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Hours before the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers go head to head on Sunday, two far more ferocious teams will go claw to claw in Hallmark Channel’s eighth annual Kitten Bowl.

Beth Stern will once again host the mane event from Hallmark Channel Stadium, where she’ll be joined by Cameron Mathison and Tamera Mowry-Housley for additional commentary. The broadcast begins at 2/1c.

In addition to highlighting the contributions of cats in the world of sports, the Kitten Bowl also raises awareness about the importance of fostering and adopting cats in need. Though the four-legged players in this year’s game have all been adopted, the Bowl’s official site has a link to North Shore Animal League America, the “world’s largest no-kill animal rescue and adoption organization.”

Of course, these kittens aren’t just competing against one another — they’re also competing against Puppy Bowl XVII, at least for ratings, as Animal Planet is airing its dog-focused football event at the same time as the Kitten Bowl. (You can click here to get up close and paw-sonal with the puppies competing in this year’s big game.)

Browse our gallery of Kitten Bowl VIII’s starting line-up — you can click here for direct access — then drop a comment with your favorite player(s) below.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/kitten-bowl-2021-photos-meet-the-starting-feline-up-of-adopted-cat-letes/feed/ 0 US families illegally adopted 100s of Chilean children during Pinochet dictatorship https://briefnews.eu/us-families-illegally-adopted-100s-of-chilean-children-during-pinochet-dictatorship/ https://briefnews.eu/us-families-illegally-adopted-100s-of-chilean-children-during-pinochet-dictatorship/#respond Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:51:23 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/us-families-illegally-adopted-100s-of-chilean-children-during-pinochet-dictatorship/ A bombshell report by the Chilean judiciary has revealed that hundreds of children illegally adopted by foreigners during the Pinochet dictatorship were sent to the US. A judge overseeing the probe called it “kidnapping.”

Judge Mario Carroza’s report, released Sunday, followed a probe into 579 adoptions between 1950 and 2001, 488 of those during the 1973-1990 dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. Of those, 525 were adopted by foreign families, and 432 went to the US. Calling the practice “kidnapping” and a “crime against humanity,” Carroza pointed out that Chile had no legal mechanism for overseas adoption until 1988.

Files on the 579 children of “vulnerable” mothers were discovered at the home of 96-year-old social worker Telma Uribe, who played a key role in the “irregular” adoptions according to Carroza. Mothers in financial hardship were paid to transfer their newborns to the legal guardianship of agencies. They were then “handed over” to families abroad.

The American Adoption Agency is linked to 206 of the cases; the Evangelical Adoption and Family Service to 22; the New York Study Service to 11; International Adoptions, Inc. to four; Catholic Charities of Richmond to three; Today’s Family, Inc. to three; and Homestudies, Inc. to two.

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Carroza, a Santiago Appellate Court judge, told the Chilean newspaper La Tercera his team were probing “abduction of minors” in relation to political violence and human rights violations during the Pinochet era. “But the investigation goes further, because there are various traces of irregularities that perhaps it would be best to clear up.”

Even if “we are talking about cases that are not considered crimes against humanity, we would be talking about acts that would be proscribed,” the judge said.

Uribe conspired with two doctors, a lawyer, a translator, two other social workers and organizations including children’s homes and maternity wards, the report said. She even advertised her services on radio to mothers thinking of putting their children up for adoption.

Most of the mothers were going through economic difficulties, the report said, and were paid in one way or another to give up their children.

“In the great majority of cases reviewed there is effectively an economic contribution for diverse reasons,” the report notes.

Pinochet took power in the September, 1973 CIA-backed coup against socialist leader Salvador Allende, who committed suicide as troops stormed the presidential palace.

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Average leaders use meetings to pass on information. Great leaders use them to engage and inspire. To run meetings the best way possible, follow a few simple rules:

Don’t dish out.

Too many executives use meetings as just another opportunity to relentlessly push rules, policies, details, and tasks down their team members’ throats. These “dish out” leaders mean well, but their force-feeding style can make employees feel disrespected and unappreciated. I’ve seen leaders lose their entire teams this way, as people flee the unit or the company altogether.

In fact, that happened to me. When I started my first company, I held staff meetings just to demand things. I was stuck on barking out orders, not listening. I was also quick to anger and expected everyone to know what I was thinking.

It’s little surprise that my business fizzled. No one felt safe to offer ideas or challenge my assumptions. Our meetings were showcases for my ego, not opportunities to share best practices. Worst of all, these meetings killed people’s passion for what we were all about. Instead of leaving excited to sell our products, they left — as one employee told me — “walking on eggshells.”

Don’t bore.

Some well meaning leaders fall into a different kind of “dish out” trap: killing people’s passion not through fear, but through boredom.

Working in sales, I’ve been stuck in hundreds of meetings in which we were all instructed to speak for two minutes each about the state of our efforts. It meant sitting through seemingly endless minutiae like, “I’m supposed to have a lunch meeting with so-and-so.”

Even if you don’t nod off, your mind definitely goes elsewhere. You leave the meeting feeling like all your energy has been zapped.

Do focus on relevance.

After my first business ended and I worked my way up at other companies, I committed to running meetings well. I got humble and learned. Now, at my current company, our meetings are so worthwhile and positive that people don’t want to leave.

The chief reason is that I always ask myself this: What will make this meeting relevant to everyone in a way that increases productivity? The only topics that we tackle in these meetings pass that test. Everything else belongs in other forums — one-on-one discussions, emails, etc.

Determining what’s relevant for a meeting isn’t as simple as it may sound. For example, it means digging deep into your team’s process, not just its outcomes. Gathering your team to say “we need to do this better” or “we need to sell more” is useless. But when you first take a good hard look at your team’s process, you discover the specifics to focus on. For example, what are the most common weak points in your sales pipeline? Is it prospecting for the right customers? Increasing revenue per customer? Meetings that offer helpful lessons on how to fix specific challenges can get your team excited.

I’ve been able to measure the results, seeing a spike in prospecting and conversions after each of these events — which happen only when necessary.

Do build participation.

Have team members who rock at these specific skills lead the meetings. That way, it’s a chance for them to hone leadership skills as well. Over time, find ways for everyone on your team to teach at some point during one of your meetings, so they all feel like participants rather than spectators.

It’s also helpful to bring in outsiders to deliver quick talks. They may be experts who can share best practices as well, or people who are simply passionate about what your company offers. One of the greatest meetings I ever experienced came when my bosses brought in a customer who was a big fan of our product. He explained to our team why it made his job better, and how it enabled him to increase his business. It made me think, “This is the conversation I want to have with other customers.” It inspired me. It gave me a sense of “swagger” that our product was every bit as great as we wanted it to be.

This same idea works with bringing in an investor, as I did at a recent board meeting. After he spoke, our advisers went from being mildly interested to asking, “How do we help you do what he just said?”

Doing meetings right requires taking the long view. In business, it’s easy to get shortsighted — especially with monthly, quarterly, and annual quotas. Organizing useful meetings means pulling yourself out of the daily grind. But it’s worth it. If I hadn’t done this, I wouldn’t have employees who are invested in the process and I wouldn’t have a thriving business.

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The new code was drawn up by a philosopher and a group of religious scholars at the university, according to Inside Higher Ed (IHE). The rules were implemented in mid-October.

According to Hamburg University President Dieter Lenzen, the move came after a number of complaints about religious students “disturbing university life.” He added that “external Salafists” had been pressuring female Muslim students to wear traditional Islamic garb, including the face veil.

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When asked which faith had been the subject of the most complaints, Lenzen said with emphasis that the answer was Muslim students. “To date, there have been no complaints about Buddhist students, just a few about Christian students, but a great many about Muslim students,” he said, as quoted by IHE.

One of the subjects of the new code is prayer. It bans “loud and demonstrative expressions of faith,” but notes that “quiet prayer may be acceptable in the library.”

It states that “ritual activities” must be “non-disruptive or carried out in rooms assigned for that purpose.” It cites an area known as the ‘Room of Contemplation,’ while warning that students are not allowed to segregate that area by gender.

The code warns that the unauthorized use of university facilities and resources could result in guilty parties being banned or expelled from campus. “This authority may be delegated,” it states.

The code also bans foot baths in sanitary facilities, noting that such actions could make other students “feel imposed upon.” It warns that “religiously motivated pressure” upon others to behave in a certain way constitutes “coercion.”

The text also deals with dietary restrictions at campus eateries. It states that canteens “reserve the right to decide whether or not to offer dishes in line with religious dietary guidelines and restrictions,” while noting that it would be “desirable” if the university’s student organization could “include dishes that accommodate the dietary rules of the various religions.”

It also stresses that students who miss class due to religious festivities will have to “bear the consequences,” adding that “teachers may request that the student in question compensate for missed work.”

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When it comes to religious apparel, the code stresses that students are permitted to wear items including the Muslim face veil. However, that is only if they are not deemed to “impede communication required for academic exchange, instruction, or exams…”

Speaking to Ruptly about the new religious code, a Muslim student by the name of Akbar stressed that it is important for everyone – not just Muslims – to have the freedom to wear what they please. “If someone stood naked in front of me, I wouldn’t like that, but if they want to be naked… it doesn’t matter to me.”

A student named Daniel noted that the topic of Islamic apparel “is different from case to case,” stressing that women are sometimes forced to wear such clothing by their husband or father. “It should be possible for everyone [to wear full covering] but not from being forced. And that’s difficult to establish, whether they are forced or not,” he told Ruptly.

The topic of Islamic garb has been a subject of intense debate across Europe, with a so-called ‘burqa ban’ going into effect in Austria last month. In September, the German parliament’s upper house passed new rules to prevent drivers from covering their faces to avoid speeding tickets, in a move which some claim unfairly targets female Muslim drivers. Meanwhile, the Danish ruling coalition has also expressed its support for a nationwide full-face veil ban. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/religious-code-of-conduct-adopted-at-german-university-after-complaints-about-muslim-students/feed/ 0 Iowa couple who adopted 9 kids with disabilities charged with abuse after 68 police reports https://briefnews.eu/iowa-couple-who-adopted-9-kids-with-disabilities-charged-with-abuse-after-68-police-reports/ https://briefnews.eu/iowa-couple-who-adopted-9-kids-with-disabilities-charged-with-abuse-after-68-police-reports/#respond Sat, 29 Jul 2017 04:03:25 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/iowa-couple-who-adopted-9-kids-with-disabilities-charged-with-abuse-after-68-police-reports/ Police were reportedly called to a house in Ankeny, Iowa, 68 times over the past 10 years to investigate allegations that a couple was abusing their adopted children with disabilities before making an arrest.

John Elmer Bell, 55, and Joyce Marie Bell, 57, were arrested Thursday on felony charges of child endangerment causing bodily injury, according to the Des Moines Register.

The couple were arrested after their 21-year-old adopted daughter, Krystal Bell, gave the Ankeny Police Department videos she secretly filmed for more than a year, documenting the extent of the abuse at the Bell house.

“I actually feel happy. I feel relieved a little bit, but then at the same time I feel like we haven’t had enough justice yet. They should have a lot more coming to them than what they have right now,” Krystal said, according to WHO.

One of the videos reportedly shows John repeatedly hitting his 16-year-old autistic son.

“I will hit you in the f***ing mouth,” John screamed, according to the Des Moines Register.

The state Department of Human Services reportedly removed the two remaining children from the home earlier this month after receiving a call about child abuse. They have been placed in a shelter, reported the Register.

The police became aware of the videos in March 2016, the Register reported, and the police were called to the house 68 times since 2007.

According to the Register, the police were called multiple times a year for reports of fighting, assault, sexual abuse, attempted suicide, and others that said the children had been kicked out of the house or ran away from home.

The reports also contain several references to guns being kept in the house, including one from 2015 that says Krystal called to report both her parents had ganged up on her. Police reported there was blood on the wall and guns in the house.

Another report from 2009 said that Makayla Bell, one of the children adopted by the Bells who was permanently removed from the home when she was 17, told police that she was “being abused by her parents and she will not go back home.”

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After her adoptive parents were arrested, Makayla told KCCI that she lived in constant fear of being abused when she was living in the Bell house.

“Joyce had kicked me in the face several times, and I didn’t even realize how bad it was until about three or four days after when I looked in the mirror and couldn’t recognize myself,” Makayla said. “It was bad enough to the point where I didn’t want to live anymore.”

Makayla was placed in a shelter after photos were taken of her injuries. Joyce was not charged in that incident.

Makayla told the Register that her adoptive parents started physically abusing her about a year after she was adopted. She reported the abuse but said that her adoptive parents acted friendly and downplayed situations when police and social workers came to the house, and they did not investigate the claims further.

She added that all of the children had mental and physical disabilities ranging from bipolar disorder to mental retardation to cerebral palsy.

Krystal said that, at one point, all nine adopted children and one biological child were living in the three-bedroom house at the same time.

“The other two bedrooms were where all the kids slept, or in the living room on the floor, or in the back room on the floor. Sometimes we slept down in the basement,” Krystal told WHO.

The Register reported that Iowa puts no limits on the number of children that foster parents are legally allowed to adopt, and pays foster parents up to $ 12,333 a year per child. With the Bell family adopting nine special needs children, they could make as much as $ 110,000 a year.

One of the Bell children, who has a mental illness, said that after being removed from the house, John kept the money she received from her Social Security disability checks.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/iowa-couple-who-adopted-9-kids-with-disabilities-charged-with-abuse-after-68-police-reports/feed/ 0 DIY SOS fans praise same sex couple who adopted four children with severe medical needs https://briefnews.eu/diy-sos-fans-praise-same-sex-couple-who-adopted-four-children-with-severe-medical-needs/ https://briefnews.eu/diy-sos-fans-praise-same-sex-couple-who-adopted-four-children-with-severe-medical-needs/#respond Thu, 08 Jun 2017 23:54:55 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/diy-sos-fans-praise-same-sex-couple-who-adopted-four-children-with-severe-medical-needs/

The BBC One programme, presented by Nick Knowles, transformed the lives of a same sex couple who were labelled “superheroes” on social media as they had adopted four children with severe medical needs.

Head teacher Garry, 43, and social carer Kyle, 39, from Sheppey, Kent first adopted Haydn, 13, who has cerebral palsy and Curtis, six, who is severely epileptic, blind and prone to life-threatening chest infections and also has cerebral palsy.

The two fathers then adopted sisters Bella, 11, who has Down’s Syndrome and Phoebe six, who is physically healthy.

But the family of six were desperate for space as they had been living in a cramped three-bedroom-bungalow which was full with medical supplies.

And in one of DIY SOS’ most ambitious builds ever, they knocked down the family’s existing property to build a new five-bedroom home which was something that had never been done before.

Those watching at home were amazed by the couple’s kindness and selflessness to bring up the four children and rushed to Twitter to comment on the wonderful fathers.

One person wrote: “These two guys on #DIYSOS are the most selfless men ever. Such a beautiful story, & amazing things they’ve done for their kids.”

“Anyone who can question the right of gay adoption & marriage, then I suggest you switch BBC One on now. #DIYSOS,” said another viewer.

A third wrote: “#diysos these guys are a perfect example why sexuality should never play a part in whether someone can adopt #inspirationalparents.”

“If you want to see humanity at its best tune in to #diysos Two amazing guys,” added a fan of the show.

One viewer commented: “These dads on #diysos are superheros. I’m crying already.”

DIY SOS is now available on BBC iPlayer.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/diy-sos-fans-praise-same-sex-couple-who-adopted-four-children-with-severe-medical-needs/feed/ 0 Berlin's Adopted Son Wants to Open His City to People Like Him https://briefnews.eu/berlins-adopted-son-wants-to-open-his-city-to-people-like-him/ https://briefnews.eu/berlins-adopted-son-wants-to-open-his-city-to-people-like-him/#respond Thu, 04 May 2017 04:59:07 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/berlins-adopted-son-wants-to-open-his-city-to-people-like-him/

Raed Saleh arrived in Berlin’s Spandau neighborhood at the age of 5; since then, he’s been watching his city change. While rents climb and affordable housing gets renovated or razed, cracks are growing in the reunified capital along economic, ideological and ethnic lines. Now, the delicate task of addressing this transition has fallen on the city’s center-left coalition led by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and its top deputy, 39-year-old Saleh.

Saleh’s task comes at a polarized time in Germany. Last fall, the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party nicked votes from Germany’s two main centrist parties in Berlin’s municipal legislature, winning a shocking 14.2 percent of seats. That sent the SPD hunting for new partners on the left — the Greens and the Left — and pushing Saleh and company away from Angela Merkel’s center-right Christian Democrats. Saleh, first elected to the chamber in 2006, speaks the progressive language of his new coalition allies: “The common idea was that we wanted to make society as a whole more humane.”

To that end, Saleh advocates for expanded access to employment and education to let people born abroad — as he was, in the West Bank — more quickly integrate into their city and contribute to it. He’s argued for capping rents to reduce housing inequality and predatory real estate practices. So far the coalition’s dream has manifested in a few concrete achievements: By the end of March, not quite four months into its mandate, the coalition had lowered the reduced-fare “social ticket” on public transit by €8.50 (about $ 9.20), moved thousands of refugees out of gymnasiums and into apartments and introduced plans to finalize rent controls.

If Saleh ever complained he’d been discriminated against, his father would say: “No, it’s because you didn’t try hard enough.”

Not everyone is happy. Florian Graf, the Christian Democrats’ leader in the legislature, called the coalition’s first three months “100 lost days for Berlin.” He told the German news agency DPA the new coalition had produced nothing but “bankruptcies, bad luck and breakdowns.” And Sebastian Czaja, the legislative leader of the laissez-faire Free Democrats, told the news agency the coalition’s attempts to slow the advance of big business showed its “lack of a vision for Berlin’s future.”

Saleh doesn’t lack for vision, although his may not align with Czaja’s. “I belong to a party that believes that people must have the opportunity for social advancement, and that people must not be categorized according to their economic usefulness, but that people are all equal — whether they’re head doctors or nurses; whether they’re top managers or unemployed,” he says. Saleh is known for being a good listener; he doesn’t drink, but drops into local bars to hear Berliners’ concerns. He’s also an impassioned speaker, both in the legislature and over the phone — holding forth on the SPD’s chances at the national level this year (not bad), on his Islamic faith (private) and on the current state of U.S. politics (“honestly, I’m worried”).

Living such values isn’t always easy in a city where cranes and wrecking balls fill the center, and lower-wage workers, the unemployed and immigrants have been pushed to neighborhoodswhere opportunities for work are scarce. Saleh and company will need to achieve a cultural shift alongside, or perhaps before, their policy shift. Today, many Germans see immigration as a process of integration, in which “foreigners”— often people whose families have lived in the country for generations — become “German.”

Saleh’s father commuted between Germany and Palestine as a guest worker for years before bringing his wife and children to West Berlin in 1982. He moved them to the Spandau neighborhood, which at the time had few residents from abroad. He wanted his children to feel at home in Germany, insisting they unpack and store their suitcases in the closet as soon as they moved in. Saleh recalls that if he ever complained he’d been discriminated against, his father would say: “No, it’s because you didn’t try hard enough.”

When Saleh ran for mayor in 2014, at age 37, he finished a disappointing third, behind two other SPD candidates. The media paid more attention to his “foreign” accent than his proposals, despite the fact he’d lived in Germany for three decades, been an SPD deputy in the municipal legislature for eight years and led the party in the legislature for three. But the race served to spotlight many of Saleh’s perennial causes: integration through education and employment, banishingthe bizarre German demographic category of people, especially children, with a “migration background.” “They are Berlin children,” he declared to loud applause at a pre-election forum.

What Saleh has pledged for Berlin — a fairer start for everyone — may seem bold outside Europe. But “for us, it is inseparable from democracy,” says Peter Brandt, professor emeritus at the University of Hagen. In Saleh, a friend who occasionally seeks the academic’s counsel, Brandt sees “someone of Palestinian heritage and Islamic faith who unconditionally understands himself as a German and a Berliner.” One of Saleh’s greatest role models is Brandt’s father, Willy Brandt — World War II exile, 1969-74 SPD chancellor and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Brandt won’t speculate about whether his father would approve of Saleh as one of the party’s newest standard-bearers. “I am not the executor of my father’s legacy,” Brandt says, before pausing to add: “It’d be nice to think so.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/berlins-adopted-son-wants-to-open-his-city-to-people-like-him/feed/ 0 I May Have Accidentally Just Adopted a Remarkably Lifelike Robot Baby https://briefnews.eu/i-may-have-accidentally-just-adopted-a-remarkably-lifelike-robot-baby/ https://briefnews.eu/i-may-have-accidentally-just-adopted-a-remarkably-lifelike-robot-baby/#respond Sat, 18 Feb 2017 18:59:41 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/i-may-have-accidentally-just-adopted-a-remarkably-lifelike-robot-baby/

The aisles of Toy Fair are filled with dolls of all shapes and sizes that can eat, cry, talk, and even require a diaper change. But Spin Master’s Luvabella feels like a quantum leap when it comes to interactive toy babies. After playing with her for just a few minutes, I somehow walked away feeling like a neglectful dad for leaving her behind.

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Why kids have a deep urge to take care of even smaller versions of themselves is a question best left to child psychologists, but Spin Master’s Luvabella is the first doll that genuinely makes it feel like you’re taking care of a needy infant, and that your actions and interactions have real-life consequences. It’s partly a result of advanced animated features like blinking eyes, a pursed mouth than can suck a pacifier, and flailing arms. But it’s also a result of hidden sensors that provide constant feedback to a robust artificial intelligence that brings all of those elements together.

At times those eyes can be a little creepy, but this was also a prototype.

Most dolls that boast interactive features tend to only focus on a single behaviour like realistic eating, or crying. But Luvabella replicates a bunch of lifelike infant behaviors, at the same time, that are constantly responding to how you’re holding or playing with her. Tickle her feet and she’ll laugh, and cover her eyes and she’ll play peek-a-boo or get upset if you leave them covered for too long. Watching people pass the doll around like it could get seriously hurt if dropped was kind of remarkable.

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The doll will also slowly learn how a child plays with it, and react more positively to common interactions, assuming it’s their parent’s favorite. It can even learn to talk, progressing from simple baby grunts and murmurs, to actual recognizable words over time. But given concerns over privacy, Spin Master has kept Luvabella completely offline—there’s no wi-fi connections—and no app interactivity. The doll can’t ever be upgraded as a result, but it also means the company isn’t secretly picking through your kids’ conversations and interactions for marketing insights. We’re looking at you, Hello Barbie.

At times the Luvabella doll we played with at Toy Fair was undoubtedly creepy, with eyes that seemed to stare right through you. But it was also a semi-functional prototype given the final $ 100 toy isn’t set to hit shelves until the Fall. Its motions and facial features will hopefully be further refined by then, but that might not be a good thing. If and when your child eventually stops playing with it, parents who’ve already raised an infant will undoubtedly feel like they should continue taking care of it.

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