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000000042255 | Article of the Day Before reading the article: Would you want to go to school with your grandparents? How might that change your school experience? What might you be able to learn from them and their peers? What might they learn from your generation? Now, read the article, “Running Out of Children, a South Korea School Enrolls Illiterate Grandmothers,” and answer the following questions: 1. The article starts with the story of a yellow school bus ride. What is surprising about Hwang Wol-geum’s daily ride? 2. Why was Ms. Hwang not able to attend school as a child? 3. Why is there a child shortage in rural areas of South Korea? Why does the future of Gangjin County depend on enrolling students in its elementary school, according to the article? 4. What was Ms. Hwang’s first day of school like? What has been the grandmothers’ experience of school? 5. What has been the reaction of teachers and other students to the presence of grandmothers who are now attending the school? How are classrooms arranged differently to support the learning of older adult students? 6. How did illiteracy affect Ms. Hwang and the other grandmothers throughout their lives? What hardships — emotional, social and economic — did they face? 7. What are some of the things the grandmothers hope to do, now that they are finally learning to read and write? Which of these lifelong dreams do you find most memorable or touching? Finally, tell us more about what you think: — What is your reaction to the story of grandmothers attending elementary school? What can we learn from their experience? Which aspect of their story did you find most fascinating or inspiring? — Would you want to attend school with these elderly learners? Why or why not? How do you think you might benefit from their presence? How do you think their lives might be positively affected? — Look through the photos and videos featured in the article. Select one and write about how it illustrates the value of lifelong or intergenerational learning. — Should all schools have an intergenerational component? What ways can your school more meaningfully bring elders into the educational experience? (You can research some different ideas and programs here, here and here.) Further Resources: Fostering Connections Between Young and Old New Women’s Groups Focus on Generational Mix The Growing Generational Divide | [
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000000003290 | PHILADELPHIA — Follow along with our coverage of the Democratic National Convention. If Hillary Clinton wins the presidency, Bill Clinton will not become a regular at cabinet meetings, his wife’s advisers say. He will not be invited into the Situation Room. He will step away from his family’s foundation work and may not even have an office in the West Wing, given the undesirable optics of a former president and husband looking over the shoulder of the first female commander in chief. But the steps that Clinton aides are planning to shape his new life do little to address a potentially thornier problem: Historically, when Mr. Clinton does not have a job to do, he gets into trouble. It was during the government shutdown in 1995 that Mr. Clinton began his affair with Monica Lewinsky. It was in the early years after he left the White House that his friendships with wealthy playboys became tabloid fodder. Sidelined by Mrs. Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, Mr. Clinton went rogue and started lashing out at Barack Obama. More recently, his dinner with the businessman Mark Cuban and his tarmac encounter with Attorney General Loretta Lynch were reminders that when Mr. Clinton has time on his hands, he can create dangerous distractions for his wife. “He loves getting involved in things — no one loves policy and politics more than Bill Clinton,” said Mickey Kantor, a longtime friend and secretary of commerce under Mr. Clinton. “He loves, and needs, to have a purpose.” How we analyzed in real time the second night of the Democratic National Convention, featuring Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright and Lena Dunham. Putting Mr. Clinton to good use, while containing his less helpful impulses, would be a major test for Mrs. Clinton as president, given the spotlight and pressure they would be under and her limited ability in the past to rein in his excesses. Mrs. Clinton sees him as her most trusted confidant and sounding board on national security and the economy, advisers say; one recalled a recent golf outing where Mr. Clinton received several phone calls and emails from Mrs. Clinton before reaching the 14th hole. Yet Mrs. Clinton is still not sure if she would give a formal position to Mr. Clinton or rely on him to help behind the scenes and keep a low profile, aides say. She clearly wants him busy: Appearing on “60 Minutes” on Sunday, Mrs. Clinton said that it would be “an all-hands-on-deck time” if she won the presidency and that she would rely on Mr. Clinton — as well as President Obama — and “put ’em all to work.” At the same time, she emphasized that she and Mr. Clinton would not be co-presidents, leaving open the question of how he would spend his days when he is so close to the levers of power that he knows well. Given his insights and experience, Mr. Clinton could be more capable than anyone else in ensuring the success of her presidency — or he could cast a long shadow over her. “Their relationship as a current president and a former president would be a very, very sensitive issue early on, and they’d need to carefully work out the rules of the road for the sake of both of them,” said David Gergen, who was a senior adviser to several presidents, including Mr. Clinton. “There’s some revisionist history underway about his presidency that clearly bothers him, for instance, and he may want to rewrite the story of his presidency partly by influencing Hillary’s policies as president,” Mr. Gergen added. “They both have to be very careful with that.” Aides and allies of the Clintons were emphatic that his sole focus would be on helping his wife and doing what she asked. They played down any controversies over the last several years, pointing out that Mr. Clinton had focused on the foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative during that time. But at the same time they acknowledged that Mr. Clinton would not be content to sit idly by or speak only when spoken to. At 69, even as age and health have somewhat slowed him, Mr. Clinton still has a strong desire to be in the center of the action, friends say, and his intellectual interests and curiosity remain vast. One aide says Mr. Clinton now spends an extra hour every day reading about world economies, partly in anticipation of helping Mrs. Clinton if she asks him to help with economic revitalization, as she has indicated. He enjoys working abroad — his popularity is sky-high in many countries — and he likes calling up whomever he wants, whenever he wants, especially his wife. But if the Clintons return to the White House, his life will inevitably become more circumscribed, and he will be expected to show the self-discipline that most first spouses have demonstrated. “He’ll do anything she wants and nothing more,” said Erskine Bowles, Mr. Clinton’s chief of staff from 1997 to 1998. “That will be hard for him at times, but that’s the reality of the situation if she is going to succeed on her own.” Tina Flournoy, who is Mr. Clinton’s chief of staff, noted that Mr. Clinton had been a prodigious campaigner and fund-raiser throughout the campaign at Mrs. Clinton’s request — a role that political analysts have described as a net asset for her candidacy. “If Secretary Clinton is elected, he will continue to support her whenever and wherever he’s asked,” Ms. Flournoy said. Mr. Clinton is not likely to shoulder many of the traditional duties of first ladies, advisers say, like selecting White House china and floral arrangements and presiding as the host in the national home and arranging state dinners. Some of that is expected to fall to the Clintons’ daughter, Chelsea. Mr. Clinton also has not given thought to using the role of first gentleman to redefine ideas about American masculinity and patriarchy, nor has he decided if he will draw on his personal interests — like veganism — for a healthy-eating initiative the way Michelle Obama did, his advisers say. Friends of Mr. Clinton say the smartest way to use him would involve a major but focused appointment, like leading a task force to fight climate change, global poverty or the H.I.V./AIDS epidemic, which would be natural outgrowths of his foundation work. Others, including some who worked in Mr. Clinton’s administration, like the idea of him as Middle East peace envoy, given his herculean efforts in the region during his presidency, or as a kind of jobs mastermind focused on rebuilding the most struggling regions of America. Milestones in politics when women and minorities were first elected to federal, state and local government. “In some ways the Middle East is the most natural job for him, because he’s so popular with all sides and he spent so much time on peacemaking,” said Martin S. Indyk, a United States ambassador to Israel during the Clinton administration and a longtime negotiator in peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Aides to Mr. Clinton said Middle East peace envoy was not a job they had heard him express interest in. They also noted that for every possible job, there is a potential downside — that he would create tensions with his wife’s secretary of state, Treasury secretary or other cabinet officer; that he might upstage Mrs. Clinton or box her in because she might have difficulty overruling him; or that he would become a political target of Republicans once again. Mrs. Clinton has some familiarity with the issue. In 1994, she led the White House’s health care effort, an endeavor that put her in conflict with congressional Republicans and competition with Vice President Al Gore. Advisers say she is mindful of that experience and wary of putting Mr. Clinton in the cross hairs with a high-profile policy role. But the Clintons would not simply be changing roles if she became president and he the supportive spouse. Unlike Mrs. Clinton, who was new to Washington when she became first lady, Mr. Clinton brings a wealth of political relationships, untold diplomatic experience and vast firsthand knowledge about issues and crises that presidents face. He could easily be deployed to make discreet phone calls to governors, members of Congress and business leaders, or to play a role in negotiations between foreign leaders or in global hot spots. Advisers to Mrs. Clinton, asked about specific roles that Mr. Clinton might play, said she had not given the matter much thought. “She would certainly seek his advice and counsel,” said Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton. “Beyond that, it being July, it would be getting ahead of oneself to talk about any sort of formalized role for anyone in an administration.” Mr. Clinton would not necessarily be at the White House full time, advisers say. The couple would most likely keep their home in Chappaqua, N.Y., and Mr. Clinton might continue doing some work in Manhattan with his foundation or at the offices he has kept in his post-presidency. When in Washington, he would be less likely to be a social planner for his wife than to be her protector within the White House. Some friends of the Clintons said they could see him taking a page from Nancy Reagan, who could be aggressive in ensuring that administration staff members were serving the interests of President Ronald Reagan. Mr. Clinton might know better than most if Mrs. Clinton was being overburdened or receiving bad advice. “He’ll be her advocate, he’ll be her lawyer, and if he thinks the staff isn’t protecting her, they’d have private conversations about it,” Mr. Kantor said. He said, however, that he did not think Mr. Clinton would go as far as Mrs. Reagan, who orchestrated the ouster of Donald T. 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000000023965 | New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and newly signed wide receiver Antonio Brown began their crash course in chemistry building on Monday, and Brady says he came away impressed that Brown “is into doing what’s in the best interest for the team.” Brown spent nine years starring for the Pittsburgh Steelers before forcing a trade to the Oakland Raiders, only to be released on Saturday after a series of squabbles with the team. Brown agreed to a deal with the defending Super Bowl champion Patriots hours later, and made his way to Foxborough, Mass., on Monday. During his weekly interview with Westwood One, Brady said he “really enjoyed being around” Brown, and called him “a very smart football player, knows how to play the game. He’s been extremely productive.” Brady, who led the Patriots to a 33-3 win over the Steelers on Sunday night, said he wasn’t “buying into any hype or potential. I’m into work. He’s into work, and our entire offense is into doing what’s in the best interest for the team. I’m really excited to get to practice on Wednesday.” Brown is a seven-time Pro Bowl selection and four-time first-team All-Pro. In 130 games, he has 837 catches for 11,207 yards and 74 touchdowns. In 2014, Brown led the NFL with 129 catches and 1,698 yards. He led the league again the next year with 136 catches, although his 1,834 yards barely trailed league-leading Julio Jones’ 1,871. Brown’s 1,533 yards receiving in 2017 was also the best in the NFL. Brady said he and Brown are “going to meet as much as we possibly can. I think that quarterback-receiver relationship is so important. The more you know each other, the more you know what each other’s thinking, the faster you can accelerate the trust and confidence in one another when you get on the field.” —Field Level Media | [
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000000034500 | (CNN)The day before we met, human rights campaigner Aref Jaber recorded the arrest of a 9-year-old Palestinian boy, taken out of school in the West Bank city of Hebron by armed Israeli soldiers. His footage shows soldiers inside Ziad Jaber elementary school, arguing with the school principal and other teachers, as they attempt to remove Zein Idris and his 7-year-old brother Taim. At one point on the video, one of the teachers is told that if he does not let go of Zein, the soldier will break the teacher's arm. The age of criminal culpability in Israel -- under both civilian and military law -- is 12, but when the principal points out that the brothers are just young children, an Israeli officer replies, "They threw stones, I don't care how old they are." Taim was hidden in a classroom but, as the video shows, Zein was eventually frog-marched away and taken to an army vehicle. According to the school and residents of the neighborhood, he was taken off to a nearby military post and held for just under an hour. Describing the incident to CNN, the Israeli army spokesperson's unit said that a group of students had thrown stones toward cars belonging to residents of Israeli settlements in the city, and that soldiers then conducted a warning chat with the pupils. The army disputed the suggestion it had made any arrests, but added that the incident will be investigated, and regulations clarified accordingly. 'You threw a stone' When I visit Zein Idris, he is playing on the roof of the family house. Sitting next to his mother, he tells me he was on his way out of school with Taim when they saw the soldiers running towards them, so they went back to school to hide. "They ran into the school and arrested me. One of the soldiers screamed at me while twisting my ear and said, 'you threw a stone.' I told him I didn't, but he grabbed my shoulder and pushed me hard to the wall and kept me arrested for two hours." Aref Jaber has lived in Hebron all his life. He documents as much as he can in the West Bank's largest Palestinian city with his video camera or his phone. "The most dangerous thing," he says, "is that arresting children here is becoming normal." Children's rights UNICEF, the United Nations agency which seeks to protect children's rights, characterizes what happened as an arrest. While noting that Zein was released without charge, it says that incidents of military forces entering schools are all too common in the West Bank. "Not only do all children everywhere have a right to a safe education and protection from all forms of violence and exploitation, but it is also essential for their mental and physical well-being," says UNICEF Palestine Special Representative, Genevieve Boutin. "Children who face such violations often experience difficulties in schools and are at risk of drop out." In 2018, the UN agency received testimony from 65 Palestinian children arrested or detained either at school, or on their way to or from classes. Numbers from the Israeli Prison Services show a monthly average of 271 Palestinian children detained in 2018 for alleged security offenses. This does not include the total number of children who come into contact with security forces but are released after a few hours, such as in Zein Idris's case, UNICEF adds. Permanent state of tension The situation in Hebron is a particular concern. Lying less than 30 kilometers (18 miles) from Jerusalem, even by the standards of the region, the city's administrative arrangements are complex. It is divided into two, with Palestinians controlling one part, Israelis the other. The Israeli part, which includes the Old City, is home to about 40,000 Palestinians and a few hundred Israeli settlers, according to figures from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Guarding the settlers are around 650 Israeli soldiers, according to Breaking the Silence, an anti-occupation organization made up of former Israeli servicemen and women. The army itself does not comment on the number of troops it deploys. Security in the Israeli-controlled part is based on what is called the "principle of separation." In the words of Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem this means that Palestinians living there "are subjected to extreme restrictions in their movement, by car or on foot, including the closure of main streets, while [Israeli] settlers are free to go where they wish." The result is a permanent state of tension; a place seething with hostility and mistrust. Abu Jalal owns a shop right in front of Zein Idris's school and was present when the soldiers marched him out. He describes what he sees as a game the soldiers play with the children. "The soldiers storm the school to provoke the kids. When the kids see them with their weapons they start screaming, to provoke the soldiers, who then feel they have a reason to arrest the kids," he says. The army disputes that description and says it only ever enters a school when it believes an incident, like a stone-throwing, has taken place and it wants to find the perpetrator. Going forward, Israeli authorities, in discussions with UNICEF, have also "expressed willingness ... to issue directives that would forbid the entry of armed forces into schools" according to the UN agency, though this is yet to be implemented. 'Moral blindness' B'Tselem is another group which records incidents in the West Bank in which it says Israeli security forces have detained Palestinian children below the age of criminal liability without informing their parents. It says the justification often given is that soldiers were detaining the children before handing them over to Palestinian authorities. "It is unacceptable for armed forces to hold a young child alone for any time at all, and especially without notifying his or her parents, regardless of whether the child has thrown stones or not. The fact that Israeli authorities believe that this conduct is acceptable speaks volumes as to the moral blindness afflicting them." The influence on Israeli society of Israel's long military occupation of the Palestinian territories is a sensitive one for many Israelis, especially when the suggestion is made that its own soldiers might be paying a price. Israeli TV news anchor Oshrat Kotler was heavily criticized recently for suggesting, during a live broadcast in February, that serving in the West Bank was turning Israeli soldiers into animals. "We send our children to the army, to the territories and get back animals. That is the result of the occupation," she said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was just one of those to raise a critical voice against the TV anchor. "I am proud of the soldiers of the IDF and love them very much. Kotler's comments should be condemned," he said. 'Careful, they are filming!' Aref Jaber says Hebron's children are clearly paying a psychological price. "The scars are deep. Many of the children here are scared to go to school, others are prevented by their own parents from leaving the house and playing with their friends in the neighborhood," he says. Another human rights activist, Imad Abu Shamsiyeh, sees no solution to the current situation. 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000000034788 | There is a distinctly nostalgic feeling to playing Wargroove. It reminds me of the Game Boy Advance, and my first brushes with Advance Wars, a series that made turn-based strategy both accessible and difficult. Wargroove rekindles a lot of that flame, while also giving me tools to spark a whole new obsession. The new game from Chucklefish, publisher of several indie gems and developer of Starbound, has the look and sound of exactly what I remember from Advance Wars years ago. Units bob up and down on the screen, numbers clash into numbers, weakness into advantage, and eventually all but one commander resigns. It’s been a decade since the last Advance Wars game, as Nintendo’s focused on other strategy franchises like Fire Emblem and Mario + Rabbids. But when I was in middle school I, like most my age, had a GBA, and most of us had the first Advance Wars. It was a revelation at the time, a persistent arena of strategy and chaos. We made our own maps. We argued over the best commander. (Grit, by the way.) It was easy to pick up but tough, challenging, and demanded chess-like strategy to outwit both the computer opponent and each other. Wargroove taps into the same energy, but doesn’t just play rose-tinted melodies. With new ideas that change your approach to strategy, a fantasy setting, and an extremely robust custom creation suite, Wargroove is the real successor to a series I thought had been long forgotten. The core loop of Wargroove is still very much Wars. Multiple commanders vie for cash-producing towns; unit-producing structures like barracks, towers, or harbors; and the stronghold, the base of operations. Unlike Nintendo’s other grid-based strategy games Fire Emblem, this isn’t as much about individual characters, love and relationships, or building up stats. It’s armies against armies, with dozens of knights, dragons, and skeletons clashing at once. Since Wargroove takes place in the realm of fantasy, your units are fittingly medieval but still adhere to some basic tenets. Swordsmen are fast and cheap, but not particularly effective against anything; contrast that with pikemen, slightly more expensive and slower, but bulkier and more powerful, especially against cavalry. The various rock-paper-scissors triangles can sometimes lock strategy into a stalemate. Wargroove doesn’t just rely on basic strengths and weaknesses, though. A major marker of a good commander is utilizing critical hits. Meet certain requirements, and your unit will do extra damage, potentially turning the tides of a battle. Archers will critically hit if they fire without moving, fliers get critical hits if they’re over a mountain, and pikemen will do more damage if they’re standing next to other pikemen. It rewards not just smart positioning, but risk-taking. Sometimes it’s worth putting a unit in danger to land a crucial critical, ensuring a barracks crumbles or a powerful unit falls. Because of that, winning can sometimes feel like a Herculean task, driving just enough of a wedge into the opponent’s line that you can start to crack it open. Commanders, another major change in Wargroove’s formula, are crucial. Unlike the Wars’ series absentee generals, commanders in Wargroove take to the field and lead the charge as actual units. Each has their own characteristics as a commander, whether it’s the scrappy Queen Mercia, the sneering vampire Ragna, or the cheerful prince Koji and his giant puppet/mecha, and each has a signature ability called a “groove.” One particular mission in the campaign stumped me for ages; I controlled two forces, and had to get one commander from the western side of the map to the east, where my other was. In this mission, Mercia’s healing aura was key to keeping her entourage alive throughout an onslaught of oncoming forces, while Nuru’s teleport beam let me gradually shove out my eastern line to meet Mercia halfway. While it was an escort mission, your commander’s livelihood is always a second win condition, the “king” of the proverbial chessboard. This mission seemed determined to halt my progress, throwing waves of archers, harpies, and felbats to strike down Mercia over and over. I repeated the same ordeal over and over until I sussed out the perfect solution. The right mix of units, the right positioning, and the key choke points to secure. It was brutal, but satisfying. The next mission was a breeze. The gauntlet had internalized some of the overarching strategy in me. That stirring feeling of progress is when Wargroove clicks. By forcing me to break habits (stop spamming pikemen) and utilize a wide range of units, while being careful and checking ranges, I’d become a better virtual general. The next few commanders were no match for me. The pain of bashing your head against a wall is eased by the charming aesthetic. Have you ever wanted to liberate villagers from an outlaw’s stronghold as a very good dog named Caesar, clad in armor and flanked by two crossbowmen? This is your game. Wargroove feels both extremely familiar and still fresh. Every battle is still a dichotomy of cautious, careful advances and measured gambits, finessing the frontlines into perfect formation while determining what I needed next from my conga line of reinforcements, shuttled back and forth by carriers, and kept healthy by my towns. Those battles on their own, in both a well-crafted and surprisingly tough-at-times campaign and multiplayer, which can be local or online (asynchronous as well, so you can send turns and return to your other battles), are fuel enough alone to stoke the fires of my Wars love. But what’s really piqued my interest for the future is the custom suite. I say “suite” because it’s more than just a map editor. While you can make maps with different win conditions, sizes, and player counts, there is also a cutscene editor and campaign editor on top. Out of the box, you’re able to craft entire narratives, as varied as the base campaign. Part of my love for the Wars games was making custom maps and showing them to friends. Passing around a flippable GBA with someone’s interpretation of Helm’s Deep or Ace Combat was a mainstay. It’s what kept us coming back; not just being able to play against each other, but designing the boards on which our battles took place. Being able to craft my own stories, using actual text and flags, managing a party and creating various interactions, means my Helm’s Deep just got deeper. (Sorry.) The number of flags, variables, and settings you can toy with to craft something your own is staggering. It seems like you could spend hours in the editor and still learn new nuances and methods for making a campaign just as you envision it. You can also just ignore that and only consume others’ content through the share hub. The ability to easily download maps and campaigns my friends have made all over the world, challenging them or dissecting the terrain and placements on my own time, is sublime. It remains to be seen how effective the curation and sharing will be once servers are live and everyone’s piled in, but right now, it has the potential to be the Super Mario Maker of Advance Wars. It’s been a decade since the last Advance Wars game. 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000000045183 | The "Pharma Bro" is back in his native Brooklyn — for now. Notorious drug-company fraudster Martin Shkreli has been removed from a federal prison in New Jersey after there were claims he was running his pharmaceuticals firm while locked up with the help of a contraband cellphone. Shkreli, who had been in the low-security prison in Fort Dix serving a seven-year fraud sentence, now is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Brooklyn, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. He will remain at the facility — not far from the location of his conviction in Brooklyn federal court — until he is transferred to his new home, a federal prison facility in Allenwood, Pennsylvania, his lawyer Benjamin Brafman told CNBC. "A formality," Brafman said in an email when asked about the move to Brooklyn and its reason. A Bureau of Prisons spokesman said "we do not share the reasons why a specific inmate was transferred to a particular correctional institution." However, the spokesman said that generally speaking, "there are number of factors that must be considered." Those include "the level of security and supervision the inmate requires, medical and programming needs, and other considerations. including proximity to an individual's release residence," he said. Shkreli, who was born in Brooklyn and who was living in Manhattan when he was convicted at trial, previously spent more than half a year locked up in the same Brooklyn federal jail where he now is being held. In September 2017 — a month after he was convicted of multiple criminal charges — Shkreli's $5 million release bond was revoked by his trial judge because of his offer of a $5,000 bounty on Facebook to any of his social media followers who could provide him with a lock of Hillary Clinton's hair. The Wall Street Journal reported on March 7 that Shkreli, 36, "still helps call the shots" at the drug company Phoenixus AG, using a banned cellphone to fire the Manhattan company's CEO — a decision he later reversed — and direct other actions as part of his plan to acquire rare medications and invest in "an ambitious research-and-development agenda." Phoenixus gained Shkreli and the firm international infamy under its previous name, Turing Pharmaceuticals, in 2015 when it hiked by more than 5,000% the price of a medication, Daraprim, which is used to treat a parasitic infection found in pregnant women, babies and HIV patients. That price increase made Shkreli the poster boy for the issue of rising drug costs in the United States. The inmate handbook at Fort Dix specifically says, "Conducting a business, in any way, is a prohibited act," the Journal noted. The Journal also reported that Shkreli, who had been banned by Twitter while still a free man, was tweeting under a new account, which became suspended when the article appeared. A day after the Journal's article was published, the Bureau of Prisons said it was investigating whether Shkreli had broken prison rules barring inmates from running a business or possessing a cellphone. He reportedly was moved into solitary confinement at Fort Dix that same day. Shkreli was convicted in August 2017 of three out of eight felonies.Two of those counts related to misleading investors about key details and the awful financial performance of two hedge funds he had operated, MSMB Capital and MSMB Healthcare. He also was convicted of conspiring to fraudulently manipulate stock shares of Retrophin, the pharmaceuticals company he founded after his hedge funds collapsed. At trial, prosecutors alleged that Shkreli defrauded multiple investors out of millions of dollars placed in his hedge fund, only to repay them with stock and cash that he looted from Retrophin. At his sentencing, Shkreli wept and told Judge Kiyo Matsumoto, "The one person to blame for me being here today is me." "Not the government. There is no conspiracy to take down Martin Shkreli," he said. "I took down Martin Shkreli with my disgraceful and shameful actions." He also said, referring to the investors he had swindled, "I am terribly sorry I lost your trust ... you deserve far better." | [
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000000013337 | A decade after Congress gave the F.D.A. the power to regulate tobacco products like e-cigarettes, the federal government has repeatedly delayed or weakened efforts that could have protected teenagers. In 2009, not long after Dr. Margaret Hamburg became commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, a package arrived at her home. Inside was a clunky device called an e-cigarette. “It was my first exposure to this emerging, new technology,” Dr. Hamburg recalled. The package was sent by an antismoking activist as a warning about a product that was taking off in the United States. But over the next decade, the federal government — across the span of two presidential administrations — allowed the rise of a largely unregulated industry that may be addicting a new generation to nicotine. E-cigarettes and vaping devices, with $7 billion in annual sales, have become a part of daily life for millions of Americans. Youth use has skyrocketed with the proliferation of flavors targeting teenagers, such as Bazooka Joe Bubble Gum and Zombie Blood. And nearly 1,300 people have been sickened by mysterious vaping-related lung injuries this year. Yet the agency has not vetted the vast majority of vaping devices or flavored liquids for safety. In dozens of interviews, federal officials and public health experts described a lost decade of inaction, blaming an intense lobbying effort by the e-cigarette and tobacco industries, fears of a political backlash in tobacco-friendly states, bureaucratic delays, and a late reprieve by an F.D.A. commissioner who had previously served on the board of a chain of vaping lounges. “The minute you saw cotton candy flavors — come on,” said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who had warned since 2013 of the harms to adolescents. “Everything that could have been done should have been done to get them off the market.” Dr. Hamburg’s F.D.A. suffered an early setback after two e-cigarette companies successfully sued the agency in 2009 for trying to regulate the products as drugs. The F.D.A. was forced instead to treat them as tobacco products under the newly passed Tobacco Control Act, which had less-stringent safety requirements. The agency then spent five years trying to issue regulations that would survive further legal as well as political scrutiny by a White House that had other priorities, including rolling out the Affordable Care Act. Then, in President Obama’s last year, the administration rejected a proposal to ban flavored e-cigarettes. It came in the face of fierce lobbying over the tobacco regulations, including by a former senator and by a onetime White House analyst who had represented the Obama administration in the same discussions a year earlier. [DEEPENING MYSTERY How one man who tried e-cigarettes to stop smoking died of vaping-related illness.] In 2017, President Trump’s F.D.A. commissioner, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, granted e-cigarette companies a reprieve of four years before they would have to prove that the public health benefits of their products outweighed the risks. That extension — which Dr. Frieden described as “public health malpractice” — left the door wide open for the surge in popularity of devices such as those made by Juul Labs, the troubled company that now dominates the market. Meanwhile, the federal government has largely ignored the explosion in vaping THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, which coincided with either recreational or medicinal legalization in many states. That regulatory dead zone has left public health officials scrambling to track the cause of the vaping-related lung illnesses that have led to at least 29 deaths. Dr. Ned Sharpless, the acting F.D.A. commissioner, recently acknowledged in a congressional hearing that the agency should have acted sooner. “We’re going to catch up,” he promised. Last month — facing rising rates of teen vaping and alarm over the lung illnesses — administration officials announced they would finally impose a flavor ban for e-cigarettes. But the ban has yet to materialize, and industry groups have been fighting it, especially any limits on menthol and mint. As of Oct. 11, there have been 1,299 vaping illnesses and 29 deaths. More maps and charts. Cases of lung illness Deaths 0 10 50 100 15a0 Mont. Minn. Ore. Mass. Wis. Mich. N.Y. Conn. Pa. Neb. Ind. N.J. Ill. Utah Del. Kan. Mo. Calif. Va. Tenn. Ala. Ga. D.C. Miss. Tex. Fla. Virgin Islands Cases of vaping-related lung illness Deaths 0 10 50 100 150 Mont. Minn. Ore. Mass. Wis. N.Y. Mich. Conn. Pa. Neb. Ind. N.J. Ill. Utah Del. Kan. Mo. Calif. Va. Tenn. Ala. Ga. Miss. D.C. Tex. Fla. Virgin Islands Cases of vaping-related lung illness Vaping-related deaths 0 10 50 100 150 Mont. Minn. Ore. Mass. Mich. Wis. N.Y. Conn. Pa. N.J. Neb. Ind. Ill. Utah Del. Calif. Mo. Va. Kan. Tenn. Ga. Ala. Miss. D.C. Tex. Fla. Virgin Islands Hawaii By The New York Times | Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state agencies Even bigger changes to the e-cigarette industry might be on the way. That deadline Dr. Gottlieb extended has been overturned by a judge, who ordered the F.D.A. to require e-cigarette companies to apply for approval by May, and to submit evidence their products do more good than harm. Last week, Reynolds American began the process, filing its application with the F.D.A. for VUSE, the company’s cartridge-based vaping system that features flavors such as mixed berry, tropical, menthol and others. Vaping manufacturers and retailers have opposed more regulations, saying smokers need access to a potentially safer alternative, given that traditional cigarettes kill hundreds of thousands of Americans a year. “We think that harm reduction, and the potential of harm reduction, for these products cannot be dismissed,” said Brittani Cushman, the board president of the Vapor Technology Association, an industry trade group. But some public health officials say they doubt Juul and other companies will be able to surmount the regulatory hurdle if teenage use keeps climbing. The F.D.A.’s lack of action has baffled some families of those who have fallen ill, including Ruby Johnson of Illinois, whose 18-year-old daughter, Piper, nearly died after vaping nicotine and THC. “If this was romaine lettuce, the shelves would be empty,” she told a House panel last month. The earliest forms of e-cigarettes arrived in the United States market in 2007 and sought to mimic the smoking experience. The products intrigued many public health experts, who hoped they would wean people off traditional tobacco. They didn’t contain the harmful byproducts and chemicals of cigarettes, although there was little evidence that they were safe. The F.D.A. was wary. In 2009, the agency declared that the e-cigarettes were illegal drug-device combinations — like a nicotine patch — that had not been approved. The F.D.A. halted imports and warned that they contained toxic chemicals and appealed to young people with flavors like chocolate and mint. E-cigarette companies sued, setting up the first major court fight over vaping nicotine. The court’s ruling in favor of the industry in 2010 “set the agency back significantly,” said Dr. Joshua M. Sharfstein, who was then the deputy director of the F.D.A. and who left in 2011. The agency’s loss was a harsh reminder of the tobacco industry’s staying power. “It can be very hard for a regulator to address potential risks when there is an aggressive industry on the other side,” he said. Over the next several years, as the agency slowly developed regulations to oversee all types of tobacco items, including cigars, vaping devices and liquids, “the market became flooded with products that Congress never intended to be on the market at all without F.D.A. review,” said Gregg Haifley, director of federal relations at the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. Vape shops became commonplace, and users experimented with thousands of flavors that were often mixed on store premises or at home. One of the tobacco industry’s fiercest critics, Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon, had urged the agency beginning in 2009 to rein in nicotine vaping products, and mentioned allies like Mitchell Zeller, who oversees tobacco at the F.D.A., and who was among the early advocates for a ban on flavors. Dr. Hamburg, who left the F.D.A. in 2015, said the agency struggled to move quickly to issue the broad regulation for e-cigarettes as well as other tobacco products, including cigars. It was a complex process, she said, given previous court challenges. “For something so important for health, the delays at H.H.S. and the White House were distressing and confusing — people were getting very frustrated,” she said, and given the expanding industry, “I wanted to get it out, from a reputational point of view and from a morale point of view for F.D.A.” At the time, the Obama White House and the Department of Health and Human Services were also dealing with mounting Republican opposition to the administration’s signature health care law, the Affordable Care Act, which was passed in 2010 and went into effect in 2014 with an exceptionally bumpy rollout. Several states have announced e-cigarette bans in response to recent vaping illnesses and deaths. More maps and charts. Wash. Mont. Mass. Ore. Mich. N.Y. R.I. Chicago Pine Ridge Reservation S.F. Utah Ill. The Trump administration Los Angeles Considering or working on a ban Announced or enacted ban on flavored e-cigarettes Announced or enacted ban on all e-cigarettes Four-month ban on all vaping products Wash. Mont. Ore. Mass. Mich. N.Y. S.D. R.I. Calif. Chicago Pine Ridge Reservation Ill. Utah San Francisco The Trump administration Los Angeles Considering or working on a ban Announced or enacted ban on flavored e-cigarettes Announced or enacted ban on all e-cigarettes Four-month ban on all vaping products Wash. Mont. Ore. Mass. S.D. N.Y. Mich. R.I. Pine Ridge Reservation Chicago San Francisco Ill. Utah The Trump administration Calif. Los Angeles Considering or working on a ban Announced or enacted ban on flavored e-cigarettes Announced or enacted ban on all e-cigarettes Four-month ban on all vaping products By The New York Times In 2015, the agency finally sent its proposed rule — for oversight of all e-cigarettes and tobacco products — to the Office of Management and Budget for final approval. Over that fall and winter, the tobacco and e-cigarette industries made a major push to weaken the regulations, enlisting people like former Senator Mary Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana, to lobby the Obama administration. The tobacco and e-cigarette industries overlapped considerably — major tobacco companies like Reynolds American had begun selling their own e-cigarette products as they sought to replace revenues lost from declining smoking rates. And the nicotine liquids used in vaping are derived from tobacco leaves. Altria, the nation’s largest tobacco company, threw its weight against a flavor ban. In comments to the F.D.A. on Aug. 8, 2014, it contended that restriction could result in more illicit sales, and that adults also liked fruity and sweet e-cigarette flavors. In Congress, the tobacco industry lobbied hard against the proposals, using its pull as a major donor to get Republicans and some Democrats to sign on to industry-friendly bills. And at the Office of Management and Budget, officials hosted dozens of meetings, mostly with industry groups weighing in on the F.D.A.’s 468-page proposal. Some visits were held back to back, with dozens of people — from vape shop owners worried about the economic impact, to product distributors, to public health experts who favored the restrictions — attending the meetings, according to White House records. “This country is run off the backbone of small business,” read a statement from one entrepreneur, Wade Jordan, who owned vape shops in Bedford, Texas. One frequent visitor was a familiar face — Andrew Perraut, a former policy analyst who had left the federal budget office in 2014. Federal records show that he represented the budget office in a meeting in April 2014 with Cigar Rights of America, a premium cigar lobbying group. A little over a year later, in late 2015, Mr. Perraut was back, but this time as a representative of Cigar Rights of America and others, including the e-cigarette company NJoy. Mr. Perraut, now director of public policy at Juul, declined to comment through a Juul spokesman. When the White House returned the final rule to the F.D.A. in 2016, language for a ban on flavors had been crossed out. Shaun Donovan, the director of the budget agency, and other Obama administration officials, including Kathleen Sebelius and Sylvia Mathews Burwell, both of whom served as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services during that period, declined to comment. Dr. Robert M. Califf, who had supervised policy on tobacco products at the F.D.A. before becoming commissioner in 2016, said he did not know why the flavor ban had been deleted. However, “I’m sure the small business impact had something to do with it,” he said. Dr. Hamburg, who had left by then, also said she did not know why it had been deleted. Some former Obama administration officials said the White House considered the flavor ban too restrictive and that there was no solid evidence that flavored e-cigarettes were harmful. In addition, it would have extended to products like cigars, which was opposed by the industry, as was regulation of premium cigars, which threatened Democrats in tobacco-friendly states like North Carolina and Florida. One former Obama administration health official, who asked not to be identified because it could jeopardize his employment as a lobbyist, said the political risk for banning flavors seemed too high, given Republican control of Congress. The White House was worried about several Republican proposals that aimed to unravel the F.D.A.’s ability to regulate tobacco products. “We were very nervous about what would happen if we did this,” the former official said. “Would the Obama ‘nanny state’ criticism come in to play? Not all Senate Democrats were strong champions of those things. There had to be give.” The rule approved by the White House did set new requirements for the industry, including forbidding sales to minors and mandating the submission of ingredient lists by e-cigarette manufacturers. In 2017, the vaping landscape shifted again with Mr. Trump’s appointment of Dr. Gottlieb, who had served on the board of Kure, a chain of vaping lounges. Although he divested from Kure when he became the F.D.A. commissioner, Dr. Gottlieb held on to the idea that vaping could help adults quit smoking. Two months into his new job, he handed the e-cigarette industry the breathing room of a four-year extension to comply with the new rules as part of a broader package that appeared to straddle competing interests. He called for lowering nicotine in cigarettes to render them less addictive, while ensuring access to e-cigarettes and other alternatives for smokers trying to quit. Then, in 2018, new federal survey data showed that teen vaping had jumped sharply in the past year, driven by the popularity of Juul, and that more than three million American high school students had tried e-cigarettes. “It was just a horror show,” said Katy Talento, a former top health policy adviser to Mr. Trump on the Domestic Policy Council. After that, she said, “the calculus changed.” In an interview, Dr. Gottlieb said he then began lobbying the White House and lawmakers to win support for an e-cigarette crackdown. “I couldn’t outright ban the sale of e-cigarettes in convenience stores, because the law prohibited me from doing that,” he said. “And that’s where the kids were accessing the products.” The agency issued warning letters to companies that sold products that appealed to youth, and began an investigation into whether Juul had illegally marketed to young people and marketed products as smoking cessation devices. In November 2018, Juul responded by discontinuing sales of most of its flavors to retail shops, with the exception of mint and menthol. But Juul also brought its lobbyists to the White House numerous times, to argue that restrictions would hurt cigarette smokers who wanted to quit. “I had to work harder to make the arguments,” Dr. Gottlieb said. “I spilled a lot of blood on this issue.” Last fall, Juul dispatched the lobbyist Tevi Troy, a former Bush administration health official, and others to make the company’s case at the White House, and tried to temper outrage over whether it had played a role in the rise of youth vaping. Ms. Talento, the former Trump health adviser, said a generational split became apparent between younger White House health staff members who did not have teenagers, and “the uncool 40-somethings” — like her — who did. “We were like, ‘It’s not working,’” she said. “They may have expected a warmer reception,” she said of Juul’s team. Several federal and state inquiries into its marketing practices have put Juul on the defensive, and it is leaning more heavily on the regulatory expertise of Altria, which has a 35 percent stake in the company. Last month, Juul replaced its chief executive Kevin Burns with a top Altria executive, K.C. Crosthwaite. It has dropped its biggest marketing campaign and said it would discontinue its efforts to overturn an e-cigarette ban in San Francisco. Soon after Juul stopped stocking retail shelves with its flavor pods, the F.D.A. announced it would require retailers to wall off such e-cigarette products from minors — a watered-down version of more severe actions threatened by Dr. Gottlieb. But those plans have drawn considerable opposition from retailers, conservative groups and businesses. Last month, after Dr. Sharpless and Alex M. Azar II, the secretary of health and human services, told White House officials that new figures showed teen vaping had increased again, they said they would draft the proposed ban on most flavored e-cigarettes. “We can’t allow people to get sick,” the president said, with his wife Melania at his side in the Oval Office. “And we can’t have our youth be so affected.” Mr. Trump recently tweeted that he liked “the vaping alternative to cigarettes” but wanted to keep young children from using the products. Some states and cities have stepped in. Massachusetts has halted sales of all vaping products for four months, and other states, including Michigan, Rhode Island, Washington, Oregon and New York, have imposed flavor bans or taken steps to do so. And several major retailers, including Walmart, Walgreens and others, have said they would stop selling e-cigarettes altogether. Efforts to track the cause of the lung illnesses have been hampered by the fact that THC-based products largely fall into a regulatory vacuum, and relaxed laws in many states have enabled an illicit trade. While marijuana is still illegal at the federal level, nearly three dozen states permit medicinal use, and 11 states and the District of Columbia have fully legalized it. The F.D.A.’s authority over THC is considered a gray area of law. A handful of cannabis-derived drugs have been approved, and the F.D.A. is talking to other agencies about expanding its reach. Nearly 1,300 people, disproportionately young, have been sickened from vaping THC, nicotine or both. At least 29 have died. 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But the U.S. shouldn’t draw any comfort from this given the rapid technological advances in the North’s nuclear and missile programs over the last few years. Haley warns North Korea: You will be "utterly destroyed" if war breaks out https://t.co/8emkqLMRRW pic.twitter.com/91UVA2xPcL The left typically reacted to North Korea’s latest missile test by insisting that tensions can only be resolved with negotiations and sanctions. This includes The New York Times, which made the delusional claim in a Nov. 29 editorial that North Korea’s recent nuclear and missile developments may be “a sign of hope” for diplomacy. Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE also is urging negotiations and made the ludicrous statement during a visit to China that “Beijing should remember that inaction is a choice as well.” Clinton must have forgotten that the Obama administration’s inaction toward North Korea is why its nuclear and missile programs surged to the dangerous levels they are at today. These naive views ignore two fundamental truths about North Korea’s nuclear program. First, Pyongyang has never negotiated with the U.S. in good faith and has repeatedly violated nuclear agreements. North Korea is waiting for the moment when its missile and nuclear tests once again lead to multilateral talks it can manipulate to extract huge concessions in exchange for commitments it has no intention of honoring. Pyongyang has done this many times over the past 25 years. President Trump is determined not to fall for this trap. Second, North Korea’s nuclear weapons program is not just a deterrent that the world can tolerate. The U.S. intelligence community believes North Korea may have 60 nuclear weapons. It possesses or is developing hydrogen bombs. Pyongyang also may be developing nuclear weapon-driven electromagnetic pulse weapons to destroy the U.S. power grid. North Korea’s huge missile arsenal includes ICBMs, solid-fueled intermediate-range missiles and cruise missiles. It also is developing submarine-launched missiles. JUST IN: Trump swipes at China: Envoy would returned from North Korea “had no impact” https://t.co/tSYiT0FvO9 pic.twitter.com/dWyS0fplH4 This is far more than a deterrence force to protect the Kim regime and stave off an attack by the United States — this is an offensive force that Pyongyang will eventually use to unite the Korean Peninsula by force on its terms and drive U.S. forces from the region. For this reason it is crucial that President Trump not kick the North Korea threat down the road like prior presidents did. Sen. Tom CottonThomas (Tom) Bryant CottonCongress must address gender gap in nominations to military service academies GOP senators press Google on reports it developed a smart speaker with Huawei Sunday shows - Mass shootings grab the spotlight MORE (R-Ark.) put this best when he said “kicking the can down the road has not worked, and we’re about to run out of road.” The Trump administration has taken the right approach to the North Korean threat by increasing sanctions, collaborating with our allies and pressing China and Russia to pressure Pyongyang before using military force. But it is now time for President Trump to consider limited military action to seize the initiative and demonstrate his resolve to solve this crisis. Military action should be carefully calibrated to send the message that the U.S. will no longer stand by while Pyongyang develops nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. This should start by declaring North Korean airspace as a missile no-fly zone and shooting down future North Korean missiles. The U.S. might need to ratchet up this response by destroying North Korean missiles on the ground. Other initial military action could include a naval blockade and stopping and searching North Korean ships at sea for WMD-related cargo. US, China held rare security meeting after North Korea missile launch: report https://t.co/Zmvh3PpOga pic.twitter.com/n2ts0c0Xhh The U.S. cannot be sure whether limited military action would result in North Korean retaliation and escalation. (More aggressive military action such as air strikes against nuclear and missile sites would almost certainly lead to this.) But limited military action is a risk worth taking since the alternative is conceding nuclear weapons and missiles to Pyongyang that it will one day use to take control of South Korea, attack Japan, drive U.S. forces from the region and possibly attack the United States. Limited military action against North Korea by the U.S. — or the prospect of this — could also motivate other nations to significantly increase their pressure on Pyongyang. This might even include China taking action to replace the Kim regime with a more stable, pro-Beijing government. There are no easy solutions to the North Korean mess that President Obama handed President Trump. Employing carefully calibrated military action now is dangerous, but it is the best of numerous bad options and the only one that might prevent the North from becoming an existential threat to the region and the United States before we “run out of road.” Fred Fleitz was chief of staff to Under Secretary of State John Bolton from 2001 to 2005. He served in national security positions for 25 years with the CIA, the DIA, the State Department and the House Intelligence Committee staff. He is now senior vice president of the Center for Security Policy. Follow him on Twitter @fredfleitz. View the discussion thread. The Hill 1625 K Street, NW Suite 900 Washington DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 tel | 202-628-8503 fax The contents of this site are ©2019 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc. | [
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000000112991 | (Adds move to revoke special rights; paragraphs 3-13) NEW DELHI, Aug 5 (Reuters) - India's government on Monday revoked the special status of Kashmir in a bid to fully integrate its only Muslim-majority region with the rest of the country, the most far-reaching move on the troubled Himalayan territory in nearly seven decades. Interior Minister Amit Shah told parliament the federal government would scrap Article 370, a constitutional provision that grants special status for disputed Kashmir and allows the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir to make its own laws. "The entire constitution will be applicable to Jammu and Kashmir state," Shah said, ending the state's rights to make its own laws. In a subsequent order, India's president approved the government's changes. The step would also mean revocation of a bar on property purchases by people from outside the state. Such plans have in the past provoked warnings of a backlash in Kashmir, which is claimed by both India and Pakistan. The law had also reserved state government jobs for residents, as well as college places, in an effort to keep the state from being overrun by people from the rest of India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party had pushed for an end to Kashmir's special constitutional status, arguing that such laws had hindered its integration with the rest of India. Political leaders in Kashmir had warned that repeal of the law would trigger widespread unrest. Since last year, Kashmir has been ruled by the Indian federal government, after Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) withdrew from a coalition there with a regional party. Monday's announcement came hours after authorities launched a clampdown in Kashmir by suspending telephone services and placing state leaders under house arrest. Telephone and internet services were suspended early on Monday, and state leaders wrote on Twitter that they had been put under house arrest. On Sunday, a meeting of regional parties had vowed to safeguard the region's special status, saying any move to scrap the privilege would amount to aggression against the people of the state. Tension had risen since Friday, when Indian officials issued an alert over possible militant attacks by Pakistan-based groups. Pakistan has rejected those assertions, but thousands of alarmed Indian tourists, pilgrims and workers streamed out of the region over the weekend. (Reporting by Aditya Kalra; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani and Clarence Fernandez) | [
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000000058886 | In the late 1970s, the BBC commissioned a TV series called Seven Artists (7 Parts) in which various creators speak about the production of a single art object. The final episode features iconic pop artist Edward Ruscha retrieving a damaged cardboard and papier-mâché "rock" from the Mojave desert in California. Ruscha then uses it to create a mold for a fiberglass replacement that he subsequently deposits back in the desert. The replacement rock is known as "Rocky II." That might sound like just another weird piece of art history, but when Pierre Bismuth—a Brussels-based artist known for reinterpreting artifacts and for helping write Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind—watched the film, his instinct was to ask: Where is 'Rocky II'? He eventually posited that question to Ruscha at the press launch for a retrospective of the American's work in London's Heyward Gallery in 2009. When Ruscha refused to answer, Bismuth, perhaps inspired by the American artist's infatuation with the contradictory and the illogical, decided to hire a private detective to explore the matter without telling him the gig would be part of a larger art project. He also asked screenwriters to pen a film based on the private eye's findings. Then, Bismuth began making a quasi-documentary about the hired screenwriters making a movie about the hired private detective who's been tasked to find this possibly-nonexistent art object. The weird and wonderful results, which blur the boundaries between what the real and unreal, are on offer in Bismuth's debut directorial effortWhere is Rocky II? presented by Art Basel in Locarno, Switzerland on August 9th. We got in touch with the director to discuss his strange exploration of an even stranger artwork. VICE: Have you ever seen Rocky II, the Sylvester Stallone film? You never discuss this in your movie!Pierre Bismuth: [laughs] That is a very good question. Did I see Rocky II? You know what, I'm not sure anymore, to be honest. I have seen some of the Rocky films—it's all mixed up now. I've probably seen it, but I didn't decide to watch it again before shooting my film because there is no real connection. Is Sylvester Stallone aware that there is a different Rocky II out there?Initially, we intended to have Stallone in the film. We wanted to have Michael Scott, the private detective, go to Stallone and ask if he knew that there was an art piece named after his film—at one stage, we even thought it would happen. This is the only single thing that I would have asked Scott to do, because most of the time, we didn't ask Scott anything, we just followed him. He would say, "I want to interview this person," and we would organize the interview. As for Stallone, his publicist was not against the idea, but it never quite worked out. It's good that you don't remember if you have seen Rocky II, because in your films, you like to play with the idea of memory. What is it about memory that you're so fascinated by?I suppose you're referring to Eternal Sunshine. I think I'm interested in how you build up a fiction, how you fictionalize events, and my belief is that you don't need to add anything strange or special to it. What I mean is that to fictionalize something is not to add some weird elements to a story, but rather it's just a normal product of remembering something. My idea is that you don't have to work so hard to create a fiction because everything you remember is already fictional. I think that is probably what interests me about memory: the way that it uses experience to create something new and unique. In both Eternal Sunshine and Rocky II you are clearly interested in the rewriting of history, too.Exactly, because I'm obsessed with the creative process. Where Is Rocky II? is very much about the creative process, how you accept an idea, and try to build on this. Without being too deep, I think the idea behind the film is to say that the private investigator and the screenwriter are more or less doing the same job, but they start from opposite directions, they meet in the middle, and then they separate again. The detective starts from hypothesis, he starts with fiction, he thinks that the artist took something precious and hid it in the desert for someone else. Whereas in the case of the screenwriter, they go in the opposite direction—most of them start with a real fact, they immerse themselves in real facts, they search, and then when they are in the context of what really happened, they start to build up their own understanding of that, as well as their understanding of something fictional. Are you a man of hypothesis or fact?I like to start from fact. I'm very bad at telling stories, for example. Even though you won an Oscar for screenwriting?Even Eternal Sunshine started from an anecdote I was told—I'm not a very imaginative person. My brain does not produce stories out of the blue; I need to start with something concrete and then I develop. I don't need much effort to develop, but I need to start with something that I've seen, heard, read, or something that I saw. I need that. Where did you start with Mike, the private detective? Did you know him before, or did you just call up any detective?When I decided to do the film, I went to LA and we did a casting. We basically saw 30 to 40 private investigators. The difficulty was in asking these people if they were interested in doing a film without telling them the whole story. That was the dynamic and the strategy of most of the film—to involve people without telling them what it was about. It was not so easy because [private detectives] are very different from what you imagine, and what you see in films. Mike is probably the character that is most like a detective you see in films. When you saw the BBC film, did you ever wonder if this was a fake movie, meaning that Ed Ruscha had participated in a documentary and made a joke about creating Rocky II the artwork?I never expected it to be a joke because it is a BBC documentary and I don't think the BBC can be that... I don't think the BBC would play that game unless it's by Monty Python. It was obvious that Ed was involved [in creating the documentary] because I know Ed Ruscha's work very well. It is clear that his aesthetic and his mind and his sense of humor are authentic in that documentary. You say that the film has two stories: the detective and the scriptwriter. But there is also your story and Ed's story. So you have four different truths running through it, no?True, but it depends on how you look at it. If you look at it as a documentary, it's very complicated to explain. If you look at it as a classic story, it's a very simple plot. It's a film director who needs to do a movie, so he pushed a private investigator on an impossible task in order to produce a series of events that he will use to write a story in order to make another film. So is this also an elaborate joke?I think the trick was to start as if it were a serious documentary and to do everything possible to believe it was a documentary. What we were doing here was basically using the material of a reality show and trying to elevate that kind of material to classic cinema. Was there anyone in the crew who said, "Let's just go to the Mojave desert and bang on some rocks until we find the missing artwork?"The scriptwriters wanted to do that, but the way the film was made was that after each day's shoot, in the evening, we would think about what had happened and what we would need to shoot next as a result. So the film was being written in real-time as we were shooting, and when the scriptwriters expressed their desire to go to the desert, we started to think about how this could happen. I much preferred the idea that they got there by writing and their imagination, rather than by physically showing them going there by car. In all your art pieces and in the gallery work, you seem to be a man who loves a conspiracy theory. You always want to take a sideways glance at something and say, how about if you look at it this way?[laughs] Why do you say this? I can see myself in that description, but I don't think I have the anxiety or the paranoia that comes with the idea of somebody interested in conspiracies. I don't believe there is one truth. If we go back to the beginning of our conversation, it's a question of how you remember something or how you, on the linguistic level, express ideas. I'm sure you have experiences that you try to explain something with some words, and you realize that if you rephrase it in a different way, the meaning is better and the idea is slightly different. Are any questions answered about 'Rocky II' the artwork, and what happens to the private detective at the end?Without revealing too much, I can say the mystery about 'Rocky II' is totally resolved at some point and to the great surprise of the detective. What happen to the detective in the end is much more open ended, but it is clear to me that he understood the value of his unusual journey and certainly encountered someone he could develop a friendship with. All of this is what really happened, and not something I ever intended to organize. I just saw it happen in front of the camera. The film is not only about 'Rocky II,' but also about all the things that happen on the way to find it. But the film could not happen without 'Rocky II' because this unusual object encapsulates or summarizes the tension between reality and fiction that is at the center of this quest. In that sense, 'Rocky II' is not a 100 percent Hitchockian McGuffin (like the suitcase in Pulp Fiction is, for example). The nature of the mysterious object everybody is after is important to know. 'Rocky II' is a fake rock, but not a fake target. I'd like to know what you hope the viewer gets out of the film.Where is Rocky II? is a journey into creativity. It is a film that shows from different points of view how creativity works and how potentially everybody is an artist. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. The European premiere of 'Where Is Rocky II?' will take place on August 9 at La Sala Theatre in Locarno, Switzerland. Follow Kaleem Aftab on Twitter. | [
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000000106593 | Global Health Farewell, carefree days of summer. The number of people getting diseases transmitted by mosquito, tick and flea bites has more than tripled in the United States in recent years, federal health officials reported on Tuesday. Since 2004, at least nine such diseases have been discovered or newly introduced here. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not suggest that Americans drop plans for softball games or hammock snoozes. But officials emphasized that it’s increasingly important for everyone — especially children — to be protected from outdoor pests with bug repellent. New tickborne diseases like Heartland virus are showing up in the continental United States, even as cases of Lyme disease and other established infections are growing. On island territories like Puerto Rico, the threat is mosquitoes carrying viruses like dengue and Zika. Warmer weather is an important cause of the surge, according to the lead author of a study published in the C.D.C.’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. But the author, Dr. Lyle R. Petersen, the agency’s director of vector-borne diseases, declined to link the increase to the politically fraught issue of climate change, and the report does not mention climate change or global warming. Many other factors are at work, he emphasized, including increased jet travel and a lack of vaccines. “The numbers on some of these diseases have gone to astronomical levels,” Dr. Petersen added. C.D.C. officials called for more support for state and local health departments. Local agencies “are our first line of defense,” said Dr. Robert Redfield, the new director at the agency, which is facing its own deep budget cuts. “We must enhance our investment in their ability to fight these diseases.” Although state and local health departments get brief infusions of cash during health scares like the Zika epidemic in 2016, they are chronically underfunded. A recent survey of mosquito control agencies found that 84 percent needed help with such basics as surveillance and testing for resistance to pesticides, Dr. Petersen said. [READ: Tips for Protecting Yourself Against Mosquitoes and Ticks] Between 2004 and 2016, about 643,000 cases of 16 insect-borne illnesses were reported to the C.D.C. — 27,000 a year in 2004, rising to 96,000 by 2016. (The year 2004 was chosen as a baseline because the agency began requiring more detailed reporting then.) The real case numbers were undoubtedly far larger, Dr. Petersen said. For example, the C.D.C. estimates that about 300,000 Americans get Lyme disease each year, but only about 35,000 diagnoses are reported. The study did not delve into the reasons for the increase, but Dr. Petersen said it was probably caused by many factors, including two related to weather: ticks thriving in regions previously too cold for them, and hot spells triggering outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases. Other factors, he said, include expanded human travel, suburban reforestation and a dearth of new vaccines to stop outbreaks. More jet travel from the tropics means that previously obscure viruses like dengue and Zika are moving long distances rapidly in human blood. (By contrast, malaria and yellow fever are thought to have reached the Americas on slave ships three centuries ago.) A good example, Dr. Petersen said, was chikungunya, which causes joint pain so severe that it is called “bending-up disease.” In late 2013, a Southeast Asian strain arrived on the Dutch Caribbean island of St. Maarten, its first appearance in this hemisphere. Within one year, local transmission had occurred everywhere in the Americas except Canada, Chile, Peru and Bolivia. Tickborne diseases, the report found, are rising steadily in the Northeast, the Upper Midwest and California. Ticks spread Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, rabbit fever, Powassan virus and other ills, some of them only recently discovered. Ticks need deer or rodents as their main blood hosts, and those have increased as forests in suburbs have gotten thicker, deer hunting has waned, and rodent predators like foxes have disappeared. [READ: Lyme Disease’s Worst Enemy? It Might Be Foxes] (A century ago, the Northeast had fewer trees than it now does; forests made a comeback as farming shifted west and firewood for heating was replaced by coal, oil and gas.) Most disease outbreaks related to mosquitoes since 2004 have been in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and American Samoa. But West Nile virus, which arrived in 1999, now appears unpredictably across the country; Dallas, for example, saw a big outbreak in 2012. For most of these diseases, there are no vaccines and no treatment, so the only way to fight back is through mosquito control, which is expensive and rarely stops outbreaks. Miami, for instance, was the only city in the Western Hemisphere to halt a Zika outbreak with pesticides. The only flea-borne disease mentioned in the C.D.C. report is plague, the bacterium responsible for the medieval Black Death. It remains rare but persistent: Between two and 17 cases were reported from 2004 to 2016, mostly in the Southwest. The infection can be cured with antibiotics. Dr. Nicholas Watts, a global health specialist at University College London and co-author of a major 2017 report on climate change and health, said warmer weather is spreading disease in many wealthy countries, not just the United States. In Britain, he said, tick diseases are expanding as summers lengthen, and malaria is becoming more common in the northern reaches of Australia. But Paul Reiter, a medical entomologist at the Pasteur Institute, has argued that some environmentalists exaggerate the disease threats posed by climate change. The 2003-2014 period fell during what he described as “a pause” in global warming, although the notion is disputed by other experts. Still, the dynamics of disease transmission are complicated, and driven by more than temperature. For example, transmission of West Nile virus requires that certain birds be present, too. In the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s, St. Louis encephalitis, a related virus, surged, “and it looked like climate issues were involved,” Dr. Reiter said. But the increase turned out to depend more on varying hot-cold and wet-dry spells and the interplay of two different mosquito species. St. Louis encephalitis virtually disappeared, weather notwithstanding. “It’s a complicated, multidimensional system,” Dr. Reiter said. A. Marm Kilpatrick, a disease ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said many factors beside hot weather were at work in the United States, including “a hump-shaped relationship between temperature and transmission potential.” Warm weather helps mosquitoes and ticks breed and transmit disease faster, he explained. But after a certain point, the hotter and drier it gets, the more quickly the pests die. So disease transmission to humans peaks somewhere between mildly warm and hellishly hot weather. 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000000068061 | THE REFUGEE CONVENTION says that states should do “everything within their power to prevent [refugees] from becoming a cause of tension” between them. They have manifestly failed. Chaotic flows set governments against one another. Countries hosting lots of refugees bitterly resent the rest of the world for failing to do its bit. Refugees, bar the lucky few who have made it to developed countries, are increasingly locked in limbo, wards of a system run by NGOs that offers them no hope of building a meaningful life. That does not mean the world should rip up the convention and start again, as some urge. A tapestry of international law has been woven around the idea that there is a specific class of people who deserve the protection of states other than their own. Starting from scratch is more likely to undermine that idea than expand on it. A legal definition of refugees is needed to secure consent in countries that protect them. Without it the right to asylum, and the prospect of resettlement, will evaporate. Upgrade your inbox and get our Daily Dispatch and Editor's Picks. Instead, suggests James Hathaway of the University of Michigan, view the convention as a beautiful house with a worn carpet. It needs renovation, not reconstruction. That means two things. First, recognition that refugees will eventually need more than humanitarian protection. Second, a new compact between the rich world, which has the resources to manage the problem, and the poor, which bears the brunt of it. Countries like Lebanon and Kenya are providing a global good and deserve more help. The starting point must be a new approach to protracted situations to place integration at the heart of refugee policy. That does not mean giving refugees immediate citizenship rights (although in due course they should be offered to some). The possibility of a return home should never be blocked off. But over time, granting refugees a degree of self-determination can reduce the distressing waste of human potential in places like Dadaab, and reduce friction between refugees and their hosts. For too long Western politicians have been profusely thanking refugee-hosting countries for their generosity while chastising them for not allowing their guests to work or move around freely. Such hypocrisy has not gone unnoticed in the developing world. So in a related change, the West should introduce long-term development thinking into refugee policy, the better to align the interests of refugees with those of the communities that host them. Some refugee aid should be shifted from humanitarian agencies to development budgets, politically difficult though that might be. The World Bank has already changed its rules to help middle-income countries facing large refugee burdens. Individual rich countries, or clubs of them, could offer trade preferences to countries with large refugee populations, as they do for the world’s poorest. But governments are not the only actors. Jordan’s economic zones show how the private sector may be encouraged to help both locals and refugees. Managing the world’s stock of refugees is one thing; dealing with sudden flows from conflict areas that can strain economies, infrastructure and social cohesion is another. Countries like Lebanon and Jordan, dealt a poor hand by geography, should not be left to cope on their own. It is impossible to tell where or when the next wave of displacement will appear, but educated guesses can be made. The UNHCR is worried about women and children fleeing gangs in Central America and heading for the United States. In north-east Nigeria Boko Haram has displaced 2.2m people. The Middle East is as flammable as ever. And other potential sources of large population shifts loom, notably climate change, which might generate fresh waves of migration as arable land degrades and water scarcity leads to conflict and flight. Help from the rich world should begin with the traditional responses: more resettlement and more help for humanitarian bodies. Acutely overstretched countries should be given particular support. David Miliband, head of the International Rescue Committee, a humanitarian group, wants rich countries to accept 10% of the world’s refugees, concentrating on the most vulnerable. More money is needed, too. Last year the UNHCR was able to meet only half the needs it had budgeted for, and several of its projects were left massively underfunded. But fresh thinking is also needed to help countries avoid sinking into protracted situations. Places like Lebanon should not have to hold out the begging bowl at hastily convened donor conferences every year or two. Agencies have learned to move equipment and personnel near conflict zones in preparation for a wave of refugees. An expanded global fund for displacement, overseen by an independent authority that can spring into action when required, would make such planning and response easier. Governments might prefer the predictability of regularly paying into a fund to ad hoc donor events. And once refugee problems turn from acute to chronic, the response should shift from humanitarian to development. The International Organisation for Migration, which may soon be folded into the UN, could help match global migration supply and demand as part of a tighter international migration regime. But global governance has its limits. The international system is prone to inertia and turf wars. The UNHCR, the traditional guardian of the rules governing refugee movements, no longer carries the clout it once did, and may find it difficult to embrace fresh approaches to protection. So the political energy for change will have to come from governments, often acting together. The next American president, if so inclined, might encourage a rethink of the global protection scheme, perhaps with the help of a new UN secretary-general. The new approach should work with the grain of international politics. Bilateral relationships often yield better results than sluggish international bodies can offer. Spain’s deals with West African countries such as Senegal, which combine police and patrol co-operation, repatriation deals and lots of aid, slashed illegal immigration some years ago. Some countries will be well placed to accept particular refugee groups because of historical or colonial ties, as in the successful resettlement in Britain of the Ugandan Indians expelled by Idi Amin in 1972. Rich countries seeking to plug particular gaps in their labour markets might be encouraged to take in refugees. All these changes would make it clearer that legal responsibilities to refugees cannot be separated from politics. Too often national politicians and international officials talk past each other: accusations of xenophobia fly in one direction, dismissals of starry-eyed idealism in the other. In the West, the first principles of international refugee law are wearily revisited every time numbers surge. Migration is an intrinsically ambivalent business, both for the governments that must manage it and for the migrants themselves Lawyers and NGOs need to accept that the treaties and rules they cherish will wither without the continued consent of the democracies that drew them up. Politicians, for their part, should acknowledge that aid agencies manage a problem they would otherwise struggle to keep a lid on. The disorderly flows into Europe last year were the outcome of a problem allowed to fester. “Refugees are convincing governments of the need to act,” says Mr Grandi of the UNHCR. If nothing is done, “they will come anyway.” European leaders no doubt regret having paid so little attention to illegal migration until a year ago. Many fear the next wave, from Libya, Turkey or even Russia. A pre-emptive approach might be seen as a form of insurance. So there is a strong case for Europe leading the way. But first the EU must get its own house in order, using the breathing space that the deal with Turkey has granted (provided it holds). Rather than squabbling about plans drawn up in Brussels to spread refugees around member countries, it should think about different ways in which countries may contribute, be it in cash or in kind. There is a case for generating common resources to manage this common problem, whether by issuing bonds, as Italy has proposed, or through a new tax, as Germany might prefer. At the same time the EU must continue its slow trudge towards a harmonised asylum system. 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000000011309 | (CNN)Let's start out with the caveat that President Donald Trump's Republicans control the entire federal government, so none of this is going to happen short of a mass rebellion against the President by his own party. Until that happens, the following is a purely academic discussion. But it is completely fascinating. With that out of the way... The fabulous Googlers of the Washington press corps and political class were searching for the 25th Amendment this week after reading an anonymously sourced piece by Gabe Sherman in Vanity Fair that was sensationally headlined: "'I hate everyone in the White House!' Trump seethes as advisers fear the President is 'unraveling'". The piece begins with mention of Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker's broadside warning of his fear that Trump could march the country into World War III, comments he made to The New York Times, and that some of the members of Trump's national security team were essentially "adult day care." Sherman's piece ends with the anonymously sourced description of an exchange between Trump and strategist Steve Bannon, who has since been fired from the White House, although the two are thought to remain politically simpatico. Here's that portion: "Even before Corker's remarks, some West Wing advisers were worried that Trump's behavior could cause the Cabinet to take extraordinary Constitutional measures to remove him from office. Several months ago, according to two sources with knowledge of the conversation, former chief strategist Steve Bannon told Trump that the risk to his presidency wasn't impeachment, but the 25th Amendment -- the provision by which a majority of the Cabinet can vote to remove the president. When Bannon mentioned the 25th Amendment, Trump said, "What's that?" According to a source, Bannon has told people he thinks Trump has only a 30 percent chance of making it the full term." Again, that's anonymously sourced material and it hasn't been verified by CNN. But how intriguing! For either people who are worried about efforts to remove the President from office or those who'd love to see him leave, it's worth knowing the facts. There are plenty of scholarly articles on the 25th Amendment. This one from Brookings describes the process as "more difficult" than impeachment. Impeachment requires an investigation by a House committee of "high crimes and misdemeanors," a vote in the House, a trial in the Senate and a super majority vote there in order to remove a President from office. There's no requirement of a crime to be committed to invoke the 25th Amendment. Rather, the President's colleagues must simply deem him unable to do his job with a simple vote by the Cabinet and vice president. The Vanity Fair story, by the way, was released on the same day that Rep. Al Green introduced an impeachment resolution in the House (which has zero chance of passing). Regardless, the story sparked an immediate discussion of the 25th Amendment, which was enacted in 1967 in the years after the Kennedy assassination and clarifies presidential and vice presidential succession. Three of its sections have been invoked. Section 1, in 1973 when Richard Nixon left office and Gerald Ford became President. Section 2, when Gerald Ford used it to bring Nelson Rockefeller on as his Vice President. Section 3, periodically when the President undergoes a medical procedure. But the final section, Section IV, contains provisions for a dire emergency. Here's that portion in full: Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office. Putting that into plainer English, the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet (or some other body determined by Congress), can tell the leaders of the House and Senate the President is unfit for duty and the vice president -- in this case Mike Pence -- takes over. The President can disagree with them, sure, and try to get his powers back. But if a majority of the Cabinet (or some other body determined by Congress) stays strong and says he's unfit to do the job, then it's up to Congress. Super majorities would have to ratify the suggestion of the Cabinet and vice president, who at that point would be acting president, or else the President would take back over. It seems hard to believe that two-thirds of both chambers, which are controlled by Republicans, would vote to depose the Republican President, but by even considering this 25th Amendment option we're so far into a maze of hypotheticals, why not just go with it? Imagine the US being in such straits that Pence, in the role of Brutus here, organizes this mutiny and that all these people Trump appointed join forces against him. Anti-Trump Republican super majorities don't seem so crazy in that very unlikely light. The 25th Amendment option is a paranoid conspiracy theory extraordinaire that puts the notion of a deep state -- a favorite of Bannon's -- to shame. In this case, the Deep State is Trump's own Cabinet. On the other hand, Trump has used some very tough love on some of his Cabinet secretaries of late. He said he regretted picking Attorney General Jeff Sessions, challenged Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to an IQ test after reports that Tillerson called him a moron. Then said he was kidding! Just for kicks, here's the full list of 24 Cabinet officials, with two acting heads at HHS (Tom Price was pushed out) and DHS (John Kelly became his chief of staff after Reince Priebus was fired): Vice President Michael R. Pence Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin Secretary of Defense James Mattis Attorney General Jeff Sessions Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue Secretary of Commerce Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Benjamin S. Carson, Sr. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao Secretary of Energy James Richard Perry Secretary of Education Elisabeth Prince DeVos Secretary of Veterans Affairs David J. Shulkin Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke Acting Secretary of Health and Human Services Don J. Wright White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats Representative of the United States to the United Nations Nikki Haley Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Mike Pompeo Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt Administrator of the Small Business Administration Linda E. McMahon There are plenty of organizations and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who have raised questions about Trump's fitness to perform his duties. The New York Times editorial board, as one example, called on Congress Thursday to pass legislation that would denude him of the ability to launch a unilateral nuclear strike. 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Yes, Joe Biden really walked on stage to the Rocky theme song. — VICE News (@vicenews)July 28, 2016 -After delivering a series of one-liners that mocked Trump, Biden quieted the crowd to talk about what's at stake in this year's election. "Let me talk about something that I'm deadly serious about. This is a complicated and uncertain world we live in," he said. "The threats are too great, the times are too uncertain, to elect Donald Trump as president of the United States." Joe Biden: 'No major party nominee in the history of this nation has ever known less or has been less prepared.'— VICE News (@vicenews)July 28, 2016 -One of the more strategic speeches of the night came from former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, who delivered a highly anticipated endorsement of Clinton. The now-independent politician, who left the Democratic party before running for mayor in 2001 as a Republican, spoke to undecided and independent voters. 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Professor HeidelTime
Professor HeidelTime is a project to create a multilingual corpus weakly labeled with HeidelTime, a temporal tagger.
Corpus Details
The weak labeling was performed in six languages. Here are the specifics of the corpus for each language:
| Dataset | Language | Documents | From | To | Tokens | Timexs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All the News 2.0 | EN | 24,642 | 2016-01-01 | 2020-04-02 | 18,755,616 | 254,803 |
| Italian Crime News | IT | 9,619 | 2011-01-01 | 2021-12-31 | 3,296,898 | 58,823 |
| German News Dataset | DE | 33,266 | 2003-01-01 | 2022-12-31 | 21,617,888 | 348,011 |
| ElMundo News | ES | 19,095 | 2005-12-02 | 2021-10-18 | 12,515,410 | 194,043 |
| French Financial News | FR | 24,293 | 2017-10-19 | 2021-03-19 | 1,673,053 | 83,431 |
| Público News | PT | 27,154 | 2000-11-14 | 2002-03-20 | 5,929,377 | 111,810 |
Contact
For more information, reach out to Hugo Sousa at [email protected].
This framework is a part of the Text2Story project. This project is financed by the ERDF – European Regional Development Fund through the North Portugal Regional Operational Programme (NORTE 2020), under the PORTUGAL 2020 and by National Funds through the Portuguese funding agency, FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia within project PTDC/CCI-COM/31857/2017 (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-03185).
Cite
If you use this work, please cite the following paper:
@inproceedings{10.1145/3583780.3615130,
author = {Sousa, Hugo and Campos, Ricardo and Jorge, Al\'{\i}pio},
title = {TEI2GO: A Multilingual Approach for Fast Temporal Expression Identification},
year = {2023},
isbn = {9798400701245},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3583780.3615130},
doi = {10.1145/3583780.3615130},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management},
pages = {5401–5406},
numpages = {6},
keywords = {temporal expression identification, multilingual corpus, weak label},
location = {Birmingham, United Kingdom},
series = {CIKM '23}
}
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