All of us have heard of literature festivals held internationally in addition to in India, however Udaipur within the first month of 2019 is arising with one thing a tad completely different – Udaipur Nature Literature Pageant (UNLF). Sure, this standard vacationer vacation spot in India that allures a considerable variety of home and worldwide vacationers within the winter season, shall be internet hosting the primary version of Nature Literature Pageant together with its already well-known Udaipur Hen Pageant. We're excited for this occasion and looking out ahead to see this new idea. Listed below are all the small print we might accumulate so that you can learn, you'll be able to actually thank us later!
When is Udaipur Nature Literature Pageant?
The dates of Nature Literature Pageant in Udaipur have been finalized as 11th – 13th January, 2019. Sure, the identical time Udaipur Hen Pageant may also be held within the metropolis.
What's the Purpose of Udaipur Nature Literature Pageant?
The pageant is being organised by Rajasthan Forest Division with the imaginative and prescient to advertise the wildlife and to create an consciousness amongst the plenty. The World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) can also be supporting this occasion. The forest division can also be more likely to organise a small run for creating consciousness which is to be held on 10th January as a precursor to the occasion.
What to Count on in Udaipur Nature Literature Pageant?
WWF and Rajasthan Forest Division are working collectively to convey extra authors and specialists to attend the pageant. Forest Division can also be probably so as to add extra occasions to the checklist to maintain the mass engaged on this three days pageant. To this point, the occasion appears to be like fairly promising, and we hope it seems to be higher than what's imagined. We'll replace you with extra particulars as quickly as we get an opportunity to put our fingers on the insights, so be sure to maintain checking this weblog. Until then, guide your tickets to Udaipur in January since you should not miss this pageant.
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E-Waste Management in India
The electronic garbage truck was a new and highly popular appliance in the first half of the last decade. But in the United States, the market for disposal of electronic waste declined very slowly even though the trend has accelerated since the early 1990s.
Unfortunately, the trend to limit recycling of discarded electrical waste is not unique to the United States. E-waste in other countries is not restricted to only small towns and rural areas. These other countries have some of the largest communities for electronic waste disposal. They do not have the restrictions that the United States has.
E-waste & its negative effects on the environment
1 E-waste & its negative effects on the environment
1.1 The negative effects of e-waste on soil
1.2 The negative effects of the e-waste on human health.
1.2.1 Tips of the Day in Computer Security
The E-waste is the accumulation of electronic or manual electronic waste in electronic devices, including cellphones, iPods, MP3 players, cameras and similar devices. It is highly polluting the environmental realm, due to its adverse environmental effect and the presence of harmful chemicals. The E-waste contains harmful microorganisms which are capable of transforming hazardous waste materials like lead and cadmium into various harmful substances, which have serious effects on the ecology. E-waste also contains plastics, rubber, batteries, and many other products, which have serious effects on the ecology of the environment. Therefore, there has been a lot of efforts in the field of the E-waste management. The present work aims to study the major problems faced by the E-waste management in India and to provide a comprehensive approach for solving the problems. The study identifies various E-waste management programs in India using the different criteria based on data analysis and review of various management models. These E-waste management practices have been categorised into four models of E-waste management practices followed by different utilities in India. The study also highlights the need for a comprehensive management system in India to help control and reduce the occurrence of E-waste in the country.
Computer security issues and threats have arisen as a result of ever increasing cyber-attacks. There are three types of attacks on computer systems: unauthorized access, unauthorized alteration/transformation of data, and unauthorized disclosure of confidential information. There is a common theme in the cyber security community that attackers employ different techniques to gain access to a system. They use various techniques to alter or corrupt data, modify or corrupt files, and then use the system to gain unauthorized access or the system to give out unauthorized information. There are also a number of strategies that attackers employ for getting access to a system.
There is a misconception associated with the term "computer" due to its use in computing. A computing device is a small device that runs applications (such as word processing software, web browsers, etc. ) and allows the user to perform other tasks using a computer system. This is an incorrect explanation as computers are not so much computers as devices that run applications. With this context, the term "computer" is used to describe a device that performs functions using stored data.
The negative effects of e-waste on soil
The negative effects of electronic waste (e-waste) on soil, such as soil erosion, soil contamination, and the release of toxic and hazardous substances, such as heavy metals, cadmium, lead, bismuth, chromium, arsenic, and nitrate, was reported by Zongbin Zeng. It is important and necessary to take measures to protect soil from the e-waste generated in the process of manufacturing electronic devices, which in turn will cause the contamination of soil with toxic and hazardous substances, such as heavy metals, cadmium, bismuth, chromium, arsenic, and nitrate, during the use of the electronic devices or after disposal of the electronic devices. The soil contamination could bring further environmental issues if the production and use of electronic devices continued as it is in the present. E-waste is a waste generated from the production of electronic devices, such as computer, mobile, video, and other electronic devices, that is produced in the process of manufacturing them and is destined for disposal or recycle. If the production and use of electronic devices continues to increase in the future, the e-waste produced will further increase, and this will generate more environmental issues and risks. Therefore, it is essential to take measures to prevent the production and use of electronic devices so as to reduce the impact of e-waste on soil. The e-waste generated during the production of electronic devices may also be harmful if it is accumulated in soil, if the accumulation is heavy, or if it is left for a long time. If left unchanged, e-waste will cause the decrease in the quality of soil. The e-waste may cause the pollution of soil, because the emission of e-waste may cause soil erosion or soil contamination. It is said that the heavy metals, such as cadmium, chromium, arsenic, and nitrate are often released into the environment through soil erosion and soil contamination. Therefore, the e-wastes may lead to the contamination of the environment. The soil will not only emit the heavy metals to the environment, but may also cause damage to the plant life because the soil will contaminate the plants with heavy metals.
The negative effects of the e-waste on human health.
Abstract/Report: Electronic waste is a by-product of society which is not necessarily harmful to the environment. However, electronic waste has many negative effects on human health, particularly on elderly people. Since e-waste are often collected in a variety of ways from different sources in most places, the collection, treatment, recycling or disposal of e-waste has many negative consequences on public health. In this article, we provide a summary of some important points related to the negative effects of e-waste on human health. In addition to summarizing the results of a recent study carried out by the European Commission and based on a national survey of 3,000 individuals, we also include the study of an international team of researchers. Keywords: electronic waste, electronic medical records, toxic waste, medical records, electronic waste, medical records, electronic health records, public health. Electronic Waste and Public Health Summary The electronic waste that is generated in the process of society is not necessarily harmful to the environment. However, the electronic waste that is generated in the process of society has many negative effects on public health, especially on the elderly. Electronic waste have many negative effects on public health, including, but not limited to: 1. A recent study by our co-authors showed that the number of residents who had poor health was positively correlated with the amount of electronic waste generated. In many countries, the problem of electronic waste is increasingly widespread. It has been estimated that, worldwide, in 1997, there were 1,721,845,770 tonnes of electronic waste, worth almost $20 billion. A recently published study of the EU data showed that the amount of electronic waste reached 15% of the total waste generated in the UK in 2002. In some cases, electronic waste is generated in a completely unstructured manner in certain parts of Europe. Electronic waste has been estimated to raise human health problems in many parts of the world. In the United States, electronic waste has been estimated to raise human health problems over the period of 10 years. The aim of this study is to evaluate and analyse the relationship between electronic waste and public health problems. The study will examine the question of whether there exists a risk of electronic waste causing negative health effects on the population.
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Q: NSString seems empty, but isn't I'm trying to read a textfile into a NSString. Something really weird is happening as it seems the code loads the whole text into the NSString (the lenght is correct), but when I NSLog the string-content it only shows the first character.
NSError *error;
    NSStringEncoding encoding = 0;
    NSString *textFile = [[NSString alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:url
                                                        encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding
                                                           error:&error];

    if (error) {
        NSLog(@"%@", [error localizedDescription]);
    } else {
        NSLog(@"TEXT length %lu", (unsigned long)textFile.length);
        NSLog(@"TEXT  %@", textFile);
    }

This logs the following to the console:
2014-02-14 14:46:21.308 iCaching[4055:303] TEXT length 4968
2014-02-14 14:46:37.630 iCaching[4055:303] TEXT  G

But when I split the NSString in an array of substrings separated by newline, it returns the correct number of strings. But logging the content of these substrings is empty again.
if (textFile && !error) {

        NSArray *visitsArray = [textFile componentsSeparatedByString:@"\n"];
        NSLog(@"visits count %lu", (unsigned long)[visitsArray count]);

This logs:
visits count 63

Looking in the debugger first reveals a content of @"G",

but using quicklook shows the entire (correct) content of the NSString.

Any ideas?

A: (From my above comment:) The text is probably UTF-16 encoded, so that every second byte is zero. Try NSUTF16StringEncoding, or one of its little/big-endian variants.

A: I think yours file have UNICODE encoding.
In UNICODE chacacters have two bites. "G" writen as 0x47,0x00.
You are readin file as UTF-8. For UTF-8 after 'G' comes line end.
Try use NSUnicodeStringEncoding.

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Why People with Disabilities Oppose Assisted Suicide: Study Shows Devaluation is Life-Threatening
May 22, 2012 by Administrators
The National Disability Rights Network, a coalition of federally mandated groups, issued a press release today, reporting the results of a study that perfectly illustrates why people with disabilities fear and work to prevent the legalization of assisted suicide. The study points to widespread devaluation of people with disabilities and to widespread willingness on the part of parents and the medical profession to manipulate their lives, even to the point of causing early death. Many of these people are unable to voice their own wishes, but people with disabilities who can speak report receiving multiple signals from society that their lives are of less value than the lives of the fully able. These signals, according to disability rights activists Marilyn Golden and Diane Coleman, extend to real pressure from the medical community on patients with illnesses that may be curable but disabilities that are lifelong, to sign living wills that include "Do Not Resuscitate" orders (http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/24/obamacare-medicare-death-business-healthcare-obamacare.html). These pressures do not necessarily come from ill will but they are pressures nonetheless. A patient who acts under pressure is not giving real consent any more than the patients described in the study, who were not asked for consent at all.
People with disabilities have to expend scarce and precious strength to fight them every day of their lives. They are certain that adding assisted suicide to the mix of pressures they already experience, especially since current and proposed assisted suicide laws do nothing to prevent people from requesting lethal drugs because they fear loss of autonomy, would result in further devaluation of their lives, which simply cannot be lived without help, and further pressure to die. They oppose assisted suicide because they know it would erode real autonomy, which is not the freedom to live without help but the freedom to live, even if doing so requires help.
Here, below the line, is the press release, with link.
http://www.ndrn.org/en/media/releases/485-study-finds-medical-procedures-violating-the-civil-rights-of-people-with-disabilities.html
Study Finds Medical Procedures Violating the Civil Rights of People with Disabilities
Stunting growth, removing body parts with no judicial review
Contact: David Card
Washington, DC – In a first of its kind study, the National Disability Rights Network (NDRN) determined that performing certain medical procedures or withholding life sustaining treatment in non-terminal situations without judicial review violates the civil rights of people with disabilities.
The initial catalyst for the report is the so-called Ashley Treatment which received worldwide attention 5 years ago. Ashley was a six-year-old child with developmental and physical disabilities whose growth was stopped through estrogen treatments and whose uterus and breast buds were removed. The intent of this treatment was to keep her permanently small and child-like. NDRN believes this practice is spreading worldwide.
"The thought of doctors and guardians, together, deciding to remove the body parts and stunt the growth of a child based on assumptions about their awareness and quality of life is shocking and disgusting," said NDRN's executive director, Curt Decker.
Further investigations by the nation's federally mandated Protection and Advocacy agencies, which NDRN represents in Washington, DC, have uncovered other cases in which medical treatment and even basic food and water are being denied to individuals with disabilities during minor illnesses with the intent of letting the illness progress until death.
"We have learned of one case in which the parents of a 13-year-old boy with a developmental disability refused to allow him access to antibiotics so that the cold he had would progress to pneumonia. They got their wish and the boy died," said Decker.
"Every person is born with civil and human rights and an inherent dignity," continued Decker. "The reality that this is happening in the United States is anathema to the core values that we as Americans say we hold. That it is happening to those unable to use their own voice is even worse. This report is meant to start the conversation about how society can and should make medical decisions that uphold the constitutional rights of all people with disabilities."
The report, Devaluing People with Disabilities: Medical Procedures that Violate Civil Rights, puts individuals with disabilities at the center of discourse. It reviews the facts of Ashley X, as a case study and presents a continuum of similar experiences and treatment of individuals with disabilities within a context of medical decision making that devalues them as people and discriminates against them based on their disability.
The report explores the conflict of interest that medical decision making may present between a parent and their child. It describes the vital role that the legal and judicial systems have in ensuring that the civil and human rights of individuals with disabilities are protected regardless of their severity and in contrast to opinions regularly expressed in the medical and ethics community.
Finally, the report presents a series of recommendations for how the legal and medical systems at a local, state and national level, including protection and advocacy agencies, ethics committees, institutional review boards, and the courts can perform critical "watch-dog" functions to ensure that the human and civil rights of persons with disabilities are protected.
Find more information about the report and medical decision making here.
A copy of the report can be downloaded here.
The National Disability Rights Network (NDRN) is the nonprofit membership organization for the federally mandated Protection and Advocacy (P&A) Systems and the Client Assistance Programs (CAP) for individuals with disabilities. Collectively, the Network is the largest provider of legally based advocacy services to people with disabilities in the United States.


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We all know that there are hackers out there. We've heard the warnings, and we know that we need to do something to protect ourselves and our businesses against an attack. But knowing and doing something are often two different things.
While most of us understand that there is a threat coming from cybercriminals, it's easy to get lax when it comes to security. The idea of a hack might seem very far off. Besides, why would a hacker bother with a small target like you?
That's exactly the way the hackers want you to think. Modern day hackers are very different from how they are portrayed in movies.
You'd be surprised to know that 18 adults worldwide become victims of a cybercrime every second.
Cybercrimes are often performed by criminal syndicates, where hackers work in groups and have access to some sophisticated resources. Like any other business enterprise, these syndicates want to make sure that their staff is operating at peak efficiency, so they give them the best possible tools.
And like a lot of companies, they've moved over to automated hacking. Any half-way decent programmer can come up with a program that would help her to exploit vulnerabilities in a computer system.
She would build in a function that ensures the virus can replicate itself quickly and easily, and soon it would be spreading without any interference on the part of the criminal.
That said, it's not true that you're not an easy target. Your system might be breached any time and your information stolen.
Don't rely on your anti-virus program to protect you completely. While most of these programs are good, they're only a small part of the process when it comes to defending your system against attacks. They're only effective against known threats, but they cannot stop you from clicking on suspicious links or downloading files infected with viruses.
Your best defense is to start taking online security a lot more seriously, even if it means bothering with extra work such as using and writing down different passwords for every site you use. It might be boring, but it will improve your online security.


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Q: Difference caused by placement of PRIOR statement in an Oracle hierarchical query Seems you can do both the following in Oracle when working with Connect By.
 CONNECT BY NOCYCLE
    parent_id = PRIOR child_r_object_id

 CONNECT BY NOCYCLE PRIOR
    parent_id = child_r_object_id

What is the difference, most examples on line tend to use the second syntax, but both execute.

A: Basically you define to build the hierarchy from top-to-down or from down-to-top.
Have a look at this examples to see the difference:
WITH t(person, parent_id, ID) AS (
    SELECT 'Grandma', NULL, 1 FROM dual
    UNION ALL SELECT 'Mother', 1, 10 FROM dual
    UNION ALL SELECT 'Daughter', 10, 100 FROM dual
    UNION ALL SELECT 'Son', 10, 101 FROM dual)
SELECT person AS leaf_person, CONNECT_BY_ROOT(person) AS top_person,
       SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH(person, '->'), 'down' AS direction
FROM t
WHERE CONNECT_BY_ISLEAF = 1
START WITH parent_id IS NULL
CONNECT BY parent_id = PRIOR ID
UNION ALL
SELECT person as leaf_person, CONNECT_BY_ROOT(person) as top_person,
       SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH(person, '->'), 'up' AS direction
FROM t
WHERE CONNECT_BY_ISLEAF = 1
START WITH ID IN (100,101)
CONNECT BY PRIOR parent_id = ID;

+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
|LEAF_PERSON|TOP_PERSON|SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH(PERSON,'->')|DIRECTION|
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
|Daughter   |Grandma   |->Grandma->Mother->Daughter     |down     |
|Son        |Grandma   |->Grandma->Mother->Son          |down     |
|Grandma    |Daughter  |->Daughter->Mother->Grandma     |up       |
|Grandma    |Son       |->Son->Mother->Grandma          |up       |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+

Typically you have just one root (i.e. parent_id IS NULL) or at least determined root elements, thus most examples use the "top-to-down" direction.

A: The "prior" keyword what field is for parent record.
for example this
parent_id = PRIOR child_r_object_id

means "child_r_object_id from parent record is equal to parent_id of child line"
PRIOR parent_id = child_r_object_id

Means exactly the opposite - parent_id of parent record equals to child_r_object_id of a child record"


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Maximal Response, Or Not
Jeff Clawson, M.D.
Spokane (Washington, USA) motorists got a rap on the knuckles in February 1953 at the first meeting of a citizens' committee investigating the operation of emergency vehicles in the city. The group was formed at the request of a coroner's jury following the crash of a fire department vehicle into a farm truck that killed three people.1
The Spokane County Medical Society had been studying the problem of emergency vehicles running lights-and-siren (L&S) for two years prior to the accident. Their recommendation, which also brought in the results of a county-wide survey of emergency doctors, favored abolishing ambulance use of lights-and-siren.2
Three years later, in 1956, the debate was still playing in the news. Some public safety folks favored abolishing or, at least, minimizing their use, while others viewed lights-and-siren as a public safety duty.
Spokane Police Department Chief Deputy Sheriff William J. Reilly said the use of "code one"— lights-and-siren—was not necessary in most instances. "In the majority of cases it is safer to figure on getting there all in one piece rather than risking an accident at high speeds."3
On the other side, Yakima Fire Chief W.A. Durham said city fire department rules require use of red lights-and-siren on all vehicles responding to fire and other emergencies. "It is our definite obligation to get to the scene as rapidly as possible." After all, he added, "Red lights-and-siren are used to warn other motorists to clear the way. So-called 'code one' runs do not necessarily signify excessive speed. Frequently our vehicles come to full stops to allow traffic to clear."4
Remarkably—or not—the debate in Spokane predated the accompanying article ("The Maximal Response Disease," JEMS 1987) by more than 30 years. Now 30+ years after the article was published, and well into the universal acknowledgment of an emergency dispatcher's role in determining the right response, the matter remains unsettled. An article published in 2017 cites "the risk to EMS providers and the public, minimal time savings and actual clinical benefit."5 The National Association of Emergency Medical Services Physicians (NAEMSP) underscores the risk: "Despite the long-term reliance on L&S, it is not a risk-free practice. There are many reports of emergency medical vehicle (EMV) collisions during L&S responses and transports. These collisions often result in tragic consequences for the EMV occupants and those in other vehicles and may cause significant delays to medical care for the patient the EMV was responding to or transporting."6
The message is resounding.
While L&S use can improve patient outcome in the time saved, "There is a risk when L&S lead to EMS vehicle crashes, provider or patient injury, EMS provider hearing loss, or worsened patient condition due to anxiety and stress."7
Yet, there are EMS systems that continue to both respond and transport patients using L&S in most, if not all, circumstances.
Where will the debate lead 30 years from now? Back and forth like a ping-pong ball? Will maximal response ever be fully delegated to only the highest level of actual or potential response? Think of it this way: The three passengers in the farm vehicle—and many deaths that followed theirs due to overuse of L&S—might be alive today if medical dispatching had determined the nature of the emergency before another was created.
1 "Drivers Rapped for Refusing to Heed Emergency Vehicles." The Spokesman-Review. 1953; Feb. 25. https://www.newspapers.com/image/569481712/?terms="Lights%20and%20siren"&match=1 (accessed Oct. 30, 2020).
3 "Speedy Ambulance Runs Held Often Unnecessary." The Spokane Chronicle. 1956; May 11.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/565066609/?terms="Lights%20and%20siren"&match=1 (accessed Oct. 30, 2020).
5 Fowler R, Antar O, Isaacs S, Cash C, Fowler R. "The Case Against Red Lights and Siren Responses." JEMS. 2017; Jan. 31. jems.com/2017/01/31/the-case-against-ems-red-lights-and-siren-responses/ (accessed Oct. 30, 2020).
6 "Use of Warning Lights and Siren in Emergency Medical Vehicle Response and Patient Transport." National Association of Emergency Medical Services Physicians (NAEMSP) and the National Association of State EMS Directors (NASEMSD). Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. 1994; 9:133-136.
7 Kupas D. "Lights and Siren Use by Emergency Medical Services (EMS): Above All Do No Harm." National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Emerging Issues in EMS and 911. 2017; 5: 5. https://www.ems.gov/pdf/Lights_and_Sirens_Use_by_EMS_May_2017.pdf (accessed Nov. 11, 2020).
"The Maximal Response Disease" pdf is available from the link below.
https://cdn.emergencydispatch.org/IAED-JOURNAL/Resources/2020/12/The_Maximal_Response_Disease.pdf
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Hezel's death : Should it remains mystery ?
Udupi : Hezel Josna Quadros who died in mysterious circumstances in suicide note, the parents of deceased parents Robert Quadros and Helen Quadros, brother Ryan Quadros and husband Ashwin Mathias seeks justice in relate to the death of their daughter in Saudi Arabia on 19th July, 2018.
The family of deceased Hezel approached the Dr. Ravindranath Shanbaug, President of Human Rights Protection Foundation, Kunjibettu, Udupi. Dr. Shanbaug called a media conference at Vaikunta Baliga College of Law at Udupi here on Saturday, 13th October along with the parents, brother and husband.
DR. Shanbaug said that by not sending important documents, the Office of Consulate General of India at His Jeddah Office has done half hearted efforts in the case of Hezel's death. Even after three months the family members of the victim have not come to a conclusion whether the death was a suicide or otherwise. They are not in a position to decide whether they should fight for justice or not.
The documents like- Post Mortem Report, Inquest Report, Death Note written by Ms. Hezel, Charge sheet were necessary to come to any conclusion in such cases. Instead, The Office of Consulate General of India has sent a doctor's report claiming that it was suicide and a report from Police supporting the same claim were sent along with the mortal remains of Ms. Hezel.
The family has received a death Notification from Forensic Medicine Centre, Al-Baha, signed by Dr. Bandar Saleh Al- Zahrani, informing that the cause of death of Hezel as Asphyxia Hanging by suspension and then the doctor concludes that it was a suicide! One wonders how can a Doctor conclusively declare that it was a suicide without referring to Post Mortem Report. There was no mention anywhere about the Post Mortem. The family is not sure whether the Post Mortem has been conducted or not!
Strangely, the set of documents sent by Consulate General of India, Jeddah does not include the Post Mortem Report, Charge sheet and Inquest Report. He has not even informed the developments in the Criminal Case filed by the Al Makwah Governorate. Government of India in turn the family members of have every right to know what happened in the case and how Hezel died.Therefore, it was the duty of the officials of Indian Consulate to send all the above documents along with the dead body.
Anyway, since it was unnatural death we are sure that post mortem must have been carried out. Even the press report dated 01/08/2018 reports that "……The judge, on Tuesday July 31, ordered for the post-mortem examination of her mortal remains. The judge will issue final order only after the post-mortem report is presented to the court. …" If the report is based on official documents then there should be a Post Mortem done. Human Rights Protection Foundation (HRPF) has communicated with the Office of Consulate General of India at Jeddah to collect the same and forward the same to the parents of Hezel. If the family does not receive the documents, Human Rights Protection Foundation will certainly approach Ministry of External Affairs complaining the lapse in this issue.
The Foundation has reliably come to know that there was a death note by Ms. Hezel and also that she has mentioned the name of the person who is responsible for her death. According to the law of the land the victim's family is entitled to Blood Money i.e., the compensation paid to the victim's family for the loss suffered on any unnatural death. The Foundation also know that there was a Criminal Case filed on this incident but is not sure whether the judgment has been pronounced or not. It was a duty of the Office of Consulate General to collect this information and pass it on to the family. On the other hand we are sad to hear that the accused has been released from the Prison and roaming free.
The family has decided to wait for one more week to get the relevant documents from various authorities. Letters have already been forwarded to the Employer to pay the pending salary as well as all the terminal benefits to the aggrieved family. Letters have been written even to Mr. Sanjay Kumar Sharma, Vice Consul, Consulate General's Office as well as Director of Al Makwah Police.
HRPF has assured all the moral and legal support to the aggrieved family till they get Justice.
WHAT CRIMINAL PROCEDUCE CODE SAYS ON EXHUMATION?
Exhumation is the lawful disinterment of a buried body from its grave. Whenever a Police Officer making an investigation reasonably suspects that the body of the person is buried under questionable circumstances, he shall record his reasons in writing and forward the information with a requisition under section 176(3) Cr.P.C. to the nearest executive magistrate to be present at the time of disinterment.
Section 176 of CrPC , Subsection (3) authorizes an Executive Magistrate to order for an exhumation and subsequent examination of the dead body .
There is no time limit fixed in this country for disinterment contrary to countries like France, (10 years), Germany (30 years) and Scotland (20 years).
Meanwhile, there are problems too. Advanced decomposition may hamper the identification of injuries and disease process. Lifting of finger prints to establish the identity may be difficult if the fingers are mummified and blackened. Artefacts due to burial and embalming process can cause serious handicaps.


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There is a huge demand both within Aboriginal communities and off-reserve for Aboriginal financial management professionals. However, very few of our young people are pursuing an education in financial management after high school.
That is why AFOA Canada & PotashCorp have come together and we are proud to present The PotashCorp Aboriginal Youth Financial Management Awards Now open to Aboriginal youth in grades 11 & 12.
Students are asked to submit a 1,500 word essay on the questions noted in the application form and submit 2 letters of recommendation.
Recipients will attend AFOA Canada's 16th Anniversary National Conference which is being hosted in Montréal, Québec this year and will participate in a 4 day youth program designed to introduce youth to careers in Aboriginal finance and management.
Successful Recipients are also eligible for a $5,000 scholarship.
Deadline to Apply is: Friday, December 4, 2015.


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Although the playing season is still a log way off there is still much to be done behind the scenes. A glance in the 'photos' section of this site, (if Shannon has done his stuff) tells its own story as Sid, Pricey, Brian, Tom and guest strimmer operative, Snake, put in the effort needed to ensure that the clubhouse and drive are still visble to all of us except for the very vertically challenged.
It was good to see Darren the 'snake' and impressive that he travelled from Canada just to clear our drive. Nice one Daz!
A real bonus for the club was the decision of Gary (Bobo) Robinson to continue as club coach. Highly respected by our players, Gary wishes to inform you that training starts on Tuesday (28th june) at 7 pm and on saturdays from 2nd july at 2.30 pm. Please show your respect by arriving in good time for these sessions.
Finally, you should have received a letter from the newly elected First team captain, Tommo. It was a tough decision not to nominate Anthony for the Nobel prize for literature but we know exactly what the message is. Every one of us, players and supporters must do our very best to back him up with the real commitment needed to drive us on to the promotion that we are surely good enough to achieve.
Our weekly message from she who understands rugby as much as I understand ironing. Why are the players you see on television so fit looking but those at thee Old Ys and most teams you play are so grim?


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#endGamerGate2014 Linkspam
I've been paying attention to Gamer Gate, because as a woman who plays games and who likes to see diverse representation of characters and stories, they're a group that does not have my interest at heart, and are likely to actively target me. Fortunately I'm not famous, and in Australia, which means I have several degrees of protection, not afforded to other prominent women in the gaming industry.
So instead of putting this in my general linkspam, I'll put it all here so that those of you who aren't interested can skip it.
You know you've made it big when the main stream media picks up on what you've been doing – but making it big isn't always a positive thing. When the mainstream media are looking at you like something they wished they hadn't stepped in, perhaps continuing the bad fight is not optimal for your movement.
Anyway, onto the posts!
Jay Hathaway writes at Gawker, "What Is Gamergate, and Why? An Explainer for Non-Geeks":
What is #Gamergate?
"#GamerGate" is an online movement ostensibly concerned with ethics in game journalism and with protecting the "gamer" identity.
"Ostensibly"?
Even regarded generously, Gamergate isn't much more than a tone-deaf rabble of angry obsessives with a misguided understanding of journalistic ethics. But there are a lot of reasons not to regard the movement generously.
Jessica Valenti at The Guardian writes, "Gamergate is loud, dangerous and a last grasp at cultural dominance by angry white men":
The recent uproar – said to be over ethics in journalism but focused mostly on targeting outspoken women who aren't journalists at all – is just the last, desperate gasp of misogynists facing an unwelcoming future. But this particular bitter end, while long overdue, is loud, angry and extremely dangerous.
Female game developers Brianna Wu and Zoe Quinn have fled their homes in fear after a terrifying barrage of rape and death threats. Feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian was forced to cancel a talk last week at Utah State University after the school received an email promising a "Montreal Massacre-style" mass shooting if the "craven little whore" was allowed to speak. And despite assurances from Gamergate supporters that they have no problem with women, their de facto leaders are being outed as violent misogynists.
Charlie Brooker at The Guardian writes, "Gamergate: the internet is the toughest game in town – if you're playing as a woman":
I haven't always been the kind of man who plays videogames. I used to be the kind of boy who played videogames. We're inseparable, games and I. If you cut me, I'd bleed pixels. Or blood. Probably blood, come to think of it.
Games get a bad press compared with, say, opera – even though they're obviously better, because no opera has ever compelled an audience member to collect a giant mushroom and jump across some clouds. Nobody writes articles in which opera-lovers are mocked as adult babies who never grew out of make-believe and sing-song; obsessive misfits who flock to weird "opening nights" wearing elaborate "tuxedo" cosplay outfits.
On no account go to the opera yourself: you'll probably run into a mafia boss. According to at least one film I think I saw once, mafia bosses love opera, because there's loads of death and killing in it. Yet politicians don't table motions solemnly condemning opera's dangerous level of violence.
There seems to be a small yet vocal core of maniacs bafflingly resistant to the notion that women should have any say in the games industry at all. Even recent statistics indicating that female players now outnumber men can't sway them, thanks to a lazy assumption that most of those women are playing Candy Crush or other, equally non-taxing "casual games" apparently un worthy of being called "games" at all. I don't think that's true, and even if it were, I wouldn't blame women for voluntarily choosing to play something soothing and non-threatening in their free time, since they spend so much of the rest of their time being forced to play a terrifying survival horror MMORPG colloquially known as "The Internet". Women are the hardest hardcore gamers there are, by miles.
Jon Stone at The Guardian writes, "Gamergate's vicious right-wing swell means there can be no neutral stance":
One thing they really do have in common is a desire for positive press coverage. When I wrote a blog post last week examining the permutations of zealotry within Gamergate and the way the movement misunderstands and perverts the language of reason, it was dismissed as one of a number of "biased" articles that only told one side of the story.
But even leaving aside the fact that Gamergate's "argument" is an irreconcilable mess of trembly fingered accusations, vendettas and uncertain nods to complex problems, the fact remains that there is only one "side" to be discussed, and that is Gamergate itself. As much as it would like to nominate as its opponent a power-axis of leftist games critics, mainstream journalists, developers, activists and academics, this axis doesn't exist.
Nor do Gamergate's critics mass beneath any banner, or rally together to punish individual targets the way Gamergate does. The misdemeanours alluded to are many and various because this "other side" is simply people from all walks of life, gamers and non-gamers alike, reacting (or not reacting, as the case may be) to Gamergate.
Chris Kluwe writes at Medium, "Why #Gamergaters Piss Me The F*** Off":
There's this herd of people, mainly angsty teenage caucasian men (based on an informal survey of 99 percent of the people who feel the need to defend this nonsense to me on Twitter), who feel that somehow, their identity as "gamers" is being taken away. Like they're all little Anne Franks, hiding in their basements from the PC Nazis and Social Justice Warrior brigades, desperately protecting the last shreds of "core gaming" in their unironically horrible Liveblog journals filled with patently obvious white privilege and poorly disguised misogyny. "First they came for our Halo 2's, and I said nothing."
Gaming is part of who I am, I can promise you that.
Thus, when I see an article titled "Gamers are dead," referring to the death of the popular trope of a pasty young man in a dimly lit room, it fills me with joy, because it means WE FUCKING WON. So many people are playing games now that they are popular culture. They are not going away. All sorts of cool things, that I like, are now things that a whole bunch of other people like! There's enough space now for people to make games that are strange and disturbing and maybe highlight a different perspective of the world, because gaming is no longer a niche activity, it's something that everybody does. There is room for art in video games. That's awesome!
Brendan Keogh, an Australian game critic wrote at Ungaming:
I was having a conversation with a fairly polite gamergater. They asked me a bunch of questions and I asked if I could reply with a tumblr post instead of a hundred tweets, so this is that post. There was an ongoing conversation before this point, which you should be able to find via the links easily enough.
I find this idea that journos don't respect the gaming audience or their readership really interesting, and it comes up again and again. But, really, what I see haters saying as 'not respecting' their readership is, to me, just journos not pandering to their readership. You don't have to look far to see sporting outlets condemning abusive fans at sporting events or film outlets condemning the spreading of nude pics by fans of celebrity actors. These writes, along with the games journos who condemn the more toxic elements of gaming's culture, don't do this because they don't respect videogame players. They do it because they do respect them enough not to pander to them. Go back just a decade or so, and all games journalism is nothing but a celebration of how great videogames are. This weird insider "we're one of you" kind of tone permeates old issues of gaming mags where those non-gamers just don't you, but we get you, we are you. We'll tell you what you want to hear about how great and politically incorrect this or that game is.
A storify of tweets about the Escapists coverage of Gamer Gate, "Game Devs on Gamergate".
Hayley Tsukayama at The Washington Post wrote, "The game industry's top trade group just spoke out against Gamergate":
That prompted the the nation's top trade group for video game companies to speak out Wednesday. "Threats of violence and harassment are wrong," said a spokesman for the Entertainment Software Association in a statement. "They have to stop. There is no place in the video game community—or our society—for personal attacks and threats."
It's a simple statement. But it indicates just how seriously the gaming industry is working to break free of the worst stereotypes of its community. Game culture is, no doubt, changing. The ESA now boasts that women comprise nearly 50 percent of its audience. The push toward mobile gaming, in particular, has expanded the industry's audience at a faster rate than ever before. The Gamergate controversy has drawn attention to the worst kind of video game player — misogynistic, violent and reactionary.
In other words, exactly the kind of player that the industry no longer wishes to be the face of the industry.
Arthur Chu at The Daily Beast writes, "Of Gamers, Gates, and Disco Demolition: The Roots of Reactionary Rage":
The biggest 1970s music bonfire was not done by a church, and the records they destroyed weren't metal records. And they didn't use kerosene and a match, they used explosives. And rather than singing hymns and being quietly self-righteous, the event erupted into an orgy of violent rage.
I'm talking, of course, about the ill-fated promotion the Chicago White Sox ran on July 12, 1979, known as "Disco Demolition Night." (Most notably written about by Dr. Gillian Frank in this scholarly retrospective.)
What exactly made so many people—let's not be coy here, so many young white men—hate disco so much? An aversion to a steady dance backbeat? A dislike of orchestral instrumentation? What?
Did it have nothing to do with the fact that disco icons were frequently black women like Gloria Gaynor and Diana Ross, who sang anthems of empowerment like "I Will Survive" and "I'm Coming Out" and seemed like the polar opposite of the aggressively macho white frontmen rock fans idolized?
Just look at the rhetoric used by angry 1970s rock fans to bash disco. It goes beyond just finding the music unpleasant, it invokes the rhetoric of legitimacy. Disco artists aren't "real" musicians. They don't play their instruments live, like rock guitar gods; it's too "produced," it's too "studio," it's fake.
Moreover, guys who listen to disco are fake. They dress in expensive leisure suits and hang out at fancy clubs. They don't get down in the dirt and tear it up like us hard-core, genuine, masculine fans. They're not real men, and women like them for not being real men, which is unacceptable. The face of the New American Man under the disco reign of terror is John Travolta from Saturday Night Fever. You don't want your sons growing up like that, do you?
I'm afraid of masculinity, and privilege, of the male sense of "honor" they combine to create, and the incredible reservoir of madness that "honor" can unleash when it's threatened. Of how incredibly petty the offense can be and how insanely disproportionate the retaliation can be.
Brianna Wu writes at XO Jane, "It Happened To Me":
They threatened the wrong woman this time. I am the Godzilla of bitches. I have a backbone of pure adamantium, and I'm sick of seeing them abuse my friends.
The misogynists and the bullies and the sadist trolls of patriarchal gaming culture threatened to murder me and rape my corpse, and I did not back down. They tried to target my company's financial assets and I did not back down. They tried to impersonate me on Twitter in an attempt to professionally discredit me and I did not back down.
The BBC called me "Defiant," in a caption. I plan to frame and put it on my wall.
My name is Brianna Wu. Ordinarily, I develop videogames with female characters that aren't girlfriends, bimbos and sidekicks. I am a software engineer, a popular public speaker and an expert in the Unreal engine.
Today, I'm being targeted by a delusional mob called "Gamergate."
Devin Faraci at Badass Digest writes, "Why GamerGate Already Lost":
When this news broke something happened: everyone on Twitter blamed GamerGate, the harassment campaign organized under a hashtag and run off the kiddie-porn disseminating website 4chan for being too extreme. While the threatening letter never mentioned GamerGate it was pretty clear that this lunatic was on their wavelength. Despite protestations that GamerGate is about ethics in journalism (we'll get to why that's hardcore bullshit), it's been mostly a force for hounding women, especially Sarkeesian and indie developer Zoe Quinn, with developer Brianna Wu becoming the latest women run out of her home by specific violent threats from GamerGaters.
The Sarkeesian threat name-dropped Marc Lépine, who was the Elliott Rodger of Montreal, murdering 14 women in a self-described battle against feminism – the same enemy that GamerGate says it fights. This is the world of GamerGate, sick, pathetic men who are so threatened by women that they must either murder them or terrorize them into silence.
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My new pledge – no more games with only male characters
I was at work, doing worky things and my ex-intern, but still my minion, shares with me a link for the Kickstarter of Kingdom Come: Deliverance. He knows I am a gamer, as is he.
I scroll through to see if it is something that I'd enjoy playing or not, and find one of the stretch goals – at raising $600K, the developers will add a "Playable female character". This, I should add, is the fourth stretch goal, and the character developed is not the main character, but is a character you can play as part of a memory, or prequel who helps the actual main character, a bloke, end up where he is when the story of the game begins.
Wow, I thought to myself, me and people like me are optional extras for game developers, and that's when I decided – I will no longer play games where there are only dudes present as options, or where the developers think that playable female characters are only worthy of a stretch goal.
The developers of Kingdom Come: Deliverance were criticised by players and others for their lack of playable female characters, and they fell back on "this is a period game set in Europe in the 15th century, women weren't heroes" (not an exact quote).
Anyone who knows anything about history knows that women fought. Joan d'Arc was alive and well in the 15th century, and she fought. Saint Geneveive didn't fight, but she certainly was active in the fields of war, negotiation, and keeping shit real in Paris in the 5th century. Then you know there is a proud history of women pirates.
There was nothing stopping the developers saying, "right, the main character is either man or a woman (your choice), but the female character will have to disguise herself as a boy/man because of the environment/culture/time period that this game is set, and may have extra levels of difficulty because of that", because I'm certain that women often did that, as they do today in places where appearing as a girl or woman can be risky.
But back to my pledge. I will no longer play a game if the only character options are men, or male anthropomorphised creatures. From now on, I will only play games that allow the selection of men/women/neuter characters, where the main character is a women, or where the player is effectively an ungendered god (ie myself). This means that there are plenty of new games that will come highly rated and recommended that I will not play. I was looking forward to Watch Dogs, but as the only protag in the game is yet another dude, I'm not going to play it.
As it turns out, looking at all the games in my play list, and on the shelf, the ones I'm most likely to play are those with options for different gendered characters, so it's not like my pledge is going to be hard personally – but imagine if lots of people made this pledge. Imagine if we as consumers forced gaming companies to actually portray women and girls as active story-tellers in their own lives? Imagine if women and girls were not sexualised objects, or Ms Men, or motivations for male characters to do other things – how much richer stories would be told then?
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The messages we get
Be quiet. If you can't say something nice, don't say anything. Silence is a virtue. Don't talk back. Don't make a scene. Good things come to those who wait. Be patient.
Don't do that, do this. Don't do that, do this. Don't drink. Don't drive. Don't go to that neighbourhood. Don't go out at night. Don't be alone. Don't be alone with them. Learn a martial art. Be loud, shout. Fight. Don't leave your drink unattended. Don't get drunk. Don't take any risks. Plan everything.
Be nice to men. Don't be nice to women. It's a competition. Dress like this, no like this, no like this. Show more/less skin. Don't dress like that. Don't earn more than your boyfriend/husband. Don't be more educated than your boyfriend/husband. Don't be queer. Be sexually available. Don't have sex on the first date. Play hard to get. Tease. Flirt. He didn't mean it. Why didn't you leave?
It doesn't matter that you earn less than men. This is not a career path for women. Don't negotiate for a payrise, you'll be seen as a bitch. You'll have a husband to support you in your retirement, so why care about super? You don't need to worry your pretty head about money and budgeting.
Your voice isn't important. Your opinions don't matter. This issue that affects you is better discussed by a man. Men write better than you. Men know more than you. Your issue isn't important. You can only write/publish in the "women's interest" areas. No one would take you seriously if you wrote about politics/the economy/sport/violence.
As a man, I can speak personally about abortion. You have no merit. Institutional sexism is perfectly fine and we're doing nothing to change it. Your sex appeal is more important than your policies and ability to do your job. Having children shows you're a real woman. Having children shows you cannot dedicate your full attention to politics.
You're too skinny. You're too fat. Exercise more. Use this cream/lotion. Don't use that cream/lotion. Eat this type of food. Don't eat that type of food. Avoid carbs/protein/fat/everything. Starve yourself thin. Your body isn't yours, it belongs to everyone else. Do you feel ashamed to have your body yet? You are beautiful. You're an ugly slut.
Be nice. Don't have self esteem. Be confident. Fake it until you make it. Feel ashamed. Be empowered. Be patient. Be kind. Don't be rude. Don't stand up for yourself. Be cautious.
Women have more emotions than men. Smile. Don't be angry. Be calm. Don't cry. Don't scream. Don't be afraid. Be afraid. Women make no sense. Women cannot be trusted to know their own feelings.
You belong at home. You belong in the kitchen. You belong with me. You are mine. You belong with the children.
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What? I don't even…
*Trigger warning for rape discussion (corrective sex)*
So Ricky Nixon, an AFL "personality" (former player manager), decided to publicly sledge a Fairfax columnist (is that different to journalist?) Suzanne Carbone on his Facebook page today. As it was a public page/wall* the whole world could (and indeed did thanks to the article published by The Age and other places) see what he and his friends said about Suzanne Carbone. It wasn't pretty, it was incredibly sexist. It was also incredibly immature. Seriously guys, if someone says something you don't like, debate it, don't call that person names and suggest that the solution is "a good shag" because not only is that sexist and misogynist, but it also makes you look like a Neanderthal. Debating ideas and opinions is not that difficult. Name calling is certainly easier, but makes you look like a fool while the other person effectively wins. Not a good strategy.
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A random and unidentified visit
I had a random (and anonymous) comment left on my blog quite recently, and thought I'd share it all with you. It's on my "Roses only… more like sexist only" blog post.
The commenter said:
Bec, it's just an ad… get over it.
They're not playing into anything, they're doing a good job at selling their product.
I'm sure if you were trying to sell lots of your over-priced flowers you'd be trying to do whatever it takes to get people to buy them too.
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*Trigger warning – this post discusses language misuse detrimental to women*
I rarely encounter direct sexism (that I notice – different story) in my day to day life. I read about sexism, I comment on sexism in the media, but rarely do I end up calling-out sexism from someone in my day-to-day life. If that makes sense. I'm very, incredibly and wonderfully lucky in that my partners, their partners, my family and my friends are all non-sexist. We're not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but there is little in the way of direct sexism in my life.
Enter Michael Barnett, a blogger and commentator, and a member of the National LBGTIQ Rights list (Australia) that I'm on. He has a blog, and is currently upset with a female member of the (Melbourne?) Jewish community who has been posting homophobic comments in various forums. He announced his latest blog post on the National LBGTIQ Rights list with:
More deluded rantings from this homophobic Jewish bitch. She really needs to see a vet.
I told Michael that I was upset with the language he'd used to describe the woman he was upset with, and told him that there were plenty of other ways to refer to someone without equating them to an animal or belonging.
Michael, to my surprise (I really don't know him) refused to apologise stating:
No apologies. Please channel your offence at the viles (sic) homophobes.
I informed Michael that I can be offended at both homophobic behaviour (and individuals) AND people who are sexist and that I would indeed like an apology from him as well as an undertaking to modify his language use. At this point another member of the mailing list pointed out that homophobia and sexism were as vile as each other.
Michael decided at this point to deflect responsibility for his language use onto the individual he was upset with and also to tell me that I was not offended.
I won't tolerate homophobic rants from vile bitches like [name redacted]*. If you are offended by what I write, I suggest you have a tete-a-tete with [name redacted] and politely ask her to stop writing the offensive material that I don't like that drives me to write the material you find offensive.
Please don't get all high and mighty on me. You are not offended. You are being precious. [name redacted] is the problem, not my writings.
So I should redirect my offence to the individual that has upset him, even though Michael's choice of words, something he is responsible for, was the cause of my offence. I was flabbergasted that someone could even dare to suggest such a thing, and on a relatively public forum at that. I pointed out to Michael that he was responsible for his language use regardless of the actions of another person, and no matter how much that other person upset him – especially as he was reporting on it later.
I also told him that he could not tell me that I was not offended and that he was mansplaining my offence away and that did not make me suddenly not offended. I reminded Michael that sexism was as bad as homophobia and that his refusal to apologise or to agree to modify his language was increasing my offence. I asked him to be a better person than the person who had upset him and to apologise.
Michael's response:
[name redacted] fits the definition of bitch "A woman considered to be spiteful or overbearing."
I am not sexist.
I call homophobic rabbis cunts. They fit the definition "Used as a disparaging term for a person one dislikes or finds extremely disagreeable."
This is not about you.
And that's where he got it it incredible wrong, and I walked away (because I could not be arsed spending the energy and time it would take to educate this individual). Michael's language use is sexist and his refusal to acknowledge that his language was inappropriate and harmful makes him sexist in my opinion.
I am incredibly grateful to those on the mailing lists (some of my comments were cross-posted – or replies were cross posted) that stood up and agreed with me. Many of them were more eloquent than I was able to be at that time, pointing out that language is an important tool and using appropriate language is essential in fighting for human rights. Thank you to those who stood up against sexism.
Some of the best comments (names withheld) were:
One would have to query why one should be so apparently determined to repeatedly to show such little respect and put off-side, those who share the battle and grief the result of these homophobic individuals?
Bayne Macgregor said:
It is every politically active persons responsibility to be aware of some of the basic ways language is part of politics and emotion. You don't need a degree in linguistics to see that conservatives have made one of their main tools the control of language and the emotional meaning-association. Why the heck do you think people started using the word Gay instead of terms like Homosexual, Faggot, Poofta, Fairy, Fairy-Maggot or Pus-Person?
Now if you want to insult this person go ahead! But do so with terms that are not enforcing any other discrimination.So it would be in your interest and everyone elses if you explore the great cultural heritage of cretive insults and find some that do not reinforce any sexism, ablism, racism, transphobia or any other such problem which we as human-rights activists specialising in the GLBTIQ area need to be aware of and supportive of the fight against.
Michael, you've failed to grasp the meaning of the word "offended".
Offence is in the eye of the beholder, not defined by the offender. Consequently, when someone tells you that they are offended by your language or your behaviour, they are right. You as the offender are in no position to claim that, "You are not offended. You are being precious."
Further, when someone tells you that they are offended by your behaviour and you refuse to change it, you are indicating that you hold their views and their feelings in complete contempt.
* I'm not naming the individual that Michael is offended with, even though I have read some of her comments on a blog and found them homophobic, because right now she is not the issue.
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There is always an agenda
*trigger warning – this post discusses violence against women*
Jim Schembri posted an article on The Age today which suggested that violence against women is funny. I wrote a letter to The Age about it, which is below.
I am appalled that Jim Schembri's article, "Top 10 best movie bitch slaps of all time" has been allowed to be published on The Age online today.
Schembri writes:
"As civil and courteous a species as we like to think we are, we all know that there exists in this world certain people who, every once in a while, deserve a good smack in the chops. And how do we know this? From the movies, of course."
No one EVER deserves a good smack in the chops. To suggest so implies that victims deserve the crime committed against them. Victim Blaming is where:
"Victim blaming (or blaming the victim) is holding the victims of a crime, an accident, or any type of abusive maltreatment to be entirely or partially responsible for the transgressions committed against them."
Logically following Schembri's statement through, people deserve to be mugged, domestic violence victims deserve their abuse, rape survivors deserved to be raped in the first place and murderees deserved to be killed. This doesn't actually sound all that sane and in a week where we've already had plenty of victim blaming and rape apology printed in The Age, I thought that someone would be suggesting to the contributors to The Age that perhaps easing off the violence towards others would be a good start, and that making fun of violence would be a bad idea. Clearly this hasn't happened.
Of the 10 incidents of violence he lists, 60% of them are men abusing women. Five of the 10 involve a man slapping a woman (or in one case the entire passenger manifest of an aircraft slapping a woman) on the face, one of the ten involves a woman slapping another woman. Only two of his suggestions involve men slapping other men, overwhelmingly his article and examples focused on violence against women and suggested that it was a good or funny thing. Violence is not a good or funny thing.
Schembri:
"3. Godfather II (1974): Al Pacino vs Diane Keaton.
If you're going to abort a man's child, and the father is an all-powerful mafia Don, best to keep that to yourself, too. "You won't take my children," Al screams after slapping her down. "You WON'T take my children!""
Heaven forbid that a woman would like autonomy over her own body, to make her own decisions and not be subject to violence as a result. This entry clearly glorifies domestic violence.
"5. Flying High (1980): the entire passenger manifest vs the hysterical woman
Everybody would love to do this in real life. Maybe that's why it's still funny 30 years on."
People who are scared, distraught or upset are not helped by being slapped. The idea that slapping someone and suggesting that they "pull themselves out of it" is a harmful one and again perpetuates abuse against those who cannot defend themselves.
"What do you think of the list? Impossible to limit it to 10, isn't it? What great movie slaps do think warrant mention? And who, in all of movie history, do you think deserved a slap most – but didn't get it?"
It'd be nice to not have a list of the 10 best assaults of our time, and to instead focus on something else versus a heavy handed list of violence against women. Who most deserved a slap? No one… but that doesn't get mentioned.
And finally let's look at Mr Schembri's use of the phrase "bitch slap". As commenter Jacinta rightly points out, "Further, the phrase "bitch-slap" has its own problems, suggesting as it does, that a woman who is slapped deserved it on account of being both unpleasant and female." I have written about "bitch" being a problematic word and really think that the usage of this words needs to be carefully monitored.
Schembri's mansplaining my and Jacinta's comments and suggesting that it was all a joke was also completely unnecessary. It should not come as a surprise that some people do not find this kind of thing funny and that overall suggesting that violence against women (and men) is funny or can be funny is not a good thing, and using phrases like "bitch slap" is not good either.
Jacinta commented on Schembri's article stating (with Schembri's response in bold as in the original):
This article is appalling! Within context, there might be cause for a character in a movie to strike another; but to glorify these actions removed from context just so we can see one person hit another? That's just wrong.
You wrote: "we all know that there exists in this world certain people who, every once in a while, deserve a good smack in the chops." I disagree. Whenever I feel the urge to slap someone, it's a fault in me, not in them. People do not deserve to be violently assaulted just for being upset or rude or hysterical or scared. People who are subordinate to you, weaker than you, less assertive than you or less powerful than you *never* deserve to be assaulted just because you're angry with them or with something else. Yes, people say hurtful things, even that's not an excuse to inflict physical pain. Slapping someone who is hysterical is never appropriate either.
Further, the phrase "bitch-slap" has its own problems, suggesting as it does, that a woman who is slapped deserved it on account of being both unpleasant and female.
You might think these are funny or memorable for some other reason, but I hope some of that is due to the context around the scene. If you watch these, unfamiliar with the context, you should be appalled too.
Schembri note: It's all about context, Jacinta. That's why Chinatown ghets No. 1. And a good slap in the movies isn't gender specific, which is why we lead with Peter Lorre getting it good in The Maltese Falcon. Every now and again, you gotta cool the jets on the old reading-a-political-agenda-into-everything deal and just have a bit of fun. Take another look at hte Airplane! slapping scene. Tell us you didn't laugh at least once.
So let's look at this agenda thing (a similar comment was made by Schembri on my comment (under Rebecca) when he eventually got around to approving it in the moderation queue (some 4 hours after I posted it)). There is ALWAYS an agenda. Humans are political beings, and even when we don't think we have an agenda we do. Wanting a hug, being hungry or being thirsty are small and easily identifiable agendas. Some agendas are more subtle and harder to pick, whether someone knows you like them, organising a surprise or your taste in music. Some agendas are unconscious and provided by society such as rape culture, victim blaming and the status of women. Although Schembri claims that there was no agenda to his post, he is continuing to add to the "violence is ok against women" agenda prevalent in society. And his comments were beautiful examples of mansplaining, "it's funny, everyone else is finding it funny, you must have laughed at this – so you're wrong".
I was very disappointed in this article and in Schembri's refusal to see that there were alternate points of view. I'll be avoiding his articles from now on.
assaultFeminismnot funnysexismviolence
Feminism, Language, media, sexism
Yeah… no… Spida get back in your box
*Trigger warning – this post discusses sexual violence against women*
"Spida" who apparently is someone (or was someone) in the world of AFL, decides to blame women today for sexual assault and rape. He made his views, which were then instantly news, available on Twitter so that the rest of us could bask in his glorious wisdom and knowledge.
Specifically he said:
Yet another alleged girl, making alleged allegations, after she awoke with an alleged hangover and I take it an alleged guilty conscience
Girls!! When will you learn! At 3am when you are blind drunk & you decide to go home with a guy ITS NOT FOR A CUP OF MILO! Allegedly
Firstly I'm going to pick on his use of allege (and it's forms) which is something that always bothers me. I think in this instance that Spida was attempting to be funny, because you know rape and sexual assault are hilarious. The "girl" (notice the infantilism here) is not an alleged person. An individual who makes a complaint about rape or sexual assault, is not an alleged person. You cannot make an alleged allegation, you make an allegation, the end. The next two uses of alleged work, though I am not at all happy how Spida's implication.
The second tweet is disturbing. Spida clearly doesn't understand consent and that when someone is blind drunk or affected severely by any substance that they cannot consent to sex. I'll just quote CASA on this (from the ABC):
The comments have outraged Victoria's Centre Against Sexual Assault, which has had input into the AFL's Respect and Responsibility program.
Centre convenor Carolyn Worth says the AFL's efforts to enforce respect for women are not working as well as they should.
"They're insensitive comments, and apart from anything else they show a scant regard for the legal status of some things, because if you are actually blind drunk you can't consent to sexual intercourse… ," she said.
Spida realised that perhaps he'd not been as clear as he liked and he tweeted the following yesterday (5 tweets combined into 1 paragraph):
neil mitchell has taken poetic licence to interpret my words to mean I support matters regarding sexual offences in favour of the perpertrator. This is so far from the truth it is laughable. I can not and will not ever support female abuse in any manner or form my comments are solely aimed at warning females of the danger of being drunk or under the influence of drugs. I do not condone any actions that lead to or may lead to a sexual offence being committed. thank you!
So he then says he will never ever support "female abuse" whatever that means, and then proceeds into some victim blaming – women shouldn't get drunk or use drugs because it is dangerous! Because men clearly cannot be held responsible for THEIR behaviour.
Sadly both AFL and the rugby codes in Australia have a history of sexual assault, rape and abuse of women. The AFL (and I assume the rugby codes as well) have instituted policies and programs to combat this, to educate players and was compulsory viewing with a questionnaire afterwards (and hopefully if anyone failed they were counselled).
The AFL made a similar interactive DVD in 2008 pertaining specifically to sexual matters. It was compulsory viewing for all league players, and included a multiple choice questionnaire.
At the time, the AFL's Respect and Responsibility program co-ordinator, Melanie Heenan, said the DVD aimed to "prompt (the players') confident decision-making in situations that can be quite complex." (The Age)
I'm annoyed that someone like this gets given any air time, but at the same time I was really impressed with the smack-down that occurred in the media. Even the MX (who has been quite sexist in the past) quoted people and groups who believed that Spida's statements were wrong and condoned assault. In my opinion AFL players should stick to commenting on football and should not be allowed to speak about anything else unless they pass a test showing an understanding of the topic and the effects of what they're going to say.
UPDATE: Apparently Spida appeared on Kerri-Anne Kennaley's show this morning and they both engaged in some victim blaming with Kerri-Anne calling women who associate with footballers "strays". The comments on the article were closed fairly quickly and were heavily moderated (unsurprisingly).
UPDATE: I'm loving John Silvester's article in The Age about how people should stop victim blaming.
Problematic Words: Bitch
Feminismvictim blamingwords
Feminism, media, sexism, uncool
Well this is disturbing
Well actually I think its incredibly creepy, and I don't think I'm alone in that assessment. So, the article was published in the Age, but taken from mashable.com – which I don't read and today cannot be bothered investigating further. I'll use The Age article for basis and go on rambles from there.
What happens when you mix male gamers, pretty girls, and a social platform where girls that connects the two for a price? The answer is GameCrush, which has just opened to the public.
GameCrush first made headlines in March when it entered public beta. The site hooks up "Players" (mostly nerdy males) with "PlayDates" (mostly young females) to play everything from Call of Duty to simple arcade games. Players can choose to play either Xbox 360 games or just a simple browser-based game.
Initially this does not seem all bad. The idea of "Play Dates" sounds nice, like something you'd take your children along to and getting people together to share common interests is a good way to meet people. But only if it were that simple. The article continues.
Users of GameCrush have four basic options for making connections with PlayDates. … The Edge is this service's version of a red-light district.
There is a catch, of course. PlayDates don't crush their controllers for free; it costs $US0.60 per minute to have a pretty girl sniping with (or at) you.
So there is a "red-light" district AND even just to play with "pretty girl[s]" you need to start paying. And this is where it is creepy – in effect this is purchasing time with someone, making their time, attention and their appearance a commodity. Which is pretty much what prostitution is. It still gets worse:
And before you ask, yes, you'll find girls that are willing to do more than just play games if you ask nicely. Part of the reason for this is the service's points system; Players are expected to tip points to PlayDates, who can then trade them to get real cash. Simply put, there's a big incentive for PlayDates to "do more" to earn more points.
While reading this I kept thinking of "gentlemen's clubs" where for extra you can get private lap dances or private shows… and where some women will go further depending on the venue. Is this really that much different?
Male geekdom already has big issues with the way women are viewed and this is not helping that at all. The whole "Play Date" thing would be nice, if money weren't exchanging hands and if the mostly female participants were not likely to be pressured to go further than just playing a game. Sadly this type of enterprise just continues adding to the women are objects and can be owned, especially when you get to pay for them.
Feminismmedianot coolseriously?sexism
Feminism, Religion, sexism
Rampant sexism in Friday's MX (10 September 2010)
Colour me surprised and everything… who thought I'd find rampant sexism and plain bad journalism in the Herald Sun's tabloid afternoon news paper… but I did and I thought, why not blog about it with my OODLES of spare time (hah!). For what it is worth, one of their journalists wrote an opinion piece dismissing the article discussing gender roles being linked to biology (thank you so much Amelia Grevis-James).
So onto the articles which upset me. I'll find equivalent links to either news.com.au articles on the same topic, or other relevant news sources as I discuss each article that offended me.
Sin? Your biology made you do it (Maria Bervanakis)
This article is so NOT newsworthy that it was not run by news.com.au nor any other actual news source (I cannot find it on google news at all). Instead, the best source I can find for it is Newswise from August this year. Maria tells us that:
A study by a church-backed uni found that biology has a major role in sinful behaviour.
US Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Matthew Stanford, of the Baylor University in Texas, examined years of research into people that commit the seven deadly sins and discovered their actions could be explained by their physical make-up.
What the article in the MX doesn't say, which is reported in Newswise, is that Professor Stanford himself is religiously aligned, which is evident in the use of "sin" if you think about it. The Newswire also doesn't report of Professor Stanford actually has any qualifications in biology other than his qualifications in Neuroscience, and indeed where he obtained the qualifications he holds.
Newswire reports:
Stanford said all of the behaviors outlined in the book violate, in some way, the creative order that God has established, yet something biologically occurs in us that causes the behavior. However, biology is not destiny, Stanford said, and when we fully understand the effects of sin on our physical bodies, it becomes clear that "broken biology" can never be used as an excuse for sinful behavior.
As Stanford studied the data, he also noticed that, on average, men and women sin differently. Stanford said men tend to be outwardly manifested and focused on obtaining immediate gratification like aggression or adultery. The sins of women, on the other hand, tend to be more inwardly focused and concern on relational status, privilege or position like envy or pride.
"Because God created men and women physically different, it is understandable that the effect of original sin on our bodies and minds varies between the sexes," Stanford said. "This is not to say that men and women differ in their degree of sinfulness, but simply that they sin in different ways. Men and women are equally sinful and sin is equally destructive in both."
Each of these paragraphs should be addressed, although briefly because I don't want to give this whackjob more time than he's already had.
Professor Stanford has published a book. I haven't read it, I'm not going to read it, and quite frankly am not interested in reading a book regarding what someone views as "sin" when I don't share his religion. To suggest that sin has any "effects on our physical bodies" without actually being clearer and providing examples (yes I know this is a summary report) and then saying that "'broken biology' can never be used as an excuse for sinful behaviour" comes across more as homosexuality is a sin and even if being gay is biological it is still a sin and you can control your behaviour.
Look, men and women are different so they act differently and sin differently. Quite frankly Professor Stanford, go fuck yourself and attend some Feminism 101 before ever saying such crap again.
Look sinfulness is destructive (though it all depends on what you view as wrongful behaviour – according to Prof Stanford I'm a terrible sinner and would never get to heaven) and it impacts on women and men differently because they are different. Seriously Professor Stanford, go and meet some actual real people and find out how similar (apart from societal conditioning) men and women actually are.
Wife's pay can cost a marriage (unattributed)
This article was also run The Times of India, I can find no other news source in Australia that ran this piece.
Apparently, if a woman in a heterosexual relationship out-earns her male partner, that relationship breaking up is far more likely than in situations where a woman under earns her male partner. From MX:
The finding is the result of a 25-year study of more than 2500 marriages and follows other research showing that house-husbands are prone to affairs.
The US researchers found that women who consistently made more money than their husbands were up to 38 per cent more likely to divorce than others.
Jay Teachman, of Western Washington University, said possible reasons for the statistic were that financial independence makes it easier for women to escape an unhappy marriage, and dented egos – of both sexes.
For a happy marriage, Teachman recommends a 60/40 split in income, with the husband being the higher earner.
Thank you Mr Teachman for suggesting that women continue to earn less money than men and therefore have less money as a safety net to retire on. Thank you Mr Teachman for proposing that instead of finding a way to solve the problem you've identified by having society treat each partner's contribution to the relationship as valid, that women just take lower paying jobs. And you know what lower paying jobs typically are Mr Teachman? Would you do them?
This issue has been covered repeatedly, even on news.com.au. So here are some good links so I don't have to reinvent the wheel, you can just read it yourself. 🙂
The Pursuit of Harpyness – Some Good News On Pay Equity
In a Strange Land – Doing the maths
Jezabel – Corporate Women: The Wage Gap Starts At Graduation
So it'd be nice Mr Teachman if you actually think beyond "let's make the wimmenz earnz less" and into whether or not those relationships should have been saved, what societal changes need to be made so that if women out-earn men then nothing negative happens.
Payback for hubby theft (unattributed)
Matching article at the Vancouver Sun.
Now… last I checked if you were going to have an affair with someone, that other person had to be willing – otherwise we're entering the realm of unconsensual behaviour – and the MX and the Vancouver Sun certainly do not suggest there was any question of consent. The MX used terms like "theft" and "stolen" in this article, which implies that the husband in this case was an automaton and had no part to play in the affair he clearly was involved in. So yes, it takes two to tango here and suggesting otherwise removes agency from the now ex-husband and makes him completely blameless. I note that the Vancouver Sun did not use either "theft" or "stolen".
I'm not going to debate the strange law that North Carolina has on it's books here right now.
So thank you MX for continuing the sexism that is prevalent in the world right now. You had a great opportunity to dispel sexism and make the world a better place, but no you decided to wander the easy path and screw women over again. I appreciate it, I really do.
2016 Australia Day Honours – another sausage fest
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Mrs Boyes and myself are meeting with the iPad company this afternoon to agree our vision and investigate how we can promote e-safety whilst the children use them.
We have been assured that delivery of the iPads will definitely be before Christmas. I will be sending out a letter on Monday to give parents and carers updated information and ask for a confirmation of who is happy to sign up to the agreement. I must have that back before the end of the week so I can place the order.


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La India Canela Discusses Merengue Típico
Merengue is widely recognized as the national music and dance of the Dominican Republic, and one of the country's most important exports, but it is not a single, unified genre. The traditional style called merengue típico is so important to daily life in the northern Cibao region and among cabaeños abroad that musicians describe it as "soul food" and even, metaphorically, as "family." Típico sounds quite different from the big-band merengue more commonly heard abroad. It is centered on the accordion (rather than wind instruments), percussion plays a key role, and improvisation is central, while big bands rely on written arrangements. La India Canela, leader of a merengue típico band, discusses how modern influences are changing the traditional sound.
Related Album Merengue Típico from the Dominican Republic
La India Canela; Lidia María Hernández López; Alfonso Gonzalez; Ramon Eladio Jimenez
Caribbean; Latin; Spoken Word; World
Accordion; Percussion instruments
Afro-Dominican Music from San Cristobal, Dominican Republic
Merengue Típico from the Dominican Republic
La India Canela
Quisqueya en el Hudson: Dominican Music in New York
Music from the Dominican Republic: Vol. 2, The Island of Española
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