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The Supreme Court heard the People’s Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL) application seeking directions to ensure that authorities do not prosecute individuals under S.66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act, 2000), which the SC had struck down S.66A in Shreya Singhal vs Union of India & Ors., (2015) 5 SCC 1. Today, the Court has asked all the States, Union Territories and Registrar-General of High Court’s to reply to PUCL’s application. Previously on 5th July 2021, the SC had directed the Union of India to reply to PUCL’s application by 19th July 2021. Union of India filed their reply on 26th July 2021, and PUCL has filed a rejoinder in response to the reply. IFF has provided legal assistance to PUCL.
Supreme Court hears PUCL’s Application.
PUCL’s application, which seeks directions against continued enforcement of S.66A of the IT Act, came up for hearing before a two-judge Supreme Court bench consisting of Justice Nariman and Justice Gavai. The bench ordered States, Union Territories and Registrar-General of High Courts to reply to PUCL’s application, and listed the case four weeks from 2nd August 2021. On the last date of the hearing i.e. 5th July 2021, the Court had directed the Union of India to reply to PUCL’s application.
Senior Advocate Sanjay Parikh, Sanjana Srikumar, Abhinav Sekhri, Vrinda Bhandari, Tanmay Singh and Krishnesh Bapat represented PUCL before the Court. The Solicitor General of India, Mr Tushar Mehta, represented the Union of India.
PUCL is one of the foremost civil liberties organisations in the country. It has filed several cases apart from the petition challenging the constitutionality of S.66A, which have led to landmark judgments that have expanded human rights in India. Some of these judgments include Telephone tapping case (1997) 1 SCC 301, Fake police encounter in Manipur (1997) 3 SCC 463; Disclosure of criminal background and assets by political candidates, (2003) 9 SCC 490; Challenge to POTA (2004) 9 SCC 980; and Encounter killings in Maharashtra, (2014) 10 SCC 635.
PUCL was one of the petitioners in Shreya Singhal vs Union of India & Ors., (2015) 5 SCC 1 (Shreya Singhal) where the Hon’ble Supreme Court held that S. 66A of the IT Act, 2000 violated the right to freedom of speech and expression (summary). Despite the decision, individuals across the country continued to be prosecuted under the provision.
In 2019, PUCL, with legal assistance from IFF, approached the Supreme Court seeking directions to ensure the implementation of the decision in Shreya Singhal. In February 2019, the Supreme Court directed the Union of India to ensure compliance with its decision by making available copies of the judgment to Chief Secretaries across the country. The Chief Secretaries, in turn, were directed to sensitise police departments across the country.
PUCL again approaches the Supreme Court
Despite the Supreme Court’s direction in February 2019, findings on Zombie Tracker - a platform built by IFF in collaboration with Civic Data Labs (CDL) - indicated that as many as 810 cases under S.66A are pending before the district courts in 11 States. These findings prompted PUCL to approach the Supreme Court again to prevent continued enforcement of the provision. In the Application, PUCL has discussed the findings on the Zombie Tracker and informed the Supreme Court of the ongoing cases under S.66A. On 5th July 2021, PUCL’s application came up for hearing, and the Court directed the Union of India to reply to PUCL’s application by 19th July 2021.
Subsequently, on 14th July 2021, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued a notification marked “Most Immediate: Supreme Court Matter” directing all law enforcement authorities to stop registering new cases under Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and to withdraw all pending cases immediately. The Notification also referred to PUCL’s application before the Supreme Court, which brought this issue to the MHA's notice, and states that the “Hon’ble Supreme Court has taken a very serious view on the matter.”
Government’s stance and PUCL’s response
On 26th July 2021 Union of India filed their reply to PUCL’s application, and PUCL responded to the reply on 30th July 2021.
In reply to PUCL’s application, the Union of India has stated that they have addressed several letters to State Governments and Union Territories directing them to withdraw cases registered under Section 66A and that they have also published the judgment in Shreya Singhal on the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s website. Apart from this, the Union of India has also mentioned that the primary responsibility of ensuring implementation of the decision in Shreya Singhal rests with the State Government’s as ‘Police’ and ‘Public Order’ are state subjects. Notably, the Union of India has not disputed the fact that prosecutions under S. 66A continue unabated.
In response to the reply, PUCL has stated that the Union of India’s efforts to ensure compliance with Shreya Singhal are inadequate. PUCL has pointed out that Article 144 of the Constitution of India requires all authorities in the country, civil and judicial, to aid the Supreme Court, and has provided a range of suggestions to ensure compliance with the decision in Shreya Singhal. The suggestions include:
- The Union of India should collect details of cases registered under S.66A since the pronouncement of the judgment in Shreya Singhal.
- Director-General of Police in States and Administrators/Lieutenant Governors in Union Territories should forthwith drop investigations under S.66A.
- In cases where a charge sheet has been filed against an accused under S.66A, the Chief Justice of High Courts should issue advisories to subordinate courts to drop all charges and discharge the accused.
- High Courts should put in place a complaint mechanism by which any person against whom a case is registered under S.66A could directly approach a court for speedy redressal.
- The Director-General of Police of all States and Union Territories should ensure police stations within their jurisdictions display a notice that S.66A of the IT Act has been struck down in Shreya Singhal.
- Union of India should ensure Doordarshan and All India Radio make quarterly announcements informing the public that S.66A is no longer in force.
- Union of India should ensure that all official and commercial versions of the IT Act should not include the complete text of S.66A and should inform the reader that the provision has been repealed in Shreya Singhal.
Apart from these suggestions, PUCL, in the rejoinder, has also stated that the issue of non-implementation of decisions of the Supreme Court is not limited to non-compliance of Shreya Singhal, and there are several instances where binding judgments continue to not be implemented. Since non-implementation of judgments has severe repercussions on the administration of justice and the rule of law, PUCL has provided several suggestions to ensure authorities comply with important decisions of the Supreme Court. These suggestions include:
- In cases where the Supreme Court considers that its directions must be implemented strictly, the Court may consider directing the Registry to send copies of the decision to concerned authorities and ask them to file compliance affidavits within a reasonable time.
- The Supreme Court can direct that certain judgments be a part of the National Judicial Academy/State Judicial Academy training and also be a part of training courses of administrative/police services.
- Union of India should summarise the directions of the Supreme Court and publish them in prominent places in police stations/public areas.
- In cases where a statute or a provision of law has been struck down, the Union of India should ensure -
- All official and commercial versions of the statute after the pronouncement of the judgment, do not include the complete text of the repealed provision and inform the reader that the said statute/provision stands repealed.
- The department of publication should publish in the Gazette of India summaries of all the judgments where a provision has been struck down or read down as unconstitutional.
We look forward to the replies from the State’s, Union Territories and Registrar-General of High Court. We hope that the matter is resolved soon, since the continued enforcement of S.66A is not only in blatant disregard of the decision in Shreya Singhal, but also violates the fundamental rights of those being prosecuted under this provision.
We thank PUCL for granting us an opportunity to provide legal assistance to them. We are also deeply grateful to the lawyers who worked on this case, especially senior Advocate Sanjay Parikh, who has led the legal team.
- Application filed by PUCL seeking directions against continued enforcement of S.66A. (link)
- Previous post summarising PUCL’s application seeking directions against continued enforcement of S.66A. (link)
- Rejoinder filed by PUCL in response to the reply filed by the Union of India (link)
- Previous post detailing MHA’s notification dated 14th July, 2021 directing all law enforcement authorities to stop registering new cases under S.66A and to immediately withdraw all pending cases (link)
- Zombie Tracker (link)
- Research paper titled ‘Section 66A and other legal zombies’ by Abhinav Sekhri and Apar Gupta (link)


SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HyperChain Capital, one of the oldest and most prestigious digital assets management companies in the world, has launched HyperBlocks Pro, a professional proof of stake service - the first in the world backed by a major blockchain firm. HyperBlocks Pro’s automated staking facility service is initially launching for holders of tezzies (XTZ) tokens used on the Tezos networks. By delegating this responsibility to HyperBlocks Pro, token-holders can free themselves of the time, security and technical costs associated with performing the task manually. Additionally, users do not need to actually transfer their tokens to HyperBlocks Pro, tokens remain in their personal wallets while securing the network.
As an increasing number of existing cryptocurrencies transition to Proof of Stake, and new ones are launched with staking mechanisms built in, there is predicted to be a rise in demand for professional third party services that allow consumers to easily use these often complicated services.
HyperBlocks Pro is at the vanguard of companies offering staking-as-a-service and comes with the reputation and expertise of HyperChain Capital team, one of the first digital asset management companies in the world focused on blockchain based projects and decentralized protocols.
Stelian Balta, Founder of HyperChain Capital, the creator of HyperBlocks Pro, said: “HyperChain Capital started when we realized that digital assets will be a major asset class and a new digital economy will emerge. We are working hard to create and grow token ecosystems and because we hold our tokens for years, we thought it will be a good idea to offer the community ways to secure networks and get benefits from those networks.
“Staking – or ‘baking’ as it’s known in the case of Tezos – is a smart way for digital asset holders to contribute to the security and distribution of the network without any headaches. It’s a win-win for them and for the digital asset that they hold a stake in. We’re delighted to launch our first service - professional staking for Tezos - one of the most innovative blockchains in the ecosystem.”
HyperBlocks Pro is a subsidiary of HyperChain Capital, one of the first digital asset management companies in the world, and its Tezos and soon to be released Cosmos validator offering mark the former’s first foray into staking. HyperBlocks Pro has ambitious plans to roll out a wide range of staking services as it seeks to establish itself as the preeminent staking specialist within the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
The company will initially be offering a professional staking service for Tezos Network, but has plans to offer staking services for Cosmos Network and other blockchain platforms in the near future. In addition to offering Tezos baking and Atom staking once the Cosmos mainnet goes live, HyperBlocks Pro will be launching TomoChain masternodes in Q4 of 2018.
Learn more at http://hyperblocks.pro/


The Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor, Ennio Morricone, is born in Rome. Morricone has composed music for several hundred movies and TV series, including for The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
Nov 11, 2004
Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization and president of the Palestinian National Authority, dies in France.
Nov 12, 1966
Buzz Aldrin takes the first space selfie, while on a mission that proved astronauts can undertake extravehicular activity in space, paving the way for the Apollo programme and the eventual landing on the Moon.
Nov 14, 1889
American journalist Elizabeth Cochran Seaman aka Nellie Bly leaves on a trip to emulate Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's fictional work Around the World in 80 Days. She does the journey in 72 days.
Nov 15, 1867
Edward A Calahan unveils a device that uses a telegraphic printer to print the stock price ticker system in New York City. Prior to this, information from the New York Stock Exchange travelled by mail or messenger. (Representative Image)
Nov 16, 1945
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization set up to promote well-being through education and scientific collaboration.(Source: history.com, onthisday.com)


Xi Jinping arrived in Rome last night.
Xi wants the visit to usher in a “new era” for Sino-Italian relations (China Daily):
“I hope to work with Italian leaders to map out the future of our relationship and move it into a new era.”The big news: China and Italy are expected to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Why that’s a big deal: Italy will become the first G7 country to sign up to Xi’s signature foreign policy project. And it comes over the objections of other EU countries and the US.
The MOU is expected to preview Chinese investment in the four ports of Genoa, Palermo, Trieste, and Ravenna.
Some context: Increased Chinese investment in Italy is starting from a low base (FT):“Italy…only ranks 76th globally for Chinese capital invested in greenfield projects in the last 10 years.”“Even when including mergers and acquisitions and other forms of investment, Italy…lags behind peers in terms of Chinese investment.”
The bigger picture: The EU is trying to form a common position on Chinese investment. But it’s hard to find a consensus in such a diverse set of countries.
CPC People: 习近平抵达罗马开始对意大利共和国进行国事访问
FT: Charts that show why Italy wants China’s Belt and Road Initiative
China Daily: Full text of Xi's signed article on Italian newspaper
SCMP: Italy may be ready to open up four ports to Chinese investment under ‘Belt and Road Initiative’


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The Warsaw Tiger Boys Basketball team put the finishing touch on a Northern Lakes Conference championship season with a 70-44 win at The Rock in Plymouth. The win put the Tigers at 6-1 in the conference, and made them co-champs with league newcomer Mishawaka. It marked the sixth time in seven years that the Tigers claimed at least a share of the NLC crown, and the first under new head coach Matt Moore.
It was also the first time since the 1990-1991 school year that Warsaw staked a claim to the conference championship in football and boys basketball in the same school year.
The Tigers backed the win at Plymouth up with a 76-32 win over Wabash the next night in their final game in the Tiger Den this season. This made the team winners of seven straight games and owners of a 14-7 record, Warsaw will finish up the regular season with a matinee at South Bend Washington on Saturday, February 20, 2021. Junior Varsity tip time is 3 pm.
Congratulations to the teams, coaches, families, and Tiger fans on making history for Warsaw Community Schools!


Donegal is once again proving to be a lucky place for lotto entries, as tonight’s winning ticket has been revealed to be from Lifford.
One lucky local will be starting the New Year with a financial boost to the tune of €4.4million!
The winning numbers were 1, 2, 7, 33, 34, 40 and the bonus number was 6.
Lotto officials have said the winning ticket was a quick pick, and they are appealing to everyone in the north west to check their numbers.
Players can check their tickets in-app or online.


Since the US government has no real ability to effectively protect the language of the American people, they have properly decided to subcontract the job to large corporations. One of these large corporations is the Recording Industry Association of America, or better known as the RIAA. This is evident by the passing of the long awaited, and needed, Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) by the US legislature. What the DCMA entails is the fist step of many to properly preserve the rights of all written, recorded, broadcasted, digitized or any communication of any nature which could have copy write protection. Now, at first this may seem insufficient. After all, it’s only fair to compensate ones creative efforts. Artists need to survive, and if a company promotes an artist then it should have equal rights for compensation as well.
The rights of large multinational conglomerates to properly collect their just due revenue streams should be protected, highly enforced and highly regulated. This protection may come in many forms. One of the current RIAA efforts is to collaborate with makers of hard drives to incorporate special proactive copy write protection features. These features would eventually impact the consumers benefit by reduced usefulness. However this measure is only needed due to lack of consumer participation in protecting the large multinational conglomerates property on the consumer’s hard drive. Another is by watermarking all music; weather digital or other. This would reduce the chance that consumers will make and distribute large quantities of copy write protected materials in America’s vast, and numerous, black markets.
This type of communication control has been around for decades now and is prevalent in every day life. There are common every day words in the American language that are regularly controlled: Coke, AM/PM, Trans-am, Michael Jackson, and even numbers like 7/11. It’s only fair that they are strictly used only after receiving explicit written approval from the rightful owner. The only way to properly ensure this is to require all consumers to have any, but not limited to published, recorded, written, digitized, spoken and opinionated material checked and approved by these large multinational conglomerates prior to the act of any dissemination. This may seem a bit extravagant to the average person on the street. However, if you look at recent enforcement you will see that this is a much needed step.
Such is the case for the recent situation involving the program called DeCSS. This was a small program that enabled the user to actually play and listen to their purchased DVD's under the Linux operating system. Such blatant infringements where not only limited to the playing and enjoyment of personal recording's. But, in fact, to a wide variety of printed articles, web postings and even a T-shirt with the code and comments proudly displayed. This obviously is a very excessive infringement against the rights of the RIAA. And swift harsh punishment was needed. The T-shirt Company was sued as well as a magazine company who printed the source code for the DeCSS. Web sites where ordered to remove all postings, opinions and links of the code as well. Even after those great measures taken by the RIAA. There are some citizens who escaped their just , and much needed, punishment. These citizens still believe that they can play and enjoy their purchased DVD's at their own leisure.
Hopefully, in the near future, the RIAA and large multinational conglomerates will have their much needed equal rights. The RIAA has a dream, that one day all consumers will respect the rights of multinational conglomerates. However this dream will never happen unless we as consumers decide to protect these multinational conglomerates by strict adherence to the DCMA . Or any, and all, other laws that RIAA feels needed. Because it seems apparent that consumers have demonstrated a great lack of concern and empathy for these struggling multinational conglomerates for far too long.
This is taken from an article: here
(I can only hope that this link will not infringe on any copyrights that are due.)
By: Someone who does not want to be sued cs301, Spring 2001


The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities on Aug. 29 approved an order that opens a proceeding to create a zero-emission credit (ZEC) program for eligible nuclear power plants.
The BPU said the action is in line with legislation that Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law in May that made sweeping changes to the state’s energy policy.
The bill signed by Murphy (S-2313) creates a ZEC program to support nuclear generation in the state -- the 2,468-MW Salem plant and the 1,240-MW Hope Creek facility.
New Jersey needs to keep the plants open to reach the state’s clean energy goals, Murphy said in May, noting they provide 40 percent of the state’s electricity and 90 percent of its emissions-free energy.
Public Service Electric and Gas Nuclear owns the Hope Creek plant and has a majority share of the Salem plant, which it co-owns with Exelon Generation. PSEG officials have said the nuclear plants will close if they don't receive extra financial support.
Under the ZEC program, eligible nuclear power units that demonstrate a need would be designated to receive credits to maintain the state’s nuclear energy supply.
The BPU was designated as the agency to create and administer a ZEC program and distribution mechanism.
By November 2018, the board will create the ZEC program including an application process for ZEC eligibility review and a mechanism for each of the state’s electric companies to buy ZECs from the selected nuclear power plants. The process to create the program will include extensive public hearings, the BPU said.
As part of the program, the board will also conduct a second proceeding to certify which applicant nuclear power units are eligible to receive ZECs and to establish a rank-ordered list of those plants that are eligible based upon the process the board creates. Under the law this proceeding must be completed by April 2019 and it will include public input.
Eligible nuclear energy generators with the ability to feed into the PJM Interconnection power grid footprint could be approved to provide ZECs for the state’s energy supply, which would then be purchased by the state’s four electric companies, the BPU said.
ZECs in other states
Other states have also moved to set up ZEC programs aimed at supporting nuclear generation.
In December 2016, Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner signed a broad energy bill into law that was intended to ensure that Exelon's financially troubled nuclear power plants in Clinton and Quad Cities, Illinois, remain open for another 10 years, the governor's office noted in a news release at the time of the signing. The measure also will give a boost to energy efficiency and renewable energy efforts in Illinois.
The law will provide about $235 million a year through a 10-year contract to the two nuclear power plants. The 1,065-MW Clinton and 1,871-MW Quad Cities plants in Illinois faced looming shutdowns prior to the law.
The Future Energy Jobs Act amended the Illinois Power Agency Act and created a new commodity, the ZEC, which is a tradeable credit that represents the environmental attributes of one megawatt-hour of energy produced from a zero carbon-emission facility, such as a nuclear power plant. The statute grants ZECs to certain qualifying energy generating facilities.
In New York, a clean energy standard adopted by state utility regulators allows for ZECs as a way in which to nuclear generation online in the state.
Generators challenged the Illinois and New York ZEC programs in the courts.
The case in New York involved legal action brought by the Coalition for Competitive Electricity, Dynegy Inc., Eastern Generation LLC, the Electric Power Supply Association, NRG Energy, Roseton Generating LLC and Selkirk Cogen Partners L.P. against commissioners with the New York Public Service Commission.
The plaintiffs in the case challenged one aspect of the CES order adopted by the PSC that awards ZECs to certain nuclear generators for their zero carbon-emissions electricity production. Plaintiffs claimed that this program was preempted under the Federal Power Act and that it violates the dormant Commerce Clause.
But a federal judge in July 2017 turned aside the challenges. That same month, a judge with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued an order that rejected challenges to the Illinois ZEC element of the Illinois law.
Meanwhile, earlier this year, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Department of Justice said in a brief filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit that the FPA does not preempt the ZEC program in Illinois.


China: 13 assailants shot dead in police station attack in Yecheng County
Police officers have killed 13 assailants in an attack on a police station in China’s restive western province of Xinjiang, officials say.
The attackers drove a car into the station and set off explosives on Saturday morning, the local government said on its website.
Three police suffered minor injuries but no civilians were hurt, it added.
The Chinese authorities blame Muslim Uighurs from Xinjiang for an increasing number of attacks in the province.
“On the morning of June 21, a group of thugs drove a car into a police building in Yecheng County, Kashgar province and detonated explosives,” the local government website said.
“Police shot dead the 13 attackers,” it reported. It provided no further details.
Verifying reports from the Xinjiang region is difficult because access for journalists is restricted and the flow of information is tightly controlled.
The authorities have tightened security in Xinjiang in recent months.
On Monday, China executed 13 people in Xinjiang for what it called “terrorist attacks”.
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Navy dolphins discover rare old torpedo off Coronado
SAN DIEGO — In the ocean off Coronado, a Navy team has discovered a relic worthy of display in a military museum: a torpedo of the kind deployed in the late 19th century, considered a technological marvel in its day.
But don’t look for the primary discoverers to get a promotion or an invitation to meet the admirals at the Pentagon — although they might get an extra fish for dinner or maybe a pat on the snout.
The so-called Howell torpedo was discovered by bottlenose dolphins being trained by the Navy to find undersea objects, including mines, that not even billion-dollar technology can detect.
“Dolphins naturally possess the most sophisticated sonar known to man,” Braden Duryee, an official at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific said after the surprising discovery.
While not as well known as the Gatling gun and the Sherman tank, the Howell torpedo was hailed as a breakthrough when the U.S. was in heavy competition for dominance on the high seas. It was the first torpedo that could truly follow a track without leaving a wake and then smash a target, according to Navy officials.
Only 50 were made between 1870 and 1889 by a Rhode Island company before a rival copied and surpassed the Howell’s capability.
Until recently only one Howell torpedo was known to exist, on display at the Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport, Wash. Now a second has been discovered, not far from the Hotel del Coronado.
Meant to be launched from above the water or submerged torpedo tubes, the Howell torpedo was made of brass, 11 feet long, driven by a 132-pound flywheel spun to 10,000 rpm before launch. It had a range of 400 yards and a speed of 25 knots.
Its specifications seem primitive today, but in the late 1800s, it was a leap forward in military armament.
“Considering it was made before electricity was provided to U.S. households, it was pretty sophisticated for its time,” said Christian Harris, operations supervisor for the biosciences division at the Systems Center Pacific.
Marine mammals have been trained at the Navy’s Point Loma facility since the 1960s.
Several species were tested before the Navy settled on the bottlenose dolphin and the California sea lion. Dolphins, in particular, have deep and shallow diving capability, great eyesight and a biosonar system that scientists admire but don’t fully understand.
At the Point Loma facility, 80 dolphins and 40 sea lions are being trained for mine detection, mine clearing and swimmer protection. When the U.S. led an invasion of Iraq in 2003, dolphins were rushed to the Persian Gulf to patrol for enemy divers and mines. Dolphins guard U.S. submarine bases in Georgia and Washington state. This fall, dolphins will deploy for a mine-hunting mission off Croatia.
To train the dolphins, Navy specialists sink objects of various shapes in rocky and sandy undersea areas where visibility is poor. The shapes mimic those of the mines used by U.S. adversaries.
A dolphin is then ordered to dive and search. If it finds something, it is trained to surface and touch the front of the boat with its snout. If it has found nothing, it touches the back of the boat.
When a dolphin named Ten surfaced from a shallow-water dive last month and touched the front of the boat, Navy specialists were nonplused. “It went positive in a place we didn’t expect,” said Mike Rothe, who heads the marine mammal program.
A week later, a dolphin named Spetz did the same thing in the same area. This time, the dolphin was ordered to take a marker to the object.
Navy divers and then explosive-ordnance technicians examined the object, which was in two pieces, and determined that the years had rendered it inert. On one piece was the stamp “USN No. 24.”
The torpedo pieces were lifted to the surface and taken to a Navy base for cleaning and to await shipment to the Naval History and Heritage Command, located at the Washington Navy Yard.
The dolphins have found unexpected things in the past, including a mine-shaped lobster trap during a mission off Canada with the Canadian navy. But a torpedo that was more than a century old and that the divers and trainers needed to consult explosives experts — and Google — to identify?
“We’ve never found anything like this,” said Rothe, his voice full of admiration for the marine mammals. “Never.”
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Here is our new weekly manga columnist, Danielle Leigh – BC.
Like a lot of women who are in their twenties and read manga today, I can trace my love of shojo manga (simply put: Japanese comics targeted to girls) to an animated show called Sailor Moon. Whether or not I knew it was Japanese then, watching it in high school, I remember feeling embarrassed and enthralled by its unapologetically girly nature. The show’s plot was fairly simple — a group of fairly normal junior high school girls were actually superheroes who transformed to fight evil antagonists and save the universe. They may have been a reincarnation theme, as well, who can remember…. The main character, Serena (her name was Americanized for U.S. television) was annoying, a whiny cry-baby klutz who happened to transform into a superhero — “Sailor Moon” — who could somehow save the universe.
Even now I have a hard time understanding what attracted me to this series considering its simplistic plot-lines and dialogue (it first began airing in the U.S. when I was 15, already older than the characters it represented). I do know I probably wouldn’t have loved it so much if I hadn’t first learned to love superheroes and animation in the early and mid 1990’s through exposure to animated shows like Batman: TAS, Superman: TAS, and Spider-man: TAS, X-Men. But unlike those shows, Sailor Moon’s plots stunk.
Why, then, did I fall in love with this series? While the show was absurdly popular in Japan, I did not know that it also fell into an entire genre of Japanese anime and manga entertainment known as “the magical girl.” The magical girl genre follows a girl’s transformation into a superhero in order to battle the forces of evil to save the world. Although on U.S. television I had my choice of superheroes (even a teenage Peter Parker in case I tired of adult superheroes like Batman and Superman) I didn’t have an animated series that revolved entirely around female life – even a fantastical female life. And while I had female superheroes through X-Men and Superman’s Lois Lane was a strong female character without equal, what I didn’t have was a show about personal relationships first, and saving the world second.
I can see now that the show’s fairly conventional “magical girl” dynamic is not what attracted me to the show. What I glommed onto as a teenager was a show which emphasized human relationships and emotional bonds over exciting – even, at times, coherent – plot-lines.
What I would later learn was that there was a whole body of sequential art novels and animated texts which focused exclusively on personal relationships. And female experience. And they were Japanese in origin. But it wasn’t animation that caught my heart and set it on fire for shojo. It was comics, manga, whatever you want to call those charming graphic novels you can now find in every chain bookstore in America for less than 10 dollars a pop.
In spring of 2005 I happened to pick up a volume of Hot Gimmick (published by Viz in the U.S.) from my local library. At the time I was reading American comics on the edges of superhero life (Y: the Last Man, Runaways, Sleeper, Gotham Central) but hadn’t yet made the connection between the sci-fi anime I’d watched in college and the small, but growing, manga section located in my comic book shop. Hot Gimmick wasn’t like my American comics – it was about a dippy, but sweet, teenage girl named Hatsumi who was continually getting pushed around by the not-so-sweet-boys-next-door and who couldn’t find a sense of self-determination if it ran her over in the street. The boys in her life tricked her, messed up her life, ordered her around and did many other bad things I won’t describe. The series was trashy and anti-feminist in the extreme and yet, god, it was interesting.
I, who wouldn’t read romances published in English, was simply a goner. I would end up buying and later selling the entire series, as many people would end up doing who like me followed this neighborhood soap opera over the course of 12 tortuous volumes. Finding Hot Gimmick wasn’t necessarily about finding a great comic so much as it was about finding comics that felt as if they were created just for me.
And, boy howdy, were these comics girly. There were big eyes, flowery backgrounds, pixie pink covers, pretty looking boys and impossibly pretty looking girls – every cliche mainstream American has about Japanese manga was right there ensnaring me. But people can mistake this art style as insipid or ridiculous – for me, what shojo does better than any other comic genre I’ve ever seen is represent the dynamism of human emotion. The story-lines run the gamut from ridiculous (how many people do you know have childhood friends who become a) models, b) famous actors, c) famous musicians…I think you get the picture) to the sublime (watching the title character of Emma do something as simple as explore the world around her for the first time with corrective glasses is a moment of beauty and power in which not a single word is spoken.) Whether or not I can identify with a particular character’s plight isn’t as important as the rush of feeling I get when the emotions leap off the page and accomplish feats I didn’t know pop art was capable of.
My interested in and affection for shojo continues, even if I’ve become more discriminating as I’ve learned to target what I love about the genre and what I find less appealing the more time I spend with these texts. While I also read manga and U.S. comics intended for boys and adult men, I never feel so much at home as when I crack open one of the “girly” books originally intended for Japanese audiences. In March I’ll have been reading manga for three years and while I still yearn for the time U.S. publishers will bring over Japanese comics actually targeted to women my age, I know that even if they did a part of my heart would still belong to the beautiful and melodramatic worlds I find in shojo.
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FDR and Open Commerce
I’ve been surprised that there has been no mention of a famous speech FDR gave in 1941 when it comes to the crisis we face today in the waters off of Somalia. While I in no way want to equate Hitler with Somali pirates, some of the broader principles hold true, including protecting merchant ships and keeping the waters open for commerce, which is how I tie the subject to finance and Wall Street History.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, September 11, 1941…Freedom of the Seas Speech
The Navy Department of the United States has reported to me that on the morning of Sept. 4 the United States destroyer Greer, proceeding in full daylight toward Iceland, had reached a point southeast of Greenland. She was carrying American mail to Iceland. She was flying the American flag. Her identity as an American ship was unmistakable.
She was then and there attacked by a submarine. Germany admits that it was a German submarine. The submarine deliberately fired a torpedo at the Greer, followed later by another torpedo attack. In spite of what Hitler’s propaganda bureau has invented, and in spite of what any American obstructionist organization may prefer to believe, I tell you the blunt fact that the German submarine fired first upon this American destroyer without warning, and with deliberate design to sink her.
Our destroyer, at the time, was in waters which the Government of the United States had declared to be waters of self-defense, surrounding outposts of American protection in the Atlantic.
In the north of the Atlantic, outposts have been established by us in Iceland, in Greenland, in Labrador and in Newfoundland. Through these waters there pass many ships of many flags. They bear food and other supplies to civilians; and they bear materiel of war, for which the people of the United States are spending billions of dollars, and which, by Congressional action, they have declared to be essential for the defense of our own land.
The United States destroyer, when attacked, was proceeding on a legitimate mission.
If the destroyer was visible to the submarine when the torpedo was fired, then the attack was a deliberate attempt by the Nazis to sink a clearly identified American warship.
On the other hand, if the submarine was beneath the surface of the sea and, with the aid of its listening devices, fired in the direction of the sound of the American destroyer without even taking the trouble to learn its identity, as the official German communiqué would indicate, then the attack was even more outrageous. For it indicates a policy of indiscriminate violence against any vessel sailing the seas, belligerent or non-belligerent.
This was piracy, piracy legally and morally. It was not the first nor the last act of piracy which the Nazi government has committed against the American flag in this war, for attack has followed attack.
A few months ago an American flag merchant ship, the Robin Moor, was sunk by a Nazi submarine in the middle of the South Atlantic, under circumstances violating long-established international law and violating every principle of humanity. The passengers and the crew were forced into open boats hundreds of miles from land, in direct violation of international agreements signed by nearly all nations, including the government of Germany. No apology, no allegation of mistake, no offer of reparations has come from the Nazi government….
It would be unworthy of a great nation to exaggerate an isolated incident, or to become inflamed by some one act of violence. But it would be inexcusable folly to minimize such incidents in the face of evidence which makes it clear that the incident is not isolated, but part of a general plan.
The important truth is that these acts of international lawlessness are a manifestation of a design, a design that has been made clear to the American people for a long time. It is the Nazi design to abolish the freedom of the seas and to acquire absolute control and domination of these seas for themselves….
This Nazi attempt to seize control of the oceans is but a counterpart of the Nazi plots now being carried on throughout the Western Hemisphere, all designed toward the same end. For Hitler’s advance guards, not only his avowed agents but also his dupes among us, have sought to make ready for him footholds and bridgeheads in the New World, are all known to the Government of the United States. Conspiracy has followed conspiracy….
To be ultimately successful in world mastery, Hitler knows that he must get control of the seas. He must first destroy the bridge of ships which we are building across the Atlantic and over which we shall continue to roll the implements of war to help destroy him, to destroy all his works in the end. He must wipe out our patrol on sea and in the air if he is to do it. He must silence the British Navy….
It is time for all Americans of all the Americas to stop being deluded by the romantic notion that the Americas can go on living happily and peacefully in a Nazi-dominated world.
Generation after generation, America has battled for the general policy of the freedom of the seas. And that policy is a very simple one – but a basic, a fundamental one. It means that no nation has the right to make the broad oceans of the world at great distances from the actual theater of land war unsafe for the commerce of others….
Our policy has applied from the earliest days of the republic and still applies, not merely to the Atlantic but to the Pacific and to all other oceans as well.
Unrestricted submarine warfare in 1941 constitutes a defiance – an act of aggression – against that historic American policy….
No tender whisperings of appeaser that Hitler is not interested in the Western Hemisphere, no soporific lullabies that a wide ocean protects us from him can long have any effect on the hard-headed, far-sighted and realistic American people….
This attack on the Greer was no localized military operation in the North Atlantic. This was no mere episode in a struggle between two nations. This was one determined step toward creating a permanent world system based on force, on terror and on murder.
And I am sure that even now the Nazis are waiting, waiting to see whether the United States will by silence give them the green light to go ahead on this path to destruction….
There has now come a time when you and I must see the cold inexorable necessity of saying to these inhuman, unrestrained seekers of world conquest and permanent world domination by the sword – “You seek to throw our children and our children’s children into your form of terrorism and slavery. You have now attacked our own safety. You shall go no further.”
Normal practices of diplomacy – note writing – are of no possible use in dealing with international outlaws who sink our ships and kill our citizens.
One peaceful nation after another has met disaster because each refused to look the Nazi danger squarely in the eye, until it actually had them by the throat….
No matter what it takes, no matter what it costs, we will keep open the line of legitimate commerce in these defensive waters of ours.
We have sought no shooting war with Hitler. We do not seek it now. But neither do we want peace so much that we are willing to pay for it by permitting him to attack our naval and merchant ships while they are on legitimate business.
I assume that the German leaders are not deeply concerned tonight, or any other time, by what the real Americans or the American Government says or publishes about them. We cannot bring about the downfall of Nazism by the use of long-range invective.
But when you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.
These Nazi submarines and raiders are the rattlesnakes of the Atlantic. They are a menace to the free pathways of the high seas. They are a challenge to our own sovereignty. They hammer at tour most precious rights when they attack ships of the American flag – symbols of our independence, our freedom, our very life….
Do not let us be hair-splitters. Let us not ask ourselves whether the Americas should begin to defend themselves after the first attack, or the fifth attack, or the tenth attack, or the twentieth attack.
The time for active defense is now….
This is the time for prevention of attack….
Upon our naval and air patrol – now operating in large number over a vast expanse of the Atlantic Ocean – falls the duty of maintaining the American policy of freedom of the seas – now. That means, very simply, very clearly, that our patrolling vessels and planes will protect all merchant ships – not only American ships but ships of any flag-engaged in commerce in our defensive waters. They will protect them from submarines; they will protect them from surface raiders.
This situation is not new. The second President of the United States, John Adams, ordered the United States Navy to clean out European privateers and European ships of war which were infesting the Caribbean and South American waters, destroying American commerce.
The third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, ordered the United States Navy to end the attacks being made upon American and other ships by the corsairs of the nations of North Africa.
My obligation as President is historic; it is clear; yes, it is inescapable.
It is no act of war on our part when we decide to protect the seas that are vital to American defense. The aggression is not ours. Ours is solely defense….
The sole responsibility rests upon Germany. There will be no shooting unless Germany continues to seek it….
The American people have faced other grave crises in their history – with American courage, with American resolution. They will do no less today.
They know the actualities of the attacks upon us. They know the necessities of a bold defense against these attacks. They know that the times call for clear heads and fearless hearts.
And with that inner strength that comes to a free people conscious of their duty, conscious of the righteousness of what they do, they will – with divine help and guidance – stand their ground against this latest assault upon their democracy, their sovereignty and their freedom.
Source: “The World’s Greatest Speeches,” edited by Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm and Stephen J. McKenna


Small town newspapers in Maine where local is everything.
The local newspaper used to be the only way to learn what’s happening. What’s important in a small Maine town makes the approach to the newsprint layout different than the urban method. In small town Maine, there are no gangs, no drive by shootings. Not eighteen car accident pile ups and local weather is a big news item. So are local town elections and school or zoning board rulings. The local hospital in Maine does not have or need a trauma center for gunshot wound treatment.
The level of advertising income to salt and pepper the local community news. That’s another factor in how thick the latest newspaper installment becomes for area readers. What you pay per column inch is low because so is the population readership. Here is a list of Maine newspapers.
Some Maine newspapers are daily, some weekly.
Over the last forty years I have prepared local real estate ads for the weekly paper in my small home town of Houlton. The Aroostook Times published from 1857 to 1916 had a rival newspaper publication called The Aroostook Pioneer. the two newspapers merged to make one viable local voice to keep local readers informed on their community. This blog posted an article on early local radio and television stations in Maine.
Before the Internet, the interstate, small Maine towns were pretty self contained.
You worked locally, spent most of your money in the confines of the local town boundaries. Railroads helped open up commerce by supply the small Maine towns with goods and service work was done by local residents from the community. Passenger trains helped move the locals back and forth from out of town destinations. Telegrams came in to make sure twitter size announcements. Stop. Western Union wired money back and forth when a loved one was stranded, thrown in the hokey crow bar hotel. Where local dances were for the week. Public suppers were huge news you did not want to miss.
The only social media was what you picked up down at the local Grange hall. Or at the grocery store pushing the squeaky wheel wire cart with one wheel that had a mind of its own. Stopping to exchange news with other familiar shoppers. More news gathered by your partner with the window rolled down talking with the shopper you met inside’s other half. Sitting out in the Main Street parked car location waiting for the weeks groceries and the scuttlebutt of news to leave the store. Or local current news gathered while in the swivel pump up chair, getting your hair clipped or styled. You could get quite an earful of local news just like down at the local grain mill or hardware store picking up supplies.
Telephone operators and party lines were another news leak that might be reliable but dependent on the short term memory and number of how many people used in the round robin news gathering.
Some passing on the local community news were hard of hearing and missed vital facts or recalled the news snippet with an agenda filtering. Even the local small town Maine newspaper editors were known for printing the news as they saw fit. Slightly colored, spiced with editorial spirit to increase readership subscriptions. The newsprint produced made it obvious where their political leanings supported on various local, state and even national issues. For the most part, it was all about the local news events.
Birth announcements, who died this week to take their turn in the obituary section of the small Maine newspaper. Who had a tea and who was there. What they wore described as if it was a royal wedding. Painting the picture for the locals who love a story that is close to home. Out of town guests, who they were, what the folks did while they had company all important stuff to readers in a small Maine town. What was served for food and even the dining on the open front porch location all part of the local news. The string of non-paid but eager to write community reporters from out in the far reaching areas of the circulation. The announcements on job promotions from out of town children of local residents filled the small town Maine newspaper columns too.
Who won the small town in Maine local spelling bee is front page and who’s son or daughter do you suppose that is Martha pondered.
Opening up the fresh folded hot off the local press newspaper edition in a small Maine town. Where is there a dance this week and who is calling the rounds or which band is playing live. Before television, folks were travel to the entertainment that was live and local. There was always a series of dances for all ages… out at the lake, at the VFW hall, in a hotel. There were no franchise motels and boarding homes were plentiful. Folks working on the railroad, in the woods or on the farms traveled into town from sparse unpopulated areas of their Maine county location. Working your room and board as a student attending school because where your family lived there was only so far you could go in the one room set up. Where the older ones helped the younger students.
Honor rolls, local police report on barking dog disturbances. There some newsprint set aside to report about the a grass fire that got a little out of hand when the wind came up last Monday. Which local Maine fire departments responded to the local blaze last week. If it is new reported after the last weekly newspaper came out it is still worthy news for this next edition. Maybe there is more known from local sources to add to the earlier reports doubling back to report the story developments.
Advertisements for jobs, the fine print of bankruptcy or foreclosure notices, the odds and ends for sale in a small Maine town.
Who has a vacancy in an apartment coming up and needing to be filled with a quality renter. That’s in there too. Local service providers with a business card size ad or a sale flyer insertion for buy one, get one free. What’s the price per pound for chicken legs or various cuts of beef down at the local Superette or Foodliner this week. In small Maine towns, there is not much for other competing media outlets to spread the news. Like a Paul Revere clopping through the back streets handing out handbills, the local newspaper delivery boy took over the task. Milk men made home deliveries too and picked up the glass empties. He had eggs, other dairy products to peddle in the door to door in a small Maine town.
The fifteen, twenty five or more years ago today rehash of what was going on in earlier newspaper stories.
Those have a corner spot just like the funnies too. Who’s away in the service and wouldn’t Ernie or Cliff appreciate a letter from home the editor reminds. Would you try to send them a little something for home made goodies and a heart felt note from the small Maine town to cheer them up? To know you appreciate their service in the armed forces and being away during the approaching holiday. Small town Maine newspapers shared the joy and pain and the awareness is greater. Now small local newspapers are combining with others in the same economic restraints of rising print production costs, the declining readership to be one strong viable County voice in Maine.
Anything local to print that would only be of interest to someone living in the small Maine town or with a connection to it.
Part of the small Maine town newspaper readership has always been from outside the geographic boundaries of it. On the mailing list to be kept in the local news circle with the newspaper arriving a few days late but still pertinent. To keep up with the small home town in Maine happenings… like a serial television show sequel. Small town local newspapers also produced letterhead, printed materials like wedding or birth announcements to keep their presses rolling.
Today with social media, the you are there instantly happens with anyone that has thumbs to type. Or a cell phone camera to whip out to capture the still image or local happening video loop. You and I are suddenly eye witness news gathers and reporters. The local population is the cub reporter in small town Maine. The small Maine newspaper that only publishes daily or weekly without a website can only feed the readership at set times. With technological advances, the small radio station can now stream video to deliver the local sporting events. Digital sub-channels on the carrier frequency broadcast other offerings in HD streams.
I remember in the 1970’s and the FM stations worked at using a sub channel for Muzak.
Had to change the large reel to reels used to motivate the workers on the other end of the wireless signal. Depending on the time of day, what was played changed to be like a jolt of slow drip audio coffee. Used to tickle the ears to stimulate and make the mundane chore not drag quite so much. No no, that would hurt production efficiency. The Muzak subscription before XM and other music services feeding all the local banks, dentist offices and local grocery stores. The filler to avoid dead air did not have to be elevator music or clarinets of the big band era either. Dial in the background mood needed to the restaurant surround systems. Then watch the toes tap, smiles while the menu is studied or waitress is a tad delayed but it matters less.
The media outlet institution of today is branching out to do more than the one medium always utilized to deliver the message or information. If they want to stay viable and make the leap from analog to digital. My job as a Maine real estate broker is more than listing properties. It is being the local insider with community knowledge that can share that advantage of being here in Maine to someone that never was. Like when on vacation you ask for directions, where’s the best fish dinner in town or how do you get to the water slides, local matters.
Local small Maine town newspapers list the school lunch menu.
No more worrying about are we having bubble and squeak or stewed tomatoes, liver and onions. Or maybe it’s pigs in a blanket on the school lunch menu highlighted at area schools like it is a competition. It’s the default pizza or chicken nuggets everyday, maybe a salad bar.
Or time to bring a homemade bag lunch from home if time allows and you have the ingredients for something custom made. To have it your way with homemade bread, extra layers of smoked turkey or veggie sticks with the ranch dip. Topped off with a devil’s eye date filled or molasses cookie or two. Carefully wrapped up with loving hands to make sure it stay fresh not dried out by lunch time consumption.
The small town newspapers in Maine have gotten thinner. Advertising dollars get poured into other methods to make impressions.
To captivate customers that have a call to action built in to make the advertising dollars well spent. Media information is pinging all around us. The small newspapers are merging and being absorbed to avoid duplication of services to increase efficiency critical to survival. Our low population makes a media buy of a small radio, television or newspaper still the old Maine broadcasting expression … “a dollar a holler” for a advertising spot. Print is not dead, just used in conjunction with other media options in advertising campaigns today.
You need someone that has lived in these parts for some time to add perspective, know the history and being able to relay it quick and efficiently. The small local Maine newspaper was the town crier. But as the editorial decisions on what’s front page, which stories to cover and in what depth are moved further from the community a disconnect occurs. The live and local aspect gets diminished.
Whatever delivered hopefully with friendly humor or a tad of entertainment using local expressions is what the small town in Maine local newspaper did deliver so well.
But as the ad revenue drops off, the increases in layoffs of writers and other support staff follows to belt tighten. The local newspaper turned county regional publication has watered down and not so just local. The deputized local column reporter for a local town aged out and was not replaced. Today, everything has to be entertaining, fed with the teaspoon of sugar to keep the attention and to go down easy. People’s life are too jam packed for anything else right? Less are chewing up full books and the term reading the newspaper means scanning the headlines. Like they are a bullet list of what you need to know today or this week. You need an analysis to tell you what the news coverage talking heads just said in case you missed it.
The yesteryear images of a small but bustling, vibrant small Maine town shot in black and white are nostalgic.
There are a number of Maine publications that just regurgitate the old images from the newspaper back room files. The old cars, wardrobe from earlier times and shots of buildings in the background of the small Maine town now long gone due to fire or progress have an audience. Aerial shots from farm properties in Maine back when every small town had lots of independent family agriculture enterprises are a popular item for stories. And for whoever now owns the property that may be missing some of the farm buildings, the big barn or open wrap around porch. But shot from the air during a good farming year road after road before the invention of drones with cameras are neat images to add to the blog post, the magazine article or newspaper article revisit to yesterday for their readership.
Thank you for reading our Me In Maine blog post about small town newspapers in Maine. The what is happening to them as they dwindle or get bought and pulled under larger media umbrella ownership. What is delivered means small independent bloggers are a source to turn to for the local community lifestyle and news events in the Maine area surroundings.


Sir John Bell, the chairman of the government’s advisory Human Genomics Strategy Group (HGSG) has said that the UK is missing out on the opportunities for both patient and commercial benefits offered by modern genomics.
In an interview with Mark Henderson of the Times newspaper, Sir John says that the National Health Service (NHS) is ‘completely unprepared’ to deliver personalised, genome-based medical care.
Prime Minister David Cameron is reportedly enthusiastic about the potential of genomic medicine to improve medical care, but Sir John has warned that the NHS in not ready to adopt the emerging innovations, despite mounting evidence that the improvements in diagnosis and treatment they offer could ultimately save money.
The latest news of genomics as a diagnostic tool to reveal the cause of serious disease in a young girl from the UK (see previous news) was also highlighted as an example of the potential benefits as yet unavailable via the health service.
Sir John identifies policy barriers to the uptake of genomic technologies including failures to plan for the future, a lack of incentives for commercial development, unsuitable evaluation procedures for genetic tests, and a widespread lack of understanding of the uses of genetic testing among health professionals.
Comment: The PHG Foundation’s independent report and policy recommendations on the measures needed to drive prompt adoption of whole genome sequencing technologies into the NHS are to be presented to the HGSG this autumn. The report, which draws on evidence and discussion with top UK experts in genetics and health, will provide a coherent roadmap for the health service to integrate genomics into standard clinical practice across a wide range of medical specialities.


Multiple entities are sponsoring an evening of art and stories from resettled refugee youth in the Humanities Hall auditorium on Thursday, April 11.
Every Campus a Refuge at Clemson University is hosting Narratio: Art and Stories beginning at 5 p.m. Narratio’s flagship program, the Narratio Fellowship, is an annual storytelling and leadership program aimed at providing refugee youth with the tools and resources to share their narratives and creative works on the world stage. Guests will experience photography, film and poetry created by Narratio Fellows and will learn more about the program from fellowship co-founders, Ahmed Badr and Brice Nordquist.
“We are delighted to welcome Narratio to Clemson,” said Angela Naimou, an associate professor in the Department of English. “Narratio is part of a larger movement to amplify the power of artmaking and storytelling by young people. Creative expression is essential to everyday life, and that is no less true for youth who undergo the deep shocks of war, forced migration, family separation, disrupted education and livelihoods, or the experience of growing up a in new place and another language.
“Too often refugee experiences become fodder for news cycles or election debates. How can we help young people create stories and art on their own terms? We invite our campus and area community to join us in learning more about these young artists and the role of the arts and humanities to the world’s youth today.”
A pre-event reception for the Thursday event begins at 4:30 p.m. outside the auditorium.
A lunch event and storytelling workshop will happen on Friday, April 12. At 11:30 a.m., a lunch conversation on publicly engaged arts and humanities will take place in the Brown Room in the Robert M. Cooper Library. Badr and Nordquist will meet with educators to share experiences on strengthening publicly engaged arts and humanities at their institutions.
An interactive storytelling workshop will be held at 4:30 p.m. in Room 208 of the Watt Family Innovation Center. The workshop will focus on the power of storytelling to build and transform communities through the Narratio method of object-based storytelling, which was developed in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This method enables resettled refugee and immigrant youth to shape and influence the global conversation around displacement, immigration and cultural production.
Space is limited and the workshop is open to all ages. Families, University students and employees and area residents. Register online here.
The events are co-sponsored by the Humanities Hub, Department of English, Department of Languages, Global Learning Institute, the Graduate School, Pathways in the Humanities and Social Sciences Initiative, PPGA, the Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business Inclusive Excellence Council, Engineers Without Borders (Clemson Chapter), Council on Diversity Affairs, Tau Beta Pi, Muslim Students Association, Aurantiaco and The Pendulum.
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BT to pay £20m for naming rights for Murrayfield
May 15, 2014
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The BBC is reporting that talks to sell the naming rights for Murrayfield Stadium in a £20 million deal with BT are at an advanced stage.
The Scottish board has made no secret of its willingness to sell what is describes as its "single biggest piece of our inventory".
With debts of around £11 million, the board is in need of a large injection of cash, and the proposed seven-year BT deal would put it on much sounder financial footing.
Scottish Rugby and BT have both declined to comment on the proposed sponsorship agreement.
While sponsoring new grounds works well - for example, the Emirates Stadium, which Arsenal sold for £100 million over 15 years - rebranding an existing venue is much harder as media and the public tend to continue to refer to it by its more familiar name.
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Tyson Fury took a vow of silence during his latest press conference alongside upcoming opponent Dereck Chisora, who in turn promised to knock out the Manchester fighter when the pair clash on November 29
Brendan Rodgers says Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli is "not complicated" and just wants to do well on Merseyside
Reigning World Grand Prix champion Phil Taylor will begin his quest for a 12th Dublin title against former world champion Steve Beaton after the first round draw was announced on Monday
Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from the inaugural International Premier Tennis League competition as the Spaniard wants to concentrate on planning for the 2015 season following his injury-plagued year
Daniel Agger claims he was not appreciated at Liverpool by Brendan Rodgers, with the defender saying he and the manager were "not on the same page" for most of last season


Joe Wicks hailed as a national treasure after documentary about his childhood
Emotional viewers heaped praise on Joe Wicks after a touching documentary about his childhood aired on the BBC.
Facing My Childhood reflected on the fitness expert's life as a boy growing up with a heroin-addicted father and a mother living with severe obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
The 60-minute programme explored how the 36-year-old's life was shaped by his childhood experiences through a series of candid discussions with his family and friends.
At the age of 12 Joe was left in the care of his dad Gary, who was addicted to heroin, when his mum sought help for her debilitating OCD.
He praised his "brave" mum Raquela for getting the help she needed while his older brother Nikki, 38, tried to shield him from the reality of living with their addict father.
Joe, who also goes by The Body Coach, is probably best known for his intense workout videos which got the country moving during the Covid lockdown.
But fans had the opportunity to see a different, more sensitive side to the father-of-two who broke into tears several times during the documentary.
And some were moved to share their admiration for the personal trainer and praise his bravery on social media.
One viewer wrote: "Joe Wicks is such a gentleman & truly an inspiration (a national treasure). His documentary #FacingMyChildhood is an amazing insightful into #mentalhealth & thank you for your open, honest & emotional reflections".
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Another commented: "Joe Wicks is such a lovely man. He’s truly an inspiration.
"This programme is so insightful and needed more than ever. Mental Health is all around us and education is so important."
A third added: "Goodness me, serious warmth, insight and honesty. Joe Wicks absolutely blew me away tonight.
"A real advocate about listening to children, the effects of growing up around mental illness and how it’s affect for him now."
Joe also took to social media to encourage others to talk about mental health and thank fans for their support.
In a four-part Twitter thread on Monday night, he wrote: "I'd just like to say a huge thank you to all of you for tuning into my documentary on BBC1 this evening.
"The intention of this documentary is to open up conversations around mental health and highlight the support which is out there if you are struggling…
"It’s so important we talk about our issues and remove the shame, guilt and stigma from mental illness and addiction. I really hope the documentary has helped you in some way but if you need more help and support please visit http://bbc.co.uk/actionline.
"There you will find links to all the relevant charities and services you may need. Just a heads up regarding my own personal mental health. Since filming the documentary last year I have found a much better balance with my phone and social media…
"I am in a much more positive place with it all. It was a very emotional process but I’ve come away from it feeling stronger and more positive. Thanks again for all your support. Much love Joe x"
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The Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer, UBA Africa, Abiola Bawuah, the President, Transnational Corporation (Transcorp) Plc, Owen Omogiafo, and Guinness Record breaker, Hilda Effiong Bassey, popularly known as Hilda Baci, have been listed among the dignitaries to speak at the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc 2023 Africa Day celebration.
Also expected to speak on growth and business innovation in Africa at the event are renowned fashion designer, Banke Lawson-Kuku, and Business and Technology Executive, Folusho Gbadamosi.
UBA, in a statement made available to The Star on Monday, said the event will be held at the Tony Elumelu Amphitheater, UBA House, on Wednesday, May 24, 2023.
The bank stated: “Coming at a time where Africans are achieving great feat on the global front, UBA Conversation 2023 provides the opportunity for the African and global audience to hear and connect with diverse panelists on their African journeys, and how they have waded through various challenges to attain global successes in their own rights.
“This year’s theme is: ‘Innovating for Growth in Africa’ and interestingly, this edition involves an all-female panel who are certified professionals in their own right from various fields.
“They include the Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer, UBA Africa, Abiola Bawuah; President, Transnational Corporation (Transcorp) Plc, Owen Omogiafo; award-winning and trendsetting Foodpreneur/Chef, Hilda Baci; Renowned Fashion Designer, Banke Lawson-Kuku and Business & Technology Executive; Folusho Gbadamosi.
“These intelligent women will speak on how they have succeeded at their craft overtime, and the place of innovation in business. They will also speak on their personal journeys, and how women have aptly taken their pride of place against all odds to emerge as business leaders while supporting change on this continent.”
Others expected at the event are the Chairman, UBA Group, Tony Elumelu; the Group Managing Director, Oliver Alawuba; other management staff, and business leaders, among others.
Since 1963, Africa Day has been celebrated every year on May 25 across the African continent and worldwide.
The day was inaugurated by the Organisation of African Unity, in celebration of the unity, diversity, and beauty of Africa and its people.


Naked sword-wielding man arrested after standoff in San Jose
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KFSN) -- San Jose police took a naked, sword-wielding man into custody after a short chase and standoff Tuesday morning.
Police received a 911 call from a witness saying an adult man was in front of a home with an assault rifle. As officers made their way to the scene, he took off in a car.
When Police caught up with the suspect he got out of the car, holding a large samurai sword saying quote, "you're going to have to kill me" several times.
The assault rifle and the suspect's vehicle were safely secured, but it took police more than two hours for the Crisis Intervention Team to talk him into giving up.
bay area, bizarre
- Authorities investigate a shooting in Madera County
- Los Angeles police arrest man in severed head case
- USGS: 6.9 earthquake hits 50 miles west of Eureka
- Calif. emissions law could make gas prices jump
- Police: Man killed in Fresno gang-related shooting
- Man accused of killing Parlier coach identified
- Cornell president named new head of Smithsonian
- Investigators chase 'every angle' in missing jet
- Bees attack drivers after SoCal car crash
- Man holds out atop roof of San Diego FBI building
- Toddler uses FaceTime to help mom after dog bite
- 1 arrested, 1 sought after Visalia Save Mart robbery
- Woman fatally shot by Fresno police identified
- Mexico government 100 pct sure drug capo killed


Rare accolade in a profession where women represent only 1.7% of the workforce
A former Savile Row manager has become the first female builder to be ranked among Britain's 10 best tradespeople.
Sarah Wain, who turned to construction 13 years ago, was recently ranked one of the UK's top builders by TrustMark, a government-supported scheme to recommend good tradespeople in the building industry.
London-based Wain joined the tailor Gieves & Hawkes after leaving university but left when she was 23. She did a building apprenticeship before launching her company House To Home. She is now converting a former church hall in Notting Hill.
Women represent just 1.7% of the manual workforce in construction, according to training watchdog CITB. Of the 324,500 employed, the vast majority have non-manual roles.
Wain told the Evening Standard: "It is more hard work for a woman to do all this lifting and the job is fantastically demanding, but I'm deceptively strong, I'm delighted to have been rated one of the top builders."


We all come to one side when it comes to the popularity of YouTube. Google managed to bring it as the second most popular search engine. Facebook is going to challenge the monopoly with their new application.
Orkut from Google was a trend many years ago. Then came Facebook, breaking all the track records of a social network. After many failed attempts to get people to shift to their apps, Google seems to have settled down. That’s when Facebook comes with IGTV, their reply to YouTube.
IGTV from Facebook; Everything You Need to Know
You know the Facebook way of making people stick to their applications, don’t you? When Snapchat had risen to the fame, they mimicked the most used feature, stories. Mark has shamelessly copied the same to all the applications (Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram).
Now that Instagram hit 1 billion users, he wants to take on the popularity of YouTube. The video sharing platform has been at the top for several years now. The company is targeting teens as they watch less television and spend most of their time online.
On the contrary to Instagram, the subsidiary app IGTV allows anyone to be a video maker. Google does the same on YouTube. Due to the same reason, we have seen many ordinary people turning into celebrities. In case you are not into video making, you can follow your favorite celebrities, who will eventually upload long videos to the platform.
Instagram Chief Executive Kevin Systrom told in the launch event that IGTV is aiming smartphone users. Before the new app went live, they had a limit of one minute for videos. They still stick to the same limit, but not on IGTV. Another significant change is the application promotes vertical videos as well.
Going by the data from a research firm eMarketer, 181.7 million Americans watch videos on their smartphones once a month. Obviously, all the other countries see a proportional increase in video consumers too.
They have released the application for both Android and iOS. You can upload a video of up to 10 minutes. For the bigger publishers, the limit goes all the way up to 60 minutes.
Facebook acquired Instagram in 2012 for about $1 billion. Since then, the company is improving the experience and the number of users. The research done by eMarketer revealed it will generate $5.48 billion ad revenue this year.
So, what do you think? Will IGTV become the next YouTube? Or will it become a failed attempt? Do you prefer another app for watching videos? Let us know in the comment section down below.


Lukoil, Russia's top oil producer, said that first quarter profits probably dropped by three quarters from a year ago, after a slowing world economy slashed oil prices abroad and export limits created a domestic fuel glut, which pushed down prices.
The company expects to report net income of $170 million for the quarter, compared with $690 million, in earnings that will be prepared under US generally accepted accounting principles. Revenue is expected to decline by sixteen percent to three billion dollars.
Russia, which extracts more crude than any country except Saudi Arabia, agreed to curb exports in the first half of 2002 to help OPEC prop up world oil prices. That created a glut in Russia that slashed local prices by more than a half. While world prices rose in the first quarter, they still averaged about a sixth less than the year earlier period.
“Their earnings were hit by both international crude oil prices and by domestic prices for oil products,” said Paul Collison, an analyst at Brunswick UBS Warburg. “They were bound to be weak”
Europe has recognised the need for negotiations with Russia to discuss the security system on the continent. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is going to Macedonia for meetings with colleagues within the OSCE


Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III flew out to the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz off the coast of California to thank the crew for a record-setting deployment.
The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group is returning after operations in U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and U.S. Central Command areas of responsibility. It was the first carrier strike group to deploy under COVID-19 protocols. By the time the carrier strike group reaches home, the sailors and Marines aboard will have been gone for 321 days.
The Nimitz, the cruiser USS Princeton, and the destroyers USS Sterett and USS Ralph Johnson made up the group.
"You've just demonstrated incredible professionalism, resilience and focus," Austin told the crew over the ship-wide public address system. "It's been very impressive."
The group provided carrier support in the Persian Gulf in support of Centcom during a particularly tense time with Iran. The group also participated in maritime exercise Malabar 2020 alongside Indian, Australian and Japanese ships. The carrier strike group also participated in dual-carrier operations with the USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Ronald Reagan carrier strike groups. The group also operated in the South China Sea, as well.
Austin praised the group for these efforts. "You've sent a clear message about America's resolve," he told the crew. "Any potential adversary out there — in this ocean or any other ocean — has to know when they look at what you accomplished, that the United States takes very seriously our security commitments around the world."
He thanked the sailors for working with key allies and partners across the U.S. combatant commands.
The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group had the longest deployment since the Vietnam War. It was lengthened by COVID-19 protocols that called for a quarantine before departing and the elimination of port calls during the deployment. The Navy aims for deployments to be roughly six months. The Nimitz group will be away from family and friends almost twice that.
"I don't want deployments this long to be the norm," the secretary said. "And so, we need to take a hard look at that, but you handled it very, very well. You led. You took care of each other in the midst of a pandemic, and you were a team."
In a news conference with Pentagon reporters on the hangar deck, Austin thanked families in particular. "Their families have been very, very supportive as well," he said. "And I want to make sure I give them a shout out again, and provide our thanks for their sacrifices."
The Nimitz was on its way home from the Centcom area of responsibility when events in the region necessitated its return. Events such as these happen. He noted the year-long deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan that stretched to 18 months, as an example.
"I understand the stress that, that can place on families," he said. "So as secretary, what I want to do is make sure that … going forward, we do everything we can to minimize that kind of stress."
That means taking care of equipment, sure, but really ensuring that service members and their families are taken care of. "We're going to continue to learn," he said. "We're going to continue to make sure we have the resources. [We're going to ensure] that we're doing the right things to pace ourselves going forward. Because I really think this is important."
Overall, the carrier strike group steamed more than 87,300 nautical miles during its deployment. The carrier launched 10,185 sorties totaling 23,410 flight hours logged.


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The Left: Talk Radio and the Internet Are Destroying the Children!
Posted By M. Catharine Evans On July 21, 2010 @ 1:00 pm In NewsReal Blog | No Comments
You know the Left is desperate when they start using the kids.
It’s time to revisit the follow-up petition filed by the National Hispanic Media Coalition in May, 2010 to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). After reading the 25-page document with over 30 Soros-funded groups signing on, this little sentence caught my attention:
NHMC et al is extremely concerned with the negative impact of hate speech in media on society and particularly on children.
The various organizations listed as part of this blueprint to destroy free speech in America couldn’t care less about the little ones. The Marxist Free Press run by Robert W. McChesney of “tearing down capitalism brick-by-brick” fame is one; and then there’s the Center for Media Justice and the Media Justice League to name a few.
After they feign worry and concern about what the tikes will hear on Rush Limbaugh and see on NRB they predictably reveal their desire to dismantle the fourth estate, airwave-by-airwave, chip- by- chip. The petition, at any other time, during any other recent administration, might be a farcical document. But these groups are backed up by billions of dollars, radicals like Soros and Obama and a FCC Diversity Czar, Mark Lloyd, who thinks Venezuela’s crackdown on private media is utopia.
The authors tell the FCC that after investigating the “correlation between hate speech and hate crimes” in the “current media landscape” they will use the information to:
…specifically confront and educate hate distributors about the consequences of hate speech and encourage them to self-regulate….since NHMC filed the Petition in early 2009 hate, extremism and misinformation have been on the rise.
They then proceed to list actual incidents of hate crimes involving white supremacists and anti-Latino bigots. They conveniently exclude racist attacks against white people. But that’s because:
traditional media has become less diverse and less competitive…in this same atmosphere hate speech thrives as hate has developed as a profit-model for syndicated radio and cable television programs…on the Internet..speakers can hide in the cloak of anonymity.
As usual, by the end of the whole revealing mess the children are all but forgotten. But it’s definitely worth a serious read or re-read. Our right to speak freely is on the line and these people aren’t going away.
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