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State fines Encana $225K over 2016 spill near Parachute
Rifle | September 13, 2017
DENVER — Colorado has fined an oil and gas company $225,000 for a pipeline leak that contaminated soil and water on a hunting ranch in the western part of the state.
The Denver Post reported Monday that the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission fined a subsidiary of Encana Oil and Gas over a June 2016 spill on the Bishop Ranch outside the town of Parachute.
Encana has not said how big the spill was. The newspaper said it obtained a state document showing the Encana subsidiary has recovered about 50,000 gallons at a cost of $2.7 million.
Bishop Ranch owner Mike Bishop said the fine wasn’t big enough and was unlikely to deter future spills.
The ranch filed a state lawsuit over the spill. The suit is still pending.
Information from: The Denver Post, http://www.denverpost.com
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Clas Ohlson to close all UK stores
Swedish retail chain Clas Ohlson has announced plans to close all its stores across the UK and Germany after incurring “significant losses”.
Clas Ohlson has six stores remaining in the UK, in Kingston, St Albans, Ealing, Reading, Manchester and Liverpool as well as four in Germany. It closed its UK flagship store in Croydon earlier this year having shut six further stores over the previous year.
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Emre Guler's not going anywhere after impressive NRL debut
Mon 20 Aug 2018, 08:19 AM
If you can judge a player's future in the NRL by the good-natured ribbing he receives after a winning debut, then Canberra Raiders forward Emre Guler will be around for a while yet.
As the media spoke to the 20-year-old in the change rooms fresh of playing his part in a 14-12 upset win over the Sydney Roosters, Canberra halfback Aidan Sezer was trying to film Guler on his phone in a bid to put him off the questions being asked of him.
But much like his performance on the field, the young prop doesn't let it get to him too much as he reflected on his quality 28 minutes on the field.
"The speed was very quick, you make a tackle, and somebody is coming at you straight away. But once I got into the game I got used to it," Guler said.
In what was a crucial game against one of the best packs in the competition, the 20-year-old gave a glimpse to Canberra fans as to what he might be capable of in the future.
Ninety-three metres from 10 runs and 23 tackles gives an early indication of what the player with Turkish ancestry could produce next season, especially in the wake of fellow props Shannon Boyd (Titans) and Junior Paulo (Eels) leaving the club.
"I didn't think he looked out of place at all, speaking to Stick (Ricky Stuart) for a while now about the time to put him in and both had a chat and obviously now we've missed the semis I thought Emre came in and did a fantastic job," Canberra captain Josh Hodgson said.
"Playing alongside him his talk was very good for a young kid, he never once looked like he got dominated or it got too physical.
"I thought for a debut he should be very proud of himself and as Stick said to get a win on debut for a kid as lovely as he is, such a humble lad, it's good to put a smile on his face."
Guler's debut will not only be remembered by those close to him but the rest of the Raiders' faithful as the side broke a four-game losing streak to beat one of the competition favourites on Sunday.
The Roosters were riding high off the back of five wins in a row and now face a tougher task of finishing on top of the ladder.
Now Guler is hoping he had done enough to retain his place for the remaining two games of the season, one of which is against his junior club the Rabbitohs.
"I'm hoping I didn't look out of place I just want to stay in the NRL now and build a platform on top of that," Guler said.
"Hopefully I can play against Souths, so it would be great to play them and hopefully get a win.
"It will be exciting, it's always special to play an old club, even when I played them in the 20s there's always a bit of banter with the boys."
Behind the Limelight: Guler, Havili and Monsignor Woods
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Live Journal: The Decemberists + Okkervil River, The Henry Fonda Theater 3.24.05
Let me preface this by saying that Colin Meloy really, really likes to play the drums.
I saw Okkervil River and the Decemberists on Thursday. Amazing things, in chronological order:
1) Running into every UCLA hipster I know.
2) Meeting one of the said hipsters for the first time through my hipster friend, only to find out that said hipster and I had been Facebook friends for a year thanks to similar “favorite music” lists in our profiles.
3) Said hipster’s friend’s little brother is the one, the only, “Okkervil River Kid.”
I’m going to digress from the concert review (which I haven’t really started yet) to tell the story of the Okkervil River Kid and simultaneously restore your faith in humanity. Our story begins many moons ago, in a mysterious land where I – somehow, someway – kept coming up with funky-ass shit like every single day. In other words, I attended the 2004 edition of All Tomorrow’s Parties at the Queen Mary in Long Beach, and Marty from the Shins made an extended Snoop reference. While Day 1 of the show was phenomenal in brief bursts (Sufjan Stevens, Lou Reed, getting Wayne Coyne’s autograph), Day 2 was damn near the bee’s knees in terms of sheer indie rock madness. The Constantines, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, The Shins, and the Flaming Lips all played flawless sets, and then Wayne got in the space bubble and walked through the crowd in the rain.
All that aside, the best part of the day was to be had at the beginning. As the Constantines took the stage (and were observed by a wise-looking Wayne in a photo I accidentally deleted), my editor and I looked around at the tiny group of people who had joined us at 1 p.m. for the first act of the festival. To our left was a grey-haired man in a sportcoat and Converse shoes and his son, a tousle-haired boy who couldn’t possibly be over 12 (turns out he was 14, but hey). This kid, who was one of less than twenty or so people out to see the Constantines at a festival that grew to the thousands by the Lips’ set, happened to be wearing an Okkervil River shirt.
Now, I love Okkervil River. I heard “Down The River Of Golden Dreams” last year thanks to the Amoeba Music “favorites” catalog, and here in front of me was some kid wearing their tee shirt! Any attempt at being cool or hip or whatever went out the window. Some fucking 12-year old was already more in the know than I would ever be. Good for him though, I thought at the time, and spent the rest of the day with my mind blown. The Shins helped. Exchange between myself and Marty after they finished their set: “Marty!” He looks at me. “The Daily Bruin loves you!” Marty looks at me and gestures, mouthing, “Are you the guy…” “Yeah!” I yell. He smiles and waves. Major life highlight. (I interviewed Marty two weeks prior.)
Is that the end, you wonder? Of course not. The Okkervil River Kid made an appearance at Okkervil River’s free show at the UCLA Cooperage, and then again at the Decemberists show! This time my editor was there with me, and we both made a big fuss to our friends of telling the story. “Oh yeah,” said Random Girl Whose Name I Have Forgotten, “that’s my brother. He and Dad were there.” “What??!?!?!” Again, mind blown. Beyond recognition. It helped that the Decemberists played the greatest set of all time, too.
Walking out on stage clad in khaki safari gear, they opened with “The Infanta” and played (so far as I can remember) “July July,” “The Sporting Life,” “We Both Go Down Together,” “16 Military Wives,” “Grace Cathedral Hill,” “Los Angeles I’m Yours,” “Billy Liar,” “Lost At Sea,” “The Bagman’s Gambit,” “The Engine Driver” and “Wuthering Heights,” a Kate Bush cover that guest vocalist/violinist (and ridiculously cute) Petra Haden sang. The band closed with an audience participation version of “The Mariner’s Revenge Song” which was completely awesome. They came out for the encore, with a solo Colin performance of “Red Right Ankle,” and then just dove right into the entire 18-minute “The Tain” to the wonder of everyone in the audience. Seeing “The Tain” live was very, very impressive – especially when Colin got behind the kit in the middle section. Petra Haden’s ridiculous cuteness and harmony vocals on everything – if Colin doesn’t have a thing for her, I’ll be shocked – was impressive as well, though apparently she looks better on stage than on her album cover.
All in all, the best and most completely satisfying show I’ve seen all year. And I met the Okkervil River Kid! C’mon!
1:10 am⋅March 25, 2005
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June 6, 2018 / 7:53 PM / a year ago
U.S. says internet use rises as more low income people go online
David Shepardson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Internet use by Americans increased in 2017, fueled by a rise among people with lower incomes, a government report viewed on Wednesday by Reuters found.
FILE PHOTO: A sign advertises Wi-Fi service in the Times Square Subway station in New York, April 25, 2013. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) also reported that for the first time tablets were more popular than desktop computers, and that more households had a mobile data plan than wired broadband service. The results were to be publicly released later on Wednesday.
The survey results demonstrate the growing importance of the internet in everyday communication as the way consumers access content changes.
Among Americans living in households with family incomes below $25,000 per year, the survey found internet use increased to 62 percent in 2017 from 57 percent in 2015, while households earning $100,000 or more showed no change at 86 percent.
The gain of 13.5 million users was “driven by increased adoption among low-income families, seniors, African Americans, Hispanics, and other groups that have been less likely to go online,” the agency said.
David Redl, who heads NTIA, said in a statement that “while the trend is encouraging, low-income Americans are still significantly less likely to go online.”
The survey of Americans aged three and older conducted for the agency by the U.S. Census Bureau found that 78 percent used the internet in November 2017, up from 75 percent in July 2015, when the previous survey was conducted.
It found that in 2017, 64 percent of Americans used a smartphone, compared with 53 percent in 2015, and tablet use increased to 32 percent from 29 percent in 2015. At the same time, desktop computer use fell to 30 percent in 2017 from 34 percent in 2015.
Laptop use by Americans was unchanged at 46 percent, while those with Smart TV and TV-connected devices jumped to 34 percent in 2017 from 27 percent in 2015.
The survey involved 123,000 people in more than 52,000 U.S. households. It was the largest U.S. survey of computer and telecommunications use, the agency said.
The report found senior citizens have increased their internet usage since the last survey to 63 percent, up from 56 percent in 2015. Among Hispanics, 72 percent used the internet in 2017, up from 66 percent in 2015, the survey found.
Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai has made “bridging the digital divide” a key focus. The FCC has said that 97 percent of Americans in urban areas have access to high-speed fixed service, while only 65 percent of Americans in rural areas have such access.
Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Bill Berkrot
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Ukraine Charges Captured Russian Army Major With Terrorism
Ukraine's state security service identified a Russian army major who was detained with a cargo of military explosives in eastern Ukraine July 26 and said he has been charged with terrorism.
State security chief Vasyl Hrytsak told reporters July 29 that Vladimir Starkov, 37, from Russia's Kirov region, admitted immediately he was a soldier in the Russian armed forces after he was stopped in a truck at a checkpoint 22 kilometers outside the separatist-held city of Donetsk.
Ukraine is likely to use the case to bolster its charges that Russia is continuing its involvement in the 15-month-long conflict and undermining a peace agreement worked out in Minsk, Belarus, in February.
While supporting the separatists' cause, the Kremlin denies that its forces are engaged in the conflict in Ukraine's east.
When Ukraine captured two Russian soldiers in May, Russia said the two men had quit their special forces unit to go to Ukraine of their own volition.
But that does not appear to be the case this time. In a video released by the SBU state security agency, Starkov said that after arriving for service in Russia's Rostov region, he was ordered to go to Ukraine as a military adviser to the rebels.
"They [the commanders] place you before an accomplished fact that you will serve in" the self-proclaimed peoples' republics of Donetsk or Luhansk, Starkov said.
SBU officials say Starkov and another man in the truck who said he was a separatist fighter lost their way and drove towards the checkpoint manned by Ukrainian forces where they were detained.
An SBU official told Reuters that Starkov has been accused of terrorism.
Speaking in the western city of Lviv July 29, President Petro Poroshenko repeated that all Russian forces had to be withdrawn from Ukraine.
"Russian forces must get out of Ukraine's territory. State sovereignty must be renewed in the uncontrolled part of the Ukrainian-Russian border," he said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman July 29 repeated Moscow's denial of involvement in the conflict, and refused to comment on Ukraine's latest claim.
Despite the incident, a fragile ceasefire largely seems to be holding while the sides withdraw heavy weapons from a buffer zone, though the truce has been punctuated by occasional clashes.
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United States v. Myers: Money Laundering / Venue / Multiplicity
Stefan Cassella of Asset Forfeiture Law, LLC discusses a recent Sixth Circuit judgement which establishes that assets can themselves be the proceeds of an underlying “specified unlawful activity” (SUA) and therefore that “proceeds” for purposes of the money laundering statute need not be money.
[United States v. Myers, ___ F.3d ___, 2017 WL 1360775 (6th Cir. Apr. 14, 2017).]
Sixth Circuit * Defendant was a “serial thief of motor homes.” He would obtain the VIN numbers of motor homes, forge certificates of title, steal the motor homes with master keys that he obtained online, and drive the motor homes out of state where he would sell them to unsuspecting dealers.
In three instances, Defendant used this method to steal a motor home in Michigan and then sell it elsewhere (in Pennsylvania and Mississippi). He was charged in Michigan with three substantive violations of 18 U.S.C. § 2312 (interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle) and with conspiracy to commit that offense in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371. He was also charged with three substantive counts of concealment money laundering in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1)(B)(i) and with conspiracy to commit that offense in violation of Section 1956(h). For each of the money laundering charges, the Government alleged that the money laundering offense was the sale of the stolen motorhome to the out-of-state dealer.
Defendant was convicted of all counts by a jury and appealed.
Defendant’s argument on appeal was that venue for the money laundering and money laundering conspiracy charges was improper in Michigan because he did not conduct the financial transactions that were the bases for the money laundering charges in Michigan.
Section 1956(i)(1)(B) of the money laundering statute deals with precisely this situation. It provides that venue for a substantive money laundering offense lies in the district where the underlying specified unlawful activity (SUA) took place “if the defendant participated in the transfer of the proceeds of the specified unlawful activity from that district to the district where the financial or monetary transaction is conducted.” Here, the proceeds of the SUA were the three stolen motorhomes; accordingly, the court held that when Defendant transported the three vehicles from Michigan where the SUA took place to Pennsylvania and Mississippi where they were sold – i.e., where the financial transactions constituting the money laundering offenses were conducted, he “participated in transferring the proceeds of his theft out of Michigan.” Thus, he was properly prosecuted for the money laundering offense in Michigan.
Defendant conceded that if the motorhomes were the “proceeds” of his offense, then venue was proper in Michigan. He argued, however, that he did not obtain any proceeds of the Section 2312 offense until he sold the vehicles. “Proceeds,” he claimed, can only be obtained from a financial transaction. The court did not agree.
Nothing in the money laundering statute limits “proceeds” to money derived from a financial transaction. To the contrary, Section 1956(c)(9) defines “proceeds” to include “any property derived from . . . some form of unlawful activity.” Thus, under the plain language of the statute, the motorhomes themselves were the proceeds of the theft offense, and their later sale to unsuspecting dealers was a violation of the money laundering statute.
The court also rejected Defendant’s venue challenge to the money laundering conspiracy count. Under Section 1956(i)(2), venue for a money laundering conspiracy lies in the district where venue would lie for the completed offense, or in any other district where an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy took place. Because, as already discussed, venue for the substantive acts was proper in Michigan, so was venue for the money laundering conspiracy. Moreover, because the commission of the underlying SUA in Michigan was an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy, venue for the conspiracy was proper in Michigan for that reason as well.
Finally, the panel rejected Defendant’s contention that charging him with both the Section 371 conspiracy to violate Section 2312, and the Section 1956(h) conspiracy to commit money laundering was multiplicitous. Each conspiracy, the court said, requires proof of an element that the other does not: Section 371 requires proof of an overt act, which Section 1956(h) does not; and Section 1956(h) requires proof of an intent to commit money laundering, which Section 371 does not. Therefore, under the Blockberger test, there was no reason the defendant could not be charged and convicted of both conspiracies.
So all of the convictions were affirmed.
Comment: One of the keys to the holding in this case is that the motor homes themselves were the proceeds of the underlying SUA. Thus, the defendant’s later sale of the motor homes to unsuspecting dealers in Pennsylvania and Mississippi could be charged as money laundering offenses.
There are only a few cases holding that “proceeds” for purposes of the money laundering statute need not be money, but the court’s holding on that point is an undeniably correct application of the plain language of Section 1956(c)(9). Other cases involving non-monetary proceeds are collected at Section VIII.A of the Money Laundering Case Outline.
Because the stolen vehicles were themselves SUA proceeds, it followed that the defendant’s transportation of those vehicles to the places where they were sold triggered the venue provision in Section 1956(i)(1)(B), and allowed the Government to prosecute him for the ensuing money laundering offenses in the district where the underlying theft took place.
Section 1956(i)(1)(B) was enacted in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Cabrales v. United States, 524 U.S. 1 (1998), which held that a defendant who conducted financial transactions in Florida and had no role in transporting the SUA proceeds from Missouri to Florida could not be prosecuted in Missouri even though SUA offense was committed there. 524 U.S. at 10. In Cabrales, however, the Court indicated that money laundering “might rank as a continuing offense triable in more than one place, if the launderer acquired the funds in one district and transported them to another.” 524 U.S. at 8.
Congress – or at least the attorney at the Department of Justice who drafted Section 1956(i) – saw that dicta in Cabrales as an endorsement of the “continuing offense” theory and thus as a green light to the enactment of a statute writing that dicta into law. Curiously, the validity of that assumption was not obvious to the panel in this case. After holding that venue would be proper in Michigan for the substantive money laundering offenses under Section 1956(i)(1)(B), the panel split 2-1 on the constitutionality of that statute, with the majority (Merritt and Rogers, JJ.) holding that the dicta in Cabrales was correct, while the dissenting judge (Kethledge, J.) argued that it was not and that therefore Section 1956(i)(1)(B) was unconstitutional.
To my knowledge, the constitutionality of Section 1956(i)(1)(B) has not been challenged in any other case.
Finally, it is worth noting that the panel’s holding on venue for a money laundering conspiracy is very broad. If, as the panel holds, venue for a § 1956(h) conspiracy lies where any overt act occurs, and the SUA is alleged as an overt act in furtherance of the money laundering conspiracy, then venue for a money laundering conspiracy could always lie in the district where the SUA took place.
Stefan Cassella, Asset Forfeiture Law, LLC
www.assetforfeiturelaw.us
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Navigation for Smart Talk at the Auckland Museum
2017: Allies
Previous Episode: Sunday, 13 August 2017
Next Episode: Sunday, 19 November 2017
A series of panel discussions recorded before an audience at the Auckland Museum
Smart Talk At The Auckland Museum: New Zealand often subservient to bigger Allies
Two visions of how New Zealand sits in the world
Two members of the New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Team provide security in Shebar district, Bamiyan province, Afghanistan.. Photo: US Army / Lory Stevens
Listen to the discussion about New Zealand's international alliances chaired by Leonie Hayden with the author and investigative journalist Nicky Hager, journalist Maiki Sherman, and social commentator and Law Professor Jane Kelsey duration 51′ :10″
Listen to the discussion about New Zealand's international alliances chaired by Leonie Hayden with the author and investigative journalist Nicky Hager, journalist Maiki Sherman, and social commentator and Law Professor Jane Kelsey
The secrecy which surrounded the operation of the SAS in Afghanistan was no accident, according to Nicky Hager. It acted, he says, as a shield protecting action operations which might have been unpopular with New Zealanders had they been brought to light.
“Afghanistan,” he says, “was like a secret war. Most of what went on there wasn’t known.”
He considers that Labour or National politicians in New Zealand will always say that they strongly believe in an independent foreign policy because the public feels so strongly about it. But he feels that’s only one of the tracks of New Zealand history.
“There’s another track which is represented by the descendants of our colonial past who still look to Britain and the old allies as their reference point for where we sit in the world.”
Lieutenant General Tim Keating Photo: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King
As evidence, he cites the example of what happened after September 11, 2001. “The twin towers were still smoking in central New York,” he says, “and a New Zealand military officer – the head of the SAS – flew across to the US and went to Florida where the special operations command is, and spent the next few days lobbying to try to get the SAS to join the war there.”
According to Hager, that SAS officer was Tim Keating, who is now the head of the defence force. “And what he was representing was a section of the New Zealand bureaucracy and military which believes that the ultimate goal of policy is to be as close to the United States as possible, and to operate with them in every possible overseas situation.”
Bamiyan Valley Photo: Flickr
This attitude led to our deployment not only of the SAS, but of other defence personnel who formed the NZ Provincial Reconstruction Team operating in the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan until 2013.
“The reason that we – a little South Pacific country – were actually helping one dusty valley year after year in Bamiyan in the middle of central Asia was about Alliance politics. The reason we were there was because the war in Iraq was going badly.”
On patrol in North East Bamiyan with Kiwi Team One Photo: NZ Defence Force
“We didn’t go there because someone said ‘For goodness’ sake, there needs to be more security in Bamiyan, we really care about them.’ No, the reason we were there was because the Americans had said the war is going badly and asked if their closest allies could free up their troops by taking over a role in Afghanistan.”
Hager concludes, “We’ve got two visions of how New Zealand sits in the world which are competing with each other, and which are only able to co-exist because so much of it is secret. One is nuclear-free – we’re an independent country, we don’t like wars very much, we like peacekeeping. And the other vision which is that the closer we are to old allies the better. And we will defend that to the end of the earth.”
Smart Talk at the Auckland Museum is a part of the LATE at Auckland Museum season.
Leonie Hayden, Maiki Sherman, Nicky Hager, Prof. Jane Kelsey Photo: Auckland Museum
About the participants
Nicky Hager works as an author and investigative journalist. He has written seven books about New Zealand politics, intelligence, public relations and war. The most recent is Hit and Run, which lays out the story of a New Zealand SAS raid on two Afghan villages.
Maiki Sherman
Maiki Sherman is a journalist who has worked for many platforms and broadcasters. Maiki is currently reporting for Seven Sharp at TVNZ. She was previously a political reporter for Newshub TV3 and also covered politics for Māori Television. In 2016, she was named Māori Journalist of The Year.
Jane Kelsey
Jane Kelsey is a Professor of Law at the University of Auckland and widely-known as a social commentator. For several decades her work has centred on globalisation and neoliberalism, with a particular focus on free trade and investment agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA).
Leonie Hayden – chair
Leonie Hayden (Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara) is the editor of The Spinoff Ātea and co-host of podcast On The Rag, a monthly dissection of sexism in culture and the media. She is the former editor of Māori current affairs and lifestyle publication, Mana magazine, and was involved in New Zealand's music industry for about a decade.
Photo: Auckland Museum
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Rush: Breaking Into America… Canada's Answer To The New York Dolls?
Michael Gross, Circus Raves, November 1975
DETROIT'S MICHIGAN PALACE was full to the brim. Though the rock 'n' roll style of the early '70s has faded into a rebirth of hippiedom on the East Coast, in Motor City, glitter and all its attendant excesses still hold forth. With a bit of imagination, even, one could see the crowd transferred to the legendary Mercer Arts Center, cheering bands in 1972 that would be gone by 1974. But eyes open and clear, it was Detroit on a muggy spring night in 1975, and Rush, Canada's premier metallic trio, were on stage grinding out their rock 'n' roll in a close to Grand Funk mold. Except for a few casualties lying like rag dolls on the lobby steps, the joint was jumping.
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ROWLAND HIGH SCHOOL NAMED CALIFORNIA DISTINGUISHED SCHOOL
ROWLAND UNIFIED ANNOUNCES ROWLAND HIGH SCHOOL RECEIVES STATE’S HIGHEST HONOR AS 2019 CALIFORNIA DISTINGUISHED SCHOOL
ROWLAND HEIGHTS, CA – FEBRUARY 28, 2019 – Rowland Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Julie Mitchell announced that Rowland High School was named by the California Department of Education as a 2019 California Distinguished School, the state’s highest designation for excellence in education. The award recognizes California schools that have outstanding educational programs that meet student needs, resulting in student achievement and success.
“This important achievement recognizes the tremendous effort that our Rowland High School educators and staff have made in increasing access to honors programs for students,” said Mitchell. “The Board of Education and I congratulate them for their dedication in providing rigorous educational experiences for students that have raised school wide achievement.”
Rowland High School was recognized for its plan, implementation and results of its system-wide approach to increase access to honors level courses for all students and the expansion of rigorous course offerings. The percentage of students enrolled in the honors program school wide has increased from 28.7% in 2008 to 48.3% in 2018. The school went from offering 35 types and 66 sections of honors, AP and IB courses in 2008 to 45 types and 93 sections in 2018. The school also expanded its AVID college preparation courses from one to five sections for students. Teachers focused on skill development with their students, and courses were developed such as summer school writing class, AVID Skills for Success and summer enrichment courses for students to be prepared to gain access to honors classes the following year.
“I am extremely proud of the staff, students, and parents of Rowland High School as this award is reflective of all stakeholders in our system,” said Rowland High School Principal Mitchell Brunyer. “The efforts to promote, provide access, and support our honors curriculum has been an ongoing process involving the entire school community. At this point almost half of the entire student body is enrolled in an honors-level course.”
Rowland High School will be honored at the California School Recognition Ceremony on April 5 at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim. FOR MORE INFORMATION CLICK HERE.
Rowland High School is located at 2000 S. Otterbein Ave. in Rowland Heights. www.rowlandhs.org Principal: Mitchell Brunyer can be reached at (626)965-3448.
The California Distinguished Schools Program returned last year and replaces the California Gold Ribbon Schools Program. Rowland High School is one of 162 midle and high schools being honored as a 2019 California Distinguished School. Schools that applied were eligible based on their performance and progress on the state indicators as described on the California School Dashboard. Indicators include test scores, suspension rates, and graduation rates. The California Distinguished School Program recognizes elementary and middle and high schools in alternate years and allows eligible schools to apply for the California DS Award once every two years. Schools recognized as a California DS Awardee hold the DS Title for two years.
The Rowland Unified School District has garnered numerous state and national awards and is proud of its 19 schools with 14,000 students in the communities of Rowland Heights, Walnut, La Puente, City of Industry, and West Covina. More than 5,000 adults (18+) are also served by the Rowland Adult and Community Education School. For more information about Rowland Unified, the community can call (626) 965-2541 or download the free Rowland USD Mobile App for iOS and Android phones/devices that has news, school calendars, a safety Tip Line, and helpful parent and District resources. The public can also follow Rowland schools on Facebook.com/RowlandUSD Twitter @RowlandSchools or visit www.RowlandSchools.org.
2-28-19 RHS Named CA Distinguished School.pdf
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New ad technology can track people's mood and gender
Orb's Geoff Fitzpatrick said the new technology will create a new flow of data for advertisers
Advertisers are piloting new technology which can track people's eye movements and determine their age, gender, mood and facial features as they pass digital ad displays on Dublin's streets.
The technology will help companies to target ads more precisely at their intended audience.
But privacy groups have expressed concern about the use of such systems.
The French made Quividi software is being trialled by advertising technology firm Orb in 10 sites around Dublin city.
The system uses a motion detection camera to track the features of those passing by a dynamic digital display ad.
The software measures the distance of the person from the screen and is able to sense how long their eyes are fixed on the ad.
It can also estimate their rough age, their gender, whether they are happy or sad and facial features like glasses and beards.
The software converts the information into data which is fed back to a computer based dashboard.
Using this, advertisers can see what level of engagement an ad is receiving and assess whether the ad is reaching the right demographic.
"What we are witnessing now is that instead of an advertising screen playing out a message, what we are now able to do is create a new flow of data towards the screen and we can count interesting statistics," said Geoff Fitzpatrick.
In time advertisers expect the system will also be able to communicate with mobile phones, detecting when a person who has consented to sharing their location is approaching, thereby allowing the screen to serve up an ad tailored to their interests or preferences.
It is expected that advertisers will also in future be able to use the system to dynamically and automatically buy advertising time on the displays depending on what the demographic of the people passing them by is at particular times of the day.
"Instead of buying panels and number of sites we are going to be able to buy time and audiences so it is a very interesting time for the industry," said Simon Durham, Managing Director of the Kinetic agency.
Because no images are actually recorded, the system is said to comply with Europe wide data protection regulations.
But civil liberties groups say they have reservations about the development of such systems.
They say issues around consent, storage and future use of the data need to be clarified.
"Potential benefits to customers are not the issue," said Liam Herrick, director of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties.
"The issue is that individuals can sacrifice knowingly or more likely unknowingly aspects of their privacy real and potential for commercial ends and I think that is something we need to be very mindful of," he stated.
The council says lawmakers here need to examine such new technology to see whether the existing laws are capable of vindicating peoples rights and if they are not then legislation needs to be changed.
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Strengthening public safety in Adelaide's West End
A strengthened police presence in Adelaide’s west end will continue, with the extension of the declared public precinct in the district each weekend.
Attorney-General Vickie Chapman today confirmed the Government has extended the declared public precinct in place in the area until November next year, ensuring police have extra search and seizure powers in place to combat anti-social and disorderly behaviour in the CBD.
The City-West precinct is bordered by North Terrace, West Terrace, Currie Street and King William Street, with the declared public precinct provisions coming into effect every Friday and Saturday night from 6pm until 6am the following morning.
Attorney General Vickie Chapman said declaring the area a public precinct would be an invaluable tool in helping police keep the peace within the city’s west end.
“One of the great things about Adelaide is that there are plenty of exciting venues where people can go to enjoy a fun night out over the weekend,” Ms Chapman said.
“And when people choose to go out for the evening, they should be able to enjoy themselves without being harassed by louts.
“By declaring the west end a public precinct for another 12 months, police will have significant powers at their disposal to ensure people can enjoy a safe night out on the town.”
By making the area a declared public precinct, police will be able to:
Conduct metal detector searches of individuals
Ban a person from the area during specified hours
Direct a person to move on
Remove minors from the area where, in the opinion of a police officer, that child is in circumstances that place them at risk.
Individuals can also face fines of up to $1250 for behaving in a disorderly or offensive manner within a declared public precinct.
Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Correctional Services Corey Wingard said the introduction of the declared public precinct has already delivered results.
“Since the declared public precinct came into effect, we have seen a reduction in offences against other people and disorderly conduct in the precinct,” Minister Wingard said.
“Police have, to date, issued more than 230 expiation notices for disorderly conduct and removed nearly 60 minors from the area while it has been a declared public precinct.
“This not only demonstrates the success of this initiative but why it’s so important that it continues.”
South Australia Police Metropolitan Operations Service Assistant Commissioner Paul Dickson welcomes the extension of the declared public precinct.
“The extension of the declared public precinct in the City-West area is a welcome initiative for SAPOL to continue using what has been a very successful policing tool for us”, Assistant Commissioner Paul Dickson said.
“The results of first 12 months of the declared public precinct have clearly indicated that this tool has proven very successful in terms of ensuring the safety for the majority of people who frequent this entertainment area by removing those identified disruptive people before matters escalate.
“We will continue to use a wide and diverse range of policing resources all working together. However we also need the community to help us by not behaving in an inappropriate manner and be part of making the community safe.”
The extension means the declared public precinct provisions will remain in place until 17 November 2019.
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LISTEN: "They probably are going to find impeachable offenses," predicts professor on Donald Trump
Salon talks to Allan Lichtman about "The Case for Impeachment," Trump, Russia and what could come next
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Allan J. Lichtman, a professor at American University, has successfully predicted the outcome of every U.S. presidential election since 1984, albeit somewhat complicated in the years when there was a popular/electoral college split. Yes, that includes Donald Trump’s victory in 2016. Now, he’s predicting Trump’s impeachment.
In his book “The Case for Impeachment,” Licthman argues that Trump shouldn’t be impeached because of his politics or his unconventional style, but rather that impeachment should only proceed when there is such an abuse of power by the president that it threatens our society itself. Lichtman says several of Trump’s actions fit this bill.
Salon sat down recently with Lichtman to discuss the history of presidential impeachment, Trump’s actions in question, and how he thinks it could all play out.
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Can you break down the process of impeachment?
First of all, the framers put impeachment into the Constitution quite advisedly as the ultimate safeguard of our democracy. It was a constitutional, orderly and peaceful process for removing a rogue president or another federal official, unlike the way rulers removed in their own time by assassination or revolution. Impeachment was advisedly put not in the courts but in the Congress, in an elected body. It’s not a legal process. It doesn’t require commission of a crime. It’s rather a combined legal, political and moral judgment on the part of the U.S. House [of Representatives].
The U.S. House by majority vote can charge articles of impeachment against a president, but a president is not removed just by those charges. If articles of impeachment are voted, the case moves on to the U.S. Senate where the president is tried with the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court presiding, and it takes a two-thirds vote of the members of the Senate present to convict and remove a president; but if a president is removed, he’s then subject to all normal criminal penalties.
No president has ever been convicted. Two presidents have been impeached; Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998. One president, Richard Nixon, resigned in the face of certain impeachment and conviction.
In 1974. Let’s go back to Andrew Johnson though, because you were discussing how a president doesn’t necessarily need to face criminal charges in order to be impeached. But historians generally regard the Andrew Johnson impeachment as being a travesty, because the law that he broke was an unconstitutional one. He had fired Secretary of State Edwin Stanton who was being insubordinate, and most scholars would agree that as the Executive he had the prerogative to do precisely that; the law constraining him was unconstitutional. That’s an example of an illegitimate impeachment. Now with Donald Trump, would you say that there are stronger grounds for impeachment?
First of all, let me say there’s no such thing as an illegitimate impeachment, because the judgment of the U.S. House of Representatives is final. There’s no appeal, there’s no higher standard on which the judge — and of course we can debate whether or not Andrew Johnson should have been impeached. The argument for his impeachment is not so much that he violated this law which you quite correctly say later on was . . . declared unconstitutional. It was that he was blocking the Reconstruction process, the integration of freed slaves into American life. After he was impeached, he moderated that, but that’s a —
I would say that it’s important to make a distinction between . . . you don’t want to just start impeaching presidents because you disagree with them in terms of policy. That sets a dangerous precedent.
Oh, absolutely not.
While I personally think Johnson’s Reconstruction policies were appalling and I would have been a radical Republican had I lived in that era, that doesn’t justify impeaching him, because the law that he broke existed to unconstitutionally confine his actions. With Trump, this is not an Andrew Johnson.
I was hoping you could shed some light on why the case for impeaching Donald Trump needs to be distinguished from, say, the partisan politics that occurred in Andrew Johnson’s era.
Very good point and in my book “The Case for Impeachment,” I make it clear that Trump should not be impeached because he’s unconventional, because you don’t like his style or because [you] disagree with his policies. I disagree with a lot of policies of presidents. But I've never written a book before on the case for impeachment.
I quote the great expositor of the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton, in the case for impeachment. It points out impeachment should only proceed when there is such a severe abuse of power by the president that it threatens the society itself. That is, it threatens our Constitution, our freedoms, our liberty and our national security. As I point out in the book, there are ample grounds not necessarily to write articles of impeachment today, but to begin an impeachment investigation of President Trump for very serious transgressions that do fit within what the framers understood to be the ambit of impeachment.
First of all, there are conflicts of interest. The framers also put into our Constitution something very important called the Emoluments Clause, which says if you’re the president, you should not be taking anything of value from a foreign power, their agents or their entities. This was important, because the framers were very worried about the financial corruption of a president, and of course Trump has not divested his economic interest. He may have turned day to day management over to his kids, but he benefits from every single transaction of his businesses. Already he’s likely at least crashed into the Emoluments Clause because as president, for example, he’s taken final approval for some 38 potentially lucrative trademarks from China.
Secondly, of course there is the still pending issue of possible collusion between the Trump team and Russia’s reprehensible attack on the foundations of our democracy. If there was such collusion and Trump knew about it, that in fact is arguably a serious federal crime. It’s called misprision of treason, the failure to report treasonous activities. Heaven forbid, if Trump himself was in any way involved with this attack — and it was an attack — on the United States, he himself could be charged with treason.
I would like to interject quickly to bring up something that you weren’t able to write in your book, because despite your very effective 13 Keys to the Presidency, so you could argue that you had staked claim to the title of prophet, you weren’t able to prophecy his firing of James Comey, the FBI director. Let’s discuss that and how that could also intersect with an impeachment case.
That’s a third ground for impeachment. We’re getting pretty heavily into this just four months into the administration. The impeachment in the House Judiciary Committee of Richard Nixon didn’t come but after more than five years of his presidency. The firing of James Comey could arguably be considered obstruction of justice if indeed it turns out he fired him to somehow sidetrack the Russian investigation.
I don’t mean to interrupt, but this is something that I think a lot of Americans find frustrating. He has said that he was frustrated with Comey’s handling of the Russia investigation. He wanted it wrapped up. Comey wasn’t handling this the way that he wanted Comey to handle it and so he fired him for that reason. Just to go back even further, you mentioned whether Trump actively wanted Russia to undermine Hillary Clinton’s campaign. He said, he publicly said, that “I hope that the Russians find those emails and publish those emails.” At what point does the president openly admitting that this is what he wants matter? When do his own words actually carry legal consequences?
His own words should carry legal consequences. I was going to make the point. He probably didn’t quite as explicitly say, as you’d said, that he fired Comey to derail the Russian investigation, but I think there’s probable cause for that when you combine it with other things that the administration has done. For example, not firing General Flynn after getting a clear warning from the acting Attorney General that he was compromised by the Russians and posed a threat to National Security, after this ham-handed White House connivance with Representative Nunes to derail the Congressional House investigation. There’s enough there. I’m not a lawyer, but lawyers call it the “totality of circumstances.”
I think they have probable cause that he is guilty of obstruction of justice and that would be a third ground for justifying an impeachment investigation, and of course the point you made about his being the only president in history to invite a foreign power to meddle into our democracy strengthens the reasons why we also need an impeachment investigation into collusion with the Russians.
Now I want to address the elephant in the room, pun intended: the fact that the Republican Party is in control, both the House and the Senate. It’s going to be very difficult for the House Judiciary Committee, which is controlled by Republics, to find the political impetus to impeach a president from their own ranks. How do we get past this?
An excellent question. This never happened before, but one of the Lichtman rules of politics is the first requisite of an incumbent is survival. Every member of the House is up [for reelection] in 2018. If Republicans come to believe that Donald Trump is a liability to their reelection . . . and we’re not talking about Republicans in the safe districts. We’re talking about 23 Republicans sitting in districts won by Hillary Clinton and several dozen others in vulnerable districts. If they feel that Donald Trump is putting in jeopardy their reelection and they'd be better off without him, they could turn against him.
It only takes some two dozen Republicans, as I point out in the case for impeachment, to join with Democrats to get a House majority — that’s only 10 percent of Republicans in the House.
I say to Donald Trump, you should welcome an impeachment investigation because you’ve claimed you’ve never done anything wrong. Well, if so, you should welcome an investigation to clear up the thunderclouds hanging over your administration. You should encourage every member of your campaign team and all relevant members of your administration to testify under oath and you should release every document. If there are any presidential tapes, release those as well.
What’s holding up Republicans is pretty crass partisanship at this point. They haven’t come to that tipping point of believing that they’re better off politically with getting rid of Donald Trump; but boy, you can see those clenched jaws on the part of some Republicans. It’s getting harder and harder to defend this president as serious possibly impeachable transgressions pile up.
So what can we as American citizens do to change the way the Republican party is approaching the situation?
Impeachment will only really happen if the American people demand it. That ultimately members of the House — they call it the People’s House — will be responsive to the people. We’ve seen all this energy directed against Donald Trump; many millions of Americans and people around the world demonstrating and protesting. It would be like smoke through a chimney unless it’s directed to one of two specific ends: an electoral goal of changing the composition of the Congress in 2018, and then if the transgressions are serious enough, the goal of impeachment. That means doing things like having marches and demonstrations organized around impeachment, setting up and signing petitions, speaking out at town hall meetings, emailing, writing and visiting your members of Congress.
We’re going to turn away for a moment from discussing logistics of impeachment, and historical cases preceding Trump in which presidents were or could have been impeached. There is a point that I think needs to be raised here. There have been many presidents about whom there were people discussing possible impeachment: John Tyler, Ulysses Grant. It never happened, and so the question I have for you is do you think regardless of whether it should happen, that it will happen in the case of Donald Trump?
I do think it will happen. I think there’s enough there that they probably are going to find impeachable offenses. Whether you’ll get a conviction from a Senate is much harder, because that requires a two-thirds vote. And let’s not discount the possibility that Donald Trump takes the Richard Nixon route, [saying] “I don’t need all this aggravation.” If he resigns the presidency, it’s not as if he goes to some shack in the woods. He goes back to his billionaire lifestyle. He can claim, “Look, I prevented Hillary Clinton from the Presidency. I gave you Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court. I’ve done all these great things, and I’ve resigned for the good of the country and I still got my Twitter phone."
I’m going to close with this question, because if Trump resigns or is impeached, either one, the President of the United States will be — insert sigh here — Mike Pence. The last time a president found himself in this position, the only other time a president found himself in this position, the man was Gerald Ford, and although he made mistakes, he was certainly a man of a relatively moderate ideological mindset and of a certain degree of personal integrity. How do you see Mike Pence comparing to Gerald Ford?
Well, here’s the rub and I’m going to go way against the conventional wisdom on this. Mike Pence has gotten the ultimate free pass from the media. He has lied. Let’s not call it lies. Let’s just say he has spread falsehoods time and time again to the American people, most blatantly about the Comey firing and General Flynn’s talking to the Russian Ambassador about sanctions. There are other times, for example saying he didn’t know anything about General Flynn taking foreign payments when in fact he was the head of the transition team at the time when that was widely reported. Somehow this guy who’s served for years in the Congress and was governor of Indiana is being fooled all the time. Well, maybe so, but I think an impeachment investigation has also got to look at Mike Pence. He may or may not have been involved in those. We don’t know and this free pass from the media is based on nothing. It’s based on supposition.
You’re saying Gerald Ford versus Mike Pence: Ford better, Pence worse?
Perhaps so, and maybe not even Pence. You got then Paul Ryan. The political calculations are very complicated here.
After that would be Orrin Hatch, if I’m correct?
Then after that it would be Rex Tillerson.
The political calculations are not great for Democrats no matter how you cut it, but you’ve got to let the chips fall where they may here.
Matthew Rozsa is a breaking news writer for Salon. He holds an MA in History from Rutgers University-Newark and is ABD in his PhD program in History at Lehigh University. His work has appeared in Mic, Quartz and MSNBC.
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Millions of Jellyfish-Like Creatures Wash Up on Western U.S. Beaches
Though not poisonous to most people, beachgoers should avoid the animals because their venom can cause stinging in the eyes and mouth
By Courtney Sherwood
PORTLAND Ore. (Reuters) - Millions of jellyfish-like creatures have washed up on beaches along the U.S. West Coast over the past month, giving the shoreline a purple gleam and, at times, an unpleasant odor, ocean experts said on Thursday.
Though not poisonous to most people, beachgoers should avoid the animals because their venom can cause stinging in the eyes and mouth, said Steve Rumrill, an expert at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Known as Velella velella to scientists, and more informally as "by-the-wind sailors," the creatures regularly cluster offshore each spring. But it is unusual for so many to wash ashore at once, especially this late in the summer, he said.
In addition to the millions that have been spotted on beaches from Southern California to Washington, millions more are floating near the ocean surface offshore, Rumrill added.
Ocean experts do not know why more by-the-wind sailors are washing up this year, or why they are arriving later than usual, said Erin Paxton, spokeswoman for the Oregon Coast Aquarium.
Climate change may be a factor, but it is impossible to be certain, Rumrill said. "This is a wind-driven event, and winds are unusual this year," he said.
Though most people think the animals are jellyfish, they are in fact colonies of much smaller creatures known as hydrozoans, Rumrill said.
Hundreds of tiny organisms cluster together to create a gleaming purple body and a translucent sail-like protrusion that looks like a single animal.
(Editing by Daniel Wallis and Eric Walsh)
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David Wiegand Dec. 5, 2017 Updated: Dec. 5, 2017 1:28 p.m.
The second season of “Shut Eye” is available today on Hulu, starring Jeffrey Donovan as a former magician who now works as a psychic, but is actually a con artist. KaDee Strickland plays his wife.
The catch of the day is the National Geographic Channel’s docuseries, “Dian Fossey: Secrets in the Mist,” premiering at 9 p.m. The three-part series, whose second and third parts air Dec. 13 and 20, is narrated by Sigourney Weaver and looks at the life and work of the primatologist 32 years after she was murdered in her remote cabin. The film includes interviews with Sir David Attenborough and Fossey’s former research assistant, Wayne McGuire, who was convicted in absentia of her murder. McGuire has always maintained his innocence and the Nat Geo series has access to evidence that supports his position. I would have loved to get an advance look at this for a review, but I’ll be watching along with everyone else.
The other catch of the day is the premiere of the series “Happy!” on the SyFy Channel at 10 p.m., starring Patton Oswalt and Christopher Meloni, based on the graphic novel by Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson. The show is filled with scuzz and violence, and it’s a comedy, featuring a flying cartoon unicorn. What’s not to like?
Jeremy Renner exec-produces “Knightfall,” the historical fiction drama premiering on the History Channel at 10 p.m. Tom Cullen stars in the series about the Knights Templar who are searching for the Holy Grail in the 14th century. The cast includes Jim Carter as Pope Boniface VIII, Olivia Ross as Queen Joan of Navarre, Ed Stoppard as King Philip IV of France and Sabrina Bartlett as Princess Isabella.
Velocity premieres the third season of “Unique Rides” at 9 p.m. Will Castro and his team create custom rides for Nicki Minaj, Nas, Billy Joel, Mario Lopez and other artists and entertainers in the new season.
Season three of “Black Ink Crew: Chicago” wraps on VH1 at 9 p.m., but the sixth season of “Black Ink Crew” kicks off at 10 p.m.
“Law & Order: SVU” takes a break after its mid-season finale tonight at 9 on NBC.
“South Park” ends season 21 on Comedy Central at 10 p.m., followed by the fourth season finale of “Broad City” at 10:30.
David Wiegand is an assistant managing editor and the TV critic of The San Francisco Chronicle. Follow him on Facebook. Email: dwiegand@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @WaitWhat_TV
David Wiegand
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David Wiegand is an assistant managing editor and TV critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. A native of Rochester, N.Y., he holds a bachelor's degree in English and a master's in journalism from American University in Washington, D.C.
He joined The Chronicle in 1992 as a copy editor with the arts section and became entertainment editor in 1995 and executive features editor in 2006. He took on the job of television critic in 2010, writing regular TV reviews and columns not only for The Chronicle but for other papers in the Hearst chain.
Before The Chronicle, he was managing editor of Dole Newspapers in Somerville, Mass., and editor of the Amesbury (Mass.) News.
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Year-end update from the Spaceward Foundation
This morning, I received the following email from Ben Shelef at the Spaceward Foundation, wrapping up 2007 – a great year for the Space Elevator community. If you want to get on the Spaceward Foundation’s email list, just visit them at their Homepage and sign up.
Spaceward Foundation News Bulletin
Newsletter #4 – December 31, 2007
Hello folks, and Happy New Year!It’s been a while since our last newsletter – seems that whenever something’s going on in Space Elevator land, we’re always too busy to write. 🙂 Two months after the 2007 games, this is a good time to briefly reflect on this past year, and update you on our next steps for ’08 and beyond.In this newsletter:
A preview of our plans for 2008
A new partner
Carbon Nanotube news
2007:For those who missed the real-time action, the official wrap-up of the 2007 Spaceward Games is posted online at www.spaceward.org/games07Wrapup.html. As usual, you can re-live the day-by-day coverage at the archives at Ted Semon’s Space Elevator Blog and Marc Boucher’s Space Elevator Reference.The most significant result of the 2007 games, however, is not measured in units such as kilograms or in meters per second. What we saw in 2007 was a huge leap in the level of technology fielded by the teams. In particular, our two laser-based teams, USST and LaserMotive, designed and built complex advanced systems worthy of an aerospace project, and have acquired a set of capabilities that attracted industry interest to our competition. In terms of fulfilling the charter of the games, we could not have asked for more.Looking back, you may remember that Space Elevator games did not exist before 2005. Unlike our role models – Solar car races and rocketry clubs, we did not have a rich tradition of games spanning tens of years to rely on. We started practically from scratch, and we are immensely proud of how our teams have grown.
Having wrapped up the games, our next order of business was charting the course for 2008. The immediate choices we looked at were keeping the challenge goals the same as in ’07, doubling the speed or height requirements, or doubling both. However, after gathering feedback from existing and potential teams, the Space Elevator community, and relevant industry experts, we decided to go for something a bit more grandiose…
2008:In broad strokes, the goal of the Space Elevator games is to bring the Space Elevator closer to reality. The goal of the power beaming challenge is to promote power beaming technology. We think that the time is ripe now to move the competition to the next level, addressing real-world power beaming scenarios where the minimum requirements for such systems start at the km range and kWatt power levels.For the 2008 power beaming challenge, therefore, we’ve chosen a climb height of 1 km.There’s a drum roll missing here. 1 km is the height a jetliner is at when the cabin crew asks you to put your laptop away… To show what a 1 km tall race track looks like, we’ve posted a preview at the Power Beaming page. (The location shown is hypothetical, of course!) Also note the comparison to the 2007 games – those were held inside the small orange circle just below and to the left of the center-image.
To match the change in scope, we’re also increasing the available prize money. As a matter of fact, we will be making the entire $2,000,000 available this year, depending on the speed of the climb. For 2 m/s, we’ll be offering the originally scheduled $900k prize, but if a team can reach 5 m/s this year, it will receive the entire $2M purse. If not claimed, we’ll keep the prizes and challenge the same for 2009.
The racetrack we’re planning, based on a pyramid-tethered balloon, will be the tallest such pyramid ever flown. We’re working with industry experts to set this up, and will keep you updated. This is very exciting for us, since this architecture is extendable to 10 km as well – almost a percent of a percent of the real Space Elevator…. In all seriousness though, while obviously all Earth-bound Space Elevator models are vastly shorter than the real thing, as far as reproducing the look-and-feel of a Space Elevator, this setup will go a long way towards demonstrating what the SE will be like.
Registration for the 2008 games is now open, and the first teams have already started working on their entries.
TRUMPF, Inc.We are very excited to announce the participation of TRUMPF as a sponsor for competition teams. TRUMPF will provide their top-of-the-line laser to qualifying teams to be used as the beam source, easily enabling 1 km power beaming.
CNTs:Finally, last but definitely not least, we’d like to share this exciting bit of news about Carbon Nanotube tethers: About a month ago, as reported at the Space Elevator conference in Luxembourg, a team from Cambridge University produced the first macroscopic carbon fibers that exhibited the kind of strength we were all expecting so see. These fibers, up to 1 mm long, clocked in at 10 N/tex, or about a fifth of what we need to build the Space Elevator (see here for details) We’re looking forward to seeing this team and other CNT labs entering the tether competition next year.
So with this happy bit of news we’ll sign off for this newsletter.
Have a happy new year!
The Spaceward Team.
The Spaceward Foundation is a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit dedicated to furthering Space exploration in educational curriculums and the public mindshare – http://www.spaceward.org.
This entry was posted in Materials, News / Announcements, Space Elevator Competitions on December 31, 2007 by Ted Semon.
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Sport Clips Joins Erik Jones and the No. 20 Toyota Team for Daytona 500
Primary Sponsor for Jones for Six Races in 2019
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. (Feb. 1, 2019)
Setting the stage for The Great American Race, Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) announced today that Sport Clips will join Erik Jones and the No. 20 Toyota Camry team as the primary sponsor for the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on Sunday, February 17, 2019. Debuting a special scheme for the Daytona 500, Sport Clips will feature the Sport Clips app on the No. 20 Toyota Camry.
Sport Clips Haircuts has launched a new mobile app that makes check-in for a haircare service faster and easier. The app offers check in, information about wait times, the choice of a favorite store and preferred stylist, and the ability to set personal reminders for the next MVP Experience.
“We are excited to have Erik once again represent Sport Clips in the NASCAR Cup Series. It’s been fun to work with Erik as he has developed into one of the sport’s premier drivers,” said Gordon Logan, founder and CEO of Sport Clips. “Our partnership with NASCAR and Joe Gibbs Racing goes back many years and Erik is a great representative for Sport Clips, NASCAR and JGR. Our franchisees and clients are huge NASCAR fans and we can’t wait to see Erik repeat his July win at Daytona and continue that success throughout the season.”
A longtime partner of JGR, Sport Clips first partnered with Jones in 2015 at Talladega Superspeedway in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. Continuing to sponsor Jones in the Xfinity Series, Sport Clips made the move with Jones to the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series in 2017 during his rookie season. This season will mark the third year Sport Clips has partnered with Jones in the Cup Series.
“Sport Clips has been a great partner for me over the years, all the way back to 2015,” said Jones. “It’s really neat to watch their growth and to have them now sponsor our car for the Daytona 500. Gordon (Logan, CEO and Founder) is such a passionate race fan and supporter of our sport. I’ve really enjoyed representing Sport Clips over the years and what better way to kick off our 2019 season than getting them to victory lane at Daytona. That would be pretty cool and we’re going to do our best to make that happen.”
The 2019 season will mark Sport Clips 11th season partnering with JGR. During their 10 year relationship, Sport Clips has been teamed up with multiple drivers including Jones, Denny Hamlin, Carl Edwards and Joey Logano.
Including the Daytona 500, Sport Clips will join Jones and the No. 20 team for multiple races this season:
· Daytona International Speedway – Clash and Daytona 500 – February 10 and 17, 2019
· Las Vegas Motor Speedway – March 3, 2019
· Dover International Speedway – May 5, 2019
· Michigan International Speedway – June 9, 2019
· Darlington Raceway – September 1, 2019
· Texas Motor Speedway – November 3, 2019
About Sport Clips
Sport Clips Haircuts is headquartered in Georgetown, Texas. It was established in 1993 and began franchising in 1995. The sports-themed haircutting franchise, which specializes in haircuts for men and boys, offers online check in for clients, and is ranked by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the “Fastest-Growing Franchises’ and #17 in its “Franchise 500.” There are more than 1,800 Sport Clips stores open in the U.S. and Canada. Sport Clips is the “Official Haircutter” of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), offers veterans preferential pricing on haircuts and franchises, and was named a “2018 Best for Vets: Franchises” by Military Times. Sport Clips provides “Haircuts with Heart” through its annual Help A Hero fundraiser that has contributed $6.5 million to the VFW; national partnership with St. Baldrick’s Foundation, the largest private funder of childhood cancer research grants; and other national and local philanthropic outreach. Sport Clips is a proud sponsor of Joe Gibbs Racing’s NASCAR drivers Erik Jones and Denny Hamlin, Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan Indy Car driver Sebastien Bourdais, and partners with numerous NCAA and professional sports teams. To learn more about Sport Clips, visit sportclips.com
About Joe Gibbs Racing
Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) is one of the premier organizations in NASCAR with four Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series teams, three NASCAR Xfinity Series teams and a driver development program. Its 2019 driver lineup will consist of Denny Hamlin, Kyle Busch, Erik Jones, and Martin Truex Jr. in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. Meanwhile, Christopher Bell and Brandon Jones will each run fulltime in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, joining Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Jeffrey Earnhardt and Riley Herbst, all of whom will run partial schedules. In addition, Riley Herbst and Ty Gibbs are currently in JGR’s driver development program. Based in Huntersville, N.C., and owned by Joe Gibbs — a three-time Super Bowl winner as head coach of the Washington Redskins and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame — JGR has competed in NASCAR since 1992, winning four Cup Series championships, and five Xfinity Series owner’s championships along with more than 300 NASCAR races, including four Brickyard 400s and two Daytona 500s.
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The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man: A Novel (Paperback)
By Jonas Jonasson, Rachel Willson-Broyles
The hysterical, clever, and unforgettable sequel to Jonas Jonasson’s international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.
He's back. Even older. Even funnier.
It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they’re not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the ship would be harboring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nuclear weapons mission for Kim Jong-un. Yikes!
Soon Allan and Julius are at the center of a complex diplomatic crisis involving world figures from the Swedish foreign minister to Angela Merkel and President Trump. Needless to say, things are about to get very, very complicated.
Another hilarious, witty, and entertaining novel from bestselling author Jonas Jonasson that will have readers howling out-loud at the escapades and misfortunes of its beloved hundred-year-old hero Allan Karlsson and his irresistible sidekick Julius.
Jonas Jonasson was a journalist for the Expressen newspaper for many years. He became a media consultant and later set up a company producing sports and events for Swedish television, before selling his company and moving abroad to work on his first novel. He is the author of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden, and Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All. He lives on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea.
“Jonasson creates the near impossible with his astute assessments of today’s unstable global political climate and endearingly sweet characters, providing laugh-out-loud moments in a dark time. Reminiscent of Alexander McCall Smith’s The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency with a side order of Forrest Gump.”
“Uproarious....Jonasson’s clever prose, madcap delights, and satirical political commentary will please fans of the original novel and newcomers alike.”
“A welcome visit from an old friend that’s filled with laugh out-loud hijinx as well as thought- provoking and timely satire on the current state of the world and the perils of power.”
“As much ludicrous fun as the first book but with the additional bonus of being set in today’s crazy political world.... Highly recommended.”
— Express
Fiction / Sagas
Fiction / Humorous
Hardcover (January 15th, 2019): $26.99
Paperback, Large Print (January 15th, 2019): $19.99
Compact Disc (January 15th, 2019): $39.99
MP3 CD (January 15th, 2019): $39.99
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Rodon, Sanchez lead White Sox to sweep with 2-1 win
Chicago White Sox's Melky Cabrera, right, and Carlos Sanchez celebrate after the White Sox defeated the Cleveland Indians 2-1 in a baseball game, Sunday, July 26, 2015, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
Tony Dejak
CLEVELAND (AP) The Chicago White Sox were pretty happy with a little role reversal in Cleveland.
Carlos Rodon pitched shutout ball into the seventh inning, leading the White Sox to a 2-1 victory over the Indians Sunday to complete a four-game sweep.
Carlos Sanchez homered for the second straight day for Chicago, which was 4-16 at Progressive Field since 2013 coming into the series. The White Sox never trailed in the series and outscored the faltering Indians 26-5.
''This place has been tough on us the last couple of years,'' White Sox manager Robin Ventura said. ''To come in here and do this is nice.''
On the other hand, the mood in the Indians clubhouse, where manager Terry Francona held a closed-door meeting with his players, took a far different tone.
Cleveland (45-52) has fallen into last place in the AL Central, losing six straight at home and is 19-30 at Progressive Field.
Asked what was talked about in the meeting, second baseman Jason Kipnis said, ''No fight, giving up early. Nobody's held accountable and it's just not the way we're going to do business here.''
Rodon and Sanchez, both rookies, helped the White Sox finish their first four-game sweep in Cleveland since July 14-17, 2005.
Rodon (4-3) recorded the longest outing of his career and won for the first time since June 20. The left-hander allowed five hits in 6 2-3 innings, struck out nine and didn't walk a batter.
Sanchez, who hit his first major league home run in Saturday's 10-3 win, led off the third with a homer to center and had three hits.
Melky Cabrera had a run-scoring single in the seventh to make it 2-0. He was 9 for 17 with eight RBIs in the series.
David Robertson worked out of trouble in the ninth for his 21st save. Giovanny Urshela led off with a triple, but Carlos Santana struck out. Pinch-hitter David Murphy's groundout scored Urshela and Brandon Moss flied out to end the game.
Danny Salazar (8-6) allowed two runs in 6 2-3 innings for the Indians.
The White Sox came into the series with six losses in seven games, but moved out of last place in the division.
Shortstop Alexei Ramirez took a hit away from Kipnis in the sixth with a leaping backhand grab while tumbling to the ground.
Rodon came into the game in his worst stretch of the season. The left-hander was 1-3 with a 6.98 ERA in his last six starts, allowing 23 earned runs in 29 2-3 innings.
''He's like every other pitcher,'' Ventura said. ''He can get himself into trouble, but what he has that most people don't is he can get himself out of trouble''
Said Rodon: ''The defense was good, Carlos hit another home run, it was a good game.''
Chicago's starting pitchers have gone five straight games without walking a batter.
The Indians were swept in a four-game series at home for the first time since Aug. 5-8, 2013, against Detroit.
WHY NOT US?
The White Sox (46-50) have a lot of work in front of them if they want to get into the playoff chase, but they left town on a positive note.
''Just the way we played, pitching and defense and to swing it the way we have,'' Ventura said. ''There's a nice little roll going on. You want to keep it going.''
White Sox: OF Adam Eaton was out of the lineup after injuring his left shoulder diving for a flyball Saturday night. Ventura expects him to return Monday in Boston. J.B. Shuck started in center and batted leadoff Sunday.
Indians: OF Nick Swisher (sore left knee) will continue his rehab assignment at Double-A Akron for two more games and be evaluated again Tuesday.
White Sox: LHP John Danks will open a four-game series at Fenway Park on Monday. He's 4-6 with a 4.95 ERA in 11 career starts against Boston.
Indians: RHP Cody Anderson will pitch the opener of a three-game series against Kansas City at Progressive Field on Monday. He'll be making his sixth career start.
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Lawyer sheds light on common misconception
22 September 2014 — 1 minute read
An industry lawyer has shed light on a common misconception in SMSF estate planning which can give way to a trustee’s wishes being challenged.
Speaking at a NSW state chapter event for the SMSF Professionals’ Association of Australia, Townsends Business & Corporate Lawyers’ Michael Hallinan suggested providing justification for a death benefit nomination could create grounds for contention.
He said the reasons offered for nominations can be seen as unreasonable, therefore exposing a trustee to analysis or criticism.
“If you don’t give reasons, you’re not giving the people who are trying to challenge ammunition,” Mr Hallinan said.
“If you think those reasons would be accepted by a reasonable person, then fine, but if you have an enquiry about whether a reasonable person would find those reasons convincing or acceptable, then it’s probably better to keep quiet.”
Mr Hallinan stressed that this is a general rule of thumb and is subject to exceptions, in particular if certain people have been excluded for good reason.
He gave the example of a trustee excluding person ‘x’ on the basis that ‘x’ had been provided with a lot of financial assistance during his life, compared to the nominated beneficiaries.
“That would be acceptable, but if you said ‘x’ was in a same-sex relationship and I take [offence] to that, then to justify the exclusion of ‘x’ on that basis is probably… going to be seen to be unfair and an unacceptable basis for exclusion.”
Last Updated: 22 September 2014 Published: 22 September 2014
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All Forums > NetWorx > Current topic
How to show Desk Band traffic speed in MB/s
Started by P0t
How to show Desk Band traffic speed in MB/s 04 March 2019, 01:46
I'm using NetWorx mainly because of the Deskband Graphic in the Taskbar to see my actual speed. But so far I had to switch between bits and bytes display, which is way too sensitive. Is it somehow possible to show the actual traffic speed in MB/s?
Re: How to show Desk Band traffic speed in MB/s 04 March 2019, 10:14
Sure, it's possible. There is a bunch of settings available in a separate area called the Hidden Options.
One of the settings there is Force rate unit. When set to 1, all data rates will be displayed in KB/s. When set to 2, all data rates will be displayed in MB/s:
Thanks. That's exactly what I was looking for
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The Artistry of Monet
Monet was born and raised in New York City surrounded by multiple genres of music by both parents - her mother a doo-wop singer who performed at the Apollo Theater and her father a manager of jazz and Latin artists and by the legendary Betty Carter who was a very close family friend, so you see Monet's musical roots run deep. Monet also plays guitar, oboe, piccolo and piano as well as her signature instrument the flute, for which she was offered a scholarship to attend Cornell University at the age of 14 due to her amazing proficiency. Lifesize Mirror, the title of Monet’s brand new project was released by the Purpose Music Group through Nia Distribution in Oct. LifeSize Mirror makes a bold revealing statement about how profoundly life’s journey has touched her. The thick, golden brown locs that once graced her crown – very much the signature image of her debut release ESSENCE six years ago - are gone. You almost don’t recognize her. But that unmistakable voice buried deep in her chest, almost as if coming directly from her heart is ever present. Her flute that teases and soars, bouncing in the air like a wondrously, hypnotic tribal spell – is pronounced, only finer, richer and more knowing. This couldn't be more evident than in "VAIN," which uniquely combines jazz, classical and instrumental soul " VAIN" is an account of a reflective journey - Monet’s flute like a snake charmer, beautifully intricate which starts out with moments of calm, coaxing gently until it deepens to a throaty rasp, becoming more complex and intriguing.
Monet’s musical repertoire is diverse with influences drawn from jazz, soul, latin, classical, folk, house and funk. Fundamentally, however, her sound is purely rooted in organic soul. The influences are a glorious amalgamation of Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell, Bob Marley, Sade and Hubert Laws. One would be remiss not to mention Monet’s various film credits including acting and directing. This is a resume full of aesthetic discovery.
While in between projects, leading up to the actual production of LIFESIZE MIRROR, Monet was quite busy at work fine tuning her craft, contributing her signature flute work, songwriting and vocals to recent projects by Angela Johnson “That's Just The Way"(which is also on Lifesize Mirror), Nigerian world soul artist Siji "Fantasy" and "Ekundayo,” and singer/songwriters Kendra Ross "Has to Be,” and La Sonya Gunther, " How we Livin." Monet is involved in upcoming projects by the Revelations featuring Tre Williams “Don’t Wait ", Abby Dobson "Fly," Tarrah Reynolds and Collette. Monet also contributed to club hits by Melena Perez, "Confession,” and Tortured Soul, "Don't Hold me Down,” flute and vocals respectively.
LIFESIZE MIRROR promises to be rich with what we expect from Monet. However some surprising alternative twists to her sound abound. There is more orchestration in the arrangements, and the addition of violin, cello, trumpet and soprano sax on various cuts are welcome. Her reggae dub influence is present on, “Ever Want.” Then there’s the Monet that many are definitely familiar with in “Hold me Sweetly,” a quivering ode to desire that Monet admittedly calls baby making music. Other cuts from this effort seem to convey odes of promise, hope, inspiration and transformation like “Walk with Me,” and “It’s Your Life,” which is an anthem to one being a master of one’s own destiny. Jeff Smith (Family Stand), violinist Tarrah Reynolds, keyboardist Nick Rolfe, vocalists Tricia Angus, Saundra Williams, Martha Redbone, and Abby Dobson, are all contributors to LIFESIZEMIRROR. The producers of the project include Steve Wallace, Angela Johnson, Sijii, Prez, Jesse Fischer (Soul Cycle),Ticklah and Ethan White (Tortured Soul).
Monet is an explorer. Through her musical expression we witness her seeking the highest level of self awareness and realization which is often referred to as LIFESIZE MIRROR. I n this project she freely moves through her existence fearlessly, balancing both the pain and the pleasure, the heartache and the rapture making sure we feel it too, spiritually, intellectually and physically. Conveying this is no easy feat – and as we bear witness to Monet’s creativity as she continues to document her journey through her music. We know that we’re all the better to be an audience to such a gift.
Lifesize Mirror has charted for three weeks on the Billboard Jazz Chart , reaching a high of #41 in December , a rarity for an artist who is also part of the independent honest soul movement.
To visit Monet on Reverbnation CLICK HERE
Odean Pope
Odean Pope was born October 24, 1938 in Ninety‐Six, South Carolina to musical parents who rooted him in the sounds of the Southern Baptist Church. After moving to Philadelphia at the age of ten, his lifelong study of music began in earnest and was buttressed by The Graniff School of Music and Benjamin Franklin High School's music program.
Odean grew up in jazz rich territory with other Philadelphia notables such as: John Coltrane, Lee Morgan, Clifford Brown, Benny Golson, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy and Percy Heath, Ray Bryant, Bill Barron, Kenny Barron, Archie Shepp, Jymie Merritt, Jimmy Garrison, Philly Joe Jones and Dizzy Gillespie. Coltrane chose Odean to replace him in Jimmy Smith's Group when he left for New York to join Miles Davis. Although he was close to Coltrane and continues to revere his artistry, Odean was always searching for his own musical sound. This led him to study with Ron Rubin, the principal woodwind player in the Philadelphia Orchestra. At a later time he studied at The Paris Conservatory for Music under Kenny Clarke. It was there that he received his Certificate in Orchestration, Modern harmony, African rhythms, Be‐Bop Art Forms and Arrangement. He studied with the pianist, Ray Bryant, bassist, Jymie Merritt and was significantly influenced by the brilliant, if not eccentric pianist, Hasaan Ibn Ali. Odean added, "Then being able to study with Max (Roach) from '79 up until '02, was like going to one of the highest institutions in the whole world."
Integrating several musical influences including the church choir of his youth, Philadelphia jazz and R&B of the 50's and classical woodwind chamber music, led Odean in the early 70's to help form Catalyst, a collective of musicians and music representing his new aesthetic. A two‐CD set was reissued in 1999 on 32 Records as: "Catalyst: The Funkiest Band You Never Heard." It was music ahead of its time. In 1979, Odean joined the Max Roach Quartet as a regular member for more than two decades. It was as the tenor man with Max Roach that Odean perfected the techniques of circular breathing and multiphonics, both allowing him to stretch his solo improvisations from dazzling elevations to the throbbing, husky sounds for which he is so well known, to all kinds of delicacy in getting from one to the other. Odean won acclaim from Australia to Japan, even winning "Best Tenor Saxophone Player" at the North Sea Jazz Festival.
Odean works with his trio, (Lee Smith, Craig McIver) quartet and saxophone choir. The saxophone choir is formatted with nine saxophones, and was established by Odean in 1977 and premiered in 1985 with a Soul Note album called "The Saxophone Shop."
The saxophone choir has been the realization of his southern legacy; a medium for creating the richly textured harmonic sound that has permeated his musical soul since childhood. Even though he plays clarinet, oboe, piccolo, flute and piano, Odean feels an affinity for the tenor saxophone because it most closely mimics the human voice. He constructs layers of melodic sound by playing within the fourth system in different tone scales using multiphonics, achieving several pitches together, for which he is well known. The choir reaches a stunning intensity that is simultaneously one voice and is also, as described by Francis Davis, "harmonically engorged."
Odean has led two musical lives. Whereas his musical legion left for New York, Odean kept Philadelphia as his home base. Having grown up in North Philadelphia, Odean has always felt a strong commitment to his community through working musically with the children. He was musical director of a Philadelphia cultural initiative, "Model Cities." He started the jazz studies program at the Settlement Music School and he continues to give master classes in the School District of Philadelphia, as well as nationally and internationally.
Odean Pope's artistry as a performer, composer and arranger has earned him many Citations from the City of Philadelphia. Among his many awards are, The Pew Fellowship in the Arts for Music Composition (1992), The Rockefeller Foundation (1992) and several from Chamber Music America.
Photos by John Abbott Photography
To visit the website of Odean Pope CLICK HERE
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Atchison County, Kansas Gender Ratios
There are more women than men in Atchison County, Kansas. Total population of Atchison County, Kansas is estimated at 16,513 people with 8,035 male and 8,478 female. There are 443 more women than men in the county, which is 2.68% of the total population.
The Atchison County, Kansas Gender Ratio is 95 men to 100 women (95:100) or 0.95. Atchison County, Kansas's gender ratio is lower than the Kansas State average of 99 men to 100 women (99:100) or 0.99. The gender ratio is also lower than the national average of 97 men to 100 women (97:100) or 0.97.
Atchison County, Kansas Gender Ratios By Age
Gender Ratios vary by age group as well as location. The table below shows the gender ratios breakdown in Atchison County, Kansas by age.
Atchison County Ratio
55 to 59 93 to 100 97 to 100 93 to 100
Cities in Atchison County, Kansas
Atchison, Cummings, Effingham, Lancaster, and Muscotah.
Potter and Huron.
Source: https://www.states101.com/gender-ratios/kansas/atchison-county
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Economy›
Part-time labor force - unemployment rate 1990-2018
Unemployment rate of the part-time labor force in the United States from 1990 to 2018
by Erin Duffin, last edited Apr 29, 2019
This statistic shows the unemployment rate of the part-time labor force in the United States since 1990. The unemployment rate of part-time workers stood at 4.4 percent in 2018. See the United States unemployment rate for further information.
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Unemployment rate of the United Kingdom 2000-2018
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Unemployment rate in Scotland 2000-2018
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Unemployment rate in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2000 to 2018Unemployment rate of the United Kingdom 2000-2018
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Quarterly unemployment rate in the United Kingdom (UK) from first quarter 2014 to first quarter 2019Quarterly unemployment rate in the United Kingdom 2014-2019
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Unemployment rate in the United Kingdom as of March 2019, by region/countryRegional unemployment rate in United Kingdom 2019
Unemployment rate of England from 2000 to 2018Unemployment rate of England 2000-2018
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Share of persons aged 65 to 74 years in disguised unemployment in Finland 2007-2017
Number of underemployed persons in Finland 2007-2017, by gender
Annual number of long-term unemployed persons aged 15-24 years in Finland 2007-2018
Number of repeatedly unemployed persons aged 15 to 24 years in Finland 2007-2017
Monthly number of repeatedly unemployed persons aged 15-24 years in Finland 2017-2018
Number of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders unemployed Australia FY 2015 by age
Unemployment in the United Kingdom
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Hospitality and tourism workforce in the United Kingdom (UK)
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Labor market in the Gulf Cooperation Council
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Restaurant outlet number Japan 2016, by type
Number of restaurant outlets in Japan in 2016, by type
The statistic depicts the number of restaurant outlets in Japan in 2016, broken down by type. That year, there were approximately 103 thousand restaurant outlets that fell into the category of Japanese cuisine. The number of restaurant outlets serving ethnic cuisine was 2,665. In that category, Mexican restaurants were growing in popularity.
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Nando's Group Holdings revenues worldwide 2010-2018
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Leading restaurant chains in the United Kingdom (UK) 2017, by number of users
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Market value of consumer foodservice in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2015 to 2020 (in million euros)Consumer foodservice market value in the United Kingdom 2015-2020
Turnover of enterprises in the food and beverage industry in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017* (in million GBP)Revenue of food and beverage services in the United Kingdom (UK) 2008-2017
Turnover of enterprises in the food and beverage serving industry in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2015 to 2017, by sector* (in million GBP)Food service industry revenues in the United Kingdom (UK) 2015-2017, by sector
Annual turnover of restaurants and mobile food services in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017* (in million GBP)Restaurant and mobile food service revenue in the United Kingdom (UK) 2008-2017
Gross value added (GVA) of restaurants and mobile food services in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017* (in million GBP)Gross value added (GVA): restaurant and mobile food services in the UK 2008-2017
Number of restaurants and mobile food service enterprises in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017Number of restaurants and mobile food businesses in the UK 2008-2017
Consumer price index (CPI) of restaurants and cafes annually in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2003 to 2018Restaurants and cafes: consumer price index (CPI) annual average in the UK 2003-2018
Number of foodservice market outlets in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by subsector Number of foodservice outlets in the United Kingdom (UK) 2018, by subsector
Number of service-led restaurant outlets in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by typeNumber of service-led restaurant outlets in the United Kingdom (UK) 2018, by type
Number of licensed food and drink premises in Great Britain as of June 2018, by typeNumber of food and drink venues in Great Britain 2018, by type
Number of Michelin star restaurants in Great Britain and Ireland as of 2017/18, by Michelin ratingMichelin star restaurants in Great Britain and Ireland 2017-2018, by rating
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Number of restaurant employees in Great Britain from 2006 to 2017, by gender* (in 1,000s)Number of restaurant employees in Great Britain 2006-2017, by gender
Annual salaries of restaurant staff in London in 2018, by job type (in 1,000 GBP)Salaries of restaurant staff in London 2018, by job type
Leading foodservice operators in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2016, based on absolute profit (in million GBP)Leading foodservice companies in the United Kingdom (UK) 2016, by profit
Leading restaurant chains ranked by number of users in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2017* (in 1,000s)Leading restaurant chains in the United Kingdom (UK) 2017, by number of users
Leading casual dining brands in the United Kingdom (UK) as of December 2017, based on annualized turnover* (in million GBP)Leading casual dining brands in the United Kingdom (UK) 2017, based on turnover
Leading casual dining brands in the United Kingdom (UK) as of December 2016 and December 2017, by number of units*Casual dining brands in the United Kingdom (UK) 2016-2017, by number of units
Leading pub restaurant brands in the United Kingdom (UK) as of December 2017, by number of units*Pub restaurant brands in the United Kingdom (UK) 2017, by number of units
Annual revenue of Nando's Group Holdings worldwide from fiscal years 2010 to 2018* (in million GBP)Nando's Group Holdings revenues worldwide 2010-2018
Annual turnover of Pizza Express Group worldwide from financial year 2014 to 2018 (in million GBP)Pizza Express Group turnover worldwide 2014-2018
Number of Pizza Express Group restaurants worldwide from financial year 2014 to 2018Pizza Express: number of restaurants worldwide 2014-2018
Consumer spending on restaurants and cafés in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2005 to 2017* (in million GBP)Consumer expenditure on restaurants and cafés in the United Kingdom (UK) 2005-2017
Consumer spending on restaurants, cafes etc. in the United Kingdom (UK) from 1st quarter 2014 to 4th quarter 2018* (in million GBP)Quarterly consumer expenditure on restaurants and cafes in the UK Q1 2014 - Q4 2018
Annual expenditure on restaurants and cafés in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2005 to 2018, based on volume* (in million GBP)Expenditure on restaurants and cafés in the United Kingdom (UK) 2005-2018
Expenditure on restaurants, cafes etc. in the United Kingdom (UK) from 1st quarter 2014 to 4th quarter 2018, based on volume* (in million GBP)Quarterly expenditure on restaurants and cafes in the UK 2014-2018
Average weekly household expenditure on restaurant and cafe meals in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by age of household reference person* (in GBP)Restaurant and cafe meals: weekly UK household expenditure 2018, by age
Average weekly household expenditure on restaurant and cafe meals in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by gross income decile group* (in GBP)Restaurant and cafe meals: weekly UK household expenditure 2018, by gross income
Share of weekly household spending on restaurant and cafe meals in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by disposable income decile groupShare of UK household spend on restaurant and cafés 2018, by disposable income
Year-on-year change in restaurant traffic in the United Kingdom (UK) from 1st quarter 2017 to 2nd quarter 2018, by restaurant typeChange in restaurant visits in the United Kingdom (UK) Q1 2017 - Q2 2018, by type
Change in full service restaurant traffic in the United Kingdom (UK) from 4th quarter 2015 to 2nd quarter 2018*Change in full service restaurant visits in the United Kingdom (UK) Q4 2015-Q2 2018
Number of people using restaurants in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2015 to 2017, by user type (in 1,000s)Restaurant usage in the United Kingdom (UK) 2015-2017, by user type
Number of people visiting restaurants in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2015 to 2017, by frequency of use (in 1,000s)Frequency of restaurant visits in the United Kingdom (UK) 2015-2017
Number of people using restaurants in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2015 to 2017, by time visited (in 1,000s)Restaurant usage in the United Kingdom (UK) 2015-2017, by time of visit
Number of people using restaurants in the last 12 months in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by restaurant type (in 1,000s)Leading restaurant types visited in the last 12 months in the UK 2017
Japanese cuisine restaurants in Japan 2014-2018
Other ethnic cuisine restaurants in Japan 2014-2018
Restaurant sector value of HRI Japan 2011-2017
Value of food service HRI sector Japan 2011-2017
Annual growth of the HRI industry China 2013, by region
Revenue of the HRI industry China 2013, by region
Chinese and Korean cuisine restaurants in Japan 2014-2018
Revenue distribution of the gastronomy industry in Denmark 2017, by region
Food and beverage service enterprises in Spain in 2017, by number of employees
Number of food and beverage service enterprises in Spain 2017, by region
Distribution of domestic restaurants in India Q1 2018 by venue location
Revenue of the gastronomy industry in Denmark 2014-2017, by region
Gross profit of the gastronomy industry in Denmark 2014-2017
Distribution of restaurants across India Q1 2018 by cuisine
Number of new enterprises in the gastronomy industry in Denmark 2007-2017
Distribution of international restaurants in India Q1 2018 by venue location
Popularity of cuisines or food concepts for dining out Australia 2016
Consolidated intermediate consumption of hospitality sector in the Netherlands 2014
Restaurant industry in the United Kingdom (UK)
Restaurant industry in the U.S.
Eating out behavior in the U.S.
Quick service restaurant brands
Restaurant Brands International
Restaurant industry in Denmark
Catering industry in China
Restaurants in the United Kingdom (UK)
Restaurants and food services in Italy
Restaurant and catering industry in the Netherlands
Restaurants and food services in Europe
Restaurants in the U.S.
Quick service restaurants in the U.S.
Japan: Food Service - Hotel Restaurant Institutional 2017
Changing tastes: The UK casual dining market
Cafés and coffee shops in the United Kingdom (UK)
Eating out in the United Kingdom (UK)
Pizza and Italian restaurant market in the United Kingdom (UK)
Valentine's Day in Italy
Market value of consumer foodservice in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2015 to 2020 (in million euros)
Turnover of enterprises in the food and beverage industry in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017* (in million GBP)
Turnover of enterprises in the food and beverage serving industry in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2015 to 2017, by sector* (in million GBP)
Annual turnover of restaurants and mobile food services in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017* (in million GBP)
Gross value added (GVA) of restaurants and mobile food services in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017* (in million GBP)
Number of restaurants and mobile food service enterprises in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017
Consumer price index (CPI) of restaurants and cafes annually in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2003 to 2018
Number of foodservice market outlets in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by subsector
Number of service-led restaurant outlets in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by type
Number of licensed food and drink premises in Great Britain as of June 2018, by type
Number of Michelin star restaurants in Great Britain and Ireland as of 2017/18, by Michelin rating
Number of restaurant employees in Great Britain from 2006 to 2017 (in 1,000s)
Number of restaurant employees in Great Britain from 2006 to 2017, by gender* (in 1,000s)
Annual salaries of restaurant staff in London in 2018, by job type (in 1,000 GBP)
Leading foodservice operators in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2016, based on absolute profit (in million GBP)
Leading restaurant chains ranked by number of users in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2017* (in 1,000s)
Leading casual dining brands in the United Kingdom (UK) as of December 2017, based on annualized turnover* (in million GBP)
Leading casual dining brands in the United Kingdom (UK) as of December 2016 and December 2017, by number of units*
Leading pub restaurant brands in the United Kingdom (UK) as of December 2017, by number of units*
Annual revenue of Nando's Group Holdings worldwide from fiscal years 2010 to 2018* (in million GBP)
Annual turnover of Pizza Express Group worldwide from financial year 2014 to 2018 (in million GBP)
Number of Pizza Express Group restaurants worldwide from financial year 2014 to 2018
Consumer spending on restaurants and cafés in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2005 to 2017* (in million GBP)
Consumer spending on restaurants, cafes etc. in the United Kingdom (UK) from 1st quarter 2014 to 4th quarter 2018* (in million GBP)
Annual expenditure on restaurants and cafés in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2005 to 2018, based on volume* (in million GBP)
Expenditure on restaurants, cafes etc. in the United Kingdom (UK) from 1st quarter 2014 to 4th quarter 2018, based on volume* (in million GBP)
Average weekly household expenditure on restaurant and cafe meals in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by age of household reference person* (in GBP)
Average weekly household expenditure on restaurant and cafe meals in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by gross income decile group* (in GBP)
Share of weekly household spending on restaurant and cafe meals in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by disposable income decile group
Year-on-year change in restaurant traffic in the United Kingdom (UK) from 1st quarter 2017 to 2nd quarter 2018, by restaurant type
Change in full service restaurant traffic in the United Kingdom (UK) from 4th quarter 2015 to 2nd quarter 2018*
Number of people using restaurants in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2015 to 2017, by user type (in 1,000s)
Number of people visiting restaurants in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2015 to 2017, by frequency of use (in 1,000s)
Number of people using restaurants in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2015 to 2017, by time visited (in 1,000s)
Number of people using restaurants in the last 12 months in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by restaurant type (in 1,000s)
Number of Japanese cuisine restaurant outlets in Japan from 2014 to 2018 (in 1,000s)
Number of Mexican, Indian and Southeast Asian ethnic cuisine restaurant outlets in Japan from 2014 to 2018
Value of the restaurant sector of the HRI industry in Japan from 2011 to 2017 (in trillion Japanese yen)
Value of the hotel, restaurant and institutional service industry (HRI) in Japan from 2011 to 2017 (in trillion Japanese yen)
Annual revenue growth of China's Hotel Restaurant and Institutional (HRI) industry in 2013, by region
Revenue of the Hotel Restaurant and Institutional (HRI) industry in China in 2013, by region (in billion U.S. dollars)
Number of Chinese and Korean cuisine restaurant outlets in Japan from 2014 to 2018 (in 1,000s)
Revenue distribution of the gastronomy industry in Denmark in 2017, by region (in million DKK)
Number of enterprises in the food and beverage serving industry in Spain as of January 2017, by number of employees
Number of enterprises in the food and beverage serving industry in Spain as of January 2017, by region
Distribution of domestic restaurants in India as of Q1 2018, by venue location
Revenue of the gastronomy industry in Denmark from 2014 to 2017, by region (in million DKK)
Gross profit of the gastronomy industry in Denmark from 2014 to 2017 (in million DKK)
Distribution of restaurants across India as of Q1 2018, by cuisine
Number of new enterprises in the gastronomy industry in Denmark from 2007 to 2017
Distribution of international restaurants in India as of Q1 2018, by venue location
Popularity of cuisines or food concepts for dining out in Australia as of August 2016
Consolidated intermediate consumption of the accommodation and food serving industry in the Netherlands in 2014 (in million euros)*
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We Found the 12 Cutest Bathing Suits on Amazon – All Under $35
Bianca Nieves
Our Favorite Prada Backpack Is Getting a Major Sustainable Upgrade
Lauren Rearick
Lexie Liu Wants to Make Music Perfect for Exploring Outer Space
Sexual Health + Identity
This Is the Group Most Likely to Be Sexually Assaulted in College
Nearly 40% of these students will experience sexual assault before they graduate.
Brittney McNamara
Lydia Ortiz
Sexual assault on college campuses is much more prevalent than it should be. The scary reality, though, is that about 1 in 4 women in college will experience sexual assault. We know that number increases based on race, sexual identity, and other factors, too.
According to a new study, bisexual women are more likely than heterosexual women to be raped during their college years. The research published in the journal Violence and Gender shows that nearly 2 in every 5 bisexual female college students will be sexually assaulted by the time they complete four years in school. That’s more than the 1 in 4 heterosexual women, and the 1 in 4 gay and bisexual men who are likely to experience the same.
A different study also shows that bisexual women are more likely to be depressed and consider suicide than straight women. In that study, the authors reported that societal pressures and silencing of the bisexual identity could contribute to that. The researchers concluded that it’s important to recognize all identities so one population isn’t silenced.
That could be the case here, too. Violence and Gender editor-in-chief Mary Ellen O'Toole, PhD, forensic behavioral consultant and senior FBI profiler/criminal investigative analyst said in a statement that different pressures related to being bisexual could mean underreporting of sexual assault even worse than what we see in the general population.
"To really understand the breadth and depth of this problem, it is critical to understand the victimology of sexual assault, and that it includes all students, not just heterosexual females," Dr. Mary Ellen said. "As difficult as it can be for any college student to come forward following a sexual assault because they are afraid, intimidated, or ashamed, it can be even more so for bisexual females and gay and bisexual males who are at risk for this crime at similar rates as heterosexual females, according to this important study. We have to do so much more for all students to encourage them to come forward and report what happened - no matter what their gender or sexual orientation."
Part of what we have to do to support survivors is education. It’s so important to know that if you are sexually assaulted, you have options. It’s your choice on what you do after sexual assault, and whatever option you choose is perfectly fine because it has to be what’s right for you, and you alone.
If you need help regarding a sexual assault, please reach out to the National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline toll-free at 800-656-HOPE (4673).
Related: Here’s Why Bisexuality in Girls Is Totally on the Rise
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Measles outbreaks in Europe spark calls for children to be vaccinated
Ukraine is struggling with its largest measles outbreak in decades, registering 35,000 cases and 14 deaths in the first three months of 2019 Credit: Getty
Telegraph Reporters
24 May 2019 • 6:00am
Parents are being urged to get their children vaccinated for measles, mumps and rubella following outbreaks of measles across Europe.
The appeal comes on the same day new figures revealed there had been 231 confirmed cases of measles and 795 mumps cases in the first three months of 2019.
The Public Health England (PHE) data showed that while measles cases were lower than the 265 during the same period last year, they had more than doubled compared to the 97 reported between October and December.
Mumps cases nearly tripled to 795 compared to the 275 during the same period last year, with no new cases of rubella reported.
PHE has urged parents to make sure their children receive the MMR vaccine when offered it or to take it up now if they missed it.
Measles immunisation rates have fallen in 12 EU countries
Head of immunisation Dr Mary Ramsay warned that with measles outbreaks across parts of Europe families should make sure they are vaccinated before they travel.
She added: "Measles can kill and it is incredibly easy to catch, especially if you are not vaccinated.
"Even one child missing their vaccine is one too many - if you are in any doubt about your child's vaccination status, ask your GP as it's never too late to get protected.
"There are measles outbreaks happening across Europe so if you are planning to travel, make sure you check with your GP and catch-up if needed."
There have been 3,789 cases of measles across the continent during the first three months of this year according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. The highest numbers have been in Romania, France, Poland and Lithuania, its latest data from May 10 revealed.
Measles is on the rise again
PHE warned that because measles is highly infectious, anyone who has not received two doses of MMR vaccine is at risk.
Unvaccinated people travelling to countries where there have been large outbreaks of measles are particularly at risk, it added.
The public health agency said that 94.9% of eligible children aged five received their first dose of MMR in the final quarter of 2018, with coverage of the second doses at 87.4% for children aged five.
One dose of the MMR vaccine is about 90-95% effective at preventing measles, rising to around 99% after the second.
To achieve herd immunity for measles at least 90-95% of the population needs to be fully protected.
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Public Health Minister Seema Kennedy said: "Over 30 years ago we introduced the MMR vaccine and since then our world-leading vaccination programme is estimated to have prevented 1.8 million painful and potentially fatal cases of measles.
"No child or young person should have to suffer from mumps, measles or rubella, and we must curb this recent increase in cases so we don't see a return of horrible diseases of the past.
"By taking up the MMR vaccine parents and young people can prevent more cases and I would urge everybody to do so."
The MMR vaccine is given on the NHS as a single injection to babies as part of their routine vaccination schedule, usually within a month of their first birthday. A second injection of the vaccine is given before starting school, usually at three years and four months.
The vaccine is also available to all adults and children who are not up to date with their two doses.
PHE said that anyone who is not sure if they are fully vaccinated should check with their GP.
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Oil rich dictator of Kazakhstan recruits Tony Blair to help win Nobel peace prize
The autocratic leader of oil rich Kazakhstan has recruited Tony Blair as an adviser, believing the former Prime Minister can help him win the Nobel Peace prize.
Tony Blair (R) greets the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev inside 10 Downing Street November 21, 2006 Photo: GETTY
By Jason Lewis, Investigations Editor
9:00PM BST 29 Oct 2011
President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s decision to engage Mr Blair as an official adviser was motivated by his lifelong ambition of winning the award previously bestowed on The Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, well-placed sources said.
The Kazakh regime, which has been heavily criticised for its human rights record, has also retained the services of Alastair Campbell, the former Downing Street communications chief and Jonathan Powell, Mr Blair’s former chief of staff, in pursuit of the President’s dream.
The move will raise further questions about the activities of Mr Blair who since stepping down as Prime Minister has travelled the world mixing diplomatic missions and charitable works with secretive multi-million pound business deals.
Mr Blair claims he is not profiting from his links with Kazakhstan and until now his role, and the work of his former key Downing Street advisers, had been a mystery.
Both Mr Campbell and Mr Powell visited Astana, the nation’s newly built business and administrative capital, last March, weeks before the 71 year-old President was re-elected with 95 per cent of the vote amid accusations of “blatant ballot-box stuffing” from international observers.
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The former Prime Minister has also reportedly established an office in the country.
But highly placed sources connected to Mr Nazarbayev said that the president hoped that his association with Mr Blair would enable him to secure a nomination for the Peace Prize next year to mark his 20 years in power.
The former Soviet state’s British Ambassador said “The former British Prime Minister acts as an adviser to the Government of Kazakhstan.”
He is relying on Mr Blair and his key advisers to help him show how he is reforming his country and also to emphasise the key strategic and intelligence role his country played in the during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He hopes they will help him highlight his role encouraging the United Nations general assembly to adopt August 29 as the International Day Against Nuclear Tests and his initiative to hold two international forums of world and traditional religions in Astana to foster mutual co-operation between faiths.
But others accuse him of human rights abuses. The country sits at number 105 in Transparency International’s league table of corruption and at 162 on the Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders.
Criticising the president in person is illegal under the Kazakh criminal code and international monitors say the police routinely torture suspects.
One human rights campaigner was jailed for four years after a traffic accident that was not apparently his fault.
Another critic was discovered dead with a gun by his side. An official inquiry said he had killed himself. He apparently shot himself twice in the chest before putting a third bullet into his head.
Last month Mr Nazarbeyez signed a new religion law which bans prayer rooms in state buildings and requires all missionaries to register with authorities every year.
The new law is aimed at stamping out Islamist militancy but it has been widely criticised.
Ambassador Kairat Abusseitov said: “The former Prime Minister brings years of experience and we have benefited significantly from his strategic vision and deep understanding of the global economy as well as effective government and international policy making.
“The project is supporting the reforms the Government is making aimed at furthering democracy, strengthening the rule of law and improving the economic environment in Kazakhstan.”
President Nazarbeyev would be a controversial choice to win the Nobel Prize which is awarded annually in Oslo to the person who “shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”
His country is ranked a lowly 105th, alongside Algeria, in the Transparency International corruption index and court cases in America have detailed millions of pounds of bribes he received through a series of oil deals with US firms.
The US State Department warns visitors to the country: “Kazakhstani security personnel may at times place foreign visitors under surveillance. Hotel rooms, telephones and fax machines may be monitored, and personal possessions in hotel rooms may be searched.”
Another close associate of Mr Blair’s from his time in Downing Street, the former chairman of UK defence firm BAE Systems, Sir Richard Evans, is also thought to have played a role in establishing the relationship.
Sir Richard is now chairman of the Kazakh state holding company, Samruk which owns most of the major companies in the country, including the national rail and postal service, the state oil and gas company, the state uranium company, airline Air Astana, and numerous financial groups.
The President’s opponents have claimed in the High Court in London that he uses the fund advance his personal interests and political and economic power.
The group, which has around £50 billion worth of assets, was set up by presidential decree, and is headed by Mr Nazarbayev’s son-in-law Timur Kulibayev, who purchased Prince Andrew’s former marital home.
Last year it hired Lord Mandelson, architect of Mr Blair’s election victories, to give two speeches at its events.
At one of the conferences in Astana, in October last year, Lord Mandelson reportedly lavished praise on the Kazahk investment fund, saying: 'I want to stress a special role [it] played as a saviour of the world economy.
"There are at least two British banks which owe their economic vitality to sovereign funds, including those from Kazakhstan."
Mr Blair’s connections with the Emirate state of Abu Dhabi are also understood to have influenced Mr Nazarbeyez’s decision to seek his help.
Mr Blair is understood to be close to the Crown Prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, He has praised the country for the millions of pounds of help it has given to Palestinian community projects.
Sheikh Mohammed’s state investment fund, Mubadala, which has interests including oil exploration contracts in Libya and Kazakhstan, is said to have Mr Blair on its payroll.
At the same time President Nazarbayev has been building close links with the oil rich Gulf state. He is believed to have moved much of his personal wealth to banks in the country and the two nations are now linked by a regular direct flight.
The President has a close personal relationship with member of the Royal Family and there are also very close commercial ties between the two Muslim countries.
Sources in Astana say the President has given the Abu Dhabi royal family a 99-year lease on a huge hunting reserve in the south of Kazakhstan and the Arab leaders have reciprocated giving him a luxury home on an island off the Gulf coast.
President Nazarbeyev has also been a guest of honour at the Abu Dhabi grand prix.
He has already courted a number of international figures in an effort to improve his image. He has been notoriously linked to Prince Andrew, Britain’s former Special Representative on International Trade, who visited the nation six times in seven years.
The Prince is a close friend of Goga Ashkenazi, a glamourous member of Nazarbeyev’s inner circle who has a child with the president’s son-in-law Timur.
He is also said to have gone goose-hunting with the President and his former marital home at Sunninghill, Berks, was sold to another member of the regime’s elite for £15 million - £3 million more than it was worth - and then left to fall apart.
Mr Powell was due back in Astana in July and Mr Campbell last month, but both cancelled their five star hotel rooms at the last minute and it is unclear if either have returned to the country.
Former diplomat Mr Powell, who helped broker the Northern Ireland peace agreement, had, until recently, been working for Morgan Stanley, the investment bank, but has now given up his full time role to set up a charity, Inter Mediate, offering international “conflict resolution”.
The charity, which says it is seeking project funding from the Department of International Development, lists Kazakhstan as one of its areas of operation, but Mr Powell said his work for President Nazarbeyev is not part of his charitable activities.
Asked about his work for President Nazarbayev, Jonathan Powell said: “I’ve got nothing to say about that. I suggest you talk to Tony Blair’s office about that.
He said his involvement was “nothing to do with Inter Mediate” which he said “had no luck yet” in attempting to secure DFID funding.
A spokesman for Tony Blair said he was not involved with President Nazarbayev’s campaign for the Nobel Prize.
He said: “Tony Blair has helped put together a team of international advisors and consultants to set up an advisory group for the Kazakhs, with a team of people working on the ground.
“The work they are doing is excellent, sensible and supports the reforms they are making. The Kazakhs also engage with a number of other former European leaders.
“Tony Blair last visited Kazakhstan in May of this year to attend a conference. He is not personally making a profit directly or indirectly on this.”
He denied reports Mr Blair was being paid £13 million for his part in the project and that the deal had any connection to the Kazahk’s investment fund or its increased connections with Abu Dhabi.
Mr Campbell could not be contacted for comment.
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Submarine blast 'caused by oxygen candle'
The nuclear submarine HMS Tireless in the Arctic ice
By Tim Hall
12:01AM GMT 22 Mar 2007
An investigation is underway today into an explosion aboard a nuclear submarine which left two Britons dead.
Early reports suggest yesterday's accident aboard HMS Tireless was caused by the explosion of an emergency air-purification device, known as an oxygen generation candle.
The device is fitted to all Trafalgar-class submarines, and the MoD has ordered crews not to use it until the investigation is complete.
Experts said that the piece of equipment is not vital to the operation of the vessels and the submarines will not need to return to base.
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The HMS Tireless, which has a standard crew of 130, was taking part in a joint Anglo-American operation beneath the Arctic icecap.
The submarine was forced to surface through the polar ice after the explosion damaged a forward compartment.
The MoD confirmed that two submariners had been killed and a third had been airlifted to a hospital at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage. He is expected to make a full recovery.
The HMS Tireless is powered by nuclear fuel but does not carry nuclear weapons. The MoD said that there was no danger of a nuclear explosion.
A spokesman said: "The submarine, HMS Tireless, was never in any danger, its nuclear reactor was unaffected, it quickly surfaced and is completely safe.
"Tireless is a hunter-killer submarine and does not carry nuclear missiles."
Admiral Sir James Burnell-Nugent today paid tribute to the men killed. He said: "I very much regret that this incident has occurred and my thoughts go out to the family and friends of the men who have lost their lives.
"I also wish to pay tribute to the crew of HMS Tireless that this incident has been dealt with and contained so professionally."
Vice Admiral Jay Donnelly, commander of the US Submarine Force, added: "I am deeply saddened at the loss of the crew members from the Tireless.
"Submariners are brothers at sea and we all feel the loss as if it were our own. We stand by to continue to assist in any way we can."
Tireless, based in Devonport, Plymouth, which was launched in 1985, has encountered a series of problems in recent years.
In 2000 it suffered a leak in pipe work leading from the nuclear reactor system and had to spend a year in a Gibraltar dockyard. The problem, initially said to be minor, was later acknowledged to be more serious and 12 Royal Navy subs of the same class were recalled for checks. They were later given the all clear.
Three years later a ballast tank aboard the Tireless was damaged during a collision with an object while submerged.
In 2004 the submarine was prevented from operating at sea for more than a year because of a "theoretical safety concern" which led to further checks of the nuclear reactor.
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Matt Reinstein D'var Torah--Parshat Noah (Rosh Hodesh Cheshvan/October 25, 2014)
Shabbat shalom. Man. Nine months studying. I was NOT excited to begin. But now I realize that it’s not about what you do or sing for your preparation. My tutor who is also my cousin, Rabbi Victor Reinstein, told me that it’s all about the experience and that you learn “man, that wasn’t that hard.” And he was right. I learned that if you just learn the strategy and the way to do things, it’s going to be easy.
Our portion was the story of Noah (If you couldn’t understand all the Hebrew I was singing, I’m going to give you a summary). If you don’t know the story of Noah, it’s about this guy named Noah who receives this message from God. God says because the world is so corrupt, he will destroy the earth by a flood. And Noah’s just standing there like, “Huh?” he doesn’t know what God’s talking about! So Noah, who’s completely baffled, has to create an ark to hold 2 of each animal in the world so there can be a world filled with animals after the flood.
One of the big debates about this portion is whether Noah was a tzadik, in English, a righteous person. I’m here to talk to you about what a tzadik is. First, lets talk about this big controversy. In a passage at the beginning of the portion, that God said to Noah, “You alone have I found righteous in this generation” IN THIS GENERATION, says God. While God still says that Noah alone God has found righteous, God says, “in this generation.” That’s what starts this big controversy. Was Noah a tzaddik just in this generation, or would he have been a tzaddik at any other time? And what is a tzaddik, anyway?
A tzadik is a kind and caring person. They are very wise, and they think very hard about everything. In a book I just read, called Watchmen, there was this man named Adrian Veidt. He wasn’t a tzadik, but he was the world’s smartest man. That’s what got me thinking. A tzadik isn’t the smartest person in the world, a tzadik is one of the wisest people in the world. Tzaddiks make decisions for the greater good of all people. Tzaddiks try to make decisions not that will please everybody, but ones that will help them.
Some Rabbis say that Noah was only named righteous because he was righteous in COMPARISON to his generation, since his generation was so corrupt. From In the midrash, Genesis Rabbah 31:50, we learn just how corrupt they were. The Midrash states, “When a person brought a basket full of peas to the market place he would be surrounded by a group of people. Each would steal an amount worth less than a pruta (so small an amount that it was not considered a punishable offense). But soon the basket would be empty. The victim would be unable to present his case to a judge because each thief had cleverly taken less than the amount that was punishable by law.”
Other Rabbis say that Noah was not just a tzaddik in his own generation. I wonder if Noah was alive in the 21st century, would he be considered a tzadik? You need to think about it.
If Noah were part of our generation, I would consider him a tzadik. I mean, anybody who would create an ark that would hold 2 of EVERY animal in the world without complaint, WHILE his generation is so corrupt, has got to be a righteous person. Rabbi Morris Adler, an American rabbi in the 20th century, wrote in a sermon called The voice still speaks, “A great leader is not only a person of ideas, not only a person of personal integrity and devotion, but also a person of tenderness, a person of compassion… If he is insensitive to the sorrows of all people, all of his ideals and all of his personal qualities fail to confer greatness upon him.” Noah would not be a tzadik in our day, according to Rabbi Adler because he only told his family about the Flood, but he didn’t tell anybody else about the flood.
A righteous person isn’t one who would do something unthinkable like fight a bear, a righteous person would fight a bear for other people. That’s a big difference. A righteous person puts family and friends before their life. Noah didn’t put friends before him.
Still, he is the only person that the Torah calls a tzaddik.
A tzadik could be serious, to try to keep everybody safe, or they could be funny to give everybody joy. They could be a little mix of both, but the main thing is that they care for other people. If you have someone who doesn’t care about other people’s feelings, I wouldn’t consider them a tzadik. If you have someone who’s cocky, and thinks too highly of themselves, I wouldn’t consider them a tzadik. They need to be humble. That’s one of the reasons why I think Noah was a tzadik. He was very humble. He just did as he was told. He never fought with God, he listened to him. That’s why I think Noah was a tzadik.
In this process of learning what a tzadik is, Rabbi Penzner kept asking me, “How can you relate to being a tzadik? Is there anyone you know?” Well, yeah there are. For my mitzvah-project, I worked with Moreno and Benita. I think that Moreno and Benita are both tzadiks. Moreno and Benita help out around the Hebrew school, and the temple. They keep the school clean, they get food for the school, and they help get new furniture and they do the paperwork for the school and the projects that the shul is trying to do. For instance, I spent a lot of time working for the farmers market down on Corey. Right near where that bank of America is. Man, they both do a TON. Benita helped with Amir to set up his stand, and she helped sell with him, and Moreno brought all the supplies that the shul needed to set up their stand. They have all the requirements to be a tzadik. They really care for the faculty and children who go to the Hebrew school.
Yes, there have been some times where I have been sent out of the classroom to go to Benita’s office and every time she would stop what she was doing no matter how important, and she ALWAYS helped me out to get back in shape. Moreno, He will do ANYTHING to keep our Hebrew school and the projects that HBT does clean and organized. They both have a great attitude for the Hebrew school and the community and that makes the shul a great place to be.
I learned a lot from this portion. I learned more about the story of Noah (of course) But most importantly, I learned what a tzadik is. I also learned what Rabbi Reinstein told me. When I was just getting into all this torah and haftorah stuff, I wanted no part of it. I just thought it would be too hard. And don’t get me started on my reaction when I saw my first aliah. Terrified. My eyes were about to jump out of their sockets, they were so big. I looked up at Victor, and said, “Wait, that’s for me?” he looked down at me and said, “Yup” like it was no big deal. To me it was huge. Then he told me something that I’ll never forget. “You think NOW, it’s gonna be hard, tomorrow it’ll be nothing.” He was right. It was easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy. I look back on my preparation, it was no big deal just like Victor had said.
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"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."
This story entitled The Shadow differs from the other stories I've written about my life, in that it's intermingled throughout every moment of my life—from prior to birth, until this moment. As there's no specific event or time period to focus in on, it's proved challenging to write about it in a concise and informative way.
What's arisen is that Stevie—that's my egoic, dualistic mind—has given an overview of the topic from his perspective (in blue), then Diablo—that’s my shadow, yes you’ll meet him shortly—has given his version of events (in red). Why not, I say? After all, this is his story . .
I define the shadow as that part of one’s psyche that's hidden from conscious view. It exists in everyone, but is almost universally disowned, or at the very least repressed. The intensity with which the shadow is energized in any individual varies enormously, ranging from a gentle sea breeze, to a category five cyclone.
The shadow contains our most painful emotional woundings, our darkest secrets, and our most shameful actions. It's the origin of the impulse to cause suffering—both to ourselves and to others—and it's at the root of all addictions. The shadow will do anything to maintain its existence . . . and its disguise. When the shadow is controlling our behaviour—when it’s in the driver’s seat, as it were—it causes us to act in ways that are selfish, gluttonous, and narcissistic.
My personal understanding of the origin of the shadow is that it’s present in a rudimentary form at birth: perhaps some aspects of it are carried forward from one lifetime to the next as our soul's emotional karma; perhaps the id—the psychic reservoir of our animal instincts that's present at birth along with our rudimentary consciousness—harbours the precursor of the shadow. Either way, it develops and grows throughout our childhood and early adult life when painful emotions associated with traumatic life events are not fully experienced and metabolized as they occur. These painful events and their associated negative emotions are then suppressed, trapped, and stored in the unconscious depths of the mind.
Eckhart Tolle, in his essential book The Power of Now, uses the term painbody in what I believe is a similar ballpark to what I'm calling the shadow. I find this term to be quite useful as it points to the propensity for cumulative psychological pain to coalesce into a psychic structure—a body, the painbody—which influences the behaviour of an individual in unseen, and mostly negative, ways.
Through the course of my inquiry into my own shadow, I've discovered that there are three aspects to the personal shadow. These three aspects correspond to the three instinctual drives that are inherent in living in a human body, and which are associated with maintaining the survival of the DNA. All human beings possess and express these three drives—the self-preservation drive, the sexual drive, and the social drive—in varying degrees.
The shadow side of the self-preservation instinct is centred around survival of the individual life-form. It can manifest as excessive attachment to security, work, money, or possessions. Extreme avarice, collecting and hoarding, workaholism, overeating or obsessiveness around food, addiction to shopping, gambling, or certain substances such as alcohol, as well as schizoid withdrawal, are examples of this aspect of the shadow in action. Harbouring a ‘death wish’ is an example of the self-preservation drive when it is imploded or disowned, as is disabling issues around not having enough money.
The shadow side of the sexual drive manifests as an overindulgence in the pursuit of pleasure, sex, love, or intimate relationships. It may be subtle, and only allowed to manifest in private—such as in the case of fetishes or addiction to masturbation—or it may be overt, and manifest as frequent sexual partnering, or constantly changing love interests. Imposed celibacy occurs when the sexual drive is repressed or disowned.
The shadow side of the social drive revolves around power, and manifests as the need to be in a position of power within a hierarchy of some sort—a family unit, a work situation, a political structure, a social circle, a spiritual sangha, etc. It involves the need to control or hold power over others in some way, and to wield that power either covertly or overtly. It may manifest as ambition or social climbing, and at times may incorporate back-stabbing or power plays to achieve its goals. In recent years social media has changed the playing field of the shadow aspect of the social drive (as it has for the sexual drive too) for many people, as it’s now possible to carve out an online presence—real or imaginary—that is supported by other online parties, often unseen and unknown, as a way of satisfying this urge. When the social drive is completely disowned, we give away our power and become powerless victims.
If I was to estimate the relative prevalence of the three instinctual drives as they've manifested throughout my life, I'd say it would be something like: sexual 80%, self-preservation 20%, and social <1%.
From these numbers, you can see that my social drive was virtually non-existent in my early life, and as a result I really never developed shadow issues around power or ambition; it’s just not my thing. My egoic tendency is towards deflation rather than inflation, with the result that I’ve had a tendency to give away my power. So, in my case the shadow side of my social drive has manifested principally as inferiority, inadequacy, and shame in a social sense (for those of you who know the Enneagram, very much the feel of the social 4 fixation). Reclaiming my personal power, and admitting that ambition is actually a part of my experience, have been important steps towards true freedom for me.
With respect to the self-preservation drive, at various times in my life I'd say I've been more concerned with work and money than might be considered balanced. At a deeper level, however, these activities were merely playing their part in the drive to achieve more sexual pleasure, and were not primarily acting to accumulate more money and possessions in order to attain more security. Personally, I've found shadow issues around the self-preservation drive to be fairly easy to see through, and they've exerted relatively little negative influence throughout my life.
My sexual shadow, on the other hand, is quite another story, and the one that I’ll focus on here. I would say it's the biggest story of my life, and certainly the one that's taken up the most time and attention—both in its construction and indulgence prior to 2003, and in its dismantling and transcendence since that time . . .
Alright, alright. Enough already, Stevie. I’m getting sick and tired of listening to you go on and on, justifying me and my behaviour; I take full responsibility for my actions, and I'd do them all over again given the opportunity.
Hello. You can call me Diablo, Angel Diablo, or just Angel. I’m Stevie’s shadow. Pleased to finally meet you. Stevie’s kept me locked up and hidden away for . . . well pretty much his whole life!
Actually, Stevie was unaware of my existence—or at least not consciously aware of it—until just a few years ago. I guess he started trying to find me in around 2003. One day, there I was happily controlling his life from my secret location in the depths of his psyche, when lo and behold Stevie shows up, flashlight in hand, snooping around. I gotta tell you, I got quite a shock. I mean, I know lots of shadows—some of them mean motherfuckers—and almost none of them has ever had light shone directly on them; it’s just not natural. I really wasn’t happy about it at first; it felt like Stevie wanted to get rid of me. For a while he even started blaming me for everything that'd gone wrong in his life. BAAAAAHH!!
Slowly, though, we started to work things out. Bit by bit I let him see who and what I am, where I came from, what motivates me, and what purpose I serve. Step by step he's come to see me for what I really am, and stopped blaming me for doing my job.
These days we’re good friends. I get to express myself occasionally, without judgment or negativity. Stevie gets to feel and utilize the energy inherent in my very existence when I’m not repressed, or indulged and given away to material pursuits—primarily the pursuit of physical/sexual pleasure.
But that’s now. I should fill you in on what I was like before Stevie discovered and shone the light on me. Let me tell you, I was terrible, Muriel! TERRIBLE!!
What’s that Stevie? Oh, OK. In a minute . . .
It's a mystery why some human beings are called within their lifetime to turn their attention inwards, and examine what's unhealed in their psyche, in order to discover the deepest truth and freedom of the unity of existence, and why for others this urge never arises.
The movement to look inside is one possible response of the soul/ego to the longing to know the Truth—theistically speaking, the longing to know God—that may mysteriously arise at some point in a human life. I believe this longing is always present if we look deeply and quietly enough into our experience, but the busy-ness of everyday life—and the practice of following desires in the outside world—is usually too noisyto allow this longing to be heard or noticed.
For many of the people I talk to who are on the spiritual path, the longing for Truth was present for them from before their earliest memory, and so has effectively always been with them. For others—as it was for me—this urge consciously awakened later in life. So for me there is a distinct contrast between life before the onset of the urge to awaken, and life on the journey from the moment of the initial awakening experience towards abiding, and ever-deepening, awakening that continues today.
If absent or latent in earlier life, this longing for God, this longing for freedom, often first appears around the time of a pivotal life event when extreme emotions have been triggered, such as after the death of a loved one, loss of a relationship, a period of ill-health, loss of a job, or the falling apart of a previously stable life stage.
When we turn our attention inward—rather than continuing to direct it out into the external world, and into further indulgence in the story and in material desires—a true, ardent examination of what is discovered there can be undertaken. Inevitably, in this process of self-inquiry, one will eventually come face to face with the shadow.
Importantly, the goal of inquiring into the shadow is not to get rid of it; judging the shadow as bad or wrong will simply make it go more deeply underground. The goal—if there is a goal at all—is to be curious about what created itin the first place, to see how it functions and influences one’s life in the present, possibly to heal and release any traumas that contributed to its development, then to no longer react and re-identify when these triggers occur.
What I've found occurs as the shadow is exposed to the light of inquiry more and more, is that it's understood to be a natural part of the human experience, and once accepted it can be given a voice; the shadow can be allowed to come out of hiding, express itself, and come into alignment with the natural flow of all of life (see the Carl Jung quote at the beginning of this piece).
As emotional healing occurs through the process of inner self-inquiry, the unhealed parts of our psyche become more and more subtle, and more difficult to access. When the light of consciousness is shone into the far recesses of the mind where our most painful memories lurk, unmetabolised emotion associated with traumatic events from early in childhood may be discovered. These events often occurred prior to the full development of memory and language, and the memory traces associated with them may be indistinct, often felt as sensations in the physical body rather than as images or voices. I've discovered—thanks to guidance from one of my core spiritual teacher, Eli Jaxon-Bear—that these early childhood events can be revisited in a hypnotic regression and watched like a movie, either from the perspective of an external observer seeing the younger version of oneself as they were in the actual event, or seen directly through the eyes of the younger self if one associates into the memory. By playing the scene of these traumatic memories through a few times it's possible to see what was unseen or unresolved at the time of the event. In that seeing, the incident—and the painful emotions involved with it—can be released by entering into the memory and changing it. One can enter the memory as the younger youy with the necessary information or resource to act freely, rather than be a victim, and you can make a different choice. In this way, the trauma can be healed, and finally resolved. Lingering negative thoughts, emotions, and egoic identifications in the present that had their origin in this particular early traumatic event then collapse, and the insight that arises from seeing what was overlooked can positively transform the experience of life in the present moment. The result: more openness in the psyche, more depth to one's Self-realisation, and a life that flows more freely and creatively. Our story can then be transcended, and it becomes a teaching story which can benefit others in the awakening process if they’ve had similar experiences and woundings.
When I inquire into these early events in my own life, the primary memory I encounter is of a period of time spanning about six months during my third and fourth years of life. I see a three-year-old version of myself who's starting to see that his family—who represents the whole world and universe for him at this age—are completely caught up in their own individual stories, they’re believing their thoughts to be real, and they’re unable to see me as I truly am; young Stevie's starting to intuit that everyone is, in some sense, insane. He's seeing that his family is unable to see his essence, his true nature—which is pure love and joy—and that he’ll never get the love he longs for from the outside world without making some serious changes to himself.
Young Stevie reacts to this overwhelming sense of loss by feeling that it's his fault, that he's done something wrong, or that he's damaged somehow. He blames himself for being damaged, and he feels the fault lies with him. As time progresses, he grows more and more distant from his essential nature, and shame and self-loathing move in and become the core of his egoic emotional milieu.
Feeling this painful emotional state of separation is avoided by employing strategies such as trying to improve himself, striving to be the best he can be, trying to be perfect, trying to control his environment, and blaming himself and others for his failings.
Young Stevie goes about spending most of his life energy trying to fix himself, to make himself more lovable, more attractive, so that his family, and finally the world, will see him and love him. This movement to be seen and loved is really the avoidance of opening to, and feeling fully, the shame and self-hatred that's an integral part of being identified as a separate ego.
This particular desire to be seen and loved, when animated by the sexual drive, is the flavour of the energy at the core of Stevie’s shadow (for Enneagram people, it’s the sexual 4 fixation in action); it's the very nature of Diablo . . .
Sounds plausible Stevie, but really you don't know the first thing about me. For us shadows, it’s all about money, sex, and power; simple. For me personally, as Stevie’s shadow, it’s mostly about sex, and the incessant, unending, insatiable pursuit of pleasure.
I’ve been able to play my role pretty easily throughout Stevie’s life, because he was always wallowing in some sort of psychological pain, or indulging in some emotional drama or another—not being good enough, feeling inadequate, seeing himself as worthless, feeling unlovable, not feeling seen, wallowing in self-loathing or despair—it was pretty much constant.
When Stevie experienced these painful emotions, it would give me the green light to come out and orchestrate some sexual pleasure for him, so that he could momentarily forget how much it sucked to be Stevie.
Before Stevie started to work with me, I used to influence his life and actions—at least to some degree—most of the time. If I wasn’t fully in the driver’s seat and engaged in some full-on shadow action, then I was planning future pleasure for him, and orchestrating the necessary steps to achieve these experiences.
I was always busy making sure he looked good so that possible future sexual partners would find him attractive. This involved making him go to the gym regularly, making sure he ate healthily, making sure he dressed in a certain way, making sure he had an appropriate job to support this lifestyle. Generally making sure he had the right overall look and image. I was extremely good at my job, even if I do say so myself.
I was particularly good at tapping into Stevie's creative side when doing my job as his shadow. This took the form of having Stevie get dressed up—sometimes flamboyantly and outrageously—and arrange for him to go to certain events such as gay dance parties where other sexual shadows had gathered together searching for me to satisfy their cravings. Yes, drugs were sometimes involved in these events, I’m not going to lie. Stevie was always trying to be sensible about the drugs, but I’d convince him to take more as they temporarily stopped him from seeing himself as disgusting and unlovable. They lightened things up, and allowed me to really get to work.
Now I’m going to let you in on a special secret here that I’ve never told anyone before. It’s about how I utilize the male sexual drive—and my partner-in-crime, The Orgasm—to keep myself in business.
Have you ever seen footage of a live sperm? Yes? Well, then you’ll know that it has a very fast vibratory movement, is highly energetic, and its one goal in its short life is to fertilize an egg; that’s its sole purpose for existence.
Well, the male sexual drive is pretty much like that. Simple. Of course, society views this one-pointed desire to fertilize an egg as callous and somewhat sociopathic, so it gets dressed up with flowers, dating, dinner, a few glasses of wine, kissing, foreplay, la, la, la—you know the drill. Bottom line: the male sexual drive wants to deposit its sperm in the closest possible proximity to an egg, as often as it can, so it can score the jackpot and reproduce . . . the DNA must go on!
Now, when the inherited sexual attraction of the male human form is homosexual, as it is in my case, the male sexual drive described above gets a little skewed . . . or should I say screwed. I mean, there’s no egg to fertilize, right? I believe one result of this is to overcompensate, and spread the sperm around as much as possible. Maybe it thinks it’ll achieve its goal just by virtue of sheer abundance, who knows.
This, combined with the fact that the human nervous system is wired in such a way that a massive outpouring of electrical impulses and pleasurable hormones accompany the ejaculation of semen—the much hallowed, and widely worshipped, orgasm—means that gay men have honed the art of brief sexual encounters to a level of mastery.
One of the lesser known features of the orgasm is that it’s accompanied by a momentary cessation of thinking. This means there is a momentary dropping of the individual identity of the ego. The French call it le petit mort: the little death. In this brief gap of no-mind, revelatory insight into the true nature of reality can flash into one's awareness. I believe this momentary break from the incessant suffering of being a mind-identified human being is the source of the obsessive, addictive pursuit of the orgasm.
Now in the moments leading up to orgasm, I, Diablo, get to have free reign; Stevie’s pretty much gone. One of the core features of my very nature is that I’m insatiable; I always want more. So, in the moments before orgasm I plant the seed in Stevie’s subconscious mind for the next sexual encounter, and thus the next opportunity for sexual pleasure is already being planned as the present one is ending. This seed germinates and grows in the days and months that follow as Stevie re-encounters the pain and suffering of life once more, and thus the cycle continues. I perpetuate my role as the pursuer and orchestrator of pleasure . . .
Thanks Stevie and Diablo, most enlightening. The shadow can be a complex and difficult aspect of the psyche to engage and come to terms with. If it hasn’t been seen completely through to its core, it will still be operating covertly in some way in one’s life. Once fully seen, however, the life force that was distorted by its repression or indulgence is freed up, and flows into activity, energizing one’s life more fully. Being wakes up from identification with human being, and a true life—a life free of programmed conditioning and suffering—can then be lived.
I believe that at some point on the spiritual journey a close examination of the shadow is vitally important. This is sometimes referred to as shadow work. As mentioned previously, for some of us the shadow is mild, or virtually non-existent, and causes little or no trouble for us. For others, it’s a major burden in our lives—we all know people who might be described as having demons--for whom transcending the shadow is the main task to be undertaken . . . as indeed it was for me.
Initially, an earnest investigation is required to see through to the core of the shadow. Once this initial examination has been undertaken, vigilance is required as the shadow can go underground, re-group, and re-emerge again in a different guise.
The payoff for this investigation and vigilance is the greatest gift available to humanity: the gift of true freedom, true unconditional happiness, a life of true fulfilment, and authentic service to Love . . .
Stevie Angel Leppard
November 2014 - May 2015.
Listen to the song, Below Shame, that I wrote about The Shadow.
Stevie's Story: Index
"Let there be peace and love, among all beings of the universe. Let there be peace, let there be peace. Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti" - Papaji
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Major Foreign Policy Shift: Turkey Abandoning EU for SCO
Peter Korzun
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on November 20 that Turkey did not need to join the European Union «at all costs». Instead, it could become part of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), or Shanghai Pact. The Turkish leader said he had already discussed the idea with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev.
The SCO is a Eurasian political, economic, and military organization founded in 2001 in Shanghai. Its members are Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan speak Turkic languages.
India and Pakistan are to become full-fledged members by the next meeting at Astana in 2017. Mongolia, India, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan are SCO observers. In 2013, Turkey got the status of SCO’s «dialogue partner». The other country with the same status is Belarus. Dialogue partners are entitled to take part in ministerial-level and some other meetings of the SCO, but do not have voting rights.
Turkey formally applied to become a member of the European Union in 1987 and accession talks began in 2005. Its ambition to become part of the bloc dates back to the 1960s. Its prospects of joining look dim after 11 years of negotiations. The human rights are a divisive issue.
The EU has stepped up its criticism of Ankara since the failed July 15 coup d’état, saying the country’s anti-terror laws were being applied too broadly. Luxembourg and Austria, as well as some European lawmakers, called on the bloc to halt membership talks with Turkey or punish it with other sanctions.
For its part, Turkey is frustrated with the long stalemate over EU membership. Ankara has accused the EU of treating the country differently regarding its accession attempt and failing to unlock all the cash it had promised to disburse to Turkey on the back of the refugee deal. Turkey plans to revive the death penalty. The move will make EU accession impossible. President Erdogan plans to call a referendum on the future of Turkey’s EU membership bid.
Turkey’s SCO accession would be a milestone bringing together the organization and the Cooperation Council of Turkic-Speaking States (CCTS) – an international organization of Turkic countries, comprising Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey. The General Secretariat is in İstanbul, Turkey. Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are possible future members of the council.
The international organization also functions as an umbrella body for all other autonomous collaboration mechanisms like the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic Speaking Countries (TURKPA), International Organization of Turkic Culture (TURKSOY), and Turkic Academy.
Since its establishment in 2009 the CCTS has made meaningful progress on institutionalizing the interaction. The 6th Summit of the Heads of States of the Turkic Council is expected to take place till the end of the year in Cholpon-Ata (Kyrgyzstan).
President Erdogan’s statement is another sign of Ankara’s moving away from the West to other partners. For instance, Turkey has just announced it is in talks with Russia on purchasing the advanced long-range S-400 air defense systems to protect its skies. It also seeks procurement deals in electronic systems, ammunitions and missile technology. General Hulusi Akar, the head of the Turkish armed forces’ General Staff, visited Russia this month to discuss military cooperation.
During Erdogan’s two-day visit to Pakistan on November 16, the editor of a pro-government newspaper in Turkey said the country needed to develop its own nuclear deterrent. He might have expressed his personal opinion but it confirms the general trend of Turkey’s reorientation away from the NATO’s concept of cooperative security under the US umbrella.
During the August 9 summit in Saint-Petersburg, Russia and Turkey signed a declaration on unprecedented partnership in defense industry. The parties also agreed to form a joint military and intelligence mechanism to coordinate their activities in the Middle East. Russian-Turkish economic cooperation is expected to make further progress with the revival of Turkish Stream gas project.
It should be noted that Russia, not the US or any other NATO member, was the first country to be visited by the Turkish president after the failed coup.
In late October, Turkey and China also held a trade symposium in Istanbul, signing a total of 36 new deals amounting to $300 million in value. Due to its geography, Turkey has a crucial role to play in implementation of China’s One Belt One Road (Silk Road) project. Turkey is again taking the position as a key investment and cooperation partner that will help bridge the East and the West.
It has risen to become the world's 17th largest economy and an increasingly important destination for Chinese companies that want to trade and invest. Currently, China is Ankara’s third-largest trading partner, with trade amounting to $28 billion. Turkey is popular among Chinese tourists, and cultural relations between the two countries are developing.
Turkish Customs Minister Bulent Tüfenkci announced in January that the country now aims to triple trade with Iran, an SCO observer, to $30 billion «as soon as possible».
Turkey’s gradual shift from the West to Eurasia and other partners is part of a broader process as the West gets weakened and divided. The very notion of “Western unity” is fading away. Unsurprisingly, as its relations with the West sour, Turkey is reaching out to other poles of power. Further progress on the way of Ankara’s to integration with the SCO will facilitate the multi-dimensional foreign policy to strengthen Ankara’s standing in the world.
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This Israeli prominence as an arms exporter is not something new. Despite decades of Arab boycotts and pressure on countries to not deal with Israel, Israeli military exports continue to grow. By 2012 Israeli firms sold $1.8 billion worth of weapons to the Americas (mostly the United States, but a third of that went to South America), $1.6 billion to European customers, and $200 million to African nations. About half those sales are for anti-aircraft systems. Israel has a wide range of anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems, many of them using successful Israeli air-to-air missile designs for ground based systems. Israeli air defense technology has proved itself in combat, is famous for its reliability and technical excellence, and is priced to sell. Israel is also a major exporter of military space satellites, night vision and surveillance gear, and all manner of military communications equipment. Israel is also second only to the U.S. as a UAV exporter and was first to develop a lot of key UAV technology that the U.S. built on. Israel pioneered the development of add-on armor for combat and non-combat vehicles. Israel is also one of the premier developers of electronic warfare equipment (for aircraft and ground vehicles). Israel exports warships, warplane upgrades, and all manner of technical service.
Because of all this, Israeli military exports were huge a decade ago when annual sales had already reached $7 billion. In 2007 Israel became one of the top four arms exporters on the planet, shipping $7.2 billion worth of military equipment. The year before Israel had exported $6.9 billion. The U.S. is the largest exporter, followed by Russia and Germany. Israel is holding on as number four despite being much smaller than the top three (the U.S. has a population of 310 million, Russia 142 million, and Germany 82 million people, compared to 7.8 million in Israel). Israel defense exports account for about three percent of their GDP, compared to .7 percent in Russia and even less in the United States and Germany.
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Home // News // Magnetics Society's Distinguished Lecturer, Professor Tim St Pierre from UWA, embarks on UK lecture tour
Magnetics Society's Distinguished Lecturer, Professor Tim St Pierre from UWA, embarks on UK lecture tour
Posted: Tuesday 17th June, 2014 by Study Options
Professor St Pierre heads UWA's BioMagnetics Research Group in the School of Physics, which for more than 10 years has been making a real difference to medical procedures all over the world. Professor St Pierre’s work has revolutionised liver investigations and he is now working on simple low cost diagnostics for the two biggest tropical diseases, malaria and schistosomiasis or Bilharzia.
Now the global Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers not only recognises Professor St Pierre but also has this year named him their Magnetics Society's Distinguished Lecturer for 2014.
"Traditionally magnetics materials scientists have focused on technological applications of magnetism in devices such as computers and electric motors," Professor St Pierre said. "Geophysicists have been interested in magnetism in rocks. But we are moving into a new era where we are able to detect very subtle changes in the magnetic properties of living systems and design magnetic technologies to help us diagnose and treat disease."
He is currently undertaking three extensive lecture tours, which will take him across the globe to deliver 50 lectures in four continents over nearly six months. At the end of June, he will be reaching the UK, with dates at universities around the country.
You can find out more about Professor Tim St Pierre’s work on the Global Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers’ Magnetics Society’s website.
Professor St. Pierre’s UK lectures begin on the 23rd June in Cardiff and end on the 16th July in York. Find out more about the lecture series by emailing milly.ingate@uwa.edu.au
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Why Did the South Lose the Civil War?
Why The South Lost the Civil War, a companion book to the earlier How The North Won, by Archer Jones, Herman Hattaway, Richard E. Berenger and William M. Still, Jr, published in 1986 has always struck me as giving one of the worst answers to the question of “Why did the South lose the Civil War?” The thesis of this book is that the South lost the War because of insufficient nationalism. To call this argument preposterous is to be kind. Out of a white population of nine million the South lost a quarter of a million dead and many times that number in wounded. The South kept fighting until every Southern city was controlled by the Union. A small agrarian nation, the South fought a large, industrialized nascent world power. Unbelievably the South came close to winning this unequal contest. To contend that the South failed because of lack of will is ahistoric and a contemptible insult to the brave rebels who fell under the stars and bars. A better judge of Southern will during that war was General Grant who, while attacking the Southern cause, admitted that never had men fought harder for a cause than the Southerners.
So why did the South lose the Civil War? A better question to me is “Why did it take the North four years to win?” Considering the heavy preponderance of the North in manpower, money, manufacturing and agriculture, the war should have been a route. That it was not is largely attributable to poor generalship initially on the Union side. Once generals of the calibre of Grant and Sherman came to the fore, generals who knew how to apply the North’s vast preponderance in men and material, the winning of the war was merely a matter of time for the Union. That is my opinion. What is yours ?
Thursday, April 11, AD 2019
Nate Winchester
Agree with you, though I think motivation may have something to do with it too. This is a brother v brother war. Initially the North probably hoped that the war could be won with restraint and minimum bloodshed. Once it became clear it couldn’t, that’s when the gloves came off.
However, the hope for the South throughout the War always was that the North would tire of it and decide it just wasn’t worth it. The magnitude of the casualties on both sides is stunning. In one month at the start of the Overland Campaign in 1865 Grant had 50,000 casualties, many of the wounded mutilated for life. In August 1864 Lincoln thought his reelection was doomed to defeat. Historically war weariness for Americans sets in during the third year of a conflict. The South came very close to victory in the Summer of 1864, and if generals of the caliber of Grant, Sherman and Thomas were not then at the helm of the main Union armies, I suspect that the War would have had a very different outcome.
Why did it take the North so long? One name, McClellan.
David WS
Why 4 years, and why the outcome:
1. Americans fight to the death when invaded. The South was and so they fought.
2. Lee was until Grant, the better to any Union general.
3. Until the slaves were freed the North couldn’t win, then they could not loose. “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord..”
No accident.
4. It’s the verdict of human history that invaders from the North almost always win. Why? People from a temperate climate with industry.
Not a student of history. Just an engineer. But that’s my take.
T. Shaw
JFK: True. Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, et al had some input.
Thought: Would the Gettysburg outcome have been altered if Jackson hadn’t been hors d’combat at Chancellorsville?
McClellan was a symptom. Think about generals and field officers needing (what?) several years (Lee and Jackson were far quicker) to learn how to fight the “current” war. One reading of Rick Atkinson’s WWII ETO trilogy may show how US generals and field officers (down to battalion CO’s/staffs) were (compared to the Germans) far behind the war fighting “learning curve” in North Africa and Italy, but the troops and leaders (although decimated, exhausted and mad as hell) were efficient killers by the end of the war.
Dale Price
While I would never, ever accuse the Confederates of lacking a fighting spirit or will, I don’t think a “broken will” thesis is a slur on Southern determination or fighting ability. The fact is, the Union had a difficult task on its hands: it had to conquer a territory the size of Western Europe and beat down an immensely capable and ingenious people. And it had to build a war machine and scale up massive fighting forces in the process–and the cadres for those forces in the main went to their capable, ingenious enemies.
Yes, the South had even more difficulty building a war machine, given their economic base and agricultural orientation.
But here’s the thing–*they did it.* The Confederate armies did not run out of arms or ammunition: they ran out of food and men.
The lack of manpower is due to several factors, but I’ll narrow it down to two: (1) the Richmond regime was not universally popular with Southern whites. In fact, at least 100,000 white southerners took up arms for the Union, which was a fearsome double blow. And as the war progressed, growing numbers resented the “Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight” that put the burdens on the “plain folk.” They might not have loved the Union, but it was the Confederacy that was dragging their men away and making it hard to scrape by economically.
Which leads me to my second point: the total war strategy that began with Grant demoralized even the staunchest Confederates. Lee noted the desertion rates of the Georgia regiments as Sherman’s campaign intensified. The desertion rates were a consistent problem on both sides, but were much more of a problem for the South. As horrendous as it could be, knocking the South flat and breaking the will of white Southerners to continue the struggle was essential to victory. No less than Nathan Bedford Forrest, who had tried and failed to stop Wilson’s Raid through the last undamaged parts of the Confederate industrial areas, had this to say to an after-the-fact diehard: “Only a madman would have kept fighting that war.”
If I had to point to the one moment where ultimate victory slid through the fingers of the Confederacy, it was on September 20, 1863, on the climactic day of the fighting at Chickamauga.
The arrival of Granger’s reserve division and Thomas’ decision to launch the entire force at Longstreet’s veterans as they crested Snodgrass Hill meant that the Army of the Cumberland would survive. Longstreet’s troops were driven back, the fighting reverted to a bloody stalemate and Thomas’ troops were able to withdraw in good order.
Chattanooga would be besieged, but the Army of the Cumberland would be relieved in short order and the drive south would begin again once the Southrons were sent packing. Which is what happened. And nearly a year later, on September 2, 1864, Sherman destroyed the hopes of the Democratic Party and the South by taking Atlanta.
If Thomas had been overwhelmed, then the Army of the Cumberland would have been swept from the board and Chattanooga secured again for the Confederacy. Sure, some elements of the Cumberland force would have gotten away, but it would have been finished as a major force. The demoralizing effect of this on the Union can be easily imagined. Thomas’ magnificent defense against 2 to 1 odds was lionized for a reason: it was a near-run thing to total disaster, staved off by courage, determination, initiative and brilliance.
It would have taken several months to rebuild and replace the AoC forces and more to march to retake Chattanooga before heading south again. The bottom line is that Sherman does not electrify the Union on September 2 and Lincoln loses to McClellan.
From that, the world turns upside down again.
Penguins Fan
The best generals went to serve in the Confederacy as it began. They gave the South hope that it could succeed in its struggle for independence and excellent leadership that gave it a fighting chance for success.
Absent the North throwing in the towel and just quitting, the Confederacy was hoping for foreign recognition. If memory serves, Lincoln warned Great Britain that recognition of the Confederacy meant an invasion and conquering of Canada.
Over the past 25 years the Internet has found its way into countless lives. It used to amaze me how many people want to fight the Civil war on message boards and comboxes. The South was wrong and that is all there is to it. They wanted to spread slavery from coast to coast and had dreams of invading Latin America and taking that over.
While the South came close to winning in 1864, they came jsut as close to losing it in 1863. Meade did not pursue Lee’s defeated troops. Had he done so, it may well have ended sometime in July 1863, somewhere between Gettysburg and Northern Virginia.
The North won because of logistics, they almost lost it do to war wariness.
Remember the simplistic truism. “Armatures think tactics, professionals think logistics”.
There had never been a war of that scale fought on the North American Continent {Dear Lord, never again please). Except for book study this was a complete unknown. Even the professionals on both sides were armatures for this new situation.
Lee & company figured out the tactics first, then Grant and company figured out the logistics.
Friday, April 12, AD 2019
Michael Dowd
Basic reasons: Slavery was incompatible with the Constitution, with Christianity, with Big Business.
Lee had the logistics figured out also Hank, he just lacked the resources to do much about it. The Union early mastered logistics due to their overwhelming industrial might, and the Confederates early mastered raids to help maintain their armies on captured Union largesse. This was all symbolized by the Confederate nickname for Union Major General Nathaniel Banks of “Commissary” Banks. Ironically Sherman’s March to the Sea was predicated on a large Union force being able to live off the land in a fertile section of the Confederacy, where the goal was to move through and destroy rather than conquer and hold. There are still military lessons for today from that war fought a century and a half ago,
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North Korea-Run Restaurants Spread Propaganda and Kimchi Across Asia
Sebastian Strangio
TGI Friday's meets DPRK propaganda center, the state-owned Pyongyang Cafés provide kitschy entrainment and much-needed revenues for the regime back home
Waitresses perform for diners at the Pyongyang Restaurant in Phnom Penh. By Sebastian Strangio
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia and SEOUL, South Korea -- The Pyongyang Café sits at 58B Verkhneportovaya Street, a short walk from the twinkling lights of Vladivostok's container port. Patrons in this east Russian city, the home of the Pacific Fleet, are greeted at the door by pretty Korean waitresses, who take their coats and usher them into small booths with pine tables and lashings of plastic foliage. From a separate area of the restaurant -- reserved for Koreans, one waitress tells me -- comes the muffled sound of a karaoke machine, the same song warbling on repeatedly. After a bottle of Russian beer, a plate of dumplings, and a tasty bowl of bibimbap, Korea's national rice dish, I hand over a wad of rubles equivalent to about $35.
Among the city's growing cohort of Korean restaurants, Pyongyang Café has an unusual claim to fame. It is run by the North Korean government, part of a far-flung chain of restaurants that funnels much-needed foreign exchange to the ailing regime in Pyongyang. Andrey Kalachinsky, a veteran journalist and local analyst, said that in the Soviet era, when Vladivostok was a closed military city, the Pyongyang Café was the only foreign eatery in town -- a symbol of the political and economic ties between the Soviet Union and Marshal Kim Il-Sung's Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
At the Vladivostok restaurant, there is little to suggest any connection with the regime just 428 miles distant. No pictures of the Kim Il-Sung grace the walls, no slogans stamped out in shrill red Korean script. Instead, the décor excels in a sort of kitschy chinoiserie: the walls of one room are covered with naturalistic motifs -- golden autumn leaves and towering cliffs -- complete with a fake tree that "emerges" from the painted-on scene. Overlooking my booth was a framed poster of a woman looking out coyly from behind a large fan, the Chinese character for "double happiness" inscribed on every second blade.
North Korean government-run restaurants have existed for years in China, in regions adjacent to the DPRK's northern border, but in the past decade the business has truly gone global. In 2002, a branch of the Pyongyang restaurant chain opened in the Cambodian tourist hub of Siem Reap -- the first outside China -- and it became an immediate hit with South Korean tour groups visiting the nearby temples of Angkor. The success of the restaurant, which featured a nightly song and dance show by the North Korean waitresses, led to the opening of a second branch in Siem Reap and a third in the capital Phnom Penh in 2003. Since then, branches have also opened in Thailand, Laos, Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Nepal, Dubai and, soon, apparently, Amsterdam.
As North Korea's economic situation becomes increasingly dire, the number of branches has increased. A chain of mid-tier restaurants might not seem like much of a way to fund a government, but for the sanctions-stricken, technologically backward DPRK, every penny counts. After the fall of the Soviet Union and the death of Kim Il-Sung in 1994, North Korea found fewer communist countries to trade with, more capitalist democracies abhorred at its domestic abuses, and before long was in a state of severe economic crisis. Both Russia and China demanded that Pyongyang pay for imports in hard currency, rather than at advantageous "friendship" prices. Ravaged by famine and with its heavy industries in precipitous decline, the regime had little choice but to open "capitalist" foreign ventures -- including, eventually, restaurants -- to make up funding shortfalls.
"North Korea is not capable of producing anything of sellable quality," Andrei Lankov, a Korea expert and professor at Seoul's Kookmin University, told me. "They can sell some stuff like seafood, medical herbs, special types of mushrooms. But you are not going to run an economy on mushrooms."
The end result has been a plethora of overseas cash businesses, many of dubious legality, that prop up the North's moribund economy. Bertil Lintner, author of Great Leader, Dear Leader: Demystifying North Korean Under the Kim Clan, said that, along with kitschy restaurants, North Korea relies on such revenue-raising techniques as the sale of second-hand mobile phones and a suspected traffic in illicit drugs. But the Pyongyang Café might not be such an innocent venture.
"The restaurants are used to earn additional money for the government in Pyongyang -- at the same time as they were suspected of laundering proceeds from North Korea's more unsavory commercial activities," he said. "Restaurants and other cash-intensive enterprises are commonly used as conduits for wads of bills, which banks otherwise would not accept as deposits."
It's hard to know for certain how much money the restaurants raise, but in a recent report, the South Korean daily Chosun Ilbo estimated that around 120,000 South Koreans visit the two restaurants in Siem Reap, Cambodia, each year, contributing an estimated 200 to 300 million won ($179,000 to $269,000) to the coffers in Pyongyang. The report concluded that each of the restaurants probably earns $100,000 to $300,000 per year for the regime. As a result, Lankov said the eateries -- which probably number in the "low hundreds" across Asia - are likely one of Pyongyang's major earners. "It's a small, poor country. For them a few million U.S. dollars is a sufficient amount of money."
Reports from defectors suggest that the businesses are operated through a network of local middlemen, who send a certain amount of cash to North Korea each year as remittances. According to one report, the Cambodian eateries were opened by Ho Dae-sik, the local representative of the DPRK-aligned International Taekwondo Federation. (His son, Ho Si-ryong, is listed as the email contact for the Pyongyang Café in Phnom Penh, though he did not respond to queries). Like North Korean embassies, which are meant to be financially self-sufficient, the eateries have to cover their costs without cash from the central government.
Kim Myung-ho, a North Korean defector who ran a restaurant in northern China, reported in 2007 that each establishment, affiliated with "trading companies" operated by the government, was required to meet a fixed benchmark payment. "Every year, the sum total is counted at the business headquarters in Pyongyang, but if there's even a small default or lack of results, then the threat of evacuation is given," Kim told the Daily NK, a North Korea-focused online publication. Evacuation -- going back to North Korea -- is a serious threat for someone who is allowed a few years in the relative prosperity of, say, Cambodia.
Kwon Eun-Kyoung, English editor of the Daily NK, said the eateries are part of trading companies controlled by Bureau 39, the revenue-raising arm of Kim Jong-Il's Korean Workers Party. "Every business belongs to the party and is affiliated with the party systematically," she said. "Even though it is maybe run by brokers, the whole system we presume is controlled by the center of North Korea."
The establishments, highly political both in purpose and in the bizarre décor, have at times acted as political lightning rods for Korean expatriates. After the South Korean frigate Cheonan was sunk in March of last year, presumably by a North Korean submarine, South Korean residents in Cambodia launched a campaign to dissuade their compatriots from patronizing the DPRK-run restaurants. The Korean Association in Cambodia distributed stickers proclaiming, "We, Korean residents, don't go to North Korean restaurants." Posters condemning the sinking of the Cheonan were displayed on the windows at South Korean-run eateries.
One restaurant manager told the Phnom Penh Post that, in mid-2010, three men came to his restaurant and started taking photographs. The men tore the stickers from the toilets and removed an anti-DPRK poster from a board outside the restaurant. "They said they were taking orders from the North Korean Embassy. The North Korean Embassy told them to take pictures and take the [sign]," the paper quoted him as saying. The Chosun Ilbo reported a similar stand-off at a South Korean restaurant in Siem Reap.
With no real end in sight to tensions on the Korean peninsula, the main draw of these pricey eateries -- the thrill they give to southerners eager for a glimpse of life inside the estranged north -- could well be their undoing. When I took a trip to the Pyongyang Restaurant in Phnom Penh last year following the North's shelling of Yeonpyeong Island in November, the flood-lit establishment was empty save for a single table of South Korean businessmen. The turnout was so low that the usual bevy of pale-faced waitresses didn't even bother to perform their famous floor show.
Lankov said that, as competitive businesses, the restaurants rely on their novelty value to South Koreans. Without that, there may be little to keep them afloat. "The restaurants [offer] a bit of political exoticism, so people come," said Lankov. "Otherwise, I don't think they can be competitive."
Sebastian Strangio is an Australian journalist based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. His reporting from across Asia has appeared in Slate, Foreign Policy, The Economist, and other publications.
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Ask Ta-Nehisi Anything
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Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about race relations, Donald Trump, comic books, feminism, the bygone era of blogging, and more. The questions and answers were compiled and lightly edited from the “Ask Me Anything” he did with a group of Atlantic readers called TAD (created by members of TNC’s old commenting community, the Horde). The AMA’s section on comic books and feminism is located within his discussion thread on Black Panther, while the section on blogging is within the Horde thread. The remaining sections are below.
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On Trump and the Election
(Editor’s note: Reader questions are in bold, followed by Ta-Nehisi’s replies. The speech above was delivered the day after Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton.)
With the election and current political climate, there’s a lot of very understandable gloom and trepidation right now. But is there anything happening in America now that makes you feel optimistic about our future as a society? Any bright spots you would like to see more focus on and draw peoples’ attention to?
I don’t know. I don’t tend to look for reasons for optimism or pessimism. I think human societies tend to be problematic. And we are just conforming to the rule.
Trump is very aggressively attacking the credibility of the media. How can the media and journalists best respond to his tactics?
Not sure they can. Dunno if this is really up to them. Feels like something larger happening. Obviously you can do your job well. But I don’t think, say, The New York Times doing its job well is going to garner them cred among the people who believe Trump is a credible press critic.
Do you believe in the meme that it was liberal intolerance for conservative views that generated the backlash personified by Trump? Or the related meme that liberals have ignored white heartland people?
Nah. Trump was polling well back in 2012 in GOP primaries.
How do you think protest movements are gonna evolve in the next few years to counter the alt-right direction that national politics have taken?
No idea. But they need to take appropriate measures against the very real possibility of government surveillance and harassment. We’ve done it before. Like, in the life-times of many Americans. No real reason to think it could not happen again.
What lessons can today’s protest movements take from the civil rights movement, Black Panthers, etc.?
That it is highly likely they will be viewed as a threat. That it is likely that they will be set against each other. That they will be bugged. It’s worth talking to some of the leaders in the Muslim communities here in New York about what the NYPD did to them under Bloomberg.
What do you think of the recent schism on the left (or maybe just the far left?) about economic populism and “identity politics”?
Think it’s silly. I guess I’d be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I’d like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting. And you always see that on the left. Whether with Clinton’s “rising tide” rhetoric, with Obama’s adoption of that notion (see the archives [here]), or with Sanders.
It’s disappointing to see the senator endorse the charge of “political correctness.” It’s disappointing to see him invoke his own identity as coming from the white working class immediately after the election, and then a few weeks later attack identity politics and candidates standing up and saying “Vote for me, I’m a woman.” This is how the attacks on ID politics work. It’s fine for Sanders to invoke his own. It’s a problem when others do the same.
I also think Hillary Clinton was a very unfortunate vessel for the kind of complaints that folks in the “identity politics” camp typically lodge. Her skills as a politician aside, I think her own history provoked a great deal of skepticism among people like me who actually come from that generation that was written off as “super-predators,” who remember the crime bill, who remember welfare reform. I think that made it easy for those who were (rightly) concerned about Clinton’s speeches, for instance, to throw out the causes Clinton adopted right along with her.
Which is a bigger concern for you, Trump’s agenda or the upcoming legislative session?
Both. They’re one and the same. This does not end well. For anyone.
On Race Relations
(Editor’s note: Reader questions are in bold, followed by Ta-Nehisi’s replies. In the video above, he discusses issues surrounding his cover story, “My President Was Black.”)
After reading you for the last 5+ years or so, and becoming more aware of the racial strains that permeate the U.S. on so very many levels, and realizing that you are so much more aware of these things than I am (from experience and study), I wonder if you despair of Americans ever living together in truly racially peaceful and tranquil society, rather than being riven by racial division, strife, and conflict? Is a real peace—with something approaching fairness and justice—ever going to be on offer in America in your view?
Nah. I don’t despair. The world is imperfect. Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we’d like to admit. That’s just how it is. I don’t despair too much about dying either. It’s just a fact of being human.
How do you try and communicate that insight to children?
I talk to them, just like I’m talking here. I’ve never tried to hide anything.
As a black mother and an advocate for racial equality, I am concerned about your totality of belief that black people will never gain true equality in America. Don’t you think you should use your position in the media to forge alliances and proffer the reality that there are many blacks and whites that seamlessly bridge the gap between the races?
Nah. I’m a writer. My job is to speak what that which I think is true. If that bridges the gap, that’s good. If it doesn’t, that’s too bad.
As a Gen-X pundit of repute, what’s the most frustrating gap you see between Boomer and Millennial (and younger, now) activism? Is there something you’d wish both could grasp, but somehow they cannot?
I don’t feel much of one. I’m immensely proud of BLM, for instance. The only time I felt distance was during the campus protests. But that’s not generational. It’s because I went to an HBCU [historically black college or university] and so couldn’t directly relate to, say, having to walk past a hall named after a white supremacist every day. But that’s just because of my experiences. I think the kids are all right.
I’m a white guy who went to an HBCU (Del-State). I thought it was a great experience, but there was definitely a mixed response to my presence on some days. In recent years, at least as far as Del-State is concerned, there are more white folks going to HBCUs. Do you think this is good, bad, or no big deal?
Sure, it’s a good thing. I always thought of Howard being defined by its mission, not by racist exclusion. There is historical precedent for this. A historian recently told there was a time at the end of the 19th/early-20th century when Howard was the only place in the D.C. area that would train women to be doctors. The result was that, for a time, Howard was actually the largest producers of white women doctors in the region.
That’s right on mission. These places weren’t created to be the inverse of segregated universities. In fact, HBCUs have never been segregated. Howard, specifically, was created to educate and create a class of people invested in the ideals of justice and equality.
I can’t speak for Del-State. But I don’t fear white students coming to Howard. I think it’s great. We need more. And then we need other non-black institutions— not just higher ed—to follow that same example with black and brown folks.
As for whatever raised eyebrows you received, I’d say, while it isn’t right, ultimately, that’s good too. America is on permanent raised-eyebrow status toward those of us who are black. It’s not awful to get to see how that might feel.
What’s the best way for a white person to be an ally and advocate for social justice while de-centering oneself?
I don’t know. This isn’t really what I’d ask of anyone. I know the vocabulary here is popular. But it’s not really the kind I’d use or ask be used around me.
I think it’s really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting. I don’t know that white people need to be “allies” so much as understand that any black struggle in America is ultimately a struggle for the large country. “Ally” presumes a kind of distance that I am not sure exists.
On Music and Books
(Editor’s note: Reader questions are in bold, followed by Ta-Nehisi’s replies.)
I’ve been listening to Blood Orange’s Freetown Sound album on repeat for a couple days now and it blew my mind when I looked at the credits and realized it was you at talking at the end of “Love Ya.” How did that even happen?
They asked to sample. I said, sure. It’s a cool album.
What music have you been grooving to recently?
Rihanna. Frank Ocean. Kilo Kish. Old Jay-Z.
What sort of history books, if any, are you reading these days? I loved your discussion of Bloodlands.
Very slowly making my way through Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction.
Have you been following Jamelle Bouie’s reading of it at Slate?
Nah. Gotta stay in my own head.
I know you’re not much of a football fan these days, but I was wondering if you have any thoughts on (what seems to be) the steadily growing pushback against taxpayer-subsidized stadiums in major cities around the country (including, as of this week, San Diego). Will we see an end to these sorts of deals anytime soon? Should we?
I actually am back watching. Got pulled back in. Was looking for some part of me that was lost. More on that soon.
How has your living in France modified your point of view about race and culture, or has it?
Left me thinking a lot more about the international implications of the twin legacies of colonialism and enslavement. I’m not prepared to say anything definitive. But there’s a lot of interesting stuff there. Things like looking at the reaction of white Southerners to the Civil War, and the reaction of les pieds noirs to the Algerian War.
Just questions right now, honestly. Nothing certain.
How’s your French, at this point? Have you tried it out shouting at an American tourist or two?
Ça avance. Mais la langues étranger sont toujours difficile. Particularmente pour les adults. J'ai une prof privée. Nous rencontrons une fois ou deux fois chaque semaine. Donc, je vais continuer. J'adore français.
Désolé pour mes faults.
“Les langues”! C’est pluriel. Bonne continuation!
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NASA wants to put people back on the lunar surface in 2024, but it doesn’t have the budget.
The 50th anniversary of the moon landing is almost here, and NASA has gone all-out for the occasion.
The agency has been celebrating the memory of Apollo 11 for months. It has published a steady stream of archival photos and footage of the astronauts suiting up, blasting off, and posing on the lunar surface with the American flag, a pop of color against an expanse of gray. It refurbished the room at the Johnson Space Center where Mission Control monitored the journey so that now it looks the way it did in 1969, down to the coffee cups, clipboards, and packs of cigarettes. NASA headquarters even asked every communications officer at the agency to be “mindful of posting evergreen materials during the next few weeks that could get better attention once we’re past that spotlight event,” a spokesperson told me. Apollo 11 is NASA’s most famous mission, and the moon landing is one of the most defining moments in human history. It’s been moon time, all the time.
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Gareth Cook
No one has done more to dispel the myth of social mobility than Raj Chetty. But he has a plan to make equality of opportunity a reality.
Raj Chetty got his biggest break before his life began. His mother, Anbu, grew up in Tamil Nadu, a tropical state at the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent. Anbu showed the greatest academic potential of her five siblings, but her future was constrained by custom. Although Anbu’s father encouraged her scholarly inclinations, there were no colleges in the area, and sending his daughter away for an education would have been unseemly.
But as Anbu approached the end of high school, a minor miracle redirected her life. A local tycoon, himself the father of a bright daughter, decided to open a women’s college, housed in his elegant residence. Anbu was admitted to the inaugural class of 30 young women, learning English in the spacious courtyard under a thatched roof and traveling in the early mornings by bus to a nearby college to run chemistry experiments or dissect frogs’ hearts before the men arrived.
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Olga Khazan
Your mood might have a big influence on the type of companionship you want.
Heaps of research suggest that social relationships make people happier—but which relationships, specifically? A guilt-ridden afternoon with a mother-in-law might not have the same effect as drinks with a best friend. A “fair-weather friend” stands by your side only during good times.
Recently a group of researchers set out to determine whose company we actually seek out when we’re happy or unhappy. Their findings, published this month in the journal Psychological Science, suggest that when times are actually good, the people we turn to aren’t friends at all. They’re strangers.
The study’s authors looked at the moods and social interactions of more than 30,000 people, most of whom were French, over the course of a month. The data were collected through an app called 58 Seconds, which would text the participants at various times of the day and ask them to type in how they were feeling, what they were doing, and whom they were with, if anyone.
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What new research reveals about sexual predators, and why police fail to catch them
Robert Spada walked into the decrepit warehouse in Detroit and surveyed the chaos: Thousands of cardboard boxes and large plastic bags were piled haphazardly throughout the cavernous space. The air inside was hot and musty. Spada, an assistant prosecutor, saw that some of the windows were open, others broken, exposing the room to the summer heat. Above the boxes, birds glided in slow, swooping circles.
It was August 17, 2009, and this brick fortress of a building housed evidence that had been collected by the Detroit Police Department. Spada’s visit had been prompted by a question: Why were police sometimes unable to locate crucial evidence? The answer lay in the disarray before him.
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Conservatives can win over young Americans to our principles, but first we have to live by those principles.
Some conservative national-security practitioners gathered recently to find common ground on the future. The meeting wasn’t, as described in The Washington Post, flooded with regretful signatories of various anti-Trump letters, recanting in the hopes of career advancement. In attendance were people who had served in the Trump administration and people who’d refused to serve, united by a desire to restore principled national-security policies. What follows is an abbreviated version of my paper for the gathering, which was on how to engage young Americans with conservative principles.
In my experience, conservative foundational beliefs appeal to our successors. We can win over young Americans to our principles, but first we have to live by those principles. Americans under age 30 voted for Democrats by a 35-point margin in 2018 in large part because we don’t.
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Amanda Mull
A new study in mice points to how cell biology, not willpower, might be the root of yo-yo dieting.
The American conventional wisdom about weight loss is simple: A calorie deficit is all that’s required to drop excess pounds, and moderating future calorie consumption is all that’s required to maintain it. To the idea’s adherents, the infinite complexity of human biology acts as one big nutritional piggy bank. Anyone who gains too much weight or loses weight and gains it back has simply failed to balance the caloric checkbook, which can be corrected by forswearing fatty food or carbs.
Endocrinologists have known for decades that the science of weight is far more complicated than calorie deficits and energy expenditures. And in 2016, the fickle complexity of weight came to broad national attention. In a study of former contestants on a season of the weight-loss reality show The Biggest Loser, scientists found that years later, the contestants not only had gained back much or all of the weight they’d lost on the show, but also had far weaker metabolisms than most people their size. The contestants’ bodies had fought for years to regain the weight, contrary to the contestants’ efforts and wishes. No one was sure why.
Michelle Delgado
The Netflix series reimagines the role that a shopping center can play in the lives of American teens—especially for its young female characters.
This story contains spoilers for Stranger Things 3.
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Alia Wong
Teachers are suing the government over debt relief that never came—but their financial problems go much deeper than student loans.
America needs teachers: A majority of the country’s most experienced K–12 educators are expected to retire in the next few years, while research suggests that thousands of others will likely leave the profession prematurely, citing job dissatisfaction. How to get more people to join the profession? A little more than a decade ago, policy makers came up with one idea they thought would help: Give teachers some extra support in paying off their student loans. So, in 2007, Congress tasked the U.S. Department of Education, which administers federal financial aid, with offering student-debt relief to recent graduates in public-service careers: Essentially, make your minimum monthly payments for 10 years and your loans will be erased.
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“I mean, if it’s dinner, I’m not going to say no, so that I don’t have to go home and cook.”
Magali Trejo-Martinez, a 22-year-old living in Salem, Oregon, recently went on a date that was rather uninspiring. “I had dinner, had a couple margaritas, and then went home,” is how she recapped the evening. This outcome wasn’t entirely surprising—she says she wasn’t very interested in the guy when she agreed to go out with him—but it wasn’t a letdown either, because he paid the bill. While her heart wasn’t in it, her stomach was: “I mean, if it’s dinner, I’m not going to say no, so that I don’t have to go home and cook,” she told me.
Trejo says that when she goes on a date where food, not romance, is her priority, she doesn’t feel bad, noting that she still makes an effort to be an engaging dinner companion. “If it’s a guy that’s inviting me out, I do expect them to be the one to pay,” she says. “But I am also bi, so if I like a girl, I like to be the dominant one and then I will go and pay.” And when she is the one who gets asked, she’ll sometimes still say yes to an otherwise inauspicious date. “If it involves food,” she said, “I am always down.”
Patrick Semansky / AP
The fight on the House floor about Trump’s racist tweets illustrates, yet again, how singularly unprepared Washington is for a president like him.
In his racist attacks on four Democratic congresswomen of color, Donald Trump violated the norms of civilized public discourse in ways no modern president has come close to doing. And in its effort to condemn the president’s virulent remarks, the House Democratic majority dispensed—by raw party-line vote—with parliamentary niceties dating to the pen of Thomas Jefferson himself.
Welcome to another great moment in Washington 2019, where the 45th president seems more determined than ever to keep defining deviancy down, and to encourage everyone else to see the moral high ground as just another slippery and shifting partisan slope.
The day began normally enough for this non-normal age, with Speaker Nancy Pelosi determined to pass a nonbinding resolution rebuking Trump’s series of tweets attacking the four Democratic members as America-hating socialists who should “go back” to where they came from, even though all but one of them were born in the United States.
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Missouri Women Now Have to Wait Three Days for an Abortion
Missouri woman now have one more hoop to jump through to receive an abortion.
Arit John
Missouri woman now have one more hoop to jump through to receive an abortion. State lawmakers voted Wednesday night to override Gov. Jay Nixon's veto of a bill to expand wait period for abortions from 24 hours to 72 hours. That means over two thirds of both the House (117-44) and the Senate (23-7) voted in favor of the veto override, making Missouri one of three states that makes women wait several days before getting the procedure, along with Utah and South Dakota.
While Utah grants exemptions for rape and incest, the Missouri bill purposefully does not. As the bill's sponsor, Republican state Rep. Kevin Elmer, told USA Today when the bill first passed in May, this isn't about the mother. "The crux of it is for me when does life begin, and how do you value it?" Elmer said. "For me, even though that tragic situation may occur, I still believe that God is at work in this world and that he'll let bad things happen and he doesn't cause it." Supporters of the bill argue that making women "reflect" on their decision is compassionate, as is informing them about options like adoption.
Opponents of the bill argue that it's insulting to assume that women don't already consider their options, especially in cases of rape, incest, or fetal illness. It's an example of the conservative desire for less government intervention is trumped by social conservatism. As Gov. Nixon put it when he rejected the bill it "presupposes that women are unable to make up their own minds without further government intervention. This is insulting to women, particularly in light of what the law already requires.”
The law has also eliminated all but one abortion clinic in the entire state, meaning women have to either spend extra money and time in St. Louis waiting for the clock to run out or go to a different state. Planned Parenthood St. Louis hasn't said whether it will challenge the law, which takes effect in 30 days, in court.
Arit John is a former politics writer for The Wire.
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The Holes In Our Growing Network
The Internet of Things isn’t just a buzzword. It’s a connected network layered over our physical world, and it could be letting in more hackers than we can handle.
The Internet of Things is forming a digital infrastructure that already plays an important role in our homes, cars, offices, and cities. But as it proliferates, so do the opportunities for cyber attacks and invasions. Illustration by Jordon Cheung.
Today, we’re almost as likely to connect to the internet through our watches, cars, or home security systems as we are through laptops or smartphones. The online world is enveloping the physical one in an ever-growing network known as the Internet of Things, and that is changing life as we know it.
The number of connected online devices is exploding. The Atlantic Council, an international think tank, predicts that 50 billion objects will be communicating digital data to and from each other by the end of this decade—seven for every person on Earth. Much of that growth is not in consumer gadgets like fitness trackers or televisions but rather in our economy’s most critical systems, from factory floors and emergency rooms to power stations, aircraft engines, shipping fleets, and national security assets.
Connecting such crucial infrastructure to the internet promises exciting advances—from smarter factories, smarter shipping, and smarter retailing to smarter government. It could also be a fount of innovation and an important source of economic growth. But it will also mean a proliferation of new security risks: More connected devices means more devices capable of forming armies of bots, zombie networks, and other ways for cyber criminals to invade our physical world.
“The threat is already there. It has already been realized in some cases,” says Gerry Kane, director of cyber security at Zurich North America. Hackers are currently using the digital realm to target real-world assets. In late 2014, massive damage was caused to a German steel mill after hackers forced a blast furnace to malfunction. More recently, hackers with ties to Syria infiltrated a water utility’s control system in an undisclosed location and changed the levels of chemicals used to treat tap water.
Many hackers are just after data, and our personal mobile devices—currently far less secure than traditional computer systems—are an all-too-easy way to get it. Denial-of-service attacks, in which hackers shut down a company’s servers or customer-facing web applications, whether for ransom or some other purpose, are also becoming more common because of the Internet of Things. Seventy-three percent of IT professionals now consider it likely that a company will be hacked through a connected device, according to research by ISACA, an information-systems nonprofit.
“No one thinks they're going to get hit,” says Kane. “If you've only got a thousand records of personal information, that's certainly worth a lot less than a company that's got a million of those records. But if you make it easy for someone to get those files and records, they'll come and get them.” Often it’s small or medium-sized companies that dismiss security too easily, with 71 percent of cyber attacks happening at businesses with fewer than 100 employees, according to the U.S. House of Representatives’ Small Business Committee.
For decades, the threat of being hacked was treated as a technological battle fought with firewalls and antivirus software. Strong technology is surely needed to combat ever more sophisticated risks. But the accelerating pace of cyberattacks as the Internet of Things proliferates has also forced a sea change in thinking about what good security means.
That change began with a collective admission: Cyber attacks have become virtually impossible to eradicate, a fact of life, and companies must focus on quick reaction and recovery from breaches. “Most people in the business now will agree that you can't protect yourself completely,” explains Kane. “The focus of any good security program is not on protection but on detection and being able to find those intruders as quickly as possible, before they can do substantial damage.”
Following that principle, the U.S. government has established a comprehensive approach to cyber threats that places equal emphasis on warding off attacks and recovering from a breach. The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Cybersecurity Framework was designed to protect critical infrastructure such as banking and energy systems, but the standards have been adopted by everyone from retail chains to the Italian government. Nearly a third of U.S. firms are already using the framework, according to technology research firm Gartner.
There are other bright spots: Cyber threats are being taken seriously in an increasing number of boardrooms and corner offices. Jobs in cybersecurity are up 74 percent over the past five years, according to a 2015 report by Peninsula Press, based on numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. There has also been a rise in the job of chief security officer as some companies elevate it to an executive-level position.
Still, the Internet of Things may be expanding faster than our ability to comprehend it, and many companies are simply unprepared. The tools needed to make the IoT more secure already exist, but companies and institutions need to recognize the threat and prioritize the solutions. “It isn't going to require any new concepts or any new technologies,” says Kane. “It requires a commitment to thinking that's been around for a while in handling security as a process.”
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Trump says NATO countries' burden-sharing improving, wants more
U.S. President Donald Trump listens to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg while meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 2, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday his pressure on NATO nations to pay more for their defense is leading to tens of billions of dollars more in contributions, but the allies may need to boost their budgets even more.
Trump used a well-worn script about burden-sharing with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in talks at the White House. The meeting came a day before NATO foreign ministers sit down in Washington for what is expected to be a session dominated by concerns about Russia.
Trump, who has ruffled feathers among European allies by repeatedly saying that NATO nations needed to pay more and ease the burden on the United States, said his tactics have paid off.
"Since I came to office it's a rocket ship up. We've picked up over $140 billion in additional money, and we look like we're going to have at least another $100 billion in spending by the nations...by 2020," he said.
The U.S. president said he would like to see NATO members pay more than 2 percent of their gross domestic product for defense. Trump told NATO leaders last year to increase defense spending to 4 percent of GDP. He said the United States pays 4.3 percent of its GDP to NATO.
Trump singled out Germany for not doing enough, while praising German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
"Germany honestly is not paying their fair share," he said. "They're not paying what they should be paying. They're paying close to 1 percent."
The White House, in a statement, said that Trump met with Stoltenberg to mark NATO's 70th anniversary and reaffirm U.S. support for the alliance. The White House said the two leaders "reviewed NATO's unprecedented progress to increase burden-sharing" and also discussed "ongoing efforts to fight terrorism (and) check Russian aggression."
"WE'LL GET ALONG WITH RUSSIA"
Trump said a stronger NATO provides a bulwark against Russia, but that he believed relations with Moscow will be fine. As has been his norm, Trump was reluctant to criticize Russia.
“I hope we have a good relationship with Russia," he said. "But I think we’ll get along with Russia.”
Stoltenberg, who is to address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress on Wednesday, singled out Russia for "violating the INF treaty," the Cold War-era Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty.
Trump in February announced plans to withdraw the United States from the INF treaty this summer, saying Russia was in violation of it.
Russia is sowing discord in the alliance by selling to NATO member Turkey the S-400 air defense system. The United States has halted delivery of equipment related to its F-35 fighter jets to Turkey over its S-400 plans.
"We have very serious concerns about its stated plans to proceed with the acquisition of the S-400 missile defense system and there will be potential consequences, within sanctions law and the F-35 program if they continue," said a senior State Department official who briefed reporters.
The United States says that Turkey's purchase of the Russian air defense system would compromise the security of F-35 aircraft, which is built by Lockheed Martin Corp .
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity to preview the meeting of NATO foreign ministers, said the gathering would discuss all elements of the military threat posed by Russia, including in the Black Sea, as well as the Afghan peace process and members' budget contributions to the alliance.
The official said the NATO allies would seek to agree on a package of measures to bolster NATO's military presence in the Black Sea, which has become a flashpoint with Moscow over its seizure of Ukrainian ships last year.
"The focus is on the defense and deterrence posture of the alliance in the Black Sea region," said the official, adding that a plenary session on Thursday would focus on Russia, including what Washington sees as Moscow's breach of the INF treaty.
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World-Touring DJ Henry Fong ‘05 Named 2018 Distinguished Alumnus
World-touring DJ Henry Fong ‘05 was named the 2018 Distinguished Alumnus by the Alumni Council at the annual Alumni Luncheon hosted May 4 in Benjamin Hall. Fong, a member of the 14-year club, dedicated his award and speech to his late father Henry Fong Sr., a former Board Member at Benjamin and longtime friend of the School.
Fong, an Electronic Dance Music DJ and producer known for infusing a variety of styles into his EDM tracks began his career in college at the University of Central Florida, before moving to Los Angeles to focus on music production. Fong has since played for audiences of tens of thousands at festivals like Ultra, Electric Zoo and EDC Las Vegas.
Fong spoke to students and guests about the road “less traveled” to his success and the importance of staying true to oneself.
“I think my entire story is a little bit of proof that if you don’t fit in, there’s always hope,” said Fong.
“I felt like when I was here I didn’t fit in anywhere academically, I wasn’t a star athlete, and I had a hard time finding my place in the world . . . It’s okay to be different and pursue a different career path . . . I think I’m lucky to have been part of a close, tight-knit community here at Benjamin. At the time I didn’t really realize it but my first few core supporters throughout my career were friends I made at Benjamin,” said Fong.
Fong joins previous Distinguished Alumnus award recipients including Olympian Ryan Berube ‘92, former ‘America’s Next Top Model’ Whitney Cunningham ‘03 and Congressman Tom Rooney ‘89.
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Sean Strub: Sex, AIDS, Politics and Survival
Sean Strub tells Tim Teeman about a dramatic life fighting for dignity and justice for those with HIV and AIDS
Updated 07.12.17 12:23PM ET / Published 01.27.14 5:45AM ET
On September 5, 1991, the AIDS activists Sean Strub and Peter Staley unfurled a giant condom made of parachute fabric over Senator Jesse Helms’s Virginia home. The music producer David Geffen had given them $3000 to have it made. The men’s other compadres from the direct action group ACT UP powered a generator which inflated the condom to keep it as “life-like” as possible. The legend across the outsized sheath read: “A CONDOM TO STOP UNSAFE POLITICS. HELMS IS DEADLIER THAN A VIRUS.” The activists knew they had to be quick: their all-bases-covered research led them to believe the police would be there in around seven minutes. It took them six-and-a-half.
Helms, as Staley later recalled, had been “one of the chief architects of AIDS-related stigma in the U.S. He fought against any federal spending on HIV research, treatment or prevention.” Of gay men, Helms said: “It’s their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease.”
A “a rather butch female officer,” Strub recalls today, emerged, laughed at the sight of the giant condom, then groaned she hadn’t had her coffee yet. A neighbor screamed that the men should be arrested. Another policeman called Helms himself, then on the Senate floor, who said he didn’t want the cops to arrest any of the activists because it would only give them the media attention they craved. What he didn’t know was ACT UP had already informed the media, and CNN was capturing it all.
Strub laughs. “Helms never passed another piece of anti-gay or anti-AIDS legislation after that.” Strub is now 55, and still as impassioned and handsome as the photographs of his 32-year-old self from that day. Then his hair was dark and he was wearing a famous Silence = Death t-shirt; today, the temples have grayed and he is in a dark sports jacket, skinny jeans and crisp white shirt.
His memoir Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS and Survival, relates not just the dramatic life story of one of America’s leading AIDS activists and founder of the magazine Poz, but also, for a younger generation who may not know, how he and others fought to increase public awareness and counter bigotry in the much darker 1980s and 90s.
Strub grew up in a religious, Catholic home in Iowa City, the third of six children. “Because of my father’s devotion to the Virgin, all my three sisters were called Mary,” he says. His mother was an orphan who had been raised by nuns. There were prayers before meals and regular Sunday mass attendance. At 13, he was sent to a Jesuit boarding school. “I was the second son, a candidate for the priesthood, which I briefly felt I had a calling for, although what that really was was an escape hatch so I wouldn’t have to answer questions about girls.”
His wasn’t “a Leave It To Beaver family,” Strub says. “How could I be close to my parents when I felt so alienated from them?” He was quiet, precocious, and was criticized by them for being too much of a bookworm; they would buy him exercise equipment for his birthday. “I saw nothing in my life that reflected who I was.” Only on his paper-round did Strub find inspiration, delivering newspapers to the wives of the city’s university professors, many of who were progressive feminists, and would become his first mentors.
The seeds of Strub's activism were sown as a child, when he snuck out of the house to watch May Day riots in Iowa City. “I’ve always been attracted to being somewhere where something is going on,” he says, combined with having “a sense of responsibility” that came with helping raise his younger sisters—changing their diapers when he was 5, making their packed lunches and attending PTA meetings by the time he was 11.
Strub’s parents kept a hidden copy of Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex (But Were Too Afraid To Ask) by Dr. David Reuben in their bedroom. The young Strub read the “bits about homosexuality over and over again —that gays were destined to live lives of loneliness.” Such reading sated his intellectual curiosity. “I didn’t really apply the word to myself till I was 16.” That year was the last time he avidly prayed, “and it was that my homosexuality would go away.”
In adult movie theaters Strub watched gay porn to “see if men could have intercourse and it was a surprise to see them actually enjoying it.” He finally made out with another guy when he was 18 and began calling himself bisexual. “I enjoyed women, but saying I was bisexual was less daunting than calling myself homosexual, which I really was. Every career ambition I had required me to be heterosexual.”
This closeted-ness Strub gradually shook off when at 18 he moved to Washington, D.C., where he “dreamt of running for office, running campaigns.” He became involved in Democratic Party politics but became depressed at the level of hypocrisy he encountered. There would be suppers and lunches full of gay men, he recalled, “who were campy and talking about sex, but as soon as the subject of gay politics or equality came up they would be quiet.”
To be “authentic,” Strub moved to New York, where he worked as a fundraiser for a number of gay organizations. An inveterate networker, he managed to get Tennessee Williams as the chief signatory on one letter-writing campaign. Later, Williams regaled friends of Strub: “This is the man I started the gay rights movement with.”
It was a tumultuous time: there had been a number of ground-breaking victories—in 1973 the American Psychiatric Association had ruled homosexuality not to be a mental disorder, some cities had passed ordinances banning discrimination based on sexual orientation—but for these crawls forward, there were anti-gay campaigns run by the likes of Anita Bryant in Florida. Harvey Milk, the openly gay city supervisor in San Francisco, was assassinated in 1978.
One thing the gay rights movement did not want to do, says Strub—indeed still remains nervous about talking about—was gay sex and the sexual culture of backrooms and bath-houses that had bloomed. When AIDS emerged in the public sphere in 1981, Strub says, “it was seen as better to view it as a mysterious agent coming to destroy us, giving us the excuse not to be introspective about the sexual community we had created. To even use the word ‘promiscuity’ was a really risky thing to do, as promiscuity had become synonymous with gay liberation itself.”
In New York, Strub met other activists like Staley, Richard Berkowitz, Michael Callen and Vito Russo, later to become famous as the author of the wonderful The Celluloid Closet, a survey of gay and lesbian characters and images on film.
Strub recalls that in 1981 he suffered from the first symptoms associated with AIDS (HIV had not yet been identified as a virus): night-sweats, weight loss, and swollen lymph glands. But the attitude of doctors was that if the lymph glands were swollen it was a good sign of a body fighting infection. They were watching patients die quickly, and Strub seemed healthy.
Older men he didn’t know seemed to the ones dying in those early years, Strub recalls. 1983 saw the first jolting death in his circle—a male model called Joe Macdonald. Strub's then-roommate had slept with both Macdonald and Strub. Two other men Strub dated died in 1984. “That was my wake-up call,” he says, “although I don’t remember the first time I used a condom and I wasn’t 100 percent compliant.” Strub himself was diagnosed positive in 1985 (he believes he had been positive for five years before this). “My doctor had tears in eyes, and said ‘Look Sean, you can have two good years left.’”
Strub put his home on the market and started winding up his affairs. His parents prayed for him. “So many people were dying by then it wasn’t that a peace had to be made with it.” He became involved with the People With AIDS Coalition, which, given the level of government inaction and prevailing bigotry, provided a focus for support and research. A decision was taken by the Reagan administration, with its homophobic ballast of Moral Majority conservatism, to “let us die,” says Strub. “That was actually stated. AIDS was seen as a way to flush out the undesirables.” The president didn’t mention AIDS publicly until 1987. Funding for AIDS research was pitiable, the bigotry leveled against gays and people with HIV all-pervasive. Those with the virus were suffering and dying in awful conditions against a toxic backdrop of vindictive condemnation and cruel indifference.
“There was very little to be done for you,” says Strub. “A lot of doctors wouldn’t treat you. A lot of funeral homes wouldn’t take your body. It wasn’t just the straight world. Gay men could be pretty ugly. Partners would suddenly leave positive partners. At one dinner party in the Village, one guest who everyone knew was positive went to the washroom. Afterwards the host discreetly replaced the washroom’s linens, and then used boiling water for his dish and utensils. I thought it it was overkill, but I was also afraid.”
Strub was “conscious of how people would react to me: they would drop me, not touch me.” At one family meal, he speared a piece of food from someone else’s plate, and that person would not eat anything else from the plate. If there was a new baby in the family, I knew I couldn’t ask to hold it.”
His activism sustained Strub. Be-suited, he was arrested outside the White House at one demonstration in 1987, “a milestone, as it symbolized my young adulthood dreams and ideas. I was scared, defiant and proud all at once.”
Of the ACT UP demonstrations, “the most memorable and controversial” he attended was at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in December 1989, against the homophobia and anti-condom attitude of John Cardinal O’Connor. Strub notes the names of those arrested inside the Cathedral that day—many Irish and Polish—implied many had a Catholic upbringing themselves. “If the Stonewall Riots in 1969 had been the first gay pushback against the civil code used against them, the St. Patrick’s demonstration was the first time gays had pushed back against religion.”
Strub had lived beyond the two years estimated by his doctor. He took the highly toxic AZT, and products from the New York Buyers Club (the Manhattan model of what was recently evoked in the Matthew McConaughey film Dallas Buyers Club). Strub tried acupuncture, a macrobiotic diet, visualization: “I knew there was a big disconnection between what the mass media said—death was inevitable—and people actually living with HIV and AIDS and my desire to get on with life.”
Strub tried dual drug therapies in the early 1990s. In 1990, political cylinders still firing, he ran for the House of Representatives to represent New York’s 22nd congressional district. He won 46 per cent of the Democratic primary vote and was the first openly HIV-positive candidate for federal office in the US.
In 1994, Strub discovered his first Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) lesion on his hip. He knew only to be really worried if the lesions attached themselves to internal organs. He began chemotherapy and took drugs to combat the KS, which made him feel sick.
“It was an incredibly exciting and fulfilling period,” he says. “I no longer cared about material ambitions.” In 1994, he founded Poz, “for people with AIDS to share their stories and connect with each other. I wanted to show the range of lives being led.” Around the same time, he almost died. “I didn’t think I’d live long enough to see Poz become independently viable, but I was determined to live long enough to see it earn respect.”
The magazine was stylish and sharply edited, and Strub accrued a roster of celebrity supporters, including Lily Tomlin, Judith Light (“who has done so much for equality and is rarely credited for doing so”), and Yoko Ono, whose grace and un-diva-ishness he praises. Coincidentally, he was one of the first people on the scene at the assassination of her husband John Lennon in 1980. (Strub also relates wonderful stories in his book about becoming friends with Gore Vidal, and pissing out of a window with him while visiting Vidal's home in Ravello, Italy.)
Strub survived long enough to take the first generation of triple combination drugs in 1996, which have proved transformative for those with HIV. He smiles ruefully, “Back then we joked that the prescriptions should also come with prescriptions for fresh underwear. These horse-pills gave you projectile diarrhea.” His health improved, the KS lesions faded and Strub bought a home in Pennsylvania.
The cover of his memoir shows him kissing a former partner, Michael Misove, who died in 1988. “I didn’t expect to have a serious relationship after that. I expected to die.” But in 1992, he fell in love with his partner Xavier Morales “in a sleazy bar—and I don’t want to sound like a 13-year-old schoolgirl but as soon as we touched I felt an electricity.”
The couple broke up after Strub’s health rallied: “The relationship changed. Until then, Xavier had cared for me. Any ambition he had for himself was secondary.” They reunited six years ago. Strub relishes their rural life in Milford, Pennsylvania, their “connectedness to nature,” there, and chickens, dogs, and ducks they have kept. “When we first saw the property, I smelled the air at a waterfall we walked to and I knew in an instant I had to be able to breathe that air whenever I wanted to.”
He sold Poz in 2004, and began renovating old houses, but missing activism and working in policy, founded the Sero Project, “focused on ending inappropriate criminal prosecutions of people with HIV for non-disclosure of their HIV status, potential or perceived HIV exposure or HIV transmission.” “It’s not social conservatives or religious bigots stigmatizing people with HIV and AIDS now, but our justice and health systems,” says Strub.
He is similarly castigating towards public health education for young people around HIV. “Just saying ‘wear a condom’ is white noise. You’re never going to inspire the same fear as we had in young people today. You need to tell them about sexual health in a responsible way while affirming their sexuality. Why not state gradations of risk? That the most dangerous thing to do is have unprotected receptive anal intercourse. We need to convey that acquiring HIV is a life-changing event, the drugs are expensive, and it will screw up your life in so many ways. But if you are HIV-positive you can also have a wonderful life.”
The biggest obstacle to effective HIV testing and treatment is stigma, Strub says: both social and self-imposed. “Creating networks of support is the most important thing,” he says. When I ask how he feels about ageing and his mortality now, Strub smiles. “Every day is one I didn’t plan on having. I’m not looking forward to dying, but it will happen to all of us and will happen to me. But right now I am as driven as I have ever been.”
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$4 million in bonuses given to 200 employees at Michigan company
Employees will receive an average of $20K
Posted: 5:44 AM, Dec 18, 2018
By: WXYZ
LUDINGTON, Mich. — It's about to be an incredible holiday for dozens of workers at a west Michigan business after the owner told them he'd be handing out $4 million in bonuses.
The 200 employees of FloraCraft, based in Ludington, Michigan, will be getting an average of more than $20,000 in bonuses. Owner Lee Schoenherr announced the plans during a holiday party.
Each gift was based on longevity of service, and shared as both a cash bonus and a special gift to the employee's 401(k) plan. Those with more than 40 years of tenure will get around $60,000 in bonuses.
“I believe strongly in giving back to the community by supporting initiatives that make Ludington a wonderful place to live, work and raise a family,” Schoenherr said in a press release from the company. “A few years ago, I began thinking that I would like to do something more targeted for our employees, who really are the heart and soul of FloraCraft."
According to the release, employees responded with applause and cheers, with many lining up to thank Schoenherr personally.
The company said the average employee has a tenure of nine years, and some families are second- and third-generation employees.
“The news today was fantastic. I didn’t expect anything like that — and I’m very happy," one employee said, according to the release.
“It was very humbling. I started crying — it was huge for him to do something like that for everybody," another added.
“This idea has developed over the past year and is my way of saying 'Thank you' to our team for the role they have had in our success," Schoenherr said. "But don’t think this means I’m exiting or selling the business — I love what I do and am committed to maintaining the independence of FloraCraft."
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TyreSafe launches inaugural awards
Automotive and road safety professionals including tyre manufacturers, retailers, emergency services, councils and many others are being encouraged to submit their entry into the inaugural TyreSafe Awards.
The awards, which will be presented at a luncheon on Wednesday 20th November at St Johns hotel in Solihull, will recognise the best contributions from a range of organisations around the UK in helping raise awareness about tyre safety issues during 2012 and 2013.
“TyreSafe’s activities and campaigns have made a significant contribution to improving road safety in the UK over the last few years,” explains Stuart Jackson, chairman TyreSafe. “However, this success would not have been possible without the high levels of support and participation we’ve enjoyed from a growing number and wider range of organisations. This first ever awards ceremony gives us the opportunity to formally recognise these efforts as well as inspire others to do similar.”
The breadth of organisations now involved with TyreSafe is reflected in the eight award categories on offer. These include independent garages, franchise dealerships, vehicle manufacturers, tyre retailers and manufacturers, emergency services as well as a community award which covers local councils, road safety partnerships and other road safety bodies. There will also be an outstanding achievement award which will be decided by the judging panel from all of the individual entries submitted.
Entry into the awards closes on 1st November, giving organisations an opportunity to include any activities or initiatives they run during October’s tyre safety month.
“We’ve made the entry process as simple as possible as we want as many of our fantastic supporters to get involved,” added Jackson. “We wish everyone taking part the best success and once again, we’d like to offer our sincere thanks for your ongoing support.”
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Richard Whitehead celebrates his T42 200m victory
Richard Whitehead (coach: Liz Yelling) raced to an exceptional victory in this morning’s T42 200m at the IPC Athletics World Championships in Christchurch, New Zealand (21-30 January) in a new lifetime best and Championship Record of 25.88 (+1.8m/s).
Taking the Aviva Great Britain and Northern Ireland gold medal tally up to four, Whitehead executed a near-perfect performance to take the win against Clavel Kayitare of France (26.54) – the world leading athlete going into the race – and Japan’s Atsushi Yamamoto (26.92).
“200m is a hard distance for me but I took a good look at the other guys in the warm up area and I knew what I had to do,” he said. “My start is usually quite slow and I realised they were going to be quick off the blocks so I had to work hard to attack the bend before accelerating into the finish.”
“I was the underdog in the race and that’s how I like it,” he continued. “The opportunity was there and I really wanted to smash it. There’s such a great atmosphere within the team and everyone has really supported me, it’s been brilliant.”
Opening the day’s proceedings in style, Beijing T36 100m silver medallist Ben Rushgrove (coach: Rob Ellchuk) raced to World Championships silver in a new PB and European Record of 12.25 (+1.5m/s).
Undoubtedly a Championships performer, the Bath-based athlete - who was beaten to gold by Hong Kong’s World Record holder and defending champion So Wa Wai in 12.17 - was buzzing: “I love this whole experience, I love coming away with the team and the nitty gritty of just getting down and dirty with it,” he said.
“I woke up at 6am and I knew I really wanted it today; I came out and gave it my best shot and to get a PB was brilliant. It went right down to the line because the guys got such a great start. Maybe the pressure got to me a bit, but that’s what major Championships are all about; there’s no greater occasion.”
Graeme Ballard (coach: Steve Thomas), who had flown to victory in his heat, finished a credible fifth in 12.57.
Completing a trio of podium finishes for the Aviva GB & NI team in the QE11 Stadium this morning, Hazel Robson (coach: Janice Kauffman), Bethy Woodward (coach: Jonas Dodoo), Katrina Hart (coach: Rob Ellchuk) and Jenny McLoughlin (coach: Darrell Maynard) took an excellent bronze in the women’s T35-38 4 x 100m relay (58.33).
McLoughlin, bitterly disappointed to fall in the late stages of yesterday’s T36 200m, was delighted to bring the baton home. “I really wanted to prove something,” she said. “When I got back last night I was desperate to get back out there and do well for the team; I’m pleased with that and it’s given me great confidence going into the 100m.”
Ian Jones (coach: John Dunne) finished seventh in the T44 200m final in 23.70 (+1.4m/s), a race won by South Africa’s T43 World Record holder and three times World and Paralympic champion over 100m, 200m and 400m, Oscar Pistorius in 21.80.
This afternoon’s programme kicks off with Chris Martin (coach: Phil Peat), Kieran Tscherniawsky (coach: Jim Edwards) and Daniel West (coach: Jim Edwards) in the F32/33/34 discus final at 16.00 NZ time (03.00 UK time).
For the latest news about the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships, please visit www.ipcathleticsworldchamps.com, while the IPC’s online TV channel www.ParalympicSport.TV is broadcasting live coverage of the evening sessions from Christchurch.
Daily session reports will be posted on the UKA website: www.uka.org.uk
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Kari Wissel: She found out Muncie was better than she thought
Kari Wissel grew up in Henry County and knew Muncie as a place to spend money. As a college student, she found a new love for the city.
Kari Wissel: She found out Muncie was better than she thought Kari Wissel grew up in Henry County and knew Muncie as a place to spend money. As a college student, she found a new love for the city. Check out this story on thestarpress.com: https://tspne.ws/2xoqaEc
Phil Beebe, Muncie Star Press Published 8:32 a.m. ET Sept. 20, 2018 | Updated 2:36 p.m. ET Sept. 20, 2018
Twenty award recipients were honored for their achievements during the annual 20 Under 40 banquet at Cornerstone Thursday evening. Jordan Kartholl / Star Press,
Kari Wissel. 20 under 40 2018. (Photo: Jordan Kartholl / Star Press, )Buy Photo
Kari Wissel grew up in Henry County and knew Muncie as a place to spend money, and not much else.
As a college student at Ball State University, she found a new love for the city.
“I thought, ‘Oh, this is where I come to the mall, the movies maybe,’ “ Wissel said. “But I didn’t appreciate it, and it really took immersing myself in it and getting to meet the people and seeing how many people care about it, that I found my appreciation for it.”
Wissel was one of 20 people to be recognized by The Star Press and M Magazine in this year’s 20 Under 40 program, which honors people under the age of 40 making a difference in the community.
Wissel can thank the place that is most special to her, the Muncie YWCA, for keeping her here beyond graduation.
“This was not my plan,” she said of making Muncie home. “I thought as soon as I graduated I was going to leave. But it was during my internship, and my supervisor forcing me to get out and about, meet people and just kind of make a place for myself. I really like how it’s so easy to get connected and get involved, and if you don’t think that you have a place in the community, then you can just kind of make one for yourself.”
Our 2018 20 Under 40 recipients answer the question, "why do you love Muncie?" Muncie Star Press
Wissel, 24, is outreach coordinator for Ball State’s Center for Advancement of Digital Marketing and Analytics. CADMA is part of the department of marketing in the College of Business.
“I would say 80 percent of my time is spent event planning,” Wissel said. “So as soon as I started I had 2 ½ months to plan Muncie’s first digital marketing summit, which was a day-long conference for students, professionals, professors, anyone that played a role in marketing efforts could come and listen to these nine experts speak on various topics.”
She also organized a national social media campaign development competition that brought college teams from across the country to Ball State.
And even though the Ball State job is her full-time work, she is still closely involved at YWCA, where she worked part-time during college and then started full-time after graduating, serving as development and marketing director before taking the Ball State position.
“Technically, I still do work there,” she said. “I loved that job. I was kind of like the spokesperson for the organization, so going and speaking with groups, and potential funders, educating people that it’s not just a homeless shelter, but we’re working for social justice, and women’s rights, and then of course the development side. Collecting sponsors, and putting on all the events, which I think is really, really fun.
“I’m super passionate about women and helping others, and I really like the idea of, at the end of the day I get super frustrated, but I know that the work I am doing is actually helping a woman, her family, our community as a whole. Super passionate about the YWCA. They can’t get rid of me. That’s my place.”
Wissel’s involvement at the YWCA pushed her to realize what she really loves.
“For me, it’s kind of let me uncover my passions,” she said. “I had never worked for a nonprofit, and never thought I would work for a nonprofit. Being in a small community, I can play a part in what that looks like for everyone.”
What she says:
What is your favorite spot in Muncie: “My weekday, the Caffeinery, because I can come here and be productive, while also getting some zen going. Nights, I’d say Savages, because there’s cheap PBR. And then on a weekend, I’d say the reservoir.”
How would you describe yourself: “Goofy. Optimistic. Really energetic. Kind of a happy-go-lucky kind of gal.”
Where are we most likely to find you on a Saturday morning: “All my Saturdays are different. I like to go on little trips on the weekends. So, visiting friends, having brunch at a new spot I’ve never been to. I might be taking a bike ride, and there’s also the chance that I might be still sleeping. I have no routine.”
What is one unusual thing you keep in your work space: “Right now it’s these little plant holders that are really cute, that are hanging from my ceiling. I killed the plants that are in them, but I have these really cute little plant holders. There’s also a dead fern on my desk.”
Who has been a big influencer in your life: “My grandma. She’s just a super silly, smart, way creative strong woman. And I’m just really close with her. And then WaTasha Barnes Griffin, she’s fantastic. And then Peggy Cenova. She’s just this boss lady, who is so nice and always willing to give me advice. She just carries herself really well. I want to be like Peggy when I grow up.”
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Irish constitution is insulting and sexist, says Leo Varadkar
Cate McCurry
September 11 2018, 12:01am, The Times
Mary Beard, the academic, talks to Leo Varadkar at the Congress of Parliamentary Women’s CaucusesNIALL CARSON/PA WIRE
Parts of the Irish constitution are sexist and backward, Leo Varadkar has said.
Referring to the controversial clause relating to a woman’s place in the home, the taoiseach said it was “insulting and outdated” and called for it to be removed from the constitution.
Mr Varadkar also told the first International Congress of Parliamentary Women’s Caucuses that women were underrepresented in decision-making structures across private and public sectors. In an address during the event in Dublin Castle, Mr Varadkar said that many aspects of the Irish constitution were still “sexist and still backward” despite some of the changes made to it in recent months.
“I know there are some people who are opposed to changing this, to taking this language out of our constitution, saying…
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Justin Langer the frontrunner to succeed Darren Lehmann as Australia coach
Elizabeth Ammon
March 31 2018, 12:01am, The Times
Langer played 105 Tests for Australia between 1993 and 2007WILL RUSSELL/GETTY IMAGES
Justin Langer is favourite to be appointed Australia’s head coach after the resignation of Darren Lehmann in the wake of the ball-tampering scandal.
The 47-year-old had been widely tipped to take over from Lehmann after the 2019 Ashes series, when it was expected he would step down.
Lehmann announced on Thursday that he would leave his post after the final Test of the series against South Africa, which is due to finish on Tuesday.
Australia’s new-look team — without the three suspended players, Steve Smith and David Warner, the former captain and vice-captain respectively, and Cameron Bancroft — produced a late rally on the opening day in Johannesburg yesterday, leaving South Africa 313 for six after an impressive 152 from Aiden Markram, the opener.
Langer,…
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British biologist Lee White given cabinet post to save Gabon’s wildlife
Jane Flanagan
June 12 2019, 12:01am, The Times
Lee White is from Manchester but has worked in Gabon for the past three decadesRICHARD POHLE/THE TIMES
A British biologist who has led the war against the plundering of wildlife and rainforest in the equatorial African nation of Gabon has been given a post in the country’s cabinet.
Investigations by Lee White, 53, into a $250 million illegal logging scandal led to the sacking of the country’s vice-president and the environment minister whose job he will now take.
Professor White, who is from Manchester but has worked in Gabon for the past three decades, will attend his first cabinet meeting tomorrow after being personally appointed by President Bongo as minister of forests, the sea and the environment.
The biologist said that he was slightly surprised at his promotion, which he believed was “a big step for the president to take”.
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Chinas Earliest Most Important Musical Instrument Was
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Results: 2016 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final Cozumel | 16-19 Female AG Sprint
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1 Abril M Sandoval Bernal 2000 MEX 561 01:05:45 00:10:39 00:02:07 00:32:11 00:00:50 00:19:58
2 Ivanna Cervantes Richards 1998 MEX 568 01:06:02 00:10:13 00:02:06 00:32:52 00:00:48 00:20:03
3 Lizeth Lopez 1997 MEX 570 01:06:14 00:10:53 00:02:13 00:31:43 00:00:51 00:20:34
4 Ana Celia Regalado 1997 MEX 562 01:06:41 00:11:07 00:02:28 00:31:26 00:00:55 00:20:45
5 Blythe Fourie 2000 GBR 610 01:06:48 00:10:57 00:02:26 00:31:30 00:00:54 00:21:01
6 Bayley-Rose Van De Coolwijk 1999 NZL 578 01:07:21 00:10:00 00:02:15 00:32:01 00:00:47 00:22:18
7 Clara Guimaraes Lara De Carvalho 1997 BRA 598 01:07:25 00:10:49 00:02:32 00:31:32 00:01:11 00:21:21
8 Rebecca Naughton 1998 USA 592 01:07:26 00:11:18 00:02:25 00:31:14 00:00:54 00:21:35
9 Ingrid Ameyalli Carrillo Castro 1999 MEX 567 01:08:09 00:10:04 00:02:14 00:32:38 00:00:57 00:22:16
10 Hannah Fusselman 2000 USA 586 01:08:14 00:11:24 00:02:20 00:31:22 00:01:02 00:22:06
11 Andrea Loza Arreola 2000 MEX 564 01:08:35 00:10:06 00:02:12 00:32:38 00:00:57 00:22:42
12 Fiona Bernal 1999 MEX 566 01:08:36 00:10:49 00:02:17 00:31:59 00:00:50 00:22:41
13 Sophie Jane Skelton 1999 NZL 582 01:09:10 00:10:47 00:02:24 00:31:43 00:00:52 00:23:24
14 Sandra Fierro 1997 MEX 575 01:09:22 00:11:08 00:02:22 00:31:33 00:00:58 00:23:21
15 Tara Jenkins 1997 AUS 597 01:09:29 00:10:51 00:02:22 00:31:44 00:00:58 00:23:34
16 Katelyn Elliott 2000 USA 587 01:09:56 00:11:31 00:02:24 00:33:49 00:00:56 00:21:16
17 Charlotte Carter 2000 NZL 579 01:10:02 00:11:10 00:02:28 00:31:20 00:00:52 00:24:12
18 Emilie Tremblay 1999 CAN 603 01:10:08 00:11:24 00:02:19 00:31:08 00:00:55 00:24:22
19 Rachael Vatter 1997 GBR 614 01:10:22 00:10:44 00:02:38 00:31:45 00:00:58 00:24:17
20 Génesis Ramírez Rodriguez 1999 PUR 583 01:10:36 00:11:23 00:02:16 00:31:20 00:01:03 00:24:34
21 Natalie Mitchell 2000 NZL 581 01:10:39 00:10:49 00:02:25 00:31:42 00:00:55 00:24:48
22 Llori Sharpe 2000 JAM 616 01:10:43 00:10:54 00:02:27 00:34:39 00:01:02 00:21:41
23 Megan Greensmith 2000 NZL 580 01:11:25 00:11:30 00:02:27 00:33:48 00:00:58 00:22:42
24 Breagha Campbell 1998 GBR 611 01:11:57 00:10:34 00:03:02 00:34:14 00:01:23 00:22:44
25 Olivia Jeffrey 1998 AUS 596 01:12:03 00:11:34 00:02:09 00:33:59 00:01:08 00:23:13
26 Miriam Paloma Gonzalez 1997 MEX 573 01:12:15 00:13:00 00:02:41 00:33:06 00:00:58 00:22:30
27 Leonela Simonne Arcos 1998 MEX 569 01:12:23 00:10:27 00:02:32 00:34:52 00:01:06 00:23:26
28 Lauren Elliott 1999 AUS 594 01:12:56 00:10:07 00:02:14 00:32:28 00:01:12 00:26:55
29 Olivia Fry 1999 AUS 595 01:13:01 00:10:58 00:02:28 00:31:25 00:01:15 00:26:55
30 Maria Fernanda Gomez 1997 MEX 571 01:13:18 00:10:26 00:02:36 00:36:02 00:01:05 00:23:09
31 Aimee Elliott 2000 NZL 576 01:13:20 00:10:02 00:02:18 00:35:55 00:01:00 00:24:05
32 Cassandra Mastel-Marr 1999 CAN 602 01:14:05 00:11:33 00:02:25 00:34:58 00:01:00 00:24:09
33 Kobee Scott 1998 USA 589 01:14:19 00:11:27 00:02:25 00:33:55 00:01:17 00:25:15
34 Maricarmen Del Valle 1998 MEX 572 01:14:28 00:11:27 00:02:29 00:33:50 00:01:09 00:25:33
35 Marie-Odile Francoeur 1998 CAN 605 01:15:16 00:11:53 00:02:44 00:34:16 00:01:07 00:25:16
36 Anna Wilkinson 1999 NZL 577 01:15:25 00:10:21 00:02:23 00:32:05 00:00:56 00:29:40
37 Madison Sloan 1997 CAN 604 01:16:39 00:12:43 00:02:22 00:33:43 00:01:02 00:26:49
38 Liliane Lichesky 1998 BRA 600 01:17:28 00:11:50 00:02:37 00:36:16 00:01:00 00:25:45
39 Caroline Killeen 1998 USA 585 01:18:04 00:12:34 00:02:43 00:33:31 00:01:10 00:28:06
40 Paola De Anda 1998 MEX 574 01:18:11 00:10:23 00:02:39 00:32:03 00:00:59 00:32:07
41 Luana Feder Campos 1999 BRA 601 01:18:43 00:11:11 00:03:02 00:38:12 00:01:06 00:25:12
42 Courtney Bicknell 1998 AUS 593 01:19:28 00:10:49 00:02:36 00:31:39 00:01:13 00:33:11
43 Mia Selman 2000 GBR 613 01:23:21 00:13:39 00:02:52 00:38:50 00:01:07 00:26:53
44 Ana Mayela Larrañaga 1997 MEX 563 01:24:21 00:11:57 00:02:45 00:38:01 00:01:13 00:30:25
45 Sofia Miranda Araya 1998 CRC 608 01:25:50 00:12:45 00:03:00 00:39:35 00:01:28 00:29:02
46 Talija Menegotto 1999 CAN 606 01:28:13 00:11:42 00:02:33 00:40:42 00:01:16 00:32:00
47 Kelly Brick 1999 GBR 612 01:29:15 00:13:40 00:02:50 00:43:36 00:01:20 00:27:49
48 Valeria Castillo Salazar 1998 CRC 609 01:33:24 00:11:59 00:03:17 00:40:14 00:01:23 00:36:31
49 Victoria Stinson 1997 CAN 607 01:35:45 00:15:55 00:02:42 00:42:43 00:01:10 00:33:15
DNF Fatima Georgina Garcia 1998 MEX 565 DSQ 00:11:20 00:02:22 00:31:16 00:01:04 00:24:49
DNF Kristina Swenson 1997 USA 590 DSQ 00:11:15 00:02:25 00:31:28 00:00:55 00:22:14
Technical Delegate: Ulf Schuetze/CAN. Race Referee: Leslie Buchanan/CAN. Competition Jury: Scott Weinheimer/CAN, Antonio Fernandez/ESP, Gerardo Zetina/MEX. Water temperature 28.3ºC. Air Temperature 29.2ºC. Wetsuits not allowed. Distances: Swim 750 m (1 lap) Bike 20 km (1 lap) Run 5 km (1 lap). Athletes #565 Garcia/MEX and #590 Swenson/USA were disqualified because they short cut the swim course.
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A trapper's role in wildlife management
This video has been produced by the Fédération des Trappeurs Gestionnaires du Québec, and explains the vital roles modern trappers play in managing wildlife. These roles include controlling the spread of diseases such as rabies, minimising damage caused by over-populated species such as beavers, and removing animals that directly threaten humans, such as bears. A transcript follows:
Trapping as practiced today ensures sound management of animal populations. The raccoon rabies control program is the perfect example of the close collaboration with the government to protect the public against epidemics such as rabies in raccoons. Since 2006, the work done has eliminated raccoon rabies in Quebec.
The expertise of trappers is crucial to carry out such operations and to ensure public health and safety. Today, trappers are true professionals, and perform their work while respecting wildlife and habitats. They are very familiar with the situation in the field, and contribute to sound management of animal populations.
With food sources more abundant than ever, and without sufficient predators, the populations of many species increase rapidly. It is estimated that there are one million beavers in Quebec, much more than there were during the exploration and colonisation of North America. Management through trapping allows the control of beaver populations while avoiding significant costs for society.
A professional trapper is also essential for the management of animals potentially dangerous to humans.
The Fédération des Trappeurs Gestionnaires du Québec is proud to promote the benefits of trapping, and the use of fur, a high-quality, renewable resource.
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Chrissy Teigen ‘So Ready’ To Face Postpartum Depression Again
Teigen recently said her bout with postpartum depression was like “coming down from any drug.”
Model and TV personality Chrissy Teigen said she's ready to face the possibility of another bout with postpartum depression, in anticipation of the birth of her second child.
Teigen, a host on Lip Sync Battle and author of a New York Times best-selling cookbook, struggled with postpartum depression (PPD) after the birth of her first child, Luna, in April 2016.
Last year, she described postpartum—moderate to severe depression that occurs in new mothers—as a painful and confusing experience that sapped her energy and left her wondering if she’d ever feel like her old self again.
“I couldn’t figure out why I was so unhappy,” she wrote in her March 2017 essay for Glamour magazine. “I blamed it on being tired and possibly growing out of the role: ‘Maybe I’m just not a goofy person anymore. Maybe I’m just supposed to be a mom.’”
Now, she’s waiting to give birth to a baby boy with her husband, musician John Legend. This time, the 32-year-old former Sports Illustrated model isn’t afraid of a possible Round 2 with PPD.
“Do I worry about it with this little boy? I do. But I also know that when it does happen—if it does—I’m so ready for it,” she said at the Create & Cultivate conference in Los Angeles last Saturday (Feb. 24). “I have the perfect people around me for it. That’s why I stand for a real core group of people around me.”
Teigen said PPD was like “coming down from any drug.” She felt drained, unhappy and rarely left the house. She was also in physical pain.
“I had just had Luna. I knew I had an incredible life and husband and family and all the resources necessary,” she said at the conference. “I knew that I was personally unhappy, but I didn’t think that anything was wrong with it because I just assumed that that’s the way it goes. You have a kid, you’re sad, you lose those endorphins and that’s the way it is.”
In her Glamour essay, Teigen said her experience was all the more difficult because PPD is still treated like a taboo subject. Though one in nine women are said to experience some form of PPD, according to the CDC, Teigen said that most women in her life shied away from the subject.
“I do wish, if anything, that more people had spoken up around me,” she said. “I encourage anyone who sees something around them to point it out. It took me to finally sit myself down because I think it’s hard for people to point something out.”
She wrote in Glamour, “I’m speaking up now because I want people to know it can happen to anybody and I don’t want people who have it to feel embarrassed or to feel alone.”
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How I Kicked the Smokes Out of My Sobriety
By Anna David 07/11/13
Nine months into recovery, I ditched my two packs a day via a dinner intervention, Nicotine Anonymous and a short-lived crush. The revelations that followed were every bit as blinding as when I got sober.
"I did get feelings of invincibility when I quit..." Photo via
In early recovery, cigarettes felt as essential to me as breathing. They gave me something to do on my way to meetings, something to do on my way home from meetings and something to do during the smoke breaks during meetings. They gave me a way to bond with all the new people I encountered who scared me in ways I didn’t know how to talk about. They gave me something to do with my hands and mouth. They gave me a way to feel like I still had an edge. It’s no stretch to say that many addicts smoke.
Studies about this topic sometimes report rates as high as 90%. Less known, it seems, are the studies that show that addicts who quit smoking when they first clean up have better chances of staying sober. I’ve only come upon these recently. If someone had mentioned them to me when I was a newcomer, I would have recoiled in horror.
In retrospect, it’s clear why cigarettes seemed the ideal early sobriety tool for me: They made me feel like I was doing something that was bringing me closer to people—while actually bringing me further away, because we were only bonding over a shared desire to take ourselves out of the moment. Because I didn’t know who I was yet, having 20 little buddies in my Camel Lights pack made me feel less alone.
"My cravings were so bad that I took to shoving every bit of sugar I could find in my mouth and chewing on pencils and sucking on hard candies and anything else I could think of."
Then, when I was nine months sober, I met an older woman who’d been sober, it seemed, forever. She and I were at dinner with a few other sober friends after a meeting. As was routine for me, I went outside several times during the meal to smoke. And one of the times I returned, this woman started—in the most direct and yet gentle way imaginable—to confront me about it.
People had of course raised the topic with me before, but there was something different about her approach. She said things that made a lot of sense—that every time I inhaled on a cigarette, I was telling myself that I hated myself, and that getting sober but still smoking was like switching seats on the Titanic.
“Honey,” she told me, leaning forward on the table, “You’re putting a smoke screen between you and your Higher Power.” It was just the kind of sentiment I would have mocked pre-sobriety, but which made a lot of sense to the person I was becoming. At the end of dinner, she offered to meet me at a Nicotine Anonymous meeting the following evening. “Maybe,” I said, surprising myself.
She added that a sober guy I’d told her I had a crush on would probably be there.
“Okay,” I heard myself respond. “I’ll go.”
I really didn’t intend to quit. I smoked on the way home from dinner, and the next morning and the next day at work. But sometime around 3 pm that day, it occurred to me that it was possible I could really do this—quit. I decided to try not to smoke before the meeting and I made it those few hours.
I don’t remember much about that first Nicotine Anonymous meeting, aside from learning the word “smober”—something that people who don’t want to get mocked should probably never utter. (As a friend of mine says, “I already know I’m not cool; I don’t have to start saying the word smober to prove it.”)
The most significant aspect of that meeting for me—because I still didn’t really believe I was going to quit—was that my crush was there. He and I went for coffee afterwards, where he told me that he’d had sex with his cousin. I got sort of instantly over my crush.
But I didn’t smoke that night. And once I’d made it through, I felt like I could try to make it through the next day and the day after. Amazingly, I haven’t smoked since. That was on July 19, 2000.
This isn’t to say that it was easy. Quitting cigarettes was, for the first month, arguably the hardest thing I’ve ever done. My cravings were so bad that I took to shoving every bit of sugar I could find in my mouth and chewing on pencils and sucking on hard candies and anything else I could think of until it had passed. I would clutch the sides of chairs and tables and think about the things I heard in Nicotine Anonymous meetings—like that the craving would pass in five minutes, whether I smoked or not. I have no idea if that was true but it certainly helped at the time.
My withdrawal was debilitating. I remember walking into a Coffee Bean one of those mornings, attempting to buy a breakfast item of some sort and coming out clutching an egg salad sandwich, feeling like I’d lost control of my mind, my desires and my ability to form words.
I remember not getting picked to share during a Nicotine Anonymous meeting and feeling quite justified in going up to the speaker who hadn’t called on me afterwards and telling her how angry I was about this. The progress I’d made in the nine months since getting sober came to an abrupt halt; I acted out far more and paused far less.
But after a few more months, I realized something shocking: It just wasn’t that bad. I felt so much better being able to breath, my clothes didn’t stink and life just got easier. And there was something incredibly liberating about stepping into reality.
For me to know what cigarettes could do to me and still continue to smoke meant believing, on a certain level, that the rules didn’t apply to me—a delusion I’d operated under much of my life. Stripping that layer of denial away—admitting that smokes would kill me just as they would kill others—gave me a new taste of humility. I rediscovered—even more than I had when getting sober—that I wasn’t special, that I was just like everyone else.
By the time I’d reached the six-month mark, instead of craving cigarettes, I actually felt repulsed by smoking and amazed that I’d done it for as long as I had—13 years in all. My desire to do this thing that I’d needed to do constantly—up to two packs a day at times—was gone. I wasn’t resisting the temptation anymore; there was no temptation to resist.
Most of the sober people I know have eventually come to feel similarly. My friend Damien, who has over a decade of sobriety and quit smoking at eight-and-a-half years, even enjoyed the withdrawal. “It was like getting high,” he says. “The furious rush of my body screaming for nicotine was great. And it made me feel invincible—like, ‘Fuck. If I can do this, I can do anything.’ It just made everything rawer—anger, lust, sugar cravings, the smell of food and my clothing, hugging people. Also I had epic Technicolor dreams.”
While I don’t remember having any brightly colored dreams, I did get similar feelings of invincibility when I quit. But my most important realization probably came when I was sharing in a meeting about how I didn’t think I’d be able to do certain things that scared me—such as driving to interview someone who intimidated me, or talking to certain family members on the phone—without smoking. It was only after I shared that I realized that I was the one who’d decided that these things were so terrifying, and that if I’d been the one to give them the power to scare me, I could also take it away. Sucking down a cigarette didn’t prevent fear; I’d just been pretending that it did.
Still, in early sobriety, when I could barely do my laundry, let alone talk to near-strangers for hours without having something to medicate my extreme lack of self and inability to be in the moment, I don’t think I could have handled that. My friend Danny, who got sober in New York four years ago, feels similarly. Though he says he was never really addicted to cigarettes, he nevertheless smoked “a lot” during his first 90 days. “I think it actually helped me get sober,” he admits. “I made some close friends outside meetings that way.”
Other people I know are still, in long-term sobriety—and living in LA, where these days smokers are regarded with the sort of skepticism normally reserved for serial killers—fighting the nicotine battle. As my friend Mark says, “I’m truly powerless over nicotine. I’m a slave. And I’d rather kick dope 10 times over than cold turkey nicotine once.”
But peer pressure can work when it comes to positive as well as negative life choices: I’ve seen one person in a certain sober clique get sober, then watched the rest of the group follow, one by one. Sooner or later it seems, whether it’s in their first or 14th year, nearly all the sober people I’ve known seem to quit. It seems that once people get real-life supportive buddies, they have much less need of the 20 that come in a pack.
Fix columnist Anna David is the author of Party Girl, Bought, Reality Matters and Falling For Me. She served as The Fix's Executive Editor for over two years. Her previous columns have tackled subjects like AA-haters, being a so-so sponsor and sh*t non-addicts say.
Anna David
Anna David is the New York Times-bestselling author of multiple books about overcoming difficulties and coming out on the other side: the novels Party Girl (HarperCollins, 2007) and Bought (HarperCollins, 2009), the non-fiction books Reality Matters (HarperCollins, 2010), Falling for Me (HarperCollins, 2011), By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There (Simon & Schuster, 2013) and True Tales of Lust and Love and the Kindle Singles Animal Attraction (Amazon, 2012) and They Like Me, They Really Like Me (Amazon, 2013). Find Anna on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Obituary: Spencer Joseph Wagner
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Spencer Wagner
Spencer Joseph Wagner
Aug. 1, 1983 ~ Oct. 3, 2018
Spencer Joseph Wagner came into this world just after midnight on Aug. 1, 1983. He left this earth just after noon on Oct. 3, 2018, at the age of 35. He had worked all night at his job, and on his way home from work that morning he delivered a load of pumpkins from his garden to family, then before he went to bed he took his dogs for a run while riding in his side by side and was involved in an accident. That is how Spencer was; he always came last after everyone else was taken care of.
Spencer is the fourth child of Stan and Sarah Wagner. He has three brothers and three sisters. He is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He lived as a disciple of Christ; following his Savior’s example by loving and serving everyone he met. He started life in Ballard, Utah, then moved to Vernal, Utah, where he was raised and went to school. He graduated from Uintah High School in 2001. It is hard to believe but growing up he was quite anti-social, quiet and mostly kept to himself. He was always outside building something or tearing things apart to see how they worked. He was always busy tinkering and working on projects; he could never just sit and do nothing. A trait he kept throughout his life.
He was very athletic. Although he played baseball, softball, volleyball and golf, his true talent and passion was soccer. He played through high school and made the all-state soccer team as goalie. When he became a father he started coaching his daughter’s soccer and softball teams which included nieces, nephews, and countless children who will all remember the fun they had learning from Coach Spencer.
After high school Spencer met the love of his life and his best friend Sarah Breanne Edgell. They were perfect for each other. They truly brought out the best in each other, and brightened the lives of those around them. They were married on Aug. 21, 2004, in Vernal where they started their family. They were blessed with four daughters, Kadence Brooke (13), Rylee Paige (12), Morgan Brie (deceased), and Olivia Louise (7). They were later sealed as an eternal family on March 12, 2010, in the Vernal Utah Temple. He loves all five of his girls more than anything. They are everything to him. He always told everyone that he would allow his daughters to start dating when they reached 300 lbs. or turned 30 years old, whichever came first. He will always be watching over and protecting all his girls. He will be their special guardian angel throughout their lives.
Spencer was extremely strong and very hard working. One time he packed out half an elk, a very large bodied bull, up a very steep mountain in one trip and acted like it was no big deal. It wasn’t even his elk. That’s how he was; he worked very hard for anyone who needed help, whether they asked or not. Countless family, friends, neighbors, and even complete strangers have been blessed by Spencer’s Christ-like service. He loved to help everyone, no matter the circumstance.
Spencer always worked hard to provide for his family. He started in the oil and gas fields of Utah and Colorado just out of high school. Then he went to work for Ziegler Chemical at the Gilsonite mines in Bonanza, Utah. In 2006 he went to work for the Deserado coal mine in Rangely, Colo., where he has been for the last 12 and a half years. He was an underground maintenance foreman on the graveyard shift. He will be missed at the mine by all, especially the many close friends he made who he considered his brothers.
Spencer was very talented in so many ways. He loved to work with wood, antlers and metal. He created so many beautiful and amazing works of art and decoration and then would give them away as gifts to family, friends or anyone he thought could use a smile. Anything he worked on with his hands turned into something special that he would give to someone he thought needed it. Spencer’s biggest and most important talent was his ability to make people laugh. He was so quick-witted and intelligent he could get even the most serious and boring people to laugh. He was always the life of the party and brightened everyone’s day when he was there. He never ceased to amaze with his unique character and personality, making huge impressions on everyone he met. Anyone who has been around him any time at all has several “Spencer stories” to tell. He truly loved making people happy, especially children. He loved to tease, wrestle and play with kids, and they loved and idolized him very much.
Spencer loved anything that had to do with the outdoors. He loved camping and going for rides with his girls, hunting, shooting, fishing, hiking, and horn hunting to name a few; and no matter where he was he was always on the hunt for trees, branches, and logs for future projects. He loved his new truck and his old tractor, “Mr. Awesome,” and had great joy using it to plow snow, and sometimes buried lines, from his neighbor’s driveways. He also loved all the tools and machines that he used for his hobbies.
Spencer and Sarah moved their family to Rangely where they live on a little ranch down river. They have many animals that they have as pets and raise for 4-H. Spencer had a special place in his heart for animals, especially dogs. Some of his favorites were Trigger, Duke, and Daisy. Little Daisy was with Spencer in the accident and faithfully and loyally stayed at his side the whole time, until the responders came and had to pry her away from her best friend and master.
Spencer is survived by his loving wife Sarah Breanne Wagner, daughters Kadence Brooke, Rylee Paige, and Olivia Louise Wagner. Parents, Stan Sr. and Sarah Wagner. Siblings, Stan Jr. and Mara Wagner (Rangely), Shalain and Jared Calder (Vernal), Steven and Amber Wagner (Vernal), Samantha and Justin Lemon (Rock Springs, Wyo.), Sally and Derek Neilsen (Ballard, Utah), and many nieces, nephews, and other relatives.
He was preceded in death by his infant daughter Morgan Brie Wagner, brother Simon Jay Wagner, and grandparents William and Emma Thomson, and Kilton and Margaret Wagner.
Spencer’s passing has left a huge hole in our lives and hearts that will never be filled. The world is a little dimmer and sadder, but we know because of Jesus Christ’s atonement and resurrection we will be together again one day. Until that day, Spencer, we love you and miss you and look forward to being with you again.
Funeral services will be conducted on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018, at 11 a.m. at the Rangely LDS Chapel. Viewings for family and friends will be at the Blackburn & Sons Vernal a Tuesday from 6-8 p.m. and Wednesday at the Chapel in Rangely 9:45-10:45 a.m. prior to the services. Burial will be in the Maeser Fairview Cemetery under the care and direction of the Blackburn & Sons Vernal Mortuary and Cremation Care.
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Shi Tiesheng: 我的丁一之旅 (My Travels in Ding Yi)
The latest addition to my website is Shi Tiesheng‘s 我的丁一之旅 (My Travels in Ding Yi). This was Shi Tiesheng’s final book and he packed a lot into it. The story is told by a spirit who inhabits the bodies of humans. He first started with Adam in the Garden of Eden and still loves Eve, for whom he is always on the look-out. However, he now spends most of his time in a Chinese boy (later man), Ding Yi, though he also flits in and out of or author, Shi Tiesheng, with whom he does not always agree. Ding Yi, as an adult, is very much into sex, something the spirit does not comprehend, except as a means of reproduction, though he does understand love. Not having a body himself, he does not understand humans’ greed for food either. Indeed, considering how long he has been inhabiting humans, he seems remarkably ignorant of their behaviour and foibles. Much of the book concerns the issue of sex and love. Ding Yi and others are influenced by the film Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Indeed, Ding Yi writes a play based on it. While this is certainly an interesting tale, I found it dragged a bit but you will certainly learn about how a non-human feels about sex and love.
Posted on 2 May 2019
Ma Jian: 中国梦 (China Dream)
The latest addition to my website is Ma Jian‘s 中国梦 (China Dream). This is a satire of modern Chinese officialdom but, in particular, of President Xi’s China Dream project, which is a plan for Chinese domination, both internationally and domestically. Ma Daode, our hero, for want of a better word, is in charge of the China Dream project in Ziyang. His staff are developing a microchip to be implanted into everyone, which will replace their private dreams with the China Dream. His immediate problem is that his past life is now flooding back into his present life and he did some very unpleasant things in the Cultural Revolution (as did several of his colleagues). Indeed, these past dreams seem to be taking over and are more concern to him than his many mistresses and the continual bribes he receives. Gradually ,they get worse and he has to find a cure. Ma Jian has great fun mocking Chinese officialdom, hypocrisy, corruption and lasciviousness.
Posted on 7 April 2019 7 April 2019
Mo Yan: 蛙 (Frog)
The latest addition to my website is Mo Yan‘s 蛙 (Frog). The basic theme of this novel is family planning and, in particular, the Chinese one-child policy. As usual the novel is set in Northeast Gaomi Township, the fictionalised version of Mo Yan’s hometown. We follow the narrator, Wan Zu, also known as Xiaopiao and as Tadpole, and, more particularly, his aunt, known as Gugu. She is a midwife – Wan Zu was the second child she delivered – and she delivers over nine thousand babies. However, she is also an enthusiastic supporter of the one-child policy and much of the novel involves her attempts to get people to adhere to it and their attempts to evade it. We also follow Wan Zu’s attempts to have a son as well as the usual multiple side stories about the inhabitants of Northeast Gaomi Township, including Gugu’s own less than successful romantic life. Given the subject matter, it is somewhat more serious than Mo Yan’s usual novels but it certainly is an eye-opener about the One-Child policy and the effect it had on people.
Mo Yan: 四十一炮 (Pow!)
The latest addition to my website is Mo Yan‘s 四十一炮 (Pow!). This story follows Mo Yan’s usual style – conflict in his small town. In this case, our narrator, the meat-obsessed Luo Xiaotong lives with his parents. His father, Luo Tong, runs off with another woman. His mother, Yang Yuzhen, is determined to succeed without him and soon runs a flourishing recycling business. When a contrite Luo Tong returns, with a young daughter, after the death of his mistress, he is reluctantly accepted back. He is even appointed manager of the new meat packing business by his former enemy, Luo Lan, the village headman, though it is his now twelve-year old son who shows the most creativity at the plant. However, it is not going to go well and we get lots of blood, guts and gore, and not just from the animals at the meat plant. As always, it is funny, a good story and often unpredictable as to where it is going.
Mo Yan: 檀香刑 (Sandalwood Death)
The latest addition to my website is Mo Yan‘s 檀香刑 (Sandalwood Death). This is another fine tale from Mo Yan, about the people of Mo Yan’s home town, Northern Gaomi Township, during the Boxer Rebellion, at the beginning of the twentieth century. Instead of just being oppressed by their Chinese overlords, there is a new peril. The Germans are building a railway to Gaomi and they are behaving very badly. When the people revolt, after German high-handedness and when the leader of an opera troupe finds a group of Germans sexually assaulting his wife, the authorities take the side of the Germans and arrest the leader. His daughter, who is having an affair with the local bigwig does what she can to help her father. She feels she can count on the aid of her father-in-law, whom she had never met but who has suddenly turned up, as he was the official executioner of the Emperor. It is a fine story but particularly gruesome as we get detailed descriptions of the executioner’s work.
Mo Yan: 天堂蒜薹之歌 (The Garlic Ballads)
The latest addition to my website is Mo Yan‘s 天堂蒜薹之歌 (The Garlic Ballads). This is a thoroughly grim tale set in Mo Yan’s usual Northeast Gaorni Township. We follow two main characters. Gao Ma is in love with Jinju but her family is determined she will marry a 45-year old wreck and do everything to stop Gao Ma marrying her, including resorting to brutal violence (on both of them) and influence in high places. Gao Ma and Gao Yang get caught up in a riot when the peasants cannot sell their garlic, despite having been exhorted to grow only garlic by the government, and both end up in prison, and both are subject to brutality. Several of the main characters end up dying a violent death, while the others end up far worse off than they were, with no-one living happily ever after.
Mo Yan: 酒国 (The Republic of Wine)
The latest addition to my website is Mo Yan‘s 酒国 (The Republic of Wine). This is a chaotic, alcohol-fuelled story about excesses in China, particularly alcohol and sex. We follow two stories, which will merge. The first involves crack investigator Ding Gou’er of the Higher Procuratorate, who is sent to investigate allegations that local mine officials are eating young boys. Drink and sex will be his downfall. At the same time, we are following an exchange of correspondence between Li Yudou, a doctor of liquor studies and would-be writer, who is writing to the famous writer, Mo Yan, submitting stories to him. Mo Yan is not terribly impressed with the stories, though does try to get them published. The stories tend to recount episodes from life in Liquorland, where he lives, including stories about the rearing and eating of young boys as well as the writer’s sexual obsession with his mother-in-law. Gradually, the two sets of stories merge, with a cast of characters obsessed with food, alcohol and sex and a plot that tends towards chaos.
Christoph Ransmayr: Cox oder Der Lauf der Zeit [Cox or the Course of Time]
The latest addition to my website is Christoph Ransmayr‘s Cox oder Der Lauf der Zeit [Cox or the Course of Time]. The hero of this book is Alister Cox, based on the very real James Cox. Unlike James Cox, Alister Cox travels to China to build clocks for the Chinese Emperor Qianlong. Qianlong is not particularly interested in the clocks and automata that they bring with them but wants a clock that can tell variable time – the time of a child or a lover or a man condemned to death. They work on those clocks and make some progress but the Emperor still seems less than impressed. Then the Emperor says he wants an eternal clock – a clock that works eternally. Cox feels he cam make such a clock but he is warned by Joseph Kiang, his interpreter, that to do so would be to challenge the Emperor, who has sole control of time, and to challenge the Emperor can only end one way – badly. I found this book less interesting than Ransmayr’s other work as it did not seem to really take off but was almost mundane, despite its exotic location and fascinating theme. It has been translated into four other languages but not English.
Posted on 8 September 2018
Mo Yan: 红高粱家族 (Red Sorghum)
The latest addition to my website is Mo Yan‘s 红高粱家族 (Red Sorghum). This is a very colourful novel, set in Mo Yan’s home town, from the late 1920s to the late 1940s. Much of the story tells of the various groups fighting the Japanese, led by the narrator’s grandfather. While they do put up a good fight, despite inferior weaponry, they spend almost as much time fighting rival Chinese groups, though the three groups do combine when faced by the Japanese. We also a lot about about the narrator’s grandmother, a strong-minded woman, widowed three days after marriage (though glad of it). Grandma and grandfather have a lively marriage, with ups and downs, while grandfather becomes something of a bandit, but a good bandit, of course. Mo Yan tells an exciting, action-packed story, which was made into a highly successful film.
Yan Lianke: 日熄 (The Day the Sun Died)
The latest addition to my website is Yan Lianke‘s 日熄 (The Day the Sun Died). This tells the story of the village of Gaotian, which happens to be the village of the writer Yan Lianke, who has written books whose titles are similar to but not identical with the real Yan Lianke. It is narrated by Li Niannian, the fourteen-year old son of the couple who sell funerary objects. Li Niannian’s maternal grandfather owns the local crematorium which does good business as burial is forbidden and only cremation allowed, though many of the villagers try to secretly bury their dead. One night (the story is told during this night), a large number of the inhabitants start dreamwalking , i.e. sleepwalking. Sometimes, they are not aware that they are sleepwalking. They lose their inhibitions and carry on doing what they were doing while awake in a more intense manner (which means that some of those who were walking walk straight into the canal). In particular, the dreamwalkers steal, while those not dreamwalking steal from houses and shops that are no longer guarded, till massive violence breaks out. The story gives rather a negative view of people – nearly all behave badly – and it is easy to see why it has not been published in mainland China.
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No Fresh Faces for House GOP
"We did not just lose our majority ... we lost our way," Indiana Republican Representative Mike Pence told the diminished House Republican Caucus Thursday as he urged them to elect him as their new leader. "We are in the wilderness because we walked away from the limited-government principles that minted the Republican Congress."
Running as a reformer who argued that Congressional Republicans lost majorities in the House and Senate November 7 because they became associated in the eyes of voters with fiscal irresponsibilty and ethical laxity, Pence campaigned for the leadership as a conscience conservative. He said it was time for the caucus to disassociate itself from the compromised image it obtained under the leadership of disgraced former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and those who took over for DeLay when the Texan fled the House.
Pence's colleagues were not impressed.
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“We did not just lose our majority … we lost our way,” Indiana Republican Representative Mike Pence told the diminished House Republican Caucus Thursday as he urged them to elect him as their new leader. “We are in the wilderness because we walked away from the limited-government principles that minted the Republican Congress.”
Pence’s colleagues were not impressed.
By an overwhelming margin, they chose to remain in the wilderness.
By a 168-27 vote, GOP caucus members made the outgoing majority leader, Ohioan John Boehner, the minority leader in the next Congress. Boehner, who is perhaps best known for his bumbling approach to the scandal involving former Florida Representative Mark Foley and House pages — in which he appeared, at one point, to indict outgoing Speaker Dennis Hastert — and for his backroom approach to budgeting, will keep a Tom DeLay face on the caucus.
Boehner’s No. 2, Missouri’s Roy Blunt, a DeLay lieutenant who has been associated with every major scandal to hit the House Republican Caucus in recent years, was retained as caucus whip by a vote of 147-57 over Arizona conservative Rep. John Shadegg, who like Pence ran as a reformer.
The NationTwitterFounded by abolitionists in 1865, The Nation has chronicled the breadth and depth of political and cultural life, from the debut of the telegraph to the rise of Twitter, serving as a critical, independent, and progressive voice in American journalism.
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Prosecutor: Report would end Ohio death penalty
COLUMBUS – Many recommendations by a committee studying changes to Ohio’s death penalty law would effectively end ca...
Prosecutor: Report would end Ohio death penalty COLUMBUS – Many recommendations by a committee studying changes to Ohio’s death penalty law would effectively end ca... Check out this story on thenews-messenger.com: http://ohne.ws/1gPu5Y6
ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Published 1:58 p.m. ET April 10, 2014
Retired appeals court judge James Brogan, right, chairman of the Ohio Supreme Court death penalty review committee, addresses concerns about the layout of the panel's 71-page report as committee vice chairman, Franklin County Judge Stephen McIntosh, examines the document on Thursday, April 10, 2014, in Columbus. The committee is reviewing 56 proposed changes to the state's death penalty law. (AP) (Photo: AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins )
COLUMBUS – Many recommendations by a committee studying changes to Ohio’s death penalty law would effectively end capital punishment in the state if put in place, a veteran prosecutor said Thursday as the panel prepared its final report after two years of work.
Such mandates as requiring DNA evidence or a videotaped confession for death penalty sentences would make it impossible to convict even the worst criminals, said Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien, a member of the committee and a critic of many of its findings.
“Many of the recommendations are so onerous that you could take Timothy McVeigh, and if he didn’t give a videotaped confession, and you didn’t have DNA, that you couldn’t execute Timothy McVeigh,” said O’Brien, a Republican and prosecutor since 1996.
McVeigh was executed in 2001 for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people and wounded hundreds.
O’Brien also criticized the recommendation of a state death penalty panel run by the attorney general that would approve or disapprove of capital charges sought by county prosecutors.
“There’s no more expertise at another location than there is in the prosecutors’ offices who are handling the cases,” O’Brien said.
A dissenting report will be submitted next week.
The committee convened by Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor in 2011 was meeting Thursday to review its final report and 56 recommendations.
All the recommendations could be put in place and capital punishment would remain in Ohio, but in a vastly reduced form, state Public Defender Timothy Young said.
“Ohio would still have capital punishment but I think it would be limited to the worst of the worst cases, which has always been the stated goal of the death penalty in the United States,” Young said.
Some of the recommendations, such as the DNA requirement or the state charging panel, would need lawmakers’ support. Such backing is questionable in what is still a death penalty-friendly state.
Other recommendations, including training for any lawyer involved in a death penalty case, could be approved as a Supreme Court rule.
Among other proposals:
—Ban death penalty charges in cases where prosecutors used testimony from jailhouse snitches that was not independently verified by the time jurors weigh the sentence.
—Pass a law allowing for the filing of racial disparity claims.
—Ban the execution of defendants who were mentally ill at the time of the crime or at the time of a scheduled execution.
The report also recommends eliminating kidnapping, rape, aggravated arson, aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary as elements of a crime that could lead to a death penalty charge.
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Ripon College panel to address Mideast conflicts
A panel discussion about the Arab/Palestinian–Israeli Conflict will be held from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, in East Hall Little Theater on the Ripon College campus.
Ripon College panel to address Mideast conflicts A panel discussion about the Arab/Palestinian–Israeli Conflict will be held from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, in East Hall Little Theater on the Ripon College campus. Check out this story on thenorthwestern.com: http://oshko.sh/1G8Gi8q
Reader submitted Published 6:21 p.m. CT March 6, 2015
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The event is co-sponsored by the Department of Religion and the Center for Politics and the People at Ripon College. The discussion fits well into a mission of the Department of Religion to “engage in a critical analysis of the interactions of religious and/or moral traditions with contemporary cultures,” and with one of the goals of the Center, to “create a forum for dialogue, research, analysis and dissemination of ideas about local, state, national and international issues.”
Rabbi David Brusin, who teaches a course on the Arab/Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Department of Religion, will moderate the panel.
The four panelists will be Associate Professor of History Rebecca Matzke, who teaches courses in Middle Eastern history at Ripon; Doron Zehavi, a seventh-generation sabra (native-born Israeli), who lives in Kibbutz Tzora in central Israel and is residing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this year; Mohammad Hamad, a Palestinian-American born in Gaza who is a water and agriculture engineer, residing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Cassandra Dixon, director of Mary House, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, a hospitality center for families visiting inmates in a federal prison, and who also makes trips to Hebron in Palestine with International Solidarity Movement, currently in Hebron until March 22.
Discussion topics will include the right of return of Palestinian refugees; security wall/barrier, travel to and from the West Bank, checkpoints, special roads and current living conditions in Gaza and the West Bank; the status of Jerusalem and holy sites; and Palestinian statehood, final borders, land swaps and settlements.
The discussion is free and open to the public.
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Magical Mistakes
“Magical Mistakes doesn’t need heavy drops or sultry hooks, his tenderly pastoral style of production is infatuating enough as it is.”
“A violent car crash of ideas, sounds and textures; yet despite everything, something utterly beautiful is formed.”
Crack In The Road
Magical Mistakes (a.k.a Erik Luebs) is a Californian musician who currently resides in Osaka, Japan. Following the path of other artists, like Bon Iver, Magical Mistakes moved to Shibasan, one of Japan’s most rural villages, to create his sound. Here he was able to draw inspiration from his environment and also from the lineage of contemplative beats crafted by the vibrant community of Osaka artists, such as Shlohmo and Mount Kimbie. It’s clear when listening to Magical Mistakes that his style strives to combine Eastern and Western influences. His tracks are textural, bellbathed, slow slung electronic compositions blended with organic instrumentation, Japanese motifs, and ambient sounds, that create an immersive underwater effect. He takes the emotional, and sends it off on trippy tangents which, if they weren’t anchored by a beat, could float away into unmapped space. It’s experimental, but it’s captivating, a deeper, fuller sound that seems to envelop the listener completely.
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The Kennedy Assassination
A few days ago, I read that over 200 books have been written on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. That number strikes me as low, but JFK assassination research has become a growth industry.
I’ve read a number of books on the assassination, including Vincent Bugliosi’s 1600-page tome. I’ve begun to wonder – what if they are all right. Think about it …
So, as JFK’s limousine turned onto Elm Street toward the Triple Underpass, it entered one of the most armed areas, outside of a war zone, in the world. There may have been more people packing heat in DealeyPlaza than not.
If we study the JFK assassination literature, we know the following. In the School Book Depository, on the 6th floor, Lee Harvey Oswald had prepared a sniper’s nest of boxes near the corner window and waited there with his $12.00 Mannlicher-Carcano rifle. Interestingly, according to some
sources, a shadowy individual known only as “Manuel” also waited at that corner window on the 6th floor. Perhaps he and Oswald chatted or played cards as they waited for the motorcade. Maybe they noticed their rifles, and each wondered what the other was up to.
One window down from Oswald and Manuel, Mac Wallace waited with his rifle. Was he aware of the other two; were they aware of him? Oddly, one more window down sat Loy Factor; he planned to shoot JFK but lost his nerve at the last minute. [Perhaps, the number of people on the 6th floor and
the sudden cocking of the rifles disconcerted him.]
So, as the motorcade moved past the School Book Depository, four men aimed their rifles at the back of the President’s head. Oswald and Manuel probably jockeyed for position. The prickly Oswald quite possibly became irritated with Manuel and carped at him. Loy Factor lost his nerve. No one seems to be
quite sure what Mac Wallace did.
Meanwhile on the grassy knoll, E. Howard Hunt, even as Watergate percolated in the back of his mind, began to pass out tickets to assassins who wanted to shoot from the high ground in front of the President’s limousine. Richard Nixon had stopped by earlier to instruct his henchman. “I met with H. H.,”
said Nixon cryptically. “Now I have to catch a plane to prove that I am not a crook.” Hunt had nodded gravely, though, in fact, he had no notion of what Nixon meant. “Would it be possible for a politician to make less sense?” he wondered. At that moment he thought he saw young George W. Bush walk by
across the street.
The ticket procedure was beginning to get to Hunt. Everyone of the riflemen wanted to be first in line. Lucien Sarti, the “badge man,” kept blending in with the foliage on the far right of the little hill. Hunt sent his assistant Gordon over to tell Sarti once again, “I know where you are, and you have to have a ticket if you want to shoot.”
Roscoe White and his two CIA buddies had picked up their tickets and were smoking cigarettes and talking about old times in Saigon. “Why can’t everybody be professional,” Hunt wondered.
To Hunt’s left, the other two “tramps,” Charles Rogers and Charles Harrelson were cleaning their rifles. One idiot near by, Jim Files, had a twenty-two single shot with one short cartridge. “Really now,” said Harrelson. Files looked down, ashamed.
Harrelson and Rogers both took their places in line along the fence. Harrelson noted Lucien Sarti in the foliage, but before he could wave, Sarti had blended back into the bush.
Then trouble began to brew. Chauncey Holt, Frank Sturgis and a man called Frenchy arrived to pick up their tickets, announcing that they were “the three tramps.” Harrelson and Rogers immediately called out to Hunt and the six men got into a scuffle over just which three were the “tramps.” Eventually all of them lined up along the now very crowded fence.
As everyone waited for the motorcade to come into view, a man who said his name was “Junior” rushed up, demanding a ticket. He was closely followed by Robert Perrin who was extremely pale. Hunt gave the two men a disgusted look. “Why couldn’t you boys be on time?” he asked.
Junior fidgeted and pretended not to hear the question. Perrin, however, answered, “Well, I had problems. You see, I died two years ago.”
Hunt became more sympathetic, “Okay, in that case, here’s your ticket; see if you can find a place. As Hunt was diverted by Perrin, Junior sneaked into line.
While Hunt tried to control the chaos developing on the grassy knoll, other gunmen were taking up positions elsewhere. A man called “Saul” found a window on the second floor of the County Records Building. Also, possibly in that same building were two friends of Lucien Sarti, the foliage-resembling “Badge Man.” These two, Sauveur Pironti and Roger Bocognoni may also have been in the County Records Building. Or perhaps, they were in the Dal-Tex Building. Like the County Records Building, the Dal-Tex Building was behind the motorcade as it turned onto Elm Street in front of the School Book Depository. Mafia hit man, Charles Nicoletti had found a perch in a second floor window in this building. He probably was unaware of other assassins on separate floors. Sam Giancana had four other Mafioso in unnamed locations along with three others who had driven down from
Milwaukee. Besides these, there are many other assassins who were located around Dealey Plaza; it is very difficult to include all who have been proven to have been there. David Ferrie was there doing something or other. Patrolman J. D. Tippett was also up to something suspicious. Fidel Castro had some Cubans in the area. And Jack Ruby was driving around being mysterious in a green Ford. Ruby was also seen running to and from the School book Depository just after the assassination.
As Kennedy’s limousine rolled past the School Book Depository, over thirty individuals (maybe many more) opened fire. One would think that the sound of the gunfire would have been overwhelming and that many bystanders would have been wounded or even killed. But somehow (and I suspect E. Howard Hunt had a hand in this) the shootings were synchronized so that even sophisticated acoustic equipment picked up the sound of only three shots. It is amazing what determined conspirators can do.
But, besides the shooters already mentioned, three other assassins were at work as Kennedy came by. The famous “umbrella man”, Louis Steven Witt, opened and closed his umbrella, firing a small, poisoned flechette or dart into Kennedy's neck. This dart was the real cause of the President’s death.
Then, as the firing started, and the Secret Service men reacted, one of them, George Hickey, in a car behind Kennedy accidentally discharged his gun, hitting the President in the back of the head. This shot was the real cause of Kennedy’s death. At about the same time, as all eyes looked to the School Book Depository or the grassy knoll, the driver of Kennedy’s limousine, William Greer, turned around to the back seat and shot the President in such a way that neither the Connally’s nor Jackie Kennedy, nor Secret Service agent Clint Hill (assigned to the President) noticed. Greer’s shot was perhaps the most amazing feat of the day. It was the real cause of Kennedy’s death.
Anyway, all of these people shot Kennedy. It has been proven in various books. Of course, today, we have received word that researcher, Professor Peter Plum, has developed a new theory that rogue CIA agent Colonel Michael Mustard killed Kennedy with a wrench in the conservatory. Details will follow.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) North Carolina's men's basketball team is returning to its old home court for one game.
Team spokesman Steve Kirschner said Thursday that the Tar Heels' game against Wofford on Dec. 15 will be played at the 6,822-seat Carmichael Arena - the first regular-season game there since 1986.
The game had to be played that day because of scheduling conflicts that include the Tar Heels leaving the next day for a game at Gonzaga. North Carolina's regular home arena, the 21,750-seat Dean Smith Center, already was booked for the university's December commencement.
The arena where Michael Jordan and James Worthy became college stars, Carmichael has hosted one men's game since the Smith Center opened in 1986. UNC beat William & Mary in the first round of the 2010 NIT.
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Protection of forests ‘fundamental to security of humanity’s place on this planet,’ UN Forum told
Kick-starting action on the recently-adopted Global Forest Goals to protect, sustainably manage and increase world’s forest area will be a key focus for delegations gathered in New York for the twelfth session of the UN Forum on Forests, which opened today at United Nations Headquarters.
The six forest goals and 26 associated targets, all to be achieved by 2030, the deadline set by UN Member States for broad attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), were adopted late last week by the General Assembly as part of the UN Strategic Plan for Forest 2017-2030, which includes a landmark target to expand the world’s forests by three per cent – an area of 120 million hectares, by 2030.
“Let us make no mistake on this matter – the health of the world’s forests is fundamental to humanity’s place on this planet,” said Assembly President Peter Thomson at the opening of the Forum’s current session, emphasizing that forests were home to 80 per cent of the earth’s land-based animal, plant and insect species.
Together, they regulate climate, prevent land degradation, reduce the risk of floods, landslides and avalanches, and protect people from droughts and dust storms. Forests also played a critical role in staving off the worst impacts of climate change, serving as the world’s second-largest storehouse of carbon, he said. Indeed, the world’s tropical forests alone retained a quarter trillion tons of carbon in biomass.
“If we are to succeed in the implementation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, the protection and sustainable management of our forests will be fundamental to the security of humanity’s place upon this planet,” Mr. Thomson, adding that the Assembly’s decision to adopt the first-ever strategic plan was “a critical one.”
Forests presently cover 30 per cent of the Earth’s land area, or nearly four billion hectares. Sustainably managed forests are healthy, productive, resilient and renewable ecosystems, which provide vital goods and ecosystem services to people worldwide. An estimated 25 per cent of the global population – 1.6 billion people – depends on forests for their subsistence, livelihood, employment and income.
The UN forests plan provides a global framework for actions to sustainably manage all types of forests and trees outside forests and halt deforestation and forest degradation.
The goals cover a wide range of issues including increasing forest area and combating climate change, reducing poverty and increasing forest protected areas, mobilizing financing and inspiring innovation, promoting governance and enhancing cooperation across sectors and stakeholders.
In his opening remarks, Peter Besseau, of Canada, Chair of the twelfth session of the Forum on Forests, said the landmark global action plan translated the aspirations of the International Arrangement on Forest into an actionable plan to guide the Forums’ work for the next 13 years. “The Global Forest Goals reflect the way the Forum is transforming its work to more effectively address the challenges facing forests and the lives of the people who depend on them.”
He urged all countries and stakeholders to tackle the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation; balance economic growth, social progress and environmental sustainability; and improve governance in order to integrate forest issues, as per the guidance from the Quadrennial Programme of Work.
As a unique universal body on forests, the UN Forum has an important role to play in implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Wu Hongbo told the Forum’s members today.
He noted that “the new method of work of the Forum, provides an excellent opportunity for the body to address the links between forests and the SDGs, as well as capacity building, financing, technology development and transfer, governance, and science-policy interface, in a holistic and coherent manner.”
The six goals not only contribute to progress on the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs, but also address the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, the Paris Agreement on climate change, and other international forest-related commitments and goals.
“To create a better, greener future, we need the right enabling environment – from governance systems that combat illegal deforestation, to policies that ensure equitable sharing of benefits from forests” stressed the Director of UN Forum on Forests, Manoel Sobral Filho.
“When sustainably managed, forests provide essential goods and services worldwide,” said Mr. Sobral Filho, adding that for millions of people living in poverty, “forests serve as safety nets in crises and often provide pathways out of poverty.”
‘Eradicating Poverty and Promoting Prosperity in a Changing World’ Discussions at the Forum will take into account the 2017 theme of the UN High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), ‘Eradicating Poverty and Promoting Prosperity in a Changing World’ and the SDGs under in-depth review by the HLPF this year.
The Forest Forum will also discuss issues related to sustainable forest management and strategies to promote implementation of the UN forest action plan.
Six Global Forest Goals
The forest-related goals proposed by the UN Forum on Forests and adopted by the General Assembly are:
Global Forest Goal 1 – Reverse the loss of forest cover worldwide through sustainable forest management, including protection, restoration, afforestation and reforestation, and increase efforts to prevent forest degradation and contribute to the global effort of addressing climate change.
Global Forest Goal 2 – Enhance forest-based economic, social and environmental benefits, including by improving the livelihoods of forest dependent people.
Global Forest Goal 3 – Increase significantly the area of protected forests worldwide and other areas of sustainably managed forests, as well as the proportion of forest products from sustainably managed forests.
Global Forest Goal 4 – Mobilize significantly increased, new and additional financial resources from all sources for the implementation of sustainable forest management and strengthen scientific and technical cooperation and partnerships.
Global Forest Goal 5 – Promote governance frameworks to implement sustainable forest management, including through the UN Forest Instrument, and enhance the contribution of forests to the 2030 Agenda.
Global Forest Goal 6 – Enhance cooperation, coordination, coherence and synergies on forest-related issues at all levels, including within the UN System and across Collaborative Partnership on Forests member organizations, as well as across sectors and relevant stakeholders.
Source: UN News Centre
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Ant And Dec Make A Staggering Amount Of Money Every Day
By : Josh Teal On : 15 Jun 2017 16:35
Fuck me, Ant and Dec are bringing home some right bacon.
It was a given that the duo would be fairly well-off, what with them dominating British Saturday night TV for the last fifteen years or so.
But £79,000 per day? That’d be offensive if it wasn’t so deserving.
Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnely have earned a figure close to £30 million in the past 12 month alone, according to The Sun. This is mainly down to their lucrative ITV deal and in part to a string of separate business ventures.
Having started out in the late eighties as PJ and Duncan on CBBC classic Byker Grove, the comedy duo have since set up two companies.
One of which is Mitre Television, named after the pub in Byker Grove. It produces Saturday Night Takeaway as well as owning the archives to SM:TV.
The other is Hurley Promotions. The earning from the two businesses is £5.4 million, but the primary wonga comes from Dec’s Deecourt and Ant’s Teecourt, which brought in £12.09 million and £11.99 million respectively.
In 2016, they signed a three year deal with with ITV to keep them at the helm of their most watched shows, including Britain’s Got Talent.
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Today is Friday, March 14, the 73rd day of 2014 with 292 to follow.
The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn and Venus. The evening stars are Jupiter and Uranus.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces. They include Austrian composer Johann Strauss Sr. in 1804; Thomas Marshall, U.S. vice president under Woodrow Wilson, in 1854; Jonathon Luther Jones, railroad engineer who was the hero of the ballad "Casey Jones," in 1864; physicist Albert Einstein in 1879; bandleader Les Brown in 1912; cartoonist Hank Ketcham ("Dennis the Menace") in 1920; astronaut Frank Borman in 1928 (age 86); actor Michael Caine and composer Quincy Jones, both in 1933 (age 81); astronaut and "last man on the moon" Eugene Cernan in 1934 (age 80); golf Hall of Fame member Bob Charles in 1936 (age 78); singer Michael Martin Murphy in 1945 (age 69); basketball Hall of Fame member Wes Unseld in 1946 (age 68); comedian Billy Crystal in 1948 (age 66), Prince Albert of Monaco in 1958 (age 56); and baseball Hall of Fame member Kirby Puckett in 1961.
On this date in history:
In 1794, Eli Whitney was granted a patent for the cotton gin.
In 1812, the U.S. government authorized the issue of America's first war bonds -- to pay for military equipment for use against the British.
In 1885, "The Mikado" by Gilbert and Sullivan made its stage debut in London.
In 1950, the FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" list appeared for the first time.
In 1951, Seoul was recaptured by U.N. troops during the Korean War.
In 1964, Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby was convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of U.S. President John Kennedy. (Ruby was sentenced to death but the conviction was overturned and he died of cancer while awaiting a new trial.)
In 1991, scientists from around the world reported the discovery of the gene that triggers colon cancer.
In 2003, Hu Jintao was chosen to replace Jiang Zemin as president of China.
In 2004, Vladimir Putin easily won re-election as president of Russia.
In 2009, Australian authorities said a 230-ton oil spill from a Hong Kong-registered freighter caused an environmental disaster along nearly 40 miles of beach off the Queensland coast.
In 2010, Katie Spotz, 22, of Mentor, Ohio, became the youngest person and first American to complete a solo boat journey across the Atlantic Ocean, a 2,817-mile, 2 1/2-month voyage in a 19-foot wooden rowboat.
In 2012, the International Criminal Court at The Hague, Netherlands, in its first verdict as a permanent war crimes tribunal, found Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga guilty of using children in war.
In 2013, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said more people are moving into the city than moving out for the first time in more than 60 years.
A thought for the day: "Don't take life for granted, because tomorrow isn't promised to any one of us." -- Kirby Puckett
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NFL's Ravens fire offensive coordinator
BALTIMORE, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- The Baltimore Ravens, ranked 18th in the NFL in scoring offense, Tuesday fired offensive coordinator Jim Fassel.
Ravens Coach Brian Billick said he will take over play-calling assignments. Billick informed team officials of his decision Monday and spoke with Fassel Monday evening.
"(It's) across the board," Billick said on the team's Web site, referring to what he'd like to focus on. "We've got to protect better, we've got to run better, we've got to run better routes, we've got to read better."
Baltimore is 4-2 and leads the AFC North and while its point-per-game average is in the middle of the NFL. The Ravens are 28th in the league in total offense with an average of 271.7 yards a game, including 177.3 yards passing (27th in the NFL) and 94.3 yards rushing (24th).
Fassel, a former NFL head coach, has guided the Baltimore offense for the past two seasons. He was the league's coach of the year in 1997 and coached the New York Giants to the Super Bowl, where they lost to Billick's Ravens.
His son John is Baltimore's special teams coach.
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Q&A: Michael Valgren — Denmark’s next big thing is already here
The classics winner Valgren believes he can win Tour of Flanders. He also talks about his passion for cycling equipment and how he came to the sport.
Michael Valgren could be the breakout star Danish cycling fans have been so patiently waiting for over the past decade.
Denmark is a small country, with about 5.7 million inhabitants, but it’s crazy about cycling. Denmark even rivals Europe’s more traditional cycling hotbeds when it comes to passion for racing.
Valgren, 27, seems poised for major stardom following his breakout 2018 campaign. A self-confessed classics fan, Valgren took two big wins last year at Amstel Gold Race and Omloop Het Nieuwsblad.
A move to Dimension Data should see Valgren get more leadership opportunities as well as a chance to select his calendar.
VeloNews sat down with Valgren and his ambitions of being Denmark’s next big thing:
VeloNews: Last year was huge for you — Amstel Gold and Omloop — how important was that breakthrough for you?
Michael Valgren: Last season was like a dream come true. I got myself a name on the WorldTour and now people are noticing I am a good rider. That’s what I always wanted. I wanted to be the best. If I cannot make a result, I am fine with that, but I at least wanted to try. I am happy to be a helper, because I am good at that, too, but I wanted to have my chances. Last year, I stepped up because I was one year older. I am 26, 27 soon, so it is not so young anymore. Winning Omloop gave me a big boost of confidence. I continued that all the way to the worlds and did a great Tour de France. Last year, I had no downs at all. I am trying to carry that into this season and continue to believe in myself. I know I have the power and strength to be at the front of these big races.
VN: We can imagine you had the interest of several teams after your season last year — why Dimension Data?
MV: They were very interested in me, and I had a nice talk with the sport director Rolf Aldag. I had a nice two years with Astana, but I felt like something was missing. This team was so interested. I’m a geek when it comes to equipment. I heard they were going to ride BMC bikes and all the best equipment. Nowadays in cycling, we are all so equal, so it’s these small differences that sometimes can be the winning difference. It’s almost like Formula 1 these days. Equipment-wise was the main reason why I wanted to move. I train like a maniac every day and I wanted to be on the best bike.
VN: How many pros are “bike geeks?” We’ve heard stories of some racers who cannot even change a puncture or have no interest at all in their bikes. You’re not like that?
MV: More and more of us are getting nerdy and getting into this stuff. Everyone is obsessed with their Garmin, the aerodynamics. Everyone wants to be on top of these things. It’s in these small details where the victory lies. I am convinced it is often the difference between winning and being third or fourth. And during a long grand tour, you save so much energy over the course of three weeks. In the end, you might have saved the energy of a whole stage. Things like skinsuits and aerodynamics make a huge difference.
VN: Tell us about your background — did you come from a racing family?
MV: My family was always keen on football and handball. I was national champion twice with my handball team as a kid. I was almost going to a national talent squad, and I made it to the third round of four, but I wasn’t selected. I got a bit angry. I was a bitter young man at 12 years old. It was the summer of the Tour de France, and I borrowed my uncle’s bike. I started to ride my bike a lot. I quit football and handball, and I made new friends. Luckily, my parents drove me every weekend to all the races. I was a shitty rider the first five years of racing to be honest. I had so much fun, and my parents could see that. They also made new friends and they were having some fun. I was quite late in puberty and growing up, so I finally got some muscles on my body, and I started to do well. I got serious and thought, OK, maybe I should try to be professional. I really didn’t think about until I was 18 or 19.
VN: The Danes seem quite passionate about their cycling — are you a big star there now?
MV: You feel that passion. Football and handball are the big sports, but cycling is right there. There are so many cycling journalists and the fans are so passionate about cycling. It all started with Bjarne Riis when he won the Tour and it’s just grown since then. I feel like I am getting more famous when I go back to Denmark. You cannot pick your nose without someone noticing.
VN: You spoke of more confidence after Omloop. How much does racing success come down to the mental element?
MV: That is the biggest thing in cycling. If you have a strong mental game, you beat 20 percent of the guys in the bunch. Sometimes when you’re suffering on the bike, and you see a guy who normally would not be there, you doubt yourself. That sometimes can ruin you even when you have good legs. It’s about believing in yourself and believing in the work you’ve done. When you start to believe in yourself, you can keep pushing yourself, and that gives you so many opportunities in the end.
VN: What motivates you during training and racing?
MV: I want to show people that I am good because I know that I am good. I also do not want to let people down. I know people believe in me. So I am putting the pressure on myself, but I like the pressure. That’s why I am on this team — to win the big races. The pressure is there to win, but I am ready for it.
VN: You have an interesting palmares, but you’ve never raced Roubaix. Don’t you believe you’re right for that race?
MV: Maybe someday later I would like to do it. I don’t like to do all the cobbles and the Ardennes, but if you skip Roubaix, you can do both. Maybe this year if I have a really good year and win Flanders, let’s say, maybe next year I would skip the Ardennes and go to Roubaix. And maybe take on the Giro. I’ve never done it and I’d like to do it. If you go until Roubaix, you can build up again to the Tour.
VN: The singular goal this year?
MV: The race I want to win is Flanders — 100 percent. I have a similar approach to the season as last year. After Australia, I’ll race Algarve and the opening Belgium weekend, then Tirreno, and all the classics until Liège. That’s a long run — 20 February to 28 April — two months of racing.
VN: You also performed well at worlds with seventh, so it was a long season and not much of a break.
MV: I had a funny off-season because I got married in November. I stopped after the worlds and took three weeks off. I couldn’t fit into my suit for the wedding, so I had to train for two weeks to fit my suit, and then went to my honeymoon and got fat again!
VN: You envision yourself as a Flanders winner someday, so you’ll never take a run at a grand tour?
MV: I would love to say that I could do that. I’d love to win a race like Paris-Nice. But just look at my physique. It just isn’t possible. Right now I am 73kg, and when I do the Tour, I am 71kg. I think I could get lower to 68 or 69, but I wouldn’t have the power. I think I might have the engine, but first I want to fulfill my other goals and dreams. What I’d really like to do is a win a monument, win a stage at the Tour de France, and finish on the podium at the worlds.
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Home > Adoption > Country Information > USCIS Announces Change to Filing Location for Nepali Adoption Petitions
USCIS Announces Change to Filing Location for Nepali Adoption Petitions
Prospective Adoptive Parents seeking to adopt a Nepali child, whose case is not affected by the suspension of processing of adoption cases involving Nepali children claimed to have been found abandoned, should file the Form I-600, Petition to Classify an Orphan as an Immediate Relative, with the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu.
Who is affected by this change?
This filing change affects you if you belong to one of the following groups of prospective adoptive parents:
Group 1: Parents who received a referral letter from the Government of Nepal’s Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare before August 6, 2010 informing them of a proposed match of an abandoned child
Group 2: Parents seek to adopt Nepali children who were relinquished by known parent(s) and whose identity and relationship can be confirmed.
Why are we making these changes?
USCIS and the Department of State are centralizing the initial processing of Form I-600 petitions in Kathmandu, Nepal in response to growing concerns about:
Unreliable documents
Irregularities in the methods used to identify children for adoption in Nepal
The resulting difficulties in classifying those children as orphans
USCIS strongly encourages prospective adoptive parents to follow this procedure for their own benefit.
How do I comply with the new filing instructions?
We encourage you to file your Form I-600 petition and all required supporting documents and evidence, other than the adoption or custody decree, through your local agency representatives in Nepal, who will then deliver them directly to the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu.
What about pending forms I-600?
The U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu will continue to process previously filed Form I-600 petitions. In addition, USCIS will forward all pending and new Form I-600 petitions on behalf of a Nepali child received on or after August 6, 2010, at the USCIS National Benefits Center to the Department of State’s National Visa Center. The National Visa Center will forward the petitions to the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu.
When should I file form I-600 with the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu?
If you are adopting a child exempt from the suspension, we encourage you to file the Form I-600 petition with the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu before traveling to Nepal to adopt a child. Waiting to travel will enable the U.S. government to determine whether the child identified in the petition qualifies as an orphan, as defined in Section 101(b)(1)(F) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Families who travel to Nepal to await resolution of their adoption petition may face unanticipated lengthy stays in Nepal, and can also result in a parent adopting a child that is then found not eligible to immigrate to the United States under the orphan process.
What should I expect after filing my form I-600?
The U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu will send you a notice of receipt for your Form I-600 and supporting evidence. A consular officer will review the petition and supporting evidence and conduct necessary field inquiries to determine whether the child qualifies as an orphan under U.S. immigration law.
If the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu determines that the Form I-600 petition is not clearly approvable, the Form I-600 petition will be forwarded to USCIS in New Delhi for further review and action. In certain cases, a request for evidence will be necessary to make a final determination.
If your petition appears approvable, USCIS and the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu will notify you. You may then travel to Nepal to proceed with the adoption. In cases where it appears the child may not qualify as an orphan, you will have an opportunity to respond to those findings through established procedures.
Will certain petitions be expedited?
With the exception of those families already in Nepal at the time of this announcement, USCIS and the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu will not expedite the processing of a Form I-600 petition solely because the petitioner is in Nepal. If a petitioner chooses to travel to Nepal to file the Form I-600 petition after the date of this announcement, the petitioner should anticipate a lengthy stay in Nepal while the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu conducts the necessary investigation and during USCIS review, if required.
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Costa Blanca Airports » Alicante Airport
Alicante International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de Alicante), (IATA: ALC), originally named El Altet, is the main airport for the province of Alicante and the region of Murcia in Spain. Alicante Airport is located within the municipality of Elche, its facilities lying just 9 km southwest of Alicante. Alicante Airport is the busiest airport in the Valencian community.
Alicante Airport History
Alicantes El Altet airport opened on 4 May 1967, replacing the older airdrome La Rabassa that had served Alicante since 1936. It took its name after the El Altet area (a part of Elches countryside) where it was built. The first commercial flight that landed in the airport was Convair Metropolitan by Aviaco.Iberia established a regular connections Alicante-Madrid and Alicante-Barcelona since November 1969. In early 1970s passengers traffic reached 1 million, which prompted a construction of a new passenger terminal. In later 1970s the runway was extended to three kilometers.
In 2007, Ryanair, the largest European low cost airline established a base at the airport.
In 2008, Alicante Airport handled 9,578,308 passengers, making it the sixth busiest airport by passenger numbers in Spain, and one of the 50 busiest in Europe. The largest number of passengers is carried by EasyJet (1,564,611 passengers in 2008), closely followed by Ryanair (1,415,284). Air Berlin (752.259) is the distant third.
The New Terminal is the only terminal currently in service. Terminals 1 and 2 have been closed since the opening of the new terminal.
New Terminal
The new terminal (denoted as Terminal N) was officially opened on 23 March 2011. All flight operations at the airport were moved to this terminal on the following day. The first flight that used the terminal was a Ryanair flight to Memmingen. The terminal has an area of 333,500 m2, which is more than six times the size of terminals 1 and 2 together. It includes 96 check-in desks, 40 gates, including 15 with airbridges, and 16 baggage reclaim carousels.[15] The terminal is split into two areas, the processor where the C Gates are held, and the dock where the majority of B Gates are located. Flights within the Schengen Area use both areas of the terminal while flights to non-Schengen destinations only use the dock. This terminal was constructed to the east of Terminal 1.
Former Terminal 1
Terminal 1 (styled as T1) had 38 check-in desks numbered 1–38, along with one for special baggage which is desk number 39. It included 11 gates of which five have airbridges, which are the odd numbered gates, and nine baggage reclaim carousels. It was closed after the opening of the new terminal on 24 March 2011. There are plans to reopen Terminal 1 following the construction of a connecting hallway with the new terminal.
Terminal 2 (styled as T2) had 14 check-in desks numbered 51–64, 6 gates (none with airbridges), and two baggage reclaim carousels. This terminal is adjacent to Terminal 1. The terminal was opened in January 2007. Prior to the opening of the new terminal whilst it was still active it was the smaller of the two terminals. Once the new terminal had opened on 24 March 2011, it was closed together with Terminal 1. Terminal 2 is due to reopen but only to private flights, air ambulances and small charter planes. No date for this has currently been set.
Location of Alicante Airport
How to get to Alicante Airport by car
Alicante Airport is accessible via the A-7 “Autovia del Mediterraneo” highway (Autovia).The N-332 “trunk road” also goes to the airport. The exit to the airport is clearly indicated on each road.
Parking: Public and long term car parking available
Bus: Regular bus service from Alicante-Airport Line (C6). Alicante (line C6), Benidorm and Murcia
Airlines from Alicante Airport
Bmibaby
Vueling Airlines
Thomson Airways
Further travel and tourist information for Alicante Airport
Disabled: Alicante airport caters to wheelchairs, site impaired and hearing impaired travellers. Wheelchairs can be arranged with your carrier. The air company or travel agency should be contacted at least 48 hours before the flight out or return.
Alicante Airport Switchboard Tel: 966 919 000
Alicante flight information Tel: 966 919 100
Lost luggage: Air Europa Tel: 966 919 017
Lost luggage: Iberia Handling Tel: 902 341 342
Lost luggage: Ineuropa Handling Tel: 966 919 498
Lost luggage: Newco Airport Services Tel: 966 919 407
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South-North Korea Border Talks Might Follow Kim Jong Un’s Recent Overture
January 2, 2018 at 4:45 pm by Andjela Radmilac
South Korean officials have responded to a recent overture from North Korea, proposing that talks between high-level officials be held on the two countries’ borders as early as next week.
By Michael Day (North-South Korean border) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
In his traditional New Year’s Day speech, Kim Jong Un called for tensions on the Koran peninsula to be reduced and insinuated North Korea’s possible participation in next month’s Winter Olympic Games, Reuters reported.
With the Winter Olympic Games being held in Pyeongchang County, less than 60 miles away from the North Korean border, South Korea has been eager to involve the North in order to ensure the Games are not disrupted by Kim Jong Un’s frequent nuclear and missile tests. According to Reuters, South Korea insisting on including the reclusive North in the games is also a way of re-establishing dialogue.
Kim Jong Un’s New Year’s Day declaration saw the dictator praising the country’s nuclear capability and announcing the mass production of nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles in 2018. Despite the very threatening tone of his address, he called for an urgent South-North Korea border talks in the wake of next month’s Winter Olympics Games.
According to the New York Times, Cho Myoung-gyon, South Korea’s point man on the North, proposed that the Korean governments hold their meeting next Tuesday in Panmunjom, a village straddling the border north of Seoul. Speaking at a news conference earlier this week, Mr. Cho said that he hopes the two sides “sit down for frank talks.”
If Kim Jong Un was to respond positively, the ensuing South-North Korea border talks would be the first official dialogue the two neighboring countries held in more than two years. With South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his government hoping that next week’s talks will ease years of tensions, North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear weapons is bound to be discussed at the talks.
Talks with North Korea could strain relations between Seoul and Washington
Sensing the tension that has been simmering between U.S. President Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Kim Jong Un might have deliberately chosen the first days of 2018 for his recent overture to the South. President Moon has long argued for diplomatic talks with the North and has never openly supported the U.S. imposed sanctions. President Trump, however, has made pressuring North Korea one of his administration’s main preoccupations.
The New York Times reported on President Moon angering Trump in recent months by suggesting he held a “veto over any American pre-emptive military action against the North’s nuclear program.” With North Korean media portraying South Korean President Moon as an “American puppet,” Kim Jong Un has largely ignored him until now.
As President Moon’s administration has welcomed Kim Jong Un’s calls for dialogue, it seems that Pyongyang has managed, once again, to step on Washington’s toes. “We have already expressed our willingness to engage in a dialogue with North Korea at any time, in any place and in any format, as long as both sides can discuss restoring their relations and peace on the Korean Peninsula,” a presidential spokesman, Park Soo-hyun, said to the New York Times.
President Trump addressed the issue in a tweet earlier on Tuesday, saying “Sanctions and “other” pressures are beginning to have a big impact on North Korea. Soldiers are dangerously fleeing to South Korea. Rocket man now wants to talk to South Korea for first time. Perhaps that is good news, perhaps not – we will see!”
Despite the negative response Kim Jong Un’s latest overture has gotten in Washington, some experts on the topic see the recent turn of events as a positive thing. Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, believes that the ensuing South-North Korea border talks show that North Korea is ready to work on resolving the tensions. “After getting nowhere with the Americans, North Korea is now trying to start talks with South Korea first and then use that as a channel to start a dialogue with the United States,” he said in a report recently published by the New York Times.
South-North Korea border talks to take place on a defunct hotline
With both Koreas agreeing that the ensuing border talks will take place at Panmunjom, it’s most likely that the actual dialogue will be held on a now-defunct hotline.
Panmunjom, a village just north of the de facto border between South and North Korea, has long been the two countries’ only contact point. Until 2016, both sides have exchanged messages through a telephone hotline located in the Joint Security Area. However, as President Moon Jae-in’s conservative predecessor, the impeached President Park Geun-hye, shut down a joint industrial complex in the region, the hotline had fallen out of use.
According to Reuters, Mr. Cho urged the North to restore the hotline so that both sides could discuss the agenda for the high-level talks, as a face-to-face meeting is still highly unlikely to happen. December 2015 saw the last high-level dialogue between the two countries.
President Moon has addressed the recent turn of events earlier on Tuesday and instructed his cabinet to move “swiftly” towards opening a dialogue with Pyongyang.
When asked about Kim Jong Un’s offer to open South-North Korea border talks, Mr. Moon said: “I appreciate and welcome the North’s positive response to our proposal that the Pyeongchang Olympics should be used as a turning point in improving South-North relations and promoting peace.”
Mr. Moon, a long proponent of using the diplomatic route to solve the tensions between Seoul and the reclusive North, has repeatedly urged both North Korea, as well as the international community, for Pyongyang to join the Pyeongchang Olympics. Reuters reported on Mr. Moon stating that Pyongyang’s participation in the games would make the country more engaged in the South-North Korea border talks.
However, with South Korea’s Unification Ministry stating that Kim Jong Un’s latest overture was not a step towards reconciliation, but an “exit” from the harsh sanctions imposed by the U.S., it has become difficult to predict how fruitful next week’s South-North Korea border talks will actually be.
Author: Andjela Radmilac
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Availability Search for Bearsden
Bearsden is an affluent suburb of Glasgow and is situated approximately 6 miles north west of the city centre.
The Roman Antonine Wall ran through Bearsden and the well-preserved remains of a military bath house can be seen near the town centre.
Bearsden started out as a small hamlet in the 17th century, but grew in the 19th century as wealthy Glasgow businessmen moved to the city's periphery and a wide selection of Victorian architecture can be seen, such as the former Schaw Convalescent Home.
Kilmardinny Loch Nature Reserve is a wildlife haven hidden within Bearsden, which boasts a loch and woodlands. The Loch is the site of several sculptures of The Gruffalo, placed in honour of author Julia Donaldson who lives in Bearsden.
The town has five golf course, including The Glasgow Golf Club, which is one of the world's oldest having been founded in 1787, and Windyhill Golf Club, home to LPGA Tour star Janice Moodie. The town has a yearly Highland Games held in partnership with nearby Milngavie. The town centre is known as Bearsden Cross where there is a good selection of eateries and independent shops. The town also has its own leisure centre. Bearsden has a train station with frequent services to Glasgow city centre.
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Simmering Tension Between Islamic School, Government Led to Protests in Eritrea
By Salem Solomon
A general view shows buildings in the central business district of Eritrea's capital Asmara, Feb. 16, 2016.
Unusual acts of defiance against government demands led to protests last week in Eritrea’s capital, Asmara, according to experts who study the region.
The rare protests were the culmination of nearly two years of back-and-forth between the Ministry of Education and leaders of the Diaa Islamic School of Asmara, who defied government orders aimed at removing religion from their curricula. An elderly school board member, Hajji Muasa Mohamed Nur, voiced the school’s resistance in a widely shared video posted on YouTube. “We are not going to change anything,” Nur said as the crowd applauded.
Nur was arrested, and the government threatened to take over the school, sending officials to collect the keys, several opposition groups said. That’s when a crowd descended on the school grounds and marched toward the Ministry of Education to protest the closing, according to state-owned media shabait.com.
Vacuum of information
Videos of frightened crowds dispersing as gunshots ring out have circulated on social media since last week. But the time and place of the videos have not been verified, and no injuries or deaths are depicted.
The government says reports of deaths and violence are part of a pattern of sensationalized stories that dominate news coverage of Eritrea.
“Scoop-oriented media outlets keep churning out false ‘casualty figures’ peddled by Eritrea’s detractors without minimum verification,” Yemane Gebremeskel, the minister of information, posted on Twitter. He said a small demonstration by one school in Asmara dispersed without any casualties.
But press freedom in Eritrea ranks among the lowest in the world, and non-governmental organizations can’t operate independently in the country.
Felix Horne, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch who focuses on the Horn of Africa, said those restrictions prevent verification and block credible information. In this case, that information could support the government’s side of the story.
Instead, opposition groups have seized the moment to give their version of events, Horne said. “It’s a very self-defeating strategy in our view, if the government has nothing to hide.”
Social media has added to the confusion, but it’s also enabled some information to leak out, including the clip of Nur. “That the government can suppress, but not completely black out news, I think, emboldens people and encourages people to know that they’re not alone,” said Saleh Younis, the editor of Awate.com, an Eritrean news website that is opposed to the government and its policies.
Details of last week’s protests and the government reaction also remain murky because people are scared of reprisals, Younis said. “Even if you know information, you’re hesitant to disclose it because we have a police state in Eritrea,” he said.
Much of the government’s response happens out of the spotlight. According to Younis, police have rounded up hundreds of people at night, and entire areas have been cordoned off.
Years of pressure
The Diaa Islamic School of Asmara was founded in 1968. The school has taught students from kindergarten to high school, and according to Younis has been well regarded. Nearly 3,000 students attend Diaa.
But for nearly two years, the government has had a litany of requests: Girls in high school should not wear headscarves, the school should remain open on Fridays, secondary classes should no longer be segregated by gender and no classes should focus on Islamic teachings, according to an alum.
School leaders were willing to compromise on some points, for example, staying open on Fridays. The government pressed to implement all of the changes, but school leaders refused. “The whole core of the school is being undermined,” Younis said.
Other schools have changed their practices and curricula in the government drive to secularize education, and some have closed, but Diaa appears unique in its resistance.
The key difference, said Semhar Habtezion, a member of the Eritrean Diaspora, was Nur. “He was fearless, and he was, in effect, saying we cannot continue fearing this government. This is our school, and we will do whatever it takes to fight back.”
When the government attempted to take over the school it crossed a red line that caused people to rise up and say "No," Younis said.
From the government’s perspective, intervening in the school’s affairs was necessary to protect its secular national curriculum. Writing on the Ministry of Information’s website, Mella Ghebremedhin said, "Similar... actions have recently been taken with both Catholic and Orthodox schools."
Despite last week’s unrest, the Diaa school remains open. VOA’s stringer in Asmara visited the day after the protests and confirmed to VOA Tigrigna that classes had resumed and students were outside playing sports. He also said by phone on Friday that ninth and 11th-grade students at the Catholic Cathedral school had been ordered to begin attending public schools near their neighborhoods.
6 Killed in Rare Protests in Eritrea, Opposition Group Says
At least six people have been killed in rare protests in the capital of Eritrea, one of the world's most reclusive nations, an official with the largest Eritrean opposition group said Wednesday. Another roughly 50 people were injured in the protests in Asmara that began Monday and escalated Tuesday, spokesman Nasredin Ali with the Red Sea Afar Democratic Organization told The Associated Press. The group is based in neighboring Ethiopia. The U.S. Embassy in…
Gunfire, Protests Reported in Eritrea's Capital
Demonstrations in Eritrea's capital, Asmara, have drawn a violent crackdown with reports of gunshots. The U.S. Embassy reported the protests and gunshots, although the source of the gunfire is unknown. Multiple videos shared via Facebook and Twitter and uploaded to YouTube show demonstrators fleeing along Asmara's downtown streets with sounds of gunshots audible…
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THE SHULMAN DECADE
ALEXANDRA SHULMAN will celebrate her 10th anniversary as the editor of British Vogue next Wednesday night (15/5/02), with a star-studded bash in the ballroom of the Ritz. Hosted by Condé Nast International Chairman Jonathan Newhouse, the party is expected to draw out all the most glamorous faces of the fashion world to raise their glasses to the woman behind the world's leading fashion magazine, including Kate Moss, who is planning to come along and show off her bump. For Shulman, it has been a decade full of fashionable surprises. "I never imagined I would edit Vogue, let alone that I would be here for 10 years," she says. "So nothing has really been as I expected it to be. I am continually surprised." Under her editorship, the world's fashion bible has certainly evolved, and has seen its circulation rise to 200,000 copies, with a readership of 1.1 million. "The magazine is a much broader one than it once was and we have constantly adapted to that," she goes on. "It speaks to more people but in essence it is still the same." Can we expect another 10 years at the helm from the woman who first appeared in Vogue herself at the age of 15? "I can't think beyond the next ten minutes..." (May 10 2002, AM)
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Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer
Global populations of bees and pollinator insects are being decimated at an alarming rate, and in recent years we’ve learned that use of neonicotinoid pesticides are largely to blame. But, as researchers are now confirming, the most used (and overused) herbicide in the world, Monsanto’s glyphosate, is also causing serious damage to bee colonies.
Glyphosate has become an international crisis as millions of tons of it have been sprayed throughout the world without concern for the impact on wildlife of on humans.
“Americans have applied 1.8 million tons of glyphosate since its introduction in 1974. Worldwide, 9.4 million tons of the chemical have been sprayed onto fields. For comparison, that’s equivalent to the weight of water in more than 2,300 Olympic-size swimming pools. It’s also enough to spray nearly half a pound of Roundup on every cultivated acre of land in the world.” ~Newsweek
Now, findings of a recent study conduct at the University of Texas show that glyphosate disrupts the gut microbiota in bees, causing them to be more susceptible to infection and illness.
“We demonstrated that the abundances of dominant gut microbiota species are decreased in bees exposed to glyphosate at concentrations documented in the environment,” said Erick Motta and colleagues from University of Texas at Austin in their new paper. They found that young worker bees exposed to glyphosate exposure died more often when later exposed to a common bacterium. [Source]
READ: THE LIST OF PRODUCTS AND FOODS THAT HAVE TESTED POSITIVE FOR MONSANTO’S CARCINOGENIC GLYPHOSATE
Furthermore, this recent study highlights the hubris and denial rampant in the agricultural industry where the prevailing belief is that toxic chemicals only impact whatever they are designed to target. The truth is that the web of life is much more complex and interconnected, and we don’t really understand (or care to understand) the total harm being done by these chemicals.
“Because glyphosate interferes with an important enzyme found in plants and microorganisms, but not in animals, it has long been assumed to be nontoxic to animals, including humans and bees. But this latest study shows that by altering a bee’s gut microbiome — the ecosystem of bacteria living in the bee’s digestive tract, including those that protect it from harmful bacteria — glyphosate compromises its ability to fight infection.” [Source]
Ironically, natural health advocates and concerned citizens have been warning us for years that glyphosate residue found in many of our foods and packaged food products is likely disrupting the human gut microbiome, causing us to become more susceptible to chronic illness, inflammation and even mental health problems like depression.
This most recent study finally demonstrates how glyphosate impacts living creatures, which is a clear warning that it is harming human health as well.
Just last month a San Francisco court ruled in favor of plaintiff Dwayne Johnson who had sued Monsanto for failing to adequately warn consumers of the potential risk for cancer when using these chemicals in a reasonable manner. Johnson is dying from non-Hodgkin lymphoma and was awarded $289 million in the paradigm-shifting trial which will allow thousands of others to sue Bayer-Monsanto.
How much more evidence do we need in order to understand that this is a major global environmental problem that is literally threatening life on earth?
Read more articles by Alex Pietrowski.
Alex Pietrowski is an artist and writer concerned with preserving good health and the basic freedom to enjoy a healthy lifestyle. He is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com. Alex is an avid student of Yoga and life.
This article (Confirmed: Monsanto’s Glyphosate is Killing Bees, Disrupting the Gut Microbiome) originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Alex Pietrowski and WakingTimes.com.
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Women-Led Team of Mexican Scientists Develop Cure for HPV, a Leading Cause of Cancer
Elias Marat, TMU
Researchers at Mexico’s National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) are celebrating a major scientific achievement: a new treatment that they claim can completely cure the human papillomavirus (HPV), helping to curb a leading cause of deadly cancer among women.
Led by scientist Eva Ramon Gallegos, the team was able to eradicate HPV in 29 patients through a non-invasive technique known as photodynamic therapy, according to El Universal.
The treatment involves the use of a drug called a photosensitizer or photosensitizing agent, alongside a wavelength of light that is used to treat affected areas of the body.
Professor Gallegos and her team, consisting mostly of women scientists, had studied the therapeutic method for about two decades in hopes to find approaches to prevent or roll back precancerous abnormalities and tumors including melanoma and the early stages of breast cancer.
About 420 patients in the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Veracruz were treated with the therapy, along with 29 women in Mexico City.
Gallegos said:
“During the first stage of research, when it was used to treat women in Oaxaca and Veracruz, we had encouraging results. The treatment also showed hopeful signs in its applications in the capital [Mexico City], which opens the possibility of making the treatment more effective and tailored to the specific needs of patients.”
The team’s accomplishment is being hailed as a major breakthrough, especially because of the complete lack of any known side effects or damage to those who have undergone the therapy.
#InvestigaciónIPN Eliminan cien por ciento virus del papiloma humano. En el marco del Día Mundial Contra el Cáncer 2019, la científica Eva Ramón Gallegos, compartió los resultados del trabajo que ha realizado durante 20 años. https://t.co/XrrWvtZC44 pic.twitter.com/yHxQL8FOxo
— IPN (@IPN_MX) February 3, 2019
What’s remarkable about this research is that this therapy doesn’t have any collateral damage to the human body, meaning it has no side effects.
“Unlike other treatments, it only eliminates damaged cells and does not affect healthy structures. Therefore, it has great potential to decrease the death rate from cervical cancer,”Gallegos explained to Cuba’s Radio Guama.
Prior to the treatment, patients underwent a colposcopy, pap smear, hybrid capture test, polymerase chain reaction and a biopsy to diagnose any premalignant lesions or HPV infections.
Human papillomavirus is a sexually-transmitted disease (STD) that results from skin-to-skin contact between genitalia. Over 150 different types of HPV exist worldwide, and while most cases of the virus disappear shortly after up to several months following transmission, a small percentage of infections can lead to genital warts or cervical, anal, oral and other cancers.
On the global scale, cervical cancer is the fourth most common type of cancer among women, with 550,000 new cases diagnosed every year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
In 2018, about 311,000 women died of cervical cancer, with 85 percent of deaths occurring in the developing and undeveloped world.
The discovery, made by a team led by Mexican woman Eva Ramon Gallegos, could save countless lives. pic.twitter.com/U5RSl3TpiI
— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) February 8, 2019
Cervical cancer is one of the leading causes of death among Mexican women, claiming 32,439 lives last year, or the equivalent of 89 per day, according to Leticia Rocha Zavaleta of the Institute of Biomedical Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
A dearth of sexual education and the prevalence of various stigmas and macho attitudes relating to sexual activity in Mexican society has seen unplanned pregnancies and STDs such as HPV proliferate among young women and adolescents, with girls as young as 12 contracting the disease, according to Sin Embargo.
Religious groups and conservative associations continue to combat the implementation of sexual education courses by the country’s Ministry of Public Education.
One of the 29 women who was cured, Lorena Guzman, 52, explained that she had long felt the stigma of carrying the virus, “as if the only cause was sexual promiscuity” and not the need for trust, hygiene, and self-discipline between both partners.
Following 12 months of treatment, Guzman was completely freed from HPV, which she described as a “dream come true.”
“Now that tranquility has returned, I can make long-term plans and enjoy every day of my life,” she explained.
Professor Gallegos, who feels happy that she has achieved her goal “to cure women,” warnedthat progress in the fight against diseases is complicated by bureaucratic stalling and state budget cuts that choke off resources for the scientific community.
“When there are budget cuts, the first affected are science and the arts – as if they are not necessary. I think the main problem is money and bureaucracy, these are a great burden because the process is so slow to ask for supplies and receive them. Actually, I think that (the government) should facilitate funds so that everything required for these studies arrives quickly, so we have more of a stimulus in terms of researchers and scientists.”
It’s #WorldCancerDay
Strengthening early diagnosis improves chances of survival for millions of people living with #cancer. https://t.co/4Iue1yxwLC pic.twitter.com/OdZbm4U6Hi
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) February 4, 2019
**This article (Women-Led Team of Mexican Scientists Develop Cure for HPV, a Leading Cause of Cancer) was originally featured at The Mind Unleashed and is re-posted here with permission.
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Fifteen minutes on cable television that illustrated one of America’s deepest political divides
Much of Anderson Cooper’s hourly show on CNN on Tuesday night was spent in an interview with Megan Rapinoe, the biggest star on the World-Cup-winning U.S. women’s soccer team. The pair discussed that success, with Cooper admitting that his knowledge of sports was perhaps not as robust as it could be. Eventually, he asked Rapinoe about her broadly publicized dismissal of a post-victory visit to the White House.
No one she’d spoken with on the team planned to accept an invitation from President Trump to visit the White House, she said.
"I don't think anyone on the team has any interest in lending the platform that we've worked so hard to build and the things that we fight for and the way that we live our life,” she explained. “I don't think that we want that to be co-opted or corrupted by this administration.”
Cooper said that there was a good chance that Trump, a cable-news aficionado, might be watching. Did she have a message for the president, if he was?
Rapinoe thought for a moment and then looked at the camera.
"I think that I would say that your message is excluding people,” she said. “You're excluding me. You're excluding people that look like me. You're excluding people of color. You're excluding, you know, Americans that maybe support you.”
“I think that we need to have a reckoning with the message that you have and what you’re saying about ‘Make America great again,’ ” she continued. “I think that you’re harking back to an era that was not great for everyone. It might have been great for a few people, and maybe America is great for a few people right now, but it’s not great for enough Americans in this world, and I think that we have a responsibility, each and every one of us, you have an incredible responsibility as, you know, the chief of this country to take care of every single person, and you need to do better for everyone.”
[Three decades ago, the bottom 90 percent of America held 40 percent of total net worth. Today, it holds 30.]
“It was a very oppressive place — and that’s not to say that it was the worst place in the world,” Rapinoe said. “I think that’s one of the things that a lot of people go to. No one is saying that they want to leave America, but I think as one of the great countries in the world, and for sure we want to see ourselves as that, we need to constantly look within and challenge ourselves to be better so everyone else can be better around us.”
That interview came during the 8 p.m. hour. At about the same time, over on Fox News — a network Trump was much more likely to have been watching — Tucker Carlson was presenting his own assessment of the problems with America.
“The Democratic candidates for president are on the road this week telling voters that the United States is an awful country,” Carlson said, coming back from a commercial break. “Of all the lies these people tell — and there are many — this is the most absurd,” he continued. “In fact, the United States is the kindest, most open-minded place on the planet. The U.S. has done more for other people and received less in return than any nation in history by far.”
He singled out the example of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who immigrated to the United States from Somalia as a refugee when she was a child. She became a citizen and, last year, was elected to Congress.
"Ilhan Omar has an awful lot to be grateful for, but she isn't grateful,” Carlson said. “Not at all. After everything America has done for Omar and for her family, she hates this country more than ever.”
Megan Rapinoe celebrates after scoring a goal during the Women's World Cup final on Sunday. (Francisco Seco/AP)
He quoted from a recent Washington Post article profiling Omar. Greg Jaffe and Souad Mekhennet wrote that in a presentation Omar made at an event earlier this year, she offered one version of the story of America. In it, the United States “wasn’t the bighearted country that saved her from a brutal war and a bleak refugee camp. It wasn’t a meritocracy that helped her attend college or vaulted her into Congress. Instead, it was the country that had failed to live up to its founding ideals, a place that had disappointed her and so many immigrants, refugees and minorities like her.”
The article continues, quoting Omar.
"I grew up in an extremely unjust society, and the only thing that made my family excited about coming to the United States was that the United States was supposed to be the country that guaranteed justice to all,” she said to an audience of high school students. “So, I feel it necessary for me to speak about that promise that’s not kept.”
[The double-edged significance of Pelosi’s ‘Make America White Again’ slam]
Carlson didn’t include the part of the story that Omar relayed about her frustration at the arrest of a woman who stole bread to feed her grandchild. Carlson instead stopped reading after the line about how Omar felt that the United States had disappointed immigrants and minorities like her.
“If anything, that’s an understatement. Omar isn’t disappointed in America; she is enraged by it,” Carlson said. “Virtually every public statement she makes accuses Americans of bigotry and racism.”
He quickly went much further.
"Ilhan Omar is living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country,” he said. “A system designed to strengthen America is instead undermining it. Some of the very people we try hardest to help have come to hate us passionately.” He claimed that the United States was perhaps “importing people from places whose values are simply antithetical to ours” — behavior that he claimed had doomed ancient Rome.
"So be grateful for Ilhan Omar, annoying as she is,” he said. “She’s a living fire alarm, a warning to the rest of us we better change our immigration system immediately. Or else.”
At about the same time, a few cable networks apart, Rapinoe and Carlson were inadvertently staking out two poles in America's broad political fight.
Earlier this month, a survey from the Economist and YouGov dug into partisan views of patriotism. Democrats were less likely to say without qualification that they were proud to be American and more likely to say that one could criticize the country while still being a patriot. Republicans were more likely to see actions like refusing to serve in a war or burning a flag as disqualifying someone from being considered a patriot and more likely to express pride at being an American.
That pattern plays out in the comments on Fox and CNN. Rapinoe — a representative of the United States on an international platform — presented a view of the country as improving but not perfect. Carlson presented frustration at injustices and problems in the United States as an example not only of Omar being insufficiently grateful but as a purported example of how immigrants are a threat to the United States.
[About 1 in 8 voters say Trump acts in an unpresidential way — and also approve of his presidency]
Omar’s and Rapinoe’s frustrations aren’t dissimilar, but it seems safe to assume that Carlson doesn’t consider Rapinoe — white, not Muslim, famous — as a “living fire alarm” we must immediately heed. Carlson’s presentation of Omar as a hostile outsider who demands unrealistic change in the United States collapses once you recognize that the differences between her complaints and Rapinoe’s are superficial ones tied to the nation of Omar’s birth. By contrasting Rapinoe’s comments with Omar’s — America can and should strive to be better — the racial and religious bias in Carlson’s commentary is made obvious.
As Carlson was disparaging immigrants like Omar, Cooper was asking Rapinoe about having in the past knelt during the national anthem.
"Can you see a day where you don't — where you do put your hand over your heart and sing the national anthem?” he asked.
“Yes, I’m very hopeful for that, absolutely,” she replied. “I mean, I think it’s going to take a lot of years and a tremendous amount of work by this country, but I’m absolutely hopeful for that. . . . It’s going to take a tremendous amount and maybe we — you know, maybe in my lifetime, likely in my lifetime we don’t get there, but that hope still persists.”
“I think that if we’re not striving for that,” she continued, “then we’re sort of just in this dead space.”
A fire alarm in its own way.
Analysis Kellyanne Conway inadvertently reminds America of our history of hostility to immigrants
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001 My First Lady <First Half>
At this point of time, I am hesitating towards translating 魔力 to mana instead of a more general magic power. Mana seems to be the right concept here but ‘mana’ itself is a coined terminology used to define the quantity of magic power. My point is that the author uses the general magic power so I try to stick to using magic power but sometimes using ‘magic power’ seem to be a mouthful so I am not really sure. Thoughts on this?
Ouroboros Record was written by Yamashita Minato and this chapter was translated by yAmi on www.yamitranslations.com
I brought my first slave and future helper candidate – Number 1-chan (temp) back home, and as I had expected, a small uproar erupted.
Father was visibly shaken while brother appeared as though he has just seen a monster. The other servants were boisterous. All in all, it was terrible. Well, that was a reaction which I had foreseen.
Treating father’s lecturing and whatever else he was saying as wind in the air, I returned to the lab which was located underneath the mansion. I made Number 1-chan sleep on the bed which I usually reserve for napping. She was still breathing. Though, I have no way of knowing if her heart would stop beating later.
Being a self-learnt alchemist and also a person who has reincarnated from modern Japan, I had some understanding of medical science. Albeit it being superficial knowledge, a novice like me should be able to understand one thing or two from conducting a medical examination. It seems that the violence inflicted on Number 1-chan was more gruesome and dark then I have imagined.
What was written on her body as a recurring theme were the marks of hesitation. Deserving of special mention were the bones on her face which appeared to have been recklessly smashed while healing magic was applied. This sort of life prolongment wasn’t the product of overflowing kindness. It was something more insidious and hideous.
Simply speaking, the broken bones were patched up in a distorted shape on purpose, so as to prevent her face from ever becoming what it used to be. To make matters worse, her misery was extended to the skin on her face. It had been bitten and torn apart, to the extent of pus oozing out from here and there. With this, even if her life was spared for argument’s sake, the rest of her life would be spent in this condition. There were probably few priests in the church who would be able to heal her. Not only that, factor in the medical costs, which were commonly termed as ‘alms’, would cost quite a bit. This means, for a being like a slave who had no connection to money, she would not be able to get healed her whole life.
No matter how you think about it, this shouldn’t have been done on a young child who’s age ranged in the single digits. In fact, it should not be acceptable on an adult either.
From the relentless theme of destroying her appearance, I couldn’t help but think that this was an act committed by another female, who had profound jealousy or some obsessive hatred towards her. It looked similar to what Chinese Empress Lü Zhi or Wu Zetian would do their husband’s lovers.
“Was she sold as a slave to achieve that very goal?”
Was this the so called Human Swine1, an anecdote notorious for its cruelty. Or something of the like. After making her a slave, society’s lowest denominator, she was further ridiculed since nobody would be interested in her as a slave. An inhumane plot.
Well, all this is of no concern to me. I purchased her, not the other way round; I was in no way hired as a lawyer. I am not in the least interested in getting entwined to someone who would inflict such an unspeakable suffering on a young girl.
What I will do to her is a separate topic.
——Chi, Chi, Chi, squeaked the rats that were trapped in the cage.
Ah, right, it was time to feed them. Facing the rats, I threw sunflower seeds at them.
The rats in the cage picked up what I had thrown at them with “both hands” and nibbled on them.
Full body anesthesia.
Blood thickening medicine.
Ablation of suppuration area.
Realignment of distorted skeletal structure.
Grafting of artificial muscles and artificial skin on the face.
Etcetera, etcetera……
In any case, I tried many procedures. It was also my first time doing a human experiment on a genuine human, and so I tried my best. This was because I have only played small-scale “childish pranks” on the servants……
It goes without saying that no matter how much adult intellect I held as an reincarnator, I am still an amatuer in alchemy and it was not like I studied to be a doctor previously. There were many instances of first-time surgeries failing. Possible ways to fail include cutting things that were not supposed to be cut or maybe making mistakes when the supply of anesthesia has been cut off. It was especially difficult without anesthesia when removing the skin on her face to remove pus. I was afraid that Number 1-chan (temp) might tremble in pain and awaken. If that was the case, I rather she just scream. It was important to be able to continue the surgery without being noticed, since the pain might lead to shock-inducing death.
I managed to overcome all the possible ways to fail and managed to complete the general treatment. It might as well been magic. The skills I have employed were the basics of the basics, what you might view as having only learned techniques a level zero would have but even then, the damage done to her blood vessels were to the extent which could be healed with recovery magic and other kinds of useful healing items which had been prepared. Since I could freely use all these, I could make up for the pitfalls in my inexperience. Fantasy is really awesome. If magic was that convenient, I don’t think there would be any motivation to advance science huh.
Especially analysis magic which could decipher the composition and structure of a material, it was really amazing. Thanks to it, I was able to decipher that Number 1-chan (temp) face had been disfigured with malicious intents and could also infer the original shape of her face. No, it was more like the fruits of my labours. Understanding the structure of materials were the very fundamentals of alchemy.
…...However, despite the room reeking with the stench of blood, I was wholly calm and yet, my mind seem to feel somewhat dizzy?
I might conclude that this was all for treating someone but the me from the previous world would have never thought that I would do insert sharp tools into other bodies. I have repeated this quite a few times but I wasn’t a doctor previously and in fact, I detested injections. I would have never imagined myself pointing a knife at someone, even in a brawl or something.
In fact, that I was able to so naturally do this to a slave; that I would accept doing such a human experiment, it could only mean that.
Yes, I might not be have lived in this world for more than ten years but my mind and soul has long been poisoned by the nobles of this world. If you are not a noble, you are not a human. Something like that. Humans often allocated unique duties to others and the others would further allocate these duties down the hierarchy, such behaviour which was modelled as a theory in psychology could make for a theme in a movie in my previous world. Wasn’t this similar to what was happening in this world?
Or perhaps, the roots of my personality could just be broken.
Well, I am person who has died once. My view on life and view on humans would have more or less changed. It was inevitable.
As I have mentioned, Number 1-chan (temp)’s treatment was for now successful.
Her face which has been distorted with ill will, returned to its former state of beauty. The portions that were violently cut were also fixed.
There were no signs of infections given that the place was well-maintained and sanitised.
Still, what I done was only treat her physical body. The aspect of mental care was entirely untouched.
I do not know the accurate events that occurred but she must have been the daughter of a person with status, and one day, she was attacked suddenly by a beast and made an outlet for lust, moreover, her looks were thoroughly destroyed. And let’s not forget that her age was still in the single digits. There was no way this wouldn’t leave a trauma on her. More like, if that wasn’t the case, then something must be very wrong with her.
And the proof was that she was already able to speak without any difficulties and yet, I have not heard her utter a single word which held meaning. This includes her name. Thanks to it, I am stuck with calling her Number 1-chan (temp) up till now. Err, of course I did not actually say the words “(temp)”.
As I was saying, that aspect is beyond my expertise. Eh? You ask why can’t I do counseling as a person with knowledge of the previous world? You must be kidding. I hardly venture out of the mansion after being reincarnated. If you put it nicely, I can be considered an indoor person but the mean way of saying it would be that I was a shut-in. As a shut-in, there was no way I was capable of counseling. You could say that I have a smattering amount of knowledge in the field of psychology from my previous life — read from the internet entirely. My level of knowledge could be considered to be at a miscellaneous level. Just Freud’s dream analysis and his theory of psychosexual development was more than a handful for me. Even for the medical treatment for her body, I should be able to manage with my magic and what I can remember from my days of being a student in a biology class. Any expectations beyond that, would be troubling for me.
Just to confirm again, there was a possibility that Number 1-chan (temp) would become more petrified than before if I were to deal with her poorly or make her work cruelly like how the others did. When I took her back, I had no idea if her life was a candle burning out. After that I prescribed medicine of which effects I did not understand well and tweaked her body while she was unconscious. All this was a gamble. It was the same for the previous world, even in a climate of advanced medical science, before a major surgery, patients would have to find their peace as they entrust themselves to their surgeons. Even at the dentist waiting room, there were many people who wore faces like that of a prisoner awaiting their execution. All the more for children. Moreover, I was barely a eight year old child who was naturally unlicensed. Though in the first place, there was no such thing as a doctor’s license in this world. That’s why, distrust and fear for doctors was like unagi rapidly swimming upwards. If it was me performing the treatment, it would definitely turn out that way.
It was a nuisance. And I wanted to have her work as my helper after treating her too. Having animosity and distrust against me would hinder me from educating her.
Certainly, the magic to force slaves into obedience was active by default so I could still bulldoze my way through but, it goes without saying that it would be greater progress if I could get the person herself to proactively collaborate in this endeavour.
I pray that the distrust she carried against me would be as small as possible.
A few days later. In the same old laboratory.
“Yo, Number 1-chan (temp). Today is finally the day the bandages can be taken off you! ”
“......?”
It was unbefitting of my character to say it with this much spirit yet the response from Number 1-chan (temp) was silence as she raised her head covered full with bandages.
In the end, until today, we did not establish a single conversation. I did attempt to communicate with her many times but Number 1-chan (temp) always kept hush. There were no defects in her vocal cords, and her tongue which was bitten probably when she was being hit was healed too. Despite so, she did not even let out a scream of agony. It was like she had rejected everything of this world.
Hmm, even though it would be great if it was possible to open up her heart slightly with this opportunity. Well, if I was her in shoes and I was treated without giving my consent, I too would not trust nor have any confidence in that person.
As I ruminated through my thoughts, I made her sit on a chair and face a full-length mirror that was installed by the wall. She offered no resistance, just like a doll. Somehow, it felt as though I have become a beautician. Rather than actually giving her a haircut, it was more like mowing grass though. That was because it would have gotten in the way of the surgery. It’s not like her hair wouldn’t grow back.
“Now then, I am removing them. Don’t move okay?”
Cutting off the knots with a pair of scissors, I unwound the rest of the bandage slowly from the cut-off piece. There were faint sounds of cloth rubbing off the skin but nothing worrying like foreign substance adhesing itself on the skin occurred. It was truly a smooth peel.
Sure enough, her bare face was something acceptable for my eyes. A smooth and natural line was drawn on her outlines. Her skin was rich with youthful vitality. Her facial features were still that of an immature child but there was not a single distortion to her mould.
To anybody out there, could you upon seeing this face, imagine that a thoroughly ravaged appearance could be reborn like this?
Flawless.
A flawless success.
A sudden tremor passed through my spine. The sense of achievement I felt from this was unprecedented even considering all my other experiences from my past life. Really wonderful. I, with my own hands, was capable of using a delicate technique to come this far. And this so called alchemy industry, could bring forth such a miracle!
I wondered if she reacted to my words. She lifted her eyelids slowly.
She opened wide her big and beautiful green eyes and stared at the person in the mirror.
“......!?”
The countenance on her face as well as the reflection’s became that of bewilderment. Surprise, confusion, and likely delight. Her white skin, her reddening and dampening eyes elucidated an emotion that was by no means a minus.
“How is it, Number 1-chan (temp)! This is some piece of work isn’t it? Honestly speaking, I myself never imagined that it would turn out like this!”
“Sniff…...sniff……”
Despite having congratulated her, Number 1-chan (temp) started to sob uncontrollably. Compared to her earlier self when her expression changed, it was as though there was no pause in the change at all. The muscles on her face governing emotion seems to be functioning normally.
“T-Thank you ve-very much……!”
I could hear her uttering in a blurry voice. Thinking about it now, this was the first time I heard her say anything at all. To have so frankly given her thanks to me, even though I did whatever I pleased as much as I liked till today. Truly, a well brought up child. I suppose her parents taught her discipline well.
“No way, I should be the one giving you my thanks! You have really endured a lot to have made it here! It was a valuable experiment!”
Overcomed with emotions, I embraced her and she soon return the embrace with her tiny hands.
Tears and mucus dirtied my clothing but I couldn’t care less. Compared to the bloody pus that I extracted during the wretched operation, this was nothing.
Inside the dimly lit basement, the young us caught hold of one another as we immersed ourselves in the joy of initial success.
“Talese…...who is that child?”
I brought her out from the basement and father saw her. He was clearly taken aback.
Naturally, I threw my chest out without the slightest hint of guilt and replied.
“What are you saying Father. This is my slave.”
“Hah……?”
Unfortunately, my reply had only induce more and more confusion in father. He blinked his eyes in rapid succession.
“......You bought a second one?”
“You are mistaken. Before then, her figure was in a tragic state of injuries and she couldn’t show her true face but now I have finally healed her. And thus, I brought her up. C’mon, give your greetings to Father.”
“......Nice to meet you, I am, Yuni.”
Former Number 1-chan (temp) held on the sleeves of my shirt while giving a clumsy bow to father. How it ended up being Yuni was because it would obviously be disastrous for others to know that her name was Number 1-chan (temp) so it was the name she thought of hastily. I have a faint inkling about it but I am sure that its meaning was “a single object”. To have pass off a name related to one, because her name was Number 1; it felt like that there was no big change to her name.
Incidentally, I do not know her real name. I tried asking what happened before I bought her but the reception from her was unfavourable. I couldn’t tell if she refused to reply or whether she was unable to reply. What I merely healed was her outer appearance. Her interior must be in disorderly state even now I suppose. To the extent of not knowing oneself even though she was herself. I am interested to know more about her personal history but, well, that can be left for later when she composes herself.
Father opened his mouth wide.
He must have thought it to be inconceivable that a half-dead person with a face full of swellings could, in a short period of time, recover to this state of beauty. That must be it. My only bet was that she would survive and had predicted that some degree of scarring should remain even if she did not die. Yet, she overturned that verdict and exposed a face with not a single flaw to the world.
This extent of treatment has been pulled off by a kid who wasn’t even ten. Being in disbelief should be expected. I believe I would laugh scornfully if I heard from others about a similar tale like this.
Father took roughly one minute to digest the situation but he still showed hesitation as he stammered.
“Ye-Yes…...an ex-excellent job, Talese. To have personally healed a completely defective slave…...your ability has left me in utter wonder!”
“No, no, it must have been the result of her life force. I never expected that her recovery to reach this extent.”
“Ha, hahaha…...being excessively humble would only make you sound sarcastic though?”
Somehow or another, him praising my skill would mean that the integrity of his head has grasped what has occurred.
“Ahem,” father coughed and continued, “However, have you forgotten the objective we laid from the beginning? I made you buy a slave so that you could learn the ways to tame your retainers. Even though your practice at healing has gone smoothly, I will not permit you to neglect your main duty.”
“Yes, certainly.”
That goes without saying. From the start, I picked Yuni on the basis of her magic powers. From here on, this child would become my loyal servant, and also a promising helper. For that, I would definitely have to thoroughly educate her.
“Regarding that, Father. I plan on having her learn the basic etiquette for now. If it is possible, may I have the help of the maids from our mansion who are not busy?”
For starters, we will work on the superficials.
There is a saying that goes: the face follows but the stomach opposes, but to really detach the face from the stomach would be both unexpected and difficult. Much less of Yuni who doesn’t seem to be a reincarnator like me. She was a 100% genuine child. If that was the case, if I let the way of living obediently under others seep into her mind from young, when she grows into an adult, she would probably have a submissive personality.
Without any inclination that I was thinking about such insolence, father nodded his head in what appears to be annoyment.
“Do as you like. I would allow that kind of activities.”
The conversation ended and he left the venue in a rush.
“Alright, I obtained permission from Father. I would have you work hard immediately from today. You good?”
“Yes, master.”
Yuni spoke in a flat voice that did not hint at any emotion. I wonder if it was because of the gratitude from being healed but for now, she behaved loyally to my orders. Still, there was no way I would be satisfied with just that. Humans were living beings who would grow to become independent. We might be bound by the slave contract and her gratitude but there was no proof that this kind of relationship would continue forever.
Firstly, her magic alone had a substantial quality to it. Being my helper, she would have to accumulate information on alchemy and magic, and if so, it was plausible for her to dispel the obedience magic by herself. To maintain this relationship of master and servant, I would have to strictly teach her the behaviour and etiquette, and through repetitive learning, firmly instill faithfulness. In the future, I am considering the possibility of applying a sophisticated brainwashing magic — otherwise known as brain restructuring.
This might be too cowardly of me. However, I am a reincarnated human. A human that has died once. I am going to have to say no to dying a second time. That’s why an existence that follows my command and move as my arms and legs, absolutely cannot betray me.
As much as I could, I produced a kind-looking face and grinned at her.
A week from when Yuni started her training, she became able to behave at a bare minimum level for a servant. As expected, before she ended up in tatters and being sold to the slave market, she was likely born and raised in a family that should have a social status equivalent to that of an aristocrat. She was able to perform the basics of courtesy like the ABCs and her speed of learning wasn’t bad either.
Still, once her free time started, it was time for her training to be my helper and bodyguard.
What we did from the start was to build up her strength.
“Hey hey, your legs are coming to a stop! Move, move! One, two! One, two!”
“Ye-Yes! Master.”
On fine days, I brought bodyguards out to the outskirts of the city and made Yuni run. Before becoming a slave, she must have been the esteemed daughter of somebody and after being a slave, she lived in the underground lab for treatment. After going through that kind of life, she could not even last 5 minutes before starting to pant. Well, this wasn’t like a park or an exercise field like my previous world, and was a wild field overrun by weeds and small stones hidden in the shadows. Supposing that she was confident in her endurance, it would still be tough I guess.
“Young master…...what in the, what is the point of doing this?”
A servant said in puzzlement. It was the same servant that accompanied me when I was buying Yuni. This time too, he came along as the bodyguard and the coachman.
“Can’t you understand from looking? I am building physical strength. I have to occasionally bring her out to do some exercise.”
No matter what one is doing, the most important is one’s physical strength. In a fantasy world where magic roams freely, that was the first thing I learnt. Offensive magic or recovery magic and on top of that, transmuting substances with alchemy, etcetera etcetera, each and every one of these magic progress according to the consumption of the user’s magic powers. In this aspect, it does bear semblance to computer games in my previous world. Still, it differs in one area. Once one’s magic power was depleted, it would have an effect on the body. In most of the cases, symptoms of shortness of breath and palpitations, dizziness and confusion to one’s awareness would surface. To put it bluntly, exhausting all magic power would render one incredibly tired.
When I first picked up magic, I did not have a good gauge of my limits and had the experience of fainting multiple times. There was this one time, for example, when I was in the middle of mixing some strong medicine when my consciousness receded and because of that, I nearly caused a fire in the basement.
And thus, ever since then, I came up with a countermeasure. To endure the acute tiredness when one has been drained of magic powers, one has to train the physical body as far as possible. It was a simple concept but it should be enough for a measure.
It was just at the level of a hypothesis but I think it was a hypothesis with a rather high accuracy of being right. The evidence was that I heard from adults that most people who faint from magic exhaustion were children or the elderly with poor physical constitutions. There were limited examples but the evidence pointed strongly towards people with weak bodies. However, this was hardly a methodology. In any case, most of the magicians, devote the majority of their resources towards attaining the greatest magic powers or newest magic skills, (and in my case, for an alchemist) it would be assigned to experimenting and creating magic equipment. There would not be any free time dedicated to building the body. The house tutor who taught me magic — who has stop coming exactly a year ago — was also rumoured to sweat like a barbarian. (TN: not really sure what the author means by this. Sweating like a barbarian = not fit? Or = fit?)
Well, there was a some point to it. Time flows infinitely but human lives have their limits. It was entirely rational to concentrate the maximum amount of time on one’s priorities and keep the others to a minimum. Increasing one’s magic powers to the upper most levels would naturally mean lower chance of magic exhaustion happening.
However, what I hoped for Yuni wasn’t to just be a fixed artillery, chanting magic. To go adventuring in place of me to collect required materials as my helper as well as to act as my bodyguard since I was a non-combatant. It would be unimaginable if she were to be exhausted due to a lack of magic power. There was a need to nurture her reflexes and forge her stamina while she was still a child.
“I never expected this fella to be so stringent. That young lady hasn’t had time to recover from injuries right?”
“Like I said, I have to build her stamina quickly. That way her training later can move in the right direction.”
At the very least, she has to recover to the point of being able to walk about in the mansion without any problems. That’s why I have to quickly train her. Exactly in this period, since I bought her, I am strapped for cash and the research had to stop temporarily. For the sake of Yuni and while I have time to spare, it was the evident conclusion to have her basic abilities improve now.
In addition, included among the treatment performed on her was artificial skin grafting. I would love to obtain data on how she reacts to long exposure to sunlight. Also, I could harvest medicinal plants in the vicinity or think about how to counter monsters that appear in proximity of civilisation — you heard me right, monsters exist. A long time ago, a demon lord existed — also, I could also learn about the raw materials that can be obtained by being present on the actual site. Three birds one stone.
“Do not worry. I have no intention to destroy this hard found talent before my eyes.”
I shrugged my shoulders and said. I pointed towards the shoes that I bought for Yuni to walk in the fields and the socks worn inside which would prevent blisters. I even prepared water and would make sure she hydrates herself plenty when the opportunity arises. If she trips or gets bitten by poisonous insects, I could treat her.
“I can hardly understand what young master is thinking…...”
The male attendant scratched his head with a pained expression. That was not the way to speak to the family of his employer but I’ll let that slide. This would be the normal reaction of an adult. It was only because I felt that it was necessary, else I wouldn’t be doing this either. This might not be very persuasive but I do not have a hobby of bullying girls. It was just that as I watched the figure of Yuni in the distance, trying her best to fulfil my expectations, a deep emotion prodded my chest.
“One, Tw…...one, tw…...ha, hah…...”
Soon, the attendant and I became silent and the only sounds that filled the plains were the shouts and rough breathing of Yuni.
…...At the end, Yuni became entirely spent after around 30 minutes. She couldn’t even get on board the coach without my hand to support her. For the first day, she worked very hard. I think I would treat her to a miracle drug that rejuvenates later.
A month passed.
“Yuni. Today, I’ll have you remember the recipe for a simple drug. Understand?”
“Yes, master-sama.”
Rather than a long way from growing, she seem to be entering a full-blown period of growth; compared to a long time ago, she has physically improved to a large extent due to daily training. I do not think she would give up if it was just mashing medicinal herbs with a pestle.
Using the herbs found near the plains of the outskirts (when she was working out) as the ingredients, the lowest grade of potion can be made. I have to ensure that she was at least able to make that.
“You don’t have to be so nervous. I was able to do this three years ago, so it shouldn’t be that challenging. Remember, the first step is to —”
Another month passed.
“Finally, our medicines have hit the market.”
“Congratulations, master.”
We gathered around a table which had a leather pouch on top of it. We were captivated. Inside the pouch was the currency of this world, the lowest denomination with the lowest worth — copper coins. Something cheap would be worth this much coins. If we go to the money-exchanger, this should be worth a few pieces of silver I reckon.
Father indicated his displeasure upon hearing that our homemade medicine was sold out in the market. The reason being that a person in an Earl’s Family should not be imitating the vulgar business of a merchant. Persuading him was especially bone-breaking. Compared to making the merchant guild recognise the quality of my products, I felt it was far more troublesome.
“However, I managed to procure an income source that was somewhat passable.”
When I considered that, I couldn’t help but lift my lips into a grin. Up till now, all my research funding depended on the small allowance father gave me, but since I could do my own trade now, I should be able to be self-sufficient despite it being a very small sum of money. If father’s patience runs out and he decides to stop the alchemy research, it shouldn’t be a problem now. I won’t be able to avoid shrinking the scope of the research but at least I can continue the research by my own efforts.
“Just a bit more savings and…...I should be moving on to the next stage of research.”
A month later.
“Ngg…...Ngooo…...”
“Master-sama, Number 2’s body temperature is climbing. Perspiration has also been observed.”
“The status of the pupil of the eye?”
“......It is contracting.”
As I heard the report from Yuni, I started listing down the data on a piece of paper that I was holding onto. In the middle of the room, there was a newly installed operating table. On it was a male who was gagged and chained. The metal fixtures that constrained him rattled endlessly.
What am I doing? As you can see, it was a human experiment.
In order to materialise my ultimate goal of immortality, it was essential to have data regarding the biology of a human and its various functions. For example, medicines have to be tested in advance and whether it is administered to myself or to others, it was important to determine the effectiveness of medicines.
Previously, I had Yuni conduct a few experiments on animals and there was plenty of data resulting from it but, for more intricate and complex medical procedures, data from human experiments was still fundamental.
Hence, newly bought slave Number 2 (adult male; former criminal) was a rather helpful specimen. He had a sturdy build and what’s more was that he has no useful skills whatsoever and was thus, priced economically. He did not have a single ounce of magic power and so, the obedience spell worked finely on him. Not to mention that he contained a great dislike towards nobility and his attitude towards them was the very worst. Despite prescribing the strongest medicine and conducting radical experiments on him, my conscience didn’t weigh on me one bit.
In any case, this round of experiments were a failure.
“The muscle strengthening medicine derived from Full-Moon Scopolia…...even though the theory should be correct. Was its toxicity not attenuated sufficiently?”
Falling into a state of abnormal excitement, inability to discern things and the cloudiness of consciousness were observed.
I managed to find a prescription text from an old bookshop and by making references to it, I tried to make a medicine. However, after replacing the main component with a more potent medicinal herb, it didn’t seem to go well.
“Rather than thinking about the expected effectiveness, the risk of side effects have risen too much. Should I do a full reevaluation?”
“Still, swapping to it a less poisonous variant would make it more expensive. Should I employ adventurers to collect them for me? Instead of buying directly, this would help reduce the costs.”
As I grumbled on, Yuni drooped her shoulders disheartenedly.
“......I beg for you forgiveness, master.”
“Hm? Why?”
“Yuni has been continuing her training but I am still not good enough to be of use.”
Also, she bowed her head down apologetically. Oh, so she has a cute side to her as well huh?
“You don’t really need to pay too much attention to that. The training program would be refined and polished annually. I anticipate another 5 or 6 years before you are combat ready.”
I gave her the affirmation right from my mouth but from her appearance, it seems like she still has worries about it. Perhaps she associated the worst situation because of the next stage of the research — human experimentation that involved utilising slaves. More specifically, she was afraid that she would become a specimen for the human experiments.
Nevertheless, Yuni was a scarce talent that could be hardly found anywhere. I looked through the entire slave market and rarely saw someone who had her level of magic powers. Slaves who had such magic powers were attached with a price tag that only relatively high peerage holders or owners of small castles can afford, and these slaves were all elves too. It was really a godsend fortune that I was able to procure Yuni at that price.
Consequently,
“Rest assured, Yuni. I would not simply abuse someone of your calibre because that would be incredibly foolish.”
I made a very clear cut declaration, and it seems that her anxieties faded to some extent.
“Yes…...yes, master-sama…...”
Though I must say, this was a somewhat ominous sign. The small animal-like fear and braveness that arose in her were not feelings that would occur if one was loved caringly.
This release of what was on her mind, in short, implied that she was fearful of me. Even if I removed the fear she has of me with whatever reason or anything, there would not be any guarantee that she would put her live on the line for me. For example, if one day, someone who protects her, replacing my role, appears.
…...It was a plausible situation. After all, I did say I wanted to give her the dangerous task of searching the ingredients that were necessary for alchemy. Actually, it was because of the direction of the progressive training that she could see that I was pushing her to be my helper. If one day, Yuni’s dissatisfaction is not stifled or if some meddling person extends a helping hand because of pity…...there were countless of possibilities if I just thought about it.
Of course, the obedience spell was currently active, though I did repeat several times that this was not an absolute measure to gain trust. For that reason, I need to bring her heart closer to my side.
I examined the possibility of using brainwashing magic or brain restructuring but it is not something of my league currently. To make it something that I could do would require more time. I have to prepare some kind of a plan.
“Master, what should we do with Number 2.”
Her voice brought me back to reality after being lost in my own thoughts. I can’t be like this, brooding over things endlessly was one of my bad habits.
“Ahh, for now, please help me administer the fourteenth antidote. There are many many more experiments that I want to do with Number 2 after all. Have you memorised how to do it?”
“Umm, mix the water in, insert the catheter into his mouth and use the pump to pour it into the throat, right……?”
“Yes, yes. Be careful not to mistakenly insert it into the respiratory way.”
“Is an injection no good?”
“You know we are doing a clinical trial of a muscle strengthening medicine yes? In this situation, the bulging muscles would be a hindrance and would prevent the needle from entering.”
“......Sorry.”
“Ahaha. You do not have to stress yourself out. Having doubts and raising questions are the signs of a good servant.”
I continued to guide her. I was pretending to be kind while thinking of more wiles to deeply cajole her into trusting me.
Another month’s passing.
“Demon! You all are demons!”
“Ah—, alright alright. You are so noisy, could you please be quiet, Number 3. Ah, made that mistake again. ‘Shut up’.”
“——Ughh! ———Ughhhh!!”
Infusing some magic into my order, the female slave was robbed of her voice promptly. The obedience spell was quite convenient. Truly, from the bottom of my heart, with just this alone, my life must have been rosy.
Incidentally, this female was a slave that I recently purchased. The effects and side effects varies between males and females. Just Number 2, who was a male, on the operating table wasn’t enough.
“Yuni. Help me restrain Number 2-kun.”
“”Yes, master…...ungh!”
Yuni held the unconscious Number 2-kun with both her arms and brought him to a cell.
The sight of a child labouriously dragging an adult by the armpits was somewhat…...surreal. Though I did know that she had gone through many trainings and she has built up quite some strength, seeing her lift another human that exceeds her own weight was still startling. In my previous world, moving unconscious people would be difficult even for adults. The muscular strength exhibited by Yuni was a commonly seen attribute of a fantasy world but it was still praiseworthy.
“Ah…...ughh…...”
It was very slight but the noise of Number 2-kun groaning reached my ears.
He became noticeably weaker in recent days. When I first bought him, having the vigour of a former criminal, he constantly spit vulgarities and even tried to lay his hands on Yuni. It was quite a troublesome matter. In the end, the obedience spell was revised to include another rule that the slaves of his master cannot be harmed as well. Well, thinking back upon it, it was a good learning experience.
However, he has became rather quiet as of late…...rather than that, he started blabbering nonsense all the time. His movement capabilities have also declined to the extent where he required help or else he would not be able to move normally. And despite all that, due to the effects of the muscle strengthening medicine experiment, his body was still well-built, giving off a tragic out-of-place feeling.
Looks like we are approaching the limits, for this guy.
He should be dying soon. By none other than our experiment. He might be a former criminal but we were still killing a full-fledged living human being.
No, currently, Number 2-kun’s mental and physical state has already decayed away. There was no hope of him returning to an ordinary lifestyle or recovering to his previous personality even if we released him from our experiment. Number 3-san who I made to shut up awhile ago would probably suffer the same fate.
Though, my heart was strangely unperturbed by these events. Even though I was conducting such cruel and evil things. No matter how much this country laws dictate that owners’ of slaves can do whatever they want with them and will not be punished, as a human being myself, my conscience should have been tinged in guilt.
Towards my rhetorical question, something that resided my innermost depths laughed.
——So what? It says.
My goal was to become immortal. I felt it before I was reincarnated, the dying sensation of having your roots, branches and everything you were, robbed from you and turning into nothing. To escape that fate, I would do anything I can. That’s why I absolutely have to devote myself to alchemy. That’s why I have do countless of experiments. How many people would die because of it; it doesn’t matter as long as I am able to evade death. doesn’t it?
The snake that coiled inside my stomach, bragged aloud.
“The task of moving Number 2 is done.”
Yuni’s report broke my train of thoughts.
“Good work, Yuni. Hmm, let’s have another mid-noon break today.”
As I told her such, Yuni eyes gleamed dimly. The change in her expression was sparse but at least it proved that she wasn’t without emotions. And due to that, though it was small, there was a chance that she would betray me.
What held her back were the obedience spell, the debt of saving of her life and also the whip of fear towards me. As of such, I have to insure myself by throwing sweets at her. Literally sweets.
Regarding the sugar from my previous world, humans already knew how to make it BCE (Before Common Era). It exists in this continent too but it was low in production and commanded a high price.
Still, I was an alchemist. As long as I have the proper equipment and that there were maple sap available in the nearby woods, I could make enough sugar that could cost an entire family’s income. As one would expect, turning this cash-flow route into a stable source of income would be pretty intense but it could at least provide for some small change.
To make matters worst, the era in this world was similar to the middle centuries, and culinary remain largely undeveloped. Considering that, even though I have some knowledge of my previous world, I wasn’t any confectioner so the most I can do is to provide refined sweets. Feels like cheating.
And children have a weak spot for sweet things. An uncontrollable weakness. This was an era when there were few entertainment that can distract people from stress and also that the lowest stratum of society were slaves. What would happen if these luxurious sweets could match the tastes of the royalty and the aristocrats? Naturally, it would be like a dream.
“Today…...what shall we have, maybe donuts?”
“......What kind of food is that?”
“Simply speaking, it is a pastry made by frying uncooked dough covered with sugar. Ahh, which reminds me, we succeeded in cultivating yeast earlier. If we add that in before frying it, it would become much fluffier——”
She was unfazed by what I said but I could hear the sound of gulping. An honest kid.
To gain the trust of a person, rather than pointing a sword, grabbing hold of one’s stomach was much easier. At the same time, if one’s tongue is satisfied, there wasn’t a need to say anything.
…...Though, this much was still lacking. In order to ensure that she doesn’t disobey me, I have to make her ever more dependent on me, I have to discipline her more precisely. Looking back into history, there were many people who chose betrayal even after being rescued, being tied by chains of fear, having one’s desires fulfilled or even if love was given.
I do not want to die.
Dying once was more than enough.
I do not want to despair.
I am going to live, I would live in the most amusing way possible.
For that end, the hard found game pieces that I possess, I would make sure they absolutely do not become traitorous towards me.
↩Paragraph taken from Wikipedia. One morning in the winter of 194 BC, Emperor Hui went for a hunting trip and did not bring Liu Ruyi with him because the latter refused to get out of bed. Lü Zhi's chance arrived, so she sent an assassin to force poisoned wine down Liu Ruyi's throat. The young prince was dead by the time Emperor Hui returned. Lü Zhi then had Concubine Qi killed in an inhumane manner: she had Qi's limbs chopped off, eyes gouged out, ears sliced off, forced her to drink a potion that made her mute, and thrown into a latrine. She called Qi a "human swine". Several days later, Emperor Hui was taken to view the "human swine" and was shocked to learn that it was Concubine Qi. He cried loudly and became ill for a long time. He requested to see his mother and said, "This is something done not by a human. As the empress dowager's son, I'll never be able to rule the empire." From then onward Emperor Hui indulged himself in carnal pleasures and ignored state affairs.
Rinkan December 25, 2016 at 12:19 PM
Whoo! These chapters are so long its delicious! My parents didn't give me anything for christmas but this makes up for it haha. Thank you so much yAmi! Please continue translating this~ :)
yAmi December 25, 2016 at 7:02 PM
awesome, glad you're enjoying it. merry christmas ;)
This is really interesting! Thank you very much for the translation!
Kirill Yrchenko December 29, 2016 at 4:05 AM
This novel needs more hype and readers! I'll recommend my mates this to read.
Thanks for the translation!
thanks ! ♥
Jokoko2828 January 21, 2017 at 1:52 PM
Hoping to see the next chapter soon because wew, this has potential.
John Smith January 28, 2017 at 5:28 PM
hurry and finish editing chapter 2
yAmi January 29, 2017 at 1:33 AM
Right? “I’m a random person on the internet so I deserve everything.”
Kelson Rafael January 31, 2017 at 8:12 AM
Well I have to say for someone with out a background in medicine and self study of alchemy he did great with her health, I really thoug that he was trainig his body as well when she was doing phisycall training. But didn't the impresive way that he saved her life is going to backfire on him with his father intention of making him the head of the household and bring him and his brother to clash????
Door February 1, 2017 at 2:38 AM
This chapter is really good. The unorthodox protagonist is nice. He's significantly more intelligent and pragmatic than most.
Mad scientist types are neat. Orochimaruesque, even.
sancturillore May 24, 2017 at 3:35 PM
You know, there is one thing that seriously bothers me in most Japanese novels found online. They always seem to think that culinary matters were undeveloped in Middle-Ages and Ancient times, when it's proven to not be the case. One of my main university field of studies is Ancient history.
In Ancient time(from Antiquity to Middle-Ages), cooking/culinary expertise was already quite advanced. The common folk of Antiquity also had great culinary expertise, and the aristocracy/higher ranking people had access to even greater culinary expertise.
While it is true that the European culinary matters in the Middle-Ages(as in this story) was undeveloped, we are talking about the aristocracy here. And even in the Middle-Ages, the aristocracy still had access to advanced culinary expertise. The protagonist here is a noble, his family should already have access to foods that are beyond what the MC is capable of recreating from memories of his previous life.(and since he came from the modern era, it is almost impossible for him to have known the modern age way of making donuts). (important note, I said "modern age way" because in the Europe of the Middle-Ages, there was already equivalents to donuts dating back from Antiquity.
Dude is pretty brutal. Even though he knows how terrifying death is he doesn't hesitate to kill others. In essence he's just a huge coward. I'm not a big fan of the cruel, warped protagonist but the story itself is really interesting and well written.
GinHindew110 November 6, 2017 at 10:02 PM
Donuts!
Tasty donuts!
Even the holes are yummy!
-Dogtooth, One Piece
Mumfie Aune May 16, 2018 at 11:29 AM
I feel almost sick mentally by his bullshitting... if he was truly afraid of death, he would have at the end of the day, one misgiving of ending someones life he is so goddam pissing his pants for and masturbating in the closet so it will never happen to himself..... if he was the one being experimented on, he probably would cry to death, i mean CRY TO DEATH..
Rollerrex February 12, 2019 at 8:33 PM
Damn I like this novel. Thanks Yami Sama
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Dominican AG: Ortiz shooting result of mistaken identity
Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz leaves the cage after taking batting practice before Game 3 of baseball's American League Division Series against the Cleveland Indians, Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, in Boston. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
By DANICA COTO Associated Press |
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The Dominican Republic's lead prosecutor said Wednesday that former Red Sox slugger David Ortiz was not the target of a shooting in a nightclub in his hometown.
Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez told reporters the target was another man, dressed similarly to Ortiz, who was seated with the retired baseball star on the night of the June 9 shooting in the capital of Santo Domingo.
Rodríguez said the shooting was orchestrated by a member of Mexico's Gulf Cartel, who remains on the run. He did not immediately describe a motive.
Ortiz remains hospitalized from the gunshot wound to his back. Doctors in Boston have upgraded his condition from guarded to good.
At the time of the attack, Ortiz was with TV personality Jhoel López and the apparent target, a man named David Fernandez, at Dial Bar and Lounge, which once served as a casual hangout for people getting their cars cleaned across the street. Ortiz was sitting with his back to the street when he was shot once in the back by a bullet that also injured López.
The shooting was carried out by two men on a motorcycle who were followed by several suspects in two cars, authorities said.
Eleven suspects have been arrested, including the alleged shooter identified as Rolfy Ferreyra, aka Sandy, a skinny, tattooed 25-year-old whom U.S. prosecutors said is wanted on armed robbery and gun charges in New Jersey.
Rodríguez said the shooting was orchestrated by a man named Victor Hugo Gomez, whom he described as a member or associate of the Gulf Cartel, one of Mexico's major drug-trafficking organizations. Officials did not say why Gomez would have targeted Fernandez.
Gomez was believed to be in the United States and was being sought by the Drug Enforcement Administration, said Maj. Gen. Ney Aldrin Bautista Almonte, director of the Dominican Republic's national police.
The weapon used in the shooting, a Browning Hi Power semi-automatic pistol, was buried in the garden of one of the suspect's home and was later turned over to police by his mother, according to court documents obtained by The Associated Press.
The other suspects include Joel Rodríguez de la Cruz, aka Squiddy; Reynaldo Rodríguez Valenzuela, aka The Chinaman; Franklin Junior Merán, aka Rubirosa; Porfirio Ayendy Dechamps Vásquez, aka Kid; and Eddy Vladimir Feliz García, aka The Package, who was identified as the alleged motorcycle driver.
Authorities say Garcia was captured and beaten by angry fans after he skidded and fell off his bike as the pair tried to flee. García's attorney has said his client is an Ortiz fan and had no idea his passenger was going to commit a crime.
Another suspect was identified as Oliver Moisés Mirabal Acosta, aka Papi, whose father accused him of being involved in a gang of hit men and low-level drug dealers. He is accused of driving one of the cars used to stalk Ortiz before he was shot.
Also accused is Gabriel Alexander Pérez Vizcaíno, aka Bone, whom they say was hired by someone who is in prison on unrelated charges to be the liaison between the hit men and the person who paid them. Authorities say Pérez shared a picture of the target as he met the other suspects at a nearby gas station just minutes before the shooting, although they have not specified who was depicted in the picture.
They said Pérez then sold the cell phone used to plan the attack and to distribute a picture of the target to a woman for $180 so he could get rid of the evidence a day after the shooting.
Police are still looking for at least three other suspects: a woman known as The Venezuelan or Red; Luis Alfredo Rivas Clase, aka The Surgeon, who is wanted for a 2018 shooting in Reading, Pennsylvania, and is believed to driving the other used to stalk Ortiz; and Alberto Miguel Rodríguez Mota, whom authorities believe paid the hit men. Authorities have said coordinator of attack was offered 400,000 Dominican pesos, or about $7,800.
Wednesday's announcement came as Ortiz recovers at Massachusetts General Hospital. Doctors in the Dominican Republic removed his gallbladder and part of his intestine before he was wheeled into an air ambulance sent by the Red Sox and flown to Boston.
Ortiz led the Red Sox to three World Series championships, was a 10-time All-Star and hit 541 home runs. The Red Sox retired his number, 34, in 2017, and he has a bridge and a stretch of road outside Fenway Park named after him. He has a home in Weston, on the outskirts of Boston, that he shared with his wife and three children before putting it up for sale.
Although he lives in Boston, the 43-year-old visits the Dominican Republic several times a year. His father and sister live in Santo Domingo.
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As Government Agencies Expand the Use of Biometric Technologies, Privacy and Civil Liberties Activists Raise Alarm, and Legislators Start Paying Attention
July 9, 2019 by XPAN Law Group
By Michael A. Shapiro, Attorney at XPAN Law Group, LLC
Last month, we wrote about legal developments and changing regulatory landscape affecting the use of biometric data in the private sector. The government at the federal and local levels also collects and processes a vast amount of biometric information on U.S. citizens and foreign nationals. Although the oversight over some of these programs remains scant, the legislators have begun raising questions and seeking to assert more control over the law enforcement agencies’ collection and use of biometrics.
Just in May and June of this year, Congress conducted a series of hearings on the legality and integrity of the government’s most controversial use of biometrics – facial recognition programs. Facial recognition technologies can help law enforcement stop terrorists at the border, identify criminals, prevent identity theft, and even locate missing persons. On the other hand, academics and privacy advocates have raised serious questions about the accuracy of these technologies, as well as their impact on individual privacy and civil liberties. Indeed, San Francisco and Somerville, Massachusetts recently decided to ban the use of facial recognition software by law enforcement over these concerns.
In a rare show of bipartisan support, the federal lawmakers expressed concern over the law enforcement agencies’ widespread use of flawed facial recognition methods and lacking oversight over these programs. Currently, federal agencies are not required to obtain a warrant prior to using facial data to identify potential criminal suspects, whereas the existing technologies have flaws that could lead investigators to misidentify suspects, particularly among the minority communities.
The FBI faced particular criticism over its failure to act on a number of earlier recommendations by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) aimed to better ensure the accuracy of its face recognition capabilities and improve transparency and oversight to better safeguard privacy. These include timely updating “system of record notices,” required by the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. § 552a, which inform the public about the existence of the systems and the type of data collected. According to the GAO’s most recent report, the FBI has access to around 640 million photos in searchable repositories maintained by the federal and state agencies and has conducted over 390,000 searches since 2011 in attempt to find photo matches of known individuals in these databases.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has also been under fire in Congress over its handling of the Biometric Exit program. Under this program, just before the entry into or exit from the United States, each international traveler’s photo is taken and compared with existing images from passports, visas and other travel documents. In a recent letter to the Department of Homeland Security, a number of U.S. Representatives questioned the CBP’s use of this technology on U.S. citizens when the statutory authority limits the program to foreign nationals. Even though U.S. citizens can technically opt out of the program, the Congressmen questioned the adequacy of the notice and information currently provided about the program to the public.
As agencies collect more biometric data, the impact of a possible breach increases. The CBP recently reported that hackers breached a network of one of its contractors and stole an unspecified number of license plate images and traveler’s ID photos collected by the agency. According to some cybersecurity experts, however, the full scope of the breach might be broader and include facial data.
The breach of the CBP’s data also highlights the challenges of the agencies’ cybersecurity vendor management and the need for robust oversight and audit process. This issue is of particular importance as the government increasingly relies on private partners in collecting and processing biometric information. For example, the Department of Homeland Security recently revealed that it will move its entire biometric screening system, including data collected by the TSA, FEMA, and ICE, from the government servers to Amazon Web Services.
With the rapid development of biometric technology, the law enforcement agencies’ collection and use of biometrics has increased significantly in recent years, while the regulation and oversight have been lagging behind. The potential for government abuse of these technologies has been on display in other countries. The Chinese authorities are using facial recognition technology integrated into a vast networks of surveillance cameras to track and control a largely Muslim minority population, while the Russian authorities have experimented with using facial recognition software during anti-government protests. Although there are legitimate concerns over privacy and civil liberties, an outright ban on government use of facial recognition capabilities in the United States is hardly the best solution in the long run. The challenge facing the legislators is to acknowledge the benefits of these technologies and establish a strong regulatory and oversight framework that would minimize the possibility of misuse and loss of biometric data, a tricky balance for anyone to strike.
Nothing contained in this blog should be construed as creating an attorney-client relationship or providing legal advice of any kind. If you have a legal issue regarding cybersecurity, domestic or international data privacy, or electronic discovery, you should consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction.
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Hunting for an IPO? Voyager Gets $60M From “Crossover” Backers
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Xconomy Boston —
[Updated, 11:19 am ET, see below] It’s been a big few months for Voyager Therapeutics. First, it landed a partnership with Genzyme, a deal that included a $65 million up front check for the gene therapy startup. Now it’s got $60 million more to play with, and an investor syndicate that’s starting to look like that of a publicly traded company.
Cambridge, MA-based Voyager said this morning it’s raised a $60 million Series B round led by Brookside Capital and Partner Fund Management. Wellington Management, Casdin Capital, and other unnamed “blue chip investment funds” participated in the round, which Voyager is using to move forward five clinical and preclinical gene therapy programs for a variety of neurological disorders.
Through the Series B, Voyager has brought in a group of “crossover” investors; firms that invest in both private and public companies. Their presence is typically a signal that a startup is either on the verge of going public, or at minimum considering an IPO. Earlier this month, for instance, aTyr Pharma of San Diego raised a $76 million round with crossover backers, and outlined plans to go public less than a week later.
In addition, several Third Rock Ventures startups (the Boston VC firm is Voyager’s founding investor) have put together rounds like this months before an IPO—among them Sage Therapeutics (NASDAQ: SAGE) and Blueprint Medicines.
“Voyager, with its strong management team and a product engine that can generate novel therapies for numerous CNS diseases and other disorders, is poised to become a key player in the gene therapy space,” said Daniel Krizek, a director at Brookside Capital, in a statement.
[Updated with comments from Voyager] A Voyager spokesperson confirmed in an e-mail to Xconomy this morning that Third Rock—the sole provider of Voyager’s $45 million Series A round last year—did not participate in the latest round. That decision, however, was apparently part of a strategy that will leave Voyager better positioned for a public offering. “We had an extremely high amount of interest in our Series B round, so we wanted to take the opportunity to diversify our shareholder base with high quality crossover healthcare investors who could help support a future potential IPO,” the spokesperson wrote.
The financing continues a quick upward ascent for Voyager, which was formed by Third Rock just 14 months ago. The idea behind Voyager is to use gene therapy and potentially certain micro RNA tools to either cure or reverse the effects of a broad range of neurological disorders. The company is building an in-house library of adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors—a common tool for gene therapy delivery—aiming to either make its own therapies, or form deals with others. Voyager is led by former Eli Lilly R&D chief and Third Rock venture partner Steve Paul, who left the Boston firm in July to lead the company.
Voyager is going after neurological disorders like Parkinson’s disease, Friedreich’s ataxia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and Huntington’s disease. Through a broad alliance with Genzyme in February, Voyager handed over non-U.S. rights to the prospective Parkinson’s, Freidreich’s, and Huntington’s therapies, while keeping full ownership of the ALS treatment. Only the Parkinson’s treatment is in human testing—a Phase 1b clinical trial. The other treatments are a couple of years away from their first trials, Paul said a few months ago.
In return, Voyager got a $65 million check and a $35 million equity investment from Genzyme, with the chance to earn another $745 million should it hit a variety of milestones. The alliance is similar in structure to the types of deals Genzyme and its parent, Sanofi, have cut with other biotechs like Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ALNY) and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: REGN)—alliances where the larger company takes a stake in the smaller company, the two work together on a variety of projects, and the little guy gets to stay independent and preserve some upside for itself going forward.
The Series B round, meanwhile, is also the latest boon for gene therapy. Just last week, Dutch firm UniQure (NASDAQ: QURE) scored a broad deal with Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) to develop gene therapies for a variety of cardiovascular diseases—a major endorsement of the field’s resurgence by Big Pharma. A number of other startups in the space have either formed or gone public, like Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ONCE), Audentes Therapeutics, and Dimension Therapeutics.
There are serious challenges ahead for Voyager, of course—it’s aiming to deliver gene therapies by injecting them directly into the spine or brain, which no company has ever done before successfully. But Voyager now has a partner, a financial runway, and a group of backers to help try to solve those problems.
“Our mission at Voyager is to become the leading AAV gene therapy company in the world and advance the field by developing breakthrough therapies for patients,” Paul said in a statement. “We established a solid foundation through our launch funding and the continued support from Third Rock. This new investment from such a high-quality investor group is reflective of our progress to date in building an outstanding team, best-in-class pipeline and product engine.”
Ben Fidler is Xconomy's Deputy Editor, Biotechnology. You can e-mail him at bfidler@xconomy.com Follow @benthefidler
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San Diego Biotech in 2030: A Center for Stem Cells, Genomics, Software, Neuroscience
Luke Timmerman
Xconomy San Diego —
The image of the double helix has captivated the public imagination for a long time. But biotechnology today actually requires what you might call a triple helix of money, people, and ideas, according to John Mendlein, the chairman of San Diego-based Fate Therapeutics.
All three ingredients were in one place Wednesday night for Xconomy’s event on the 20-year outlook for the San Diego life sciences industry. About 175 people packed a commons at Biogen Idec’s San Diego campus to hear a panel discussion that featured Mendlein, Paul Schimmel of The Scripps Research Institute, Dan Bradbury of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, and Rusty Gage of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
“We get to peer into the future,” Mendlein said in his opening remarks. “Everyone in this room is responsible for our collective future. It really is all in our hands.”
Yes, I know, it sounds like weighty stuff, and it is. But Mendlein reminded people not to take themselves too seriously with this crystal ball stuff: “If you have questions about the future, these three gentlemen have all the answers,” Mendlein deadpanned. “You can ask them what their company stock prices will be five years from now, or 10 years from now, or 20.”
Once these guys settled into a groove, they offered up a lot of fascinating insights. Here are some of the highlights, edited for length and clarity as always.
Paul Schimmel on why he left MIT in the late 1990s to come to Scripps:
“I had many wonderful years at MIT. It’s a big place. A great place. I was well-supported. But I wanted to go back to being a seed again. I wanted to go to a place that was smaller, that would support me, and in my case [that was] The Scripps Research Institute, where there was at least the illusion of a lot of resources. But where the structure was such that you could feel you were in a scientific playground, and could start from scratch again.”
“The difference for me between Cambridge and San Diego was, when I went to Cambridge, it was a different era, but many seeds had already grown. You were basically finding your way among all these trees and trying to get new trees established. Here, there were fewer big trees. In that sense, for me it opened up more creative possibilities. It forced me even to a greater extent, into self-reliance, and freedom of thought.”
Dan Bradbury on what the San Diego biotech scene looked like when he arrived to join Amylin in the mid-90s:
“San Diego at that point had two pretty major biotech companies that were independent: Agouron and Idec. Gen-Probe was also growing. So there was already a fairly substantial biotech base, and there were a lot of new platform-based biotech companies starting in San Diego. It was an exciting environment. One of the things I found exciting about moving here was the prospect, that ‘By the way, if things don’t work out at Amylin, there’s somewhere else you could go.”
“Scripps Research Institute had a global big deal with Johnson & Johnson, and that was the only major pharma presence in San Diego at the time. That’s changed dramatically now with Pfizer, Novartis, J&J, Takeda here now. From a perspective of what’s changed, we’ve seen San Diego become a very large center for diagnostic companies with Invitrogen (now Life Technologies), Illumina establishing itself as the leading sequencing and genotyping company. Gen-Probe is continuing to grow. Genoptix as well. If you look at the diagnostics side, it’s really back to the future with Hybritech, and diagnostics coming back.”
Schimmel on what he would do if he were a venture capitalist with limited resources to invest in San Diego research:
“I’d look very hard for those laboratories that I thought had really innovative ideas, and find a way to provide some funding, and get a call on the intellectual property side. Hopefully, in 12 to 24 months, I’d have enough IP from that effort to syndicate with firms outside of San Diego. I’d want to be the one with the idea, the one to have financed the laboratory, and gotten the kernel of the idea going. I think it’s much easier to do that here than it is in big universities on the East Coast or in Northern California. You have such great access to people here. There’s a sense of friendliness and openness. It partly comes from the fact that we have so many institutions here [that] are private and small.”
Rusty Gage on the current trend he sees among venture capitalists:
“It’s almost as if the investors don’t have as much confidence anymore as they used to. Maybe they have less money, but they also have less confidence in their own judgment. The thing scientists worry about is that when you have a good idea, and you want to move it forward, there’s a sense that you need to have a Phase I clinical trial ready to go. I worry that is a criterion that will cause people to move too quickly along, and make commitments too far out. I understand the driver for that, but I think there should be caution around moving too quickly.”
Bradbury on new attitudes toward investment coming out of the downturn:
“Who makes up the venture community now is changing. You’re seeing a lot more corporate venture. Basically, discovery is non-existent now in pharma. Essentially, non-existent. Some of the size of the corporate venture funds out there are pretty significant now, if you look at Lilly, Novo, J&J, SR One. These are pretty big funds that companies are assigning to discovery. It’s pretty smart, because it’s off their balance sheet, essentially. It’s another version of how you get capital behind discovery, without having to put it on your income statement. So there’s new thinking coming back on how to fund discovery research.”
Bradbury on the importance of networking in San Diego:
“The network is critical for San Diego to continue to be a major hub of innovation. I believe it will be. If you look at stem cells here, the Center for Regenerative Medicine, the way that was created with UCSD, Scripps, Salk, (Sanford Burnham), all working together, that’s probably pretty unique to San Diego.
Gage on the big opportunity he sees in life sciences over the next two decades:
“There are great opportunities for bioinformatics startups to support the onslaught of genomic data that is spinning out.”
Bradbury on how genomics is transforming the pharmaceutical industry:
“The amount of information, and the speed at which we will have that information, and the lack of cost in getting that information is astounding. It’s almost unfathomable how much information that will generate. That sequencing cost is just going through the floor. There’s a lot of opportunity for companies in San Diego to be formed around that.”
Schimmel on the future for bioinformatics:
“I was on the original founding scientific advisory board for Illumina, getting it started with David Walt and some of his colleagues here in San Diego. They are now probably the leading genomics information obtaining company in the world. They have capacity to generate detailed genomic information about everyone in this room very quickly. But we don’t know what to do with that information for the most part. At the same time, the research being done to make connections between polymorphisms and mutations in genes and human disorders is being changed every day in real-time. There’s a huge opportunity there for the right computational people to be able to get those databases and transmit that information. Ultimately, it will be an iPhone application. You will have an application on your iPhone that will basically, every day, give you the latest information that’s relevant to your particular DNA sequence.”
“There’s far more to do than any one group can do. I was talking recently to Phil Sharp at MIT, who’s a founder of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. I asked him to predict a hot area going forward in neuroscience that you could jump into quickly. He said computational neuroscience. It’s going to be an absolutely explosive area, relevant to all kinds of disease diagnosis and treatment. San Diego is well positioned for this. You’ve got to think more about how to build bridges between things that are already here. You have Illumina already here. You have Qualcomm already here. You have people who are very good at computational work already here. There’s a huge opportunity in finding out how to build clever bridges and starting something up. Before you know it, it will be something everybody is buzzing about.”
Mendlein on what’s missing in San Diego biotech:
“We have our work cut out for us. We do. The Boston area is on fire right now. San Diego has a lot of fires here in terms of companies, but if we want to keep pharma research centers here, we have to work on it. There are firms doing it, but it’s an essential element. We are at a slight disadvantage for a good reason, because of time zones. There’s been a lot of investment in the Boston area by Big Pharma. I’d like to reverse the trend in the San Diego area. If you look back, there are different tributaries of funding that come into this area, and we want to keep all of it flowing as much as possible, and pharma is an important one.”
2 responses to “San Diego Biotech in 2030: A Center for Stem Cells, Genomics, Software, Neuroscience”
R. Franklin says:
“The image of the double helix has captivated the public imagination for a long time.”
Especially the left-handed double helix!
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Food Hackers Cook Up a Storm of Startup Ideas in San Francisco
Why My Company Chose Boston, Not Silicon Valley, for Its US HQ
Andy Nunemaker
CEO of Dynamis Corporation
Bill Davenhall
Senior health advisor for Esri
Christy Shaffer
Managing Director of Hatteras Discovery and Venture Partner at Hatteras Venture Partners
Art Mellor
Software Engineer at Skelmir
What Now, Medical Device Entrepreneurs?
Clif Alferness
Years ago, new medical device companies were often formed by a small group of people who came up with an idea for a new concept and started the company by working on it nights and weekends in someone’s garage. Often, this new company had little or no real financial backing other than the money that the founders were able to put into it themselves from their own savings.
The product concept would be developed evenings and weekends to a point where it could then be shown to investors, often individuals, who would put up meager amounts, relative to today’s standards, of money to take it to the next level. Then, venture capitalists or other larger firms would step in and fund the later stages of the development.
The rewards for the entrepreneurs were sometimes quite large because so little capital went into the company at the start and their ownership percentage was so great. As time passed and both entrepreneurs and angel investors made large amounts of money for their early efforts and risks, venture capitalists realized that, if they were to step in earlier, they could take larger shares of these new companies for smaller amounts of cash. This enabled them to make bigger financial returns, as well as have better control over the trajectory and management of these companies.
So, venture capital firms started funding entrepreneurs at even earlier stages, providing enough funds to pay the entrepreneurs a full- time salary while working at the startup. New companies were often even started in venture capital offices by entrepreneurs with the venture firm providing the space and office support that would otherwise rob needed cash from the creative development efforts. Sometimes these entrepreneurs started the company with no real product in mind, except the desire to seek out and find a large market with a substantial clinical need. This position is presently referred to as an “entrepreneur in residence” within the venture capital firm.
Eventually, venture firms even went so far as to fund “incubator” companies with a small group of salaried entrepreneurs and enough capital to take an as yet undefined concept to a level where it would be fully funded by them and perhaps one or more additional venture capital firm. These incubator companies would then spawn one or more companies using the seed funds provided to them. As might be expected, this all served to accelerate the formation of companies and sped up the early stage growth of the ones that were funded in this way, a real boon to the entrepreneurs and investors alike.
Of course, it wasn’t all roses. The early bite taken by venture firms cut into the founders’ equity and the larger amounts of early money made those same entrepreneurs less cautious about how they spent their cash. It put a premium on speed. The result was that it generally cost more to get a company going than it had in those early garage shop days. Still, it saved on the wear and tear of the entrepreneurs and their families by removing the day-to-day worries of making the mortgage payments.
Fast forward to today, when money is tight and most venture capital firms are hunkered down waiting for an upturn in the economy so that it once again makes sense to take the risk of investing in new startups. Some firms are reportedly making no investments at all, saving their precious cash to support the companies already in their portfolios. Other firms are making investments, but are being very selective on which companies to fund. For example, they might invest in companies that are near to or in the market or have a short pathway to market, good reimbursement from health insurers, and present little overall risk to the investment.
Clearly, the fresh new startup with a new idea or new technology that requires a rigorous premarket approval application (PMA) to the FDA for novel products, needs to establish new reimbursement standards, and clinical proof that it provides the proclaimed benefit does not meet these stringent benchmarks for funding. Even startups with a short timeline to market or a relatively easy pathway through the FDA are finding venture capital funding difficult, if not impossible. So, what are these entrepreneurs to do?
The shared characteristics of company founders typically include passion for the concept and determination to see it through to success. I believe these characteristics will prevail and guide these entrepreneurs to new pathways to success. Garage shop operations may come back into vogue. Shoestring budgets funded by insightful and inspired angel investors or perhaps even large corporations may be the norm. The overall result may, in fact, be a return to bigger eventual financial returns for entrepreneurs as was seen in the distant past, and the satisfaction of creating something from hard work and perseverance. That’s my hope anyway, and hope is the word to use these days, right?
Clif Alferness is the co-founder of six medical device companies that have collectively raised more than $300 million. Follow @
2 responses to “What Now, Medical Device Entrepreneurs?”
Patrick Driscoll says:
Excellent inside view of how this process has evolved. I may be idealistic, but I believe that every market shakeout has a tendency to jolt the process to be more efficient. Thanks for sharing your views.
Justin Hicks says:
Cliff,
I enjoyed reading your post I don’t know if you can contact me throught this post, but if you can I was hoping you might be able to help me out with medical device industry. Thank you in advance for your help.
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News & Insights | Press Releases
Duane C. Pozza
Patricia O'Connell
Senior Communications Manager
poconnell@wileyrein.com
Duane Pozza, Who Led FTC’s Financial Technology Strategy, Joins Wiley Rein’s TMT Practice
Washington, DC — Wiley Rein LLP announced today that Duane C. Pozza, former Assistant Director in the Division of Financial Practices at the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Bureau of Consumer Protection, has joined the firm’s preeminent Telecom, Media & Technology (TMT) Practice as a partner. A leading lawyer with respect to technological innovation, consumer protection, and enforcement, Mr. Pozza will advise clients on key legal issues, advocacy positions, and regulatory compliance in such areas as blockchain, privacy and security, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics, mobile payments, and fintech lending.
“Duane brings an impressive combination of private and government experience in emerging technologies,” said Managing Partner Peter D. Shields. “His mastery of compliance, regulations, and policy – along with his private-practice litigation experience – will help clients stay ahead of the curve in this fast-moving area.”
“It is my pleasure to welcome Duane to our team,” said Kathleen A. Kirby, co-chair of Wiley Rein’s TMT Practice. “His considerable knowledge of a range of fintech and related technology sectors, and substantive experience in financial regulation, privacy, security, and consumer law, are an ideal complement to our multidisciplinary communications practice. He will be a great asset and we look forward to working with him.”
At the FTC, Mr. Pozza was the go-to-attorney for financial technology matters and led strategy and enforcement on legal issues related to fintech. He led multiple agency initiatives on cutting-edge technologies including blockchain, AI, mobile payments, and other fintech innovations, focusing on issues including data security, privacy, fraud, and financial regulation. He also led and supervised numerous enforcement actions involving a range of consumer protection issues on technology platforms.
Mr. Pozza is a recognized leader in the field, having participated in over two dozen panels on financial technology and other innovations in recent years – often before industry audiences. He also has led agency conferences for online marketplace lending, peer-to-peer payments, AI, cryptocurrencies, and blockchain. In 2010, he was named one of “40 Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40” by the National LGBT Bar Association. At the FTC, he received the Bureau Director’s Award and multiple Commission team awards.
Prior to joining the FTC, Duane was a partner at an Am Law 100 law firm, and served as a law clerk for the Honorable Roslyn O. Silver of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. He graduated with distinction from Stanford Law School where he was submission editor for the Stanford Technology Law Review. He received his B.A. with honors from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Wiley Rein’s TMT Practice is the largest in the country, with more than 60 attorneys and engineers engaged full time in matters that encompass virtually all aspects of the federal, state, and international laws governing the telecommunications, media, and technology industries. The team is committed to understanding the implications of technology and industry changes for clients, as evidenced by a team of engineers who are integrated into our legal and policy capabilities. In addition, our TMT attorneys are actively engaged in FTC rulemakings, policy, investigations, and enforcement proceedings.
Rick, a partner in the firm’s Insurance and Litigation practices, has been appointed Chair of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Standing Committee on Lawyers’ Professional Liability.
Richard A. Simpson
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Marshall Amplification PLC v. Wen Zhou Rui Xiang Jian Zhi You Xian Gong Si, Wen Zhou Rui Xiang
The Complainant is Marshall Amplification PLC of Bletchley, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (“United Kingdom”), represented by SafeNames Ltd., United Kingdom.
The Respondents are Wen Zhou Rui Xiang Jian Zhi You Xian Gong Si of Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, and Wen Zhou Rui Xiang of Beijing, China.
2. The Domain Names and Registrars
The disputed domain names <marshallheadphone.net> and <marshallheadphones.org> are registered with HiChina Zhicheng Technology Ltd. The disputed domain name <marshall.store> is registered with Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) (the “Registrar”).
The Complaint was filed in English with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the “Center”) on March 29, 2018. On March 29, 2018, the Center transmitted by email to the Registrar a request for registrar verification in connection with the disputed domain names. On March 30, 2018, the Registrar transmitted by email to the Center its verification response confirming that the Respondents are listed as the registrants and providing the contact details. On April 9, 2018, The Center transmitted an email in English and Chinese to the Parties regarding the language of the proceeding. The Complainant requested that English be the language of the proceeding on April 10, 2018. The Respondent requested that Chinese be the language of the proceeding on April 11, 2018.
The Center verified that the Complaint satisfied the formal requirements of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the “Policy” or “UDRP”), the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the “Rules”), and the WIPO Supplemental Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the “Supplemental Rules”).
In accordance with the Rules, paragraphs 2 and 4, the Center formally notified the Respondents in English and Chinese of the Complaint, and the proceedings commenced on April 19, 2018. In accordance with the Rules, paragraph 5, the due date for Response was May 9, 2018. The Respondents did not submit any formal response. On May 11, 2018, the Center notified the Parties of the commencement of the panel appointment process.
The Center appointed Joseph Simone as the sole panelist in this matter on May 25, 2018. The Panel finds that it was properly constituted. The Panel has submitted the Statement of Acceptance and Declaration of Impartiality and Independence, as required by the Center to ensure compliance with the Rules, paragraph 7.
Over the past few decades, the Complainant has been selling audio equipment under the trademark “Marshall” on a global basis and has registered the trademarks “Marshall” in a number of countries.
The disputed domain names are:
<marshall.store>
<marshallheadphone.net>
<marshallheadphones.org>
The Respondents are in China, namely: Wen Zhou Rui Xiang Jian Zhi You Xian Gong Si and Wen Zhou Rui Xiang, and the Complainant has provided the following information to support its request to consolidate the three disputed domain names into one dispute:
- All three disputed domain names feature the same email address (382772890@qq.com);
- All three disputed domain names share a common feature of “WEN ZHOU RUI XIANG” as part of the Registrant Name; and
- All three disputed domain names were registered during the same month and year (June 2016).
According to the Complaint and corresponding evidence, the disputed domain names <marshall.store> and <marshallheadphone.net> resolved to websites only displaying the term “OK!”, and the disputed domain name <marshallheadphones.org> didn’t resolve to any active website.
Currently, the website resolved by <marshall.store> remains unchanged, and the other two disputed domain names, <marshallheadphone.net> and <marshallheadphones.org> are parked with a page displaying a notice Chinese which can be translated into English as “this domain has expired; please pay to renew”.
5. Parties’ Contentions
A. Complainant
The Complainant contends that it has registered and unregistered rights in the mark MARSHALL. The Complainant further submits that the disputed domain names are confusingly similar to this mark, in that they are either identical to the Complainant’s mark or differ only by the addition of the English word “headphone(s)”, which relates back to the Complainant’s products. The Complainant also points out that the suffixes “.org”, “.net” and “.store” shall not be considered when assessing similarity.
The Complainant maintains that the Respondents have no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the disputed domain names and the trademarks “MARSHALL” to the best of its knowledge, and the Respondents are not commonly known by the name “MARSHALL” or “MARSHAL”. The Complainant confirms that it has not given permission to the Respondents to use its trademark in the disputed domain names, or for any other purpose. The Complainant asserts that the Respondents have not been trading under the disputed domain names for any length of time, and that the Respondents do not appear to be using the disputed domain names for any bona fide business or offering of goods or services. The Complainant also claims that there is no evidence that the Respondents have consistently or commonly used or become known by the disputed domain names, and that the Respondents are not making legitimate noncommercial or fair use of the Domain Name.
The Complainant alleges that the Respondents registered and are using the disputed domain names in bad faith. It submits that the Respondents should have access to the Internet and could thereby find the MARSHALL trademark on public databases and on search engines such as Baidu, and would have been aware of the Complainant’s rights. The Complainant asserts that the Respondents should have paid more heed to the representations made to their Registrar, to ensure that they did not infringe any trademark rights. The Complainant further adds that the Respondents are targeting the Complainant’s MARSHALL brand, with particular focus on headphones, which is one of the main products offered in the Complainant’s stores. The Complainant offered a list of domain names registered by the Respondents (i.e., Annex 2 of the Complainant’s submission) referring to the Complainant’s competitors as evidence demonstrating the Respondents’ “pattern of bad faith”.
B. Respondent
As stated above, the Respondents did not reply to the Complainant’s contentions.
6.1 Preliminary issue: Language of the Proceeding
The Registration Agreement in this case is in Chinese; but the Complainant filed the Complaint in English and requested that English be the language of the proceeding, for the following reasons:
- The Respondent is associated with other domain names which feature English words;
- If Chinese is adopted as the language of the proceeding, the Complainant will incur unnecessary costs and delays to prepare a translation of the complaint and such action is contrary to the intention of the Policy’s drafters to provide a cost-effective and expedited resolution process (Deutsche Messe AG v. Kim Hyungho, WIPO Case No. D2003-0679); and
- In compelling the Complainant to translate and submit this complaint in English the Panel would not be acting in keeping with the overriding principles in Paragraph 10, in particular 10(b), that the parties should be treated equally and given a fair opportunity to present their case, and 10(c), which preserves the time span of the process. (General Electric Company v. Edison Electric Corp. a/k/a Edison Electric Corp. General Energy, Edison GE, Edison-GE and EEEGE.COM, WIPO Case No. D2006-0334).
The Respondent did not respond on this issue.
Article 4.5.1 of the WIPO Overview of WIPO Panel Views on Selected UDRP Questions, Third Edition (hereinafter “WIPO Overview 3.0”) states that:
“…Against this background, panels have found that certain scenarios may warrant proceeding in a language other than that of the registration agreement. Such scenarios include (i) evidence showing that the respondent can understand the language of the complaint, (ii) the language/script of the domain name particularly where the same as that of the complainant’s mark, (iii) any content on the webpage under the disputed domain name, (iv) prior cases involving the respondent in a particular language, (v) prior correspondence between the parties, (vi) potential unfairness or unwarranted delay in ordering the complainant to translate the complaint, (vii) evidence of other respondent-controlled domain names registered, used, or corresponding to a particular language, (viii) in cases involving multiple domain names, the use of a particular language agreement for some (but not all) of the disputed domain names, (ix) currencies accepted on the webpage under the disputed domain name, or (x) other indicia tending to show that it would not be unfair to proceed in a language other than that of the registration agreement…”
Further, Paragraph 10(c) of the Rules expressly states that:
"The Panel shall ensure that the administrative proceeding takes place with due expedition."
Although the disputed domain names are indeed comprised of English characters, in the Panel’s view, it does not follow from this alone that the Respondent is necessarily familiar with the English language.
That said, because the Respondent was notified in both English and Chinese by the Center of the nature and deadlines pertaining to the proceeding as well as the issue of the language of the proceeding, and because the Respondent failed to submit any response to the Complaint, the Panel does not believe it would be prejudicial to the Respondent if English were adopted as the language of the proceeding. The proceeding would be unduly delayed if the Complaint and annexes thereto were required to be translated into Chinese. In keeping with the Policy’s aim of facilitating a relatively time- and cost-efficient procedure for the resolution of domain name disputes, the Panel accordingly determines that it would be appropriate for English to be the language of the proceeding.
6.2 Preliminary issue 2: Consolidation of Respondents
Section 4.11 of the WIPO Overview 3.0 states that:
“The WIPO Center may accept, on a preliminary basis, a consolidated complaint where the criteria described below are prima facie met. Any final determination on consolidation would be made by the appointed panel, which may apply its discretion in certain circumstances to order the separation of a filed complaint. In all cases, the burden falls to the party seeking consolidation to provide evidence in support of its request.”
The Panel agrees that the information provided by the Complainant is sufficient to show that the three disputed domain names are registered to and under the full control of one person or entity, therefore the complaints against the two Respondents may be consolidated.
6.3 Analysis and Findings
A. Identical or Confusingly Similar
The Panel finds that the Complainant has registered rights in the mark MARSHALL by virtue of the Complainant’s registrations and unregistered rights as a result of its extensive use of the mark around the world.
The disputed domain names all incorporate the Complainant’s trademark MARSHALL in its entirety, and the addition of the terms “headphone(s)” to two of the disputed domain names would not prevent a finding of confusing similarity under the first element. See WIPO Overview 3.0, section 1.8. Additionally, the generic Top-Level Domains of the disputed domain names can be disregarded under the first element’s confusing similarity test, as they are a standard registration requirement. See WIPO Overview 3.0, section 1.11.1. Therefore, the Panel finds the disputed domain names are identical or confusingly similar to the Complainant’s trademark.
The Panel further finds that as discussed below, the addition of “headphone(s)” will only enhance such confusion as the manufacture and sale of such goods is among the Complainant’s main businesses.
The first requirement of the UDRP is therefore satisfied.
B. Rights or Legitimate Interests
Section 2.1 of the WIPO Overview 3.0 provides:
“While the overall burden of proof in UDRP proceedings is on the complainant, panels have recognized that proving a respondent lacks rights or legitimate interests in a domain name may result in the often impossible task of ‘proving a negative’, requiring information that is often primarily within the knowledge or control of the respondent. As such, where a complainant makes out a prima facie case that the respondent lacks rights or legitimate interests, the burden of production on this element shifts to the respondent to come forward with relevant evidence demonstrating rights or legitimate interests in the domain name. If the respondent fails to come forward with such relevant evidence, the complainant is deemed to have satisfied the second element.”
The Panel agrees that the Complainant has made out a prima facie case that the Respondents have no rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain names.
The Respondents have not responded to the Complaint to present any evidence to establish rights or legitimate interests under this head. None of the circumstances set out in paragraph 4(c) of the Policy are present in this case.
Considering the absence of a response by the Respondents to the Complainant’s contentions, and the fact that the Respondents were granted neither a license nor an authorization to make any use of the Complainant’s trademark, the Panel finds that the Respondents have failed to demonstrate any rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain names.
The second requirement of the UDRP is therefore satisfied.
Paragraph 4(b) of the Policy sets out circumstances which, without limitation, if found by the Panel to be present, shall be evidence of the registration and use of a domain name in bad faith, which includes (i) circumstances indicating that the domain name was registered or acquired primarily for the purpose of selling, renting, or otherwise transferring the domain name registration to the complainant or to a competitor of that complainant, for valuable consideration in excess of the respondent’s out-of-pocket costs directly related to the domain name; or (ii) registration of the domain name by a respondent in order to prevent the trademark owner from reflecting the mark in a corresponding domain name, provided that the respondent has engaged in a pattern of such conduct.
The Panel agrees that there is no other realistic construction to place on the Respondents’ conduct other than that it registered the disputed domain names comprising the mark plus a term related to the Complainant’s goods with a view to selling them either to the Complainant or a competitor of the Complainant. Moreover, the Respondents did so in order to prevent the Complainant from reflecting its trademarks in the corresponding domain names, and the Complainant has provided evidence that the Respondents have engaged in a pattern of such conduct.
In addition, Section 3.3 of the WIPO 3.0 considers passive holding by the Respondent and explains that:
“While panelists will look at the totality of the circumstances in each case, factors that have been considered relevant in applying the passive holding doctrine include: (i) the degree of distinctiveness or reputation of the complainant’s mark, (ii) the failure of the respondent to submit a response or to provide any evidence of actual or contemplated good-faith use, (iii) the respondent’s concealing its identity or use of false contact details (noted to be in breach of its registration agreement), and (iv) the implausibility of any good faith use to which the domain name may be put”.
Applying these criteria to the circumstances of this case, it is self-explanatory that at least (i), (ii) and (iv) are fulfilled in whole.
Having regard to the above considerations, the Panel finds that the Respondents have registered and used the disputed domain names in bad faith.
The third requirement of the UDRP is therefore satisfied.
For the foregoing reasons, in accordance with paragraphs 4(i) of the Policy and 15 of the Rules, the Panel orders that the disputed domain names, <marshallheadphone.net>, <marshallheadphones.org>, and <marshall.store>, be transferred to the Complainant.
Joseph Simone
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Celebrating Women: Tuscaloosa Police officer Lillie Leatherwood
by: Tim Reid
Posted: Mar 8, 2019 / 09:09 AM UTC / Updated: Mar 11, 2019 / 05:56 PM UTC
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WIAT) — During the month of March CBS 42 is celebrating Women’s History Month by spotlighting women across Alabama who have or are making a major impact. Tuscaloosa Police officer Lillie Leatherwood is making a difference in her community.
Leatherwood works with kids and is the director of the Tuscaloosa Police departments athletic league. Its a program designed to help keep kids stay postive to keep them engaged and out of trouble. The 25-year police veteran is also a two time Olympic medal winner.
“I grew up wanting to be a police officer, and I also wanted to work with children. Thats why I went to the University to get my degree in social work. So when I started this job and realized they had this program, so now I feel like I am living the dream working with children and being a police officer” Leatherwood said.
Thirty-five years ago officer Leatherwood won a gold medal during the Olympic games in 1984 in
Los Angeles. Four years later, she won a silver medal in 1988 in the Seoul, South Korea Olympic games.
Leatherwood graduated from the University of Alabama and was only 19 years old when she quailified for her first Olympics.
“Winning it and being able to get on that podium and hearing our national anthem being played
obviously was the great experience and feeling that a person could have”.
Leatherwood says nowadays her biggest thrill isn’t the fame or winning medals, but its being a role
model to her kids who visit her gym.
More Hidden History Stories
Golf history: Local black history museum recognizes African American caddies
by Devin Johnson / Apr 11, 2019
During Masters week most patrons are here for the tournament, events and the history of the Augusta National.
The Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History wants you to take home another part of golf history.
Renowned jewelry designer inspires women everywhere
by Lori Tucker / Mar 27, 2019
A designer who grew up in Knoxville now has celebrities like Blake Lively and Angelina Jolie wearing her jewelry. When you meet Diana Warner, you realize she is down to earth yet fearless - a combination that spells success.
It's always a treat to walk into the Diana Warner Studio. Everyone gets a warm welcome. It's an important part of who she is.
Celebrating Women: Dolly Parton marks 60 years in music
by Kristin Farley, Austin Kellerman, Jack Lail, Josh Smith / Mar 20, 2019
Dolly Parton went from one of twelve children born to a sharecropper in the mountains of Tennessee to one of music's most celebrated acts.
It's hard to find anything more impressive than her trophy case. Inside you'll find more than two dozen best-selling albums, dozens of People's Choice and Country Music Association awards, and eight Grammys.
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Paramedics at a crash scene near Penticton Nov. 18. Bodily injury claims have been increasing in recent years.
ICBC to seek 2012 rate increase
ICBC is applying for a basic insurance rate increase, as bodily injury claims increase.
Nov. 29, 2011 8:00 p.m.
The Insurance Corp. of B.C. has announced it is applying for an increase to its mandatory basic vehicle insurance for 2012 to help cover an increase in claims and a decline in investment income.
ICBC president Jon Schubert said Tuesday the corporation’s bodily injury claims have jumped, contributing to a $200 million increase in overall claims in the first nine months of 2011. Annual bodily injury claims have climbed by $350 million in the past five years, and are expected to reach $1.7 billion this year.
“We have not increased our rates since 2007 and there have been a number of rate decreases during that time,” Schubert said.
ICBC reported net income for the first nine months of the year of $52 million, down from $331 million in the same period in 2010. Despite that, its rate change application to the B.C. Utilities Commission will seek to decrease rates on its optional coverage, where it faces competition from private insurance companies.
Finance Minister Kevin Falcon cited ICBC’s revenue decline as the biggest factor in the B.C. government’s worsening deficit position. Quarterly results for the provincial treasury show a projected deficit of $3.1 billion for the year ending in March, up $313 million from the July estimate.
Falcon said insurance companies around the world have seen investment income fall off with the continued economic slump in the United States and instability in Europe. Schubert said most of ICBC’s investments have been moved into short-term bonds in response to the volatility of financial markets.
Advisory Planning Commission seeks members
UPDATE: B.C. suspends its strictest roadside penalties
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LAURIER AND YMCA ANNOUNCE APPOINTMENT OF NEW GENERAL MANAGER FOR FUTURE LAURIER BRANTFORD YMCA
Brantford – Wilfrid Laurier University, in partnership with the YMCA of Hamilton | Burlington | Brantford, is pleased to announce the appointment of Pat Kitchen as general manager of the new Laurier Brantford YMCA. Kitchen joins the YMCA from her current role as associate director, Athletics and Recreation, at Laurier’s Waterloo campus.
Construction at the Laurier Brantford YMCA is expected to wrap up this summer, with official grand opening celebrations planned for early fall. In this new role, Kitchen will be instrumental in ensuring personnel and programming are fully prepared to welcome members to the facility, and operationalizing a space that will support health, wellness, sport and fitness in the community for many years to come.
“We are excited to have Pat join the YMCA team. She exemplifies the shared values of Wilfrid Laurier University and the YMCA and has been recognized for contributing to a positive staff and student experience,” said Genevieve Hladysh, senior regional manager, YMCA Health, Fitness and Aquatics. “The YMCA has a long history of serving the Brantford community. As we enter this new phase, we are confident Pat’s leadership will help to deliver on our mission of building healthy communities.”
In the years prior to joining Laurier in 2005, Kitchen worked at Western University as the chairperson of Campus Recreation, and at George Brown College as the director of Athletics. She has remained active in aquatic safety promotion, serving as Ontario branch president for the Lifesaving Society, and as the team manager of the Canadian Lifesaving Team.
“Pat has worked with the YMCA and Laurier operations team since the start of the project some five years ago,” said Peter Baxter, director of Athletics and Recreation at Wilfrid Laurier University. “Her presence at the table throughout the planning process for the new facility provides her with important insights into the shared values of this unique partnership. We are confident that Pat has the experience needed to successfully develop the team that will serve our students, and the residents of Brantford and the surrounding communities of Brant, Six Nations and New Credit.”
Kitchen has had a long history in recreation and sport. As a student athlete at Western she was a swimmer, winning the individual CIAU (Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Association) championship title in both the 100-metre and 200-metre breaststroke. Kitchen’s athletic achievements were mirrored in her academic life. She has obtained two bachelor degrees (Physical Education, Education) and a master’s degree (Physical Education). Kitchen remains an active athlete, competing in masters’ division triathlons.
Kitchen joins the YMCA team the week of March 12.
Communications and Public Affairs, Brantford Campus
Kyla Kumar, Vice President, Marketing and Communications
YMCA of Hamilton I Burlington I Brantford
E: kyla.kumar@ymcahbb.ca
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Investor Insights
Virtual Reality Hurdles
VR in the Early Adoption Phase
Those of us who have seen a sporting event, concert, travel destination or video game through the prism of Virtual Reality (VR) understand how the technology will impact the way we experience the world. However, for GPs & LPs, the transformation is moving slower than expected. Fortune notes that 2016 VR sales were very disappointing, as the industry shipped 6.3 million devices and earned $1.8 billion in revenue compared to the experts’ predictions of $5.1 billion. At the beginning of 2016, Goldman Sachs projected that the industry would be an $80 billion market by 2025, which at the current market adoption rate and technology hurdles seems unlikely.
A New York Times article quotes Sunny Dhillon of Signia Venture Partners, who believes that VR appears to be heading towards the “trough of disillusionment,” which usually comes after a period of inflated expectations. The good news for investors is that Sunny believes this period will eventually be followed by a common acceptance of the benefits. So, the question for LPs is hopefully not if, but when. Per Pitchbook, $1.48 billion was invested in the virtual and augmented reality industries in 2016, compared to $331 million in 2015. With the launch of several major devices in Q1 2016, the sluggish sales numbers that followed indicate there are still obstacles to overcome before VR gains widespread market acceptance.
Goldman Sachs expects slower adoption for VR but impressive potential in the long-term:
Goldman projects how VR revenues will look in 2025:
Complications to Overcome
Industry experts have identified the following obstacles, which must be overcome to bring VR into the mainstream:
Health Effects– In his Forbes article, Kalev Leetaru discusses the issue of VR sickness. Nausea and eye strain are current side effects of prolonged use of the VR headsets, the former deriving from conflicting signals to the eyes and inner ear. An article from the Financial Times also suggests that there could be psychological repercussions such as reckless behavior when the user struggles to know the difference between virtual and real life.
Cost – Most sources cite cost as a major hurdle for VR to reach the mainstream. Leetaru says that the newest models cost about $600 but also need high-end PCs with powerful processors, currently worth about $1,500, to operate.
Technology Advances – An article in the New York Times notes that the more powerful headsets are still required to be tethered to a PC or gaming console. A company called Sixa has developed a wireless adapter that eliminates the need for cords. The device must also allow for comfort over hours of continuous use. The weight of the device is also an important factor.
PC Computing Power – As mentioned above, the headsets need power to run. So much power that graphics chipmaker Nvidia has estimated that approximately 1% of all current PCs can handle virtual applications and most need a sevenfold increase in performance to work properly.
Interest in the Future, Despite Complexities
The amazement consumers experience after giving VR a try for the first time is real. While there are still pervasive issues to conquer with the technology, investors are excited about the possibilities of VR technologies. Data collectors say that Virtual Reality has garnered more interest for ages 18 years or younger and interest declines as age rises. This factors into the cost issue as a young customer base has less money to spend. The question of when this technology will finally become mainstream is still being debated, but with big companies already diving into these advancements, Virtual Reality will certainly be an interesting space for investors to consider in the coming years.
For information on how virtual reality is being used today, for fun and professionally, please read You Are Now Entering a Virtual Reality.
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Panel Discussion and a Call to Action at 2018 Connectivity Summit on Rural Aging
The 2018 Connectivity Summit on Rural Aging in Portland, Maine, brought together leaders from business, healthcare, government, and academia to spark a movement to address the challenges faced by rural older adults. The two-day conference, hosted by Tivity Health in partnership with the MIT AgeLab, Health eVillages, and the Jefferson College of Population Health, addressed issues of social isolation and loneliness among older adults in rural communities. Social isolation has been shown to have a significant impact on health and wellbeing, with its prevalence among older adults amounting to a public health crisis. But awareness of the issue in the United States does not match its severity.
"Loneliness is the modern epidemic," said Donato Tramuto, CEO of Tivity Health. Despite advances in communications technologies in the 21st century, the problem of social disconnectedness has worsened significantly in recent decades. While older adults are more vulnerable to the health impacts of being isolated, younger people also suffer from being disconnected; they report loneliness at a rate 50 percent higher than the older population.
The Summit rolled out results of a national survey on social isolation in rural communities. Micah Roberts of Public Opinion Strategies, which administered the telephone poll of 400 rural older adults across the United States, discussed key findings from the survey:
32 percent of rural older adults are socially isolated.
Majorities of rural older adults say that elected officials and businesses should do more to address their problems.
64 percent of older adults believe that social isolation has a deleterious impact on health—but the most isolated are the least likely to say social isolation has an effect on health, suggesting a crucial gap in knowledge.
Joseph Coughlin, Founder and Director of the MIT AgeLab, attributed the high rates of isolation to the decline of social capital in the United States, as well as to the worldwide increase of "households of one" among people of all ages. "Where are the churches, where are the NGOs, where are the clubs?" he asked. The current cohort of older adults in the U.S. may prove to be a more engaged population than the approaching wave of aging Baby Boomers. The upcoming group of older Boomers could be in worse straits than the current one in terms of the vibrancy of their social networks.
The Summit featured panels of experts which viewed rural aging issues and social isolation from a number of perspectives.
Alan Morgan, CEO of the National Rural Health Association, said, "We tend to fall into the trap of describing rural America either as a utopia or a total hellhole." He discussed the discovery of "bright spots" in rural Appalachia. Researchers looking to demonstrate a general correlation between economic indicators and health outcomes discovered that a small number of low-income rural areas overcame or even reversed the trend. These "bright spots" were distinguished by the presence of local leaders or institutions that unified the community and drove successes.
Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Professor of Psychology at Brigham Young University, gave an overview of the biological mechanisms by which social isolation and loneliness affect health, as well as the impact that social isolation has on the risk of mortality, which is comparable to well-known risk factors such as smoking and obesity.
Jake Swanton, Senior Federal Policy Manager of Lyft, discussed the transformation of the ride-sharing company beyond "taking Millennials to and from beer halls." Twenty-five percent of Lyft's rides go to or from underserved communities. One million Lyft users are older adults who call rides for themselves using a smartphone. Fifteen percent of Lyft users are caregivers employing the service on behalf of a care recipient. The rise of "concierge" services like GoGoGrandparent, which allow individuals to order rides without a smartphone, has begun to expand the number of older users who ride-share. And ride-share services are not just for older adults to use to get around; 25 percent of Lyft drivers are over the age of 50.
Representative Joseph Kennedy III from the Massachusetts 4th District also participated in the Summit, giving a speech highlighting the challenges facing older Americans today. For example, 43 percent of older adults are non-users of technology. On average, one-third of older adults' Social Security checks are consumed by healthcare costs. The number of bankruptcies of those aged 65 and older has tripled. And opioid abuse has doubled among those aged 50 and older. On the issue of social isolation, Representative Kennedy said, "Addressing the challenge begins with strengthening the proven programs that touch the lives of seniors across the country," such as Meals on Wheels, Senior Corps, and Medicare.
The Summit tasked attendees to brainstorm next steps for tackling social isolation. Ideas included:
A national campaign to raise awareness around social isolation, with messaging based on acts of intergenerational connection.
A website that allows users to search for federal benefits eligibility across all government agencies (“a Kayak.com for eligibility”)
A social isolation community “playbook” that describes best practices for fostering social engagement locally.
In his closing remarks, Dr. Coughlin noted, “In policy, numbers do not matter. It is the intensity that matters.” Mr. Tramuto emphasized the need for greater awareness about the issue of social isolation, a modern problem that will only become more urgent as the older population increases in the coming years.
A new rural aging hub was also announced, located at ruralage.com, which was developed in the wake of the 2017 Connectivity Summit.
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The OA season 2 : "We accept not to understand", the series Netflix view by the French Irène Jacob
Online since Friday, march 22nd, the second season of The OA was also honored at the festival Series Mania. The opportunity to meet Irene Jacob, who accompanied the screening of the first two episodes. Netflix Its role in the second part of The OA is mysterious. On the occasion of the festival Series Mania, held at Lille from 22 to 30 march, Irène Jacob came to present the first two episodes, to be broadcast on the big screen. On this occasion, she explained a little her character and how she perceived the work if singular of the creators of the series, Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij. About his character, ” Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij have thought of The Double Life Of Veronique and Red by Krzysztof Kieślowski during the writing of the series and for them, there was definitely the sense to offer me the role because the characters that I was able to play, have nourished their imagination. I just help the main characters. It is not perceived with psychology because it is a character very surprising that demand to let a little bit go to the fantasy. Despite this, it is more in the sense that in the emotion, because it helps others to move forward, even to some which do him absolutely no good, since she meets Jason Isaac, who does think that the kill. But it will still help because the borders are disrupted in this season, whether it is in the notions of space and time ; of good and evil.
There are scenes that we shot that were not retained in the final cut, but that helped me get into my character. Moments, including a great scene of dance, where I’m not trying to give information, to tell things, but where we see that she can be for herself. I am filled with ideas about my character but in the end, the explanation that I could give of him did not have much impact. The idea was to find the reality of each moment.” Netflix
About the series ” When one arrives in the second season of the series, one wonders how to get in there. When I saw the first part, I noticed how much the universe was free, inventive, surprising. One wonders how one could write such a work and how it reaches out to the people then. There is an emotion that holds through the episodes which is very strong. And although this is a very metaphysical, it is still taken up with the reality. After the projection [Monday evening, at the festival Series Mania], when we walked out of the room, once in the street I do not think it strange. The series speaks to us today, a world that is between virtuality and reality. There are these gamers who are trying to break into a video game, there is this factory of dreams “.
About the creators of The OA, Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij ” They have a great friendship for each other for a long time, a great complicity, too. They have made two feature films beautiful together. They have a great confidence in each other, a great mutual admiration, a respect for standing. Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij are very strong with this force in two. They do not have any desire to bend to outside requests. They have taken a lot of time to write up this part two ; it will take time for part three. There is a way for them to escape the formatting, and even in the way of telling a story. We accept things that appear to us to be wild and at the same time, we feel that it is perfectly mastered. We accept not to understand and accept being caught. They have a big talent “. One wonders how one could write such a work and how it reaches out to the people then. About his roles in the series ” making of the series, I discover a different pleasure. Don’t know where my character is going to go, not knowing if I will be in the season two, if I play in such or such an episode. There is always an unknown, so we try to find the best way to play on the moment and find a reality, without really controlling what is going on. I still love the film and I never said that I was going to shift the focus to the series. In recent years, I’ve done a lot of theatre, I’m playing a piece with Thomas Ostermeier, I have also worked with Pascal Thomas. I always choose the people with whom I want to work, no matter if it is a series, a movie or a play. The nature of the work is less important than the person who made it “. The OA season 1 : the mysterious series of eight moments of grace to See the slideshow Slideshow The OA : The mysterious series Netflix in 8 moments of grace and 8 photos
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Go Rest High on that Mountain
One of my readers died yesterday. His name was Carlton Brookshire. He keeled over with a massive heart attack at 6:30 am as he was sitting in a chair at Medical waiting to get his medications refilled. He was 63 years old.
Mr. B, as he was known back here, had been in prison for the last 21 years, and was due to be released in less than 24 months. He was serving a 30 year sentence for bank robbery. He was a Vietnam veteran who contracted Agent Orange when he was stationed in Southeast Asia back in the seventies. Subsequently, had medical issues as a result of this. Mr. B was socially introverted, and only left his cell to go to the chow hall or to Medical when he had an appointment. Otherwise, he stayed in his cell. This is not an uncommon trait for people who have done a lot of time. After living so many years in an environment of negativity and hatred, it becomes easy to transform a small, sterile, ugly, concrete cell into a sanctuary. Because this sanctuary offers two commodities that are hard to find in prison: Silence and privacy.
Mr. B's main social interaction was that he sewed for people. This was his hustle, and if you had a shirt that needed mending, or a pillow that needed to be sown because it had ripped open and the stuffing was coming out, Mr. B was the man to see. While I was in transit on my way here from California and my property was being stored in various BOP warehouses across the United States, mice made their way into my duffel bags and chewed a hole in my sweatpants. I brought them to Mr. B and he sewed a patch on them, and only charged me three Ramen noodle soups to do it...which is .90 cents. A new pair of sweatpants is $20.00, so I was grateful for the money he saved me. This was how I met him.
When he brought the sweats back to my cell, he saw the bulletin board above my locker where I have color slicks of my website posted. I also post different blogs on the bulletin so people who are visiting my cell can read them. Mr. B stood there and read a blog I recently did called TO THE MOON AND BACK about a special little boy in Tennessee who lost his dad. After he read the blog, he took off his glasses and hung his head as he composed himself...and wiped the tears from his eyes. After a lengthy conversation about life and prison, and about writing, I went into my locker and pulled out the large manila envelope where I keep copies of previously published blogs. I sent him back to his house with three blogs, and this became a nightly ritual where he'd bring the blogs back that I'd given him, then pick up a few more. On the night before he died, when he brought the blogs back, he thanked me, and he told me that my writing made him laugh and cry, and that I articulated feelings that he had inside of him that he didn't know how to express. It was the single nicest compliment that I have received since becoming a writer.
One of the other things that we I talked about that night was music. People in prison listen to music an inordinate amount of their day. He liked country music, and one of his favorite singers was Vince Gill. There's a song by him called GO REST HIGH ON THAT MOUNTAIN. The opening stanza of the song is:
I know your life on earth was troubled
Only you could know the pain
You weren't afraid to face the devil
You were no stranger to the rain
As I write this blog, this song is playing through my ear buds, and although it's a sad song, and a song about death, I don't feel sad right now for Mr. B.
Death for a prisoner has a facet that you people who are reading this blog in the free world will never be able to truly feel. Death for a prisoner is a double-edged sword. Carlton Brookshire was at the tail end of paying his debt to society and like all of us back here, he was waiting to be free. But at 6:30 am on October 16, 2014, that debt was paid in full and he was released; released not only from the negative and violent realm of prison where he'd lived for the last 21 years, but he was also released from the judgments and labels that the world had placed on him.
On October 16, 2014, Mr. B was truly free at last. I don't know where he is right now, but I pray that he's at peace and that he's with his family and friends. I wish him well on his journey. Go rest high on that mountain Mr. B. Your work on earth is done.
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Home entertainment in the CPI basket
Entertainment options in the home have come a long way from sing-alongs in the 19th century, and radios, records, and radiograms in the early to mid-20th century.
Today we have flat-panel TV sets, home theatre systems, and tablet computers. As entertainment options have changed over the past 60 years, so have the electronic gadgets tracked in the consumers price index (CPI).
Music at home
Radio was first included in New Zealand’s CPI basket of goods and services in 1949. At that time, tuning-in was not cheap. The average price of a radio was about £21, or about $1,460 in today’s terms (December 2012 quarter) after allowing for general inflation.
Radiograms, which combined a radio and record player, were added to the basket in 1965, when they retailed for about £90 (about $3,310 today).
The 45rpm single record was added in 1955 at an average price of 5 shillings and 6 pence ($13 today). The 331/3 rpm long-playing (LP) record, which stored a whole album of songs, was added in 1965 at an average retail price of £2 ($73 today).
Music on the move
In 1980, the radio-cassette player was added to the CPI basket with an average price of $255 (about $1,080 today).
Then in 2006, MP3 players were added. A 2GB MP3 player had an average price of $380.
Television becomes an instant hit
Another common type of entertainment technology in most homes is the television. It too has changed a great deal from when it was introduced to New Zealand households in 1960.
TV became an instant hit and by 1965 nearly 315,000 TV sets were licensed in New Zealand.
Added to the CPI in 1965, the average price of a 23-inch black-and-white consolette TV set was about £138 ($5,110 in today’s terms) while the cost of an annual TV licence was £6 and 10 shillings a year ($240 today).
Colour TV sets were added to the basket in 1975, at an average retail price of about $840 ($7,940 today) for a 26-inch set.
In 2006, flat-panel TV sets with LCD or plasma displays were added to the CPI basket. A 32-inch LCD-display TV retailed at about $2,750. The same size TV cost about $590 in the December 2012 quarter.
The viewing experience has also changed over the years. Newer technologies enabled households to record TV programmes and watch them later, or hire movies to watch at home. Video-cassette recorders were added to the CPI basket in 1983. In 1986, their average price was $1,450 ($3,460 in today’s terms).
With the popularity of digital video formats, DVD players were added to the CPI basket in 2002, and DVD recorders in 2006.
Home theatre systems were added to the basket in 2006. At the time, the average price of a system with five speakers plus a subwoofer was about $920.
Computers silence typewriters
Before computers, we used typewriters for writing letters and reports. Typewriters were first included in the CPI basket in 1977, when the average price was $175 (about $1,030 today).
Personal computers were added to the CPI in 1988 when the average price of a basic home computer was about $1,290. Five years later the average price for a personal computer had increased to $2,560, but these computers had more features than the home computers of the 1980s.
The computer printer was added to the CPI basket in 1993, when it cost an average of about $550. Nowadays, computer printers are typically multi-function devices – they include scanning and copying functions and retailed at an average of $165 in the December 2012 quarter.
Laptop computers were added to the CPI basket in 2006, when the average price was about $1,600.
More recently, tablet computers and electronic book (e-book) readers have gained popularity. These devices, along with e-books, were added to the CPI basket in 2011.
Electronic games and console systems, and video-game hire had been were added to the CPI basket in 1999.
In recent times, leisure activities at home have evolved to include browsing the Internet, exchanging emails, shopping, and playing computer games.
Electronic gadgets in the consumer price index (PDF, 1 sheet, 692kb)
Shows a pictorial summary of the gadgets added to the consumers price index (CPI) basket over the past 60 years, and how much each cost at the time and in today's terms.
For more information on the different gadgets households have used for entertainment in the last 60 years, see Electronic gadgets in the consumers price index.
Source: Statistics New Zealand
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July 21: Watch Bob Dylan Performing “Like A Rolling Stone” in East Rutherford, New Jersey 1986
July 21, 2017 Egil Mosbron 5 Comments
Dylan gets downright talkative at this show, joking about New Jersey being ‘The land of The Boss’. He ends ‘Like A Rolling Stone’ with what sounds like a parody of the stop-start ending of Springsteen’s ‘Born In The USA’. .. Before the encore a guitar-shaped birthday cake is carted onstage for Howard Epstein, while everyone sings ‘Happy Birthday’, including Al Kooper, sitting in on piano during the latter part of the show.
~Clinton Heylin (A Life In Stolen Moments)
Howie Epstein birthday – and he gets a cake
Al Kooper joining in for the last 5 songs (including “Like A Rolling Stone”)
Meadowlands Brendan T. Byrne Sports Arena
East Rutherford, New Jersey
Tom Petty (guitar)
Mike Campbell (guitar)
Benmont Tench (keyboards)
Howie Epstein (bass)
Stan Lynch (drums)
and with The Queens Of Rhythm: Carolyn Dennis, Queen Esther Marrow, Madelyn Quebec, Louise Bethune (backing vocals)
Al Kooper (organ)
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Today: B.B. King is 88
September 16, 2013 Egil Mosbron 1 Comment
The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn’t know how other people would take it.
~B. B. King
I never use that word, retire.
Universally hailed as the reigning king of the blues, the legendary B.B. King is without a doubt the single most important electric guitarist of the last half century. His bent notes and staccato picking style have influenced legions of contemporary bluesmen, while his gritty and confident voice — capable of wringing every nuance from any lyric — provides a worthy match for his passionate playing.
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Riley King
B.B. King, King of the Blues
September 16, 1925 (age 88)
Itta Bena, Mississippi, United States
Blues, soul blues, jazz, blues rock, electric blues, rhythm and blues, soul
Musician, songwriter, producer
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Riley B. King (born September 16, 1925), known by the stage name B.B. King, is an American songwriter, vocalist, and famed blues guitarist.
Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at No. 6 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. and No. 17 in Gibson’s Top 50 Guitarists of All Time. According to Edward M. Komara, King “introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that would influence virtually every electric blues guitarist that followed.” King was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. He is widely considered one of the most influential blues musicians of all time, because of this he is often nicknamed ‘The King of Blues’. He is also known for performing tirelessly throughout his musical career appearing at 250-300 concerts per year until his seventies. In 1956 it was noted that he appeared at 342 shows, still at the age of 86 King appears at 100 shows a year.
Over a period of 63 years, King has played in excess of 15,000 performances.
Over the years, King has developed one of the world’s most identifiable guitar styles. He borrowed from Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker and others, integrating his precise and complex vocal-like string bends and his left hand vibrato, both of which have become indispensable components of rock guitarists’ vocabulary. His economy and phrasing has been a model for thousands of players, from Eric Clapton and George Harrison to Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck. King has mixed blues, jazz, swing, mainstream pop and jump into a unique sound. In King’s words, “When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.”
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In 1977, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music by Yale University
In 1980, he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.
In 1987, he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
In 1990, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
In 1991, he was awarded the National Heritage Fellowship from the NEA.
King was awarded the Kennedy Center Honors in 1995. This is given to recognize “the lifelong accomplishments and extraordinary talents of our nation’s most prestigious artists.”
In 2004, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music awarded him the Polar Music Prize for his “significant contributions to the blues”.
On December 15, 2006, President George W. Bush awarded King the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
On May 27, 2007, King was awarded an honorary doctorate in music by Brown University.
On May 14, 2008, King was presented with the keys to the city of Utica, New York; and on May 18, 2008, the mayor of Portland, Maine, Edward Suslovic, declared the day “B.B. King Day” in the city. Prior to King’s performance at the Merrill Auditorium, Suslovic presented King with the keys to the city.
In 2009, TIME named B.B. King No.3 on its list of the 10 best electric guitarists of all time.
Each year during the first week in June, a B.B. King Homecoming Festival is held in Indianola, Mississippi.
A Mississippi Blues Trail marker was added for B.B. King, commemorating his birthplace.
On May 29, 2010, Sabrosa Park (at the small town of Sabrosa, north of Portugal) was renamed B.B. King Park in honor of King and the free concert he played before 20,000 people.
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