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Minister insists DWP is right to ignore reports of deaths linked to benefits
Written by Kitty S Jones
The new Conservative minister for disabled people has insisted that his department is right to ignore reports of deaths linked to the loss or non-payment of disability benefits.
Mark Harper said he did not accept that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) should be collecting this information or trying to learn lessons from such deaths.
He was speaking to Disability News Service (DNS) at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham, days after a DNS story revealed that DWP refused to collect or analyse accounts of benefit-related deaths.
One disabled activist suggested last week that this failure could amount to criminal negligence, while Samuel Miller, a prominent disabled academic from Canada, said this week that DWP had "seriously breached its duty of care by ignoring benefit-related deaths".
But Harper said he did not "accept the premise" that DWP should collect and analyse reports that suggest a disabled person's death could have been linked to the non-payment or withdrawal of benefits.
He said: "If somebody in those sort of cases, if someone has [a] mental health [condition] and then something happens, trying to disaggregate what was the cause I don't think is as simple as you are trying to suggest."
When asked whether he accepted that any deaths had been caused, or even partly caused, by the loss or non-payment of benefits, he said: "Of the cases I have seen since I have been the minister where there have been allegations, when you look at the detail they are not as simple and straightforward as people are alleging."
But Harper did promise to "go back and look back at what processes we have in place to track cases" and to look at the Freedom of Information Act response from DWP that led to the DNS story.
There have been numerous reports of disabled people whose deaths have been linked to the employment and support allowance claim process, or the refusal of benefits, including the writer Paul Reekie, who killed himself in 2010, and the deaths of Nick Barker, Jacqueline Harris, Ms DE, and Brian McArdle.
Many of the cases became widely-known through media reports of inquests, but in the case of Ms DE, the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland concluded that the work capability assessment process and the subsequent denial of ESA was at least a "major factor in her decision to take her own life".
By john pring , originally posted on Disability News Service
I've been asking for 2 years why the DWP are not keeping a record to at least monitor the consequences of the welfare "reforms", and it's a fact that the DWP have refused to respond to further FOIs, since the one released in 2012. The government have not investigated those deaths related to their reforms, remarkably, and we need to ask why.
Mark Harper refuses to allow the release of information concerning harm that government policies cause. These are not the responses of a responsible, democratic government.
I made a statistical cross comparison of deaths, using the Department for Work and Pensions Freedom Of Information (FOI) release, though my analysis was undertaken last year, I found that the FOI yielded a response showing that people having their claim for Employment Support Allowance (ESA) stopped, between October 2010 and November 2011, with a recorded date of death within six weeks of that claim ceasing, who were until recently claiming Incapacity Benefit (IB) – and who were migrated onto ESA – totalled 310. Between January and November 2011, those having their ESA claim ended, with a recorded date of death within six weeks of that claim ending totalled 10,600.
The DWP had made these two groups statistically discrete on the FOI, which has provided the only useful information for analysis.
This is a very substantial, significant statistical variation over a comparatively similar time scale (although the 10,600 deaths actually happened over a shorter time scale – by 3 months) that appears to be correlated with the type of benefit and, therefore, the differing eligibility criteria – the assessment process – as both population samples of claimants on ESA and IB contain little variation regarding the distribution in the cohorts in terms of severity of illness or disability. Bearing in mind that those who were successfully migrated to ESA from IB were assessed and deemed unfit for work, (under a different assessment process, originally) one would expect that the death rates would be similar to those who have only ever claimed ESA.
This is very clearly not the case. And we know that the ESA assessment process has actually excluded many seriously ill people from entitlement because of the media coverage of individual tragic cases, when a person deemed fit for work by Atos has died soon after the withdrawal of their lifeline benefit, and of course, such case studies and evidence informs Parliamentary debate, as well as the ongoing Work and Pension Committee inquiry into ESA, details of which may be found on the Hansard record.
Further evidence that very ill and disabled people have been excluded from an award of ESA may be found in the statistical outcomes of tribunals – there is a consistently very high success rate amongst those who have appealed Atos/DWP decisions, over that time period. Those on IB were not required to have continuous assessments, whereas those on ESA are constantly required to undergo the Work Capability Assessment.
Dr Steven Bick indicated that there are targets to reduce the number of people who "qualify" for ESA payments, the WCA is unfairly and irrationally weighted towards finding people fit for work, often when it's clearly not the case, so each assessment is simply an opportunity for the DWP to end claims. Many claimants have described a "revolving door" process of endless assessment, ceased ESA claim, (based on an outcome of almost invariably being wrongly "assessed" as fit for work), appeal, successful appeal outcome, benefit reinstated, only to find just 3 months later another assessment is required.
The uncertainty and loss of even basic security that this process creates, leading to constant fear and anxiety, is having a damaging, negative impact on the health and well-being of so many. A significant proportion of those required to have endless assessments have very obviously serious illnesses such as cancer, kidney failure, lung disease, heart disease, severe and life-threatening chronic conditions such as multiple sclerosis, lupus, myalgic encephalomyelitis, rheumatoid arthritis, brain tumours, severe heart conditions, and severe mental health illness, for example. To qualify for ESA, the claimant must provide a note from a doctor stating that the person is unfit for work.
There can be no justification for subjecting people who are so ill to further endless assessments, stopping lifeline benefits and to treating us as if we have done something wrong. Negative labelling, marginalising and stigmatising the vulnerable via propaganda in the media, using despiteful and malicious terms such as "workshy" and "feckless" is a major part of the Government's malevolent "justification" for removing the lifeline of support from the sick and disabled. In addition to very justified anxieties regarding the marked increase in disability hate crime that the Tory-led propaganda campaign has resulted in, many sick and disabled people have also stated that they feel harassed and bullied by the Department of Work and Pensions and Atos.
One of the fundamental provisions in the Human Rights Convention is Article 2 which states that everyone has a right to life. It also places on the state a positive duty to protect life. Article 2 has been interpreted to include the positive requirement of the state to ensure preventative measures are taken to protect citizens and a duty to investigate suspicious deaths.
We are informing the government of the deaths that Tory policies are causing, we have presented evidence, and so has the opposition: recorded case studies are on Hansard, the parliamentary record, as well reported being in the media. The government have responded by denying that the deaths are "causally linked" with their policies and have refused to investigate further.
Genocide is defined as the deliberate and systematic eradication or mass killing of a group or large population identified by the perpetrators.
The 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide(CPPCG) – Article 2 [4] and Article 6 of the International Criminal Court Statute [5] define genocide as such:
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.
This includes: "The destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, as well as the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups". Deliberate starvation is classified as a crime against humanity, and with holding lifeline benefits from the most vulnerable members of a society cannot be seen as anything other than deliberate starvation.
Because these policies are sometimes implemented by governments, limiting the unrestrained power of the state is an important part of international law. Underlying laws that prohibit the various "crimes against humanity" is the principle of non-discrimination and the notion that certain basic rights apply universally.
The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. [11]
Gregory H. Stanton (President, Genocide Watch), says "Prevention of genocide requires a structural understanding of the genocidal process. Genocide has eight stages or operational processes."
Stages of Genocide: 1). Classification, 2). Symbolization, 3). Dehumanization, 4). Organization, 5). Polarization, 6). Preparation, 7). Extermination, and 8). Denial
Written by Sue Jones.
Many thanks, as ever, to Robert Livingstone for his brilliant artwork
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The ESA 'Revolving Door' Process, and its Correlation with a Significant Increase in Deaths amongst the Disabled.
UK becomes the first country to face a UN inquiry into disability rights violations
Amnesty International has condemned the erosion of human rights of disabled people in UK
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18 thoughts on "Minister insists DWP is right to ignore reports of deaths linked to benefits"
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NMac says:
The Nasty Party remains as nasty as ever.
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Theresa Maleady says:
It is disgusting how thwy are getting away with murder they must pay dearly for this. Why is it being over looked? This government must charged with manslaughter if that is the case.
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stewilko says:
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What a dick head, the same as IDS , MCvey and all the conservative scum that have destroyed are welfare, along with our NHS.
denise clendinning says:
Don,t worry their time is coming they have had a shock today with ukip and they have many more coming their way before the election They will get what is coming to them and it cant come quick enough in my book
Sarah Ledsom says:
If coroners are stating loss of benefits or WCA as contributing to the deaths of vulnerable people, then I would assume that would be strong evidence in a court of law. Do we know if there has been any test case? I know if anything happened to a family member, then I would be going after the decision maker as being the responsible person. If they are stupid enough to put their name to a legal document, then they will end up in court. Why are families not pursuing this? Or even banding together and going for a class action? Iain Duncan Smith is responsible for all these thousands of deaths, but gets away with it through very stupid jobworths at the DWP doing all the dirty work for him.
Clive Arnold says:
Mark Harper is a good example of a corrupt Tory politician
thelovelywibblywobblyoldlady says:
I wonder if Mark Harper also has difficulty in seeing the nose on his face!
Sickening, the public is right to be very concerned and right to pursue justice for those tormented to death. The DWP is truly vile and people really need to start legal proceedings for harassment causing severe worry, anxiety and distress leading to severe depression and suicides in some cases.
Guide to stop the harassment..
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You can hear them repeating the narrative to themselves "it's not _our_ fault that people are killing themselves due to the kafkaesque benefits system it was because they were mentally ill". The DWP, pathologising hopelessness.
John Cornell says:
For god sake, what sort of society are we living in. if someone has a broken leg or cancer its there to see, if a person has a mental health issue their working the system, according to this government. To my mind its institutional rape of the most vulnerable in our society. Its Disgusting.
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I think the comment, "This is the institutional rape of the most vulnerable in our society " sums it up.
Mark Catlin says:
The Tory pre-paid punishment and anti-welfare card. Again
A snapshot of stupidity – from a Ukip voter


MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO - Proving his love affair with the electric car is no passing thing, Premier Dalton McGuinty has showered $16.7 million on a Mississauga company producing batteries for the so-called greener cars.
The grant to Electrovaya will help the company bring batteries to market for the electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles.
McGuinty has already committed to providing rebates of up to $10,000 to consumers who purchase the vehicles.
The move to electric cars has been slow to date but is now accelerating, he told a crowd at Electrovaya.
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The Mississauga plant grant is expected to create 240 new jobs and retain another 50 jobs.
The company has already signed deals with automakers in Europe, Asia and North America.
"There are at least 12 major manufacturers now working to produce an electric car.... We want Ontario to be part of that," McGuinty said. "Our goal is to have one in every 20 cars on the road to be electric by 2020."
A group of protesters, unhappy with government plans to build a gas-fired electricity plant in the area, formed a quiet picket line in front of Electrovaya.


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Elections |Will Gary Johnson Make the Presidential Debates?
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Will Gary Johnson Make the Presidential Debates?
By WILSON ANDREWS and JOSH KATZ UPDATED September 21, 2016
The Commission on Presidential Debates announced the five polls that will be used to determine candidate eligibility for the 2016 general election debates. To participate, a candidate must have an average of at least 15 percent support using each organization's most recent poll.
On Sept. 16, the commission said that Gary Johnson would not be allowed to participate in the first debate on Sept. 26.
Johnson is currently polling at 8%.
He is below the 15% threshold required to participate in the debates.
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CNN New 9/1 - 9/4
Get full coverage of the latest national and state polls →
Mr. Johnson has maintained an average of about 10 percentage points since June, when pollsters started including him in surveys.
The commission also requires a candidate to be on the ballot in enough states to have a mathematical chance of winning 270 electoral votes. Mr. Johnson is well past that threshold, according to the Libertarian Party's website. The Green Party candidate, Jill Stein, also has passed the state ballot threshold and is currently polling at around 3 percent.
H. Ross Perot, who ran as an independent candidate in 1992, was able to participate in debates as part of an agreement with the campaigns of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Mr. Perot was polling at 10 percent to 20 percent in the fall of 1992 and received nearly 19 percent of the nationwide vote.
The debate commission barred the Green Party candidate Ralph Nader from attending the 2000 debates, even as a spectator. Polling showed his support at about 4 percent in the fall of 2000.
Polling data from the Huffington Post Pollster API.

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In a brisk episode, Jim and Debbie introduce the top 20 Most Valuable Students and then share some of the storylines for this year's Hoop Shoot National Finals. This one will get you pumped for the two big April events.
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Check out the videos and other great coverage from the Biloxi service trip right here.
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Check out photo albums and short films from the first five Leadership Weekends right here.
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Jim and Debbie interview Nicole, a veteran who was on the fast track to destruction before getting help from the V.A. and the Elks. Plus CIPsters Colleen Conrad and Chelsea Dennis drop by to talk about the new Spotlight Grant.
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So, what exactly is a Most Valuable Student?
Nicole is one of the veterans featured in the #BeTheSpark series. Read her story and others. Since joining the fight to end veteran homelessness in September 2015, the Elks have helped more than 1,350 veterans like Nicole exit or avoid homelessness through timely emergency financial assistance.
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Nevada's population of people over the age of 65 has steadily increased over the years, thanks to an aging population and the popularity of our warm climate as a retirement destination. Unfortunately, the elderly can be susceptible to abuse and neglect by people who live with or care for them. Nevada law provides a range of options for someone who is the victim of elder abuse to seek compensation.
Nevada's elder abuse law, NRS 41.1395, protects anyone who is 60 years of age or older by providing that an injured plaintiff may recover twice their actual damages and, in some situations, attorneys' fees. To recover double damages, an older person must have suffered a personal injury or death that is caused by abuse or neglect, or suffered a loss of money or property caused by exploitation. Attorney's fees can be awarded in cases where the plaintiff shows by a preponderance of the evidence that the person who is liable for damages acted with recklessness, oppression, fraud, or malice.
Abuse involves the willful and unjustified infliction of pain, injury, or mental anguish, or deprivation of food, shelter, clothing, or services that are necessary to maintain the older person's physical or mental health. NRS 41.1395(4)(a). The requirement that an act be willful is an important limitation for abuse claims. It is not enough that someone be merely negligent. Some cases may also hinge on whether a given service was "necessary" for the wellbeing of the older person. For example, the amount of food that must be provided to maintain the health of an infirm person may be difficult to establish.
Exploitation has two components. NRS 41.1395(4)(b). First, the defendant must be someone in a position of trust, such as a caregiver or family member, or must hold a power of attorney or legal guardianship with respect to the older person. Second, the defendant must have taken money, property, or other assets from the older person. The taking can be through an act of deception, intimidation, or undue influence, or can simply be an act of conversion.
In either case, the taking must be intended to permanently deprive the older person of use and benefit of the taken asset. A clear example would be someone taking money from an older person's wallet. But the statute provides that "undue influence" does not include "the normal influence that one member of a family has over another." In other words, to show undue influence there must be something more than, for example, a family member making poor choices with the older person's money.
A neglect claim can be brought only against someone who has assumed responsibility for the care of an older person, such as a home care provider. The defendant has to have expressly acknowledged his or her assumption of responsibility, verbally or through a written contract. The defendant must have failed "to provide food, shelter, clothing or services within the scope of the person's responsibility or obligation, which are necessary to maintain the physical or mental health of the older person." NRS 41.1395(4)(c).
The specific requirements in the definition of neglect that may complicate a lawsuit. The "express acknowledgment" requirement may pose challenges outside the context of contracted services. For informal arrangements, determining when someone has assumed responsibility for an older person may be subject to different opinions. Another issue in such contexts will be the scope of a caregiver's responsibilities.
For over 45 years the law firm of Greenman Goldberg Raby Martinez has helped clients in the Las Vegas area recover for personal injuries. If you or a loved one has suffered elder abuse and you have questions about your legal rights, our attorneys are happy to review your case. Call us today for a free consultation at 702-388-4476, or reach us through our contact page.


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In January, John Mullins from London Business School came to Vienna for the third consecutive time to hold a lecture in "Entrepreneurial Finance" for WU's Master Program Strategy, Innovation and Management Control (SIMC) students. This class is a special experience, as it is based on real-life cases that teach us how to successfully found, fund & grow a business.
Who is John Mullins?
After his MBA, John worked in the US retail industry and built two startups, one failed and one he took public. After 20 years in retail, he decided to start his second career and become a professor. John has been a Professor at the London Business School for more than 18 years now, where he teaches his broad knowledge in entrepreneurship to MBA students. Since becoming an entrepreneurship professor, he has published five books, dozens of cases, and over 50 articles in a variety of outlets.
Different approach to Entrepreneurial Finance
As John was only here for one week, the Entrepreneurial Finance class was filled into an intense week, with two sessions per day. For each session, a case had to be prepared by the students, along with a couple of readings that comprised the theoretical background necessary to crack the cases. Preparing the cases was a challenging experience because they were not only demanding content wise, but also because we were not used to the case method approach. Even though we spent long nights in preparation, the work with challenging real-life cases definitely paid off.
In each session, we spent hours discussing every little detail of the cases and John supported us to bring in each possible perspective. This was especially important to him, as it is essential to understand both sides of the deal to reach a consensus in investment situations. This broad perspective also makes this course very special, as most other entrepreneurial finance courses are taught by investors who only bring one perspective. Going through the cases, it stopped feeling like a finance exercise, but more like reading an exciting book where you're dying to know what happens. The great thing about the real-life cases was that we could analyze how the companies developed over the years and observe why they are what they are today.
"SIMC students are very interested in innovation and many are eager to become entrepreneurs. These are the people who are going to make a real difference, who create jobs in the world and make economies grow (…). I have the next generation of entrepreneurs with me in the SIMC classroom every time I come, it's fantastic!"
We were really inspired by this fascinating course and John Mullins has certainly fostered our appetite to start a business ourselves one day!
Become part of the SIMC program!
The Master in Strategy, Innovation, and Management Control at WU Vienna prepares tomorrow's executives for their role as organizational leaders. The program combines theory, practice, and instruction in relevant social skills, for an integrated approach to organizational leadership. Great emphasis is placed on developing the ability to identify new entrepreneurial opportunities and, based on that ability, creating strategies for achieving sustained success.
Do you also want to become a successful entrepreneur in the future? Become part of the SIMC Master Program and acquire the necessary skills you need! Make use of the final application deadline on March 8, 2019. Find more information here and check out the video to see why you should study at WU.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Imagine landing the perfect job only to find out it's not real. That happened to a Fox Cities woman who uncovered a job offer scam.
Bridget Turner was trying to turn freelance work into a more consistent job.
"I went to school for graphic design and I love doing design work" says Bridget Turner.
Turner thought she found a good match.
"It was through ZipRecruiter. I get their automated emails for graphic-related positions," Turner tells Target 2.
A job listing popped up with a name she recognized: Rasmussen College in Green Bay.
"The names were really staff members who do work for or had worked for Rasmussen in the past," Turner said.
Bridget emailed her resume and samples of her work. She was quickly invited to interview via Google Hangouts.
"They wanted to do an online interview, which I did think was a little strange," Turner said.
Turner continued, "They explained Rasmussen's mission and values and the job description."
After the online interview, Bridget was offered the job. She felt that something wasn't right. The emails were coming from a Gmail account--not Rasmussen College.
"I really did think it was a real job. It was exciting, and obviously a big let down once I found out that it wasn't real," Turner says.
She had uncovered a cleverly designed scam.
Rasmussen College tells Target 2 that it's aware of several fraudulent job listings recently posted by scammers on social media, professional networking sites and online boards. Rasmussen College is working to prevent future listings that use their name and names of their leaders.
"They sort of hijack the identity of a real company to make themselves look more believable," says Susan Bach, Better Business Bureau of Wisconsin.
The BBB says scammers commonly try to snag job hunters.
"Scammers usually want one of three things from you: They want to steal either your money, your identity or they need your help in perpetration one of their scams," Bach says.
As online job searching grows in popularity, ZipRecruiter tells us they have a strict vetting process, but "no system is perfect."
"We at ZipRecruiter take great pride in our role as an employment marketplace which brings job seekers and employers together. We are also acutely aware that there are bad actors out there who, whether on job boards or on other platforms for internet commerce and communication, seek to use the cloak of anonymity provided by technology to take advantage of others. And while we are pleased that our growth has enabled a dramatic increase in both the number of people we can help and the quality of our service, we are also aware that we have become more visible not only to legitimate participants but also to bad actors.
That is why we have implemented, and continue to refine and improve, our systems to address this important issue. On the front end, we use proprietary detection software and have stringent client onboarding processes to vet potential posters and deny access for those who fail to pass our screens. On the back end, we re-run our detection software on job listings as they're posted and have customer service representatives available seven days a week to investigate and weed out suspicious posts.
Still, no system is perfect, no matter how sophisticated or well-intentioned. That is why we take steps to educate job seekers about how to spot suspicious activity and encourage reporting of all such activity to us so we can investigate and take prompt remedial action. Any such reports should be sent to our dedicated email address: trustandsafety@ziprecruiter.com"
"Rasmussen College is aware of several fraudulent job listings that were recently posted by scammers on social media, professional networking sites and online job boards. The fraudulent postings were for jobs that do not exist, and we believe the intent of the scammer(s) is to target potential victims for the purposes of identity theft, to obtain bank account information and/or to ask them to pay in advance for an application or a training program. Rasmussen College takes this situation seriously, and we are doing everything we can to combat this scam, including having the listings removed. It is important to note, the personal information of our students and employees is secure.
Unfortunately, this type of scam has become all too familiar. Fake job postings and similar solicitations such as phishing scams often include the name of a public figure, such as a college president or executive to add legitimacy to their scam. Rasmussen College is working to prevent future listings that use the College's name and the names of our leaders.
o Be wary of anyone requesting you transfer funds to a different account or writing a check on your account and sending it to them.
o Check with your bank to make sure any check is legitimate before you attempt to cash it.
o If you discover that a check is fraudulent, file a report with your local police department.


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EMBRACE THE HOLIDAY CHEER AS NETMARBLE ISSUES A CHRISTMAS UPDATE FOR THE KING OF FIGHTERS ALLSTAR
LOS ANGELES – DEC. 22, 2020 – THE KING OF FIGHTERS ALLSTAR, Netmarble's popular mobile action role-playing game (RPG), is celebrating the holidays with a Christmas-themed update that adds in-game events and a limited-time holiday fighter, Winter Love Messenger B. Jenet, for players to collect.
Originally debuting in SNK's Garou: Mark of the Wolves and THE KING OF FIGHTERS XI, Winter Love Messenger B. Jenet is a Green Balance fighter whose Leader Skill increases Green Element fighters' ATK by 45% and their Power Charge by 20%. Her Skill Effect grants three seconds of Hyper Armor (Super Armor & DMG Immunity), which leads to two seconds of Skill Freeze. The Holiday Exclusive Set Card are also available for players to collect.
Other holiday events for this month include:
5-Day Daily Check-In (12/22 – 1/5/21): Log in to THE KING OF FIGHTERS ALLSTAR daily for up to five days to receive Elite EXP Capsules, KOF Allstar Summon Tickets, and more.
Winter Fighter Selection Event (12/22 – 1/6/21): Choose one of the Holiday AS fighters to obtain by clearing daily missions and also earn various rewards, including Souls for the chosen fighter.
Team Relay Dungeon (12/22 – 1/10/21): Players will assemble teams of fight fighters to take on the Winter Holiday Chang Koehan boss for rewards like AS Purple Souls, Rare Enchantment Hammers, and more.
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Coming Soon to Minnesota Mining Industry: Former BP CEO Tony Hayward?
Miles Grant | July 27, 2011
Tony Hayward testifies on Capitol Hill, June 2010 (via Flickr's EnergyCommerce)
Former BP CEO Tony Hayward reportedly has been hired, and I am not making this up, as the head of environment and safety at Glencore, a multinational mining and commodities trading company. Hayward's next stop could be in Minnesota, reports MinnPost.com:
Tony Hayward has been recently hired by a company called Glencore. Don't feel bad if you haven't heard of it. It has been trying for years to be invisible to the naked eye. It was briefly in the news back in the Clinton years when its founder, Marc Rich, violated federal law by trading oil with Iran and went on the FBI's most wanted list. Things cooled off fairly quickly because President Clinton pardoned Rich as Bill was on the way out of the White House door. Rich was, well, rich. He gave money to the Clinton campaign. I'm not saying. I'm just saying.
So Glencore ends up being one of the biggest, if not the biggest, commodities traders in the world. It handles everything from metals to fuel and has operations all over the globe. It doesn't have a very nice record in some parts of the world where it has been accused of mistreatment of workers, pollution and very much worse. Now Glencore is putting its money in northern Minnesota. It is has just become the principal investor in a mining operation planned for Hoyt Lakes. […]
Iron mining and northern Minnesota have gone hand in glove for a century. But the proposed PolyMet mine in Hoyt Lakes is a different animal. It is called hardrock sulfide mining. It will be going after copper and nickel and precious metals. It promises jobs in a job-starved part of our state. But there are two things you should know about hardrock sulfide mining. The first thing is that the Environmental Protection Agency says hardrock mining generates more toxic waste than any other sector of the U.S. economy. The second thing you should know is that the history of this sort of mining shows that when the metals run out, the companies decamp. The real pollution starts after they leave with the winnings, go broke, or sell out.
To recap quickly: Tony Hayward was at the helm of BP when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank in a preventable disaster that spilled more than 200 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, a disaster that's still being felt by the Gulf's communities and wildlife. BP repeatedly misstated the size of the disaster and Hayward become a symbol of British Petroleum's remarkable combination of arrogance and incompetence, first declaring he wanted the Gulf oil disaster over so he could have his cushy life back, then enjoying a day on a yacht while oil washed ashore in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Hayward was forced out as BP CEO, but the company kept him on and deployed him to Russia. When last heard from, Hayward was cutting a deal to drill for oil in an Arctic wildlife haven.
Now Hayward is being put in charge of "environment and safety" in one of America's most toxic industries? What could go wrong?
Via Kate Sheppard
Conservation | hard rock mining, mining, Minnesota, Tony Hayward
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Ґміна Добротвур (пол. Gmina Dobrotwór) — колишня (1934—1939 рр.) сільська ґміна Кам'янко-Струмилівського повіту Тарнопольського воєводства Польської республіки (1918—1939) рр. Центром ґміни було село Добротвор.

1 серпня 1934 р. було створено ґміну Добротвур у Кам'янко-Струмилівському повіті. До неї увійшли сільські громади: Добротвур, Сєлєц Бєнькув, Стриганка і Тишица.

В 1940 р. ґміна ліквідована у зв'язку з утворенням Кам'янко-Струмилівського району.

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Історія Кам'янка-Бузького району

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On Nas, Slick Rick & Biggie: a playwright's love letters to hip-hop
Playing like an artful stage production performed on wax, Nas' Illmatic is a feature away from a one-man show; the classic album a spectacle of lyricism and wordplay. With rhyme partner AZ as his sole co-star, Nas, ably assisted by some of rap's finest sound designers in Q-Tip, DJ Premier and Large Professor, channels his inner playwright to present us with some striking scenes of life in underprivileged New York – his vivid verses rhymed with all the poetry and pathos of great theatre. Making like a young Arthur Miller, the 40th side of Vernon savant offers us his view from The Bridge, capturing the drama, intrigue and tragedy of street life.
As entertaining and effective as anything on Broadway, Illmatic is an endlessly enjoyable piece of work – a fine drama of guns, drugs, and dreams deferred worthy of a Tony. It speaks to the stoic disaffection, youthful apathy and black angst of the late Lorraine Hansberry's best work; its acerbic tone and social commentary providing ample material for a George C. Wolfe production.
Taking to the mic booth like a seasoned thesp to the stage, Illmatic finds 17-year-old Nas, the precocious emcee, landing top billing in a must-see show, as he provides us with a lively, dramatic rendering of struggle and toil in Long Island City's Queensbridge Houses; showing up the decay of the rotten apple. A project-housing August Wilson, Nas dramatises the day-to-day of life in QB, spotlighting the ghetto in all its grime and glamour; the cassette covers of his in-demand debut's Maxells and TDKs looking like picturesque playbills.
Just under forty minutes long, the first act of the album – The Genesis, N.Y. State of Mind and Life's a Bitch – voices the cynicism of a disenfranchised prodigy; the second – most notably with The World Is Yours – offering optimism and hope; while the third paints a picture of a young man determined to "excel then prevail", in spite of his surroundings. A wonderfully woven narrative of black clouds, buddha sacks, and jewels dropped where thieves hope to never run it, Illmatic captivates with its lurid lyricism and beguiling story arc; telling a tale so timeless it demands to be engaged with and adapted across a range of mediums and platforms.
It is no wonder, then, that talk of a TV show loosely based on the album has gone unabated; that the epistolary anthem, One Love – the song's stunning final verse – inspired Hype Williams' cult classic, Belly; and that a 38-year-old playwright and youth-theatre coordinator named Shaun Neblett decided to actually take Illmatic to the stage.
Based in Harlem – the spiritual and creative home of Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and Zora Neal Thurston – Neblett's production company, Changing Perceptions Theater (CPT), engages with artists and audiences with plays as entertaining as they are educational; approaching each show staged with a youthful enthusiasm and scholarly appreciation of history.
Combining his love of hip-hop with his passion for story-telling, the New Jersey-born playwright has been recounting a few familiar tales over the last couple of years. Drawing on the life and rhymes of rap's greats, Neblett and his CPT team have been busy crafting compelling dramas based on classic records and hip-hop lore; the result being his '7 Homages for 7 MCs' series – a suite of plays capturing the spirit of iconic rap albums; the five elements-inspired theatrical run being the natural passion project of a stan with a stage. A playwright's love letters to hip-hop.
Launched with 2012's "Homage 3: Illmatic", each of the 7 Homages plays is intended to honour the legends and legacies of the emcees they're inspired by, while contextualising their finest work to explore the lives and surroundings of people from the five boroughs. With three productions already staged off-Broadway (including 2014's "Homage 2: The Great Adventures of Slick Rick" and this year's "Homage 5: Life After Death"), and four more in the works, it begs the question – just how, exactly, did the idea for the cycle come about?
Neblett explains: "I wasn't always a hip-hop head. The music that influenced me the most was jazz. While my friends were listening to Biggie, I was listening to Charles Mingus and Charlie Parker. I didn't get into a hip-hop album or artist like that until I was 19; in 1996, when Fugees came out with The Score. That album brought me into hip-hop culture. It touched me deeply. I was so moved by the record I could've sworn my life to that group."
Bearing such affection for the art-form, rap has understandably played a key role in Neblett's development as a writer, the penmanship of poets like Nas guiding his pen. "Hip-hop has definitely influenced my work," Neblett says, the ardour audible in his voice. "Just take the '7 Homages for 7 MCs' cycle. Rap has had a hand in shaping the rhythm of my words; in shaping my use of language. Each of the Homages plays is written as a piece of music, and I'm often told that my productions have a clear rhythm. In fact, when I first started writing I called myself Emcee Sneb because, to me, writing a play is akin to stepping up to the mic and spitting bars."
Staging dramas based on cultural touchstones like Illmatic, The Adventures of Slick Rick and Life After Death, then, seems logical and fitting. Neblett agrees: "My characters come out of hip-hop culture. The 7 Homages plays utilise themes from hip-hop albums, building off the lines that rappers reel off – lines that become the entire premises of my plays. The use of hip-hop culture in my work is very real to who I want to represent, and my characters are derived directly from the lyrics we talk about in barbershops, recite at parties and discuss for hours after we smoke a little weed and drink our Hennessy. The plays are a continuation of how we analyse lyrics and wonder what a rapper means when he or she kicks a rhyme."
"I write plays," Neblett elaborates, "so people will come and see how beautiful and wonderful and invested they are in life – and that's really what a lot of hip-hop has done for me and the people I know. It's not a game. We don't see movies where we are our natural beautiful selves. We don't have to act like white men and women to present hip-hop on stage. A lot of hip-hop is very much us and who we naturally are."
Asked about his selection process for the series – specifically, what drew him to Nas, Big and Rick, Neblett is categorical: "The plays address what I want to talk about with the people who come and see my work. For example, with the Illmatic piece I wanted to write something about the spirit of artists who have had to make it through adversity to produce their art. That was the heart of Illmatic to me. 'Straight out the fucking dungeons of rap, where fake niggas don't make it back' are some of the first words heard on the album. The image of a rapper, buoyed by his sense of freedom and determination against all odds to spit rhymes really struck a chord with me, and became a recurring image I tried to convey throughout the play. The Slick Rick piece, on the other hand, is a love story – loosely motivated by the emcee's famous song, Teenage Love; while my Life After Death homage – which I'm working on now – is inspired by the upcoming 20th anniversary of the classic album of the same name. I've always been interested in staging a production with an all-black cast, and Biggie being the favourite rapper of so many brothers I try to represent, the play just seemed to make perfect sense."
Talking to Neblett, it is plainly obvious that representation is a pervasive theme of his writing and work; a motif many, if not all, of his plays explore. This makes it incredibly pertinent, almost poetic, even, when the playwright outlines what he hopes to accomplish with his homages. "I aim to inspire the next generation of black artists to create art that represents who they are," he says. "Art that represents what they are about."
"Art," the playwright concludes, "that represents life as they see it – through their own lens," his final statement hitting home and reverberating like a Biggie, Rick the Ruler or Nas rhyme; his words – heartfelt and earnest – echoing the sentiments and lyrics of Illmatic, track 9.
To find out more about Shaun Neblett and his "7 Homages for 7 MCs" play cycle, visit http://www.shaunneblett.com or http://www.cptheater.com
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EMPOWERED INGENUITY WINS THE DAY!
In today's ever-changing business landscape, privately owned companies have had to quickly adapt to the Black Empowerment Policies of Government.
In 2016 Sky Hill was a Level 3 B-BBEE based on the old codes of compliance, and dropped to a level 5 B-BBEE in 2017, based on the 'new' codes. It then had to look at restructuring its business ownership and management structure to meet the new codes and requirements.
In order to remain relevant and to continue servicing their historical clients, Sky Hill Heavy Engineering had to make key decisions in terms of partnering with new equity shareholders and changing the strategy of how the business functioned, without losing its corporate identity and culture.
As a result, the company went through a Broad Based empowerment Trust Scheme. Black women now own 30% and black males 21% and the company's B-BBEE is now a Level 1, the highest level of Compliance attainable.
An empowerment holding Trust now owns Sky Hill, Hydra-Arc and the Mshiniwami Artisan Academy, with the B-BBEE partners having a cross spectrum ownership amongst these companies. The strength of this is that if one company is not doing well due to a cyclical financial downturn, there are the other companies, that cover a range of industries and services, to mitigate shareholder volatility. This is empowered ingenuity at its best.
When Hlakani Engineering Services started its fabrication facility, the first employees stemmed from a residential building background, e.g. plumbers, tilers, painters and brick layers. Hlakani offered this team the opportunity to develop and invested in in-house and external training and the personnel that accepted the challenge have developed and gained experience to the extent that they have become coded welders and boiler makers.
A Hlakani career path is where an un-skilled individual is employed and he or she shows interest in a specific skill. Tools, consumables and material are at this individual's disposal and with the employee showing interest and having the willingness to develop and basically change their own destiny, Hlakani reviews the results of welding or boiler making and then invests in this person.
An employee showing talent in welding for instance, is sent on a welding course and with the new theoretical training and enough practical experience, they are then given a practical coded welding test. If the employee passes the welding test, they are immediately upgraded to the pay grade of a coded welder.
Hlakani, by choice, utilises permanent employees as most of its qualified staff came through the ranks, starting at the bottom. This ensures loyalty, a specific company culture of commitment and pride in one's work with the end result being a low staff turn-over.
For the Eskom Camden PF burner contract, Hlakani made a commitment to train a total of four employees during the project. At the end of the project Hlakani had far exceeded that target and had trained 46 persons in various skills and created 75 new jobs.
Following many decades of good working relationships with their staff, Desert Wolf Consulting has committed to transforming the business. Since making this commitment it has transformed from a wholly whiteowned family operation to a 51% black owned business where workers hold the majority shareholding.
With many workers having been employed by the company since inception, staff have been empowered to take ownership of quality, productivity, safety and long-term planning as well as share in the profits and gains of the company.
Regarded as a 125% B-BBEE contributor, One Eighty Materials Testing has an excellent standing in transformation where black employees actively play a part in management control in key positions with a special emphasis on both skills and personal development.
Preferential procurement policies are in place to support empowering suppliers and One Eighty Materials Testing delivers young people to the industry who are well versed, trained and mentored, adding value to the economy.
At NSSC all staff members enjoy a hot meal every day, are offered training and skills development as well as apprenticeship positions in an effort to upskill all employees in the company.


Myagdi, Nov 10: A direct bus service has started from Darbang – the second commercial centre of Myagdi – to the capital city of Kathmandu. The direct bus service from Darbang to Kathmandu has been brought into operation this week under the joint management venture of Myagdi Jeep and Bus Operators Committee and Dhaulagiri Zonal Transport Bus Entrepreneur Committee.
Earlier, people from western Myagdi were compelled to change vehicle on the way to Kathmandu in district headquarters, Beni. A bus left for Kathmandu from Darbang at 5.30 pm every evening, said Myagdi Jeep and Bus Operators Committee Chairperson Surat KC.


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This program is usually stored on disk in C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell Wireless\Ath_WlanAgent.exe.
The MD5 fingerprint for this program is 7dd4f85cb997834e1adc1238045ad905.
This application is set up as a Windows service. This means it operates on your PC in background, usually without showing any user interface to you. Most Windows services are legit programs, which provide useful features to other applications or to Windows in general.
This exe runs as a 32-bit program. It can not benefit of the full set of features of current PC processors. This ordinarily happens because the publishers did not upgrade it to 64-bit code.
The description stored in the program is Atheros Coex Service Application.
File version stored as a property 8.0.0.292.
ath_wlanagent.exe is digitally signed. Nowadays most serious programs are digitally signed.
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She lay there in the dirt, torn from the embrace of her lover, caught in the very act that condemned her. They wanted to stone her. According to the law, they had every right to circle around and hurl small boulders, bruising, crushing, breaking her body, silencing her screams. But they waited to see what he would say, this young rabbi; they challenged his beliefs with her very life.
He didn't say anything, just knelt down next to her and began to write with his finger in the dirt. She saw his hand out of the corner of her eye, felt his presence next to her. He ignored the clamoring crowd and was silent as he drew. Finally, he stood.
Again, he knelt next to her and wrote in the dirt with his finger. That was it. There was an awkward silence.
After a moment, she noticed that the crowd seemed smaller. Peering through her hair, she realized that the religious men were slowly leaving. Eventually, it was just her and Jesus alone on that dusty patch of dirt. He looked at her. She lifted her head.
"Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" His voice was kind. She looked around. They were all gone.
I LOVE this story! So unexpected, so against human nature, so full of grace.
Ah, grace. We sing worship songs about it, read verses about it, talk about it, but do we really understand it? Do we really believe it? Have we felt the overwhelming flood of God's grace for ourselves? There is a strange conundrum when it comes to grace…the least deserving experience it the most. And, those who think they deserve it rarely find enough to scrape together.
You can't earn something and get it for free at the same time.
Friends, it was not the good, moral, religious people who enjoyed the grace of Jesus Christ on his first visit to planet earth. It was the rejects, the scumbags, the dirty-filthy-sinners who felt the full power of his amazing grace.
How do you feel about personal failure?
Are you defensive when people correct or challenge you?
Do you ever think that God must be disappointed in you?
When was the last time you "avoided God" because you were too messed up?
I had an interesting conversation with a college student at camp this summer. She was struggling with fear and anxiety, worried she wasn't doing enough for God, and feeling like a failure. After listening for a while, I asked her why she was concerned about doing these "good things". She told me that it was the right thing to do. I asked why. She told me it made God happy. I asked why doing good things makes God happy. She said because He wants us to do good. I asked why.
Does He? Does God really want us to try to be good?
I think too many of us are struggling to be "good" when we should just be sitting in the dirt being sinners. Because, guess who's sitting there in the dust next to us?
We find Jesus in the dirt.
Grace is only good news if you are broken. "Good people" find grace offensive because it says that we have nothing to offer and that nothing we do makes any difference. It slaps our pride in the face.
Another conundrum…how can I be worth everything and nothing at the same time? My self effort at goodness is worth nothing, but my broken, sinful humanity is worth everything? Yup, that's right. Our worthless, helpless, sinful, messed up selves are priceless in the eyes of Jesus. But our works, our efforts to clean up, our lists, our standards, our resolutions, they are just old, dirty rags, something to be thrown away. How can this be?
Welcome to the backwards, inside-out kingdom of Jesus Christ!
I'd like you to meet my new best friend, the woman caught in adultery. Can you imagine how she felt? How condemned? Judged? Guilty? Ashamed? I hate those feelings…I know them all too well… And yet, there in that painful, hard, shameful, broken place, she met Jesus. She found lavish grace. It was grace that the "good", religious people would never taste.
I can breathe again. The weight falls off. I am loved, wanted, forgiven, free. Because of grace.
Your quotation from Galatians reminds me of how the Religious take that book, the book of freedom (or maybe I should say the Letter of Freedom) and twist it back into legalism. They are missing out on so much, and cause others to miss out too. What a shame!


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