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Khashoggi murder: Body 'dissolved in acid'
duration 2 November 2018
Killing of Jamal Khashoggi
media captionHow has the death of Jamal Khashoggi impacted the war in Yemen?
A top Turkish official, presidential adviser Yasin Aktay, has said he believes Jamal Khashoggi's body was dissolved in acid after being cut up.
The "only logical conclusion", he said, was that those who had killed the Saudi journalist in Istanbul had destroyed his body "to leave no trace behind".
Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi rulers, was killed inside the country's consulate on 2 October.
No forensic evidence has been provided to prove his body was dissolved.
"The reason they dismembered Khashoggi's body was to dissolve his remains more easily", Mr Aktay told the Hurriyet Daily newspaper.
"Now we see that they did not only dismember his body but also vaporised it."
The claims came as Khashoggi's fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, called on world leaders to "bring the perpetrators to justice", in an editorial for five newspapers, including the Guardian and the Washington Post.
Meanwhile, reports quote Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as telling the US he considered Khashoggi to be a dangerous Islamist.
The reported phone call to the White House came before Saudi Arabia admitted Khashoggi had been killed.
Saudi Arabia has denied the comments were made or that its royal family was involved in the killing, and says it is "determined to find out all the facts".
Istanbul's prosecutor confirmed on Wednesday that the writer had been strangled.
Is Saudi crown prince finished?
The Jamal Khashoggi story so far
Who is the journalist that disappeared?
Jamal Khashoggi in his own words
What was said in the crown prince's alleged phone call?
During the call with President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and national security adviser John Bolton, Prince Mohammed said Khashoggi had been a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational Islamist organisation, the Washington Post reports.
The phone call is reported to have taken place on 9 October, a week after Khashoggi disappeared.
Prince Mohammed also reportedly urged the White House to preserve the US-Saudi alliance.
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image captionPrince Mohammed urged the White House to preserve the US-Saudi alliance
In a statement to the newspaper, Khashoggi's family denied he had been a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and said the murdered writer had himself denied this repeatedly in recent years.
"Jamal Khashoggi was not a dangerous person in any way possible. To claim otherwise would be ridiculous," the statement said.
What has the investigation found so far?
There is still no consensus on how Khashoggi died. He entered the consulate to sort out documents for his marriage.
media captionJamal Khashoggi's fiancee: "We didn't say any goodbyes"
But on Wednesday Turkey said he had been strangled immediately after entering the consulate and his body dismembered "in accordance with plans made in advance".
Turkish media had previously quoted sources as saying Turkey had audio recordings proving that Khashoggi had been tortured before being murdered.
Saudi Arabia has changed its account of what happened to Khashoggi.
When he first disappeared, it said Khashoggi had walked out of the building alive. It later admitted he had been murdered, saying the killing was premeditated and a result of a "rogue operation".
It has arrested 18 suspects who, it says, will be prosecuted in Saudi Arabia. Turkey wants the suspects to be extradited.
media captionJamal Khashoggi: What we know about the journalist's disappearance and death
Turkey has steered away from publicly blaming Saudi Arabia for the killing.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke to Saudi King Salman last week, and the two agreed to continue co-operating in the investigation.
What do other countries say?
Saudi Arabia has faced a backlash over the death, including from its allies, who have called for answers.
President Trump has said he is "not satisfied" with the Saudi account. However, he also said he was unwilling to sacrifice lucrative arms deals with the country.
Although their US visas have been revoked, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said it would be a "handful more weeks" before the US knew enough to impose sanctions on individuals involved in Khashoggi's killing.
Mr Pompeo said the US had "deep and long-term strategic relationships" with Saudi Arabia and said "we intend to make sure that those relationships remain intact".
media captionWhy do Trump's Saudi job numbers keep growing?
On Wednesday, France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Khashoggi's death was a "crime" and "odious".
He said France was not "dependent on our economic relations with Saudi Arabia" and the country would impose sanctions, but no details were given.
UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt also said it was an appalling act, adding that it had "possibly" given the US and the UK a chance to put new pressure on Saudi Arabia over other issues.
Earlier, the US called for a swift cessation of hostilities in Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition has been fighting rebels supported by its arch-enemy Iran.
What has his fiancée said?
In an editorial published in five international newspapers, Ms Cengiz said Khashoggi had just bought a house and wished to start a family.
She described the "anguish" she had experienced since his "brutal, barbaric and ruthless" death.
"We must all send a clear message that authoritarian regimes cannot kill journalists ever again."
She called on governments around the world to take action to reveal the truth, accusing the United States of taking a position "devoid of moral foundation."
"If the democracies of the world do not take genuine steps to bring to justice the perpetrators of this brazen, callous act - one that has caused universal outrage among their citizens - what moral authority are they left with?" she asked.
Jamal Khashoggi's fiancee on writer's death in Saudi consulate
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Jamal Khashoggi: Saudi journalist in his own words


I want to expose a problem with my water tank.
Depending of the kind of sailing my HR Monsun 674 (1979) I could find litle links of water at the bilge or the water tank completely empty, depending of heeling's level.
It was a 160 litrs water tank lokated as ussual in the bow of the boat.
They produce a similar water tank 1030x960x45. It is a 170 litrs.
My question is ¿anybody has the same problem? ¿Any ideas?
Did you figure this out? If my tank ever failed, I think I would probably just use jerry-cans, and make it so that I could just attach the foot-pump in the jerry-can, and changi it out every time it was empty. In that way, it would be very easy to know how much water you had, and also to be sure the water was not contaminated (I drink a lot of collected rain water).
I'm thinking about ordering made to measure tanks in SS and install them beneath the bunks in the saloon. I think the centered weight could hopefully improve the sailing abilities.
The project is still in a planning process. So, if anybody has ideas or experiences on that I´d be happy to read/see them.
Thanks in advance and have a nice sailing summer!
A low cost alternative would be water bags, aka flexible water tanks. Plastimo makes these, but probably there are other brands with different sizes.
My water tank finally cracked on the top port side on the whole length after a wild ride from Fiji to NZ. It had a small crack before and I used the special 3M Polypropilene glue to fix it. But now I need to replace the tank.
Has anybody ever done that ? Looks like I have to remove one or two bulkheads to remove the tank.
I tried to get specs from Hallberg Rassy and Hallberg Rassy Parts. But they haven't responded.
The 170 liter tank looks pretty much like the one in my Monsun.


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What metallurgy advancement allowed the transition from mail hauberk to plate armor?
Why did it happen in the 14th century, when the blast furnace was invented much earlier? Can someone explain, how medieval blacksmiths figured it out? What discovery enabled them to create plate armors?
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Are you sure it was metallurgic advancements and not military necessity? You might want to rephrase to reflect that. I thought this transition was necessitated by advancements and prevalence of firearms. Combine this with the emergence of professional or mercenary armies, as opposed to prior levy armies. – user2259716 Dec 27 '17 at 19:54
Because it would have been expensive and not needed? I don't think you had massed crossbows or firearms in the 11th, and longbows would be impractical for most kingdoms. 11th century also had peasant levies ie poorly armed and untrained mobs. In the 14th and 15th you start to see large mercenary armies and an emerging professional soldier. – user2259716 Dec 27 '17 at 20:06
@Jotunn It took a long time for well designed, flexible plate armour to appear. But that's not metallurgy though. Also, it was extremely expensive - even the nobility did not have unlimited money. – Semaphore♦ Dec 27 '17 at 20:45
So the only reason people didn't use plate armor was because it was expensive and wasn't needed against spears, axes, arrows and swords? And I don't think I wouldn't want to wear an armor, that renders almost all projectiles and weapons ineffective. There are also many videos where is shown that a full plate armor is not as immobile as people tend to believe. – Jotunn Dec 27 '17 at 21:41
@Jotunn Later plate armour did get much more flexible, but early ones were very burdensome to wear. Plate armour gave great protection but not invulnerability, so it was a significant tactical handicap. The French had plate armour at Agincourt and look how much good it did them against English longbows (it didn't). Production was a problem, but cost-effectiveness would've been the main constraint. – Semaphore♦ Dec 27 '17 at 21:52
The emergence of late medieval full plate armour wasn't really prompted by any specific discovery or advancement in metallurgical tech. Partial plate armour, in principle, can be traced all the way back to Classical Antiquity, such as the Greek muscle cuirass later Roman lorica segmentata.
Rather, the most critical development was the appearance of larger bloomeries. It was no coincidence that plate armour began in North Italy shortly after such bloomeries appeared there - they made it possible to produce sufficiently large steel plates in one piece.
The suit of armour of large articulated plates first appears in 14th century Italy, followed later by Germany and the rest of Europe. This was a result of bloomeries having grown large enough to produce metal plates of the required size.
Williams, Alan. "The Metallurgy of Medieval European Armour." Proceedings of the Forum of the 4th International Conference on the Beginning of the Use of Metals and Alloys. Shimane, Japan, 1996.
The problem before this was that you need quite a sizeable amount of steel, about 10kg, for a breastplate. Prior to the late 13th century or so, European bloomeries were generally not large enough to produce so much steel in a single chunk. To make a steel breastplate then, you'd have to weld two or more separate plates together, which compromised its protective value despite an enormous price tag.
A plate of armour which weighs between 2.5 and 4.5 kg will pose new problems lo the producers. Billets of metal of 10kg or more may be needed to make such a plate
Williams, Alan R. The Knight and the Blast Furnace: A History of the Metallurgy of Armour in the Middle Ages & the Early Modern Period. Brill, 2003.
A significant factor behind the rise of larger bloomeries was that Late Medieval Europe began harnessing the power of rivers - using waterwheels to power furnace bellows enabled larger blooms of steel to be produced.
Once decent full plate armour became feasible to create, the main obstacle to adoption - aside from a lack of need early on - was simple economics. A full set of plate armour was extremely labour intensive to forge, and consequently very expensive. Keep in mind, even the Romans had to abandon the lorica segmentata after the Crisis of the Third Century rendered it economically and logistically unsustainable. No military in medieval Europe could rival the Roman Empire's resources.
By the 14th century, however, smiths had begun using watermills to driver hammers for shaping the steel, greatly reduced the labour required.
Water-power enabled smiths to increase their output. Bellows driven by a waterwheel could produce a continuous powerful draught from a free energy source, so it was at last possible to enlarge the size of the furnace and the bloom thus produced. Water-powered hammers were also heavy enough to fashion the larger blooms.
Blair, John, W. John Blair, and Nigel Ramsay, eds. English Medieval Industries: Craftsmen, Techniques, Products. A&C Black, 1991.
It was the newfound relative affordability of plate armour, combined with improved designs reducing its tactical downsides, that ultimately enabled its adoption. The full plate armour reached its peak about the same time advancements in projectile weaponry began to render it obsolete, however.
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I thought it was because of crossbows. While mail armor can't stop arrows from a crossbows, plate armor is more likely to do it – Mandrill Dec 28 '17 at 1:36
@Mandrill The need for protection drove the adoption of plate armour, but it doesn't enable plate armour to be created, which I think is what the question is asking about. – Semaphore♦ Dec 28 '17 at 7:19
+1. The increased need for protection made the cost of plate armor worth paying (standard arms race in play). Increased production volume of plate armor allowed improvements in technology, which drove costs lower, and adoption wider (standard market forces in play). – Peter M. - stands for Monica Dec 28 '17 at 15:52
Remember that armor did not evolve from chainmail to plate directly but through various transitional phases (at least in Europe). You can check out 'coat of plates' and brigandine armor on wikipedia. – Matt Balent Dec 28 '17 at 19:30
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Q: What's to consider when hosting Ubuntu torrents on a Raspberry Pi Recently, I thought about how I could contribute to the Linux / Ubuntu community, since I am a regular user for years now. One way I came up with is, that I could use my Raspberry Pi to work as a peer in the torrent distribution of several Linux distros.
However, before putting my home network at risk, I wanted to ask for guidance how to make sure that my network is safe.
Does anybody know how the Raspberry / Network should be configured?
AFAIK, probable issues might be the configuration of port-forwarding of the firewall, SSH access of the raspi, etc.
I and hopefully some users looking for a way to contribute to the ubuntu community would appreciate some guidance on this topic.

A: This is entirely feasible. Some suggestions to enhance the security of this setup:

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*The firewall in the router is your main defense against attacks from Internet. You would port-forward just one port (the torrents protocol can run on any port) towards your RPi and run a torrents client on that port.

*SSH is enabled by default, but the router's firewall will prevent SSH access from internet.

*You may also want to set iptables on the RPi to accept traffic on the one port from the router, ssh from inside the lan, and nothing else.

*You need to search for known security problems with the torrent client itself (or perhaps the protocol as a whole), and upgrade as soon as a new version is available.

*You may restrict bandwidth usage by your client, and verify that your provider allows torrents at all (trackers may be blocked).

*Your router's firmware may occasionally turn up a vulnerability, so you need to look out for updates for that as well.

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The Dream Thieves was one of the more coveted YA books at BEA last year, and rather difficult to get (the publisher gave out the time to grab the book only to those who specifically asked, and then handed them out so quickly they were gone in 10 minutes). I was hoping to get an extra copy for book blogger friends who only asked for this one book, but I don't think I had any luck. Anyway, this came out September 2013, and was another pick for the YAckers. They had a lovely chat about The Dream Thieves which is up online now. Of course, being the reprobate that I am, my contribution to this chat was something along the lines of "I'm still reading it, you guys talk about it without me." This was the right thing to say because it took me a whole month to read this book, mostly thanks to the day job sucking away my time and attention, but I do wish I could have talked about it with the gang because I have the sneaking suspicion that I am the outlier again when it comes to this series. I've actually refrained from looking at the chat before I finish this review because I'm afraid of how far off my opinion is going to be.
This is the second book of The Raven Cycle. If you haven't read the first book yet, I recommend you read my review of The Raven Boys instead of this one, because possible spoilers for that book lie ahead.
The Premise: Despite the freedom of summer break, a newly awoken ley line, and Ronan's unveiled talent, the search for Glendower is no easier than it was before. Shady characters have appeared in Henrietta, drawn by the power spikes from its ley lines. The trail runs hot and cold as energy grows and dims without explanation or clear source. Similarly, the all is discordant amongst Blue and the Raven boys. Noah disappears and reappears with each dip and surge in energy. Ronan toys with more dangerous pursuits. And a lingering tension hovers between Adam, Blue, and Gansey that threatens to fracture the whole group.
Read an excerpt of The Dream Thieves on scribd (or pdf: here)
My Thoughts: When I look back at my review of The Raven Boys, I had problems with the fragmented focus – there are a lot of characters, each with their own individual back story, and it was difficult for me to tell who the main protagonists were and where the whole story was going. Then I reminded myself that despite having trouble with the meandering storyline, I loved the characters, enjoyed the writing, and would road trip to Henrietta in a heartbeat. I said to myself that this was the cost of set up when there were multiple characters involved and a dreamy supernatural backdrop to explain. And because the framework was taken care of in The Raven Boys, it seemed a reasonable expectation that I would fare better with The Dream Thieves.
Unfortunately, I had very similar issues with The Dream Thieves that I had with The Raven Boys. I don't know what else to do but sigh over this, but before I go into why this book didn't set my heart aflame, I want to point out it might do just that for someone else by reiterating what I said when I reviewed The Raven Boys: "If you are one who can sit back and enjoy a character-driven story with lovely prose and you don't need to know where it's all going, this will do quite well." If you are one of those readers, this story is made of words that are simple yet arranged in very pleasing ways. It has characters who you want to follow around and learn what makes them tick. And yes, there is magic.
"In the shower, Adam scratched a thumbnail across his summer-brown skin. The line of his nail went from white to angry-red in a moment, and as he studied it, it struck him that there was something off about the flow of the water across his skin. As if it was in slow-motion. He followed the stream of the water up to the showerhead and spent a full minute watching it sputter from the metal. His thoughts were a confusion of translucent drops clinging to metal and rain trembling off green leaves.
There was nothing odd about the water. There were no leaves."
If that's enough for you, you can probably skip the rest of the review and go enjoy the book. Otherwise be prepared for my kvetching because I really wrestled over what exactly didn't work for me. This was a review more to work out my own demons than anything else.
I feel a little despondent that what this book has going for it wasn't enough for me, but ultimately it comes down to what kind of reader I am, and like I said when I reviewed the first book, I need structure. It doesn't have to be all business right away, and The Dream Thieves started out promisingly with a continued search for Glendower and tantalizing hints about Ronan's ability, but as I read on my enthusiasm slowly waned. I was surprised by the introduction of a morally ambiguous "heavy" (appropriately named The Gray Man), but he seemed interesting so I read on. By mid-book, I felt like things were moving slowly, but I was still hopeful I could like this story if I could just get some answers, such as what Declan really knew and where things were going. A bit after that mid-way point I began to question. Three-quarters of the way was where I realized I wasn't going to get that direction I was hoping for and I was officially frustrated. Of course the last few pages of the book is where the story takes off, but by then I wasn't as engaged as I wanted to be.
Thinking back on it now, if I had approached this as a side-story that was about Ronan and not a "traditional" sequel to The Raven Boys, my expectations would have been calibrated properly. Because I thought there would be progress with the Glendower search, it didn't compute when the search was mired and another mystic concept, the Greywaren, was thrown in as if out of no where. Things were happening, but to me it was a slow inching trek toward an unknown destination, and I was in a frustrating place where I didn't know if what I was reading was taking me anywhere. In my mind I was in the second book of a series feeling like I actually hadn't gone beyond the set up stage of the story.
What compounds my problems with direction and plot is that this is a multi-character story with multiple focuses. Ronan has a bigger role in this second book (which I expected, based on the title and the cover), and I was looking forward to it because he's so enigmatic in The Raven Boys, but because every chapter was a short flash on a single character before moving onto the next, his voice was one of many. It was easy to forget that this was "Ronan's book" when the focus moved away from him so often. While Ronan's power to bring dreams to life is explored, two new characters (the aforementioned Gray Man, and Kavinsky - an obnoxious street-racing-fellow-student) are introduced, and Blue, Gansey, Adam, and Noah continue to have their own problems. Not to mention what all the women living at 300 Fox Way get up to. Again I was reminded the first book, where the fragmented focus made me unsure of who the main characters were. In the end, the characters that get the most page time (Ronan and The Gray Man) were the characters I was happiest with because there was enough pulling back of the veil to see their inner workings, even if I wasn't completely satisfied with their particular story arcs (that's a whole other thing that goes into spoiler territory though). As for almost everyone else, it was as if there were too many characters for there to be more for the reader than to touch their outside edges, let alone grasp them whole.
Where I really felt this was with Adam, Blue, and Gansey, whose interrelationships are complicated by romance, rivalry, class, and a curse. What we got of them only makes the loss greater: subtle scenes between Gansey and Blue, a raw honesty between Blue and Adam, and tests of friendship between Adam and Gansey. Despite this, I had only my own guesses to things like why Adam's character was so alien (more angry than vulnerable) from what he once was. I can't help but feel like I'd trade one or more of the minor characters' space in The Dream Thieves for more Adam, or Blue, or Gansey.
I know, I know. Due to my (faulty?) wiring, even though I kept thinking of certain wonderful bits and pieces of this book long after it was finished, I was just too bothered by all of the above for The Dream Thieves to be a hit with me. I'm sure I'm in the minority in this.
Overall: My reaction is the dreaded "I wanted to like this more than I did". While I found a lot of things to like about The Dream Thieves, for each aspect about this story that I enjoyed, there was another that really didn't work for me. One problem was my expectations and that I was approaching this story thinking that it was a continuation of The Raven Boys rather than something that was more of a companion piece that intertwines into the greater whole. Another was that I just don't do well with a lot of characters and an unfocused destination. Since I had similar issues with The Raven Boys and hoped I would fare better in this book, The Dream Thieves rated lower than The Raven Boys on my visceral reaction scale, but would probably rate higher if I could repress my feelings and look at this with more neutral eyes. I suspect I would like this book more the second time around now that I know what I'm getting.
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Angieville - "If you're looking for a story worth living and breathing, The Dream Thieves will take you there."
Book Harbinger - "When somehow the Raven Cycle comes to its impossible, filled-to-the-brim-with-potential conclusion, we're in for a treat."
Bunbury in the Stacks - "I am unable to find all of the proper words needed to express my love of book two of The Raven Cycle"
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Yup yup, everyone liked this more than I did. I will go hide now.
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In cooperation with local community structures in the village of Borizana, ANTEA Cement received the request to support in the reconstruction of the general infrastructure of the regional health center in the Borizana village. Given its importance as a primary source of healthcare service delivery for the inhabitants of this community and the lack of adequate conditions for quality services for citizens, ANTEA Cement mobilized necessary resources to support the community by investing in improving this facility. The reconstruction works were finalized in February 2018. The new regional health center of Borizana is now fully functioning with renovated facilities, due to the generous support of ANTEA Cement and the fruitful collaboration with community structures of the village.


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Doctors Are Trained To Assume That Kratom Is The Cause Of Liver Damage In Cases Where A Patient Used Kratom, Even Though There Is Zero Science To Support The Theory That Kratom Is Harmful To The Liver
Over the years Big Pharma, the FDA, and the medical establishment have persistently tried to tarnish Kratom's reputation via using fake science and fake news to prove that Kratom is dangerous. So far these attacks on Kratom have been overturned with real science each time they happen, but these attacks do put a dent in Kratom's reputation regardless, especially since there's a general anti-Kratom bias in our society.
The latest attack on Kratom is that some Doctors are claiming that Kratom causes liver damage. In-fact, this theory that Kratom causes liver damage has occasionally come up over the years, even though there's never been any proof for this claim.
The latest 'fake science' paper that just came out on this issue is titled 'Kratom induced severe cholestatic liver injury histologically mimicking primary biliary cholangitis: A case report'. In this paper a case is documented where a woman had severe liver issues and landed in the hospital, and the doctors automatically assumed that Kratom was the cause of the damage since the woman had been taking Kratom. Critically, this paper makes no mention of any evidence or science which links Kratom to the liver damage.
Now the question is, why would a group of Doctors automatically assume that Kratom had caused severe liver issues despite a lack of evidence? Shouldn't the Doctors thoroughly investigate underlying conditions and perform all sorts of tests to find the real diagnosis?
The answer is that Doctors are actually trained to assume that Kratom is the primary cause of liver damage in any case where a patient with a bad liver admits to using Kratom. This is due to a stern warning about Kratom in the LiverTox database, which is an official database that Doctors can use to figure out which drug is responsible for destroying a patient's liver.
Shockingly, Kratom has a rating of Category B in the LiverTox database, meaning that it is known or highly likely that Kratom causes liver damage. This is near the top of the scale for drugs that destroy the liver.
Absurdly, despite that serious warning in LiverTox, LiverTox itself flatly says that there is no scientific explanation for why Kratom would cause liver damage. This is the exact info from the database "The cause of liver injury due to kratom is unknown. It is often used with other agents, including drugs of abuse, and its causative relationship to liver injury in published cases is not always clear."
Further, the only information in LiverTox about previous cases is very odd. It says that in the rare case that Kratom causes liver damage, that severe damage would happen in the first 1-8 weeks of Kratom use. Essentially, LiverTox is saying that there's only been a few cases of this sort've liver damage in history, and in those cases it occurred very rapidly. This suggests that underlying conditions are likely to blame, rather than Kratom itself, since apparently long term Kratom use has never been shown to damage the liver even according to LiverTox.
Bringing this information full circle, Doctors are trained to assume that Kratom is the cause of liver damage in any case where a patient admits to using Kratom, thanks to the Kratom warning in the LiverTox database, despite the fact that the LiverTox Kratom warning has no science to back it.
Indeed, in 2019 a woman was getting tests for liver damage, and once she admitted to using Kratom the Doctors assumed that Kratom was to blame and stopped searching for why her liver was damaged. This is not only bad for Kratom's reputation, but it is also extremely dangerous for the patient if the actual liver problem is never properly diagnosed or treated.
Thus, in the case of Kratom and liver damage, someone in Big Pharma/Big Medicine claimed that Kratom causes damage to the liver at some point years ago, setting off a chain reaction of Doctors referencing that first paper and writing more papers about how Kratom causes liver damage. There was never any real evidence that Kratom damages the liver in the first papers, nor is there any evidence in the more recent papers, but now there are so many anti-Kratom papers on this subject that it makes Kratom look very bad even if there is no evidence.
The silver lining is that although Big Pharma/Big Medicine/the FDA are persistently making up fake science and fake news to attack Kratom, it is actually a testament to Kratom's safety that these organizations can never come up with any actual proof that Kratom is dangerous in any way, and due to this these organizations are forced to lie to push their agenda. Indeed, if organizations with billions of dollars of resources can't firmly prove that Kratom is dangerous, it actually proves that Kratom is the safest supplement on the planet.


PHOENIX, AZ (October 17, 2011) — The Arizona Commerce Authority congratulates the Mohave County One Stop Career Center, for winning first place in a national video contest held September 14, 2011 in Washington, D.C. The video was selected as the top winner in the U.S. Department of Labor's "Faces of Success" contest at the ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) Grantees Technical Assistance Institute.
Arizona was awarded $6 million in grant funding through the Department of Labor's State Energy Sector Partnership (SESP) to develop a statewide strategy to integrate the workforce needs of targeted energy industries such as energy efficiency and renewable energy through education and training. The grant funds were made available by the ARRA and end on January 28, 2013.
The Arizona Commerce Authority, manages the statewide program, and praised Mohave County One Stop Career Center for utilizing the funding so effectively. One of the individuals assisted by these funds was unemployed Kingman resident Cliff Marshall. Mr. Marshall was trained and certified to work with hybrid cars. The training led him to land a new job.
As part of the contest rules, a 20-second video was produced to depict how Mr. Marshall's benefited from the ARRA funding and how he found employment.
"The video shows the pivotal difference that our workforce system can make in getting a person connected with a job. And it shows how a person who perseveres and takes advantage of available opportunities can transform his or her own life. This is a story that is being played out across the nation with this type of ARRA funding," said Jen Miles, Mohave County Workforce Development Manager.
Marshall hopes the focus remains on the One Stop and its services. "Everyone I met at the One Stop was a huge help in this process. It's amazing how much effort they all put in to get me where I am today. I'm grateful to everyone there," he said.
For more information about the One Stop, call (928) 753-0723. Those wanting to view the "Faces of Success" video can visit www.co.mohave.az.us/workforce.


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Document workflows to achieve successful digital transformation
For businesses that want to remain productive and operational in 2022, automating processes is necessary. With the shift toward remote working, business leaders must invest in more efficient work systems and automating manual, or labor-intensive processes is a key way to achieve this.
To successfully build an automated version of a process, however, you must first understand what that process is about. This is where process documentation comes in.
What is process documentation?
Process documentation, or workflow documentation, means taking a look at work processes and documenting the steps involved. For some processes, this might be a simple case of noting down a few (three of four) steps. But for those processes which require a longer-term commitment and greater number of tasks, process documentation becomes a necessity.
A document workflow process is also useful in cases without automation as the next step. It's a good way for business leaders to analyze their processes and see where improvements could be made. If a process exists in a business that hasn't been mapped, documented, or reviewed, it's likely there will be steps in the process that could be revised. Many business leaders find that, when they actually sit down and document their processes, more efficient ways of doing things become apparent.
See a workflow documentation example
A good workflow documentation example exists in the process of employee onboarding. There is a general agreement between HR professionals that employee onboarding should last between three and six months. Some HR personnel even extend the onboarding process to a year, on the basis that it strengthens new recruits to do their roles. A six-month-to-a-year-long process is a costly undertaking for businesses and involves a number of different steps. These include:
Pre-on-boarding: sending out contracts, start date information, documents for new hire to review
First day/week on-boarding: IT setup, introductions, team lunch, training, orientation schedule, office supplies
3-6 month onboarding (up to a year): ongoing training, review period, career progression, and planning
Employee onboarding is a good workflow documentation example because it involves multiple steps that need to be carried out by multiple personnel over a long time. It also needs to be iterated for other new joiners, which can be complicated for HR professionals if each of the steps hasn't been clearly identified and logged. Documenting the onboarding process creates visibility for HR professionals and ensures the best structure is carried out. It allows for the opportunity to revise tasks, or move them further down the timeline, add in additional steps, and ensure that accountability exists across the process.
The document workflow process: what steps are involved?
So, you have a process that you want to document. What are the steps involved? Here's a quick summary:
When we think about how to document workflows, the best first step is to speak to everyone involved. Hold a meeting and ask contributors whether they feel the process works for them. Most employees will be able to identify steps in a process that are slow or points where bottlenecks occur. This is the first step to refining the process.
Process mapping is a great way to establish total visibility across the cycle of a process. It is a way of visually documenting the process, using a flowchart model to track each step. For processes that involve sub-processes happening in tandem, it's a better way to keep track of the process as a whole, rather than listing the individual steps (which only really works for a linear process).
Once you've mapped the process you have as it is, assess what changes could be made. If several employees have drawn attention to a bottleneck halfway through, think about how this could be refined. If one task in the process takes longer than everything else, think about whether it could be split into sub-tasks and delegated better, or whether automated tools could be a fast-track solution.
Once you've documented and revised a process, test it out to assess whether it's been improved. Businesses that turn to automated solutions for their processes will discover a more efficient way of working, greater productivity, and reduced error. It's the intuitive next step for most organizations, but even in cases where small changes have been made (creating more achievable sub-tasks for example), testing is a vital part of the document workflow process.
The document workflow process is an ever-changing beast, and a process will be refined best by a few rounds of trial and error. Organizations that consistently review their processes will find themselves operating in a more efficient way. And those employees who undertake the documentation process, and are encouraged to make suggestions, will be more inclined to engage with that process down the line: ensuring it is healthy, productive, and successful.
For more information about how to document workflows contact the team at Nintex. We are experts in creating efficient work processes, using process mapping solutions and automated workflows.


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Online bullying affects 35% of children: Research suggests Snapchat and Tinder add to growing problem
FORTY per cent of those polled by internet security firm McAfee say they have witnessed other 11-17 year-olds being picked on online.
Hundred of Scots pupils have been affected by cyberbullying
MORE than a third of children have been bullied online, according to research.
The figure has doubled in a year with 35 per cent of 11 to 17-year-olds getting abuse on the internet.
Forty per cent had seen others being picked on online – up from 22 per cent last year – internet security firm McAfee's study said.
The research also suggests that thousands of teenagers, including under-16s, use disappearing message service Snapchat and dating app Tinder every day.
Some parents helped set up their kids' accounts.
McAfee polled 2000 UK children and 2000 parents ahead of the start of Anti-Bullying Week on Monday.
The research indicated increasing numbers of parents have a more relaxed attitude to the risks online.
Only 27 per cent of parents said they were worried about their child being the victim of cyber-bullying this year – almost halving from 45 per cent a year ago. And 67 per cent of children are allowed to go online without supervision, up from 53 per cent.
But 77 per cent of parents said they had conversations about online safety, up from 68 per cent last year.
77 per cent of parents have had conversations about online safety.
Andy Phippen, professor of social responsibility in IT at Plymouth University, said: "There is a real gap between parental concern and the reality of what children face.
"While it is encouraging to see that these talks are happening, there are areas in which parents may not be completely aware of their children's online behaviour.
"It's time for parents to become more educated on social platforms, what ages they are suited for and the behaviour they encourage.
"Cyber-bullying happens across all platforms."
One in six youngsters – 17 per cent – used Tinder every day. Almost half of them were 15 and under.
Tinder users are shown other subscribers close to their location. They tick those they like and must get one back in order to start communicating.
It is open to those who are 13 or older, with under-18s only able to match with people in their age bracket.
Phippen said: "It is very concerning to see younger teens using apps like Tinder, whose aim is hook-ups and dating – and very much for an adult audience.
"These apps can be used as platforms for grooming and abuse."
Thirty-seven per cent of children used Snapchat. Explicit images have been hacked from the app.
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SlimmingDad left with unsightly loose sagging skin after shedding half his body weightDad-of-one Daniel Cushen managed to lose just over 16 stone having been close to 30 and a half stone at his heaviest from eating a diet of "nothing but takeaways".
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The Best Way to Learn Italian
Here's how to learn Italian in a fun and effective way
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Michael San Filippo
Italian Expert
M.A., Italian Studies, Middlebury College
B.A., Biology, Northeastern University
Michael San Filippo co-wrote The Complete Idiot's Guide to Italian History and Culture. He is a tutor of Italian language and culture.
The Italian national soccer team, known as Gli Azzurri because of their blue jerseys, has ranked among the top teams in the world for years. They've won the World Cup many times, Italian-born players routinely sign multimillion-dollar contracts for European teams, and the Italian soccer leagues offer some of the most talented competition anywhere.
The overriding reason for their success? Practice, practice, practice.
And that's the secret to learning Italian or any other foreign language. Exercise your language muscles every day, and soon you, too, will be competing with the best of them.
While many think that the quickest and most effective way to learn Italian is the total immersion method—traveling to Italy for an extended period and studying at any of the thousands of language schools throughout the country—there are other, more sustainable options to explore from home, too.
You've already taken the most important step to learning Italian when you started searching online (and found this website) because the most important thing is to start studying! And even though there are tons of resources available on the market, any method is appropriate as long as you maintain a consistent study schedule.
Choose Your Learning Materials
So once you choose a realistic amount of time that you can devote to your Italian studies each day, then reading an Italian textbook, taking a language course at a university or local language school, completing workbook exercises, listening to podcast or mp3s, or conversing with a native Italian speaker all count.
Many people mistake a desire to be conversational for a desire for fluency. The whole point of spending all of this time learning Italian is so you can have real conversations with real people, so keep that in mind as you choose your learning materials. Find things that are practical and that offer language you can use with actual people.
Stick to Your Routine
Spend some time every day reading, writing, speaking, and listening to Italian to become accustomed to the target language. Slowly but surely, your confidence will build with your language partners, your accent will become less pronounced, your vocabulary will expand, and you'll be communicating in Italian. Maybe you'll even start speaking Italian with your hands.
In the end, visiting Italy to have a total immersion experience is wonderful, especially when doing things like a homestay where you literally eat, breathe, and (hopefully) dream in Italian. But, as you know, trips end, and humans easily forget what they've learned, so routine is key if you truly want to be conversational.
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Some suggested defenses involve changes to contract document language and thus need to be implemented during the design phase. Other suggested defenses are pragmatic in nature and can be implemented on a daily basis by a knowledgeable construction management team even in the absence of specification language.
Based on a number of papers and presentations by construction claims expert Jim Zack in the 1980s and 1990s, Jim, in his role as Executive Director of the Navigant Construction Forum (the global construction industry's resource for thought leadership and best practices in dispute avoidance and resolution), takes a fresh look at how the games have changed since then.
Join Jim and his fellow experts from Navigant Consulting, Emily Federico and Steve Pitaniello, as the schedule games situation is reviewed from A - Z. Whether through intentional strategy, inattention to schedule specs or merely sloppy practices, learn the various sorts of schedule games and why you need to be aware of them, including:
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Float ownership; sequestering float
Early completion schedules
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Improper and manipulated updates
Unsubmitted, late and inaccurate baseline submittals
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How latest versions of software have impacted past games and spawned new ones
For both owners and contractors, a careful drafting and reading of the schedule specifications is imperative. Contractors can lose their rights; owners can lose their shirts. The intent of schedule specifications is to measure progress on the job but also to mitigate future delays and resolve past disputes. Learn what some industry-recognized specifications have done to combat abuse and why further changes may still be necessary. The Construction Schedule Games paper will be provided to all attendees to serve as a checklist for identifying and addressing schedule games.
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CHRISTIANITY, which many believe to be the noblest moral system ever conceived, must now share blame for the dissolution of the West. A faith that once served as an anchor for Western civilization has become a source for the same self-flagellating guilt that typifies liberalism. Today, Christianity's public expression differs only cosmetically from Marxism in its attitudes towards economic redistribution, equality, and racial integration.
How has Christianity sunk so low — and our people with it? The answer is that it has subverted inbred traits of altruism that help family and tribe survive, and has transmuted those traits into agents of passivity and surrender. Christianity has universalized altruism, thus stripping us of our defense against multiracialism. Today's Christianity drives us to betray our own interests to whoever asks. At the same time, a preoccupation with eternal reward in the world to come blinds some Christians to the consequences of their actions today.
Loss of racial loyalty is recent. For centuries, race consciousness posed no moral dilemma to Christians. That "old-time religion" was good enough for Charles Martel when he smashed the Muslim invasion of Europe in 732 at Tours. It was good enough for Pope Urban II when he launched the Crusades in 1095. It was good enough for Columbus and Magellan, who claimed newly-discovered lands in the name of both king and faith. It was good enough for European colonial masters who ruled millions of non-Whites, untroubled by egalitarian scruples.
Christianity's divorce from racial consciousness was both sudden and recent. Only in the 20th century did [anti-racial "morality"] infiltrate virtually every mainline Christian organization. By the 1960s, organized Christianity was working hand in hand with organized Judaism to dismantle the South's self-protective wall of racial hierarchy.
In earlier times, this idea posed little danger to White survival because it was preached by Whites living in an almost all-White world. Today, on a crowded planet filled with envious Third World peoples, its consequences are lethal. The mentality of sacrifice has resulted in an inability to assert the imperative of survival — an imperative that puts family, tribe, and nation at the center of moral life.
Christianity must therefore share a major part of the blame for the abnormal belief that we must commit racial suicide in order to be "moral." This is not, of course, to lay blame solely on Christianity, but neither should Christianity escape examination solely because it has long been the guardian of the moral beliefs of Western peoples.
What then, are the beliefs that characterize today's self-destructive Christianity? They are altruism and universalism. These two beliefs so dominate public Christian discourse that they are contradicted from no more than a handful of pulpits — even in the American South, where ministers once invoked God in defense of segregation.
Let us first consider altruism, the Good Samaritan reflex. The Golden Rule — which is the ideal of Christian conduct — exalts altruism, or acts beneficial to others without regard for one's own interests. If followed by everyone, surely the Golden Rule would produce world peace and harmony.
People vary. Confronted with appeals to limited breeding, some people will undoubtedly respond to the plea more than others. Those who have more children will produce a larger fraction of the next generation than those with more susceptible consciences … The argument here has been stated in the context of the population problem, but it applies equally well to any instance in which society appeals to an individual exploiting a commons to restrain himself for the general good — by means of his conscience. To make such an appeal is to set up a selective system that works toward the elimination of conscience from the race.
Conscience is eliminated because it is not randomly distributed in a population but is to some degree inherited from parents. Even if willingness to restrict breeding for the good of all is only slightly heritable, an appeal to conscience will steadily remove it from the population. The fact that self-sacrificing conscience, or in a broader sense, unfettered altruism, is self-eliminating is a fundamental truth with which any lasting moral order must contend.
There must be a dual code of morality — one for one's own group and another for everyone else. Harsh as this may sound both to Christians and non-Christians, Nature will inexorably eliminate the flawed genes of any group that fails to make this distinction.
In fact, we take the dual code for granted. We devote much of our lives to rearing our own children but we ignore the children of strangers — an obvious double standard. We save the lives of our comrades in battle but we kill the enemy — another double standard. The universal altruism of the Golden Rule undercuts both forms of group loyalty. After all, we might well wish that strangers would devote themselves to our children. If we took the Golden Rule seriously we might then devote ourselves to the children of others and neglect our own. Likewise the Golden Rule might require us to betray our own side to the enemy, inasmuch as that is what we might want done for us. Clearly, groups and individuals that behaved this way would not pass on their perverted morality to many descendants.
Some will object that Professor Hardin's prediction about the self-elimination of conscience is demonstrably false, since it still exists. No: What matters is the time scale. Conscience-obsessed Western man is declining in numbers, and his morality and behavior are declining with him.
them; 3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. . . .
[He] hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the Earth, and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation.
When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations; and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond or free, male or female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if ye be Christ's then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
It is on the basis of passages like this that Christianity has abandoned the defense of our people and has become an accomplice of those who would displace us. The National Council of Churches donated money to Marxist revolutionaries in Africa — revolutionaries who sometimes murdered White missionaries. The Southern Baptist Convention's leadership recently bowed before its one Black member, apologizing for slavery and racism. Typically, the Black member showed little gratitude for the gesture, complaining that not nearly enough had been done to alleviate the lingering effects of slavery.
Mr. Robertson seems not to realize that Mestizo Christianity is often based on "revolution theology," and its symbol is a Christ-figure with arms upraised, brandishing an AK-47 assault rifle. Revolution theology will help create "Aztlan," the Bronze Continent, the new home of La Raza — literally, "the race." Even a nominally Christian Aztlan would effectively decapitate Christianity as Mr. Robertson understands it, since altruistic universalist Christianity is largely a habit of Western people.
With ministers preaching racial suicide, Christianity may now be more of a threat to our survival than liberalism. At least with liberalism, one recognizes the enemy. But when Christian leaders take liberal positions, they leave the flock defenseless. Ralph Reed and Billy Graham are our opponents, no less than Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy.
[T]he most energetic element of society [today] addressing racial divisions may also seem the most unlikely: the religious right."Across the country, conservative congregations and denominations, while sticking to other stringent principles of conservative religious thinking such as the proscription of homosexuality and abortion, are embracing a concept called "biblical racial reconciliation' — a belief that as part of their efforts to please God, they are required by Scripture to work for racial harmony.
If even "the Christian right" has become part of the rout of traditional Christianity; it is because the New Testament opens the door to universalism. Oswald Spengler wrote that "Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism," and indeed, ministers routinely preach the "social" gospel, invoking a universalism that differs little from the agenda of the radical left.
Yet ironically, the universalist goal is a chimera. Since those who displace us do not, by definition, maintain our moral standards — for if they did they would not be replacing us — our flawed moral system will vanish with us. As Professor Hardin explains in his 1982 essay, "Discriminating Altruisms," "[universalism] cannot survive in competition with discrimination." A group that practices universal altruism — and Whites are the only group that does — cannot compete against groups that do not.
Some Christians would say that none of this matters because believers will one day ascend to their reward in Heaven. However, the vision of Heaven can subvert the imperative of survival. If, in their fervor to enter Heaven, Christians fail to have children or to build a nation in which their children can maintain their way of life, the race will not continue. It is worth noting that Heaven is an entirely personal reward, which can be pursued at the expense of family, tribe or race. Selfishness thus joins universalism in modern Christianity, completely inverting Nature's design of loyalty to family and tribe.
Christianity's flaws did not threaten us until technology and ideology made their consequences felt on a world-wide scale. Now, our moral code must renounce universalism and emphasize our own survival. Unless we adopt moral beliefs in keeping with the realities of today's demographics, we will not survive the mounting wave of Third World immigration, procreation, and miscegenation. It is in this sense that, as Jean Raspail says, "Christian charity will prove itself powerless." Christian charity can hardly stop a demographic displacement that it helped set in motion.
Yes, passivity and surrender. That is what today's Christianity is all about, and evangelical Christians in particular are in a self-destructive trance so deep, it's quite likely they will never awaken. It also should be noted that the National Council of Churches is run by Jews and for many years has had a Jewish president.
The Bible is riddled with intentional omissions, additions and mistranslations from the Jewish scribes over millennia, so much so that it's virtually impossible to discern what of it is true and false. What is very interesting, however, is that when you read it with open eyes, the Old Testament is almost exclusively about race and racial preservation. In fact, in Genesis alone, all God's creatures, including man, are directed to go forth and multiply "kind after kind". Adhering to natural law in this way is so important, that it mentions this no less than ten times in just the first chapter.
It's also fascinating that in the Ten Commandments where Christians are warned, "Thou shall not commit adultery", the original Hebrew word in place of "adultery" literally translates to miscegenation and NOT having sexual relations with someone other than your spouse. This was another disastrous switcheroo by the Jewish scribes that has had catastrophic effects on the White race. In truth, Christians are warned against adulterating their own race, in other words, adding foreign material and thus rendering the original composition impure. This commandment was another reinforcement of the "kind after kind" mandate.
In truth, committing adultery is to render tainted or impure, or to adulterate the purity of your race through admixture, plain and simple. John Herrell has an excellent breakdown of what the Bible really says about race in his short paper, Race Mixing and the Bible. He provides many eye-opening revelations in the intended meaning of words and phrases when discarding the English King James translations and going back to the original Hebrew and Greek. I've sourced it many times in an effort to shock Christian friends out of their universalist trance.
Christianity became bad for us when it transmuted into liberalism.
It transmuted into liberalism because that was seen as the way to make it relevant and powerful.
It was not powerful and relevant before this transmutation, because of all the things it did before it transmuted into liberalism. These bad things just piled up over the centuries.
People just said, Who needs this?
And now they are saying the same thing about liberal Christianity.
BS. Poland is the whitest country in Europe, and the most Christian. Look at the other countries in Europe, especially Sweden who's majority is Atheist. You lose your Christian roots and you don't have a country. I've read NV for a while now and have to comment. This THOT author, should just stop publishing her nonsense. A perfect argument as to why women should never vote. This is the last time I'll be reading this drivel of a publication, and why DS is the place to go.


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In The News: Chris Kwok's Op-Ed on Weaponized Coronavirus Language Against Asian-Americans Published in the New York Daily News
On March 26, 2020, the New York Daily News published an op-ed co-authored by Chris Kwok. The piece is entitled "Weaponized coronavirus language is endangering Asian-American lives." (Chris, who sits on the AABANY Board and chairs the Issues Committee, co-wrote the op-ed in his capacity as a Board member of the Asian American Federation).
The article discusses how anti-Asian rhetoric and labeling the coronavirus as "the Chinese virus" is endangering the lives of Asian Americans across the United States. It also provides historical examples of what happens when you link a disease to a particular group of people. It can easily lead to stigma and violence against that group. For example, in the 14th century, Jews were accused of spreading the Bubonic Plague in Europe and massacred. Similarly, in the 1980s to 1990s gay people were blamed for spreading AIDS and suffered violence as a result.
Furthermore, the article notes that this is not the first time Asian Americans have faced something like this in the United States. In the 1850s to 1890s, the Chinese were accused of being carriers of venereal disease and leprosy. As a result of the openly anti-Chinese rhetoric during that period, Chinese people were "…rounded up into thousands of railroad cars, steamers, or logging rafts, marched out of town, or killed."
Now, history seems to be repeating itself as the spread of the coronavirus pandemic is falsely being attributed to Asian Americans. In recent weeks we have seen a spike in xenophobic incidents targeting Asian Americans throughout the nation. Such incidents include "…Asian Americans being beaten, slashed, kicked, spat at, sprayed with things, yelled at or ostracized in public." To make matters worse, President Trump's deliberate campaign to label the coronavirus as "the Chinese virus" has put Asian Americans at an even higher risk.
To read the full article, click here.
Congresswoman Grace Meng Introduces Resolution to Denounce Anti-Asian Sentiment Caused by Coronavirus
On March 25, 2020, U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) introduced a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives that denounces the anti-Asian sentiment caused by the outbreak of the coronavirus.
"The increased use of anti-Asian rhetoric, particularly from our nation's leaders such as the President, and their use of terms like 'Chinese virus,' 'Wuhan virus,' and 'Kung-flu,' is not only irresponsible, reckless, and downright disgusting, it threatens the safety of the Asian American community; such language demeans, disparages, and scapegoats Asian Americans," said Meng. "Asian Americans, like millions of others across the nation, are worried about the coronavirus; however, so many Asian Americans are also living in fear following the dramatic increase of threats and attacks against those of Asian descent. During this time of heightened anxiety and fear surrounding COVID-19, we cannot lose sight of protecting the health and safety of every single person – no matter their race, ethnicity, or background. The House must take a strong stand against the sickening intolerance, bigotry, and violence that is leaving a terrible stain on our nation's history, especially during this moment of an unprecedented public health crisis. I am grateful to my colleagues who introduced this resolution with me today, and for joining me in saying loud and clear: xenophobia and discrimination is absolutely unacceptable. I strongly urge all of my House of Representatives colleagues, to support this measure, and its passage."
The resolution has 124 cosponsors. They include: Reps. Chu, Pressley, Castro, Pascrell, Malinowski, Speier, Watson Coleman, Brown, Takano, Cisneros, Schakowsky, Velázquez, Pingree, Lieu, Napolitano, Correa, Haaland, Huffman, Torres, Blumenauer, Fudge, Cárdenas, Omar, Schrader, Moulton, Suozzi, Lynch, Dingell, Connolly, Case, A. Green, Bonamici, Trone, C. Maloney, Khanna, McGovern, Thompson (CA), Larson, Foster, E. Johnson, Jayapal, Kilmer, Jackson Lee, Lofgren, Porter, Raskin, Lowenthal, DelBene, Castor, Jeffries, Trahan, Smith (WA), Rose, Beyer, Rouda, Costa, Serrano, DeFazio, Krishnamoorthi, Ocasio-Cortez, Cicilline, Kim, Sanchez, Soto, Bustos, McCollum, Pocan, Welch, Sablan, Schiff, Larsen, Higgins, Yarmuth, McEachin, DeLauro, Quigley, Clark, Grijalva, DeGette, Engel, Butterfield, Rush, Deutch, Allred, Eshoo, S. Maloney, Kennedy, D. Davis, Bass, Boyle, Nadler, Lee (CA), Norton, Lewis, Mucarsel-Powell, Bishop, Evans, "Chuy" García, Schneider, Horsford, Carson, Wild, Tlaib, Casten, Craig, Frankel, Meeks, Brownley, Spanberger, Wexton, Vargas, S. Garcia, Hastings, Escobar, Cohen, Vargas, Sherman, Waters, McNerney, Cox, McNerney, Lawrence, Tlaib, and Gallego.
To learn more and to read the text of the resolution, click here.
From KALAGNY: New York Court Restrictions and Protocols, COVID-19 Update
Thanks to KALAGNY for sharing these important court updates for New York courts.
March 20, 2020 Executive Order No. 202.8 from Governor Cuomo (Link)
"[A]ny specific time limit for the commencement, filing, or service of any legal action, notice, motion, or other process or proceeding, as prescribed by the procedural laws of the state, including but not limited to the criminal procedure law, the family court act, the civil practice law and rules, the court of claims act, the surrogate's court procedure act, and the uniform court acts, or by any other statute, local law, ordinance, order, rule, or regulation, or part thereof, is hereby tolled from the date of this executive order until April 19, 2020"
Executive Order 202.8 directs a 100% in-person workforce reduction as of March 22, 2020 at 8:00 p.m. for "non-essential" services. Law firms have not been identified on the Executive Order or the Governor's guidances as "essential." Please see the NYSBA's summary of the Executive Order here.
March 22, 2020 Administrative Order from Chief Administrative Judge Marks.
"[E]ffective immediately and until further order, no papers shall be accepted for filing by a county clerk or a court in any matter of a type not included on the list of essential matters attached as Exh. A. This directive applies to both paper and electronic filings."
March 19, 2020 Memo from NY State Court Regarding Essential Services (Link)
For information, please see: https://www.nycourts.gov/
United States District Court, Southern District of New York
March 11, 2020 Memo Re: COVID-19 Protocols (Link)
For more information, please see: https://nysd.uscourts.gov/covid-19-coronavirus
United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
March 18, 2020 Administrative Order 2020-06 from Chief Judge Mauskopf (Link)
For more information, please see: https://www.nyed.uscourts.go
United States District Court, Northern District of New York
March 13, 2020 General Order #58 in Response to Coronavirus COVID-19 Public Emergency (Link) For more information, please see: https://www.nynd.uscourts.gov/public-emergency
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Effective March 23, 2020, oral arguments will be held by teleconference. For more information, please see: http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/
From NQAPIA: Attorney Ethical Obligations & Census 2020
Lawyers are under a general ethical obligation to advise their clients and the public, in general, to comply with federal law and participate in Census 2020. Our partners at the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) commissioned legal research reviewing attorney ethical considerations and obligations regarding the Census under the Rules of Professional Conduct in the following thirteen jurisdictions: CA, DC, FL, GA, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, PA, TX, VA, and WA. The Memorandum of Law is here: http://bit.ly/2IJgQQl
The memo is provided for informational purposes and does not constitute legal advice covering a specific situation, nor does it create an attorney-client relationship. Contact an ethics lawyer for legal advice in your jurisdiction.
AG James Launches Hotline to Combat Coronavirus Hate Crimes and Xenophobic Rhetoric
Individuals Who Have Experienced Hate Crimes and Bias-Based Incidents Are Encouraged to Call the Ongoing Hotline at 1-800-771-7755, or Email Civil.Rights@ag.ny.gov
NEW YORK – Attorney General Letitia James [on March 23, 2020] announced the launch of a hotline for New Yorkers to report hate crimes and bias-based incidents. The hotline, which will continue indefinitely, comes in the wake of rising reports of harassment and assaults, as well as rhetoric against Asian Americans amidst the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
"As we face an unprecedented and uncertain time for New York, the United States, and the world, we must reiterate the fact that this pandemic does not give anyone an excuse to be racist, xenophobic, or biased," said Attorney General James. "No one should live in fear for their life because of who they are, what they look like, or where they come from. I encourage all victims of discriminatory actions stemming from this pandemic to contact my office. We will continue to work with local law enforcement to combat hate in all its insidious forms."
In the last week alone, there have been numerous reports in New York of Asian Americans being harassed or physically assaulted as a result of this pandemic. The last several weeks have also seen a rise in anti-Asian rhetoric through the use of terms such as 'Chinese virus,' creating a stigma around Asian communities. This comes on the heels of a record number of hate crimes over the past several months in New York, demonstrating the urgent need for action. The Attorney General's Office, in its commitment to combating these heinous acts, implores everyone, from everyday New Yorkers, to individuals at the highest levels of government, to stand united against hate, now more than ever.
"During this public health crisis, people are fighting for their lives – fighting to keep their families safe. Yet these incessant, irresponsible, and atrocious naming of COVID-19 as the 'Chinese virus' or 'Wuhan virus' is endangering the lives of Asian Americans. I thank Attorney General James for setting up this necessary hotline for New Yorkers to report coronavirus-related hate crimes or biased-based incidents," said U.S. Representative Grace Meng. "I have repeatedly called on public officials – from the President to the top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives – to abstain from using derogatory language that demonizes Asian Americans. This must stop. Public officials – and the media – must speak truth to power and refrain from dabbling in misinformation or conspiracy theories. I'm urging all New Yorkers to come together, call virus the coronavirus, and report to the hotline those who would use this uncertain time to make racist, xenophobic or biased attacks."
"Long scapegoated and cast as 'yellow peril,' Asian Americans are besieged on two fronts by the COVID-19 contagion, with outbreaks of ignorance and bigotry sometimes inflicting more harm than the virus itself," said State Senator John Liu. "More and more hateful incidents are occurring, ranging from distasteful gestures to obnoxious name-calling to outright violence against Asian-Americans — and despicably condoned by the president himself. The battle against the coronavirus has actually brought out the best among New Yorkers but it is necessary to remind some not to let fear of the unknown devolve into irrational and inexcusable hate, and we thank beloved Attorney General Tish James for leading the charge on this front as well."
"Currently our community is dealing with COVID-19, a global pandemic — but our community is also facing another virus: extreme anti-Asian xenophobia," said State Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou. "While we battle this crisis, it has become abundantly clear that the coronavirus does not discriminate based on race. Yet, people are using COVID-19 as an excuse to perpetuate racism and xenophobia throughout New York and the entire country. There have been so many reports of Asian Americans being attacked because they were just riding the subway or wearing a face mask. The attacks are hateful, and go out of their way to blame our community. It is important that we stand together and remain educated on the growing emergency. Together we must stop the spread of the unfounded harmful stereotypes and hateful words that people are using to demonize our Asian American community through thoughtful and reasonable discussions. Thank you to the Attorney General for setting up a hotline to address and to better support our community through this devastating time of unfounded xenophobia and hate crimes against our community."
Although local law enforcement is responsible for criminally prosecuting these perpetrators, the Attorney General's Office is taking on this issue in other ways, including connecting victims and impacted communities to available resources, launching civil investigations, and supporting local law enforcement, among other steps.
The Attorney General urges those experiencing hate crimes and bias incidences to report them by emailing the Attorney General's Civil Rights Bureau at civil.rights@ag.ny.gov, or calling 1-800-771-7755.
NAPABA Denounces Use of Racist Language to Describe Coronavirus
Please read below a statement released by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association on March 18, 2020:
Using the terms 'Chinese virus' and 'Wuhan virus' to describe the coronavirus and COVID-19 is inaccurate and unacceptable. This disease does not discriminate. We cannot allow racism to rise as we come together to take on this challenge. NAPABA calls on the President and other leaders to stop using this harmful and xenophobic language.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recognized using such terms creates harmful stigma against ethnic and minority groups, further endangering public health. Discriminatory language distracts from the problem before us, and only perpetuates unfounded misinformation.
The stereotypes associated with this language have led to a rise in anti-Asian bias and racist attacks related to the coronavirus. NAPABA spoke out against this bias and joined a coalition of over 260 organizations, including our member bar associations, calling for leaders to focus on unity and denouncing anti-Asian attacks, xenophobia, and racist language.
We ask you to do your part to combat racism and promote unity in response to this challenge. Know the facts and encourages others to do the same by referring to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Strategic Lessons from within China for Responding to COVID-19
Committee of 100's teleconference series: Strategic Lessons from within China for Responding to COVID-19
Committee of 100 (C100) is launching a teleconference series, Strategic Lessons from within China for Responding to COVID-19. The series will feature business executives and education leaders with experiences on the ground in China responding to the coronavirus, offering timely and actionable advice to American job creators and educators.
With each passing day, American job creators are concerned about how the outbreak will impact not only their bottom line, but the livelihoods of their employees. Meanwhile, schools and universities are closing to protect their students, faculty, and staff. Americans are feeling fearful and uncertain, and would benefit greatly from hearing from leaders within China who have struggled with and navigated similar complexities.
The series begins with discussions featuring C100 members David Ho moderated by Richard Lui, Wednesday, 3/25 at 2pm ET. Richard was was the MC for AABANY's Annual Dinner for many years. The second session will feature Dr. Anning Chen, CEO of Ford China on March 30 at 9pm Eastern Time. The sessions will be moderated.
For more detail on this series, read more here.
NAPABA Cancellations & Postponements: Lobby Day Canceled I Call for Programs Deadline Extended
Please see below an important message from NAPABA:
As we continue to monitor the situation regarding the coronavirus, we at NAPABA have had to make changes to our association calendar. One of these changes was a tough decision; the other was simple.
Lobby Day
Reluctantly, NAPABA is canceling Lobby Day, originally scheduled for May 18-19.
Out of concern for your safety, the safety of your families, and all whom you may come in contact with, we are following the advice of the Centers of Disease Control (CDC) to suspend all events that may attract 50 or more people scheduled for the next eight weeks. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.
We are working with the Thompson Hotel to cancel reservations for those who have already secured lodging.
As current events demonstrate, advocacy on behalf of our communities remains as important as ever. NAPABA continues to work with Congress, the Administration, our partner organizations, and our affiliated bar associations to address our immediate challenges and maintain the relationships we will need to continue to represent our communities. We encourage you to continue to speak out, contact your elected officials and local leaders, and continue to work with your local bars in partnership with NAPABA to make a difference for our communities.
NAPABA Convention Call for Programs
A second calendar adjustment involves our deadline for the 2020 NAPABA Convention Call for Programs. The deadline has been extended to April 20 at 5 p.m. ET to provide you more time to submit your proposal.
We understand that the current situation may impact your ability to secure speakers for your program ideas as people's schedules change. We want to reassure you that the CLE Committee will take the current events into consideration upon reviewing the submissions and will not count the lack of "confirmed" speakers against your submission.
We still encourage you to include those who have expressed interest in speaking on your program as "confirmed" speakers, but we understand that their availability may change.
We look forward to receiving your program submissions by Monday, April 20!
Please be safe and stay healthy!
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Please see below this important news release from the Commissioner of Social Security:
I want you to hear directly from me how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting our services. The first thing you should know is that we continue to pay benefits. Be aware that scammers may try to trick you into thinking the pandemic is stopping your Social Security payments but that is not true. Don't be fooled.
To protect you and help stop the spread of this coronavirus, we cannot accept visitors in our offices at this time. There are several other ways you can get help. Many services are available online at www.socialsecurity.gov. If you have a critical need that you cannot address online, we can help you over the phone.
Please visit our COVID-19 web page at www.socialsecurity.gov/coronavirus/ to find out what services we are continuing and which ones we are suspending, how to contact us, and important information about deadlines we are extending to ease the burden on you and medical providers during this pandemic.
From NAPABA: Prepare for the 2020 Census
Census Day is April 1
This month, households across the country will receive letters inviting them to fill out their 2020 Census forms online. Are you ready to fill yours out? Are you ready for the questions you may get as a lawyer about the Census?
Everyone should be counted in the Census, regardless of language ability, immigration status, age, income or identity. Unfortunately, in some communities there is misinformation, confusion, and fear about participating. And others, like the AAPI community, are historically undercounted.
If our communities don't fill out the Census, they lose out on electoral power and representation, funding, resources and access to services in their language. As lawyers and community leaders, we are in a position to dispel myths and help our communities get counted.
In light of concerns about the coronavirus, Census officials are encouraging individuals to fill out the form online or by mail. For more information about the Census and the Coronavirus, please visit CountUsIn2020.org.
Four Things You Can Do to Help:
Watch and share the Census Bureau's videos, in English and over sixty other languages, on how to fill out the Census online.
Share the in-language Census resources in your community and with your clients.
Share the AAPI in-language "About the Census" videos on social media.
Learn what lawyers and bar associations can do to protect the public.
NAPABA, the South Asian Bar Association of North American and Asian Americans Advancing Justice developed resources for AAPI lawyers about the upcoming Census. Find more materials, including in-language resources and videos, at napaba.org/census and CountUsIn2020.org.
Together we can ensure our communities are counted!
Questions about the Census? You can contact NAPABA two ways:
Call the census language hotline, for answers to questions in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali/Bangla. Call 8:30 AM to 8:30 PM Eastern Time at 844-2020-API or 844-202-0274.
Go to https://www.countusin2020.org/hotline


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