Blockchain is one of those technologies generally associated with cryptocurrency purchases and trading, but it actually has a whole range of uses, including eSports.
The company says it has massive plans for its platform: integration with game streaming app Soocii, and a partnership with blockchain gaming ecosystem DGames.
Keeping true to the cliché of 'it's our birthday but you get the prizes', JPlay distributed its 'JPT digital assets to more than 200,000 users via the Soocii app. It also celebrated with a LoL match between players from well-known eSports franchises J Team and ahq.
Although JPlay isn't the only blockchain-based gaming platform out there (BitGuild and FirstBlood are but two other examples), JPlay may well become one of the frontrunners in new technologies that power the gaming experience.
"We're very happy to welcome JPlay into the Soocii gaming community today," Says Soocii CEO Ted Huang.
"JPlay's blockchain and smart contract technology will help to accelerate Soocii's vision where both mobile gamers and content creators are rewarded fairly for their efforts and our whole ecosystem grows as a result."
We got the lowdown from JPlay about what it is and what its plans are.
The two companies will use blockchain technology to promote eSports in the APAC region. They are also developing an eSports main-chain platform and self-managed communities across country borders.
It will support SME and IT developers in exploiting the full potential of the platform for future applications with its own side chain.
Independent game developers will be able to raise financial support directly from their community. Not only can the developers raise funds, they can also release demos on the JPlay main-chain in order to build quality games without the constraints of major gaming firms.
Match wagers have always been popular with the gaming community. JPlay is set to develop a fair, transparent and legitimate eSports ecosystem with the help of smart contracts, which govern the whole gaming process.
In order to provide a bridge between the eSports world and traditional brick-and-mortar industries, JPlay will also work with physical merchants such as restaurants, retailers, hotels, and ticketing houses.


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Coronavirus disinformation emanating from Russia, China gains foothold abroad
Whether it is distorted coverage or outright conspiracy theories, Russian and Chinese content seeks to discredit democracies and create confusion about the coronavirus pandemic.
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A man wearing a face mask decorated with lettering reading "Deception" protests against amendments to the Constitution of Russia on Pushkin Square in Moscow on July 1, as Russians vote on the final day of a ballot on constitutional reforms allowing President Vladimir Putin to potentially stay in power until 2036. [Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP]
Coronavirus disinformation spread by Russian and Chinese journalists is finding a bigger audience on social media than content created by premier news outlets around the world, according to new research.
Whether it is distorted coverage or outright conspiracy theories, articles written in French and German by foreign state media are resonating widely on Facebook and Twitter, often with their origins unclear, the Oxford Internet Institute said in a report published Monday (June 29).
The institute, which is part of Oxford University, looked at content generated by leading media outlets from Russia and China, as well as from Iran and Turkey -- all of which are state-controlled or closely aligned to regimes in power.
In their French and German, as well as Spanish, output, state media groups have "politicised the coronavirus by criticising Western democracies, praising their home countries, and promoting conspiracy theories about the origins of the virus", the institute said.
A photo taken on November 12, 2017, shows the Moscow headquarters of the Rossiya Segodnya state media group, which runs the Sputnik news agency. [Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP]
"A majority of the content in these outlets is factually based. But what they have, especially if you look at the Russian outlets, is an agenda to discredit democratic countries," Oxford researcher Jonathan Bright told AFP.
"The subtle weave in the overarching narrative is that democracy is on the verge of collapse," he added.
The institute looked at output from Russia's RT broadcaster and Sputnik news agency, China Global Television Network (CGTN), China Radio International (CRI) and Xinhua News Agency, in addition to foreign-language output from Iranian and Turkish networks.
Promoting anti-US sentiments
It measured median engagement per shared article -- how many times a user actively shares or likes an article on Facebook, or comments about it and retweets it on Twitter.
The study covered each outlet's 20 most popular stories from May 18 to June 5.
The institute's previous study in April found that in English, heavily politicised news stories from the same state media groups could achieve as much as 10 times the level of user engagement as did more sober sources such as the BBC.
"A significant portion of social media is people consuming content that is directly funded by foreign governments, and it's not very clear to the reader that that's the case," Bright added.
Similar engagement levels showed in Spanish-language content, including from the Iranian state broadcaster's service HispanTV, which the report said shares the Russian outlets' promotion of "anti-US sentiments" for audiences in Latin America.
Examples in French and German included heated coverage from the Russian outlets of the "gilets jaunes" protest movement in France, and the COVID-19 and ensuing economic crises in Europe.
The report also examined content in German, French and Spanish from Turkey's TRT network, which it said focused more on positive portrayals of the Turkish government's actions against the pandemic.
In contrast, it said that Russian, Chinese and Iranian media all promoted baseless theories, including that the US military unleashed the coronavirus, which originated late last year in Wuhan, China.
The media organisations in question claim to offer a non-Western perspective on news and deny they are propagandists.
In a statement responding to the Oxford report, RT France said it "vigorously contests these allegations" and insisted that it had covered the global pandemic on the same lines as other French media.
"That has nothing to do with the accusation of criticising 'Western democracies' or of 'discrediting democratic countries,'" it said.
In France, President Emmanuel Macron accused RT of spreading "deceitful propaganda" during the 2017 presidential election.
In Britain, the Russian network has been fined for breaking rules on media impartiality.
Last week, Beijing threatened to retaliate after four more of its media groups were reclassified as "foreign missions" in the United States.
The quartet joined CGTN, CRI and Xinhua, which Washington already had designated as state-sponsored actors rather than as media.
'Hybrid war'
The Chinese and Russian regimes have been stepping up co-operation to spread false narratives over the coronavirus pandemic, with Beijing increasingly adopting techniques honed by Moscow, observers noted in May.
Twitter on June 12 said it had deleted more than 170,000 accounts linked to Chinese government disinformation campaigns, and the European Union (EU) on June 9 formally accused China and Russia's regimes of mounting targeted coronavirus disinformation campaigns to undermine European democracy.
Askat Dukenbayev, a political scientist from Bishkek, considers the Russian disinformation campaigns part of the new "hybrid war" doctrine of Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime against Western countries.
Moscow is "trying to take revenge for its defeat in the Cold War, as well as against post-Soviet countries that are trying to come out from under the influence of the former metropole [colonial power]", he said in June.
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Northland is a long narrow peninsula with a land area of approximately 1.25 million hectares, making it the eighth largest region in NZ based on land area. The region consists of a wide variety of landforms, soil types and associated land uses. Landforms range from young active sand dunes along the coast to relatively old greywacke, and volcanic peaks and hills in inland areas. There are no mountain ranges in Northland, with all ranges less than 800 metres above sea level.
The low relief, absence of ash deposits from recent ash showers, warm moist climate and the original vegetation, have resulted in Northland soils being dominated by strongly leached, mature, heavy clays. Generally, topsoils are thin and subsoils are of low fertility. The main exceptions are the fertile volcanic soils, young alluvial deposits and the young soils developing on unstable steep slopes.
The cover of the original indigenous forest has strongly influenced soil properties. Trees with acidic litter, such as kauri, totara and rimu, have produced strongly leached soils, while broadleaf trees, such as puriri, kohekohe and taraire, have returned the nutrients to the soil through rapid decomposition of leaves and branches to give fertile top soils.
Northland's economy is largely agricultural with approximately half of the region's land used for dairy, beef and sheep farming. Therefore as a region, Northland is heavily dependant on the environment and the state of soil and land resources for its economy.
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· The protection of the soil resources, including soil quality and soil quantity, from degradation or loss as a result of unsustainable land uses and land use practices.
· The safeguarding of the life-supporting capacity of water and ecosystems from the adverse effects of unsustainable land uses and land use practices.
· The avoidance, remedying or mitigation of the adverse effects of plant and animal pests on the use of land, including its potential for primary production and natural ecosystems.
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Donna Salvini provides collar and ID tag for Barry.
Tony, Bau Bau, Barry and Grace are wheeled through customs at the Tom Bradley Terminal at LAX on a recent Saturday. Barking in their crates, the four rescued retrievers are wheeled outside, where volunteers welcome them with food and water after a twenty-one hour flight from Taipei, Taiwan.
They're accompanied on their flight by Judy Sn, a dog rescuer from Orange County. She plans to fly to Taipei and back every twenty days this year, on her own dime, to accompany the lucky dogs -- strays who have been neglected in Taiwan and sent here to be rescued, in a collaboration between a rescue team in Taipei and another one here in Southern California, Indi Lab Rescue. "If you really love dogs you don't want to see them on the street suffering," she explains.
But the Los Angeles Animal Services department kills an average of 20,000 stray dogs per year. So why spend so much effort on saving the lives of animals so far away? Is it ethical, and does it even make sense? Even ardent animal lovers and rescuers have questioned this practice.
Donna Salvini, founder of Indi Lab, explains that the answer is funding. "We're not paying a dime," she explains. "There's grassroots fundraising in Taiwan by the Taiwanese people. No government money is involved. They love these dogs and there are no options for them there. So, they're sent here." Indi Lab does rescue local dogs as well, but when there's a need for a purebred retriever, these dogs from Taiwan provide the perfect answer in that they move very quickly into homes without draining Salvini's resources.
Rescuers in Taiwan raise $1,000 per dog to prepare them for transport to the U.S. The densely populated Taiwan has an erupting "puppy fad," but once dogs grow to be full-size they're often neglected or abandoned, because of overpopulation and the tight living quarters of most Taiwanese people.
With no animal rights laws to constrain them, state officials round up the dogs and kill them or they end up in the "asylum," the Taiwanese terminology for a shelter. Government pounds are full of neglect and horrible methods of death, and they sometimes put dogs back on the streets to fend for themselves.
Ten to fifteen percent of the dogs Salvini rescues are from Taiwan. "We don't care if a dog is from Ohio, Mexico or Taiwan," she says. "Our mission is to rescue, rehabilitate and re-home purebred retrieving breeds."
Getting highly adoptable dogs that move very quickly to adoption without taking up resources is a no brainer for a breed rescue. Each has been vetted to the nines, she explains. "They've been spayed/neutered, fully vaccinated, tested for heartworm and parasites, had blood work, hip x-rays. They've been pre-fostered for a minimum of six months, arrive groomed and trained."
Salvini has saved an approximated two thousand dogs in her seven years as a rescuer. She has 200 or so approved families at any given time on her waiting list, as the demand for purebred retrievers in California is often higher than the number available for adoption.
As of 2012, Labrador Retrievers remain the #1 breed according to the American Kennel Club. Highly valued in the U.S., the lucky ones find their way here with a helping hand from those in Taiwan who see their true worth.
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Frank Beamer started his tenure as Virginia Tech's head mentor in 1987. That 12 months Tech re-introduced the stripes the very first time since 1970 and removed the celebrity merit decals regarding the front side. The white VT and facemask remained the same.
Just a differ from 1992-1996 using the chin piece planning to maroon.
Tech played against Nebraska in Orange Bowl and added the game logo on the straight back.
The big NCAA soccer logo design is included regarding back and the white stripes tend to be reduced on both edges.
Tech makes the first radical change to the helmet under Frank Beamer using removal of the stripes and switching the facemask to maroon. An "EF" memorial decal is included with the back.
Slight modifications manufactured in 1999 including a light silver material fleck, a clear Riddell warning decal, contemporary NCAA football logo and "HOKIES" in Rockwell Font is included with the trunk throat bumper the very first time.
A Bowl Championship Series decal is included for the BCS nationwide Championship online game against Florida State.
No changes were created in 2000 from 1999.
technology adds the United states Flag decal following the September 11 assaults.
Just a tremendously minor modification is produced with the United states Flag decal, that will be now outlined in white.
The NCAA somewhat changed their logo design towards the NCAA font used these days.
Virginia Tech joined up with the ACC in 2004 and swapped to a conference-specific decal from the straight back. A yellow ribbon decal normally added.
A Bowl Championship Series decal is added the glucose Bowl against Auburn.
The yellowish ribbon and American Flag decals tend to be swapped regarding the back associated with the helmet. A difference is produced with the VT decals between your V and T at the bottom.
The American Flag is relocated to its initial location and a VT logo design is included with the back honoring the Corps of Cadets.
The Corps of Cadets decal is removed.
A Bowl Championship Series decal is added when it comes to Orange Bowl against Kansas.
A "JD" memorial decal is added.
The initial throwback helmet is introduced. The helmet was worn from 1971 to 1973 and features a good white shell and grey facemask with an orange condition of Virginia and maroon "TECH" letters. It had been worn with a throwback uniform aswell.
A Bowl Championship Series decal is included for Orange Bowl against Cincinnati.
No changes are designed last year from 2008 regarding the standard maroon helmet.
The 2nd throwback helmet is introduced. The helmet ended up being worn by Frank Beamer inside the playing times and features the classic "television" logo and gray facemask. It marks the first time Tech has actually worn stripes regarding the helmet since 1997.
Nike introduces an one-off consistent program in 2009 featuring 10 spotlight football programs. The all-white uniform functions a white helmet with a maroon VT logo design and non-symmetrical stripes that taper off to a couple of white triangles. The consistent had been so well-known that it was worn once more a couple of weeks later at UVA.
Nike goes on the one off consistent system this season featuring 10 spotlight football programs. The all-black uniform features a matte black helmet with an orange VT logo and a distinctive wedge stripe that separated nearby the front regarding the helmet. The stripe in addition features a circuit board structure in straight back. The Corps of Cadets guard is added to the trunk and Virginia Tech motto: Ut Prosim (That I May provide) is added to the throat bumper.
The rise in popularity of the white 2009 Nike Pro Combat helmet contributes to another white design with no stripes in 2010.
An "E.L." decal is added meant for paralyzed Rutgers protective tackle Eric LeGrand.
Stripes are put into the white helmet from previous in the season, but just halfway down the straight back. a crown decal with a "9" is included as an objective for team to win its ninth-straight online game and a division championship.
The orange top logo design is included with "COASTAL" inside to symbolize winning the Atlantic Coast meeting's Coastal Division.
The white helmet returns for the ACC Championship against Florida State. A "212°" decal is added to the trunk. Throughout the season staff chaplain Johnny Shelton told the team an account about water going from cool to boiling at 212 levels. He told the group they started the year "moderately cool" but because of the ACC championship online game, these were "boiling over" for a title.
For the first time at school history, an orange helmet is worn. Playing in Orange Bowl, the helmet features a maroon VT logo design and stripes just like the white helmet. In addition it features the BCS logo and an alternative "212°" decal. This helmet additionally marks the first occasion an all-maroon chinstrap is worn by Tech.
A decal signifying Frank Beamer's 25th season as head mentor is included.
The next throwback helmet is introduced. The helmet had been worn from 1974-1977 and features a favorite "TV" logo and white facemask.
The orange helmet returns for one online game in 2011 with inverted stripes from Orange Bowl design. The team will pay tribute to the 75 victims of the 1970 Marshall jet crash, including Virginia Tech students Frank Loria and Rick Tolley have been coaches for the Thundering Herd, by putting on a special sticker on the rear of the helmets. The round stickers have the initials RT and FL for the two previous Tech people involved, along with a 75 when it comes to few sufferers associated with the crash.
Stripes are put into the conventional maroon helmets for the first time since 1997. The stripes act like the ones used regarding earlier white helmets.
Stripes are put into the 1974-1977 throwback helmets.
Minor changes are created to the typical maroon helmet including a brand new die-cut VT decal and maroon chinstrap. The NCAA decal tends to make a return for the first time since 2003.


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The Men's 1500 metre freestyle competition of the 2018 African Swimming Championships was held on 14 September 2018.

Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

The following new records were set during this competition.

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Final ranking
The races were started on 14 September at 10:00.

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Now that we were in Santos, it was time to start visiting the shipping companies. Most of these were situated in the Port and Dock area which was surrounded by a high wall and there were about three or four entrances which were guarded and one needed a pass to get in. On our first morning after early morning prayer and reading from our super spiritual book the Bible and then breakfast and a chat with Fernando the Owner, we set off for the Port. It was in walking distance as our Hotel which I can now remember is named the Avenida Palace and was very conveniently in the center of the sea front road. By looking as if we owned the place we smilingly walked past the guard into the busy port and no one stopped us.
3 years earlier I had managed to provision free passages on cargo vessels from Hamburg to Santos for Missionaries from our organization. It happened something like this. I had a reputation for having a special spiritual gift from God of Faith and so I was asked by our leadership to try and get free passages for about 4 to 6 single missionaries to leave from Lisbon where I was staying, to Brazil. The year was 1991 and at that time our group was making a push to go to Brazil. The company, Alianca, with offices in Hamburg, sailed to Brazil calling in at Porto and then Lisbon and so without anything prearranged I jumped on a night train from Lisbon to Hamburg. The train arrived at 8.30a.m. And without an appointment but after desperate prayer for Spiritual help, I was sitting in front of an amused Managing Director at 10 a.m. I explained our needs and he agreed to allow 2 passengers at a time to travel free as long as they did some work like painting and scrubbing. Of course I was delighted and was back in Lisbon with the good news the next morning. At least 4 to 6 missionaries used this facility to make it across the Atlantic without cost.
Now there was also a Passenger Liner which called frequently in at Lisbon on its way to Rio de Janeiro. This luxury Liner belonged to the well known Italian firm, Linea C, Costa Armatori with headquarters in Genoa and having succeeded so well with the German firm, I was then dispatched to work the same miracle for more missionaries including myself. Even though I had prayed and stormed heaven for a second similar miracle this time would be a different story. When I arrived in Genoa, I had no trouble getting to see the senior manager a Mr B who had only one arm. He was an extremely nice person and I spent a long time with him talking about spiritual matters which seemed to interest him a great deal. He poured out his heart but was unable to allow us to travel for free but he did make a big discount of 50% which was a help and he gave me his business card which I managed to hang on to for many years. This will become significant as our adventure unfurls.
Once inside the docks we were soon visiting every shipping company and shipping agent. The first three or four days we found nothing. It was a story of total disappointment. Giving up was out of the question but we continued to pray and hope and believe.
In the evenings we found a Seaman's club called "Missions to Seamen", organized by the Anglican Church. An old couple, I think he was a retired Anglican priest ran the place and were kind to us and gave us free beer and lots of complete and total discouragement. Hardly any one frequented this rather uninteresting place but it was fine for us to relax. They thought we were very presumptuous to expect a free trip East. They explained how there were many people all trying to go for free to Europe who had a much higher priority than us poor rather stupid looking missionaries. We learned to accept their free beer but not to listen to their doubts. We nicknamed them Mr and Mrs Doubtlet. It was rather tough having to tell Dear old Fernando about our failures but he put a brave face on it and continued to allow us to stay. I guess the Lord helped him to have faith in us.
On about the fourth or fifth day we were stopped going through our normal entrance and so we walked further down the road and went in another entrance successfully. In front of us was brand new firm that we had not seen before. This time everything seemed to go according to plan. They promised 2 free berths in a cabin in a ship that would arrive in three weeks. The destination was Northern Europe but in hitch hiking one has to be prepared to take any ride that is going somewhat in the right direction. We were overjoyed and triumphantly reported to Fernando and to the Doubtlets who put a brave face to cover up their previous remarks and they just said, "Well you guys are just lucky, plain lucky". They were not really spiritual people but were friendly with billiards and beer for lonely sailors and I think they had rooms which were rather expensive for short stay overs.
Now we had to wait for three weeks and after the dream about moving we decided to go on a hitch hiking trip around Brazil getting more addresses and trying to supplement our donations which were still very low. We have a little spiritual saying, "If you witness about Jesus and the spiritual world, you will always win."


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"We're not doing this as a political thing," said Lucas, a registered Republican. "We're going to continue whether she gets elected or not."
McGrath, though, has been consistent about her role in the military and careful to say she was the first woman Marine to fly in an F-18 into combat. She served as the back-seat weapons system operator during her 89 combat missions, not as the front-seat pilot. She did later become a front-seat pilot, but never steered an F-18 during a combat mission.
A Herald-Leader review of McGrath's commercials and many of her public comments found no evidence that she has ever claimed to have piloted an F-18 during combat, though some political groups supporting her and some media reports have gotten it wrong.
"I just think it's part of this climate where you have to try to tear somebody down and make them seem like someone you can't trust," McGrath said Thursday when asked about Lucas' claims. "I've never tried to embellish my record, ever."
Michael Estorer, a Democrat who served with McGrath and now lives in Lexington, said everything the McGrath campaign has said about her military service is accurate.
"It is a little bit of a smear campaign," Estorer said. "People are taking little facts and attacking them to misrepresent her service."
Barr's campaign has not raised the issue and at a "Veterans for Barr" rally this summer, Barr said he appreciated McGrath's service.
"We respect Amy McGrath's service to our country, as well as the service of all our veterans," Barr campaign spokeswoman Jodi Whitaker said Thursday.
But at the "Veterans for Barr" event, some of the speakers before Barr took swipes at McGrath and her service.
One speaker, a Marine veteran named Travis Cassidy, questioned the claim that McGrath was the "first woman in combat." (The Herald-Leader could find no evidence that she has ever made that claim).
"I said, 'what year was you in Iraq as to be the first woman in combat,' as portrayed in the earlier commercials, earlier in the year," Cassidy said from the stage. "She gave me the year and I said, 'that's funny, because I was in Iraq in 2004 and there was women guarding towers.' And then you all take this home with you, what she says to me next you all will never forget. She giggles and she says 'it's just a commercial.'"
Jon Soltz, the chairman of Vote Vets, a political action committee supporting McGrath, called the accusations political.
"No one gets angrier over stolen valor than I do," Soltz said. "But this complaint is stupid, and clearly a political stunt."
What is McGrath's military record?
McGrath graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1997. She didn't have perfect vision, so instead of becoming a pilot, she became a weapons systems operator for the F/A-18D Hornet, earning the call sign "Krusty" because of the way her hair stuck out from under her helmet.
She became the first woman Marine to fly in an F-18 into combat when she was deployed to Kyrgyzstan in 2002. While there, she flew more than 50 combat missions into Afghanistan, in the back seat of the plane.
She went back to the Middle East in 2003 as part of an initial push in the Iraq War and flew more than 30 missions.
"So my flying missions, the 89 combat missions, I was a weapons systems officer," McGrath said last month. "That's why I was always very careful to say I was the first women to fly in an F-18 because I was a back-seater and I have always been up front about that."
McGrath did later become a pilot. Between 2004 and 2007, after getting LASIK eye surgery, she trained in Texas to move from the back seat to the front seat of the plane. It was during that time that she achieved her childhood dream of landing on aircraft carriers, first in 2006 in a smaller plane and then with an F-18 in 2007.
After that training, she was redeployed to Afghanistan in 2010, this time as a pilot. But instead of flying in combat missions, she was assigned aviation support duties on the ground.
"When you're in the military, you do what Uncle Sam tells you," McGrath said in an interview this summer. "There are some people who don't go to combat at all."
The last eight years of her military service were spent in the U.S., first on Capitol Hill, then in the Pentagon, then in the classroom at the U.S. Naval Academy.
McGrath said after she had her first child in 2013, a general called her into his office and said he wanted her to return to flying.
"And I said, 'sir, I want another kid,'" McGrath recalled. "And he said 'ok, that's not what the Marine Corps wants.' And I said, 'well, it's what I want.' And he said 'well, if you miss this opportunity to go back and be an executive officer and fly again, you will not be promoted anymore.'"
McGrath had two more children before she retired from the Marine Corps in 2017 as a Lieutenant Colonel.
Video titled "Told Me" which announces U.S. Congressional campaign of retired Marine Lt. Colonel Amy McGrath (D) in Kentucky's Sixth Congressional District.
A misrepresentation?
In her own commercials and in interviews, McGrath has been careful about how she presents her military record.
In her first commercial announcing her candidacy, McGrath summed up her combat duties in the military.
"I spent 20 years as a U.S. Marine, flew 89 combat missions bombing Al Qaeda and the Taliban," she said. "I was the first woman Marine to fly in an F-18 in combat. And I got to land on aircraft carriers."
Some of her supporters haven't been so careful.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee recently aired an ad supporting McGrath that said "as a fighter pilot, McGrath flew 89 combat missions." She was not a pilot during those missions.
Lucas, the veteran seeking to revoke McGrath's place in the Kentucky Aviation Hall of Fame, said he remains unconvinced that McGrath has been honest with voters.
"Her campaign is putting some truths together to make a lie," Lucas said.
That mindset frustrates Estorer, who went to flight school with McGrath and said everyone there knew she'd be the first female Marine to fly into combat.
"There is nothing she has said that isn't accurate," Estorer said.
McGrath said she's not paying much attention to the accusations.
"I've got thick skin," she said. "If people want to talk about me, that's fine. I know what I did."
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IDC places Samsung at a distant second in the Indian smartphone market
Though Samsung has been reduced to irrelevance in China, the world's largest smartphone market, the company continues to have a much stronger presence in the second largest smartphone market, India. Even in India, the Korean company has been facing an uphill task with the mushrooming of Chinese brands, resulting in loss of margins and market share.
Samsung's performance in the subcontinent in the last year or so hasn't been very promising. The company has conceded the top spot in the Indian smartphone market to Xiaomi and feature phone market to Jio for many continuous quarters now, at least according to a bunch of sales trackers. IDC's Asia/Pacific Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker for Q4 2018 is the latest report to reiterate this growing trend.
According to IDC's data, Xiaomi shipped 10.5 million units and captured 28.9% market share to emerge as the largest smartphone vendor in India in Q4 2018. This represents year-on-year growth of 28 6% in shipments from Q4 2017 when the company shipped 8.1 million units and secured 26.8% market share. Samsung came in second with 6.8 million shipments and an uncharacteristically low 18.7% market share, with a year-on-year decline of 7.9% in shipments. Vivo, Realme, and OPPO occupied the next three spots, respectively, with impressive shipment numbers and growth rates. Overall, with a YoY growth of a healthy 19.5% in an increasingly saturated market, smartphone sales clocked 36.3 million units in the last quarter of 2018.
Xiaomi tops the yearly shipment numbers
Not just the last quarter, Xiaomi also tops the yearly shipment numbers with 41.1 million units and 28.9% market share in India in 2018. The Chinese company registered a whopping 58.6% YoY growth in a market that grew by 14.5%. By shipping 31.9 million units, Samsung captured 22.4% market share and occupied the second place in the list of top five vendors. Vivo, OPPO, Transsion followed Samsung with healthy growth rates.
The Average Selling Price (ASP) of the smartphone in the country remained flat at $158, with most of the sales falling in the $100-$200 price range. The premium smartphone market (above $500) grew at an impressive 43.9% YoY, but still makes up only 3% of the total smartphone market in the country. OnePlus emerged as the leader in the premium segment ($500-$700), while Samsung replaced Apple as the market leader in the above $700 super premium segment with its Galaxy S9 lineup.
The feature phone market grew at 10.6% to reach 181.3 million units in 2018. Most of the growth is attributed to the JioPhone which accounted for 36.1% of the total feature phone shipments in the country last year. It is doubtful Samsung will ever be able to reclaim the top position in the feature phone market, given Jio's strategy of selling phones at cost or a loss to achieve its growth objectives as a telecom operator. On the smartphone side of things, however, the report notes the launch of the Galaxy M series may change Samsung's fortune in the coming quarters. That seems plausible considering our own impressions of the lineup and the reported customer demand in the recent flash sales.
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At the start of Brian De Palma's Carrie (1976), the heroine's rage and pain unleash strange powers. In the school locker room, after she's been brutally humiliated by her schoolmates and slapped by her teacher, a light fixture explodes. Later, when the principal keeps pronouncing her name incorrectly, an ashtray takes flight and crashes on the floor. Walking back home, Carrie crosses paths with a kid who cruelly mocks her, and suddenly the boy's bicycle veers and topples over. Confused by her own powers, Carrie visits the library in search of an explanation; she consults an index card labelled 'Miracle'. However, when her fanatically religious mother learns about her abilities, she immediately identifies the Devil's hand.
This is a preview of "Mixed Blessings". The full article can be found in Art + Australia Issue Four.
Cristina Álvarez López, based in Vilassar de Mar, is a film critic and teacher at the EQZE Film School (Spain). She was co-founder of the Spanish online film journal Transit: Cine y otros desvíos, and has written for Sight and Sound, MUBI Notebook, Shangri-la, LOLA, Screening the Past and Screen Education, and contributed to books on Chantal Akerman, Bong Joon-ho, Philippe Garrel and Paul Schrader. Her solo audio-visual essays have appeared in The Third Rail, on the ICA (London) website and Indicator DVD/Blu-ray releases.


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Director: Leos Carax
Starring: Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard, Simon Helberg
"Annette" is a courageous attempt to re-imagine the typical movie musical to create something that — while it might share kinship with the likes of "Oklahoma" — has little in common with rollicking, mid-20th century musical. There's a reason for this fork in the road. Both the screenplay and the songs are the work of the rock-pop duo "Sparks," Ron and Russell Mael, who also wrote the screenplay. The Maels, a pair of brothers from LA, have been around since the 1970s, Ron on keyboards and Russell on vocals, acquiring a loyal fan base that's endured over the decades.
Given such paternity, it's no wonder the film's rhythms, vocals, and orchestrations reflects the music the brothers have embraced since they began their careers in the 1970s. In typical fashion (for them), they at times strip the music down to rudimentary so that at the score sometimes seems to be less in the spirit of traditional lyrical music-making than that of heaping together sounds and noises. That, in fact, is their intention, or part of it. The stripping down process is a way of gripping the audience, and it works.
In a clever ploy, the film story-line is preceded by a public announcement demanding audience compliance with a series of rules. The audience must remain utterly silent. "Breathing," says a voice, "will not be tolerated during the show." It's another shrewd way of securing audience attention.
But before viewers can even respond, they're swept into the opening tune, "So May We Start," sung by the entire cast and crew while marching arm-in- arm.
After the fanfare subsides, actor Adam Driver is abruptly introduced into the role of Henry, a dark and belligerent but successful comedian who prospers while heaping disdain on his adoring fans. Enter Anna (Marion Cotillard), a virtuous and beloved opera singer who is Henry's opposite number (and the woman Harry is obsessed with).
Their acts are polar opposites. His is aptly titled "The Ape of God," while she performs "The Forest." The two are juxtaposed to show the distinction between high and low art, a chasm as wide as the one between their characters. But opposites attract.
Though it's brief, a typical and tender (and very public) love story unfolds in song, only to soon begin cracking. At this juncture, Henry and Ann have a child, Annette, a child derived in every way from her parents' love of the stage. Annette's arrival might be imagined as the catalyst for reconciliation, but not here, not in a movie directed by veteran Frenchman Leos Carax, who adores hopeless love and has made impossible love the centerpiece of several movies.
Some of these plots are very much in the tradition of American musicals. In fact, "Annette" smartly attempts not to dismantle the genre but to redirect it. No happy dancing into the sunset.
Too often the film can seem like an itemized checklist, like a lab experiment in which one protocol follows another. But that doesn't make the effort, albeit shaky, any less bold.
Director Carax and the Mael brothers got theirs at the Cannes Film Festival, Carax named top director while the Maels reaped musical honors, not bad for a musical that isn't a musical but is a musical, since the men who wrote it have spent a lifetime doing one thing and one thing only: singing.
About the Author: Steve Piazza
Steve Piazza is a poet and writer living in Athens, GA with his wife and cat. He spent his career as an educator committed to the promotion of literacy, critical thinking, and efficacy of media and technologies. Raised in part on Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, he believes clarity of the world resides in places of discourse where image and word mingle.


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Q: Call In/For a New Job Suppose I looked for a job on the Internet, found a few offers interesting and decided to call the phone numbers they had posted. Am I calling in or calling for the new jobs? (Or should I simply say I'm "calling the new jobs"?)
And if I get a call from them and someone who's with me asks me who it is,
should I say my work, my job, or the caller's name and leave it at that?

A: You are calling an employer. You would say:

I am calling an employer about a new job.

When you are called and asked your example question, you would say:

Your peer: Who is it?
  You: It's an employer who has a new job posting for which I applied.

..or any number of other responses to "Who is it?":

It's Jane from accounting.
  It's someone from a company to which I applied.
  It's a recruiter with information on a new job.
  It's my friend Sally.
  I'm not sure; I think it's a wrong number.

(or if you'd prefer to use conversational English to talk to your peer)
  It's a company that I applied to.
  It's someone calling about my job application.
  Just a company that wants to give me money.
  Oh, I applied to a job posting a while back at this company and they're calling me back now.

A: Neither.  You are calling about or in reference to the new job.

I'm calling in reference to the new job posting.

Your second question is more appropriate over at Workplace.SE.

A: To call in a new job is to let someone know that there is a job for them to do (a new landscaping contract, for example). If you are talking to the potential employer, I'd recommend "I'm Frank Garrett and I'm calling to apply for position X which you posted on Thursday." If you are at your old job, someone calls about a new job, and a coworker asks who called, maybe just say "Simon at Better Company."

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Foreign firms have objected to trade union proposals to raise the minimum wage, fearing this will cost the Philippines its competitive edge in a tough global investment climate. But unions say the changes are crucial as workers shoulder increasing utility costs. Citing inflation-based rises in the cost of essentials like electricity, water, liquefied petroleum gas and school tuition, in July 2013 the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) reiterated a formal request that the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) in the National Capital Region (NCR) raise the daily minimum wage in Metro Manila by P85 ($2.05). "The ... increase in NCR is essential if workers are to cope with higher costs of living, meet the basic needs of their families, and if the country is to give meaning and substance to the policy of equitable distribution of income and wealth," TUCP's president, Victorino Balais, said in April 2013 when making the initial request.
RISING COSTS, GREATER NEED: Echoing the demands of the TUCP, in August 2013 minimum-wage earners in Southern Tagalog filed a petition for a P79.50 ($1.92) wage increase. "Workers are still in a miserable state, with the current minimum wage at P349.50 ($8.42) eroded by 2.7-3% due to inflation and high costs of basic needs," said Ramon Certeza, general secretary of the Confederation of Labour and Allied Social Services, an affiliate of the TUCP. But the unions' demands seem ill-timed. In August 2013 the central bank said that annual inflation unexpectedly slowed in July to its lowest in four years, giving the central bank leeway to cut interest rates further if required. The consumer price index eased to 2.5% year-on-year, the lowest rate since September 2009, when inflation was 2.3%, according to the national statistics agency.
Foreign investors say that the demands are not only uncalled for, but that they will harm the country's investment levels and cost thousands of jobs. In July 2013 the president of the Employers Confederation of the Philippines, Edgardo Lacson, told local media that a rise at this time was "unnecessary and has no factual and legal basis". He also said the workers' calculations were "flawed", according to local media reports.
STAYING COMPETITIVE: In an August 2013 letter to Alex Avila, chairman of the RTWPB for the NCR, the Joint Foreign Chambers said a wage increase could result in lay-offs among micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. "Wages must remain competitive in the sense that wage levels must not result in job loss, as investors avoid the Philippines in favour of other countries with lower labour costs and local markets sell more imported than locally made products." Metro Manila's $10.74 daily rate exceeds daily minimum wages in other countries, with Myanmar' s at $0.52, Cambodia's $2.03, Vietnam's $3.15 and Thailand's $9.75, claimed the JFC.
The planned hike comes amid growing international interest in the Philippines as an outsourcing investment destination, with seven Philippine cities chosen as top locations in a July 2013 survey by strategic advisory firm Tholons. That same month the IT & Business Process Association Philippines estimated that business process outsourcing could be a $25bn industry by 2016, accounting for up to 10% of the economy. In 2013 the industry is estimated to have $9bn in annual revenues while employing some 500,000 people.
SMALL STEP: When rejecting the TUCP's initial request for a wage rise in May 2013, the Department of Labour and Employment said that workers would receive non-wage "benefits, including contractualisation, tax exemption and social protection". But the following July Alan Macaraya, the department's NCR director, said there would be a salary hike, with a public meetings to determine the exact amount of the raise. Within 30 days of its August 9, 2013 deliberation meeting, the RTWPBNCR announced that it would increase minimum wage in Metro Manila by P10 ($0.24), far below the TUCP's initial demands, bringing the new minimum daily rate to P466 ($11.23). Nevertheless, the move proves the willingness of regulators to deliberate and effect change, highlighting the opportunities for effective communication between the foreign firms and their employees.
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These are so easy and so versatile. I made these like pickle spears so I can eat them alone or serve with a sandwich. Slice the fennel thinly like you would for a slaw if you want a quick pickle or to use them as sandwich toppers. Toss them in a salad, eat them with some stinky cheese, or just munch on them for a refreshing snack.
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Meanwhile, slice the stalks and fronds off the bulb. Trim the stalks and use a vegetable peeler to remove the more fibrous outer skin, then slice them in half. Reserve the fronds.
Slice the bulb down the middle from top to bottom. Remove the core.
Separate the fennel by it's natural layers, then slice each layer into 1-inch wide strips. I also like to take a vegetable peeler to the outermost layer since that can also tend to be a little more fibrous than the tender inner layers.
Once the brine is boiling, remove it from the heat. Add the fennel and fronds.
Once completely cool, store the fennel and brine (being sure to keep all the seeds but remove the lemon) in a jar or air-tight container and place in the fridge. Wait 24 hours before eating. I don't know how long they stay good for, they never last long enough for me to find out.
This looks outstanding. I can't imagine why no one has thought of it before. Great idea, great recipe. And I have a fennel bulb in my fridge just waiting to try this.


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Working Against Racism: a Review of Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies
Inoue, A. (2015). Antiracist writing assessment ecologies:Teaching and assessing writing for a socially just future. Fort Collins, CO: WAC Clearinghouse/Parlor Press.
By Katrina Love Miller, University of Nevada, Reno
Before I wrote this review, I did a key term search in the JWA archive for race and racism. I got one hit: Diane Kelly-Riley (2011). I did this search because one of Asao Inoue's premises is that we have not yet adequately addressed race and racism in our theories of writing assessment. According to this admittedly cursory check, Inoue is right.
As practitioners and scholars of writing assessment, we have an ethical obligation to consider how writing assessments can unfairly impact our increasingly diverse student populations based on their race, ethnicity, gender, multilinguality, sexuality, and other social markers. However, there has been renewed scholarly interest in writing assessment as a vehicle for social justice (Inoue and Poe 2012; Poe, Elliot, Cogan Jr., Nurudeen Jr. 2014). In other words, we are not only looking for potential problems to be solved, but also reflecting on our practices as potential sites for inequality. In Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies, Inoue challenges readers to not only take the stance that our classroom assessments of student writing should do no harm to minority students, but to go a step further by using writing assessment as a vehicle to promote social justice.
Inoue constructs an antiracist ecological theory he contends is capable of informing the design and implementation of more fair and just classroom writing assessments. Chapters one and two are theory-building chapters wherein Inoue lays the foundation of his concept of antiracist classroom writing assessment ecologies. In chapter one, he offers robust definitions of key terms like race, racial formation, and racism but emphasizes his term racial habitus as the most useful way to think about how racism is manifested in writing classrooms, consciously or unconsciously. For example, he argues that race is a factor in most if not all classroom writing assessments because such judgments of student writing are typically measured in terms of students' ability to approximate the dominant discourse, which he says is always already closely associated with white racial formations in the U.S. (p. 31). He continues that "as judges of English in college writing classrooms, we cannot avoid this racializing of language when we judge writing, nor can we avoid the influence of race in how we read and value the words and ideas of others" (p. 33). Inoue ends chapter one with a clear articulation of racial habitus, which builds upon Pierre Bourdieu's term habitusto consider race as socially constructed in three dimensions: discursively/linguistically, material and bodily, performatively. Racial habitus, Inoue explains, is a conglomerate of "structuring structures" or principles that construct racial designations and identities (p. 43). Such structures maybe be seen in each of these three dimensions because "some [are] marked on the body, some in language practices, some in the ways we interact or work, write, and read, some in the way we behave or dress, some in the processes and differential opportunities we have to live where we do (or get to live where we can), or where we hang out, work, go to school, etc." (p. 43).
Chapter two focuses on defining anti-racist ecologies as productive, as a system, and as a Marxian historic bloc. Pulling together diverse theoretical traditions, this chapter constructs antiracist writing assessment ecologies as paces that provide sustainable and fair assessments by engaging in inquiry about the nature of judgment against the backdrop of the normative "white racial habitus" found in most writing classrooms (p. 10). The ecological perspective, which seems to build upon Wardle and Roozen's (2012) ecological model of writing assessment (although Inoue does not directly discuss their model) builds a definition of this space by blending together Frierian critical pedagogy, Buddhist theories of interconnectedness, and Marxian political theory. Such a theoretical blend, he contends, provides "a structural and political understanding of ecology that doesn't abandon the inherent interconnectedness of all people and things, and maintains the importance of an antiracist agenda for writing assessments" (p. 77). In turn, this understanding can enable practitioners of classroom writing assessment to reconceive of classroom writing assessment as "cultivating and nurturing complex systems that are centrally about sustaining fairness and diverse complexity" (p. 12).
The next three chapters build from the framework in chapters one and two to explain and analyze classroom writing assessment ecologies. Chapter three breaks down such ecologies into seven related elements—power, parts, purposes, people, processes, products, and places—and chapter four describes the assessment ecology in Inoue's upper-division writing course at Fresno State and analyzes students' writing (the author has since moved to the University of Washington, Tacoma). In the final chapter, Inoue condenses the theoretical concepts from earlier chapters into an accessible and generative heuristic for antiracist writing assessment ecologies in the form of a list of questions that could help writing teachers construct their own antiracist classroom writing assessment ecologies.
Inoue adeptly weaves in micro-narratives about his students as well as his own experiences as a person of color. The rhythm of these reflections helps the reader periodically surface from the theoretical discussion to pause and consider the racial consequences of assessment. For instance, Inoue reflects: "I will be the first to admit that I lost my ghetto English a long time ago (but not the swearing) for the wrong reasons, for racist reasons. I cannot help that. I was young and didn't understand racism or language. I just felt and experienced racism, and some of it was due to how I talked and wrote in school" (23).
Though classroom assessments remain Inoue's main focus, he does take occasional detours to discuss the racial consequences of larger-scale assessments readers are likely familiar with, including IQ tests, the SAT, and CSU's English Placement Test. His discussion of the EPT's consequences, which he says paint "a stunning racial picture," is particularly insightful. The test, which is purported a language competency test and is scored in blind readings by CSU faculty readers, consistently produces racially uneven results. Inoue uses this as evidence that "language is connected to the racialized body" (p. 35).
JWA readers may recall Richard Haswell's 2013 response to Inoue and Poe's collection Race and Writing Assessment. Haswell (2013) argues "any writing assessment shaped by anti-racism will still be racism or, if that term affronts, will be stuck in racial contradictions" (para. 6). Inoue'snew book might face a similar criticism, but he bluntly addresses such criticisms. Take, for example, his agreement with Haswell (2013) that we are all implicated in racism, even as we take-up an antiracist agenda. Indeed, as Inoue explains, "racism is still here with us in our classrooms" (p. 9) and "You don't have to actively try to be racist for your writing assessments to be racist" (p. 9). Inoue argues that such contradictions become less problematic if we consider the point of such work is to eradicate racism, not race itself. However, "We cannot eradicate racism in our writing classrooms until we actually address it first in our writing assessments, and our theories about what makes up our writing assessments" (p. 9). Inoue similarly acknowledges in the introduction that his argument may rub some the wrong way because teachers as practitioners of classroom writing assessment might be uncomfortable with his assertion that our judgments are racially informed. But, Inoue reiterates, "Any denial of racism in our writing assessments is a white illusion" (p. 24).
Inoue's book is important for its productive and respectful critiques of other writing assessment scholars for their limited treatment or avoidance of racism, including Brian Huot, Patricia Lynne, Peggy O'Neill, Bob Broad, Bill Condon, Kathleen Yancey, and Ed White. He devotes most of this critique to problematizing Huot's emphasis on individualism as problematic in its avoidance of racism in writing assessment. "By referencing individualism, by referring to all students as individuals" (p. 21), Inoue argues, Huot's theory and model fail to capture "broader patterns by any number of social dimensions" (p. 21). Inoue sees his antiracist agenda as something that can help bring issues of racism to the forefront of future theoretical discussions of writing assessment.
Inoue also confronts the fact that antiracist theory and practice often encounter resistance in the form of rationalizations of rival causes for white students' better performance rates (e.g., some students simply do not write well and those students are sometimes students of color or multilingual). While he agrees that students should not be judged on a different scale because they happen to be from minority groups, he emphasizes that it is the judgment that should be under examination because those judgments might be biased in their orientation to a discourse that privileges Standardized Edited American English and other discourses of whiteness or might exist in broader ecologies of writing assessment that might be racist themselves (6-7).
For conscientious writing teachers and WPAs who as leaders want to cultivate attention to the racial politics of writing assessment and perhaps further such an antiracist ecology that Inoue proposes, this book will provide a theoretically informed and accessible vocabulary for thinking about how to enhance assessment in their own writing classrooms, a useful heuristic for designing antiracist classroom writing assessments, and a sampling of Inoue's classroom materials (a grading contract for an upper-division writing course, reflection letter prompt, weekly writing assessment tasks).
Inoue's argument is familiar in its implication that writing assessment will always cast a shadow on pedagogy because as a writing teacher, what you assess "trumps what you say or what you attempt to do with your students" (9). However, Inoue invites us to reexamine our pedagogy and assessment practices to ask if writing assessments are not only productively connected to programmatic objectives like course outcomes, but also informed by a sense of ethics and fairness. In this way, Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies complements recent work on writing assessment as social justice, including the joint NCTE-JWA webinar "NoTest is Neutral: Writing Assessments, Equity, Ethics, and Social Justice" and a forthcoming special issue of JWA on ethics and writing assessment. Inoue admirably deploys concepts that are cutting-edge in writing assessment theory, which makes his book an exciting and timely addition to the canon of critical studies of writing assessment.
Hawell, R. (2013). Writing assessment and race studies sub specie aeternitatis: A response to race and writing assessment. Journal of Writing Assessment Reading ListRetrieved from http://jwareadinglist.blogspot.com/2013/01/writing-assessment-and-race-studies-sub_4.html
Inoue, A. B., & Poe, M. (Eds.). (2012). Race and writing assessment. New York, NY: Peter Lang.
Kelly-Riley, D. (2011). Validity inquiry of race and shared evaluation practices in a large-scale, university-wide writing portfolio assessment. Journal of Writing Assessment, 4(1). Retrieved from http://journalofwritingassessment.org/article.php?article=53
Poe, M., Elliot, N., Cogan, J. A., & Nurudeen, T. G. (2014). The Legal and the local: Using disparate impact analysis to understand the consequences of writing assessment. College Composition and Communication, 65(4), 588-611.
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The Ministry of Defence of Georgia (MoD) is working towards adopting a set of procedures that will outline how to make and handle complaints about unacceptable behaviour, including bullying, sexual discrimination, sexual harassment, domestic violence and sexual abuse. It is the next step in the implementation of the internal MoD Gender Equality Strategy adopted in 2013.
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The initiative further falls in line with the efforts to implement commitments undertaken by the Government of Georgia under the 2016-2017 National Action Plan of Georgia for the Implementation of the UN Security Council resolutions on Women, Peace and Security, which includes, among others, a commitment to create an enabling environment for the increased participation of women in the security sector.
On 19 and 20 September 2016, UN Women, in close cooperation with the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) and with the support of the Government of Australia, organized a workshop in Tbilisi to discuss the initial draft of the Complaints Mechanism.
"At present, there are several ways of filing complaints on different forms of discrimination at the Ministry of Defence, including through the Inspectorate General or via hotline, e-mail and a box for complaints," noted Maka Petriashvili, Deputy Department Head of Human Resources Management and Professional Development and the Head of the Gender Equality Monitoring Team at MoD. "Complaints are quite rare, yet this should not be a ground for complacency and believing that harassment and bullying does not exist in the Armed Forces. It is important to have clear and standardized procedures for filing and addressing such complaints. Such mechanism is of paramount importance for protecting and promoting gender equality in the security sector."
Salome Intskirveli, Chief Specialist of the Internal Audit Department at MoD who participated in the workshop, further stressed the importance of introducing the Complaints Mechanism in the MoD system: "I believe we need to change the mindset and encourage employees to file cases of inappropriate behaviour," she said. "In addition to decreasing unacceptable behavior in the workplace, it will also empower victims and underline the importance of respecting and protecting human rights everywhere."
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