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[Crysis3] Chapter 1 (Post-Human Warrior Difficulty)
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The Jakarta Post

Publication Date : 24-10-2014

On his second day in office, President Joko Jokowi Widodo received a gift from the UN, said Desra Percaya, Indonesias permanent representative to the UN. Indonesia retained its seat on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) having been re-elected by UN members to represent Asia, alongside India, Bangladesh and Qatar.

Desra said Indonesias reelection was a real display of trust by the international community in Indonesias human rights protection and promotion, strengthening democracy consolidation, as well as a form of optimism in our new government.

The President seems fully aware of all the expectations being placed upon his skinny frame, regardless of the limitations he may have in addressing issues from A to Z. With regard to human rights, former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has left him with a contradicting legacy of international recognition of Indonesias progress, and a largely impenetrable wall blocking ways to resolve past and current human rights violations.

Given this highly complex backdrop, Jokowis close supporters have confided that consolidation is Jokowis priority, as he must reach out and embrace the many different parties to find sufficient common ground before setting out his agenda with minimal distraction.

The painfully slow days needed to form his Cabinet are evidence of that difficult first step to start his five years in office.

In resolving human rights, one challenge is gaining enough interest from a public that might press him to move forward, rather than dwell in the past. On human rights, his vision and mission titled Nawacita, one of his citations from founding father Sukarno, states the goal of strengthening the presence of the state, among others by upholding the law through prioritising just settlement of past human rights violations.

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Dr. Karen DeSalvo is leaving her post as head of the U.S. governments Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to assist Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell with the departments response to the Ebola epidemic.

DeSalvo, officially named acting assistant secretary for health at HHS, as a background in public health, will assist Burwell on pressing public health issues, including becoming a part of the departments team responding to Ebola, according to an HHS statement e-mailed to reporters. Dr. DeSalvo has deep roots and a belief in public health and its critical value in assuring the health of everyone, not only in crisis, but every day.

Prior to becoming national health IT coordinator in December 2013, DeSalvo served as health commissioner for the City of New Orleans, where she helped the city rebuild its public health infrastructure after Hurricane Katrina.

ONC Chief Operating Officer Lisa Lewis will serve as acting national coordinator, according to the HHS statement. The department said that DeSalvo will remain as acting assistant secretary until the Senate can confirm a permanent replacement, and that she will continue to be available to ONC as needed.

There has been no official word whether DeSalvo has been nominated to be permanent assistant secretary for health.

This news continues a period of turnover in ONC leadership.In July, the office lost Lygeia Ricciardi, director of the ONCOffice of Consumer eHealth eHealth, as well as Chief Privacy Officer Joy Pritts. Lucia Savage replaced Pritts just last week, and Lana Moriarty took over the Consumer eHealth office in September.

Also last week, Judy Murphy stepped down as director of theOffice of Clinical Quality and Safety at ONC to become chief nursing officer ofIBM IBM Healthcare Global Business Services.

Earlier this month, Dr. Jon White was put on part-time detail from HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to serve as interim head of the ONC Office of Clinical Quality and Safety and acting ONC chief medical officer, while Dr. Andy Gettinger ofDartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire was named interim head of patient safety for the IT office. ONC has been without a permanent CMO since Dr. Jacob Reider became deputy national coordinator in September 2013.

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Journalism lost a giant today. Former Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee has died. He was 93. Bradlee stood up to the U.S. government, pursued the story which brought down a president, and shaped a generation of journalists.

"I just do not believe the first version of events in this city," he once said. "I don't believe it."

As Executive Editor of the Washington Post, Ben Bradlee brought skepticism to the paper's daily reporting.

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"People don't tell the truth," says Ben Bradlee, former executive editor of The Washington Post. And Bradlee knows a thing or two about lies, hav...

"People don't tell the truth. They don't tell the truth a hundred different ways," he said on "60 Minutes" in 1995. "And it's become so easy to lie."

Bradlee was born August 26, 1921 in Boston, Massachusetts, a member of the well-heeled Crowninshield family. He attended college at Harvard University, and he married his first wife, Jean Saltonstall, while he was there.

He joined the Navy shortly after graduating. As part of the Office of Naval Intelligence, Bradlee served as a communications officer in the Pacific during World War II.

In 1951, Bradlee became a press attach at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. After several years, he made the jump to Newsweek, remaining in Paris as a European correspondent for the magazine. There he became friendly with a neighbor, Sen. John F. Kennedy.

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Compagnie Philippe Gentys Forget Me Not (Ne moublie pas) takes human beings and transforms them into puppets. And it takes puppets and makes them seem human. Occasionally, it combines puppets and humans until its hard to tell where one begins and the other ends.

Thats the easy part of describing this French companys latest piece. The hard part is describing the initially creepy, gradually mesmerizing and eventually moving effect this puppet-human-dance spectacle has on the viewer.

Artistic director Philippe Genty, 76, has been creating performances that combine puppets, dance and optical illusions for nearly 40 years. With his wife and longtime collaborator Mary Underwood, his Compagnie Philippe Genty has wowed audiences in France and around the world.

This production of Forget Me Not is a reimagining of a show that premiered in 1992 at the Theatre de la Ville in Paris. The current version is a collaboration between Gentys company and students from the Nord-Trondelag University College of Verdal in Norway. After a run at Shibuyas Parco Theater, the show embarks on an eight-city Japan tour before returning for one performance at the New National Theatre, Tokyo.

Gentys productions usually require six months of rehearsals. The director writes that he always starts with the shows decor, which is never realistic, it must be constantly evolving, thereby giving free reign to the spectators imagination. He also has an aversion to performers entering from the wings; he prefers that they suddenly appear on the stage from the subconscious, they evolve, they transform, and then they disappear.

Forget Me Not certainly looks like it took ages to perfect. It opens on a stark white stage with simple backdrops designed to resemble a snow-covered landscape. When the dancers appear, they crawl across the stage like worms. Some of them look like inanimate objects being dragged, but the stage isnt moving, and no one is dragging them. The effect is discomforting a writhing mass of human flesh that seems to blur the line between doll and human, compounded by the fact that several of the dancers are wearing lifelike (but lifeless) masks covering their entire faces.

You would think this humans-moving-like-dolls device would get old, but Forget Me Not is endlessly inventive. All the movement-based stories and visual tableaux are executed with a playful spirit that occasionally turns melancholic or mildly sexual. Dancers cavort inside fluffy, marshmallow-like balls, swirl in the middle of giant bolts of silk, and constantly lift and throw each other with such effortless ease that they must be in unimaginably good physical shape.

Thinking back on the performance, Im still uncertain about how many puppets were onstage and how many humans. Sometimes bodies seemed so weightless when they were thrown (and then landed so hard on the ground, sometimes on their heads) that I was certain they were dolls. But then they got up and continued dancing. Was there some sleight-of-hand going on? Im sure thats exactly what the creators wanted me to think.

The director writes that his work cannot be pigeonholed into any of the usual categories: dance, theater, puppetry or circus. Moreover, it is practically impossible to describe its theme. A handicap that we are more than happy to assume.

Certainly Forget Me Not manages to be both a spectacle and to feel quite intimate. The music is lively and accompanied by beautiful singing, and while there may be no clear narrative, the show never makes the audience feel theyve missed something.

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Mexico City As Mexicos national human rights ombudsman, Raul Plascencia Villanueva oversees a sizable corps of investigators who look into the atrocities and massacres that commonly put the country in the headlines.

The job has made Mr. Plascencia a raft of enemies, but they are not the crooked cops and corrupt politicians behind some of the abuses currently roiling Mexico. His fiercest foes are human rights monitors, who say he is inept, unconcerned about crime victims, and beholden to politicians.

They are battling Plascencias attempt to obtain another five-year term to lead theNational Human Rights Commission, a semi-autonomous entity that receives its budget equivalent of $115 million entirely from the federal government.

Led by a former Roman Catholic priest, Alberto Athie, some 80 groups advocating for human rights, social justice, and more effective government presented Congress with a demand last month that Plascencia be impeached from his post. They accused him of casting a blind eye on innumerable human rights violations in Mexico.

The movement against Plascencia began with the failure of the National Human Rights Commission to shed light on the late June killing of 22 civilians southwest of Mexico City that eventually was tied to Mexican soldiers by the news media. It intensified after the disappearance late last month of 43 student teachers whod been detained by police in Guerrero state. They remain missing.

The damage to the country is enormous. Rule of law is at stake, Mr. Athie says.

Nearly a quarter of a century ago, legislators created the National Human Rights Commission to fight the kind of impunity that allowed police and soldiers to routinely use torture, and let the government in the 1960s and 1970s launch a dirty war on leftists that left hundreds disappeared.

The commission has no judicial or police powers. It receives complaints, deploys investigators to probe them, and issues recommendations. But the ombudsman potentially has a powerful bully pulpit to ensure protection for victims of official abuse, to air cases in public, and to put a spotlight on officials or institutions that prey on the citizenry.

In certain ways, the debate swirling around Plascencia is emblematic of deeper concerns about Mexicos governance. Legislators create institutions to investigate or prosecute wrongdoing that look good on paper, but then appoint ineffectual leaders who respond to political interests and allow operations to unfold with little transparency and few results, allowing corruption and abuses to go on.

Mexico suffers from a disease impunity, says Ernesto Lopez Portillo Vargas, head of the Institute for Security and Democracy, a think tank on security reform. It is a system of impunity throughout the institutional establishment.

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Mexico's human rights chief accused of ignoring powerful abusers

Ive been married since 1992. I barely have time for the husband I have, but if I wanted to get something going on the side, Id know just where to go. Many times a day I get spam marketing messages from websites whose purpose is to introduce married people to one another for the purpose of launching an affair. That isnt my cup of tea, but there are seven billion in the world, and different people want different things.

TIME magazine is a tiny pamphlet these days. My dad was a magazine publisher today we would say print magazine publisher but when my dad was working there was no other way to publish and he predicted the rise of ultra-targeted marketing when I was a kid in the nineteen-seventies. You cant blame advertisers for wanting to reach their specific niche of customers, he said.

Now an advertisers dream is reality. Advertisers dont flock to TIME magazine anymore, because whats the readership demographic for TIME? Its people who can read. Advertisers want more targeting than that. They want to reach just CPAs who own cats, or parents of talented-and-gifted twins.

We can reach any target market now. We can find just the people we want to talk to why should we bother anyone else, and why would we pay to reach the wrong audience?

Thats why it makes no sense when corporate and institutional folks complain that theyre awash in unwanted resumes and applications for their available positions. Have the last fifty years in marketing passed these people by?

They get deluged with responses because they arent targeting their job ads. They blast them out on every available medium and paste them on every surface. Of course theyre swamped with replies! The message in the job ad is Come one, come all!

We write job ads very badly and we market them badly. When you put a job ad up on any of the major careers sites, youre bound to get blasted with inappropriate resumes, but then again you asked for it. If you took the time to understand your target customer meaning the small set of perfect job candidates who could make a great fit for your opportunity before broadcasting your job ads far and wide, youd get far fewer responses to your ad and make your new hire more quickly.

Who wants to plow through piles of resumes? Some poor deluded managers believe that the more widely they spread the net and the more resumes they see, the more thorough their recruiting process has been. We hear that sentiment expressed every day. I really want to make sure I see a wide cross-section of the available talent market, managers say. Thats poor leadership and bad business. Youre wasting your own time and the time of many other people not just the candidates themselves but your colleagues in HR and recruiting, too to satisfy your curiosity and fill in the gaps in your knowledge of your own talent community.

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Journalism lost a giant today. Former Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee has died. He was 93. Bradlee stood up to the U.S. government, pursued the story which brought down a president, and shaped a generation of journalists.

"I just do not believe the first version of events in this city," he once said. "I don't believe it."

As Executive Editor of the Washington Post, Ben Bradlee brought skepticism to the paper's daily reporting.

Play Video

"People don't tell the truth," says Ben Bradlee, former executive editor of The Washington Post. And Bradlee knows a thing or two about lies, hav...

"People don't tell the truth. They don't tell the truth a hundred different ways," he said on "60 Minutes" in 1995. "And it's become so easy to lie."

Bradlee was born August 26, 1921 in Boston, Massachusetts, a member of the well-heeled Crowninshield family. He attended college at Harvard University, and he married his first wife, Jean Saltonstall, while he was there.

He joined the Navy shortly after graduating. As part of the Office of Naval Intelligence, Bradlee served as a communications officer in the Pacific during World War II.

In 1951, Bradlee became a press attach at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. After several years, he made the jump to Newsweek, remaining in Paris as a European correspondent for the magazine. There he became friendly with a neighbor, Sen. John F. Kennedy.

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The one-year suspension Cung Le received after testing positive for excess levels of Human Growth Hormone (HGH) in a post-fight drug test following his fourth-round TKO loss to Michael Bisping at UFC Fight Night 48 has been rescinded, promotion officials announced on Tuesday.

With the UFC serving as its own governing body, as per usual for overseas shows in a territory lacking an athletic commission, both Bisping and Le were subject toenhanced blood and urine drug testing following their fight in Macau, China, in addition to the regular pre- and post-fight drug testing.

Le was initially found to have failed the test, howeverseveral flaws with the UFC's testing process were uncovered in the ensuing days, chief among them thefact that the testing facility employed by the UFC, the Hong Kong Functional Medical Testing Center, was found to not be a lab approved and operated under the standards of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

In addition, the blood sample drawn from Le wasdiscovered to have been taken just minutes after the conclusion of his fight with Bisping, despite the belief that HGH levels tested post-exertion undergo significant natural increase from normal levels.

Le (9-3) planned to appeal the UFC's one-year suspension, but in light of Tuesday's decision, that is no longer necessary. UFC officials issued the following statement:

At UFC Fight Night Macao on August 23rd, UFC contracted with an independent drug testing laboratory in Hong Kong to perform urinalysis testing on all fighters on the card. Additionally, UFC requested the laboratory to test blood samples from 4 fighters for human growth hormone (HGH), erythropoietin (EPO) and testosterone.

One of the athletes who had his blood tested was Cung Le. The laboratory results from Le's blood test were sent to the UFC and showed that his blood had a total HGH level outside the reference range. Based on such results, UFC officials determined that Le had violated his promotional agreement and the UFC Fighter Conduct Policy. Consequently, UFC decided that Le should be suspended from unarmed combat competition for 12 months.

Following the announcement of Le's suspension, UFC officials have been provided with medical advice regarding the elevated total HGH present in Le's system. In accordance with such medical advice, UFC has determined that Le's elevated total HGH by itself does not prove that he took performance-enhancing drugs before the August 23rd bout. As a result, UFC has informed Le that his suspension is rescinded.

Le had requested an appeal of his suspension, and was entitled to arbitrate the drug test results and suspension. However, based on the lack of conclusive laboratory results, UFC officials deemed it appropriate to immediately rescind the suspension without the need for further proceedings.

The UFC organization has always been a leader when it comes to testing for performance-enhancing drugs in combat sports. All UFC athletes know they are subject to drug testing by an applicable state athletic commission, an international governing federation, or by an independent laboratory contracted by the UFC when no regulatory body is overseeing the event. In those cases where regulatory oversight is unavailable, UFC voluntarily chooses to adhere to the highest level of athlete health and safety protocols similar to if the event were being held in the state of Nevada.

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TIME Ideas Innovation Lets Fix It: Lets End Human Driving Sam Shank, chief executive officer and co-founder of HotelTonight Inc., speaks during a Bloomberg West Television interview in San Francisco, California on Jan. 2, 2014. BloombergGetty Images

Sam Shank is the CEO and Co-Founder of HotelTonight

This Influencer post originally appeared on LinkedIn. Sam Shank shares his thoughts as part of LinkedIns Influencer series, Lets Fix It in which the brightest minds in business blog on LinkedIn about how they would fix whats broken in this world. LinkedIn Editor Amy Chen provides an overview of the 60+ Influencers that tackled this subject as part of the package. Follow Sam Shank and insights from other top minds in business on LinkedIn.

Ive long been fascinated by the idea of technology replacing human drivers.

Lets be honest: people arent always great drivers. They get distracted, tired and make mistakes. Technology can simply do a better job. This is a subject Ive thought about deeply for the past 20 years. I believe it will have as much impact on the world as the switch from horse transport to automobiles.

The consensus opinion is that safe and reliable driverless cars will be available within a few years. Tesla just announced Autopilot, which will be available soon via a software update, and will allow for autonomous driving on freeways an amazing first step.

Heres what I think will happen next: the initial use of drive-anywhere autonomous cars (I call them AutoCars) will be with companies like Uber or Lyft rather than individually owned. They will rapidly gain acceptance because theyll save people time (imagine all you could do with that time currently spent behind the wheel), will lower the costs of getting from one place to another, and will be way faster while also being safer than human driving.

Soon thereafter, as adoption skyrockets, cities will designate areas that are AutoCar-only. Lanes of highways will become AutoCar-exclusive, allowing for more density of driving and far higher speeds. Roughly 10 years from now we will see the End of Human Driving a seminal moment of the first half of the 21st century. Im guessing my young sons will not need to learn how to drive but Ill probably teach them anyway, as recreational driving is fun and wont ever go away, any more than automobiles put an end to recreational horse riding.

The benefits of AutoCars are so pronounced across many areas health, saved time, mobility of kids and seniors, lower road costs, efficiency all of which Id love to explore in future posts.

But what I think may be the biggest impact will be on our physical landscape. It always strikes me as interesting that the physical landscape hasnt changed all that much in decades, despite the fact that the way we work and communicate has changed dramatically thanks to information technology. Sure, buildings have more glass and cars have more rounded edges, but if you compare two photos from 50 years ago and today, its often hard to spot much difference in the landscape (besides a few outfit choices and smartphones).

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