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If a holder of a copyright discovers that another party has used his or her material for their own benefit, it is a legal right of the copyright owner to file a civil lawsuit. Once a court has decided that copyright infringement has indeed taken place, it may decided upon remedies to make up for any damages suffered by the copyright owner because of the illegal activity. In most cases, courts may find that the infringer of the copyright is liable for the owner's actual damages sustained from improper use of his or her product or statutory damages.
Actual Damages and Profits
Judging by the nature of the copyright infringement that took place on the copyright owner, the owner may be entitled to the actual damages suffered by him or her as a result of the infringement. This also includes any profits obtained by the infringer which are directly linked to the copyright violation.
When establishing a proper amount of actual damages to compensate for the infringer's profits, the copyright owner is permitted to present evidence based on the infringer's gross revenue. At the same time, the infringer must prove that the profits he or she has incurred are not directly related to the copyright infringement through deductible expenses.
Statutory Damages
Before a judgment is decided upon by a court of civil law, the copyright owner has the right to request the recovery of statutory damages caused by the infringement, rather than actual damages. This is based on any single work of authorship for which the infringer is liable either individually or through joint involvement.
The sum of statutory damages is never less than $750 and never more than $30,000. If the copyright owner is able to prove that the infringer committed the violation willfully, the statutory damages sum may increase to no more than $150,000. If the court finds that the infringer unknowingly committed the violation, the statutory damages sum is lowered to no less than $200.
Additional Damages
Some cases may also provide further damages to the aggrieved copyright owner under a certain condition. If the court finds that the copyright infringer claimed to be exempt under certain conditions of a violation, but actually was knowingly breaking the law, the copyright owner may be entitled to twice the amount of the license fee for a period of up to three years. This is in addition to any award of damages given to the copyright owner.
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Number of Scots accepted to university at all-time high
A record number of Scottish students have secured a place at uni.
A record number of Scottish students have secured a place at university according to UCAS statistics published recently.
The figures released today also show that the overall number of students accepted so far to study at Scottish institutions in 2016/17 increased by 4 per cent compared to last year, from 44,690 to 46,380 – a record level, making Scotland the destination for Higher Education.
Minister for Further, Higher Education and Science, Shirley-Anne Somerville, said: “Firstly, I want to congratulate all students who have been accepted into university this year and secured a place at one of the many great universities in our country.
“Scotland has a world class higher education system and one that will always be based on the principles of being free, fair and funded. The latest UCAS figures show a really positive picture for Scotland’s higher education system, with a record number of students choosing to study at one of our universities.
“It is also extremely heartening to see record levels of Scottish students being accepted to study at universities not only in Scotland but across the UK. This is really positive news and this Scottish Government will continue to do all that we can to ensure all of our young people get an equal chance to go to university and get a world class education.”


by: MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press
Entertainer and activist Jon Stewart, speaks at a news conference on behalf of 9/11 victims and families, Friday, July 12, 2019, at the Capitol in Washington. The House is expected to approve a bill Friday ensuring that a victims’ compensation fund for the Sept. 11 attacks never runs out of money. (AP Photo/Matthew Daly)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Friday overwhelmingly approved a bill ensuring that a victims compensation fund for the Sept. 11 attacks never runs out of money.
The 402-12 vote sends the bill to the Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has agreed to call a vote before Congress goes on its August recess.
Lawmakers from both parties hailed the House vote, which comes a month after comedian Jon Stewart sharply criticized Congress for failing to act. Stewart, a longtime advocate for 9/11 responders, told lawmakers at an emotional hearing that they were showing “disrespect” to first responders now suffering from respiratory ailments and other illnesses as a result of their recovery work at the former World Trade Center site in New York City.
Stewart called the sparse attendance at the June 11 hearing “an embarrassment to the country and a stain on this institution.” He later targeted McConnell for slow-walking previous version of the legislation and using it as a political pawn to get other things done.
Stewart said Friday that replenishing the victims fund was “necessary, urgent and morally right.”
Replenishing the fund will not fix the health problems of emergency workers and their families, but it would remove “a 15-year, unnecessary burden placed by their own government upon them,” Stewart said at a Capitol news conference.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other lawmakers credited Stewart for raising the profile of the issue, which has lingered on Capitol Hill for years.
“You made it too hot to handle” in the Senate, Pelosi, D-Calif., told Stewart, praising him for shining his “celebrity spotlight” on the issue.
Eleven Republicans and independent Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan opposed the bill. No Democrat voted against the measure.
The bill would extend a victims compensation fund created after the 2001 terrorist attacks through 2092, essentially making it permanent. The $7.4 billion fund is rapidly being depleted, and administrators recently cut benefit payments by up to 70%.
The Congressional Budget Office said in a report this week that the bill would result in about $10.2 billion in additional compensation payments over 10 years, including more than $4 billion for claims already filed. The bill would require that victims whose compensation payments were reduced because of the fund’s declining balance be made whole.
“This was not a hurricane or a flood or a tornado. This was the largest terrorist attack ever on American soil,” Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., said in a floor speech before the House vote. “As Jon Stewart testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee, these terrorists weren’t saying ‘Death to Tribeca’. This was an attack on all of us as Americans and we all should be voting yes today as Americans.”
Zeldin and other lawmakers noted that one of the bill’s most prominent advocates, former New York City police detective Luis Alvarez, did not live to see its passage. Alvarez, who testified with Stewart at last month’s House hearing, died June 29 at age 53.
Alvarez, who was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2016, traced his illness to the three months he spent in the rubble of the World Trade Center’s twin towers after the attacks.
Alvarez “shouldn’t have had to come down here to fight on behalf of all of these other victims and first responders in the first place,” Zeldin said. “Month after month, year after year … how many first responders have made dozens of trips (to the Capitol) educating, advocating, passionately asking members of Congress for their support?”
The bill was renamed to honor Alvarez and other first responders.
McConnell said in a statement after the House vote that the Senate will take up the legislation soon.
“The first responders who rushed into danger on September 11th, 2001, are the very definition of American heroes and patriots,” he said. “The Senate has never forgotten the victim compensation fund and we aren’t about to start now.”


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Rep. Malinowski Remarks on Co-sponsoring HR 676, a Bill that Would Prevent US Withdrawal from NATO
It's crazy that we have to be introducing this bill. But it is, unfortunately, both necessary and urgent, for three reasons.
I believe it's necessary, first of all, because NATO is so important to our security. No alliance in history has done more to prevent war, and no alliance is more rooted in the values America champions, than NATO. Ever since the end of the Cold War, it has been our paramount interest in Europe to strengthen NATO and to extend it -- an effort I was part of when I served in the State Department and the NSC in two administrations. By the same token, it has been Russia's paramount goal to weaken and divide NATO. If we were to do anything to weaken or divide it ourselves, or, God forbid, to leave it, we'd be doing our enemies' work for them.
The second reason I believe it's necessary is that I take the president of the United States seriously. President Trump has made no secret of his disdain for NATO and his willingness to consider leaving it. He's been consistent from the earliest days of the campaign through the first two years of his presidency. It's part of his world view. His approach to the world seems to be the opposite of John F. Kennedy's: We will pay no price, bear no burden, meet no hardship, support no friend, oppose no foe, unless someone pays us to do it. And if NATO allies don't pay us to protect them, he doesn't see the point of NATO. The blood of their soldiers spilled alongside ours in every conflict we've waged since World War II does not seem to count.
The final reason this bill is necessary is that Congress is now the only check we have. In his first two years, the president was surrounded by advisers like Generals Mattis, McMaster and Kelly, Ambassador Haley, even Secretary Tillerson, who pushed back when he suggested abandoning America's commitments around the world, or siding with our foes over our friends. They're all gone now. We're all that's left. It is urgent and essential that the Congress play its constitutional role, and take this action, especially with the 70th anniversary NATO summit coming up in Washington in April. In these unsettled times, we have to be an alternative voice for America in the world.
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Have Food Allergies? Read the Label
Since 2006, it has been much easier for people allergic to certain foods to avoid packaged products that contain them, says Rhonda Kane, a registered dietitian and consumer safety officer at the Food and Drug Administration.
This is because a federal law requires that the labels of most packaged foods marketed in the U.S. disclose—in simple-to-understand terms—when they are made with a “major food allergen.”
Eight foods, and ingredients containing their proteins, are defined as major food allergens. These foods account for 90 percent of all food allergies:
fish, such as bass, flounder, or cod
crustacean shellfish, such as crab, lobster, or shrimp
tree nuts, such as almonds, pecans, or walnuts
The law allows manufacturers a choice in how they identify the specific “food source names,” such as “milk,” “cod,” “shrimp,” or “walnuts,” of the major food allergens on the label. They must be declared either in:
the ingredient list, such as “casein (milk)” or “nonfat dry milk,” or
a separate “Contains” statement, such as “Contains milk,” placed immediately after or next to the ingredient list.
“So first look for the ‘Contains’ statement and if your allergen is listed, put the product back on the shelf,” says Kane. “If there is no ‘Contains’ statement, it’s very important to read the entire ingredient list to see if your allergen is present. If you see its name even once, it’s back to the shelf for that food too.”
There are many different ingredients that contain the same major food allergen, but sometimes the ingredients’ names do not indicate their specific food sources. For example, casein, sodium caseinate, and whey are all milk proteins. Although the same allergen can be present in multiple ingredients, its “food source name” (for example, milk) must appear in the ingredient list just once to comply with labeling requirements.
"Contains" and "May Contain" Have Different Meanings
If a “Contains” statement appears on a food label, it must include the food source names of all major food allergens used as ingredients. For example, if “whey,” “egg yolks,” and a “natural flavor” that contained peanut proteins are listed as ingredients, the “Contains” statement must identify the words “milk,” “egg,” and “peanuts.”
Some manufacturers voluntarily include a “may contain” statement on their labels when there is a chance that a food allergen could be present. A manufacturer might use the same equipment to make different products. Even after cleaning this equipment, a small amount of an allergen (such as peanuts) that was used to make one product (such as cookies) may become part of another product (such as crackers). In this case, the cracker label might state “may contain peanuts.”
Be aware that the “may contain” statement is voluntary, says Kane. “You still need to read the ingredient list to see if the product contains your allergen.”
When in Doubt, Leave It Out
Manufacturers can change their products’ ingredients at any time, so Kane says it’s a good idea to check the ingredient list every time you buy the product—even if you have eaten it before and didn’t have an allergic reaction.
“If you’re unsure about whether a food contains any ingredient to which you are sensitive, don’t buy the product, or check with the manufacturer first to ask what it contains,” says Kane. “We all want convenience, but it’s not worth playing Russian roulette with your life or that of someone under your care.”
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Sarah Epping
epping@gsnas.fu-berlin.de
Doctoral Candidate at the Graduate School of North American Studies,
Master of Arts in History and Middle Eastern Studies,
Course in Modern Standard Arabic at the Higher Language Institute,
University of Damscus
Bachelor of Arts in History and Middle Eastern Studies,
Research assistant at DOMiD - Dokumentationszentrum und Museum über die Migration in Deutschland e.V., Köln
Internship at the Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung in Amman, Jordan
The United States in Mesopotamia (Iraq), to 1921
Short Outline of my Research Project
America´s penetration of the Middle East in the 19th century was, compared to other nations, slow. Mostly American merchants and missionaries were attracted to this faraway region, although with time, journalists and travelers who wanted to see the sites referred to in the bible came as well. In addition, American professionals like archeologists, and craftsmen who helped rebuild the Ottoman navy and officers who modernized parts of the army all came to the Ottoman Empire.
While Americans were fewer in number than Europeans, they still reached every corner of the Ottoman Empire. Mostly staying close to the Mediterranean Sea, a few made their way to the area of the present Iraqi state, which during the 19th century, consisted of three political rather unimportant border provinces of the Ottoman Empire. The penetration of this area was facilitated by the help of foreign investors who supported the development of infrastructure which reflects the growing importance of the region as its relations with “the West” started to intensify. However in contrast to Europeans, American activities were not directed or guided by the government since they did not take part in the political power play of the other European empires in the region.
This political non-involvement makes the American approach to the area so unique and therefore, interesting to look at. Hence, my dissertation project asks about the diversity of the American-Mesopotamian relations up to the establishment of the Kingdom of Iraq in March 1921. It tries to pinpoint decisive, long-term personal, cultural, political and economic interactions between the United States and a region that we know very little about even though it plays such a central role in today’s U.S. relations to the Middle East. It aims to depict a structural picture of early interdependencies of both nations and to interpret them as part of a slowly globalizing world.
van der Walle, Sarah: Die Mission des Major Klein nach Mesopotamien. In: Historische Mitteilungen der Ranke-Gesellschaft 26 (2013/2014), p. 277-293.


Mick Mulvaney & James E. Clyburn
Compare the voting records of Mick Mulvaney and James E. Clyburn in 2015-16.
Represented South Carolina's 5th Congressional District. This was his 3rd term in the House. He left the House in 2017.
James E. Clyburn
Represented South Carolina's 6th Congressional District. This was his 12th term in the House. He is a current member of Congress.
Mick Mulvaney and James E. Clyburn are from different parties and disagreed on 78 percent of votes in the 114th Congress (2015-16).
June 16, 2016 — Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and for other purposes
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Nov. 18, 2015 — Reforming CFPB Indirect Auto Financing Guidance Act
June 16, 2015 — Intelligence Authorization Act
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May 19, 2015 — Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2015
May 12, 2015 — Regulatory Integrity Protection Act
April 30, 2015 — Making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes
April 23, 2015 — National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act of 2015
April 22, 2015 — Protecting Cyber Networks Act
Feb. 27, 2015 — Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2015, and for other purposes
Feb. 11, 2015 — Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Act
Jan. 9, 2015 — Keystone XL Pipeline Act
July 12, 2016 — Lujan of New Mexico Amendment No. 21
July 6, 2016 — DeFazio of Oregon Amendment No. 11
June 16, 2016 — Lee of California Amendment No. 45
June 16, 2016 — McGovern of Massachusetts Amendment No. 44
June 16, 2016 — Conyers of Michigan Amendment No. 40
June 16, 2016 — Huffman of California Amendment No. 17
June 13, 2016 — Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Modernization Act
June 13, 2016 — United States-Caribbean Strategic Engagement Act of 2016
May 25, 2016 — Garamendi of California Amendment
May 25, 2016 — First Polis of Colorado Amendment
May 25, 2016 — Clawson of Florida Amendment
May 18, 2016 — Lee of California Amendment No. 5
April 26, 2016 — Investor Clarity and Bank Parity Act
March 22, 2016 — To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the burial of the cremated remains of persons who served as Women’s Air Forces Service Pilots in Arlington National Cemetery
March 22, 2016 — Inspiring the Next Space Pioneers, Innovators, Researchers, and Explorers (INSPIRE) Women Act
March 22, 2016 — Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act
March 21, 2016 — Counterterrorism Screening and Assistance Act of 2016
Feb. 12, 2016 — McMorris Rodgers of Washington Amendment No. 1
Dec. 11, 2015 — Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015
Nov. 4, 2015 — DeSaulnier of California Part B Amendment No. 41 to Rules Print 114-32
Oct. 1, 2015 — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activites of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes
On agreeing to the Polis of Colorado Amendment to the title
July 23, 2015 — DeFazio of Oregon Part B Amendment No. 1
June 17, 2015 — Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces deployed to Iraq or Syria on or after August 7, 2014, other than Armed Forces required to protect United States diplomatic facilities and personnel, from Iraq and Syria
June 11, 2015 — Providing for consideration of the Senate Amendment to H.R. 1314, to provide for a right to an administrative appeal relating to adverse determinations of tax exempt status of certain organizations; and for consideration of the Senate Amendments to H.R. 644, Fighting Hunger Incentive Act
June 11, 2015 — First Johnson of Georgia Amendment
June 11, 2015 — Schiff of California Amendment
June 4, 2015 — Lee of California Amendment
April 30, 2015 — Garamendi of California Amendment
April 30, 2015 — First Swalwell of California Amendment
April 30, 2015 — Second Mulvaney of South Carolina Amendment
April 30, 2015 — First Mulvaney of South Carolina Amendment
April 30, 2015 — Van Hollen of Maryland Amendment
April 30, 2015 — Setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2015
March 25, 2015 — Establishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025
March 25, 2015 — Second Tom Price of Georgia Substitute Amendment No. 6


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Operation Anthropoid: The Story Of The Most Daring Secret Mission Of World War 2
Posted On : 18/02/2016 Published By : Peter
If you had seen the movie “Casablanca”, you might remember the scene in the cafe where the German officers start singing a German song. To hush them down, the brave Czechoslovak resistance leader, husband of the Scandinavian bombshell Ilsa (played by Ingrid Bergman) starts singing the Marsellaise. Right after that, everyone else joins in.
The film was made in 1942 and one of the most heroic characters there, is a Czechoslovak resistance fighter who is trying to smuggle himself out of Nazi-controlled territories in order to continue his struggle. This guy was a fictional character, however the year 1942 was also the setting of probably the most daring act of resistance during the entire war. And this was real!
The act was codenamed Operation Anthropoid and resulted in the assassination of one of the most-feared Nazi leaders, Reinhard Heydrich. This was the guy who organized the Final Solution and planned the extermination of all the Jews from Europe.
Just like the movie, the heroes of this story were Czechoslovak resistance fighters.
The scene is this: Hitler is on a roll. His armies have crushed all opposition and control most of continental Europe. The German armies are going from one victory to another in the East against the Soviets and an invasion of Britain is imminent.
In the middle of the continent lies the city of Prague, formerly the capital of the Czechoslovak Republic, the only democracy in Central Europe before the war, and now the seat of the government of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, completely controlled by the Nazis.
Before the War, Czechoslovakia was one of the continent’s economic powerhouses and had a very strong military industry, especially producing heavy machinery and tanks. It was sacrificed by the UK and France in order to appease Hitler, but that just made him even stronger.
By occupying the country, he took over its military equipment and added it to his own army (almost half the German tanks that attacked France in 1940 were formerly from the Czechoslovak army).
Many Czechoslovak military personnel escaped the country and installed themselves in places like the UK, France or the Soviet Union, in order to fight the Nazis and free their country. The Czechoslovak government-in-exile was located in London and so were much of the forces of the Czechoslovak army-in-exile.
However the situation in their homeland was dire. The country was occupied by the Nazis, who were crushing any forms of opposition. The exile authorities were determined to shake things up.
Striking at the heart of the Nazi machine, at one of its leaders, could galvanize the population and wake up the resistance, which was losing any hope of success at this point. After a long discussion, it was decided that the target of this operation would be Heydrich, one of the most feared men in the Nazi Reich.
Heydrich was serving as the Chief Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia, but also had other duties in the Nazi regime. In order to oversee the Protectorate, he moved his residence to Prague, an ancient and beautiful city.
After an initial period of training, the two guys chosen to carry out the assassination, Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubis, together with a number of other paratroopers who were to carry out other acts of sabotage, were airlifted over Bohemia and parachuted down.
Unfortunately, due to navigational errors, they were dropped down about 100 kilometers away from where they were supposed to have landed. They had to make their way through treacherous terrain in order to get to their initial destination, to meet their contacts and get their fake documents, as well as weapons.
After that, they went to Prague and made contact with local resistance groups. The work on planning the actual assassination could now start.
They spent some time observing their target, his daily routines and his weak points. After a period of observation, it was decided that a spot on his daily ride to work would be the best place to hit him. There was a curve on a street next to some tram tracks that seemed perfect.
The Assassination
They picked a date, the 27th of May 1942.
On that date, like every morning, Heydrich was riding to work in his open-air Mercedes, without any other escort, except for his driver.
Jan Kubis and Jozef Gabcik called in another paratrooper, Josef Valcik, to help them out. He was to serve as a lookout for them and give them a signal when the car was approaching their position and whether it had an SS escort with it.
The operation was proceeding according to plan. Heydrich’s car was rounding the bend, when Gabcik threw down his coat and revealed his Sten MKII submachine gun. He aimed it at Heydrich, but it jammed!
It was a common complaint among many soldiers that this British-made weapon was prone to jamming. Unfortunately this now happened at the most innoportune moment.
Gabcik became fully exposed and without a way to fire at Heydrich. Heydrich could now have gotten away quickly. Fortunately, he made a fatal error. He told the driver to stop the car as he stood up from his seat and started firing his pistol at the resistance fighter.
This gave enough time to Jan Kubis, who was standing to the side of Gabcik, to throw a grenade into the open car. The grenade exploded and wounded Heydrich.
Even though wounded, Heydrich could still move. The two Czechoslovak resistance fighters, also stunned from the bomb blast, took out their pistols and started firing at Heydrich and his driver, but missed.
At that moment, Heydrich staggered out of his car and together with his driver started chasing Gabcik and Kubis. Both resistance fighters managed to escape, but were convinced that their attack had failed.
It seemed that Heydrich had survived their attack. After the incident he was transported to a Prague hospital, where he was looked at by specialists. His injuries were graver than they initially seemed. It was decided to operate on him, but he died from complications the next day.
Jan Kubis
Jozef Gabcik
Josef Valcik
This was not the end however. In order to retaliate for this assassination, the Nazis began a veritable reign of terror. They hauled in thousands of people for questioning, many of them dying under brutal interrogation. They also decided to raze two villages, Lidice and Lezaky, down to the ground and kill all their inhabitants. This was to serve as a grotesque example of what will happen if someone resists.
The two Operation Anthropoid operatives, Gabcik and Kubis, together with Valcik and four other paratroopers, hid themselves in the Eastern Orthodox Church of St. Cyril and Methodius. There, they were determined to ride things out and then slip out of Prague unnoticed. In this, they were being aided by Bishop Gorazd and others.
These were not the only paratroopers present on the territory of the Protectorate. There were several other groups of fighters that had been dropped down in order to carry out different acts of sabotage and several of the members of these groups were also hiding out in various places.
As the terror began to get worse and worse, two of them snapped. First, one paratrooper, Viliam Gerik turned himself into the Gestapo and told them the names and addresses of many of the people who were helping him out.
However, what proved to be crucial was the betrayal of Karel Curda from the group codenamed “Out Distance”. The commander of that group, Adolf Opalka, was one of the paratroopers hiding out in the church.
After spending several scary days and nights in hiding, Karel Curda also turned himself in to the Gestapo and gave up the names and addresses of many people in the Resistance. One address that he gave was that of the Moravec family.
The Gestapo raided their house. The mother managed to committ suicide as the Nazis came into the house, but the father and the son were arrested. After brutal torture, the son finally gave up the location where the paratroopers were hiding.
I won’t go into detail on what happened next. This is an entire tale in itself, but a short summary will suffice for now.
The Nazis surrounded the church and tried several ways of trying to flush the paratroopers out or to raid the church and kill them. Many of these proved unsuccessful and only after hours of heroic fighting were all the paratroopers killed.
Memory of Heroism
This proved to be one of the most legendary acts of resistance during WW2. Never before or after was there a successful assassination of such a high-ranking Nazi functionnary.
In 2016, a movie on this operation called “Operation Anthropoid” will come out, starring Mr. Grey Jamie Dornan himself as Jan Kubis and Cilian Murphy as Jozef Gabcik.
The heroic acts that were committed by these brave men and the people that helped them, have passed into legend. Their memory lives on, as example of people who saw a greater cause than themselves, who risked their lives and ended up paying the ultimate price.
Their acts were not in vain, as their nation shook off the chains of the Nazis and once again became free.
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“Call to action” on Southland’s environment
2019-04-18T11:50:00 Pacific/Auckland
Environment Southland welcomes the Environment Aotearoa 2019 report released by the Ministry for the Environment and Stats NZ today as an opportunity to keep the need for improving the environment at the forefront of people's minds.
The report takes a whole system approach to look at a wide range of issues, from how our native plants, animals and ecosystems are faring to the activities we are doing that are causing urban and rural pollution.
Environment Southland chief executive Rob Phillips said that while the report paints a less than ideal picture of New Zealand’s environment, it was a good “call to action” and reminder that the need to do more is urgent.
“Here in Southland, we have our challenges, but we are on the right path. There are many examples of people, industries and organisations coming together to improve the environment. We need to maintain and build on that momentum,” Mr Phillips said.
Environment Southland recognises the complexity of the environment and our outcomes reflect this: Managing access to quality resources, diverse ways to make a living, empowered and resilient communities, and communities expressing their diversity. The approach to achieving them focuses on sharing knowledge, engaging and communicating with Southlanders, and acknowledging the interconnectedness of the environment.”
The council’s top priority is to maintain and improve Southland’s freshwater and land, and one way that is being achieved is through the People, Water and Land programme - Te Mana o te Tangata, te Wai, te Whenua. This programme is in partnership with Te Ao Marama Inc. (the environmental arm of Ngāi Tahu ki Murihiku) with the vision of ‘inspiring change to improve Southland’s water and land’ and is focused on bringing people together to lead change.
Environment Southland has a number of initiatives underway to improve water quality and land use. We continue to support farmer-driven catchment groups and land care groups who have been leading positive on-the-ground action for a number of years, with more than 30 groups currently active across Southland.
One of those initiatives is in the Aparima river catchment, where six farmer-led catchment groups have come together to work on the Aparima Community Environment (ACE) project supported by industry, local and central government, and community groups. Environment Minister David Parker recently commended the ACE project as a positive example of how industry, councils and central government can work together to support farmers for positive change.
Environment Southland’s land sustainability team has also put a strong emphasis on preparing farm environment plans and supporting landowners to move towards good land management practices.
To date, 806 farm plans covering 330,518 hectares have been completed, with focus activities including nutrient management, intensive winter grazing and riparian management, which all contribute to improving water quality.
Mirroring the sentiment of the report to acknowledge the connection of water and land across the environment is the essence of the People, Water and Land programme which takes a ‘ki uta ki tai - from the mountains to the sea’ approach that recognises the need to consider the environment in its entirety.
“What we do in one part of the environment can have consequences in another and the New River Estuary is an example of how both urban and rural activity – past and present – has had a negative impact. It also emphasises the need for a collective response through a mountains to the sea approach to improve the situation,” said Mr Phillips.
“Education is another area where we can have a positive impact now and into the future, and the Enviroschools programme is one great way for achieving that.”
The programme supports children and young people to plan, design and implement sustainability actions that are important to them and their communities. There are now more than 1,000 Enviroschools nationwide, encompassing over 260,000 children and young people, their whānau and teachers. In Southland, the programme is coordinated by Environment Southland in partnership with Kindergartens South, and supported by funding from Southland District Council, Invercargill City Council and Gore District Council.
The report also highlights the significant impact that introduced species can have on our ecosystems and biodiversity. The council has long had a focus on biosecurity and has coordinated its biodiversity efforts with other agencies in recent years, with a view to enhancing and protecting native species and ecosystems.
In recent years we have introduced the Fiordland Marine Pathway plan, a first of its kind, in conjunction with our partners the Fiordland Marine Guardians, Ministry for Primary Industries, Department of Conservation and Ngai Tahu. The plan includes a clean vessel pass system to stop the introduction of pests hitching a ride on boat hulls into the area’s pristine waters. It has had good uptake and won the New Zealand Biosecurity Supreme Award among others late last year.
There are many other initiatives including our very successful Possum Control Area programme where we support land managers to work together in adjoining properties to control possums; and our longstanding biocontrol programme where we facilitate the distribution and population growth of biocontrol agents on properties across Southland.
We also support many other groups who are doing a lot of great work with animal and plant pest control, school and community groups to plant native species, landowners to identify and preserve remnants of native forest on their properties through our High Value Area programme. Recently we consulted on a proposed pest management plan and biosecurity strategy, which will set the future direction of biosecurity and biodiversity for Southland.
“We all want a thriving Southland and ensuring our natural resources are being used sustainably is essential to achieving this. The Ministry’s environment report is a timely reminder that we all have a role to play in ensuring our natural resources are in good shape and that we need to keep building on all the good work already underway. The council’s stepping up our People, Water and Land programme as part of that challenge. For Southland to thrive everyone needs to be part of the solution.”
Note: LGNZ Regional council sector response to the Environment Aotearoa 2019 report: https://www.lgnz.co.nz/environment-aotearoa-yardstick-welcomed-by-lgnz/
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Shays received campaign donations from McMahons
Apr 27, 2012 at 12:01 AM Apr 27, 2012 at 11:35 PM
Former U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays, who is running against former wrestling executive Linda McMahon for U.S. Senate, has criticized the company she led but accepted $5,000 in donations from her and her husband when he was in Congress.
Hearst Connecticut Media Group reported that Shays accepted the campaign cash from Linda and Vince McMahon in 2005 and 2006.
Linda McMahon told the Greenwich Time her rival for the Republican nomination never raised concerns about the television content of the Stamford-based company formerly known as World Wrestling Entertainment while he was in office. McMahon said Shays visited the company and had his photo taken with Vince McMahon.
Shays' campaign spokeswoman says the visit doesn't mean he supported the business.
"None of this changes the fact that WWE has a long history of promoting violence, bullying, and degradation o f minorities and women," said Amanda Bergen, Shays' campaign spokesman. "It also doesn't make Linda McMahon qualified to be a United States senator."
WWE provided Greenwich Time with several photos of Shays at events sponsored by the company in 2000 and 2001 to encourage people to vote. In one photo, Shays and his wife, Betsi, appear with McMahon and then-WWE superstar Kurt Angle at a black-tie event in Washington, D.C.
"Never did Mr. Shays express any issues with our programming nor the company," WWE spokesman Robert Zimmerman told the newspaper. "Now that he is running for Senate, he is using outdated video excerpts from that exact time period to mischaracterize the nature of our current business and TV-PG programming."
McMahon stepped down as chief executive of the WWE to run unsuccessfully for Senate in 2010.
Shays' campaign counters that McMahon has been inconsistent.
"She's criticizing his record now on a daily basis, criticizing votes and positions taken at the very time that she was contributing to his campaign," Bergen said. "She knew his record when she was contributing to his campaigns in the past. So why is his record all of a sudden a problem now?"


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Date of birth: September 10, 1960 (Age 57)
Full name: Colin Andrew Firth
Born place: Grayshott, Hampshire, England
Height: 6’1’’ (185.4 cm)
Weight: 76 kg (167 pounds)
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Colin Firth is an outstanding actor who has attained the most fame through his role as King George VI in the 2010 movie, The Kings Speech. Through this movie, Colin has earned himself an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Golden Globe.
However, all his present success was as a result of a desire birth in him at the early age of 10.
During the early years of his career, Colin was a very lean young man with a handsome looking face that always left the ladies drooling. At the age of 57, Colin has so kept himself fit as he is still considered an eye candy. Over the years, Colin has grown in various areas from his acting even to his physical appearance. He has now become more muscular than he used to be.
Colin has attained the well-built physique by regularly working out and not neglecting eating right.
In order to portray the role of Eric Lomax impeccably in the 2014 movie The Railway Man, he had to up his fitness game and aim at a slimmer figure. This work out was quite tasking because he had to look like a prisoner of war.
Throughout his career of juggling various genres of movies, Colin has shown the world that he will do whatever it takes to really become the character he plays.
Before featuring in the Kingsman movies, Colin has to undergo some intense training both to keep his physique and perfect stunts that had to be pulled on camera. Colin stated in an interview that in contrast with the actual world, it takes much more hard work to lose a fight on camera than it does to win one.
Colin also stated some challenges in his career, one of which includes times he had put so much work and energy into training for a particular stunt and when it was time to shoot the scene, the whole thing was changed. Nevertheless, Colin has learnt to embrace this challenge after realising that the changes always make the scene better.
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Legal Professional Privilege and the Duty of Confidentiality - the beginning and the end
Duncan A. W. Abate
The Court of Final Appeal has recently undertaken a comprehensive review of the extent to which the law will protect information obtained by an employee in the course of employment following the cessation of his employment. The case in question specifically concerned the interplay between confidential information and information protected by legal professional privilege (LPP).
The employee in question, Mr. Aitken, is an Australian qualified lawyer. Whilst he has never worked as a practising lawyer in Hong Kong, he did work in a regulatory capacity for PCCW and, as such, became privy to confidential communications and information between PCCW and their external legal advisors in respect of certain legal proceedings involving CSL.
Mr. Aitken left PCCW to join CSL in late March 2008. PCCW was, understandably, concerned that Mr. Aitken would use the information obtained during his employment with PCCW to the detriment of PCCW (as the litigation was ongoing). PCCW therefore applied for an injunction. The injunction imposed two restrictions on Mr. Aitken. The first was an order prohibiting Mr. Aitken from using or disclosing any information of PCCW (relating to the ongoing litigation) (the "Non-disclosure Injunction"). The second was an order prohibiting Mr. Aitken from, effectively, being involved in any capacity with the specific regulatory issue while employed with CSL (to use the words of PCCW, they wanted Mr. Aitken to be "taken out of the arena") (the "Restrictive Injunction").
Mr. Aitken accepted the Non-disclosure Injunction. However, Mr. Aitken did not accept the Restrictive Injunction as it would have the effect of significantly reducing his ability to work in Hong Kong in his chosen career.
Mr. Aitken challenged the Restrictive Injunction. The consequential proceedings have sped through the Court of First Instance, the Court of Appeal and was heard by the Court of Final Appeal in early February this year.
The Legal Issues
The key issue considered by the courts was the interplay and/or conflict between the principles in Bolkiah on one hand and Faccenda Chicken on the other.
(a) The Bolkiah principles
The UK House of Lords in the case of Prince Jefri Bolkiah v KPMG considered the relationship between a solicitor (or an analogous person) and client. It determined that:
A solicitor (or a person in an analogous position; in Bolkiah it was KPMG acting in a litigation support role) has a duty to his former client to preserve the confidentiality of information protected by LPP.
This duty survives the termination of the client relationship. The duty is absolute.
The former client is entitled to prevent his former solicitor from exposing him to any avoidable risk, including the increased risk of use of such information to his prejudice by accepting instructions to act for another client with an adverse interest in that matter and to which the information is or may be relevant.
Once the former client establishes that the solicitor possesses relevant information that is privileged, the burden shifts to the solicitor to demonstrate that there is no risk of disclosure.
Unless the court is satisfied, on the basis of clear and convincing evidence, that all effective measures have been taken to ensure that no disclosure will occur, a "strict approach is unanswerable" and the solicitor will be restrained from acting for the new client.
(b) The Faccenda Chicken principles
Faccenda Chicken v Fowler, another UK case, considered the relationship between employer and employee. It determined that:
The obligations between an employer and employee are governed by the contract of employment.
In the absence of any express term in the contract, an employee's obligations in respect of the use and disclosure of information are the subject of implied terms.
During the course of employment, there is an implied term imposing a duty of good faith or fidelity on the employee.
Post-termination, the implied term imposed on the former employee is that he shall not use or disclose any trade secrets or information of a sufficiently high degree of confidentiality as amounts to a trade secret.
The burden is on the former employer to identify with precision what trade secrets (or equivalent) he seeks to protect.
In deciding whether any particular item of information is to be protected post-termination, the court has to consider all the circumstances of the case, including the nature of the employment and the information itself. In other words the restriction is not absolute.
Basically Bolkiah applies in relation to a solicitor/client relationship (or an analogous situation) and Faccenda Chicken applied to an employer/employee relationship. Mr. Aitken was an employee of PCCW and also a lawyer. He was not, however, employed as an in-house lawyer.
The Arguments
PCCW wanted the Bolkiah principles to apply. As such they argued that the fact that Mr. Aitken was an employee, not a retained solicitor, was irrelevant. PCCW's stance was that Mr. Aitken was privy to information which was covered by LPP. LPP is a fundamental right (enshrined in our Basic Law) and is the primary absolute and predominant public interest which trumps all other public interest, should there be a clash; including the public interest in maintaining freedom of employment. It contended that Bolkiah (and the relief granted in that case) is concerned with the nature of the information not the nature of the relationship between the parties. Therefore, PCCW argued, as the information which Mr. Aitken had obtained during his employment was privileged, the Bolkiah principles should be applied.
Alternatively, PCCW argued, Mr. Aitken was in a position "analogous to" that of a solicitor.
On the other side Mr. Aitken and CSL argued that Bolkiah relief is limited to a solicitor/client relationship only as it is founded, not on the nature of the information, but upon the protection of confidentiality in a fiduciary relationship. In the case of an employer - employee relationship, the governing principles in the protection of confidential information are those set out in Faccenda Chicken.
If PCCW was correct then an absolute restriction would apply to Mr. Aitken and PCCW would be entitled to "take him out of the arena" with the Restrictive Injunction to ensure there is no risk of inadvertent disclosure of LPP information. If Mr. Aitken's and CSL's submission was correct then Faccenda Chicken sets the correct test and PCCW are only entitled to the non-disputed Non-disclosure Injunction.
At the Court of First Instance
The judge at first instance (Deputy Judge Au) agreed that Bolkiah applies only to a solicitor/client relationship where confidential and privileged information is imparted under a duty of confidence. Bolkiah is not of general applicability and does not apply in an employer/employee relationship.
The judge then considered whether Mr. Aitken was in a position analogous to that of a solicitor whilst employed by PCCW. He decided that although Mr. Aitken had been privy to conferences and discussions which were legal in nature, he did not participate in a professional capacity as a lawyer and, therefore, his role could not be said to be analogous to that of a solicitor.
The Restrictive Injunction was discharged.
DJ Au, on the other hand, was satisfied that there was a serious question to be tried whether Mr. Aitken was privy to certain categories of allegedly confidential information. He therefore granted the Non-disclosure Injunction although re-fashioned it in narrower and more particularised terms than that sought by PCCW.
At the Court of Appeal before VP Tang, Le Pichon JA and Stone J
Immediately after DJ Au's ruling, PCCW mounted an appeal. The Court of Appeal upheld the First Instance decision by a majority (Le Pichon JA dissenting).
In the Court of Appeal PCCW relied on Lord Millet's judgment in Bolkiah, that:
"It is of the highest importance to the administration of justice that a solicitor or other person in possession of confidential and privileged information should not act in any way that might appear to put that information at risk or coming in to the hands of someone with an adverse interest." (emphasis added).
PCCW asked the Court to read the words "other person" widely and that, Mr. Aitken should be wholly removed from his dealings with the specific regulatory issue and associated matters in his current employment with CSL.
Mr. Aitken and CSL took the position that the case is really about "trade secrets" (or information of a similarly high standard of confidentiality). As such the correct statement of the law relating to an employee's post-termination duty of confidentiality is that laid down in Faccenda Chicken. Bolkiah has never been applied in an employee/employer situation and the two distinct lines of case law, underpinned, as they are, by very different policy considerations, should not be confused.
Stone J in delivering the lead judgment of the Court of Appeal refused to accept PCCW's interpretation of "or other person". In his Lordship's view, the phrase "or other person" could only have been intended as a reference to a relationship analogous to a client/solicitor relationship. To apply the Bolkiah remedy to an employer/employer context would create "a new form of 'servitude or serfdom' whereby the employee is precluded from transport of his acquired skills within the labour market".
Stone J stated that it is "precisely the nature of the solicitor/client relationship which gave rise to extraordinary duties, duties which upon no basis properly can fall upon a mere employee, however well qualified."
PCCW's fall-back position, that Mr. Aitken was in any event in an "analogous relationship" with his former employer, was also roundly rejected by Stone J.
Simply put therefore, Mr. Aitken, as a former employee of PCCW, should not be restrained by the very onerous terms of the Restrictive Injunction.
That was of course not the end of the legal journey. PCCW appealed again to the Court of Final Appeal.
At the Court of Final Appeal before Bokhary PJ, Chan PJ, Ribeiro PJ, Litton NPJ and Hoffmann NPJ
Much of the First Instance and the Court of Appeal submissions were echoed in this appeal. By an unanimous decision the Court of Final Appeal dismissed PCCW's appeal.
PCCW cited a number of cases concerned with maintaining the inviolability of privileged communications against competing public policies (of which transportation of labour skills was but one).
Mr. Ribeiro PJ in delivering the lead judgment pointed out that the appeal was concerned with the nature and scope of relief available to PCCW to maintain the confidentiality of information acquired by Mr. Aitken as a former employee. The issues of LPP were not engaged; in those cases where solicitors have been enjoined against acting for new clients, such relief was founded on the basis of protecting confidentiality in the context of a fiduciary relationship between solicitor and client.
Lord Hoffmann also stated in his judgment that "there is a very considerable difference between the position of a solicitor and an employee, even though the confidential information which they have obtained may be the same." The much relied-on Bolkiah was concerned with relief ordered against a firm for all purpose to be treated as a firm of solicitors. Notably, a solicitor will not be dependant upon one client for his livelihood whereas an employee can only work for one employer at any given time, and chances are his new employer is likely to be in the same line of business and therefore be in competition with the previous one. Mr. Aitken, who falls to be treated simply as an ex-employee, is therefore not subject to the same kind of obligations as were the case in Bolkiah.
Furthermore, it is well established in employment law that an employee brings to a job his own stock of skill, knowledge and experience and therefore it is important to distinguish between this and an employer's trade secrets (or equivalent) which are entitled to protection. Mr. Bokhary PJ also acknowledged one's freedom of choice of occupation under the Basic Law.
As a final point, the Court of Final Appeal specifically left open the question of the relief available against an in-house legal advisor of a company moving to a competitor to work on the other side of a contentious matter or solicitors moving between private practice and in-house roles when acting on both sides of litigation.
The proper way for an employer to protect the use or disclosure of confidential information (be it privileged or not) is by means of properly drafted post-termination restrictive covenants. The Bolkiah principles to protect information subject to legal privilege should be narrowly interpreted.
For further information, please contact,
Duncan Abate (duncan.abate@mayerbrown.com)
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LADY GAGA – THE CRAZIEST DRESSING SINGER
by Jegan S in DANCERS, MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, MUSICIANS, SINGERS Tags: achievements, albums, artist, ascii, ascii art, awards, babe, back stage, bio, biography, commercials, dancer, disco heaven, discography, fame, girl, lady gaga, love game, most beautiful, music, on stage, paparazzi, performer, photos, photoshoots, pictures, poker face, sexy, singer, songs, the fame, the fame monster, topless, wallpapers, woman, women, young
Lady Gaga is a theatrical dance-pop performer whose debut single, the international chart-topping hit “Just Dance,” established her as an up-and-coming superstar upon its release in 2008. Born Stefani Germanotta on March 28, 1986, the New York native attended Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private all-girl Catholic school in Manhattan, before proceeding to study music at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts at age 17. Influenced by flamboyant glam rockers such as David Bowie and Freddie Mercury (she would later draw her stage name from the Queen song “Radio Ga-Ga”) as well as ’80s dance-poppers such as Madonna and Michael Jackson, she began playing the piano at a young age and started writing original material as a teenager. In 2007, she began to make a name for herself on the downtown Manhattan club scene with a performance art show billed as Lady Gaga and the Starlight Revue (co-featuring Lady Starlight; born Colleen Martin, a DJ and makeup professional), and music industry insiders began to take note. While Lady Gaga was initially signed to Def Jam in 2007, nothing came of that association, and ultimately it was pop-rap superstar Akon who took her under his wing, signing her to his vanity label Kon Live in association with Interscope Records.
In addition to working for Interscope as an in-house songwriter, Lady Gaga began preparing the launch of her solo career. Her debut single, “Just Dance,” was released to radio in April 2008, and her full-length album debut, The Fame, followed in August. Featuring fellow Akon affiliate Colby O’Donis, “Just Dance” slowly gathered momentum throughout 2008’s latter half. The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in August, at which time it had already become a massive club hit, but it didn’t reach number one until January 2009. Internationally, the song proved similarly popular, reaching the Top Ten throughout much of Western Europe and beyond. In the wake of Lady Gaga’s international breakthrough success with “Just Dance,” the follow-up single “Poker Face” was an even larger hit, topping singles charts across the board with its combination of pop melodicism and club-worthy production. Two additional tracks — “LoveGame” and “Paparrazi” — also cracked the Top Ten, and The Fame was still enjoying a spot on the Billboard Top 40 when its follow-up, The Fame Monster, appeared in November 2009.
Although originally planned as a bonus disc (to be packaged alongside The Fame in a deluxe edition of Lady Gaga’s debut), The Fame Monster was quickly expanded to eight tracks, thus warranting its own release. Meanwhile, the leadoff single “Bad Romance” became Gaga’s fifth consecutive Top Ten single.
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ASCAP AWARD
“Just Dance” – Ascap Pop Music Award – Most Performed Songs
“Paparazzi” – Ascap Pop Music Award – Most Performed Songs
BET Awards 2010
Video Phone with Beyonce, Video of the Year
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2009 – Billboard Rising Star
Billboard Year End Chart Awards for Best Hot 100 Artist
Billboard Year End Chart Awards for Best Hot Digital Songs Artist
Billboard Year End Chart Awards for Best Hot Pop Songs Artist
Billboard Year End Chart Awards for Top Dance/Electronic Artist
Billboard Year End Chart Awards for Canadian Hot 100 Artist
Billboard Year End Chart Awards for European Hot 100 songs
Billboard Year End Chart Awards for Best Electronic/Dance album
Billboard Year End Chart Awards for European Top 100 albums
Latin Billboard Music Awards for Crossover Artist of the Year, Solo
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“Poker Face” – BMI Pop Awards Award-Winning Songs
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Love Game – The RCD Award – Radio / Charts / Downloads – 2010
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Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica: Mejor Artista Nuevo Internacional
Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica: Canción del Año
MTV Europe Music Awards for Best New Act
Best Dance Video – PokerFace – MTV Japan
MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist – Pokerface
MTV Video Music Award for Best Special Effects – Paparazzi
MTV Video Music Award for Best Art Direction – Paparazzi
MuchMusic Video Award for Best International Artist Video – Pokerface
NME Award for Best Dressed
NME Award for Worst Dressed
International Revelation of the Year
Favorite Pop Artist
Favorite Breakout Artist
Premios Oye Awards
The Fame – Premios Oye for English – Album of the Year
The Fame – Premios Oye for English – Best New Artist
Poker Face – Premios Oye for English – Record of the Year
Q Awards
“Just Dance” – Q Awards for Best Video, 2009
Swiss Music Awards
“Poker Face” – Swiss Music Award for International Best Song, 2009
“Just Dance” – Teen Choice Award for Choice Music: Hook Up, 2009
The Record of the Year
Poker Face – The Record Of The Year, 2009
TMF Awards
TMF Award for Best Female Artist International
TMF Award for Best Pop International
TMF Award for Best New Artist International
UK Music Video Awards
“Paparazzi” – UK Music Video Awards for Best International Video, 2009
Virgin Media Music Awards
“The Fame” – Virgin Media Music Awards for Best Album
Virgin Media Music Awards for Shameless Publicity Seeker
“Poker Face” – World Music Awards for Best Song of the Year
“The Fame” – World Music Awards for Best Album of the Year
World Music Awards for Best Pop/Rock Artist
World Music Awards for Best New Artist
World Music Awards for Best Selling Artist of America
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JUSTIN BIEBER – THE YOUNG CANADIAN POP STAR
by Jegan S in DANCERS, MOST BEAUTIFUL MEN, MUSICIANS, SINGERS Tags: artist, atlanta, basketball, billboard, canada, canadian, canadian hot, celine dion, certified, dancer, divorce, down to earth, drummer, favourite girl, future, georgia, guitarist, haiti, hockey, internet, island records, justin, justin drew bieber, LA Reid, lionel richie, love me, mackbook pro, manager, march 2010, most searched, my world, new release, one less lonely girl, one time, parents, pattie mallette, platinum, pop, producer, R&B, release, rihanna, rubber golf club, scooter braun, sean kingston, selena gomez, signature hair style, singer, smallville, star, taylor swift, timberlake, twitter, usher, we are the world, web, young, youtube
Justin Drew Bieber (born March 1, 1994) is a Canadian pop/R&B singer. He began his professional career on YouTube, where he was discovered by his future manager, Scooter Braun. Braun flew Bieber to Atlanta, Georgia, to consult with Usher and soon signed a record deal with Island.The first part of his two-part debut album My World was released on November 17, 2009. Four successful pre-album singles have been released: “One Time”, “One Less Lonely Girl”, “Love Me”, and “Favorite Girl”, which were Top 15 hits on the Canadian Hot 100 and Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. This accomplishment made Bieber the only solo artist in Billboard history to have four singles from a debut album chart in the Top 40 of the Hot 100 before the album’s release. The album received positive reviews from critics, and debuted at #6 on the U.S. Billboard 200, selling 137,000 copies in its first week, which was the second best opening release for a new artist in 2009. It also debuted at #1 on the Canadian Albums Chart. As of the fifth week, the album has sold over 522,000 copies in the United States, and has been certified Platinum in Canada. Part II of My World is currently set for a March 2010 release.The craziest gift from a fan that he received was a rubber golf club. Bought a Macbook Pro with his own money and it was one of his biggest purchases. He likes the show “Smallville”. He started out by posting youtube videos in 2007. His debut album was “My World”. His mom, Pattie Mallette, travels with him all the time. He likes to play video games. He has a signature hair style. He met Celine Dion at a New York Knicks basketball game. She approached him and said my son loves your songs. He plays guitar at many of his concerts. He has performed with Rihanna at the Super Bowl Weekend concert in Miami. He likes to play hockey and basketball. He recorded a few songs with fellow singer Sean Kingston. He has one day a week where he just relaxes. He recorded “We Are The World” for Haiti. He got the opening verse which was previously sung by Lionel Richie. His dad still lives in Canada. He wrote the song “Down To Earth” about his parents’ divorce. The executive producer of his first record, My World was LA Reid. He has a twitter which he updates daily.He is good friends with Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez.
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KIM YU-NA – ICE ANGEL OF SOUTH KOREA
by Jegan S in DANCERS, MOVIE STARS, SPORTS PERSON Tags: 2010, angels on ice, anycall, asan hospital, back injury, Bucheon, campaign, canada, cancer, Daishin Investment Forum, Daishin Securities, donations, donor, fairly on ice, figure skating, grand prix, Gyeonggi do, hauzen, Hyeon Jung Kim, hyundai, i love asia, ice skating, ivy club, J Estina, juvenile, kim, kim yu na, Kookmin Bank, korean air, LG Health Care, LG Household, little yuna, low income family, Maeil Dairies Company, motor company, nike, olympics, Saffron, samsung, seoul, Seoul Boys Town, skating, south korea, sports, sweden, Taean oil spill disaster, toronto, toto lottery company, unicef, universal music, vancouver 2010, vancover, Volunteer Day, young, yu na, yu na kim, yunas haptic
Kim Yu Na was born on September 5, 1990, in Bucheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. Kim Yuna began skating when she was seven. In 2003, at age 12, she became the youngest woman ever to win the senior title at the South Korean Figure Skating Championships. The sport was not popular in South Korea back then though.The Koreans only started to pay serious attention to the young star after Kim won the silver medal at the 2005 Junior Grand Prix Final, the country’s first ever medal in an international figure skating championship.
Kim made her senior international debut at 2006 Skate Canada where she won a bronze medal. She continued to excel in various competitions and won the gold at the 2006/2007 Grand Prix Final in Russia. Kim claimed the world records in 2007 for both the short and long programs under the new ISU scoring system. She only managed a bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Japan though, while successfully defended her title at the 2007/2008 Grand Prix Final in Italy.
Kim again won the bronze medal at the 2008 World Championship in Sweden despite competing with a back injury. She got silver in the 2008/2009 Grand Prix Final in South Korea. Kim’s dominance began to surface in 2009 with a new world record in short program at the 4CC. She set another new record in short programs and overall score enroute to her gold medal at the 2009 World Championship in USA. She was the first female skater to surpass 200 points under the new ISU judging system.
Kim continued to break record after record and won her third Grand Prix Final title in Japan for the 2009/2010 season. Kim broke the world record again with a total of total of 228.56 points, en-route to winning the gold medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Kim is a huge celebrity in South Korea, appearing in various commercials e.g. for Nike, Kookmin Bank, Hyundai Motors, Hauzen (profile pic) and Anycall etc. She is also appointed as an ambassador for the 2010-2012 Visit Korea Year.
Kim’s official sponsors are Kookmin Bank, Nike, Korean Air and Hyundai Motor Company. Her other endorsements include Anycall (mobile phone), Hauzen (air conditioner), Lac Vert (cosmetics), Maeil Dairies Co.Ltd (Dairy products), Saffron (fabric softener) and J. Estina (Jewelry). Her skating music and other favorites were compiled in the album Yuna Kim – Fairy On ICE – Skating Music (Universal Music Korea, 2008).
Kim has appeared on multiple commercials in South Korea. She sings in some commercials and also sang in T.V. specials. Her commercial for a new touchscreen haptic phone from Samsung Electronics, dubbed as Yuna’s Haptic (SPH-W7700), debuted in South Korea on May 24, 2009. In the commercial, she plays a rock singer, a teenager, and a writer to show off various features of the phone. Samsung Electronics has sold over one million devices in a record seven months.
Kim has been a generous donor. She has donated more than 2 billion won ($1.7 million) in the last 3 years. Kim has been supporting young figure skaters, as well as promising skaters since 2007. She has also been supporting patients suffering rare diseases and children in need. Below is part of a list of donations made by her.
Jan 2007 – 12 million won scholarships to 6 young skaters after her first advertisement endorsement of Kookmin Bank.
May 2007 – 10 million won scholarship to fellow skater Hyeon-Jung Kim after making a contract with LG Household & Health Care advertisement.
Sep 2007 – 200 million won (100 million of her own + 100 million won additional contributions from Ivy Club) in form of school uniforms to low-income-family youths after making a contract with Ivy Club advertisement.
Dec 2007 – 100 school uniforms (worth 20 million won) to youths damaged by Taean oil spill disaster.
Apr 2008 – Visited to Everland with 800 children from Seoul Boys Town on Kookmin Bank Volunteer Day.
May 2008 – 50 million won (in addition to contributions from Daishin Securities) to young skaters after giving a talk to public at Daishin Investment Forum 2008.
May 2008 – 40 million won worth of one-year provision of Maeil Dairies Company products to low-income-family youths.
May 2008 – Participated in the recording of a humanitarian song “I Love Asia” Project to help earthquake victims of Sichuan, China.
Dec 2008 – 100 million won worth of school uniforms to low-income-family youths after renewing her advertisement contract with Ivy Club.
Dec 2008 – Over 1,000 dolls, she received at Grand Prix Final, to juvenile cancer wards in hospitals in metropolitan Seoul area.
Dec 2008 – 50 million won to young skaters at “Little Yuna’ Youth skaters support project” Campaign of Sports Toto Lottery Company.
Dec 2008 – 144 million won, total amount of ticket earnings from the charity ice show “Angels on Ice 2008” to children with rare diseases and juvenile cancer patients.
Apr 2009 – 100 million won worth of dairy products to low-income-family youths through the Seongname Welfare Center of World Vision.
May 2009 – Visited Asan Hospital to inquire after juvenile cancer patients on Children’s Day.
May 2009 – 100 million won and skate boots while participating in UNICEF Pigotta Doll Project to help children with immunization campaign.
Dec 2009 – Her portrait rights for free to be included in the Christmas seals for tuberculosis eradication.
Jan 2010 – 100 million won through UNICEF to Haiti relief.
Apr 2010 – 40 million won fee for appearing in a radio campaign for the rights of the disabled to Korea Foundation for Persons with Disabilities.
Apr 2010 – 50 million won, some part of earnings from Festa on Ice 2010, to ChunAhn-Häm (sunken Korean battleship) victims who passed away in the ship.
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CRISTIANO RONALDO – MANCHESTER UNITED’S YOUNGEST SIGNING
29 Jun 2010 6 Comments
by Jegan S in MOST BEAUTIFUL MEN, SPORTS PERSON Tags: 2010, aveiro, ball, corner, cristiano, dos, fifa, footbal, foul, funchal, goal, goals, los, madeira, madeira island, madrid, manchester, match, pavillion, penalty, player, portugal, portuguese, referee, ronaldo, santos, shot, sports, sportstar, star, united, young
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro arrived in Manchester amid a media storm. Manchester United had managed to sign the player without the Press suspecting anything. As the Stock Market was told that the player had been signed, hundreds of journalists flooded up to Manchester to get a proper look at one of Manchester United`s youngest signings.
Ronaldo was born on the 5th February 1985, on the small island of Madeira, which is owned by the Portuguese. Named after Ronald Reagan, due to his father`s respect for the man, few would have gambled that this child would make it to the very top of the Football tree, especially with Madeira mainly being used for farm-land. He has one brother and two sisters, and it is family whom he deems most important in his life at the moment. It was on the dusty back-streets of this small island that Ronaldo learnt his first few tricks, and it was also on this Island that he was first scouted. By the age of twelve Ronaldo had established himself as the best player on the Island, able to use his ball skills and pace to get past full-grown defenders for Andorinha.
Having been recognised as a serious talent, all that was left was for the big Portuguese clubs to scrap it out for his signature. Though Porto and Boavista came in for him, he could only ever play for Sporting the club he supported as a boy. He progressed slowly through the youth ranks, although all those who worked with him were impressed with the talent that he had for his age, as well as his maturity.
At the tender age of 17, Ronaldo was thrown in at the deep end with his first game against Moreirense. Two goals on his first appearance not only gave him his dream debut, but also endeared him to the fans, who soon learnt to chant for the ball to be passed to him. A goal against title-rivals Boavista also saw him rise to the top of the “Fan`s Favourites” list.
His skills were watched closely by all of the big clubs in Europe, including Liverpool and Juventus, in the U-17 European Championships. His dazzling skills put England U-17s out, and everyone who watched felt they had seen something special. At the end of his first season at Sporting he was linked to Liverpool. Though he claimed he was extremely happy at Sporting, he was also flattered by the interest of such a big club, who used to do well in the Premier League.
Sporting finished top in the league, and Ronaldo was hailed as the future of the club, alongside Quaresma, another Portuguese Starlet. As it was, both moved away, with the money on the table to much for the Portuguese club to turn down. Best-friend Quaresma ended up at Barcelona, whilst Ronaldo came to the bright red of Manchester. The deal saw Ronald become the most expensive teenage signing in Britain, with Manchester United paying £12.24million over two seasons, in two equal payments. Those who had not seen him play baulked at the price such a lot of money for someone unproven!
Those who had seen the Man Utd vs. Sporting friendly just three days before, however, knew that this player was special. Playing for Sporting, Ronaldo had taken the game to the reds, and was the main reason that Manchester United lost 3-1. After the game, all the United players could talk about was how well Ronaldo had played, and they begged Sir Alex to buy him. Sir Alex had been following him for months, but decided that the time was right not least because other clubs were getting increasingly closer to buying him.
An so, on 12th August 2003, Cristiano Ronaldo held up the famous Red shirt, with his favourite number 7 (it is hero Figo`s number) for all the press to see. A new star had been born. His first performance for the club was against Bolton. He entered the fray with an hour gone, with United 1 0 up. A standing ovation from the fans at old Trafford did nothing to settle his nerves, but he rewarded the fans for their trust. A man-of-the-match performance followed, and Ronaldo became legend. He had a hand in two of the goals, won an unconverted penalty, and mesmerised the Bolton defence.
The next day the media proclaimed him one of the best players ever for United, comparing him with Red-Legend George Best. Much had been seen, but much is still to come.
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CHETAN BHAGAT – THE MODERN INDIAN AUTHOR
by Jegan S in BUSINESS PERSONALITIES, MOVIE STARS, POETS & AUTHORS Tags: 1 night, 2 states, 3 idiots, 3 mistakes of my life, 5 point someone, achiever, ahmedabad, anusha, art, ascii, atar, author, bhagat, books, call center, call centre, chetan, chetan bhagat, cinema, IIM, IIM-A, IIT, indian, love, marriage, movie, movies, new delhi, one night at call center, publisher, star anchor, star anchor hunt, star news, student, the story, the story of my marriage, writer, young
Chetan Bhagat was born on April 22, 1974 in New Delhi. He is an Indian author who has written Five Point Someone – What not to do at IIT , One Night @ the Call Center, The Three Mistakes of My Life and 2 States – The Story Of My Marriage. He has also written the script of Hello, the Hindi movie based on One Night @ the Call Center. He is married to Anusha, who was his classmate in IIM.Along with Advaita Kala and Karan Bajaj, Chetan Bhagat is considered among the trio of modern Indian writers that have rewritten Indian publishing rules and brought a new scale to the Indian publishing landscape with previously unheard of book sales.
Bhagat attended Army Public School from the year 1978 to 1991, Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi. He studied Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT), (1991-1995) Delhi, and then studied at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM) (1995-1997) where he was named “The Best Outgoing Student”.
He fell in love with his IIM Ahmedabad classmate Anusha and they eventually got married.[1] A fictionalized version of his love story is given in his book 2 states – The story of my marriage.
Bhagat’s writing style tends to be simple, with linear narratives and vivid storytelling. His protagonists tend to be named after Lord Krishna, like Hari, Shyam, Govind or Krishna. All his books have a number in the title (e.g. ‘five’ in the first, ‘one’ in the second, ‘three’ in the third and ‘two’ in his latest book.) When asked about this Chetan replied “I’m a banker, I can’t get numbers out of my head.” He is a columnist with Dainik Bhaskar & The Times Of India, and writes on political issues.
Chetan Bhagat is a judge on a soon to be hosted Reality show by Star News called Star Anchor Hunt.
Society Young Achiever’s award in 2004.
Publisher’s recognition award in 2005.
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HEADLINES Published May13, 2015 By Staff Reporter
People with Celiac Disease May Be at Risk for Nerve Damage
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A very large study of people who were diagnosed with celiac disease has found that the disease appears to be linked with an increased risk of nerve damage. People with celiac were about 2.5 times more likely to be diagnosed with nerve damage (neuropathy) as those without celiac.
Celiac disease is a disease where the immune system attacks the lining of the small intestine when gluten is eaten. Gluten is a protein found primarily in wheat, but also in barley and rye grain. The association between celiac disease and neuropathy has been known for some time, but the actual risk of neuropathy for people with celiac was not known.
Researchers at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Karolinska Institut in Stockholm, and Orebro University Hospital in Orebro, Sweden, collected data on biopsies of the small intestine that were done in Sweden between 1989 and 2008. They compared the risk of neuropathy in more than 28,000 people diagnosed with celiac disease with that of nearly 140,000 people who did not have celiac. They found that 198 people with celiac disease (about 0.7%) later were diagnosed with neuropathy, compared to 359 (0.3%) of those without it.
Although the actual risk of developing nerve damage is low, the researchers noted that it might be beneficial for physicians to screen patients who are diagnosed with celiac for nerve damage.
Celiac affects about 1% of the population of the United States, which is about 1 in every 133 Americans. It is believed that more than 80% of people with celiac are either not diagnosed or are diagnosed incorrectly as having another disease. In children, symptoms of celiac disease include diarrhea, vomiting, bloating, and weight loss as well as failure to grow properly. In adults, the symptoms can include fatigue, bone and joint pain, arthritis, or other symptoms.


Former West Vancouver mayor was wrong to take $75K gift from godmother, panel finds
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A lawyer and former mayor of West Vancouver committed misconduct when he accepted $75,000 as a gift from one of his clients, a disciplinary committee has found.
Mark Sager, who ran for a return as mayor in 2018, said in an interview last year the gift could be easily explained away: the client in question was his godmother, who wanted to thank him for some legal work he did for her.
But the Law Society of B.C. found Sager still broke the rules when he took the money because lawyers in the province cannot accept a gift that is “more than nominal” from a client, unless that client has had independent legal advice concerning the gift.
Reached by phone on Monday, Sager said he had no comment on the law society’s findings. He served as mayor of West Vancouver from 1990 to 1996 and has spent the last two decades heading his own law firm. He lost his most recent bid for mayor in October.
‘Auntie J’
The misconduct surrounds Sager’s relationship with an aunt-like figure he’d known since he was a child.
The law society’s decision, posted online Monday, said the woman, identified only as J.B., was a longtime, “very close friend” of Sager’s mother. Sager and his sister grew up with her and called her “Auntie J.”
In 2012, J.B. had a fall at her North Vancouver home. Then 83, she was hospitalized and later moved to a care centre in West Vancouver. The decision said she phoned Sager for help six months after her fall, unhappy with the care she was receiving and her overall “predicament.”
Mark Sager previously served as mayor of West Vancouver from 1990 to 1996, when he was in his 30s. He ran for mayor again in 2018, but was unsuccessful. (Facebook)
The society said Sager helped rewrite J.B.’s will, represented her in her divorce, and helped her estranged husband buy her out of her home — the house she’d lived in for decades — in the months that followed.
Sager would ultimately be written into J.B.’s new will, while her biological niece was written out, and would receive a $75,000 gift from the money J.B. made on the sale of her home.
Assistant, associate unaware
The society said Sager asked his associate to “step in” regarding J.B.’s will in January 2014 because Sager was “conflicted out” due to his relationship with her.
Both Sager’s assistant and his associate said they didn’t realize J.B. wasn’t Sager’s biological aunt, as they only ever heard him refer to her as Auntie.
Sager and his sister were included in J.B.’s new will as her “nephew and niece.”
J.B. gave Sager the $75,000 gift that June.
Mark Sager is a founding member and senior partner of Sager LLP, located in the Ambleside area of West Vancouver. A campaign sign for Sager’s unsuccessful bid for mayor can be seen on the building in a Google Streetview photo taken in October 2018. (Google Streetview)
Nearly a quarter of her estate went to Sager when she died on Jan. 21, 2016 at the age of 86. Sager was executor of the will.
The law society launched an investigation after J.B.’s younger sister complained in 2017.
During hearings, Sager admitted to what had happened but said it wasn’t professional misconduct. He said he didn’t know he was breaking the rules because they’d only been added to the B.C. Code for lawyers in 2013.
The decision said he argued “lawyers should be entitled to a reasonable amount of time to gain familiarity with the new Law Society requirements.”
The panel disagreed, saying the case was “not a situation where a rule of very recent vintage caught a lawyer by surprise.”
The decision said Sager’s behaviour was a “marked” departure from the standard expected of lawyers in the province.
A penalty will be decided at a later date.
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Presidential Debate Preview: Romney vs. Obama
By thekeystonenews on September 19, 2012
With the party conventions concluded and less than two months remaining until election day, President Obama and Mitt Romney are turning their attention towards the upcoming debate, the first of three.
The debate, scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 3, will likely include some harsh criticisms between the two candidates, as it is their first meeting and their first opportunity to counter each other’s rhetoric one-on-one.
It is likely that President Obama will focus his criticisms on Mitt Romney’s recent gaffes pertaining to his comments about foreign policy in regards to the protests in the Middle East as well as Americans who are exempt from income taxes. Countering that, Romney will likely make the economy the focus of his points against the president.
This debate, unlike ones scheduled for later in October, will have no focus point, but will instead cover a broad variety of topics. The subjects of the economy, foreign policy, health care, and education will likely be the most examined and questioned, however other topics are expected to find their way into the discussion.
Jake Horowitz, a political writer and co-founder of policymic.com, predicts that Romney may have an edge entering the first debate due to his recent series of 20 debates in the Republican Primaries, suggesting that President Obama may be a bit out of practice. Horowitz notes, however, that the president is equally likely to shake off the cobwebs and quickly get into the debate state of mind that was lauded for in the 2008 election.
The debates will likely be a critical time for the Romney campaign, offering them a chance to bounce back from a recent decline in the polls. After his most recent gaffes, a Gallup tracking poll has him listed as far as six percentage points behind President Obama and predicts that swing states, such as Pennsylvania and Ohio, are currently leaning in the president’s favor.
The Presidential debates are scheduled for Oct.3 in Denver, Colo., Oct.16, in Hempstead, N.Y., and Oct. 22, in Boca Raton, Fla., the last of which will focus primarily on foreign policy. The Vice Presidential debate will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 11 in Danville, Ky.
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