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Kanye West's "Ararat" Yeezy Sells Out Within Minutes Of Release.
Kanye West's "Ararat" Yeezy Foam Runners sold out within minutes of releasing on YeezySupply.com at a retail price of $75.
Yesterday, Kim Kardashian's husband Kanye West announced the release of his new Yeezy's. He's given them the name "Ararat" after the historic Armenian mountain.
🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲 https://t.co/lcPtpxnDwB
— Kim Kardashian (@KimKardashian) June 27, 2020
Reportedly made of algae, the molded foam footwear option features an all-white tone. The one-piece design expresses lattice segments and cut-out side portions. Moving lower the sole section of the shoe is sculpted to create a seamless transition from the upper, per HypeBeast. Priced at $75 USD, the YEEZY "Ararat" Foam Runners were available on YeezySupply.com but sold out within minutes.
Despite lying outside the borders of the modern Armenia, Ararat has historically been associated with Armenia. It is widely considered the country's principal national symbol and brand. The image of Ararat, usually framed within a nationalizing discourse, is ubiquitous in everyday material culture in Armenia. According to ethnographer Tsypylma Darieva Armenians have "a sense of possession of Ararat in the sense of symbolic cultural property."
Ararat is known as the "holy mountain" of the Armenian people.
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Update on Patent Trolls and Their Enablers: IAM, Fortress, Inventergy, Nokia, MOSAID/Conversant, Microsoft, Intellectual Ventures, Faraday Future, A*STAR, GPNE, AlphaCap Ventures, and TC Heartland
Posted in America, Asia, Microsoft, Patents at 3:53 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Hiding behind fronts, attack dogs, and interest groups
Summary: A potpourri of reports about some of the world's worst patent trolls and their highly damaging enablers/facilitators, including Microsoft which claims that it "loves Linux" whilst attacking it with patents by proxy
THE ISSUE associated with patents as a 'pure' business model, or patent trolling, is widely understood. Imagine a world where people profit from making nothing at all, just demanding money from (if not blackmailing) companies that make actual sales and have a source of income/revenue, namely customers that buy products.
More patent trolls news came from the trolls-funded IAM the other day. "According to a December 29th release," it quoted, ""Fortress will have the sole discretion to make any and all decisions relating to the company's patents and patent monetisation activities." Inventergy has around 740 patent assets acquired from Nokia, Huawei and Panasonic in a series of three separate deals in the first half of 2014."
Here again we see Nokia as trolls' ammunition, just like at MOSAID (now known as Conversant, which pays IAM's publisher). Speaking of MOSAID, which Boris Teksler is involved in (hopping between Microsoft-connected trolls), see this new list from IAM. The Editor in Chief of IAM gives him (yet again!) some special honour, without noting that his employer paid IAM (under the new name, Conversant). So much publicity for an aggressive firm (actually a patent troll) from IAM… one might begin to think that it's coverage that money simply buys. Conversant is such an evil patent troll (working for Microsoft's interests now) that it had to change its name and now it's trying to improve its reputation with some puff pieces? And from who, from IAM? Watch this latest IAM revisionism about Xiaomi (yet again!), maybe for the third time in the past month alone. We already explained that Microsoft was extorting Xiaomi with patents, but IAM tells a sanitised, face-saving PR story for Microsoft:
Xiaomi – Who says the IP deals market is flat? During 2016, Chinese mobile manufacturer Xiaomi – not yet 10 years old – seemed to be on a one company mission to prove that this is far from the case. In January it emerged that it had got its hands on a suite of Broadcom patents while a month later came the news that it had acquired a significant portfolio of US assets from Intel. Both deals, though, were eclipsed by the ground-breaking transaction with Microsoft announced at the end of May – a win-win for both that exemplified the way that IP is now forming the bedrock of much wider co-operative agreements between operating companies. While all this was happening. Xiaomi was also incorporating Zhigu Holdings into its internal operation – a move that saw the aggregator's president and chief operating officer Paul Lin become Xiaomi's VP of IP strategy. That could well prove to be a masterstroke, with Lin having gained a great deal of deal-making experience at both Intellectual Ventures and Microsoft while based in the US. Like many young Chinese technology businesses, Xiaomi is running a significant patent deficit; but unlike many of them it has recognised it needs to be aggressive in doing something about this. To expand, it will not only have to develop its own IP, but must continue to be active and creative in bringing it in form third parties. With Lin enjoying enlightened support from the very top of the company, Xiaomi is set to become an even bigger patent player in 2017.
Notice the connection between "Intellectual Ventures and Microsoft" (in the above text). It's a strong and well established connection, which we have been covering for nearly a decade now. Microsoft uses the world's largest patent troll, which it itself created/funded, to attack Linux. It's a common tactic where the troll is mostly/only a proxy.
Similarly, as mentioned here the other day, Faraday Future throws its patents at some shell company and this new article from TechDirt looks deeper at the anatomy of it:
That's all interesting… but what's amazing is that in all of these discussions about how Faraday Future "doesn't own its intellectual property" absolutely no one seems to point out the fact that the company that everyone compares it to, Tesla, famously dumped all its patents into the public domain and told anyone to go ahead and use them. That seems like a relevant point to make in articles about this upstart competitor and its "intellectual property." Of course, it's possible that the articles could mean something else when it says "intellectual property" — such as trademarks — but it seems unlikely that the trademarks for a flailing company that is unlikely to ever get anything on the market are that valuable.
The whole story, and the ignoring of Tesla's stance on patents… is just strange. It is true that sometimes failing companies hang onto their patents as a sort of last ditch effort to extract some return for their investors in a patent fire sale. But if you've reached that point, things have already gone way too far south to really matter. Tesla has shown that it can build a pretty damn successful company without relying on "intellectual property." It seems that people should stop freaking out that Faraday Future may have dumped its patents into some offshore company, and focus on the company's real problems — like the fact that its execs are racing out the door as fast as possible.
Remember that Microsoft has its own patent "assertion" (trolling) department/entity (they call it "Licensing") and several more large companies now do something similar. Sites like IAM just call that NPEs.
"For NPEs," (i.e. trolls) Florian Müller explained the other day, "it's often actually desirable to make litigation more, not less, expensive. Speed and injunctive relief attract them."
Yes, this is a truthful statement and it helps demonstrate how to mitigate/tackle the trolling epidemic if there was sufficient desire, just like limiting trolls' movement/travel. Currently, in the Eastern District of Texas, where defendants haven't much confidence in winning (not cheaply anyway), trolls are making a killing.
East Asia is rapidly becoming the breeding ground for the trolling epidemic, as we noted here before. The above from IAM is just one example of it, as is the IAM article titled "The signs suggest that IP monetisation activity is on the rise in Southeast Asia, says A*STAR tech transfer chief" ("IP monetisation" is a euphemism for trolling). Another new article is titled "$130 million patent claim against Apple in Shenzhen shows NPEs in China increasingly strident". It sure looks as if SIPO has turned China into a cesspool of patent trolls. Who benefits from this? A few parasites, not ordinary Chinese people. To quote IAM, "GPNE's Chinese assertion appears to have begun back in 2013 in the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court. The court's database shows four lawsuits against Apple and associated companies at the trial stage. According to a report in China's National Business Daily, the most recent hearing was in late November 2016; the same article also states that Apple has made three separate attempts to invalidate the asserted patent at SIPO's Patent Reexamination Board, with all of these complaints being dismissed on appeal."
Poor patent quality at SIPO, just like at USPTO before it, emboldens patent trolls. IAM is siding with the trolls, as usual, also in the case of Nokia against Apple — a case which it belatedly covers (Nokia has become like a patent troll which merely licenses the brand).
Writing about patent trolls in general, Wolf Greenfield & Sacks PC bemoans what happens in the US. "Over the course of the last decade," it says, "the U.S. Supreme Court has issued a series of decisions making it more difficult for so-called non-practicing entities (NPEs)—companies that own and enforce patents but do not offer products or services covered by them—to extract value from their patents. The Court may now be ready to take a step in the other direction by removing the equitable defense of laches against patentees' past damages claims—up to six years of damages in many cases. Oral arguments were heard in the landmark case of SCA Hygiene Products Aktiebolag v. First Quality Baby Products, LLC on November 1, 2016, and a decision is expected later this term."
"Patent Value" for patent trolls (ignore euphemisms like "NPEs") is also mentioned in this article. We can't help but feel like patent law firms — not just sites like IAM (which trolls are paying) — take the side of trolls. They don't care about innovation, just litigation. They profit from that.
United for Patent Reform, a group that battles against patent trolls, wrote the other day that "Crowdfunding company @gustly won its case over a #PatentTroll after 2 years in court." Here is part of the statement:
The patent lawsuit filed by AlphaCap claimed ownership over "online equity financing". As with most other patent lawsuits, the case was brought in the Eastern District of Texas. This court is known as a patent troll haven and has benefitted economically from an assumed bias in favor of trolls.
So here again we have an example where legitimate companies are hit hard by trolls that make nothing at all, just lawsuits. "Wearable device company Fitbit has moved for termination of its ITC patent complaint against Jawbone, which is unhappy at suggestions about its financial stability," MIP wrote the other day (a move which we covered in this older post of ours). As before, Fitbit makes shameless excuses, trying to portray itself as merciful after it attacked a rival, only to realise that its case is going nowhere fast and is only wasting its own (Fitbit's) financial resources.
Fitbit, like many other companies, must have realised that certainty of winning patent cases has gone down. Moreover, Jawbone sued Fitbit in retaliation, causing quite a big (and expensive) headache to Fitbit. As Fitbit is not a patent troll (it has actual products that it sells) it's not hard to sue it as well, thereby compelling it to reach a 'ceasefire'.
Meanwhile, as even IAM cares to admit, litigation numbers are down sharply and patent trolls suffer a lot:
Unified Patents and RPX have both released their early numbers on new US patent litigation cases in 2016, confirming what we have known for some time: district court cases fell dramatically, with Unified putting the total number of filings at 4,382 – a drop of 24.8% year-on-year. That is the lowest volume of new cases since 2011 when the America Invents Act (AIA) came into effect and a change in joinder rules led to an immediate increase in the number of suits. According to Unified, disputes at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) saw a slight drop down to 1,723 from 1,793, although last year was still the second busiest on record.
The question now is whether the 2016 litigation drop was a blip or part of a longer-term trend. The last few years have seen sharp fluctuations in the number of cases with 2013, the busiest year on record, leading into a marked fall in 2014 as plaintiffs were seemingly turned off by the Supreme Court's Alice decision and by the prospect of patent reform. So if that is repeated, we might expect to see the number of new cases rise again this year.
MIP takes into consideration an upcoming SCOTUS case (alluded to above), but it barely bothers to mention that this case would affect trolls the most. To quote what is not behind a paywall:
Natalie Rahhal speaks to former Federal Circuit Chief Judge Paul Michel and others to assess the potential impact of In re TC Heartland at the US Supreme Court. One outcome could be a sharp fall in filing in the Eastern District of Texas and an increase in a potentially under-resourced District of Delaware
In re TC Heartland is already shaping up to be one of the most important patent cases in the US this year. The Supreme Court on December 14 granted cert in the case, which will give the court an opportunity to revisit the case law and statute governing forum selection in patent infringement suits.
We look forward to the outcome of this case because the Justices, probably well before Trump introduces new ones, are expected to serve a blow to patent trolls. Today's Justices tend to be sceptical on issues pertaining to patents maximalism. █
Mark Summerfield: "US Supreme Court Decision in Alice Looks to Have Eliminated About 75% of New Business Method Patents."
Posted in America, Patents at 3:49 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Stuff one can do with pen and paper is not an invention but a mental process
Summary: Some of the patent microcosm, or those who profit from the bureaucracy associated with patents, responds to claims made by Techrights (that software patents are a dying breed in the US)
TECHRIGHTS is not a site that patent law firms like. We are fine with that, as we never intended to be pals of those who promote patent maximalism, or those whom some dubbed the "patent microcosm" (because patents are their only 'products').
Yesterday we noticed that a patent lawyer had gotten sanctioned for misbehaving again (recall Andrew Y. Schroeder), based on this new (rather short) blog post from Patently-O:
From what I can tell, the lawyer was sanctioned by the district court because he settled a case, but then consistently asserted that he hadn't; he was sanctioned on appeal for making some unsupported arguments and falsely attacking opposing counsel, it seems.
Longtime readers of ours know that we don't have much trust and faith in the patent profession — by which we mean people who make a living purely out of patents rather than research and/or development. We don't mean examiners (those who attempt to ensure patent quality) but those who try to convince examiners to grant every applications that they send on behalf of clients. The financial motivation of patent law firms is very much like that of companies that sell weapons and thus prefer wars or at least tension (which motivates purchases of weapons, in the name of perceived "defense").
Mark Summerfield, writing in his blog today (in Australia where time is many hours ahead), does not agree with us (as usual) that software patents as a whole are dead and instead says that "computer-implemented business methods, including ecommerce and finance applications" — however one defines them — are in somewhat of a limbo/trouble. We mentioned this before. To quote from his conclusions:
The data presented above demonstrates that in established fields of software technology, covered by associated Art Units in USPTO Technology Center 2100, neither US court decisions nor changes in management have resulted in any identifiable deviation in US patent grant rates, despite the consistent gleeful claims of opponents that 'software patents are dead'.
Software patents are not dead. They are here, they have been here for many years, and they are here to stay.
Computer-implemented business methods, including ecommerce and finance applications, on the other hand, are a different matter. The data clearly shows that the USPTO under Kappos was more friendly to this subject matter than under his predecessor, although the CAFC decision in Bilski appears to have forced applicants to claim machine-implementation more explicitly. However, the US Supreme Court decision in Alice looks to have eliminated about 75% of new business method patents. This implies that a similar proportion of such patents issued at least since the start of the Kappos era are invalid, which accords with the impact we have seen at the CAFC since Alice.
Whether or not patents on software get granted does not matter as much as whether or not courts deem them eligible. As we have shown here time after time the higher a case goes (up the ladder all the way up to SCOTUS), the less likely to withstand the patent/s at the centre of the case will be. We stand by our assertion that patents on software are a waste of time and money, even if the USPTO continues to grant a lot of them. Certainty around software patents is very low in the United States and it takes courages to even have them tested in a court (no out-of-court settlement or shakedown). █

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Qatar Airways to resume flights to Saudi Arabia
Qatar Airways said it will resume flights to Saudi Arabia on Monday, following an agreement to end more than three years of dispute between the two countries.
The flag carrier tweeted that its flights will return to Saudi Arabia starting with services to Riyadh on Monday, Jan. 11, 2021, followed by Jeddah on Thursday, Jan. 14, and Dammam on Saturday, Jan. 16.
On Sunday, Saudi airline SAUDIA said it will resume its flights to Qatar as of Monday, for the first time since 2017.
The moves came after Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt signed a reconciliation agreement with Qatar during the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in the Saudi city of al-Ula.
On Monday, Saudi Arabia said that it agreed to reopen airspace and land and sea border to Qatar, as part of the agreement to lift a Saudi-led blockade imposed on Qatar since 2017.
* Ahmed Asmar in Ankara contributed to this report
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function sum(array) {
 var total = 0;
 for (var i = 0; i < array.length; i++){
   total += array[i];
 }
 return total;
};

function mean(array) {
 var total = 0;
 for (var i = 0; i < array.length; i++){
   total += array[i];
 }
 return total/(array.length);
}

function median(array) {
 function sortNumber(a,b) {
   return a - b;
 }
 var len = array.length;
 var array_sort = array.sort(sortNumber);
 if (array.length % 2 === 0) {
   return (array_sort[(len - 2)/2] + array_sort[(len)/2]) / 2;
 }
 else {
   return array_sort[(len - 1)/2];
 }
}
// __________________________________________
// Tests:  Do not alter code below this line.

oddLengthArray  = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 7]
evenLengthArray = [4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 7]

function assert(test, message, test_number) {
  if (!test) {
    console.log(test_number + "false");
    throw "ERROR: " + message;
  }
  console.log(test_number + "true");
  return true;
}

// tests for sum
assert(
  (sum instanceof Function),
  "sum should be a Function.",
  "1. "
)

assert(
  sum(oddLengthArray) === 27,
  "sum should return the sum of all elements in an array with an odd length.",
  "2. "
)

assert(
  sum(evenLengthArray) === 43,
  "sum should return the sum of all elements in an array with an even length.",
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)

// tests for mean
assert(
  (mean instanceof Function),
  "mean should be a Function.",
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)

assert(
  mean(oddLengthArray) === 3.857142857142857,
  "mean should return the average of all elements in an array with an odd length.",
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)

assert(
  mean(evenLengthArray) === 5.375,
  "mean should return the average of all elements in an array with an even length.",
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)

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assert(
  (median instanceof Function),
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assert(
  median(oddLengthArray) === 4,
  "median should return the median value of all elements in an array with an odd length.",
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)

assert(
  median(evenLengthArray) === 5.5,
  "median should return the median value of all elements in an array with an even length.",
  "9. "
)

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Americans say they are deeply concerned about privacy on the web and their cellphones. They say they do not trust Internet companies or the government to protect it. Yet they keep using the services and handing over their personal information.
That paradox is captured in a new survey by Pew Research Center. It found that there is no communications channel, including email, cellphones or landlines, that the majority of Americans feel very secure using when sharing personal information. Of all the forms of communication, they trust landlines the most, and fewer and fewer people are using them.
This paper discusses how data is used both in classrooms and by educators and policymakers to assess educational outcomes.9 It addresses the practical implications of consent requirements both for day-to-day school management and for the education system as a whole. It explores how existing federal laws, including the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), protect student data. It reviews the activities of vendors and the role of individual consent in data processing by the health and financial sectors. It proposes that in lieu of focusing on the technicalities of parental consent requirements, legitimate privacy concerns must be addressed in a manner that protects all students. It argues that parents should never have to opt-out of embracing new technologies simply in order to protect their children's privacy. Instead, to foster an environment of trust, schools and their education partners must offer more insight into how data is being used. With more information and better access to their own data, parents and students will be better equipped to make informed decisions about their education choices.
The majority of adults in a new survey by the Pew Research Center feel that their privacy is being challenged along such core dimensions as the security of their personal information and their ability to retain confidentiality.


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Q: onKey event for editText not firing I'm having a really hard time getting the OnKey event to trigger on my EditText view. I've been Googling for over an hour now and it seems everyone says all you have to do is add a OnKeyListener to the view but it's not triggering it. I tried adding it to the entire Activity and also tried adding it to the view itself but neither way is triggering the function.
My code:
XML:
 <EditText
       android:layout_width="match_parent"
       android:layout_height="wrap_content"
       android:id="@+id/interests_editText" />

Java:
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.add_post);

    interests_editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.interests_editText);
    interests_editText.setOnKeyListener(new OnKeyListener(){

               public boolean onKey(    View view,    int keyCode,    KeyEvent event){
                   Log.i("DEBUG","TeST");
                   if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER) {

                       return true;
                   }
                   else {
                       return false;
                   }
               }
           }
    );

Update:
My final goal is to get it to recognize when you press space while in that editText view. I added to the XML
android:inputType="text"

and then changed the code to
public boolean onKey(    View view,    int keyCode,    KeyEvent event){
                   Log.i("DEBUG","Outside");
                   if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_SPACE) {
                       Log.i("DEBUG","Space");
                       return true;
                   }
                   else {
                       return false;
                   }

Now the keyboard shows a Next button that when pressed logs "Outside" but it doesn't log "Space"

A: Do you wanna capture Enter event? If so, try setOnEditorActionListener
For your Update Info: capture space key, try addTextChangedListener

A: Following up on @BNK's answer I got it to work using the following code:
interests_editText.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
@Override
public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {

    String str = s.toString();
    if(str.substring(str.length()-1, str.length()).equals(" "))
        Log.i("DEBUG","Space pressed");
    else if(str.substring(str.length()-1, str.length()).equals("\n"))
        Log.i("DEBUG", "Enter pressed");
    else
        Log.i("DEBUG", "Pressed : " +str.substring(str.length()-1, str.length()) );
}}

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The actual estate market is the economic sector that entails the buying and promoting of infrastructure resembling buildings both for residential purposes, business premises, and the trade section. Commissioner Judy Lowe of the Arizona Department of Actual Estate (ADRE) announces the appointment of two Assistant Commissioner positions. If you wish to analysis a particular property or examine sales costs of comparable properties, the local assessor's sites are actually helpful.
Pursuant to A.R.S. § 32-2130 (A), with a purpose to renew a license, all real estate salespersons and brokers are required to current to the Department proof of attendance of actual estate oriented persevering with education (CE") courses prescribed and approved by the Commissioner at a faculty licensed by the Commissioner during the previous license period of twenty-four (24) credit score hours within the first renewal and forty-eight (forty eight) credit hours n subsequent renewals.
On December 8, 2016, the Division of Actual Estate issued an Order of Summary Suspension directing that Salespersons License SA588263000 issued to TOM CHIN is summarily suspended. On September 14, 2017, the Department of Real Property issued an Order of Summary Suspension directing that Dealer's License BR046661000 issued to Daphne Iatridis is summarily suspended.
I encourage you to read the recent article by PAUL DAVENPORT, Related Press Author and posted on The Arizona Day by day Sun web site on Might 12 about efforts to license loan originators as a measure to combat mortgage fraud and to take a second to contact your legislators to voice your opinion on the licensing bill", acknowledged Sam Wercinski, Arizona's Actual Estate Commissioner.
Shopping for or leasing actual property for business functions may be very totally different from shopping for a home or even shopping for residential actual estate as an investment. To view legal presence necessities CLICK HERE REMEMBER WHEN RENEWING, A PROOF OF LEGAL PRESENCE SHOULD BE SUBMITTED AT LEAST forty eight ENTERPRISE HOURS PRIOR TO RENEWAL TO PERMIT FOR OVERVIEW BY ADRE WORKERS.


American-Moroccan rapper, French Montana comes through with another record titled "Slide" highlighting Blueface and Lil Tjay.
It would seem that the Bronx rapper has begun the new period as he discharges his brand new single 'Slide' today.
Helping him on the club prepared tune are Blueface and rising New York rapper-vocalist Lil Tjay who as of late marked an arrangement with Columbia Records.
The West Coast tribute discovers French streaming like "Still Dre," before passing the mic to the wonderfully unique Blueface.


To celebrate the launch of The Great Oreo Cookie Quest (an on-pack competition and interactive cookie quest), we were invited to create a family fun-filled "cookie quest". We chose to go on a fun sightseeing trip in Majorca! Thanks to Oreo and BritMums for this opportunity!
This June, we are on a mission to explore Lichfield and surrounding areas on two wheels by creating our own cycling adventure with the 'Slow holidays' company, InnTravel. Did you know that InnTravel have been offering cycling holidays in Europe since the late 1980s, and their range is wide and varied, with something for all 'amateurs'?
In my earlier posts, I mentioned that we went to the Moor Valley Country Park and Southbourne beach during the summer holidays. Another place we went to was the RockReef Activity Centre on Bournemouth Pier.
Both my children are into rock climbing and we haven't had much opportunity to take them. Whilst on holiday, we came across RockReef Activity Centre on Bournemouth Pier. We did a bit of research while eating our lunch and phoned them as their website didn't give us enough information about the activities before we booked it online (small saving if booking online).
In broad terms, there are two types of holiday most tourists will embark upon. The relaxing retreat, where chilling out on the beach and lapping up the sun is the order of the day and the more adventurous getaway, where travellers explore the cultural highlights of a particular city and participate in a few active pursuits.
A lot depends on the holidaymaker in question and what they want from their time away. But where should you be heading in search of these distinctive escapes? India and South Africa are equally attractive destinations which promise to provide many types of travellers with everything they could possibly want.
Travelling in the car can sometime be quite stressful. So I always make sure we have these essentials in the car to try to make sure that my children can be comfortable in the car. My 5 and 7 year olds can be quite demanding in the car especially when it's a long journey.
Recently, I won a Twitter competition from Green Board Games and they sent me this Alphabet Squiggle on-the-go for my children. This is the travel size edition.
I always want to have a Trunki since they launched 6 years ago but our children were too young to own one at the time (Suitable for aged 3 – 6 years old). Finally, we bought our first Trunki Quinn Ride-on Suitcase in 2011. It is Trunki's 5th birthday limited edition case, with only 5000 being made. It is a big hit with both of my children.
We took it with us to Singapore as hand luggage. It is not suitable for check-in luggage. I had packed some of their books, favourite bears, toys, snacks, baby wipes and some spare clothing and there was still plenty of room. There is a secret compartment on the side but it is too small to be practical, perhaps storing a few sweets. The main compartment is not very easy to open or close by children, which I made a plus point for us otherwise the children would be constantly playing with the that and the lock.
Waiting in the check-in queue turned out to be fun for the kids as they could sit and ride-on the trunki. Looking around the terminal, we were amazed but not surprised that there are so many other families using trunki!
It is made from lightweight and durable plastic. It is easy to pull them around but not great to corner as the wheels are in-line and do not turn. We therefore found it quite hard to steer. We got around this by re-positioning the case in the direction of travel if we wanted to change direction. The children enjoyed riding by themselves by holding on the horns and charging around.
The multi-functional carry-tow strap comes with a plastic key to lock the luggage. The strap keeps coming off from the hook after some time. I contacted customer services and within few days they sent us a replacement. Excellent customer service! They replace any faulty parts for life!


An animated GIF for Radical Rituals, a performance created by four women artists for the Public Square event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco.
The GIF is an imagined time-lapse of the performance, with images created as a map of the rituals. GIF by Yula Paluy, with images by Suzy Hernández (brujx nation), Joytika Jit (antlered/arteried heart), Theresa Currie (book art), and Yula Paluy (pinwheels/kaleidoscope).


This dinner will be a selection of recipes by David Lebovitz, one of my favourite culinary authors. David is American, he lives in Paris and writes wonderful books (My Paris Kitchen, The Sweet Life in Paris, The Perfect Scoop, Ready for Dessert). His recipes for desserts are incomparable, so you can count on a spectacular dinner's ending! I invite you to my tiny place in Warsaw's district Żoliborz - yes, it IS tiny, but my table is really big, so everybody can sit comfortably! My food is inspired by my collection of cook books - I have more than thousand. In my kitchen I use ecological vegetables, eggs are always free range and other products come from tried-and-tested producers. Service will be led by my kids :) Note that the Menu can change slightly as I am doing my shopping the day before the dinner and I choose whatever is the best.


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Pseudaegeria är ett släkte av fjärilar. Pseudaegeria ingår i familjen plattmalar.

Kladogram enligt Catalogue of Life:

Källor

Plattmalar
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Oyo Assembly confirms Oyeleke as Commissioner
Lawal Ameen
The Oyo State House of Assembly on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of Dr. Lateef Oyeleke as Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources.
Speaking at plenary, the Speaker, Mr Adebo Ogundoyin, urged Oyeleke to work in tandem with the House of Assembly.
Ogundoyin said that he had no doubt in his abilities, hence his nomination by Gov. Seyi Makinde.
"I'm very sure that Gov. Makinde made the best choice by picking you to fill in for the Late Kehinde Ayoola.
"I'm sure you will handle this position seriously, looking back at your past record and curriculum vitae.
"We would be readily available to support you so as to achieve much more. You should work in tandem and not in isolation," he said.
The speaker added that the house would be reaching out to him often for the betterment of Oyo state.
Oyeleke after his confirmation, pledged to ensure radical changes in the approach of indiscriminate disposal of waste.
He said that a clean, safe and healthy environment was his target for the state.
"We would create a public enlightenment to make people know that cleanliness is next to godliness. The priority is a clean and healthy environment," he said.
The commissioner added that two dumping sites in the state were currently undergoing reconstruction.
"Part of what we would be doing in the state is turning our waste to wealth. I will look into building of illegal kiosk and shanties on roads, by school fences.
"I'll set up a task force to know where the occupants got their approvals from and do all necessary things to curb this menace," he said.
FELLOW PRESS reports that Oyeleke was born on Jan. 29, 1969.
Oyeleke was a former Chairman, Community and Social Development Agency. He also has a Ph.D. in Energy Law.
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The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has said it will not release the 2023 general election timetable until the Electoral Act Amendment Bill is signed into law.
INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu disclosed this Tuesday in Abuja during the commission's first quarterly consultative meeting with political parties.
He said; "On the Electoral Amendment Bill currently before the National Assembly, the Commission is encouraged by the Senate President's assurance to give priority attention to the Bill when the National Assembly reconvenes from its recess today, and the commitment by the President to assent to the Bill as soon as the issue of mode of primaries by political parties is resolved. We look forward to a speedy passage of the Bill, which is crucial to our preparations for future elections.
"As soon as it is signed into law, the Commission will quickly release the Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the 2023 General Election based on the new law".
There'll be level playing ground for all presidential aspirants– PDP Chairman to Momodu
Iyorchia Ayu, the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party has told presidential aspirant, Dele Momodu, that members of the party, and not leaders, would determine who emerges as the PDP presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections.
Ayu said this on Thirsday during Momodu's visit to the PDP National Secretariat in Abuja where he formally presented his letter of intent to contest for the party's presidential ticket.
The National Chairman noted that the PDP had no preferred presidential candidate and would provide a level-playing ground for all aspirants.
Ayu said, "For you to run for office, you must have a strong platform, but the first responsibility I will charge you to do is to work hard and build a strong party with which we can go into battle with.
"For your personal ambition like all other candidates, I wish you well, I wish you the best.
"There will be a level playing ground for all aspirants, just like you, we don't have a special candidate, PDP has no preferred candidate, the party members will decide who will contest any office.
"If at the end of the day, party members vote for you, PDP will stand behind you. You have to go out and work out there among the party members across the country, because the party leadership will not do it for you. Our job is to try and provide the necessary mechanism."
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State on Tuesday January 11, informed President Muhammadu Buhari of his 2023 presidential ambition.
Umahi who had a closed door meeting with Buhari today, told state house correspondents that the President advised him to consult widely.
Umahi's visit to inform the President of his presidential ambition is coming exactly 24 hours after a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, paid a similar visit to President Buhari.
Recall FELLOW PRESS reported the APC national leader, Bola Tinubu had also declared his intention to run for presidential race in 2023.


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Fox Uses Hobby Lobby Case To Falsely Call Morning-After Pill Abortion
Special Programs Abortion Rights & Reproductive Health
Written by Brian Powell & Samantha Wyatt
Published 11/30/13 1:16 PM EST
Fox News repeatedly conflated the emergency contraceptive Plan B (also known as the morning-after pill) with abortion while covering two Supreme Court cases brought by companies that object to the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) birth control coverage benefits. However, experts agree that the morning-after pill is not abortion -- it prevents pregnancy but cannot stop pregnancy after fertilization takes place.
Supreme Court To Take Up Affordable Care Act Contraception Case
Supreme Court Agreed To Hear Cases On The ACA Mandate Requiring Employers To Offer Insurance Coverage For Birth Control. On November 26, the Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases brought by corporations that object to the Affordable Care Act's birth control coverage benefits. From CNN:
The justices agreed on Tuesday to review provisions in the Affordable Care Act requiring employers of a certain size to offer insurance coverage for birth control and other reproductive health services without a co-pay.
At issue is whether private companies can refuse to do so on the claim it violates their religious beliefs.
The constitutional debate now shifts to the separate employer mandates and whether corporations themselves enjoy the same First Amendment rights as individuals.
Three federal appeals courts around the country have struck down the contraception coverage rule, while two other appeals courts have upheld it. That "circuit split" made a Supreme Court review more likely.
The Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases involving for-profit corporations. Among the plaintiffs is Hobby Lobby, Inc. a nationwide chain of about 500 arts and crafts stores.
David Green and his family are the owners and say their Christian beliefs clash with parts of the law's mandates for comprehensive coverage. [CNN.com, 11/26/13]
Fox News Coverage Of The Hobby Lobby Case Referred To The Morning-After Pill As "Abortion"
Fox Guest Richard St. Paul Refers To Plan B As "The Abortion Pill." On the November 27 edition of Fox News' Happening Now, Republican strategist Richard St. Paul argued that Hobby Lobby should not have to pay for "the abortion pill":
ST. PAUL: I think the Supreme Court will come down and say that what Hobby Lobby and their family foundation of believing in religious freedom, does have a right not to promote abortion among its employees. Basically what we are talking about whether Hobby Lobby should support, under Obamacare, the Plan B morning- after pill - whether they should pay for that. Hobby Lobby says we will provide contraceptives but we're not going to pay for the abortion pill, which they are right in line. [Fox News, Happening Now, 11/27/13]
Fox's Bream: "There Is Science" That Plan B Is An "Abortafacient." On the November 26 edition of Special Report, guest host Shannon Bream referred to Plan B as an abortion pill and argued that proponents of that view cite "science" that supports it:
BREAM: For people who believe that that's an abortafacient - that it can cause an abortion. And there is science that these folks cite. That's a different thing. They don't want to be funding an abortion, and there are guarantees in the federal law that they won't have to do that. [Fox News, Special Report with Bret Baier, 11/26/13]
Fox's Childers And Guest Jay Sekulow Refer To Plan B As An Abortion Pill. On the November 27 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom, guest host Heather Childers and guest Sekulow referred to Plan B pill as an abortifacient:
SEKULOW: [W]ith morning-after pill, which many consider to be abortifacient, in that case the idea that the government would compel the business employer to purchase that for their employees, we think goes too far and violates First Amendment's free exercise clause.
CHILDERS: And that's where the argument, there is some discrepancies between both sides. Because if you take the beginning of the statement from the White House that we just read, the first part of it said that the health care law puts women and families in control of their health care by covering vital preventative care, like cancer screenings and birth control free of charge. But that's where you know some organizations some groups, these specifically, Hobby Lobby being one of them and some of yours, they would argue that this does not just include preventative care and birth control, they would argue this would also include some procedures that are basically abortion.
SEKULOW: Yea well -- because it does. I mean the health care law mandates these despite the president's protests to contrary. The regulatory scheme that was implemented by HHS actually does include those very things you just mentioned. And if you take a look at Hobby Lobby's situation where they've got thousands of employees throughout the United States, a very successful company, the idea that government is telling the owners of Hobby Lobby, "look you surrender your right to free exercise of religion, your faith when you enter into commerce stream as a business. And you must acquire something for your employees that violates what you believe in, that's ridiculous! The Supreme Court has said that the right of freedom of speech does apply to corporations," the question here will be is does the free exercise of religion apply to corporations? [Fox News, America's Newsroom, 11/27/13]
But Experts Agree That The Morning-After Pill Does Not Induce Abortion
NY Times: Emergency Contraceptives Work To Prevent Ovulation, Not Implantation. The New York Times reported that emergency contraception works to preempt pregnancy. By delaying ovulation, Plan B stops an egg from being released for fertilization. Some emergency contraceptives may also work to thicken cervical mucus to make it more difficult for sperm to swim. Plan B does not stop implantation after fertilization has occurred:
Studies have not established that emergency contraceptive pills prevent fertilized eggs from implanting in the womb, leading scientists say. Rather, the pills delay ovulation, the release of eggs from ovaries that occurs before eggs are fertilized, and some pills also thicken cervical mucus so sperm have trouble swimming.
By 2007, scientific consensus was building that morning-after pills did not block implantation. In one study using fertilized eggs that would have been discarded from fertility clinics, Dr. Gemzell-Danielsson found that adding Plan B in a dish did not prevent them from attaching to cells that line the uterus. [The New York Times, 6/5/12]
International Federation Of Gynecology Obstetrics: Emergency Contraceptives "Do Not Inhibit Implantation." A 2012 statement by the International Federation of Gynecology Obstetrics with a section titled "Do not inhibit implantation," explained:
Two studies have estimated effectiveness of [emergency contraceptive pills] by confirming the cycle day by hormonal analysis (other studies used women's self-reported cycle date). In these studies, no pregnancies occurred in the women who took ECPs before ovulation while pregnancies occurred only in women who took ECPs on or after the day of ovulation, providing evidence that ECPs were unable to prevent implantation. [International Federation of Gynecology Obstetrics, March 2012]
Former Assistant Commissioner For Women's Health At FDA: It's "Factually Incorrect" To Refer To Plan B As An Abortafacient. Speaking to NPR, George Washington University professor of health policy Susan Wood decried the conflation of morning-after pills with abortion:
The constant references to Plan B and ella as abortion-causing pills frustrates, a professor of health policy at George Washington University and a former assistant commissioner for women's health at the FDA.
"It is not only factually incorrect, it is downright misleading. These products are not abortifacients," she says. "And their only connection to abortion is that they can prevent the need for one." [NPR.org, 2/21/13]
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The Maldives is easily one of the world's most beautiful destinations, and it is easy to see why many families choose a Maldives family holiday. Seeing the Maldives with kids can be one of the most amazing experiences for families, and Maldives resorts for families are plentiful. It is a place where a family can really relax, unwind and enjoy their tranquil surroundings, and with such a selection of Maldives family resorts on offer, there is something to suit everyone.
The Kanuhura Resort and Spa is a great choice in the Maldives for families, offering a range of different activities and amenities, accommodation types, eating options and adventures making it one of the best Maldives kid friendly resorts.
The best part is that this resort is just reopening after closing for a full renovation meaning that all facilities and rooms are as new.
Kanuhura Resort hosts plenty of activities such as scuba diving, tennis, beach volley ball, yoga classes and more so that you always have something to do.The resort has many amenities including a groovy nightclub for the adults, outdoor sports activities for families, and a great range of spa and health facilities that offer many different 5-star treatments. There are ten restaurants and bars scattered around the resort to suit your family's taste.
The Kanuhura Resort and Spa also offers exclusive access to the private island of Jehunuhura where you can experience the serenity and calmness of this private island or eat a meal. There is also a Marine Biology Centre with different activities for every day of the week.
The kids will be kept occupied whether they are with you or at the kids' club. Kanuhura Resort welcomes children aged four to eleven to their kids' club where there is a large sand filled playground, shallow pool, different activities and pirate games. Children aged two and three year old can join too but must be accompanied by a guardian/babysitter.
There is also a teens club for 12-17 year olds which includes sport and recreational activities as well as excursions.
The resort's accommodation features elegant villas that sit on stilts and give you the impression that you are at one with the ocean. Each villa is made with bamboo and has a shaded veranda surrounded in vegetation for privacy, overlooking the ocean. There are many options, including villas over the ocean and villas on land with their own private plunge pool. Most villas accommodate 4 with some accommodating up to 8 people.
The resort prides itself on its high quality service and strives to offer as much as possible during your stay to make you as comfortable as possible.
Click here for the latest prices and more details of the Kanuhura Resort and Spa.
A family holiday in the Maldives is of course desirable for many families, but unfortunately, often unaffordable. Jumeirah Vittaveli is proof that family hotels in Maldives with all inclusive luxuries can be within budget for many families. Jumeirah Vittaveli is one of the top picks for families looking for value and big reason why they keep coming back.
Surrounded by the best of nature and among other family resorts Maldives offers, a full spa, direct beach access and range of activates all make this a place to have one of the best family holidays Maldives can offer. Airport transfer to this resort is an easy sea shuttle ride on some of the best water.
Another offering of this Maldives family resort is that it offers some of the best kids amenities – it is truly the perfect place for Maldives family holidays. The resort has dedicated TV channels for kids, both indoor and outdoor play equipment, games, a kids club and babysitting service making is perfect for families with young kids.
The resort has limited dining venues, but the cuisine is diverse enough to suit all. Free snorkeling equipment is also offered by the hotel with various water based activities on offer, although the activities themselves can be expensive.
Each room is large with a private pool and offering great value. This is easily one of the best hotels in Maldives for families, and a place where the whole family can enjoy their time together.
Click here to see the latest prices and to read more about Jumeirah Vittaveli.
Another contender for the best family resort in the Maldives is the beautiful Atmosphere Kanifushi resort. It is situated 30 minutes by seaplane from Male Airport. The resort features stand alone villas separated by tropical vegetation with direct access to the beach and the crystal clear waters beyond.
The Atmosphere Kanifushi has some of the largest detached villas in the Maldives for a family that combine both traditional and modern architecture. Surrounded by tall coconut trees, the different accommodation types include Family Villas, Junior Suites and Sunset Pool Villas each offering a different experience. Family Villas are interconnecting and Junior Suites are connected through a living area.
Accommodation prices all include an exclusive Platinum PLUS Package that entitles holders to basically everything at the resort – all meals, snacks, drinks (even premium spirits and wines) as well as use of the Kids' Club, snorkeling sessions, excursions and more. This means that you can have a hassle free holiday without any stress about bills.
Best parts: The cultural experiences offered and the Platinum PLUS Package. This is one of the best all inclusive packages I have seen.
Click here for the latest prices and more details of the Atmosphere Kanifushi.
The Shangri-La is another gorgeous resort to visit in the Maldives with family. It is situated 70 minutes from Male International Airport. The hotel features villas that are built on the beautiful blue waters of the Maldives. There are 3 bars and 3 restaurants, and babysitting is provided for those nights when you require some time to yourself. The villas are designed with Middle Eastern and Indian infused style and each offer the modern comforts and conveniences you would expect.
The resort offers an extensive range of accommodation types, from tree top huts to ocean perched villas, each providing a unique and special experience. The two bedroom beach villa's are great for families, with their own infinity pools. If your kids are older than 12, then we would definitely recommend the tree house villas for incomparable accommodation.
The Shangri-La is one of the Maldives most kid friendly resorts. The 'Cool Zone' welcomes children aged four to twelve, and provides a range of different facilities such as the Jungle Club where the kids can meet animals and reptiles. There are also a range of games, fitness activities and arts and crafts.
For the adults, the resort offers bicycle tracks, car tours and a large golf course to keep you busy. You will also find a full range of spa services to help you further unwind if the white beaches aren't enough!
This resort also offers access to 7 different islands for you and your family to explore.
Click here for the latest prices and more details of the Shangri-La's Villingili Resort and Spa.
A 35 minute sea plane ride from Male International Airport and you will find yourself at Anantara Kihavah. Positioned on Kihavah Island, here you will find some of the clearest and most exciting water in the Maldives, making this resort the perfect family accommodation Maldives offers for diving.
The resorts main attractions certainly are centered around the sea – with snorkeling, canoeing, sailing and diving this is the ultimate water escape, and you will surely make good use of the crystal water.
Accommodation in Maldives needs to include food as outside of the resort options are limited, and with 5 dining options onsite including an underwater restaurant you will surely be impressed.
The resort caters to all families with kids, old and young. There is both a kids clubs and cinema and numerous activities for kids so that one thing is sure – you will never hear them say they are bored (if you hear from them at all!). For families with younger kids, this is the best family resort Maldives offering you a night off. You can use the babysitting service to have a private beach or yacht dinner.
There are several villa options with private pools, beach access and direct pool access. Rooms even include an espresso machine and wine chillers!
Staying at the Anantara Kihavah is a chance for your family to be treated as royalty and will offer an unforgettable experience.
Click here to see the latest prices and to read more information for Anantara Kihavah.
Another of the Maldives family hotels is the Four Seasons. Four Seasons are known for their high quality resorts and the Four Seasons at Landaa Giraavaru is no exception. The resort is scattered around a remote jungle-like island and contains over 100 luxury villas that are truly accommodating and high quality, making the Four Seasons one of the best Maldives family hotels.
There is no shortfall on amenities as the Four Seasons including a massive 50 metre pool, spa, 3 bars and 8 restaurants. The resort takes advantage of the glorious water around it by offering the Four Seasons Explorer Boat for cruise access to exclusive areas for scuba diving and shared/private cruises around the islands. Being near the waters of the Baa Atoll UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve, it offers some of the best diving experiences in the Maldives. The resort also offers some extreme water sports for older kids and adults, such as wake boarding and jet skiing.
There are babysitting services and a kids club for children aged 4-12. Young adults aged between 13-18 can also benefit from an extensive range of activities that are centred around the water. The resort runs a Marine Discovery Centre that is great for kids and adults to learn about science and marine life in the Maldives.
The Family Beach Villa is a standout villa for families with young kids, offering its own pool. Otherwise, the Four Seasons offers two and three bedroom villas.
Click here for the latest prices and more details of the Four Seasons Resort at Landaa Giraavaru.
The Sun Siyam Iru Fushi is one of the best family resorts in the Maldives. It is set out on a 52-acre island and holds some of the best natural beauty that the Maldives has to offer. It is located 45 minutes away from Male Airport by Seaplane.
This resort is ideal for water lovers, with a large main pool which also contains a shallow kids areas, a lap pool, a five star dive centre and a water sports centre. The resort also offers a full gymnasium with tennis and badminton.
The resort hosts a range of different accommodation types, and you are sure to find something that will suit your needs. The accommodation is centred on their fabulous villas that open out onto the clear water and white beach. The 3 bedroom celebrity retreats offer great quality for your family.
When it is time to eat, you are free to choose from one of the 11 different restaurants that offer a broad dining and drinks menu.
For those looking to experience Maldivian culture, this resort offers many options such as the experience to go to a Maldivian school and practice English with the children, a special and enriching experience for both kids and parents.
Click here for the latest prices and more details of The Sun Siyam Iru Fushi Maldives.
Have you been to the Maldives? What are you best tips?
I Think the Jumeira Vittaveli is too exposed to have kids along especially the under 4 kids. If a kid falls over, the deck is too high for them to pull up back.
Such a great collection of hotels, thanks for inspiration & sharing! We are very lucky to go back to Makdives this time with the kiddies in December including for a collaboration with Banyan Tree Angsana Velavaru. Very excited and hoping we will manage to see again dolphins and whilst kids enjoy the kidsclub, parents will be diving ?


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With a foreword by Joycelyn Elders, M.D., No Secrets, No Lies is a powerful and daringly honest resource guide for families seeking to understand, prevent, and overcome childhood sexual abuse and its devastating impact on adult survivors. An estimated one in four women and one in six men is abused by age eighteen, most often by someone they know. Most of these sexual assaults are never disclosed, much less reported to the police. No Secrets, No Lies demystifies the cultural taboos and social dynamics that keep Black families silent and enable abuse to continue for generations. Among them: • Fear of betraying family by turning offenders in to "the system" • Distrust of institutions and…
authority figures, such as police officers • Reluctance to seek counseling or therapy • A legacy of enslavement and stereotypes about black sexuality Through compelling personal accounts from everyday people, Robin D. Stone, a sexual abuse survivor herself, illuminates the emotional, psychological and hidden consequences of remaining silent, and provides holistic, practical steps to move toward healing. No Secrets, No Lies candidly speaks to: survivors, telling them they are not at fault, not alone and how they can seek help; parents, guardians and caretakers, explaining how they can keep children safe and help survivors recover; and family, friends and other loved ones, showing ways to lend support. From the Hardcover edition.
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
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ROBIN D. STONE is a former Executive Editor ofEssencemagazine and the founding Editor-in-Chief ofEssence.com. She was also an editor for theNew York Times, theBoston Globe, theDetroit Free Press, andFamily Circle, and has written for numerous publications, includingEssenceandGlamour. As a 2002-03 Kaiser Media Fellow, she researched the impact of sexual abuse, with a focus on Black families. A Detroit native, she lives in New York City with her husband and their son.
Was It Sexual Abuse?
I just didn't think that adults had sex with children.
-Darlene, who as a preteen was raped repeatedly by a brother-in-law
If you are reading this book, you might have found at some point in your life that you were on your own, searching for the words to name what was happening to you. Or for the courage to get away, or the power to make it stop. You may have figured that it happened to everybody, because it had become so routine in your life. You might have even expected it, felt your body respond to it. You might have carried the secret for years, or maybe you're still carrying it today.
Without enlightenment, we struggle, we are on our own, in the dark, trying to understand why we're "evil, all the time," as one sister said to me. Or why our families may get together and laugh easily but rarely come to terms with deep, deep troubles. For many of us, we have buried sexual abuse so deep into our psyches that we would never connect it to today's physical illnesses and pain, our depression or addiction, our inability to hold a job, get out of debt, find satisfaction in a relationship, nurture our children, or simply say no to people or situations that do us harm.
But knowledge, as does faith, helps to light the way. Knowledge clears the fog of ignorance so that we can see what's real and true, even if it's ugly. It helps us see how our families enable and even encourage abuse. And it helps us learn how to hold abusers accountable, or at the least not be intimidated by them. Knowledge helps us understand how abuse has affected our lives and what we can do to untangle those effects from the life we want to live. And it helps us see our experience within the context of our culture and the larger society.
All About Power
Sexual abuse, simply put, is when a person in power or authority uses you or forces you to perform for his or her sexual gratification. Sexual abuse can range from noncontact flashing and use of explicit pictures and language to touching and kissing to digital and penile penetration. It is a crime, which often stems from a sickness.(1) And it is a violation of your body, your mind, and your spirit. It is perhaps the nature of the crime that leads us to believe that what happens behind closed doors should stay there, but it is often in the shadow of silence that problems like depression and addiction develop, enabling abuse to continue for generations.
The power of an abuser can be physical or assumed. Clergy members and teachers have power in their positions as spiritual and educational leaders. A friend of the family has power because he is an adult and because he has connections to the parents that a child does not have. The power of a boss or coach stems from that role of authority. A babysitter's power and authority are inherent in her position as a caregiver and substitute for parents. A cousin may not be bigger in size but may seem to have more household clout because of the way he commands his elders' attention and respect. The term incest can mean sexual relations between family members, regardless of age. Throughout my book I will use the terms child sexual abuse and sexual abuse , which more specifically describes adults' illegal sexual contact with children.
I will focus on the sexual abuse of children and abuse committed by family, informal family, and friends because we are more likely to be abused as children than as adults, and, contrary to the "stranger danger" warnings that many of us remember from childhood, we are most likely to be abused by someone we know.(2) It is in these instances--in a tangle of confusion, fear, embarrassment, and shame--that the silence is most pervasive. Most abuse is committed by adult males against younger females, though women are known to abuse, children are known to abuse, and boys and young men are also abused.(3) I will refer most often to instances in which women were abused in childhood by adult males, but I have included a chapter (Chapter 6) on the specific challenges of boys who are abused.
If you have ever been sexually abused, then you should consider yourself a survivor in recognition of your fortitude, no matter the negative impact, no matter what harmful ways you have found to cope with your experience. Anyone who has been sexually violated and has lived to tell about it, including myself, I will refer to as a survivor. I give a nod to the noted feminist scholar Traci C. West, who uses the term victim-survivor to remind readers "of the dual status of women who have been victimized by assault and survived it." She notes: "Black women are sometimes denied an opportunity to have their victimization recognized."(4)
A survivor once wrote to me: "Is it abuse if you don't have sex?" The answer is: Absolutely. We might dismiss or minimize our experience of abuse because it was "only touching" or "it happened only once" or "it was a long time ago." But abuse has many forms and faces, and each can be devastating in its own way. You can determine if what you experienced was abuse by asking yourself these questions:
Was I touched or kissed in a way that made me feel uncomfortable?
Were words with sexual overtones used to describe my body?
Were words about sexual acts used in my presence?
Was I made to view sexual acts?
Was I made to pose for sexual photos or movies?
Was I forced to touch someone else's genitals or breasts?
Was I made to put my mouth on someone else's genitals or breasts?
Was I raped or penetrated?
Was the person who did this in a more powerful role than me (bigger, stronger, older, in authority)?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you were most likely sexually abused. The "Help Yourself" exercise at the end of this chapter focuses on the symptoms that can help you acknowledge past abuse. Together these questions and the exercise can help you be clear and sure. It doesn't matter how long ago, or how often, though more severe abuse has been linked to more severe health-related problems.(5) One episode is enough to cause a lifetime of damage. There need not be a threat or physical violence, merely a touch, innuendo, or some other sexual act that makes you uncomfortable. And without some form of therapeutic help, it is difficult to simply "get over it," as many survivors are told to do, or have tried to do. Shirley, who is in her seventies, still vaguely remembers being abused by her mother's husband, a man whom she refuses to call "father." She was about three at the time it started. Whenever she speaks out about it, she finds that through her testimony, she heals a bit more: "My daily life is not fraught with fear. But the triggers, they take me back to where I was. Triggers like what's happening with the Catholic Church and all those priests, or somebody might touch me when I'm not expecting it. I've not done all my work in healing. I've done it in segments over the years. And I've learned to tell my story. I've just tried to get functional. That's good enough for me."
How Big Is Yhis Problem?
Because of fear, shame, and cultural baggage, most of us keep this violation to ourselves, making sexual abuse one of the least-reported crimes in the United States.(6) Statistics vary widely, depending on the type of research and the size of the study's sample, and even what behaviors are considered abusive. About 87,000 children were sexually abused in 2001, according to the Department of Health and Human Services' National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System, which tracks confirmed cases of abuse. But chronic underreporting means that no statistics truly reflect the extent of abuse in our country. These widely quoted numbers from surveys of adults looking back on their childhoods reflect how prevalent the problem is: About one in four women and one in six men report that they were sexually abused as children.(7)
Using these estimates, among African Americans, that translates to about 3.3 million women and 1.9 million men eighteen and older who have reported a history of sexual abuse.(8) If it were considered a disease, experts would have labeled sexual abuse an epidemic long ago.
Comprehensive research on sexual abuse is relatively new; major studies on the issue have been produced only in the last twenty or so years. And not surprisingly, research that focuses on Black Americans' experience is rare; few studies examine the role of race and culture in survivors' experiences. One noted exception is the work of Gail E. Wyatt, a clinical psychologist and professor at UCLA. I will refer regularly to Wyatt's pioneering in-depth studies exploring the impact of abuse on the lives of Black women. "We're certainly not the only group that's silent regarding abuse," says Wyatt, who has written several books on abuse and sexuality. "But we're the only group whose experience is compounded by our history of slavery and stereotypes about Black sexuality, and that makes discussion more difficult."
Blacks are sexually victimized in childhood at the same rate as Whites. In one survey, they reported being more severely abused with greater force.(9)
Family members and acquaintances account for 93 percent of sexual assaults against people under age eighteen.(10)
In estimates of cases known to child protective agencies or community workers, girls were sexually abused three times more often than boys.(11)
Sexual abuse before age eighteen increases a woman's risk of becoming HIV-positive more than any other factor in her life.(12)
Abuse is debilitating. Its impact on behavior is lifelong and potentially deadly. For children, abuse can stunt their psychological and emotional development. E. Sue Blume writes that abused children experience "a course of development (emotional, interpersonal, sexual) that is shared, every day, with premature sexuality, lack of safety (even terror) and deformities of many life skills. The child victim's entire view of herself and the world will be clouded by the effects of her abuse."(13)
Most research into sexual abuse focuses on the psychological effects: Survivors are more likely to experience depression than women who weren't abused, studies show; the longer the abuse lasts and the more violent, the more severe the problems.(14) However, no study can truly reflect the range of experiences and their related effects. One woman who was propositioned but never touched by her mother's boyfriend spoke of an enormous sense of shame that she was somehow enticing him. We will explore the impact of abuse, and the silence that often follows, in the next two chapters.
Many psychological problems can lead to or complicate physical problems, such as reproductive disorders. Abuse also affects women's sexual choices: Survivors are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior that leads to disease and pregnancy. In one study, 66 percent of pregnant teens reported a history of abuse.(15) Sixty-six percent of all prostitutes were sexually abused as children, and 66 percent of sexually abused prostitutes were abused by fathers, stepfathers, or foster fathers.(16) Another recent study showed that sexual abuse before age eighteen increased a woman's risk of becoming HIV-positive more than any other factor in her life.(17)
Ultimately, as a society, we all pay for sexual abuse through public and private money spent on crisis intervention, child protection services, medical treatment, foster care, and the criminal justice system. Other directly related costs include those for mental health care and counseling, substance abuse treatment, and social services programs for indigent clients and the mentally ill. Among secondary costs, consider simply the cumulative lost time from work that can be linked to survivors' history of sexual violation. Studies have shown that it is far cheaper to provide prevention services than to pay for intervention and treatment.
All acts of sexual abuse should be reported immediately to your local police, rape crisis center, or social service agency, and the survivor should get immediate physical and mental help. By law, adults whose work puts them in contact with children are supposed to report signs that a child has been abused (see Chapter 5, "Protecting and Saving Our Children") to the authorities. In some states, every person with a reasonable suspicion must report or face fines or even jail time. Adult survivors who want to take legal action against their abusers may do so by pressing criminal charges or filing a civil lawsuit. Whatever the judicial outcome of the abuser's case, that person must receive professional treatment as well. We will explore treatment for survivors and reporting abusers in Chapters 4 and 7.
Why Is This Our Problem?
Sexual abuse spans all racial, gender, economic, and social boundaries. At least one study shows that abuse is more common among children in lower-income families.(18) Because African Americans are disproportionately poor, it may seem that Blacks are at a disproportionate risk for being abused. But it should be noted that abuse is more likely to be reported among low-income families because they tend to be in contact with public agencies and authorities more than others, and may be observed more. Also, those who tend to report suspicions of abuse, such as teachers and doctors, may be more likely to suspect abuse in lower-income families. That means that the problem goes virtually undetected in those families whose race or ethnicity, money, status, or social standing insulates them from people who might otherwise turn a trained eye to warning signs.
Abuse is our problem because while studies show that Black children are victimized just as often as White children, survivors report different reactions to their experiences. And we must remember that in addition to the trauma of sexual violation, survivors must also deal with the trauma of being born and raised in a racist and sexist culture.(19) Wyatt's study comparing experiences of rape includes some significant differences:20
Black American women were more likely to have withheld reports of attempted rape from authorities.
Black Americans were significantly more likely than Whites to blame their living circumstances for placing them at risk for victimization.
Black Americans tended to be the victims of repeated assaults slightly more often than Whites.
Black Americans were significantly more likely than Whites to have heard sexual and racial stereotypes regarding which kinds of women are likely to be raped.
In another study, Blacks reported that they were more likely than Whites to be abused severely in terms of the sex acts involved, and the abuse was more likely to be accompanied by force. They were less likely to be abused by a father and more often abused by their uncles.(21) I will show in detail in this and the following chapters some specific ways that Black women were affected.
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LOFBERG, J.O., Sycophancy in Athens. Banta Publishing Company, Menasha, n.d.(1917). XI,104p. Sewn. Head and tail spine as well as small part of front cover worn or gone. Binding a little bit weak. (Rare). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 37.50 (Antiquarian)
STEELE, P. M., Syllabic Writing on Cyprus and its Context : Volume 0, Part 0. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 209p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Classical Studies. This volume offers a new and interdisciplinary treatment of syllabic writing in ancient Cyprus. A team of distinguished scholars tackles epigraphic, palaeographic, linguistic, archaeological, historical and terminological problems relating to the island's writing systems in the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age, from the appearance of writing around the fifteenth century down to the end of the first millennium BC. The result is not intended to be a single, unified view of the scripts and their context, but rather a varied collection that demonstrates a range of interpretations of the evidence and challenges some of the longstanding or traditional views of the population of ancient Cyprus and its epigraphic habits. This is the first comprehensive account of the 'Cypro-Minoan' and 'Cypriot syllabic' scripts to appear in a single volume and forms an invaluable resource for anyone studying Cypriot epigraphy or archaeology. (Publisher's information).	€ 23.05 (New) (MD)
STEELE, P. M., Syllabic Writing on Cyprus and its Context: Volume 0, Part 0. Cambridge University Press, 2013. 208p. Hardback. Series: Cambridge Classical Studies. This volume offers a new and interdisciplinary treatment of syllabic writing in ancient Cyprus. A team of distinguished scholars tackles epigraphic, palaeographic, linguistic, archaeological, historical and terminological problems relating to the island's writing systems in the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age, from the appearance of writing around the fifteenth century down to the end of the first millennium BC. The result is not intended to be a single, unified view of the scripts and their context, but rather a varied collection that demonstrates a range of interpretations of the evidence and challenges some of the longstanding or traditional views of the population of ancient Cyprus and its epigraphic habits. This is the first comprehensive account of the 'Cypro-Minoan' and 'Cypriot syllabic' scripts to appear in a single volume and forms an invaluable resource for anyone studying Cypriot epigraphy or archaeology. (Publisher's information).	€ 76.46 (New) (MD)
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Jahangir Tareen returns to Pakistan
PTI leader Jahangir Khan Tareen returned to Pakistan on Friday after a seven-month hiatus in the United Kingdom.
He was accompanied by his son Ali Khan Tareen.
Jahangir Tareen had earlier left the country during the first wave of Covid-19 after a sugar inquiry commission found him involved in the sugar scam. The commission had named some bigwigs in the country including Tareen and other PTI members like Khusro Bakhtyar.
Upon his arrival at the Allama Iqbal Airport, Lahore, Pakistan, Tareen while speaking to the media, Tareen said he went abroad for medical treatment. "I have been going abroad for this purpose for the past seven years."
Answering allegations levelled by the opposition regarding his business and his departure to the UK, Jahangir Khan Tareen said the opposition has only one purpose, it only points fingers at others.
"Thanks to Allah, my business is clean," he added. Taking to Twitter shortly after his arrival, he said: "All of my mills, including those in Sindh, will start crushing on November 10. I will play my part in helping the government overcome the sugar shortage and price hike."
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Jahangir Khan Tareen has been a key player in the PTI politics over the last few years and played a pivotal role in helping the party form a government in the centre and Punjab as well.
However, even before the elections, Jahangir Khan Tareen was disqualified by the Election Commission of Pakistan to hold a public office and was barred from entering public meetings.
Despite that, he was still playing a big role in the government during the first two years of PTI. The opposition parties had questioned the legality of Tareen being placed in the high-level meetings as it was seen against the rules.
After he left for the UK, Tareen's relationship with PM Imran Khan had gone from bad to worse.
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Iberica, Leeds – Restaurant Review
By Kerryn Duckworth
Approaching Iberica, you'd be mistaken for feeling like you were stepping back into the 1900s. Set in the Grade II listed Hepper House with a blue plaque adorning the external wall; the building Iberica now calls home was previously an auction house built in 1863. Just on the approach, it feels grand and majestic and the building itself sets the tone for the rest of the evening.
We are welcomed in and ushered to the bar area prior to taking to our table where we are asked what drinks we would like. I'm stuck for choice so the bar staffs suggestion is welcome – and we're in luck. Mahou; a San Miguel brand are doing a promotion within Iberica and we're invited down into the bar under the main restaurant for a free Mahou beer. Not only that; it's an education on how to pull the perfect beer.
The bar under Iberica is rustic, relaxed and informal and would be perfect for an after-work drink with some light snacks. I'm won over by the Mahou and, with beer in hand, we make our way back upstairs to the main dining area and directed to our table.
The building is magnificent with a skylight which runs the length of the room. This area was originally the auction display area, so natural light was essential. This is complemented by low hung chintzy lamp shades, blue and cream wallpapers and matching tables and chairs giving a sophisticated and smart appeal to the venue.
"Reminded of holidaying in Spain"
As an Iberica first timer, Matt the General Manager talks us through the menu with recommendations forthcoming. Whilst we're attempting to choose from the vast array of mouth-watering tapas, my friend and I opt for some meats and cheese from the Deli board. We're presented with a wooden platter topped with a variety of mouth watering Charcuterie and Artisan Cheeses including Cecina, Chorizo and Fuet on the meat side and Ibores, Mahon and Manchego cheeses. (£7 for Half and Half Meat and Cheese Selection).
This is accompanied by Toasted Bread with Tomato (£3), which is juicy and crunchy with the salt bringing the tomatoes to life. The perfect sharing starter to get the taste buds tingling for what's coming next.
There's only one option for the main course and that's the tapas menu. There's plenty of choice for all palates with vegetarian options, eggs and croquettes and selections 'from the land' and 'from the sea'. Standard tapas restaurants suggest two or three tapas per person so we go with the Manager's recommendations. Again, in typical tapas style, the plates arrive when they're ready and we dig in as soon as they do so.
The Fried Chorizo Lollipops (£5) are first to arrive, thick pieces of Spanish sausage coated in a batter and served on top of pear alioli. Crunchy and smokey and creamy in equal measures. After one bite I'm wanting more… a lot more. My friend instantly tells me that she's reminded of being on holiday in Spain. It's just a shame we're not!
"Vibrant flavours"
More arrives. We're presented with the Green Asparagus Toast (£5.50) and the Iberica staple; Croquettes de Jamon (£6). Asparagus on toast does not sound that appealing however when the asparagus is served on the toast alongside Manchego cheese, onion confit and truffle oil, the asparagus springs to life and brings a freshness to the plate. The croquettes are a signature dish from Iberica and, creamy inside, they fall apart under the knife and fork. They're an absolute necessity.
Even more arrives; Garlic Prawns with Pasta (£9.50) is whole juicy prawns on a bed of fideo pasta which springs to life with lemon juice and garlic and Twice Cooked Lamb (£8.50). The lamb falls apart and is succulent, however the cherry on this cake is the accompanying roasted tomatoes marinated in a tart vinegar flavour. This brings the whole dish to life and is one of the best things on the plate.
The final plate is off tapas and from the grill section of the menu but comes recommended; the Secreto (£11) is a cut from the Iberian pig of Spain; a 'secret' cut, no less. Grilled to perfection with a slight crunch to the top, this is juicy and succulent. A portion of Skinny Chips (£3) joins the meat. However, compared to the vibrant flavours of everything else, the chips pale in comparison, mainly because they are just chips.
All this is washed down with a glass of the Zurbal (£6 per 150ml glass). It's a white rioja with flowery and citrusy notes which accompanies the prawns and asparagus perfectly.
"Leave with a smile"
Despite the amazing food and drinks we've consumed there is always room for dessert. It's not a trip to Iberica without Churros with Chocolate (£4.50); crispy pastry coated in sugar and a smooth rich chocolatey dipping sauce. We have to! I also opt for an alternative, the Crema Catalana Foam (£5). A very rich and luxurious dessert filled with cream, baked apple and salted caramel ice cream.
Service is attentive and friendly in the restaurant and the venue oozes style and sophistication. The Gothic inspired venue lends itself perfectly to Iberica. A function room upstairs is also a smooth and stylish private dining and drinks area. Iberica can be a destination for special occasions, a romantic meal, a catch up with friends or a drink after work in the bar downstairs.
I'm leaving Iberica with a smile on my face, with good company and a full belly. What else do you need!
Iberica, Hepper House, 17A East Parade, Leeds, LS1 2BH
Monday – Saturday 11.30am – 11pm
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Q: Does continuity of composition of maps gives continuity of the left function? Suppose $\;F:\Bbb R^2\to\Bbb R\;$ is such that for any continuous path $\;\gamma:[0,1]\to\Bbb R^2\;$ , the composition $\;F\circ \gamma:[0,1]\to\Bbb R\;$ is continuous . Is then $\;F\;$ continuous? The remarked continuous above is part of the question, not of me.
Now, I'm very stuck in this though I'm pretty sure the claim is false, but I haven't got any counter example. "Usual" examples of functions discontinuous at the origin don't seem to work, and I think maybe some weird way to pass to the limit (at origin or else where) could help here.

A: The claim is true.
Assume $F$ is not continuous, so without loss of generality, it is discontinuous at $0$, and $f(0)=0$. Thus there is some $\epsilon>0$ such that for each $\delta>0$ there is some $x\in B(0,\delta)\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ with $|F(x)|>\epsilon.$ For any natural $n$ let $x_n\in B(0,1/2^n)$ such that $|F(x)|>\epsilon$. Let $c$ be the infinite polygon that connects every $x_n$ to $x_{n+1}$ by the straight segment between them. By construction, $c$ is of finite length, and obviously it gets closer to the origin as $n\to\infty.$ Now take $\gamma$ to be the arc length parametrization of $c$, with the origin as its endpoint. This is indeed a continuous path, and the composition $F\circ\gamma$ is not continuous.