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Игорь Михайлович Морозов (род. 4 декабря 1990, Рязань, РСФСР) – российский оперный певец (тенор), лауреат международных конкурсов, ведущий солист Московского музыкального театра «Геликон-опера» под руководством Д.Бертмана.

Биография
Родился 4 декабря 1990 года в Рязани.

В 2001 году в возрасте 10 лет поступил в Хоровое училище им. А. В. Свешникова.

В 2002 году состоялось одно из первых значимых выступлений юного певца - концерт для Принца Чарльза Уэльского и концерт в имении династии Ротшильдов в Великобритании.

В 2002 году в БЗК в сотрудничестве с хором Сретенского монастыря под управлением иеромонаха Амвросия была записана сольная песня "Вижу чудное приволье" для одноимённого диска. Во время обучения был ведущим солистом хора мальчиков и юношей, неоднократно выступал как солист хора в городах России и за рубежом под управлением народного артиста СССР, профессора В. С. Попова.

В 2004 году состоялся сольный дебют на сцене Кремлёвского дворца съездов, где было исполнено соло мальчика в симфонической картине Говарда Шора «Властелин колец».

До 2005 года неоднократно выступал в качестве солиста хора Сретенского монастыря в концертах перед Патриархом Московским и всея Руси Алексием II и президентом Российской федерации В.В.Путиным.

В 2005 году дебютировал на Новой сцене Государственного академического Большого театра России в опере В.А.Моцарта «Волшебная флейта» в роли одного из трёх мальчиков, спел более 10 спектаклей.

В 2010 году окончил Московское хоровое училище имени А.В.Свешникова и поступил в Академию хорового искусства имени В.С.Попова. В годы обучения в Академии был ведущим солистом хора, неоднократно выступал в городах России и за рубежом под управлением кандидата искусствоведения, доцента А.К.Петрова.

В 2012 и 2013 годах состоялись сольные концерты во Франции и Германии. Дебютировал на Исторической сцене Государственного академического Большого Театра России  в июле 2013 года в постановке оперы Р. Штрауса «Кавалер розы» под управлением В.Синайского.

В 2016 году окончил Академию хорового искусства имени В. С. Попова сразу по двум специальностям: хоровое дирижирование и академическое пение (класс заслуженной артистки РФ профессора В.П. Александровой).

С 2014 солист Московского музыкального театра «Геликон-опера», где дебютировал в партии Ленского в оперы Чайковского «Евгений Онегин» (режиссёр Д.Бертман) и впоследствии исполнил более 20 партий в постановках театра. Игорь Морозов участвовал в записи сольного аудио диска Дмитрия Хворостовского, вместе с великим певцом и театром «Геликон-опера» в 2015 году выступил в концертном исполнении оперы А. Рубинштейна «Демон» в Московской филармонии.

В 2017 году стал участником фестиваля "Спасская башня" на Красной площади, где спел 6 концертов.

Певец принимал участие в записи спектаклей для фонда телеканала «Россия-Культура» в главных партиях: Синодал (опера «Демон» А. Г. Рубинштейна, совместно с Д.Хворостовским в партии Демона), Владимир Ленский («Евгений Онегин» П.И.Чайковского), Андрей («Мазепа» П.И.Чайковского), Садко (опера «Садко» Н.А. Римский-Корсакова), Альфред («Травиата» Дж. Верди).

Игорь Морозов сотрудничал с такими дирижерами, как  В.Спиваков, В.Федосеев, М.Плетнёв, Ю.Темирканов,  Е.Светланов, А.Ведерников, В.Синайский, В.Гергиев, М.Татарников, В.Юровский, А.Сладковский, Ю.Башмет, А.Дзедда., Д.Фьёри, К.Тилеманн, С.Сондецкис, Я.Л.Кёниг, К.Д.Мазур, Й.Принц и др.

Репертуар
Партии в операх:

 Дж.Пуччини «Тоска»  – Каварадосси
 Д. Верди «Травиата»  – Альфред
 Дж. Верди «Набукко»  – Измаил
 В. А. Моцарт«Волшебная Флейта»   – Тамино
 Н. А. Римский-Корсаков «Садко» – Садко
 Н.А.Римский-Корсаков  «Царская невеста» – Лыков
 Н.А.Римский-Корсаков «Моцарт и Сальери» – Моцарт
 А.П.Бородин «Князь Игорь» – Владимир Игоревич
 А. Рубинштейн «Демон»  – Синодал
 П. И. Чайковский «Евгений Онегин»  – Ленский
 П. И. Чайковский «Мазепа»  – Андрей, Искра
 П. Чайковский «Иоланта» –  Водемон
 П. И. Чайковский «Пиковая дама» – Чекалинский
 С. В. Рахманинов «Алеко» – Молодой цыган
 С. Прокофьев «Семён Котко» – Переводчик
 Д. Тухманов «Царица» – Платон Зубов
 Г. Доницетти «Анна Болейн» – Харви
 Р. Штраус «Кавалер розы»  – Продавец роз
 Р. Штраус «Саломея»  –  Иудей
 Ж. Оффенбах «Прекрасная Елена»  – Ахилес
 Дж. Россини «Эрмиона»  – Аттал
 Р. Леонкавалло «Паяцы» – Беппе

Партии тенора в произведениях кантатно-ораториального жанра:

 И.С.Бах «Страсти по Иоанну»
 С.Танеев «По прочтении псалма»
 К.Сен-Санс «Реквием»
 В.А.Моцарт «Реквием»
 Дж.Верди «Реквием»
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 С.В.Рахманинов «Колокола»С.В. Рахманинов «Всенощное бдение»
 А.Дворжак «Stabat mater»
 Л.Десятников «Пинежское сказание о дуэли и смерти Пушкина»                                                                                В концертном репертуаре певца романсы С.В.Рахманинова и П.И.Чайковского, русские народные и неаполитанские песни, песни военных лет.

Гастроли
Игорь Морозов выступал на сценах самых значимых российских оперных театров: Государственного академического Большого театра, Московского театра «Новая Опера» им. Е.В.Колобова, Красноярского театр оперы и балета им. Д.А.Хворостовского, Башкирского государственного театра оперы и балета, Пермского театра оперы и балета им. П.И.Чайковского, Марийского государственного академического театра оперы и балета имени Э.Сапаева.

С 2014 исполнял ведущие партии на сценах театров мира: «Gran Teatre del Liceu» (Испания), «The Royal Swedish Opera» (Швеция), «Theater an der Wien» (Австрия), «Teatro Petruzzelli Bari» (Италия), «Hrvatsko narodno kazaliste» (Хорватия), «La Monnaie De Munt» (Бельгия), «Theatro Municipal de Sao Paulo» (Бразилия), «Municipal de Santiago» (Чили), «Rahvusooper Estonia» (Эстония), «Opera de Nice» (Франция), «Deutsche Oper am Rhein» (Германия), «Latvijas Nacionala opera un balets» (Латвия), «Armenian National Opera end Ballet» (Армения), «Theatro Orchester Biel Solothurn» (Швейцария).

Награды и достижения

 Победитель Общероссийского конкурса «Молодые дарования России» (2010)
 Лауреат XVI международного конкурса вокалистов «Bella voce» (2010)
 Лауреат Московского открытого детско-юношеского фестиваля, посвященного Ф.И.Шаляпину (2008)
 Лауреат VII открытого конкурса юных вокалистов имени А. Пирогова (2000, 2008, 2010)
 Лауреат Международного конкурса вокалистов имени А. Иванова (2013)
 Лауреат IX международного конкурса молодых оперных певцов Е. В. Образцовой (2013)
 Дипломант девятого международного конкурса молодых оперных певцов Е. В. Образцовой в номинации «Надежда»  (2013)
 Обладатель Премии фонда Е. Образцовой «За яркое начало в искусстве» (2014)
 Лауреат Общероссийского конкурса «Молодые дарования России» (2014)
 Финалист Российской национальной музыкальной премии в номинации «Вокалист года в классической музыке» (2016)
 Обладатель «Гран-при» Международного конкурса вокалистов Хосе Каррераса (2021)

Семейное положение
С 2022 года в браке с Викторией Алексеевной Морозовой.

Увлечения
С детства занимался греко-римской борьбой, футболом, баскетболом, настольным теннисом, спортивным ориентированием. Ездил в спортивные лагеря.

В 2018 году Игорь Морозов собрал и возглавил футбольную команду театра "Геликон-опера", которая в сезоне 2019/2020 заняла 5 место в чемпионате московских театров «Футбол как искусство», а в сезоне 2020/2021 заняла 1 место, таким образом команда "Геликон-оперы" стала чемпионом театральной футбольной лиги.

Является поклонником ЦСКА, спел песню "Конь" группы "Любэ" со всем стадионом в поддержку своей любимой команды, последний куплет Игорь придумал сам. В 2019 году Василий Ладюк и Игорь Морозов исполнили песню "Команда молодости нашей" перед матчем 5-го тура чемпионата России ЦСКА – "Сочи".

Примечания

Теноры России

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CLJV won their 3rd game in a row in scoring 72 points in their win over Brooks Academy, 72-52.
Rushing out to a 9 point first quarter lead, the Hawks, continued their play by winning every quarter with relentless pressure in forcing 32 turnovers with 19 steals being converted to a prolific offense around the rim.
Kyle Morris finished the first stanza by sinking all 3 free throws after being fouled on a shot beyond the arc and giving CL their largest lead, 22-13. Morris was also instrumental with a nifty assist to big man Matt Taliaferro with all of that action in those last 12 seconds of the first quarter.
Taliaferro continued his dominance around the basket finishing the game with 10 rebounds and 2, in your face, blocks.
Some new blood with Peyton McMullen making his first appearance to the hardwood after just one practice that resulted in a decent line-score: 10 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists, and 3 steals.
This Hawk JV squad is averaging 66 points to start the season which is the most by any Junior Varsity team in Canyon Lake's history.
Patrick McAuliffe led the scoring with 15 points and had 8 players scoring 6 or more points as the rock was spread around.
With good guard play, this press will work fine as Tyler Pauly played in his second game and shot 80% from the field while taking in 5 rebounds with 3 steals. A good night on the courts after committing just 2 turnovers in this action packed evening.
Peyton McMullen and Tyler Pauly will be ready for more action in Burnet Tourney next.
That will pay dividends as this year continues, but there is one stat that dwarfs all the other…..Free Throw Percentage on this night was 80% after making 8 of 10 shots. For the year, the Hawks are shooting 61% from the free throw line.
CLJV will be back in action tomorrow (Thursday) competing in the Burnet Tournament along with CL's Freshman Squad.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 28th, 2018 at 7:09 pm and is filed under Boys Basketball, Game Article.


Plans to build the UK's first nuclear power station in more than 20 years have taken a huge step forward with companies lined up to work on the mammoth project.
French firm EDF named several preferred bidders set to win contracts worth more than £1.3billion to build Hinkley Point C in Somerset.
The firms include engineering giants Balfour Beatty, Doosan Babcock, Laing O'Rourke and Weir, as well as local companies such as food firm Somerset Larder.
EDF previously announced four main preferred bidders for engineering and construction, including Areva and BouyguesTP.
It is now estimated that more than 60 per cent of the construction cost will be placed with UK firms.
The power station will provide 25,000 jobs during construction.
A final investment decision is expected in the coming months, after which the contracts will be signed.
Hinkley Point C will cost around £24billion, with the first electricity due to be produced in 2023.


It's Valentine's Day – a day when people break bank to show their love.
Here's the thing, you don't have to break bank in order to show your love – or save a child.
For $5, the cost of one rose – you can provide one month of lifesaving insulin, blood glucose tools, and life enhancing diabetes education to a t1 child in a developing country.
Many children living with t1 in developing countries don't have access to all of the above.
No child should living with diabetes should die because they don't have access to life saving insulin, diabetes supplies, and diabetes education.


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The cost of public intoxication
Jackson Danbeck|September 18, 2016
It is no secret that college students like to drink and, for good measure, to get drunk. But every once in a while one of the night's company goes just a little too far. Even if these days are goneby, you know how the story goes. Possessing the dexterity of Goofy when swiping in to the dorm. Accidently revealing one's drunken stupor to encroaching resident advisors during a dorm shindig. Failing to keep down the pizza-and-Smirnoff concoction and on top of that, smack dab in the middle of campus.
The student is clearly drunk on campus, and someone makes the call.
Within a few minutes after an officer dials 911, an ambulance will have arrived on campus, usually from either Illinois Masonic or Saint Joseph hospitals. The paramedics will rush out, check to see what's wrong with the intoxicated — and often underage — student, and will likely take the person back with them to the hospital. Depending on a student's condition, they might even go on to the ER.
As is the case with many universities, DePaul can't do the work of paramedics because they don't have any on staff, nor a space where a student can be monitored at. If on the off chance a student does asphyxiate on their own vomit, or even dies, that's on the hands of Public Safety and the university.
Might as well play it safe, says Bob Wachowski, director of Public Safety.
"We have, over the past several years, some pretty serious alcohol intoxications to the point of if they didn't get medical attention, they could have passed away," he said. "The problem is you never know how much somebody had to drink."
Or what kind or how many drugs they could have taken, for that matter. Ambulances are to be called in for any situation that "brings attention. That is out of the ordinary," Wachowski said.
Most ambulances are called to campus when a student has been found intoxicated in a dormitory. The student might have been stumbling around the hallways, sick and vomiting, caught drunk in a room or a roommate might have been worried and called 911.
The RA, dorm staff or receptionist will often call Public Safety to deal with the intoxicated student. Once the officers get there, they likely call 911 for the paramedics. At other times, Wachowski said, Public Safety officers are the first responders to an intoxicated student, found on the officer's beat around campus.
There are no age restrictions, Wachowski said; even students who are 21 years or older can have an ambulance called for them.
Considering the number of college students who do harm themselves from drinking too much, the system DePaul has isn't much of a surprise. Every year, about 1,825 college students between the ages of 18 and 24 die from alcohol-related injuries, according to a 2015 study by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
(Graphics by Jacqueline Lin/The DePaulia)
Even if an intoxicated student gets a ride to the hospital and is fine the next day, trouble does not end there. Dues must be paid. For a basic ambulance ride and the care provided, the City of Chicago Fire Department charges $900, according to their website. Advanced life support can range up to $1,200, depending on what the patient needed from the paramedics. Oxygen is a further $25, and each mile driven is $17.
Back in the day — until 1985, to be exact — ambulance services were free of charge in Chicago. That was because Chicago taxpayers covered the tab.
It was later decided it would be more efficient to lay the price on the people who actually use the service. Today, business seems to be a-boomin'. According to the Chicago Fire Department, its paramedics give about 200,000 rides every year. They do not discriminate by income.
Patients will then get a bill that runs for about a grand or higher. If there are any students 65 years or older, then they are in good fortune because Medicaid will often cover the cost. For the rest of the students, their fate rests in the hands of their insurance company.
Most insurance companies will cover the cost of the ambulance ride if the patient was taken to the emergency room afterwards, an action which carries even more fees. If the injury was not life-threatening, then the patient will most likely have to pick up a portion or the full cost of the bill.
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Who's the Mother of Magic Realism?
By: Mukunda Goswami on Sept. 23, 2010
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In the Ramayana, the vanara Hanuman takes flight like a bird, and enters supra-mundane realms.
Sometimes it's fun to take a retrospective—a look back at what was happening in the world a few years ago. The following article originally appeared in the Hindustan Times, New Delhi, on November 9th, 2005.
What do C.S. Lewis, Quentin Tarantino and J.K. Rowling have in common? Maybe nothing, but here's what I think: One, all will have hit the big screen by December 2005; two, all are considered innovators; three, all have written about their characters entering a parallel world.
In Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (part of his Narnia series) Lucy, a young girl, mysteriously enters a wardrobe in a new house when she suddenly finds herself in a snowy, moonless land, totally unlike the house she had been exploring. In Kill Bill, Tarantino's Hollywood blockbuster, Beatrix Kiddo (Uma Thurman) opens a paper screen door in Japan only to find herself magically transported into a blue winter wonderland, before starting a lethal sword battle.
Harry Potter gets to Hogwarts, the wizard school that's invisible to 'muggles' of this world, by charging through an imperceptible train platform in London's King's Cross station, thereby entering into an unseen but real dimension.
This is the first time three successful giants of entertainment will have had their wares displayed so dramatically only months apart.
All three stories involve the inexplicable existence of fantasy worlds, different from our 'real' world, but somehow accessible. If the real world is truly the one we live in – drive cars, walk on beaches, go to work, watch TV, and visit friends – why even consider another dimension? Is it only because unknown, imagined, unexplained, mysterious, mystical, fantasy and sci-fi worlds entertain people of all ages? In Murder in the Cathedral, T.S. Eliot wrote, "Power is present; holiness is hereafter."
But what if these magical dimensions were real and we were the fantasy? This is exactly what volumes of Sanskrit literature have been telling us for centuries. For example, in the Mahabharata, we read that Arjuna (a mere mortal) visits the heavenly regions of Svarga, even attracting Urvasi, who falls madly in love with him.
In the Ramayana, the vanara Hanuman takes flight like a bird, and enters supra-mundane realms. The sage Vyasa writes in the Puranas of Devahuti, the wife of Kardama Muni, who dives into the lake Bindu Sarovara where thousands of young girls decorate her elaborately. The Panchatantra and the Hitopadesa brim with stories of animals and birds that speak real words, think and strategize.
Few care to realize that there is a reality to 'other-worldliness' and that it is not so inaccessible, after all.
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UTAH SYMPHONY: A GREAT 50 YEARS
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The Utah Symphony celebrates its 50th anniversary this week in full enjoyment of an international reputation, high standards of musicianship, year-round programming, full-time, professional musicians and a number of national recording awards. It is beautifully housed in its own majestic Symphony Hall.
At its half-century mark, the orchestra occupies a key part of the community's cultural life and contributes mightily to the area's prestigious reputation for artistic attainment. The symphony deserves high praise for what it has done and what it has become.The symphony's achievements are a far cry from the humble beginnings in May 1940, when the first concerts were held in Kingsbury Hall on the University of Utah campus. Later, it wandered from temporary hall to temporary hall.
The orchestra was led at first by Hans Henoit and briefly by Werner Janssen. Maurice Abravanel took the baton in 1947, just after the orchestra began performing in the Salt Lake Tabernacle, which it called home for more than 30 years until moving into the new Symphony Hall in 1979.
The symphony exists today because of the sacrifices of dedicated early musicians and the brilliant leadership of Abravanel. Together they sometimes went without a paycheck to keep the orchestra going.
Not content to perform only in the Salt Lake Tabernacle, Abravanel took the symphony on the road, playing in high school auditoriums and other halls all over the state. In the process he helped make the Utah Symphony name a realistic reflection of the orchestra. It really was a Utah institution, not just for Salt Lake Valley.
That kind of hard work and dedication made the Abravanel name a household word and helped foster the public support to keep the orchestra going, as well as raising the musical taste and experience of thousands of youngsters.
Abravanel not only toured with the symphony and made the players his family and the orchestra his life, but he also demanded increasingly better performance. Eventually, the symphony became recognized as one of the finest in the nation.
When Abravenal retired in 1979 after 32 years as maestro, it marked the end of a special era. But under the baton of the current leader, Joseph Silverstein, the symphony has continued to grow and improve.
Despite its solid reputation, its glittering Symphony Hall and its $6.6 million budget, the orchestra cannot rest quietly on its laurels. Like other symphonies around the country, gathering the necessary financial support remains a constant struggle.
Yet, looking back over what has been accomplished in the past 50 years, the challenges ahead can hardly be considered insurmountable. With proper public support, the coming years should see the Utah Symphony continue to be a sparkling jewel in the state's cultural crown.


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Pol Pot's chief torturer comes to Christ
Houseboats on Tonie Sap River in Cambodia Photo: Brian Hoffman/Flickr/Creative Commons
The Khmer Rouge started off as a Maoist, guerilla group in the Cambodian jungles. Run by a despot named Pol Pot, they overthrew the Cambodian government in 1975 starting a four year reign of terror.
In an effort to transform Cambodia into an agrarian society, Pol Pot emptied the cities forcing people into the country where hundreds of thousands were either starved to death, slaughtered or simply worked to death.
Phnom Penh, the capital city with a current population of over 1.2 million, was turned into a ghost town in the late 70s.
The regime's motto was "To keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no loss" and certainly they lived by it. There were mass executions of former government loyalists, intellectuals (this included people wearing glasses which indicated they could read) and non Cambodians such as Vietnamese and Chinese. Religious groups were also targeted particularly Christians and Muslims.
Though, the Khmer Rouge were finally ousted by the Vietnamese in 1979, it's estimated the Khmer killed 1.7 million Cambodians — nearly 20% of the country's population of 7.5 million. The British movie, The Killing Fields, won three Academy Awards for it portrayal of this horrific time in Cambodian history.
Though Pol Pot died in 1998 under mysterious circumstances, for decades many leaders of the Khmer Rouge walked free in the country. This included Leng Sary, the foreign minister of the Khmer Rouge, who has lived in a mansion in Phnom Penn under police protection. Nuon Chea — Brother #2 — second in command behind Pol Pot was considered the master mind behind the Khmer genocide and lives in northwestern Cambodia. He was arraigned this past September to face trial in 2008.
The International community made repeated attempts to have Cambodia come to terms with this dark period in its history. Finally 30 years later, the government said it will hold trials in 2008 bringing to justice those responsible. In fact, senior Cambodian government officials would only allow the tribunal to go forward provided they would not be charged for their Khmer connections.
The chief torturer and executioner
One of those men facing trial will be Khang Khek Ieu (his revolutionary name was Duch — pronounced dook). He was leader of the Khmer Rouge's secret police and oversaw its notorious prison camp system used to torture and execute individuals (men, women and children) considered enemies of the state.
Before his rise to power, Duch commanded S-21 — also known as Tuol Seng — the highest security prison in the regime where an estimated 12,000 people were imprisoned and executed. Most sent there were actually members of the Khmer Rouge, as Nuon Chea regularly purged the party of dissidents real or imagined.
Using extreme measures of torture, S-21 gained confessions for all crimes charged and then executed them.
Pol Pot's torturer comes to Christ
Christopher LaPel — a Cambodian-born pastor living in Los Angeles — regularly traveled to Cambodia to preach the Gospel and hold leadership training seminars.
In 1995, while in Chamkar Samrong a village in Battambang province, he met a withdrawn and gaunt man named Hang Pin, 54, who was encouraged to attend LaPel's meetings at the urging of a friend.
After listening to LaPel's sermons, Hang made a commitment to Christ and asked to be baptized. LaPel said this resulted in a remarkable transformation in Hang. He went from being withdrawn to open and laughing and concerned about how he looked. LaPel had no idea his newest disciple was the notorious leader of the Khmer Rouge secret police — Duch.
Looking back, LaPel said the only hint of Hang Pin's dark past came from a comment he made: "Pastor Christopher," Hang Pin said, "I'm a sinner. I don't think my brothers and sisters can forgive me because my sins are so deep." [3]
After his conversion, Hang Pin returned to his village and started a church. He eventually went to work for a non government agency called the American Refugee Committee (ARC) in 1997 — all the while, maintaining his connection with LaPel and preaching the Gospel.
In search of Duch
As the Holy Spirit drew Hang Pin to salvation, British photographer and Journalist Nic Dunlop was in the country reporting on Cambodia's Khmer Rouge past.
In his article "On the trail of Pol Pot's chief executioner," published in Prospect Magazine, Dunlop said he was drawn to S-21, which had been turned into a museum of the genocide.
Photos taken of the thousands people incarcerated there hung on the walls. He was mesmerized by their faces filled with desperation and terror. During one of his visits, he saw a picture of the camp commander — Duch. He obtained a copy thinking it might prove useful in identifying Duch if he ever came across him.
In 1999, while on one of his tours, Dunlop met Hang Pin in a village near the city of Samlot in Western Cambodia. Dunlop was convinced he had found Duch.
Dunlop returned a week later with a fellow reporter, Nate Thayer, to confront Hang Pin. Thayer asked Hang Pin if he ever worked for the Khmer Rouge. Hang Pin deflected the question stating he currently worked with ARC and was translating school text books. Thayer asked the question two more times and finally Hang Pin paused and said, "It is God's will you are here." [1]
"I have done very bad things in my life," he told them. "Now is the time to bear the consequences of my actions."
"Then I thought God was very bad. I did not serve God, I served communism. I feel sorry about the killings and the past." [1]
Duch fully confessed to his involvement with the secret police and S-21. After Dunlop and Thayer broke the news, Duch went into hiding for a couple days before finally turning himself in to the police.
Dunlop has no doubt Duch's commitment to Christ played a role in his confession and arrest. To date, Duch is the only major leader of the Khmer Rouge to confess to his crimes.
In a later interview with Thayer, published in the Far Eastern Economic Review, Duch said he was willing to testify against the other perpetuators and feared for his life because of his willingness to do so. "It is OK, they can have my body," he said, "Jesus has my soul. It is important that this history is understood. I want to tell you everything." [2]
Duch has been in prison since 1999. On July 31, 2007, he was the first member of the Khmer Rouge to be charged by Cambodia's genocide tribunal for crimes against humanity.
I wondered how he was doing. So this past June, I contacted Christopher LaPel and received an encouraging report about Duch who sits in a military prison in Phnom Penh just a few blocks away from S-21.
"Yes, I would like to answer your questions regarding Khang Khek Ieu or Hang Pin or Duch, one of my disciples and one of our leaders serving our Lord Jesus Christ in Northwest Cambodia before he came forward … Yes, he is in jail in Phom Penh and he [is] still preaching and sharing God's word with people around him."
The work on the Cross
Duch's conversion is a powerful testament of the complete work of Jesus on the Cross.
Paul said we are "justified by faith" (Romans 5:1). The word justification, Gk dikaiosis, is a legal term. It does not mean to make upright or to infuse with righteousness despite what you did, rather justification means you were declared not guilty because there is no evidence to condemn you.
Paul explains in 2 Corinthians 5:21, "He (God) made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." The apostle Peter said it this way, "and He (Jesus) Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross."
At the moment of salvation, all of Duch's acts of torture and murder were transferred on to Jesus and God no longer has any record of this sin.
Though Duch will be found guilty of all charges in the earthly trial, he is acquitted of all charges in the heavenly.
In fact, Paul wrote: "where sin increased, grace abounded all the more" (Rom 5:20). The word more in the Greek "huperperisseuo" implies "super abundant." There is "super abundant" grace available to cover the worst of sins and the most evil of sinners. Simply interpreted: where there is great sin, there will be more than enough grace to cover it.
LaPel forgives
When Christopher LaPel found out who his disciple was, he personally had to come to grips with the issue. His parents, brother and sister were killed during the Khmer Rouge reign of terror. One cousin, a science professor, even ended up in S-21 and her photo hangs on the wall.
"I was shocked when I found out who he really was," Chris said in a TimesAsia article, "because what he did was so evil." "Then I reflected it's amazing; it's a miracle. Christianity changes people's lives. If Jesus can change Duch, He can change anyone." [4]
LaPel holds no anger towards Duch and has completely forgiven him.
March 3, 2008: Update:
According to a report in the British newspaper, Independent, at the end of February, 2008, the UN Tribunal took Duch to the killing fields of Cambodia.
The tribunal is bringing to justice those responsible for the slaughter of 1.7 million Cambodians during the brutal four-year reign of the Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979. This brutal time in Cambodian history was made famous by the movie "The Killing fields."
Though Pol Pot, the leader of the Khmer Rouge died in 1998, the tribunal is taking five Khmer leaders to court in July of this year.
One of those is Duch — the chief torturer of the Khmer Rouge — who operated Tuol Seng, a prison camp where 20,000 men, women and children were brutally tortured then murdered. But since then Duch has become a born-again Christian and the full story of his incredible conversion is recorded below.
On February, 26, 2008, the tribunal took Duch to the Killing Fields to re-enact what happened.
The convoy made up of 80 tribunal judges and staff was heavily guarded as traveled to its first stop Choeung Ek. It is one of the best know mass graves in Cambodia and pieces of bones and cloth still litter the site.
When they arrived, Reach Sambath speaking on behalf of the tribunal said, "It was emotional, of course, and very quiet. Everyone was very quiet."
At the site, the four guards from Tuol Seng who were brought along as witnesses provided testimony as did Duch who has fully confessed to his crimes and said repeatedly he will testify if called upon.
It was here that Duch first broke down. It happened when the group passed a tree with plack saying babies were killed by bashing their heads against its trunk.
The second occurred when the convoy arrived at a Buddhist pagoda also known as a stupa. Stupas are traditionally used as memorials to help people remember and this one contained the skulls of 8,000 Cambodians killed by the Khmer. Duch fell to ground crying and praying.
UPDATE Source: Tears and prayers as Khmer Rouge 'torturer' is taken back to the Killing Fields by Andrew Buncombe (Independent.co.uk: February 27, 2008)
[1] On the trail of Pol Pot's chief executioner, by Nic Dunlop (Prospect Magazine, August 2002)
[2] Duch implicates living Khmer Rouge leaders in killing (Far Eastern Economic Review: May 4, 1999)
[3] Christianity finds home in Cambodia, but death questioned, by Chris Fontaine (Laredo Morning Times: January 23, 2000)
[4] The killer and the Pastor, by Caroline Gluck (TimeAsia: July 12, 1999)
Others sources: Tribunal finally ready to probe 'Killing Fields', by Geoffrey York (Globe and Mail June 14, 2007: Toronto, Ontario Canada) / Wycliffe Bible Encyclopedia (Moody Press: Chicago) / Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (WM B Eerdmans
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While there were certainly announcements made and technologies previewed on the last two days of the conference, it was instead, for me, a great time to celebrate community and the great people who have made VMworld great.
I wish I could give you some sense of the scope of a conference this size, and some idea as to the amount of work that goes into pulling everything together. It's intimidating just to think about it, and when I realize the amount of work, coordination and effort that has gone into the last four days, it's pretty humbling. While nothing this large ever goes perfectly, it's pretty impressive that things have gone as smoothly as they have.
Both days started in the booth (like every day did for me), with the chance to talk to customers about the Vblock and our new VCE VDI solutions. Mary Martinez and her team have done an incredible job organizing the VCE presence here at the show! The list of solutions we had in the theater was long, and the videos and demos that we had to show customers were well produced and generated a lot of good conversations. Mary, Jonathan Donaldson, Aaron Delp, Tom Chatham (and his awesome wife Jenny), Eric Hollis, Pankesh Mehta, Michael Leonard and Jay Cuthrell all did a phenomenal job.
The VMware team was no less impressive. John Troyer, Tony Dunn and Alex Maier absolutely killed it on the community side of things. From the awesome and convenient blogger's lounge to the private networking to the dedicated tables at the general sessions, it was easy and simple to put together the content you need to put together. As someone who will post a total of about 10,000 words of content this week, most of it done in the blogger's lounge, I can tell you it was appreciated. It was also a great way to meet some of the other people in the community, which is always fun.
Wednesday evening also had three great social events, starting with the VMware CTO Party over at the Wynn. A bunch of the vExperts were invited, and I was lucky to be included in that group. I got to chat with Dr. Steve Herrod for a little while about a couple VMware customers and it was very cool. I'm always amazed how down-to-earth most of the executives I've met can be. Paul Maritz also made an appearance, and was very gracious with his time and experiences. in addition to the VMware executives it was a veritable who's who of the virtualization technical community. I got to talk to (in no particular order) Frank Denneman, Forbes Guthrie, Cody Bunch, Rob Marcovic, Kendrick Coleman, Aaron Delp, Kong Yang, Scott Baker, Vaughn Steward, Calvin Zito, Damian Karlson and probably 50 more I missed/forgot. The level of knowledge and passion (and pure crazy) in that group of professionals is impressive.
Believe it or not, that was just the beginning. The VMworld party, The Killers, a pool party where the VMware social media team ended up in the pool, entirely too much Jägermeister, birthday celebrations for both Fred Nix and Jeff Thomas, my cousin and her friend driving in from LA and making all the tech boy's heads explode a little, learning to play craps, getting fashion advice from a brilliant European in a wheelchair, ending up at a craps table with Chad Sakac and witnessing one of the most epic runs of bad dice every and being introduced to EMC customers by the vSpecialist team (thanks Tommy) "so they could put a face with the story I just told them" all followed in some order or another and every bit of it was glorious.
At the end, my everything hurts. My feet have swollen so much they hardly fit in my shoes, my knees feel like there are pieces of broken glass in them and I've gotten 15 hours of sleep combined since I arrived on Sunday. I love my job. I love my new co-workers who are quickly becoming good friends. I'm over Vegas for a long while. If you didn't make it to VMworld this year, start working on 2012 now. San Francisco has it's own version of crazy to enjoy, and I'll be there ready to talk to customers and partners about the power of VCE.


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Social worker Heather Simms is scheduled to visit the Cooke's residence tomorrow and assess Brendan's living situation, but she isn't optimistic about the outcome.


Following its critically acclaimed West End revival last year, How the Other Half Loves, Alan Ayckbourn's inventive and hilarious tale of matrimonial mishaps is bound for Bath as part of a major UK tour directed by Alan Strachan and appearing at the Theatre Royal from Monday 2nd October to Saturday 7th October.
The star cast touring to Bath features leading stage and television actor Robert Daws, best known for the hit series The Royal, Outside Edge and Roger Roger, as Frank Foster, opposite Caroline Langrishe, who starred in Lovejoy, Holby City and Judge John Deed, as Fiona Foster. Charlie Brooks, famous for her portrayal of EastEnders' Janine Butcher, plays Teresa Phillips alongside Leon Ockenden, who is thrilling Coronation Street fans in his current role as Will Chatterton, here seen as Bob Phillips. Matthew Cottle, best known for the BAFTA-nominated Game On, reprises his critically acclaimed West End performance as William Featherstone, and, completing the couples, Sara Crowe, whose many West End credits include Alan Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular and screen credits include Four Weddings and a Funeral, plays Mary Featherstone.
One of Ayckbourn's most brilliantly-crafted plays, this hit comedy which ingeniously juggles time and space as it presents the intricate lives, liaisons, passions and growing panic of three married couples over one action-packed weekend, remains one of the celebrated writer's most famous.
As Bob Phillips and Fiona Foster clumsily try to cover up their affair, their spouses' intervention only adds to the confusion. William and Mary Featherstone become stuck in the middle, falsely accused of adultery and with no idea as to how they've become involved. As the plot thickens, all three couples get drawn into an increasingly hilarious tangle of mounting confusion and mind-boggling misunderstandings. The plot culminates in two disastrous dinner parties on successive nights, shown at the same time, after which the futures of all three couples seem in jeopardy.
Alan Ayckbourn's ninth play How the Other Half Loves received its world premiere at Scarborough's Library Theatre in 1969. The following year it transferred to the West End with Robert Morley leading the cast. A huge success it ran for 869 performances delighting critics and audiences alike. How the Other Half Loves has since been produced throughout the world and was the first of Ayckbourn's plays to be staged on Broadway. It received its first major West End revival in 2016, originally opening at the Theatre Royal Haymarket followed by an extended run at the Duke of York's.
2017 marks Alan Ayckbourn's 56th year as a theatre director and his 58th as a playwright. To date he has written 82 plays and his work has been translated into over 35 languages. He became the first British playwright to receive both Olivier and Tony Special Lifetime Achievement Awards and was knighted in 1997 for services to theatre. As well as How the Other Half Loves, just some of his countless hit plays include Relatively Speaking, Absurd Person Singular, Bedroom Farce, A Chorus of Disapproval and The Norman Conquests. In the past four years, there have been revivals of Season's Greetings and A Small Family Business at the National Theatre, and in the West End productions of Absent Friends, A Chorus of Disapproval, Relatively Speaking, as well as Alan Strachan's staging of How the Other Half Loves.
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Relationships & Mating Strategies
Long thought to be a solitary ape, long-term studies of orangutan behavioral ecology beginning in the 1960s and 1970s have shown that orangutans are best described as semi-solitary, with a social system just as complex as that of the more gregarious gorillas and chimpanzees.
The social organization of all primates is strongly influenced by the availability of food, and it has been argued that the current social and mating behavior of orangutans has evolved from one similar to that of modern-day gorillas, as climatic changes between 3-5 million years ago led to periods of irregular fruiting, forcing orangutans to range over larger areas to find enough food to sustain their large bulk, and necessitating a solitary lifestyle (Harrison & Chivers, 2006).
The most often observed relationship in orangutan society is between a mother and her offspring. As discussed above, orangutans have the longest birth interval of any primate and an extraordinarily long infant dependency. These pairings, known as "dyads," last from between 6-9 years, and begin to end at the point of weaning, with separation occurring after the birth of a new offspring. This dependency has been attributed, in part, to an infant orangutans need to learn complex fruiting patterns and processing techniques of often toxic rainforest foods, and may explain the low infant mortality rate of wild orangutans, which is estimated at 5-8% in the first year of life (van Noordwijk et al, 2009: Galdikas, 1999). Studies of weaning ages also suggest food plays a key part in the levels of tolerance shown by mothers to weaned offspring, with mothers showing tolerance when forest conditions are favorable, but showing marked intolerance as soon as the cost of association becomes too high for her and her dependent offspring (van Noordwijk et. al., 2009).
These ecological factors also seem to influence the sociality of adult females. Female orangutans practice philopatry, whereby daughters establish home ranges in the vicinity of their mothers, and home ranges overlap considerably (Galdikas, 1999). Although 'clusters' have been observed, where related females show preferential range overlap and association, and there are anecdotal observations of a mother intervening in the attack of an adult daughter at the Tuanan research site, female orangutans almost always avoid contact with other females, with research at Gunung Palung in West Borneo suggesting females actively avoid each other, a foraging strategy used mutually to reduce the likelihood of encountering food patches that are being, or have been, depleted by another orangutan. Although aggressive encounters do happen, they are rare, with just 29 such encounters during this 9-year study (Knott et. al., 2008).
Although sub-adult males will occasionally form traveling bands, and play between juveniles is common, adult male competition is hostile and has been cited as a major determining factor in orangutan social organization, caused by both ecological pressures and access to sexually active females. As discussed, there are two morphs of adult male orangutans, the 'flanged' and 'unflanged' male.
A pair of orangutans, via Flickr.
Although sizes are difficult to ascertain, home ranges of all adult male orangutans are believed to be at least three times as large as those of females. Like females, ranges overlap, and will usually contain one dominant flanged male, other non-dominant flanged males and any number of unflanged males (Utami et. al., 2009a). Despite these high range overlaps, encounters between flanged males are relatively rare, diverted by mutual avoidance, and any encounters are usually triggered by the presence of a sexually active female or coveted food source. At the Ketambe research center, 64% of aggressive encounters took place near a fig tree, and although only five cases of serious fighting were observed, when they do occur, they can result in serious injury or death (Utami et. al., 2009a).
Relations between flanged and unflanged males are marked by imposed tolerance. While flanged males avoid each other, unflanged males often stay near flanged males, particularly during consortships, usually at a distance of 40-50 meters. Studies at Suaq Balimbing in Sumatra suggest unflanged males will spend more time in association with flanged males if they are in a consortship with a fertile female than not. At this site, unflanged males tended to stay closer to the dominant male, who monopolized fertile females in the area. Although flanged males will often give chase to these marauding unflanged males, fights are rare and there are no reports of physical attacks (Utami et. al., 2009a).
Unflanged adult males generally show tolerance towards each other, and will often form associations, with play and homosexual encounters observed, although associations will decrease as they get older. Aggression rates are low amongst these males, but increase if one of the males is in consort with a female (Utami et. al., 2009a).
The reason for two different morphs of the male orangutan, each with different reproductive strategies, is one of the most fascinating aspects of orangutan behavior, but despite years of study, many questions remain unanswered.
The orangutan mating system is based on a mixture of female choice and male harassment and coercion. Scientists believe that this fierce competition for female mating opportunities has resulted in extreme sexual dimorphism and arrested development in orangutan societies.
Females mate promiscuously and have been observed at different research sites exhibiting preferences for both flanged and unflanged males (Setia et. al., 2009). Generally, though, females demonstrate preferences towards the dominant flanged male in their home range, and will actively seek out this male, who will advertise his location by giving long calls. Consortships and matings between females and dominant flanged males are generally cooperative, and dominant flanged males will sire the majority of offspring. In comparison, matings between females and unflanged males are generally forced and usually only come about after the unflanged male has actively traveled through an area to locate the potentially sexually active female. Although female preference and mate choice is an important factor in orangutan mating systems, it has meant males have had to develop two contrasting strategies: call-and-wait and sneak-and-rape (Harrison & Chivers, 2006; Galdikas, 1999).
The evolution of large-bodied flanged males is relatively easy to understand. Similar to gorilla societies, where male silverbacks fight for access to females and defend family groups, size has its benefits, and millions of years of mating with dominant flanged males explain the extreme dimorphism seen between orangutan males and females. But why, if size means everything, don't all male orangutans develop cheek pads and fight for access to females in the same way? Several hypotheses have been put forward. One, developed recently after paternity testing revealed unflanged males have a higher success of siring offspring than do non-dominant flanged males, suggests unflanged males, as a result of their decreased body size and increased speed and agility, have a greater chance of sneaking forced copulations with sexually active females than do slow-moving non-dominant flanged males, so arresting development and delaying the onset of flanged sexual characteristics is advantageous in the long run (Utami et. al., 2009b).
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Dogs and all, Jack's symbolizes small business
Keith Roysdon
kroysdon@muncie.gannett.com
MUNCIE – What if it turns out that a cold nose and a tail-wagging greeting for customers are key components to running a successful small business?
You don't see a lot of dogs roaming the aisles at Walmart, but Nola and Charlie have, for a decade, been constant presences at Jack's Camera Shop, a downtown Muncie business that is — like others across the city, state and country — gearing up for Small Business Saturday at the end of the week.
Charlie and Nola, who have dog beds behind the counter at the Main Street business, calmly greet customers, pause for a scratch behind the ear if offered and keep a careful eye on their people, Mike and Sherry Powell, who co-own the camera shop.
The dogs don't make a lot of sales — although they probably don't hurt sales — but they symbolize the role in the community that Jack's plays. It's a role played by thousands of small business across the country: community involvement.
Both Charlie and Nola came from Animal Rescue Fund (ARF), the local rescue group, and Sherry Powell said that Jack's sister storefront, Gallery 308, has held auctions over the past seven years that have have sparked more than $14,000 in donations to ARF.
"We're all a part of the community," Sherry Powell said.
Being part of the community is what Small Business Saturday — observed this year on Nov. 29 — is all about.
Twenty three million small businesses
Founded in 2010 by American Express, Small Business Saturday is intended to highlight small, locally-owned businesses, many of them in downtowns, in contrast to where a lot of shopper and media attention is the day before: on Black Friday — and, increasingly, Thanksgiving day — large chain retailers offer doorbusters and specials to draw the largest customer base possible. Gannett, owner of The Star Press, is part of Small Business Saturday's effort to promote homegrown businesses.
The effort to promote small businesses — often described as those with fewer than 50 employees, but sometimes defined as those with as many as 500 employees — is based on the role they play in the economy.
The 23 million small businesses in the U.S. account for 55 percent of the jobs in the nation and 66 percent of all net new jobs since the 1970s, the U.S. Small Business Administration says. The number of small businesses in the U.S. has increased 49 percent since 1982.
Since 1990, big businesses have eliminated four million jobs, the SBA reports, but during that same period, small businesses created eight million new jobs.
In Indiana, recent figures showed that small businesses have steadily increased employment since the national recession. Pay at small businesses has increased as well.
Although small businesses are found all over Muncie, much of the Small Business Saturday focus this year is downtown. The Muncie Downtown Development Partnership will hold its first DWNTWN Gobble Wobble Pub and Eatery Crawl. Participants can get a punch card and visit downtown bars and restaurants and enjoy food and drink specials.
'The perfect image'
Founded in 1948 by original owner Jack Walters, Jack's Camera Shop has been a Main Street fixture downtown for decades.
Mike Powell worked for Walters and, after Walters died, Powell ran the camera shop for the family for a year. Powell purchased the business in September 1973. Jack's Camera Shop employs 11 people, including the Powells and Tom Nahre, a longtime manager. Most of the employees, actually, are longtime, with no one who has less than a decade in the shop.
"Our tagline is, 'Everything you need for the perfect image,'" Sherry Powell said. That includes cameras, lenses and other equipment and services like image printing, transfer of pictures onto storage and training.
That doesn't mean nothing has changed at Jack's over the years, as anyone who lived through the two revolutions of photography — the switch from film to digital cameras and the rise of cameras in cell phones — knows very well.
"When did digital kill photography?" Sherry Powell asked Nahre with a somewhat humorous tone in her voice.
Nahre noted that the photographic industry's switch from film and negatives to digital really took hold around 2000. There are still plenty of purists who shoot on film, though, and Jack's caters to them.
"We're still processing color and black and white film in-house," Sherry Powell said. Besides transferring old images and making honest-to-goodness photographic prints and albums on paper, Jack's has embraced digital media, helping people save photos from their cell phones.
It's a task that's doubly important before a cell phone is lost, often with photos recording the owner's children growing up.
"When digital took over, people stopped printing to a great extent," Sherry Powell said. "It's fun when people come in with old physical photographs (to have copied). This generation won't have that. They might be on a phone or computer. At least before we had negatives. Now it's all on phones." Jack's can back up cell phone photo collections onto disc.
Mike Powell said Jack's has participated in Small Business Saturday every year since it was created.
"We're seeing more participation now," he said. "We're seeing increased awareness of the roll that small businesses play in a community."
"I like to think we bring knowledge," Sherry Powell said. "We can ask, 'What do you want the camera to do?' and match their needs with the camera. That's tough to find online or at Best Buy. They're not about helping. They're about making their numbers."
She adds that people shouldn't misunderstand: Jack's Camera Shop is a business and "we need to sell equipment and services. But we're here to help."
"Most mass merchants give very little support to the community," Mike Powell said.
Jack's Camera Shop's community involvement doesn't stop with its auctions for ARF. Mike and Sherry Powell noted that their business has donated and contributed to public television station WIPB, public radio station IPR and other causes. The store donates prints of Santa Claus pictures for Cardinal Greenway's Christmas activities each year.
As Powell spoke, Nola's ears perked up and she trotted toward the front of the store. Powell laughed.
"It's the mailman," Powell said.
They probably don't see a lot of that at Walmart.
Contact Keith Roysdon at 765-213-5828 and follow him on Twitter: @keithroysdon


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By Georgia Boscawen
Surviving an extensive cruising season
Captain Nick Maccrossan of M/Y 'Triple 8' shares his experiences of an extensive cruising season …
From Thailand to South Africa, 43.4m motoryacht Triple 8, which is currently listed for sale with Burgess, has spent the last few years cruising around all kinds of locations, some well prepared for superyachts and others not quite ready to host a our niche sector. Having kept a detailed log of the yacht's circumnavigation, Captain Nick Maccrossan shares his experiences of extensive cruising.
In the last year, Triple 8 has visited an extensive list of locations, including Thailand, Maldives, Mozambique, Brazil – the list goes on. But there were a number of locations and passages that tested the diligence of the crew, highlighting the importance of a strong team on board, careful planning, and a full understanding of what one may encounter in these locations. "We recently completed a passage from Thailand to Grenada, which is over 12,000 miles, in three months," says Maccrossan. This trip was with just the crew, and the yacht only stopped for bunkering, provisions and servicing.
"We did," the captain continues, "take a little time for crew rest and relaxation in the Seychelles and Cape Town, which made it quite interesting." Maccrossan explains that Cape Town has excellent facilities for crew. Additionally, the exchange rate (15.3ZAR to the Euro at the time of writing according to XE), means that things are more affordable for the crew. "Cape Town was a welcome break, and for those who had never experienced South Africa, it was an opportunity to see just how developed and tourist-friendly the 'Mother City' could be," explains Maccrossan.
There were, however, some incidences when security was put to the test. On two separate occasions, Triple 8 had incidents concerning the approach of suspicious boats, one off Sri Lanka and one at the top of Madagascar. "It is important to be vigilant and to take early action when such things occur," advises the captain. Due to the length of the cruising time and the vast expanse covered by the yacht, it was always likely that security threats could arise. Luckily, on these occasions, the incidents bared no immediate risk.
"I was not looking forward to our stop in Brazil, as we were repeatedly told that we would have security concerns on the dock, mainly petty theft," he continues. However, the yacht ended up spending just one night at anchor before moving on, so any concerns here were alleviated. Logistics in this area, however, were another matter. " In Brazil, the logistical side of things was really quite painful," admits Maccrossan, who adds that the discovery of ISS Shipping changed this, describing them as "excellent agents covering every port in Brazil."
When such an extensive itinerary, Maccrossan stresses that there are a number of essential elements that need to be considered in the planning stages. "You need excellent logistical support. We had good local agents for each bunker stop, who pre-arranged everything and found out about duty-free fuel and approximate costs beforehand, to avoid nasty surprises," he advises.
"Make sure," he adds, "you have the support of a dedicated agent to procure spare parts and anything else that may become necessary while underway."
But perhaps most crucial for this captain is something far bigger than shoreside support. "For such an extensive itinerary, you need to ensure that you have a capable, seaworthy vessel, extensive spares and equipment, and an owner who appreciates that, without these, the trip could turn into a nightmare," says Maccrossan. His advice to others planning an extensive trip such as this, is that having a fully competent and reliable crew, especially experienced engineers, is an absolute must, so much so that there is no point in even starting a voyage if you can't rely on the engineering team. Not to mention the bridge team, whom he says must be able to "handle the long hours and occasional poor weather conditions without complaint", adding, "there is a substantial difference between a North Atlantic hop and a larger ocean passage, so be aware that it can exhaust less experienced crew". And, just as the yacht needs fuel, so too does the crew. "Have a decent chef," the captain advises. "It makes all the difference if everyone can eat good food for the duration."
For an extensive itinerary, there is a vast amount of planning and preparation that needs to take place prior to beginning the journey. But, there is more to it than having a full plan, its about having a fully competent team and a seaworthy vessel thayt can cope with a diverse set of situations.
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Statement by Mr. Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General of UNCTAD
Trade and Development Board, 66th session - Item 1: Opening address & Item 4: Annual Report of the Secretary-General
Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I bid you welcome to this 66th session of the Trade and Development Board convened around the transversal theme of "Inequality: a drag on reducing poverty and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals." Income and wealth inequalities – as many of you are aware – are important obstacles to translating economic growth into inclusive prosperity. Along the economic, social and environmental dimensions, the unequal division of our world into pockets of poverty and of plenty remains a major barrier, which UNCTAD continues to address through the gainful integration of developing countries in the world economy.
This year our TDB focuses on inequality just a few short weeks before the 2019 High Level Political Forum at ECOSOC meets in New York to tackle the related theme of "Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality." Our deliberations this week are meant to inform, enrich and provoke what I hope will be frank and sober stocktaking by Member States about why we are not making adequate progress towards achieving the SDGs.
In our high-level segment this year, we shall address the challenge of inequality from four different angles of UNCTAD's mandate: 1) the means of implementation for reducing inequality, 2) the linkages between trade and inequality, 3) the widening digital divide facing developing countries, and 4) the growing inequalities among developing countries and how South-South Cooperation seeks to address them.
Revisiting the persistent and growing challenge of inequality to SDG achievement is fundamentally important to UNCTAD today. Nearly four years after making the triple promise of 2015, we must not ignore the hard truth that today the world is further behind on implementation than when we began, especially with respect to trade and development issues.
Allow me to elaborate why the international community is today further behind than four years ago in making trade, finance, investment and technology work for development.
Amidst worrying economic signals, today is a dark hour for multilateralism and international cooperation. The last year has been marked by 1) rising international tensions over trade and technology, 2) slowing growth in global FDI flows threatening SDG investments, and 3) mounting concerns over swelling external debt burdens in developing countries.
Rising international tensions over trade and technology
Over the past year, amidst an unfolding "trade war" of more than $300 billion in tariff escalation between two of the world's biggest economies, the discourse around international trade has moved further away from the development agenda than it has been in a generation. With declining trust in multilateral solutions, claims about the mutually beneficial gains from trade today increasingly ring hollow, replaced by the simpler notion that trade is a zero-sum game.
Analysis earlier this year from the UNCTAD Secretariat has shown that one of the biggest casualties of this "trade war" are developing countries. For example, ASEAN and its regional value chains risk losing substantially due to trade diversion from the "trade war", given their tight integration into Trans-Pacific trade. The LDCs and small and vulnerable economies that are extremely dependent on external demand from the major economies are also bound to be affected by spillovers and ripple effects.
Recent analysis from the UNCTAD Secretariat has also shown that the "trade war" is primarily a struggle for dominance over the value chains of the future. While tariffs are not very effective in protecting domestic firms, they are very effective at limiting trade from the affected country, making them ideal weapons not for redressing dying industries or job losses, but rather for limiting a trading partner's prospects for moving up the value chain. Consequently, due to the current "trade war", transformative concepts that developing countries have longed rallied around, such as "industrial policy" and "technology transfer," are today being stripped of their development content and weaponized in what risks becoming a much longer term "technological cold war."
The risk from trade tensions goes well beyond the world's two largest economies. The UNCTAD Secretariat also estimated earlier this year that in Europe a no-deal Brexit would push the UK into recession, and wipe $35 billion/ year off EU exports, as Europe loses preferential access to UK markets. And according to our estimates a no-deal Brexit would also irreparably harm the trade competitiveness of non-EU countries, especially many LDCs.
Slowing growth in global FDI flows threatening SDG investment
The less favorable global trade and investment policy climate has also help drive a prolonged slow-down in FDI flows. The 2019 World Investment Report released just two weeks ago, documents that global FDI flows continued their slide in 2018, falling by 13 per cent to $1.3 trillion, for the third consecutive annual decline in a row.
Our analysis also shows that longer-term structural factors are at play in the FDI slowdown, raising the stakes for developing countries seeking external sources of SDG investment. The underlying FDI trend has been anemic since 2008. Net of one-off factors such as tax reforms, megadeals and volatile financial flows, global FDI inflows have now averaged only 1% growth per year for the last decade, compared with 8% in 2000–07, and more than 20% growth before 2000.
Mounting concerns over external debt burdens in developing countries
Average levels of external indebtedness are also today at an all-time high in developing countries, with both their public and private debt burdens growing more than one-third over the past decade. Amidst uncertain global financial conditions from Argentina to Ghana, from Ecuador to Zimbabwe, from Haiti to the Democratic Republic of Congo, developing countries are experiencing default, distress or fast-growing vulnerabilities.
With the devastating recent hurricane seasons in the Caribbean and the damage wreaked by Cyclone Idai on Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, addressing the confluence of climate and financial vulnerability is also more urgent than ever before.
In addition, the sizable investment needs in SDG-specific sectors are prompting developing countries to continue to increase their debt levels, despite the warning signs. In advance of this year's Financing for Development Forum, the UNCTAD Secretariat calculated that the average fiscal gap for all developing countries, if both the SDGs and long-term debt sustainability are to be achieved, amounts to almost 10 percent of GDP.
So, what is UNCTAD doing about this dire situation? Let me briefly report to UNCTAD Member States the steps that UNCTAD has been taking to address the worrying economic environmentover the past year:
Over the past year, despite the gloomy outlook, several avenues have opened for countering the declining trust in multilateralism and for furthering international cooperation on trade and development issues. Since the last Trade and Development Board, we have made progress on 1) promoting closer regional and South-South economic cooperation, 2) scaling up "smart partnership" with the private sector, 3) advancing the digital transformation in developing countries, and 4) adopting new ways of working across the UNCTAD Secretariat and with the wider UN family as a whole, particularly at country-level.
Promoting closer regional and South-South economic cooperation
In contrast to the backlash against trade integration witnessed in some developed markets, African countries have increased their commitment to closer integration and cooperation with UNCTAD support. Following agreement last year, the AfCFTA came into force on 30 May 2019 following ratification by member states. UNCTAD's Regional Office in Africa has been spearheading our support to Phase II in the negotiations of the world's largest free trade area, which are now focusing on issues like competition policy, investment and intellectual property rights.
Later this week I will launch the 2019 Economic Development in Africa report, which is focused precisely on how rules of origin adopted by the AfCFTA can help enhance intra-African trade. Later in July I will join many African leaders as they launch the operational instruments of the AfCFTA at the Extra-ordinary Summit of the African Union Heads of State and Government in Niamey, Niger.
Adding to the momentum of the AfCFTA, UNCTAD also organized the First African Forum for National Trade Facilitation Committees in Addis Ababa in December 2018, seeking to lower the trade costs of intra-African trade and to support African countries as they implement the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement.
At the global level, UNCTAD also sought to support developing countries looking to counter the declining trust in multilateralism through intensifying our support to South-South Cooperation. This past year UNCTAD contributed to UN-wide efforts leading up to the BAPA+40 Second High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation, which took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina in March 2019. In advance of this Conference, a cross-divisional team led out of my office drafted a special report "Forging a path beyond borders: The Global South," and organized a thematic consultation in Geneva on South-South Cooperation for trade and development.
These contributions fed into the negotiations of the BAPA+40 outcome and today we are working with the UN-wide network of South-South focal points to formulate the United Nations BAPA+40 follow-up strategy for supporting closer South-South Cooperation. Notably this work has generated much interest by Southern countries in several UNCTAD initiatives including, inter alia, the Generalized System of Trade Preferences between Developing Countries and UNCTAD support to South-South Cooperation on digital industrialization.
Scaling up "smart partnership" with the private sector
In October 2018 in Geneva UNCTAD hosted the largest World Investment Forum ever with 11 heads of state and government, over 50 ministers, 70 parliamentarians, 50 CEOs and more than 6000 participants all seeking new ways to spur private sector investment in their countries in pursuit of the SDGs.
The spirit of the WIF was also finally embraced in New York, when UNCTAD together with DESA co-organized the SDG Investment Fair on the sidelines of the ECOSOC Financing for Development Forum in April 2019. This inaugural SDG Investment Fair in New York led to the establishment of a new global CEO alliance – the Global Investors for Sustainable Development – that aims to help finance the Sustainable Development Goals with crucial private capital.
In addition, the UNCTAD Secretariat has helped support the adoption this year of the new United Nations Secretary-General's SDG Financing Strategy and its Roadmap. We are also helping plan the High-Level Dialogue on Financing for Development planned at Head of State level for this coming September at the High-Level Political Forum at the General Assembly.
At a more grassroots level, UNCTAD's smart partnership with AliBaba Business School, the eFounders initiative, continued to grow, graduating its 6th class of "netpreneurs" in June 2019. That brings the total number of eFounders fellowship programme graduates to 212 entrepreneurs from Asia and Africa, many of whom we continue to work with in other aspects of our digital commerce work, as we seek to catalyze the nascent digital commerce ecosystem in developing countries.
Advancing the digital transformation in developing countries
UNCTAD has continued to strengthen its support to the digital economy in developing countries over the recent year. The first regional African eCommerce Week was held in Nairobi in December 2018 in collaboration with the African Union and the European Union, and the fifth global eCommerce Week was organized in Geneva in April 2019. Both events demonstrated increasing recognition of the eCommerce Week as the leading forum for Ministers, senior government officials, CEOs and other business representatives, international organisations, development banks, academics and civil society to discuss the development opportunities and challenges associated with the evolving digital economy.
Over the past year, demand for UNCTAD's support to E-Trade readiness also continued to grow, as we completed eTrade Readiness Assessments for 13 countries across 3 continents with 13 more requests for assessments in the pipeline. Also with the initiation of the eTrade Readiness Assessment for Iraq we have expanded our readiness assessments beyond LDCs and began to offer them to other developing countries as well. In addition, a number of countries who have completed these assessments have requested further support to the formulation of their national e-Trade and ICT strategies.
Adopting new ways of working with the wider UN family and across the UNCTAD Secretariat
1 January 2019 marked the official transfer of the UN Resident Coordinator system from UNDP to the UN Secretariat, and the strengthening of the UN Development Coordination Office as coordinator of the repositioned UN development system. During this transition period, UNCTAD has been playing an active role working with the transition team based in the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General's office and with the other UN Sustainable Development Group member agencies to respond to the member state requests made in the May 2018 UNDS Repositioning Resolution of the General Assembly, A/RES/72/279.
Implementation has been led by strategic results groups of the UNSDG co-led at the Under Secretary-General level. UNCTAD together with UNFPA co-chaired the Strategic Financing Results Group, which helped design the new Funding Compact with Member States is working to put the UN's global support to financing strategies to work at the country level. We have also actively contributed to the re-design and re-branding of the UN Development Assistance Frameworks as UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks, and to the drafting of the new UN System-Wide Strategic Document, as well as the newly proposed Management and Accountability Framework for UN entities. Through all of these deliberations we have sought to highlight entry points for non-resident agencies, like UNCTAD, into the work of the UN Country Teams and have sought to both preserve and leverage our strengths and advantages as a thought leader on trade and development issues for the UN Development System as a whole.
This work has also led to stronger collaboration with DESA and UNDP particularly through the Inter-Agency Task Force on Financing for Development, as well as through the United Nations G-20 Working Group. In addition, we contributed this past year to the launch of the new UN Network of Economists meant to bring closer collaboration between economists working in UNCTAD, DESA and the Regional Commissions.
UNCTAD's role as lead agency of the CEB Cluster on Trade and Productive Capacity has also been re-emphasized during this transition year, as well. During the recent May 2019 ECOSOC Operational Activities Segment, which is now serving as the new strengthened accountability mechanism for the repositioned development system, UNCTAD organized one of the only and most well-attended side events with other cluster members and launched a new brochure alerting the new Country Teams to the important support that the Cluster offers to the economic pillar of UN work at country-level.
In addition to the work of the Cluster, demand for our technical cooperation tools continues to grow, and we are seeking to replicate what works best and respond to developing country needs. Developing countries themselves continued to be among the largest providers of voluntary contributions to UNCTAD technical cooperation activities, particularly through self-financed projects. Indeed, in 2018, more than 50% of the $40 million in voluntary contributions to UNCTAD came from developing countries and economies and transition.
In this time of tightening budgets, in order to make our technical cooperation more effective we are seeking to replicate successful integrated approaches to our technical cooperation, such as the multi-sectoral approach of our pioneering Angola programme developed with the support of the EU and involving collaboration among three divisions. This past year we have received expressions of interest for similar programmes of scope in other countries from Botswana to Bolivia, from Paraguay to Myanmar. With the provision of sufficient extrabudgetary funding we seek to further expand this type of integrated support going forward.
Similarly, we are seeking to replicate successful integrated approaches to collaboration with regional entities. For example, on trade facilitation, customs automation and transport, we are exploring ways of emulating our successful partnership with TradeMark East Africa in the East African Community with a similar partnership in Comesa with support from the European Union. We are also seeing our largest flagship DMFAS and ASYCUDA programmes continue to grow and expand, as well. For example, just last week we learned that ASYCUDA will finally expand to more than 100 countries with the recent generous agreement with Australia and New Zealand to support ASYCUDA projects in 5 Pacific Islands countries: Cook Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Tonga and Tuvalu.
In addition, UNCTAD continued its efforts to strengthen horizontal coordination with an eye to moving further from division-based management to task-based management. Existing horizontal coordination mechanisms like UNCTAD's Financing for Development task force, the Statistical Coordination Task Force, and the Gender Task Force continued their work, and a new coordination team was established in the lead-up to the BAPA+40 Conference, the South-South Cooperation Task Force. Later this week, we will launch two of the outputs of the Statistical Coordination Task Force's work, namely UNCTAD's new Statistical Quality Assurance Framework and the inaugural issue of the UNCTAD SDG Pulse, a report which gathers statistical data on the SDG indicators of which UNCTAD is custodian.
Looking forward, as the challenges we face are great, our fitness for purpose and agility will guide our ability to navigate the fast-changing trade and development landscape.It is my firm belief that our management approach in the Secretariat is up to the task, and I call on Member States to work constructively together to maintain focus on the substantive issues before us as we head towards the UNCTAD 15 preparation process.
As my Deputy recently informed you during the informal management briefings, and as the Working Party sessions have confirmed, our current Regular Budget situation, like that of the United Nations as a whole, has not been immune to the declining trust in multilateralism, particularly among some of the larger contributors to the United Nations budget. This has limited our ability to fully align our Regular Budget resources with the demands of the Maafikiano, notably in the case of our need to strengthen our support to the Palestinian people. But I am confident in our ability to creatively weather this difficult time for multilateral cooperation, and to find new solutions to overcome these difficulties
You will recall from my Deputy's presentation to Member States earlier this month, that our 2020 Regular Budget will amount to $67.7 million, reflecting a $683,000 reduction from 2019 levels, which has required the regrettable elimination of five posts. This intensification of pressure on our resources comes paradoxically at the same time that Member States continue to call for greater support and more ambitious results. This is a situation that clearly borders on untenable and puts enormous strain on staff morale, as well on Member State expectations.
Allow me, as Secretary-General of UNCTAD, to appeal to you for your support in weathering this difficult period. We have been piloting several initiatives to make up the difference the best that we can. I have deployed my Deputy on a "tour-de-capital" helping raise awareness of our funding issues among Member States, and within the Secretariat we have been exploring some "out of the box" initiatives to galvanize staff morale and engage in a new ways of working. These include the Innovation Challenge that I launched last fall, the Hive Talks that we have held with Civil Society, and the Town Square initiative that we have held with staff to engage them closely on staff-related issues.
Finally, with respect to monitoring and evaluation and managing for results I am pleased to confirm that our RBM training has now reached more than 70% of UNCTAD staff. We are also implementing a number of OIOS recommendations on both statistics and the inter-governmental support service.
It is our firm desire that all of our results-based management work, and monitoring and evaluation activities support and not detract from the substantive impact of our work programme and of the constructive deliberation of our Member States around the pressing trade and development challenges, which I have outlined in this statement. Only through maintaining fidelity to our thought leadership role on trade and development will we continue to punch above our weight in influencing the gainful integration of developing countries into the global economy amidst the current challenging multilateral landscape.


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Theme park in motion: For passengers, Holoride's extended-reality
LOS ANGELES — Holoride, the company behind a groundbreaking extended reality (XR) in-vehicle media platform, is looking to drive the passenger entertainment experience in ways never imagined, with the wider adoption of 5G.
The German tech company — started in 2018 with backing from Audi — has developed an application that delivers unique immersive virtual reality experiences, using XR content and vehicle motions.
The cornerstone of Holoride's platform involves safely and securely syncing XR content, in real time, with vehicle data points such as physical feedback, acceleration and steering, traffic data and travel routes, all while reducing motion sickness.
Nils Wollny, CEO and co-founder of Holoride, told Shift that the expansion of 5G wireless opens the door to a host of unique immersive in-vehicle media experiences, as the company prepares for its 2022 market launch. "With 5G and the capabilities, a lot more functionalities will live up to consumer expectations on the go that probably weren't possible before due to the high bandwidth," explained Wollny, who likens Holoride's platform to a theme park in motion.
The wider adoption of 5G technology will also allow for the design of more efficient headsets for XR media experiences, Wollny said. "It will take a lot of the [computing] power out of the device and have it on the edge or in the cloud, and being streamed to the device. Then those [headsets] can be lighter, more comfortable, slimmer, easy to wear."
A core component of Holoride's strategy, with the expansion of 5G, is a revenue-sharing partnership with content developers, giving them access to Holoride's Elastic SDK, the toolset that powers the company's media platform. In May, Holoride announced that it will integrate nonfungible tokens (NFTs), a type of digital ownership certificate, into its media platform, using blockchain technology to assure its automotive and content partners that the revenue is being distributed fairly.
The company also envisions NFTs enhancing the users' experience as they collect digital pieces featured in the in-vehicle content.
Holoride has already established partnerships with Mercedes-Benz, Ford and Porsche, in addition to Audi, as the tech company prepares for market launch. But Wollny is quick to note that the key to expanding the scope of immersive in-vehicle experiences, with the wider adoption of 5G, lies in the ability to get more car companies, the XR tech industry and content providers to realize the full potential of a media platform such as Holoride.
"We have great partners on board, but now we need to get this ecosystem going, and we spend a lot of time on how we kick this off," said Wollny. "Transparency … is one of the major aspects we are working on to really help build more confidence, more trust for every ecosystem partner involved, but it's still a massive, massive task."
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