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Gulliver Travels 2010
In 2010, author Gullivers Travels is the most popular book about travel in the world.
It was also the year that a book about flying was released, a book called "Airlines," and it was also a year that the book was first published.
Airline Book Club: Why the Flying Book is the Best Book About Flying In 2010 The book has been widely praised for its detail and for its narrative power, but it also has been accused of being an elitist, commercialized book that has been sold to the detriment of many flying families.
The book was also one of the few books that featured a black pilot.
It has been compared to the flying manuals of the 1930s, which included a black man in the cockpit.
But in 2010, the book's co-author, author Michael Eaves, was one of two black pilots in a plane.
"I was a member of a group that flew the Concorde, and I was very proud of that," he said.
"But I also think it was an elitism to have a black guy in the cabin, and that's just not the case today."
The controversy began in 2010 when the book, which has sold more than 8 million copies, was released.
The flying books that appeared in the book are generally written by white men, often in the US.
The Flying Book has been praised for being one of a handful of books that actually cover flying.
But critics have pointed out that the author's wife, a black woman, has not been involved with the book.
"[My wife] is not a member.
I have no idea what she's doing," Eaves said.
In the book Eaves is not talking about flying, but about flying in general, which he called "the great flying book of all time."
He continued, "If you want to understand the flying world, I think the Flying book is the perfect book."
"Airliners" is the second book that the Flying Books co-authors have written, and it is the third book that they co-wrote together.
They co-authored the first book in 2010 that was not a book, but was a travel guide.
Eaves has said he was disappointed that his book was not published, and he told The Daily Beast that he was happy that his co-writers were able to make a book that he believes is both "informative and informative."
According to Eaves , the book is a book on the aviation industry that will be available in bookstores across the country by the end of the year.
At the time of its release, Eaves was an aviator himself, having been one of just six black pilots on the Concores, but he has since said he feels he has made a mistake by not having a Black pilot in the flight simulator.
"I didn't think it would be that hard to find a Black aviator," he told the Associated Press in 2010.
"It took a while, but I finally found one.
I'm glad I did.
However, in the first chapter, "I am not the first black pilot," Eave continues, "and I'm not the last."
Eanes co-writer Michael J. Smith, who also wrote "A-B-C-D," has also acknowledged that he has not had a black aviator in the simulator.
When asked by the AP about the backlash, Smith told The Associated Press, "This was not our intention."
Smith said that his decision not to have an African American in the flying simulator was a decision he made "based on the fact that I knew that I was not going to have black pilots flying on my book."
Smith did not say when or if he made that decision.
On Friday, Smith was quoted in a New York Times article saying that he believed "it's wrong to be the only one."
In addition to his cofounders, Eades and Smith, the Flying books co-Authors are also authors of the popular book, "The Pilots Book of Flying," which is available in more than a dozen languages.
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Q: Find first instance and copy to another dataframe using R I have a dataframe of people by name - they are all unique entries.
I have a second dataframe of payments some of these people have made with the date these payments were made.
What i'm trying to do is append to my unique names dataframe the date that the individual made their first payment.
Below is some sample data and the code I'm using
 Name   payment date
 Fred   01/01/2018
 Jim    01/01/2018
 Barney 01/01/2018
 Fred   01/03/2018
 John   01/02/2018
 Jim    01/03/2018
 Fred   01/04/2018
 John   01/04/2018
 Barney 01/02/2018
 Barney 01/03/2018
 Jim    01/05/2018
 Fred   01/06/2018

The names dataframe includes some people who have not made a payment, therefore when i'm doing the match I want to return an "NA" for that person so the table will look like this:
 Name   first payment
 Fred   01/01/2018
 Jim    01/01/2018
 Rodney NA
 Barney 01/01/2018
 John   01/02/2018

I've run the following code to order the payments dataframe by payment date
payments<-payments[order(payments$paymentdate),]

Then the R code I'm using to look up and match the first instance by name:
people$firstpayment<-payments[match
(people$Name,payments$Name,nomatch = 0,incomparables = NULL),c("paymentdate")]

is failing with the following R error code:
Error in `$<-.data.frame`(`*tmp*`, firstpayment, value = list(paymentdate = c15247,  :
replacement has 10288 rows, data has 14610

I assume this is to do with the inability to match the NAs, but I did some reading on "match" function and I thought the nomatch command would deal with this.
Thanks!

A: You can filter the dataframe of payments (I will call it "second_dataframe") to have only first payment by one person and than merge the two tables by Name:
library(dplyr)

# Filter
second_dataframe <- second_dataframe %>% group_by(Name) %>% summarise(`first payment`=min(`payment date`))

#Merge
merge(first_dataframe, second_dataframe, by="Name", all=TRUE)

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If you want some traditional beauty advice, your need to read the article below. This article will give you tips and tricks to staying beautiful.
Use shimmer lightly and only apply in the areas that will be hit by light. You be able to achieve a glow effect that looks gorgeous. Whenever you use highlighter, use it on the higher parts of your face, including your brows, nose, and cheekbones. After this, use a single layer of powder to set it.
When you are dancing in a nightclub, your face may become shiny from the exertion. A quick solution is the cheap toilet tissue in the club. The coarseness of the paper will help you blot your skin. Swipe a square and then press it firmly onto your face to get rid of extra oil.
Try putting Vaseline onto the nail cuticles every week. Since this feeds your nails, they should grow more quickly. The look of your cuticles and nails will be more healthy as well. Usually you will see results right away as the Vaseline goes to work extremely fast.
Try to keep a makeup free face at least one day a month. This lets your face breathe and helps keep it healthy. You will start noticing that the day after, your skin will seem much fresher.
If you want to improve the quality of your eyes, use eye drops. That way, you can stave off irritation and dryness as well. Anyone who stares at a monitor all day should keep these eye drops handy. Simply keep eye drops handy and use about every four hours.
Use a soft-bristled brush to massage Vaseline into your lips. Daily use will make your lips plumper and softer. Your lipstick will be more even, and a bit softer. You won't regret it!
Greasy hair doesn't have to be a deal-breaker when you're pressed for time and can't take a full shower. As long as you've got some loose powder, you're in luck. Dip a makeup brush into the powder. Tap the excess off of the brush, and then use the brush to apply the powder to your roots. The powder will soak up extra oil while naturally blending into your hair.
You can use bronzer in your lotion to get a healthy glow without using a self-tanner. This can be used as a custom self-tanning product that will produce the desired color. Doing it this way will let you decide the color you want, and not have to get colors already mixed for you.
When using fake eyelashes, you never want to realize that you have an allergic reaction to the adhesive. You need to test the glue out on your arm before you use it on your eyes. Now leave that on your arm for a full 24 hours. If after 24 hours you see no rash, you should be fine.
If your face is dry a lot, you should think about getting some kind of moisturizing treatment done. This specialized treatment is designed to treat dry facial skin by removing old cells and freshening the appearance of your complexion. The elasticity and moisture levels of your skin are greatly enhanced by minerals, vitamins and even some herbal extracts.
With the proper advice, it's possible to be beautiful, no matter what age you are. This article was a great start to knowing what you need to know about beauty at your age and how to move forward as you get older, as well. Let your beauty shine.
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Durban Muslima: Things, not mentioned in Quran and Hadith are prohibited?
Things, not mentioned in Quran and Hadith are prohibited?
Milaadun Nabi, Giyarvin Shareef, 3 days 10 days and 40 days Khatam is not mentioned in Quran or Hadith. How can these practices be allowed in Islam?
The rule is, that everything is Halal unless explicitly forbidden (with the exception of few things like meat or woman, they are Haraam originally, meat becomes Halaal with Shar'ee slaughtering and Ghair Mahram woman becomes Halaal with Nikah).
As long as there is no authentic statement from the Qur'an or the Sunnah of the Prophet,صلى الله عليه و سلم that a particular thing is forbidden, then it is considered as Halal.
This rule of Shariah must be remembered always "whatever is proven from Quran and Hadith as good or bad that would be good or bad. And something that is not mentioned, it is forgiven, Jaaiz and permissible. If it is done with some good intentions, it becomes Mustahab like Milaad etc. it is done to increase the love of Rasoolllah and educate Muslim community about the Seerah of beloved Rasool" and to regard things as Haram which are not mentioned in Quran and Hadith contradicts Islamic Shariat.
From these Ayaat and Ahadeeth and Aqwaal of great Ulama, it is clearly understood that this so-called principle "if something is not mentioned in Quran or Hadith, it is prohibited or impermissible" is not an Islamic Shariah based argument, it is a man made law, and is invalid in Shariah.
Therefore, since Milaad, Guyarvin and some other practices of Ahlus Sunnah which are not mentioned in Quran and Hadith are indeed permissible because they are not prohibited. The one who askes proofs from Quran and Hadith for these practices, is totally ignorant of rules of Shariat.


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Ask the Doc: World AIDS Day 2017
by Dr. Peter Meacher
EDGE Media Network Contributor
Dr. Peter Meacher, MD FAAFP AAHIVS
For World AIDS Day, EDGE's resident expert Dr. Peter Meacher
looks at Undetectable = Untransmittable and how it will help end the AIDS epidemic by 2030.
The doc tackles issues including whether it's safer to have sex with someone who is HIV-positive but has an undetectable viral load, or who is on PrEP than someone who doesn't know their serostatus.
He also takes a look at how UNAIDS will work with the global community to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, with increased testing and access to treatment.
(Source:cdc.gov)
Is U=U Safest?
Q: I recently read that the CDC said people with an undetectable viral load can't pass HIV on to others, i.e. Undetectable = Untransmittable. Does that mean it's safer to have sex with someone undetectable than someone who doesn't know their status, or is on PrEP?
A: A viral load -- a term to describe the amount of HIV in your blood -- is one determining factor for how likely it is for an HIV-infected person to pass HIV on to someone else. If you don't know your status, it's possible to be infected with a very high viral load and pass it onto others. If you know your status and are on HIV medication to suppress the virus, you can have a viral load which is undetectable -- meaning there is almost none of the virus present in your bloodstream -- making it very difficult to pass it onto others. Hence the term "Undetectable = Untransmittable," or U=U.
For people living with HIV/AIDS, the U=U concept is life-changing. The PARTNER study -- the largest ever study of HIV positive and negative (serodiscordant) couples -- demonstrated that people living with HIV/AIDS who are undetectable have no risk of transmitting HIV through sexual contact. The study enrolled over 1,100 couples who engaged in over 58,000 reported sexual acts over the course of four years. There were zero HIV transmissions between them.
Of course, it is always safest to use a combination of prevention methods, like condoms and PrEP, if you're negative, or condoms and HIV medication, if you're positive.
If you're HIV-negative, PrEP is a terrific option to stay negative, and reduce the risk of transmission to and from others. However, PrEP alone does not prevent STDs and so regular STD screening is important if condoms are not used. When on PrEP, you must also be tested for HIV every 3 months. Regular visits to your healthcare provider also ensure you'll stay on top of other health screenings that will keep you healthy.
If you're HIV-positive and on medication, regular checkups with your doctor including scheduled labs will make sure your HIV is well controlled.
PrEP and the U=U concept are both enormous leaps in helping to end stigma, and the epidemic.
(Source:Thinkstock)
Can We End AIDS by 2030?
Q: The theme of this year's World AIDS Day in "My Health, My Right." UNAIDS says that we can end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. But new infections are not declining among adults. How will they do that?
A: In 2016, the UN adopted a political declaration to fight against HIV and end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. To be certain, it is an ambitious goal -- but new infections are, in fact, declining worldwide. According to the UN AIDS 2017 fact sheet, in 2016, there were roughly 1.8 million new HIV infections, compared to 2.1 million in 2015.
In order to accomplish this goal, there are a number of specific guidelines and recommendations, including:
Increasing testing, so that everyone that has HIV knows their status
Providing access to HIV treatment, so those living with the disease become virally suppressed
Ensuring that those who have access to treatment, retain treatment, so they become undetectable
Eliminate new infections through prevention options such as PrEP, condoms, and other methods of harm reduction
What is not outlined are the innumerable factors that create barriers to care: stigma, poverty, housing, healthcare, racism, and all of the societal indicators that turn HIV from a manageable chronic illness into a death sentence.
As we have seen in New York State with the Governor's Ending the Epidemic initiative, the pathways created by science do work, if they have the opportunity to flourish. In a new report released on Wednesday, HIV infections in NYC reached an all-time low -- with 2,279 new infections in 2016, down 8.6 percent from 2015, according to city data. This decrease is attributed to many of the same factors as the global guidelines, including access to PrEP, and "treatment as prevention," another term for U=U.
So while it is possible to end the epidemic globally, challenges remain. Addressing the systemic factors that create new infections and barriers to care will be the ultimate challenge to fighting HIV, and ending AIDS.
Peter Meacher MD is a Board Certified Family Physician and credentialed as an American Academy of HIV Specialist (AAHIVS). He has been the Chief Medical Officer of Callen-Lorde Community Health Center since 2013.
He completed residency at Montefiore's Department of Family Medicine where he was then Chief Resident and Faculty Development Fellow. He worked for 14 years as an HIV and Primary Care Provider, becoming the Medical Director of a federal qualified health center in the South Bronx developing programs in HIV & transgender care before joining Callen-Lorde.
He was on the NY/NJ Board of AAHIVM, works with NYSDOH AIDS Institute Clinical Guidelines Program, serves on the AIDS Institute Mental Health Guidelines Committee and chairs the HIV/HCV/STD QI sub-committee of CHCANYS.
This story is part of our special report titled "Ask the Doc." Want to read more? Here's the full list.
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Ask The Doc: Body Beautiful for Pride
AIDS | By Dr. Peter Meacher | Jun 13
In this special Pride month edition of Ask the Doc, Dr. Peter Meacher, MD FAAFP AAHIVS, shares some advice on helping you be your best during the celebrations and parties that happen around Pride.
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Microsoft is among over two dozen companies that have joined Dell's newly launched effort to create an Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem.
Dell announced its new IoT Solutions Partner Program last week. The company, which unveiled its first IoT gateway nearly a year ago, has lined up a variety of players ranging from key IT players such as SAP and Software AG, to those that provide industrial automation wares and services such as INEX Advisors, Kepware, OSIsoft and PTC.
Dell's IoT push comes as a growing number of enterprise and consumer tech providers are seeing a large opportunity to gather machine data from operational technology (OT) infrastructure, including sensors and other machine components, for the purpose of automation and data mining.
Spending on commercial IoT technologies on infrastructure, software and services -- but excluding devices, sensors and automation technology -- is expected to be $247 billion, according to Technology Business Research (TBR). Growing at a 20.6 percent CAGR, expenditures are expected to balloon to $629 billion by 2021, according to the research firm.
Attention on IoT has accelerated recently, with industrial manufacturers gathering this week in Germany for the annual Hannover Messe technology conference. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was at the event on Sunday to give the opening keynote. Nadella introduced a number of customers, including Rolls Royce, Jabil and Liebherr Group, that are using Microsoft's Azure machine learning and IoT technologies to automate their manufacturing processes.
In the case of Liebherr, which manufactures refrigerators and freezers, the company has partnered with Microsoft to automate repair orders when an appliance isn't working properly using Windows 10 IoT (formerly Windows Embedded), Azure and Power BI.
"I would posit that what's new today is that the very thing that you produce, the very thing that you manufacture, for the first time, is connected with all of the web of activity around it," Nadella told the Hannover Messe audience. "That is what's really different. These new digital feedback loops that I refer to as 'systems of intelligence' is the new inflection point that we, collectively, across the software industry or the digital industry and the manufacturing industry are, in fact, bringing forth."
Nadella added that the bridging of IT and OT will continue to enable a growing number of these "digital transformation" efforts.
But, as Dell and some of its partners noted at a media event earlier this month to discuss its new IoT partner program, bridging IT and OT is a complex endeavor.
Dell's IoT initiative actually began several years ago as a business plan. The company has since defined IoT as a key area to embrace, said Jason Shepherd, director of strategy of partnerships and solutions at Dell. In addition to the 25-plus partners announced last week, Shepherd said Dell is gathering others, ranging from ISVs to systems integrators (SIs). Unlike other traditional IT areas, building IoT-enabled applications requires a multidisciplinary approach to bring together hardware that operates digitally.
Dell's key IoT entry came a year ago when it announced a new division focused on offering IoT gateways, which are small, wall-mountable PCs with wireless receivers and loaded with an embedded operating system -- either Linux or Windows 10 IoT. The edge gateways typically receive signals from sensors or other fixed operational components. They then tag or process those signals into data so they may be passed along to some kind of database cluster or other processing engine where analytics are performed.
Naturally, security and analytics are key components to the IT part of the industrial-automation equation, and Dell points to its own offerings and those of partners that can perform various forms of predictive analytics.
Dell, with Microsoft and energy-management solution provider Blue Pillar, is now offering solutions for utilities to help streamline the distribution of electrical power. One partner using the recently launched Dell Edge Gateway 5100 in a variety of settings, including orchards, vineyards, greenhouses and logistical environments, and often in environments subject to extreme temperatures, is INEX Advisors. INEX Advisors President Christopher Rezendes said a good amount of these automation systems are evolving, but Dell offers one of the more robust IoT edge gateways available.
"I think we got them early, so there is still a fair amount of feature sets that need to be stabilized or needs to be released, but we think with the approach they are taking, we're going to get a nice collection and selection of tools and utilities that will be pretty easily integrateable in their stack," Rezendes said. "So it's not a finished platform, so to speak, because not all the services and not all the features have been enabled in the services stack. But it performs brilliantly."
Most of the pilots he's involved in haven't used Microsoft's new Azure IoT offering yet, and Rezendes suspects cost is a factor. "I'm hearing they're very expensive," he said.
Given Dell's close ties with Microsoft in other key areas, it makes sense for the two to partner in advancing IoT, said Ezra Gottheil, principal analyst for IoT, devices and platforms at TBR.
"The Microsoft alliance is a good one for both Microsoft and Dell; Azure will be the platform of choice for many customers, especially for the 'start small' approach that Dell favors," Gottheil said. "This is not to imply that Azure won't scale up, but Azure is already present in a lot of environments as a result of Azure Active Directory, so some customers will not choose another cloud/IoT platform for small-scale IoT implementations."
Gottheil also noted Dell has a number of important key IoT components, including its "well-differentiated" software/services like Statistica and Boomi.
"Their gateway is, in essence, a hardened PC, and will fit some solutions but not all," Gottheil said. "Cisco's gateways are, naturally, more focused on connectivity and [Hewlett Packard Enterprise]'s are server-based. Many OT vendors also offer gateway solutions. Most of Dell's other IoT offerings are part of their conventional IT portfolio, as is also true of HPE, but Dell has a head start in working with its embedded and OEM partners to incorporate Dell solutions. On the other hand, companies like IBM and Cisco have a head start relative to Dell in bringing in new customers through an interest in IoT."


After the long car ride from Miami to Orlando, we dropped in on a Korean restaurant where I ordered Woogujiguk. It is a mildly spicy cabbage and beef stew which is comforting and filling. There is a restaurant on the second level at Incheon International Airport where this dish is featured. It's cheap (about 8 bucks) and delicious and served within minutes of ordering. The cabbage is soft and the beef is tender from hours of boiling. Its usually the last thing I eat on leaving Korea and for whatever reason, something I only eat on the road. Tasting it brings to mind journeying and cold weather.
Love coming to Florida. There are manatees, alligators, rodents the size of pigs, and these lovely bird, sandhill cranes that like to peck at the tree frogs and lizards on our windows. If we ever get dinosaurs back (probably by reverse engineering birds) they will be like these guys.
If you are a citizen and you are of voting age, then it is your duty to vote. You have no basis for complaint if you do not vote. Many people around the world risk their lives to vote. Many people risked and given up their lives and are giving up their lives as we speak so that you can vote even from the comfort of your home.
There is no longer any excuse not to vote with early and absentee voting. God bless America.
We've been given a glimpse into a whole new way of computing with OSX Lion that is as different as mice and command lines. It really is the death of windows which get in the way of computing on a portable screen. Windows -the computer paradigm and not the Microsoft product, clutter the screen and take up 10-20% of real estate with frames and menus. Full screen apps that look like real world objects, that allow you to work on your terms and not the geeks' -that is the future.
When the iPod Touch 4th Generation was announced, it was disappointing to find out that the rear camera would be substantially lower in megapixels and quality than on iPhone 4, and would not feature HDR. HDR is high dynamic range photography. Your eyes are HDR, but a picture from a cameraphone is not because it takes pictures in a single exposure. Too long an exposure and all the dark areas have better detail with washout of lighter areas like the sky or light colored walls with patterns. Too short an exposure, and all the dark areas turn black, but details like clouds and cracks in white stucco come out. HDR is a way of combining elements of two or more pictures where the exposure is optimal for the particular region of the picture.
The result is a mix picture where all the elements in foreground, mid ground, and background get optimal exposure. The iPhone 4 has this mode of image taking -the only drawback is that because two pictures are taken, the camera must stay still. Alas, the iPod Touch did not come with this capability built in, but it wasn't too soon before an App showed up in the App Store.
Pro HDR is the name of this app, and it's great. The two images above were taken in the afternoon and the shots while not perfect, are good enough for the web. Pro HDR does a good job of stitching two images into one. At a &2.99, it is a great bargain.
There will be blowback from the angry partisans who will feel that democratic means did not result in the change they felt should have happened, with lots of conspiracy theories and the like, motivating a segment of them to "second amendment" means of instituting change. The GOP opened a rotten can of worms pandering to this segment of the populace.
The midterms will be a referendum on comfort level and the scarier people will for the most part be sent back to the holes whence they came. It is the source of the surprising traction of Democratic incumbents in what were suppose to be GOP cake walks.


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This Teen Lost Her Hair After Attempting DIY Ombré
Photographed by WInnie Au.
It's the stuff that nightmares are made of: You're coloring your hair, hoping to achieve the perfect sun-kissed effect, only to have it all fall out when you're finished. No joke, we've had the exact night terror. Only for one U.K.-based teen, the horrific results are real.
According to The Sun, 16 year-old Courtney Andrews lost gobs of hair — basically from her jawline down — after attempting to ombré her hair with a box of Superdrug Blonde Permanent High Strength Blonding Kit.
Here's how The Sun reported the story: With the help of her mother, Andrews started the process with a skin patch test to prevent adverse reactions with her scalp. After applying the lightening product, Andrews' mom says she checked her daughter's hair every five to 10 minutes for 30 minutes — but the processed hair started feeling hot to the touch.
"We rinsed her hair and put a comb through and the hair just kept coming away with each brushstroke," Andrews' mom, Claire Coles-Morton, said.
More than $100 and three hair appointments later, Courtney's hair has been restored into a wearable style. Still, the article reports that the product's maker, Superdrug, "confirmed that they had not received any other complaints about the kit Andrews used."
So, what the heck went wrong and how can we avoid the same fate?
The article reports that while Andrews and her mom conducted a skin patch test, the duo skipped conducting a strand test — something that's advised in the kit and may have predicted an adverse reaction.
George Papanikolas, a Matrix SoColor stylist who works with celebs like Naya Rivera and Mila Kunis, says that it's important to stand test. "Take a section underneath your hair that's inconspicuous and try it first to see how it reacts," he advises.
Superdrug agrees. "We strongly recommend this, as it not only allows customers to gauge the colour results, but also helps to highlight any underlying problems. This is especially important when using a bleach-based hydrogen peroxide product on previously coloured hair," the hair color maker told The Sun.
As for other key guidelines to keep in mind if lightening hair at home, it's important to fastidiously mind the time that the product is left on the hair. Further, "Lightener is designed to lift the hair seven shades. Trying to make it go any more than seven shades will most likely result in damage," Papanikolas explains, adding that using heat in tandem with at-home lightening kits can over-activate the products and over-process the hair.
Finally, Papanikolas points out that home bleach kits are not as foolproof as home dye kits might be. "Unlike hair color that stops processing after 45 minutes, bleach can continue bleaching until it dries out," he says. "It's more reliant on timing and a professional eye."
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On paper, Gregory Konrath looked like Mr. Right, a take-charge guy with a list of bona fides that made him hard for Joannah Bierzychudek to ignore. Stable: prosperous doctor, a surgeon. Check. Active: mountain climber, one who had traveled the world and mastered the Seven Summits. Check. Creative: author, a self-taught, self-published writer of a political thriller set in the Middle East. Double-check. In the realm of online dating among a pool of 40-somethings looking for that second or third chance at love, Konrath was swipe-right–worthy.
After dating Konrath for four months, Bierzychudek, a quiet nurse, moved into his home in Peru, Indiana. But on a June 2014 vacation in Puerto Rico, almost a year into their relationship, she realized that twice-married Gregory Konrath—doctor, climber, author—could be much more.
In fact, the rooftop bar of their resort hotel was just the kind of place where one might propose marriage. From a white outdoor sectional, Konrath ordered Bierzychudek a fruity concoction and got himself another rum and Diet Coke. They talked about plans for the week, the beautiful weather, how nice it was to relax in the warm ocean breeze. But then Konrath grew cold, twisting the conversation and spilling the black details of a plot—some of the pieces already in place—to kill his ex-wife, Ana.
Bierzychudek had heard bits of the scheme the night before but chalked up such talk to an empty boast by a man who'd had his fill at the bar. Or, she rationalized, perhaps he was kidding—a sick joke from one who had nursed a healthy dislike of an ex. In December 2008, Konrath and Ana had jointly filed for divorce. According to court documents, he failed to appear at a divorce hearing, and the judge used his prior year's income of $1.7 million in setting maintenance and support. Behind on support payments, he owed her more than $1.3 million. If it was all a joke, Konrath wasn't laughing.
My God. He's serious.
As Konrath lost himself in the plan, Bierzychudek tried to weigh the words against the man she had come to love. It dawned on her that he was asking her to be his alibi. Had she been a fool? Fearing that no one would believe what was happening, Bierzychudek fumbled in her pocket for her iPhone, found her "Voice Memos" app, and tapped the red button to record.
Ana's death would look like a suicide, Konrath bragged. In her home, he had already planted hollow-point bullets; they matched ammunition he had acquired for an untraceable gun. At the appointed time, he would sneak into the house, past the former couple's sleeping children, and shoot Ana. Konrath confessed to studying possible forensic outcomes but was confident that "hollow-points bounce around in your brain" and would do the trick. Once his ex-wife was dead, Konrath planned to press her lifeless hand against the gun and the remaining bullets to make it appear as if she had taken her own life. Text messages—already prewritten by Konrath to send to Ana's grieving loved ones—would hopefully bolster the appearance of her suicide.
Konrath detailed other facets of the scheme as Bierzychudek continued recording. He planned to kill Ana on a night when he wasn't on call and could leave his cellphone at home. He would wear latex gloves and an extra layer of clothing, and then ditch those in a Dumpster. He would wash up at a gas station on his return home.
"She has a million-dollar insurance policy," he said. "I'm the beneficiary." Whatever happened, he knew he would be the "number one, two, and three suspect." But Konrath was positive that he could handle getting caught if the murder took place in the Lafayette home he had shared with Ana, but not in the Chicago area, where she and the children were moving soon. "I could suck up 30 years of jail time in Indiana. I'm not going to do Cook County … I can do the time … I'm a tough guy."
Bierzychudek said little, but enough to keep Konrath talking.
"What do you think of it morally?" she asked.
"I think it's justice."
"Two wrongs don't make a right."
Konrath asked: Is God going to strike her down? Give her a disease and kill her?
Church bells rang out in the distance. Bierzychudek felt sick, left the table, and locked herself in a nearby bathroom. She tapped her iPhone to stop the recording and allowed herself to exhale.
Then someone began banging on the door.
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Bierzychudek cracked the door back home in Peru and peered out.
Twenty-four hours earlier, she had escaped Puerto Rico, leaving Konrath behind and, hopefully, unaware of what she had done. That night at the bar, he had become belligerent and followed Bierzychudek to the bathroom, but he soon gave up. She slipped back to their room while he spent the rest of the evening drinking with new friends. When the surgeon finally stumbled into bed, he didn't seem to notice Bierzychudek, who lay next to him, eyes wide. She counted the minutes until morning, when she withdrew money from their joint account and snuck off to the airport to catch the next flight out. Before departure, she emailed copies of the recording to several law-enforcement agencies. Back in Peru, she hastily packed her belongings.
"Did he really think people were going to believe that both his ex-girlfriend and ex-wife were going to commit suicide?"
But at some point during Bierzychudek's transit, Konrath had discovered her absence, and now, a police officer was knocking on the front door. Sensing that something was off, Bierzychudek would not let the officer in until the woman produced a badge. Once inside, the officer explained that Konrath had called Peru police from Puerto Rico, expressing grave concern that his girlfriend was suicidal.
Suicidal? Like Ana? Bierzychudek's mind raced. She unloaded her bizarre story to the officer: the vacation, the murder plot, the recording, the secret flight home. Bierzychudek asked the authorities to search the home for evidence and then was taken to the station, where she provided a sworn statement and played the recording.
While Bierzychudek talked to the detectives, police obtained a warrant. At Konrath's house, they found a .38-caliber revolver loaded with hollow-point ammunition. The gun was discovered on a shelf, stored in a plastic bag and covered with latex gloves. Next to the gun was another bag containing scrubs, sweatpants, and other gear.
The police questioned Bierzychudek until 4 a.m. and then took her to a safe house. She fell asleep relieved—finally, the authorities knew the whole story. Surely they now had enough evidence to lock up Konrath for a long time.
The morning his girlfriend disappeared from Puerto Rico, Konrath could not figure out what had happened. The couple had been texting throughout the day, but she never showed up back at the hotel. Later, he discovered that Bierzychudek had cleaned out their bank account—about $30,000, by his estimate.
When Konrath returned home to Indiana the next day, most of Bierzychudek's stuff was in boxes. A police officer called him and asked if he would consent to questioning about an alleged plan to kill his ex-wife. Konrath knew he had mentioned something—he had shared the dark fantasy before with buddies while drinking, just to blow off steam—but alcohol had dulled his memory of that night in Puerto Rico. He refused to answer questions without first consulting legal counsel.
On Monday, Konrath went to work at Dukes Memorial Hospital in Peru as usual. But after his shift on Tuesday, police arrested him in a Kroger parking lot on the charge of attempted murder, a felony carrying a maximum of 40 years in prison. He was taken to the Miami County Jail, and his bond was set at $250,000.
The case arrived that day on the desk of Miami County Prosecutor Bruce Embrey, who called in a few detectives, investigators, and fellow lawyers to listen to Bierzychudek's recording. They were shocked by what they heard: a carefully planned murder plot narrated by the alleged criminal. Murder and attempted murder were not common cases in Miami County. And in his nearly 40 years of experience, first as a judge and then as prosecutor, Embrey had never heard anything like this. The recording chilled him. The next day, he filed an attempted-murder charge against Konrath for taking "a substantial step toward the commission of said crime of Murder."
On August 4, after spending almost a month in jail, Konrath posted a $20,000 bond and was released. The authorities required him to surrender his passport and served him a no-contact order for Ana and Bierzychudek. He quickly broke both orders, going to lengths to get in touch with each woman.
Back at the home he had shared with Bierzychudek, Konrath sent her an email asking if she missed him and if she wanted to talk. She didn't respond. In addition, Bierzychudek received three pieces of mail from Konrath at her new P.O. box, though she had not given him the address.
Konrath then called a private investigator named Dale Seward to try to find her. He provided Bierzychudek's name, phone number, friends' phone numbers, and kids' phone numbers, but he needed the woman's location. The interaction struck Seward as odd. If Konrath had all of her contact information, why wouldn't he just call her and ask her himself? Seward eventually received an envelope from Konrath with a $150 check and a note requesting the investigator hold off cashing the payment. "I thought, Hell, the guy calls himself an M.D., and he can't afford $150?" says Seward. A few days later, while scrolling through Facebook, Seward read a news story about a nearby surgeon charged with attempted murder. The name sounded familiar. Seward contacted local media and the police.
Konrath also texted a woman he knew who worked at Unity Healthcare, according to police documents. He wanted her to call Bierzychudek and pretend to represent a lender who needed an address to send a refund for a loan overpayment. The woman contacted the police.
Konrath called the pharmacy where Bierzychudek filled her prescriptions. He used his status as a doctor to order her Phentermine, a weight-loss drug that can cause mood swings and depression. When Bierzychudek received an automated call that a prescription in her name had been filled, one she never ordered, she called the cops. "Did he really think people were going to believe that both his ex-girlfriend and ex-wife were going to commit suicide?" Bierzychudek says.
Konrath even pressed his daughter to reach out to Bierzychudek on his behalf, asking the teenager to arrange a dinner date for the couple.
These acts, along with messages he relayed to Ana through his kids, finally led to Konrath's arrest for breaking the no-contact orders. Eight days after his initial release, he was back in jail to await trial on three new charges: stalking Ana Konrath, stalking Bierzychudek, and issuing an invalid prescription.
About that time, police heard from an employee at a Kokomo Walgreens who had information that suggested Konrath had been plotting to leave the country prior to his arrest. The employee said that earlier in the month, when Konrath was out on bond, the surgeon had come into the store to purchase passport photos, as well as smaller pictures. Later, police reviewed the store's surveillance footage, which showed Konrath measuring something from his wallet—a driver's license, it appeared.
If Konrath tried to flee the country, police thought he might head to Mexico. Around the same time as the Walgreens tip, they discovered that their suspect was currently married to a Mexican national. Though the couple was separated, he had apparently given her up to $250,000 to start a business. The lead was enough to obtain another search warrant, and police seized Konrath's iPhones and MacBook. Forensics conducted on his phone revealed he had reset its settings around July 4 (the day Bierzychudek fled Puerto Rico). After that date, he had looked up ways to locate people using various websites. They found several queries for "how to search for people" and "how to find people through forwarding mail" and for flights to Mexico.
Data recovered before July 4 recorded searches for "gun" and "handgun." One text message Konrath received said: "Exactly. Did you ever end up getting yourself a handgun?" An iPhone 4 revealed a text conversation from June 30–July 1 in which Konrath told someone that he had talked to Bierzychudek about the murder plan. An examination of Konrath's laptop uncovered queries for "guns," "gun brokers," and "Ana Konrath." In addition, the electronic examination showed Konrath had searched for ways to hide money in a divorce, information on gun shows, and details on interpreting gunshot wounds.
Eventually, investigators got their hands on physical evidence. In the process of moving to Chicago, Ana had stumbled upon bullets in her nightstand—items she had never seen before. They matched the type found in Konrath's gun.
The mounting evidence suggested to Embrey, the Miami County prosecutor, that the Konrath case would be open-and-shut. Still, with the trial set months away in January, Embrey began to get organized. When preparing for any trial, he usually researched previous cases to look for precedents. A fairly recent attempted-murder case caught his eye: Mark E. Collier v. State of Indiana. He started reading.
On the afternoon of April 24, 2003, Mark Collier had left his house and gone to his neighbor Charles Cameron. Collier was upset. He and his wife, Nancy, had separated the month before, and she had filed a no-contact order. Collier was worried he would lose his house in the divorce. He talked about killing her and himself. At some point, he left Cameron's house.
Around 5:30 p.m., Collier returned and told him, "Tonight's the night." Collier asked Cameron to take care of his pets. He gave him spare keys to his house and pickup. Then Collier went into his bedroom to pray. Cameron heard him say, "God, forgive me for what I'm gonna do."
Nancy was working a night shift at the hospital in Angola. Collier collected an ice pick, a box cutter, and a pair of binoculars. He told Cameron, "I'm gonna stab her in the effin' heart twice. I'm gonna cut her effin' throat." At 9 p.m., he set out in his pickup for Angola. Cameron called the police.
"It was just a rant. There's some truth in there, but a lot of BS."
Just after 10:40 p.m., police officers arrived at the hospital and spotted Collier's truck in the parking lot, backed up near the emergency-room exit, the only option available to anyone leaving the hospital after 10 p.m. Collier was inside the truck, asleep. The officers arrested him and found an ice pick, a box cutter, a pair of binoculars, and an open container of beer. Collier was charged with attempted murder. In February 2005, the Steuben County Superior Court convicted him and sentenced him to 25 years in prison, followed by five years of probation. Collier appealed.
In the Indiana Court of Appeals decision, Judge Nancy Vaidik wrote, "To establish attempted murder, the State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that (1) the defendant acted with the specific intent to kill; and (2) the defendant engaged in conduct constituting a substantial step toward commission of the crime of murder." In a previous case, the Indiana Court of Appeals had decided that a "substantial step" is any "overt act beyond mere preparation and in furtherance of intent to commit an offense."
During the appeal, Collier's lawyer did not dispute the facts: Collier was found in the parking lot of Nancy's workplace with the ice pick, the box cutter, and the binoculars. He had indeed told people he was going to stab her in the heart and cut her throat. But his lawyers argued that the evidence was insufficient to constitute a "substantial step." Instead, his conduct was "mere preparation."
The judge said that to be deemed an attempt, "the defendant's conduct must be strongly corroborative of the defendant's criminal purpose." The attempted-murder statute lists seven factors that determine intent. The decision stated Collier's conduct met the standard for three of the benchmarks, but the court determined it could not say "his conduct was strongly corroborative of his stated intent."
Then there were the weapons. In the decision, the judge said that due to the nature of the ice pick and box cutter, coupled with the distance between Collier and Nancy at the time of his arrest, the items were "virtually useless to Collier in terms of attempted murder." In different circumstances with different weapons, the judge admitted, the ruling could have been different. But in Collier's case, he was cleared of wrongdoing—"he never took a substantial step toward commission of the crime of murder," the judge said.
The decision floored Embrey. This case set a precedent, one that could prevent him from successfully convicting Konrath: Unless a person is actively engaging in attempted murder and holding the weapon within a distance that could be dangerous to the victim, there is no crime. And by those standards, no matter how threatening he seemed, Konrath would be counted innocent, the prosecutor reasoned.
If his office continued to pursue the attempted-murder charge, he thought, there was a good chance the case would be dismissed. And even if they could get Konrath to trial, a guilty verdict would surely be overturned by the appellate court, just like the Collier case. Embrey believed Konrath intended to kill Ana. He felt it in the way Konrath talked with such calculation and bravado in the recording and how the evidence pieced together. Still, there was a gulf between Embrey's conviction and getting one in court.
In December 2014, as part of a deal, Embrey dropped the attempted-murder charge, and Konrath pleaded guilty to stalking both Ana Konrath and Bierzychudek while out on bail. At the trial this past January, Konrath was sentenced to 10 years: one year in prison (minus the time he had already served in jail), one year with community corrections (monitored home detention), and eight years' probation. The court ordered him to have no contact with Ana Konrath or Bierzychudek and banned him from being within 50 or 20 miles of their locations, respectively. When released, he would be required to wear a tracking device to enforce the order.
Konrath returned to jail with an early-release date in April 2015. What at one point had been a possible 40-year sentence had turned into a few months behind bars.
"Hard cases make bad law." That's what Embrey's mentor used to say, and the prosecutor thought the maxim fit Konrath's case.
The Indiana attempted-murder statute is fairly vague. Different juries across the state's counties can, and have, come to different conclusions about what warrants a conviction. But in the last decade, several Indiana Court of Appeals decisions have significantly narrowed the definition of attempted murder, and those precedents place tight boundaries on how county courts now interpret the statute.
Embrey understands the complications surrounding "attempt." After all, a person making a verbal threat in an emotional state should not necessarily be charged with a Class A felony and get 25 years behind bars. But he also believes a gap exists in the law—one that could be addressed by legislation. To be associated with attempted murder, a person must be actively trying to carry out the murder and be close enough to the victim that the weapon could be dangerous. As it stands, anything short of that would not be punishable by law.
One section of the Collier decision, which prompted Embrey to drop Konrath's attempted-murder charge, says: "The Indiana Supreme Court has recognized that deciding what constitutes an attempt has always been a burden upon the common law, challenging even the most respected judges." In other words, the appeals court acknowledges that deciding what counts as attempted murder is not easy.
In the textbook Essential Criminal Law, originally published in 2013, law students are given a brief summary of the Collier case with a question at the end: "Is Collier guilty of attempted murder?" The author of the book, University of Illinois at Chicago professor Matthew Lippman, says the question is only meant to be an exercise to generate discussion—having students answer this definitively is too difficult.
Across the country, there is no standard rule for defining attempt—different states have different specifications. Lippman understands the thinking behind Embrey's decision in the Konrath case. "We don't really know whether he would have carried this out," he says. "That's what they are really saying. Because he didn't come close enough for us to be certain, and we don't want to convict someone if they have the intent, but they don't have the act." But even though precedent refines law, and the Collier case has similarities to the Konrath case, he says, no two cases are the same. Small details can make the difference between a few months in jail with community service and 25 years in prison.
Several other cases expose Indiana's ambiguity regarding "attempt." In 2007, a man named David Calvert packed his Jeep with guns and ski masks and told people he was going to rob a liquor store. While driving to the store, Calvert was stopped by police. They found the guns and masks, and he was arrested and charged with attempted robbery. A jury convicted him of attempted robbery with a deadly weapon and possession of firearms as a serious, violent felon. The Indiana Court of Appeals reversed this verdict, saying Calvert's actions did not constitute a "substantial step." In a 1984 case, Charles Hampton was convicted of attempted robbery after a woman called the police and said she had seen a man (Hampton) sneaking around the Pizza Hut next door. Police found Hampton passed out between bushes with a gun. A jury convicted him of attempted robbery. The Indiana Court of Appeals upheld the verdict.
These gray areas beg a philosophical question, says Lippman: Should a prosecutor, when the law is somewhat uncertain, go ahead with charges in the interest of justice? In order to clarify Indiana's statute, Lippman believes, cases such as Konrath's should always go ahead. Even if a verdict ends up overturned, a decision by the Indiana Supreme Court or the appellate court could help shape the law even further for future cases. Otherwise, the Indiana General Assembly would have to pass a law to close what could be considered a loophole.
Lippman thinks most judges would view Konrath's actions as an attempt, and if the case would have been in Illinois, the outcome could have been different. "Clearly we would all say this guy should be charged with something more than stalking and is dangerous," says Lippman.
If the case had gone to court, Konrath's past would not have done him any favors. In March 1998, the doctor was charged with a DUI in Riverside County, California. He was convicted and spent two days in jail and 36 months on probation. In 2011, he was charged with obtaining property by trick or deception after writing $160,000 in bad checks to the Firelake Grand Casino in Shawnee, Oklahoma. The charge was dismissed in 2012 after he paid off his debt.
Bierzychudek claims that Konrath was a violent drunk. Once, he punched a wall. In the past, she says, he hurt her. And at least one of Konrath's fellow climbing enthusiasts says the surgeon displayed volatile behavior on past trips.
Konrath had hired guides from a company owned by Guy Cotter, now CEO of Adventure Consultants Ltd., on at least three different occasions. All three trips were marked by incidents, ranging from a tantrum when an avalanche that claimed the lives of six people stalled Konrath's attempt of Mount Tasman to erratic behavior that guides worried endangered lives on an Everest attempt. Cotter says when he removed Konrath from the Everest trip, the doctor became enraged. Later, Konrath tried to have Cotter ousted from the International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations and lobbied to have the company's doctor punished, saying she abandoned him with an altitude illness and left him to die. Cotter says Konrath's claims were "eventually proven unfounded."
But even if Konrath said and did some terrible things, would he really have killed Ana Konrath? The recording certainly seemed incriminating to Embrey. In one part, Bierzychudek suggested to Konrath that killing Ana, the mother of his children, would be hard for him. He responded that it would be harder "not fuckin' puttin' six bullets" in her head and spitting on her. But saying awful things, even being a terrible person, doesn't make someone a criminal.
The real victim in all of this is Konrath, according to Konrath.
In a jailhouse interview before his April release, he said he was pretty drunk that night in Puerto Rico; he had thrown back six or seven drinks and didn't remember many details, but he figured the recording sounded pretty bad. "It was just a rant," he said. "There's some truth in there, but a lot of BS." Konrath was unaware of the recording until his arrest. "I mean, if I was with a buddy getting drunk, and we were talking about our exes, we would start saying some stupid things like that," he said. "But sober? No."
He remembered that Bierzychudek told him she was switching rooms because he was being a jerk. Then, he said, she withdrew all the money from their joint checking account and flew home. He claimed she had stolen money from him before and in the end turned out to be just like his ex-wife, exploiting him for his money.
While she was staying in the safe house, Bierzychudek did meet Konrath at his workplace the day before his arrest. "I didn't really say anything," she recalled in a separate interview. "He said, 'What are you doing here?' I said, 'I just really miss you,' because I did so much—and I still miss the Greg I thought I knew." The couple kissed, and then Konrath left. Shortly thereafter, he reappeared, seemingly from nowhere: "I don't know where he came from, which direction, [but] then he grabbed me. It really scared me. Then he kissed me again and said, 'I'll see you later.'"
Konrath left the meeting confused. One minute he felt like he was in a great relationship, and the next minute he was being charged with attempted murder. So, when he was released from jail, he didn't consider the things he was doing as stalking. He said he just missed Bierzychudek.
Konrath said he bought the .38 years ago for self-protection and that the bullets were in Ana's house because he left them there by accident after he moved—in his drunken rage, the ammunition just became part of the story. Sometimes when he drinks, he said, he exaggerates. The suspicious clothes found by the police were merely climbing gear.
As for his Mexican wife, he said he met her in Cabo during a few wild months after his divorce from Ana was finalized. Ultimately, the union didn't work out, and he was in the process of filing for divorce. He didn't know what his future plans were. He hoped to get his old job back at Dukes Memorial Hospital but would need to get his medical license reinstated first; after his August arrest, the deputy attorney general had petitioned to have it suspended.
He would be released on April 14. And even though he wasn't allowed within 20 miles of Ana, and two of their kids were under that no-contact order, too (the oldest was a legal adult), he wanted to find a way to spend time with his children. Despite the restrictions, Konrath seemed to believe the relationship with his ex-wife is repairable. When asked who might speak on his behalf for this story, he suggested Ana. "I mean, my ex-wife knows me best … I think she'd give a favorable spin."
Living a life without boundaries can be a good quality—unless you're a stalker. In Konrath's case, even a little freedom proved to be too much.
Not long after his release, the surgeon— still under a court order to stay away from his ex-wife and ex-girlfriend—drove from Peru to Lafayette, where he once lived with Ana, and removed his monitoring device on April 29. Police tracked the anklet to the intersection of Highway 38 and I-65 that evening, but Konrath was nowhere to be found. The FBI and U.S. Marshal Service were alerted, and a day later, police arrested Konrath during a routine traffic stop on I-40 just outside of Flagstaff, Arizona.
Embrey won't re-charge Konrath with attempted murder, but this time the prosecutor is pushing to change the eight years originally slated for community corrections into jail time. Embrey hopes that sentence, coupled with the new charge for tampering with a tracking device and fleeing, will put Konrath behind bars for a little more than 10 years.
Bierzychudek, who lives in hiding, is working to rebuild her life. In the testimony she gave at Konrath's first sentencing, she said, "You cost me my family, my job, my sense of security, my home. You've shaken everything I once knew."
Ana Konrath, who currently lives in the Chicago area with her three children, declined to be interviewed for this story.
At press time, Konrath was awaiting extradition in an Arizona jail. Embrey's new charge has been filed, and a court date for Konrath's hearing will be set once he is back in Miami County.
If nothing else, the doctor is guilty of hubris. "He's a brilliant guy—obviously a very high IQ," says Embrey. "He may have been a very good surgeon. But he's shown he's not a very good criminal."
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How to Unsubscribe From Unwanted Email
If you want off a mailing list, deleting messages won't be enough. Here's how to force unsolicited-but-legit email to stop bothering you.
By Eric Griffith
10 Jul 2020, 6:31 a.m.
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Chances are, your email inbox is a mix of important messages, shipping notices, bill alerts, newsletters you never read, and other easy-to-ignore missives.
But spam creeps in. Sometimes you do it yourself—enter your email address to win that contest!—and sometimes others do it for you. Thanks for that blank-of-the-month club email list, Grandma. Luckily, there are easy ways to kill unwanted emails, and they don't involved sending invective-filled rants to the sender.
Unsubscribe Links Made Easy
The cleanest way to get off a list is to use the built-in unsubscribe option. That link is generally buried at the bottom of the message, in tiny type or made to not even look like a link, all the better to keep you subscribed.
(The chance that the unsubscribe link is a trick—a way to confirm you are a real person—is low. But be smart about it; if something looks fishy in any message, just delete it.)
Gmail makes it easy to unsubscribe on the desktop. Whenever it notices a working unsubscribe link in a message, it puts its own unsubscribe link at the top of the message, right next to the address of the sender's email. In fact, sometimes it appears in place of the Spam icon in the toolbar. Click it and a giant Unsubscribe button appears.
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On mobile, tap the three-dot menu up top; if the sender offers an easy unsubscribe option, the word Unsubscribe will appear on the menu.
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Prominent unsubscribe links are also found on Outlook.com and the Outlook apps as well. On the web, it says "Getting too much email? Unsubscribe" at the top of a supported message.
Apple's iOS Mail App
On the built-in iOS Mail app, look for a banner reading "This message is from a mailing list. Unsubscribe" atop your messages, which will email the sender with the unsub request.
Edison Mail
Edison Mail for iOS, macOS, and Android shows a large Unsubscribe button at the top of a message (with a Resubscribe button if you change your mind). Edison Mail also offers a Block option on messages, so you never have to see anything from the sender ever again.
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What's interesting is that not all email apps recognize unsubscribe links the same way, or support them within the same messages. Thankfully, when you're on the mobile apps that support multiple services (usually Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo, and IMAP accounts), you can unsubscribe across all the services.
Unsubscribe Services
Want to unsubscribe from mail in a big batch? Several services make it possible. The downside: you have to give these services complete access to your inbox for them to find messages with an unsubscribe option; sometimes that includes your contacts. Like Heinlein said: TANSTAAFL.
Unroll.me
Available on the web or via a mobile app, Unroll.me looks into the heart of your Outlook.com, Gmail/GSuite, Yahoo Mail, and Aol email account to locate messages you probably don't want. You can also try an email address from another service.
In return, you get a list of all the senders you could nix; pick the ones you don't want, and Unroll.me does the rest. It also offers a service called The Rollup so you can re-subscribe to select mailings, but they'll get funneled to you via Unroll.me in a daily digest. You can edit (or deactivate) The Rollup any time.
Unroll.me is free, but it does want full access to your messages and contacts. Its parent company claims that it ignores personal email and anonymizes the messages it sees, but it's using all of the data to sell market research.
Unsubscriber by Polymail
Unsubscriber is not cheap at $19, but that's because it's not making its money by selling your info to marketing firms and third parties. Created by Polymail—one of our 20 Tools for More Productive Email—the site asks you to log in via your Google account and then offers full bulk unsubscribe and archive tools.
With Leave Me Alone, you pay for credits ($2.50 for 50) that you can apply toward doing unsubscribes; one unsub per credit. It supports Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, iCloud, Aol, and any IMAP accounts. Connect them all. There's also offer an account option for big teams.
Clean Email
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A single account at Clean Email is $29.99 per year, or you can do up to five users for $49.99 per year or $99.99 annually for a full team (there are more expensive monthly options starting at $7.99). Like many others, it offers a web interface that aggregates your web-based email services (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, IMAP accounts) in one big inbox that can be cleaned up in a few clicks, whether you're bulk unsubbing, black-listing senders, or setting up filters and rules.
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Introducing our new Harry Keen Fellow, Dr Richard Oram – by Kotryna Temcinaite
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Last year at Diabetes UK we started a new tradition: awarding the prestigious Harry Keen Intermediate Fellowship. This Fellowship has been established in recognition of the life and work of Professor Harry Keen, a clinical pioneer who helped to shape the understanding of diabetes and its treatment. We believe in supporting the leaders of the future, and this Fellowship is set to support the next clinical research leaders in diabetes.
A year ago you met our first awardee, Dr Victoria Salem. Today I want to introduce you to our new Harry Keen Fellow, Dr Richard Oram. Richard is based in University of Exeter Medical School and over the next five years will be studying an extremely rare form of diabetes. But about all that in his own words…
Why diabetes research?
Richard explains: "I started as a kidney doctor, and diabetes is one of the commonest cause of kidney problems. A key factor that affected my choice to work on diabetes was that I had several young patients with Type 1 diabetes, who were unlucky enough to develop kidney problems very early in their life: in their late teens, twenties and thirties. And I think it was looking at the options these people had, looking at what bad luck they had, that motivated me to do Type 1 diabetes research."
Battling the unknowns
"My major research interest is the biology of Type 1 diabetes. The key thing is that we don't really understand why people develop Type 1 diabetes. And why people have their beta cells destroyed by the immune system at different rates.
"I really got into this field doing my PhD, when I focused on how well insulin-producing beta cells function in people with Type 1 diabetes. I measured their function in people with Type 1 diabetes, including those who had received islet transplants. One of the things we found was that the rate at which beta cells were lost was very variable. And many people, in fact most people, didn't lose all of their beta cells.
Richard receives Nick Hales Young Investigator Award in 2014
"The question that my PhD led to was why is it so variable? Why do some people develop an immune attack and lose all of their beta cells very quickly, while there are other people with Type 1 diabetes who have a much more 'slow burning' process? And maybe if we learnt more about that, we could avoid rapid beta cell destruction.
"I also got interested in the age of diagnosis, because we know that people who are diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes younger, on average, lost their beta cells slightly more rapidly. But again, we don't know why. As a broad theme now I'm focused on how fast people lose their beta cells and what things determine that speed."
Studying the unusual to learn about the whole
"For the Harry Keen Fellowship, I am focused on one project. It comes from the principle that by studying very unusual forms of diabetes we might learn more about all of Type 1 diabetes as a whole.
"So I'm focusing on a unique group of people with Type 1 diabetes, who were diagnosed far earlier than it had previously been described. This comes from Exeter being the worldwide referral centre for neonatal diabetes, or diabetes diagnosed in the first six months of life.
"Neonatal diabetes is usually caused by a single genetic spelling mistake in a beta cell gene. This spelling mistake impairs insulin production. But using a new test that I've developed, called the Type 1 Diabetes Genetic Risk Score, we have proven that some of these people with neonatal diabetes actually developed an immune attack in the first six months of their life.
"Firstly, this is extremely unfortunate for people who are diagnosed so young, because Type 1 diabetes as an adult is challenging enough, but as a child – and as an extremely young child – it only gets more challenging. But the surprising thing to me, as a doctor and scientist, was that they developed immune attack at the age where your immune system hasn't fully developed yet."
Key questions
"So the key question that I'm asking as a Harry Keen Fellow is: what led to these people developing an immune attack so extremely early? Is it something in their genes? Is it something in their immune system? Is it something in their environment, or is it just random bad luck? And if we can find the reason people develop Type 1 diabetes so extremely early, it might also tell us the key biological processes of Type 1 diabetes."
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My name is Kotryna, I'm the Research Communications Officer at Diabetes UK, so there's no surprise that my blog posts are all about research! Before I joined Diabetes UK I spent four years in the lab doing cancer research, earning a PhD. I realised I loved talking about science and listening or reading about the achievements of researchers. So here I am with your updates from the science world.
I'd like to see people embracing science, even if the last time they were taught it was in high school. The same stigma doesn't apply to arts, music, and literature – we're not afraid to talk about it – and I would very much like for science to be the same. During my spare time I can be spotted in cinemas or in the middle of nowhere on the top of a hill, and from time to time with my hands in a bowl of dough.
If you want to stay more up to date with what's happening in the Research Team at Diabetes UK, you can also follow us on Twitter @DUK_Research.
And just as a side note - fluffy dogs are the best. Try this as a Google picture search term on a bad day.
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Planet Earth Poetry is a long standing reading series (since 1995) featuring local poets and writers as well as poets and authors from the rest of Canada, especially BC and Alberta. Our readings have been at Hillside Coffee & Tea, 1633 Hillside Avenue for over 10 years on Friday evenings. We start at 7:30 with an open mic (sign up closes at 7:15 - it is a lottery system) We run every Friday from mid-September to early December and then mid-January to the end of April. In the summer we are once or twice a month only. In addition we offer writing workshops, master classes and retreats on an occasional basis. Check out the website for details. We are collective of writers and friends of writers.


Whilst Schneider clearly nails his colours to the mast on Brexit, ACES is interested in the welfare policy changes he mentions. Could these changes turn the clocks back to a Victorian age of Dickensian poverty? Where the haves have - and the have nots really don't have anything? Is the gap really widening between the rich and the poor – and is it going to get worse?
So what exactly is Universal Credit and how will it affect Sussex?
All these improvements are designed to encourage people back into work wherever possible and start people budgeting for monthly income, like the world of work, not weekly payments.
Sounds great, and it will be for 80% of the claimant population but ACES has come across a cohort of people who will not be able to cope with these changes. For example, older people who don't have digital access or are not comfortable with the world wide web; some people who have never had a bank account; or people with mental health issues who really can't budget without help.
In fact, ACES has come across people who do not know that two £5 notes are worth the same as one £10 note! How on earth are they going to manage their money from one month to the next?
The change to Universal Credit could mean at least six weeks before claimants get another square meal as there are some significant hurdles for them to overcome. For starters a claimant may not make a claim for seven days from their last employment or benefit payment. When they do make a claim they will not receive approval for four weeks and when they finally receive approval they will not receive any payment into their new bank account for a further seven days. Six weeks before receiving any money is actually the best-case scenario so what are these people supposed to do for food?
In the event of any mistake or missing one of the many tight deadlines during this six week process, the claimant has to go back to the beginning and start again. Given that there are so many different government departments involved, delays are very likely and there have been cases of disadvantaged families going without income for over four months, through no fault of their own.
This is all very well for the sort of people who have savings to fall back on but many benefit claimants come from chaotic backgrounds and are not used to administration, banking or budgeting. They rarely have any savings and will be forced to beg, steal, borrow or visit a foodbank to survive.
It would be nice to think that these people will say "Heck! I'd better go out and get a job!" But is that likely for people who come from five generations of benefit claimants? In today's quick fix society they will want money now, not in six weeks' time, so the quickest ways to get money fast are to shop-lift, deal drugs or join the black economy, where unscrupulous employers will employ you for well below the minimum wage – no questions asked.
This brings me on to the state of our high streets which are beginning to look like a Dickensian throwback. In Brighton, Hastings and even Eastbourne, the number of people sleeping rough and begging on the streets appears to have doubled. Bedding is appearing in shop doorways and staff have to clear out the entrance to their store before they can even start to welcome customers in.
Seaside hotels are reporting that their guests are checking out early to return home because: "This town just isn't the lovely place it used to be" or "I feel really uncomfortable with the aggressive beggars on the street".
Anti-social behaviour is increasing too as the street community meet up and drink strong lager from before 9am in our town centres. After several strong lagers they start to argue and shout at passers-by without realising how loud they sound. Shop windows are smashed over night as rough sleeping turf wars develop and at weekends drunken revellers have a go at vulnerable rough sleepers who are out on their own.
Sometimes drink and drugs are the only way to cope with living on the streets. Needles appear regularly in gardens, shop doorways and outside offices, presenting a serious danger to residents and children. Business people have had to buy sharps containers just to keep the front of their business premises clean, tidy and safe.
Do we step over these people who have fallen between societies cracks? Will they disappear if we turn the other way?
It's clear from what we hear from the Police that some of these people are professional beggars who don't need our help, but many are really vulnerable people who are just trying to stay alive. Many of them are you or me - but for the grace of God.
Firstly, never give money direct to a beggar. Get them a cup of tea, hot soup or a sandwich.
Make sure you buy extra groceries each week including food, soap and other household items for your local Foodbank. They really are worried that Universal Credit will mean they are going to run out of food.
working with disadvantaged communities, often with serious mental health issues.
If you see any sort of aggression on the streets - dial 999.
What can business people do?
Some Chamber members are already helping in a big way. For example "We Push Ducks Gym" has created a Ducks Foundation and is working with Matthew 25 and The Rebourne Corner of the Salvation Army to offer personal training for homeless and disadvantaged people.
People with drug and drink problems have been coming to 1-2-1 fitness sessions to help start to kick the habit and claw their way back to a healthier life.
Reformed East Sussex is working with people stuck in a cycle of criminality and helps them to train to re-enter the word of work.
Eastbourne Football Club is offering football training sessions for the street community. All we need is transport to get them to their weekly training sessions.
Outreach Workers are people who are trained to work with the street community and help guide them through the agencies who are there to help them. They can reduce the numbers of people on the street dramatically but due to government cuts they have disappeared which has contributed to the recent increase in rough sleepers.
There is a whole segment of society known as "The Precariat". Often young people they live precariously from one pay day to the next. They might be professional people living in rented accommodation but if they have an accident or become ill and lose their job, they can't pay their rent and will get kicked out on the street.
If they don't have the support of a wealthy family it can be really difficult to get back onto the property ladder. Private landlords require large deposits, payments up front and employed guarantors. It's almost impossible if you don't have any savings or a rich relative with a steady income.
Clearly, once you are on the street it becomes very hard to get back into safe accommodation. Health issues, drink, drugs and mental health issues follow - fast - and there but for the grace of God go I!
Don't imagine it could never happen to you.


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