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The global imperatives for macroeconomic policy coordination
Author: David Vines, Oxford University and ANU
After the Great Depression, US policymakers lost their nerve, and embarked upon fiscal consolidation.
They tipped the US, and the world, back into recession in 1937-38. The resulting problem was only resolved by the onset of World War II. Now, without serious cooperation on global macroeconomic policy, we run the risk of similarly derailing the recovery from the global financial crisis (GFC).
From the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971, until the GFC, the global macro-economy was managed without cooperation. This held true even following the East Asian Crisis of 1997. In that period, the global policy system pursued (and achieved) two targets – output growth in East Asia and output growth in the rest of the world, using two instruments; real exchange rates (effectively set in East Asia) and world real interest rates (effectively set in New York).
What happened was that East Asian countries utilised their depreciated currencies to achieve export growth (with the exception of China, which relied on domestic deflation and importation of technical skills), and the US set low interest rates (the Greenspan 'put') – which led to low world interest rates – to achieve a continued high growth rate. It is true that this system led to global imbalances, and that it created the financial fragility which led to the GFC. But it delivered growth.
Now the international system is different. It has three objectives, a raft of challenges, and only one and a half instruments to deal with them. Sorting out the resulting policy conflict requires real cooperation.
As a result of the EMU crisis in Europe, achieving growth in Europe has now become a third global objective, in addition to growth in East Asia and the US. Achieving this objective may conflict with the requirements for high growth in the US.
Furthermore, new risks to global growth are threatening the three global objectives. The 'old' OECD countries are deleveraging, with corresponding declines in private spending. Political instability in the Middle East led to an oil price hike to over $100 a barrel. In Europe the EMU crisis has led to urgent fiscal cuts in the GIPS (Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain) and beyond (in Italy and Belgium) but no compensating rise of spending in Germany. In many of the other 'old' OECD countries, including the US and Japan, financial markets and policymakers are focused on reducing public deficits and debt. Finally, and crucially, in East Asia, an adjustment is happening only gradually, due to the slow rise of consumer spending in China.
In addition there is an 'instrument problem': global short-term real interest rates reached their zero bound two years ago. Central banks are now relying on a new half-tried half-instrument: quantitative easing (QE). This involves a central bank buying government and corporate bonds with newly created money, so as to lower the long term interest rate and depreciate the exchange rate of the country. But so far this policy instrument is of uncertain strength.
With three objectives, and only one-and-a half instruments, the world's key regions are in danger of not being able to achieve what they desire. This is a global prisoner's dilemma.
The responses to this prisoner's dilemma have not been encouraging. Many countries, including China, various East Asian countries, the UK, and Germany are pursuing export-led growth. And the US will soon need to follow, to rectify its huge current account deficit.
But not all countries can have export-led growth. Policymakers and financial markets are refusing to realise this. Each country – properly – thinks of its own interests, rather than thinking of the world as a system. But this is in danger of producing a world that does not add up. That is why global macroeconomic cooperation is now so necessary.
The US will help to ameliorate the prisoner's dilemma problem if Obama fails to raise US taxes, and if the US government continues overspending. In these circumstances the global growth trajectory will be sustained, albeit by a continuation of global imbalances.
This resolution of the prisoner's dilemma will look good for a while. But the resulting global growth trajectory will bring the prospect of a delayed global adjustment. After another few years there will need to be a further significant fall of the dollar. But, once the dollar begins to fall, holders of dollar assets will have to sell en masse, because the carry trade is so highly leveraged. This will probably lead to a full-blown dollar crisis. The medium-term implications of this approach are therefore grim.
In addition, the US Federal Reserve is likely to respond to the prisoner's dilemma problem with further, aggressive, quantitative easing, to keep long-term US interest rates low, and push the dollar down sooner rather than later. But if the dollar falls soon against the Euro, European nations will ensure that the ECB also resorts to QE, to push the Euro down and safeguard European growth, leading to the prospect of a global currency war. These QE strategies will together therefore push us into another low-interest-rate bubble, globally. That will be bad for China, and for East Asia generally, for whom the current level of interest rates is already too low.
What is at the heart of this problem? As long as China continues with its own slow speed of adjustment, the US is likely to maintain a fiscally lax stance, and proceed with QE, provoking QE in Europe. This bad global outcome must therefore be seen as a necessary consequence of the deliberate slow-adjustment choices being made by the Chinese authorities. Such a strategy is not only not in the global interest, it is also not in China's interest. It will push China into a bubble-world which the Chinese authorities will find extremely difficult to manage.
A similar argument can be made about Germany. Germany is forcing a speedy and unprecedented degree of austerity adjustment on the GIPS. But Germany is not ensuring a correspondingly rapid expansion of demand at home. Instead Germany is using its competitive position to ensure that it grows rapidly by means of an export surplus. This explains why the rest of Europe is so keen to see the Euro fall against the dollar. This is Europe's version of the China problem, with very similar global consequences.
The G20 and IMF do not have the instruments needed to ensure a global coordination of macroeconomic policies. This is why previous systems of multilateral surveillance – attempted by the IMF between 2004 and 2007 – were such a dismal failure. But a new process, the G20 Mutual Assessment Process, or 'G20-MAP', offers significant opportunities.
In this G20-MAP process, the IMF is taking the policies which countries propose, and integrating them into global scenarios. It is doing this to find out whether:
(i) adjustment happens – because China and East Asia adjust, and Europe and the US adjust as well, and growth is maintained; or
(ii) adjustment does not happen and there is inadequate global growth; or
(iii) adjustment does not happen but growth remains adequate, sustained by global imbalances.
The G20-MAP gives officials at the IMF the additional task of pointing G20 Heads of State towards policy adjustments of the kind which will lead to the first sort of outcomes. This process will – it is hoped – lock officials of the IMF and policymakers of the G20 countries into a situation in which they together seek adjustment-with-growth. Gordon Brown, in his important new book called 'Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalisation', has described this outcome as a 'global deal'.
What is happening might turn out to be very important for global institution-design. We may end up with an international community of policymakers and officials – both in the G20 nations and at the IMF – who are committed to resolving global macroeconomic problems and to sustaining global growth. If this works, the G20-MAP will institutionalise a new shared responsibility for managing the global macroeconomy.
David Vines is Professor in the Department of Economics and a Fellow of Balliol College at Oxford University, and an Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis in the Research School of Economics at the Australian National University.
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This post is highly misleading.
Firstly, there is no reasonable rationale for attributing the global financial crisis originated from the US sub-prime mortgage to global imbalance, even though it has been easy for people to do it and for irresponsible US banking and finance regulators to promote it and for some to simply follow the suit.
Australia is the only industrialised country that did not go to recession during the global financial crisis. Guess what? It has consistently run imbalance with current account deficits and capital account inflow.
Why didn't Australia fall under the imbalance as the US did? One of the reasons was its strong banking and finance sector that was prudently regulated, as opposed to the US mal-practice of lending to people with no chances of making payments.
While I agree with most of David Vines' analysis, I think his conclusion is much too optimistic. Maybe the IMF monitoring exercise will prove in time to be a building bloc in establishing a global consensus on re-balancing; but it could just as easily get shuffled off into irrelevance. It is simply too early to say. The decisive factor will be whether leaders of the G20 members – and above all the US and China – are genuinely convinced that tackling the problem is both imperative and in their countries' national interest. I see no clear evidence that this is yet the case, Unless and until it is, international monitoring exercises and peer pressure are unlikely to prod governments and legislatures into taking the painful measures and braving the domestic unpopularity that any serious effort at rebalancing will unavoidably entail. Much easier to continue the finger-pointing and self-exculpation that have so far characterised G20 debate on the issue.


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- 1 Note
- 2 Git with Gitosis
- 3 Installing Git and Gitosis – The Details
- 4 Using Gitosis
- 5 Upgrading (draft)
- 6 External References
Note that Gitosis is deprecated in the git community (see the discussion here) and gitolite is now recommended.
Git with Gitosis
Git by itself, out of the box, provides no method of access control. If you know a URL for a git repository, you can clone it. Without some mechanism of access control, you can commit to it as well. Gitosis is a wrapper that provides fine grained access control to your publicly visible git repositories.
You can configure gitosis such that each user has different authentication and authorization levels for each repository in the set of repositories contained in the directories of a user account.
This article describes how to install git and gitosis on a Dreamhost shared hosting account such that you have control over who can clone and commit to your git repositories.
This article was built by plagarizing, with permission, an article by Marco Borromeo. Thanks to Marco for his good work!
There are other methods of using git with your Dreamhost account. This article describes some of those methods. – That article links here. For additional features not found in Gitosis, see Gitolite.
NOTE: This article has been updated and simplified to reflect the most recent DH server configuration. If your DH server has python version < 2.4 or git version < 1.6, you may need to look for a version of this document from before 2011-04-22 for instructions on building your own copies of those programs.
Installing Git and Gitosis – An Overview
Installing Git and Gitosis requires a number of steps. Though none of the steps is difficult, the number of steps can be intimidating. Don't let it get to you. If you make a mistake, wipe it clean and start over.
Gitosis has some pre-requisites for it to do its job. You will need:
- A user account on Dreamhost. This account will be used for the git repositories and nothing else.
- Note that after successfully installing gitosis, you will NOT be able to login to this account. You can login to a different user account and su to this account if you need shell access.
- SSH installed on your desktop computer. SSH is used both as a secure tunnel from your desktop computer to your Dreamhost user account and for authenticating your identity to gitosis. Each user of a gitosis managed repository will also require SSH on his desktop computer.
- A current version of Gitosis. You will retrieve the gitosis package using git.
Installing Git and Gitosis – The Details
The procedures here presume your desktop computer is a PC running Linux.
For purposes of this tutorial the user name "repoman" will be used as the name of the user account that will hold your git repositories. The domain name "example.com" is used for your domain name. The directory "testrepo" will be used as exactly that: a test repository.
Create a user account
Using your Dreamhost account control panel, create a user account with shell access.
SSH keys
If you are not already using SSH generated public and private keys, you will need to have SSH on your desktop computer. After installing SSH, you will need to generate the public/private key pair. See: SSH for the How-To.
NOTE: do NOT add your RSA public key to the gitosis user's .ssh/authorized_keys. If you do this, you can still access this new account after installation, but gitosis will not able to let you push new repository, and you need to type full path when cloning gitosis-admin.conf later. Instead, use password to login this new account.
After creating your SSH key pair, use scp to copy your id_rsa.pub public key from your desktop computer to your DH user account as: $HOME/id_rsa.pub. This makes your public key available to the gitosis initialization. The gitosis initialization step is described later.
scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub firstname.lastname@example.com:~/
Setting Persistent Environment Variables
You will set some environment variables on your DH user account that will cause the correct instances of python to be invoked. SSH into your "repoman" account and do the following.
cd echo "export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH" >> .bashrc echo "export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH" >> .bash_profile source .bash_profile
Configuring Python
You need to set up a virtual python installation in your user directory in order to do local installations of python apps like Gitosis. The following is extracted from the method found here: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#creating-a-virtual-python.
mkdir ~/src cd ~/src wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/virtual-python.py python virtual-python.py cd
Installing Gitosis
You will clone the gitosis repository and install from that repository.
cd ~/src git clone git://eagain.net/gitosis.git # Or try "git clone https://github.com/tv42/gitosis.git" cd gitosis/ python setup.py install --prefix=$HOME cd
Initializing Gitosis
Remember copying your public key to your user directory in an earlier step? You will use it in the following step to initialize gitosis. Afterwards it can be deleted since gitosis keeps its own copy of it.
cd gitosis-init < id_rsa.pub rm id_rsa.pub
You may have to change permissions on the post-update hook in the gitosis-admin repository. For me, gitosis didn't work without this step.
chmod 750 $HOME/repositories/gitosis-admin.git/hooks/post-update
Don't ask. It's magic. See this article [[1]]. The article discusses setting execute permissions on the post-update hook.
NOTE: Gitosis, by default, closes you out from SSH access; to re-gain access to your user account used to host Gitosis, reconnect to Dreamhost server with another user account, and become the Gitosis user using "su" command.
Using Gitosis
Administering gitosis uses gitosis itself. Your public key gives you access to a repository called gitosos-admin.git. The gitosis-admin.git repository was created when you initialized gitosis in the previous step. To get access to this repository and its files, you will clone that repository from your Dreamhost user account to your desktop computer.
# on your desktop computer cd projects # or where ever you keep work in progress git clone email@example.com:gitosis-admin.git cd gitosis-admin
NOTE: The above didn't work for me, I had to change the 'git clone ...' line to:
git clone email@example.com:~/repositories/gitosis-admin.git
NOTE: When using TortoiseGit on Windows if you try to use firstname.lastname@example.com:~/repositories/gitosis-admin.git style URL you will get the error arguments to command look dangerous. Instead use email@example.com:gitosis-admin.git style of URL.
You now have the gitosis configuration file(s) on your desktop computer. Using these files you will add users and repositories to your remote host repositories.
Adding a Repository and (optional) User
To add a repository to your remote host, edit the gitosis.conf file in the gitosis-admin repository. After adding the repository to the gitosis controls, you will create the repository and push it to the remote host.
On your desktop computer, edit the gitosis.conf file. add a group and a repository
[group testrepogroup] members = repoman@usershost writable = testrepo
- testrepogroup is the name of a group (not the repository)
- members is the list of users permitted access to the testrepo repository (SSH public key identification)
- writable = testrepo identifies the repository.
When you are adding new users, you will have to copy their public key into the directory 'keydir'. Follow the admonitions about spurious newline characters in SSH public keys.
Push the gitosis-admin repository back to the remote host.
# on your desktop computer git commit -a -m"Add repository: testrepo, writable by repoman" git push
The gitosis-admin repository is now back on your DH user account.
Creating a New Repository
On your desktop computer do this:
cd projects # or where ever you keep stuff mkdir testrepo cd testrepo git init git remote add origin email@example.com:testrepo.git # do some work, git add and commit files git push origin master:refs/heads/master
Subsequent push to the remote repository does NOT require anything more than just "push". (This was not true for me on the original repo. It required editing .git/config. However, newly cloned versions of the repo did work with just "push".)
Your repository is now on your account at Dreamhost
Cloning a Repository
To clone your repository, do this:
git clone firstname.lastname@example.com:testrepo # do some work. edit, add, delete, commit. git push
That should do the trick!
Additional Usage Information
The gitosis you cloned from eagain.net has additional information. See these files in the gitosis directory.
example.conf README.rst gitweb.conf
Note! There may be security holes in this setup. Use it at your own risk.
No consideration has been given to issues of upgrading the configuration over time.
Upgrading (draft)
Login to gitosis account
Gitosis initialization blocks direct ssh connection with password, but you can login (with ssh) to you regular dreamhost account (the one you use to host your websites) and do a:
su your_gitosis_account
(put your gitosis account where you read your_gitosis_account)
After it asks for your gitosis account password, you will have shell access to that account so you can proceed to upgrade gitosis/fix permissions, etc.
External References
Marco Borromeo's tutorial on installing Gitosis on Dreamhost. Thank you Marco for this excellent tutorial. Marco's tutorial, with Marco's permission, is the source for much of this article.
git-scm.com is the "home" for git.
python.org is the "home for python.
pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools is the "home" for python setuptools.
eagain.net is the home site for gitosis. He doesn't say much. You can clone the repository by saying
git clone git://eagain.net/gitosis.git
Hosting git repositories the easy and secure way. This article presumes you are installing gitosis on a server where you have root access. Some steps in this article will not work on your Dreamhost account. The article is nonetheless informative.
Github provides secure git hosting. Don't want to host your own git repositories? Maybe this is a good solution. Open source projects are hosted free. Private git hosting is available for a fee.
Oct 14, 2010. I tried the above and it didn't work for me, I've got another page where I'm hoping people can assist in getting up to date instructions.

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Pair robs Subway on E. Midlothian Blvd.
YOUNGSTOWN A pair of robbers got away with more than $260 in cash from customers and the cash drawer at a South Side fast food restaurant about 4:05 p.m. Thursday.
Police were called to the Subway at 830 E. Midlothian Blvd. for a report of two men, one of them armed with a .22-caliber revolver, who came in through a side door and demanded money. Both men had their faces covered by bandanas, reports said.
The robber with the gun held it against an employee's head and demanded they open the safe but got upset when he was told the safe was on a time delay and could not open.
Reports said the robber tried to fire a round into the ceiling but the gun jammed. His partner grabbed the drawer from the cash register and threw it in a bag and they also took wallets from the customers before running out of the restaurant.
real lowlife scum that did this robbery
I am waiting for the day that people like this encounter a person with a concealed carry and get real justice...


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The leader, who has faced two months of protest calling for his resignation and early elections, has an acute respiratory ailment.
07:51, UK, Friday 31 January 2014
Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich, who has faced protests calling for his resignation, has taken sick leave.
The embattled leader, who has an acute respiratory illness and high fever, has already lost his prime minister Mykola Azarov, who resigned on Tuesday.
It is not clear how long Mr Yanukovich, 63, will be away from his desk.
The president, who does not have a history of illness, has strong backing in the parliament, and his absence could create a power vacuum.
He has faced violent protests on the streets calling for early elections and other demands, and many state buildings have been occupied by anti-government demonstrators.
An attempt by parliament to resolve the crisis earlier this week, by repealing harsh anti-protest laws, failed to appease the opposition who said it did not go far enough.
On Wednesday, it passed a measure offering amnesty to some of those arrested on condition demonstrators vacated most of the buildings they occupy. However, the opposition quickly rejected the offer.
The demonstrations, being held in sub-zero conditions, began when Mr Yanukovich backed out of a long-awaited agreement to deepen ties with the European Union, instead turning towards Moscow.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered a $15 billion bailout deal.
But they quickly came to stand for a wide array of discontent over corruption, heavy-handed police and dubious courts.
One estimate puts the number of arrests at more than 300. Two activists have been shot dead in front of police lines.
Serhiy Arbuzov, who was Mr Azarov's first deputy, has stepped in as interim prime minister.
Mr Azarov was deeply unpopular among protesters, whom he has referred to as "terrorists".
The 66-year-old was considered a key figure in the government's decision not to sign the EU trade deal in November.
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Lolicon (ロリコン?), also romanised as rorikon,[1] is a Japanese portmanteau of the phrase "Lolita complex".[2][3] In Japan, the term describes an attraction to underage girls,[4] or an individual with such an attraction.[5][6] Outside Japan, the term is less common and most often refers to a genre of manga and anime wherein childlike female characters are depicted in an erotic manner. The phrase is a reference to Vladimir Nabokov's book Lolita, in which a middle-age man becomes sexually obsessed with a twelve-year-old girl.[7] The equivalent term for attraction to (or art pertaining to erotic portrayal of) young boys is shotacon.[8]
Some critics claim that the lolicon genre contributes to actual sexual abuse of children,[9][10] while others claim that there is no evidence for this,[10][11] or that there is evidence to the contrary.[12] Although several countries have attempted to criminalize lolicon's sexually explicit forms as a type of child pornography, Canada, Australia,[13] New Zealand, Sweden,[14] the Philippines[15] and Ireland are among the few to have actually done so.[citation needed]
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Generally, lolicon is a term used to describe a sexual attraction to younger girls or girls with youthful characteristics. In other words, it can refer to actual or perceived pedophilia and ephebophilia. Strictly speaking, Lolita complex in Japanese refers only to the paraphilia itself, but the abbreviation lolicon can refer to an individual that has the paraphilia as well.[5] Lolicon is a widespread phenomenon in Japan, where it is a frequent subject of scholarly articles and criticism.[16] Many general bookstores and newsstands openly offer illustrated lolicon material, but there has also been police action against lolicon manga.[16] There are also stores that target the lolicon audience.[9] The consumers are said to be white-collar workers in their 20s and 30s who do not complain about the high prices of lolicon merchandise such as figurines and accessories.[9]
The "kawaii" style (which translates to "cute") is extremely popular in Japan, where it is present in many of the manga/anime styles.[17] The school-age girl in a school uniform is also an erotic symbol in Japan, comparable to the image of a cheerleader in the United States. Burusera shops cater to men with lolicon complexes by selling unwashed panties, men can make dates with teenagers through terekura ("telephone clubs"),[18] and some schoolgirls moonlight as prostitutes.[19] Together, these create the "strange collusion which exists in Japanese culture between the hentai (pervert) and the kawaii (cute)."[20] Conversely, the great cultural respect associated with old age would make it incompatible with portraying ecchi behavior in manga, except in a greatly exaggerated farce context (typical examples being "Dirty Old Men", Dragon Ball's Muten-Rôshi, Master Happosai in Ranma ½).
Sexual manga featuring children or childlike characters are called lolicon manga and are legal in Japan.[16][21] Lolicon manga are usually short stories, published as dōjinshi or in magazines specializing in the genre such as Lemon People, Manga Burikko, and Comic LO. Common focuses of these stories include taboo relationships, such as between a teacher and student or brother and sister, while others feature sexual experimentation between children. Some lolicon manga cross over with other hentai genres, such as crossdressing and futanari.[16] Kodomo no Jikan is an example of a series that, while not pornographic, draws on lolicon themes for its plot.
Lolicon is a subject of criticism in the Superflat exhibition.[4][22]
The use of the term "Lolita complex" in Japan began in the early 1970s with the translation of Russell Trainer's The Lolita Complex. Shinji Wada used the word in his Stumbling upon a cabbage field (キャベツ畑でつまずいて Kyabetsu-batake de tsumazuite?), an Alice in Wonderland manga parody in 1974.[23]
The "lolicon manga" genre closely related to manga media began with Hideo Azuma's works, such as The machine which came from the sea (海から来た機械 Umi kara kita Kikai?), in the early 1980s. Azuma had been publishing some sexual manga featuring girls in his own self-published magazine Cybele before that time.[24] Azuma's works became popular among schoolboy readers because most of the pornographic manga up until then had featured mature women influenced by gekiga, but Azuma's works are not pornographic in a strict sense though they contain many sexual elements. Following Azuma's success, some pornographic manga magazines, such as Manga Burikko and Lemon People, began featuring prepubescent girls. Throughout the 1980s, notable lolicon mangaka who published in these magazines include Nonki Miyasu, Kamui Fujiwara, Yoshito Asari and Aki Uchida.
Gender roles
Sharon Kinsella wrote that lolicon manga was a late-1980s outgrowth of girls' manga,[7] which included male homosexual love stories and parodies of boys' and adult manga.[25] This occurred as more men attended amateur manga conventions and as new boys' amateur manga genres appeared at Comiket. Kinsella distinguished between the attitudes toward gender of amateur lolicon manga and that of male fans of girls' manga.[7] While parody manga created by women ridicule male stereotypes and appeal to both male and female fans, lolicon manga "usually features a girl heroine with large eyes and a body that is both voluptuous and child-like, scantily clad in an outfit that approximates a cross between a 1970s bikini and a space-age suit of armor".[7] This latter feature expresses both fear and desire for young women, who have become increasingly powerful in Japanese society.[26] Kinsella noted dominant British and American genres and imports of animation video in the 1990s derived from lolicon manga, suggesting women in all of these countries have gone through similar social and cultural experiences.[27]
Female mangaka who draw what has been interpreted as lolicon include Chiho Aoshima (The red-eyed tribe billboard),[28] Aya Takano (Universe Dream wall painting),[29] Kaworu Watashiya (Kodomo no Jikan),[30] and Yukiru Sugisaki (Rizelmine).[31] Male artists include Henmaru Machino (untitled, aka Green Caterpillar's Girl), Hitoshi Tomizawa (Alien 9, Milk Closet), and Bome (sculptures).[4]
Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki said in a 1988 interview with Animage that while he prefers to have female protagonists, "It's difficult. They immediately become the subjects of rorikon gokko (play toy for Lolita Complex guys). In a sense, if we want to depict someone who is affirmative to us, we have no choice but to make them as lovely as possible. But now, there are too many people who shamelessly depict (such protagonists) as if they just want (such girls) as pets, and things are escalating more and more". He expressed concern as to what this might mean for "human rights for women."[32] In shojo manga, characters of stories may enter into relationships with others due to circumstance or mutual attraction. The relationship may even blossom into romance. In 2006, an editor-in-chief of a major shōjo magazine said "Love affair is a big theme in today's shojo manga. It's impossible to completely take out descriptions of sexual activity—that's just the result of love and affection".[33]
Outside Japan
The meaning of lolicon has evolved much in the Western world, as have the meanings of other words such as anime, otaku and hentai. In the West, lolicon refers to anime or manga that contains sexual or erotic portrayals of prepubescent or childlike characters, and is thus close cognate to the Japanese term lolicon manga. The use of the word lolicon in the West is an indication that the material is overtly, even if not explicitly, erotic.[34][35]
Laws have been enacted to criminalize "obscene images of children, no matter how they are made," for preventing abuse.[36] An argument is that obscene fictional images portray children as sex objects, thereby contributing to child sexual abuse. This argument has been disputed by the claim that there is no scientific basis for that connection,[37] and that restricting sexual expression in drawings or animated games and videos might actually increase the rate of sexual crime by eliminating a harmless outlet for desires that could motivate crime.[11] This is exemplified in a case involving a man from Virginia who asserted at his arrest that after viewing lolicon at a public library, he had quit collecting real child pornography and switched to lolicon.[38]
Cultural critic Hiroki Azuma said that very few readers of lolicon manga commit crimes. In the otaku culture, lolicon is the "most convenient [form of rebellion]" against society.[10]
Milton Diamond and Ayako Uchiyama observe a strong correlation between the dramatic rise of pornographic material in Japan from the 1970s onwards and a dramatic decrease in reported sexual violence, including crimes by juveniles and assaults on children under 13. They cite similar findings in Denmark and Germany. In their summary, they state that the concern that countries with widespread availability of sexually explicit material would suffer increased rates of sexual crimes was not validated and that the reduction of sexual crimes in Japan during that period may have been influenced by a variety of factors they had described in their study.[12]
Sharon Kinsella observed an increase in unsubstantiated accounts of schoolgirl prostitution in the media in the late 1990s, and speculated that these unproven reports developed in counterpoint to the increased reporting on comfort women. She speculated that, "It may be that the image of happy girls selling themselves voluntarily cancels out the other guilty image".[10]
A Japanese non-profit organization called CASPAR has claimed that lolicon and other anime magazines and games do encourage sex crimes. The group, founded in 1989, campaigns for regulation of depiction of minors in pornographic magazines and video games.[39] Public attention was brought to bear on this issue when Tsutomu Miyazaki kidnapped and murdered four girls between the ages of 4 and 7 in 1988 and 1989, committing acts of necrophilia with their corpses.[40] The Tokyo High Court ruled him sane, stating that "the murders were premeditated and stemmed from Miyazaki's sexual fantasies"[41] and he was executed by hanging for his crimes on June 17, 2008.[42]
Public sentiment against sexual cartoon depictions of minors was revived in 2005 when a convicted sex offender, who was arrested for the murder of a seven-year-old girl in Nara, was suspected as a lolicon.[39] Despite media speculation, it was found that the murderer, Kaoru Kobayashi, seldom had interest in manga, games or dolls.[43] He claimed, however, that he had become interested in small girls after watching an animated pornographic video as a high school student.[44] He was sentenced to death by hanging.
According to Michiko Nagaoko, director of a non-profit organization in Kyoto called Juvenile Guide, founded in 2003, approximately half of the 2,000 pornographic animation titles distributed in Japan every year, including films and video games, feature schoolgirl characters.[44]
On March 11, 2008, UNICEF Japan issued a statement calling for further tightening of child pornography laws in Japan, including the ban of sexual depictions of minors in manga, anime and computer games.[45] Such a ban, however, is not being considered by Japan's officials for the time being.[46]
See also
- Enjo kōsai (where older men give money and/or luxury gifts to attractive women for their companionship, and possibly sexual favors)
- Shotacon (male equivalent of lolicon)
- Moe (a similar aesthetic but less sexual in nature)
- Junior idol[47] (child or early teenager pursuing a career as a photographic model)
- Pedophilia
Legal aspects
- Child pornography
- Cartoon pornography
- Legal status of Internet pornography
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- ↑ "The Darker Side of Cuteness," The Economist, May 8, 1999.
- ↑ "Breaking the Mold," Sydney Morning Herald, October 7, 1995
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- ↑ "TURNING JAPANESE? TURNING JAPANESE? I REALLY THINK SO," by Nick Currie. The Herald (Glasgow), September 26, 1998.
- ↑ Gelder, Ken. The Subcultures Reader, 2nd ed. Oxon: Routledge, 2005. p. 547. ISBN 0-415-34415-8
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- ↑ Shinji Wada, "Kyabetsu-batake de tsumazuite" in Bessatsu Margaret, June, 1974, p.121
- ↑ (Japanese) Maruta Hara and Kazuo Shimizu, "The Lolicon Dōjinshi Reviews" (ロリコン同人誌レビュー Rorikon dōjinshi rebyū?)[1] in Apple Pie, March, 1982, p.116
- ↑ Kinsella, 304.
- ↑ Darling, 82. Kinsella, 306.
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- ↑ In Free Speech Coalition v. Reno (later Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition), the court held that "[f]actual studies that establish the link between computer-generated child pornography and the subsequent sexual abuse of children apparently do not yet exist."
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- ↑ "Court rules serial killer Miyazaki sane", The Japan Times, 06/29/01. Retrieved June 7, 2007.
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- "'Virtual child' pornography on the Internet: a 'virtual' victim?" Duke Law & Technology Review (September 23, 2002)
- "New Law Banning Lolicon?" ComiPress (November 17, 2006)
- American Guilty of Loli-Manga Possession Faces 15 Years" Sankaku Complex (May 26, 2009)
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There were forty-eight total sites sampled from wetlands in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. Each site was sampled at 4 landscape elevations (wettest to driest). The sites were sampled three times over a three-year period. The denitrification component of nitrogen cycling within these wetlands was assessed by measuring denitrification enzyme activity (DEA). DEA values varied significantly with relative elevation and management. The DEA response to non-limiting nitrate-nitrogen additions also varied significantly with relative elevation and management. The percentage of denitrification as nitrous oxide (a potent greenhouse gas) was different with relative elevation and management. The restored wetlands were more similar to the natural wetlands in all aspects of DEA.


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The fall weather is finally upon us in sunny California. Just last week, I had the fan on and was sweating in 90 degree weather, but these past few days have us pulling out the thicker blanket and me pulling out some scarves. Luckily, cold weather is perfect for this dish of roasted vegetables on grain. I like roasting vegetables when it's cold because a.) the oven warms up the house, b.) it smells wonderful, and c.) it's pretty hands-off so I can go read a book while the vegetables are cooking.
This isn't so much a recipe as a starter to roasted vegetables. The most technical part is probably the Magic Roasted Vegetables Dressing, but it's pretty easy, I promise.
Step 1. Cut vegetables into similar bite sized pieces and toss with plenty of oil (I used canola), chopped garlic, salt, and pepper. For this dish, I used delicata squash, sweet potatoes, small purple and red potatoes, and brussels sprouts. I split some of the larger sprouts in half.
Step 2. Lay the vegetables out in a single layer if you can and roast at 425F until done, tossing every 20 minutes. I used the convection at 400F so it took about 45 minutes.
Step 2.5 During the last 10 minutes of roasting, make Magic Roasted Vegetables Dressing. In a small jar with lid, pour in 1/4 cup olive oil, a few teaspoons of balsamic vinegar (more if you like the stuff), 4 pinches of salt, a plenty of cracked black pepper. Then put in a 1/8 teaspoon of dijon mustard. Cover the jar and shake for 30 seconds. The mustard will help emulsify the dressing.
Step 3. Wash and dry mixed salad greens. You can use arugula, lettuce, baby spinach, whatever. I used some Trader Joe's mix that had baby kale, baby spinach, and baby chard. Put these on the bottom of a large mixing bowl.
Step 4. Throw the roasted vegetables into the mixing bowl and however much of the dressing you want. Toss a couple times so the mixed greens get wilted from the heat. Taste, and add more dressing or salt and pepper if you want.
Step 5. Eat on top of brown rice, quinoa, wheat berries, or just on its own.
Protip: Sometimes I dress the vegetables with the dressing and then roast for another 5 minutes so that the balsamic part gets really sweet and the vegetables get extra caramelized.


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Tour 2012: Bailey Blog 3 – absent friends
- 10 July 2012 07:39
- Posted by Chris Bailey
Seefeld has taken the Blues into their hearts and City have been happy to reciprocate.
Despite the initial intention to keep the training gates closed to the public, boss Roberto Mancini has been so touched by the warmth of the welcome that he invited the village residents to come and watch his Premier League winners going through their routines in the late afternoon sunshine.
What they saw was a mixture of the established stars and young hopefuls doing drills with the ball for the first time this season with one session focussed on high speed, counter attacking.
The session featured Adam Johnson on the left wing. Johnson is the only England international in Austria as Joe Hart, Joleon Lescott and James Milner enjoy a rest after Euro 2012 and Micah Richards spends his pre-season with the GB Olympic squad.
Another of the Three Lions, Gareth Barry, is in Germany where he will today have an abdominal operation that is likely to keep him off the training ground for a couple more weeks.
Like the English boys, the French and Italian contingents are also absent from Austria and Nigel de Jong is due to land in a week's time.
Boss Mancini, who last night celebrated his new five-year contract at dinner with the squad and coaches, gave everyone involved in the European Championships four weeks off.
That means there are several young players in Austria, amongst them Jeremy Helan, Harry Bunn, Karim Rekik, Abdul Razak, Omar Elabdellaoui and young goalkeepers Eirik Johansen, Gunnar Nielsen and Ian Lawlor.
They are all staying in the Hotel Klosterbrau that was once a 16th monastery and has played host to such sporting and music luminaries as Boris Becker and La Toya Jackson.
Seefeld itself has a population of a little more than 3,000 that is swollen by tourists in search of winter sports and summer walking.
Twice the town has hosted the Nordic events in the winter Olympics (1964 and 1976) and even now, in the height of summer, scores of locals and visitors can be seen speeding past the training ground on roller skis as they get their fitness fix.
One or two our party have threatened to have a crack but so far the most adventurous have been physio Lee Nobes who has been mountain running (he was quicker coming down!) and Sergio Aguero and Carlos Tevez who have arrived at training on push bikes lent by the hotel. Bradley Wiggins need not be concerned.
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Up until this morning, I had a website running on ec2 (freeBSD, ami-8cce3fe5, running django/uwsgi/nginx), with an elastic ip of 220.127.116.11 . The site was being served, and I could ssh into the instance. Now the site is down and I can't even ssh into the instance.
As I hadn't made any changes while I was asleep, I thought maybe the instance had just crashed, so I restarted it, but to no avail:
when i try to ssh into it, the request just times out. pinging the ip also times out. pointing a browser to it's public dns (ec2-50-19-97-56.compute-1.amazonaws.com) also times out.
Although I haven't messed with security groups at all, these are the TCP ports for reference:
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A Tuesday report in the Moscow Times suggests that Space Adventures now has two paying passengers for a planned, commercial voyage around the moon. The two, who thus far have been unidentified, have presumably paid $150 million each to side in a Soyuz spacecraft that will loop around the moon in a maneuver called a free return that will take it back to Earth. The same maneuver was used by Apollo 13 when the spacecraft was crippled due to an explosion and had to return to Earth as soon as possible.
The plan is for the two passengers and a Russian cosmonaut to launch on board the Soyuz, then dock with an unpiloted booster rocket in low Earth orbit. The booster rocket would fire its engines and fling the Soyuz, the two passengers, and their Russian pilot out of low Earth orbit. As they pass around the far side of the moon, they will come to about 100 kilometers of the lunar surface. The flight is expected to take place in 2017 or 2018. The identities of the two passengers will be revealed as the launch date draws closer.
If the commercial voyage to the moon comes off, it will be the first time that any human has flown beyond low Earth orbit to the vicinity of the moon since the flight of Apollo 17 in December, 1972. NASA is planning a lunar orbital voyage in the early 2020s to intercept an asteroid that will have been previously been snagged and taken there by a robotic spacecraft. Both China and Russia have lunar ambitions, though there is no definitive date for such voyages. Officially NASA has foresworn a return to the lunar surface by presidential directive.
Space Adventures has been arranging for private space trips to the International Space Station since businessman and former NASA scientist Dennis Tito's fight in 2001. The most recent flight took place in September and October 2009 when Guy Laliberte, the CEO of Cirque du Soleil visited the ISS. After a hiatus, Space Adventures is preparing a new commercial voyage to the space station with British singer Sarah Brightman to take place in 2015.


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The Bureau of Reclamation recently released their draft feasibility study which concluded that raising the Shasta Dam 18.5 feet (flooding reaches of the McCloud, Upper Sac and Pit Rivers in the process), was "cost effective" and "feasible."
And because it's a typical Bureau of Reclamation project, they appear to be playing games with the cost allocations, suggesting that this boon to junior water rights holders like Axis of Evil Member Westlands Water District won't end up costing irrigators their fair share (as this Redding Record-Searchlight editorial wisely points out):
But the feasibility study released this week that concludes enlarging the dam and reservoir is both possible and cost-effective makes a curious argument. A bigger dam isn't just coincidentally good for the fish. Rather, they are the major beneficiary — with more than 61 percent of the bigger dam's benefits attributed to fish and wildlife enhancement, as opposed to irrigators, urban water users, and hydroelectric customers.
That means 61 percent of the projects costs — roughly $655 million, according to the estimates released this week — are not "reimbursable." That is, they couldn't be added to water users' bills. Instead, presumably, the taxpayers at large would be on the hook.
Sorry, but this smacks of a shell game. The people who stand to gain from a deeper Lake Shasta are the owners of major agribusinesses with iffy junior water rights prone to cutbacks in dry years — among them the San Joaquin Valley's Westlands Water District. They benefit both from the extra water itself, and from the steps to improve fisheries, which ultimately aim to remediate the damage done by the Central Valley Project and avert further potential water cutbacks related to endangered-species protection.
For some — like Westlands — the taxpayer-funded handouts never really stop.
Longtime readers will remember that Westlands purchased the private Bollibokka Fishing Club in order facilitate dam raising (though at one point they were exploring the possibility of annexing the Bollibokka into their lower Central Valley irrigation district to get a higher water right).
Going through all the reports is a mind-numbing task, but one thing quickly becomes clear; inundation of the Sacramento and Pit Rivers simply aren't considered a problem.
They're not even mentioned in the "Major Topics of Interest" section.
Nor could I quickly find any actual numbers as to the amount of those rivers that would be lost.
The McCloud River offers up a few special challenges to those who would flood a little more of it, which are acknowledged in this document.
Astonishingly, in a search to discover just how much of the McCloud would be lost, I found this throwaway statement:
Specific information is lacking concerning the river reach that could periodically be inundated if Shasta Dam and Shasta Lake were enlarged because the lands along this part of the river are privately owned and access for biological and other surveys has been limited; therefore, general information concerning the lower McCloud River as a whole is provided for some resource areas. This section also includes a brief description of the current transition reach (see Figure 25-1) because the reach of the river that would be newly inundated would likely take on the characteristics of the existing transition reach.
Uhh, the people who want to raise the dam don't want to be bothered to learn what we're going to lose?
Forgive me for suspecting that the Bureau of Reclamation has little interest in discovering exactly how much river we'd lose.
While the McCloud has never been protected by a Wild & Scenic Rivers designation, it has been offered some protection at the state level:
The legislature instead passed an amendment to the California Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to protect the river's free-flowing condition and the river's fishery below McCloud Dam through the State PRC.
This provides a certain barrier to raising the dam, as does the existence of a number of sacred sites for the Winnemem band of the Wintu Indians, who lost the majority of their lands when the dam was built, and stand to lose what little is left.
This band of Wintu aren't — for some reason — afforded federal status, and you can expect that little dodge to cost someone their ancient burial ground.
Given the pressures on California's overpromised water supplies — and the money at stake from groups like Westlands, who would like to get more of their allocations, which they can sell at a premium price elsewhere — I get a sense of inevitability about this whole mess, and if it does happen, you can only hope the Bureau and the water users who benefit are forced to mitigate for the lengths of river we'd lose.
There are many dimensions to this mess — far more than I can cover here — but there's more to come.
See you on the river (maybe the lower bit of the Upper Sac) while we can still fish it, Tom Chandler.


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Have Trains Gone Too Far? Why Locomotives and Subways Pose A Risk To America
In the early 1900s, a great American, Henry Ford, invented the car. Before this, people would merely walk or use horse-drawn carriages. Of course, this was extremely problematic. Walking was hard for our good, Godly friends of an older age and horses love to defecate, making it even more stressful for our elderly comrades. So when a Christian hero invented the car, everyone benefited except for those lazy, poor socialists, but that was their choice. However, those elitist British fools were still angry about losing the revolutionary war and what did we end up with? Locomotives, a despicable mode of transportation.
The other day, I was talking to my Mexican housekeeper. After voicing my support for a ban on pornography, in broken English she said: "Joo gringoes es muy loco! Pornografia es mucho harmless!" I Bing-ed what loco means, and allegedly it is the Spanish word for crazy. And that is what a locomotive, or colloquially known as a train, is. It is a crazy, phallic European tube that should not be used by humans for any reason whatsoever.
One of the most common uses of trains is within impoverished liberal paradises such as New York and Tokyo as subways, a way for inner-city black folk to move around without having to pay for gas. Most cities pride themselves in their subway system because it is politically correct to help the poor. Again, this is another problem with big cities. Unlike Christianity, the atheist mentality wants to help poor people get around despite their violence and laziness.
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Proposed state law will give more power to students who are victims of sexual assault
By Alicia Doyle 08/21/2014
I'm exhausted from living in the same house as the student who sexually assaulted me nine months ago," wrote the anonymous author of Dear Harvard: You Win, a first-person account published as an Op-Ed in The Harvard Crimson in March.
Her account of the aftermath of a sexual assault in 2013 was written in her dining hall, a short distance away from the student who allegedly pressured her into sex in his bedroom.
"My hands are trembling as they hover across the keyboard," she wrote. "I'm exhausted from fighting for myself."
The anonymous author was among a group of Harvard students who filed a federal complaint with the U.S. Department of Education earlier this year. She alleged that university officials didn't take her case seriously, while others reported difficulty navigating the administration's process for dealing with sexual assault reports.
"I'm exhausted from sending emails to my resident dean, to my House Master, to my Sexual Assault/Sexual Harassment tutors, to counselors from the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, to my attorney. … I'm exhausted from avoiding the laundry room, the House library and the mailroom because I'm scared of who I will run into," she wrote.
As universities face pressure over the handling of rape allegations and adopt policies to define consensual sex, California state lawmakers are considering legislation coming before the Assembly this month that would require all schools that receive public funds for student financial assistance to set an "affirmative consent standard" that could be used in investigating and adjudicating assault allegations.
Molly George, assistant professor in criminal justice and sociology at California Lutheran University, said she is very pleased to see that sexual violence on college campuses is receiving much-needed attention as an important social problem.
"This is obviously a very serious issue that must be addressed, as students deserve to be safe on every campus," George said.
After an incident involving Steubenville High School football players who raped a 15-year-old incapacitated by alcohol, Andrea Bowers, a Los Angeles-based artist, presented an installation showcasing the twitter texts the boys sent out the night of the rape.
"I grew up in the same sort of environment … where most of the young men were never told 'No' and were culturally given the right to do whatever they wanted. This needs to change," Bowers wrote of her exhibit.
California's Senate Bill 967's "affirmative consent standard" is a well-intentioned step in this direction for colleges and universities, but would be complicated to operationalize and to enforce, George said.
"The legislation would put more responsibility on schools to investigate and adjudicate sexual assaults, which may exacerbate the problem of academic administrators mishandling sexual assault cases; law enforcement and criminal justice professionals are the ones who need to be handling all serious crimes," George explained.
The law defines affirmative consent as "affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity. It is the responsibility of each person involved in the sexual activity to ensure that he or she has the affirmative consent of the other or others to engage in the sexual activity. Lack of protest or resistance does not mean consent, nor does silence mean consent. Affirmative consent must be ongoing throughout a sexual activity and can be revoked at any time. The existence of a dating relationship between the persons involved, or the fact of past sexual relations between them, should never by itself be assumed to be an indicator of consent."
The law is a civil law about how schools and campuses are going to investigate allegations of sexual assault within the realm of the university rules and conduct, explained John West, supervisor of the sexual assault and family protection unit at the Ventura County District Attorney's office.
"It's not a criminal statute and my understanding is, the law is not going to change the criminal statutes or the burdens of what the prosecution has in proving consent or lack of consent beyond a reasonable doubt in a courtroom," West said.
The university's primary role should be support and prevention, George said.
"Prioritizing campus programming to ensure that student cultures are positive, equitable and safe will likely be more effective than adopting legislation that may only complicate university disciplinary systems," George said.
Sexual violence on college campuses is a significant problem across the country, noted Julie Mickelberry, vice president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund of Santa Barbara, Ventura & San Luis Obispo Counties Inc.
"The numbers are staggering — approximately 20 percent of women and 6 percent of men in college are survivors of attempted or actual sexual assault," Mickelberry said.
Planned Parenthood applauds Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara and west Ventura Counties, and her state Senate colleagues for working hard to strengthen public policies that address and prevent sexual violence on college campuses, Mickelberry added.
"Senate Bill 967 establishes stronger standards for accountability, promotes greater safety for California's college students and will help bring justice for survivors of sexual assault," Mickelberry said.
California Lutheran University is proactive in its efforts to help students understand the many issues surrounding sexual assault, from bystander intervention to survivor's rights and resources, said Dr. Melinda Roper, interim vice president for student affairs and dean of students at California Lutheran University.
"If this legislation passes, Cal Lutheran will integrate the 'affirmative consent standard' into our student code of conduct," Roper said. "Further, we would incorporate this standard into all of our education efforts to ensure that students have a thorough understanding of what constitutes affirmative consent, that it must be ongoing and that it can be revoked at any time."
In regard to the affirmative consent piece of the legislation, it will require colleges, universities and communities to change the way they define consent and to think about it in a more progressive way, said Caroline Prijatel-Sutton, executive director of the Coalition for Family Harmony, a nonprofit based in Oxnard that provides direct services to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
"However, this is just one piece of the legislation, and it is important that we look at the greater initiative, which is to ensure that campuses institute best practices that incorporate ongoing intervention, education and recovery for students," Prijatel-Sutton said.
This includes access to accommodation for classes, counseling services and other recovery services, Prijatel-Sutton continued. "As the rape crisis center for Ventura County, our aim is to ensure the victims have resources and know their rights."
California Lutheran University is committed to sexual assault awareness and prevention, Roper said.
For instance, the University Policy on Sexual Misconduct currently includes a detailed explanation of what constitutes consent, and conditions under which consent is not valid.
"We have already been providing students with information and resources on the topic through online and printed materials as well as educating them during wellness program presentations and events," Roper said.
"We have also developed a new session specifically on sexual assault awareness and prevention that will be part of new-student orientation at the end of the month," Roper said.
This year California Lutheran University is also launching an online sexual assault prevention and awareness training that all transfer students and incoming freshmen will need to complete.
"The safety and well-being of our students in all regards is paramount," Roper said. "This includes protecting students from sexual assault, so it is an important issue at Cal Lutheran, just as it is at colleges and universities across the country."
This legislation is significant as part of the overall effort to protect college students from sexual assault, Roper added.
"Regardless of whether the legislation passes, there is much work to be done," Roper said. "The fact that we are now having these conversations is a very good thing."
Prijatel-Sutton said she remains hopeful that new legislation makes reporting sexual assault a little easier. The same barriers, however, such as shame and fear, may exist.
"The legislation does create more avenues of services and accessibility for the victim, which might make reporting that much easier if the students are aware of how they can receive help," Prijatel-Sutton said.
This topic forces us to think about policy change, the definition of consent and victim-centered strategies to address the issue, Prijatel-Sutton further noted.
"Awareness is growing, and therefore education and understanding of this issue [are] key in helping survivors find the resources they need and take the important first step in their healing process," Prijatel-Sutton said. "We find this a very significant movement and are working towards collaboration with the county's campuses to help in every way we can."
The National Initiative from the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault requires college and university settings of all types to address sexual assault policies and initiate a cultural shift in how sexual assault is handled on campuses, Prijatel-Sutton added.
"There couldn't be a better time to start having these discussions and institute policies and procedures that are clear and give victims their rights," Prijatel-Sutton said.
Roper said that he hopes all students will feel empowered to make informed decisions about their sexual activity, that they will not make assumptions, and that they will know to stop if there is any ambiguity.
"In the event a sexual assault does take place, I would encourage the survivor to seek help and support," Roper said.
According to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, sexual assault is one of the most underreported crimes, with 60 percent still being left unreported. But even when the crime is reported, it is unlikely to lead to an arrest and prosecution. Factoring in unreported rapes, only about 3 percent of rapists will ever serve a day in prison.
Which leads to the question: Will this law have any impact on unreported rapes?
"It's difficult for us to predict," Prijatel-Sutton said. "The aspect of shame and fear are still there in our opinion and I don't think those fears will go away when someone reports. We still point them in the direction of reporting if that's what they want to do. But it's hard to say what the person will feel at that moment."
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Video shows the two-month-old piglet balancing - just about - as his owner and surfing partner describes him as "phenomenal".
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A piglet called Zorro is making a name for himself in New Zealand - thanks to his surfing skills.
The two-month-old's owner Matthew Bell has been taking him out on the waves since he was just three weeks old.
Mr Bell says the crossbred pig is a "phenomenal swimmer".
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Thousands of benefits cancelled
The benefits of more than 6000 people have been cancelled after a further crackdown on fraud.
A joint operation between Inland Revenue and the Ministry of Social Development targets those that are found to be in work and earning income other than a benefit.
Associate Social Development Minister Chester Borrows said that is estimated to have saved more than $19 million.
Mr Borrows told the Social Services committee at Parliament on Wednesday that of the 6000 found to be illegitimately receiving the benefits over the past year, 95 have been prosecuted for fraud.
Overall, in 2012/13 there were 906 convictions for benefit fraud, totalling more than 32 million, Mr Borrows said.
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Emily Ziegler
2007 (Senior): Senior captain finished her career sixth on Tech's career assist list with 2,675 and sixth in career assist average at 8.06 apg... Played in 17 matches and a total of 67 games on the year, starting each match she played in... Missed the last 12 matches of the season due to injury... Ranked sixth in the Big 12 in hitting percentage with a .356 clip...Finished ninth in the conference in assists with 10.67 per game...Totaled 715 assists and 129 digs (1.93 dpg) for the season...Recorded six double-doubles on the season...Named to the UNLV Tournament and Red Raider RoundUp All-Tournament teams...Selected by coaches as the Outstanding Setter of the Red Raider RoundUp...Named to the Academic All-Big 12 First Team for the third time in her career...Recorded the conference's fifth-highest hitting percentage in a match with her .733 outing against Villanova...Picked up career-high 12 kills twice during the season, against Villanova and again against SMU...Tallied 10-or-more digs four times during the season...Tied career-best 58 assists against Texas A&M...Picked up 12 kills and 46 assists against Villanova...Tied her career high of four blocks against Lamar and also against Princeton.
2006 (Junior): On the season, played 109 games, second most for the Raiders ... led the team for career assists 1960, positioned eighth in the school records ... tallied 866 assists on the season, averaging (7.94/spg) ... notched a team match-high with 58 assists (vs. Texas A&M) ... 30 assists in match vs. Missouri was top mark for three-game contest ... passed other teammates with her 49 assists in a four-game match (at Kansas State)... recorded a double-double on five occasions on the 2006 season in assists and defensive digs ... tallied 19 digs in five-game match against Oklahoma, placing her fifth on the 2006 season. ...marked the school's match records with a fourth-place tie with her 5 aces, two occasions (at UTPA, vs. Wright State) ... named CoSIDA Academic All-District VI ... also honored Academic All-Big 12 First Team.
2005 (Sophomore): Led the squad in assists with 859 in 108 games and had 13 30-assist games ... led the team in assists per game with 7.76 and was ninth in the conference ... also led the team in serves, recording 38 aces and was ranked seventh in the Big 12 ... tallied four double-doubles on the season and was fourth on the team in digs with 173 ... also notched one solo block and 24 block assis.
2004 (Freshman): Played in 48 games, 22 matches and recorded one start ... led the team in assists against Texas A&M in her first career start (six kills, 56 assists, one ace, 12 digs, two blocks) ... recorded a double-double against Texas A&M (12 digs, 56 assists) ... second on the team in attack percentage with a .274 (29 kills, nine errors).
High School: A graduate of Highland Park High School in Dallas, Texas ... lettered in volleyball ... at Highland Park, led the team to district championships from 2001-03 ... 2001 regional semi-finalists, 2002 Area Finalists and 2003 State Runner-up ... individual honors include 2001 District Newcomer of the Year ... in 2002, was named District MVP, Justin Northwest All-Tournament Team, the Coppell Classic All-Tournament Team, second-team all-area ... in 2003, named district MVP, Skyline All-Tournament Team, Justin Northwest Outstanding Offensive Player, Coppell Classic All-Tournament Team, all-state team, and the academic all-state team ... participated in the National Honor Society, National Spanish Honor Society, Hilites Service Club, Feed My Starving Childern Service Club (Officer), Principal's Advisory Committee.
Personal: Born March 31, 1986 in Dallas, Texas ... daughter of Richard Ziegler, a real estate agent and alumni of Texas Tech and Gretchen Ziegler, who works in political grassroots and was a graduate of the University of Southern Illinois ... one sister, Maddie, and one brother, Will ... enjoys music, knitting and shopping ... majoring in psychology.


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A Venetian map of North and South America published c. 1597. It took centuries for Europeans to create an accurate picture of the lands they were discovering. Note that in this map, Australia appears to be connected to Antarctica
An English map of New England published c. 1697
An English map of New England published c. 1720. Note that in this map, the coast of Maine extends at an almost 90 degree angle starting at the Piscataqua River.
An English map of New England published c. 1755. In this image, the region looks almost as we know it now, with the notable exception that New Hampshire extends across all of Vermont and most of Maine
A city plan of "Ye Great Town of Boston" in 1733. The text in the lower left corner gives the founding dates of the city's churches, the dates of the major fires, and dates of its small pox epidemics
An image of Boston with war ships in its harbor. This was published in 1774, just before the Revolution
The title page of an Algonquin language bible, printed in Cambridge in 1663
A political cartoon published in 1774 lampooning Britain's response to the Boston Tea Party. In this image, the American colonies are depicted as an Indian woman having tea forced down her throat
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A POPULAR headteacher is looking forward to holidaying abroad as he begins his retirement.
Alan Scott has been at the helm of Tottington High School for more than 20 years.
But now he is planning to travel and spend more time with his family as his 40-year career comes to end.
Mr Scott, who turned 60 in March, said: "I have had one of the best careers I could have ever imagined and I would not change a thing. I have family all over the North West so there won't be a dull moment."
Mr Scott, who lives near Didsbury, said one of his highlights at Tottington was when the school was awarded specialist maths and computing status five years ago.
He said: "I didn't even know Tottington when I came to the school and it is a lovely little place. The school staff, parents and children are lovely and I will miss them very much but I hope I will be invited back and we will stay in touch."
Aside from teaching, Mr Scott has served on the bench at Manchester City Magistrates Court for 24 years, a job which he hopes to concentrate on during his retirement. In September, he will spend a holiday in Lake Garda in Italy, followed by a Caribbean cruise in January, with his partner who is also starting her retirement.
"It hasn't sunk in yet and when September comes my body clock will be gearing up for a new term so I wanted to get away."
But for Mr Scott, retirement isn't the only perk of turning 60.
"I got my bus pass last week and I am really excited," he added.
Mr Brian Duffy, a former deputy headteacher at a school in Rochdale, will become the new head of Tottington High in September.


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Four years after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a case against Randall Leshlin and his debt management services company, Express Consolidation, the FTC is mailing out refund checks to almost 3,000 consumers across the country that fell victim to worthless debt management services. The reimbursement stems from a February 2009 contempt finding against Florida attorney Randall L. Leshin, and ... Read More »
If At First You Don't Succeed, Commit Fraud and Fail Again : Defrauding From Behind Bars
Three defendants have been sentenced to federal prison on charges of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft; one man committing fraud from prison. According to United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates, the charges and other information presented in court: In late January 2011, Samantha Johnson stole the wallet of a 93-year-old woman while she was shopping at a retail establishment ... Read More »
Embezzled, Diverted And Stolen Funds Used To Pay For Adult Entertainment
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On Tuesday, Dec. 6, more than 500 students and alumni gathered with friends of Leon and Sandra Levine as the men's Royals basketball team took on Davis & Elkins in the final game of any sport ever to be played in Ovens Athletics Center.
At halftime, the crowd enjoyed a high-energy celebration to honor the Levines and their gift of $8 million to build the Levine Center for Wellness and Recreation and dramatically enhance Queens' campus life and athletic programs. Their gift, made through the Leon Levine Foundation, will combine with gifts from other friends and alumni to build a facility that includes a fully equipped fitness center, aquatic center, and three full-sized courts for practice and competition. These courts will feature movable walls, allowing the facility to transform from a single court surrounded by stands to a versatile auditorium for major campus and community events.
"Every student and alumna here tonight knows that your gift will transform our university, and we are all so grateful," said Queens President Pamela Davies, "We want to show our gratitude with true Queens spirit!"
The crowd cheered in response, led by athletic director Jeannie King and head swim coach Jeff Dugdale. The Levines entered through a tunnel of cheering student-athletes while students in the stands roared out their names for a memorable Royals welcome.
The groundbreaking ceremony itself continued the fun-filled spirit of the event, as the Levines donned hard hats and used golden shovels to scoop mini-basketballs into a hoop and officially kick-off the construction process. Queens' mascot Rex assisted them along with his special guest, the Levines' 7 year-old granddaughter Mindy.
Two alumni athletes offered their memories of playing in Ovens Athletics Center and thanked the Levines for their extraordinary gift. Bobby Lindauer '92 recounted his experience as a member of Queens' first co-ed class and first men's basketball team. He expressed his awe at what Royals athletes have accomplished since then and thanked the Levines for giving Queens' students a beautiful facility in which to pursue excellence. Yogi Leo '96, a member of Queens Athletic Hall of Fame, presented the Levines with a framed jersey as President Davies named them our Most Valuable Players.


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