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Uyghur Teenager Serving Life Sentence Is Victim of China's Strike Hard Campaign: Father
A photo of Eli Mamut taken when he graduated from middle school in Aykol township, Aksu prefecture, in northwest China's Xinjiang region in 2013.
(Photo courtesy of Mamut Awut)
A Uyghur teenager sentenced to life in prison for "leading a terrorist group" in northwestern China's restive Xinjiang region is the wrongful victim of a "strike hard" campaign to crack down on members of the Turkic-speaking, Muslim minority group, according to his father.
Eighteen-year-old Eli Mamut, from Aksu (in Chinese, Akesu) prefecture's Aykol township—the site of a deadly police action on a Uyghur crowd in August 2013—is innocent and a victim of the tense situation in the region, his father Mamut Awut told RFA's Uyghur Service.
"My son did nothing wrong—he simply watched videos on his cell phone," he said. "I believe he had no idea that the videos are classified as illegal by the authorities."
The family has not been able to do anything about the situation other than pray, Awut said.
Mamut, then 17, was attending Aksu Technical School when authorities detained him and nine of his classmates at the end of September 2014 for watching Uyghur-language videos on their cell phones, he said.
"I heard about my son's detention a week [after he was apprehended] from the parents of his classmates," Awut said.
When Awut called Mamut's teachers about the incident, they told him that the police were questioning the students about accessing the internet from their cell phones.
At the time, the teachers told him that the students could be released soon after clarifications were made about the materials they had watched, he said.
But later, the teachers themselves became fearful and refused to take Awut's calls, he added.
When RFA recently contacted one of the teachers at the school, he said police had detained 13 people, not nine, for internet access offenses.
"It is clear that the so-called [terrorist] groups have done nothing," said the teacher, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The teacher said that Mamut and several of his classmates had gathered in his dormitory to share information he was interested in.
"Maybe some of the content was deemed sensitive by authorities, but for students their age it was not," he said.
"All the teachers believe that local authorities victimized the students as they have done to others in the city to show their loyalty to their higher-ups and support to the strike hard campaign."
When teachers stopped answering his calls, Awut went to the police department in Aksu, but he could not locate the right office or the officers whose duty it was to answer questions about his son's whereabouts, he said.
'Given a life sentence'
It was only after Mamut had spent four months in detention that Awut received a notice from the No. 3 Regional Forced Labor Camp Administration, which read: "Eli Mamut has been relocated from a detention center in Aksu to our camp in order to implement his life sentence [for] … leading a terrorist group."
The notice is the only official information that Mamut's family received about his conviction, Awut said.
Eight of his classmates received sentences ranging from two to 20 years in prison for "participating in a terrorist group," he said.
"But nobody knows the organization's name, its program and goals, or what it has done wrong," he said.
Later, Awut had learned that Mamut's trial had been held during the first week of January 2015.
He returned to the Aksu police department and demanded that he be shown evidence supporting the charge against his son, he said.
But the officers refused to answer him and threatened to throw him in jail as well, he said.
One police officer pushed him out, saying, "You should take care of your other children," Awut said.
Awut said he believed his son, who was born in August 1997, had been handed a heavier sentence because his identification card erroneously listed him as being 18 years old at the time of the trial.
One of Mamut's classmates, Ablikim Tursun, had received a two-year jail sentence and was placed in a labor camp for teenagers in the Xinjiang capital Urumqi, because he was identified as 17 years old when authorities issued the verdict in his trial.
"Actually, my son is the same age as [Tursun], and the difference between what's listed on his ID card and his real age should have been clear," Awut said. "But the authorities sentenced him so heavily. I am still in shock as to why they hate us so much."
Husenjan Tursun, a police officer in Aykol township, told RFA that authorities there were aware of Mamut's life sentence, but said he did not know the official charges the teenager was convicted of because the case was handled by police in Aksu city.
"We were not involved in the case, because Eli Mamut was in a boarding school in Aksu city," he said.
When RFA contacted the Aksu city police department, an officer who declined to provide his name said he knew Mamut had been sentenced to life in prison on terrorism charges, but was not aware of the details of the case.
Chinese authorities rolled out the "strike hard" campaign across Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region following a deadly suicide bombing in May 2014 in the regional capital Urumqi, which they blamed on Uyghur separatists.
The campaign has included police raids on Uyghur households, restrictions on Islamic practices, and curbs on the culture and language of the Uyghur people, including videos and other material.
Aykol township became a major focus of a crackdown by Chinese authorities after a violent incident that occurred there during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in July and early August 2013, which left at least three people dead and 50 injured when authorities fired on a crowd of Uyghur protesters.
Reported by Shohret Hoshur for RFA's Uyghur Service. Translated by Shohret Hoshur. Written in English by Roseanne Gerin.
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Iowa's ethanol producers, prisoners, will partner to make hand sanitizer, Reynolds says
Donnelle Eller
Iowa's ethanol industry will provide prison inmates with alcohol to make hand sanitizer for use in hospitals, prisons and other high-priority facilities threatened by the coronavirus pandemic, officials said Friday.
Gov. Kim Reynolds pointed to the effort Friday as an example of how Iowa businesses are stepping up to help during the crisis.
Reynolds also said she was talking with Winnebago Industries, the Forest City maker of recreational vehicles, about its efforts to provide RVs that California, Louisiana and other states are using as "stand-up mobile units."
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"It's really been incredible the number of businesses that have reached out to say, 'What can we do?'" Reynolds said.
The Iowa Renewable Fuels Association said it plans to begin sending alcohol to the Iowa Department of Corrections by Monday for the manufacture of hand sanitizer, now in short supply across the nation. Hand sanitizer is considered effective at killing the coronavirus.
Ethanol and alcohol are the same ingredients, said Monte Shaw, executive director of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association. The product's industrial uses include both fueling vehicles and as the main ingredient in hand sanitizers.
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The state will distribute the product for free, the renewable fuels group said.
"The whole country is working tirelessly to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus and Iowa biofuels producers are proud to help any way we can," Shaw said.
Shaw said Reynolds and state agencies have helped the industry work through regulatory technicalities to make the project happen.
Iowa is the nation's largest producer of ethanol, with about 40 refineries capable of producing over 4.5 billion gallons annually, mostly from corn. Ethanol makes up about 10% of the nation's fuel supply.
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The Best and Worst of Sundance 2013
By Jason Bailey
This time last year, the out-of-nowhere indie Beasts of the Southern Wild emerged at the Sundance Film Festival, knocked out everyone who saw it, and embarked on a thrilling year-long ride to become a critical fave, indie smash, and multiple Oscar nominee. Of course, when you have a big hit, everyone's looking for a sequel — and most of the press out of Park City has been eager to buzzkill, assuring us that no, there's not another Beasts in this year's bunch. And who knows, maybe they're right; Beasts was an indie phenomenon, an alignment of style, backstory, and heart that proved irresistible. But the fact that this particular lighting hasn't struck twice is somehow being taken as proof that this was a lesser festival than last, which (as far as this viewer could see) was simply untrue; in fact, I probably saw more out-and-out great films at this year's 'dance. After the jump, a look at the two dozen films I managed to take in over six days in Park City, and how they all stack up.
THE ANTICLIMACTIC OPENER MAY IN THE SUMMER: For the second year in a row, Sundance's opening night selection was a bit of a puzzler; maybe they were saving the good stuff for after the jet lag subsided. This culture clash comedy/drama from writer/director/star Cherien Dabis starts off well, mostly because we're not used to seeing so many multi-dimensional Middle Eastern women onscreen. Unfortunately, it's a bit of ruse; once the novelty wears off, this is a film of crushing predictability, filled with overdone situations and age-old dialogue, before degenerating into (of all things) a Jordanian riff on It's Complicated. Bill Pullman, Alia Shawkat, and Hiam Abbass occasionally rise above the material, but this is pretty unexceptional stuff.
THE ONE I WASN'T SMART ENOUGH FOR UPSTREAM COLOR: Shane Carruth's puzzle movie is proving one of the more divisive at Sundance; some are all-in on its wildly experimental approach, while others find it baffling and unapproachable. As a fan of his Primer, I wanted to love it, and while it's admirably ambitious and never less than fascinating to look at, it's the kind of film where the viewer must grapple with the urge to "figure it out" (and ultimately dismiss that inclination). All of this is a roundabout way of saying that it was too abstract for this viewer, but those who like this kinda thing are really gonna like this one. You know who you are.
THE ONE I WAS TOO SMART FOR LOVELACE: This is not a case of patting myself on the back; if you've seen more than a couple of dozen films, you're too smart for Lovelace too. The great documentarians Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's 2011 Howl was a promising crossover to nonfiction narrative filmmaking, but they're hamstrung by a bone-headed, paint-by-numbers screenplay that leaves out giant chunks of pertinent information (though the film itself runs barely 90 minutes, and smells of editing-room shenanigans). Too bad, since star Amanda Seyfried bares her body and soul in a performance far better than this Lifetime-movie claptrap deserves.
THE ONE THAT'S KIND OF A MESS, BUT IN A GOOD WAY CRYSTAL FAIRY: Sebastian Silva put this one together in two weeks when his other Sundance-screening Michael Cera movie Magic Magic went on hold; the actors worked from an outline, improvising their dialogue, and the picture is better for it. It's got an off-the-cuff feel and hanging-out wit, which helps distract from the meager plot (basically, a bunch of guys and a girl go "to the north" for a mescaline trip). It's droll and strange, and the audience isn't always in the on the gag, but it arrives, strangely enough, at a place of genuine warmth and humanity.
THE BAD ONE I ALREADY FORGOT I SAW THE LOOK OF LOVE: Michael Winterbottom's latest collaboration with Steve Coogan is a biographical look at Soho theatrical legend Paul Raymond — but it has the misfortune of inevitable comparison with their 24 Hour Party People, which cleverly subverted the very biopic tropes that this one is all too eager to embrace. Coogan has his moments, and Winterbottom directs in a snazzy Swinging London style, which helps distract from the film's essentially episodic nature (and thrift-store shoplifts from Citizen Kane). Not a terrible movie, just a slight and unmemorable one.
THE GOOD ONES I ALREADY FORGOT I SAW PRINCE AVALANCHE: David Gordon Green's filmmaking choices have been so utterly inexplicable lately, you're not always sure which Green you're gonna get. Thankfully, his latest is a throwback to the low-key, lyrical mode of his early works, though with a bit of disarming buddy comedy (typical of more recent efforts) thrown in for good measure. It's a minor work, and overlong even at barely 90 minutes, but it's got a lovely homemade feel and a wry sense of conversational humor, and if it's slight, it's still satisfying.
TOY'S HOUSE: There's a wonderful, wistful way about Jordan Vogt-Roberts's coming-of-age-in-the-woods story, which is an awfully likable movie — eager to please, even. It captures the irresistible appeal of making one's own way, and the apocalyptic feeling of one's first heartache, and the photography is lovely (even if there are a couple too many frolicking-to-music montages). But it's all over the place, tonally — though the sidebars (like Nick Offerman and Alison Brie's encounter with a food delivery man) are some of the best stuff in it, and if the whole thing is a bit unruly and undisciplined, well, that's part of its charm.
HOPE YOU'VE GOT A STRONG STOMACH SIGHTSEERS: Ben Wheatley's Kill List follow-up isn't the easy, chuckle-headed black comedy you might expect from its trailers — this tale of two drab thirty-somethings, newly in love, whose pastoral holiday becomes a killing spree works in unexpected ways. Wheatley instills a feeling of uncertainty and discomfort as their crimes escalate; it initially appeals to our buried, murderous impulses, but as the offenses become more petty and slight, the film doesn't shy away from the implications of the material. And the way Tina (the wonderful Alice Lowe) becomes our object of sympathy by acting — by anyone's standards — less sympathetic is a thrilling subversion of audience assumption and expectation.
S-VHS: The lo-fi V/H/S, which premiered at Sundance only a year ago, was a genuinely scary bit of business somewhat hampered by a couple of less than stellar segments. This follow-up is tighter, shorter (only four segments, plus wraparounds), and more effective — there's not a bad bit in the lot, all of them creepy and unnerving, with moments of intentional (and gleeful) silliness. The "no one gets out of here alive" nihilism is a bit much, but the filmmakers' experiments in point-of-view are consistently absorbing, and the best continue to toy with our expectations of how much visual information can be revealed and withheld. Graphic, grim, and bloody, but boy does it get the job done.
VERY GOOD DOCUMENTARIES GOD LOVES UGANDA: Engrossing documentary by Roger Ross Williams is as fair and even-handed as you could ask for an examination of an infuriating subject to be. Williams cleanly sets up the movement of American evangelicals to sway the entire country of Uganda to their faith before moving, roughly a third of the way in, to the film's real topic: the country's persecution of its gay citizens, culminating in the notorious "kill the gays" bill. The film's access is remarkable, allowing us to see that the missionaries on the ground are often not bad people, not really, but they're part of a larger movement that is very scary indeed.
AFTER TILLER: The term "pro-choice" has been bandied about for so long that it's more of a placeholder than anything, but this extraordinarily compassionate and thought-provoking documentary by Martha Shane and Lana Wilson gives the second half of the term its full due. The ostensible subjects are the four remaining doctors who perform third-trimester abortions after the murder of Dr. George Tiller, but it's really about what goes on in those clinics — the difficult and often gut-wrenching choices made not only by the patients, but the doctors. The deck occasionally feels stacked, but no matter; this is an important film that looks unblinkingly at an important subject.
STORIES WE TELL: Sarah Polley's first feature documentary doesn't quite achieve the precision of her narrative efforts, but its experimental nature is one of its virtues; she's telling the story of the mother she barely knew, and the remarkable things she found out about her in recent years, via testimony (less documentary than "an interrogation process" she says, only half joking) from family and friends. It's an intriguing story with the turns of good fiction, and if she has trouble pulling it out in the clutch (there seems to be a real issue with how to properly end it), the genuine emotion and first-person insight into the slippery nature of objective truth ultimately win the day.
MANHUNT: The raid on Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound took 40 minutes, the opening text of Gregg Barker's Manhunt informs us, but "the CIA's hunt for Osama bin Laden took two decades." Barker's meticulous film, well-timed as a kind of documentary companion to Zero Dark Thirty, traces the agency's pursuit of the al-Qaeda leader via interviews with CIA analysts, case officers, journalists, FBI agents, and such marquee names as Mullen, McCrystal, and Hayden. It's an important and informative film, well organized (with clever visualizations of agency whiteboards), crisply cut, and fast-moving.
PRETTY GOOD DOCUMENTARIES GOOGLE AND THE WORLD BRAIN: Documentarian Ben Lewis examines the Google book-scanning project — on the surface, a high-minded attempt to gather all of the world's knowledge — seemingly free of an agenda, which allows him to approach the material from all sides. You can see it as a vital democratization of information (and it could well be); you can also see it as a blatant violation of copyright, an instrument for monopolization, and a gateway for data mining and privacy violations. Some of the flourishes are a bit much (see: unnecessary animations), but overall it's a through, clear, and detailed look at a landmark project, and the implications within it.
SOUND CITY: Foo Fighter-turned-filmmaker Dave Grohl's loving tribute to analog is a two part story: a history of the legendary Van Nuys studio of the title (where everyone from Tom Petty to Fleetwood Mac to Johnny Cash to his own Nirvana recorded), and a chronicle of the project he undertook when it shuttered, grabbing the site's beloved Neve Console and using it to put together an all-star album. Some of Grohl's voice-over is strained, and it's got that awkward director/narrator/interview subject hybridization (who's interviewing him, exactly?), but there's a wonderful musicality to the structure and editing, and the footage, both archival and new, is endlessly entertaining. (Grohl, razzing producer Butch Vig when Paul McCartney comes in to record: "Yeah, Butch, tell Paul McCartney what to do.")
THE BAIT-AND-SWITCH INTERIOR. LEATHER BAR.: Travis Matthews and James Franco's much-hyped "imagining" of the 40 explicit minutes cut from William Friedkin's controversial gay serial killer thriller Cruising isn't quite as advertised; there is some restaged/reimagined footage (and some of it is graphic), but nowhere near the 40 minutes we're being slyly led to expect. Most of Interior's running time is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of that re-creation, in a pseudo-documentary style, with ever-expanding questions of the degree to which it has all been scripted. A little bit of that stuff goes a long way, and it puts stress on our trust of the filmmakers, but this is nowhere near the insufferable navel-gaze of Franco's last faux-doc, Francophrenia. And there are some genuine and provocative conversations here about sex on screen, and how we relate to it. Or, as his leading man notes, "I think I've learned something. I don't know what it is…"
THE ONE I LIKED THAT PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE ELSE HATED BREATHE IN: Drake Doremous again takes Felicity Jones as his muse for this Like Crazy follow-up, in which she plays a kind-hearted exchange student who proves irresistible to her host family's father (Guy Pearce). It's not the freshet story in the book, and the melodrama of the third act nearly sinks the ship. But it's got a wonderfully intimate quality, where conversations seem overheard and slights are unintentional, and every performance in it is a winner.
THE FLAWED ONE THAT I'LL ALMOST CERTAINLY SEE AGAIN DON JON'S ADDICTION: Joseph Gordon-Levitt's feature directorial debut is a smart, funny, and shockingly candid tale of sexual objectification and porn addiction, wittily deconstructing the wild variations between sexual reality and fantasy. His Jersey Shore-styled performance is a terrific comic creation; Scarlett Johannson matches beautifully, having a ball as a hard-partying Jersey girl who knows she's got it like that. Some of the tropes are overdone (Julianne Moore's wise soul who knows all the angles, the "Silent Bob" character who is mute until a truth is to be told), but the direction is energetic and the playing is inspired.
THE RUNNER-UP C.O.G.: At long last, the peculiar wit of David Sedaris makes it to the screen with this absorbing adaptation of an essay from his collection Naked. Director Kyle Patrick Alvarez gets the tone of Sedaris' work just right, and his visual sense is appropriately droll; the shifts between comic and considerably more dramatic beats are nimbly executed. And, thankfully, there's an anything-goes air to it — you don't know where they're going, and that raises our interest considerably.
THE 5 BEST (THAT I SAW, SO TAKE THEM WITH A GRAIN OF SALT) 5. THE EAST: Zal Batmanglij's Sound of My Voice follow-up begins working from the same thematic playbook, exploring the dynamics of leaders and followers, this time within an anarchist group engaging in acts of "eco-terrorism," again penetrated by an outside observer (Brit Marling as an agent for a private security firm lousy with corporate clients). But if the pictures are superficially similar, it's more like comparing Scorsese's Who's That Knocking at My Door with Mean Streets — a case of a filmmaker returning to a theme of interest, but on a bigger canvas and with more sophistication and precision. This is a gripping, challenging, wicked smart film.
4. MUD: Jeff Nichols' previous effort, the overwhelming Take Shelter, was one of the more intense experiences of my recent movie-going life. His latest, a free-wheeling coming-of-age story with a dash of Southern Gothic, is much looser and (at first glance) laid-back, in what seems a deliberate attempt to avoid repetition. He assembles the story subtly, gingerly, and leisurely, soaking in the small-town details, and enjoying yet another masterful Matthew McConaughey performance, here engaged as a cagey character and fascinating enigma. But it's all tremendously absorbing, in its own particular way, and in its remarkable third act, the seemingly disparate secondary elements fold in, tightly, and become the primary focus. Everything adds up, which is perhaps the nicest surprise about this very fine film.
THE 5 BEST (THAT I SAW, SO TAKE THEM WITH A GRAIN OF SALT) (continued) 3. TOUCHY FEELY: A sweet and rather vulnerable picture from Lynn Shelton, writer/director of Your Sister's Sister, this time working up a narratively slight but emotionally overwhelming story of a family's difficulty communicating and interacting with themselves, and everyone else. Rosemarie Dewitt is particularly poignant as a massage therapist seized by a sudden, inexplicable feeling of disconnected helplessness. Moving and surprisingly visceral, Touchy Feely confirms Lynn Shelton is one of our most reliably compelling indie filmmakers.
2. THE SPECTACULAR NOW: James Ponsoldt's tender comedy/drama captures the milestones of adolescence (first kiss, first sex, first drink, first disappointment) in a manner so honest and true, it's dizzying. It's helped by the fact that they've cast the roles with actors who actually look and sound like teenagers: Miles Teller perfectly captures the misplaced cockiness of the handsome-enough joker, while Shailene Woodley disappears into the role of the shy wallflower who can only see the goodness in her flawed beau. Emotionally raw, indescribably moving, and one of the best of the fest.
1. BEFORE MIDNIGHT: We've arrived at part three of Richard Linklater's ongoing romantic chronicle, whose second chapter was a rare instance of a sequel topping its original — deeper, richer, more fully felt. It would seem impossible that Before Midnight could follow that upward trajectory, but somehow, it does; it expands and enriches the world of the series, and is also its own wonderful, perfect thing. It's (as expected) sweet and charming, but with an edge this time, a view of romance that has evolved into something more realistic, and worthy of closer consideration. Or, as Jesse notes near its end, "It's not perfect, but it's real."


The United States remains the most popular emigration destination for Chinese HNWI investment emigrants for the third year running, according to a just-released report out of China.
Canada, which the annual survey had placed behind the UK for the last two years, overtook the UK for the first time this year to become the second-most preferred destination for wealthy Chinese investors looking to relocate, while Australia remained in fourth place, the report, carried out by the Shanghai-based Hurun Research Institute consultancy, along with the Visas Consulting Group, reveals.
The ranking is based on interviews conducted between April and July of this year with 304 Chinese who had already emigrated or planned to do so, and whose average wealth was 20 million yuan (US$2.95m or HK$23m). Only jurisdictions that have "active investment immigration policies" in place were considered.
The jurisdictions were rated on the basis of educational opportunities, investment destination preferences, immigration policy, property purchasing, tax, medical care, visa-free travel, and ease of adaptability.
It is the fourth consecutive year that the report has been carried out.
The publication of the ranking comes at a time when growing numbers of jurisdictions that have long been favoured by Chinese immigrants, including the US, Canada and Australia, are looking to tighten up on immigration. The US, for example, is known to be considering major changes to its 25-year-old EB-5 investment visa programme, long known as the "golden visa" – including possibly doubling its current US$500,000.
A number of countries, again including Canada, have also seen the introduction of new regulations aimed at cooling housing markets that have been soaring in recent years as a result of foreign investors – including Chinese HNWIs – have been buying into them.
At the same time, cash-strapped countries, especially in the Caribbean in the last few years, have sought to encourage HNW immigrants with new "investment visa" programmes, many of which charge significantly more than the US does.
Rupert Hoogewerf, chairman, founder and chief researcher of the Hurun Report, noted that the number of Chinese HNWIs who say they are contemplating emigrating had dropped to "just under half, the lowest [percentage] on record", though he noted this was still a relatively high proportion, just not as high as the 60% that the figure tended to be in previous years.
This year more than ever, he added, Chinese HNWIs are facing an ever-widening array of choices to make as they consider whether to stay or go, and if they go, where to, as the US Federal Reserve has continued to raise interest rates, the yuan has undergone devaluation, property purchase restrictions have begun to be imposed on foreigners seeking to buy into certain popular overseas residential markets, and China's so-called Belt and Road initiative has promoted international investment at home.
If China were able to get a grip on such problems as education and pollution, which top the list of reasons Chinese HNWIs say they are considering emirating, "then the primary incentive to emigrate will have been taken away", Hoogewerf added.
To read and download the report from the Hurun website, click here.


The UK's new Minister for Aviation, Baroness Vere, has welcomed the progress made by UK aviation and aerospace companies on gender diversity.
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Why did Barak ask Deborah to go with him?
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ESV - 4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
The account of Abram's departure from Haran for Canaan at God's direction in Genesis 12 does not indicate that God told Abram to take Lot with him, or that God spoke separately with Lot and instructed him to go with Abram.
However, the Bible does say that Lot was the son of Abram's brother Haran (which would have made Lot Abram's nephew), and that Haran had died prior to Abram's departure from Ur (their original hometown)(Genesis 11:28), leaving Lot without a father.
After Haran's death, Abram had traveled, for reasons not specified, with his father Terah and his nephew Lot from Ur en route to Canaan. They got as far as Haran, the city, where they stopped and settled (Genesis 11:31). God then spoke to Abram and directed him to continue on to Canaan (Genesis 12:1). God also informed Abram at that time of how He would bless Abram for obeying Him.
Although the Bible does not indicate Lot's age at the time of his departure from Haran with Abram, and even though Terah (Lot's grandfather) was still alive when Abram left Haran, it can thus be inferred that Abram felt some responsibility for Lot's well-being, due to Terah's advanced age, and also Abram being Lot's closest living blood relative. Lot may also have actively wanted to continue on to Canaan with Abram, especially since Abram and Lot, as well as Terah, had originally been intending to reach Canaan anyway when they first left Ur. However, the Bible does not specifically say that.
Lot followed Abram through Canaan, then down to Egypt (due to a famine in Canaan), and then back to Canaan again, before the two of them separated, because the same area of land was not able to support their combined flocks and herds, causing Lot's and Abram's respective herdsmen to argue with one another. Lot therefore chose to settle in the plain of the Jordan River around Sodom (Genesis 13:11), and Abram settled at Hebron (Genesis 13:18).


Buttons the Man ! Amazing if slightly boring drive - But that's what everyone used to say about Schumacher when he was dominating races ! Looked after the tyres and it paid off, Wont be the last time his driving style pays off this season.
I really do enjoy seeing Hamilton whinge like a big girl when things dont go his way ! I was laughing at him moaning over the radio towards the end because he couldnt pass Alonso, even on fucked tyres !
I think the whole pukking Hamilton in and leaving Button out was a bit of a publicity stunt.. Mclaren wanted their new boy to show the world what he's got and that it wasn't just Brawn's (awesome) car that won him the championship last year.
I still think Hamilton deserved better!
Force india and Lotus let me down again!
Dont agree there - Hamiltion is Hard on tyres, He wouldnt have been anywhere if he'd had to make them last the race. He pretty much knackered up the extra set he had put on anyway, granted he was gunning for it though !
Theres no way Mclaren would Jepordise a chance of winning the world championship to prove a point.
they`l still win the championship its just they wanted to prove jenson can pull his weight in the `claren , hamilton finished 6th from 11th nd he lost half his splitter and was kamikazied by webber - still a good turnout considdering but it could have been better.
But surely an early win is good for Button's morale? And psycologically puts him in a good frame of mind for the rest of the season?


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How I Have Shamefully Benefitted from Patriarchy
Illustration: Akshita Monga
By Sonali Kokra Jan. 14, 2019
Patriarchy benefits me in the tiny ways that it can benefit only upper-class, upper-caste Hindu women in India. I hate that most workplaces won't treat me as equal, but I have to admit that it's a relief to have the freedom to fail professionally, or even choose to have a career at all.
When you've based your life's work in trying to make something happen, what do you do when it does, and within your lifetime?
As a feminist, I can't wait for a time when I don't spend days and weeks and months with rage headaches over the roaring sense of entitlement that men around me — friends, family, colleagues, even partners — carelessly and unabashedly wear on their sleeves. I can't wait for a time where worrying about my safety is not a full-time job — for me and those invested in seeing me alive until at least 87. And like my pack of angry, unshaven, potty-mouthed, man-hating wolfish sisters, I can't begin to put into words how desperately I'm waiting for a time when my vagina and my womb don't have to pay arbitrary taxes when we want to study, access healthcare, land a job, expect to be paid the same amount that a man would if/when said job has been secured. When I take a break from complaining about how garbage men are on Twitter so I can bask in the delightful glow of being told by garbage men that I'm just bitter because I'm fat and ugly and I actually just need to get laid, I daydream about what it would be like to walk the streets whenever I damn well please, wearing what I damn well please, without men concluding that it's obviously an open invitation for them to plant their palms on any part of my anatomy that appeals to them most.
The thought of living in a world where equality is a reality and a way of life thrills, excites, and… terrifies me. I'm ashamed beyond words to admit it, but it's true.
Because no matter how badly I want to pretend it's not true, the fact of the matter is, I benefit from patriarchy too. It doesn't benefit me in the obvious ways that it benefits women like, say, Smriti Irani and Mamata Banerjee, who have turned standing by and supporting the patriarchy a full-time occupation, but it does benefit me in the tiny, almost imperceptible ways that it can benefit only upper-class, upper-caste Hindu women in India. It doesn't benefit me enough to barter my lifelong beliefs for the sake of personal gain, but on some days, it is undeniable that it adds a cherry on top of my already privileged sundae of life.
I'm a feminist and the fall of the patriarchy terrifies me as much as many men I know.
I was raised in a fairly traditional Hindu household. We were wealthy enough for every child — girl or boy — to be afforded an education at some of the best schools in the city. However, even as young girls, my cousins and I knew there was a difference between us and our brothers in the purpose for our expensive schooling. While the boys were being put through the rigours of competitive exams and coaching for sought-after colleges and degrees to prepare them for the cruel, competitive world outside, our educations were little more than virtue signalling. Every road, at least in the minds of the people paying for those fancy private schools, ultimately led to the doorstep of our marital homes, but there was much pride to be had in marrying off a daughter who had wasted a perfectly good medical seat by never practising for a day in her life, than one who watched Bigg Boss repeats in the hope of finding sub-plots and missed nuances. None of us were expected to have careers or be employed, and even if we chose to have one, it was never meant to be anything more than a way to alleviate boredom. Maybe earn some extra pocket money for a designer handbag. Clichés and stereotypes often rankle because they hold within them the truths we'd rather not acknowledge.
This minimising of our dreams and academic achievements was infuriating, but also relieving in a twisted, roundabout way. Since there were no expectations or the big burden of responsibilities on our career choices, we were free to be whoever we wanted to be. No one frowned disapprovingly when I decided I was going to accept the laughable salary I was offered at my first writing job. When a male cousin expressed an inclination for an equally low-paying vocation, he was gently but firmly steered in the direction of the family business. Ten years on, he makes more in a week than I do in a month, but looks miserable every moment of every day while doing it. So yes, it rankles and enrages me when my family continues to uphold values that basically dictate that their honour resides in my hymen, but would I trade my life for my male cousin's? I never quite know how to answer that question.
This might be patriarchy's biggest gift to me, but it's not the only one.
As much as I hate the deafening messages all around me, teaching me that my value as a person is determined almost wholly by how appealing I am to the men around me, I don't know if that's any worse than being taught that the size of my bank balance dictates my worth in society.
I hate the male gaze, but I love male protection, and there is protection for upper-caste, upper-class, educated Hindu women like me, who have easy access to resources and platforms, and the agency to make use of the voice education blessed us with. There isn't a police station in the country that would turn me away if I ever found myself in the need for one.
I hate that most workplaces in the country won't treat me as equal, but as shameful as it is, I have to admit that it's a relief to have the freedom to fail professionally, or even choose to have a career at all. And yes, again, upper-class women almost always do have that choice.
I could go on and on while listing the micro and macro ways in which I benefit off of the patriarchy, but it all boils down to this — I'm a feminist and the fall of the patriarchy terrifies me as much as many men I know.
Does that mean I don't actually want an equal world? No. All it means is that I'm finally accepting that it would require some awkward renegotiation of life rules for me, the recipient of power, as much as the men around me, from whom the power might be taken away.
When you've based your life's work in trying to make something happen, what do you do when it does? Let's hope I, and other privileged feminists like me, have the opportunity to find out within this lifetime.
Sonali Kokra
Sonali Kokra is a journalist, writer, editor and media consultant from Mumbai. She writes on feminism, gender rights, sexuality, relationships, and lifestyle. In her 12-year-long career, she has written for national and international magazines, newspapers and websites. She was last seen as the lifestyle editor of NDTV, and HuffPost.com, and has published a coffee table book on Shah Rukh Khan.
POV A Question for Those Offended by the Amazon Toilet Covers: Do You Need to Defend the Divine?
#BoycottAmazon is trending in India, after the online retailer's international platform featured Hindu deities on toilet covers. But do all-powerful, all-knowing deities really require human protection?
POV How Do We Make Mumbai Actually Liveable? Pretend We're in Manhattan
Mumbai, with its crumbling infrastructure and open gutters, has become a nightmare. The truth is that Indian cities can be so infuriating at times that we've created our own special way of dealing with them – we pretend the problems don't exist.
POV When Did Terror Make Inroads into My Sleepy Toronto?
My hometown Toronto has been in the news for a spate of attacks on its diverse population. Are they a part of a creeping culture of polarisation and dissent? Is fear the new normal in Toronto, the only city where I've walked down dark alleys in the middle of the night?
POV How to Find Inner Peace: Lessons from the New-Age Dhongi Babas
It's become quite common to bump into a wannabe guru spouting gibberish disguised as deep insights about the universe. Inspired by the phenomenal success of holistic healers like Sadhguru and Baba Ramdev, they're trying their luck at turning spirituality into a business.
POV Who Will Be the Villain in the Biopic on Mumbai? Terrorists or Potholes?
Congratulations, Mumbai, your apathy truly deserves an applause. Your tax money is used to build roads, repair them, so when there are pothole-related casualties, you are paying for your own death. The biopic on the city should ideally be titled "Bombay, the City that Never Feels".


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Facebook's grip on teens may be loosening, but it's still their favorite social network -- for now.
A new survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found that teens are "diversifying" their social media platform use, with the vast majority using more than one social network to communicate with friends, post pictures, share memes and so on. However, Facebook remains the most popular social network among teens by a fairly wide margin.
Pew's latest survey, which polled 1,060 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17, found that 71 percent of them use Facebook. That percentage is slightly smaller than what Pew reported in its 2014 survey, which found that 73 percent of teens were using the social network.
This year's survey also found that 52 percent of teenagers use Instagram, which is owned by Facebook; 41 percent use Snapchat; 33 percent use Twitter; 33 percent use Google+; 24 percent use Vine; 14 percent use Tumblr and 11 percent use other sites not specified in the survey.
Pew's survey revealed that 41 percent of teens use Facebook "most often" of all their social networks -- the highest percentage of any social network on the list. Instagram came in second, at 20 percent.
"There has been a widely held notion that teens are disappearing from Facebook, but our new data doesn't support that assertion," Amanda Lenhart, associate director of research at Pew, told The Huffington Post via email.
While teens don't appear to be abandoning Facebook all at once, the social network may be losing them a little bit at a time. Last year, a survey by Frank N. Magid Associates found fewer teens in the United States were on Facebook overall compared to previous years: 88 percent of U.S. teens used it in 2014, versus 94 percent in 2013 and 95 percent in 2012. Facebook even said in 2013 that fewer young teens were using its product on a daily basis.
Pew's latest numbers come as Facebook attempts to extend its reach through new products and features. News recently leaked that the social network is trying to partner with news media for content hosted on its site. It's also bringing commerce to its popular Messenger app and exploring new video functionality.
Facebook did not respond to a request for comment from HuffPost about Pew's survey.


The global data center chip market was valued at $7,718.9 million in 2017, and is projected to reach $15,641.1 million by 2025, registering a CAGR of 9.4% from 2018 to 2025. North America was the highest contributor to the global market, with $2,933.2 million in 2017, and is estimated to reach $5,474.4 million by 2025, registering a CAGR of 8.3% during forecast period.
A data center is a premise of networked computers and storage that organizations from various fields use to organize, process, store, and disseminate massive amounts of data. A business usually depends heavily on the applications, services, and data contained within a data center, making it the point of focus and a vital asset for day-to-day activities. The data center chip is usually found in the server area within a data center and is one of the vital requirements in the premises.
The global data center chip market growth is driven by in cloud computing and advancements in chip technology. In addition, government regulations regarding localization of data centers fuel the market growth. However, high data center operations impede the market growth. Furthermore, increase in smart computing devices is expected to present enormous opportunities for the market in the coming years.
The key players profiled in the report include Intel Corporation, GlobalFoundries, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Arm Limited (SoftBank Group Corp.), Broadcom, Xilinx, Inc., Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and Nvidia Corporation. These key players have adopted strategies such as product portfolio expansion, mergers & acquisitions, agreements, geographical expansion, and collaborations to increase their data center chip market share.
The data center chip market size is segmented based on chip type, data center size, industry vertical, and region. Based on chip type, the market is divided into GPU, ASIC, FPGA, CPU and others. Based on data center size, the market is categorized into small & medium size and large size. Based on industry vertical, the market is classified into BFSI, manufacturing, government, IT & telecom, retail, transportation, energy & utilities and others. Based on region, the data center chip market trends is analyzed across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and LAMEA, along with their prominent countries.
The key trend that is helping the world of data center is the cloud and its connectivity to billions of connected devices such as PCs, autonomous vehicles, virtual reality systems, and others. When smart devices are connected to the cloud, the data generated can be analyzed in real time, enabling these devices to be more useful data center products. The emergence of artificial intelligence, virtual reality systems, and 5G network has given rise to the number of data centers, which in turn is driving the growth of the data center chip market.
Technological advancements in memory chip and programmable solutions such as FPGAs, ASICs among others, enhance their performance in connected devices and data centers. For instance, Intels 3D XPoint technology significantly improves access to large amounts of data. Next generation chip such as FPGA and ASIC, can efficiently meet the change in demands for data centers and speed up the performance in other applications. The combination of FPGAs, ASICs with cloud products helps in enhancing the overall performance of data centers. Hence, advancement in technology is driving the global data center chip market.
Several countries across the globe have passed data localization laws. This is primarily due to the regulatory and security reasons. Industry verticals, especially BFSI, are stringent regarding hosting its data in a data center out of the country. Therefore, these industries prefer having a local data center. For instance, Oracle, a technology giant in the U.S. proposed to set up a local data center in India for expanding its cloud services. Also, IBM and NTT Communications have two and three data centers respectively in India. Similarly, the Chinese regulatory, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), has also largely favored the issuance of Internet data center (IDC) licenses to local vendors. Furthermore, the Indonesian government Regulation No. 82 mandates Indonesian businesses conducting electronic transactions to store personal data in data centers in the country. Hence, favorable government initiatives to setup local data centers is in turn driving the global data center chip market.
Mobile networks are being used to connect all sorts of devices such as automated reading of utility meters, intelligent connectivity of cars, and commercial vehicles to enable drivers to access navigation, infotainment or breakdown services, traffic lights, home security, and assisted living among others. Technological advancements in several mobile computing devices and products, such as smartphones and smart TV, are driving the demand for sophisticated connectivity and enhanced networking solutions. A rise in the adoption of IoT & cloud computing is expected to drive the integration of the chips in the data center servers, which is expected to provide lucrative growth opportunities for the global data center chip market.
This study comprises an analytical depiction of the global data center chip market opportunity along with the current trends and future estimations to depict the imminent investment pockets.
The overall data center chip market forecast is determined to understand the profitable trends to gain a stronger foothold.
The report presents information related to key drivers, restraints, and opportunities with a detailed data center chip market analysis.
The data center chip industry is quantitatively analyzed from 2017 to 2025 to benchmark the financial competency.
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The global data center chip market promises high potential for the semiconductor industry. The business scenario has been witnessing an increase in the demand for data center chips, particularly in the developing regions, such as China, India, and others. Companies in this industry have been adopting various innovative techniques to provide customers with advanced and new product offerings.
Growth in cloud computing, advancements in chip technology, and government regulations regarding localizations of data centers drive the market. However, high data center operational cost impedes this growth. In the near future, increase in smart computing devices is expected to create lucrative opportunities for the key players operating in this market.
The global data center chip market was valued at $7,718.9 million in 2017, and is projected to reach $15,641.1 million by 2025, registering a CAGR of 9.4% from 2018 to 2025. North America was the highest contributor to the global market, with $2,933.2 million in 2017, and is estimated to reach $5,474.4 million by 2025, registering a CAGR of 8.3% during the forecast period. The market participants continue to introduce technologically advanced products to remain competitive in the market. Product launch and collaboration are the prominent strategies adopted by the market players.
The key players profiled in the report include Intel Corporation, GlobalFoundries, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Arm Limited (SoftBank Group Corp.), Broadcom, Xilinx, Inc., Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., and Nvidia Corporation.


A 21-year-old Lawrence resident died in a multiple-vehicle accident Sunday on Interstate 70 in Leavenworth County, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol report.
The 21-year-old, Tristan Kuritz, was driving a 2014 Chevrolet Cruze. Kuritz's vehicle was one of five involved in the accident, which occurred shortly after 3:30 p.m. Sunday near mile marker 213, about two miles east of the Leavenworth County Road 1 exit. Multiple lanes of I-70 were closed most of Sunday evening as authorities worked the accident scene.
All five vehicles, including one bus, were westbound on I-70. According to the KHP report, four of the vehicles, including the bus, were in the right lane, and the fifth vehicle was in the left lane. As the vehicles in the right lane were slowing and stopping due to traffic, the vehicle in the rear — a Ford E45 driven by Michael Weis, 62, of Columbia, Mont. — struck Kuritz's car, pushing it into the car in front of him, a Dodge Grand Caravan driven by Rachel Jones, 33, of Beloit; that car in turn struck the bus, driven by Roger Rodriguez, 64, of Kansas City, Kan. Meanwhile, the fifth vehicle — a Ford F250 driven by Robert Powell, 47, of St. Robert, Mo. — swerved from the left lane into the right lane to avoid hitting the vehicles involved in the crash, but it ended up striking Jones' vehicle. The vehicle that first hit the other vehicles, precipitating the crash, then struck a barrier.
That driver, Weis, was not injured in the crash, according to the KHP.
A passenger in Kuritz's car — Samantha Duckett, 21, of Lawrence — was taken to a hospital with a suspected minor injury. Both she and Kuritz, who died, were wearing seat belts, according to the KHP, as were all the other drivers.
Jones, the driver of the Dodge Grand Caravan, was taken to a hospital with a suspected serious injury.
Rodriguez, the bus driver, had no apparent injury, according to the KHP, and four other people on the bus had suspected minor injuries.
Powell, who had originally been driving in the left lane, had no apparent injury.


The Center for Biological Diversity has petitioned for federal Endangered Species Act protection for lake sturgeon, a species found in the Great Lakes and Mississippi River drainage. For more than a decade, University of Michigan researchers have been part of a multi-partner effort to help restore populations of lake sturgeon in Southeast Michigan's St. Clair and Detroit rivers by building rock spawning reefs.
Jim Diana is a fishery biologist, director of the Michigan Sea Grant program and emeritus professor at the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability. He began conducting lake sturgeon research on the St. Clair River system in the early 1990s.


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Q: Web Typography cinch box to type When using a <h1> tag for example, is there a reusable formula for getting the outer border of that element to PERFECTLY follow edges of the type? In theory I would expect this to work:
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So the line height is set to be the same as the absolute text height, which is also the height of the block. However this never works. Here is an example of what does work for sans-serif 38px;
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}

Here is another working example.
h1{
   display: block;
   font-family: sans-serif;
   font-size: 25px;
   line-height: 19px;
   height: 22px;
}

This is all well and good, but it has to be calculated manually in firebug each time. There is no formula I can find to do this.
Additionally, it would be nice if any solution also worked with @font-face fonts, but I understand there is more to take into account there. (like the top alignment that only occurs on Mac).
Does such a formula exist? Is it possible to write one? How about some LESS CSS fancyness?

A: I agree with @ToddBFisher in the comment, and at this point for me it's more of an usability issue. Consider people can also vary the font sizes in their browsers... in that case using ems would be better. But browsers also render font differently, so something that looks amazing in a mac will look pixelated in a pc. If you want something to look perfect, use images.
Check this other question for more info on line-height: How to achieve proper CSS line-height consistency
Or this one: CSS Line-Height Guide
You can also check the usability stack for discussions about these things: https://ux.stackexchange.com/ There are pretty amazing posts in there.

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