Things That Will Get You Thrown in Jail in Dubai

An excerpt from the New York Times -

Holding Hands, Drinking Wine and Other Ways to Go to Jail in Dubai
By ROD NORDLAND

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Scottish electrician named Jamie Harron, visiting Dubai as a tourist, was sentenced to three months in jail for touching a man in a bar.

The British head of a professional soccer team, David Haigh, was ordered jailed for seven months for a tweet that he says could not have been from him — since he was already in jail without a phone.

An Australian aid worker living in Dubai, Scott Richards, was locked up for trying to raise money to buy blankets for freezing Afghan children, because he was not part of a recognized charity.

Dubai, one of the seven United Arab Emirates, portrays itself as welcoming to foreigners. Its boosters claim it is the fourth most-visited tourism destination in the world, and it has at least 12 times as many foreign residents as citizens.

But a legal system based on a hard-line interpretation of Shariah law often lands foreigners in jail for offenses that few Westerners would dream were even crimes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/11/world/middleeast/dubai-crimes-united-arab-emirates-jail.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

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Diverse Books For Kids

An excerpt from the Huffington Post -

This Database Is Filled With 1,300 Diverse Books For Kids
It highlights characters of color and topics like adoption and immigration.
By Taylor Pittman

Parents looking for picture books featuring characters of color and highlighting important subjects like immigration, LGBTQ topics and environmental issues now have a helpful resource in the Diverse BookFinder.

Created with help from Bates College in Maine and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Diverse BookFinder site offers information on 1,300 picture books that can help kids have a more balanced and equal bookshelf.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/this-database-is-filled-with-books-about-people-of-color-and-lgbtq-issues_us_5a03544fe4b0f76b05c2de2f?ncid=APPLENEWS00001

https://diversebookfinder.org/?ncid=APPLENEWS00001

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Get a Whole Row

From the Huffington Post -

This App Ups Your Chances Of Getting An Entire Airplane Row To Yourself
By Jamie Feldman

What if dreams could come true, and there were a way to increase your chances of guaranteeing an entire row to yourself on your next flight? Brace yourself.

Gilbert Ott from travel blog God Save the Points recently shared information with readers about ExpertFlyer, an app that tracks airlines’ seating charts in real time, giving travelers the ability to change their seats as space opens up.

Plenty of airlines allow you to pick your seat when you purchase your ticket, but ExpertFlyer monitors the available seats between the time when you book and when you fly. So, if a window or aisle seat becomes available, you can swap it by calling the airline or, if you’re at the airport, asking at the gate.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/airplane-seat-hack_us_5a009a0ce4b04cdbeb3521ca?ncid=APPLENEWS00001

https://www.expertflyer.com

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