat must be "processed" – in Japan's case it lands up in supermarkets and restaurants.
Japan has hunted whales for centuries and whale meat was a key source of protein in the tight years that followed World War II, but consumption has dramatically declined in recent decades, especially among younger generations.
Norway is the world's biggest whale hunter today. It landed nearly 12,000 minkes between 1986 and 2014, according to the latest official IWC data. The biggest recorded annual haul was in 2014 with 736.
The country hunts under a formal objection lodged against the IWC moratorium.
Similar to Norway, Iceland negotiated a "reservation" against the moratorium under which it continues hunting for whale meat, though on a much smaller scale.
Icelandic hunters harpooned 906 fin and minke whales from 1986 to 2014.
Few people eat whale meat in Norway and Iceland today, and observers say most of the haul is destined for Japan. Whale meat is also served to thrill-seeking tourists and some ends up being used as animal feed.
On Oct 27, the United States said continued whaling by the two Nordic countries "diminish the effectiveness" of the IWC.
"We strongly urge Iceland and Norway to cease immediately all commercial whaling and international trade in whale products," said US IWC commissioner Russel Smith.
Whaling countries which are not members of the IWC, such as Canada and Indonesia, are not bound by the moratorium.
The indigenous peoples of Alaska, Chukotka in the Russian Far East, Greenland and St Vincent and The Grenadines receive catch limits from the IWC.
Jointly, they took 355 whales in 2014 – a total of 10,139 since the moratorium was introduced.
Minke whales, mainly from the Antarctic Ocean but also the northeast Atlantic, are the most targeted species for commercial, scientific and aboriginal hunts by far – more than 41,000 have been recorded killed in three decades.
Minke whales grow up to about 10m in length, and weigh up to 10 tonnes.
They are the most abundant of the baleen whales, which filter plankton and small fish from the ocean for food with special bristle-like structures in their mouths.
The second-most targeted group, exclusively by aboriginal hunters, are grey (3,542) and bowhead (1,481) whales.
Sei whales are the second-most sought-after category under Japan's scientific programme, with 1,249 killed in 30 years. Fast swimmers, they grow to about 16m long and weigh some 20 tonnes. Found in the north Atlantic, north Pacific and southern hemisphere, they are listed as endangered.
Bryde's whales, found in the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans, grow to about 14m in length. They are taken in about equal measure by commercial hunters and by Japan – a total of 1,317 over the moratorium period.
Found in oceans worldwide, fin whales are the second-largest species of whale, growing up to 24m long. Despite being listed as endangered, 551 have been killed by commercial hunters and 310 by Japan under the moratorium. Aboriginal hunters have landed 356.


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I-73 Funding Remains Roadblock to Hospitality Fee Lawsuit Settlement
The question of funding Interstate 73 is the obstacle preventing settlement of the hospitality fee lawsuit brought by Myrtle Beach against Horry County earlier this year.
A proposed settlement agreement that was voted on Monday by the councils of North Myrtle Beach, Myrtle Beach, Surfside Beach, Aynor and Atlantic Beach as well as Horry County Council included a provision that one-third of the proceeds from a continuation of the 1.5% countywide hospitality fee collected by Horry County would be dedicated to funding I-73.
The five municipalities voting approved the agreement. Horry County amended the agreement, which necessitates a reconsideration by the five municipalities. Conway and Loris did not vote.
City of Conway officials said in various media reports over the last day that they have no intention of voting on the amended settlement agreement to the hospitality fee lawsuit proposed by Horry County Council Monday night.
Properly looking out for the interests of its citizens, Conway City Council wants to reserve the right to use any hospitality fee revenue collected within its city limits to meet local needs in accordance with allowable uses of hospitality funds.
The refusal by Conway to vote on the agreement effectively kills the amended settlement agreement since one condition of the amendment was that the cities in the county, less Briarcliff Acres, must unanimously approve the amended agreement.
Myrtle Beach Mayor Brenda Bethune tried to take the high road when the county amended the agreement, but she can't. It was Bethune who summarily dismissed the county's offer to settle the dispute in early April, long before attorneys began racking up large bills to continue the lawsuit.
The exact same conditions the county proposed in April became the conditions for settlement voted on Monday night, including the I-73 funding.
Attorneys representing Myrtle Beach negotiated with attorneys representing Horry County with the other municipalities essentially left out of the negotiations. The settlement agreement was presented to those municipalities, essentially as a fait accompli. Conway and Loris chose not to accept and Horry County Council members chose to amend it.
County Council Adds More Controversy to Hospitality Fee Settlement
Horry County Council approved an amended settlement agreement at its special meeting Monday night that added to the controversy regarding settling the hospitality fee lawsuit.
Council split 7-5 on votes to amend the settlement agreement and to approve the settlement agreement as amended. Those voting for the agreement were Johnny Vaught, Dennis DiSabato, Cam Crawford, Gary Loftis, Bill Howard, Tyler Servant and Orton Bellamy.
The Deep Six (Vaught, DiSabato, Crawford, Loftis, Servant and Howard) can always be counted on to support anything the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber and other special interests in the county want. Vaught is counting on that group to fund his run for chairman in two years while DiSabato, Crawford and Loftis expect significant donations from special interests to fund their upcoming reelection campaigns.
The special interests want I-73, they fall in line to keep it in play.
Voting against the settlement were Chairman Johnny Gardner, Harold Worley, Al Allen, Danny Hardee and Paul Prince.
As Worley said at the beginning of open debate on the question, the elephant in the room was I-73.
The settlement agreement as presented Monday night would provide approximately $14.5 million per year toward I-73. As Worley pointed out this amount is a drop in the bucket for a project that will require approximately $670 million to complete the road in Horry County, $1.3 billion to reach I-95 and over $2 billion for the total project to the North Carolina border in Marlboro County.
But the drop in the bucket is important to those landowners in Horry County who will benefit from right of way purchases for the road and the engineering and other businesses who will profit from the early design and site work for the project.
The federal and state governments will have to come in with significant money for the road to ever be completed but the local special interests can realize a significant income from the early work that can be paid for if the county contributes. Like always, it's all about the money.
Questions Surround Proposed Hospitality Fee Settlement Agreement
As Horry County and the municipal councils prepare to vote on a proposed settlement agreement for the Hospitality Fee lawsuit Monday night, many questions remain about what really has taken place behind closed doors since the lawsuit was filed last March.
According to sources familiar with the settlement agreement, the basic proposal approved in a resolution by Horry County Council at its April 2, 2019 regular meeting and publicly rejected by Myrtle Beach Mayor Brenda Bethune within a few days thereafter is the agreement that will be voted on Monday night?
The basic terms of that proposal as it was offered in April and will be considered Monday night are as follows: a) Horry County will continue to collect a 1.5% Hospitality Fee countywide; b) one-third of that fee (0.5%) will go toward funding I-73; c) the remaining two-thirds (1%) will be remitted to the respective taxing jurisdictions (unincorporated county or city) in which it was collected; d) Revenues from the 1.5% countywide hospitality fee collected between the date bonds for Ride I projects were paid off (sometime in February 2019) and June 30, 2019 will be remitted in a lump sum to the respective taxing jurisdiction in which those revenues were collected.
Horry County Council Chairman Johnny Gardner sent a letter to each of the city mayors proposing that settlement on April 3, 2019.
The county was prohibited from collecting the 1.5% countywide hospitality fee within the city jurisdictions after June 30, 2019 by judge's order. The sum collected within city jurisdictions between February 2019 and June 30, 2019 (currently held in escrow) and subject to lump sum payments back to the cities is approximately $19 million.
Why is a proposed settlement that was publicly and totally rejected by Bethune in April 2019 suddenly the terms for settlement? (See Gardner's letter to the mayors and Bethune's rejection letter at the links below)
The mayor's main points of contention have not changed in the agreement to be voted on for approval Monday night: a) continued collection of the countywide hospitality fee is illegal; b) the city cannot delegate to the county the authority to control the disposition of revenues which are properly within the city's authority to collect and manage and c) no benefit to city residents from that arrangement.
Proposed Hospitality Fee Lawsuit Settlement Taking Money from Taxpayers
The proposed agreement that county and city councils will be voting on to settle the hospitality fee lawsuit between the county and the cities will see money that should go to the benefit of the taxpayers instead going to pay attorney fees.
This is the first lawsuit settlement negotiation that I can remember where the injured parties, the taxpayers, were not even represented in the room.
In the case of the cities through three negotiation sessions, no elected officials from any of the cities, those elected to represent the citizens, could be bothered to be present. Several elected county council members attended each session.
The absence of city elected officials, especially mayors Brenda Bethune of Myrtle Beach, Marilyn Hatley of North Myrtle Beach and Bob Childs of Surfside Beach, the three cities at the forefront of the lawsuit, resulted in attorneys representing the cities to structure the settlement with no input of those elected to represent the citizens.
According to information received by Grand Strand Daily, the settlement will structure the lawsuit as a class action which will allow the attorneys representing the cities to split 33% of the settlement amount for themselves.
The reported settlement amount is the approximately $19.5 million revenue from the countywide 1.5% countywide hospitality fee collected within the respective city limits of the cities in the county from the time the bonds for the RIDE I program were paid off in February 2019 until June 30, 2019. That means the attorneys will split a cool $6.5 million from the settlement. In addition, those attorneys have already billed the cities a total over $750,000 in legal fees before the settlement is finalized.
County council member Harold Worley stated from the council dais that he would not vote to approve any settlement that gave $7 million taxpayer dollars to attorneys. Worley was speaking as the representative of county council District 1, which includes all of North Myrtle Beach. He believes that money should be spent for infrastructure improvements, public safety and like needs allowed by the hospitality fee law.
The $7 million will come out of the settlement amount for the cities. The county is only on the hook for approximately $350,000 billed by its attorneys.
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It's time to forcibly reform big tech
Silicon Valley companies' only goal is maximising profit. Why do we keep forgetting it?
By Carl Miller
We've come to loathe the gigantic companies and wealthy people that build Big Tech just as deeply as we love the products and services that they've built.
It's easy to see why. Over the last decade, child abusers and terrorists have exploited social media. We've witnessed the facilitation of fake news, conspiracy theories and electoral interference. And don't forget the widespread intellectual property theft, the undermining of creative industries, and the effective creation of data and platform monopolies.
There is a broad public, intellectual, and political consensus that executives at the tech giants haven't taken these problems seriously enough, or addressed them effectively. In February 2019, Facebook was labelled "digital gangsters" by a British parliamentary committee. Three months later, US Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren erected a billboard – in the middle of Silicon Valley – promising to break up Big Tech. Countless books are dedicated to unpicking the damage Big Tech is inflicting on society.
Much of this is Big Tech's fault: for telling the public theirs was a social mission, not a commercial enterprise. "Don't be evil", said Google. "Bringing the world closer together", said Facebook. "Serving the public conversation", said Twitter. And our response has been single-minded: to try to hold them to their word. Get them to care more, do more, to live up to their mottos. We've tried to use morality against them because they claimed to be moral.
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It has been ten years of reform through public embarrassment, political criticism and public exposé. Media coverage and political pressure have been the key external force driving the tech giants to confront these problems – an often public-spirited and noble force, and the only thing to have any impact. But we cannot spend the next ten years doing the same.
First, telling the tech giants to sort out the problems they've caused just makes them more powerful, with enormous latitude to both define the problem and work out solutions. We have asked them to become counter-radicalisation specialists. Social cohesion experts. Digital literacy trainers. Cybercrime police. Guardians of open journalism. In some cases, the arbiter of truth itself.
This simply isn't what private companies are set up to do. They lack the accountability, democratic oversight, or public transparency to make morally hazardous distinctions like defining fake news. Especially when those distinctions can transform the global news diet.
We need to remind ourselves that technology companies are profit-maximising entities with fiduciary duties to their investors. They have earnings calls. They need to return dividends. They need to show capital appreciation. The solutions they propose are business decisions as much as moral ones. In a clash of incentives, they are always going to pick growth over safety, and engagement over decency. It's not because they're evil. They're just not not evil. They're companies like any other, trying to make money within the law – because that is actually what their legal responsibility is.
Reform through embarrassment is also incredibly iniquitous to the countries and communities that cannot embarrass the tech giants. Facebook has been active in fighting electoral interference in America, Germany, and the UK. But the story is very different if you're in Georgia or Kosovo. Smaller markets, less widely spoken languages – or just people who aren't journalists, politicians or celebrities – always lose out when the enforcement of basic standards and rules boils down to corporate reputation-management. The rich, visible and powerful tend to be protected in this arrangement while others lose out.
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Finally, moralising the tech giants is an enormous distraction from what actually has to be done: reforming the moral architecture outside them. We need a re-organisation of the police so that they can act as easily across borders as the online criminals that they're trying to catch. We need a surge of librarians and teachers to teach people how to sort truth and lies online. The Competition and Markets Authority has to redefine the nature of monopoly in the digital age. To respond to information warfare we need new multilateral treaties, sanctions and a robust idea of what a "just" war using information is. Right now, we have none of these things.
When the activities of the tech giants themselves need to be shaped, public embarrassment must be replaced by clear laws that protect everybody. Laws, for instance, that clearly defines what platforms' responsibilities are during elections, or what is legal to say or not say on social media. Laws that forces transparency of political advertising, or how much money each platform needs to spend on moderation. The EU and a series of countries, including the UK, have begun to become more active here, but there are still far more legal gaps than plans to fill them.
Refreshing our moral order for the digital age does not boil down to corporate social responsibility, or to shaming a specific industry into doing a specific thing. It's down to all the rest of us. We need to stop trying to turn private companies into something they're not, and start building a new moral, institutional and legal order to express the values, rights and standards that we hold into the digital realm. It's not about whether Mark Zuckerberg is good or bad, vampire or human. It's about getting to a place where we don't have to care.
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