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The return of J.Sparrow this year has seen him release his second record on Deep Medi and feature on Albion Collective's debut release remixing Vaun and Jafu's "In Pieces". With another project waiting in the wings of which I'm sure will be announced very soon, it would appear that Ryan Wild hasn't finished spoiling us yet. To give us a taste of where he stands musically, J.Sparrow has recorded a special guest mix for Annie Nightingale on BBC Radio 1Xtra featuring a selection of old, new and remixed material. Keep an eye on the man's socials for forthcoming news and releases.
Tracklist on SoundCloud.


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Leica has a lot of people waiting with bated breath for the announcement of their upcoming M10 camera. It has been over a year since its predecessor, the M9, was announced; so a lot of people expect the manufacturer to make an announcement pretty soon.
But Leica is making sure the M9 goes out with a bang by announcing a limited-edition white version of the M9-P that will be made available to the Japanese market. The shooter is a full-frame digital camera that can shoot striking images with a maximum resolution of 18.5 megapixels.
Only 50 of these limited-edition cameras are going to be produced, and they will be packaged with a silver Noctilux-M 50mm f/0.95 lens and a leather strap in the kit. But here's the kicker: it's going to come with an astronomical price tag of ¥2,620,000 (around $31,792).
The M9 sells for around $7,995, so you can do the math and see if you can justify purchasing this beauty of a camera for roughly four times the MSRP of the ordinary version.
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So full that detainees had to be handcuffed on windows. US, UK and other Kagame's foreign partners should be ashamed of supporting a such abject regime.
"The practice of screening Hutus and transporting them to execution sites started during the genocide but was implemented in earnest afterward, entrenching a deadly policy that continued, in varying degrees, for years to come," Judi Rever writes.
The criminal record of General Karenzi Karake, Rwandan Spy Chief arrested in London on 20/06/15, talks volumes. It gives goosebumps. That's however what emerges from Judi Rever piece initially published by Foreign Policy Journal on 03/07/15.
Rwandans whose family members died and or continue dying as a consequence of the regime that the Rwandan Patriotic Front has established in Rwanda since July 1994, are relatively aware of RPF's killing techniques and strategies.
They have been extensively used to reduce significantly Hutu populations and keep their survivors under total control as second category citizens with very restricted human rights in their own country.
When you read Rever's article, you feel like transported in the time of the horrific tragedies of humankind most talked about in world history, probably because of the resilience of its victims in keeping alive their tragic past: the holocaust of Jews.
The resemblance of the killing methods are so striking. They made me revisit what Jewish people experienced in the hands of the Nazi.
Two names come up in prominence from the Nazi era:
1) SS chief Heinrich Himmler had full responsibility for all security matters in the occupied Soviet Union. He had broad authority to physically eliminate any perceived threats to permanent German rule;
2) Nazi leader Hermann Goering had supervisory authority to make preparations for the implementation of a "complete solution of the Jewish question."
The roles that Generals Kayumba Nyamwasa and Karenzi Karake occupied in the RPF military and intelligence hierarchy – most importantly the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) – appear to be similar in implementing the final solution against Hutu and Congolese populations.
The most revealing surprise is the similarity of the modus operandi of the mobile killing units (Einsatzgruppen) that did most of the killing of hutus across Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo, as reported by many ex-RPF soldiers who deserted ranks.
The irony of the story is that while the final solution against hutus was being implemented by General Kayumba Nyamwasa, before and during the "official" genocide of 1994, then thereafter pursued by General Karenzi Karake, from 1997 onwards, RPF was drumming at every ear in the international community about another genocide.
This one had according to Kigali version been planned and committed by hutus against tutsis, and because of it the Rwandan regime had ensured that all hutus educated, leaders or not, were tracked anywhere in any country across the world for being genocidaires.
Having said that, ample evidence has proven that tutsis have been killed because of who they were, which means they were victims of a genocide.
Back to the written piece referred to at the beginning of this note, please find below a short extract:
Investigators at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) set out to discover what DMI did during and after the genocide. Their findings were compiled in a confidential report submitted to Prosecutor Hassan Bubacar Jallow and accessed by this journalist.
"The Directorate of Military Intelligence was created in late 1990 as part of the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) military structure. From its creation and until the end of the war in 1994, Colonel Kayumba Nyamwasa was in charge of this directorate. The DMI is hated and feared by most of the Rwandan population, inside and outside of Rwanda due to its reputation for cruelty and killing operations. Most of the massacres attributed to the RPA were committed by the DMI," the document states.
The report emphasizes that Nyamwasa was DMI chief until the formation of the RPF government and "'nothing was done without his knowledge." Investigators later state that Nyamwasa "was replaced by Lt Colonel Karenzi Karake."
The report—written by the ICTR's Special Investigations Unit that looked into crimes committed by the RPF—goes on to say that DMI representatives were in every military unit, and that special DMI forces were under the control of DMI headquarters, and special agents called 'technicians' were part of DMI operations.
The report states that technicians were trained to use pharmaceutical products to kill and poison water; they were given courses on how to murder with ropes and hoes, how to smother people with plastic bags, how to inject oil from syringes into victims' ears, and how to tie people's elbows behind their backs and bind their feet as a means of torture. The technicians were also instructed to use bayonets, guns and grenades, in addition to laying landmines.
Karake's reign of terror at the helm of DMI
Immediately after Kagame's troops seized the capital and in the smoky weeks before being named DMI chief, Karake directed a series of operations from all over Rwanda that lured and screened young male Hutus into the RPA, in schemes that brought them to killing centers, mainly in remote areas of Akagera Park which was off limits to the UN and NGOs, sources said. He worked closely at the time with Patrick Nyamvumba, who headed the Training Wing and is now Rwanda's chief of defense staff.
The practice of screening Hutus and transporting them to execution sites started during the genocide but was implemented in earnest afterward, entrenching a deadly policy that continued, in varying degrees, for years to come.
From testimony collected from witnesses, investigators stipulated that "after the war, the Hutu population were arrested by DMI agents in given places and eliminated at a great rate. The bodies were incinerated and ashes were buried." Sports grounds and military camps were often created over common graves."


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592. It is recalled that FAO's Programme of Work is presented in a "unified" manner in the MTP and PWB documents. The constituent programme entities are designed to address the problems faced by Members, while contributing to the corporate objectives reflected in the Strategic Framework. The entities are, therefore, jointly executed in most cases by headquarters departments and the corresponding outposted teams in Regional or Subregional Offices. Over the time period covered by this MTP document, many activities and outputs will involve, therefore, participation of both headquarters staff and that of outlying offices.
593. Within this unified approach, it is of course incumbent upon all units to bear in mind the major cross-sectoral (as well as sectoral) issues of relevance to specific regions. As the result of consultations between technical departments at headquarters and FAO Regional and Subregional offices, it was possible to identify selectively key cross-sectoral issues pertaining to individual regions, also taking account of the recommendations of recent FAO Regional Conferences. It is no doubt of interest to Members to note these issues, as they will influence the areas of FAO's interventions and support over the medium term and hence the design of future outputs. The headings below refer to the established programme structure for technical work (i.e. Chapter 2, Technical and Economic Programmes and Major Programme 3.1, Policy Assistance).
594. The following cross-sectoral issues have been identified as of particular relevance to Africa:
595. The over-reaching issue in the Africa Region is the insufficient speed of progress in implementing the World Food Summit target for 2015, calling for specific nutrition interventions. Also, the continent suffers from persistent weakness of the statistical information base, undermining the capacity to identify and develop appropriate policies in the food and agriculture sector.
596. In the fisheries sector, Africa will need to address more particularly:
597. To enhance the role of forests in food security and mitigating poverty, most African countries will need to pursue a mix of interventions:
598. As essential building blocks towards sustainable development, the region will require support in relation to:
599. Policy concerns of most direct interest to the region – and therefore likely to affect related policy advisory services expected from FAO – will continue to be:
600. Taking account of the varied conditions and the importance of agricultural systems in the region, it will need to address inter alia the following major issues:
601. Complementary to the preceding, there will need to be priority attention within the region to:
602. Building on the impressive progress so far in fisheries and aquaculture development, the region will need to address:
603. In relation to the forestry sector, concerns of importance to the region will include:
604. The region will need to pay attention to:
605. Given current trends in the region, policy formulation would need to take account of:
606. In the CEE and CIS countries, the transition from a centrally planned to market oriented economy has often led to outdated infrastructure and practices. These countries face a number of problems in their efforts to modernize and expand the agriculture sector:
607. In the nutrition area in particular, the above countries need to:
608. Some of the major issues in the context of fisheries development in the region are:
609. As for agriculture, the CEE and CIS countries need to ensure an appropriate contribution of forestry to rural development, especially given its significant economic potential. The main obstacles in this endeavour include:
610. As essential ingredients for sustainable development, many countries in the region need to address:
611. Priority areas for the region where FAO could provide valuable assistance relate to:
612. Among the major issues of relevance to agricultural development in the region are:
613. Regional issues include:
614. In the fisheries sector, major regional concerns include:
615. While the region is richly endowed with forest resources, specific concerns are:
616. Requirements of special importance to the region include:
617. Agricultural trade policy will continue to be a primary concern to the region, calling for support to governments in international trade negotiations, the assessments of the impact of free trade agreements on agriculture and competitiveness issues. Other important components of policy formulation are the sustainable management of natural resources, rural development at the local/territorial level, institutional reforms, social capital development and new opportunities for regional integration.
618. Water scarcity is clearly the overriding limiting factor for agricultural production and food security in the region. In the light of this and other regional specificities, the core issues of agricultural development include:
619. Policy makers in the region will need to focus inter alia on:
620. In respect of fisheries, the Near East region will need more specifically to:
621. Given that most countries in the region are low forest cover countries, they will need to:
622. The dimensions of sustainable development of keen interest to the region include:
623. The countries in the region have shown much interest in Regional Programmes for Food Security (RPFS), calling for continued assistance from FAO including contacts with regional funding organizations and individual oil-producing countries. A vehicle worth mentioning for policy cooperation is the Near East and North Africa Regional Network for Agricultural Policies (NENARNAP). Other aspects of policy formulation of relevance to the region include:


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Anida Yoeu Ali is the winner of this year's Sovereign Asian Art Prize!
We are very excited to announce that Anida Yoeu Ali, represented by JavaArts, is the winner of this year's prestigious Sovereign Asian Art Prize! The winning work, Spiral Alley (above), was nominated by Kate Evans, art writer and lecturer and Founder/Editor-in-Chief of Art Radar.
Anida will attend the gala award ceremony next week on May 8th in Hong Kong to receive the award.
"I am deeply humbled to receive the Sovereign Art Prize. I hope that my win will motivate and inspire other artists to keep pursuing contemporary artmaking and performance art no matter how difficult. I can't help but reflect on this moment in particular for Cambodians, on the 40th year commemoration of the genocide where 90% of Cambodian artists lost their lives along with nearly 2 million people. I am proud to be part of the returning diaspora of Cambodians who are passionately rebuilding our legacy through the arts. I am committed to creating original and thought provoking works of art. This moment is deeply meaningful." Anida Yoeu Ali
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We believe that there is one God, manifested in three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Genesis 1:26; Matthew 28:19-10; 2 Corinthians 13:14
We believe that Jesus is the only begotten Son of God, was born of a virgin, is wholly God and wholly man, lived a sinless life, died as a substitutionary sacrifice for the sins of mankind, was buried, arose from the grave and ascended into Heaven.
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Romans 6:23; Titus 3:5; Ephesians 2:8-9; John 1:12
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John 10:28-30; Ephesians 1:13-14; Hebrews 7:25; 10:10; 14
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Revelation 20:14; John 3:16
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Romans 6:3-10
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Ephesians 1:22-23
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Exit the Barclays chairman, mouthing mea culpas. "The buck stops with me," said Marcus Agius. Will that do? Hardly. The witch-hunt unleashed by the bank lending rate scandal has barely begun. Heads must roll, miscreants be banished and jails crammed to the rafters with the Bollinger-quaffing classes.
In the wake of the great crash of 1929, some British papers reported gleefully on the carnage in downtown New York. Speculators were allegedly hurling themselves from office windows in such numbers that pedestrians had to tiptoe between the bodies of financiers. Although these scenes, extrapolated from a few high-profile suicides, were illusory, the mood of vengeance was real.
Hysteria stirs again. While no one wishes to see investment bankers raining from the balconies of EC3, practically no other fate, however grisly, is off limits when it comes to fixing what Vince Cable calls "a moral quagmire of almost biblical proportions". Dr Cable wants shareholders to expunge corrupt executives. Lord Turner, of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), wants sackings, while others demand punitive prison terms. Ed Miliband wants the lot, plus the head of Bob Diamond on a platter.
Already George Osborne has had to concede a banking inquiry, albeit more limited than the Miliband model. In a speech to the Fabian conference on Saturday, the Labour leader argued that this is "the moment to act". The British people, he implied, would not tolerate anything less than total cleansing, and who better to lead the decontamination squad than Britain's self-appointed sleazebuster-in-chief? Mr Miliband senses an epiphany. Having taken on Rupert Murdoch, he has a fresh repertoire of villains, supplied by City central casting, and a new drama of predatory capitalism.
Late last week, he took a call from Mr Diamond, who had previously spoken to Ed Balls (and doubtless to 10 and 11 Downing Street) to put his case on the alleged Libor rigging. Although Mr Miliband was "perfectly courteous", he decided that Mr Diamond had to go. On other issues, the Labour leader is less prescriptive.
He is not as keen as some suppose on a "Vickers Plus" approach, involving total separation of the retail and investment arms of banking – not least because it would have made no difference in the lending rate imbroglio. (Mr Balls is said to be even less enthusiastic, arguing that Mr Osborne should properly implement the original Vickers reforms.)
The Miliband demand for wholesale reform of the role and culture of banking could backfire, since he was at the Treasury when the light-touch regulation extolled by Gordon Brown prevailed. But as Mr Balls, who has apologised, has pointed out, "burdensome regulation" had no greater opponents than David Cameron and Mr Osborne.
Mr Miliband's problem lies less in the past than in the detail (or lack of it) in his latest made-to-measure moral crusade. Britain has an abominable record of prosecuting white-collar crime. To shoplift groceries worth £50 is, as he has pointed out, a ticket to jail. To purloin £50 million of other people's savings is a ticket to a peerage.
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO), dogged by charges of political interference and botched investigations, has generated more scandal than it has uncovered. Desultory efforts to beef it up have achieved little, and a budget cut of £14 million since 2008 scarcely betokens a major effort to nail corporate crime. In the US, where George W Bush promised that "there will not be a different ethical standard for corporate America than [for] everyone else", high-rolling kleptocrats have long faced the prospect of the "perp walk". The relative impunity of their British counterparts is not only due to a failure of the letter or practice of the law.
The City of London was set up expressly as a magnet for the financial industry, in which the vastly overpaid and under-scrupulous could operate up to and sometimes beyond the limits of sagging statutes, secure in the complicity, or veneration, of the political classes and shielded from public odium. In effect, if not design, the SFO was devised to fail. Oliver Goldsmith's view that "law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law" remains the template of British justice.
While Mr Miliband has hinted at gross unfairness in citing the case of the petty shoplifter, he has not spoken of how he proposes to address the imbalance under which stealing water bottles during the riots attracted harsher punishment than corporate larceny. After his weekend speech, I asked him whether, as well as wanting to send high-end hooligans to Britain's packed jails, he might want to let anyone out. He replied that he was keen on restorative justice and community sentences, which is a sensible answer, as far as it goes. It came too late for Shaun Beasley.
Mr Beasley was a 29-year-old prisoner with a history of mental illness and self-harm, who was given an indeterminate sentence for public protection (IPP) with a minimum tariff of two years and 145 days. After serving that time, he was told that he would have to take a course to prove he was safe to be released, but that the jail could not offer one. So he would be moved to Parc Prison, in Wales, where he could do the course. On arrival, and after three years in custody, he was told that it was not available after all and that he would have to wait a further two to three years. Two weeks after his move, he rang his family to say he could no longer cope. They alerted the prison, to no avail. Shortly after midnight, as an inquest heard last week, Mr Beasley was found hanging in his cell.
Many other prisoners are on IPPs. Some should not be in jail but, like Mr Beasley, cannot sit the course necessary to win release. Yet when the Justice Secretary, Ken Clarke, moved to abolish this manifestly unjust sentence, Labour objected, on the grounds of public safety. Mr Beasley, who never addressed anyone as "Dude" or partied on vintage champagne, may have nothing to do with the banking scandal. Even so, Mr Miliband's over-arching theme of top-to-bottom responsibility demands the reversal of the mistaken notion that the poor are a menace to the rich.
As he works on his conference speech, he is aware that tighter regulation, structural reforms and new laws will, however necessary, not produce virtuous bankers. Mr Miliband is attracted by peer-to-peer lending, under which savers bypass banks by investing directly in businesses through a dedicated company, but that is a side issue.
Creating better bankers demands a better society in which social and criminal justice decree fair rewards and punishment across the board, and the rule of law is no longer subjugated to the rule of lucre. Like all blood sports, banker-bashing has its seasons. Nothing much changes because, as J K Galbraith wrote after 1929, "financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated".
In other words, inaction always seems preferable, until the second when disaster strikes. We are living in that moment of "luminous insanity", and moral outrage will not make it pass. Mr Miliband, and Mr Cameron, must now chart an escape from a débâcle that goes far beyond rich men's greed. Britain will soon see which, if either, has the Houdini factor.


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A name of a man "Mr Weisler" pops into a man's head and he can't place the name.
The man's name becomes an obsession.
Key words to include in lyrics
"Mr Weisler is coming" "obsession"
"paranoid man" "reality blurred" "hallucination" "forget a name" " entity out of his belly"
Snatched is a story about a man who takes his recently boorn baby out for a walk, but arrives back home with an empty pram, his baby has been "snatched".
Key words to include in lyrics
"baby's been snatched" "baby is a monster" "nothing's normal" "can't get him back" "snatched"
Opium is a story about a preacher sent into
a town, which has descended into chaos, with drugs/sex e.t.c everywhere.
He searches for the man who he thinks is responsible for all of this…a man called Gecko, a Chinese gangster.
He is tempted to eat some cake and has a hallucination of the gangster's daughter dancing naked in front of him, who he thinks is the devil.
Key words in lyrics
Opium, Preacher Moon,
"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man," "snake dance" "Jacksonville"
Bugeyes is a story of an unfortunate being, with extremely large eyes.
People mock him all the time and he has been rejected by his mother, almost after his birth, meaning he has been denied his inheritance.
In the end of the story he gets his revenge;
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Bug-eyes was due a life of toil" "disproportionate eyes" "outsider"
This is a story about a man, who is a scientist and an art lover, who splices a fish tail onto his wife who has been unfaithful to her, making her into a mermaid…
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HÀ NỘI – Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc expressed hope that his visit to Japan on May 26-28 will create new impetus to further strengthen the relationship between Việt Nam and Japan. Strong co-operation is in the interests of the two countries' people, and for peace, stability and development in the region and the world, he said.
In an interview with Japanese news outlets ahead of his trip, the PM said he and his Japanese counterpart PM Shinzo Abe will discuss general ideas and specific measures to foster bilateral ties in various areas. Specific areas of focus include mutual political trust and co-operation in economy, trade, investment, official development assistance (ODA), support industries, agriculture, natural disaster and climate change response, health care, education-training, science and technology.
Since the establishment of bilateral diplomatic ties 43 years ago, the Việt Nam-Japan relationship has made great strides forward, he said.
The bilateral economic partnership is blooming, the PM said, noting that Japan is Việt Nam's leading economic partner with two-way trade exceeding US$28 billion in 2015.
About 2,000 Japanese enterprises are operating in Việt Nam, including some of Japan's biggest companies, with more than 3,000 projects worth a combined $39 billion.
The two countries are working together in implementing large-scale projects in infrastructure and energy in Việt Nam.
Their collaboration in education, science-technology and culture as well as people-to-people exchanges is also worthy of note, Prime Minister Phúc said.
Việt Nam welcomed nearly 700,000 Japanese visitors in 2015 and nearly 200,000 Vietnamese travelled to Japan the same year.
The Government leader attributed the thriving relations to strategic visions set forth by the countries' leaders as well as their people's support. The relationship is in line with global trends towards peace, friendship and co-operation for prosperous development, he said.
To enhance relations with Japan, Việt Nam will focus its efforts on an action plan of six industrial sectors prioritised in the country's industrialisation strategy within the Việt Nam-Japan co-operation framework through 2020 with a vision towards 2030, the PM said, calling for more Japanese assistance in the support industry.
Việt Nam will promote economic links with Japan, aiming to double bilateral trade by 2020 as set in the Joint Statement issued in 2014, the PM said.
The leader called on Japan to maintain its ODA to Việt Nam, especially in infrastructure building, human resource development, natural disaster and climate change combat, environmental protection, management capacity improvement, economic restructuring and sustainable growth.
"We welcome Japan's Partnership for Quality Infrastructure programme in Asia, an initiative raised by PM Shinzo Abe and hope to become Japan's priority partner in the programme," he stated.
The PM also pinpointed the need to bolster co-operation in agriculture, science-technology and climate change.
Regarding the expanded G7 Summit Japan in which Việt Nam will participate for the first time, PM Phúc pledged constructive and responsible contributions to the event.
Việt Nam hopes that participating countries will contribute their voice and take pragmatic actions to consolidate peace and stability, settle regional and global issues, especially those relating to sustainable development, infrastructure, natural disasters and climate change, terrorism, food, water resource, maritime and aviation security, he said.
In response to queries about Việt Nam's 30-year renewal process, PM Phúc highlighted the significance of the period for the country's development, affirming that through comprehensive and intensive reforms, the process is bringing great achievements and breakthroughs to Việt Nam.
The PM said, coming from a poor background, Việt Nam had become a middle income country with a dynamic economy.
Việt Nam's economy recorded impressive growth, at about 7 per cent per year from 1991-2015. Per capita income saw strong surges, reaching more than $2,100 in 2015 from $200 at the beginning of 1990s.
Meanwhile politics and social order has been stable, defence and security have been ensured, and national independence and sovereignty have been safeguarded.
Foreign relations and international integration have improved in line with international rules and standards, helping raise Việt Nam's position and prestige in the international arena, he noted.
These achievements are an important foundation for Việt Nam to further promote its Đổi mới (renewal) process, aiming to turn the country into a modernisation-oriented industrialised country and gradually narrowing development gaps with countries in the region and the world, the PM stressed.
Việt Nam will push ahead with its renewal process and maximise the country's potential and strength, in order to bring prosperity, democracy and justice to all people.
The Government and Prime Minister are determined to reform and better their leadership and management towards building an strong government, which will further national construction and development, and best serve the people, the Government leader stated.
Work will be intensified to better national mechanisms and policies, ensure justice and transparency, effectively fight corruption and wastefulness, promote administrative reform, improve the investment and business environment and facilitate operation of enterprises and individuals, he added. --VNS


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To the lexicon of man-bags and mankinis, the Centre for Social Justice has added "man deserts". Giving warning of family homes throughout Britain devoid of present and engaged fathers, it talks of a "national emergency", seeing a million children growing up without positive male role models. Many have disputed the Centre's figures and criticised its alarmist language, but at least the right is engaged in this issue. When did a left-leaning thinktank last publish a report about fathers?
I know that fathers matter. My father walked out on my mother and her five children when I was 12. I never saw him again. I have always felt that hole in my life – and I am not alone. By the age of 16, nearly 3 million children in Britain no longer live with their dads and a million others never see theirs.
Absent fatherhood isn't all about fecklessness though – the overwhelming majority of dads want to be involved. Last year, I met Warren at a young fathers' group in a Brixton church. Typical of many young, poor dads, he can find no job and no house. He is left without any money to spend on his children and no place to see them in even if he had. Even dads who are better off than Warren, and are still with their partners, struggle to be there for their children. British fathers work the longest hours in Europe and statistics tell us that more than half have missed a significant event in their children's lives in the past year because of their jobs. Paternity leave is paid at a measly £136 a week – £100 less than a full-time job on minimum wage – and the government's recent shared parental leave is so complicated and filled with loopholes that it is expected that only 4% of dads will take it up.
This is unacceptable – and not only for fathers; 82% of working dads want to spend more time with their children and half of British mums say that, though they are actually the main carer for their children, they do not think that they should be. This anger has built up because Britain combines a 21st-century economy with 19th-century social policy.
Today, women are working longer hours but social policy hasn't caught up, and still assumes that families will have one carer (generally the mum) and one earner (generally the dad). The burdens on women have increased but they are still expected to provide the majority of childcare. My mum had no choice but to take on three jobs because she had been abandoned. Today, many women who want to share childcare with their partners are being pushed into staying at home by our archaic social policy.
Family policy is not a zero-sum game: any gain for dads need not come at the expense of mums. Dads are not a risk to be managed, but a resource to be used for the benefit of the whole family. Sadly, the Labour party has yet to make these arguments unambiguously.
The key public services that families rely on struggle to recruit men in significant numbers. Four out of five primary schools have fewer than three male teachers and even fewer men are active and present in children's centres. This feeds through to the father's experience of these services. Social workers often don't even record a father's name on individual care plans. GPs and schools will often only write correspondence on the child's development to the mother. Life is made difficult for mothers who want their partners to be fully involved.
And life is even more difficult for mums whose partners do not want to be involved – the government now wants to charge them for chasing the fathers of their children. Because we expect too little from dads who don't want to be there and are too hard on dads who do, mothers lose out either way.
A tacit conspiracy builds up on both political extremes that is entirely to the detriment of women. The instinct of many commentators on the right can be to berate mothers who happen not to live with the fathers of their children, even though many will do so because they have been widowed or abandoned. Yet the commentators on the extremes of the liberal left who insist mothers do not need anything more than financial assistance from their partners are just as damaging. All the evidence shows that active dads are good for children. Children, particularly boys, who grow up without fathers are more likely than their peers to be involved in crime, heavy drinking and drug use; have low educational attainment; suffer low self-esteem and anger issues; and, ultimately, become poor parents themselves. Active dads make a positive contribution: they are good for children and they are good for mothers.
Ed Miliband should pledge to make Britain the most father-friendly nation in the world. It is not good enough for us to cede these conversations to those who demonise single mums and deadbeat dads but have nothing to say ourselves.
We need a family policy that is fit for the 21st century and we need a language of love and respect with which to frame it. Without this, it won't just be the Labour party that loses out – it will be the next generation of children who grow up without a father figure in their lives.


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2011 Budget and new "ineligible individual" category: How this can affect your Canadian registered
Here is my article Budget 2011 and new "ineligible individual" category: How this can affect your Canadian registered charity.
Here is my article Budget 2011 and new "ineligible individual" category: How this can affect your Canadian registered charity.
I had the privilege today of attending the Budget 2011 Stakeholders Lock-up. Here are the parts of the budget that relate to registered charities and other qualified donees. Also below are some of the highlights of the budget.
On March 29, 2012 Finance Minister Jim Flaherty released the Federal Budget at approximately 4PM. There are about 10 pages of information dealing with charities in the almost 500 page document. Here are the pieces of the 2012 Canadian Federal Budget that affect the Canadian charitable sector.
Today Finance Minister Jim Flaherty introduced the Canadian Federal Budget 2014. The budget had a large number of provisions dealing with non-profits and charities. Here are some excerpts from the Federal Budget in one PDF document. Overall I was very pleased with the provisions of the budget dealing with charities.
This article discusses certain 'charitable' gifting schemes which threaten to undermine the public and regulators confidence in the charitable sector. This article also discusses a plan to deal with this problem.
Here is the Blumbergs' 2013 Receipting Kit.
Canadians want charitable donations to benefit legitimate charities
We recently reviewed the T3010 Registered Charity Information Return database for 2011 as part of the Sean Blumberg Transparency Project. We provided an overview of the whole charity sector in the Blumbergs' Charity Sector Snapshot 2011. We have taken a subset of the 2011 T3010 data to look at only registered charities based in Ontario. This article provides a snapshot of the registered charity sector in Ontario based on the 2011 T3010 filings. Here is a PDF of the Blumbergs' Snapshot of the Ontario Charity Sector 2011.
This article provides information and suggestions as to how a Canadian charity should, and should not, deal with CRA audits. It also discusses possible CRA responses and the likelihood of each response.
If you are being audited by the Charities Directorate of CRA you may find my article useful.
This article Canadian Charities Conducting International Activities (2015) discusses the regulatory environment for Canadian charities conducting foreign activities as well as certain practical and ethical issues.
In this article I discuss how Canadian charities can work with other Canadian or International Organizations that are not registered Canadian charities as long as they maintain direction and control of the Canadian resources.
In April 2008, CRA released a Consultation on proposed policy regarding fundraising by Registered Charities (RC4456-e) ("Fundraising Consultation"). This document is a relatively short six page overview, and CRA has recently provided charities with a more detailed document entitled "Background information for proposed policy on fundraising by Registered Charities" which is 29 pages ("Background Document"). The background document provides greater detail, further definitions of terminology and CRA's positions on various points. In this article I will discuss the content of the Fundraising Consultation and Background Document, discuss and analyze the criticisms from others of these documents, and provide my own comments.
Here is an interesting series of letters from CRA to the Corban Foundation in the 1990s relating its revocation as a registered charity. It deals with the meaning of a gift, and various programs to provide tuition assistance to those attending Christian schools. It provides CRA's views on the legal arguments and cases.
In this article "CRA's Consultation on Foreign Activities: What is New and Interesting with Canadian Charities Conducting Foreign Activities" I discuss what is new in the draft consultation.
Canadians are increasingly asking "How Much Should A Canadian Charity Spend on Overhead?" Is this the right question?
Here is my June 2010 article on the subject which was just published in the Canadian Donor's Guide: view PDF
Here is an article I wrote for Charity Village entitled "Is it legal and ethical to take over a dormant Canadian charity?"
32 ideas for managing risk with volunteers. Volunteers are very important for many charities. However, one should manage the risks associated with volunteers and here are some thoughts.
Here is a sample contractor agreement for a Canadian registered charity conducting foreign activities I prepared it for the Capacity Builders Charity Law Information Program (CLIP) in order to assist charities with understanding what such an agreement could look like.
Offshore tax havens are very detrimental to the Canadian tax base and under cut our social programs. However, the effect of offshore tax havens on the developing world is far more devastating. I was reading a very good article by Peter Gillespie of the Canadian charity Inter Pares called "Going Offshore". It reminded me that a long time ago I wrote a paper on offshore tax havens (THE OECD'S REPORT ON HARMFUL TAX COMPETITION: Is 'Harmful Tax Competition' Actually Harmful?) in which I look at the defenders of tax havens and apologists for the wealthy not paying their fair share and refute the arguments that they make.
If you are interested in understanding the international development issues relating to tax havens and tax avoidance there is The Tax Justice Network (TJN) which is an international, non-aligned coalition of researchers and activists with a shared concern about the harmful impacts of tax avoidance, tax competition and tax havens. They have a website at: www.taxjustice.net
There has been a little political firestorm last week over US foundations funding of certain Canadian environmental charities. So how much revenue actually comes to Canada from foreign countries including the US? The answer seems to be about $831 million. That is from Line 4575 "Total revenue received from all sources outside Canada". If you are interested in who got what then read on.
Here is my note of the top registered charity recipients of Total revenue received from all sources outside Canada.
Just to provide some perspective Canadian charities had revenue of over $192 billion dollars and spent about $2.6 billion outside of Canada every year.
Here is a copy of my paper delivered at the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) Institute 2011 entitled Top Receipting Concerns for Canadian Registered Charities. I was delighted to be co-chairing the program and that there were 90 lawyers out for the sessions.
So much is written about legal issues relating to charities in Canada. In this article I try to distill the ten most important things you need to know about charity law in Canada.
Here is an updated version of the Canadian Charity Legal Checklist. For those who are interested in reviewing legal compliance for their registered charity they may find the checklist helpful.
Do you require legal advice with respect to Canadian or Ontario non-profits or charities?
Mark Blumberg is a partner at the law firm of Blumberg Segal LLP in Toronto and works almost exclusively in the areas of non-profit and charity law.
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Can an Employer Deduct the Cost of Lost, Stolen, or Damaged Property from an Employee's Wages?
Under Minnesota law, an employer generally cannot make a deduction, either directly or indirectly, from the wages due to or earned by an employee "for lost or stolen property, damage to property, or to recover any other claimed indebtedness running from employee to employer" unless one of the following two situations applies:
- After the loss occurred or the claimed indebtedness arose, the employee voluntarily authorizes the employer to make the deduction; or
- A court holds the employee liable for the loss or debt.
Minn. Stat. § 181.79, subd. 1(a). If the employee authorizes the deduction, that authorization must be in writing and must state the amount that will be deducted from the employee's wages for each pay period that the deduction will apply. See id. If an employer violates this statute, it can be held liable for twice the amount of the deduction taken. Id., at subd. 2.
This statute does not apply when (1) an applicable collective bargaining agreement contains a contrary provision; (2) an employer of employees who are commissioned salespeople establishes rules with the purpose of disciplining the salespeople, by fines or otherwise, for errors or omissions in performance; or (3) an employee makes a purchase or receives a loan from the employer and voluntarily authorizes wage deductions for the cost of the purchase or the loan. Id., at subd. 1(c).
Takeaway: If an employee loses, steals, or damages property, a Minnesota employer should not unilaterally deduct the cost or value of the property at issue from the employee's wages. To offset the loss against the employee's wages, the employer may seek the employee's consent to the deduction through a written authorization.


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SEATTLE, Feb. 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- ALM Forum, (http://alm-forum.com), today announces its Keynotes for the industry's premiere conference dedicated exclusively to sharing knowledge for success with ALM practices. Conference Keynotes, presented by Scott Ambler, Ken Schwaber, Steve Denning and Sam Guckenheimer, will touch on the latest industry trends that are driving software development success – and disruption – in the enterprise. In addition, ALM Forum Plenary speakers include industry senior executives: James Whittaker, Microsoft Distinguished Technical Evangelist; Mike Brittain, director of engineering, Etsy; and, Dave West, chief product officer, Tasktop Technologies.
"This year's program, from Keynotes and Plenary speakers to the sessions and workshops, will provide software executives with a range of useful and actionable knowledge that will make a positive impact on their organization's success," said Keith Pleas, conference director of ALM Forum. "Our Keynotes and Plenary speakers bring a level of experience to one setting that is unique to any conference covering Agile, DevOps and ALM at scale."
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Geometry Concepts Your High School Student Should Know for Common Core Standards
To meet the Common Core Standards for mathematics, high school students must be familiar with some geometry. Geometry is a branch of mathematics that explores the nature and properties of points, lines, planes, and a host of shapes, including rectangles, triangles, circles, and spheres.
Students show that two shapes are congruent, indicating that all sides and angles of the shape are exactly the same. Students also use rigid motions to move one shape on top of another to show that all parts are the same. Rigid motions involve moving an object without changing its size or shape.
Take a look at the example of rigid motion (reflection and translation in this instance) in the coordinate plane. Notice that the size of the shape hasn't changed even though it is reflected over to the left and translated down.
Common Core Standards require that upon graduation students know circles inside and out. Expectations include the following:
Explain why all circles are similar.
Draw inscribed angles, radii, tangents, and chords and explain how they're related.
Know that a circle's radius is perpendicular to the tangent at the point where the radius touches the circle.
Find the area of any given sector of a circle (to envision a sector, imagine a slice cut out of a round pizza).
Find the length of an arc on the perimeter of a circle (the length of the curved side of a sector). (High-school students already know how to find the circumference — the length all the way around a circle.
Draw a circle with a radius of six inches, with a sector that has an interior angle of 45 degrees, and ask your child to calculate the area of the sector. You'll need to use a compass and protractor to be precise with your measurements.
The formula for the area of the entire circle is A = πr2 so A = π × 62 = 3.14159 × 32 = 100.53 square inches. A circle is 360 degrees, so the area of the sector is 45/360 times the total area of the circle. The fraction 45/360 reduces to 1/8, so the area of the sector is 100.53 × 1/8 = 12.57 rounded to the nearest hundredth.
Using the same circle, ask your child to find the length of the sector's arc.
To find the arc, your child must calculate the circumference of the circle and then multiply it by the same fraction: 1/8. The formula for the circumference of a circle is C = πd where d is diameter. Diameter is twice the radius of 6 inches or 12 inches, so C = π × 12 = 37.70 rounded to the nearest hundredth.
So 1/8 of that is about 4.71.
Geometric measurement and dimension
Geometric measurement and dimension standards call on students to use formulas for the volumes of three-dimensional figures, including spheres, cones, cylinders, and pyramids:
Volume of a sphere: 4/3πr2 where r is the radius of the sphere
Volume of a cone: 1/3πr2h where r is the radius of the cone's base and h is its height
Volume of a cylinder: πr2h where r is the radius of the cylinder's base and h is its height
Volume of a pyramid: 1/3bh where b is the area of the pyramid's base and h is its height
Ask your child to calculate the volume of a cylinder that's 8 centimeters in height and 10 centimeters in diameter. To solve this problem, plug the numbers into the formula for the volume of a cylinder: πr2h = π × 102 × 8 = 3.14159 × 100 × 8 = 3.14159 × 800 = 2513.27 cubic centimeters.
Geometric modeling
Modeling with geometry calls on students to apply geometric concepts to real-world situations, such as the following:
Estimate the volume of an aboveground swimming pool using the formula for the volume of a cylinder.
Use formulas for area and volume to calculate population density in a given environment.
Design a structure using various geometric methods to achieve a specific goal, such as using the least amount of building materials.
Have your child calculate the volume or the space inside various three-dimensional objects or areas around your house. For example, you may have your child calculate the number of gallons of water your water heater holds (without peeking at the number on the water heater, of course).
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Hi people! We are introducing a new section on the blog called Lagos weekend events!!! These are the events that caught our eye this weekend:
Nigeria Elite Business Awards 2013
The 2013 edition of the Nigeria Elite Business Awards will take place this Saturday at the Civic Centre, Lagos. The Vice President of Nigeria Nnamdi Sambo will be a special guest of honour at the event, while Prof. Pat Utomi as the keynote speaker. The
event is aimed to provide a neutral, unifying and convivial platform for elite businesses and business managers in Nigeria.
Date: Saturday 9th November 2013
Venue: Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos
Zumba Kids
Get your kids in shape with the Zumba Kids fitness class taking place on Thursdays and Mondays. It is open to children between the ages of 5 and 12.
Date: Thursday 7th November 2013
Time: 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Venue: Bodiworks Studio, 3 Obafemi Anibaba Street, Lekki Phase 1, Lekki, Lagos
Grey Velvet presents Kinabuti Pop-Up
You are invited to the Kinabuti Pop-Up event at the Grey Velvet Lekki store this Saturday. Shop the new collection by the Nigerian brand as well as the brand's most iconic pieces. Admission is free for all.
Date: Saturday 9th November 2013
Time: 12 Noon – 7 PM
Venue: Grey Velvet Lekki, Centro Lekki Mall, Admiralty Way, Lekki Phase 1, Lekki, Lagos
Slum2School Africa's Enrolment Ceremony
Slum2School Africa cordially invites to its Enrolment Ceremony this Saturday in Lagos. 350 children will be enrolled into various schools for the first time. It is a charity event and admission is free for all.
Date: Saturday 9th November 2013
Time: 11 AM
Venue: Intl. Fed of Women Lawyers Secretariat, Makoko Road, Yaba, opp. Makoko Primary School, Lagos.
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Date: Saturday 9th November 2013
Time: 11 AM
Venue: The Blow Dry Bar, 19A Olosa Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.
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The first inning was all the Diamond Vols needed on Tuesday.
The Tennessee Volunteers (8-7) earned their fourth consecutive win and second shutout in as many games. The Vols picked up three first inning runs and added one in the eighth to secure the 4-0 win against Western Kentucky (7-8).
"You want to score every run but you're not gonna be perfect," head coach Dave Serrano said. "We strive to be perfect but we know we're gonna come up short of that ... We just want our guys to give us quality at bats in every situation, especially when runners are in scoring position."
Trevor Bettencourt earned the win in his first start for the Vols. The freshman right-hander pitched around trouble in the top of the first with help from catcher David Houser, who threw out a base runner trying to steal third. Bettencourt allowed zero runs on six hits and recorded three strikeouts in three and 2/3 innings. Dalton Saberhagen, Drake Owenby and Eric Martin added five and a third scoreless innings, with junior Nick Williams finishing the game in the ninth.
"At the start, I felt like I was throwing right at the guys aggressively," Bettencourt said. "Then I started losing it a little bit, but I just went out there trying to throw strikes."
The bulk of the offense for the Vols came in the bottom of the first inning. Jeff Moberg started the inning with a walk, followed with a single by Will Maddox, who extended his hitting-streak to 10 games.
An error by WKU shortstop Steve Hodgins cost the Hilltoppers a double play and loaded the bases for Tennessee. After back-to-back strikeouts, freshman right fielder Christin Stewart forced in a run with a walk, and sophomore left fielder Parker Wormsley cracked a two-run single into right field to put the Vols up 3-0 after one.
"I just always take advantage of my opportunities, whether it's late in the game or I get a start, I just try to play as hard as I can every pitch, win every pitch for the team and just take pride in that," Wormsley said.
Serrano said he thought the climax of the game came as early as the first inning.
"I thought the back-breaker of the game was they get the first two guys on in the first inning and we come out of it unscathed," he said. "Then we load the bases, we get two punch-outs against us and then we get a run and Parker Wormsley comes up with a big base hit. Those are back-breakers."
Wormsley would finish the day with three of Tennessee's four RBIs. The sophomore added the Vols' fourth and final run in the bottom of the eighth on a sacrifice squeeze play that scored freshman center fielder Pierce Bily.
Western Kentucky out-hit the Vols nine to six and despite hitting the ball hard, the Tennessee pitching and defense held strong.
The Hilltoppers' pitching staff came into the game averaging over 10 strikeouts per game. While Tennessee's offense struggled in the middle inning, it was able to put the ball in play and struck out just six times.
"Their guys made some quality pitches and it's gonna happen throughout the course of a game, but as we say we always try to win innings," said Serrano.
The Vols and Hilltoppers will play game two of the series Wednesday at 4 p.m. at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.


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