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This project refers to an Arduino sketch which with the help of an external light sensor, as e.g. a photoresistor, one can move the position of a servo motor clockwise or counterclockwise.
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I went into a raid and literally after 4 casts i was oom.
This is broken and needs a fix. I have high spirit amounts also.
90 Night Elf Druid
5k spirit is not high.
90 Pandaren Priest
Think of it like early Cata Holy Priests. If you have 1 piece of gear without spirit on it (excluding trinkets), you need to replace that and find one that has spirit.
Dident play in cata.
And i can boost my spirit to 9k, and its still causing problems.
infact in general the priest healing seems subpar.
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You have 0 enchants (c'mon I have an enchanter, I know that the spirit to chest chant is dirt cheap right now) and 0 reforges. At LEAST reforge some spirit on to your dagger and offhand.
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It isn't just this, priests are very underpowered at higher levels. I don't care what people say about gear etc, it's a fact.
Yea, a lot of my guild is saying the same thing actually.
From what i can tell this is the issue.
Short version:
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Long Version:
I have noticed i go from being able to spam all buttons at once, to being able to spam nothing at once. The over lining result from this is that either hps is skyrocketing, or its nothing; that means that basically the heals are not stable. this is especially the case with aoe heals.
Needed fixes
Heal needs to be lowered on casting time to 1.5 second base.
Cascade needs an additional hop. 2>4>8. Starting at 30k base then 20k > 10k.
if the coefficient is 60% then it will be something like 45k heal > 30k heal > 15k heal (Per spark)
Halo needs a reduction in cooldown time to 15 seconds.
Divine star needs to be increased 20% healing of its current value, and needs to be reduced to 8 second cooldown.
Holy word: sanctuary this spell should be buffed to 5k heal base per secont and coefficient should be set to 33%-38%.
Glyph of inner will : this glyph should increase reduction cost by an additional 10% (total 25%).
Glyph of inner fire: this gylph should grant 10% Bonus spirit to the priest
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Yeah lightwell is awesome! Even in heroics I'm content to put it down and use it myself! Even if everyone else ignores it I feel I've still achieved something :D
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priests are officially on the bottom of the totem pole.
Maybe in the next 5 expansions, we will be on top.
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I don't play holy, so can't give any advice on how to manage your spells but upon looking at your profile here goes.
You have too many gear holes to be stepping into a raid right now. Try and get pieces of gear with spirit on every piece before enchanting. Also, some of your gear is of low level (450) and there are even green pieces in there.
I would recommend you run heroics to upgrade your weak slots. Check out the sticky thread at the top of this forum which has a great, comprehensive list of preferred pre-raid gear for us.
Once you have a 463 item in each slot, and this is very possible with gear from faction and heroics, then you will find yourself feeling much more comfortable.
With regards to spirit, 4770 is far too low for raids. We are no longer in the comfortable, GH bombing bubble of Cata. In MOP you will find yourself having to manage every spell. I am running just over 7k spirit right now and managing my mana is a challenge.
Good luck!
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Basically what other have said. I play Holy and the healing has really changed from the end of Cata to now. Go through some Heroics to get gear and maybe start doing LFR as well before stepping into the normal raids. Make sure to use Mindbender on cooldown and conserve your mana to the max - remember, you don't have to neccessarily top everyone off right away, just keep them alive and triage.
P.S. Lightwell is an awesome spell! :)
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Try to get a Sha of Anger kill. He drops a quest-starting item that'll net you 477 boots to replace your 437s.
Replace one trinket with the Brewfest healing trinket. Replace the other with the 463 iLvL spirit trinket from Stormstout Brewery. A helm with a meta gem slot would do wonders for you.
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Its super costly to use anything more than flash or greater...I mean renew sure and a bubble here and there. But the cost of sanctuary for its heals is a joke and don't bother with something like halo I mean what is it cost? Like 30k mana I think? That's insane.
1. You need spirit up the yin-yang
2. Get 2 professions that will help you. I recommend at least Tailoring (for cheap and top leg threads AND fantastic Cloak enchants)
3. Learn to cook and make your own spirit food
4. Get the Cheap enchants for your higher items (450+)
5. Pull back from overcasting; it's something I have had to do as well. In Cata I could spam my Disc spells without worry - now I have to really think. I don't mind as it truly is making me an even better healer.
6. Carry Mana pots with you
7. Don't worry about making sure all are at full 100% of the time - I usually look for 80%
8. Use Mindbender every single time it's up - every single time (there is still something to fight of course)
Also frankly? Try Holy over Disc as you get your gear situated. I have found the mana return is a bit easier to manage due to the gut they did to disc.
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There is no education in the second kick of a mule. In 2006, New Hampshire Republicans suffered their worst defeat ever. After recovering in 2010, this week the Republican Party finds itself back in 2006, facing the same existential questions about why disaster struck and what to do about it.
My answer today is the same as it was then: The Republican Party and its candidates don't need to moderate or compromise their conservative philosophy, but they do need to modernize and adapt those principles to changing times, stop re-fighting yesterday's battles, and focus as much on earning the trust of centrist voters as on satisfying their own base.
Political pendulums are always in motion, but speeds this fast and arcs this big are historically unprecedented. In 2006, the GOP lost a then-unheard of 97 seats in the Legislature. Just two years ago, Democrats lost 130. This week Republicans lost at least 126 seats in the House and Senate. The parties have traded legislative majorities three times in four elections. The national election produced a status quo result, with little change in Washington, but New Hampshire got hit by a rogue one-state wave. The blame goes not to Mitt Romney, who ran a good campaign and poured resources into the state; or to Ovide Lamontagne, whose campaign should have been good enough.
The drag on the ticket was the motley crew of insular Tea Partiers, Free Staters, birthers, Agenda 21 conspiracy theorists, and borderline anarchists calling themselves Libertarians who dominated the Republican majority in the Legislature, led recklessly by soon-to-be ex-Speaker Bill O'Brien. Together they produced a rolling public relations disaster and did great harm to the Republican brand. Guilt by association worked bottom up and primed voters to believe the worst about Lamontagne. End public education! Ban contraception!
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Bigger is definitely the signal the SEC is sending, according to Phillips & Cohen LLP attorney Erika Kelton. The SEC last month announced the largest ever whistleblower payout in its history. Kelton helped negotiate the record $30 million check that the SEC awarded her client.
"I'm very confident there will be even larger cases moving ahead, but they are not only focused on large ones."
"Guardrail Maker Trinity Industries Liable for Fraud in Texas," The New York Times, 10/21/14.
Legal experts in False Claims Act cases say the $175 million verdict is on the higher end of recent judgments.
"There's no denying it's a big number," said Erika A. Kelton, a whistle-blower lawyer with Phillips & Cohen who is not involved in the Trinity litigation.
Ms. Kelton said that the government usually joins the fray in successful False Claims Act cases. But in the Trinity case, the Federal Highway Administration did not participate.
"SEC Award May Spur Whistle-Blower Growth," Bloomberg, 9/24/14.
Erika Kelton, the lawyer at Phillips & Cohen LLP who represented the whistle-blower . . . said an employee who blows the whistle "does so at great personal and professional risk." While federal law prohibits retaliation, people sometimes still lose their jobs, both attorneys said.
"4 Tips on Scoring Big for IRS Whistleblowers," Law360.com, 8/18/14.
While killer evidence is key in a whistleblower case, [Erika] Kelton says experts should also be an integral part of a whistleblower's due diligence process, as they can lend authority to his or her claim.
"In advance of submitting a claim, we often consult with experts in the whistleblower's field, flesh out all of the facts, and then also prepare a list of potential witnesses for the IRS to speak to, which includes documents they should request, the nature of the information contained in those documents, what areas of expertise the experts have, and what they would likely say," Kelton says.
This step is important, because the IRS' due diligence process is quite lengthy and involved.
"Davis Polk Report: A Trickle of Whistleblower Awards," The Litigation Daily, 6/10/14.
"[The SEC is] making pretty good progress," says Eric Havian of Phillips & Cohen. "Compared to the IRS whistleblower program, they're doing fabulously well." He adds, "These tend to be complex cases that take a while to resolve, and the award determination process can take a while."
Havian commends [Sean] McKessy [Chief, SEC Office of the Whistleblower] for being a "tremendous proponent" of the program. The plaintiffs lawyer even predicts that the SEC will eventually wish it had a bigger pot for awards. "I think we'll look back at that amount and say, 'Wow. That wasn't enough.'"
"New Audits May Recover Missing Millions - Or Not," The Center for Public Integrity, 6/9/14.
Mary Inman, a San Francisco lawyer who represents whistleblowers, said officials have been concerned for years that risk scores if abused could offer a "new way to fleece" the Medicare program. "This is a weak spot for CMS," she said, noting that it "hasn't hit the public realm yet."
"CFTC Set to Make First Award To Whistle-Blower Under 2011 Program," Securities Law Daily, 5/20/14.
According to whistle-blower lawyer Erika Kelton, Phillips & Cohen LLP, Washington, the award shows that the program is off to a "promising" start more than two-and-a-half years after its inception...
"The agencies have no understanding of the fraud when the submissions are made," Kelton observed. "They need to organize their enforcement team, investigate, then they need to negotiate or in some way take enforcement action. That takes a lot of time."
"FCA Wave Sparks Debate Over DOJ Power to Boot Weak Suits," Law360.com, 5/2/14.
"I think the number of cases where [the Justice Department] could make that call are probably not as many as the defense bar thinks exist," said Claire M. Sylvia, an attorney at whistleblower firm Phillips & Cohen LLP.
"The Plight of an Overseas Whistleblower," i-Sight, 4/1/14.
With an influx of overseas whistleblowers participating in a US government program that offers rewards for uncovering legal violations, it's not uncommon for attorney Erika Kelton to get international calls from people "who are extremely uncomfortable with the business practices that exist internationally."
"Whistleblowers Cash In On Financial Firms' Misdeeds," Investors.com, 3/31/14.
"The SEC is really encouraging them to file their submissions and assuring them that they will be vigorously investigated," said Eric Havian, a San Francisco-based lawyer who practices whistleblower law. "You're going to see a lot of financial fraud coming to light that had been buried for many years."
"Lawsuit brings to light secrecy statements required by KBR," The Washington Post, 2/19/14.
Tim McCormack, a lawyer who specializes in whistleblower cases, said that he has seen numerous confidentiality agreements but that the one used by KBR is particularly stark because it threatens employees with termination and possible legal action if they speak out.
"This is mostly about trying to scare someone into not talking," McCormack said. "It's very effective to say you will be fired or sued. This is a very big company with lots of resources."
"The Perks of Being a Whistle-blower," Newsweek, 1/30/14.
"We have clients with whistle-blower claims for billions of dollars in unpaid taxes," not including penalties and interest, says Eric Havian, a lawyer at Phillips & Cohen in San Francisco. "The multinationals with offshore operations are the ones where you see some of the biggest tax scams."
"Walk, Don't Run - Experts Advise Prudence and Caution for Potential Whistleblowers," CFA Institute Magazine, March/April 2013.
Do make sure that you really want to file a whistleblower claim. "Once it's filed, it sets in motions something that you cannot stop," says Erika Kelton, partner in the Washington, DC, law office of Phillips & Cohen. "It's important to thoroughly reflect on, and be prepared to do this and assess how long it will take, what to expect, how disruptive to your life this can be, and what risks you are taking."
"Tax Court Scrutinizes Whistleblower Office's Delayed Decision," Tax Analysts, 3/14/13.
Erika A. Kelton of Phillips & Cohen LLP told Tax Analysts that the Insinga order is important because "the Tax Court shows it is open to a more common sense approach than the IRS has often been willing to take -- i.e., considering whether there is a "de facto" rejection, rather than simply a formal "technical" rejection." Also, the possibility of jurisdiction under the APA is encouraging because "that could be very helpful for future challenges to agency delay and inaction," she said.
"Government Joins Suit Against Armstrong," The New York Times, 2/22/13.
To win the case, the government must prove that it was damaged by the violation of the contract, said Eric R. Havian, a lawyer at Phillips & Cohen and an expert in False Claims Act cases.
"They have to say, look, the Postal Service didn't get what we bargained for, you gave us a black eye because of the doping, and that's a legitimate case," Havian said.
"DOJ Intervenes in Whistleblower Suit Against Lance Armstrong," Legal Times, 2/22/13.
"The United States invests considerable resources in the investigation of cases, interviewing witnesses and reviewing documents, to consider the validity of the claim by the whistleblower," said Colette Matzzie of the whistleblower firm Phillips & Cohen in Washington. "It's a lengthy internal deliberative process for the government." Matzzie said DOJ's intervention can be viewed as a validation of Landis' claims.
"California AG's false claims case vs S&P: secret route to issuers?" ThomsonReuters News & Insight - On the Case, 2/11/13.
The unseen target of California's suit, according to whistle-blower lawyer Eric Havian of Phillips & Cohen, could be MBS and CDO issuers.
Discovery in the state's case against S&P, Havian said, will likely turn up evidence of what banks knew about the ratings S&P supplied. "If issuers knew the ratings were false and they sold securities to state pension funds, they would absolutely be liable," he said. "That's an easy FCA case."
"Erika Kelton on the Rise of SEC Whistleblower Cases," Corporate Crime Reporter, 2/5/13.
Erika Kelton is a partner at Phillips & Cohen in Washington, D.C. She's a pro at bringing whistleblower cases.
She has a couple of billion-dollar-plus False Claims Act qui tam cases under her belt . . . . But a significant amount of her caseload is now SEC/CFTC and tax cases.
"Floyd Landis whistleblower suit targets more than Lance Armstrong," The Washington Post, 1/17/13.
False Claims Act whistleblower suits, which date from the Civil War era, are a mechanism for encouraging someoe with information about fraud against the government - oftentimes an "insider" in a case of wrongdoing - to come forward, explains Peter Chatfield of Washington-based Phillips & Cohen, which specializes in such cases.
"The plaintiff's reward is a percentage of the money that's recovered - 15-25 percent if the U.S. Department of Justice joins the action and takes the lead role in the case, or 25-30 percent if the private plaintiff pursues the case without the government's help or resources," Chatfield said.
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12-27-2011 05:20 PM by Kerry Drake | 7 comments »
I have one of the best wives on the planet.
It's Beginning to look at lot like Christmas #4: Snowman is done
12-14-2011 05:49 PM by Kerry Drake | 1 comment »
The snow man is finally done. He measures nearly 16" tall and 8 1/2" wide at his widest.
First Ever Commision - The Podium #2: Updated Cutting Diagram
11-22-2011 10:09 PM by Kerry Drake | 5 comments »
Thanks to the sharp eyes and friendly advice of my fellow LJ'ers I have updated the cutting diagram for the podium to make better use of the grain direction. I have also added another piece to the diagram, I figure I will double up the bottom "shelf", where the caster are going to screw in from the bottom.
First Ever Commision - The Podium #1: Drawings and Cutting Diagram
11-21-2011 10:49 PM by Kerry Drake | 11 comments »
People at work have started to notice I do woodworking stuff at home (it could be I bring in every project when I finish it and set it on top of my cubicle wall…). Now it seems they need a podium for the meeting room and wanted to know if I would submit a proposal to build one. Here is the basic design: And I figured it out to be 2 sheets of plywood and some 1×4 trim. All told I have it at $179.12 for materials.
It's Beginning to look at lot like Christmas #3: Buttons, Nose and some paint
08-15-2011 09:02 PM by Kerry Drake | 0 comments »
I've made a little more progress on the snowman (he's a filler project for when I only have 20 or 30 minutes to work in the shop). His nose is a piece of a dowel that sharpened pencil sharpener and then I carved it down a bit more with a utility knife and then sanded it a bit (not TOO much, its a carrot after all). His 3 button's are all pieces from the same dowel. I need to apply a little wood filler in one or two places, sand that smooth, then put on the f...
It's Beginning to look at lot like Christmas #2: Box Drawers Begin to Take Shape
07-28-2011 06:56 PM by Kerry Drake | 1 comment »
I got the snowman carcass and drawers all separated and the drawers cut up and formed back together. I also got the first round of sanding done on the snowman's body. Predictably, I am planning to paint this white (with a black hat, black buttons and and orange nose). Next up is some sanding on the drawers, and cutting up a 1/4" dowel to make the 3 "buttons" to go down the front (2 of the buttons will be drawer pulls for the 2 bottom drawers).
It's Beginning to look at lot like Christmas #1: A bandsaw box inspiration
07-25-2011 09:18 PM by Kerry Drake | 3 comments »
A couple nights ago I was laying in bed thinking about a particularly nice pine glue up cut off I had sitting out in the shop. Every time I've gone out there recently, it catches my eye. I had a rare burst of creative inspiration and a thought came to me on what I could with it. My wife loves snow men, so this should be something she will like. I am planing to make 3 drawers, if I was braver I would cut the drawers out, tape them back in place, and turn it so that it w...
Another Woodworking Class = More Dovetails
05-02-2011 08:42 PM by Kerry Drake | 1 comment »
Well, it has been quite a while sense I posted, Christmas has come and gone as well as the whole winter. I was in the ranks of the unemployed for about 4 1/2 months at the end of last year, and spent a fair amount of that time taking care of my mother who diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer in August. She ended her fight on April 14th, rest in peace mom. For my birthday my let me sign up for another woodworking class. This one was at McLaughlin Woods, which is I found is only about 3 miles...
Kitchen Cabinets #2: They call it labor day for a reason....
09-06-2010 10:14 PM by Kerry Drake | 1 comment »
I finished the kitchen cabinets on schedule and my brother and sister-in-law came up this weekend and attacked the project with gusto… First the sheet rock came down, and then most of the wall studs came out. Then the carpet and the kitchen floor had to be cut back to the subfloor level so cabinets could sit down where they needed to be. Once the final dimensions were figured out, the end post to support the overhead beam went in place (the beam was pocket screwed i...
Kitchen Cabinets #1: It's time for a cabinet meeting!
08-29-2010 02:26 AM by Kerry Drake | 1 comment »
The great cabinet build started in earnest on Thursday. Before any cabinets got built, however, I had to wait for a little help to show up to cut the full sheets of plywood down. While waiting I gave the shop a pretty good cleaning and even managed to organize my sheet good pile. I even manged to measure and label all of the partial sheets with their size, including thickness. With the layout of my shop, cleaning up this space was very important in order to have a clear path...
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English names for Iris and Dent revealed: Iris to keep her name while Dent's name changed to Cilan
Files uploaded to Cartoon Network's website revealed that Iris will keep her Japanese name and that Dent will be known as Cilan in the English-language anime. Dent's name will most likely be changed to Cilan for the English release of Black and White. The logo for the series was also discovered.
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Salix OS Ratpoison 14.0.1
It can only be installed on a local drive
This special Salix OS edition can be downloaded as 32-bit and 64-bit bootable ISO images that can only be installed on a local drive. The user must write the ISOs to CD discs or USB flash drives in order to boot them from the BIOS of a computer.
Basic boot options
The ISO images come with a basic boot prompt that allows the user to quickly access the text-mode installer or enter custom kernel parameters. In addition, the ISOs can be used as system rescue CDs by exiting the installer after choosing the keyboard mapping.
Salix OS' not so scary text-mode installer
The text-mode installer is not so scary as users might think, as it requires them to choose a keyboard layout, select an installation method (AUTOINSTALL is the recommended option), choose the target drive, select the installation source and the installation mode (FULL is the recommended option).
It is also a must to configure and install the bootloader, enter a root (system administrator) password, create a new user, and setup the clock and timezone after all packages have been installed.
A window manager for skilled programmers
Ratpoison is a window manager for advanced users or programmers who are looking for a desktop environment that can only be controlled with the keyboard. After installation, you will be dropped to a shell prompt, where you must login with the user created during the installation process and run the "startx" command to start the graphical desktop interface.
Bottom line
Summing up, the Ratpoison edition of Salix OS is the first ever Linux distribution that features Ratpoison as its default and only window manager/desktop environment where all interaction is done through keystrokes.
Reviewed by Marius Nestor, last updated on June 2nd, 2014
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- Salix Ratpoison 14.0.1 is ready! This is a very special release for us, as Ratpoison makes for an experience that is completely different. The aim of the Ratpoison edition is to create a system that is fully usable with the keyboard only, no mouse required! For everyone that is not familiar with Ratpoison, Ratpoison is a window manager for X "with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence". Ratpoison uses a workflow that is similar to that of GNU screen, which is very popular in the terminal world. All interaction with the window manager is done through keystrokes.
- The application selection for the Ratpoison edition is rather special. The main reasoning behind selecting any of the default applications included in this release is their ability to be used completely with the keyboard, not requiring any mouse interaction. To that effect, a lot of the included applications are actually terminal applications.
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A repository of extensions for GIMP, the FREE and Open Source image manipulation program.
This program is intended to help make tuckboxes used to store cards for board games. It is flexible enough to create boxes for any size cards, with or without sleeves. It uses the dimensions of the stack of cards to create the box geometry in the gimp and also creates the layers and layer masks necessary to add art to the box without having to resize the art to exactly the same size as the side.
Plugin this i am make, to hasten removes so noise overacting.
plugin Median's makings IDE this of one of menu on photoshop, we stay to manage elongation of 1 until 30 based object which we will edit.
Plugin this is at / Filters / Noise / Median
To clearer visits http://gimpmodify.blogspot.com/2013/10/median.html
The attached Script-fu file is a modified version of B-Ranger's arrow drawing script. This version allows arrows to follow curved paths (splines) as well as maintaining the original scripts ability to draw straight arrows. (See http://registry.gimp.org/node/20269 for the original script)
To use the script:
This is a script that transforms a black and white simple drawing into a map like image with grass and sea. I tested it only on my machine, and it take several seconds to run and create a reasonable looking figure. All my tests where tried on a 500x500 image with 200x200 dpi resolution.
My machine (the only one I tested this on) is Lenovo edge. It has a i3 processor (don't remember the exact model) and 6GB of RAM. I run Ubuntu 13.04 and gimp 2.8.4 on it.
How to use.
Script for cleaning pictures. It takes a background from a selection border (which is expected to be rectangular) and interpolates the selection contents based on this border.
Works ok with corners and borders. Yet it is slow and doesn't support undo, so use at your own risk.
I have recently completed some work with the G'MIC team that I thought might be worth a post here as a heads up.
I have many film emulation presets that I've been working on for a while, and wanted to share with the GIMP community at large. The problem was finding the best way to package up these presets for everyone to use.
I started talking with the G'MIC team about it, and finally settled on packaging up the presets in G'MIC.
So, here is a just a small sample of what some of the presets look like (lowest strength setting):
A pixelart scaler which supports scale2x/scale3x and eagle2x/eagle3x.These are palette preserving algorithms so they might not give the desired effect on images with semi-transparent pixels.
You may also ask your questions on http://opengameart.org/forumtopic/pixelart-scaler-scalenx-and-eaglenx-fo...
Update 20 Sept 13: Version 3.1 released
This plugin is aimed at artists using a tablet and consists primarily of two parts:
1. - A function to automatically draw perspective guide lines for up to 3 vanishing points over an existing canvas (including with vanishing points outside the edges of the canvas)
2. - a collection of cycle tools which can be bound to tablet side buttons:
- cycle erase mode (changes paint mode from erase to normal - tool/pointer doesn't change be careful)
- cycle dynamics (cycles dynamics from Dynamics Off to Pressure Opacity)
Creates a pretty simple (yet cool) smooth glass or bevel effect. Can work with alpha/mask contour as well as selection. Have fun!
P.S.: Sorry for the awkward plugin name. Couldn't make up anything better.
v1.03: The "Gloss Contrast" parameter added
v1.02: Smoothness = 0 was not possible
v1.01: Fixed working with mask contours
v1.0: Initial release
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Unless otherwise noted, the rights for the individual plugins are with their respective authors. Logo image by Jakub Steiner.


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Mickey Jones (born June 10, 1941) is an American musician and actor. His career as a drummer had him backing up such artists and bands as Trini Lopez, Johnny Rivers, Bob Dylan, and The First Edition with Kenny Rogers. Jones has seventeen gold records from his musical career of over two decades. After the break-up of The First Edition in 1976, Jones concentrated on his career as a character actor, where he has made many appearances on film and television.
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Holidaymakers are often said to be "over the moon" when they visit China on group tours, but will they ever get over the country's Moon Festival?
This year the traditional mid-autumn jamboree - only second to the Spring Festival among China's most popular festivals and events - falls on September 19-21.
An influx of tourists is expected.
For centuries, Chinese emperors have offered spring sacrifices to the sun in the spring and the moon in autumn.
Nowadays, families gather to appreciate the bright full moon, and reflect upon family members who live far away.
Different festival customs have grown in different regions.
But some remain constant.
This is to appreciate and offer sacrifices to the round bright moon and eat moon cakes at night.
The moon cake is a cookie with many fillings, including nuts, sugar, sesame, ham or egg.
The cookie contains different artistic patterns showing the legend of Chang E, who became immortal after flying to the moon.
The moon cake's round shape symbolises family reunions and is given to relatives and friends to wish them a long and happy life.
Other activities deemed equally important and perfect for holidaymakers on family tours are dragon dancing and deference to the moon.
Today, sacrifice has been replaced by a simple moon appreciation.
Families normally sit around a table eating and talking, while admiring the bright moon and thinking of their relatives far afield.
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Can anyone tell me where can I find the "Apply OpenType" plug-in for InDesign 2.0.1?
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text: 80 Catalyst 2005 Global Perspectives on Successful Implementation of Human Rights of Women The University of Essex 6 May 2005 Conference Report by: TREVA D. BRAUN AND MITCH DUFRESNE ∗ 1. Introduction In 2000, on the initiative of a group of postgraduate human rights students at the University of Essex, a series of topical seminars entitled Key Points in Women's Human Rights was held at the university's Human Rights Centre. In 2005, building on the success of that initiative, a group of postgraduates resolved to organize an international conference on practical strategies for advancing the human rights of women. 1 The Catalyst 2005 conference, held on 6 May 2005, was designed as a forum for sharing global knowledge and experiences of key successes and strategies for the realization of women's human rights from diverse cultural, political and legal contexts. With the generous support of eight sponsors, 2 the event brought together judges, lawyers, academics, and practitioners from Iran, Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, Serbia and Montenegro, Turkey and the United Kingdom to discuss the successes in their regions and consider how those successes might be applied in other contexts. 3 The conference attracted an audience of over seventy-five participants from the University of Essex and other UK universities as well as local non-governmental organizations, law firms and private individuals. Conference co-chairs Kevin Boyle 4 and Françoise Hampson 5 opened the conference by pointing out that in the domain of human rights practical strategies – while often ∗ Treva Braun is Director and Head of Africa Initiatives for The Future Group, a Canadian-based non- governmental organization working to combat sex trafficking and child sexual exploitation. Mitch Dufresne is a criminal prosecutor and human rights advocate from Canada, formerly the Senior Legal Advisor for Rule of Law for the OSCE in Bosnia and Herzegovina and presently working with the UN on justice issues in Haiti. They undertook post-graduate studies in International Human Rights Law at the University of Essex and are the co-founders of Catalyst 2005 1 The authors wish to thank the following members of the Catalyst 2005 organizing committee: Damelya Aitkhozhina, Karen Bailey, Caroline Carson, Tanya Forbes, Alexandra Garita, Khadijeh Hamidian, Carmen Silvestre, and Irené Suominen 2 British Council (East of England), British Council (Sierra Leone), University of Essex (Departments of Law and Sociology and the Human Rights Centre), Fisher Jones Greenwood Solicitors LLP, University of Essex Human Rights Society, and University of Essex Students' Union 3 To read the full text of the papers delivered at Catalyst 2005, visit the conference website at http://www.essex.ac.uk/catalyst 4 Kevin Boyle is Professor of Law, University of Essex and former Senior Advisor to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson 5 Françoise Hampson is Professor of Law, University of Essex and member of the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights Essex Human Rights Review Vol. 3 No. 1 Catalyst 2005: A Conference Report 81 frustratingly slow – were the only strategies that were enduring. With that in mind, the purpose of the conference was to catalyse among human rights practitioners and the public at large a drive toward greater utilization of proven regional successes in improving the realization of the fundamental human rights of women the world over. 2. Global Status of the Human Rights of Women: Key Successes and Challenges Eminent human rights scholar Christine Chinkin 6 delivered the opening paper on key international successes and ongoing challenges for women in the realization of their human rights. In her view, three recent developments stood out as among the most positive. First was the elevated status of women's human rights since the 1990s as part of the international human rights dialogue. In addition to a series of world conferences bringing global attention to women's rights as human rights, a new international enforcement mechanism for women's human rights had finally been established, under which cases were now being launched. 7 The second was the success in bringing gender-based violence onto the international agenda. There was now international recognition that States had a legal obligation to exercise due diligence in eliminating, investigating, prosecuting and punishing perpetrators of such violence. It was also more widely understood that violence against women was rooted in discrimination and the social and cultural subordination of women, and that it acted to maintain that subordination. The early 1990s also saw considerable argument on rape and sexual abuse as genocide and crimes against humanity, principles that were now entrenched in the statute of the International Criminal Court and in the findings of other international criminal tribunals. The third success which Chinkin highlighted was the effective use by women's non- governmental organizations and civil society generally of international mechanisms and institutions to advance the claims of women and, where those mechanisms were unfriendly to their claims, the creation of new mechanisms. 'People's tribunals', such as the one established in 2000 to determine the criminal liability of high ranking Japanese military officials in respect of the 'comfort women' atrocities of the 1930s and 1940s, provided a good illustration of civil society stepping in and using imaginative and innovative ways to end the long-standing silence surrounding violations of women's human rights. As a result, international human rights law was beginning to be seen as an instrument of global civil society and not just of States. Among the greatest challenges for the years ahead, however, was that of overcoming a potentially dangerous sense of triumphalism in respect of the successes of the 1990s. With extensive work still to be done, human rights advocates had to guard against a sense of contentment. The guarantee of women's human rights had now to go beyond new instruments and institutions to challenge the structural inequalities and power imbalances that allowed continued violations to occur. Women had to finally begin to be seen not merely as victims but as transformative agents in national and international peace, development and human rights processes. 6Christine Chinkin is Professor of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science 7 Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, G.A. res. 54/4, annex, 54 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 49) at 5, U.N. Doc. A/54/49 (Vol. I) (2000), entered into force 22 December 2000 Essex Human Rights Review Vol. 3 No. 1 Treva D. Braun and Mitch Dufresne 82 The second key challenge lay in the adverse impact of global capitalism on women's human rights. Social exclusion, unemployment, low paid employment, and structural adjustment policies all had particular impacts on women. While globalization had provided many new employment opportunities for women in the developing world, thereby increasing their autonomy and independence, the gap in women's human rights protection had widened as governments that should otherwise be the guarantors of human rights were increasingly unwilling to act where to do so would be to discourage commercial investment. This problem would continue to fester as long as corporate actors remained essentially unregulated by international human rights law. A final challenge was the growing preoccupation of governments with national security which has left human rights as a whole in the shadows. As Chinkin stated: At precisely the moment that women have sought to become insiders within the human rights movement as a whole, the human rights movement itself has become an outsider discourse, particularly in the context of national security. And when the discourse itself becomes marginalized, it is highly unlikely that there will be receptiveness to the claims of the most vulnerable or marginalized people within it, and advances that have been made for the promotion of such vulnerable people are challenged. 3. Human Rights of Women in the Family Zeinab Ranjbar 8 from Iran and Sara Hossain 9 from Bangladesh focused their comments on the advancement of women's human rights in the domestic sphere. While the rights of women in the family remained perhaps the most difficult and underdeveloped of all human rights owing to the strong grip of cultural and religious patriarchy in many regions of the world, advances were being made, albeit at the 'frustratingly slow' pace alluded to at the opening of the conference. Among the positive developments in the Iranian context were a series of amendments to national family law legislation. The age of puberty, and thus the minimum age for marriage, was recently increased from nine to thirteen for girls, with fifteen remaining the minimum age for boys. 10 This also had the effect of raising the age at which girls could be considered criminally liable to thirteen, as such liability in Iran is tied to the deemed age of puberty. Further, while women continued to suffer discrimination in divorce matters, 11 new conditions were now being stipulated in marriage contracts which gave women increased rights to divorce, at least in certain egregious circumstances. Religious rights to polygyny had also been partially eroded by legislative amendments requiring permission of either the court or the first wife before a second wife could be taken. According to Ranjbar, 'the courts only grant permission under difficult circumstances such as if the first wife has a serious and incurable illness.' Women, presumably, were unlikely to give the necessary permission, although it was noted that questions might arise as to women's ability to assert themselves in this respect, particularly in remote and rural areas. Ranjbar reported that critical shifts had also taken place in respect of certain traditional cultural practices in Iran, which she clearly distinguished as contrary to Iranian 8 Zeinab Ranjbar is a senior family court judge in Tehran, Iran 9 Sara Hossain is a barrister before the Supreme Court of Bangladesh 10 During the Q&A period, Ranjbar confirmed that despite these minimum ages, the vast majority of Iranians marry in their twenties. 11 Men can divorce at will while women cannot. Catalyst 2005: A Conference Report 83 family law and Islamic principles. The practices of nahveh, 12 sheghar, 13 fasileh, 14 manzooreh, 15 and hessan 16 were all reported as being prohibited and drastically reduced. Ranjbar described her personal participation in concerted, long-standing and widely successful efforts to eradicate 'honour' killings in her country. More than a decade of persistent action by the government, which included establishing an inter-agency task force, creating educational seminars, films and publications, garnering the support of the clergy and of tribal leaders, establishing penal prohibitions carrying ten-year sentences, and swiftly prosecuting perpetrators resulted in a ninety percent reduction in these killings. During the Q&A session, Ranjbar was asked what strategies had the greatest impact in eliciting the support of tribal leaders to eradicate these killings. She indicated that in addition to legal initiatives, public information and education campaigns, of particular importance was a series of speeches delivered directly by Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader as well as the head of the judiciary, to the relevant community leaders and tribespeople, condemning and demanding an end to 'honour' killings and confirming the right of women to choose their future husband without interference or punishment from family members. Sara Hossain addressed the issue of forced marriages, with particular focus on the United Kingdom and South Asia. In the UK there were over 1,000 reported cases each year of women and girls being taken out of the country for forced marriage, predominantly to South Asian countries. This figure did not account for unreported cases or those occurring within national boundaries. In recent years extensive ground level mobilization, media support, public awareness, and political will had combined to catalyse legislative and policy changes in the UK, including new guidelines for police, social services staff and education authorities, and the establishment of a specialized government unit to provide case-by-case support and assistance for victims. A shift in attitude at the official level had also broken down perceived barriers to curbing this practice. Given that most of the victims had dual nationality with the South Asian country to which they were taken, the UK previously took the position that it could not intervene beyond making informal representations. However, with the increased attention that had been focused on the issue, the government now took the view that dual nationality was no longer an obstacle to formal representations and assistance. Hossain observed that human rights abuses such as forced marriage were significantly easier to address when they concerned minority communities than when the practice was a more widespread custom of the majority population. In India, Pakistan and Bangladesh forced marriages are commonplace and therefore much more difficult to eradicate. While judicial interventions had occurred in these countries in cases where the woman had attained the age of majority, paternalistic views still prevailed for younger women and girls. A statement made in the reasons for judgment of one Bangladeshi judge is telling: 'Should not the Court impose its mature experience … in judging the attitude of girls 12 The right of a woman's paternal cousin to priority in marrying her, thereby allowing him to prevent her marrying anyone else. Disregarding his request often led to the murder of the woman. 13 'Exchange' marriages, where a man offers his sister or daughter to another man in exchange for the right to marry that other man's sister or daughter. 14 Where a woman is given in marriage to the family of a victim as compensation for a crime committed by one of her family members. 15 'Almsgiving' marriages, where parents promise to give their daughters in marriage to a descendant of the prophet Muhammad. 16 The giving of a woman as a 'gift' to another tribe to put an end to tribal differences. Essex Human Rights Review Vol. 3 No. 1 Treva D. Braun and Mitch Dufresne 84 in many such cases who are mostly guided by infatuation and flush of youthful romanticism without caring for tomorrow?' Indeed, where a particular human rights abuse was a cultural norm, its existence as a problem was frequently denied at State level. This denial, unfortunately, was often mirrored to a large degree in the non-governmental sector which was also tied up in the cultural reality in which it was working. Further, by focusing too closely on narrow topics such as forced marriage, the tendency was to lose sight of how these problems fitted into the larger picture of domestic violence and patriarchal control of sexuality. One had to guard against 'exoticizing' these issues as embedded in culture and thus different from the domestic violence that occurred across cultures, and those arguments based on legal pluralism which threatened to allow discriminatory personal laws to prevail in multi-cultural societies had to be rejected. Finally, in fashioning remedies, better use of existing protocols needed to be considered rather than constantly seeking to develop new ones. For example, rather than establishing entirely new protocols and procedures for combatting forced marriage, forced marriage should be recognized as merely another form of domestic violence and existing mechanisms should be used for combatting such violence. In closing, Hossain remarked that although the advances made by the UK government on the topic of forced marriage were to be applauded, it was not sufficient to stop there. The international obligation on States to provide technical cooperation to other countries demanded that where best practices were developed, they should be shared in order to hasten similar advancements elsewhere, particularly in contexts where the same human rights abuse was much more pervasive and challenging. A particular problem facing South Asian women was highlighted during the Q&A session: the combination of social pressures and a lack of viable alternatives. A South Asian audience member related that in her culture a woman's maternal uncle had the right to control her choice of husband. She eloquently explained that even if the woman were not strictly forced to accommodate the uncle's decision, the pressure to conform was extreme. It was often not feasible to reject the decision or go to court as these women had to continue living in the community. Hossain confirmed that the vast majority of cases were not those that ended up in the courtroom, but those that were suffered quietly by countless numbers of women on a day-to-day basis. Among the most powerful weapons used by those who wished to exert dominance over women's lives, she said, was emotional control. Women were faced with the need to fit in with and be accepted by their family and their community, even in the face of unjust and emotionally agonizing patriarchal dominance. Further, those who wished to reject familial pressures commonly had nowhere to turn, particularly in rural areas. In Bangladesh, for instance, there were merely six governmental women's shelters and less than a dozen non-governmental shelters for a population exceeding 140 million. Strategies to provide women with shelters, assistance and social alternatives in both urban and rural areas were thus critical. 4. Violence Against Women Four speakers on the afternoon panel addressed the complex and interrelated issues surrounding gender-based violence. They provided tools for developing successful strategies to eradicate violence against women, in contexts ranging from human trafficking to violence grounded in multiple discrimination. Catalyst 2005: A Conference Report 85 The panel members agreed that successful strategies depended on consultation with the affected women to determine their needs rather than assuming what those needs are. It was also important to bear in mind when developing strategies that the disadvantage suffered was often the result of multiple discrimination, and, as a result, efforts for a sustainable solution had to draw on a variety of disciplines. The successful strategies presented by the panel members included lobbying government for the implementation of international standards, which often required legislative reform, making men part of the campaign to eliminate violence against women, taking advantage of the political climate at the right time, developing specialist services, and using an integrated and multidisciplinary approach in collaboration with other partners involved in the rights of women. Jelena Djordjevic is one of the founders of Astra, the first women's organization in Serbia and Montenegro that addressed as a priority the specific issue of trafficking in women. She spoke about the variety of issues that arose in relation to the global phenomenon of trafficking in human beings, such as mobility of people and work services. One of the strategies for combating trafficking in women stemmed from the Palermo Protocol of 2000 17 which set the international standards for counter-trafficking. This Protocol prompted countries in South Eastern Europe to change their national laws to be consistent with the new standards. The Balkans were significantly affected by trafficking due to the region's post-war economic and social conditions. Serbia is a country of transit, the origin and the destination for trafficking. In the last five years since the Protocol came into existence, there had been unprecedented involvement of various actors in counter-trafficking efforts, including international organizations, governmental organizations and NGOs. An institutional framework was developed in the region, which included the creation of a national multidisciplinary team to focus on combating trafficking. There were four working groups tasked with specific aspects of the issues such as law enforcement. At the grassroots level, the plan had led to, among other things, the creation of shelters for women survivors of trafficking. Some of the greatest challenges in Serbia and Montenegro had been to determine how to negotiate with members of the government who were in some instances the very human rights violators of the past. Christina Curry 18 spoke about her experience on a project in Turkey called Women Confronting Family Violence and emphasized that it was essential to bring men into the campaign, underscoring that violence was everyone's concern. The strategy for the project regarding family violence was to take the lead from women's groups in Turkey and support the movement to change gender discriminatory laws regarding, for example, forced marriage. It was anticipated that these laws would soon come into force. She also emphasized the universality of violence against women and indicated some of the reasons Amnesty International decided to work on this issue in Turkey, including the existence of a strong women's rights campaign already in the country, the timing, the willingness of local NGOs to work with Amnesty International, the European Union accession process, and general European Union motivation in the area. 17 United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking of Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, G.A. res. 55/25, annex II, 55 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 49) at 60, U.N. Doc. A/45/49 (Vol. I) (2001) 18 Christina Curry is from Amnesty International. Curry is a psychologist and has worked with torture survivors and in the area of general health related psychological disorders Essex Human Rights Review Vol. 3 No. 1 Treva D. Braun and Mitch Dufresne 86 Marai Larasi 19 has worked for over ten years in the field of women's aid. Based on the needs identified by the women she met, it was apparent that there was a need to offer ethnically specialized services to women who often faced multiple forms of discrimination from inside and outside their communities. The specialist services also had to be developed and owned by the communities themselves. Jane Esuantsiwa Goldsmith has vast experience over the last twenty-five years or more in advocating and promoting the rights of women and is currently a Commissioner of the Women's National Commission (WNC) in the UK. 20 To address issues of violence against women, the WNC has a multidisciplinary domestic violence working group. Goldsmith emphasized the need to look at violence in all its forms and apply an integrated approach to the complex issues. She travelled around the UK to listen to women in order to properly identify their needs. One had to allow the space to take away the shame and allow women to talk about their experiences and be believed, so that they could overcome fears of isolation. The WNC acted to channel women's voices so they were heard at the highest levels of policy making on domestic violence. In the fight against violence, women indicated that they wanted prevention, for example through media campaigns, protection, such as being able to stay in their homes after abuse is reported, and support, including training for professionals. The UK's Domestic Violence Act of 2004 21 had addressed some of the factors for which the WNC lobbied, but clearly it was the implementation that would prove whether it was worthy or not. There were a number of drawbacks to the legislation, such as a lack of a gender perspective. The lobbying continued for those things that did not make it into the statute, including financial assistance for those women such as asylum seekers with no recourse to public funds. Fortunately, international human rights instruments were now in place to support these efforts. In conclusion, Goldsmith stressed the importance of political will, timing, collaboration, and strategic partnerships to tap the experience and expertise of the women's movement. An effective strategy required the inspiration and involvement of women survivors of domestic violence and needed to challenge how things were done. The women's movement needed leaders, not a hierarchy, and people who engaged their hearts as well as their heads. During the question period that followed the presentation by the members of the panel, a number of points were raised including the importance of considering the male component of violence in the campaign against violence and the essential need for the education of boys and young men before they become actively violent. Curry highlighted the example of the national anti-bullying campaign launched in Australia in order to educate boys about self identity and positive relationships. Deirdre Fottrell 22 emphasized the need to recognize the potential victimization of women by the legal process and the frequent failure of lawyers and judges to appreciate their professional responsibilities towards the complex issue of domestic violence. 19 Marai Lasai is Executive Director of the Nia project, UK (formerly Hackney Women's Aid) 20 An independent advisory body to the UK government and an umbrella group for 400 women's organizations 21 Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act, 2004 Chapter 28, available at http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2004/20040028.htm 22 Deirdre Fottrell is a barrister and lecturer in human rights of women at the University of Essex Catalyst 2005: A Conference Report 87 5. Equal Representation of Women Abator Thomas 23 focused her comments on the inequality of and discrimination against women manifested in the under-representation of women in politics. She explained that women constituted 52 per cent of the population in Sierra Leone yet only 14.5 per cent of the members of parliament were women. As she described, 'a democracy that is not en- gendered is in danger'. When government was made up solely or predominantly of males, it could not be said to be a government 'of the people for the people'. While Director of the British Council in Sierra Leone, Thomas established a very successful project to gain equal representation of women in politics, called the 50/50 Group. One of the first efforts in establishing the group was to identify specific women to be considered for political candidacy. In order to reach gender representation, it was necessary to change the perception of women in politics and reshape the traditional views of women's role in society; the women had to be empowered and no longer marginalized particularly in public life. One concrete and clear indication of how women were viewed was evident in the challenge simply to get women included on the voting lists in a fair order rather than at the end of the list of candidates for whom the people of Sierra Leone could vote. Much was achieved in the domain of changing the views of the role of women through training of the women, to impart to them much needed skills and confidence. As well, bringing the women together for training helped to develop an essential network for them across the country. The strategy of the 50/50 Group, based on issues of non- discrimination and equality, was highly successful in mobilizing the movement to achieve more representative numbers of women in public office in Sierra Leone. Also of relevance to the issue of democratic governance were Christine Chinkin's comments earlier in the day, highlighting an important example of gender representation on the international plane. The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first international judicial body to have provided in its statute a specific provision for the inclusion of women as judges on the court. 24 In the 2003 elections, seven out of eighteen judges elected to the ICC were women. In response to questions from the audience, Thomas also underscored the need to make men part of the strategy to increase the overall acceptance of women as equal partners in society. She also stressed the importance of education as part of the strategy to achieve equality of women and remarked that the Ministry of Education in Sierra Leone was considering penalizing those families who failed to send their girls to school. 6. Moving Forward In the final session of the conference, an open-ended group discussion was led by Deirdre Fottrell. Fottrell applauded the range of strategies that were being employed in different contexts and encouraged the cross-fertilization of these and other strategies by both practitioners and legislative and judicial bodies alike. There was much to be learned from different regions in terms of what was working and why; and human rights advocates should capitalize on the successes of others and avoid repeating mistakes. 23 Abator Thomas is Minister of Health and Sanitation and former President of the 50/50 Group in Sierra Leone 24 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998) Art.36 8(a)(iii) Essex Human Rights Review Vol. 3 No. 1 Treva D. Braun and Mitch Dufresne 88 Fottrell also urged women's rights advocates to consider stepping back and objectively critiquing where they stood and where they were going. She particularly encouraged a critique of the proliferation of processes and substantive instruments emerging from the women's rights movement, while considering how to make existing processes work more effectively in favour of continuing to drive forward new issues and legal infrastructure. The group discussion that followed brought to the fore the urgent need to address ongoing systemic barriers to women's enjoyment of human rights. Women continued to face more severe economic, social and cultural constraints on their access to human rights than any other identifiable group. As Jane Goldsmith noted during the discussion, 'The law in a sense is a blunt instrument. It gives women rights, but whether they actually have any capacity or support to access those rights and make them a reality is another question.' In the months and years ahead, as the successes of women and men around the world who have achieved significant gains for the human rights of women continue to be built on, these systemic and structural matters will be among the most critical issues that governments, national and international human rights tribunals, courts and civil society must finally confront in a significant way.


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