In addition to the cash problem, lack of regulation has led to inconsistencies in lab purity results, difficulties in patient verifications, and numerous data integrity problems. "You have no way of trusting the information that you are being fed, so to speak," says David Sonstebo, a futurist and founder of IOTA. The non-profit foundation has built a next-gen distributed ledger technology called Tangle, which Paragon will eventually be using.
Lavrov and VerSteeg at the Yahoo! News Studio.
The Paragon blockchain evolved from a personal tragedy that touched VerSteeg deeply. In 2015, VerSteeg lost her boyfriend, Tyler Sash to an overdose of painkillers.
Sash was a former standout safety for the University of Iowa who won a Super Bowl during his rookie season with the New York Giants. He was always playing in pain from injuries, concussions and chronic shoulder problems and asked VerSteeg if he could smoke weed to prevent addiction to painkillers, she recalls. "And I said, 'No, Ty, you have to trust these NFL doctors; you'll never get addicted," says VerSteeg.
VerSteeg with Sash in their happy days.
The Drug Enforcement Administration says the current weight of evidence shows that smoked marijuana has a "high potential for abuse, and has no accepted medical value" and that there is a "general lack of accepted safety for its use even under medical supervision." But despite the lack of rigorous testing marijuana is believed by advocates to have potential benefits for conditions including chemotherapy, chronic pain and muscle spasms.
Sash's addiction broke up their relationship and VerSteeg moved to San Francisco. On Sept. 8, 2015, Sash, then 27, was found dead at his home in Oskaloosa, Iowa. "I never made it to see him," VerSteeg says. According to news reports, the medical examiner ruled an accidental overdose of a mix of two highly addictive painkillers, hydrocodone and methadone. His family later released results of tests performed on his brain confirming that Sash had advanced Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, (C.T.E.) -- a degenerative brain disease that affects many football players.
In the lead up to the launch, Paragon also has gotten into a real kerfuffle with Redditors who allege the company used fake online users to build support and bots for "brigading," or manipulating group votes to censor critics and even delete negative posts during online forums. VerSteeg and Lavrov deny the broader allegations. Lavrov admits that a Paragon employee deleted one post and that he admonished his team over the incident.
This week, after receiving a second alleged ransom demand which Lavrov defiantly posted on Medium, he and VerSteeg reported the incident to the San Francisco police department's Financial Crimes Unit and they've also contacted the FBI, according to Paragon's attorney, Julian Zegelman.
Given the controversies and daunting legal, technical and community hurdles, it's anyone's guess whether VerSteeg and Lavrov can generate enough support and ICO horsepower to fulfill their stated vision of a transparent cannabis supply chain built entirely on a blockchain. Alternately, there's also the possibility that ParagonCoin could become just another weed coin in an already over proliferated field.


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Q: No cipher suites in common in Jetty 9 SSL Configuration I have spent the better part of the day on this and so far have been unable to get Jetty 9 configured to serve over HTTPS correctly. This is only for development purposes so I have generated a keystore file that I am attempting to use with Jetty.
I am generating the certificate like this:
keytool -keystore keystore -alias jetty -genkey -keyalg RSA

This is from the Jetty instructions at https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/current/configuring-ssl.html.
Output from mvn -X jetty:run when I start the server showing the cipher suites:
[DEBUG] STARTED @7821ms org.eclipse.jetty.server.ServerConnector$ServerConnectorManager@677b8e13
[DEBUG] starting SslConnectionFactory@4158debd{SSL->http/1.1}
[DEBUG] run org.eclipse.jetty.io.ManagedSelector@1b8d20e6 id=3 keys=0 selected=0
[DEBUG] EPR Idle/org.eclipse.jetty.io.ManagedSelector$SelectorProducer@3519e9bc execute
[DEBUG] EPR Prod/org.eclipse.jetty.io.ManagedSelector$SelectorProducer@3519e9bc produce enter
[DEBUG] EPR Prod/org.eclipse.jetty.io.ManagedSelector$SelectorProducer@3519e9bc producing
[DEBUG] Selector loop waiting on select
[DEBUG] starting SslContextFactory@af78c87(null,null)
[DEBUG] Selected Protocols [TLSv1, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2] of [SSLv2Hello, SSLv3, TLSv1, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2]
[DEBUG] Selected Ciphers   [TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256, TLS_ECDH_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256, TLS_ECDH_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256, TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDH_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDH_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_ECDH_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_ECDH_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, SSL_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDH_ECDSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDH_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, SSL_DHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, SSL_DHE_DSS_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, TLS_ECDH_ECDSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, TLS_ECDH_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5, TLS_EMPTY_RENEGOTIATION_INFO_SCSV] of [TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256, TLS_ECDH_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256, TLS_ECDH_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256, TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDH_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDH_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_ECDH_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_ECDH_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, SSL_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDH_ECDSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDH_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, SSL_DHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, SSL_DHE_DSS_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, TLS_ECDH_ECDSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, TLS_ECDH_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5, TLS_EMPTY_RENEGOTIATION_INFO_SCSV, TLS_DH_anon_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_DH_anon_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256, TLS_ECDH_anon_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_DH_anon_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDH_anon_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, SSL_DH_anon_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDH_anon_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, SSL_DH_anon_WITH_RC4_128_MD5, SSL_RSA_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA, SSL_DHE_RSA_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA, SSL_DHE_DSS_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA, SSL_DH_anon_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA, SSL_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA, SSL_DHE_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA, SSL_DHE_DSS_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA, SSL_DH_anon_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA, SSL_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_RC4_40_MD5, SSL_DH_anon_EXPORT_WITH_RC4_40_MD5, TLS_RSA_WITH_NULL_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_NULL_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_NULL_SHA, SSL_RSA_WITH_NULL_SHA, TLS_ECDH_ECDSA_WITH_NULL_SHA, TLS_ECDH_RSA_WITH_NULL_SHA, TLS_ECDH_anon_WITH_NULL_SHA, SSL_RSA_WITH_NULL_MD5, TLS_KRB5_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, TLS_KRB5_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_MD5, TLS_KRB5_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, TLS_KRB5_WITH_RC4_128_MD5, TLS_KRB5_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA, TLS_KRB5_WITH_DES_CBC_MD5, TLS_KRB5_EXPORT_WITH_DES_CBC_40_SHA, TLS_KRB5_EXPORT_WITH_DES_CBC_40_MD5, TLS_KRB5_EXPORT_WITH_RC4_40_SHA, TLS_KRB5_EXPORT_WITH_RC4_40_MD5]

Output from mvn -X jetty:run from when I attempt to make a request to https://localhost:8443:
[DEBUG] Selector loop woken up from select, 0/0 selected
[DEBUG] EPR Prod/org.eclipse.jetty.io.ManagedSelector$SelectorProducer@5235a7a1 produced org.eclipse.jetty.io.ManagedSelector$2@7ed55f41
[DEBUG] EPR Pend/org.eclipse.jetty.io.ManagedSelector$SelectorProducer@5235a7a1 dispatch
[DEBUG] queue EPR Pend/org.eclipse.jetty.io.ManagedSelector$SelectorProducer@5235a7a1
[DEBUG] EPR Pend/org.eclipse.jetty.io.ManagedSelector$SelectorProducer@5235a7a1 run org.eclipse.jetty.io.ManagedSelector$2@7ed55f41
[DEBUG] run EPR Pend/org.eclipse.jetty.io.ManagedSelector$SelectorProducer@5235a7a1
javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: no cipher suites in common
    at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.checkThrown(Handshaker.java:1431)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.checkTaskThrown(SSLEngineImpl.java:535)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.readNetRecord(SSLEngineImpl.java:813)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.unwrap(SSLEngineImpl.java:781)
    at javax.net.ssl.SSLEngine.unwrap(SSLEngine.java:624)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.io.ssl.SslConnection$DecryptedEndPoint.fill(SslConnection.java:509)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.fillRequestBuffer(HttpConnection.java:313)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:223)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.succeeded(AbstractConnection.java:261)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillInterest.fillable(FillInterest.java:95)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.io.ssl.SslConnection.onFillable(SslConnection.java:192)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.succeeded(AbstractConnection.java:261)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillInterest.fillable(FillInterest.java:95)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.io.SelectChannelEndPoint$2.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:75)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.ExecuteProduceConsume.produceAndRun(ExecuteProduceConsume.java:213)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.ExecuteProduceConsume.run(ExecuteProduceConsume.java:147)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:654)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$3.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:572)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: no cipher suites in common
    at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:192)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.fatal(SSLEngineImpl.java:1666)
    at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Handshaker.java:304)
    at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Handshaker.java:292)
    at sun.security.ssl.ServerHandshaker.chooseCipherSuite(ServerHandshaker.java:1014)
    at sun.security.ssl.ServerHandshaker.clientHello(ServerHandshaker.java:731)
    at sun.security.ssl.ServerHandshaker.processMessage(ServerHandshaker.java:213)
    at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.processLoop(Handshaker.java:979)
    at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker$1.run(Handshaker.java:919)
    at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker$1.run(Handshaker.java:916)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker$DelegatedTask.run(Handshaker.java:1369)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.io.ssl.SslConnection$DecryptedEndPoint.fill(SslConnection.java:613)
    ... 13 more

Here is the relevant section from my pom.xml:
...
<plugin>
    <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
    <artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>9.3.6.v20151106</version>
    <configuration>
        <jettyXml>src/main/resources/jetty.xml,src/main/resources/jetty-
            ssl.xml,src/main/resources/jetty-https.xml,src/main/resources/jetty-ssl-context.xml</jettyXml>
    </configuration>
</plugin>
...

Here is my jetty.xml:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Jetty//Configure//EN" "http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/configure.dtd">

<Configure id="Server" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server">

    <New id="httpConfig" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConfiguration">
        <Set name="secureScheme">https</Set>
        <Set name="securePort"><Property name="jetty.secure.port" default="8443" /></Set>
        <Set name="outputBufferSize">32768</Set>
        <Set name="requestHeaderSize">8192</Set>
        <Set name="responseHeaderSize">8192</Set>
        <Set name="sendServerVersion">true</Set>
        <Set name="sendDateHeader">false</Set>
        <Set name="headerCacheSize">512</Set>
    </New>
</Configure>

jetty-ssl.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Jetty//Configure//EN" "http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/configure_9_3.dtd">

<!-- ============================================================= -->
<!-- Base SSL configuration                                        -->
<!-- This configuration needs to be used together with 1 or more   -->
<!-- of jetty-https.xml or jetty-http2.xml                         -->
<!-- ============================================================= -->
<Configure id="Server" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server">

    <!-- =========================================================== -->
    <!-- Add a SSL Connector with no protocol factories              -->
    <!-- =========================================================== -->
    <Call  name="addConnector">
        <Arg>
            <New id="sslConnector" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.ServerConnector">
                <Arg name="server"><Ref refid="Server" /></Arg>
                <Arg name="acceptors" type="int"><Property name="jetty.ssl.acceptors" deprecated="ssl.acceptors" default="-1"/></Arg>
                <Arg name="selectors" type="int"><Property name="jetty.ssl.selectors" deprecated="ssl.selectors" default="-1"/></Arg>
                <Arg name="factories">
                    <Array type="org.eclipse.jetty.server.ConnectionFactory">
                        <!-- uncomment to support proxy protocol
                        <Item>
                          <New class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.ProxyConnectionFactory"/>
                        </Item>-->
                    </Array>
                </Arg>

                <Set name="host"><Property name="jetty.ssl.host" deprecated="jetty.host" /></Set>
                <Set name="port"><Property name="jetty.ssl.port" deprecated="ssl.port" default="8443" /></Set>

                <Set name="idleTimeout"><Property name="jetty.ssl.idleTimeout" deprecated="ssl.timeout" default="30000"/></Set>
                <Set name="soLingerTime"><Property name="jetty.ssl.soLingerTime" deprecated="ssl.soLingerTime" default="-1"/></Set>
                <Set name="acceptorPriorityDelta"><Property name="jetty.ssl.acceptorPriorityDelta" deprecated="ssl.acceptorPriorityDelta" default="0"/></Set>
                <Set name="acceptQueueSize"><Property name="jetty.ssl.acceptQueueSize" deprecated="ssl.acceptQueueSize" default="0"/></Set>
            </New>
        </Arg>
    </Call>

    <!-- =========================================================== -->
    <!-- Create a TLS specific HttpConfiguration based on the        -->
    <!-- common HttpConfiguration defined in jetty.xml               -->
    <!-- Add a SecureRequestCustomizer to extract certificate and    -->
    <!-- session information                                         -->
    <!-- =========================================================== -->
    <New id="sslHttpConfig" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConfiguration">
        <Arg><Ref refid="httpConfig"/></Arg>
        <Call name="addCustomizer">
            <Arg>
                <New class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.SecureRequestCustomizer">
                    <Arg type="boolean"><Property name="jetty.ssl.sniHostCheck" default="true"/></Arg>
                </New>
            </Arg>
        </Call>
    </New>
</Configure>

jetty-https.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Jetty//Configure//EN" "http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/configure_9_3.dtd">

<!-- ============================================================= -->
<!-- Configure a HTTPS connector.                                  -->
<!-- This configuration must be used in conjunction with jetty.xml -->
<!-- and jetty-ssl.xml.                                            -->
<!-- ============================================================= -->
<Configure id="sslConnector" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.ServerConnector">

    <Call name="addIfAbsentConnectionFactory">
        <Arg>

            <New class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.SslConnectionFactory">
                <Arg name="next">http/1.1</Arg>
                <Arg name="sslContextFactory"><Ref refid="sslContextFactory"/></Arg>
            </New>
        </Arg>
    </Call>

    <Call name="addConnectionFactory">
        <Arg>
            <New class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnectionFactory">
                <Arg name="config"><Ref refid="sslHttpConfig" /></Arg>
            </New>
        </Arg>
    </Call>
</Configure>

jetty-ssl-context.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Jetty//Configure//EN" "http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/configure_9_3.dtd">

<!-- ============================================================= -->
<!-- SSL ContextFactory configuration                              -->
<!-- ============================================================= -->
<Configure id="Server" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server">
    <New id="sslContextFactory" class="org.eclipse.jetty.util.ssl.SslContextFactory">
        <Set name="KeyStorePath"><Property name="jetty.home" default="." />/src/main/resources/keystore</Set>
        <Set name="KeyStorePassword">password</Set>
        <Set name="KeyManagerPassword">password</Set>
        <Set name="TrustStorePath"><Property name="jetty.home" default="." />/src/main/resources/keystore</Set>
        <Set name="TrustStorePassword">password</Set>

        <Set name="IncludeCipherSuites">
        <Array type="String">
            <Item>TLS_DHE_RSA.*</Item>
            <Item>TLS_ECDHE.*</Item>
        </Array>
    </Set>

    <Set name="ExcludeCipherSuites">
        <Array type="String">
            <Item>.*NULL.*</Item>
            <Item>.*RC4.*</Item>
            <Item>.*MD5.*</Item>
            <Item>.*DES.*</Item>
            <Item>.*DSS.*</Item>
        </Array>
    </Set>
    </New>
</Configure>

A: change this:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>9.3.6.v20151106</version>
<configuration>
    <jettyXml>src/main/resources/jetty.xml,src/main/resources/jetty-
        ssl.xml,src/main/resources/jetty-https.xml,src/main/resources/jetty-ssl-context.xml</jettyXml>
</configuration>

to this:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>9.3.6.v20151106</version>
<configuration>
    <jettyXml>src/main/resources/jetty.xml,src/main/resources/jetty-
        ssl.xml,src/main/resources/jetty-ssl-context.xml,src/main/resources/jetty-https.xml</jettyXml>
</configuration>

(Reverse the order of jetty-https.xml and jetty-ssl-context.xml).
You are creating ssl-connector in jetty-https with a default SslContextFactory (<Ref refid="sslContextFactory"/> is null), then go on creating a new SslContextFactory that you are configuring, but it is not used anywhere.

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On how to make oil workers keep quiet about safety concerns, and other dark tales from the subsea oil industry.
On 21 February 2015, while docked at the pier in Stavanger, a 43 year old man is killed aboard the DOF-owned vessel Skandi Skansen. During a routine operation he was a victim of a work accident. Police and paramedics are trying to save his life, but in vain. The Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority is called. Both the police and Labour Inspection are stopped at the pier. They are not allowed to carry out an investigation.
A man has been killed in Stavanger – during a routine operation, on a project for the Norwegian oil industry, and the police are being put on the sideline. The ship is registered in the tax haven of Bahamas. This is the offshore giant DOF, on an assignment for the Norwegian oil industry.
This is an industry with high risk. Underwater contractor Technip was recently fined for an accident where oil worker David Stephenson was crushed by a winch in the British sector. David Stephenson had to pay with his life.
In June 2015 Technip experienced a serious personal injury on board the Norwegian-built vessel North Sea Atlantic. The vessel is registered in Malta. This time it took place in the North Sea, UK sector. The worker was so severely injured that he had to be sent ashore by helicopter. The ship is now doing work in Australia.
Pissed off when he tried to explain. Frustrated. What you get then, is what in HSE-terms is called "silent deviations". People look the other way when observing hazardous conditions, rather than reporting it. Oil workers take risks rather than refraining from carrying out dangerous operations.
The ultimate consequence of poor safety conditions is not an environmental damage to seabirds, or damaged spawning grounds for fish.
The ultimate consequence of poor safety conditions is a dad who never comes home from work. Parents who lose their daughter to the oil industry. Workers being sacrificed on the altar of company profits.
Not long ago I spoke to an offshore worker. A father, who just after having returned home to his family after 17 days on a rig, was called back out again to a multi-purpose vessel due to staff shortage. For four weeks, this time around.
He called the Norwegian supervisory authority, PSA, and asked at what point he could say stop. Where did the limit go? He was exhausted, worn out after doing night shifts only. 12 hour shifts. He was worried about his own and his work mates' safety.
However, the supervisory authority had no answer. They didn't know. He told me they didn't seem to grasp that service personnel and ROV-pilots are shuffled around like this.
To speak up about security concerns, requires a basic level of work security, of workers' rights. To know that your job does not disappear because you report irregularities.
Permanent employment is crucial for safety. This is of course given for all working people, but a mystery to many politicians. Permanent employees dare to speak out when something is not right. If you are a permanent employee, you will not be fired because you have pointed at a safety flaw. A crane operator at Ekofisk dare speak out about the waves being too high or the wind too strong. He is a permanent employee. Got the backing of safety representatives and shop stewards.
The oil workers on multi-purpose vessels in the North Sea are outside the law. They are not seafarers, they are just included in the projects of underwater contractors. They operate the cranes, they are welders and they are roustabouts. They handle equipment worth billions.
The oil worker may be from Ukraine. Lithuania. UK. Countries with high unemployment, where a job is of high value. They have families.
Moreover, they are employed by a recruitment agency from Singapore, leased to a Norwegian subsea contractor and do work for Statoil on the Norwegian shelf. On a ship registered in a tax haven.
They fall between all stools. They are not regarded as seafarers because they are not involved in the ship's propulsion. Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) do not see them as oil workers, since the ship does not take over control of the oil well when they perform their work. They have no protective acts; nor maritime law or the Working Environment Act apply to them. Legislations of tax havens that apply.
One dared to tell. Reported an unwanted event. He got a call from onshore during which he was asked if he was aware of «whatever infernal fuss he had started?? !!» He keeps quiet after that. Silent deviations continues. The result? Oil and gas installations are maintained by scared oil workers.
Ommund Stokka er med i den landsmøtevalgte ledelsen i Industri Energi. Han leder forbundets arbeidslivsavdeling.


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Ilhan is being falsely accused of anti-Semitism for standing up to the powerful pro-Israel lobby.
In what began as the most shameful decision of her time as speaker, Nancy Pelosi decided that the House should rebuke Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., for things she didn't actually say and ideas she didn't actually express. In the process, Democrats were helping to propagate misconceptions about anti-Semitism, Israel and U.S. political debate. Fortunately, the rebuke turned into a more general House condemnation of hate in general.
Please understand, I address this issue as someone who was raised in an intensely Zionist family with a long history of devotion and sacrifice for Israel, but who also — like many American Jews — has become increasingly dismayed by developments in Israel and by how we talk about Israel here in the United States.
'As she saw it, the party ostensibly committed to progressive values had become complicit in perpetuating the status quo. Omar says the "hope and change" offered by Barack Obama was a mirage. Recalling the "caging of kids" at the U.S.-Mexico border and the "droning of countries around the world" on Obama's watch, she argues that the Democratic president operated within the same fundamentally broken framework as his Republican successor.
Please notice that in this piece all of the references to Obama appear outside of quotation marks, in paraphrases offered by the author — who is clearly out to "get" her. Her point is rather simple: Trump is awful, but many of the bad things he does draw on a repertoire that began before he came to office. Drone attacks, a harsh border policy — these things, she insists, began before Trump. And she is right. Indeed, in a different register, even Elizabeth Warren says, regularly, that the inequalities that must be challenged go back decades.


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Matisse Picasso: room guide, room 10 Room 10
The paintings in this room focus again on the female form, continuing the exchange begun in the previous section. Arguably the most Matissean painting is one by Picasso, Woman in a Yellow Armchair 1932, with its curving lines, expanses of flat colour and pattern. But there are elements that are distinctively Picasso. The painting is a coded vanitas - the mirror in the corner suggesting that the young woman's beauty will fade, the watch on her wrist a wry reminder of time passing. Like the painting in the previous room, the woman depicted is Picasso's lover Marie-Thérèse Walter. While in the Picasso the figure is centred, in Matisse's painting Asia 1946 a dark-haired woman sprawls across the canvas, almost escaping it.
The other painting by Matisse in this group, Woman with a Veil 1927, harks back to his earlier engagement with Cubism. The woman portrayed in this instance is Henriette Darricarrère, Matisse's principal model throughout the 1920s. It is the last painting for which she posed, and its melancholy mood suggests a leave-taking. Besides the Cubist planes of the face, Matisse adapts other elements from Picasso. The striking harlequin wrap, coloured half green and half red, divides the picture in two, echoing Picasso's trope of doubling. The shadowed portion on the right of the face is so strongly delineated that it almost becomes a simultaneous face and profile, another of Picasso's principal motifs. The figure is also now firmly centralised and solidly modelled, sculpted in a manner similar to Picasso's earlier relief paintings.
The concept of the 'sculptor-painter 'is one that runs throughout both their careers. Having established ideas in their paintings, they would often confirm and conclude them in their sculptures, a process that can be traced in the group of sculpted heads shown here and in the adjoining rooms.
The earliest of these sculptures is Picasso's Head of a Woman (Fernande) 1909, a portrait of his companion Fernande Olivier. Its jagged, crystalline surfaces relate the work to his Cubist paintings of the period. As Picasso observed: 'Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on a painting. 'Marie-Thérèse is the subject of two heads of 1931, her strong profile encrypted in fleshy, tuberous forms. Picasso may have been influenced by a series of sculptures made by Matisse between 1910 and 1916.
Known as the Jeanette heads, they portray a young woman called Jeanne Vaderin. Starting from a relatively naturalistic version, the heads became progressively more abstract and bulbous, as Matisse exaggerated and distorted individual features. This may, in turn, reflect Picasso's innovations in the Cubist sculpture of Fernande. Between 1925-9 Matisse made another series of heads using Henriette Darricarrère as his model. Henriette is reduced to a series of ovoids - rounded head, pear-shaped face, oval eyes - giving the head a monumental, classical quality. This impulse towards simplified geometric shapes is one of the things that connects Matisse's sculptures to his paintings of the same date.

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