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17 October 2016 - 5:00pm
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Oxford-Colombia Special Series Documentary: Mujeres al frente (Women to the front) Lula Gómez will discuss her documentary Mujeres al frente (Women to the front), which will then be projected. The... Read more
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Equals before the law? Soviet justice, criminal proceedings against Communist Party members, and the legal landscape in the USSR from 1945 to 1953
Dr Juliette Cadiot (EHESS, Paris)
17 October 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
John Mellor (School of Management, University of Leicester)
17 October 2016 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Abstract The financial crisis in 2007/2008 revealed shortcomings in bank governance and also raised serious questions about the culture in banks. Both require resolution to preserve the financial... Read more


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Current and former MLS players took to Twitter to offer support for the former Columbus Crew winger's brave decision to reveal his sexual orientation Friday.
The times are a changing and the support for Robbie is just brilliant!
Following former U.S. international Robbie Rogers' decision to come out as gay on Friday, American soccer stars took to Twitter in a universal show of support for the 25-year-old winger, who said that he was stepping away from the game as well.
Within moments of Rogers' announcement spreading, a horde of MLS players voiced their encouragement. New England Revolution and U.S. midfielder Benny Feilhaber wrote, "proud to call you my friend."
A similar tweet of "proud of you fam!" came from New York Red Bulls and U.S. defender Heath Pearce, while Chivas USA keeper Dan Kennedy offered "ur the man Robbie we support u bro" and his teammate Juan Agudelo shared similar regards: "Respect man. Proud of you bro."
Rogers, who played one year collegiately at the University of Maryland, had a number of former Terrapins and offering their well wishes.
LA Galaxy and USA center back Omar Gonzalez wrote, "Congrats, Robbie! Really happy for you." Gonzalez's fellow LA defender A.J. DeLaGarza tweeted, "good for you man! All the best! Terps" to Rogers. FC Dallas goalkeeper Chris Seitz, another California native that found his way to Maryland, praised the courage of Rogers' largely unprecedented move, saying, "really want to give a huge shout out to a great friend for being one of the bravest men I know."
Elsewhere, D.C. United's Chris Pontius wrote, "Much respect. Nothing but support for you," and Vancouver Whitecaps defender Jordan Harvey chimed in with, "Congrats brotha. Wish you the best."
Tweets poured in from Americans abroad as well, with Anderlecht midfielder and U.S. international Sacha Kljestan writing, "100 percent love and support for one of my best friends Robbie Rogers. You will be missed on the pitch. Amazing talent, amazing person." Bolton Wanderers and U.S. midfielder Stu Holden, another MLS product who tried his luck in England sent, "Much love and respect to my boy @robbierogers! Proud to be your friend bro."
Former USA star Eddie Pope joined in as well, hailing Rogers as a pioneer and offering hope for the future. "Brave men like you will make it so that one day there's no need for an announcement. That day can't arrive soon enough. #support"Follow GOAL.COM on Twitter

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The Los Angeles Lakers' Pau Gasol loses control of the ball during their game against the Houston Rockets in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The Lakers won in overtime, 99-95, and gained the No 7 seed in the Western Conference playoffs. Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
Though it will be without an injured Bryant, LA ready for Spurs in playoffs
The Los Angeles Lakers secured a playoff spot even before taking the court, then needed overtime of their own game to learn where they were seeded.
The Clippers also had to wait until the final minutes of the NBA regular season to learn their fate, clinching home-court advantage for their first-round series against Memphis.
The Grizzlies guaranteed the Lakers' turbulent season would continue earlier on Wednesday when they beat the Utah Jazz 86-70. The Lakers then moved up to the No 7 seed by outlasting Houston 99-95 in overtime of their regular-season finale.
Without the injured Kobe Bryant, the Lakers will face the No 2 San Antonio Spurs on Sunday.
The Grizzlies were hoping their victory would give them home-court advantage against the Clippers, but Los Angeles earned it by winning 112-108 at Sacramento in what could be the Kings' final game there.
The Clippers, who won their first Pacific Division title, earned the No 4 seed and will host the Grizzlies on Saturday in a rematch of their seven-game victory in the first round last year.
Carmelo Anthony won his first scoring title when he and Kevin Durant both sat out their games. The New York Knicks beat Atlanta 98-92 without Anthony, and Chicago took the No 5 seed in the Eastern Conference and the Hawks settled for No 6.
The playoffs will open on Saturday with New York hosting Boston, and Chicago visiting the Nets in the first post-season game in Brooklyn. Defending champion and top-seeded Miami hosts Milwaukee on Sunday, when the Hawks visit the Indiana Pacers.
Also in the West, No 3 Denver, a league-best 38-3 at home, hosts No 6 Golden State on Saturday.
Anthony finished with 28.7 points per game in becoming the first Knicks player since Bernard King in 1984-85 to win the scoring title. The Knicks went 54-28, their best season since going 57-25 in 1996-97.
"He's just been solid all the way across the board in everything he's done for this team and that's why we're in the position we're in today," Knicks coach Mike Woodson said.
Durant averaged 28.1 points, falling short in his bid to join Michael Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain as the only players to win four straight scoring titles.
Durant's Oklahoma City Thunder are the No 1 seed in the West and will play Houston and All-Star James Harden, the league's top sixth man last season, whom the Thunder dealt to the Rockets in the preseason.
"I certainly know going into this last stretch of the season, we had a lot of tough games on the road, a lot of good playoff teams," Thunder coach Scott Brooks. "We had a stretch there, it seems like every night was a game of a lot of implications on playoff positioning.
"I like how we're playing. You always want to play good basketball down the stretch. It doesn't mean you're going to have guaranteed success in the playoffs, but we know what we have to do and we're looking forward to the challenge ahead of us."
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I've been asked several times by folks commenting here at FHQ and colleagues here at UGA if I had any plans to phase out any of the Super Tuesday period polls. My standard answer has been no, but once we hit the conventions and get past Labor Day, the traditional general election campaign will get underway and the dynamics of the race will likely change as well. I would expect increased polling and greater total attention from the public/electorate. Whether the latter means "better" responses from survey respondents is up for debate, but in any event we will likely have more representative polling emerging in September, vis a vis the vote in November, than we would with the polls that came out in February or March. Am I permanently dropping those polls from these analyses? No, this is simply a speculative look at how the landscape would appear in their absence.
Fine, what are you dropping then? This, as it turns out, was not an easy decision, though, it may look that way once I've explained. Some electoral college projections use just the most recent poll or the most recent several polls (two or three). In the case of FiveThirtyEight.com, they have used a decay function (a half life equation) to gradually phase out older polls. This is perhaps a good middle ground approach, but I don't want to be accused of aping what is being done over there. Despite that, I looked into where that cut off was on average. In most states, the oldest poll used ranges from mid-April to early May. I considered doing a similar cut off, but opted instead to cut things off at the beginning of the general election campaign, which I placed at the beginning of June. Yeah, Clinton wasn't officially out until June 3-7, but the Rules and Bylaws Committee's decision all but sealed her fate on the final day of May with their Florida/Michigan ruling.
The point here is to accomplish a couple of things. For starters, removing past and potentially inaccurate (at least outdated) polling may prove beneficial. Secondly, this removes the Clinton factor from the equation by focusing on polls conducted just during the general election race. The main criticism I'll get for this is that it is going to skew things in the favor of Obama because the polling cut off point sets the beginning at a point that encompasses his "bounce" during June.
Well, we've set the rules, so how does the map look? I should note now that this is not an official FHQ update of its electoral college analysis (Actually, the color scheme of the map is different so as to serve as a preventative measure on that front. Democratic blues will now be shades of purple and Republican reds will be altered to shades of orange.). This is merely speculative, but at the same time is something of a trial balloon. As I said, the dynamics of the race will change following the conventions, and I plan on officially revisiting our methodology at that time to see if there need to be any changes made. The method used here may be that change, if there is one, or it may not. With that said, to the map!
If we compare this map to the most recent electoral college map I posted just yesterday, you'll see that there are twelve states that change categories (ie: from McCain lean to strong McCain) and a third of those change sides from Republican to Democratic or vice versa. The result is that Obama has a net gain of 22 electoral votes. Indiana, Montana and Virginia (27 electoral votes) move into Obama's column while Nevada (5 electoral votes) switches to favoring McCain. When each candidate's prospective electoral votes are broken down into categories, the distribution isn't all that different from before. The strong Obama category still holds -- by a large margin -- the most electoral votes, but lean (74D - 81R) and toss up (56D - 64R) electoral vote tallies are largely the same across the two parties.
Looking at the individual states, we see that Michigan, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania move out of the toss up distinction and become more solid for Obama. The movement of those 42 electoral votes is as important as the movement of those formerly Republican toss ups to the Democratic side. Aside from the states that switch from one partisan side to the other, these three states moving further into Obama's side are among the most important shifts. This is a good point to look at this in terms of the rankings we started doing here a few electoral college posts ago. The first thing to note is that Ohio is the new (and this is the last time this will be in quotation marks) "victory line." The Buckeye state is state where each candidate passes (or would pass) the 270 electoral vote threshold to claim victory in the election. The partisan line -- where the states shift from being Democratic to being Republican -- has now, with just the state polls from June on, been pushed further away from the victory line. That is indicative of the gains Obama makes when the cut off point for the polls is shifted. One additional thing to note about the victory line is that Ohio is the first toss up state for Obama. In other words, Obama is nearly to 270 electoral votes with just his lean and strong states. He needs just one of those toss up states to surpass that barrier (with the exception of Montana which would put him just three votes short). Colorado, Indiana or Virginia could be substituted for Ohio if the Buckeye state and the other three toss ups slipped into McCain territory.
|The Electoral College State Rankings
|*Ohio is the state where Obama crosses (or McCain would cross) the 270 electoral vote threshold to win the presidential election.
As I've said, this is, for the time being, simply a glimpse into what things would look like if I decided to drop some of these "older" polls. The shift has been overwhelmingly toward Obama, but as we head into August this alternate version of reality will be something to keep tabs on. Does a shift toward McCain or away from Obama move the needle any more in this than it would in the normal version? The polling between now and the Democratic convention will help us to answer that question not to mention give us an idea of whether a change in methodology is even prudent. I will be keeping up with this now that I have the infrastructure in place, so that it will be an easier transition should we opt to go in that direction following the conventions (and their bounces).
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LAS-ELC today settled a claim on behalf of To-Wen Tseng, a journalist for the Chinese-language newspaper World Journal who was allegedly denied legally mandated lactation accommodations at work. In addition, Ms. Tseng claimed that World Journal discriminated against her because she requested a private space to pump breast milk.
For example, Ms. Tseng alleged that the newspaper published anti-breastfeeding stories and made harassing, disparaging comments about her. During the period Ms. Tseng was attempting to pump at work, World Journal published a story "Hot Mamas Show Off Their R-rated Breastfeeding Photos, Embarrassing Chinese-Americans to Death," which quoted several people calling breastfeeding photos "R-rated," "disturb[ing]," and "disgusting."
In another example, Ms. Tseng claimed that there was no nursing room in the company facility, so she had to pump in the restroom. She was then allegedly told by a colleague "don't wash your dirty panties here" when she was washing the pumping accessories in the kitchen.
In addition to a monetary settlement, the agreement reached between the parties includes injunctive relief which requires the company to change its policies regarding lactation accommodations and to share these policies with staff in multiple languages. Moreover, all supervisors will be trained on the policy and how to respond to requests for lactation accommodations. In this way, the settlement has a broader impact, potentially benefitting numerous working mothers at World Journal, the self-described largest Chinese-language newspaper in the United States.
This settlement is also significant in that the California Legislature recently affirmed that breastfeeding discrimination is illegal under California law. California has required employers to provide break time and private space (not a bathroom) for nursing mothers since 2002. The federal Affordable Care Act has mandated similar protections nationally since 2010.
Earlier this month, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued Enforcement Guidance on Pregnancy Discrimination and Related Issues, the first comprehensive update of the Commission's guidance regarding discrimination against pregnant and parenting workers in 30 years. The guidance clarified existing law, specifically stating that discrimination based on lactation is unlawful.
Health professionals and public health officials agree that breastfeeding is hugely beneficial to infant and maternal health. Infants who are exclusively breastfed tend to need fewer health care visits, prescriptions and hospitalizations, resulting in a lower total medical care cost compared to never-breastfed infants. And the benefits of breastfeeding also appear to stay with mothers for years to come, lowering risks of postpartum depression, cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Meanwhile, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 70.8 percent of mothers are part of the labor force, meaning they either have a paying job or are looking for one. It is therefore essential that lactation accommodations are available at work and that employees know about them.
"I was shocked by how my employer treated me as a breastfeeding mother", said Ms. Tseng. "No woman should have to choose between doing what is best for her baby and her job. Thanks to this settlement, other mothers won't have to go through what I experienced."
"I believe today's settlement constitutes a major victory for working mothers by showing that employers cannot discriminate against breastfeeding workers or deny them legally-mandated accommodations", said Julia Parish, an attorney with LAS-ELC who represented Ms. Tseng. "The ability to continue to breastfeed after returning to work is essential to infant and maternal health, and we hope that other employers take note that they must follow the law and respect the rights of working mothers."


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Boston, USA: Federal prosecutors charged badly wounded Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in his hospital bed on Monday, but details of the charges were sealed, a US court official said.
"There has been a sealed complaint filed," said Gary Wente, circuit executive for the US Courts for the First Circuit, who said a magistrate judge was present when Tsarnaev was charged at his bed in Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston. Tsarnaev was listed in serious condition.
Tsarnaev, 19, an ethnic Chechen college student suspected of carrying out the attacks with his older brother, was unable to speak after he was captured with throat injuries sustained during shootouts with police.
Police declined to comment on media reports he was communicating with authorities in writing.
"There have been widely published reports that he is (communicating silently). I wouldn't dispute that, but I don't have any specific information on that myself," Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis told CNN. "We're very anxious to talk to him and the investigators will be doing that as soon as possible."
Police captured Tsarnaev on Friday night to cap a violent week of blasts, shootouts, lockdowns and one of the largest manhunts in US history.
His older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died after a gunfight with police early Friday morning.
The city of Boston crawled back to normal on Monday, a week after twin bombs exploded at the crowded finish line of the city's famous marathon road race, killing three people and wounding 176. Ten of the injured lost limbs.
The crime scene around the blasts was still closed but was expected to reopen within a day or two. Signs declaring "Boston Strong" hung about the city.
Memorial services were set on Monday for two of those killed in the bombings: Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old restaurant manager, and Chinese graduate student Lingzi Lu.
An 8-year-old boy, Martin Richard, was also killed.
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The city also planned to pause at 2:50pm (1850 GMT) to mark the moment a week ago when the two bombs made of pressure cookers and packed with nails and ball bearings tore through the crowd watching runners complete the Boston Marathon.
In the days that followed, investigators examining thousands of images from surveillance video, media coverage and spectators taking pictures were able to pick out two men as suspects, later identified as the Tsarnaev brothers.
On Tuesday, the day after the attack, the younger Tsarnaev was working out in the gym at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, listening to music on his iPod, when he struck up a conversation with fellow sophomore Zach Bettencourt.
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Bettencourt said he and Tsarnaev chatted about the bombings.
"It's crazy this is happening now," Bettencourt recalled Tsarnaev telling him. "This (these bombings) is so easy to do. These tragedies happen all the time in Afghanistan and Iraq."
Police said the Tsarnaev brothers made enough additional bombs for them to believe that more attacks were planned. They were also armed with handguns. A shootout with police in the Boston suburb of Watertown early Friday morning left more than 200 spent shell casings in the street.
Neither Tsarnaev brother was licensed to own guns in the towns where they lived, Cambridge, Massachusetts, authorities said on Sunday.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could be charged with several crimes including use of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and bombing of places of public use in addition to homicide, said former federal prosecutor and University of Notre Dame law professor Jimmy Gurulé.
Because death resulted, each statute authorizes the death penalty, he said.
Though the case is likely to involve officials at the highest levels including Attorney General Eric Holder, the prosecutor in charge will be Carmen Ortiz, the US attorney for the district of Massachusetts.
Ortiz has faced criticism for coming down too hard on some defendants, but that approach may become a legal asset for the biggest case of her career, said attorneys who have faced off against her.
The Tsarnaev brothers emigrated to the United States a decade ago from Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim region in Russia's Caucasus. The men's parents, who moved back to southern Russia some time ago, have said their sons were framed.
Much of investigators' attention has focused on a trip to Russia last year by Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and whether he became involved with or was influenced by Chechen separatists or Islamist extremists there.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev traveled to Moscow in January 2012 and spent six months in Dagestan, a law enforcement source said. Neighbors in Makhachkala, the region's capital city, said he kept a low profile while visiting there last summer, helping his father renovate an apartment unit.
That trip, combined with Russian interest in Tamerlan communicated to US authorities and an FBI interview of him in 2011, have raised questions whether danger signals were missed.


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Maryland Man's Robocall Scam Nets Him $4 Million
From the annals of ingenious scams, comes this report from the AP:
A pay phone owner is being charged with using his Washington-area phones to ring in $4 million in fraudulent 50-cent calls.
Prosecutors say Maryland resident Nicolaos Kantartzis rigged more than 100 pay phones he controlled to carry out an elaborate crank call scheme. He programmed the phones to robotically call toll-free numbers. For each call, he collected a 50-cent fee from the call recipient, even though no one was at the other end of the line. The scheme allegedly went on for six years.
The Washington Examiner reportsthat Kantartzis owns 165 phones and made calls to various federal agencies, including the U.S. General Services Administration, the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Education and the Internal Revenue Service. The phones also called businesses like Dell Corporation and Fidelity Brokerage Services.
The Examiner reports Kantartzis pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud today.
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AMSTERDAM — More than 2,000 gay rights supporters protested in Amsterdam's largest square over the weekend, carrying signs, singing songs and chanting slogans to condemn the Russian government's homosexuality policies.
Demonstrators especially criticized President Vladimir Putin, with performers leading the crowd in cheering "Putin Out!" An enormous blow-up doll caricaturing the president flanked one side of the stage — flexing his muscles, bare-chested, and draped in a rainbow flag.
Protesters said their main concern was the law adopted by Russia's parliament in June making "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations among minors" illegal.
Van der Laan speaking at the protest at Amsterdam's Museum Square.
Amsterdam Mayor Eberhard van der Laan told the crowd that he hoped Sunday's protest would send the message to Moscow that "love is not propaganda."
Afterward in an interview, he said the city "is proud of its homosexual community, and they have the right to support from government," not persecution. Amsterdam has a long history of tolerance of gay rights, including performing the first gay marriages in 2001.
Van der Laan said he did not know whether the message would reach Moscow, but the protest was "a matter of principle."
"You have to say something, at any rate," he said. He called on the Dutch government to submit a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights.
Dutchman Wijnand Looien, who traveled from the far south of the country to attend, said he believed such demonstrations made a difference.
"There's discussion about this everywhere," he said. "The pressure is increasing, and that's a good thing."
The protest, titled "To Russia With Love," was organized in response to a concert featuring a Russian state orchestra and choir that was held on the far side of the square later in the evening. The two countries have named 2013 as a special year to celebrate historical ties.
But Van der Laan declined to meet with Putin when he visited the Netherlands in March, sending lesbian councilwoman Carolien Gehrels in his place and flying a rainbow flag over City Hall.
Organizer Frank van Dalen of Pride United said he was thrilled with the turnout for the demonstration, which was put together in a matter of days — word spread quickly on social media.
A poster of two Russian policemen kissing being held by a protester.
"It shows that people are incredibly angry" about Russian treatment of gays, he said. "Not only gays and lesbians, but heterosexuals have come out to support them, and transgender and bisexual. his is something that concerns everyone."
After the protest ended, the gay activists marched in a group to the opposite end of the square to attend the Russian concert, which featured Russians in folk costumes doing traditional dances.
The gay activists did not disturb the performances, though they continued to wave rainbow flags from the audience.
Russian tourist Alina Aliyeva, who came for the Russian folk concert, said she did not approve of the gay demonstration.
"They shouldn't do this, because it can worsen the situation," she said. "We come from different cultures — we have different histories and different customs."


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24 April 2018
New Digital Methods for Documenting Human Rights Violations in Closed Societies
18 April 2018
Italian liability for human rights violations in Yemen: are authorities and arms manufacturer complicit in deadly Saudi-coalition airstrike?
15 March 2018
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Interventions against Push-Backs along the Balkan Route(s)
22 February 2018
Multinational indicted for crimes in Syria: The French Case against Company Lafarge
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International and Colombian views in Coming to Terms with Past Atrocities
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Colonial Repercussions/Koloniales Erbe
24 January 2018
Tricky Business: Space for Civil Society in Natural Resource Struggles
5 December 2017
Lawyering for the People, Pioneering the Use of Law: A Conversation with Right Livelihood Award Laureate Colin Gonsalves
20 November 2017
The EU-Turkey Statement and its consequences for refugees in Greece, Turkey and Germany
8 November 2017
Towards Accountability for International Crimes in Syria
2 November 2017
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25 September 2017
Armed Drones in Italy and Europe
16 May 2017
Für ein Ende der Straflosigkeit: Syrische Kriegsverbrechen vor deutschen Gerichten?
11 May 2017
Whistleblowers, Journalists and Lawyers
11 May 2017
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Vom Sommer der Migration zur Gegenwart der Balkanroute: Serbien, Mazedonien und das europäische Grenzregime
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A Global Quest for Accountability
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How to do Justice? Accountability for Mass Atrocities in Syria
24 February 2017
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The US Experience: Exceeding Legal Boundaries in Countering Terrorism
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Shadow World
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Les Sauteurs – Those Who Jump
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The Long Road to Justice for the Malaya Lolas
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Anarchist Cookie Shop: Tempest of Vanity
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Memory and Justice
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Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition
28 April 2016
Time for Justice!
21 April 2016
The Political and Legal Struggle against Impunity in Argentina
6 March 2016
Unternehmen vor Gericht.
22 February 2016
Colonia Dignidad: Is Germany Falling behind Chile in Efforts to Address Wrongs?
15 February 2016
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8 February 2016
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2 February 2016
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27 April 2015
Women Targeted by the Colombian Military – A Case for the International Criminal
11 March 2015
Women in Armed Conflicts – Prosecuting Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes in Colombia and Beyond
4 February 2015
Europe's Treacherous Borders: Justice for the Ceuta Victims!
11 December 2014
Menschenrechte und Geschlecht
27 November 2014
Legacy of the Vietnam War: Crimes, Fleeing, Confronting the Past
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15 October 2014
German Liability for US Drone Warfare in Yemen
13 October 2014
Being a Radical Female Lawyer: Challenges and Vision
23 September 2014
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The Danzer Case: Current Developments in Jurisprudence on Liability of Senior Managers for Human Rights Violations
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Communication to the ICC on Alleged War Crimes by British Armed Forces in Iraq
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The Secret of Return
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Impressions of a Dictatorship & Chile Ayer-Hoy
6 April 2014
Forensis: Forensics and Human Rights Abuse
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Forensis: Forensics and Human Rights Abuse
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Forensis: Forensics and Human Rights Abuse
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3 December 2013
Holding Corporations to Account for their Failure to Exercise Human Rights Due Diligence
3 December 2013
The Nestlé Court Case
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Human Rights Claims against Corporations: Possibilities and Limits
27 November 2013
"El Juicio" (The Trial)
16 November 2013
Chile Yesterday Today
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17 October 2013
Dirty Wars - Schmutzige Kriege
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18 September 2013
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31 October 2011
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Given the problems faced by many young people during the transition from school into initial vocational education and training (IVET), how to increase the accessibility of the IVET system is a matter for debate.
In a round of the BIBB "Vocational Training Experts Monitor" survey at the end of 2010, around 500 experts commented on various reform proposals. Their ratings are presented in this article. These indicate that the only policy concepts likely to command a consensus in Germany are those which leave the existing rules on access to IVET intact.
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text: Antivirus vendor Avast Software has agreed to buy rival AVG Technologies for US$1.3 billion in cash.The deal will give Avast access to over 400 million "endpoints," or devices running its and AVG's software, 160 million of them phones or tablets, the company said Tuesday.Avast hopes the deal will make the combined company more efficient, as well as allowing it to take advantage of new growth opportunities such as securing the internet of things."This combination is great for our users. We will have over 250 million PC\/Mac users enabling us to gather even more threat data to improve the protection to our users," Avast CEO Vincent Stickler wrote on the company blog.The deal will also give Avast access to AVG's Zen mobile technology for controlling the protection of all a family's devices from just one of them, he said.The combined footprint of the two companies will also mean better technical support for SMBs, he said.AVG is perhaps best known for its free antivirus software, available for Windows PCs, Macs and Android devices, but it also sells "Pro" versions of the same software with additional features, and a number of Internet security applications for enterprises.Revenue from all these will be between $104 million and $106 million for the quarter to June 30, it said Tuesday. That's on a par with its results over the previous four quarters. AVG will publish full results for the quarter shortly, it said.Less than two-thirds of AVG's revenue comes from its traditional desktop security product business, and the proportion is declining. Almost one-sixth of the company's revenue comes from search advertising.Avast is privately owned and no longer publishes its financial results.Neither company said what would happen to their respective product ranges after the closing of the deal,which still requires approval from shareholders and regulators, but AVG CEO Gary Kovacs said it will allow the company to invest more in growing markets.It's shake-up time in the security software market: As Avast prepares to take one company out of play, Intel may be about to put another one back in. It is said to be considering the sale of the security business it build around McAfee, which it acquired in 2011.


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Title: One to Keep
Author: Tia Louise
Release Date: Jan 15, 2014
Genre: Contemporary Romance
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There's a new guy in town…
"Patrick Knight, single, retired Guard-turned private investigator. I was a closer. A deal maker. I looked clients in the eye and told them I'd get their shit done. And I did…"
Patrick doesn't do "nice." At least, not anymore.
After his fiancée cheats, he follows up with a one-night stand and a disastrous office hook-up. His business partner (Derek Alexander) sends him to the desert to get his head straight–and clean up the mess.
While there, Patrick meets Elaine, and blistering sparks fly, but she's not looking for any guy. Or a long-distance relationship.
Patrick's ready to do anything to keep her, but just when it seems he's changed her mind, the skeletons from his past life start coming back.
Suppressing a grin, I cupped her cheeks again and covered her mouth with mine. Her lips parted, and our tongues met. I felt her relaxing, and in that moment, the questions in my head were answered and the answers satisfied me deeply. She was mine. No matter what came next. With a calm confidence, I knew I'd never let her go again.
My mouth moved to her cheek. "Nobody's getting over anybody here. So why torture us both?"
Her body shook with her small laugh. "Aren't you trained for torture?"
"Yes, but you're not."
She slid down and put her cheek against my chest again. My fingers threaded into her silky hair. She was so beautiful in my arms.
Her head turned, and she rested her forehead on me, exhaling deeply. "I still don't want a long distance relationship."
But her words didn't knock the breath out of me like the first time. Back then, I wasn't sure of anything. Now everything had fallen into place. Everything felt possible. I pushed against the mattress, sitting up and bringing her with me. Her green eyes glistened when they met mine, but I smiled.
"So we'll figure it out," I said, smoothing my thumbs over her cheeks. "We'll get through the weeks however we can, we'll be together on the weekends, and we'll figure out what the future's going to look like. This distance is not forever."
Her head dropped, but only for a moment. When she lifted it again, she moved forward, wrapping her arms around my neck. My hands spanned her waist before sliding up her body to her beautiful breasts. The scent of cactus flower surrounded me, and I lay her back, ready to catch up on all the days we'd missed.
"Now, that first time was amazing, but it went way too fast." I covered one tight nipple with my mouth and then the other as her little moans began, her fingers threaded in my hair.
"You think?" she sighed.
"Yes," I said against her body, traveling lower. I kissed her flat stomach, inhaling the warm perfume lingering on her skin. She whispered my name, and I gave her belly one more kiss before catching her thighs and spreading them open…
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OCEAN CITY – A second batch of retired New York City "Red Bird" subway cars are expected to find a permanent home off the coast of Ocean City this weekend, possibly as soon as tomorrow, when 46 of the cars will be dropped at one of two possible locations on the growing artificial reef system.
Sometime in the next few days, possibly as soon as tomorrow, a barge carrying 46 of the retired subway cars is expected to rendezvous with local and state artificial reef officials who will direct their deployment. The batch of 46 more cars is the second installment of the retired New York subway cars expected to be deployed off the coast of Ocean City under the direction of the Ocean City Reef Foundation along with its partners the Maryland Artificial Reef Foundation (MARI), the town of Ocean City, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and New York Transit.
The initial plan was to drop the 46 subway cars on either the Bass Grounds or Russell's Reef sometime this morning, but weather conditions in and around New York City have pushed the target date back at least a day to sometime tomorrow or even early next week. The barge carrying the subway cars out of New York's harbor did not get clearance to pass under a bridge until prevailing winds backed down, which caused the delay.
According to local charter captain and member of the Maryland Artificial Reef Advisory Committee Monte Hawkins, who knows as much about the growing reef system off the coast as anybody, the intent is to drop the new batch of cars at the Bass Grounds, but the plan might be altered to deploy the cars at Russell's Reef closer to shore if the northwest winds that have blown steadily in the area this week don't calm before the barge of cars arrives. If the same winds that are keeping the barge in New York's harbor die down, the original plan to deploy the cars at the Bass Grounds could be achieved.
In either case, Hawkins said this week the local artificial reef program and its partners could not be more pleased to be next in line to get the cars. Several other mid-Atlantic states are in the rotation to receive the cars as they become available after certain mitigation efforts are complete. Maryland and Ocean City got their first batch of the retired subway cars in May when 44 were carefully dropped from a barge over a permitted site near the famous "Jackspot" about 19 miles offshore, creating the new Susan J. Power Reef in the name of its donor.
The Ocean City Reef Foundation started raising funds for the project a year ago when it learned as many as 600 of the retired subway cars would become available for artificial reefs off the coast of Maryland. The fundraising efforts got a major jumpstart with a $50,000 private donation from fishing enthusiasts Jack and Susan Power, whose generous gift was used to fund the first barge containing 44 of the cars.
Funding for the second batch of 46 cars expected to arrive off the coast as soon as tomorrow has been fueled largely by private donations. At an estimated cost of around $700 per car, the barge-load of 46 new cars headed to Ocean City cost around $32,000, which was largely provided by private donors. When the project reaches fruition, over 600 retired subway cars could find their way to the bottom of the ocean off the coast of the resort.
"The trick is to have the fundraising out in front of the opportunity to get more cars," said Hawkins. "There are several states vying for these things, and we want to have our funding in place when our turn in the rotation comes around again."
According to Hawkins, who routinely fishes his charter head boat over the growing artificial reef system off the coast of the resort, the subway cars deployed at the Susan J. Power site last May are already achieving their desired purpose.
"It's really been pretty amazing," he said. "It's working like crazy and we really couldn't be happier. Those cars are doing exactly what we thought they would do already."
For the last decade, the Ocean City Reef Foundation has been steadily expanding the artificial reef system off the coast of the resort with eight sites ranging from as close to shore as one mile to as far as 20 miles. In that span, the foundation has submerged tons of pieces of material, from old boats to retired military equipment to discarded construction material, enhancing habitat for fish and other sea creatures, which, in turn, has improved offshore fishing for recreational anglers and created new opportunities for diving enthusiasts.
However, with the first batch of subway cars sunk off the coast in May and the second batch expected to go down sometime in the next few days, the foundation could double the size of the artificial reef system off the coast already with several more barges expected in the future.
"With that first batch of cars, we were practically able to match our efforts over the last 10 years," said Hawkins. "When this next batch is deployed, we will have just about doubled our efforts over 10 years in just a few months."
Some of the subway cars acquired will be used to fill out existing artificial reef sites. Others will be used to create new artificial reefs on sites that are already permitted and are just waiting for material.


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Majors chart varied careers and continue to question the status quo
It was the spring of 1978, my sophomore year at Barnard, and time to declare a major. For me, it would be psychology. I had already taken several of the required courses, so there was room to branch out and explore some other subjects. I enrolled in an economics class taught by Dr. Cynthia Lloyd called "Sex Discrimination and the Division of Labor." The course was not only fascinating, but it touched me on a deeply personal level. My term paper was about women and volunteerism. Dr. Lloyd told me I had done an exceptional job, and asked if I knew about a new interdisciplinary major at Barnard, women's studies. Not even a department, it was a program that had only been approved as a major a year before. It didn't matter—I was in.
At graduation in the spring of 1980, I remember feeling especially proud that I had done something so important and pioneering. I've always identified myself as a feminist, but I found people would look at me with a curious gaze when I replied, "Women's studies," to their question, "What was your major?" I would make a bit of a joke answer, "It was the '70s."
Over the last few years I started to hear discussions about women's studies in the twenty-first century and became fascinated: Who are the women's studies majors now? What drives them? What is contemporary feminist scholarship? How has the discipline evolved?
For Barnard College, one development is obvious. Women's studies became a department in 1988. While it remains interdisciplinary in nature, it has several of its own faculty members, some with tenure. What I explore in this article is how women's studies is the same today as it was 33 years ago and how it is very different. "I took a class and it resonated on a personal level," appears to be unchanged through time.
"There was a small group of people, including me, Lila Braine, Susan Sacks and Catharine Stimpson who pushed for the major at Barnard," says Hester Eisenstein, professor of sociology and women's studies at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. "We were all feminist professors. I wrote a report and circulated it to the faculty and that started a whole debate. Eventually, we were asked, 'Can you design a curriculum? What would your courses be?'"
"Now there's a body of knowledge... Then, we were just asking the questions. It was what now seems a very elementary process because no one had asked these
questions for decades," says Hester Eisenstein.
"There were already courses like my course, 'Contemporary Feminist Thought,' which later became my first book," she says. "The students were very receptive. You were thirsty for the ideas. It was very satisfying because people responded and they felt it spoke about their experience." Eisenstein's account of the founding of Barnard's women's studies program is available on the department's Web site.
Mary Donovan Moreno, MD, '84 attended Colby College in Maine prior to transferring to Barnard. She'd taken her first women's studies course at Colby. After leaving, she took two years off and worked. But she knew she wanted to major in women's studies, which led her to Barnard. "[That course] had been so empowering for me personally.... It opened my eyes to the politics of feminism," she says. Her senior thesis was about the psychological dimensions of the effective and ineffective use of birth control among college-educated women. She did not see the major as related to her future career. "I always viewed my undergraduate years as a platform from which I would then go to some kind of graduate school," she says. "I viewed it more as learning for life rather than as a career springboard."
After graduation, Donovan Moreno worked for a while, then realized she wanted to become a physician. She enrolled in a college near her home, took the premed requirements, and entered the University of Arkansas medical school in 1987. Finishing her residency in psychiatry in Philadelphia, she worked at the Women's Therapy Network.
Today she lives in Laramie, Wyoming, where she has a general practice—mostly because there are so few psychiatrists in the state there is no room for specialization. While women's issues are not part of her day-to-day practice, women's studies do play a role in her life. "The bottom line of having a foundation in women's studies is having a foundation in not taking things for granted and looking at the power structure, how power influences social structure and interaction," she explains. "You question things and you don't make assumptions. You have a far more critical eye in terms of the status quo. Should it be this way? How can we change it?"
Jessica Chalmers '84 double-majored in women's studies and French, finding her way to the former after spending time at the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW). Chalmers describes herself as a rebellious kid; women's studies spoke to her intellectually and had a tangible connection to her life. She didn't connect it to any future career; possibly because she wasn't much focused on any career then.
Her intellectual bent and feminist ideology fit nicely with her artistic nature. In her senior year she started a group called The Feminist Union, which staged performance-oriented protests. After graduation, she and three other Barnard alumnae formed the V-Girls. She spent 10 years as a performance artist. "We kind of did a parody of academia," she says. "We were ... intellectual and functioned more in the art world than in the theatre. Our spoofs were really smart. Academics loved us."
Eventually she earned a PhD and taught at University of Notre Dame for nine years. She's working on a book, part of which is about different generations of feminism. "I've gone through periods in my life where I've wanted to distance myself from feminism because after my initial engagement the institutionalization was disillusioning to me." Chalmers explains, "I joined it looking for radical solutions, but in the '90s the institutionalization [of women's studies] within academia was really disappointing for me. I'm only getting back into it now."
Three Decades as a Major
"There are jobs and there are structures," says Susan R. Sacks, who oversaw my senior thesis and who still teaches psychology at Barnard. "You can get structures and laws in place that mitigate against prejudice, stereotypes, and narrow, boxed-in attitudes, but attitudes are really hard to change and [change] so, so slowly."
The course offerings have changed since the late '80s. We took courses with names like "Women and Religion" and "Psychology of Women." Today, courses include "Theorizing Women's Activism," "Women in French Cinema since the '60s," and "Unheard Voices: African Women's Literature and Gender." Says Eisenstein, "Now there's a body of knowledge.... Then, we were just asking the questions. It was what now seems a very elementary process because no one had asked these questions for decades."
Neferti Xina Tadiar, current chair of the women's studies department at Barnard, says the BCRW is a huge attraction for women's studies majors as it combines activism with scholarship; both represent the way many of the majors view their paths. "The close relationship our department has with BCRW, I don't think there are models out there for that.
It's unique to Barnard," says Tadiar. "Women and feminist views have become very much a part of the world we live in. It doesn't mean all of the political issues have been resolved or addressed," she adds.
The Current Generation
Three recent graduates are carving careers directly related to their women's studies majors. Julia Kaye '07 came to Barnard thinking she would major in art history. "On a whim I took a feminist texts class and I just adored it. I was so stimulated, challenged and moved by it. Applying this new lens brought so many areas of my life into focus," she says.
She went to career services and said she was thinking of switching her major to women's studies, fearing it was impractical. The advisor assured her she'd probably find even more career options if she switched. A women and health course with Assistant Professor Rebecca Jordan-Young inspired her to pursue a thematic focus in gender and health. Her senior thesis was a feminist analysis of the work of Doctors Without Borders' mental-health care programs.
She interned with NARAL Pro-Choice New York. "Being a women's studies major with a focus on health there is at least one clear career path you can take, which is to work in reproductive justice," Kaye says. "It was a direct application of some of the issues I was grappling with as a women's studies major."
She worked initially with TORCH©, the Teen Outreach Reproductive Challenge, supervising and training adolescent peer educators on topics like reproductive health, self-esteem, healthy relationships, and contraception. Just before graduation, she was hired as a consultant for the national expansion of a related program, the Adolescent Health Care Communication Program through the National Institute for Reproductive Health. After nine months, she moved to Washington, D.C., and took a job at the National Women's Law Center as a health policy associate, working primarily on the center's women and health reform project. "I used to tell everyone I couldn't have found a job that better applied my major," she says.
She is now back in New York attending NYU Law School on a Root-Tilden-Kern public interest scholarship. Her specific scholarship is called the Jacobson Public Service Scholarship for Women, Children and Families. After graduation in 2013, Kaye intends to return to Washington, D.C., and continue to work in the area of women's rights. "The work is far from done," notes Kaye.
Devan Shea '10 grew up with feminist ideology in her family. After her first year at Barnard, she did an internship at the National Organization for Women."When I came back from that, I was very stirred up, so I took 'Introduction to Women's Studies,'" she recalls. "That sealed the deal for me." Another course about U.S. imperialism from a gender perspective soon followed. "Women's studies was something that was very interesting to me—not only academically, but personally and politically," Shea says. Like Kaye, she was hesitant to declare it as a major because she feared a lack of career possibilities, but came to believe she could sculpt a career plan no matter what she studied.
Shea is currently a Klagsbrun Fellow at Alliance for Justice, a national association dedicated to advancing justice and democracy. She works with the outreach department: Shea helps promote the association's films, and she supports the outreach team with social networking, as well as planning and promoting events. Planning to go to graduate school, she might pursue nonprofit advocacy or a doctorate in women's studies;approximately 12 universities now offer PhD's in the subject.
For Rachel Jacobson '07, interest in women's studies dates back to high school, when male classmates treated her with disdain after she wrote a paper about Simone de Beauvoir and her impact on French feminism. The criticism backfired; she was devouring feminist texts before she took a single class at Barnard. "It seemed so clear and obvious that's what I wanted to do with my life and what I wanted to study at school," Jacobson says. "That's very much what drew me to Barnard." Her senior thesis was about the prosecution of rape as a crime against humanity, and the international criminal tribunals for Rwanda and Yugoslavia.
She went to work in the women's rights division of Human Rights Watch, and was the program director for the Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS. In 2009, she moved home to Austin, Texas, where she now works as a counselor in an abortion clinic. "This work is incredibly satisfying on a different level than policy work," Jacobson says. "I feel women's studies prepared me for almost anything." With her eye on graduate school, she is particularly intrigued by a program in activist anthropology. "One of the things the BRCW does so well is bring together the scholarly world and the advocacy world," Jacobson says. "There's an emphasis on creating productive knowledge and doing something with that."
To the Future
Tadiar says the women's studies department is currently working on revising the curriculum and crafting a new mission statement. The department recently became part of a consortium with Africana studies and American studies called the Center for Critical Interdisciplinary Studies at Barnard (CCIS). "Our faculty in women's studies does not deal solely with issues of gender, but rather sees it in relation to issues of race and sexuality as well," she adds. "Because issues of race figure very importantly in our courses and in the work we do, the chairs of women's studies, Africana studies, and American studies got together to create mutually supportive programs.
"One of the ways we're doing that is also seeing ourselves in relation to these other interdisciplinary programs and taking on transnationalism, race, and sexuality. We do see Barnard as having a role nationally in helping to redefine women's studies," she affirms, "[and] we definitely see women's studies on a path to the future."
A Bond Across Generations
"I took a class and it resonated on a personal level." With women's studies, women follow their gut instincts and passions. We share a feminist ideology, which perhaps 30 years ago was fueled by the newness of it being voiced and today has the momentum of career possibilities in activism and social justice. The first generation of Barnard's women's studies majors and the professors who taught us knew we had to explore the possibilities of change. While the current generation knows change is possible because they live it, they also know the scholarly inquiry and activism still have a long way to go.
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Intel's venture capital arm is investing US$43 million in a Tokyo-based WiMax operator that plans to launch the world's fastest WiMax service in July.
The investment, from Intel Capital, will help UQ Communications to build-out its network, which is now under test in Tokyo. The service offers download speeds of up to 40Mbps and uploads at up to 10Mbps. It will be formally launched on July 1.
The network currently covers Tokyo and the nearby cities of Kawasaki and Yokohama and will expand to cover additional cities later this year. UQ plans to offer coverage of over 90 percent of the population by 2012.
Intel has backed the company from the time it applied to the Japanese government to launch service. UQ Communications is also backed by KDDI, Japan's number two cellular carrier, JR East, the major railway operator in Eastern Japan, Kyocera, Daiwa Securities and Tokyo Mitsubishi Bank.
UQ enters the Japanese market at a time of increased competition in the data transmission market.
While Japanese cellular carriers were ahead of the world in offering mobile Internet service to cell phone users, they lagged in providing similar services to PC users. That market was kicked off by the emergence of E-Mobile, a data-focused carrier that offered the country's first flat-rate HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access) service.
Other cellular carriers are now offering their own competing services and NTT DoCoMo, Japan's leading cellular carrier, plans to offer an HSUPA service with uploads as fast as 5.7Mbps later this year. Download speeds are also due to be increased to 14Mbps later this year. While slower than UQ's data offering, the service is more widely available.


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'Cinema is dead,' says Tarantino
CANNES, France — When Quentin Tarantino won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994 for "Pulp Fiction," he showered his cast with high-fives, bounced to the stage where jury president Clint Eastwood awaited, and promptly answered a heckler with a middle finger.
"Pulp Fiction" arrived in brash style in Cannes 20 years ago. On Friday, Tarantino returned to the scene of the crime. Among his many honors, he called his Palme d'Or "my single absolutely positively greatest achievement."
"Of all the trophies that I have won, it's the one that has the biggest place of honor inside of my house," said Tarantino. "It's the one I want another of some day before they turn out the lights."
Few films have ever sent the kind of shockwave "Pulp Fiction" did 20 years ago. While Tarantino granted that its revolutionary impact influenced movies for years, he said he was merely part of "a movement in the air" to upend the safer, lighter movies of the '80s.
But Tarantino, who was joined in Cannes by "Pulp Fiction" stars John Travolta and Uma Thurman, was more interested in talking about the present than the past.
"As far as I'm concerned, digital projection and DCPs is the death of cinema as I know it," said Tarantino, referring to digital cinema packages. "The fact that most films now are not presented in 35 millimeter means that the war is lost. Digital projections, that's just television in public. And apparently the whole world is OK with television in public. But what I knew as cinema is dead."
Tarantino was in Cannes to screen "Pulp Fiction" in 35mm on the beach Friday night, as well as to introduce a 50th anniversary screening of Sergio Leone's "A Fistful of Dollars," which will close the festival Saturday night. He called "A Fistful of Dollars" not only the birth of the Spaghetti Western, but "the birth of genre action cinema" for fusing its action with its prominent Ennio Morricone score.
The writer-director also commented on several projects. He said that after hosting a live-read of his script "Hatefield Eight" in April, he's reconsidering his proclamation that he would never make it following its leak online. Tarantino filed a lawsuit against Gawker Media over the leak.
"We'll see. I'm still writing the script right now," he said. "I have calmed down a bit. The knife-in-the-back wound has started to scab."
He added: "Maybe I'll shoot it. Maybe I'll publish it. Maybe I'll do it on the stage because I realized it could work very well. Maybe I'll do all three, but we'll find out."
Tarantino also said he has some 90 minutes of unused footage from his revenge Western "Django Unchained" that he's considering using, along with the released movie, to create a four-hour miniseries for television.
Unlike many directors, Tarantino said that he loves to re-watch his films (he does anytime he catches them on TV) and feels sorry for filmmakers who don't get such pleasure out of their own work.
"I've always made my movies for me, anyway," said Tarantino, grinning.
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GENERIC NAME: DOXORUBICIN LIPOSOMAL - INJECTION (DOX-oh-ROO-bi-sin LYE-poe-SOE-mal)
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WARNING: Liposomal doxorubicin may cause heart problems, including possibly fatal heart failure. Heart problems may occur during liposomal doxorubicin therapy or months to years after receiving this medication. Your risk of developing heart problems depends on your dose, medical history (including previous heart disease, radiation therapy in the chest area), and previous use of this and other drugs (including daunorubicin and cyclophosphamide). Children are at higher risk and should be monitored later in life for delayed heart problems. See also Side Effects section.
This medication may cause certain severe (rarely fatal) blood disorders (bone marrow suppression leading to low red blood cells/white blood cells /platelets). This can lower your body's ability to fight infection and stop bleeding. Tell your doctor immediately if you develop any signs of infection (e.g., fever, chills, persistent sore throat), unusual tiredness, or easy bleeding/bruising.
While this drug is first being given into your vein, this medication may cause severe (rarely fatal) reactions, including allergic reactions. Tell your doctor immediately if you experience flushing, trouble breathing, swelling of the face, tightness in the chest/throat, chills, back pain, severe dizziness, or fast heartbeat. See also Side Effects section.
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USES: Liposomal doxorubicin is an anthracycline-type chemotherapy drug that is used alone or with other treatments/medications to treat certain types of cancer (e.g., ovarian cancer, AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma, multiple myeloma). It works by slowing or stopping cancer cell growth.OTHER This section contains uses of this drug that are not listed in the approved professional labeling for the drug but that may be prescribed by your health care professional. Use this drug for a condition that is listed in this section only if it has been so prescribed by your health care professional.This medication may also be used to treat breast cancer.
HOW TO USE: This medication is given by injection into a vein over 30-60 minutes or longer by a health care professional. The dosage is based on your medical condition, body size, and response to therapy. Notify your doctor immediately if redness, pain, or swelling occur at or near the injection site.If this medication touches your skin, immediately and completely wash skin with soap and water. If this medication gets in your eye, open the eyelids and flush with plenty of water for 15 minutes. Seek immediate medical attention.Family members and caregivers should take precautions (e.g., wear gloves) to prevent contact with the patient's urine or other body fluid for at least 5 days after treatment. Consult your pharmacist.
SIDE EFFECTS: Body aches/pains, headache, nausea, vomiting, constipation, diarrhea, stomach upset, and loss of appetite may occur. Nausea and vomiting can be severe. In some cases, drug therapy may be needed to prevent or relieve nausea and vomiting. Not eating before your treatment may help relieve vomiting. Changes in diet and lifestyle, such as eating several small meals and limiting activity, may help lessen some of these effects. If any of these effects continue or worsen, notify your doctor or pharmacist.Remember that your doctor has prescribed this medication because he or she has judged that the benefit to you is greater than the risk of side effects. Many people using this medication do not have serious side effects.This medication may give a reddish-orange color to your urine, tears, and sweat. This is a normal effect of the drug and should not be mistaken for blood in your urine.Treatment with this drug may sometimes cause your hands/feet to develop a skin reaction called hand-foot syndrome (palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia). Notify your doctor promptly if you experience swelling, pain, redness, dryness, peeling, blisters, or tingling/burning of the hands/feet. The symptoms can be made worse by heat/pressure on your hands/feet. Avoid prolonged sun exposure, tanning booths, and sunlamps, as well as unnecessary exposure to heat (e.g., hot dishwater, long hot baths). Avoid pressure on elbows, knees, and soles of feet (e.g., leaning on elbows, kneeling, long walks). Wear loose clothing. Depending on how severe your hand-foot syndrome is, your doctor may give you something to reduce the symptoms, or decrease or delay your next dose of liposomal doxorubicin.Temporary hair loss may occur. Normal hair growth should return several months after treatment has ended.Tell your doctor right away if you have any serious side effects, including: drowsiness, trouble sleeping, mental/mood changes (e.g., anxiety, confusion, depression), cough/hoarseness, redness/pain/swelling of arms/legs, eye redness/itching, unusual tiredness, swelling of ankles/feet, painful/difficult urination, stomach/abdominal pain, yellowing of the skin/eyes, dark urine, black/tarry stools, bloody mucus or discharge in stools, vision changes (e.g., blindness), fast/irregular heartbeat, shortness of breath.Painful swelling or sores on the lips, mouth and throat may occur. To decrease the risk, limit hot foods and drinks, brush your teeth carefully, avoid using mouthwash that contains alcohol, and rinse your mouth frequently with cool water.Get medical help right away if this rare but very serious side effect occurs: chest pain.Within days to weeks after doxorubicin treatment, a serious skin reaction that looks likes a severe sunburn (radiation recall) may develop on any area of skin that has been previously treated with radiation. Tell your doctor immediately if you develop skin redness, pain, tenderness, swelling, peeling, or blisters. Your doctor may prescribe medication to help your skin heal faster and reduce the swelling. Sunlight may worsen any skin reactions that may occur while you are using this drug. Avoid prolonged sun exposure, tanning booths and sunlamps. Use a sunscreen and wear protective clothing when outdoors.In children, radiation recall may occur in the lungs. Tell the doctor immediately if you notice wheezing or trouble breathing in the child.Very rarely, people with cancer who are treated with this type of medication have developed other cancers (such as secondary leukemia, oral cancer). Your risk is greater if you have received this medication long-term (more than 1 year), or with certain types of chemotherapy or radiation treatment. Consult your doctor for more details.A very serious allergic reaction to this drug is unlikely, but fatal reactions have rarely occurred. Get medical help right away if you notice symptoms of a serious allergic reaction, which may include: rash, itching/swelling (especially of the face/tongue/throat), severe dizziness, trouble breathing.This is not a complete list of possible side effects. If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or pharmacist.In the US -Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.In Canada - Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to Health Canada at 1-866-234-2345.
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DRUG INTERACTIONS: Drug interactions may change how your medications work or increase your risk for serious side effects. This document does not contain all possible drug interactions. Keep a list of all the products you use (including prescription/nonprescription drugs and herbal products) and share it with your doctor and pharmacist. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicines without your doctor's approval.Some products that may interact with this drug include: cyclosporine, digoxin, progesterone, streptozocin, stavudine, trastuzumab, zidovudine.Other medications can affect the removal of doxorubicin from your body, which may affect how doxorubicin works. Examples include azole antifungals (such as ketoconazole), calcium channel blockers (e.g., verapamil, nifedipine), rifamycins (such as rifabutin), St. John's wort, drugs used to treat seizures (such as carbamazepine, phenytoin, phenobarbital), among others.Avoid eating foods or products containing turmeric (curcumin) while being treated with liposomal doxorubicin. It may decrease this medication's effects. Consult your doctor or pharmacist for more details.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Public records show that interim Kansas Labor Secretary Lana Gordon filed an age and gender discrimination complaint against a former employer two months before taking the state job.
Gordon's complaint against ISS Facility Services Inc. was still open Thursday before the Kansas Human Rights Commission. Gordon, also a former legislator, filed the complaint in July.
The complaint alleges that a manager in the company's Topeka office verbally abused Gordon because of her age and gender from August 2011 until she was fired as an account representative in March.
Gordon did not immediately respond to an interview request made through her spokeswoman at the Department of Labor. ISS officials in Topeka declined comment.
Gov. Sam Brownback appointed Gordon interim labor secretary last month, replacing then-Secretary Karin Brownlee.


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Integrating Ultrasound in The Primary Care Setting, Improving Outcomes: A Community Healthcare Partnership
International Community Health Services (ICHS) is a nonprofit community health center that provides affordable medical, dental, behavioral care and health education services to Seattle. ICHS serves a highly diverse and ethnic population, while providing access to healthcare for low income and underserved populations.
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Recollections of an Empty Cup
It's the one year anniversary of my accident. I remember rehab.
There's pain, discouragement, and negativity in every hospital. Alongside darkness, you'll find hope and healing in the people who work there.
I watched them come to work like most do, kind of blah. But, somewhere between their first cup of coffee and seeing me, they embraced their "calling to serve." It's a selfless, breathtaking transformation.
Someone wheeled me to the kitchen where physical therapy patients ate breakfast together. I watched PT and OT professionals graciously make eggs to order, even though food services had provided breakfast. Discouraged patients often complained rather than thanked.
I saw them grumbled at and puked on. I saw one brain-damaged patient aggressively push a therapist against the wall.
Our own pain prevents gratitude. Lack turns to bitterness.
If not pain, competence constricts and arrogance chokes gratitude. We withhold gratitude when our skills excel theirs and they should do better. We aren't grateful when their devotion falls below ours; we're better. Their lack stifles our gratitude.
- Finds good, even when things are bad.
- Appreciates service.
- Honors those who demonstrate noble values.
- Celebrates progress.
I told the staff they were remarkable. I thanked them as they served. I was an empty cup. I gave them what I had, words.
Small things matter more when big isn't possible.
When you can't do something, say something. You are never helpless even when all you do is receive. Empty cups offer attention, appreciation, respect, and honor.
Lessons from rehab:
- Feeling powerless is a decision.
- Power is perception. Believe your words matter.
- Affirm more. Could you affirm more and correct less?
A favorite post written three weeks after the accident, Dec. 10, 2011: The Hidden Power of Weakness.
The original "Gifts From Empty Cups," written Dec. 13, 2011.
What if you pretended you were an empty cup? How might it impact what you see and say, today?