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Savage pit bull attack leaves complicated case for Newark girl
'This is by far the worse one I have ever seen,' surgeon says of the attack on 8-year-old Emily Ruckle, whose arm was badly mangled.
Jen Rini, The News Journal
Published 10:04 a.m. ET Dec. 2, 2016 | Updated 12:14 a.m. ET Dec. 4, 2016
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Todd Ruckle thought he was driving to Philadelphia to pick up his daughter's body.
He had seen 8-year-old Emily as she was being loaded into a helicopter at A.I. duPont Hospital for Children in Rockland to go to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Her skin had turned yellow and clammy, and all he could think about was a corpse in a casket.
An hour earlier, Emily had been attacked by a 100-pound pit bull named Frank that lived with her half-brother in the family's Newark home. Her right arm was left hanging by a strip of flesh, and she bled profusely.
A.I. immediately transferred her to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Eight-year-old Emily Ruckle is airlifted to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia following a severe dog attack. Doctors and nurses save Emily's life and work to preserve the function of her arm. Daniel Sato/The News Journal
Emily's parents, Todd and Maria Ruckle, were stunned to learn their child had been savagely attacked while they attended a wedding. Drowning in guilt, they screamed at each other while speeding along I-95, searching for directions to CHOP on their smartphones.
Word spread fast about the attack, and family and friends peppered their cellphones with inquiries about Emily. Each ring turned off the GPS, and they got off at the wrong exit in Philadelphia.
"It was just pure chaos," Maria said of Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014.
Finally around 3:30 p.m., two and a half hours after Emily was horribly mauled, Todd and Maria rushed into CHOP's surgical waiting area still dressed for the wedding —Todd in a tuxedo, Maria in a sparkly red dress.
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Emily was already in surgery. Her sister, Megan, who had been with Emily when the dog attacked, had left A.I. duPont Hospital and was now at a friend's house in Newark. Maria's son Jack had met them at A.I. duPont when Emily arrived, but he returned home to clean up his room and throw out his mattress, covered in Emily's blood.
Dr. Joy Collins, a trauma surgeon at CHOP, stands in the emergency room next to the bed where a team of doctors worked on10 year-old Emily Ruckle saving her life from a near deadly Pit bull attack on Sept. 27th 2014.
(Photo: JENNIFER CORBETT/THE NEWS JOURNA)
Todd sat by his parents in CHOP's surgical waiting room. He blamed his wife for bringing the dog into their home. He blamed himself for not being able to protect Emily.
He and Maria sat on opposite sides of the waiting room slumped over in chairs, their cellphone batteries now dead.
"He wouldn't even speak to me," Maria said. "I sat in that waiting room by myself."
Todd doesn't remember it being that dramatic. He said he sat by a computer so he could have contact with the outside world.
On television, Todd and Maria could see Philadelphia news stations airing reports about the attack. On the screen appeared a picture of their home, cordoned off with yellow crime tape. Maria's ex-husband was interviewed about his pit bull named Frank, which two months earlier came to live with the Ruckles when the ex moved out of town.
Anxious waiting stretched into the evening. Todd stripped down to an undershirt, and Maria kicked off her heels.
Every two hours they got updates from Emily's surgical team. Late in the evening they were told that Emily would survive, but her arm might not be salvageable.
Todd and Maria took to Facebook to keep family and friends informed:
Todd, 5:20 p.m. Sept. 27, 2014: My daughter is alive and will survive. She has 4 to 6 hours of surgery with three different teams of surgeons. We are praying we can save her arm. I am truly in need of love and support. Please send every ounce of positive thoughts right now.
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A tense beginning
Dr. Ines Lin, a reconstructive and plastic surgeon, was at her Bryn Mawr home 30 minutes from CHOP when she got an emergency call about a bad dog bite to a child's upper arm.
Emily Ruckle
(Photo: Courtesy of the Ruckle family)
Lin, who was eight and a half months' pregnant on the day of the attack, raced to the hospital.
"This is by far the worse one I have ever seen," she said.
Lin usually talks to the family before operating. But with Emily's life imperiled, there was no time.
Dr. Joy Collins, a trauma surgeon at CHOP, led the team of doctors and nurses that prepped the 8-year-old, wrapping the wounds in gauze. Two IVs were placed in Emily's left arm because the right arm couldn't support an intravenous line. The team's top priority was ensuring that Emily was breathing and able to survive the surgery.
"We were worried about blood loss," Collins said.
Emily was assessed for rabies and given a shot to ward off infection. By the time Lin saw Emily, orthopedic surgeons had pinned her fracture together with two bolts — but the arm was a cool, light blue color, indicating a lack of blood flow.
Lin had to act quickly or Emily would lose her arm.
A complete amputation is easier to reattach because doctors can cool the extremity. Cooling prevents tissue damage and gives surgeons more time to operate.
Dr. Ines Lin explains the surgical procedure performed on Emily Ruckle to her parents, Todd and Maria, in a meeting room at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia on Friday morning, August 19, 2016.
(Photo: KYLE GRANTHAM/THE NEWS JOURNAL)
When a severely damaged limb is still on the body, it's more challenging to maintain blood flow. If muscles and nerves don't get blood flow within six to eight hours of a major trauma, tissue could die. And even the most delicate surgical movements can harm existing vessels and tissue.
Lin was worried.
"There were definitely times I wasn't sure we were going to do it," she said.
Out in the waiting room, Todd and Maria had finally stopped slinging recriminations at one another. Their daughter would live, and they knew they needed to be a team for their little girl. At midnight, Emily was still in surgery.
Todd, 12:10 a.m. Sept. 28, 2014: We are waiting patiently. Thank you again for all your prayers.
Attempting the surgery
Doctors had to cut through muscle and tissue to find Emily's brachial artery, located near the armpit and feeds the arm and hand. When they finally found it, they realized part of it had been shredded and was dark red — a sign of clotting.
To keep blood flowing, doctors tried twice to hook a 12- to 14-centimeter vein from Emily's right thigh to the artery in her arm to rebuild the area damaged by clots. Using a microscope Lin and her team made small sutures, or stitches, about as thin as a strand of hair to sew the vein to the artery. The second time took.
Lin also performed a fasciotomy, a procedure that involved cutting tissue and skin surrounding the arm muscles to allow swelling. That way the muscles would not be restricted when the blood began to flow again.
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The surgeon can't remember precisely when, but Emily's arm gradually moved from blue to pink, a sign the blood was flowing.
Yet that created another problem. To stop the clotting the team gave Emily blood thinners. Now the side effect was excessive bleeding, which had to be contained.
An 8-year-old's body contains only about 2.3 liters of blood, less than a gallon of milk. But during surgery Emily lost 8 liters of donated blood, meaning she essentially bled out four times in the first 12 hours after the dog attacked.
To Todd, it seemed like everything went wrong. But finally they got good news.
Todd, 2:16 a.m., Sept. 28, 2014: Emily has two more hours in surgery. She will not lose her arm, however, she will most likely lose most use of it. In time and a few more surgeries she may have some movement. I am beyond happy she is alive and I hope to see her soon.
Surgery finally ended around 4:15 a.m. — 13 hours after the dog attacked. But no one was celebrating.
"Daddy, I'm so scared. And I'm so ... sorry."
Emily Ruckle, speaking to her father, Todd, from her hospital bed
Todd, 7:24 p.m., Sept. 28, 2014: Tonight is the critical night. There are issues with fluid in her lungs from all the blood transfusions. Her heart rate is also too high. She continues to be in a medical coma. They are still picking up a heartbeat in her hand which is good news. If she has no issues tonight she will be going through a second surgery tomorrow morning.
When Todd and Maria saw Emily, her face was swollen and bloated, her brown eyes shut. She was hooked up to nine machines including a ventilator, respirator and feeding tube. Her chest thumped so violently it looked like her beating heart could crack her ribs.
White gauze was draped over her arms, shielding most of the surgeons' work. Metal rods stuck out of her right arm in open cuts still fresh with blood.
Maria held her little girl's hand while the couple prayed. Maria stayed up all night watching the pulsometer register Emily's blood pressure, anxiously breathing when the numbers dropped.
Emily didn't open her eyes until dinner time two days after the attack, when she heard her brother Jack's voice.
Maria, 6:34 p.m., Sept. 29, 2014: She's responding by nodding and shaking her head. So happy!
Emily and her father, Todd Ruckle, in a selfie from her hospital bed.
Todd dreaded what Emily would say when she could talk. He expected her to feel guilty because she knew he did not like her handling Frank.
Still struggling to breathe, she said softly and slowly, drawing out each word, "Daddy, I'm so scared. And I'm so ... sorry."
"I lost it," Todd said. "I couldn't stop crying."
The couple didn't leave the hospital for days. Friends brought toothpaste, shampoo and food. Three days later, friends finally convinced Maria to get out of her sparkly dress and into the shower. Her son Jack had hurriedly grabbed clean clothes, for which Maria was grateful.
"But I'm in sweat pants and a thong," she recalled. "I told him next time, 'Grab the granny panties, please.'"
Morphine mumblings
During the first seven days in October, Emily was in and out of the operating room for three surgeries and to have her wounds cleaned to prevent infection.
Maria, 7 a.m., Oct. 1, 2014: Overnight her temperature dropped — we had to put her in a warmer — but it could be a sign of infection. Won't know for about 24 hours until the cultures come back. She's much more responsive, but she's getting worked up about wanting to go home, not wanting to miss school and she's thrashing.
Todd, 5:17 p.m., Oct. 1, 2014: Emily is coming in and out of consciousness. She wakes up and she does not know where she is. We explained about 50 times where she is and she says how scared she is. She said she feels trapped in a house. She still cannot breathe on her own.
"By the end of the night I figured out that she is reliving the attack. She keeps screaming I do not want to die."
Facebook post by Todd Ruckle, Oct. 1, 2014
Todd, 8:32 p.m., Oct. 1, 2014: By the end of the night I figured out that she is reliving the attack. She keeps screaming I do not want to die. I am no longer me. All we can do is tell her she is safe and we love her.
Intravenous lines were placed on the top of Emily's feet and the top of her hands, and she screamed every time the lines were changed. As she improved, the equipment she had been tethered to was removed.
But her damaged right hand began to spasm, prompting fits of screaming.
Maria, 10:21 p.m., Oct. 6, 2014: I have never felt more helpless in my life
Yet, at times, Emily was still Emily. She could still beat her dad in a game of Go Fish. She demanded a cheeseburger or chicken sandwich and a vanilla Frosty with fries.
By Oct. 7, Emily was well enough to move to CHOP's fourth floor in a private room with a cot and bathroom. Mom and Dad took turns spending the night on the cot.
The Ruckles made friends with the family of a little girl down the hall, who also was in for a long stay. She lived with a congenital condition that caused deformities in her chest. Maria and her mother would walk the floor or go down to the cafeteria to grab coffee.
Doctors kept Emily pumped with painkillers, resulting in "morphine mumblings," Maria recalled. The little girl thought she was in Minecraft, an online adventure game she adores. She flip-flopped between giggling and having panic attacks. She would screech, "No, no, no, no, no," and then demand, "How do I get out of this room?"
Once Emily looked over and saw Todd sitting by her bedside.
"Dad, you are bouncy," she said. What about her brother Jack, her parents asked. Both men are broad-shouldered and stocky.
She called Jack "Earth," a name that stuck for a while.
Emily Ruckle and her sister, Megan.
Nurses came in hourly to check Emily's vital signs. They equipped her with a Nerf gun so she could shoot the orthopedic resident and sometimes her dad. To get her to take her medicine, another nurse joked she would sit on her if she didn't do as instructed.
Emily's right arm was immobilized in a white sling, with braces on her wrist and elbow and tape on her upper arm and shoulder. Every three days her arm was washed, suctioned and dressed in moist gauze.
Little victories meant a lot. Todd and Maria cheered when Emily could finally sit up on her own.
Megan, Emily's half-sister, occasionally rode the train from Delaware to visit. But Megan mostly coped by focusing on school, trying to forget the dreadful day of the attack. She got straight A's on her report card.
Emily's hospital room overflowed with teddy bears, Auntie Anne's pretzels and visitors. A family friend gave her a hot-pink blanket with the words written in purple thread: Emily Warrior Princess.
She was a warrior then and will forever remain one, her parents say.
Nerves from cadavers
Emily had been in her private room only a few days when Lin began to consider surgery to restore connections between the nerves in Emily's shoulder and arm. She worried it was too soon after restoring her blood flow, but she knew she had to try.
Emily's posterior nerve cord, which stretches from neck to shoulder, survived the attack. That was fortunate because the cord controls movement of the triceps muscle, and some movement in the fingers and wrist.
But three major nerve branches were damaged: the median, musculocutaneous and ulnar nerves. Median nerves help control the small muscles in the hand while the ulnar gives sensory and motor function to muscles in the elbow and some fingers. The musculocutaneous helps with motion to flex the biceps and elbow.
Lin sees nerves as cables that must be connected for a signal from the brain to activate the muscle or appendage. The ideal way to fix nerves is to sew them back together. But if the nerves can't be directly hooked together, doctors must find cables to reconnect the circuit.
The gold standard is to surgically remove nerves from somewhere else in the body and transplant them to the injured limb. But Lin said that's always a tradeoff: If doctors take a nerve from the ankle, for instance, it will have less function.
Emily needed two sections of nerves in her arm — one 11 centimeters long, the other 14 centimeters. Lin ruled out taking that much nerve function from another part of the body.
Instead, she turned to frozen, donated cadaver nerves. Cells are completely stripped from the cadaver nerves, but proteins are left so that a patient's own nerve cells can regenerate once they are stitched to the cadaver nerve.
This would be the first time Lin used cadaver nerves for a child. She was worried the procedure would be risky because she had to work around the reconstructed artery and blood vessels. There was a chance she could damage them and set back Emily's progress.
"If it worked then it was a bonus," Lin said.
Fourteen days after the pit bull attack, on Oct. 10, 2014, Emily was set for nerve graft surgery.
It took about 15 minutes to thaw the cadaver nerve; the surgery itself took more than five hours.
First surgeons sewed together four pieces of cadaver nerves — two to make the 11-centimeter nerve bundle and two to make the 14-centimeter nerve bundle.
Emily Ruckle is surrounded by her sister, Megan (left) and parents, Todd and Maria Ruckle.
Finding Emily's existing nerves was an arduous process. Surgeons cut into her shoulder and lower forearm. They used sutures with glue to attach the cadaver nerves to Emily's nerves, nestled between muscles and arteries.
Surgeons then transplanted skin from her right thigh to cover the wounds in the back of her arm and around her shoulder.
The surgery went well. A surgical fellow who sat in on the procedure described it as a miracle. Nerves in Emily's right shoulder opened up like fingers saying, "please attach me," the fellow told Todd.
Yet Lin was hesitant to call the procedure a success. It takes one month for nerves that have been completely severed to regenerate 1 inch.
For an injury like Emily's that reaches a shoulder, regeneration could take up to three years, Lin said. Doctors prepped the family for the worst, saying it would be unlikely Emily will ever regain the lost nerve function.
Maria felt sick.
Maria, 1:34 a.m. Oct. 11, 2014: Todd expected her to be waking up moving her fingers, but that won't happen for months, if ever. I'm overjoyed that she's alive, but I'm mourning the loss of my Emily. Her young life will never be the same. She will never be a gymnast, or compete in sports, or play the guitar that sits in her room. She probably won't be able to hold her child without help.
32-day stay
Emily's nerve graft surgery marked the halfway point of the girl's 32-day hospital stay at CHOP. Todd and his wife had started taking turns driving home to settle medical bills and go to work.
The medical bills climbed to about $3 million. However, the family qualified for Delaware's Children's Community Alternative Disability Program, which helped supplement Emily's hospital bills after she was discharged from the hospital. It saved their home and financial future. They happily paid more than $10,000 out of pocket for services such as therapy, bandages and medication.
Todd, 11 a.m., Oct. 13, 2014: It was gut-wrenching leaving Emily this morning. I cannot wait to get back to her tomorrow morning. This morning right before I left she spiked a high fever.
During the final weeks of October, Emily had more surgeries on her right arm — bringing the total to nine.
Newark Police Cpl. Andrew Pagnotti, left, and Officer Dan Burgess accompany Emily Ruckle as she visits the department on the way home from the hospital.
(Photo: WILLIAM BRETZGER/THE NEWS JOURNAL)
Eventually, she could get out of bed to play games, walk and Skype her third-grade classmates at Newark Charter. She enjoyed visitors. But her parents were worried about the four-legged variety. A pet therapy dog, a golden retriever named Hunter, came to visit. Her parents watched anxiously. Emily swallowed him in one-armed hugs, Hunter's nose nestled in her neck.
Thirty-two days after she was admitted, on Oct. 28, Emily went home. She had a police escort and visited the Newark Police Department to pick up trading cards with pictures of the officers.
Four days later, Dr. Lin gave birth to her second child, a daughter.
'I'm a kid'
Emily's trauma wasn't a clean injury, like a cut with a sharp knife.
"This was a mauling, so the lacerations weren't clean," said Tracy Shank, Emily's hand therapist at A.I. duPont Hospital for Children. "There were puncture wounds. You don't expect those recoveries to be good."
Emily Ruckle pauses outside her family's car as she visits the Newark Police Department on the way home from the hospital on Oct. 28, 2014.
Emily needed to rest in the first three months after her hospital stay so the blood vessels and tissues could heal. That meant limited movement — difficult for a child with a lot of energy.
To improve her range of motion and to regain sensation in her arm and hand, she needed therapy to retrain her brain. If the nerve and brain are not in sync, over time motor function decreases as well.
"You almost lose the impulse to want to use the hand," Shank said. "The brain's image of the hand has shriveled."
Emily would ultimately see Shank nearly every week at A.I. duPont, but all agreed to wait until after the holidays to begin therapy.
Emily returned to school. Todd and Maria went back to selling homes.
On Thanksgiving 2014, the family took time to reflect.
Todd, 8:26 a.m. Nov. 27, 2014: I am so thankful for my daughter still being with us and everyone that helped us through this journey. Thousands of people prayed for her and our family. So on this Thanksgiving I want to say thank you to everyone. Hug the ones you love and tell them how you feel. We are only here for such a short period of time.
On Christmas Eve, the family received a particularly special gift. Emily began to feel hard touches to her arm.
By January she had a breakthrough: During her first session at A.I., her right arm snapped back at the elbow and flew toward her, smacking her hand against her face.
Emily Ruckle looks out the window as she sits in her half-sister Megan's bed on Thursday afternoon, September 20, 2016.
She had no control, but she had movement.
"I was laying down, and it went like this," Emily demonstrated one day last summer, making a goofy wide smile and twisting her arm so her hand slapped her face.
She worked so hard and made progress fast. Lin was shocked when she saw Emily for her six-month follow-up.
Todd and Maria recalled the doctor saying, "'Nothing I did did this. This is her body reworking.'"
To which Emily responded: "I'm a kid!"
SPECIAL REPORT: SAVING EMILY'S ARM
PART 1: THE ATTACK
PART 2: THE HOSPITAL
PART 3: THE FINAL SURGERY
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Chairman Flake, Ranking Member Booker, and members of the subcommittee – thank you for the opportunity to testify today regarding Central Africa and section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act.
My name is Rick Goss, and I am the Senior Vice President of Environment and Sustainability at ITI – a global trade association representing the world's most innovative technology companies. ITI has been central to the conflict minerals dialogue for years, and I have led ITI's engagement on this priority since 2007.
The tech sector is committed to contributing to peace and stability in Central Africa, and we have proven this commitment by sourcing responsibly from the region. Our engagement has helped provide critical economic benefits to hundreds of thousands of people who depend upon mining activities for their livelihood.
As Congress considers replacing or modifying section 1502, we urge you to ensure that the U.S. continues to drive diplomatic efforts in the region, and to advance responsible sourcing initiatives. Should the U.S. fail to do so, Central Africa could experience additional volatility, and we could see the rise of inconsistent regulatory regimes.
Section 1502 has yielded mixed success in cutting off funding to armed groups and reducing violence in the region.
While governments, civil society and the private sector have together realized some clear progress on responsible sourcing, this mixed outcome in the region is due in part to the continued smuggling of gold; ongoing interference by a spectrum of armed groups; and, the ready availability of numerous other sources of illegal revenue.
While the DRC is increasing the responsible production of tin, tantalum and tungsten – the "3Ts" – this progress does not extend to gold. In a December 2016 report, the United Nations Group of Experts stated that, "gold exploitation and trade remain poorly regulated, and the mineral is by far the one most often used to finance armed elements and criminal networks" in the DRC.
Criminal networks within the Congolese Army remain some of the chief offenders. These elements, along with myriad non-state armed groups, directly interfere in mining operations, set up illegal road blocks, and levy unlawful taxes on local communities, miners and minerals. They exploit products such as timber, charcoal, and cannabis, and engage in human trafficking, forced labor, the slaughter of endangered species, and extortion.
Ultimately, even as section 1502 has generated a measurable increase in transparency for 3T supply chains, armed actors have turned to gold and other lucrative and illicit methods.
While section 1502 has yielded some positive impacts, it has also generated unintended consequences.
First, the provision contributed to the de facto embargo documented in the region beginning in 2010, causing significant hardships for countless vulnerable people living in what has been termed the "survival economy".
Second, section 1502 has had an inordinate impact on small- and medium-sized enterprises here in the United States and elsewhere.
Finally, by focusing almost exclusively on the role of the private sector, section 1502 diverted critical attention away from the indispensable role of governments in addressing the crisis.
First, the U.S. should expand existing efforts to drive peace, security, and governance in Central Africa through increased support for political and diplomatic solutions, and through development aid to help formalize the regional mining sector.
Second, the U.S. should maintain its leadership position to guard against unintended outcomes. If our government stops driving responsible sourcing, the region may experience renewed or increased volatility. Moreover, other geographies will likely regulate U.S. companies, potentially disrupting private sector programs.
The U.S. should further advance the uptake of the OECD Due Diligence Guidance, the international model for responsible sourcing that forms the backbone of section 1502 compliance.
Third, the U.S. should consider removing ineffective requirements that result in burdensome and duplicative paperwork exercises, generate little benefit in Central Africa, or dissuade companies from investing in the region. Congress should seek to remedy the competitive disadvantages that section 1502 created between companies.
In conclusion, the geo-political challenges facing Central Africa are so severe that only concerted actions by regional governments, coupled with ongoing support from the international community, can resolve them. The region continues to be beset by rampant conflict and corruption, and destabilized by chronic interference from neighboring countries. The underlying causes of this conflict are political, not economic, and are linked to entrenched ethnic hostilities, and disputes over political power.
Tech will continue to actively engage and contribute to the solution, but governments must ultimately create the necessary conditions to allow private sector and civil society initiatives to thrive.
Thank you again for the invitation to testify today. I would be pleased to answer any questions.


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Внешняя политика Восточного Тимора — общий курс Восточного Тимора в международных делах. Внешняя политика регулирует отношения Восточного Тимора с другими государствами. Реализацией этой политики занимается министерство иностранных дел Восточного Тимора.

История
Министерство иностранных дел и сотрудничества является центральным государственным органом, отвечающим за разработку, реализацию, координацию и оценку политики, разработанной и утверждённой Советом министров, в областях международной дипломатии и сотрудничества, консульских функций, а также защиты интересов тиморцев, проживающих за границей.

Государственный министр и министерство иностранных дел должны планировать, предлагать и осуществлять внешнюю политику Восточного Тимора, гарантирующую единую линию и последовательность, подготавливать проекты законов и нормативных актов в рамках своей компетенции, вести переговоры и предлагать заключение международных договоров и соглашений в соответствии с приоритетами внешней политики страны, продвижение интересов Восточного Тимора за рубежом и обеспечение защиты тиморских граждан в других государствах, обеспечение представления интересов Восточного Тимора в других государствах и международных организациях, управление и координация деятельности посольств, дипломатических миссий, постоянных и временных представительств, а также консульских учреждений в соответствии с приоритетами внешней политики.

Государственный министр иностранных дел должен планировать и осуществлять подготовку присоединения Восточного Тимора к Ассоциации государств Юго-Восточной Азии (АСЕАН) и обеспечить представительство страны на соответствующих заседаниях и мероприятиях; предлагать и осуществлять политику международного сотрудничества в координации с министерством финансов и другими компетентными государственными учреждениями, координировать совместно с министерством финансов и другими компетентными департаментами правительства отношения Тимора-Лешти с партнерами по развитию; выполнять порученные функции, связанные с вопросами экономической деятельности и создания механизмов сотрудничества для координации с другими государственными органами, осуществляющими надзор за соответствующими областями деятельности.

27 сентября 2002 года Восточный Тимор вступил в Организацию Объединенных Наций. Является наблюдателем в Ассоциации государств Юго-Восточной Азии (АСЕАН) и был участником Регионального форума АСЕАН в июле 2005 года. Внешняя политика Восточного Тимора во многом зависит от приоритетных отношений с Индонезией, от соседних стран: Австралии, Малайзии и Сингапура, а также от дружественных стран-доноров: Соединённых Штатов Америки, Китая, Европейского союза, Японии и Португалии.

20 мая 2002 года ООН передала контроль первому демократически избранному правительству Восточного Тимора, а Временная администрация ООН в Восточном Тиморе уступила полномочия Миссии Организации Объединённых Наций по поддержке в Восточном Тиморе (МООНПВТ). МООНПВТ была учреждена в соответствии с резолюцией 1410 СБ ООН первоначально до мая 2002 года, но позднее была продлена до мая 2003 года, чтобы помочь восточнотиморскому правительству выполнять основные административные функции и обеспечить временную внутреннюю и внешнюю безопасность. В мае 2004 года СБ ООН согласился продлить мандат МООНПВТ на шестимесячный период с целью последующего продления мандата ещё на один последний шестимесячный период до мая 2005 года.

В мае 2005 года СБ ООН принял резолюцию 1599 об учреждении Отделения ООН в Восточном Тиморе (ОООНТЛ) с мандатом до 20 мая 2006 года. Однако после беспорядков весной 2006 года Совет Безопасности согласился продлить деятельность ОООНТЛ до 25 августа 2006 года. В этот день Резолюция 1704 СБ ООН учредила новую Объединённую миссию Организации Объединённых Наций в Восточном Тиморе. Мандат этой миссии включал в себя процесс национального примирения, а также восстановление и поддержание общественной безопасности.

В ноябре 2001 года Совет министров Восточного Тимора официально оформил свои намерения, разрешив министру иностранных дел Жозе Рамуш-Орта приступить к реализации планов подписания Договора о дружбе и сотрудничестве с АСЕАН и подать заявку на получение статуса наблюдателя сразу после получения независимости. В качестве временной меры в июле 2005 года АСЕАН пригласила Восточный Тимор стать членом регионального форума организации. В марте 2011 года Восточный Тимор официально подал заявку на вступление в АСЕАН, министр иностранных дел подписал заявление во время посещения Индонезии. В апреле 2013 года АСЕАН дала согласие Восточному Тимору на участие в качестве наблюдателя в будущих заседаниях группы.

Несмотря на то, что все государства АСЕАН имеют общую цель обеспечения региональной безопасности, отсутствует взаимное сотрудничество в вопросах военной обороны для коллективного понимания общей безопасности, что подчеркивает тенденцию определять оборонительные меры самостоятельными возможностями. Это может создать дилемму о безопасности для некоторых стран, что может привести к гонке вооружений. Постоянный рост расходов на оборону, связанный с целью модернизации вооружённых сил, побудил государства АСЕАН занять наступательную позицию.

Географическое положение Восточного Тимора является фактором, крайне важным для его ближайших соседей, в частности для Индонезии в связи с политической жизнью и ситуацией в области безопасности, процессом демократизации и экономическим развитием. Австралия может, с точки зрения безопасности, поместить Восточный Тимор в одну из своих зон безопасности, то есть в качестве буфера для своей непосредственной защиты. Во время Второй мировой войны Восточный Тимор был ареной ожесточённых боёв. В настоящее время стратегические амбиции Индонезии и Австралии остаются скрытыми и по-прежнему актуальны для развития Восточного Тимора.

В 1999 году Австралия возглавляла Международные силы Восточного Тимора (INTERFET), которые восстановили порядок в Восточном Тиморе, и в настоящее время возглавляет Международные силы стабилизации (ISF), развёрнутые по просьбе правительства Восточного Тимора после беспорядков в апреле / мае 2006 года. Австралия также является основным поставщиком помощи в целях развития страны. 20 мая 2002 года Австралия и Восточный Тимор подписали Договор по Тиморскому морю, в котором предусматриваются общие государственные доли за добычу нефти в Тиморском море. Договор вступил в силу в апреле 2003 года, предоставляя 90 % доли из Объединённой зоны разработки нефти Восточному Тимору и 10 % Австралии.

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FDA Grants Emergency Authorization To Eli Lilly's COVID Treatment
By Lindsey Theis
The FDA has granted emergency approval to experimental antibody drug Bamlanivimab. But getting it to the people who need it has its own challenges.
Bamlanivimab the first FDA emergency-approved drug for mild to moderate COVID-19 patients, is meant to stop this from happening.
The drug imitates the immune system's response to the virus. Antibodies are made in a lab and given to COVID patients via IV early in the illness. It takes an hour to administer it, and another hour for health workers to monitor a patient for side effects.
The FDA authorized Bamlanivimab for coronavirus patients who are at high risk of severe disease or hospitalization. Factors like being older than 65, diabetes, obesity, a suppressed immune system, cardiovascular disease or high blood pressure all make someone eligible to receive the drug.
But now comes the daunting task of making the drug — and getting it to people who need it.
"People often think finding a drug is the most important thing. It's super important. Developing it is super important, but manufacturing and distributing it is equally important," Dr. Jeremy Levin, chairman of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, said.
Right now, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has 80,000 doses to give out by week's end. Its contract with Eli Lilly includes 300,000 more doses by December. But in the past week, the U.S. has seen over 700,000 new COVID cases.
Even though the drug is meant to keep COVID patients out of the hospital, HHS says at first, only hospitals will have it. In the coming weeks, outpatient sites like IV infusion centers will, too.
"One of the concerns about infusion centers, the way they're set up now is they often have cancer patients or patients who are immunosuppressed. And the last thing you want to do is have people with active COVID infection around people who are immunosuppressed," said Dr. Manu Jain, a pulmonary and critical care specialist at Northwestern Medicine.
Federal officials will look at two things each week to decide where additional doses go: state and local confirmed hospitalizations over the prior seven days, and total confirmed cases. Doses will be distributed each Wednesday, similar to what is done now with the COVID treatment remdesivir.
HHS says no one will be charged for the drug itself. But Medicare patients without supplemental coverage and individuals with private insurance could be charged for services associated with getting Bamlanivimab,
Lindsey Theis, Newsy, Denver.

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Parents play a fundamental role in children's access, socialization, motivation, and behaviour in sport (e.g., Côté, 1999; Fraser-Thomas, Côté, & Deakin, 2008). As such, this study explored perceived parental support for sport participation among youth and young adults living in Neighbourhood Improvement Areas (NIAs) (i.e., Toronto communities that have higher rates of low-income, poor housing, immigrants, visible minorities, and reliance on social support; City of Toronto, 2014). The research draws upon Ecological Systems Theory (EST; Bronfenbrenner, 2005; Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 1998) and post-colonial feminist theory (PCF) to critically examine proximal (e.g., interpersonal relationships) and distal processes (e.g., social structures and institutions, changes over time), which influenced perceived parental support for sport participation in NIAs. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 youth and young adults, using a narrative inquiry approach (e.g., Smith & Sparks, 2009). Findings offer insight into participants' sport journeys, and youths' perceptions of their parents' expectations and pressures, in the context of the challenges of immigration and settlement. Recommendations for how parental involvement within NIAs could be supported, as proposed by the participants is explored. This research highlights the benefits of adopting an interdisciplinary approach (e.g., sport psychology and sociology) to uncover complexities of parental support for sport participation.


Five-time champion Roger Federer held off a game challenge from Germany's Simon Greul to set up a US Open third-round match with Lleyton Hewitt.
Federer, in his first match under the lights in 2009, won the second-round match 6-3, 7-5, 7-5 but it was not a straightforward win as the world No 65 forced the top seed to play some top-drawer tennis earlier in the tournament than he is accustomed to.
"It's never easy, the first night session of the year here in New York and I saw him play a couple of times and he played really, really well so I knew it would be difficult," Federer said.
"The level was really high, there was great intensity but it's good to be back and it's great to win again."
Attempting to emulate Bill Tilden, in the 1920s a six-time consecutive winner of the US National championship, Federer had looked set for a quick outing at Arthur Ashe Stadium as he took a 5-2 lead in the opening set.
Yet Greul had other ideas and serving to save the set the German drew two errors out of the world number one, an uncharacteristic overhead into the net and then a wild mis-hit, to give the underdog advantage on the way to a morale-boosting save.
Federer was all business again on serve, racing to 40-0 only to concede his first double fault of the match, a temporary blip as the set was claimed on the next point.
Greul was capable of some class himself and it began to show in the second set as some deft touches at the net earned two break points at 2-1 up, his first of the match.
But whenever he threw down the gauntlet, Federer raised the bar higher, and he responded with an unreturnable serve and then sent an ace down the middle to get to deuce from where he saved service to draw level in the set.
At 5-4 up, Federer even had to serve to save a set point earned by Greul after a brilliant cross-court forehand winner.
Again, it brought out the best in Federer, flat-footing the German with a neat drop shot to get the game to deuce.
Greul hit back again and this time Federer saved set point with a 131 mph ace down the middle before holding the game at 5-5.
Federer stepped up a gear when he needed to and in the next game he did what the German could not by breaking his opponent's serve to move to 6-5 and he comfortably served out for a two-set lead.
Federer went 2-0 down in the third set as Greul threatened to extend the match longer than anyone expected.
It took until the seventh game for the Swiss to resume normal service and when he made the decisive breakthrough in the 11th to move to 6-5, victory was all but assured, the world No 1 winning the match with an ace to set up a rematch of his 2004 final against Hewitt.
The 31st seed had won through 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 against Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina.
Frenchman Gael Monfils, the 13th seed, looked in fine fettle as he dispatched unseeded compatriot Jeremy Chardy in straight sets, 6-1, 6-4, 6-3.
Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero is also through after the 24th seed ousted Frenchman Fabrice Santoro, also playing his last US Open, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, while Germany's Kiefer was also a winner in straight sets, sending Michael Llodra of France crashing out, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4.


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Serial stalker Dan Shearin plans book on death of cheerleader girlfriend
5:45am Feb 12, 2016
A serial stalker linked to the death of his cheerleader girlfriend has announced he intends to write a book detailing her untimely demise, appalling the woman's family, who described his plan as a "sick joke".
Just two days ago, Dan Shearin, who has been convicted twice for menacing and harassing women via text message, walked free from a Queensland court on probation, despite having admitted to subjecting a woman he met on the internet to a foul stream of abuse.
It was the fourth such appearance Shearin, a cruise ship singer, has made in court on similar charges, prompting one magistrate to suggest, as News Corp reports, that he should come with a warning, "the same as cigarette packaging".
Now, despite saying he was "thankful" for the Southport Magistrate Court's decision, the serial offender says he plans to detail the death of Breeana Robinson, a former cheerleader for the Titans, who plummeted to her death from Shearin's high-rise Gold Coast apartment in 2013.
Got away with it again...Dan Shearin.
Just 21, Ms Robinson had received hundreds of abusive and threatening texts from Shearin in the lead up to her death.
Shearin says he will call the book The Blame Game.
"It's about opening people's eyes to these things … like I said, suicide, domestic violence," Shearin told The Courier Mail.
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"The book isn't going to be for profit for obvious reasons because I can't profit from crime."
Naturally, Ms Robinson's family is furious at Shearin's intentions.
Bree Robinson.
"Is this some sort of sick joke?" Janine Mackney, Ms Robinson's aunt, said.
"This guy is unbelievable. It's as if he's the victim in this, not all the women he has stalked, harassed and bullied. It's all about Dan.
"We've lost our beautiful Bree and now he has the hide to come out and do this to us.
"We'll be doing everything we can to stop him."
Shearin's first book, All at Sea: Confessions of a Neurotic Cruise Ship Singer, details a litany of sexual conquests – including one with a 16-year-old – and has been panned by the handful of people who've read it, with one describing the pulpy tome as "self-aggrandizing drivel".
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Kitchen of the Week: A Clandestine Private Dining Loft in NYC's Chinatown
Bookcases & BookshelvesIssue 30 — The Basics
Fan Winston July 25, 2019
Lee's has everything we'd want from an event space in New York City: an airy, bright feel; minimalist wood furniture; a legit Downtown address; the ability to be dressed up or down depending on the event; not to mention a back-to-basics kitchen that isn't basic in the least.
The space is the brainchild of Nick Poe, an architectural designer and visual artist who was enamored with the idea of a dedicated private room, a place you could go to with friends and cook yourselves. He opened the joint on New Year's Eve in 2016 in a former mahjong parlor on Canal Street. "It was sort of an underground Chinese casino, where people would come to smoke and gamble. It was left in shambles, with cigarette burns and rotting food throughout the many subdivided rooms," he explains. "It was love at first site." (The name of the front business for the casino, he thinks, was Lee's Fashion.)
After knocking down the walls and letting the light in, what was left was raw, unfinished, and industrial—just how Poe liked it. "The look of this space, as with most of the other spaces I build, almost certainly comes from my experience growing up in and around, and loving, the old downtown lofts of New York," he says.
Poe designed all the wood tables and kitchen built-ins for Lee's, which has a hybridized style best described as "industrial, country/farm, and Japanese," he says. He was also heavily inspired by the designs of mid-century minimalism master Donald Judd.
Let's take a tour of this inspired private dining room and kitchen, borne of downtown grit and creativity.
Photography courtesy of Lee's.
Above: Lee's takes up the second and third floors and can accommodate up to 200 people. The kitchen is open to the dining room.
Above: The fully stocked chef's kitchen. Clients can sign up for a complete family-style dinner, or they can bring their own chef and food. "The green sink is original to the building but not the space. When we were building Lee's, the landlord was demolishing another space upstairs that had all kinds of beautiful original character. I rescued that sink out of their dumpster," says Poe.
Above: All the wood shelves and tables were designed by Poe. The built-ins in the kitchen are his homage to Donald Judd's bookshelves.
Above: "The glass-door fridge was bought at a used restaurant equipment dealer on the Bowery, run by a wonderfully gangster lady named Penny. I believe it is True brand, my favorite in commercial refrigeration," says Poe. The pot filler is from a local Chinatown plumbing store called AJ. The industrial stove is from WebStaurantStore.com.
Above: Poe looked to Balter Sales, on the Bowery, to provide the basic white plates and bowls. "They have a great selection of dinnerware and glassware. Ask for our girl Adriana."
Above: The dining space. The green door is original to the building and was left untouched. The wood floors are also original. "Where the original wood had rotted, I filled it in with tile instead of wood, in whatever shaped was needed," says Poe.
Above: The wood daybed is another homage to Donald Judd. (See 7 Favorites: The Enduring Appeal of the Donald Judd Daybed.)
Above: Large windows and oversized mirrors provide plenty of light. "The tables are actually designed to fold down for storage, even though they don't look like they fold," says Poe. The vintage folding chairs were sourced online.
Above: The third floor has no attached kitchen but does have a bar. "We connected the spaces with a dumbwaiter so we can send food upstairs from the kitchen," he says.
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Defense Secretary: U.S. Should Expect Iran to 'Retaliate' After Soleimani Killing
WE'RE 'PREPARED'
Julia Arciga
Published Jan. 07, 2020 2:52PM ET
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Defense Secretary Mark Esper told reporters Tuesday the U.S. should expect Iran to retaliate after an American drone strike near Baghdad International Airport last week killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. "I think we should expect them to retaliate in some way shape or form, whether through their proxies—as they've been doing no for how many years—and or by their own hand," Esper said, adding that the U.S. was "prepared for any contingency" and would "respond appropriately to whatever they do." He also reiterated comments previously made by President Trump, claiming that the U.S. was "not seeking a war with Iran" and were attempting to end one. "We are seeking a diplomatic solution, but first this will require Iran to deescalate... what happens next depends on them," he said.
Soleimani was killed in an airstrike late last week, with officials claiming that he was planning an imminent attack against U.S. interests. When asked if Soleimani's planned attacks were days or weeks away, he said, "I think it's more fair to say days for sure."


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An Afternoon Picnic with the President: Town and Gown in Black and White
"As a nation we [The United States] have done a pretty good job in melding the races in the workplace. We work with one another, lunch together and, when the event is at the workplace during work hours or shortly thereafter, we socialize with one another fairly well, irrespective of race. And yet even this interaction operates within certain limitations. We know, by "American instinct" and by learned behavior, that certain subjects are off limits and that to explore them risks, at best embarrassment, and, at worst, the questioning of one's character. And outside the workplace the situation is even more bleak in that there is almost no significant interaction between us. On Saturdays and Sundays America in the year 2009 does not, in some ways, differ significantly from the country that existed some fifty years ago. This is truly sad. Given all that we as a nation went through during the civil rights struggle it is hard for me to accept that the result of those efforts was to create an America that is more prosperous, more positively race conscious and yet is voluntarily socially segregated (Holder 2009-02-18)."
How do we as communities move towards voluntary socially de-segregated nations? Have a picnic?
On July 30, 2009 two Cambridge Massachussetts families will join the President of the United States for a picnic table summit. They represent the town and gown, but more significantly, two races, brought together in a gesture of reconciliation.
The press are stomping on the turf of the Professor's yellow wood-frame home and the Sergeant's Natick home and tomorrow they will be all over the White House lawn for the picnic.
Sgt. James M. Crowley, who grew up in Cambridge and now lives in Natick, Mass. with his wife and three children, has served with the Cambridge Police Department for 11 years. In 2004 he was selected by Ronny Watson, a former police commissioner (who is black) to be instructor at the Lowell Police Academy teaching colleagues how to avoid racial profiling. He was in the Mid-Cambridge district when at 12:45 p.m. July 16, he heard the call of a possible break-in at Ware Street in Harvard Square. A passer-by, Lucia Whalen, a fund-raiser for Harvard Magazine, saw two men struggling with the door of a yellow wood-frame home and called the Cambridge police. Sgt. Crowley answered the call although he was alone. When he encountered the individuals, whom he considered to be a threat, he called for assistance. He handcuffed one individual who was brought to the station for questioning, then released without any charges. He overreacted.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. moved to Harvard Square in 1991 when he joined the faculty of Harvard as Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies. Before coming to Harvard he taught at Yale, Cornell, and Duke. His autobiography entitled Colored People: A Memoir is taught in ethics courses among others. When he first moved to Harvard Square, "one of the most tolerant places on earth," in 1991 he voluntarily introduced himself at the Cambridge Police Department hoping that he might avoid being pulled over constantly by police for being black while driving an expensive car. He is a very visible presence at Harvard University, his home. He is slight of build, small, (5'6″) and uses a cane. He is charismatic, distinguished and is impeccably dressed. He spent the week of July 9-16 on a documentary in China. Upon his arrival at Logan Airport, a Moroccan driver took him to his Ware Street resident. The door to his home was jammed. He was already fighting bronchial infection and was tired from a 14-hour flight so he asked the driver for help to force it open. When Sgt. Crowley arrived at his home asking him to prove his identity, he was confused and indignant. He refused to step outside as Sgt. Crowley requested (Hernandez, Rimer and Saulny 2009). He overreacted.
President Obama, who is a friend of Henry Louis Gates Jr., also overreacted.
We are human. We make mistakes. We apologize. And President Obama's apology resonated.
In a rare White House statement to the press (2009-07-24) President Obama explained, "My sense is you've got two good people in a circumstance in which neither of them were able to resolve the incident in the way that it should have been resolved, and the way they would have liked it to be resolved. […T]he fact that it has garnered so much attention, I think, is a testimony to the fact that these are issues that are still very sensitive here in America, and — you know, so to the extent that my choice of words didn't illuminate but rather contributed to more media frenzy, I think that was unfortunate. What I would like to do, then, is to make sure that everybody steps back for a moment, recognizes that these are two decent people. [… B]ecause of our history, because of the difficulties of the past, you know, African-Americans are sensitive to these issues, [a]nd even when you've got a police officer who has a fine track record on racial sensitivity, interactions between police officers and the African-American community can sometimes be fraught with misunderstanding. My hope is that as a consequence of this event, this ends up being what's called a teachable moment where all of us, instead of pumping up the volume, spend a little more time listening to each other and try to focus on how we can generally improve relations between police officers and minority communities, and that instead of flinging accusations, we can all be a little more reflective in terms of what we can do to contribute to more unity. [T]here are some who say that as President I shouldn't have stepped into this at all because it's a local issue. I have to tell you that that part of it I disagree with. The fact that this has become such a big issue I think is indicative of the fact that race is still a troubling aspect of our society. Whether I were black or white, I think that me commenting on this and hopefully contributing to constructive — as opposed to negative — understandings about the issue, is part of my portfolio. So at the end of the conversation there was a discussion about — my conversation with Sergeant Crowley, there was discussion about he and I and Professor Gates having a beer here in the White House. We don't know if that's scheduled yet — (laughter) — but we may put that together. He also did say he wanted to find out if there was a way of getting the press off his lawn. (Laughter.) I informed him that I can't get the press off my lawn. (Laughter.) He pointed out that my lawn is bigger than his lawn. (Laughter.) But if anybody has any connections to the Boston press, as well as national press, Sergeant Crowley would be happy for you to stop trampling his grass (Office of the Press Secretary of the White House. 2009-07-24. The Statement by the President)."
At the Department of Justice African American History Month Program, Attorney General Eric Holder (2009-02-18), cautioned that, "Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards. Though race related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race. It is an issue we have never been at ease with and given our nation's history this is in some ways understandable. And yet, if we are to make progress in this area we must feel comfortable enough with one another, and tolerant enough of each other, to have frank conversations about the racial matters that continue to divide us. But we must do more- and we in this room bear a special responsibility. Through its work and through its example this Department of Justice, as long as I am here, must – and will – lead the nation to the "new birth of freedom" so long ago promised by our greatest President. This is our duty and our solemn obligation. We commemorated five years ago, the 50th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. And though the world in which we now live is fundamentally different than that which existed then, this nation has still not come to grips with its racial past nor has it been willing to contemplate, in a truly meaningful way, the diverse future it is fated to have. To our detriment, this is typical of the way in which this nation deals with issues of race. And so I would suggest that we use February of every year to not only commemorate black history but also to foster a period of dialogue among the races. This is admittedly an artificial device to generate discussion that should come more naturally, but our history is such that we must find ways to force ourselves to confront that which we have become expert at avoiding. As a nation we have done a pretty good job in melding the races in the workplace. We work with one another, lunch together and, when the event is at the workplace during work hours or shortly thereafter, we socialize with one another fairly well, irrespective of race. And yet even this interaction operates within certain limitations. We know, by "American instinct" and by learned behavior, that certain subjects are off limits and that to explore them risks, at best embarrassment, and, at worst, the questioning of one's character. And outside the workplace the situation is even more bleak in that there is almost no significant interaction between us. On Saturdays and Sundays America in the year 2009 does not, in some ways, differ significantly from the country that existed some fifty years ago. This is truly sad. Given all that we as a nation went through during the civil rights struggle it is hard for me to accept that the result of those efforts was to create an America that is more prosperous, more positively race conscious and yet is voluntarily socially segregated (Holder 2009-02-18)."
Professor Glen Loury, author of Race, Incarceration and American Values (2008) is hopeful that the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the resulting picnic table summit will illuminate hard-core issues such as the systemic crisis of "hyper-incarceration of poor black men" not end in more sensitivity training for police officers. He wants "something of lasting value" not mere moral posturing. Loury calls for deep reforms in our criminal justice system with a real investment "in helping the troubled people — our fellow citizens — caught in the law enforcement web to find a constructive role in society, and less in punishing them for punishment's sake. We need to change the ways in which we deal with juvenile offenders, so that a foolish act in childhood doesn't put them on the road to lifetimes in prison. We should seriously consider that many of our sentences are too long — "three strikes" laws may be good politics, but they are an irrational abomination as policy. We should definitely consider decriminalizing most drug use. We need to reinvent parole. And, most important, we should weigh more heavily the negative and self-defeating effects that our policy of mass incarceration is having on the communities where large numbers of young black and Hispanic men live (Loury 2009-07-26)."
Selected Bibliography and Webliography
Office of the Press Secretary of the White House. 2009-07-24. The Statement by the President. James S. Brady Press Briefing Room.
Child, Maxwell L.; Zhu, Peter F. 2009-07-24. "Obama Backs Off Gates Remarks After Police Ask for Apology." The Harvard Crimson.
Editors. 2009. "Attorney general says U.S. a nation of 'cowards' when it comes to race"." New York Times. Issue.
Harvard Faculty Biographies. "Henry Louis Gates, Jr Biography."
Hernandez, Javier C.; Rimer, Sara; Saulny, Susan. 2009-07.
Hitchens, Christopher. 2009. "A Man's Home Is His Constitutional Castle." Washingtonpost. Newsweek Interactive Co. LLC.: Issue. /
Holder, Eric. 2009. Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by Attorney General Eric Holder at the Department of Justice African American History Month Program.
Loury, Glenn C. 2008. Race, Incarceration and American Values. Cambridge, Mass. Massachussets Institute of Technology.
Loury, Glenn C. 2009. "Obama, Gates and the American Black Man." New York Times. Issue.
Parker, Kathleen. 2009. "Redemption on Tap: Why Cambridge Could Use a Cold One." Washington Post. Issue.
Warner, Judith. 2009. "A Lot Said, and Unsaid, About Race." New York Times. Issue.
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Murky Waters in Canada: Better Do-Not-Drink-Water Posters or Water Plants
Instead of providing new water plants for the 89 First Nations communities under a drinking water advisory, Health Canada will make better signs and posters warning people to stop drinking contaminated water. Kashechewan, made headline news in 2005 when 100s evacuated because water was contaminated by E. coli. It is still a community-in-crisis.
Instead of providing new water plants for the 89 First Nations communities under a drinking water advisory, Health Canada will make better signs and posters warning people to stop drinking contaminated water. There are 600 First Nations communities concerned by the issue of clean water. The suicide-plagued community-in-crisis Kashechewan First Nation is one of many that [. . .] continue to struggle with poorly designed water plants or overly modern systems that are considered too costly to staff or maintain." (Barrett 2007)
"Kashechewan made headlines in October 2005 after hundreds of its residents were evacuated to several Ontario towns and cities because of drinking water contaminated by E. coli bacteria.The evacuation prompted the federal and Ontario governments to scramble for solutions to the issue of dirty drinking water in First Nations communities (Barrett 2007)." "The October 2005 evacuation of the community of Kashechewan, in northern Ontario, brought to national attention concerns about the water in this remote community. The evacuation came close on the heels of a report from the federal Office of the Auditor General that found that residents of First Nations communities did not benefit from a level of drinking water protection comparable to that of people living off reserves (OAG 2005 )."
Selected Timeline of water quality problems in First Nations and Inuit communities
1970s In the 1970s project managers of the the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada oversaw all aspects of on-reserve capital projects, largely without the involvement of First Nations communities.
1980s As a result of downsizing in the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada since the mid-1980s, and in keeping with the devolution policy, there has been an increasing transfer of responsibilities to First Nations and tribal councils for capital and maintenance projects having First Nations including planning and implementation of various program activities on reserves. Consequently, there has been a continual transfer of responsibilities to First Nations and tribal councils for capital and maintenance projects, under funding arrangements with the Department (DINA 1995).
1989-90 Information disclosed in government reports inaccurately portrayed the status of conditions on reserves claiming that 92 percent of houses on reserves received adequate water services in 1993-94 (86 percent in 1989-90). However, a survey report released after our audit showed that only half of the water systems in First Nations communities are not experiencing problems and about one fifth of the systems pose potential health and safety concerns (DINA 1995:2390)
1992 the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada started to develop an Environmental Issues Inventory and Remediation Plan in 1992, Over 1,600 environmental issues including soil contamination, were identified on inhabited reserves, and remediation would involve millions of dollars (DINA 1995).
1995 The Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada was responsible for providing services to over 800 on-reserve communities, most of which are located in rural and remote areas. Populations were rapidly outgrowing their already inadequate infrastructures.
2000 The contamination of drinking water in Walkerton, Ontario led to widespread illness that resulted in seven deaths and
ongoing illness for hundreds of residents. "A subsequent inquiry by Associate Chief Justice Dennis O'Connor of the Ontario Court of Appeal not only probed the causes, but also set out detailed recommendations on how to prevent a recurrence. This "Report of the Expert Panel on Safe Drinking Water for First Nations." reflects pressures to increase drinking water safety that all jurisdictions in Canada have felt since the Walkerton tragedy.
2001 Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada also "uses funding arrangements with First Nations to define drinking water requirements. However, the wording of the arrangements is general and does not specifically refer to water systems. In 2001, in a submission to the Walkerton Inquiry, the Chiefs of Ontario stated: "First Nations, their consultants and federal officials are left to discern the applicable standards from vague and conflicting language in funding conditions, guidelines and manuals." This situation had not changed significantly at the time of our audit. (OAG 2005 ).
2003 INAC and Health Canada developed the First Nations Water Management Strategy. The strategy is intended to fix most of the problems identified in the 2001 assessment and substantially improve the quality and safety of drinking water in First Nations communities by 2008. It covers the following seven elements: developing comprehensive guidelines, policies, and standards; educating on-reserve residents about drinking water issues; clarifying roles and responsibilities; building and upgrading water systems to standards; improving operation and maintenance; providing operator training; and expanding water testing. The departments have been trying to address the last five points since 1995 (OAG 2005 ).
2004 World Health Organization published Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality (3rd Edition).
2005 The Auditor General's Office concluded that Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Health Canada, and First Nations do not operate under a regulatory regime for drinking water as most provinces do. When it comes to the safety of drinking water, residents of First Nations communities do not benefit from a level of protection comparable with that of people living off reserves.2. There is no statute or regulation requiring the monitoring of the quality and safety of drinking water in First Nations communities. Health Canada relies on its staff and on First Nations to sample and test drinking water quality. Regular tests at the frequency recommended under the Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality are not carried out in most First Nations. When the results of these tests are reported to Health Canada, they are not properly recorded; nor are they systematically shared with Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Finally, not all the information identified was collected by the departments in 2003–04 and some critical indicators were missing. Parliament is not yet receiving enough information about the First Nations Water Management Strategy and the quality and safety of drinking water in First Nations communities (OAG 2005 ).
2005 "Kashechewan made headlines in October 2005 after hundreds of its residents were evacuated to several Ontario towns and cities because of drinking water contaminated by E. coli bacteria.The evacuation prompted the federal and Ontario governments to scramble for solutions to the issue of dirty drinking water in First Nations communities (Barrett 2007)." "The October 2005 evacuation of the community of Kashechewan, in northern Ontario, brought to national attention concerns about the water in this remote community. The evacuation came close on the heels of a report from the federal Office of the Auditor General that found that residents of First Nations communities did not benefit from a level of drinking water protection comparable to that of people living off reserves (OAG 2005 )."
2006 United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Article 3 and 31. On June 29, 2006 the Human Rights Council adopted by a roll-call vote of 30 in favour to 2 against and 12 abstentions a resolution on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Declaration was forwarded to the UN General Assembly for approval in 2006. Canada has so far decided not to support this Declaration. Nonetheless, were a Canadian government to decide to support the Declaration, this would be a further indication of the policy direction Canada intended to pursue, and would be consistent with the general movement towards recognizing aboriginal self-government rights "GC Vol 2. 2006.
2006 The most recent Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality published in March, 2006 and last updated in September (HC 2006) did not provide an explicit definition of "safe drinking water" in Canada. There is no explicit definition in any provincial or territorial legislation (GN 2006).
2006 Kashechewan was under a precautionary Drinking Water Advisory, but Indian and Northern Affairs Canada claimed they had completed upgrades to the water systems and the system was closely monitored by a certified operator (DINA 2006 ).
2006 Indian and Northern Affairs Minister Jim Prentice launched a plan of action in March to address drinking water problems in First Nation communities. (CBC 2007)
2006 Indian and Northern Affairs Canada issued a priority list of communities identified as high risk drinking water systems with drinking water advisories in effect (DINA 2006 ). These high priority list in July 2006 included: New Brunswick: Woodstock, Pabineau; Quebec: Kitigan Zibi; Ontario: Constance Lake, Shoal Lake No. 40, Moose Deer Point, Northwest Angle, Ochiichagwe'babigo-ining, Kingfisher, Muskrat Dam Lake, Wabigoon Lake Ojibway; Alberta: Dene Tha', Driftpile, Frog Lake; British Columbia: Shuswap, Toosey, Toquaht, Lake Babine (Fort Babine), Canoe Creek, Semiahmoo, Taku River Tlingit."
2006 The Government of Canada's panel of experts produced this report "Report of the Expert Panel on Safe Drinking Water for First Nations." Vol. 1. November.
2007 Assembly of First Nations National Chief Phil Fontaine called for Ottawa's immediate attention to the suicide-plagued community-in-crisis Kashechewan First Nation "Kashechewan and many other aboriginal communities in Ontario continue to struggle with poorly designed water plants or overly modern systems that are considered too costly to staff or maintain" [. . .] A report released in November by federal government adviser Alan Pope made a series of recommendations for Kashechewan, including moving the reserve to within the city limits of Timmins, Ont. – 450 kilometres from its current location on the shores of James Bay. Pope said the move would improve the lives of the community residents, particularly young people, by giving them access to high schools and post-secondary education, as well as economic opportunities and employment. But in a speech on [February 8, 2007] to the International Congress on Ethics in Gatineau, Que., Fontaine spoke out against such a move, saying that First Nations have been subject for too long to policy that amounts to "social engineering." (Barrett 2007)
2007 Instead of providing new water plants for the 89 First Nations communities under a drinking water advisory, Health Canada will make better signs and posters warning people to stop drinking contaminated water. There are 600 First Nations communities concerned by the issue of clean water. Chief David General of Six Nations, ON knows his community members become ill from drinking tap water. "They would rather have a new water plant instead of a new communications strategy" (CBC 2007).
Kirkey, Sharon. 2011-06-10. "Despite billions spent, conditions on reserves have worsened: AG." Postmedia News.
Bibligraphy
Barrett, Michael. 2007. Kashechewan 'Community in Crisis'. Red Lake Net News. February 8.
CBC News. 2007. "Message about bad water on reserves not getting through: study." May 11
DINA. 2006. "Priority List of First Nation Communities With High Risk Water Systems and Drinking Water Advisories." Last Updated 2006-07-20
Government of Canada. 2006. "Report of the Expert Panel on Safe Drinking Water for First Nations." Vol. 1. November 15.
Government of Canada. 2006. "Report of the Expert Panel on Safe Drinking Water for First Nations: Legal Analysis." Vol. 2. November 15.
Government of Canada. 2006. Report, Presentations and Written Submissions to the Expert Panel on Safe Drinking Water for First Nations.
Health Canada. 2006. "Canadian Drinking Water Guidelines." >> Environmental & Workplace Health. Last Updated: 2006-09-19.
Health Canada. 2007. "Drinking Water Advisories." in First Nations & Inuit Health. May 10.
Office of the Auditor General (OAG). 2005. "Drinking Water in First Nations Communities." Last Updated: 2005-09-29.
2011-05-25 Former auditor general Sheila Fraser gave her final news conference in which she deplored the fact that First Nations' access to the basics of life — education, child welfare, clean drinking water and adequate housing — are persistently and dramatically substandard, and in some cases deteriorating.
Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (DINA). 1995. "On-Reserve Capital Facilities and Maintenance."
WHO. 2004. Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality (3rd Edition). World Health Organization, Geneva. Website accessed September
17, 2006.
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Canada's nasty secrets revealed to OECD: Child Poverty in Rich Countries
Child poverty in Canada is almost six time that of Denmark. Overall poverty rates are also high. 10 % of Canadians live in poverty – a stark contrast to Denmark's 4.3 % and Sweden's 5.3. (Rothman, Laurel. 2006. "Report of a Standing Committee on Finance," www.campaign2000.ca) Recommendations: minimum wage $10 per hour; Employment Insurance reform.
CBC, 2006. Aboriginal children face terrible poverty in Canada: report: B.C. and Newfoundland have highest rates; Alberta and P.E.I. have lowest rates. Last Updated: Friday, November 24, 2006 | 2:04 PM ET, Accessed November 24, 2006 11:19 PT.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/11/24/child-poverty.html?ref=rss
Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen. 2006. "Canada's nasty secrets revealed to OECD: Child Poverty in Rich Countries," last updated November 24, 2006 11:05 am. papergirls.wordpress.com, accessed (YY/MM/DD) https://papergirls.wordpress.com/2006/11/25/canadas-nasty-secrets-
revealed-to-oecd-child-poverty-in-rich-countries
Laurel Rothman, Laura. 2006. "Reducing Child & Family Poverty in a Time of Prosperity: The Roles of Tax Benefits, Public Investments and the Labour Market Submission to Standing Committee on Finance Pre-Budget Consultation," http://www.campaign2000.ca/rc/rc06/06_C2000NationalReportCard.pdf Last updated YY/MM/DD Accessed November 24, 2006.
Selected webliography on Status of Women Canada generated from my Endnote bibliography, compiled from (1992?-present)
Dion-Stout, Madeleine & Kipling, Gregory D. (1998) Aboriginal Women in Canada: Strategic Research Directions for Policy Development. http://www.swc-cfc.gc.c/publish/research/abwom-ehtml
Dion Stout, Madeleine & Kipling, Gregory D. (1998) Aboriginal Women in Canada: Strategic Research Directions for Policy Development. Ottawa, ON, Status of Women Canada. http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/pubs/0662634314/199803_0662634314_e.pdf
Frulla, Liza (2005) Statement of Canada. United Nations Commission on the Status of Women 10-year Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action. http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/newsroom/news2005/0302_e.html
Gender Equality, Aboriginal Women (2000) Roundtable Report. Ottawa, Aboriginal Women's Roundtable on Gender Equality. http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/publish/table/010914-e.pdf
Jenson, Jane (2004) A Decade of Challenges; A Decade of Choices: Consequences for Canadian Women. Montréal, Canadian Policy Research Network-Family Network. http://www.cprn.com/en/doc.cfm?doc=558
Kenny, Carolyn, Faries, Emily, Fiske, Jo-Anne & Voyageur, Cora (2004) A Holistic Framework for Aboriginal Policy Research. http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/pubs/0662379594/200410_0662379594_1_e.html
Kipling, Dion-Stout and Gregory D. (1998) Aboriginal Women in Canada: Strategic Research directions for Policy Development. http://www.swc-cfc.gc.c/publish/research/abwom-ehtml
Lindsay, Colin, Almey, Marcia & Statistics Canada (2004) A Quarter Century of Change: Young Women in Canada in the 1970s and Today. Ottawa, Status of Women Canada (SWC) Policy Research Fund. http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/pubs/0662388976/200412_0662388976_1_e.html
Press Release (1998) Fry welcomes gender breakthrough in APEC. Manilla, Phillipines. http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/newsroom/news1998/1019-2_e.html
SWC (1995) Setting the Stage for the Next Century: The Federal Plan for Gender Equality. Status of Women Canada
SWC (1998) Human Rights for All. http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/pdp-hrp/docs/cedaw5/nt_e.cfm?nav=2
SWC (1999) Highlights of Federal Government Initiatives to Address Violence Against Women: Legislative Reforms That Assist in Addressing Violence Against Women in 1999: Bill C-79. Status of Women Canada. http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca
Voyer, Jean-Pierre (2003) Introduction: Social Capital: A Useful Tool for Public Policy? in Initiative, Policy Research Horizons. Public Works and Government Services Canada. http://policyresearch.gc.ca/v6n3_e.pdf
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Young neurons vye with mature ones for their survival
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Fred Gage's team at Salk Institute for Biological Studies (2006/08/16) reported in "Nature" that young cells compete with mature for connectivity. We know that the human brain produces new nerve cells throughout its life and new neurons may be key to learning new information (Biello, David, (06/08/14) ScAmerican).
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"Memory Work" Visualization: Signals Fire, Memories Hold Still in Brain
"A high number of scaffolding proteins at the interface of the downstream end of a neuron's dendritic spine (shown in yellow) and an excitatory synapse (shown in red) appears to indicate high synaptic strength and memory stability (Swaminathan 2006)."
Swaminathan, Nikhil, (2006),"While Signals Keep Firing, Memories Hold Still in the Brain," Scientific American, November 21, 2006. Accessed November 22, 2006
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JEFFREY DAVID JOHNSON-SCOTT
Jeffrey Johnson-Scott
Jeffrey David Johnson-Scott, 36, of Industry, died at 2:20 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 10, 1997, at his home.
He was born Dec. 6, 1960, in Doylestown, Pa., a son of Ralph D. and Lois J. Davis Scott. He married Rev. D. Jill Johnson on July 20, 1985, in Hopwood, Pa. She survives.
Also surviving are one daughter, Carli Johnson-Scott, and one son, Drew Johnson-Scott, both at home; his parents of Bethel Park, Pa.; one brother, Matt Scott; one sister, Mrs. John (Rebecca) Robert; and grandparents, William and Florence Ward of Fowler, Ohio.
His paternal grandparents preceded him in death.
He was a computer management analyst programmer at Western Illinois University since 1986. He graduated from West Virginia University in 1984 and Bethel Park High School in 1979. He formerly worked for E-Systems in Falls Church, Va.
He was a member of the United Methodist Church and of the Macomb Police Pistol Patrol.
Services were held this morning at Macomb Wesley United Methodist Church with Rev. Mary Vick-Roth and Rev. Jerry Sawyer officiating. Cremation will be accorded after the service.
A memorial service, with burial of cremains, will be at Jumonville United Methodist Center in Hopwood, at a later date. Arrangements were by Clugston-Tibbitts Funeral Home in Macomb.
Memorials may be made to the United Methodist churches in Blandinsville, Burnside, Easton, Hills Grove, Industry, Sciota and Vermont; Christ United Methodist Church in Bethel Park; Jumonville United Methodist Training Center in Hopwood; or the McDonough District Hospital Hospice Program, Macomb.
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An Ode to Vickers
Brad Vickers; coward, chicken-heart, hero? Come take a read as I explain my thoughts as to the new and improved Brad Vickers as portrayed in the new Resident Evil 3 remake. Minor spoilers for the first 15 minutes or so of the game, so reader bewaaaare!
-By Richard Jewell
Brad Vickers as seen in Resident Evil 3 (2020)
One of the best things that the Resident Evil 3 remake does? It redeems the character of Brad Vickers. It's no secret that after giving in to his fear and pulling away in the helicopter during the opening intro of the first Resident Evil, he left his fellow S.T.A.R.S. members to a fate worse than death. This action earned him the nickname Brad "Chicken Heart" Vickers amongst the gaming community. In the original PlayStation One release of Resident Evil Nemesis, the CAPCOM seemed to run with this idea. Poor Brad is seen running wildly around town like a chicken with his head cut off, running through a proverbial gauntlet of zombies and eventually being gruesomely slain by Nemesis in front of Jill for maximum shock value. It should also be noted that in the original Resident Evil 2 players also had the chance to find a secret zombie-Brad and dispatch him personally. I'll admit: as an edgy teenager at the time, I was glad to see Brad get his comeuppance. I do also know that there is a subset of the Resident Evil community who would say that Brad had already redeemed himself by returning to the mansion to rescue the stranded S.T.A.R.S. members. I do agree somewhat, but the argument is a bit weak. He knew that there were untold horrors in the woods, yet he made the conscious choice to come back instead of returning to base. Of course, he was way up high in a helicopter, circling the area from a safe perspective: you could hardly call that brave. On the other hand, he was instrumental in the defeat of Tyrant by throwing down the rocket launcher. Not to mention that without him the remaining members would have surely died, either by Tyrant's hands or the ensuing explosion from the Spencer mansion's self-destruct feature. So while I may not exactly think he's brave, he certainly was useful.
Fair warning, here is where minor spoilers for the first 15 minutes or so of the remake begins.
Now skip ahead a few decades to CAPCOM'S freshly-launched Resident Evil 3 remake. I expected Brad Vickers to more or less act the same as he did in the original Nemesis version. I started up the game for the first time, enjoying the intro and taking in the whole spectacle of the Nemesis chase through Jill's apartment building. Then came the scene where Brad and Jill run inside a bar to get away from a horde of zombies. Brad is using the body to hold the door shut while Jill searches for an escape. Then a zombie suddenly bursts in through the door, grabbing hold of Brad and biting him. Jill helps fight the zombie off and now they're both trying to hold the doors closed while the zombies bang against it relentlessly. Brad looks her right in the eyes, and with a hint of sadness in his voice he asks "Are we still a team?" and without hesitation, Jill replies "Always". He then shoves Jill away from the door and yells after her "Go then, and don't fuck up like I did!" as she runs out the bar to the sounds of zombies smashing through the door.
This surprising moment tugged on my heartstrings and got me thinking damn, Brad Vickers is a hero now. He fought against his deepest fears and faced them head-on, which one would say is the truest form of courage. Brad knew he messed up, knew what went on during the Mansion Incident and decided he would repent by sticking with Jill until the end. This ideal can be seen in action throughout the beginning of RE3. In Jill's apartment, you learn that Brad is keeping an eye on Jill and sneaking her notes via pizza delivery. He calls Jill on the phone to warn her to get out of town immediately. The phonecall is abruptly interrupted by a surprise Nemesis attack. You would have to assume Brad must have heard this since he was on the phone with her at the time. Once you escape the building and end up in the side alley, you can see Brad running towards the front entrance. He stops when he sees you in the alley and by the ensuing conversation you can tell that Brad has already encountered Nemesis, yet he was running to help Jill regardless. Some people may argue that Brad was simply running away and his encounter with Jill was by pure chance, but when the conversation with Brad ends, the two of them turn around and go back in the direction Brad was just seen running from. This detail would imply that Brad was only running this way to get to Jill. Shortly after this, a mass of zombies breaks through a barricade. Instead of running ahead without you, Brad waits by the bar entrance, making sure Jill gets inside first, slowing down the zombies by throwing a sign (a Darkstalkers-themed sign, no less) at the zombies in an attempt to slow them down, thus leading to his end.
Brad's actions here are a huge change from the original. While the first Nemesis game envisioned him as a man who had given himself over to fear completely and prone to impulsive flights of terror, I found that Resident Evil 3 painted him in a new light as a man who is cognizant of his past mistakes and refuses to make them all over again. In my opinion, this iteration of Brad goes from zero to hero and pulls off one of the most subtle character redemption arcs in gaming history.