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Violent trends continue at San Diego juvenile halls
Probation Department reports more kids sent to the hospital and a mysterious case of staff misconduct
by Dave Maass
Each quarter, the San Diego County Probation Department compiles statistics on so-called "serious incidents" at the five juvenile-detention facilities under its command. The numbers, which are provided to the county's Juvenile Justice Commission, illustrate the levels of violence at the facility, including data on assaults, pepper-spray use and staff misconduct.
CityBeat obtained the latest batch of figures through a California Public Records Act request. Among the highlights:
• Probation experienced a spike in the number of juvenile detainees who needed to be transported to hospitals and psychiatric facilities. In the first six months of 2012, 26 youth fit that category, compared with just 12 over the same period in 2011.
• Probation continues to use Oleoresin Capsicum (OC) spray, better known as pepper spray, on youth with great frequency. In May, CityBeat reported that probation recorded 461 incidents involving pepper spray in 2011. So far this year, probation has used OC spray 234 times. The Kearny Mesa Juvenile Detention Facility saw a 60-percent increase in OC spray incidents this year, from 53 incidents in the first six months of 2011 to 84 incidents so far in 2012.
• Probation documented one instance of "criminal conduct by staff/contract staff" in June 2012 at the East Mesa Juvenile Detention Facility. It's the only staff criminal case reported in the last 18 months. No further details were released; however, the criteria for this category covers allegations of sexual abuse, physical assault, neglect and any criminal act that jeopardizes a juvenile's safety, such as driving while drunk with a juvenile detainee in the vehicle.
Sarah Gordon, the county spokesperson who handles public-safety issues, didn't respond to multiple requests for more information about the hospitalizations and staff misconduct.
A spokesperson for the San Diego County District Attorney's Office told CityBeat that the case has not been referred for prosecution. Jan Caldwell, spokesperson for the San Diego County Sheriff's Department, which is charged with investigating abuse at the East Mesa facility, said that Gordon told her the case had been referred to the sheriff. However, Caldwell could not formally confirm the case had been transferred. "These types of investigations," she said, are confidential, and only the investigating unit has access to the files.
In previous reporting, CityBeat found that the Probation Department had used a similar cloak of confidentiality to explain why it withheld information from the U.S. Department of Justice regarding allegations of sexual abuse of juveniles by staff.
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Saudi Arabia 2018-19 | EDUCATION | INTERVIEW
Prof. Abdullah Al Hossain was appointed President of Al-Baha University in 2017. Since 2006, he held various positions at Jazan University, amongst others as dean of the university. Before that, he worked at King Khalid University, where he was supervisor of the college of engineering and the college of computer and information systems. He started his career at the Institute of Public Administration. Al Hossain graduated with a bachelor's in mathematics from King Saud University, after which he received his master degree in mathematical statistics. He later obtained his master's and doctorate degrees in applied statistics from Lancaster University.
Where would you position the university within the education landscape, and what are your distinctive strengths?
Al-Baha University is a relatively new university, and its initial positioning was to provide a broad range of disciplines to both male and female students. Currently, 14 of our 15 colleges have male and female branches. Al-Baha is a mountainous area, so aside from our main campus, we have four small branches in and around the city where we provide around 60% of our programs to make them more accessible. Furthermore, we have a research, a business, and a medical center. Currently, we serve 26,000 students, mostly from Al-Baha region, but also a batch of international students who come for Arabic language and Islamic studies. All together, we host around 166 international students from 20 different countries.
How do you envision better aligning graduation programs with industry requirements?
Vision 2030 has given us a wide range of thinking, and the focus on the young generation is the key here. At Al-Baha University, we guide students to build up relevant skills for jobs of the future, specifically in engineering and computer science. The business center plays an important role here as well, where we aim to develop the entrepreneurial skills of our students and teach them how to set up companies. Already, 60 students, male and female, have worked on comprehensive business plans that they pitched in a competition. The top three receive full support to develop their plans as real companies. Apart from this competition, we continue to provide inclusive programs to encourage our students.
How do you strive to bring more technology into classrooms?
Our computer science college and engineering colleges offer various programs in the field of technology, including ICT and mechanical engineering. The internal IT infrastructure is extremely technologically advanced to stay on par with international practices. The university network allows students to do all their interactions online. To encourage our students, we have a computer science club for both males and females with additional workshops and training programs. On top of this, our staff can follow programs to improve their own skills.
What are the main fields of research at the university?
Research is an essential part of the university. We have a deanship and a vice president for research, and we encourage our staff to conduct research and apply for funding. In 2018 so far, we have approved funded research for about 90 staff members in different areas. Staff typically apply to that fund, and there is a committee that reviews the ideas and selects the best ideas to support. Also, we work with King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) to support research projects. We hope to have this funding in the near future to fund specific research for staff members of Al-Baha University.
What is the typical mentality of an Al-Baha graduate?
A mountainous environment like Al-Baha inspires to think more about nature, ecology, and agriculture. At Al-Baha University, we think about bringing the university and people closer together to think about the natural aspects. Also, we can develop our tourism, as Saudis like to come here during the hot summer months. That includes thinking about a summer program at the university, for example for the youth traveling with their families. There could be training workshops or programs in our business center. We need to think about programs that we need in the future. We need to be able to change our programs going forward to meet the needs of Vision 2030; programs need to be changed to be ready for the new generation of jobs. The majority of the Saudi population is below 30 years old, and this is our advantage.
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In another tweet, he pointed out that his use of social media had been crucial to his success in the 2016 presidential election — despite urging by the media, and even by his fellow Republicans, that he stop it.
Nothing has changed in thirty years, except for the medium.
But is Trump's conduct "presidential," as he promised?
Trump's critics often contrast his behavior with that of his predecessor, President Barack Obama, who was known for his cool demeanor. But Obama was not above insulting people from the bully pulpit — whether declaring that Cambridge had "acted stupidly" in arresting a black Harvard professor; opining that racism was "part of our DNA" as Americans; or accusing doctors of cutting out people's tonsils and amputating their limbs to earn more money.
One difference is immediately apparent: Trump generally confines his attacks to members of the media and political elite, while Obama attacked ordinary people, or Americans as a whole.
That is one of the reasons Trump supporters — many of whom would rather he put Twitter aside, if only because of the controversy it often creates — have never abandoned him over his comments. Moreover, he is usually punching back: his targets almost always start the fight.
A further question is how "presidential" conduct is to be measured. Trump may flout social conventions, but never flouts the Constitution.
Liberal attorney and scholar Alan Dershowitz observed in February that Trump "avoided a constitutional crisis by appealing, rather than defying, an overbroad injunction" by the judiciary against his "travel ban." (He was vindicated last week.) Obama, on the other hand, routinely ignored court rulings that he did not like.
Trump is certainly capable of playing by the rules of decorum. One would like a president to do so at all times. Yet recent history is littered with Republicans who played nice and lost elections, or backed down from a fight once in office. Controversial tweets may be a political hazard of a winning mentality.
Regardless, many Americans prefer a president who breaks the social norms of politics to one who breaks the rules of the Constitution, however politely.


Req for vac of alley Ely/o Alvarado Street between Wilshire Boulevard & 7th Street.
10/28/2016 City Clerk scheduled item for Council on November 8, 2016 .
10/26/2016 City Clerk transmitted Council File to Public Works and Gang Reduction CommitteeClerk.
Bureau of Engineering report, dated October 26, 2016, relative to Resolution to Vacate No. 16-21744 for alley (Portion) easterly of Alvarado Street between Wilshire Boulevard and 7th Street.
03/18/2014 Council adopted item, subject to reconsideration, pursuant to Council Rule 51.
03/11/2014 City Clerk scheduled item for Council on March 18, 2014 .
03/11/2014 Public Works and Gang Reduction Committee waived consideration of item .
03/04/2014 Motion referred to Public Works and Gang Reduction Committee.
7-27-01 - The above-titled vacation, processed under Council File 85-0515 has been terminated - Vacation proceedings not completed within five years of the public hearing date are to be terminated.


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Guillaume Cotin, priest
'Jordanus told me that Fabrizio Mordente is here in Paris, sixty years old, the god of geometers, and in that field he surpasses everyone who has gone before and everyone today, even though he knows no Latin; Jordanus will have his works printed in Latin.'
The slander of inquisitors
John Manningham, lawyer
'At our feast wee had a play called "Twelue Night, or What you Will," much like the Commedy of Errores, or Menechmi in Plautus, but most like and neere to that in Italian called Inganni. A good practise in it to make the Steward beleeve his Lady widdowe was in love with him, by counterfeyting a letter as from his Lady in generall termes, telling him what shee liked best in him, and prescribing his gesture in smiling, his apparaile, &c., and then when he came to practise making him beleeue they tooke him to be mad.'
Shakespeare's name William
William Whiteway, politician
'This day king Charles was crowned at Westminster, with great solemnity. The Queen refused to be Crowned by any Protestant Bishop, without dispensation from the Pope. There were now Created 8 Earles and 80 knights of the Bath. The solemnity of the kings riding through London in State is put of to the 1st May next coming.'
The towne took on fire
Woodes Rogers, sailor
'On February 1st, 1709, we came before that island, having had a good observation the day before, and found our latitude to be 34 degrees 10 minutes south. In the afternoon, we hoisted out our pinnace; and Captain Dover, with the boat's crew, went in her to go ashore, though we could not be less that four leagues off. As soon as the pinnace was gone, I went on board the Duchess, who admired our boat attempting going ashore at that distance from land. It was against my inclination: but, to oblige Captain Dover, I let her go: As soon as it was dark, we saw a light ashore. Our boat was then about a league off the island, and bore away for the ship as soon as she saw the lights: We put our lights aboard for the boat, though some were of opinion, the lights we saw were our boat's lights: But, as night came on, it appeared too large for that: We fired our quarter-deck gun, and several muskets, showing lights in our mizen and fore-shrouds, that our boat might find us whilst we were in the lee of the island: About two in the morning our boat came on board, having been two hours on board the Duchess, that took them up astern of us; we were glad they got well off, because it began to blow. We were all convinces the light was on the shore, and designed to make our ships ready to engage, believing them to be French ships at anchor, and we must either fight them, or want water. All this stir and apprehension arose, as we afterwards found, from one poor naked man, who passed in our imagination, at present, for a Spanish garrison, a body of Frenchmen, or a crew of pirates. While we were under these apprehensions, we stood on the backside of the island, in order to fall in with the southerly wind, till we were past the island; and then we came back to it again, and ran close aboard the land that begins to make the north-east side.
We still continued to reason upon this matter; and it is in a manner incredible, what strange notions many of our people entertained from the sight of the fire upon the island. It served, however, to show people's tempers and spirits; and we were able to give a tolerable guess how our men would behave, in case there really were any enemies upon the island. The flaws came heavy off the shore, and we were forced to reef our topsails when we opened the middle bay, where we expected to have found our enemy; but saw all clear, & no ships, nor in the other bay next the north-east end. These two bays are all that ships ride in, which recruit on this island; but the middle bay is by much the best. We guessed there had been ships there, but that they were gone on sight of us. We sent our yawl ashore about noon, with Captain Dover, Mr. Fry, and six men, all armed: Mean while we and the Duchess kept turning to get in, and such heavy flaws came off the land, that we were forced to let go our top sail sheet, keeping all hands to stand by our sails, for fear of the winds carrying them away: But when the flaws were gone, we had little or no wind. These flaws proceeded from the land; which is very high in the middle of the island. Our boat did not return; we sent our pinnace with the men armed, to see what was the occasion of the yawl's stay; for we were afraid, that the Spaniards had a garrison there, and might have seized them. We put out a signal for our boat, and the Duchess showed a French ensign. Immediately our pinnace returned from the shore, and brought abundance of cry-fish, with a man clothed in goats skins, who looked wilder than the first owners of them. He had been on the island four years and four months, being left there by Captain Stradling in the Cinque-ports, his name was Alexander Selkirk, a Scotchman, who had been master of the Cinque-ports, a ship that came here last with Captain Dampier, who told me, that this was the best man in her. I immediately agreed with him to be a mate on board our ship: It was he that made the fire last night when he saw our ships, which he judged to be English. During his stay here he saw several ships pass by, but only two came in to anchors: As he went to view them; he found them to be Spaniards, and retired from them, upon which they shot at him: Had they been French, he would have submitted; but choose to risque his dying alone on the island, rather than fall into the hands of Spaniards in these parts; because he apprehended they would murder him, or make a slave of him in the mines; for he feared they would spare no stranger that might be capable of discovering the South Seas.
The Spaniards had landed, before he knew what they were; and they came so near him, that he had much ado to escape; for they not only shot at him, but pursued him to the woods, where he climbed to the top of a tree, at the foot of which they made water, and killed several goats just by, but went off again without discovering him. He told us that he was born at Largo, in the county of Fife, in Scotland, and was bred a sailor from his youth. The reason of his being left here was difference between him and his captain; which together with the ship's being leaky, made him willing rather to stay here, than go along with him at first; but when he was at last willing to go, the captain would not receive him. He had been at the island before, to wood and water, when two of the ship's company were left upon it for six mouths, till the Ship returned, being chased thence by two French South-sea ships. He had with him his cloaths and bedding, with a firelock, some powder, bullets and tobacco, a hatchet, a knife, a kettle, a bible, some practical pieces, and his mathematical instruments and books. He diverted and provided for himself as well as he could; but for the first eight months, had much ado to bear up against melancholy, and the terror of being left alone in such a desolate place. He built two huts with pimento trees, covered them with long grass, & lined them with the skins of goats, which be killed with his gun as he wanted, so long as his powder lasted, which was but a pound; and that being almost spent, he got fire by rubbing two sticks of pimento-wood together upon his knee. In the lesser hut, at some distance from the other, he dressed his victuals; and in the larger he slept; and employed himself in reading, singing psalms, and praying; so that he said. He was a better Christian, while in this solitude, than ever he was before, or than, he was afraid, he would ever be again.
At first he never ate anything till hunger constrained him, partly for grief, and partly for want of bread and salt: Nor did he go to bed, till he could watch no longer; the pimento-wood, which burnt very clear, served him both for fire and candle, and refreshed him with its fragrant smell. He might have had fish enough, but would not eat them for want of salt, because they occasioned a looseness, except crayfish which are as large as our lobsters, and very good: These he sometimes boiled, and at other times broiled, as he did his goat's flesh, of, which he made very good broth, for they are not so rank as ours: he kept an account of 500 that he killed while there, and caught as many more, which he marked on the ear, and let go. When, his powder failed, he took them by speed of feet; for his way of living, continual exercise of walking and running cleared him of all gross humours; so that he ran with wonderful swiftness through the woods, and up the rocks and hills, as we perceived when we employed him to catch goats for us; We had a bull dog, which we lent with several of our nimblest runners, to help him in catching goats; but he distanced and tired both the dog and the men, caught the goats, and brought them to us on his back.
He told us, that his agility in pursuing a goat had once like to have cost him his life; he pursued it with so much eagerness, that he catched hold of it on the brink of a precipiece, of which he was not aware, the bushes hiding it from him; so, that he fell with the goat down the precipiece; a great height, and was to stunned and bruised with the fall, that he narrowly escaped with his life; and, when he came to his senses, found the goat dead under him: He lay there about twenty-four hours, and was scarce able to crawl to his hut, which was about a mile distant, or to stir abroad again in ten days.
He came at last to relish his meat well enough without salt or bread; and, in the season had plenty of good turreps, which had been sewed there by Captain Dampier's men, and have now overspread some acres of ground. He had enough of good cabbage from the cabbage-trees, and seasoned his meat with the fruit of the pimento trees, which is the same as Jamaica pepper, and smells deliciously: He found also a black pepper, called Ma'azeta, which was very good to expel wind, and against gripping in the guts.
He soon wore out all his shoes and clothes by running in the woods; and at last, being forced to shift without them, his feet became so hard, that he ran everywhere without difficulty; and it was some time before he could wear shoes after we found him; for not being used to any so long, his feet swelled when he came first to wear them again.
After he had conquered his melancholy, he diverted himself sometimes with cutting his name in the trees, and the time of his being left, and continuance there. He was at first much pestered with cats and rats, that bred in great numbers, from some of each species which had got ashore from ships that put in there to wood and water: The rats gnawed his feet and cloathes whilst asleep, which obliged him to cherish the cats with his goats flesh, by which many of them became so tame, that they would lie about him in hundreds, and soon delivered him from the rats: He likewise tamed some kids; and, to divert himself would, now and then, sing and dance with them, and his cats: So that by the favour of Providence, and vigour of his youth, being now but thirty years old, he came, at last, to conquer all the inconveniencies of his solitude, and to be very easy.
When his cloathes were worn out, he made himself a coat and a cap of goat-skins, which he stiched together with little thongs of the same, that he cut with his knife, He had no other needle but a nail; and, when his knife was worn to the back, he made others, as well as he could, of some iron hoops that were left ashore, which he beat thin, and ground upon stones. Having some linnen cloth by him, he sewed him some shirts with a nail, and stiched them with the worsted of his old stockings, which he pulled out on purpose. He had his last shirt on, when we found him in the island.
At his first coming on board us, he had so much forgot his language, for want of use, that we could scarce understand him: for he seemed to speak his words by halve. We offered him a dram: but he would not touch it; having drank nothing but water since his being there; And it was sometime before he could relish our victuals. He could give us an account of no other product of the island, than what we have mentioned, except some black plums, which are very good, but hard to come at, the trees, which bear them, growing on high mountains and rocks. Pimento-trees are plenty here, and we saw some of sixty feet high and about two yards thick; and cotton-trees higher, and near four fathoms round in the stock. The climate is so good that the trees and grass are verdant all the year round. The winter lasts no longer than June and July, and is not then severe, there being only a small frost, and a little hail: but sometimes great rains. The heat of the summer is equally moderate; and there is not much thunder, or tempestuous weather of any sort. He saw no venomous or savage creature on the island, nor any sort of beasts but goats, the first of which had been put ashore here, on purpose for a breed, by Juan Fernandez, a Spaniard, who settled there with some families, till the continent of Chili began to submit to the Spaniards; which, being more profitable; tempted them to quit this island, capable however, of maintaining a good number of people, and being made so strong, that they could hot be easily dislodged from thence.'
We saw a light ashore
William Daunt, politician
'Bought a horse . . . from Curly Crowley for £18. He told me he could have got £2 more from a sporting gentleman in our neighbourhood. "You would have got his promise," said I, "but you know he is not the best pay." "Och, I wouldn't care for that," returned Crowley, "for he couldn't keep me out of the money beyond the next quarter sessions, and the cost of the process would be only five shillings." There was something very 'Irish' in this notion of selling a horse on the security of a lawsuit with the purchaser. . .'
The Irish Difficulty
Lucy Cavendish, campaigner
'The meeting was in the Keighley Mechanics' Institute, at 8. The fine big hall was crammed in every corner. F. spoke with rather less effect than at Halifax, confining himself almost entirely to finance, but the people listened famously well, and I enjoyed the sight of their keen, shrewd faces. At first there were symptoms of opposition, from Tory, extreme Radical, and Republican (! ! !) sections, but all this seemed to dwindle away. My proudest time was during the questions, in which my old Fred does certainly excel. He is thoroughly up upon all the subjects and one could see growing respect and confidence in the faces below. Jolly old Mr. Wilson followed suit with unbounded good-will and pluck, but not quite with all the knowledge of the various matters one could wish; occasionally taking wild Radical flights, occasionally coming out rather old Tory than otherwise; but always with straightforwardness and bonhomie. What with F.'s profound earnestness and his humorous hitting, they are a good deal like Tragedy and Comedy. The meeting ended with splendid enthusiasm, and was all but unanimous, barely 6 hands being held up against us.'
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Andreas-Salomé, doctor
'Spent Sunday afternoon until evening at Freud's. This time much more personal conversation, during which he told me of his life, and I promised to bring photographs next time. Most personal of all perhaps was his charming account of the "narcissistic cat." While Freud maintained his office on the ground floor, the cat had climbed in through the open window. He did not care much for cats or dogs or animals generally, and in the beginning the cat aroused mixed feelings in him, especially when it climbed down from the sofa on which it had made itself comfortable and began to inspect in passing the antique objects which he had placed for the time being on the floor. He was afraid that by chasing it away he might cause it to move recklessly in the midst of these precious treasures of his. But when the cat proceeded to make known its archaeological satisfaction by purring and with its lithe grace did not cause the slightest damage, Freud's heart melted and he ordered milk for it. From then on the cat claimed its rights daily to take a place on the sofa, inspect the antiques, and get its bowl of milk. However, despite Freud's increasing affection and admiration, the cat paid him not a bit of attention and coldly turned its green eyes with their slanting pupils toward him as toward any other object. When for an instant he wanted more of the cat than its egoistic-narcissistic purring, he had to put his foot down from his comfortable chaise and court its attention with the ingenious enticement of his shoe-toe. Finally, after this unequal relationship had lasted a long time without change, one day he found the cat feverish and gasping on the sofa. And although it was most painstakingly treated with hot fomentations and other remedies, it succumbed to pneumonia, leaving naught of itself behind but a symbolic picture of all the peaceful and playful charm of true egoism.
Freud also talked about why I had become so deeply involved in psychoanalysis. To begin with, it was nothing but the kind of neutral objective interest that one feels when embarking on new researches. Then the opportunity came in all its liveliness and personal urgency to stand in the presence of a new science, again and again to be at a beginning and thus related to the problems of the science in an increasingly intimate way. What settled the matter for me, however, was the third and most personal reason that psychoanalysis bestowed a gift on me personally, its radiant enrichment of my own life that came from slowly groping the way to the roots by which it is embedded in the totality. When Freud said laughingly "I really think you look on analysis as a sort of Christmas present," I could only agree, since for me it was not a question of resolving conflicts between the depth and the surface. And quite possibly neither joy nor anguish are ever so vividly impressed on us as when they proceed from the unconscious to the level of experience; just as bliss once enjoyed can be horribly transformed into pain in the course of the night, so too it is likely that the memory of hours of crucifixion may be transformed to a life beyond, a resurrection glistening with the stars. In the homeland of our emotional life it is true that heaven and hell - in other respects only fictions - are preserved for us in the unconscious as our eternal reality.'
A sort of Christmas present
Pierre Gilliard, teacher
'23° R. below zero. Prince Dolgorouky and I watered the snow mountain. We carried thirty buckets of water. It was so cold that the water froze on the way from the kitchen tap to the mountain. Our buckets and the snow mountain "steamed." To-morrow the children can begin tobogganing.'
State of mental anguish
Zorina Gray, actress
'First dress rehearsal. Went quite well - I personally was very dissatisfied - didn't act as well as I have - danced dreadfully badly - and anyhow it was so peculiar in the bedroom scene - had to kiss Jack Whiting, which I found so embarrassing - have no idea after all how to kiss on the stage.'
My knees felt like macaroni
Samuel Beckett, writer
'[Willi Grohmann s]ays it is more interesting to stay than to go, even if it were possible to go. They can't control thoughts. Length of regime impossible to estimate, depends mostly on economic outshot. If it breaks down it is fitting for him and his kind to be on the spot, to go under or become active again. Already a fraternity of intellectuals, where freedom to grumble is less than the labourer's, because the labourer's grumble is not dangerous.
[. . .]
'I am always depressed and left with [a] sense of worthlessness at the beautifully applied energy of these people [his German friends], the exactness of documentation, completeness of equipment ... and authenticity of vocation. In comparison I am utterly alone (no group even of my own kind) and without purpose alone and pathologically indolent and limp and opinionless and consternated. The little trouble I give myself, this absurd diary with its lists of pictures, serves no purpose, is only the act of an obsessional neurotic. Counting pennies would do as well. An 'open-mindedness' that is mindlessness, the sphincter of the mind limply for ever open, the mind past the power of closing itself to everything but its own content, or rather its own treatment of a content.
I have never thought for myself. I have switched off the incipient thought in terror for so long that I couldn't think now for half-a-minute if my life (!) depended on it.'
This absurd diary
James Tiptree, Jr., writer
'The distasteful proof of my sexuality is bound up with masochistic fantasies of helplessness [. . .] depressed me profoundly. I am not a man, I am not the do-er, the penetrator. And Tiptree was "magical" manhood, his pen my prick. I had through him all the power and prestige of masculinity, I was - though an aging intellectual - of those who own the world. How I loathe being a woman. Wanting to be done to. [. . .]
Tiptree's "death" has made me face - what I never really went into with Bob [Harper] - my self-hate as a woman. And my view of the world as structured by raw power. [. . .] I want power. I want to be listened to. [. . .] And I'll never have it. I'm stuck with this perverse, second-rate body; my life.'
Julie Phillips goes on to say: 'What she needed, she kept thinking was "to change in some way inside myself." She decided she should try lesbian sex. [. . .] She wrote in her journal, "I want to make love to young women, to make them come, and happy. Maybe then masturbate myself. Sex as activity. It could work. I shall start to mix it with women's groups, looking to actualize this. I really believe I shall. I think I could make my aged self palatable enough. It was all straight-arrow." But she didn't do it.'
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There's already enough food in the world for everyone, but one person in eight goes hungry every night, and 2.3 million children die needlessly each year from malnutrition. What can be done about it? A report published by the Hunger Alliance suggests investing more in small-scale women farmers would be a good start.
Three quarters of the world's hungry and malnourished people are farmers in developing countries who rely on whatever they can grow on their small plots of land, usually two hectares or less. In most cases, it isn't enough for their families to be well fed and healthy. Improving the productivity of these small-scale farmers would directly address most of the world's hunger and malnutrition, as they are responsible for 80% of the food supply in developing countries.
But for maximum impact, we need to be even more specific and focus on women farmers in particular. This is because women are disproportionately marginalised in agriculture: they account for some 60% to 80% of food production in developing countries, and yet only 5% of government agricultural services, such as training in agriculture techniques and livestock vaccination programmes, ever reach women farmers.
If all women farmers were given better training and access to inputs such as good seeds, fertilisers and vaccinations, their yields would increase. Greater yields are helpful for all farmers, but the impact of increasing women's agricultural yields is particularly strong because ending hunger and malnutrition isn't solely about how much food is produced: it's also about how any extra food and income is then used.
Where women's yields and incomes are improved, the effect on hunger and malnutrition is greater because women are more likely to use household incomes and food supplies to care for children and feed them. Research by the World Bank has shown that women are consistently more likely than men to invest in their children's health, nutrition, and education. It is therefore women's productivity in particular that translates into better health and nutrition for poor people as a whole.
One way of making this happen is to help women make better use of the resources available to them. Women don't always have equal access to the land used by men, but they do tend to control smaller areas such as gardens, field edges, roofs and ponds. This land can be put to good use in growing vegetables and fruits, and raising small livestock such as chickens or fish. Controlled by women, the extra food and income produced this way is likely to mean less hunger and better nutrition for them and their families. In fact, one review of the impact of home gardens found that they improved nutrition in 11 out of 13 cases.
The home garden programmes that improved nutrition were typically those that combined agriculture with other interventions, such as education in nutrition. Recent work by CARE International in Bangladesh has backed this up.
SHOUHARDO (Strengthening Household Ability to Respond to Development Opportunities) was a $126m programme in Bangladesh which launched in 2006 to improve nutrition through a package of services and education aimed at women. It went beyond direct nutrition interventions to include training in home gardens, maternal health, immunisation and financial services, as well as the formation of women's groups to identify solutions to the problems faced by women such as violence, early marriage and lack of education.
The impact of this co-ordinated assault on malnutrition was impressive: in February 2006, 56.1% of children in the target population were stunted. By November 2009, only 40.4% were. The stunting rate within the target population had fallen by almost 16 percentage points in less than 4 years. Agricultural productivity through women's home gardens was an important part of that, but combining it with other forms of intervention in women's training, education and confidence magnified the impact on nutrition.
Programmes such as SHOUHARDO show that if we want to reduce hunger and malnutrition, the greatest gains are to be found with relatively modest investment in small-scale women farmers. It is there that we find the most untapped potential.
In January this year, for example, I met Purida, a Bangladeshi woman who had lived in the same village for 15 years but until recently had never grown food in an organised way. Given seeds and training, she had spent two weeks last year preparing a small plot of land to grow red amaranth, beans and onions. With that modest intervention, she grew enough to meet her own needs and earned 1,000Tk (£8) from her vegetable surplus. This year, she's been even more organised and expects to earn 15,000Tk (£120). As a woman and carer, Purida's new income is likely to translate into better health and nutrition for her and her family.
As G8 leaders gather at a 'Hunger Summit' in June alongside the G8 summit, the Hunger Alliance report is calling for the UK government to commit to investing an additional £425 million per year in small-scale agriculture, representing its share of what is needed to fill the gap in poor countries' agricultural funding. Investment in small-scale farmers is the only realistic way we can achieve the UN Secretary General's Zero Hunger Challenge of eradicating hunger by 2025. We know it works: what we need is the political will to make it happen.
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Musings about Ready Player One
Ready Player One is a recent novel by Ernest Cline. It's about a contest to find an easter egg in OASIS, the novel's uber MMO that has absorbed all MMOs, games, shopping, Internet et cetera. Right before dying, the bachelor, shut-in, and stuck in his childhood in the 80s creator of OASIS created a huge easter egg, and made a contest of solving the easter egg. Whoever won got his fortune, which was the largest in the world by far. It takes the world some 7 years to solve it, and the book is about the solving. It gets almost all of its allure, unabashedly, from 80s pop culture (although this extends to 70s and 90s in parts), and the plot itself is basically about how the crazy megabillionaire's own nostalgia for his past has affected the rest of the world in their search for the easter egg that will grant them his megabillions. So, that's the plot, but what's interesting is the nostalgia.
I use the term 'nostalgia' here rather loosely though as it isn't exactly nostalgia. Or rather, it isn't nostalgia for everybody. For the author it probably is nostalgia, for the reader it might be, for the diegetic creator of the game it was, but for the players it was entirely second hand. As egg hunters ("gunters") they're obsessed with 80s pop culture as it is assumed to be (and in fact is) the key to solving the easter egg. It was never their culture, and this is doubly sad as their own culture, as the book is so quick in its distopia to point out, is dead and escaping in virtual worlds that comprise OASIS. The real world sucks, so they get out, but the virtual worlds (at least the ones visited in the book) are completely filled with 80s nostalgia. They've lost their past and present and instead live in somebody else's past. It's a bit trippy in some ways. It makes me wonder about whose nostalgia it is now. By 'now' I mean now now, outside in the real world where remakes and demakes and minecraft and the SC2 lost viking minigame splash screen are all present.
The other thing I can't help but think about is the large number of environmentally distopian novels I've read recently. While Wendy Chun has written about sci-fi as the never coming future I wonder if that holds with the more scientifically frightening science fiction like Oryx and Crake and Ready Player One that are really all based on the belief that we're screwed because of a built up fucking over of the planet.
Author Stephen MandibergPosted on September 7, 2011 Categories General, MusingsTags 8 bit, demake, gaming, history, memory, nostalgia, Ready Player One, remakeLeave a comment on Musings about Ready Player One
(New Media) Translation After Pound
The 20th century turn toward domestication essentially stems form Ezra Pound's translations, but impurely, through the modern emphasis of the author mixed with the business of selling books.
According to Ronnie Apter in Digging for the Treasure: Translation After Pound, Pound influenced translation theory and practice in three major ways. First, was the move from "Victorian pseudo-archaic translation diction" to modern style. Second, is by arguing for a criticism of the original in some form: not simply the objective transfer (an acknowledged impossibility by the Victorians as well), but to focus on some particular element and thereby "criticize." And finally, the creation of a new poem: not just something derivative.
These three were all essential breaks with both the Victorian practice, which focused on three criteria: paraphrase with no additions (subtractions were inevitable, but additions were taboo), the reproduction of the author's traits (just what the traits were was, however, up for grabs), and the reproduction of the overall effect of the text (whether the "effect was of the original on the original's original audience, or the original on the modern audience who can read the original text is unknown). It was also an adaptation with the contemporaneous translation theory professed by Matthew Arnold and F. W. Newman.
However, while Pound was translating against the Victorian grain, we have come full circle to a new norm. The fashion of the times has changed to one that embraces Pound's basics, but not the depths. If "great translators transcend the fashion of their times [and] minor ones merely manipulate it" Pound was a great translator, many minor figures have manipulated his transcendence, but Pound himself would simply be one of any in the current fashion. As Lawrence Venuti has argued, the times and dominant style have changed and another transcendental shift is called for.
What I want to argue is that this shift is called for by the media itself. The move from literary page translation to multimedia and digital forms leads into new possibilities for and understandings of translation. In an interesting way, however, it is Pound's logopoeia, his style of meta-translation, that can still lead the way. Whereas Pound focused on the meaning of words to bring into focus both the older era and the present, a type of dialectical juxtaposition, the move toward searchable, digital data in opposition to static, analogue data allows the simultaneous existence of both data sets and a new type of logopoeia. This new form of meta-translation involves the layering of translational tracks. Instead of juxtaposition, there is the coexistence of both tracks/languages/cultures.
This is similar to the possibilities evoked by subtitles and abuse (Nornes), but it considers the issue in relation to digital, new media and not simply film considered in an analogue manner. Instead of the ability to simply choose one or another track/language, it gives all, or switches between languages. It renders the possibilities of putting three real languages into a game such as Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 (English, Russian and Japanese to use the fictive world), but more meaningfully (and less deliberately/offensively stereotypically), of switching them on the fly so that one game has the US speaking English, the Russians Russian and the Japanese Japanese, but another switches so that the US speaks Japanese, the Russians English and the Japanese Russian. The media uses its ability to draw from the swappable data files not to simply replace one with another, thereby changing one representation into another, but to abuse the user with a constant active experience that questions the submerged normativity of language that exists with translated entertainment products (games in particular) at present.
Author Stephen MandibergPosted on January 18, 2010 January 18, 2010 Categories General, TheoryTags gaming, history, language, nationalism, new media, translationLeave a comment on (New Media) Translation After Pound
Castles and/as History for an American
That I'm an American is something I just realized while walking around Edinburgh. Specifically I realized that Disney Castle is a crock and real castles rock.
Slightly more generally I should point out that from the moment I went away to Japan I played with my nationality (just as I'd begun to play with my identity previously). Because of the (then) recent World Trade Center incident I remember reading and being told that Americans abroad should by evasive about their nationality in fear of repercussions against their selves. What this amounted to was a) don't hang around the US embassy in Tokyo, and b) don't broadcast that you're American. For me, it had the added effect that because of my Portland (lack of) accent, being surrounded by an international and Japanese crowd and predominately speaking Japanese I was able to hide my nationality quite well. My accent in Japanese was completely unrecognizable and my English accent was relatively unplaceable, but most guessed somewhere in Europe (also because of my appearance).
So, I have generally thought about nationality and my 'Americanness' as something that is easily hide-able, unimportant and generally malleable. Of course, this is a rather obnoxious assumption as my Americanness is, of course, marked in various ways from mannerisms to specific words to those who look, but more importantly, it's highly related to my understanding of particular terms, concepts and ideas.
I understand theory from a particular cultural perspective. Which is to say that I understand the world as an American. And one of the things that Americans don't understand is History with a capital H that goes back into the architecture and ground. Sure, some cities on the east coast go back a few hundred years now and places have been around for a hundred plus years, but there certainly aren't any castles or five hundred year old under layers of the city that have been built over.
So if Baudrillard and every other continental theorist must make the trip to California to see Disneyland and find simulacra, America, late capitalism, or whatnot, perhaps it is just as 'necessary' for Americans to go and see castles, cobbled roads, and old skinny streets to understand history and the real.
Everything is relative. This much is known. So maybe the relative understanding of the present depends on your knowledge of the past, real or simulation (or representation), etc.
Such were my thoughts before going to Edinburgh Castle, but having seen it from various vantage points around the city. Having done the castle visit I'm not quite as enlightened as I might have been, but it was interesting for a number of reasons.
Primarily, the castle was interesting because it was a glorified museum. Things were blocked off, things were accessible, people were funneled through the different sections to get pumped up info about topics from the history of Scotland and war (the predominant aspect of the information), the history of the crown jewels, the castle's renovation as a prison, the rooms where Mary Queen of Scots was born, etc. The strange part to me is that the castle becomes the site of a museum for various things at the same time that it embodies (minimally) history.
However, the building as history did not happen like I somehow thought would be. Part of this is that the process of history entails building over the old things. Placards that announce any give piece of information are new. The books that announce the war dead from years past in one area were from 2008. The cobbled street, which one may guess is rather old is half paved over in some spots and who knows when it was actually cobbled.
There are no placards informing the visitor of when history took place, when it was imagined and altered. Instead, there is simply what 'happened.'
Second, because the rooms present certain themes they exist outside of their original purpose. Even the birth of the queen of scots etc and the great hall are semi outside of history as it is presented as her birthplace but also some other's birthplace and they are separated by numerous years. And the great hall seems to host various weapons, but its original purpose is outside of representation. The rooms are a smashup of time. However, the honours are possibly the best example as they are a long, almost Disneylike progression from start to end going through various rooms. The castle goer travels from room to room getting the history of the Honours, the sword, scepter, crown and jewels of Scotland including their making, the hiding for 111 years and finally in the last room one sees the actual objects. Two points of interest are that one sees replicas of the artifacts in almost every room before the final room (perhaps most interesting are the bronze replicas with lots of braille information surrounding them, and a half size sword, right before the final room). The second is that one is walking through rooms of the castle that have been completely reappropriated from whatever their original purpose might have been. You have no idea what the rooms might have been at any given point.
The result of this decontextualization of the space the castle becomes a vantage point to see the city and a place of (military) history, but it is taken out of time.
The ground and place itself, which I immediately thought of as history were turned no more into history than 100 and 200 year old buildings on the east coast of the United States. Which, I guess points to my innocence that there is actually some sort of feeling of time in places that is not history, which is the same whether it's a day, a decade, a century or a millennia old.
Author Stephen MandibergPosted on September 20, 2009 Categories MusingsTags city, history, museum, nationalismLeave a comment on Castles and/as History for an American
Game Preservation and Remakes
There was a panel at DiGRA'09 about game preservation that asked questions about how to preserve games, what to preserve, what was being done, etc. One thing that struck me then and now is how the trope of preservation is truly opposed in some ways to the logics of the remake that I wrote of previously.
Preservation is to keep an old thing in a usable state: to freeze it. On the surface, this is similar to what the remake does: it takes something and preserves (a part of) it for usage. Of course, the key difference is that whereas preservation thinks to hardware, greater experience (as well as the futility of this due to data decay), remakes take one single element as something worthwhile: they story and general play or rule set as it might be called.
Game preservation efforts and remakes preserve different things. So what about the demake? Well, it seems to preserve the other elements. While a remake preserves story/play, a demake preserves graphics/sound/hardware. Finally, the preservation efforts try to preserve both sides.
Now where does this then place preservation, or I'll say it simply: museum historicism, on the one hand and logics of repetition on the other? Are they anathematic or related?
Author Stephen MandibergPosted on September 14, 2009 September 14, 2009 Categories MusingsTags archive, demake, history, preservation, remake, repetitionLeave a comment on Game Preservation and Remakes
Translation, Adaptation, History, Controversy (and back)
My own interests with translation have recently come crashing into one of the current big gaming controversies: Six Days in Fallujah. The path of my interest goes form translation to adaptation to the construction of history, of which the game Six Days in Fallujah is a prime example. It is also an example of gaming controversy and protestation.
Recently, Ki Mae Huessner wrote a piece for ABC News about Rendition: Guantanamo and gaming controversy. She lists 9 games that have "gone too far" in that they have brought about large controversies. Some of these games like Grand Theft Auto IV (and the rest in the series) thrive off of this controversy. Others, like Super Columbine Massacre RPG! and JFK Reloaded are completely and unfortunately misunderstood in their intent because of the controversy and crash because of it. The main problem is the conflation of games, children, play, sugar, spice and everything nice, which excludes concepts of art, theory and all things serious. This split has been problematized time and again in different fora (Serious Games, Meaningful Play, Art Games), but primarily dismissed by the people who count: the media (ABC News) and the producers who cave in (Konami). Obviously, my interests are not aligned with advocating for or against games in general or any game in particular. What I am interested in is the interaction of culture and games, or as it is more often written in conferences sections and on journals, Games and Culture.
At this point I would like to jump back along the windy path of my interest away from controversy, which is generally disinteresting to me, through the construction of history (and knowledge), to adaptation and finally arriving back at translation
Six Days in Fallujah, Rendition: Guantanamo, and JFK Reloaded are all controversial games. They are so controversial, in fact, that the former two are likely not going to be made, and the latter is barely known outside of people who study games and people who study history. All three of these are about 'history' and its construction, but that's not why they're controversial. Their controversy stems from the particular events that they dwell in/on. Moments of national trauma and embarrassment. Other games, such as Kuma/War, which features John Kerry's Silver Star mission, or the sundry World War II RTS games do the exact same thing as the controversial games, but spark near no negative reaction as they are based around events of national (and international) pride and success.
History is constructed after the event happens. History is the ordering of the past to fit with, justify the existence of, perpetuate the goals of a given political entity be it nation-state, company, individual, or other. Text books, movies, novels and even historical treaties all do this; games are no different. The problem, of course, is that whereas some of the above have been welcomed into the serious realm games have not. So, games can construct history and the three above games do exactly that. Time for another step backward to the idea of adaptation.
Adaptation involves the re-ordering of logics from one form to another. The intent is that the overarching logic (or under-girding structure) remains between versions/editions/adaptations, but such is of course the difficulty in adapting anything. While most adaptations are thought to be from one form of popular media to another (between books, plays, movies, radio shows, television shows and so on) what must also be understood is that the definition of media need not be so limited. Language can be considered a medium, hence the difficulty in adapting between language/word and visual representation. History is another medium. History games are all adaptations, imperfect re-ordering of the events, feelings, beliefs, half-truths, full truths and lies in order to construct History.
And finally back to translation. While adaptation admits to changing the object (a book is turned into a movie; a historical event is turned into a game), translation hides and objects to this simple fact. Translation is based around the impossible goal of equality that is embedded within the concept of translation (See Walter Benjamin, "Task of the Translator"). (Perfect) translation is, and will always be, impossible. What remains then is choosing what will be successfully translated from one culture to another. History games make a very particular choice in what they translate, but that choice is also what leads to controversy as it does not match up with the dominant perception of what should be maintained.
Back to Six Days in Fallujah. History games are necessary for a number of reasons. On one level they are important in that they are part of the construction of history. Popular culture is one part of historicism despite official history's denial of such a fact. On another layer, history games are an important step in the definition of games as a medium outside of the realm of (uncritically happy) play with sugar, spice and you get the picture. Art Games, Serious Games and Mature Games (theoretically mature, not thematically mature – Beyond Good and Evil, not RapeLay) are other parts of this movement. Six Days in Fallujah would have done both of these things: critically bring up issues of the interpretation of the past event and construction of future history; oppose the uncritical simplicity of games where you play the unquestioned, good guys and kill the unquestioned bad guys.
Life is not simple. Play is not simple. Games should not be simple.
Author Stephen MandibergPosted on June 9, 2009 Categories Musings, TheoryTags gaming, history, language, translationLeave a comment on Translation, Adaptation, History, Controversy (and back)


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Press Releases » $3 Million Series A for DOmedia Breaks New Ground For Ohio Investors
$3 Million Series A for DOmedia Breaks New Ground For Ohio Investors
Funding is One of First for the Ohio Innovation Fund
COLUMBUS, OH April 20, 2016 – DOmedia LLC, the leading software platform provider for planning and buying out-of-home (OOH) advertising, announced the close of Series A funding round totaling $3 million. The round was led by Advantage Capital Partners (ACP). The round also included one of the first two investments from the Ohio Innovation Fund (OIF), whose founding members are The Ohio State University and Ohio University.
DOmedia, which operates out of Columbus, OH, will use the funds to extend its suite of OOH media buying software for advertising agencies of all sizes; develop new applications to serve the 1,700 advertising vendors that currently use DOmedia; and support the ramp up of DOmedia's hiring initiatives within sales, marketing and technology.
DOmedia's platform is unique as compared to other software suites; it removes barriers to communication and allows true interactive collaboration on proposals and marketing campaign development between advertisers and the vendors who sell OOH ad space. The platform has generated more than $3.7 billion in proposals for billboards, transit, alternative and other OOH needs. In 2015, U.S. advertising and PR agencies contracted over $400 million of media through DOmedia.
"DOmedia has a proven track record of success aggregating the demand and supply-sides of the media industry," said Christopher Harris, Senior Vice President at Advantage Capital Partners. "DOmedia brings efficiency and transparency to out-of-home media buying, putting them at the forefront of innovation within this space. Our investment should give the company the tools to expand their customer acquisition strategy and further accelerate their growth."
The investment follows a year of rapid growth for DOmedia, which saw revenue increase more than 450 percent in 2015. In 2015, over five percent of all U.S. OOH media was purchased through the DOmedia system. By investing in customer acquisition and new products, the company expects to increase revenue an additional 250 percent by the end of 2017.
"DOmedia is changing how billboards and other out of home advertising is bought and sold. Our platform is bringing the buyers and sellers together to collaborate easily and efficiently in developing OOH strategies, soliciting proposals, tracking execution and analyzing outcomes. Our platform cuts the time to develop and manage OOH campaigns from days to minutes," said DOmedia CEO Ken Sahlin. "The world's largest advertising and PR agencies are ready to adopt the efficiencies and extended capabilities that our software provides."
In February, DOmedia opened its media buying platform to agencies and brands of all sizes. Anyone can sign up for a free account on DOmedia.com and use the suite of media buying software to plan and map campaigns, request proposals and contact any OOH vendor listed on DOmedia. The firm has also been piloting a new suite of supply-side applications for media vendors, which was announced at the Outdoor Advertising Association of America / Traffic Audit Bureau convention on April 18, 2016. In November 2015, DOmedia announced that over $1 billion of media had been sold through their platform.
"DOmedia has proven their product can serve the most discerning customers in the ad industry," said Bill Baumel, Managing Director of the Ohio Innovation Fund. "BThis funding will help them accelerate their growth and develop new products to serve media sellers as effectively as they serve agencies and brands, as well as adapt their platform for additional media types."
About DOmedia
DOmedia is an independent technology company on a mission to change the way out-of-home media is bought and sold. DOmedia's cloud-based applications connect buyers and sellers to leverage marketplace effects, eliminate labor and improve reporting and analytics. The firm's software is already empowering leading agencies, vendors and brands. For more information about DOmedia, visit DOmedia.com or contact Ian Bowman-Henderson at (513) 508-4237.


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import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton;
import android.support.design.widget.Snackbar;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;

import io.programminglife.androidvideostreamserver.websocket.HttpServer;

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An air carrier's liability for the loss of or damage to passenger's baggage is regulated by Articles 17 and 22 of the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air (the Montreal Convention of 1999), which provide for carrier liability to be capped at 1131 Special Drawing Rights. All EU Member States are signatories to this convention, and the Union itself acceded to the Convention by Council Decision 2001/539, with the substantive provisions of the Montreal Convention adopted in Regulation 2027/97 as amended by Regulation 889/2002. The Convention's goal is to balance the protection of consumers and the economic interests of air carriers, by imposing a system of liability caps in return for generous forum provisions and relatively strict liability standards.
In the summer of 2008, the Sanchez family (Mr Sanchez, Ms Gonzales and their two children) travelled from Barcelona to Paris on the Spanish airline Iberia. Their belongings were packed into two suitcases irretrievably lost by the airline. In their claim for €4,400 (the then Euro-equivalent of the Montreal cap), the Sanchez family asserted that they were each entitled to compensation up to the relevant limit, even though their possessions had not been packed or checked in as separate suitcases. In its preliminary reference, the Provincial Court of Barcelona enquired, in essence, whether this claim could be sustained, or whether compensation had to be limited to one passenger per piece of checked baggage.
Having decided to proceed without an Opinion by the Advocate General, the Court ruled in favour of the interpretation of Article 22(2) proffered by the claimants. In combination with the provisions of Article 17(2), it was evident from the text of the Convention that whilst it was the loss or destruction of a checked piece of baggage that triggered the carrier's liability, the entitlement to compensation fell on each individual passenger. The stipulation in Article 3(3) of the Montreal Convention that carriers are to deliver a baggage identification tag for each piece of checked baggage to the passenger could not be relied upon to support a contrary interpretation.
This textual approach to the question was supplemented by a purposive interpretation in line with the passenger-protective objectives of the Montreal Convention. Given the relatively low limits in question, the result would furthermore not be a significant or uncertain liability threat to air carriers. Finally, it was up to the national courts in each Member State to establish on the facts of each case whether a passenger had actually sustained the loss in question. Relevant factors included, but were not limited to, family membership, joint ticket purchase and simultaneous check-in.
The Court's interpretation of the Montreal Provision is undoubtedly correct, and sits in line with its general approach in questions of consumer protection. The potential impact on airlines is limited: pursuant to Article 50 of the Montreal Convention carriers need to be insured against claims under its regime, and in practice the per-passenger limitation will cut both ways: an individual passenger cannot increase the carrier's potential liability simply by dividing valuable possessions across several pieces of checked-in luggage.
The importance of its decision, however, extends beyond the rather straightforward question posed by the Spanish court. In international aviation circles, the Union's legislative and judicial activity has come to be viewed with significant (though arguably unfounded) suspicion, particularly following the enactment of Regulation 261/2004, which grants passengers extensive rights in the case of adverse events such as flight delay or cancellation, and the Court's aggressive extension of these provisions in Case C-402/07 Sturgeon. Whilst there have been several recent high-profile cases in which the Court pronounced on the relationship between EU legislation and the Montreal Convention, it had not previously been asked to interpret substantive provisions of the latter.
This is a significant departure from earlier decisions. In Case C-301/08 Bogiatzi v Luxair, the ECJ found that it was not competent to interpret the rules laid down by the Montreal regime's predecessor, the Warsaw Convention of 1929, even though all Member States had been party to it. As a result of the Union's accession to the Montreal Convention, its text has become an 'integral part of the EU legal order' , and the Court saw itself bound to issue a preliminary ruling on the interpretation of the relevant Articles.
The assertion of ECJ jurisdiction has potentially wide-reaching implications for the hybrid nature of the Montreal regime. Designed as a unifying text with equal application across all signatory states, the interpretation of key terms has nonetheless been left up to the courts seised of a relevant dispute, subject only to the principle of international comity. Given the universally binding effect of the ECJ's preliminary rulings on Member State courts, a hitherto unknown degree of consistency and predictability in the application of the Montreal Convention is a possibility on the horizon. As the European Union sees just over a third of worldwide air passenger traffic pass through its airports on an annual basis, this precedential effect may even radiate beyond Union borders and establish the Luxembourg court as a major force in providing authoritative interpretations of the Montreal Convention.
I am grateful to Ben Gardner of Quadrant Chambers for helpful discussion.


We have a growing family and each member seems to have a growing belly so I am constantly on the hunt to find ways to save money at the grocery store. I barely ever actually grocery shop and most of the time prefer online grocery shopping in my PJs while watching Friends. Not only are Ross and Rachel better grocery shopping partners, it also saves money, time and my sanity.
There are a few things no longer on my grocery list and I thought I would share what we have opted to stop buying in an effort to save money. What do you forego to stay on budget? So, let me share with you some items to skip when trying to save money at the grocery store.
There are very few products I have to have the name brand for, if there is an off-brand equivalent I will buy it. Often times, it can save a substantial amount of money. Everything from canned soups, baking supplies, cereal to lunch meat. I buy generic. If you are an Aldi shopper, you know generic doesn't mean poor quality!
I know this might be weird but we just use toilet paper. Right now, there is a box of tissues on our guest toilet because my mom came to visit and brought a box with her. Is it weird we don't buy kleenex?
I still occasionally buy the break and bake refrigerated cookies to bake for an event but I love to buy the muffin box mix and whip those up. Brownies are my go-to for a frugal but delicious dessert treat for a crowd. A boxed mix is just a dollar or two at most grocery stores.
When I worked full time they were my go-to for lunches and a quick dinner but I just make extra of the meal I make for dinner to have as leftover or as my grandmother calls them planned-overs.
We just buy butter sticks. We keep one stick in a covered butter dish in a kitchen cabinet so it's soft for spreading on toast and bagels.
We eat berries of all types in the summer, apples in large amounts in the fall and then choose more seasonal fruit varieties in the winter. Not only is out of season fruit extremely expensive, it also doesn't taste as good when it has to be shipped halfway around the world. Frozen fruits are a great alternative in the winter months along with unsweetened jarred fruit.
We have plenty of reusable water bottles for the whole family and most of my kids are old enough to independently fill their own water bottles. When we head out somewhere, they all grab a water bottle to go!
We stopped using these when our oldest child was born and had some skin sensitivity. I got out of the habit and although I miss the scent, I just use dryer balls instead and the wrinkle release cycle on the dryer to help with static and wrinkles.
We buy baby shampoo for Lucy and the rest of all use the same kind of shampoo and conditioner. Right now I am buying Panter Pro-V because it makes my hair extra soft.
Just like my fine china is white, I buy white napkins. White goes with everything and is nice and classic. There are always exceptions to this rule like kid birthdays but whenever we entertain, I just buy white.
I am the queen of chocolate (I never was until I had children) and not buying it not only saves money but it saves my waistline. I have a hard time saying no! The great thing about online grocery shopping is I don't even see it :).
This is all my husband, he was raised on juice concentrate so we made the switch when we first got married.
So, there you have it 12 items we don't buy at the grocery store to save money and stay on budget with our grocery bill. We budget $125 a week for a family of 5 for groceries. Don't forget to share what you skip at the store in an effort to save money in the comments! Soda is on my list to go but I haven't kicked that habit yet! Someone tell me I can do it!
Speaking of budgets, I am going to be sharing more about how we got purposeful with our finances and formulated a realistic budget for our one income family. You can learn more about the class here.
PS – Blogging friends Monday is our monthly 10 on the 10th link-up, this month we will be sharing 10 favorite places to travel, can't wait to read all your ideas :)!


A potato salad, though it is named, is generally a side dish as it accompanies the main course. The dish comes in many variations, and is found in different parts of the world, such as, Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Slovakia, Holland, Italy, Germany, Romania, Syria, France, and the United States.
The potato salad is often served along side barbecued food, roasts, hot dogs, fried chicken, hamburgers and cold sandwiches. No matter how the potato salad is made, it is considered a casual fare dish, as it is part of the menu at picnics, potlucks and other casual meals and events. It is even found in delicatessens and food bars.
It is easily made in large quantities, therefore popular among restaurant cooks and chefs, as it can be prepared in advance and refrigerated until needed, and requires ingredients that are inexpensive.
It is written that Arnold Shircliffe, executive chef of Chicago's legendary Edgewater Beach Hotel, traced the origin of the potato salad to the 16th century. John Gerrard in 1597 writes about potatoes and their virtues (Homework Hero by ChaCha).
Here at Splendid Recipes and More this is the version of potato salad you will find: Red Potato and Sweet Pepper Salad.
Mix together and measure out 2 tsp. and mix with 1 tsp. orange zest, finely grated.
Prepare potatoes and place into a steamer basket above boiling for 8 to 10 minutes or just until tender. Remove from steamer basket and place into a large mixing bowl.
Mix spices with soft cream cheese in a small bowl until well incorporated.
Place diced and cut vegetables into the large mixing bowl with the red potatoes, mix together until will incorporated. Next add the cream cheese/spice mixture to the potato mixture. Stir and mix in well.
Plate and serve with your favorite meal.
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Lovely salad and I never thought of using cream cheese in a potato salad. Very clever.
Thanks Jovina. Mayo is original, but most store bought has soybean or canola oil in it, which is omega-6 and in turn causes inflammation.
Thanks for comment and for stopping by.
This looks just like a perfect salad for a BBQ now in the summer! Good one!
I am glad you like it Luis. Hope you can prepare this salad.
Thanks for your thoughts and for stopping by. It was a pleasant surprise!!


My 30/30 Sewing Challenge kitchen apron goal for the week has stalled at reading the pattern - it's a tad confusing, but I have looked up all the terms I didn't know and have highlighted every bullet that pertains to the version I'm making. Cutting out comes next.
Linking up with Let's Bee Social to see what everyone's up to this week! Is anyone else working with Wee Wander?
It looks lovely so far- it's always hard to maximize fat quarters, good luck! and good luck with the apron as well.
I love this Sarah! I can't wait to see it all done! This fabric is definitely on my wtb list.
Thanks, Crystal. Hopefully I'll have it all done next week - if only the snow would melt so I could take some nice outside shots when I finish!
I am sure you will do fine with your apron pattern, Sarah. It is kinda scary trying new things.... But also rather exciting! Your Wee Wander project does look adorable. I know how you feel about those prints. I felt the same way about cutting into my Charley Harpers!
Thanks for the encouragement, Lorna! It will turn out - just surprised that it's a reading comprehension test of sorts ; ) Hope the Charlie Harpers look amazing in your layout so far!
I have been eying on these fabrics for a while love both the blue and pink colorways. I know I would have hard time chopping up these fabrics too.
I'm looking forward to seeing what your WW turns into. That little deer does appear a little forlorn.


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Hate Group-Funded Campaign To Remove Iowa Justices Falsely Claims Justice O'Connor's Support
Ian Millhiser Twitter Sep 9, 2010, 2:48 pm
Yesterday, retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor spoke out against an anti-gay campaign to remove three members of the Iowa Supreme Court in retaliation against the court's unanimous marriage equality decision:
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on Wednesday defended Iowa's method of selecting judges and urged voters to reject an effort to remove three state Supreme Court justices who joined in a unanimous decision striking down a ban on gay marriage.
Speaking in Des Moines as part of a panel organized by the Iowa State Bar Association, O'Connor said voters shouldn't punish judges when they disagree with their decisions.
"We have to address the pressures that are being applied to that safe place, the courtroom," O'Connor said. "The judges should not be subject to retaliation."
Yet Iowa For Freedom (IFF), the organization spearheading the anti-gay campaign, responded almost immediately with a press release claiming that O'Connor actually said the exact opposite of what she really said. IFF's release "Applauds U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor supporting its cause" and "thank[s] former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Wednesday for supporting Iowa For Freedom's efforts."
IFF's blatant misrepresentation of O'Connor's opposition to their campaign is the least of their questionable decisions. IFF's anti-gay campaign received considerable support from the American Family Association, a Mississippi-based hate group which claims that Adolf Hitler and "virtually all of the Stormtroopers, the Brownshirts, were male homosexuals" and that marriage equality causes crop failure.
Indeed, the AFA may be the single most important force behind Iowa's anti-gay campaign. They recently announced that they "put a couple of hundred thousand dollars into this campaign," IFF's false press release indicates that it is "Paid for by AFA Action," the AFA's political arm, and the IFF's website used to indicate that it was funded by AFA Action — although this indication appears to have been removed.
So Iowa's anti-gay campaign isn't just willing to falsely claim the support of one of its most prominent opponents, it also shamelessly accepts support from one of the most repulsive fabricators of anti-gay hate speech.
#Judiciary, #Marriage Equality, #Politics


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