YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) _ United Community Financial Corp. (UCFC) on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter net income of $9.6 million.
On a per-share basis, the Youngstown, Ohio-based company said it had net income of 19 cents.
The bank holding company posted revenue of $35.8 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $29.1 million.
For the year, the company reported profit of $37.2 million, or 74 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $111.3 million.
United Community Financial shares have climbed slightly more than 3 percent since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Tuesday, shares hit $9.14, a fall of slightly more than 6 percent in the last 12 months.


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The formula for success at the Porsche works teams
The oldest dictum in racing may well be that your teammates are your greatest rivals. Porsche has reversed the principle and made it a model of success: team spirit instead of ego trips. With their titles in the IMSA Championship and the FIA World Endurance Championship, two dynamic duos demonstrate that friendship is the winning formula.
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Porsche extends championship lead after win at Fuji
The Porsche GT Team has won the six-hour race at the Fuji Speedway in Japan. At round four of the FIA WEC World Sports Car Championship, Kevin Estre and Michael Christensen crossed the finish line in first place in the GTE-Pro category with the Porsche 911 RSR.
911 GT3 RS: Fuel consumption combined 12.8 l/100 km; CO2 emissions 291 g/km
Podium for Porsche at Silverstone – victory in the GTE-Am class
In a turbulent round three of the FIA World Sports Car Championship WEC at Silverstone in Great Britain, Kévin Estre and Michael Christensen finished on third place at the wheel of the Porsche 911 RSR with the number 92.
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Ariel Pink dropped from label after attending Trump rally that led to D.C. riots
Tracy Brown
Fri, 08 Jan 2021 23:58 UTC
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Ariel Pink has been dropped by the indie record label Mexican Summer
Indie musician Ariel Pink has been dropped from his label after he confirmed attending the Trump rally that led to the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol.
"Due to recent events, Mexican Summer and its staff have decided to end our working relationship with Ariel Rosenberg AKA Ariel Pink moving forward," tweeted the New York-based record label Friday.
(As of Friday afternoon, Pink's page on the Mexican Summer website was still active.)
The announcement came just a day following Pink's explanation on Twitter that he had attended the Washington, D.C., rally to "peacefully show my support for the president."
Quebec is now under the equivalent of COVID 'martial law' - No one is allowed on the streets after 8pm till 5am
Joe Hoft
Sun, 10 Jan 2021 23:48 UTC
Welcome to COVID submission. Quebec Canada has instituted the equivalent of Martial Law in response to COVID. Citizens in the province of Quebec are under police rule. Every night from 8pm to 5am no one is allowed on the streets:
Insane politician Nancy Pelosi says rioters chose their 'whiteness' over democracy
Jordan Williams
Sat, 09 Jan 2021 23:35 UTC
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi • President Donald Trump
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Saturday that the rioters who took part in the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday chose their "whiteness" over democracy.
The Associated Press first reported her remarks, which she made during an online video meeting with constituents in San Francisco. A transcript of her comments were shared with The Hill.
The comment came after Pelosi acknowledged the number of people who died of COVID-19 on Wednesday and Thursday, both of which were records for single-day coronavirus deaths in the United States.
On Wednesday, a mob of President Trump's supporters violently attacked the Capitol building while Congress, including the speaker, were in the process of certifying President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College win. The protesters sought to halt the certification of the election results after Trump encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol.
Comment: These people are flagrantly in breach of the constitution. Trump is well within his rights to cite the Insurrection Act of 1807 and establish a de facto parallel government.
NewsReal #32: Trump's Attempted Coup, or Successful Coup Against Trump?
January 6th 2021 was "the darkest day in American history," reported the media in unison. "9/11 all over again," they agreed.
The riot that followed the rally called by Trump - in his last-ditch effort to sway members of Congress to reconsider states' electoral college votes - was certainly chaotic and worthy of sensational headlines, but was the "insurrection on Capitol Hill" really an "attempted coup by President Trump"?
Joe Quinn and Niall Bradley discuss the extraordinary scenes within and outside the halls of Congress last week, placing the event (and the congressional session it overshadowed) in the context of four years of sustained media disinformation and political polarization that is reaching fever pitch.
What next for Trump? And for the American people?
Power-drunk Democrats join CNN in lobbying to ban Fox News from the airwaves
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Democrats and corporate media outlets such as CNN are lobbying for right-leaning news outlets such as Fox News to be pulled from the air following a mob riot at the Capitol on Wednesday.
CNN's chief media correspondent Brian Stelter recently called for action in his newsletter, claiming that "dishonest companies that profit off of disinformation and conspiracy theories" such as Fox News need to be de-platformed. Steller wrote:
"We regularly discuss what the Big Tech companies have done to poison the public conversation by providing large platforms to bad-faith actors who lie, mislead, and promote conspiracy theories. But what about TV companies that provide platforms to networks such as Newsmax, One America News — and, yes, Fox News?"
In addition to declaring that these conservative outlets spread "lies," denying that President Donald Trump "lost an honest and fair election," Stelter also amplified the concerns of a Democrat politician, who claimed that "Fox and Newsmax, both delivered to my home by your company, are complicit." Stelter said New Jersey state Assemblyman Paul Moriarty texted an executive at Comcast on Thursday questioning the decision of TV providers to host conservative media.
Comment: Claws out, the Left's true colors come unleashed:
MSM set the stage with bias, false accusation and outright lies. Social media giants took up the quest for absolute control of information, message and access - and, judging by the above responses, they appear to be succeeding.
Rob Slane: The masks are coming off
The Blogmire
I had intended to start the New Year with a heart-warming piece entitled, "2021: The Year of Censorship of Dissent". It would have been a somewhat prophetical piece, shocking some readers with predictions of a coming crackdown on dissent, and causing others to hoot with laughter because they haven't quite caught up with the times we are in. You know, the types who say things like "Oh perrrlease! Social Media companies are private companies and they have the right to decide who they allow on their platform" and "Stop making out it's the gulag" etc.
Unfortunately, my plans were scuppered by the fact that media and social media companies — let's call them Global Pravda — have come out of the blocks even earlier than even I anticipated, and have been censoring left right and centre. As a result, my intended "prophetical" utterance seems like yesterday's news.
We've had the censoring of Talk Radio on YouTube. Although this was then restored after intervention at the highest level, I understand some of the wonderful conversations between Mike Graham and Peter Hitchens are still banned. YouTube have also banned videos from extremely qualified scientists around the world, including two lengthy interviews given in English by one of the most qualified microbiologists on planet earth, Professor Sucharit Bhakdi.
We've then seen the President of the United States being banned from Facebook, Instagram and more recently Twitter. I am no fan of Donald Trump, but it is clear that he has never used these platforms to "incite violence" - the excuse given for his ban -, and it is obvious that there something else going on there. And we've also seen numerous conservatives and scientists who oppose or question the mass quarantining of healthy people literally losing hundreds of Twitter followers in the last few days. Their followers are simply being deleted by Jack's Magical Dissent Removing Algorithm, which has been invoked with a vengeance.
DC Officer Sicknick's death driven by medical condition; reports of fire extinguisher attack unconfirmed
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Officer Brian Sicknick
Capitol Hill Police Officer Brian Sicknick died after protesters stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday. Officer Sicknick passed a way on Thursday he was the fifth victim after the US Capitol was stormed on Wednesday. Rest in Peace.
The BBC reported:
A police officer who died from injuries he suffered during the pro-Trump siege of the US Capitol has been named. Brian Sicknick "was physically engaging with protesters" when he was wounded, the US Capitol Police (USCP) said. His death is the fifth connected to the riots, which have led to calls for Donald Trump's removal as president.
It's not clear who started the fire extinguisher rumors.
Tragic: Hillary Clinton posts accidental self-own with single emoji response to Trump losing Twitter account
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Hillary Clinton has posted a toe-curlingly cringe reaction to US President Donald Trump being booted off Twitter. The failed presidential candidate reminded every one that she's still struggling to process her election defeat.
As it emerged that Twitter had permanently suspended the US president, for reasons known only to her (and her team of advisers) Clinton decided to dredge up a tweet from her disastrous election bid.
The 73-year-old retweeted a post from the 2016 race in which she instructed Trump to "delete your account," along with a black checkmark.
Not only has the ex-secretary of state not moved on from her crushing defeat four years ago, but she also appears to be claiming the dramatic scenes that unfolded in the US this week as some kind of belated win for her stillborn presidential push.
James Lindsay: What Is Critical Race Theory?
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I've been asked a million times for a short introduction to Critical Race Theory that hits the high points in a quick, straightforward way. Most people will have heard of Critical Race Theory by now, but in case you haven't, it's a particular way of thinking about race and racism that developed first at Harvard Law School from the late 1970s through the early 1990s. Its stated objective is to question whether the Civil Rights Movement and Civil Rights Acts legislation improved the racial situation in Western nations, especially the United States. Its true objective is to re-organize the social, cultural, and legal playing field in a way that claims to reverse "historical injustices" around the issue of race, allegedly without reproducing them.
To keep this short and simple, I'll provide you with two quotes from the book Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (third edition) by Critical Race Theorists Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic. These quotes summarize everything that Critical Race Theory is really about in its own words.
First, Critical Race Theory views race and racism this way: race is a political construction that was invented by white people to give themselves power while excluding all other races from it, and racism is the ordinary state of affairs in society, present in all interactions, institutions, and phenomena, and effectively permanent in society (short of a full sociocultural revolution that puts them in charge). That is, Critical Race Theory assumes that racism is present in everything under a doctrine known as "systemic racism." Quoting from Delgado and Stefancic,
What do critical race theorists believe? Probably not every member would subscribe to every tenet set out in this book, but many would agree on the following propositions. First, that racism is ordinary, not aberrational — "normal science," the usual way society does business, the common, everyday experience of most people of color in this country. Second, most would agree that our system of white-over-color ascendancy serves important purposes, both psychic and material. The first feature, ordinariness, means that racism is difficult to cure or address. ... The second feature, sometimes called "interest convergence" or material determinism, adds a further dimension. Because racism advances the interests of both white elites (materially) and working-class people (psychically), large segments of society have little incentive to eradicate it.
Parler and the problem of escaping internet censorship
A still from Apple Inc's launch of the MacIntosh Computer
Back when Parler was first taking off, I warned that its app-based dependency meant that two companies, Apple and Google, can eliminate it anytime they like.
It was only a matter of time.
The transition from desktops and laptops to Android and IOS devices mean that users are operating in a walled garden run by two very lefty companies. Those companies can do with the garden what they please. Those users who choose to jailbreak their devices have more options, but most don't. Conservatives can try to distribute the knowledge more widely and encourage that kind of self-empowerment. But the bottom line is most smartphone, Kindle, Chromebook, etc users want a simple device that just works and runs all the apps in the app store. Doing anything more complicated would be inconvenient.


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Feb 15 | Fri | 8PM - 9:30 Pm | $25 Event is Over
As voting rights are being gutted and a women's right to choose is on its most unsteady footing in a generation, ETC. presents this evening of shockingly relevant Women's Suffrage Era satires. In the Pro-Suffrage How the Vote Was Won, working class Horace's world is turned upside-down when a household of lady-relatives arrive, demanding to be "supported". Only when he is confronted with the idea of a future without women in the workforce does this anti-suffrage stalwart realizes the error of his ways. The Spirit of Seventy-Six; or, The Coming Woman, was written as anti-suffrage propaganda in the years after the Civil War, as the women's suffrage movement was gaining speed. It tells the "horrifying" prophecy of a future of female dominance, played for delicious irony. These plays are two hilarious examples of how theater can be used as effective tools to fight against encroaching civil rights violations.
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The Glorious Death of Comrade What's-His- Name at Feinstein's/54 Below
SHOW DESCRIPTION: A one-night-only concert of The Glorious Death of Comrade What's-His- Name will be presented January 20, 2020, at 9:30 PM at Feinstein's/54 Below. The musical is set in Stalin's Sovi...
This Guy: Film Screening Party at The Black Lady Theatre
Mon | 7PM – 10PM
Join us on January 20 at 7pm at The Black Lady Theatre in Brooklyn for the world premiere screening of Chalky The King's new comedy film, "This Guy" starring: Gabriel Rivera Jackson, Cory Fletcher, Yh...
Down to Eartha at Dwyer Cultural Center
In 1968 while at the height of her career as a world renowned entertainer, Eartha Kitt was also working as one of the main lobbyist for a group of young activists called the Rebels With A Cause. Durin...
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The Imamate
Among Shias the term imam traditionally has been used only for Ali and his eleven descendants. None of the twelve Imams, with the exception of Ali, ever ruled an Islamic government. During their lifetimes, their followers hoped that they would assume the rulership of the Islamic community, a rule that was believed to have been wrongfully usurped. Because the Sunni caliphs were cognizant of this hope, the Imams generally were persecuted during the Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties. Therefore, the Imams tried to be as unobtrusive as possible and to live as far as was reasonable from the successive capitals of the Islamic empire.
The Imamate began with Ali, who is also accepted by Sunni Muslims as the fourth of the "rightly guided caliphs" to succeed the Prophet. Shias revere Ali as the First Imam, and his descendants, beginning with his sons Hasan and Husayn, continue the line of the Imams until the twelfth, who is believed to have ascended into a supernatural state to return to earth on Judgment Day. Shias point to the close lifetime association of the Prophet with Ali. When Ali was six years old, he was invited by the Prophet to live with him, and Shias believe Ali was the first person to make the declaration of faith in Islam. Ali also slept in the Prophet's bed on the night of the hijra or migration from Mecca to Medina when it was feared that the house would be attacked by unbelievers and the Prophet stabbed to death. He fought in all the battles the Prophet did except one, and the Prophet chose him to be the husband of his favorite daughter, Fatima.
The Sunni-Shia division of Islam originated as a succession dispute shortly after the death of the prophet Muhammad in 632 A.D. Shia believe that the proper successor of Muhammad was Ali. The word "Shia" means partisan or faction of Ali. Ali was elected to be the fourth Muslim ruler or caliph, but was later overthrown and assassinated. Shia Muslims believe that the first three caliphs Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman were usurpers, and that Ali was the first true Imam.
Shia venerate Ali only second to Muhammad, considering him the first Imam and the true caliph. Ali was buried in the Iraqi city of Najaf, which established an early connection between Iraq and Shiism and became a shrine city that continues to be a destination for Shia pilgrims.
In 661 A.D. Mu'awiya, the governor of Syria, named himself caliph and made the caliphate hereditary in his own family, the Umayyads, who the Shia rejected as usurpers of Ali and his sons' rights to the caliphate. In the year AD 661, Imam Ali, Muhammad's son-in-law and the fourth caliph of Islam, was assassinated in southern Iraq in a struggle over who would rule the faithful. Ali was buried in Najaf, and his tomb is housed in a mosque in the city's center.
Nineteen years after Ali's death, his two sons were killed in battle and subsequently buried in nearby Karbala. Their battlefield deaths made martyrdom one of the most important tenets of Shiism. Shia attempts to challenge the Umayyad leaders resulted in the death of Ali's son and the third Shia Imam, Husayn, at the Battle of Karbala in 680. The city of Karbala has become a Shia shrine city.
Husayn's death is commemorated annually in the Ashura ceremony, and is seen as a symbol of the persecution and oppression experienced by the Shia community. Celebration of Ashura can also be a form of Shia political dissent. Male participants in the Ashura rituals beat their chests and chant in an action called lahtom. Some use swords to lacerate their heads to symbolize the beheading of Husayn, or use chains to beat their backs to evoke the suffering of Husayn.
Shia may place a piece of stone or clay, known as a turba, from the shrine of an Imam or other Shia figure on the ground so that their forehead touches the stone when they prostrate themselves in prayer. The possession of such a disc is a sign of Shia identity.
Jaafari [Jafari] Faith means the Religion according to lmam Jaafar Sadiq (a.s.), the Sixth Infallible Imam of the world of Shiism. Ascription of the Shiite Religion to Imam Jaafar ben Muhammad A]-Sadiq (a.s.) was due to the fact that this noble Imam lived longer than all other Infallible Imams and, thus, he has had more time and opportunity for action. Because of the conditions of his time, the role of imam Sadeq (a.s.) in reviving true, genuine Islamic teachings, formation of numerous education centers and training of faithful men was exceptional to the point that the Shiite religion by ascription to him has been named the "Jaafari Faith". The infirmity and confusion of the Caliphate due to the clashes between the Abbasid, and the Omayyad dynasties, in particular, afforded wider opportunities to the Imam to teach, instruct, discuss and train the faithful and sincere forces and to establish lbeologic Centers and promulgate the Islamic truths.
During the eighth century the Caliph Mamun, son and successor to Harun ar Rashid, was favorably disposed toward the descendants of Ali and their followers. He invited the Eighth Imam, Reza (A.D. 765-816), to come from Medina (in the Arabian Peninsula) to his court at Marv (Mary in the present-day Soviet Union). While Reza was residing at Marv, Mamun designated him as his successor in an apparent effort to avoid conflict among Muslims. Reza's sister Fatima journeyed from Medina to be with her brother, but took ill and died at Qom, in present-day Iran. A major shrine developed around her tomb and over the centuries Qom has become a major Shia pilgrimage and theological center.
Mamun took Reza on his military campaign to retake Baghdad from political rivals. On this trip Reza died unexpectedly in Khorasan. Reza was the only Imam to reside or die in what in now Iran. A major shrine, and eventually the city of Mashhad, grew up around his tomb, which has become the most important pilgrimage center in Iran. Several important theological schools are located in Mashhad, associated with the shrine to the Eighth Imam.
Reza's sudden death was a shock to his followers, many of whom believed that Mamun, out of jealousy for Reza's increasing popularity, had the Imam poisoned. Mamun's suspected treachery against Imam Reza and his family tended to reinforce a feeling already prevalent among his followers that the Sunni rulers were untrustworthy.
The Twelfth Imam is believed to have been only five years old when the Imamate descended upon him in A.D.874 at the death of his father. Because his followers feared he might be assassinated, the Twelfth Imam was hidden from public view and was seen only by a few of his closest deputies. Sunnis claim that he never existed or that he died while still a child. Shias believe that the Twelfth Imam never died, but disappeared from earth in about A.D. 939. Since that time, the greater occultation of the Twelfth Imam has been in force and will last until God commands the Twelfth Imam to manifest himself on earth again as the Mahdi or Messiah. Shias believe that during the occultation of the Twelfth Imam, he is spiritually present--some believe that he is materially present as well--and he is besought to reappear in various invocations and prayers. His name is mentioned in wedding invitations, and his birthday is one of the most jubilant of all Shia religious observances.
The Shia doctrine of the Imamate was not fully elaborated until the tenth century. Other dogmas were developed still later. A characteristic of Shia Islam is the continual exposition and reinterpretation of doctrine.
Shia Muslims hold the fundamental beliefs of other Muslims. But, in addition to these tenets, the distinctive institution of Shia Islam is the Imamate -- a much more exalted position than the Sunni imam, who is primarily a prayer leader. In contrast to Sunni Muslims, who view the caliph only as a temporal leader and who lack a hereditary view of Muslim leadership, Shia Muslims believe the Prophet Muhammad designated Ali to be his successor as Imam, exercising both spiritual and temporal leadership. Such an Imam must have knowledge, both in a general and a religious sense, and spiritual guidance or walayat, the ability to interpret the inner mysteries of the Quran and the sharia. Only those who have walayat are free from error and sin and have been chosen by God through the Prophet. Each Imam in turn designated his successor--through twelve Imams--each holding the same powers.
Implied in the Shia principle of the imamah is that imams, are imbued with a redemptive quality as a result of their sufferings and martyrdoms. And, although imams are not divine, they are sinless and infallible in matters of faith and morals, principle very similar to the notion of papal infallibility in the Roman Catholic Church. That man needs an intermediary with God is an Iranian idea that long predates Islam, as is the idea of a savior or messiah (Mahdi) who will come to redeem man and cleanse the world. To expect that the Mahdi, who is the last (twelfth) Imam, really will one is a religious virtue (intizar).
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Giving young hockey players a tournament to remember
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The tournament, which ran from Mar. 14 to 17, also involved an opening ceremony event, a banquet and 23 back-to-back hockey games.
Kelly-Anne Riess
Published on: March 19, 2019 | Last Updated: March 19, 2019 4:42 PM EDT
There were 23 back-to-back hockey games at the Energy Centre this past weekend as the city hosted the bantam A provincial hockey tournament. Submitted
Ten hockey teams from across Alberta were in Cold Lake this past weekend to compete in the bantam A provincials and organizers wanted to make the tournament an event the youth would remember.
"We want these kids to have . . . an amazing time," said Elaine Ernst while talking about the event in city council back on Jan. 22.
Outside of hockey, there were other games, like indoor golf putting, that the 13- and 14-year-old hockey players and their families could partake in, face painting and an artisan market inside the Energy Centre.
"As hockey parents, you spend a lot of dead time at these tournaments. We want to make sure we fill that up for families that are coming to visit, so they can see what Cold Lake has to offer," Ernst said about the decision to include an artisan market.
The last time there was a boys' provincial hockey tournament in Cold Lake was in 1992.
Hockey Canada board member and former Cold Laker Kirk Lamb, who was the guest speaker at this year's event, played in that 1992 tournament.
The 2019 provincials brought about 500 people into Cold Lake, estimated organizers.
It is now hoped that hosting a provincial hockey tournament on some level could be an annual event, said Ernst, who sits on the board of Cold Lake Minor Hockey.
She said when Cold Lake Minor Hockey applied to host, they were told by Alberta Hockey that they had been waiting for such a strong bid from Cold Lake.
With the new hockey arenas at the Energy Centre, Ernst believes there is no reason the city couldn't attract a provincial bid every year.
City council shared Ernst's enthusiasm.
"Ideally, I would love to see two, three, or even four tournaments of that scale in (the Energy Centre) throughout the year," said city councillor Bob Buckle.
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About the Event: Monthly consumer price inflation figures from the Office for National Statistics are arguably the most influential of all Official Statistics. They are used for a wide variety of important purposes from indicating the health of the economy to the adjustment of pensions and benefits. Behind the numbers sits a sophisticated methodology that has been developed over a long period of time.
This talk looks at the development of these measures from their origins at the start of the 18th Century to the current day. It will identify some of the visionary individuals who contributed to establishing the foundations, the dates when important changes were made and the social and political factors that drove the developments.
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Retired FDNY firefighter faces charges in U.S. Capitol riot
EXCLUSIVE: DiNapoli divests N.Y. pension funds from private prison companies
By Kenneth Lovett
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New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli drew praise from pro-immigrant groups for his decision. (Mike Groll / AP)
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ALBANY — State Controller Thomas DiNapoli this week took the rare step of divesting all direct state pension fund holdings in private prison companies.
The move comes amid concerns about President Trump's stepped up immigration detainment policies.
"For nearly two decades, the fund has recognized private prisons is a controversial industry and restricted investments," said DiNapoli spokeswoman Jennifer Freeman. "The current immigration situation is creating even more risks in their business model, which has consequences for their long term value."
The state controller's office since 1999 has restricted state pension fund investments in private prisons, which are barred in New York. DiNapoli updated the list of companies subjected to the restrictions in 2016.
But as of June, the $206.9 billion state pension fund — the third largest public fund in the country — continued to have a modest $9.6 million in holdings in two private prison companies, The Geo Group and CoreCivic.
DiNapoli on Thursday ordered the divestment of the pension fund's direct holdings in those two companies.
"Because of the limited size of these holdings, imposing these restrictions will not negatively impact the (pension) fund," Freeman said.
The move drew immediate praise from pro-immigrant groups.
This US Customs and Border Protection photo dated June 17, 2018, shows intake of illegal border crossers by US Border Patrol agents at the Central Processing Center in McAllen, Texas. (HANDOUT / AFP/Getty Images)
"As Trump ruthlessly seeks to criminalize immigrants and people of color and put us in cages, his administration relies on the morally bankrupt private prison industry to hold our communities captive," said Javier Valdes, co-executive director of Make the Road New York. "With the Comptroller's bold action…he is ensuring that New York stands up to this grotesque industry."
Make the Road New York recently issued a report that found full implementation of the President's "zero tolerance" policy at the border would expand the number of people held in private immigration detention up to 580% within two years.
DiNapoli over the years has been urged by activists to divest pension funds from a host of companies, including the fossil fuel industry. He almost always declines, saying his fiduciary responsibility as the sole trustee of the pension fund its value and the pensioners it serves. He also has suggested he could do more as a shareholder to pressure companies to implement reforms.
Deciding whether to divest "requires a high level of due diligence" and input from the office's counsel and investment and risk staff, Freeman said.
In deciding to divest from The Geo Group and CoreCivic, Freeman cited concerns about a number of different factors related to private prisons, including immigration detention, and the fact it will not significantly harm the overall pension fund.
Melissa Nunez, a trans woman who said she suffered physical and mental pain as well as being sexually assaulted during a six-month detainment at a CoreCivic facility, urged other states and corporations to follow DiNapoli's lead by divesting from private prisons.
"New York is sending the message that no one should invest in companies that torture, separate and criminalize our community," Nunez said.
The Florida-based GEO Group in a statement called it "unfortunate that the state is gambling with public employee retirement benefits by inserting politics in their decision-making rather than basing their decisions on facts."
"These political efforts are misguided and based on a mischaracterization of our role as a long-standing service provider to the government, and totally ignore the fact that we have absolutely no role in setting criminal justice or immigration policies nor have we ever advocated for or against criminal justice or immigration enforcement and detention policies," the company said.
CoreCivic spokeswoman Amanda Gilchrist didn't comment directly on the pension fund divestment, but defended the company's "valued but limited role in America's immigration system, which we have done for every administration — Democrat and Republican—for more than 30 years."
Gilchrist said the Tennessee-based CoreCivic does not provide housing for children who aren't under the supervision of a parent, advocate for policies, or enforce immigration laws.


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RYAN INNES RELEASES "I NEED A LOVER" SINGLE + ANNOUNCES HIS DEBUT ALBUM 'THE INBETWEEN' OUT 3/23
RYAN INNES RELEASES "I NEED A LOVER" SINGLE + ANNOUNCES HIS DEBUT ALBUM THE INBETWEEN OUT 3/23
Salt Lake City native Ryan Innes, and alumni of NBC's The Voice is excited to announce the release of his debut full length album –THE INBETWEEN- due out on March 23. The soulful and groove-filled first single "I Need a Lover" is out now worldwide. THE INBETWEEN is available for pre-order via Pledgemusic HERE.
Innes has been involved in and around music his entire life. He is a classically trained pianist who grew up singing in the Phoenix Boys Choir, and in local church groups. Although he enjoyed performing in these settings, the traditional and classical music didn't quite connect with him on an emotional level. It wasn't until he was introduced to R&B that Innes began a deep and personal involvement with music that would begin to change his life.
The first album to catch his attention was a Boyz II Men album a friend gave him. "It was like nothing I'd experienced before," said Innes. "These people really expressing their emotions through their music and voices. It was completely different than the stuff I had grown up with. It really opened my eyes to music's ability to speak to the listener."
Innes continued his connection and love for music but didn't start to take a serious look at pursuing music as a career until his early 20's when his life took a dramatic turn. He had just finished a Pre-Med degree only to realize he wasn't passionate about science, while also going through a broken engagement. Music is what pulled him through, leading him to dive head first into at the music program at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, a city that has become a mecca of emerging talent, producing such artists as Imagine Dragons, Neon Trees and Lindsey Stirling.
Innes gained tremendous popularity in the local music scene in Provo, enabling him to quit his serving job at Red Robin and focus on music full time. In 2013 he took a leap and auditioned for NBC's The Voice receiving a four-chair turn from the judges. He chose to work with Usher and spent his time on the show being mentored by Usher and Pharrell Williams, the experience of which was like getting a crash course PHD in music and performing.
After The Voice, Innes returned to Utah to focus on writing what would become THE INBETWEEN, and co-writing with artists such as McKay Stevens and Nate Pyfer who co-wrote Kaskade's 2014 grammy-nominated track "Atmosphere".
Having observed that most songs are written either about the lowest parts of life, or the highest parts, he decided to focus on that gray area in between the two extremes. The emotional space where we live most of our lives, and thus the concept for –THE INBETWEEN -was born. The album as a whole takes the listener on an eclectic sonic journey through eleven expertly crafted songs. From New Orleans drenched horns on "The Same Night," the ethereal electronics on "Show Me What's Real," to the guttural percussion of "Crazy Wonderful" and the lush string orchestrations of "So Far Away," all layered with Innes' distinctly emotive voice, proving that the in between of life is not so gray after all, but full of vibrant colors.
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CATÁN: Florencia en Cincinnati (Performance Review)
Daniel Catán
Florencia en Cincinnati
Despite perennial hand-wringing about the hidebound operatic repertoire, new works continue to vie for acceptance in what is certainly the most elaborate and most extravagant of traditional musical genres, and the one with the constituency perhaps least receptive to new entrants into its repertoire. Yet enduring success is the expectation—or hope—of each new effort. My choice for the most likely candidate is the Spanish-language Florencia en el Amazonas, presented this past July by the Cincinnati Opera. The composer is Daniel , a 59-year-old Mexican-American, now living in California.
Completed in 1996, and premiered that year by the Houston Grand Opera, Florencia has been averaging approximately one new presentation per year since then—in Europe, Mexico, and South America, as well as in the United States. The work was revived in Houston by popular demand in 2001, which resulted in a recording on the Albany label that has become something of a "best-seller" (in contemporary opera terms) and has spread awareness of the work more widely. Two orchestral suites drawn from the opera have been performed by major orchestras.
Audiences have responded to the work with great enthusiasm; critical response has been more muted, though generally favorable. The reasons for its remarkable success are clear enough: It has practically everything one might wish for in an opera—a virtually uninterrupted river of melody accessible enough for anyone who can handle Turandot; vocal writing with a clear connection to the bel canto tradition; impressionistic orchestration of shimmering, pulsating luminosity, enriched by exotic percussion, that sets up the voices the way a finely-wrought setting frames a precious jewel; a libretto cannily conceived so as to make the foregoing embarrassment of riches a natural outgrowth of the story; and an underlying existential statement that gives profound resonance to the superficially simple plot.
The story, elaborated with touches of the "magical realism" associated with the writings of Gabriel García Márquez, is set during the early 20th century, and concerns Florencia Grimaldi, an aging diva who is traveling incognito down the Amazon to return to her birthplace (and possibly to re-connect with the love of her youth whom she left behind). Also on the steamboat are a young female journalist who is writing a book about Florencia, whom she idolizes; she scorns the emotional dependency of love, until she meet the captain's nephew—also searching for clues to his own destiny; a couple, long married, whose relationship has degenerated into incessant bickering, and who are searching for the romance that once ignited their marriage; and Riolobo, a magical spirit of the Amazon, who serves as a combination of Greek chorus and deus ex machina.
But it is really a story about the tension between the authenticity of remaining connected to one's roots and the drive to fulfill one's potential through self-actualization, and the inevitable compromise that must follow. It is also about the compromise of autonomy in the search for intimate attachment; and it is about the struggle to keep romance alive in a relationship that endures over time.
What can be criticized about such an opera? Based on reviews and comments overheard during the intermission: Nothing really "happens;" the music owes too much to Puccini; it is not "modern" enough; it is not "Spanish" enough; there are too few melodies that one can walk out humming. But this is petty carping. Nothing much happens externally, because so much is happing to the characters internally. That the music owes much to Puccini and is not "modern"-sounding or Spanish-sounding may bother a few listeners, but will be a relief to most others. Not enough "tunes" to walk out singing? This is an opera—a continuous, coherent two-hour entity (in two acts), not a Broadway show. Having known the opera for some six years now, through the recording, I can aver that there are melodies, but they are long and take time to coalesce in one's mind.
The Cincinnati production was fabulous: American soprano Alexandra Coku as Florencia was exquisite, capturing both the musical and emotional dimensions of the character with great poignancy. She has been on the scene for some twenty years now; why she is not better known I cannot explain. The other singers—Nmon Ford as Riolobo; Arturo Chacón-Cruz as the nephew; Carlos Archuleta and Emily Golden as the married couple—embodied their characters with musical artistry and dramatic sensitivity. Only the voice of Shana Blake Hill, in the important role of the young journalist, was marred by an unattractive edginess, but she sounded better as her voice warmed up during the course of the evening.
The orchestra played superbly under the direction of Steven Mercurio. The staging and lighting were brilliant and creative, giving an appropriately undulating motion to a set that could well have appeared quite static.
In the fall of 2009, Catán's latest opera, Il Postino, will be presented in Los Angeles. One awaits the premiere with great eagerness.
Category: Performance Reviews
Publication: American Record Guide
Composer: Catán, Daniel
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Carlos Javier El-Hage Guaristi (n. Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, 1982) es un abogado boliviano, ex becario Fulbright y catedrático de derecho constitucional que ha publicado obras sobre el derecho internacional de inversiones y arbitraje, el derecho internacional de derechos humanos y el derecho constitucional comparativo.<ref>{{cita libro|título=Le glaive et la balance. Droits de l'homme, justice constitutionnelle et démocratie en Amérique latine|apellidos=Martin|nombre=Arnaud|año=2012|editorial=L'Harmattan|isbn=978-2-296-96367-2|cita=Article by Javier El-Hage, 'La protection des droits politiques en Amérique latine. Le droit international, standard interaméricain de protection des droits politiques. Droit constitutionnel comparé, l'incapacité politique en Amérique latine|páginas=360|fechaacceso=21 de julio de 2012|url=http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=37256}}</ref> Actualmente, El-Hage es el Director Legal Internacional de Human Rights Foundation (HRF) -una organización de derechos humanos con sede en Nueva York- y es el director del HRF Center for Law and Democracy, en donde investiga y escribe sobre el derecho comparativo constitucional y el derecho internacional.

 Biografía
El-Hage tiene una maestría en Derecho Internacional de la Universidad de Columbia, y la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Ha dado charlas sobre temas de derecho internacional en instituciones como el Harvard Law School, el American Enterprise Institute, el Hudson Institute y el Centro Global para la Responsabilidad de Proteger de los Estados Unidos, la Fundación Armando Alvares Penteado de Brasil y la Universidad de CEMA de Argentina en América Latina.

Sus artículos han sido publicados en varias revistas, publicaciones y periódicos de los EE. UU., Europa y América Latina, entre ellos el Americas Quarterly, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, el National Journal, Wired (Reino Unido), Semana de Colombia, El Universal de Venezuela, El Heraldo de Honduras, ABC Color de Paraguay, El Universo de Ecuador, La Estrella de Panamá, y El País de España; además de haber hecho apariciones en cadenas televisivas como CNN, Fox News Channel, Mega TV, NTN24 y Voice of America.

En agosto de 2006, luego de recibir su título en Derecho summa cum laude de la Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, fue nombrado profesor de Derecho Constitucional, posición que ocupó hasta junio de 2008. También fue profesor visitante de la Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar y la Universidad de Aquino. En mayo de 2006, El-Hage escribió el libro titulado "Límites de Derecho Internacional para la Asamblea Constituyente: Democracia, Derechos Humanos, Inversiones Extranjeras y Control de Drogas", del cual se publicó una tercera edición en julio de 2007 por Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and Fundappac-Bolivia. El libro fue presentado como parte de un paquete de literatura legal relevante a todos los miembros de la Asamblea Constituyente de Bolivia (2007-2008). Como resultado esto, el autor fue invitado por parte de la Asamblea a dar su testimonio experto sobre el derecho de inversión internacional y el derecho internacional de derechos humanos.

En 2007, en reconocimiento a sus logros en el mundo académico, El-Hage recibió la beca Fulbright para desarrollo de educadores, a través de la cual, en 2009, obtuvo su maestría en derecho en la Universidad de Columbia. En 2010, El-Hage fue el autor de un influyente reporte de HRF titulado: "Los hechos y el derecho detrás de la crisis democrática en Honduras 2009-2010", el cual fue ampliamente citado por la Comisión de la Verdad y la Reconciliación en su reporte de 2011.

En 2011, El-Hage fue el autor de un amicus curiae de HRF que fue presentado ante la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos sobre el caso de Leopoldo López Mendoza v. República Boliviariana de Venezuela. En 2011 y 2012, El-Hage participó como juez en el concurso de Simulacro de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, organizada desde 1996 por el Washington College of Law de la American University.

Más recientemente, la investigación y publicaciones de El-Hage se han enfocado en la libertad del internet, derecho internacional de inversiones y arbitraje y los estándares interamericanos sobre la protección de la libertad de asociación, libertad de expresión y derechos políticos.

 Publicaciones

 El-Hage, Javier, Limites de Derecho Internacional para la Asamblea Constituyente: Democracia, Derechos Humanos, Inversiones Extranjeras y Control de Drogas (3a. Edición), Konrad Adenauer Stiftung [Bolivia].
 El-Hage, Javier (traducción y prefacio), Introducción al Estudio del Derecho. Técnica, Decisión y Dominación, by Tercio Sampaio Ferraz Jr., Marcial Pons [Madrid, Barcelona, Buenos Aires].
 El-Hage, Javier, Los hechos y el derecho detrás de la crisis democrática en Honduras 2009-2010, HRF Center for Law and Democracy [New York].
 El-Hage, Javier (artículo), La protection des droits politiques en Amérique latine, en el libro "Le glaive et la balance. Droits de l'homme, justice constitutionnelle et démocratie en Amérique latine", by Arnaud Martin, L'Harmattan [Bordeaux, France].
 El-Hage, Javier (artículo), How may tribunals apply the customary necessity rule to the Argentine cases? An analysis of ICSID decisions with respect to the interaction between article XI of the U.S.-Argentina BIT and the customary rule of necessity, en el libro Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2011-2012, Karl P. Sauvant.
 El-Hage, Javier (traducción), Economía Básica'', Thomas Sowell, Deusto S.A. Ediciones [Madrid].

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A call for the Protection of Eritreans in their quest for safety
GENEVA, Switzerland, November 25, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/– The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea, Sheila B. Keetharuth, expressed great concern about rampant human rights violations in Eritrea which caused hundreds of thousands to leave their country for an unknown and precarious future.
"I call on the Eritrean Government to respect its human rights obligations and to put an immediate stop to human rights violations that are committed in the country", Ms. Keetharuth stressed after interviewing Eritreans during an official mission* to Tunisia and Malta.
The blanket disrespect of fundamental human rights in Eritrea is pushing some 2,000 to 3,000 people to leave the country monthly, although the risks along the escape routes are of a life-threatening nature. In 2012, the total Eritrean population of concern to UNHCR amounted to 305,723.
During her ten-day mission, the indefinite national service was quoted as the main reason inciting Eritreans to leave their home country. "The open-ended national service is a system which keeps Eritreans captive in a situation of despair, forcing them to take unimaginable risks in search of freedom and a safe haven," she noted.
Young Eritreans, both women and men, often before reaching 18 years, are recruited into a compulsory national service characterised by severe human rights abuses. Punishment amounting to torture, inhuman or degrading treatment as well as detention in inhumane conditions is routine in the military. Women explained they were particularly vulnerable to sexual abuses by officers.
"These violations are committed with complete impunity, without any structures and procedures in place for victims to bring the perpetrators to justice", she said.
Most of those she interviewed described difficult economic and social conditions in their home country; however, they noted that the daily struggle for access to food and water, and lack of adequate health care and electricity had not motivated their departure.
"It is the complete deprivation of the freedom and security of the person, a fundamental human right also recognised by Eritrea that drives entire families to leave their country in the hope to find a place where they feel protected", Ms. Keetharuth explained.
Many refugees she met during her mission were rescued at sea after a dangerous journey across the Sahara desert and the Mediterranean Sea. One young man told her: "We are aware of the risks associated with crossing the desert and the sea. Nobody in his right mind would take such a decision. We do it because there is no other choice."
Ms. Keetharuth called for the protection of those fleeing from risking their lives by undertaking highly dangerous journeys to reach a place they feel is safe. She also urged the international community to address the root causes of the refugee situation by listening to the voices of victims of human rights violations in Eritrea who reach the conclusion that their only option is flight.
The human rights expert reiterated the importance to end bilateral and other arrangements between Eritrea and third countries that would provide for Eritreans to be returned to their home country where they risk facing persecution, torture, inhuman treatment, and forced recruitment into indefinite military service.
Since her appointment in November 2012, the Special Rapporteur has made several requests to visit Eritrea, which have so far not been granted. Consequently, the Expert resorted to gathering first-hand information from those who have left Eritrea. She reiterates her call for access to the country to assess the human rights situation.
The expert's findings will be presented in her second report to the Human Rights Council in June 2014.
United Nations – Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
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US Assistant Secretary on a mission to UK and Etiopia
WASHINGTON, November 13, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/: Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration Anne C. Richard will travel to London, United Kingdom and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 12-21.
While in London, Assistant Secretary Richard will attend the Protecting Girls and Women in Emergencies conference hosted by the UK Secretary of State for International Development, Justine Greening. The conference will build on Safe from the Start, the U.S. Government's initiative to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls from the very onset of a crisis.
In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Assistant Secretary Richard will provide closing remarks at the International Conference on Family Planning and visit U.S. Government-funded health clinics that provide sexual and reproductive health services, including family planning and services to survivors of gender-based violence. She will also meet with government officials and representatives of both international and nongovernmental organizations. Later in the week, Assistant Secretary Richard will travel to the Tigray Region in northern Ethiopia with U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, Patricia Haslach, to visit Eritrean refugees living in camps and to witness refugee programs and assistance provided on the ground. Ethiopia is hosting 77,000 refugees from Eritrea, and hosts refugees from Somalia, Sudan, and South Sudan, as well.
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Human rights in Eritrea
Posted by African Press International on November 7, 2013
Human rights in Eritrea: UN expert to meet Eritrean refugees in Tunisia and Malta
GENEVA, Switzerland, November 7, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Eritrea, Sheila B. Keetharuth , will undertake an official visit to Tunisia and Malta from 11 to 20 November 2013 to collect first-hand information from Eritrean refugees on the human rights situation in Eritrea.
Since her appointment in November 2012, the Special Rapporteur has made several requests to visit Eritrea, which have so far not been granted. She has repeatedly urged the Eritrean authorities to collaborate with her mandate with a view to addressing its human rights challenges.
Due to lack of access to Eritrea, the Special Rapporteur has decided to collect first-hand information from Eritrean refugees. The Special Rapporteur appreciates that Tunisia and Malta have agreed to provide her access to the Eritrean refugee population residing in those two countries.
During her mission, the Special Rapporteur will interview Eritrean refugees about the situation of human rights in Eritrea to corroborate allegations of widespread and systematic violations of human rights in Eritrea contained in reports she has received from a variety of interlocutors . The result of her findings, which will be strictly limited to the situation inside Eritrea, will be reflected in her second report to the Human Rights Council in June 2014.
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Ethiopian political leadership must respect human rights; says Bizualem Beza
Posted by African Press International on August 13, 2013
http://www.africanpress.me/ – Mr . Bizualem Beza – Ethiopian Human Rights Activist based in Norway
Ethiopia, officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Djibouti and Somalia to the east, Sudan and South Sudan to the west, and Kenya to the south. With over 91,000,000 inhabitants, Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world and the second-most populated nation on the African continent. It occupies a total area of 1,100,000 square kilometres (420,000 sq mi), and its capital and largest city is Addis Ababa.
The sudden death in August 2012 of Ethiopia's long-serving and powerful prime minister, Meles Zenawi, provoked uncertainty over the country's political transition, both domestically and among Ethiopia's international partners. Ethiopia's human rights record has sharply deteriorated, especially over the past few years, and although a new prime minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, took office in September, it remains to be seen whether the government under his leadership will undertake human rights reforms.
Ethiopian authorities continued to severely restrict basic rights of freedom of expression, association, and assembly in 2012. Thirty journalists and opposition members were convicted under the country's vague Anti-Terrorism Proclamation of 2009.The security forces responded to protests by the Muslim community in Oromia and Addis Ababa, the capital, with arbitrary arrests, detentions, and beatings.
The Ethiopian government continues to implement its "villagization" program: the resettlement of 1.5 million rural villagers in five regions of Ethiopia ostensibly to increase their access to basic services. Many villagers in Gambella region have been forcibly displaced, causing considerable hardship. The government is also forcibly displacing indigenous pastoral communities in Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley to make way for state-run sugar plantations.
Hostility for independent media
Since the promulgation in 2009 of the Charities and Societies Proclamation (CSO Law), which regulates nongovernmental organizations, and the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation, freedom of expression, assembly, and association have been increasingly restricted in Ethiopia. The effect of these two laws, coupled with the government's widespread and persistent harassment, threats, and intimidation of civil society activists, journalists, and others who comment on sensitive issues or express views critical of government policy, has been severe.
"One on One with Bizualem Beza, Human Rights Activist: Part 1 of 2″
"One on One with Bizualem Beza, Human Rights Activist: Part 2 of 2"
Ethiopia's most important human rights groups have been compelled to dramatically scale-down operations or remove human rights activities from their mandates, and an unknown number of organizations have closed entirely. Several of the country's most experienced and reputable human rights activists have fled the country due to threats. The environment is equally hostile for independent media: more journalists have fled Ethiopia than any other country in the world due to threats and intimidation in the last decade—at least 79, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
The Anti-Terrorism Proclamation is being used to target perceived opponents, stifle dissent, and silence journalists. In 2012, 30 political activists, opposition party members, and journalists were convicted on vaguely defined terrorism offenses. Eleven journalists have been convicted under the law since 2011.
On January 26, a court in Addis Ababa sentenced both deputy editor Woubshet Taye and columnist Reeyot Alemu of the now-defunct weekly Awramaba Times to 14 years in prison. Reeyot's sentence was later reduced to five years upon appeal and most of the charges were dropped.
On July 13, veteran journalist and blogger Eskinder Nega, who won the prestigious PEN America Freedom to Write Award in April, was sentenced to 18 years in prison along with other journalists, opposition party members, and political activists. Exiled journalists Abiye Teklemariam and Mesfin Negash were sentenced to eight years each in absentia under a provision of the Anti-Terrorism Law that has so far only been used against journalists. Andualem Arage, a member of the registered opposition party Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ), was sentenced to life for espionage, "disrupting the constitutional order," and recruitment and training to commit terrorist acts.
Activists demand respect for human rightsin Ethiopia because the government is insensitive for good governance and allows corruption to be the order of the day. According to the U.S. Department of State's human rights report for 2004 and similar sources, the Ethiopian government's human rights"remained poor; although there were improvements, serious problems remained." The report listed numerous cases where police and security forces are said to have harassed, illegally detained, tortured, and/or killed individuals, who were members of opposition groups or accused of being insurgents. Thousands of suspects remained in detention without charge, and lengthy pretrial detention continued to be a problem. Prison conditions were poor. The government often ignores citizens' privacy rights and laws regarding search warrants. Although fewer journalists have been arrested, detained, or punished in 2004 than in previous years, the government nevertheless continues to restrict freedom of the press. The government limits freedom of assembly, particularly for members of opposition groups, and security forces have used excessive force to break up demonstrations. Violence and discrimination against women continue to be problems. Female genital mutilation is widespread, although efforts to curb the practice have had some effect. The economic and sexual exploitation of children continues, as does human trafficking. Forced labor, particularly among children, is a persistent problem. Low-level government interference with labor unions continues. Although the government generally respected the free exercise of religion, local authorities at times interfere with religious practice. In order to improve Ethiopia's image, they hired US agencies to improve Ethiopia's image for 2.5$ million.
During the late 19th-century Scramble for Africa, Ethiopia was the only African country to defeat an European colonial power and retain its sovereignty as an independent country. It was the first independent African member of the 20th-century League of Nations and the UN. When other African nations gained their independence following World War II, many of them adopted the colors of Ethiopia's flag. In 1974, at the end of Haile Selassie I's reign, Ethiopia became a federal republic ruled by a communist military junta known as the Derg, until it was defeated by the EPRDF, which has ruled since 1991.
Ethiopia is a multilingual society with around 80 ethnic groups, with the two largest being the Oromo and the Amhara. It is one of the founding members of the UN, the Non-Aligned Movement, G-77 and the Organisation of African Unity, with Addis Ababa serving as the headquarters of theAfrican Union, the Pan African Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the UNECA, theAfrican Standby Force and much of global NGOs focused on Africa. Despite being the main source of the Nile, the longest river on earth, Ethiopia underwent a series of famines in the 1980s, exacerbated by civil wars and adverse geopolitics. The country has begun to recover recently, and it now has the largest economy by GDP in East Africa and Central Africa
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Global Journalists Congress begins in Ireland
Posted by African Press International on June 7, 2013
By Maurice Alal, API Kenya
More than 200 journalists and leaders of journalists unions and associations have converged in Dublin, Ireland for the 28th World Congress of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) which is expected to focus attention on media freedom, the safety of journalists and job security amid growing austerity measures in many countries.
The 5 day event, which runs to June 7, kicked off yesterday with a meeting of the Gender Council, which discussed strategies for improving gender parity in journalists unions and associations at the national, regional and global levels.
The Congress, which will today focus attention on job security for journalists under the themes "Decent Jobs, not Austerity'', will officially be opened by the President of the Republic of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins.
Kenya Correspondents Association (KCA), an affiliate of IFJ, is represented at the Congress by its National Chairman William Oloo Janak who is expected to speak about media freedom, safety and security of journalists and the uncertainty of jobs facing Kenyans journalists.
"This is an important platform to discuss challenges facing journalists and we will highlight the case of Kenya given the problems journalists face, including increasing safety and security concerns and violation of journalists labour rights by employers," said Janak in a statement from Dublin.
The Congress is expected to discuss the killings of journalists in Somalia and other hot spots, the continued threats, intimidation, arrests and detentions of journalists in a number of countries including in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Turkey, Iraq, Afghanistan, among others.
On Wednesday June 5, the Executive Council of the Irish National Union of Journalists (NUJ) will lead the delegates in a "Freedom Walk" to remember the those journalists killed since the last World Congress in Cadiz, Spain in June 2010.
The Congress, which has representatives from over 110 countries, has a strong African delegation drawn from more than 40 journalists unions and associations under the continental grouping of the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) which seeks to play an important role within the global journalists' body.
During the Congress, the delegates will elect a new leadership to steer the IFJ for the next two years till the next congress in 2015.
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Q: Taking an image and cropping it I'm following this tutorial: http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android/capture-and-crop-an-image-with-the-device-camera/
I am trying to create a simple activity that has a "take picture" Button, and an ImageView, and simply take a picture, then open the cropping activity built into Android. I can open the camera without incident, however, upon taking the photo, the code doesn't send the photo to the cropping activity.
It seems to crash when the cropping activity is called. I'm not sure why this is occurring; I followed the example exactly (except for the beginning XML stuff which I didn't need), and I looked over the code and everything seems to make sense. I'm sure it's a minor error somewhere that is causing this. Here is my code for the activity:
package com.example.project;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.ActivityNotFoundException;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.provider.MediaStore;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class ImageChoose extends Activity implements OnClickListener {

//keep track of camera capture intent
final int CAMERA_CAPTURE = 1;
//captured picture uri
private Uri picUri;
final int PIC_CROP = 2;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_image_choose);
    Button takePicture = (Button)findViewById(R.id.takePicture);
    takePicture.setOnClickListener(this);
}

public void onClick(View v) {
    if (v.getId() == R.id.takePicture){
        try{
            //use standard intent to capture an image
            Intent captureIntent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
            //we will handle the returned data in onActivityResult
            startActivityForResult(captureIntent, CAMERA_CAPTURE);
        }catch(ActivityNotFoundException anfe){
            //display an error message
            String errorMessage = "Your device doesn't support photos!";
            Toast toast = Toast.makeText(this, errorMessage, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
            toast.show();
        }
    }

}

protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data){
    if (resultCode == RESULT_OK){
        if (requestCode == CAMERA_CAPTURE){
            picUri = data.getData();
            performCrop();
        }else if(requestCode == PIC_CROP){
            //get the returned data
            Bundle extras = data.getExtras();
            //get the cropped bitmap
            Bitmap thePic = extras.getParcelable("data");
            //retrieve a reference to the ImageView
            ImageView picView = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.picture);
            //display the returned cropped image
            picView.setImageBitmap(thePic);
        }
    }
}

private void performCrop(){
    try{
        //call the standard crop action intent (the user device may not support it)
        Intent cropIntent = new Intent("com.android.camera.action.CROP");
            //indicate image type and Uri
        cropIntent.setDataAndType(picUri, "image/*");
            //set crop properties
        cropIntent.putExtra("crop", "true");
            //indicate aspect of desired crop
        cropIntent.putExtra("aspectX", 1);
        cropIntent.putExtra("aspectY", 1);
            //indicate output X and Y
        cropIntent.putExtra("outputX", 256);
        cropIntent.putExtra("outputY", 256);
            //retrieve data on return
        cropIntent.putExtra("return-data", true);
            //start the activity - we handle returning in onActivityResult
        startActivityForResult(cropIntent, PIC_CROP);
    }catch(ActivityNotFoundException anfe){
        String errorMessage = "Your device doesn't support photo cropping!";
        Toast toast = Toast.makeText(this, errorMessage, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
        toast.show();
    }
  }

  }

A: I have used this type of action.Here is my code with the following link:-Detail Description
I hope this will help you.I suggest you the following Lines where you should have your focus:-
Intent camera=new Intent();
camera.setAction(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
camera.putExtra("crop", "true");

A: The cropping activity is part of the stock Android camera app. It may or may not be available on your device, especially if you are using a custom/vendor camera app. If you want this to work reliably, you have to take the code for the cropper and incorporate it into your own app.

A: private void performCrop(){
}
Inside this method we are going to call an Intent to perform the crop, so let's add "try" and "catch" blocks in case the user device does not support the crop operation:

try {
}
catch(ActivityNotFoundException anfe){
    //display an error message
    String errorMessage = "Whoops - your device doesn't support the crop action!";
    Toast toast = Toast.makeText(this, errorMessage, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
    toast.show();
}

    //call the standard crop action intent (the user device may not support it)
Intent cropIntent = new Intent("com.android.camera.action.CROP");
    //indicate image type and Uri
cropIntent.setDataAndType(picUri, "image/*");
    //set crop properties
cropIntent.putExtra("crop", "true");
    //indicate aspect of desired crop
cropIntent.putExtra("aspectX", 1);
cropIntent.putExtra("aspectY", 1);
    //indicate output X and Y
cropIntent.putExtra("outputX", 256);
cropIntent.putExtra("outputY", 256);
    //retrieve data on return
cropIntent.putExtra("return-data", true);
    //start the activity - we handle returning in onActivityResult
startActivityForResult(cropIntent, PIC_CROP);

//keep track of cropping intent
final int PIC_CROP = 2;

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It is hard to serve customers in a rapidly changing competitive landscape. New technologies and are the pivot of agility, scalability and customer experience. These days, every company is a technology company. The challenge for businesses is to recognise potential value propositions that spring from the arrival of emerging technologies. The trick is to identify opportunities before digital-native start-ups disrupt the market. Unfortunately, in many organisations legacy prevails over capital-intensive investments. This is how organisations outgrow their competitive benefits.
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It comes after 10 years of development.
Industrial fuel cell power company AFC Energy has announced the successful deployment of CH2ARGE, the world's first electric vehicle charger based on hydrogen fuel-cell technology.
The technology, which could enable 100 percent clean electricity for future EV charging, was demonstrated at Dunsfold Aerodrome, the home of BBC's Top Gear, and showcased a BMW i8 being charged by power generated by a hydrogen fuel cell.
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The demonstration came 10 years after AFC Energy began its research into fuel cell technology, and marks the beginning of a journey towards commercialisation for the technology.
"By 2030, it is estimated that there could be nine million electric vehicles on the roads of Britain, up from 90,000 today," said Adam Bond, Chief Executive Officer at AFC Energy. "For this transition, we need charging stations to be embedded throughout the country, as well as seeking innovative solutions to overcome the severe limitations of centrally generated electricity."
"By developing and demonstrating the effectiveness of our hydrogen fuel cell in the application of EV charging, AFC Energy has shown it is ready to lead the way not only in solving the challenges of increased demand for electricity, but also doing so in a truly zero emissions approach."
The system features a small-scale fuel cell connected to an inverter similar to those used by Toyota at its Electric Vehicle research centre. The inverter transfers energy created by the fuel cell to a charger. The system is also supported by a 48V battery pack to assist with peak power demands.
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Every now and then I make it to a Training Industry conference that I can truthfully say was worth the trip. Learning 3.0 in Chicago this past week was one such conference. The title of this post is an example of one of those sound bites you hear and go, "Yeah, I get that!" This represents a very appropriate sound bite that describes Performance Support (PS) from several essential perspectives and the boon of what Tin Can brings to the table. This post hopefully can provide some illustrations to confirm this is something worth giving a rip about.
Have you ever explained something to someone who is either hearing it for the first time or is still trying to get their head wrapped around the concept? You know how they will nod slowly in seeming agreement while looking off into the ether and saying dreamily, "Yeah…" really, really slowly? That far-off look is confirmation that they are indeed interested and yet remain clueless for the most part. The room was full of those folks in the Tin Can break out session where I heard this new sound bite. I must confess now that I know enough to be dangerous and yet confident in the implications to the point of being way too excited to sit down.
The Tin Can breakout was the best hour investment of the entire conference for me. Of course my own break-out topic on "Learning & Performance @ the Point of Work" was a close second, but the discovery of direct Tin Can implications with PS stoked a much bigger fire in my belly over my own topic. In fact, Tin Can was a validation, and I awoke at 3AM before my own breakout session and rebuilt parts of my presentation because of the impact of Aaron Silvers' presentation.
I had the good fortune to meet Aaron of ADL, the project lead on the Experience API project [Tin Can], right after his session; it was hard not to run to the front of the room like a crazed groupie! Experience API can do a lot of things, but the one definition that brought it all together for me was something Aaron said near the end of his hour: "Experience API tracks things that are much more granular and useful." What he did not say was…Training".
Did he say "granular"? Yup…that would be the "just enough" connection to PS. "Useful?" Yup…that too…and that would be the "just in time" support piece of PS. The "just for me" part of that sound bite was new to me because it was not on my active radar…wasn't even possible to know…the missing link to really putting PS in the position to become an even more strategic player in driving business outcomes. Why? Because Tin Can gives visibility down to the PERFORMER – the "just for me" filter that did not yet exist. That visibility could do something amazing for tracking informal learning assets with a venue we all are familiar with – an Activity Stream. If you are on Facebook, or Twitter, or LinkedIn, you've seen activity streams that show what someone has "done", "liked", "read", "shared", "posted", "seen", "cooked", "tasted", "visited", etc. When you step back and consider what you're seeing, it is a list of things people have experienced.
For those of you nodding slowly and going, "Yeah…" I'll toss in a few of the thoughts that fired me up. What are the "things" that could be tracked? How about any freaking thing an individual could access from any gizmo they happen to carry? Would that not get you all raked up in a pile? I mean think about the implications on what you could track. Incorporating Activity Streams is just one optional part of what is possible. Consider visibility to actions performers may do on their own initiative that could be described by expressing learning through a statement defined by <ACTOR> <VERB> <OBJECT>. Right now, we express learning experiences through a very narrow window called SCORM. The statement consists of "Passed" or "Completed" , meaning something that is found in a content-oriented, LMS-centric world – Training.
What ISD would walk away from visibility to the "learning activity" coming straight from the chaos of the front lines point of work? If it were a war, would the rear support resource not want to know what kind of ammo to send to the front lines? Of course this assumes the Training organization has its collective head out of its… koff…classroom…and has evolved their performer support paradigm to include the downstream, post-training environment – the point of work. Why? Because this is where "learners" switch hats and become "performers". We now have a path to turn PS into something more strategic.
Visibility to what is consumed/shared and by whom is a gold mine of source data to direct my design, development and delivery decisions all the way back up stream in the formal learning world of training. Why? There should be a thread of design continuity that runs through the entire Learning Continuum from Prepare to Deploy to the Reinforce phases. The credo of "Create Once – Use Many Times" has never been more relevant…or possible.
Why Should We Give A Rip?
In a previous life I was accused of threatening the job security of instructional designers and stand-up classroom facilitators. There is a good chance I also frightened the academia right out of their academics. At least I think that's what happened…it was difficult to clearly hear the whining with their heads stuffed so far up their status quo. My mistake…in their minds…was being a passionate advocate of informal learning and for being so bold as to build an undeniable business case that introduced EPSS technology. The only thing threatened was the comfort of an out-dated paradigm and 476% ROI made it a bit difficult to ignore.
With these new drivers available through Experience API, I realize we are looking at an iceberg of opportunity. I can admit knowing about 10% of the 10% that we can see. This has been a long time coming, and I think our challenge is to become familiar with the new capabilities that will be possible. BUT…I think that if we pursue this knowledge to posture a technology solution we are doing a huge disservice to those we support – our performers.
Our [Training's] focus must evolve and expand downstream and into the post training work context. Granted, we did not have all the tools to be effective there as we dragged that big ol' LMS along behind us. Experience API cuts the cord and offers new freedoms and flexibility to explore.
Love your stuff and will share it to LinkedIn. Wish you had your Twitter handle on your pages so we can mention you when we share to Twitter.
Twitter [@gdogwise] has been added to signature line. Good catch!
Gary, brilliant article – knowledge-filled and entertaining read. Experience API sounds like it will give performers, mentors and training professionals visibility to the input/output of the upstream/downstream processes and, as a result, know what's needed to create and/or maintain the highest levels of productivity. Love the table #1!
Thanks so much, Dennis! This is why I was so fired up when I returned from Learning 3.0 last week. Meeting Aaron Silvers of ADL was worth the entire trip. I'm convinced this has just validated our L&P Portal road map efforts. Thanks for reading and taking the time to share your thoughts!


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10 Ways to Get the Phones Buzzing
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Why are your phones not ringing??? The pandemic has made it more difficult to get callers to respond before 8AM. If you're doing your show from home, getting phone calls on-air is about as challenging as getting the new stimulus package through Congress.
The other culprits are hands-free driving laws, poor cell phone quality, technology distractions, and people preferring to text, or instant message. Listeners will call your show if you have setup your show to be interactive, and you give them a compelling reason to call.
First, establish a phone-friendly environment. Hearing other people on the air is what prompts more people to call. Put callers on randomly to help establish that the show is interactive. Even if you're an edgy show, be sure listeners feel safe to express their views without being put down.
Include your phone number on the imaging during the show: Run short imaging pieces with VO copy like, "Join the conversation at (phone number)." Include text and social media contact info on additional produced imaging.
Don't call us, we'll call you: The John Boy and Billy Big Show invites listeners to submit their contact information on the "Be On The Big Show" page on their website. (TV shows like Ellen have been practicing this for years.)
Post topics on social media the day before or even two days in advance of the show. Invite the best responders to call the show. Bonus: You can gauge which topics are likely to get the best reaction. If you have a text line, ask the most interesting ones if they'll go on the air.
Pre-record or stage callers to air out of the setup. Hearing a caller will prompt others to call.
Be sure the topic premise is strong. It must be simple, relatable and contain an element of drama or conflict. For example, share a vacation disaster story and ask listeners to share similar stories.
Build a "panel of experts," like a marriage counselor, doctor, lawyer, etc. who can contribute stories and credibility to an issue. Ideally, experts are personalities. Also, when you talk to a funny, interesting, or well-spoken caller, ask for their number, and reach out to them in advance of a topic.
Go on a quest to find – the worst boss story, the most embarrassing dad story, the most outrageous breakup story, etc. A specific quest could be something like, "I bet there's nobody listening right now who moved in with their boyfriend or girlfriend at 18 and are still together."
Interactive games are fun for listeners to play along with, and they're the best way to give away prizes rather than a text or designated caller contest that only appeals to the 2% that calls to win.
Stage calls with a lightning rod caller (one who takes an extreme viewpoint) to ignite caller response.
You never want to force calls just to have interaction or rely on them for content. Callers contribute most to your show when they provide stories, a fresh perspective, or bring out a host's character.
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With his passing my Grandmother gave me a jar of his beans, these turned out to have great historical and cultural importance.
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As part of the new RYA Tick Mark scheme RYA Technical have introduced the use of the new mark as an indication of boat Stability alone or for Stability and Construction.
When applied it is a guarantee that the boat model has been successfully assessed by the RYA against international safety standards.
Recent harmonisation of new ISO international stability standards allows most builders of small craft to self certify the stability of their boats, without the need for the involvement of any external Notified Body. However many boat builders are choosing to use the new voluntary assessment services of the RYA for this task.
Ken Kershaw RYA Technical Manager commented "The RYA has vast experience and an excellent international reputation for the testing of small craft. Only boat models meeting the RYA's strict standards are allowed to use the new Tick Mark. We are pleased that boat manufacturers are opting to use the RYA to assess their boats even though there are no regulations that specify that they have to."


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Q: Javascript+JSDoc: strict use only properties defined in constructor Is there any way to fire warning, if class property is used without implicit definition in constructor? Like this:
define(["dojo/_base/declare"],
    function (declare) {
        return declare("MyClass", [], {

            /**
             * @constructor
             */
            constructor: function () {
                /**
                 * @type {number}
                 * @private
                 */
                this.a = 1;
            },

            doSomething: function () {
                this.a = 2; //Ok
                this.b = 3; //Want warning here, if b is not defined in constructor
            }

        });
    });

I use JS+Dojo+JSDoc+Webstorm


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Monarch Butterflies are migrating along the Delaware coast now. This one found a nice Seaside Goldenrod to light on.
Butterflies sip nectar witha long proboscis that is coiled when not in use. Here is a flower's eye view of a butterfly at work. They also have fuzzy faces.