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Carlos Ghosn's Escape Preparations Spanned the Globe
The former auto magnate boarded a bullet train for the first leg of his escape to Lebanon, which officials in Tokyo are still investigating.
The Beirut residence of Carlos Ghosn, who is facing charges of financial wrongdoing in Japan and has fled to Lebanon.Credit...Dalia Khamissy for The New York Times
By Makiko Inoue, Hisako Ueno and David Yaffe-Bellany
Published Jan. 6, 2020 Updated Jan. 14, 2020
A team of operatives working to help Carlos Ghosn escape from Japan spent hundreds of thousands of dollars scoping out airports and other entry points in Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand before his flight last week, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
The goal was to find security flaws that would allow Mr. Ghosn to evade the authorities, this person said. Ultimately, the planning team flew him from Japan to Turkey and then on to Lebanon. Mr. Ghosn has a home in Beirut and faces no extradition to Japan; he is also a citizen of France, where he has spent most of his adult life.
The preparation for his escape, remarkable in its scope, was conducted under a veil of secrecy: Even some of the project's operatives did not know the client's identity or when the escape would take place, said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the legal sensitivity of the issue.
[Latest updates on Mr. Ghosn's press conference in Beirut.]
Mr. Ghosn, the former head of the Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi alliance, is facing charges of financial misconduct in Japan and was free on bail. He left his home in central Tokyo on Dec. 29, in an escape that the authorities are piecing together, fleeing what he called a "rigged Japanese justice system."
Details of his trip are beginning to come to light. That afternoon, Mr. Ghosn walked about 900 yards to a hotel, where he met two men, according to NHK and Nikkei, which cited sources in the city prosecutor's office and the Tokyo police.
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Today: The trial was poised to be the most closely-watched in Japanese history — a case involving claims of corporate greed, wounded national pride, and a rigged legal system, until the defendant pulled off an unimaginable escape. Ben Dooley with the latest in the saga of Carlos Ghosn.
It's Tuesday, January 14.
Ben, set the scene for us. It's just before New Year's in Tokyo. What are you doing?
So I'm fast asleep. It's about 7:30 in the morning. I'm expecting to have a very easy holiday. The government offices are all closed for a week. Nothing's happening in Japan. And all of a sudden my phone starts ringing.
And it rings and rings and rings, and finally I decide I better answer it. When I pick it up, it's New York.
And then when you say New York, you mean the feared editors of The New York Times.
Yes, the feared editors. You never want to get an early morning phone call from New York. It's never good news. It means either something bad has happened because someone else did something that you need to be worried about, or you've made some terrible mistake. And what they tell me is that Carlos Ghosn, the most famous criminal defendant in Japan, has just mysteriously disappeared and reappeared in Lebanon.
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Well, it's a story we're all talking about, the escape straight out of the movies.
Juiciest story of the new year, at least so far.
An international cloak and dagger escape.
Dramatic and mysterious escape of Carlos Ghosn.
Former Nissan C.E.O. and chairman, Carlos Ghosn has left Japan.
He's now in Lebanon.
Just by magic?
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Once a C.E.O., now an international fugitive.
And you know, my first reaction is, how could he possibly have done this? You know, it seems like something out of a movie — impossible.
And then remind us who Carlos Ghosn is.
So Carlos Ghosn is this legendary C.E.O. who made his name by reviving Nissan, this Japanese company, one of the country's largest automakers. He took the company from essentially what he has recently called it — a dead company — and brought it back to life. And it was this miracle of turnaround that made him famous in Japan and throughout the world.
Carlos Ghosn is regarded as one of the most dazzling managers in the automotive business.
He's a huge figure, not just in Japan, not just for Nissan, but in the car industry.
And he went on to become the C.E.O. of Nissan, and also the French automaker Renault.
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He turned things around at Renault, and then Nissan where, in 2005, Carlos Ghosn became the first person to run two Fortune 500 global companies at the same time.
And those two companies formed an alliance and became one of the world's largest automakers.
It's sort of hard to overstate the significance of going to Nissan and to Renault in this alliance.
He's just living high — this incredible celebrity in the business world. And then all of a sudden, out of the blue, November 2018, he lands at an airport in Tokyo and is arrested.
Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn has been arrested for allegedly under-reporting his income.
And over the following several months, he is charged with four counts of financial wrongdoing.
The internal probe by the Japanese automaker found multiple violations, including salary fraud and personal use of company assets.
Essentially, prosecutors say that he was trying to enrich himself to the company. So that's the situation he finds himself in. He is facing trial on these four charges when he flees from Japan to Lebanon.
And what's the answer to that question you have of how this happened? What's the story?
Well, first, it's important to understand that he's under house arrest, but it's not super strict. I mean, he goes out to dinners, he travels to Kyoto. So he's been able to move around fairly easily. But as best as we can tell from our reporting and from local media and government statements is basically this. On December 29, he walks out of his home in Tokyo. This is a two-story, fairly large home in central Tokyo in a swanky neighborhood. And there are three cameras above the door that were installed by the prosecutors to keep a watch on him. And he just strolls out. He's got a face mask on, like a surgical mask, the kind of thing that people typically wear here to stop themselves from getting sick, or stop other people from getting sick. He's got on a hat, black clothes, and he walks out to a nearby hotel. He meets two men there, and they get on a bullet train to Osaka, which is a city to the southwest of Tokyo. They're on the train for about two hours. They get off the train. They walk into a hotel. And then the two men walk out without Carlos Ghosn, but what they have is these two boxes, two large boxes. And the boxes have been described as sort of boxes for holding audio equipment, maybe like speakers or kinds of things you might see roadies carrying at a concert. And these two men take these boxes to the Kansai International Airport to the private jet terminal. And the boxes are too big to go through the luggage screening. So they're not screened. Keep in mind, it's almost New Year's. People are off their guard. They're not really that interested in checking to see what's in these boxes. They're just kind of relaxing, looking forward to their holiday. And these man just wheel these boxes right onto the plane, a private jet that's waiting there. And the plane takes off, and in one of those boxes we believe is Carlos Ghosn.
Wow. So Japan's most famous criminal defendant flees the country in an audio box.
That's what we think happened.
I mean, what you're describing feels both very simple and extremely elaborate.
Yeah. Well, this was not something that he did by himself with two friends. This is something that took a lot of resources, a lot of planning, and it's something that he's famous for — being this detail-oriented planner and someone who likes to manage lots of people, like big teams of people. So you can imagine this was a pretty complex operation even if the execution was simple.
Ben, after all of that detailed planning and this escape, why is he going to Lebanon of all places?
Well, he had three passports. He is a citizen of Brazil, France and Lebanon. And Lebanon was the closest. It doesn't have an extradition treaty with Japan, which means that the Lebanese government will never send him back to Japan to face a trial. And he's something of a national hero in Lebanon. So he could expect a hero's welcome.
So what's the reaction back in Tokyo once word trickles back that he has pulled this off?
Silence. Absolute silence. They're caught completely off-guard. But behind that silence, there's sort of an embarrassment that the prosecutors have allowed the country's most famous criminal defendant to slip through their fingers, and some outrage. Even among people who supported him, there was a sense that he'd gone too far, and that he should have stayed in Japan to defend himself. That would have been the most appropriate thing for him to do.
And then what are you doing at this point? Because a story that I assume you are very much responsible for has literally just up and left the country that you cover.
Yeah. Well, suddenly this story that I was hugely responsible for, when I was supposed to be taking a vacation, just appears in my lap. And I'm just frantically calling as many people as I can, getting in touch with his PR team, his lawyers, various people that I've spoken to over the previous year about his case, pretty much anyone I can think of. And the big question I have is, now that he's free, is he going to talk? And if so, will he talk to us? And then I get a phone call. And someone asks me, if Carlos Ghosn is willing to talk to you, would you be able to get on a plane to Lebanon?
And I said, of course.
We'll be right back.
O.K. So Ben, Carlos Ghosn is willing to talk to you. What happens next?
So I go online and I buy a last-minute ticket to Beirut. And I'm frantically packing, get all my stuff in order, run to Haneda Airport, jump on the plane.
And 23 hours later, I touch down in Lebanon.
Wow. That's a long flight.
Yeah. There was a layover in Paris. So that wasn't so bad. I had a croissant and some coffee. So I'm in Lebanon and I'm preparing to talk to Carlos Ghosn. But before I get to sit down with him, first there's this news conference that he's scheduled.
So we're in an Uber heading towards Press Club where we're going to see Carlos Ghosn give his first press conference since he was arrested in November of 2018. It's a rainy day today. Traffic is pretty intense.
So I and one of my colleagues from the Beirut bureau go to a Press Club, where the conference is going to be held.
All right. We've just arrived at the venue.
And we get there, and it's just chaos.
[CHATTER]
I mean, there are hundreds of reporters. They're all clamoring to get in. People are screaming, shouting, pushing.
Great. We're heading through security to the venue. We've got some guy with a guard dog here. Tension's running a little bit high here.
There are armed guards with dogs and TV trucks everywhere.
Sorry. We're on the list. New York Times.
And we get inside.
And we go upstairs and we walk into this big, empty white room with chairs lined up.
There are about 100 reporters there from all over the world.
This is what's usually referred to as a media circus.
Please be seated. Please be seated.
Sit down! Sit down!
And they're all waiting to hear what Carlos Ghosn has to say.
So he's about to walk in.
We've just heard — Yeah, he's walking in. He's with his wife Carol.
And when he comes in, people just swarm him. It's a crush of reporters.
All of the cameramen and photographers are pushing up trying to get a good shot of him as he walks into the room.
Flashbulbs are going off and everyone's just crowded around him.
This is pretty exciting. I've been writing about this guy for almost a year now. It's the first time I've actually seen him in the flesh.
He looks healthy. He's got a nice black suit on, red tie. I mean, he's the picture of a C.E.O.
So no worse for the wear?
You wouldn't know it. And he walks up to the lectern, and the show starts.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for taking the time to be here.
It's everything that he's been saving up for the last year.
As you can imagine, today is a very important day for me. One, that I have looked forward to every single day for more than 400 days.
He just is taking the opportunity to explain himself, what happened to him, his whole story.
Since I was brutally taken from my world as I knew it, ripped from my family, my friends, my communities, from Renault, Nissan, and Mitsubishi, and the 450,000 women and men who comprise those companies.
And he starts walking us through his history with Nissan.
And Renault, which was nowhere in 1999, which became one of the top 60 brands in the world —
— and how he turned it around, and the amazing success that the company had while he was C.E.O.
You know, a C.E.O. is here as long as he performs. I didn't stay 17 years head of Nissan because I was Carlos Ghosn. I was there only because I was performing. I was delivering growth. I was delivering profit. I was delivering cash flow. I was delivering business.
And then he starts to talk about the arrest.
I was arrested on November 19, 2018.
And how it happened.
I didn't suspect anything.
And how he was completely caught off guard.
Some people asked me, oh my god, you didn't look at this? You didn't mention this? You didn't suspect this? And I say, you know what happened in Pearl Harbor? Did you see Pearl Harbor happen?
He says it was like Pearl Harbor.
Did you see Pearl Harbor happen? Did you notice what happened in Pearl Harbor?
Huh. He says his arrest was like the sneak attack from Japan that led the United States into World War II?
Yeah, exactly. He said he had no idea it was coming.
And I didn't notice it, because it's true that when it's planned and it's confidential and it's secret, well, it happens. And you'd be surprised, and I was surprised.
And then he starts to go through all of the charges against him.
The first accusation is the under-reporting. This is the main accusation for which I was arrested.
And he's got slides. He's projecting documents on the wall.
I think we have the list. Yeah, we have here the list.
You know, getting way into the weeds of these issues, frankly trying to litigate them in front of this audience.
We continue. This is another one.
And people, at this point, are starting to get a little antsy. They're starting to have conversations behind me, because you can't read the documents. And even if you could, there's no way that we were in a position to judge what they actually said about the charges against him. But the larger point he's trying to make is that this is a stitch up.
But obviously, I didn't know that Nissan was behind it. And it was all staged way before between the prosecutor and the public.
That all the charges against him are completely political. They're made up. And he's saying that the reason why the Japanese government brought these charges against them is basically because he wounded their national pride.
And what's his argument for how he did that?
So basically, it comes down to the idea that, as the head of Renault, he had been tasked by the French government to make the alliance between Renault and Nissan stronger, to make the alliance so strong that the two companies would never be able to be separated. And this was seen in Japan, he argues, as essentially an attempt to take one of the crown jewels of Japan's auto industry and turn it into a French company. And if this were to have gone through, the argument was then France would be in control of one of Japan's biggest and most important companies.
Unfortunately, there was no trust.
And that was something that the Japanese government and certain people at Nissan were just unwilling to allow to happen.
And some of our Japanese friends thought the only way to get rid of the influence of Renault on Nissan is to get rid of him.
So he says that the crime he committed — which it sounds like he doesn't think is a crime at all — is taking a Japanese brand and making it less Japanese, and offending the people and the government of Japan in the process.
Right. And he says that was not at all his plan, but that was the fear, and that's what led to his downfall.
According to Carlos Ghosn?
Let me continue. 130 days in prison, solitary confinement, tiny cell without windows.
And he also went into detail about his experience in the Japanese justice system.
Showered twice a week. Tried to ask to have more. They said no. Prescribed medication is forbidden. You can get only the medicine from the prison.
How he had spent more than 130 days in a Japanese jail waiting to get on bail. During that time, he had been interrogated by prosecutors without his lawyer from 7 to 11 hours a day. And even once he got out of jail, there were these restrictions put on his daily life. And the most egregious one for him, he said, was that he wasn't allowed to meet his wife.
And the question was very interesting. He was saying, why do they want to meet? I'd say, O.K., how about a Zoom, a conference. He said, what do they want to talk about?
And Japanese prosecutors had essentially said that they believed that if he were allowed to speak to her, might tamper with evidence, might try to get to witnesses in the case. And his argument is, well, that's ridiculous, because if I wanted to do that, I could have done that through anyone. I didn't have to use my wife. So the only reason why they were forbidding me from seeing her was because they were punishing me.
Because they knew that by not allowing me to have a normal life, they were breaking me.
They're trying to squeeze a confession out of him. And when he refused to confess to the crimes they had charged him with, they threatened to make his life a living hell.
I felt like I was not a human anymore.
So he said that all these elements add up to create a system of justice that was rigged against him, and that he had no chance of ever getting a fair trial in Japan, and that's why he felt he had to escape.
And Ben, as you're sitting there hearing Carlos Ghosn make these arguments, what are you thinking? And do they sound accurate and truthful, or do they sound highly disputable?
It's impossible to say at this point. We haven't seen any of the evidence. And I think if you were to ask the prosecutors, they would say, this is a man who lied to Nissan's shareholders. This is a man who enriched himself at the company's expense. And it's just impossible to know what the truth is at this point.
Right, because he fled the country before the trial.
Right, exactly.
I left Japan because I wanted justice. That's why I left Japan. I didn't run from justice. I want justice, because justice is the only way I'll re-establish my reputation, and the only way what I've done during my life is going to be recognized to its value. And if I don't get it in Japan, I'm going to get it somewhere else. Thank you for your attention.
And so Carlos Ghosn finishes up his presentation, and he moves into the question and answer section.
O.K., what we're going to try to do is go by region.
And he starts answering questions in four different languages.
[SPEAKING ARABIC]
He's speaking Arabic, which is the language he spoke at home with his parents.
[SPEAKING PORTUGUESE]
He's speaking Portuguese, which is the language of the country he was born — Brazil.
[SPEAKING FRENCH]
He's speaking in French, the language of the country he was educated. And, of course, in English.
Well, as you know —
I'm just watching him flawlessly move from language to language answering these questions for reporters around the world. And it occurs to me as I'm watching, it's an incredible performance, and it says a lot about this guy's identity. He's this transnational business person who essentially doesn't belong to any one nation. He lives in this almost kind of like gray area between nation states. And there's something about it that it seems is really essential to the case against him and how he's responded to it.
Well, he believes that the charges against him were brought by the Japanese because he is not Japanese. So there's that on one hand. But on the other hand, also, he feels like he's not beholden to Japanese justice. As this person with passports from Brazil and France and Lebanon, and houses around the world, and connections, and networks that span the globe, he doesn't feel like he has to subject himself to Japanese justice. He believes that he can make the choice to just get up and leave, to disappear.
Right. So whether or not this tactic can ever seem justified or not justified, the message that Carlos Ghosn is sending by fleeing his trial in Japan is that if you're a global C.E.O. and you are well-connected and you have resources, you get to choose which country's legal system you can abide by, which ones you're willing to participate in, and which ones you plan an elaborate escape from, which basically boils down to not really feeling accountable to any one country.
Right. And it was a question that was bothering me, and I really wanted to ask him about it. And I finally got the chance after the press conference ended and I got to sit down with him one-on-one. We went upstairs, and I tried to set up the fancy recorder you guys made me buy, and I messed it up. So we didn't get the whole interview, unfortunately. [LAUGHTER]
We forgive you. It had been a long week.
It had been a long week. And I sat down with him and I asked him that question.
We probably will have people listening or reading who are thinking to themselves, O.K., maybe the Japanese justice system is rigged, but the only reason why you could do this is because you're a person of wealth. You have power connections, and that's what allowed you to escape Japan. I mean, is that fair?
That you put the other way. That you put the other way.
And he kind of danced around the question, but he came down basically on the idea that the Japanese system is rigged.
So back to your question, yes. At the end of the day, I fell in a trap, found the way out, which requires resources and contacts, no doubt about it. But the protection is not to have money. The protection is avoid going in places, or you can fall into a trap like this. And I think it's my responsibility today that all the foreigners who are in Japan be careful.
That was the message that he wanted to convey to the world.
And the great irony here is that he says he's searching for justice, but because of a decision that he made he may never find it, because there's always going to be an asterisk next to this case. He's not going to be able to make his case fully, and the Japanese prosecutors are never going to be able to make it either. So there's not going to be a real test of his innocence. But what he has done is, he has let C.E.O.s around the world know that this is an option, that if they don't like the justice in the country where they are, they can just get up and leave.
Thank you, Ben.
Thank you, Michael.
Here's what else you need to know today. [CHANTING] On Monday, protests broke out in two major Iranian cities as citizens expressed outrage over the acknowledgment that their government shot down a passenger plane, killing everyone onboard. The protests against the government are a striking turnaround for Iran's leaders. Just a few days ago, hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the streets in support of the government after the United States killed General Qassim Suleimani. Many of those protesting the downing of the plane are calling for accountability from the government, which had originally denied any role in the incident. And Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey has dropped out of the Democratic race for president after failing to qualify for the next debate. He now joins Julián Castro and Marianne Williamson in quitting the race just before voting begins in Iowa. Polling shows a close race in Iowa, with Joe Biden in the lead, and the next three competitors — Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigieg in a statistical tie.
That's it for "The Daily." I'm Michael Barbaro. See you tomorrow.
The three then went to the Shinagawa railroad station, a major hub, and a little after 4:30 p.m. boarded a Shinkansen, or high-speed bullet train, for Osaka, about 340 miles southwest of the capital, the reports said.
It's unclear if Mr. Ghosn, who is one of the most recognizable public figures in Japan, hid his appearance. Once in Osaka, the three men entered a hotel near Kansai International Airport about 8 p.m. A couple of hours later, the two men left the hotel with two large boxes; Mr. Ghosn was not in sight, the reports said. They boarded a corporate jet with the boxes, and flew to Istanbul.
News reports have said that Mr. Ghosn evaded airport security measures by hiding in a box that was loaded on the plane.
From Istanbul, Mr. Ghosn reportedly got on a smaller plane, and arrived in Beirut later Monday.
Lebanese officials have said he entered legally with a French passport and a Lebanese ID, so there was no reason to stop him at the border. But on Monday, France's foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, suggested that might not have been the case.
"As far as we know, he did not use French documents," he told BFM TV.
The French finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, appeared to harden the government's stance on Mr. Ghosn, saying on Monday that the executive should face justice in a court of law.
"When one is a defendant, one does not escape justice," he told France Inter radio. "And Carlos Ghosn is a defendant like any other."
Mr. Le Maire added that the French government was ready to open an investigation into $11 million in questionable expenses at the headquarters of the alliance between Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors while Mr. Ghosn headed the group. The expenses were identified in June during an internal audit carried out by Nissan and Renault, an alliance in which the French government holds a 15 percent stake.
Mr. Ghosn has long denied the allegations of financial wrongdoing and insisted he had been set up by Nissan executives who were worried that he would further merge the operations of the Japanese automaker and Renault of France.
Mr. Ghosn's escape was an embarrassment for the Japanese authorities, who on Monday promised to tighten airport baggage inspections and the rules governing the release of criminal suspects on bail.
"Now, measures have been taken so that similar acts can't be committed," Masako Mori, Japan's justice minister, said at a news conference. Though her ministry is not responsible for baggage inspection, she said, different agencies are working to tighten control.
Ms. Mori also said the government would accelerate an existing review of Japan's bail policies, including whether to require defendants to wear tracking wrist or ankle bracelets. Mr. Ghosn offered to wear one when he sought bail, but the court granted it without that requirement.
She added that Mr. Ghosn's bail had been canceled. In leaving Japan, he forfeited 1.5 billion yen in bail, or about $13.9 million.
Mr. Ghosn is expected to meet with reporters this week. On Monday, a host on the Fox Business Network, Maria Bartiromo, said that she had spoken to Mr. Ghosn over the weekend and that he said he would present evidence that the criminal counts against him were an effort by Nissan and Japanese officials to prevent a merger with Renault — a charge he has made before.
Ms. Mori defended the country's justice system as fair and open, with plenty of opportunities for Mr. Ghosn to defend himself.
"We acknowledge that there are various criticisms of Japan's criminal justice procedures, but every country has a different criminal justice system," she said. "It isn't appropriate to simply focus on one part of the system when comparing it to other countries."
Mr. Ghosn was accompanied out of Japan by Michael Taylor, an American security consultant and a former Green Beret, The New York Times reported on Friday, citing a person familiar with the matter.
Mr. Taylor, a well-known private-security contractor, has extensive contacts in Lebanon dating to the 1980s, when he was deployed to Beirut as part of a team of United States Special Forces that worked alongside Lebanese soldiers. He speaks Arabic, and Lebanese intermediaries connected him with Mr. Ghosn, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing an anonymous source, that Mr. Ghosn had been smuggled through the Kansai airport in a type of box often used for concert equipment. It said that the terminal for private jets at that airport was essentially empty, and that oversize luggage could not fit in the airport's scanners.
A customs official at the airport, Akira Taniguchi, said that screening of luggage was done in two stages. In the first, a private security company using X-ray and other equipment checks whether there are items that are not allowed on board, like guns or knives.
In the second stage, customs officials check whether the bags contain items that are not permitted to be brought into or taken out of Japan, like drugs and some foods. They use X-ray machines, metal detectors, drug detectors and dogs for that step.
Asked if Mr. Ghosn had managed to elude these measures, Mr. Taniguchi said, "We cannot comment on this."
Makiko Inoue and Hisako Ueno reported from Tokyo, and David Yaffe-
Bellany from New York. Liz Alderman contributed reporting from Paris.


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The final step is to completely surrender all control of your life to the Divine. FEEL that the universe is a perfectly safe "place", a perfectly loving system of support that cares for you. FEEL the sense of giving up all control to this Perfectly Benevolent Infinite Power we call God. Feel the sense that you cannot make a mistake, that you don't have to figure anything out, that no matter what the outcome it will always be perfectly formed by Infinite Love for you. Continue feeling this state of total surrender to the infinite possibilities, with a feeling of joyful trust, appreciation and gratitude. All you need to do to experience the validation of this trust is to live in your joy and follow the inner guidance of inspiration that intuitively guides you perfectly always.
From this point forward, remain aware of your feelings, and rely on your feelings for your guidance. Your intuition communicates with you through your feelings, not through your thoughts.
You will be guided, essentially, through three feelings that we can compare to a trafic light: Go (Green), Slow (Yellow), Stop (Red).
When you feel a sense of harmony, inspiration, joy, inner peace, alignment or empowerment, that means "Go". The thoughts you are thinking, the actions you are taking, are in line with your True Destiny.
If you feel a sense of internal discomfort, resistance, conflict, anxiety or loss of power you are receiving "a yellow light", meaning "slow down, ease up and use caution". If that doesn't resolve the feeling of resistance, take that to mean "red light", meaning "Stop". Don't do. Just feel. If the feeling of discord doesn't pass, use The Method to release it.
Be gentle toward yourself. Use The Method without strain. You don't have to completely free yourself from any given negative pattern in one session. That would be like trying to eat so much in one sitting that you never have to eat again or trying to work out so hard at the gym that you never need another workout.
Each time you employ The Method it releases more energy from patterns of pain and blockage. Use The Method as often as you choose, and spend as long as you like on each step. I have taken myself through The Method in under a minute when feeling anxious prior to an encounter, and it has worked miraculously! With regular use the process of your release builds up momentum, helping you to remain more stable in unconditional, total inner peace and joy feeling states, causing the circumstances of your life to improve comensurately.
Contact me to schedule your demonstration of The Method over the phone to release your limiting beliefs for more joy, love and abundance.


Boozy strawberries are an easy dish to make for summer parties, and fun to experiment with.
Boozy strawberries are an easy dish to make for summer parties, and fun to experiment with if you have some time! To make them, you simply hollow out fresh strawberries and fill with an alcoholic gelatin (so each is basically a Jell-O shot inside a strawberry). We decided to adapt Victoria Belanger's champagne version for a fish taco barbecue, creating a margarita shot with tequila and Triple Sec, and a loose interpretation of the pina colada with RumChata (see photo above).
Below we broke down Victoria's recipe, with our adaptations for the margarita and pina colada versions. We definitely recommend this as a fun summer afternoon activity to do with friends. Plus, it's pretty hard to screw up (we promise).
Step 1: Add a 1/4-ounce packet of unflavored gelatin to 1/2 cup cold ginger ale in a saucepan. Let the gelatin absorb liquid for 2 minutes, and then bring to a boil. Whisk until gelatin dissolves.
-Margarita version: We added a dash of lime juice to the ginger ale.
-Pina colada version: We used 1/2 cup pineapple-coconut sparkling water instead of ginger ale.
Step 2: Take gelatin off heat and stir in 1/4 cup sugar until dissolved.
-Margarita version: Instead of champagne, we mixed in 1/4 cup tequila, plus a splash of Triple Sec.
-Pina colada version: Instead of champagne, we mixed in 1/4 cup RumChata.
Step 4: Put gelatin-booze mixture in the fridge to partially thicken. Or, as the recipe says, "almost to the consistency of a gel but still runny."
-The pina colada mixture took about 45 minutes to start thickening, but the tequila mixture took over two hours. In other words, different mixtures jellify at different rates, so give yourself some time if you've decided to experiment before the party.
Step 5: Core your strawberries (we used a fancy strawberry huller, but the recipe says a melon scooper works too). Make sure to gently cut off the bottoms of your strawberries so they can stand!
Step 6: Scoop your gelatin mixture into the strawberries, and put in the fridge until they're fully jellified.
-Margarita version (see photo below): At the last minute we decided to sprinkle the strawberries with a mixture of sugar and salt. We'd like to give a special thanks to our friend Jeff Turok (a real-life chef!), who helped us make them somewhat presentable.
-Pina colada version: We left these ones plain but imagine some coconut shavings would have been a nice touch.
If you too decide to get creative with strawberries and booze this summer, please share your experiences and photos in the comments, because there have to be so many more possibilities!


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May 2017 Trailers That'll Blow You Away
By Julia Bianco/Updated: June 6, 2017 9:23 am EST
Summer blockbuster season is here, and new trailers are being released nearly every day. It can be hard to keep up with the constant influx of epic footage, so we've compiled a handy list—here's a rundown of all the trailers released this month that will absolutely blow you away.
Okja - June 28
Snowpiercer director Bong Joon Ho partnered with Netflix for Okja, a movie with an all-star cast and a deep message about environmental protection. After releasing a bizarre teaser about pig dreams, the studio finally gifted us with the full trailer earlier this month, showing off the movie's gorgeous visuals and its absolutely bizarre plot.
The beginning of the trailer is narrated by Tilda Swinton's Lucy Mirando, who explains to the viewer how her company plans to revolutionize food. A key part of that plan? A super-pig named Okja, who we see playing with his best friend, a young girl named Mija. Okja is snatched away from Mija in a riveting sequence, leading the young girl to seek out the help of a group of a group of animal activists to get her beloved pet back. Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, Lily Collins, Steven Yeun, and Giancarlo Esposito also show up in the trailer, which promises an edge-of-your-seat ride from start to finish.
The House - June 30
The House makes an early bid for the summer's raunchiest comedy with a trailer that's definitely NSFW. Starring Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler as two parents who open up an underground casino to fill up their daughter's college fund—and if this red band clip is any indication, it doesn't go as smoothly as they hoped.
The footage is full of high-octane hijinks, with Ferrell and Poehler suddenly becoming the proprietors of not just a casino, but also a nail salon, a massage parlor, and, of course, a strip club. However, the real hilarious moments come when they catch a cheater—leading to a bloody confrontation definitely worthy of the trailer's restricted designation.
Spider-Man: Homecoming- July 7
The final trailer for Spider-Man: Homecoming really sets this reboot apart from the Spidey films that came before. This clip focuses heavily on the cool tech that Peter's Tony Stark-built suit gives him, including his own built-in JARVIS, which introduces herself at the start of the clip by letting him know that he has not one, not two, but 576 possible web-shooter combinations.
Like past trailers, this footage highlights how much Tony wants Peter to quit crimefighting (leading to him putting safeguard protocols in Peter's suit, suggesting it's programmed with powers we'll learn about later), but it also spends some time on the softer side of the duo's relationship, offering some fun glimpses at Tony as a mentor. This dynamic will prove crucial once Spidey gets started—the trailer underscores how Michael Keaton's Vulture is a terrifying villain for young Parker to start off against. (Plus, it gives us our best look yet at Donald Glover's mysterious character.)
War For the Planet of the Apes - July 14
The final trailer for War for the Planet of the Apes proves the movie isn't pulling any punches when it comes to showing the toll of the franchise's epic apes vs. humans conflict. This clip begins by immediately setting up the differences between Andy Serkis' Caesar, who leads the apes, and Woody Harrelson's ruthless Colonel, the leader of the human opposition. It utilizes this juxtaposition of the humans as savages, rather than the apes, to immediately set up the high stakes of the battle, while also featuring a heavy dose of Steve Zahn's Bad Ape, a new character who seems destined to become a fan favorite. The trailer promises no mercy and no peace—and an epic, violent showdown to take the franchise to the next level.
The Big Sick - July 14
The Big Sick isn't your typical rom-com. The movie stars Silicon Valley's Kumail Nanjiani, who co-wrote the script for alongside his wife, Emily V. Gordon, based on the true story of how they met and fell in love. While the couple struggled with typical things like defining their relationship and overcoming the cultural divide between their families, their biggest problem is one most couples never have to experience: shortly into their courtship, Emily falls into a coma.
As the trailer shows, Kumail has to navigate Emily's illness alongside her parents, played by Holly Hunter and Ray Romano. It's a rollercoaster of emotions, and the movie's stellar reviews suggest Nanjiani and Gordon navigate them with aplomb.
Dunkirk - July 21
Christopher Nolan is a master of suspense, and he's proved it again with the second trailer for his upcoming war thriller Dunkirk, starring Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Kenneth Branagh, and former One Direction crooner Harry Styles in the story of the 1940 evacuation of the titular French city, where thousands of soldiers were left stranded on a beach surrounded by enemy forces.
The trailer spends most of its time showing the civilians thrust into the efforts to save the soldiers, highlighting the differences between those who think they should stay behind and those who feel it's their duty to help. It also shows the stranded soldiers, setting up the conflict on all sides. The trailer uses quick cuts and the tick of a clock to get viewers' pulses pounding—and ramping up anticipation for an intense, fast-paced experience unlike any war film you've seen before.
Valerian - July 21
Director Luc Besson decided to go mostly wordless in the final trailer for his upcoming sci-fi thriller Valerian. This clip, set to an eerie cover of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise," focuses on the film's incredible visuals, using the landscapes and extraterrestrial beings of the planet Alpha to tease a feast for the eyes when the movie hits the big screen this summer.
Valerian won't just be all visual thrills, though. Based on the French graphic novel, it also has quite the story to tell, following two time-traveling agents (played by up-and-coming stars Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevinge) tasked with saving the peaceful Alpha from a mysterious, all-consuming threat. Clive Owen, John Goodman, Ethan Hawke, and Rihanna also pop up in the project, which marks a long-overdue return to sci-fi action comedy for the Fifth Element director.
The Dark Tower - Aug. 4
It took a very, very long time for the trailer for Stephen King's The Dark Tower to arrive, but it was definitely worth the wait. Inspired by King's bestselling saga of the same name, the film stars Idris Elba as gunslinger Roland Deschain and Matthew McConaughey as his nemesis, the Man in Black. This adaptation's been many, many years in the making, but the first footage suggests that time might have been just what filmmakers needed to get the story right.
The trailer is almost all action from start to finish, starting with an intense dream experienced by young Jake Chambers—one which foreshadows a journey into a visually stunning world grounded by impressive performances by Elba and McConaughey. The Dark Tower's trailer doesn't give much away—instead offering just enough to leave viewers champing at the bit for August.
Wind River - Aug. 4
Avengers stars Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen play different kinds of heroes in their upcoming thriller Wind River. Renner, as Cory Lambert, an agent with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, helps Olsen's FBI agent Jane Banner hunt down a killer in the icy wilderness of the Wind River Indian Reservation.
The trailer uses the movie's winter setting to ramp up the suspense while the score gives the viewer an uneasy feeling throughout. Quick cuts give glimpses of scenes without spoiling any of the film's mystery, while the dialogue underscores the movie's themes of loneliness and isolation. We're ready for a thrilling, intense ride when Wind River arrives this August.
Good Time - Aug. 11
Things get weird in the trailer for Good Time. From A24, the indie studio behind Get Out, the movie stars Robert Pattinson as Connie, a man on a mission to get his mentally handicapped brother Nick out of jail after their attempted bank robbery goes awry.
The trailer starts by highlighting the strong bond between Connie and Nick, juxtaposing Connie's quest to get his brother out against Nick's mistreatment in jail before moving into a heart-pounding, drug-fueled segment led by a mysterious narrator and intercut with stunning scenes full of color and emotion. Pattinson is electric in the trailer, and reviews are calling this his best performance yet. A supporting cast rounded out by Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ben Safdie, and Barkhad Abdi anchors what looks to be one of the most intense—and beautiful—thrillers released in recent years.
The Hitman's Bodyguard - Aug. 18
The Hitman's Bodyguard stars Ryan Reynolds as Michael Bryce, an executive protection agent tasked by Elodie Yung's Interpol agent with protecting hitman Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson) from a ruthless dictator (Gary Oldman).
While the trailer is a little less NSFW than the film's first teaser, it does highlight how far Reynolds and Jackson were willing to go to sell their character's bickering partnership. As Bryce points out, Kincaid has tried to kill him 27—no, 28—times, so the two have a lot of reasons to mistrust each other, something the trailer plays up for maximum laughs. Putting these two together promises the potential for one of the summer's most explosive comedies.
Logan Lucky - Aug. 18
Acclaimed writer-director Steven Soderbergh returns with Logan Lucky, an action-comedy featuring Channing Tatum and Adam Driver as brothers who decide to rob the Coca-Cola 600, one of the biggest races of the year. Going by this trailer, it looks like the stars will be overshadowed by one of the film's background characters—the delightfully off-kilter Joe Bang, played with gusto by Daniel Craig.
Craig, in a far cry from James Bond, is the wacky anchor of the film's fun, '80s-inspired trailer, which uses bright images, an upbeat score, and a lot of one-liners to convince viewers to race out to the theater this August. If those three performances aren't enough, the trailer also teases memorable turns from a great supporting cast featuring the likes of Seth MacFarlane, Katie Holmes, Hilary Swank, and Sebastian Stan.
It Stains the Sand Red - Summer
It Stains the Sand Red follows a woman stuck in the desert pursued by an untiring, unrelenting member of the undead, and the trailer promises a picture that flips the genre on its head and make tired tropes actually scary again.
Using an ominous score and the desert setting to undercut its gripping imagery, this clip mostly foregoes blood and gore in favor of suspense. That doesn't mean there aren't a few truly terrifying moments, however, so leave the lights on when you check out the trailer—and prepare to be left on the edge of your seat waiting for this indie thriller to scare its way into theaters this summer.
It - Sept. 8
If you're scared of clowns, the second trailer for Stephen King's It is definitely not for you. It starts out, depicting the movie's young cast playing happily, before quickly taking a turn for the dark as it hints at the monsters lurking within their seemingly peaceful Maine town. The terror starts with a balloon—and a tiny, horrifying glimpse of Pennywise, the ancient monster whose clown guise makes It the stuff of nightmares for the children of Derry and moviegoers everywhere.
Bill Skarsgård plays Pennywise, and he's scaring an impressive cast of experienced child actors, including St. Vincent's Jaeden Lieberher and Stranger Things' Finn Wolfhard. The movie also has a visionary horror director behind it, with Mama's Andres Muschietti leading the project. As the trailer shows, It isn't short on suspense or all-out scares, and seems like a safe bet to be the horror hit of the fall.
Woodshock - Sept. 15
Another potential hit from the studio behind Get Out, Woodshock stars Kirstin Dunst as a woman who, after suffering a deep loss, trips out on a cannabis-like drug that triggers gorgeous hallucinations. The trailer uses haunting music to show the inner workings of Dunst's character, who appears to be hiding a secret.
This trippy clip opens on a typically dramatic note but quickly moves into the insane, getting stranger as it goes on. By the end, the viewer is left utterly confused by what's going on, but desperate to see more of the movie's dazzling visuals. Woodshock looks like the kind of alluring movie that keeps your eyes glued to the screen as your mind tries to figure out what's happening.
Blade Runner 2049 - Oct. 6
If you've been nervous about the upcoming Blade Runner sequel, this trailer should calm your fears. Blade Runner 2049, set 30 years after the events of the Harrison Ford-led original, follows a new blade runner: Ryan Gosling's Officer K, who unearths a long-buried secret that could send the world into chaos. His discovery leads him back to Ford's Rick Deckard—and an epic adventure.
The trailer offers a glimpse of a world entrenched in the culture of the first film, utilizing similar imagery while updating it for the modern era, and the results are so gorgeous and action-packed that it's impossible to look away. Even more impressive: it does all this without giving away too much (or really, any) of the movie's plot. Viewers can feast their eyes on the Blade Runner 2049 trailer with abandon, and they can still expect quite a few surprises when the film finally arrives this fall.

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Here is one of the top wished models of iPhone 6/6S case right now by many girls. It has humor, it is pretty and most of all very trendy! Though I like to find and recommend cool iPhone covers for girls and teenage girls that are not pricey, this model is keeping higher price of around $38 due to being hugely popular in girlsland.


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PRESS RELEASE: APRIL 21, 2008
Loblaws Announces Executive Changes
Galen G. Weston, Executive Chairman, announced today that Allan Leighton, Deputy Chairman will become President and continue as Deputy Chairman of the Company.
Bob Vaux, Chief Financial Officer of George Weston Limited will take on the added responsibility of interim CFO of Loblaw Companies Limited until further notice.
Frank Rocchetti, Executive Vice President General Merchandise will succeed Mark Foote as the Chief Merchandising Officer, reporting to Allan Leighton.
Mark Foote, President and Chief Merchandising Officer will be leaving the Company as of today's date.
William (Bill) Wells Chief Financial Officer will also be leaving the Company to take up a position as Chief Executive Officer of Biovail of which he is already an Outside Director.
Pietro Satriano, Executive Vice President Food, will be leaving the Company as of today's date.
Galen Weston said, "Allan Leighton is a highly experienced food retail executive and I look forward to working closely with him to complete the turnaround. Mark, Bill and Pietro have made substantial contributions over their respective tenures and I wish them well."
Allan Leighton added, "At this crucial juncture, we require more focus and clarity in our leadership structure. These changes will provide this."


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Il Divo singer Carlos Marin dies aged 53
bbc– Il Divo's Carlos Marin has died aged 53, the classical group has announced.
Marin would be "missed by his friends, family and fans", a statement on social media said. "There will never be another voice or spirit like Carlos."
The group had said they were praying for Marin's recovery after he was admitted to hospital this month leading them to postpone a UK Christmas tour.
The male quartet was brought together by Simon Cowell in 2003 and achieved three UK number one albums.
Marin was born in Germany, but moved to Spain at the age of 12 and was a baritone in the group, performing alongside tenors Urs Buhler and David Miller, and pop singer Sebastien Izambard.
"Singing is my way of saying what I feel, my way of life," he is quoted as saying on the group's website.
"Singing is what makes me feel alive, so thank you for letting me continue making a living from what I love."
Spanish newspaper El Pais reported Marin had been taken ill during the UK tour and placed into an induced coma at a hospital in Manchester. The nature of his illness has not been disclosed.
Il Divo's international composition helped them achieve notable success across several worldwide tours.
Their hits included Regresa a Mi (Unbreak My Heart), The Time Of Our Lives, and I Believe In You – a duet with Celine Dion – as well as a version of Adele's Hello.
They sold more than 30 million records, and had 160 gold and platinum discs across more than 33 countries, the group's website said.
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The art market has radically changed. Here's how to buy art today
On my radar: Moses Sumney's cultural highlights
theguardian– Singer-songwriter Moses Sumney, 29, grew up between Ghana and California and studied creative writing and poetry at UCLA. His piercing falsetto and genre-defying music have brought him critical acclaim, starting with his self-recorded 2014 EP Mid-City Island, followed in 2017 by his debut album, Aromanticism, and the 2020 double album Græ. Sumney has collaborated with musicians including Bon Iver and James Blake and toured with Solange and Sufjan Stevens. His latest project is Blackalachia, a self-directed concert film created in association with WePresent, shot over two days in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, where he lives.
1. TV
Selling Sunset (Netflix)
I pity anyone who hasn't seen this show. It's a reality show about a real estate agency in west Hollywood, and it follows the lives and deals of the people who work there, predominantly the female staff who are all ridiculously Barbie-ish – essentially "career Barbie on crack". It's incredible. I love reality TV – it tells us a lot about humanity. Reality shows are always inherently dated, so they're a great capsule of the modern era.
Don't Be So Hard On Your Own Beauty by Yeule
I don't know what it is about this song, but I'm addicted to it. Yeule is a Singaporean artist based in London who's kind of new on the scene, and this song is just so hypnotising – it hints and winks at hyperpop while being an absolutely heart-shattering folk tune. It's a beautiful amalgamation of a lot of different genres, and it's stunning. I have a lot of playlists – for driving, for chilling at night, a morning playlist, a folk playlist – and this is in all of them.
3. Book
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
I'm currently reading this – I put off reading it because it looks like a self-help book – but it's really fascinating. The author is an artist who works largely in digital art and the book is about how to free yourself from the capitalist trappings of the workforce – not necessarily saying "quit your job", but suggesting a new path for work. It asks the question: how can we construct our identities apart from defining ourselves by what we do and by our income? It's a very radical book, and it's often a hard read. But it has been mind-shifting.
I've been travelling a lot for work, so I've been thinking about how much I would prefer to spend my time in western North Carolina, particularly in the mountains, where I live. I think it's the most beautiful place in the world. I first arrived in Asheville when I was on tour and knew immediately I wanted to live here. You turn around, 360 degrees in any direction, and you're surrounded by trees, by the sound of animals, and that's really a rare feeling for anyone who's spent most of their life, as I have, living in the city.
5. Film
Eve's Bayou (Kasi Lemmons, 1997)
This stars a young Jurnee Smollett, who recently had a resurgence with Lovecraft Country. She's 10 years old in the film, which is set in a fictional small town in Louisiana. Samuel L Jackson stars as the patriarch of the family, who is maybe cheating on his wife, his daughter sets out to kill him and punish him, perhaps through witchcraft. It was incredibly critically acclaimed and subsequently snubbed by every major award ceremony. It's a gorgeous, heartbreaking film. I first saw it last year and I think about it every day.
6. Fashion
The couture line that Balenciaga launched this summer is another thing that has permanent residency in my brain. I think that what Demna [Gvasalia, creative director] is doing with sculpture and architecture through fashion is some of the most interesting theatre of our time. It's like a marriage of Romantic and gothic style – it's a bit ecclesiastical, almost monastic, and I want it all. There's this really wonderful circular headpiece that feels like: "I'm going to service, but in the year 3021."
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cnn– For more than 20 years the "Pillar of Shame" sculpture stood as a memorial to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, in which the Chinese military crushed protests led by college students in Beijing with deadly force.
Atop a podium in the University of Hong Kong's (HKU) campus, the 26-foot-tall (8 meter) statue of contorted human torsos was one of the last iconic memorials to victims of the bloody crackdown remaining on Hong Kong soil.
But around midnight on Thursday, yellow construction barriers were erected around the statue and the sounds of cracking and demolition were heard as the sculpture was removed under the cover of darkness.
Images taken during the removal process show workers wrapping the statue in protective film and lifting it out of the campus on a crane in two distinct parts. The HKU Council, the university's governing body, said in a statement the sculpture will be held in storage.
A witness said Thursday morning the site of the sculpture is now empty and students have been seen crying on campus following the removal. CNN agreed to not disclose the name of this witness because the person feared retribution from authorities.
That fear of retribution is common among those who speak out against authorities in Hong Kong since Beijing imposed the National Security Law on the city in 2020, punishing offenses such as subversion and secession with sentencesof up to life in prison.
The HKU Council said in a statement the removal "was based on external legal advice and risk assessment for the best interest of the university."
The sculpture, which stood in the Haking Wong Building of the university, was part of a series of works by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt created in 1997 — the year Hong Kong was returned to China after more than 150 years of British rule. The sculpture includes the inscription: "The old cannot kill the young forever," and was built to serve "as a warning and a reminder to people of a shameful event which must never reoccur," according to the description on Galschiøt's website.
Galschiøt called the statue's removal "a very hard attack against the free word in the world."
He told CNN that he hopes to bring the statue back to Denmark so he can reassemble it. His wish is to then bring it to Washington D.C., where he hopes to place it in front of the Chinese Embassy. There, it will serve as a message to Beijing that the massacre is remembered and spoken about, he said.
For three decades, Hong Kong has been the only place on Chinese-controlled soil where an annual mass vigil has been held to mark the events in and around Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.
The clampdown remains one of the most tightly censored topics in mainland China, with discussions of it scrubbed from mass media. Chinese authorities have not released an official death toll, but estimates range
from several hundred to thousands.
After the 1997 handover, the continuation of the vigil and similar memorials were seen as a litmus test for Hong Kong's ongoing autonomy and democratic freedoms, as promised in its de facto constitution.
However, in the wake of national security law, scores of prominent pro-democracy politicians and activists have been jailed or fled the city, and numerous civil society groups have disbanded.
Attempts to commemorate the events of June 4 have also been adversely impacted.
The last two Tiananmen vigils have been banned by police, citing coronavirus restrictions. Prominent activists, including Joshua Wong and media tycoon Jimmy Lai, were later jailed for participating in an unauthorized public commemoration in 2020.
A Hong Kong museum dedicated to the victims of June 4 was forced to close earlier this year and moved its entire collection online citing "political oppression."
And on Friday, two more Tiananmen Square crackdown memorials were also removed from Hong Kong campuses.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong took down a "Goddess of Democracy" statue, stating it never authorized the display in the first place. The original figure was built out of papier-mâché by student protesters at Tiananmen Square in May 1989. A bronze replica was created by China-born New Zealand artist Chen Weiming and brought to the CUHK campus in 2010.
Lingnan University similarly removed a relief by the same artist, saying it "may pose legal and safety risks to the University community."
Following news that the HKU "Pillar of Shame" sculpture was being dismantled, the artist Galschiøt wrote on his Twitter account, "I'm totally shocked that Hong Kong University is currently destroying the pillar of shame. It is completely unreasonable and a self-immolation against private property in Hong Kong."
"We encourage everyone to go out to Hong Kong University and document everything that happens with the sculpture," he added in a statement.
In its statement, HKU Council said, "No party has ever obtained any approval from the University to display the statue on campus, and the University has the right to take appropriate actions to handle it at any time."
It added the university "is also very concerned about the potential safety issues resulting from the fragile statue. Latest legal advice given to the University cautioned that the continued display of the statue would pose legal risks to the University based on the Crimes Ordinance enacted under the Hong Kong colonial government."
Efforts to preserve the memory of the sculpture are already underway, with art-activist group Lady Liberty Hong Kong creating a 3-D model made using more than 900 photos.
"The idea is that everyone can print a copy it and place it wherever they want," said Alex Lee, the founder of the group. "In the digital age, there's no limitation of what you can do with virtual or physical objects — (the hope is) for everyone to try to preserve this symbol."
According to Lee, the statue represented something of the fundamental difference between Hong Kong and mainland China. "It (the statue) symbolized that Hong Kong still has room for the freedom of speech and it really means that Hong Kong is still a different part from China," said Lee. "But then I think right now, that last really small space is gone."
On Sunday, Hong Kong's first "China patriots only" legislative election witnessed a record low turnout, reflecting a steep decline in civic and political engagement following Beijing's overhaul of the city's electoral processes earlier this year.
Following the vote, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam traveled to Beijing and met with Chinese Leader Xi Jinping, who endorsed her administration and praised her for moving the city "from chaos to order," according to a government statement of the meeting.
Calling the election — in which turnout was just 30.2% — a "success" Xi said the city had "made solid progress in promoting democratic development that suits Hong Kong's reality."
"The democratic right of Hong Kong compatriots has been shown," Xi said.
A number of Hong Kong activists who fled abroad labeled the election — in which prospective candidates were first screened by the government — as a "sham," a criticism echoed by many rights groups and international observers.
Top image: Workers remove part of the "Pillar of Shame" into a container at the University of Hong Kong on December 23, 2021.
For a long time, the art market was "a secret world of whispers" according to art advisor Kim Heirston, who started her career working in New York's downtown galleries three decades ago. Then, as an archivist for the late gallerist Robert Miller, she safeguarded and only shared materials that were critical to gallery sales, on request.
But today, starting a fine art collection is easier than ever, thanks to the internet, where many players in the art market now operate. Purchasing artworks isn't just for art experts or the wealthy collectors who can afford to hire them. Now, "you're able to get every bit of information," Heirston said in a phone interview.
Many artworks can be purchased or bid for online, bypassing older models, such as directly negotiating with galleries or attending auctions.
In 2019, Hiscox's annual art trade report captured the trend, estimating that online art sales had reached $4.8 billion that year — up from $1.5 billion in 2013. The figure is expected to climb to $9.32 billion by 2024.
The coronavirus pandemic has spurred on significant changes as well — from major auction houses like Christie's and Sotheby's experimenting with hybrid live and digital sales, and galleries and art fairs adapting to virtual showrooms. There's also been the meteoric rise of the digital art market mostly thanks to NFTs (non-fungible tokens).
But that said, those who are able and interested in purchasing artworks for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars (or more), hiring an art advisor to guide your collection and counsel you on the art market is probably still wise.
"I've been able to see the vicissitudes," Heirston said. "I know who's in favor and who's not. I try to project who may be favored or coveted down the line."
But for first-time buyers or newcomers with a more modest budget — say, in the hundreds or thousands — they'll find there are many new ways to get started.
How to buy art online
Online art marketplaces offer a number of tools to help you get a grasp on the market, from robust search features and extensive pricing data to informative articles to help put the artists and artworks in context.
Artsy, founded in 2009, remains the largest marketplace, with an inventory of over 1 million artworks from more than 4,000 galleries, art fairs and institutions [disclaimer: this writer was a former employee at Artsy], but sites including Artsper and Saatchi Art also offer plenty of options. Users to these platforms won't necessarily be able to click-to-buy all listed artworks — with some, you'll have to make online offers or contact the gallery. Both Artsy and Artnet also partner with auction houses and other organizations to offer exclusive online auctions.
So, where might someone start? As a rule of thumb, prints, works on paper, photography and digital art often offer more reasonable price points than painting or sculpture. In addition, following the market of early-career artists can mean finding a great piece of art before their works become too pricey.
With seemingly endless listings, however, the question becomes how to sort through them all.
That's where Platform has stepped up, The David Zwirner-backed marketplace curates only 100 contemporary works each month from independent galleries around the US. General manager Bettina Huang says their model is similar to Net-a-Porter, which offers edits of luxury fashion and beauty offerings, "and then makes it really, really easy for you to buy."
After the mega gallery David Zwirner partnered with smaller galleries to launch a series of viewing rooms while the pandemic shuttered galleries and halted their sales, Zwirner's son, Lucas, turned the project into its own art e-commerce company with Huang and a separate team. Platform offers many works under $10,000, and all can be directly purchased through the site (even in installments through Klarna). It's first-come, first-serve — unlike many galleries, which can require intensive relationship-building — though there is a loyalty program for repeat buyers to gain 24-hour early access each month.
"By limiting it to a certain number of artworks that are really vetted by the galleries whom we've specifically invited on, it's a very different approach so that as a consumer or collector, you can feel really confident that whatever you're buying has gone through multiple layers of checking," said Lucas Zwirner in the video call with Huang. "Our aspiration with Platform is to present a really diverse, accurate snapshot of the very best of what's out there."
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Beat the eggs, turmeric powder and salt in a bowl with a fork till frothy.
Heat Q.B.B. Ghee and add the onions, ginger and the green chillies. Fry for some time till the onions just start to brown.
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A homebridge plugin for turning on and off your Panasonic Viera TV.

The plugin also has experimental support for changing the volume and channel. These characteristics are not really supported by HomeKit, but some HomeKit apps do provide you with the abillity to use them.

Apple's own 'Home' app only supports turning your TV on and off.

## Installation

```bash
# Install homebridge
npm install -g homebridge
# Install homebridge-panasonictv
npm install -g homebridge-panasonictv
```

> Don't forget to update your configuration file! Please refer to the [https://github.com/tg908/homebridge-panasonictv/blob/master/sample-config.json](sample-config.json) in this repository.

## Compatibility

Not all Viera TV's can be turned *on* when their current state is *off* (or bettter: *standby*). This depends on the model. All models should be able to be turned *off*, though.

The following models have been reported to be working with this plugin:

| Model       | Supports ON when OFF |
|-------------|----------------------|
| TX-40CX680B | :white_check_mark:   |
| TX-48AX630E | :white_check_mark:   |
| TX-50CX700B | :white_check_mark:   |
| TX-P50VT50  | :x:                  |
| TX-58DX750  | :white_check_mark:   |
| TX-55EX633E | :x:                  |

## Configuration

To enable support for your Panasonic TV in Homebridge, please add a new accessory to your Homebridge configuration.

```json
"accessories": [
    {
        "accessory": "TV",
        "name": "TV",
        "description": "Livingroom tv",
        "ip": "192.168.178.20",
        "maxVolume": 15
    }
]
```

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Literature: Ones to Watch
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Film: Michael Seiwerath
by Bradley Steinbacher
Film: Ones to Watch
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by Annie Wagner
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Literature: Rebecca Brown
by Charles Mudede
Visual Art: Sutton Beres Culler
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Visual Art: Ones to Watch
2011 Stranger Genius Awards
by Stranger Staff
The 2013 Genius Award Winners
Genius Awards Shortlist
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Ellen Forney: 2012 Genius Award Winner for Literature
by Paul Constant
The 8th Annual Stranger Genius Awards
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DK Pan
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2013 Visual Art Genius Award Finalists
Implied Violence
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Genius - Visual Art - Susan Robb
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Jonathan Crimmins
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Teri Hein
Teri Hein's first book, Atomic Farmgirl, is a memoir about growing up downwind from the Hanford nuclear site. (When she was a kid, everyone began getting cancer—at least one person on every farm had it.) Her second book, currently in the hands of prospective agents, is a novel. It's about a kid dealing with the horrors of cancer. "Cancer's my deal," she jokes. The novel draws on Hein's experiences as a teacher for 20 years at the Fred Hutch School. Most of the novel was written before Hein became executive director of 826 Seattle, a drop-in tutoring and writing center for teenagers that opened its doors in Greenwood this week. Hein describes teaching as "the most important work I've done" and cringes when she goes to a party and someone introduces her as a writer. "It's not like there's a shortage of writers in this country. But there is a shortage of good teachers." CHRISTOPHER FRIZZELLE
Ann Pancake
Ann Pancake lives in Columbia City and is working on a novel about mountaintop removal in southern West Virginia. "I grew up in West Virginia. They're destroying the whole southern part of the state, they're just blowing it up," she says. "It's really apocalyptic." The mountains in southern West Virginia contain coal and the cheapest way to get the coal is to blast off the tops of the mountains and dump the earth, trees, and debris into streams—a practice that's ruined families and communities, buried thousands of miles of streams, and become much easier and cheaper under the Bush administration. "It's sort of a cultural genocide down there," she says. She's spent five years working on the novel and expects to be done in a few months. "The transition from short stories to a novel has been harder than I thought, and also writing a political novel has been harder than I expected." Pancake holds a PhD in literature from UW and is also the author of a prizewinning collection of short stories, Given Ground, distinct for its mesmerizing darkness. CHRISTOPHER FRIZZELLE
The sixth issue of Golden Handcuffs Review is due out in December. Lou Rowan started the journal several years ago with his own money (he used to be a businessman) and with the intention to publish American and international experimental fiction, poetry, and essays. "I think that academically acceptable work that is routinely praised in acceptable journals adds nothing to the literary canon," he says. Unlike most local forums for experimental work, Golden Handcuffs Review is handsomely produced; after searching the country for a printer that met his standards, Rowan found one in Illinois (he shares the printer with Dalkey Archive Press). The full-color cover art is political ("essentially the equivalent of an editorial," Rowan says) but the contents run the gamut—in a Stranger article about Golden Handcuffs Review last year, for example, A. J. Glusman noticed tons and tons of (sometimes kinky) sex. Contributors run the gamut too, from the famous (Robert Coover, Rick Moody) to the local (Stacey Levine, John Olson) to the unknown. Before moving to Seattle and starting the journal, Rowan, a fiction writer and essayist, lived in New York. He says, "In New York if you say you're a writer, they'll say, 'How much are you selling and who's your publisher?' In Seattle, if you say you're a writer, they'll say, 'Oh, what do you write about?' And that's very encouraging." CHRISTOPHER FRIZZELLE
Hardly Art Records
Nominee for a Stranger Genius Award in Music
by Sean Nelson
Noelani Pantastico
Nominee for a Stranger Genius Award in Performance
by Rich Smith
Snowden Reveals the Boring Side of Whistle-Blowing


This package is developed on github at http://github.com/daringer/asus-fan. If you have problems with it, check out closed issues or pull requests on that github page. If there is nothing related to your issue, create a new one.
I have been really struggling for days to get control over the fans on my Asus G750JM. They are just constantly hammering away at 100% making the laptop unusable (without wearing ear-defenders). I found this package and thought it was my salvation, but frustratingly, I can't get it to install.
Created https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fan_speed_control#Asus_laptops if anyone need any help.
If it fails to modprobe asus_fan module - simply reboot and try modprobe again. It should work!
systemd: Configuration file /usr/lib/systemd/system/asus-fan.service is marked executable. Please remove executable permission bits. Proceeding anyway.
Again, I'm not a developer of the package. I just uploaded their PKGBUILD from their repo. If there is an issue with the code, you should create new issue with the description and let them fix it.
Consult /var/lib/dkms/asus_fan/git/build/make.log for more information.
make: *** /lib/modules/4.4.27-1-lts/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
So it appears that make is trying to build with the old linux-headers-lts installation, which it should not be doing.
That file is coming from the package itself. So, the error should be reported to developer in his/her github repo https://github.com/daringer/asus-fan/. After its fixed there, I can bump the package version.


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