The Department of Occupational Therapy at the University of Manitoba is currently recruiting admissions interviewers. This year admissions interviews will take place on Saturday, April 28, 2018.
As part of the admissions process, eligible applicants will be interviewed by a faculty member, a current Master of Occupational Therapy student, and an occupational therapist from the clinical community in three, separate, one-on-one 20 minute interviews. The interview is worth 50% of each applicant's overall score. We anticipate interviewing 84 applicants.
April 28th 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
April 28th 12:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
New and experienced interviewers will be invited to attend a training session on Friday, April 27th, starting at approximately 2:00 p.m. (details to be confirmed) to ensure standardization of the interview. This session is highly recommended, but optional for experienced interviewers.
The Department of Occupational Therapy thanks you in advance for giving up your valuable time and engaging in this important process to select future colleagues.
Please contact Lori Muzychka at Lori.Muzychka@umanitoba.ca or (204) 789-3409 for more information or to indicate interest in participating.
As a part of the Reconciliation Action Plan for the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, we are also seeking Indigenous clinician interviewers and invite you to indicate in your email if you identify as Indigenous.
Confirmation details will be distributed via email in mid-March. Thank you for your consideration.


Hot off the heals of the MEGAMIX, we're back in the swing of things. We're edging closer to Mod of the Year territory now, so if you've got a project going, get a move on! It's a packed month, with 5 more projects being featured, ranging from teeny tiny NUCs to some gargantuan creations. Not only that, but the breadth of styles is, as ever, mighty impressive; what do you think of the talent on show?
Congratulations, folks! I will be in contact with you soon.
A huge thanks to Corsair for stumping up some great prizes again this month. Don't forget that you can vote for more than one project if you're finding it tough to choose one over the others. MotM is a competition for completed projects. You should consider originality, execution, presentation and show of skill when voting.


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Unified Vietnam, Roses, January 1st, 1980, Michel Nr. 1073-1076; Four stamps were issued with nominals of 1 xu, 2 xu and 12 xu (two stamps).
Here is a perforation error on a used pair of the 2xu stamp that is im-perforated horizontally in-between stamps.
Single franking of the 12xu stamp paying the standard letter rate on a letter from Gien Giang to Ho Chi Minh City in 1980.
Single franking of the 12xu stamp on a letter sent to Ho Chi Minh City in May of 1980.
Rare registered letter sent from Quang 5 (Cholon) in January of 1982 to Klewitz. It features most of the Roses set. The overall postage (which includes two red free franks for a postage of 6.30 Dong) amounted to 7.85.
Very rare registered express mail letter sent to Klewitz in May of 1980. It carries the Stamp Exhibition set plus the 12 xu Einstein stamp without the black printing run. Error stamps on postally used cover are very rare. There is also a 12 xu Roses stamp. The overall postage amounted to 4.94 Dong. Hannover-Frankfurt train transit and Fulda arrival cancel on the reverse. Green Fulda custom cancel on front.
Registered letter sent to Klewitz in July of 1984. The letter carries a number of the Year of the Cild stamps plus one of the Roses stamps for an overall postage of 9.64 Dong (including the red 2.40 Dong free frank). Unusual red HCM City cancel. Green Fulda custom cachet on front.
Rare registered express mail letter sent from Ho Chi Minh City to West Germany in August of 1980. It features the 6 xu and 12 xu post master perforation stamps alongside some other NVN stamps. It also carries a 3 Dong National Liberation Front (Vietcong) stamp issued in 1970. These stamps were denominated in South Vietnamese Dong and hence not valid for postage in North Vietnam. Nevertheless the postal clerk appeared to have been unaware of the fact and accepted the stamp as postage. There is also one of the 12 xu Roses stamps. The overall postage (with the 3 Dong NLF stamp) amounted to 4.39 Dong. Frankfurt-Bebra train transit cancel and Fulda arrival cancel on the reverse. Green Fulda custom cachet on front. Unusual hand-made express mail label.
Registered letter sent from Quan 5 (Cholon) to Klewitz in August of 1981. It carries a strip of five of the Lotus stamp (Perf. 11.0), a single Lotus stamp on white paper (Post Master Perf. 9.5) and a pair of the Lotus stamp on yellowish paper (Post Master Perf. 9.5). There is also a strip of five of the 1978 Flower series with the most right stamp missing the name of the designer at the bottom. 2 xu Rose stamp on the reverse. The overall postage amounted to 8.24 (including the free frank for 5.90 Dong). Green Fulda custom cachet on front.
Registered letter featuring a large number of stamps from the Flower sets of 1980 sent in August of 1981 to Klewitz. Five Rose stamps on front and back. The overall postage amounted to 8.20 Dong (including the free frank of 5.6 Dong on the reverse). Unusual red cancellation. Green Fulda custom cachet on front.
Registered letter sent from Ho Chi Minh City to Klewitz in November of 1981. It features both color variations of the 50 xu KPdSU stamp plus some of the Roses stamps for an overall postage of 8.20 Dong. The zero money red free frank was required to produce the R-label that came out of the same machine. Red "Franked by Sender" hand stamp. Unusual red cancels. Green Fulda custom cachet on front.
Very large registered letter sent from Nguyen Rai to Klewitz in June of 1982. It carries a block of six of the red 30 xu stamp with horizontal double perforation of the lilac-red color variety and a pair of the same stamps in orange-red with the right stamp showing the "glass-eye" plate error on the right stamp. Error stamps on postally used cover are very rare. Rose stamps in front and back. The overall postage amounted to 12.84 Dong. Faint green Fulda custom cachet on front.


Dame Janet Wolfson de Botton has been chairman of the Wolfson Foundation since 2010. She is the daughter of Lord Wolfson of Marylebone who, with his parents, established the Foundation in 1955.
"Philanthropy is healthy and active among the ethnic minority communities in the UK. It is also complex and occurs on multiple levels", says Lara Rufus.
Kavita Oberoi's first experience of philanthropy was aged 15, giving £100 a month to charities from the salary of her first after-school job.
Global investment bank Nomura acquired Lehman Brothers in 2008 and, despite community partnerships being uncommon in its home market of Japan, Nomura agreed to develop a new unique combination of educational, health and community initiatives to support the local communities where the bank operates.
In early 2011, Michael Harris and Adam Pike founded YoungPhilanthropy.org.uk; a new initiative to introduce young professionals to a career of giving and a future as leading philanthropists. One year on, they have established a new model for young philanthropy and it is spreading across the city... Michael and Adam tell us more.
Former Sydney-based Man Group executive Rachael Dove, 31, began her giving career in her twenties, but it was being raised in a home where helping others was the norm that made philanthropy such a natural part of her life. "We lived in a small Suffolk village where there was a sense of community and where my mum and gran were both very involved in charity and public life."
Successful entrepreneur Marcelle Speller used her winning business skills to connect under-the -radar local charities with philanthropists. Here she shares her enriching journey.
Entrepreneur, business angel and philanthropist Peter Saunders OBE shares his story of philanthropy in the Welsh community he knows intimately. "I set up my first business in Wales. Halo Foods came to have an exceptional culture with huge loyalty and trust between the leaders and the workforce."


We recently attending INCEPT at GSU with Dillan. INCEPT is a full day loaded with activities for parents and their students. They provided lots of information, more tours, and then the students registered for their fall classes.
They also provided lunch for us and many of the school's clubs and organizations were on hand to meet the students and recruit more members.
My baby's an official Georgia State University Panther now!


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Q: SSIS Package with Execute Process Task does not work when deployed to remote SSIS Catalog I am using Integration Services 2012. I have a simple Console Application that just prints "Hello World". This Console Application (.exe file) is located on D drive of my workstation.
I have a Visual Studio 2012 project that has a package named Process.dtsx. It has an Execute Process Task that just executes the exe file, Hello.exe, whose duty is just to print "Hello World!" in the screen.
I can execute the Processe.dtsx package from Visual Studio without any problem.
I can execute this package using dtexec command without any problem.
I can also deploy the package into SSIS Catalog which is SSIS instance in my local workstation without any problem.
But when I deploy the package into SSIS Catalog of remote machine, the package fails to execute throwing following error.
Execute Process Task:Error: File/Process "D:...Hello.exe" is not in path.
I also did some sort of experiments with deployment over SSIS Catalog in both local and remote machines. Below are my results.

The deployed package is not able to find the location of exe file. I guess this is a kind of permission issue.
Help Please.

A: The hello.exe is installed on your local machine and so anything running on your local machine will be able to see and execute it. When you run the package on the server it cannot see the hello.exe on your local machine and so it fails.
In order for it to work the hello.exe must be installed somewhere the server can see it, - either on the server itself or in a common shared network path.

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Q: How to run 'module load < > ' command from within python script I tried using os.system(), subprocess.call() and subprocess.Popen() {with and without the option shell=True} to execute module load ___ from within my python script. Even though the script runs successfully and it mentions that my module has been loaded in the terminal, I am unable to use it. I am working on a ssh client. The module load _____ works fine when I run it directly as a command line.

A: I believe the problem is that both os.system and subprocess are running the command in a... well, subprocess. So the module is load successfully in the subprocess context and it exists immediately. No effect in python's process context though.
I'm not near a computer now to try it out, this should work:
run_py.sh:
pyfile=$1
shift 1
python $pyfile $(tty) $@ &

This will run your python file with the first argument a path to the current tty device, and all the other arguments follow.
Parse the arguments, save the tty device path to tty_dev. Now you can run:
os.system('echo "module load <>" > ' + tty_dev)


How Do I Know Whether Geothermal Heating and Cooling Is Right for My Idaho Falls Home?
If there's anybody around who still hasn't heard about the advantages of geothermal heating and cooling, you might very well inquire if they've been living underground. Of course, such people would probably miss the irony of your question, considering that the source of geothermal heating and cooling lies underground.
At present, though, most Idaho Falls homeowners understand at least a smidgin about the benefits of a geothermal HVAC system. More of them are deliberating over one, too – either as a replacement or upgrade to their current system or as the system they install in that new home they'll soon have under construction.
Exchanging your traditional HVAC system for a geothermal one could help you reduce your heating and cooling costs by as much as 80 percent!
Geothermal heating and cooling systems are amazingly energy efficient. That, plus the fact that they work with the environment, not against it, make them the most environmentally friendly HVAC systems you could own.
Thanks to the options geothermal systems offer – package units, split systems, and duel-fuel systems, for starters – you're in a stronger position to ensure that the system you select is the most efficient and effective for your Idaho Falls home.
Geothermal heating and cooling systems are designed for generations of trusty operation. The fact that they have so few parts, need less maintenance, have vertical or horizontal loops installed underground or in ponds or wells, and call for the heat-exchange equipment to be installed indoors, out of the weather, helps considerably.
Only a teeny, tiny bit of your yard need be set aside for a geothermal heating and cooling system. And what space is required is inconspicuous; the "curb appeal" of your home won't suffer at all.
Last, but not least, geothermal heating and cooling systems are becoming ever more affordable – even without the current availability of federal tax credits and rebates. Improvements in system design and manufacturing processes as well as increased competition in the marketplace are what's helping drive costs down.
That said, as motivating as all this might be, a geothermal heating and cooling system is a major investment. Whether or not it's the best investment for you depends not only on your financial situation but also on such factors as the land space available for the heat-exchange loop and the present ductwork in your home if you're retrofitting.
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Linux Journal - Advert Delivery System?
While I'm thinking about magazines I'm going to complain about Linux Journal. I've been a reader for over six years now and apart from the horrible "Cooking with Linux" columns (where Marcel Gagme badly pretends to be a French restaurateur) I've been happy with the content. Mick Bauer's "Paranoid Penguin" and "At The Forge" by Reuven Lerner have long been highlights.
Recently the magazines tone seems to have changed a lot. It's now almost impossible to find a two page spread that doesn't have an advert in it. The graphical layout makes it hard to tell where the articles begin and the magazines physical dimensions have altered, making it a bugger to stack.
I'm giving it another issue to find its feet and if it's no better I'll stop reading it. When I started looking for Linux information my reading options were pretty limited. Thankfully, these days, there are other sources of Linux information.


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16 Dec FACE Hospitality Announces Branson Partnership with Celebrity Chef Guy Fieri, "Mayor of Flavor Town"
Posted at 13:10h in Corporate, News	by	Andrew Bledsoe
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (December 16, 2019) – On the heels of a recently announced partnership with Guy Fieri and Robert Earl to open four Guy Fieri's Chicken Guy! restaurants in Tennessee, FACE Hospitality, subsidiary of FACE Amusement Group, has partnered with the famed chef restaurateur, author and Emmy Award-winning television personality to open Guy Fieri's Branson Kitchen + Bar in Branson, Missouri. Scheduled to open Summer 2020, the nearly 8,000-square-foot Kitchen + Bar will be located in the expansive Branson Landing waterfront entertainment complex, where FACE currently operates its popular Mirror Maize, 7D Dark Ride Adventure and Arcade City attractions. Open daily for lunch and dinner, Guy Fieri's Branson Kitchen + Bar will welcome locals and visitors alike to enjoy chef Guy's award-winning dishes, craft beers and cocktails with both indoor and outdoor seating options and stunning views of Lake Taneycomo.
"FACE Amusement Group has been serving up fun and excitement in the Branson area for the past three years," said Rosemary Rose, President of FACE Hospitality. "We look forward to building on our partnership with Guy to grow our presence in the community and add to the amazing lineup of food and fun at Branson Landing."
Guy Fieri's Branson Kitchen + Bar will showcase Chef Fieri's signature, bold flavors with menu highlights like his famous Trash Can Nachos, award-winning Bacon Mac n Cheese Burger, and Bourbon Brown Sugar BBQ Wings. As well as a hearty selection of signature sandwiches, scratch made entrees, house smoked meats, and mouthwatering desserts like the Pretzel & Potato Chip Covered Marbled Cheesecake. The restaurant will feature a full premium bar with an extensive selection of liquors, wines, bottled and draft beers. Chef Guy's craft cocktails will feature worldwide best sellers like the Caliente Margarita, Tattooed Mojito and Guy's Famous BBQ Bloody Mary.
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Continuing their growth, FACE Amusement Group has 21 locations across the United States and offers entertainment for kids and kids at heart. Adventure seekers will appreciate the Branson Buzzsaw, a thrilling new swing ride at the Branson Sawmill (2115 MO-76, Branson, Missouri) that lifts guests to the top of a 123-foot tower where they spin at 10 revolutions per minute. Guests are provided a heart-pumping, unforgettable view from above during the delightful ride.
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FACE Amusement Group owns and operates a growing collection of entertainment experiences with 21 locations in Tennessee, Florida, South Carolina and Missouri. Specializing in good, clean, family fun, their unique portfolio includes Arcade City, Big Top Arcade, Rockin' Raceway Arcade, 7D Dark Ride Adventure, LuLu's Beach Arcade and Mountain of Youth Ropes Course, The Branson Sawmill and The Mirror Maize. With games of skill and rides that thrill, crazy mazes and racetrack blazes, FACE Amusement Group showcases the newest interactive technology as families and friends compete for the ultimate prize – memories that will last a lifetime. In addition to providing exceptional entertainment options, the company's core values of Faith, Attitude, Consistency and Excellence (FACE) drive its wide-reaching philanthropic efforts, including the unique Bear Hugs program. For every stuffed bear plush toy won in a FACE Amusement claw machine, the company donates another bear to a local charity. To date, FACE Amusement Group has donated nearly 10,000 stuffed bears to a variety of charities. FaceAmusement.com
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Rosemary Rose is a seasoned executive leader with extensive experience across multiple industries and critical business functions. Rosemary was an executive with The Walt Disney Company. She began her Disney career as a Finance Director for Food and Beverage and progressed to Vice President of Operations, concluding her career after running Worldwide Food & Beverage and Merchandise Operations. While at Walt Disney World, Rosemary was responsible for 15,000 Cast Members throughout all Parks, Resorts, Downtown Disney and Sports & Recreation. Most recently, she served as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Icon Orlando, located in the heart of the tourist district in Orlando, Florida. Rosemary built a highly talented and experienced team, and together they transformed the property and transitioned operating responsibilities to the new team.
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Branson Landing is a $435 million – 95-acre public/private project spanning 1.5 miles of waterfront on the beautiful Lake Taneycomo, adjacent to historic downtown Branson, owned and operated by HCW. Branson Landing is home to over 100 shops, restaurants, and attractions, as well as the Hilton Promenade Hotel and a $7.5 million water and fire spectacular, anchored by Bass Pro Shops and BELK.
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Here's What Happened Today: Saturday
A shooting in California, continuing controversy over Princess Latifa and a big fish made the headlines today.
By Cónal Thomas Saturday 5 Jan 2019, 7:45 PM
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Fingal Dog Owners Group protest newly adopted dog 'off-leash' bye-law. Source: RollingNews.ie
A man is due in court over the death of young mother-of-two who died after suffering suspected knife wounds in a vicious attack at her home in Co Donegal.
A wife of Dubai's ruler has said that she alone invited former President Mary Robinson to Dubai to offer advice on the ongoing saga of Princess Latifa Al Maktoum.
A report into the controversial help-to-buy scheme has found that it did not play a major role in increasing house prices but its future remains uncertain.
The Revenue Commissioners is warning the public about a phone call scam after a number of individuals received calls from a person claiming to be from Revenue.
There have been no convictions secured against sex buyers in Ireland in the past year despite new legislation being implemented in March 2017.
A Derry woman in the middle of trying to obtain Irish citizenship for her US husband has said that she fears Brexit will significantly delay their case.
A Garda whistleblower who submitted a protected disclosure three years ago is still waiting for her case to be dealt with.
Villagers practice Yangge folk dance in Hunyuan County, China. Source: Xinhua News Agency/PA Images
#CALIFORNIA SHOOTING: Police in California have said that three people have died and four people have been injured in a shooting at a bowling alley.
#LONDON STABBING: A man has been arrested in connection with a murder on board a London-bound train after a day-long manhunt.
#YELLOW VESTS: In Paris, "Yellow Vest" protesters took to the streets once again following recent violent anti-government protests.
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Self-styled "Tuna King" Kiyoshi Kimura paid a record €2.7 million for a giant tuna this morning at Tokyo's new fish market.
The world-famous Tsukiji moved location last October and is famed for its pre-dawn daily auctions of tuna. Bidding stopped at a whopping 333.6 million yen for the enormous endangered 278-kilogramme fish.
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The only good answer is a federal government that stops mass-producing so many vested interests.
A rebellion against failed elites—that's the thoughtful explanation of the Donald Trump phenomenon. And it's probably true in some sense. Necessary to add, though, is that "rebelling against elites" is a term to dignify 60-year-olds shaking their fists at Mommy and Daddy.
Marketing by definition is selling us ideas that agree with our intuition. The opposite of marketing is making us think. Green energy is marketing. People like Elon Musk are not selling solutions to global warming, they are selling $100,000 T-shirts that say "I'm doing something about global warming." Even then, he requires involuntary exactions from taxpayers to make his T-shirt business viable.
Mr. Musk knows better but he plays along because it's working very well for him. That's what elites do.
His environmentalist supporters play along because public policy victories are precious and don't bear close inspection to see if they are real victories. Politicians play along because it accommodates their donors and generates crowd-pleasing sound bites and headlines, and that's good enough for them, even if the real-world effects are nil or negative.
Labor unions and their political allies. Workers in America don't get higher wages and more opportunity because Washington tilts the legal system in favor of labor unions. Workers see their conditions improve when lots of employers are competing to hire them. But the slow pace of economic growth, the sharp decline in new business formations—these factors won't be corrected by what the New York Times misleadingly calls President Obama's "championing of worker rights," which have nothing to do with workers and everything to do with the privileges of the labor organizations that are key funders of the Democratic Party's electoral ambitions.
Central bankers. Ben Bernanke (weakly), Mario Draghi (weakly), Janet Yellen (weakly to the point of inaudibleness) have all said monetary policy can't be the sole fix for the Western world's slow-growth malaise. Yet their words are unheeded so they settle for being enablers of their fellow elites' flight from responsibility. Monetary policy has become our era's great crutch so leaders everywhere can go on catering to the same old organized interests instead of undertaking necessary reforms.
Politicians. It is impossible to think what Hillary Clinton stands for in politics, unless you're satisfied with the answer "women." She and the Clinton Foundation collect millions from fat cats while she claims to be the scourge of fat cats and friend to the little guy. Who in politics does not claim to be friend to the little guy? Mrs. Clinton is monotonously carrying forward a family business model built on global political celebrity, and on leveraging political celebrity in return for dollars, as the Clinton family foundation exists to do.
Business leaders. Management is a pragmatic exercise, so of course business leaders lobby for government policies that reduce their risks and hamper their competitors or prospective competitors.
"Rent extraction" is economist-speak for the tax in many forms that government places on people trying to go about their business and engage in voluntary transactions. Rent extraction is the activity that defines elites.
Rent extraction in all its forms reduces productivity and economic growth for everyone. Do you find yourself living in a nation where the elites are a disappointment? The question is a redundancy, but there is a solution: Hardheadedly reduce the scope of rent extraction by shrinking the ambitions and powers of government.
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The Polish word Lolek means "free man." Have you ever asked yourself what it really means to be a free man?
This question is becoming almost impossible to answer when we look at the kinds of men our culture glorifies. Good male role models are becoming few and far between. Bad male role models are becoming numerous.
Question: Why don't all religious sisters wear habits?
If you were a Catholic school student decades ago, then chances are, you were taught by religious sisters. Your image of a typical religious sister, then, might be of a woman in a long habit and a veil. However, not all sisters wear a habit like this, or even any habit at all. Sisters simply dress based on the rule of their particular order.
Question: What is a mystic?
Yesterday, September 23, was the feast day of one of the twentieth century's greatest mystics, St. Padre Pio. St. Padre Pio was an Italian Capuchin friar who was known for his great piety and the extraordinary spiritual gifts that God gave him, including the stigmata and the ability to bilocate.
But what exactly is a mystic? Do all mystics receive these amazing gifts?
Question: What is the difference between mortal and venial sin?


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Why we will never know how many journalists at HT and Mint lost their jobs
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By Shashidhar KJ (	@KJshashi shashidar@medianama.com ) February 14, 2017
by Cyril Sam and Shashidhar KJ
Last month, HT Media, the publisher of Hindustan Times the pulled shutters on four editions and three bureaus, including its business bureau in Mumbai and Delhi, laying off an unknown number of journalists.
There is silence in the media on the number of jobs lost at HT and its business paper, Mint. Typically, media in India does not report on itself, especially, on the working conditions of journalists.
On 5 February 2017, we put up an anonymous online survey asking journalists, who lost their jobs recently, their experiences, number of journalists they personally knew of who were fired and their contact details. We wanted to know what was happening. We used Twitter, Whatsapp and Facebook to reach journalists. A week later, we have 18 responses.
We got in touch with five journalists who previously worked with HT and Mint. None wanted to be named. Scared, that going on record will hurt their chances of finding a new job. Some of them left behind their contact details in the survey form. Some others got in touch with us on Facebook. Most of them were 22- 30-year-old.
Forced Resignations
As part of HT Media's cost optimization project, on 18th January, a senior editor from HT arrived from Delhi at the paper's Mumbai bureau with a list of employees. "We've identified you as the weakest link," the editor told one of the journalists we spoke to during a sit-down.
The journalist was asked to resign the same day and asked to work for two extra weeks while the company's human resources department processed the resignation letter.
"Ironically, many journalists in HT Media's Mumbai bureau who were forced to put down their papers have been asked to freelance for the publication because the paper is now finding it hard to fill its pages," the Mumbai-based journalist said.
"Around eight journalists and four designers were asked to resign from the Hindustan Times' Mumbai bureau that day," the journalist said.
"I had moved to Delhi six months ago for this job. The HR said that we were being asked to resign to contain costs but we were not given any cost-benefit explanation. I know about 12 journalists who were asked to resign," a journalist from the Mint who was asked to resign around mid-December told us over the phone.
The curious thing about the recent lay-offs is that most journalists are being forced to resign, with no room for negotiation, instead of being terminated. We sent emails* to Shobhana Bhartia, the chairperson of HT Media Group, Sandeep Jain, the group's chief strategy officer, and Bobby Ghosh, the editor-in-chief of HT Media, asking them about the recent lay-offs. We are yet to receive their response. Mails sent and calls made to the company's corporate communications manager were also not answered.
Declining ad revenue at HT Media
In early 2016, the news industry was still giddy from the hangover of Oscar-winning movie Spotlight. Around the same time, editors at Mint began hiring journalists across the board.
Months later, falling revenue forced the Mint to turn into a Broadsheet from a Berliner. A Broadsheet, the management argued, would accommodate more ads.
"There was no coherence between the way the editorial and the management was working," a journalist previously employed with the Mint said.
Many journalists hired at the Mint during the period were tasked to set up new verticals. At least, two journalists who we spoke to said, newsroom leaders at Mint, never held meetings with the new teams to chalk out plans for how the new verticals would integrate into the daily newsflow and expand.
Instead, new hires were shunted across existing verticals, they said, and caught in newsroom politics. One journalist who we spoke with and who was asked to leave described the plans of starting new verticals as "delusions of grandeur".
In August 2016, Sandeep Jain, chief strategy officer at HT Media, informed analysts in a call that HT Media will undertake cost cutting measures "across businesses and across locations".
"We have just embarked on this a couple of weeks ago and the only commitment is to look at every cost line for possible savings. As of now, it is difficult to say where this cost optimisation or cost reductions are going to come from."
HT Media's ad revenues had started declining. Net profit at the media company fell 0.8% to Rs 51.2 crore in the quarter ending September 2016. And advertising revenue fell 2% to Rs 466 crore from Rs 475.5 crore in Q2 FY16.
Meanwhile, employee-related costs were steadily increasing. At the end of September 2016, employee expenses stood at Rs 152.76 crore accounting for 26.24% of the total expenses at HT Media compared to 22.8% (Rs 116.02 crore) in September 2014 (Download HT Media's balance sheets here and here).
In January 2017, in another analyst call, Jain stressed that the company is not done with the "cost optimization" yet.
"The first part of the exercise was on print, and we continue to focus on print… On digital, we are taking action, but it's not within the scope of the project that we embarked on."
Jain declined to comment on how much of the "cost optimization" exercise has been completed, despite being asked for more details repeatedly.
Based on the interviews conducted, we now know that at the Hindustan Times and the Mint in Delhi and Mumbai around 30–35 journalists lost their jobs. We were also told that senior editorial staff from the Mint's weekend edition, Mint Lounge, left the paper in December 2016.
We are now trying to get in touch with journalists from Bhopal, Indore, Nagpur, West Bengal, Allahabad, Varanasi and other local bureaus of the Hindustan Times, the Mint, the ABP Group and The Telegraph.
We are also trying to get in touch with senior managers and editors across newsrooms to gauge their outlook for the industry, and the protections and the opportunities available for journalists under the existing circumstances.
Much of what we have found and reported is because you shared our survey. If you're a journalist who is reading this and know of colleagues who have lost their job in the recent lay-off spree, please ask them to take our anonymous survey. Or ask them to get in touch with us at lomirgenii1988@gmail.com or samcyril@protonmail.com.
*Questions sent to Shobhana Bhartia, Sandeep Jain and Bobby Ghosh:
1. What is HT Media's current editorial staff strength?
2. How many editorial staff were terminated or asked to resign since July 2016?
3. Why were they asked to resign?
4. How many editorial employees have quit HT Media since July 2016?
5. Was there a mid-year review of employees in 2016? If no, why?
6. Is HT Media encouraging its editorial employees to resign?
7. What are the projected cost savings of the current retrenchment drive?
8. What is the cost of severance incurred by HT Media since July 2016?
9. What are the projections on savings from HT Media's cost optimization drive?
10. How long will the cost optimization drive continue?
11. What are the projected growth rates on print, digital, radio advertisements, respectively?
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sketharaman February 15, 2017
'"There was no coherence between the way the editorial and the management was working," a journalist previously employed with the Mint said.' LOL. I thought one of the the cardinal principles of the media industry is the total separation of editorial and management functions! It's quite rich for a journalist who doesn't know this basic principle of their industry to blame everything except themselves for the current state of affairs at their company.
Sn Jha February 14, 2017
HT could not survive due to its traditional way to work. else online magazines like firstpost.com, thewire.in and Dailybouncer.com is doing better and improving the journalism with digital media.
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Associations representing manufacturers of vehicles and parts have spoken out against President Donald Trump's plan to place a 25% tariff on steel and a 10% tariff on aluminum imports.
Both metals are crucial to the production of cars and trucks sold in America today and could raise the sale prices of those vehicles substantially.
In addition to paying more for their vehicles, American consumers and workers can also expect to bear the brunt of the retaliatory tariffs other countries will almost certainly place on goods manufactured and exported from the U.S., said Cody Lusk, president and chief executive of the American International Automobile Dealers Association (AIADA).
"These proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports couldn't come at a worse time," Lusk said. "Auto sales have flattened in recent months, and manufacturers are not prepared to absorb a sharp increase in the cost to build cars and trucks in America. The burden of these tariffs, as always, will be passed on to the American consumer. Car shoppers looking for a deal will instead find that they are paying a new tax to transport themselves and their families."
The Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association (MEMA) also expressed opposition to the plan. MEMA represents more than 1,000 companies that manufacture vehicle parts and components.
"The tariffs announced on March 1 will be detrimental to the motor vehicle parts supplier industry and the 871,000 U.S. jobs it directly creates," said Steve Handschuh, MEMA's president and CEO. "We have voiced repeatedly that while we support the administration's focus on strong domestic steel and aluminum markets, tariffs limit access to necessary specialty products, raise the cost of motor vehicles to consumers, and impair the industry's ability to compete in the global marketplace. This is not a step in the right direction."
Steel and aluminum tariffs could directly counteract any benefits American manufacturers have seen from tax and regulatory reform. An analysis of tariffs on steel imposed in 2002 found that the Bush steel tariffs cost 200,000 jobs, including 30,000 in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania alone, Lusk added.
Engine manufacturer Cummins was reserved in its response to the proposed tariffs in a statement saying, "We won't know the full impact until the final rule is issued." The company referred to statements that it had previously made independently and in conjuction with the organization Business Roundtable, where the company voiced its concerns that such actions will hurt American businesses, workers and consumers.
The Business Roundtable is a politically conservative association of chief executive officers who lead U.S. companies and the organization came out in opposition to the President's plan.
Several commercial vehicle manufacturers declined to comment at this time, but a Navistar representative affirmed the company's support for free trade and global supply chains and cautioned against tariffs that could impact U.S. manufacturer cost competitiveness and quality.
"If these tariffs are enacted, there'd be a significant impact to the commodities that are key components of commercial vehicles, making them more expensive for us to make, and ultimately, for our customers to purchase. Until seeing the final executive order, we're not going to speculate further on the impact of this tariff," the company stated.


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Tokyo's Olympics May Become Known as the 'Robot Games'
By Associated Press | Updated: 15 March 2019 17:57 IST
Photo Credit: tokyo2020.org
Tokyo's Olympics may become known as the "Robot Games."
Organisers on Friday showed off robots that will be used at the new National Stadium to provide assistance for fans using wheelchairs.
Tokyo Olympic official Masaaki Komiya pointed out that Japan is known for its robot technology, and the 2020 Summer Games are a good place to show off.
"Robots should not overwhelm people," Komiya, the vice director general to the Tokyo Olympics, told a news conference. "Robots are something that have an amicable relationship with human beings and can work together. That's the kind of robots we envision."
The robots are made by major Olympic sponsor Toyota Motor. Toyota officials said 16 of the so-called "human support robots" will be used at the National Stadium with five other "delivery support robots" also being available.
Not to be outdone, Panasonic — also a major Olympic sponsor — showed off its "power assist suit." When worn, the suit offers support to the back and hip area and allows for heavy objects to be lifted with less effort. Panasonic said 20 of the suits will be used at the Olympics and could help guests with their luggage and with other lifting chores.
Power assist suit
"Through this occasion, people in the world will be able to realise how advanced Japan is in terms of robot technology," Hideyo Hirata, director of technology services for the Tokyo Olympics, told reporters.
Minoru Yamauchi of Toyota, the general manager for 2020 Robot Development, said the automaker is branching out and becoming a "mobility company."
"We have been looking at how we can support the daily lives of people, and how we can develop robots that can partner with daily life," Yamauchi said. "In the Tokyo Olympics, there will be many guests in wheelchairs and we would like them enjoy the games without worrying about their mobility."
Yoshifumi Uchida, general manager of Panasonic's Paralympic department, said its power assist suit technology was developed partly because of Japan's aging population. This could help get more women and the elderly into the working population.
"We would like to have a society where people can work without caring about gender differences or age differences," Uchida said. "When you are carrying a suitcase or a heavy box, this is where the power assist suit becomes valuable."
He said the suits would also be used away from the venues in "related facilities and airports."
He said the suit improved "efficiency" by about 20 percent, allowing the wearer to lift more, and for a longer time.
Battery life if about four hours, and the suit gives the wearer the ability to lift about 10 kilograms (22 pounds) more with the same energy expended.
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Executive Profiles - Pensacola, Lakeland, Panama City | Digital Boardwalk, Inc.
Tim Shoop is president and chief executive officer of Digital Boardwalk, one of the fastest growing I.T. service companies in the Florida Gulf Coast. Tim's leadership, technology insight and operational expertise have strengthened Digital Boardwalk's culture of innovation, expanded the company into new markets, and extended its service portfolio and national reach.
Tim's I.T. foundation was forged from his love of technology as a child. His professional career in the I.T. industry began while serving in the U.S. Navy in 1992. Holding a revered Top Secret security clearance, Tim maintained telecommunications equipment infrastructure at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Tim soon made his riskiest decision to date and moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue his dream of acting. Without a single point of contact in the area, Tim started, quite literally, from the ground up living in a tent on the beaches just north of Malibu. In an ironic turn of events, Tim landed a position at one of the fastest growing I.T. firms in the area.
Upon arriving in Pensacola in 1998, Tim started New Vision Computers with nothing more than a credit card and an unparalleled ambition. After what could be considered borderline harassment of a few key contacts in the area, Tim was awarded with several large Government contracts that would ultimately launch New Vision Computers to the multi-location retail chain it became. All the while Tim's addiction to entrepreneurial ventures kept him focused on the trends and future of the I.T. industry. In 2006 Tim began planning for a brand new I.T. company, one that would be worlds ahead of the already successful computer chain he had created.
After applying many years of I.T. industry experience, as well as nearly two years of strenuous development and testing, Tim launched Digital Boardwalk, Inc. in 2009. The company quickly rose to its success and has received several awards for outstanding customer service, superior response times, and philanthropic contributions. Following the instant success of Digital Boardwalk, Tim sold New Vision Computers in 2010 so he could devote his efforts entirely to the new business.
Tim married his rock, Kathleen Shoop, in 2004. He soon decided to start his family at the same time Digital Boardwalk began its successful rise. In 2010 Tim's son Caleb was introduced to the world, followed by his daughter Victoria in 2012. Tim is also the proud parent of two dogs.
Over the years Tim has donated countless resources to many of the area's non-profit organizations including Gulf Coast Kid's House, ARC Gateway, Manna Food Pantries, and the Waterfront Mission. Tim is also heavily involved in the Pensacola community through volunteer work and Chamber events.
In his free time, Tim is at home with his wife and children who keep him very busy while away from work. On occasion Tim also enjoys playing a video game or two.
As Executive Vice President, Brian Wilkey oversees all Digital Boardwalk operating activities and business development initiatives. Brian's ability to project change and design scalable business processes have enabled Digital Boardwalk to grow at an award-winning pace while holding true to the company's core values of customer service, rapid response, and innovation.
Brian grew up an Air Force brat, moving many times across the country and even spending four years living in England and traveling Europe. Spending his entire childhood on the move taught Brian to adapt to change and even grow to love it. This would later set Brian up for a successful career in technology, but not before he first followed his childhood passion: architecture.
Throughout high school and college, Brian worked for the prestigious Straughn Trout Architects in Central Florida. Brian had the opportunity to work on some ground-breaking projects, including Florida's first net-zero energy building. In 2008, Brian decided to finish his education at the University of West Florida in Pensacola. Unfortunately, the Great Recession in 2008 hit the architecture and engineering industries the hardest, with no new employment opportunities in sight.
Following in the footsteps of his parents, both of whom obtained their MBAs, Brian switched his field of study to management information systems and sought out a career in technology. Armed with his natural knack for technology and business, Brian found employment with Tim Shoop as a computer technician and service manager at New Vision Computers.
At this time, Tim was in the very-first stages of developing a brand-new I.T. company based upon the Managed I.T. Services model. Eager to ride this wave of change, Brian approached Tim and asked for the opportunity to help him build the new company. After 18-months of long hours, rigorous research and development, and just enough income to keep the lights on, Tim and Brian launched Digital Boardwalk, Inc.
In 2014, Brian met the love of his life, Shannon, and they later married in 2018. Brian and Shannon look forward to starting a family in the near future. In his free time, Brian is an avid mountain biker. Brian also enjoys woodworking, electrical work, and any opportunity to work with his hands and build something.


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CBD will not show up in a drug test because drug tests do not detect it. However, CBD products can contain THC, so you can fail a drug test after taking CBD products. Drug tests do not detect CBD because it does not cause intoxicating effects and is not an illegal controlled substance. However, people who use CBD can fail a drug test.
Products containing CBD may be contaminated with THC or have incorrect labelling. Researchers found that CBD, or cannabidiol, did not react with either of the two commercial tests used to detect marijuana use. However, another cannabis compound, cannabinol (CBN), did. Buccal swabs don't test for CBD, they test for THC, Sample said.
So no, CBD won't show up on a standard workplace drug-testing mouth swab. However, THC will, so avoid large amounts of CBD with THC levels. Stop us if you've heard this, but workplace hair follicle tests generally don't look for CBD, they look for the old familiar THC-COOH. So no, CBD will not show up in a standard workplace drug test of a hair follicle.
Any CBD you take that has THC levels could leave THC by-products in a hair follicle, where they have the potential to linger for a while. Hair follicles can contain a record of months of drug use, depending on the length of the hair. In most cases, CBD oil is very unlikely to show up in a drug test. You will not fail a drug test for CBD, but you could fail a drug test for any THC residue in that CBD product.
If you want to completely avoid the possibility of failing a drug test while using CBD, opt for CBD isolates that contain CBD isolated from THC and other components of cannabis. Very small amounts of THC present in the material from which CBD is extracted can enter CBD oil in high enough quantities to give a positive result in a drug test. In the most common workplace drug test - a urine test - employers do not look for CBD, because CBD has never been found to affect judgement or motor skills. Tens of thousands of false positives could result from this error each year, according to estimates by journalist Amanda Chicago-Lewis, but at least there is some recourse: CBD users have successfully challenged a failed drug test for THC if the lab used this specific method, which can result in a false report of CBD as THC.
Although hemp-derived CBD products are available in states where recreational cannabis is not legal, some people may worry that their CBD oil consumption will show up on a drug test. But failing a THC drug test for taking CBD depends on the source of your CBD, how much you took, how long you took it, your metabolism and other factors such as hydration levels. To obtain a CBD oil drug test, an employer or entity would have to pay a testing company an additional fee to change their testing regimen to include CBD. The most common reason for a failed CBD drug test is that a person is using a CBD oil product that contains THC.
However, with the rise of CBD comes the concern of failing a drug test due to the detection of CBD oil. In theory, getting a false positive drug test for CBD oil should be relatively impossible from pure CBD oil containing less than THC. This means that contamination of CBD with THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) can and does occur, and this can show up in a drug test, depending on the cut-off level of the test and other factors listed below. Workers who consume a lot of CBD (cannabidiol) for pain, anxiety, insomnia or a range of other symptoms can accidentally (and unfairly) fail drug tests for cannabis in certain cases, media and experts report.
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Discord and Disposal of Embryos
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Fatal flood shows need to address weather in emergency plans
A fatal weather-related incident at a remote mine in Utah may not be likely to happen at most worksites, but the tragic event serves as a reminder that emergency plans need to include dangerous weather.
Because the mine operator failed to provide an emergency plan that included hazardous weather events, a pair of flash floods killed one miner and endangered eleven others.
No one aware of flash flood watch
Gary Nelson, a 48-year-old miner with almost 13 years of mining experience, worked at the Gentry Mine No. 3, a coal mine in a remote area of Emery County, Utah.
On Aug. 1, 2021, at 10 p.m., Nelson and seven other miners received their shift assignments and got into two Genco Geep personnel carriers, Jeep-like vehicles that would take them down into the mine.
It was raining lightly in the area of the mine at the time of departure. The miners were unaware of the fact that it was raining much heavier at higher elevations, with the National Weather Service issuing a flash flood watch for the area throughout the evening.
However, the mine operator didn't monitor the weather of the surrounding area, so none of the workers or supervisors were aware of the flash flood watch.
2 floods hit, one right after the other
A passing storm resulted in several inches of rain on top of a nearby mesa, which saturated the ground and produced an abnormal amount of drainage down through a series of canyons to the plateaus below. At one point, a build-up of debris at one canyon breached and released a large amount of water, which created a flash flood that had a "large amount of force" behind it, according to an investigation report from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA).
At 10:08 p.m., as the first flash flood was sweeping down the canyons, the personnel carrier turned right onto the elevated mine access dirt road, which ran along a narrow canyon adjacent to a creek bed. The miners were only about a quarter mile from their starting point.
The first flash flood, which contained large boulders and broken pine trees, hit the lead personnel carrier head on. The flood pushed the personnel carrier downhill, causing it to flip over four times and become stuck on its side between the roadside and the river bed. The miners inside managed to free themselves from the wreckage and swim to solid ground. They reached high ground just as the second flash flood struck.
Body found 7 miles away
Nelson's personnel carrier had departed shortly after the lead vehicle. It encountered the first flash flood 0.16 miles from where the crew departed. The flood still had enough force behind it to flip the personnel carrier onto its side. Nelson and another miner exited the vehicle and began helping other crew members get out, with each of them seeking higher ground to get away from the rising water.
The second flash flood hit as Nelson and the other miner were helping their co-workers. As the miners got to safety, they looked for Nelson, but couldn't locate him.
At 10:14 p.m., when the floodwaters had receded, the crew returned to their departure location and a headcount was conducted. Nelson was still missing, so emergency responders were called in for a search and rescue operation. Nelson's body was found almost seven miles away in the Huntington Canyon river bed. He was pronounced dead at 11:30 a.m. Aug. 2, 2021.
Detailed weather procedures now in place
MSHA investigators found the root cause of the incident was the mine operator's failure to have procedures for monitoring potentially dangerous weather conditions.
The mine operator has since developed a written procedure directing personnel at the departure point to use available weather forecasts to monitor for potential flooding.
A weather monitoring station was also installed at the mine to monitor rain, temperature, humidity, wind and barometric pressure. This weather station is intended to fill in any gaps in weather service coverage for the remote area the mine is located in. The mine operator also petitioned the state for a Doppler weather station.
The weather procedures include:
checking current weather conditions and forecasts during pre-shift examinations, and more often as weather conditions warrant, and
posting current weather conditions and any advisories or warnings in a "clear conspicuous manner" where miners can review them at the start of a shift.
There's also a surface foreman on duty at all times when miners are working who is in a position to evaluate and respond quickly to weather watches and warnings. If it rains, the foreman will use data from the weather monitoring station to determine if the road into the mine should be closed due to potential weather that could affect the miners' safety. The foreman will also immediately notify the miners of any closures or other weather emergencies.
Weather worries across industries
While most safety professionals might not operate under circumstances in which they have to worry that workers could get swept away by a flash flood, many likely have other weather-related hazards to worry about.
Whether it's a sudden thunderstorm with deadly lightning threatening outdoor workers, a downpour that makes an open dock unsafe for forklift operators or high winds that could cause problems for a roofing crew, having an emergency plan that addresses weather hazards can help keep employees safe.
Such a plan would give employees and supervisors guidance on how to respond to the hazard, including when to take action and where to go in case conditions become too dangerous to stay where they are.


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Oil drops to lowest since Nov
Oil prices have again slipped, falling to their lowest since late November, with Brent testing the $US50 per barrel support, after data showed record high US crude inventories rising faster than expected, raising doubts over the viability of OPEC-led output cuts.
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) said US inventories climbed almost 5 million barrels to 533.1 million last week, far outpacing forecasts of a 2.8 million-barrel build.
"The fact that this supply has increased almost 55 million barrels this year in the face of significant OPEC production cuts is evolving as a major bearish development that poses a significant threat to the viability of the OPEC agreement in our opinion," Jim Ritterbusch, president of Chicago-based energy advisory firm Ritterbusch & Associates, said in a note.
Global benchmark Brent shed US32 cents, or 0.6 per cent, to settle at $US50.64 a barrel, its lowest close since November 30 when OPEC countries agreed to cut output. The contract fell as low as $US49.71 in morning trade.
On its first day as the front-month, US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures for May slipped US20 cents, or 0.4 per cent, to settle at $US48.04 per barrel. The session low was $US47.01, its lowest since November 30.
A deal between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and some non-OPEC producers to reduce output by 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) in the first half of 2017 has done little to reduce bulging global oil stockpiles.
OPEC, which sources say is leaning toward extending cuts, has broadly delivered on pledged reductions, but non-OPEC states have yet to cut fully in line with commitments.
"OPEC has used up most of its arsenal of verbal weapons to support the market. One hundred per cent compliance by all is the only tool they have left and on that account they are struggling," said Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank.
US shale oil producers have been adding rigs, boosting the country's weekly oil production to about 9.1 million bpd for the week ended March 10 from an average 8.9 million bpd for 2016, according to US data.
"OPEC's market intervention has not yet resulted in significant visible inventory drawdowns, and the financial markets have lost patience," US bank Jefferies said in a note.
But the bank said the market was undersupplied and, if OPEC extended cuts into the second half, inventories would draw down and prices recover above $US60 in the fourth quarter.
However, it said US crude production was expected to grow by 360,000 bpd in 2017 and 1 million bpd in 2018, and a price recovery could spur more US shale activity.
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Copper rebounds as funds return


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Iranian Journalist Sentenced to Death
• Ruholla Zam, a former Iranian Journalist, has been sentenced to death on thirteen counts of charges.
• One of those charges, is 'Corruption on Earth', which is often used in cases involving espionage and attempts to overthrow the government.
• In 2017, there was a series of public protests across various cities over Iran's poor economic performance. Despite condemnation from the Iranian authorities, Ruholla Zam had inspired many to join the protests.
• Ruholla Zam used to operate a channel on Telegram called "Amad News". He was exiled and was living in France until he was somehow convinced to return to Iran. After returning, he had been arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
• Telegram later took down Amad News due to repeated complaints from the Iranian Government. But, the channel continued to operate under a different name.
• There have been many instances in the past where the Iranian authorities have enforced control on domestic media, and until the 2009 crackdown, the media was regulated by a string of laws governing print, broadcast, and online content.
• Article 24 of the Iranian constitution says that while "publications and the press have freedom of expression," it is unlawful to express views that "harm the fundamental principles of Islam or the rights of the public." The Press Law of 1986 (updated in 2000) specifies the boundaries, like "promoting subjects who might damage the foundation of the Islamic Republic," "offending the Leader of the Revolution and recognized religious authorities," and "propagating luxury and extravagance." Violators face months of jail time, fines, even lashings at times.
• Due to this, the Iranian press's freedom had been fluctuating for a long time, and it still is to a large extent.
Reporter : Jovan H


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Wai-wai
by Nicholas Guppy
Author: Nicholas Guppy
Category: Nonfiction
Original Title: Wai-Wai
Published: 1958 by John Murray Publishers Ltd
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The region of Amazonia drained by the upper parts of the Rio Trombetas and its tributary the Mapuera is almost unknown. From it emanated such mysterious legends as those of the White Indians, the Indians who live like otters in underwater caves, of Kashima the Indian city deep in the jungle, and even that of the Amazons themselves, for it was as the mouth of the Trombetas, in 1542, the Orellana saw his female warriors.
One of the most interesting discoveries of Mr Guppy was that the art of the Indians, like our own, is becoming increasingly abstract. His discussion of the causes makes one of the most provocative parts of a book full of exciting new facts about peoples.
Only two or three times before has the region been penetrated and this is the first book to be written about it, and is thus of prime importance not only to the general reader for whom it is intended, but for the geographer, the anthropologist, the botanist and would-be explorer as well.
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