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In late January, two Wall Street Occupiers took a trip to Porto Alegre, Brazil, to meet with members of dissident movements from all over the world. The thematic Social Forum, serving as an anti-Davos economic forum, was set up to tackle the "capitalist crisis, social and environmental justice." Nelini Stamp and Amin Husain met with, among others, Chilean student demonstrators, Tunisian revolutionaries and "indignant citizens" from Greece and Spain.
"All roads lead to Rio," Stamp tells me, was the credo among participants. This refers to the "Rio +20" conference that will convene in late June "to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), in Rio de Janeiro" and "secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development," in the "green economy."
At the thematic Social Forum, global youth and democratic movements mobilized not for the UN conference, but for the "People's summit of Rio +20" event, which is set to happen several days earlier. Stamp says that the prevalent attitude among the Porto Alegre attendees was the one articulated by Esther Vivas. "All indications," she wrote, "are that the Rio +20 Earth Summit will to serve to clear the way for multinationals to justify their practice of appropriation of natural resources." The People's summit will present an alternative program to "green capitalism."
"We found that ecology was an issue that could unite us all," Stamp says, but not in the way official state bodies were prepared to endorse. For her, the ecological battle is the same as the battle against neoliberal globalization. "We need to globally challenge the G8, the G20, the UN, NATO, the World Bank, the IMF [International Monetary Fund] - and we have to organize to figure out strategies." She adds, "It is easy to understand globalization at a basic level, but it is difficult to understand in its particulars," contending that the global capitalist economy's grip on governments everywhere renders politicians impotent to reduce carbon emissions, deforestation, and other harmful industrial practices.
Husain agrees that 2011's social movements and uprisings were all local protests against the same global forces, telling me, "I was in the West Bank in July and we watched the international arena and what was happening. We saw self-immolation in Tunisia and there was something in the air from that - an act of desperation, but also a wake-up call. In Egypt, we saw an affirmation of people power in a productive way, reclaiming of public space signaling to the world that the problem was with democracy. It's not about better politicians, there's something more fundamental going on. The movement is very strong in Greece, the bedrock of democracy. We're still watching."
In Porto Alegre, Stamp noticed a split between the institutional affiliations that come with the World Social Forum process and the social movement on the ground. "The NGOs [nongovernmental organizations] and labor and government-run projects [staples of the World Social Forum] were all in the Legislative Assembly building, but the social movement folks basically didn't attend. Instead, they were at the youth camp in an occupied building, Utopia E Luta." Far from the tent cities that "occupied" conjures in American heads, "They have a theater there, sewing machines and sewing classes and a hydroponics set-up on the roof."
In addition to challenging globalization, she counsels, "we also have to challenge the Social Forum process." Utopia E Luta and its international counterparts, she says, have to become the dominant politics of the anti-globalization left. "NGOs need to stop dropping people in a certain neighborhood and having them canvass for two months. That's why we're not building movements. We're too busy building campaigns. We have to have many more forums and interactive spaces." The problem is that NGOs are where a lot of the money is and as Stamp laments, "It costs a lot of money to fly people in."
Flight costs weren't the only obstacle. When the formal forum procedure was in order, conference-goers had a translators and earphones arrangement, a luxury not available at Utopia E Luta. "It's hard to do collective work, when we all don't speak the same language. Everyone translated for each other in mutual languages. I know Spanish, so I helped translate the Spanish indignados into English, which the Greek indignados understood."
Nevertheless, events like this, says Husain, are valuable. "We left," he says, "thinking that we need to see more of each other. There is something to be built upon this network of connections. It's beyond ultra globalization and connectivity. We're all fighting the same battle in different spaces." Husain sees the "federalism" at play when different American Occupy camps adopt differentiating procedures and policies (which best fit their local circumstances) on a global scale, as each country's People's movement operates differently too. Next month, Husain will be going to Egypt for ten days to expand international social movement interconnectivity.
"The question now," according to Husain, becomes, "that cross-fertilization, that sharing - what does it mean? What does it look like? The World Social Forum could be a good vehicle."
Stamp is asking the same question. "What does movement connection look like? Is it training? Is it that there's a big Skype call that we can try to do internationally? In Nice in November, we had a global assembly." Ultimately, she shares Husain's answer, concluding, "The World Social Forum process can be much stronger with the social movements having a strong hand. The NGO stuff, the union stuff, is necessary, but it has to stop being old people talking down to the movement."
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff skipped Davos to address the Porto Alegre Social Forum. She called neoliberalism "a failed recipe" for development in the Global South, pointing to neoliberal efforts in Brazil's resultant "stagnation, loss of democratic space and sovereignty, deepening poverty, unemployment and social exclusion." She called for "a development model that articulates growth and job creation, battles poverty and decreases inequalities," and promotes the "sustainable use and preservation of natural resources."


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The harsh realities of putting a play on at the Edinburgh Fringe hit home today as my manager went through the projected costs with me. Under current projections (with quite a big cast) if I sell every seat in a 500 seat theatre for every day of the Fringe i will lose over £10,000! And I can't really see me selling anywhere near that number of tickets. So the loss could be a lot more. Perhaps I am being foolish this year, taking quite a big financial punt with two projects, but it's only money, right? It's certainly an incentive to work very, very hard on making the play as good as possible. There is the possibility of some investment from other people in the idea, so it might not make me bankrupt, but it's still a big commitment when I haven't even written a word of the thing yet.
I wrote four plays in the 1990s and put them all on at the Fringe, but eventually lost heart with the process. I lost a five figure sum each year and none of the plays were picked up to be performed elsewhere (though a couple of them have subsequently been done by amateur groups). I got good and bad reviews for them, but felt like the theatre people were a bit sniffy, thinking I was a comedian writing plays and putting my stand-up routines in them (despite the fact I didn't do stand up then) and the comedy people thought I'd got a bit above myself. I wanted to write plays that were properly funny (not just "theatre funny"), but that also worked as plays. I thought I did pretty well with them, but I guess that in general the powers that be disagreed. In the end the work paid off as I am sure that by demonstrating my ability to write characters and narrative led to me getting TV jobs. I am not sure I would have got the Time Gentlemen Please gig without them. Also they made me a much better writer.
I am hopeful that this time the play will go on to have a life beyond the Fringe (I think it might make a great film too - if I can get it right), but it's going to make for a jittery August for me. If the audiences are in double figures and the reviews are negative (and if the play is just rubbish - which it might be, there's no way of finding out until I've written it) then it might be a bit of a depressing time. But I think it's worth the gamble. This year feels very make or break all of a sudden. All in all it's more likely to break me. But I am glad I am giving it a go. If you see me on the second series of the Jump or advertising crisps this time next year then you'll know things have gone tits up. If you feel like buying a badge to minimise the loses from one of my over-ambitious projects then that would be much appreciated. There's a slight hold up on the first episode of Meaning of Life by the way, though it should be available (at least to subscribers) next week (the shorter free show might take a little bit longer to edit). There's still some tickets for show 3 available (only a tenner) and a few for We're All Going To Die! in Leicester on Thursday.
I am really enjoying how varied my job is at the moment. Today I went to help workshop ideas for another comedian's TV show. It was an enjoyable day of sitting around a table chatting and drinking coffee and hoping we'd spark off some ideas. There were no Haribos on offer so I couldn't shame myself (though there was a small bowl of small jellied sweets and I did eat most of those). When I started Warming Up in 2002 I was spending most of my time in the house, trying and failing to write about cocks and going quietly insane. And much as I enjoy writing it's important to mix things up a bit. This week has involved being on a Sunday morning TV show, previewing new material, doing a radio show and helping with ideas for another comedian and in the coming few days I will be writing on my own project, thinking about my play, doing my tour show, filming Meaning of Life and doing the first in a new series of RHLSTP. There's a little bit of time for fun too (I am going to a wedding on Saturday) and I am just about to go for a 7 mile run in the rain. But I am delighted to be busy and delighted to still be having enough drive and ideas to be pushing myself into ever increasingly dangerous money-losing endeavours.
It all makes for the more boring type of blog of course, which I can only apologise for. Hopefully something comical will happen to me tomorrow. And of course the 2015 homeless blogs are going to be fucking hilarious (depending on your sense of humour).

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Janie Eubanks
Nutrition Director (Aramark)
East Carolina University
Greenville, N.C.
We had a Nutritionopoly event that was set up like Monopoly. We themed each of the stations like a property. They each had a nutrition table. The big feature was a Nutritionopoly board that was 20 by 20 feet. We had big inflatable dice they could throw. The whole message of that promotion was to let small healthy changes "monopolize" your lifestyle.


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Looking at the Source Code
Looking at the source code for reverseArray_multiblock.cu, you notice that the structure of the program is very, very similar to the structure of moveArrays.cu from Part 2. An error routine,
checkCUDAError is provided so the host can print out a human-readable message and exit when an error is reported by
cudaGetLastError. As can be seen,
checkCUDAError is judiciously utilized throughout the program to check for errors.
The program reverseArray_multiblock.cu essentially creates a 1D array of integers,
h_a, containing the integer values
[0 .. dimA-1]. Array
h_a is moved via
cudaMemcpy to array
d_a, which resides in global memory on the device. The host then launches the
reverseArrayBlock kernel to copy the array contents in reverse order from
d_a to
d_b, which is another global memory array. Again,
cudaMemcpy is used to transfer data -- this time from
d_b to the host. A check is then performed on the host to verify that the device produced the correct result (e.g,
[dimA-1 .. 0]).
// includes, system #include <stdio.h> #include <assert.h> // Simple utility function to check for CUDA runtime errors void checkCUDAError(const char* msg); // Part3: implement the kernel __global__ void reverseArrayBlock(int *d_out, int *d_in) { int inOffset = blockDim.x * blockIdx.x; int outOffset = blockDim.x * (gridDim.x - 1 - blockIdx.x); int in = inOffset + threadIdx.x; int out = outOffset + (blockDim.x - 1 - threadIdx.x); d_out[out] = d_in[in]; } ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Program main ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// int main( int argc, char** argv) { // pointer for host memory and size int *h_a; int dimA = 256 * 1024; // 256K elements (1MB total) // pointer for device memory int *d_b, *d_a; // define grid and block size int numThreadsPerBlock = 256; // Part 1: compute number of blocks needed based on // array size and desired block size int numBlocks = dimA / numThreadsPerBlock; // allocate host and device memory size_t memSize = numBlocks * numThreadsPerBlock * sizeof(int); h_a = (int *) malloc(memSize); cudaMalloc( (void **) &d_a, memSize ); cudaMalloc( (void **) &d_b, memSize ); // Initialize input array on host for (int i = 0; i < dimA; ++i) { h_a[i] = i; } // Copy host array to device array cudaMemcpy( d_a, h_a, memSize, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice ); // launch kernel dim3 dimGrid(numBlocks); dim3 dimBlock(numThreadsPerBlock); reverseArrayBlock<<< dimGrid, dimBlock >>>( d_b, d_a ); // block until the device has completed cudaThreadSynchronize(); // check if kernel execution generated an error // Check for any CUDA errors checkCUDAError("kernel invocation"); // device to host copy cudaMemcpy( h_a, d_b, memSize, cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost ); // Check for any CUDA errors checkCUDAError("memcpy"); // verify the data returned to the host is correct for (int i = 0; i < dimA; i++) { assert(h_a[i] == dimA - 1 - i ); } // free device memory cudaFree(d_a); cudaFree(d_b); // free host memory free(h_a); // If the program makes it this far, then the results are // correct and there are no run-time errors. Good work! printf("Correct!\n"); return 0; } void checkCUDAError(const char *msg) { cudaError_t err = cudaGetLastError(); if( cudaSuccess != err) { fprintf(stderr, "Cuda error: %s: %s.\n", msg, cudaGetErrorString( err) ); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } }
A key design feature of this program is that both arrays
d_a and
d_b reside in global memory on the device. The CUDA SDK provides an example program, bandwidthTest, which provides some information about the device characteristics. On my system, the global memory bandwidth is slightly over 60 GB/s. This is excellent until you consider that this bandwidth must service 128 hardware threads -- each of which can deliver a large number of floating-point operations. Since a 32-bit floating-point value occupies four (4) bytes, global memory bandwidth limited applications on this hardware will only be able to deliver around 15 GF/s -- or only a small percentage of the available performance capability. (This assumes the application only reads from global memory and does not write to it.) Obviously, higher performance applications must reuse data in some fashion. This is the function of shared and register memory and it is our job as programmers to gain the maximum benefit of these memory types. To gain a better understanding of machine balance as floating-point capability relates to memory bandwidth (and other machine characteristics), read my article HPC Balance and Common Sense.


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Safeway Inc. announced that Robert L. Edwards, currently the company's president, will succeed Steven A. Burd as chief executive officer May 14 when Mr. Burd retires as chairman and CEO. Mr. Edwards, 57, will also join the company's board of directors.
Mr. Edwards joined Safeway as executive vice president and chief financial officer in 2004. In April 2012, he was named president, with overall responsibility for the company's retail operations, marketing, merchandising, corporate brands, manufacturing, distribution and finance functions. He continued as CFO until Peter J. Bocian succeeded him in that role in February 2013.
"Since he arrived here in 2004, Robert has successfully met every challenge he has faced," Mr. Burd said in a press release. "He has demonstrated the ability to lead the company in all facets of its operations, and has earned the respect of the entire organization."
Mr. Edwards holds a master's degree in business administration and a bachelor's degree in accounting from Brigham Young University.
Safeway also announced that T. Gary Rogers, currently the company's lead independent director, will become non-executive chairman upon Mr. Burd's retirement.
Mr. Rogers, 70, has been a member of the company's board of directors since March 2011.
"The Board undertook a thorough search and concluded that Robert is the best candidate to lead Safeway," said Mr. Rogers. "He has the talent and experience that give the Board confidence that he will be a successful CEO."


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Fast Times At Cisco
We've said it before, and we'll say it again: there's never a dull moment at the Cisco disco.
Cisco was in the spotlight in a big way this year, both specific to the channel, with all the programs it launched and executive changes it made, and in the broader industry, where its star shone brightly against struggling competitors like HP, Huawei and Juniper. Here's a look at the major Cisco news stories we followed in 2012.


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Yesterday I have some problems with ubuntu and dicided to change to sabayon 5.5 Gnome, heard very good things about it, but after instalation I realise that wifi card wasn't instaled at start. So I start googling a lot and try a lot of things like this to threads:
And at least I tryed to compile the wireless drivers of my usb card that I found on this site http://linuxwireless.org./en/users/Download/stable/#compat-wireless_2.6.37_stable_releases and it came with an error when I try to compile the drivers.
I run "lspci" and "lsusb -v" and the two cards are detected but when i run iwconfig or ifconfig -a ther is no wifi interface.
I have an Asus 1201-NL with 3gb. The wifi cards that I want to configure are:
Tp-link WN722N USB (the chip I think is Atheros AR5416, driver ath9k_htc)
Realtek RTL 8191SE
kernel 2.6.37-sabayon, clean installation no updates.
If anyone could helping me installing both it would be amazing otherwise I need to install ubuntu again (they work):\
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How should our Christian faith influence our views regarding the important issues of our world?
Details for this event will be posted soon.
This year Coram Deo will examine five key intersections between a living Christian faith and a Christian commitment to be truly present in this world. Should a Christian be involved in politics, and if so, is there a particularly Christian point of view on certain political issues? What is the role of education and the pursuit of intellectual ideas – do intellectual pursuits diminish Christian spirituality and how can Christian scholars balance seemingly contradictory conclusions from advanced intellectual study with the traditional tenets of their Christian faith? How do we reconcile belief in the healing power of Christ with the reality of mental illness among Christians? Does the church have a responsibility to address this issue? The gospels discuss money more than any other topic, but is there a specifically Christian view of money? What is our responsibility to the poor and what should be our attitudes toward wealth? Given the church's historical views regarding Christians' involvement in the arts, how should we understand a modern Christian response to the arts?


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Planning on using The Internet
Nintendo CEO Saturo Iwata had more to say following the earlier espoused plans to turn Wii U sales around, which include some mystery, non-wearable fitness advocacy device. Speaking to The Nikkei, as picked up by MCV, Iwata explained, "[W]e've been preoccupied with a fixed idea of what a game should be like. The game industry is at a turning point amid new developments like the rise of smartphones."
Of course, Nintendo has also explained it does not want its games on smart phones, but says, "We'll change the way we sell products, by managing customer information via the Internet. We'll offer discounts to steady, regular customers."
While it's nice to joke about Nintendo thinking that "using the internet" is a dramatic shift, my ears perked up at 'offering discounts to steady customers.' Nintendo is infamously against devaluing its games, leaving its first party software at launch price for years before cuts. It'll be interesting to see what it does with that.
Iwata also said, more generally, "We should abandon old assumptions about our businesses. We are considering M&As as an option. For this reason, we'll step up share buybacks," and explained that the companies previously built up cash reserves have kept them going. "Without savings, we could not have recovered from a single failure in game systems. Even now, we can afford many options because of our robust financial standing."
Nintendo opening up to the idea of mergers and acquisitions to stabilize its business is the most potentially interesting bit in there, though. Maybe they'll be acquired by Sony? (It's a joke, don't kill me).
Nintendo chief: low-price games in emerging markets, M&A an option [Nikkei]
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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Shara McCallum, associate professor of English and director of the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University, has been awarded a 2011 Poetry Fellowship of $25,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts.
"This prestigious award was based on writing that Shara submitted," said John Rickard, professor of English and department chair at Bucknell. "Most recently, Shara was honored by being asked to write a celebratory poem for the inauguration of Bucknell's 17th president, John Bravman." || Inaugural poem
The NEA received 1,063 eligible applications from poets in 22 states this year, with 42 poets recommended to receive a fellowship.
McCallum, who joined the Bucknell faculty in 2003, teaches Creative Writing (Poetry and Creative Nonfiction), Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, and Caribbean and African American Literature.
She is the author of three books of poetry: This Strange Land (Alice James Books, forthcoming April 2011), Song of Thieves (University of Pittsburgh, 2003) and The Water Between Us (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999), winner of the 1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize.
Originally from Kingston, Jamaica, she has published poems in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Israel. Her poems have been reprinted in textbooks and anthologies of American, African American, Caribbean and World Literatures, and have been translated into Spanish and Romanian.
In addition to the NEA fellowship, she has received individual artist grants from the Tennessee Arts Commission and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, as well as an Academy of American Poets Prize, among other awards and honors.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Miami, a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Maryland, and a doctorate in Poetry and African American and Caribbean Literature from Binghamton University in New York.
Last year, fellow Bucknell English faculty member Robert Rosenberg was honored with a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for his novel, This Is Not Civilization.
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HANOI, Vietnam - An American doctor has arrived in Vietnam carrying an unlikely piece of luggage: the bones of an arm he amputated in 1966.
Sam Axelrad is traveling Monday to meet the amputee, Nguyen Quang Hung, a former North Vietnamese army soldier who was shot by American troops.
"It's just time for closure," the Texas man said Sunday in the capital, Hanoi.
The 74-year-old was 27 when he amputated Hung's infected arm. Axelrad says his colleagues removed the flesh, reconstructed the bones and gave them to him, and that he brought the skeletal keepsake home as a reminder of doing a good deed.
He learned Hung was still alive after a Vietnamese journalist wrote an article last year describing Axelrad's search for him, prompting the man's brother-in-law to come forward.


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Thousands of United Way of Central Ohio donors, advocates and volunteers have witnessed education's power as they work alongside the people of our community, helping them build pathways out of poverty. That's why we enthusiastically endorse Issues 50 and 51.
Thousands of United Way of Central Ohio donors, advocates and volunteers have witnessed education�s power as they work alongside the people of our community, helping them build pathways out of poverty.
That�s why we enthusiastically endorse Issues 50 and 51.
We believe the education reforms in Issues 50 and 51 give our community a comprehensive and well-thought-out approach to transforming the Columbus City Schools into a district in which every student can get a high-quality education.
We are especially supportive of the provision of expanded pre-kindergarten classes across our community, a key way to multiply the benefit of education and make sure more young children are ready for kindergarten and more youth graduate from high school.
The facts are clear. Significant research illustrates the importance of school readiness for the future academic success of a child, as well as reduced costs to the community over the long-term. Most notable is the research by Nobel laureate James Heckman of the University of Chicago.
Heckman has found that investment in early childhood development for disadvantaged children helps to prevent the achievement gap, reduce the need for special education, increase the likelihood of healthier lifestyles, lower the crime rate and reduce overall social costs. According to Heckman, every dollar invested in early childhood education produces a 10 percent per year return on investment.
The most immediate example of a significant cost to the community is the third-grade reading guarantee. This state law mandates that students who do not pass the Ohio reading exam be retained and that remediation be provided in each primary grade for children who are at risk of failing the third-grade reading test.
We know there is a direct connection between kindergarten readiness and reading proficiency at the third grade. When you compare the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment-Literacy, or KRA-L, scores of kindergarteners in the 2006-07 school year with those same children's scores on the third-grade reading test in 2009-10 school year, only 63.8 percent of children who scored in the lowest band of the KRA-L passed the reading test, while 88.1 percent who scored in the top band passed.
While solid, evidence-based reading instruction and a range of remediation services are essential to students in grades K-3, high-quality pre-K programs also play an important role in helping children be better prepared, particularly children often identified as at-risk for academic success.
The fact is children who enter kindergarten without foundational skills often do not catch up. National data indicate that 74 percent of students who cannot read on grade level at third grade continue to struggle in the ninth grade.
The earlier we can provide a high-quality learning environment and engage parents in their children's education, the greater the chance that the next generation of Columbus City Schools students will graduate and go on to have productive and fulfilling lives.
The need is great. The Columbus Kids: Ready, Set, Learn program we lead provides kindergarten assessments for 21/2- to 4-year-old children in the Columbus City Schools district. We have assessed almost 11,500 children and when issues are found, a child is often referred for services. In many cases, Columbus Kids provides early learning materials that parents can use to teach their children. These materials include basics such as paper and pencils that parents cannot afford, because more than 40 percent of participating families earn $5,000 or less per year.
These young learners need our help. United Way supporters believe that every student should have the opportunity to succeed, and passing the levy is a crucial step in reaching that goal.The portion of the levy that would provide all 4-year-olds, many of whom come from families in poverty, with access to a quality preschool experience by 2020 will improve the lives of thousands of children and strengthen our community.
United Way has been deeply involved in the work of the Columbus Education Commission and fully supports passage of the levy that was based on the comprehensive recommendations from this diverse commission of business, education, legal and nonprofit leaders.
Our community has come together to identify issues that are keeping our children from succeeding in school, and the efforts that will be funded through the levy will begin the transformation we need.
We strongly urge every Columbus voter to support these critically important issues on Tuesday's ballot.
C. David Paragas is chairman of the board of trustees of the United Way of Central Ohio.


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CAPTAIN Jobe Wheelhouse could be rushed straight into the Jets starting line-up for the clash against Brisbane Roar after Ruben Zadkovich injured his knee at training on Tuesday.
Wheelhouse has not played since suffering a grade-one medial ligament tear in his right knee at training on December 4.
The 27-year-old midfield enforcer was close to a return in the scoreless draw against Adelaide but decided it was "a little too soon".
Rather than ease his way back off the bench, Wheelhouse may be propelled into the eleven as the Jets look to get their campaign back on track against Roar.
Zadkovich, who has led the side admirably in Wheelhouse's absence, will have scans on Thursday after limping off late in the session on Tuesday. The feisty midfielder got tangled with defender Tiago in a challenge and clutched at his right knee.
He received treatment from physiotherapist Rob Dingle before leaving the training pitch unaided and rushing off to see Jets doctor Neil Halpin.
Zadkovich, who notched his 100th A-League game against the Reds, joins Emile Heskey on the doubtful list.
The marquee striker strained his hip flexor in the first half against Adelaide and did not train on Tuesday.
Heskey and Zadkovich are the only Jets to have started every game this season.
Jacob Pepper has played the past four matches off the bench and is in contention for a start if Zadkovich is ruled out.
Ben Kantarovski is at least a month off returning from knee surgery. The Jets moved training forward to 7.30am on Tuesday to avoid the scorching conditions.


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CBS Announces '60 Minutes' Online Expansion and iPad App
"This is an exciting new platform for 60 Minutes and a terrific opportunity to expand our content online," said Executive Producer Jeff Fager in a statement. Executive Editor Bill Owens will oversee programming, working with Fager and additional staff to produce this exclusive content. According to CBSNews.com Vice President Mark Larkin, this is what the online audience is looking for.
The online content will be geared to a wired audience, showing the behind-the-scenes process of getting a story fit to air as well as the perspective of correspondents and staffers. "The correspondents telling stories about their stories is the kind of thing that people are looking for on the Web," Larkin said.
Coinciding with this announcement, CBS also announced that it will soon be launching an iPad App for "60 Minutes." CBS News already announced a full iPad App Monday, but this one will focus on "60 Minutes" content exclusively.


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Monday, April 08, 2013 10:25 pm
Factories that ran on Korean cooperation go silent
By YOUKYUNG LEEAssociated Press
Only a few hundred South Korean managers remain at the Kaesong industrial complex, which has been run with cheap North Korean labor and South Korean capital and know-how for the past decade. The managers have not been forced to leave the facility just north of the Demilitarized Zone.
One manager said Tuesday that he and his colleagues are subsisting on ramen but planned to stay and watch over the company's equipment as long as their food lasted.
Pyongyang said Monday it would recall all 53,000 North Korean workers from the complex and would decide later whether to shut it down for good. The work stoppage at the biggest employer in the North's third-biggest city shows that Pyongyang is willing to hurt its own shaky economy in order to display its anger with South Korea and the United States.
Pyongyang has unleashed a torrent of threats at Seoul and Washington following U.N. sanctions punishing the North for its third nuclear test, on Feb. 12, and joint military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea that allies call routine but that Pyongyang sees as invasion preparation.
U.S. and South Korean defense officials have said they've seen nothing to indicate that Pyongyang is preparing for a major military action that it would certainly lose. Analysts say North Korea's rhetoric and actions are intended to force new, Pyongyang-friendly policies in South Korea and Washington and to boost domestic loyalty for Kim Jong Un, the country's young, still relatively untested new leader.
The Kaesong complex is the last symbol of inter-Korean rapprochement projects from previous eras of cooperation. Other projects such as reunions of families separated by war and tours to a scenic North Korean mountain became stalled in recent years.
Kim Yang Gon, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, announced Monday on a visit to Kaesong that operations at the complex would be suspended. He said the facility has been "has been reduced to a theater of confrontation."
Kim said in a statement released by state media that North Korea will now consider whether to close the complex permanently. "How the situation will develop in the days ahead will entirely depend on the attitude" of South Korean authorities, it said. The message did not say what would happen to the more than 400 South Korean managers still at Kaesong.
Some North Koreans who worked overnight shifts at Kaesong were still there Tuesday morning, but South Koreans said those scheduled for day shifts didn't show. A North Korean woman at Kaesong said in a telephone call that she planned to return home now that her night shift was done.
One of the South Koreans who remained at Kaesong on Tuesday said he planned to stay there until food runs out. He said he and four other colleagues had been living on instant noodles.
"We haven't had any rice since last night. I miss rice," he said Tuesday morning. "We are running out of food. We will stay here until we run out of ramen."
In noting the shutdown, the U.S. referred to a Central Committee of the North's ruling Worker's Party statement a little more than a week ago, in which it described the economy as one of the nation's top two priorities. The other is building nuclear weapons.
State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said closing the complex "would be regrettable, given that more than 50,000 North Korean people are employed there, and it would not help them achieve their stated desire to improve their economy and better the lives of their people."
South Korea's Unification Ministry, which is responsible for relations with the North, issued a statement saying South Korea will act "calmly and firmly" and will make its best efforts to secure the safety of South Koreans at Kaesong.
North Korea has threatened to fire nuclear missiles at the U.S. and claimed it had scrapped the 1953 armistice that ended fighting in the Korean War. Last week it told foreign diplomats based in Pyongyang that it will not be able to guarantee their safety as of Wednesday. Embassy workers appeared to be staying put. There have also been worries in Seoul of an even larger provocation from Pyongyang, including another possible nuclear test or rocket launch.
The barrage of North Korean threats has made North Korea increasingly isolated. China, its most important ally, expressed unusual disappointment when Pyongyang announced last week that it was restarting a plutonium reactor to produce more nuclear-bomb fuel.
Even before Monday's announcement, Pyongyang had been allowing operations at the Kaeson complex to wither. Last month it cut the communications with South Korea that had helped regulate border crossings at Kaesong, and last week it barred South Korean workers and cargo from entering North Korea.
Operations had continued and South Koreans already at Kaesong were allowed to stay, but dwindling personnel and supplies had forced about a dozen of the more than 120 companies operating at Kaesong before North Koreans were told to stop working there.
North Korea briefly restricted the heavily fortified border crossing at Kaesong in 2009, but manufacturers fear the current closure could last longer.
South Korea's Unification Ministry estimates 53,000 North Korean workers in Kaesong received $80 million in salary in 2012, an average of $127 a month paid in U.S. dollars. The Unification Ministry says Kaesong accounted for nearly all two-way trade between the Koreas. Cross-border trade, including supplies entering Kaesong and finished products coming out, approached $2 billion annually.
North Korea objects to portrayals in the South of the zone being crucial to the impoverished country's finances. Kim said North Korea "gets few economic benefits from the zone while the south side largely benefits from it." North Korea has also expressed outrage over South Korean discussion of military rescue plans in the event Pyongyang held the managers hostage.
Associated Press writer Hyung-Jin Kim contributed to this report.


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The BrainCandy Family FilmFest @ the CACC
The BrainCandy Family FilmFest @ the CACC
Gloucester, MA (February, 2011)
The Cape Ann Community Cinema and The Brain Candy Project have teamed up to present a special on-going film festival that explores the foundations of American Family Cinema. Proceeds will benefit the The Brain Candy Project, a Cape Ann charity that supports parents who are living in hospitals with their critically ill children.
February is Animation Month at the BrainCandy Family FilmFest! (Click link for synopses of films)
February 12: The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird (1953)
February 19: The Hobbit (animated 1978)
February 26: Gulliver's Travels (1939)
All shows are Saturdays at 11:00am, with one showing per film. Kid's tickets are just $5.


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Thrillers leave Hawks, Mount tied in hockey title series
Drama has been a constant in the state championship hockey series between Bishop Hendricken and Mount St. Charles, and through two games the Hawks have seen life at both ends of the spectrum.
In Friday's game one, the Hawks got three goals in less than a minute late in the third period to turn a one-goal deficit into a 5-2 victory. The next night, Hendricken led 3-1 with eight minutes to play only to have Mount tie the game with just under three minutes remaining and then get a goal from Keith Phaneuf in the final minute of the first overtime period for a dramatic 4-3 Mounties victory.
With the best-of-three series tied at a game apiece, the title will be decided by a third game for the ninth time in the 19 state championship meetings between the two teams.
Game three was scheduled for Monday night, with the results unavailable at press time. Coverage of the game will be available online Tuesday at www.warwickonline.com and in Thursday's Warwick Beacon.
"It's sort of what we expected," said Hendricken head coach Jim Creamer after game two. "With the exception of that minute last night where we scored three, every game we've played with them has been a battle. I give them all the credit in the world. They did a great job in the third period. And we weren't bad – they were just extra good."
The series looked like it was coming to a close on Saturday night, with Hendricken holding play through most of the first two periods. Mount struck first with a goal just over eight minutes into the game off the stick of Justin D'Abrosca, but the Hawks responded with two goals late in the period.
First, Liam Watkinson corralled a bouncing puck near Mount goalie Brian Larence and extended it around Larence to the right, where Watkinson was able to flip it into the goal to tie the score. Then with 55 seconds to play in the period, Tucker Alberigo took a slap shot from just inside the blue line on the left with traffic in front of Larence, and the puck went through everything into the right side for a 2-1 lead.
The Hawks looked firmly in control. After a second-period where neither team converted, Hendricken made it 3-1 just over five minutes into the third period. Andrew Fera tried to force the puck past Larence on the right post, and it popped out to the left side where Pat Creamer was waiting. He swept it into the goal, giving Hendricken a two-goal advantage.
It seemed like a state championship was just minutes away, but the Mounties had a final charge left in them.
"It wasn't like we didn't show up," Jim Creamer said. "We did everything we could. It just didn't go our way. That was it."
With 7:59 to play, Mount won a faceoff to the right of Hendricken goalie Matt Kenneally, and the puck went up to Marc Squizzero at the point. He fired a slap shot that deflected off a Hendricken player and found the net, making it 3-2.
Then, with 2:57 to play, Tim Casilli took a hard wrist shot from just outside the left circle that beat Kenneally in the top corner, tying the score at three.
"We don't have a kid out there that didn't do the right thing," Creamer said. "They just made a couple good plays and the puck went in. We battled extremely hard. There's nothing more."
That sent the game into overtime, where Hendricken again held play. Alberigo had one of the best chances with a hard slap shot two minutes in that Larence kicked aside, and Pat Creamer fired a shot that hit Larence in the face mask after a faceoff win.
Yet it was Mount that broke the deadlock. With 31.2 seconds left in the first overtime, the Mounties dug the puck out of the right corner and threw a pass to Phaneuf in the middle. He ripped a hard slap shot that ended up behind Kenneally for the game-winner.
"I thought we had some great shots and some good chances," Jim Creamer said. "But they just didn't go in. We put enough pucks at the net. I was pretty pleased with the overtime other than the result."
The loss was a tough pill to swallow for the Hawks, but they could take some solace in their game one victory.
Trailing 2-1 after Mount got a tie-breaking goal from Thomas Crudele early in the third period, Hendricken seemed destined for a loss until it suddenly caught fire at the perfect time.
With 3:46 to play, the puck bounced past a Mount defender in the neutral zone and Reilly Miller corralled it and sped up the right side. He skated hard to Larence and then passed it across to the left, where Brandon Mitchell one-timed it in to tie the score.
"He plays on our second power play and you could see that he had some legs to him," Creamer said of Mitchell. "I threw him up there on the second line and Reilly Miller – he had a great game before that – he drove down the right side, made a great pass and Brandon was right where he needed to be."
Just 23 seconds later, the Mount defense misplayed the puck on a clearing attempt and it ended up loose in front of Larence. He extended way out to try to knock it away, but Hendricken's Jonathan Finelli got there first and was able to push it into the open right side of the net for a 3-2 lead. Watkinson was credited with an assist.
"We follow that up with three seniors who have been really effective all year," Creamer said. "They're not the prettiest three guys in the whole world, and they got a traditional ugly goal. It was a game-winner at that point."
Still not finished with their scoring barrage, the Hawks got some breathing room just 32 seconds after that, as Jamie Armstrong carried the puck across the blue line, saw some space in front of him and let a slap shot fly from just behind the left circle that soared above Larence's right arm into the goal. Fera and Alberigo assisted.
Armstrong also added an empty-net goal with 41 seconds to play. Pat Creamer and Mitchell assisted.
"It was exciting," Jim Creamer said. "I give Mount a lot of credit. They gave us everything we could handle. To our credit, we handled it. We didn't play great, but we handled it. We survived it."
Fera scored Hendricken's other goal in that game, while D'Abrosca scored Mount's first goal.
Now one game decides the state championship, as Hendricken seeks its first state title since 2012. Mount is looking for its sixth title in seven years.
"We've played them 19 times and I bet you we're in double digits the times it's gone to three games," Creamer said. "We're just a part of history at this point."


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An interesting thing happened on May 4. I got this in my mail and I will copy and paste it here.
4TH MAY, HISTORIC DAY, read it quickly
Today, ie 4th May,
at 2min and 3sec
after 1am
d time and date will be
01:02:03 04/05/06
THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN ON EARTH AGAIN, at least for another 100 years
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Here's a good question:
Given the number of different ways of representing date and time, how many times are there that the digits in the date/time string will be consecutive in either increasing or decreasing order?
01.02.0304 05.06.07
7 seconds past 5.06 AM on Jan 2nd, 304 AD. One possibiity?
or 7 seconds past 5.06 AM on Feb 2, 304 AD (If date is written in DD/MM/YYYY format)..
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge - Enrico Fermi.
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.
And I missed it! Well done siva, a truly amazing date/time!
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
May the 4th be with you.
Although that particular string won't happen for another 100 years, we will have 02:03:04 05/06/07 next year.
Americans will get it sooner than Brits.
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
I got an identical text message(well, not one actually, lots) 4th may too
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Please, not the star wars may the 4th one. My applied maths (mechanics) teacher is always telling use to 'Use the force'
(Stardust, if people chatter too much in that class, say "Too much Torque (talk) applied, not enough Work done!")
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wow, it does?
That doesn't really matter does it?
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Activities as Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information
Report of the Special Rapporteur
on Freedom of Expression in Africa
41st Ordinary
Accra - Ghana 16 – 30 June, 2007
Report on the situation of Freedom of Expression in Africa
1. The African
Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (the African Commission) was established
by virtue of Article 30 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
(the African Charter)[1]
with the specific mandate to promote human and peoples' rights and ensure their
protection in Africa.[2]
2. The promotional mandate[3] of the African Commission involves education and sensitisation with the view to create a culture of respect for human rights on the continent. Under this mandate, the African Commission undertakes research and documentation, disseminates information through workshops, seminars and symposiums, formulates principles to address legal problems of human rights and cooperates with African and international human rights institutions.
3. The protective mandate[4] of the African Commission entails essentially the receipt and consideration of complaints alleging human rights violations. These complaints (commonly referred to as communications) can be submitted by individuals, NGOs or States Parties to the African Charter alleging that a State Party has violated the rights contained therein.
4. In addition to these two main mandates, the African Commission is also empowered to interpret the Charter at the request of a state party, the AU, or an institution recognized by the AU.[5]
This report describes the activities of the African Commission in the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of expression in Africa, and the situation of the enjoyment of this right on the continent.
Freedom of Expression in the African Charter
5. Under Article 9, the African Charter guarantees every individual the right to receive information and express and disseminate his/her opinions within the law. Although this freedom is considered as the corner stone of development, its protection under the African Charter has been considered severely watered down by the claw-back clause inserted within the same Article.
The African Commission and Freedom of expression in Africa
6. Cognizant of the importance of upholding respect for the right to freedom of expression to the nurturing of democracy, human rights and sustainable development, and faced with many violations of the right to freedom of expression, the African Commission has, through the years, adopted various measures to strengthen the promotion and protection of this right.
7. One of the first initiatives taken by the African Commission was through pronouncements and recommendations made in the context of individual communications. The African Commission has through its communication procedure and the broad interpretation powers it enjoys under the African Charter developed jurisprudence on human and peoples' rights in general, and the right to freedom of expression, in particular. Under this procedure, the African Commission is not limited to the African Charter but can also draw inspiration from international human rights law, the Charter of the UN, the Constitutive Act of the African Union, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other instruments.[6]
8. Accordingly, the African Commission has held that competent authorities should not enact provisions which limit the exercise of the freedom guaranteed under Article 9 of the African Charter in a manner that override constitutional provisions or undermine fundamental rights guaranteed by the latter and other international human rights documents.[7] It underlined that States could only impose necessary restrictions to rights protected by constitutional or international human rights instruments and that no situation warranted the wholesale violation of human rights.[8]
9. Further, under a separate communication,[9] the African Commission found that the payment of prohibitive registration fees as precondition to the registration of newspapers was essentially a restriction on the publication of news media and a violation of freedom of expression.
10. The African Commission has also dealt with issues of freedom of expression in Africa through resolutions, declarations and by promoting dialogue with Member States during consideration of States Reports, or during promotional and fact-finding missions undertaken to Member States by its Members.
11. Through these and other decisions on communications, the African Commission has emphasized that the protection offered to individuals through the African Charter cannot be undermined by restrictive protections at the domestic level. As such, the African Commission has called, and continues to call on Member States found in violation of Article 9 of the African Charter to amend/change their municipal laws/practices that affect the right to freedom of expression and bring them into conformity with the said Article.
12. Pronouncements and/or recommendations within the context of communications, however, were not sufficient to content the African Commission, which still saw the lacuna that existed in the African Continent in the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of expression under the province of Article 9, whose enjoyment plays an important role in ensuring the realisation of all the other rights and freedoms guaranteed by the African Charter.
13. Thus, at its 26th Ordinary Session, the African Commission decided to hold a seminar on "Freedom of Expression and the African Charter". This was also motivated by the recognition, on the part of the African Commission and its partners, of the lack of continental strategies for an effective protection of the freedoms under Article 9 of the African Charter and the increasing number of reports and/or communications received by the African Commission.[10]
14. Organised in collaboration with Article 19,[11] this Seminar was held in South Africa from 22nd – 25th November 2000. It was attended by representatives of States Parties to the African Charter, National Human Rights Institutions, Non-Governmental Organisations and the Media. It examined the nature and content of the right to freedom of expression under Article 9 of the African Charter, reviewed its practical observance on the continent, and made recommendations on strategies for enforcement with particular reference to the role of the African Commission.
15. Among its recommendations, the Seminar called upon the African Commission, among other things, to adopt a Declaration of Principles on Freedom of Expression (the Declaration of Principles) and to appoint a Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression or establish other appropriate mechanism to assist the African Commission better review and monitor adherence to freedom of expression standards.
16. Subsequent to this Seminar, the African Commission passed a Resolution on Freedom of Expression at its 29th Ordinary Session held in Tripoli, Libya. In that Resolution,[12] the African Commission decided to:
- Develop and adopt a Declaration of Principles on Freedom of Expression to elaborate and expound the nature, content and extent of the right to freedom of expression under Article 9 of the African Charter;
- Establish an appropriate mechanism to assist it to review and monitor adherence to freedom of expression standards in general and the Declaration in particular, and to investigate violations and make appropriate recommendations to the African Commission;
- Hold periodic meetings with NGOs and African journalists to review progress in guaranteeing freedom of expression across the continent and in implementing the Declaration of Principles.
17. With a view to putting in place these recommendations, the African Commission established, at its 30th Ordinary Session, a Working Group (WG) to elaborate on the recommended Declaration of Principles. The latter consisted of members of the African Commission[13] and NGO partners.
18. At its 32nd Ordinary Session held in Banjul, The Gambia in October 2002, the African Commission adopted, by Resolution, the Declaration of Principles on Freedom of Expression in Africa.[14] The Declaration is a result of combined efforts of many stakeholders working on freedom of expression on the continent. It sets out important benchmarks and elaborates on the precise meaning and scope of the guarantees of freedom of expression laid down under Article 9 of the African Charter. The Declaration has on the whole, been widely welcomed by human rights and media advocates in Africa.
19. Following this adoption, the African Commission, at its 33rd Ordinary Session, decided to appoint one of its members as the focal person responsible for overseeing activities relating to the implementation of the Declaration.
20. The Focal Person held a Consultative Meeting with various stake holders on the follow-up of the Declaration of Principles in Johannesburg, South Africa from 14th – 15th August 2003. Also in attendance were members of the African Commission, the co-organiser Article 19, human rights specialists from NGOs and intergovernmental institutions, and representatives of the academia. The meeting explored several issues including the appropriate monitoring mechanism that could be adopted by the African Commission to identify and deal with major threats to freedom of expression, the African Commission's ability to establish and sustain such a mechanism, and the ways of implementing the Declaration of Principles, among others. It recommended that the African Commission appoints an external Special Rapporteur while maintaining an internal Focal Person on freedom of expression.
21. At its 34th Ordinary Session held from 6th – 20th November 2003, the African Commission decided to maintain the mandate of the Focal Person while continuing to reflect on, in collaboration with its partners, a long term strategy to establish an independent monitoring mechanism.
22. From 19th – 20th February 2004, the African Commission, in collaboration with Article 19, organised the first Africa Conference on Freedom of Expression[15] which aimed at raising awareness about the implementation of the Declaration of Principles and discussing key issues relating to freedom of expression at the national level.[16]
23. At its 35th Ordinary Session held in Banjul, The Gambia from 21st May to 4th June, the African Commission endorsed the recommendations of the Johannesburg Consultative Meeting on Freedom of Expression held in Johannesburg in August 2003 and the African Conference on Freedom of Expression held in Pretoria in February 2004. It also resolved to establish an office of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression and urged the Focal Person to develop a mandate for the latter and present it to the 36th Ordinary Session.
25. The mandate of
the Special Rapporteur includes:
24. The Focal Person,
working in collaboration with partners of the African Commission, presented the
requested draft mandate to the African Commission at its 36th
Ordinary Session held from 23rd November to 7th December 2004 in Dakar, Senegal.
The African Commission adopted the document and appointed[17]
one of its members as Special Rapporteur of Freedom of Expression in Africa.
- Analysing
national media legislation, policies and practice within Member States,
monitoring their compliance with freedom of expression standards in general and
the Declaration of Principles on Freedom of Expression in particular, and
advising Member States accordingly;
- Undertaking
investigative missions to Member States where reports of massive violations of
the right to freedom of expression are made and making appropriate
recommendations to the African Commission;
- Undertaking
country Missions and any other promotional activity that would strengthen the
full enjoyment of the right to freedom of expression in Africa;
- Making public
interventions where violations of the right to freedom of expression have been
brought to his/her attention. This could be in the form of issuing public
statements, press releases, urgent appeals;
- Keeping a proper
record of violations of the right to freedom of expression and publishing this
in his/her reports submitted to the African Commission; and
- Submitting reports at each Ordinary Session of the African Commission on the status of the enjoyment of the right to freedom of expression in Africa.
26. Pursuant to the
appointment of the Special Rapporteur, the latter set out on a campaign to
raise awareness on his mandate and the Declaration of Principles. Accordingly,
copies of the Declaration of Principles and the Resolution on the Mandate and
Appointment of a Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression in Africa were forwarded to all Member States of the African
Union. With assistance from Article 19,
the Declaration of Principles was published[18]
in English and French and continues to be widely distributed by both the
Special Rapporteur and the Secretariat of the African Commission.
27. The Special
Rapporteur also visited the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of
Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) at the
Organisation of American States Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
from 28th February to 4th
March 2005. He held meetings with members of the IACHR and its
Secretariat, which was aimed at commencing a fruitful dialogue between the two mechanisms
on freedom of expression issues.
28. The Secretariat of the African Commission continues to compile petitions and/or allegations of violations of freedom of expression in various countries in Africa, with a view to enable the Special Rapporteur plan his activities efficiently.
The Situation of Freedom of Expression in African
29. With respect to
the situation of freedom of expression in Africa,
the African Commission, since the formal decision of the African Commission to
fully engage with the issue as a matter of thematic concern, allegations of
violations of the freedom of expression continue to reach the latter. These
allegations included:
- Government harassment and physical assault of journalists;
- Criminalisation of the exercise of the freedom through harsh press laws;
- The use of antiterrorism laws to shutter media houses;
- Imposition of extreme censure measures against journalistic publications;
- Imprisonment of journalists;
- Extra-judicial killing/murder of journalists;
- Inconclusive and/or extremely delayed investigations into such killings by authorities;
- Arson attacks against private papers establishments;
- Closing down of independent newspapers and/or media houses; and
- Use of law and order (or national security) to muzzle the independent press; etc.
30. However, the
continent has also registered some positive developments in the protection and
promotion of freedom of expression. For example, a new draft law is being
discussed in Mozambique with a view to making freedom of information a reality
for all Mozambicans (in June 2005), a positive policy trend in Tanzania
containing a number of commendable commitments to bringing Tanzanian law and
practice into line with international standards (in February 2004), and a
landmark judgement by the Ugandan Supreme Court declaring that the offence of
"publishing false news" was incompatible with the right to freedom of
expression and information (in Feb 2004).
31. In addition to
following up matters/trends through its Special Rapporteur, the African
Commission continues to entertain communications alleging violations of Article
9 of the African Charter in AU Member States:
- Communication 275/2003 – Article 19/Eritrea, which involves the case of 18 Eritrean journalists;
- Communication 284/2003 – Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe/Zimbabwe, which involves the closure of a newspaper in Zimbabwe;
- Communication 294/2004 – Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and the Institute for Human Rights and Development/Zimbabwe, which involves the individual's right to freedom of expression and freedom to disseminate ideas; and
- Communication 297/2005 – Scanlen & Holderness/Zimbabwe, which involves independent journalists and an access to information Act in Zimbabwe.
The Way Forward
32. Due to the lack
of adequate human and financial support, the Special Rapporteur faces
difficulties in carrying out his mandate. As a result, the Special Rapporteur
has not been able to undertake Missions, country/regional studies and respond
to the myriad of appeals for interventions from alleged victims of violations
of freedom of expression.
33. This, however,
needs to be urgently addressed in order for the work of the Special Rapporteur
to influence any positive change in Member States. For instance, the assignment
of a legal officer to work specifically with the Special Rapporteur would help
as the latter's ability to respond could be more focused and timely. The
development of the capacity of his mandate to launch urgent appeals and
investigate allegations of violations of the right to freedom of expression
should also be paid due attention. This will later reflect in the increased
annual and thematic report the Special Rapporteur will issue, in the number of
country visits he undertakes, and the influence he garners to induce change
towards the protection and respect for the right to freedom of expression.
34. In addition to Member States of the African Union that have the duty to promote and protect freedom of expression in their respective jurisdictions, the African Commission continues to collaborate with Non-Governmental Organisations[19], National Human Rights Institutions, law enforcement authorities, universities, academics, independent media out-lets and/or individuals interested in the promotion of the right to freedom of expression in Africa.
[1] African [Banjul] Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, adopted by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government (AHSG) of the Organisation of African Union (OAU) (now African Union - AU) meeting in Nairobi, Kenya on 26th June 1981, OAU Doc. CAB/LEG/67/3 rev. 5, 21 I.L.M. 58 (1982). It entered into force on 21st October 1986. The AHSG elected the first members of the African Commission in July 1987.
[2] Article 30 of the African Charter. Today, all members of the African Union, except Morocco, are party to the African Charter.
[3] Article 45 (1)(a)(b)(c) of the African Charter.
[4] Article 45(2) of the African Charter.
[5] Article 45(3) of the African Charter.
[6] Article 60 of the African Charter.
[7] Communication 102/93 against Nigeria.
[8] Ibid.
[9] Communication 152/96, also against Nigeria.
[10] Prior to this, however, the African Commission had held a seminar on "Journalists and Human Rights in Africa" in Tunis, Tunisia from 31st October to 1st November 1992, which did not fully address the above-mentioned concerns.
[11] An NGO with observer status before the African Commission.
[12] Annexed here as Annex I.
[13] Commissioners Andrew Chigovera, Jainaba Johm and Barney Pityna.
[14] Annexed here as Annex II.
[15] This was in Pretoria, South Africa.
[16] Participants were drawn from Member States of the African Union, National Human Rights Institutions, Academia, National Media Regulatory Bodies, Human Rights NGOs, and Media Organisations
[17] The Resolution on the Mandate and Appointment of a Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression in Africa is annexed herewith as Annex III. Commissioner Andrew Chigovera was appointed Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression in Africa for the remainder of his term as Commissioner which ends in November 2005.
[18] With the assistance of Article 19.
[19] Such as Article 19.


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Mladic's trial has been making slow progress after being postponed numerous times. On Monday the ICTY resumed [JURIST report] the trial with the testimony of witness Elvedin Pasic, who was a juvenile at the time of the Bosnian civil war [JURIST news archive] in the 1990s. Last month the ICTY postponed the trial after suspending proceedings [JURIST reports] due to an error in disclosing documents to the defense lawyers. The trial had been already postponed indefinitely [JURIST report] in May due to allegations of prosecutorial misconduct related to evidence disclosure. Judge Alphons Orie adjourned the trial to allow the defense lawyers more time to consider the evidence the prosecution will present. Earlier that month, chief prosecutor of the ICTY had told reporters that he believes Mladic is mentally and physically fit to stand trial [JURIST report]. The ICTY had ordered [JURIST report] a medical examination for Mladic after he missed a hearing before the court a week earlier. His first appearance [JURIST report] before the ICTY was in June of last year when he contested charges against him while simultaneously asking for more time to review them. A day after, during his second appearance [JURIST report], Mladic refused to enter a plea without lawyers of his choice representing him and he was removed from the court for disrupting the proceedings.


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|6 years ago :: Apr 05, 2012 - 7:25PM #1
... and step aside, please. Your passion, death & resurrection are on hold until further notice. As a matter of fact, these old stories are hardly top priorities in the Church any more. Holy Thursday or not, the Pope has more important things to talk about.
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|6 years ago :: Apr 05, 2012 - 7:38PM #2
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ROME — Striking the tone that once earned him the nickname "God's Rottweiler," Pope Benedict XVI in a stern Holy Thursday homily denounced "disobedience" in the Roman Catholic Church, chastising priests who sought the ordination of women and the abolition of priestly celibacy.
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|6 years ago :: Apr 05, 2012 - 9:49PM #3
Somehow, I think his words pushing "radical obedience" are gonna fall mostly on ears that have seen what "radical obedience" really has meant in the church of recent years. That Radical Obedience has cost the church billions in money, tens of thousands of lives destroyed by abuse, and an almost complete reversal from the direction of Vatican II.
Yeah, yeah, I know, this is all about me trying to remake the church in my own image and preference. Funny though, I kinda thought accountability, compassion and the like were things Jesus talked about too. So I suppose what he's really saying is that he wants obedience to what the Vatican says: we can ignore the Gospels when convenient for the Vatican...
Methinks this one will be a tough sell, to say the least...
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|6 years ago :: Apr 05, 2012 - 10:15PM #4
The mere fact that Benedict can't let it go for Holy Week says it all. It's as if the Resurrection itself is only a ceremonial backdrop for addressing more urgent concerns.
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|6 years ago :: Apr 05, 2012 - 10:44PM #5
cher and mo
I was rather hoping for this "discussion" tonight.
discuss catholicism
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|6 years ago :: Apr 06, 2012 - 7:28AM #6
Speaking of passion, death and resurrection, does anyone have any thoughts on why the Resurrection is ongoing?
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|6 years ago :: Apr 06, 2012 - 8:52AM #7
There's nothing some people like more than giving people they disagree with get a good tounge-lashing (or listening to someone else give it to them).
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|6 years ago :: Apr 06, 2012 - 8:55AM #8
Cost of a settlement to a victim -- hundreds of thousands, maybe a million dollars
Cost of radical obedience -- PRICELESS!!!
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|6 years ago :: Apr 06, 2012 - 9:03AM #9
Not completely sure I know what you mean by your question.
It seems to me that in Church teachings, the Resurrection is to be taken as a historical event. In that sense, it happened once, and only needed to happen once. I dare say that this has been something of a departure point for some Christian sects over the years.
I think the church also talks about an ongoing Resurrection in the sense that it's seen as a process. Tielhard de Chardin spoke of an evolution of all of creation, wherein creation is called to a Point Omega (if memory serves) wherein all of creation would be called back to God, and become one with God, in perfection. That upward spiral (if you will) was, in his mind (I think) sort of an evolutionary Resurrection: a process wherein God constantly calls and draws Creation to itself (God.) (Of course, Tielhard was on and off the banned list so many times I still don't know where he stands now, many years after his death...)
Is this the kind of thing you were after? (Sorry, I'm being a bit dense today... getting ready to leave for a meeting... maybe I'll be more focused this afternoon...)
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|6 years ago :: Apr 06, 2012 - 3:38PM #10
Literally made me laugh out loud. Thank you.
It may help us to frame Benedict's words with the concept that Holy Thursday liturgies have long been about the priesthood. So I'm guessing he was trying to place this in the context of a "priest to priest" kind of message, rather than priest to laity. Of course, when you're pope, it's gonna be interpreted to include everybody.
Still in all, I think Benedict and his recent successors have some serious explaining to do as they continue to effectively sit on their hands, while the numbers in the priesthood plummet. By their own prior admissions, celibacy is not a requirement, but a discipline. So for him to now include that under "radical obedience" tells me that his is really serious in his march to Trent, no matter WHAT the cost of his personal preferences may be on the church. (Besides, he can do this since he won't live long enough to see the real effects of his continuation of the policy.
Again, for me, radical obedience makes a lot more sense when those to be obeyed act in an hosnest, open, and appealing manner. It's quite another to demand radical obedience to guys with the kinds of tract records we've seen in the episcopacy since Vatican II. As much as Benedict and his supporters may want to try to separate the man from the office, the simple truth is that humans are not built that way. We follow leaders because of the leaders themselves. We follow offices only when we have to. So you don't consider the IRS to be a "leader," but you pay your taxes because you have to. But you might follow someone leading a radical movement because you believe in what the person says, AND you believe this person is a good person to follow. But I'm not sure folks will always line up behind a guy who might be peddling a good idea, but who is himself, not at all appealing.
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We all face giants in life, those seemingly insurmountable problems and issues that only seem to loom larger with the passing of time. For some, it may be the giant of fear. For others, it may be the giant of addiction. For still others, it may be the giant of family problems.
Whatever giants we may face, they can feel as though they are ruling our lives and are virtually unstoppable. We find ourselves wondering, can this giant ever be brought down?
The Bible gives us the answers we need for dealing with the giants in our lives. And we find them in one of the greatest giant stories of all time, the story of David and Goliath.
After David had been anointed the next king of Israel, but before he assumed the throne, war broke out between Israel and her longtime enemy, the Philistines. While David's brothers were on the front lines in the Valley of Elah, David was busy tending sheep. But one day, his father sent him to take food to his brothers. So David arrived at the front lines, saw the Philistine army lined up on the other side of the valley and heard a voice bellowing from down below. There was Goliath, nine-feet-six inches of solid muscle, covered in body armor, taunting and challenging someone from Israel's army to come and take him on. He even offered an option: If he wins, the Israelites would serve the Philistines, but if his opponent wins, the Philistines would serve Israel. But no one was willing to go. David listened for a little while, and then he volunteered to take on Goliath.
Of course, we know the rest of the story. David killed Goliath with a sling and a single stone. The will of the Philistines was broken, and the Israelites were reinvigorated. David, the shepherd boy, had cut down the giant, Goliath.
Learn more from Greg Laurie about slaying strongholds in his book "Dealing with Giants"
What we learn from this story about facing our own giants is that every giant can be defeated. Regardless of what giants you are dealing with, what problems you are facing, or what temptation you are grappling with, they can be defeated.
Remember, Goliath was not always a giant. He was once a helpless, little baby. With the passing of time and the nurturing of others, that little baby became a toddler. The toddler became a child. The child became a teenager. The teenager became a young man. And the young man turned into a giant of a person.
In the same way, our giants often begin quite small and then become big. What seems like a giant to you today started small, but with your enabling, even perhaps with your nurturing and your excusing it, it got bigger and stronger and more powerful in your life.
I have never met an alcoholic who did not start with just a few drinks. No one starts out drinking throughout the entire day and night. Maybe it started with peer pressure. Maybe it started out as social drinking. Then it was a few drinks after work to unwind a little bit. Then it was a couple of drinks to get through the day. And the next thing they knew, it was a major problem. Little things turn into big things.
We also learn from David's victory over his giant that the battle is God's, not ours. David told Goliath, "All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give all of you into our hands" (1 Samuel 17:47 NIV). The reason our giants defeat us again and again is that we face them in our own strength. We need God's help to face our giants. There is a spiritual dynamic in play that we need to be aware of. Because it is a spiritual battle, we need to fight it with spiritual weapons. When you pray about something, you are able to see it in its proper light. One of the purposes of prayer is to get things in perspective. And when you see God for who he is, you will see your giants for what they are. The problem is that we often look at God in the light of our giants instead of looking at our giants in the light of God.
Finally, we learn from David's example that we need to attack our giants. The Bible tells us that Goliath was actually stepping out from the Philistine ranks and taunting the Israelites. If you tolerate a giant, he will take over your territory. If you ask him into your living room, it is only a matter of time until he will take over the whole house. That is why you don't run from giants. You don't negotiate with them. You attack them. The Bible tells us that as Goliath moved closer to attack him, David quickly ran out to meet him (see 1 Samuel 17:48). He didn't just hold his ground. He didn't walk forward cautiously. He sprinted toward Goliath.
In the same way, we need to attack whatever giants we are facing. Stop rationalizing it, stop excusing it, and stop hiding it. Push it out from the darkness and into the light of day. Go to a responsible Christian or to a pastor and say, "I have a problem with this, and I am asking you to hold me accountable."
Nothing will happen until you attack your giant. We may feel that if we attack our giants, they will destroy us – they will bring us down. We cannot attack it in our strength, but we can in God's strength. It is a spiritual battle and must be fought with spiritual weapons.
So what is your giant today? Everyone has a giant. It is just a matter of what, where, or who yours is. As you face your giant, remember the battle belongs to God. It is a spiritual battle that must be fought with spiritual weapons. And whatever it is, whatever problem you are facing, force your giant into the light of day. Be accountable. Be responsible. Put up barriers of protection around your life. And don't let that giant back into your life again.
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I have always been of the same opinion.... let the members and the content guide the number of boards...... The thing is that some members are asking to split boards up into smaller ones for convenience. I am just not sure that it is a good thing to have a heap of smaller boards with a few topics each rather than a larger one with a dozen or more topics.
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