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Martinez invited Candelaria, who was pregnant at the time, and her girls, to live with her while they “got back on their feet” after Candelaria was laid off from the country club where the women worked together, she said. |
But after two months and a call to child protective services, Martinez asked Candelaria to leave. |
She said Candelaria would sleep until noon, leaving her daughters crying in their bedroom for food. |
Martinez started feeding the girls herself. She said she would cook dinner and the girls would ask for food and their mother would hit them for asking. |
Finally Martinez reported Candelaria and turned over videos of her yelling at the girls and hitting them. She also gave investigators pictures of the bedroom Candelaria and her girls shared, which she said was covered with dirty diapers with nowhere for the girls to walk. |
When authorities came to the house to investigate, Candelaria wasn’t home. She says they never came back. |
“To know this happened to a baby... it could have all been avoided if she had been provided with the help she needed,” Martinez said. |
“It’s disheartening to know the system is failing the way it is,” she said. |
April 22, 2019, 11:18 a.m. |
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The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority is defending its decision to spend $25,544 on a work trip for two of its staff. |
CERA deputy chief executive of communications, Mike Shatford, and CERA team leader for events and visits, Michael Henstock went on a trip to India and Sri Lanka last year as part of a trade mission led by Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy. |
Information obtained under the Official Information Act shows CERA spent $18,315 on airfares and $3504 on accommodation. |
In a statement the authority said the trip was an opportunity to build links with governments and companies in the two countries for the benefit of Christchurch. |
The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority has been quizzed about the lack of detail on Christchurch's planned convention centre. |
The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority is defending its decision to send two senior staff on a trade mission to India and Sri Lanka. |
About 100 staff at the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority today turned up to an afternoon tea to farewell former chief executive Roger Sutton. |
Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee has announced a board to oversee the transition of the recovery from central to local government. |
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has urged his team to gain a stranglehold in the top four during a run of winter games which he admits could define the club's season. |
The festive period proved fruitful for the Gunners last term as they beat Chelsea and drew with Manchester City, and this year, having climbed to fifth place, they face much easier opponents in the form of Wolves, QPR and Fulham. Nevertheless, Wenger knows a slip-up could cost Arsenal dearly as they are just two points... |
"We know we have an opportunity to gain a better position on the table. It's down to us to do our job," Wenger said. "In the Premier League the Christmas period is vital to get your points. We have responded well to our defeat at Man City with a win at Aston Villa, so now it's down to us to do the job at home and get t... |
He added: "Every game has its own difficulty, so what is important for us is to focus on our own game and perform well. |
"In the Premier League if you don't focus then you don't win, so let's focus on our next game and try to win it. |
"We have learned that you win only if you are at your best. That's the difficult (thing), to combine the Christmas period with focus." |
A London Underground strike has caused the Gunners to put the game against Mick McCarthy's team back by 24 hours. |
That means the Arsenal players will have Christmas Day off, but Wenger has warned his squad that they will face a tough task when they return to action at the Emirates Stadium two days later. |
"Wolves are a side that plays good football," Wenger said. "They always look dangerous going forward and they make it tough for everybody. They have the Mick McCarthy spirit and attitude, they never give up. |
"They play a very positive game, so we know what to expect. They fight to stay in the league and you know it is always an intense game against them. They are dangerous, of course, they make life difficult for everybody." |
A filmmaker is constantly in doubt. He or she has doubts about the script and whether it will be translated properly onto the screen? According to acclaimed filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi, such questions lead to creativity. |
He was in Panaji, Goa recently to participate in the 45th International Film Festival of India. His latest offering, Foreign Body, was showcased at the festival. |
The Polish filmmaker is a prolific artiste who has 79 films to his credit. It goes without saying that he has written many of them. The world took note of him when his Family Life (1970) won an award in Chicago. Thereafter, his fame and stature grew worldwide. |
What is the process of filmmaking like for him? Sometimes he finishes an entire script on a weekend. “It is like going down the hill. You cannot stop yourself. What is in the head must be put on the paper, that is the only thing in my mind,” Zanussi explains. He has finished 100 pages at a stretch. |
The ace director feels that he has to finish at least the draft first, changes and improvements may follow. Though the actual writing may take less time, the subject is at a corner of the mind for days or even years. |
“Sometimes it so happens that before you start writing, your ideas are clear about the film; but as the script nears completion, something different takes shape. That is why there is scope for revision and improvisation,” he says. However, Zanussi admits that unlike in his younger days, he is now open for suggestions f... |
Speaking about the inspirations for his films, the filmmaker says, “Any experience in life can be inspiring.” He studied physics and philosophy and turned to films later. His amateur films won him awards and that triggered the change of career. |
Zanussi emphasises that filmmaking is storytelling, so films should be wise. He feels that wisdom in art is essential. In his latest venture, Foreign Body, Zanussi has presented many view points which, at times, appear contradictory to each other; why so? Zanussi clarifies that he does not want to be a teacher. |
When you take sides or present a certain view point, you take upon the role of a teacher. He prefers the audience interpreting the film. According to him, he likes to present his perception of life. Zanussi teaches films though. He is professor of European Cinema at an institute in Switzerland. He also directs operas a... |
He started making films in the late 50s, but flourished in the 70s. At that time, Poland was ruled by communists. Censorship was heavy and ruthless. Even Zanussi had to fight with them. |
At times, his films had to bear the brunt of it, and Zanussi was forced to accept one or two cuts. But that, in his words, did not ‘ruin his films’. Today’s Poland is much better to work as a filmmaker, he admits. |
Zanussi is considered as an ‘auteur’ not because he has penned his films, but for the treatment he gives to the story. According to many film scholars and critics, Zanussi’s manipulation of scenes and visuals often stem not from the logic of the story, but the logical thinking of the author. |
In his works, Zanussi raises the perennial problem of love, death, happiness and conscience, looking at how they manifest themselves in the world today. Change (attitude wise, psychological) in human beings attracts him as a storyteller. |
Some unlucky investors like Dino Macaluso are feeling the double whammy of the market meltdown: They are watching their investment portfolios shrivel while college tuition payments loom, reports BusinessWeek. Macaluso, from Albany, N.Y., is considering a line of credit on his house to pay for his son’s college so that ... |
Chelsea's under-21 side will host League One club Portsmouth in the EFL Trophy third round, while Leicester's academy team will travel to Oldham. |
Leicester and Chelsea are the last of the 16 Premier League and Championship academy sides that entered the competition to remain. |
Elsewhere, Yeovil host their League Two and west country rivals Forest Green. |
League Two leaders Luton, the most prolific team in England's professional divisions, host Peterborough. |
The Hatters beat West Ham's under-21 side 4-0 to set up the third-round tie. |
Charlton, who got past Swansea's academy team, face Oxford in one of three all-League One fixtures, with Blackpool travelling to Shrewsbury and Fleetwood going to Bury. |
Meanwhile, Rochdale face League Two club Lincoln City. |
The third-round ties, split into northern and southern sections, are to be played during the week beginning 8 January 2018. |
To reach the last 16 of the competition, both Premier League academy sides from Chelsea and Leicester called on high-priced players. |
Michy Batshuayi, who cost Chelsea £33m when they signed him from Marseille in July 2016, scored twice in Wednesday's win over MK Dons, having faced Atletico Madrid in the Champions League the previous day. |
Nigeria striker Kelechi Iheanacho was one of a host of Premier League regulars in a Leicester line-up worth about £45m in transfer fees that beat Scunthorpe on Tuesday. |
The Supreme Court has listed 26 November 2013 as the next of hearing in the matter of 12 digit biometric unique identification (UID)/ Aadhaar number project. The Court in its order dated 23 September 2013 directed, “In the meanwhile, no person should suffer for not getting the Aadhaar card in spite of the fact that som... |
A Dalit activist who was one of the first 17 eminent citizens who issued the Statement of Concern against UID at a Press Conference at Press Club of India in New Delhi on 28 September 2010 said, "This project wants to fix our identities through time. Even after that we are dead. The information held about us will be fi... |
In a late but significant development, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on 1 November 2013 urged the central government to "seriously reconsider" its decision to make Aadhaar compulsory for getting subsidised cooking gas (LPG). She said, "There is a Supreme Court verdict that Aadhaar cannot be made compulsory... |
"I request the prime minister to take care or our party workers will lay siege to the Indian Oil Corporation office. It is an ‘attempt to cheat the people’…I am shocked to see this attitude. People are not beggars, why are they the sufferers?” she added. |
She also criticised central government agencies for ‘harassing people’. Memorandum of understanding (MoU) to implement UID/Aadhaar was signed with Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) when Communist Party of India (Marxist)—CPI(M) was in power in West Bengal. In effect, both Trinamool Congress (TMC) of Mama... |
Earlier, on 29 September 2013, Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa wrote a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to stop the linking of cooking gas subsidy to the Aadhaar number. The chief minister highlighted the need for the states to be consulted before launch of any ambitious scheme if the central government... |
Sadly, legal minds in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu have not informed these chief ministers that it is not a question of being voluntary or mandatory. It is a question of the grave ramifications of illegal and illegitimate biometric Aadhaar number which is quite well documented. |
Kerala’s leader of the opposition VS Achuthanandan from CPI (M) has asked the government to drop the ‘Aadhaar' project on 26 August 2011. He noted that fingerprints and other biometric information of citizens were being collected under the project violated provisions of the Citizenship Act of 1955 and Citizenship Rules... |
The state government, which was pushing ahead with the project in Kerala, appeared little worried about the serious concerns being expressed the world over about the implications of the UID project for citizen's right to privacy and security. It must be noted that Achuthanandan as the chief minister of Kerala, launched... |
But in Tripura, where CPI (M) rules, this belated wisdom seems to await the time when chief minister Manik Sarkar will be in opposition. Tripura was the first state in the northeast and the eighth in India where the Aadhaar scheme was launched on 2 December 2010. Tripura secured top position in the country in implement... |
"We would take up the matter with the CBI and the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) to examine whether any misdeeds occurred in spending the central funds meant for 'Aadhaar' scheme," he said. |
Tripura’s rural development minister Jitendra Chowdhury quoted a communiqué of the union rural development ministry in the state assembly saying, "The central government, at a function in New Delhi recently awarded Tripura and other well performing states in implementation of the Aadhaar scheme." One does not know whet... |
CPI (M)’s position on Aadhaar/UID that has been articulated so far appears to be exactly the same which has been voiced by TMC and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) despite their sharp differences on the issue of illegal immigrants. It merits rigorous attention as to how ‘migrant workers’ and ‘illegal immigrants’ are beginn... |
When the MoU by National Coalition of Organisations for Security of Migrant Workers (NCOSMW) with UIDAI was criticized, the proceedings of the first general body summit of the NCOSMW convened in Bhopal on 26th and 27 November 2010 hosted by Samarthan-Centre for Development Support admitted "One of the triggers for crea... |
Not only them even Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has revealed his position by launching biometric e-Shakti initiative in Bihar. It is turning Biharis into guinea pigs for biometric technology companies. In the name of ‘Financial Inclusion’, what is unfolding is surveillance of transactions, mobility and every aspec... |
State governments must apply their legal minds to abandon biometric data collection the way it has been done in UK, USA, France, China and Australia before it is compelled by the Court to do so. There is a compelling logic to reject those parties which implicitly or explicitly support tracking, profiling, databasing an... |
It is clear that Bihar being taken in that non-democratic route through such biometric identification. The multi-party Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) on Finance comprised of Yashwant Sinha, Shivkumar Udasi Chanabasappa, Jayant Chaudhary, Harishchandra Deoram Chavan, Bhakta Charan Das, Gurudas Dasgupta, Nishikan... |
Under the influence of biometric technology companies, Bihar Government is creating a situation where if you do not have the biometric smart card you may not get the right to have rights. The project in questions is being implemented by a consortium consisting of Smaarftech Technologies Pvt Ltd. Partners in the e-Shakt... |
On 22 October 2013, BJP vice president Smriti Irani said, “The reality is that the National Identification Authority of India Bill, 2010, which gives sanction to this particular card, was rejected by the Standing Committee on Finance”. |
Quite like CPI (M), TMC and JD (U), she failed to announce that since Aadhaar violates constitutional rights and has been rejected by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, BJP ruled states will not implement it and if her party comes to power it will scrap it. |
All claims of benefits from biometric identification are highly suspect. How can the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance that questioned government’s right to collect biometric data be ignored in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Bihar and in all the other states. The collection of sensitive biome... |
registration of birth, marriage and death, employers (current, past and prospective), banks, credit card companies, insurance companies, telephone service provider, television service provider, internet service provider, internet services (email, video, social media, search engine, chat, voice, file-storage and transfe... |
personnel since British rule till now, also for access and attendance now), Planning Commission of India (for access and attendance), census office (for compulsory NPR), Passport, RTO (for driving license), insurance companies, IT, BPO and healthcare companies (for access and attendance), visa of US and UK etc. Aadhaar... |
Looks like the PR of UIDAI is on a hit job. |
BTW...do you even understand, the basic issue in India is demand and supply gap. People are deprived the benefits not because of lack of identity but because middlemen rob the benefits meant for them. You and your UIDAI is just the new shady middleman, in this demand and supply scenario and nothing more!! |
Some privacy champions raise the privacy issue which is irrelevant in a poor country like India where about 750 million people starve for 2-square meal, where illiteracy is high, where religion & caste-based-bias continues, rampant corruption & exploitation exists. They forget that India has a law called Information Te... |
Privacy issues & risks equally apply to data collected by census office, passport office (with biometric), driving license, PAN card, employers (current, past & prospective employers with or without biometric), schools, US & UK visa (with biometric) etc. |
15. Ineligible people will not be able to misuse certificates of income, domicile and caste to deprive the eligibles. |
I hope ML does not become militant and use unethical means to stop aadhaar project. Agree with TIHARwale.... gone bonkers is the right word. LoL. |
Why nobody is filing CONTEMPT OF COURT suit against all these agencies demanding Adhar card? |
Besides the theoretical violation of citizen's privacy what other violation is pointed out against AADHAR by this article? The article is not focused. From the observation of the 'standing committee' it appears that they have a doubt (not certain - but only a doubt) whether the notification issued for the implementatio... |
author has gone bonkers. ML is wasting space to this man. what he is trying to prove. definitely pilferage will get reduced it cannot increase because AAdhaar is implemented. |
What is the answer to the question you asked in your article title? |
Why opposition ruled states are playing partner for biometric UID? |
I find many paragraphs describing how certain states have oppose Aadhaar? |
But that is not the core subject of the article. |
Is it a coincidence that Lyon, France based INTERPOL, world’s largest police organisation too has called for global electronic identity (e-ID) card system? Does this not constitute “illegitimate advances of the state” because the state is complicit in it? |
Increasingly biometrics and e-Identity co-exist. Capt P Raghu Raman, chief executive of National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID), Union Ministry of Home Affairs, says, "the NATGRID is not an organisation, but a tool". It simply routes “information from 21 data sources to 10 user agencies ... it is like a Google of such dat... |
When asked about the qualification of CEO of NATGRID, the process for appointment of CEO, names and headquarters of the companies and government entities from which the data would be uploaded in the NATGRID and the names of the various government agencies that would have an access with NATGRID database under RTI Act, t... |
Notably, when asked whether Council of Union Ministers’ have got themselves enrolled for UID number, UIDAI denied the information under RTI application stating that it is third party information. There is nothing on record to show that the promoters of biometric identification like Pranab Mukherjee, LK Advani, Nandan N... |
Responding to the direction issued to the Union of India and Union Territory of Chandigarh by Punjab and Haryana High Court in the matter of Civil Writ Petition 569 of 2013 filed in the High Court against Union of India and others, the Executive Order for making Unique Identification (UID)/Aadhaar has been withdrawn. I... |
It is quite bizarre that Union Territory of Chandigarh remains ignorant of the fact that UID is not a card, it is a 12-digit number. The entire government machinery is hiding the fact that fundamentally UID is not a proof of identity, it is an identifier contained in the Central Identities Data Repository (CIDR) of UID... |
i) Issue a writ in the nature of certiorari to quash Executive order dated 5 December 2012 passed by respondent no.3 passed in violation of Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 and Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989 vide which UID has been mandatory for the registration of vehicles and grant of learner/ regular driving license. |
iv) a writ in the nature of certiorari quashing notification dated 28 January 2009 being illegal and further issuance of a appropriate writ declaring the Unique Identification Authority of India constituted vide Notification dated 28 January 2009 unconstitutional as the same has no legal sanctity as the UIDAI been cons... |
The writ petition had emphasised that during the pendency of the petition, Executive order dated 5 December 2012 and other similar executive orders vide which Aadhaar have been made compulsory for essential public utility services may kindly be stayed. |
It is noteworthy that Indian National Congress led Government’s budget speech of 2013 announced that “We are redoubling our efforts to ensure that the digitized beneficiary lists are available; that a bank account is opened for each beneficiary; and that the bank account is seeded with Aadhaar in due course.” In the li... |
By it is somewhat well known that UID number and UID number generating NPR is based on biometric and retinal profile procured from Indians. This is the most repulsive aspect of the project. Any biometric profile directly violates the very dignity and privacy of Indians which is guaranteed by the Indian Constitution. |
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