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The Tissa De Silva Trust donates laboratory equipment to the National Hospital Colombo
In the midst of challenging times and depleting resources, The Tissa De Silva Trust recently made a generous donation of sophisticated laboratory equipment valued at LKR 13 million required to function a state of the art PCR laboratory to the National Hospital of Colombo.
The Tissa De Silva Trust was initiated in 1993 and works towards sponsoring the education of under privileged children, providing infrastructure to schools, aiding improvements to rural accessibility, and funding healthcare. Mr. Tissa De Silva left his estate for charity, particularly to improve the lives of the poor and marginalized sections of society, and is the youngest son of philanthropists Sir Ernest De Silva and Lady Evadne De Silva.
Initial discussion between the board of trustees and Senior Consultant Cardiologist of the National Hospital Dr. Nimali Fernando were centered around the donation of equipment used by the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at NHSL Colombo. However, given the escalating situation in the country surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, both parties came to an agreement that the need of the hour is this much needed PCR laboratory to treat patients safely, as well as to provide a safe environment for health care workers. Therefore, a decision was made to donate essential equipment for this purpose. Furthermore, the resources would also be used in the testing process of other viruses such as dengue and influenza where annual cases in Sri Lanka remains high.
The laboratory was officially declared open on the 12th of January in a ribbon cutting ceremony by Deputy Director General Health Services of the National Hospital Dr. Kumara Wickremasinghe and Oshan Senanayake of the Tissa De Silva Trust, followed by the plaque being unveiled by Dhevan Peiris of the Tissa De Silva Trust. Documents with details pertaining to the donation were also handed over to the Minister of Health Hon. Pavithra Wanniarachchi at the Ministry of Health premises.
In appreciation of the efforts, Dr. Nimali Fernando states, “We are thankful to the Tissa De Silva Trust for such a generous and timely donation. In trying times like these, the hospital requires any and all support that can be extended towards our operations and the new equipment will greatly assist in the efficient treatment of our patients.”
Speaking on the matter, Suranjan Perera of the board of trustees states, “We at the Trust are grateful that we are able to make a valuable donation in these challenging and uncertain times. The donation of the lab furthers Mr. Tissa De Silva’s goal of improving the lives of the less fortunate and is in line with the Trust’s future focus. We hope that the donation will prove to be useful for the operations of the National Hospital and contribute towards overcoming this pandemic.”
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Britain's Surrender
Category: Islam
By Stephen Brown
FrontPageMagazine.com
The place where Winston Churchill once so eloquently and forcefully rallied the British people to defeat the Nazi threat is now under siege from a new tyranny.
Islamic intimidation achieved a new high last week when it forced the British Parliament, one of Western civilization's most venerable institutions, to quietly surrender its most basic of freedoms.
Almost unreported in the Western media, including Britain’s, a Muslim member of the House of Lords, Nazir Ahmed, showed the advanced state of Britain’s dhimmitude when he threatened to mobilize 10,000 fellow Muslims to block Dutch parliamentarian and filmmaker, Geert Wilders, from entering Westminster. Wilders had been invited by another House of Lords member to show his controversial film, Fitna, last Thursday in a Westminster conference room. Invitations had been sent to all House members to attend the screening that was to be followed "by discussion and debate in true parliamentary fashion."
But Baron Ahmed, who was born in Pakistan and raised in Britain, forgetting he is part of a liberal democratic system that cherishes freedom of expression and association, reacted with familiar jihadi-style tactics to Wilders’ announced appearance. Along with his threat to mobilize 10,000 demonstrators to block Wilders’ path, it was reported Ahmed also intended to sue the House of Lords member who had invited the Dutch politician.
However, that all proved unnecessary.
After Ahmed and representatives of several British Muslim organizations met with the leader of the House of Lords and its chief whip, the Wilders visit was cancelled and British democracy suffered a crushing defeat. And while the British elites and media may have wanted to keep the British people in the dark regarding the scale of this debacle, Ahmed had no qualms about publicising it. Labelling it what it truly is, Ahmed told Pakistani media outlets that the British parliament’s retreat was "a victory for the Muslim community."
Lord Ahmed, a Labour Party member, was appointed to the House of Lords in 1998 and, according to British law, is a peer for life. He is the first Muslim lord in the modern era and second in British parliamentary history. A predecessor, Baron Stanley of Alderley, had converted to Islam in 1862. Ahmed’s appointment was made possible when Prime Minister Tony Blair, in a major constitutional maneuver, "reformed" the House of Lords in 1999, abolishing all hereditary peerages
Regarded as a "moderate" Muslim, Ahmed led the first British government-sponsored delegation on a Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. He has opposed international terrorism, women wearing the veil and forced marriages in Britain. Risking his personal safety, Ahmed has also supported the expulsion of violent Islamic radicals from Great Britain.
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The Founders: Death and Taxes
by admin on Aug.01, 2011, under Current, History
The impetus to form a new government to replace the Confederacy was born, majorly, from the fact that the Continental Congress had no power to levy taxes. There were, no doubt, other reasons that are easily demonstrated, but the one that reverberated with those who served through the Revolutionary War both in arms and in Congress was that of direct revenue. The situation near the end of the war echoes eerily today as the states engaged in a war that The Congress was in want of tax revenue to pay for and the debts incurred to do so, both foreign and domestic, threatened to destroy that which so much blood was spilled to gain.
It wasn’t only the money owed in loans, but also that owned in salary to the very soldiers who fought so gallantly and with such self-sacrifice that some worried they would be thrown into debtor’s prison upon their discharge. The salaries weren’t even the worst of it. The soldiers were often starved and froze with no blankets which many of them had to cut up to make clothes. During the winter, their marches could be followed by the bloody footprints in the snow since they often went without even shoes.
Many images of Valley Forge depict a desolate place were the rank and file starved in the dark of winter. However, in reality, the area of Pennsylvania where they were in camp was some of the most fertile soil in the states. The problem wasn’t the availability of food; it was the lack of funds. The farmers sold their goods to the British who were occupying Philadelphia since they paid in Pound Sterling while Washington’s army had only worthless script and I.O.U.s to offer. At one point Washington had to order Alexander Hamilton to take men out to take horses and supplies from the residents in the surrounding area. This was done with tact and records were kept of what was commandeered, however, it was a fretful action in the midst of a war for liberty.
For a time Congress was permitted to print currency but as faith in that currency fell, inflation ran to the extreme and it was rendered effectually worthless. In March 1780, Madison wrote to Jefferson that “Our army, threatened with an immediate alternative of disbanding or living on free quarter; the public treasury empty; public credit exhausted,…”. Once this point was reached, without the ability to directly raise revenue, the Congress could no longer fund the war, though perhaps they never actually had that ability at all.
With soldiers going months without pay even at the end of hostilities with French gold flowing in and loans from other nations secured. Tensions rose and with them fears as Congress’ promises of pensions and empty rhetoric was falling on deaf ears. In 1783, in Newburgh, NY, officers of the Continental Army gathered to discuss a mutiny against Congress. It even seems evident that Hamilton himself played a part in its organization.
When Washington learned of the conspiracy, he addressed the officers in an effort to put an end to it, but his words seemed to have little effect at least until the very end of his speech. In a scene that demonstrates well Washington’s amazing abilities, he paused to find his glasses saying “Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country.”
This stopped the conspiracy, though it wasn’t the end of the story as the rank and file near Philadelphia took to arms and actually marched on Congress in the summer of the same year. At the 11th hour, Congress was forced to flee with temporary homes found in New Jersey, Maryland, and finally New York.
These and other events drove the Founding Parents to build “a more perfect union”, and the power to levy taxes was at the forefront of the reasons for its construction. As to the tax schemes, flat or otherwise, I turn to America’s First Citizen, Benjamin Franklin. In his Autobiography he wrote “…, but insisting more particularly on the inequality of this six-shilling tax of the constables, respecting the circumstances of those who paid it, since a poor widow housekeeper, all whose property to be guarded by the watch did not perhaps exceed the value of fifty pounds, paid as much as the wealthiest merchant, who had thousands of pounds worth of goods in his stores…. a more equitable way of supporting the charge the levying a tax that should be proportion’d to the property”
“…These public quarrels were all at bottom owing to the proprietaries, our hereditary governors, who, when any expense was to be incurred for the defense of their province, with incredible meanness instructed their deputies to pass no act for levying the necessary taxes, unless their vast estates were in the same act expressly excused…”
And on the preparations for defense in the French-English war…
“But the governor refusing his assent to their bill (which included this with other sums granted for the use of the crown), unless a clause were inserted exempting the proprietary estate from bearing any part of the tax that would be necessary, the Assembly, tho’ very desirous of making their grant to New England effectual, were at a loss how to accomplish it. ”
The most amazing result of their efforts, to my mind, is that, in the end, 13 sovereign states essentially capitulated to a newly formed government with the only battles being those of words, logic, and reason. In a time when greed and corruption was as rampant in the legislature as it is today, Hamilton, who is regarded as the father of the United States economy, wrote to Robert Morris that government should regulate trade “so that ‘injurious branches of commerce might be discouraged, favourable branches encouraged, [and] useful products and manufactures promoted.”
What I think is to often quoted without a full understanding is that The Constitution endows the only real power within the people. At that time, the public was largely uneducated and interstate communication was primitive so the delegates to the Constitutional Convention could be forgiven for falling to the notion that only the “landowners” were capable of holding office. Some were even prescient like Elbridge Gerry who said “The people do not want virtue; but are the dupes of pretended patriots. In Massts. it has been fully confirmed by experience that they are daily misled into the most baneful measures and opinions by the false reports circulated by designing men, and which no one on the spot can refute…” Though he was speaking against Democracy, his words served to illustrate a risk that the delegates failed to successfully mitigate.
It was a meritocracy that let a son of a shoe maker and an poor orphan from the St. Croix to join the ranks of the builders of a great nation. Although the framers worked to defeat the notion of monarchy and aristocracy, they failed to firmly set the meritocracy. Through campaign law reform, perhaps we can continue their work in forming a government which will ensure a more perfect union and keep the people as the only true sovereign.
*A Note on Sources: I have not provided sources here as I have come across the events retold again and again in the many volumes I’ve read on the founding of the nation. This reading includes multiple biographies and autobiographies on all of the founders as well as some of their correspondence, general histories, and even both volumes of James Madison’s Journal from the Federal Convention in their entirety.
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Fox News, The Post, at the Founding of the Nation
by admin on Oct.28, 2010, under History
The news media today crawls in the sludge of partisan attacks and dirty laundry from which it seems incapable to rise above. The current trend towards ruthless, and very often baseless, assertions goes well beyond reason and no doubt furthers the media’s descent into pure propaganda. The stories include:
“The treasury secretary is an aristocratic tool of the rich, using his office to further the financial gain of his powerful friends at the expense of the common man …” “The former president traded sexual favors from the wife of the candidate to secure votes…” “The president, described as a “hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman” plans to name himself king and groom his son as his heir…”
This would seem enough to cause Abigail Adams, a leading figure in the American Revolution to call for a censure on the freedom of the press. As a matter of fact, it did, as the”hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman” was none other than her husband, a hero of our nation’s founding; John Adams.
These claims were actually made in the press at the time immediately following the founding of the United States, and were, of course, untrue. The treasury secretary was Alexander Hamilton. The purported pimp of a candidate’s wife for votes was Thomas Jefferson1; the claim supposedly coming from John Randolph, a congressman from Virginia. And this was not the half of it. James Callender, came in from England, aided by Jefferson in establishing himself in the U.S., became the source of tabloid style, political attacks thrown in any direction which opposed the current source of his paychecks. He even attacked Mr. Jefferson when he refused to give him a government job.
Abigail actually wrote to Jefferson in 1804 stating; “In no country has calumny, falshood[sic], and revileing[sic] stalked abroad more licentiously, than in this. No political character has been secure from its attacks, no reputation so fair, as not to be counted by it, until truth and falshood[sic] lie in one undistinctioned heap”.
The attacks were not just tabloid style, but fear mongering just as we would find in the media today. For example, Alexander Hamilton, writing under a pseudonym attacked Jefferson and his party; “Hence it is, in the present moment, we see the most industrious efforts made to violate the Constitution of this State, to trample upon the rights of the subject, and to chicane or infringe the most solemn obligations of treaty; while dispassionate and upright men almost totally neglect the means of counteracting these dangerous attempts.”
In 1798 John Adams received the what became known as the Alien and Sedition acts. All accounts I’ve read had Abigail Adams encouraging the president to sign the acts into law. Of interest here is the 4th act which made a high misdemeanor “false, scandalous, or malicious writing”. However, this one act is often sited as a major cause of his failure to win reelection in 1800. The new congress that followed repealed the acts and the newly elected president Thomas Jefferson, the man who made efforts to “trample upon the rights of the subject [the people]” pardoned all those imprisoned under the act.
So where does this leave us today? Are Fox News and it’s less bombastic counterparts on “the left” off the hook given that the tradition of often baseless and even seditious political attacks in the media date back to the nations founding? Does the fact that Hamilton and Jefferson directly employed and encouraged these practices lend them merit?
In my opinion… no. Madison wrote “A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.” Further, “Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.” In essence, a well educated and informed populace is required, and to understand their work, we must understand these people and the times in which they lived. Jefferson wrote that ““Information is the currency of democracy” and “Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”
In the words of these two men we find what I read to be the caveat in the core pillar of our system of government. Government of the people, by the people, and for the people cannot be carried out effectively if the people are not well informed and do not prize education. Any source that intentionally distorts the truth or circulates out right falsehood as truth for some political goal is, in my opinion, acting to subvert the true sovereign recognized by the consensus of the founders; the people. Do I agree with Abigail and the Sedition Act, no. But warning labels are used on many products to alert people about the contents, perhaps the same can be applied to the media. *Warning*: the following program may contain material presented as factual and unbiased, when actually the exact opposite is true. People are advised to seek other sources before reaching any conclusions.
And it goes further… What if Hamilton and Jefferson had put aside their anger and sat down together as Washington had requested in letters to both men? What if the politicians in the North and those in the South set out with the only goal being to work for ends of mutual benefit instead of slashing and burning and the near constant threats to secede from or dissolve the union?
And today, when we honestly ask who among us wants “big government breathing down our necks”, spending our money with reckless, let alone money borrowed from not-necessarily-friendly powers. I would wager no one would raise their hands. I would think no one wants high taxes… no one wants our rights trampled.
However, with fear running high, and anger and hatred stoked We The People will never sit down and safely debate the salient questions. In my opinion, the people involved in creating this country committed an act of historic greatness indeed, but that does not render their every act great, or even the best choice. Perhaps its time we relegated these worthless practices, that are at once injurious to those people and to the nation itself, to the magazines on the supermarket check-out racks. If we don’t I fear that we will never come together as “We the People” and ensure that the guards we appoint for our security are actually concerned with it.
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Encyclopedia > Musical genre
Musical genre
Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common.
Some genres, such as Indian music, are geographically defined; others, like Baroque music, are largely defined by chronology. Still others, such as barbershop, are defined by quite precise technical requirements. Some genres, however, are quite vague, and may be contrived by critics; post-rock, for example, is a term devised and defined by Simon Reynolds[?].
To some extent, all attempts to categorise music will have a degree of artificiality to them, because musicians tend to produce music in any style they choose, without concerning themselves with which genre they are working in. Some people feel that the categorization of music into genres is worse than useless. John Zorn, for example, a musician whose work has covered a wide range of genres, wrote in Arcana: musicians on music that genres are tools used to "commodify and commercialize an artist's complex personal vision", implying that oftentimes, genres represent efforts at marketing rather than actual musical distinctions. Other artists feel that it is the artist's fault themselves for making a body of work that can be put into a shared class easily with others.
Dividing music by genre is still widely done, however, making it easier to trace threads through music history, and increasing the ease with which individuals find artists that they enjoy.
1 Related Lists
2 Overview of Main Groupings
2.1 Country music
2.2 Soul music
2.3 Punk music
2.4 Reggae & Dub
2.5 Rock and roll
2.6 Hip hop
2.7 Techno
2.8 Outside Electronica
To track down information about a specific genre see the following lists:
List of musical genres
List of musicians by genre
Overview of Main Groupings
Although there are many individual genres, it is possible to group these together into a number of overlapping major groupings. The rest of this page attempts to do that for a number of widely agreed areas.
These definitions should be kept relatively short and simple, referring to further articles as needed.
Country music is usually used to refer to honky tonk today. Emerging in the 1930s in the United States, honky tonk country was strongly influenced by the blues, as well as jug bands (which can not be properly called honky tonk). In the 1950s, country achieved great mainstream success by adding elements of rock and roll; this was called rockabilly. In addition, Western swing[?] added influences from swing and bluegrass emerged as a largely underground phenomenon. Later in the decade, the Nashville sound, a highly polished form of country music, became very popular. In reaction to this, harder-edged, gritty musicians sprung up in Bakersfield, California, inventing the Bakersfield sound. Merle Haggard and similar artists brought the Bakersfield sound to mainstream audiences in the 1960s, while Nashville started churning out countrypolitan. During the 1970s, the most popular genre was outlaw country[?], a heavily rock-influenced style. The late 1980s saw the Urban Cowboys[?] bring about an influx of pop-oriented stars during the 1990s. Modern bluegrass music has remained mostly traditional, though progressive bluegrass[?] and close harmony[?] groups do exist, and the sound is the primary basis for jam bands like the Grateful Dead.
Soul emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s as an outgrowth of gospel and rock and roll. It was immediately popular, and splintered in many disparate genres, including blue eyed soul[?] (performed by white musicians), brown eyed soul[?] (performed by Latino musicians), Motown (Detroit-based Motown Records), southern soul[?] and swamp pop[?]. Boy bands and girl groups were also popular, primarily as teen idols playing an extremely watered-down version of soul called bubblegum pop. In the latter part of the decade, several regional styles emerged -- Chicago[?], Memphis[?], Philadelphia[?] and St. Louis soul[?] were extremely popular. Musicians like James Brown also started adding greater rock influences, forming funk, while Smokey Robinson and others helped invent Quiet Storm[?] in the 1970s. Until the late 1990s, New Jack Swing[?] was extremely popular among mainstream audiences. In the middle of the decade, a new breed of 70s-oriented soul singers emerged, including Lauryn Hill and D'Angelo; this is called nu soul.
The term "punk music" can only rarely be applied uncontroversially. Perhaps the only bands always considered "punk" are the first wave of punk bands, such as the Clash and the Ramones. Before this, however, a series of underground musicians helped define the music throughout the 1970s -- see Forerunners of punk music. After 70s ended, punk had evolved into several genres which can be grouped into three categories -- hardcore, New Wave and alternative rock.
Hardcore punk music kept the raw, visceral energy of the original punk bands. In the 1980s, reggae influences resulted in a fusion called ska punk, while another group of party bands became known as oi. During the 1990s, some more styles emerged, including straight edge, and queercore[?], based around subcultures -- straight edge and homosexuals, respectively. Psychobilly (see also cow punk[?]) also emerged, fusing punk with rockabilly and other kinds of country music. In addition, emo (or emocore) had appeared by the 90s, characterized by slower beats, dreamy vocals and angst-ridden lyrics.
New Wave was the most popular genre of punk music, dominating the charts during the early 1980s. Varieties included Neue Deutsche Welle[?], synth pop, dream pop and the New Romantics. Of these, the most popular was synth pop, though the most critically accepted groups were the underground dream pop bands. In the 1980s, dream pop evolved into many of the most popular genres of the 1990s. This occurred primarily in Britain, with styles like jangle pop[?] (and the Paisley Underground[?]) and noise pop[?] (and, later, twee pop, shoegazing). All of these styles (along with psychedelic music) contributed to the popular emergence of Britpop in the middle of the decade.
Keeping the anti-corporate stance of punk music, alternative rock is a broad grouping, referring to multiple styles. The earliest genres were noise pop[?], post-rock and Gothic rock. These bands were unable to break into the mainstream, though they influenced many of the 1980s' most popular groups. By the end of the decade, post rock had developed into math rock, while other genres like Riot Grrl[?], slowcore[?] (aka sadcore or shoegaze) and grunge music. During the early 1990s, grunge music broke into the mainstream in a big way. With "alternative" now mainstream, other bands began referring to themselves as indie rock.
In Jamaica during the 1950s, American R&B was most popular, though mento[?] (a form of folk music) was more common in rural areas. A fusion of the two styles, along with soca and other genres, formed ska, an extremely popular form of music intended for dancing. In the 1960s, reggae and dub emerged from ska and American rock and roll.
Starting the late 1960s, a rock-influenced form of music began developing -- this was called rocksteady. With some folk influences (both Jamaican and American), and the growing urban popularity of Rastafarianism, rocksteady evolved into what is now known as roots reggae. In the 1970s, a style called Lovers rock became popular primarily in the United Kingdom by British performers of ballad-oriented reggae music.
Dub emerged in Jamaica when sound system DJs began taking away the vocals from songs so that people could dance to the beat alone. Soon, pioneers like King Tubby and Lee Scratch Perry began adding new vocals over the old beats; the lyrics were rhythmic and rhyme-heavy. After the popularity of reggae died down in the early 1980s, derivatives of dub dominated the Jamaican charts. These included ragga and dancehall, both of which remained popular in Jamaica alone until the mainstream breakthrough of American gangsta rap (which evolved out of dub musicians like DJ Kool Herc moving to American cities). Ragga especially now has many devoted followers throughout the world.
Rock and roll is a confusing term with multiple definitions. It can be used strictly, referring to very little music recorded after the early 1960s, or broadly, to refer to almost all popular music recorded since the early 1950s. It arose from multiple genres in the late 1940s, most importantly the jump blues. It was first popularized by performers like Bill Haley and Elvis Presley, who fused the sound with country music, resulting in rockabilly. In addition, gospel music and a related genre, R&B (rhythm and blues), emerged later in the decade. R&B soon became on of the most popular genres, with girl groups, garage rock and surf rock most popular in the US, while harder, more blues-oriented musicians became popular in the UK, which soon developed into British blues, merseybeat, mod and skiffle. Starting the mid-1960s, a group of British bands that played variations on American R&B-influenced blues became popular on both sides of the Atlantic -- the British Invasion, a catchall term for multiple genres. These groups, including the Beatles, fused the earlier sounds with Appalachian folk music[?], forming folk rock, as well as a variety of less-popular genres, including the soon-to-be dominant singer-songwriter tradition. Early heavy metal and punk rock bands formed in this period, though these genres did not emerge as such for several years. The most popular genre of the British Invasion was psychedelic music, which slowly morphed into bluegrass-influenced jam bands like The Grateful Dead and ornate, classically-influenced progressive rock bands. Merseybeat and mod groups like The Yardbirds and The Who soon evolved into hard rock, which, in the early 1970s specialized into a gritty sound called glam rock, as well as a mostly underground phenomenon called power pop. In the early to mid-1970s, singer-songwriters and pop musicians dominated the charts, though punk rock and krautrock[?] also developed, and some success was achieved by southern rock and roots rock[?] performers, which fused modern techniques with a more traditionalist sound.
Hip hop began in inner cities in the US in the 1970s. The earliest recordings, primarily from the early 1980s, are now referred to as old school rap. In the later part of the decade, regional styles developed. East Coast rap, based out of New York City, was by far the most popular as rap began to break into the mainstream. West Coast rap, based out of Los Angeles, was by far less popular until 1992, when Dr. Dre's The Chronic revolutioned the West Coast sound, using slow, stoned, lazy beats in what came to be called G Funk. Soon after, a host of other regional styles became popular, most notably Southern rap, based out of Atlanta and New Orleans, primarily. Atlanta based performers like OutKast soon developed their own distinct sound, which came to be known as Dirty South[?]. As hip hop became more popular in the mid-1990s, alternative rap gained in popularity among critics and long-time fans of the music.
De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising (1989) was perhaps the first "alternative rap" blockbuster, and helped develop a specific style called jazz rap, characterized by the use of live instrumentation and/or jazz samples. Other less popular forms of hip hop include various non-American varieties; Japan[?], Britain[?], Mexico, Sweden[?], France, Germany, Italy and Turkey have vibrant hip hop communities. In Puerto Rico, a style called reggaeton[?] is popular. Electro hip hop[?] was invented in the 1980s, but is distinctly different from most old school hip hop (as is go go, another old style). Some other genres have been created by fusing hip hop with techno (trip hop) and heavy metal (rapcore). In the late 1980s, Miami's hip hop scene was characterized by bass-heavy grooves designed for dancing -- Miami bass music. There are also rappers with Christian themes in the lyrics -- this is Christian hip hop.
Although many artists in the 50s and 60s created pure electronic music with pop structures, fully formed techno as we know it today really emerged in 1977 with Giorgio Moroder's From Here to Eternity album. Originally techno referred to disco made with fully electronic instruments. Now techno has become a word for one of the many subgenres of electronic music. These include trance music (with a distinct style of instrumentation and focused on more complex chord progressions and melodies), goa trance (spawning from industrial music and tribal dance, focusing on creating psychedelic sound effects within the songs), house (the name for the original idea of techno, a fully electronic disco music, acid house (a genre of house featuring the Roland 303 synthesizer or others with Resonance/Cutoff control), Deep House[?], (a very specific subset of house music, featuring heavy use of the cutoff filter on musical samples), Big Beat (a later genre of techno which features much higher production quality and complexity as opposed to the more minimalist aesthetic of other techno subgenres. This was popularized by bands such as Prodigy and The Chemical Brothers), Jungle (an offshoot of reggae and techno, utilizing quick tempos with sampled break beats, most notably the amen break[?] and the funky drummer[?]), Gabber, (a Dutch development on techno, which features extremely high tempos and lots of overdrive and distortion on the music, especially the base drum being distorted into a square wave tone), Happy Hardcore[?], (a more palatable version of Gabber, fusing elements of drum and bass as well), techno, (the name techno itself has been used to describe a modern subgenre, namely a very minimalist version of the original techno, usually without melody and with very little progression through the song). This type of techno, as well as many other genres and records, is often composed to fit easily into a live DJ set.
Most of these genres are constantly being broken down into further subgenres, with varying degrees of destinctiveness.
Outside Electronica
Electronic Music that does not fall into the techno or dance categories are often referred to as "left-field," "outside" or "electroacoustic." These styles include Ambient, Downtempo[?], Illbient and Trip-hop (among countless others), which are all related in that they usually rely more on their atmospheric qualities than techno, and make use of slower, more subtle tempos, sometimes excluding rhythm completely.
IDM (an achronym for Intelligent Dance Music) is an elusive and confusing genre classification that can only be truly defined by flagbearers and flagburners like Aphex Twin and Autechre.
All electronic music owes at least its historical existence to early pioneers of tape experiments known as Musique concrete, as well as experimental synthesists like John Cage and Stockhausen[?].
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June 1 is the final qualifying hurdle of minimum eligibility requirement of, essentially, two scores of 66% for combinations nominated by national federations.
Both team and individual places have been previously reported. As confirmed by the FEI:
Teams–Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, United States.
Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Finland, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland, Ukraine.
The number of nations competing in dressage will be 30, up from 25 at the Rio Games in 2016.
Dressage competition at Tokyo is scheduled for July 25-29.
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Salem mod Danmark, sagsnummer 77036/11
Afgørelse af 01/12/2016
Ikke krænkelse af EMRK artikel 8, da udlænding blev udvist som følge af dom for alvorlig kriminalitet, uagtet klager havde kone og 8 børn i landet.
Sagen omhandlede den statsløse palæstinenser med libanesiske rødder Mahmoud Kalil Salem, i medierne omtalt som “Fiz Fiz” (herefter benævnt klager), som ved Højesterets dom (6 mod 1) blev udvist af Danmark med indrejseforbud for bestandig, idet var var blevet fundet skyldig i bl. a. handel med euforiserende stoffer under skærpende omstændigheder. Det fremgik bl. a. af sagen, at klager i 1993 i en alder af 23 år indrejste i Danmark, hvor han blev gift med en dansk statsborger, med hvilken han fik 8 børn med dansk statsborgerskab. Klager blev i 2000 tildelt asyl. Klager havde ingen anden familie i Danmark. I 2010 blev klager ved byretten fundet skyldig i bl. a. handel med euforiserende stoffer under skærpende omstændigheder, vold, afpresning mm. Byretten idømte klager 5 års ubetinget fængsel og betinget udvisning af Danmark. Klager ankede sagen til landsretten, som idømte klager 6 års ubetinget fængsel og stadfæstede den betingede udvisning. Anklagemyndigheden ankede afgørelsen om betinget udvisning til Højesteret. I Højesteret blev fremlagt oplysninger vedr. klagers ophold og tilknytning til Danmark. Heraf fremgik det bl. a. klagers børn havde alvorlige indlæringsproblemer, psykiske vanskeligheder og generelt var meget socialt belastede. Videre fremgik, at klager og klagers kone flere gange havde været i Syrien, hvor de i 2009-2010 angiveligt påtænkte at købe en lejlighed, og at der fra klagers telefon i husstanden i en periode på 5 måneder var registreret ikke mindre end 967 opkald til udenlandske telefonnumre – hovedsageligt til Syrien og Libanon. Endvidere fremgik, at i en 5-årig periode havde klagers kone og børn og klager selv overført pengesummer til personer i Libanon og Syrien. Højesterets flertal (6 mod 1) ændrede landsrettens afgørelse og udviste klager med indrejseforbud for bestandig. Flertallet analyserede sagen i lyset af praksis fra Den Europæiske Menneskerettighedsdomstol og lagde navnlig vægt på, at klager var dømt for handel med euforiserende stoffer under skærpende omstændigheder, hvor klager havde en ledende rolle ifm. sagen. Endvidere fremhævede Højesteret, at klager, der havde været i Danmark siden 1993, fortsat havde begrænsede danskkundskaber og således ikke havde integreret sig i samfundet, hvor han hverken havde haft forbindelse til arbejdsmarkedet eller taget en uddannelse. Yderligere fremhævdede flertallet, at klager og hele hans familie talte arabisk, og at klager stadig havde forbindelse til Libanon og Syrien, hvor han havde familie.
For Den Europæiske Menneskerettighedsdomstol (herefter EMD) påstod klager, at udvisningen udgjorde en krænkelse af Den Europæiske Menneskerettighedskonventions artikel 8 (herefter EMRK), og gjorde til støtte herfor navnlig gældende, at hans ret til familieliv med sine børn ville lide skade, skulle klager blive udvist af Danmark.
EMD udtalte indledningsvist, at medlemsstaten inden for sine forpligtelser i henhold til internationale konventioner har ret til at bestemme, hvorvidt udlændinge kan tage ophold eller udvises af landet. EMRK garanterer hverken indrejse eller ophold i en given medlemsstat, men et indgreb i et individs familieliv vil udgøre en krænkelse af EMRK artikel 8, medmindre det er i overensstemmelse med bestemmelsens stk. 2, hvorefter indgrebet skal være i overensstemmelse med national ret, forfølge et lovligt formål og ikke udgøre et uproportionalt indgrebet (“nødvendigt i et demokratisk samfund”). EMD fremhævede i præmis 64, hvilke kriterier, der indgår i proportionalitetsvurderingen: Alvoren af den idømte kriminalitet, længden af den dømtes ophold i landet, hvor lang tid siden kriminaliteten er begået og den dømtes opførsel i denne periode, de involverede personers nationalitet, den dømtes familiesituation (fx oplysninger om ægteskabet), hvorvidt ægtefællen havde viden om den idømte kriminalitet, hvorvidt der er børn i ægteskabet (navnlig børnenes alder), alvoren af de vanskeligeheder ægtefællen vil møde i landet der udvises til, børnenes tarv i denne forbindelse, og endelig den dømtes kulturelle og familiemæssige bånd til landet der udvises til.
EMD konstaterede, at Højesteret i det væsentlige havde foretaget en sådan afvejning, og EMD fandt, at der alene manglede at blive taget stilling til alvoren af de vanskeligheder børnene – under hensyn til deres alder – ville møde i landet der udvises til. EMD udtalte i denne forbindelse, at der er bred konsensus om, at børnenes tarv skal tillægges betydelig vægt i denne afvejning. EMD fremhævede, at der i klagers sag, hvor klagers 8 børn på daværende tidspunkt var i alderen 5 til 16 år, angiveligt ikke ville kunne klare sig uden for Danmark. I lyset af sagens oplysninger, herunder om børnenes massive sociale problemer, udtalte EMD, at det dog måtte anses for tvivlsomt, om klager havde spillet nogen central rolle i familielivet, og at børnenes tarv var blevet påvirket negativt som følge af klagers udvisning. Yderligere bemærkede EMD, at klager ikke havde peget på, hvorledes børnene var forhindret i at besøge deres far i Libanon eller i øvrigt holde kontakten med ham via telefon eller internet. EMD konkluderede, at Højesteret havde foretaget en tilfredsstillende afvejning af interesserne i sagen, hvor klager var dømt for alvorlig kriminalitet. Dette set i lyset af medlemsstaternes suverænitet og ret til inden for deres territorium at regulere udlændinges ophold, konkluderede EMD enstemmigt, at der ikke forelå en krænkelse af EMRK artikel 8.
__________Dommen (engelsk)___________
CASE OF SALEM v. DENMARK
(Application no. 77036/11)
This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 § 2 of the Convention. It may be subject to editorial revision.
In the case of Salem v. Denmark,
The European Court of Human Rights (Second Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of:
Işıl Karakaş, President,
Julia Laffranque, ad hoc judge,
Paul Lemmens,
Valeriu Griţco,
Ksenija Turković,
Stéphanie Mourou-Vikström,
Georges Ravarani, judges,
and Hasan Bakırcı, Deputy Section Registrar,
Having deliberated in private on 8 November 2016, delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date:
1. The case originated in an application (no. 77036/11) against the Kingdom of Denmark lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by a stateless Palestinian from Lebanon, Mr Mahmoud Kalil Salem (“the applicant”), on 13 December 2011.
2. The applicant was represented by Mr Michael Juul Eriksen, a lawyer practising in Denmark. The Danish Government (“the Government”) were represented by their former Agent, Mr Jonas Bering Liisberg, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and their Co-agent Mrs Nina Holst‑Christensen, of the Ministry of Justice.
3. The applicant alleged that it would be in breach of Article 8 of the Convention to expel him from Denmark.
4. On 2 October 2013 the complaint under Article 8 was communicated to the Government and the remainder of the application was declared inadmissible pursuant to Rule 54 § 3 of the Rules of Court.
I. THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE CASE
5. The applicant was born in 1969 in Lebanon.
6. On 12 January 1993, at the age of 23, he entered Denmark and requested asylum, which was refused by a final decision of 31 October 1994.
7. On 17 November 1994 he applied for a residence permit based on his marriage to a Danish national of Lebanese origin. She had entered Denmark as a child in 1985. His request was granted temporarily, until August 1996. Subsequently it was granted permanently. In 2000 he was also granted asylum under section 7 of the Aliens Act (Udlændingloven).
8. The couple have eight children, all Danish nationals, who at the beginning of 2010 were 14, 13, 12, 10, 9, 7, 6 and 4 years old, respectively.
9. The applicant never went to school in Lebanon and he has never had a job, either in Lebanon or in Denmark. In Denmark he received social benefits until 16 November 2004, when he was granted an early retirement pension by the State due to his poor health: he suffered in particular from post-traumatic stress disorder. His wife was granted an early retirement pension due to back problems.
10. The applicant speaks and understands Danish but he cannot read or write the language. He also speaks and understands Arabic, but cannot read or write it. The same applies to his wife. They speak Arabic between themselves and with their children.
11. The applicant’s wife has eighteen siblings living in Denmark.
12. The applicant has no other family in Denmark. His mother and sister live in Lebanon. He also has a sister in Syria.
13. The applicant has a criminal record which includes, inter alia, a conviction in 2000 for grave disturbance of public order and a suspended sentence of twenty days’ imprisonment, a conviction in June 2005 sentencing him to twenty days for committing violence against a public servant in the performance of his office, and a conviction in February 2007 for the same kind of offence, for which he was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment.
14. On 9 September 2009 the applicant was arrested and detained on remand charged with, inter alia, various counts of drug trafficking and dealing.
15. By a judgment of 10 June 2010 the City Court in Odense (retten i Odense) found him guilty, in part jointly with others, of 18 counts of offences including drug trafficking and drug dealing contrary to Article 191 of the Criminal Code with regard to a significant amount of hashish (more than 100 kg in total, in addition to an attempt to import a large supply from Holland) and an attempt to buy 200 g of cocaine, all committed in the period from 2006 until 9 September 2009. In addition he was convicted of coercion by violence and threats, blackmail, theft, handling stolen property, escaping while under arrest and possession of weapons.
16. When sentencing the applicant to five years’ imprisonment the City Court took into account, in particular, the significant amount of hashish and cocaine; that the latter was a “hard drug”; the huge profit that the applicant had obtained from the resale; the long period concerned; the applicant’s absolute leading role, notably in relation to the drug dealers under him, whom he had subjected to violence and threats; and that as a member of a gang, he had delivered hashish for resale to various towns in the region. It was also noted that the applicant had previous convictions. Finally, the sentence was determined partially as a supplementary penalty because some of the offences had been committed before the applicant’s previous conviction.
17. The amount of 404,500 Danish kroner (DKK), equivalent to approximately 54,000 euros (EUR), and gold jewellery found in the applicant’s home during a search were confiscated as profit from the crimes. It was noted that the applicant and his wife, who both received State benefits and who, when calculating their expenses, apparently had a deficit in their household budget for 2007, 2008 and 2009 amounting to a total of at least DKK 2.5 million (approximately EUR 335,600) could not substantiate that they had obtained the goods legally. For example, the applicant’s wife denied knowledge of a receipt dated 20 October 2008 for 255.6 g of gold jewellery bought in her name in Dubai for DKK 43,000.
18. Moreover, pursuant to section 24b of the Aliens Act, the City Court ordered the applicant’s expulsion, suspended and with two years’ probation. The City Court noted that the seriousness of the crimes spoke heavily for his expulsion without suspension, but having regard to his wife, who stated that she could not follow her husband to Lebanon, and his eight children in the country, the court did not find that there was sufficient basis for an unsuspended expulsion order.
19. On appeal, by a judgment of 30 March 2011 the conviction was upheld in part by the High Court of Eastern Denmark (Østre Landsret) and the sentence was increased to six years’ imprisonment due notably to the nature and quantity of the drugs, the extent of the drug offences committed and the applicant’s leading role. By three votes to three, with the more beneficial outcome in the applicant’s favour, the expulsion order remained suspended.
20. The public prosecution appealed to the Supreme Court (Højesteret) against the judgment as regards the suspended expulsion order. New evidence was adduced in this respect, notably as regards the applicant’s and his wife’s ties to Denmark, Lebanon and Syria. They were both heard.
21. The applicant explained that he had been in Lebanon for thirty days during the summer of 2009. He had no contacts there but his mother and sister. His other sister lived with her husband and their five children in a refugee camp in Syria. He had stayed there for twenty or twenty-two days during the summer of 2007, for fourteen days during the summer of 2008 and for sixteen days in December 2008.
22. The applicant’s wife and children had been to Syria two or three times in 2009 to visit the applicant’s sister there. Since the applicant’s arrest in September 2009, she and the children had spent one and a half months in Syria in 2010, and two months in 2011. During the spring of 2011 she had gone alone to Syria for seven or ten days because the sister had fallen ill.
23. During the summer of 2009 the applicant began negotiations to buy an apartment in Syria because his wife and children went there quite often. He also wanted to buy a shop in the same building. Twice he transferred money via Western Union to his sister to buy the apartment, but it was given up when he was arrested.
24. The applicant’s wife stated that she could not follow her husband if he were expelled to Lebanon or Syria. She and the children would not be able to stand living in either of those countries, and the children could not live outside Denmark.
25. Statements obtained from the Children’s Department at the municipality and the children’s schools and day-care institutions recounted that several of the eight children had serious problems, including of a psychological and educational nature. Four of the children received special education and several of the children needed extra support and supervision in their schools and institutions. Massive public support measures had been provided due to a significant need to teach them normal social behaviour. Finally, the placement of some of the sons in public care was under consideration.
26. According to a police report of 9 August 2011, based on interceptions carried out during the criminal proceedings against the applicant, it was established that in the period from 21 April 2009 to 10 September 2009, thus a period of less than 5 months, there had been nine hundred and sixty‑seven calls to and from overseas numbers on the applicant’s and his wife’s home telephone. These concerned eighty different foreign telephone numbers, including thirty-eight in Lebanon and nine in Syria. To the numbers in Lebanon there had been in total four hundred and thirty-three calls, and to the numbers in Syria there had been three hundred and six calls. The applicant explained in this connection that the calls to Lebanon had mainly been to people from Denmark who had been on vacation in Lebanon and that the calls to Syria had been to his sister. The applicant’s wife explained that she often talked to her sister-in-law in Syria. She also had family in Lebanon. Nevertheless she did have difficulties understanding why there had been calls to thirty-eight different numbers in Lebanon.
27. According to a police report of 18 August 2011, it appeared that in the period from 18 January 2006 to 15 June 2011 the applicant, his wife and their children had made various transfers of money to Syria and Lebanon. Sixteen of those concerned a total of DKK 71,471 and were made in the applicant’s name. After the applicant’s arrest in September 2009, his wife had transferred money to the applicant’s sisters in Lebanon and Syria.
28. In its judgment of 12 October 2011, by a majority of six votes to one, the Supreme Court decided to expel the applicant with a life-long ban on his return.
29. It observed that the applicant had been convicted of drug trafficking offences under Article 191 of the Penal Code and attempt thereof on five counts for 59.5 kg of hashish for resale (count 53a); 23 kg for resale (count 56); not less than 15 kg for resale (count 58); entering a deal to buy 200 g of cocaine for resale, which failed (count 60); and an attempt to smuggle in a large amount of hashish from Holland, which failed (count 61). He had also been convicted of offences under the Stimulants Act for having possessed and transferred not less than 10.6 kg of hashish, which failed as to 6 kg (count 59); and for having possessed 1.632 kg of hashish for resale.
30. In addition he was convicted of coercion by use of violence or threats of violence (counts 54 and 57a); extortion (count 57); theft (count 64); six counts of handling stolen goods (counts 66, 67, 68, 69, 70 and 71); under the Act on Weapons (count 65); and under Article 124 of the Penal Code for having fled as a detainee (count 74).
31. The Supreme Court went on to analyse the case in the light of the Court’s case-law, notably Maslov v. Austria [GC], no.1638/03, ECHR 2008 and took the following into account.
32. The applicant was a stateless Palestinian who had entered Denmark in 1993 at the age of 23. He had been sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for comprehensive and organised resale of large amounts of hashish, for attempting to buy 200 g of cocaine, and for attempting to smuggle in hashish. Moreover, the drug trafficking had taken place over more than two and a half years and the applicant had had a leading and central role.
33. In addition he had committed coercion by use of violence or threat of violence against his drug dealers to maintain them as sellers and against clients who could not pay for the drugs. He claimed to have been among the top five members of the “Black Ghost” gang in Odense. He had also been convicted of extortion for having demanded so-called “protection‑money” for “Black Ghost”. Moreover, he had previously been convicted under Article 119 of the Penal Code for violence against a public servant and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment.
34. The Supreme Court also emphasised that although the applicant had been in Denmark since 1993, he was not well integrated into Danish society and he had limited Danish language skills. He had no ties to Denmark via work or education. He had been receiving State early retirement pension since 2004.
35. The applicant’s spouse was a Danish citizen. She was born a Palestinian national and had lived briefly in Lebanon, arriving in Denmark at the age of nine. The couple’s children, who at the relevant time were between five and sixteen years old, were also Danish citizens. They were born in Denmark and went to school and institutions in the country.
36. The applicant and his family spoke Arabic.
37. The Supreme Court further noted that the applicant still had ties to Lebanon, where his mother and sister lived and where the applicant had lived until he entered Denmark at the age of 23. He also had ties to Syria, where a sister and her family lived, and where the applicant had stayed for three weeks in 2007, for four weeks in 2008, and in 2009. Before his arrest, the applicant had set about buying an apartment in Syria for the family to use during stays there.
38. The applicant’s spouse had family in Lebanon. Moreover, she had regular contact with the applicant’s sister and family in Syria, and she had spent several vacations there, for instance in 2008 and 2009 as well as one and a half months in 2010 and two months in 2011. She had eighteen siblings in Denmark. She had stated that she would be unable to follow the applicant if he were deported from Denmark to Lebanon or Syria, and that the children would not manage outside Denmark.
39. The majority of six judges concluded: “[the applicant] has had a leading and central role in the commission of persistent, organised and aggravated drug crimes. Despite regard for his spouse and children in Denmark, we therefore find that he should be expelled with a permanent ban on his entry, see section 32, subsection 2 (V), of the Aliens Act.”
40. The minority of one judge found “As found by the majority, [the applicant] is guilty of drug offences of particular gravity. However, I find that regard for his eight minor children makes expulsion conclusively inappropriate, see section 26, subsection 2, of the Aliens Act.”
41. On 11 January 2012 the applicant was convicted for having possessed a mobile phone while in prison. He was sentenced to imprisonment for seven days.
42. It transpires from the Danish Civil Registration System that the applicant and his wife divorced with effect from 21 November 2012.
43. According to the Prison and Probation Service, the applicant had served two-thirds of his sentence on 22 September 2013.
44. In the meantime, on 13 August 2013, the National Police had submitted the applicant’s case to the Danish Immigration Service (Udlændingestyrelsen) for a decision as to whether, upon return, the applicant would risk treatment as described in section 31 of the Aliens Act.
45. Having found, inter alia, that the applicant would not be at risk of being subjected to the death penalty, or to torture, or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment upon return, on 11 July 2014 the Danish Immigration Service found that the applicant could be returned to Lebanon. That decision was upheld on appeal on 19 November 2014 by the Refugee Appeals Board (Flygtningenævnet).
46. The applicant’s request that the Court apply Rule 39 of the Rules of Court was refused on 23 December 2014 by the Acting President of the Second Section.
47. It appears that the applicant was deported to Lebanon shortly thereafter.
II. RELEVANT DOMESTIC LAW AND PRACTICE
48. The relevant provisions of the Penal Code applicable at the time read as follows:
“(1) Any person who, contrary to the legislation on controlled substances, delivers a controlled substance to multiple individuals or for significant value or in other particularly aggravating circumstances is sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years. If the substance delivered is a considerable quantity of a particularly dangerous or harmful substance, or if the delivery transaction has otherwise been of a particularly dangerous nature, the sentence may increase to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 16 years.
(2) The same penalty is imposed on any person who imports, exports, purchases, transfers, receives, produces, processes or possesses any such substance contrary to the legislation on controlled substances with intent to deliver the substance as referred to in subsection (I), produce light, heat, power or movement or for other economic purposes is comparable to tangible property.”
49. The relevant provisions of the Aliens Act (udlændingeloven) applicable at the time and relating to the initial court decision on expulsion read as follows:
“(1) When an alien is convicted of an offence, the court shall decide in its judgment, upon the public prosecutor’s claim, whether the alien will be expelled pursuant to sections 22-24 or section 25c or be sentenced to suspended expulsion pursuant to section 24b. If the judgment stipulates expulsion, the judgment must state the period of the re-entry ban, see section 32(I) to (4).
“(1) An alien who has been lawfully resident in Denmark for more than the last 9 years and an alien issued with a residence permit under section 7 or section 8(1) or (2) who has been lawfully resident in Denmark for more than the last 8 years may be expelled if:
(iv) the alien is sentenced, pursuant to the Act on Controlled Substances or section 191 or 290 of the Penal Code, to imprisonment or other criminal sanction involving or allowing deprivation of liberty for an offence that would have resulted in a punishment of this nature, provided that the proceeds were obtained by violation of the Act on Controlled Substances or section 191 of the Penal Code;
“(1) In deciding on expulsion by judgment, particularly under section 22 (1)(iv) to (vii), it must be emphasised whether expulsion is deemed particularly necessary because:
(i) of the gravity of the offence committed;
(ii) of the length of the custodial sentence imposed;
(iii) of the danger, damage, harm or infringement involved in the offence committed;
(iv) of prior criminal convictions.”
Section 24b
“(1) An alien may be sentenced to suspended expulsion if the basis for expelling the alien under sections 22 to 24 is found not to be fully adequate because expulsion must be deemed to be particularly burdensome, see section 26(1). …”
“(1) In deciding on expulsion, regard must be had to the question of whether expulsion must be assumed to be particularly burdensome, in particular because of:
(i) the alien’s ties with Danish society;
(ii) the alien’s age, health and other personal circumstances;
(iii) the alien’s ties with persons living in Denmark;
(iv) the consequences of the expulsion for the alien’s close relatives living in Denmark, including the impact on family unity;
(v) the alien’s slight or non-existent ties with his country of origin or any other country in which he may be expected to take up residence; and
(vi) the risk that, in cases other than those mentioned in section 7(1) and (2) and section 8(1) and (2), the alien will be ill-treated in his country of origin or any other country in which he may be expected to take up residence.
(2) An alien must be expelled under section 22(l)(iv) to (vii) and section 25 unless the circumstances mentioned in subsection (I) make it conclusively inappropriate.”
“(1) As a consequence of a court judgment, court order or decision expelling an alien, the alien’s visa and residence permit will lapse, and the alien will not be allowed to re-enter Denmark and stay in this country without special permission (re‑entry ban). A re-entry ban may be time-limited and is reckoned from the first day of the month following departure or return. The re-entry ban is valid from the time of the departure or return.
(2) A re-entry ban in connection with expulsion under sections 22 to 24 is imposed:-
(v) permanently if the alien is sentenced to imprisonment for more than 2 years or other criminal sanction involving or allowing deprivation of liberty for an offence that would have resulted in a punishment of this duration.
50. The relevant provisions of the Aliens Act relating to the assessment of the risk of persecution upon return read as follows:
“(1) Prior to the return of an alien who has been issued with a residence permit under section 7 or section 8(1) or (2) and who has been expelled by judgment, see section 49(1), the Danish Immigration Service shall decide whether the alien can be returned, see section 31, unless the alien consents to the return. A decision to the effect that the alien cannot be returned, see section 31, must also include a decision on the issuance or refusal of a residence permit under section 7.”
“(1) The Refugee Appeals Board (Flygtningenævnet) considers appeals against decisions made by the Danish Immigration Service regarding the following matters: (…)
(iv) return under sections 32b and 49a.”
51. The relevant provisions of the Aliens Act relating to the courts’ subsequent re-assessment of the expulsion read as follows:
“(1) If expulsion under section 49(1) has not been enforced, an alien claiming that a material change in his circumstances has occurred, see section 26, may request that the public prosecutor lays before the court the question of revocation of the order for expulsion. Such request may be submitted not earlier than 6 months and must be submitted not later than 2 months before the date when enforcement of the expulsion can be expected. If the request is submitted at a later date, the court may decide to examine the case if it deems it excusable that the time-limit was exceeded.
(2) Section 59(2) of the Penal Code applies correspondingly. The request may be dismissed by the court if it is manifest that no material change has occurred in the alien’s circumstances. If the request is not dismissed, counsel to defend the alien must be assigned on request. The court may order that the alien is to be deprived of his liberty if it is found necessary to ensure the alien’s attendance during proceedings until any decision on expulsion can be enforced. Sections 34, 37(3) and (6) and 37a to 37e apply correspondingly.
(3) The court shall make its decision by court order, which is subject to interlocutory appeal under the rules of Part 85 of the Administration of Justice Act.”
52. In respect of the procedure under section 50 of the Aliens Act, the following appears from Notice No. 5/2006 issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions on the Public Prosecutor’s handling of cases against aliens involving expulsion on the basis of a criminal offence:
2.8. Review of expulsion order under section 50 of the Aliens Act
2.8.1. General comments
Under section 50(1) of the Aliens Act, an alien who has been expelled by judgment, but whose expulsion has not been enforced, may request within specifically listed time-limits that the Public Prosecutor lay before the court the question of revocation of the order for expulsion. Revocation under section 50 of an order for expulsion presupposes that material changes in the alien’s circumstances have occurred after the original order for expulsion, see section 26 of the Aliens Act. Only material changes in the alien’s circumstances that were not foreseeable when the judgment was delivered may form the basis of a revocation of the expulsion.
The circumstances that the alien has managed, after the conviction, to keep in touch with spouse and children and that the family has become more integrated into Danish society during the same period, including becoming Danish nationals, thus cannot form the basis of revocation of the expulsion, see Danish Weekly Law Reports (UfR) 1995.66 Western High Court (V), 1997.1141 Supreme Court order (HKK) and Supreme Court order of 31 July 1997. For more recent case-law on the review under section 50, see Weekly Law Reports 2003.2500 Supreme Court order, 2004.1110 Supreme Court order, and 2005.3425 Supreme Court order.”
When a request for a judicial review has been lodged under section 50 of the Aliens Act, the Public Prosecutor must obtain an opinion from the Danish Immigration Service (see section 57(1), second sentence, of the Aliens Act). The submission letter to the Danish Immigration Service must be accompanied by the following: the request for review under section 50, a police report on the circumstances mentioned in section 26 relative to the original proceedings, a police report with a fresh interview of the relevant alien and possibly others about the circumstances mentioned in section 26, and other relevant information of importance to the review. The access to review under section 50 was restricted by Act No. 473 of 1 July 1998 so that it is only possible to review an expulsion order of a judgment once. According to Report No. 1326/1997, the rationale of this restriction was to link the review time wise with the date of the alien’s release for the purpose of expulsion so as to reduce the likelihood of material relevant changes in the alien’s circumstances occurring during the period between the review and the enforcement of the expulsion. It is incumbent on the court, on its own initiative, to see to it that the conditions for review of an expulsion order of a judgment are satisfied, see Danish Weekly Law Reports 2000.2406, Supreme Court. The request may be dismissed by the court if it is manifest that no material change has occurred in the alien’s circumstances.
53. The applicant complained that it was in breach of Article 8 of the Convention to expel him from Denmark as he was be separated from his eight children. The provision reads as follows:
“1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.
2. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.”
A. Admissibility
1. Submissions of the parties
54. The Government submitted that the applicant had not exhausted all available domestic remedies since he failed to request that the expulsion order be revoked under section 50, subsection 1, of the Aliens Act. He could thus have submitted that material changes in his circumstances had occurred after the original expulsion order and relied, for example, on the fact that time had passed since the Supreme Court judgment of 12 October 2011 and that he had divorced.
55. The applicant disagreed, and pointed out that he had exhausted domestic remedies by appealing against the original expulsion order to the High Court and the Supreme Court. In his opinion, no significant changes had occurred in his family relations since which could have justified bringing the case before the courts anew.
2. The Court’s assessment
56. The Court notes that a similar issue was raised in Amrollahi v. Denmark, ((dec.), no. 56811/00, 28 June 2001). In that case, however, the applicant had failed to exhaust domestic remedies as regards the original expulsion order whereas he later obtained a full review under section 50 of the Aliens Act by claiming that a material change in his circumstances had occurred. At the relevant time, the Government submitted that the review under section 50 of the Aliens Act could not be considered an effective remedy within the meaning of Article 35 of the Convention. The Court “noted that pursuant to section 50 of the Aliens Act, by claiming that a material change had occurred in his circumstances the applicant was entitled to have the question of revocation of the order to deport him brought before the courts, which at the same time were empowered to rescind the expulsion decision entailed in the original judgment of 1 October 1997. Accordingly, this remedy could provide redress for the applicant’s complaint. Thus, the Court considers that the applicant has exhausted a remedy which is both adequate and effective.” Accordingly, it declared the application partly admissible.
57. The question is therefore whether the applicant in the present case was obliged to exhaust the remedy under section 50 of the Aliens Act, when in his own view no material changes in his circumstances had occurred. The wording of section 50 and Notice No. 5/2006 issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions (see paragraphs 51 and 52 above), and general considerations for a proper administration of justice do not support such a finding.
58. On the other hand, if in the application to the Court, an applicant relies on circumstances which occurred subsequent to the deportation order, or it is obvious that a material change has occurred which was not foreseeable when the original expulsion order was delivered, the Court is ready to accept that the remedy under section 50 must be exhausted by the applicant before lodging an application before the Court.
59. In the case before it the Government have pointed to time having passed and the applicant having divorced. The former was foreseeable and there is no information about the impact of the latter on the applicant’s family situation. In particular, the applicant has not submitted in support of his application before the Court that the divorce, which took place shortly after the deportation order, had any negative implications for his possibilities of maintaining contact with his children upon return to Lebanon (see, a contrario, Udeh v. Switzerland, no. 12020/09, § 52, 16 April 2013). In these circumstances, the Court is not convinced that a material change has occurred and that the applicant therefore should have availed himself of the remedy available to him under Section 50, subsection 1, of the Aliens Act.
60. The Court also notes that the application is not manifestly ill-founded within the meaning of Article 35 § 3 (a) of the Convention. It further notes that it is not inadmissible on any other grounds. It must therefore be declared admissible.
B. Merits
61. It is not in dispute between the parties that there was an interference with the applicant’s right to respect for his private and family life within the meaning of Article 8, that the expulsion order was “in accordance with the law”, and that it pursued the legitimate aim of preventing disorder and crime. The Court sees no reason to find otherwise.
62. As to the question of whether the interference was “necessary in a democratic society”, the Government emphasised that the Danish courts made a thorough assessment of the applicant’s personal circumstances following the general principles set out in, for example, Üner v. the Netherlands [GC], no. 46410/99, §§ 54-55 and 57-58, ECHR 2006‑XII and Maslov v. Austria [GC], cited above, §§ 72-73, ECHR 2008, and that they very carefully struck a fair balance between the opposing interests. Accordingly, in their view the complaint was manifestly ill-founded. In the alternative, they submitted that there had been no violation of Article 8 of the Convention.
63. The applicant disagreed. He submitted that he had had a central role in the family and that, if expelled, several of his children would feel it necessary to leave Denmark to join him, which would significantly worsen their situation and living conditions. Moreover, if the children remained in Denmark, it should carry decisive weight that they would lose daily contact with their father, regardless of the character of the crime committed. He also pointed out that both the City Court and the High Court found basis for expelling him only conditionally, due to his family situation.
64. The Court reaffirms at the outset that a State is entitled, as a matter of international law and subject to its treaty obligations, to control the entry of aliens into its territory and their residence there (see, among many other authorities, Abdulaziz, Cabales and Balkandali v. the United Kingdom, 28 May 1985, § 67, Series A no. 94). The Convention does not guarantee the right of an alien to enter or to reside in a particular country and, in pursuance of their task of maintaining public order, Contracting States have the power to expel an alien convicted of criminal offences. However, an interference with a person’s private or family life will be in breach of Article 8 of the Convention unless it can be justified under paragraph 2 of that Article as being “in accordance with the law”, as pursuing one or more of the legitimate aims listed therein, and as being “necessary in a democratic society” in order to achieve the aim or aims concerned. The relevant criteria to be applied, in determining whether an interference is necessary in a democratic society, was set out, inter alia, in Üner v. the Netherlands [GC], cited above, §§ 54-55 and 57-58; Maslov v. Austria[GC], cited above, §§ 72-73; Balogun v. the United Kingdom, no. 60286/09, § 46, 10 April 2012; and Samsonnikov v. Estonia, no.52178/10, § 86, 3 July 2012. They are the following:
“- the nature and seriousness of the offence committed by the applicant;
– the length of the applicant’s stay in the country from which he or she is to be expelled;
– the time elapsed since the offence was committed and the applicant’s conduct during that period;
– the nationalities of the various persons concerned;
– the applicant’s family situation, such as the length of the marriage, and other factors expressing the effectiveness of a couple’s family life;
– whether the spouse knew about the offence at the time when he or she entered into a family relationship;
– whether there are children of the marriage, and if so, their age; and
– the seriousness of the difficulties which the spouse is likely to encounter in the country to which the applicant is to be expelled.
– the best interests and well-being of the children, in particular the seriousness of the difficulties which any children of the applicant are likely to encounter in the country to which the applicant is to be expelled; and
– the solidity of social, cultural and family ties with the host country and with the country of destination.”
65 The Supreme Court’s legal point of departure was the relevant sections of the Aliens Act, the Penal Code, and notably the criteria to be applied in the proportionality assessment by virtue of Article 8 of the Convention and the Court’s case-law.
66. The Supreme Court found that the applicant had a leading and central role in the commission of persistent, organised and aggravated drug crimes. More concretely, he was convicted of 18 criminal offences, including notably drug trafficking and drug dealing with regard to a significant amount of hashish (more than 100 kg in total, in addition to an attempt to import a large supply from Holland) and an attempt to buy 200 g of cocaine, all committed in the period from 2006 until 9 September 2009. The Court has held on previous occasions that it understands – in view of the devastating effects drugs have on people’s lives – why the authorities show great firmness to those who actively contribute to the spread of this scourge (see, among others, Savasci v. Germany (dec.), 45971/08, § 27, 19 March 2013; Samsonnikov v. Estonia, cited above, § 49; A.W. Khan v. the United Kingdom, no. 47486/06, § 40; 12 January 2010; Sezen v. the Netherlands, no. 50252/99, § 43, 31 January 2006; and Amrollahi v. Denmark, no. 56811/00, § 37, 11 July 2002).
67. The Supreme Court also took into account that the applicant was a member of a gang and had a leading role in relation to the drug dealers under him, whom he had subjected to violence and threats, and that he had previous convictions from 2000, 2005 and 2007.
68. The applicant was 23 years old when he entered Denmark in 1993 and he had stayed in Denmark for approximately 18 years when the deportation order became final by the Supreme Court judgment of 12 October 2011.
69. The applicant was arrested on 9 September 2009 and remained imprisoned until the deportation order was implemented at the end of 2014. During his imprisonment, on 11 January 2012 he was sentenced to a further seven days’ imprisonment for having possessed a mobile phone in prison.
70. The applicant is a stateless Palestinian, born in Lebanon, where he stayed until the age of 23. The applicant’s ex-wife is a Danish citizen. She was born a Palestinian national and lived briefly in Lebanon, until she arrived in Denmark at the age of nine. The couple’s children were Danish citizens and born in Denmark.
71. As to the applicant’s ties with Denmark, the Supreme Court observed that he was not well integrated into Danish society and he had limited Danish language skills. He had no ties to Denmark via work or education. He had been receiving State early retirement pension since 2004. The applicant and his family spoke Arabic.
72. As to the applicant’s connections with his country of origin, the Supreme Court noted that the applicant still had ties to Lebanon, where his mother and sister lived and where the applicant had lived until he entered Denmark. He also had ties to Syria, where a sister and her family lived, and where the applicant had stayed for three weeks in 2007, for four weeks in 2008, and in 2009. Before his arrest, the applicant had set about buying an apartment in Syria for the family to use during stays there. The applicant’s now ex-spouse had family in Lebanon. Moreover, she had regular contact with the applicant’s sister and family in Syria, and she had spent several vacations there, for instance in 2008 and 2009 as well as one and a half months in 2010 and two months in 2011. She had eighteen siblings in Denmark. At the relevant time, she had stated that she would not follow the applicant if he were deported from Denmark to Lebanon or Syria, and that the children would not live outside Denmark.
73. The applicant and his wife married in 1994, long before the offences at issue were committed. Thus, the criterion of whether the spouse knew about the offence at the time when he or she entered into a family relationship does not come into play in the present case. In respect of their marriage, it is noteworthy, though, that the spouses divorced with effect from 21 November 2012, less than two months after the deportation order became final. Moreover, in the domestic proceedings an amount of DKK 404,500 and gold jewellery were found in the applicant’s home and confiscated as profit from the crimes, and it was observed that the applicant and his wife, who both received State benefits and who, when calculating their expenses, apparently had a deficit in their household budget for 2007, 2008 and 2009 amounting to a total of at least DKK 2.5 million, could not substantiate that they had obtained the goods legally. For example, the applicant’s wife denied knowledge of a receipt dated 20 October 2008 for gold jewellery bought in her name in Dubai for DKK 43,000. Moreover, documents were presented before the Supreme Court showing that over a period of less than 5 months, up until the applicant was arrested, there had been nine hundred and sixty‑seven calls to and from overseas numbers on the applicant’s and his wife’s home telephone. In addition, from January 2006 to June 2011 the applicant, his wife and their children had made various transfers of money to Syria and Lebanon.
74. The remaining criteria in the case to be examined are “whether there are children of the marriage, and if so, their age” and “the best interests and well-being of the children, in particular the seriousness of the difficulties which any children of the applicant are likely to encounter in the country to which the applicant is to be expelled”.
75. In its judgment, Jeunesse v. the Netherlands [GC], (no. 12738/10, § 109, 3 October 2014), which concerned family reunion, the Court reiterated “that there is a broad consensus, including in international law, in support of the idea that in all decisions concerning children, their best interests are of paramount importance … Whilst alone they cannot be decisive, such interests certainly must be afforded significant weight. Accordingly, national decision-making bodies should, in principle, advert to and assess evidence in respect of the practicality, feasibility and proportionality of any removal of a non-national parent in order to give effective protection and sufficient weight to the best interests of the children directly affected by it.”
76. Whilst this principle applies to all decisions concerning children, the Court notes that in the context of a removal of a non-national parent as a consequence of a criminal conviction, the decision first and foremost concerns the offender. Furthermore, as case-law has shown, in such cases the nature and seriousness of the offence committed or the offending history may outweigh the other criteria to take into account (see, for example, Üner v. the Netherlands [GC], cited above, §§ 62-64 and Cömert v. Denmark (dec.), 14474/03, 10 April 2006).
77. In the present case, the applicant’s eight children were between 5 and 16 years old when the deportation order became final. Before the Supreme Court the applicant’s then wife stated that she would be unable to follow the applicant if he were deported from Denmark, and that the children would not manage outside Denmark. During the domestic proceedings, statements were obtained from the Children’s Department at the municipality and the children’s schools and day-care institutions, which recounted that several of the eight children had serious problems, including of a psychological and educational nature (see paragraph 25 above). Four of the children received special education and several of the children needed extra support and supervision in their schools and institutions. Massive public support measures had been provided due to a significant need to teach them normal social behaviour. Finally, the placement of some of the sons in public care was under consideration.
78. In the Court’s view it is doubtful whether, on the basis of those statements, or on the material before it, the applicant has substantiated that he had a central role in the family (see paragraph 63 above) and that his children’s best interests were adversely affected by his deportation (see, for example, A.W. Khan v. the United Kingdom, cited above, § 40).
79. The Supreme Court did not expressly state whether it found that there were no insurmountable obstacles for the applicant’s wife and children to follow him. It rather appears that the majority found that in any event the separation of the applicant from his wife and children could not outweigh the other counterbalancing factors, notably that the applicant had a leading and central role in the commission of persistent, organised and aggravated drug crimes (see paragraph 39 above).
80. The Court notes in addition that it transpired from the statements mentioned above (see paragraphs 25 and 77) that several of the applicant’s eight children had serious problems and therefore were being supported by various Danish authorities.
81. Finally, the Court notes that the applicant has not pointed to any obstacles for the children to visit him in Lebanon or for the family to maintain contact via the telephone or the internet.
82. In the light of the above, the Court recognises that the Supreme Court carefully balanced the competing interests and explicitly took into account the criteria set out in the Court’s case‑law, including the applicant’s family situation. Moreover, having regard to the gravity of the drug crimes committed by the applicant, and considering the sovereignty of member States to control and regulate the residence of aliens on their territory, the Court finds that the interference was supported by relevant and sufficient reasons, and was proportionate in that a fair balance was struck between the applicant’s right to respect for his family life, on the one hand, and the prevention of disorder or crime, on the other hand.
83. Accordingly, there has been no violation of Article 8 of the Convention.
FOR THESE REASONS, THE COURT, UNANIMOUSLY,
1. Declares the application admissible;
2. Holds that there has been no violation of Article 8 of the Convention;
Done in English, and notified in writing on 1 December 2016, pursuant to Rule 77 §§ 2 and 3 of the Rules of Court.
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Features • Performance Published 13 May 2014
Disability, Process and Integration
Lucy Bennett, Artistic Director of Stopgap Dance Company, talks about social integration in performance and process ahead of the London premiere of their latest piece, Artificial Things, at Sadler's Wells.
Lucy Bennett
Stopgap Dance Company works with exceptional disabled and non-disabled dancers to make exhilarating performances. We tour nationally and internationally to represent what social integration might look like using the medium of movement and physical expression. The merits of working with a diverse cast might seem quite obvious when our artistic aim is to depict integration, but I hope to elaborate on this on this by talking about our artistic goal and how our cast is involved in the devising process.
When a diverse cast works as a cohesive unit, it inevitably gives a strong visual message to its audiences. People tend to perceive a utopia of social cohesion when we display unity and dystopia when we exaggerate the differences. It’s fair to say that they might see cliched scenes of a disabled person being ostracised and some ideals about unity amongst diversity, but we have a team who can have frank conversations and dig much deeper into these obvious ideas during the creative process. The reality about disability and integration is much more complex than what people assume, and our work aims to expose the different degrees to which cohesion can be attained.
To achieve our artistic goal, I collaborate with a tightly knit team of dancers who experience disabilty and integration on a daily basis and are willing to express opinions about my ideas and begin a dialogue about their experiences. Some of our dancers have been with the company for over a decade, so they are quite open to exploring the issues at hand. The sense of trust is very important in developing work as a collective, and their involvement as collaborators means that our work has more authentic emotional force. In a subtle way, our dancers are revealing some personal truths in our work, and I think this is what makes it appealing to our audience.
I particularly enjoy working with learning disabled dancers because they tend to have less inhibition, and their ability to become immersed within their fantasy is invaluable during the devising process. They give me fresh and honest ideas and their ability to be ‘in the zone’ has a positive effect on everyone.
In this collaborative devising process, it’s important to create a horizontal and not vertical working relationship. The joy of being in integrated dance is the richness of what the dancers can give you, so it’s important to listen, watch and work with them. A type of top down method wouldn’t work very well.
As a choreographer, I’m also interested in alternative ways of moving and in creating a new visual language from them. For me, it’s not about getting the dancers to pretend to hit the conventional dance shapes and lines, but coming up with entirely new ones that our dancers can offer as a group.
It’s important to stress at this point that disabled dancers involved in our touring work are not amateurs. They might not focus on those shapes and lines, but they work hard at getting to know their bodies and finding bespoke techniques. During their training, they refine their capacity for physical expression just as hard as non-disabled dancers do. At Stopgap, we have trained our own disabled dancers over the last 15 years, and we are currently nurturing a handful of new ones. Most of our non-disabled dancers have also been with the company for a number of years and have developed a real understanding of alternative dance aesthetic too. Through this long-standing involvement of core individuals, we’ve devised a unique method of blending our individual styles to create a collective movement vocabulary, and this is the secret behind our ability to physically express integration.
Dance is a form of physical and non-verbal expression, and it can make you feel and think about complicated things like social integration in a very direct way. In this sense, it has an advantage over words and theatre. By nurturing and working with artists who know about the issues at hand, we aime to redefine old ideas and bring about new perspectives through our work.
Stopgap Dance Company will be performing Artificial Things at Lilian Baylis Studio at Sadler’s Wells, London on 13th and 14th May as part of the =dance series. Stopgap will also be delivering a workshop on 14th May at Sadler’s Wells.
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The Truth Behind Pacquiao’s Win Over De La Hoya
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Dead Man Walking: The Truth Behind Manny Pacquiao’s Win Over Oscar De La Hoya
By Geoff “The Professor” Poundes-December 18, 2008
As scores of boxing “pundits” worldwide eat humble pie and re-calibrate their crystal balls, this writer would like to mount a defense for those of us who could not see a way for Manny Pacquiao to trouble Oscar De La Hoya in the big one on December 6th.
My argument is a simple one: De La Hoya was no more than a husk of a man in the fight, having weight-drained to such an extent that he could hardly lift his arms from the second round on. Now, as close watchers of this game of ours, perhaps we scribes should have given greater consideration pre-fight to the possibility that Oscar would debilitate his body in the way that he did, but come on, give us a break: an 8-Time World Champion, 16-year professional, the richest and hence the most resourceful fighter in history and the most marketable name in boxing – how could anyone predict that a man of such stature would so misjudge his own physical condition coming in to so huge an occasion?
In truth, what we all misjudged, perhaps including even De La Hoya himself, was how closely he covets the mighty dollar. Roundly criticized for even considering making the match with Pacquiao, which was viewed by many (myself included) as no more than a cynical commercial exercise, De La Hoya was faced with the challenge of making the match “real” if the fight public were going to tune in – he had to even things out, reduce the differentials, give the casual fan something upon which to hang their hat. Pacquiao himself had made it clear after his defeat of David Diaz, itself a leap in weight for the little Filipino at 135 pounds, that fighting De La Hoya would be too great a gap to bridge.
Step forward Oscar, dollar signs flashing in his eyes – to make the match at 147 pounds, a weight that the American hadn’t seen for eight years and a target that at age 35 ultimately proved impossible to reach without ruining all that a body needs to box competitively. I think De La Hoya walked up the ring steps that night knowing that he was in no condition to fight – but the cash was in the tills, the spotlight was on, and, hey, the guy on the other side of the ring was just a little Filipino who had been knocked out by flyweights before now.
It’s somewhat ironic that Pacquiao’s people dismiss those early reverses in the Pacman’s career as aberrations brought about by debilitating weight loss to make the flyweight limit, and you know I think they’re right: Manny’s subsequent career and hop through the weight classes, seemingly becoming more successful and destructive the heavier he gets, bears witness that something was up in those early losses.
And similarly, something was clearly up on December 6th. Amid rumors that De La Hoys had made 147 as much as a month before the fight in training camp, there were whispers and worries at the weigh-in itself, when Oscar tipped the scales at 145, with some observers noting the marks in the American’s arms which they took to suggest De La Hoya had been intravenously injected. The last time De La Hoya had weighed less than 145 was in 1998 for the Chavez fight. On the scales Oscar looked pared down, thin, wan, almost anemic. On the other hand, Pacquiao looked well muscled, energized and ready for battle.
Observers had long felt the deciding factor in the fight would not be the boxer’s weight at the official weigh-in, but the 36 hours or so between weigh-in and fight-time. Most believed that Oscar would pack on the pounds, re-hydrate and re-vitalize, and enter the ring some 14 pounds or more heavier than his opponent. Imagine the shock, therefore, when the two fighters were weighed an hour or so before entering the ring, and Oscar had gained no more than a couple of pounds. Seasoned onlookers began to shake their head. Something was up.
There have been rumors post-fight that the contract carried some severe financial penalties for the De La Hoya camp should he have come in overweight, and Oscar himself had talked about new diets and new regimes for this particular fight. If so, Pacquiao’s people got this one absolutely right – and won the poker game before it even started. De La Hoya, blinded by the dollars, gave it all away at the outset.
I don’t want to take anything away from Manny Pacquiao – he beat the man in front of him fairly and squarely and with some exquisite punch-and-get-out boxing that would have had a fully fit De La Hoya reaching for his “A” game. But his opponent on this night, with a body in the condition that it was in, would have lost handily to any leading welterweight or light-welterweight on the roster. The fact is, as many of us declared beforehand, the fight should never have taken place. I contend that in the winning of it Manny has not become a factor at 147 pounds any more than he would have been had he lost. He’s simply not big enough to share a ring with a Antonio Margarito, or a Miguel Cotto – both of whom would bring to the match the kind of combination of youth, power, fitness and speed that poor Oscar was incapable of on December 6th.
For me Pacquiao becomes a competitive light-welterweight, and if the ducks line up he should get a shot at the rejuvenated Ricky Hatton in 2009 – and that will be the time to judge the Philippine and his legacy. Hatton has his own failed experiment with jumping weight for Manny to learn from, for if he thinks he’s nailed it with the victory over De La Hoya, he may be in for a rude awakening.
As for the Golden Boy, he knows what went wrong. He told Larry Merchant in the immediate aftermath of the fight, before the microphones were switched on, that he had beaten himself. To his credit, once the broadcaster began to question him on the statement, he refused to elaborate, simply stating that he felt weak and that Pacquiao had fought a great fight. I was reminded of Kelly Pavlik’s interview on his way to the dressing room after he jumped 10 pounds to give Bernard Hopkins the opportunity to smoke him, when the fighter alluded to “problems” before the fight, later revealed as bronchitis, but then retracted after prompting by his handlers and gave all the credit to his opponent. Upon reflection both De La Hoya and Pavlik may have cause to regret that they ignored their bodies to chase down the dollars.
De La Hoya was not alone in his assessment. Eric Brown (Pacquaio’s assistant trainer) was asked to recount Manny’s victory:
“I’m not sure if Oscar was a hundred percent. It appeared as though he (Oscar) went overboard in trying to maintain his lower weight. He may have gone too long in camp in coming down in weight that his stomach shrunk and he wasn’t able to eat properly anymore because he was too drained. I believe he was over trained.”
Amen to that. I don’t think Oscar will want to go out in the manner that he did. I think we’ll see De La Hoya fight again, at a sustainable weight, when his body can do justice to his legacy.
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Speech Alone May Spread COVID-19, Study Shows
THURSDAY, May 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Small respiratory droplets produced while talking can hang in the air for at least eight minutes and perhaps even longer, researchers report.
The finding could explain why new coronavirus infections are more common in nursing homes, cruise ships and other confined locations with limited ventilation, the Washington Post reported.
The researchers used laser light to assess levels of small respiratory droplets that leave people's mouths when they speak. The study was published May 13 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"Highly sensitive laser light scattering observations have revealed that loud speech can emit thousands of oral fluid droplets per second," the researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and the University of Pennsylvania wrote.
It's been suspected that small droplets can spread the new coronavirus, but there are conflicting opinions among experts. There is widespread agreement that the virus is typically spread through large respiratory droplets, the Post reported.
This new study did not involve the coronavirus or any other virus, but instead just looked at how people generate respiratory droplets when they talk, the Post reported.
The experiment focused on small droplets that can linger in the air much longer. These droplets could contain enough virus particles to infect someone, the authors said, the Post reported.
Louder speech produces even more droplets, the scientists added. Just one minute of "loud speaking" could generate almost 1,000 virus-containing droplets that stay in the air for more than eight minutes.
"This study is the most accurate measure of the size, number and frequency of droplets that leave the mouth during a normal conversation and shower any listeners within range," Benjamin Neuman, a virologist at Texas A&M University-Texarkana, told the Post.
The research "doesn't directly test whether the virus can be transmitted by talking, but it builds a strong circumstantial case that droplets produced in a normal close conversation would be large enough and frequent enough to create a high risk of spreading SARS-CoV-2 or any other respiratory virus between people who are not wearing face masks," Neuman told the newspaper.
Andrew Noymer, a University of California at Irvine epidemiologist, told the Post that, "speech creates droplets that breathing alone does not. That much is clear. Big mouths of the world, beware. You're putting the rest of us at risk."
Visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for more on COVID-19.
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Half my brain liked The Losers the other half isn’t so sure. First the good things…
The comedy – it wasn’t always timed perfectly – but there was plenty of humour and it was drawn from the characters.
The action was solid and sometimes creative. The way The Losers could be casual when going up against what appeared to be tough opposition made a change from the oh to0 serious, walk slowly away from explosions without looking back school of action hero. The moment when Clay and Roque take a moment to enjoy an explosion was really refreshing. Thats when Clay and Roque really work – not when they’re banging heads.
Jensen, the tech guy, wasn’t just there as a comedy element. He might not have been able to handle himself as much as some of the other characters but he wasn’t helpless or tied to a keyboard. He gets some good moments, especially in the sequence where he breaks into the office building.
Jason Patric’s villain seems more self-aware of his villany than any bad guy since Benedict in Last Action Hero. He had something of an old school Bond villain about him but with a twist of Tarantino.
The minor things…
Don’t Stop Believing is a nice song. I like it. I don’t own it but I like it. It’s a shame they couldn’t pick a song that’s not been done to death of late for such a prominent role in the soundtrack. With a different song the film could have been setting a trend rather than following where others have been.
The styling was a bit in your face and a bit too obvious. Tropical Thunder has done for this school of action film what Monty Python’s Holy Grail did for coconuts as hoof beats. Thats a shame because if it had a bit more of its own visual language it could have been really great. I’ve not read the original comics. It’s a shame because the comic book imagery used at the start and end hints at a visual language that could have played a bigger part in the film without going down the 300 / Sin City route.
Idris Elba: I like Idris Elba. I thought he was good in Ultraviolet and excellent in The Wire. Unfortunately since then he seems to be taking roles that involve him chewing the scenery as much as possible. That could be good. He can clearly act. “Stringer” Bell in The Wire had more range and greater subtlety than either his current part as Luther on the BBC or Roque and that is a shame.
The plot isn’t full of wholes [note: that should be full of holes – normally I’d change it but I love that turn of phrase] but it doesn’t feel entirely developed or possibly not fully explained. It’s there more as a vehicle for the action. I’ll live with that – its true of plenty of action films and many have plots with bigger holes.
Now the bad thing…
The film didn’t allow me to invest in the characters destinies. I didn’t care enough about them. When they got shot I should have cared. When one of them goes bad I should have cared. I didn’t. That was the films major flaw for me. Die Hard is a good action film – it’s a great action film because I care what happens to John McClane. The same is true of Lethal Weapon and lots of other action films. There were things written in to make us like the characters in The Losers: the heroes rescue the children at the start and suffer for it, Jensen’s niece, Pooch’s pregnant wife and Clay’s problems with women. Everyone except Roque had something (and maybe what he needed was something to give him some depth). However it felt like the film maker begrudged having to use those humanising elements for anything other than comedy value. They might have been better off without the clutter and going for the anonymous ’60s style Mission Impossible agents defined by their relationships with each other.
The Losers is a good, silly action film that I feel could have been an awful lot better had the style been a bit fresher and if I we’d been given a reason to care more about the characters. Maybe I’m analysing the film too much in the hope that there would be something else if I scratched the surface.
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impworks Saturday, May 29th, 2010
I really wish that was what I ment to say. It is so much better than a bad typo.
Dan Diplo Saturday, May 29th, 2010
"The plot isn’t full of wholes" is a nice phrase, even if it is probably a typo!
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59-2958. Ex parte emergency custody order. (a) At the time the petition for the determination of whether a person is a mentally ill person subject to involuntary commitment for care and treatment under this act is filed, or any time thereafter prior to the trial upon the petition as provided for in K.S.A. 59-2965 and amendments thereto, the petitioner may request in writing that the district court issue an ex parte emergency order including either or both of the following: (1) An order directing any law enforcement officer to take the person named in the order into custody and transport the person to a designated treatment facility or other suitable place willing to receive and detain the person; (2) an order authorizing any named treatment facility or other place to detain or continue to detain the person until the further order of the court or until the ex parte emergency custody order shall expire.
(b) No ex parte emergency custody order shall provide for the detention of any person at a state psychiatric hospital unless a written statement from a qualified mental health professional authorizing such admission and detention at a state psychiatric hospital has been filed with the court.
(c) No ex parte emergency custody order shall provide for the detention of any person in a nonmedical facility used for the detention of persons charged with or convicted of a crime.
(d) If no other suitable facility at which such person may be detained is willing to accept the person, then the participating mental health center for that area shall provide a suitable place to detain the person until the further order of the court or until the ex parte emergency custody order shall expire.
(e) An ex parte emergency custody order issued under this section shall expire at 5:00 p.m. of the second day the district court is open for the transaction of business after the date of its issuance, which expiration date shall be stated in the order.
(f) The district court shall not issue successive ex parte emergency custody orders.
(g) In lieu of issuing an ex parte emergency custody order, the court may allow the person with respect to whom the request was made to remain at liberty, subject to such conditions as the court may impose.
History: L. 1996, ch. 167, § 14; L. 1997, ch. 152, § 6; L. 1998, ch. 134, § 44; July 1.
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Award-winning artist and printmaker who resurrected the obscure medium of mezzotint, once popular fo..
Award-winning artist and printmaker who resurrected the obscure medium of mezzotint, once popular for reproducing Constables and Turners
Two months before his death at the age of 79, the artist Marc Balakjian visited Armenia for the first time to discover his cultural inheritance. His parents had fled to Lebanon from the genocide of Armenia, started by the Turks in 1915. The Armenian diaspora has lived with a sense of unfinished business and injustice ever since, and this history influenced Marc’s work.
He usually used a restricted palette of black and white, whether in small mezzotints or larger drawings and watercolours. His subject matter was enigmatic: a recurring theme was that of anonymous packages tied with knots of rope; sometimes there are prison bars in the background or piles of planks leaning against each other. The images are disturbing in their ambiguity.
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Michael Apted: TV documentary pioneer and film-maker dies aged 79
Film director Michael Apted, best known for the Up series of TV documentaries following the lives of 14 people every seven years, has died aged 79.
He also directed Coal Miner’s Daughter, Gorillas In The Mist and the 1999 Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.
The original 7 Up in 1964 set out to document the life prospects of a range of children from all walks of life.
The show was inspired by the Aristotle quote “give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man”.
The first 7 Up show was followed by 14 Up at the start of the next decade, which interviewed the same children as teenagers – and the pattern was set right up until 63 Up in 2019.
Throughout all those intervening years ITV viewers became engrossed with the stories of private school trio Andrew, Charles and John, of Jackie who went through two divorces, of Nick who went from jobless and homeless to Liberal Democrat councillor, and of working class chatterbox Tony, whose life ambition was to become a jockey.
Apted’s shows – which won three Bafta awards – have often been described as the forerunner of modern-day reality TV series, giving its participants the time to tell their own stories on screen.
But unlike their modern counterparts, the original Up children tended to fade away from the limelight in the seven years between each chapter.
In 2008, Apted was made a companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to the British film and television industries.
‘Remarkable’ career
Thomas Schlamme, president of the Directors Guild of America, said Apted was a “fearless visionary” whose legacy would live on.
He said Apted, who was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, “saw the trajectory of things when others didn’t and we were all beneficiaries of his wisdom and lifelong dedication”.
ITV’s managing director Kevin Lygo said the director’s six-decade career was “in itself truly remarkable”.
He said the Up series “demonstrated the possibilities of television at its finest in its ambition and its capacity to hold up a mirror to society and engage with and entertain people while enriching our perspective on the human condition”.
“The influence of Michael’s contribution to film and programme-making continues to be felt and he will be sadly missed,” Lygo added.
Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond film franchise, said Apted “was a director of enormous talent” and “beloved by all those who worked with him”.
“We loved working with him on The World Is Not Enough and send our love and support to his family, friends and colleagues,” they said.
A post on the Twitter account of the band Garbage, who performed the theme for The World Is Not Enough, labelled Apted a “delightful, charming soul”.
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Composer David G Arnold, who composed the Bond theme and worked with Apted on three other non-Bond movies, said he felt “lucky” to work with him.
“A more trusting, funny, friendly and, most importantly, kind, person you’d never meet. So pleased to have known him and so sad that he’s gone,” Arnold wrote on Twitter.
Read from source: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55597263
Liverpool FC anthem singer Gerry Marsden dies aged 78
Gerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden, whose version of You’ll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for his hometown club of Liverpool, has died at the age of 78.
His family said on Sunday he died after a short illness not linked to Covid-19.
Marsden’s band was one of the biggest success stories of the Merseybeat era, and in 1963 became the first to have their first three songs top the chart.
But the band’s other best known hit was Ferry Cross The Mersey came in 1964.
It was written by Marsden himself as a tribute to his city, and reached number eight.
Marsden was made an MBE in 2003 for services to charity after supporting victims of the Hillsborough disaster.
At the time, he said he was “over the moon” to have received the honour, following his support for numerous charities across Merseyside and beyond.
Liverpool FC posted on social media that Marsden’s words would “live on forever with us”.
While Marsden was a songwriter as well as a singer, his most enduring hit was actually a cover of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical number from 1945, that he had to convince his bandmates to record as their third single.
In many interviews over the years, he explained how fate played a part in his band ever recording the song. He was watching a Laurel and Hardy movie at Liverpool’s Odeon cinema in the early 1960s and, only because it was raining, he decided to stay for the second part of a double feature.
That turned out to be the film Carousel – which featured that song on its soundtrack – and Marsden was so moved by the lyrics that he became determined that it should become part of his band’s repertoire.
In a 2013 interview, Marsden told the Liverpool FC website how You’ll Never Walk Alone was adopted by the club’s fans as soon as it topped the chart in 1963: “I remember being at Anfield and before every kick off they used to play the top 10 from number 10 to number one, and so You’ll Never Walk Alone was played before the match. I was at the game and the fans started singing it.
“When it went out of the top 10 they took the song off the playlist and then for the next match the Kop were shouting ‘Where’s our song?’ So they had to put it back on.
“Now, every time I go to the game I still get goose pimples when the song comes on and I sing my head off.”
Sir Kenny Dalglish, who managed Liverpool at the time of the Hillsborough tragedy, tweeted that he was “saddened” by the news of Marsden’s death, and that You’ll Never Walk Alone was an “integral part of Liverpool Football Club, and never more so than now”.
By BBC Radio Merseyside’s Spencer Leigh
Gerry was an entertainer. He loved being an entertainer; he loved people seeing him in the street and asking him for his autograph and the like.
He had a very distinctive voice, and that is terribly important. You knew instantly it was him on those records. He was best on those ballads.
I think he really did them very well indeed. You’ll Never Walk Alone was a big show song that had been around for years and years, and lots of people had done it.
Just before Gerry brought his version out, Johnny Mathis brought his out. If that version had been played on the Kop, I don’t think the Kop would have taken to it because you couldn’t sing along with Johnny Mathis – he had too big a range and too perfect a voice.
But Gerry sounded like everyman and it was absolutely perfect for the Kop. I think it’s the greatest football anthem of the lot.
As well as being a Liverpool anthem, You’ll Never Walk Alone has also been adopted by fans at both Celtic in Scotland and Borussia Dortmund in Germany.
Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram posted a tribute on Twitter, saying he was “devastated” by the news.
Marsden’s career began at legendary live music venue, The Cavern Club, where The Pacemakers played nearly 200 times.
The club said on Twitter that Marsden was “not only a legend, but also a very good friend of The Cavern”.
Gerry and The Pacemakers were spotted by Beatles manager Brian Epstein, who gave them the song How Do You Do It, which had been turned down by the Fab Four and Adam Faith, for their debut single.
The band achieved nine hit singles and two hit albums between 1963 and 1965, before splitting up.
Marsden pursued a solo career before the band reformed in 1974 for a world tour.
In 1985, Marsden was back in the pop spotlight when he was invited to be one of the vocalists of a charity version of You’ll Never Walk Alone, which was released to raise funds for victims of a fire at a Bradford City match.
In doing so, Marsden set another chart record by becoming the first person to sing on two different chart-topping versions of the same song.
So when, after the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989, the other Pacemakers classic of Ferry Cross The Mersey was chosen to raise funds for its victims and a group of famous Liverpudlian singers was gathered, Marsden was again included and was back at number one once more for a cause he held dear for the rest of his life.
Marsden was awarded the Freedom of Liverpool in April 2009, an occasion he marked by boarding a ferry across the Mersey and getting out his guitar to sing his famous hit which described the scene.
Dawn Wells, Mary Ann on ‘Gilligan’s Island,’ dies of Covid-19 complications at 82 Lisa France byline
Dawn Wells, who played the lovable castaway Mary Ann Summers on “Gilligan’s Island,” died in Los Angeles on Wednesday from Covid-19 complications, her publicist Harlan Boll confirmed to CNN.
She was 82.
Tina Louise portrayed movie star Ginger Grant on “Gilligan’s Island” and said in a statement to CNN, “I was sad to learn of Dawn’s passing, I will always remember her kindness to me.
“We shared in creating a cultural landmark that has continued to bring comfort and smiles to people during this difficult time,” the statement read. “I hope that people will remember her the way that I do — always with a smile on her face.”
Born in Reno, Nevada, Wells represented her home state in the Miss America pageant in 1959.
That opened the door for her to start a career in Hollywood where she appeared in a multitude of television shows, including “77 Sunset Strip,” “Maverick,” “Bonanza,” “The Joey Bishop Show” and “Hawaiian Eye.”
She beat out 350 other actresses to nab the role of girl-next-door Mary Ann on “Gilligan’s Island,” which aired on CBS from 1964 to 1967 and later in syndication.
In a 2016 interview with Forbes magazine, Wells revealed that the job was not as lucrative as many people believed.
“A misconception is that we must be wealthy, rolling in the dough, because we got residuals. We didn’t really get a dime,” she said. “I think my salary — of course, I was low on the totem pole, Ginger (Tina Louise) and Thurston (Jim Backus) got more — was $750 a week. Sherwood Schwartz, our producer, reportedly made $90 million on the reruns alone!”
She starred in more than 150 TV shows, seven motion pictures including “Winterhawk” (which she also narrated) and more than 60 productions on and off Broadway.
Beyond acting, Wells also served as a producer, author, journalist, motivational speaker, teacher, humanitarian, spokesperson and chairwoman of the Terry Lee Wells Foundation, an organization for women and children in northern Nevada, as well as running her Film Actors Boot Camp for seven years in Idaho.
She received the Elephant Sanctuary Trumpeting Award for her activism in supporting The Elephant Sanctuary. The sanctuary, founded in 1995, is the nation’s largest natural habitat refuge developed specifically for African and Asian elephants.
But it was her pigtail-wearing character on “Gilligan’s Island” which made her a beloved star — and she had fun with it.
Wells acted as the “castaway correspondent” for Channel 9 in Sydney, Australia, where she interviewed actors and directors including Robin Williams, Eddie Murphy, Julia Roberts, Rene Russo, Mel Gibson, Ron Howard, and Richard Donner.
At the premiere of the film “Gravity,” she presented star Sandra Bullock with a coconut cream pie, in honor of their shared experience with being “stranded.”
“Gilligan’s Island” was an unexpected hit and in honor of the 50th anniversary of the series, Wells released “A Guide To Life: What Would Mary Ann Do?” in which she wrote about the meaning of the Mary Ann character and observed the cultural shifts that have happened since she was on the island.
Her gingham dress and famous short shorts from “Gilligan’s Island” are currently on display in the lobby of The Hollywood Museum.
She is survived by her stepsister, Weslee Wells.
No services have been scheduled at this time and in lieu of flowers, donations are requested to either The Elephant Sanctuary, Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum or The Shambala Preserve.
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Tim Draper and Robolution Capital Lead Seed Round Investment in Neurala
Bymaxversace
Robotics Company To Take Deep Learning Intelligence Software
Designed For Mars And Bring It Down To Earth
Neurala, Inc., which builds software that makes robots smarter so that people can tell a robot what to do instead of how to do it, announced today that it had closed a seed investment round of $750,000. The round was led by the fund run by well-known venture capitalist Tim Draper, Draper Associates Investments, LLC, and by Robolution Capital, the Paris-based venture capital fund dedicated to service robotics.
A pioneer in deep learning technologies that mimic the functions of the human brain, Neurala was named one of the 50 most influential robotics companies in 2014 by Robotics Business Review. The company holds a fundamental patent for the use of deep learning algorithms, often called Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), running on graphic processing units (GPUs), which were originally designed for computer games and 3D graphics. The invention is seen as an important foundation for real-time artificial intelligence and is the basis for many deep learning technologies used today. (U.S. Patent 8,648,867)
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the United States Air Force Research Labs (USAFRL) have both contracted with Neurala to develop deep learning controllers that emulate brain functions. Uses range from autonomous exploration of Mars-like environments, to more Earthly use, such as collision avoidance for unmanned aircraft and persistent surveillance.
“With the new investment, Neurala will be able to make robots something that everyone will find useful in everyday life,” said Massamiliano Versace, CEO and co-founder of Neurala. “We plan to develop practical commercial applications for both flying robots and gound-based robots that utilize our deep learning software.”
Robolution Capital, the first venture capital fund exclusively dedicated to the growing service robotics market, will add its deep experience in robotics as well as its knowledge regarding expansion into the European market.
“Neurala will be one of the companies leading movement towards the next generation of robotics, in which robots will be able to act, adapt autonomously and interact with people. We look forward to working with them to build a global brand by providing the most advanced technology,” said Bruno Bonnell, a partner at Robolution Capital.
In addition to Draper Associates Investments, LLC, and Robolution Capital, investors in Neurala include SK Ventures, TechStars and other angel investors.
Neurala Named As One of the 50 Most Influential Companies in the Global Robotics Industry By Robotics Business Review
Neurala Receives $250,000 NASA Grant To Bring Autonomous Software To Self-Driving Cars, Home Robots and Drones
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Shawn McDonald
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Genre: Pop/Folk/Acoustic
Shawn McDonald Bibliography: (click on each album cover to view tracks and Shawn McDonald lyrics)
Focal Point (2002)
Simply Nothing (2004)
Live in Seattle (2005)
Ripen (2006)
Scattered Pieces - live (2007)
Shawn McDonald Biography
Six years could be a lifetime if you're Sparrow Recording artist Shawn McDonald. Six years ago he hadn't recorded his genre-bending soulish-folk debut, Simply Nothing. He hadn't had labels like Columbia and Java Records knocking at his door. In fact, six years ago, Shawn McDonald didn't even play a lick of guitar. He had never taken the stage in a club or a coffee house. He had yet to write his first song.
Truth is, six years ago Shawn McDonald was just a desperate, lost kid in Eugene, Oregon, who grew up too quickly without his parents in his life, and who was now full of rage, and staring down the barrel of nine felony charges for possessing, growing, manufacturing and dealing marijuana, LSD, crank and a host of other controlled substances.
Not that you'd ever guess.
"I can't communicate how crazy I was," Shawn says. "Who I was then and who I am now is like night and day. You name the drug and I was selling it and doing it. I was a confused kid, and my confusion boiled up into bitterness and anger. My life had become a hard, closed shell. I was extremely rebellious, miserable, and lost. What God has done in my life in the last six years is amazing."
Shawn was once notorious for the trouble he caused. He was the kind of kid most people had written off as hopeless. Nowadays he's recognized instead for his ingratiating and disarming transparency and for his sparse, eloquent, laid-back musical stylings. Shawn's story is a moving testimony of abandonment, despair, hope and redemption. His songs are a sophisticated blend of organic instrumentation, such as nylon guitar, cello, violin, and harp, mixed with hip-hop sensibilities and a passionate flowing lyric.
Expressing his insatiable hunger and thirst for God, the lyrics on his major label debut, Simply Nothing, reveal a personal maturity of belief that prefers a hard truth over a feel-good lie. Shawn consistently refuses the easy way out in life, art, or theology. Instead, hope, redemption and worship are discovered in the context of real searching, struggling, questioning, and pain.
"Honesty is huge," Shawn explains. "That's what I think people connect with in my concerts. I get up there and I talk about my life and my struggles and my experiences, good and bad. I sing and talk about it all. I talk about the grime of life. I can't understand a version of Christianity that would deny all that. How can we have a true picture of what grace is if we don't admit our own sin and brokenness?"
Produced by Chris Stevens (TobyMac, Paul Wright, Cadet), Simply Nothing has the subtle feel of a music veteran's seventh record, rather than a 26 year-old's first. Simplicity and mood are used skillfully to weave the twelve cuts into one seamless outpouring of the heart.
"Beautiful," a lyric inspired by Brennan Manning's book Ragamuffin Gospel, creates a portrait of grace by showing the distance between God's glory and man's unworthiness. "Here I Am," often used as a concert opener, is Shawn's personal expression of worship and surrender. "Gravity," the project's first single, is a prayer for God's strength to be made perfect in weakness. A Sting-like blend of folk and acoustic soul, the song yearns for a deeper experience of divine relationship.
"The theme that comes across the most in this project is my need of God," Shawn says. "The older I get the more I'm realizing how imperfect I am and how much I fall short. My songs just continually come back to this deep need of something more, which is God. I can't get away from the fact that we need more than ourselves."
The turning point in Shawn's own life came after his second bust on drug-related charges. With nine felony counts hanging over his head, he knew that life was crashing down around him. He tried in vain to find spiritual answers in Rastafarianism, Hinduism, and meditation.
At the lowest point of his life, Shawn finally offered up a desperate prayer: "God, I don't know who You are or where You are, but I need to find You. Whoever You are, show Yourself to me. Show me a sign."
Pulling out an old Bible, Shawn stuck his finger in and began reading. As he read a passage from Matthew, he sensed that God was warning him to clean the drugs out of his life, and that the police could be coming back. Shawn immediately got rid of everything. One day later the police arrived with a search warrant. Shawn was convinced that God had indeed spoken to him. In thanks, he began to worship, and as he did so, Shawn had a personal encounter with the Spirit of God that permanently changed the direction of his heart and life.
"I did a 180 and started running in the other direction," Shawn remembers. "For the next three years my hunger for God was out of control. I couldn't get enough. I spent most of my time studying the Bible and reading every book about God I could get my hands on. In the midst of all that I started writing my own worship songs. People around me encouraged me, I started getting invitations to play different places, and it just grew from there. Music wasn't something I ever dreamed of doing. But it was the plan God had for me."
Perhaps it's Shawn's obvious lack of star struck pretensions that makes listeners so immediately comfortable during his live shows. Rather than viewing his concerts as performances, Shawn casts them in the context of relationship.
"When I share my songs and say things live," he says, "I see it as a conversation that just happens to be taking place on a stage. You can't plan a conversation, it just happens. There's give and take on both sides. I don't have a song list or a set of things I say every night. Each show is different. I play and say whatever comes into my head. I want it to be an experience, not a performance."
The live experience Shawn facilitates has shown a surprising resonance with Believers and unbelievers alike. Despite the overt presence of worship and testimony in his concerts, the bulk of Shawn's current audience is still a crowd who wouldn't identify themselves as followers of Christ.
"I always tell my testimony," Shawn explains. "I just put it out there. The crazy thing I've found is that if you're willing to be really real and honest, people are willing to listen. So I can tell them about the drug lifestyle I came from and I can tell them about my redemption in Christ. The world can relate to me because I can relate to them. I've been there and done that. The church relates to me too, because I've met the God they're serving and my life has been changed by Him. Paul said, 'to the Jew I become a Jew and to the Gentile I become a Gentile.' I think he was saying that he sought out ways to connect on a real level with people in different cultural contexts. I want to be like that. I want to listen to people so I can know where they're coming from. I want to learn how to communicate in a way that connects with people, moves them, and changes them. As a project, I hope Simply Nothing does that."
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LIFT: Fitness Culture
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Is exercise addictive?
Exercise September 2, 2016
Here is a thoughtful and worthy essay, from Nautilus, about exercise addiction. The topic certainly deserves attention. However, as a skeptic of lumping strong habits under the rubric of addiction, I was not convinced by this author that the phenomenon is accurately described by the term (as opposed to compulsion, another term brought up here). She acknowledges that no agreed-upon definition of exercise addiction exists but pushes on without trying to convince us that people who work out too much are in fact addicts. Are people who study too much addicts? Who worry too much? Who are neat freaks? Is the definition of addiction simply overdoing it? Still, making the connection between eating disorders and exercise addiction seems to me astute and cries out for of more study.
Political Bodies in Egypt
Fitness History August 24, 2016
An especially interesting article in The New York Times today reports that in Egypt, among the young who swarmed the streets some five years ago during the Arab Spring, “a fitness craze has taken hold.” A really excellent turn of events for a country that ranks as the 17th most obese in the world. However, the really fascinating part are the causes that the writer, Rod Nordland, adduces for this new exercise movement. Some see it as Egypt merely catching up with increasing worldwide enthusiasm for fitness, which is to say it’s an inward turn, a “withering of the political revolution under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.” Other comments—that, for instance, the revolution gave people permission to occupy public space in a new way–suggest that it represents a transformation of political energy, one that retains its connection to politics. I’m betting on the latter. As I note in LIFT, fitness has…
The Brain in the Body
Performance August 22, 2016
When talking about athletes, it is common to praise their short memories: a great quarterback, for example, will instantly forget an interception so he can go right back out and throw a touchdown pass. We know why this is important in sport, but we don’t know why physiologically this is important. However, Neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh have reported finding the neural networks that connect the brain directly to the adrenal medulla, which is near the kidneys and is responsible for “the body’s rapid response in stressful situations.” The study showed that the areas of the cerebral cortex “that are active when we sense conflict, or are aware that we have made an error, are a source of influence over the adrenal medulla. ‘This observation,’ said Dr. Strick, ‘raises the possibility that activity in these cortical areas when you re-imagine an error, or beat yourself up over a mistake,…
Art and Fitness II
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Too much exercise?
Aging August 11, 2016
A new study reports that, despite changing the structure of the heart, “chronic right ventricular damage in elite endurance master athletes with lifelong high training volumes seems to be unlikely,” as reported in The New York Times. Interesting, since A-fib has seemed to have a markedly higher incidence among endurance athletes training at high volume. In fact, I know of at least one lifelong endurance athlete, a widely respected physician and longevity researcher, who switched to strength training specifically because his concerns over A-fib.
Ignorance Speaks
Crossfit August 10, 2016
Australian Tia Clair Toomey is truly extraordinary athlete. For the second year in a row she was named the Second Fittest Woman on the planet, by her placement in the Crossfit Games, a grueling five-day, 17-event test across numerous fitness domains. Then, a couple of weeks after this competition, she represented Australia at the Olympics in the weightlifting competition. How enviable is her achievement? So much so that some wanker at The Sydney Morning Herald, in a fog of foolishness, ripped into Toomey for being “only the 14th strongest” woman in the 58kg class. Consider that when America’s Morghan King placed sixth out of twelve competing in the 48kg class, it was roundly considered a triumph. Yet King–a fantastic athlete–trains only for weightlifting; she does Itwo lifts: the snatch and the clean-and-jerk. To be a Crossfit athlete, Toomey trains an insane array of movements and modalities, from track and field…
New LIFT excerpt
Fitness History July 13, 2016
I am really honored to have an expanded excerpt from Lift published on The Paris Review Daily. I spent most of my twenties working at what was then just a literary magazine, first as an intern and eventually as the managing editor. During that time, George Plimpton, whom I miss dearly, was my mentor and friend, and so I’m especially pleased to be able to write a bit about him on a blog I read every day.
More weight-loss madness
Exercise June 30, 2016
I wasn’t going to post this week because I have some other things I need to attend to, but then this bit of empty clickbait popped up, a Vox article claiming “The science is in: exercise won’t help you lose much weight”. This is yet another example of people making money by misleading the public on the subject of weight loss. To say that exercise won’t help you lose much weight is like saying that guns don’t kill people, people kill people: there’s just enough fact (as opposed to truth) to dupe the public into buying a falsehood. So let’s look—very quickly–at some of the assumptions this article makes and why they are incorrect, and ultimately destructive. First and most important: Why are we talking about weight at all? Without context–meaning a broader set of data points—it is a meaningless abstraction. If you tell me you’re a woman who weighs…
The Butt Test
Butts and thighs are busting out everywhere: the evidence is all around us, so I’m sure you don’t have to be told. In Lift I argue that the recent emphasis on performance in working out “is slowly, though perceptibly, altering the very culture of the body.” One example is the changing status of the butt, which, over the last four years, has given rise to the Butt Test, a semi-serious test of booty size popular among strength practitioners and Crossfitters. To take it, you simply lie face down on the ground and then you try to roll a barbell loaded with standard bumper plates (or 45 lbs. iron plates) over your body from head to toe. If your glutes stop the bar, you pass the butt test; if they don’t, you need to do more squats and deadlifts. The test arose in response to what had been an aesthetic orthodoxy…
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Just read Edward Mendelson’s excellent NYRB essay, “In the Depths of the Digital Age,” in which he cites Bernard Harcourt: “In place of the medieval idea of the king’s two bodies—the king’s royal powers derived from heaven and his natural self—Harcourt proposes the two bodies of ‘the liberal democratic citizen…: the now permanent digital self, which we are etching into the virtual cloud with every click and tap, and our mortal analog selves, which seem by contrast to be fading like the color on a Polaroid instant photo.’ ” It would be interesting to consider and discuss the burgeoning of today’s physical practices, and the new asceticisms they have engendered, as a response to our increasingly robust digital selves. This would not be a new phenomenon: various fitness practices, from gymnastics to sport, arose in the early 19th century in response to the technologies of the Industrial Revolution and to…
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About Daniel Kunitz
Daniel Kunitz writes on fitness, art, literature, design, and culture.
Lift: Fitness Culture from Naked Greeks and Acrobats to Jazzercise and Ninja Warriors, published by HarperWave
“An elegant book with literary qualities that suggest George Plimpton. An excellent contribution to the literature of athletic performance and of interest to anyone with a penchant for self-improvement—and not just physical.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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What Happens in Shakespeare's King Lear
What Happens in Shakespeare's Macbeth
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Review of Macbeth (Film 2018)
Review of Macbeth (Film) 2018. Dir. Kit Monkman
I saw this at a one-off showing on 13 March at the Liverpool Showcase Cinema. I was one of only seven people in the audience, which was a shame because the film had much to commend it.
Firstly it did live up to it's promise as 'an innovative rethinking of what it means to put Shakespeare on film' (a boast from its website here)
This production maintains its roots in the theatre - indeed the artifice of theatre is celebrated and played with throughout. We are given a sense that we are observing the actions and consequences of people from a supernatural vantage point.
Review of King Lear (Dir. Greg Doran, starring Antony Sher)
RSC September 2016
What could be better for lovers of King Lear than to see it performed in Stratford-upon-Avon with Antony Sher in the lead role? I'd seen Sher as Richard III, Macbeth and Falstaff (Henry IV parts one and two) and he was excellent in all of them. Sadly he wasn't as good in the role of Lear - indeed the whole production was flawed. Please understand that I went with good intent and I so want to support the theatre - but it just wasn't good enough.
I don't go to the theatre looking for flaws, I go to be caught up with the unique magic, which is Theatre. It can be life-changing, full of wonder, an education, an emotional experience, a magical journey. Sadly, this was none of the above.
(spoiler alert) To discuss the play, I have to, well, discuss the play - so here goes...
Review of Glenda Jackson’s King Lear
The Old Vic, London (25 Oct-3 Dec 2016)
Glenda Jackson is not only an actress with some calibre, but also a Labour MP who has spoken out against the gross inequalities in UK society. She articulates well and has a big heart. Since King Lear is a play with much to say about social justice, inequality and corruption, I thought that Glenda Jackson would be ideally placed to convey the text in such a way that it lives and breathes. I so wanted this to be good. I had no problem with Lear being played by a woman – and neither would Shakespeare.
The opening scene hinges on Lear’s reactions to each of his three daughter’s responses (to his demands for flattery). Consequently I thought it odd that for much of the scene Glenda was sat centre stage with her back to the audience. This seriously hindered her expression and made some lines less audible.
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