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‘Data Protection’ means ‘Your Data, Your Right’. There has been a lot of debate over this lately. The Justice Sri Krishna Committee recently came out with a report that demands a law be formulated to protect the data shared by individuals over different platforms.
While some have called the report ‘landmark’, others called it a ‘baby step’. However, with Justice Sri Krishna setting a guiding principle, there is still a lot that needs to be done.
Who will have the prime ownership of the data? What conditions will be considered ‘consent’ and where and when will it be applicable? How will one prevent government interference in an individual’s data? These are just few of the questions that crop up in light of the report. The Supreme Court has already directed the Centre to ‘secure’ citizens’ data, calling it their fundamental right.
Analysts who have read and studied the report say that what’s personal will be decided by the Government. However, the report states what ‘sensitive personal data’ is – an individual’s religion, caste, community, sexual orientation, health and biometrics.
Many such aspects have been stated to be ‘sensitive personal data’, the exchange or use of which by any firm or organisation should be prohibited, with certain conditions applicable.
However, under special circumstances, an individual’s consent to obtain or use these details might not be necessary. For example, these details will be protected by not mentioning an individual’s name, but the data can be used for trendsetting purposes.
According to analysts, the report has pushed for empowering the citizens when it comes to data privacy by non-official and non-governmental organisations. However, analysts suggested that the citizens may be on the losing side when it comes to data protection from the government.
The state police has the power to access the private information of an individual. Even if a law is formulated for data protection, the state police will eventually have the surveillance power.
One of the widely-debated points is intelligence agencies having access to the citizens’ data. Considering the current political scenario, the power given to intelligence agencies to access an individual’s private data needs to be brought under the framework of law and they should be held accountable for breach.
In today’s time, where the world in connected by the internet, international organisations have more access to an individual’s data than the government itself. To deal with this problem, the report recommends keeping Indian citizens’ data within India.
According to recommendations in the report, a copy of an individual’s data will be available in India as well as with the organisation abroad. However, it doesn’t guarantee the protection of data available abroad, in e-commerce transactions or e-mail accounts.
If a law is formulated, it will have to be analysed carefully. For example, for extradition treaties, if an act is an offence in both countries involved in the treaty, only then information on the offender is exchanged between the two countries – say country A and country B.
However, the companies or organisations involved in exchanging the data between countries A and B can’t be held accountable for data breach by the other because the company from country A won’t come under the jurisdiction of country B and vice-versa.
Even if a law is formulated, its implementation and the government’s intention to respect an individual’s privacy sounds quiet challenging in the current political scenario.
The report also recommended giving more autonomy to Aadhaar. A regulator for redressal of grievances regarding Aadhaar has also been recommended. However, the report did not set clear guidelines of data breach threats relating to Aadhaar.
Let’s be clear, Trump is a blessing. Whatever you want to call the gingham tinged clown, he has gifted millions of us with the one thing we craved so very badly: certainty.
He’s a perfectly sculpted hate totem, a vividly drawn pantomime baddie of ridiculous proportions. There’s nothing redeeming about the Donald, nothing at all. Physically he’s a shit state, from sepia Papa Lazarou face to tiny, twitter tweeting, pussy grabbing paws. He mangles language and invents stupid words, bigly. His personality is such a brittle thicket of vanity, insecurity, bitchiness, ill-temper, greed and cack handed bullying, that America appears to be run by an obnoxious child; Eric Cartman without the jokes.
Tump’s appointments – Steve Bannon, Rex Tillerson, Jeff Sessions- are a metastatic cancer seeping through the legislative body, and his policies are plucked from the tainted algorithm of Tay, the Microsoft chatbot that the internet turned into a troll. Executive orders have been blurted out in a great broiling succession, a Daily Mail’s worth of swivel eyed attacks on immigrants, Muslims, healthcare, climate change, human rights, journalists, and LGBT communities, all launched via salty tweets hammered out by a seething, stubby thumb.
And for all the victorious Trump supporters out there, Tronald is a titan; a super hero capable of smashing the very fabric of time and existence, capable of teleporting this entire damn world back to blessed white Eden. A human member berry. It’s why David Duke has been tap tap tapping effusive praise onto social media with one hand whilst the other reaches for the hood. It’s why Nigel can’t stop grinning his froggy grin and dreaming of golden lifts. It’s why Theresa May has been clutching Donald’s leathery claw for dear life, hoping he can save her from facing up to the horrible truth that has been draining our entire nation of all joy; that Britain is rudderless, confusing and completely shit. Donald is now the one certain thing we can all agree about in this useless world.
Pre-Donald everything was a collapsing mess. And I’m talking specifically about England. We were a country split by a Brexit vote that had shredded our comfortably worn identities into sad rags. Suddenly, turmoil; party leaders, tribal lines and supposedly strong held opinions were punched so hard they shifted shape, settling into bizarre new configurations. It felt as though we were in the grip of a collective dementia, surrounded by unfamiliar faces and grasping at the slippery meaning of once solid words like fools gripping water. We heard Brexit means Brexit and wondered whether our minds had bailed. Baffling. No one knew what to say any more. Deep people quoted Yeats on social media.
But then Donald came in and actually was the extreme tough guy/ raging lunatic he said he’d be. And he’s made it all OK. Now we can remember who we are because he’s made it so very easy to position yourself either for or against the Donald. The world makes sense again! I get why people want to feel this way. Finally there’s a villain – or a hero – that is so implausibly black and white that he can blot out the shitty convoluted realities of modern existence. He’s the social media president, a polarising creation perfect for a world where opinions are best rewarded when held rigidly and repeated loudly. It’s why a fair proportion of people turned out in droves to protest his stupid flight ban. I don’t think it’s unduly cynical to think that many of the non-Muslim protestors were far more against Trump, and the idea of Trump, than they were for the people actually affected. There certainly appeared to be a lot more people offering a lot more outrage than there has been over our own government’s refusal to accept any but a handful of the refugee children stranded on our fucking doorstep. And, on the flip side, Trump’s bellicose strong man persona is why this women in Stoke wants him to rule not just America but (and I quote) “everywhere”.
As the stream of information we access has grown from a regulated trickle to a buffeting flash flood, our brains have shorted out. We're trying to decipher meaning from a million shouting sources. There’s a panel at the end of Watchmen when Alan Moore’s complex villain Ozymandias is taking in information from hundreds of screens simultaneously. He’s meant to be able to do this because he’s the smartest man on the planet – what chance us ordinary mortals have? We’re struggling to find patterns in the chaos of knowing too much. Trump’s presence sweeps all this aside with one clumsy shove. He's a calming reassurance for those drowning in new uncertainty, liberal and conservative alike. The drab shroud of indecision has been cast aside and we can see clearly once more. We are good people.
It's probably worth pointing out that whilst Trump may seem to be an unusually proactive bastard he’s just the latest in a long line of American bastards who have perched at various stations on the same line. I don’t doubt that he’s going to take all the prizes for being inventively the worst, but the structure that has created this situation has been developing over centuries. In living memory alone America has murdered leaders to implement tinpot dictatorships, implemented mass incarceration programs that have seen more black Americans imprisoned than were ever enslaved, and used the might of the US war machine to leave entire countries mired in violent anarchy. And that’s just the Democrats. Nations have been sanctioned, immigrants have been detained, innocents have been tortured, fake news has justified disastrous invasions, the earth has been pillaged, stacks and stacks of money have been made and if they’re not shooting aliens, they’re shooting each other.
Trump is all of that ignoble history gathered in one crass form. He’s the naked lunch, the moment where everyone can admire what’s on the end of their fork. And for that he’s a blessing. His presence makes pretending that this current order is OK impossible, because if you do then Trump. But don’t kid yourself that the world is any simpler. Don’t kid yourself that protesting Trump on the streets of London – and I fully acknowledge the value of showing solidarity with Britain’s Muslim population - fuck knows they get enough grief – will stop the escalating housing crisis, or will halt the flood of capital upwards, or will sort out the half lived lives of zero hour wage slaves, or will save the NHS, or will stop us going into some disastrous next war in the next few years, or will even greatly help the people in countries such as Syria who are living in hell and have been living in hell for years. Most of all, don’t expect it to have any great effect on Trump.
It’s appealing to hate the bright orange hate thing, so you may as well enjoy it – protest, sing and dance in the streets, these things are important for our health, and perfect reminders that we’re not alone, but, my fellow Britishers, don’t let the sheer gormless scale of Trump’s presence cast a shadow that obscures the very real – and far more knotty- problems besetting our own country. Cos while we’re shouting about stuff on the other side of the globe, a selection of unslakeable wraiths are eying up the potential of post-Brexit England and working out just what they can consume.
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IBM researchers have developed a new class of solar-powered electricity-generating cells that they claim will bring photovoltaic cells closer to cost parity with conventional energy sources.
The researchers from IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York have published their findings in a paper entitled "High-Efficiency Solar Cell with Earth-Abundant Liquid-Processed Absorber," available here (PDF).
The materials used in the new cell are copper, zinc, tin, selenium, and sulfur - the latter two "earth-abundant" materials being in a chalcogenide compound, key to the photovoltaic properties of the cell.
The use of these materials bypasses problems inherent in the more-common components of solar cells. The heavy metal cadmium, for example, has toxicity complications, and indium and tellurium (also a chalcogen) are rare and therefore unable to support, as the paper says, more than "a small fraction of our growing energy needs, which are expected to double to 27TW by 2050."
Another advantage of the new cell is that it's manufactured using a simple, non-vacuum process based on what the researchers call a "slurry-based coating method" that allows the photovoltaic layer to be applied by printing, spraying, spin-coating, or other liquid-based techniques.
The efficiency of the new experimental cell is currently at 9.6 per cent, which approaches that of most commerically available solar cells today. IBM's research, however, is still at an early stage, and the new "earth-abundant" cells may very well match or surpass current - relatively expensive - cells and do so at a lower cost and with higher availability. ®
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One of the biggest fears in a former addict’s mind is the thought of one day relapsing after dedicating so much time and effort to becoming sober. We are here to remind former users that relapsing does not mean that all hope is lost. If the former user was capable of getting clean the first time, it’s possible they can do it all over again. Just ask the celebrities listed below. There are several examples of celebrities who battled drug and/or alcohol addiction, struggled to get through rehab, subsequently relapsed, and sobered up all over again. These celebs are proof that there is a light at the end of the tunnel for former addicts, even those who relapse.
Will Arnett has one of the most iconic voices in Hollywood today. It was that same voice that made GOB such a show stealer every week on Arrested Developmentand what made his title role in The Lego Batman Movie so memorable. What many fans do not know about Arnett is that he has a recurring alcohol problem. A little over 15 years ago, he finally got himself passed the alcohol issues which he struggled with for so long. In 2012, around the time his marriage with Amy Poehler fell apart, Arnett thought of the concept for the show Flaked, which was about a recovering alcoholic. He started filming the show around the 15th anniversary of being sober and he, unfortunately, relapsed. The actor insists that he’s been sober for the last few months now and has been regularly attending AA meetings.
For all of the actors who have donned the fangs and cape combo for the role of Dracula, none have been more iconic than the interpretation performed by Bela Lugosi. This performance alone helped Lugosi become one of the bigger names in Hollywood during the 1930s. At the height of his fame, Lugosi became addicted to morphine and methadone. When producers noticed his heavy addiction, film offers for Lugosi quickly died down, and so did his career. Years later, he attempted a comeback via a string of films directed by Ed Wood, who helped Lugosi pay for a stint in rehab. Lugosi was clean, but it didn’t take long before he relapsed when his comeback flopped. A year later, Lugosi died of a heart attack.
In 2013, Lamar Odom was arrested for a DUI. After taking a suspicious-looking chemical test, this prompted rumors that Lamar Odom was abusing drugs. At the end of the year, he was sentenced to three years of probation and three months of alcohol abuse treatment. Just days later, Odom’s wife at the time, Khloe Kardashian, had filed for divorce after it had long been speculated that the couple had split. Just two years later, in 2015, Odom was found unconscious at the Love Ranch brothel after an apparent all-night binge with drugs and alcohol that led to a stroke. The situation left Odom comatose and when he awoke, not only did he lead a successful recovery, he finalized his divorce with Khloe Kardashian in December 2016.
Tom Sizemore has always been much more famous for his face rather than his name (although, there have been recent allegations about molesting an 11-year old girl back in 2003). He’s one of the more recognizable “That Guy” actors in Hollywood. More than his namesake, Sizemore is infamous for the alcohol addiction that has plagued him for much of his career. He entered rehab shortly after filming Heat in 1995, and between then and 1999, he remained sober. He relapsed after having one too many clashes on movie sets with actors who stressed him out. By 2001, he was addicted to meth and violated parole. In 2008, a run on Celebrity Rehab sobered him up, and he’s stayed that way ever since.
During the height of the band’s fame, all of the members of Aerosmith were heavy users of drugs, especially Steven Tyler. Ever since he was badly injured in a motorcycle crash, Tyler relied heavely on prescription drugs. His drug abuse finally caught up to him in 1984 when he collapsed on stage in front of a live crowd on tour. By 1986, the band held an intervention for Tyler. They convinced him to go to rehab, and they all did the same throughout the ’80s. Tyler remained sober for the time being, but as early as 2010, Tyler had relapsed and fell off stage at a concert while high. After additional treatment, Tyler has remained sober.
In May 1998, Charlie Sheen suffered from a stroke after overdosing on cocaine. He was found unconscious in his seaside home by a friend who had Sheen rushed to the hospital shortly after finding him. After having his stomach pumped, Sheen checked himself into rehab. While he told officials he had no intention to stay long just hours after entering the facility, sheriffs forced Sheen back into the rehab clinic after he tried to flee the scene. In August later that year, Sheen’s probation for a previous drug offence was extended for a year and he checked himself into rehab again. Despite the numerous rehab attempts, Sheen is adamant about how much he continues to enjoy drugs and alcohol.
It can be argued that no other celebrity’s brush with alcoholism has ever been made as publicly nor as loudly than that of Mel Gibson’s. It all started in 2006 when Gibson was pulled over for a DUI and gave the racist, anti-Semitic rant heard around the world. Literally heard around the world. It went viral. Following the incident, Gibson claimed he would start attending a recovery program, then was put on a probation that forced him to attend self-help meetings five times a week. Apparently, Gibson has had issues with alcohol since the age of 13 that he’s struggled to get over, despite going to AA meetings in the ’80s. Now, he seems to be fully recovered and back in the limelight.
David Hasslehoff’s history with alcoholism has been well documented, most infamously via a 2007 video of himself on camera drunk, drowsy, and eating a cheeseburger. In the wake of the video going viral, The Hoff released a statement that he had, at the time, been a recovering alcoholic and was seeking treatment. That was in May of that year. Later in October 2007, Hasslehoff had relapsed and was hospitalized soon after. If the viral video wasn’t enough to convince The Hoff that he needed to sober up, his stint in the hospital most certainly did because he has remained sober ever since. Although there were rumors that he had relapsed in 2009, they appear to be false.
Long before becoming an actor, Gerard Butler was studying to become a lawyer. He received a law degree from Glasgow University and afterward, he received a trainee position at Edinburgh. However, thanks to his alcoholic lifestyle, he frequently missed work. So much so that he was fired from his trainee position a week before he could qualify to become an official lawyer. He eventually stopped drinking and started focusing on an acting career. He hasn’t had a drink in 20 years, but he had a stint in rehab in 2012 to get over a painkiller addiction that started when he abused the drugs to get over an injury sustained on the set of Shattered in 2007.
Whether you know him best as the star of the Scream franchise or as the greatest WCW World Heavyweight Champion in professional wrestling history, David Arquette has had a busy career, which in turn led to a stressful life. Life was so overwhelming for Arquette, the actor spent most of it on drugs. In 2010, both Patricia Arquette and Courtney Cox convinced him to enter rehab. He was sober for more than 200 days before everyone caught wind of him partying hard with alcohol and drugs in tow. On New Year’s Day, 2011, he entered rehab to confront his addiction. Later that year in April, he appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to announce he was sober for 100 days. He’s still sober.
While filming City Heat with Clint Eastwood in the early ’80s, Burt Reynolds sustained a nasty injury when he was struck in the face with a metal chair. He depended strongly on painkillers to sooth his anguish, but he soon became addicted to them. His frequent usage of the drugs is a major reason why he slimmed down to much unhealthier look. The pills had him withered down in weight so badly, that Reynolds was once rumored to be suffering from AIDS. Eventually, Reynolds was able to kick his habit. However, he relapsed in 2009 and was found unconscious in his apartment following a binge of alcohol and pills. He would enter rehab and clean himself back up soon after.
Like most rock icons of his era, Ozzy Osbourne has abused drugs and alcohol on and off for the majority of his career and adult life. Around the mid-2010s, Ozzy Osbourne revealed he had stopped drinking, but in April 2013, he also revealed that for the past year, he relapsed and had been drinking and doing drugs all over again. When questioned on the matter, even his own family did not know that Ozzy was back on drugs and alcohol again. Ozzy would subsequently say that for the past year and a half, he was in a dark place, but had sobered up the month prior. Thankfully, since that was the last time the tabloids put “drugs” and “Ozzy” in the same sentence, it’s safe to say he’s sober for good.
Much like her father, Kelly Osbourne has battled addiction for several years. As documented on the family’s infamous reality TV show, The Osbournes, Kelly had a Vicodin addiction ever since she was 17-years old. To combat her addiction to painkillers, Kelly Osbourne went through numerous stints in rehab for many years. Proving just how difficult the road to recovery is for anybody, Kelly Osbourne continually relapsed after nearly every single one of her stints in rehab. It was not until 2009, during her fourth rehab stint, that she had fully detoxed herself. After staying a full month in the facility, she had no desire to touch another painkiller again.
The government’s ‘Australians first’ rhetoric is a response to hardening community attitudes over immigration and job security. By Mike Seccombe.
On November 29, 2004, when Malcolm Turnbull rose to give his first speech to parliament, he spoke as a proud internationalist and passionate advocate of a big Australia.
He called for an expanded immigration program, which he described as “essentially a recruiting exercise conducted in the national interest of Australia”. He wanted to attract to this country “as many of the world’s enterprising and energetic” as we could. He lauded Australia’s diversity of cultures.
How times have changed. These days, he leads a government that seeks political capital by making it harder for foreigners to settle or to buy real estate here, and that stresses integration and “Australian values”. Whenever immigration is mentioned – and it’s mentioned a lot – there is always a “but” attached, as was the case a month ago, when Turnbull announced the government was “abolishing” 457 visas for foreign workers.
“We are an immigration nation, but the fact remains that Australian workers must have priority for Australian jobs,” Turnbull said. “… So we are abolishing the 457 visa, the visa that brings temporary foreign workers into our country. We will no longer allow 457 visas to be passports to jobs that could and should go to Australians.”
Gone is the sloganeering about “jobs and growth”, which doesn’t chime with the lived experience of the punters. Gone, too, is the optimistic talk about agility, innovation and disruption – it only scares people. Quite evidently, the electorate does not think this an “exciting time to be Australian”. The message is more sombre and defensive. It’s Australians first. Australian jobs first, Australian families first, Australian values first. Any combination of those words will do.
And, unusually for political slogans, it is utterly bipartisan. Labor is hammering exactly the same message, in exactly the same terms.
Labor was doing it first, in fact, although it has honed its pitch over recent months. At last year’s election, the party campaigned on the message “We’ll put people first”. In November, when Bill Shorten spoke to a private member’s bill that would have greatly tightened the rules around 457 visas, he spoke of the need to put “local workers first”. Now, every utterance is more specific: those “people” and “locals” must be Australians.
It’s fair to say the behaviour on both sides has been pretty crass at times, and nowhere more so than in Labor’s infamous, now-withdrawn “build Australian first, buy Australian first and employ Australians first” television advertisement.
Pauline Hanson thinks she knows. Within minutes of Turnbull’s announcement that 457 visas were being scrapped she sent out a triumphant tweet: “The government will deny their tough talk on immigration and plan to ban 457 visas is because of One Nation but we all know the truth!”
She may be at least partly right. For more than a decade, ever since the Norwegian freighter MV Tampa, with its 438 rescued asylum seekers, steamed into Australian waters and John Howard’s election calculations, issues of immigration and border security have been worked for political advantage. Whether in government or opposition, the Coalition parties have installed their most ruthless operators – Peter Reith, Philip Ruddock, Scott Morrison – in the portfolio, with the aim of keeping it at the front of the public mind.
But the asylum-seeker issue no longer has the political bite it once did. The Scanlon Foundation, which since 2001 has produced Australia’s most comprehensive analysis of attitudes to immigration, makes the point clearly in its latest “Mapping Social Cohesion” report.
It notes that in 2012 and 2013 12 per cent of survey respondents considered asylum seekers arriving by boat to be a major concern. Then Morrison “stopped the boats”, and public concern dropped sharply. By 2016, just 4 per cent of people still cared much about asylum seekers. Furthermore, half of those expressed “sympathetic concern” over the poor treatment of detainees.
Notwithstanding the efforts of the current immigration minister, Peter Dutton, to keep alive public hostility to asylum seekers, it is no longer a positive for the government.
The Liberal Party has a fundamental problem when it comes to politically exploiting the broader, non-asylum seeker aspect of migration, and this also is identified by the Scanlon Foundation through its surveys. The party is closely tied to the business community, which supports a large immigration program “not only as the means to meet labour demand but also as an engine of economic growth”.
Yet, it continued: “… among Liberal supporters there are also many who do not welcome the social change that comes with a large and ethnically diverse immigration intake”.
In short, Liberal supporters don’t much like foreigners, but they tolerate them for the labour they offer. And that explains a lot about the Turnbull government’s recent announcements about visas. Although they say they have “abolished 457 visas” the changes will not actually do much to stem the flow of foreign workers into the country, but will churn them through more quickly and make it significantly harder for them to become permanent residents.
Still, the very fact that the government has suddenly decided to elevate the issue of foreign workers – after years of dismissing Labor’s calls for action – tells us a lot. It suggests the government is getting very bad news from its focus groups.
Tony Mitchelmore, qualitative researcher and communications strategist for Visibility, conducts lots of focus groups. He has done them for Labor in the past, but these days his clients are corporate. He sees plenty of reason for the government to be concerned.
For at least the past 18 months, according to Mitchelmore, people’s attitudes have been hardening against immigration. It is not, however, a Hansonite world view they express, he says.
“It is not generally racist. There may be a small segment of people who have racist or xenophobic views, but essentially it’s parochial. It’s about job insecurity.
Behind that simple message, though, is a broader narrative, built by these workers from their understanding of the whole economy.
For some years now, says Mitchelmore, his focus group members have worried that “the mining boom’s over and things have stalled – we can’t compete with Asia, manufacturing industries are closing, what’s going to keep the place going?”
He says: “It’s about unemployment, underemployment, the casualisation of the workforce. And more recently it’s the fact that wages have stagnated and the cost of living’s still going up.”
Which is to say these workers have identified most of the problems the board of the Reserve Bank is worrying about, except they identified them earlier.
Another person who does a lot of focus groups is Rebecca Huntley, head of research for Essential Media. Her take on the “Australia first” rhetoric is that it “taps into something ugly, but also into much of which is justifiable anger”.
She says: “There’s a lot of anti-corporate sentiment out there. One thing all kinds of workers have reflected on in the work I’ve done, ever since the global financial crisis, is the general lack of employers investing in the people they have.
“People tell me that as soon as the GFC hit, all the training budget went, as did any kind of skills development in current staff, or graduates coming out of universities – any investment in the long-term prospects of the workforce. And it was never picked up again.
Huntley says a common view is that employers prefer a foreign workforce because they are perceived to be “more passive, less likely to be unionised or to know their rights”.
“And there’s anxiety about declining standards,” she says. “One focus group I was conducting with electricians last year – there were lots of first and second generation migrants in this group – what they said was, ‘We don’t blame these people. We think they’re being short-changed, too. But no one’s investing in their training, no one gives a hoot if they electrocute themselves or do a bad job.’
People talk about corporate profits, tax dodgers and “the general idea that employers will do whatever they can to get around obligations”.
The same sentiment, Huntley says, leads them to say, “Yeah, let’s have a bank levy. Fuck the banks.”
Professor Andrew Markus, social researcher in the arts faculty at Monash University, who compiles the annual Scanlon report, says he has yet to pick up the resentment the focus groups appear to be showing.
“There’s a standard question that’s been asked going right back to the 1950s,” he says. “‘Do you think immigration is too high or too low?’ And we haven’t picked up an increased level of concern over the last four surveys.
“Immigration is never going to be extremely popular. The lowest level of negativity towards immigration is 35 to 40 per cent. That’s quite a large number. The fact is, though, that it hasn’t shifted.”
He notes, however, that two things do shift sentiment. One is increasing unemployment. The other is when immigration levels become the subject of political debate.
When he was preparing his latest report, in July 2016, the current, intensely nativist political debate had not begun. Nor had Australia experienced two successive quarters of wage growth below the rate of inflation, as it now has. When I ask him whether the combination of these factors, along with chronic underemployment and casualisation of the workforce, could produce a sudden significant shift, he answers with another question:
“Well, it’s a new phenomenon, isn’t it. The political parties do their research, so what they’re saying now indicates they are picking up a level of concern.”
One thing on which he is in full agreement with the focus group researchers is that opposition to high immigration is not primarily, or even significantly, an expression of racism or xenophobia. He refers to research the Scanlon Foundation did back in 2011.
It presented respondents with four commonly advanced arguments in favour of immigration and four arguments against, and asked which of those arguments people found more persuasive.
By a large margin, the most persuasive anti-immigration arguments were deemed to be that it made cities too crowded and had a negative impact on the natural environment. The third most persuasive argument was that immigration increased unemployment. Only 10 per cent of respondents were very concerned that it increased cultural diversity.
Conversely, the best-accepted arguments in favour of immigration were, in order, that it increased economic growth, militated against the ageing of the population, increased cultural diversity and helped provide for the future defence of the country.
Those results are interesting for a couple of reasons. First, because they show pretty nearly the same number of people supported immigration for cultural reasons as opposed it for cultural reasons. And second because one of the major reasons that people supported immigration – that we needed more people because our population is ageing – is quite misleading.
It annoys Katharine Betts, adjunct associate professor of sociology at Swinburne University of Technology and vice-president of the Australian Population Research Institute.
As she explains, you bring in younger migrants, but then those migrants age, just like the rest of the population. So it defers population ageing for a few years, but then you have to bring in an even bigger number of young migrants to offset a bigger ageing population.
The notion that high immigration adds to the economic wellbeing of the citizenry is also questionable, she says. Of course, bringing in more people makes the economy bigger. But the relevant measure is not the size of the pie, it’s the size of the slice each person gets.
Australia provides a great case study. The last time this country had a recession, according to the commonly accepted measure of two consecutive quarters of economic contraction, was in 1991 – the “recession we had to have”. The fact that we haven’t had one since has been claimed by both Labor and Coalition governments as evidence of their good economic management.
But they can claim that only because they focus on the headline number for gross domestic product – that is, the size of the pie – without factoring in population growth – the number of people taking a slice.
When you look at GDP per capita our world-beating economy suddenly seems much less impressive. We’ve gone negative several times.
A measure that most economists consider to be even better, though, is one called real net national disposable income per capita, because it better reflects not only the per capita share of income but its buying power.
Last year, economists at Commonwealth Bank produced figures showing that on that measure Australian living standards had been going backwards for most of the past decade. This is remarkable not only because it included an enormous mining boom, but because it coincided with record levels of immigration and population growth.
Through the ’90s and early 2000s, Australia’s population growth averaged about 1.2 per cent a year. Then, in the latter years of the Howard and early Rudd governments, it zoomed up, peaking at well over 2 per cent. Since 2006 it has averaged about 1.75 per cent.
“We’ve got population growth of 330,000 to 350,000 per year. A million every three years,” says Jenny Goldie, of Sustainable Population Australia. “Approximately 45 per cent is natural increase, and the rest is net migration.
“I really don’t think most people understand how big the immigration program is. I think these surveys, where they endorse it, are taken in ignorance.”
Goldie helped found the organisation 29 years ago and has been trying ever since to persuade people Australia should move to zero net migration. That is, we should bring in just enough people to replace those who die or move overseas. Given Australia’s current reproduction rate, that would mean about 60,000 to 70,000 people a year.
Goldie and her organisation would not select immigrants based on race. They support increasing the humanitarian component of the program and significantly increasing Australia’s foreign aid budget to the UN agreed target of at least 0.7 per cent of gross national income, with 4 per cent of that devoted to family planning. They are an environmental organisation focused on the belief that to be sustainable the world needs fewer people consuming fewer resources.
But ultimately, Goldie thinks, it will not be the politics of altruism that changes people’s minds on immigration, any more than One Nation’s politics of race, or the politics of crass nativism. It will be the politics of unaffordable housing, of gridlocked traffic, of “things grinding to a halt”.
Maybe she’s right and this time, after 30-odd years, people will begin to seriously debate the issue – not of racist anxiety, but of how big an Australia we should be.
This article was first published in the print edition of The Saturday Paper on May 20, 2017 as "Migrants targeted as refugee panic founders". Subscribe here.
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What are your favorite mattress store building signs? Charlotte-based TruSleep Organics – located at 11042 Cedar Walk Lane – has opted for dimensional letters. This is not the warehouse type store that sets up shop in a huge storefront or warehouse setting. Rather, this business has located its showroom in a quaint house-type setting. There, customers visit to “test-drive” a wide variety of organic mattresses that offer comfort but without the toxins that are so common in traditional bedding products. Not surprisingly, this type of setup requires a sign that is different from those used by the big box stores.
This is when the Sign Factory got a call for help. We visited TruSleep Organics to get a good feel for the location. We met with the company’s management team to discuss their vision for a new sign. After taking some measurements and looking at the artwork the store owners already had, we manufactured one of our dimensional letter building signs. Charlotte entrepreneurs frequently request these types of markers for upscale office buildings as well as for privately owned businesses that are not part of a national chain.
In addition, this is the kind of sign that blends in perfectly with the neighborhood. Nearby are Cast Iron Waffles and Dave’s Barber Shop. The Cedar Walk shopping center is the main draw. Thus, this sign just had to be different to not only fit in but also preserve the character of the area. We manufactured white dimensional letters. “Trusleep” is spelled out in bold while “Organics” is left in a standard font. The white letters are mounted to a black strip of shiny acrylic. This strip is then perfectly centered above the entryway.
The resulting look is modern, chic and grabs the attention with the bold white lettering against a black backdrop. Have you been thinking of adding new signage to your storefront? Perhaps you are ready to move out of your spare bedroom or garage, set up shop in a storefront and now need the signage to go with it? Our friendly professionals are ready to offer advice, industry insider knowledge and also uncompromising customer service.
When dimensional letters are not exactly what you are looking for, why not consider channel letters? They are mounted to a raceway or directly to the wall. We can shape these letters to imitate the look of your store name’s font such as you have used it on your website or stationery. These signs are made from sturdy aluminum, which neither disintegrates because of weathering nor falls victim to insect attacks. In the front-lit version of this signage, the fronts are made from colorful acrylics. At night, the light shines through the acrylic, which looks great.
Non-lit and halo-lit versions are also available. Another marker solution is the cabinet sign. It, too, comes as a lit or unlit product. The cabinet is usually fashioned from aluminum that holds a large acrylic front, which is then covered with a vinyl overlay. This overlay contains all the information that you want to see on your sign. If all of this sounds rather confusing, do not worry! Call our signage professionals for more information and to get started on your order.
The girls basketball team collected another win on Thursday January 25th against Amity-Bethany. The girls had an outstanding game with a score of 44-4 in Shelton's favor the entire game. The top scorers of the game where 8th graders Sophia A. with 13 points and Alexis R. with 11. The ...
So far this year, the SIS Cross Country team has been going strong. With the season begins in early September and ends right after States on November 4th. The boys’ record is 9-3 and the girls’ is 11-1.We talked to Scott Gura...
This is a report a SIS boys’ basketball team progress. First they have a new coach, Harold Zaccagnini, known to many as coach Zack. Coach Zack comes to us with 45 years of experience teaching basketball from elementary to High...
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Have you ever heard of Student Council Club? The Student Council is a full year club that is an integral part of student culture here at Shelton Intermediate.
Student Council promotes school unity. They manage events that happen in the school like The Bash, pumpkin painting contest, and wreath decorating. So if you ever wondered, who plans all these events, well now you know the answer. This club does community service and they show leadership in everything they do.
Every year the student council has a wreath decorating contest to celebrate Christmas and New Year coming. What happens in wreath decorating is that each team gets an average sized wreath and the kids in the team get to decorate it however they want. They can do whatever except trim the wreath. The judges then come around to each team and see what wreath is the best, just like the pumpkin decorating competition. When you win this contest, you can win a hot chocolate party!
So if you ever see anyone in the student council, say thanks for all their hard work towards these awesome school events!
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Framing for a greenhouse takes second billing to the material used as siding, but an unsuitable frame material can mean and unsteady frame that will never really be square. It is very hard to complete a greenhouse successfully unless the initial frame is properly built, and if you do get completed, you may later find that it has cracks and openings that are hard to seal against drafts and invasion from insects and small animals.
Some greenhouses are sold in kit form that won't give you any option for the framing materials, but if you are building a custom greenhouse, you do have the option of choosing the material you use for the frame structure. Here are things to consider with the four most common options for greenhouse framing: wood, aluminum, galvanized steel, and PVC pipe.
Wood is a beautiful material that makes for a classic greenhouse structure. But wood is somewhat impractical as the frame for a greenhouse unless the structure you are building is more like a sunroom or garden shed. Wood has good insulation value and is fairly easy to fabricate and assemble into a frame. But greenhouses are wet, damp spaces and most wood will eventually warp and rot under the ongoing presence of moisture that is always present in a greenhouse. If you do use wood, opt for a species with known resistance to moisture and rot, such as cedar or redwood. Or, use chemically treated wood designed for outdoor use. Whatever wood you use, applying a sealer every few years will extend its life.
Wood is a suitable material for a greenhouse that will use rigid glass or polycarbonate for its sun panels.
Aluminum is a very low-maintenance material—it doesn’t rust or break down from exposure to the elements. But aluminum is not very strong and when used for a greenhouse frame, the support members must either be made from heavy gauge pieces or doubled up for strength. Aluminum does, however, provide a good rigid form for glass or polycarbonate panels. Aluminum can be painted or anodized in any color you choose.
Galvanized steel provides durability at a low cost. Because steel is very strong, your greenhouse will require fewer framing members, which means that fewer shadows will be cast into the greenhouse. However, most steel frames are designed to be used with polyethylene film rather than solid glass or polycarbonate panels. Greenhouses with galvanized steel frames and polyethylene film covering are popular with commercial growers, but they are not particularly attractive in a residential setting. And a big negative for galvanized steel is that the galvanizing will eventually wear and the steel will rust.
PVC plastic pipes are low cost, lightweight (portable), and very easy to assemble. A frame made from plastic pipe is not as rigid as metal or wood, but the industry is addressing that designs that incorporate metal supports along with the PVC framing. PVC also has the advantage of allowing less heat loss than metal framing. Greenhouses with PVC frames almost always use polyethylene film for walls. These are usually smaller, hobby-type backyard greenhouses; plastic pipe does not work very well for a large greenhouse. Most hobby greenhouses sold in kits now come with PVC frames.
The biggest negative for PVC is that sunlight can eventually deteriorate it. But a PVC greenhouse that has pipes that are UV-protected should last at least 20 years; this is something to check when you purchase a PVC kit greenhouse. Another drawback is that the frame pipes must be large diameter in order to compensate for PVC's relative lack of strength, and the frame, therefore, casts more shadows than a metal frame.
If you've got ample floor space in your kitchen, it's not a bad idea to add a kitchen island. They can add 25% or more counter and cabinet space, give you more electrical outlets, and often more sink options.
But many homeowners get so caught up in the excitement of having a kitchen island that they end up oversizing it. The island visually overwhelms the kitchen's true work area.
Your island should be no more than 10% of the total square footage of your kitchen. Any more than that and the island will dominate the kitchen and make it difficult to maneuver. For example, the kitchen shown in the accompanying image is 10 feet by 13 feet (130 square feet). Its island is 4 feet by 7 feet (28 square feet). So, about 10% of the kitchen is used for the island.
Experiment by placing a table in the space for 2-3 days, and see how it feels. However, if you are planning to have large appliances or services (downdraft cooktop or a sink), bigger is definitely better.
Ever burned something while cooking? Then you know that if you have a stove, you need an exhaust. With an island, you do not have the usual option of an exhaust hood against the wall (with the vapors drawn straight out a hole in the wall). You have two choices, either up or down.
Up and Out: Higher-end stove installations in islands hang a hood over the stove, with the smoke being drawn straight up a tube and out of the house. Because of smoke and steam rise, the "up and out" overhead hood option tends to be the best from a functional standpoint. The downside is that you have a hood and vent in the middle of the room.
Down and Out: With some cooktops, a grate in the stove next to the burners sucks the smoke straight down, and then out of the house through the crawlspace.
"Out" is never an option, since most building codes require that residential kitchen exhaust be vented clear to the outside.
Think flexibility: pair a less-than-giant permanent kitchen island with a freestanding island. This allows you the massive island that you think you want, but with an "escape plan," if you should decide it's just too much.
Different Surfaces, Different Needs: Each surface provides a different value. For example, a freestanding island with a large butcher block, only for chopping meat and veggies, paired with a permanent island for mixing, using small appliances, and other prep work. The permanent island will typically give you two additional electrical outlets--a requirement based on the electrical code.
Cooks like having a cooktop stove on the kitchen island because it allows for increased working room. Also, centralized stoves make for a more social atmosphere, especially when bar chairs are added to the island.
However, think hard about whether you are ready to break your cooking area away from the perimeter. This across-aisle back and forth can frustrate some cooks who are accustomed to having a tight, unified sink-counter-stove work area.
For such cooks, the island cooktop is their secondary, overflow mode of cooking; the primary stove is located in the perimeter countertop area.
For island cooktops or stoves, electrical or gas lines must be brought up from the floor, through the crawlspace (or through the concrete slab, depending on your home).
Kitchen islands often eventually become less cooking areas and more repositories for stuff. Strange but true: the few extra feet needed to go from the main peripheral cooking counters to the island is often too much. It's just human nature.
But islands are great for holding stuff! Make the best of it by adding "smart space" in the form of drawers and shelved cabinet space, instead of giant, empty caverns where you have to stack pan upon pan.
The island in this photo (showing tile from Susan Jablon) has cabinets and drawers along its entire length on one side.
The My Body, My Rights is a global campaign was started by Amnesty International and it focuses on fighting the control and criminalization of sexual and reproductive rights.
The photo gallery featured brave individuals who took off all their clothes and adorned their bodies with quotes and captions. Each caption spoke to what the My Body, My Rights campaign meant to the model.
Mameera Uthayan, the Social Media and Promotions Coordinator for Amnesty, organized the pictures and the gallery.
“Amnesty International does this every year. I thought, ‘I love photography, I love capturing expressions and thoughts, just not through words.’ My Body, My Rights, is the best way as a feminist, especially a brown woman, to get myself out there. So I reached out to Amnesty to see if we can do this. I didn’t know if people would be comfortable with doing this, I didn’t even know if we could do it. But it turns out everyone was into it.”
The series was supported by Amnesty International: Laurier Brantford Chapter, Laurier Brantford: Human Rights and Human Diversity Student Association, Laurier Brantford Women’s Centre and the Sexual Assault Centre of Brant.
The co-president of Amnesty and treasurer of the Human Rights and Human Diversity Student Association (HRHD), Sinthu Vimaladasan, explained, “For the purpose of having the campaign at Laurier, we wanted to focus on our students. We decided to use My Body, My Rights to talk about consent on campus and sex work.”
Sinthu also posed as a model for the series and she focused on the concept of shadeism, also referred to as colorism.
“As a dark-skinned Tamil woman, I am perplexed by this colonial, classist, caste-based notion that the lighter you are, the more beautiful you are. It’s upsetting that our community, among others, views whiteness as a measure of beauty. It’s very unfortunate that shadeism is so rampant and is now a billion dollar industry on a global scale. Growing up, we are often told to avoid the sun or encouraged to use toxic skin-bleaching product and oh yes, frequently reminded that we’ll eventually get lighter in the winter. I think it’s time we take a second to acknowledge how discriminatory, backwards and plain stupid this is. All my coloured sisters and brothers, it’s time we celebrate all shades of melanin because I’m dark skin, I own it and y’all should too.”
Laura Favacho, who is the communications executive for HRHD and the events coordinator for Amnesty, candidly discussed the backlash for participating in the series.
“Personally, I didn’t get too much negative feedback, but my boyfriend did. One of his buddies messaged him and asked how he could be okay with me posting photos like that. My dad is not too happy but we don’t really talk about it. But for me, it’s too important to ignore the fact there is still rape culture around. And the fact that many women still feel so belittled all the time,” said Favacho.
For Dominique Benedetti, who identifies as a Genderqueer individual, deciding to do the photoshoot was a tough decision.
“My picture specifically talks about being trans. I was definitely concerned about doing the pictures because I haven’t been out for that long. And especially because this is not a conversation that we have a lot of experience facilitating on campus. It’s a specific experience. I think people might have seen my picture and been confused or they were uncomfortable or it was something they didn’t get,” explained Benedetti who is also the co-president of Amnesty and the co-president of HRHD.
“It was an amazing opportunity for people to share their stories and it was a very personable campaign. Students on campus could see that the issues we are talking about are very real, they are not things that happen in the outside world, whether it be sexual assault or racial discrimination. It was a chance for me to speak about my personal experiences and I thought it was a very positive campaign,” said Sharyne Williams who is the co-president of HRHD and the treasurer of Amnesty, found that the photo series was a great platform to start some discussions oriented around sex and race.
The campaign was well received by the Laurier population, with many students asking to be a part of the next photo series.
If you missed the photo gallery, the entire photo collection is available to view on the Facebook page of Amnesty International Laurier Brantford Chapter.
Ria Jones as the diva-like Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard at Leicester’s Curve. But have our panel had the pleasure of working with similarly ‘difficult’ types? Photo: Manuel Harlan
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Belk, from Lewisville High School in Richburg, was a four-star prospect a year ago and could join fellow true freshman defensive tackles Kingsley (J.J.) Enagbare and Rick Sandidge in playing this year for the Gamecocks. Enagbare is listed as a backup tackle on South Carolina’s depth chart this year, and Muschamp said he envisions Sandidge playing just as many snaps as Enagbare over the course of the season.
True freshman Jesus Gibbs also has been mentioned as a possible contributor this year by Muschamp, although Gibbs will miss several weeks because of a knee injury.
If Belk jumps into the rotation along with Enagbare and Sandidge, that will give South Carolina three true freshman defensive tackles playing significant snaps. That speaks well of recruiting efforts and bodes well for the future but might not be a good sign for the present.
The Gamecocks have only three veteran defensive tackles who they feel are ready to play quality minutes at the moment, starters Javon Kinlaw and Keir Thomas and top backup Kobe Smith. With M.J. Webb and Griffin Gentry unable to break into the regular rotation thus far in their careers, the true freshmen (and junior college transfer Jabari Ellis) could be next up for South Carolina. In a league where five to six tackles generally are needed for a rotation that can reasonably be expected to hold up an entire season, that’s not great news.
There’s also the question of Belk’s weight. Muschamp would not reveal the freshman’s weight last week, but the team’s media guide lists him at 359 pounds, 50 pounds heavier than he was in high school last year.
“We need to trim a little bit. We are working toward that,” Muschamp said. “It’s a process and you have to buy into that, and Josh has certainly welcomed the things we are trying to do.”
It comes a year after Javon Kinlaw dropped 40 pounds from his arrival on campus and grew into a starter for USC. Belk could find himself in a similar spot, playing sparingly early and seeing his role grow as the season goes on.
With the news coming this late, it’s not even clear if he got a rotation player’s level of practice work this week. He’s also at a position USC coaches have said is among the toughest for a young player to pick up.
Lewisville coach Will Mitchell told The State he’s confident Belk can drop enough weight to be a contributor this year.
“I am not concerned with that at all,” Mitchell said. “I think he’s probably a natural 310 kid. He’s just a big kid.”
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Knight Capital Group is to acquire Kellogg Capital Markets' designated and lead market maker businesses, which make markets in approximately 800 NYSE and NYSE Amex listed securities and 322 NYSE Arca exchange-traded funds.
Knight Capital Group is to acquire Kellogg Capital Markets’ designated and lead market maker businesses, which make markets in approximately 800 NYSE and NYSE Amex listed securities and 322 NYSE Arca exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
Knight says it anticipates assuming Kellogg’s responsibilities across its entire portfolio of NYSE-, NYSE Arca- and NYSE Amex-listed securities as well as Kellogg’s participation in the NYSE Amex Universal Trading Platform (UTP) programme.
The acquisition will build upon Knight’s electronic market making business by adding another venue in which to make markets. Kellogg’s Designated Market Maker (DMM) business will add to Knight’s current liquidity providing activities as a Supplemental Liquidity Provider on NYSE and a NYSE Amex UTP DMM. The addition of Kellogg’s ETF Lead Market Maker (LMM) business will be incremental to Knight’s electronic market making and institutional ETF sales and trading team.
“The Kellogg acquisition is a natural extension of two of our already successful businesses: electronic market making and ETF trading,” said Thomas Joyce, chairman and CEO of Knight Capital Group. “We are excited to further our partnership with the NYSE Euronext, a prominent global brand. We also look forward to continuing the strong and meaningful relationships that Kellogg has built with its listed companies.”
Kellogg Capital Markets is a subsidiary of Kellogg Group, a privately-held financial services organisation which also operates an institutional broker-dealer servicing customers across a range of securities and services.
Kirk Kellogg, chief executive officer of Kellogg Group, said, “Under Knight’s management, I am confident in the long-term success of our employees and our listed companies.”
The purchase price of the acquisition was not disclosed, and its successful conclusion is still subject to closing conditions and appropriate regulatory approvals. The acquisition is expected to complete in the fourth quarter of 2010. Upon its close the DMM and LMM businesses will become part of one of Knight’s operating subsidiaries.
Kellogg Capital Markets was named DMM for Knight Capital Group on 25 May 2010 and Charles Schwab on 5 March 2010.
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