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I look a little whiskey'ed here. Oops.
(and related to this tweet... twitter.com/dens/status/1071209834 )
One of my commercial shoots: Photos featuring Chinese models as wallpapers. Those were downloadable on a Philips microsite. It was for the launch of a new "3D Shaver". The idea was to show four different women: A model, an artist, a office worker and an CEO. Thus, we shot on those four locations.
Akbar Al Baker, CEO, Qatar Airways, speaks at a ceremony to welcome Qatar Airways’ flight to Sharjah International Airport.
April 19, 2022— Administrator Samantha Power met with Dr. Seth Berkley, the CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi). Administrator Power expressed USAID’s appreciation for our long-standing partnership with Gavi during this critical moment in time for global immunization access and equity. Administrator Power and Dr. Berkley also discussed Gavi’s core routine immunization portfolio and the procurement and delivery of COVID-19 vaccines through COVAX. The two discussed the critical importance of continuing to fund vaccine delivery so that we are able to prevent doses from going to waste and mitigate the emergence of new variants by getting shots in arms around the world.
Rod Beckstrom at ICANN's 35th meeting in Sydney, June 2009. Beckstrom officially become CEO of the organization a few days after the event ended.
WILDaid CEO Peter Knights kicking off WildAid, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Launch of National Campaign Against Wildlife Trafficking. Public Domain Photo by Tom MacKenzie, USFWS Sep. 7, 2016
EMBARGOED UNTIL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2016
MEDIA ADVISORY
WildAid, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Launch National Campaign Against Wildlife Trafficking
The Walking Dead actor Michael Cudlitz joins celebrity ambassadors in new awareness campaign
Public Domain Photo by Tom MacKenzie, USFWS Sep. 7, 2016
Conservation nonprofit WildAidand the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will launch a high visibility public awareness campaign against illegal wildlife trade in support of the White House National Strategy to Combat Wildlife Trafficking. The campaign will bring unprecedented attention to the issue for U.S. consumers and international travelers about the dangers of wildlife trafficking and ways for them to not support this illegal trade.
When: Wednesday, September 7, 2016 – press conference begins at 10:30 a.m.
Media arrival - - 10 a.m.
Where: The Atrium at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport Atrium: 6000 N Terminal Pkwy., Atlanta, Georgia 30320
How: A select number of media are invited to attend.
Please respond if you plan to attend.
A simultaneous event will occur at Los Angeles International Airport in California.
WildAid, Serviceleadership, and lead ambassador Michael Cudlitz will be available for interviews immediately following the formal remarks. They will be able to provide more information about the partnership, the current state of wildlife trafficking, and the public awareness campaign.
WildAid’s mission is to end the illegal wildlife trade in our lifetime. Envision a world where people no longer buy wildlife products such as shark fin, elephant ivory, and rhino horn. While most wildlife conservation groups focus on protecting animals from poaching, WildAid works to reduce global consumption of wildlife products by persuading consumers and strengthening enforcement. When buying stops, killing can too.
The Service works with others to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.
Quick Wildlife Trafficking Facts
●The global illegal wildlife trade is between $10-20 billion per year.
●The United States is among the world’s largest consumers of wildlife products, both legal and illegal..
●In 2015, Service wildlife inspectors inspected more than 180,000 wildlife-related shipments in the United States, with Los Angeles and New York as the main ports of entry.
●33,000 elephants are killed annually for their tusks and it is estimated that less than 400,000 remain in the wild.
●Pangolins hold the unfortunate title of most heavily trafficked mammal in the world, with more than 1 million poached from the wild in the last decade alone.
MEDIA INFORMATION
For more specifics on interviews and photography and to RSVP, please email Christopher Henry at Christopher.Henry@Edelman.com
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Diego Mariño; CEO at Ducksboard shared a panel about " The social company: creating value through networks" with Daniel Beunza, Management teacher ar the London School of Economics, Rodolfo Carpintier, president of, Digital Assets Deployment, and Indi Johar, director of "Hub Network", chaired by journalist Mónica Sanz. (via www-03.ibm.com/press/es/es/photo/38095.wss)
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Larry is back to his old job again. I met him at a conference in 2000 when he was the CEO of a much smaller startup company...
Rod Beckstrom at ICANN's 35th meeting in Sydney, June 2009. Beckstrom officially become CEO of the organization a few days after the event ended.
Evan Williams is one of the founders of and the first CEO of Twitter.
The source image for this caricature is a Creative Commons licensed photo taken by Joi Ito and available via Wikimedia.
Revealing that “they did not turn away ads selling children—they just tried to make it less obvious,” U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill today directly challenged the CEO and senior leadership of Backpage—who invoked their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination and refused to answer questions—at a bipartisan hearing to examine the company’s knowing facilitation of online sex trafficking, including of children, and a stunning report undermining the company’s central immunity defense as just a platform without an active role in ad postings.
“[Backpage] did not turn away ads selling children,” said McCaskill, a former sex crimes prosecutor. “We now know as a result of our legal battle, based on their own documents, they did not turn away ads selling children. They just tried to make it less obvious. And worse, coached the traffickers and the pimps on how to clean up their ads. Not turning away their business. Those children were still sold. They just tried to sanitize it. That, ladies and gentleman, is the definition of evil. Simply evil.”
Last night, in response to the Subcommittee’s report, Backpage shut down the adult sections of its website across the United States effectively immediately.
In response to questions from McCaskill and Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, the Ranking Member and Chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer, General Counsel Elizabeth McDougall, Chief Operations Officer Andrew Padilla, and company co-founders Michael Lacey and James Larkin, all invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and declined to answer.
McCaskill continued: “Throughout this investigation, I have spoken of a 15-year-old girl who was sold for sex on Backpage across the United States before seeking help at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis…These experiences remind us that this investigation is not about curbing the First Amendment rights, give me a break—rights which are more important now than ever—or using the powers of the Subcommittee to target private actors engaged in unpopular conduct. This investigation is about understanding how criminals systematically use online platforms to transform normal American teenagers into sex slaves… Our responsibility, as elected representatives, to protect the most vulnerable Americans requires nothing less.”
The Senators also heard testimony from several victims of Backpage’s practices, including a mother from St. Louis who found her missing 14-year-old daughter after a desperate search through the escort section” on Backpage’s website. The mother, Kubiiki Pride, contacted Backpage to demand her daugher’s ad be removed, but received no immediate response from the company.
McCaskill and Portman also released a report in conjunction with the hearing, which found Backpage knowingly facilitated sex trafficking, including of children, on the internet. The Senators’ report is the culmination of a two-year investigation examining more than one million pages of documents. Legal cases previously brought against Backpage were dismissed because the company claimed immunity as “just a platform” that doesn’t take an active role in online ad postings. A sample of the report’s findings include:
• Backpage automatically deleted incriminating words from sex ads prior to publication: These words included: lolita, teenage, rape, young, amber alert, fresh, innocent, and school girl. When a user would submit an adult-section ad using one or more of these words, Backpage would automatically delete the word-and then post the remainder of the ad. Over time, Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer personally directed or approved the addition of new words to the filter, including terms taken directly from reports on Backpage-related sex trafficking.
• Backpage altered the evidenciary value of the original ads: According to Backpage's own Chief Operations Officer, the filter was created in such a way that Backpage "wouldn't run the risk of caching stripped terms," potentially destroying criminal evidence. No communications were found in Backpage's files to suggest that law enforcement was ever informed that ads for sex trafficking and prostitution were being routinely edited by the company.
• Backpage moderators manually deleted incriminating evidence in ads that automatic filters missed: Manual editing would target words and phrases similar to those flagged in the filter, including terms that indicated criminal activity. While most of the terms that Backpage moderators would remove related to standard prostitution, some words specifically indicated child exploitation, such as "teen" and "young."
• Backpage coached its users on how to post "clean ads" for illegal transactions: At Ferrer's instructions, when a user attempted to post ads with even the most egregious banned words, the user would receive an error message identifying the problemative word choice. The site also used a similar approach for its age verification process. A contractor that helped create one of these error messages said, "Backpage executives recognized that their filter would alert users to the use of a banned word and cause them to alter their future word choice, thereby resulting in a clean ad."
• Backpage employees are aware that prostitution and child exploitation occur on the site, and may have intentionally underreported instances of child exploitation: One former moderator asserted that all Backpage employees involved in adult moderation knew that the ads they reviewed were offering sex for money, and that some even used the services of prostitutes on the site. They "went through the motions putting lipstick on a pig, because when it came down to it, it was what the business was about."
For the last two years, McCaskill and Portman have led an investigation into online sex trafficking facilitated by Backpage, resulting in a unanimous Senate vote to enforce the Subcommittee’s subpoena and a federal court order compelling Backpage to turn over responsive documents.
The Subcommittee began its bipartisan investigation of human trafficking on the Internet in April 2015. With estimated annual revenues of more than $150 million, Backpage is a market leader in commercial sex advertising and has been linked to hundreds of reported cases of sex trafficking, including the trafficking of children.
Visit mccaskill.senate.gov/backpage to see more about McCaskill’s bipartisan investigation.
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