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i’m not totally sure since i haven’t seen them together in meat space (we are totally out of the rat skirts) but i think there’s a pretty good chance of it being cute

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Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, and Vincent Cassel in La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)

Cast: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Abdel Ahmed Ghili, Solo, Joseph Momo, Héloïse Rauth, Rywka Wajsbrot, Olga Abrego, Laurent Labasse, Choukri Gabteni. Screenplay: Mathieu Kassovitz. Cinematography: Pierre Aïm. Production design: Giuseppe Ponturo. Film editing: Mathieu Kassovits, Scott Stevenson. Music: Assassin. 

Would the friendship of the Jew, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), the African, Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and the Arab, Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui) be possible in the Parisian banlieus today? For that matter, was it in fact possible when writer-director Mathieu Kassovitz made La Haine in 1995? Or was it a symbolic construct to emphasize solidarity against the Establishment and the corrupt police force, somewhat like the ethnic stews of Italian-, Irish-, and Jewish-Americans (but never, sadly, African-Americans) that Hollywood filmmakers put on bomber crews and destroyers during World War II as a way of promoting solidarity against the enemy powers? The question is rhetorical, of course, and not designed to undermine the importance and brilliance of Kassovitz's terrific (and terrifying) film, made in response to outbreaks of violent protest in the poorer suburbs of Paris. It has the quality of some of the best neo-realist Italian films of the postwar years, with the additional sense of something about to erupt that pervades the film and has not dissipated in the 28 years since it was made. If anything, it has spread into the rest of the world, especially in the post-9/11 era. The trio of actors on whom the film mainly focuses is extraordinary, both individually and as an ensemble.

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meet kehlani

tw: hearing loss, parental neglect

— BASICS

full name: kehlani abrego zaire nickname: lani, kz, kaz preferred name: kehlani, lani, kaz age: thirty-five birthday: october 31st zodiac: scorpio birthplace: south bronx, new york current residence: new york city, new york nationality: american ethnicity: african-panamanian, mexican, english, german, scottish, irish affiliation: the brotherhood occupation: smoke and mirrors employee & falcon for the brotherhood

— PERSONAL

gender: female pronouns: she/her sexual orientation: heterosexual romantic orientation: heteromantic relationship status: single education: bachelor's in chemistry and master's in pharmaceutical science positive traits: open-minded, trustworthy, cordial, caring, resilient negative traits: cynical, flirtatious, sly, passive, mysterious

— FAMILY

birth father: reuban curbello birth mother: brisa zaire sibling(s): two younger brothers (30-32 & 28/29), one younger sister (24-27), one younger half-sister (20-22) cousin(s): one male cousin (20-22) children: none

— BIOGRAPHY

Growing up, Kehlani's life was never easy. Her con artist of a father left her mother when she was only five years old, coming around whenever he needed something and she watched as he strung her mother along to get what he needed from her which was usually money. It pained her and her siblings to watch their mother fall for their father's tricks over and over again because she truly thought he still loved her each time, too blind to see the truth right in front of her eyes. Thank to her father and from that moment on, Kehlani was very disillusioned when it came to love because those sweet words that were supposed to charm someone's way into your heart could be nothing but empty promises. Whenever her father would leave after getting what he came for, her mother would spend weeks moping around the house like a teenage girl going through a break up and Kehlani would have to go through the process of taking care of not only herself but her siblings, her own mother and everything else in the house. Kehlani became independent very young and very quickly; her neighbors knew when her mother was going through another episode whenever they'd see the children doing all the housework. These moping episodes centered around her father were the worse times but the break ups with the men she would see in between her father's visits were only slightly just as bad. They either didn't like how clingy she was, didn't want anything serious, or didn't want to handle a woman with multiple children.

It was just Kehlani and her three other siblings in the home with their mother when she became pregnant with their youngest sister. Now, Kehlani was only twelve years old but she nor her other siblings were stupid; their father hadn't been around for awhile so they knew their father was not the father of their soon to be new sibling. Their youngest sister was the product of one of the flings their mother had and the siblings new that nursing the breakup would make their mother to preoccupied to care for herself during her pregnancy so Kehlani and her siblings put in the work and made the sacrifices to take care of their mother and eventually raise their half-sister. What made this process even more heavy was the day their equally flighty aunt dropped their cousin at their doorstep to go jetsetting with husband number five. Both Kehlani's cousin and youngest sister were close in age and thw younger two formed a bond but Kehlani took main responsibility for them; it got to the point where strangers thought she was just the youngest teen mom when it was just the three of them out. After practically raising her other siblings, Kehlani didn't see a problem with what people would say about her or the whispers on the street. She did raise her siblings and she was proud of them.

The hardest part of their mother being in one of these moods, whether they were severe or minor, was money. Because her mother practically gave everything away to her father in an attempt to make him stay there was rarely much left for the family; the kids ended up selling items in the house or doing chores for the neighbors for money and when they were of age, they got jobs. Kehlani usually worked cashier jobs or overnight jobs while she was in school but the one thing she was good at was picking pockets. It was when she was in middle school that she figured out she had a knack for this little talent; they were running low on money, one of the kids were sick and pay wasn't going to come in any time soon so Kehlani resulted to stealing from people when they weren't looking. And who was going to notice a little girl in the busy streets. So, in between jobs or after school or even on a day she had nothing to do, Kehlani would just stroll down the street and lift whatever she could get her hands on; she never held on to the wallets or any of the useless things she didn't need, only keeping the money and valuable items she could sell. Of course this little skill did get her into a lot of trouble and on numerous occasions she would be hand delivered back home by the police with the warning to her mother of "next time we won't be so easy on her" which was just a fat lie since they never did anything more than bring her home with a slap on the wrist.

By the time Kehlani got to high school, she was very well known with knowing everything about everyone, having whatever you needed whenever you needed it. It always baffled everyone how she was able to know what she did and like a good magician would say, she never revealed her secrets. She developed a new particular skill on top of her pickpocketing and went on to being what others would consider being nosy but Kehlani felt it was just being in the right place at the right time. Kehlani got good at being a fly on the wall, most of the time people didn't even realize she was in the room and she'd just sit there being in the know of every piece of gossip that graced the halls. At first she used the information she knew to have something to hold over people to get things she needed until eventually people started paying her for the information she had or could get for them; of course any and all money she earned from this went to taking care of her family.

During her sophomore year, Kehlani was in the middle of class when she noticed that the lecture given by her teacher was getting harder and harder to hear and when she voiced as such, her teacher assumed she was trying to bring attention to herself and sent her to the principal's office. Her mother was called down to the office and when it was explained to her why her daughter was brought down, Kehlani's mother revealed this was something she feared of. Her mother explained to the principal and Kehlani herself that she was told that her children had a high probability to lose their hearing. Her mother hadn't gone through it but her grandmother had and it was something she knew her children would face at some point in their lives, she just thought she'd have more time to explain it to them.

Kehlani had it explained to her and her siblings by a doctor that the hearing loss could be different for each of them; Kehlani was experiencing moderate hearing loss and was told that a hearing aid would be beneficial. More so worried about her siblings than herself, Kehlani made sure she understood as much as she could about what was happening to her and what could eventually happen to her siblings. The siblings started taking part in learning sign language in preparation for the profound hearing loss any one of them could experience. She was fitted for hearing aids and like she thought when she was told all of this would be happening, the kids in her class started giving her the nicknames Bionic Girl or Deaf Vader which were done out of friendliness and not malice. They didn't treat her any different than before and now Kehlani felt like she had a little trick whenever she felt like she didn't want to hear people anymore and she'd just take the aids out. The rest of her high school experience went by in a breeze; she still was the person people came to when they needed something or needed to know something and this reputation followed her after she graduated.

Kehlani hadn't gone off to school, not wanting to leave her siblings in the care of her mother who had suddenly taken to flitting off with whatever boyfriend she was obsessed with as she believed actually leaving with this boyfriends would give her more of a chance of keeping one for longer than a month. Her beliefs were completely wrong. Kehlani stayed home with the kids and got her bachelor's degree in chemistry while simultaneously looking after her siblings in ever aspect of their lives. When she went for her master's, her siblings were more than capable of taking care of themselves at this point and even though she wanted to just stay local to New York and be just a train away, her siblings encouraged her to leave the state for the first time in her life to get the education she deserved and she did just that. Kehlani kept in contact with her family while getting her master's and relished in the praise she received from them for going after her degree. Of course she would send money home to her siblings from the fly on the wall business she moved from New York and to her school in Texas.

Her reputation in high school proceeded her in Texas and her now built reputation came back to her in New York when she returned from earning her master's. Her siblings, all grown up and not needing her as much, had their own lives and aspirations and their mother was still in and out of town or the country so Kehlani took it upon herself to continue doing what she did best, eavesdropping. She had a non-conspicuous job at the Smoke & Mirrors Tobacco Shop to keep up appearances of a law-abiding citizen while operating her side business; it was actually easy to do in the smoke shop because peopel would just talk and talk and not even pay her any mind. One afternoon while working in the shop, Kehlani was approached by two people about her side business and asked to meet with their boss; of course only thinking the worse, she was very apprehensive about this meeting but not as much as if the two people had been complete strangers. She'd seen them around the shop before and was told by another employee that they worked with who owned the shop so Kehlani had gone along with them knowing she wasn't in complete strangers hands. At this meeting, she was told that her little side hustle caught The Brotherhood's attention and while it had been negative attention at first, it turned into a positive once it was realized that her skill could be useful to them.

It was explained to her how what she can do could be utilized and beneficial to her and when they mentioned how her family would be more taken care of with what she'd be doing, it was all Kehlani needed to hear to agree to their terms. She kept what she was now doing as ambiguous as possible when her siblings would question the influx of money or new friends, not wanting them to get involved in any way as she still viewed each of them as the children she raised. Nothing she would do and will do for the Brotherhood will put her family in jeopardy. she'd make sure of it.

— EXTRA FACTS

kehlani hasn't called her father "dad" since she was five, just calls him by his first name because he wasn't much of a father to her and she knows whenever he comes around, he needs something from her

she taught herself sign language until she started taking classes; she taught her siblings as well in the instance that their hear would soon go through the same thing as her own

sometimes she takes out her hearing aids when she doesn't want to be bothered; she gets constant noise complaints because she still plays music but loud enough where she can feel the beat and bass

kehlani will remove her hearings aids also in defiance of anyone that gets on her nerves, just so she doesn't have to hear anything and ignore them

she is known to often spout off weird science facts at any given moment, especially when she's in an uncomfortable situation

with her science background, kehlani tends to speak very matter of fact and sometimes with little emotion, usually only towards people she doesn't know or doesn't like

when she started pickpocketing and eventually eavesdropping, kehlani would get into fights with people so she started taking boxing lessons, just enough to be able to defend herself

— WANTED CONNECTIONS / PLOTS

COLLEGE FRIENDS/CUSTOMERS; some would be friends of kehlani's that she grew close to in texas and/or some that used kehlani to gain information for them

FIRST LOVE/HEARTBREAK; he is the first and only person kehlani ever loved and she refused to go through it again. she sees her mom in her actions when it comes to this man because as much as she hates him for their breakup, she still would do anything for him

YOUNGER BROTHER #1 (30-32); he and kehlani shared a lot of the responsibility when it came to taking care of their siblings, he eventually took over when she left for school; kehlani and he both share the same dislike for their father

YOUNGER BROTHER #2 (28/29); they have more of a playful, roughhouse bond; he was actually the one that suggested she start defending herself if she was going to keep sticking her nose in everyone's business

YOUNGER SISTER (24-27); they were the only two girls before their youngest sister was born so their bond is very strong; kehlani would be there for her when she had any kind of problem, practically would drop anything for her

YOUNGER HALF-SISTER (20-22); kehlani and her have a pretty strong bond; kehlani wanted to make sure she felt loved and the two ended up spend a lot of time together. kehlani was the saddest about leaving her behind when she went to school

MALE COUSIN (20-22); he was never really a cousin to kehlani, she treated him like a brother and no different than her other siblings

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 6 / 10

Título Original: Let's Get Harry

Año: 1986

Duración: 102 min.

País: Estados Unidos  

Dirección: Stuart Rosenberg

Guion: Charles Robert Carner, Mark Feldberg, Samuel Fuller

Música: Brad Fiedel

Fotografía: James A. Contner

Reparto: Mark Harmon, Gary Busey, Robert Duvall, Michael Schoeffling, Thomas F. Wilson, Glenn Frey, Jere Burns, Rick Rossovich, Ben Johnson, Cecile Callan, Jerry Hardin, Terry Camilleri, Elpidia Carrillo, David Alexander Hess, Fidel Abrego, John Wesley, Matt Clark

Productora: Delphi V Productions, TriStar Pictures

Género: Action; Adventure

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Kingo Energy - Affordable Solar Energy on Demand

There are more than 1.3 billion people around the world that live in the dark, without access to electricity, making them the poorest people on earth. These people live in some of the most remote locations of the planet, making it impossible for the traditional energy companies to reach them. Even as solar power is becoming more and more affordable, ironically enough, this 17% of the world’s population pays for the most expensive energy substitutes (candles/kerosene/diesel), which are not only dangerous and expensive, but are also significantly limiting their development. If the sun shines for all of us, why can´t we all benefit from it?. Kingo Energy launches Affordable Solar Energy on Demand. Kingo is introducing state-of-the-art technology to the most remote locations of the planet, and is using solar energy to unlock worldwide access to clean power and development.

Kingo’s smart energy systems provide access to lighting and electronic appliances. Users pay for daily, weekly, or monthly codes, and can request free system installs and upgrades. Credits Agency Network: Ogilvy & Mather Holding Company: WPP Group Production Company: Ogilvy Guatemala & Ogilvy Colombia Advertiser Brand: Kingo Energy Entrant Company: Ogilvy Guatemala & Ogilvy Colombia Public Relations Agency: Powell Communications Production Company (additional): Meatspace Films Production Company (additional): 911 Producciones Production Company (additional): Los Notarios Production Company (additional): David Studio Production Company (additional): Sky Mubs General Manager: Juan Fermín Rodríguez Chief Financial Officer: Juan José Estrada President and General Manager: Juan Mauricio Wurmser VP Creative Services: Ramiro Eduardo Strategic Planning Director: María Andrea Salvadó Account Supervisor: Alejandra Polanco Chief Executive Officer: Mauricio Barriga Chief Creative Officer LATAM: John Raúl Forero VP Creative Services: Juan Pablo Álvarez ECD: Iván Rivera Head of Art: Camilo Ruano Head of Digital Ritesh Patel Director: Juan Pablo Caballero Assistant Brand Manager: Antonio Heinemann Chief Executive Officer: Jesse Allan Production Assistant: Ernesto Abrego General Manager: Eddie López Tags: D&AD Awards, Clio Awards 2018, The One Club, The One Show, Digital Marketing, Innovation, Technology, Environment, Planet, Solar Energy, Electricity, Ogilvy, Colombia, Kingo, D&AD 2019, Ogilvy & Mather, WPP Group, Kingo Energy Read the full article

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Angie Martinez Inks New TV Deal

by Sadé

Just earlier today, Angie Martinez appeared on the daytime talkshow The Real and revealed that she has made a TV development deal with Endernol Shine. This is the same production company that’s behind the hit series “Big Brother,” “Master Chef,” “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” and more. 

Crowned the "Voice of New York", Martinez has been on the front lines of hip-hop for decades. She’s been a force to be reckoned with in the media industry whether it be music, radio, entertainment and now her latest venture into television. Let’s not forget her book “My Voice: A Memoir,” released last May and reached the top 10 of the New York Times Best Seller list. 

As per the agreement, the radio personality will aid in the development of unscripted and scripted content for bother traditional and digital platforms. “Working with Endernol Shine is an exciting first step for me in defining the next phase of my career,” she says, “I’m looking forward to using my voice and platform to develop content that authentically speaks to the culture.”

Endernol Shine North America’s Abrego also had good things to say about their partnership with Martinez. “Angie is undeniably one of the most influential personalities in pop culture. We’re thrilled to be in business with her and we’re already developing a handful of original, ground-breaking projects with Angie and the team at Major TV.” 

Martinez has broken barriers, marking her place in hip hop culture and this new venture of her’s just prove her drive. And its that drive that makes her such an influential and an icon to all hip hop heads.

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Top business news: Tech wages, Conde Nast video, tidy energy

Hello everyone! Welcome to this weekly roundup of Company Insider stories from managing editor Matt Turner. Please register for Business Expert here to get this newsletter in your inbox every Sunday.

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Tech business splash out huge amounts of cash to bring in top skill, as Rob Cost reported this week.

Just how much precisely? From his story:

Payment overall remains a carefully guarded trick, with firms refusing to reveal their rates as staff members require to forums and anonymous socials media to compare pay packets.

However there’s one company that knows exactly just how much tech employees are getting paid: the US government.

When American business submit documentation for visas on behalf of existing or potential foreign workers, they’re required to state just how much compensation the workers are being provided. And every year, the Workplace of Foreign Labor Certification discloses this wage information in a massive, enlightening dataset.

Rob worked with Skye Gould and William Edwards to analyze this data to see how 13 essential business, consisting of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Netflix, pay their staff.

To be sure, there are cautions. For example, the information connects to the2019 A lot has actually altered since then. The data only reveals what business pay foreign workers in functions for which they have employed immigrant workers. And the database likewise does not appear to include equity grants. Still, as Rob reports, the information is a powerful tool. From his story:

If you’re getting a certain task, just how much should you request for? If you transfer internally, how might that impact your pay? Are you being underpaid compared with your colleagues?

You can check out the full story here:

Big Tech wages revealed: How much Apple, Tesla, Amazon, and 10 other tech giants pay their workers, from engineers to salesmen

Condé Nast’s video vetting

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I want to highlight 3 stories from the previous week that develop on previous reporting on Condé Nast, GMMB, and CrossFit.

Rachel Premack spoke with 13 present and previous employees of Condé Nast Entertainment, the well known publisher’s video-production entity, about the procedure through which videos are pitched and produced. From her story:

You can read the story in complete here:

Condé Nast staff members say Black celebs like Lizzo and Megan Thee Stallion were turned down from videos based on a ‘racist’ vetting procedure

Sean Czarnecki talked to 26 existing and previous staff members of GMMB, 15 of whom recognize as individuals of color.

You can check out the story in full here:

Insiders at Omnicom company GMMB state the workplace is rife with ‘systemic’ racism, where individuals of color are tokenized and treated like ‘the help’

Finally, Katie Warren and Gabby Landsverk reported:

CrossFit creator Greg Glassman stepped down from his function as CEO on June 9 after one of his tweets was fulfilled with extensive reaction. The lady has determined herself to Organisation Expert as Lisa Lugo, a former CrossFit employee.

You can check out the story in complete here:

A CrossFit employee who had a relationship with former CEO Greg Glassman says she has audio of him threatening her in a hotel room and saying: ‘It’s enough for me to slit your f —– g throat’

The future of tidy energy

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From Benji Jones:

A huge shift is underway across the electrical grid.

Power plants that run on nonrenewable fuel sources are being replaced by solar panels and wind farms, while more batteries and electric lorries are plugging in.

Once specific niche, the tidy energy industry is going mainstream. Goldman Sachs says it’s an investment opportunity worth as much as $16 trillion through 2030

Within the industry, scientists, entrepreneurs, and workers are bringing a large range of solutions to bear, from batteries that save energy in molten salt to water turbines that are fish-friendly.

Company Insider has actually determined the 21 emerging leaders in tidy energy that we think everybody ought to know.

You can check out the story completely here:

Fulfill the 21 rising stars who are transforming the future of clean energy and handling a $16 trillion chance

Before I go, I want to highlight a number of online occasions we have showing up. From finance editor Michelle Abrego:

One-click checkout startup Fast raised its $20 million Series A from investors consisting of Index Ventures and buzzy fintech Stripe in May as it looks to handle Apple Pay to solve pain-points around password management and online checkout.

Join Business Expert press reporter Shannen Balogh on Tuesday, July 14 at 1: 30 p.m when she will speak with Domm Holland, Fast’s cofounder and CEO, and Jan Hammer, general partner at Index Endeavor. They’ll talk about how Holland created the concept for Fast, how to construct a pitch deck, and what it requires to win over investors.

If you’re a Business Insider subscriber, you can sign up here.

Click here to sign up for the Master your Money occasion.

Below are headlines on some of the stories you might have missed from the past week.

— Matt

Tucker Carlson for president? GOP donors and conservative media are taking the idea seriously

The most accurate tech expert on Wall Street says these 6 stocks have potential for huge gains as they transform the sector

After fancy hires and a huge buildout, Perella Weinberg’s media and telecom team has been gutted. We tracked the exodus– and what it says about the landscape for hit M&A deals.

LEAKED MEMO: Alphabet’s healthcare system Verily suspended bonus offers mid-pandemic to money variety programs rather, discouraging workers

Fredrik Eklund, the creator of a bicoastal team that signed $100 million in brand-new agreements in one week, swears by this everyday regimen from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Dripped memo reveals American Airlines needs to cut up to 8,000 flight-attendant tasks as the airline provides its first coronavirus layoff notifications

Some Amazon merchants are offering their organisations for more than $30 million as COVID-19 enhances the value of online retail: ‘It’s a seller’s market’

How to get a $100,000- plus profession in cloud computing without a college degree, from a person who did it and now coaches others

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The virus that's here to stay

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Why the coronavirus pandemic will leave permanent changes to the way we live and work By Daniel Abrego Even after you test negative for COVID-19, it can leave some chronic conditions that will require lifelong treatment. A virus is a clever thing, difficult to defeat and changes the way you see things after infection. So, it’s logical to say that the effects of the coronavirus in our lives are somewhat ‘here to stay.’ Yes, a vaccine would be the ideal exit strategy from this crisis. But we must remain cautious that a vaccine will return things back to the world we knew. There is no guarantee a vaccine can come swiftly and be 100% effective, if it will only provide protection for a period of time, if it will only alleviate symptoms or if there will be parents reluctant to vaccinate their children. We only need to look at history to see how permanent changes arose from previous disruptions. Take the SARS outbreak of 2003 which till today is marked by diligent mask wearing and long-term psychological stress on affected populations. Or 9/11 which reshaped the way we travel, airport design and even security in public spaces. Or the 2008 financial crisis which changed the way US citizens buy homes, our feelings towards investment strategies and the way we save. Instead of panicking or denying the effects of a health or economic crisis, as a born optimist, I believe we can get back to useful and purpose-driven lives through sensible reopening. We can empower our day-to-day lives during a pandemic and this can be a good time for your business. It takes some practical changes which allow us to manage risks (because it is impossible to reverse them) and a change in perspective. To begin, we must respect the changes in daily life that are there to protect all. For example, strictly following very basic hygiene measures, and increased current safety measures such as thermal scanners and on-the-spot lie detectors at border security points to ascertain travel history. Enable disinfection areas, UV-C disinfection technology and room filtration systems to recurrently recycle filtered air for closed spaces will become more common. Some cities are announcing more pedestrian zones to allow for social distancing and restricting car access during certain hours. And there’s data collection of all the aforementioned. Locating and tracing individuals which can help predict and prevent new outbreaks or provide algorithms to manage the operations of your workplace with a smaller workforce or shifts. At places of work and congregation, besides regular deep cleaning guidelines, there must be safety and hygiene protocols if an on-site individual tests positive for COVID-19. Desks should be kept clutter free for thorough cleaning or swap out furniture and door handles for antimicrobial synthetic materials to reduce the spread of germs and use special air filters. Elevators can be installed with foot pedals rather than standard buttons and work schedules need to allow fewer people at a time on the floor. If you are a business owner and you are facing doubt during the pandemic, think back to what motivated you in the first place. Most entrepreneurs will tell you they craved the freedom to create, the excitement of going into work and not knowing what to expect everyday, a way to push their boundaries and break through limited mindsets to reach their potential, flexibility over working hours and the chance to innovate and do things ‘their way.’ Reaffirm these values by recommitting to them. Opportunities are still around. People’s needs have not gone away, they have just changed and they want alternatives. Now you can turbo-charge your innovative skills and ask yourself, ‘How can I provide something that is essential to people right now? And how can I offer this product or service in a consistent, value-added, back-to-basics and without unnecessary frills manner?’ I can tell you that customer needs are at the core of any business and you must determine what they need now rather than what they needed six months ago. Embrace the change. This could mean changing your market or audience, or shifting from ‘doing things the way they were always done.’ This crisis requires us to be reactive at a new pace and level. For example, as a services provider, we have seen companies resisting data analytics tools which make sense of inventory, how much to order and how much will be in excess, far more accurately than a human can – especially during these uncertain times. Supply chains have become incredibly complex and only software can handle all this data so that you can make the right decisions for your business. Being averse to such changes and technological transitions harms your company and employees in the long run. Finally, don’t forget the human touch. Now more than ever, your customer needs you to understand their days are stressed and thinly stretched between childcare, working from home and taking care of relatives. Customers don’t need snappy ads and marketing that they can see through. They want to trust you and know that you will show up. Simple as that. And you’ll see that this doesn’t take huge financial resources, but a personal touch that shows you acknowledge their needs and wants at this time and that you hear them. Some of us are still stuck in our initial reactions to COVID-19. We must move past, accept the new reality and find ways to thrive creatively, monetarily and on a humanitarian level. We can choose how this pandemic defines us and we are only limited by our own imaginations. We must rediscover our full potential, not only in work but as human beings.

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Realscreen » Archive » Jon Murray, Cris Abrego, Tina Perry, Rickey Minor join Television Academy Foundation board

Realscreen » Archive » Jon Murray, Cris Abrego, Tina Perry, Rickey Minor join Television Academy Foundation board

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The charitable arm of the Television Academy, Television Academy Foundation, has appointed Cris Abrego, CEO, Endemol Shine North America, and chairman, Endemol Shine Americas; Rickey Minor, music director, composer and producer; Jonathan Murray, co-founder and executive consultant, Bunim/Murray Productions; and Tina Perry (pictured), president, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, to its board of…

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BUILD THE WALL: On the Necessity of Enforcing Borders

“Are we a sovereign country or are we a joke?”-Jared Taylor

The nearly 2,000-mile United States-Mexico border spans the breadth of the North American continent and is the most frequently crossed border on the planet, with 350 million legal crossings per annum. While the vast majority of these crossings are for work (which is another seriously pressing issue to be discussed at a later date) or tourist reasons, the crossings that signify the movement of legal immigrants into the country are entirely too high, with 20% of the world’s migrants residing in a nation in the United States that represents just 4.28% of the world’s population and just 6% of its landmass. This, too, is an extremely pressing issue, one in which I have written extensively on, and will continue to do so.

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American worker displacement, legal immigration, over-population, and environmental degradation are all inextricably intertwined, and must indeed be foremost of concerns in the minds of patriots, but these and the aforementioned legal crossings are not what concern us here today. I want to hone in on just one aspect of these crossings that are beyond just extremely damaging to the nation for a variety of reasons I will explicate, but that are more largely representative of a pattern we are seeing replicated across the Western world, a pattern that is indicative of the existential crisis we face.

The United States only has “effective control” of less than 700 miles, or less than 36%, of the total 1,954 miles of the US-Mexico border, with an ability to actually stop illegal entries along just 129 miles, or 6.6%, of that border. Five states in Mexico have the highest “do not travel” advisories per the U.S. State Department system, which puts Mexico on the same level as Syria, Yemen, and Somalia. Latin America has 8% of the world’s population but commits 38% of its murders. Between 52-62% of illegal aliens come from Mexico, and another roughly 20% from the rest of Latin America. It is little wonder that a recent survey of Texans found that 53% of registered voters want the Legislature to pass a similar law to the one found in Arizona, which would allow police to request proof of legal residency.

Estimates range from 11 million at the low end to 30 million at the high end in the total number of illegal aliens currently residing in the United States. Accepting the low-end figure (which is most likely too low), the products of illegals’ un-taxed labor, earnings which would otherwise go to American workers, represents $395 billion dollars, or roughly equivalent to Sweden’s national economy. In addition to these missing sources of revenue for the government and earnings for the struggling American worker, illegal aliens cost the American taxpayer $116 billion dollars per year.

A report from 2005 (GAO-05-337R) found that criminal aliens (both legal and illegal) make up 27% of all federal prisoners. The 2011 GAO report was similar. There were 251,000 criminal aliens in federal, state, and local prisons and jails. Those aliens were arrested nearly 1.7 million times for close to three million criminal offenses. According to the U.S. Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, U.S. taxpayers fork over nearly $19 million a day to house and care for 300,000 to 450,000 convicted criminal immigrants who are eligible for deportation and are currently residing in local jails and state and federal prisons throughout the country.

Since the passing of a 1985 bill, hospitals are required to treat any emergency patient who can get within 250 yards of the facility; this includes childbirth. Due to a 14th Amendment loophole, any child born in America becomes an American citizen, and is thus eligible for all benefits. In 2006, 100,000 illegal aliens birthed children in California at the public’s expense. The financial costs are staggering, and this is before considering the impact that illegal immigration has in other areas as well.

Another major concern is health. Recent outbreaks of long-eradicated diseases in the United States, such as the bubonic plague, tuberculosis, and leprosy, have returned courtesy of un-screened illegal aliens, who avoid the typical battery of health tests necessary for long-term admittance to the United States, nor have many ever received the inoculations that we as Americans take for granted. The sanitary conditions of the countries most illegal aliens come from are quite ghastly. A facility in Artesia, New Mexico, meant to house illegal aliens’ families, offers a glimpse in microcosm of what the United States is allowing to pass through its indefensibly undefended southern border. Per the Washington Times:

Communicable diseases continue to be a problem at the New Mexico facility built to house illegal immigrant families surging across the U.S.-Mexico border, and the immigrants themselves aren’t taking their own health care very seriously, according to an audit. “Family unit illnesses and unfamiliarity with bathroom facilities continued to result in unsanitary conditions,” Inspector General John Roth wrote in a memo to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. Mr. Roth said the illnesses—which put the facility in Artesia, New Mexico, on lockdown earlier this year, preventing any immigrants from being transferred in or out—have proved to be a continuing problem. Part of the issue is the immigrants themselves, some of whom have never seen a doctor before, don’t follow up afterward, either for themselves or their children.

California is presently embroiled in a Hepatitis A outbreak, caused by feces-to-mouth contact, and Minnesota officials recently requested $5 million taxpayer dollars to get a measles outbreak from the Somali population under control. You can spare me the Emma Lazarus platitudes, because even at the height of legal American immigration in the late-19th and early 20th-centuries, everyone who passed through Ellis Island and other points of entry were subjected to a battery of medical tests, possible quarantine, and outright rejection if they carried communicable diseases. The public health risk was otherwise deemed too great, but these days it seems like we’re okay with the Black Death and leprosy—literally medieval diseases—so long as they’re carried by “Dreamers.” It appears that only some lives matter.

This includes the impact of crime. As Howie Carr wrote for The Boston Herald:

This horrific rape in Weymouth (earlier this year), allegedly by an illegal immigrant from Ghana (my note: he was an Uber driver) who was then cut loose by a Dukakis-era hack judge named Mark Coven to flee back to the Third World, is not exactly an isolated incident. For Democrats, the illegal immigrants are all … Dreamers. The Beautiful People are loath to admit how much crime is being committed by these invaders. Which is why I have a modest proposal this morning: All prosecutors should follow the Trump-era policy of the Department of Justice and identify the national origins of non-citizen perps.

An investigation by The Boston Globe revealed that 30% of 323 criminal immigrants released in New England from 2008-2012 went on to re-offend, a rate more than four times as high as previously suggested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. Next door, in New York State, over three times as many illegal immigrants, or 169, are imprisoned for crimes per 100,000, as compared to only 48 citizens and legal non-citizen immigrants. After murders in Montgomery County, Maryland quadrupled from 2014, Police Chief Thomas Manger issued a report stating that the county has seen an unprecedented level of gang-related violence—with illegal alien youth being responsible for 85% of street robberies. Pedro Gonzalez observes:

Incredibly, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has defended MS-13 as “God’s children” with whom we all share an inviolable “spark of divinity.” What would the family of an unnamed man who was stabbed 100 times, dismembered, beheaded, and had his heart cut out say to that? The killer was 19-year-old Miguel Angel Lopez-Abrego, a citizen of El Salvador, illegally residing in the United States.

These are not isolated incidents. Illegal aliens are three times as likely to be convicted of murder as members of the general population. Additionally, human trafficking is up 842% in Nancy Pelosi’s state of California over the last decade. Illegal aliens accounted for nearly 75 percent of federal drug sentences in 2014, according to the United States Sentencing Commission. One 2001 study that does take country of origin and geographic concentration factors into account found that Mexican immigrants “commit between 3.5 and 5 times as many crimes as the average native.” Judicial Watch found that in 2014, nearly half of all federal crimes occurred near the US-Mexico border. The break-down of those numbers is as follows:

Of the 61,529 criminal cases filed by federal prosecutors, 40 % (24,746) were in court districts along the southern borders of California, Arizona and Texas.

In California, there are just over 92 illegal immigrants imprisoned for every 100,000 illegals as compared to 74 citizens and legal non-citizen immigrants. In Arizona, the rate is nearly 69 illegals imprisoned for every 100,000, as compared to 54 citizens and legal non-citizen immigrants.

In California alone, over 2,400 illegal immigrants out of a total prison population of 130,000 are imprisoned in the state’s prison system for the crime of homicide.

In Los Angeles, 95% of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) target illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens.

Data on the crimes and sentences of illegals in Arizona shows us that immigrants age 15-35, the general population of the 700,000 in Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, “commit crime at twice the rate of young U.S. citizens.” John R. Lott, Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, writes:

Undocumented immigrants are at least 142 percent more likely to be convicted of a crime than other Arizonans. They also tend to commit more serious crimes and serve 10.5 percent longer sentences, more likely to be classified as dangerous, and 45 percent more likely to be gang members than U.S. citizens…While undocumented immigrants from 15 to 35 years of age make up about 0.81 percent of the Arizona population, they make up almost 8 percent of the prison population…DACA-age immigrants represent 71.2 percent of the undocumented immigrants in prison…DACA-age eligible undocumented immigrants are 884 percent more likely to be convicted of crimes than their share of the population.

For the time period October 2008 to April 2014, Texas identified a total 177,588 repeat criminal alien defendants booked into Texas county jails; according to the analysis conducted by the Texas Department of Public Safety, these aliens committed 611,234 unique crimes. First-time offenders, those not previously fingerprinted, were not available in the database, so those numbers are bound to be substantially higher. According to the DHS, over 251,000 criminal aliens have been booked into local Texas jails between June 1, 2011 and April 30, 2018. During their criminal “careers,” the aliens were charged with more than 663,000 criminal offenses, including 1,351 homicide charges; 79,049 assault charges; 18,685 burglary charges; 79,900 drug charges; 815 kidnapping charges; 44,882 theft charges; 50,777 obstructing police charges; 4,292 robbery charges; 7,156 sexual assault charges; and 9,938 weapon charges.

104,000 criminals were released by ICE in 2013; 30,558 criminal aliens were released by ICE in 2014; and in 2015, ICE released almost 20,000 illegals that committed 64,000 crimes that involve, “12,307 drunken driving convictions, 1,728 cases of assault, 216 kidnappings and more than 200 homicide or manslaughter convictions,” per the Washington Times. Fortunately President Trump has emboldened ICE with the support, resources, and additional man-power to pursue illegal aliens, and the controversial catch-and-release policy appears to be waning. These positive steps are being counter-acted by the 130 or so “sanctuary cities” that refuse to cooperate with the federal government on detaining and transferring illegal aliens into federal custody for deportation. The rationale is flimsy, mostly relying on saccharine appeals to compassion, but where the officials of these “sanctuaries” do attempt to bolster their decisions with evidence, as Ann Coulter writes:

The…alleged proof that immigrants are shockingly law-abiding is the claim, “studies show ...”! Evidently, this refers to exactly two researchers, whose work is cited over and over again for the proposition that immigrants are less criminal than native Americans: Alex Piquero, criminology professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, and Bianca Bersani, sociology professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston...I looked up the studies this weekend. They’re all hidden behind ridiculous Internet paywalls. I was often only the sixth person to read them. It turns out that neither Piquero nor Bersani compared immigrant crime to “the overall population”—as the British Guardian claimed in an article purporting to prove Donald Trump wrong. Rather, they compare immigrants’ crime rate to the crime rate of America’s criminals.

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I’m wondering where Attorney General Jeff Sessions is in all of this, because aiding illegal aliens is a felony, and as for President Trump, as Coulter herself is unhesitant to frequently remind our president, the wall he promised remains unbuilt. After all, immigration, the general lawlessness of our country, the neglect of the people that truly built it, and the unwillingness to apply any kind of universal standard to all Americans regardless of creed or color is essentially what got Donald Trump elected. As Chris Buskirk and Seth Leibsohn wrote in American Greatness:

The would-be solons [of Conservatism, Inc.] turned out to be shortsighted, self-interested, and out of touch, pied pipers leading the country into a future of endless, winless wars, cultural destruction, and crony capitalist plantation economics...To listen to the media and to the saccharine pleas of our elected officials, America is obligated to take all comers no matter what because of a poem written by a nineteenth-century socialist. Unfortunately, the words of that poem are better known and treated with higher regard than the fundamental governing documents of this country...It is mostly elites who have so little regard for American citizenship and who have conspired to nullify the nation’s immigration laws. These same people were traumatized by Donald Trump’s promise to enforce the nation’s laws and build a wall to protect our border, much as Mexico has done to protect her own southern border from illegal immigrants...When Donald Trump adopted immigration as his signature issue in August 2015 it marked a profound split...Nothing so marked the divide between the country class and the ruling class...When [the voters] heard Donald Trump say ‘Make America Great Again’...they heard that American citizenship means something and shouldn’t be taken for granted or devalued by ignoring our laws, history, or culture.

Unenforceable borders mean the dissolution of the country. We elected Donald Trump to re-claim our sovereignty from the champagne socialists who value MS-13 gang members more than coal miners in West Virginia or lobstermen in Maine, or who venerate cop killers over law enforcement.

We the people have spoken: America for Americans.

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“The report reveals a highly fragmented situation in Europe; the rights and procedural safeguards afforded under international and European standards are not upheld consistently across member States.” Age assessment of young migrants: child’s best interests must be safeguarded, invasive methods avoided. Daja Wenke. Council of Europe Children’s Rights Division. 2017.

“The situation of rejected asylum seekers in Egypt has not been sufficiently analyzed. Documenting it, therefore is particularly important and is the rationale for this study, undertaken with closed-file refugees in Cairo, which focuses on several pillars of livelihoods, including: housing/shelter, education, employment, and healthcare.” Surviving in Cairo as a Closed-File Refugee: Socio-Economic and Protection Challenges. Nourhan Abdel Aziz. AUC Center for Migration and Refugee Studies in collaboration with the International Institute for Environment and Development. 2017.

“In June, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) recommended that the UN Security Council refer the situation in Eritrea to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The council's commission of inquiry urged the ICC to investigate what it described as systematic and gross human rights violations that may amount to crimes against humanity.” Freedom in the World 2017 - Eritrea. Freedom House. 2017.

“Fundamentally, the CRRF is about changing cultures, mind-sets and the ways we do business. It is about engaging a greater range of stakeholders, and thinking in more creative ways to enable refugees to be more self-sufficient, while better supporting the communities that host them. States are working towards the adoption of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) based on learning from how the CRRF is applied.” Turning the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework into reality. Forced Migration Review. Manisha Thomas. 2017.

“‘Remote control’ techniques, such as the imposition of visas, fines on carriers transporting unsatisfactorily documented third-country nationals, and interception at sea are investigated in detail in a bid to assess the impact these measures have on access to asylum in the EU.” Accessing Asylum in Europe: Extraterritorial Border Controls and Refugee Rights under EU Law. Violeta Moreno-Lax. Oxford Studies in European Law. 2017.

“The persons detained in the immigration detention centre faced obstacles in accessing the   asylum procedure. Detainees were not permitted to submit an asylum application prior to providing statements as witnesses before the court in the criminal procedures for migrant smuggling. All   of them have been able to submit asylum applications at the time of release.” MYLA  Mid-year Report on Immigration Detention in Macedonia. Martina Martinova. Macedonian Young Lawyers Association. 2017.   

“In the last four years, asylum applications in Mexico increased from 1,296 in 2013 to 8,788 in 2016, of which 2,872 were granted refugee status or asylum. These numbers are small, however, compared with the number of people fleeing Northern Triangle Central American countries who are intercepted and detained in Mexico.” Protection Gaps in Mexico. Andrea Villasenor, Elba Coria. Forced Migration Review. 2017.

“For refugees and other migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras – the Northern Triangle of Central America – communication is one of their greatest priorities during their route north.” Central American refugees: protected or put at risk by communication technologies? Guillermo Barros. Forced Migration Review. 2017.

“This report contains an analysis of the responses provided by Nigerian migrants and refugees travelling along the Central Mediterranean Route and interviewed in Italy since June 2016 under IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix activities. Interviewed Nigerian nationals represent 16% of the total Central Mediterranean sample.” Flow monitoring surveys: The human trafficking and other exploitative practices indication survey. International Organization for Migration. 2017.

“The Rohingya crisis has become, in five years, a full-blown humanitarian crisis that has regional consequences. It poses a critical test for the 10-member ASEAN and its institutions, highlighting ASEAN’s lack of a political and legal framework to deal with issues related to refugees. Among the ASEAN nations, only two (the Philippines and Cambodia) are parties to either the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees or its 1967 Protocol.” ASEAN’s role in the Rohingya refugee crisis. Forced Migration Review. Richa Shivakoti. 2017.

“The Rwandan repatriation was not devoid of politics. It was influenced by political interests of various actors: the international community, regional geo-politics, Uganda and Rwanda. This article analyzes the politics of repatriation of Rwandan refugees by focusing on politics at international and regional levels as well as in Uganda and Rwanda.” The Politics of Repatriation: Rwandan Refugees in Uganda, 2003-2017. Frank Ahimbisibwe. Institute of development Policy, University of Antwerp. 2017.

“We approach our analysis of the production of criminality of immigrants through the lens of legal violence (Menjivar and Abrego 2012), a concept designed to understand the immediate and long-term harmful effects that the immigration regime makes possible.”  Making Immigrants into Criminals: Legal Processes of Criminalization in the Post-IIRIRA Era. Leisy Abrego, Mat Coleman, Daniel E. Martínez, Cecilia Menjívar, Jeremy Slack. Journal on Migration and Human Security. 2017.