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Where do you see the state of the nation come 2015?
I see it stabilising. The critical year for me like I said is 2019when Jonathan is on his way out. If the North do not support him now, they will lose the President’s support in 2019 and that may tilt things in favour of the South East politics. That would isolate the North and drive their political prospects deeper un...
Mandela pulled South Africa from the brink, what can be done for Nigeria?
Nigeria can move forward in leaps and bounds if they are given the right leadership. Mandela was a fighter and a defender of democracy but he was willing to speak with even his oppressors to move his country forward. This is what is lacking here in Nigeria. Selflessness. If we can get a few of them to hold on to this p...
President Donald Trump has opened the door for Democrats to win back the House of Representatives in 2018, Rep. Tim Ryan said Thursday morning, but “it’ll be very hard” to do with Nancy Pelosi in place as the party’s minority leader.
Ryan (D-Ohio), who mounted a failed challenge to unseat Pelosi as House minority leader last year, told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that his party has developed a “toxic” national brand that will increase the degree of difficulty for Democrats running to unseat incumbents in Republican districts. Already in the slate of spec...
“I think it will be very hard, Sam. I just -- you know, we can do it because it's Donald Trump, but I mean, you think, what if it was John Kasich? What if it was Marco Rubio? I mean, we would be in real trouble right now as a party, and we can't forget that fact,” Ryan responded when asked by “Morning Joe” panelist Sam...
Outside of a progressive economic message and being “tolerant and inclusive,” Ryan said Democrats must also be willing to tolerate some dissent from candidates running in deep-red districts on issues like gun control and abortion. Demanding ideological purity will only put Democrats at a disadvantage, he said.
Law & Order: SVU is taking on Duggar family drama in Wednesday’s episode and series star Ice-T gave ET a preview of what viewers can expect.
The episode centers on a fictitious mega-family who becomes famous for raising their kids in a "virtuous" lifestyle on reality television.
"All that stuff just makes me laugh," Ice-T told ET last week at Paley Center for Media’s Tribute to African-American Achievements in Television. "You know, 'cause it's loosely based off reality."
The episode, titled "Patrimonial Burden," shows scandal hitting the fictitious Duggar-inspired family, when one of their young teenage daughters becomes pregnant out of wedlock.
"They just use it as a starting point of the story," the TV star said of using the Duggars as inspiration. The reality family has been the source of real-life scandal all year, after news broke in May that eldest son Josh Duggar had molested five minor girls -- including two of his sisters -- as a teenager.
The molestation scandal led to the cancellation of the Duggar’s TLC reality show, 19 Kids and Counting, but later in the year, even more scandal hit the family when Josh was implicated in the Ashley Madison hack and admitted to being "unfaithful" to wife Anna.
"They can't go directly by the story, or you guys would know how it's gonna end!" Ice-T added of their Duggar-inspired ep. "So, we gotta twist it."
WATCH: 'Law and Order: SVU' Taking on the Duggar Family in a Scandalous New Episode!
respectively, in the results declared Monday.
The Congress won only five seats (a loss of six seats compared to 2013), BSP four, independents two while one seat went to SP. The Congress' performance is seen as a blow to Thorat and Vikhe Patil who, according to party insiders, are contenders for the post of chief minister, if the Congress forms government in Mahara...
According to sources, the failure of senior leaders to deliver has upset the Central leadership. "Results of the recently conducted Dhule and Ahmednagar civic body polls have seen a crushing defeat for the Congress and a growing influence of the BJP and AIMIM in the region", a Congress leader said.
"Ahmednagar saw a three-way fight among the Congress-NCP combine, the BJP and the Shiv Sena which is an indication of how alliances will shape up in Maharashtra the upcoming national and state elections", the leader said.
In the 74-member Dhule Municipal Corporation, the BJP bagged 50 seats, NCP 8, Congress 6 and Shiv Sena one. AIMIM won four seats, Samajwadi Party (SP) two seats and the Lok Sangram one seat. With an underwhelming performance by the Congress, the result of the Ahmednagar civic body is set to significantly impact the pol...
Ahmednagar has historically seen a tussle between factions led by Thorat and Vikhe Patil. While Thorat and Vikhe Patil toured the state together as part of the Congress' 'Jan Sangharsh Yatra', both were absent from election campaigning in the city. The NCP has been contesting from Ahmednagar from the last two decades. ...
Sujay Vikhe Patil had expressed his desire to contest the Ahmednagar Lok Sabha seat. However, Sharad Pawar is unlikely to hand over this seat to Vikhe Patil. Tambe had contested Ahmednagar assembly seat unsuccessfully in 2014 polls. "After he lost to NCP's Sangram Jagtap, Tambe has lost interest in the constituency and...
Before Ahmednagar, the Congress had suffered humiliating reverses in Sangli and Jalgaon polls.
The last civic body polls won by Congress was in Nanded municipal corporation, when the party swept 73 of 81 seats in a massive victory for party chief Ashok Chavan. This was a massive increase from the 2012 elections, where the tally was: Congress 41, Shiv Sena 14, AIMIM 11, NCP 10, independents 3 and BJP 2. Significa...
Moreover, the Congress restricted the BJP to just 6 seats and the Sena to 1 seat.
Chavan's ability to arrest the growth of the AIMIM in Nanded was seen as the major reason for the party's victory. The AIMIM has steadily eaten into the Congress vote share across Maharashtra, posing a significant threat in Marathwada and Vidarbha regions.
BOSTON, MA – On Friday, January 25, 2019, Boston Arts Academy (BAA), the city’s only public high school for the visual and performing arts presents, Memphis: The Musical at the Strand Theatre in Dorchester, 543 Columbia Road. A pre-show VIP reception at 5:30 p.m. hosted by BAA’s Advisory Council, will feature Congressw...
Based on real life disc jockey Dewey Phillips, one of the first white disc jockey’s to play black music in 1950s, Memphis: The Musical is the story of a young optimist who believes that music can transcend race and societal barriers in the midst of segregation in the Deep South. Aspiring singer Felicia Farrell, who is ...
For more information about BAA and Memphis: The Musical, January 25th-26th, visit https://bostonartsacademy.org or https://bostonartsacademy.org/memphis/.https://bostonartsacademy.org/memphisreception. For VIP tickets and reception information visit https://www.facebook.com/events/2124273734303763/ https://www.facebook...
Boston Arts Academy (BAA) is supported by Boston Arts Academy Foundation (BAAF) which is an independent 501(c) (3) non-profit organization, and raises 40% of the school’s budget from private philanthropic sources. BAA is Boston’s only public high school for the visual and performing arts. It provides a diverse student ...
It’s easy to forget the big picture when you report on a quarterly earnings. Apple has seen a tremendous year. With $156 billion in revenue representing 45 percent growth compared to 2011, and an incredible 61 percent increase of net income compared to 2011. But even more impressive, Apple now has $121.3 billion in cas...
Amazon’s market capitalization ticks at $100.77 billion today. And many of what you could consider big tech companies have a smaller market cap. Yahoo’s market cap is $19.68 billion, Facebook’s is $48.33 billion. And let’s not compare to Dell or HP who have a $16.03 billion and $27.90 billion market cap.
As long as Apple keeps generation such profits, there is no end to this cash pile. Three months ago, Apple had $117.2 billion in the bank (short term financial investments or equivalent).
Apple has been very shy when it comes to acquisitions. Over the years, it has only bought a handful of companies, including Lala, Chomp and Siri.
And of course, there are the funny comparisons. Beautiful buildings and monuments are cool, but let’s not stop there. As we’ve learned recently, a space station “only” costs around $100 billion. Space is the next frontier, right?
Home Secretary Amber Rudd’s recent speech to the Conservative Party conference on the future of the UK’s migration system was met with shock, incredulity and dismay across the tech community.
Despite the government’s subsequent but welcome U-turn on Rudd’s plan for companies to be publicly “named and shamed” for their proportion of foreign workers, tech bosses still believe the Home Secretary must think again on the tone and direction of skilled migration policy for Brexit Britain.
UK technology has been the shining economic success story of the last five years, with unprecedented growth from £120bn in 2010 to £180bn in 2015. While the decision to leave the European Union (EU) was not one the majority in tech wanted, there has been a spirit of rolling up our sleeves, of “keep calm and code on”.
We are already playing our role in seizing new opportunities and mitigating the challenges following the decision to leave the EU. The UK’s tech scene is relentlessly innovative and resilient and we will work with government on an approach to industrial strategy and international trade which builds on these strengths.
For a global Britain to chart its new path in the world, it must unashamedly support its competitive strengths in the digital economy. It is the brilliant people in the technology industry, from the UK, the EU and from around the world, who will make UK tech an ongoing success.
One in five startups is started by a migrant. More than half of the UK’s tech unicorns were started by someone born outside the UK. The recent Tech Nation report, produced by the government’s own Tech City UK initiative, showed that 19% of digital technology businesses source their talent from the EU, and 15% of tech b...
We have an opportunity to create a phenomenal wave of tech-led growth for the next decade, which will produce a rich and vibrant landscape of new, high-value jobs. We need to have new ambition to cultivate a domestic workforce that is prepared for the next wave of tech growth – from the widespread adoption of machine l...
The Prime Minister and the Home Secretary must now grasp that international tech talent will drive new domestic job creation in their vision for a global Britain. This is not an either/or choice.
The tech community understands the motivation to boost the domestic skills base, and this is something TechUK has been consistently calling for. The UK has the most pronounced digital skills shortage in Europe, costing the UK economy an estimated £63bn a year in lost GDP. In 2014, 93% of TechUK members said access to t...
Skills initiatives in the UK have, for TechUK members, fallen consistently short of industry needs. An estimated one million vacancies are projected to go unfilled by 2020. The government’s own expert Migration Advisory Committee has recognised we are woefully short of big data, cyber security and software developer ta...
The UK IT sector reacted with alarm, tempered by a calm pragmatism, to the British referendum verdict to leave the EU.
Industry watchers expect sterling’s position to remain weak against the US dollar after the Brexit vote, prompting speculation that US IT suppliers may increase prices.
The UK is already suffering from an IT skills crisis, so how will leaving the EU affect tech jobs now and in the future?
There have been positive steps, including the implementation of the new computing curriculum, which are helping to make that change, but they will take years to take effect. Tech leaders are looking at what more can be done, including making the apprenticeship levy work properly for the future needs of our economy.
TechUK members are taking steps to build the domestic skills base from becoming science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) ambassadors, and working with code clubs up and down the country through to company-based initiatives, such as Samsung’s Digital Schoolhouse and Google’s Digital Garage.
Ensuring the next steps on the UK’s migration policy work for tech will make or break delivery of the vision for a global Britain. Policy-makers must reject the idea that the public is not receptive to skilled migration in strategically important areas such as technology and the digital economy.
A recent report from British Future showed that just 12% of people want to cut the number of highly skilled workers coming to Britain.
A signifcant part of the current UK skills problems has arisen because the UK Tech industryhas failed to robustly support the Tech Partnership (and its predecessors e-Skills and the ITNTO, spawned by TechUK's grandparent, the CSSA) in getting the government funding agencies to support programmes that routinely provide ...
Most Tech companies have taken the view that it is easier to import talent that to get the funding agencies to give priority to employability over academic eligibility. I cannot blame blame them - but we are now living with the consequences.
Kinship drives culture, and cultural rules shape society.
This is quite easy for most to understand and accept, I hope.
Nations remain together, and belong together, because people believe, at some level, that they are a clan, a tribe, a family.
This belief is certainly being challenged today both in the United States and between the states of Europe.
But if the nation, however amazing and wondrous, is simply a collective human artifact, then the nation-state is a construct within a construct. The state, arguably, is even more dependent on conscious collective loyalty than is the nation, its mother.
Hence, explaining the need for the state to perpetuate myths.
This judgment has been proven throughout modernity—the epoch of the nation-state. Nations since 1789 have overturned state regimes and their establishments by the hundreds. Hence, it is understandable, even necessary, that the state accomplish three things to ensure its perpetuity.
First, it must cement the conviction that the nation and its state form a unitary body, which the state rules as the head (the caput), and the nation lives as the body: a true “body politic” that is necessary only to support the ruling life and thought of the head.
Second, the state must arrange the civic—even the daily personal life—of the nation so that it is always ritually and symbolically reminded in public display that the body serves the state’s sacred vision (again, the US Pledge of Allegiance is a prime example).
Finally, the state must seize constitutional power to claim the lives of its citizens in times of crisis, so that such authority over the body, however the idea is sold politically, is understood by all citizens to rest with the state.
There should be no doubt that the life of the state depends on the death of kinship and traditional culture; this is why the state works so hard to destroy it.
There will be something that holds society together beyond respect for property. Libertarians who avoid this avoid fundamental human nature; we have no choice on this matter. The only question that remains: what shall be that something?
I suggest kinship and culture. Legislation from afar and by strangers (if not enemies) has proven neither stable nor favorable toward peace.
Coffee-drinkers rejoice! Coffee giant Nespresso has this week signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Anglo-Australian metals and mining megalith Rio Tinto to use the world’s first responsibly-sourced aluminum for its coffee pods.
The coffee revolution is, to many people, far more important than any energy revolution they may or may not have heard about. Say goodbye to instant or plunger coffee, and don’t worry about those fussy, expert-level coffee machines that require a barista’s degree to operate to any degree of efficiency. Enjoy the taste ...
Or, so the advertising goes. No doubt there is an argument to be had — and, in all likelihood, I live in the home-town of the world’s snobbiest of coffee-snobs; Melbourne, Australia — as to the validity of the claims being made about the efficacy of the quality of coffee produced by the array of coffee pods now sweepin...
Good news, then, for those who occupy the Venn diagram of coffee-lovers and the environmentally conscious, as Swiss coffee giant Nespresso announced this week that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Anglo-Australian metals and mining behemoth Rio Tinto to begin using responsibly-sourced aluminum to ...
Specifically, the two leaders’ of their respective industries will work together with Nespresso’s capsule manufacturers to fulfill a commitment of sourcing 100% sustainable aluminum by 2020. The two companies will make use of the Certified Aluminium standard awarded by the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) — a glo...
Specifically, the ASI standard sets out ways to promote the protection of biodiversity, respect for indigenous people’s rights, water management, and low-carbon emissions during the production of aluminum. The ASI’s Chain of Custody Standard serves to build a traceability mechanism which provides end-users like Nespres...
What’s even more impressive is that the smelters in Canada who will be supplying the aluminum for Nespresso are powered 100% by hydropower, producing some of the highest-quality and lowest-carbon footprint aluminum in the world.
The move also serves to cement the companies’ positions as global leaders in sustainability.
David Gordon (left), Chief Corporate Officer with PharmaCielo, with the Mamo–the spiritual and medicinal leader of the Arhuacos people with whom PharmaCielo partners.
The role of Indigenous communities in Canada’s cannabis sector remains unclear and contentious. A senior executive at one global medical cannabis company believes the answer lies in reimagining the significance of the sector.
Is cannabis use really endorsed by the Bible?
That goal is mirrored in the relationships PharmaCielo has built with Indigenous communities in the country. Late last year, for example, the medical cannabis company announced that it has received a 500-year-old ancestral cannabis strain for its exclusive use from the Arhuaco Indigenous people. The company received th...
Such collaboration seems to be less common in Canada. Many Indigenous communities contend they have been excluded, perhaps deliberately, from discussions about the cannabis sector in this country, as noted in the discussion paper, Indigenous Peoples in Today’s Cannabis Industry. The day recreational cannabis became leg...
In its one-page statement, the council accuses Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government of rushing the implementation process and leaving the provinces, municipalities and First Nations communities scrambling to deal with details on the ground. In addition, it argues, First Nations communities have been excluded from revenu...
However, Health Canada is attempting to “create a path to integrate on-the-ground situations with the legal framework,” Todd Cain, director general of licensing and medical access of the cannabis legalization and regulation branch of Health Canada, told a recent Indigenous cannabis conference in Ottawa.
When Bill C-45, the Cannabis Act, was passed last summer, it spelled out a cost-sharing arrangement with the provinces that would give the federal government 25 percent of cannabis tax revenue.
Canada’s most populated First Nations is working to be actively and effectively engaged in the sector. The Six Nations Council has begun establishing a cannabis control process for the community and, ultimately, is looking to “develop a law that both promotes economic wealth while protecting the health and safety of ou...
That was apparent in February when an Indigenous cannabis conference was held in Ottawa. The foundation of the three-day event was the belief that involvement in the cannabis sector should have been part of the federal government’s reconciliation efforts with First Nations, the Ottawa Citizen noted in an article at the...
In response, Health Canada pointed to the Indigenous navigator system it established roughly a year ago to support Indigenous applicants through the licensing process for cannabis, as well as the visits the department has made to more than 100 Indigenous communities to discuss the issue.
For First Nations, involvement in the cannabis sector is a health issue and an economic issue. It is also fundamentally about self-determination. “The federal and provincial governments must recognize and respect First Nations sovereignty and jurisdiction over their reserves and traditional territories,” an article in ...
Indeed, cannabis business is well under way in many First Nations communities. In its news round-up, for example, the Dispensing Freedom website, focused on examining the relationship of Indigenous people to the cannabis plant, shares information about the Akwesasne Mohawk community on the St. Lawrence River near Cornw...
Seven Leaf, located in a former water bottling plant on Cornwall Island, is now planning to produce for the recreational market on and off-reserve.
Rama First Nation in Ontario and GrowForce Holdings Inc. have also announced a joint venture to bring cannabis production to Rama and the surrounding region. The partnership’s first major project will be the construction of a large-scale cannabis production facility that will create at least 100 permanent jobs for Rama...
LOOKING out from Mathabari, a village in northern Bangladesh, the landscape glints and ripples. Twenty years ago this was a rice-farming area, with fields of bright green. Now most of the land is covered with water. Carp, pangasius and tilapia swim in ponds separated by earth embankments. A few of the remaining patches...
Shohel Matsay Khamar was one of the first in Mathabari to start farming fish. Since 2002 he has gradually rented more land from rice farmers, amassing about 70 acres (28 hectares). His is a forward-looking fish farm, with electric paddle wheels to keep the water oxygenated. He has even built a feed mill to grind maize,...
Not only have Mr Khamar’s watery holdings expanded; he also gets more from each pond. He mostly farms pangasius, an unfussy silver-white fish, native to South-East Asia, which can breathe air. In the early years Mr Khamar would haul 20 tonnes from each acre of pond. Now, with better feed and cultivation methods, he get...
In 2016 Bangladesh’s farmers produced 2.2m tonnes of fish (see chart). That is more than its fishermen caught in the wild, and more than fish farmers produced in any other country except China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam. The domestic farmed-fish industry has doubled in size since 2008 and is 19 times bigger than it ...
Farming and cities are usually thought of as separate poles. Each has its own ministries and budgets; charities often deal with one or the other. But cities can transform farming. Urban consumers represent a huge, fast-growing market for food, which may well be larger than a country’s export markets (not to mention les...
The task of feeding that huge population has not been accomplished by the government, by charities or by foreign agricultural investors. It is the work of an army of ordinary Bangladeshis with an eye for making money. Mr Belton’s research shows that the number of fish-feed dealers in the main aquaculture areas more tha...
As well as transforming landscapes in a large radius around Dhaka, the fish boom has changed many people’s lives. Aquaculture requires about twice as much labour per acre as rice farming, and the demand is year-round. Many labourers who used to be paid by the day are now hired for months at a time. Seasonal hunger, whi...
The rock-bottom prices that so delight consumers make life hard for producers. The past year has been especially bad, partly because of flooding in northern Bangladesh, which drove up the cost of rice and left consumers with less money to spend on fish. Mr Khamar says he has been selling pangasius for between 65 takas ...
About two hours’ drive north of Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos, is a business called AOD Farms. It began in 2009 as an egg-producing operation with some 1,500 hens. But the residents of Ogere, the small town where the business was located, complained about the smell. So AOD Farms moved to the outskirts and started...

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