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Archive for the 'Peter Tatchell' Category
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Support Amnesty's Malawi campaign
Fax and post letters to the Malawi government
Call for release of Steven Monjeza & Tiwonge Chimbalanga
London, UK – 11 March 2010
OutRage! is backing Amnesty International's appeal for letters of protest to the Malawian government over the arrest and trial of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga. They face up to 14 years jail on charges of homosexuality. The verdict in their trial is expected on Monday 22 March.
See this sample letter, and the postal address and fax number of the Malawian President and Attorney General:
Amnesty International has adopted the two men as Prisoners of Conscience and is campaigning for their release.
"OutRage! is supporting Amnesty's campaign. If enough people send letters of protest, it might help secure an acquittal or a less harsh sentence. Even if Tiwonge and Steven are convicted, they could win a successful appeal and be freed eventually," said Peter Tatchell of OutRage!
"From their prison cells, both men have urged international pressure for their release. They need lots of support and solidarity in the run-up to the trial result. Please take time to support Amnesty's letter-writing campaign," he said.
Amnesty International UK Director, Kate Allen, added:
"Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga have committed no criminal offence and we adopted them as prisoners of conscience after their arrest at the end of December. It is vital that as many people as possible join us in writing to the Malawi authorities calling on them to release the two men and for them to investigate their treatment in custody."
See this Amnesty International briefing on the case:
UK Scouts condemn Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill
World scout movement acts on threat to gays, including scouts
Geneva scout HQ refers concerns to Scout Association of Uganda
London – 1 March 2010
The Chief Executive of the Scout Association UK, Derek Twine, has expressed opposition to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda, describing the legislation as "discriminatory" and "incompatible" with scouting values. The Bill has been tabled by David Bahati MP, who is also Chairman of the Scout Association of Uganda.
Mr Twine's statement (copy in full below) follows representations to the UK and international scout movement by the London-based LGBT human rights organisation, OutRage!
Mr Twine wrote to Peter Tatchell of OutRage!, as follows:
"We find the Bill not only discriminatory and contrary to the sanctity of life, but also completely incompatible with our interpretation of the values of our worldwide Scouting Movement."
"We have already drawn our grave concerns on this to the attention of the Secretary General of the World Organisation of the Scout Movement (WOSM), and we are subsequently aware that the issues are now subject both to WOSM's direct engagement with the Chief Scout of Uganda (Mrs Maggie Kigozi) and to ongoing global consideration by members of the World Scout Committee," wrote Mr Twine.
This statement from the UK Scout Association follows simultaneous direct representations by OutRage! to the World Organisation of the Scout Movement in Geneva.
"At our request, the world scout headquarters has written to the Chief Scout and the Chief Commissioner of the Uganda Scout Association concerning the Anti-Homosexuality Bill and the sponsorship of this Bill by the Chairman of the Uganda Scout Association, David Bahati MP," reports Peter Tatchell of OutRage!
"This swift action followed our protests against Mr Bahati to the Scout Association UK.
"Scouting is very big in Uganda and Mr Bahati derives great prestige from his position as Chairman of the Scout Association of Uganda. If we can get him removed from office it will be a significant personal blow to him. He'll be weakened and his credibility undermined.
"OutRage! is urging the disaffiliation of the Ugandan scout organisation from the world scouting movement, as a way of adding further pressure on the Ugandan government to drop the Bill.
"Our request for disaffiliation was immediately forwarded by the Scout Association UK to the World Organisation of the Scout Movement (WOSM) in Geneva.
"OutRage!'s actions are an attempt to open up a new front in the campaign against the Bill and to graphically expose the full ramifications of the proposed legislation on youth and civic organisations in Uganda, which have received little coverage so far.
"By highlighting the particular threat to LGBT scout members, we are not detracting in any way from the wider issues and consequences of Mr Bahati's draconian legislation.
"LGBT scouts and scout leaders are, of course, only one section of the Ugandan LGBT community. All Ugandan LGBTs are at risk if this Bill becomes law. We are concerned about the danger to them all – and the threat to their straight families, friends, supporters and allies," said Mr Tatchell.
OutRage!'s appeal to WOSM for international scout action is being handled by Jim Sharp, Executive Director, General Management, World Scout Bureau, 5 rue du Pré-Jérôme, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
Tel: (+41.22) 705 10 10 (switchboard)
Fax: (+41.22) 705 10 20
OutRage!'s appeal to the UK Scout Association is being addressed by Derek Twine, Chief Executive
Tel: 07889 130 812 (from within the UK) and +44 (0) 7889 130 812 (from overseas). Or 020 8433 7107 or 7261 (from within the UK)
Full statement by the Scout Association UK
Since the mid-1990s, The Scout Association has been clear and unequivocal in our equal opportunities policy and practice especially regarding sexual orientation, as befitting our role in contemporary society.
We are recently aware that the Ugandan Parliament has received a Bill that calls for the death sentence for repeat practicing of homosexuality. This Bill is presented by a Ugandan MP (David Bahati) who is also currently the National Chairman of the Uganda Scout Association. In terms of our own policies and understandings, we find the Bill not only discriminatory and contrary to the sanctity of life, but also completely incompatible with our interpretation of the values of our worldwide Scouting Movement.
We have already drawn our grave concerns on this to the attention of the Secretary General of the World Organisation of the Scout Movement (WOSM), and we are subsequently aware that the issues are now subject both to WOSM's direct engagement with the Chief Scout of Uganda (Mrs Maggie Kigozi) and to ongoing global consideration by members of the World Scout Committee.
We hope that the bilateral and very positive educational and solidarity projects that have been fostered for many years between Scout Groups in the UK and Scout Groups in Uganda on such matters as health and community development will not be prejudiced or compromised by this situation; we await the formal and public response from the Scout Association of Uganda and from WOSM, whereupon we will review our position.
Derek Twine Chief Executive
07889 130 812 (from within the UK) and +44 (0) 7889 130 812 (from overseas). Or 020 8433 7107 or 7261 (from within the UK)
Peter Tatchell
See also:
- Gay Scouts May Face Death Penalty in Uganda – Execution of Gays Proposed by Ugandan Scout Leader – By Peter Tatchell
- World Scout Movement Acts on Uganda – Geneva HQ Refers Concerns to Scout Movement of Uganda – By Peter Tatchell
- Execute Gay Scouts, Says Uganda Chief Scout – Scout Children to Be Hanged Under Proposed Law – By Peter Tatchell
UK: Protest the Pope Downing Street Petition Launched – Gordon Brown Urged to Disassociate the Government from Pope's Views – By Peter Tatchell
'Protest the Pope' Downing Street Petition launched
Gordon Brown urged to disassociate the government from Pope's views
Already over 3,000 signatures
London – 22 February 2010
A Downing Street petition has been launched, urging Prime Minister Gordon Brown to "disassociate the British government from the Pope's intolerant views."
The petition has been launched ahead of the Papal visit to Britain in September this year. It has been submitted by human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell and has already attracted over 3,000 signatures.
View the petition here:
Note: only UK residents with a UK address are eligible to sign the petition
A petition by Mr Tatchell on the same subject last year was refused inclusion on the Downing Street website.
"The Pope opposes universal human rights. He rejects equality for women and gay people, condemns the use of life-saving condoms, colludes with Holocaust appeasers and he is implicated in the cover-up of child sex abuse by Catholic priests," said Mr Tatchell.
"A man with such objectionable views should not be honoured with an official State Visit. If he wants to come to Britain, he should pay his own way. The public should not be expected to cover the estimated £20 million cost. This money would be far better spent on schools and hospitals," added Mr Tatchell.
The petition reads:
"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to disassociate the British government from the Pope's intolerant views ahead of the Papal visit to Britain in September 2010. We urge the Prime Minister to make it clear that his government disagrees with the Pope's opposition to women's reproductive rights, gay equality, embryonic stem cell research and the use of condoms to prevent the spread of HIV. We ask the Prime Minister to express his disagreement with the Pope's role in the cover-up of child sex abuse by Catholic clergy, his rehabilitation of the Holocaust-denying bishop Richard Williamson, and his decree paving the way for the beatification and sainthood of the war-time Pope, Pius XII, who stands accused of failing to speak out against the Holocaust. We also request the Prime Minister to assure us that the Pope's visit will not be financed by the British taxpayer."
Peter Tatchell has criticised at length the Pope Benedict XVI's "illiberal" and "often extreme" stance on key social issues:
"The Pope is an opponent of women's rights. He not only opposes the right of women to choose to have an abortion but also their right to contraception, which can help reduce the abortion rate," said Mr Tatchell.
"He opposes women's access to IVF fertility treatment, to give childless couples the chance of parenthood.
"The Pope supports gender discrimination, including a ban on women priests and bishops, and he wants the Catholic Church to be exempt from equality and anti-discrimination laws that apply to everyone else.
"He has sought to block potentially life-saving embryonic stem cell research, and he rejects the right of suffering, terminally ill people to die with dignity at a moment of the their own free choice.
"Pope Benedict denounces the use of condoms, even to stop the spread of HIV, and he has falsely claimed that condom usage "increases" the rate of HIV infection. His teachings put millions of lives at risk.
See The Independent, 27 March 2009:
"He has acquiesced with the Vatican's lie that condoms spread HIV and that the virus can pass through the latex (sic). This outrageous falsehood has been condemned as untrue and irresponsible by the World Health Organisation and Christian Aid.
See the BBC website, 9 October 2003:
"He rejects legal equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, and their full protection in law against homophobic and transphobic discrimination
"The Pope has approved the Catholic Catechism, which condemns same-sex relationships as a "grave depravity," "intrinsically disordered" and "contrary to natural law."
See The Vatican website, Catechism 2357:
"In 1992, he authored a Vatican document that condemned homosexuality as an "objective disorder" and a "strong tendency ordered towards an intrinsic moral evil." Rejecting the concept of gay human rights, the document asserted that there is no "right" to laws protecting homosexual people against discrimination, suggesting that the civil liberties of lesbians and gay men can be "legitimately limited for objectively disordered external conduct."
See in full the Vatican document – Some Considerations Concerning the Catholic Response to Legislative Proposals on the Non-Discrimination of Homosexual Persons:
"The Pope has attacked same-sex marriages as "evil" and vilified supporters of gay equality as "gravely immoral." He has also vilified homosexual equality as a "deviant trend" and condemned same-sex love as being "without any social value."
"Pope Benedict colludes with anti-semitism, including with holocaust deniers and with Catholic leaders who were complicit with the Nazi regime.
"He rescinded the excommunication of Bishop Richard Williamson who, in 2008, denied key elements of the Holocaust with claims that a maximum of 300,000 Jews died in concentration camps and that none were gassed by the Nazis.
See the BBC website, 4 February 2009:
"He has also paved the way for the beatification and eventual sainthood of Pope Pius XII by issuing a decree in 2009 celebrating his virtues, despite the war-time pontiff's 1933 Concordat with Adolf Hitler and his silence concerning the Nazi mass murder of six million Jews.
See The Guardian, 22 December 2009:
"While condemning loving, consenting adult same-sex relations, the Pope helped shield from prosecution Catholic clergy guilty of child sex abuse. He colluded with the cover up of their crimes and with the policy of relocating paedophile priests to other parishes, where they often went on to commit further sexual abuse, as revealed in the 2006 BBC Panorama programme, Sex crimes and the Vatican.
See the Evening Standard, 30 September 2006:
and see BBC Panorama 1 October 2006:
"Pope Benedict is complicit with human rights abuses and should not be accorded the honour of a State Visit to Britain," said Mr Tatchell.
Peter Tatchell
MUST WATCH video on Uganda anti-gay Bill
Death penalty for straights and for non-sex offences too
London – 18 February 2010
Peter Tatchell writes:
I am very grateful to Rob Tisinai for making a masterclass YouTube video that explains the full horrors of the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill. It shows that this Bill is far more lethal and wide-reaching than most people realise.
Ugandans don't have to be gay or to have gay sex to be sentenced to death.
Read this summary of these little known aspects of the Bill, then watch the video (the link is below).
Under the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, the crime of "serial offender" is punishable by execution.
A serial offender is a person who has "previous convictions" for "homosexuality OR RELATED OFFENCES."
In other words, if a Ugandan person has previous convictions for offences in the Bill and then has a subsequent conviction he or she will be classified as a serial offender and face execution.
"Related offences" in the Bill, which can result in a death sentence for serial offenders, include non-sexual acts such as:
· aiding and abetting homosexuality
· advocating same-sex relationships or LGBT rights
· having a same-sex marriage
· publicising or funding pro-LGBT organisations
· using the internet or a mobile phone for the purpose of homosexuality or its promotion
· being a person in authority who fails to report an offender to the police within 24 hours
These related offences are crimes that could be also committed by a heterosexual person. It is not just LGBT Ugandans who are threatened by this legislation.
Under the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, all convicted serial offenders are liable to execution, regardless of their sexuality.
Rob's brilliant short video explains the FULL and DEADLY clauses of the Bill. Please take a look and send it to your friends. We need to get the word out far and wide.
Watch Rob's video here:
See the full text of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill here:
Huge thanks to Rob Tisinai for taking the time to make this superb video. It is the clearest, most detailed exposition of the true severity of the proposed new law.
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World Scout Movement Acts on Uganda – Geneva HQ Refers Concerns to Scout Movement of Uganda – By Peter Tatchell
World scout movement acts on Uganda
Geneva HQ refers concerns to scout movement of Uganda
London – 16 February 2010
"The world scout headquarters in Geneva has written to the Chief Scout and the Chief Commissioner of the Uganda Scout Association concerning the Anti-Homosexuality Bill and the sponsorship of this Bill by the Chairman of the Uganda Scout Board, David Bahati MP," reports LGBT human rights campaigner, Peter Tatchell of OutRage!
"This swift response came just hours after protests against Mr Bahati to the Scout Association UK by the London-based LGBT human rights group OutRage!.
"OutRage! is urging the disaffiliation of the Ugandan scout organisation from the world scouting movement, as a way of adding further pressure on the Ugandan government to drop the Bill.
"Our request for disaffiliation was immediately forwarded by the Scout Association UK to the World Organisation of the Scout Movement (WOSM) in Geneva.
"OutRage!'s actions are an attempt to open up a new front in the campaign against the Bill and to graphically expose the ramification's of the proposed legislation on youth and civic organisations in Uganda (which has received little coverage so far).
"By highlighting the particular threat to LGBT scout members, we have not intended to detract in any way from the wider issues and consequences of Mr Bahati's draconian legislation.
"LGBT scouts and scout leaders are, of course, only one section of the Ugandan LGBT community. All Ugandan LGBTs are at risk if this Bill becomes law. We are concerned about the danger to them all – and the threat to their straight families, friends, supporters and allies," said Mr Tatchell.
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Execute Gay Scouts, Says Uganda Chief Scout – Scout Children to Be Hanged Under Proposed Law – By Peter Tatchell
Execute gay scouts, says Uganda chief scout
Scout children to be hanged under proposed law
World scout movement urged to expel Uganda
Call for UK Scout Association to sever links with Uganda scout movement
London, UK – 16 February 2010
"The leader of the scout movement in Uganda is demanding the execution of all scouts and scout leaders who commit repeated homosexual acts," reports human rights campaigner, Peter Tatchell of OutRage!.
"Chief of the Scout Board of Uganda, David Bahati, is proposing that all serial homosexual offenders, including scouts and scout leaders, should be hanged – even children.
"Mr Bahati is a Ugandan MP. His Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which is currently before the Ugandan Parliament, stipulates the death penalty for repeat same-sex relations and life imprisonment for all other homosexual acts, even for mere kissing, touching or caressing.
"Scout leaders who fail to report gay scouts to the police will face three years in jail. Any scout leader who provides supportive advice to a gay scout will be jailed for five to seven years.
"This Bill is an expression of prejudice, intolerance, discrimination and violence, contrary to scout principles," said Mr Tatchell.
See a summary and link to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill here:
Mr Tatchell has written on behalf of OutRage! to the Chief Executive of the Scout Association UK, Derek Twine.
A copy of this letter follows below.
Mr Twine has already referred OutRage!'s concerns to the General Secretary of the World Organisation of the Scout Movement.
"I have asked the Scout Association UK to press the world scouting movement to disaffiliate the scout organisation of Uganda, on the grounds that its leader has violated scouting values by proposing the execution of gay people, including gay Ugandan scouts and scout leaders," added Mr Tatchell.
"My letter calls on the British scout organisation to condemn Mr Bahati and his Anti-Homosexuality Bill, and to refuse to host him again in the UK.
"The British and world scouting movement cannot remain silent, given this threat to kill its members in Uganda. They must break all links with the Ugandan scout organisation while it remains under the leadership of David 'kill the gays' Bahati.
"The international scout movement has a duty to defend its values of universal respect, equality and brotherhood," concluded Mr Tatchell.
What you can do – see the end of this email.
Copy of Peter Tatchell's email to the Scout Association UK:
Derek Twine
Chief Executive
The Scout Association
Gilwell Park
London E4 7QW
11 February 2010
Dear Derek Twine,
Uganda Scout leader David Bahati and the Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Your letter dated 21 January 2010 – Ref: DMT/AEB
Sincere thanks for your reply to the letter of my OutRage! colleague, David Allison.
We are most appreciative of the efforts made by the Scout Association UK to ensure equal opportunity and non-discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.
Unfortunately, such wisdom and fairness is not replicated by the leader of the scouting movement in Uganda, David Bahati MP. As you know, he is head of the Scout Board of Uganda; in effect Chief Scout.
He is calling for the execution of lesbian and gay scouts, and other lesbian and gay Ugandans.
His Anti-Homosexuality Bill, currently before the Parliament of Uganda, proposes that repeat homosexual acts will carry a sentence of death, and that anyone – gay or heterosexual – who advocates gay equality or offers welfare support to homosexuals will be sentenced to five to seven years jail. A person in authority – a parent, teacher or scout leader – who fails to report a gay person to the police within 24 hours will be jailed for three years.
Mr Bahati's proposals to persecute lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are a complete contradiction of scouting values and of the fundamental principles of equality and human rights, as enshrined in international humanitarian laws, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
I am most grateful that you have referred our concerns about Mr Bahati's plan to execute LGBT Ugandans, including lesbian and gay scouts, to the General Secretary of the World Organisation of the Scout Movement (WOSM). Please advise me of the reply you have received.
While we appreciate that every National Scout Organisation (NSO) is independent, we also understand that the WOSM membership of each NSO is conditional on them conforming to the WOSM's scouting values.
David Bahati, the leader of the Uganda scout movement, is promoting hatred, discrimination and the state-sponsored murder of LGBT Ugandans – some of whom will be scouts and scout leaders. His stance and actions are incompatible with scouting values.
If the leader of a NSO was advocating racism and the execution of black people, I am sure the WOSM would take swift steps to rule that the NSO's membership of the WOSM could not continue while such a person remained in a position of authority within the NSO.
FIRST: We therefore request that you ask the WOSM to disaffiliate the Ugandan scout organisation from the WOSM, until such time as David Bahati ceases to hold office in the Ugandan scout movement or until he withdraws and renounces his Anti-Homosexuality Bill. This is something that the UK Scout Association and the WOSM can do. It is within your powers.
SECOND: We realise that the Scout Association UK is not in a position to intervene in the internal affairs of the scouting organisation of Uganda. However, we do believe that the British Scout Association can and should issue a public statement deploring David Bahati's homophobia and his Anti-Homosexuality Bill; making clear that his views and his Bill are incompatible with scouting values and are likely to lead to the persecution of Ugandan LGBT scouts and scouting officials. We respectfully ask you to do this.
THIRD: We reiterate our request that the Scout Association UK announces publicly that it will refuse to host Mr Bahati again in Britain (I believe that you did host him at the time of the 2007 Jamboree), as you would refuse to host an anti-Semitic scout leader who advocated the execution of Jewish people. Again, this is a reasonable and justifiable sanction that is within your powers.
The core of the issue is this: Mr Bahati wants to execute lesbian and gay scouts and scout leaders, as well as other lesbian and gay people. He is Uganda's head scout, and while he remains head scout his actions reflect badly on the whole international scouting movement. It is imperative that the British and world scouting authorities speak out against him and his bill which, if passed, will have deadly consequences for scout members in Uganda.
The reputation of the scout movement depends on action being taken against those in positions of leadership, like Mr Bahati, who abuse and violate scouting values.
Please advise. Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Peter Tatchell
OutRage! – The LGBT Human Rights Campaign
What you can do
Please ask your MP to sign EDM 575 on Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill
You can email your MP direct via this website:
Just click on the link and enter your postcode. It will tell you who is your MP and you can email him or her direct.
All you need to do is write as follows:
Draft letter to your MP
Dear (insert your MP's name),
As one of your constituents, I urge you to sign EDM 575, tabled by Harry Cohen MP. It condemns Uganda's draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill. This Bill proposes the death penalty for some same-sex acts and life imprisonment for others. The Bill also proposes up to seven years jail for anyone who advocates gay equality and three years jail for parents who fail to report their gay sons or daughters to the police.
See a copy of the Bill here:
And a summary of the key points of the Bill here:
Please also consider writing to the Uganda High Commissioner in London:
Her Excellency, High Commissioner Joan Rwabyomere, Uganda High Commission, Uganda House, 58-59 Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DX. Phone 020-7839-5783, Fax 020-7839-8925 or E-mail: email@example.com
Thank you.
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Peter Tatchell is Liberal Voice of the Year
Left-wing Green wins vote by Liberal Democrat Voice readers
London – 20 January 2010
Peter Tatchell has won Liberal Democrat Voice's third annual Liberal Voice of the Year award for his "tireless and fearless international human rights campaigning."
The runner-up was author and journalist Ben Goldacre. Other contenders were Joanna Lumley, Rory Stewart, Terry Pratchett, Henry Porter, Guy Herbert and Alan Rusbridger.
The two previous years' Liberal Voice winners were Shami Chakrabati (2007) and the campaigners on behalf of Jean Charles de Menezes (Justice4Jean.org) and the Stockwell Shooting Inquest Jury (2008).
See the Liberal Democrat Voice report about the online readers poll result here:
Responding to winning the vote, Peter Tatchell said:
"I am honoured, but quite surprised, to win Liberal Voice of the Year, given that I'm a left-wing Green. It shows that Liberal Democrat Voice readers are non-sectarian and inclusive, putting values and principles above narrow party interests, which is how it should be.
"There are progressive people in all parties, apart from the BNP and possibly UKIP. We should work together more, focusing on what we have in common rather than on what divides us.
"In Britain, the combined supporters of liberal, green and left values constitute the majority. If people from these three political strands cooperated more closely, and if we had had a fair voting system, Britain need never again suffer a Conservative government. We could move the country forward on a progressive agenda for social justice, democratic reform, civil liberties and environmental renewal.
"At the international level, it has been a real privilege to write and campaign in support of the freedom struggles in Iran, Russia, Balochistan, Uganda, Iraq, Somaliland, West Papua, Sudan, Palestine and Saudi Arabia. The democracy activists in these countries are truly heroic and inspirational. I crawl in their shadows.
"One of the things I have learned from my 43 years of human rights campaigning is that no matter how small and weak we may feel, we can all help make a difference. I do my bit for human rights, as do millions of others. Together, cumulatively and collectively, slowly but surely, we are shaping a better world," said Mr Tatchell.
Human Rights Day protest against Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill – Ugandan Embassy, London, 10 December 2009 – Photograph by Brett Lock
Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill – Briefing
Death penalty proposed for consenting same-sex relations
Misreported & unreported aspects of the legislation
By Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner
London, UK – 11 January 2010
Below is a full and comprehensive briefing on the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which is currently before the Ugandan Parliament and which proposes the death penalty for certain consenting homosexual acts.
Sponsored by the Ugandan MP, David Bahati, the Bill is expected to be debated and voted on in the coming weeks.
This briefing includes details of the already existing extreme homophobic laws in Uganda and their hateful social effects, a link to a full copy of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill and my summary of its key elements.
Although there have been reports that death penalty clauses will be dropped, to date the Bill has not been amended, watered down or scrapped. All the original provisions, including the death penalty, remain.
Indeed, the Bill's sponsor, MP David Bahati, said late last week that he stands by the Bill and will not withdraw it.
Read the full text of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill:
Summary of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Peter Tatchell of the London-based lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) human rights group OutRage! said:
"The Anti-Homosexuality Bill proposes the death penalty for two classes of same-sex acts.
"First, for 'aggravated' homosexuality, which is defined as gay sex with under 18s or disabled persons and gay sex by a person in authority or by a person with HIV, even if they use a condom.
"Second, for 'serial' homosexual acts, meaning for persons who have repeated same-sex relations ie. more than once or twice.
"The Bill extends the existing penalty of life imprisonment for same- sex intercourse to all other same-sex behaviour, including the mere touching of another person with the intent to have homosexual relations.
"Life imprisonment is also the penalty for contracting a same-sex marriage.
"Promoting homosexuality and aiding and abetting others to commit homosexual acts will be punishable by five to seven years jail. These new crimes are likely to include membership and funding of LGBT organisations, advocacy of LGBT human rights, supportive counselling of LGBT persons and the provision of condoms or safer sex advice to LGBT people.
"A person in authority – gay or heterosexual – who fails to report violators to the police within 24 hours will be sentenced to three years behind bars.
"Astonishingly, the new legislation has an extra-territorial jurisdiction. It will also apply to Ugandan citizens or foreign residents of Uganda who commit these 'crimes' while abroad, in countries where such behaviour is not a criminal offence. Violators overseas will be subjected to extradition, trial and punishment in Uganda.
"This bill is even more draconian than the extreme homophobic laws of countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran.
"It is part of a wide attack on civil society and is symptomatic of Uganda's drift to Mugabe-style authoritarianism," added Mr Tatchell.
Read this report by me on the tyranny of President Yoweri Museveni's Ugandan regime:
Existing anti-gay laws in Uganda – and their consequences
The Uganda Penal Code Act of 1950 (Chapter 120) (as amended)
Section 145. Unnatural offences.
–Any person who– (a) has carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature; (b) has carnal knowledge of an animal; or (c) permits a male person to have carnal knowledge of him or her against the order of nature, commits an offence and is liable to imprisonment for life.
Section 146. Attempt to commit unnatural offences.
–Any person who attempts to commit any of the offences specified in section 145 commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
Section 148. Indecent practices.
–Any person who, whether in public or in private, commits any act of gross indecency with another person or procures another person to commit any act of gross indecency with him or her or attempts to procure the commission of any such act by any person with himself or herself or with another person, whether in public or in private, commits an offence and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
"The current anti-homosexual laws were originally imposed on Uganda by the British colonial administration in the nineteenth century, during the period of imperial subjugation. They are not authentic Ugandan or African laws," added Peter Tatchell of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) human rights group OutRage!
"The consequences of this already existing legislation can include long terms of imprisonment for homosexual relations between consenting adults in private.
"Criminalisation also often results in the failure of police to protect the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) victims of mob violence. It gives a green light to blackmailers and to the police harassment of LGBT people, including the framing of LGBT Ugandans on false charges.
"The outing of LGBT people by the Kampala tabloid newspaper, Red Pepper, has resulted in some victims losing their jobs and homes. Others have been disowned by their families and forced to go into hiding.
"The Anti-Homosexuality Bill is just the latest of many attacks on the LGBT community of Uganda.
"In recent years, the Ugandan government of President Yoweri Museveni has passed a law banning same-sex civil marriage, fined Radio Simba for broadcasting a discussion of LGBT issues, and expelled a UN AIDS agency director for meeting with LGBT campaigners.
"Some years ago, a heterosexual Anglican bishop of the West Buganda diocese of Uganda, Christopher Senyonjo, was denied the right to preach and denied his pension by the Church of Uganda after he defended the human rights of LGBT people," said Mr Tatchell.
See photos of the London protest against the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill on 10 December 2009:
These photos are free to use. Please credit Brett Lock of OutRage!
See videos of this London protest:
These videos are free to use.
More information:
UK Urged to Act on Malawi Arrests – Foreign Secretary Receives OutRage! Appeal for Action – Tatchell Letter Delivered to Jailed Men
(To listen the Part II, follow this link)
UK urged to act on Malawi arrests
Foreign Secretary receives OutRage! appeal for action
Tatchell letter delivered to jailed men
London, UK – 8 January 2010
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband is being urged to press the Malawian government to release two men, Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, who are being held on remand over their alleged homosexual relationship, to drop all charges against them and to repeal the country's anti-gay laws.
Mr Miliband is also being asked to seek a halt to the arrest and prosecution of three Malawian human rights campaigners, who publicly defended the jailed men and secured them legal representation.
The call comes from the London-based LGBT human rights group OutRage! Spokesperson, David Allison, has written to the Foreign Secretary, appealing to him to make representations to the President of Malawi, his Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.
A copy of Mr Allison's letter follows below.
Meanwhile a letter of "support and solidarity" from OutRage!'s Peter Tatchell is being delivered to Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga in Chichiri Prison, Malawi. The two men, who were arrested following their engagement ceremony late last year, are being held on remand on gay sex charges ahead of their trial on 15 January
A copy of Mr Tatchell's letter follows below.
For background on the Malawi arrests, see here:
Protest to the Malawian High Commissioner in London:
His Excellency Dr. Francis Moto, High Commission of Malawi, 70 Winnington Road, London N2 0TX, United Kingdom. Telephone: +44(0) 20 8455 5624, Fax: +44(0) 20 3235 1066. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Gift Trapence, Executive Director of the Malawian human rights group CEDEP
Copy of the OutRage! letter to David Miliband MP, British Foreign Secretary:
David Miliband MP
Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs
King Charles Street
London SW1A 2AH
6 January 2010
Dear Secretary of State,
This letter is in support of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, citizens of Malawi, who are being held in custody in Chichiri Prison, Malawi, and denied bail, on charges of consenting adult homosexuality following their same-sex engagement ceremony.
In doing so they have committed no criminal offence under the laws of Malawi. The ceremony is legal in Malawi and no laws were broken by the two participants.
The news release below provides more comprehensive details about their case.
We ask you to intercede with the President of Malawi, his Prime Minister and Foreign Minister to urge that these two men are not ill-treated while in prison, to urge that they are swiftly released on bail and to urge that all charges against them are dropped.
We further ask you to press the Government of Malawi to initiate moves to decriminalise homosexuality in accordance with the equality and non-discrimination clauses of the Malawian constitution and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.
Finally, we ask that you call upon the Malawian government to halt police harassment and legal proceedings against HIV educators and human rights defenders from the Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP); three of whose workers have recently been arrested following their public defence of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga and following their HIV education work with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
I hope that you feel able to make these humanitarian representations to the leaders of Malawi and that you will advise us at your earliest opportunity.
Thank you.
David Allison
OutRage! – The LGBT Human Rights Campaign
Copy of Peter Tatchell's message the jailed men, Tiwonge and Steven:
Dear Tiwonge and Steven,
May 2010 bring you and all Malawians justice, freedom and equality.
Congratulations on your courageous witness for gay human rights, as you battle for your right to be accepted, without discrimination.
Millions of people around the world know about your arrest and detention. You have received worldwide news coverage.
Stay Strong. We are with you in this period of trial and tribulation.
You are inspirations to us all. We salute you.
Take heart. You will win in the end. Justice and freedom will triumph.
You follow in the footsteps of the Malawians who fought against colonialism and the South Africans who battled against apartheid. They were arrested and persecuted, but they were victorious eventually.
Tell the judge that Malawi's anti-gay law was not devised by Malawians. It is was devised in London in the nineteenth century and imposed on the people of Malawi by the British colonisers and their army of occupation. Before the British came and conquered Malawi,
there were no laws against homosexuality. These laws are a foreign imposition. They are not African laws.
You are making history, and history will honour you.
I send you love and solidarity!
Peter Tatchell, OutRage! London, UK
Donate to the Malawi Defence Campaign
To make a donation from a UK bank within the UK, make an electronic bank transfer to OutRage!
Account name: OutRage!
Bank: Alliance and Leicester Commercial Bank, Bootle, Merseyside, GIR 0AA
Account number: 7780 9302
Sort code: 72-00-01
For electronic transfers from abroad, please ADDITIONALLY quote this:
Or post a cheque payable to "OutRage!" to OutRage!, PO Box 17816, London SW14 8WT. Enclose a note giving your name and address and stating that your donation is for the Malawi Defence Campaign. OutRage! will pass the money donated to the LGBT campaign team in Malawi. Thank you.
OutRage! – 0208 240 0222 and firstname.lastname@example.com
Further information:
Gift Trapence, Executive Director of the Malawian human rights group CEDP
Peter Tatchell, OutRage!
You can follow Peter on Twitter at http://twitter.com/PeterTatchell or join the Peter Tatchell Human Rights Campaign Facebook group at http://tinyurl.com/cj9y6s
Malawi Gay Marriage Trial on 15 January – Defendants Refused Bail, Face Gay Sex Charges – Human Rights Defender Arrested on False Porn Charges – By Peter Tatchell
Malawi 'gay marriage' trial on 15 January
Defendants refused bail, face gay sex charges
Human rights defender arrested on false porn charges
London – 5 January 2009
A Malawian court yesterday refused bail to two men who celebrated their engagement to be married in a traditional African ceremony, which they held late last year.
Giving his ruling at a court in the city of Blantyre on Monday 4 January, judge Nyakwawa Usiwa-Usiwa claimed Steven Monjeza (26) and Tiwonge Chimbalanga (20) were at risk of mob violence and would be safer in custody – a claim rejected by the defendants and their lawyers.
In Malawi, even people accused of serious crimes like violent robbery and assault usually get bail.
The same day the police arrested a worker from the human rights group CEDEP, which assisted the detained men and secured them legal representation.
"Steven and Tiwonge are the first same-sex couple to begin the process of getting married in Malawi," said human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell of OutRage! in London, who has been liaising with human rights defenders inside Malawi to support the detained men.
"The two men have been returned to Chichiri Prison pending their trial on charges of homosexuality, scheduled for Friday 15 January in Blantyre," added Mr Tatchell.
"They face a maximum sentence of 14 years jail, under Malawi's anti-gay law, section 153 of the penal code, which was originally imposed on the country by the British colonisers during the nineteenth century.
"Both men deny the charges and will challenge the prosecution on the grounds that it is illegal under the equal rights and non-discrimination clauses of the Malawian constitution.
"Tiwonge and Steven are quite fearful and dejected. They were jeered in court and have been disowned by their families. Conditions in Chichiri jail are appalling. They say they have been beaten in prison and they are now threatened with forced intimate medical examinations to determine whether they have had sex.
"Visitors have taken them food and clothing and given them some money. They encouraged them to stand firm and reassured them that they have support inside Malawi and worldwide. This has lifted their spirits.
"Steven and Tiwonge now have a good legal team, including Mauya Msuku, Felix Tandwe and Noel Supedi.
"They also have the support of the Malawian human rights group, the Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP), which works to defend the welfare of marginalised communities, including prisoners, sex workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
"Ominously, the administrator of CEDEP was arrested on 4 January on trumped up charges that the group's safer sex HIV education materials are pornographic. His arrest is almost certainly in retaliation for CEDEP's public support for Tiwonge and Steven. There are concerns that the Executive Director of CEDEP, Gift Trapence, may now also face arrest by the police.
"This prosecution is illegal. It is contrary to section 20 of the Malawi constitution, which outlaws all discrimination and it violates the equal treatment provisions of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, which Malawi has signed and pledged to uphold.
"Malawi's anti-gay laws were not devised by Malawians. They were devised in London in the nineteenth century and imposed on the people of Malawi by the British colonisers and their army of occupation. Before the British came and conquered Malawi, there were no laws against homosexuality. These laws are a foreign imposition. They are not African laws," said Mr Tatchell.
See details of the Malawian constitution and African human rights law below.
Donate to the Malawi Defence Campaign:
To make a donation to support the jailed men, post a cheque payable to "OutRage!" to OutRage!, PO Box 17816, London SW14 8WT. Enclose a note giving your name and address and stating that your donation is for the Malawi Defence Campaign. OutRage! will pass all money donated to Tiwonge and Steven's defence team in Malawi. Thank you.
OutRage! – 0208 240 0222 and firstname.lastname@example.com
Further information:
Gift Trapence, Executive Director of CEDP
Peter Tatchell, OutRage!
Constitution of Malawi – Article 20:
1. Discrimination of persons in any form is prohibited and all persons are…guaranteed equal and effective protection against discrimination on grounds of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, nationality, ethnic or social origin, disability, property, birth or other status.
The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights – Articles 2, 3 and 4:
Article 2
Every individual shall be entitled to the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms recognized and guaranteed in the present Charter without distinction of any kind such as race, ethnic group, color, sex, language, religion, political or any other opinion, national and social origin, fortune, birth or other status.
Article 3
1. Every individual shall be equal before the law. 2. Every individual shall be entitled to equal protection of the law.
Article 4
Human beings are inviolable. Every human being shall be entitled to respect for his life and the integrity of his person. No one may be arbitrarily deprived of this right.


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Yasuhisa Kohyama - 2012 Solo Exhibition
13 June - 12 July 2012
An exhibition of new work to coincide with the publication of 'Yasuhisa Kohyama : The Art of Ceramics'
The catalogue accompying this exhibition has texts which are extracts taken from the book, for which we would like to thank each of the authors:
Susan Jefferies, Michael R.Cunningham, Yoshiaki Inui and Jack Lenor Larsen
as well as the publisher, ARNOLDSCHE, for their collective generosity and assistance.
Abbreviated Biography
Yasuhisa Kohyama was born in Shigaraki, Japan in 1936.
He currently lives and works in Shigaraki and travels regularly to Europe.
Kohyama has played a significant part in reviving the use of the traditional Japanese 'Anagama' wood fired kiln, being the first potter in the area to build such a kiln since the Middle Ages. He is a contemporary master of the ancient practice of Sueki, a method that originated in southern China, which accounts for his unglazed yet glassy surface textures.
His pieces are collected internationally and exhibited widely in Japan and overseas. His work is included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as several museums in the Netherlands and Germany.

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Geotech's G100 Made to Measure for ESHRE
Geotech will be showcasing the G100, its portable CO2 analyser designed for IVF and stem cell research, at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) event in Geneva next month.
Set against a backdrop of the Swiss Alps, fertility experts, specialists in reproductive medicine and 6,000 ESHRE members from across the world will come together from 2nd to 5th July to network with their peers and participate in scientific sessions.
At the event ESHRE, the world's leading society in reproductive science and medicine, will appoint its new Chairman, Dr Roy Farquharson, to develop its ambitious communications strategy, which promotes sharing best practice and innovations.
As a global market leading supplier and manufacturer of gas analysers used in medical research and IVF laboratories, Geotech attends this prestigious event each year. The leadership team is looking forward to networking with industry experts, its European distribution partners and customers from across the continent that already benefit from using its G100 analyser. ESHRE attendees are invited to visit Geotech's stand for demonstrations and to take advantage of exclusive show offers.
The G100 is a highly accurate piece of portable, precision monitoring laboratory kit specifically designed to ensure effective incubator management. It is an essential tool within the incubation verification process enabling users to check that incubators are working correctly and the settings within are optimal. The analyser assists embryologists in maintaining a high quality environment in the incubators, contributing to better IVF outcomes and reducing both the financial and emotional cost of lost embryos.
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Road Fatalities: News Blackout in Effect!
Mystery surrounds death of 4-year-old Dunedin boy
A truck carrying bobby calves and three young boys went off the road and overturned into a paddock, killing the youngest of the four occupants, a 4-year-old Dunedin boy on January 13.
"The driver, understood to be a Dunedin-based dairy farmer and neighbour of the boys' family, suffered serious injuries and was taken to Southland Hospital alongside a pair of 6-year-old brothers, who had minor injuries," said a report.
"I have no idea what his route was, where he was going, or what he was doing at that time of night [and why he was travelling with the neighbour's three young boys,]" said the policeman dealing with the case.
The boy's name has not been released, "with a police spokeswoman confirming the family had approached the coroner to get their son's name permanently suppressed."
Gay billionaire and Trump supporter another XERO connection
A 193-hectare Wanaka lifestyle block has been purchased by the gay billionaire Peter Thiel, who has apparently become a New Zealand citizen.
German-born Thiel bought $147 million of shares in NZX-listed technology company XERO in 2013, said a report.
"Thiel, a conservative libertarian, supported Donald Trump's bid for the US presidency and donated $1.25m to Trump's campaign. After Trump's victory, Thiel was appointed to his transition team."
- Something fishy going on at XERO?
- Two Xero employees murdered because they stumbled on a dark secret?
Other News in Drips…
Englishman killed on State Highway 27 near Matamata
The man who was struck by a vehicle and killed on State Highway 27 near Matamata, early on Saturday morning has been named 24-year-old Michael William Spink, from North Yorkshire, England, police said.
He was reportedly on his way home after his own vehicle had ended up in a ditch.
Fatal Norsewood crash
The two people killed in a crash on State Highway 2, about 5km north of Norsewood on Sunday were father and son, Aaron Bruce McDonald (37) and Cruz McDonald (8), police said.
Name release – Waiwhakaiho drowning
The man who drowned in the Waiwhakaiho River, New Plymouth, on Monday was 17-year-old Jaden Peterson, police said.
UPDATE: The Otaki River search –
The Otaki River search on the Kapiti Coast has been suspended for the night. A man's body was found on Monday 23 January 2017. It is believed a second person remains in the water. http://www.police.govt.nz/news/release/update-otaki-search-suspended-night


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Baby Boomer Job Search: Lost In Cyberspace
One of the best ways to find work quickly is to avoid one of the biggest time-wasters that may well be sabotaging your efforts. Take a moment to ask yourself this question….
Are you lost in cyberspace?
Studies show that, despite all of the job boards and websites, a minimum of 75 percent of jobs are still obtained by way of personal referral, i.e. networking. The tighter the job market and the older you are, that figure rises exponentially.
On the other hand, no more than 15 percent of positions are gotten as a result of responding to online postings. So if you are sitting for hours in front of your computer answering ads, you're guaranteeing yourself two things: maximum competition levels and loads of frustration!
Therefore be diligent and smart about how you spend your time.
Plan to devote a minimum of 80 percent of your job search hours reaching out to others and forging mutually beneficial relationships. These valuable connections will be your most direct route to reemployment. Here are some ways you can do that:
Start by making a list of your personal contacts and plan to concentrate on people whose profession requires a large amount of public interaction, e.g.: lawyers, accountants, physicians, hair stylists, counselors, etc. Then send out an email letting them know your situation and the type of work you are targeting. You'll want to write something along the lines of, "If you have any suggestions, leads or contacts you think would be helpful, I'd greatly appreciate you sending them my way." You are asking for information only, and those in your network will be happy to respond and help you if they can.
Join job search groups, especially those that meet regularly and provide opportunities to exchange information as well as the all-important follow-up and personal accountability factor. The government has established Career One Stop Centers throughout the country that provide workshops and group support. Here's the link to locate the one closest to you.
Another surefire way to network while you get ahead? Take a class in your line of work. You will not only update your skill sets, you can network with the classmates and the instructor.
Face-to-face meetings are always best but you can broaden your scope by joining groups on LinkedIn. You will want to consider participating both in groups in your specific line of work and general job search groups as well. Here is the link showing how to find and join a group on LinkedIn.
So pull yourself out of cyberspace and push yourself into the world of real people. This may make all the difference in your job search!
This article originally appeared in Feisty Side of Fifty and was reprinted with permission.
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Water Logics
Most of the information fed into this book is based on observations, some casual and some smart but simple scientific observations, which I have made over the past 20 years. If I did not make my observation for this year (2011) with almost drought in some parts of the country and equally bad floods and typhoons effecting the South of the country, this book would end up with unresolved conflict of interests and basic scientific concepts and tenets.
My observations
The observations are as good as gold and they are a good base for my water logic to end this book.
One must take one important factor into consideration.
Coal Power
This is the year with full commission of the Coal Power.
Most of my predictions in the past predictions were made on scientific grounds and have come true. For Coal Power my guess was I need at least another five years of observation for it to be of scientific in nature, value added and substantive.
My gut feeling says with one observations I have now, I need not wait for another 5 years, a long period in human terms to make feasible predictions and appropriate correction if there are any.
This year's observations are good enough to base physical and biological predictions.
One observation was of paramount importance.
This time the Indian Oriole did not go back.
I believe I spotted a young one probably born here, Indian Oriole to be precise, well before the approaching winter.
That simple observation is enough for me to base my predictions.
I am entitled to make prediction based on this observation without waiting for another five years.
Why the Indian Oriole did not go back?
It is no secret they move out in winter to escape bad weather and food scarcity.
But they invariably return to their base for breeding.
But not this time round.
1. The warm air currents heralding the Summer did not arrive from the North.
2. Warm air current remained almost constant throughout the year in Kandy and suburbs.
3. Birds were confused (at least one pair) to make a move.
4. Birds made an evolutionary interesting decision to base their breeding here.
5. That is the beginning of a new niche of endemicity and its evolution.
It was our COAL POWER BOOM.
We were generating coal power (both oil and coal) electricity to make the short fall of rain and the lack of capacity of the water reservoirs.
We did not do that based on a scientific plan.
24 hour generation of coal power and the resultant failure of normal movement of upper air currents had an effect this year.
The failure of normal movement of warm air currents that determined bird migration did not happen this time round due to constant warm air produced by Coal Power Plants.
The bird migrate towards the warm air atmosphere.
Our hills are not tall enough to cool the warm air generated by the 24 hour Coal Power generation.
They remained almost stagnant not circulating except upward movement and there was no lateral movement and air currents.
There was no need for them to migrate backward with constant warm air in the atmosphere.
They remained here and some of them even bred here, I believe.
That is of course the good news.
Now to the bad news.
This time inter-monsoonal rain did not come in its regular 10 to 14 day cycles.
They do not come in that pattern for number of years due to global warming.
They humidity of air remained high.
When the rain came it was unusually heavy.
There were flash floods.
This is very easy to explain.
With warm air, the volume of water vapour remaining in air to form clouds increased appropriately.
The delay or really the prolongation of short spells (10-14 day cycles in the past) to almost six (6) weeks interval of inter-monsoonal rain increased the amount or the volume of water vapor in the atmosphere to form clouds.
When the rain did come in about 6 to 8 weeks cycles they were unusually heavy.
All the necessary conditions were there for flash floods.
It did not rain.
It poured.
Now what is the contribution of coal power?
It hindered the natural cooling of air currents over our comparatively shorter hill (they are not Himalyas) side.
It is only about 6000 to 8000 feet ascent.
What was the end result?
The rain clouds bypassed Sri-Lanka and landed on Indian subcontinent unleashing flash floods with never known rain in some part of India.
This is another time we collaborated with India.
They should congratulate our energy planners for introducing Coal Power for the windfall of water to India.
Only other time we collaborated was at the last Cricket World Cup.
With the help of politicians meddling with cricket we helped India to win.
We were generous.
It is far better to make almost 2 billion Indians happy instead of 20 million here.
That is our benevolence for Indians.
Instead of worshiping the millions of gods they believe in, the Indians should turn towards Sri-Lanka and make Namaskaras to our politicians and the energy planners who advice them for the windfall of the rains they got.
If we did not generate coal power we would have had the normal inter-monsoonal rains in shorter spells (humidity and saturation were enough to form rain clouds) of time and the rain would have landed here instead of in India.
One must not forget that Sri-Lanka is a small island only of 140 miles across and at the high speed of winds in upper atmosphere even big rain clouds can pass across in half an hour and reach mainland of India in 4 hours to precipitate as rain.
We are even generous to donate our rain clouds to poor Indian farmers.
So make sure the excess grains you produce sell back to Sri-Lanka and make a profit in times of our needs.
The end results of coal power are many,
1. Increase the rate of global warming.
2. Pollute our air we breath.
3. Interrupt our inter-monsoonal rain.
4. Donate rain clouds to Indian farmers.
5. Get the grain from India in return to feed our masses.
6. Divert Indian migrating Oriole to Sri-Lanka and make them breed here.
7. Develop a pattern of species extinction by interfering with upper air currents and to make them breed here so that the brood will not have enough grain to feed themselves.
Only sure recipe I know of, for cooling our atmosphere is the rain that comes during inter-monsoonal spells and it cools the air while taking away the soot and all the poisons in the air with it.
All these information mentioned above are copyrighted and if any scientist use them, at least have the curtsey's to acknowledge them as coming from simple observations of a doctor almost in retirement.
Solutions to overcome the lack of rain.
If I do not give solutions to the above problems our farmers may have to go through, I am a mis-informant, only good for the coffin sooner or later.
I will give the simplest to the more complex if the energy planners have the wisdom to institute them as a remedy.
They will prevent some of the maladies.
But global warming is a global issue.
We have to wait till year 2020 when America is ready to accept it as its own liability and culpability.
Simple Solutions.
1. Give up the 100% electricity dream.
2. Give up Coal power.
3. Revisit the wisdom of our old kings, water was the only asset we had and only asset we are going to have.
All the above can be achieved or disposed of without two third majority in the parliament.
More Complex Solutions.
1. Institute an ongoing study of how the air currents above our head (Sri-Lanka) behave.
2. Determine the factors that influence the air currents.
3. Till them generate Coal Power only during day time starting at 10 a.m and stop producing it at 4 p.m. when our shops close.
4. Use Hydroelectric power generation in the night.
The items 2 and 3 will simulate Natural Cooling Cycle (N.C.C) and minimize the effect of thermal power on natural cooling at night.
It will not bring 10 to 14 day cycles of yesteryear but at least minimize flash floods and heavy precipitation.
5. Come to a policy of 70% electricity sufficiency and declare zones of no electricity at all (not even gas/oil generated) covering at least 30% of the country's designated rain forest.
7. Energy Tax or Global Warming TAX (GWT-Gonnu-WannanTa AthaDheemaX) for every mile on gas/oil and not for electric cars.
8. The most ambitious project is to make Piduruthala-Gala tallest mountain range in Asia, even taller than the Himalaya by declaring a project to make it taller in 6 years.
This is my miracle dream.
It can be done by putting all the rubbish advertisement that are intended for the next round of elections.
The papers should be pasted over Piduruthla-Gala (ROCK) commencing this Christmas, 2011.
When the end of the world come true in 2012 or after we can climb up and watch it up to the heaven from there.
Everyone who voted for this two third majority government except Tamils (they should continue to go to Kataragama as usual) should make a pilgrimage to Piduruthala-Gala and paste the paper over it with a water-resistant paste.
By the time of the next elections come, it will be taller than the Himalaya and we will trap all the rain clouds.
We will be back to square one once again.


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By Pam Reinig
Register Editor
Cats and dogs need exercise as much as their human owners. But before you think about opening your front or back door and letting them roam free, know this: Both the City of Elkader and Clayton County have ordinances that prohibit allowing pets to run "at large." In other words, if your pet sticks his or her paws outside your yard, it better be on a leash. If it's not, you could be fined.
Patrons who use computers at the Elkader Public Library are in for a pleasant surprise.
Thanks to a very recent donation from FreedomBank, larger monitors are now available for the public to use during library hours. The bank delivered more than a dozen 19-inch monitors Monday, replacing a similar number of 17-inch monitors already in use at the library.
This old moonshiner, who bears a striking resemblance to Elkader resident Howard Mayer, poses in front of a still that will be part of the Carter House's season-long tribute to Prohibition.
An antique still that was once buried in a Northeast Iowa farm field is the centerpiece of a kick-off celebration planned for Friday, June 2, at the Carter House Museum in Elkader.
Kenny Solcum
Clayton County Conservation
When I get the question, "how does one become a naturalist," I usually say "I'll let you know when I find out." But for a more serious answer, I can actually point to one singular moment.
One of several honors presented to Alyssa Barker, left, at Central's annual honors' event was the KWWL Best in Class Award. Alyssa, who is Central's top graduate, is pictured with counselor Shelby Huster.
The valedictorian for the Central Class of 2017 is Alyssa Barker. It has been a Register tradition to feature the top graduate or graduates. Here are the answers Alyssa gave to our questions.
By Nick Trenkamp
Central Superintendent
On May 9th I attended Central's Awards Night, one of my favorite annual ceremonies. It is a great opportunity to recognize and reflect on all the hard work our students have put into their academics and extra curricular activities. This night also highlights the wonderful community support given to Central staff and students. It truly does "take a village to raise a child."
Central sophomore Olivia Backes plays "Taps" ending a Civil War presentation at the Carter House Annex, Elkader.
Standing on the stoop of the Carter House Annex on a bright, sunny Tuesday afternoon, Central sophomore Olivia Backes brought to an end her work on the Civil War in a most appropriate way. Solemnly lifting a polished bugle to her pursed lips, the experienced trumpeter played a moving and mournful verse of "Taps."
Kim Hurley has recently completed a project that enables visitors to find information on more than 900 points of interest throughout the county.
Clayton County. Gorgeous rolling hills, breathtaking views of the Mississippi River, historical downtowns—and over 950 hidden treasures!
950 hidden treasures? What exactly are these 950 hidden treasures? They are Points of Interest (POI) throughout the county—businesses and services, parks and recreation, education, health and wellness, shops, lodging, and, dining establishments. Within these broad categories are many surprises such as two airports, five newspapers, nine wineries, eight museums, and five golf courses.
This old house near Elgin is one of several contributions to a collaborative project. The photo was taken by Central student Megan Glawe.
Picture this: A collaborative project that uses the work of student photojournalists to unite the communities served by five Northeast Iowa schools.
Elkader Fire Chief Scott Marmann, third from left, accepts a donation from PeopleService. Three employees of the company were on hand at the presentation: Kim Werger, Dennis White, and Jared Burkle. The money will be used to help purchase a new water rescue suit.
There's an ironic twist to a donation given last week to the Elkader Fire Department in honor of a recent daring rescue: The gift came from a company that employs two of the people involved in the heroic effort.
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Hey guys! Today I thought I would share with you one of my favorite recipes that I have concocted lately. It may seem a bit weird, but trust me, this is so cozy and delicious and relatively healthy. (No added sugars – unless you're like me and add brown sugar or honey at the end – haha.) It started when I purchased two jars of PB2 – one of original peanut butter and one of the chocolate peanut butter variation. I wanted to try using it in different ways other than just reconstituting it and using it as actual peanut butter in a sandwich or with fruit. So I was making oatmeal one day, and I usually place a half banana in my oatmeal to sweeten it up and add some interest, but I decided to throw in some chocolate PB2 and it was absolutely delicious. It tastes like oatmeal that has bananas and Reese's peanut butter cups in it. Delicious. I like to add cinnamon on top sometimes for an extra special bit of "wow".


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Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post.
I hear what Jennifer Golbeck is saying. While I love that Netflix recommends movies I might like to watch, and I am equally happy when Amazon makes shopping recommendations, I understand it can be disconcerting when the same online behaviors that drive actions like those end up telling retailers more about us than we might like.
However, as Benjamin Franklin said, there's "a place for everything, and everything in its place," and at Bunchball, we know that in certain situations, people welcome the benefits of sharing their data. We've found that people are most likely to participate in data sharing if:
• The process is transparent. When asked to share their data, most people want to understand exactly what data will be used, why it's being used, who gets to use it, etc.
• They receive a reward in return. People want meaningful value in exchange for their data.
When the process for sharing data is transparent and linked to specific goals, most people don't mind revealing their data. And while most people understand this value at a retail level, another place where this is particularly true is when they're at work. Why? Because more and more people are beginning to recognize that data analytics can be used to make work better for both employees and managers.
As every employee knows, success in today's workplace involves interaction with a multitude of digital systems: sales force automation, social collaboration and learning management, to name just a few. Each of these contribute data about an employee's skills and performance, and taken altogether, they can form a comprehensive "360-degree" view of each employee. Employees can use this information to see where they're strong and where they need improvement. It answers the number one question employees want to know, which is "How am I doing?" Likewise, managers can use this information to field better teams and improve the work experience for their employees.
Companies are finding that by listening to what employees are telling them, both implicitly and explicitly through interacting with their systems, they can make work more productive and engaging. They're marrying big data analytics with recent research on universal human motivators in a process called gamification. But don't let that name fool you. Gamification isn't about playing games. It's about applying the same principles that have always inspired people - goals, status and rewards - to motivate employees to accomplish high-value actions.
Here are a few examples of how gamification works in the employee space:
• RMH Franchise Corporation, which operates almost 140 Applebee's restaurants, has turned to gamification to engage employees and decrease employee churn. In an industry where employee turnover rates hover around 62 percent, and employee onboarding and performance-management can demand significant time and resources, RMH has made impressive strides with "Bee Block," a gamified employee website. When logged in, employees can manage their profiles, review their own data and participate in contests -which are automated and broadcast in real-time via "Bee TVs" placed strategically throughout restaurant workstations. By tapping into the motivations of its hourly workforce, Applebee's has improved employee engagement, and early results show a whopping 20 percent reduction in turnover. Additionally, check averages have gone up - leading to increased tips!
• T-Mobile used gamification to address a completely different challenge. In order to provide superior customer support and issue resolution, T-Mobile needed to drive collaboration between the people who interact with new devices and customers everyday: its service and sales personnel. To that end, the mobile carrier wanted to motivate customer care and retail representatives to make T-Mobile's online social business community their go-to resource for knowledge-sharing. And with gamification, the company was able to create a flourishing community! T-Mobile dialed up employee engagement by 1,000 percent and engaged more than 30,000 frontline representatives, empowering them to more effectively respond to customers' queries because they were working better together. This resulted in improved customer care and a 6,000 percent increase in the "likes" awarded for helpfulness and accuracy on peer responses to community questions. In her TEDTalk, Jennifer says that her goal is to improve the way people interact online; gamification is helping T-Mobile do just that by improving interactions among employees with the T-Community.
As these examples show, using data at work can be practical, effective and beneficial. When the process is transparent and based on what we know about human motivation, it drives business performance and makes work better for both employees and managers.
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Download Saint Augustine Study Guide
Saint Augustine Summary
(Literary Masterpieces, Critical Compilation)
Saint Augustine is one of the most important early Christian writers, yet serious general readers read him less frequently than his influence justifies. In his own lifetime, Augustine almost single-handedly codified the standards for the priesthood and consecration of bishops. His aggressive attacks against Donatism thwarted a serious challenge to the rights of the Catholic hierarchy to ordain. The early Christian Church included Augustine among its Fathers, a distinction reserved for those whose writings it considered essential in the formulation of Christian doctrine.
In the Middle Ages, Augustine's Confessiones (397-400; Confessions, 1620) became not only the literary model for conversion but for conversion literature, an influence felt in Dante's La divina commedia (c. 1320; The Divine Comedy, 1802). The Renaissance ranked Augustine as at least of equal importance to Saint Thomas Aquinas as a Christian philosopher. This period's manuscript iconography thoroughly Europeanized the African saint. American Puritans such as William Bradford, following John Calvin's theory of cyclical history, considered Augustine's conversion voyage to Italy a model of Israelite release from Egypt and, in turn, a parallel to the journey to the Promised Land of America. The twentieth century deconstructed Augustine's writings to posit what Kenneth Burke calls a "rhetoric of religion" based on Plotinan hierarchies of language that move from the word to The Word.
Readers of Garry Wills's Saint Augustine will find none of this literary history in his volume. Following the format of the Penguin Life series, Wills sets to one side most of what history has made of his subject and presents instead only what selected secondary sources and some important passages from essential primary material can tell him about Augustine.
For those readers wanting a quick lesson on the saint, this method has its advantages. The biography opens to a broad audience challenging but rewarding works, such as De ordine (386; On Order, 1942), De Trinitate (c. 419; On the Trinity, 1873), and Augustine's exegesis of Genesis, the Psalms, and the Gospel of Saint John, not to mention the Confessions. Wills has successfully tackled the clearly formidable task of limiting the life and thoughts of any person as complex as Augustine to slightly more than 150 pages, given the restrictions of the series format.
There is nothing utterly wrong in Wills's treatment, as long as readers keep several things in mind. First, the book is essentially a primer and only that. The biography lacks the subtlety of Peter Brown's classic study Augustine of Hippo (1967), from which it quotes frequently. Brown's work is as much an introduction to Augustine as Wills's, and it is just as accessible to general readers, with the real advantages of detail and unobtrusive documentation. W. H. C. Frend's The Donatist Church (1952), another study to which Wills often refers, is a fascinating account not only of Donatism but also of daily life in early Christian North Africa. This book also is wonderfully readable and in no way abstruse.
The second caveat is that Wills aims to popularize, running the serious risk of distorting his subject. This objective may have been less a problem in Wills's Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln at Gettysburg (1992), if only because of its greater proximity to the culture and era of most of its readers. Here, though, are several examples of the kind of popularizing that occurs often in Wills's book. Readers of this essay can judge whether they distort or otherwise interfere with the work.
In discussing Augustine on the nature of memory, a central topic in the Confessions, Wills writes as follows:
Vladimir Nabokov had obviously been reading Augustine when he made Humbert Humbert describe his own self-awareness as "a continual spanning (distentio) of two points, the storable future and the stored past" (Lolita, Section 26).
Nabokov's Speak, Memory (1966) is a confessional autobiography...
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Decided to make an actual dinner today, so the menu consisted of beef and noodles, green bean casserole, croissants (Pillsbury) and watermelon for dessert.
The beef and noodles were made in the slow cooker so I only had to use the oven briefly for the casserole and croissants, but that was still enough to heat the house up. This was not a complete from scratch meal as it is just to hot to be in the kitchen long but it turned out quite tasty!


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How to Quantify Online Market Share
Successfully quantifying online market share allows businesses to gain perspective on how well their online operations are performing. Market share figures can be far more useful than simple sales figures, as they take the performance of competitors into account as well. However, getting an accurate figure for online market share can be a complex process, requiring companies to place strict definitions on exactly who their competitors and customers are.
Market Share
A company's market share is the percentage of total market sales that it accounts for. It is obtained by dividing the company's overall sales by the total sales in that marketplace and then multiplying by 100. This allows companies to see how much they have sold in terms of market size, rather than as raw numbers. Online market share works along an identical principle, but it only takes into account online sales.
Define Market
Correctly defining your market can be a more challenging part of quantifying your online market share than actually performing the calculation itself. One key aspect of market definition is knowing which other companies to include as competitors. For example, a computer store specializing in Apple equipment might need to choose between including only other Apple-specific stores or all computer stores in its calculation. In addition, you might choose to only look at sales to a particular key geographical area or demographic.
Define Data Parameters
Once you have defined your market, you must acquire suitable data on it. It is important to obtain data from reliable sources, such as trade publications and the annual figures of your competitors. In addition, you must ensure that you do not skew your figures by taking into account offline sales. You will also need to decide whether to look at unit sales or revenue. Unit sales gives you the most accurate representation of overall sales figures but does not take the price differences between competing products into account.
Set Time Period
Lastly, you should choose the time period you intend to analyze. Longer time periods tend to give more accurate overall results, as they are less susceptible to skewing from anomalous sales periods. However, analyzing over a shorter time frame allows you to measure how a specific event, such as a promotional campaign, affected your online market share. As a rule of thumb, look to analyze market share for at least the previous financial year.
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- Aquariums or zoos are fabulous to get children excited about biology. What kid doesn't love learning about exotic animals?
- Science centers or museums offer programs and exploration time. It is easy to fill up a day at one of these locations. Many also offer iMax movies or planetarium shows. Plus as a bonus you can go rain or shine! I hate it when my carefully planned trip gets ruined by rain.
- What kind of field trip can you go on to support literacy? Take a trip to the children's theater. Once we went to see the BFG after using the book as a read aloud. It was one of my favorite field trips ever. The play was fantastic.
- Some historical sites provide living history presentations, have free or low cost programs, and offer crafts like candle making.
- If you teach in the city, you may consider taking your students to a park or nature center to expose them to a natural environment.
- If you live near a state or federal park, forest, grassland, seashore or monument call and see what they offer for field trips. One of these sites near me does not charge admission and provides a free program. All we have to pay for is our transportation. You can't beat it.
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Field Trips - Where to Go?
I like to take students on a field trip after testing and before the end of the year. We used to be able to just schedule a field trip to a park, play or museum without anyone questioning it. In recent years we have been asked to fill out long forms detailing how the trip is educational, and what activities we plan to complete before and after the field trip to enhance the experience. I do agree that field trips should be educational but sometimes the experience of going somewhere new is an educational experience in itself.
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