Not For Sale South Africa and the 2012 Trafficking in Persons Report

Recently, the 2012 Trafficking In Persons Report was published by the US State Department. South Africa, a country where Not For Sale actively works to assist victims of human trafficking and provide them with opportunities to create new futures, was rated as a ?Tier 2? country; a country whose government does not fully comply with the standards of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) but is making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards.?In recent years, South Africa has moved up from the ?Tier 2 Watch List?; meaning that the country?s efforts to address human trafficking have started to receive positive feedback.

The work of Not For Sale in South Africa was indirectly referenced in the 2012 report with regards to the establishment of a short-term Victim Assistance Center to provide victims of trafficking with placement, and the development of a rapid response team in the Western Cape, a process in which NFS played a significant role.?

According to the report: ?In 2011, the Western Cape task team established a rapid response team comprised of government agencies and NGO?s to quickly coordinate protective services, including shelter, for victims? provincial task teams and rapid response teams ? including representatives from law enforcement, DSD, and NGOs ? enabled quick access to care in some provinces?

Not For Sale?s ongoing partnership with law enforcement in the Western Cape of South Africa has led to assistance of over 70 individuals identified as trafficking victims since 2010. 60% of survivors assisted by NFS in South Africa are foreigners, and 20% of the victims have been minors.?

With all the long hours and hard work that the NFS South Africa team has spent bringing about change within local and provincial government, it is good to see their efforts recognized in this year?s TIP Report.

Not For Sale around the world acknowledges that there is still much work to be done in creating new futures for survivors, but celebrates each country that progresses in the direction of freedom!

Source: http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/news/2012/07/09/not-for-sale-south-africa-and-the-2012-trafficking-in-persons-report/

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Obama campaign, Democrats raise $71 million in June: official

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Sports Illustrated: Lawyer rips Syracuse report on sex abuse probe

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- The lawyer for a man who accused Syracuse University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine of sexual abuse said Monday that a report into the university's investigation of the claim is "a complete whitewash."

Among other things, Bobby Davis' lawyer, Gloria Allred, said the report issued last week by a special committee failed to criticize that 2005 university probe as biased because it was conducted by the university's longtime law firm.

Allred also said the conclusion that there was no attempt to cover up the allegations doesn't "pass the laugh test."

Davis, now 41, claims Fine molested him beginning when he was around 12 years old. He took the allegations to the university in 2005, and an investigation by the school's law firm of Bond, Schoeneck & King, found the claims couldn't be substantiated. Allred said that determination missed the point.

"The issue should not have been whether or not the molestations were substantiated but rather whether or not they occurred," she said. "Few cases of childhood sexual abuse can be `substantiated' because by their very nature these events occur in private under circumstances where there cannot be substantiation, often because the victims are afraid or ashamed to speak out until years after the fact."

Fine was fired in November after the allegations were made public. The allegations by Davis and his stepbrother, Michael Lang, happened too long ago to be investigated by law enforcement, but the claims of a third man are being investigated by the U.S. Attorney's Office. Fine has not been charged and denies the accusations.

A special committee of the university's board of trustees hired lawyers from the Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison to assess how the 2005 claims were investigated. In that report, the lawyers found:

- The investigation didn't talk to enough witnesses or failed to interview witnesses thoroughly.

- No sexual abuse expert was called in to help.

- Lawyers didn't talk to two people who Davis said might have been potential abuse victims.

Still, Allred blasted the conclusion that the 2005 study was undertaken in good faith.

"The report by the so-called Special Committee of the Board of Trustees suffers from the same deficiencies that corrupted the University's 2005 so-called investigation of Bobby Davis' allegations: a complete lack of transparency or fully critical analysis," Allred said.

There was no immediate response from the university or the law firm that prepared the report.

Among other things, Allred said:

- The report failed to fault the university staff who were interviewed in 2005 but didn't report the allegations to the chancellor or the board of trustees.

- The report failed to ask why Laurie Fine, Bernie Fine's wife, was never questioned in 2005 after Davis told the initial investigators she had sex with players and him.

- Witnesses were interviewed in the presence of the university's litigation lawyers at DeBevoise & Plimpton, the same firm that is defending Davis' defamation suit against Syracuse and head coach Jim Boeheim.

- The report should have been suspicious of Bond, Schoneck & King allowing Fine to change his witness statement in 2005. Notes from the interview show that Davis may have stayed alone in Fine's hotel room occasionally, but that information was not included in the final 2005 report.

Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

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Extensive 'Dark Knight Rises' Featurette Breaks Down The Bat

" 'The Dark Knight Rises' is certainly the biggest film that I've undertaken, by far," director Christopher Nolan says in a new video about his final Batman movie.
By Josh Wigler


Christian Bale as Batman in "The Dark Knight Rises"
Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1689244/dark-knight-rises-featurette.jhtml

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Nigeria gunmen kill two politicians at funeral

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Climate in northern Europe reconstructed for the past 2,000 years: Cooling trend calculated precisely for the first time

ScienceDaily (July 9, 2012) ? An international team that includes scientists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has published a reconstruction of the climate in northern Europe over the last 2,000 years based on the information provided by tree-rings. Professor Dr. Jan Esper's group at the Institute of Geography at JGU used tree-ring density measurements from sub-fossil pine trees originating from Finnish Lapland to produce a reconstruction reaching back to 138 BC. In so doing, the researchers have been able for the first time to precisely demonstrate that the long-term trend over the past two millennia has been towards climatic cooling.

"We found that previous estimates of historical temperatures during the Roman era and the Middle Ages were too low," says Esper. "Such findings are also significant with regard to climate policy, as they will influence the way today's climate changes are seen in context of historical warm periods." The new study has been published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Was the climate during Roman and Medieval times warmer than today? And why are these earlier warm periods important when assessing the global climate changes we are experiencing today? The discipline of paleoclimatology attempts to answer such questions. Scientists analyze indirect evidence of climate variability, such as ice cores and ocean sediments, and so reconstruct the climate of the past. The annual growth rings in trees are the most important witnesses over the past 1,000 to 2,000 years as they indicate how warm and cool past climate conditions were.

Researchers from Germany, Finland, Scotland, and Switzerland examined tree-ring density profiles in trees from Finnish Lapland. In this cold environment, trees often collapse into one of the numerous lakes, where they remain well preserved for thousands of years.

The international research team used these density measurements from sub-fossil pine trees in northern Scandinavia to create a sequence reaching back to 138 BC. The density measurements correlate closely with the summer temperatures in this area on the edge of the Nordic taiga; the researchers were thus able to create a temperature reconstruction of unprecedented quality. The reconstruction provides a high-resolution representation of temperature patterns in the Roman and Medieval Warm periods, but also shows the cold phases that occurred during the Migration Period and the later Little Ice Age.

In addition to the cold and warm phases, the new climate curve also exhibits a phenomenon that was not expected in this form. For the first time, researchers have now been able to use the data derived from tree-rings to precisely calculate a much longer-term cooling trend that has been playing out over the past 2,000 years. Their findings demonstrate that this trend involves a cooling of -0.3?C per millennium due to gradual changes to the position of the sun and an increase in the distance between the Earth and the sun.

"This figure we calculated may not seem particularly significant," says Esper, "however, it is also not negligible when compared to global warming, which up to now has been less than 1?C. Our results suggest that the large-scale climate reconstruction shown by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) likely underestimate this long-term cooling trend over the past few millennia."

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  1. Jan Esper, David C. Frank, Mauri Timonen, Eduardo Zorita, Rob J. S. Wilson, J?rg Luterbacher, Steffen Holzk?mper, Nils Fischer, Sebastian Wagner, Daniel Nievergelt, Anne Verstege, Ulf B?ntgen. Orbital forcing of tree-ring data. Nature Climate Change, 2012; DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1589

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Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120709092606.htm

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Maybe we keep the peanut butter away from Florida for a while

Mark Miller allegedly used sword, sandwich in Florida attack http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/national/mark-miller-allegedly-used-sword-sandwich-i...

WINTER HAVEN, FL - A Florida man wound up in jail after he allegedly attacked three women with a 4-foot sword and a peanut butter sandwich, according to the Lakeland Ledger .

Deputies said it all began when Mark Christopher Miller heard a commotion outside his mobile home on U.S. 92 West.

He reportedly went outside, armed with a sword, and proceeded to threaten the three women, one of them pregnant.

At one point, he poked the sword at the pregnant woman's stomach and smeared another with the sandwich before deputies arrived an arrested him, according to the Ledger .

While being taken to the Polk County Jail, Miller, 50, ripped out some padding inside the patrol car with his teeth.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48019937/ns/local_news-fort_myers_fl/t/man-arrest....

A man was arrested after deputies say he stabbed someone for feeding his dog peanut butter.

Detectives arrested John William Vargo, 35, in Port Charlotte.

According to deputies, Vargo said he threw an empty plastic peanut butter container at the victim and the victim punched him in the head.

Deputies say the victim got a baseball bat from his house and came out yelling at Vargo.

Deputies say Vargo and his girlfriend then walked down the street and called the CCSO at 3:26 a.m. to report a man chased him with a baseball bat.

Vargo told deputies he and his girlfriend were at a friend's house in the 21300 block of Gladis Avenue where the victim rents a room.

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