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Information Security acts as a steward for the university when responding to reports of copyright infringement. As a team dedicated to maintaining the integrity and survivability of the university's network, we will act on each notice and investigate each incident to validate reports. When the report of copyright violation is found to be valid, we will act to disable the offending host on our network. We will also send a report of the incident to the Dean of Students (in the event that a student is the offending party) or to the Employee Relations Director (in the case of a staff member).
Reports of copyright infringement violations should be submitted to Information Security by sending mail to abuse-dmca@depaul.edu. We require a digitally signed message that allows us to verify your identity.
The Digital Millenium Copyright Act
The Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) focuses on the protection of an authors' rights to intellectual property in a digital age. The Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on 12 Oct 1998 and signed into Public Law 105-304 on 28 Oct 28 1998 by President William Clinton. The DMCA was designed primarily to sufficiently address the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) treaties signed at the Geneva conference during December of 1996. The DMCA is, by far, the largest Act to supersede pre-existing U.S. copyright law in more than a generation. DMCA highlights include the following:
Outlaws the circumvention of anti-piracy techniques employed by software creators while outlawing the creation, distribution and deployment of "code-cracking" devices built specifically for the circumvention of anti-piracy measures.
Permits the research and testing of such copyright protection devices to assess their encryption measures, interoperability and security integrity.
Limits the distribution of unauthorized or unlicensed copyrighted material including provisions for service providers to limit copyright infringement liability through preventing further spread of copyrighted material and removing such material from hosts, where necessary. Further, limits the liability of higher education institutions in the event they provide connectivity services for faculty and graduate level students.
Requires specific licensing fees to be properly distributed towards artists and authors during Internet broadcasts.
DePaul University, as a service provider for students, faculty and staff, must honor the DMCA in accordance with applicable laws.
Preventing P2P Copyright Infringement
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have become a commonplace for the exchange of material ranging from movies, music, images, software and more. One of the frst vendors of wide-scale P2P networks was Napster, Inc, with others such as Aimster, Gnutella, KaZaA, Limewire and others following closely after. P2P sharing can also be performed by using the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) via the Direct Client to Client (DCC) protocol, a method in existence since the early conception of IRC networks.
Configuration errors are easy to make with P2P software, and we have seen cases of users unwittingly sharing their entire hard drive on the P2P network. Check your configuration carefully to ensure you are not sharing anything you hadn't intended to and that you are not illegally sharing any copyrighted material.
While you are on DePaul's network, we strongly urge you to disable file sharing in your P2P client. In most clients, this can be performed through an explicit option being set in the configuration preferences, or through changing the number of "allowed uploads" to zero (0).


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League of Legends – 2020 Worlds Championship Review
by David Black
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Time for a brief history lesson to give everyone a background about how League of Legends evolved to where it is now. The first official "Worlds" tournament of season 1 was in 2011. The teams consisted of three NA teams, three EU teams and two SEA teams (from the Philippines and Singapore).
Two EU teams made it to the finals with FNC winning (after going 1-2 in group stage) and TSM finishing third for NA, which is a fact that EU fans like to remind NA fans of to this day. EU would see a six-year drought before another finals appearance and NA has never made it to the finals.
It did not take long for the Asian regions to assert their dominance from that point forward with a Taiwanese team Taipei Assassins from the now defunct LMS region winning season 2 and the infamous SKT T1 winning season 3.
It was not until 2014 that Worlds would take the shape as we know it today (and for the Super 4 regions LPL, LCK, EU and NA to become established). In the main Worlds tournament there are four groups of four teams that compete in a double round robin BO1 format.
Each of the top two teams from the groups advance to the bracket stage of the tournament where three rounds of BO5 play determine the Worlds winner. The path to qualification for the Worlds tournament has been changed for each region many times throughout the years.
Since 2014-2019, there have been a maximum of three teams for the CN, KR, EU and NA regions (with additional teams from the LMS or PCS). In 2017, the Play In stage of Worlds was added to allow a better chance for teams outside of the major four regions to qualify for Worlds.
In the 2020 Worlds, CN and EU (the two regions with the best two-year cumulative performance) have received an opportunity to qualify an unprecedented fourth team. There have been no new regions added to Worlds this year.
The PCS (a combination of the former LMS and SEA regions) was hardest hit this year dropping a combined four seeds in 2019 (two direct seeds and two play in seeds) to two seeds (one direct and one play in) for 2020. The VN region is unable to travel/compete due to COVID restrictions.
The dominance of the top four regions (CN = LPL, EU = LEC, KR = LCK and NA = LCS) is easily visualized by looking at their domination in both the Worlds main and play in tournaments (from 2014-2019 for Worlds and from 2017-2019 for the play ins).
Of the regions that have fielded three teams in each Worlds since 2014, NA has performed the most poorly advancing two teams to the quarterfinals, one team to the semifinals and no teams to the finals. NA also failed to advance from group stage in 2015 and 2019.
KR and CN have been traditionally the strongest regions although EU has outperformed KR in the past two years. No region outside of the top four have advanced teams past the group stage since 2017.
The play in seeds from CN, EU and KR have advance more teams (6) in three years than NA (5) has advanced in the last six years. This is another mark of how poorly NA has performed compared to the other three top regions.
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Why this PE exhaust maker is SA's best factory
10 July 2019 | Web Article Number: ME201915316
THE first Factory of the Year (FotY) award has been presented to Eberspächer South Africa.
The jury acknowledged the Port Elizabeth-based manufacturer of exhaust systems as being a highly efficient manufacturer, with a balanced score across all dimensions assessed, scoring within the top quintile of global benchmarks within the "Quality" dimension. In addition, the company's advanced use of robotics and automation has brought about efficiency gains for the factory in recent years.
Four "excellence" awards were given to participants which performed exceptionally well in a specific dimension of the FotY competition. Columbus Stainless was recognised for Excellence in Large Scale Production with Nyamezela Metering acknowledged for Excellence in Small Scale Production. The Excellence in Digitisation award was given to Atlantis Foundries and Nampak (Bevcan Rosslyn) won the award for Excellence in Resource Efficiency.
Factory of the Year is a global annual benchmarking competition that has been running for over 25 years and, according to its organisers, is recognised as the toughest benchmarking test for companies in the production arena.
The competition has benchmarks and best practices from over 2,000 factories across all industries and over 30 countries. This initiative was launched in 2018 in South Africa by A.T. Kearney in partnership with the Department of Trade and Industry, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Manufacturing Circle and Manufacturing Indaba.
Igor Hulak, Partner at A.T. Kearney, said the current dynamics of the globalising world presents a challenge for all manufacturing operations, and specifically within the South African manufacturing environment where a strong sector has immense downstream impact.
"More than ever, companies have to find the right balance in their manufacturing footprint and global value chain design. To successfully sustain and grow production, achieving and maintaining world-class excellence requires every manufacturer to relentlessly and continually pursue efficiency improvements," he said.
"But nowadays, that is not enough. The 4th Industrial Revolution is not a theoretical term any longer, yet to be somehow understood. As such the local manufacturing community can no longer shy away from the pace of adoption of the 4IR technologies on shop floors, which has been dramatically increasing over the past three years.
Though the South African sector in general has a relatively wide performance gap to close, we have been very pleased to see that the top awardees in this country can withstand direct comparison with world-class performance and standards on the evaluated dimensions."
Hulak added that the idea of identifying and rewarding world-class performance and providing all participants with a confidential evaluation of their competitive position free of charge is therefore more meaningful and beneficial than ever before.
"FotY is much more than a competition, it is bringing about consciousness of future manufacturing in South Africa, trends and examples of Industry 4.0 solutions that work," said Ilse Karg, Chief Director of Future Industrial Production Technologies, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), one of the organisations which partnered with A.T Kearney for the FotY competition. "Small Businesses and suppliers need to take note of the FOTY award winning companies and the opportunities becoming available from market leaders."
Philippa Rodseth, Executive Director of the Manufacturing Circle said she was inspired by the range and quality of submissions, and to see how applicants compete with international counterparts according to the objective benchmarking process that has been established over several years by administering the competition across various countries.
"This competition is important for the manufacturing sector because it raises the profile of our industry. It is important that the broader public has a better understanding of what different manufacturing businesses entail, from the likes of a foundry dealing with molten metals, to a high-tech facility managing the interface between people and artificial intelligence in a production process," Rodseth said.
Martin Sanne, Executive Manager at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) said all South African manufacturers could learn from this competition as it is not only a benchmark of capability against the world or in South Africa but also against oneself. "It was a pleasure to see the amazing capability of South African manufacturers and I am confident that manufacturing has a great future in South Africa as we have world class capability," he said.
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Danger in D.C.: Cat Crimes in the Nation's Capital
Author: Martin Greenberg
Setting Year: 1993
Setting Decade: 1990s
Main Themes: Corruption, Crime, Political Life
Excerpt: Carefully, cautiously, the animal approached the black wrought-iron fence embedded into more concrete, and stuck its head through the spearlike rods. With almond-shaped eyes the cat gazed out across the expansive, immaculate White House lawn. Dew sparkled on the grass like millions of diamonds thrown carelessly out onto endless bolts of green velvet.
Excerpt Page Number: 31-32
Address: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue 20500
Excerpt: At first, entering the hotel lounge, she thought she was out of luck: everywhere she looked, in the dimly lighted bar, were couples. Except for one man, sitting on a bar stool, and he looked like a bum! Bearded, in sweats and a baseball cap, he was hardly the sort of prospect she was after. She decided to play a waiting game, taking a small round table for one against a mirrored wall. Somebody would wander in, looking for a little singles action. Some married man, perhaps
Excerpt Page Number: 38
Address: 1 Washington Cir NW 20037
Main Themes: Corruption, Crime
Excerpt: The cat glowered at Lyle's approaching hand, and after a moment's hesitation launched himself away from the theater box. His three pursuers watched in awe as he sailed through the air, landed on the stage, and scampered away into the wings. "My god, did you see that?" Richard asked, dumbfounded. "Just like John Wilkes Booth!" "And from the very same spot, too," Lyle added, equally impressed. "But John Wilkes Booth broke his leg when he landed," Justine said anxiously.
Address: 511 10th St NW 20004
Main Themes: Corruption, Political Life, Presidents
Excerpt: There are 898 steps on the iron stairway that goes to the top of the Washington Monument, which is 555 feet 5 ⅛ inches tall, including the fifty-five-foot-high pyramidion that tops the structure. There are landings at ten-foot intervals, and there are memorial stones positioned at each landing, stones donated by states and organizations Shawn was reading the stone from Delaware, which declares that Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution and will be the last to desert it. The president was more interested in the memorial stone from Arkansas, which was on the same level and which Shawn supposed was only natural
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Iconic 'Flag Over Reichstag' Leica III camera to be auctioned at Bonhams
Another iconic Leica camera is soon going to come under the hammer at a Bonhams auction. The auction house has previously auctioned some very rare Leica shooters including an extremely sought-after Leica II Luxus camera which is believed to be one of the rarest cameras in the world. This Leica III camera which will be auctioned at the Bonhams Leica Centenary Sale in Hong Kong on 30 November was used by Yevgeni Khaldei to take one of the most iconic images of the World War II. Yevgeni Khaldei who worked as a photo journalist for the official Soviet news agency TASS used this very camera to capture the "Raising a Flag Over The Reichstag" photo.
Khaldei's image was taken on 2 May 1945 shortly after the Reichstag had finally fallen. It is a restaging of the moment when Red Army fighters had first flown the flag over the building two days earlier before the Germans fought back and dislodged them. It is reported that Khaldei had hoped that the image would have the same impact as Joe Rosenthal's famous photograph 'Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima'. The camera, bearing the serial number 257492 is accompanied by an Elmar f/3.5 50mm lens with the serial number 471366 and is estimated to sell at £230,000-340,000 ($400,000-582,000). Bonhams Head of scientific instruments Jon Baddeley said, "It is a great privilege to be selling a camera with such evocative associations. Raising a Flag over the Reichstag is a defining image of victory over evil which affected people deeply at the time and has continued to resonate for later generations."
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What does China's crypto crackdown mean for global digital currency?
China is issuing a ban on cryptocurrencies just as it launches its own CBDC, but will this move shake up the world's crypto markets?
Lara Williams
China's banning of cryptocurrencies hasn't caused a global earthquake in the manner it would have done a few years ago. (Photo by Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)
China's blanket ban on cryptocurrency has arrived just when the People's Bank of China (Pboc) is planning to issue its own digital currency. The big question is, however, what effect will China's strategy have on global digital currency?
In May 2021, the Chinese government announced a major crackdown on cryptocurrency mining and trading. Previous attempts at curbing China's cryptocurrency sector had focused primarily on exchanges and associated businesses. By concurrently planning to launch the digital yuan, a blockchain-based central bank digital currency (CBDC), the PBoC appears to be harnessing the benefits of cryptocurrency's underlying technology while removing its primary characteristic of anonymised decentralisation that threatens its fiat currency.
What is a central bank digital currency?
CBDCs are cryptographically secure digital currencies issued by central banks. A CBDC's underlying blockchain technology allows transactions for fractions of currency without administration overheads. Every fraction of the digital currency is recorded on an immutable and traceable ledger, for full transparency. The advantage of CBDCs is that they will allow faster, cheaper and fully transparent payment systems.
China has historically dominated global Bitcoin mining operations. If Bitcoin were a country, it would be in the top 30 energy users worldwide, according to the University of Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index with China ranking first at almost double the energy consumption of the US in second place.
Since 2017 the Chinese government has introduced a raft of cryptocurrency regulation prompting major trading exchanges in mainland China (including the world's largest exchange, Binance) to relocate to Hong Kong and elsewhere. Thus began a gradual shift of the global crypto centre of gravity out of China towards Europe and North America.
Chainalysis chief economist Philip Gradwell believes the most recent ban on mining will have a limited effect on global trading because the vast majority of the world's leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, is already mined. Of Bitcoin's 21 million finite supply, 18.7 million bitcoins had been mined by August 2021, according to Blockchain.com.
Gradwell even goes as far as to say that the Chinese Communist Party's ban on crypto may have some positive short-term effects on the global market. China's coal-powered energy use for mining Bitcoin did not sit well with Western investors. "From an ESG perspective, as more mining moves into the US and Europe I think investors can be comfortable that cryptocurrency mining is becoming more environmentally friendly and amenable to regulation if need be," he says.
In addition, Gradwell sees no sudden shock in the global market as Chinese appetite for cryptocurrency was has been declining for some time. "There has been a big transfer of investment away from China; for instance, the recent investment wave in the first quarter of 2020 has been North America and western European-based," he adds.
In fact, China's global share of Bitcoin mining fell from 75.5% in September 2019 to 46% in April 2021, demonstrating that China's mining dominance was waning well before the PBoC's latest crackdown, according to research by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance.
An East/West crypto divide
The PBoC is aiming to launch the largest digital currency project of any major economy, with pilot tests under way since mid-2020 and plans to set it in motion around the 2022 Winter Olympics, which will be hosted in Beijing.
Launching its own CBDC alongside banning cryptocurrency is aligned with the Communist Party's centralised approach of leadership in all aspects of a citizen's life. Cryptocurrency's underlying premise of individual monetary freedom for the holder remains a threat to such centralised monetary systems.
The same blockchain technology that underlies both CBDCs and cryptocurrency will be used according to the ideological differences of the state that implements them, either using the data that digital currencies provide to control and monitor its populations or to disrupt existing banking systems by allowing greater individual freedoms in banking processes.
Is cryptocurrency a threat to global banking systems?
While many applications of blockchain technology – such as non-fungible tokens or smart contracts – can improve the efficiency of industry supply chains, cryptocurrencies are a blockchain application that is inherently destabilising, says GlobalData's head of thematic research, Cyrus Mewawalla. CBDCs have the potential to create an entirely new global banking ecosystem. "I expect many Western countries to be considering the launch of digital currencies because CBDCs give central banks a tool to address the threat from cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin," says Mewawalla.
"China's crackdown on cryptocurrencies mirrors its crackdown on Big Tech and sends the fintech industry a clear message – banking and the monetary policy levers that central banks wield are not going to succumb to disruptive forces," he adds. "Across the world, regulators are likely to regulate cryptocurrencies in some form or another, and soon, for the same reasons as China."
In the US and Europe, regulators are grappling with conflicting definitions of where cryptocurrency lies in the regulatory framework. In the US, the Securities and Exchange Commission sees them as securities, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission calls them commodities, while the Treasury calls them currencies, with even the Internal Revenue Service considering them as property for tax purposes.
However, regulation is unlikely to curb the global appetite for cryptocurrency now that it has entered the mainstream. Once a niche concern, cryptocurrency represents an increased percentage of financial services investment portfolios in the US and Europe. The 2021 US listing of Coinbase, the cryptocurrency trading exchange, reported about 53 million users and a quarterly trading volume of $335bn.
According to Chainalysis, global cryptocurrency adoption grew 2,300% from the third quarter of 2019 to the second quarter of 2021, and by more than 881% from the second quarter of 2020 to the second quarter of 2021. Adoption in North America, western Europe and East Asia over the past year has been largely driven by institutional investment, according to Chainalysis, demonstrating a mainstream acceptance of cryptocurrency.
The pandemic prompted a flood of investment in cryptocurrencies by hedge funds, institutional investors and high-profile proponents including Tesla's Elon Musk. Since March 2020, cryptocurrency markets have spawned a new generation of blockchains including Solana, Cardano and Polkadot. All of this has come despite the market's extreme volatility: Bitcoin hit a high of just below $67,000 in October 2021, up from $0.08 in 2010. No matter the threat to traditional banking systems, cryptocurrency is unlikely to be eliminated from free market economies, and China's crackdown, although extreme, is commensurate with the level of perceived threat to existing banking systems in China through its potential transformative effect due to its openness. This provides a message even cryptocurrency sceptics in the West are likely to receive loud and clear.
Lara Williams is a senior reporter at Investment Monitor specialising in FDI in the tech and bio-pharma sectors. An experienced writer, Lara previously worked as deputy editor of the Financial Times's fDi Magazine. Lara has a background in technology journalism writing for the UK's Computing magazine and has spent much of the past decade living in Silicon Valley.
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Overview The Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts, (a community-based movement devoted to empowering African Americans and other people of color to enter into the economic and social main stream), began its work in 1917 when a group of citizens led by Eugene Kunkle Jones met to discuss ways to help the growing number of black migrants from the South and immigrants from the West Indies find housing and employment in Boston. Once established, it became an affiliate of the National Urban League and...
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BASK Gili Meno - Island property for sale close to Lombok and Bali
BASK Nest – Underwater Sculpture by world renowned Jason DeCaires Taylor
BASK Nest
Location: BASK Gili Meno, Indonesia? Depth: 4m
The hauntingly beautiful sculpture comprises of a circle of 48 life-size figures encircling yet more figures on the sea floor. Designed by Jason deCaires Taylor, the interlocking pieces connect to provide a platform for marine life to colonise and inhabit. As corals continue to form on the pH neutral sculptures, more and more marine life will form.
Gifted to the local community by BASK Gili Meno, the man-made reef is situated in shallow water which is a short swim from the beach. It is fast becoming the number one must see attraction on the Gili Islands, with local boat companies providing regular trips to the sculptures from the surrounding islands.
Behind the Design – Jason DeCaires Taylor?
Jason deCaires Taylor is a sculptor, environmentalist and professional underwater photographer. He became the first of a new generation of artists to shift the concept of the land art movement into the marine environment and is recognised for his eco-friendly underwater sculptures.
Taylor's work spans several continents including the Caribbean, the Canary Islands and even in the Thames in his home country of Britain. Over the past 10 years, he has created several large-scale underwater "Museums" and "Sculpture Parks", with collections of over 850 life-size public works. BASK Nest is the first of its kind in Indonesia.
His work is not only designed to provide public art, but works of art that seek to encourage environmental awareness, instigate social change and lead us to appreciate the breathtaking natural beauty of the underwater world.
"First and foremost, BASK Nest is an environmental space. The figures are arranged in a circular formation as an echo of the circle of life, and they will soon teem with life. Soft corals and sponges should flourish quickly paving the way for delicate hard corals and a fully established reef", said deCaires Taylor.
Images of some of Jason DeCaires Taylors' work
Reef Rejuvenation and Sustainability Benefits
Sustainability has always been at the forefront of the BASK management team's mind. With forty percent of the world's coral reefs being lost over the past few decades and with scientists predicting more being at risk, BASK commissioned the installation of BASK Nest as a reminder to visitors of the many fragile treasures beneath the sea.
The sculptures are used to instigate growth and the subsequent changes intended to explore the aesthetics of decay, rebirth and metamorphosis. Within the relatively short period, since it was installed, BASK Nest has already become home to corals, sponges and diverse fish species.
As these organisms populate the reef, its overall biomass will increase, with BASK Nest enhancing its resilience and becoming an integral nursery for native species, which in turn is encouraging other marine life. This paves the way for delicate hard corals and eventually, a fully established reef will form safeguarding Gili Meno's fragile ecosystem as well as enhancing the diving and snorkeling experience on the Gili Islands.
What Can You Expect To See?
The warm waters around the islands are teeming with marine life including turtles, moray eels, octopus, cuttlefish, rays, sea snakes, white tip and black tip reef sharks, bumphead, parrot fish and clown fish. At BASK Nest you can expect to see an abundance of clown fish, triggerfish and banner fish to name just a few.
It is not only the fish that attract hundreds of visitors throughout the year, but also the array of soft and hard coral and the incredible underwater photo opportunities.
Most of the boat companies on the Gili Islands will run multiple trips to BASK Nest during the day, but we suggest getting there early to avoid the crowds.
BASK Nest is swimming distance from the shore and is opposite the BASK sign on Gili Meno. With water temperatures of around 28 degrees, your standard swimmers will be fine for viewing it.
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West Ham United: Obiang signs new Hammers deal
WEST HAM UNITED have announced that Spanish midfielder, Pedro Obiang, has signed a new five-year contract with the London Stadium side.
Obiang arrived at West Ham from Italian side Sampdoria in summer 2015 and has made more than 50 appearances for Slaven Bilic's side. Speaking to West Ham TV about the new deal, Obiang said: "Over the next five years, we can achieve many, many things but we are going to start from today.
"Of course, I trust the Club and the situation and I know I am in a very good team at a very good Club.
"I have a lot of teammates here and I talked to Manu [Lanzini], Adrian and Angelo [Ogbonna] over the summer when we were on holidays and that's maybe a little bit of the reason I signed a new contract is because I prefer to be here than in another place, because I feel like part of a family here.
"I think here we can do many things. When I start to play, I have confidence and I don't know why the situation changed [last season]. I had the possibility to start and to demonstrate what I wanted to demonstrate in my first season here, but for many reasons I didn't do. Now I have time to do it."


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Discoverability: Toward a Common Frame of Reference NFB, Telefilm Canada, CBC/Radio-Canada (MTM) May 2016 This first part of a report on the discoverability of Canadian content is intended as a means for the Canadian audiovisual industry and its stakeholders to develop a common understanding of the discoverability concept.
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Mid-year update to the CMF's 2016 Trends Report: Entering the Age of Experience.
How National Content is Defined in Canada and Selected Countries CMPA, Telefilm Canada, OMDC August 2016
This study examines how national content is defined in different jurisdictions for the purpose of accessing public support for feature film and television productions.
Discoverability Part 2: The Audience Journey NFB, Telefilm Canada, CBC/Radio-Canada (MTM) October 2016
The objective of this second part is to explore discoverability in greater depth, through the eyes of Canadian audiences: how they learn of the existence of content, how they make their choices, and these audiences' main discoverability vectors.
International Performance of Drama Series in Nine Small TV Markets AQPM October 2016
The document presents detailed case studies on iconic TV series in several countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Israel, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland) that shed new light on the conditions for producing drama series in these national markets.
Understanding and Engaging with Audiences Telefilm Canada, OMDC, Creative BC, SODEC November 2016
This report provides a summary of the audience data and trends that Telefilm has been measuring since 2012. Nielsen Media Research was retained to conduct the 2016 study.
Overview of existing Canadian export support programs November 2016 Review of Canadian export support programs for producers who are seeking to develop new markets.
Women & Leadership: Study of Gender Parity and Diversity in Canada's Screen Industries CMPA, OMDC, Creative BC, SODEC, Telefilm Canada, RBC January 2017 What are the strategies, programs and practices used in Canada and elsewhere in the world that have a positive effect on gender equality and cultural diversity in the screen industries? What lessons can be learned from the results of these strategies, programs and practices? This study attempts to answer these questions.
Trends Report 2017 -- The Digital Puzzle: Piecing Back Together the Content Value Chain February 2017 How has the new audiovisual value chain been reconfigured? And which players are best positioned to make the most of it? These questions served as the framework for the 2017 edition of the Trends Report, in which the CMF examines the value creation opportunities that have emerged from this major industrial reorganization.
Measuring Success: The Impact of Interactive Digital Media in Ontario Interactive Ontario, OMDC, Ubisoft, CMPA, Bell Fund, City of Toronto February 2017 This study is aimed at better understanding the companies that make up Ontario's interactive digital media (IDM) industry and the impact those companies have in Ontario.
Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Measurement of Digital Cultural Products UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Institut de la statistique du Québec, HEC-Montréal, MCCQ, MRIFQ, Organisation internationale de la francophonie, Telefilm Canada, Canadian Heritage, Canadian Commission for UNESCO, Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts de Montréal, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Printemps numérique, Culture Montréal February 2017 This report looks at the issues, methods, practices and innovations surrounding the production of statistics on digital cultural content.
Supporting and developing the Indigenous screen-based industry in Canada March 2017 This document presents the main recommendations from a multi-stakeholder engagement process aimed at developing a strategy to better support the Indigenous screen-based sector in Canada.
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Standard Chartered under its Diversity & Inclusion platform joined hands with British Deputy High Commission and celebrated International Women's Day.
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Standard Chartered collaborates with British Deputy High Commission.Gender Diversity and supporting women at the workplace has been one of the core objectives of Standard Chartered and British Deputy High Commission.
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Chinese media and academia debate journalism standards and payment for interviews
In the West it is understood as a matter of course that journalists must not offer cash or other inducements to secure story interviews [Example: LA Times ethics code/SEE "Access"]. In the wilder world of Chinese journalism, however, the lines are not always so clear, and one obstacle facing journalists in recent years has been […]
In the West it is understood as a matter of course that journalists must not offer cash or other inducements to secure story interviews [Example: LA Times ethics code/SEE "Access"]. In the wilder world of Chinese journalism, however, the lines are not always so clear, and one obstacle facing journalists in recent years has been public figures and academics demanding payment before granting interviews. Summaries of some of the most relevant cases on this issue follow plus a list of arguments pro and con:
The Li Yinhe Case – In March 2006 Guangzhou Daily said one of its reporters was asked to pay an "interview fee" after requesting to meet with Li Yinhe, a researcher from The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. According to the newspaper, Li's rate was 500 yuan per hour (US$60/hr), with no charge for interviews under 15 minutes. The reporter interviewed Li for just over an hour and was asked to pay 500 yuan. Li Yinhe later explained publicly that she began charging in order to discourage a flood of interviews making demands on her time. She said interviews, which require time and energy, should not be granted free of charge. Li cited the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as an example of media who pay for interviews. In fact, the BBC's code of ethics explicitly states the network must, "Disclose any direct or indirect payment made for interviews" and may not "pay people who act as information sources." [Guangzhou Daily coverage of Li's response available here].[More Chinese coverage here].
The Sun Daolin Case – According to a February 2005 news report by Yangcheng Evening News, when reporters approached film director Sun Daolin about a story on his experiences as a filmmaker and his thoughts on contemporary film, Sun asked to be compensated. The director argued that his speech amounted to a sharing of intellectual property. However, after Yangcheng reporters asked to know what Sun's going rate was, the director said he could not determine this himself and stressed that he was not motivated by personal profit, the newspaper reported. [Yangcheng Evening News report available here].
The China Foreign Affairs University Case – According to a June 2005 report by Beijing Times, academics from China Foreign Affairs University agreed among themselves to demand "interview fees" from media at a minimum rate of 200 yuan per hour (US$25/hr). Their reasoning, according to the newspaper, was that as the interviews addressed the academics' personal research achievements. The university reportedly responded by saying it had no right to interfere in the academics' decisions concerning their personal rights and behavior. [Beijing Times report available here].
Arguments against "interview fees":
A June 2005 editorial in China Youth Daily argued that officials and celebrities have a duty to uphold openness of information. By receiving payment for interviews, they may do harm to their credibility, the editorial said. It added that such exchanges of money are harmful to freedom of expression. [Chinese here].
In July 2005, the Global Times spoke with media organizations from South Korea, the United States, Germany and India and said it had found that payment for interviews fell outside journalism's accepted norms. The newspaper said it had also found that the majority of media believed such behavior compromised the objectivity of reporting and damaged the credibility of experts, as well as serving as a harmful example to society. [Chinese article here].
Also in 2005, professor Zhan Jiang of China Youth University for Political Sciences argued that interview is a two-way process, allowing media to benefit from the expertise of a source and offering the interviewee an opportunity to build their reputation. Academics and officials, he said, should not request payment because in this capacity they serve a "public function". If someone believes an interview will compromise their research achievements, they should refuse the interview rather than asking to be paid. [Chinese coverage here].
Arguments supporting "interview fees":
In March 2005, Legal Daily published an editorial by Professor Sun Guorui, the Deputy Director of School of Law, Beihang University, arguing it was reasonable for media to pay for interviews with experts, who spend time and effort to contribute knowledge, experience and information. Sun also dragged the debate into the arena of intellectual property protection. [Chinese coverage here].
An editorial by Xiaoxiang Morning Herald in March 2006 argued that someone who is not a public official should not have a duty to the public's right to know. If experts are offered the right to refuse interviews, said the editorial, they should also be given the right to request payment. The editorial said it was unreasonable to talk about journalists' right to information without expecting them to pay for that information. [Chinese coverage here].
In April 2006 Ma Shaohua, an associate professor of journalism at Renmin University, argued in Beijing Youth Daily that the argument that says paying for interviews violates journalistic norms is irrelevant given the fact such norms have not yet taken shape in China. [Chinese coverage here].
[Posted by Brian Chan, April 12, 2006, 9:32pm]


Richie Porte: 'We can hit the ground running at Tour Down Under'
The Australian is hoping to settle in quickly with his new Trek - Segafredo team
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Richie Porte in his new Trek - Segafredo colours (Photo: Yuzuru SUNADA)
Tour Down Under 2020
Riche Porte is looking to add to his collection of victories at the Tour Down Under in his first race with Trek – Segafredo.
Porte will line up with his new team during the first WorldTour race of the year, as he chases a sixth consecutive win on Willunga Hill.
The 33-year-old, who has only taken overall victory at the TDU once in 2017, has been chasing Grand Tour success in recent years and will be looking for an emphatic start to his season.
Porte said: "It's always nice to start with a new team.
"I haven't done a lot of time with the rest of the Trek – Segafredo boys but I know most of the guys and we have a good solid team here, so I think we can hit the ground running in this first race of the year."
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Porte switches to Trek – Segafredo from BMC Racing, where he had been striving for Grand Tour success.
The Australian's hopes of Tour de France victory were upended on stage nine of both the 2017 and 2018 races, when he was forced to retire due to crashes.
On his new outfit, Porte said: "We have probably one of the strongest teams I've ever been in for stages likes the last one to Willunga Hill, with guys like Peter Stetina and Jarlinson Pantano.
"Besides them, we've also got guys like Koen de Kort, who's one of the most experienced and very good at crosswinds, together with Kiel Reijnen and Ryan Mullen.
"We've got a well-balanced and solid team here and I hope it will continue like that for the rest of the year."
The now-famous Willunga Hill stage has been moved to the final day, meaning the general classification battle won't be settled until the final meters.
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But stage three to Uraidla features 3,000meters of climbing, more than the Willunga Hill test, which means the GC struggle is likely to be defined there.
Porte added: "I think the course suited me a little better two years ago, but this year it's also a good, challenging course.
"It's just nice to come to Adelaide in January, this race is fantastic.
"It depends how [stage three] is ridden.
"We did the recon the other day, it's a pretty tricky, hard stage.
"If it's a hot day and the peloton doesn't feel like riding hard, it could also be nothing, but looking at the course, if the proverbial hits the fan, it's going to be a good fight indeed."
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With a population of 1,567,442 and growing, Philadelphia has come a long way since the Founding Fathers gathered here to sign the Declaration of Independence. Today, it is one of the nation's largest metropolitan areas. This can can make choosing where to live within the 136-square-mile city a daunting task. If you are looking for more affordable housing options in proximity to the airport and public transportation with a nature preserve as your backyard, living in Southwest Philadelphia could be the right location for you.
While suburbs rarely get awarded highly walkable scores, people living in Southwest Philly enjoy a robust public transportation system. SEPTA's train and trolley lines offer routes to the Philadelphia International Airport and University City. This makes it possible for residents to access employment, universities, parks, the airport, and the City Center. No matter where you live in Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love offers something for everyone.
Eastwick Urban Renewal Project
Southwest Philadelphia is home to the Eastwick Urban Renewal Project. The country's largest urban renewal project recently came to an end uncompleted. For many, this closure is a welcome change. Today, the residents, community groups, nonprofits, and city agencies are working together to create a community-driven planning process to develop the remaining acreage and improve the residential quality of life in Southwest Philadelphia.
Southwest Philly neighborhoods that make up this urban landscape lie north of the Delaware River. They include Tinicum Township, Kingsessing, Elmwood, Eastwick and Paschall as well as the Philadelphia International Airport, John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge, Eastwick Community Garden, Cobbs Creek, and Bartram's Garden. High school students attend Bartram High School or Academy Park and younger kids go to John M. Patterson, Penrose, Walnut Street, Bell Avenue, or Colwyn Elementary School.
John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum
If the Philadelphia International Airport is the heart of Southwest Philadelphia, then the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge is its soul. Home to a variety of habitats, the Heinz refuge is a freshwater tidal marsh within the Delaware Estuary and recognized by the National Audubon Society.
The 1,000-acre park welcomes visitors for hiking, fishing, birdwatching, and outdoor education programs, and it is a perfect weekend retreat for urban dwellers. While the park serves as a resting stop for thousands of migrating birds, a pair of bald eagles make their home in Heinz refuge and are thriving. The eagles first nested here in 2009 and have returned every year to produce nine eaglets—how cute!
Philly Murals
If you love art, then consider moving to Philadelphia. The city's Mural Arts Program discourages random graffiti while encouraging young Philadelphians and professional artists who work together to showcase their talents. The city's architecture is their canvas, and the art they create is an iconic part of the city's landscape.
The program started three decades ago and as a result, some of the murals are in the process of being restored. The "We the Youth" mural, pictured above, was painted by Keith Haring in 1987 just before he died. Haring grew up near Philadelphia and painted the mural with kids from the Brandywine Workshop.
Southwest Philly Cheesesteak Sandwich
Even if cheesesteak isn't your favorite sandwich, it would be a crime to live in Southwest Philly and not try one. Okay, so it's not an actual crime, but you could be missing out. Philadelphians claim that what sets their cheesesteak sandwich apart from all the other cheesesteaks is the Amoroso hoagie roll. They also argue that a Philly Cheesesteak has to be ordered with Cheez Whiz. Don't be fooled on that one, though. If you have to draw the line at fatty goodness somewhere, take comfort in knowing that the fake canned "cheese" was invented long after the Philly cheesesteak sandwich.
So go ahead, indulge in chopped up, griddled-sirloin with provolone thrown in at the last minute and then poured onto a bakery-fresh roll. Add some sauteed bell peppers and French fries to the mix. It will be a just reward after moving and unpacking all of your moving boxes.
Philadelphia Is an Amazing College Town
Whether you are looking for a higher education in the arts or are a recent high school grad moving off to college, you will be glad to know that there are 15 four-year colleges in Philadelphia. Because Southwest Philly is served by SEPTA reaching the University of Philadelphia and many other colleges by train is possible from the Eastwick Station on Bartram Avenue. The main campus of the famed Philadelphia institution, Temple University, is also on the SEPTA-Philadelphia International Airport line.
Here is a list of colleges that appeal to students looking for a degree in the arts:
The Curtis Institute of Music
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Erin officials move to prevent future water problems
City of Erin seeking emergency grant to replace waterline from treatment plant, following recent breaks
Mark Hicks
USA TODAY NETWORK – Tennessee
ERIN, Tenn. — During the recent waterline breaks and subsequent water outage, Erin City Recorder Angie Neilson was taking hundreds of pictures.
"It's documentation," she said.
Neilson wasn't just recording the images of crews working to replace the waterline beside Highway 149 that was severed by a mudslide and the relief effort that followed for the sake of history, it was for future prevention.
City officials are in the process of applying for a $500,000 emergency grant for U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development to replace the affect 18-inch waterline from the city's water treatment plant, which is just inside Montgomery County.
The waterline was installed when the treatment plant was built on the Cumberland River more than three decades ago.
Because the break happened in the only line from the water plant, the facility had to be shut down while repairs were made. In the meantime, customers who had water service continued to use water still in the elevated storage tanks and throughout the system.
Once repairs were completed and the water plant began distributing water once more, it took three days for it reach all households. The City of Erin Water Department has about 2,350 customers in not only Erin and Houston County, but also in Cumblerland City and the Sailor's Rest area of Montgomery County.
Neilson said because the main lines from the water treatment plant are so vital and a break in it can affect customers throughout the entire system, the City of Erin qualifies for the emergency grant, which requires no local matching money.
Her photos will be part of the supporting documentation to justify receiving the emergency grant.
"With the available grant money, we will do our best ton ensure that if this problem happens again, it won't be in the same location," Erin Mayor Paul Bailey told Board of Mayor and Aldermen members at the May 2 meeting.
The mayor recognized various people during the meeting who helped to fix the break, as well as those who helped distribute bottled water to local resident who did not have water service.
"We really appreciate the city and our community pulling together to do what they could do," added Alderwoman Betsy Ligon.
Mark Hicks can be reached at 931-212-7626 or on Twitter: @markhicksleaf.


The graph of f(x) = 10^x and it's translation, g(x), are shown. what is the equation of g(x)?
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step-by-step explanation
2r= 2300
r =1150
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[tex]Well i failed : ( i'm sad and tired[/tex]
the correct option is:
b. a value of the variable that makes the polynomial equal to zero.
the root or roots of a polynomial are the values of the variable that makes the polynomial equal to 0. we can find the roots of a polynomial making the expression equal to 0 and then, isolating the variable (it it has just one variable).
for example, given the following polynomial:
[tex]3x-6[/tex]
the root or zero of the polynomial, can be found by making the expression equal to 0, and then, isolating the variable, so, finding the root we have:
[tex]3x-6=0[/tex]
[tex]3x=6[/tex]
[tex]x=\frac{6}{3}=2[/tex]
therefore, we have that the root of the polynomial is equal to 2.
we must remember that the number of roots that a polynomial can have, will depend on the degree of the polynomial, a first degree polynomial have will have one single root, a second degree polynomial (quadratic expression) may have two roots and so.
hence the correct option is:
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Five contemporary poets worth reading on World Poetry Day
Don Paterson Credit: Simon Price/Alamy
8 October 2015 • 6:00am
Since World Poetry Day was declared by UNESCO in 1999, it's become a celebration of all kind of poetry around the planet. Attempts are made by poets and big literary organisations to woo new readers, people who may not feel poetry is for them, with ear-catching, accessible verse, performances and public poetry installations.
These are all admirable ways of bringing more poetry into people's lives, and you could be forgiven for thinking that it's the only good poetry that gets written these days, but that's not the case. Sometimes, the most powerful poetry of all can be subtle, thoughtful, and carefully constructed.
poetry "This fashion for poetry readings has led to a kind of poetry that you can understand first go: easy rhythms, easy emotions, easy syntax" Philip Larkin
If you find yourself turned off by attention-grabbing performance poetry, and looking for something more quiet and deep to linger with you for a little longer, you're not alone. "This fashion for poetry readings has led to a kind of poetry that you can understand first go: easy rhythms, easy emotions, easy syntax," said Philip Larkin, perhaps a little sniffily, but even contemporary performance poets prefer the page now and then. If you'd rather digest poetry in your hands and your head than through your ears, here are five contemporary poets currently writing astonishing verse that uses subtler charms to win you over.
Don Paterson
The Scottish poet, critic and editor is much adorned with prizes and plaudits, and it's easy to see why: his poems bring together beauty, depth and complexity of thought, lightly woven in structures of intricate perfection. A creative writing teacher at the University of St Andrews, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, winner of the Forward Prize and twice winner of the TS Eliot Prize, Paterson also holds an OBE and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He has a particular interest in sonnets, having just written a new collection of 40 of them and edited an anthology of 101 chosen from the anglophone canon.
Read this: Rain (2009)
"...forget the ink, the milk, the blood—
all was washed clean with the flood
we rose up from the falling waters
the fallen rain's own sons and daughters
and none of this, none of this matters."
Don Paterson Credit: Geraint Lewis/Rex Shutterstock
JH Prynne
Born in 1936, Prynne may be the living poet that other poets admire the most. His poems can look unfriendly and even wilfully obscure to the casual reader, often bound in coded allusions and aesthetic formalism, exploring and teasing at the poetic construction process. Linguistically dexterous, they also display a virtuoso musicality. Prynne has been an English fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, since 1962, although he no longer teaches.
Read this: Smaller than the Radius of the Planet (1969)
"...the ethereal language of love in
brilliant suspense between us and the
hesitant arc. Yet I need it too and keep
one hand in my pocket & one in yours,
waiting for the first snow of the year."
Alice Oswald
A contemporary nature poet every inch an heir to the Romantics, Oswald's poems are steeped in landscape and history and show just as careful an ear for light and warmth as for darkness and cold. Dart, her TS Eliot prize-winning book-length poem about the river Dart (2002), is full of visceral mud and water exploring British people's relationship with our natural world and our past. Another long poem, Memorial, is hugely ambitious in scope. It's an atmospheric and accomplished sweep of a poem retelling the Iliad through an extended elegy for its war dead, a response to the ancient tradition of oral poetry and another take on poetry for performance.
Read this: Wedding (1996)
"...and this, my love, when millions come and go
beyond the need of us, is like a trick;
and when the trick begins, it's like a toe
tip-toeing on a rope, which is like luck;
and when the luck begins, it's like a wedding,
which is like love, which is like everything."
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Alice Oswald Credit: Alamy
Brenda Shaughnessy
The American poet Shaughnessy, like Prynne, is a writer whose books you'll most likely find on the bookshelves of other poets, who follow her with slavish awe. Her lightness of touch with wordplay and internal music makes her poems dance and sing on the page, while inhabiting several moods at once: they can be erotic and mournful, playful and furious, and comic and lyrical all in the space of a few moments' reading. Shaughnessy currently teaches at Rutgers University Newark (where she is tenured faculty), has won several American poetry prizes, and her work appears in The New Yorker and Best American Poetry.
Read this: Project for a Fainting (1999)
"...You are my stranger and see how we have closed. On both ends.
Night wets me all night, blind, carried.
And watermarks. The plough of the rough on the slick,
love, a tendency toward fever. To break. To soil.
Would I dance with you? Both forever and rather die.
It would be like dying, yes. Yes I would."
Originally from Jamaica, Miller now teaches at Royal Holloway, University of London, and in 2014 won the Forward Prize for his collection The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion. His poems are interested in the politics of language and its history, and often demonstrate just how perfect a form poetry can be for the debate and exploration of history and ideas, when in the right hands. A favourite of double Booker Prize-winner Hilary Mantel, Miller is currently enjoying some excited buzz around his work and is often to be found performing at events across the UK or reading his work on Radio 4, but you should believe the hype.
Read this: Speaking in Tongues (2007)
"...Years later a friend tells me
tongues is nothing but gibberish - the deluded
pulling words out of dust. I want to ask him
what is language but a sound we christen?"
Kei Miller Credit: Tina Norris/Rex Shutterstock
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WHO Says Governments Should Raise Taxes on Sugary Drinks
A woman shops for frozen foods on an aisle across from sodas and other sugary drinks for sale at a supermarket in Monterey Park, Calif. on June 18, 2014.Frederic J. Brown — AFP/Getty Images
The World Health Organization said on Tuesday governments should raise taxes on sugary drinks to fight what it says are global obesity and diabetes epidemics.
If retail prices of sugar-sweetened drinks are increased by 20% through taxation, there is a proportional drop in consumption, it said in a report titled "Fiscal Policies for Diet and Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases".
Obesity more than doubled worldwide between 1980 and 2014, with 11% of men and 15% of women classified as obese – more than 500 million people, the WHO said.
An estimated 42 million children under age 5 were overweight or obese in 2015, said Dr. Francesco Branca, director of WHO's department for nutrition and health. This was an increase of about 11 million over the past 15 years.
Additionally, some 422 million adults across the world have diabetes.
The WHO said there was increasingly clear evidence that taxes and subsidies influence purchasing behavior, and that this could be used to curb consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks and hence fight obesity and diabetes.
"We are now in a place where we can say there is enough evidence and we encourage countries to implement effective tax policy," Temo Waqanivalu, coordinator at WHO's department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Health Promotion, told a briefing.
The United States has the world's highest rates of obesity per population, but China also has similar absolute numbers among both men and women, Branca, the nutrition director, said.
Sweet drinks are also popular in Latin America, where people in Chile and Mexico are the biggest consumers, he said.
WHO guidelines issued in March 2015 said that adults and children from the Americas to Western Europe and the Middle East need to roughly halve the amount of sugar they consume to lower risk of obesity and tooth decay.
The guidelines mean people should reduce the amount to less than 10% of their daily energy intake — or to about 50 grams or 12 teaspoons of sugar for adults – but 5% is even better, it said.
The WHO's recommendations cover free sugars such as glucose and fructose, and sucrose or table sugar added to processed foods and drinks.


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Woman gang raped by Somali refugees blasts plane "mutiny" which stopped one attacker from being deported
Posted on April 10, 2019 by DCG | 6 comments
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From Daily Mirror: A woman raped by a Somali refugee has told of her anger after a passenger mutiny on a flight prevented the attacker from being deported. Yaqub Ahmed was one of four men who gang raped the woman in North London when she was just 16.
In October last year, well-meaning travellers on a flight from London to Turkey intervened when they discovered Ahmed was being forced to leave the country, having served a jail term for rape.
Faced with a dozen passengers demanding Ahmed was taken off the plane, Home Office officials relented.
But the footage piled on the misery for the 27-year-old victim, who was horrified to see people support the rapist.
One man was heard in a video clip telling Ahmed: "You're a free man now."
The woman, who has suffered post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of the rape, told the Mail on Sunday that seeing the video made her "angry and upset".
Hitting out at the "bleeding heart" passengers who intervened, she said: "He was in handcuffs, he was being taken out of the country… who are you people to interfere with justice? Fair enough you didn't know the situation, but now I hope you feel proud of yourselves because you stopped something that I have waited for so long: something that made me feel that little bit safer."
The four men were jailed for a combined 35 years following the sex attack in August 2007.Ahmed remains in the UK, the Mail on Sunday reports, with efforts to deport him continuing.
The woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, said she was lured to a flat in Crouch End, North London, by a youth who claimed her friend was waiting for her after she lost her on a night out. She said she was held down while the men took turns to rape her during the horrific attack.
Neighbours heard her screams and called police, but all four denied rape, forcing the woman to relive the ordeal at a trial.
Ahmed, then 19, Adnan Mohamud, 19, and Adnan Barud, 21, were all jailed for nine years. Ondogo Ahmed, 19, was given eight years for conspiracy to rape. He died fighting for ISIS in 2013.
Voicing her fury at those who prevented the deportation, the woman said they clearly thought there had been an injustice because Ahmed was in handcuffs. But she continued: "Those people should have realised it takes a lot to get someone deported, maybe we shouldn't interfere."
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