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John McAfee Crashes and Burns in Guatemala
by Elisabeth Greenbaum Kasson December 5, 2012 13 min read
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John McAfee was climbing into a unique group of eccentric, adventurous and filthy rich legends like William Randolph Hearst, Howard Hughes and Richard Branson. But unlike them, and more like Icarus, he stopped paying attention and flew too close to the sun.
Thanks to a hacker who traced his smartphone tracks, McAfee was found earlier this week in Guatemala, where he was arrested Wednesday for entering the country illegally. Although he sought asylum on Thursday, his request was denied. Later that evening, he complained of chest pains and was taken to a local hospital. His return to Belize is now pending.
McAfee's free-fall has been riveting.
If you've looked at pretty much any media site in the past two weeks, you already know some of the details. McAfee, 67, is a pioneer in the anti-virus industry and founder of the company that still bears his name. For the past few years, he's been living in Belize, allegedly experimenting with MDPV, aka Bath Salts. He's also been blogging about their many supposed benefits.
His neighbor in the waterfront town of San Pedro, another American named Gregory Faull, recently complained to the town council about the noise and 24-hour foot and car traffic that surrounded McAfee's home. His also touched on the heavily armed security guards McAfee hired to prowl the area, his random firing of guns, and his pack of dogs, which defends a wide-ranging territory by biting passersby. As if that weren't enough, Faull protested McAfee's generally "roguish behavior."
Nothing was done about the complaint after it was filed. Not long afterwards on Nov. 9, McAfee claimed that some of his dogs had been poisoned. He found them writhing in pain, he said, and had to shoot them. On November 11, Faull was lying in a pool of blood in his home, shot through the head.
McAfee was named as a "person of interest" and immediately disappeared with his current 20-year-old girlfriend. He began a blog, "Who is John McAfee," which he's updated from the lam. I'll summarize so you won't have to slog through it.
There's an awful lot of, "Oh poor me. Here I am much abused and thriving at the center of everyone's attention" posts.
He's alternately self-aggrandizing, oddly humorous, patronizing and crazy as cat turds.
He asserts that if captured, the police are going to kill him.
He intimates that he's a thorn in the side of the Belizean authorities because he knows too much.
He's also a champion of the downtrodden, particularly very young, Belizean, female downtrodden.
McAfee blogs that he's a master of disguises and has a "double" who was detained while traveling through Mexico with a North Korean passport. He states his earlier, extensive blogging about MDPV was a hoax and that he's never used the drug. Much like O.J. Simpson did for Nicole, he's offered a reward on the site of $25,000, for any information leading to the capture of Gregory Faull's murderer/s.
While terrified for his life and on the run from the law, McAfee still appears to be enjoying himself. He's conveniently found time to be interviewed by CNN, The Joe Rogan Experience (WTF!) and The New York Times to name a few. Most recently, Vice Magazine sent a journalist to talk to him. The writer took an iPhone snap, revealing his current location to be somewhere in Guatemala. McAfee's denied this on the blog and claims he manipulated the GPS to make it appear as if he's in Guatemala. As for the photo, it seems that he's dyed his hair. Otherwise, the man looks much the same as he's looked for the past 20 years, save a few more wrinkles and some probable weight loss.
The whole John McAfee enterprise would be amusing with its circus-like air and clamoring media but in reality, it's a lot less a grown-up "Where's Waldo," or contemporary D.B. Sweeney tale than a convoluted journey into one of Malebolge's rings of hell.
While David Segal's excellent piece in the Dec. 2 New York Times covers the scandal from a current perspective, it's Jeff Wise's comprehensive reporting, most recently for Gizmodo, that thoroughly reveals McAfee's descent. It's no surprise that it began long before the events of November.
When Wise first encountered McAfee in 2007, the entrepreneur had created a new sport called "aerotrekking," where tiny custom-made planes are flown very low across stretches of remote desert. Wise describes it as dangerous and exhilarating. In short, it would be a perfect pastime for a handful of wealthy thrill seekers. McAfee had moved to New Mexico and pumped millions into a facility that included an airstrip, a palatial home, a cinema, a fleet of vintage cars and a general store. Wise was there to write about it.
The flying venture came about after McAfee's development of a 280-acre Colorado yoga retreat, in which he'd lost interest; years spent playing with expensive grown-up toys like open water jet skis and, most importantly, leaving the company he founded, though not before his wild 1992 public claim that 5 million computers were soon to be hacked by a virus called Michaelangelo. McAfee Security sales boomed, the virus never happened and McAfee, the man, was forced out with a cool $100 million.
So here he was in New Mexico, promoting a "sport" which he'd created by setting up fake websites that imagined enthusiasts across the country. In the wake of organized, local disapproval of his endeavors, he created cruel, albeit clever, diversions to throw the angry neighbors off his scent. Then of course there was the lawsuit. A year before, McAfee's nephew had been flying a passenger across the desert. The plane crashed and both were killed. The passenger's family sued McAfee for $5 million dollars, and those chickens were beginning to come home to roost.
Fortunately (for McAfee) the economy crashed. In 2009, the Times reported that McAfee claimed he hadn't been paying attention to economic signifiers and had lost $96 million overnight. Supposedly, his net worth dropped to $4 million dollars. He unloaded his U.S. properties for less than pennies on the dollar and made for Belize, where he asserted that he'd be beyond judgment in the wrongful death suit.
Per Wise, that's when things began to get really weird. While visiting Belize, the journalist was confronted and alarmed by McAfee's increasingly paranoid behavior. The stories he told were ever more complicated and easily debunked. McAfee told Wise that the financial loss didn't happen as reported.
Wise and Segal both wrote that in 2010, McAfee befriended a 31-year-old Harvard biologist named Allison Adonizio and funded a lab for her in the Belizean jungle. The goal was to find rain forest plant compounds that had the potential to cure the growing problem of human resistance to antibiotics. Alas, the plant that actually had the potential was already patented. So McAfee reportedly bullied Adonizio into making other scientific claims. In the eyes of potential investors the stories no longer held up. Adonizio maintains that the entrepreneur began to encourage her to engage in sexual activity she found repellent (she was not involved with him). He intimated that he could have her ex-boyfriend killed. At one point, she found a garbage bag filled with Viagra. When Adonizio told him she was leaving and asked for her investment back, McAfee threatened her. She fled in terror.
As an interesting note on timing: Not long before Adonizio left, McAfee began posting his thoughts on MDPV and the development of other psychoactive drugs on the blog Bluelight.
McAfee remained in the jungle, continuing his crackpot embodiment of the white man's burden. Per Wise and Segal, he built a compound and dated a local prostitute. When she told him the place was dangerous and needed to be cleaned up, he organized his own security force, later revealed by Belizean police to be rife with the worst kind of criminals. The locals, who didn't see that their town was dangerous, seemed to resent his "assistance." Though he built a new police station as well, the police, wary of McAfee's shenanigans, never moved into the building.
Eventually Adonizio's old lab got raided and McAfee was detained because, really, what's law enforcement to do when an outsider arrives in a city on the edge of a river known for drug trafficking, builds a lab that no one appears to be doing actual research in, befriends and negotiates with gangsters, and attempts to bribe the police with gifts? While they didn't find anything of note, McAfee was rattled and in May 2012 claimed, on a private chat board and reported by Gizmodo, that he was hiding from the authorities.
His self-exile didn't last long. Shortly after the jungle debacle he returned to San Pedro in what's been described as a good mood, with a new teenage girlfriend by his side. He often walked around town with a pistol in a holster, violating Belizean law.
By July 2012, he was already discussing a new, possibly hoax business venture with Westword, Denver's alt weekly. It appears that he continued to beef up security around his home. He behaved irrationally with neighbors. Complaints to the city about him went unanswered right up to Nov. 11. Most recently, Belizean police dug up the buried dogs, most likely to retrieve ballistics information from the gun that shot them.
In the side show that has become John McAfee, the cold-blooded murder of Gregory Faull has nearly been forgotten. By all accounts he was well-liked and a good neighbor. He had just completed a major renovation on a distressed property—that happened to be next to John McAfee's home.
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One Response to "John McAfee Crashes and Burns in Guatemala"
Rich December 6, 2012
What I'm saying is obviously not a revelation, and is pretty much common observation, but again we are reminded, that money, in and of itself is not always necessarily a good thing to have in abundance, when people stop knowing what to do with it, and lose sense of contribution purpose in their life. A rich person 'worth several million' financially, can be just as damaging, if not more damaging than any person of less financial means, despite their talents, influence, and productivity they once exhibited.
Elisabeth Greenbaum Kasson
Elisabeth Greenbaum Kasson is a Los Angeles-based writer and editor who covers the collision of culture, technology and business. Her work appears in the Los Angeles Times, Documentary magazine, Los Angeles magazine, HR Magazine and other venues.


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Skriket och tystnaden är en diktsamling av Werner Aspenström, utgiven 1946 av Bonniers Förlag. Det var Aspenströms andra diktsamling och innebar hans genombrott.

Dikterna
Många av dikterna är typiska för fyrtiotalismens lyrik, präglad av den ångest och oro som upplevelserna under andra världskriget innebar, som i dikten Skriket, vilken avslutas med raderna:

Men här finns också flera dikter som pekar fram mot den naturlyrik och de vardagliga iakttagelser som senare skulle bli så typisk för Aspenströms diktning, till exempel i Denna soltöckniga dag:

Mottagande
I en recension av flera nyutgivna diktsamlingar i Bonniers litterära magasin 1946 skrev Olof Lagercrantz, efter att ha uttryckt reservationer mot pessimismen och symbolspråket i den unga modernistiska dikten, uppskattande om Skriket och tystnaden. Lagercrantz menade att samlingen "betecknar ett avgörande framsteg" för Aspenström; "Hans vers har blivit mer koncentrerad och fastare i konturerna" och "det finns i hans samling en rad intensivt upplevda och vackert gestaltade dikter, som gör att man måste sätta honom bland de främsta bland de yngre."

Källor
Litteraturberget om Skriket och tystnaden
Libris

Noter

Diktsamlingar av Werner Aspenström
Svenskspråkig skönlitteratur
Skönlitteratur 1946

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Арстанбек Бейшеналиевич Абдылдаев (; 28 апреля 1958 года, село Дыйкан, Ат-Башинский район, Нарынская область, Киргизская ССР, СССР) — киргизский политик, индивидуальный предприниматель и государственный деятель. Кандидат в президенты Киргизии на выборах 2011, 2017 и 2021 годов.

Биография

Образование
1986 году с отличием окончил ПТУ № 32 села Ат-Баши. 1996 по 2002 год — окончил Киргизский Государственный Университет по специальности «Экономист».

Опыт работы
2 года служил в Советской Армии, дослужился до заместителя командира взвода. 1988 по 1993 год — продавец в Ат-Башинском райпотребсоюзе; 1994 по 2000 год — руководитель киргизско-китайского предприятия в г. Бишкек; С 2000 года по настоящее время он является основателем и генеральным директором ООО «Аурдин», которое занимается продажей нефтепродуктов и имеет несколько АЗС. Он также возглавляет политическую партию «Эл учун» (За народ).

Личная жизнь
Женат, имеет четверых детей. Владеет киргизском и русском языками.

Прочее
Вместе с Мирланом Асакеевым и Александром Паком прославился высказыванием "Зима не будет". Также называл Путина "Сложный биоробот".

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Burning Beast
at the Smoke Farm
Burning Beast isn't a restaurant; it's an event. The idea was to get Seattle's best chefs, stick them in the countryside, and make them cook sundry varieties of meat. Sounds like a great idea to me. What I didn't like was the name. They were trying to pattern it after the Burning Man Festival, which was dumb because there were very few similarities between the two events: Burning Man is expensive; Burning Beast is, at $65, what I would consider a bargain. Burning Man takes place in the desert; Burning Beast took place at the Smoke Farm, a non profit farming and art facility in the woods near Marysville. Burning Man is for douchebags who stink; while Burning Beast featured no bad smells. In fact only delicious smells could be detected, by my nose at least. Plus there were surprisingly few douchebags in attendance.
It was a "Who's Who" of the local culinary scene (I'm cringing as I type that sentence because it sounds so gay, but it really was an A-list event. Besides, I'm on a deadline and I can't be bothered to come up with a turn of phrase with more "zazz" ). Various restaurants were set up in camps all around the farm. Each camp was roasting something. All the grills were improvised, mostly out of cinderblocks with rebar for the grill.
At the Tilth station a one armed man stoked the fire under a couple of roasting ducks. They were making duck tacos, cooking the duck over the open fire and baking flat breads in those conical Moroccan pots that resemble a wizard's hat and from which come such delicious delights that it's as if the Tasty Wizard of Magical Taste conjured them himself. Because those Moroccan pots resemble a wizard's hat, get it? Because wizards pull shit out of their hats, like rabbits, doves, that kind of shit. Right? Aw, fuck it. You know, it's not easy being this lazy. Anyway, the duck meat was tender, smoky, and pleasantly spicy, and the flat bread was soft and chewy. It was easily the best taco I've eaten since I ate your mom's tuna taco.
The Culinary Communion cooking school was making a lamb confit. A high school intern squatted in the dust near their grill, tearing roasted flesh from bones and tossing the meat into a hopper. He told me he wasn't getting paid, and the only thing he'd had to eat all day was the leftover cartilage from the lamb roast, which his boss described as being like "meat bubblegum." Note to the high school intern: if you're looking for something to do that won't make you any money and won't get you laid, might I recommend writing restaurant reviews? But the lamb confit was tender and rich, and totally worth forcing an undernourished teenager to sit in the heat for 16 hours tending it. They even made their own crusty, chewy pita bread, triangles of which were served with a small chunk of confit on top and a drizzle of tzatziki over the whole thing.
Le Pichet was roasting mackerel. The fish skin glittered in the sun like brushed steel as they slowly swung from a metal teepee over low coals. Skewers of sardines and a melange of calamari and octopus waited their turn for the fire. I was sadly disappointed by their offering, especially since Le Pichet is without a doubt, hands down my favorite restaurant in Seattle. Everything was bland. But at least the calimari was tender.
The Serafina camp was grilling corn and these plump rabbit sausages, which strained at their casings and periodically leaked rivulets of juice onto the charcoal below. These sausages were by far my favorite dish at the Burning Beast. They were succulent and flavorful, and the casings gave the most delightful snap when bit you bit into them.
Brasa had a whole (or mostly whole) pig on a rotisserie. The pig's backbone, legs, and ribs had been removed, so it was really just like a giant pork loin roast with the head still attached. This ghastly apparition lolled lazily around and around on its axle, the rotisserie halting and jerking occasionally under the strain of its delicious passenger. They were also roasting mussels and oysters, which weren't quite as unsettling because the oysters couldn't fix you with their piercing dead eyes. The oysters were really fresh and tasted like brine and smoke. The pig meat was tender and juicy, and was served on sandwiches with onion jam, pepper relish, and arugula.
Sitka & Spruce had butterflied two goats and sewn them together, with a stuffing of herbs and meats between the two carcasses. This, I think, came the closest to capturing the apocalyptic atmosphere of the Burning Beast, especially when Sitka & Spruce proprietor Matt Dillon fisted the cavity between the goats to check the cooking progress. Yes, he really did stick his hand up to the wrist to check the temperature. It's that willingness to go the distance for quality that has made Dillon the darling of the chumps who care about things. Someday he'll be rich. Richer than Tom Douglas, even. Matt Dillon is so goddamned motherfucking awesome that one day he'll be so rich, he'll shit diamond studded turds. He'll shit diamond studded turds because he'll be so rich, he'll be able to afford diamond studded corn on the cob, which he'll eat, then shit turds studded with diamonds. And corn. But enough about Matt Dillon's turds. That goat was tender, juicy, and flavorful. Perfectly cooked.
Sitka & Spruce is a tough act to follow, so I felt extra sorry for the Jones Glassworks crew. Not only were they the only amateur chefs there, but they were cooking the same thing as the legendary Matt Dillon, whose awesomeness is aforementioned. Their roast goat looked good enough, but they gave me a really gristly piece which was as tough and crusty as an ancient mariner. In fact, a recently discovered manuscript by Samuel Taylor Coleridge references the Jones Glassworks goat meat. That's how crusty it was. But in defense of Jones Galssworks, the stuffing of rice, organ meats, and pine nuts they served with the goat meat was creamy and flavorful.
Last AND least, some guy who used to work for Stumbling Goat was grilling carrots, beets, and green onions. He admitted it was a thankless task, to be stuck with veggies when everyone else was serving up a decadent Roman orgy of meat, and I agree with his assessment. I don't know how this poor asshole got stuck with the vegetables. That job sucks as bad as the guy who has to mop the floors at a peep show, or the guy who has to artificially inseminate tigers. I didn't eat any of the vegetables, so I really can't comment, though I still feel as much pity for that guy as I do for the guy who has to translate episodes of "The Family Guy" into Spanish. Because I doubt it translates very well.
The Burning Beast was like a backyard barbecue, if the most famous chefs in a major city were the grill masters instead of your uncle with erectile dysfunction. At $65, it was a pricey buffet, but definitely worth it, if only because you could pick the brain of your favorite chef, who was usually standing right there tending the grill. Which got me to thinking that fine dining is like rock-n-roll in some ways: the chefs are like rock stars, except they don't get paid very much. Plus no one cares about cooking. And the people who DO care aren't smoldering hot young vixens, they're either old chumps with nothing better to do, or snarky writers looking to diminish their efforts. My, my, this issue of The Surly Gourmand has somehow turned as introspective as that episode of Magnum, PI where Magnum gets trapped under the airplane!
Rating: 7 Emmy- winning episodes of Magnum, PI out of 10
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People who live in West Seattle are a sad, sorry bunch of shit fuckers (except those who live on "the good side" of 35th, who drive solid gold rocket cars and fuck their French maids). For years the downtrodden people of West Seattle have had to deal with culinary bullshit: Shadow Land sucks. Ama- Ama is good enough, but it would be better if the topless girl in their logo was totally nude. Talarico's is pretty good but turns into a giant frat party after 9 pm. Blackbird tries too hard. Mission, packed to the gills with yuppie scum, wants to be Fremont West; plus I only like Mexican food that comes out of a truck, so Mission sucks extra.
But now, finally, high concept has entered the scene: Spring Hill. I don't generally follow "restaurant politics" like some whores do, but apparently the owner of Spring Hill has in the past worked for Tom Douglas. Great. I have a bone to pick with Tom Douglas ever since I got a curdled bearnaise sauce at the Dahlia Lounge, so if one of his disgruntled former employees wants to make a few bucks I'm all for it.
After I got over the initial shock induced by the sight of our waitress's mullet, we ordered some food. The fried veal sweetbreads ($10) were everything that a cow's pancreas should be: crisp on the outside, tender inside, and very mild tasting. It came with three perfectly executed dipping sauces: an espresso barbecue sauce, a ranch dressing with lots of dill, and a hickory smoked honey mustard. All three sauces were good, though in my mind the barbecue sauce was the clear winner. The only problem was that they only gave us four sweetbreads, and there was too much dipping sauce left over, so it went to waste. You know how many starving African chumps, with bulging bellies and flies strolling across their sunken eyeballs, would love to eat that leftover sauce that we fat Americans just callously throw away? Uh, I forgot the question.
The roasted beet salad ($7) was delightful. Wedges of red beet were roasted until creamy, then tossed with cubes of pear and toasted hazelnuts. The pear was crisp and tart, and contrasted well with the crunchy smokiness of the hazelnuts and the earthy beets. The only problem with this dish was a spatter of half hearted green basil infused oil, the delicate flavor of which just couldn't be detected amidst the menagerie of other tastes and textures.
Next up was the duck egg raviolo, which is, of course, the singular form of the word "ravioli." Which means you got ONE raviolo. For $9. And although the raviolo itself was really tasty, and the duck egg filling was smooth and creamy, and it came with three thin slices of salty duck breast prosciutto, $9 is still too damn expensive for ONE FUCKING PIECE OF PASTA.
Steamed manila clams ($11) were served in some kind of spicy, creamy broth with garlic and little chunks of pork belly. The clams were juicy and tender, and best of all there were a LOT OF THEM. Unlike the raviolo, it was a pretty large portion. The broth was so fucking good I ended up spooning the rest of it out of the bowl like soup after we'd eaten all the clams. They provided ONE flimsy piece of grilled bread to sop up at least a pint of broth, so that sucked.
The Rainbow Trout was the most expensive thing we ordered ($22). I wasn't offended at the price this time because it was a pretty big plate. A fried trout fillet was garnished with roasted artichoke hearts and served on a bed of fluffy herbed spaetzle. The trout was delightful, flaky and tender, and nicely seasoned. The artichokes were maybe a little too tart. The spaetzle was chewy but not tough, and this is the last time I'm going to mention it because I'm sick of trying to type the word "spaetzle." Stupid Germans and their retarded words like "Spaetzle" and "Gotterdammerung" and "Kristallnacht" and all those other fucking words with too many double consonants and that weird loopy "S" thingy that looks mostly like a Greek "beta." But enough about the Germans and their bizarre language. The trout was anointed in a nutty brown butter sauce. This dish was utterly tasty and easily the best thing we ordered.
After all of this we were still hungry. Our majestically mulletted waitress seemed astounded that we ate so much, but that still didn't keep her mullet ass from bringing us the menu again so we could order some more food. We went with the Steak Two Ways ($12). This was a comically tiny portion of steak tartare, which came with some weird but strangely fluffy chips. The tartare was okay, and seemed pretty traditional with chopped capers and onions, but the menu promised steak TWO ways. The steak the second way was a small chunk of some variety of grilled beef (the piece was too small for me to identify the cut). It was kind of tough, but at least tasted like it had been grilled over a real fire. Avoid this one unless you like tiny dollops of raw hamburger and chewy mystery meat.
We closed out the night with ice cream. For $8 you get three scoops. We had the vanilla bean, chocolate ovaltine, and a grape sorbet. The vanilla bean was creamy and obviously had lots of real vanilla bean in it. The ovaltine was good enough, but seemed like the kind of treat a pedophile would use to lure his victims into his white panel van for a good old fashion molesting.
The grape sorbet tasted like fresh grapes but was too icy.
I'd call Spring Hill a great first stab at introducing the back- country rubes of West Seattle to some high concept dining. Still, the proprietors of Spring Hill seem to be under the faded idea of nouvelle cuisine that fine dining should come in tiny portions. Many of the dishes are microscopically small, and I'd love to see the riot that would ensue if a company of lumberjacks happened upon Spring Hill. Eventually I hope that they'll EITHER reduce the prices OR increase the portion size. Or at the very least, ban all the wait staff from growing mullets.
Rating: 7 mullets out of 10.
Labels: Mullets, Spring Hill, West Seattle

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What a great way to start 2019 with a trip to Chile! I can't believe it's almost five years since our last shows there. We've always had such an amazing time on our visits and the people of Chile really know how to party and are always so welcoming. Can't wait to see you in March.
The energy of Paul McCartney lies about his age. The British musician does not notice his well-worn 76 years at the time of taking the stage and presenting himself again to his audience.
After little more than 3 months without playing live – making a brief pause on his " Freshen Up" tour that concluded his 2018 in mid-December in London – the longed for return placed him face to face with his Chilean fans at the point of departure of the South American section of the tour.
The rehearsal was held the same day before the concert.
This was the 1st and only concert played at National Stadium.


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Lessons Kenya must learn from Dusit terror attack
Thursday, January 17, 2019 — updated on June 28, 2020
Special Forces unit officers leave Dusit complex in Westlands after neutralising militants on January 16, 2019. The response to the Dusit assault was swifter and well-coordinated. PHOTO | JEFF ANGOTE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
By MICHAEL MUGWANG'A
On several occasions, militants have slipped through Kenya's porous border with Somalia and perpetrated attacks on Kenyan soil.
Kenya should certainly continue with elements of what has worked over the last four years: containment and thwarting and limiting attacks.
After close to four years of calm in urban areas, Al-Shabaab demonstrated its continued threat to peace in Kenya with the operation launched in an upscale apartment and restaurant complex in Nairobi.
The gun, grenade and bomb assault will raise inevitable questions about why the country has been targeted successfully so many times over the last eight years.
First, it is worth looking at some of the more positive aspects of Tuesday's attack.
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Between 2011 and 2014, Al-Shabaab seemed to have succeeded in stretching the cord that holds Kenya together to the limits.
The group deliberately sought to exploit the country's ethnic and religious diversity and, in its propaganda, it highlighted these as offering it a chance of triggering sectarian strife.
"Thank God Kenyan society is divided and facing ethnic clashes," said one of the group's ideologues, Sheikh Mohammed Dulyadeyn, in a video released in June 2014.
He urged militants to increase their attacks in the country and it was no coincidence that a wave of gun and grenade assaults targeted at churches followed, although the sectarian fighting Al-Shabaab hoped to trigger did not materialise.
Kenya has largely managed to reduce regular attacks in urban areas since 2014, although the Tuesday assault shows that the fight is far from won.
Most critically, political temperatures in Kenya are now much lower than they were during the Westgate attack in September 2013.
Wednesday's united, and clearly coordinated responses by President Uhuru Kenyatta and Opposition leader Raila Odinga, sent out a message of national resolve and signalled that Al-Shabaab will not succeed in tearing the country apart.
A second positive factor from this was the significant improvement in security response and coordination.
As was well-recorded, the response to Westgate by the security forces was a study in chaos.
Friendly fire incidents, lack of coordination and multiple delays meant a greater number of casualties drew and sustained adverse press around the world, with its inevitable effect on critical sectors of the economy.
The response to the Dusit assault was swifter and much better coordinated.
It demonstrated that efforts to improve inter-agency cooperation in the security sector, under the overall ambit of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), have borne fruit.
On the ground, the commander was Douglas Kanja, the General Service Unit Commandant. The security forces saved dozens of lives.
SECURITY GAPS
Communication was also much better and measured than during Westgate.
The fact that many Nairobians carried on with business as usual on Wednesday was a big improvement on 2013 when the nation felt under siege.
Despite these positive elements, there will be inevitable questions about why this attack was allowed to occur.
Why does Kenya experience far more attacks than other troop-contributing countries in Somalia including Uganda, Burundi, Djibouti and Ethiopia or Tanzania, a country which, although it has not sent troops to Somalia, has been battling its own domestic militants with suspected ties to Al-Shabaab?
Theories abound. It is true that Kenya is seen as a base and magnet for Western countries, explaining recent and previous attacks including the 1998 embassy bombings and the Paradise Hotel assault in 2002.
It is also true that Kenya is one of the more open societies in Africa, partially explaining the relative ease with which people can move in and out of the country.
However, these explanations are only a partial accounting of the reasons the country suffers repeatedly and it will be wise to engage in an exhaustive post-mortem of events at Dusit to understand how the attackers and planners succeeded.
This was a complex operation. It involved not just assembling the arsenal of guns and bullets but also putting together a suicide bomb and suspected car bombs.
There should be a thorough examination of why this elaborate process escaped the attention of the security agencies.
Moreover, questions should be confronted on border security.
Ethiopia shares an even longer border with Somalia.
But its security officers and border agents are said to be much stricter, more thorough and less corruptible than their Kenyan counterparts.
This is an inconvenient issue that needs to be confronted.
Also, perhaps because of the leftist/Marxist backgrounds of the states in Tanzania and Ethiopia, there is a greater culture there of community-level intelligence gathering that makes it much harder for terrorists to operate.
What can Kenya learn from this? Was the Nyumba Kumi (10 houses) initiative abandoned too early or at least not sufficiently implemented in urban areas?
Finally, although there are understandable downsides to this, it is still worth debating whether the Ugandan model where armed security officers secure key buildings, including civilian outlets, is worth emulating.
It is true that not all terrorist plots can be thwarted. The ideology that feeds mindless extremism will be with us for a long time.
Kenya should certainly continue with elements of what has worked over the last four years: containment and thwarting and limiting attacks as much as possible.
But there should also be consideration of other tweaks to security strategy to stop another Dusit.
All this should be done within a rule-of-law framework and it was heartening to hear President Kenyatta open his remarks yesterday by saying this is a country of laws.
Crackdowns against whole communities must be avoided. Al-Shabaab should not change what Kenya is.
The group has little chance of success because its ideology is warped and rejected by all but a small minority.
Still, Kenya should invest more in ensuring gains enjoyed between 2014 and today are not reversed by the Dusit attack.
The writer is the Nation's former security reporter and a communications consultant ([email protected])


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BU athletics reviewed, programs efficient
With scholarships, facilities, equipment and travel, running a collegiate athletic department is not cheap, but it also hasn't been costing Baker University.
A yearlong athletic review, which began in August 2009, found that Baker's athletic department is making the university money by generating revenue.
"So, if you just think of pure revenue over expense, and direct students that are brought here by athletics, and the amount of tuition, it actually makes the university money," University President Pat Long said.
Long said the review also determined the number of student athletes impacted and what athletics adds to the culture of the university, how much alumni support is created due to athletics and that the athletic department was running efficiently compared to benchmark data.
Provost Randy Pembrook chaired a seven-member recommendation committee, which Pembrook said Associate Athletic Director Theresa Yetmar co-chaired for part of the process, which gave recommendations to the president about how to help the athletic budget.
"We basically discuss the things that we think are important, we make recommendations to the president and then really it's up to the president then to decide what happens after that," Pembrook said.
Long was given the initial draft recommendation and presented it to the finance and executive part of the Baker University Board of Trustees Thursday.
"What I'd love to do is be able to keep about the same amount as we have in our operating budget, but expand the restricted budgets that are in athletics so that they are getting more money, but more of it is coming from a donor base as well," Long said. "And if we have winning teams, that will happen."
Yetmar said the review was a comprehensive look at all aspects of the department, from individual programs to scholarships, fundraising and facilities.
"We really wanted to get a clear picture of where we've been, where we are and where we want to go, and so it was a pretty extensive review process," Yetmar said.
The department has looked to continue fundraising and scheduling more home games and events closer to Baker to help with the cost of travel. What is not on Yetmar's mind is to cut a sport.
"It would be more of an overall detriment to the university as a whole if we dropped an athletic program when you look sheerly on the number of student athletes we have and you look at our discount rate and then the revenue that our student athletes are bringing
in, when you compare it to the amount of expenses we're putting forth to run a program," Yetmar said.
For Pembrook, the review showed what a large part athletics plays in the culture at Baker.
"We see it as a part of the identity of the institution," Pembrook said. Certainly students are here for an academic education, and that's very, very important, but many of the students, between 40 to 45 percent of the students, are here and participating in our athletics program. So the role of athletics in Baker life was underscored for me."<br/>


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Celebrating the life of St Anne ~ Week 2
I hope many ladies can join with me every Tuesday in celebrating the life and cult of St Anne throughout the history of the Church leading up to her feastday on the 26th of July. This is a nine week posting of a beautiful article published in the Catholic newspaper called, Catholic ~ The Voice of Catholic Orthodoxy the article itself is is an exerpt from a book by Rev Fr Myles V Ronan CC, MRIA 1927.
Edit 2011: I have since discovered that the wonderful newspaper that this St Anne article has come from, is put out by the Transalpine Redemptorists on the island of Papa Stronsay in Scotland. I now have their blog linked at the top of my lefthand sidebar, you can order this newspaper/magazine from their site.
Today is week two, if you missed last week's posting, click here to read.
During these nine weeks I am also giving away a St Anne gift for each posting (either a St Anne chaplet, rosary or necklace of heirloom quality.) To enter the draw, read the day's posting and answer the question taken from the St Anne story. Then email me the answer with your name and email address written beside it, if the name and email address is not there, I cannot add you to the draw. I will draw out and announce the winner the following Tuesday and release the photo of the next gift and question and on it goes! Feel free to enter each week's draw.
I ask just one special favour, if you could offer an Ave in honour of St Anne for my sister Carmen who would dearly love to be blessed with a child after nine years of infertility, many grateful thanks.
And so we continue on from last week.....
AN UNEARTHED BASILICA AND ROMAN DEVOTION
About the year 1912, during excavations in the Roman Forum, the Basilica of St Maria Antiqua was unearthed. This basilica had been lost to view since the 10th century, and it was a great surprise to find that St Anne appears in fresco in two, if not three, places on its walls.
In a niche in the wall of the right aisle are painted three woman saints with their names, Maria, Elizabeth and Anna, each with a child in her arms. A second image represents a woman saint carrying a child who has earrings. As the Madonna and the Infant Jesus appear in several places in the church, and in no case does the Holy Child wear such ornaments, it seems clear that this too must be St Anne and her daughter.
The first mention of St Anne outside Jerusalem and Syria is at Constantinople, where in the middle of the sixth century Justinian I had a church consecrated to her. 150 years later, Justinian II either restored this church or built another one of St Anne.
During this very period Pope Constantine (a Syrian) was invited by Justinian II to visit him at Constantinople. His sojourn in the East lasted about 18 months. It is therefore quite possible that he may have been present at the consecration of the church and have assisted in the translation of some relics of St Anne which were at Constantinople.
It would seem then that when the Pope returned to his Roman palace, which stood over St Maria Antiqua and was connected with it, he would desire to see among the paintings in his chapel some representation of the saint.
Above: The Ancient Crypt of Apt where St Anne lay hidden for centuries.
THE HOLY TOMB AT APT
It is the general opinion that the blessed mother of Mary died at Jerusalem and was buried there. All historians who have spoken of her agree that her body did not remain there. Tradition asserts that this holy body was brought to the South of France by the first apostles of that countryside, namely, St Lazarus and his sisters, St Mary Magdalen and St Martha, the holy Marys, Jacobe and Salome, St Trophimus, St Maximin and the other disciples of our Saviour, who were the founders of the Churches of Marseilles, Arles, Aix and Avignon.
Under the influence of Roman civilisation, which covered the seas with its vessels, the relations between the Gauls and Palestine were numerous and frequent. Marseilles was then the counting-house of the West.
We know that the two Marys, Jacobe and Salome, were closely related to the family of Our Lord. And it is said that St Anne was probably the sister of Jacob, father of St Joseph and of Cleophe, and consequently the aunt and great aunt of the two Marys. It is also said that, foreseeing the disturbances that would take place in Palestine, they decided, before leaving it, to take with them the remains of their holy relative along with other relics.
Having arrived at Marseilles they proceeded inland for greater security to a place called Apt which was separated from the sea by a triple chain of mountains.
Above Right: The altar of the Chapel Royal in Apt opened to reveal the sacred relics.
Above Left: The golden statue of St Anne which crowns the chapel.
The holy relics were confided to St Auspice, first Bishop of Apt which was a Roman town and contained an amphitheatre for games and spectacular displays. In an underground cave at a distance from, but connected with, the amphitheatre, the early Christians met to assist at Mass and receive the Sacraments. It was a real catacomb. Here St Auspice placed the body of St Anne, and here his own remains were laid after he had been martyred. Other holy martyrs and confessors of the infant Church of Apt were also buried in the cave.
According to tradition, St Auspice having placed the body of St Anne in its chamber, and having sealed the wrappings, suspended before the grille window a lamp that remained alight for more than 600 years and which was extinguished only at the moment of the miraculous finding of the relics.
Over this ancient catacomb a church was built in the fifth century by St Castor, and dedicated with the title of St Mary of Apt. The stones of the Roman amphitheatre in the neighbourhood were used in its construction. But stormy times were in store for Apt and its church, and the Christians, aware of the coming onslaught, closed the opening to the underground crypt in order to protect the relics of St Anne and the other saints.
Fire and sword so devastated the town as well as the church of Apt that the Christians who inhabited the place in after years had lost all knowledge of the situation of the ancient cave and of the entrance to it.
Towards the end of the eighth century, the victories of Charles Martel and Charlemagne had driven the barbarian hordes beyond the Pyrenees. Frankland now repaired the ruins left behind them by the invaders.
At Apt, a great church had been built over the ruins of the former church, but the entrance to the crypt had not been found.
To be continued next Tuesday....
Last week's question was: What were the two places mentioned where St Anne and St Joachim had lived? The answer was: Nazareth and Jerusalem.
Maria T Newcomer was the first name out of the hat with the correct answer ~ congratulations! Email me with your address Maria, and I'll post the St Anne chaplet you see above to you!
For all those ladies who entered last week's draw, feel free to answer this week's draw, answering the new question below.
Here is an image of this week's St Anne chaplet:
To have a chance to win this week's heirloom quality St Anne chaplet made from gemstones, swarovski crystals and a solid bronze vintage reproduction St Anne d'Auray medal answer the following question:
Q: Which saint placed the body of St Anne in the crypt at Apt, France?
Email me the answer with your name and email address written next to the answer. Come back next Tuesday to see if you have won!
Anne these pics are just so awesome and a tad overwhelming to take it all in wow . thanks so much for all the effort . just beautiful .


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Title: Securities Investor and Futures Trader Protection Act
Article 1 (Legislative Intent)
This Act is specially promulgated to safeguard the rights and interests of securities investors and futures traders and promote the sound development of the securities and futures markets.
Article 2 (Applicable Scope)
Protection of the rights and interests of securities investors and futures traders shall be carried out in accordance with this Act; the relevant provisions of the Securities and Exchange Act, the Futures Trading Act, the Securities Investment Trust and Consulting Act, and other applicable acts shall apply with regard to any matters not provided for herein.
Article 3 (Competent Authority)
The term "competent authority" as used in this Act shall mean the Financial Supervisory Commission.
Article 4 (Scope of Securities Investors and Futures Traders)
The term "securities investor" as used in this Act shall be construed according to the Securities and Exchange Act.
The term "futures trader" as used in this Act shall be construed according to the Futures Trading Act.
Article 5 (Definition of Protection Institution)
The term "protection institution" as used in this Act means the foundation established pursuant to this Act.
Article 6 (Definition of Protection Fund)
The term "protection fund" as used in this Act means any assets contributed, donated, or allocated in accordance with this Act for custody and utilization by the protection institution, and any earnings derived therefrom.
Article 7 (Designation of Organizations to Establish Protection Institution)
The competent authority shall designate the following securities and futures market organizations to establish a protection institution:
Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation.
Taiwan Futures Exchange Corporation.
Taipei Exchange.
Taiwan Securities Central Depository Company.
Chinese Securities Association.
Securities Investment Trust and Consulting Association of the R.O.C..
Federation of Futures Industry Associations.
All securities finance enterprises.
Other securities- or futures-related organizations or enterprises as designated by the competent authority.
The securities- and futures-related organizations referred to in the preceding paragraph shall contribute a certain amount of assets, with the amount contributed to be determined through coordination by the competent authority.
Article 8 (Supervision and Regulation of Protection Institution)
Organization, establishment, management, and supervision of the protection institution shall be carried out pursuant to this Act; the Civil Code and other applicable acts shall apply with regard to any matters not provided for herein.
Regulations governing matters including the guidance, supervision, financial auditing, and amendment registration of the protection institution, the qualifications of its directors, supervisors, managers and employees, and other matters to be observed by the protection institution shall be prescribed by the competent authority.
Article 9 (Required Content of Articles of Incorporation)
The articles of incorporation of the protection institution shall set forth the following:
The name of the institution, the purpose of incorporation, and its office location.
The types and amounts of contributed assets and the manner of their custody and utilization.
Matters to be undertaken by the protection institution.
The organization and powers of the board of directors.
The qualifications, numbers, terms, and method of selection of directors and supervisors.
The organization of functional departments within the institution.
The disposition of assets after the protection institution's dissolution or revocation of its establishment permit.
Other matters prescribed in the regulations of the competent authority.
Article 10 (Required Content of Operating Rules)
The protection institution shall provide for the following in its operating rules:
Procedures for handling civil disputes between securities investors or futures traders and securities firms, securities service enterprises, futures enterprises, the Stock Exchange, the Taipei Exchange, clearing institutions and other interested parties, arising out of securities offering, issuance, trading, or futures trading, and other related matters.
The means of custody and utilization of the protection fund.
The means of conducting inquiries into the financial operations of issuers, securities firms, securities service enterprises, and futures enterprises.
Consultation services in relation to acts and regulations governing securities and futures trading.
Matters to be handled on behalf of the competent authority.
Other matters helpful to achieving the purposes of this Act.
The operating rules referred to in the preceding paragraph and any amendments thereto shall be reported to the competent authority for approval.
Article 10-1 (Handling of Conduct by a Director or Supervisor of an Exchange-Listed or OTC-Listed Company in Course of Performing Duties that is Injurious to the Company or is a Legal Violation)
When the protection institution carries out matters under paragraph 1 of the preceding article and discovers conduct by a director or supervisor of an exchange-listed or OTC-listed company in the course of performing his or her duties that is materially injurious to the company or is in violation of laws, regulations, and/or provisions of the company's articles of incorporation, it may handle the matter in accordance with the following provisions:
The protection institution may request the supervisors of the company to institute an action against the director on behalf of the company, or may request the board of directors of the company to institute an action against the supervisor on behalf of the company. If the supervisors or the board of directors fail to institute an action within 30 days after receiving the request made by the protection institution, then the protection institution may institute the action on behalf of the company without regard to the restrictions of Article 214 of the Company Act or Article 227 of the Company Act as applied mutatis mutandis through Article 214. The protection institution's request shall be made through a written instrument.
The protection institution may institute a lawsuit in court for an order dismissing the given director or supervisor, without regard to the restrictions of Article 200 of the Company Act or of Article 227 of the Company Act applied mutatis mutandis through Article 200.
If the company has duly established an audit committee, the term "supervisor" as used in the preceding paragraph shall be taken to mean the audit committee or its member independent directors.
The provisions of Articles 34 through 36 apply mutatis mutandis when the protection institution, pursuant to paragraph 1, institutes an action or an appeal, or petitions for an injunctive or executory proceeding.
When the company's exchange listing or OTC listing is terminated for any reason, the protection institution may still apply the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs with respect to any circumstance of paragraph 1 that occurred during the company's period of listing.
Article 11 (Appointment of Board of Directors)
The protection institution shall have a board of directors comprised of no less than three persons.
Directors shall be selected (or appointed) in the following manner:
Selection by the competent authority from among representatives recommended by a contributor.
Appointment by the competent authority of academics, experts, and impartial members of the public who are not representatives of a contributor, and whose number shall comprise not less than two-thirds of the total number of directors.
The term of a director shall be three years; successive terms may be served pursuant to continued selection or appointment.
Article 12 (Method for Appointment of Chairman)
A chairman of the board of directors, who shall not be a contributor's representative, shall be selected by a majority vote at a meeting of the board of directors attended by a quorum of no less than two-thirds. Selection of a chairman will become effective upon approval by the competent authority.
Article 13 (Convening of Board Meetings and Extraordinary Board Meetings)
Meetings of the board of directors shall be convened by the chairman, provided that for the first meeting of any given period, the competent authority will designate one of the directors selected for that period to act as convener.
The board of directors shall be convened once a month, with extraordinary meetings to be convened as needed.
Article 14 (Matters Requiring a Resolution of a Board Meeting)
The following matters shall be subject to resolutions of the board of directors:
Amendments to the protection institution's articles of incorporation.
Adoption and amendment of the operating rules of the protection institution.
Utilization of the protection fund.
Amendments regarding the manner of custody and utilization of the protection fund.
Borrowing and lending of capital.
Matters requiring resolutions of the board of directors pursuant to the articles of incorporation.
Other matters requiring resolutions of the board of directors pursuant to regulations of the competent authority.
Resolutions of the board of directors shall be passed by a majority of directors at meetings where the required quorum shall be a majority of the directors. Resolutions on matters set forth in subparagraphs 1 through 5 of the preceding paragraph shall be passed by a majority of directors at meetings with a quorum of two-thirds of the directors.
Article 15 (Appointment of Supervisors)
The protection institution shall have from one to three supervisors.
A supervisor may at any time investigate the operations or finances of the protection institution, inspect account books or documents, or require its board of directors to produce a report.
Supervisors may each exercise their supervisory powers independently. Upon discovering that the board of directors is acting in violation of an act or regulation or the articles of incorporation or operating rules of the protection institution, a supervisor shall immediately notify the board to cease the conduct.
Paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 11 shall apply mutatis mutandis to supervisors.
Article 16 (Competent Authority's Supervisory Authority)
As necessary for the protection of securities investors and futures traders, the competent authority may order the protection institution to amend its articles of incorporation, operating rules, or resolutions, or to produce materials from financial or operating reports, and may inspect its operations, assets, account books, documents, and other relevant items.
Article 17 (Assistance from Relevant Bodies)
The protection institution may request issuers, securities firms, securities service industries, futures enterprises, or relevant bodies in securities and futures markets to assist with the following matters or to provide relevant documents or materials:
Mediations carried out in accordance with this Act.
Payments made to securities investors or futures traders for unrepaid creditor's rights pursuant to Article 21, paragraph 1.
Initiation of litigation or arbitration pursuant to Article 28.
Matters undertaken on behalf of the competent authority.
Other matters beneficial to the operation of the protection institution in its protective capacity.
Where the protection institution discovers violations of an act or regulation through documents or materials obtained pursuant to the preceding paragraph, or where necessary for protection of the public interest, it shall report and request the handling of such matters by the competent authority; the same shall apply to any failure to provide assistance or the documents or materials requested pursuant to the preceding paragraph.
Article 18 (Establishment and Sources of the Protection Fund)
For the furtherance of its operations, the protection institution shall establish a protection fund. In addition to assets contributed in accordance with Article 7, paragraph 2, sources of fund assets shall include the following:
Allocation by every securities firm of 0.00000285 (2.85 millionths) of the total volume of consigned securities trades during the previous month, to be made by the 10th of each month.
Allocation by every futures commission merchant of NT$1.88 for each futures consignment contract executed during the previous month, to be made by the 10th of each month.
Allocation of 5 percent of the transaction charges received during the previous month by, respectively, the Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation, the Taiwan Futures Exchange Corporation and the Taipei Exchange, to be made by the 10th of each month.
Interest on and proceeds from utilization of the protection fund.
Assets donated by ROC or foreign companies, corporate bodies, groups or individuals.
The amounts or allocation ratios under subparagraphs 1 to 3 of the preceding paragraph may be adjusted by the competent authority in view of market conditions or the financial status or the effectiveness of risk management at any individual securities firm or futures commission merchant, provided that any increase shall be limited to no more than 50 percent.
When the protection fund's net value exceeds NT$5 billion, the competent authority may order a temporary suspension of allocations from a securities firm or a futures commission merchant pursuant to paragraph 1, subparagraphs 1 and 2, when the given securities firm or futures commission merchant has allocated funds for a period in excess of ten years.
When the protection fund is insufficient for the purposes given in Article 20, paragraph 1, the protection institution may borrow funds from financial institutions, subject to approval by the competent authority.
Given failure to pay the amounts to be allocated in accordance with paragraph 1, subparagraphs 1 to 3, the protection institution may report to the competent authority and request that it order payment within a specified period; given continued failure to pay at the conclusion of the specified period, the competent authority may duly seek compulsory execution under the law.
Article 19 (Custody and Utilization of the Protection Fund)
The protection fund shall be custodized by means of government bond purchases or deposit with financial institutions. Subject to approval by the competent authority, amounts totaling no more than 30 percent of the net value of the fund may be utilized for the following:
Purchase of real property for use by the protection institution.
Investment in exchange-listed or OTC-listed securities.
Other investments beneficial to the fund's capital maintenance.
The total amount utilized pursuant to subparagraph 1 of the preceding paragraph may not exceed 10 percent of the total assets contributed at the time of the fund's establishment.
The amount of original investment in the stock of any exchange-listed or OTC-listed company pursuant to paragraph 1, subparagraph 2 may not exceed 1,000 shares.
Article 20 (Use of the Protection Fund)
Use of the protection fund shall be limited to the following:
Payments to securities investors or futures traders in accordance with Article 21.
Expenditures by the protection institution for operation in accordance with this Act and other necessary expenses.
Payment of fees for initiation of litigation or arbitration procedures in accordance with this Act.
Other uses as approved by the competent authority.
Budgeting for expenditures referred to under subparagraph 2 of the preceding paragraph shall be limited to the interest earned on fund assets in the given year, provided that the competent authority may make appropriate adjustments in view of financial and operating conditions.
Article 21 (Circumstances for Use of the Protection Fund for Payment)
Under any of the following circumstances with respect to a securities investor or a futures trader, the protection institution may use the protection fund for payment:
When an investor's consigned securities firm breaches contract due to financial difficulties leaving it unable to make payment, where the investor, after completing settlement obligations for a trade of securities on the stock market, or after having requested exercise of warrant rights with the issuer of call (put) warrants through the securities firm, while having already made the necessary payment or delivery of securities, is unable to obtain the securities or payment of funds due.
When a futures trader's consigned futures commission merchant breaches contract due to financial difficulties leaving it unable to make payment, where the futures trader has engaged in futures trading on the futures market but is unable to obtain the margin or option premium due and to realize capital gains after completion of clearing procedures at the futures clearing house.
Limits on payments to each securities investor or futures trader from the protection fund pursuant to the preceding paragraph, and limits on the total amount of such payments to all securities investors or futures traders at any given securities firm or futures commission merchant, as well as the regulations and procedures governing such payments, shall be prescribed by the competent authority.
After making a payment pursuant to paragraph 1, the protection institution assumes the rights of the securities investor or futures trader against the securities firm or futures commission merchant in breach of contract within the amount of the payment made.
The provisions of Articles 34 through 36 apply mutatis mutandis when the protection institution, pursuant to the preceding paragraph, institutes an action or an appeal or petitions for an injunctive or executory proceeding against the securities firm or futures commission merchant in breach of contract.
Article 22 (Application for Mediation and Establishment of a Mediation Committee)
When a civil dispute occurs between a securities investor or a futures trader and an issuer, a securities firm, a securities service enterprise, a futures commission merchant, the Stock Exchange, the Taipei Exchange, a clearing institution or another interested party, where the dispute arises out of offerings, issuance, trading, futures transactions, or other securities-related matters, the securities investor or futures trader may apply to the protection institution for mediation.
The protection institution may establish a mediation committee comprising 7 to 15 committee members to perform mediation. Regulations governing organization of the committee and mediation procedures shall be prescribed by the competent authority.
Article 23 (Causes for Refusal to Mediate)
Under any of the following circumstances, an application for mediation will be refused:
The matter is not a civil dispute as referred to in paragraph 1 of the preceding article.
The application is not made by a securities investor or a futures trader.
No specific counterparty is named.
Oral arguments for the same matter have already concluded in the court of first instance.
The mediation subject matter falls within the scope of a final and unappealable court judgment.
An application for mediation of the same subject matter in accordance with this Act has already been made.
Except under the circumstances set forth in the preceding paragraph or where supplementation or correction of the application is necessary, the mediation committee shall begin mediation procedures within 15 days from receiving an application.
Article 24 (Circumstances Under Which Mediation Will Not Interrupt Prescription)
The extinctive prescription for an applicant's right of claim for mediation of the application's subject matter shall be interrupted by the application.
However, if the application for mediation is withdrawn or refused or mediation is unsuccessful, prescription will be deemed not to have been interrupted.
Article 25 (Determination of Mediation Success)
Mediation will be deemed successful when both parties to the mediation reach an agreement.
When there is difficulty achieving agreement through mediation, then in consideration of the relevant circumstances and a balance of both parties' interests, the mediation committee, with the assent of the majority of its members, may produce a mediation proposal and set a period of not more than 45 days during which it will seek the assent of both parties to the proposal. When necessary, the stipulated period may be extended by 45 days.
Where the parties to the mediation express no dissent within the period stipulated pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the mediation will be deemed successful on the basis of the mediation proposal.
Where, within the period stipulated under paragraph 2, dissent is expressed by one or more persons belonging to a group with common interests comprising a party to a mediation, the mediation proposal will be void with respect to those dissenting, but mediation will be deemed successfully concluded on the basis of the proposal with respect to all other parties. Where the number expressing dissent constitutes a majority of the members of the party in question, the mediation will be deemed failed.
In seeking assent to the mediation proposal in accordance with paragraph 2, the mediation committee may under appropriate circumstances make the proposal public.
Article 25-1 (Mediation Proposal)
When a securities investment or a futures trading dispute involves a small amount of money, if the securities investor or futures trader applies to the protection institution for mediation and the counterparty, without due cause, fails to appear on the mediation date, then the mediation committee members, in consideration of the circumstances, may put forward a mediation proposal in accordance with the applicant's request or its own ex officio powers, and serve the proposal on the parties to the mediation.
The mediation proposal of the preceding paragraph shall be passed by a majority of mediation committee members at a meeting of the mediation committee with a three-member quorum. The proposal shall state the period prescribed pursuant to Article 25-2, paragraph 1 and the legal consequences of failing to express dissent within the statutory period.
Service of process of the mediation proposal under paragraph 1 may not be effected through public announcement.
The amount of the "small amount of money" referred to in paragraph 1 shall be proposed by the protection institution and reported to and approved by the competent authority.
Article 25-2 (Determination of Mediation Success)
A party may express dissent with respect to the mediation proposal of paragraph 1 of the preceding article within a peremptory period of ten days after receipt of delivery of the proposal; if no dissent is expressed within that period, the mediation will be deemed successfully concluded on the basis of the proposal.
When a party expresses dissent within the period stated in the preceding paragraph, then if, after mediation committee members schedule another mediation date and give notice to the parties, and a party without due cause then fails to appear at mediation, the mediation will be deemed successfully concluded on the basis of the proposal.
Article 26 (Mediation Agreement)
When a mediation is successful, a mediation agreement shall be produced. The mediation agreement shall be produced, reviewed, and served by application, mutatis mutandis, of Articles 25 and 26 of the Act Governing Dispute Resolution in Cities and Urban and Rural Townships.
A mediation ratified by a court shall have the same force and effect as a final and unappealable civil judgment.
When there is reason for finding a mediation ratified by a court invalid or void, a party to the dispute may institute an action to declare the mediation invalid or void in the court that originally ratified the mediation. That action may be joined with an action on an original mediation matter, or a cross-action may be instituted and the court requested to decide the matter jointly when issuing a declaration invalidating or revoking the mediation agreement. The action will be deemed to have been instituted from the time of application for mediation.
Actions as referred to in the previous paragraph must be instituted within 30 days from receipt of service of the court-ratified mediation agreement, provided that mediation agreements void under the Civil Code shall not be subject to this restriction.
A mediation that is void or a judgment in an action for voidance of the mediation shall not prejudice rights obtained in good faith by a third party.
Article 27 (Withdrawal of Action Upon Successful Mediation)
For a civil action pending in court, where mediation is successfully concluded prior to the issuance of a final and unappealable judgment and the mediation agreement is ratified by a court, the action will be deemed withdrawn from the time of the mediation's successful conclusion.
Article 28 (Instituting an Action or Submitting a Matter to Arbitration)
For protection of the public interest, within the scope of this Act and its articles of incorporation, the protection institution may submit a matter to arbitration or institute an action in its own name with respect to a securities or futures matter arising from a single cause that is injurious to multiple securities investors or futures traders, after having been so empowered by not less than 20 securities investors or futures traders. The securities investors or futures traders may withdraw the empowerment to submit a matter to arbitration or institute an action prior to the conclusion of oral arguments or examination of witnesses and shall provide notice to the arbitral tribunal or court.
After the protection institution has submitted a matter to arbitration or instituted an action in accordance with the preceding paragraph, and other securities investors or futures traders suffering damages due to a securities or futures matter arising from the same cause empower it to submit a matter to arbitration or institute an action, it may expand the claims asserted for arbitration or judgment prior to the conclusion of oral arguments or examination of witnesses in the court of first instance.
The empowerment to submit a matter to arbitration or to institute an action under the preceding two paragraphs includes compulsory execution, provisional attachment, provisional injunction, participation in reorganization or bankruptcy proceedings, and other powers necessary to the protection institution's exercise of rights in a securities or futures matter arising from a single cause.
The empowerment to submit a matter to arbitration or institute an action under paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be effected through a written instrument.
Article 4 of the Arbitration Act and Article 167 of the Securities and Exchange Act shall not apply when a protection institution institutes an action or expands the claims asserted for judgment pursuant to paragraphs 1 and 2.
Article 28-1 (Establishment of Special Tribunal or Designation of Specialist to Handle an Action)
A court may establish a special tribunal or designate a specialist for the purpose of handling an action instituted by the protection institution pursuant to paragraph 1 of the preceding article.
In the event that securities investors or futures traders withdraw the empowerment to institute an action or to submit matters to arbitration pursuant to Article 28, paragraph 1, that portion of the action or arbitration proceedings shall be interrupted, and the securities investors or futures traders shall declare their intention of resuming the proceedings in the action or arbitration. The court or arbitral tribunal may also order, ex officio, the securities investors or futures traders to resume the proceedings.
When the protection institution has instituted an action or submitted a matter to arbitration in accordance with Article 28 and a portion of the securities investors or futures traders withdraw their empowerment for the same, so that the securities investors or futures traders remaining number fewer than 20, the protection institution may nevertheless continue proceedings with regard to remaining portions of the action or mediation.
Article 30 (Calculation of Extinctive Prescription of Rights of Claim for Damages)
Extinctive prescription for individual securities investors or futures traders' rights of claim for damages under Article 28, paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be calculated separately.
Article 31 (Restriction of Power to Make Waivers, Accept Liability, Withdraw, or Enter into a Settlement)
The protection institution shall have the power to perform all procedural acts in relation to an action or an arbitration it is empowered to institute by securities investors or futures traders, provided that those securities investors or futures traders may restrict its power to make waivers, accept liability, withdraw, or enter into a settlement.
The effect of a restriction set by one member of the group of securities investors or futures traders shall not extend to other securities investors or futures traders.
Any restriction as referred to in paragraph 1 shall be set out in the written instrument referred to in Article 28, paragraph 4, or in a memorandum submitted to the court or the arbitral tribunal.
Article 32 (Conditions and Period for Investor or Trader to Bring Own Appeal)
In the event a securities investor or futures trader objects to the judgment in an action instituted pursuant to Article 28, then prior to the expiration of the period for appeal by the protection institution, the investor or trader may withdraw the empowerment to institute an action and duly appeal under the law.
After its receipt of a judgment or decision's exemplification, the protection institution shall immediately notify the securities investors and futures traders of the outcome, and within seven days shall provide written notice of whether it intends to prefer an appeal.
Article 33 (Protection Institution May Not Seek Remuneration)
The protection institution shall disburse compensation it receives in an action or arbitration to the securities investors or futures traders who empowered it to institute the action or arbitration after deducting the expenses required in either of those procedures. The protection institution is not entitled to seek remuneration for itself.
Article 34 (Ruling for Exemption from Requirement to Provide Security)
When the protection institution institutes an action pursuant to Article 28 and applies for a provisional injunction or a provisional attachment, it shall state the reasons for the claim and the provisional injunction or provisional attachment.
A court may rule that the protection institution's application as referred to in the preceding paragraph be exempted from the requirement for provision of security.
Article 35 (Exemption from Court Costs)
In the event the protection institution institutes an action or an appeal pursuant to Article 28, it shall be temporarily exempted from court costs on that portion of the value of the object of litigation or the compensation sought that is in excess of NT$30 million. In the event an opposing party institutes an appeal and receives a final and unappealable judgment in its favor, its advance payment of court costs shall be returned after deduction of the other fees for which it is responsible.
With respect to the temporary exemption from court costs of the preceding paragraph, after the given action is concluded, the court of first instance shall make an ex officio ruling to collect the court costs from the party responsible for their payment. However, that portion of the value of the object of litigation or the compensation sought that is in excess of NT$30 million and for which the protection institution is responsible shall be exempted from this requirement.
When the protection institution institutes an action or an injunctive proceeding in accordance with Article 28, obtains title of execution, and petitions for compulsory execution, it may be temporarily exempted from payment of execution fees on that portion of the value of the object of litigation or the compensation sought that is in excess of NT$30 million, and the execution fees for which it received temporary exemption shall be deducted from the proceeds from the execution.
Article 36 (Exemption from Provision of Security for Provisional Execution)
If the protection institution institutes an action or an appeal pursuant to Article 28 and explains that, in the absence of execution before the judgment becomes final and unappealable, resulting damages would be excessive or not easily calculated, the court shall declare provisional execution exempt from provision of security in accordance with the protection institution's application.
Article 37 (Deposits of Funds of a Securities Firm and Its Customers Shall Be Kept Separately and Independently)
A securities firm shall keep separate and independent from its own assets the dedicated accounts it duly opens in accordance with acts and regulations for the deposit of customer monies and the assets it receives as a result of accepting customer orders in the course of business.
A securities firm may not utilize the monies or assets referred to in the preceding paragraph except for the purpose of making required payments or utilizing assets on behalf of its customers.
Creditors seeking payment of a securities firm's debt in respect of the securities firm's own assets may not seek to attach or to exercise other rights against the dedicated customer accounts or assets the securities firm receives as a result of accepting customer orders in the course of business referred to in paragraph 1.
Article 38 (Penal Provisions)
Where a securities firm violates Article 37, paragraph 2, the person responsible for committing the act shall be punished with imprisonment for not more than three years, or detention, or in lieu thereof or in addition thereto, a fine of not more than NT$100 million.
If the protection institution refuses to cooperate with an order of the competent authority given pursuant to Article 16, or if the management or utilization of the protection fund violates Articles 19 or 20, the competent authority may order the discharge of directors, supervisors, managers, or employees of the protection institution.
If the protection institution's directors, supervisors, managers, employees or mediation committee members violate the management rules adopted pursuant to Article 8, paragraph 2, or the regulations adopted pursuant to Article 22, paragraph 2 regarding qualifications or prohibited conduct, the competent authority may order their discharge.
An administrative fine of not less than NT$120,000 and not more than NT$600,000 will be imposed for any of the following circumstances:
Failure to pay or allocate funds required under Article 18, paragraph 1, subparagraphs 1 and 2.
Violation of Article 37, paragraph 1.
Under either circumstance in the preceding paragraph, the competent authority will impose an administrative fine and order compliance within a specified time period. Upon failure to comply by the end of that period, the competent authority may continue to order compliance within specified periods, and impose fines of not less than NT$240,000 and not more than NT$1.2 million for each instance of failure until compliance is effected.
Article 41 (Date of Enforcement)
The date of enforcement of this Act shall be set by the Executive Yuan.


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Canadians plan to spend less this Valentine's Day
With Valentine's Day around the corner, romance is in the air. That means chocolate, candy, and flowers galore, right? Maybe not this year.
Digital coupon website RetailMeNot.ca polled Canadians on their Valentine's Day spending plans, and 66% said they plan to spend less money this year than they did in 2015.
"I think it really comes down to the dollar being down, and when that happens people tend to spend less and be less extravagant on these kind of Hallmark holidays," Retail Me Not spokeswoman Kristen Larrea told Vancity Buzz.
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This year, Canadians say they plan to spend an average of $164, with men planning to spend significantly more than women ($219 versus $109). People who are in new relationships will spend more on Valentine's Day than long-term couples, since there's added pressure to be romantic.
People in long-term relationships tend to be slightly complacent, said Larrea.
"80% of people feel like there's a lot of pressure surrounding Valentine's Day and so I think that pressure is really felt if you're in a new relationship – you want to impress the other person and so you might be willing to blow your budget."
"If you're in a longer-term relationship, there's more lines of communication, it's very easy to set expectations and say 'ok, it's Valentine's Day, why don't we just wait until the hype dies down and maybe get a nice dinner next week.'"
In fact, only 30% of Canadians say celebrating Valentine's Day is important to them, and Larrea says the way we celebrate is shifting as well. People tend to value experiences over material goods now more than ever.
"It's called the 'new frugality' where people are – independent of how much money they have or disposable income they have – they're being more particular and conscious about where they're putting their money, and they're investing less in stuff and placing more value in experiences."
"Even being a shopping website, what we're seeing is a trend towards personalized gifts, so instead of just an off-the-shelf gift basket, there's websites like Zazzle and Shutterfly. Those are good examples of websites and services that allow you to create personalized gifts."
Larrea says it's easy to save money on Valentine's Day – just don't make dinner reservations the day of, when restaurants tend to have expensive, pre-fixed menus.
The survey polled 1,514 Canadians from January 22 to 23.


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Scarham Creek - June 14, 1997
Dave Curry
Adventures on Sand Mountain --Mark D'Agostino, Ben Ferrill, David Curry.
Mark D' was desperate for a fix. All his usual connections had deserted him, and Mary had too much wedding stuff to do to attend to his needs. He dug deep into his Rolodex to call Ben and me to ask if we were up to a learning experience (translation: humbling experience). Little did I know how much learning would be experienced.
We met at Hardees on a rainy Saturday to decide where to go. The Little River in the Smokies was out --too much water. We considered The Plateau -—way too much water. You can run the Ocoee any time. That left Sand Mountain.
At the top of the mountain, we started checking out creeks: Black Oak --not enough water; Town --Mark had already paddled it this year; Short --too much of a learning experience; South Sauty --out of the question. That left Scarham. At Double Bridges, things really looked nasty; the level was high and the confluence with Whippoorwill creek was a boiling, seething, writhing mass of "funny" water. Mark said it was perfect.
We put onto Whippoorwill creek and had an idyllic, enjoyable paddle to the confluence. From that point on, the creek began to drop rapidly, and the velocity and push of the water increased dramatically. We scouted and paddled the first few rapids without event. Then, at the top of a rather long rapid, I lost a wrestling match with a bush in an eddy (there were no kayaks available) and ended up swimming without my boat. I had no choice but to hike, paddle in hand, hoping my boat was smart enough to swim safely to shore. It was. About two hundred yards down stream it had neatly broached itself on some rocks on the opposite bank. Mark and I tandem-ferried across the creek and everything was back to normal. Sure.
Ben would not fare quite so well. In trying to run a scary drop which Mark had made look easy, and I had walked, Ben got separated from his boat, had his paddle jerked out of his hand, and got re-circulated a couple of times by a hungry hole. Luckily, Mark hit a perfect throw with his rope and Ben was safely ashore without having to swim the Class V rapid just below. He only had a messy contusion on his leg which Mark repaired with duct tape. His boat and paddle, however, were well on their way to Guntersville.
With Ben hiking and Mark and me paddling, we began the search for Ben's boat. The creek was not so steep now, but the waves and holes were getting bigger. At the confluence with Short Creek and as far as you could see below was an enormous wave/hole extravaganza that looked more like the North Atlantic than a creek in Alabama.
A couple hundred yards below the confluence, we found Ben's boat neatly broached on a rock about 50 feet from shore. Mark immediately took charge of the recovery effort. After three trips back to my boat for the right equipment, ("you don't have a `biner attached to your rope?") we were set. Mark and I held one end of the rope while Ben made the swim to the boat with the other end. On the second try, he made it, and easily popped the boat free. All our troubles were over, or so we thought.
Earlier in the day, Mark had casually mentioned that there was a "bit of a flat water paddle" to the take-out. The three miles of flat water was no problem at all; the 20 mph wind in our faces was, however a bit of a problem. It was a strain all the way. If what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, my spine is now made of pure titanium.
When I got home, I ate supper, took a double dose of vitamin I, crawled into bed, and slept the untroubled sleep of the exhausted. The next morning I awoke to find that all my limbs were intact and I could still walk. I guess it really was a good learning experience.


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Q: MS Access form to get data from multiple (unrelated) tables I know only the basics of Access, so I am having trouble figuring out how to make a form that will access multiple unrelated tables.
I have 5 tables that all contain column named "ID", other coulmns are different for each table. The ID cells are text strings that contain five numbers separated by "-" in form "xx-xxx". A specific ID can be present in 1, 2 or all tables but there is no rule.
I would like to have a lookup form where I would type the specific ID that would get all the values (from the same row) from the tables that contain that ID. Can I achive that with Access 2016?

A: So I am getting from your question that your different tables are indeed related to each other through the ID field.
What you need to do is build a query and use this query as the record source for your form. It will look like:
SELECT Tbl1.field1, Tbl2.Field2 FROM Tbl1 (INNER/RIGHT/LEFT) JOIN Tbl2 ON Tbl1.ID = Tbl2.ID

You can save this query code as an independent query myQuery and use is as your form record source.

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Q: Breaking class interdependence I want to design an application that fetch some configuration from the service. This needs to be done periodically like once in a day. The periodic interval value is also stored inside the configuration.
I have two classes A & B. A is responsible for syncing the configuration from the service and stored the latest configuration in the memory. B is responsible for serving other clients inside the application. Any client who wants to read value will contact B. B will use the latest configuration stored in memory from A.
Here, inside A, I am trying to fetch the refresh interval from B and schedule it periodically. This creating inter-dependency between two class.
B is dependent on A for latest cached configuration and A is dependent on B for retrieving the refresh interval. I am not sure how we can break this inter-dependency. Can someone please help?

A: Extract interfaces for A and B, have them depend on interfaces of each other.  This will allow your code to depend on abstractions, and not concrete objects.

A: "A" shouldn't access to "B" but "B" or another managing class can change the default value of a property of "A" that defines the cache expiration period (or re-sync period) according to configuration and some rules.