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The fundamental rights situation of intersex people
This paper examines the legal situation of intersex people from a fundamental rights perspective. It draws on evidence from the Agency's updated legal analysis on homophobia, transphobia, and discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, which now includes a section on intersex issues.
Implementing the UN CRPD: An overview of legal reforms in EU Member States
A new Focus paper by the EU Agency of Fundamental Rights (FRA) outlines how Member States across the EU have reformed their laws and policies to meet their obligations under the CRPD. By bringing together examples of such reforms, it also highlights how the adoption of international commitments can drive wide-ranging processes of change at the national level.
Child-friendly justice – Perspectives and experiences of professionals on children's participation in civil and criminal judicial proceedings in 10 EU Member States
Each year thousands of children take part in criminal and civil judicial proceedings, affected by parental divorce or as victims or witnesses to crime. Such proceedings can be stressful for anyone. The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) investigated whether children's rights are respected in these proceedings.
Children and justice: your right to be heard
Children need to be heard and be involved in all issues that concern them. This includes the justice system.
Children and justice: professionals' perspective and experiences
MDX Dataset
Indicators on the right to political participation of people with disabilities
FRA in close cooperation with the European Commission and the Academic Network of European Disability Experts (ANED), developed 28 human rights indicators to assess the political participation of persons with disabilities in the EU.
Equal protection for all victims of hate crime - The case of people with disabilities
This paper discusses the difficulties faced by people with disabilities who become victims of hate crime, and the different legal frameworks in place to protect such victims in the EU's Member States. It ends by listing a number of suggestions for improving the situation at both the legislative and policy levels.
Mapping child protection systems in the EU
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), at the request of the European Commission, conducted research on national child protection systems in the 28 European Union (EU) Member States. It seeks to understand how national child protection systems work and to identify common challenges and promising practices.
Victims of crime in the EU: the extent and nature of support for victims
The rights of victims of crime to access justice and to be protected against repeat victimisation may remain illusory in practice if the victim fails to receive professional advice and support. This research by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) examines support service provision for such victims across the 28 EU Member States, in line with the 2012 EU Victims' Directive. It focuses not on abstract fundamental rights standards but on the final practical results.
Being Trans in the EU - Comparative analysis of the EU LGBT survey data
Trans persons, or those whose gender identity and/or gender expression differs from the sex assigned them at birth, face frequent discrimination, harassment and violence across the European Union (EU) today. This reality triggers fears that persuade many to hide or disguise their true selves. This report examines issues of equal treatment and discrimination on two grounds, namely sexual orientation and gender identity. It analyses data on the experiences of 6,579 trans respondents from the EU Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) survey, the largest body of empirical evidence of its kind to date.
LGBTI event - Introduction video
This video was shown in the beginning of the high-level conference "Tackling sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination: next steps in EU and Member State policy making".
Discrimination against and living conditions of Roma women in 11 EU Member States
Equality is one of the five values on which the European Union (EU) is founded; yet women here face inequalities in many respects. Extreme poverty, exclusion and discrimination burden Roma women even further. The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) researched the situation of Roma women in 11 EU Member States.
Addressing forced marriage in the EU: legal provisions and promising practices
Primarily using data and information collected from five EU Member States, this paper briefly describes the phenomenon of forced marriage and selected legislative measures taken to address it. It lists promising practices for the prevention of forced marriage and for supporting victims. The paper covers only one among many forms of violence against women analysed by FRA in its Violence against women: an EU-wide survey. Main results report (2014).
EU LGBT survey - European Union lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender survey - Main results
In light of a lack of comparable data on the respect, protection and fulfilment of the fundamental rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons, FRA launched in 2012 its European Union (EU) online survey of LGBT persons' experiences of discrimination, violence and harassment.
Antisemitism Summary overview of the situation in the European Union 2003-2013
Antisemitism can be expressed in the form of verbal and physical attacks, threats, harassment, property damage, graffiti or other forms of text, including hate speech on the internet.
Child-friendly justice: Key terms
This document provides clear explanations for children of the key terms used in the child-friendly justice project. It explains what rights are and how these rights should be protected during legal proceedings.
Fundamental rights: key legal and policy developments in 2013. Highlights 2013
The EU and its Member States took a variety of important steps in 2013 to protect and promote fundamental rights by assuming new international commitments, revamping legislation and pursuing innovative policies on the ground. Yet, fundamental rights violations seized the spotlight with distressing frequency: would‑be migrants drowning off the EU's coast, unprecedented mass surveillance, racist and extremist‑motivated murders, child poverty and Roma deprivation.
Guardianship for children deprived of parental care
This handbook aims to strengthen the protection of children, specifically addressing the particular needs of child victims of trafficking.
Fundamental rights: challenges and achievements in 2013 - Annual report 2013
This year's FRA annual report looks at fundamental rights-related developments in asylum, immigration and integration; border control and visa policy; information society, respect for private life and data protection; the rights of the child and the protection of children; equality and non-discrimination; racism, xenophobia and related intolerance; access to justice and judicial cooperation; rights of crime victims; EU Member States and international obligations.
The right to political participation for persons with disabilities: human rights indicators
The opportunity to be involved in political life, whether by standing for elected office, joining a political party, or following political news stories in the media, is at the heart of what it means to live in a democratic society. The report analyses data on the situation of political participation of persons with disabilities collected from across the 28 European Union (EU) Member States by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and the European Commission-funded Academic Network of European Disability Experts (ANED).
EU Minorities and Discrimination Survey
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) launches its second EU Minorities and Discrimination Survey (EU-MIDIS II).
Discrimination: Experiences from immigrants and ethnic minorities across the EU
This infographic illustrates the main experiences immigrants and ethnic minorities across the EU have when it comes to discrimination. It draws from the findings from FRA's EU-MIDIS II survey.
Victimisation: experiences from immigrants and ethnic minorities across the EU
This infographic illustrates the main experiences immigrants and ethnic minorities across the EU have when it comes to victimisation. It draws from the findings from FRA's EU-MIDIS II survey.
Inclusion: Experiences from immigrants and ethnic minorities across the EU
This infographic illustrates the main experiences immigrants and ethnic minorities across the EU have when it comes to inclusion. It draws from the findings from FRA's EU-MIDIS II survey.
Is Europe doing enough to protect fundamental rights? - the children's perspective - Event summary
The Agency, in close cooperation with the Maltese Presidency of the EU Council, held a high-level symposium where the fundamental rights issues that are currently high on the EU's political agenda were discussed.
Together in the EU
Miltos Pavlou, Senior Programme Manager at the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, talks about the participation of migrants and their descendants in the EU.
Video message by Michael O'Flaherty on Holocaust Education
This video message was produced for a holocaust education training for public officials.
Children and justice: your right to protection and legal representation
Children should always be supported by a professional support person when they are involved in judicial proceedings, such as being at court. This could be, for example, a social worker or a legal counsellor.
Children and justice: your rights
Children and justice: your right to information
During judicial proceedings, such as being at court, children should always be told what is going on. The information should be presented in a child-friendly and understandable way.
Violence against women survey
Results of the biggest ever violence against women survey.


Successfully illuminating long canopy facades has always been the ultimate technical challenge above ground on a petrol station. Cold cathode, hot cathode, chain lights and even "Light tubes" have been used to various levels of success but nothing yet has overtaken strip fluorescent tubes.
Light Emitting Diodes exist in many forms and are incorporated in most household and industrial products. Hewlett Packard have invested in developing an LED product applicable for linear lighting applications. The product branded "Chipstrip" is available in Europe from the ECCE group of sign companies. Consisting of a printed circuit board incorporating both the wiring and LEDs, Chipstrip slots into a polycarbonate tube coloured in any of the primary colours including white. Offering a ten year life and 12 volt supply, Chipstrip is priced at just below $100 / metre and aims to replace neon light sources.
We at PSD reckon once a competitor offers an alternative system and production really begins to role, this price should come down and eventually offer a realistic alternative to fluorescent.


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[IMAGE] Author is an adult woman, lovingly hugging two men.
[CAPTION] There's no one right way to be polyamorous, but it's often misunderstood.
[CAPTION] The only rule is that it's open, honest, and full of communication.
[CAPTION] People misassociate us with those extremist polygamous cults that are abusive, and one-sided.
[IMAGE] An old man with a beard surrounded by women with babies.
[OLD MAN] You all belong to me.
[CAPTION] Polygamy and polyamory are different things.
[IMAGE] Author is in a restaurant with one of the men she in a relationship with. There are hearts in the air.
[CAPTION] We don't see love as a possessive thing.
[IMAGE] Same scene as previous panel, but they are now having a happy conversation.
[AUTHOR] How's your other partner?
[MAN] Great, she says hi. How's yours?
[AUTHOR] He says hello too.
[IMAGE] A man passes by the table, and looks at the MAN and the Author quizzically at first, then looks angry.
[PASSER BY] Are you kidding me?
[IMAGE] Author looks up at the Passer By.
[Author] I'm sorry, who…
[IMAGE] The Passer By looks angry, leans into the table.
[PASSER BY] You were here yesterday with my friend! WTF?
[PASSER BY] How long have you been screwing around behind his back?
[IMAGE] The Passer By is waving his arms in the air, making a scene, lecturing the two at the table. Author and her partner are holding their head in embarrassment.
[CAPTION] Do we out ourselves as poly?
[CAPTION] But then we'd also out his friend too…
[CAPTION] Or let everyone think we're cheating?
[IMAGE] A scumbag looking guy with gaudy sunglasses and huge rings is making excuses
[CAPTION] It doesn't help that so many people use "poly" as an excuse to cheat.
[SCUMBAG] Oh, I'm "poly". I can't help but cheat!
[IMAGE] Author and her partner are hugging in the street.
[CAPTION] That's not being poly.
[CAPTION] At All.
[CAPTION] I love all my partners, and their other partners know about me.
[IMAGE] Author is walking back home, when her phone rings.
[CAPTION] No one owns anyone, everyone knows, and we're in equal, open relationships.
[IMAGE] Author is looking down at her phone. She has two texts from two different people. One of them says "Love you!" and the other one says "Goodnight sweetie!"
[CAPTION] Being poly is liberating for me. It just feels like natural.
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I grew up in a world of couples. As a young girl, all my friends talked about how they wanted to find the perfect boyfriend. What he'd look like, dress like, and do for a living. I did too.
When I started having romantic and sexual experiences, gender stopped being so relevant to me. I liked making genuine connections, to cool people. I was very lucky that my friends were all pretty accepting that sometimes I dated girls, sometimes I dated boys, and sometimes I dated people outside the binary.
They weren't so accepting when I wanted to date more than one person. I now identify (among other things) as polyamorous.
People ask me how it works. Don't I get jealous? Aren't I afraid they'll find someone better? They get confused when I refer to "my other partner". Sometimes people give us dirty looks in public when I hold their hands.
So here's how it works: There's no one right way to be polyamorous. The only ground rule is that polyamory is supposed to be open, honest, and full of communication. When you're polyamorous, you don't see love as a possessive thing. It's about being free to love different people in different ways. There are rough spots that arise (scheduling dates around everyone's work, family, and social life can be really tricky), but everyone learns pretty quickly how to communicate openly and honestly about what they're doing and how they're feeling.
But people think our connections aren't real and spend a LOT of time trying to invalidate our relationships, shame us, and trying to convince us to conform to their standards of what a relationship means. This forces us into positions where we have to choose – who do I bring to family dinner/how many partners can I bring to my work party? I've been insulted in restaurants for holding hands with two people. Or I'll go on a date and people who know one partner throw a fit when they see me with someone else and start chewing me out (sometimes loudly in public) for being a cheater.
For example, I've been approached by friends of a partner who isn't out as poly, swearing at me.
"I'm sorry, what-"
"You were literally here two nights ago with my friend. What the fuck? How long have you been screwing around behind his back?"
There's not really an opportunity to defend myself. I either out him as poly to his friend (and myself in a public setting) or let everyone think I'm cheating. It means I feel like I have to go to a different part of the city for my next date, or just never have a date in public.
Or even just walking around with a partner holding either hand and getting "slut" yelled at me, or "freaks" at all of us. It's hard to face that, and feel safe holding hands in public.
On top of all that, being a polyamorous woman brings extra challenges: polyamory is really heavily associated in folks' minds with either extreme, abusive, one-sided polygamy, or dangerous (even gluttonous) female desire – that I'm playing a bunch of men and just in it for sex. My male partners don't get that as much.
The world isn't set up for poly because people are so focused on monogamy as an end goal and people seem genuinely threatened by polyamory. Good luck with marriage law, finding couples counselling that takes polycules, custody law, co-parenting and legal guardianship.
It doesn't help that too many monogamously-oriented people say they're poly when they're in a monogamous relationship – i.e. use the term to explain away their cheating. What makes poly different from cheating is that it is all above board, but a lot of people who are only interested in an affair thinking that using the word "poly" makes it ok. You start talking about poly and they don't actually know anything besides "you can sleep with multiple people". I'll start asking if their partner knows about me, and they suddenly clam up and tell me that they have to be discreet because their partner would be devastated. That's cheating. You may be polyamorous in your affections, but poly relationships and cheating aren't the same. And treating them like they are makes it harder for those of us with healthy polyamorous relationships.
I love my partners. I adore most of their partners, and even the ones I'm not close with are friendly and excellent communicators. My relationships have never been healthier or happier. Different people require different dynamics, levels of affection and quality time. It's a balancing act, but my life has never felt so balanced overall.
For me, being poly is liberating. It means that when my heart feels like it's going to burst with affection for one person, and I start getting butterflies for another I don't have to squash those butterflies. I can embrace them. I can meet amazing people and connect with them in ways that weren't available to me when I was practicing monogamy. It means I've experienced love, and other types of affection in so many different ways and learned so much more about the way I give and receive love in the process. It means that when I'm sick, there's always someone to bring me soup; when I'm sad there's a network of people to lift me up; and when I'm happy I can share my joy with a lovely group of wonderful people. Most of all, poly just feels like being me in how easy and natural it feels.
This week's comic was illustrated by Julia Naves.
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Thank you for a refreshing insight on the topic. I find that some negativity towards polyamorism boils down to confusing polyamory with polygamy. There's obvious potential for juridical complications in web-like marital contracts and regarding children's rights. It's just peculiar how these problems are not seen as a much as a part of the monogamy norm than as a value polyamory people choose to selfishly ignore.
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Supreme Court Sides With Biden's Efforts to End 'Remain in Mexico' Program
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to the Biden administration's efforts to end a Trump-era immigration program that forces asylum seekers arriving at the southwestern border to await approval in Mexico.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote the majority opinion, joined by Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh and the court's three liberal members. Justice Amy Coney Barrett agreed with much of the chief justice's analysis.
The challenged program, known commonly as Remain in Mexico and formally as the Migrant Protection Protocols, applies to people who left a third country and traveled through Mexico to reach the U.S. border. After the policy was put in place at the beginning of 2019, tens of thousands of people waited in unsanitary tent encampments for immigration hearings. There have been widespread reports of sexual assault, kidnapping and torture.
Soon after he took office, President Biden sought to end the program. Texas and Missouri sued, and lower courts reinstated it, ruling that federal immigration laws require returning immigrants who arrive by land and who cannot be detained while their cases are heard.
Since the Biden administration restarted the program in December, far fewer migrants have been enrolled than during the Trump era. That is in part to additional steps the United States agreed to take to meet certain demands from Mexico, including that migrants be sent back under the program only if there is sufficient shelter space.
By the end of May, the Biden administration had enrolled more than 7,200 migrants since December of 2021 into the program. Most of those enrolled in recent months are from Nicaragua and are men.
Between January of 2019, when the Trump administration started the program, and the end of 2020, more than 70,000 migrants were sent back to Mexico to wait for their court hearings, according to the American Immigration Council.
The case, Biden v. Texas, No. 21-954, was unusually complex, involving three statutory provisions pointing in different directions.
One provision said that the federal government generally "shall detain" immigrants while they await consideration of their immigration proceedings. But Congress has never allocated enough money to detain the number of people affected.
In 2021, for example, the government processed about 670,000 migrants arriving along the Mexican border but had the capacity to detain about 34,000.
The second provision said the government "may return" migrants who arrive by land to the country from which they came.
The third provision allowed the government to release migrants into the United States while they await their hearings "on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit."
Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, in Amarillo, ruled last year that immigration laws required returning noncitizens seeking asylum to Mexico whenever the federal government lacked the resources to detain them.
The Biden administration promptly asked the Supreme Court to intervene, but it refused to block Judge Kacsmaryk's ruling, which required it to restart the program. The three more liberal justices dissented.
The court's brief, unsigned order at the time said that the administration had appeared to have acted arbitrarily and capriciously in rescinding the program, citing a 2020 decision that had refused to let the Trump administration immediately rescind an Obama-era program protecting the young immigrants known as Dreamers.
The Biden administration then took steps to restart the program even as it issued a new decision seeking to end it. Administration officials, responding to criticism that they had acted hastily, released a 38-page memorandum setting out their reasoning.
They concluded that the program's costs outweighed its benefits. Among those costs, the memo said, were the dangerous conditions in Mexico, the difficulty immigrants faced in conferring with lawyers across the border and the ways in which the program undermined the administration's foreign policy objectives and domestic policy initiatives.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, rejected the administration's plan to shut down the program.
"The government says it has unreviewable and unilateral discretion to create and to eliminate entire components of the federal bureaucracy that affect countless people, tax dollars and sovereign states," Judge Andrew S. Oldham wrote for the panel. "The government also says it has unreviewable and unilateral discretion to ignore statutory limits imposed by Congress."
"And the government says it can do all of this by typing up a new 'memo' and posting it on the internet," he added. "If the government were correct, it would supplant the rule of law with the rule of say-so. We hold the government is wrong."
Eileen Sullivan contributed reporting.
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My guests on the Thursday, June 20 theatre segment on KSRO's The Drive with Steve Jaxon were John Shillington, Bob Duxbury, and Gene Wright from the Main Stage West production of Half Life – A Love Story. Click below to listen: **********
June 22, 2019 in Audio, Theatre Features.
Review – "West Side Story" in Santa Rosa
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has been the source material for umpteen movies and plays. The tale of star-crossed lovers had its most successful theatrical iteration with the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story. It's running now through July 7 at Santa Rosa's 6th Street Playhouse. Groundbreaking at its time for innovations in dance and music…
June 20, 2019 in Theatre Reviews.
KSRO Interview: "A Chorus Line"
David Templeton guest-hosted the Thursday, June 13 theatre segment on KSRO's The Drive with Steve Jaxon. His guests were actress Alicia Albright and resident artist and assistant to the Artistic Director Meggie Cansler Ness from the Transcendence Theatre Company production of A Chorus Line. Click below to listen: **********
KSRO Interview: "Drumming with Anubis"
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Review: "Faceless" in Santa Rosa
Courtroom dramas have long been a staple of mass entertainment. From TV's Perry Mason to plays and films like The Caine Mutiny Court Marshall and A Few Good Men, audiences have long enjoyed the compact drama provided by a judicial trial. Playwright Selina Fillinger has written a worthy addition to that canon with Faceless, running…
May 30, 2019 in Theatre Reviews.
KSRO Interview: "The Belle of Amherst"
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Review: "Donovan Reid"
A young man walks into a police station. Either unable or unwilling to speak, he non-verbally asks for something with which to write. Given a pen and a piece of paper, he scribbles down and displays the following: "I am Donovan Reid". So begins Donovan Reid, a film co-written and directed by former Petaluman Austin…
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August 27, 2001 2:45AM PT
No. 28: EchoStar
By Andy Grossman
Andy Grossman
Daytime dilemmas
Emmy commemorative: Happy end to the happy endings
Littleton, Colo.
Revenue: $2.715 billion
Cash flow: -$187 million
While Nero fiddled, Rome burned. While DirecTV dawdled, EchoStar surprised everyone by reporting a $2 million profit for the second quarter and positive cash flow of $134 million. The No. 2 satellite company grew twice as fast as the market leader while upping revenue per home.
Now the newly supercharged direct-to-home satellite company is after the market leader with a bold $32 billion bid for DirecTV. The deal would make EchoStar a 16 million-subscriber behemoth, with the kind of leverage and economy of scale that could offset its huge marketing costs.
EchoStar's 350,000 sub gain brought its total to 6.1 million customers and led chairman Charlie Ergun to predict an increase of 1.5 million to 2 million new homes this year.
If his pursuit of DirecTV fails, Ergun has alternatives. He has told analysts that EchoStar is looking at a number of companies.
EchoStar sits on a $2.4 billion war chest and recently bought controlling interest in high-speed Internet provider StarBand, and has plans to add three new satellites with hopes of deploying more channels and interactive technology.
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The L.A. County District Attorney's office has filed 64 counts against Girard Saenz, the man who allegedly kept a stockpile of more than 1,000 weapons at a Bel-Air home linked to the Getty family. Saenz is accused of illegal possession of assault weapons, transferring handguns without a dealer license, possession of short-barreled shotguns, and possession [...]
BMI Promotes David Levin to Senior VP of Digital Licensing
BMI today announced that David Levin has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Licensing, effective immediately. In his newly expanded role, Levin is responsible for all of BMI's domestic licensing and revenue generation, encompassing radio, television, digital media, cable, satellite and general licensing. Levin, who will oversee teams in New York and Nashville, reports [...]
Warner Music Acquires Musical Theater Indie First Night Records
Warner Music Group has acquired First Night Record, an independent record label for West End and Broadway musical theatre cast recordings. The company will be overseen by WMG's Arts Music Division, led by President Kevin Gore. First Night co-founder John Craig will join the Arts Music team under a multi-year consulting agreement to identify and record musical theatre productions in [...]
If nothing else, the producers of Woodstock 50 are persistent. After two permit applications to hold the troubled festival at the Vernon Downs racetrack in Upstate New York were rejected by the town of Vernon codes office, the producers and venue owner Jeffrey Gural today invited the local community "to embrace the Festival's spirit of [...]
ILM to Open Latest Effects Facility in Sydney, Australia
Sydney, Australia, is to be home to Industrial Light & Magic's fifth production hub. The Disney-owned special effects company currently has facilities in San Francisco, Vancouver, London and Singapore. The decision to open the Sydney outpost was announced Monday local time by executive creative director and head of ILM Rob Bredow, ILM executive Luke Hetherington, [...]


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2016 was a good year at the Ian Drummond Collection on all counts. We had the good fortune to work with extremely interesting productions that were figuratively and literally all over the map, and spanning every decade.
From the time Hawbaker and Assistant Costume Designer Koreen Heaver first came into the studio to pull for the season, to seeing it realized on the small screen, it has been an adventure that has been challenging for IDC's staff, and one that brought satisfaction and pleasure in the results.
Hawbaker and Heaver's pull was split between Principals, Stock, and Berlin. The designer focused on a cool palette. We learned their "rules" about what colours would work, and what we needed to consider when we'd be asked to send items "on spec." Their use of our stock of late 1950s clothes conveyed that in this alternate post-war America and Germany, that France and the United States do not advance in fashion during the inter and post-war periods as they did in real-world history. (Givhan, 2015).
We would like to thank JR and Koreen, and the whole Man in the High Castle costume department for giving us an opportunity to work on this project. If you are in America you can catch the new season on Amazon Video – and we've heard we can look forward to a Season 3.
Givhan, R. (2015). The Battle of Versailles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled into the Spotlight and Made History. New York: Flat Iron Books.
Warner, H. (2014). Fashion on Television: Identity and Celebrity Culture. London: Bloomsbury.


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Suggested citation: Slattery, C., Zhou, S., George, A. & Liberman, J. 19.0 Background to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. In Greenhalgh, EM, Scollo, MM and Winstanley, MH [editors]. Tobacco in Australia: Facts and issues. Melbourne: Cancer Council Victoria; 2021. Available from: https://www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/chapter-19-ftct/19-0-background-to-the-fctc
The 'devastating health, social, environmental and economic consequences of tobacco consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke' are a truly global problem (WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, Article 3).1
Over the past few decades, the tobacco epidemic has spread across the world, facilitated 'through a variety of complex factors with cross-border effects', including trade liberalisation, direct foreign investment, global marketing, transnational tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, and the international movement of contraband and counterfeit cigarettes (WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, Foreword). The globalisation of the tobacco epidemic has had profound effects. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), tobacco kills about eight million people per year, and causes annual economic losses of US$1.4 trillion worldwide.2, 3 Most of these deaths occur in developing countries, where the economic impacts of the tobacco epidemic—increased social, welfare and healthcare spending by governments, and significant loss of income to families—are felt particularly acutely.2-5
Recognising that 'the spread of the tobacco epidemic is a global problem with serious consequences for public health that calls for the widest possible international cooperation and the participation of all countries in an effective, appropriate and comprehensive international response' (WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, Preamble), the international community undertook the negotiation of a treaty to provide a global framework for tobacco control measures. The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC)—which was adopted in 2003, came into force in 2005, and has been one of the most rapidly and widely supported treaties in the history of the United Nations— is the first treaty ever to be negotiated under the auspices of the WHO. Its objective is to:
protect present and future generations from the devastating health, social, environmental and economic consequences of tobacco consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke by providing a framework for tobacco control measures to be implemented by the Parties at the national, regional and international levels in order to reduce continually and substantially the prevalence of tobacco use and exposure to tobacco smoke' (WHO FCTC, Article 3).
As of September 2020, the WHO FCTC had 182 Parties.6 Under international law, each of the Parties—having ratified, accepted, approved or acceded to the WHO FCTC—must perform, in good faith, all obligations contained in the Convention (Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, Article 26).7 Parties are also encouraged, under Article 2.1, to implement measures beyond those required by the Convention in order to better protect public health.
In addition, six countries have signed the WHO FCTC, but have not ratified, accepted or approved it.6 In signing the Convention, these countries have undertaken, as a matter of international law, not to defeat the object and purpose of the Convention (Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, Article 18). As stated in the foreword to the WHO FCTC, signatories also 'indicate that they will strive in good faith to ratify, accept, or approve it, and show political commitment not to undermine the objectives set out in it'.
Australia became a signatory to the WHO FCTC on 5 December 2003, soon after the Convention opened for signature. Australia was one of the first 40 countries to ratify the WHO FCTC, and so became a Party on 27 February 2005, the date on which the WHO FCTC came into force. Australia is thus legally bound to perform, in good faith, the full range of obligations outlined in the Convention.
For recent news items and research on this topic, click here. ( Last updated August 2022)
1. World Health Organization. WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2003. Available from: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/42811/9241591013.pdf?sequence=1.
2. World Health Organization. Fact sheet: Tobacco. World Health Organization, 27 May 2020. Available from: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs339/en/.
3. National Cancer Institute (United States) and World Health Organization, The Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Control. NCI Tobacco Control Monograph Series Vol. 21.Bethesda, MD, United States, and Geneva, Switzerland 2017. Available from: https://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/sites/default/files/2020-08/m21_complete.pdf.
4. American Cancer Society and World Lung Foundation. 'Societal Harms'. 2018. Last update: Viewed Available from: http://www.tobaccoatlas.org/topic/societal-harms/.
5. World Health Organization. Tobacco Threatens Us All: Protect Health, Reduce Poverty and Promote Development. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 2017. Available from: https://www.nbna.org/files/Tobacco%20Threatens%20us%20all.pdf.
6. United Nations Treaty Collection. WHO 'Framework Convention on Tobacco Control' Last update: 2017; Viewed 28 September 2020. Available from: https://treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=IX-4&chapter=9&clang=_en.
7. Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 1969. New York: United Nations, 2005. Available from: https://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/1_1_1969.pdf.


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LIMITS OF PED TESTING IN THE OLYMPICS AND PROFESSIONAL ATHLETICS
Written by Dr. Welsh, Published on 31 January 2013
HGH and Olympic Performance Enhancement at the Beijing Games
At the 2008 Summer Olympics, more than eleven thousand athletes from all around the world will meet in Beijing in the spirit of international pride and competition. Although the majority of these representatives will likely arrive with the intent to square fairly against their opposition, a significant portion of these athletes will be attempting to flaunt the rules put forth by the International Olympic Committee and try to cheat their opponents by utilizing Performance Enhancing Drugs such as Human Growth Hormone, EPO, and Testosterone.
Although the IOC takes impressive measures in order to maintain the integrity and fairness of the games, there will be numerous men and women who will attempt to beat the random PED Testing performed by Olympic Officials. Unfortunately, performance science will always be one step ahead of the enforcement community, and there will always be those who slip through the cracks and boost their performance without setting off any alarms.
Chinese Cracking Down on PED Abuse
Beijing Olympic Organizers say that they will make unprecedented efforts in attempting to catch Athletes who are engaging in the use of PEDs such as Human Growth Hormone shots in order to cheat their competition. They will have forty one different drug testing stations, and 4,500 participants will be selected at random for drug testing in order to deter the use of Performance Enhancing Drugs. These facilities will be set up both at the Olympic Village and on site at the various competition locations. All drug testing will be performed under the guidance of official chaperones in order to make sure that the urine and blood samples provided by athletes are not tainted or faked.
Although Random Enforcement Testing will level the playing field significantly, it is still inevitable that some of the Olympic Athletes will get away with cheating with absolutely no repercussions.
The Inevitability of Performance Enhancing Drug Usage
Peter Sonksen is an English biologist who specializes in endocrinology and drug testing. He tells reporters that there are men and women across the world that utilize techniques such as blood doping while still arriving at the Olympics and passing all PED tests. Peter Sonksen is one of many scientists that are working to develop new and innovate ways to monitor for Performance Enhancing Drug usage in order to ensure fairness in national and global competitive events such as the Olympics.
Developments in HGH Blood Testing
Sonksen most recently developed a new test that allows officials to more accurately test for Human Growth Hormone Usage. It has been very difficult to test for Human Growth Hormone Performance Abuse in the past, but new strides in testing technology are quickly making the task easier.
How Long Does HGH Stay in your System?
The problem with testing directly for HGH is that Injections of Human Growth Hormone do not stay in the system for an extended period of time. HGH is designed by Mother Nature to disseminate throughout the body rapidly as it is secreted by the pituitary gland. After only minutes, all Human Growth Hormone released into the blood stream is converted to derivative forms such as Insulin-like Growth Factor One.
Monitoring IGF-1
Luckily for proponents for fair athletic competition, IGF-1 remains in the Blood Stream for four to ten hours after Human Growth Hormone has been converted, and IGF-1 remains active when connected to a cell receptor for up to three days. New techniques such as Sonksens new drug testing method monitor for higher levels of IGF-1 in the blood stream and in its activated form in the cells.
Sonksen understands that the current methodology of PED drug testing will still leave many left slipping through undeterred, but he is still pleased that the Beijing Olympic Committee has been so proactive in monitoring for Performance Enhancing Drug Usage. Du Lijun is the chief officer of the Chinese Anti-Doping Agency and is responsible for drug testing at the Beijing Games. Sonksen believes that Lijun is performing his task dutifully, but the culture of Performance Enhancement always seems to be a step ahead of those who enforce fair competition.
The PED Arms Race
Athletes are proactive at finding new means to get the edge over their competition. They are made aware of new Drug Testing Techniques and immediately begin to figure out how to work around these tests and build up their performance without being caught. In the end, its a constant evolutionary arms race. As scientists get better at catching cheaters and preventing certain forms of doping, athletes are able to find new and original methods of performance enhancement. Its a metaphorical race in which the scientists will inevitably always be one step behind.
Because of the difficulties in catching cheaters, drug testers have to be proactive and on their toes in order to discover those who are using methods such as Human Growth Hormone Injections in order to enhance their performance.
Julian Chang is the head medical representative of the Hong Kong Olympic team. He says that the reason why athletes are always a step ahead is that before Anti-Doping officials can test for a substance, they must first discover that it is being used for performance enhancement. The secretive nature of peak athletic performers makes this very difficult. The primary tool in the battle against PEDs is the spectrograph. Spectrographs are tools which identify particular chemicals and can alert Drug Testing Officials to unusual spikes of certain substances within blood and urine samples.
The problem with this set-up is that until a doping technique is identified, these unnatural spikes are meaningless because there is no proof that they are the result of PED usage. Certain signifiers may be causes of concern, but until a case can be made against them, there is no real way to tell if an Athlete is a legitimate competitor is trying to cheat the system, much like Marion Jones did with Human Growth hormone in the Sydney Olympic Games.
Marion Jones PED Abuse
Marion Jones was put in prison after it was proved that she committed perjury by lying to United States civil prosecutors denying her use of Performance Enhancing Drugs. In addition to this, her Olympic medals were stripped and she was retroactively disqualified and eliminated from Olympic Records.
Marion Jones is one of the best examples of why it is so difficult to test against Athletic Cheating with PEDs. Jones was evaluated over one hundred times before events and was never caught using the drugs. Although later on, she was implicated and punished severely, it is clear that the majority of those who utilize Hormone Injections and other forms of Performance Enhancement will not be caught.
Marion Jones was caught largely because of her celebrity status. Jones was primarily using a steroid known as tetrahydrogestrinone, otherwise called THG. The hormone is referred to by the athletic community as The Clear because of how it was possible to take the Androgen hormone while easily passing random drug testing. She originally claimed her trainer provided it to her, calling it Flaxseed oil so that she could use it and still claim ignorance.
The drug company which provided her trainer the THG, known as BALCO, was eventually raided and she became a target of investigation. This is when she lied to investigators. Drug testing techniques continued to improve as she continued to compete, and she lied to prosecutors and traded a guilty plea in order to arrange for more lenient sentencing.
HGH as a Performance Enhancing Drug
Although Marion Jones was finally caught because of her use of THG Testosterone, it is likely that she utilized a number of other techniques in order to cheat her competition as well. One of the most common methods of performance enhancement today is Human Growth Hormone. Bio-Identical HGH was originally created in order to treat growth disorders in children, but it has been more recently shown to be effective in treating Adult Human Growth Hormone Deficiency as well. Although there are a number of valid uses for HGH among adults, especially those over the age of thirty with a diagnosable and symptomatic deficiency, it has also been discovered to be a highly potent tool for performance enhancement.
Why Do Athletes Use HGH?
Athletes who take HGH shots generally do so for three reasons.
The first reason is that Human Growth Hormone burns calories and fat in order to provide enhanced endurance and energy during training.
The second reason is that HGH has the ability to enhance muscle strength. When combined with vigorous training, Human Growth Hormone Injections have the ability to amplify the effects of exercise, giving athletes an edge over their competitors.
The third reason that Athletes use HGH is because the drug greatly reduces downtime which normally results from extreme physical exertion. This allows athletes to recover from exercise sessions more quickly. Quicker recovery time means that people who use HGH can exercise more often without feeling the painful effects of overexertion, giving them more training time in comparison to their honest competitors.
The Futility of Early HGH Testing
In the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and the 2006 Olympic Winter Games of Torino, no athlete was caught using HGH Injections. IGF-1 Testing was not available for the 2004 and 2006 Olympics and injected Human Growth Hormone does not have to be present in the body in order to provide Performance Enhancing Benefits. It is also relatively easy to avoid being caught using Human Growth Hormone shots as well, because current testing only detects HGH within the body for one to three days after injection.
This gives a much more significant window for enforcement, but HGH therapy provides benefits for months after a month long cycle of injection. As long as athletes know when drug tests will be performed, they can easily avoid detection. Experts continue to improve their methods, but it may be years before a fool-proof HGH Test becomes available in order to stem its widespread use. For now, word of mouth and financial investigations are the primary means by which illicit HGH usage is discovered.
Harsh punishments and retrospective disqualifications are two of the biggest tools of deterrence available today. Although it wont catch all of the minor players, athletes of significance such as Marion Jones and Roger Clemens will often be caught as rumors and evidence of their PED usage become undeniable.
Why Are PEDs so hard to Track?
Those athletes who use Human Growth Hormone for Performance Enhancement are likely to have been using the substance regularly for a period of months before an athletic event such as the Olympics. The Olympics are such a huge international contest that it is simply impossible to drug test all competitors in the months leading up to the Olympics. Since the benefits of HGH stick around even after use of the Hormone has subsided, it is possible to quit usage weeks before drug testing begins while still maintaining a clear advantage as a result of HGH Injections.
Julian Chang is pessimistic about current enforcement of Human Growth Hormone Detection. He says that the only way to get caught using Human Growth Hormone is due to stupidity and carelessness.
The Future of PED Testing
There are new techniques available which can make HGH usage a more risky proposition. One new strategy involves freezing drug samples. World Anti-Doping President John Fahey has come forth and told Australian reporters that there is now a protocol in place to hold Olympic competitors accountable for following the rules. Olympic Anti-Doping officials are using techniques in order to freeze blood and urine samples for as long as eight years without degrading the sample. By doing this, they can retest samples at a later date if any allegations arise regarding PED abuse or if new tests make it easier to test for particular banned substances.
In addition to this, there are a number of new tests that are being developed which can trace other substances frequently used as performance enhancing drugs such as IGF-1 R3, peptide hormones, and clenbuterol. These substances have been shown to produce physiological benefits similar to those of Human Growth Hormone.
Timeline of PED Abuse Cases
Although in the 90s and early 2000s, drug testers repeatedly discovered endemic Performance Enhancing Drug Abuse among Chinese competitors, the Chinese seem to have cleaned up their act significantly. Below is a list of significant cases which involved Chinese PED use:
In 1994 a group of 11 Chinese competitors at the Asian Games in Japan were found to test positive for Performance Enhancing Steroids. Among the 11 athletes who were caught, 7 were members of the swim team. As a testament to the effectiveness of Steroids as a performance booster, 3 of the swim team members achieved world championship times.
In 1998, a Chinese swim team member named Yuan Yuan was apprehended with a distributive quantity of HGH while preparing to board a plane at the Sydney, Australia International airport. She was caught just prior to the world swimming championships. In the same year, 4 of her teammates were discovered to have been cheating as well. Over the course of the 90s, a total of 38 swim team members and/or swim coaches were caught with Performance Enhancing Drugs across the ten year span.
In 2000, 4 Internationally renowned Chinese track athletes were handed down a two year total ban from competitive track and field events as a result of being caught utilizing Performance Enhancement Drugs.
Also in 2000, Chinese Track coach Ma Junren was discovered to have been utilizing Performance Enhancing Drugs such as Steroids and Human Growth Hormone in an attempt to create a team of what could be considered super-athletes. Junrens track team recorded many incredible track times, blowing away their competition and fuelling suspicions that he was facilitating cheating among his pupils. Eventually, his utilization of PEDs was discovered by national officials and he was fired from his position as Chinese Olympic coach.
Largely as a result of Junrens misdeeds, forty athletes representing the Chinese Olympic team were banned from making the trip to Sydney, Australia. Among those in the group, twenty seven were not able to pass a drug test. As a result, the entire group of forty was banned from competition.
In 2001, four more Chinese star track athletes were punished or completely banned from world track competitions as a result of PED use.
Two years later, Shang Shichun was uncovered as a cheater in 2003. She broke 3 world records for his strength performance in weight lifting completion. Her trio of gold medals were all revoked as a result of her disqualification.
In 2005, Chinese Anti-Drug agents raided a track facility in the province of Liaoning. As a result of the raid, drug agents discovered a refrigerator loaded with enough banned Performance Enhancing Drugs to supply the entire facility. Eight track and field athletes from the facility tested positive for PEDs.
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Articles like this outline the risks associated with misuse and abuse of HGH shots, Testosterone patches and gells, and other forms of performance enhancement. Success breeds prying eyes, and the most successful are at the highest risk of being discovered abusing these drugs. Even national heroes such as Lance Armstrong are not immune to such scrutiny.
For what Purposes are HGH and Testosterone Legal?
Although we in no way condone the use of HGH or Testosterone as a performance enhancer, articles such as these highlight the amazing changes that can result from the use of these hormones. We only provide Hormone Replacement Therapies for patients who show a clinical need for HGH or Testosterone as a result of a diagnosable clinical deficiency. As we surpass the age of thirty, our hormone levels naturally begin to decline. As a result, eventually all of us will begin to age at an increased rate as a result of hormone deficiency. Some of us experience this decline faster than others, which can result in premature aging.
If you are suffering from Low-T or HGH Deficiency, you are a perfect candidate for Hormone Replacement Therapy as a treatment for Hypogonadism and Hypopituitarism!
The Amazing Benefits of HGH
The benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy using Testosterone or Human Growth Hormone are immense. Proper hormone balance is a key to extending life and making it both more enjoyable and more rewarding. If you are interested in using Hormone Replacement as an Anti-Aging Treatment, the Conscious Evolution Institute is here to help.
We can provide all of the testing required in order to both diagnose your deficiency and prove whether or not you are a valid candidate for the amazing treatments that we have to offer.
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Dale Miller
A different type of scoreboard watching took place in the high school sports world during the past month.
And it's one of those not-so-fun types of scoreboard watching that usually occurs when politicians get involved in athletics.
What important issues are state legislatures devoting their time and efforts to across the country?
With the recent uptick in the number of mass shootings, maybe discussing laws that would help prevent these tragedies would be worth an effort.
But a quick scan shows that, no, most bills considered this year would loosen gun laws, not strengthen them or address mental health issues.
How about the continued financial impact of the pandemic upon states?
Sure, there are those issues that vary from state to state.
But the one pressing issue across America seems to be — transgender athletes in girls sports?
Any topic that generates bills in approximately 35 out of the 50 states must be an important topic that must be addressed immediately.
And there seems to be daily updates on these bills.
North Dakota's bill gets vetoed by Gov. Doug Burgum.
Florida's bill is suddenly and surprisingly dead.
Kansas gets a veto by Gov. Laura Kelly.
Alabama's bill is signed by Gov. Kay Ivey.
Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi all passed bills in March.
But ... why now?
Between 2017 and 2019 a pair of transgender sprinters won several girls state track and field titles in Connecticut, resulting in lawsuits that claimed that cisgender girls weren't given an equal chance to succeed.
But other than that highly publicized case, it's hard to find any other instances of transgender athletes having an impact on the outcome of high school sports, let alone participating at all.
In March, Associated Press reporters contacted two dozen state legislators who were sponsoring bills to ban transgender girls from high school athletics. Those who responded couldn't cite any examples of transgender athletes even competing in their state.
Proponents of these types of bills often say they are needed to be proactive to ensure that competition remains fair for athletes in the future.
Opponents feel that these bills are part of a national effort to marginalize transgender people.
The bill in Florida made plenty of news and led to a big spotlight being brought on issues with these bills.
According to the Miami Herald, "The House bill stipulated that institutions had to resolve complaints about a student's sex with a health examination from a health care provider. The student could prove their sex one of three ways: with a DNA test; with a testosterone test or with medical professional examining the student's 'reproductive anatomy.'"
If that last part doesn't give you pause ...
And exactly who is allowed to make these "complaints"? A less-than-ethical opposing coach, administrator or parent the week of a big postseason contest?
The transgender bill in Montana makes me wonder how sincere those politicians are who are bringing this up as a major issue facing high school athletes in their states.
According to the Associated Press, "The Montana House and Senate approved the bill largely along party lines, after it was amended to become void if the federal government withholds education funding from the state over gender discrimination and an appeal by the state fails."
When you can name the price tag at which an issue suddenly isn't important enough to address with a bill, maybe we shouldn't be scoreboard watching on that issue at all.
Dale Miller is a sports writer for the Independent. Once a week he wanders away from the sports department to offer his take on non-sports related topics. Email him at dale.miller@theindependent.com
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What I have come to appreciate about child's pose is it's ability to allow me to inhabit my body and better know what I am feeling in the moment. Sometimes this can be very straightforward, and other days quite complex, or even unsettling. The key to child's pose is to not have an expectation that this posture will always be easy or restful or even the same on any given day or throughout different parts of the same yoga sequence. I like to use child's pose as a stand alone posture in the evening to restore or check in at the end of a busy day. Or also mixed in with more physical practice. I notice that the qualities of child's pose ebbs and flows amidst the context within which I practice.
Child's pose can be a very comforting and safe posture. As we kneel on the mat, and bring the hips back to the the heels and extend the arms to the sides of the body, we are literally placing ourselves in a position of surrender and allowing whatever is going to happen to happen.
It is one of the sacred postures that brings us close to the ground. This can bring up feelings of trust, as we aim to let go of muscular tension or gripping, and allow gravity and the earth to hold us. It provides a holding and sense of real groundedness to be placed close to the earth. This encourages feelings of safety, and cultivates more trust as we allow ourselves to be held.
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