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Where Are The Superheroine Movies?
by Van Jensen · May 8, 2008
Over at Cinematical, Elisabeth Rappe responds to all the acclaim for Iron Man by pointing out a deficiency in the booming business of comics being adapted to film.
Looking around the cinematic landscape, at the likes of Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Bruce Wayne, Hellboy and the like, Rappe notices something missing: superheroines. And, even worse, Marvel's recent announcement of more male heroes headed to the screen and ongoing delays in a Wonder Woman project, it looks like no female heroes will be hitting the big screen anytime soon.
It has been eight years since X-Men made comic book movies big business, and we have yet to see a proper superheroine. Ant-Man is on a faster production track than Wonder Woman – and who is more recognizable to the general public? Why is Thor more palatable to the mass audience than Black Widow? I don't buy that there isn't a mass appeal for these stories.
It probably doesn't help the studio perspective that the only two comic heroines allowed to fly solo were disasters. But was there ever a smidgen of care given to either Elektra or Catwoman during the writing or production process? Neither film was entered into with that Iron Man spirit; they were careless and cheap, and turned out predictably awful. It's no surprise that a movie bombs because it sucks – but surely, the suits are ascribing that largely to heroines being lousy sells. It says volumes that neither are worth the kind of relaunch The Incredible Hulk is getting. Why not bring back Elektra to revise big screen history? I'd pay to see it in a heartbeat.
A lot of food for thought, and plenty to agree or disagree with. Interestingly, Rappe doesn't place any of the blame on the comic book industry, which has been called out for giving women short shrift plenty of times.
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Van Jensen
Van Jensen is a former crime reporter turned comic book writer. In addition to ComicMix, he contributes to Publishers Weekly and Comic Book Resources. He lives in Atlanta, and his blog can be found at graphicfiction.wordpress.com.
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mike weber says:
They need to make a "Power Girl" movie.Cast the right actress and you don't need a script; ask the fanboys what the script was like after the film and they'll go "There were words?"
Mary Mitchell says:
Dude, you just described the plot of every porn flick.
mike baron says:
What about "My Super Ex-Girlfriend?"
I seem to be one of the few who enjoyed "My Suer Ex-"
Tom Fitzpatrick says:
Didn't they make Elektra awhile ago?
Errr- "Super"
I believe so, and – as i recall – it got (deservedly so, apparently) worse reviews then "Super Ex-"
Keith R.A. DeCandido says:
Wonder Woman was on a faster track than Thor right up until Joss Whedon turned in a script the producers didn't like very much and they parted ways. That's not sexism, that's Hollywood inaction (sic), and it happens to films all the time.The ratio of male-centered hero movies to female-centered ones is about the same as it is in the comic book world, sadly. It doesn't help that the two we have had were Elektra and Catwoman….
russ carreiro says:
The answer is simple: Catwoman.
Peter David says:
All I know is that a number of studios have displayed interest in "Fallen Angel" and DC/Warners, which holds the movie rights, have shot down every comer. They continue to hold onto the dramatic rights for themselves…but meanwhile do nothing to develop the property. PAD
Mike Gold says:
Yep. And the sun came up in the morning.
Still, it's pretty annoying that of all the dozen or so solo superhero movies currently in production or in pre-production, all of them (with the perpetual and arguable exception of Wonder Woman) feature males stars. You'd think by now they'd learn: people want to see good movies, and Elektra, Supergirl and Catwoman were not good movies.Oh, wait. We're talking about Hollywood. Never mind.
Otaku-sempai says:
Hollywood executives are like the Sandpeople of STAR WARS, "They are easily frightened. But, they will soon be back; and in greater numbers." Unfortunately, CATWOMAN seems to have poisoned the waters for the time being.
Russ Rogers says:
How far back are we looking? You mentioned "Electra" and "Catwoman," but you didn't go back to "Barb Wire" or "Vampirella." If you go back 25 years, there's "Supergirl," "Sheena" and "Red Sonja." Those three were all 1984 and 1985, the BOOM years of the super-heroine. Does "Brenda Starr" count in this category? Were any of these considered a success?On TV there has been "The Bionic Woman," (or do we limit our discussion to super heroes from comic books), "Witchblade," "Birds of Prey," "Painkiller Jane," "Dark Angel," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Xena," "Cleopatra 2525" and "Charmed." You can make the argument that "Medium" and "Ghost Whisperer" are both about heroines with super powers. "Sabrina the Teen age Witch"? She's super and from comics, not really a heroine. Recently "Smallville" added "Supergirl." "Heroes" has the Cheerleader. I probably forgetting many. Obviously super-heroines have had greater success on the small screen.I think Mike Weber should check out the Blinky's "Powergirl" fan films. I think there is more to recommend them than just their star, Tawnya Manion's curves. And I think that "Catwoman" and "Barb Wire" definitely answers the question, "Do Super-heroine movies need more than just a "hot" woman in the title role?" YES. You can't expect drooling boys (no matter what age) to carry a film to box office success. Although I admit, it doesn't hurt to have some drool-factor in your movie. Other than Wonder Woman, what female comic book characters are deserving of a big, Hollywood screen treatment? Personally, I would rather have seen a "Ghost" movie than "Barb Wire." I would like to see a movie adaptation of Chuck Dixon's, "Evangeline." "Whisper" would make a good movie. "Rose and Thorn," would make a REALLY cool movie or continuing series TV show. IF the next "Hulk" movie is a bigger critical and box office success, is there room for a "SHE-Hulk" movie? It's not just a lack Super-heroine Movies, I think Super-heroines in general are under represented in comics. Oh, oh, oh …. "Ms. Tree" would ROCK as a movie! Maybe not a super-heroine, but "Ms. Tree, the Movie" would kick butt on V.I. Warshawski! THAT movie was a turd-burger!Here is one Super-heroine movie that I was unfamiliar with: "Zsazsa Zaturnnah Ze Moveeh" (2006). It's a Super-heroine movie based on an award winning Graphic Novel! Here is the trailer:
I've only seen the trailer and read a bit about the production on Wikipedia, but this looks SPECTACULAR! Totally bizarre. It LOOKS entertaining, like an "experience" to experience. For gosh sakes, it's a MUSICAL! In other words, Rick Marshall, "Oh, My. God!" (Does Zaturnnah qualify as a super-heroine even if her secret alter-ego is a gay, male hairdresser?) I just need to find out where I can get a DVD copy with English subtitles! And I need to find an English translation of the Graphic Novel. From what I've read, the book is a spoof on a classic Filipino hero named "Darna." The author, Carlo Vergara, wonders if some of the jokes and cultural references will translate into English. ComicMix NEEDS to do an article about Zsazsa Zaturnnah. (I'm willing to write it, if somebody is willing to not pay me! Otherwise, Martha, Elayne, Rick, John, Mike? Somebody, RUN with this idea!) If nobody else has published the English translation of Zsazsa Zaturnnah … ComicMix? Please?
Sadly, most of the superheroine movies you noted suck, IMHO. I'm not sure Ms. Tree counts (one of my favorites, obviously) as a superheroine, but damn, she should. There's an option out for a teevee movie/pilot; it's not my place to reveal details but I know more about it than I should.I hate to tease like this — well, you've got me, that's an outright lie — but please stay turned to ComicMix for more Ms. Tree news. And be patient.
Honestly though, how many great Superheroine comics are out there? Even Wonder Woman seems silly as a movie to be honest. Even in the pages it comes off cheesy. Maybe if comic books werent stuck in the whole high heel and swimsuit look then it might work but really what self respecting actress is going to take on a role like that after Halle Berry could not even pull it off? The comic book movies that are working out for Hollywood are the ones that lend themselves to CGI type movie making and there aren't any female roles jumping to mind that would be done like that to me. How many female lead movies get made period? Its an issue outside of the comic adaptions I think.
You might want to look back at the teevee series with Lynda Carter before you voice such a sweeping put-down of "Wonder Woman" in a visual medium.
I grew up in that era and was probably the target audience for it. That being said, it was terrible then and looks even worse at this point. If they do WW then they need to change her look drastically. No actress with any self respect is going to wear and american flag bathing suit with red high heel boots. It works to some degree in a comic, but in live action its way too campy.
Alan Coil says:
I would argue that Catwoman wasn't THAT bad a movie, but it was a terrible interpretation of DC's Catwoman. I would rate it at 'C', which means it is a movie I would watch again, but definitely not every year.
Hollywood studios like to make money. Actresses don't open movies. Actors do. Therefore, you won't see very many movies (especially big-budget superhero action films) featuring females as the main character — particularly after recent disasters like "Catwoman" and "Elektra. It just isn't cost-effective for them and no studio exec. wants to take the chance of being the one who green-lit a female-driven "Superheroine" movie that fails to perform. Careers are ruined that way.
zee rose says:
I really dislike most superheroines. Either they're ill-proporitoned or they're unrealistic. In short, they just don't represent me and what I stand for. Catwoman came pretty close to what I like but that got screwed in the worst way possible, which on a level, screwed other superheroine movies. You know whon was awesome? She-Ra. Barbarella. Dazzler. Cat Claw. Boom Boom. The new Batgirl is good too. Troia. Zatanna. Okay, Cat Claw is a villain but still.
How about a film about the second Grendel, Christine Spar? Getting a bit obscure p'raps.
You guys are talking about big blockbuster films. There are loads of superheroine fans that have taken on the mantle themselves.Someone above mentioned Blinky and his Powergirl series, but there is also SuperheroineFilms.com, ProjectSuperwoman, New-Goddess, and a few Japanese superheroine websites (although they seem to always feature graphic nudity).So, whilst we may be holding our breathe for the big screen Wonder Woman, in the meantime there are lots of small-screen and web-based superheroines.
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Q: Python project architecture I'm a java developer new to python. In java, you can access all classes in the same directory without having to import them.
I am trying to achieve the same behavior in python. Is this possible?
I've tried various solutions, for example by importing everything in a file which I import everywhere. That works, but I have to type myClass = rootFolder.folder2.folder3.MyClass() each time I want to access a foreign class.
Could you show me an example for how a python architecture over several directories works? Do you really have to import all the classes you need in each file?
Imagine that I'm writing a web framework. Will the users of the framework have to import everything they need in their files?

A: Put everything into a folder (doesn't matter the name), and make sure that that folder has a file named __init__.py (the file can be empty).
Then you can add the following line to the top of your code:
from myfolder import *

That should give you access to everything defined in that folder without needing to give the prefix each time.
You can also have multiple depths of folders like this:
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Let me know if this is what you were looking for.

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Damn it, we're going to crash… This can't be happening!
The entire cockpit discussion unfolds a sobering story about the complexity of flying a plane and the unintended consequences of decisions that we make. This final quotation (above) struck me particularly hard — the most experienced pilot had just walked back into the cockpit after the other pilots had made a series of bad decisions and there was no way he could recover the plane.
Our world hypnotizes us into believing the continuity of life. Giving us little time to reflect that we're here for a short while. In many ways, our life tends to resemble the farmed turkey. Everyday we eat, we sleep, we hang out with our homees. The farmer brings us food; he even gives us more than we need to survive. Our tummy grows. Life is good. We have no reason to believe anything is wrong until one day we find ourselves with our head on the chopping block. Life is not a series of continuous events.
Many exclaim "Carpe Diem!" or "Live this day as though it might be your last (and someday you'll be right)". It's not just about living our lives to the fullest for ourselves. It's also being compassionate to those who are going through difficulties in life that we are not. We should be encouraging those who are going through difficulties because we could be experiencing the same. The reality is that, except for the grace of God, we could find ourselves in that same place, at any time, unexpectedly.
We're not to live in fear nor worry. We're to live valuing the important. How can we encourage someone today who's going through a difficult time?


It's January, there's always a lot of buzz around goals and setting our sights for the year. Don't leave your business out of the new year, new you plans! It's time to implement four things to make 2019 your most successful year yet.
With most of the small and medium sized businesses we work with, the challenges we see boil down to a lack of planning. We get busy and let things slip, sometimes we don't know what planning we should be doing or need to be doing. We've got your back and here are four of the most important things to have in place for a great year ahead.
Business owners have to make decisions on a daily, sometimes hourly basis. If you don't have up to date financial information, you might not be making the best choices.
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Don't fall into the trap of only looking at indicators such as turnover and profit. Sure, those are important but they're a small part of the story. Where does turnover come from? Sales. Sales comes from leads, leads come from marketing… you get the idea. If turnover is important then so is lead conversion.
✓ Select the right indicators for your goals and scorecard. Keep the numbers up to date, keep them visible.
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If you've budgeted for a large increase in profit, it might not mean a large increase in cash flow. Think about operating cash, your debtor days, VAT, corporate tax.
✓ Ask your FD to pull the levers and run a simulation on what happens to cash if turnover increases by 10%, 20% or even 30% and plan, plan, plan ahead. Profit is theory, cash is reality.
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UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator (RC/HC) Mr. Edward Kallon visits UNESCO Amman Office
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Costanza Farina, UNESCO representative, Amman, welcomed UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator (RC/HC) Mr. Edward Kallon to the UNESCO Amman Office this week where he addressed the staff.
During the informative session, Mr. Kallon highlighted the critical importance of a stronger collaboration amongst UN entities, especially during this time of increasing international scrutiny of how the international community is supporting Jordan as a unique safe haven in the troubled region. The RC/HC spoke as well about innovative joint programming serving to unite Jordan's aid architecture and address the adverse impact of the protracted crisis on the host communities. The UNESCO Amman office staff presented Mr. Kallon with an overview of UNESCO strategic positioning in Jordan, concentrating on the thematic areas under the Education, Communications and Information and Culture sectors where UNESCO has clear added value. Mr. Kallon acknowledged UNESCO's significant accomplishments in the country, specifically...
During the informative session, Mr. Kallon highlighted the critical importance of a stronger collaboration amongst UN entities, especially during this time of increasing international scrutiny of how the international community is supporting Jordan as a unique safe haven in the troubled region. The RC/HC spoke as well about innovative joint programming serving to unite Jordan's aid architecture and address the adverse impact of the protracted crisis on the host communities. The UNESCO Amman office staff presented Mr. Kallon with an overview of UNESCO strategic positioning in Jordan, concentrating on the thematic areas under the Education, Communications and Information and Culture sectors where UNESCO has clear added value. Mr. Kallon acknowledged UNESCO's significant accomplishments in the country, specifically the Agency's strong leadership and sectoral expertise in the three main fields of Education, Culture and Media.

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Movies | By Red Diogenes
Sony ruins 'secret cameo' in new 'Goosebumps 2,' watch at your own risk
Sony Pictures Entertainment has released another Goosebumps 2 trailer, but this one spoils a major cameo from the sequel. Watch it below AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Officially called Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween, the new film takes place in Wardenclyffe, a small town where R.L. Stine (Jack Black in the first movie) used to live. As it turns out, Stine left perhaps his most dangerous Goosebumps manuscript in his since-abandoned house there – as two young friends named Sonny (Jeremy Ray Taylor) and Sam (Caleel Harris) learn the hard way, after they open Stine's enchanted manuscript and inadvertently unleash a whole lot of spooky creatures into our world.
The film also stars Madison Iseman, Ken Jeong, Wendi Mclendon-Covey, and Chris Parnell.
While Black was originally expected to return for Goosebumps 2, that ultimately ended up not happening after the sequel went through a series of writer, director and release date changes.
The actor didn't lend his voice to the evil Slappy the Dummy this time around either, with Avery Lee Jones (the villain's puppeteer) filling in his former spot. This new film is helmed by director Ari Sandel (The DUFF) from a script by fellow series newcomer Rob Lieber (Peter Rabbit).
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween is set to arrive in theaters on October 12, 2018.
Here's the official synopsis for Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween:
Halloween comes to life in a brand-new comedy adventure based on R.L. Stine's 400-million-selling series of books. The film is directed by Ari Sandel, written by Rob Lieber, and produced by Deborah Forte and Neal H. Moritz.
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Home » News » Renewable energy draws increasing Republican support. That could shift climate politics.
Renewable energy draws increasing Republican support. That could shift climate politics.
Source: By David Roberts, VOX • Posted: Sunday, February 19, 2017
GOP governors are becoming clean energy leaders.
Last week, a group of elder Republican statesmen issued a call for a revenue-neutral carbon tax. This yielded a frenzy of headlines, hosannas from credulous journalists and environmentalists, and rapid repudiation by conservative groups.
Vox's Brad Plumer said what needed to be said about this cycle, which has played out about a dozen times over the past decades. Suffice to say, a carbon tax does not have, and has never had, support from any actual Republican officeholders. And trading away existing climate regulations for a revenue-neutral carbon tax is a bad idea anyway.
However! This week did bring a sign of bipartisanship that got much less attention, but might actually matter for climate change some day.
Guvs luv renewables
On Monday, a bipartisan group of governors sent President Trump a letter touting the benefits of renewable energy. Among other things, the letter pointed to the $222 million a year that wind farms pay to rural landowners and the $100 million a year renewable energy businesses invest in low-income areas. It asked Trump to help modernize the grid, support offshore wind development, extend renewable energy tax credits, and increase renewable energy research.
The letter came from the Governors' Wind & Solar Energy Coalition, which boasts 20 state members. It is signed by chair Gina Raimondo (Democratic governor of Rhode Island) and vice chair Sam Brownback (Republican governor of Kansas). Along with the letter to Trump, the duo sent a second letter to all 50 governors, boasting about recent renewable energy wins at the state level and encouraging further investment.
The letters themselves are not that big a deal — the coalition has been around for several years and sent many similar letters to Obama — but they are evidence of a robust, enduring strain of bipartisanship on this issue (one that, unlike the carbon tax, commands support from more-than-zero Republican officeholders).
The difference is simple. Climate change is, to most people, entirely an abstraction, a matter of tribal positioning. Some states and cities are beginning to face practical effects of warming, and of course all of them ought to be planning for it in coming decades, but in practice, very few individuals or elected officials feel it as an immediate concern. There's little cost to ideological posturing.
Renewable energy is different. It is a burgeoning business, attracting both white collar and manufacturing jobs, channeling investment to parts of these states that haven't seen much economic development recently, and reducing electricity rates.
For politicians at the state and local level, it's an immense practical benefit to their constituents. In such matters, ideology tends to fall by the wayside. (For evidence, see the recent bipartisan energy bill in Illinois or Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich defending the state's clean energy standards.)
So heartland.
No true Randians in state government
There's no clearer sign of that dynamic than Brownback's signature on these letters. Brownback is legendary for taking over Kansas (along with a Republican supermajority in the legislature) and making it a showcase for conservative policy. He cut taxes, cut spending, cut services, and cut regulations. It was as close to a laboratory test of supply-side economics as you can get. (As it happens, it left the state in shambles.)
But wind power provides 30 percent of Kansas electricity. It has drawn $7 billion in capital investment to the state and supports, directly or indirectly, between 5,000 and 6,000 jobs there. Kansas landowners receive $10 to 15 million in lease payments every year from the industry. There are five wind manufacturing facilities in the state. (These stats come via the American Wind Energy Association, which has similar factsheets for all 50 states. At this point, solar power remains marginal in these Midwestern states, though it is growing.)
So there's Brownback, signing on to a request for central federal planning, tax subsidies, supportive regulations, and spending on government research. None of these policies sit easily alongside the small-government ideology he champions. They amount to an explicit request for the feds to "pick winners."
But, such is politics. Just as no one cares about deficits when their own party is the one doing the spending, no one cares about subsidies when their own interests are the ones being subsidized. There are no atheists in foxholes and no true Randians in state government. (More evidence: Both North and South Dakota, two of the most conservative states in the nation, are also members.)
Why clean energy bipartisanship could help on climate change
The falling cost and steady spread of renewables across the US heartland promises to help in an immediate way, as a political counterbalance to the anti-everything-Obama fervor among DC Republicans. That could keep renewables stronger, and growing faster, than they otherwise might, which will help reduce emissions.
But it's also worth thinking about the longer term implications of these Midwestern states becoming renewable energy leaders. What will it mean when they begin to see themselves that way?
We often imagine that we form beliefs about the world based on evidence, and then those beliefs drive our actions. But that individualistic account is wildly misleading. In fact, we tend to adopt the values and worldviews of the places, tribes, and cultures in which we are embedded. If anything, our beliefs about matters of fact derive from those worldviews more than vice versa. (See cultural cognition theory for much more on this.)
Another way of putting this is, for the most part, what we believe follows from what we do and our social identity, not the other way around. If we (the tribes in which we are embedded) start doing different things, being different kinds of people, beliefs are likely to shift in a way that justifies and makes sense of those new actions.
That's a long-winded way of saying that if Midwestern states like Kansas start leading on renewable energy, choosing renewable energy, working in renewable energy jobs, associating their state identity and state pride with renewables — that, more than anything, is likely to shift their opinions on global warming (and openness to serious climate policy).
Right now, many conservatives see climate change as an indictment of their lives and lifestyles. Fossil fuels are how they get around, where they work, what funds their governments. They are the villains of the story.
That is beginning to shift, at least in these Midwestern states. Leadership on renewable energy gives them the chance to be heroes in the climate story.
People are more likely to accept a story in which they are the heroes than one in which they are the villains. In that way, the spread of renewable energy softens the ground for greater acceptance of climate change science.


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You Get What You Measure: New Performance Indicators Needed to Gauge Progress of Criminal Justice Reform
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From Funnels to Large-Scale Irrigation: Changing the Criminal Justice System Paradigm to Improve Public Health and Safety
Cognitive Behavioral Theory, Young Adults, and Community Corrections: Pathways for Innovation
Integrated Health Care and Criminal Justice Data: Lessons from Camden, New Jersey
Recidivism Reconsidered: Preserving the Community Justice Mission of Community Corrections
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Community-Based Responses to Justice-Involved Young Adults
Author: Adam Gelb
The Executive Session on Community Corrections has released a new paper entitled You Get What You Measure: New Performance Indicators Needed to Gauge Progress of Criminal Justice Reform.
Jurisdictions across the U.S. are engaging in efforts to reform sentencing and corrections policies, with an aim of shrinking the footprint of the criminal justice system. As these reforms unfold, the makeup of correctional populations is shifting, both for facilities and for probation and parole agencies.
This new paper, authored by Adam Gelb, calls for the development of new indices that provide an overall picture of the risk profile of people in prison and under community corrections supervision.
These measures will help policymakers and the public understand whether criminal justice reforms are working as intended, specifically whether prisons increasingly hold people who have been convicted of serious, violent offenses and have extensive criminal histories and whether reentry and related policies and programs are reducing recidivism.
Praise for You Get What You Measure: New Performance Indicators Needed to Gauge Progress of Criminal Justice Reform:
"In this document, Mr. Gelb lays out an important truth – going forward, new measures will be increasingly important to understand the impact of criminal justice reform. As a result of research-supported policy changes centered on offender risk, correctional resources are increasingly focused on moderate to high risk offenders. For our department, the portion of the standard and intensive probation population assessed as medium-high and high risk increased from 37% to 50% over a three year period. The significance of this population shift must be considered in how we assess our progress, interpret performance results, and report out to stakeholders. This is a timely, insightful article that offers welcome guidance to help correctional agencies assess their progress in a changing environment." -- Barbara A. Broderick, Chief Adult Probation Officer for Maricopa County
"As jurisdictions across the nation at the Federal, State, and local level, search for solutions to end decades of mass incarceration which has contributed to destabilizing communities, and the multi-generational incarceration of families, Mr. Gelb's paper "You Get What You Measure" provides important insight into incorporating performance measures on the front end of solutions to ensure that new criminal justice strategies are designed and measured for success and the re-building of communities and families, rather than resulting in more decades of societal and criminal justice system failures." -- Wendy Still, Chief Probation Officer, Alameda County Probation Department
"In this important paper, Adam Gelb proposes new metrics that will help us measure the progress of criminal justice reform, and will also be a force for reform in its own right. "You Get What You Measure" makes the case for incorporating into our measures of incarceration the degree to which prisons are focused on those with histories of serious crime. The paper takes one big step to measuring not just incarceration, but over-incarceration: the gratuitous deprivation of liberty through excessive punishment." -- Bruce Western, Co-Director of the Columbia Justice Lab, Visiting Professor of Sociology at Columbia University
Adam Gelb is Director of the Public Safety Performance Project at The Pew Charitable Trusts.
The Executive Session on Community Corrections is a project of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management (PCJ) in the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS).
Findings and conclusions in these publications are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position or policies of the US Department of Justice.


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The same rationale which underlies the universally acknowledged truth according to which "you can't hurry love" but "just have to wait" seems to apply also to new pieces of legislation, in particular the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (ERR) Act which received Royal Assent last week (Katpost here).
This Kat has not had the chance to read the full text copyright provisions of the Act just because this is not yet available on parliament.uk. However, impatient souls will be relieved (as was this Kat) to learn that, as reported by the BBC, the full text of the Act might be made available to the public on Thursday.
Following its adoption, not only has the ERR Act already attracted a series of criticisms, but has also been promptly renamed the 'Instagram Act' by The Register journalist Andrew Orlowski, in reference to a recent furore surrounding the use of images posted to the image-sharing social network.
On an even gloomier tune, Dominic Young wrote that, by passing the ERR Act, the UK abolished copyright.
Who appears particularly upset with the copyright provisions of the ERR Act is campaign group Stop43, that represents a wide range of photographers and agencies in the UK.
According to Stop43, while there are numerous reasons why photographers should feel "Royally f*cked by the UK Intellectual Property Office and UK Government", there are two in particular that cause the greatest concerns: orphan works and extended collective licensing.
While The Department for Business, Innovations and Skills (BIS) defended the Act by saying that "The powers in the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 aim to make copyright licensing more efficient", according to Stop43, the claim that the ERR Act has made "copyright licensing more efficient" is true only if "by 'efficient' you mean 'no longer having to find, get permission from, and pay property owners before exploiting their property'. For almost any other kind of property, this idea would be outrageous. Imagine if this applied to cars, houses or bank accounts."
"contains changes to UK copyright law which permit the commercial exploitation of images where information identifying the owner is missing, so-called "orphan works", by placing the work into what's known as "extended collective licensing" schemes. Since most digital images on the internet today are orphans - the metadata is missing or has been stripped by a large organisation - millions of photographs and illustrations are swept into such schemes.
For the first time anywhere in the world, the Act will permit the widespread commercial exploitation of unidentified work - the user only needs to perform a "diligent search". But since this is likely to come up with a blank, they can proceed with impunity. The Act states that a user of a work can act as if they are the owner of the work (which should be you) if they're given permission to do so by the Secretary of State.
The Act also fails to prohibit sub-licensing, meaning that once somebody has your work, they can wholesale it. This gives the green light to a new content-scraping industry, an industry that doesn't have to pay the originator a penny.
In practice, you'll have two stark choices to prevent being ripped off: remove your work from the internet entirely, or opt-out by registering it. And registration will be on a work-by-work basis."
The most up-to-date draft version of the ERR Act available to the public (a link to which was provided by Andy J here) provided that the Secretary of State might by regulations authorise a subject (to be determined by such secondary legislation) to grant licences in respect of orphan works (also these to be defined by means of secondary legislation).
Differently from the recently approved EU Directive on certain permitted uses of orphan works (on which see here) which allows solely the reproduction and making available of the orphan works to the public, the regulations might provide for the granting of licences to do, or authorise the doing of, any act restricted by copyright.
Other differences from the EU Orphan Works Directive (of which, however, the ERR Act is not the implementation into UK law), concern also the beneficiaries of orphan works provisions, that do not appear to include just "publicly accessible libraries, educational establishments and museums, as well as by archives, film or audio heritage institutions and public-service broadcasting organisations ... in order to achieve aims related to their public-interest missions".
As regards extended collective licensing (ECL, this is something which was first implemented in Nordic countries during the 1960s), according to the same draft version of the ERR Act, the Secretary of State might by regulations provide for a licensing body to be authorised to grant licences in respect of works in which copyright is not owned by the body or a person on whose behalf the body acts.
The ECL scheme UK Government appears to have in mind is modelled on an opting-out mechanism. As provided in the same most up-to-date draft version of the ERR Act, "the regulations must provide for the copyright owner to have a right to limit or exclude the grant of licences by virtue of the regulations."
When reading this provision, this Kat could not help but think what to do this weekend of the US Google Books Amended Settlement Agreement (ASA) which Judge Denny Chin rejected in 2011 (see 1709 Blog here). Among other things, the judge highlighted that "many of the concerns raised in the objections would be ameliorated if the ASA were converted from an 'opt-out' settlement to an 'opt-in'".
As some IPKat readers pointed out, the copyright provisions of the ERR Act have remain unaltered since the Third Reading in the House of Lords and are thus included in the final text of the Bill, which we look forward to seeing.
"On an even gloomier tune, Dominic Young wrote that, by passing the ERRB, the UK abolished copyright."
"Maybe the new powers don't technically remove copyright from the work, but they certainly remove it from the copyright owner."
"The right to say no is an important one. The right to set prices, to price yourself out of the market, or to be the cheapest, or simply not be in the market in the first place all matter.
The fact that someone wants to use your work doesn't mean you have to let them – and it used to be your exclusive right to decide."
This is an accurate representation of collective licensing, and the historic break the UK has made.
ERR permits the licensing of new collective rights management agencies on a per-sector basis.
The Parliament website contains the text of the ERR Bill prior to receiving Royal Assent. The copyright clauses were not amended, so such speculation is not necessary.
You want to keep up, Eleonora. The IPO's intention is for collecting societies to be ECL licensing bodies. This has been widely known for months by people I daresay you are in very regular contact with.
Our observation 'if by 'efficient' you mean 'no longer having to find, get permission from, and pay property owners before exploiting their property'' applies equally to ECL, which is intended to make it legal to bypass primary licensing with the rights owner, and breaches Berne 9. Nordic ECL can be regarded as a special case which passes the 3-step test. The IPO's vision of ECL most certainly doesn't. And anyway, all of this stuff breaches Berne 5.
The copyright clauses' text has not changed since the Lords 3rd reading. Why the faux-naivite?
Thanks Anonymous and Paul Ellis for your comments.
Stop43's argument fails. Houses, cars, bank accounts represent physical property, not a state-granted (and time-limited/scope-limited) monopoly of exploitation. Why should the same rules apply to both? Just because the word "property" is used to describe them? The term "intellectual property" is of relatively recent innovation, and is a philosophical position rather than a legal fact. Arguments which rely for their success on the choice of words used to describe the subject of the argument have problems in convincing, to my mind.
Although not related to this post (but it is the most recent post), can someone direct me to a briefing note/or overview of the provisions of the America Invents Act? I'm really looking for a high level overview... Thanks.
Why don't the photographers set up a website for their own copyright register?
I presume that various unofficial register websites exist already but I assume these are commercial enterprises so the cumulative fees for registration will probably be unrealistic if the photographer needs to register each photograph.
If the photographers have their own trade association, the association could run the website and offer the service for free to their members. Maybe uploading thumbnails of the works to keep the data size and cost of storage as low as possible.
The association could also ensure that the existence of the register is made aware to the other creative industries wishing to exploit orphan works.
Or is this is simplistic and naive suggestion?
Perhaps the photographers could protect themselves by setting up a TinEye-style register? If they posted all of their shots up with details of ownership it would be more difficult for people to claim a shot found online is an orphan work.
Eleonora, what are the first five words of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (1998)?
"Copyright is a property right"
Is that not sufficient legal fact?
There is nothing philosophical about it. Property is property and is legally protected by law. Always has been. Art works have always been property. The law merely enshrined the rights of the creator in the face of widespread abuse in the early days of printed books. What this legislation does is to redefine that right into the hands of the exploiter of rights rather than the creator. This is fundamentally wrong.
Stop43's argument fails all the more, because an analogous situation DOES apply to houses, car and bank account: see squatters rights, adverse land possession, the Removal and Disposal of Vehicles Regulations 1986, the Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Act 2008, etc.
We don't actually have a law yet, we have some enabling provisions. While it would be better for the law to be made in Parliament than in the IPO in theory, in practice MP's eyes will glaze over at any detailed discussion and our only hope for a sensible law is for one that comes out of the IPO's consultation process.
I am assured by the IPO people I have spoken to that there will be thorough and meaningful consultation on the exact form of the regulations and that stakeholder interests will be involved.
So any idea that the UK has "abolished copyright" is premature. I can see perfectly well-constructed sets of rules out of these enabling provisions that would meet any reasonable concern of photographers of creators of other works for that matter.
While I applaud Paul Ellis and Stop 43 for their determined efforts to prevent the work of contemporary photographers falling into either the category of orphan work, or into the ECL'machine', I really think such lobbying should concentrate on the means to protect and identify such works in the first place. By strengthening the law (s 296ZA CDPA for example) to criminalise the removal of metadata which is embedded in digital images - something currently and routinely done by many websites and organisations such as the BBC - photographers could have a better chance of their work being identified, and thus ineligible for orphan status. Clearly better, tamper-proof metadata would also help, but that is slightly outside the gift of the government.
The problem is that the vast majority of people who post images on websites don't know or care about their IP rights. It's only when sites like Instagram (arguably used more by amateur and semi-serious photographers) try to do a rights grab which Andrew Orlowsky referred to) that people generally get fired up about such problems.
The point that most opponents of the ERRA overlook is that Schedule 22 (Regulation of Licensing Bodies) gives a lot more details of the checks and balances which should be put in place to prevent such bodies from allowing the system to be abused, such as a comprehensive code of practice. Given that the licensing bodies are supposed to be representative of the sector in which they operate, and photographers generally are poorly served at present, having to rely on DACS whose core business lies elsewhere, lobbyists might want to think about setting up their own licensing body and applying for Ministerial approval. That would be a case of the game turning gamekeeper, and shutting out the poachers.
Your statement that bank accounts represent physical property is simply incorrect. Bank accounts record (digitally) an amount of money the bank is holding on your behalf. Nothing physical about them.
The concept of 'intellectual property' IS a legal fact, as established by the Berne Convention in 1886. To date there are 165 countries signed up to the Berne Convention. The UK signed up in 1887 and further established a legal basis to copyright in 1988 with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act.
The Berne Convention specifically established that copyright is not a state-granted monopoly of exploitation: it is an automatic right, and the Convention specifically prohibited making formal registration a condition of holding copyright.
It is also not a recent innovation - it was legally recognised in 1867 when the North German Confederation was founded, and whose constitution included legal powers to protect IP, as did the Berne Convention of 1886.
The Statute of Anne in 1710 was the first to provide for Copyright to be regulated by the Government and Courts so Anonymous was quite wrong to think this a "recent innovation"
The principal goes further back to the Licensing Act of 1662 which, despite flaws which led to it's eventual repeal, recognised that people who create things have a right for their Intellectual Property to be protected.
intellectual property is still property regardless of whether "Anonymous" can physically touch it or not.
If someone wants something (a technical textbook, a piece of literature, music, a motion picture or a photograph) then it has a value and if it has a value, it is property.
Only a person who does not (or can not) create something new would fail to understand why Copyright protection for Intellectual Property is essential.
I am having great difficulty understanding what all the fuss is about. If there is a piece of property with no apparent owner, I can move in and after a period of time it becomes mine if no one objects. With regard to photos, surely in the age of Google, the establishment of means to prevent these becoming orphan works is not too onerous. If the photographer wants to protect his work, he should do something about it.
Why the difficulty in understanding?
Photographers do do something about protecting their work, a point you seem to have completely failed to comprehend!
EXIF data is commonly used to identify the copyright holder of an image. This data gets stripped out of image files by all manner of websites. These EXIF-less images, now effectively orphaned, can then get copied left, right, and centre by other parties who have no regard for copyright.
If someone decides one of these orphaned EXIF-less images is ideal for their commercial purposes, does a supposedly-diligent search, cannot find the originator of the image and isn't particular minded to put themselves out to do so, they then get on with using the image commercially.
Someone else sees this usage, decides the image is also ideal for them, and the whole cycle is repeated.
This is effectively what the UK government will be legalising.
It should be an easy concept to understand. However, neither the government, nor many commenting here, seem able to comprehend this.
And, of course, it isn't just professional photographers and visual artists, or serious advanced amateurs, it's everyone who has images online.
As far as having the right to "move in" on property with no apparent owner if they don't object after a certain period of time goes, how can they object if they don't know you've found it, have designs on keeping it for yourself, and have no genuine interest in tracing them to let them know you found it?
Ultimately, the rights should be with the creator, professional or amateur, young or old, whether they know about or understand copyright or not.
Now that really is simple!
My reading of the draft bill is that the licences that may be granted to use an orphan work will almost certainly not be free. Orphan works would be administered by an agency who will be entitled to charge at least a sum necessary to cover their expenses. I therefore do not see what incentive a third party would have for actively getting a work classified as an orphan work, as it would mean that they would have to pay for something which they were previously using for free. As licences will be non-exclusive, they would not be getting exclusivity from their outlay either.
Eleanora ,it does look like a totally lawless mess.
A question because the web is the web , what would be the situation when a UK site makes a commercial global web use of a 'orphan' photograph, that turns out to be owned by say the New York times- whose law would apply?
PS the idea that the UKs collecting societies will be better behaved when they get a quasi compulsory representative right over all creatives is risible.
Two more questions. The new law seems to involve what the Berne calls "formalities" and the quasi compulsory extended collective management also seems to be at odds with the spirit of the Berne "3 step test" for justification of restrictions of individual right-holders exclusive rights over control of usage.
Has the UK considered the potential international treaty conflicts ?
I think you'll find everyone commenting here is perfectly able to comprehend your argument; they just don't all agree with you (do you comprehend the difference?).
You ask "how can they object if they don't know you've found it, have designs on keeping it for yourself, and have no genuine interest in tracing them to let them know you found it?".
This is exactly the point. Squatters don't need to make any effort to trace the owner of a vacant property. If the property owner is so detached from his property that he is unaware that squatters have occupied it, then he can be considered to be making no real use of the property himself. The law recognises this as wasteful and ultimately allows the squatters to take ownership of the property.
Just as any diligent home owner should be aware if squatters enter his property, so the onus should be on copyright holders to notice if their images are being used without permission. To the extent that a copyright holder is oblivious to such use, the use should not be causing any moral or commercial harm to the copyright holder.
Analogously to squatters, the copyright holder's lack of interest should ultimately mean that he loses rights in the work.
A similar situation exists for patents, with compulsory licensing being available where the patent owner shows no interest in exploiting the patent.
Photographers who are worried about their works being considered "orphan" works can simply register them with a copyright register.
gives what appears to be an acknowledgement of the rights holder. A bit of due diligence goes a long way.
Photographers should relax. A diligent search is required before a photograph can be considered to be an orphan work. As long as the the photographer makes the photograph available somewhere on the web a Google image search will (usually) instantly pick it up. Try it for yourself: find a photograph available under a creative commons licence on the web and copy it to your hard drive. Then go to Google image search, click on the camera icon, and upload your copied image. The Google software matches your uploaded image with the web original instantly. Hey presto - no longer an orphan work. Anyone who fails to carry out a simple exercise like this can hardly be said to have carried out a diligent search.
@Andy J: Thanks so much for promptly posting a link to the Act!
@John Walker: Your questions raise absolutely fundamental points, so thank you.
As regards the first one: "What would be the situation when a UK site makes a commercial global web use of a 'orphan' photograph, that turns out to be owned by say the New York times - whose law would apply?"
I think that in this respect the situation is still unsettled, but some hints might be found in the CJEU decision in Sportradar (http://ipkitten.blogspot.it/2012/10/targeting-gets-targeted-and-data-gets.html; see also http://ipkitten.blogspot.it/2012/11/whats-your-view-of-panorama-right.html). Despite being a database case, it might well apply also to copyright cases, I think.
Coming to your second question, ie "Has the UK considered the potential international treaty conflicts?"
Yes, possiblle points of conflict with Berne were raised by various stakeholders, including Stop43 (http://www.stop43.org.uk/what_we_stand_for/what_we_stand_for.html), but HM Government dismissed them: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/response-2011-copyright-final.pdf. Was HM Government right?
Francis Davey said, "I am assured by the IPO people I have spoken to that there will be thorough and meaningful consultation on the exact form of the regulations and that stakeholder interests will be involved."
* Although the most obvious and potentially decisive defects in the law *and* the implementation rules under consideration by the IPO relate to the impact of both ECL and "orphan works" schemes on the rights of foreign authors and other creators pursuant to the Berne Convention and the WIPO Copyright treaty, *no* foreign creators are included in the IPO working group. The IPO categorically refuses to acknowledge that foreign creators are a distinct category of stakeholders with distinct interests.
* Submissions to the IPO from foreign creators have been ignored, and the issues they have raised have not even been mentioned in IPO reports on the process.
* Despite having received specific criticisms of its Impact Assessment, and suggestions for corrections, the IPO persists in presenting Parliament with an "assessment" that the cost burdens imposed on writers and other creators to register, opt out, and "claim" our work will be negligible.
Being told by the IPO that we will again have the opportunity to submit "comments for the circular file, after the implementation rules are finalized, is scant comfort, and does not turn this into a genuine consultation or one genuinely inclusive of all stakeholders.
"campaign group Stop43, that represents a wide range of photographers and agencies in the UK."?
Copyright law seems to be ever-changing, especially in the digital age. Strangely, I think the end of copyright as we know it will be if/when it remains the same.
Whatever happened to IP TRANSLATOR?
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Bass, who has started a label called Motunes Media, says he's also been mixing new material by the mercurial funk-pop giant Sly Stone with members of the original Family Stone band, along with new D12 tracks, including three with Eminem.
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EU Summit kicks off in Sibiu, to take crucial decisions for the EU future. Amending Lisbon Treaty, also on the table. President Iohannis, Dutch PM on Schengen
By Alina Grigoras on May 9, 2019
The heads of state, prime ministers and top European leaders gathered in Sibiu for the EU informal Summit today are expected to take major decisions, to agree on the path that the European Union is taking for the upcoming five years.
The main topic of discussions of the informal meeting of the European Council in Sibiu will thus be the future of the EU during 2019-2024, the current challenges ahead the EU and the priorities of action on the European level. The EU27 leaders are expected to adopt a Statement on the future of the European Union.
At the same time, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has announced he would propose the European Council in Sibiu a reform of the European Union by amending the Lisbon Treaty. The leader in Vienna is pleading for the introduction of stricter European rulers, including to protect the rule of law. In a recent interview to Handelsblatt, Sebastian Kurz has also voiced his concern regarding the noncompliance with the rules on the Eurozone budget deficit.
Initially, the Sibiu Summit was scheduled to take place after the Brexit; even if Brexit has been delayed, the question for the EU still stands: what will happen to the Union after UK's withdrawal, how the political, social and economic European alliance will function after UK leaves the EU? The priorities agreed today for the next five years will be concluded though in June, after the EP elections.
The talks of the EU leaders started at 12:30hr at the City Hall in Sibiu. President of the European Commission, Jean Claude Juncker, the European Council head Donald Tusk and president of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, as well as French president Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel attended the first sessions of debates, alongside Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, the host of the summit.
The group photo has been taken in Piata Mare in Sibiu at 13:15hr, after the first working session. The EU leaders will take part in a working lunch at Brukenthal Museum in Sibiu at 13:30, and after that the EU leaders will begin the second session of debates as of 15:30hr.
After the family photo the leaders of the EU member states went to the crowd, as people gathered in the square downtown Sibiu started to chant "Europe", "United Europe", "Don't give up, resist" and to applause. People also chanted President Klaus Iohannis' name. Iohannis said that the spontaneous mob has been the most touching moment of the summit.
A press conference is scheduled at 18:00hr, hosted by Klaus Iohannis, Donald Tusk and Jean Claude Juncker.
Iohannis on Schengen accession: "Probably not today, but…' Dutch PM's stance
President Iohannis has stated in Piata Mare in Sibiu before the Summit kicked off that "the future of the European Union will be decided from Romania's center", while adding that "probably not today, but soon" Romania will join Schengen, and the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism will be lifted.
The Romanian head of state said he would talk about Schengen with the European leaders attending the summit, considering several member states have voiced concerns over the rule of law in Romania.
"We have worked very hard and I approached this issue many times, I will discuss it today as well. But we have politicians who, unfortunately, have shown Europe that they are attacking judiciary, the European institutions and for this reason, instead of being fully accepted, discussions about the rule of law have come up. Romanians want to remain Europeans and I promise that, probably not today, by soon, we'll be in Schengen and we'll get rid of the CVM", stated Iohannis.
On the other hand, one of the European leaders who opposed Romania's joining Schengen, Dutch PM Mark Rutte, has said in Sibiu today that Romania is still taking steps backward on observing the rule of law and democracy and that our country is not ready yet for accession.
Asked by the journalists when will be Romania ready for Schengen, Rutte replied: "When you comply with all rules: the rule of law, democracy. You are not going on the right direction at this moment".
Final statement
The final statement of the Sibiu Summit has been drafted by the Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, with the help of the European Commission and European Council presidents. It contains 10 points, 10 pledges to the European citizens. The EU leaders are committing to ensure a common defence and to protect "the European lifestyle, democracy and rule of law".
Romanian President Iohannis has previously stated that he would like the Summit on May 9 "to provide a very optimistic statement on the eve of the EP elections", hoping to name it "the Sibiu Statement".
On Wednesday during a debate organised by the EC, Iohannis also said that the summit on May 9 will remain as a remarkable moment of unity and commitment to Europe and that the summit will have to provide "a clear vision on a common future and an ambitious agenda to be adopted by the European Council in June".
EPP, PES meetings
Before the summit a meeting of the European People's Party leaders is in place, with President Iohannis delivering a speech, next to Manfred Weber, the EPP candidate for the position of president of the future European Commission. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz are attending, with Hungarian PM Viktor Orban missing.
There is also an informal meeting of the European Socialists taking place in Sibiu, attended by Frans Timmermans, the Socialists' candidate for the EC president. Local media reported that no Romanian Social Democrat leader has been invited to this meeting.
Enhanced security measures
Tight security measures have been enforced for the Summit in Sibiu, with all the security and intelligence state institutions deploying forces, from the Defence Ministry to the Special Telecommunications Service.
Traffic is forbidden in certain areas of the city, both for cars and for pedestrians. The sewer grates have been sealed, and access gates of certain tourist attractions have been closed. Dust bins in the city have been also covered in plastic and sealed to prevent potential hidden explosive devices.
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By Liberty 27th May 2014 Liberty News
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There are mere hours to go until the LG G3 is officially unveiled, but it seems that LG Netherlands just couldn't wait that long as it posted a full product page, complete with images, on its website. The listing has since been removed but not before the mistake was noticed and the information revealed to the world. The single most exciting detail to arise from this is that the G3 will apparently have a 'lightweight metal housing'.
Foxconn to shell out $390 million on 4G player
Apple supplier Foxconn is to buy a stake in Taiwanese mobile telecoms operator Asia Pacific Telecom for T$11.6 billion ($390 million) in a deal that would expand its presence in Taiwan's fledgling 4G telecoms market. Foxconn would pay T$20 a share for 582.9 million shares in Asia Pacific via a private placement, both companies said in stock exchange filings on Tuesday.
Telstra 'issue' hid ADSL availability from rival carriers
The Competitive Carriers Coalition (CCC) has claimed Telstra "discriminate against consumers trying to buy broadband from competitors by incorrectly claiming their telephone lines were unable to provide a service." The coalition says Telstra applies less stringent tests when its own retail arm seeks access. "As a result, consumers were told they could not get broadband from a competitor, but told they could get it from Telstra," a CCC spokesentity told The Reg.
UK anti-piracy police take down largest torrent search engine Torrentz.eu
The internet's largest torrent search engine, Torrentz.eu, has been taken down in the latest attempt by UK police to curb illegal file sharing. The site's domain was suspended by the registrar of its domain after a request from the UK's Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit. Police have been sending warning letters to the sites for some time. It made a fresh round of requests last week, including to the registrar of Torrentz.eu, and the site was taken down from this morning.
Registry hack enables Windows XP security updates
Microsoft officially ended its support for Windows XP on 8 April after over 12 years, forcing the hand of a large number of users to switch to a later version of Windows or another OS all together. However, a sizable portion of XP users are still gambling with their safety but now a registry hack has been discovered which will allow the OS to continue receiving updates. Some organisations, who were unable to migrate their OS onto an updated version before support ended, are still receiving updates from Microsoft by paying the tech giant for the security patches and updates. Meanwhile a simple hack will now make it possible for 'regular' XP users to receive Windows XP security updates for the next five years.
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Avast admits 400,000 accounts hit by forum hack
Roughly 400,000 Avast users' account details have been compromised, following a cyber raid on the security firm's forums. Avast Software CEO Vince Steckler revealed the breach in a blog post, confirming around 0.2 percent of the firm's 200 million users' details were compromised during the attack. The attack occurred over the weekend and forced Avast to shut down its forum. It is currently unclear how the breach occurred, though Steckler said Avast believes the hackers leveraged a vulnerability in third party software being used to host the forum.
John Lewis picks iBeacons, smart home Sonos rival, and 3D planning start-ups as final partners for JLabs incubator scheme
John Lewis has picked five start-ups for its technology incubator scheme JLab following a heavy round of pitching at Canary Wharf-based FinTech accelerator space Level 39 last week. The retailer, which first revealed its plans to 'invest in the future' by partnering with technology entrepreneur Stuart Marks to launch the scheme in March, shortlisted 12 companies from the 30 that pitched to its judging panel on 20 May.
Thomas Piketty accuses Financial Times of dishonest criticism
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Cost-effectiveness of population-based BRCA1/2 testing and ovarian cancer prevention for Ashkenazi Jews: A call for dialogue
Wendy S. Rubinstein, Hongmei Jiang, Lisa Dellefave, Alfred W. Rademaker
PURPOSE:: About half of unaffected BRCA1/2 carriers have a negative family history, confounding efforts toward presymptomatic carrier identification. Ovarian cancer is preventable for known carriers but is otherwise highly lethal. Cost-effectiveness and gains in life expectancy are important factors in evaluating the desirability of population-based genetic screening, currently the only viable strategy to identify carriers with unrevealing family histories. METHODS:: Cost-utility analysis for a population-based genetic screening program offered to American Ashkenazi Jewish women aged 35-55 years measuring cancer incidence, life expectancy, and cost. RESULTS:: Our model predicts that a genetic screening program would result in 2811 fewer cases of ovarian cancer, with a life expectancy gain of 1.83 quality-adjusted life years among carriers. At a cost of $460 for founder mutation testing, the cost of the program is $8300 (discounted) per year of quality-adjusted life gained. CONCLUSION:: In populations with a high prevalence of BRCA1/2 founder mutations, genetic screening may be cost-effective when compared with recommended public health interventions such as mammographic screening. We advocate the initiation of a dialogue among Jewish stakeholders, genetics professionals, and public health leaders to determine whether a population-based BRCA1/2 genetic screening program should be pursued.
Genetics in Medicine
https://doi.org/10.1097/GIM.0b013e3181afd322
BRCA1
Decision analysis
Population-based genetic screening
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Rubinstein, W. S., Jiang, H., Dellefave, L., & Rademaker, A. W. (2009). Cost-effectiveness of population-based BRCA1/2 testing and ovarian cancer prevention for Ashkenazi Jews: A call for dialogue. Genetics in Medicine, 11(9), 629-639. https://doi.org/10.1097/GIM.0b013e3181afd322
Rubinstein, Wendy S. ; Jiang, Hongmei ; Dellefave, Lisa ; Rademaker, Alfred W. / Cost-effectiveness of population-based BRCA1/2 testing and ovarian cancer prevention for Ashkenazi Jews : A call for dialogue. In: Genetics in Medicine. 2009 ; Vol. 11, No. 9. pp. 629-639.
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Racism in medicine leads to adverse health outcomes for patients, says Enabulele
By Chukwuma Muanya
The newly inaugurated President of, World Medical Association (WMA), Dr. Osahon Enabulele, yesterday, described systemic racism as totally unacceptable.
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World Medical Association adopts declaration on racism
Enabulele, a family health physician from the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) and former President, the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), in a new declaration adopted at WMA's yearly General Assembly in Berlin, Germany, said racism in medicine could create entry barriers to the medical profession for certain historically excluded groups, leading to a lack of representation.
"This leads to adverse health outcomes for patients and persistent health inequities. A medical profession that is representative of the population is crucial to addressing health disparities among patients," he said.
The physician, in a statement, said racism in all its forms exists in medicine throughout the world and has a direct impact on patients and their health. He acknowledged that racism is structural and deeply engrained in health care, and that this is a public health threat.
The statement, entitled, 'Declaration of Berlin', said physicians from marginalised communities face racism from patients, other physicians and health professionals.
The new WMA policy criticised medical journals for being remiss in addressing the issue of racism and its impact on health inequities.
The association urged its members and all physicians to commit to dismantling racist policies and practices in health care and advocate for anti-racist policies and practices that support equity in health care and social justice.
The WMA is the independent confederation of national medical associations with 116 constituent members representing more than ten million physicians.
Acting on behalf of patients and physicians, WMA endeavours to achieve the highest possible standards of medical care, ethics, education and health-related human rights for all people.
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Jan 30, 2020 - Technology
Facebook's decade of unstoppable growth
Sara Fischer, author of Media Trends
Despite an onslaught of scrutiny and scandal over the past few years, Facebook closed out the second decade of the millennium stronger than ever.
The big picture: The tech giant brought in nearly $70 billion in revenue for 2019, up more than 25% from the year prior and up more than 1300% from 2012, the year it went public.
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Data: Company filings; Chart: Axios Visuals
Why it matters: Facebook's continued ability to post double-digit revenue growth every year speaks to how well it has been able to innovate and adapt, even in the face of regulatory headwinds and increased competition.
Case in point: Even in regions like North America and Europe, where the company's user growth has plateaued and privacy regulation has been introduced, Facebook has still managed to squeeze significantly more money out of each user every year.
In the U.S. and Canada, Facebook has increased its user base by less than 4% in the past two years — but it has increased its revenue per user there by more than 60%.
Driving the news: Facebook said Wednesday on its fourth quarter earnings call that it settled a class-action privacy-violation lawsuit by Illinois residents for $550 million. The news comes just months after Facebook settled a suit by the Federal Trade Commission with a $5 billion privacy fine — the largest such penalty in U.S. history.
For the past several quarters, Facebook has warned investors that it expects revenue headwinds in light of increased regulatory scrutiny, particularly around privacy and targeted advertising. But so far these fines have proven moot in getting the tech giant to fundamentally change its business, which continues to grow substantially.
Be smart: Facebook has kept itself growing in recent years by getting more creative about advertising formats and products, while not budging from its core principles of free speech and accessibility to its advertising tools.
Facebook says it will still let politicians lie in ads, and it will still allow political advertisers to micro-target ads, even though its competitors have taken more cautious approaches.
For a long time, Facebook's fastest-growing ad product was ads in its News Feed. Facebook now says that 4 million advertisers use its "Stories" advertising format to message to consumers. It says "click to message" ads, which lead consumers to direct messaging conversations with brands, are its fastest-growing ad product right now.
The bottom line: Facebook recognizes that there's a gulf between its prodigious growth and its beleaguered reputation. On an investor call following Facebook's earnings report Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that over the next decade, his goal was to close that gap by being more transparent about Facebook's values.
"We're focused on communicating more clearly about what we stand for. One critique of our approach for much of the last decade is that because we wanted to be liked, we didn't want to communicate our views as clearly, because we worried about offending people.... Our goal for the next decade isn't to be liked, but understood. In order to be trusted, people need to know what we stand for."
— Zuckerberg
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