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March 18, 2020 by Clerk1
Transparency after the death of privacy
Jeffrey Augustine, referring to me, writes on Ex-Scientologist Message Board:
Gerry has protested for decades that he was illegally recorded by OSA operatives in Griffith Park. And yet when Corey Andrews illegally recorded Karen, Gerry quickly posted the illegal recording on his blog. This makes Gerry a staggering hypocrite and fraud in my book. He screams about injustices done to him while he is a scofflaw; a fugitive from justice; and has now acted in concert with others as an accessory to a crime, to wit:
California's wiretapping law is a "two-party consent" law. California makes it a crime to record or eavesdrop on any confidential communication, including a private conversation or telephone call, without the consent of all parties to the conversation. See Cal. Penal Code § 632. The statute applies to "confidential communications" — i.e., conversations in which one of the parties has an objectively reasonable expectation that no one is listening in or overhearing the conversation. See Flanagan v. Flanagan, 41 P.3d 575, 576-77, 578-82 (Cal. 2002). A California appellate court has ruled that this statute applies to the use of hidden video cameras to record conversations as well. See California v. Gibbons, 215 Cal. App. 3d 1204 (Cal Ct. App. 1989)… In addition to subjecting you to criminal prosecution, violating the California wiretapping law can expose you to a civil lawsuit for damages by an injured party. See Cal. Penal Code § 637.2.
I am only addressing here the matter of Corey Andrews recording Karen de la Carriere's call to him, and my actions in response to this recording being published. It is necessary to say that Augustine has hated me for many years, or at least acted as hating me, and has targeted me with defamatory black PR attacks. He has libeled me in multiple contexts, and collaborates with other people who have, also for years, hated and smeared me to silence or destroy me.
There are numerous things in Augustine's attacks that merit confronting. I am only dealing here, however, with two related calumnies: 1. his false accusation that in the de la Carriere-Andrews recording matter I am an accessory to the crime of wiretapping; and 2. the fake conclusion that because I protested the Scientologists and their coconspirators' unlawfully recording me in 1984, my actions regarding the recording of the 2019 de la Carriere call (when it was recorded, Augustine says, I "quickly posted the illegal recording on [my] blog") make me a "staggering hypocrite and fraud."
Who YouTubed the recording Andrews made of de la Carriere's call to him I don't know. Relevantly, it was not me. But even if it had been me, it is irrelevant to the charge of my being an accessory to the crime of wiretapping. I must emphasize that I am not an attorney and that nothing I say should be considered legal advice or legally definitive.
It is also sensible to know — which I have not withheld in what I've authored or published over many years — that I consider that the US justice system, and the US's laws and legal procedures in virtually every jurisdiction, have been corrupted, and where once there was an expectation or at least hope of justice, now there are injustice and hopelessness. The Scientologists, first under Scientology inventor and director L. Ron Hubbard, then under cult head David Miscavige, and as "independents," and the Scientologists' collaborators, who include an inordinate number of lawyers, have been significant contributors to the generation of justice system corruption in US jurisdictions and abroad.
If I had instructed Andrews to record de la Carriere's call to him, or told him how to go about it, this could conceivably have constituted an accessorial offense. I did not know of Corey Andrews, however, when he recorded the subject call, or even when he passed the recording to others. I also have not seen where he knew of me when he recorded the call, or transmitted the recording to other persons, who posted it.
From Black's Law Dictionary, Fifth Edition:
Accessory. Anything which is joined to another thing as an ornament, or to render it more perfect, or which accompanies it, or is connected with it as an incident, or as subordinate to it, or which belongs to or with it.
Adjunct or accompaniment. Louis Werner Saw Mill Co. v. White, 205 La. 242, 17 So.2d 264, 270. A thing of subordinate importance. Aiding or contributing in secondary way or assisting in or contributing to as a subordinate. Gilfoil v. Greenspon, La.App., 216 So.2d 829, 831.
Criminal law. Contributing to or aiding in the commission of a crime. One who, without being present at the commission of a felonious offense, becomes guilty of such offense, not as a chief actor, but as a participator, as by command, advice, instigation, or concealment; either before or after the fact or commission; a particeps criminis. Model Penal Code, § 2.06.
One who is not the chief actor in the offense, nor present at its performance, but in some way concerned therein, either before or after the act committed. One who aids, abets, commands, or counsels another in the commission of a crime. See also Abettor; Aid and abet; Accomplice.
Andrews, I believe, is in New York, which is a "one-party consent" jurisdiction. That is, in New York State, any one party, with his or her own consent 🙂 may record any communication in which he or she is a party. In view of the now-known fact, however, that, without our consent, the US Intelligence Community has for decades at least been recording all of our communications they wanted, which was generally everything, the party-consent rule, whether one or all, is moot, or fakery, or both.
Although Andrews, with only his own consent, recorded de la Carriere's call in a one-party consent state, Ms. De la Carriere might very well have originated her call in California, which, as Augustine observes, is an all-parties consent state. Regarding "confidential communications" between a one-party consent state and an all-parties consent state, the current law holds, I believe, that the all-parties state's more restrictive statutes take precedence. So conceivably, absent any other facts or context, de la Carriere, might have a California claim against Andrews.
California Penal Code § 632 (c) states:
For the purposes of this section, "confidential communication" means any communication carried on in circumstances as may reasonably indicate that any party to the communication desires it to be confined to the parties thereto, but excludes a communication made in a public gathering or in any legislative, judicial, executive, or administrative proceeding open to the public, or in any other circumstance in which the parties to the communication may reasonably expect that the communication may be overheard or recorded. (bold mine)
I have reasonably expected for many years that my e-communications, including telephone calls, were being overheard and recorded. There is nothing I can do to alter that expectation, and nothing I can do to prevent the persons or entities who overhear or record my e-communications from doing so. I have had no reasonable expectation of confidentiality or privacy in such communications for just as long. I am aware that the key entities that have been overhearing and recording my communications collaborate with the Scientologists. Edward Snowden's 2013 leak of NSA global surveillance documents, was proof of what many people like me had known for years.
The US Intelligence Community entities, of course, do not view a huge percentage of the persons whose communications the USIC are overhearing or recording as enemies or threats, in the way they view me as an enemy and threat. It is unreasonable that I should have an expectation of confidentiality in any of my e-communications, and it is just as unreasonable that persons communicating to me should have any expectation of confidentiality in their e-communications to me. I think I have been abundantly clear about this for many years. See even this open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin that mentions these facts:
I am writing publicly because I have virtually no privacy in my communications to you, nor any expectation of privacy. Also, making this patently public will obviate any accusation of collusion. https://gerryarmstrong.ca/letter-to-president-putin/
A lot of people, even years into the e-age, speak, write and act as if nothing has changed since it became known that all their e-communications were being overheard and recorded. They speak and write as if they can make such communications confidential by saying they are. Some people even use confidentiality or privacy, where none exists, for control purposes or to generate fake ethical superiority.
The overhearers and recorders are not going to stop overhearing and recording. They know that a societal shift from the expectation of privacy and confidentiality to the unshakeable realization that e-communications were being overheard or recorded, could be system-altering. That's why USIC head DNI James Clapper lied to Congress about the NSA collecting any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans. It's why courts apparently are still treating e-privacy or e-confidentiality, including in telephonic communications, as if these concepts exist as they once existed. There has been a relatively successful social engineering campaign to get populations to accept the overhearers and recorders as not present since they act silently and invisibly.
A step in the overhearers and recorders' campaign to maintain the privacy delusion in the public's mind and institutions is the acceptance of the overhearers and recorders as intelligent and good, doing their honorable best to protect good people from bad people, the enemy. I do not have the "luxury" of accepting this narrative; but even if I did, it does not alter the fact that professional overhearers and recorders overhear and record my communications, and I have no reasonable expectation of them not being overheard and recorded.
Unlike almost everyone else, I am in a very long and active war with the Scientologists and their collaborators, all of whom treat me as the enemy. The relevant Scientology scripture directing how they are to wage their war on the enemy like me is HCO Policy Letter of 16 February 1969, Reissued 24 September 1987, "Battle Tactics." http://suppressiveperson.org/1969/02/16/hcopl-battle-tactics/
The Scientologists and their collaborators have targeted me as the enemy in different places, countries, courts, groups, media, etc. for thirty-eight years.
It could be argued that because the people who consider me the enemy overhear and record my communications, I have a duty in this war to record my communications myself. Obviously Corey Andrews, if he's more or less as he appears to me to be, is now also an enemy target of the Scientologists and their collaborators. Consequently, he might also arguably have a duty to similarly make such a record to defend himself, his family, associates and cause. His forwarding of his recording also might be privileged because, arguably, de la Carriere was inducing him to do something she even suggested was unlawful. Again, I am not a lawyer.
Importantly, there is no logical way that I am an accessory to any crime in Andrews' recording of de la Carriere's call to him, or in my republication of the already-published recording, or in my posting of a transcript of the recording. Augustine is lying, and serving the antisocial purposes of the Miscavigeite Scientologists and their collaborators. In this matter, I am in a position similar to Julian Assange. He published documents, and I published documents, even documents whose authors might not want published, which, in endless circumstances, is perfectly legal. To prosecute Assange, however, the US Federal Government claims that he assisted Chelsea (Bradley) Manning to unlawfully obtain the documents he published. That is why Augustine, knowingly, baselessly and libelously, claims I am an accessory to the creation of the subject recording.
On or about December 29, 2019, I learned of Andrews' recording of de la Carriere's call to him, which had been posted to YouTube. Caroline transcribed the recording, and on December 31 posted her unofficial transcript to our "Scientology Research" site: https://scientology-research.org/transcript-telephone-call-between-karen-de-la-carriere-and-corey-andrews-ca-mid-2019/
I wrote a note I called "Karen de la Carriere briefing on trickling or dribbling," in which I explained or discussed bits of the content in her call. I posted my note, along with a copy of the recording, also on December 31. http://gerryarmstrong.ca/karen-de-la-carriere-briefing-on-trickling-or-dribbling/
I did not make any effort to disseminate my note's publication. Some persons might have referred or linked to it on one forum or another, but I have no record of such posts. I did advise de la Carriere and Mike Rinder that I had posted my note and the transcript:
From: Gerry Armstrong
Sent: December 31, 2019 4:59 PM
To: Karen de la Carriere; Mike Rinder
Subject: Note and transcript
Dear Ms. de la Carriere and Mr. Rinder:
FYI, I posted a note about the recorded call to Corey Andrew, which was recently leaked: https://gerryarmstrong.ca/karen-de-la-carriere-briefing-on-trickling-or-dribbling/
Also I posted an unofficial transcript of the call: https://scientology-research.org/transcript-telephone-call-between-karen-de-la-carriere-and-corey-andrews-ca-mid-2019/
I also mentioned Mr. Rinder in my note.
Gerry Armstrong
I believe that the first response to my note was an email from Stefani Hutchison on January 12:
From: Stefani Hutchison
Sent: January 12, 2020 8:24 AM
To: [Gerry Armstrong]
Subject: Fighting Scientology
Hi Gerry,
My name is Stefani and I am a writer, author of the book Scientology for Never Ins, a blogger at Azhlynne's Blog on WordPress and I run a twitter account dedicated to exposing the lies and abuses of Scientology.
Recent events, ignited by Corey Andrews, an unstable young man who has a history of attacking people for no reason, have concerned me greatly.
You are one of the BIG fighters in this battle and your words have weight. So when I saw that you'd weighed in on the sneakily, illegally obtained recording made by Corey and given to John McGhee I have to say I was shocked.
I have read the transcript of that recording multiple times, (https://scientology-research.org/transcript-telephone-call-between-karen-de-la-carriere-and-corey-andrews-ca-mid-2019/) and frankly I fail to see the alleged smoking gun proving that Karen De La Carriere has done anything wrong.
Corey Andrews showed up on twitter about a year ago, he contacted me a few times and I responded. With no warning he sent me an ugly message one morning attacking me because I was apparently not retweeting his posts as often as he'd wanted. After I blocked him, he turned on several other people in the same way. Corey never has taken the time or spent the effort to create anything of his own. His only "work" was in retweeting the words and works of other people. He wanted attention and praise but does not want to expend the energy to actually work for it.
Karen took Corey under her wing. She was kind and supportive to him, even going so far as to making him an admin on FB. She did NOT, in spite of rumor to the contrary, pay him any money monthly to obey her every command. Corey's sole employment was as a janitor at his cousin's children's camp. When the camp closed, Corey was out of a job and struggling. Out of kindness Karen sent him $200 to help him get by. This was only done one time.
As no good deed goes unpunished, eventually Corey once again got angry with Karen for the same thing he attacked me (and others) for- not retweeting his tweets enough to suit him. Not long after he attacked her for this the recording was released, that video was created and the ugliest, nastiest type of cyber bullying I have ever seen commenced.
Gary, as someone familiar with Scientology's Fair Game policy, as someone who knows what OSA is capable of, how is this situation at all any different from the way COS treats the people they don't like? This was a page taken directly from Hubbard's policy bulletins and it is NOT OK.
Karen, despite the fact that some may not care for her, did not deserve to be public ripped to pieces over rumor and innuendo. The only thing that recording shows is Karen once again supporting, helping and encouraging Corey, who has yet to ever create something original of his own. She told him he was a great poster on social media, she offered him…rather it could be said that she led the boy by the nose to…important information concerning OSA and attempted to inspire him to use it in order to gain more followers and increase his standing online.
The only thing she asked of him was not to post the link she trusted him with as she, herself, had been asked not to post it. That is not unreasonable. Nor is it in any way sneaky, sketchy or unethical.
This situation, taken up by someone with your credibility and stature in this anti Scientology movement, went far, far beyond simply attacking a woman who did not deserve to be treated in such a manner. There were civilian casualties, so to speak, as well. Friends were forced to take sides and relationships were damaged. People other than the target of this Fair Game campaign were hurt.
I do not presume to know what your relationship is with those involved in this ugly mess. If you do not like, agree with or support Karen De La Carriere that is certainly your right. We can't all like everyone. There will always be disagreements. However rather than embracing the very tactics perfected and wielded by Scientology and the OSA, thus giving the watching cult a jolly laugh at our expense, would not the better, less damaging course of action simply be to move on? We can all do our part in this fight without destroying those around us.
Scientology aside, simply from a human standpoint, Karen did not deserve what Corey and John, along with John's followers, did to her. She was publicly attacked, called "cunt", "whore", "bitch" and more. No woman should be subjected to such ugly speech.
Especially when there is no real foundation for any of it.
I have begged John to give me ANY proof to back up his rumors and hearsay against Karen. The only thing I have been pointed to is that recording.
That recording has nothing within it to support such a disgusting, damaging attack. I would ask you to read the transcript and please point me to anyplace that suggests otherwise.
Frankly, if you take a look on twitter, where John and his followers launched the majority of their attacks on Karen, you will see that in the end, it was not John McGhee who came out looking good. People are disgusted with what he and Corey have done.
If you have some sort of verifiable, unbiased proof to lend credence and justification to your support of this OSA worthy crushing of the character of another person then I beg you to show me. No one has been able to so far.
If this is a personal vendetta, a case of simple dislike then all well and good. But that does not justify this entire situation.
I ask you, as someone who firmly believes in the truth and in facts, to please help me to understand someone of your position taking up another's campaign to publicly destroy a woman's reputation in the name of hearsay, rumor and the unfounded third party twisting of facts. Karen may be disliked or disagreed with but she did not deserve this treatment.
Stefani Hutchison
@ultioetveritas
Azhlynne's Blog
I emailed Hutchison back:
To: 'Stefani Hutchison'
Subject: RE: Fighting Scientology
Dear Stefani:
Thanks for this quite detailed communication.
It would make a better record, and permit a full response from me, if you provide your first-hand knowledge of or any other evidentiary support for the important fact claims you've made.
Please post your email and any evidence you have publicly and send me a link. Obviously this is an important public discussion and should stay there.
2-46298 Yale Road
Chilliwack, BC V2P 2P6
PS: If possible, can you please send me a copy of your book.
Hutchison emailed me:
Sent: January 12, 2020 11:30 AM
To: Gerry Armstrong
Gerry,
I would be happy to give you what I have. However you must now understand that once bitten, twice shy. I will not be drawn into anything that may be designed to once again attack Karen. I will not be used as a tool in anyone's Fair Game campaign.
If you sincerely want to address this situation fairly then I will work with you with everything I have. If you are simply hoping to gain the ability to, like John McGhee just did, twist the truth into something it isn't just to hurt someone I want no part of it.
I wish to be clear here: I do not know Karen or Jeffrey in any capacity other than through Twitter and FB. Until less than a year ago, I didn't even realize they were married.
The interactions I have had with them have given me no reason to suspect or doubt them. I was offered an admin position by Karen but had to refuse it because my plate is already full. At no time in that conversation was I offered even the suggestion of payment for my participation. In the year that I have interacted with her she has been kind and supportive of me but never has she attempted to instruct me what to do, who to believe, or what to say in my blogs. As a matter of fact she actually gave me written Carte Blanch to post whatever I wished on either of her FB groups.
When I heard of the rumor surrounding her alleged auditing I asked her directly. We spoke on the phone (I did not record the call) and I spoke to both Karen and Jeffrey. They both are in the dark where such an accusation may have arisen from and both adamantly deny that any auditing in any form is conducted by Karen or on her order. She does not charge anyone for such services. Neither of them ever had the "friend of a friend showed up at Karen's home to be told by Jeffrey to be quiet because she was auditing" experience. There is nothing but third party hearsay to support this rumor and both of the targets of it vehemently deny it. Given everything Karen has been through at the hands of Scientology including the loss of her son, it flies in the face of common sense and reason that she would then continue to embrace the fundamental practices that embody the cult that did her and continues to do her, such harm. This is just not believable and unless there is proof, a picture from a PI of Karen with the Cans in her hand, a receipt from services rendered or even one credible person who could step forward and announce they were audited by Karen De La Carriere then basic human reason says she must be given the benefit of the doubt.
Again, as for the allegation that she paid Corey J Andrews $200/month to be her lackey when I confronted one of McGhee's defenders she insisted that I ask Karen directly so I absolutely did:
If this were not true, then how would she know about the details of Corey's employment, that he was a janitor and that the camp was run by his cousin?
I will for now also provide you with several screen shots of my own interaction with Corey Andrews as a token of trust. As you will see he turned to me looking for approval and advice when he was dealing with a Scientologist on Twitter. With no major interactions in between, other than out publicly on the threads, his next private contact with me was a scathing message attacking me for not retweeting his posts. I was blindsided.
I will be happy to provide you with other information however I am sorry but I need an assurance that you are looking for the truth and want to do the right thing here, not fishing for something further to use to hurt someone. To be clear, this is about more than just Karen. When I began @ultioetveritas it was to defend Mike Rinder from the ugly, untrue accusations of domestic abuse that were being publicly shouted by Taryn and her mother, Bitter Bernardini. I spent a lot of time and wrote more than one blog addressing those untrue libels. If I see bullying and hate I look into it and rectify it if I can. This is one of those instances.
My email is: [ ]
You can get a Kindle edition of my book through Amazon for free here:
https://smile.amazon.com/Scientology-Never-Ins-Clearing-Hides-ebook/dp/B07XYPC5P3/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Scientology+for+never+Ins&qid=1578856900&sr=8-1
Hutchison sent another email on January 12:
Sent: January 12, 2020 1:12 PM
The above comment that Karen sent me concerning the $200 was from Friday, Jan 10th, 2020. For the record, Corey told me he worked at this camp back in November, WAY before any of this mess began:
Just in the interest of truth, I would also like to point something important out.
Corey Andrews himself says that he only made one recording:
Yet Karen was sent a malicious email from the creator of that video threatening her, stating that there are multiple recordings.
"It doesn't matter that you complain to YouTube about the current and forthcoming videos, that will only encourage more of your phone calls to be released, but this time they will be released unedited…In some of the phone calls of which we are in receipt you can be heard instructing your underling to stay away from, and not talk to, certain people – people who are actively protesting the Scientology cult."
As there is, in reality, only one recording and nowhere in that recording can Karen be heard "instructing your underling to stay away from, and not talk to, certain people" it can only be construed that this statement is referring to a different, nonexistent, recording.
As this is a provable lie, the allegations that Karen was using and controlling Corey must also be dismissed for lack of any factual evidence whatsoever.
Corey accuses Karen of stating that Scott Gordon was the one who leaked the Orders. What she actually said is that Scott, himself claimed it:
"So you're asking me how, how would I #nd it? Well, if you befriend Scott Gordon… he has a big mouth, he's on a few hate groups. He brags of how he's the one who put this out. Da da da da da. He got it in a very devious way, this list. But it belongs, it came from a very senior exec who doesn't want the link posted. So you can't post the link."
This is directly from the transcript of the recording.
She didn't accuse Gordon of anything, she repeated something that Gordon, himself claims.
As for the actual material itself, this material is readily available on the internet. Karen may have been pointing him to it, after all Corey has no history of doing his own research, but it's not as though she was revealing something hitherto unknown. Corey alleges that Karen was putting him in harm's way from OSA. However first of all, the material is already public and secondly, he was never in OSA's sights because he never posted it himself. So much for the idea that victim Corey was being used, was being paid to follow her orders. Because simply put- he didn't.
None of this makes any sense at all when looked at with common sense. Yes, Karen suggested Corey butter up to Gordon. But let's be real here.
Could this not also be applied to what Corey has done to Karen? Pretended to be her friend then turned on her? Does that equal the smoking gun John McGhee is shouting that this recording is?
I emailed Hutchison back also on January 12:
Before I deal with the fact claims in your emails, some of which appear to not concern me, can you please answer a few questions:
You haven't quoted or directly addressed the content of what I wrote about de la Carriere's call with Corey Andrews. Did you read my article, and do you contest any of the fact statements or conclusions in it?
https://gerryarmstrong.ca/karen-de-la-carriere-briefing-on-trickling-or-dribbling/
What is your understanding of Mike Rinder and Karen de la Carriere's relationship with me?
Have you studied or read all the documents and other evidence on my Mike Rinder page on my Armstrong Op site?
http://armstrong-op.gerryarmstrong.ca/mike-rinder/
Are you familiar with this response to Karen de la Carriere's black PR on me?
https://gerryarmstrong.ca/who-or-what-sold-out/
It appears to me that much of what you've written concerns John McGhee and Corey Andrews, and not me. Have you communicated to them about your concerns, or your objection or counter-evidence to their claims?
PS: I'm in Canada and amazon.com's kindle library is not available to me. If you have a .pdf copy, I'd appreciate it.
On January 16, I emailed Corey Andrews, forwarding my correspondence with Hutchison, and asking for any response or corrections of errors he would care to make:
To: [Corey Andrews]
Subject: FW: Fighting Scientology
Dear Corey:
Stefani Hutchison, whom I had never communicated with previously, emailed me on January 12. Our exchange follows. As I wrote to her, much of what she says concerns you.
I don't believe I knew of you until the recording of Karen de la Carriere's call to you was published on YouTube. My wife Caroline transcribed the recording, and I wrote this article: https://gerryarmstrong.ca/karen-de-la-carriere-briefing-on-trickling-or-dribbling/
Hutchison has written a number of things about you, and I would appreciate any response you care to make, any corrections to any errors, and any complete discussions you have from which she took some bits you apparently wrote.
PS: My contact info in email below.
On January 16, Andrews emailed me back:
From: Corey Andrews
Subject: Re: FW: Fighting Scientology
Hello Gerry,
I'm currently laying low and not talking publicly about any of this because I don't know if I'm in legal trouble or not. I originally recorded that phone call because it was late at night and I was tired and I wanted to make sure I could carefully carry out all of her instructions. I had NO IDEA that making the recording was illegal. It didn't even cross my mind. I found out that what she was asking me to do in the phone call was illegal through my email interactions with Mike Rinder, in which he explained to me that the information she gave me over the phone wasn't correct and that he was the one who actually leaked the OSA Network Orders and that the reason he himself doesn't talk about it or make posts about it is because it would be a "slam dunk violation of the law" to do so. Mike said,
"I was NOT asked by David Miscavige to compile these issues. I did it on my own origination as an "amends project" but they were never submitted or approved. Foolishly, I gave copies of these to Marty Rathbun and Dan Koon. Dan then gave them to others and they ended up on the internet. The difficulty is there is no available copy of the complete ACTUAL OSA NW Orders. These ones were never authorized. Though I can personally attest that the information they contain is accurate and verified. I took them from Hubbard writings and lectures. But they are NOT published materials so scientology has considerable intellectual property rights on them. Far more than usual copyright protection. Unpublished works that are then published are considered pretty much a slam dunk violation of the law. So, you have never seen me publish them on the internet."
I then decided to talk to Karen Pressley about it because her and I had established a friendship and I thought I could trust her. She listened carefully to my concerns about Karen de la Carriere and agreed with me that something wasn't right here. Karen Pressley encouraged me to confront Karen de la Carriere about it and so I did. Her reaction to me was over the top. She wouldn't even have a normal conversation with me about it and completely dismissed me, very upset that I would go over her head to talk to Mike Rinder about it and wondered why I would do that instead of going directly to her with my questions. My relationship and what I thought was a friendship diminished with Karen de la Carriere and we stopped talking completely. Her husband Jeffrey Augustine messaged me and told me to "stop messaging Karen" and to "find another hobby", after all the hundreds upon hundreds of hours of time I have spent learning and helping them to the best of my abilities. I never asked her for money and even said to her that it was never required and I never told her I was "struggling". Her "one time payment of 200$" was actually two separate payments of 100$ spaced out between MONTHS. Furthermore, I am not currently struggling and I wasn't struggling financially then either. That's them smearing me as part of their black PR against me.
After I couldn't get any answers from Karen de la Carriere about what she had asked me to do in the phone call, I had a chat with several people, including John Mcghee. My interactions with John were meant to be private and I didn't know he had the intent to leak the phone call publicly. I gave him the phone call for his professional analyzation and opinion. He made the video and uploaded it on Christmas Eve against my knowledge and without my permission. Christmas was then consumed by this whole ordeal, and Chris Shelton was communicating to me for Jeff & Karen. At first he was being friendly and genuinely seemed like he wanted to get to the bottom of this issue peacefully and help resolve it, but after I finished answering all of his questions he turned on me completely and began expressing how he doesn't care what I have to say about Karen de la Carriere, scared the crap out of me and made me think I was going to go to jail for a mistake, for something I didn't even know was illegal.
I tried to get YouTube to take the video down and I stopped communicating through Chris Shelton. Karen Pressley jumped into the situation and was relaying for Karen de la Carriere. Karen Pressley "helped" me with my apology letter that wasn't accepted by Karen de la Carriere, and so I stopped talking to everybody and right now I regret ever trying to help these people in the first place. I thought Karen Pressley was my friend, but she took advantage of my frantic state of mind, and began instructing me to "find out what the others are planning" and I have NO IDEA what or WHO these OTHERS ARE or what they're planning. They all became paranoid that I was some sort of OSA spy, and my name and reputation are now being slandered and I don't know what to do about any of it other than remain silent. People on Twitter are accusing me of working with & for David Miscavige. Others have said that I am an Indy OSA representative. This is all crazy and I had set out to help abuse victims and raise awareness on Scientology but now I've been taken advantage of and I wasted a year of my life. I never meant for anyone to get hurt over that phone call and I can't believe it has escalated this far and continues to.
Feel free to share this in whatever way you want.
Corey Andrews
On January 17, I emailed Andrews:
To: 'Corey Andrews'
Hi Corey:
I am not a lawyer, and nothing I might say should be construed as legal advice.
It appears to me that Karen de la Carriere's urging you to copy, post or use the OSA NW Orders, which Scott Gordon has webbed and made publicly available for years, while instructing you not link to them, could relate to her professed antipathy to him. It also could be that her warning to you about violating religious proprietary data, à la Coca-Cola's secret recipe, if you posted a link to the documents you would be quoting, is fake.
Her professed hatred for Gordon is in her words:
– "he's a lunatic. He's an absolute wacko."
– "he really is wacko"
– "he's very friendly with a couple of wackos called Virginia and Mike McClaughry."
– "so never, never, never, ah, engage or play ball with Scott Gordon."
– "you're going to be senior to, ah, a million posters because you've got something that you can slowly trickle out here and there. But don't ever refer to Scott Gordon's link"
It would seem that the only person who would have any standing to make a legal issue of your recording of de la Carriere's phone call to you would be her. If she initiated a claim, or tried to have you prosecuted, this could open her up to further exposures of her frankly antisocial behaviors toward you and other people in her orbit. Also, because of her introduction of the threat of some copyright or proprietary data violation in connection with the documents she was getting you to post — even if her real motivation was to not grant any credence to Gordon – you possibly had a real right to transmit the recording to anyone who might help you understand and deal with the threat.
From my perspective, de la Carriere's reaction to your recording her call and the recording's public posting could be completely spurious. Her reaction could indicate that she knows her efforts to manage, control and influence social media are commonly considered abhorrent to people who try to communicate transparently with their own thoughts, information, feelings etc. in their social interactions, and recognize the evil done on supposed back channels. She very well might feel threatened by what appears to be an exposure of her efforts to exert hidden influence on you and others, via you, in a social media context.
In addition, from what I can tell of her and her friends' efforts (you mentioned Karen Pressley, Chris Shelton, Jeffrey Augustine) to "handle" you, their efforts could indicate their use of Scientology "Ethics" tech to cure the damage they perceived was caused by your actions that made you a "liability." It might be helpful to review the "lower ethics conditions" as they would be applied in this context. https://web.archive.org/web/20190410225726/http://www.scientologycourses.org/courses-view/conditions/step/read-conditions-below-non-existence.html
Besides the apology letter Pressley helped you with, and de la Carriere's refusal to accept it, their effort to get you to find out what the others are planning can be seen as an effort to obtain intelligence information on the people de la Carriere, et al. perceive as being in the "enemy camp." It looks like they were getting you to do an "amends" project to make up the "damage" caused by the leak. If you had supplied such intelligence, your "effective blow" could have been enough "amends" to warrant de la Carriere's getting over her resistant feelings, and welcoming you back into her fold, but starting again in the ethics condition above "Liability," which is "Non-existence." It might be helpful to review the "lower conditions" at the link above, especially the "Liability formula," to see whether Pressley's "help," advice, etc., comports with these conditions formulas.
I understand how the telephone call and subsequent events could have been painful for you. There are a number of us, however, who are grateful for this exposure, as we should all be grateful for Edward Snowden's exposure of the NSA's secret antisocial activities. The content of the telephone call and de la Carriere's behaviors have shed needed light on how she and others in her inner circle in the controlled opposition operate in Scientology-related matters.
It might be helpful for you to know that several others, me included, have experienced difficulty and even contemptuous treatment interacting with the same set of people: Rinder, de la Carriere, Shelton, Pressley, and now I suppose Stefani Hutchison. As incredible and even disturbing as this may at first sound, there is a real likelihood that these people operate to control Scientology's opposition. This would explain their continuing black PRing of the Scientologists' fair game targets or victims like me that they are not able to control or neutralize. Many or most of Mike Rinder's inner circle have history, experience and skills that would forward this sort of agenda, and they could easily still share the cult's ongoing legal, PR or intelligence interests with David Miscavige.
I cannot know if you are not a Scientology operative, and this whole matter involving you and de la Carriere and others is not a Scientology cult operation. I have accepted that you are as accurate and sincere in your communications as I am in mine.
I recognized right after leaving the cult in 1982 that I was a fair game target. I knew that because of my experiences and knowledge I was a huge target. By great good fortune I was led to a great attorney Michael Flynn in Boston, MA. When I was being followed, surveilled, threatened, assaulted by Scientology PIs, and had them at that instant in my face, he said to me, "Remain emotionally intact." I was smart enough to know what that might mean, and those few words served me well for some years through very threatening times. I'll pass on the same easy-for-me-to-say advice, Corey. Remain emotionally intact.
On February 5, Andrews emailed me:
Sent: February 5, 2020 6:20 AM
Hello again Gerry,
First off, I would like to thank you for the well received advice. It means a lot to me. I would like to provide more information to put the whole OSA Network Orders situation into better context. I have heard that a man named Frank Oliver is the one who really leaked these Orders. So who is it really? What is the backstory? This email with Mike Rinder is what made me suspicious of Karen de la Carriere's intentions. But I'm also suspicious of Mike now, because it would appear that he isn't giving the full truth.
On February 5, I emailed Andrews:
Sent: February 5, 2020 1:59 PM
Some info and links re Frank Oliver:
https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Talk:Church_of_Scientology_Office_of_Special_Affairs_and_Frank_Oliver
I met Oliver in Clearwater, Florida in, I believe, 2000. He gave me a hard copy of OSA's "Department of Special Affairs Investigations Officer Full Hat Checksheet" and many of the documents listed on the checksheet.
This is an online version of the checksheet, with links to e-copies of listed documents:
http://suppressiveperson.org/extremist-material/cult-intelligence-courses/osa-int-ed-department-of-special-affairs-investigations-officer-full-hat-checksheet/
Rinder says that the "issues" in the compilation "were never submitted or approved." This is untrue.
An "issue" in Scientology is a single published article containing data about a subject. There are probably forty issue types, and each organization around the world will also publish issues concerning matters that are specific to that org.
Without checking every issue in the compilation of OSA NW Orders #1 through #149, it is clear that the majority of the issues had been previously published, although in certain instances as different issue types.
A number of the OSA NW Orders in the Oliver OSA DSA Invest pack, which was dated 1991, and which he trained on, are included in the Rinder OSA NW Orders compilation, which appears to have been done in 2006.
The OSA NW Orders from the 1991 Invest pack are renumbered in the 2006 Rinder OSA NW Orders pack. These renumbered OSA NW Orders have, however, been given the same date as when they were earlier issued as OSA NW Orders and were included in the Oliver OSA Invest pack.
See, e.g., the OSA Invest Checksheet: "OSA NW Order 16 TIME AND REPORTS." In the Rinder compilation, "Time and Reports" is OSA NW Order 68. It is dated, however, 18 February 1988. Note as well that this OSA NW Order was "Originally an LRH OODs item of 7 April 1970;" that is, it was published, and distributed on that date to about four hundred people on the "Apollo."
The earlier published OSA NW Orders were apparently numbered sequentially as they were issued/published. Rinder in 2006 was renumbering them according to OSA departmental structure: "OSA General," "Intelligence," "Public Relations," "Legal," "Social Reform." Note that these departments are the same as the Guardian's Office bureaus.
See, e.g., Rinder's new OSA NW Order 1, which is dated 1 September 2006. This was from a Hubbard issue of 26 January 1975.
So, although the compilation and numbering and the whole pack of OSA NW Orders might not have been "submitted or approved," the issues had virtually all been published. And, since they are, in vast majority anyway, written and published by Hubbard, they required no "submission" for approval, or approval.
Therefore Rinder's statement that the issues in the pack he was compiling "were never authorized" is untrue.
Rinder says that he took the OSA NW Orders "from Hubbard writings and lectures. But they are NOT published materials." Again, although these issues might not have been previously published in the form of OSA NW Orders with the same numbers as in the 2006 Rinder pack, the text they contain was previously published.
There are two other important factors for consideration regarding the cult's intellectual property rights or copyright protection. 1. The issues in the OSA NW Order pack are all religious scripture. 2. They are, in total, evidence of a criminal conspiracy. These two facts are not incompatible. A criminal conspiracy, as the Scientologists demonstrate, can be a religion, and the religion's scripture can be evidence of that conspiracy. Therefore, there are potent "fair use" defenses for publishing the cult's OSA NW Orders, and publishing them would not be "pretty much a slam dunk violation of the law." It might be that a copyright infringement case is a slam dunk for the cult because they own the judge, or it's a friendly lawsuit, or they crush a weak defendant; but not be a slam dunk violation of the law.
Again, I am not an attorney, and nothing I say should be considered legal advice. My advice to "remain emotionally intact," is something else, actually spiritual.
Caroline and I have successfully opposed the Scientologists on copyright issues, and these materials might be helpful for understanding:
Note regarding our initial posting of the OSA Invest checksheet:http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/osa-int-ed-508r.html
Caroline's 2002-03-28 letter to cult head Miscavige:
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/letkeman-ltr-miscaviage-2002-03-28.html
Site disclaimer: http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/disclaimer.html
Caroline's 2003-06-06 letter to Miscavige:http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/letkeman-ltr-miscavige-2003-06-06.html
Happy reading.
On March 2, Hutchison published a lengthy black PR diatribe that scandalizes Andrews, Allen Stanfield and me as, among other uglinesses, "a triumvirate of angry men each refusing to deal with their pasts, get help for their baggage and move on from the shit pile they are sitting in." My amazement upon discovering this article moved me to originate an email "Wow, just wow!" On March 6, in the email thread that followed, Andrews wrote:
Sent: March 6, 2020 5:29 PM
To: Alanzos Blog
Cc: Gerry Armstrong
Subject: Re: Wow, just wow!
Gerry, I would like it if you made that one string of emails public from the "Fighting Scientology" conversation, the ones in which I am explaining to you how the phone call really got leaked. I don't know what your plans currently are, but I do want people to know my story and know why and how that recording came into existence. The best way for me to tell my story is through you, because you reached out to me and I explained it all right there in the emails. It gives proper context to my situation and how I came to be where I am today, and I want everyone to know these things about me. I want to clear the air for people that might think I did this out of malicious intent, but in actuality, I didn't even know that phone recording laws existed.
On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 6:07 PM [Alanzo] wrote:
Gerry –
J Swift on ESMBR – on you
No one can ever take away from Gerry the fact that he put the Affirmations into the court record and showed the world the evil of L. Ron Hubbard. Conversely, no one can deny that Gerry took an $800,000 payday from Scientology. Had Gerry stopped there and abided by the contract he signed, his legacy would have been established.
Instead, he breached a legally enforceable contract and the Cult took him to court and won. Gerry lost in Appeals Court; the California Supreme Court rejected his petition to be heard. Gerry's legal case came to a dead end. Gerry fled the US rather than serve 28 days for contempt of court. Since he breached his contract with Scientology, Gerry has always been free to speak, write, and travel as he pleases. His only restriction is that he cannot enter the US because he is a fugitive with an arrest warrant.
No one can undo Gerry's fugitive warrant as it is a matter between Gerald Armstrong and the State of California. Further, the only party that can release Gerry from the contract he signed is the Church of Scientology International and that will never happen. Ken Moxon just renewed CSI's judgment against Gerry for another ten years. With interest, Gerry now owes CSI ~$950,000.
Gerry tied his own hands. He can't file any legal actions in the US because the Fugitive Disentitlement Doctrine prevents him from doing so. Fugitives cannot evade the law and also seek to use the law to their benefit.
When Mike, Marty and the others came out in 2008, Gerry began a series of attacks that have never ended. Gerry demands justice for himself when he, in fact, got $800,000 in justice. Gerry has attacked too many good people for three decades now because we don't agree with him or his arguments. Gerry has been at war with good people for a long time and uses his blog to continue his personal attacks, slanders, and lies. Gerry is running a classic program on those he deems to be enemies.
California's wiretapping law…
I emailed Andrews back:
I will look into this and decide what the best way to proceed is.
Please study this article on recording phone calls in NY State: https://davidrichlaw.com/may-i-record-my-telephone-conversations-in-new-york-to-help-my-lawsuit/
As I understand it, de la Carriere called you. So she knew she was calling a number in New York, which is a one-party consent state.
California law, however, says that persons outside of California are prohibited from recording conversations with California residents without their knowledge or consent. Read this article: https://www.kellergrover.com/news/privacy-violations/ok-record-phone-call-california/
It is no wonder this was not known to you, and you recorded the call in innocence for the reason you gave. It is also reasonable that you were beginning to realize you were being manipulated and used against your interests, and against the interests and rights of others, which the phone call confirmed. You needed the recording to prove this and to extract yourself from that destructive domination, which the recording did.
I will further address this issue over the weekend.
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In the same article by Michigan Chronicle, they state that Wayne County is the worst county in the state for healthcare.
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Finance & economicsJul 24th 2010 edition
Burgernomics
The latest Big Mac index suggests the euro is still overvalued
Correction to this article
ASK Western policymakers how they intend to squeeze growth from their sluggish economies and most pin their hopes on higher exports. That makes exchange rates an especially sensitive topic. A weaker currency improves the competitiveness of a country by making exports cheaper. It also encourages domestic consumers to switch from expensive imports to domestic goods. The Economist's exchange-rate scorecard, the Big Mac index, shows that currencies continue to be cheap in the developing world but overvalued in Europe.
The index is a lighthearted attempt to gauge how far currencies are from their fair value. It is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity (PPP), which argues that in the long run exchange rates should move to equalise the price of an identical basket of goods between two countries. Our basket consists of a single item, a Big Mac hamburger, produced in nearly 120 countries. The fair-value benchmark is the exchange rate that leaves burgers costing the same in America as elsewhere.
Asia remains the cheapest place to enjoy a burger. China's recent decision to increase the "flexibility" of the yuan has not made much difference yet. A Big Mac costs $1.95 in China at current exchange rates, against $3.73 in America. Our index suggests that a fair-value rate would be 3.54 yuan to the dollar, compared with the current rate of 6.78. In other words the yuan is undervalued by 48%.
Other Asian currencies such as the Thai baht and the South Korean won are also undervalued. The Brazilian real is one of the few emerging-market currencies that is trading well above its Big Mac benchmark. With interest rates high—the policy rate now stands at 10.75%—Brazil has attracted lots of attention from yield-hungry investors. Burgernomics suggests that the real is overvalued by 31%.
The Big Mac numbers should be taken with a generous pinch of salt. They are not a precise predictor of currency movements. The bulk of a burger's cost depends on local inputs such as rent and wages, which tend to be lower in poor countries. Consequently PPP comparisons are more reliable between countries with similar levels of income.
So it is particularly interesting to see that on a burger basis the euro is still overvalued when compared with many other rich-world currencies. Sovereign-debt worries and soggy growth rates have helped shift the currency towards its fair value over the past 12 months. A year ago the euro was overvalued by 29% on the burger benchmark; that figure is now down to 16%. (Britain's currency has gone from being mildly overvalued this time last year to slightly undervalued now.) And the single currency has been moving back up again in recent weeks, on hopes that stress-test results, which were due out on July 23rd, will shore up confidence in Europe's banking system.
Other currencies are dearer still. Investors looking for a safe place to put their money have sought refuge in the Swiss franc. Despite attempts by the Swiss central bank to stem the appreciation, the Swiss franc is overvalued by 68%. Those on the hunt for a value meal should also steer clear of Scandinavia. In Norway a Big Mac would set you back by 45 kroner or $7.20, nearly twice the cost in America.
Correction: An earlier version of the chart and the table gave a discount price for a Big Mac in Argentina. This was corrected on July 28th.
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Retail banking Mobile & online
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M-commerce fastest growing sales channel in US
Source: Worldpay
Mobile commerce (m-commerce) continues its ascent to dominance among Americans as it is now the fastest growing shopping channel, growing 15 percent annually in the U.S. – according to new data from leading payments technology company, Worldpay (NYSE: WP; LSE: WPY).
As smartphone ownership continues to grow in the U.S. and around the world, consumers are pivoting from shopping on desktop computers to their phones. M-commerce is predicted to overtake desktop purchases globally by 2023, according to Worldpay's 2018 Global Payments Report1.
The report found that m-commerce currently accounts for 38 percent of the more than $1.3 trillion in global eCommerce sales. M-commerce is set to grow a staggering 19 percent during the next five years. In 2018, the largest markets in the world for m-commerce are China ($0.75 trillion), U.S. ($0.21 trillion), UK ($63.8 billion), Japan ($34.5 billion) and South Korea ($28.8 billion).
"As new devices hit the U.S. market, smartphone ownership is higher than ever. And with overall better functionality, it's never been easier to make a purchase from the palm of your hand," says Casey Bullock, general manager, North America, Global Enterprise eCommerce at Worldpay. "U.S. consumers are turning from their desktop to their phones to make purchases. Merchants must find ways to optimize their mobile payment and shopping experiences, whether through their mobile app, mobile wallet or an improved mobile checkout."
The rise of m-commerce could also be in part due to Americans' growing preference for eWallets. Although plastic still holds dominance in the U.S., eWallets are set to overtake credit cards as the most popular online payment method by 2020. As the fastest growing payment method among Americans, eWallet usage is increasing 25 percent annually. However, the U.S. still pales in comparison to China's eWallet adoption – led by Alipay and WeChat Pay – which accounts for 65 percent of eCommerce purchases.
Other key insights from the Global Payments Report address the biggest trends in payments:
•	Millennials: What motivates Millennials culturally, politically and socially also motivates their attitudes about business. Local drivers have the biggest influence on these motivations – meaning merchants must appreciate the extreme diversity of the global Millennial population to truly understand what fuels their purchases and payment behaviors.
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Q: Feeding full image sequences to network or feeding one frame at a time? I'm currently trying to implement the following paper: https://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/publications/dnn_denoise_author.pdf
My data has the following shape: (7, 512, 512, 1), where 7 is the number of frames in my sequence, 512 is the width and height of an image and 1 the number of channels.
My question is: During training, is it better to feed the convolutional and RNN network the full sequence of images, or feed each frame of a sequence one by one?
I've already tried the first approach, but the results don't look too good. Therefore, is this the "correct" way of processing image sequences, or you have some advice?
Thank you for your time!

A: Here, author is sending one frame at each time-step, which means, you will have 7 roll-out of LSTM, at each roll-out, it accept 1 frame.


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Ferdinand Hodler (Bern, 1853. március 14. – Genf, 1918. május 19.) svájci festőművész, a legismertebb 19. századi svájci festő.

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Hodler szegény családból származott. Apja hamarosan meghalt, ekkor édesanyja egy alkoholista dekorációfestőhöz ment feleségül. Édesanyja 1865-ben meghalt és nyolc gyermeket hagyott árván – a legidősebb Ferdinand volt, akire 12 éves korában rászakadt a családfenntartás terhe. Festészeti tanulmányokba kezdett és hamarosan Genfbe költözött. Cégtáblákat festett és másolatokat készített a Musée Rath-ban. Anyagi helyzete javult, már spanyolországi tanulmányútra is telt – különösen Velázquez volt rá hatással. 1881-ben, 28 éves korában, bérelt először műhelyt. Ekkoriban még a historizmusnál tartott, önálló stílusa az 1880-as évek közepétől bontakozott ki. 1887-ben volt Bernben az első önálló kiállítása.

1889-ben vette feleségül Bertha Stuckit, ám boldogsága nem volt tartós. Ez az év hozta meg számára az áttörést Az éjszaka (Die Nacht) című festményével, amelyen az álom és a halál mellett megjelenik a szexualitás is. A genfi Musee Rath megijedt a várható reakcióktól: a megnyitó előtti napon döntöttek arról, hogy mégsem mutatják be. Így magánkiállításokon került a mű bemutatásra – nagy sikerrel. A képet hamarosan Párizsban, Münchenben  és Velencében is bemutatták.

Az 1900. évi párizsi világkiállításon aranyérmet nyert három kiállított művével. Ezt követően szecessziós áramlatokhoz csatlakozott: 1900-ban a Wiener Secessionhoz és a Berliner Secessionhoz, majd  1904-ben a Münchner Sezessionhoz is.

Hodler késői korszakából az Alpokról festett tájképei emlékezetesek. Németországban valamennyi művésztársaságból kizárták, miután 1914-ben aláírt egy tiltakozó levelet amiatt, mert a németek tüzérséggel rombolták le a Reims-i katedrálist. Szülőhazájában azonban elismerték: már 1911-ben két képét (Der Mäher, Der Holzfäller) bankjegyek motívumaként használták fel. 1916-ban tiszteletbeli professzori címet kapott Genfben. Megérte első retrospektív kiállítását, amelyet a Kunsthausban rendeztek Zürich-ben 1917-ben. Halála évében választották Genf díszpolgárává.

Galéria

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 Jura Brüschweiler (szerk.): Ferdinand Hodler. Benteli, Bern, 1983
 Jura Brüschweiler: La participation de Ferdinand Hodler au "Panorama" d'Edouard Castres et l'avènement du parallélisme hodlérien, in: Zeitschrift für Schweizerische Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte, Bd. 42, 1985/4, Zürich, 1985
 Ferdinand Hodler. Egy szimbolista látomás. Kunstmuseum Bern, 2009. április 9 – augusztus 10., Szépművészeti Múzeum, 2008. szeptember 9 – december 14.; szerk. Katharina Schmidt, Bernadette Walter, Therese Bhattacharya-Stettler, kurátor Katharina Schmidt; Szépművészeti Múzeum–Kunstmuseum, Bp.–Bern, 2008

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an implementation of the Hungarian algorithm

This code is heavily based on Bob Pilgrim's work [outlined here](http://csclab.murraystate.edu/bob.pilgrim/445/munkres.html).

## Example
    m := NewMatrix(4)
    m.A = []int64{94, 93, 20, 37,
            75, 18, 71, 43,
            20, 29, 32, 25,
            37, 72, 17, 73}
    fmt.Println(ComputeMunkresMin(m)) // [{0 3} {1 1} {2 0} {3 2}]

The assignment set which minimizes the total utility is:

    (0, 3) = 37
    (1, 1) = 18
    (2, 0) = 20
    (3, 2) = 17
           = 92

## License
see [LICENSE](https://github.com/clyphub/munkres/blob/master/LICENSE) file

## Author(s)
Brian Fallik - bfallik at clypd.com

## Dependencies
This packages uses [stretchr/testify](http://godoc.org/github.com/stretchr/testify) for help with unit test assertions.

## Development
We are no longer actively maintaining this package.  Please fork it if you wish to develop it further.

## Other
Thanks to [clypd](http://www.clypd.com) for agreeing to release this code into the wild.

![clypd](http://www.clypd.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/logo_clypd_70@2x.png "clypd")

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Nigel Foo is the Head of Asian Fixed Income at First Sentier Investors ('FSI').
In his role, Nigel is responsible for formulating investment strategies across both Global and Asian fixed income. He is also the lead portfolio manager for two of our flagship strategies namely the Asian Quality Bond and the Asian Strategic Bond.
Prior to joining FSI in 2010, Nigel spent six years with State Street Global Advisors as a fixed income portfolio manager where he gained extensive experience managing one of the largest Asian local currency bond funds in the region, amongst other global fixed income mandates.
Since the start of his career in 1997, Nigel has developed strong research and risk management skills during his stints with several major investment banks including JP Morgan and Credit Suisse.
Nigel holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (Major in Finance) from National University of Singapore. He is also a CFA charterholder.
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Fiona Kwok is a Portfolio Manager for the Asian Fixed Income team at First Sentier Investors ('FSI').
Fiona joined FSI in July 2021 and is responsible for formulating investment strategies and analysing Asian portfolios, with a focus on Asian Credit and Hong Kong Dollar bonds.
Prior to FSI, Fiona spent five years in Goldman Sachs with her last role as Fixed Income Portfolio Manager in its Asset Management business, specialised in global investment grade bond portfolio investment. Before that, she served as Credit Analyst at Moody's Investors Services for four years, covering primarily credit ratings of high yield and investment grade issuers in Greater China. Fiona began her career as Auditor in Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in Hong Kong.
Fiona holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (Major in Finance) from the University of Hong Kong. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
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Clarissa is an Assistant Portfolio Manager for the Asian Fixed Income team at First Sentier Investors ('FSI').
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Upon completion of her studies, Clarissa joined FSI in January 2016, as a Fixed Income Analyst in the Emerging Markets and Asian Fixed Income team. Prior to relocating to Singapore in March 2018, Clarissa was based in Jakarta and was part of the Indonesian fixed income business covering local rates and corporates.
Clarissa holds a Bachelor of Commerce (majoring in Accounting and Finance) from Monash University.
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In his role, Jin is responsible for the in-depth credit research analysis of Asian credits, with a focus on financial institutions.
Prior to joining FSI in February 2018, Jin worked at ANZ Hong Kong as an Associate Director in Financial Institutions Group Research & Analysis covering India, Korea, Japan, Vietnam and Hong Kong.
Prior to ANZ Hong Kong, Jin was an analyst at Fitch Ratings Hong Kong's Financial Institutions Group covering Hong Kong, Macau, Korea and Mongolia. Before that, he was a senior consultant at Ernst & Young Sydney's Infrastructure Advisory team. Jin started his career with Ernst & Young Sydney's Assurance and Advisory Services focusing on technology, communications and entertainment sectors.
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Prior to joining FSI in April 2022, Emile worked at Western Asset Management as a Client Service Associate for 5 years, servicing institutional fixed income investors and supporting sales efforts in Asia ex-Japan.
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From the daily archives:	Monday, September 29, 2008
The Couric Reel Gift Keeps on Giving
On September 29, 2008 By Eric
So McCain was with Palin when she was becoming a gaffe machine? His contributions are not much better:
His mannerisms while she is talking at first are absolutely priceless…and telling!
Thing is, it gets worse:
Of concern to McCain's campaign, however, is a remaining and still-undisclosed clip from Palin's interview with Couric last week that has the political world buzzing.
The Palin aide, after first noting how "infuriating" it was for CBS to purportedly leak word about the gaffe, revealed that it came in response to a question about Supreme Court decisions.
After noting Roe vs. Wade, Palin […]
Overheard: Twitter
Things have gotten so bad maybe McCain should suspend his campaign until November 4.
druce
Jump! You Fuckers!
Sent by a reader:
McCain Demonstrates His Hypocrisy to Ohioans
Remember when John McCain blasted Barack Obama for raising money in California? Went something like this:
"He talked about siding with the people just before he flew off for a fundraiser in Hollywood with Barbra Streisand and his celebrity friends," McCain told a crowd in Ohio. "Let me tell you, my friends, there's no place I'd rather be than right here with the working men and women of Ohio."
Guess what. John McCain says one thing to the good hard working people of Ohio in public, but then in private he jets off to – of all places – […]
HR 3997 Aftermath: the road forward
On September 29, 2008 By Brian
Dear Senators Obama, Biden, Reid, Byrd, Durbin, Dodd, Brown, and Representatives Pelosi, Hoyer, Frank, Wilson, Kaptur*, Kucinich*, Sutton*, Ryan, Space:
With today's failure of HR 3997 to pass, largely due to the unwillingness of Republicans to support a bipartisan compromise bill, our financial economy continues to stare in the face of a total collapse. Action is urgent, and the American people agree.
My father used to tell me when I was a boy that "every problem is an opportunity to excel." The unwillingness of the GOP to agree to a compromise – a courtesy they undoubtedly would […]
Chris Matthews: John McCain Couldn't Lead
Economy FAIL
Bailout Plan Gained in Popularity, Pressure Will Now Mount
Those Republicans cheering this might want to think twice about what just happened. Your Presidential candidate – who supported the plan and said he'd vote for it – just finished the dramatic move of "suspending" his campaign to come to Washington to make it appear as if he brokered a deal.
There is no deal. McCain can't even lead his own party. This will be viewed as utter failure.
Secondly, while some are noting anecdotal evidence of 10-1 calls into congressional offices against this bill, the American people as a whole either did not know what to […]
McCain FAIL
Steve Schmidt on Meet The Press this weekend:
"What Senator McCain was able to do was to help bring all of the parties to the table, including the House Republicans, whose votes were needed to pass this,"
What are they saying now? No comment:
After bragging today about his role in shaping the economic bailout package, Sen. John McCain has made no statement to the press since the defeat of the bill, in part at the hands of House Republicans.
Tiberi shows some spine; breaks from Bush and Boehner
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We'll see what happens. I suspect it won't be pretty.
Republicans Kill Bailout Plan, Markets Tank
House Republicans kill the bailout deal they previously got behind.
The market is not pretty. Began down over 700. Now down 500 or so.
Can't see how this helps McCain, but conservatives are probably happy. They have to be against this or their fundamental basis for existing goes away.
I'd not want to be near retirement right now.
Iraq: Obama Was Right, McCain Was Wrong
Devastating Video:
If the question is who has the better judgment as Commander in Chief, there is no comparison really. None.
(ht Dave at PO)


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Is OTEC Being Forgotten
Tar-Zen Su
Associate Professor, Marine Engineering Dept.,
National Taiwan Ocean University
After reading Mr. Michel Gauthier's paper " OTEC Economics and Electricity Costs: a Little of OTEC History", one might start wondering " Where are today's OTEC people? ", "Is OTEC believers stop believing, stop trying?" or, "They 're simply waiting for the right moment to come back". The answer could be quite diverse, but what seems to be true is " OTEC seems to be forgotten by the public."
In the early 80s, United States revived Georges Claude's dream. Mini-OTEC, OTEC-1, Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii (NELH) and Pacific International Center for High Technology Research Center (PICHTR)…, a series of successful projects and several strong organizations concluded OTEC is not only a romance of J.A. D'Asonvalin but also a reality, a future of renewable energy.
At that time(in 1979,after 2nd oil shock), oil price soared to 38 dollars per barrel. An OTEC power plant was estimated commercially feasible if oil price is 30 dollars per barrel or up. By the time Lockheed Missiles & Space Company and many others proposed OTEC projects of 100MW and up to the State of Hawaii in 1985, oil price dropped to only 12 dollars per barrel. OTEC became commercially infeasible. There were no more supports from the Federal. Political person shifted their attentions to other renewable energy issues, such as solar energy, wind energy and etc.. In Hawaii, even geothermal energy had a strong comeback at that time. OTEC researchers in the University of Hawaii shifted their studies on agriculture, marine farming, and etc. Lockheed Company dismantled their OTEC engineers. And almost no OTEC engineering firm in Hawaii is surviving today.
It is not a surprise that oil price soared again. Almost reach 32 dollars per barrel last month, approximately 25 dollars per barrel are anticipated this year. And inevitably will rise and keep rising.
Guess what? OTEC is commercially feasible again! But, in United States, where are the OTEC people now? Are they still enthusiastic? Can they still be re-group and re-organized?
In the mid 80s, Japan carried out 2 moderately successful OTEC projects in mid Pacific islands.This society was dismantled in the early 90s. And OTEC project in Japan never be mentioned again (except some basic researches in Saga university by Dr. Uehara and his group). The former OTEC believers and promoters all shift their devotions to Deep Ocean Water Applications (DOWA). At the present time, Japan has at least 3 successful DOWA farming parks. And about 4 more parks are underway.
Along with the termination of the OTEC society, a so call "Sunshine Project" brought attention to the public in Japan. In spite of the poor conditions, Japan government determined to extract solar, wind, wave, and current energies to the amount of approximately 3% of their total power demands by the year of 2010. And in this policy, no OTEC is mentioned. (Since OTEC society is no longer exist, no OTEC noise will be made, will be heard)
In Netherlands and in Denmark, renewable energy means wind energy. 500 wind power generators will be built, along the coast and set on the ocean floor, to generate 50% of the total power demands in Denmark by the year of 2030. No OTEC is mentioned in these two countries. Same situation also in England, in France, in Italy and in entire Euro territories.
After the 90s, Taiwan seems to be the most enthusiastic country to have a first commercial OTEC power plant in the world. At least 4 potential sites in the east coast of Taiwan (recoginzed as the best potential OTEC site of the world) had been investigated. They even sponsored and still sponsoring and promoting the International OTEC society. Even this Newsletter itself was published under this goal.
And as the debate "whether the currently under construction nuclear power plant should be haul down" came to the conclusion lately. The energy policy by the new government of Taiwan tends to "not only the nuclear power plant will be replaced by natural gas power plant and some other conventional power plant, but also renewable energy should play a somewhat significant role in Taiwan to share the future energy supply."
All in a sudden, renewable energy becomes so important an issue for the academic people, for the political people, and of course for the commercial people in this field in Taiwan. Solar energy people, wind energy people, geothermal energy people, and even waves energy people, all making loud noises in the media, in the government, in the congress and almost in every ever-ready business people. As one of the most important international renewable energy conference hold in Taiwan in September 2000, renewable energy in Taiwan means solar energy, wind energy and geothermal energy only. Again no OTEC was mentioned in that conference.
It is pointed out pathetically in the 1st, the 2nd and the 3rd International OTEC Conferences in 1994, 1997 and 1999 that OTEC is not technologically infeasible, not commercially infeasible, but politically infeasible. As the OTEC opportunity is coming back today. The question remains "Is OTEC still a dream?" Will we wait 40 more years after oil extinction, or 60 years after natural gas and nuclear diminished, or 100 years after extracting no more coal, then start to think seriously about OTEC? Will it be already too late by then?


They usually didn't like my counsel. I assured them, they would like my surgeon's knife even less.
Why so direct, you ask? Hum…In case you didn't get it before, I'll say it again slowly… "If… you… are …overweight, then …YOU… are…IN…DANGER." That is the first of four principles about weight loss you must learn.
If the conviction in your soul doesn't have "stopping power" – no "pause" in eating beyond safety – then you are not convinced about the danger sufficiently to save your own life. I know. I've seen it a thousand times in the patients of colleagues as well as my own, in hospitals all over Illinois.
I can tell you are curious to know what it is. Don't be. No one is ever really interested in it. So, why bring it up? Because it is the only way you will lose weight. No matter what you do to lose weight, this is what you must do to get results.
Weight loss plan: Take into your body less energy than you use. That's it. If you use more energy than you take in, your body must burn off the weight to create the energy you need.
Hum…It's called basic mathematics. Take in less, use up more. Subtract weight. Works every time. No exceptions. But, that's not the third lesson to learn. No. The Third lesson is this is. Taking into your body less energy than you use is the only solution given to us. No matter what you do, fail in this, no loss of weight will occur.
I'll just bet you're having a charismatic experience over that one.
If that doesn't happen, you may be weakening yourself unknowingly. If so, you may be losing weight, but incurring danger to your tissues or organs elsewhere inside you.
So… if it you're overweight…Listen to Miss Piggy.


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What I did, was to take advantage of the Secretariat's capacities, which was not to use professional translators, but Albanians who do other things within the Ministry. We will continue with the translations until the Agency is equipped with the right staff, said Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs, Bujar Osmani, at today's government press conference, reports "Portalb".
Also present at the press conference were by the Director of the Agency for the Implementation of the Law on the Use of Languages, Ilber Sela, the Secretary General of the Government of RSM, Dragi Rashkovski and the Deputy Secretary General of the Government, Tahir Hani.
Sela said that staffing at the Agency for the implementation of the Law on the Use of Languages will be completed after the presidential elections, which is scheduled for April 21st. Then the annual work program of the agency will be prepared.
"After the election process, we will announce a bid process to complete the team. I have also announced systematization and regulation, and with that we are in the final stages. When we complete the team, we will have a program for the Agency, so that we will continue with the other phases ahead," Sela said.
Rashkovski again said that the individuals who will be employed within the Agency are employed by the General Secretariat of the Government and will be transferred to begin the implementation of the Law on the Use of Languages.


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Increasing health care service demands, current and anticipated shortages of health care providers and fiscal pressures have prompted governments, policy-makers, and health care leadership to identify strategies that optimize the roles of all health care providers. Workforce optimization aims to ensure health care providers are working to their fullest scope of practice and that the mix and distribution of health care providers meets the needs of the specific patient population (Evans, Schneider, & Barer, 2010).
While the majority of Registered Psychiatric Nurses in Manitoba work within mental health programs, other client populations could benefit from the addition of these mental health services providers to the health care team.
Presentation by Tracy Thiele, RPN, BScPN, MN, PhD (s), Ryan Shymko, RPN, BA, MA, and Marg Synyshyn, RPN, BHS (Psych Nsg), MA.
Learn about the RPN toolkit and how it can be used to guide and facilitate the introduction of Registered Psychiatric Nurses into programs and settings other than mental health.
Watch Kyla Johnston's presentation at the 2017 AGM about her research into the lived experiences of rural residents who have been diagnosed and are living with borderline personality disorder (BPD).
Kyla is a Registered Psychiatric Nurse who is currently employed as the DBT Resource Nurse in the inpatient dialectical behaviour therapy program at Selkirk Mental Health Centre. Kyla offers practical resources, education, and coaching to assist front line mental health professionals to work more effectively with this population.
Niki Fields created a Gender Inclusive Care resource guide for nurses interested in increasing their knowledge and awareness around gender inclusive care.
Practicing ethically as a registered psychiatric nurse requires attention to standards of practice, the code of ethics, and evidence regarding quality care.
Watch Isabelle Jarrin's presentation from the 2014 AGM about her research into the place of ethics in mental health nurses' clinical judgments regarding seclusion use. Two themes from the study are explored in this presentation: the complexity of promoting safety and preventing harm and the importance of knowing for ethical action with seclusion use. Nurses' narratives are examined to illustrate how they thought about notions of safety, harm, privacy, dignity, and well-being.