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Prince Andrew heckler thrown to ground and arrested during Royal Mile procession Monday 12 September 2022, 5:10pm The King, the Princess Royal and the Duke of York escorting their mother's coffin in Edinburgh. Credit: PA A man has been arrested after shouting abuse at Prince Andrew while he was following the Queen's hearse up the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. The King led the procession of his mother's coffin and was accompanied by his sister the Princess Royal and his brothers the Dukes of York and Wessex. The coffin was taken from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to nearby St Giles’ Cathedral where the monarch's family, and a congregation drawn from all areas of Scottish society, will attend a service of thanksgiving for her life. The moment the heckler started shouting at Prince Andrew Thousands lined the streets and applauded as the Queen was taken from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to the cathedral where her family, and a congregation drawn from all areas of Scottish society, attended a service of thanksgiving for her life.One of the members of the crowd shouted at Prince Andrew as the procession walked past. He could be heard shouting: "Andrew you're a sick old man." Other members of the crowd drowned out the heckling by chanting "God Save the King." A video of the incident showed the man being pulled to the ground by members of the public and a policeman. The heckler then shouted "disgusting" as he was escorted away by police. A spokesperson for Police Scotland said: "A 22-year old man was arrested in connection with a breach of the peace on the Royal Mile around 2.50pm on Monday, 12 September 2022." None of the people taking part in the procession appeared to acknowledge the heckler. Prince Andrew has been out of the public spotlight since he was stripped of most of his titles in January. Thousands came out to see the hearse travel to St Giles' Catherdral. Credit: PA His association with the late Jeffrey Epstein and convicted trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell led to him being at the centre of a royal scandal. In February he agreed to settle a civil case in New York brought by Virginia Guiffre who accused Prince Andrew of allegedly sexually assaulting her when she was 17 years old - a minor under US law. The final settlement was not revealed to the public but it is believed to be more than 10 million dollars. The remarkable life of the Queen remembered in our latest episode of What You Need To Know How many people say they have seen or met the Queen? Prince Andrew has consistently denied ever meeting Guiffre and has distanced himself from his relationship with Maxwell and Epstein. The Duke of York is expected to be back in military uniform for the final vigil around the Queen’s coffin during the lying in state, but not for the state funeral or other ceremonial elements in the coming days.It is not expected he will return to active royal duties during his brother's reign. King vows to 'faithfully follow' Queen's example in first address to Parliament Queen's Lying in State: What you can and cannot bring and how to behave A lookback at the last time the nation witnessed a royal Lying in State

AOL tests open source browser, server software Matt Berger America Online Inc. (AOL) is undergoing a taste test of several open-source software products to run various parts of its Internet service, a move seen by some as the beginning of its shift away from Microsoft Corp.’s Web-browsing software and from Unix on its servers. The company, a subsidiary of AOL Time Warner Inc., last week began testing new software to run the Web browser that accompanies its AOL Internet service software, said Jim Whitney, a company spokesman. Employing technology developed by its subsidiary Netscape Communications Corp. and by open-source software contributors, AOL has shipped a test version of its AOL Internet-service software without browser technology formerly provided by AOL rival Microsoft. The AOL Internet service-software is the software used by AOL subscribers to connect to the Internet and access the proprietary AOL Internet service. The browser in this test version of the AOL software is powered by what is known as the “Gecko” engine, which is the technology responsible for allowing Web pages to be displayed in a browser. The Gecko engine is being tested with version 7.0 of the AOL Internet-service software and takes the place of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. “It is technology that we’ve continued to develop over the past few years,” Whitney said. In addition to powering the Netscape browser since Version 6.1, Gecko is also at the core of an open source Web browser called Mozilla. With a number of Netscape programmers contributing to that project, the Mozilla browser is gaining steam as a popular browser, and is included in such desktop software packages as Red Hat Inc.’s Linux operating system distribution. It is too early to tell whether AOL is considering making a full-blown switch to the Gecko engine, Whitney said. If it did, the move would bring an end to another aspect of AOL’s rocky relationship with Microsoft . In June, the companies ended a years-long deal in which AOL used Internet Explorer as its default browser in order to have Microsoft place AOL’s Internet service-software icon on the Windows operating system desktop. Netscape has also filed a private antitrust suit against Microsoft, related to the U.S. government’s antitrust case against the software maker. While the switch from Internet Explorer to Gecko would make a notable mark in the relationship of the two companies, the change in AOL’s Internet Service software will not likely be noticed by users, Whitney said. “We try to make our technology pretty invisible,” he said. In addition to its test work replacing its browser technology with software developed by the open source community, the Internet company is also installing Linux software on its servers, Whitney said. Most of the servers running AOL’s back-end systems run Unix, an operating system that has long been capable of handling the heavy traffic and providing the computing power necessary for managing large corporate computer systems. Rumors have surfaced that AOL’s foray into the Linux world may be due to some technical help from Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat. Reports of various dealmaking between Red Hat and AOL have come up in the past — once in January when the Washington Post reported that AOL could be in talks to acquire the Linux vendor. “If a deal were to be struck between Red Hat and AOL, (a service contract) is the most likely form it would take,” said Brent Williams, a research analyst with New York investment bank McDonald Investments Inc. In January, Williams authored a research note titled “RHAT Bought by AOL? Before or After Space Aliens Bear Elvis’ Love Child,” joining the chorus of executives and analysts who doubted a takeover bid. Whitney would not comment on whether or not AOL was entering into a services relationship with Red Hat but said that such a deal would not be inconceivable. “We do relationships of all kinds,” he said. “To Red Hat it would be a decent contract.” In an interview last week, Red Hat’s chief technology officer Michael Tiemann was also tight lipped about AOL as a possible Red Hat customer. However, he said the company will announce earnings for the fiscal fourth quarter 2001 on Tuesday, a forum where Red Hat typically announces major customer wins. “If there is anything to announce that is when we typically report our latest enterprise news and key customers,” Tiemann said. Oracle preps 9i for IBM mainframe Linux systems Arthur Andersen in merger talks with KPMG Government of Canada announces funding for training to help Canadians improve digital skills Breaking News: CFIB confirms data up for sale was stolen from the association Michelin announces multi million dollar investment in Nova Scotia plants

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Patti Austin, Marc Secara & Berlin Jazz Orchestra Wed, 27.4.2016 Handel Hall (Halle/S.) 11th Women-in-Jazz Festival (23.4.-1.5.) In its eleventh edition, the festival is entitled "Atlantic Crossing" and focuses on female jazz musicians from North America and Northern Europe: singers such as Holly Cole, Ellen Andrea Wang or Julia Biel as well as instrumentalists such as Ingrid Jensen, Geri Allen or Karin Hammar come to the Saale from the USA, Canada, Norway, Great Britain and Sweden. The festival project "Atlantic Crossing" will be presented on three major concert evenings at the Halle Opera House. In addition, the festival takes a look back. With Irène Schweizer and Grammy winner Patti Austin, two exceptional female jazz musicians are invited who have had a strong influence on jazz in the past decades. There is no need to find out more about the opening concert - it is already sold out. But the final concert is all the more worthwhile, because for the first time there will be a dance project with the Armstrong Jazz Dance Company. In addition, there will be a supporting program with a jazz stamp (!) and photo exhibition, and much more. Patti Austin (voc), Marc Secara (voc), Jiggs Whigham (lead), Jonas Schoen (sax), Nico Lohmann (sax), Patrick Braun (sax), Thomas Walter Maria (sax), Nik Leistle (sax), Dan Colette (tp), Martin Gerwig (tp), Jürgen Hahn (tp), Nikolaus Neuser (tp), Christoph Hermann (tb), Ralf Zickerick (tb), Simon Harrer (tb), Arne Fischer (tb), Claus-Dieter Bandorf (p), Jeanfrançois Prins (g), Ralph Gräßler (b) and Tobias Backhaus (dr).

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Understanding Your Risk of Mesothelioma Mesothelioma is a vicious type of cancer that most commonly attacks the membrane lining of the lungs, but it can also affect the heart and other areas of the body. Currently, there is no cure for mesothelioma. The people most at risk for developing mesothelioma are those who work in industries that use the building material asbestos. Eighty percent of all mesothelioma cases can be directly linked to asbestos exposure. Commonly affected professions include construction workers, plumbers, asbestos miners, military personnel, ship builders, and car mechanics. Some people are exposed to asbestos through their environment when asbestos laced products breakdown in buildings. When asbestos is present in the environment and inhaled, the fine particles lodge in the lining of the lungs and settle there. Statistically, between two and 10 percent of people who are exposed to asbestos at some point develop mesothelioma in their lungs later in life. A secondary risk factor for developing mesothelioma is smoking. Although smoking is not a direct causal factor, smokers who are exposed to asbestos have double the risk of mesothelioma and increased risk of asbestos lung cancer by as much as 50 to 90 percent. It is possible that smoking creates the conditions that make it easier for asbestos to become embedded in the lung lining, leading to inflammation. Other secondary less common causes of mesothelioma are polio vaccines, radiation from X-rays, and exposure to zeolites, simian virus 40 (SV 40) and erionite. Asbestos was Commonplace Between 1940 and 1978, asbestos was widely in use in many different forms, though after the toxic nature of asbestos was discovered, it was banned for general use. According to the National Institute of Health (NIH), it is possible that as many as 11 million people have been exposed to asbestos. Even now in the United States people are still being exposed, putting them at risk of developing mesothelioma. Mesothelioma takes many years to show up in the body – symptoms may first appear as many as 20 to 50 years after exposure occurs. There are four different types of mesothelioma, and pleural mesothelioma, which affects the lungs, is the most common type. Between 70 and 90 percent of all mesothelioma cases are pleural. Between 10 and 30 percent of cases are stomach or peritoneal mesothelioma. Cases affecting the heart, known as pericardial mesothelioma, comprise approximately one percent of all cases. Testicular mesothelioma is very rare and accounts for less than one percent of cases. Because of the direct link between asbestos and mesothelioma, experts advise that there is no level of asbestos exposure that is considered safe and acceptable. Delaware Mesothelioma Lawyers at Jacobs & Crumplar, P.A. Fight for Victims of Asbestos Exposure If you or someone you love has developed mesothelioma after asbestos exposure in the workplace, we can help. The Delaware mesothelioma lawyers at Jacobs & Crumplar, P.A. have a proven track record helping workers suffering from mesothelioma and other asbestos-related diseases. Call us today at 302-656-5445 to schedule a free consultation about your case, or contact us online. From our offices in Wilmington and Georgetown, we serve clients throughout upstate and downstate Delaware.

Marie Chibirka d. July 24, 2018 Marie (Kazmierski) Chibirka, 88, of West Abington Twp., died peacefully on Tuesday at Regional Hospital of Scranton. She was the wife of the late Joseph T. Chibirka. The couple had been married since Oct. 25, 1952. Born June 18, 1930, in Scranton, the daughter of the late Bernard and Emily (Minich) Kazmierski, Marie was a 1948 graduate of Scott High School and worked as a PNC loans specialist. She enjoyed cooking, canning and completing crosswords; but, most of all, she enjoyed spending time with her family. Surviving are four sons, Joseph of Duncansville, James of Dalton, Martin (Jean Law) of Dalton and John Chibirka (Kathleen Scoboria) of Wernersville; three daughters, Marylou Chibirka of Dalton, Rosemarie Bailey (Tim) of Conway, Ark., and Teresa Spence of Tampa, Fla.; two brothers, Bernard Kazmierski Jr. (Martha) of Seminole, Fla. and Daniel Kazmierski (Dee) of Scranton; two sisters, Audrey Lehnert of Clarks Summit and Alice Sokoloski (Edward) of Justus; 15 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; many nieces and nephews. The funeral will be Saturday with a Mass of Christian Burial at 9:30 a.m. at Our Lady of the Snows, 301 S. State St., Clarks Summit, to be celebrated by the Rev. Edward J. Casey. Interment will be in St. Joseph Cemetery, Scott Twp. The family will receive relatives and friends Friday from 5 to 7 at the Jennings-Calvey Funeral and Cremation Service Inc., 111 Colburn Ave., Clarks Summit. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Padre Pio Chapel of Our Lady of the Abingtons and St. Patrick Parishes 700 West Main Street Dalton PA 18414. 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Friday, July 27, 2018 9:30 am - 10:30 am Saturday, July 28, 2018 11:00 am - 11:15 am Saturday, July 28, 2018 St. Joseph Cemetery - Scott Twp. 704 Montdale Road Scott Township, Pennsylvania, United States To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Marie Chibirka, please visit our flower store.

Jersey Water comments on the (draft) Island Plan September 2009 Section 2 – Natural Environment – Coastal National Park We note that the proposal for a Coastal National Park includes the area where Val de la Mare Reservoir is located. This reservoir is the second largest surface water storage reservoir on the Island and is essential for the maintenance of adequate water supply for the […] Continue Reading -> Jersey Water announces package of measures to meet future demands on water resources Jersey Water has today (04 March) launched its plans for managing the Island’s water resources for the next 25 years, as well as announcing no tariff increase for 2010. As the Island potentially faces future water shortages – with a widening gap between the demand for water and water available for use – the Company […] La Motte Street closed for 4 weeks La Motte Street will be closed for 4 weeks from 8 March 2010 to enable works on behalf of Jersey Water and the Transport and Technical Services Department (TTS). Jersey Water will be upgrading and renewing the existing water main with TTS carrying out resurfacing works on completion. The two organisations have worked closely together […] Roadworks – Havre des Pas from Monday 15th February to Wednesday 3rd March 2010

Drexel Judaic Studies Reflects on 20 Years Selah Maya Zighelboim Drexel University Judaic Studies students listen to Bezalel Academy artist Eran Erlich, who came from Israel with Jacaranda Kori, to be guest artists-in-residence. | Photo provided In 1998, Saving Private Ryan premiered in theaters, the Monica Lewinsky scandal dominated headlines and Drexel University started its Judaic Studies program. That year, a group of Drexel faculty led by the late Doreen Steg, a professor of human behavior and development, recruited Rakhmiel Peltz from Columbia University to found the program, which is offered to students as a Louis Stein Minor in Judaic Studies. This year, the program celebrates its 20th anniversary. A celebration in May will recognize the anniversary. This year’s lectures and events, such as a March 11 event on the Soviet Jewry movement, also mark the 20th anniversary. Peltz said the program’s events have always been open to the community and free of charge. “We’ve always invited the community in,” he said. “We’re one of the Jewish studies programs where the community has benefited from our existence, too, and yet, at the same time, our students benefit from getting to know who they are in the community.” The late Constantine Papadakis, Drexel’s president in 1998, supported the development of the program after taking a trip to Israel. He was impressed by the start-up culture of the country and wanted to create a co-op program for students to work there. Though learning about Judaism is not necessary to go to Israel, Peltz noted, Papadakis wanted to create the Judaic Studies program to encourage students to participate in the co-op program. Peltz based the program on similar curriculum in other schools, with introductory courses on Jewish biblical history, medieval history and modern history. Soon after the program’s creation, the second intifada broke out, and the co-op program in Israel ended. Though individual students have continued to go to Israel for co-op, the university has not been able to recreate the program because of Israel’s visa requirements. The coursework is similar to other universities’ Judaic studies program, but Drexel’s program differentiates itself in several ways, Peltz said. Over the years, for example, students have done intergenerational work with day school students and senior citizens. Peltz said the majority of the students in the program have not been Jewish, another factor that differentiates it. Toni Pitock, adjunct faculty in the Judaic Studies department, teaches classes on ancient Jewish literature and civilization, Jewish life and culture in the Middle Ages, and the history of the Holocaust. Before she started teaching in the Judaic Studies program, she thought most of the students in the program would be Jewish and was surprised to find that was not the case. “It’s not only Jewish students who are interested,” she said. “I’ve had Asians — both Asian-Americans and foreign students. Right now, I have an African student in my class who’s from Togo. It creates a tolerant environment and an environment where people are understanding each other’s cultures.” Over the past two decades, program successes have included some of the guests it has brought to Drexel, like artist Samuel Bak in 2005, or Cantor Natasha Hirschhorn and novelist Nadia Kalman in 2012. The program has also faced its fair number of challenges, similar to what other liberal arts programs face. Students come to college more career-oriented than before and, therefore, are less likely to pursue a liberal arts education. “Students are constantly changing at all schools, in background, knowledge and attitude,” Peltz said. Students aren’t as comfortable with reading and writing as they used to be, he said. They’re a lot more visual now as well. Peltz said that it has become more difficult to find faculty to teach the Judaic Studies courses. The lack of opportunity for individuals with doctorate degrees prompts them to leave their fields in pursuit of something that will better allow them to support themselves and their families. This has put Judaic studies, as well as other liberal arts subjects, on the back burner. “People do not come to college to study these kinds of things,” Peltz said. “It’s a general phenomenon, and it’s not a major. I’m sorry to say it’s the same thing for something like history at our kind of school.” Looking to the future, Peltz said he hopes the program can continue. “We hope to be able to grow an endowment to make sure there’ll be a Jewish studies program in the future,” he said. “The special things [like the special guests] were helped by those financial donations of members in the Jewish community, and therefore, I was able to sometimes organize programs that were of world-class nature.” [email protected]; 215-832-0729 Previous articleLeon G. Wigrizer, Beacon of Integrity, Dies at Age of 90 Next articleBarrack Gala Celebrates Israel Relationship Selah Maya Zighelboim grew up New Orleans and Austin, Texas and has a bachelor's of journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. She has worked for the Jewish Exponent since 2017. 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An Immigrant's Journey Comes Full-Circle How does a young woman from Moldova become a fierce advocate on behalf of Hispanic immigrants? The Jewish community, of course. Lana and her family escaped the crumbling Soviet Union in 1990 with the help of Federation beneficiary HIAS. Though they arrived with only $600 to their name, the family soon adapted and found success in their new home. But Lana never forgot what it was like to be a stranger in a strange land, struggling with a new language, a new culture and, sometimes, an unwelcoming school environment. Her experiences drove her to become a leading advocate for Spanish-speaking immigrants. In the course of her work, she found important allies in standing up for the rights of migrants: “My personal immigration experience defines who I am, including my true passion: to accompany other immigrants on their journey no matter where they might be from,” she says. “I am eternally grateful for all of the opportunities that we were granted in the U.S. thanks to agencies like JDC and HIAS.” advocacy2 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee22 former soviet union3 fsu2 hias1 immigrants2 Israel & Overseas64 jdc33 Preparations Begin for Jewish Disability Advocacy Day JFNA Sets 2017 Public Policy Priorities

What is considered minimal sedation? Minimal Sedation (Anxiolysis) is a drug-induced state during which patients respond normally to verbal commands. Although cognitive function and physical coordination may be impaired, airway reflexes, and ventilatory and cardiovascular functions are unaffected. How long can you be under conscious sedation? Depending on the procedure, you’ll be under sedation for as little as 15 to 30 minutes, or up to several hours for more complex procedures. For which types of sedation must the patient be monitored? Recommendations. Monitoring of patient response to verbal commands should be routine during moderate sedation, except in patients who are unable to respond appropriately (e.g. , young children, mentally impaired or uncooperative patients), or during procedures where movement could be detrimental. What are the complications of sedation? What are the risks for procedural sedation? Changes in heart rate and blood pressure (rare) Decreased rate of breathing. Inhalation of stomach contents into your lungs (rare) Unpleasant memory of the experience. How long does sedation last? Essentially, oral sedation will suppress the gag reflex, suppress pain responses, reduce anxiety, and more. However, these dental sedation methods usually last anywhere from two to eight hours after the procedure. The type of drug you take will determine how long it will take the sedation to wear off. What drugs are used for IV sedation? The most common drug used for IV sedation is benzodiazepines. These anti-anxiety sedative drugs have three main effects: reducing anxiety, making patients sleepy, and producing partial or total amnesia. In this class of drugs, Midazolam is used most often for IV sedation dentistry purposes. How long does IV sedation stay in your system? Drowsiness It sometimes takes 24-48 hours for the medications to fully exit your system, so we strongly recommended that you get plenty of rest after a sedation surgery. This will ensure the quickest recovery possible. What are the 4 levels of sedation? Different levels of sedation are defined by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Practice Guidelines for Sedation and Analgesia by Non-Anesthesiologists. Minimal Sedation (anxiolysis) Moderate sedation. Deep sedation/analgesia. General anesthesia. Can sedated patients hear? Nursing and other medical staff usually talk to sedated people and tell them what is happening as they may be able to hear even if they can’t respond. Some people had only vague memories whilst under sedation. They’d heard voices but couldn’t remember the conversations or the people involved. How long does dental sedation take to wear off? A good rule of thumb is to allow a full 24 hours after the procedure for the full effects of dental sedation to wear off. Patients need to also make sure to allow a recovery period afterward to ensure that the effects of the drug are out of their system. How long do you have to be under sedation for a procedure? Your doctor begins the procedure once the sedative takes effect. Depending on the procedure, you’ll be under sedation for as little as 15 to 30 minutes, or up to several hours for more complex procedures. You may need to request conscious sedation in order to receive it,… Can a person be sedated continuously until death? Sedation can be used intermittently or continuously until death, and the depth of sedation can vary from lowered consciousness to unconsciousness. Rendering patients unconscious until death remains controversial, however (Roy and MacDonald, 2001). What do you need to know about conscious sedation? Conscious sedation for surgical procedures. Conscious sedation is a combination of medicines to help you relax (a sedative) and to block pain (an anesthetic) during a medical or dental procedure. You will probably stay awake but may not be able to speak. What happens if you don’t get enough sedation? You may not get enough sedation, or it may wear off quickly. You may feel restless during the procedure or as you wake up. Too much medicine can cause you to be unconscious. Your healthcare provider may have trouble waking you, and you may need medicine to help you wake up. Your breathing may not be regular, or it may stop. When do you not need an independent observer for moderate sedation? If a different provider, other than the provider performing the primary procedure, administers the moderate sedation, an independent observer is not required. 2. Whether the patient is younger than five years of age; or five years old, or older. Can a nurse give you conscious sedation in a hospital? A nurse, doctor, or dentist, will give you conscious sedation in the hospital or outpatient clinic. Most of the time, it will not be an anesthesiologist. The medicine will wear off quickly, so it is used for short, uncomplicated procedures.

Show Notes for Wednesday, November 25, 2020 Today we visit with Paige Howard, she's featured in Nickelodeon’s new space adventure series "The Astronauts" from executive producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. In the series, the spacecraft Odyssey II is set to retrieve a foreign object that could potentially save mankind. The plan goes awry when five kids use their parents’ security clearances to sneak onto the empty ship and the onboard AI system triggers the launch sequence. In space, the kids must assume their new role as astronauts and brave harrowing tasks, as their parents rush to find a way to control the situation. 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Tag: Matt and Kim Matt and Kim with Deaf Poets Brooklyn indie dance duo Matt and Kim just released New Glow, the band’s latest full length album. Matt and Kim, aka Matt Johnson (vocals/keyboards) and Kim Schifino (drums), get things rolling in their exuberant style with a performance lyric video for the song “Get It”: Three minutes and seven seconds of heaven for anyone who has, or hasn’t yet, seen Matt and Kim’s legendary live shows. With New Glow, the duo who love hip-hop and pop have made an album of undeniably catchy beat-driven anthems with hooks that just don’t stop and just won’t leave your head. “The best era of music is right now and I believe we’re doing our best work yet.” says Matt. “Anyone who has seen one of our shows knows we love any style of music you can have fun and get wild to. I’m not sure we were able to put that diversity on any of our albums the way we did on New Glow. While there are definitely songs that will feel familiar to people who know our stuff, there are also songs like “Get It” which have always been part of who we are but went unrecorded to this point. We helped edit a lyric video for “Get It”, using live footage from a handful of festivals and shows we played in the last couple years. Going through that footage really made it hard to believe how lucky we are to have the best f**king job in the world.” The two met while attending Pratt Institute and quickly became known for their thunder-punching, melodic mix of indie and dance music. Right off, Spin said “there truly is no sound these two won’t use to support their almost religious commitment to spreading huge grins,” while Pitchfork described their quality as “melody so happily jerky and rhythms so dangerously spastic that you can practically hear paroxysmal crowds pogo-ing madly…Johnson sings, and thousands of other kids in his zip code (and others like it around the country) feel like he’s describing their Saturday nights.” Previously, Matt and Kim’s video for “Lessons Learned,” in which they strip naked in Times Square on a very cold February day, won an MTV Music Award for “Breakthrough Video.” All the while they toured the globe, becoming the go-to band for raw exuberance, bombastic beats, sing-along refrains and dance-ready anthems on larger and larger scales. They’ve performed at many, many major music festivals including Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Coachella, Firefly, Summerfest, Big Day Out, Fuji, V, Pukkelpop and Ultra.

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JURI Says: I incorrectly predicted that there's no violation of human rights in ALHOWAIS v. HUNGARY. Judgment date: 2023-02-02 Communication date: 2019-10-17 Application number(s): 59435/17 Country: HUN Relevant ECHR article(s): 2, 2-1, 3 Preliminary objection joined to merits and dismissed (Art. 35) Admissibility criteria (Art. 35-3-a) Ratione personae Violation of Article 2+3 - Right to life (Article 2-1 - Effective investigation) (Article 3 - Prohibition of torture Effective investigation) (Procedural aspect) Violation of Article 2 - Right to life (Article 2 - Positive obligations Article 2-1 - Life) (Substantive aspect) No violation of Article 3 - Prohibition of torture (Article 3 - Degrading treatment Inhuman treatment) (Substantive aspect) Non-pecuniary damage - award (Article 41 - Non-pecuniary damage Just satisfaction) Result: Violation SEE FINAL JUDGMENT JURI Prediction Probability: 0.692726 Prediction: No violation In line with the court's judgment In opposition to the court's judgment Darker color: higher probability : In line with the court's judgment : In opposition to the court's judgment Communication text used for prediction The application concerns the circumstances of an incident at Tisza River, at the border between Serbia and Hungary, on 1 June 2016, when the applicant’s family (Syrians) and other persons attempted to cross the river into Hungary. The applicant asserts that the Hungarian law enforcement officers present on the shore set dogs on them, used tear gas and threw stones at them, hurting his brother. Eventually, they were driven back in the water, where his brother subsequently drowned. The applicant complains that this course of events and the ensuing, allegedly inadequate investigation amounted to a violation of the right of life of his deceased brother, both under the substantive and the procedural limb of Article 2 of the Convention. The applicant moreover asserts under Article 3 of the Convention that the conduct of the officers exposed the applicant himself to inhuman and degrading treatment, not adequately investigated. CASE OF ALHOWAIS v. HUNGARY (Application no. 59435/17) Art 2 + Art 3 (procedural) • Ineffective investigation into the death of the applicant’s brother, a Syrian migrant, who drowned during a border control operation at a river on the Hungarian-Serbian border • No assessment of responsibility for failure to protect right to life • Manner in which domestic justice system operated in response to incident failed to secure the full accountability of State officials or authorities • Ineffective investigation into applicant’s arguable allegations of police ill-treatment Art 2 (substantive) • Life • Positive obligations • Failure to discharge positive obligations by taking operational measures to protect life in circumstances in which it was manifestly at risk Art 3 (substantive) • Court unable to conclude beyond reasonable doubt, largely due to investigation shortcomings, that physical force was used against the applicant This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 § 2 of the Convention. It may be subject to editorial revision. In the case of Alhowais v. Hungary, The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of: Marko Bošnjak, President, Péter Paczolay, Alena Poláčková, Lətif Hüseynov, Ivana Jelić, Erik Wennerström, Raffaele Sabato, judges,and Liv Tigerstedt, Deputy Section Registrar, Having regard to: the application (no. 59435/17) against Hungary lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by a Syrian national, Mr Abdullah Mohamed Alhowais (“the applicant”), on 4 August 2017; the decision to give notice to the Hungarian Government (“the Government”) of the complaints concerning the alleged violation of Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention and to declare inadmissible the remainder of the application; the parties’ observations; Having deliberated in private on 8 November 2022 and 10 January 2023, Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on the latter date: 1. The case concerns the death of F., a Syrian migrant and the applicant’s brother, which occurred during a border control operation at a river on the Hungarian-Serbian border; the applicant’s alleged ill-treatment by the Hungarian police; and the respondent State’s alleged failure to carry out an effective investigation into the incident. THE FACTS 2. The applicant is a Syrian national who was born in 1996. According to information dating from February 2021, he lives in Leipzig, Germany. He was represented by Mr G. Győző, a lawyer practising in Budapest. 3. The Government were represented by their Agent, Mr Z. Tallódi, of the Ministry of Justice. 4. The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised as follows. 5. On 1 June 2016 the applicant, his brother, F., and their cousin, K.A., who were all Syrian nationals; M.M., another Syrian national; and an Iraqi family, K.K. and A.S. with three children, attempted to cross the Tisza River by boat, at the border between Serbia and Hungary. The boat was piloted by a smuggler whose identity could not be established. 6. The boat could not get to the shore because of dense reeds along it, and the passengers disembarked among the reeds. The boat was pulled back to the Serbian shore by the smugglers. 7. Police officers stationed in a hunting observation tower some hundred metres from the shore noticed the boat departing from Serbia. According to the applicant, the police officers on the Hungarian shore shouted at the passengers to “Go back to Serbia’”. 8. The applicant, F., and K.A. decided to turn back, but as the boat had been pulled back by the smugglers to the opposite side of the river, they attempted to swim to the Serbian shore. The applicant and K.A. managed to reach the Serbian shore, but F. disappeared in the water. The Hungarian officers launched a rescue boat to search for him. The water rescue unit found a floating jacket and an empty backpack in the water, but the approximately half hour-long search operation could not find the applicant’s brother. 9. The Iraqi family managed to get out of the water but could not climb ashore because of a barbed wire barrier deployed along the shore. A rescue boat with a civilian and a police lifeguard found them and took them ashore. The mother and the three children were hospitalised for being at risk of hypothermia. 10. The body of the applicant’s brother was discovered two days later, on 3 June 2016, by a police officer in a backwater of the Tisza River. 11. On 1 June 2016 the Serbian authorities questioned the applicant in relation to an investigation into human trafficking. An official note of the questioning was given to the Hungarian authorities. The applicant gave an explanation of the arrival in Serbia and the border crossing at the river, and a detailed description of the smugglers. As regards the incident at the Hungarian shore, the applicant specified that the boat passengers had disembarked in the reeds some metres away from the Hungarian riverbank where the water reached hip height. They had seen that there were officers on the riverbank, and they had also noticed a police motorboat on the river. The officers had thrown stones at them shouting at them to go back to where they had come from. The boat passengers had wanted to pass the children to the officers, who had reacted by shooting tear gas in their direction. The applicant’s brother had started coughing from the tear gas and had said that they would need to swim back to Serbia. The applicant stated that he had noticed his brother having difficulties crossing and had called to the smugglers on the Serbian side of the river for help. The smugglers had fled, and a fisherman on the Serbian shore had shouted to the Hungarian officers for help. 12. On the same day, Serbian border control officers met the Hungarian police officers of the Border Control Services of the Csongrád County Police Headquarters. The Serbian authorities provided a summary of the applicant’s statements. The Hungarian authorities provided the information that the Iraqi family had been found by a rescue boat and that the rescue operation for F. was ongoing. They also stated that the Tisza River was a dangerous crossing point and that there had already previously been an incident which had led to migrants being injured while trying to cross the river. They suggested that the border control operations should be enhanced so as not to let anybody enter the river. 13. On 1 June 2016 K.K. was questioned by the Southern Great Plain Regional Directorate of the Immigration and Asylum Office. He stated that when the passengers had got out of the boat, the police officers had shouted at them to go back to Serbia. The family could not climb ashore because of the barbed wire; they had waited for approximately half an hour for the police to go away and had then started to swim back into the river, where the rescue boat had finally found them. 14. On 2 June 2016 K.K. was questioned again by the Immigration and Asylum Office. He stated that the police officers had told them through a loudspeaker in Arabic to go back to their home countries. He had shouted at the police officers to let them enter Hungary as there were children among them. When he had started to move towards the officers, holding his two‐year-old son in his hands, the police had sprayed tear gas at his feet. He had also seen a police officer twice throwing rocks in the direction of the other passengers. 15. A.S. was questioned by the Immigration and Asylum Office on the same day. She stated with regard to their arrival in Hungary that the passengers had left Serbia in a rubber dinghy and had disembarked in the reeds close to the Hungarian riverbank, after a five-to-ten-minute boat ride. They had waited for about half an hour for the officers to leave and she had heard the guards shouting, “Go back to Serbia”. They could not get onto the shore because of the barbed wire, and her family had started to swim back in the river when they had been rescued by boat. The other five boat passengers had been left in the water. 16. On 1 June 2016 M.M. was questioned by the Immigration and Asylum Office. He stated that after leaving the boat, they had hidden in the reeds for about twenty minutes. The Iraqi family had decided to give themselves up and had approached the police officers, and three of the other passengers had started to swim back in the direction of the place where the boat had left them. He maintained that he had stayed in the water for about an hour and had gone ashore when the police had left. He had later been captured. 17. The report of K.Cs., the police rescue officer on duty on 1 June 2016, stated that at around 6.35 a.m. the rescue boat had taken aboard a family of five Iraqi nationals. The family had been freezing and the body of one of the children had been numb and the child’s face had turned blue. The father had been taken into immigration custody and the mother and the three children had been hospitalised. 18. On 1 June, Z.F., the sector commander on duty; K.Cs. and A.L., who had been on duty in the motorboat; and D.B., the police officer who had been stationed in the hunting observation tower, submitted their reports. 19. According to the report of Z.F., the officer stationed in the hunting observation tower some hundred metres from the shore had noticed the boat departing from Serbia at around 5 a.m. The officers on duty had noticed five persons (including three children) approaching the barbed wire from the water, and they had tried to establish contact in English, and had warned the migrants not to approach the barbed wire barrier but to go back to the water where the rescue boat would pick them up. The next day – 2 June 2016 – the commander, Z.F., supplemented his report, stating that the officers on duty had not used any force and had not thrown anything in the water. 20. D.B. submitted that he had seen three migrants swimming in the direction of Serbia at around 5 a.m. He had seen that the last one of them had sunk a couple of times and, while he could observe the first two persons emerging onto the riverbank in Serbia, he had not seen the third person appearing from the water. 21. On 2 June 2016 ten police officers who were on duty on the day of the incident submitted reports concerning the events, stating that they had not used force, had not thrown anything at the migrants, and had not engaged in any illegal conduct. Z.F. also added to his previous report a statement that nobody under his command had used force or thrown anything at any of the migrants during the incident. 22. On 2 June 2016 M.M. was questioned again by the Immigration and Asylum Office. He specified that the police officers had told them through a loudspeaker in Arabic and English to go back to Serbia. He had seen that two to three stones had been thrown in the water from the shore. 23. On 2 June 2016 the Szeged Border Control Department prepared a report for the Csongrád County Police Headquarters stating that, according to the evidence and information available and because of the contradictions between the statements of the police officers and the asylum seekers, it could not be established whether the police officers had infringed the rights of the migrants. The report suggested opening investigations into “misconduct during service”. The report relied on the statements of M.M., K.K. and A.S. It also mentioned that the five police officers questioned in the case had unanimously stated that they had not thrown stones at the boat passengers, nor had they used any other force. 24. On 3 June 2016 the chief police officer of the Csongrád County Police Headquarters lodged a criminal complaint against unknown police officers alleging ill-treatment committed in the course of official proceedings (bántalmazás hivatalos eljárásban) under Article 171 § 2 of Act no. XIX of 1998 on the Criminal Code. 25. On 6 June 2016 an autopsy was carried out on F. According to the autopsy report, there were no external injuries on F.’s body, no pre-existing illness could be detected, and the exact hour of death could not be established, but must have occurred forty-eight to seventy-two hours before the body was found. 26. On 6 June 2016 the Iraqi family left the reception centre for an unknown place, and they could not be further questioned in the proceedings. 27. On 7 June 2016 the applicant was questioned at the Szeged police station. He explained that he, together with his brother and cousin, had gone back to the water out of fear of what was happening on the shore, without the Iraqi family or M.M., who could not swim. He stated that his brother was a good swimmer. 28. On 8 June 2016 the applicant was questioned again in the presence of an interpreter. He stated that a smuggler, presumably of Iraqi origin, had offered to take him, his cousin and his brother to Hungary in a rubber dinghy for 100 euros. They had arrived at the Tisza River a day before the accident, where they had been joined by the Iraqi family. They had set off by boat just before dawn and they had not been able to see the Hungarian shore of the river. Four smugglers had remained on the Serbian shore of the river and one had accompanied them in the boat. They had disembarked on the Hungarian side where the water had reached up until their chests, because they could not reach the shore by boat because of the reeds. From about three metres from the shore, they had noticed four officers, some in military uniforms and others in police uniforms, who had told them through loudspeakers to go home and not to enter Hungary. In the applicant’s assessment, the police officers could not have seen them because of the reeds. The passengers had stopped at about five metres from the officers, and had stayed in hiding, with the exception of the Iraqi family, where the father had advanced with one of the children towards the officers and had asked to be let in. The officers had fired tear gas at K.K. from about one and a half metres away. In the applicant’s recollection, the police officers had thrown stones in their direction, and they had had to protect themselves with their bags. 29. Having seen these events, A.S. had followed K.K. with the other two children, shouting to the officers to let them in. The remaining passengers had followed A.S. and when they were about three metres away from her, the police officers had fired tear gas at them as well. The applicant’s brother had started coughing. They had attempted three times to climb ashore but each time they had been stopped by tear gas. By this point the boat that had smuggled them had gone. The police officers had thrown rocks at them, shouting at them to go back, and the police dogs were let loose. The applicant’s brother had been hit by a rock on his shoulder blade. The applicant, his brother and his cousin had decided to swim back, all of them being good swimmers. The Iraqi family had decided to give themselves up and M.M. had stayed in hiding, being afraid of the water. By this point the sun had already come up. 30. The applicant stated that he had been the first person to swim back to Serbia and he had heard his brother shouting at the smugglers to send a boat. When he had arrived at the Serbian shore, the smugglers had run away, and he could not find a boat. He could not see his brother anymore and had asked a nearby fisherman for help. He had also shouted at the Hungarian officers to look for his brother, then he had asked the Serbian officers to help. 31. On 15 June 2016 M.M. was questioned at the Szeged police station. He stated that the rubber dinghy smuggling nine people had left Serbia at around 5 a.m. After they had disembarked close to the Hungarian shore, the boat had been pulled back by the smugglers. They had been hiding in the reeds in the water for about one and a half hours when the Iraqi family had decided to go ashore. F. had helped the family to get out of the water and when he had rejoined the remaining passengers, he had said that the officer had sprayed something at him, and he had been coughing. M.M. could not see the officers but had heard them shouting through a loudspeaker in Arabic for them to go back to their home country. He had seen that some objects had been thrown in their direction some four to five times, but none of the passengers had been hit. He said that the applicant, F. and K.A. had decided to swim back to Serbia, but he had not joined them as he could not swim. From where he was hiding, he could not see what had happened to the three of them. He had stayed in the reeds for another one and a half hours and had then gone ashore and had later been captured in a nearby village. 32. On 10 July 2016 the applicant’s lawyer requested that the Szeged Prosecutor’s Office question K.A. as a witness. He was informed that his request could not be granted, as K.A. had left the reception centre for migrants on 24 June 2016. 33. On 12 July 2016 some of the officers who had been on duty on 1 June 2016 at the border crossing were questioned as witnesses. Police officer G.O. stated that he could not remember exact details of the events in question or even when they had taken place. He had only arrived at the scene when the Iraqi family had approached the barbed wire and had left before the family was taken on board. During this time, he had not seen anybody using force, throwing things, or letting dogs loose. He remembered that some soldiers and six police officers had been present with dogs. 34. In his witness testimony, Z.F., who was the sector commander of the police forces, stated that he had been patrolling with officers C.J. and Á.Zs, when he was informed at around 5 a.m. about an unknown number of migrants approaching Hungary through the Tisza River. Besides the three of them, police officers G.O. and M.Sz. had been present, in addition to four to five soldiers. He had instructed two officers patrolling with dogs to come to the border crossing point and the water rescue officers to report on what they had observed. He stated that the Iraqi family had been very nervous, which had only become worse when they had been called to in English not to cross the barbed wire. At this point he had instructed the motorboat to rescue the family on the water. In his recollection, it had taken the motorboat about half an hour to pick the family up. He had been informed by D.B., the officer stationed in the hunting tower, that three migrants had tried to swim back to Serbia and that D.B. had lost sight of one of them. He stated that following D.B.’s warning that one of the persons swimming back to Serbia had disappeared, he had immediately reported the incident to the water rescue officers, and that he had not received any information from them about whether they had seen anybody in the water. He denied the use of a loudspeaker, any recourse to force, the use of tear gas, the throwing of stones and the deployment of dogs. 35. According to the witness testimony of police officer Á.Zs., he had been stationed at a border marker with two other officers, Z.F. and C.J., when they had been informed of people hiding in the reeds. When they had arrived at the scene, two unidentified officers had been present with dogs, but they had left shortly afterwards. Subsequently, two other unidentified police officers had arrived and had stationed themselves some four to five metres from the shore with their dogs. He stated that as well as these persons, two other police officers, M.Sz. and G.O., were present, together with a soldier. After checking the barbed wire for signs of intrusion with Z.F., they had returned to the other officers, where they had noticed five persons appearing from the reeds. They had warned those persons first in Hungarian, and then in English, not to approach the barbed wire barrier, however the family had sat down next to it. Z.F. had called for a rescue boat and the police officers had made the family understand that they would be picked up by boat in the water. He also recalled D.B. reporting that three persons had swum back to Serbia, and that one of them had disappeared. In his view, until the rescue operation, the police officers had not been aware of the presence of anybody other than the Iraqi family. Á.Zs. had denied that either the police or the soldiers had used violence or had thrown things at the passengers. 36. The testimony of police officer M.Sz. gave the same account of the events. He had been in a vehicle patrolling along a backwater of the Tisza River. On the instructions of Z.F., he had arrived at the scene of the incident, with G.O. They had noticed the Iraqi family in the reeds after waiting for about an hour. He also recalled the arrival of Z.F. and Á.Zs., and two officers with dogs. He remembered two soldiers being present at the scene with their commander. They had stayed at the scene for about one and a half hours and had left because they were called to intervene at another incident of an irregular border crossing. He maintained that he had only learned about the other migrants from the news. 37. According to the witness testimony of D.B., the officer stationed in the hunting tower, he had noticed persons approaching the Hungarian border at around 5 a.m. Although there had been good visibility, he could not see how many people were coming or whether they had swum or had been in a boat. He had reported this to the commander, Z.F., and the police officers had arrived at the scene in five to ten minutes. Half an hour later, he had noticed three persons swimming in the direction of Serbia, one of whom was struggling and was under water, which he had reported to Z.F. Five to ten minutes later a motorboat had appeared. The motorboat had searched for about half an hour. He had also heard a fisherman shouting that somebody had drowned in the water. He could not see the location where the Iraqi family had tried to go ashore and therefore could not tell if any force had been used. 38. On 28 July 2016 officer C.J., who was the sector commander of the military forces, testified that four soldiers had been patrolling the area that night, but he could not identify them. He had been present at the scene for about ten minutes, during which time he had noticed persons in the reeds but had not seen either them or the others in the river. 39. On the same day the list of soldiers on duty from 31 May to 1 June was transmitted to the investigation authorities. On 30 August 2016 C.J. identified the four soldiers, C.A., B.A., B.D. and T.Z., who had been patrolling in the area in question on the day of the incident. 40. On 12 September 2016 C.A. and B.A. stated that they had been patrolling about four and a half to five kilometres from the incident and they had only seen the Iraqi family once they had been rescued from the water. They had no direct knowledge of the events and did not know of the three persons who had attempted to swim back to Serbia. They were not aware of any use of force. 41. Apparently T.Z. did not remember anything of the events. 42. On the same day, K.Cs., who was patrolling in the police motorboat with A.L., testified that the guards on the Hungarian shore had noticed around ten to twenty persons gathering at the Serbian side of the river, which was illuminated with spotlights from the Hungarian side. At around 4.30 a.m. he had received the information that some people had tried to cross the river. Despite good visibility, he had not seen anybody crossing the river. After stopping in the water for about half an hour, the motorboat had been returning to the harbour when it had been called to rescue the people hiding in the reeds. The officers on the boat had noticed a jacket and an empty backpack. They had informed Z.F., who had instructed them to look around to see if there was anybody to rescue from the water. While searching, they had heard a fisherman shouting at them in Hungarian from the Serbian border that somebody might have drowned in the water, because he had seen one person sinking and not resurfacing again. They had reported this to Z.F. as well, and on his instructions, they had searched for another half hour. They had informed Z.F. that they could not find anybody. Subsequently, they had been called to take the Iraqi family out from the water. When they had found them, two of the children were almost sinking and the youngest child’s body had turned blue; he was not moving and had had to be resuscitated. The family had not shown any other injuries. K.Cs. had not seen any stones being thrown at the migrants, and although he had heard the dogs barking, he could not tell whether they had been let off the leash or not. 43. A.L. confirmed the statements of K.Cs. 44. On 1 September 2016 a toxicological report was issued stating that no toxic substances, neither drugs nor the active ingredients of tear gas, could be detected in F.’s body. On 27 September 2016 a supplementary forensic expert report was issued which stated that the active ingredients of tear gas could only be detected if samples had been taken from the affected body part directly after the tear gas was used. Since F.’s body had been in the water for several days, further examination could not produce any results to determine whether tear gas had been used. 45. On 11 October 2016 the applicant’s lawyer submitted his observations to the Szeged Prosecutor’s Office. He noted that although four soldiers who had been patrolling on 1 June 2016 had been identified by C.J., two of them had not witnessed the events at all. In addition, other witness testimony had mentioned the presence of four to five soldiers, who had not been identified. He further submitted that the officers with the dogs had not been identified either. He called the authorities’ attention to the contradictions in the officers’ testimony as regards the search operation. He reiterated that M.M. and K.K. had repeatedly and consistently stated that they had been warned to go back, that stones had been thrown and that the officers had used tear gas. He therefore requested that C.J., the sector commander of the military forces, be questioned again and that the investigation authorities question all the soldiers who were on duty that day. He further requested that the authorities identify the officers with the dogs and question M.M. and K.K. again. 46. The request of the applicant’s lawyer was dismissed on 19 October 2016. According to the decision of the Prosecutor’s Office, it was not necessary to identify the police officers with the dogs since other witness testimony had already explained in detail the fact that no police dogs had been used during the incident. Furthermore, M.M. and K.K. and his family could not be questioned since they had left Hungary. 47. On 25 October 2016 the Prosecutor’s Office discontinued the investigations as the commission of a crime could not be established on the basis of the information gathered during the investigation. Reiterating the content of the witness testimony, the Prosecutor’s Office found that it could not be established beyond reasonable doubt that stones had been thrown or tear gas sprayed at the migrants, or that any other force had been used against them. The discrepancies in the testimony could not be resolved and no further evidence could be collected. The Prosecutor’s Office thus concluded that it could not be established or ruled out beyond reasonable doubt that a crime had been committed. 48. The applicant’s lawyer lodged a complaint, submitted to the Szeged Prosecutor’s Office and addressing the Chief Prosecutor’s Office, requesting the continuation of the proceedings. As well as maintaining that there was evidence of the use of force by the police officers, he submitted that some of the police officers present at the incident, including the unit with the police dogs, had not been questioned at all, whereas other officers, who had clearly been absent, had been questioned. He further complained about the failure to question K.A. or to obtain a second testimony from M.M., and drew attention to the contradictions in the witnesses’ testimony as regards the rescue operation. He put forward the argument that the investigation should have encompassed the crimes of failure to provide aid or assistance (segítségnyújtás elmulasztása) and endangering a minor (kiskorú veszélyeztetése), and that the Prosecutor’s Office had applied an inappropriate standard of proof (beyond reasonable doubt), which was the legal standard for a conviction. 49. The 3 February 2017 the Chief Prosecutor’s Office dismissed the applicant’s complaint. It found that the Szeged Prosecutor’s Office had not erred in the legal characterisation of the facts. It stated that the witness testimony had not corroborated the applicant’s version of events, in particular, that his brother had been hit by a stone, since K.K. had stated that he had seen two stones and M.M. that he had seen four to five objects thrown in the river without hitting the applicant’s brother. The release of police dogs had not been confirmed by any witness statement. The Chief Prosecutor’s Office concluded that both the assessment of evidence and the legal findings by the Szeged Prosecutor’s Office had been well founded. RELEVANT LEGAL FRAMEWORK 50. Act no. C of 2012 on the Criminal Code provides: “(1) Any public official who physically abuses another person in the course of official proceedings shall be guilty of a serious offence punishable by imprisonment of between one to five years.” 51. In Recommendation Rec(2001)10 on the European Code of Police Ethics, adopted on 19 September 2001, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe stated that “[t]he police shall not inflict, instigate or tolerate any act of torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment under any circumstances” (paragraph 36) and that they “may use force only when strictly necessary and only to the extent required to obtain a legitimate objective” (paragraph 37). Furthermore, “in carrying out their activities, [they] shall always bear in mind everyone’s fundamental rights” (paragraph 43) and “police personnel shall act with integrity and respect towards the public and with particular consideration for the situation of individuals belonging to especially vulnerable groups” (paragraph 44). 52. Between 20-26 October 2017 the CPT, having visited Hungary, reported receiving reliable information substantiated by medical evidence about violent push-back operations by Hungarian police officers. According to that information, before escorting migrants back to Serbia, the police officers assaulted them by beating and kicking them, occasionally also using truncheons. The report of the CPT to the Hungarian Government stated the following: “13. However, a significant number of foreign nationals interviewed by the delegation who had been apprehended in Hungary and escorted by the Hungarian police through the border fence towards Serbia shortly before the CPT’s visit alleged that they had been physically ill-treated by Hungarian police officers in the context of their apprehension and return through the border fence (push-backs). The alleged ill‐treatment consisted in particular of kicks and punches to various parts of the body (including the face and/or head) and baton blows (in particular to the knees, shins and calves), in some cases after the persons concerned had been made to lie down on the ground, as well as of spraying pepper spray directly into the face. Further, several allegations were received from foreign nationals that they had been bitten by unmuzzled service dogs set upon them by police officers. It should also be added that a number of foreign nationals met by the delegation displayed recent traumatic injuries which, in the view of the delegation’s doctor, were consistent with the allegations of ill-treatment made.” 53. The Commissioner visited Hungary between 4-8 February 2019. She reported the following: “The Commissioner is deeply concerned about repeated and consistent allegations, highlighted by UNHCR and the CPT, of excessive use of force and violence by the Hungarian police during forcible removals. Alleged ill-treatment by the police includes kicks, punches and baton blows to various parts of the body, also to individuals who are made to lie down on the ground, as well as of spraying pepper spray directly into the face. In addition, the allegations describe police officers releasing unmuzzled service dogs to bite people. Such reports were supported by medical evidence gathered by the CPT delegation’s physician during the CPT visit to Hungary in 2017. In December 2018, the NGO Save the Children reported similar violence perpetrated by the Hungarian police against children. Violence against children was also reported to the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe on migration and refugees in 2017. In most cases investigations into the allegations have been closed due to insufficient information or lack of evidence.” 54. The Concluding Observations to the Sixth Periodic Report of Hungary of 9 May 2018 (CCPR/C/HUN/CO/6) contains the following: Non-refoulement and excessive use of force “47. While noting the information provided by the State party on the applicable standards and the safeguards against non-refoulement, the Committee is concerned that the State party’s legal framework does not afford full protection against non‐refoulement. It notes with concern: (a) the ‘pushback’ law, first introduced in June 2016, which allows the summary expulsion by the police of anyone who crosses the border irregularly and is detained on Hungarian territory within 8 km of the border, a limit that was subsequently extended to the entire territory of the State party; and (b) Decree No. 191/2015 designating Serbia a ‘safe third country’, thereby authorizing pushbacks at the border between Hungary and Serbia. The Committee notes with concern reports that pushbacks have been applied indiscriminately and that individuals subjected to this measure have very limited opportunity to submit an asylum application and virtually no right of appeal. It also notes with concern reports of collective and violent expulsions, allegedly accompanied by heavy beatings, attacks by police dogs and shooting with rubber bullets, which have resulted in severe injuries and, at least in one case, in the death of an asylum seeker (arts. 2, 6, 7, 9 and 13).” 55. The Concluding Observations on the combined Eighteenth to Twenty‐fifth Periodic Reports of Hungary of 6 June 2019 (CERD/C/HUN/CO/18-25) contains the following: Refoulement and the use of force against asylum seekers “24. The Committee is deeply concerned at the reports that the principle of non‐refoulement is not fully respected in law and in practice. It expresses deep alarm at the reported excessive use of force and violence by law enforcement officers against third country nationals found anywhere in Hungary, while ‘pushing back’ those found near the border to Serbia, resulting in injuries and bodily harm. 25.The Committee recommends that the State party take all measures to ensure the full respect of the principle of non-refoulement. It also recommends that the State party prevent the excessive use of force and ensure training for, and effective and independent monitoring of, law enforcement personnel involved with refugees, migrants and asylum seekers, to eliminate ill-treatment.” 56. The Government submitted that the applicant had no known address in Hungary and that it was most likely that he had left Hungary. In their view the applicant’s representative had not demonstrated that he was still in contact with the applicant. In the Government’s understanding, the applicant did not intend to pursue his application, which was to be struck out of the list of cases in accordance with the Court’s case-law in V.M. and Others v. Belgium ((striking out) [GC], no. 60125/11, 17 November 2016). 57. The applicant’s lawyer replied by a letter dated 19 February 2021 that he was in contact with the applicant, and he submitted a declaration from the applicant stating that he wished to pursue his case before the Court. 58. In V.M. and Others v. Belgium (cited above), the Court specified, in the light of Article 37 § 1 (a), that an applicant’s representative not only had to supply a power of attorney or written authority (Rule 45 § 3 of the Rules of Court), but that it was also important that contact between the applicant and his or her representative be maintained throughout the proceedings, both in order to learn more about the applicant’s particular circumstances and to confirm the applicant’s continuing interest in pursuing the examination of his or her application. 59. The Court considers that in the present case there is no reason to doubt the credibility of the information provided by the applicant’s lawyer as to the truth of his contact with the applicant and the wish of the latter to pursue his application. Thus, the Court will pursue the examination of the application. 60. The applicant alleged that no effective investigation had been carried out into F.’s death or into the ill-treatment that he had suffered, in breach of Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention. 61. The Government submitted that the complaint concerning the alleged failure to carry out an effective investigation into the death of the applicant’s brother under Article 2 and his related complaint under Article 3 were inadmissible since the applicant had failed to exhaust domestic remedies, namely, to lodge an official liability action. 62. They argued that the criminal complaint against the alleged perpetrators could not be regarded as an effective remedy against the allegedly unlawful conduct of the investigation authorities of not taking urgent investigative measures. In their understanding, if the criminal liability of the perpetrators had been impossible to establish, it was because of the negligent conduct of the investigation authority. This could only have been remedied by an official liability action. These two types of legal avenues of redress did not have the same objective, as a criminal complaint was meant to establish the criminal liability of perpetrators whereas a civil action was meant to establish the liability of an allegedly negligent authority. The domestic courts were better placed than an international tribunal to assess the effects of any omission by the investigation authorities on the outcome of the proceedings. In the Government’s view, pursuing a criminal remedy against the alleged perpetrators did not exempt the applicant from seeking a civil-law remedy for the alleged breach of his rights under the Convention against the investigation authorities. 63. The applicant submitted that the crux of his complaint was the alleged ill-treatment by the Hungarian police officers. By pursuing his criminal complaint, he had made use of the only legal avenue that could have provided effective redress for his grievances. 64. As regards the civil action put forward by the Government, the applicant also noted that the Court had previously rejected arguments of the Government referring to civil lawsuits for damages for illegal acts attributable to the State (see Barta v. Hungary, no. 26137/04, 10 April 2007). He argued that the subject matter of the civil action for damages against the investigation authorities would not have been the criminal responsibility of the perpetrators for ill-treatment but rather the alleged omissions of the investigation authorities. 65. Furthermore, a civil lawsuit could not be considered as a remedy capable of providing redress in respect of his complaints, because it could have merely resulted in an award of damages. In any event, even if more than one potentially effective remedy was available, he was required to have used only one of them. 66. The Court reiterates that even in cases of non‐intentional interferences with the right to life or physical integrity, there may be exceptional circumstances where an effective criminal investigation is necessary to satisfy the procedural obligation imposed by Article 2. Such circumstances can be present, for example, where a life was lost or put at risk because of the conduct of a public authority which goes beyond an error of judgment or carelessness, or where a life was lost in suspicious circumstances or because of the alleged voluntary and reckless disregard by a private individual of his or her legal duties under the relevant legislation. The Court has held that where it was established that the negligence attributable to State officials or bodies had gone beyond an error of judgment or carelessness, in that the authorities in question, fully realising the likely consequences and disregarding the powers vested in them, failed to take measures that were necessary and sufficient to avert the risks inherent in a dangerous activity, the fact that those responsible for endangering life had not been charged with a criminal offence or prosecuted could amount to a violation of Article 2, irrespective of any other types of remedy which individuals could pursue on their own initiative (see M.H. and Others v. Croatia, nos. 15670/18 and 43115/18, § 135, 18 November 2021, with further references). 67. The present case, as presented before the domestic authorities, concerned the allegation that the Hungarian police officers were responsible for F.’s drowning in the Tisza River, because the deterrent measures against him had been a contributing factor to his death and that the same deterrent measures subjected the applicant to police ill-treatment. Furthermore, the case before them indicated that F. had died in circumstances potentially engaging State responsibility. 68. According to the Court’s established case-law, the remedy normally available in Hungarian law in respect of inhuman and degrading treatment allegedly caused by police officers is a complaint to the prosecuting authorities (see Barta, cited above, § 47). In addition, according to the Court’s case-law, the obligation to protect the right to life under Article 2, read in conjunction with the State’s general duty under Article 1 of the Convention to "secure to everyone within their jurisdiction the rights and freedoms defined in [the] Convention", requires by implication that there should be some form of effective official investigation when individuals have been killed as a result of the use of force by, inter alia, agents of the State (see McCann and Others v. the United Kingdom, 27 September 1995, § 161, Series A no. 324). 69. Furthermore, in circumstances indicating that the police actions which allegedly immediately preceded F.’s death might have involved a deliberate disregard of the duties to take the necessary measures to save F.’s life, the procedural obligation imposed by Article 2 required that a criminal investigation be opened, also having regard to the fact that the situation could have given rise to criminal liability on the part of the police officers involved. 70. The Court notes that it is common ground that the applicant made full use of the remedy provided by the criminal-law proceedings. It is not disputed that an adequately carried out criminal investigation could have led to a decision determining the individual responsibility of any State officials who might have been held accountable for the applicant’s brother’s death and the applicant’s ill-treatment. Nor is it disputed that in his complaint against the discontinuation of the investigation by the public prosecutor’s office, the applicant raised the alleged shortcomings of the investigation. The second‐instance proceedings could in principle, if pursued successfully, have remedied any alleged misconduct of the investigation authorities. The applicant must therefore be regarded as having brought the substance of his complaint to the notice of the national authorities and as having sought redress through the national channels for his complaints. 71. The Government have argued that in the course of civil proceedings, the liability of a negligent investigation authority could have been established, but they have failed to demonstrate how those proceedings could have been more pertinent than the investigation carried out by police and prosecutorial authorities within the context of criminal-law proceedings which provide for all the legal and practical means necessary for that purpose. The Government have failed to explain altogether how civil-law proceedings would have been relevant at all to investigate the circumstances of the death of the applicant’s brother. The Court cannot but note in this context that the focus of the civil-law proceedings referred to by the Government would necessarily not have been the event itself or the conduct of the officers during the border control operation, but the alleged misconduct of the investigation authorities. Accordingly, recourse to the civil-law proceedings referred to by the Government would not have resulted in the effective examination of the death of the applicant’s brother and the ill-treatment that the applicant alleged to have suffered as a result of the impugned incident, or in the identification and punishment of those responsible. In any event, civil-law remedies against illegal acts attributable to the State or its agents could have only led to the award of damages, which cannot be considered as sufficient for Contracting State’s obligations under Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention (see Barta, cited above, § 46). 72. In these circumstances the Court is satisfied that the applicant has exhausted domestic remedies. The applicant’s complaints cannot therefore be rejected on the grounds that he did not institute civil proceedings for damages against the State. Consequently, the Government’s objection must be dismissed. 73. The Court further notes that these complaints are not manifestly ill‐founded within the meaning of Article 35 § 3 (a) of the Convention. It is not inadmissible on any other grounds. It must therefore be declared admissible. 74. The applicant contended that the domestic authorities had not discharged their duty to carry out an effective and prompt investigation as required by the procedural limbs of Articles 2 and 3. They had not identified members of the military personnel and the members of the police dog unit to take their testimony. They had drawn erroneous conclusions from the forensic evidence as regards the use of tear gas and had failed to clarify whether stones had been thrown by the officers. In addition, they had failed to take the necessary investigative measures promptly, resulting in the non-availability of the witnesses. No efforts had been undertaken in this regard to locate the witnesses who had left Hungary. 75. The Government submitted that the criminal investigation carried out by the authorities in the instant case had been effective. The authorities had initiated a prompt criminal investigation into the circumstances of the incident, they had carried out an on-site inspection, and an autopsy, and had obtained a toxicology expert opinion. At the request of the applicant’s lawyer, they had also commissioned a second medical expert opinion, which had not refuted the findings of the toxicology report. Furthermore, they had questioned all possible witnesses, including M.M. and K.K. The reason for their inability to question K.A. had been a clerical error during his registration in the asylum system, which had only been rectified once K.A. had left the country. Moreover, the witnesses had left the country at an early stage of the investigation, and the testimony of absentee witnesses could not have been used in any eventual criminal trial against the police officers. (a) General principles 76. The Court will examine together the complaints submitted under Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention in the light of the converging principles deriving from both those provisions (see Mocanu and Others v. Romania [GC], nos. 10865/09 and 2 others, § 314, ECHR 2014 (extracts)). The Court has already stated that, in interpreting Articles 2 and 3, it must be guided by the knowledge that the object and purpose of the Convention as an instrument for the protection of individual human beings requires that its provisions be interpreted and applied so as to make its safeguards practical and effective (ibid., § 315). 77. The general principles concerning the effectiveness of a criminal investigation, necessary to satisfy the procedural obligation imposed by Articles 2 and 3, have been summarised in Nicolae Virgiliu Tănase v. Romania ([GC], no. 41720/13, §§ 164-71, 25 June 2019) and Bouyid v. Belgium ([GC], no. 23380/09, §§ 118-23, ECHR 2015), respectively. The Court has also recently in S.M. v. Croatia ([GC], no. 60561/14, §§ 311-20, 25 June 2020) summarised its case-law on the procedural obligation under the converging principles of Articles 2, 3 and 4 of the Convention. (b) Application of the above principles to the present case 78. The Court notes that in the present case the Hungarian authorities had detailed information first from the Serbian authorities and subsequently from the testimonies of the applicant and other witnesses about the allegation of use of deterrent measures by the police officers as well as about the death of F. in circumstances potentially attributable to the omission of the authorities. For the Court the authorities, faced with “arguable” claims within the meaning of the Court’s case-law, of police ill-treatment, had a duty under Article 3 of the Convention to take the necessary measures without delay to assess the credibility of the claims. Besides, they were additionally required to investigate whether the police officers had failed to take measures that were necessary and sufficient to avert the risks to F.’s life (see paragraph 66 above). 79. The Court observes that immediately after the accident, the chief police officer of the Csongrád County Police Headquarters instigated, of his own motion, a criminal investigation into ill-treatment committed in the course of official proceedings (see paragraph 24 above). 80. For the Court the first point for decision is whether the criminal investigation launched this case, that is the criminal proceedings against unknown police officers for the alleged ill-treatment in the course of official proceedings, was in itself sufficient to discharge that duty. 81. The Court observes in this regard that by deciding to open an investigation into the alleged ill-treatment by police officers, the substantive scope of the criminal investigation remained limited and was not meant to inquire into the alleged failure of the authorities to do enough to protect F.’s life. As it is not for the Court to characterise the circumstances of the incident under the relevant provisions of domestic criminal law, it would simply observe that in the instant case the sole purpose of the investigation in issue was to establish whether individual police officers could be held liable for “ill-treatment committed in the course of official proceedings” under Article 301 of the Criminal Code (see paragraph 50 above), which provision does not in any way relate to life-endangering acts or the protection of the right to life within the meaning of Article 2. 82. The ensuing investigation into police ill-treatment was therefore concerned with the physical element of the alleged conduct, and was restricted to verifying the allegations of the use of force, and in particular the throwing of stones, the spraying of tear gas and the deployment of police dogs by the police officers. It disregarded altogether the other elements of the police operation and did not provide any assessment of responsibility for failing to protect the right to life. 83. Furthermore, as the Court has previously pointed out, sometimes lives are lost as a result of failures in the overall system rather than individual error entailing criminal or disciplinary liability. In complex police operations failings could be institutional, individual or both (see Armani Da Silva v. the United Kingdom [GC], no. 5878/08, § 284, 30 March 2016). The domestic authorities in the present have not come to any conclusions about possible shortcomings in that respect. It cannot escape the Court’s attention either that in the present case the institutional responsibility of the police was never considered. 84. The Court thus concludes that the manner in which the Hungarian justice system operated in response to the event did not secure the full accountability of State officials or authorities for their role in conducting the border control operation as they did. In particular, although the investigation authorities had the power to instigate an investigation into the incident as a whole, they failed to do so. It follows that the proceedings did not discharge the State’s duty under Article 2 of the Convention to investigate those matters. 85. As regards the issue of whether the investigation into police ill‐treatment was effective, the Court notes that the authorities took the first indispensable steps of commissioning a toxicology and medical expert report, and questioning the police officers, the applicant and M.M to assess what they considered to be the material outstanding issue: the use of force by the police officers. 86. The authorities were faced with two conflicting versions of events on that point. The first was that of the police officers involved in the incident, supporting the testimony of each other and concurring in the sense that they all denied the use of force. The second was that of the direct eyewitnesses, K.K and M.M., who were not related either to the applicant or to his brother and who unanimously stated the contrary, asserting that the police had used force to prevent their disembarkation. The medical expert opinion found no evidence of bodily injury and could not provide a conclusive result concerning the use of tear gas. 87. When discontinuing the investigation, the domestic authorities concluded that there was no evidence to find that the police had engaged in the use of force, drawing almost exclusively on the statements given by the police officers implicated in the events. They discounted the testimony given by the applicant personally, apparently because it could not be corroborated by other evidence. 88. It is beyond doubt that it is for the domestic authorities to determine such factual issues. The question, however, is whether they made a reasonable attempt to do so. 89. The Court observes in this respect a somewhat inconsistent approach to the assessment of evidence by the national prosecuting authorities, who seem to have accepted the police officers’ statements without giving a sufficiently convincing explanation as to their discrepancies with the testimony given by the migrants, and despite the fact that those statements might also have been subjective and potentially aimed at evading criminal liability. 90. The Court notes that in the present case the investigation’s outcome was determined to a significant extent by the taking of oral testimony and the resolution of contradictions in eyewitness statements concerning the factual circumstances of the incident. However, as it appears from the case file, the applicant’s assertions could not be corroborated by any findings of fact. The authorities had at their disposal the testimony of M.M., A.S. and K.K. given in the immigration proceedings, but none of them was available for further questioning in the criminal proceedings. Moreover, K.A. was not questioned at all. The migrants present during the incident had all left Hungary before the conclusion of the proceedings. With the passage of time the availability of evidence greatly diminished and once the eyewitnesses had left Hungary, the applicant could not adduce any further evidence. Moreover, there is no indication that the domestic authorities tried to locate the witnesses. The authorities did not explore any other options to resolve the factual contradictions with which they were faced. 91. A further element of the investigation which calls for comment is the failure to identify other police officers who were present at the scene and to take statements from them. While it was clear from the statements of the police officers that further persons were deployed with police dogs, those persons were not questioned in the course of the proceedings. 92. Thus, it does not seem that the authorities in charge of the proceedings deployed reasonable efforts to gather the evidence and establish the facts. For the Court, these deficiencies limited the potential of the investigation to shed light on the veracity of the applicant’s allegations, undermining the reliability and effectiveness of the investigation. 93. Overall, the Court finds that the response of the domestic authorities (see paragraphs 84 and 92 above) was in breach of the State’s procedural obligations under Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention. 94. Accordingly, there has been a violation of Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention in their procedural aspect. 95. The applicant complained that his brother, F., had died as a result of a border control operation conducted by the Hungarian authorities. He also claimed that the State had failed to comply with its obligation to protect his brother’s right to life. He relied on Article 2 of the Convention, which provides: “1. Everyone’s right to life shall be protected by law. No one shall be deprived of his life intentionally save in the execution of a sentence of a court following his conviction of a crime for which this penalty is provided by law. 2. Deprivation of life shall not be regarded as inflicted in contravention of this article when it results from the use of force which is no more than absolutely necessary: (a) in defence of any person from unlawful violence; (b) in order to effect a lawful arrest or to prevent the escape of a person lawfully detained; (c) in action lawfully taken for the purpose of quelling a riot or insurrection.” 96. First, the Government contended that this complaint was inadmissible ratione personae with the provisions of the Convention. In their view F.’s death was not attributable to the Hungarian authorities; rather it had been caused by his own actions, instigated by his fear. Furthermore, any fear that illegal migrants had in relation to border police had only been instilled by NGOs, allegedly dedicated to helping them. 97. In the applicant’s submission, his brother’s death was attributable to the State since the Hungarian authorities had used violence against him during the push-back operation, and he had been forced to swim back to Serbia, as a consequence of which he had drowned in the river. 98. The Court considers that the Government’s plea of inadmissibility ratione personae raises issues which are closely linked to the merits of the applicant’s complaints. It therefore decides to join this objection to the merits of the complaint made under Article 2 (see Iordanovi v. Bulgaria, no. 10907/04, § 41, 27 January 2011). 99. The Court further notes that this complaint is not inadmissible on any other grounds. It must therefore be declared admissible. (a) The applicant 100. The applicant maintained that there was a causal link between the officers’ conduct and his brother’s death. The police officers had sprayed tear gas at F., which had made him cough and feel dizzy. F. had also been hit by stones, causing him pain and further hindering him in swimming. These factors, at least indirectly, had contributed to his death. 101. The applicant pointed out that in addition to his witness testimony, the account of the events given by M.M. and K.K. had also confirmed that stones had been thrown at them and that the police officers had used tear gas. In his view the absence of any physical evidence did not rule out the use of force against them. Similarly, although it could not be established how the police dogs had been deployed, owing to the failure of the investigation authorities to question the relevant police unit, it was clear that the use of dogs had constituted a coercive deterrent measure. 102. In any case, F. had not decided to try to return Serbia of his own motion. The officers on the riverbank had used unjustified force and had actively blocked the migrants from climbing ashore and entering the territory of Hungary, thus they had been forced to swim back, which had directly put F.’s life in danger, engaging the positive obligations of the Hungarian authorities. 103. Lastly, the applicant argued that the rescue operation had not been conducted in a manner that could have protected F.’s life. The authorities had failed to react swiftly to the risk posed by swimming through the Tisza River. The circumstances of the rescue operation had not been clearly established in the course of the domestic proceedings and the contradictions in the witness testimony of the staff of the rescue boat and the section commander had not been resolved. (b) The Government 104. In the Government’s opinion, the death of the applicant’s brother was not caused by actions attributable to the Hungarian authorities. In particular, the State agents had not used any force that could have led to his death. The Government submitted that there was no evidence proving the allegations that the applicant’s brother was ill-treated by the agents of the State. In particular, in the light of the testimony of the officers and the conclusion of the domestic investigations, it could not be established that police officers had thrown stones at him or sprayed tear gas at him, or that he had been attacked by police dogs. According to the witness testimony of K.K., only two stones had been thrown in the direction of the migrants trying to cross the border; M.M. had also stated that he had heard two to three stones being thrown, and it was only the applicant who had alleged that his brother had been hit, which had also not been confirmed by the autopsy. Similarly, while both K.K.’s and M.M.’s testimony had confirmed the use of tear gas, they had differed as to the circumstances of its use. Furthermore, the toxicology expert had not been able to detect any signs of tear gas on F.’s body. 105. The Government argued that F.’s drowning had been the result of the fact that he could hardly swim and had been exhausted. In their view, if F. had waited to be rescued, he would have been saved. (a) General principles (i) Assessment of evidence and standard of proof 106. The general principles concerning the assessment of evidence and the standard of proof applied by the Court are set out in Giuliani and Gaggio v. Italy ([GC], no. 23458/02, §§ 180-82, ECHR 2011 (extracts)). 107. In addition, in certain circumstances, where the events lie wholly, or in large part, within the exclusive knowledge of the authorities, as in the case of the death of a person within their control in custody, the burden of proof may be regarded as resting on the authorities to provide a satisfactory and convincing explanation of, in particular, the causes of the detained person’s death (see Nachova and Others v. Bulgaria [GC], nos. 43577/98 and 43579/98, § 157, ECHR 2005‐VII). In all cases where the Court is unable to establish the exact circumstances of a case for reasons objectively attributable to the State authorities, it is for the respondent Government to explain, in a satisfactory and convincing manner, the sequence of events and to exhibit solid evidence that can refute the applicant’s allegations (see Tagayeva and Others v. Russia, nos. 26562/07 and 6 others, § 586, 13 April 2017). (ii) General principles relating to the substantive aspect of Article 2 108. Article 2 does not solely concern deaths resulting from the use of force by agents of the State but also, in the first sentence of its first paragraph, lays down a positive obligation on States to take appropriate steps to safeguard the lives of those within their jurisdiction (see, for example, L.C.B. v. the United Kingdom, 9 June 1998, § 36, Reports of Judgments and Decisions 1998‐III, and Paul and Audrey Edwards v. the United Kingdom, no. 46477/99, § 54, ECHR 2002-II). The Court has found that the absence of any direct State responsibility for the death of an individual or for placing his or her life in danger does not exclude the applicability of Article 2 (see Cavit Tınarlıoğlu v. Turkey, no. 3648/04, § 61, 2 February 2016, with further references). 109. This approach has also been applied to areas where risks to life have arisen owing to “dangerous activities”, such as the settlement of people in slum dwellings next to a massive rubbish dump and naturally-occurring hazards such as mudslides, where the authorities, knowing about the potential danger, are under obligations to respond with due regard to protection of the right to life (see Öneryıldız v. Turkey [GC], no. 48939/99, ECHR 2004‐XII, and Budayeva and Others v. Russia, nos. 15339/02 and 4 others, ECHR 2008 (extracts)). The Court has also found that positive obligations may apply in the context of armed forces’ operations (see Stoyanovi v. Bulgaria, no. 42980/04, § 61, 9 November 2010), the health sector (see Vo v. France [GC], no. 53924/00, §§ 88-89, ECHR 2004‐VIII), or ensuring safety on building sites (see Pereira Henriques and Others v. Luxembourg (dec.), no. 60255/00, 26 August 2003). 110. The above list of sectors is not exhaustive. Indeed, in its judgment in Öneryıldız (cited above, § 71), the Grand Chamber observed that the Article 2 positive obligation must be construed as applying in the context of any activity, whether public or not, in which the right to life may be at stake. 111. The Court has found Article 2 to be applicable in circumstances in which the applicant was the victim of conduct by State agents which, by its very nature, was potentially lethal or put the applicant’s life at risk (see Makaratzis v. Greece [GC], no. 50385/99, §§ 52 and 55, ECHR 2004‐XI, and Alkın v. Turkey, no. 75588/01, § 29, 13 October 2009). 112. Furthermore, the Court has considered that the sphere of application of Article 2 of the Convention cannot be interpreted as being limited to the time and direct cause of the individual’s death. Chains of events that were triggered by a negligent act and led to loss of life may also fall to be examined under Article 2 (see Dodov v. Bulgaria, no. 59548/00, § 70, 17 January 2008). 113. Positive obligations will vary in their application depending on the context. In previous cases involving non-intentional infringements of the right to life, the Court held that positive obligations required States to adopt regulations in this context for the protection of people’s safety in public spaces, and to ensure the effective functioning of that regulatory framework (see Ciechońska v. Poland, no. 19776/04, § 69, 14 June 2011). 114. The obligation to safeguard lives extends in appropriate circumstances to a positive obligation on the authorities to take such preventive operational measures as were necessary and sufficient to protect an individual whose life was at risk, in circumstances when they themselves had set up and authorised the activity which gave rise to the risk in question (see Paşa and Erkan Erol v. Turkey, no. 51358/99, § 31, 12 December 2006), or as protection from the criminal acts of another individual or, in certain particular circumstances, as protection from himself or herself (see Nicolae Virgiliu Tănase, cited above, §§ 135-36, with further references). The general principles applicable in a situation where the duty to take preventive operational measures under Article 2 arises have been summarised in Kurt v. Austria ([GC], no. 62903/15, §§ 158-60, 15 June 2021, with further references). 115. In the context of policing operations resulting in the death of one or more individuals, the Court must examine the planning and control of the operation to assess whether, in the particular circumstances of the case, the authorities took appropriate care to ensure that any risk to life was minimised and that they were not negligent in their choice of action (see Giuliani and Gaggio, cited above, § 248, and McCann and Others v. the United Kingdom, 27 September 1995, § 194, Series A no. 324) The Court has also held that policing operations must be sufficiently regulated by national law, within the framework of a system of adequate and effective safeguards against arbitrariness and abuse of force, and even against avoidable accident (see Andreou v. Turkey, no. 45653/99, § 50, 27 October 2009). 116. As regards rescue operations, the Court explained in Finogenov and Others v. Russia (nos. 18299/03 and 27311/03, §§ 214-16, ECHR 2011 (extracts)) that different degrees of scrutiny can be applied to different aspects of a situation raising issues under Article 2. The degree of scrutiny depends on the extent to which the authorities were in control of the situation and other relevant constraints inherent in the operational decision-making in this difficult and sensitive sphere. Normally, the planning and conduct of the rescue operation can be subjected to a heightened scrutiny. 117. Whenever a State undertakes or organises dangerous activities, or authorises them, it must ensure through a system of rules and through sufficient control that the risk is reduced to a reasonable minimum. If damage nevertheless arises, it will only amount to a breach of the State’s positive obligations if it was due to insufficient regulation or insufficient control, but not if the damage was caused by the negligent conduct of an individual or the concatenation of unfortunate events (see, for comparison, Kalender v. Turkey, no. 4314/02, §§ 43-47, 15 December 2009). 118. The State’s duty to safeguard the right to life must also be considered to extend to the provision of emergency services where it has been brought to the notice of the authorities that the life or health of an individual is at risk on account of injuries sustained as a result of an accident. Depending on the circumstances, this duty may go beyond the provision of essential emergency services such as fire brigades and ambulances and include the provision of air-mountain or air-sea rescue facilities to assist those in distress. The State’s duty in this context also involves the setting up of an appropriate regulatory framework for rescuing persons in distress and ensuring the effective functioning of such a framework (see Furdik v. Slovakia (dec.), no. 42994/05, 2 December 2008). (b) Application of those principles to the facts of the present case 119. The Court notes at the outset that it is undisputed by the parties that the applicant’s brother drowned in the border river when trying to swim back from Hungary to Serbia. The applicant maintained that there was a causal link between the actions of the Hungarian authorities and the death of F., in particular owing to the fact that the police had used force to prevent the migrants from disembarking in Hungary. The Government, for their part, found it established that no force had been used against the applicant’s brother and no harm had been inflicted on him. 120. The Court notes that it is confronted with divergent accounts of the events and circumstances of the incident, in particular, as regards the conduct of the police during the border control operation. Although the applicant claimed that tear gas was sprayed and stones were thrown at them, and that police dogs were released when they tried to get ashore, all the official witness statements substantiated the allegation that no force of this kind was used against the migrants when trying to disembark on the Hungarian side of the river. The Court observes that the respondent Government’s version of facts on this point is contradicted by the witness statements of M.M. and K.K., produced in the course of the domestic proceedings. They both unambiguously stated that tear gas and stones were used to prevent their disembarking on the riverbank. Furthermore, the testimony of M.M., A.S. and K.K. confirmed the applicant’s version of events that they were warned not to cross the border and were called on to go back. 121. The Court further takes note that the autopsy revealed no external injuries on F. (see paragraph 25 above). It also has regard to the reports of the CPT, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, and the Concluding Observations of the UN Human Rights Committee and the UN Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which relate to a series of events and cases of violence that occurred during push-back operations near the Serbian border (see paragraphs 52-55 above). 122. While it is true that the attainment of the required evidentiary standard (see paragraphs 106 and 107 above) may follow from the coexistence of sufficiently strong, clear and concordant inferences or unrebutted presumptions, their evidential value must be considered in the light of the circumstances of the individual case and the seriousness and nature of the charge to which they give rise against the respondent State. 123. The Court finds insurmountable the discrepancy between the migrants’ and the police officers’ testimony. However, it notes that the Chief Prosecutor’s Office closed the investigation into ill-treatment (see paragraph 49 above). Thus, notwithstanding the serious concerns to which the circumstances of the present case and the reports cited above give rise, the Court does not consider that the material in the case file enables it to establish beyond reasonable doubt that tear gas or police dogs were used against the applicant’s brother, or that stones were thrown at him. The Court notes at the same time that its inability to reach any conclusion in this regard largely stems from the shortcomings in the investigations conducted by the competent authorities (see paragraph 92 above). 124. What is at issue in the present case is not the taking of the life of the applicant’s brother by the border police. As the Court has already established, this situation does not necessarily exclude the responsibility of the Government for the death of the applicant’s brother and the Court is called on to determine whether the facts of the instant case engage the State’s positive obligation under Article 2 of the Convention and whether they disclose a failure by the respondent State to protect the right to life of F. (see paragraph 108 above). 125. Even if the Court cannot find that F. was subjected to the use of force by the police officers, as suggested by the applicant, or that the officers caused any quantifiable harm to F., it cannot accept the argument of the Government that any negligence or lack of foresight should be attributed to the victims of the incident. 126. The Court considers that, having regard to its findings under the procedural limb of Article 2 (see paragraph 92 above), it cannot rule on several specific elements of the border control operation. However, it observes that some of the facts surrounding the events of 1 June 2016 are not disputed between the parties or emerge from the documents submitted by the parties and the domestic investigation file. It will therefore examine the present complaint under Article 2 of the Convention on the basis of these facts. 127. In assessing the level of knowledge which can be imputed to the authorities at the relevant time, the Court notes at the first place that the Hungarian authorities were carrying out a border control operation when the accident occurred. It was known to the authorities – as it was a matter of common knowledge – that the Tisza River was a dangerous crossing point and that there had already previously been at least one incident which had led to the injury of migrants trying to cross the river (see paragraph 12 above). Furthermore, the police officers were aware of the migrants arriving on the Hungarian side of the river: according to the account given by the police officers, the water rescue officers on duty on the motorboat spotted the gathering on the Serbian shore, and the police officer stationed in the hunting observation tower noticed people trying to cross the river (see paragraph 37 above). 128. The Court cannot disregard the fact in this connection that before deciding to swim back to Serbia, the migrants were waiting in the water in their clothes and with their bags after having been smuggled across the river, which circumstances inevitably made them more vulnerable to the hazards inherent in crossing the river. In this respect, the Court finds it relevant to note that members of the Iraqi family, once they had been rescued from the water, had to be hospitalised for hypothermia, with one of the children being in a critical state, and considers that the conditions of the family were illustrative of the circumstances facing the migrants. 129. In sum, the evidence available to the Court is sufficient for it to be satisfied that the authorities must be regarded as being aware of the real and imminent risk the migrants were facing and the necessity to take measures to protect their lives. 130. Consequently, in the light of the foregoing, in particular the fact that the authorities themselves conducted the operation which gave rise to the risk in question, the Court considers that the circumstances examined above show that in the instant case the State’s responsibility was engaged under Article 2. 131. It remains to be ascertained whether the authorities satisfied their positive obligation to take measures to protect the life of the applicant’s brother, in circumstances in which it was manifestly at risk. 132. The Court considers that the State’s positive obligations as regards the protection of life extend to the planning and control of the operation to ensure that any risk to life is minimised. It involves the obligation to take preventive operational measures to avoid a real and immediate risk to life of which the authorities had or ought to have had knowledge, while bearing in mind that State agents cannot be expected to succeed in rescuing every person in a situation of danger, especially since the duty to take those measures is an obligation of means and not of result (see Safi and Others v. Greece, no. 5418/15, § 157, 7 July 2022, and Kurt, cited above, § 159). 133. In this connection, the Court reiterates that according to its established case-law under Article 3, Contracting States have the right, as a matter of well-established international law and subject to their treaty obligations, including the Convention, to control the entry, residence and expulsion of aliens (see Hirsi Jamaa and Others v. Italy [GC], no. 27765/09, § 113, ECHR 2012). Nevertheless, the Court has also stressed that the problems which States may encounter in managing migratory flows or in the reception of asylum-seekers cannot justify recourse to practices which are not compatible with the Convention or the Protocols thereto (see N.D. and N.T. v. Spain [GC], nos. 8675/15 and 8697/15, § 170, 13 February 2020). In addition, the Court is mindful of the fact that the present application does not concern the organisation of border management as a whole. It is confined to examining, among other things, whether in the present case, in the organisation and planning of the border control operation in question, failings occurred which can be linked directly to the death of F. 134. The Court observes that at the material time the Hungarian authorities were required to work under the conditions of an increased influx of asylum-seekers and migrants, which necessitated putting in place measures to deal with this new situation. It also accepts that irregular movements of migrants across the border represented a challenge to the authorities in trying to prevent migrants circumventing border protection in Hungary. However, this also means that the authorities must have known in advance about the very real possibility of the arrival of migrants at the border crossing point. 135. In that connection the Court reiterates that incidents at the Tisza River had been observed before the events of 1 June 2016, and it could have been easily predicted that further attempts at crossing the river would take place. The circumstances of the present case were therefore not exceptional, but rather a more or less routine border control operation; the Hungarian authorities had sufficient knowledge to evaluate the dangers the river‐crossing presented and to carefully organise their border operations accordingly. 136. However, in the present case, while several officers had been deployed at the border crossing where the incident occurred, it does not seem that the officers followed any operational plan developed for the purpose of dealing with search and rescue situations that could occur, to ensure that the life of those trying to cross the border were protected. There is no evidence either in the parties’ submission to the Court or in the domestic investigation file indicating that they took any measures or received any instructions upon the detection of the boat carrying the migrants to ensure the safety of the passengers, or that they made any allowances for the migrants’ safe interception and disembarkation. It follows that the authorities cannot be considered to have done all that could be reasonably expected of them to avoid a real and immediate risk to life which they knew was liable to arise. 137. As regards the authorities’ conduct once they received information about one of the migrants being in distress, the Court considers first of all, that the rescue operation put in place cannot be held to have been spontaneous: as noted above, the authorities had knowledge that the river served as a crossing point between the two countries, allowing them to reflect on the necessities for a rescue operation and to make specific preparations in the event that an accident occurred in the water. Moreover, as they had advance knowledge that the migrants were approaching the Hungarian border by boat, it would certainly have been possible for the authorities to mount a search and rescue operation. As noted above, they had a number of officers nearby who arrived at the site some five to ten minutes following the warning, however, there is no evidence of any preparations being made for a rescue operation or to provide medical assistance to those in need. 138. Nonetheless, despite the information which was available to the water rescue officers about the arrival of the migrants, the motorboat was heading away to dock, and was only called for assistance once the officers had discovered the Iraqi family in the reeds. As appears from the officers’ testimony, the motorboat was instructed to help with the disembarkation of the Iraqi family, who could not go ashore because of the barbed wire. There is no evidence of any attempt made by the officers who were present at the scene to verify whether additional persons were stuck in the water and in need of assistance. 139. The Court also notes certain inconsistencies in the officers’ witness testimony as regards the subsequent conduct of the rescue operation. According to the water rescue officers, they were called to assist the Iraqi family and were not made aware that additional persons were in the water, of whom one was in distress. It was only when they reported seeing an empty backpack and a jacket in the water that they received the instruction to look for a person who had disappeared. Being unable to find the missing person, they were redirected to assist the Iraqi family, leaving F. to his fate (see paragraph 42 above). 140. According to the officers on shore, the section commander notified the water rescue officers about the three migrants swimming towards Serbia on the basis of the information received from the officer stationed in the hunting tower (see paragraph 35 above). However, it is not certain whether the water rescue officers were made aware of the fact that F. was in distress and in urgent need of assistance. 141. For the Court, what can be distilled from the testimony is that there was no clear order of priorities or course of action set for dealing with migrants in a vulnerable situation that could have guided the officers in their choices. It can hardly be questioned that the officers had to manage a difficult situation in what appeared to be a choice between assisting the Iraqi family where there were children or looking for F., whose life they knew to be in danger. Nonetheless, even when the officers became aware that one of the migrants crossing the river was in danger, no assessment was made as to how to respond to the multiple risks that the different groups were facing, or how to assist F., without an impractical diversion of the resources that were being used to rescue the Iraqi family. The degeneration of the situation was largely due to the fact that the rescue operation appears not to have been thought through. 142. The Court does not lose sight of the fact either that there might be situations when operational choices must be made in terms of priorities and resources to respond to unexpected developments. However, it notes with concern that there is no indication of any effort to look for F. after the rescue boat left the spot where he had apparently disappeared. 143. In addition, it was only the water rescue officers in the rescue boat who in practice were called on to assist both the Iraqi family and F. It can readily be recognised that the rescue capacities present at the incident did not correspond to the requirements of the emergency situation as it developed. Although this must also have been clear to the officials present at the scene, there is no evidence in the investigation file to document any attempts to call for assistance to adequately respond to the real and immediate danger the migrants were facing. 144. Accordingly, the Court cannot but conclude that, by their failure to act rapidly and decisively, the authorities involved did not take the operational measures within the scope of their powers which, judged reasonably, might have been expected to protect F’s life. 145. In view of all these factors, the Court finds that the Government’s preliminary objection as to compatibility ratione personae of this part of the application with the Convention should be rejected. It further concludes that the authorities failed to discharge their positive obligation to protect F.’s life and that there has been a violation of Article 2 of the Convention in its substantive aspect. 146. The applicant maintained that the conduct of the police officers, forcing him and the other migrants to return to Serbia, constituted ill‐treatment, in breach of Article 3 of the Convention, which reads as follows: “No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” 147. The Government argued that the applicant’s complaint under Article 3 was inadmissible ratione materiae since the stress the applicant had suffered on account of the actions of the police officers had not exceeded the level normally inherent in any encounter with border guards during an illegal border crossing. The complaint was inadmissible ratione personae since the applicant’s anxiety had not been caused by actions attributable to the Hungarian State authorities. Any emotional suffering on the part of the applicant had merely occurred owing to his own bad choices, such as swimming back to Serbia although he could hardly swim. 148. The applicant maintained that his ill-treatment had taken place in the course of official proceedings, while he was under the supervision of the Hungarian authorities, rendering Article 3 applicable. 149. The Court notes that the applicant in the present case complained under the substantive limb of Article 3 exclusively about the use of force by police officers. He did not complain about the adverse psychological effects of the police operation. Since the Government’s preliminary objections relate precisely to the adverse psychological effects of the operation, the Court rejects the Government’s preliminary objections ratione materiae and ratione personae as they do not actually concern the subject matter of the applicant’s complaint. 150. Other than that, the Court notes that the relevant part of the application is not manifestly ill-founded within the meaning of Article 35 § 3 (a) of the Convention. It further notes that it is not inadmissible on any other grounds. It must therefore be declared admissible. 151. The applicant reiterated his claims that the police officers had thrown stones, used tear gas and police dogs, and blocked him and the other migrants from climbing ashore, which conduct constituted ill-treatment. He had decided to swim back with his family members owing to fear of the actions of the police officers. 152. The Government maintained that there was no evidence of the use of force against the applicant by the police officers. In their view, the applicant had decided not to surrender to the Hungarian authorities and to return to Serbia either because of his unfounded fear of the Hungarian authorities or because he did not want to submit an asylum application in Hungary before reaching his final destination. 153. The general principles as to whether treatment falls within Article 3 of the Convention and those concerning the assessment of evidence of ill‐treatment are set out in Bouyid, cited above, §§ 81-90). 154. As noted above, the applicant’s complaint under the substantive limb of Article 3 relate exclusively to the alleged use of force by police officers. 155. As to the applicant’s allegation of physical assault during the border control operation, for the reasons described above (see paragraph 123), the Court cannot conclude beyond reasonable doubt that physical force was used against the applicant. In this respect, the Court notes that the difficulty in determining whether there was any substance to the applicant’s allegations of use of physical force to a large extent stems from the authorities’ failure to conduct an effective investigation, which has already resulted in a finding of a violation of the procedural limb of Article 3 of the Convention (see paragraph 92 above). 156. In view of the above, the Court cannot establish a violation of the substantive limb of Article 3 of the Convention. 157. Article 41 of the Convention provides: “If the Court finds that there has been a violation of the Convention or the Protocols thereto, and if the internal law of the High Contracting Party concerned allows only partial reparation to be made, the Court shall, if necessary, afford just satisfaction to the injured party.” 158. The applicant claimed 50,000 euros (EUR) in respect of non‐pecuniary damage for the violation of Article 2 and EUR 10,000 in respect of non-pecuniary damage for the violation of Article 3. 159. The Government contested these claims. 160. The Court considers that in view of circumstances of the case and the violations found, the applicant undeniably suffered non-pecuniary damage which cannot be made good by the mere finding of a violation. Ruling on an equitable basis, as required by Article 41 of the Convention, the Court awards him EUR 34,000, plus any tax that may be chargeable on that amount. 161. The applicant also claimed EUR 5,600 for the costs and expenses incurred before the Court. He submitted that he would only be billed if the case was decided in his favour. This sum corresponds to 36.5 hours of legal work billable by his lawyer at an hourly rate of EUR 150 (in total EUR 5,475) and EUR 125 in clerical costs. 162. The Government contested these claims as excessive. 163. According to the Court’s case-law, an applicant is entitled to the reimbursement of costs and expenses only in so far as it has been shown that these have been actually and necessarily incurred and are reasonable as to quantum. In the present case, regard being had to the documents in its possession and the above criteria, the Court considers it reasonable to award the amount claimed in full. 164. The Court considers it appropriate that the default interest rate should be based on the marginal lending rate of the European Central Bank, to which should be added three percentage points. FOR THESE REASONS, THE COURT, UNANIMOUSLY, (a) that the respondent State is to pay the applicant, within three months from the date on which the judgment becomes final in accordance with Article 44 § 2 of the Convention, the following amounts, to be converted into the currency of the respondent State at the rate applicable at the date of settlement: (i) EUR 34,000 (thirty-four thousand euros), plus any tax that may be chargeable, in respect of non-pecuniary damage; (ii) EUR 5,600 (five thousand six hundred euros), plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicant, in respect of costs and expenses; (b) that from the expiry of the above-mentioned three months until settlement simple interest shall be payable on the above amounts at a rate equal to the marginal lending rate of the European Central Bank during the default period plus three percentage points; Done in English, and notified in writing on 2 February 2023, pursuant to Rule 77 §§ 2 and 3 of the Rules of Court. Liv Tigerstedt Marko Bošnjak Deputy Registrar President This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 § 2 of the Convention. It may be subject to editorial revision. Art 2 + Art 3 (procedural) • Ineffective investigation into the death of the applicant’s brother, a Syrian migrant, who drowned during a border control operation at a river on the Hungarian-Serbian border • No assessment of responsibility for failure to protect right to life • Manner in which domestic justice system operated in response to incident failed to secure the full accountability of State officials or authorities • Ineffective investigation into applicant’s arguable allegations of police ill-treatment In the case of Alhowais v. Hungary, Masha Medvedeva [email protected] PhD candidate, Center for Language and Cognition Groningen & Department of Legal Methods, University of Groningen Prof. dr. Martijn Wieling Center for Language and Cognition Groningen, University of Groningen Prof. dr. 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Adam Kalish Condo & Co-Op Litigation A Trial Attorney Ready To Assist You Or Your Business What are the pros and cons of living in a co-op? On Behalf of Law Firm of Adam Kalish | Jun 7, 2021 | Condominiums & Cooperatives If you’re looking for a place to live in New York, you’ve likely heard about co-ops. If not, this term is short for cooperative housing. In this living situation, you and the other residents in a building are all equal owners. While cooperatives are great for some people, others aren’t a fan of these housing units. With that in mind, here are the pros and cons of cooperatives. Advantages of cooperatives One of the main reasons why cooperatives are so attractive is that they’re affordable, especially when compared to other options in popular cities. They’re also great housing options for people that don’t want to or can’t get a loan from a financial lender. People also love co-ops because they don’t have to worry about property repairs and maintenance. In most cases, a company gets paid by the co-op as a whole to take care of property upkeep. Most co-ops also have a company that takes care of lawn maintenance, so you don’t have to worry about mowing. Disadvantages of cooperatives When comparing condominiums and cooperatives, you’re going to run into disadvantages of the latter. One of these disadvantages is that co-ops can be hard to get into. Before qualifying to live in a co-op, you’ll usually need to complete multiple interviews. You’ll also need tax returns from the past several years. Depending on where you look, another disadvantage of co-ops is their sometimes costly maintenance fees. Having people take care of repairs and keep lawns mowed is great. But, make sure you can afford what a co-op charges you to keep it maintained. As you can see, there are pros and cons of living in a co-op. If you’d like to find out more about co-ops, it might be wise to speak with a real estate attorney. What is a quiet title action in New York? Understanding equal housing opportunity in New York Choosing between a finance or an operating lease Making a smooth transition between property managers Landlord’s rights and obligations Condominiums & Cooperatives Archives Select Month February 2023 January 2023 December 2022 November 2022 October 2022 September 2022 August 2022 July 2022 June 2022 May 2022 April 2022 March 2022 February 2022 January 2022 December 2021 November 2021 October 2021 September 2021 August 2021 July 2021 June 2021 May 2021 April 2021 March 2021 February 2021 January 2021 December 2020 July 2020 April 2020 February 2018 January 2018 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 March 2016 Arrange A Free Consultation With Attorney Kalish Brooklyn Office 1 Brooklyn Main Office 9306 Flatlands Ave © 2023 Law Firm of Adam Kalish • All Rights Reserved

Eddie Murphy Says Daughter Starring In “Coming 2 America” Is A “Proud Papa Moment” Eddie Murphy is not just one of the most recognized actors of all time, he’s also a father to 10 kids and we’ll be seeing one of them in upcoming movie, “Coming 2 America”. Murphy’s daughter, Bella Murphy, will be making her acting debut starring as one of Prince Akeem’s daughters, Omma. Eddie Murphy is proud of Bella and that she got this role all on her own without his help. The actor said that if any of his kids want to go into acting, he insists they wait until they are 18 years old. Bella said that she’s excited that her movie debut is alongside her dad. Could you work with your parent on a daily basis? Would you want your parent to help you get a job at their place of employment or would you want to leave them out of it?

» Marijuana-related crimes and penalties Marijuana-related crimes and penalties On Behalf of Kinney Law, pc | May 29, 2020 | Criminal Defense | South Dakota has strict laws against marijuana. State law reads, “No person may knowingly possess marijuana,” and legislators mean it. South Dakota does not even honor medical marijuana prescriptions from other states. If you are being questioned about any marijuana-related crimes, it is crucial that you proceed with caution. Be aware of your rights and protect yourself. What you intend as an explanation, law enforcement may view as a confession. You may think of marijuana as a relatively harmless substance, but conviction of a marijuana-related crime in South Dakota can carry severe consequences. Being caught with fewer than two ounces is a misdemeanor. The sentence may be jail for up to a year and a fine of $2,000. Possessing more than two ounces can result in a felony charge. Sentences vary, depending on the amount of marijuana, with possible sentences of up to 15 years in prison and a fine of up to $30,000. Sentencing is harsher for possession of concentrates such as hashish. Possessing a marijuana concentrate in any amount is a felony, punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment and up to $10,000 in fines. You may also lose property connected to possession, such as your car. Penalties for sale of marijuana are harsher than those for possession. If the courts convict you of selling less than half an ounce, there is a mandatory sentence of 15 days to a year, possibly accompanied by a fine of up to $2,000. Selling more than a half-ounce is a felony, for which the courts may sentence you to 15 years in prison and issue a $30,000 fine. Furthermore, you may be subject to tougher sentences if convicted of selling marijuana in proximity to schools, public pools, youth centers or arcades. Manufacturing, distributing or dispensing Making marijuana concentrates is a felony. A first-time conviction may result in a 1- to 10-year prison sentence. A second conviction may subject you to a 10-year minimum prison term. Dispensing or distributing concentrates to a minor carries longer periods of incarceration.

Iraqi Forces Retake Mosul University From ISIS, Military Spokesman Says Dimitar Dilkoff A member of the Iraqi special forces' Counter-Terrorism Service stands guard next to a damaged building at Mosul university on Sunday, during an ongoing military operation against the Islamic State. Iraqi forces have made a crucial step in the bloody quest to retake Mosul from the Islamic State, according to a spokesman for the country's military. Iraqi Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool announced that the city's university has been fully retaken from ISIS militants. Special forces, known in Iraq as the Counter-Terrorism Service, or CTS, raised the Iraqi flag above the campus Friday, the Associated Press reports — but the troops were still days away from claiming complete control. "Iraqi forces entered the university grounds Friday and managed to secure more than half of the campus the next day amid stiff resistance from IS militants, who mainly deployed sniper and mortar fire to slow down the advancing troops," the wire service adds Sunday. Iraqi military launched its campaign to retake the northern city — the last major Iraqi city still in ISIS hands — last October. The former Iraqi commercial center is the place ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi first declared the caliphate, or Islamic state, shortly after the group captured it in June 2014. And it has been one of the central pillars of the militant group's diminishing territorial claims. Earlier this month, Iraqi troops reached the Tigris River, which bisects the city, retaking much of Mosul's eastern half. Yet, as Jane Arraf reports for NPR, the toughest fight is likely still to come. ISIS still holds the west side of the city, where more than 700,000 civilians are believed to remain. Brig. Gen. Scott Efflandt, the deputy commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, tells Jane that part of the complexity of the fight ahead lies in the urban combat required: "Picture any large metropolitan city on the U.S. East Coast — dense, older cities with smaller streets. And then picture having to eradicate all crime and any enemy force in there. "It requires street by street, house by house, room by room operation. There's no quick way to do it. You have to walk, you have to climb stairs, you have to open doors and then repeat the process again and again and again and then when you're doing that you have to leave someone behind to guard the area you just went through. " And they will continue to do so without the presence of American troops on the front lines. For now, CTS spokesman Sabah al-Numan tells Reuters the special forces are combing the university's campus Sunday for remaining militants. "The university is completely liberated and forces are sweeping the complex for any hiding militants," Numan said. "Most buildings are booby-trapped so we're being cautious."

Fans said the future of 'Dungeons & Dragons' was at risk. So they went to battle By Ivy Winfrey, Simon Hayter Toronto Star via Getty Images Dungeons & Dragons fans and creators recently found themselves battling an unlikely foe: the game's publisher, Wizards of the Coast. No game of Dungeons & Dragons is exactly alike – the worlds, characters and problems are crafted by players themselves. Depending on your game's Dungeon Master – the person who guides players through the story – you could find yourself teaming up with roguish elves to save their princess or infiltrating a dragon's lair to retrieve a magic sword. Last month, however, the tabletop roleplaying game itself became the story, when drafts of changes to its copyright license were leaked to the public, one of which would introduce royalty payments from certain creators. Fans felt this would destroy the culture of the game and, outraged, united to protect their beloved hobby against an unlikely foe: the game's own publisher, Wizards of the Coast. At the heart of the problem: the culture of creation Griffin Macaulay was one of the creators frustrated about the potential changes coming to D&D. Macaulay is the creator of "The Griffon's Saddlebag" a collection of custom items – "magical swords and potions that make your hair stand on end and stuff like that," he explained – that players can purchase to use in their own games. / Griffin Macaulay/The Griffon's Saddlebag Griffin Macaulay/The Griffon's Saddlebag "The Griffon's Saddlebag" contains items like the Frostfell Cloak, which players can use in their own games. "These are illustrations that are paired with mechanical write ups that use [D&D] official language, which is why [this fight over copyrights] is important to me," Macaulay said. Since its introduction in 2000, D&D's copyrights license - called the Open Game License (OGL), has allowed people like Macaulay to use some of the game's rules, characters and storylines to create and sell their own work, royalty-free. "Something you need to understand about D&D is that no one plays by the rules," said Linda Codega, a reporter for Io9 by Gizmodo who was the first to report on the leaks. "Every single person at a table who plays D&D is a creator; is using their imagination to create another kind of story and another way to use D&D." They added that this culture of creation can help explain why fans were so outraged that the draft introduced changes such as royalty payments of about 20-25% from creators making over $750,000. It also required anybody who published content under the OGL to provide the publisher with a copy of what they were selling, register that content and report all revenue regularly – a process creators found burdensome. "That royalty system, combined with a license to Wizards of the Coast of the creators' works, effectively cut drastically into the margins of the creators while also giving Wizards of the Coast the ability to republish, reprint and otherwise exploit those creators' works without any additional compensation or attribution," said Noah Downs, an attorney with Premack Rogers, a law firm representing digital creatives. Downs represented some of the creators who started an online campaign called #OpenDND against the changes. In an open letter, they called for Wizards of the Coast to walk back their proposals and leave the OGL unchanged; it ended up receiving more than 77,000 signatures. Some fans also threatened to leave D&D altogether and turn to other publishers like Paizo, which owns a similar tabletop roleplaying game called Pathfinder. And many turned to Twitter and Reddit to demand that Wizards revoke all the changes. The hashtag #DNDBeGone spread on Twitter, calling on players to cancel their subscriptions of D&D Beyond, the company's digital toolset for the game. The twists and turns of the fight After that initial draft was leaked in early January, more drafts and responses followed as fans of the game protested: Jan 4: Codega reported on the draft OGL 1.1 Jan 13: Another draft was leaked, OGL 2.0. It removed the royalties, but creators were still not happy. Jan 13: Wizards broke their silence about the situation with a written apology. They also agreed to open a feedback process with a new draft to be released later on. Jan 18: An official draft was published, named OGL 1.2. This also triggered a feedback process for creators and players to comment and share their opinion. In their apology, Wizards of the Coast said their intention was to protect the game from harmful content and technologies like NFTs. "In addition to language allowing us to address discriminatory and hateful conduct and clarifying what types of products the OGL covers, our drafts included royalty language designed to apply to large corporations attempting to use OGL content," the apology read. "It was never our intent to impact the vast majority of the community." After OGL 1.2 was released, Dungeons & Dragons Executive Producer Kyle Brink told NPR that it was always D&D's intention to bring its gaming community into the process of updating the copyright license. The leaked drafts, he said, had not been ready for the public eye and thus it was no surprise that they received the pushback they did. He also said D&D's days-long silence was due to its team reacting and preparing a response. "We think of ourselves as part of the community because we happen to have jobs at Wizards right now, but that doesn't separate us from the life we love and the hobby we love," Brink said. "So when the community comes to us with strong feedback, we take it very, very seriously. These are people talking to us." The new draft not only got rid of the royalties and reporting requirements, it also included something many saw as a good thing: the Systems Reference Document (SRD), which outlined the parts of D&D's intellectual property creators could use, would be put into a Creative Commons license. That meant that Wizards would be unable to revoke or modify the SRD in the future. "This is much more friendly and much more open and is honestly doing a good job of listening." Macaulay said. But he still had his doubts: "The fact remains that they could just change this in two weeks after people say, 'Okay, cool, we're happy with this.'" There was also one outstanding demand from creators. They wanted D&D to simply stick to the status quo and abandon any OGL changes – to keep the game's culture as it was. It seemed like a far-fetched request, and some hope had been lost. Then, D&D surprised them. "Good news across the board" Kyle Brink, the executive producer of D&D, told NPR in late January that the feedback survey for OGL 1.2 would be open until Feb. 3. D&D would then share the results around Feb. 17, and this process would be repeated as many times as needed until the fans were satisfied with the changes. But on January 27, before the feedback process even closed, there was another post on D&D: they were backing out of all of the changes and keeping the original OGL alive. They were also leaving the SRD in the Creative Commons. Griffin Macaulay of "The Griffon's Saddlebag" said the whole saga had left him with little energy to celebrate this win as much as it deserved, but it felt like a closing chapter. "I was like, 'Oh, well, that's incredible. Okay, I guess I guess we're done here,' and it was a very nice, pleasant wave of relief," he said. Noah Downs, the lawyer representing some of the creators who signed the #OpenDND letter said he was shocked and skeptical when the news came out. "I expected to get to the end of [the post] and figure out 'Okay, well, where's the knife here?" Downs said. "But there wasn't one. It was just good news across the board there." The step-back was ultimately a win for the community of players and creators. Still, Macaulay said trust had been broken. "People were so hesitant to believe that Wizards would do something this insane for a really long time, until the evidence was just so apparent that you couldn't ignore it," he said. "I think that the only real way for people to feel comfortable is knowing that the people responsible are no longer able to put people in harm's way again." So it may take more than a roll or two of the dice for Wizards to regain its players' trust. For now, at least, Dungeons & Dragons remains the same tabletop roleplaying game people have loved for decades. Edited by Mallory Yu Audio story edited by Patrick Jarenwattananon Ivy Winfrey

Arlene's Flowers Fined $1,000 For Discrimination NWNews | By Anna King, Anna King Published March 27, 2015 at 4:48 PM PDT The state of Washington sued Richland florist Barronelle Stutzman for declining service to a gay couple. A Richland, Washington, florist will pay $1,000 in fines to the state. The flower shop had discriminated against a same-sex couple that wanted flowers for their wedding in 2013. The ruling, handed down Friday by a Benton County Superior Court judge, means Arlene’s Flowers can’t discriminate against same-sex couples if it chooses to continue selling flowers. All flowers at the shop have to cost the same and customers must be treated the same. The florist will pay $1,000 in a penalty and $1 in costs and fees to the state for discrimination. Anna King calls Richland, Washington home and loves unearthing great stories about people in the Northwest. She reports for the Northwest News Network from a studio at Washington State University, Tri-Cities. She covers the Mid-Columbia region, from nuclear reactors to Mexican rodeos. See stories by Anna King

Update On Armed Anti-Government Protesters In Oregon Published January 3, 2016 at 2:18 PM PST We start the program today in Oregon, where armed protesters have occupied the headquarters of a National Wildlife Refuge. The protesters, reacting to a social media call out to members of different militia groups say they are opposing what they call excessive government restrictions on the use of public land and say they plan to use the complex as a base for years if necessary. Amanda Peacher of Oregon Public Broadcasting is near the sight, and she's with us now. Amanda, how many protesters are on this complex, and have they made any specific demands? AMANDA PEACHER, BYLINE: The protesters are not being clear about how many militiamen are on the complex in general. But I saw in person somewhere between 15 and 18 total here on the property. They say they want to return these federal lands, the Wildlife Refuge, to local control and to the people. They claim that the lands were unconstitutionally purchased by the federal government outside of its authority around 1998. Ammon Bundy, one of the leaders here of the protest, called the Refuge a tool of tyranny - though it's not exactly clear how they want to return the land and this facility to local control. But they do say that they intend to be here until they do whatever it takes to achieve that. MARTIN: What exactly set this off? PEACHER: So there was an incident with two local rangers here in Harney County who were prosecuted for arson. And they were convicted under federal courts and are slated to go to prison on Monday. Now, many local people here felt that the five-year prison sentence they were convicted for was too harsh. And the protesters feel that the federal government has overreached in convicting these two ranchers of arson. So the ranchers scheduled to appear in prison on Monday is what brought the protesters here originally. Obviously, this is a much larger issue and a much larger point of contention for the protesters here now taking over a federal facility. The two rangers, I will point out, did not condone the acts of these protesters in taking over the National Wildlife Refuge facilities here. MARTIN: Now, you mention the name of one person, Ammon Bundy. I understand that he's the son of Cliven Bundy, a name that many people might remember from a standoff with the federal government in 2014 over grazing rights. Tell me about them if you - what's their role in this? Are they from this area, or did they just travel there for the purpose of staging this standoff? PEACHER: They are from southern Nevada. They traveled here specifically for this standoff and chose the Malheur Wildlife Refuge because of the history of this place and because they say that bringing it back into local control will bring economic wealth back to the area. There are three Bundy brothers here on site. Cliven Bundy, as far as I know, is not here. But he says that he is monitoring the situation here and is in contact with his sons. MARTIN: Has there been any response from law enforcement or federal officials to this so far? PEACHER: Well, I've been around the Refuge most of the morning and I have not seen a single law enforcement vehicle, although we are hearing that the state police is planning to respond to the incident sometime tomorrow. And county law enforcement here in Harney County has said that they discourage people from coming to the area and that they are monitoring the situation. But that's all we know about the response so far. MARTIN: Before we let you go, Amanda, what's been the reaction to the community there as far as you can tell? Now, you already told us that the people at the center of this say that they don't condone this particular action. Have you had any sense of what other people in the area think about all this? PEACHER: Well, there are some locals here in Harney County who support the group's anti-government message. And we have seen some folks dropping off food and even a pot of warm chili for the protesters here. But many, many local residents I've spoken with are very worried about this escalating into violence. They say they don't want this in their area, and they feel that Harney County - rural Harney County is an inappropriate place to take on the federal government. MARTIN: Thanks, Amanda. PEACHER: You're welcome. MARTIN: That's reporter Amanda Peacher of Oregon Public Broadcasting. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

Ali Abbas Zafar On Zinda From Bharat: “Was Originally A Poem I Had Written While Scripting” Salman Khan’s upcoming Eid release, Bharat, will have half-a-dozen songs celebrating the different festivals and the spirit of its leading man. Bharat is all set to release and every outing of the film is creating a rage amongst the audience. Now, Ali Abbas Zafar is marking his debut as a lyricist and a composer for the upcoming song Zinda which is also the film’s anthem. The director has penned and set it to tune with Julius Packiam, who has also worked on the background score for the period-drama. Talking about the first time experience as a lyricist and composer Ali Abbas Zafar shared, “It was originally a poem which I had written while scripting the film,” informs Ali, saying the idea stems from Bharat’s journey through seven decades as he endeavours to keep the promise he made to his father. “The core message of the film is that belief and conviction keep you alive.” Ali reveals that the track plays during the most vulnerable moments when Bharat is on a high or has hit a low. “It is an uplifting track and infuses him with the strength of purpose,” said Ali. It is sung by Vishal, from the composer duo of Vishal-Shekhar, who have collaborated on the album of the film. “We composed it keeping Vishal’s voice in mind, it’s powerful and grungy”, added the director. History Says Ajay Devgn & Tabu Do Strike Gold At The Box Office Heartbreaking! Britney Spears Will “Possibly Never” Return To Stage On giving surprise to the leading man Salman Khan, Ali shared, “Bhai doesn’t know yet, we don’t share these small details, he knows I keep doing something or the other. But this time I think he will be surprised. Of course, he’ll pull my leg, saying, ‘So now, you’ve starting writing songs too, now you will ask for an extra cheque.’ That’s the kind of bond we share”. The film stars Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Tabu, Disha Patani, Sunil Grover and Jackie Shroff. It traces India’s post-independence history from the perspective of a common man and follows his life from the range of 18 to 70 years of age, as a journey. Bharat is produced by Atul Agnihotri, Alvira Agnihotri, Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar under the banner of Reel Life Production Pvt Ltd. and Salman Khan Films, presented by T-Series. The film is an upcoming Indian Hindi-language historical period drama film written and directed by Ali Abbas Zafar. Alvira Agnihotri Atul Agnihotri Bhushan Kumar Jackie Shroff Katrina​ Kaif​ Sunil Grover Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar Box Office Day 12 (Worldwide): Racing Towards The 200 Crore Club, Ranbir Kapoor Starrer Is Flying High! When Salman Khan Said, “I Would’ve Broken All These (Media) Offices…” Reacting On Giving 0 F*cks About Planted Negativity Around Him Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar: News Of Ranbir Kapoor Not Charging A Single Penny For The Film Goes Viral, Netizens Feel It’s A Damage Control,... Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar Box Office: Ranbir Kapoor Beats Hrithik Roshan... ‘Iron-Man’ Robert Downey Jr & ‘Spider-Man’ Tom Holland Are Finally Reuniting... Kantara Fame Rishab Shetty Speaks At United Nations Human Rights Council:... Amber Heard Once Ruled The Streets With Transparent Top Flashing Her... ‘Udd Gaye’ Fame Ritviz Is All Set To Embark On His... Shakira’s Mother-In-Law Helped Her Son Gerard Pique To Hide His Relationship... Shraddha Kapoor’s Rigorous Workout Regime For Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar Is... Paris Hilton Talks About Having Dual Characters To Deal With Pressure:...

Justin Bieber Involved In An Accident That Left A Photographer Screaming In Pain Canadian singer and songwriter Justin Bieber recently knocked over a photographer with his pickup truck after leaving a service with the Hillsong Church group in Los Angeles, police say. The incident occurred after the singer was leaving the church service on Wednesday and Beverly Hills police Lt Scott Dowling told the New York Daily News that the collision had taken place at ‘extremely slow speed’ just before 9.30pm local time. The 23-year-old was driving his black Dodge Ram out of his street parking space and turning right when the collision occurred outside the Saban Theatre on the night. In the images captured from the scene, emotional Justin who hit the photographer in the knee, tried to help him to his feet as he was asking the man holding his leg and crying out in pain if he was okay or injured. Though the extent of the injury was not stated, the photographer told Justin that he was fine and joked with the singer that something was bound to happen at some point. Photo Credit: Getty

[Herald Interview] More Korean staff will empower World Bank to deliver change World Bank's HR vice president hints at hiring more Koreans, particularly women, in fields of climate, energy, agriculture, economics By Jung Min-kyung Published : Dec 5, 2022 - 16:36 Updated : Dec 5, 2022 - 17:06 Diarietou Gaye, the World Bank Group Vice President for Human Resources talks with The Korea Herald during her visit to the 14th International Financial Institutions Career Fair hosted by the Ministry of Economy and Finance in Seoul on Nov. 18. (The World Bank Group) The World Bank Group seeks to hire more Koreans, especially women, in climate, energy, agriculture and economy in this post-pandemic era, Diarietou Gaye, the organization’s vice president for human resources told The Korea Herald in a recent interview. Gaye noted that the WBG is looking for young Koreans who could bring their experience and contribute to helping other countries end extreme poverty, in an exclusive interview with The Korea Herald in Seoul on Nov. 18. Gaye visited Seoul to attend the 14th International Financial Institutions Career Fair hosted by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. “I think Korea is doing the right thing -- putting together this kind of event where we can look for the possibility of young Koreans,” Gaye said, referring to the career fair. “The world has changed after the pandemic and we're facing a crisis, which is unprecedented. We’re talking about food security, energy crisis and inflation that we're facing in every part of this world.” “Now is the time when we really need to partner and collaborate to deliver desired changes in development.” Gaye highlighted competence as the top priority for candidates to be selected to positions and further noted that minority finalists, including women, take preeminence in the hiring process. “We want to have more Koreans, especially Korean women.” The WBG has progressed swiftly on gender equality but is still trying to achieve parity with the higher-level managements, Gaye noted. “I think the bank we've moved fast on gender equality. Today there are more women than men in the bank.” “When I joined the bank (in 1999) I was the only female economist sitting in a room full of men. Today it's more balanced, but we're still struggling with higher level management -- the parity is not there. We need to do more in this area.” Gaye noted that as of October 2022, 53 percent of total WBG staff are women. “Value women. I'd say make sure as you open a position consider women more than the men,” she said. “As a country it's very important that you use all of your assets -- 50 percent of the population are women. If you don't give them the same opportunity, you're losing.” On the culture of “quiet quitting” – meaning employees doing the bare minimum and nothing more – Gaye said that the person who practices this is the one losing. But at the same time, employers should provide employees with the environment that prevent them from becoming quiet quitters. “Employees at the World Bank just don’t have time for quiet quitting. The person who's losing because of quiet quitting is the person acting like that,” she said. “If the person is doing the minimum, they're getting the minimum out of it. My advice for the employers would be talk to them, try to understand what the reason is somebody would do just the minimum, provide them with coaching, give them the incentive they need.” Prior to her current role as vice president of human resources, Gaye was the World Bank’s group corporate secretary and vice president. She joined the bank in 1999 as a senior economist after serving in the Ministry of Economy and Finance in Senegal. She has served as the bank’s country director for several nations including Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Sri Lanka. From 2007 to 2010, she was the regional director for East African countries at the African Development Bank. By Jung Min-kyung ([email protected])

Process Over Product – The Truth About Success Let me start this post with a math problem. Wait! Don’t click away so fast. I hate math too but bear with me for just a moment. I promise it will be worth it. Think of some possible solutions for the following equation: (______ + ______ – _______) x ______ = 100 The truth is that there are literally an infinite combination of numbers that you could put into those spaces to get the answer of 100. Now let’s look at another equation: (25 + 40 – 15) x 2 = ________ This equation gives us just one answer: 100. Every time, no question. Look at the first equation again. You could stare at the answer (100) all day long and come up with a number of different ways to fill in those blanks, but in the end you would realize that you couldn’t even make a dent in the number of possibilities. You know the answer but it doesn’t show you how to get it. Yet with the second equation, you could figure out the answer in a few seconds by focusing on the combination of numbers. If we run those numbers, we will always get 100. Every time. You already know the process and therefore if you work on that, you are guaranteed to get the right answer. The same is true in life; if we do the right things every day for a long enough period of time, they will always produce success. Every time. If you take care of the process, the product will take care of itself. What is the product? The product is whatever you have determined to be “success” in your life. “We get the idea but did you have to bring math into it?” The point of going through the equations is to illustrate the fact that many people spend a lot of time dreaming of “success”. They can picture how it looks and feels to have accomplished their goals. They want it so bad they can practically taste it (I imagine success tasting like a breakfast burrito…yummmm). They talk about their big dreams to their friends, family, anyone who will listen. All of this is good except for one problem: They spend so much time focusing on the product, or result, that they forget to put time and effort into the process that will give them that result. That is where most people get bogged down or give up, they don’t want to work through the process. Dreaming of the results is fun and exciting, focusing on the hard work and the process of gaining that result can seem daunting, scary, or just boring. What happened to us? Before the age of electronics and convenience, people spent a lot of time thinking about their thoughts. They spent time in silence, contemplating self-improvement and self-mastery. The idea of working for 20 or even 30 years in order to obtain success was common. The thought of working day after day in a field under the hot sun was not such a burden, because people knew they could look forward to a harvest. Time spent going through the process of building a successful life was viewed as a wise investment. So many things come easy to us that we are losing the ability to dedicate time and make sacrifices in order to achieve the great accomplishments of life. Taking time to work through the process and develop new habits has never seemed less appealing to people. Most people like the idea of having the success but hate the idea of working for it over an extended period of time. That is why the quote, “There is never a traffic jam on the extra mile.” is more true today than ever. Kids These Days I work a lot with teenagers and I like to ask them about their biggest goals and dreams for life. Usually the boys talk about cars and money, the girls about running an international charity, starting an online business, or some other noble cause. But when I ask them if they would be willing to be poor, work 60 hours a week, and drive an old, used car for 20 years if they were guaranteed to get all of those things, just about all of them say it wouldn’t be worth it. These kids are 14-18 years old. So, even if I guaranteed them everything they ever wanted in life by the age of 38, they felt like it was too long to “suffer”. We are losing our ability to focus on the processes that lead to the successes. We are losing the ability to work hard now for something better in the future. How Do We Focus on the Process? In spite of what I said about the perils of focusing on the results, it is actually the first place to start. You have to define what you want to accomplish. You have to know what the finish line looks like if you are ever going to move towards it. The process will be different for everyone depending on what their vision is. Your process may require extra schooling or an apprenticeship, perhaps moving to another city, or working your way up in a business over a number of years. Those steps will be specific to you and the vision you have for your life. As long as you can see how those steps will get you closer to your goal, you will be on the right track. But let me tell you about some processes that need to be a part of anybody’s plan. Learn to set goals. One of the best habits I ever formed was to write down my goals every day. I have a sheet where I write down my 5 biggest goals for the next year and then something I can do today to get me closer to each of those. I don’t always get everything done each day but even if I only get 2 done, I’ve made progress towards my big goals. To get started, try writing down 5 things you would love to accomplish this year. Next, write down something you could do this week to get closer to each of those. Now post that paper somewhere you will see it every day. Focus. If you can identify the most important things you’d like to accomplish this year, you will also realize that any extra effort you put towards achieving those goals will be well worth your time. Many people will write down their goals but then when it comes time to do the work, they realize they would rather browse the internet or watch Netflix. If you can force yourself to put off the time-wasters and work towards your goals just a little bit every day, soon you will feel the excitement of living your life with intention. You will achieve more and feel happier. I use Netflix or other guilty pleasures as a reward. I won’t indulge until I have completed something from my action list. Try it, you won’t be sorry you did. Review. Once a week, take time to reflect on what you have accomplished over the past 7 days. Look at where you did great and the areas you’d like to improve. If you accomplished some steps towards your goals, congratulate yourself. If you didn’t do some, write them down again for the next week. It is important to check in on your progress to make sure you are still moving in the right direction. Repeat. Now that you’ve accomplished one week. Write down your major goals again and some smaller steps you can accomplish this week to get closer to them. Post them where you can see them every day and focus your efforts on getting them done. Make it a habit of repeating this process every week. It gets easier and easier. Believe. Now you just need to trust the process. I promise that if you do the above steps long enough, you will have incredible results. The process has worked for the most successful people in the world for thousands of years. The process works if you will trust it, try it, and work at it. I don’t know how long it will take, but it will work. Just like the math problems at the beginning of the article taught us, knowing the final vision for your life is important, but it is just as important to focus on the process that will guarantee your results. If you focus on the small steps, day after day, you will eventually reach your goal.

Morey Egusa Service: Stockton Buddhist Church on Saturday, Sep 12, 2015 at 11:00 AM (95) passed away peacefully on August 20, 2015 surrounded by his family. He was born in Davis, CA and attended Cal Poly San Luis Obispo before settling in French Camp, CA. Morey will be laid to rest by his beloved wife Michie and son Don. He is survived by his sons Bob (Jeanne) and Jay; granddaughters Kristin Hollowaty (Brian) and Ellen, and sister Mutsumi Hada. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Sept. 12, 11a.m. at the Stockton Buddhist Church, 2820 Shimizu Dr. Stockton, CA 95203.

James Rousseau (center in maroon shirt) dances at a powwow in the minimum security unit at Airway Heights Corrections Center last month. Credit: Doug Nadvornick / Spokane Public Radio » Powwows return to Washington's prisons Doug Nadvornick Powwows for Native American prison inmates in Washington state have been an annual tradition, but they were halted amid pandemic shutdowns. Now, the celebrations in the state’s 12 correctional facilities have returned. Wearing borrowed blue and white regalia, Richard Dennison is ready for his first powwow at the Airway Heights Corrections Center. Dennison grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation, about 50 miles west of here. He went to powwows when he was young but drifted away as he grew up. Several family members, including Dennison’s children, have driven to Airway Heights to celebrate this day with him, and he’s nervous. “My kids and my mom and dad, nobody’s ever really seen me dance like this before," Dennison said. “I didn’t really get into dancing and stuff until I came to prison because I was running around, doing other things I shouldn’t have been doing.” Dennison’s prison sentence began in 2019 and it’s set to end in 2026. Now, he’s rediscovering his heritage, as are many of the Native American men here. When they learned there would be an in-person powwow, inmates hurriedly began preparing for their visitors. This powwow, and 20 others in Washington prisons this fall, were sponsored by a nonprofit Seattle Indigenous rights group called Huy, led by attorney Gabe Galanda. He’s a member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes of California. Galanda says correctional officials also thought it was time to bring the powwows back, so they negotiated how and when to do it. “They typically start in the spring, in May, and run until September. But we had to delay the start and the sequence of the powwows because Covid was still hitting, including Airway Heights and Walla Walla, as recent as September," Galanda said. The powwows are scheduled to return to Washington’s prisons in the spring of 2023, if health conditions allow it. State corrections officials say 45% of Native inmates in Washington eventually return to prison. They hope bringing back the powwows will help to reduce the recidivism rate. Read the full story on the return of powwows to Washington's prisons at Spokane Public Radio. Native Americans 229 KUOW Newsroom The case of the dying newts: an Olympic Peninsula mystery Native representation to increase in Washington Legislature Subscribe Via Apple Podcasts Overcast PocketCast RSS

Watch Aly Raisman Stand Powerfully with 140 ‘Survivor Sisters’ at ESPY Awards By Emily Burack Jul 19, 2018 At ESPN’s annual awards ceremony, the ESPYs, the survivors of Dr. Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse — led by Olympic champion Aly Raisman — took to the stage to accept the Arthur Ashe Courage award. As the 141 survivors filled the stage — and it was not even all of them — the entire audience rose to a standing ovation. The first woman who spoke, Sarah Klein, was Nasser’s first known victim from over 30 years ago. Klein said, “It is a privilege to stand up here with my sister survivors as we represent hundreds more who are not with us tonight. Make no mistake: We are here on this stage to present an image for the world to see — a portrait of survival, a new vision of courage.” She continued, “Speaking up and speaking out is not easy. Telling our stories of abuse over and over and over again, in graphic detail, is not easy. We’re sacrificing privacy. We’re being judged and scrutinized and it’s grueling, and it’s painful — but it is time.” Klein, now a mother, ended her speech with, “we must care about children’s safety more than we care about adult’s reputations. And as a survivor, I am here to say — if we can just give one person the courage to use their voice, this is worth it. If one more victim of sexual abuse feels less alone tonight, then our suffering has meaning.” Softball athlete Tiffany Thomas Lopez spoke next, saying, “I encourage those suffering to hold tight to your faith, and stand tall when speaking your truth, because I am here to tell you that you cannot silence the strong forever.” Raisman closed out the acceptance of the award. She has been an outspoken leader of the survivors, and continues to advocate for victims of sexual abuse. “1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016. These were the years we spoke up about Larry Nasser’s abuse. All those years, we were told, ‘you are wrong. You misunderstood. He’s a doctor. It’s okay. Don’t worry, we’ve got it covered. Be careful, there are risks involved.’ The intention? To silence us, in favor of money, medals, and reputation. But we persisted, and finally, someone listened and believed us.” “The ripple effect of our actions — or inactions — can be enormous, spanning generations. Perhaps the greatest tragedy of this nightmare is that it could’ve been avoided,” she said powerfully. “All we needed was one adult to have the integrity to stand between us and Larry Nasser. If just one adult had listened, believed, and acted, the people standing before you on this stage would have never met him.” Raisman ends: “To all the survivors out there, don’t let anyone re-write your story. Your truth does matter. You matter. And you are not alone.” You won’t be able to watch without crying — but don’t miss it: “To all the survivors out there, don’t let anyone rewrite your story. Your truth does matter. You matter. And you are not alone.” Tonight, Aly Raisman and her sister survivors brought the #ESPYS audience to their feet. pic.twitter.com/0sVTI0wLUH — ESPYS (@ESPYS) July 19, 2018 Header image via ESPYs on Twitter.

Méthode Kartuli – Natural wine made in Kvevri according to the traditional Georgian method. 1. Background Wine production and consumption have played important roles in human societies for more than six thousand years. Nowadays, wine is a popular and highly consumed beverage worldwide and is considered a key product on the food market. Until 2004, worldwide wine consumption increased steadily by 0.7% to 236.96 million hectoliters per year and represented a growing market. Especially China led the way in growth terms, increasing 14.7% to 13.28 million hectoliters consumed, while Russia and Romania showed 16.9% and 14.9% growth respectively. Australia and New Zealand consumed 43.6 million hectoliters and 7.7 million hectoliters of wine respectively. Europe alone accounted for 53.37% of the world wine consumption. However, the development from 2004 to date clearly indicates that wine consumption remains almost unchanged. The International Organization of Vine and Wine (OIV) said that about 266.7 million hectoliters of wine were produced in 2007, 6.9% less than in the previous year, while consumption was almost unchanged, 240.6 million hectoliters in 2007. About 7.899 million hectares of land was given over to wine production in 2007, down from 7.908 million a year before. The sharpest production decline has been in Europe where the European Commission wants sweeping changes to wine policy – including cash incentives for producers to dig up their vines – to finally drain the European Union’s lakes of wine surplus. This mass production of wine was possible because in the last decades industrialization of the beverage market and the wine-making process has encouraged the practice of inoculation of yeasts to standardize wine fermentations. With this practice, wines with more reproducible and homogeneous aroma and flavors are obtained, though lacking particular distinctive characters. Change of Trend Besides the worldwide enduring trend of organically produced food, one of the most important developments on the food sector is the marketing of high-priced, high-quality food with a specific indication of origin, such as Prosciutto di Parma, Jamón Serrano, olive oil from Greece, or German asparagus. In wine industry, there is also a high interest in manufacturing products with unique characters typical from a specific region. For several years, a growing interest in the agriculture and food industry to produce exclusive products with distinctive features has taken place. Especially wine producers and grape growers are seeking for unique attributes to differentiate their products and reach excellent qualities. To achieve high prices on the wine market, the indication of the wine-producing region, the year of vintage, the vineyard location and the cultivation method (e.g. “barrique”), furthermore, the usage of less pesticides and a sustainable production etc. are crucial factors. On the pursuit of suitable oenological methods for the production of wines with authentic characteristics, traditional methods are of current interest. In this context, the retrieval of ancient traditions offers renewed and unexplored perspectives. “Méthode Kartuli”, the Georgian method to produce wine, is though to be the ancestral original wine-making method. The oldest archaeological evidence of grape cultivation and grape fermentation in clay vessels dating from about 5,000 BC was found in the South Caucasus, currently Georgia. The procedure would have been spread from there to Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and the rest of the world, and refined over the centuries. Likewise, the name of the obtained product would have evolved from “ghvino” to “vino”, “vin”, “vine”, “wine”, “wein”, etc. Méthode Kartuli In the traditional Méthode Kartuli, wine is produced by carrying out spontaneous fermentation with the grape indigenous flora within clay vessels – Kvevries – buried in the ground. The fermentation takes place in a slow and natural way, without addition of either sulfite or yeasts. The Kvevries remain sealed during the period of fermentation, which can last several months. Due to differences in the grape varieties, grape flora and the lack of control on the process, variations on the progression of the fermentation and development of off-flavours may occur. As a consequence, special know-how is needed when using this technique in order to attain wines of good quality. Although this Kartuli method is still used by some Georgian farmers, outside Georgia only a reduced group of winemakers is exploring it and achieving excellent wines and awards. This small group of producers using Kvevris for wine production could already demonstrate that their wines are highly successful on the market, showing a high-quality level proven by wine experts, sommeliers and is therefore mentioned in several wine magazines and wine guides. The Kvevries play an essential role in this particular wine-making process. These giant vessels with special and distinctive shapes are made through a complex and particular craftsmanship. Georgian pottery craft is millennia old and would have given rise to the best earthenware artefacts according to archaeologists. However, the Kvevries craftsmanship is in extinction in Georgia. Only five people in the whole country are able to make them, and they have no apprentice to preserve and further develop this skill. Despite being the oldest wine-making method in the world, the traditional Méthode Kartuli is in danger of disappearance due to the fact that the knowledge about this method is restricted to the Eastern part of Europe so far. At present, this method is less known in the Western world, and even in Georgia, there is a serious lack of young people learning and preserving it. This initiative congregates wine producers and scientists from different areas who are concerned about the loss of this tradition. Our aim is to study, characterize and promote the original Georgian wine-making method and to avert this big cultural threat and educate Georgian people on the protection of this wonderful inheritance. In Méthode Kartuli, the production of good quality Kvevries and the achievement of successful spontaneous wine fermentation require special knowledge and skills. Therefore, we intend to research, preserve and bring to market Kvevri wines made by the ancient Méthode Kartuli. In doing so, we aspire to contribute to the knowledge on ancient wine-making traditions, the preservation of the Kvevries craftsmanship, and the perpetuation of the 7000 year old tradition of Georgian wine-making. To achieve this, a multidisciplinary group has decided to collaborate together. This group comprises of ethnologists, involved in researching the history and the culture of Kvevri wines, scientists, undertaking the chemical, microbiological, molecular biological, and oenological research of Méthode Kartuli and its practical implementation; winemakers, exchanging their experience in the production of high-quality Kvevri wines to get premium exclusive products with supreme market potential and high profit opportunities; and marketing experts, promoting Kvevri wines worldwide as a premium and exclusive product. 3. Objectives Study of the original Georgian wine-making method, history and culture Optimization of the production of Kvevri wines through cooperation between wine producers and scientists Education of Georgian young people on the preservation and the manufacture of the traditional Kvevri crafts Explore the possibilities of using this method in other countries, with different grape varieties and climatic circumstances Promoting Kvevri wines worldwide as a traditional and genuine premium product Appendix – Scientific Research Topics I. Grape Varieties and Growth Techniques Identification of suitable grape varieties for Kvevri fermentation Analysis of the soil composition and development of roots in grape plants Characterization of grapes and wines obtained, using different grape cultivation techniques II. Microbiology and Indigenous Flora Analysis of the wine-making process when using wild or cultured yeasts in the fermentation process Assessment of the variations in cellar microflora, terroirs and the grapes’ microflora Identifying parameters which influence the wine quality especially regarding the Kvevri method Relation between time of skin contact and aroma complexity, wine colour and tannins Assessment of the wine-making temperature when using Kvevri and its effects on wine quality III. Oxidation Processes During Fermentation Validation of the material used for Kvevri Analysis and assessment of the complete process during wine-making with the Kvevri method by using biochemical, molecular biological, chemical and aroma analysis Identification of the influence of the honey wax, the used material and the surrounding soil Assessment of the permeability and microoxidation capacity of Kvevri IV. Georgian History, Culture and Society Georgian wine-making history with special attention to kvevri wines Georgian ethnical peculiarities with regard to wine production and consumption Research for possible previous experiences of wine-making in clay vessels in South America Practical Endeavours Support preservation of Kvevri handicraft by providing better working conditions and students interested in learning this art from experienced Georgian handicraftsmen Use of Méthode Kartuli for production of white and red wines, using Georgian autochthon grapes Use of Méthode Kartuli for production of wines in other countries and climates, such as Slovenia, Italy, Germany, Switzerland Explore the possibility of experiences with Georgian wine-making practices in Chile and other “new world” grapes and terroirs

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Stay-at-home dad takes on telemarketing companies targeting him and his family It feels like one of those unstoppable forces of modern life. (SOUNDBITE OF PHONE RINGING) RASCOE: A call from an unknown number, always trying to sell you something. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Hi, Alice. I'm with Rian real estate, R-I-A-N, corporate office in Dallas, Texas. RASCOE: No one loves spam calls, and most of us just ignore them or send them straight to voicemail. But Planet Money's Jeff Guo brings us the story of someone who tried to fight back and made some money in the process. JEFF GUO, BYLINE: A couple years ago, Nathen Barton was getting five, 10, sometimes 15 spam calls every day. NATHEN BARTON: It's been everything - auto warranties, medical insurance, gym memberships. GUO: Nathen's a stay-at-home dad, and it was the middle of the pandemic. So he had some time on his hands, and he decided he was going to fight back against these telemarketers because there's actually this federal law which says that if a telemarketer calls you illegally without your consent, you can sue them, and you can win up to $1,500 for every call you get. So Nathen thinks, OK, let me try this out. He starts picking up the phone and taking down names. And yeah, a lot of these calls are coming from scammers and identity thieves, but a surprising number of them you can trace back to legitimate companies, like, big, recognizable brands. It just takes some detective work because a lot of telemarketers won't tell you what company they're with, at least not at first. BARTON: Sometimes, you'll go through an agent or two, and then they'll transfer you to a name that you know. So then you're like, oh, big company X is the one who's actually behind this. GUO: Bingo. That's when Nathen would bring on the lawsuit. Nathen was suing these companies using the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the TCPA. And this law has actually been around for decades. Margot Saunders is a lawyer at the National Consumer Law Center. She says Congress was trying to give regular Americans a way to stop these spam calls. MARGOT SAUNDERS: I think they envisioned that the individuals who received unwanted calls would be able to go into magistrate's courts, small claims courts, and teach the callers a lesson, and they would stop making the illegal calls. GUO: And for the most part, this law has worked for Nathen. At this point, he's filed dozens of lawsuits, mostly by himself, and he's settling for thousands of dollars, sometimes much more. But it hasn't all been easy. Earlier this year, one of the telemarketers fought back. They convinced the judge that Nathen's lawsuit was frivolous, and the judge ordered Nathen to pay for the telemarketer's legal fees, which came out to $40,000. Eric Troutman is a defense lawyer who often represents companies that get sued by people like Nathen. ERIC TROUTMAN: You know, there's instances where someone might go off and buy 80 cell phones just so that they can collect wrong-number calls. GUO: He says some of these people are abusing the system, but Nathen says that's not what he's doing. He's just trying to use the law as it was intended to teach telemarketers a lesson. So he's appealing that court decision. BARTON: I'm not going to put up with a lifetime of these junk calls because I disagree with how a judge interpreted a case. GUO: Nathen says as long as the telemarketers keep calling him illegally, he plans to keep suing them back. Jeff Guo, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

Biden rolled out tougher asylum rules. Advocates say it's a betrayal of his promises. Migrant families from Venezuela return to Mexico after being expelled from the United States to Ciudad Juárez in January. The Biden administration unveiled sharp new restrictions on who can seek asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border this week. It's the latest move in a larger crackdown aimed at discouraging mirgants from crossing the border illegally — one the White House says is working. But immigrant advocates say it's a betrayal of President Biden's promises to rebuild the asylum system at the border. "My main reaction is disappointment," says Andrea Flores, a former member of Biden's National Security Council. "It's far more punitive than I anticipated would come from this administration, and this immigration team." Flores and other former administration officials say a vigorous debate has been playing out since the days of the presidential transition. Biden had pledged to restore asylum protections for the most vulnerable, while also trying to deter migrants from making the dangerous journey through Mexico and crossing the border illegally. When Biden took office, he quickly signed a flurry of executive orders rolling back some of former President Trump's harshest immigration policies. "In the beginning, it felt like we were all rowing in the same direction," says Flores, who served as the director of border management on Biden's National Security Council. "One of our clear goals was how do you offer access to asylum in an orderly way." But as migrant apprehensions at the border rose to record levels, Flores says, the debate shifted. Republican criticism of the administration's border policies grew louder. And the president's advisors in the White House grew increasingly obsessed with getting the border numbers down, she says. "They were considering many of the tools that the Trump administration used and that Democrats had really uniformly condemned," Flores says. "And that was very unsettling to me." Flores quit after less than a year, and is now chief counsel for U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. She was not surprised last month when Biden announced a new set of border enforcement policies. Biden's plan combines carrots and sticks "We can't stop people from making the journey," Biden said in remarks at the White House on Jan. 5. "But we can require them to come here — that they come here in an orderly way under U.S. law." Biden announced a mix of incentives and disincentives — in other words, carrots and sticks — intended to discourage migrants from crossing the border illegally. The new measures include a legal pathway for up to 30,000 migrants per month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela — if they qualify. At the same time, the administration announced it would begin to quickly expel migrants from those four countries under the pandemic restrictions known as Title 42, if they crossed illegally. The White House credits those measures for a sharp decline in the number of migrant apprehensions, at least so far. Immigration authorities encountered migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border more than 250,000 times in December 2022, the highest monthly total ever. But this January, those numbers dropped sharply — to their lowest level in almost two years. This week, the administration unveiled its biggest stick yet: A temporary rule that would make it much harder for migrants to get asylum if they cross the border into the U.S. illegally, after passing through Mexico or any other country without seeking protection there first. Preparing for the end of Title 42 The White House says the proposed rule is necessary to manage what officials call a temporary "surge" in migration levels that they expect when Title 42 restrictions are lifted. For years, immigration authorities have used that public health authority as a de facto tool for managing the border. Now those authorities say they are preparing for what will happen if Title 42 ends on May 11, as currently planned. "To be clear, this was not our first preference or even our second," said a senior administration official during a briefing with reporters on Tuesday. "It is intended to fill the void that Congress has left by taking no action, and to help us ensure secure and humane processing of migrants when Title 42 does lift. "This administration just won't allow mass chaos and disorder of the border because of Congress's failure to act," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the administration. But immigrant advocates are furious. New enforcement measures prompt an outcry "Not only is it a clear contradiction of U.S. law and international agreements, it violates President Biden's own promises to restore asylum," said Krish O'Mara Vignarajah, the CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, on a call with reporters Wednesday. "This is very nearly a carbon copy of the Trump asylum ban that was blocked by the courts just a few years ago," Vignarajah said. That Trump-era policy would have turned back nearly all migrants who crossed through Mexico on their way to the U.S. Many Democrats — including then-candidate Biden — were strongly opposed at the time. "This is the first time ever you've had to seek asylum in a third country," Biden said in an interview with the National Association of Black Journalists in 2020. "It's outrageous. It's outrageous. It's wrong." The Biden administration insists the new asylum rule is very different from Trump's because it has exceptions for the most vulnerable migrants, and because it's coupled with new legal pathways for certain migrants who can qualify. Changing migration patterns The administration is also grappling with a big shift in where migrants are coming from. "The facts on the ground have changed," says Angela Kelley, a former immigration advisor at the Department of Homeland Security. "We have four failed nation states in our hemisphere between Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela. That is producing a different kind of migration flow," says Kelley, who is now with the American Immigration Lawyers Association. That's an argument the White House has been making, too. Administration officials say the job has been made more difficult by Republican attorneys general in states around the country, who have sued to block many of the Biden administration's immigration policies, as well as a lack of cooperation from Congress. "That has required us to tailor our approach, but not change our principles," said a senior administration official who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss internal deliberations. Still, some outside observers see a shift toward tougher enforcement. "The administration has come to the realization that it really has to rethink where it's been on handling the border," says Doris Meissner, a top immigration official in the Clinton administration who's now a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute. Meissner thinks the Biden administration is trying to reestablish a kind of balance at the border. "There will be ways to come to the country legally, but there also will be real consequences for coming in ways that are not according to those new rules," Meissner says. "There has to be orderliness. There cannot be chaos at the border." It's the same language the Biden administration has been using all along. But what those words mean for migrants has changed dramatically in two years.

Top U.S. border official Chris Magnus resigns after less than a year on the job Published November 12, 2022 at 7:35 PM CST Chris Magnus during a Senate confirmation hearing in October 2021. Updated November 12, 2022 at 10:12 PM ET The head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection stepped down from his job late Saturday following a year of record migrant apprehensions at the southern border. The White House announced that CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus offered his resignation, and that President Biden has accepted. "President Biden appreciates Commissioner Magnus' nearly forty years of service and the contributions he made to police reform during his tenure as police chief in three U.S. cities," said press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in a statement. "The President thanks Mr. Magnus for his service at CBP and wishes him well." Magnus served in the job for less than a year. His resignation comes one day after he told the Los Angeles Times that he had declined a request to resign from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who oversees CBP. In an email to the CBP workforce, Mayorkas thanked Magnus for his service and said that Troy Miller, a career CBP official who served in the job before Magnus was confirmed by the Senate in December, will serve as acting commissioner beginning immediately. The shakeup at CBP comes after migrant apprehensions at the southern border climbed to a record high of more than 2.3 million in the past year, fueling attacks from Republicans that the Biden administration's border policies are too lenient. Magnus, who is 62, was picked by the White House and confirmed by the Senate in a party-line vote. He was the first openly gay man to lead the CBP, the nation's largest law enforcement agency. Magnus built a reputation as a law enforcement reformer during his time as police chief in Fargo, N.D., Richmond, Calif., and Tucson, Ariz. And he tried to make changes at CBP as well. More than a dozen House Republicans sent a letter to President Biden earlier this month urging him to ask for Magnus's resignation after an unflattering story from Politico, which portrayed Magnus as unengaged in meetings with White House staff and unfamiliar with the operations of the sprawling agency of more than 60,000 employees. Magnus denied those allegations. "I didn't take this job as a resume builder," he told The Washington Post. "I came to Washington, D.C. — moved my family here — because I care about this agency, its mission, and the goals of this Administration."

Congress takes reins of prayer breakfast from secretive Christian evangelical group Patrick Semansky President Joe Biden speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. On its face, the National Prayer Breakfast is a serene, bipartisan event full of spiritual reflection. But over the years, the breakfast has also been a source of controversy — full of shadowy fundraising, behind-the-scenes lobbying and even infiltration by a Russian spy. So lawmakers now have taken it out of the hands of the secretive Christian evangelical group that has run it for decades — the International Foundation, also known as the Fellowship Foundation or "The Family," a name popularized in recent years by a book by the same name and a 2019 Netflix docuseries based on it. It painted a picture of a clubby, closed-door group that had the ear of lots of Washington power players and bold-faced names without much transparency about their donors or agenda. Rep. James Lankford, R-Okla., left, President Donald Trump, center, and Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., pray during the National Prayer Breakfast in 2019. "When Sen. [James] Lankford, [R-Okla.], and I were co-chairs of the National Prayer Breakfast a number of years ago, there were a lot of questions raised about the finances, about who was invited, about how it was structured," said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee and frequent participant in the prayer breakfast. "And we frankly had to admit, as co-chairs, we didn't know as much as we felt we should have." With Coons' and several others' help, a new, nonprofit group was formed — the National Prayer Breakfast Foundation with the sole purpose of putting on the signature event. It's headed by former Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas, who said the first big change, in addition to the new legal status, is it will be smaller and more controlled. "We expect there to be maybe 300 people in attendance as opposed to like 3,500 in years past," Pryor said. "So it's going to be just members and plus-ones. ... And hopefully it'll be a smaller, more intimate gathering." The event is also being moved from a prominent Washington hotel to the U.S. Capitol complex. The changes will essentially wall off members of Congress from mixing with any unforeseen guests who present potential conflicts of interest — or worse. But there are still questions about just how much the new group is a break from the old. When did the National Prayer Breakfast begin and why? It's been happening annually for 70 years. Dwight Eisenhower in 1953 was the first president to attend one. He was convinced to be there by Billy Graham, the Christian evangelist. Eisenhower, not known as particularly outwardly religious, at one point in his presidency said the country was in need of a spiritual renewal. He is responsible for adding "In God We Trust" to U.S. currency and "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance as ways to combat the "Red Scare," or the perceived creeping rise of communism after World War II with the United States jockeying for prominence with the Soviet Union. From then on, presidents have attended annually. Billy Graham and then his son, Franklin, also an evangelist, were in the ear of presidents for decades and increased their influence in Washington — as did "The Family." What is "The Family"? The group ran the prayer breakfast for decades, but the breakfast is just the tip of The Family's influence. It has a wide and international reach of elite friends, and unlike the televangelists seen on TV screens on Sundays, the Fellowship is deliberately cloistered. "I wish I could say more about it, but it's working precisely because it is private," Republican President Ronald Reagan said in 1985 of his work with Doug Coe, the longtime leader of the Fellowship. Coe died in 2017. The group has ties reaching from the highest to the lowest rungs of the federal government. Senators and members of Congress huddle with representatives of the group in a townhouse on Capitol Hill, known as the "C Street Center," among other places. Members close to the group have said they reflect on the kind of week they are having and sometimes do Bible studies. Much of what they discuss, though, by design, is not known. And there have been concerns about The Family's access and questions about its agenda. The group has paid for overseas trips for members, been close in particular to GOP members, is linked to anti-LGBTQ+ initiatives and, in recent years, the Prayer Breakfast ballooned from a relatively small event into a multi-day affair that drew thousands and went beyond just prayer. It served as a recruitment and networking event for the Fellowship and included plenty of guests from outside the U.S. That included Maria Butina. In 2018, the Department of Justice charged Butina with "conspiracy to act as an agent of the Russian Federation within the United States without prior notification." In other words, the U.S. government said she was really a spy. She was arrested, convicted and served 15 months in federal prison. (When she got out, she began serving in the Russian parliament.) The event had become unwieldy and it became difficult to keep tabs on who was coming and going and mixing with lawmakers. Following some of the revelations, many Democrats stopped attending. Something had to change. "I do think there were concerns raised and expressed by members of both parties, both houses, about a range of different issues," Coons said. "Some involved who were the invited guests. Some involved the book and a Netflix documentary that you referenced. Some just involved a lack of clarity from an ethics perspective about how the event was structured and organized." It certainly doesn't mean the Fellowship's influence still won't be entrenched in Washington. It will continue to hold its own event at a D.C. hotel and will beam in the speeches of the event for the gathered audience. Besides, in the dark is mostly how the group has operated for years. What about the new group? The National Prayer Breakfast Foundation, headed by Pryor, will be more tightly controlled by Congress, though it's not clear yet what the mechanism for that oversight will be exactly — or how or if the group will publicize its donors. "We will be disclosing all of that once we get this one breakfast behind us," Pryor vowed, "but right now we're just not quite ready to do that, because first, we don't even know who all has given or will be giving right now. So we're still — that's a work in progress. But transparency is our aim there." Pryor said to expect those disclosures in the next few weeks — after the breakfast — and that the group is "checking with [the] ethics [committees] constantly" to "make sure everything we do complies with all the ethical standards." There is also a question of just how much of a break from the past the new foundation is, considering several of its board members have ties back to the Fellowship Foundation. That includes Stan Holmes, who is a board member of the Core Fellowship Foundation and has been involved with not just the National Prayer Breakfast but the House and Senate prayer breakfasts, which are closed to the public, for more than 40 years. [O]ur annual Breakfast is an opportunity for Members of Congress to pray collectively for our nation, the President of the United States, and other national and international leaders in the spirit of love and reconciliation as Jesus of Nazareth taught 2,000 years ago. "It seems a little bit de minimis," said Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which pushes for clear lines of separation of church and state. She's been a chief critic of the breakfast. "The prayer breakfast planners decided they had to, quote unquote, separate it out from The Family, but it really isn't separated too much." Pryor acknowledged "there are a handful of people who have been involved in the past, but the truth is, it's a new day for the National Prayer Breakfast and everybody's committed to continuing it, but continuing it with more transparency." There has also been criticism of the new iteration of the breakfast because, even though Pryor and others say people of all faiths are welcome, it still seems to be very much rooted in Christian evangelicalism. The new foundation's website, for example, notes in explaining the breakfast's purpose: "...[O]ur annual Breakfast is an opportunity for Members of Congress to pray collectively for our nation, the President of the United States, and other national and international leaders in the spirit of love and reconciliation as Jesus of Nazareth taught 2,000 years ago. Every president, regardless of party or religious persuasion, has joined since. All faiths are welcome." That doesn't give the impression of a non-denominational, interfaith event — and the tradition continues in the vein at a time when a growing number of Americans — about 30% — are identifying as religiously unaffiliated. A little less than two-thirds identify as Christian, down from 90% 50 years ago. "[W]hat about the rest of us?" Gaylor asked, adding, "it sends a message of exclusion to non-Christians and especially the majority of nonbelievers." Coons, though, said he is "confident" in Pryor's leadership and believes he "will ensure that there is transparency" in this new configuration. "I think they struck the right balance," Coons said, "and that's a balance that delivers transparency and accountability to the members of Congress for this new foundation for a much smaller event." The reforms put in place were enough for lawmakers like Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., who had boycotted the event for years in wake of the controversies, but will now attend. A spokesperson for Kaine said in an emailed statement that the senator stopped going after 2016 because it had "become an entertainment and lobbying extravaganza," but it has "now been completely reformed to be an opportunity for members of Congress to gather with the president and vice president once a year to reflect upon the deeper meaning of our work." 'Benjamin Banneker and Us' traces descendants, Black and white, of the mathematician

Stage evening Hotel in the heart of Amboise Visit Amboise and its surroundings In the heart of the Loire Valley, in the royal town of Amboise, nestles the Lanex hotel. An ideal location to explore the region and visit the Loire castles. Explore this prestigious UNESCO World Heritage site and marvel at its historical and architectural treasures. Take a leap back in time: no less than 22 castles, all part of French history, are waiting to be discovered. Take advantage of your stay in our hotel in Amboise to discover legendary castles such as Chenonceau, Chaumont-sur-Loire, Chambord, Villandry or Cheverny... Discover these witnesses of an era, of a French art of living, under a mild climate that allows fruit, flowers and vines to flourish. The Loire Discover the most beautiful castles of the Loire Valley by bicycle! The Lanex hotel is located on the route of La Loire à vélo and has a storage room for up to 40 bikes. Amboise, a city of character, is home to true architectural masterpieces such as the Château Royal, the Château du Clos Lucé, the last home of Leonardo da Vinci, and the Domaine Royal de Château Gaillard... The castles of the Loire Discover the famous castles such as the royal castle of Amboise, 5 minutes walk from our hotel, the Clos Lucé, the Château Gaillard or the Château de Chenonceau which spans the Cher river. of Beauval Visit one of the five most beautiful zoos in the world. At the Beauval ZooPark, admire the greatest diversity of animals in France: 10,000 animals representing 600 species over nearly 40 hectares. The vineyards of the Loire Valley can be explored by car, on foot or by bike, along seven vineyard paths with explanatory signs. Our other establishment : 4, rue Voltaire 37400 Amboise

Latino Opinion Leaders Undecided About Any of the Candidates for the 2020 Presidential Election By: National Institute for Latino Policy (NiLP) Originally published at National Institute for Latino Policy (NiLP) The National Institute for Latino Policy/Latino Policy Journal conducted a poll in January 2019 to gauge the Latino perspective about the 2020 presidential election. This online poll of our vast network of Latino Opinion Leaders showed that none of the current crop of Democratic and Republican candidates had yet become a clear-cut favorite. While it might be too early for voters to form deep convictions about the large set of candidates running for the Democratic nomination, Latinos are just as undecided about the current Republican candidates. This means that all these candidates have a lot of work to do to raise interest and gain recognition among Latinos about why they are running as well as what policies they hope to enact. The field is very much wide open. Some Democratic contenders did receive more support than others. Latino Opinion Leaders did offer Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, in particular, some mild support. Surprisingly, Sanders received more support from Independent, Republican, third party, and no party Latino leaders. This may be a reflection of Sander’s 2016 presidential campaign and media attention. Joe Biden also received a similar modicum of support from Latino Leaders across the party spectrum. Beto O’Rourke got the highest support from Democratic Latino Leaders but very little from the other party members. The rest of the field of Democratic candidates received almost no support. Cory Booker got more support from Republican Latino Leaders than Democrats. This is a bad sign for a candidate who has focused on social justice issues rather than on economic ones. Latino leaders are not buying his pitch. And finally, we have to assume that Julián Castro remains mostly unknown to Latinos outside of Texas. He barely broke 10 percent support from Democratic and Independent Latino Leaders. What is interesting is that more than 46 percent of registered Republican Latino Leaders hope that some other Democrat runs for president. Surprisingly, a popular write-in candidate, for Republicans, was the new Democratic Congress Woman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is not yet old enough to run. The National Institute for Latino Policy (NiLP) is a nonpartisan center established in 1982 in New York City, originally as the Institute for Puerto Rican Policy (IPR). NiLP provides a unique approach and voice to the policy analysis and advocacy needs of the Latino community in the United States. Originally focused on the Puerto Rican community, our work has grown organically to include all Latinos and has gone from a local to a national focus. To join the NiLP mailing list, click here to subscribe. Report: Growing Latino Vote Could Decide Elections in 2022,… What About Electoral Power? (A Latino USA Podcast) Latino-Heavy Nevada Looks to Host First-in-Nation…

Tag Archive for: Baker & Partners You are here: Home1 / News – Leaders in Law2 / Baker & Partners Baker & Partners Launches Jersey’s First Trust Litigation Text February 10, 2017 /0 Comments/in Books /by News Baker & Partners has launched Litigating Trust Disputes in Jersey: Law, Procedure & Remedies. This substantial new book is Jersey’s first practitioner text dedicated exclusively to trust litigation in Jersey’s courts. Litigating Trust Disputes in Jersey is an indispensable tool for trust professionals and legal practitioners with clients exposed to a Jersey trust structure working with or against trustees or beneficiaries. The book will also be of interest to international practitioners seeking information about Jersey trusts in foreign proceedings or wishing to recover or enforce against trust assets in Jersey. The book brings together detailed analysis of Jersey’s trust law, guidance on civil procedure and litigation remedies. The text was authored by Senior Associate, James Sheedy, who has continued the firm’s predilection for achieving dual-qualification as an English barrister and Jersey advocate. Senior Partner, Stephen Baker, also acted as Consultant Editor of the text. James Sheedy commented: “I’m immensely pleased to launch Litigating Trust Disputes in Jersey: Law Procedure & Remedies. Baker & Partners continues to be involved in some of the most legally and factually complex trust cases in Jersey. Trust administration remains an extremely important part of the Island’s financial services industry. When disputes do arise, Jersey’s mature legal system and internationally respected judges enable the Island to remain one of the leading jurisdictions in which to resolve high value and complex trust litigations. Jersey’s Royal Court is at the cutting-edge of fashioning modern, practical remedies to trust disputes, and this is the first occasion that the law, civil procedure and remedies relevant to trust litigation have been brought together in a dedicated volume. I hope it will prove to be a useful reference work for both trust industry professionals and legal practitioners within and beyond Jersey.” William Bailhache, Bailiff of Jersey (who wrote the book’s foreword) commented: “It is fundamentally important for Jersey law and cases to be brought together in a comprehensive way, and the extensive use of footnotes in Litigating Trust Disputes in Jersey makes it easy to check the source material for authenticating the summary that the book contains. I warmly congratulate Advocate Sheedy and the Consulting Editor, Advocate Baker, on this very substantial piece of work, which adds greatly to a bibliography of Jersey law.” https://www.leaders-in-law.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/books2.jpg 180 300 News https://www.leaders-in-law.com//wp-content/uploads/2017/11/logo-horizontal-white-transparant.png News2017-02-10 16:20:082017-02-10 16:20:08Baker & Partners Launches Jersey’s First Trust Litigation Text

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Donald Trump Generates Presidential Buzz, Says He’s Pro-Life Politics | Andrew Bair | Feb 10, 2011 | 4:00PM | Washington, DC In a surprise move today, business mogul Donald Trump addressed the 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a convention largely seen as a springboard for Republican presidential campaigns. Trump generated significant residential buzz with his appearance today, inspiring hopes for some for the ultimate dark horse campaign. While his business credentials are well known, pro-life advocates want to know where “The Donald” stands on the right to life. A few months ago, when questioned about his position, Trump responded by saying the public “would be surprised” by his stance. In an interview this past week with Laura Ingraham from Fox News, Trump characterized himself as “pro-life.” In his 2000 book The America We Deserve, Trump wrote, “I support a woman’s right to choose but I am uncomfortable with the procedures.” But, in an apparant reversal, he told the audience at CPAC, “I am pro-life” and pledged to fight for the reversal of Obamacare, which contains abortion funding loopholes. As the 2012 race intensifies, pro-life advocates must call upon Donald Trump to further explain his stand on important pro-life issues like Supreme Court nominations and repeal of the pro-abortion Obama healthcare law. A year away from the first primary contests, some Republicans are dissatisfied with the current list of potential presidential candidates. With no clear front-runner at this point, a candidacy by Donald Trump could be appealing for some. Challenging President Obama in 2012 will be a tall order and picking the right candidate will be essential. Trump’s star power would certainly give him a leg-up against many of the other potential candidates in the field. Other potential presidential candidates including Rep. Michele Bachmann, Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Gov. Haley Barbour, Sen. John Thune and Gov. Mitt Romney will also address CPAC this weekend.

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ADMINISTRATIVE RULE NO: 6135-01 RELATED TO POLICY SERIES NO: 6135 TITLE: DRUG FREE WORKPLACE To clarify employee expectations related to on/off the job drug and alcohol use, and to clarify the administrative programs that discourage drug use/abuse through staff awareness and for-cause testing. EXPECTATIONS FOR EMPLOYEES LBCC specifically prohibits the use, unlawful distribution, or unlawful possession of alcohol, illegal drugs or other unauthorized controlled substances on its properties, controlled areas, or as part of its activities. This administrative rule specifically prohibits the possession or use of marijuana products on any campus, or campus controlled properties. This prohibition includes the use of such substances during non-work time (such as personal meal/break time) or while otherwise performing their work duties away from college premises, if such use may result in job impairment. This prohibition also applies to employees traveling over-night for college related functions who may be called upon or responsible for student related services, as impairment may inhibit service quality and may cause potential liability under the college’s liability and workers’ compensation insurance policies. Included within this prohibition are lawful controlled substances which have been illegally or improperly obtained. This administrative rule does not prohibit the possession and proper use of lawfully prescribed or physician-recommended drugs taken in accordance with the prescription or recommendation. Drugs and alcohol are not allowed on campus or at college-related functions except as they relate to the teaching/learning process, or as specifically allowed and sanctioned by Administrative Rule 5045-01- Use of College Facilities and Food/Conference Services. "College-related functions" are work related activities or gatherings that produce specific work products, and where employees are present as a conditionof their employment. This would not include gatherings where attendance is purely voluntary in nature, no work agenda is pursued and no work products are generated. All employees and/or sponsors of any on-campus or College-sponsored activity or social event at which alcoholic beverages are served must abide by all applicable laws. Sponsors must obtain and follow applicable procedures. The Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988 requires that any employee of the College who has been convicted of a violation of the statute involving illegal drugs shall notify the Director of Human Resources within five days of the criminal conviction if the conduct giving rise to the conviction occurred on campus or while the member was engaged in activities sponsored by or connected to the College. The College should then make any reports to government agencies that may be required by law. It is expected that any employee who observes or has knowledge of another employee being in a condition which appears to be impaired, presents a hazard to others, or otherwise is in violation of this policy, to report that fact immediately to their supervisor or Human Resources. LBCC DRUG / ALCOHOL AWARENESS PROGRAM As part of the Drug Free Schools and Communities Act of 1989, the College has established a drug and alcohol awareness program to inform members of the College community about: the dangers of alcohol and drug abuse; the College policy on drugs and alcohol use; available alcohol and drug counseling, rehabilitation, and employee assistance programs; and the penalties that may be imposed for violations of this policy. The College encourages employees who use illegal drugs or who abuse alcohol to seek appropriate assistance. Employees and/or dependents enrolled in any LBCC sponsored group health plan receive benefits for drug and alcohol abuse as mandated by Oregon statutes. The Drug and Alcohol Prevention Committee has responsibility for developing, coordinating and implementing a comprehensive LBCC drug and alcohol abuse prevention program. This team is administered by the Manager for Student Conduct and Retention. DRUG / ALCOHOL TESTING To encourage employees to provide the highest quality services and to promote the safety and health of staff, under certain circumstances, as outlined below, the college may require employees to submit to a confidential, third-party drug / alcohol screening. Reasonable Cause Testing LBCC reserves the right to request drug or alcohol testing if there is reasonable suspicion that an employee may be either using or under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol while on the job. “Reasonable suspicion” is an objective, factual, individualized basis for concern, such as when an employee’s observed behavior or physical appearance suggests drug and/or alcohol use or possession of drugs and/or alcohol. Examples where testing may be required include occasions when there is any: Observable phenomena (actual use or possession), including credible reports of either on-the-job or off-site usage. Abnormal behavior not satisfactorily explained by circumstances not attributable to drug use. An accident on employer time involving a motor vehicle or college equipment which results in property damage, injury or loss of human life (see post-accident testing below). If, after an initial discussion with the employee, the College has reasonable suspicion that the employee may be in violation of this policy, the employee may be required to submit to confidential, third-party testing to determine the presence or use of either alcohol or drugs. LBCC reserves the right to determine whether a reasonable suspicion for testing exists. B. Post-Accident Testing Any employee involved in or otherwise causing a job-related accident which causes personal injury to the employee, students, staff or others, that requires medical treatment by a physician or by hospital/clinic medical personnel, and whose behavior may have caused or contributed to the accident, may be required to take an alcohol and/or drug test immediately following the accident or at the time of initial treatment by a medical care facility. Any employee involved in or otherwise causing an accident resulting in what LBCC deems substantial damage to LBCC property or to another's property while the employee is conducting College business may be required to take an alcohol and/or drug test. Also, "near miss" incidents, where there is no personal or physical damage or injuries may be evaluated and LBCC will make a determination as to whether or not to test for drugs or alcohol for any or all employees involved. To ensure strict confidentiality of all test results and the privacy of all employees, all communication concerning drug and alcohol testing, sample collection, test results, employee notification and discipline, will be handled by an authorized representative of the College Human Resources Department, the third party administrator or the employee assistance program (EAP). In the event of a positive result, a Medical Review Officer (MRO) will contact the employee before notifying the college of the result. The MRO will discuss any medications prescribed by the employee’s physician that may have affected the result of the test. In the interest of employee safety and health, any employee with a verified positive test may be removed from performance of duties and advised of an available substance abuse professional (SAP) to evaluate and help resolve any substance abuse issues that may exist. Subsequently, and investigation of circumstances leading to the violation will be conducted by Human Resources. Based on the facts leading to the discovery of a violation of this administrative rule, employees may be referred to the Employee Assistance Program for further evaluation and treatment and/or may face disciplinary action up to and including suspension or discharge. The nature and severity of the violation will determine the level of corrective action. As required by federal law, the College reserves the right to refer employees for prosecution depending on the severity of the violation. In addition to any disciplinary action that may be taken against individuals, any College-sponsored or College-supported groups that condone or encourage violations of this policy may be subject to discipline and possibly dissolution. REFUSAL TO SUBMIT TO A TEST Any employee who refuses to submit to a drug or alcohol test may be evaluated by a licensed SAP. Such an employee may be placed on administrative leave of absence pending the results of an evaluation by the SAP. Such an employee may be subject to disciplinary action up to and including suspension or discharge. Refusal to submit to a test includes, but is not limited to: Failure to provide or unduly delaying a sample. Failure to remain at the testing site until the test is complete. Tampering with the specimen or collection procedure. Leaving the scene of an accident without a valid reason before tests have been conducted. Refusal to submit to testing will bring the same consequences as a positive result, including disciplinary action as referenced above. Any employee engaged in a safety sensitive position who refuses to submit to testing will be immediately removed from any safety sensitive duties. DATE OF ADOPTION: 8/25/87 DATE (S) OF REVISION(S): 6/7/12; 1/10/18; 1/6/22 DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 6/7/12

by mwalimu Chapter 8 - Crossed Signals Clarence Skunk, Cindy Lapine, Wanda the Vixen, Susan Felin, Debbye Squirrel, Chris Foxx, Rodney and Ellen Lapine, and Mark the Lemur are copyright Chris Yost. Martin Lupina, Nathan Fenicus, Clint Aardwulf, Nancy David, Pacidy Angelou, Vernon Procyon, Miranda Civet, and most others not listed here are copyright Joe McCauley. Zig Zag is copyright Max Black Rabbit. Sabrina Mustelidae is copyright Eric W. Schwartz. James Sheppard, Rhonda Badger, Lilian Bartholomew, and Gypsy Coyote are copyright James Bruner. Marvin Badger is copyright James Bruner after a description by Chris Yost. Lee Evans is copyright Evan Mayerle. Joshua Fox is copyright Joshua Fox. Jake Mackelroy is copyright David S. Adrian. Kittiara Seng and "Callahans" are copyright Kittiara. This story is copyright © 2003-2008 by Joe McCauley. This story may not be sold or used for commercial profit in any form or fashion. This story may not be modified in any way. This story may not be posted on any Internet site, archive, or newsgroup without the written permission of the author. Permission is granted for readers to produce an individual copy in print, magnetic or optical media for personal use only. Characters listed as copyright this author may not be used in other works without the written permission of the author. Permission to use characters that are copyright other individuals was obtained prior to the appearance of said characters. This is an independent work of fiction that is not canonical with any other work occurring in the same setting or featuring the same characters. "Mmmm, cantaloupe ..." murred the lemur as he popped another piece into his mouth. Aaron grinned at Mark. "Always figured you had a thing for melons," the bobcat quipped. This earned them a curious glance from Miranda and Gypsy who were seated at a nearby table. "So what if I do," Mark replied nonchalantly. "When we were at that breakfast buffet the other day, I seem to recall you had quite a thing for the sausages." This provoked quite a bit of laughter from everyone within hearing distance, or at least everyone from the movie crew. The banter went on as Clarence mused. I must be fitting in better. A few days ago I'd've felt like crawling under the table if a conversation I was part of was attracting this kind of attention. "Do you think the cameras will give us any trouble again this morning," Aaron asked a few minutes later in a more serious tone. "We've got enough shooting to get done today without having to deal with that as well." Mark shrugged. "Hard to tell. I wonder if it's something to do with the temperature." "Have you t... tried to get a hold of, uh, Rodney?" Clarence asked. "Thought about it. The problem is he's a little tricky to get a hold of," Aaron replied with a sigh. "We can't just call him. We'd have to go through Clint, who would have to call Zig Zag or Marvin." Clarence cocked an eyebrow. "I ... I might be able to help with that." Zig Zag stepped out of her office. As she began making rounds of the studio, she passed the receptionist's desk, where she observed that Lilian seemed to be wrapped up in something. "Morning, Lilian. How's everything?" Lilian looked up at her. "Everything's just fine, and so am I." "Glad to hear it." "We have a bunch of credit card payments to go through from the pay site." She shrugged. "There were more than forty waiting for me to process this morning. I've had two more come in just since I started working on them." Zig Zag paused. "What do we usually get? About ten or twelve, right?" "If that, on average. Fifteen if the site's been busy." "Any idea why we got so many hits last night?" "From the comments with them, there were several new pictures of Wanda that were a big hit." "New pictures of Wanda? Where did those come from?" "I had to do a little digging myself to find that out. It turns out Mark sent them from Georgia. I take it you didn't know about them." "Not offhand. He probably sent them to Marvin." The skunk paused a moment. "I'll have to ask him about that if he makes it in today. He's home with Rhonda this morning." Lilian nodded. "In the meantime, I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth. Can you get Sabrina on the phone for me?" The skunkette answered the phone beside her worktable. "Good morning, this is Sabrina." "Hello, Sabrina. How are they treating you there?" "Z..." She caught herself before saying the name aloud, putting her paw over the receiver and looking around for a few seconds. "What's up? What are you calling me here for?" Zig Zag laughed aloud. "What? You don't want your co-workers to know who your other boss is?" "Umm... I don't know how it would go over here." "Why not? Afraid they might be jealous?" Sabrina cleared her throat. "What did you need, Miss Z?" "Miss Z, is it now?" Sabrina heard a chortle come through the phone. "I'll let you get back to your job in a sec, but I was hoping you wouldn't mind a little overtime after work?" Sabrina knew from experience what this meant. "I don't think Chris has anything special planned for tonight. Why, what's up?" "Some pictures you added to the pay site yesterday turned out to be a big hit." "... and you want me to play them up on the site? All right, I'll sign on when I get home." "That's my girl. And between now and then I'm going to find out if there are any more like them." Clarence tapped another wedge between the dolly track and the stonework beneath. He pressed down on the rail, noting that it felt firm and showed no sign of give. Finally he stood up and took hold of the controls of the camera dolly. There was no camera on it, just a brick, and sitting atop the brick was a clear plastic cup half full of water. He used the controls to move the dolly over the section of track where he had just placed the wedge beneath, studying its movement. Unbeknownst to him, Wanda had stepped out onto the patio. Upon seeing him, she stopped and watched him. After allowing herself a few seconds to study the skunk's rear, she became intrigued by what he was doing, by the way he was so focused, so immersed in his task. He doesn't know I'm here. Would he still be able to concentrate if he did? She remained quiet, continuing to watch him. "Wanda, there you are," came a voice. It was Pacidy. "I found that parasol you were looking for." Wanda turned in the direction the voice came from and as she did, out of the corner of her eye she saw Clarence turning to look at her. "Oh, thank you, Pacidy," she said to the rabbit. "No problem. I knew we had it somewhere." When she was done talking, she did a couple of experimental poses with the parasol, as she would be holding it while in character. When she turned back to look at Clarence, he was facing the camera dolly once again, only now he appeared to be just staring at it, more tense now. I guess it's up to me to make something of this, she thought as she approached him. "What are you working on, Clarence?" He turned to look at her. "Oh, huh ... hi, Wanda. I'm ... uh, just setting up the dolly track?" She looked down at the track, then back up at him. "You guys do that all the time back at the studio." Clarence stroked his footpaw over the flagstones of the patio. "But here ... the surface isn't, uh ... it's uneven. At the studio it's flat." Wanda nodded. Clarence pushed up a switch on the control, and the dolly motor propelled it along the track once again. "Uh, Clarence," the vixen inquired. "Why the brick and the cup of water?" The skunk explained. "The brick weighs the ... about the same as a camera. And ..." He caught his breath. "The cup of water, is to ... it's to tell me if ... if a tyrannosaurus rex is sneaking up on me." Wanda blinked. "It's ... Oh, that was bad," she said as she started to groan with laughter. "You're terrible." Clarence tried to keep a straight face, but finally he cracked a smile. "Actually it's to detect bumps in the track. If it makes the water ripple, it might make the camera jitter while filming." Moments later as Wanda was walking through her part, learning her reference marks, Clarence was back to working on the dolly track, seemingly unperturbed by her presence. He made a joke with me, she mused. That has to be a good sign. Marvin could hear the sounds of the speakerphone as he knocked on Zig Zag's office door. "Yes?" came her voice from within. He opened the door slightly and peeked in. "Just me," he said. "Okay if I join the meeting?" He was pretty sure she wanted him to join but gave her a second to indicate otherwise. "Please do." He entered, closing the door behind him, and took a seat. Another chair was occupied by Jennifer Ironne. "Hiya, Marvin," said Clint through the speakerphone. "We've got Martin, Nancy, Pacidy, and myself at this end. How is Rhonda doing?" "Much better. The hardest part is keeping her from trying to do too much." There was a chorus of laughter from both ends of the teleconference. "Glad to hear it," said Nancy. "You can't keep a good woman down," Pacidy added. "You can if you know what you're doing with her," said Zig Zag. There was another pause for laughter. When it finally died down, she continued. "We were discussing a few of the problems they've run into. They're running nearly a day behind schedule. A couple of panoramas we expected to use for backgrounds have out-of-period structures in view. We've had problems with some of the cameras and sound equipment acting glitchy. There's been a couple of training delays and safety issues with the period vehicles, and a host of other small problems." "I never thought I'd say this," came Clint's voice, "but we miss you, Marvin." Marvin shook his head. "Unfortunately, you'll have to keep missing me. I'm tied down here for at least another week." "But I'm not," said Zig Zag. "I'm going to fly down this weekend." Jennifer looked up. "I'd like to as well if you guys can use me." As Zig Zag considered this, the crew at the other end didn't wait to reply. "I'd love to have your input on some things," said Pacidy. "Me too," said Martin. Zig Zag finally nodded. "Okay, we'll get Jennifer down there too. You think they have room for us at your hotel?" "I think so," said Clint. The tiger-striped skunk looked up at Marvin. "Can I put you in charge of the studio here while I'm gone?" "Of course," the badger replied. "Good. One other thing," Zig Zag interjected. "Those pictures you sent us a couple of days ago are turning out to be a big hit on the website, and it would be a smart move to capitalize on those to help promote the movie. Any chance you could send us some more of those, maybe some with others besides Wanda?" There was some muttering at the Georgia end of the line. "You know," said Martin. "Those weren't even in the schedule. Mark and Wanda just dropped a bomb on me the other day about shooting them. Said Marvin had requested them. Do you know anything about that, Marvin?" Marvin got a slightly puzzled look, and he and Zig Zag looked at each other for a long moment before Zig Zag spoke to the phone. "Scheduled or not, if they're good promotion for the movie, I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth. I understand you're running a little behind there but see what you can come up with." While waiting his turn to speak, something tickled at the back of Marvin's mind. "I'll call Mark and talk to him about it," he said. There was a pause at the other end. "Okay, just please let us know if there's anything else that didn't get included in the schedule." "Will do," Marvin replied. They said their goodbyes and cut off the connection. Zig Zag looked at Jennifer. "Well, I guess we've got some travel arrangements to make. I need to call James and let him know I'll be out of town for a few days." She turned to Marvin. "What did you say to Mark?" Marvin shifted in his seat. "I'm still trying to remember that conversation. Can I get back to you on that?" Zig Zag studied her second in command curiously. "No problem." "This is Mark." "Hi Mark," said Marvin from the other end of the phone line. "How is everything down there in Georgia?" "We're hangin' in there. How is Rhonda?" "She's doing much better, and I appreciate your concern." "Hey, we're all part of one big family." "We are, indeed. Listen, I needed to ask you about something." "Okay, shoot." "Those pictures of Wanda you took the other day ... You said that I had requested that you take them, but for the life of me I don't remember asking you to do any still photo shoots. Can you remind me, or explain what's going on?" Mark felt his face flush as if he had done something wrong. "Well ... You remember the phone call you made before we left town?" "Ummm ... No." "You were at the hospital with Rhonda." "Oh, that call. But I don't remember saying anything about taking any pictures. I just asked you to keep an eye out for any problems between Clarence and Wanda." Mark sighed. "Yes, I know. On one of the flights down, they got seat assignments next to each other. I spotted it while we were still boarding. Clarence looked like he was about to pee his pants. I had to think of something quick as an excuse to trade seats, so I came up with this story about needing to talk to Wanda about taking some pictures. Once we got talking, she really warmed up to the idea. Yeah, I knew it wasn't planned and had to keep my fingers crossed that we'd get a chance to slip it in." There was a long pause at the other end of the line. "Okay," said Marvin. "I understand. It sounds like you handled it the best you could under the circumstances." "I'm sorry if I messed up anyone's schedules ..." "Don't worry about it," said Marvin. "We may have a different problem now. Not a problem, exactly. More like an opportunity ..." "Sabrina put those pictures up on the website and they turned out to be very popular. Now Zig thinks they're a good promotional opportunity for the film, and I think she's probably right. So now she wants to know if there's more where those came from, or if you can shoot some more. Maybe some with Miranda or Gypsy, or even Nancy." Mark considered this. "I'll have to run it by Clint to make sure it won't cause any more schedule delays." "Do your best. If you run into problems, give me a call or talk to Zig. She'll be there in a couple of days." "I talked to Mark," said Marvin, "and he was doing as I requested." He hoped Zig Zag didn't ask too many probing questions. "Does he have more pictures for us?" Marvin nodded, relieved that she pursued that angle rather than pressing for details that might force him to reveal more than he wanted to about Clarence. "I think he's going to get us some more. I told him to talk to me or you if he runs into any problems." Zig Zag nodded. "That's fine. Once I'm there I'll be in a better position to decide how to juggle any schedule delays with a promotional photo shoot." The badger smiled. "I thought you would." The skunk smiled too. "I talked to James. He wants to come with me. He just needs to check with his partner Doug to make sure it won't be a problem." She was practically glowing. "It will be so much fun showing him what we do here!" "Good job, guys," said Mark as he patted the rock-climbing harness he was now wearing around his waist. "That's a big worry off my mind while I'm trying to work the camera." "Just doing our jobs," said Vernon from the front of the truck. Beside him, Clarence nodded. Between the two of them was one of the places where ropes were hooked to the inside of the truck. "Are we ready to roll?" the raccoon asked. Mark looked out behind them, where Nathan sat in the driver's seat of the Model T Ford. He gave a roll signal, and Nathan gave a thumbs-up. "Ready," Mark called out. They spent the next couple of hours cruising around the countryside getting various shots of Nathan driving the car along rural roads in the area. In addition to the moving footage, they got several shots from stationary points. Of all the footage they shot, only about three minutes would end up getting used in the film. Their job was to give Franklin, the film editor, enough footage to choose from. "I need to spend some time working on the website tonight." "Aww," said Chris. "You realize that's going to mess up my carefully orchestrated plans to seduce you." Sabrina blinked, then laughed. "Yeah, right. What plans?" "If I told you, I'd have to ..." "You'd have to what?" The fox grinned. "Use your imagination." This elicited a throat-clearing noise from the skunkette. "You go ahead and take care of that when we get home, and I'll work on dinner." "Sounds like a plan to me." Her expression turned thoughtful. "Tell me, honestly ... Does it bother you, me spending some of my free time working on stuff for Double Z?" Chris smiled at his wife. "Naah. Maybe a little now and then, but the extra income is pretty nice too." After a long pause, Sabrina cocked an eyebrow toward him. "Yes?" "What?" he replied defensively. "I can tell from the way you said it, there's something more." Chris's ears flushed for a long pause, but he finally answered. "I don't know how to explain it, but there's just something about the fact that you do work for Zig Zag's studio, even doing the kind of work you do, that's very sexy. That makes you even more irresistible than you are already." Now it was Sabrina's turn to blush. She didn't know how to answer that. They arrived home moments later, and once the connection was up, Sabrina checked her e-mails, then did a little poking around the site's directories to see what she could find, to make sure everything was still in its place. No new pictures yet, as the earlier discussion had hinted there might be. One of her incoming e-mails indicated they were still working on those. Then Sabrina checked the pages with the pictures of Wanda, and when she saw the hit counters, her jaw nearly hit the floor. "Holy crap, she wasn't kidding," she exclaimed aloud. Following a satisfying dinner, Clarence was ready to hear his fianc�e�s voice. After a moment to relax himself, he fished out the phone card and with much anticipation, dialed the number. "Hello," Rodney answered. "Oh, uh ... Hi, Mr. Lapine. Is ... Cindy there?" "'Fraid not. She's got a babysitting job tonight." Clarence let out a sigh of disappointment. "Oh, well, umm ..." "How are things down there in Georgia?" the elder rabbit asked. "Going okay, I guess. It's ... kind of nice here, and some of the work is interesting ..." "Good, good." "Today we were driving around, filming Nathan driving a Model T ..." They continued talking for a few more minutes, Clarence talking about the events of the day and the week so far. Nancy too was anxious to hear her husband's voice. She finished dialing her home phone number and waited. It took about two rings longer than usual for the phone to be answered. "Hello?" said an unfamiliar female voice. The otter was caught a little by surprise at hearing someone other than her husband. "Who am I speaking to?" she asked. "This is Cindy. Is this Nancy?" She paused. "Yes." "I thought so. We met at the airport a few days ago. I'm babysitting Jordan." "Cindy ... Okay, now I remember you. You're Clarence's girlfriend, right? Where is Gary tonight." "He's at his bowling league ..." "His ..." The otter facepalmed. "Oh shoot, that's right," Nancy exclaimed. "This is Friday. Sometimes I lose track of days ..." She heard a giggle at the other end. "I know how that goes." There was a pause. "Say, Jordan's being kind of restless. Do you have any ..." "Can you put him on the phone?" Nancy asked. "I'd love to talk to my son." Nancy spent the next couple of minutes talking to Jordan, getting a couple of 'Mom's and various other toddler sounds out of him. "You know what?" Clarence posited at one point. "Aaron and Mark were having some problems with the cameras. Can they call you?" There was a pause. "Are they available now?" Clarence stammered a bit before forming a reply. "Eh ... Ok..kay, I think I know where their rooms are." He put down the phone and went out into the hallway, turning out the security lock to block the door open. He then paused, staring at the two side-by-side doors across the hall from him. I'm not sure, but I think Aaron is in the one on the left, he thought as he padded over to knock on that door. "He really likes applesauce," Nancy explained. "If you look in the cabinet above and to the right of the stove ..." "... excuse me just a sec. Someone is knocking on my door." Since the cord wouldn't reach, Nancy had to set the phone down to answer the door. "Clarence!?" "Oh, sorry," he stammered. "I th... thought this was Aaron's room." Nancy couldn't help laughing out loud. "You're not going to believe who I've got on the phone." The skunk froze up at the unexpectedness of her statement. "I was just looking for ... I've got to ... Umm, who?" "Cindy," she finally replied. "Want to say hi to her?" Clarence brightened up. "Sure, but ..." "What's the matter? Afraid to ..." "N..no. It's just ... I've got Rodney on the phone in my room. I w... was trying to find Aaron or Mark. He wants t... to talk to them about the camera problems." Nancy paused. "I'll get one of them. Go talk to Cindy." As the otter stepped out in the hall to knock on the door next to hers, Clarence stepped sheepishly into her room and picked up the phone. "Uh.. Hello?" "Clarence, is that you?" Cindy replied. "What are you doing on the phone?" He couldn't help laughing at his situation. "I just tried to call you, and got your dad. He wants to talk to one of the cameramen, and I was trying to find one when I knocked on Nancy's door by accident ..." "Do you still need to find one of them?" "Nancy's taking care of it. But ... How come you were on the phone with Nancy?" "I'm at her house, babysitting her son Jordan ..." The sheer awkwardness and improbability of the situation would have them fondly remembering this conversation many years later. Clarence returned to his room some ten minutes later, where he heard the tail end of the conversation between Aaron and Rodney. He caught something about how the cooler temperature in the basement at the mansion, where the cameras were stored overnight, was causing condensation problems when they were brought outside into the humid air. The euphoria of talking to Cindy had faded, and Clarence was staring once again at his page, still trying to put into words what he felt about Wanda. Different ideas, different impressions floated through his mind, and as they did, another memory came to the surface ... The main room in the basement of the sorority house was sometimes referred to as the party room, especially by non-residents who only saw it when that's what it was being used for. Music was booming from the speakers while a handful of furs were showing off their dance skills, real or imagined. Numerous others milled about the edges of the room, many of them holding cups of beer, some of them trying to converse despite the volume of the music. Clarence surveyed the room. It felt awkward being here at all, like he didn't belong, a reminder of why he seldom went out of his way to attend parties such as this one. At least Jake was with him. The older cat had convinced the freshman skunk that sometimes you have to get out of your comfort zone, so here they were. And in a way it felt nice to be getting out and at least trying to do something social. The skunk hadn't danced any and felt like doing something to move his body. He'd seen a few girls dancing alone or with other girls. How come it's okay for girls to do that but not guys?, he wondered. Whatever the reason, if he felt like dancing he'd have to find a partner. He leaned closer to Jake. "You think anyone here would, um, dance with me?" The cat looked back at him. "I'm sure one of them will," he replied. When all he got from Clarence was a puzzled look, he continued, "Just look for the ones with the 'Dance With Me' signs." "The what?" "Just kidding," Jake chuckled. "The only way to find out is to ask." Clarence gave him an almost fearful look. "What if she says 'no'?" Jake shrugged. "Then you move on and ask someone else." The skunk pondered this. Getting a 'no' would be rejection. Maybe some guys could take it in stride, but the thought made him tremble. It was a few more minutes before he got up the nerve to ask anyone. One particularly attractive vixen had caught his eye, even though as far as he could tell, she had never noticed him. When the next song began, he approached her. Well, here goes nothing. She didn't turn toward him until he gave her a light shoulder tap. Even though she hadn't been doing anything or talking to anyone, she reacted as if he had interrupted something. Clarence had to force himself to speak. "I w... was wondering ... Would you like ... like to d... dance?" The vixen turned her head and studied him for several seconds. She raised her paw to the underside of her muzzle while her eyes roamed over him from head to toe. It was the sort of look one might give to something they were considering purchasing. Her lips pursed as the moment dragged out uncomfortably. Finally she replied, "No, I don't think so," in a slightly smug but otherwise emotionless tone as she turned away to resume her original posture. Although he knew she might decline, Clarence felt very shaken by that rejection. He'd been meaning to ask a couple of others if she turned him down, but the way she had done it, had made him feel like a piece of meat, had sapped whatever confidence he might have had. He retreated to the safety of Jake, where he spent a few minutes trying to regain his composure. But looking around the room, even trying to ignore the vixen who moments earlier had seemed attractive to him, he felt more out of place than ever just being here. He leaned closer to Jake. "I don't think this party is working for me." Jake turned to him. "Giving up already?" "Please, can we just go?" Clarence still cringed every time he recalled that incident. And what was it about Wanda that brought it to mind? Besides the fact that they were both vixens, there was the feeling that there were times when Wanda had given him the same kind of look as the sorority vixen. How much did it matter that Wanda liked what she saw more than the other vixen had? Come to think of it, how often did Wanda get looks like that from guys? Probably more than he wanted to contemplate, especially considering her chosen profession. After leaving the Fishers, Cindy made a stop at Clarence's apartment. She had already picked up his mail, and after adding it to the stack from previous days, looked around his apartment. Even though she had told both him and her father, she still felt a little funny about spending the night here. Among the snacks Clarence had told her she could partake of were a few carrots. I wonder if he thought I might be staying over before he left, she wondered as she nibbled on one. Spartan though the furnishings were, it was nice to relax in his place for an evening. When it came time to get ready for bed, she began to undress, then did something she hadn't told him about. Cindy looked through his clothes and picked out one of his T-shirts. When she finished undressing, she put it on, looked at herself in the mirror, and smiled at her reflection. Clarence, I wish you could see me now. It still seemed to embarrass him whenever he saw her wearing less than she'd be seen wearing in public, and somehow that made the idea of him seeing her like this all the more appealing to her. She smiled at the pictures on his nightstand and sniffed the scent from his pillow and sheets as she crawled into his bed. Would he be able to smell her next time he slept here? There was something naughty about sleeping in his bed, wearing nothing but one of his T-shirts, that made her fall asleep with a smile on her face. On to Chapter 9 Return to SabrinaVerse Stories Page

As I Lay Dying: 17. Darl Summary & Analysis Darl once again describes what is happening at the Bundren home after Addie's death, even as he is still on the road with Jewel. Cash continues to work diligently on completing the coffin, despite the rain. Cash tells Anse to stop helping him and instead to go get something to cover their lantern. Cora and Tull arrive in the meantime, and Tull begins to help Cash, who announces his decision to bevel the coffin. Once again, we see Darl as having preternatural abilities and a rare fluency in expressing his thoughts in language. This sets Darl apart in the family. By contrast, Cash's dedication to fulfilling his duty as a carpenter and finishing the coffin marks his role as a Christ-like figure, a man of charity and self-sacrifice. Cash proudly finishes the coffin before dawn—and Cash, Anse, Tull and Peabody immediately bring the coffin inside. Darl shifts his focus to his and Jewel's present situation and ponders the need to "empty yourself for sleep." He believes "when you are emptied for sleep, you are not" and proceeds to realize that he does not know whether he is or is not. Jewel knows he is because he does not think of these kinds of questions—is vs. is not, was vs. was not, and the issue of what will be. Darl's interrogation of what it means to be "empty"¦for sleep" resembles Vardaman's thoughts regarding the difference between "not-fish" and fish. Both Darl and Vardaman explore questions about mortality and the meaning of life using rudimentary philosophical arguments, all of which rely heavily on thought-experiments based on the subtleties of language.

Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Friday 29 October 2021 7:30pm Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Grant Llewellyn conductor Catrin Finch harp Seckou Keita kora Catrin Finch has been called the “Queen of Harps”, the artist who took a Welsh tradition and renewed it for the 21st century. Seckou Keita, meanwhile, is the most charismatic – and captivating – kora player of our time: an artist immersed in centuries of Senegalese music, who’s amazed and delighted listeners all over the world. Two great harpists, two great traditions; both united by a passion to communicate. Together, in this one-off concert with the Orchestra, they’ll do exactly that. The world premiere of newly scored arrangements of selected pieces from Catrin and Seckou’s first two albums – Clychau Dibon (2013) and SOAR (2018) – as well as new music, will be featured.

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Living on the Real World ← So much for the quote…how about those questions? Visiting WAS*IS…whazzat!!!!? → More on Question 1… Posted on August 5, 2010 by William Hooke What kind of world is likely if we take no action? Yesterday, when we left this question, it seemed on the surface like it might answerable in terms of science. Indeed, researchers of all stripes have been busily working the issue. Each year, nations of the world are spending billions of dollars to train and pay scientists, and to equip them (us – for I am one) with the tools they (we) need to develop understanding of the Earth as a system, and for that matter, many of the details. We’ve got instruments, sensors, for measuring physical quantities like atmospheric temperature and wind speed and the Earth’s magnetic field, for sniffing out the chemical composition of the air and sea, for sampling biota and measuring biomass and biodiversity. We have surface networks of some sensors. We have satellite platforms for others. We’ve got communications and computer infrastructure to help us corral and digest the data – to convert data into information, and transform information into knowledge and understanding. We’ve built numerical models that project conditions out to decades and centuries. What was a trickle of journal papers fifty years ago has turned into a torrent. The annual rhythm of scientific meetings has become an incessant blur. Correspondence has morphed into a flood of e-mails, teleconferences. Communication, once desperately needed, has become an often distracting intrusion. What kind of world is likely? As the resources for answering this question have grown, so scientists have been getting more organized and structured in their approach. Consider the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC. Under United Nations auspices, every few years, scientists put out a new assessment. They begin each report by building scenarios of likely futures. Hundreds of scientists are actively and centrally involved. Thousands more are drawn in. Some scenarios are known as Business-as-Usual or BAU. Other scenarios expand the range of possible futures. What do we have to show for all this effort? Quite a lot, actually. As recently as one hundred years ago, most people believed: – the assimilative capacity of the atmosphere was (essentially) infinite – the climate was unchanging, and – weather was unpredictable Today, by contrast, we know that: – the assimilative capacity of the atmosphere is finite, not just locally or regionally, but globally – climate is variable over all time scales, sometimes abruptly so, and – weather is far more predictable than we’d thought Thus, in little more than the span of a single human lifetime, scientists have taken three notions about the real world that have been held throughout thousands of years of human experience, and not just tweaked them slightly, but turned them upside down. Talk about progress! Society has received good value for its investment. It’s as if we’d been trying to get around Manhattan using a geological survey of the Adirondacks, and then suddenly someone walked up and handed us a street map and a GPS. Quite a lot, but still not nearly enough. When it comes back to the question, what kind of world is likely if we take no action, we still don’t know, except in the most general terms. !!!How can this be? In a nutshell, this is because over the past couple of centuries, human beings have moved from being bit players in the real world to the main actors. Back when, any planet-wide changes in habitat, in ecosystems, in atmospheric chemistry and radiative processes were only imperceptibly influenced by human decisions and actions. That’s no longer the case today. What happens next, what the real world is in the process of becoming, is no longer something we’re watching, it’s something we’re causing. So the set of sciences needed to answer our question has expanded from the natural sciences to include all the social sciences: psychology, sociology, political science, communication, anthropology, history – the complete list is too extensive to give here. To predict the future of the real world, we need to predict human behavior. And, social scientists are the first to point out that the act of studying human behavior invariably winds up changing that behavior.[1] Take the stock market. Analysts make their observations, but by the time those observations have been published, the salient information has often been entirely discounted. Take efforts to prevent terrorism. Today we work to make air travel safe, but the terrorists have already moved on. Take the depletion of fish stocks – by the time scientists announce the depletion of fish stocks, fisheries managers have already taken steps to restore the fishery. (Oops! That’s not what always happens there, is it? Human behavior? It’s unpredictable.) That’s why the first question is articulated here as “What kind of world is likely if we take no deliberate action?” That is, what will happen if we keep on behaving as we are now? What we’ll see in a future post is that we can indeed make a few statements about present trends. They’re general, but still useful. But in tomorrow’s post, we’re going to digress a bit. Remember that we said the act of studying human behavior changes that behavior? Scientists themselves are not immune. Both natural and social scientists, as well as professionals who provide science-based services – especially early-career scientists – change their behavior in light of new, emerging realities. Today, Thursday, I’m traveling from DC to Boulder to meet with one such group. They’re great company, exciting to be around. Tomorrow I’ll tell you more about them. [1] Physicists encounter this same problem in quantum mechanics. Heisenberg’s eponymous uncertainty principle states that it’s possible to locate small particles such as electrons or deduce their velocities, but not both to arbitrary accuracy. That’s because electrons are small. To illuminate an electron so that you can see it, you have to clobber it with a photon. However, physicists face a simpler problem than do the social scientists. Suppose the electrons were reading the journal papers, figured out they were getting clobbered, and went into hiding? Or developed anti-clobbering technology? Remedial reading: The Primacy of Doubt. Everything, Everywhere, All at Once! Per Tony Stark, (re-)inventing human herd immunity to natural hazards. To build “herd immunity” to natural hazards, channel Tony Stark. Existential threats, and human superpowers. William Hooke on Per Tony Stark, (re-)inventing human herd immunity to natural hazards. John Plodinec on Per Tony Stark, (re-)inventing human herd immunity to natural hazards. Dave Rodenhuis on Per Tony Stark, (re-)inventing human herd immunity to natural hazards. John Plodinec on Long-term (covid, Fiona, Ian): a postscript. American Meteorological Society buy LOTRW, the book donate online to the AMS AGU Blogosphere Bill Kerr Capital Weather Gang Climate Central Climate Etc. Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Meteorological Musings Mountain Beltway Pew Center Climate Compass River Seers Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog The Benshi The Breakthrough Institute The Character Building Project

Tag: GoPro The Greatness of the GoPro It used to be that so many sports were a solo effort, to be experienced by the athlete only. If you wanted to get the crazy view from the apex of a ski slope, or see what the world looked like during a motocross jump, you needed to have the elite skills to get there – and it could feel somewhat lonely at the top. But all of that has been changed with the introduction of the GoPro, a tiny camera meant to be mounted on a person to shoot video from what’s essentially their point of view. These videos can then be uploaded and shared across the internet, opening up a whole new world to viewers – and a new level of fame for GoPro-equipped athletes. It’s both a way to show off one’s skills and to capture some truly incredible achievements for posterity. Let’s examine how the invention of the GoPro – and other similar mounted-camera devices – have changed the way we view sports. The Science of a Shared Reality Although we could use “GoPro” to refer to any number of small, body-mounted cameras used to capture athletic feats, it’s the original GoPro device itself that has the most glory – and the most revenue. In the 12 years since it’s been on the market, GoPro has amassed capital in the billion-dollar range, and has spearheaded the trend of recording one’s athletic exploits to share with friends – or an online audience – right in the comfort of their own homes. An article at ZDnet squarely puts GoPro users as “extreme athletes” including BASE jumpers, snowboarders, cyclists, and even participants of some of the most grueling obstacle-course marathons in the world, like the Tough Mudder. These fringe sports have suddenly been vaulted into the mainstream, and much of that has to do with the first-person video that GoPro cameras can capture. These adrenaline-fuelled competitions have become so popular that the International Olympics Committee has since added events like ski halfpipe and snowboard slalom to their lineup – all in pursuit of the young audience that GoPro videos have attracted. These hyper-augmented alternative sports are even said to be making traditional sports seem a bit boring and slow by comparison. As the ZDnet article goes on to explain, there’s a specific science behind how we feel when we watch a video that simulates a first-person experience; the type of neurons that fire in our brains are the kind that connect us to what we’re seeing. “Later research found that about one-fifth of the neurons firing during an action also fire on seeing that action,” the article says before continuing with, “And with them, we understand, in a micro-second, a BASE jumper’s death-defying plunge from a river bridge or a snowboarder’s air flip–images that make our hearts pound and breathing spike.” It’s like a form of virtual reality, except it’s not a simulation, and it has that human element to anchor us as we watch in awe. Once you add in higher stakes, like those mentioned above with the Olympics, GoPro-shot footage quickly becomes something like must-see TV for those who want to live the experience like they’re actually there – and like they’re actually the athlete. Augmenting a Brand Offering a cool new product is one thing, but building an entire brand around it – and convincing people that they need it in order to help build their own brand – is another. Although GoPro cameras and their ilk continue to evolve with things like camera mounts for drones, there’s still a focus on making mounted cameras the must-have tool for demonstrating one’s cool athletic stunts to the world. ZDnet sagely adds, “While companies like Nikon and Canon fine tune their optics and ease of shooting, GoPro is disrupting these legacy brands by offering something much bigger: a lifestyle.” Extreme athletes have been a fascinating pop-culture fixture since the 1990s, and GoPro videos have only spread their appeal further – not to mention it dovetails nicely with the rise of “reality” culture in our current entertainment. Along with the reality TV factor, GoPros are moving another cultural phenomenon to the next level: the selfie. It’s common to take handheld photos of yourself to show off on social media, in pursuit of more likes and reposts or to simply mark your territory and say “I was here.” On another level, selfies are used to show off not just the smartphone holder, but also the backdrop, such as tropical beaches, exotic locations, and national monuments. Those who have the most unique settings will get the most likes, and by using GoPro cameras, anyone can snap a shot of themselves free-climbing a jagged cliff or hang-gliding over a picturesque landscape. It’s a one-of-a-kind photo that’s sure to one-up anyone else in your social feed, and that kind of branding is currency these days. It can even lead to a big break in the media and entertainment industry, as author Dan Schawbel is quoted in the ZDnet piece: “A decade ago, it would cost thousands of dollars to make a professional reel and send it to Hollywood and hope you get discovered. GoPro is changing that business model, just like it changes everything it touches.” Since anyone can find their 15 minutes of fame or more using the internet, GoPro footage might just open a few doors for enterprising individuals – or at the very least, garner them a few hundred thousand views on their latest YouTube video. Social networks and personal branding aside, there’s even a more practical use for GoPros: self-defense. You may see many cyclists around your city with a tiny camera mounted to their helmets; they’re typically recording their journeys so if there’s an accident, they have video footage of what happened. Inasmuch as GoPros are great tools for extreme athletes, they’re also becoming more of a real-world necessity as well (think mounted cameras on police officers). The Lens of Inspiration Not only are GoPros and other mounted cameras changing the way we view sports, they’re also changing the way we view ourselves through someone else’s lens. Getting a secondhand rush by watching someone’s extreme footage isn’t just entertaining – it can also be inspiring. Watching through the eyes of someone else as they BASE jump or skydive could help encourage you to try it out for yourself. But whether you strap on a GoPro yourself or remain content on the sidelines, there’s little doubt that these tiny square-shaped cameras are here to stay, and will keep changing how we view sports in the coming years. Have you ever used a GoPro or mounted camera to record your feats of athleticism? Tell us about it – and link us to the video – in the comments.

Leiden Institute of Physics Instituut-Lorentz As explained in the Graduate study FAQ, whether or not a staff member can take a new graduate student or appoint a new postdoc depends on whether he or she has obtained funding for such a position from one of our national granting agencies or the EU. So job opportunities in most of our groups depend strongly on future funding. See the faculty list for links to the home pages of the various groups in the Instituut-Lorentz (the theory division of the Leiden physics department). Regardless of whether you find an opening listed or not, if you are looking for a PhD position with one of us and are exceptionally good, do contact us in any case if you really would like to work with one of us: for really very good candidates who we'd love to have in Leiden, we can apply for departmental PhD positions at any time. Decisions on such applications can be made in a few weeks. See the Graduate study FAQ for more information.

In Germany, A City Moves Away From Coal By Erica Peterson Published December 11, 2015 at 5:03 PM EST Solar panels on the roof of Gelsenkirchen's Wissenschaftspark. Across the Atlantic Ocean, governments and businesses are taking big steps toward renewable energy. Their transition could provide lessons for Kentucky. This is the first in a five-part series. Flying into Germany, you can see the results of the country’s Energiewende, or energy transition, from the air. The landscape is dotted with wind turbines — some are clustered in groups, others stand alone next to a farmhouse. This continues when I’m off the plane, traveling around the country. In the United States, wind farms are usually huge and set apart. In Germany, they’re everywhere. Turbines pop up next to coal-fired power plants or stand alone on a town’s lone hill. Initially, for me, these are the most noticeable effects of the Energiewende. This transition has already been underway to some degree for two decades. Its two main long-term goals are to get 80 percent of the country’s electricity from renewable sources by 2050, and to reduce carbon dioxide emissions 95 percent from 1990 levels. And the country is moving ahead with this transition despite the fact that some regions still rely on coal mining — just like Kentucky. This path isn’t easy, and has been made more difficult by a plan to phase out Germany’s nuclear reactors. Nuclear energy has zero carbon emissions, and in the short-term, it’s been replaced in the German electricity mix by carbon-rich coal. So far, Germany is on track to meet the short-term goal of getting 35 percent of its electricity from renewables in 2020; this year, renewables are expected to provide about a third of the nation’s electricity. The carbon dioxide goals might prove more difficult to meet, but the German economy is growing, andjobs in the renewable and energy efficiency sectors are increasing. But the transition has been more difficult for traditional coal mining areas. It’s a foggy morning in Germany’s Ruhr Valley. This is western Germany’s traditional coal-producing region. Coal was mined here for both steel production and electricity. At one point, there were 40 coal mines in the small city of Gelsenkirchen. Now, there are none. “So there aren’t any working pits anymore in Gelsenkirchen,” Anja Büttner said. She’s head of the city’s economic development agency. “So what did that mean? We had more than 60,000 jobs which were lost because of the decline in the coal and steel mining industry.” Gelsenkirchen’s heyday was in the late 1950s, when there were about 162,000 people working in the city. Since then, there’s been a steady loss of jobs. In 2005 — the low point — there were only 70,700 people employed in Gelsenkirchen. Just as Kentucky’s coal mining communities are beginning to look forward to diversifying their economies away from fossil fuels, in the 1990s Gelsenkirchen officials decided to reinvent the city as a solar energy center. Now, there’s the Wissenschaftspark, or Science Park, a bustling building that’s home to nearly 50 science and technology companies. On the roof are 900 solar panels. Engineer Sabine Wischermann said when the panels were installed in 1996, this was the biggest rooftop solar array in the world. “They had bigger in the open fields, but on the top of the roof it was the biggest one for this time,” she said. Wischermann said when they’re at their peak, the Science Park’s solar panels produce about 210 kilowatt hours of electricity. “But we don’t use the energy for the building here, we put everything back into the grid,” she said. “It’s pretty good, what we get for it.” That’s one of the central pillars of the Energiewende that drives the huge increase in renewable energy: the feed-in tariff. “There is a tradition in Germany starting in 1991, when the first electricity feed-in legislation was decided by the German Bundestag. And that basically was the starting point for everything,” said Jan Rispens, CEO of Hamburg’s Renewable Energy Cluster — a public-private partnership. Gelsenkirchen’s Science Park, and everyone else with solar panels or wind turbines, is guaranteed a premium when they feed power back into the grid. When renewable energy wasn’t as popular, the rate was higher. It has gone down, but it’s still high enough to provide an incentive for homeowners and businesses to invest in renewable energy. Rispens said this feed-in tariff and a policy giving renewables priority on the grid are two of the main drivers of the Energiewende. “It guaranteed a wind farm operator that if you generate electricity, you are always allowed to feed that electricity into the grid, and you will get a financial remuneration for the coming 20 years on a certain level, and that allows you to refinance your wind farm,” Rispens said. Or solar. Basically, if you’re creating energy on any scale from renewable sources, your energy has first priority on the grid. If it’s noon on a sunny summer day and the grid is full, coal or gas-fired electricity won’t be allowed any space. And the grid operator has to buy that power at premium. Some of that money comes from German households. “Because the other side of this financial feed-in tariff is, of course, that all of the electric consumers together have to pay for that,” Rispens said. “So we all face a small part of our electricity bill that is for financing wind and solar power in Germany.” This year, a German family of three paid about 30 cents per kilowatt hour of electricity, including the price of the electricity, the renewable energy surcharge, grid charges and taxes. That’s two-and-a-half times higher than the 12 cents per kilowatt hour I paid on my latest electricity bill, taking Louisville Gas & Electric's environmental surcharges, fees and taxes into account. But Germans also have an opportunity to recoup some of those costs by installing solar panels or wind turbines, and selling that power back to the grid. But while Gelsenkirchen’s Science Park’s solar panels are working out fine, the city has had numerous bumps as it has worked to reinvent itself. During Gelsenkirchen’s push toward solar energy, two factories producing components for solar panels opened in the city. Sabine Wischermann points to some of these panels on the roof of the Science Park. “Here we are seeing the old modules produced here in Gelsenkirchen,” she said. These panels are see-through: glass studded with solar cells. They could be used in building facades, letting in light while they provide solar energy. But Gelsenkirchen’s solar factories didn’t last. As demand for solar panels picked up in Germany and elsewhere, production moved overseas. Now, most places in Germany, including the Science Park, get their new solar panels from countries in Asia. After decades and false starts, the transition isn’t done in Gelsenkirchen, either. The unemployment rate here is dropping, though it’s still higher than both the region and the country as a whole. So Gelsenkirchen is reinventing itself again: not just as a solar city, but as a research and tech center for all renewable energies. As coal mines in Eastern Kentucky close or idle, officials there are thinking about reinvention too. The state’s Shaping Our Appalachian Region (SOAR) initiative is two years old, and politicians and residents are working to figure out what the area’s future looks like with fewer coal mining jobs. [aesop_quote type="pull" align="right" quote="From Bundestag to Bluegrass is a five-part web and radio series examining Germany’s energy transition — and its potential lessons for Kentucky."] And Anja Büttner is hopeful. She speaks excitedly about new restaurants opening, and several large development projects on former coal mine sites. “And so yes, Gelsenkirchen started with coal and steel mining, then switched to solar energy. And today it’s no longer only solar energy, but once again, here we have a broad range of all sorts of renewable energies,” she said. “So today we would say, Gelsenkirchen is the city of the renewable energies.” And after all, reinvention — like energy transition — takes time. This story was originally published on December 7, 2015. Photo credit: Erica Peterson This series was supported in part by a grant from the Heinrich Böll Foundation. News energyfuture From Bundestag to Bluegrass: What Kentucky Can Learn From Germany’s Energy Transition Germans Forge 'Socially Acceptable' Transition From Coal Germany's Renewable Energy Push Doesn't Mean Forsaking Coal — Yet How Energy Tourism is Powering New Futures for German Cities

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BONNIE PAGE ('76,'92) I received my Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education in 1976 and my Master’s in Early Childhood Education and Child Development in 1992. I began my teaching career at the South Boston Neighborhood School Daycare Center in South Boston, MA then taught at the Arlington Children’s Center in Arlington, MA. In 1987, I started teaching preschool in the Malden Public Schools in Malden, Ma. I then taught first and second grades, and finally landed in kindergarten for the next 22 years. I have been very involved in the Massachusetts Teachers Association since 1987, serving on the Board of director’s office both the MTA and the National Education Association. I am now a member of the MTA’s Retired Members Committee. I retired from Malden in 2017 after having taught there for 30 years, where I also held the position of local union President. I have stayed very active with Wheelock College, having served as the president of the Alumni Association and served on several committees, including the Alumni Association Endowment Fund. I was a founding member of Lucy’s Legacy Foundation, Inc., an independent foundation in charge of the alumni’s endowment account. I live in Tewksbury, MA with my husband, Troy Lemay, an 8th grade civics/history teacher in Lexington MA. Bonnie Page: TeamMember

I offer workshops and presentations on anxiety and stress management, parenting skills, teenage depression and risk behaviors, and other topics. Please contact me if you are interested in hosting a presentation. You can find information about upcoming events on my blog. Below is a list of past presentations: 4/10/19 – Johns Creek High School, Q&A, Mental Health Issues Impacting Teens and Common Parenting Concerns 9/26/18 – Johns Creek High School, Nurturing Your Teen’s Emotional Wellness 10/7/15 – Johns Creek High School, Parenting With Authenticity and Tolerating Your Teen’s Emotional Discomfort 4/28/15 – River Trail Middle School, Raising Emotionally Healthy Kids 2/11/15 – Johns Creek High School, Helping Your Teen Develop Mind-Body Wellness 1/21/15 – Webb Bridge Middle School, Stress Management for Teens 5/12/14 – Johns Creek High School, How to Bring Out the Best Qualities in Your Teen 11/12/13 – Haynes Bridge Middle School, Depression and Self-Harm in Teens 11/21/13 – Johns Creek High School, Top Ten Things Your Teen Wants You to Know 3/6/13 – Northview High School, Helping Your Teen Develop Resilience and Reduce Stress 2/13/13 – Johns Creek High School, How to Strengthen Family Bonds 10/9/12 – Northview High School, Helping Your Teen Manage Stress and Anxiety 10/17/12 – Johns Creek High School, Raising Respectful and Resilient Teens 4/20/12 – Elkins Middle School, Stress and Anxiety Management 5/8/12 – Johns Creek High School, Raising Respectful, Resilient, and Responsible Teens 2/7/12 – Johns Creek High School, Stress and Anxiety Management

iTunes 12 is Apple's Worst Software Ever, Should Be Withdrawn By John Martellaro Nov 3rd, 2014 4:50 PM EST For many people, music is a very important part of their lives. It's so important that Apple's iTunes should be the finest example of what Apple developers can build. It should be up to Apple's standards as best-in-class software. Unfortunately, iTunes 12 has a subpar user interface, and in a panel discussion, three TMO staff members judged judged it to be the worst software Apple has ever produced. It should be withdrawn from the market. The User Interface - Presentation iTunes started out as an application that allowed Apple customers to play music extracted from their CDs. However, as soon as the iTunes store opened, iTunes became a vehicle for the sale of music. That's fine so long as painstaking care is taken to ensure that the music player portion is the very best, most intuitive software that Apple engineers can devise. iTunes 12 fails in this regard. For example, let's take a look at a collections of objects. Just as a library is a collection of books, a music library is a collection of songs. A playlist is also a collection of songs, but it has a special nature. Think of it as a small library of your favorite things. And so, a library is a collection and a playlist is a collection. iTunes 11 respected that metaphor by using the sidebar (though the sidebar had to be turned on) to organize and display collections: both libraries and playlists. It looked like this: iTunes 11: libraries in sidebar, labelled. One can see at a glance all of one's libraries (Music, Movies, TV Shows and so on). Further down, one can also see one's collections in the form of playlists. One can expect with confidence that clicking on a named library will focus on that library because of where it's located visually and because the icon is accompanied by text. With iTunes 12, in contrast, a shorted series of icons is now shown horizontally, and the text is removed. One's first reaction may well be: Why is this list so short? Where's the text? What happens if I click on one of these icons? And, oh, by the way, where's my sidebar, my collections of things, my music and playlists? iTunes 12: library list is barren. This is a two-fold attack on the user's psyche. First, one is visually confused. Then one immediately wonders if there's a way to make things right again because, in Tunes 12, the default is Album view. That divorces the user from the immediate contact with songs as items in a list. One is forced to start tinkering. Eventually, one finds that it's possible to display both one's music and the playlists. See, for example, "iTunes 12: Bringing Back the Library and Playlist Sidebar." With some experimentation, one finds that clicking on the three dots (...) brings up the list of libraries and text accompaniments. But that's only for editing, not selection. If one clicks on a library there, it's added to the horizontal list but then one finds it's not checked in the edit box. Confusion ensues. Worse, de-selecting an item in the edit box doesn't always delete the display of the library in the horizontal row of libraries. I found that I had to quit and restart the app or click on another library to make it go away. It's a veritable dizzying roller coaster ride in this part of the GUI. In order to focus on functions within a library, there are tab-like options spread across the top of the window. They are familiar and traditional. For example, in the Music library, we have My Music, Playlists, Match, Radio, and so on. While I have no problems in general with using these tabs, I have a quibble about how they work. First, if you select the Movie library, there's a playlist tab. If you select it, you still see your song playlists. That's unexpected. Second, the tab metaphor, which we are accustomed to, disappears when we connect an iOS device. More on that below. Which mode are we in? Movies or music? Next - More on the User Interface Issues. Page 2 - User Interface Issues The User Interface - Simplicity One of the new features that seems to violate the spirit of a good Graphical User Interface (GUI) is when controls hide and reappear for the sake of a clean interface. A predictable interface means that the user should have a good idea of what's where as well as what's going to happen when an icon is clicked. iTunes 12 fails here. In iTunes 11, we've been accustomed to seeing the repeat control on the right side and the shuffle control on the left side. iTunes 11 has a pleasing layout and time bar. When I first launched iTunes 12, only the shuffle icon was visible on the left side the Time and Title bar. iTunes 12: Where's the repeat icon? Right away, there's cognitive dissonance because one wonders where the other control is. In time, by happenstance, I discovered that one can right-click on the shuffle icon to bring up the repeat options. Once one does that, the icon joins its partner, but in a cramped sort of way on the left side. This kind of hide-and-go-seek is most unwelcome. Right click and mystery solved. After all, if one wants to move away from over reliance on menu items because they're often out of sight, why invoke the use of hidden controls? That brings us to the View options on the upper right side. It has a down arrow suggesting that it's a popup menu. However, the popup for the libraries (...) has no such arrow. We figure it out in time, but inconsistency in the GUI leads to unpredictability of action. Apple didn't provide intuitiveness or predictability in the Library list. The User Interface - Crowding The Time and Title bar is awfully cramped now. It's almost as if Apple has given up on the desktop and made the target platform for iTunes 12 the 11-inch MacBook Air where display space is at a premium. In iTunes 11, The Time and Title bar was most pleasing. It had the repeat icon on one side and the shuffle icon on the other. In iTunes 12, those two icons are scrunched together on the upper left side (once made visible) and the time bar has been abstracted to almost nothing by using a very subtle difference in shading and a tiny tick mark. The User Interface - Immediacy In my opinion, a menu item should lead to something that clearly relates to the description of that item. For example, in iTunes 11, View > View Options ... leads to a box that immediately suggests what to do. Click a box to show that column. iTunes 11 View options; upfront, obvious, intuitive. In iTunes 12, selecting View Options ... leads to, well, nothing recognizable until one makes the mental leap that one has to take one more step and select which (music) columns will be displayed by use of the popup called "Show Columns." One has to dig in and start digging in this new interface. iTunes 12 View options: jarring, opaque. Next: the iTunes Store, iOS device syncing and conclusion. Page 3 - iTunes Store, Syncing and Conclusion In iTunes 11, there was an item in the sidebar for the iTunes Store. The store is, after all, a giant collection, a library where one can buy things. The sidebar is a logical place for it. In iTunes 12, we don't go to the store and see it as a whole anymore. The store was where we saw the scope of all that Apple offered, managed our account and redeemed promo codes and gift cards. Now, each library has its own access to the iTunes store departments. So if you're in the Music library, there's a tab to go to the music part of the iTunes store. If you're in the Movies library, there's a tab to go to the movie part of the iTunes store. And so on. I can't say that this is a particularly bad thing; it's just different and takes some getting used to. Because there is no longer a coherent iTunes "home," account management, wish list and redemptions are moved down to the app in the account icon next to the search bar. (Thankfully, it has the down arrow, indicating a popup menu.) Moving these operations to the app itself makes them easier to find and more app-oriented. The iTunes home page was so cluttered that users, visually dazzled, in my readings, couldn't always find where they could redeem codes and manage their account. So this is an okay move. Syncing with iOS Devices iTunes 11 had a very attractive page when a device was mounted. There was a fairly large image of the iOS device, its memory capacity and so on. Tabs across the top help the use focus on the settings for each type of content. That's what tabs do. In iTunes 12, the tabs across the top for the various settings (just like we saw above for the main window) disappear and the settings are now in the sidebar as vertical items. (Yes, the sidebar, where collections of objects should be found.) It's all very confusing. iTunes 11: beautiful, obvous, tabs to focus on function remain at the top. This inconsistency makes iTunes 12 visually annoying and unpredictable. The sidebar, which was recognizable as a collection of things no longer has a coherent purpose. The device icon shrinks to obscurity. More inconsistency: tabs are gone, moved to sidebar where collections are expected. In the rest of my testing, I found nothing significant to note. The subsections of iTunes 12: iTunes Radio, the iTunes Store, purchase and playback, all worked as before. I didn't find any bugs, the app didn't crash, and I was able to create and manage playlists as before. There's nothing new or of particular note in the Preferences that I could find. iTunes 12 is not a mandatory upgrade to support iOS 8, so if you haven't upgraded from iTunes 11 you may want to stay there. (It's a separate upgrade from Yosemite.) If you have already upgraded, Macworld has published a procedure: "Unhappy with iTunes 12? Here's how to revert to iTunes 11." iTunes 11 and its predecessors had a certain consistency and natural beauty. However, there are significant user interface and visual issues with iTunes 12. The removal of skeuomorphism doesn't necessitate a visual impoverishment. Logical elements, such as the use of the sidebar to present a collection of items are time worn and trusted by the users. Making it a place for playlists one time and iOS device sync options in another context is a regression of app maturity. Using tabs to focus on specific functions within a library is fine, but an iPhone is also a library of items, and so when one is connected, the tabs should remain instead of being cast into a new kind of perverted sidebar. Because the user interface of iTunes 12 is so unintuitive, confusing and inconsistent, Apple should pull it from the market and rethink it. Apple should also offer its own official downgrade procedure to iTunes 11. When re-released, iTunes 12.x should, instead, cause us us to marvel at the beauty, elegance and intuitiveness of its user interface. The new version's goal should be the very best software on the planet, software that makes us smile. Three of us on the TMO staff think iTunes 12 is the worst software Apple has ever shipped. Product: Executive Summary For many people, music is a very important part of their lives. It's so important that Apple's iTunes should be the finest example of what Apple developers can build. It should be up to Appl" target="_blank">iTunes 12 Company: Apple List Price: Free Counterintuitive, confusing and inconsistent. Flat and ugly. John Martellaro

Transcript Prologue 3 - Big Dreams Unfold [00:00:00] It's what we think and what we say and what we do and what we believe, and it'll happen. [00:00:14] You are listening to unfold with Kellee Wynne. This is an unpolished, imperfect, and totally honest podcast, and I'm talking to all the artists. Creatives, visionaries, and change makers who wanna live a life by design and not by default. If you're ready to have thought-provoking, eye-opening, heart-centered conversations that explore the stories that made us who we are and break through the boundaries of expectation, then you are in the right place. [00:00:47] Hello. Hello, friends, artists, creative souls. Welcome to unfold with Kellee Wynne, and today we're doing another prologue, episode number three. This is the. [00:01:00] Pre-show show as I get warmed up and learn how to get over my perfectionism and show up real and authentic for you. We've already covered the past and the recent. [00:01:14] Past and present as it stands right now, and with this episode, my goal is to unfold the big dreams of the future. I wanna put my ideas and energy out there and show you that big dreams are totally worth having. It's okay. To, to speak your truth and ask for big things and work for it. And that's what I'm doing right now. [00:01:42] So here I am, as I've said, on the cusp of 50, I have two years, the countdown is on and the clock is ticking. And I know it's just an arbitrary number, but it's a really nice. Monumental mark in my [00:02:00] life. Hopefully a halfway point, or not even quite a halfway point. You know, we all hope for the long life, but in order to get there, we've gotta be fit, healthy, mentally strong, and um, And also manifesting it in a way of the way we think and act and put that out into this world. [00:02:20] So that's what I'm doing right now. I'm thinking about how I want the next two years to unfold for me, how I show up for you for the podcast, for social media, for the. Uh, programs that I offer, uh, it's really important to me that I put the right kind of energy out and I think that that fuels my heart and soul and hopefully will fuel your heart and soul. [00:02:46] So, I figure if I can take a big risk and think big and talk about wild ideas, then maybe I can put a little, uh, buzz in your brain that you can do the same. [00:03:00] So here it goes. I'm gonna give you. 10 ideas of things that I'd love to do by the time I turn 50. That means in less than two years. And the crazy thing is, is some of these things are already manifesting because it's what we think and what we say and what we do and what we believe, and it'll happen. [00:03:22] It's not magic, it's thoughts, create actions. And so that's what I'm doing. I'm putting it out there and I'm acting towards it. So let's start with one. And these are not in order of importance necessarily, but they're just things that I wrote down right after I took that really big hike up the hill. In Pennsylvania, the one right next to the cabin, the one where I had that aha moment. [00:03:46] I came back and I wrote down this list right here of what I wanted to be able to accomplish before I turned 50. First and foremost, should be the most obvious. I wanna be fit by 50. [00:04:00] Look, I told you I was in the. The cool thing about being in the army is you really do have to get fit and in in the two years that I served, I went from not being able to pass the physical fitness test to excelling and getting a hundred points in every category. [00:04:16] That means I was able to do over 50 pushups. I'm not kidding you, I think it was 56 pushups in two minutes. I was able to do over 80 sit-ups in two minutes, and I ran the two mile. Under 15 minutes, and for me that was pretty fast. But I have to tell you, I'm not looking to get that fit again. All I know is that I know what my body has been capable of and over the years with motherhood and age and. [00:04:46] Entrepreneurship. Cuz let me tell you, that can take a huge toll on your body too, because you put all of your energy into business and you forget to take care of the most important asset that you have, which is your mind and your body and your spirit. And so [00:05:00] fit by 50 for me, doesn't just mean losing a few pounds or like 30 pounds. [00:05:06] It's about being strong again, about being able to climb. Hill that mountain that two miles up the next time I go to the Pennsylvania cabin, which is this July. And to be able to do it without feeling like I'm breaking every muscle in my body, uh, fit by 50 means eating healthier, giving up the processed food and the sugars, and going for a whole foods diet and minimal animal diet, really more plant-based. [00:05:33] That's something that's actually exciting to me and I've always wanted to do, but living in a house full of. Boys who love their meat. It's been a hard thing to change, but coincidentally, I think that I've got quite a few people in this house on board with me to make some big shifts. So healthier eating and a lot more movement and exercise. [00:05:53] That includes yoga, which I used to do and I loved it. That includes regular hiking out in [00:06:00] nature because that's like my favorite exercise to do that. If I need to getting the right trainer or gym equipment, I'm not looking to be like model thin at all. I mean, if I could just be like a size 10 or 12, I'm perfectly fine with that. [00:06:17] I'm not really a body obsessed person, but I am a fitness conscientious person because I look at my mother who's 72 and she just moved 450 pounds of concrete bags in her yard. at 72, and I'm like, okay, so how do I keep that? And she's like, you use it or you lose it. So in my mind, I know that one of the most important things that I can do for myself is to get fit and get back to that. [00:06:47] Place where sleeping on the wrong pillow doesn't mean that I wake up feeling like I've broken my neck or you know, tying my shoes or whatever else it is. It's simple things in life that can just throw your back [00:07:00] out at 48 and you're like, how did this happen? I don't understand. So fit by 50. And we'll bring this back up again because I'd like to talk about how health and fitness is so essential for an entrepreneur and when you're running your own business in order to be the best you can be at your business. [00:07:22] Being healthy and being fit is really important as an artist. However it is that you're showing up as an entrepreneur. These. really essential because if you, you know, if, if I was to break down and be sick, then my whole business falls to pieces. So I'm my most important asset, and this is something I wanna come back again to discuss in the future. [00:07:43] But right now, maybe I've discussed that enough that you realize it might be my number one goal because it's probably the most important out of everything on this list. Everything else is fun and play and exciting, and that one is all about my own personal physical [00:08:00] fitness. All right, so number two, I want to get a tattoo. [00:08:04] I know that's so cliche and I am. Unapologetic about it. I want a tattoo. I've wanted one since I was a teenager, and I've always had a hard time deciding like, okay, but what is the perfect tattoo? And then I realize also there is no such thing. So before I turn 50, I am going to get a tattoo. A few of the things that are on my list that I'd be interested in getting a tiger. [00:08:30] And there's a personal story behind that. I'd love to get a tiger. . I love the Valkyrie wings. That's the Valkyrie are the angel warriors that take, um, souls to heaven in the Norse God mythology. And since I live with a bunch of Vikings, I'd be happy to be the Valry to my Viking boys. Um, Valkyrie wings would be pretty cool. [00:08:57] I've thought about. Florals [00:09:00] because, you know, I mean, I love my floral paintings, so there's always a connection with florals and I probably have a long list of other really fun ideas, and so it'll su, it'll just have to surprise us all what I end up doing as far as the tattoo thing goes. But I will say that all my siblings, all my, my brothers and my sister all have tons of tattoos, and I'm like, the only one with virgin skin. [00:09:25] So what are you gonna do? Join the. Right cliche. I'm, I'm all there for the, the cliche of getting a tattoo. Usually you do it before you turn 20, but hey, before you turn 50, why not? All right, so that's number two. Number three, I'd like to go on a proper honeymoon with my husband, and I know that that sounds so crazy, but we got married. [00:09:49] When I was six months pregnant with our first son, he was the fate that brought two stubborn lovers together, and here we are 23 years [00:10:00] later. and we still haven't had a real proper honeymoon. We've traveled, we've had fun adventures, but that dream honeymoon that a lot of people go and take right after they get married, we've never had that. [00:10:11] And I would love to take him on a proper honeymoon. So that's kind of my personal relationship building goal right there. And to continue to strengthen the relationship with my husband that I, you know, have worked really hard 23 years is no, you know. Small accomplishment. Um, so let's see, let's move on to the next one. [00:10:37] Um, I would like to learn how to meditate and get connected spiritually. Uh, I mentioned in. Prologue two that I was raised Mormon. I am not a religious person now, but I am still a very spiritual person. I define my beliefs [00:11:00] as everything is possible and nothing is possible. Basically, I don't really need to put a pin in it and define it all. [00:11:07] I just want to feel it all. And one thing that I've realized in my slow new learning process of meditation is that it's an amazing way to connect with the mind, body, and spirit. And it, it's actually really exciting for me. New discoveries all the time. And I'd love to get really good at, um, good at meditating. [00:11:30] Is that something that you could really. Uh, master probably, but I'm doing it for me. So I'm not looking for perfection. I'm just looking for growth. I know that when I read, eat, pray, love, I was fascinated by the pre section of the book, um, when Elizabeth Gilbert went to India and she was spending weeks and weeks. [00:11:52] Meditating sometimes for hours a day and the kinds of transformation that she talked about. And so even though I [00:12:00] read that book however long ago, it came out probably over a decade by now. It was fascinating to me then. And so now I have a goal by 50 to really hone in on and. Develop my spirituality in that side of me and learn a lot more about, um, ancient traditions and wisdom culture and, uh, religion and incorporate that a little bit into my daily life. [00:12:30] All right. Let's see. So , so here's one that I put on my list and it's already happening. I, after. Big hike, aha moment up the mountain in Pennsylvania, it was like, ah, there's something. Speaking of meditation and health all in one, there's something very meditative about those types of hikes because you really do disconnect from. [00:12:58] you know, your [00:13:00] screen time, your social media, you even from, uh, usually if you're doing it by yourself or even when I'm hiking with my husband, we do it silently. And so it's a very much personal journey of strength and will to, you know, get up that mountain. And so I came back and when I wrote this list, I'm like, I want to go on a trek of the Aperannapurna circuit at the foothills of the Himalaya. And then I also made a list of like 10 other places that would be fabulous to take trecks. Everything from the Inca Trail to Scottish Highlands to the right here, you know, in, in the mountains where I'm at, or Sierra Nevada, it doesn't matter. Like there's a lot of places to go. [00:13:43] But the first one on my list was the Annapurna Trail. And guess what happened two days ago? One of my dearest friends from that I've, uh, lost touch with over the years, we've just recently reconnected, and she [00:14:00] reached out to me and she's like, Hey, do you wanna go to Nepal with me? And my instant answer was, fuck yes. [00:14:07] instantly. Like there wasn't even a second thought. I'm like, yes, now tell me the details and how do I make my deposit? And we are taking a trek. To Nepal, we're taking a trip to Nepal. It's a cultural spiritual trip. So speaking of meditation, um, there's daily meditation in yoga, there's touring through Kathmandu and then up to the monasteries. [00:14:30] And then we'd spend a few days treking the Annapurna circuit at the foothills of the Himalayas. So, About them apples. You guys, when you start putting out into this world what you want, it starts coming back to you. So , I am so excited about that. My word of the year for 2022 is expansion, and it's just coming and slapping me in the face. [00:14:58] Here you go. You want. [00:15:00] You want meditation, you want the Annapurna trail? Let's go for it. I guess I need to get a tattoo before I go or something and book that trip for my husband and I to take . All right, so I have a couple of very simple and maybe lofty fun ideas that are on my list as well. So let's just run down those. [00:15:26] Really quickly, I would love to land a big speaking gig, so I'm putting that out there. I don't know Ted talk. Anybody ? I'm up for it. I really love being able to communicate this way. Yes, I have my challenges where I am, I have my fears of showing up and saying the wrong thing or doing the wrong thing. [00:15:49] Well, that's what this practice is for. That's what this prologues for, and that's what the podcast's for and that's what's showing up live on Instagram's for, and that's what running courses and programs and coaching is for. It's all [00:16:00] practice and it's opening up new ideas and new possibilities, and so I would love to have an opportunity to land a big speaking gig. [00:16:09] So I got, I've got that on my list in the next two years to do and okay, so I'm going down this list. I would also love to land a big licensing deal with my artwork with a big company like maybe Anthropology or Our House, or. Juggalo, or you name it, some of my very favorite brands. Target for, for even Target would be fabulous because it's one of my favorite stores. [00:16:37] So big licensing deal with my artwork. I have been licensed before through Maine Cottage and. , that was a really interesting experience, but I don't think my artwork fit with their brand very well. So I like a licensing deal in a place where my artwork belongs. There you go. I'm putting that out into the world. [00:16:59] And [00:17:00] let's see, what is that? So I've done fit by 50, get a tattoo, meditate, proper honeymoon with my husband. Go on a massive trek. That's five. Um, speak. Gig, a licensing deal. So I've got three more to tell you about. I would love to, this is cheating you guys. I would love to become a published author. I think I put one on the list that I knew I could immediately cross off. [00:17:33] So if you haven't already heard or purchased the book, Mixed Media Color Studio was published in 2021, and it's all about my color theory, modern color theory, um, and how to apply the principles of color to your artwork in a really simple way to create more dynamic artwork without having to learn all of the boring, tedious, academic rules of making art. [00:17:57] So it's a, it's a lot of fun and a lot of play. . [00:18:00] Well, what I'm, I love to be published again. Maybe that's why I wrote that down. Let's be honest with ourselves. Let's, let's put that out there. I would love to publish a book that's more about motivational or thought work, a connection of the spirit and creativity instead of just how to, so, All right, so I checked it off the list and put it back on my list. [00:18:25] So I have two more to tell you. I would love to buy a brand new home or land or a second home before I turn 50. At some point, yes, my husband and I will finally be able to have our dream home. I love the home that we're in, but. Now that I've spent enough time in the mountains and hiking, I want a home close to the trails. [00:18:49] I wanna be able to step every day outside of my home and just be able to walk through the trees and soak in all of that goodness. So [00:19:00] I'm putting it out there. I would like to have that dream home, and if we're not ready for the dream home to move yet, then maybe we'll buy the land where the dream home could be. [00:19:10] Yeah, that works. See you put out those ideas and you'll see what comes to you. So finally, for my big number 10, it's something that I already believe that I am. I'm just waiting for the numbers to back it up. I intend to earn a million dollars in a single year before I turned 50. So that's not very far from. [00:19:36] and I've been working really hard. I'm building a beautiful, aligned, remarkable business, and I have no doubt that I'll be able to get to that point. And I'm putting this number out here because we don't talk about money enough as artists, even as entrepreneurs sometimes we hide behind this facade of, uh, guilt and shame around money or embarrassment or we've been told our whole life growing up. [00:19:59] Don't talk [00:20:00] about how much you make, but I'm here to tell you I'm a third of the way. As of 2020. Tax year, and I have no doubt that I can get myself all the way there to that seven figure mark of gross revenue in a very profitable business. And this means if I can do that, I can teach others how to do that, and I can show that it's possible. [00:20:22] And when we create that kind of wealth, we can give so much more. I can give more to my family, I can give more to my children and my parents. and I can give more back to the community, donate more, and I can create bigger and better programs that can help more people. So I think there's enough for all of us. [00:20:41] When there's 8 billion people in this world, I know there's no doubt that we can find this piece of this infinite pie and build upon that. And I'm really motivated and excited about it. I read the book We Should All Be Millionaires by Rachel Rogers, and it really transformed how I looked at the power of money. [00:20:59] If [00:21:00] we wanna change the world, if we want something different to happen, we've gotta play on a bigger playing field. And having the funds and the means to do it makes all the difference in the world. So while I'm not motivated by the fancy things like Gucci bags and diamond rings, I am motivated. Travel by living in a beautiful place by taking care of the people that I love and by creating programs and courses that I know that will make an impact on others. [00:21:32] And that's really where we're gonna be moving forward with Unfold with Kelly Wynn. It's really important to me, and I don't think it's a too big of an ask because what I can create for myself means that I can help you create for yourself as well. I believe it's possible for all of us and want to. Help you build your own remarkable business as well through your creativity, the, the gifts that you have, the talent that you have, the dreams that you have, the [00:22:00] things that you've been building. [00:22:01] For years. The thing that glow that's in your soul that you know is just oozing out of you and ready to go. I wanna help you tap into that, harness that and see how you can't make wealth for yourself out of the things that you love the most, out of the passion that you have for your art and for your community. [00:22:25] We can do. There's no reason why artists can't be wealthy. As I said, I grew up in that. Ironic situation of living in a beautiful art community of everyone having money and providing for their family. So if I can grow up in my youth, seeing artists build beautiful custom homes and raise families of half a dozen children and create that kind of lifestyle for themselves. [00:22:58] I don't see any reason why we can't [00:23:00] do the same. It's out there and it's just waiting for us. It's all a matter of how you look at it. Right. All right. Well you guys, it's been so much fun to be able to share with you my top 10, big dream for the next two years of my life. I'm gonna be showing up here on this podcast. [00:23:17] Hopefully inspiring you, educating you, or edutaining you, as many people have asked, interviewing experts and artists talking about things that are real, honest, raw stories that have made us who we are, and then breakthrough the boundaries of everything that we think that we're supposed to be so that we can be more real, more authentic. [00:23:38] And make an impact. Are you up for it? Say you will say, you will join me on this journey. I can't wait until we have episode 100 Ways to Make Money as an Artist without ever Having. To sell your art coming to you real soon. Hey, if you like what you've heard so far, share it. [00:24:00] Share it with the world, share it on social media, and tag me at Kellee Wynne Studios. [00:24:04] That's K E L L E E W Y N N E Studios. I would love to hear what you have to say and re-share any post that you share about this new podcast that's just come out. It would mean the world to me. And while you're at it, come sign up for my new newsletter, the Artist Dispatch. You can go to kelly win studios.com/dispatch and join and get a honest and raw and real message perfectly imperfect every week from yours truly. [00:24:37] Thank you so much and I'll talk to you next time. If you'd like to listen to or learn more about the podcast visit https://www.maderemarkable.com/blog for our show notes and links to the main players.

Home | Multiple Categories | SOMT Appreciative of Washington Family Support SOMT Appreciative of Washington Family Support By JIM O’DAY Last week, Dennis and Phyllis Washington, and the Washington Companies/Montana Rail Link, kindly donated the usage of their “Silver Cloud” train to Special Olympics Montana to use as a fund-raiser for the organization, as well as providing a fantastic opportunity to kick-off events leading to next spring’s SOMT Summer Games in Missoula on May 19-22, 2015. The games will also be in Missoula in both 2016 and 2017. This is only the latest instance of the Washington family’s generous support for the SOMT mission – both financially and in helping to back the worthwhile mission. Over the years, the Washingtons have given charitably to many organizations across western Montana, and this latest unique venture was enormously successful, producing wonderful results as the fund-raising for the Summer Games begins. It also gave more than 100 individuals an opportunity to witness the incredibly beautiful fall colors of western Montana as the train traveled the 50-mile route from the Missoula train depot at the end of Higgins Ave. to Dixon and back. Photo Courtesy of Montana Rail Link Along the scenic three-hour journey, the travelers were treated to enjoyable piano music from Renee Bolton, outstanding food and beverage, leisurely accommodations and a rare opportunity to witness the quick draw artistic talents of world-renown artist Larry Pirnie (with assistance from Lynne Himes of LA Design). At the end of the trip, the piece was auctioned off, with all proceeds going to SOMT. A few other auction items also contributed to the final totals raised. Others who made in-kind donations to help the cause included Bravo! Catering, Spiker Communications, Montgomery Distillery, Draught Works, My Viola Flower Shop, Advanced Litho, The Badlander, Winegardner’s Wines of Bozeman, Where is Wine, Holiday Inn Parkside, and Coca Cola/Missoula. This quick draw piece by Larry Pirnie was auctioned off at the end of the trip. A real highlight of the day was the involvement of the SOMT athletes who engaged passengers. Colter Maul/Missoula, Tanealya Hueth/Great Falls, Chris Clare and his Unified Partner Jon Wilson/Victor, Gary Fuller/Missoula, Hilary Benjamin/Missoula, James Skime/Missoula, and Athlete of the Year Josh Anderson/Great Falls shared their compelling stories. For more on the memorable ride, check out the Special Olympics Montana Facebook page, or go to the website at: www.somt.org. Travelers were treated to enjoyable piano music, outstanding food and beverage, and leisurely accommodations. Although this was the latest venture supported by the Washingtons and Washington Companies, the family – in particular sons Kyle and Kevin – will be recognized and honored at this weekend’s football game for contributing the largest single financial gift to UM Athletics to help construct a much-needed weight room and men’s locker room facility near Washington-Grizzly Stadium. This gift will help pave the way for the future of Grizzly Athletics, much like the original stadium gift by their parents did for The University of Montana almost 30 years ago. Western Montana, and the entire state of Montana by all accounts, should thank the Washington family for its incredible support of this great state – and for making it such a wonderful place to live. na by all accounts, should thank the Washington family for its incredible support Since its inception in 1998, the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation has donated more than $130 million to charitable causes. Jim O’Day was Director of Athletics at the University of Montana from 2005-2012. He also served as the Assistant Director of the Grizzly Athletic Association (1998-2000) and later as the Director of Development for UM Intercollegiate Athletics (2000-2005). Prior to returning to his alma mater in 1998, O’Day was the owner/publisher of the family-owned Western Breeze newspaper in Cut Bank, MT. He was also sports editor of the Kalispell Daily Interlake from 1980-82. In late 2013, Jim started his own consulting business, O’Day Enterprises, LLC. His main clients include Farran Realty Partners, a private equity real estate development/investment firm based in Missoula; Epio Solutions of Seattle/Missoula, an agency primarily focused on branding/marketing/public relations utilizing various social media platforms for businesses, universities, non-profits and individuals; and BancVue, a company based in Austin, Texas, that aligns itself with small community banks and credit unions across the country to compete against the large mega banks. In addition, Jim is consulting for various oil and gas firms, as well as providing valuable professional resource services for intercollegiate athletics, fund-raising, capital raises, employment opportunities, etc. Jim and his wife Kathy have three sons: Chris, Kevin and Brian – all three graduates of The University of Montana. Like this blog? Don’t miss another one. Sign up for our E-Newsletter. 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Singapore Semiconductor Industry Association Launched The First Semiconductor Women’s Forum Diversity Is Key To Address Challenges Facing Semiconductor Industry SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 11 March 2021 – The Inaugural Semiconductor Women’s Forum in Singapore was launched at Conrad Centennial Singapore today in a hybrid format. Organised by the Singapore Semiconductor Industry Association (SSIA) and supported by e2i, Workforce Singapore and Global Semiconductor Alliance, the event aimed to attract more female talents to join the semiconductor sector, and inspire the current female workforce to stay and thrive in the industry. The event attracted over 700 participants (both on-site and online) from more than 100 corporates and organisations worldwide. Ms Sun Xueling, Minister of State for Education and Social and Family Development, attended the event as the Guest of Honour. Ms Sun Xueling, Minister of State for Education and Social and Family Development, graced the first Singapore Semiconductor Women’s Forum. The semiconductor industry in Singapore remains a male-dominant industry even though female leadership contributes tremendously in corporate sectors worldwide, as recognised by global studies. A survey ‘GSA: Women in the Semiconductor Industry’ conducted by GSA and Accenture in 2019 and 2020 showed a significant under-representation of females with the highest in leadership and technical roles in the industry. Supporting female employees during pandemic The recent growth and consequent shortages in semiconductors have highlighted how critical the semiconductor industry is in providing the building blocks of the products and services that impact the way we live, how we work, and the way we enjoy our leisure. SSIA Chairman Andrew Chong said diversity is key to address these urgent needs in a responsible manner. “The industry strongly needs more talents to deliver the vibrancy, agility and sustainability necessary for success in this field during the pandemic. The significant investments in building a more flexible and empathetic workplace will greatly help retain and attract employees, and nurture a culture in which women have equal opportunity to achieve their potential in a meaningful career,” said Andrew in his welcome speech. He said companies have increased their efforts in creating diversified and inclusive working environments. Some of them have also established Women Network Chapters within their organizations to encourage and support their employees. Insights from women leaders in the industry Five reputable female leaders who have excelled in the semiconductor industry shared their inspirational career journeys at the Semiconductor Women’s Forum, including Jennifer Zhao, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Advanced Optical Sensors Division, ams AG, Siah Soh Yun, Technology Development Vice President, GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF), Sim Cher Whee, Vice President, Global Talent Acquisition and Talent Mobility, Micron, Jaya Jagadish, Corporate Vice President- Silicon Design Engineering & Country Head — India, AMD, and Olivia Koentjoro, Director of Intellectual Property Analytics Center of Excellence, Global Law Department, Applied Materials. “In 2013, GF established the GLOBALWOMEN (GW) network with a mission to create a sustainable framework for the professional development of women at GF. GW is a vital part of our inclusive culture and has now evolved into an alliance that includes women and men who actively work as allies for women employees. There is a strong need for corporates to place ‘balance for better’ as a priority by institutionalizing support groups on mentoring and professional development of women engineers,” said Soh Yun from GF. “Applied Materials sponsors Women Professional Development Network (WPDN), which fosters diversity and inclusion and aims to build a progressive, fair and equitable working environment within Applied. WPDN is active in promoting engagement and retention of female talents and acting as a development platform for future Applied female leaders,” said Olivia from Applied Materials. “Micron is utilising new tools to promote diversity in talent acquisition and reinforce Micron’s inclusive culture, such as modifying job descriptions to weed out unconscious gender bias, using AI to reduce bias in candidate applications, and ensuring interviewing teams are also diverse. The post COVID era of leadership and innovation calls for a strong sense of purpose and empathy, and we are defining our new normal,” said Cher Whee from Micron. In the coming months, SSIA will roll out more events and activities to create a vibrant environment for its workforce. For more details of coming talent development initiatives for the electronics and semiconductor industry, please visit https://ssia.org.sg/jobs About Singapore Semiconductor Industry Association (SSIA) Singapore Semiconductor Industry Association (SSIA) has more than 180 members today including companies and organisations throughout all parts of the complex and comprehensive value chain – IC design companies, Manufacturers, Fabless companies, Equipment suppliers, Photovoltaic companies, EDA and material suppliers, Training and service providers, IP companies, research institutes and Academia, as well as individual members. Since 2013, SME membership has grown exponentially and SMEs now account for close to half of SSIA’s membership. For more information about SSIA, please visit: https://ssia.org.sg/

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These methods should also be summarized in the abstract. The journal expects the contributors to give post-publication updates on the subject of review. The update should be brief, covering the advances in the field after the publication of the article and should be sent as a letter to editor, as and when major development occurs in the field. Case reports: New, interesting and rare cases can be reported. They should be unique, describing a great diagnostic or therapeutic challenge and providing a learning point for the readers. Cases with clinical significance or implications will be given priority. These communications could be of up to 1000 words (excluding Abstract and references) and should have the following headings: Abstract (unstructured), Key-words, Introduction, Case report, Discussion, Reference, Tables and Legends in that order. The manuscript could be of up to 1000 words (excluding references and abstract) and could be supported with up to 10 references. 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Detection of hydatid antigen in the fluid samples from hydatid cysts by co-agglutination. Trans. R.Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg.1996; 90:255–256. Standard journal article (for more than six authors): List the first six contributors followed by et al. Roddy P, Goiri J, Flevaud L, Palma PP, Morote S, Lima N. et al., Field Evaluation of a Rapid Immunochromatographic Assay for Detection of Trypanosoma cruzi Infection by Use of Whole Blood. J. Clin. Microbiol. 2008; 46: 2022-2027. Volume with supplement: Otranto D, Capelli G, Genchi C: Changing distribution patterns of canine vector borne diseases in Italy: leishmaniosis vs. dirofilariosis.Parasites & Vectors 2009; Suppl 1:S2. Books and Other Monographs Personal author(s): Parija SC. Textbook of Medical Parasitology. 3rd ed. All India Publishers and Distributors. 2008. Editor(s), compiler(s) as author: Garcia LS, Filarial Nematodes In: Garcia LS (editor) Diagnostic Medical Parasitology ASM press Washington DC 2007: pp 319-356. Chapter in a book: Nesheim M C. Ascariasis and human nutrition. In Ascariasis and its prevention and control, D. W. T. Crompton, M. C. Nesbemi, and Z. S. Pawlowski (eds.). Taylor and Francis,London, U.K.1989, pp. 87–100. Electronic Sources as reference Journal article on the Internet: Parija SC, Khairnar K. Detection of excretory Entamoeba histolytica DNA in the urine, and detection of E. histolytica DNA and lectin antigen in the liver abscess pus for the diagnosis of amoebic liver abscess .BMC Microbiology 2007, 7:41.doi:10.1186/1471-2180-7-41. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/7/41 Tables should be self-explanatory and should not duplicate textual material. Tables with more than 10 columns and 25 rows are not acceptable. Number tables, in Arabic numerals, consecutively in the order of their first citation in the text and supply a brief title for each. Place explanatory matter in footnotes, not in the heading. Explain in footnotes all non-standard abbreviations that are used in each table. Obtain permission for all fully borrowed, adapted, and modified tables and provide a credit line in the footnote. For footnotes use the following symbols, in this sequence: *, †, ‡, §, ||,¶ , **, ††, ‡‡ Tables with their legends should be provided at the end of the text after the references. The tables along with their number should be cited at the relevant place in the text Illustrations (Figures) Upload the images in JPEG format. The file size should be within 1024 kb in size while uploading. Figures should be numbered consecutively according to the order in which they have been first cited in the text. Labels, numbers, and symbols should be clear and of uniform size. The lettering for figures should be large enough to be legible after reduction to fit the width of a printed column. 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The journal abides by ICMJE guidelines: Authors, not the journals nor the publisher, need to obtain the patient consent form before the publication and have the form properly archived. The consent forms are not to be uploaded with the cover letter or sent through email to editorial or publisher offices. If the manuscript contains patient images that preclude anonymity, or a description that has obvious indication to the identity of the patient, a statement about obtaining informed patient consent should be indicated in the manuscript. Sending a revised manuscript The revised version of the manuscript should be submitted online in a manner similar to that used for submission of the manuscript for the first time. However, there is no need to submit the “First Page” or “Covering Letter” file while submitting a revised version. 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Second All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies V.I. Lenin V.I Lenin The Soviet Union after the revolution To Workers, Soldiers, and Peasants! Report on Peace Concluding Speech Following the Discussion On the Report of Peace Report on Land Decision to Form the Workers' and Peasants' Government The Second All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Workers and Soldiers' Deputies has opened. The vast majority of the Soviets are represented at the Congress. A number of delegates from the Peasants' Soviets are also present. The mandate of the compromising Central Executive Committee has terminated.[A] Backed by the will of the vast majority of the wokers, soldiers, and peasants, backed by the victorious uprising of the wokres and the garrison which has taken place in Petrograd, the Congress takes power into its own hands. The Provisional Government has been overthrown. The majority of the members of the Provisional Government have already been arrested. The Soviet government will propose an immediate democratic peace to all the nations and an immediate armistice on all fronts. It will secure the transfer of the land of the landed proprietors, the crown and the monasteries to the peasant committees wihout compensation; it will protect the rights of the soldiers by introducting complete democracy in the army; it will establish workers' control over production; it will ensure the convocation of the Constituent Assembly at the time appointed; it will see to it that bread is supplied to the cities and prime necessities to the villages; it will guarantee all the nations inhabiting Russia the genuine right to self-determination. The Congress decrees: all power in the localities shall pass to the Soviets of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies, which must guarantee genuine revolutionary order. The Congress calls upon the soldiers in the trenches to be vigilant and firm. The Congress of Soviets is convinced that the revolutionary army will be able to defend the revolution against all attack of imperialism until such time as the new government succeeds in concluding a democratic peace, which it will propose directly to all peoples. The new government will do everything to fully supply the revolutionary army be means of a determined policy of requisitions and taxation of the propertied classes, and also will improve the condition of the soldiers' families. The Kornilov men — Kerensky, Kaledin and others — are attempting to bring troops against Petrograd. Several detachments, whom Kerensky had moved by deceiving them, have come over to the side of the insurgent people. Soldiers, actively resist Kerensky the Kornilovite! Be on your guard! Railwaymen, hold up all troop trains dispatched by Kerensky against Petrograd! Soldiers, workers in factory and office, the fate of the revolution and the fate of the democratic peace is in your hands! Long live the revolution! The All-Russia Congress of Soviets Of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies The Delegates from the Peasants' Soviets [A] Lenin is refering to the first Central Executive Committee, whose term had expired prematurely. Elected by the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets (June, 1917), Lenin refered to the first CEC as compromists because it compromised with the Provisional Government, instead of pushing forward the interests of the Soviet.

What is domain of a rational expression? Definition and examples The domain of a rational expression is the set of all real numbers for which the rational expression is defined. Notice that division by zero is not defined. Therefore, any number that makes the denominator equal to zero is not in the domain of a rational expression. Graph and domain of 3 / (x + 5) How to find the domain of a rational expression For example, what is the domain of 3 / (x + 5)? The denominator is x + 5. To find which number makes the denominator equal to zero, make x + 5 equal to zero and then solve for x. Subtract 5 from both sides of the equation x + 5 - 5 = 0 - 5 x + 0 = -5 x = -5 Since x + 5 is equal to zero when x = -5, the domain of 3 / (x + 5) is the set of all real numbers except -5. The domain of 3 / (x + 5) is shown in the graph above with two red lines. We use a small green circle to show that -5 is not included in the domain. Notice that a number in the domain of 3 / (x + 5) could be equal to something as close to -5 as -5.0001 or -4.9998. As long as it is not equal to -5, you are free to pick any number! How to describe the domain of a rational expression using set-builder notation and interval notation Set-builder notation Using the set-builder notation to write the domain of 3 / (x + 5 ), we can write "The set of all real numbers x such that x is not equal to -5" as {x | x is a real number and x ≠ - 5} or simply {x | x ≠ - 5}. Interval notation Using the interval notation to write the domain of 3 / (x + 5 ). We can write (-∞, -5) ∪ (-5, ∞) Learn more about interval notation. More examples showing how to find the domain of a rational expression What is the domain of (x - 2) / 9 ? Which number makes the denominator equal to zero? The denominator is 9 and 9 will never be zero. Therefore, there are no numbers that will make the denominators equal to 0. The domain of (x - 2) / 9 is all real numbers. What is the domain of (x2 - 5) / (x + 3)(x - 6) ? The denominator is (x + 3)(x - 6) and it is equal to zero if (x + 3)(x - 6) = 0 The factor x + 3 is equal to 0 when x = -3 and the factor x - 6 = 0 when x = 6. The domain of (x2 - 5) / (x + 3)(x - 6) is the set of all real numbers except -3 and 6. Using the set-builder notation to write the domain of (x2 - 5) / (x + 3)(x - 6), we can write the following: {x | x is a real number and x ≠ - 3 and x ≠ 6} or simply {x | x ≠ - 3 and x ≠ 6}. Using the interval notation to write the domain of (x2 - 5) / (x + 3)(x - 6), we can write the following: (-∞, -3) ∪ (-3, 6) ∪ (6, ∞) Math words beginning with the letter d

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Alzheimer’s group files FOIA request related to CMS decision on amyloid-targeting antibodies UsAgainstAlzheimer’s, a nonprofit organization committed to stopping Alzheimer’s disease, is hoping to get more information related to CMS’s national coverage determination related to coverage for Aduhelm (aducanumab) from Biogen (Nasdaq:BIIB) and other monoclonal antibodies targeting amyloid to treat Alzheimer’s disease. The organization has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for information about the decision. UsAgainstAlzheimer’s is seeking information describing the potentially harmful impact of refusing to cover such monoclonal antibodies outside of clinical trials. CMS announced their national coverage determination for Aduhelm and other similar future monoclonal antibodies last week. UsAgainstAlzheimer’s concluded that CMS has denied access to millions of people in the U.S. living with Alzheimer’s. “The National Coverage Determination is historic – and not in a good way. CMS has covered every FDA-approved drug, but now…

Psychiatry > General Psychiatry Childhood Adversity Tied to Race-Related Differences in Brain Development — Exposure to trauma linked to lower gray matter volume in key brain regions in Black kids by Michael DePeau-Wilson, Enterprise & Investigative Writer, MedPage Today February 1, 2023 Gray matter volume in key brain regions was lower in Black children compared with white children, likely due to disparities in childhood adversity, according to data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. Among children ages 9 to 10 years, white kids showed greater gray matter volumes compared with Black kids in the amygdala, hippocampus, frontal pole, superior frontal gyrus, rostral anterior cingulate, pars opercularis, pars orbitalis, lateral orbitofrontal cortex, caudal middle frontal gyrus, and caudal anterior cingulate (all P<0.001), reported Nathaniel Harnett, PhD, director of the Neurobiology of Affective Traumatic Experiences Laboratory at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, and co-authors. Compared with white children, Black children had experienced more traumatic events, material hardship, and family conflict and lived in more disadvantaged neighborhoods, while their parents/caregivers had lower income and educational attainment and were more likely to be unemployed, they noted in the American Journal of Psychiatry. "Greater exposure to these adversities was linked to lower gray matter volumes in the amygdala and several subregions of the PFC [prefrontal cortex]," Harnett and team wrote. "Taken together, our findings highlight the impact that disparities in early-life adversity have on race-related differences in the structure of neural circuitry associated with PTSD and other trauma- and stress-related disorders." Of note, income was the most common predictor of gray matter volume disparities, they said. This analysis provides additional evidence that contradicts claims about inherent race-related differences found in the brain, Harnett told MedPage Today. "The disproportionate burden of structural inequities that we place on some groups has measurable impacts on their brain, and these impacts begin even in kids as young as 9 and 10 years old," he said. "Our work occupies a little bit of a unique spot in both trying to figure out how does adversity impact the brain in general, and then also how are minoritized and racialized individuals -- who more often experience these adversities -- uniquely impacted by these experiences?" In the discussion of their study, Harnett and colleagues noted that "early-life adversity can have lasting negative consequences on mental health in adulthood," noting that prior studies have found positive associations between childhood adversity and prevalence of poor psychosocial and behavioral outcomes later in life, including PTSD, anxiety, depression, drug and alcohol use, low life satisfaction, suicide attempts and ideation, and perpetration of violence. "It's important for people in the clinical sphere to really consider how the experiences that people have might shape their behavior and differentially between racial and ethnic groups," Harnett said. "If you're seeing patients that have this sort of wide range of adverse experiences in their lives, how is that going to impact the treatment that you're giving them?" In an accompanying editorial, Deanna M. Barch, PhD, and Joan L. Luby, MD, of Washington University in St. Louis, noted that this study is an important step in understanding the role that social factors play in a person's health, as well as the role of racial disparities in mental health outcomes. "The aims of the analysis were clearly intended to begin to elucidate and correct the long history of reporting of differences in health, behavioral, and neural outcomes attributed to race and/or ethnicity," they wrote. "These old models generally failed to appreciate and account for the powerful effects of the psychosocial environment on biological processes, including brain development, drawing oversimplified false conclusions about biological differences attributed to race." Harnett emphasized that because these brain regions are known to be important for regulation of emotions, the study findings suggest that addressing structural inequities could have an effect on Black children's futures and potential adverse psychiatric outcomes in adulthood. "These are kids," he said. "They didn't get to choose where they were born. They didn't get to choose the circumstances, their parents, and yet they're still being asked to shoulder the burden of these adversities in ways that are proving to be toxic for their brain and might have an impact on their development later on in life." "I think that all of us in the clinical sphere, in the research sphere, and the policy sphere, really need to think about what we can do to mitigate the potentially deleterious effects that these aspects of structural racism might have on development," he added. Matthew L. Edwards, MD, of Stanford University School of Medicine in California, who was not involved in the study, agreed that it is important to consider the effects of these disparities, but he also noted that researchers and clinicians should be careful about interpreting these kinds of data as it relates to racial differences. "When you look at racial differences in health, you see the circumstances that are assigned to people of a particular racial group," he told MedPage Today. "It's not that the person has black skin or brown skin; it's that the person is exposed to X, Y, and Z factors because they belong to a particular racial group." "The point that is often lost in biological and medical research is that race is not the stressor or the factor, structural racism is," he added. For this study, Harnett and colleagues analyzed data on 7,350 white children and 1,786 Black children from the ABCD cohort who were 9 or 10 years old at the time of recruitment from March to July 2019. The overall study group was about equally divided between boys and girls. Participants were recruited from public and private schools across the U.S. and accessed for a range of social measures, including family arrangements, neighborhood disadvantages, and trauma history using parent and child self-reports and U.S. Census data. All participants underwent a structural MRI. Michael DePeau-Wilson is a reporter on MedPage Today’s enterprise & investigative team. He covers psychiatry, long covid, and infectious diseases, among other relevant U.S. clinical news. Follow This study was supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health. Harnett reported no conflicts of interest. A co-author reported relationships with several pharmaceutical companies, while another reported a relationship with the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation and support from Vanderbilt University for technology licensed to Acadia Pharmaceuticals for her spouse. Luby reported receiving royalties from Guilford Press. Barch reported no conflicts of interest. American Journal of Psychiatry Source Reference: Dumornay NM, et al "Racial disparities in adversity during childhood and the false appearance of race-related differences in brain structure" Am J Psychiatry 2023; DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.21090961. Source Reference: Barch DM, Luby JL "Understanding social determinants of brain health during development" Am J Psychiatry 2023; DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.20220991.

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community weblog Japanese recipes for the Anglophone August 6, 2013 8:08 AM Subscribe Cookpad is Japan's largest recipe site and cooking community. Yesterday, an English version was launched. All the recipes are translated by humans, not machine-translated. The company, which was first established way back in 1997, is no ordinary foodie site. For one thing, it’s been listed on the Japanese stock exchange since 2009, and it boasts an impressive 1.5 million-plus recipes that have been created by its base of over 20 million users. The new site has been translated into English and initially features just 1,500 recipes. That’s just a small slice of its total, though there are plans to ramp the figure up to 30,000 in “the coming future,” Cookpad says. (not a self-link - I have nothing to do with this project) posted by Tanizaki (52 comments total) 152 users marked this as a favorite <3 thank you for this incredible bounty you have placed before us, love you x <3 posted by ominous_paws at 8:13 AM on August 6, 2013 posted by Lemmy Caution at 8:13 AM on August 6, 2013 Oh, I have to make this. Thanks for this post. Awesome treasure trove. posted by zarq at 8:15 AM on August 6, 2013 Whoa, isn't that something like 15% of the entire population of Japan? posted by gwint at 8:17 AM on August 6, 2013 Also, this is awesome. Thank you! When flagrant, add the meat and onion. Good for cooking and good for entertainment. Bonus! posted by pipeski at 8:24 AM on August 6, 2013 [1 favorite] Lovely - the kids love learning new things (as do I) ... posted by tilde at 8:26 AM on August 6, 2013 Oh, man, thank you so much, this is awesome! posted by KathrynT at 8:28 AM on August 6, 2013 i'm'a go hard on these recipes posted by scose at 8:30 AM on August 6, 2013 [1 favorite] posted by dismas at 8:32 AM on August 6, 2013 Yes, this is mega-good. Thanks for posting Tanizaki. posted by jonnyploy at 8:33 AM on August 6, 2013 Oooh, I like the liberal use of yuzu kosho in these recipes. I'm always looking for more ways to use it. posted by mandymanwasregistered at 8:34 AM on August 6, 2013 thank you for this incredible bounty you have placed before us, love you x Seconded. Yum. posted by sweetkid at 8:35 AM on August 6, 2013 I like the use of emoji: " It can be served with ketchup to give it a milder flavour（^O^*）♪" posted by dismas at 8:37 AM on August 6, 2013 [3 favorites] Fry the other side while shaking the frying pan again. When the meat is cooked through it's done. ♡ Serve with tonkatsu sauce. ♪ posted by scose at 8:42 AM on August 6, 2013 The Japanese version of the site has long been a staple in our house. While you have to separate the wheat (or rice) from the chaff, there are some gems there. It can let one know what Japanese home cooking is like, which is quite different from the fare in the west's Japanese restaurants. P.S. thank you for your kind comments posted by Tanizaki at 8:43 AM on August 6, 2013 [1 favorite] so much sugar in everything though :( I know that's nonponysterical posted by sweetkid at 8:44 AM on August 6, 2013 [1 favorite] pipeski: these people are a lot less fun when flagrant, turn off the heat. But at least you get a fried egg on top. posted by epo at 8:51 AM on August 6, 2013 [2 favorites] I have just figured out "flagrant" by looking at an original recipe. They mean to say "fragrant". posted by Tanizaki at 8:54 AM on August 6, 2013 Where the heck am I going to get a tamagoyaki pan? posted by Gin and Comics at 9:04 AM on August 6, 2013 Tamagoyaki pans are not hard to find in Asian supermarkets or grocery stores. Now, finding a Japanese pickle press was a different story. posted by needled at 9:13 AM on August 6, 2013 Gin and Comics, do you have a chinese, japanese, or korean grocery around? KathrynT: "Gin and Comics, do you have a chinese, japanese, or korean grocery around?" I am 90% certain I could find all three. Japanese might be harder. My consternation was only mild. ^_^; I do have serious question though. A lot of these recipes say, "Fry in oil". Is it safe to default to olive oil? Or is something else more typical in Japan? Gin and Comics, if the location in your profile is current, I suggest trying the H Mart nearest you. It's a Korean chain but they carry many Japanese ingredients and cooking implements. Is it safe to default to olive oil? Or is something else more typical in Japan? Vegetable oil (which is often called "salad oil") would be used in Japan. I would recommend using canola or a similar oil that will not impart its flavor to the food. posted by Tanizaki at 9:22 AM on August 6, 2013 [2 favorites] Tofu and Soybeans 218 recipes squeeeeeeeee!!! posted by slogger at 9:46 AM on August 6, 2013 [2 favorites] I love all the emoji -- hearts and musical notes and whatnot -- sprinkled throughout the headlines and recipes. Also, "A Nostalgic Reminder of School Lunch! Lemon Chicken" looks nothing like what my schools ever served for lunch. posted by wenestvedt at 9:55 AM on August 6, 2013 Their about page says "... 20 million monthly unique users, including 80% of all Japanese women in their 20s and 30s." I'm suitably impressed. posted by zengargoyle at 10:01 AM on August 6, 2013 [2 favorites] That lemon chicken recipe looks pretty great. posted by Keith Talent at 10:08 AM on August 6, 2013 This whole "add the ＊ ingredients now", "mix all ✩ ingredients in" system is brilliant. Is this a common feature of Japanese recipes? Why do we not copy this? I love it. posted by AmandaA at 10:36 AM on August 6, 2013 [4 favorites] PRAWN MUMMY!!!!! posted by Ennis Tennyone at 10:51 AM on August 6, 2013 [4 favorites] No more burning my experiments while looking up that last kanji? This is my happy dance. I love cookpad and this makes it even more awesome! Thank you for sharing. posted by whatzit at 11:08 AM on August 6, 2013 "add the ＊ ingredients now" I hope the recipe writer wasn't a Kurt Vonnegut fan. posted by Strange Interlude at 11:18 AM on August 6, 2013 [3 favorites] I am so glad that I didn't miss this post. Thanks, Tanizaki!! posted by lakersfan1222 at 11:29 AM on August 6, 2013 Finally, I know what to buy at the various supermarkets I'll need to hit! posted by droplet at 12:04 PM on August 6, 2013 Simple interesting recipes! Love this. posted by Locobot at 12:37 PM on August 6, 2013 Gin and Comics: "Where the heck am I going to get a tamagoyaki pan?" I was thinking the same thing, but it looks like a regular metal sheet pan could be made to fill in. (I suspect an experienced cook could probably just use a flat grill and control the egg spread with a spatula, but I'm not that confident.) posted by Karmakaze at 1:39 PM on August 6, 2013 A tamagoyaki pan is not hard to come by. We have a pan that is quite similar to this, although with sides that are a bit higher. I think we brought ours back from Japan. I think you really need those perpendicular sides. I can't imagine doing it on a sheet pan because the pan is far too big to handle (you need to lift and tilt the pan to make tamagoyaki) and the sides are too small. A griddle would be a nightmare. posted by Tanizaki at 2:21 PM on August 6, 2013 Great site. Thanks. Strange, but in my fairly large city there are many Asian supermarkets the size of Walmart which have items from every Asian country you can think of except for Japan. For some reason we have to go downtown to our two-block Japantown to the small market there for Japanese food. Is this just Denver? posted by kozad at 2:39 PM on August 6, 2013 For some reason we have to go downtown to our two-block Japantown to the small market there for Japanese food. Is this just Denver? I live in a southern city with enough Japanese to support a government-sponsored Japanese language school for expatriates, and this is the case here as well. The larger Oriental supermarkets tend to have very little in Japanese things and have to go to a smaller Japanese market to get certain items. Yum! I'm looking forward to trying some of these! posted by snorkmaiden at 3:28 PM on August 6, 2013 I am unbelievably delighted by this! My grandmother is an amazing cook (of Japanese food; her Western food is a totally different story), but she never learned enough English and I never learned enough Japanese, so I've never really had a chance to learn how to cook Japanese food properly beyond a few dishes. I see lots of bento in my future, and maybe there's still a chance I can take up the New Year's mantle and do osechi ryori up right. posted by Diagonalize at 3:47 PM on August 6, 2013 [1 favorite] Seems like a good complement to Cooking With Dog, a compelling video series narrated by a dog with a Japanese accent on preparing Japanese dishes. posted by greasepig at 4:50 PM on August 6, 2013 This is my jam! Tip: Replace beef with an equivalent amount of burdock root (on top of the original burdock root, natch) and add as many mushrooms as you can find. Maybe some konnyaku. posted by No-sword at 5:22 PM on August 6, 2013 I like CookPad; besides the recipes, the company is actually more forward on open source than many large Japanese companies and they like to host a lot of small technical meetings. What I find really interesting, though, is that they have a business model that I can't imagine working in America. Becoming a member is free, as is posting and searching recipes. The catch is that certain functions you might think of as basic are only available in the premium version: sorting recipes by rating is the big one, but automatically generated nutritional information, having more than 20 favorite recipes, and viewing the recipe of the day farther back than yesterday are also reserved for premium members, which costs ~$3 a month. The thing is, these features are already standard on the big English-language sites like Food.com and AllRecipes, as well as sites from professional magazines like Cooking Light and Epicurious. I know Metafilter members aren't uptight about paying for things, but given the competition I'm not sure how it would work abroad if they launched their full site instead of the stripped-down version they have now. On a different note, one thing I really appreciate about Japanese recipes that isn't particular to Cookpad is marking ingredients that go together with a symbol (◎☆■△) and then giving directions like "When it comes to a boil, add ■". So much clearer than listing half the spices again. posted by 23 at 6:35 PM on August 6, 2013 [1 favorite] The cookpad app for iPhone, etc., has been absolutely instrumental in our household dinners. I had no idea it was so big, but it's been one of those shining spots, like Wikipedia, where you just think "that's great". posted by Metro Gnome at 7:16 PM on August 6, 2013 Vegetables category has a lot of non-vegetables in it. posted by unliteral at 9:39 PM on August 6, 2013 Yeah, vegetarianism of the kind common in the States often results in puzzled looks here in general. The point of the "vegetables" category appears to be "things with vegetables" rather than "things without meat" (the beef-wrapped gobo is the highlighted recommendation on the Japanese site in the "vegetables" category as well as being near the top of the English list). posted by 23 at 9:47 PM on August 6, 2013 posted by trialex at 9:55 PM on August 6, 2013 [2 favorites] This is really great. I'm looking forward to shining the five year old on by cooking one of the chicken recipes in English and showing it to her in Japanese. Only after dinner though. This is a kid whose favorite meal is spaghetti but won't eat any other shape of pasta served with an identical sauce. posted by ob1quixote at 11:11 PM on August 6, 2013 I had this on my desktop for like 2 weeks and I finally got around to looking at it. Wow. But I realize why I was hesitant to look at it. When I took Japanese classes, my teacher suggested I read manga. I told her I hated that crap. So she gave me old copies of one of her favorites: Oishinbo. At first I was like yeah, food. Real food. I had just come back from Japan and as an exchange student, I had almost starved to death, I lost 65 pounds while living in Hakodate, a tourist destination for food. And when I came back to the US, I kept losing weight because I couldn't eat any of the fatty, sugary foods. I got used to Japanese food (what little I had of it). So I started reading Oishinbo and I would feel like I was starving. And then I'd look at the dialogue, it was about searching the country for elaborate dishes that included rare ingredients with baffling names. Lots of that stuff, I had already eaten, but didn't know what it was called. Oh, so that's what it was. This would be really great if there was a decent Japanese foods store within about 500 miles of me. Now that I know what to call it, I could buy it. But even the everyday items in stores in Japan, are almost impossible to get in the US, or at least, around where I live. So that's what the recipes look like to me. Wow that looks good, I am starving to death. Someone give me this luscious food. No it's impossible. Go a million miles away, to that tiny village in Japan where it's the local specialty, then you can have it. It is like a mirage in the desert, taunting the dehydrating man with visions of water. posted by charlie don't surf at 11:57 AM on August 18, 2013 [2 favorites] « Older Richard Prendergast Rode on the Prisoner Train... | Eat At Joe's? Newer » This thread has been archived and is closed to new comments Dinnertime cosplay July 29, 2014 Allez Cuisine! December 22, 2013 Oniongate May 7, 2012 Please Call Me Hararie August 6, 2009 Anyone CAN Cook July 18, 2007 About MetaFilter MetaFilter is a weblog that anyone can contribute a link or a comment to. 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LGBTQAI+ Books for Children and Teens: Providing a Window for All By Christina Dorr and Liz Deskins (American Library Association, 2018 – Learn more) Reviewed by Sarah Cooper The cover of LGBTQAI+ Books for Children and Teens shouts the book’s power with an upraised hand clutching a bright yellow book. For librarians Christina Dorr and Liz Deskins, getting the right book into the hands of the right kid at the right time is paramount – even more so when the topic is something not everyone wants to talk about. This concise guide, published by the American Library Association, feels like a warm companion for teachers, parents and librarians to find story-changing and life-affirming books. In addition, LGBTQAI+ Books argues that librarians can’t justify not including such titles in their collections simply because students don’t ask, or because the books don’t seem to circulate, or because a community challenge is likely. Throughout, it reminds us that librarians often step in as first-line defenders of intellectual freedom. The epilogue is titled “It’s about Basic Human Rights,” and this anti-censorship theme recurs throughout. The book begins with a powerful personal story by Jamie Campbell Naidoo, past president of the Association for Library Service to Children. The authors then discuss justifications for circulating LGBTQAI+ literature to children and teens, a brief history of such literature, approaches to “dealing with objections,” and helpful vocabulary. LGBTQAI+ in the title refers to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, asexual, intersex and more. Attempting from the outset to defuse concerns, the authors point out: “We no longer hesitate to share books about other forms of diversity: race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age, language, women’s issues, and more. Why are we still hesitant to share books about sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and nontraditional family structures with all children?” The rest of the guide divides into three sections, focused on young, middle grade and teen readers. For the Littlest Kids In a preface to the young readers’ section – focusing on babies and children – the authors insist that “all family structures need to be validated” and that “children become aware of gender identity/expression at a very young age.” I found myself taking note of many of the titles, particularly Stonewall Honor Books, to recommend to new parents. I also appreciated, in this section and throughout, the weaving of classics, such as Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers and Marla Frazee, with newer titles, such as Baby’s First Words by Christiane Engel. The historical fiction and information section also featured books about everyone from author Gertrude Stein to artist Keith Haring to tennis greats Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert. For Tweens and Middle Grades The second section pinpoints the essential balancing act of middle schoolers: to “cling to the support of the family, while simultaneously pushing authority figures away as they begin to think for themselves and develop an independent sense of self.” I enjoyed this section’s broad landscape of titles, from the graphic novel Drama by Raina Telgemeier to Who Is Elton John? by Kirsten Anderson. It also includes the Magnus Chase series by Rick Riordan as a wildly popular set of books that incorporate gender fluidity. With both the middle and high school chapters, the authors acknowledge that “there’s a preponderance of realistic fiction,” appropriate to readers’ search for identity. For Teens and High School Older teens, the authors point out, “need tools for guidance: family, friends, teachers, counselors, and books,” all of which can provide “a sense of safety,” “the need for respect,” and “a sense of fairness and justice.” Happily, as you may have noticed with YA literature over the past five or ten years, “the wealth of LGBTQAI+ books that explore every facet of identity and relationship is exploding,” and this chapter gives a fabulous starting point with its three dozen titles. I had read a handful of them already – interestingly, all because of repeated and impassioned student recommendations – including John Corey Whaley’s Highly Illogical Behavior, Benjamin Alire Saenz’s The Inexplicable Logic of My Life, Emily M. Danforth’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post and Francesca Lia Block’s Weetzie Bat, which “shattered concepts of what a young adult title could be” when it appeared in 1989. Now I want to work my way through the entire chapter. 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The Masked Singer: Who are the celebrities behind the masks? Wed Jan 02, 2019 at 4:07pm ET By Mary Jane The Masked Singer is a brand new singing show on FOX. Pic credit: FOX The Masked Singer is a brand new singing competition that will premiere tonight on FOX. The premise of the show is interesting and different than American Idol and The Voice. In fact, the competitors are famous celebrities who will compete against one another and the judges have to guess who is behind the mask. The judges are Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger, and Robin Thicke. The host of the show is Nick Cannon. Even though the show is called The Masked Singer, the celebrities are actually in full costume to hide who they are. The first six celebrities who will compete tonight are decked out in peacock, hippo, monster, unicorn, deer and lion costumes. During tonight’s premiere episode, viewers will be introduced to six competitors, but the press release from FOX reveals that there are 12 celebrities in total competing for the win. While we don’t know who is behind the masks, we have been given several clues. Combined, the 12 celebrities have 65 Grammy nominations, 16 multi-Platinum albums, and 16 Emmy nominations. They also have nine Broadway shows, four stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and four Super Bowl titles. Deer makes a STRIKING entrance. ? Catch him perform TOMORROW at 9/8c on @FOXTV. #DeerMask #TheMaskedSinger pic.twitter.com/PWggosEVMZ — The Masked Singer (@MaskedSingerFOX) January 2, 2019 That means the show will have singers, who actually know how to sing, actors who may know how to sing, and athletes who may or may not know how to sing. Viewers are welcome to guess along to see if they can guess who is behind the masks. It’s important to know that it isn’t just professional singers and performers, who are competing. You’ll find NFL players, actors, Broadway stars and famous faces from Hollywood. The Masked Singer airs Wednesday, January 2, at 9/8c on FOX. You can catch a special encore presentation of the first episode on Saturday, January 5 at 9/8c on FOX.

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the NE 1.063 km (0.661 mi) SSE of Avalanche Camp 0.2 0.8 0.5 More Info 10783933 2009-09-20, 13:46:31 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 06:46:31 PDT 13 years 184 days 21 hours 1 minute 45 seconds ago 1.335 (0.830) to the NE 1.145 km (0.712 mi) SSE of Avalanche Camp 0.2 1.2 0.7 More Info 10783948 2009-09-20, 13:55:09 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 06:55:09 PDT 13 years 184 days 20 hours 53 minutes 7 seconds ago 1.299 (0.807) to the NNE 0.910 km (0.566 mi) SSE of Avalanche Camp 0.6 0.7 0.4 More Info 10783993 2009-09-20, 14:16:50 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 07:16:50 PDT 13 years 184 days 20 hours 31 minutes 26 seconds ago 1.324 (0.823) to the NNE 0.876 km (0.544 mi) SSE of Avalanche Camp 0.3 0.3 0.2 More Info 10784028 2009-09-20, 14:23:34 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 07:23:34 PDT 13 years 184 days 20 hours 24 minutes 42 seconds ago 1.476 (0.917) to the NE 0.736 km (0.458 mi) W of Crater Peak 0.8 1.1 0.7 More Info 10784078 2009-09-20, 14:37:03 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 07:37:03 PDT 13 years 184 days 20 hours 11 minutes 13 seconds ago 1.257 (0.781) to the NNE 0.641 km (0.398 mi) ESE of Russell Cliff 0.4 0.5 0.3 More Info 10784128 2009-09-20, 16:28:58 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 09:28:58 PDT 13 years 184 days 18 hours 19 minutes 18 seconds ago 0.898 (0.558) to the NE 0.862 km (0.536 mi) NE of East Crater 0.9 0.8 0.5 More Info 10784143 2009-09-20, 16:32:46 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 09:32:46 PDT 13 years 184 days 18 hours 15 minutes 30 seconds ago 1.054 (0.655) to the NE 0.759 km (0.472 mi) SE of Russell Cliff 0.9 1.2 0.7 More Info 10784183 2009-09-20, 16:37:59 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 09:37:59 PDT 13 years 184 days 18 hours 10 minutes 17 seconds ago 1.690 (1.050) to the NNE 0.629 km (0.391 mi) SE of Avalanche Camp 0.7 1.3 0.8 More Info 10784193 2009-09-20, 16:40:10 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 09:40:10 PDT 13 years 184 days 18 hours 8 minutes 6 seconds ago 1.606 (0.998) to the NE 0.797 km (0.495 mi) WNW of Crater Peak 0.4 0.9 0.6 More Info 10784203 2009-09-20, 16:42:03 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 09:42:03 PDT 13 years 184 days 18 hours 6 minutes 13 seconds ago 1.128 (0.701) to the NE 1.099 km (0.683 mi) NE of East Crater 1.2 0.1 0.1 More Info 10784213 2009-09-20, 16:42:52 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 09:42:52 PDT 13 years 184 days 18 hours 5 minutes 24 seconds ago 1.548 (0.962) to the NE 0.705 km (0.438 mi) W of Crater Peak 0.6 0.7 0.4 More Info 10784303 2009-09-20, 16:43:32 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 09:43:32 PDT 13 years 184 days 18 hours 4 minutes 44 seconds ago 1.415 (0.879) to the NE 1.136 km (0.706 mi) SSE of Avalanche Camp 1.3 -0.1 -0.1 More Info 10784323 2009-09-20, 16:43:55 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 09:43:55 PDT 13 years 184 days 18 hours 4 minutes 21 seconds ago 1.369 (0.850) to the NE 0.873 km (0.542 mi) W of Crater Peak 1.9 -0.6 -0.4 More Info 10784473 2009-09-20, 16:51:55 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 09:51:55 PDT 13 years 184 days 17 hours 56 minutes 21 seconds ago 1.376 (0.855) to the NE 1.095 km (0.680 mi) SSE of Avalanche Camp 1.1 -0.3 -0.2 More Info 10784488 2009-09-20, 16:53:57 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 09:53:57 PDT 13 years 184 days 17 hours 54 minutes 19 seconds ago 1.582 (0.983) to the NNE 0.474 km (0.294 mi) SSW of Avalanche Camp 0.9 0.9 0.6 More Info 10784578 2009-09-20, 17:10:17 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 10:10:17 PDT 13 years 184 days 17 hours 37 minutes 59 seconds ago 1.631 (1.014) to the ENE 0.504 km (0.313 mi) WSW of Crater Peak 0.5 1.4 0.9 More Info 10784623 2009-09-20, 17:25:09 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 10:25:09 PDT 13 years 184 days 17 hours 23 minutes 7 seconds ago 1.167 (0.725) to the NE 0.734 km (0.456 mi) ESE of Russell Cliff 1.1 0.2 0.1 More Info 10784643 2009-09-20, 17:33:32 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 10:33:32 PDT 13 years 184 days 17 hours 14 minutes 44 seconds ago 1.660 (1.031) to the NE 0.867 km (0.539 mi) WNW of Crater Peak 0.6 -0.2 -0.1 More Info 10784653 2009-09-20, 17:35:05 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 10:35:05 PDT 13 years 184 days 17 hours 13 minutes 11 seconds ago 1.037 (0.644) to the NNE 0.440 km (0.273 mi) SE of Russell Cliff 0.6 1.4 0.9 More Info 10784678 2009-09-20, 17:37:34 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 10:37:34 PDT 13 years 184 days 17 hours 10 minutes 42 seconds ago 1.696 (1.054) to the ESE 0.116 km (0.072 mi) S of Disappointment Cleaver -0.1 0.7 0.4 More Info 10784693 2009-09-20, 17:39:06 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 10:39:06 PDT 13 years 184 days 17 hours 9 minutes 10 seconds ago 1.308 (0.813) to the NNE 0.945 km (0.587 mi) SSE of Avalanche Camp 0.7 0.2 0.1 More Info 10784768 2009-09-20, 17:47:29 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 10:47:29 PDT 13 years 184 days 17 hours 47 seconds ago 1.597 (0.993) to the NNE 0.536 km (0.333 mi) SSE of Avalanche Camp 0.7 1.4 0.9 More Info 10784788 2009-09-20, 17:49:09 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 10:49:09 PDT 13 years 184 days 16 hours 59 minutes 7 seconds ago 1.731 (1.075) to the NE 0.587 km (0.365 mi) WNW of Crater Peak 0.4 0.6 0.4 More Info 10784803 2009-09-20, 17:55:07 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 10:55:07 PDT 13 years 184 days 16 hours 53 minutes 9 seconds ago 1.797 (1.116) to the ENE 0.401 km (0.249 mi) W of Crater Peak 0.4 0.0 0.0 More Info 10784818 2009-09-20, 17:57:02 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 10:57:02 PDT 13 years 184 days 16 hours 51 minutes 14 seconds ago 0.945 (0.587) to the NNE 0.462 km (0.287 mi) SSE of Russell Cliff 0.6 0.7 0.4 More Info 10784978 2009-09-20, 19:32:28 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 12:32:28 PDT 13 years 184 days 15 hours 15 minutes 48 seconds ago 1.207 (0.750) to the NE 0.796 km (0.495 mi) ESE of Russell Cliff 0.1 1.5 0.9 More Info 10785008 2009-09-20, 19:38:12 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 12:38:12 PDT 13 years 184 days 15 hours 10 minutes 4 seconds ago 0.870 (0.541) to the ENE 0.809 km (0.502 mi) NE of East Crater 0.9 0.6 0.4 More Info 10785028 2009-09-20, 19:45:05 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 12:45:05 PDT 13 years 184 days 15 hours 3 minutes 11 seconds ago 1.789 (1.111) to the NE 0.772 km (0.480 mi) WNW of Crater Peak 0.5 1.0 0.6 More Info 10785063 2009-09-20, 19:51:08 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 12:51:08 PDT 13 years 184 days 14 hours 57 minutes 8 seconds ago 1.133 (0.704) to the NE 1.104 km (0.686 mi) NE of East Crater 0.8 0.4 0.2 More Info 10785088 2009-09-20, 19:59:43 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 12:59:43 PDT 13 years 184 days 14 hours 48 minutes 33 seconds ago 1.260 (0.783) to the E 0.466 km (0.290 mi) NW of Disappointment Cleaver 0.4 -0.3 -0.2 More Info 10785148 2009-09-20, 20:12:41 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 13:12:41 PDT 13 years 184 days 14 hours 35 minutes 35 seconds ago 1.369 (0.851) to the NNE 0.774 km (0.481 mi) S of Avalanche Camp 0.5 1.6 1.0 More Info 10785173 2009-09-20, 20:15:07 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 13:15:07 PDT 13 years 184 days 14 hours 33 minutes 9 seconds ago 1.099 (0.683) to the NNE 0.489 km (0.304 mi) SE of Russell Cliff 0.4 1.6 1.0 More Info 10785268 2009-09-20, 21:06:06 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 14:06:06 PDT 13 years 184 days 13 hours 42 minutes 10 seconds ago 0.778 (0.483) to the NE 0.775 km (0.481 mi) NNE of East Crater 0.5 1.0 0.6 More Info 10785283 2009-09-20, 21:08:13 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 14:08:13 PDT 13 years 184 days 13 hours 40 minutes 3 seconds ago 1.126 (0.700) to the NNE 0.667 km (0.415 mi) ESE of Russell Cliff 0.4 1.7 1.1 More Info 10785348 2009-09-20, 21:39:11 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 14:39:11 PDT 13 years 184 days 13 hours 9 minutes 5 seconds ago 1.205 (0.749) to the NE 1.236 km (0.768 mi) SSE of Avalanche Camp 0.3 1.4 0.9 More Info 10785353 2009-09-20, 21:40:37 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 14:40:37 PDT 13 years 184 days 13 hours 7 minutes 39 seconds ago 1.095 (0.680) to the NE 0.778 km (0.484 mi) ESE of Russell Cliff 0.4 1.7 1.1 More Info 10785448 2009-09-20, 22:27:32 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 15:27:32 PDT 13 years 184 days 12 hours 20 minutes 44 seconds ago 1.605 (0.997) to the NNE 0.696 km (0.433 mi) SSE of Avalanche Camp 0.7 -0.1 -0.1 More Info 10785533 2009-09-20, 23:03:01 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 16:03:01 PDT 13 years 184 days 11 hours 45 minutes 15 seconds ago 0.984 (0.611) to the NNE 0.480 km (0.298 mi) SE of Russell Cliff 0.9 -0.9 -0.6 More Info 10785573 2009-09-20, 23:05:05 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 16:05:05 PDT 13 years 184 days 11 hours 43 minutes 11 seconds ago 1.145 (0.711) to the NE 0.813 km (0.505 mi) ESE of Russell Cliff 0.6 -0.2 -0.1 More Info 10785588 2009-09-20, 23:11:30 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 16:11:30 PDT 13 years 184 days 11 hours 36 minutes 46 seconds ago 0.839 (0.521) to the NE 0.826 km (0.513 mi) NE of East Crater 0.8 -1.1 -0.7 More Info 10785608 2009-09-20, 23:26:41 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 16:26:41 PDT 13 years 184 days 11 hours 21 minutes 35 seconds ago 1.089 (0.677) to the NNE 0.602 km (0.374 mi) ESE of Russell Cliff 0.6 -0.6 -0.4 More Info 10785613 2009-09-20, 23:36:46 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 16:36:46 PDT 13 years 184 days 11 hours 11 minutes 30 seconds ago 1.922 (1.194) to the NNE 0.681 km (0.423 mi) ESE of Avalanche Camp 0.4 0.2 0.1 More Info 10785623 2009-09-20, 23:47:00 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 16:47:00 PDT 13 years 184 days 11 hours 1 minute 16 seconds ago 1.405 (0.873) to the NE 0.972 km (0.604 mi) SSE of Avalanche Camp 0.4 -0.3 -0.2 More Info 10785653 2009-09-21, 00:10:52 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 17:10:52 PDT 13 years 184 days 10 hours 37 minutes 24 seconds ago 1.009 (0.627) to the NE 0.894 km (0.556 mi) SE of Russell Cliff 0.7 -0.7 -0.4 More Info 10785728 2009-09-21, 03:09:07 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 20:09:07 PDT 13 years 184 days 7 hours 39 minutes 9 seconds ago 1.182 (0.734) to the NNE 0.655 km (0.407 mi) ESE of Russell Cliff 0.2 0.0 0.0 More Info 10785808 2009-09-21, 05:14:00 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 22:14:00 PDT 13 years 184 days 5 hours 34 minutes 16 seconds ago 1.694 (1.052) to the NNE 0.633 km (0.393 mi) SE of Avalanche Camp 0.8 1.2 0.7 More Info 10785833 2009-09-21, 06:24:42 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 23:24:42 PDT 13 years 184 days 4 hours 23 minutes 34 seconds ago 1.116 (0.693) to the ESE 0.345 km (0.215 mi) NNW of Gibraltar Rock 1.1 -0.9 -0.6 More Info 10785848 2009-09-21, 06:29:18 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 23:29:18 PDT 13 years 184 days 4 hours 18 minutes 58 seconds ago 1.542 (0.958) to the ESE 0.172 km (0.107 mi) SW of Disappointment Cleaver 0.7 0.0 0.0 More Info 10785858 2009-09-21, 06:31:32 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 23:31:32 PDT 13 years 184 days 4 hours 16 minutes 44 seconds ago 1.492 (0.927) to the ESE 0.152 km (0.095 mi) WNW of Disappointment Cleaver 0.5 -0.4 -0.2 More Info 10785868 2009-09-21, 06:33:24 GMT Sunday, September 20, 2009, 23:33:24 PDT 13 years 184 days 4 hours 14 minutes 52 seconds ago 1.004 (0.624) to the NE 0.988 km (0.614 mi) NE of East Crater 0.7 0.2 0.1 More Info 10785913 2009-09-21, 07:04:04 GMT Monday, September 21, 2009, 00:04:04 PDT 13 years 184 days 3 hours 44 minutes 12 seconds ago 1.801 (1.119) to the N 0.258 km (0.160 mi) SSW of Avalanche Camp -0.5 2.0 1.2 More Info 10785998 2009-09-21, 10:55:03 GMT Monday, September 21, 2009, 03:55:03 PDT 13 years 183 days 23 hours 53 minutes 13 seconds ago 1.054 (0.655) to the NE 0.778 km (0.484 mi) SE of Russell Cliff 0.3 1.5 0.9 More Info 10786013 2009-09-21, 10:56:03 GMT Monday, September 21, 2009, 03:56:03 PDT 13 years 183 days 23 hours 52 minutes 13 seconds ago 1.404 (0.872) to the NE 1.129 km (0.702 mi) SSE of Avalanche Camp 0.3 1.4 0.9 More Info 10786023 2009-09-21, 10:57:32 GMT Monday, September 21, 2009, 03:57:32 PDT 13 years 183 days 23 hours 50 minutes 44 seconds ago 1.815 (1.128) to the NNE 0.413 km (0.257 mi) SE of Avalanche Camp 0.5 1.6 1.0 More Info 10786033 2009-09-21, 11:00:47 GMT Monday, September 21, 2009, 04:00:47 PDT 13 years 183 days 23 hours 47 minutes 29 seconds ago 1.102 (0.685) to the NE 1.072 km (0.666 mi) NE of East Crater 0.4 0.7 0.4 More Info 10786088 2009-09-21, 12:38:35 GMT Monday, September 21, 2009, 05:38:35 PDT 13 years 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Posted on August 7, 2015 by morrowcountysentinel ‘Final Five’ win one more gymnastics gold for Karolyi By Will Graves - AP Sports Writer United States' Simone Biles performs on the balance beam during the artistic gymnastics women's team final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) U.S. gymnasts, left to right, Simone Biles, Gabrielle Douglas, Lauren Hernandez, Madison Kocian and Aly Raisman hold their gold medals during the medal ceremony for the artistic gymnastics women's team at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) United States' Gabrielle Douglas, facing camera, hugs teammate Simone Biles after her performance on the vault during the artistic gymnastics women's team final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky) RIO DE JANEIRO — Martha Karolyi leaned forward, her hands clutching the railing in front of her seat. Knuckles white. Head tilted. Body tense. It didn’t matter that the U.S. women’s Olympic gymnastics team had already sewn up the team gold by the time three-time world champion Simone Biles saluted the floor exercise judges during the final event on Tuesday night. Winning isn’t enough for Karolyi. Never has been. For 90 seconds the longtime national team coordinator leaned one way and then another, following Biles’ every move. Only after Biles’ score was posted — one that served as an exclamation point on two hours of nearly flawless gymnastics — did the architect of a dynasty relax. Then, something else happened. Something she never saw coming. She started crying. And not just a little. “I pride normally being very tough,” Karolyi said. “I was ‘Oh, what’s happening to me? What is this?’” It’s goodbye. The 73-year-old is stepping away from the program she has spent the last 15 years turning into one of the most dominant forces at the Olympics. Her athletes — all of whom she’s nurtured from prodigies to champions — repaid her hard work with a fitting tribute of precision and tenacity. Twenty eight times in two days they stepped up to compete. And 28 times they hit. No falls. No major wobbles. Nothing but brilliance. The U.S. posted a score of 184.897, more than eight points clear of silver medalist Russia and nearly nine more than bronze medalist China while winning its second straight Olympic title and third overall, a margin greater than the one that propelled the “Fierce Five” to victory in London four years ago. So much for the pressure of being the heavy favorite. The only real mystery surrounded what nickname the team would settle on before Biles stumbled upon it during a group text. The group — Biles, Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas, Madison Kocian and Laurie Hernandez — dubbed themselves “The Final Five” as a nod to Karolyi. “It’s perfect,” Biles said. “It’s Martha’s last year. We wanted it to be meaningful.” Biles admitted there were nerves before Sunday’s preliminaries, though it hardly looked like it while the Americans posted the highest score by more than nine points. The only moment of tension on Tuesday came early. When Hernandez was introduced to the crowd, Raisman nudged her and told her to wave, which the 16-year-old did with a toothy smile. Barely five minutes later, the youngest member of Team USA was all business. Her double-twisting Yurchenko vault — basically a roundoff onto the block followed by a pair of twists — put the machine in motion. Raisman, who won three medals in London four years ago and seemed to be on the outside looking in as recently as this spring, followed with perhaps the finest vault of her long career. When Biles drilled her Amanar and put up a 15.933 — tied for highest of the night — the U.S. was already on top of the leaderboard and everyone else was playing for second. It’s a fate the rest of the field seemed to accept. Russian star Aliya Mustafina admitted before the competition the Americans were “unbeatable.” China’s Shang Chunsong said her team “aimed for the silver medal,” a position the Chinese seemed to have in hand until stumbling on the final rotation. The top spot was never in doubt. The U.S. hasn’t lost a major international competition since 2010 and there appears to be no end in sight to their run even though Karolyi and her husband Bela are selling the training facility on their Texas ranch to USA Gymnastics later this month. Karolyi joked she’s going to have to be a “normal person” in retirement and plans to poke her head in occasionally to “see if they are going in the right direction.” At the moment, that direction is up. Way up thanks in part to the semi-centralized system Karolyi installed. Team members and coaches visit the ranch regularly, where they receive specialized instructions. No detail is overlooked. The competition on Tuesday forced the U.S. to wait sometimes 20-30 minutes between sets. No problem. They do that at the ranch all the time. “Martha does that to us,” Douglas said. “It’s start. Stop. Start. Stop.” The retirement party will have to wait. There’s more gold to be won. All five Americans will compete later in the games, starting with Biles and Raisman in the all-around on Thursday. They’ll get Wednesday morning off, then it’s back to work. The job is not done. “Don’t take anything granted,” Karolyi said. “We want to do the very best all the time.” A mantra that will live on long after Karolyi takes off her USA Gymnastics sweatsuit for the last time. United States’ Simone Biles performs on the balance beam during the artistic gymnastics women’s team final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) http://aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2016/08/web1_111822597-28bc15dbd8684f4b9ddd6597f2bdddb9-2.jpgUnited States’ Simone Biles performs on the balance beam during the artistic gymnastics women’s team final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) U.S. gymnasts, left to right, Simone Biles, Gabrielle Douglas, Lauren Hernandez, Madison Kocian and Aly Raisman hold their gold medals during the medal ceremony for the artistic gymnastics women’s team at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) http://aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2016/08/web1_111822597-57b60fe3d87945d3a2a192455ddec4ee-2.jpgU.S. gymnasts, left to right, Simone Biles, Gabrielle Douglas, Lauren Hernandez, Madison Kocian and Aly Raisman hold their gold medals during the medal ceremony for the artistic gymnastics women’s team at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) United States’ Gabrielle Douglas, facing camera, hugs teammate Simone Biles after her performance on the vault during the artistic gymnastics women’s team final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky) http://aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2016/08/web1_111822597-450cfcafdce64d0dafbf272cb63a67bb-2.jpgUnited States’ Gabrielle Douglas, facing camera, hugs teammate Simone Biles after her performance on the vault during the artistic gymnastics women’s team final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky) By Will Graves AP Sports Writer Hi! A visitor to our site felt the following article might be of interest to you: ‘Final Five’ win one more gymnastics gold for Karolyi. Here is a link to that story: https://www.morrowcountysentinel.com/uncategorized/2106/truax-appointed-to-mtc-board-of-trustees

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Cardiovascular Systems Announces First Patients Treated With OrbusNeich Teleport Microcatheter Device is indicated for use in both coronary and peripheral interventions. Business Wire02.07.19 Cardiovascular Systems Inc. (CSI) has announced that the first patients in the United States were treated using the OrbusNeich Teleport Microcatheter (Teleport), which recently received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance. Microcatheters are used to provide support and safe guidewire exchange during complex cardiovascular procedures. Teleport is a new generation microcatheter designed for deliverability and support, with a unique and robust tip designed to enable access in the most challenging lesions. Annapoorna S. Kini M.D., director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, N.Y., and Emmanouil Brilakis, M.D., Ph.D., FACC, FAHA, FESC, FSCAI, interventional cardiologist at Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, Minn., treated the first patients in the United States with Teleport. Said Dr. Kini, “I am excited and honored to be the first to use Teleport microcatheter in the United States. Teleport allowed me to deliver the microcatheter easily through tortuous coronary vasculature while maintaining catheter position for guidewire exchange treating a complex chronic total occlusion.” Dr. Brilakis, added, “I had the opportunity to use the Teleport Microcatheter in Europe and was impressed by its balance of deliverability and support. Teleport’s robust tip design is unique, enabling access to tight lesions while providing the torqueability necessary to treat very challenging lesions. I’m excited to have this device available to treat my patients here in the United States.” Scott Ward, CSI’s Chairman, president and CEO, said, “We are committed to building a comprehensive cardiovascular company and leveraging our commercial footprint and clinical value to become the partner of choice in the revascularization of patients with complex peripheral and coronary artery disease. The clearance of the Teleport Microcatheter complements our emphasis on providing advanced solutions for the most difficult coronary and peripheral lesions.” OrbusNeich is a global pioneer in the provision of life-changing vascular solutions and offers an extensive portfolio of products that set industry benchmarks in vascular intervention. Current products include the world's first dual therapy stents, the COMBO Plus and COMBO Dual Therapy Stents, together with stents and balloons marketed under the names of Azule, Scoreflex, Sapphire II, Sapphire II PRO, and Sapphire II NC, as well as products to treat peripheral artery disease: the Jade and Scoreflex PTA balloons. OrbusNeich is headquartered in Hong Kong and has operations in Shenzhen, China; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Hoevelaken, The Netherlands; and Tokyo, Japan. OrbusNeich supplies medical devices to physicians in more than 60 countries. Cardiovascular Systems Inc., based in St. Paul, Minn., is a medical device company focused on developing and commercializing innovative solutions for treating vascular and coronary disease. The company’s OAS treat calcified and fibrotic plaque in arterial vessels throughout the leg and heart in a few minutes of treatment time, and address many of the limitations associated with existing surgical, catheter and pharmacological treatment alternatives. The FDA granted 510(k) clearance for the use of the Diamondback Orbital Atherectomy System in peripheral arteries in August 2007. In October 2013, the company received FDA approval for the use of the Diamondback Orbital Atherectomy System in coronary arteries. The Stealth 360 Peripheral Orbital Atherectomy System (OAS) received CE Mark in October 2014. Over 400,000 of CSI’s devices have been sold to leading institutions worldwide. cardiovascular systems The High-Tech Baby That Saves Lives First European Patients Treated With Cardiovascular Systems' Peripheral Orbital Atherectomy System First Patient in Hong Kong Treated With Cardiovascular Systems' Coronary Orbital Atherectomy System Cardiovascular Systems Debuts Peripheral Orbital Atherectomy System Outside the U.S. Cardiovascular Systems, Aerolase Corp. Sign Collaborative Agreement for Laser Atherectomy Tech The chest of the tiny body slowly moves up and down, veins and arteries are visible under the thin skinThe chest of the tiny body slowly moves up and down, veins and arteries are visible under the thin skin. The heartbeat is regular. A real baby? Not quite. Treatment occurred at St. Vincenz Hospital in Köln. The procedure marks the first international coronary procedure taking place as a result of the company’s distribution agreement with OrbusNeich. Hong Kong patient marks company’s first product launch leveraging international distribution partnership with OrbusNeich. Under the agreement terms, CSI made an undisclosed equity investment in Aerolase.

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You Can Now Watch Deep Web on Netflix Starting on 31st of March 2015, you will be able to watch Deep Web, a 2015 documentary about Silk Road, on Netflix. Up until now you could only watch it through its official website, iTunes and BitTorrent. A quick reminder; Silk Road was the website accessible only through TOR where one could buy anything from drugs to firearms using Bitcoins. It is one of the many Deep Net or Dark Net websites that have sprung up in the last few years. Story about Dread Pirate Roberts Ross Ulbricht, who is alleged to be Dread Pirate Roberts, founder and administrator of Silk Road, was arrested in October 2013. He was later on in May 2015 sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on charges of money laundering, conspiracy to traffic illegal drug and attempted murder. He is appealing the sentence. Two of the federal agents involved in the investigations leading Ross Ulbricht arrest and sentencing have themselves been judged with theft of the Bitcoins they seized from Silk Road. Hear it from major players in the story On its official website, the Deep Web movie is described as one that “gives the inside story of one of the most important and riveting digital crime sagas of the century.” In making the film, the producers had exclusive access to the Ross Ulbricht’s family as well as other major players in the saga. Those interviewed include Amir Taaki, who is associated with OpenBazaar, a peer to peer marketplace getting a lot of attention at the moment. Some see it as the replica of the Silk Road only that it is decentralized and does not need TOR to be accessible. The Deep Web documentary was directed by Alex Winter and voiced by Keanu Reeves. Read also It is Easter, and You Don’t Want to Miss BitStarz’s 4 Day Free Spins to Celebrate!

Modern Double Floor House Design The Best House Plans To Double Your Living Space When you are deciding on the best house to buy, more often than not you are deciding on the most practical house. It needs to have enough room for your family, but it also needs to be affordable too! This article is all about how duplex homes can make your living space double! A double floor home interior design is characterized by the use of two or more stories. Although it is made out of a single structure, the design keeps separate floors for storage and living quarters. The idea of using two floors was originally conceptualized to accommodate separate uses that cannot be shared, such as domestic and industrial functions. The clean lines from low-profile appliances are ideal for this type of architecture. A double floor house plan is a new idea in luxury homes. The design allows for more openness and fluidity in the rooms. In contrast, the traditional single floor home on bricks is more restrictive and can make a room feel confined. This new form of a floor type provides extra living space while still adding some decoration to it. A double floor home design is more energy efficient, because it heats and cools a smaller area than a two-floor home would. They also have lower infrastructure requirements and easier access to natural light. Modern double floor house design is typically bigger than before. This design includes two levels or floors with an open and natural theme. Floor two is connected to floor one using a staircase which shows how important the tiered floor design is in today’s interior. These house designs also feature true light transparency, terraces and more distractions to give their visitors enhanced travel experiences. The double floor design has always been popular, but homeowners are now moving back to the look for many different reasons. Not only does the minimalist design reduce the amount of space that’s taken up in a home, but it also provides easy installation of heating and cooling systems. The house also features lots of windows on both levels for natural light to pour into the space. Double Floor House Plans A double-floor house plan is perfect for anyone who wants more living space. It features an attic that can be used as a bedroom, bathroom, or storage space. It also includes two floors of living area to help you grow your family and live comfortably. The best part of the design is that it doesn’t have a basement or garage so you don’t need to worry about flooding or electrical problems. Duplex House Plans A duplex house plan is a great option for those looking to double their living space. These homes have three levels: a ground level, a middle level, and the top level. The ground level usually consists of a garage or work area, the middle level has the kitchen, dining room, family room, and bathrooms, and the top level contains bedrooms. Duplexes are wonderful because they allow for plenty of privacy in your living area but also provide home owners with an extra income opportunity by renting out one of the two units.

home news Iain Gulland to serve another mandate at the head of ACR+ Iain Gulland to serve another mandate at the head of ACR+ Iain Gulland, CEO of Zero Waste Scotland, has been renewed as President of the Association of Cities and Regions for sustainable Resource management (ACR+). Supported by the other 11 members of the Board of Directors, he will support the network in delivering concrete solutions envisioning circular economy as a tool to tackle current environmental challenges. The CEO of Zero Waste Scotland, Iain Gulland, has been re-elected as the President of the Association of Cities and Regions for sustainable Resource management (ACR+) during the 2022 General Assembly of the network last 9-10 June in Brussels. It will be Gulland’s third term, following his first election in 2018. Iain Gulland is to serve another two-year tenure, until 2024, and will lead ACR+’s work to support circular economy and increase capacities of local authorities regarding resource efficiency. He has more than 30 years’ experience in sustainable resource management, including initiating recycling systems in the public and third sectors. Zero Waste Scotland leads on the delivery of the Scottish Government’s Circular Economy strategy and other low carbon policy priorities, and is at the forefront of efforts to create a resource efficient, circular economy. 12 cities and regions to lead ACR+ Board of Directors Iain Gulland was re-elected along with two vice-presidents, Fernando Leite representing the Intermunicipal Waste Management Service of Greater Porto - LIPOR (PT) and Hugh Coughlan representing the Eastern Midlands Waste Region (IE), and a treasurer Michael D. Hansen representing the city of Odense. The ACR+ Board of Directors is completed by the following members, also re-elected unanimously during the General Assembly: the city of The Hague, the regions of Catalonia (ES), Arnhem Nijmegen (NL), Brussels (BE), Pays de la Loire (FR), Sardinia (IT), and the two waste companies SERIT (for the Verona province - IT) and WasteServ Malta (MT). Iain Gulland, ACR+ new President, said “It is a privilege to be re-elected as President of ACR+ and to have the opportunity to support a renewed vigour for circular economy among ACR+ members and wider society. I am looking forward to continuing the work done so far and contribute to a crucial network of practitioners who actually make things happen on the ground for citizens.” Practical actions to boost circular economy at local level Practical action is indeed at the heart of ACR+; the network builds connections between its members (and other key actors) to share and collaborate on the delivery of concrete solutions to embrace the transition to a circular economy as a tool to tackle environmental challenges with a holistic perspective. Thus, in addition to an open session that saw key experts discussing how to empower the sustainable transition and build a circular resilient Europe, the ACR+ General Assembly included a whole afternoon dedicated to thematic discussion groups. Participants tackled four themes: Circular and Green Public Procurement: a powerful tool to shape the transition towards a Circular Economy; Sustainable Food Systems: aligning local action to EU targets and global challenges; Sustainable textiles: from EU strategy to local systems; EPR principles as a tool to change our relationship with waste and products. Conclusions were various and show the direction taken by the network to make both circularity and climate-neutrality a reality, by seeing the big picture but also applying a territorial hierarchy and working at local level. These include for example shedding more lights on small-scale initiatives and projects which are also just as successful as bigger ones, taking into consideration the socio-cultural aspects or adopting when needed a tailored approach fitting the local contexts. “Renewable resources can be harvested to cover all of our energy needs.” – an interview with Henrik Stiesdal

James Buchanan Fellowship 2023 for PhD Students Worldwide 3 Jan,2023 JohnnyLeave a comment James Buchanan Fellowship 2023 for PhD Students Worldwide at Mercatus Center is something you don’t want to miss. The James Buchanan Fellowship seeks to introduce early-career scholars to the Austrian, Virginia, and Bloomington schools of political economy. Applications for the 2023/2024 academic year are due on April 15, 2023. The Fellowship is an annual competitive programme usually awarded to scholars in any discipline who have recently graduated from their doctoral programmes. Furthermore, James Buchanan Fellows will be introduced to contemporary applications of these ideas to questions in social sciences dealing with the dynamics and institutional underpinnings of economic, political, and social coordination. Fellows will also spend two weekends in residence at George Mason University and three virtual colloquia during the calendar year participating in discussions on mainline political economy. The Program is structured around a set of readings and includes discussion sessions, lectures, formal meals, and hospitality. Details About Mercatus Center James Buchanan Fellowship About Mercatus Center Benefits of Mercatus Center James Buchanan Fellowship 2023 How to Apply for Mercatus Center James Buchanan Fellowship 2023? Eligibility Criteria for Mercatus Center James Buchanan Fellowship Qualification Documents Required for Application Type: Postgraduate Organization: Mercatus Center Eligible Country: International Application Deadline: April 15, 2023 The Mercatus Center was founded in 1980 (over 40 years ago), it is an American libertarian, free-market-oriented non-profit think tank. The centre is located at George Mason University and is directed by the American economist Tyler Cowen. The Mercatus was previously the Center for the Study of Market Processes, it has recruited, trained, and supported graduate students who have gone on to pursue careers in academia, government, and public policy as well as supported scholars pursuing research on the cutting-edge of academia. The total James Buchanan Fellowship worth is up to $15,000 including a stipend, all required reading materials, and travel and lodging to attend colloquia hosted by the Mercatus Center. Candidates who are Interested and qualified can visit the Mercatus Center at mercatuscenter.formstack.com to apply For more details, visit the Mercatus Center website: https://asp.mercatus.org/content/james-buchanan-fellowship The Fellowship at Mercatus Center is open to: Scholar’s in their Early-career stage with a PhD from any discipline whose research and/or teaching interests would benefit from a greater understanding of key writings in political economy are strongly encouraged to apply. Scholars having any nationality, who holds an academic position like teaching, research, academic leadership, etc. at a university in the US or abroad, during their year of participation. A Cover letter explaining: the graduate school career to date, academic career goals, research interests and current projects The student’s familiarity with the thinkers associated with the Austrian, Virginia, and Bloomington schools of political economy, and Current resume/CV Recent academic publications, if any Top Scholarships in Qatar without IELTS 2023-2024 Fully Funded – Apply Now! 2023 Scholarship at Monash University, Australia + Scholarships at Luleå University of Technology – Sweden

Presidents and Public-Health Crises Over the course of the 20th century, the United States faced three major public-health crises: the polio epidemic, excessively high smoking rates, and HIV/AIDS. Each of these crises took place over a multi-year period, and multiple presidents dealt with both their effects and the national response to them. Nonetheless, certain presidents came to be specifically identified with each of these crises: Franklin Roosevelt and polio, John F. Kennedy and smoking, and Ronald Reagan and HIV/AIDS. Each crisis posed quite different challenges. In polio and AIDS, the nation faced terrifying and mysterious diseases that required the mobilization of the private and public sectors toward finding cures and disseminating accurate information. With smoking, new information revealed secret dangers lurking in a popular product previously thought to be harmless; and, while the news saved millions of lives, it posed an immediate threat to the national economy. Each health crisis came with its own rhetorical challenges as well, beyond just raising awareness. And, with each new public-health crisis, each of these presidents faced a public with growing expectations about the government's responsibility for solving the problem. As the United States grapples with its latest public-health crisis — obesity — there is much to learn from the national responses to polio, smoking, and HIV/AIDS. Though Roosevelt, Kennedy, and Reagan all faced different challenges, how they handled the crises is instructive for determining how the U.S. has dealt with public-health crises in the past, and for determining how to address new public-health challenges in the future. POLIO AND FDR Of the three presidents who came to own the public-health crises in question, FDR is most closely associated with his, that of polio. This is, of course, because Roosevelt himself was a victim of the dread disease, coming down with it in 1921 at the age of 39 at his vacation home in Campobello. FDR's doctor, W. W. Keen, paid a house call and misdiagnosed the illness — twice — and then charged Roosevelt $8,000 for the misdiagnoses. The illness paralyzed Roosevelt's lower body. Roosevelt became president despite his illness. While today we associate Roosevelt with polio, it is important to remember that Roosevelt worked hard to make sure that the voting public did not know the full extent of his condition. As David Blumenthal and James Morone put it, "FDR's public life after polio focused on denying his illness." We can see how successful he was in this effort by the fact that Roosevelt, despite being one of the most frequently depicted presidents on the silver screen, was never shown in a wheelchair as president until the musical Annie was adapted for film in 1982. For non-musical depictions, movie fans would have to wait until the 2001 film Pearl Harbor to see FDR as a wheelchair-bound president. Polio was devastating not just to Roosevelt, but to the entire nation. Polio first appeared in the United States in 1894, but didn't become a recurring problem until the 1940s and the early 1950s, when it crippled about 35,000 people annually; the disease hit its peak in 1952, with a record 57,628 polio cases. The numbers themselves, however, do not convey the full intensity of the crisis, which panicked millions of parents and children alike every year. As president, Roosevelt took a philanthropic approach to dealing with polio. By the time he moved into the White House, he had already started a foundation in 1927 in Warm Springs, Georgia, run by his colleague Basil O'Connor. Roosevelt had discovered the restorative powers of the warm springs for polio sufferers and became an evangelist for their use. Once Roosevelt became president, he worked with O'Connor to begin a series of "Birthday Balls" to raise money for polio victims. The first ball took place on Roosevelt's birthday in 1934 and raised $1 million for the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. Four years later, Roosevelt created a new charity, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The annual Birthday Balls helped to fund the newly formed NFIP, as did its grassroots fundraising campaign, the March of Dimes. (The NFIP eventually adopted the name of its popular fundraiser.) Roosevelt used his presidential pulpit to promote his philanthropic efforts on polio. In January of 1944, he used martial language to speak to the nation about a war on polio, and made an explicit analogy to the nation's ongoing efforts in World War II: "The dread disease that we battle at home, like the enemy we oppose abroad, shows no concern, no pity for the young." Despite the strong words, Roosevelt's request was for donations, not military sign-ups. As Roosevelt put it, "The generous participation of the American people in this fight is a sign of the healthy condition of our Nation." In Roosevelt's case, his use of the radio to promote the fight against polio was a sign of how seriously he took the disease. This was before the days of the president's weekly radio address. Roosevelt, despite being known as a master of radio, took to the airwaves relatively infrequently, in an effort to avoid overexposure. Even his famous Fireside Chats, which revolutionized the political use of radio, usually only took place two or three times a year. If Roosevelt was using one of those rare opportunities to promote polio research, it showed that combating polio was one of his top priorities. The March of Dimes recognized the importance of Roosevelt's efforts to its success. In an official history, March of Dimes notes that "efforts to launch the March of Dimes were boosted by radio, Hollywood, and the personal appeal of the president." And the March of Dimes put its funds to good use. A 1943 grant from the NFIP to the U.S. Army Neurotropic Virus Commission for studying polio in North Africa helped provide funding for researcher Albert Sabin. Sabin would go on to create the oral polio vaccine, which followed the discovery of the original polio vaccine in 1952 by Jonas Salk, himself a March of Dimes grantee. O'Connor announced the discovery of the polio vaccine on the 10th anniversary of Roosevelt's death. According to FDR biographer Conrad Black, the development of the vaccine stood as "Roosevelt's ultimate victory over his illness." In addition, according to Black, Roosevelt's fundraising on behalf of polio research was so important that the discovery "would not have occurred, at least until decades later, without him." Roosevelt's use of his stature and his own considerable communications talents constituted a successful and non-government focused approach to a severe public-health crisis. March of Dimes also helped fund distribution of the vaccine, and in 1955 President Dwight Eisenhower announced plans to help states fund distribution of the polio vaccine. Creation of the vaccine changed everything when it came to polio. The 14 years from 1937 to 1950 saw about 230,000 cases of polio in the U.S., which is about the number of cases that would appear over the next 50 years. In recent years, polio has become even more infrequent. Naturally occurring polio has not appeared in the U.S. since 1979, and that case occurred within the vaccine-skeptical Amish community. The NFIP quickly became obsolete, so the organization changed its name and its mission; the March of Dimes now focuses on birth defects. SMOKING AND JFK Rarely does a public-health campaign ever so completely eradicate a public-health threat as was the case with polio. But there have been instances of public-health campaigns reducing threats, and even changing societal behavior. In 1962, for example, President Kennedy directed Surgeon General Luther Terry to create an Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health. This effort came in response to a 1961 letter to Kennedy from the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, the National Tuberculosis Association, and the American Public Health Association asking him to look into the health effects of smoking. The committee, comprised of 10 expert scientists, met nine times over the next two years to review the scientific evidence regarding smoking. The committee's report came out in 1964, the year after Kennedy's tragic assassination in Dallas. The report found that smoking was deleterious to one's health, and even specified a 70% increase in mortality among smokers over non-smokers. At the time, these were controversial findings. Terry intentionally timed the release of the report for a Saturday, so as to minimize the report's impact on the stock market. Even so, Terry recalled, the report "hit the country like a bombshell. It was front page news and a lead story on every radio and television station in the United States and many abroad." As a result of the committee's report, official U.S. government policy since then has been to oppose smoking, and it has done so in a variety of ways. In 1965, Congress approved a warning label on cigarettes. Beginning in 1970, the warning was issued in the name of the Surgeon General. And since 1970, the government has banned tobacco advertising on both TV and radio. Furthermore, the campaign against smoking has been a continual effort of the office of the Surgeon General, with some Surgeons General, particularly Dr. C. Everett Koop under Ronald Reagan, making anti-smoking efforts their signature cause. The government's anti-smoking efforts have had a real impact. In 1964, the year of the initial Surgeon General report warning of the dangers of smoking, over half of U.S. men — 52.9% — smoked, along with 31.5% of women. By 1970, when the advertising bans went into effect, those numbers had dropped to 42.3% for men and 30.5% for women. By 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control, smoking had dropped to 16.8% of all U.S. adults, 18.8% of men and 14.8% of women. Even with these dramatic behavioral shifts, tobacco smoking continues to have a real health impact in the United States. Almost 40 million Americans still smoke, mostly among the young and the poor. According to the CDC, smoking still causes over 480,000 U.S. deaths annually — one of every five deaths. The economic impact of smoking remains considerable as well: more than $300 billion annually, split between nearly $170 billion in medical costs and $156 billion in lost productivity. Still, these figures would have been much higher without the concerted effort by the United States government over the last 50 years to reduce smoking, an effort stimulated by that letter to President Kennedy in 1961. HIV/AIDS AND REAGAN During President Reagan's tenure, the United States was dealt another public-health crisis: HIV/AIDS. Unlike smoking, which had long been on the agenda of public-health organizations, HIV/AIDS caught America and the world by surprise. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, HIV/AIDS cases and annual deaths skyrocketed, from 451 deaths in 1981 to 50,628 in 1995. The mysterious and fast-moving illness shocked people, and devastated entire communities. Over 19,000 New Yorkers alone died of AIDS-related causes in the 1980s. Overall, about 698,000 Americans have died from AIDS, more than the 675,000 deaths from the Great Influenza of 1918. The surprise emergence of AIDS created considerable controversy about whether the U.S. did enough to combat it in its earliest years. In a piece written shortly after Reagan's death, the New York Times' Robin Toner and Robert Pear wrote that "Advocates for people with AIDS have long asserted that Mr. Reagan's lack of leadership on the disease, which was first reported by the Centers for Disease Control in 1981, significantly hindered research and education efforts to fight it." Randy Shilts, whose 1987 book And the Band Played On helped establish the image of a Reagan disengaged or even hostile to combating AIDS, wrote that "Reagan had never publicly spoken the word AIDS or ever alluded to the fact that he was aware that an epidemic existed." After Nancy Reagan's March 2016 death, Hillary Clinton was blistered by the left for even suggesting that President and Mrs. Reagan "started a national conversation" about AIDS in the 1980s. Others have made the case against Reagan on HIV/AIDS far less judiciously. AIDS advocate Larry Kramer has called the 40th president "Adolf Reagan," and said that "the world would have been better off if he [Reagan] had not been president." Building on his Hitler theme, Kramer has called Reagan "a monster and, in my estimation, responsible for more deaths than Adolf Hitler." According to the pro-Reagan author Steven Hayward, "Leftist attacks on Reagan over AIDS would come to compete with civil rights agitators to reach the furthest hyperbole." Historian Gil Troy, who has acknowledged that "President Reagan was slow to address the [AIDS] issue," has also decried the unfortunate phenomenon of "AIDS activists accusing the Reagan administration of complicity in a gay genocide." The case against Reagan on AIDS is well known. But does it correspond to the reality? According to Gary Bauer, the Reagan domestic-policy aide often painted as the villain in this saga, U.S. spending on HIV/AIDS research increased under Reagan's watch, and Reagan's relative silence on the issue stemmed from his philosophical belief in cabinet government, in which the Surgeon General should lead the charge on public-health issues. On the first point, funding definitely increased, as the U.S. government spent over $5.7 billion on HIV/AIDS under Reagan, a level that would later be designated as "disproportionate" in relation to other diseases. The columnist Deroy Murdock looked into the dramatic increases in AIDS funding under Reagan and concluded that "Reagan's signature inaugurated federal action on AIDS research and treatment" (emphasis in the original). On the second point, Surgeon General Koop was indeed outspoken on AIDS. In addition to smoking (as discussed above), Koop also made a big splash with his statements on AIDS. However, according to journalist Carl Cannon — son of top-notch Reagan biographer Lou Cannon — "Contrary to the prevailing wisdom, Reagan dragged Koop into AIDS policy, not the other way around." Furthermore, Reagan may have been slow in getting a complete handle on AIDS, but he was not alone, and he was not shy about the issue once he caught on. According to Richard Reeves, contrary to suggestions Reagan was unaware of the issue, "he obviously did know about the AIDS debate going on in the White House" in 1986. In early 1986, he visited the Department of Health and Human Services — a relatively rare step for a president — and told staffers there that "one of our highest public health priorities is going to be continuing to find a cure for AIDS." The next spring, in April 1987, he declared AIDS to be "public health enemy number one." Regardless of one's thoughts on Reagan and AIDS, it is important for backers and critics alike to remain in the realm of fact on the issue. For example, the oft-repeated canard that Reagan did not mention AIDS for seven years is just plain false. According to Carl Cannon, Reagan first mentioned AIDS in 1985, four years into his term. Furthermore, Bauer's role as the villain is overstated and inaccurate, given that he did not even become White House domestic-policy advisor until 1987. In addition, as early as 1983, HHS Secretary Margaret Heckler visited a dying AIDS victim in the hospital and held his hand, a gesture that demonstrated both compassion and made the point that the disease was not communicable through incidental contact. The point is not that Reagan was some kind of far-sighted visionary in dealing with AIDS. Not even his strongest partisans would make that case. However, what we have seen in the evolution of government responses to public-health crises is the degree to which, as in so many other areas, expectations placed upon government have increased. Roosevelt advocated for polio research, to be sure, but he did not mobilize an entire government to fight the disease. He instead promoted private-sector charitable research. With respect to smoking, the government got involved slowly at first, perhaps too slowly, and was even tentative in the release of that first Surgeon General's report because of the possible impact it could have on the stock market. With AIDS, however, Reagan's critics denounced him for his apparent indifference, and for not spending enough, even though he did speak on the issue and allocated significant amounts of money toward combating the disease. Another lesson is how public-health issues have become politicized over time. If FDR were alive today, it is possible, perhaps even likely, that polio advocates would criticize him for devoting insufficient government resources to the disease, and for failing to use his own paralysis to advance the cause of polio eradication. The attacks against Reagan on AIDS were a product of a far more political era, and should give pause to future presidents in dealing with the public-health crises of the future. Everything can and will be viewed through a political lens, and the expectations of government action will be far higher than they have been in the past. Studying history is usually a useful tool for dealing with a new phenomenon. In the world of public-health crises, however, the old playbooks clearly will not be sufficient to counter the critics and to meet the populace's mounting expectations. OUR PUBLIC-HEALTH CRISIS Obesity, America's most prevalent public-health crisis today, is the flip-side of what has until recently been seen as one of this country's great advantages. In the classic 1954 work People of Plenty, historian David Potter identified economic abundance as one of the essential characteristics of the American experiment. We now face a situation in which cheap and plentiful food, combined with the diminution of physical labor and the increase of passive forms of entertainment — TV, movies, computers, and video games — has led to an obesity epidemic. According to the CDC, "American society has become 'obesogenic,' characterized by environments that promote increased food intake, nonhealthful foods, and physical inactivity." The American Heart Association reports that about one in three American kids and teenagers is overweight or obese, a rate that tripled from 1971 to 2011. As of 2014, the figure remains almost constant at 33.2%, according to the CDC. While the causes of the epidemic are complex, the existence of the epidemic is undeniable. Over two-thirds of Americans are now considered overweight or obese, and this presents significant challenges to American policymakers. Given the relative novelty of the problem, we have little experience from previous legislators who have dealt with it. The experiences of FDR with polio, Kennedy with smoking, or Reagan with HIV/AIDS can provide some (but not enough) help to future presidents facing this new kind of crisis. Although the obesity problem has certainly worsened in recent years, it has been imposing significant costs for a long time. According to a study by Anne Wolf and Graham Colditz, obesity costs amounted to $99.2 billion in 1995, of which $3.9 billion stemmed from lost productivity, reflecting 39.2 million lost days of work. Loss of productivity has become an even more acute problem since then. An analysis by Eric Finkelstein, Marco daCosta DiBonaventura, Somali Burgess, and Brent Hale estimated the cost of obesity among full-time employees to be $73.1 billion, which they found to be "roughly equivalent to the cost of hiring an additional 1.8 million workers per year at $42,000 each," about the average annual wages of U.S. workers. Clearly, many individuals are willing to accept the personal and financial costs of obesity, and the U.S. political system may be willing to digest the economic costs of obesity. However, one frequently under-examined aspect of obesity is its impact on America's ability to shape world events and, more frighteningly, defend itself from harm. This was a concern raised in 2010 by Generals Hugh Shelton and the late John Shalikashvili when they asked, "Are we becoming a nation too fat to defend ourselves?" Shelton and Shalikashvili worried that the U.S. will have trouble finding future recruits for its all-volunteer military, especially since the Army found 27% of Americans in prime years for military recruitment — 17 to 24 — were "too overweight to serve in the military." In fact, they note, "being overweight or obese has become the leading medical reason recruits are rejected for military service," as the proportion of recruits who failed physicals due to their weight has risen by almost 70% since 1995. Add all of this up, they say, and "[o]besity rates threaten the overall health of America and the future strength of our military." If there were ever a public-health crisis that called for a government-sponsored intervention, this would seem to be it. But despite the near-universal and bipartisan agreement that obesity is a problem, our presidents have thus far been unable to address the problem in a meaningful way, let alone begin to solve it. The reasons for this failure, as with the reasons for the underlying problem, are varied, but they do not diminish the need to find a workable public-policy solution. We have in recent years seen presidents of both parties jump into this issue and try to use the bully pulpit to alleviate the situation. President George W. Bush not only led by example by maintaining excellent physical health, but he also directed HHS to start an obesity initiative and promoted healthy eating and exercise from the White House bully pulpit. The HHS initiative, led by Secretary Tommy Thompson, included a Food and Drug Administration report on the size and scope of the problem, and recommendations that included increasing evaluation and scrutiny of food labels, encouraging manufacturers and restaurateurs to provide more guidance, improving research on causes and fixes of obesity, updating FDA guidance on weight-control products, and improving messaging regarding obesity. The Obama administration followed suit in this regard, and made combating obesity one of First Lady Michelle Obama's signature initiatives. In February of 2010, she launched "Let's Move!," a campaign designed to end obesity in a generation. Although she acknowledged that the goal was ambitious, she implicitly noted that previous efforts had not seen much success, telling USA Today that "We've got to stop citing statistics and wringing our hands and feeling guilty, and get going on this issue." Although the "Let's Move" rhetoric may have been more ambitious than previous attempts to address obesity, the litany of familiar activities consisted of a "multifaceted campaign that will include more healthful food in schools, more accurate food labeling, better grocery stores in communities that don't have them, public service announcements and efforts to get children to be more active." MENU OF OPTIONS Given the challenges of coming up with anti-obesity proposals that are effective, not overly prescriptive, of manageable cost, and not divisive, policymakers face a relatively narrow band of options. As public-health experts Jeff Stier and Henry Miller write, "We are as concerned as anyone about obesity's effects on public health, but we believe that governmental, taxpayer-funded approaches to it should be evidence-based, cost-effective and non-authoritarian." If the approaches taken thus far are unlikely to solve the obesity crisis (as seems to be the case), President Trump and his successors will have to come up with a new range of options. Having the president get the rhetoric right on obesity will be essential to ensuring that we can beat back this problem. On the substantive side of things, Arizona has proposed an innovative approach that calls for an annual Medicaid surcharge for "obese people who don't follow a doctor-supervised slimming regimen." Unfortunately, this strategy will not promote positive health behaviors in all cases, especially among the very poor. Still, it makes sense that the government should begin to take at least a small step in the direction of incentive-based approaches. Presidents have a great deal of power in the regulatory space, and they should use that power in the fight against obesity. These efforts should take place in arenas where the government has the most leverage — specifically, where the government is footing the bill. According to the Manhattan Institute's David Gratzer, two areas that come to mind are subsidized agribusiness and school nutrition programs, where the federal government spent a combined $19.3 billion in 2009. With respect to the $9.5 billion for agribusiness subsidies, a report that compared government subsidies of junk food and of fresh fruit found that junk food gets the better end of the bargain. The report found that, of the 37 ingredients that go into Twinkies, "at least 14 of them are made with federal subsidies, including corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, corn starch, and vegetable shortening." In addition, the federal government provides $9.8 billion for school lunches, giving the government significant leverage in determining the content of these lunches. Per Gratzer, we can take a bite out of obesity by cutting or reducing agribusiness subsidies to end the use of "taxpayer dollars to produce and market unhealthful foods," by imposing limitations on high-fat foods, and by issuing stricter food guidelines for government-subsidized school lunches. Indeed, as first lady, Michelle Obama championed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which set ambitious goals for better nutrition in schools, though those efforts have met with mixed results. Some proposals have gone too far, however, threatening to destroy or prevent the development of consensus on how to address the obesity issue. One such proposal suggests that states put dangerously obese children into foster care to protect them from poor parenting. There has been at least one real-life example of this: In October 2011, a 200-pound Ohio third grader was placed into foster care, and a county spokeswoman cited "medical neglect" as the reason for the child's removal. National Review's Jonah Goldberg characterized his objection to the proposal as follows: "I don't trust these people. Once you establish the idea that the state can take away kids from loving parents because the state thinks they're not good parents, you really are off to the races." The alternatives listed above may not go as far as some obesity experts would like. Taxing "bad" food, banning certain food additives or substances, or even placing obese children in foster care seem to be on the agenda of public-health experts. While these kinds of suggestions may make for interesting thought experiments, they are not realistic from a political or a commercial perspective. The fact remains that presidents of the future will have to face the obesity challenge in a world of constrained resources and sclerotic politics. Given this situation, future presidents should look to a series of less costly, more realistic policy recommendations in order to start turning back the tide of obesity. In addition to evaluating alternatives, though, presidents must have the will and the wherewithal to carry out these policies, regardless of political challenges. THE INDIVIDUAL'S ROLE Fighting obesity, or handling any public-health crisis, requires the use of a limited presidential playbook. Even if a president engages in the rhetorical, regulatory, research, and fiscal steps outlined above, so much of the work in fighting obesity, like all public-health crises to a greater or lesser degree, takes place at the individual level. Diet and exercise are, of course, the most important steps that an individual must take in this regard. So any first step at addressing obesity at the individual level must incorporate a healthy diet and regular exercise. Beyond diet and exercise, individuals have a number of other options for combating obesity. Finding effective obesity treatments remains one of the biggest challenges to both the medical and scientific communities to date, and more options will increase the number of weapons available. The existing options for supplemental obesity intervention are primarily in three categories: pharmacological, surgical, and psychotherapeutic. All three employ relatively new methods or technologies, which demonstrates that one of the keys to solving the obesity puzzle will be humanity's continued ingenuity in finding technological solutions to knotty and contentious problems. At the same time, all of them involve real costs which must be borne by individuals, companies, the government, or a combination of the three. Our obesity problem has serious consequences for our health, our economy, and our national security. These problems, already significant today, appear likely to worsen in the future unless we begin taking steps to stem the tide of obesity and work toward becoming a healthier, more fit society. Unfortunately, no president has yet initiated an effective anti-obesity strategy, and it does not appear likely that our new president will do so either. Furthermore, our perilous fiscal state, combined with our hyper-partisan and divisive political situation, creates severe limitations on the options available even for presidents interested in addressing obesity. For this reason, any realistic solution to our obesity problem needs to include a menu of reasonable, non-partisan, effective, and affordable alternatives. For presidents, a workable approach calls for an appropriate level of rhetoric, better leveraging of existing government funding and subsidies to manage behavior on a large scale, and promotion of informed individual behaviors, as well as the use of effective individual therapies to help people cope with weight issues. No one of these strategies is a silver bullet that can solve our obesity problem. Taken together, however, a president can use them to follow in the footsteps of predecessors like Roosevelt, Kennedy, and Reagan who have taken on, and in some cases defeated, even more trying public-health challenges. Tevi Troy is a presidential historian, former White House aide, and ex-Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services. He is the author of Shall We Wake the President? Two Centuries of Disaster Management from the Oval Office (Lyons). How to Save and Fix Medicare Yevgeniy Feyman Real-World Infrastructure

Wandsworth Guardian Front Page Tribute – ‘Inspirational’ Community pays tribute to former Tooting headteacher Syed ‘Naz’ Bokhari 7:00am Thursday 10th March 2011 Syed ‘Naz’ Bokhari was awarded the OBE for services to education in 2001 Wandsworth’s community has come together to remember “Mr Tooting” – a former headteacher described simply as “outstanding” by friends, colleagues, religious leaders and MPs across the UK. Syed Nawazish Bokhari, who helped generations of youngsters succeed at school while turning around the fortunes of Ernest Bevin College during a 17-year spell in charge, died on March 1 aged 73. Mr Bokhari – known to many as Naz – became the first Muslim headteacher of a British secondary school when he took over at the Beechcroft Road school in April, 1985. A founding member of the Muslim Teacher’s Association, he went on to receive an OBE for services to education in 2001, and was later awarded the Honorary Fellowship of the College of Teachers. According to his son Harris, Mr Bokhari’s funeral at the Balham Mosque, on March 2, saw more than 40 non-Muslims pay their respects – uncommon in Muslim culture. Harris, who said his father “embodied the spirit of Tooting”, told this newspaper: “That’s the gravity and the love he had across all faiths. If you speak to anyone who knew him they would always say they were treated as his best friend – he had that uniqueness even to the last days of his life.” Daughter Hina, who admitted being “shocked” after realising the impact her father had on the lives of others, said: “Dad was somebody who mixed with anybody – any culture, any background, any age. “He was someone who crossed all faiths and cultures, that’s why ‘Mr Tooting’ works so well. He embodies the multicultural aspects of Tooting and the way different communities come together. My brother and I knew he had lots of friends and got on with everybody – that’s his legacy to us. We will always strive to carry on in his good name.” She added: “My daughter was born seven weeks ago. He knew that she was going to be born and it was almost like he was fighting to stay alive for her. He managed to see his granddaughter and the first thing he said was ‘mashallah’, which means thanks to Allah. All of us have been so blessed that he managed to see Marya.” Syed ‘Naz’ Bokhari with students at Ernest Bevin, in Tooting, in 1990 A former pupil and Tooting MP, Sadiq Khan, said: “Syed ‘Naz’ Bokhari was an outstanding teacher and role model to thousands of schoolchildren, including myself. “As the headteacher of my old school, Ernest Bevin College, he encouraged generations of students to aspire to go to university but also to put something back into society. He turned the school around to make it one of the most improved in Britain – GCSE candidates’ A – C grades rose from 18 per cent to 60 per cent under his guidance, and A-level results had a pass rate of 95 per cent. His final Ofsted report paid tribute to his qualities of leadership. He broke glass ceilings, becoming the first Muslim deputy head, and then headteacher, of a British secondary school – but always saw himself as a teacher who was also a Muslim, rather than a ‘Muslim teacher’. He was proud of his former ‘Bevin Boys’ and kept in touch throughout my legal and political career. I like to think that my own achievements would have been limited were I not instilled with the drive and respect that I learned first-hand from such an amazing, yet humble gentleman. I last saw him a couple of weeks ago in hospital, although obviously weak, he was still extremely warm and friendly, and spent a long time asking me how I was doing, how I was enjoying my job and how my family was. It says a lot about what kind of a man he was – instead of focusing on his own illness, he was taking an interest in others. Over the last few years he would regularly phone me after a big case or when I had been in the news. He was always willing to make suggestions and give me encouragement. He was a lovely man.” Friend and colleague, Paul Robinson, Wandsworth Council’s director of children’s services, said: “Naz Bokhari was a truly unique individual who dedicated his life to education and to helping young people achieve their greatest potential. He was a modest, loyal and humble servant of education in the borough yet he had a steely determination to improve the lives of others. Although quiet and thoughtful he had the knack of getting things done, mobilising the commitment of others and getting to the heart of the matter. It was only right that he achieved national recognition through the honours system for all his invaluable community work. He will be remembered best for being a tireless campaigner for schools and in particular boys’ education. Thousands are grateful to Naz for their educational achievement. He was both respected and popular with pupils, parents, staff, his headteacher colleagues and the whole community.” Borough Commander, Chief Superintendent Dave Musker, added: “Mr Bokhari was an outstanding community leader and had a long association with Wandsworth police. He was chair of the Independent Advisory Group, a ‘critical friend’ to review police operations and support the police response to any critical incident, one where the confidence of the community in the police may have been damaged. As such his experience and knowledge of the community was invaluable to the police in making difficult policing decisions. He was always prepared to give his honest view, but always in a sensitive and constructive manner, which made the working relationship always a pleasure. Wandsworth police will very much miss his valuable contribution.” Imam Suliman Gani, of the Tooting Islamic Centre, described Mr Bokhari as “a man of excellence who served his community greatly in the field of education”. In recent months, political figureheads up and down the country – including Tony Blair and Alex Salmond – have written letters praising Mr Bokhari’s work. A memorial is being planned for later this year.

Transgender advocacy group launches Spanish-speaking crisis hotline Trans Lifeline's new Spanish-speaking service will operate 24/7, completely staffed by transgender operators. Trans Lifeline launched an all trans-staffed Spanish crisis hotline on July 1.Trans Lifeline July 3, 2020, 10:05 AM UTC By Kate Sosin In 2018, the nation's only transgender-specific suicide prevention hotline started tracking an alarming trend. Trans Lifeline was getting call after call from trans people in serious crisis whom its volunteers couldn't always help. From 2018 to 2019, the hotline took 23 times more calls from Spanish speakers than in previous years. Staff members and volunteers saw a 146 percent spike in calls from trans immigrants and a 386 percent increase in calls from Latinx trans people. Many of its hotline operators, however, couldn't speak Spanish, leaving many trans callers without an affirming place to call during a crisis. This week, the nonprofit said that won't happen again. On Wednesday, Trans Lifeline launched an all trans-staffed Spanish crisis hotline. T Peña, Trans Lifeline's bilingual services coordinator, said the move is critical to making sure the group's resources go to those who need them most. "We expect as we partner with organizations that are Latinx, organizations that deal with immigrant issues, we hope that they will be able to pass us on as a potential resource and for us to be able to partner with them to help trans Latinx folks," Peña said. NBC OUTOver 75,000 sign petition to have Marsha P. Johnson statue replace Columbus monument It's a substantial expansion for the six-year-old organization, which started as a small team of crisis response volunteers and has flourished into a fully staffed nonprofit that distributes grants and connects callers to resources. Yana Calou, director of communications for Trans Lifeline, said the group is the largest provider of direct services to transgender people in North America. It's also unique in that it's entirely trans-operated; callers can be sure that the voice on the other end is that of another trans person. Perhaps most significantly, Trans Lifeline won't call 911 or the police without consent from callers. Peña said the policy is about making sure callers feel safe and know they have choices during a crisis. "We know that our community is especially vulnerable when they do interact with the police, and that could end up very terribly for someone," Peña said. The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey, conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality, found that 58 percent of transgender people reported being mistreated by law enforcement. Of those who were arrested, 22 percent said they believed it was because they were transgender. A quarter of Latina trans women reported that police they interacted with also assumed that they were sex workers. Studies show that extreme discrimination, economic hardship and family rejection contribute to higher suicide risk in trans communities. The 2015 survey also found that 40 percent of respondents had attempted suicide. Trans Lifeline leaders say that while their work started as simply responding to emergency hotline calls for fellow trans people, they recognized over time that it was tied to economic justice for their community. In 2017, the organization merged with the Trans Assistance Project and started offering microgrants to trans people seeking name changes. Since then, the group has distributed over $100,000 to trans people to update their IDs. NBC OUT17 corrections officers to be disciplined in trans woman's death at Rikers Callers have also increasingly asked about trans legal services. "There is an increase in anti-immigrant and anti-trans sentiment in the U.S. right now, and that's being reflected in the callers that are calling us," Peña said. "They're worried about their [immigration] status. They're worried about access to resources. They're worried about an increase in police violence and surveillance in their communities." Calou said, "We're also taking more calls directly from trans folks in detention centers — and have seen a rise in those." Because people in immigration detention might have only one chance to reach someone by phone, Trans Lifeline wants to make sure the Spanish hotline is operating 24/7. The new line will be staffed by 10 volunteers, as well as full-time staff members, and it will grow as the organization recruits transgender Spanish speakers. Spanish services became available Wednesday. Callers can ring Trans Lifeline's old number (877-565-8860 in the U.S. or 877-330-6366 in Canada), and they will have the option of choosing English or Spanish. Follow NBC Out on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram Kate Sosin Kate Sosin is an LGBTQ news and investigative reporter based in Los Angeles.

My Uyghur family is quietly living in fear. This is how we become lost August 12, 2019 Comments Off on My Uyghur family is quietly living in fear. This is how we become lost Originally published by The Globe and mail in July 27, 2019 Dilnur Kurban, who lives in Vancouver, is a Uyghur – a Turkic-speaking Muslim ethnic minority in China. She still has family in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, which many Uyghurs call home, but persecution and a climate of fear has made Ms. Kurban’s usual conversations with them much more fraught. DARRYL DYCK/THE GLOBE AND MAIL Dilnur Kurban lives in Vancouver. I have worked extraordinarily hard to have a good, stable and ordinary life here in Canada. I came to Canada from China in 2011 as an international student and graduated with a master’s degree in statistics from Simon Fraser University. Since then I’ve been working as a biostatistician, earning a decent life and living out my dream of helping people. I am involved in a local Toastmasters society, working to improve my public speaking and leadership skills. On weekends, my husband and I like to take online courses, as well as do fun things outside: exploring and hiking Grouse Mountain, overlooking Vancouver, and visiting the local flower festivals and orchards that remind me of my childhood. Just last year, I became a naturalized Canadian, and I still remember the pride I felt at the citizenship ceremony. Finally, I have a safe place I can call home. But now that I have that hard-won ordinary life, extraordinary circumstances have prevented me from truly enjoying it. I’m a Uyghur, a Turkic-speaking ethnic minority in China. Official statistics put our numbers at about 11 million, but that comprises less than 1 per cent of China’s population – the Han ethnic group dominates, at 92 per cent. Religiously, many of us embraced Islam as early as the 10th century. So it wounds me every time I hear more dire news out of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region – the massive part of China where most of us live. These are more than just despairing yet distant news reports to me. Of those 11 million Uyghurs, more than a million have been placed in camps, or “vocational training centres”, as China calls them – a low-ball estimate. Ethnic Uyghurs – successful businessmen, prominent intellectuals and religious leaders alike – have been disappearing, including from my hometown of Artux. The camps are only one part of the oppression Uyghurs face. The advocacy group Chinese Human Rights Defenders found that a full fifth of all arrests in China in 2017 happened in the Uyghur Region. The Globe and Mail has reported that China’s state-of-the-art surveillance systems have trained cameras and ID scanners with facial-recognition systems on mosques, mall entrances and even city streets. The government has instituted harsh legal penalties limiting any expression of the Uyghur cultural identity, including visible symbols of Islam. But officials have been mostly silent about the camps. After years of denying the existence of the “training centres,” Chinese officials now acknowledge that the camps are real – but that they’re intended to tackle Xinjiang’s issues with religious radicals who seek to destroy unity through acts of terror. As a Chinese delegation told a United Nations committee in 2018, China “pays special attention to respecting the religious beliefs of ethnic minorities and to protecting their cultural heritage.” State media has boasted that regional stability and economic fortunes have improved in the Uyghur Region. Unfortunately, another kind of silence has always been a Uyghur reality: It’s the way we have always lived, the way it’s always been in China, where we stoically endure all that is unfair, because that’s just how things work. The difference now is that the stakes seem particularly high: Speaking out or going against the grain can get you sent to a camp. So Uyghurs in China go on, with little more than hope. What else is there? My father felt the same way. “The Artux police is one of the just ones in the region, in my opinion.” I remember him saying this three years ago, when he was visiting me in Canada. He lived his whole life in Artux, until he retired and moved to the capital, Urumqi, to help with my brother’s successful business, a startup he co-founded called Zamzambolaq International. So my dad trusted the Artux police, and obeyed when they instructed him that he could not stay longer than three months in Canada. Even when my brother-in-law was detained around the same time – jailed for the crime of sending a gift – he held tightly to his hope that the police would not be unjust. But I have not had a conversation with my father since February. For several harrowing months, I thought he was among the missing, alongside my brother-in-law and now my businessman brother, too. Even before that, his words to me in our increasingly rare conversations were laced with obvious fear. I still don’t have a clear sense of where he is. Silence hasn’t helped my dad. His faith in justice has not helped him live freely. And so I cannot trust that it will help me in pursuit of my family’s safety. I can’t be quiet. It’s time for me to speak, here, because I can. Otherwise, this is how we go missing. This is how Uyghurs become lost. I was born in the small city of Artux. Life was simple, yet absolutely carefree; without access to the internet or electronic devices, we focused instead on spending time with family, many of whom lived in Artux as well. I miss that life. I miss the fragrant cooking of my mother, a retired schoolteacher who was a bit tough on us, but never so much with me. And I miss my siblings, who would always tease me about my favourite-child status. I miss plucking delicious apricots and the distinctive Artux yellow figs from my neighbour’s lush garden. I miss my grandma’s homemade yogurt and dried fruits, all of which were made with love and care. For 35 years, my dad, Qurban Aji, taught Uyghur literature at an Artux high school and was the school’s principal, so he was well-known in our little city. He cuts a striking figure: Tall, trim and fit, he loves to play sports, especially volleyball. But while he often has a serious face, he is really kindhearted. He would do anything for me and my three siblings, just as any good parent would. Whenever we wanted to do or try something, he would buy us whatever we needed, such as gloves for my brothers’ briefly held dreams of becoming boxers when they were young. He showed his support for me most keenly when it came to my studies, encouraging me to take the tests required to get into a gifted program for junior high school in Artux; then, after getting into a special senior high school in Guangzhou and getting into university, he paid for the expensive tests and process for continuing my education abroad. He even supported my dream to study overseas – alone – which is hard for some conservative Uyghur parents to do. I couldn’t have done it without him. Retirement, three years ago, was an incredible opportunity for him. Now he could see more of his four children, who had all settled down – my older brother in Urumqi, my younger brother and sister in Artux, and me in faraway Vancouver. One of the first things he wanted to do with my mother was visit me, all the way across the ocean. So my family set about getting them travel documents. It has always been notoriously tough for Uyghurs to get passports – typically, only people with money or connections could access them – but for some reason, for a few months around 2015, Uyghurs were encouraged to apply, paying just 200 renminbi ($38). People lined up at local police stations to get theirs. My parents received their documents later that year, and after I secured their Canadian travel visas, it finally happened: They flew to Vancouver in April, 2016, for a months-long visit – their very first trip outside China. I was ecstatic, and it was surreal to watch them walk through the arrivals gate. We hugged each other, and we wept. The weeks my parents stayed with me are the source of some of my favourite memories. My dad was born curious, so he was eager to see and try everything he could. I took them to Simon Fraser University, where I studied, and showed them all the sights. My dad was amazed that the university entrance was marked simply by a sign, rather than ringed with walls and a closed gate, like the ones in China. They enjoyed a Mexican dance that took place on campus, near Burnaby Mountain Park. They tried foods they had only ever seen in movies, including Mediterranean dishes and pizza – though the latter was actually fairly intuitive, because of the prevalence of Uyghur naan. And my sporty dad, who would run almost every morning at the crack of dawn, even while on vacation, decided to give golf a try – the one sport he had never played, he said – and simply ambled up to a stand in a park and asked to give it a shot. No surprise: He picked it up quickly. We took a short trip to the United States, travelling along the West Coast – the Space Needle in Seattle, Fremont Street in Las Vegas, the Hollywood glamour of Los Angeles. The three of us put together an album of photos from the trip, and my dad started writing a kind of memoir, putting to paper what he saw and thought. But in the background of this joyous time, a dark cloud loomed. Two months before my parents arrived in Vancouver, the Artux police detained my brother-in-law, Jumaji Juma, an elementary-school teacher. The authorities had told him not to contact his half-brother in Turkey, but Jumaji sent him a gift anyway – kon’gul, a Uyghur tradition of sending a token of food or money to those close to you – through someone who was going there to visit. My parents didn’t even tell me about this whole affair until they had arrived in Canada. The general sentiment of my family, myself included, was that Jumaji was in the wrong, since the police had already warned him. Still, my sister – a nurse in her 30s who already had a full plate with three young children, including one with Down’s syndrome – was struggling. My parents considered changing their trip plans because of this situation, but the flight was already booked, and my younger brother had insisted they visit while they could. So we tried to focus on the fun. But then, in May, on one of his regular calls to update my parents about the status of the case, my brother informed us that there would soon be a closed-door “trial.” My parents needed to return home to help with the case and support my sister. When they left on June 5, their mementos in tow, I remember the genuine gratitude and joy on my parents’ faces. My dad told me he was already looking forward to visiting the East Coast next time. I promised to visit them in China next September. That would be the last time I saw their faces. And I would later learn, almost a year later, that my brother-in-law was sentenced to seven years in prison for his “crime.” I haven’t heard from him, or about him, since. Ever since I arrived in B.C., Skype was an essential lifeline; every two days or so, I would use its audio function to call their phones. And despite the news about my brother-in-law, we kept up those regular calls after they left. But by 2017, the reports about the camps in the Uyghur Region made me worry about the integrity of our calls, as I began to fear our conversations were being monitored – as well as about my parents’ well-being. To that point, the full weight of the fear hadn’t really crossed the Pacific Ocean to me. I was nervous, to be sure, and looking back, there were examples of discrimination against me in my past that I hadn’t registered at the time, but I had thought I’d left that behind me. While I did not experience any obvious discrimination in my Guangzhou high school, prejudice against Uyghur students at universities, including the one I attended in southwest China, was more prevalent for me. In one advanced math course, for example, a lecturer came to me afterward and said, as if impressed by the notion of a smart Uyghur: “I saw that you were nodding your head while I was talking. It looks like you were understanding what I was talking about.” And in 2014, after I got married in Artux, my husband and I wanted to go to Beijing to visit Tiananmen Square on a stopover, before heading back home to Canada. After being inundated with questions at a checkpoint, we regretted our decision. The situation that China’s Uyghurs are living in, though, is more than mere discrimination. By early 2017, Uyghurs had been asked to hand in their passports to the police, my parents among them. And that summer, I saw in the news that Uyghur students in Egypt were being deported back to China with the assistance of the government there. Worried about my family’s safety, I called less often. Some acquaintances started warning me about my plans for a trip home; my in-laws abruptly started claiming it was too hot in Artux to visit. It was okay, they said, with what I felt was a subtle note of caution: It wasn’t the best time. When I talked to my dad over Skype about cancelling my trip – tiptoeing around my specific concerns – he decided to ask some friends to see what they thought. The next time we spoke, he said he felt confident that there would be no problem. I believe my dad genuinely felt that way. Although he was aware of the “re-education” system, he truly believed it did not apply to me because of the multiple acknowledgments of my academic success and my studies in North America. Still, I called off the trip. I knew they understood, in their hearts. But things got more intense from there. One evening in October, 2017, I called my businessman brother, Juret, to thank him for sending me a parcel from Urumqi filled with great local food. The call didn’t go through, so I called his wife. But after talking to her for a minute, my dad interrupted, in a very serious tone: “Why did you call them? Don’t call them again.” He said I could call anyone else. I was worried that something bad might happen to my brother, but I listened to my dad and haven’t called them since. Then, the following month, I called my dad, who told me that he and my mom had been busy taking care of Juret’s young children. My brother, he said, had left to “study.” Dad asked me to keep this to myself. He said, carefully, that it was a good opportunity for him to study the official Chinese language and learn some other skills, too. I agreed – but I immediately understood, based on what I had read in the news, what my dad likely meant. By early 2018, my calls home had dwindled to once a week – and just to my parents. We would try to keep the conversations normal, and occasionally I would casually ask how my brother’s “study” was going and when it might be over, trying to discern something useful from my parents’ answers without risking their safety. My dad said he didn’t know much, but did tell me at one point that there was a very long lineup at the school to use the phone, which is why my brother hadn’t been able to call him earlier. Later, my dad said Juret had told him that he was among those being transferred. “Long lineups.” “Being transferred.” These scary keywords were all I needed to know. To this day, I do not know if my brother has been transferred to a prison in the inner provinces or if he is still in an internment camp in Urumqi. I don’t know why he was taken. I don’t even know if he is alive. While my dad never told me to stop calling him, I knew that having a foreign contact could get someone sent to the camps. I reduced the amount of time I’d call to every other Friday night, and just for a couple of minutes, to exchange pleasantries. My heart wouldn’t stop pounding until I heard my dad’s voice. But he was devoted to these calls, even if he was in the middle of something. Once, he told me that he was driving while he was talking to me. When I chastised him for that, he demurred: “Oh, dear daughter. It is one of the highlights of my day to receive your call and it is totally worth it to pull over and talk to you.” By earlier this year, there was a different tone in Dad’s voice. In a conversation we had on Feb. 15, he said he was doing fine, but he sounded nervous in a way I had never heard before. He said he was glad I had called but rushed to say goodbye. The phone call lasted three minutes and 19 seconds. Two weeks later, I called my dad again as usual. The call didn’t connect. I tried three times, my heart pounding as usual, with no success. One time, the call connected – but Dad didn’t answer. Pounding. Pounding. Pounding. I called my mom, who told me that dad had been asked to go back to Artux for some “business.” It didn’t feel right, but my mom said he was probably coming back in two or three days and that I could call him then. I called him twice more, days later. No connection. On March 15, I called my mom to ask how they were doing and why Dad wasn’t picking up. She told me they were doing fine – but that I couldn’t talk to Dad any more. She said this firmly and seriously, with a note of unhappiness. I immediately understood what was going on and got very emotional. My mom didn’t say anything. I asked if she wanted me not to call her again. She said that she was fine, it was okay – it wasn’t the best time. We said goodbye. The call lasted one minute and 39 seconds. I was in the car at the time. I wept uncontrollably. This is it. This is it. That’s all that coursed through my mind once I was able to drive home. My worst fears were being realized – my father was missing, and my mother didn’t want me to call. And what did I do, as that reality loomed larger? Stay silent, just as my father did. My brother and brother-in-law were suffering unjustly, but I was confident they were strong enough to endure an internment camp and prison – at least that’s how I justified it to myself. But now I was faced with the image of my 61-year-old father, who had neck surgery last year and has stomach problems requiring medication, in a camp. I didn’t trust the local police, but I trusted my father. Now, he was gone. Fast forward about two months: I’ve lost contact completely with my family. I’ve been too afraid to call them – and even if I did, they wouldn’t answer. But I devised a plan. I had a friend in China’s eastern province whose mother could call my mom – while I was also on the line. When it seemed clear that my mom had changed her phone number, which she had used for as long as I can remember, we tried calling my dad. He picked up tentatively – and confused. “Hi, Dad, it’s me – I haven’t been able to talk to you for some time. How are you?” He realized it was me, and his voice hardened. “Oh. I was told not to talk to you.” Then he hung up. It was devastating – but it was also reason for optimism. If he was in a camp, he wouldn’t be able to take the phone call at all. And when my younger brother, teaching at a high school in Artux, called my friend’s mother back, just for a minute, it suggested that my dad was with him. All he could say in that short conversation: “They are fine, they are all fine.” This is all the information I have – these scant scraps of speculation and furtive phone calls that I read like tea leaves, trying to map out a buried path back to where my heart is. The fear has not been easy on me. As my family slowly became unravelled over the past few years, I became wracked by psychological distress, sleeping badly and losing my appetite. I have sought counselling, to unpack some of the trauma their absences have left on me. I have suffered medical problems and haven’t been able to share them with my mother and sister, leaving me emotionally isolated – which is what led me to join Toastmasters in the first place, to try to alleviate my social anxiety. I haven’t felt like I could talk openly about their problems, either; the vast majority of Uyghurs back home, including my parents, fear retaliation so much that they would rather not have their stories shared, and until recently, I didn’t tell anybody about what they’ve gone through. I worry that my parents wouldn’t want me to speak out on their behalf. In my daily routines, I’m left bereft. I can’t enjoy a good meal without thinking about whether my dad or brothers are getting decent food – or any food. When I see families picnic in Vancouver’s parks, I let myself imagine gathering with my family in the same way – until I remember the stark reality, that I can’t even call them. Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are just painful days in May and June, though I’m still holding on to an expensive Coach wallet I bought for my dad. Whenever I walk by someone on the street who even remotely resembles my brother, my dad or my nephew, I catch myself staring for too long, drinking them in. It leaves me drained when I admit to myself that it isn’t them. Everywhere I’ve turned, I’ve found little support. I sought assistance from my local MP, and she was unhelpful at best. I have tried to tell my family’s story using social media. I’ve been told that my family’s information has been submitted to Global Affairs Canada, but I haven’t heard anything yet. This has all been emotionally crushing. But once I started talking to colleagues and friends, I realized that sharing my story and helping my community are the only ways I can carry on. I have steeled myself to be my family’s voice. And I will keep talking about their story with my colleagues, friends and the world until they are safe. I’m planning to study population health science, which would allow me to research the impact of psychological distress and trauma. My pain is hardly unique – local Uyghur friends I’ve spoken to have experienced the same – and the Uyghur diaspora will have to reckon with similar problems. I can only hope that, in the face of this crisis, Canadians find the courage, too, because as I learned the hard way, the crisis isn’t far away – it’s right here, among us. So how will you carry on? Will the Canadian government and non-profits make our crisis a priority? Will Canadians at large learn more about the human-rights abuses going on in China? Will Chinese citizens and Chinese-Canadians engage with Uyghurs in heartfelt and genuine dialogue and support them in any way they can? You may think you can’t do much – that you are just an ordinary person trying to live a good and normal life. But so am I. Like anyone living abroad, I just want to talk to my family. I want to celebrate the business successes of my brother, a decent man, and thank him for being kind, for sending me delicious food and always making sure that I have enough money. I want to watch my brother-in-law continue to be a caring husband to my sister. I want my parents to get their confiscated passports back. And just as he wished, I want to visit the East Coast with my dad, a law-abiding citizen with a good heart. Even over the phone, my parents couldn’t truly speak. There is nothing else they can do, really, other than be silent. Whatever happens to them – whether they’re found or freed – they will still be silent, because they still live there. If they show any form of resistance, they will only suffer more. Really, they will always be silenced. It may not be what they want, but if there is to be any hope at all, all there is left for me to do is speak.

NCLR files consumer fraud lawsuit against Berkeley therapist for conversion therapy Lauren Gray [email protected] Consumer fraud lawsuit filed against Berkeley therapist for charging tens of thousands of dollars for discredited conversion therapy Therapist pressured lesbian client to change her sexual orientation, shamed her, urged her to change her clothes and appearance and begin dating a man (San Francisco, CA, July 13, 2017)—Today, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP filed a complaint on behalf of Katherine McCobb, against California-licensed marriage and family therapist Lloyd Willey. Willey told McCobb that being a lesbian is unnatural and pathological and that her sexual orientation could be changed using therapy. The practice of conversion therapy has been discredited by the American Psychological Association and other professional counseling organizations as ineffective, unethical, and dangerous. McCobb paid Willey more than $70,000 for eight years of therapy based on fraudulent, harmful lies. “Therapists who exploit vulnerable people by taking their money based on false claims that being lesbian or gay is unnatural and that counseling can change a person’s sexual orientation are engaging in fraud,” said NCLR Legal Director Shannon Price Minter. “Our complaint alleges that our client in this case paid tens of thousands of dollars based on false promises that therapy could change her attraction to women. Charging a person money based on such bald-faced misrepresentations violates California’s consumer protection laws.” “Business professionals who are charging fees for services cannot make false and misleading statements about those services to their clients,” said Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP Partner Jeremy Kamras. “Our complaint alleges that the defendant did just that by persuading a vulnerable client to pay him for services based on blatant misrepresentations and fraudulent practices.” McCobb began paying Willey for therapy when she was 25 years old. Although she did not seek out therapy because of her sexual orientation, Willey fixated on McCobb’s lesbian identity and began to pressure her to become straight, telling her that being a lesbian was unnatural and that she could “rewire” her brain. He publicly shamed her during group therapy sessions and urged her to change her appearance to be more stereotypically feminine, including losing weight, growing out her hair, changing her wardrobe, and wearing make-up. Willey also pressured her to begin dating a man who was also Willey’s client. “I trusted my therapist, and I was defrauded of tens of thousands of dollars as a result,” said the plaintiff in this case, Katherine McCobb. NCLR has been working to protect LGBTQ people from efforts to change their sexual orientation or gender identity for more than 20 years. In June 2014, NCLR launched #BornPerfect: The Campaign to End Conversion Therapy, a targeted campaign to end conversion therapy through litigation, public education, and legislation. To read the complaint, click here: http://bit.ly/McCobbComplaint The National Center for Lesbian Rights is a national legal organization committed to advancing the human and civil rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community through litigation, public policy advocacy, and public education. www.NCLRights.org

LGBT in Indian tribes Reynolds and McKinley by Dan Mahoney | Dec 9, 2016 | freedom to marry, gay American Indians, LGBT Native Americans, LGBT in Indian tribes, LGBT reservations, Cherokee, Same-sex marriage, Cherokee Nation NCLR represents Kathy Reynolds and Dawn McKinley, a same-sex couple who are members of the Cherokee Nation. In May 2004, Reynolds and McKinley obtained a marriage certificate from the Cherokee Nation and married shortly thereafter. The next month, another member of the Cherokee Nation filed a petition seeking to invalidate Reynolds and McKinley’s marriage. NCLR successfully defended Reynolds and McKinley before the Cherokee high court. Two days later, various members of the Cherokee...

District 204’s Tentative Reschedule of Senior Events Published: April 09, 2020 at 4:55 PM CDT Last updated: April 10, 2020 at 11:10 PM CDT With the current stay-at-home order lasting until the end of April in Illinois, scheduled events after the date are still up in the air. Indian Prairie School District 204 is looking ahead, and has planned several alternative dates for senior-related events, like prom and graduation, if previously set plans fall through because of COVID-19 concerns. According to the district, principals from each district high schools sent out an email to their community today announcing the alternative dates. Metea Valley Metea Valley’s tentative plan is to hold prom on July 10 at Seven Bridges at 7 p.m. Graduation will take place on July 18 at 2 p.m. at Northern Illinois University. Metea Valley High School’s principal Darren Echols said, “We thought it would be helpful for us to share our end of year prom and graduation plans if we are unable to honor the current dates we have in May. Our entire staff would like to provide our seniors with those very special experiences if safety conditions allow.” Neuqua Valley Neuqua Valley’s tentative date for prom is July 16 at 6:30 pm at Drury Lane. And graduation will be on July 18 at 6 p.m. at Northern Illinois University. Neuqua Valley High School’s principal said, “While we are not able to reschedule or recreate all that we had hoped to celebrate with you, we do want to share that if we are not able to return to school in May, we have made alternate plans for two events important to you and our school.” Waubonsie Valley The email from Waubonsie Valley High School’s principal did not have a message, but did have tentative dates. Their contingency plan is to hold prom at Bolingbrook Golf Club on July 9 at 7 pm. Graduation would be pushed to July 18 at 10 a.m. at Northern Illinois University. Plans Could Change The emails were sent prior to today’s press conference by Governor J.B. Pritzker, in which he advised against mass gatherings in the summer. “From my perspective today, I just don’t see how we’re going to have mass gatherings of people,” said Pritzker. “Until we have a vaccine, which is months and months away, I would not risk having large groups of people getting together anywhere.” District 204’s Tentative Plans District 204 clarified that event dates “are all tentative and will only happen if safety conditions allow and final decisions will be made after April 30.” For the latest information you can check the district’s website. Naperville News 17’s Christian Canizal reports.

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Groundwater Basics It’s under our feet and we use it on a daily basis, but few of us give much thought to the groundwater that sustains us. Here is a charming video, courtesy of KQED QuestScience www.questscience.org, that explains groundwater in very clear terms. Enjoy.  Here’s what you can do to protect groundwater: Conserve water Use […] Whether it’s a septic system or a sewer system, everything that goes down our drains eventually makes its way into our environment. Our wastewater (water that has been used for washing, flushing, manufacturing, etc.) directly affects the cleanliness and quality of groundwater and surface water in local waterways, the Neponset River, and Boston Harbor, impacting […]

Creating a life map involves a close review of personal finances and an assessment of other building blocks. Lifestyle matters look at how to balance work and leisure, how to make smart choices for the future, and many other items in an effort to help an individual “enjoy the journey.” Consider These 3 Things Before Driving Off the Lot There are a few things to consider when buying or leasing your next vehicle.

Home › Heard It In A Past Life LP Heard It In A Past Life LP This item ships to US addresses only. Acclaimed producer/songwriter/performer Maggie Rogers will release her Capitol Records debut album, Heard It In A Past Life. Heard It In A Past Life includes the song that introduced Rogers to the world, “Alaska,” as well as her new single, “Light On”. Written by Rogers, the song was produced by Greg Kurstin, Kid Harpoon, and Rogers. Catalog Number: B002903801

Carl Haub, Behind the Numbers Republic of Congo Demographic and Health Survey Shows High Maternal Health, But No Fertility Decline June 5, 2012 By Wilson Center Staff The original version of this article, by Carl Haub, appeared on the Population Reference Bureau’s Behind the Numbers blog. The Congo (Brazzaville) 2011-2012 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) is the second DHS taken in the country and the preliminary report has just been released. The survey interviewed 10,819 women ages 15-49 and 5,145 men ages 15-59 from September 2011 to February 2012. A major finding of the survey was that fertility has not declined in the country since the previous DHS in 2005. The total fertility rate (TFR) report in the recent DHS for the three year period before the survey was 5.1 children per woman, 4.5 in urban areas, and 6.5 in rural areas. This appears to represent an increase in the TFR since 2005 but the survey report cautions that there is likely to have been some understatement of the actual level of childbearing in the 2005 survey, particularly among women ages 25-29. Rural women accounted for two-thirds of those interviewed in the most recent survey. The rather high TFR is reflected in the desire for large families. Among women with five living children, only 37.3 percent said they did not wish to have additional children. An additional 9.8 percent of that group said they were incapable of conceiving, however. In the survey, 44.7 percent of currently married or in-union women said that they were using some form of family planning and 20 percent were using a modern method. The most common type of modern method was the male condom at 12.3 percent, a rather unusual pattern of contraceptive use in Africa. That was followed by the pill at 2.9 percent and injectables at 2.8 percent. This continues the often-observed preference in sub-Saharan Africa for methods to space births, not necessarily to limit them. The use of modern contraception was 24.6 percent in urban areas and 11.7 percent in rural areas. Modern contraception rose since the 2005 DHS when it was reported at 12.7 percent and the condom was also the most frequently used method at that time. The prevalence of HIV was reported in the 2009 AIDS Indicator Survey at 4.1 percent for women ages 15-49 and 2.1 percent of men of the same age group. Continue reading on Behind the Numbers. Sources: MEASURE DHS. Image Credit: Carl Haub/Population Reference Bureau. Topics: Africa, Brazzavile Congo, demography, family planning, gender, global health, maternal health, population, youth

Prison and Justice Reporting Jailed Homeless Activist Died Of Fentanyl Overdose, Says Medical Examiner The state’s Medical Examiner has concluded that a man found dead at the Valley Street Jail in early March died of a fentanyl overdose. The death was ruled an accident. Twenty-six year old Jeffrey Pendleton worked at Burger King in Nashua, and was often homeless. In 2015, Pendleton received $17,955 from settlements in two civil rights cases against the town of Hudson and the city of Nashua. In Hudson Pendleton argued police were detaining and harassing peaceful panhandlers like him. In Nashua, he argued police jailed him for 33 days for walking in a park. When Pendleton died, he was being held at the Valley Street jail in Manchester on a misdemeanor marijuana charge. He couldn’t afford his $100 bail. Pendleton was found dead in his cell four days after his arrest, on March 13. Jail Superintendent David Dionne says Pendleton is the first person to die of an overdose inside Valley Street Jail. Still, he says, heroin and fentanyl are constantly smuggled in. “Do we catch it all?” Dionne says, “No. We can’t do body cavity searches, they know that.” Now that the medical examiner has concluded Pendleton died of a fentanyl overdose, investigators will look into how he got ahold of the fentanyl – which, the autopsy shows, Pendleton likely snorted or swallowed. New inmates at Valley Street are screened for drug use during intake. Pendleton wasn’t known to be using drugs when he arrived, according to Dionne. And – another question remains. Should someone be incarcerated pre-trial because they can’t afford $100 bail? Superintendant Dionne says – no. “If he paid the hundred dollars, he would be out.” Clearly, Dionne says, Pendleton was not deemed a risk to the community. ACLU legal director Gilles Bissonette says the state’s bail policies mean poor people serve sentences before they are found guilty. “Jeff would have stayed in jail until his next court date, which would have been in approximately one month,” Bissonnette explains. “He would have served 30 days in jail before he had any ability to even contest the charge that he was arrested for.” On the last day of March, many of Pendleton’s Burger King coworkers protested his death in front of the Nashua Police Department. At the protest, Pendleton’s manager Robert Mercier said he had no idea Pendleton was homeless. “He seemed like a down to earth kid. He came in every day, he basically didn’t bring his problems to work with him,” said Mercier. “I didn’t realize anything like this was going to happen.” Pendleton was an activist. He not only won civil rights lawsuits against local police departments, but also protested with Fight for $15, for a $15 minimum wage. Another colleague, Andy Fontaine, rallied alongside Pendleton. “He was one of the newer, and one of the most enthusiastic out of all of us,” says Fontaine. Few of Pendleton’s friends and coworkers expected to learn he died of a drug over dose. And many may still be wondering: if he could have afforded his $100 bail – would he be alive today? NH News Criminal JusticeJeffrey Pendleton

SIX MAKE THE SWITCH TO DIXON PARK Ballyclare Comrades manager Paul Harbinson has wasted no time strengthening his squad in preparation for the 2020/21 campaign with the announcement of no fewer than six imminent arrivals at Dixon Park. Harbinson has called on the experience of James McCabe and Jason Johnston, both of whom have signed from Ballymena Saturday Morning League side Ahoghill Thistle. Johnston (23) is a former fans favourite from his previous stints up front at Ballyclare whilst the 27-year-old McCabe is an intelligent striker who will bring strength and experience to the attacking options having been with Ballymena United and Larne earlier in his career. Also amongst those making the move are Ross Holden who joins from fellow Bluefin Sport Championship club Dundela. An attacking player who loves to run with the ball, Holden (22) made 31 appearances (4 goals) for the Duns last season and prior to that was on Crusaders' books for a number of seasons. Ashton McDermott (28) makes the switch from Premier Intermediate League side Bangor and brings a wealth of experience from both the Premiership and Championship after previous spells with Carrick Rangers and PSNI. And making the step up from the Amateur League are Elliot McKim and Gareth McGuinness. McKim (25), a towering centre-half, comes from Nortel while McGuinness (20) possesses an attacking flair that helped Greenisland reach the Junior Cup final in 2018.