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Three Queens-based construction companies pleaded guilty today to misclassifying their workers in the payroll to avoid paying them overtime.
According to New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the employees at these companies lost out on thousands of dollars in wages. Lotus-C Corporation, Johnco Contracting Inc. and RCM Painting Inc. all committed payroll fraud by classifying full-time painters and carpenters as contractors.
Schneiderman's investigation found that between 2012 through 2017 the companies repeatedly failed to pay overtime to more than 150 employees. The employees were required to sign a form identifying themselves as independent contractors even though under New York state labor laws, they were considered employees.
The companies also underreported the number of employees working at these corporations during this period and also falsified their New York State Quarterly Combined Withholding, Wage Reporting and Unemployment Insurance Return forms, which led to "significant" underpayment of unemployment contributions to the Department of Labor.
The companies, located in Jackson Heights, Bayside and Maspeth, respectively, pleaded guilty to felony counts of fourth-degree grand larceny and first-degree falsifying business records.
As part of the plea agreement, the companies are required to pay a total of $371,447.01 for unpaid wages and $359,747.86 in unpaid unemployment contributions to the New York State Department of Labor.
The defendant corporations are also required to dissolve the businesses. The principals of the corporations, Cesar Agudelo of Lotus-C Corp. and John Massino of RCM Painting Inc. and Johnco Contracting Inc., will be barred for five years from bidding on public works contracts in New York.
"Led by pure greed, the defendants in this case attempted to sidestep the law — misclassifying their employees as a way to stiff them on the overtime pay they rightfully earned," Schneiderman said. "My office will continue to crack down on those who seek to steal from their workers in order to line their own pockets."


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Klay Thompson Issues Temporary Ban On Drake's 'Hotline Bling'
Good news, bad news for Drake — Good news?? Klay Thompson likes your music. Bad news?? Klay Thompson HATES YOUR GUTS!!!
… as a Raptors fan.
The Warriors superstar was asked whether he's gonna get in the zone for the NBA Finals by vibin' out to some Drizzy, or skip his jams considering he's with the enemy Toronto Raptors … and Klay had one helluva soundbite.
"If it's one of his soft, R&B songs, I'mma skip it 'cause I'm in 'kill mode' right now trying to get these 4 games," Klay says … "So, I'll skip 'Hotline Bling' and anything along that line."
Side note — Klay, don't do "Hotline Bling" like that. RESPECT "HOTLINE BLING!!!!!!" It's a classic.
Thompson — who says he's been a Drake fan since high school — added, "He's a great artist. Do I like him as a Raptors fan? No. But, I like him as a musician. He's extremely talented, but I will definitely skip the song if i don't like it."
Understandable, Klay … but again, respect "Hotline Bling."
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Supererogation: Its Status in Ethical Theory
Cambridge University Press (1982)
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How can it be that some acts of very high moral value are not morally required? This is the problem of supererogation. I do not argue in favor of a particular answer. Instead, I analyze two opposing moral intuitions the problem involves. First, that one should always do one's best. Second, that sometimes we are morally allowed not to do our best. To think that one always has to do one's best is less plausible, as it makes every morally best (...)
Governments are subject to the requirements of justice, yet often seem to go above and beyond what justice requires in order to act in ways many people think are good. These kinds of acts – examples of which include putting on celebrations, providing grants to poets, and preserving historic architecture – appear to be acts of government supererogation. In this paper, I argue that a common view about the relationship between government, coercion, and justice implies that most such acts are (...)
We argue that permissibility-based solutions to the paradox of supererogation encounter a nested dilemma. Such approaches solve the paradox by distinguishing moral and rational permissions. If they do not also include a bridge condition that relates these two permissions, then they violate a very plausible monotonicity condition. If they do include a bridge condition, then permissibility-based solutions either amount to rational satisficing or they collapse back into the classical account of supererogation and fail to resolve the paradox.
Bourdieu and Derrida share a focus on the ambiguity of the practice of gift relationships already pointed out by Mauss. From Bourdieu's perspective, the question of gratuity is epistemically futile, as it veils the objective truth of gift-giving, yet ethically and politically relevant, as it refers to a hypocrisy which can be instrumental to enhancing civic virtue and solidarity. Bourdieu's "scientific humanism," however, implausibly reduces this ambiguity to interest maximization, and aims to build a solidaristic democracy by means of the (...)
The World Health Organisation encourages that blood donation becomes voluntary and unremunerated, a system already operated in the UK. Drawing on public documents and videos, this paper argues that blood donation is regarded and presented as altruistic and supererogatory. In advertisements, donation is presented as something undertaken for the benefit of others, a matter attracting considerable gratitude from recipients and the collecting organisation. It is argued that regarding blood donation as an act of supererogation is wrongheaded, and an alternative account (...)
According to many, to have epistemic justification to believe P is just for it to be epistemically permissible to believe P. Others think it is for believing P to be epistemically good. Yet others think it has to do with being epistemically blameless in believing P. All such views of justification encounter problems. Here, a new view of justification is proposed according to which justification is a kind of composite normative status. The result is a view of justification that offers (...)
This article casts light on the moral implications of the possibility of human extinction, with a specific focus on extinction caused by an interruption in human reproduction. In the first two paragraphs, I show that moral philosophy has not yet given promising explanations for the wrongness of this kind of extinction. Specifically, the second paragraph contains a detailed rejection of John Leslie's main claims on the morality of extinction. In the third paragraph, I offer a demonstration of the fact that (...)
In the latter half of this century, there have been two mostly separate threads within ethical theory, one on 'superogation', one on 'common-sense morality'. I bring these threads together by systematically reflecting on doing more than one has to do. A rich and coherent set of concepts at the core of common-sense morality is identified, along with various logical connections between these core concepts. Various issues in common-sense morality emerge naturally, as does a demonstrably productive definition of doing more than (...)
The special class of supererogatory actions—those that go "beyond the call of duty"—has thus far been omitted from the management literature. Rather, actions of a firm that may surpass economic and legal requirements have been discussed either under the umbrella term of Corporate Social Responsibility or the concept of positive deviance as articulated by the Positive Organizational Scholarship movement. This paper seeks to clarify how "duty" is understood in these literatures and makes an argument that paradigmatic examples of corporate supererogation (...)
Organizations have neither a right to the vote nor a weighty right to life. We need not enfranchise Goldman Sachs. We should feel few scruples in dissolving Standard Oil. But they are not without rights altogether. We can owe it to them to keep our promises. We can owe them debts of gratitude. Thus, we can owe some things to organizations. But we cannot owe them everything we can owe to people. They seem to have a peculiar, fragmented moral status. (...)
I argue that recent virtue theories (including those of Hursthouse, Slote, and Swanton) face important initial difficulties in accommodating the supererogatory. In particular, I consider several potential characterizations of the supererogatory modeled upon these familiar virtue theories (and their accounts of rightness) and argue that they fail to provide an adequate account of supererogation. In the second half of the paper I sketch an alternative virtue-based characterization of supererogation, one that is grounded in the attitudes of virtuous ideal observers, and (...)
The article expands the traditional system of concepts used in deontic logic, in order to allow the inclusion of supererogatory behaviour. This requires the development of a deontic decagon. In addition, it is shown how this decagon can be used to interpret deontic terms, e.g. in Islamic Law.
In his 1958 seminal paper "Saints and Heroes", J. O. Urmson argued that the then dominant tripartite deontic scheme of classifying actions as being exclusively either obligatory, or optional in the sense of being morally indifferent, or wrong, ought to be expanded to include the category of the supererogatory. Colloquially, this category includes actions that are "beyond the call of duty" and hence actions that one has no duty or obligation to perform. But it is a controversial category. Some have (...)
The concept of tact has so far received only little theoretical attention. The present article suggests three levels on which the idea of tact may be approached: (1) The epistemological problem: the etymology of the term ?tact? is taken seriously, namely its relation to the sense of touch and tactility. An analysis of the position of touch in the ranking of the five senses according to various parameters is shown to be highly relevant to the understanding of the idea of (...)
The set with the following members is inconsistent: F-Lesson: A person can be blameworthy for performing an action even though she cannot refrain from performing it. Equivalence: 'Ought not' is equivalent to 'impermissible.' OIC: 'Ought' implies 'can' and 'ought not' implies 'can refrain from.' BRI: Necessarily, one is morally blameworthy for doing something only if it is overall morally impermissible for one to do it. Since Equivalence seems unassailable, one can escape the inconsistency by renouncing any one of the other (...)
Philosophers who complain about the ‹demandingness' of morality forget that a morality can make too few demands as well as too many. What we ought be seeking is an appropriately demanding morality. This article recommends a ‹moral satisficing' approach to determining when a morality is ‹demanding enough', and an institutionalized solution to keeping the demands within acceptable limits.
The purpose of this paper is to consider the question of whether we have a duty to forgive those who repent and apologize for the wrong they have done. I shall argue that we have a pro tanto duty to forgive repentant wrongdoers, and I shall propose and consider the norm of forgiveness. This norm states that if a wrongdoer repents and apologizes to a victim, then the victim has a duty to forgive the wrongdoer, other things being equal. That (...)
While forgiveness is widely recognised as an example of a supererogatory action, it remains to be explained precisely what makes forgiveness supererogatory, or the circumstances under which it is supererogatory to forgive. Philosophers often claim that forgiveness is supererogatory, but most of the time they do so without offering an adequate explanation for why it is supererogatory to forgive. Accordingly, the literature on forgiveness lacks a sufficiently nuanced account of the supererogatory status of forgiveness. In this paper, I seek to (...)
It is widely accepted that morality does not demand that we do our very best, but our most significant moral traditions do not easily accommodate this intuition. I will argue that the underlying problem is not specific to any particular tradition. Rather, it will be difficult for any moral theory to account for binary moral concepts like permissible/impermissible while also accounting for scalar moral concepts like better/worse. If only the best is considered permissible, morality will seem either unreasonably demanding or (...)
'Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is conceptualized in many ways. We argue that one cannot be indifferent about the issue of its conceptualization. In terms of methodology, our position is that any conceptual discussion must embed CSR in political theory. With regard to substance, we link up with the discussion on whether CSR must be defined on the basis of a tripartite or a quadripartite division of business responsibilities. We share A. B. Carroll's intuition that a quadripartite division is called for (...)
I confess to finding the term 'supererogation' ugly and unpronounceable. I am also generally suspicious of technical terms in moral philosophy, since they are vulnerable to self-serving definition and counter-definition, to the point of obscuring whether there is a single phenomenon about which to disagree. It was surely not accidental that J.O. Urmson, in his classic 1958 article that launched the contemporary Anglophone debate, eschewed the technical term in favour of the more familiar concepts of saints and heroes. Since then, (...)
There is a disturbing kind of situation that presents agents with only two possibilities of moral action—one especially praiseworthy, the other condemnable. I describe such scenarios and argue that moral action in them exhibits a unique set of parameters: performing the commendable action is especially praiseworthy; not performing is not blameworthy; not performing is wrong. This set of parameters is distinct from those which characterize either moral obligation or supererogation. It is accordingly claimed that it defines a distinct, yet unrecognized, (...)
Drawing on Victor Frankl's observations, this comment illustrates how human beings are prior to any initiative that is pre-directed towards meaning. In pointing to this human condition, it introduces a subtle distinction between striving for happiness and a will for meaning, yet it is in the trans-ethical meaningful acts that a relation can be found with the witnessing as referred to by Note and Van Daele.
There has been some debate as to whether or not it is possible to keep a promise, and thus fulfil a duty, to supererogate. In this paper, I argue, in agreement with Jason Kawall, that such promises cannot be kept. However, I disagree with Kawall's diagnosis of the problem and provide an alternative account. In the first section, I examine the debate between Kawall and David Heyd, who rejects Kawall's claim that promises to supererogate cannot be kept. I disagree with (...)
A familiar part of debates about supererogatory actions concerns the role that cost should play. Two camps have emerged: one claiming that extreme cost is a necessary condition for when an action is supererogatory, while the other denies that it should be part of our definition of supererogation. In this paper, I propose an alternative position. I argue that it is comparative cost that is central to the supererogatory and that it is needed to explain a feature that all accounts (...)
Philosophers are by now familiar with "the" paradox of supererogation. This paradox arises out of the idea that it can never be permissible to do something morally inferior to another available option, yet acts of supererogation seem to presuppose this. This paradox is not our topic in this paper. We mention it only to set it to one side and explain our subtitle. In this paper we introduce and explore another paradox of supererogation, one which also deserves serious philosophical attention. (...)
It has been claimed, by David Heyd, that in order for an act to count as supererogatory the agent performing the act must possess altruistic intentions (1982 p.115). This requirement, Heyd claims, allows us to make sense of the meritorious nature of acts of supererogation. In this paper I will investigate whether there is good reason to accept that this requirement is a necessary condition of supererogation. I will argue that such a reason can be found in cases where two (...)
How can we make sense of God's moral goodness if God cannot be subject to moral obligations? This question is troubling for divine command theorists, as if we cannot make sense of God's moral goodness then it seems hard to see how God's commands could be morally good. Alston argues that the concept of supererogation solves this problem. If we accept the existence of acts that are morally good but not morally required then we should accept that there is no (...)
It is commonly assumed that praiseworthiness should form part of the analysis of supererogation. I will argue that this view should be rejected. I will start by arguing that, at least on some views of the connection between moral value and praiseworthiness, it does not follow from the fact that acts of supererogation go beyond what is required by duty that they will always be praiseworthy to perform. I will then consider and dismiss what I will call the Argument from (...)
A common intuition is that there is a moral difference between 'making people happy' and 'making happy people.' This intuition, often referred to as 'the Asymmetry,' has, however, been criticized on the grounds that it is incoherent. Why is there, for instance, not a corresponding difference between 'making people unhappy' and 'making unhappy people'? I argue that the intuition faces several difficulties but that these can be met by introducing a certain kind of reason that is favouring but non-requiring. It (...)
Gratitude is the proper or called-for response in a beneficiary to benefits or beneficence from a benefactor. It is a topic of interest in normative ethics, moral psychology, and political philosophy, and may have implications for metaethics as well. Despite its commonness in everyday life, there is substantive disagreement among philosophers over the nature of gratitude and its connection to other philosophical concepts. The sections of this article address five areas of debate about what gratitude is, when it is called (...)
Reasons-based accounts of our normative conclusions face difficulties in distinguishing between what ought to be done and what is required. This article addresses this problem from a formal perspective. I introduce a rudimentary formalization of a reasons-based account and demonstrate that that the model faces difficulties in accounting for the distinction between oughts and requirements. I briefly critique attempts to distinguish between oughts and requirements by appealing to a difference in strength or weight of reasons. I then present a formalized (...)
Can there be a duty to forgive those who have wronged us? According to a popular view amongst philosophers working on forgiveness the answer is no. Forgiveness, it is claimed, is always elective. This view is rejected by Gamlund (2010a; 2010b) who argues that duties to forgive do exist and then provides conditions that are relevant to determining whether forgiveness is obligatory or supererogatory. In this paper I will argue that the conditions that Gamlund provides do not provide a plausible (...)


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Results from Spain's festival study published
The Catalan government says it has gleaned "valuable information" about how major events could take place in the future from a study of three festivals that took place in early July.
The three festivals – Cruïlla, Vida and Canet Rock – went ahead using recommendations from the Love of Lesbian test concert which they co-organised along with Primavera Sound (which organised the Primacov test), Sónar and Festival de Jazz de Barcelona.
All three festivals took place without social distancing and with attendees wearing mandatory FFP2 masks. Entry to the festivals was dependent on a negative result from a Covid-19 rapid test.
Despite finding a high number of infections among concertgoers, the department of culture says its study will prove highly beneficial when it comes to improving protocols and security measures for festivals.
The department's study found that 2,279 attendees of the festivals contracted Covid-19 – 76% more than the cases recorded in a control group.
The department's study found that 2,279 attendees of the festivals contracted Covid-19
The nearly 50,000 people who attended the events were compared to a control group with the same breakdown of age, sex, residence and immunity during the days the events took place.
The study found that 466 attendees of Vida, 956 of Canet Rock and 857 of Cruïlla tested positive for the coronavirus in the two weeks following the concerts.
In the control group, the number of cases detected on the same dates of the events was 197, 525 and 571, respectively.
The study expected that a maximum of 1,437 infections would be recorded after the festivals, but this was exceeded by 842, bringing the total number of cases to 2,279.
The government says a small percentage of the festivalgoers – 271 people – attended one of the events despite testing positive for the coronavirus beforehand, though it's unclear how they were admitted.
The department also pointed out that previous pilots took place when there was a "much less transmissible variant" of Covid
The secretary of public health, Carmen Cabezas, defended the number of infections, explaining that in early July – and in a context of 8,000 cases a day – the festivals "were just one more factor among all those that occurred at that moment".
In early July, Catalonia was grappling with the fifth coronavirus wave and contagion rates were already at high-risk levels.
The department also pointed out that previous pilots took place when there was a "much less transmissible variant" of Covid.
Currently, in Catalonia, concerts are allowed to take place with up to 1,000 people indoors and 3,000 outdoors or indoor spaces with enhanced ventilation, access control and prior seat allocation.
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Rockhal hosts its biggest pilot concerts yet
Luxembourg's Rockhal (cap. 6,500) is scaling up its pilot concerts from 100 to 600 people per night as part of the Because Music Matters initiative.
The initiative initially launched in February with five nights of pilot concerts, limited to 100 people each night.
The second round of Because Music Matters launched on Friday 21 May when an audience of 600 tested people watched Luxembourgish artist Serge Tonnar perform in Rockhal's main hall.
In addition to the sanitary measures in place – which included physical distancing (between groups of up to 4 people) and mandatory wearing of masks – each attendee was required to undergo a PCR or a free antigen test before the concert, as well as a second (PCR) test a few days later.
The venue is once again working with Luxembourg's Health Inspection and the ministries of culture and health.
"I am hopeful that events like this will help to build towards a model that can be further scaled"
"After more than a year without higher capacity live events, pilot concerts like our Because Music Matters series and other pilot and test events that have been taking place across Europe, are an important and positive step forward in showcasing the safety measures we can employ to support our back to business strategies," says Olivier Toth, CEO of the Rockhal.
"Building confidence amongst all our stakeholders that live events are a safe environment is so important. It felt great to have our main hall vibrate with the sound of live music and a cheerful crowd. We are grateful for the enthusiasm and participation of both artists and audience, which is a real show of support for our sector.
"As the name of the project suggests, music really does play an essential role in people's well-being. I am hopeful that events like this, together with other pilot concerts that are taking place throughout Europe, will help to build towards a model that can be further scaled as our industry works towards a safe and sustainable return of live events."
The second round of Because Music Matters will continue at Rockhal this Friday (4 June) with a performance from Luxembourg's Remo Cavallini which will take place in the same way as the Serge Tonnar concert.
Pilot projects have taken place in markets including Germany, the UK, Spain, Belgium, France and the Netherlands. See an extensive list of live music experiments here.
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Nordic test shows: Too little, too late?
After effectively ruling out the 2021 festival season, the governments in Denmark and Norway are now in the process of organising large-scale test events to determine how big gatherings can take place during the pandemic.
According to Denmark's live association, Dansk Live, such experiments were proposed in December 2020 and also in March 2021 by the government-backed 'Restart Team'.
Both proposals were "kicked to the corner by the authorities," according to Dansk Live's Esben Marcher, but it seems that Denmark's minister of culture has had a late change of heart.
This week, minister Joy Mogensen asked the government's Restart Team to assess the possibilities of conducting experiments with large events this summer.
The minister's request comes three weeks after the government's roadmap was published, which stated that a maximum of 2,000 participants will be permitted at festivals between 21 May and 1 August 2021.
The announcement was followed by a raft of cancellations from 15+ festivals including Roskilde (26 June to 3 July), Smukfest (4–8 August), Northside (3–5 June) and Tinderbox (24–26 June) – rendering the country's 2021 festival season over.
"The hope was that knowledge could be created that could ensure better opportunities for this summer's events"
While Dansk Live's Marcher has welcomed the news of potential test concerts, he also expresses disappointment that large-scale pilots weren't approved earlier in the year.
"Already at the end of 2020, we proposed to the minister of culture that experiments be carried out in events that bring many people together," he says.
"The hope was that knowledge could be created that could ensure better opportunities for this summer's events. Although it is positive that there now seems to be support for making trial arrangements, it is, of course, a pity that there has been no political will to launch trials in the past."
The Norwegian government has also shown little political will to organise test concerts up to this point – though, after some uncertainty, this morning the cabinet finally approved a pilot series proposed by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
The institute is planning five test concerts in Bergen and Oslo with up to 5,000 people attending each one. As previously reported in IQ, 15,000 participants will be recruited for a control group and will not actually attend the concerts.
The series is expected to kick off in June and concerts will take place in a number of venues including Oslo Spektrum and Grieg Hall in Bergen.
The Nowegian government this morning approved a pilot series proposed by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health
The research project will investigate whether the risk of the spread of infection is reduced to such an extent that rapid testing can replace the distance requirement during events.
Bergen Live, Øya festival, Palmesus and other Norwegian concert organisers will be involved in the test events – many of which were forced to cancel festivals due to the government's preliminary guidelines, which restrict festivals to 2,000 attendees until June, 5,000 attendees until August and 10,000 thereafter.
Live Nation-owned festivals Bergenfest and Tons of Rock, Superstruct-backed Øya Festival, Over Oslo, Picnic in the Park, Stavernfetsivalen, Seljord Festival and Country Festival among events have been cancelled since.
Compared with other countries in the northern hemisphere, Norway and Denmark have been slow off the mark with arranging test shows.
Germany began conducting test shows as far back as August 2020, with Restart-19, prompting other nations including Spain, France, the Netherlands, the UK, Belgium and Luxembourg, to follow suit. See an extensive timeline of pilot projects here.
While the test shows haven't necessarily guaranteed the security of the 2021 festival season – many of the aforementioned markets have already seen the summer season obliterated due to government restrictions – nations like the UK are surging towards a full reopening thanks to reassuring results from the government's Events Research Programme.
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Fieldlab vouches for 50-75% cap outdoor events
Fieldlab Events, the initiative behind a swathe of test shows in the Netherlands, has told the Dutch government that outdoor events should be allowed to take place at 50-75% of normal visitor capacity without social distancing, under certain measures.
The recommendations are based on the results of Fieldlab's first outdoor tests, which comprised two football matches with 1,500 spectators each and one with 5,000 spectators.
Research was conducted using Fieldlab's risk model which is aimed at limiting the residual risk that arises from events and considers factors including visitor behaviour, track and trace, rapid tests, occupancy and social distancing.
Research at three football matches showed that larger outdoor events are possible under the following strict conditions in the current Corona situation:
- Rapid test at a decentralised location, close to home;
- Rapid test up to 24 hours from the end of the event;
- Use of an app or other type of access control for a negative Corona test;
- Maximum 50-75% occupancy of the capacity of outdoor locations, without the 1.5 meter rule.
The cabinet is now consulting with the Outbreak Management Team on the research results
- Specific for football stadiums:
- Capacity of Business Seats in the stadium at 50-75%, just like regular grandstand sections. Indoor area (Business Club) with an occupancy of 20%.
- Due to the natural separation, so-called sky boxes can be used at 50-75% of the occupancy (just like regular grandstand);
- Physical separation of groups of visitors, depending on the capacity and the design of the location;
- Mouth masks (mouth-nose mask) mandatory when walking around on location at an occupancy of 50%;
- With an occupation of 75%, a mouth mask is also required while sitting;
- Active communication of all practical, relevant information and continuous indication of compliance with the measures.
The cabinet is now consulting with the Outbreak Management Team on the research results.
Earlier this month, Fieldlab shared findings from the first part of its Back to Live test series, which involved a business conference and a cabaret show.
The Dutch initiative found that indoor seated events should be able to take place at 50% occupancy without social distancing. See more here.
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Belgium holds 'first-ever cultural test event'
The first-ever Belgian test event took place last night (26 April) at Brussels venue Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg (KVS).
The owner of KVS had previously stated that the venue would open its doors on 26 April regardless of any Covid restrictions that might be in place but ultimately, the government decided to turn yesterday evening's performance of Jonathan into a test event.
All 50 attendees, as well as the KVS employees, had to undergo a rapid test and wear a mask at all times inside the 500-capacity room. They will also be required to take a PCR test the following week.
Tonight, the venue will host an identical test event, before scaling up to 100 attendees from Wednesday onwards.
The following week, the number of attendees will increase again if the air quality monitoring yields good results. On Tuesday 4 May, the hall will be filled to 40%, on Thursday 6 and Saturday 8 May, it will be further scaled up to 50% with a maximum of 250 spectators.
The purpose of the test events is to measure how the air quality in the room is impacted by the presence of an audience
The purpose of the test events is to measure how the air quality in the room is impacted by the presence of an audience. To do this, the CO2 content and the relative humidity are measured every minute with specialised equipment.
If these CO2 values remain good (CO2 below 1200 ppm and relative humidity between 30 and 60 percent), this shows that the chance of transmission of infectious diseases via the air is very low.
At any point in the test series, if the air quality monitoring shows that the risk of airborne contamination is becoming unacceptably high, there will be no further upscaling. The decision will be made at 11 am the day before the performance.
Around 30 test events are planned for the next two months but Belgium's minister of culture Jan Jambon says that the government will conduct as many as necessary: "As long as we can learn good things from them, that is important, but at a certain point the learning curve stops, and we will the cultural sector."
Details of the test events are yet to be announced but Belgium's Corona Commission says they will span culture and sports.
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More than 1m registrations for 10k Fieldlab test
More than a million residents have signed up for Fieldlab's largest test event yet, the 10,000-capacity 538 Koningsdag (King's Day) festival in the Netherlands.
Registrations opened this week to unprecedented demand and all 10,000 tickets were raffled on Thursday (15 April) evening.
The rock and pop festival, which is organised each year by Radio 538, will be held as usual at Chasséveld in Breda on the 24 April.
Newly announced acts include Afrojack, Armin van Buuren, Emma Heesters, Gerard Joling, Kraantje Pappie, Krezip, Kris Kross Amsterdam, Lucas & Steve, Maan, Miss Montreal, Racoon, Rolf and Sanchez.
"Newly announced acts include Afrojack, Armin van Buuren, Emma Heesters and Gerard Joling"
Ticket holders will be required to take a rapid test no more than 24 hours prior to the start of the event and only those with negative results will be admitted.
Attendees must also take a second rapid test five days after the event. Vulnerable groups are excluded from participation.
538 Koningsdag is just one of many large-scale test events announced by the Dutch initiative. Yesterday evening the 3FM Awards 2021 took place at TivoliVredenburg, attended by 1,000 visitors.
Other upcoming large-scale Fieldlab events include a Racoon concert on 7 May (3,500 people) and a nightclub test event in Amsterdam on 15 May, which can be attended by 1,000 people.
Alongside the government-approved Fieldlab tests, the state has also announced 80 concerts across nine days as part of an extensive pilot programme of cultural activities – marking a test event boom in the Netherlands.
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Fieldlab reveals details on Back to Live pilot festivals
Fieldlab, the organisation spearheading the 'Back to Live' test series in the Netherlands, has revealed details on the previously announced open-air festival pilots.
The eight-event test series is being orchestrated with Event Platform, the Alliance of Event Builders and the government to investigate how events with an increased visitor capacity can take place safely and responsibly during the pandemic.
The festival tests are being organised along with Dutch promoters Mojo and ID&T and will take place at the event site in Biddinghuizen – home to festivals such as Defqon.1 and Lowlands.
Fieldlab and Lowlands director, Eric van Eerdenburg, has revealed that the festivals will likely be scheduled for March, kicking off mid-afternoon and running until the early evening in case a curfew is in place.
Eerdenburg also said that each festival will host 1,500 visitors, who will be tested before and after the events, and are required to wear masks for the duration.
Participants will be 'tagged' at the entrance and admitted in phases before they're free to roam the mini-festival, which will include several stages and food trucks.
Fieldlab's Tim Boersma told 3voor12: "It is not a medical experiment, we will look at contact. Everyone is tagged at the entrance. Not all of those 1,500 people meet, but how many do, and for how long? In which places do crowds arise? Can you solve that by installing more toilet blocks, for example?"
The organisation plans to announce the exact dates for the festival tests next week.
Each festival will host 1,500 visitors, who will be tested before and after the events, and are required to wear masks
The postponed 'Back to Live' pilot shows that are scheduled to take place this month include a cabaret performance by Guido Weijers to 500 guests at the Beatrix Theatre in Utrecht (20 February), a business conference at the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht (15th) and two football matches at the home grounds of NEC (21st) and Almere City FC (28th).
Details have also been revealed about how the football games will take place. Each match will kick off at 12:15 pm at the respective grounds and will host 1,500 season tickets holders.
For the match at NEC's home ground, the Goffert Stadium in Nijmegen, the 1,500 attendees will be split into six 'bubbles' of 250 for the purpose of the investigation.
For the game at Almere City FC's home ground, the Yanmar Stadion in Almere, the visitors will be divided into three 'bubbles' of 200, 600 and 700 people.
During each type of test event, Fieldlab will study several 'building blocks' that contribute to prevention and reduction of the risk of spreading the Covid-19 virus including behaviour; triage, tracking and tracing; rapid tests; visitor dynamics; air quality; personal protection; cleaning and disinfection of surfaces and materials; vulnerable groups.
The Back to Live test series will also include a concert and a dance event at Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam, also organised by Mojo and ID&T, which are yet to be announced.
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Primavera Sound hails successful PRIMACOV trial
Organisers have hailed as a successful the PRIMACOV clinical trial, which took place at Barcelona's Sala Apolo on Saturday (12 December) after a two-month delay.
Originally organised for October, PRIMACOV – organised by Primavera Sound in association with Hospital Germans Trias in Barcelona and the Fight AIDS and Infectious Diseases Foundation – welcomed 1,042 people to the 1,608-capacity venue for a clinical study designed to show whether rapid testing could hold the key to staging concerts without social distancing.
Everyone who was allowed into the show, which featured performances by local artists including Marta Salicrú, Unai Muguruza, Mujeres and Renaldo and Clara, had had to first test negative for Covid-19 using rapid antigen tests – the results of which were available in 15 minutes – as well as traditional PCR tests.
"The objective of this study is to validate these kind of tests … to be able to carry out events without social distancing"
"That was, precisely, the objective of this study: to validate these kind of tests as an extremely useful tool to be able to carry out any type of event, whether musical or not, without social distancing," explain the PRIMACOV team.
The show followed a similar trial in Germany, dubbed Restart-19, which found that live shows could take place safely under "specific conditions during a pandemic". Several 'Back to Live' pilot events will also take place in the Netherlands, with the government's backing, in January.
The results of the PRIMACOV trial will be released in mid-January, according to Primavera Sound, although the festival warns that the results will only be completely accurate if all 1,042 attendees have a second PCR test, on Sunday 20 December.
PRIMACOV is part of Primavera's Back on Track initiative, which is supported by Live Nation, Universal Music Group, Ticketmaster, Sony Music, promoter Last Tour and collection society SGAE, among others.
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Family: Compositae
Taraxacum officinale
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Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 715.
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"The Compass of Our Life": A Qualitative Study of Marriage and Faith Among Chinese Immigrants
Chinese immigrant families, marriage, qualitative methods, religious faith
Twenty highly religious Chinese Christian married couples (n = 40) were interviewed to examine how religious faith influenced their perceptions of marriage and family life. Most participants held advanced graduate degrees (14 PhD and 13 MS degrees). Their ages ranged from 28 to 66, and the number of children ranged from one to four. Grounded theory methods (including open coding and axial coding) were applied to analyze the data. Based on the interview data three emergent themes were identified: (1) Moving from atheism to theism ("God is love"), (2) changing perceptions of marriage ("Marriage is established by God"), and (3) a new priority ("Put God first"). Supporting qualitative data are presented in connection with each theme. Implications for research and practice related to Chinese immigrants' marriage and family in the United States are discussed.
Original Publication Citation
*Lu, Y., Marks, L. D., & Baumgartner, J. (2011). "The compass of our life": A qualitative study of marriage and faith among Chinese immigrants. Marriage & Family Review, 47, 125-148.
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Lu, Yaxin; Marks, Loren; and Baumgartner, Jennifer, ""The Compass of Our Life": A Qualitative Study of Marriage and Faith Among Chinese Immigrants" (2011). Faculty Publications. 4883.
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Marriage & Family Review
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smiley. tonight the conversation with viola davis and octavia spencer. octavia spencer is a first-time nominee as best supporting actress. the best-selling book of the same name is also a region which is also up for best picture. luther king boulevard. know. enodohu boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together
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with your community to make every day better. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. praxair please welcome -- >> please welcome viola davis and octavia spencer. the talented actresses are both up for oscars this year. they are not in the same category, so we will not have any nonsense tonight. both recently took home the top prizes at the screen actors guild awards, here is a scene from "the help."
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>> put her in a share. >> i am not deaf yet. >> would you see if maybelline has some ambrosia? >> i told mom it was that ms. hillie's. she looks like the winner of the kentucky derby. i am about to kill the woman. she could not pay for more toilet paper. [laughter] tavis: when you were filming this, did you have any idea it would resonate with the american public a way that it has? >> i hope it would resonate. the book have such a huge following, but i thought it could go either way. it could be great failure or a
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great success. nothing in between. there was too much expectations surrounding the film. too many people felt you had to get the characters just right, and too many naysayers said why do it anyway? >> let's start with them. let's get it out of the way. let me be honest, the only way i know how to be in conversations. i celebrate the two of you. i am delighted. i am pulling on both of you to win, yet i will admit to your there is an ambivalence. denzel washington and i worked out in the same gym. he tells me all the time to get
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over it. i did not like when they did what they did to him on "hurricane." i did not like when he did not get nominated for "malcolm x," but the most lowly role the academy celebrate him. you have done linda -- have done lovely work, but there is something. i want you to win, but i ambivalent about what you are winning four. >> here is the first thing we should address. for me anthony hopkins won for being a serial killer who was accountable, and shirley's thrown -- charlize theron 14 being a killer, so it does not
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strike me as odd that the academy would award villains, but i do not have a problem with rewarding these earnest, hard- working women. be that as it made that a white woman wrote the original source text, but the fact is, at least she had the insight to write about women and we have not heard from, so i do understand your ambivalence, and i am glad you preface it by saying you are happy for us, because a lot of people are not, but i understand that. >> that mindset you have and that a lot of african-americans have is destroying the black artist. a black artist cannot live in a place, in a revisionist place. the black artist can only tell the truth about humanity, and
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humanity is messy. people are messy. caucasian actors know that. they understand when you bring as human being to life, what you want as an artist to show all the flaws as well as the beauty. we as african american artists are more concerned with image than execution, which is why every time you have seen our images, they have been watered down to a point where they are not realistic at all. it is like all of our humanity has been washed out. we as artists cannot be politicians. we can only be truth tellers, so guess what? if the woman next door killed her baby and was 100 pounds overweight and ate a piece of fried chicken.
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he told stories about illiterate thugs, and arthur miller did the same thing, and he is absolutely elevated as being the greatest writer in american dramatic theater history. >> i like this. let me respectfully challenge that, because i think that is a strong indictment. i started by saying, i celebrate you, and i want you to win, because you play those roles better than anyone can play them. i will let you sit with that. that is a strong indictment, but i hear it. here is why i disagree. when you wanted to give an example of arches, the best of us telling our stories and --
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the best artist selling our stories, you mentioned august wilson. it takes and august will some -- august wilson to do that. while i celebrate your accomplishment, there is a lack of balance in this industry, and it makes me ambivalent. there is an ambivalence when i see the audience stand up and cheer and go wild when the characters we are celebrating our real. my grandmother was a domestic, so i understand the story full well. the ambivalence comes when there is a lack of balance in the industry. >> if you were to come to me and say that you were ambivalent because you felt the writing was
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i have impregnated her. tell this wife i have to raise this baby, and i am bringing it home to you, unapologetically, and we sit in that theater and scheerer, -- cheer. tavis: you are back to august wilson, and in the context of his body of work, there is a balance of character, of other upstanding, outstanding, celebratory african-american figures, so that violence is there. -- that balance is there. i am suggesting there is a lot of celebrating, but there is this ambivalence. you want them to win, and you are pulling for them, but there is something about this
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industry. it is not an indictment about the two of you. it is an indictment of the industry. >> i understand, but if we are going to take on the entertainment industry, let's take on basketball, nba, nfl. let's take on that industry, because is it not saying to african-american young men, you cannot be a scientist. you can only play basketball. let's take on the music industry with wrappers. to basically say to actors, i have a problem with the facts that you are playing maids, if these characters were not characters of noble -- there is nothing ignoble about what they do. now they are trying to put their families home. there is nothing ignoble about what they do. my problem is the fact that it is a limitation, a feeling we are placing upon ourselves.
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it is about excellence. if i am going to be many in 2011, i would rather be a woman who is standing up for what she believes in, and let me tell you, i would love to play a serial killer. i want to shred, and there is a limit of roles that are out there for african american women and women of a certain size, one of a certain age, there are so many different categories to deal with. >> that is why i said it is a fine line, because george lucas, at the same time we are celebrating your wonderful performances, and george lucas has made a lot more money in hollywood than us. george lucas cannot get a money about black male heroes made. we can get the made nate, but he cannot get a studio -- we can get maids, but he cannot get a
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studio to make it. he has to beg somebody to distribute it. they still tell him no, and he has to put up his own money to distribute it. it is the industry that wears me out. i talked to people every night. >> it wears me out on a different level, because to me there are not enough multifaceted roles for women who look like me. they are roles when i open up the script and the character goes on a journey, where i see a balance, where i am not always dignified, i know everything, i see everything, i am this straight black woman friend, all knowing, what ever. i am talking about a multifaceted human being that actually lives and breathes. i have a problem and with that.
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i have a problem without having more roles that are lead roles. i have issues with that, but i understand the arguments with the film to a certain extent, and after a certain extent, i lose it, because my whole thing is, do i always have to be noble. if i always have to be noble, in order for the african-american community to celebrate my work, that is when i say you are destroying me as an artist. i am saying as an artist, you have to seen the mess. what we do as artists is we get a human being, and it is like putting together a puzzle, and the puzzle has got to beat a multifaceted mixture of human emotion, and not all of its is going to be pretty.
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we are not going to be heroes. that is all i am saying as an artist, but i get what you are saying, too. we are on the front lines. tavis: i accept that explanation. i forgive you, but you called me a destroyer. we will move on. i said this at a dinner party last night. i was saying to my friends of mine said you were coming to the show, and this conversation jump off at the dinner table. i said something is wrong in america when it is easier for a black man to be president of the united states than in it is to get a film in hollywood screen lit -- green linnet. that is a major indictment. >> it begins with ticket buyers.
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there was an amazing film called a pariah, and if you have not paid to see it, you are part of the problem. >> here is why i started this. i raised this to purge myself of my own ambivalence about this project, but to ask, did any of this -- how much of this go into your decision making about whether to do the part, about whether or not things need to be rewritten that we never saw? how much of this factored into bringing these characters to life? >> i will let you take a first slice. >> i would say it kept me awake for about three months. because of this conversation right here, but once again you feel like you have to defend your choices as a black artist, and i felt like with abilene
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more so because she is so internalized, her life is internal dialogue, and by the time it reaches the screen, most of its is cut, and what is left could be seen as mammy, and might issue a lot of times with black characters is we always have to be loud and in your face. very seldom are there subtleties, and i am an artist. i believe in subtleties. i did not feel people would get her, that no one would take the effort to understand there are so many things she was holding, and therefore i would be labeled as a black actress who took for role timeas mammy. but we differed not respectfully, because i did not have a issue. if i am going to law school, who
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is going to tell me what case not to take. as i am going to be a doctor, who is going to tell me which patients not to take? you have to fulfill your own dreams and destiny and hope that whatever your art is, if it is received, great. i respect you for receiving it. if it is not, great. you have to keep pushing it on. >> you feel no burden about any of your choices? >> not at all, because where is the indictment in the jewish community about their history? >> they do not have to be indicted because this town will make a movie about a holocaust seven days a week. >> we have so many affluent african american producers. why are we still having the same conversation? tavis: because they do not control distribution channels.
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>> why have they not pull their resources together. if someone is not doing what you feel they should be doing, why are you waiting for them to do anything? >> agreegreed. >> we have enough resources out there that if people are this upset, i am thinking, let be a part of the solution and have our own distribution. >> that is not the issue. they say forgivenesses about giving up all hope of a different path, and that is the issue. it is the issue with me, sue. i have been guilty of the same thing. 350 years of racist policies in this country, and what is left is this pain, this anger, and any image that is out of sorts .an agitates it
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it is not a clear-cut linear argument, because i am a dark skinned african-american actress, and i would say i have had so many african-american artists in my house having the same conversation. i read so many scripts. so many people say, i have the ultimate role, and i would say 99.9% of them are the urban ghetto mothers who are highly unattractive. they are probably far more insulting than some of the roles given to me by white industry people, so i am saying it is something deeper. it is a deeper issue, and i think a lot of times we want to erase our history, but we rarely want to face it.
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we do not want to face that somehow we cannot let go of that pain. tavis: i hear the point you are making, and in theory i agree. i said it is not anger. it is righteous indignation, and at some point wanting to see a more level playing field. i am not holding on to angkor. -- anger. i was not a slave. my mother was not a slave. this is what i love about the movie. i am a thinker. i do not just act like one on television. i try to think, and i love movies that move me to think, which raises the question. what you think the american public is connected suit about the humanity of these characters?
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>> they humanity and none of these characters. i said it last week. these are our mothers. these are our grandmothers. this country was built on the backs of our mothers, our great grandmothers, our great grandfathers, and they should be celebrated in a way that i feel above's character does, and beyond. >> you, too. >> many did make that pie. -- minnie did make that pie. [laughter] i do not think our grandmothers would have done that. i am holding out hope, but i do think it is humanity. it separates the white versus black. it is people who come together to do something that makes a difference in their world, and that no young white girl is
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coupled with an older black woman. you are not that much older than emma. >> eye of -- i am a lot older than her. >> we focus on the things that make us different and never embraced the things that make us the same. >> let me ask you if on sunday night, and i am praying to god because i celebrate black women, and i want them always to shine, so i am hoping that both of you win in both of these categories. if both of you takeoff that oscars statue, what do you think the academy will be celebrating? a fine performance exclusively? a deserving performance?
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you think that is what it would be about? >> that is what my hope would be, that the performances rise to that level. the thing you have to vote for or with african-american artists at the best is that they passed the baton -- have to hope for with african-american artist of the best is that they pass the baton on. sometimes we get so caught up with images that we do not think about the execution and ultimately to say something highly controversial. a lot of times the people who project those images better so positive are not artists, so therefore they have a good two years in them, and you never see them again, and it is not just because hollywood is not celebrating them. it is because they do not have the inside, the talent to carry the baton to the next leg. ellis, and rosalynn ross, these
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are truly actors who are celebrated. artists who are celebrated. >> let me close on this note. not that i have anything to say about this in this town, but i hope the academy will do the right thing and give these statues to viola davis and octavia spencer, because they have earned it. they have played these characters better than anyone else could, and let's move on. let sell some other stories about the humanity of black people. i am routing for you. >> even though i insulted you. i celebrate you. tavis: i celebrate you, too. that is our show for now. until next time, keep the faith.
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Here at SoulBounce we have become quite the fans of alternative soulster Miles Bonny. From his tribute to Raphael Saadiq on Instant Saadiq, to his collaborations with Suff Daddy, DJ Day, and 74 Miles Away, we have enjoyed just about everything we have heard, so it's welcome news that this June will see the release of Miles' first solo album, Lumberjack Soul. The album comprises various collaborations (including those mentioned above) alongside five new tracks. The first release from the album, "Nuthin' But Chu," is a laid-back affair that puts me in mind of a rawer, grittier John Legend. You can download the track for free below and the full album will be available June 24th via Melting Pot Music.
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The Syrian Democratic Council and the Senate Commission of North and East Syria continue to meet Arab tribes and clans in the region in framework of exchanging views and uniting efforts to face current challenges.
In its last meeting, the Syrian Democratic Council met with sheikh of Al-Salem clan of Arab al-Sada tribe, in his village in the countryside of Tal Hamis sub-district.
The delegation of SDC included the co-chair, Amina Omar, the co-chair of the Public Relations Office, Jihad Omar, the deputy chair of the Executive Committee, Hekmat Habib and, Ilham Omar, member of the Presidential Council. The delegation included also members of the Senate Commission: Hakam Kha lo, Mansour Salloum, Hanbar Hassan and Fouad Al-Basha.
Sheikh Badran Ahmed Al-Salem, sheikh of Al-Salem clan greeted them, along with many dignitaries and senates of Al-Salem clan.
The meeting focused on discussing the situation in Syria and the challenges facing the Syrian people in general and the regions of north and east Syria in particular.
The co-chair of SDC, Amina Omar, talked about the Turkish state taking advantage of the Syrian people and their economical living conditions to use them as soldiers on demand for sending them to Libya and other countries to implement Turkey's ambitions and expansionist policies.
Omar praised the effective role of clans in raising awareness and limiting the Turkish state's exploitation of Syrian youth, adding that the tribesmen had a clear imprint in combating and defeating terrorism.
For his part, Sheikh Badran Ahmed Al-Salem thanked the delegation for its visit, and continued that the region needs to unite efforts and people to remove the Turkish occupier from all Syrian lands.
Al-Salem presented a number of demands of local people concerning service aspect, considering that the region has not witnessed development for decades despite availability of resources.
This meeting is part of a series of meetings held by the Syrian Democratic Council and the Senate Commission of North and East Syria for listening and exchanging views with members of Arab tribes in the region.
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May 19, 2020