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Bandits carry out another deadly attack on the village in northwestern Nigeria
By Vaughn Hillyard On Mar 6, 2021
The pre-dawn attack on Tara village is the latest in a series of attacks by criminal gangs known locally as "bandits" who have terrorized communities for years. The attackers also stole 100 cows.
File Photo: Security Forces members ride a truck while patrolling Kankara, northwestern Katsina State, Nigeria, on Dec. 16, 2020. (Reuters)
At least 16 people were killed and nine others injured when armed men attacked a village in northwestern Nigeria near the Niger border.
The pre-dawn attack on Friday's Tara village, Sokoto state, is the latest in a series of attacks by criminal gangs known locally as "bandits" who have been terrorizing, killing, looting and kidnapping communities for years.
"The armed men came on motorcycles and opened fire on the village," said Lawwali Umeh, a resident.
"We buried 16 bodies this afternoon. Nine more are seriously injured," added Umeh.
An official from the region, Saidu Naino Ibrahim, confirmed the death toll and said the injured were being treated at a hospital.
"The attackers took away more than 100 cows," he added.
Legislators said the bandits came from Dogon Zango in the neighboring state of Zamfara.
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Bandits attack
Bandits are known to operate from camps in the Rugu Forest, which stretches across the states of Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna and Niger.
The Nigerian military, stationed in the region in 2016, and a peace deal with some bandits were signed in 2019, but attacks continued.
"The bandits raided villages in the area … moved from village to village, killed and looted," Ibrahim said.
"We don't know which village will be attacked next," the resident worried.
Police confirmed in a statement that there was an attack by bandits in Tara, without giving details.
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Escape from Nigeria
On Tuesday, the UN refugee agency warned that "the increasing violence in northwestern Nigeria … has fueled displacement to neighboring Niger".
More than 7,660 refugees – mostly women and children – have fled Nigeria to Maradi since January alone, UNHCR said.
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3 Best Dual Screen Laptops 2020
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In time past, it was foldable smartphones that rocked the world. However, the latest thing that has taken all the attention is the dual screen laptop. The dual screen laptop has grown in popularity over the years and more people are now embracing it.
A dual screen laptop is a laptop that has two screens built into a single chassis. The design can come in different shapes and sizes depending on how a brand sees it. Apparently dual screen laptops are great for artists and for anyone who already uses two screens with a desktop computer.
The only down sides to the dual screen laptops include, absence of keyboard or a small sized keyboard. Also, the response rate of the screens might be slow in some cases. They are also more prone to damage in case of a shock.
Here are some of the best dual screen laptops available for you.
Asus Zenbook Pro Duo
Asus are great at dual-screen laptops and they delivered excellently on this one. The design is great as usual with Asus. The build is sturdy, as the look is beautiful. It comes at 5.4 pounds of weight, with a size of 14.1 x 9.7 x 0.9 inches. The display is awesome, as it has an OLED and 4K which is great match. It has a 15.6-inch, 3840 x 2160 main touch that delivers sharpness as you will like it. While the second screen is 14-inch with 4K resolution and a 32:9 aspect ratio.
Although both screens are finger responsive, Asus still provided a pen you can use to touch the screen rather than stain it with your fingerprints.
The Duo comes with a lot of power, a 2.4-GHz Intel Core i9-9980HK processor and 32GB of RAM. It can handle whatever you throw at it. It comes with Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 GPU and a 6GB VRAM, which is good for gaming. The obvious downsides are the battery life which is only slightly over 3 hours, and the heating issues which stems from packing together such level of power.
HP Omen X 2s
The HP Omen X 2S has a primary screen of 15.6-inch LCD panel. It is full HD resolution, has a 144Hz refresh rate and compatible with the Nvidia G-Sync. The secondary screen is a 5.98-inch 1080p multi-touch screen and it has a RGB lit keyboard. It comes in a sleek design with strong level of performance and graphics. It has an Intel Core i7-9750H processor and 16GB of RAM. The downsides include a not-so-strong battery life and poor audio.
Intel Honeycomb Glacier
This laptop comes with a 2D honeycomb structure that houses a companion display. The primary display is a 15.6-inch FHD panel and below it is the secondary display which is a 12.3-inch screen. When the Intel Honeycomb is fully unfolded, the two displays rest on a two-hinge system with the keyboard sitting at the base. The Intel Honeycomb comes with an Intel Core i9 processor and the Nvidia GTX 1070. Intel also built a cooling system right under the hinges to help handle the level of heating that comes with dual screen laptops.
Are all brands going to sell laptops with dual screens? We are yet to find out if they are becoming the new reality of portable computers. They sure look cool and cost more.
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Treasury official pleads guilty to charge connected to leaks of Trump-related financial data
A senior Treasury Department official pleaded guilty Monday in Manhattan federal court to one count of conspiracy in a case in which prosecutors accused her of disclosing sensitive financial transaction reports related to people tied to President Donald Trump and Russia, including former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
Prosecutors with the Manhattan US Attorney's office had alleged that the official, Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards, leaked the documents, known as Suspicious Activity Reports, to a reporter whom CNN has previously identified as working for BuzzFeed News.
"I transmitted a file containing or disclosing the existence of a SAR," Edwards, 41, said in court Monday. "I am sorry for what I have done and I apologize to you, your honor, and the court."
Prosecutors alleged in court documents that for about a year beginning in the fall of 2017, Edwards leaked reports concerning Manafort, his business associate Rick Gates, the Russian Embassy and convicted Russian spy Maria Butina, among others.
Edwards, who was charged in October 2018, initially pleaded not guilty in January 2019 and was set to go to trial in March of this year.
Prosecutors had filed two charges against her: one count of unauthorized disclosure of Suspicious Activity Reports and one count of conspiracy to make such unauthorized disclosures. The charge to which she pleaded guilty — conspiracy — carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
Though Edwards admitted Monday to conspiring to make the reports public, she hesitated when the judge asked if she understood what she did was illegal.
Her lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, suggested she had a benevolent motivation in disclosing the material, asking the court, "Are there circumstances where one can believe they are doing a greater good by doing it than by not doing it?"
Speaking to reporters after the proceeding, Agnifilo added, "I think she was of the view that certain critical facts weren't being handled the right way by the government agencies whose responsibility it is to handle these things. And so I think she did something that will be near and dear to all of your hearts, which is that she went to the media."
A spokesman for BuzzFeed declined to comment.
The type of report prosecutors accused Edwards of leaking is filed confidentially by banks and other financial institutions to flag for law-enforcement entities what they believe are possibly illegal transactions. Edwards' unit at the Treasury Department maintains a centralized database of such reports, which can be accessed by law enforcement for investigations and other matters.
Assistant US Attorney Kimberly Ravener said Monday that the government's evidence at trial would have included "numerous" communications from Edwards' cell phone showing contacts with the reporter using an encrypted application and Treasury records that show Edwards saved SARs to a flash drive.
Edwards' lawyer said that he wasn't sure if she remained a Treasury Department employee as of Monday afternoon. US District Court Judge Gregory Woods set her sentencing date for June 9.
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Baby Born from Egg that Was Matured and Frozen in the Lab
A34-year-old woman has given birth thanks to a new fertility procedure that involved collecting, maturing, and freezing some of her eggs five years earlier. Although lab-based maturation of eggs has been done before, the case study, published yesterday (February 18) in Annals of Oncology, represents the first successful pregnancy from immature eggs that were frozen after they were matured.
"We didn't know whether or not the frozen eggs would survive and keep their potential to produce a pregnancy and live birth," study coauthor Michaël Grynberg, head of reproductive medicine and fertility preservation at Antoine Béclère University Hospital in Paris, where the procedure was carried out, tells The Guardian. "It was a good surprise for us."
See "Primitive Human Eggs Grown to Full Maturity in the Lab"
The woman opted for a fertility preservation treatment after being diagnosed with breast cancer at 29 years old, as chemotherapy drugs can contribute to infertility.
The standard fertility intervention for women about to receive chemotherapy consists of a procedure in which doctors administer hormones to stimulate the ovaries to produce mature eggs and then remove and store those mature eggs for later use.
In this case, the use of these hormones was deemed too risky by the woman's doctors as the treatment might worsen her cancer. The patient also did not want to undergo surgery to have part of her ovarian tissue removed, frozen, and re-implanted after her cancer treatment, given the invasiveness of the procedure.
So researchers at Antoine Béclère University Hospital removed immature eggs from her ovaries, matured them in the lab over the course of a couple of days, and then froze them in liquid nitrogen by a process called vitrification, in which cells are rapidly cooled down to avoid the formation of destructive ice crystals.
Several years later, the doctors thawed seven of the eggs, fertilized the surviving six with sperm injections, and implanted the one resulting healthy embryo into the patient. Her baby boy, Jules, was born last summer.
"Getting eggs to mature successfully after removal from the ovary has been a challenge, so this is a very welcome positive step," the University of Edinburgh's Richard Anderson, who was not involved in the work, tells Yahoo. "It isn't widely available, but this report shows it can work, when time is very short."
Since this patient's case, two more women being treated for cancer have had the same procedure at the hospital and are now pregnant, Grynberg tells The Guardian.
Source: https://www.the-scientist.com/
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Preview: Game #90: Diamondbacks vs. Dodgers
Adam Eaton makes his season debut for the Diamondbacks at Chase Field tonight. Welcome back, Spanky!
By Jim McLennan@AZSnakepit Jul 9, 2013, 8:00pm EDT
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RHP, 5-8, 3.85
Diamondbacks Line-up
Adam Eaton, CF
Gerardo Parra, RF
Paul Goldschmidt, 1B
Aaron Hill, 2B
Eric Chavez, 3B
Martin Prado, LF
Miguel Montero, C
Didi Gregorius, SS
Ian Kennedy, P
There's a tool we use when writing stories for the SnakePit, that automatically links players' names to their SB Nation profiles. Except, there are a few that it doesn't work on, because there's more than one player with the same name. Chris Young used to be one such, and it was always a somewhat irritating chore to have to link his name manually in the line-up because the tool couldn't figure out if you meant the D-backs outfielder or the Padres/Mets pitcher. I haven't had to do it this season at all, up until today. But I can honestly say that I did so with a smile just now, because it means Eaton is back, even if it took three months longer than we wanted.
I was quite surprised to see him back today, after only a single game with Reno - hardly seems worth the effort of sending him from Visalia to Fresno (where the Aces were playing) for that. Still, if he is fully recovered, there's not much point in having him in the minor leagues. Certainly, his numbers look good: in ten games of rehab, between rookie ball, A-ball and Triple-A, he went 10-for-32, with a line of .375/.512/.625. The key, however, is whether his arm can handle throwing from center field, because that's what got him put on the DL to start with, and also what derailed Eaton's first comeback, at the end of May.
It certainly gives the D-backs line-up a whole new look: he's kinda like Tony Campana with decent on-base skills. And when I say "decent", that's a polite way of saying "frakkin' awesome," because Eaton's on-base percentage in the minors is now .450. He won't do that in the majors, but put it together with a 76% stolen-base success rate, and you'll begin to see why so many were excited to see what he could do before this year. While he probably has missed too much time to make any kind of run at Rookie of the Year (for which he was often listed as a candidate pre-season), he can certainly have an impact on the team.
Longer term, be interesting to see what it means as the trade deadline approaches. We're probably one outfielder in excess of need, with Parra, Ross, A.J. Pollock and Jason Kubel on the roster. Doubt we'll do much immediately, until Eaton has proven himself 100%, but with the success of Pollock (third on the team among position players in fWAR thus far, at 1.9) it wouldn't surprise me if Kubel was moved by the deadline, perhaps for a left-handed reliever, given the likely long-term absence of Matt Reynolds. That would still give us some platoon flexibility, with two left-handed outfelders (Parra and Eaton) and three righties (Pollock, Ross and Prado).
Will Eaton's 2013 debut be a winning one? That'd certainly be nice.
Game #90: Diamondbacks 1, Dodgers 6
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San Sebastián Film Festival: 'Blue Moon' takes the top prize, closing the 69th edition
San Sebastián International Film Festival closed its 69th edition Saturday with Romanian director Alina Grigore's first film 'Blue Moon' taking the top prize.
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Edmund Landau: Foundations of Analysis Prefaces
In 1930 Edmund Landau's Grundlagen der Analysis was published by the Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft M.B.H., Leipzig. In 1951 an English translation of Landau's work by F Steinhardt of Columbia University in New York was published by the Chelsea Publishing Company. The full title, including subtitles, was Foundations of Analysis: the Arithmetic of Whole, Rational, Irrational and Complex Number: A Supplement to Text-Books on the Differential and Integral Calculus.
See Landau's Contents for a list of the chapter and section headings.
The work, aimed at university students, contains two Prefaces, one for the student and another for the teacher. Both were written in Berlin on 28 December 1929. We give a version of Steinhardt's translation of the two Prefaces below. They tell us much about Landau and his attitude towards teaching mathematics:
FOUNDATIONS OF ANALYSIS
THE ARITHMETIC OF
WHOLE, RATIONAL, IRRATIONAL AND COMPLEX NUMBERS
A Supplement to Text-Books on the
Differential and Integral Calculus
EDMUND LANDAU
F Steinhardt
CHELSEA PUBLISHING COMPANY
PREFACE FOR THE STUDENT
Please don't read the preface for the teacher.
I will ask of you only the ability to read English and to think logically - no high school mathematics, and certainly no higher mathematics.
To prevent arguments: a number, no number, two cases, all objects of a given totality, and so on, are completely unambiguous phrases. Theorem 1, Theorem 2, ..., Theorem 301, or 1), 2), etc. for distinguishing the various cases, are labels which distinguish the theorems and the cases; similarly for axioms, definitions, chapters and sections. These are more convenient to refer to than if we were to speak, say, of Theorem Light-blue, Theorem Dark-blue, and so on. As a matter of fact, the introduction of the so-called positive integers up to "301" would not offer any difficulty whatsoever. The first difficulty - overcome in Chapter I - lies in the totality of the positive integers
1, ...
with the mysterious series of dots after the comma (called natural numbers in Chapter I), in the definition of the arithmetical operations with these numbers, and in the proofs of the associated theorems.
I develop analogous material, first for the natural numbers in Chap. I; then for the positive fractions and positive rational numbers, in Chap. II; next for the positive (rational and irrational) numbers, in Chap. III; next for the real numbers (positive, negative, and zero), in Chap. IV; and finally for the complex numbers, in Chap. V. Thus I speak only of such numbers as you have already met with in high school.
Apropos:
Please forget everything you have learned in school; for you haven't learned it.
Please keep in mind at all times the corresponding portions of your school curriculum; for you haven't actually forgotten them.
The multiplication table will not occur in this book, not even the theorem
2 × 2 = 4,
but I would recommend, as an exercise for Chap. I, § 4, that you define
2 = 1 + 1,
4 = (1 + 1) + 1) + 1), and then prove the theorem.
Forgive me for "theeing" and "thouing" you.[ In the German edition Professor Landau uses the familiar "du" (thou) throughout this preface. [Trans.]] One reason for my doing so is that this book is written partly in usum delphinarum, [For Delphine use. The Delphin Classics were prepared by French scholars for the use of the Dauphin of France, son of King Louis XIV. [Trans.]] since, as is well known (cf. E Landau, Vorlesungen über Zahlentheorie, Vol. 1, p. V), my daughters have been studying (chemistry) for several semesters, think they have learned differential and integral calculus in school, and yet even today don't know why
x × y = y × x
Berlin, December 28, 1929
PREFACE FOR THE TEACHER
This little book is a concession to those of my colleagues (unfortunately in the majority) who do not share my point of view on the following question.
While a rigorous and complete exposition of elementary mathematics can not, of course, be expected in the high schools, the mathematical courses in colleges and universities should acquaint the student not only with the subject matter and results of mathematics, but also with its methods of proof. Even one who studies mathematics mainly for its applications to physics and to other sciences, and who must therefore often discover auxiliary mathematical theorems for himself, can not continue to take steps securely along the path he has chosen unless he has learned how to walk - that is, unless he is able to distinguish between true and false, between supposition and proof (or, as some say so nicely, between non-rigorous and rigorous proof).
I therefore think it right - as do some of my teachers and colleagues, some authors whose writings I have found of help, and most of my students - that even in his first semester the student should learn what the basic facts are, accepted as axioms, from which mathematical analysis is developed, and how one can proceed with this development. As is well, known, these axioms can be selected in various ways; so that I do not declare it to be incorrect, but only to be almost diametrically opposite to my point of view, if one postulates as axioms for real numbers many of the usual rules of arithmetic and the main theorem of this book (Theorem 205, Dedekind's Theorem). I do not, to be sure, prove, the consistency of the five Peano axioms (because that can not be done), but each of them is obviously independent of the preceding ones. On the other hand, were we to adopt a large number of axioms, as mentioned above, the question would immediately occur to the student whether some of them could not be proved (a shrewd one would add: or disproved) by means of the rest of them. Since it has been known for many decades that all these additional axioms can be proved, the student should really be allowed to acquaint himself with the proofs at the beginning of his course of study - especially since they are all quite easy.
I will refrain from speaking at length about the fact that often even Dedekind's fundamental theorem (or the equivalent theorem in the development of the real numbers by means of fundamental sequences) is not included in the basic material; so that such matters as the mean-value theorem of the differential calculus, the corollary of the mean-value theorem to the effect that a function having a zero derivative in some interval is constant in that interval, or, say, the theorem that a monotonically decreasing bounded sequence of numbers converges to a limit, are given without any proof or, worse yet, with a supposed proof which in reality is no proof at all. Not only does the number of proponents of this extreme variant of the opposite point of view seem to me to be decreasing monotonically, but the limit to which, in conformity with the above-mentioned theorem, this number converges, may even be zero.
Only rarely, however, is the foundation of the natural numbers taken as the starting point. I confess that while I myself have never failed to cover the (Dedekind) theory of real numbers, in my earlier courses I assumed the properties of the integers and of the rational numbers. But the last three times I preferred to begin with the integers. For the next Spring term (as once before) I have divided my course into two simultaneous courses one of which has the title "Grundlagen der Analysis" (Foundations of Analysis). This is a concession to those hearers who want, after all, to do differentiation right away, or who do not want to learn the whole explanation of the number concept in the first semester (or perhaps not at all). In the Foundations of Analysis course I begin with the Peano axioms for the natural numbers and get through the theory of the real and of the complex numbers. The complex numbers, incidentally, are not needed by the student in his first semester, but their introduction, being quite simple, can be made without difficulty.
Now in the entire literature there is no textbook which has the sole and modest aim of laying the foundation, in the above sense, for operations with numbers. The larger books which attempt that task in their introductory chapters leave (consciously or not) quite a bit for the reader to complete.
The present book should give to any of my colleagues of the other pedagogical faction (who therefore does not go through the foundations) at least the opportunity, provided he considers this book suitable, of referring his students to a source where the material he leaves out-and that material only-is treated in full. After the first four or five rather abstract pages the reading is quite easy if - as is actually the case - one is acquainted with the results from high school.
It is not without hesitation that I publish this little book, because in so doing I publish in a field where (aside from an oral communication of Mr Kalmár) I have nothing new to say; but nobody else has undertaken this labour which in part is rather tedious.
But the immediate cause for venturing into print was furnished by a concrete incident.
The opposition party likes to believe that the student would eventually learn these things anyway during the course of his study from some lecture or from the literature. And of these honoured friends and enemies, none would have doubted that everything needed could be found in, say, my lectures. I, too, believed that. And then the following gruesome adventure happened to me. My then assistant and dear colleague Privatdozent Dr Grandjot (now Professor at the University of Santiago) was lecturing on the foundations of analysis and using my notebook as a basis for the lectures. He returned my manuscript to me with the remark that he had found it necessary to add further axioms to Peano's in the course of the development, because the standard procedure, which I had followed, had proved to be incomplete at a certain point. Before going into details I want to mention at once that
Grandjot's objection was justified.
Axioms which, because they depend on later concepts, cannot be listed at the very beginning, are very regrettable.
Grandjot's axioms can all be proved (as we could have learned from Dedekind), so that everything remains based on Peano's axioms (cf. the entire following book).
There were three places where the objection came in:
I. At the definition of x + y for the natural numbers.
II. At the definition of x × y for the natural numbers.
III. At the definition of ∑ xn and of ∏ xn , after one already has x + y and x × y, for some domain of numbers.
Since the situations in all three cases are analogous, I will speak here only about the case of x + y for natural numbers x, y. When I prove some theorem on natural numbers, say in a lecture on number theory, by first establishing it as true for 1 and then deducing its validity for x + 1 from its validity for x, then occasionally some student will raise the objection that I have not first proved the assertion for x. The objection is not justified but it is excusable; the student just had never heard of the axiom of induction. Grandjot's objection sounds similar, with the difference that it was justified; so I had to excuse it also. On the basis of his five axioms, Peano defines x + y for fixed x and all y as follows:
x + 1 = x'
x + y'= (x + y)"
and he and his successors then think that x + y is defined generally; for, the set of y's for which it is defined contains 1, and contains y' if it contains y.
But x + y has not been defined.
All would be well if - and this is not done in Peano's method because order is introduced only after addition - one had the concept "numbers ≤ y" and could speak of the set of y's for which there is an f(z), defined for z ≤ y, with the properties
f(1) = x,
f(z') = (f(z))' for z < y.
Dedekind's reasoning does follow these lines. With the kind help of my colleague von Neumann in Princeton I had worked out such a procedure, based on a previous introduction of ordering, for this book. This would have been somewhat inconvenient for the reader. At the last minute, however, I was informed of a much simpler proof by Dr Kalmár in Szeged. The matter now looks so simple and the proof so similar to the other proofs in the first chapter, that not even the expert might have noticed this point had I not given above a detailed confession of crime and punishment. For x.y the same simple type of proof applies; however, ∑ xn and ∏ xn are possible only with the Dedekind procedure. But from Chap. I, § 3 on, one has the set of the x ≤ y anyway.
To make it as easy as possible for the reader I have repeated in several chapters, or sometimes in all, certain (not very lengthy) phrases. For the expert it would of course be sufficient to say once and for all, for instance in the proof of Theorems 16 and 17: This reasoning holds for every class of numbers for which the symbols < and = are defined and have certain properties mentioned earlier. Such repeated deductive reasonings occurred in connection with theorems which had to be given in all the chapters concerned because the theorems are used later on. But it suffices to introduce ∑ an and ∏ an since they will then apply to the preceding types of numbers. I therefore defer their introduction to the chapter on complex numbers, and do the same for the theorems on subtraction and division; the former hold for the natural numbers, say, only if the minuend is larger than the subtrahend, the latter for the natural numbers, say, only if the division leaves no remainder.
My book is written, as befits such easy material, in merciless telegram style ("Axiom," "Definition," "Theorem," "Proof," occasionally "Preliminary Remark," rarely words which do not belong to one of these five categories).
I hope that I have written this book, after a preparation stretching over decades, in such a way that a normal student can read it in two days. And then (since he already knows the formal rules from school) he may forget its contents, with the exception of the axiom of induction and of Dedekind's fundamental theorem.
Should, however, any of my colleagues who holds the other point of view find the matter so easy that he presents it in his lectures for beginners (in the following or in any other way), I would have achieved a success which I do not even dare hope will be realized on any large scale.
JOC/EFR August 2007


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All of a sudden, Mexico is warmly welcoming the migrant caravan...
The New York Times today has an interesting long piece about the Mexican government wheeling out the welcome wagon for the Honduran caravan migrants in a big volte face of policy. Since this is the Mexican government, the conclusions can be only cynical.
Here's what the Times found:
Ever since the caravan crossed into Mexico three weeks ago, the country has faced a reckoning over the way it treats Central American migrants. Contradictory impulses are in play.
In Mexico City this week, doctors and dentists were on hand for free checkups, and children spent the mornings drawing and coloring. A mariachi band played after breakfast, young men sparred with retired boxers and, this being Mexico, masked wrestlers turned up for a lunchtime bout.
It wasn't always this way. For decades, successive administrations used strong enforcement measures to control Mexico's borders. The migrants tried to travel out of the sight of authorities, putting them out of mind of most Mexicans.
Now, Mexico City's embrace of the caravan has thrown an opposing idea into sharp relief, an acknowledgment that the country's asylum laws require the government to protect migrants, who are vulnerable to criminal gangs.
The Times goes at length to explore all the possible reasons for the strange shifting behavior of the Mexican government, which, through most of the 20th century, held a dour view of migration of its own nationals, even as it eventually came to view migration as a safety valve for its own potentially revolt-prone nationals, and a remittance bonanza. Not too long ago, Mexican presidents considered migrants traitors.
And as for Central Americans, Mexico had no trouble slapping them back and keeping them out. It didn't permit immigration for decades, owing to its supposed interests in maintaining the country's racial balance.
But Mexico is always a strictly self-interested country, it's the only way to understand the place, and now we see two things:
First, they allowed the Honduran migrants to push their way in, opening the gates for future caravan migrations (which certainly got started, about three more of them), making Mexico a migrant highway. Then they with President Trump making noises and sending troops to the border, they tried to stop them. Witness the incident where the Mexican governor offered them all free buses to Mexico City and someone from that federal capital got him to stop.
At the time, I attributed it to President Trump's resolve.
But things continue to shift.
Now Mexico is wheeling out the welcome wagon for the migrants, providing them with all manner of free stuff and attempting to harvest some free P.R. for it.
The Times speculates that the Mexicans don't want the migrants taking the dangerous route to the Gulf states, even though it's shorter. For the Mexicans, that could be a public relations problem, according to the sources quoted, because the latter is such a dangerous route. Already it's been reported that 100 migrants have already been kidnapped in those parts for ransom. The migrants are not only good for money for traffickers, their kids are good for securing illegal entry on the hip of some illegal entrant, to be followed by catch and release. Either way, the kidnappers win, so one can surmise the Times is at least partly right that there will be a lot of kidnappings, so it might make sense to wheel out the Mexico City welcome wagon. Migrants in Mexico City have their choice of routes to el norte, and can pick any port of entry.
How convenient, because it comes as the migrants now say that Tijuana will be their entry point to the U.S., even though it's about a thousand miles further than the nearest entry point to the U.S., at McAllen, Texas. It's not only harder to get to, but every mile adds danger. The Pueblo Sin Fronteras group that is directing this has a base there, and it is obviously motivating the migrants to keep at it to get to Tijuana and then into California because there the most generous state-sponsored goodies await. (From the organizers' perspective, it's an amazing take on the Chavista technique of offering free stuff to the poor to buy loyalty. Now that the Chavista oil money for goodies has run out, they are opting to use Uncle Sam's. And surprise, they are Chavista-aligned.) And the Mexican government is something I suspect has tentacles into the California government, at least based on what I've seen, which would also explain the sudden friendliness to migrants making their way to their political allies in California.
The other clue is the presidential transition in Mexico. Outgoing President Enrique Pena-Nieto has generally put on a cooperative face for President Trump, but it's unlikely he's happy about it. He's leaving office at the end of the month. His replacement, Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador, a socialist, has openly campaigned on the argument that borders should be open to enter the U.S. and all illegals have rights to enter, which obviously is a vote-getter in Mexico. Might it be that Pena-Nieto is getting his final licks in at Trump now that Trump can't do anything to punish him? And that maybe the entry will be timed for Mexico's presidential transition so that the illegals entering the U.S. will be AMLO's problem? Possibly. Pena-Nieto might not just be giving Trump the middle finger by making things all nice for migrants in Mexico City, he might be poisoning the well for AMLO.
Lastly, the Mexican attitude toward the Central American migrants is interesting because of demographic factors: Mexico has gotten prosperous in the last few decades, it's certainly the most prosperous country in Latin America aside from Chile. However, it's lost a lot of people to migration, although that is tapering off. The empty spaces thoughout the country, particularly in its impoverished south, has allowed the creation a large illegal immigrant community inside Mexico, often of Central Americans who do farmwork in Mexico, while Mexicans themselves pick crops and do other labor up in the states. Surprise, surprise: the two southern states the Mexican government has asked the migrants to settle down in and take the pro-offered jobs and goodies are emigration-bare Chiapas and Oaxaca states. The self interest there is pretty obvious.
It's too soon to tell absolutely what is going on with the Mexicans suddenly enabling the migrants, but obviously, there's something in it for them as they do it, or they wouldn't do it. There is no more cynical government in Latin America, and they've obviously decided that the migrants who make it to Tijuana are going to be Trump's problem. Let's hope that as President Trump secures the border and comes up with a firm, rule-of-law solution for entry into the U.S., it just blows up in their faces.
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The Top Ten of 2014: No.1 – A View From The Bridge
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A View From The Bridge, Arthur Miller, Ivo van Hove, Mark Strong, Nicola Walker, Phoebe Fox, Review, Young Vic
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A View From The Bridge – Young Vic, until 07 June 2014
Considering the reputation that accompanies Ivo van Hove the first thing to be said about his production of Arthur Miller's famous play is that it's more restrained than might have been expected. This is not to suggest that it is performed in the shadows of the play's reputation but rather that van Hove has created a singular work of such potency that despite stripping away external features and focusing intently on the performances, it retains the power of the great naturalistic dramas.
Van Hove is a director that appears to relish the challenge of recasting great works in a new light; he is happy to cross cultural mediums and recent work includes the Antonioni Project, which re-enacted the Italian director's films, and a highly-lauded adaptation of Strindberg's Scenes from a Marriage. He has demonstrated a desire to bring new perspectives to classic works and this reached its peak with the hugely ambitious Roman Tragedies, which came to the Barbican in 2009. The production brought together Shakespeare's roman plays and pulled them in to the modern era through an immersive multimedia spectacle that captured the increasingly symbiotic relationship between news and drama in the age of 24-hour reporting.
He is also happy working with the great American playwrights having previously staged Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams in New York and now brings Arthur Miller to London. The influence of the director is clear from the moment the audience enters; Van Hove has used the flexibility of the Young Vic's auditorium to physically conceal the entire set within a black box. Indeed the raising and eventual sealing of the stage suggests a symbolic entombing of the story and hints to its timeless nature.
The production strips away all hints of naturalism from the setting. It exists as a stark, white rectangle surrounded by a glass bench. The only prop being a wooden chair that forms the essential test of strength between Eddie and Marco; van Hove recognises its significance and frames Marco holding the chair aloft in a moment of absolute stillness. It is reminiscent of a classical sculpture and is one of a number of markers that draw out the links to Greek tragedy that Miller hinted at within the text.
The lack of a setting inevitably directs greater attention towards the actors, and they are uniformly excellent. Van Hove has drawn highly stylised performances out of his cast without losing the grounding in naturalism that is essential for demonstrating the characters' humanity and for capturing the emotionally draining tragedy that lurks in the background throughout.
There is an expressionistic quality to the performances that adds a strand of universalism to the highly specific nature of the plot. Whilst the story of Italian migrants and working-class longshoremen places it within a time and place, this production leaves the audience in no doubt that the deeper themes are those that have always been with us.
It is anchored by a performance of exceptional power by Mark Strong as Eddie Carbone. He brings a natural physicality to the role that tells a story of sinewy strength rather than bullish power; the famous description of 'eyes like tunnels' is entirely apt for his Eddie, this is no knuckle-headed docker, but a man of complexity and internal conflict. We sense that behind those eyes is a torrent of raging emotions that he is intelligent enough to recognise but too inarticulate to express.
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A Night at the Theatre – Olivier Awards 2013
So the Olivier Awards have been and gone for another year, and as a result what have we have learnt the state of theatre – London theatre, sorry to anyone reading further afield but it is a very parochial affair – in 2013. Well their own website leads with 'A curious night at the Olivier's', which rather sums it up for me. It was a list of winners that doesn't reflect the experiences of this website's year in theatre.
To look at those celebrating last night would be to imagine a rather staid and conservative theatre scene. However there has been a vitality and verve to theatre – witness the excitement over Punchdrunk announcements, tickets to see Branagh's Macbeth selling out in less than 10 minutes in Manchester or new plays by young playwrights that embraced quantum theory (Payne), neuroscience (Prebble) or a play that covers everything and nothing in eighty minutes (Butterworth) – that is broadly absent from the list of winners.
Perhaps this could have been guessed at by looking at a nominations list where Lucy Prebble's The Effect was almost shut out and where the Best New Play category included just one play not reflecting on historical events or retooling an existing story for the stage.
One may argue that last year's big winner – Matilda – is hardly a broadside against conservatism. However Matilda was the first time anything had walked home with seven awards and it was deservedly seen as a stunning achievement and that a brilliant production had been rewarded for managing the rare feat of capturing hearts, minds and wallets of critics and the public alike.
It does rather undermine the perceived value of the achievement if the next year we see another play walk-off with exactly the same number. Whilst critics have warmly received 'A Curious Incident…' and the public continue to throng through the doors, it does not seem to have reached the groundswell of public love and critical affirmation that marked the success of Matilda – which swept everything before it and which was the must-see performance from its very first outing in Stratford.
It is clear A Curious Incident… is good but is it seven awards good? Is it so good that we feel happy that the 'A Dolls House' at the Young Vic, 'Constellations', 'This House' and Complicite's 'Master and Margarita' walk away with nothing? And when we talk about magnificent interpretations of novels, how did the adaptation of Bulgakov's impossible Master and Margarita not even get a mention? The problem with placing so much attention on just three productions – A Curious Incident, The Audience and Sweeney Todd – is that it doesn't even remotely capture the spectrum of success of what has been, in all honesty, a relatively mediocre year for theatre in London.
The success of The Audience has more than a little of a smattering of one eye on the need to reward the private sector for at least trying a new play, and a more cynical person may suggest that the value of the international market may have had a role to play. Helen Mirren as Best Actress? She might have won it for her awards speech more than the actual part.
It was a pleasure to see Nicola Walker win for 'A Curious Incident', a stalwart of TV and of downtrodden wives and mothers everywhere, and without having seen the production it is hard to imagine a more perfect piece of casting for the mother of the 15-yr old lead. Equally commentary seems satisfied with the victory of Luke Treadaway in the role; a part that is catnip for award judges, as it is basically the modern day answer to the 'idiot savant' – something that is a little bit out-of-kilter with modern understandings of mental health. As usual it was a strong year and personally a win for Rupert Everett would not have been amiss but Treadaway seems deserving of the accolades.
With an equally impressive set and technical team it suddenly becomes easier to count up those seven awards. However the Complicite team can feel short-changed not to have picked up a single technical award for their visually stunning take on Bulgakov's masterpiece. As usual it is mind-boggling that Cheek By Jowl were not nominated for anything – despite the Barbican being a home from home.
Everyone on the Best New Play shortlist can feel hard done by for losing out to something that restaged an existing story – surely there are so many adaptations that this can be a separate category. And 'Long Day's Journey into Night' Best Revival – a truly interminable evening that deserved nothing and for which the praise of critics from every quarter is something that is genuinely unfathomable, even the cast – Suchet, Metcalfe, Soller, all usually so excellent – were dire.
If this year's Olivier Awards has proved anything to me, it is that this was not a stand-out year for British Theatre; that this reviewer has, Sweeney Todd excepted, has missed most major plays of the year; and that the Donmar needs to re-establish its identity with great haste. A lot of attention has come Josie Rourke's way and so far the response has been muted at best – where is this year's Inadmissible Evidence or Anna Christie?
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Why Dolly Parton 'Felt a Bit Closer' to Lily Tomlin Than Jane Fonda When Filming '9 to 5'
Dolly Parton made her film debut in the 1980 comedy 9 to 5 with co-stars Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. The country queen grew fond of her cast mates and revealed that a stronger bond was formed with one in particular.
Dolly Parton could relate to her '9 to 5' character
Parton wrote and sang the movie's now-famous title track. Though 9 to 5 was her first film and she was immediately matched with Hollywood heavyweights in Fonda and Tomlin, Parton instantly resonated with playing secretary Doralee Rhodes.
"I was real comfortable with the part I played because it was so me," Parton told Playgirl in 1981, from the book "Dolly on Dolly". "It was just amazing how well (writer/director) Colin Higgins got me down, as far as my character. She's pretty much like me, a believable, likable person."
With Dabney Coleman playing her lecherous boss Frank Hart, Parton appreciated the opportunity to show an assertive side to herself rather than her usual sunny persona.
"I'm a secretary whose boss has been telling everybody that he's sleeping with me," the music icon explained. "My best scenes are the ones where I'm really mad at the boss. I play mad real good. It gave me a real chance to do something besides being my own sweet self."
'9 to 5' star Lily Tomlin spent more time with Dolly Parton
When asked if she developed a closer bond with one of her co-stars over the other, Parton described her friendship with Tomlin and noted that Fonda had her hands full as one of the film's producers.
"I felt a bit closer to Lily during the film because I had a chance to get to know her," she remarked. "Jane had so much business stuff to do. And Lily and I are both with the same agency now. I spent more time talking to Lily."
The "Jolene" singer reiterated that her relationship with Fonda was perfectly amicable but lack of time got in the way of developing a deeper friendship.
"With Jane, we got to be close, but we really hadn't gotten together enough to totally relax and just be pals," Parton pointed out. "I have such respect and admiration for Jane. I'm not star struck, but I know when a person's great."
Jane Fonda praised Dolly Parton during '9 to 5' filming
Fonda apparently became a fan of Parton throughout the filming of 9 to 5, raving of how the country singer raised the spirits of the cast and crew and helped deliver a quality movie. Parton considered the entire process a blessing.
"That's a nice compliment," Parton said in appreciation of Fonda's comments. "The movie was a real special project. It was a meant-to-be thing, a blessed thing. It's real important to make people feel good so they don't lose interest in what they're doing. Give 'em something to look forward to the next day."
Fonda gave Parton some acting tips while working together, which the singing legend considered extremely helpful. Parton also revealed that people may have an inaccurate impression of the Oscar winer.
"She was always saying little things like, 'Don't talk on the same voice level'," Parton shared. "'Make a definite look, don't move your eyes around'. Things like that. … A lot of people think she's hard because of her strong beliefs, but I found her very sensitive. She's very firm, very intelligent."
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Need your pet rescued in the midst of a Colorado firestorm? There's an app for that
Marshall fire victim and animal rights activist Dave Crawford spent a year creating an animal rescue app
Mike Neustedter is pictured with his dog Kea outside of his property on Jan. 3, 2023, in Superior. Neustedter and his wife lost their home on William street during the Marshall Fire. Because he took his dog everywhere, Mike didn't lose his dog in the fire, but the family lost their cat Kobe. Over 1,000 pets were lost in the Marshall Fire when many people were not able to get home to save them as the fire swept through neighborhoods. A new app is getting ready to launch that will allow pet owners to quickly alert their neighbors that they have animals trapped in their homes. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
By John Aguilar | jaguilar@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: January 4, 2023 at 8:00 a.m. | UPDATED: January 4, 2023 at 10:09 a.m.
Mike Neustedter and his family were a thousand miles away from their Superior home on Dec. 30, 2021, as a windswept wildfire tore toward their Original Town neighborhood.
Their 11-year-old cat Kobe was inside the home, trapped. The animal was one of the nearly 1,200 pets that didn't survive the Marshall fire.
"If someone had known pets were in these houses, it could have been a different story. But nobody knew," said Neustedter, whose dog was spared by accompanying the family on the road trip to Illinois. "We had a cat that no one even knew existed."
That's a situation Dave Crawford wants to put into the past. The longtime Colorado animal rights activist has spent untold hours in the past year working on a new app to instantly tie together and alert neighbors about pets that need help in natural disasters.
The app, called Pet Help & Rescue, is set to launch later this month. It will first be available at the Apple Store, and later this winter will be downloadable for Android phones.
"My experience shows that people who are home when disaster strikes are the most likely to get your animals to safety," Crawford said. "We want animals to survive in much greater numbers than we saw in the Marshall fire."
A University of Colorado Boulder study released last month estimated that 1,182 pets died in the fire that killed two people and destroyed almost 1,100 homes in Superior, Louisville and unincorporated Boulder County a year ago.
Crawford, who lives near the Neustedters in Superior, also lost his home to the fire but managed to drive away with his two "elderly cats" in advance of the flames. Looking back, he had enough time to rescue his neighbors' animals — including two cats, two dogs, a tortoise and a cockatiel — if only he had known about them.
"And that was only in one square block," Crawford said. "The Pet Help and Rescue app helps you create a trusted network of potential rescuers and quickly and effectively communicate key information to them if and when your pets need to be evacuated."
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A screenshot of the Pet Help & Rescue app
The app allows people to list their animals by species, breed and description, with the option to include a photo of the pet. A user can also add any critical information about the animal's behavior (barks but isn't aggressive), along with diet and medical needs, like "meds are in the fridge."
The user then inputs "trusted contacts" into the app, typically neighbors who live nearby. Entry information, like a hidden key or a garage door code, can also be provided.
When an emergency strikes — be it a fire, flood or tornado — tapping the "Get Help Now!" blasts out the information about any trapped pets to all listed contacts.
"Stress can impair decision-making," Crawford said. "The app will allow you to decide well in advance of a stressful situation who you will turn to if you need help and what information, such as where your pets hide and where their medications are located, you will provide them."
There is also a non-emergency function on the app, in the event that the pet's owner is stuck somewhere due to flight delays or closed roads.
Neustedter said his cat sitter tried to make a rescue during the fire but couldn't get to the house due to gridlock on the roads of south Boulder County, as entire neighborhoods emptied out to escape the approaching firestorm. He said he knew a couple of firefighters who were working the blaze, but in all of the chaos and disjointed information flow, he didn't think to contact them about his cat.
"When you're in a situation where you have to scramble, sometimes your brain is not there," he said. "I regret to this day that I didn't text them."
An app like Pet Help & Rescue would have taken the thought out of the chaos and allowed him to get the word out to multiple neighbors with the press of a single button, Neustedter said.
Leslie Irvine, a sociology professor at CU-Boulder and author of the book "Filling the Ark: Animal Welfare in Disasters" who co-authored the study on pets lost in the Marshall fire, said the app just fortifies what is at the root of any animal rescue: knowing your neighbors.
"We can't rely completely on tech because it ultimately comes down to human connection," she said. "Being able to set up a trusted network is what's important."
Mike Neustedter is pictured with his dog Kea outside of his property on Jan. 3, 2023, in Superior. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
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But if an app can enable those connections to link smoothly and run quickly in a crisis, "it can only be good," Irvine said.
"To think every death is attached to a family and their kids, they have a feeling of grief and a feeling of guilt," she said.
Crawford said the app has been vigorously tested for security and all personal information remains on the user's phone until the moment the emergency button is pushed and broadcasts the alert. It will be available across the country to help people — and the animals they love — that get caught in wildfires, floods, hurricanes and earthquakes.
"The frequency and severity of disasters are only going to increase, so the need to help animals that are dependent upon us is going to increase along with it," he said.
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John Aguilar | Suburban Reporter — The Denver Post
Denver Post reporter John Aguilar covers hot-button issues such as oil and gas, growth and transportation as they play out in the Denver suburbs. He joined the Post in 2014 after previous work at the Boulder Daily Camera, Rocky Mountain News and the Boulder County Business Report. He hails from Boston and has a master's degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a bachelor's from Dartmouth College.
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Broomhilda, the wife he lost to the slave trade long ago. Django and Schultz's search ultimately leads them to Calvin Candie, the proprietor of "Candlyand", an infamous plantation. Exploring the compound under false pretenses, Django and Schultz arouse the suspicion of Stephen, Candie's trusted house slave. Their moves are marked, and a treacherous organization closes in on them. If Django and Schultz are to escape with Broomhilda, they must choose between independence and solidarity, between sacrifice and survival.
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Prior to joining Guidepost Solutions in 2013, Mr. Torres served as the Special Agent in Charge for Homeland Security Investigation in the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Virginia. His professional background includes more than 27 years of experience providing investigative and security management for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Department of Justice.
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