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I Can't Go To Someone Who Insults Me For Advice - Kissi Agyebeng Shades Amidu
Special Prosecutor (SP), Kissi Agyebeng, has hinted of a bitter relationship between him and his predecessor, Martin Alamisi Burnes Kaiser Amidu.
Martin Amidu resigned as Special Prosecutor after accusing the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of interfering with his job and also made several claims of corruption against his administration.
In a letter issued on Monday, November 16, 2020 and addressed to the President, Mr Amidu said he was resigning due to "the lack of respect of the independence of his office".
Following his resignation, the President mentioned Kissi Agyebeng as the new Special Prosecutor but this invited a caustic reply from Mr. Amidu who didn't sound enthused about Mr. Agyebeng's appointment.
Martin Amidu's Reply
He accused Mr. Agyebeng of having a close relation with the President's cousin, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko and also playing a role in the controversial Agyapa Royalties deal.
Mr Amidu, who extensively took on Asaase Radio for, according to him, publishing falsehoods about his resignation as Special Prosecutor to justify the nomination of Mr Agyebeng, said: "Asaase Radio appears to have been so bent on pressurizing the President to announce their preferred choice as the Special Prosecutor (the Agyapa Special Prosecutor) that it forgot that the nomination letter by the Attorney General was addressed only to the President".
"Asaase Radio should also have told the Ghanaian and international public that its surrogate and nominee Special Prosecutor in the published letter is a personal friend and classmate of the Attorney General, and the owner of Asaase Radio, all of whom attended the University of Ghana's Faculty of Law, and Ghana Law School", he added.
The former SP, in an article authored by him following the nomination of Lawyer Kissi Agyebeng to replace him, further stated; ''The Agyapa Royalties Transaction records show the role the President's cousin who established Africa Legal Associates, and Asaase Radio played with White &Case LLP, of London, one of the foreign law firms in the suspected corruption transaction.
''It must, therefore, be worrying to any patriotic Ghanaian not afraid of the culture of silence to see Asaase Radio undertaking political propaganda beginning on 25th April 2021 to 26th April 2021 to prepare the minds of the Ghanaian and international public to accept the surrogate of the alter ego of the Asaase Radio station and Africa Legal Associates as the Special Prosecutor as mandated under section 4(1) of the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, 2018 (Act 959).''
Kissi Agyebeng Shades Amidu
During an interview on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo' Thursday morning, the host Kwami Sefa Kayi, affectionately called 'Chairman General', asked Lawyer Agyebeng whether he has reached out to his predecessor to seek his knowledge on the job, but it has been revealed that the two have never communicated and it's due to the seething bad blood between them.
To him, Mr. Amidu's advice is ''useless'' to him.
In response, Mr. Agyebeng said; ''I went to meet the handing-over note. When my name was mentioned, this person started insulting me. Is this somebody you go for advice? He doesn't know me. Someone who doesn't know me but insults me, I'd rather go to Professor Mensah Bonsu for advice. I can't come to you the person insulting me for advice."


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What Does Mechanical Mouse Mean?
Techopedia Explains Mechanical Mouse
A mechanical mouse is a computer hardware input device comprised of a metal or rubber ball in its underside. Moving the mouse causes the ball to roll, and sensors inside the mouse detect the movement of the ball and consequently send signals to the cursor on the screen. The mechanical mouse has largely been replaced by the optical mouse.
A mechanical mouse is also known as a ball mouse.
A mechanical mouse makes use of the motion of a ball inside it, which is connected to two wheels placed perpendicular to each other. These wheels are responsible for left/right and up/down movement detection of the ball, and hence send the corresponding motions to cursor on the screen.
The mechanical mouse became a nearly universal tool for computer interaction in the 1980s, and continued to be dominant through the 1990s. The mechanical mouse is now largely considered obsolete, replaced by the lightweight and low-cost optical mouse. They are similar in shape and function, but instead of the ball, they rely on optical sensors, which tend to be more reliable.
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It's an evolving discipline that aims to produce evidence on how to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, fairness and impact of research.
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Master Direction - Miscellaneous (Updated as on November 12, 2018)
FED Master Direction No. 19/2015-16
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Madam / Dear Sir,
Master Direction - Miscellaneous
Reserve Bank of India has issued Master Directions consolidating relevant A.P (DIR Series) Circulars issued so far within the ambit of the relevant regulations, amended up to date. The circulars/ instructions have been grouped into the Master Directions on the basis of the classes of transactions they pertain to. Instructions which do not figure in any of the other Master Directions have been compiled under this Master Direction. The List of the Circulars is given as an appendix.
2. Within the contours of the Regulations, Reserve Bank of India also issues directions to Authorised Persons under Section 11 of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), 1999. These directions lay down the modalities as to how the foreign exchange business has to be conducted by the Authorised Persons with their customers/ constituents with a view to implementing the regulations framed.
3. It may be noted that, whenever necessary, Reserve Bank shall issue directions to Authorised Persons through A.P. (DIR Series) Circulars in regard to any change in the Regulations or the manner in which relative transactions are to be conducted by the Authorised Persons with their customers/ constituents. The Master Direction issued herewith shall be amended suitably simultaneously.
Chief General Manager in Charge
1) Remittances to non-residents – Deduction of Tax at Source
On the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) revising the existing instructions to be followed while allowing remittances to the non-residents, Reserve Bank of India has clarified that it will not be issuing instructions under Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (FEMA), clarifying tax issues. The Authorised Dealers are required to comply with the requirement of the tax laws, as applicable.
2) Repatriation of income and sale proceeds of assets held abroad by NRIs who have returned to India for permanent settlement and repatriation of income and sale proceeds of assets acquired abroad through remittances under Liberalised Remittance Scheme – Clarification
(a) in terms of sub-section 4 of Section (6) of FEMA, a person resident in India is free to hold, own, transfer or invest in foreign currency, foreign security or any immovable property situated outside India if such currency, security or property was acquired, held or owned by such person when he was resident outside India or inherited from a person who was resident outside India.
(b) Sub-section 4 of Section (6) of FEMA covers the following transactions:
Foreign currency accounts opened and maintained by such a person when he was resident outside India;
Income earned through employment or business or vocation outside India taken up or commenced while such person was resident outside India, or from investments made while such person was resident outside India, or from gift or inheritance received while such a person was resident outside India;
Foreign exchange including any income arising therefrom, and conversion or replacement or accrual to the same, held outside India by a person resident in India acquired by way of inheritance from a person resident outside India.
A person resident in India may freely utilise all their eligible assets abroad as well as income on such assets or sale proceeds thereof received after their return to India for making any payments or to make any fresh investments abroad without approval of Reserve Bank, provided the cost of such investments and/ or any subsequent payments received therefor are met exclusively out of funds forming part of eligible assets held by them and the transaction is not in contravention to extant FEMA provisions.
(b) an investor can retain and reinvest the income earned on investments made under the Liberalised Remittance Scheme.
3) Resident bank account maintained by residents in India - Joint holder -liberalization
Individuals resident in India are permitted to include non-resident Indian (NRI) close relative (s) (NRI as defined in regulation 2(vi) of 1Notification No. FEMA 5(R)/2016-RB dated April 01, 2016, as amended from time to time and relative as defined in 2Section 2 (77) of the Companies Act, 2013) as a joint holder(s) in 3 all types of resident bank accounts on "Either or Survivor" basis subject to the following conditions:
Such account will be treated as resident bank account for all purposes and all regulations applicable to a resident bank account shall be applicable.
Cheques, instruments, remittances, cash, card or any other proceeds belonging to the NRI close relative shall not be eligible for credit to this account.
The NRI close relative shall operate such account only for and on behalf of the resident for domestic payment and not for creating any beneficial interest for himself.
Where the NRI close relative becomes a joint holder with more than one resident in such account, such NRI close relative should be the close relative of all the resident bank account holders.
Where due to any eventuality, the non-resident account holder becomes the survivor of such an account, it shall be categorized as Non-Resident Ordinary Rupee (NRO) account as per the extant regulations.
Onus will be on the non-resident account holder to keep AD bank informed to get the account categorized as NRO account and all such regulations as applicable to NRO account shall be applicable.
The above joint account holder facility may be extended to all types of resident accounts including savings bank account.
While extending this facility the AD bank should satisfy itself about the actual need for such a facility and also obtain the following declaration duly signed by the non-resident account holder:
"I am the joint account holder of SB/FD/RD/Current Account bearing No ……. which stands in my name and in the name of Shri/Smt. ……….. who is my ………. (state relationship). I hereby undertake that I shall not use the proceeds lying in the above account for any transaction in contravention of the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) 1999, Rules/Regulations made thereunder and the related circulars/instructions issued by the Reserve Bank from time to time. I further undertake that if any such transaction is put through the said account in contravention of the FEMA, 1999 or Rules/Regulations made thereunder, I shall be held responsible for the same. I shall intimate my bank in the event of any change in my Non-resident / Resident status."
4) Meeting of Medical expenses of NRI close relatives by Resident Individuals
Where the medical expenses in respect of NRI close relative (NRI as defined in regulation 2(vi) of 4Notification No. FEMA 5(R)/2016-RB dated April 01, 2016, as amended from time to time and relative as defined in 5Section 2(77) of the Companies Act, 2013) are paid by a resident individual when the NRI is on a visit to India, such a payment, although being in the nature of a resident to resident transaction, will be covered under the term "services related thereto" under Regulation 2(i) Notification No. FEMA 16/ 2000- RB dated May 3, 2000, ibid.
5) Routing of funds raised abroad to India
(a) Indian companies or their AD Category – I banks are not allowed to issue any direct or indirect guarantee or create any contingent liability or offer any security in any form for such borrowings by their overseas holding/ associate/ subsidiary/ group companies except for the purposes explicitly permitted in the relevant Regulations.
(b) Further, funds raised abroad by overseas holding/ associate/ subsidiary/ group companies of Indian companies with support of the Indian companies or their AD Category – I banks as mentioned at (i) above cannot be used in India unless it conforms to the general or specific permission granted under the relevant Regulations.
(c) Indian companies or their AD Category – I banks using or establishing structures which contravene the above shall render themselves liable for penal action as prescribed under FEMA, 1999.
6) Constitution of Special Investigating Team – sharing of information
In pursuance of the Hon'ble Supreme Court Judgment dated July 4, 2011, Government of India constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) under the Chairmanship of Hon'ble Justice M.B. Shah. In this regard, the Hon'ble Supreme Court has directed that:
"All organisations, agencies, departments and agents of the State, whether at the level of the Union of India, or the State Government, including but not limited to all statutorily formed individual bodies, and other constitutional bodies extend all the cooperation necessary for the functioning of the Special Investigation Team.
The Union of India and where needed the State Government will facilitate the conduct of the investigations, in their fullest measures, by the Special Investigation Team and functioning, by extending all necessary financial, material, legal, diplomatic and intelligence resources, whether such investigations or portions of such investigations occur inside the country or abroad." All Authorised Persons are advised to ensure that information/ documents required by the SIT are made available, as and when required.
7) Crystallization of Inoperative Foreign Currency Deposits – Reserve Bank (Depositor Education and Awareness Fund) Scheme, 2014
With the objective of aligning the instructions in respect of foreign currency accounts with the Reserve Bank (Depositor Education and Awareness Fund) Scheme, 2014, Authorised Dealer banks are required to crystallise, that is, convert the credit balances in any inoperative foreign currency denominated deposit into Indian Rupee, in the manner indicated below:
(a) In case a foreign currency denominated deposit with a fixed maturity date remains inoperative for a period of three years from the date of maturity of the deposit, at the end of the third year, the authorised bank shall convert the balances lying in the foreign currency denominated deposit into Indian Rupee at the exchange rate prevailing as on that date. Thereafter, the depositor shall be entitled to claim either the said Indian Rupee proceeds and interest thereon, if any, or the foreign currency equivalent (calculated at the rate prevalent as on the date of payment) of the Indian Rupee proceeds of the original deposit and interest, if any, on such Indian Rupee proceeds.
(b) In case of foreign currency denominated deposit with no fixed maturity period, if the deposit remains inoperative for a period of three years (debit of bank charges not to be reckoned as operation), the authorised bank shall, after giving a three month notice to the depositor at his last known address as available with it, convert the deposit from the foreign currency in which it is denominated to Indian Rupee at the end of the notice period at the prevailing exchange rate. Thereafter, the depositor shall be entitled to claim either the said Indian Rupee proceeds and interest thereon, if any, or the foreign currency equivalent (calculated at the rate prevalent as on the date of payment) of the Indian Rupee proceeds of the original deposit and interest, if any, on such Indian Rupee proceeds.
8) Operational guidelines on International Financial Services Centre (IFSC)
In terms of the Foreign Exchange Management (International Financial Services Centre) Regulations, a financial institution or a branch of a financial institution set up in the IFSC and permitted / recognised as such by the Government or a Regulatory Authority will be treated as person resident outside India. Therefore, their transaction with a person resident in India will be treated as a transaction between a resident and non- resident and shall be subject to the provisions of Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 and the Rules/ Regulations/ Directions issued thereunder.
The financial transaction in this context shall mean making or receiving payment, drawing, issuing or negotiating any bills of exchange or promissory note, transferring any security or acknowledging any debt. Similarly, financial service shall mean any activity which a financial institution is permitted to carry on by the respective Act of the Parliament or Government of India or any Regulatory Authority empowered to regulate the concerned financial institution.
9) Regularisation of assets held abroad by a person resident in India under Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999
To effectively deal with assets held abroad by persons resident in India in violation of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (FEMA) for which declarations have been made and taxes and penalties have been paid under the provisions of the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015, it is clarified that:
a) No proceedings shall lie under the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (FEMA) against the declarant with respect to an asset held abroad for which taxes and penalties under the provisions of Black Money Act have been paid.
b) No permission under FEMA will be required to dispose of the asset so declared and bring back the proceeds to India through banking channels within 180 days from the date of declaration.
c) In case the declarant wishes to hold the asset so declared, she/ he may apply to the Reserve Bank of India within 180 days from the date of declaration if such permission is necessary as on date of application. Such applications will be dealt by the Reserve Bank of India as per extant regulations. In case such permission is not granted, the asset will have to be disposed of within 180 days from the date of receipt of the communication from the Reserve Bank conveying refusal of permission or within such extended period as may be permitted by the Reserve Bank and proceeds brought back to India immediately through the banking channel.
10) Operating framework for facilitating Outward Remittance services by non-bank entities through Authorized Dealer (Category I) banks in India
The non-bank entities may obtain specific approval for each tie-up arrangement from the Reserve Bank for facilitating outward remittance services through Authorized Dealer (Category I) banks in India to effect outward remittances.
The governing conditions for this arrangement are as under:
The Authorized Dealer (Category I) bank through which the service is being offered shall be responsible for ensuring that each outward remittance transaction is in compliance with the provisions of governing regulations in India.
The said Authorized Dealer (Category I) bank shall be responsible for ensuring compliance to KYC/ AML standards/ CFT issued by the Reserve Bank.
The remittances facilitated under this model shall comprise small value transactions, not exceeding USD 5000 per transaction, 6except for overseas education where the limit shall be USD 10000 per transaction. Remittances by resident individuals will be subject to the limit prescribed under the Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS).
Only current account transactions, in the nature of personal remittances, shall be permitted under this model. The transactions permitted are as follows:
Private Visits,
Remittance by tour operators / travel agents to overseas agents / principals / hotels,
Fee for participation in global conferences and specialized training,
Remittance for participation in international events / competitions (towards training, sponsorship and prize money).
Film shooting,
Medical Treatment abroad,
Disbursement of crew wages,
Overseas Education,
Remittance under educational tie up arrangements with universities abroad,
Remittance towards fees for examinations held in India and abroad and additional score sheets for GRE, TOEFL etc.,
Employment and processing, assessment fees for overseas job applications,
Emigration and Emigration Consultancy Fees,
Skills/ credential assessment fees for intending migrants,
Visa fees,
Processing fees for registration of documents as required by the Portuguese/ other Governments,
Registration/ Subscription/ Membership fees to International Organizations.
Trade transactions are permitted subject to limits and other conditions prescribed for imports under Online Payment Gateway Service Providers (OPGSP)
The remittances shall be permitted only for fund transfers from one bank account to another bank account.
Remittances shall be only made to beneficiaries in jurisdictions which are FATF compliant.
The remitting service provider shall be a duly licensed entity by regulator of destination jurisdictions to facilitate remittances to beneficiaries in such jurisdictions.
The remitter's moneys should be kept distinct from service provider's operating account and such moneys should be duly protected from insolvency risks of the facilitating service provider. The onus of ensuring the security of the remitters funds shall be on the Authorized Dealer (Category I) bank.
The Authorized Dealer (Category I) bank may submit to the Reserve Bank every year a certificate stating that the conditions prescribed in the approval are adhered to.
Sl No Subject AP (DIR Series) Circular No Date
1 Remittances to non-residents – Deduction of Tax at Source: 151 30.06.2014
2 Clarification on section 6(4) of FEMA; Repatriation of income and sale proceeds of assets acquired abroad through remittances under Liberalised Remittance Scheme 37
3 Resident bank account maintained by residents in India with NRI close relatives as Joint holders 87 09.01.2014
4 Resident individuals meeting medical expenses of NRI close relatives by Resident Individuals 20 16.09.2011
5 Routing of funds raised abroad to India 41 25.09.2014
6 Sharing of information with Special Investigating Team 18 30.07.2014
7 Crystallization of Inoperative Foreign Currency Deposits – Reserve Bank (Depositor Education and Awareness Fund) Scheme 136 28.05.2014
8 Operational guidelines on International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) 92 31.03.2015
9 Regularisation of assets held abroad by a person resident in India under Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 18 30.09.2015
1 FEMA 5/2000-RB dated May 03, 2000 has been replaced with FEMA 5(R)/2016-RB dated April 01, 2016.
2 "Section 6 of the Companies Act, 1956" has been replaced with "Section 2(77) of the Companies Act, 2013"
3 "Resident savings account" replaced with "all types of resident bank accounts" as the instructions are applicable to all types of resident accounts.
6 Inserted with effect from 07.09.2018


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Chelsea Wolfe has been played on NTS in shows including Convergence , featured first on 28 September 2014. Songs played include Flatlands, Simple Death and The Mother Road .
Chelsea Wolfe (born November 14, 1983 in Roseville, California, U.S.) is an American singer/songwriter and eponymous full band started in 2009 out of Los Angeles, California. Her style has been described as "doom folk", and her music has been described as a "specific brand of drone-metal-art-folk".
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Taken as a whole...'Bark' seems to lack the chutzpah and hope-in-the-face-of-hopelessness that characterizes so much of Moore's earlier stuff.
Lorrie Moore, bestselling and widely anthologized author, has returned with her first collection of short stories in 15 years.
Love, loss and middle-age in the Midwest.
KC, a flailing rock singer who has a dog named Cat and her eye on a wealthy—and dying—neighbor.
Chloe Sevigny, because she looks like she could pull off playing a rocker who has tattoos of every city where she was booed off stage.
...unless you see the head crowning, never look at a woman's stomach and ask if she's pregnant.
One of the biggest pitfalls for Great Writers is that their fans come to have Great Expectations. Devotees don't exactly wait around for a new release in tattered wedding gowns, but they do hope each new work will remind them of why they fell in love with the author in the first place. For me, Bark had whispers of Moore's witty pathos-infused voice and flashes of brilliance. But these moments seemed to highlight what this collection of short stories lacked.
A common theme running through Bark is love, or rather, its decline and fall. In "Debarked", a recently divorced man embarks on a desperate affair with a woman whose interest is already taken. "Paper Losses" follows a mother trying to make sense of her dead marriage during one final family vacation with the kids. In "Juniper Tree", a woman goes on a date with her dying friend's ex, only to be invited to the most uncomfortable wake ever.
Many of these stories were released earlier, in publications such as the New Yorker, and it's easy to tell the dates of their release by the many political and pop culture references throughout. Protagonists wrestle with the start of the Iraq War and the existence of Abu Ghraib, as well as reality shows and something one of the characters calls "Spacebook". While many of these references must have worked at the time, they often give the book as it is now a dated, over-earnest feel. Likewise, the stories may have read as subtly poignant separately. Taken as a whole, however, Bark seems to lack the chutzpah and hope-in-the-face-of-hopelessness that characterizes so much of Moore's earlier stuff.
He did not like stressful moments in restaurants. They caused his mind to wander strangely to random thoughts like Why are these things called napkins rather than lapkins? and I'll bet God really loves butter.
Two stories: "Foes" and "Thank You for Having Me" stand out for their sprightly dialogue and likeable characters making the best of an increasingly confusing world.
At only 135 pages, Bark is a quick and often enjoyable read. However to me, most of the stories in Bark just don't have the bite of stories like "And You're Ugly Too" and "Terrific Mother"—timeless, hilarious tales that left us wanting to read "Moore".


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A classical/flamenco guitar luthier John Ray (Granada, Spain) has kindly collabotrated with this blog to review a book called "My First Guitar: Tales of True Love and Lost Chords from 70 Legendary Musicians" by Julia Crowe.
Ms Crowe is a columnist for Classical Guitar Magazine (U.K.) and Gendai Guitar (Japan). She has also written cover stories, features and reviews for Acoustic Guitar Magazine, Guitar Player, FRETS, Downbeat, Soundboard and Mel Bay's webzine, Guitarsessions.
This article "A MAGICIAN OF GUITAR ADJUSTMENT" first appeared in "Japan Music Trades", a popular music industry magazine in Japan, in November 1972. This article is available again on this blog courtesy of Japan Music Trades. I am really grateful to Japan Music Trades for their generous and kind support.


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Like master chefs in the kitchen, orthopaedic surgeons can be masters of total hip arthroplasty by consistently following their own "recipe" for the procedure.
That was the premise of a session at ICJR's Winter Hip & Knee Course, during which 5 master surgeons shared a brief overview of how they do most of their total hip arthroplasties. Moderator James A. Browne, MD, from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, then followed up with questions that probed at the specifics of what the surgeons do and why they do it.


As outlined in a Korea Times story yesterday, Samsung Electronics has launched its new series of LED displays in the Korean market. They are now available in all major world markets. Coincidentally, my wife and I purchased a 52 inch Samsung LCD television about a month ago, and have been enjoying it immensely. We have no buyer's remorse since we purchased the HD TV-ready, top-of-the-line set at a competitive price and will be able to enjoy it for years. A new LED model would have cost about $1,000 more (we paid about $2,200 for ours). However, the new LED models are thinner....much thinner, lighter and are also 40 percent more energy efficient, while rendering colors slightly better than our new television set. This morning, just before coming in to work, I watched live coverage of the Arnold Palmer Invitational from Florida as Tiger Woods sunk a long putt on the final hole to win. Watching it on the 52" LCD television was so much more fun than on our old, smaller CRT television.
As readers of this blog will know, I'm currently doing my own research on the information and communication revolution in Korea. In the broad context of this nation's efforts to build an information society, what is the significance of LED televisions and the display industry more generally? I suggest the following for starters.
The display industry is a core or "anchor" technology of the information age. This will continue into the future as sight and visual images are such a major component of human communication. The closer the actual image on a display is to real human vision, the more realistic the viewing experience will be.
Korea's growing strength in the semiconductor industry complements its work with displays. In fact, the manufacturing process for displays is very similar to that for semiconductors.
By introducing the LED line of televisions now, Korea's companies will have a big edge over their competitors when the global market for these devices reaches economies of scale. There are as yet no major Japanese, North American or European competitors in the display market.
From the standpoint of ordinary consumers around the globe, there is no doubt that once the price reaches an acceptably low level, many will trade in their "old" LCD television sets for a newer, lighter, greener and more "fun to view" set.
In short, South Korea's leadership in the display industry is integral to its overall development as a global ICT leader.


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Workplace Accommodations in a Post-COVID Era
March 23, 2022 March 23, 2022 The Petrie-Flom Center Staff Leave a comment
By Scott J. Schweikart
The silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic is that it has opened the door to new opportunities to improve our society. For example, office changes brought about by the pandemic — e.g., remote working or telecommuting — made life easier for many workers with disabilities. However, as more of the workforce begins returning to the office, there are notable examples of employers pushing back on the increased accommodations realized during the pandemic, indicating that some gains in accommodation will continue to be hard fought. In an effort to rid our society of harmful inequities, the struggle for these rights has important value.
Employers Should Bear Responsibility for Making Remote Work Environments Accessible
By Christopher A. Riddle
Remote work meaningfully facilitates inclusion of people with disabilities in the labor market.
But, to truly fulfill its promise, employers must also take steps to ensure that remote work accommodations are not made at the expense of the employee, simply because their labor is conducted in their own home.
Achieving Economic Security for Disabled People During COVID-19 and Beyond
By Robyn Powell
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the pervasive inequities experienced by historically marginalized communities, including people with disabilities.
Activists, legal professionals, scholars, and policymakers must critically examine the limitations of our current disability laws and policies, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), to elucidate why disabled people continue to endure these inequities, including those related to economic insecurity.
Our New Remote Workplace Culture Creates Opportunities for Disabled Employees
March 10, 2022 March 9, 2022 The Petrie-Flom Center Staff Leave a comment
By Arlene S. Kanter
While the COVID-19 pandemic has taken an enormous toll on the nation, it has also opened an unprecedented opportunity to transform our workplaces and offer greater flexibility for employees with and without disabilities.
This shift in our workplace culture presents employment opportunities for disabled people that they may not have had in the past, even with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
The Import of the UNCRPD and Disability Justice for Pandemic Preparedness and Response
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By Joel Michael Reynolds and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
During the COVID-19 crisis, many nation-states did not consult or substantively take into consideration treaties protecting the rights of people with disabilities when developing their pandemic responses.
For example, the United Nations' 2008 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) is an international human rights treaty intended to protect the rights and dignity of all persons with disabilities. It articulates principles of non-discrimination (see especially Articles 2, 3, and 5) and broader obligations upon specific parties, such as states parties, which are obligated to protect the rights and freedoms of people with disabilities (see Article 4, et al.).
The failures to uphold these principles and obligations during the COVID-19 pandemic were met with a swift response. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) produced guidelines on COVID-19 and the rights of persons with disabilities in April of 2020, as well as a policy brief in May of that year.
This commentary outlines three of the more important considerations for international pandemic lawmaking — both for specific instruments and wider deliberation — with respect to people with disabilities in general and the United Nations' 2008 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) in particular.


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Is Anna Diamantopoulou going to be the PES Commission President candidate?
Anna Diamantopoulou - CC / Flickr
OK, I am putting 2+2 together and making 10, but if I get this one right then you heard it here first! 😉
Andy Carling, a regular commenter on this blog, stated that he had heard Poul Nyrup Rasmussen say at a press conference that the PES does have a candidate for President of the Commission, but Rasmussen would not name that person.
At the same time my attention has been drawn to an interview to Sveriges Radio (här på svenska) given by social democrat Vice President of the European Commission Margot Wallström where she states that she would like to see former Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs Anna Diamantopoulou as successor to Barroso. This is followed up in Swedish by AiP and Byggnads (one of Sweden's largest trade unions), and in English by the European Federation of Building and Woodworkers.
So is the PES lining up Diamantopoulou? And if so, is this a good idea?
Frankly I know very little about Diamantopoulou, other than that she's a socialist and served in Romano Prodi's Commission between 1999 and 2004. I hence have no clue whether she is adequately good to be a viable candidate. If you reckon she is or is not any good please do let me know in the comments.
But more important than that: could she ever even be nominated? Firstly there's a sort of consensus that the Commission President should come from the largest party in the European Parliament after the elections. So the first hurdle to overcome would be for the PES to win the elections.
Secondly, while polls look OK for Diamantopoulou's party – PASOK – the Greek government is still centre right, with a tiny majority in parliament. Would Karamanlis ever consider nominating someone from an alternative political family? Highly unlikely was the opinion of an expert in Greek politics that I asked for an opinion on the matter. The same could be said for other possible centre left nominees – Poul Nyrup Rasmussen and Margot Wallström* herself – would the centre-right governments in their respective countries of origin actually nominate them? I think that danger would be less for my preferred socialist – Pascal Lamy – as Sarkozy previously backed socialist Strauss Kahn as Managing Director of the IMF.
I suspect that if it came to it the EP could bulldozer through its candidate, but the short term danger is surely in terms of PR. If Karamanlis is clever and Diamantopoulou's name is raised by the PES he would surely state that he would not even nominate her to be the Greek member of the European Commission – would that not kill her candidacy dead and make the PES look a bit ridiculous?
Looking at it the other way, the chance that the PES even nominates someone would make the election much more interesting. It would give the socialists a figurehead, someone to rally around, and help put across some clear and determined vision for the future policies of the European Commission. Diamantopoulou's nomination poses some complications and I would personally prefer Lamy, but if the PES do go for Diamantopoulou (or indeed for anyone half reasonable) that will be a good step forward for EU-wide democracy and will help make the EP elections a bit more interesting.
* – Wallström has continually ruled out wanthing to be Commission President
PES is not backing Barroso, but is not backing anyone. Confused?
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I'm not sure about whether she really is a candidate, but to answer your question, I saw her in a debate w/ Charlemagne and Rasmussen organised by Friends of Europe (EU thinktank) a few months back on the left's response to the financial crisis. She is quite good, articulate and smart. I really like her. Not sure she would do an ideal president of the Commission though, but on the other hand, I have never seen her "in action" as a Commissioner.
Yes she is good enough 🙂
I'm afraid Rasmussen did give a name in the end, and even more than one. You should read the interview he gave to the German Edition of the FT on the 8th of May:
http://www.ftd.de/politik/europa/:Zweite-Amtszeit-EU-Sozialisten-wollen-Barroso-los-werden/510652.html
Ralf Grahn
James Burnside,
That was an informed discussion on various general aspects surrounding the nominations, including the weakening of the Commission.
James Burnside
Bruno Waterfield has a, rather too plausible, take on this question from last week (http://www.economist.com/blogs/charlemagne/2009/05/the_wrong_way_to_make_voters_c.cfm) Remember that, under the current rules, serious candidates don't declare themselves, even after the EP elections; last time out, Barroso's name wasn't in the frame, at least publicly, until very late on.
Since Delors (who, of course, wasn't), there's been an unwritten rule that the Commission president is a current or former member of the European Council. If that "rule" is to be abandoned and the criterion applied to the president of the European Council instead, it does suggest that the Commission president is likely to become even more of a gofer for the European Council than Barroso has been. There are decent candidates from outwith those exalted ranks, from several political parties, but how many would take the job in the expectation that the European Council would attempt to squash any signs of initiative? It would take an exceptional character to go against the grain (and they would need a similarly strong team of Commissioners, or at least a core of them). Lamy may be such a character, but would Sarkozy go for him? Is Diamantopoulou?
I don't know as much about her as I do Lamy, but I don't remember her making waves in her time in the Prodi Commission, and she left early to go back to Greece. On the question of whether the Greek government would support her, they could follow the Portuguese example of supporting one of their nationals, although from a different party, if there's a real likelihood she could get such a prestigious post, but perhaps there's too much rancour between the parties for that?
Remember that the job is part of a package of jobs, if and when Lisbon is ratified – European Council Presidency, future Solana, and France wants to hold onto the de Boissieu post in the Council General Secretariat too. The question is how much say can the EP get on those other posts, where it doesn't have the treaty powers it has for the Commission President? Is there not a likelihood that the Commission president post is "downgraded" by the European Council, simply because the EP has a bigger say in it? In other words, power shifts, de facto, further towards the (European) Council.
Thank you for adding some new angles to the discussion.
The whole point is to have a candidate before the elections, to give EU citizens a choice.
Failing to nominate a top candidate is a recipe for election defeat.
After defeat, there is no need to unveil Mr of Ms X.
Simple, but depressing, especially as I have heard no exclamations of joy from EPP grass roots concerning the nomination of Barroso.
Trooper Thompson
"But why then does Rasmussen even say that the PES does have a candidate? Bit strange to say that and not say who it is…"
Why should he tell anyone? It's not like its a democracy, where the people get to have a say in the matter.
(sorry to be trollish)
Julien Frisch
I suppose Rasmussen needs to say this to show publicly that they at least consider winning. But he doesn't give a name because the socialist/social democrat landscape is too diverse and he doesn't want to risk internal discussions this close to the elections.
From a tactical perspective, the PES has crossed the point where they can nominate anyone and get an advantage (a leap) from it, because all national campaigns are under way and the candidate would not win enough profile quick enough to compete against Barroso (in public opinion terms) and to gain significant votes from this nomination.
My intuition tells me that Ms. Diamantopoulou would not be nominated before the elections, even if she were the candidate.
Some three weeks before the start of the elections, it would be hard for the PES to build up a candidate that is hardly known, selling her to the national member parties, and risking her to be discredited before she would even come close to be nominated due to the lack of support or knowledge about her.
In addition, and in case they become the strongest group, the Socialists will need to form an alliance either with the EPP or with the Green, Liberal and Left parties if they want their candidate to be elected. I suppose they will wait to see how the majorities look before they try to propose a candidate that either fits to the right or to the left.
In fact, this is also my personal interpretation why they did not nominate anyone by now: To keep their options to the left and to the right for the post-election period.
Yes, some good points there – I agree with most of what you write. But why then does Rasmussen even say that the PES does have a candidate? Bit strange to say that and not say who it is, and maintain that line for more than 4 weeks.
As for your last line: you have to weigh that up against the possible additional support they might have gained from making the leap of nominating someone?


The novel, which follows the coming-of-age of a Southern girl against a background of racial unrest, is reported by critics to have been penned by the late Harper Lee, but Spicer emphatically denies these claims.
To my knowledge, Morty is not black, or any other race other than white.
Patterson, who hadn't been seen in person since September, emerged from Elder on Monday morning, looking terribly sleep deprived but ready to attend classes and talk to other people.


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If you can demonstrate that you are able to support yourself through income from employment or your own business, you can receive a permanent residence permit.
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The length of the permit depends on how much time you have left in your studies. In order to maintain your permit, you must regularly show that you meet the requirements for student activity. This means that, each year, you must turn in documentation from your school to the Swedish Migration Agency.
When you have completed your upper secondary school studies, you can apply for a permanent residence permit if you are able to support yourself.
If you live together with a partner who is a Swedish citizen or has a permanent residence permit, you can receive a residence permit on the grounds of your relationship to your partner. If you have lived together for at least two years, you can receive a permanent residence permit; otherwise, you will receive a temporary residence permit that is valid for up to two years.
In exceptional cases, those who have particularly or exceptionally distressing circumstances, and whose expulsion would conflict with Sweden's treaty obligations, have the opportunity to receive an extended residence permit.
It is important that you apply for an extension before your temporary residence permit runs out, but not earlier than three months before. If you do not apply for an extension before your residence permit runs out, you will not be able to work while waiting for a decision, and you will also risk losing certain benefits, such as establishment support, student grants or parental benefits.
To apply for an extension, you must visit the Swedish Migration Agency in person. All family members who are applying for an extension must come to the Swedish Migration Agency. Unaccompanied children must bring along their guardian or specially-appointed custodian.
Fill out the form Underlag för ansökan om förlängning av uppehållstillstånd ("Supporting documentation for application to extend residence permit"), and bring it to the Swedish Migration Agency when you are apply for an extension. Each family member must have his/her own form. This also applies to family members who came to Sweden to be reunited with you after you received a residence permit on the grounds of needing protection.
If you want to apply for a permanent residence permit as an employee or self-employed person, you must also fill out the form Uppgifter om försörjning ("Support information").
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Bring your residence permit card when you are going to apply for an extension. If you have any ID documents, you should bring them, even if you have already presented them to the Swedish Migration Agency before.
The forms and questionnaire will tell you if you need to bring any other documents. Read the forms carefully.
If you are still in need of protection, you must state this when you apply for an extension. If you have new reasons, you should state this as well.
If you have a new passport or new identity documents, or if you have new documents that substantiate your new reasons, you should bring them when you apply for an extension.
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Raytheon IIS/CSM/HSM/SMS is currently seeking a Sr. Field Engineer I for the Lebanese Border Surveillance System (LAF BSS) program. The Field Engineer (FE) is responsible for supporting/overseeing operation and maintenance activities of radar and optical sensor systems in Lebanon and other undisclosed Middle East locations. The FE will oversee all the installation, test, preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair activities for the surveillance system at the assigned locations, including operation of a generator and an environmental cooling unit. The FE will be considered the technical expert and must be able to answer all technical questions regarding the operation and maintenance of the system. The FE will provide guidance to the Lebanese soldiers to complete emplacement, tactical operation, preventive maintenance and supporting operational tasks. The FE will be responsible for inventory control of a stock of field level replaceable spare parts and record all maintenance related actions. The FE will provide support to all locations on a rotational basis.
•Experience in the military working with Depot Support maintenance experience on electronics or radar.
•Willing to live and work in an austere environment at military outposts and remote locations.
•Experienced and familiar with the tools and test equipment commonly used in electronic installation, maintenance, and test.
•Must be a self-starter and have the ability to align priorities appropriately and work.
•Must possess excellent technical writing, oral communication, and negotiation skills.
· A minimum of 4 years experience in the repair of military sensor or radar systems.
· Graduate of US military sensor or radar technical school.
· Understanding of sensor or radar system operations and maintenance.
· Experience with military and civilian generators.
· Experience with tactical HVAC systems.
· Experience with Radar and Optical sensor systems.
· Experience with IP mesh network configuration and management, trouble shooting, and operation.
· Knowledge of military protocol.
· Past military experience highly desirable.
· Past experience in a combat environment a plus.
Required Education: Required Education (including Major): Bachelor's degree in Engineering, or a related technical discipline, with a minimum of 4 years' experience, OR an Associate Degree with 8 years of related experience OR High School and 12 years of related experience, training and education may substitute for the degree.
Security Clearance Requirements: A DoD SECRET Security Clearance is strongly desired.
· Extensive travel will be required; up to 100% to Lebanon and other international destinations.
· Must be able to deploy to remote international locations with little notification.
· Must be willing and able to deploy to environments that may include harsh living conditions (extreme heat and cold, deployed living conditions, etc.) and/or hostile work environment.
· Must be able to move and/or lift weights such as test equipment, ladders, tools, and cable reels weighing up to 60 pounds using proper lifting techniques or material moving equipment.
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New nonfiction from Atticus Lish.
Mac McClelland has an excellent piece at BuzzFeed on transgender veterans.
Jeff Jackson has a new column up at The Fanzine with cultural recommendations.
Tracy O'Neill was interviewed at The Believer.
Checking in with Vancouver's Black Mountain.
Shaj Mathew on the increasing overlap between avant-garde literature and conceptual art.
Margaret Lazarus Dean assembled a playlist at Largehearted Boy.
Here's new fiction from Kevin Maloney.


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Q: Sqlite parameter substitution: "OperationalError: near "(": syntax error" This code works for me until i put another parameter substitution in, specifically the one after "SET". Is there something simple im missing here? Any help or advice would be great!
for i, item in enumerate(items[0]):
    print item,number_sold[0][i],date
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The error:
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OperationalError: near "(": syntax error

printing "item,number[0][i],date" gives me "Cake, 3, 735719.0" which is what I expect.

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Photographs and text adapted from "New York Times" articles trace Barack Obama's journey from his birth in Hawaii, through his political career in Chicago and his primary and presidential campaigns, to his inauguration in 2009.
New York : New York Times/Callaway : 2009.
94 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.
Young reader's ed., 1st ed.
Obama, Barack > Juvenile literature.
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United States. > Congress. > Senate > Biography > Juvenile literature.
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The Doping Documentary That Will Make You Lose Faith In Sports
Courtesy Netflix
by Ryan Krogh
Netflix's latest tour de force documentary, Icarus begins as something of a Super Size Me for PEDs, as filmmaker and cyclist Bryan Fogel dopes himself to prove just how easy it is to cheat in sports (spoiler alert: it doesn't really help him). But the film soon turns into a full-on exposé as Fogel reaches out to Russian doctor Grigory Rodchenkov, the head of Moscow's anti-doping lab. Rodchenkov designs an undetectable protocol for Fogel, even flying to the U.S. at one point to smuggle back Fogel's urine samples for testing. Soon it emerges why Rodchenkov is so savvy at the endeavor: He's the main doctor behind Russia's state-sponsored Olympic doping program, and one linked to Vladimir Putin and backed by the former KGB.
As a World Anti-Doping Agency investigation heats up, Rodchenkov flees Russia to join Fogel in the States, and the two begin working with the New York Times to expose the scandal. The revelations eventually cause Russia's entire Olympic team to be banned for a time from the 2016 Rio Olympics. Then two of Rodchenkov's colleagues die under mysterious circumstances, and the doctor is forced to consider joining the witness protection program. So what starts as a shopworn participatory doc spins into a hair-raising Tom Clancy thriller. We caught up with Fogel to discuss the making of his bombshell documentary, available to stream online now.
Grigory eventually fled Russia, fearing for his life. What was it like for you?
It was incredibly intense. There were months and months of sleepless nights, knowing what I knew, knowing what Grigory knew, knowing that this evidence was basically in his hands alone and now in mine. We were going to the New York Times and finding him lawyers, advisors, strategists, crisis managers, and going so far outside the scope of the documentary. I mean, this was no longer filmmaking. This was global crisis management.
Did it become reassuring to have the cameras?
Yeah. That WADA [World Anti-Doping Agency] meeting that happens in Los Angeles, where we get all the officials and doping experts in the room, I wasn't filming that for the movie. I was filming it as a record, because who knows what could've happened in this investigation. That meeting was very, very carefully planned and then we said, Hey look, we're going to film this. And if you've got a problem with that, we're going to scream bloody murder and just go right back to the New York Times. And they all agreed. They all agreed.
What was Grigory like?
I got to know Grigory well, and I really, really liked him. It was hard for me to imagine, because he's such this affable, lovable guy, that he was also orchestrating this spectacular fraud on the highest level. He was the guy answering to the guy answering to Putin. It was shocking to understand the size and scope of it, that his entire life's work was doublethink, which is why we latched on to the Orwellian theme. He's basically saying one thing, doing another. He was anti-doping and doping, he was the venom and the anti-venom. That's kind of a mirror of Russia in general.
Do We Have to Accept Doping in Sports?
Did you ever doubt what he was saying?
We had been friends for almost two years before he fled Moscow, and I had been to Moscow and spent time with his family. He had been to Los Angeles, and we had spent tens of hours on the phone and Skyping and emailing. I really trusted him. And he really trusted me. And because of that, because he was so open with me throughout this entire process, I had no reason to doubt what he was saying. The biggest concern that I had was, Was his evidence going to be corrupted? Meaning, were we going to be able to get those samples out of the laboratory. Were they going to be tested properly? Would these documents and email chains be tampered with? Was this going to really come forward truthfully? And that was part of the reason why we went to The New York Times, because we didn't trust WADA. We didn't trust the IOC [the International Olympic Committee]. Neither one of them had it in their best interest to reveal this info, because it basically showed that WADA had no idea what they were doing. It showed that the IOC was essentially a part of this. And we didn't have faith in the United States government, once the Department of Justice got involved. So we knew that the only way to do this was to go to a publication like The Times and allow that story to take shape.
With Grigory, when was the moment you knew something was amiss, that he wasn't the strict anti-doping scientist he claimed to be on the surface?
Well, like when he's smuggling my urine back to Russia from L.A. I mean, I couldn't believe that he was doing this. The head of the third-largest WADA lab, the guy who did all the testing for the Sochi Olympics, who's overseeing the entire Russian anti-doping program, just smuggled my urine back to Moscow in his suitcase. At that point I thought, This is going to be a great movie. It's so comedic and absurd. He was doing everything that he shouldn't have been doing. It doesn't matter that I'm an amateur athlete. That's against all law. So that was nutty right there, and that certainly helped me realize and believe anything else that he was coming forward with.
Did the other experts know Grigory was revealing his secret to you?
They had no idea that I knew Grigory. They had no idea I was doping. I was interviewing them as a documentary filmmaker exploring the anti-doping system. Once Grigory told me everything, I went back to all of these guys saying, "The film's getting completed and I need to interview you again." And what I do then is I plant all these hypotheticals in the interview, if this had happened, if that had happened. And the reason why is that I wanted to get an honest response. The only way that I was going to get WADA and all these people to truly respond to the ramifications was with hypotheticals. Because once it had been proven as truth, then it just becomes politics, like "Oh, we've got this under control. This isn't that big of a deal. Sure, there's this, but it's fine now." And that to me was part of the strategy to validate Grigory, to validate everything that what he was saying. And should anything happen or go wrong in this investigation, I had all of these guys on camera saying that, essentially, [the type of doping scheme Grigory oversaw] was the end of the world. That was a very, very stressful time for me.
John Oliver: Our Sports' Anti-Doping Controls Are Screwed
For an elaborate doping scheme that goes all the way to the top in Russia, in many ways the Sochi scheme was fairly crude.
Grigory created a three-drug cocktail, and he figured out how to mix anabolic steroids in either Chivas for the men or vermouth for the women, and make it so the steroid detection window would be a number of days instead of weeks or months. It was just basically not absorbed into the bloodstream. It would pass right through. He's also creating the test to detect everyone taking steroids, which increases the detection window from weeks until months. But at the same time he's created the anti-venom to his own test by developing this drug cocktail mix that will actually beat the test he's developed. So all the other athletes in the world are getting caught and the Russians aren't getting caught because their scientist had developed the test and told them how to get around it. Grigory loved that part of it. It was a science game. It was a game of chess. And then all of the sudden it just became a criminal fraud operation, swapping urine. So there was this complicated evasion of science, but Sochi became very simplistic. Grigory stopped being a scientist and became, in his words, a shit bagger. What he means by that is he just became a doggie bag collector, collecting and swapping urine.
That must have been frustrating for him. Do you think that's one reason he came forward?
It was. He wrote to the ministry — I saw the email — and he wrote that this scheme has reached its logical conclusion. The Moscow lab was literally holding in its possession 16,000 urine samples, clean urine samples, of athletes they had collected from all over the world, from international competition. And he'd created this urine database, where all 16,000 of these samples had been measured for their steroid profile, their color, their density, and whatever else, so whenever they needed to swap for a Russian athlete he could find the closet matching urine and swap it out. And they're doing this at every competition in Russia. So all of a sudden this is not really about doping anymore. This is about, Hey, we're just swapping piss. And he said in the email that this is going to implode on us.
In light of all of this, what's your take on sports these days, and the Olympics?
I mean, essentially, you have to start over, because this isn't just Sochi. This isn't just bobsled. This is all of Olympic history from 1970 onward. And so it calls into question every single medal ever won. Because what we know now is that there has been this spectacular state-sponsored fraud going on for 40 years. What do you do then? What the Tour de France did was they stripped Armstrong of his medals, but then they never gave them to anyone else, because everyone else had done the same thing as him. And in some ways, that's what you're looking at if you're actually being truthful and honest with Olympic history.
The flip side of that to me, though, is that we're in an illusion to ourselves if we ever believe that clean sports is possible. Now, what Russia did with Sochi was outright criminal fraud, but the other stuff — the Lance stuff, the Marion Jones stuff — or the other anti-doping is essentially just being one step ahead of the science. And the problem is that you've got a thousand substances on a ban list. Ninety percent of these substances haven't even been proven to be harmful to health, haven't even been proven to be performance enhancing, yet they're on a ban substance list. And then you've got the biggest problem, which is, medical science is going to continue to advance, technology is advancing, humans are not done evolving. So how do you ever combat this problem when you're reading about how they've now learned how to make the body actually naturally make more erythropoietin (EPO). You can genetically alter this at birth, just like you can genetically alter how tall you are and what color your eyes are and whether you have fast-twitch or slow-twitch muscles. This is the future. And so the idea, or this illusion, of clean sport, racing on just bread and water, it's never been real, and it's never going to be real.
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It's a very, very complicated subject, and I don't think there's really any easy answer. But what I do know is that all the drugs in the world are not going to make you Lance Armstrong unless you're Lance Armstrong. And unless you are spending tens of thousands of hours to be Simone Biles, you're not going to be Simone Biles. There is a dedication. Just because you took some testosterone doesn't make you the Hulk.
Knowing all that you do, do you still enjoy watching sports?
Of course, I love sports. I watched the Tour de France two days ago, the stage where Richie Porte and Geraint Thomas crashed out and it's awesome. This is pushing the human body to its ultimate limits, and when you see a great athlete, whoever it is, it's spectacular. It's like this Patton Manning HGH thing last year. I'm going to myself, Who cares? He's a professional athlete, he's paid tens of millions of dollars a year to play football and let's say he did take HGH. Well, okay, so we're mad at him for taking something to help his body recover so he can go do his job better. Why? It's just this total double standard that I have a very hard time grasping, especially having been so close to this subject matter.
But the problem is, how do you regulate this? Unless you're literally putting every international professional athlete under a dome in Athlete City, where they are susceptible 24/7, two times a day to a blood and urine tests, and they all train in the same environment and community… I mean, how else do you police this. HGH has a detection window of like a day, less than a day. How do you actually truly police this without invading somebody's personal privacy, without invading their lives? You have an athletes whereabouts program where you're basically telling somebody your own location 24/7. It's out of control. And the line between cheating and performance-enhancing is so blurry. If you buy a tent for $15,000 that simulates you living at 18,000 feet and you sleep in it every night so your body starts making natural EPO, that's legal. But if you inject yourself with EPO, that's cheating. There's so many grey areas to this.
So something has to change. I don't have any solutions. I don't know what the answer is. But there is an unrealistic ideal that humanity is placing on its professional athletes that's not keeping up with technology or the times.


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