When it comes to discussing human rights on the border, it is simplest to say that US border policy is itself essentially one giant human rights abuse. We can look at virtually every abuse that occurs and recognize that at its root lies immigration policies (or the lack of them) and economic destruction backed by border militarization. It is the funneling effect of border militarization that leads to thousands dying in the desert and that turns the borderlands into occupied zones that exist under a kind of martial law. Undocumented workers and their families who are crossing the US-Mexico border in search of jobs are diverted to the harshest and least populated areas of the desert because of intensified border militarization taking place in larger population centers.
With this lesson, Gabe Shivone helps us put the issue in context with his opening article, Death as 'Deterrence': the Desert as a Weapon. That is followed by a short video, Deserted: The Human Rights Crisis on Our Soil, which briefly but powerfully portrays the inhumane effects of border policy. This is followed by two articles, including one by AfGJ's Chuck Kaufman, and one by Joseph Nevins, regarding the shooting of José Antonio Elena Rodriguez. These articles are followed by a short video by Pan Left's Brenda Limón, recorded at a memorial for Carlos Lamadrid, yet another teen killed by Border Patrol agents.
We especially want to call your attention to the Further Study and Additional Resources section. The No More Death's report, A Culture of Cruelty should be front and center of any study of human rights abuses on the border and was included in the "Further Study" section by virtue of its length. The report documents 30,000 incidents where human rights abuses occurred between Fall of 2008 and Spring of 2011. The report is based on interviews of nearly 13,000 persons in the Mexican border towns of Agua Prieta, Naco and Nogales, Sonora. Also included are relevant reports by Amnesty International and the American Civil Liberties Union. We strongly encourage those who want to best grasp the issue of border repression to read and study these reports.
The photographs and visual material included speak for themselves and bear a powerful and direct testimony to the situation of Border Repression and Human Rights.
A March 2010 Congressional Research Service report entitled "Border Security: the Role of the Border Patrol" candidly details government policy goals and strategies in recent history. In 1994, the report explains, the U.S. adopted a "new policy" of militarizing urban border areas in order to reroute and steer anticipated human migration into "geographically harsher," "more remote and hazardous border regions" (mostly through the Arizona desert), as a way of "deterring" migrants from crossing.
Forgoing any subtly, "enforcement," in this instance, is a euphemism for "mortal danger" as a premeditated method of death by example to deter human beings from crossing unauthorized into the US.
The darkly euphemistic language of "controlling" (in contrast to stopping) unauthorized immigration is crucial in understanding the enforcement management system of death as a measure of deterrence capacity. A "key assumption" of the 1994 Strategic Plan was that migrant apprehensions "will decrease as Border Patrol increases control of the border." Having observed the actual consequences of anticipated effects of blunt "control" efforts, the APHA report cited above notes that "despite a nearly 50 percent drop in Border Patrol apprehensions"—as coolly predicted by Border Patrol in 1994—and despite "the recent economic downturn, and a decrease in border crossings, migrant deaths along the border continue to increase" (my emphasis).This morbid trend over the past two decades is acutely evident. According to state medical examiners and human rights groups 14 deaths in the year of the strategy's fateful onset, 1994, jumped to 90 deaths in 2000, to 145 deaths in 2001, to 163 deaths in 2002. The next year, in one of those rare moments of candor that occasionally crop up from retired government officials, former Tucson Border Patrol sector chief, Ron Sanders, was quoted an article in The Nation magazine on U.S. border militarization policy: "By every measure, the strategy is a failure. All it's accomplished is killing people….If you had airplanes crashing in this country with the same numbers [of deaths], you'd have everybody after the FAA. But since these people [dying] are Mexicans, no one seems to care."Hundreds of deaths, year after year, have followed. Some 178 human remains were recovered for the 2012 fiscal year ending in September, 2012, with eight more tolled remains recovered in October.
But what creates this mass human migration in the first place? What is driving people northward? One of the conclusions of a study released in 2010 by specialists in part from the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars' Mexico Institute suggests the answer that has long been obvious. The effects of U.S.-imposed trade policies like NAFTA (implemented in 1994) reflect a veritable golden age for U.S. Agribusiness elites.
At other end of lucrative economic policies the human consequences tell a different story. U.S.-imposed, NAFTA product-dumping on Mexico (where exports including numerous staple meats and crops were forced on the Mexican market below the production costs of Mexican farmers) destroyed the Mexican farming sector, which in turn overwhelmed the urban sector with farmers who were newly out-of- work and growing desperate. Meanwhile U.S. industrial jobs disappeared when firms relocated (i.e. outsourced) to Mexico.
The predictable result was an economic depression of U.S. workers and Mexican farmers, who suffered the annihilation of roughly 3 million jobs on both sides of the border. Those harshest affected, throughout deep rural Mexico, began migrating to the U.S. mainly to try and provide for their families back home after their local economies were devastated by U.S. policies, with the collaboration of the Mexican government.
Border enforcement activities also do not address the root causes of migration, which include the growing socioeconomic disparities in sending countries, coupled by the demand for low-skilled, low-wage workers in the United States. Although some unauthorized migrants enter the United States to seek asylum, most enter for economic reasons. Per capita incomes in the United States are 5 to 7 times higher than those of Mexico and most Central and South American countries. Various studies also suggest that the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the related intensified liberalization of the Mexican economy resulted in strengthening migratory pressures. Combined with the resulting intensifying social and infrastructural links between the 2 countries, the research suggests that the rural exodus leads to an increase in migration from Mexico to the United States, a development of which the Clinton Administration was very much aware. In terms of farm labor, for example, a NAFTA-related trade deficit (in favor of the United States) contributed significantly to the loss of an estimated 1.3 million jobs in Mexico's agricultural sector between 1994 and 2002. Because opportunities for legal entry into the United States to seek employment are limited, people resort to unauthorized attempts to gain entry. Deaths among unauthorized migrants are emerging as a major public health issue that is intertwined with social, economic, and political factors.
So rolls a vicious cycle: economic violence first shakes to the bone Mexican and other Global Southern communities and sends people migrating for their lives across the relatively rich borders of the U.S. At this time a second wave of political violence is inflicted on them in which the "mortal danger" of "geographically remote," "harsh" and "hazardous" conditions of the AZ-Sonora desert are predictably turned into deadly weapons of U.S. border enforcement policy. To top it off, undocumented people face a social death among U.S. civil society and the violence of an incarceration system, to which we now turn.
The "dramatic increase" in detention to accommodate the tripling number of human beings disappeared by the state called for the contracting of 350 state and county jails across the U.S., Amnesty reported. Sixty-seven percent of detainees were held in these facilities, AI wrote, while the remaining people were held in immigration detention facilities and private prisons.
With the explosion of anti-immigrant legislation searing Arizona and the nation, the important difference in the years following Amnesty's ominous report is that its findings are now likely relegated to the realm of understatement. In October 2010, National Public Radio (NPR) issued a whistleblower report on the incarceration industry riding the wave of detention increases reported by Amnesty in 2009. Corporate reports of private prison giant Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) demonstrated the belief held by executives that "immigrant detention is their next big market," according to NPR, which reviewed the reports. In 2009, CCA "wrote that they expect to bring in 'a significant portion of our revenues'" from the results of ICE apprehensions.
NPR noted having spent several months analyzing hundreds of pages of legislative campaign finance reports, lobbying documents and corporate records. They revealed an industrial partnership of state- corporate representatives behind the drafting of anti-immigrant legislation—in particular notorious SB 1070, or the "Show Me Your Papers" law signed in April 2010, which criminalized undocumented people in the State of Arizona.
These conditions are only cemented further after the U.S. Supreme Court's June 2012 upholding of SB 1070's provision requiring local police officers to carry out immigration law through enacting "reasonable suspicion".
Of course, there are other kinds of violence involving illegal drugs and gang warfare in border regions as well. Take, for instance, the U.S. teens who were murdered in Juarez in February when they were inadvertently caught in the crossfire of a gang war. While the event was widely reported nationally, nowhere mentioned was the fact that most of the guns that enable and are a part of this sort of violence are provided by Arizona and the U.S.—a fact even readily admitted by the Obama administration. Or that the principal demand for illegal drugs originates here in the states as a multi-billion-dollar industry. But instead of dealing with the problem of illegal drugs by decriminalization and dealing with drug addiction by increasing social programs of education, prevention and treatment, the Obama Administration continues to apply increased enforcement measures in the so-called "war on drugs," which only make these huge problems dangerously worse. Leading border scholar, Timothy Dunn, calls this sort of violence—of the drug, immigration, and terror wars all converging—"a perfect storm". Because now each of these ideologically charged topics are joined and used as an excuse by state and federal authorities to aggrandize enforcement resources, largely benefiting big business, and exacerbate issues that should rather be dealt with in economic and social terms.
A 4-minute video by Dana Variano and Ishita Srivastava for Breakthrough. "Deserted" calls viewers to recognize the deaths on the border as a human rights crisis.
On October 10, a US Border Patrol agent shot through the border fence into an urban neighborhood in the Mexican city of Nogales and shot to death a 16-year-old Mexican citizen. The Border Patrol has claimed that the boy was "throwing rocks" and that the officer "feared for his life." On Oct. 18, I crossed the border into Nogales and asked a resident to lead me to the site of the youth's death. The man who took me there told me that the boy was shot nine times and showed me the bullet pocked wall of the building where he died.
I stood on the rose petal covered site where the young boy spent the last moments of his life. I looked across the two-lane street and parking lane to the 30-foot-high embankment topped by the 20-foot- high metal border fence. I thought, "How could a boy throw a rock that height and distance and have the rock be a threat to a US Border Patrol agent close enough to the fence to see him?" The answer, of course, is that he couldn't. I doubt I could clear the fence with a baseball, but even if I could, it would sail well beyond the fence before touching ground. (I'd have to use a baseball because there were no rocks anywhere within sight.) I have no doubt that there are places where Border Patrol agents could be hit by a rock thrown across the border, but the spot I stood that morning in Nogales is not one of them.
The rose petals mark the place where José Antonio Elena Rodríguez was shot 9 times by the US Border Patrol from where they stood behind the bars of the 20 foot border fence in the US to where he stood three blocks from his home in Mexico. On the wall you can see bullet holes and specks of blood where still on the ground.
My dentist, who was the reason for my Nogales trip, said he knows the parents of the boy who was killed. I gave him the contact information for Coalicion de Derechos Humanos, the Southern Arizona immigrant rights group that I volunteer with in my free time. (www.DerechosHumanosAZ.net) While standing on the spot where José Antonio Elena Rodríguez bled to death from multiple wounds, I could clearly see a set of cameras posted on the US fence and pointed directly at me. I can only conclude that the US government has a videotape of the deadly incident which should be released.
There have been far too many cases of US Border Patrol agents killing Mexicans and US citizens on both sides of the border. Just recently a Border Patrol agent was killed when he and other US agents got into a deadly firefight with each other on a dark night in rugged territory where they were investigating a tripped sensor which could have been tripped by a person or an animal. The deaths are the result of Border Patrol "rules of engagement" that allow agents to fire their weapons in too many circumstances where deadly force is not necessary. Shooting across the border at an alleged rock throwing child is certainly one of those times when the agent has a host of response choices that fall short of the use of deadly force.
It is time to say "no more" to US law enforcement initiated border killings. This must stop with the death of Jose Antonio. No more can we allow these deaths to be swept under the rug without serious investigation and without holding the killers accountable for their actions. It is a serious international incident for a country's uniformed officers to fire into another country. It is even more serious when that violation of international law results in the death of citizens of that country. Turkey and Syria are on the verge of war right now due to just that kind of incident. While no one expects that Mexico will retaliate militarily, it is that serious of an incident. We have to demand that our public officials conduct a full, independent and transparent investigation of Rodriguez' killing and a top-to-bottom review of Border Patrol policies regarding use of deadly force.
Chuck Kaufman is the AfGJ's National Co-Coordinator.
It was in the early hours of October 2 that a ground sensor alarm went off near Naco, Arizona, in an area suspected to be a drug-smuggling corridor. U.S. Border Patrol agents responded, shots were fired, and Agent Nicholas Ivie, 30, was soon dead.
A little more than a week later, late on the night of October 10, Border Patrol agents responded to a report of two alleged narcotics smugglers near the boundary wall that divides Nogales, Arizona from Nogales, Sonora. As in the Naco incident, shots were fired, and someone was killed. In this case, the victim was José Antonio Elena Rodríguez, a 16- year old youth.
In both cases, the killers were Border Patrol agents (unidentified as of this writing). Where they differ is that the first case was a mistake, one involving "friendly fire"; the second incident was not. According to the Border Patrol's one, brief official statement on the Nogales incident (see below), an agent shot the young man after being assaulted by rocks thrown from the Mexican side of the boundary.
Although the investigation into José Antonio Elena Rodríguez's death is ongoing on both sides of the international divide, what seems very clear is that the shooting was easily avoidable. That it happened also highlights the urgent need to de-escalate the multifaceted "war" in the borderlands and to demilitarize the region.
Whether or not José Antonio Elena Rodríguez's was the intended target of the Border Patrol's hail of bullets—with several hitting him (according to one report, seven struck him in the back) and upwards of 12 striking the building he was beside—is not known. The lawyer representing the Rodriguez family in this case surmises that José Antonio might have simply at the wrong place at the wrong time, that he was on his way to the nearby convenience store where his older brother worked to help him close his shift.
Regardless, it stretches credulity that the young man could have posed a threat to Border Patrol agents. José Antonio Elena Rodríguez was on a street in downtown Nogales that runs along Mexico's northern boundary when he was shot, at least 50 feet away (in terms of on-the- ground distance) from the agents. Moreover, the agents were 15-20 feet or so above the street, standing on a cliff behind a 20-25-foot- high wall.
Because the wall is porous—it is composed of vertical steel bars with gaps of 5-6 inches between them—rocks could have passed through in theory if thrown from a position directly across from the agents. Nonetheless, a combination of desert brush along the lower reaches of the barrier (see the photo), the distance, and the narrowness of the gaps would have made it extremely difficult to succeed at striking the agents. But even if rocks were passing through, the agents, if they felt threatened, could have moved laterally and taken advantage of the protection afforded by the steel bars and the changed angle.
The agent (or agents) who fired upon José Antonio Elena Rodríguez would have had to have been standing right along the wall to shoot between the steel bars. As such, the Border Patrol would not have been threatened by rocks flying over it. Had they been, the agents could have simply retreated as the suspected drug smugglers were long gone, having already scaled the barrier and back in Mexican territory.
That the agents did not evade the alleged threats and, instead, responded with deadly force is indicative of what has become an institutional way of life for the U.S. Border Patrol—and the "homeland security" apparatus in the borderlands more broadly. It is also illustrative of a pervasive worldview among federal authorities that casts the U.S.-Mexico border region as dangerous, and inherently so— as if the alleged dangers had nothing to do with the militarized infrastructure and practices of exclusion implemented by Washington.
José Antonio Elena Rodríguez is the second Mexican teenager shot by the U.S. Border Patrol in Nogales, Arizona, in less than two years. In January 2011, an agent fired into Mexico, killing Ramses Barron, 17, also allegedly for throwing rocks. According to the Los Angeles Times, at least 15 individuals—including unarmed and non-resisting migrants in federal custody—have died at the hands of U.S. border authorities since 2010.
Such levels of state violence—and impunity for such—are what typically characterize war zones and territories under occupation. In this regard, it is hardly a coincidence that occupied Palestine is also a place where alleged rock throwers are sometimes fired upon—in this case by the Israeli military—and killed.
Both Nicholas Ivie and José Antonio Elena Rodríguez died in the effort to stymie drug smuggling, as part of the "war on drugs," one component of the multifaceted conflict waged by Washington in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Their deaths and the shootings that caused them are tragic reminders that the "war" is actually not against narcotics, so much as it is against people—those actually involved in the illicit drug trade, those imagined to be, and those who just happen to be in the way of those charged with waging the war. And in the case of the borderlands—effectively defined by U.S. authorities as one of the epicenters of the militarized battle against drug trafficking—it is a war of sorts against the region and the communities within.
There is only one way out of the dead end that is multifaceted war (on drugs, crime, unauthorized migrants, and "terror") in the borderlands: put an end to the hostilities, beginning with a program of gradual de- escalation and demilitarization.
Just this week, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the government of the Philippines signed a peace deal, ending decades of war. Meanwhile, in Oslo, Norway, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Colombian government are set to begin peace talks today in relation to their more than 50-year conflict. That the parties to such seemingly intractable wars have shown a willingness to negotiate with the goal of achieving just and peaceful coexistence provides hope that things can and will be far different someday in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
Special thanks to Murphy Woodhouse for generously sharing his analysis and on-the-ground research.
The Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC) has learned that the U.S. government's Office of the Inspector General will conduct an investigation of various cases of brutality or use of excessive force by agents of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the parent agency of the Border Patrol. The SBCC press release revealing the probe is available here.
Also available on the SBCC website is an annotated list of individuals killed or brutalized by CBP agents since the beginning of 2010. Finally, Pedro Rios of the American Friends Service Committee, a member organization of the SBCC, has written a very helpful analysis of the growing number of cases involving excessive and deadly use-of- force by CBP agents, with a focus on the most recent cases, including that of José Antonio Elena Rodríguez. His analysis is available here.
Joseph Nevins teaches geography at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Among his books are Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid (City Lights/Open Media, 2008) and Operation Gatekeeper and Beyond: The War on "Illegals" and the Remaking of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (Routledge, 2010). For more from the Border Wars blog, visit nacla.org/blog/border-wars.
In 2011, US Border Patrol agents shot and killed 19-year-old US citizen Carlos Lamadrid at the border fence at Douglas, Arizona. 4-minute-video by Brenda Limon for Pan Left video collective.


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The three main garden ingredients for these cabbage rolls are cabbage, new potatoes, and green onion tops. I make cabbage rolls this way for one very simple reason; all three of these ingredients are available from my garden at the same time. These cabbage rolls are actually a combination of two different Polish dishes; golabki, which are cabbage rolls stuffed with a meat and rice mixture; and pierogi, which are a wheat dough dumpling stuffed with a mashed potato mixture. I came up with this recipe on my own, but I'd be willing to bet that it already exists in some European folk cuisine. After all, I'm not the first gardener in the world that has potatoes, cabbages, and onions all come ready at the same time. So let's make some cabbage rolls.
and a few green onion tops. You can use chives, but I just pull a few smaller green onion tops and then cut them up with my kitchen shears.
I also like to add a little diced canned jalapeno to my rolls to give them a little zing.
In addition to these ingredients you will need a couple of tablespoons of butter, a heaping tablespoon of sour cream or plain yogurt, some shredded cheese of your choice, and a little salt and pepper.
Peel your potatoes and put them in a medium pot. Cover and boil slowly until done.
When potatoes are done, drain them and leave the potatoes in the pot. Use a potato masher or a fork to roughly break the potatoes up.
Add your butter and sour cream and mash the potatoes until they are pretty creamy.
Add shredded cheese and stir in well.
Add salt and pepper to taste and stir again.
Lastly add your green onion and jalapeno and stir until evenly distributed.
Now the filling is finished. Set it aside or put it into the refrigerator and let it firm up a little while you prepare the cabbage.
To prepare the cabbage first rinse it and then cut out the core.
Put two or three inches of water into a stock pot and place it over high heat.
Put your head of cabbage in the stock pot with the core end down. You are going to steam the cabbage for a few minutes to soften the leaves and make them easier to remove without breaking. About five to seven minutes ought to do it.
Turn off the heat and remove the cabbage from the stock pot. Be careful. It's really hot. I use a couple of big wooden spoons to do this.
Carefully remove the cabbage leaves one at a time and stack them in a pan. The dark green outer leaves are a little tough, so you are better off using the light-green inner leaves. You will need eight leaves, so remove ten just in case.
Now take a sharp paring knife and shave off the top portion of the rib on each leaf. By thinning the rib down you will have an easier time rolling up the leaf when the time comes.
Now take your filling and divide it into eight equal portions. I just flatten it out in the pot and use my knife to slice it into eight wedges like you would a pizza.
Lay a cabbage leaf out on your cutting board with the rib side down and place one of your eight portions of filling at the bottom of the leaf. I kind of shape it into a little oblong mound.
Roll the leaf up to cover the filling.
Fold the sides of the leaf in even with the ends of the filling.
Now finish rolling up the leaf.
Place the finished cabbage roll into a lightly greased baking dish.
Now repeat this for the rest of the rolls.
When your dish is full cover it with aluminum foil.
Place the covered dish into a preheated 375 degree F. oven and bake for about 20 minutes. Remember, everything is already cooked. All you're doing is heating it up.
I like to top these with butter and sour cream when I serve them. Note that there's already a bite missing. They're so good that I couldn't wait.


"May God hold you close as we think of you"
Mary passed peacefully away on 26th September in Cypress Court Nursing Home, aged 93 years. The beloved wife of the late Harold, much loved mum to Susan and her husband John. Also a cherished nana to Julie and Donna and great nanna to Daniel and Harley who will be sadly missed and fondly remembered by all her family.
Mary's funeral will take place on Monday 8th October at St Peter's Church, Minshull Vernon at 11.45am followed by cremation.


Paul A. Christensen's new book is a thoughtful ethnography of drinking, drunkenness, and male sociability in modern urban Japan. Focusing on two major alcohol sobriety support groups in Japan, Alcoholics Anonymous and Danshukai, Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity: Suffering Sobriety in Tokyo (Lexington Books, 2014) explores the ways that admitting to and living with alcoholism in Japan challenges prevailing norms of masculinity and sociability, and looks carefully at its profound consequences for the individual sufferer. We spoke about the book for the New Books in East Asian Studies podcast and you can listen to our conversation here.


Earlier this month the Office for Divine Worship of the Archdiocese of Hartford hosted two workshops entitled, "A New Translation for a New Missal," regarding the changes in the Catholic Roman Missal at the Archdiocesan Center at St. Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield. The changes to the missal will take effect on November 27, the first Sunday of Advent.
Msgr. James P. Moroney, who is the executive director of Vox Clara, a committee in charge of reviewing and approving all texts for liturgical celebrations in every language, led the two separate workshops: one for priests and the other for the laity.
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There are many things in the Lords of Havoc Series that I take straight from the pages of history. People, events, inventions… The world was a magical and mysterious place in 1841, and although I took a few liberties with the facts, most of the world that Asher and Ivy live in is pretty darned accurate. Here are some interesting things from Mayhem and the Marquess that you might not have known were real:
The scientists. Several characters in the British Association for the Advancement of Science are based on real scientists. In fact, the Association itself is real, as was their rivalry with the Royal Society. Both organizations sought to be the most well-respected forerunner of science and innovation, but they had very different ideas on what sort of people should be members. Charles Babbage was a mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer in England during this time. David Brewster was also real, a Scottish scientist known as the "father of modern experimental optics." Also featured in the book was Sir William Fothergill Cooke and mention of his partner, Sir Charles Wheatstone, the inventors of the first rudimentary telegraph. Asher and Ivy attend a BAAS meeting wherein they are treated to a display of Cooke and Wheatstone's invention. The two scientists did demonstrations of the telegraph in England right around the time the novel takes place, although I don't know if Cooke was fond of strawberry tarts or not. 😉
Gas Lighting. Gas lighting was mentioned several times throughout the book, as this was the primary method of illumination during this time. Up until the turn of the 19 th century, people relied on fires, candles, and oil lamps for lighting purposes, which can be very romantic, but not awfully effective. The invention of gas lighting changed the way much of Europe operated, both industrially and at home. The scene in which Asher watched Ivy bathe is lit by gaslight installed as gas wall brackets, which would have been a staple in any well-to-do Victorian London home at that point. But Make no mistake! Gas light had some interesting drawbacks. For one thing, it's an open flame surrounded by glass, so they often scorched walls and ceilings where they were used, not to mention set plenty of drapes on fire! The other effect of gas lighting that isn't widely spoken of is its dangerous fumes that were not mitigated or regulated during that time. So "fits of the vapors" were actually often caused by, well, vapors from the gas lights used in closed rooms.
Acquired Savant Syndrome. In the novel, Asher's condition in which his brilliance often leads to overwhelming thought processes and migraines does not have a name. And sadly, people with such afflictions were often mistakenly put in insane asylums like the real one Asher is committed to. But much later, it would be called Acquired Savant Syndrome. This is when the brain receives a major trauma (like when Asher fell out of the tree as a child) and changes the way it works as it heals. When this occurs, prodigious skills begin to emerge in the person, but it is not without price. Some people with Acquired Savant Syndrome report symptoms like migraines, emotional volatility, and other
mental disorders that all came along with their new abilities. Asher's "megrims" are just such a symptom of this condition, and I am happy that, at least in the world I created for him, he is able
to conquer it.
Psychopathy. You'll never read the term serial killer in a Victorian novel. That's because the term wasn't invented until the 1970s. However, there are men in Mayhem and the Marquess that certainly fit the definition, and these men would be categorized as psychopaths. Psychopath is the word used to describe a sociopath with the potential for violence. And what is a sociopath, you may ask? A sociopath is someone who lacks the ability to feel empathy towards others and is therefore unable to develop healthy emotions towards the world around them. They do not feel sadness for others or guilt over violence or manipulation. In Mayhem and the Marquess, both Ivy's father and Thomas Claymore display these characteristics at certain points. However, Ivy's father does show love towards his daughter and remorse for his actions, so it would be difficult
to put him in that category and leave him there, despite the fact that he is what we would call a serial killer. Claymore, on the other hand, shows all the classic signs of being a psychopath. He is violent, egotistical, and remorseless for the pain he causes others. He believes in his own infallibility in serving a higher cause and is sexually aroused by violence. Many famous serial killers throughout history have similar pathologies. There is very interesting research about the diagnosis and characteristics of sociopathy and psychopathy, so I highly encourage anyone interested in the subject to dive into this fascinating area of psychology!
Isn't history just the greatest? I hope you enjoyed learning a little bit about the people, conditions, and inventions mentioned in Mayhem and the Marquess. If you have any questions about anything mentioned here or anything in the novel, you're always welcome to ask! I love hearing from readers!
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Melania Trump Says She's One Of The 'Most Bullied' People In The World
Filed Under:BE BEST, Bullying, Melania Trump, President Donald Trump, White House
(CBSNEWS) – First lady Melania Trump, whose "Be Best" campaign focuses on the well-being and bullying prevention efforts of young children across the country, says she considers herself to be one of the "most bullied" people in the world. In excerpts of a wide-ranging interview set to air on ABC News on Friday, Trump also discussed an environment of distrust in the White House as an area of concern.
"I could say that I'm the most bullied person on [sic] the world," the first lady said. "One of them — if you really see what people are saying about me." She said the personal connection is one reason that led her to focus on educating children on best practices for social media and online behavior.
U.S. First Lady Melania Trump tours the Egyptian pyramids and Sphinx in Giza, Egypt, October 6, 2018, the final stop on her 4-country tour through Africa. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
Trump did not cite specific examples of acts of bullying against her.
Trump spoke to ABC News during her recent trip to Africa where she interacted with babies and school-aged children in an effort to raise awareness of her personal initiative as first lady.
The first lady also revealed that there have been several people within her husband's administration whom she did not trust. She admitted that such discord makes it "harder" to govern, adding "you always need to watch your back."
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A New City Of Champions
By: Mistie BugarinPosted on February 1, 2021
By Eric Adelson
Special to FOX Sports
TAMPA, Fla. – Aric Almirola never dreamed of a Tampa sports streak like this. When he was growing up, three Tampa teams playing for championships wasn't just unlikely — it was impossible.
The city had only one big-time professional sports franchise, and that team wasn't very big-time at all. After all, that team, the Buccaneers, played in a hulking, concrete sauna of a stadium known as "The Big Sombrero."
"My earliest memory of Tampa sports was going to a Bucs game at the old Sombrero," says Almirola, driver of the No. 10 Ford Mustang on the NASCAR circuit. "They were orange and white and honestly terrible."
Tom Brady has helped change Tampa's image by taking the Bucs to their second Super Bowl – and his 10th.
Back then, the Lightning were nonexistent, and the Rays were but a glimmer in the eye of original owner Vince Naimoli.
"When I was really young," Almirola says, "I was a Braves fan."
The Braves' home field was almost 500 miles away in Atlanta.
Almirola isn't ancient; he's 36. But in the past five months, the Lightning won the Stanley Cup, the Rays won the American League pennant, and now the Buccaneers are in Super Bowl LV, a game being played right on Dale Mabry Highway.
NASCAR driver Aric Almirola is a lifelong Tampa sports fan.
"It's something, 100 years from now, they'll still talk about," Bucs general manager Jason Licht says. "During the pandemic, all the teams had success."
And that makes it bittersweet. The COVID-19 pandemic has cast a shadow over the entire sports landscape, disrupting each season and muting each celebration.
The Lightning had their entire championship run in Canada; the Rays fought their way to the World Series in California and Texas. Even the semi-pro Rowdies soccer club made the USL title round, only to see their final match canceled because of COVID.
Now, Super Bowl LV has come to Tampa, but the event is something less than the weeklong party it might've been.
"Tampa is a beautiful place to do that," Almirola says. "To have it squashed and limited, it's not showing Tampa at its full potential."
The silver lining is that Tampa's potential is surging right along with its sports. This part of Florida is one of the country's fastest-growing metropolitan areas, with its population having more than doubled over the past 40 years. Visitors to Sunday's Super Bowl won't recognize Tampa compared to the town that hosted the game in 1984, the year Almirola was born.
"When I first got here," former mayor Bob Buckhorn says, "there were 800 people living downtown — and 400 lived in the jail."
Tampa now evokes thoughts of lolling waves, pristine boats and sunlight glinting off high-rise apartment towers. But the city's roots come from Cuban and Spanish immigrants, many of whom came here to roll cigars.
"We always look at ourselves as scrappers," says Buckhorn, who was mayor from 2011 to 2019. "This is not a city that spends its life on the beach. It's working people."
There is a small-town feel, even with sports celebrities such as Derek Jeter living here. Jeter's mansion — which Bucs quarterback Tom Brady rented — is only a short walk from Buckhorn's house. Buckhorn sees Tom and Gisele walking their dogs.
The neighborhood feel can be amusing. Brady mistakenly walked into a stranger's house this summer, thinking it was the residence of Bucs offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich.
Then there was the time a city recreation worker spotted Brady in a local park — a violation of lockdown rules. "Sorry, sir!" he politely said. "The park is closed." Mayor Jane Castor mentioned the sighting as an aside during an online town meeting, and it went viral.
"It wasn't like it was a big deal," she says with a laugh, "but that's kind of the way Tampa is."
There's a bit of a double identity: the new Tampa, with Tom Freakin' Brady as just another Florida Man, and the old Tampa, where few residents have memories of sports bedlam. When Brady arrived in college at Michigan in the mid-1990s, the Bucs had hosted a grand total of two playoff games in their history, and they lost one of them by a score of 9-0.
"I vividly remember my father at a picnic table in the garage, listening to the Bucs on a transistor radio," Castor says, "being disappointed year after year."
When the NHL's Lightning arrived in 1992, the team's first home arena was located at the local fairgrounds in an 11,000-seat building used for horse shows and REO Speedwagon concerts.
"I was 8 years old," Almirola recalls. "Hockey was so far out of the norm for us in Florida. I thought, 'What?! We're in Florida. We don't even get snow.' I didn't understand how we were going to make it work. Won't the ice melt?"
The ice did not melt — at least not during games — but the fairgrounds weren't going to work. And neither would the Lightning's next stop: Tropicana Field. Back then, it was called the ThunderDome.
But fans loved the new franchise. The team made the playoffs for the first time in 1996, and one postseason game that year drew more than 28,000 fans — still a record. "I was assistant to the mayor," Buckhorn says. "Everyone was astounded that hockey could succeed in Florida."
The MLB "Devil Rays" — so named because a minor-league team in Maui owned the rights to "Sting Rays" – arrived in the ThunderDome in 1998. They fielded good teams, playoff teams, but nationally, the Rays' narrative remained stuck on the dreary dome and its poor attendance.
When Tampa pro sports finally found success, the moment was both happy and homey. Castor was an assistant police chief when the Bucs won the Super Bowl in 2002, and she helped arrange the parade. Her kids brought photos of the occasion to school, and a teacher asked if quarterback Brad Johnson were a member of their family.
So you can see why the past year's successes have created such a rush. Brady's signing with the Bucs and bringing Rob Gronkowski made quite a statement. Buckhorn thinks the ageless star QB has already been a major marketing force for the city: "He would not have gone to a city on the descent."
Then came the Lightning's run to the Stanley Cup title and an ensuing championship parade of boats and WaveRunners. It was distinctly Tampa — wet and a little wild. It was also a welcome jolt during a difficult year.
"Just the sheer joy," Castor says. "In ordinary times it's incredible, but it's been immensely uplifting."
Still, Tampa has always been a Bucs town. When the team won in 2002 for its first and only Super Bowl, Almirola, a University of Central Florida student at the time, jumped into his car and drove from his dorm in Orlando to join the party down Interstate 4. "That night is a little fuzzy," he admits.
The local love for members of the 2002 Super Bowl squad endures, but this season's team is an offensive power unlike most others in franchise history. (Until last season, the Bucs' all-time leading passer was Vinny Testaverde.)
A Super Bowl victory — at home, no less — would double the title haul for Tampa's big three franchises in the span of a little more than four months. The celebration would likely linger long after the pandemic.
But there is one more title shot to keep in mind, only a week after the Super Bowl.
"Being able to win the Daytona 500 as a Tampa resident," Almirola says, "that would be a great way to cap off the run."
Eric Adelson is a freelance journalist based in Orlando, Florida. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter @eric_adelson.
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Q: Getting ERROR TypeError: Cannot read property 'length' error I am getting the error:

ERROR TypeError: Cannot read property 'length' of undefined
      at eval (webpack-internal:///./node_modules/@angular/common/esm5/http.js:163)
      at Array.forEach ()
      at HttpHeaders.lazyInit (webpack-internal:///./node_modules/@angular/common/esm5/http.js:157)
      at HttpHeaders.init (webpack-internal:///./node_modules/@angular/common/esm5/http.js:305)
      at HttpHeaders.forEach (webpack-internal:///./node_modules/@angular/common/esm5/http.js:408)
      at Observable.eval [as _subscribe] (webpack-internal:///./node_modules/@angular/common/esm5/http.js:2210)
      at Observable._trySubscribe (webpack-internal:///./node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/Observable.js:177)
      at Observable.subscribe (webpack-internal:///./node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/Observable.js:165)
      at subscribeToResult (webpack-internal:///./node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/util/subscribeToResult.js:32)
      at MergeMapSubscriber._innerSub (webpack-internal:///./node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/operators/mergeMap.js:143)

It happens when I try to upload a file and I don't understand why since I'm not using the length() function anywhere.
This is my html:
<app-supervisor-header></app-supervisor-header>

Wijzigen van examen: {{examen.naam}}

        <form #examUpdateForm="ngForm" (ngSubmit)="onSubmit(examUpdateForm)">

              Naam

                <input class="form-control" type="text" id="vak" placeholder="{{examen.naam}}" />

              Bestand

                <input type="file" name="examen_bestand" class="form-control-file" id="exampleInputFile" aria-describedby="fileHelp" (change)="fileChanged($event)">
                Hier kun je de huidige examenskelet vervangen.

              <input type="submit" class="pxl-knop float-right" id="zoek-knop" value="Zoek" />

        </form>

And this the Component:
export class SupervisorExamenAanpassenComponent implements OnInit {
  @Input() examen: Examen = new Examen(null, '', '', null);
  id: number;

  constructor(private serv: ExamService, private route: ActivatedRoute) { }

  onSubmit(form) {
    this.serv.updateExamById(this.id, this.examen).subscribe();
  }

  fileChanged(e) {
    const reader = new FileReader();
    reader.onload = () => {
      this.examen.file = reader.result;
    };
    reader.readAsText(e.target.files[0]);
  }

  ngOnInit() {
    this.route.params.subscribe(params => this.id = params.id);
    this.serv.getExamById(this.id).subscribe((data) => this.examen = data);
  }

}

On the second time I try to submit it also tells me the error is from the HTML line 6 which is:
<form #examUpdateForm="ngForm" (ngSubmit)="onSubmit(examUpdateForm)">

EDIT:
ExamService:
@Injectable()
export class ExamService {
  examens: Examen[] = [];

  constructor(private http: HttpClient) {}

  getExams(): Observable<Examen[]> {
    return this.http.get<Examen[]>(APIURL + '/all');
  }

  getExamById(id): Observable<Examen> {
    return this.http.get<Examen>(APIURL + '/asobject/' + id);
  }

  updateExamById(id, exam: Examen) {
    const fd = new FormData();
    const options = {} as any;
    fd.append('file', exam.file);
    fd.append('name', exam.naam);
    return this.http.put<Examen>(APIURL + '/update/' + id, fd, {headers: {'Content-Type': undefined}});
  }
}

A: Remove this parameter from the http.put call in the ExamService:
{headers: {'Content-Type': undefined}}

You won't need to set Content-Type since, per our discussion below, these will be set correctly for you by angular's HttpClient api.
Also, don't use FileReader to convert the file's Blob content to plain text. Instead just store a reference to the File and on submit append the File and its Name to the FormData. E.g.
// Component
private file: File = null;

fileChanged(e) {
    this.file = e.target.files[0]);
}

onSubmit(form) {
  this.serv.updateExamById(this.id, this.file).subscribe();
}

// Service
updateExamById(id, file: File) {
  const fd = new FormData();
  fd.append('file', file, file.name);
  return this.http.put<Examen>(APIURL + '/update/' + id, fd);
}

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Warming in the Arctic region has been four times faster than the global average
A study by researchers at the Finnish Meteorological Institute has shown that the frequently repeated notion that "the Arctic region is warming at twice as fast as the rest of the globe" significantly underestimates the observed warming in the polar regions.
Nuuk, Greenland. Photo: Hada Ajosenpää / Finnish Meteorological Institute.
In recent decades the warming has been strongest in the Arctic. This phenomenon is one of the most conspicuous manifestations of climate change and it is referred to as Arctic amplification. According to a study published in the scientific journal Communications Earth & Environment, the Arctic area has warmed at a rate that is nearly four times faster than the world on average in the past 43 years. This ratio – the magnitude of the Arctic amplification – is greater than has generally been reported in the literature and in the media. The warming has been even stronger at the local level: for example, in the Barents Sea area it has been seven times above the global mean.
On the one hand, the higher estimate stems from the strong and continued warming of the Arctic region. On the other hand, the evaluation is affected by how the Arctic is defined as an area and the length of the period over which the rate of warming is calculated. In the new study, the Arctic region was defined as the area within the Arctic Circle. The rate of warming was calculated from 1979, when more detailed satellite observations became available.
"The Arctic was defined using the Arctic Circle because we wanted to use an area which most people perceive as the Arctic. We focused on a period that began in 1979 because the observations after that year are more reliable and because strong warming began in the 1970s", says Mika Rantanen, a researcher at the Finnish Meteorological Institute.
Climate models underestimate Arctic amplification
The study also showed that climate models struggle to simulate the fourfold warming rate of the Arctic region. This either means that climate models systematically underestimate the Arctic amplification, or the current situation is simply a very unlikely event. Comparisons were made between the observed and simulated warming ratios, i.e., the Arctic amplification, and not the absolute rate of warming in the Arctic region.
"While the magnitude of Arctic amplification is dependent to some degree on how the Arctic region is defined, and by the period of time used in the calculation, the climate models were found to underestimate Arctic amplification almost independent of the definition", Mika Rantanen explains.
Arctic amplification is strongest in the late autumn and early winter when the ice-free ocean releases heat into the atmosphere. The decrease in the ice cover has been greatest in the summer and early autumn, but at that time of the year the surface of the sea only releases small amounts of heat because the atmosphere and the sea are almost equally warm.
The magnitude of Arctic amplification is affected both by the present climate change caused by human activity, as well as the natural long-term variations in the climate system.
Researcher Mika Rantanen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, tel. +358 50 475 0756, mika.rantanen@fmi.fi
Researcher Antti Lipponen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, tel. +358 50 304 6374, antti.lipponen@fmi.fi
The scientific article is available in the scientific journal Communications Earth & Environment.
Article reference: Rantanen, M., Karpechko, A. Y., Lipponen, A., Nordling, K., Hyvärinen, O., Ruosteenoja, K., Vihma, T. & Laaksonen, A. (2022). The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979. Communications Earth and Environment, https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-022-00498-3.
The evolution of annual mean temperature in the Arctic (dark colors) and globally (light colors). The temperatures have been calculated relative to 1981-2010 average. The linear trends for 1979-2021 are also shown.
The trend of annual mean temperature for 1979-2021 (left) and the trend of annual mean temperature relative to the global average (right).
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Тамара Линн Ситч (, ) — американская женщина-рестлер и менеджер в рестлинге.

Ситч добилась большого успеха в качестве Са́нни () в World Wrestling Federation (WWF, позже WWE) в 1990-х годах и считается первой дивой WWF. В 1996 году America Online назвала её самой скачиваемой знаменитостью в интернете. Позже она выступала под своим именем в Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW) и Ring of Honor. В 2011 году Ситч была введена в Зал славы WWE.

Ранняя жизнь
Родители Ситч имели русско-американское происхождение. Ситч воспитывалась в строгости своим отцом, военным в отставке, раннее служившим в Военно-морских силах США. В 1990 году, она окончила среднюю школу Сидар-Ридж в городке Олд-Бридж, Нью-Джерси. В 1993 году, в период своей работы в рестлинг-промоушне Smoky Mountain Wrestling, в рамках сюжетной линии, Ситч представлялась как студентка юридического факультета колледжа Уэллсли в Массачусетсе. Затем, она перевелась в Университет Теннесси, где проходила начальную медицинскую подготовку, с намерением стать либо пластическим хирургом, либо хирургом-ортопедом. Во время своего первого года обучения в колледже, она работала внештатным фотографом.

Карьера в рестлинге

Smoky Mountain Wrestling (1992—1995)
Ситч начала путешествовать со своим парнем Крисом Кандидо, чтобы заработать немного денег. В конце 1992 года она подписала шестимесячный контракт с Smoky Mountain Wrestling. Впервые она появилась на экране под именем Тэмми Фитч в 1993 году. Она играла злодейку, которая боготворила Хиллари Клинтон. В своей первой сюжетной линии в компании она угрожала подать иск о половой дискриминации из-за отсутствия видных позиций, предлагаемых женщинам. В июне 1993 года неназванная Ситч появилась на шоу Eastern Championship Wrestling Super Summer Sizzler Spectacular.

Ситч привела Брайана Ли к чемпионству в тяжелом весе, а также стала сопровождать Кандидо в его матчах. К маю 1994 года она управляла этими двумя мужчинами в качестве команды, которая выиграла командное чемпионство у «Рок-н-ролл экспресс». Однако и Ситч, и Кандидо покинули промоушен в начале 1995 года ради работы в World Wrestling Federation (WWF).

World Wrestling Federation (1995—1998)
В конце 1994 года с Ситч связались в WWF, и она начала выступать в роли Тамары Мерфи, комментатора сегментов Live Event News на синдицированных телешоу WWF. Месяц спустя Кандидо присоединился к WWF, и дуэт начал выступать в роли Санни и Скипа, известных под общим названием «Бодидонны», злодейских фанатиков фитнеса. Позже к команде присоединился Зип (Том Причард), и Санни была в их рядах, когда они выиграли командное чемпионство WWF у «Годвиннов» на WrestleMania XII. В 1996 году она получила награду Pro Wrestling Illustrated «Менеджер года». Несколько недель спустя «Годвинны» вернули себе чемпионство, и Санни отвернулась от «Бодидоннов» в пользу новых чемпионов. Затем она отвернулась от «Годвиннов» и помогла «Дымящимся пушкам» выиграть командное чмпионство. После того как «Пушки» проиграли титул на шоу In Your House 10: Mind Games, она уволила их в центре ринга.

Она некоторое время была менеджером Фаарука Асаада, помогая ему в его вражде за интерконтинентальное чемпионство с Марком Меро и его менеджером Сейбл. Затем Санни начала выступать в качестве ведущей в нескольких телевизионных шоу WWF, включая LiveWire и Shotgun Saturday Night. Кроме того, она появилась в программах MTV Singled Out и Entertainment Tonight. Тем временем Кандидо ушел из WWF в Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), и вскоре она стала выступать вместе с ним в промоушене. В августе 1997 года она выступила на шоу ECW Hardcore Heaven 1997.

В 1998 году Санни стала фейсом и на короткое время стала менеджером «Легиона судьбы 2000», приведя их к победе в бою за звание первого претендента на звание командных чемпионов на WrestleMania XIV. Санни продолжала управлять ими, пока не была уволена в июле 1998 года на фоне слухов о закулисных проблемах с Сейбл и зависимости от болеутоляющих средств, а также неявки на несколько выступлений.

Extreme Championship Wrestling (1998—1999)
После увольнения из WWF в июле 1998 года, Ситч присоединилась к Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). Её дебют состоялся на шоу Heat Wave через четыре дня после увольнения из WWF. Теперь она была заявлена как Тэмми Линн Ситч, она помогала Кандидо в его победе над Лэнсом Штормом и их последующей вражде. В сентябре Шторм представил своего собственного менеджера, пародию на Ситч, «Тэмми Линн Битч» (позже известную как Дон Мари). Позже в том же году, на фоне слухов об употреблении наркотиков, Ситч и Кандидо на некоторое время ушли с телевидения.

Когда дуэт вернулся, Кандидо снова присоединился к команде Шейна Дугласа «Тройная угроза», а Ситч начала вражду с менеджером Дугласа Франсин. Вражда прервалась, когда Ситч была арестована за нарушение запретительного приказа, выданного её матерью. После короткого тура по Австралии, она вернулась в октябре 1999 года в эпизоде ECW on TNN, где открыто рассказала о своих прошлых проблемах с наркотиками и перевоспитании. Кандидо и Ситч покинули промоушен в декабре 1999 года.

World Championship Wrestling (2000)
После выступления в Xtreme Pro Wrestling (XPW) в начале 2000 года Ситч и Кандидо подписали контракт с World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Кандидо дебютировал в марте того же года, а Ситч — месяц спустя на Spring Stampede, и помогла ему выиграть титул чемпиона WCW в полутяжёлом весе в матче против Артиста, ранее известного как Принц Иаукеа. Затем она враждовала с менеджером Иаукеа — Пейсли. Эта недолгая вражда завершилась на Slamboree, когда Артист и Пейсли сняли с Тэмми платье, чтобы показать её нижнее белье после одиночной победы Кандидо над Иаукеа. Затем Ситч и Кандидо недолго враждовали с Ломом и Даффни. Позднее Кандидо отказался от титула, что ознаменовало конец пребывания пары в компании. Как и в прошлом, уход Ситч был окружен слухами о злоупотреблении наркотиками.

WWE (2007, 2009, 2011)

Впервые после долгого перерыва Ситч появилась в WWE на праздновании 15-летия Raw. 5 апреля 2009 года Ситч в роли Санни приняла участие в королевском бое 25 див за звании «Мисс Рестлмания» на Рестлмании XXV. В матче она была выбита Бет Феникс. 2 апреля 2011 года Ситч была включена в Зал Славы WWE. Объявление о включении было оглашено всеми дивами WWE.

Карьера в порнографии
В 2016 году компания Vivid выпустила порнофильм «Sunny Side Up: In Through the Backdoor» с Ситч в главной роли.

В апреле 2020 года Ситч завела аккаунт на OnlyFans и начала выкладывать откровенные видео и фотографии самой себя. До ареста в июле 2020 года на её аккаунте OnlyFans было более 2 200 подписчиков, и Ситч утверждала, что зарабатывала на сайте более 100 000 долларов в месяц. После освобождения из тюрьмы в июне 2021 года Ситч вернулась к размещению откровенных материалов на OnlyFans.

Личная жизнь
Ситч училась в одной школе со своим бойфрендом Крисом Кандидо, который впоследствии познакомил её с рестлингом. Ситч регулярно работала с Кандидо на протяжении всей его карьеры и оставалась с ним до его смерти в 2005 году. К 2007 году она снова училась в школе, изучая медицинские технологии.

У Ситч были девятимесячные отношения с Шоном Майклзом в конце 90-х годов.

Проблемы с законом
25 марта 2022 года Ситч стала участницей смертельной автокатастрофы в округе Волуша, Флорида, в результате которой погиб 75-летний мужчина. Согласно полицейскому отчету из департамента полиции Ормонд-Бич, Ситч управляла автомобилем Mercedes-Benz 2012 года выпуска, когда она врезалась в заднюю часть автомобиля Kia Sorento 2013 года выпуска, остановившегося на светофоре. Свидетели рассказали полиции, что Ситч ехала на большой скорости, когда врезалась в Kia Sorento. Ситч была доставлена в больницу с неизвестными травмами, а образец её крови был взят на анализ. В мае 2022 года Ситч была арестована по обвинению в вождении в нетрезвом виде и непредумышленном убийстве после того, как токсикологическая экспертиза показала, что во время смертельной автокатастрофы содержание алкоголя в её крови превышало допустимую норму в 3,5 раза. После первоначального освобождения под залог в $227 500 судья счел, что она представляет опасность для общества, и через шесть дней отменил залог, а Ситч вернули в тюрьму в ожидании суда. В случае осуждения ей грозит 26 лет лишения свободы.

Титулы и достижения
 Cauliflower Alley Club
 Другие лауреаты (1996)

 New England Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame
 С 2013 года

 Pro Wrestling Illustrated
 Менеджер года (1996)

 Women Superstars Uncensored
 Чемпион WSU (1 раз)

 World Wrestling Federation/WWE
 Slammy Award (2 раза)
 Лучшие булочки (1996)
 Умы, стоящие за хаосом (1996)
 Зал cлавы WWE (2011)

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки

 Online World of Wrestling profile
 IndyWrestlers.net Profile

Женщины-рестлеры США
Члены Зала славы WWE
Эротические фотомодели США
Менеджеры в рестлинге

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With a purchase as expensive as a car, it's important to never stretch your budget too thin. The total cost of buying and owning a car extends far beyond your monthly payment, so there's a lot to consider. These tips can help you plan out your budget for your next car purchase.
Getting your budget ready well before making plans to actually buy a car is a smart thing to do. There's a lot to figuring out how much car you can afford, but it's easier when you plan ahead.
Many financial experts suggest that your car-related expenses shouldn't top 20 percent of your take-home pay. For example, if you earn $2,500 a month, aim to spend less than $500 total on everything, including your monthly payment, car insurance, fuel, maintenance, and repairs. It's important to include these costs of owning and operating a vehicle in your budget.
Keep in mind that 20 percent is only a guideline. Take a close look at what you make and how much you're spending each month to get an idea of what you're comfortable spending.
Monthly Payment - If you're taking out an auto loan, you need to figure out what you're willing to pay each month. Use your budget to help narrow down a payment range.
The Total Cost - At the same time, don't lose sight of the total cost of the loan. You may be tempted to lengthen your loan term to get a lower monthly payment and/or a nicer vehicle, but this can cost you more in the end due to higher interest charges.
A Down Payment - The more money you put down, the more you're helping yourself save in the long run. A down payment reduces the amount of your loan, which lowers your monthly payment and the total amount you'll pay in interest charges. Car buying experts recommend that you have at least a 10 percent down payment. Remember, you can trade in your current car and apply it toward your down payment.
Taxes, Fees, and Extras - Don't forget about sales tax, vehicle registration fees, dealer documentation fees, destination charges, or add-ons. Factor these into your car buying budget and try to pay them upfront. Otherwise, you'd have to roll them into your loan and pay interest on them.
Planning out your budget before making any decisions will only help you and your wallet out. Take the time to map out everything you need to account for before you even think about heading to a dealership.
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Imputating missing values is an iterative process. naniar aims to make it easier to manage imputed values by providing the nabular data structure to simplify managing missingness. This vignette provides some useful recipes for imputing and exploring imputed data.
naniar implements a few imputation methods to facilitate exploration and visualisations, which were not otherwise available: impute_below, and impute_mean. For single imputation, the R package simputation works very well with naniar, and provides the main example given.
impute_below imputes values below the minimum of the data, with some noise to reduce overplotting. The amount data is imputed below, and the amount of jitter, can be changed by changing the arguments prop_below and jitter.
The mean can be imputed using impute_mean, and is useful to explore structure in missingness, but are not recommended for use in analysis. Similar to simputation, each impute_ function returns the data with values imputed.
Imputation functions in naniar implement "scoped variants" for imputation: _all, _at and _if.
_if operates on columns that meet some condition (such as is.numeric or is.character).
If the impute_ functions are used as-is - e.g., impute_mean, this will work on a single vector, but not a data.frame.
When we impute data like this, we cannot identify where the imputed values are - we need to track them. We can track the imputed values using the nabular format of the data.
We can track the missing values by combining the verbs bind_shadow, impute_, add_label_shadow. We can then refer to missing values by their shadow variable, _NA. The add_label_shadow function adds an additional column called any_missing, which tells us if any observation has a missing value.
We can also compare imputed values to complete cases by grouping by any_missing, and summarising.
We can explore using a single imputation of Hmisc::aregImpute(), which allows for multiple imputation with bootstrapping, additive regression, and predictive mean matching. We are going to explore predicting mean matching, and single imputation.
In the future there will be a more concise way to insert these imputed values into data, but for the moment the method above is what I would recommend for single imputation.


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Great step forward for New Yorkers' health
Jun 20, 2020 New York State, nys, pharmacies, restrict, tobacco ban, vape, vaping
Sale of flavored e-cigarettes, tobacco at pharmacies ended May 18 in New York state
The sale of flavored e-cigarettes ended in New York state May 18, as does the sale of all tobacco products in pharmacies. These are huge steps forward in helping New Yorkers live free from nicotine addiction.
The new laws were passed as part of the state's fiscal year 2021 budget. New York becomes the second state in the nation to restrict the sale of tobacco products in pharmacies.
Amélie Rohlin, Reality Check Youth Leader, responded to the news.
"I feel that the laws prohibiting tobacco sales in pharmacies and about the sale ban of vape flavoring are a great idea," she said. "Kids and teenagers are drawn in by the flavors that are being advertised to them. Pharmacies are meant for people to get the medicine they need to get better, and when people see something like that in a place of wellness it can lead them to believe that those products will help them get well."
Research shows that the flavors in e-cigarettes attract kids and the nicotine addicts them.[i] Nearly 40 percent of high school seniors in New York state use e-cigarettes, also referred to as "vaping," and 27 percent of all high school youth vape.[ii] This new law ending the sale of flavored e-cigarettes in New York state will protect kids from a lifetime of nicotine addiction.
Selling tobacco products in pharmacies has long sent a contradictory message to consumers by offering tobacco alongside medicine or products for illnesses either caused by or made worse by smoking. That ends now in New York state. It also reduces the number of stores that sell tobacco products in every community, an effective way of supporting tobacco users who want to quit and reducing youth exposure to tobacco marketing. There is overwhelming evidence that the more young people see tobacco, the more likely they are to start smoking.[iii]
"As a registered respiratory therapist for more than 30 years, I have witnessed the devastating effects that smoking has had on people of all ages, and endorse efforts to keep these harmful products from being purchased, in particular by young people," said state Assemblyman John Salka.
In Herkimer County, the village of Dolgeville enacted a local law to protect their youth and community from tobacco marketing, and these state laws help to support and strengthen their commitment to health.
For help quitting smoking or vaping, including free nicotine replacement therapy for eligible residents, individuals can contact a health care provider, call the state Smokers' Quitline at 866-NY-QUITS or visit nysmokefree.com. Effective medications and counseling are covered by Medicaid and most insurance programs.
Tobacco Free New York State and Reality Check student groups around the state have worked tirelessly to educate local communities about the need to protect children from the billions of dollars of tobacco marketing in places where kids can see it. The statewide "Seen Enough Tobacco" initiative is focused on putting an end to youth smoking and other tobacco use. The average age of a new smoker in New York is 13 years old,[iv] and 90 percent of adult smokers say they first tried smoking by age 18.[v] Tobacco Free New York State, including the Reality Check student youth groups, is part of the NYS Tobacco Control Program.
[i] Flavored Tobacco Products Attract Kids: Brief Overview of Key Issues, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Dec. 2019, https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/us-resources/fact-sheet/flavored-tobacco-products-attract-kids-brief-overview-of-key-issues
[ii] NYS Dept. of Health, Bureau of Tobacco Control, StatShot Vol. 12, No. 4/Oct 2019, Trends in Electronic Cigarette Use Among High School Youth NYS-YTS 2014-2018: https://www.health.ny.gov/prevention/tobacco_control/reports/statshots/volume12/n4_ecig_trends.pdf
[iii] A Report of the Surgeon General: Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults "Executive Summary" 2012, p. 1, 3: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/reports/preventing-youth-tobacco-use/exec-summary.pdf
[iv] Information about Tobacco Use, Smoking and Secondhand Smoke,
https://www.health.ny.gov/prevention/tobacco_control/index.htm
[v] A Report of the Surgeon General "The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress" 2014, p. 12, 696, 708: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK179276/pdf/Bookshelf_NBK179276.pdf
March margin triggers Dairy Margin Coverage Program payment
Senator Rachel May endorses Corey Mosher for the 121st Assembly District


Tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans came out on May Day to express their angry opposition to the construction of a natural gas pipeline.
Students at the University of Puerto Rico, supported by faculty and campus workers, are standing up to a new attack by the administration.
Six campuses of the University of Puerto Rico have held a series of strikes to oppose a tuition hike set to begin in January 2011.
Carlos Alberto Torres, the longest-serving Puerto Rican political prisoner in U.S. history, finally became a free man.
The struggle that has shut down the University of Puerto Rico has become a popular symbol of opposition to a right-wing government.


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Wilderness Medical Society Adventure CME - Everest Base Camp Trek 2020
Backcountry Winter Sports
Backpacking, Hiking & Trail Running
Wilderness Medical Society
Everest Base Camp Trek 2020
Registration Web Site:
Registration Web Site
Mar 24, 2020 to Apr 14, 2020
Wilderness Medical Society Adventure CME
Everest Base Camp Trek: March 24 - April 11, 2020
Optional Island Peak Climb: March 24 - April 14, 2020
The Wilderness Medical Society and our prestigious Nepal partner, Wongchhu Peak Promotion (WPP), invite you to join us for a once-in-a-lifetime CME adventure in March/April of 2020. Ours is the ONLY CME trek that offers an overnight stay at Everest Base Camp (EBC). While at EBC, you'll have an opportunity to help set up the EBC Medical Clinic or Everest ER's clinic tent and thus support the mission of Everest ER to provide health care to native and visitor populations in the Khumbu Valley of the Himalayas.
If you'd like to join the WMS in a future Everest Summit climb, the optional Island Peak climb is a pre-requisite, and therefore worth considering.
Hikers who can walk up to 3-4 miles per day comfortably, while carrying a light day pack including water, snacks, and an extra jacket, but heavy duffels will be portered.
No previous climbing experience is needed for the EBC trek.
The optional Island Peak trek is a serious trek with a difficulty rating of Alpine PD+. Participants without prior climbing experience will gain training and altitude experience while trekking to EBC. Participants must then be approved by the Wongchhu Peak Promotion climbing leader prior to the Island Peak ascent. This climb meets the prerequisites to summit Everest with the WMS in the future.
The EBC trek is a CME course for medical professionals (both WMS members and friends), but is also open to any avid non-medical outdoor enthusiasts interested in supporting a great cause while embarking on a once-in-a-lifetime experience – proceeds will benefit the Wongchhu Sherpa Memorial Hospital.
Everest Base Camp (EBC) Trek: March 24-April 11, 2020 (19 days total)
Optional Island Peak Climb: March 24-April 14, 2020 (22 days total)
Due to a growing demand for adventure wilderness medicine training and experience, the WMS is pleased to once again offer this world-class program. Continuing medical education credit is available for the Everest Base Camp (EBC) trek. We have planned for a two-night stay at EBC in cooperation with Everest ER. Overnight stays at EBC are not offered on any other CME Everest treks, and so this is a unique opportunity offered only by the WMS!
Proceeds from this trek will help support the Wongchhu Sherpa Memorial Hospital, which will benefit the 30,000 people living in the Solukhumbu region who have little to no health services.
Optional Island Peak Climb
In addition to the regular EBC trek, we are pleased to also offer an optional Island Peak Climb (6,189 m) as well. Imja Tse, better known as Island Peak, is a mountain in Sagarmatha National Park of the Himalayas of eastern Nepal. The peak was named Island Peak in 1953 by members of the British Mount Everest expedition because it appears as an island in a sea of ice when viewed from Dingboche. The peak was later renamed in 1983 to Imja Tse but Island Peak remains the popular name of choice.
This is a serious trek and climb with a difficulty rating of Alpine PD+ and participants must be in good physical shape, should have prior climbing and some altitude experience. All participants must be approved by the Wongchhu Peak Promotion climbing leader. This climb meets the prerequisites to summit Everest with the WMS in the future.
Khumbu Valley of Nepal. The trek includes a flight from Kathmandu to Lukla, known as the "Gateway to Everest", then treks to Phakding, Namche Bazaar, Tengboche, and Pheriche. From there you will trek to Lobuche, Gorakh Shep and then arrive for two nights of camping at EBC. You will then trek down to Pheriche, Khumjung and Monjo before boarding a flight back to Kathmandu from Lukla. Enjoy an extra day in Kathmandu and enjoy a visit to a Tibetan rug factor along with a final farewell dinner before heading back home.
Those participating in the optional Island Peak climb will split from the main group in Lobuche and hike to Kalapathar, Dingboche and Chhukung before finally ascending to the Island Peak base camp and peak. The group will then trek down to Tengboche and Monjo before boarding a flight back to Kathmandu from Lukla. Enjoy a well-earned leisure day in Kathmandu and end with a visit to a Tibetan rug factor and a final farewell dinner before heading back home. Note that this optional climb will not offer CME.
Visit the WMS website for more details, and follow us on Facebook for all things wilderness medicine!
Khumbu Valley
Event Brochure:
Everest%20Base%20Camp%20Trek_brochure.pdf


Last year we were in need to find new hiking pants for our trips so we was looking for pants which would be suitable to wear in the mountains but also while packrafting. We were talking to a Lundhags representative and he provided us with the Lundhags Makke pants for testing.
Did you know that the name Makke derives from a mountain in Jämtland in Sweden called Makkene? The name should probably reflect the environment where the Makke pant can be worn.
Konstantin was wearing the Makke pant this year on his trips in France, Finland, Poland, Japan, Russia and Sweden while Patrick was wearing the Makke Pant on the Swedish Packrafting Gathering, on smaller trips around Turku and on a trip in Finnish Lapland and in Northern Norway.
The Makke Pant works especially good when you are in the mountains since it is made of a stretch fabric. Moving up and down felt more comfortable to me than with pants having no stretch fabric. However, since the hems of the trouser legs are fortified with Schoeller Keprotec they are also suitable for walking in low undergrowth and are not afraid of scratching against stones.
What we also liked were the lower side zippers of the pants. They are quite useful if you have to put on hiking boots with a higher shaft of if you want to roll them up if you have to cross a river. Moreover, the lower zippers are two-sided so you can always unzip it a bit from the top to let more air in.
Moreover, the Makke pant has also zippers on the leg and hand pockets, pre-shaped knees, hem adjustment and a boot hook and weights 436 grams which I found a good weight for such a fully featured pants. One advantage is that you don't need any belt since the Makke pant comes with an adjustment strap at the waistband.
The Makke Pant also comes with Schoeller Keprotec which should increase the durability of the pants. Finally, a nice feature is also that there is another pocket within the leg pockets which offers enough space for an iPhone and a Thule phone case.
So what is the Lundhags Makke Pant made of? The pants consists of LPC (Lundhags PolyCotton) stretch – 65% Polyester and 35% Cotton (FC Free DWR) 181 g/m². The stretch fabric is made by Schoeller Dry Skin which consists of 52% Polyamid, 41% Polyamid (micro) and 7% Elastane. The reinforcements are made of Schoeller Keprotec which are PFOA/PFOS free.
Currently, the Lundhags Makke are our favorite pants. We like that they are stretchy and that they also dry reasonably fast since they are not made solely of cotton. The vent zippers on the inner thighs are great and the zippers on the pockets will make sure that you don't lose anything stored in your pockets. Those pants also work quite well if you are planning to wear them with shell boots.


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DYK: About China, Palace of Versailles, Samuel L Jackson, Normandy Beaches and Two Nuns
From: Jim N.
Sent: June 8, 2019
Subject: Fw: DYK: About China, Palace of Versailles, Samuel L Jackson, Normandy Beaches and Two Nuns
#1 Underneath the streets of Beijing, there are over a million people who live in nuclear bunkers.
In the late '60s and '70s, anticipating the devastation of a Cold War-nuclear fallout, Chairman Mao directed Chinese cities to construct apartments with bomb shelters capable of withstanding the blast of a nuclear bomb. In Beijing alone, roughly 10,000 bunkers were promptly constructed.
But when China opened its door to the broader world in the early '80s, Beijing's defense department seized the opportunity to lease the shelters to private landlords, eager to profit from converting the erstwhile fallout hideaways into tiny residential units.
Now when night falls, more than a million people—mostly migrant workers and students from rural areas—vanish from Beijing's bustling streets into the underground universe, little known to the world above.
Credit: NationalGeographic.com
#2 In order to supply water to the parks of the Palace of Versailles, Louis XIV ordered the construction of the machine Marly.
The Machine de Marly, also known as the Marly Machine or the Machine of Marly, was a large hydraulic system in Yvelines, France, built in 1684 to pump water from the river Seine and deliver it to the Palace of Versailles.
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King Louis XIV needed a large water supply for his fountains at Versailles. Before the Marly Machine was built, the amount of water delivered to Versailles already exceeded that used by the city of Paris, but this was insufficient, and fountain-rationing was necessary. Ironically most of the water pumped by the Marly Machine ended up being used to develop a new garden at the Château de Marly. However, even if all the water pumped at Marly (an average of 3,200 cubic metres per day, or 845,351 gallons per day) had been supplied to Versailles, it still would not have been enough: the fountains running à l'ordinaire (that is, at half pressure) required at least four times as much.
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#3 In 1969, Samuel L Jackson was expelled from Morehouse College.
In 1969, Jackson and several other students held members of the Morehouse College board of trustees (including a nearby Martin Luther King, Sr.) hostage on the campus, demanding reform in the school's curriculum and governance. The college eventually agreed to change its policy, but Jackson was charged with and eventually convicted of unlawful confinement, a second-degree felony. Jackson was then suspended for two years for his criminal record and his actions. He would later return to the college to earn his Bachelor of Arts in Drama in 1972.
While he was suspended, Jackson was employed as a social worker in Los Angeles. Jackson decided to return to Atlanta, where he met with Stokely Carmichael, H. Rap Brown, and others active in the Black Power movement. Jackson revealed in the same Parade interview that he began to feel empowered with his involvement in the movement, especially when the group began buying guns. However, before Jackson could become involved with any significant armed confrontation, his mother sent him to Los Angeles after the FBI told her that he would die within a year if he remained with the Black Power movement. In a 2018 interview with Vogue he denied ever having been a member of the Black Panther Party.
#4 It turns out that the fighting on D-Day was so fierce that as much as 4% of the sand on Normandy beaches is magnetic shrapnel that has been broken down over the decades into sand-sized chunks.
In the photo to the right, see the smooth sphere? It's got a diameter of around one-tenth of a millimeter judging by the legend. That's sixty-year-old shrapnel, sanded down to a smooth, microscopic ball. Also fascinating is the fact that — within 150 years — the beach will lose most of this metallic memory to rust. The sand-size fragments of steel will also be wiped away by waves and storms. For now, though, it's still a poignant reminder of the immense loss of life and sacrifice that occurred there almost seventy years ago.
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#5 Two nuns teaching at a California Elementary School embezzled approximately $500,000 from their employer over a ten year period to fund their trips and casino visits.
For nearly 28 years, Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper was the principal at St. James Catholic School, an elementary school in Torrance, California, a coastal suburb southwest of Los Angeles. Around the same time when Kreuper announced she was retiring earlier this year, a family at the school asked for a copy of an old check they had written to St. James. When staff members found the check, the Long Beach Press-Telegram reported, they realized it had not been deposited in St. James's account but a different bank account.
That was among the first clues that would unravel a vast fraud that was allegedly conducted by Kreuper and Sister Lana Chang, another nun and longtime St. James's teacher. School officials recently told parents the two nuns stole around $500,000 from the school. The school said that the two women, reportedly best friends, used the pilfered funds on trips and casino visits.
Credit: Tampabay.com
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NATIONALS, CITIZENS, LONG-TERM RESIDENTS, SHORT-TERM RESIDENTS, PLAYING HAVOC WITH TRADITIONAL CATEGORIES OR BUILDING UP NEW ONES?
Being a Citizen in Europe without Personal Liberty: Are we going towards a Status of EU Prisoners?
Author: Lana Zdravković The European Union (EU) citizenship is in itself ambivalent and exclusive concept. Regarding the Maastricht (and Lisbon) Treaty it includes only those who already possess the nationality of one of the EU-28.


Whatever iron on transfer you want, you can always find it in CSTOWN. Here we offer a wide range of various stock transfers and free custom service. Like Printable Vinyl Tennis Custom Hot Press Transfer for Clothes, made of PU&PVC, it surely add charm to your appearance. It is of 8.0 X 9.6 with color of White (HT01).


Near:	National Art Gallery at 0,4 mi. Lysa Gora skiing area at 0,4 mi. Sopot Railway Station at 0,4 mi.
Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport at 6 mi.
Near:	Crooked House Sopot Railway Station at 0,2 mi. Sopot Pier at 0,3 mi.
Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport at 6,1 mi.
Near:	National Art Gallery at 0,2 mi. Lysa Gora skiing area at 0,2 mi. Sopot Railway Station at 0,2 mi.
Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport at 5,9 mi.
Near:	Crooked House at 0,1 mi. Sopot Railway Station at 0,1 mi. National Art Gallery at 0,2 mi.
Near:	Crooked House at 0,1 mi. Sopot Railway Station at 0,2 mi. National Art Gallery at 0,3 mi.
Near:	Sopot Railway Station at 0,1 mi. Crooked House at 0,1 mi. Lysa Gora skiing area at 0,2 mi.


British Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood is encouraging people to have a less is more attitude when it comes to buying clothes, even her own designs.
In an interview before her London Week Fashion show this week, she said, ''Of course I try not to waste and my way of not wasting is to try to concentrate on quality not quantity. And you know my message, it is buy less, choose well, make it last. Even better, don't buy anything. Don't buy any clothes for ages until you really have to." When questioned by a reporter whether she meant she didn't want people to buy her latest collection, she insisted she was more interested in using fashion as a way to air her views on the environment.
More than ever Westwood is passionate about social and environmental change. Dressed as an eco warrior in military-style shorts and a painted-on black eye Westwood strutted down the runway at the close of her preview show, while two models unfurled a banner with the words "Climate Revolution" behind her.
It may seem contradictory as the head of a multi-million dollar globally-recognized fashion business, but Westwood puts her money where her mouth is; this year she donated $1.6 million to rainforest charity Cool Earth. She is also a patron of UK-based human rights charities, Reprieve and Liberty and supports Amnesty International, Environmental Justice Foundation, Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace's Arctic Campaign.
Her personal brand of anti-consumerism finds an alternative in high art, believing, "an art lover is a freedom fighter." Five years ago Westwood wrote her manifesto, Active Resistance to Propaganda, an ode to culture and learning designed to inspire young people to get out from behind the TV and off the consumer treadmill.
1) Money is a means to an end, not an end in itself. "I never waste money I spend it"- Oscar Wilde. Maybe you'll give a donation to an NGO or charity. You can give your support in other ways. Just by following one you will learn a lot, this is support.
7) Consider the responsibility of not having or having children. Chances of survival will be clear by next Olympics.
8) Take an active part in events of the Revolution as it starts to build.
9) Engage in art and culture.