IT IS A FAREWELL SCENE THAT IS FOREVER ETCHED IN MY MEMORY. My beautiful mother standing out in the crowd in her yellow fake fur coat, crying and waving to my brother and me as we boarded the plane in the Taiwan airport. Some years back, my father had obtained his doctorate of science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Not long ago, he had received permission for us, his two children, to immigrate to the United States. We were leaving Taiwan now because he wanted us to have a good education and a chance to succeed in the land of opportunity.
I remember wishing desperately that my mother could come with us, but this was impossible, since my parents were divorced. A sudden terrible, piercing sense of loss and fear came over me and I, too, began to cry. I didn't know when I would see my mother again. At the other end of our trip would be the unknown: a father I had never met because he had left for the States before I was born. I was now six years old, and my brother nine. So far, I had only seen pictures of our father.
When I first arrived in the United States, life was very difficult. Our home environment wasn't very conducive to our adapting to our new country, since our stepmother didn't like us and treated us miserably. She even refused to cook for my brother and me. I was very homesick and missed my real mother a lot. In addition, because I couldn't speak a word of English, a lot of kids at school thought I was stupid or retarded. Our father wanted us to do well at school, so he was very strict with us when it came to our studies. We did extra homework all the time. I'll never forget him saying, "Education is the most important thing in the world—nobody can ever take that away from you."
Two years after our arrival, my father and stepmother separated, and my father took us to Michigan, where he had accepted a job as professor of mechanical engineering. My father was extremely dedicated to his work; he was a true scholar, but unfortunately he didn't know how to manage his personal life or take care of his health. He had terrible stomachaches from his ulcers, which would often make him cry out in pain. It would scare me, because then he would say that he wanted to die. His favorite activity became taking us for long walks in the local cemetery and looking at the tombstones, noting the dates and reading the inscriptions. Each time he would tell us where he wanted to be buried.
Only six months or so after he started his new job, my father came down with jaundice. His colleagues had to force him to go to the doctor, because he wouldn't go himself—this problem wasn't important enough to stop his work. The problem turned out to be hepatitis. During his hospitalization of a few months, my brother and I were taken care of by several of his colleagues in turn.
My father's condition worsened, and it was clear that he was going to die. Although without him we would be alone in the States, he told my brother that we weren't to go back to Taiwan, since we wouldn't have the same opportunities there. Thus, after he died, we were not reunited with our mother but were put up for adoption. I was nine years old when I went to live with a Caucasian family of one of my father's colleagues, and eleven when I was legally adopted by them. My brother, who was three years older than I, became a foster child of a Chinese colleague. We would see each other once in a while, but our relationship became very strained after we were separated.
Throughout the eight years that I lived in my adoptive family's home, I was forbidden to contact my real mother in Taiwan. My adoptive parents reasoned that I romanticized too much about my past, and that by cutting off this connection, I would be happier in their home. They even took away and hid all my pictures of my real family. It was as if they were trying to strip me of my past and identity: I was infuriated by this, but I was helpless to stop them. It was to be many years later, after I had left my adoptive family, that one of my adoptive sisters found my old photographs in the attic and returned them to me.
I think that if I had been happy with my adoptive parents, I wouldn't have missed my real family so much or pined so much to go back one day. Since going to live with them, I had rarely been allowed to make my own decisions. I even had to ask permission to take a shower. Whenever I did anything wrong, I was severely punished, physically and verbally. I never felt that my adoptive parents ever loved or cared about me—I was just a charity case to them. Any letters I received were first read by my adoptive mother before being handed to me. All the letters I wrote to family or friends were systematically censored, and if there were things I wasn't supposed to write about, I had to rewrite the letter. She bought me a diary and encouraged me to write down my private thoughts, saying that no one would read the diary except me. I believed her and spilled out my guts into it, only to discover three years later that she and my adoptive father were reading it. They confronted me with my diary and read the parts about them out loud in front of me. How could they have deliberately lied and betrayed my trust? They punished me and then forced me to burn my diary to try to wipe out my thoughts and feelings, but I couldn't be brainwashed.
Any time I brought up the subject of my real family, my adoptive mother would say very disparaging things about them and about how we had lived in poverty in Taiwan. Then I would get a long lecture on how fortunate I was and how grateful I should be to have been adopted by them—that otherwise I could have ended up in an orphanage. Or she would tell me that if I had been sent back to Taiwan, I would have been sold as a slave or a prostitute or have ended up begging on the streets. I was often told that if they hadn't adopted me they would have been able to buy new carpeting for the house, to acquire a boat, and so on. They said that I had been adopted because God wanted them to take me in. They were strict Protestants, and my adoptive mother's father was a minister. If I didn't say I was grateful when my adoptive mother told me to do so, I was slapped in the face and pushed down on my hands and knees in a humble position with my head bowed as if in prayer. Often the lecturing session happened in the morning before school; then I wasn't allowed to go to school until I said it. I felt so humiliated, and in the beginning I resisted. I felt that it would be a lie and a betrayal of self to say it, because I didn't feel grateful to them. But when I started to miss whole days of school or was late, I decided it wasn't worth my pride to resist—I just wanted to get away from her craziness.
Not only did I feel unwelcome in my adoptive family, but the small university town that I grew up in was also very redneck. The population was mostly made up of the descendants of Finnish immigrants. There were only two Asian families there, and no black American families. I used to feel like I was being looked at like a funny animal in the zoo by most of the locals, because they so seldom saw Asians. The fact that I was being stared at like that didn't bother me as much as the degrading comments I used to get daily at school, until I graduated from high school. One of the comments I'll never forget was, "Your face looks like it got run over by a truck," followed by cruel laughter. I tried to block out the ugly racist comments I heard. I used to think that if I were back in Taiwan, people wouldn't make fun of me because I was Chinese. To add to my miseries, my adoptive mother made me wear outrageous and outdated clothes that nobody would be caught dead in. They made me stick out even more. Having to keep the suffering and anger inside caused me to keep mostly to myself and not try to make many friends.
One of the happiest days of my life was when I was finally able to leave my adoptive parents in 1975, at the age of seventeen. It had been almost a year since I had run away from home and called Dial Help, a community-service organization that offered help to people in need. I ran away because of a particularly irrational and violent outburst of hysteria and physical and verbal abuse from my adoptive mother, which caused me to snap. I sought help because I knew I was a minor and couldn't legally escape anywhere. At the same time, if I were to go back to my adoptive parents, I needed protection from them, because I knew my adoptive mother would want revenge for the embarrassment I caused her by running away and seeking help. She was well-known by the people in charity organizations, and at first nobody at Dial Help wanted to take on my case. They were all scared of my mother. After months of counseling between my adoptive parents and me failed, I was given the option of emancipation from them by my counselor. I was seventeen years old, old enough to apply for independence. I decided this was the best option. I found a lawyer through a social-services agency, and he helped me liberate myself from them. I was half a year away from finishing high school. I felt like a person who had just been released from prison. Now I had a chance to live my life the way I wanted to. After so many years of enduring physical abuse and harangues about how awful my real family was and burning up inside with resentment, one of the things I wanted to do was to find out the truth for myself. Above all, I longed to see my real mother again. I wanted and needed to feel as if I belonged somewhere.
I managed to finish high school with the aid of my real father's social security pension and the help of a friend. That summer before university, one of my adoptive sisters found me a job as a maid in a large house for students so I could have free rent, and then I found some waitressing jobs to support myself. Instead of majoring in music, as I had originally wished to do, I became very practical and decided to major in engineering so that I would have a better chance of achieving financial security. I knew that I would have to find a job immediately after graduation because I didn't have a home to go to, and hang out in, until I found one. By selecting engineering, I was able to get engineering co-op jobs that allowed me to work and help pay my way through university. I would work for either three or six months for an engineering firm, and then alternate and go back to university for the same length of time. During the months I attended university full-time, I also had part-time jobs as a waitress or worked at other odd jobs for the university. While working on my co-op assignments, I would enroll in night classes to fulfill elective course credits that could be transferred to my original university. On the weekends, I worked at other part-time jobs, such as plumbing. I also had to take out some student loans to supplement my income.
After graduating in mechanical engineering, I looked for a company that was doing business in the Far East, and I ended up working for IBM. During my time there, I took every opportunity to take on tasks that would make it easier for me to go abroad and work in another branch office or that would allow me to reenter the job market more easily if I were to take a couple of years off. My goal was to save enough money to go to Taiwan to find my mother. However, one of the obstacles I had to overcome if I was to be reunited with her was my inability to speak Chinese. To find her wasn't enough, since I needed to be able to communicate with her, and I didn't want to use a translator for such an emotional meeting. I had tried learning Chinese through some evening classes at a university, but that never worked out because of my hectic traveling schedule at IBM.
I finally decided to take the radical step of quitting my job to study Chinese in Beijing, where the most standard Mandarin was spoken. My friends at IBM thought I was crazy to leave what was then considered a secure job. At that time IBM was not granting leaves of absence except for exceptional cases, but when I left my managers told me that they would rehire me when I finished in China. Meanwhile, I lined up a part-time job as a consultant for IBM's China office so that I would have a source of income. With the professional part of my life organized, I also put my personal life in order. I put all my belongings in storage and then told my boyfriend of many years not to wait for me, because I didn't know what was going to happen. I was about to embark on the biggest adventure of my life, and I couldn't make any commitments. I had a feeling that what I was about to experience in the next few years would change the way I looked at the world.
When my plane landed in Beijing in September 1986, I kept pinching myself. I could hardly believe I was in China. Somehow, despite my almost nonexistent Chinese, I managed to get to the Foreign Languages Institute where I would be studying. The taxi pulled up at the dormitory for foreigners. When I got out with all my suitcases, I found a crowd of Chinese staring at me with blank looks on their faces. I had never seen that kind of empty expression before, and it gave me a creepy feeling. I had read many books about China, but nothing had prepared me for this. I wondered if I had made a mistake in coming. It was raining, and I had an incredible amount of luggage, but not one of the people standing there looking at me offered to help when they saw me struggling with my bags—not even the people for helping the foreign students. "Welcome to the motherland," I thought.
Gradually, I settled in and became acquainted with some local Chinese. Many of them asked me if I had relatives living in China. When I answered yes, that my father's family was still in China, they would always ask me if I had met them. When I said no, they were very surprised. In fact, I was interested in meeting my father's family, because I remembered my father talking about them, but I didn't know much about their whereabouts. My father had left mainland China just before the Communists took over the mainland in 1949 and had never seen his family again. I was too little to remember any details about how to locate them, and whenever I had asked my brother for information, he never wanted to discuss the subject. I think that it was too painful for him to talk about our parents. Finally, however, I did find out from him the name of our father's hometown. At first, I didn't have much hope of finding my relatives, because I thought it would be like finding a needle in a haystack. But these frequent questions about them motivated me to take the idea of finding my father's relatives seriously. I thought that if I succeeded, I would learn more about my father and what had shaped him as person. I often felt a sense of great loss and pity that I had only known my father for two and a half years of my life.
After studying and working part-time for about a year, I met a Chinese professor who told me that he could help me find my father's family. I gave him the little information I had, and he wrote to the officials of the town they lived in, in Gansu province in northwest China. A few months later, he called me back and told me that my relatives had been located. Apparently had been easy to track down because they had been blacklisted during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s. I was surprised that finding them had been this simple. I immediately sent a letter to them. I told them I was studying Chinese and working part-time for IBM to financially support my studies.
I received a letter from someone who said that he was my father's elder brother. He said that the family was all so happy to hear from me and to hear that I was doing so well and was so rich (they seemed to assume that I was rich just because I was working for IBM). Since in every letter they emphasized the word rich, I sensed that I was to be their goose that laid the golden eggs. I felt uneasy and worried about their expectations of me. I had heard other overseas Chinese stories about people claiming to be relatives but who were actually strangers just hoping to profit from the relationship. I therefore asked my relatives to provide some information about my father and to send me some pictures of him and of themselves, if they had any. I had no knowledge of my father's family, apart from the memories of my father repeatedly saying, his voice filled with regret, that his older brother was "stupid" for not having left China before the Communists came into power. The only thing I had of his family was a picture, showing his mother, brother, and sisters dressed in Chinese silk robes. When a Chinese friend saw this picture, she told me that my father's family must have been really rich, because in those days most people couldn't afford silk robes. This picture was the only due I had to my father's existing family. And it was this exact picture that they sent to me as proof that we were truly related.
My father's relatives asked me to visit them several times, but I told them that I was too busy with my studies and that I traveled a lot for my work. Sometimes I would be out of town for two weeks at a time. I said that I would let them know when I could visit them, and when they could visit me in Beijing, but that they must not come without advance notice. Deep down, I was not sure if I was ready to meet them, especially after reading one letter from my uncle saying that he was ill because he missed me so much. I thought, I don't even really know them, and if he's getting sick now from missing me so much, what will he do when he does know me—will he die from the excitement? They also refused to believe that my father had died a long time ago. I knew that the first meeting was going to be tough. I wanted to meet them to find out more about my father—but in my own time.
It was two years after my arrival in China, and more than half a year after my initial contact with my relatives when, after class one day, the dormitory service desk told me that I had a relative waiting for me. I was astonished, and a bit nervous—I just hadn't been prepared for this visit. The relative turned out to be my cousin, my father's older brother's first son, who was in his forties. He had been sent as the family's representative to meet me. I had a hard time believing that he was my relative, because he looked more like an escaped convict. He had an open burn wound the size of a dime on his face, which looked as if it had come from a cigarette, and, from time to time, he would use a piece of paper to dab at the pus oozing from it. He had a weird accent and a speech impediment that made it hard to understand what he was saying. He really gave me the creeps with the way he stared at me. I felt like he was devouring me with his eyes. All I wanted to do was to run away from this guy—I couldn't stand to be alone with him. Luckily, I had an excuse to leave him. I really did have to go to work, so I told him to come back the next day and we would talk. This delay also gave me more time to prepare myself and to ask my Chinese teacher to attend the meeting with him, to give me moral support and easy Chinese translation if I couldn't understand my cousin.
During the meeting the next day, he showed me pictures of my father—further confirmation that he was my cousin. He told me that after the Communist takeover, our family had lost everything we owned. During the Cultural Revolution, my uncle had been severely beaten and paraded around town with a hat and signs that labeled him a capitalist landlord. Fortunately for my grandfather, he had died a few years before 1949, and my grandmother had also died of old age shortly after the takeover. The stories of what happened to our family were typical of those of landlord families. Their land, property, and belongings were confiscated or plundered by the new government. My cousin also told me that our family had been further punished and suffered even more because they had been considered spies, since my father was living in the United States.
It was very sad to hear about the beatings and miseries, but I started to feel that my cousin was trying to put the burden of all that they had suffered onto me because of their connection with my father. I didn't want to have to feel guilty and weighed down about that. I tried to explain that my father didn't have a great life—that after studying for so many years, he had had too little time to live to enjoy the rewards of his hard work. My father died a poor man, with only $500 in his possession. I told him a little bit about myself and about my brother, that we had both worked our way through university. I was still paying back student loans. I wanted him to see the reality: I was just an average person, not someone rich who could help them financially.
At the end of the meeting, I let him know I had no more time to see him. I said that I was too busy, but that I would go and visit them in Gansu later, when I was able to. I explained that I was very Americanized and that I needed advance notice and would give them a reply as to whether I would be available and in town for their future visits. I didn't want to seem mean or cruel hearted, but I needed my relatives to respect my wishes and my privacy. I didn't want them to show up whenever they felt like it and to have to drop everything just to attend to them. I had a lot of Chinese IBM customers who did the same thing—show up without appointments and expect me to cater to them when I had other appointments and projects to take care of. Part of the reason the Chinese just showed up was that most people didn't have telephones, and most people didn't travel much, so they assumed that you would just be there. I said to him that, in America, relationships even among relatives are built up and not assumed and that it would take time for me to get to know them. I tried to communicate all this as diplomatically as I could. I had lived in China for only two years, but that was long enough to know the expectations of Chinese relatives. I could tell he was disappointed, but I was not ready to take on all the responsibility of their term, relative. Friendship and trust must be earned. Maybe my attitude came from years of being so independent and having to fend for myself.
My uncle's family continued to write to me. I didn't write to them nearly as often, because I am lazy about writing letters in general and because I didn't have a lot to say to them that I thought that they would be able to relate to. I don't know whether they feared that my stay in China would be limited and that I might leave without visiting them. But, in fact, I ended up staying in China much longer than the originally planned two or three years. IBM China asked me to work for them full-time, and then I married a Frenchman who was working in China.
In the spring of 1990, three and a half years after my arrival in China, my aunt and her daughter showed up at the IBM office looking for me. I was surprised to see them, since, once again, my relatives had appeared without prior notice. My aunt told me she had some business in Beijing, so she wanted to meet me. She wanted to retry Beijing duck, the specialty of Beijing, so my husband and I took them out to dinner to have some. This visit with my aunt and her daughter went much more smoothly. She didn't dwell on the miseries, beating, and torture after 1949 and during the Cultural Revolution and didn't try to make me feel guilty about the past. She seemed normal and easy to talk to, unlike my cousin, and expressed herself in a self-assured way. She felt so comfortable with us that she was even giving me personal advice—she tried to persuade me for several minutes to have a double eyelid operation to improve my looks! My husband remarked on how alike my aunt and I looked. It was a lot easier to believe that she was really my father's sister than it had been to believe my cousin and I were related.
Since this visit gave me a better impression of my relatives, I started to think more seriously about visiting them. They had been telling me that my uncle was getting old and that his health wasn't good, so I should try to go soon. The most important thing that I wanted to do for my relatives was to try to get back for the family the part of the house that would have belonged to my father. Apparently there was a new regulation in China that overseas Chinese could make a claim on their share of housing if their family's house had been taken away from them after 1949. My relatives assured me that if I went to the local government and applied personally on behalf of my dead father to get my father's share of the house, I would succeed. This would then get back what was rightly my father's for me, but really it was for them. I had no desire to keep a residence in Gansu.
In the fall of 1991, my husband's project in China was coming to an end, and his company was planning to send him back to France. I handed in my notice of resignation to IBM. We decided this would be a good time to visit my uncle and family and to take care of getting back my father's part of the house for my relatives. We didn't realize just how remote a place Gansu province was, although it is true that we took a somewhat roundabout, scenic route to get there. We first went to northern Sichuan province. Then we worked our way north by public bus through the grasslands and the mountains until we reached the city of Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu. It wasn't the easiest way to go, since part of the route we took had not yet been opened to foreigners. We had to stop in at the local government office controlling foreign visitors and beg them to issue us travel permits so that we could go through the various small cities along the way and take the public buses. We were checked many times by bus ticket sellers and police during our trip. Since my husband was Caucasian, we couldn't go very far without being noticed. Sometimes there were so few buses going to the destination we wanted that we had to wait two days to get a place on the bus.
This anthology of autobiographical essays reveals the human side of the Chinese diaspora. Written by ethnic Chinese who were born or raised outside of China, these moving pieces, full of the poignant details of everyday life, describe the experience of growing up as a visible minority and the subsequent journey each author made to China. The authors—whose diverse backgrounds in countries such as New Zealand, Denmark, Sri Lanka, England, Indonesia, and the United States mirror the complex global scope of the Chinese diaspora—describe in particular how their journey to the country of their ancestors transformed their sense of what it means to be Chinese. The collection as a whole provides important insights into what ethnic identity has come to mean in our transnational era.
Among the pieces is Brad Wong's discussion of his visit to his grandfather's poverty-stricken village in China's southern Guangdong province. He describes working with a few of the peasants tilling vegetables and compares life in the village with his middle-class upbringing in a San Francisco suburb. In another essay, Milan Lin-Rodrigo tells of her life in Sri Lanka and of the trip she made to China as an adult. She describes the difficult and sometimes humorous cultural differences she experienced when she met her Chinese half-sister and her father's first wife.
Josephine Khu's lively afterword provides background information on the Chinese diaspora and gives a theoretical framework for understanding the issues raised in the essays. This intimate and rich anthology will be compelling reading for all who are seeking answers to the increasingly complex issue of ethnic and personal identity.
Josephine M. T. Khu is a Visiting Scholar at the Centre of Asian Studies at Hong Kong University.


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The Ramblers excelled themselves this week by managing to lose two walkers even before they started. The group had decided to abandon plans to walk on the Southern Upland way near Derry and instead, in view of the weather conditions, to do the safer walk around Newton Stewart. Unfortunately, two walkers missed the message and disappeared for the rest of the day. Florence, Frances, Isobel, Audrey, Jack, Forbes, Graeme from N. Yorks who is visiting family in Stranraer and Mary Mitchell discussed the condition of the roads. A decision was made, on the advice of a roving mountain rescue volunteer in his Sainsbury sponsored vehicle, not to do the planned walk which would have entailed a really difficult journey along minor, icy roads. We tried to phone Jim who had been expected to be there and who, we were sure, had taken Ken whose car was in the car park, but his phone was switched off – we were pretty upset about their not being there but just had to set off without them.
The walk around Newton Stewart has been done three times before but the addition of snow made it look very different. The mist was hanging low over the landscape and at times it meant our views were obscured but it was SO atmospheric and, with the sun shimmering through the trees the landscape was beautiful.
The start was quite treacherous as they negotiated icy conditions over the Sparlin Bridge and along the riverbank. One walker was wearing overshoe grips and was obviously more at ease on the black ice. The steady climb past Kirroughtree Hotel and on over the Golf course up to the top of Clarks Wood soon warmed everyone up. A buzzard and a heron soared upward as they passed by, and there were many tracks in the snow, causing much debate over which animals had made them. At one point it looked as if there had been a rally of rabbits having a party.
They acquired the company of a chocolate coloured labrador at Kirroughtree who couldn't be persuaded to return home until the group emerged from the Bower Wood, whereupon he took off without a farewell bark.
On reaching the Old Edinburgh Road they made their way to the Queen Mary Bridge where attempts were made to drop pebbles into the wishing pot.
Another doggy encounter was made after crossing Queen Mary's Bridge when a sixteen week old collie puppy out for a walk with his owner greeted the group enthusiastically.
We took our time wandering around Monnigaff Parish Churchyard before heading for the King George V Suspension Bridge and made use of the picnic tables beside it to have our lunch. We crossed the bridge then headed up the Girvan road turning left up the hill at Duncree..
Lunch was taken on the river bank below the Bridge. After clearing the picnic tables of snow the walkers had a lovely view over the frozen Cree. It was too cold to sit for long and the Ramblers were soon off again up the track towards Old Hall Farm where cross-ing the dykes was a treacherous affair owing to the ice. Unfortunately, there were no views from the hill because the town and the hills beyond were covered by a thick haze.
The walk went on skirting the frozen pond in Doonhill Wood, crossing the quiet A75 and onwards and upwards to the mast on top of Barrhill.
Here there was a spectacular view as the mist had cleared and the range of hills beyond the town were clearly visible, sparkling with snow under a blue, blue sky. Comparisons were made between this walk and the one undertaken in May during the walking festival when the temperatures were somewhat higher.
The walk continued down to the cycle track and back into the town where hot drinks and teacakes were enjoyed. Some members went off to visit Cunninghame's outdoor shop, where the launch of the Walking Festival was taking place, with the intent of buying overshoe grips.
Riverbank cafe for drinks and cakes and then, without Richard and Andrea went across to Cunningham's where the new NS walking festival programme was there for viewing.


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For Grades 5-8 , week of Apr 18, 2022
1. Photojournalism
Photojournalists have played a huge role showing the devastating effects the Russian invasion of Ukraine has had on family life. More than 4.5 million Ukrainians have fled the country and more than 90 percent of them are women and children. In fact, nearly two-thirds of all Ukrainian children have now been forced from their homes since the fighting began, according to the United Nations Children's Fund known as UNICEF. They have been forced to leave everything behind: schools, clothing, pets and even family members, since men have been asked or required to stay and defend their homeland. They "have been hurt in the very places where they should be safest … emergency shelters, even hospitals," a UNICEF spokesman said. They have been attacked as they have tried to flee, as when Russian rockets hit a train station last week. And relief agencies fear more violence is yet to come. Written on the side of one Russian rocket that hit the train station were the words "For the Children." In the newspaper or online, find photos taken by photojournalists that show the effects of the Ukraine war on families and children. Choose one or two and study them closely. Write a paragraph for each, detailing how the photo tells the story of the war's effects on families/children in ways that words alone cannot.
Common Core State Standards: Reading closely what written and visual texts say and to making logical inferences from them; citing specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions.
2. No-Fly Performance
Performance art is created by the actions or movements of artists to engage an audience. Performance art has often been used as a way to comment on social issues, and in New York City this spring it was used to call for action in the war in Ukraine. A group of artists climbed to the top of the rotunda of the world-famous Guggenheim art museum and launched a squadron of 350 paper airplanes to demonstrate support for establishing a no-fly-zone over Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been asking the United States and the members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to establish the no-fly-zone over his European nation to stop jets from neighboring Russia from bombing Ukrainian cities and civilians from the skies. The U.S. and NATO nations have resisted Zelensky's request for fear of expanding the war started by Russia's invasion. The war in Ukraine is being waged on the ground, in the air and even on the sea. In the newspaper or online, find and closely read stories about developments involving each of these types of warfare. Use what you read to write a political column analyzing why each development is important to the course of the war.
Common Core State Standards: Writing informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly; citing specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions.
3. One Valuable Drawing
Michelangelo was one of the greatest artists in all of human history. Born in Italy in 1475, he did incredibly lifelike paintings, sculptures and drawings and even wrote poetry as well. His work is highly valued by art collectors and museums and commands extraordinary prices on the rare occasions it comes up for public sale. Just how extraordinary will be demonstrated again next month when a rare Michelangelo drawing will be offered at an auction sale in Paris, France. The drawing, called "A Nude Young Man (After Masaccio)," is believed to be one of the artist's early works, from around the end of the 15th century, and it is expected to fetch a whopping $33-million sale price at the auction by the Christie's organization. The pen-and-ink drawing offers Michelangelo's interpretation of a shivering man seen earlier in a fresco called "Baptism of the Neophytes," by Masaccio, an early Italian master painter. The 13-by-8-inch drawing is one of the few works of Michelangelo that is owned privately. Michelangelo (pronounced MICK-el-AN-jell-o) was famous for creating lifelike paintings, sculptures and drawings. In the newspaper or online, find and study photos of lifelike works by artists of today. Use what you find to write an essay or short paper detailing the most important qualities that lifelike artworks have.
Common Core State Standards: Writing opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information; citing specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions.
4. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall'
"Sarah, Plain and Tall" is a book that has touched the lives of millions of students since it first came out in 1985. It tells the story of a pioneer woman and the challenges her family faces in the American West in the 1800s. The young adult novel has been assigned reading in thousands of middle and elementary schools and touches on themes important to students, including loneliness, family issues, fear of abandonment and coping with change. The author of the book, Patricia MacLachlan, grew up in the western states of Wyoming and Minnesota and drew on her family's history and experiences when writing the popular story. MacLachlan, who died last week at the age of 84, said she wrote the story as a gift to her mother, "who had met the real Sarah" and knew what frontier life was like. The first "Sarah" book inspired four additional volumes and a TV movie and won the prestigious Newbery Medal — the top honor for children's literature. Author Patricia MacLachlan wrote books that dealt with issues and emotions felt by families and children. In the newspaper or online, find and closely read a story about an issue important to families today. Use what you read to brainstorm an idea for a creative story based on this issue. Write a summary of your story and give it a title that would attract students your age. Then write the opening paragraph or scene.
Common Core State Standards: Writing narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events; reading closely what written and visual texts say and to making logical inferences from them.
5. Nice Guy for a Change
Gordon Ramsay is a celebrity chef who has earned a wide reputation for food competition TV shows on which he teaches others to cook and critiques their efforts. He is known for being blunt and even mean-spirited in his assessments, ridiculing and making fun of bad efforts. In the European nation of England this month, Ramsay unexpectedly played the nice guy when a school chef reached out for help. Chef Tina Clark was in a bind at Edward Peake Middle School outside the city of London when two of her assistant chefs called in sick. So she called Ramsay, who was appearing on a radio show, to ask for help. She didn't expect to get a response, so she was surprised when a message from Ramsay popped up on her phone. "Your chef will be with you in an hour," Ramsay wrote. Ramsay sent a chef by taxi from his Lucky Cat restaurant, and Clarke immediately put him to work, NPR Radio reported. And what did he make? Not quite restaurant fare but a cauliflower cheese dish popular with students. Celebrities often do things to help others in their lives. In the newspaper or online, find and closely read a story about a celebrity helping a person or group of people. Use what you read to write a thank-you letter to the celebrity as if you were the person helped. Be sure to detail why the help was important.
Common Core State Standards: Producing clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization and style are appropriate to the task; citing specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions.

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STRASBOURG, France — The European Parliament on Tuesday scrapped proposals by health officials that electronic cigarettes be tightly regulated as medical devices, setting the stage for a debate in the United States over the extent of regulation.
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E-cigarette users ingest nicotine in the form of vapors from heated fluid, an alternative to smoking commonly called vaping.
European lawmakers endorsed a permissive approach to the sale and use of e-cigarettes, although the products could not be sold legally to anyone younger than 18.
The Food and Drug Administration in the United States has said it wants to issue regulations on the nicotine-delivery devices soon. Industry leaders and public health officials had expected them by the end of October but the regulations may be delayed because of the partial government shutdown that has emptied F.D.A. offices.
The electronic cigarette measure in Europe was widely watched because the use of e-cigarettes, primarily by smokers seeking a way to kick the tobacco habit, has skyrocketed in Europe and the United States. Instead of smoke from burning tobacco, users ingest the nicotine in the form of vapors from a heated fluid — an alternative to smoking commonly called vaping.
The advent of vaping has removed some of the stigma of tobacco use, and in some cases people can use e-cigarettes in places where smoking tobacco is prohibited. The European Union legislation, however, does not address the issue of where vaping is permitted, leaving that to national and local jurisdictions.
Some Wall Street analysts predict that sales of the battery-powered devices could surpass those of cigarettes within a decade. But the products and their use have quickly outrun any regulations on either side of the Atlantic. Some people hope this new technology will become a widely used alternative to tobacco. While their health effects are not fully understood, e-cigarettes are generally considered less harmful than smoking.
E-cigarette companies, supported by growing legions of e-cigarette users, had lobbied hard against medicinal regulation. They welcomed the European Parliament vote as a victory for good health and good sense.
"This is a fantastic result for public health and the millions of smokers around Europe who are switching to e-cigarettes," said Charles Hamshaw-Thomas, corporate affairs director of Britain's biggest e-cigarette brand by sales volume, E-Lites. "Common sense has prevailed."
But while exempting e-cigarettes from an onerous and potentially costly certification process required for drugs, an amendment to the Tobacco Products Directive approved by parliamentarians imposes tight restrictions on advertising and sponsorship. In these areas, e-cigarettes face the same restraints as regular cigarettes, including the ban on sales to young people.
As expected, the European Parliament also voted to approve measures adopted this year by European Union officials, banning conventional cigarettes with menthol flavoring and requiring cigarette packs to carry health warnings in pictures and text covering 65 percent of the packages, up from 40 percent. But Parliament voted to delay the menthol ban by five years. It will take effect in eight years instead of three.
Regulators in the United States must now grapple with two serious concerns public health officials have raised about e-cigarettes. Scientists are not certain of the health impact of using e-cigarettes or of inhaling secondhand vapor. Perhaps more pressing, it is not clear whether e-cigarettes will revive an interest in smoking by celebrating a behavior that health officials have spent decades trying to demonize.
"These products threaten to undo all that," said Matthew L. Myers, president of Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, who wants the F.D.A. to issue tough guidelines for how e-cigarettes can be marketed and sold. With such regulations, "e-cigarettes have potentially positive value," he said, "but we've already seen that, if left to their own, e-cigarette manufacturers will reach out to our children, do everything to maximize sales, including re-glamorizing smoking, and that's where we are today."


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The Brooklyn Flea will open a new, 9,000-square-foot food and beer garden in the northwest corner of Crown Heights, Brownstoner reports—and of course that site reported it, since its founder is behind the larger development of which the new space will be a part.
Jonathan Butler, along with the developer BFC and Goldman Sachs' Urban Investment Group, has closed on three adjacent industrial properties totaling over 155,000 square feet of space at 1000 Dean Street. The new beer hall space will be on the Bergen Street side (pictured); the rest they plan to turn into office space to attract the sort of businesses now getting shut out of no-vacancy DUMBO.
"In our dreams, the main building will be a mix of large and small creative tenants drawn from the immediate and surrounding neighborhoods," Butler writes on Brownstoner, "including food producers, tech start-ups, artists, writers, furniture makers, jewelry makers, etc." The space is within a mile of many neighborhoods "chock full of creative professionals… In addition to Crown Heights, there was Bed Stuy, Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights and even bits of Fort Greene and Park Slope (barely!)," not to mention Prospect-Lefferts Gardens.
Butler started Brownstoner in 2003, then co-founded the Brooklyn Flea in 2008 (with Eric Demby); now, he's a developer. "It actually feels like a pretty natural progression," he tells us. "Before I moved to Brooklyn in 2003, I'd been a journalist, I'd worked on Wall Street, and I'd done one big commercial real estate deal. At the end of the day, Brownstoner, The Brooklyn Flea and now 1000 Dean Street all come back to one theme: community. Whether it's online, in an empty lot or in a gigantic 1920s building, it's about bringing people together around shared interests and common values.


That's right, on September 2nd Norm Halbower from Antler Group Amusements confirmed the 10 year deal with festival promoter AEG/Madison House, which have yet to comment on the new deal.
Earlier this year there was a slim chance that Progressive Resorts LLC could have reclaimed the ranch, but the group could not raise the $7 million owed Antler Bar Amusements. This put the future of the festival at risk because another promotion company called SFX, the promoter for Tomorrowworld and other high production festivals, were showing some serious interest in the transfer of ownership. If the ownership changed the contracts with AEG/Madison House could have been considered void which means the festival would have been up for grabs, which some worried would have changed the integrity of Electric Forest.
Worry no more, now that the deal has been struck with the same promoters then money can be reinvested for improvements. David Alvarez, ABA general manager, confirmed that since May the festival grounds have seen more than $2.4 million in improvements. The money gained from this festival significantly helps out the ranch, including major improvements to the cabins on the back forty and the water park.
The only threat to the Electric experience are the opinions and votes of local municipalities. They must approve a mass gathering permit, which was passed last year on a split vote, which allows for the forest to host the Electric family. We can help increase those odds by respecting the area in which it is held, respecting the towns where we stop and get supplies, and by simply contacting the board members to thank them for having us as their guests during the festival.
Sensible Reason has been covering Electric Forest extensively, check out our experience this year here. See you next year Sherwood.
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— Wanda Sykes telling Ellen DeGeneres why she hesitated to publicly reveal her breast cancer. The comedian disclosed her recent double mastectomy in an episode of "Ellen" airing Monday.
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From its inception in 2005, Southport Forest Products has always tried to be innovative in processing smaller second-growth and plantation Douglas fir logs in Oregon's Coast Range. With a new primary breakdown line added, Southport Lumber Company capacity jumps to 200MMBF.
"We've made quite a few changes," says Mill Manager Greg Dickey. "I know 200 million might not sound like an awful lot compared to large log sawmills," Dickey admits, "but for the size of log that we handle it is quite impressive." Southport processes between 13,000 and 14,000 log segments per shift.
An upgrade at a southern yellow pine sawmill in Alabama has had a major impact on the mill's productivity with the addition of profiling incorporated into the mill's curve-sawing gang process. The mill was facing daily bottlenecks at the edger that resulted in backed up lumber decks, hours of overtime work to clear backlog, and continual maintenance to keep overworked components operating. This article appeared in USNR's Millwide Insider magazine.
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The hardest part of this was choosing from so many tunes.
In this episode, some Greek, some Dancing, Looking At The Sky, a couple of more Miserable Songs, and another version of a song I already played.
Here's a hint on that last one..."Sing Teddy Sing".
All in all, I think your reaction will be, why didn't he play these earlier, lol?
Yes there were 6 other parts and took me so long to play them I can't remember what I played, lol!
Maybe Mr. Big, know I played Mr. Big Stuff.
Mr. Bungle I don't think I know.
There were six other parts?


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Ending Death by Dangerousness: A Path to the De Facto Abolition of the Death Penalty
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The use of the death penalty---both in number of new death sentences and actual executions---has been steadily decreasing during the past decade. Two phenomena largely explain this decrease: (1) the…
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A tying arrangement is a seller's requirement that a customer may purchase its "tying" product only by taking its "tied" product. In a variable proportion tie the purchaser can vary…
Taking the Good with the Bad: Recognizing the Negative Externalities Created by Charities and Their Implications for the Charitible Deduction
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The tax code allows taxpayers to deduct amounts donated to an extremely broad variety of organizations deemed to create societal benefits---that is, positive externalities. But many organizations that may receive…
Innocence Commissions and the Future of Post-Conviction Review
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In 2006, North Carolina became the first state to establish an innocence commission---a state institution with the power to review and investigate individual post-conviction claims of actual innocence. And on…
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The FDA approval is for use in combination with low-dose cytarabine for treatment of newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia in people who are at least 75 years old or who have comorbidities preventing use of intensive induction therapy.
Administer 100 mg orally once daily in combination with cytarabine 20 mg subcutaneously twice daily on days 1–10 of each 28-day treatment cycle. Treatment should be continued for at least six cycles unless unacceptable toxicity or loss of disease control occurs. Glasdegib may need to be interrupted, dose reduced, or discontinued if patients experience QTc prolongation, cytopenias, or other grade 3 or 4 toxicities.
Instruct patients to take glasdegib orally, with or without food, at the same time each day.
Clinically significant QTc prolongation and ventricular arrhythmias have occurred (5%), including ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia. Other common adverse reactions are anemia (41%), fatigue (36%), febrile neutropenia (31%), thrombocytopenia (30%), muscle pain or spasm (30%), edema (30%), nausea (29%), dyspnea (23%), decreased appetite (21%), mucositis (21%), rash (20%), constipation (20%), pneumonia (19%), renal insufficiency (19%), atrial arrhythmia (13%), and bleeding/hemorrhage (6%). Electrolyte imbalances, such as increased creatinine (96%), hyponatremia (54%), hypomagnesemia (33%), increased AST (28%), increased bilirubin (25%), and increased alkaline phosphatase (23%), also can occur.
Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding should not be given glasdegib. Female patients of childbearing potential must have pregnancy testing completed before beginning treatment.
Patient history should include evaluation for pre-existing cardiac disease or electrolyte imbalances.
An electrocardiogram should be obtained prior to treatment, at one week after initiation, then monthly for two months to assess for QTc prolongation.
Monitoring should include complete blood counts, electrolytes, renal, and hepatic function tests prior treatment initiation and at least once weekly for the first month. After the first month, electrolytes and renal function should be monitored once monthly for the duration of therapy. Serum creatine kinase levels should be checked prior starting treatment and as clinically indicated after.
The regimen has not been studied in people with severe kidney problems or moderate to severe liver problems, so the safety is not known.
Drugs that are strong CYP3A inhibitors and inducers should be avoided. Also avoid coadministration of QTc prolonging drugs, if possible, or monitor patients closely for QTc interval prolongation.
Ensure patients understand possible adverse effects and when to notify their healthcare provider, such as for fever, bleeding, fatigue, edema, muscle spasm, nausea, fainting, palpitations, dyspnea, or any new, uncontrolled, or unexpected side effect.
Review dosing and administration instructions as well the monitoring plan. Instruct patients about safe handling in the home including not to split, crush, or chew the tablets.
Counsel patients to speak with their oncology provider before starting any new prescription or over-the-counter medications, vitamins, or supplements.
Instruct women of childbearing potential to use effective contraception during treatment and for 30 days after the last dose. Also advise them to not breastfeed during treatment and for 30 days after completing treatment.
Teach male patients to use condoms during and for 30 days after treatment ends.
Tell patients not to donate blood or blood products during treatment and for 30 days after treatment is completed.
Patient education materials for glasdegib are available at oralchemoedsheets.com.
Glasdegib was found to be safe in older adults because 60% of people enrolled in clinical trials were at least 75 years old and almost all were at least 65 years old.
Glasdegib is considered a hazardous drug because of its reproductive risk. Glasdegib has a black box warning that it can cause embryo-fetal death and must be avoided in pregnant women. Women of childbearing potential should have a pregnancy test before beginning treatment and must be advised to use effective contraception during and for 30 days after the last dose of glasdegib. Men must use condoms with sexual activity during and for 30 days after the last dose of glasdegib to decrease the risk of exposure to their partners. In addition, women receiving glasdegib should not breastfeed their children during treatment and for 30 days after their last dose.
Patient assistance may be available at pfizeroncologytogether.com. To find out which patients may qualify, call 877-744-5675.


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Uber Says It Received Over 3,000 Sexual Assault Reports, Including 229 Rape Claims, in the US in 2018
In 2017, the company counted 2,936 reported sexual assaults during 1 billion US trips.
By Associated Press | Updated: 6 December 2019 09:49 IST
The reports also include 229 rape incidents across the company's 1.3 billion rides
Uber says in the report that drivers and riders were both attacked
The actual numbers could be much higher than what the report says
Uber has been criticised for not protecting safety of drivers and riders
Uber, as part of a long anticipated safety report, revealed that more than 3,000 sexual assaults were reported during its U.S. rides in 2018.
That figure includes 229 rapes across the company's 1.3 billion rides. The ride-hailing company noted that drivers and riders were both attacked, and that some assaults occurred between riders.
The Thursday report, which the company hailed as the first of its kind, provides a rare look into the traffic deaths, murders and reported sexual assaults that took place during billions of annual rides arranged in the U.S. using Uber's service. It is part of the company's effort to be more transparent after years of criticism over its safety record.
In 2017, the company counted 2,936 reported sexual assaults during 1 billion U.S. trips. Uber bases its numbers on reports from riders and drivers, meaning the actual numbers could be much higher. Sexual assaults commonly go unreported.
"I suspect many people will be surprised at how rare these incidents are; others will understandably think they're still too common," Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi tweeted about the report. "Some people will appreciate how much we've done on safety; others will say we have more work to do. They will all be right."
Uber's share price dropped more than 1% in after-hours trading.
Uber's report details category-wise incidents of sexual assault and misconduct
Photo Credit: Uber
Uber and competitor Lyft have faced harsh criticism for not doing enough to protect the safety of their riders and drivers. Dozens of women are suing Lyft, claiming the company should have done more to protect them from driver assaults. A Connecticut woman sued Uber last month, claiming she was sexually assaulted by her driver.
London refused to renew Uber's license to operate in the city in November after the company was plagued with safety issues including concerns about impostor drivers. Uber said it will appeal the decision.
The companies have both formed partnerships with sexual assault prevention networks and other safety groups, and have touted their background check policies for drivers. But many say they haven't gone far enough to protect passengers and drivers, who are contract workers for the companies.
"Keeping this information in the dark doesn't make anyone safer," Uber said in a statement announcing the report. It plans to release its safety report every two years going forward.
Lyft said last year it would also release a safety report. A company spokeswoman confirmed Thursday that it "remained committed" to releasing a report, but did not say when.
Mike Bomberger, a lawyer representing more than 100 victims of sexual assault in lawsuits against Uber and Lyft, applauded Uber for releasing the numbers. "One of the problems with both of these companies is that they have hidden and have tried to conceal the number of sexual assaults that occur in their vehicles," he said.
In response, an Uber spokesperson pointed to the just-released report. Lyft called Bomberger's charge "baseless."
Bomberger said he believes 80% to 90% of the assaults in the Uber report could have been prevented by measures such as cameras in the cars recording rides and the companies reporting every assault they learn of to the police.
The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network said it appreciated Uber's transparency.
"This is an issue that affects every institution in America," RAINN press secretary Emily Robinson said in a statement. She added that organizations in every industry, including education, should "make a similar effort to track and analyze sexual misconduct within their communities."
The report stated that Uber rides were involved in 97 reported crashes in 2017 and 2018, resulting in 107 deaths. The company said the figure represents about half of the national rate for fatal crashes.
Sexual assault in the report is defined broadly into categories including non-consensual kissing of a non-sexual body part, attempted non-consensual sexual penetration, non-consensual touching of a sexual body part, non-consensual kissing of a sexual body part and non-consensual sexual penetration.
The company also said Uber rides were involved in nine murders during 2018, and 10 during 2017.
Uber noted that the vast majority — 99.9 percent — of its rides had no reported safety issues.
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Ok, Dan You've been hanging around us 2 long. Lol. i think You've finally lost it.
Seriously though. I've met a lot of non- natives out on the circuit who are really great singers and drummers. It's not about % it's about what is in your heart. I don't care if you're full blood. If your heart is not in what you're doing then you are not going to sound as good.Hopefully we are all there for the same reasons no matter how much native blood we do or don't have.


Driven by regulations, the future of passenger vehicles is increasingly going to be dependent more on battery cells and electric motors and less on fuel tanks and spark plugs. Hyundai hasn?t been at the forefront with electrification technology, but the company has taken a pragmatic and bifurcated approach?developing a full slate of hybrid and plug-in-hybrid models on one side, and dedicated electric vehicles on the other.
In a recent release discussing its next-generation fuel-cell vehicle, expected to be revealed in early 2018 around the time of the Seoul Winter Olympics, the company had some important announcements about vehicles that plug in. Among them: Hyundai disclosed that it?s working on a long-range, 310-mile electric vehicle, due after 2021, and that it?s developing its first dedicated architecture for EVs?implying that, like Volkswagen with its upcoming EV-centric MEB architecture, it?s potentially working on a whole set of vehicles that will not use internal-combustion engines.
Hyundai previously had revealed a few other details about this longer-range EV, including that it would have a larger footprint than the Ioniq?perhaps partly to create plenty of battery-packaging space. The automaker hasn?t yet said anything about the creation of an electric-only sub-brand?such as what Mercedes-Benz aims to create with its EQ brand or what Volkswagen might do with its I.D. vehicles.
At present, Hyundai?s sole fully electric model, the Ioniq Electric, is only available in California. The Ioniq plug-in hybrid, which will arrive this fall, will be offered in 10 states, although people in other states will be able to order it.
?Hyundai Motor?s electric vehicle development will take place in multiple phases,? said the company, in a release detailing a few more important milestones toward electrifying its lineup. Hyundai confirmed calendar-year 2018 timing for the launch of an all-electric version of the Kona compact SUV, with a range of about 240 miles. The automaker had already disclosed that it intends, through a battery upgrade, to extend the Ioniq electric?s battery range past 200 miles as soon as 2018.
Hyundai also confirmed that its Genesis luxury brand will get an all-electric model in 2021. In the meantime, the automaker said in its release that it would be expanding its lineup of hybrid offerings for SUVs and large vehicles, and expanding the use of its transmission-mounted electrical device (TMED) hybrid system?currently used in the Sonata and the Ioniq?to models with rear-wheel drive and all-wheel drive. In all, Hyundai and Kia combined will get 31 "eco-friendly models," according to the parent company.


The office of General Counsel, especially those in large global enterprises, has placed a great deal of focus in recent years on improving the value received for their legal dollar. They have implemented legal management solutions, like matter management, that help them manage and measure the effectiveness of their legal efforts, and make better decisions about how to manage certain types of matters. They have implemented e-billing solutions to help them gain better control over their sometimes significant spend with outside counsel. And they have used these integrated solutions to help them manage the very mix of internal and outside counsel efforts. Through these investments, GCs have made significant strides in managing their "ex post" legal challenges.
Recent trends are demonstrating that while these investments have largely been successful, they are not sufficient to managing the growing list of significant "a priori" compliance risks that these organizations face. In 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice spearheaded Foreign Corrupt Practices Acts judgments against global powerhouses like Avon Products at $135 Million, Hewlett Packard at $108 Million, and Alcoa, at a staggering $384 Million. Informed watchers expect 2015 to bring a record $1+ billion settlement with Walmart for their alleged FCPA violations related to their Mexican market entry. The value of these judgments, and the brand / reputation harm that these organizations have incurred, have raised the awareness of compliance risks within the community of global GCs. One response to this increased risk awareness has been to refocus technology investments to solve some of the underlying weaknesses that lead to violations in the first place. This shift in focus to prevention reflects what compliance and legal professionals have learned from these very public failures, as well as from the less public successes in the compliance realm.
A recent survey of legal departments shows that overall regulatory compliance responsibility is still a priority for GCs. Despite a shift in some cases to the creation of a Chief Compliance role reporting outside of legal, legal departments in many organizations still own either the overall organizational mandate for compliance or the functional responsibility for certain key aspects of a compliance program. At Mitratech, we are seeing a fairly consistent response to this organizational mandate and the increase in awareness of compliance risk. With overall pressure on costs still prevalent within their organizations, GCs are responding with technology investments to increase efficiency, information sharing, and silo-breaking investments that increase compliance effectiveness.
There are at least two tiers of capability maturity that we see legal departments investing in. The first tier, and most consistent and mainstream, includes basic blocking and tackling required to demonstrate an adequate compliance framework, including the requisite transparency and accountability of employees and other stakeholders. Specifically, legal departments are investing in policy management, awareness, and attestation tools. While it may seem obvious that employees are subject to the written policies of their employer, being able to demonstrate that stakeholders are aware of, and acknowledge ethics, business conduct, and other policies can go a long way in absolving a firm of responsibility for any future alleged wrong-doing of their employees. Accordingly, organizations are investing in technology that enables maintaining a set of policies of record, tracing these versions to specific points in time, demonstrating who read these policy versions and when, identifying educational activities that employees engaged in related to these policies, and affirmatively acknowledging these policies by employees. This core technology foundation provides a baseline of protections for an enterprise based simply on a solid building block of transparency and accountability.
While many legal teams are content with this level of protection, many others are going at least one step further, by investing in tools to define and assert business controls consistent with their policies and procedures. These tools can help a legal department demonstrate not only the strength of their stated compliance position (as articulated by their policies and procedures), but also their commitment to realizing this compliance goal in the organization's business activities through proactive enforcement. To be most effective, these control frameworks must integrate with the business processes of the organization and should be audited and otherwise assessed for their effectiveness. To give an example, most organizations will have segregation of duty policy in their purchasing processes so that the same individual cannot both acknowledge receipt of goods and authorize payment of an invoice. Some organizations take the additional step of adding a control to their procurement process, either in their purchasing automations systems, or through manual interventions, to make sure this important policy is enforced.
The natural corollary to an effective control framework is an oversight and accountability framework that dictates the mechanisms by which management will hold themselves and other firm stakeholders accountable for living up to these compliance standards. This tends to be the next step in the adoption and evolution of an effective compliance framework. As it did in the 2007 FCPA allegations against Morgan Stanley, the DOJ will often examine the role of management in overseeing decisions and other transactions to ensure that they comply with the spirit and letter of the firm's policy framework. In absolving MorganStanley of wrongdoing, they referred back to management's consistently applied role in overseeing the activities of its employees, as well as the extraordinary steps that the employee in question engaged in to circumvent these controls and oversight. Legal departments are investing in solutions that help manage and automate the implementation of these types of oversight frameworks.
While policy management, an effective control framework, and management oversight and accountability are all part of "blocking and tackling" tier of compliance maturity investments, we see many organizations moving beyond these basic capabilities to a more robust position of compliance readiness. As the maturity of a firm's compliance program grows, and they see the tangible benefits of the framework and tools they have adopted, many will often invest in more advanced capabilities and tools. The next tier of compliance maturity is even more proactive than the first. While the first tier tends to look at the compliance framework of a firm as a fixed entity, treating all compliance goals as equal, a more mature approach typically ads two critical elements. One is the ability to manage the regulatory change process itself, addressing all requisite obligations…what we call "regulatory intelligence". Another is the ability to apply a risk-weighted assessment across the compliance framework, and adjust all aspects of the framework to the results of that risk assessment.
The organizations we see investing in regulatory intelligence solutions are staying ahead of the potentially expensive trend of increasing regulatory change. Whether it is newly passed legislation, associated rule making, enforcement actions, or judicial interpretations, the pace of change in the regulatory landscape never slows. To respond, and minimize the risk of compliance failures, without incurring the very high cost to their legal departments of manually scanning and interpreting this high volume of change, advanced legal departments are investing in solutions that help manage the regulatory content (essentially the language of the changes themselves), and the regulatory change workflow, so that they can focus on their important role in managing their organizations interpretation and response to any changes.
One of the most mature responses we observe in legal departments to their compliance mission involves the implementation of a risk aware approach to their framework. When organizations reach a certain level of maturity in the compliance program, they realize that not all compliance obligations are equal, and they could benefit from assessing each for their level of risk, and modifying their response accordingly. Given both the highly integration nature of this task, and the very large volumes of data required to achieve it, investments in automated solutions in this area are beginning to be seen in legal department budgets. Tools that help these mature clients measure and quantify the differential risks of obligations across the jurisdiction where they conduct business, as well as tools that help measure and control the cost of their compliance response, help implement a risk-weighted compliance framework where each dollar of investment can be justified in its own right, but also compared to that dollar invested elsewhere.
Legal departments have been adapting to the combined pressures of their evolving role in their organizations, and the increasing challenges in the compliance component of this mandate. Most large company legal teams have successfully realized the benefits of technology solutions that target the "ex post" component of their legal challenges, and in particular, leverage enterprise legal management platforms that can be configured to consolidate matter management, e-Billing, and compliance functions in one place. As they consolidate these functions, and seek to add even more value to their organizations, more and more are able to shift their focus to managing the "a priori" aspects of their legal mandate.
As they do, many are realizing that Ben Franklin's wisdom can truly be timeless, as an ounce of " a priori" prevention, can truly be worth a pound of "ex post' cure.


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nation which has even been underdrawn by his administration.
state drifted into a criminal hotbed.
to survive. Kogi became a haven of robbers and kidnappers.
social contract with the Kogi people.
corrupt officials of government are made to face the wrath of the law.
operating from his home because the Government House wasn't conducive.
The award was to renovate Government House and not his personal house.
performance of this year's budget.
who are already witnessing the benefits of the New Direction Programs.
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The 'War On Drugs' Has Been A Deadly Failure
The Government has just a little more blood on its hands.
David Caldicott Emergency Consultant working in Canberra. Clinical Senior Lecturer, Emergency Medicine, A.N.U.
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In my line of work, early morning telephone calls are never good news. It doesn't matter whether you are on-call for your hospital, or anticipating a sleep-in of sorts, the incessant vibration of mobile phone in the wee hours is always a cause of apprehension.
So when I finally got up to silence the bleating phone, and blearily worked my way through the half dozen or so messages that were making such a racket, I had to turn on the light to make sure that what was being described was real, and not the exotic nightmare of an emergency physician: A mass overdose of GHB, in 2017? But that's so last decade!
I saw and treated my first overdose of gamma-hydroxybutyrate in Adelaide, soon after arriving in Australia in 1999. I had recently arrived from London, a town not unfamiliar with drugs. But 'G'? Never seen it before. A young person, comatose, unable to maintain their airway, from a liquid drug that I had never heard of? Australia was turning out to be a bit more interesting than box jellyfish and Bundaberg.
At the time, all we knew was how to keep the patient alive. Support the airway, and wait for the patient to wake up; we're a pragmatic bunch in ED. Once we had achieved that objective, we then had the chance to learn some more about what we were dealing with. Gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) is a naturally occurring neurotransmitter -- it is in all of us.
Legislators have been given the evidence and opportunity to show some moxie, and introduce the measures that now all experts are calling for. Failing to take that opportunity is a failure of leadership, and it will be punished.
Outside of us, it was developed by a French man to work out the inner workings of the human mind. Someone noticed it worked well as an anaesthetic in mice, and for a couple of decades it found a similar use in humans. It's still used medicinally in the form of sodium oxybate, as treatment for narcolepsy.
The route to illicit use was more circuitous. It was noted to increase human growth hormone in mice, and was subsequently embraced by the bodybuilding community as a supplement. Somewhere along the line, they noticed that at a point just shy of sedation, it caused euphoria -- as it turns out, a fairly significant euphoria. And so it took off, in the '90s in the U.S. and the '00s in Australia.
As is the way of things, GHB was banned, but predictably in the whack-a-mole game that is the War on Drugs, two precursor drugs -- 1,4-butanediol (1,4-BD) and gamma butyrolactone (GBL) -- quickly emerged to take its place. These were more problematic because they are 'dual use'; not only can they be used for recreational purpose, they are also very important chemicals in the solvent and plastic industries.
There were legitimate reasons for big business to have in their possession industrial quantities of these chemicals. Given the volumes shipped globally, it is impossible to account for every litre, and so some goes missing, diverted into the illicit market. It is far more likely that any overdose in Australia from a GHB-like substance was due to either of these than caused by the mother compound.
One of mythologies doing the rounds in the early days was that GHB, on its own, couldn't really hurt you. It's true that, in combination with another sedative like alcohol, it represents a particularly dangerous proposition. The perfect storm is the scenario where young people, already drunk, pass around a repurposed water bottle, and take unmeasured swigs of GHB/GBL/1,4BD. That's the likeliest scenario for what happened at Electric Parade last Saturday. But GHB and its analogues don't need alcohol to be lethal.
Breaking: Paramedics have treated at least 20 people for "substance abuse" at Electric Parade event at Sidney Myer Music Bowl @theheraldsunpic.twitter.com/2ECllJYQ8j
— Brianna Travers (@briannatravers) February 18, 2017
Our paper in the MJA in 2007, with Australia's National Coronial Inquest System, showed quite clearly that it was capable of doing the job on its own.
So, like Jack Nicholson hacking his way through a wooden door, why is this drug back in such a dramatic fashion?
We know that it's always around, but at less than 1 percent population prevalence, it's pretty 'niche'. By the late '00s, despite the 'Tough on Drugs' approach, the Australian health community had managed to get strong messaging to consumers about the hazards, and how to stay safe. A community knowledge developed, and other drugs emerged; the scene moved on.
A lot of that corporate knowledge has ebbed away, like the fading of a response to immunisation -- users from 'back in the day' now have jobs, and kids, and mortgages and while some wistfully reminisce about their youthful misdeeds, few are still involved.
Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, we are faced with a generation of consumers who are completely untouched by the Nancy Reagan message of 'Just Say No'. For generations where trends are measured in weeks, the failure of Australian drugs policy to keep up with the emerging market appears glacial in pace.
We are flailing in our attempts to reduce the supply of illicit drugs into Australia, and ignoring, almost entirely, any attempts to address the demand side of the equation.
This fault does not lie at the door of the doctors and scientists. They have indicated -- unanimously -- what is needed.
It lies squarely on the shoulders of legislators who are happy to dither in the face of an active public health emergency. Sure, when they read this, they'll howl about how much is being done, how much is being spent (overwhelmingly on law enforcement, and not health) -- but it's not what the experts are calling for.
We are flailing in our attempts to reduce the supply of illicit drugs into Australia, and ignoring, almost entirely, any attempts to address the demand side of the equation. This juxtaposition of a disaffected, unengaged group of users with a generation of politicians, paralysed with fear at the prospect of appearing anything other than a cold war "drug warrior", makes these sort of events ever more likely.
And that's the reality we now face in Australia. Legislators have been given the evidence and opportunity to show some moxie, and introduce the measures that now all experts are calling for. These measures, like MSICs, like pill-testing, place 'saving life' in the box seat.
Failing to take that opportunity is a failure of leadership, and it will be punished. Not by the experts, who can but stand by and watch their expertise being ignored. Rather, by the parents of children who don't come home.
I have yet to meet with one, in the course of treating thousands of drug overdoses, who would not have done anything to ensure their child's survival. Not one who has said "I don't mind them dying, as long as their death serves as lesson to others".
There will be more deaths in the months to come, and as the disparity between expert recommendation and government action becomes more apparent, so will the anger of (voting) parents and loved ones. And every time there is another tragic, unnecessary loss of a precious, precious young Australian, those who stand in the way of what the health community is demanding -- now -- need to take a long hard look at themselves.
Because they have just a little more blood on their hands.
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The next Arkansas Geocachers Association Board of Directors Meeting is scheduled for April 16th, 2010. This meeting will start at 6:00 PM and will be held at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. All are welcome to attend. If you wish to address the Board at this meeting, we ask that you contact a Board member at least three days prior to the meeting to request a place on the agenda.


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Caitlyn Jenner is styled by stepdaughter Kim Kardashian for the ESPY Awards, wearing a white off-the-shoulder dress with a cape.
Arriving at her daughter, Kylie Jenner's, 18th birthday party in West Hollywood, Caitlyn Jenner kept things simply but stylish in a navy dress with a fitted leather jacket.
Papped filming for her new TV show in Los Angeles, Caitlyn opted for polka dots and a nice slick of pink polish.
Caitlyn Jenner dressed all in black having dinner at Eva Longoria's restaurant Beso in Hollywood. We love those sassy shades.
Caitlyn Jenner teamed her sweater dress with a leather jacket for a Culture Club performance in LA, and looked awesome.
For a promo shot for her TV show I Am Cait, Caitlyn wore an elegant navy dress with feminine lace detailing.
Caitlyn Jenner looked absolutely banging whilst out and about in Tribeca, NYC. The 65-year-old rocked her Hervé Leger fitted black dress with a sparkly box clutch and a pink mani.
The very next day she opted for a vampy leopard print wrap dress, styling the look with black kitten heels, tote and a killer blow dry.
Showing off her pins, Caitlyn stepped out in a sequinned fitted mini dress complete with a tailored jacket. Figure flattering indeed, but we wonder just how hot she was in it?
Wow! A vision in navy, this lace number was perfect for an evening out. We tend to think she should get one in every colour.
The big unveil. Caitlyn Jenner's Vanity Fair cover was the iconic moment the world saw her as a women for the first time and boy, did she kill it.