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Why Do All Asians Look the Same?
July 31, 2012 by Bruce Reyes-Chow
Why Do All Asians Look the Same? July 31, 2012 Bruce Reyes-Chow
This morning, my family engaged in one of our all-time favorite activities, watching the United States Women's National Soccer Team play. Today we cheered on from our living-from the United States as they beat North Korea 1-0 in the first round of 2012 Olympic play. Watching the USWNT play over the past few years has been one of the most powerful and important things my daughters have experienced. The names Hope Solo, Alex Morgan, Abby Wambach, Megan Repinoe, Lauren Cheney and Carly Lloyd are known in our house much like sports figures like Kobe Bryant, Drew Brees or Big Papi might be known in others.
Despite the great fun of winning and watching the great play of the United States, as my wife and I followed the commentary on Twitter, we noticed a disturbing trend. Here are just a few examples from some the seemingly innocuous to the blatantly offensive:*
So to point out the obvious and absurd in all of this, all Asians do not all look alike. Still, do this search or this one or this one and you will see ample evidence that some believe and experience the contrary. Sprinkled throughout the tweets you see some folks calling some people out, others including a "I don't mean to be racist." disclaimer and others simply wondering outloud.
While it is one thing to call out the North Korean squad for their rough play, it is quite another to wander into the realm of "all Koreans look alike." While this might not be a huge deal to many folks, this "they all look the same" rhetoric this has been one of THE primary ways that society has historically denied and dismissed the human experience and expression of people of color. Sure, everyone is mistaken for someone at some point in time, but I simply do not think this happens to White folks as much as it does for people of color. For many of my Black, Latino and Asian friends out there, I am sure that we can all list instance after instance after instance when we have been mistaken for a like-raced person who looks nothing like us.
Let me give you an example of how this plays out in real life in an innocent, yet telling way. If I had a dollar for every time that someone made a Bruce Lee reference to me, I would be a very wealthy man. Now you might be thinking, "Well, duh, your name IS Bruce and you ARE Asian." Sure this train of thought MIGHT might sense if I was also ripped with muscles, was 30 pounds lighter, 2 inches taller and could kill you with a one-inch punch to the heart and but alas, these are not traits that I possess. While I am not actually mistaken for Bruce Lee, it does give insight into the place where people start and usually stop when first meeting me . . . my Asian face and an automatic connection to another Asian face. This plays out even more personally, when I AM mistaken for other Asian Americans in my own church denomination. Despite the fact that I look nothing like Rodger, Joey, Neal or Kye it happens again and again, further illustrating the reality that many people really do think we all look alike.
In the end, seeing this trend in the midst of an event that is meant to bring the global community together, I was reminded that there is still much to do in trying to build better relationships between people of different racial backgrounds. We must be able to take the time to actually get to know each other in a way that does not dismiss the genuine racial and ethnic background/s of a person, but allows us to incorporate these elements into the lens through which we interact with one another. This could be said for many issues that make up our complex existence and unless we are willing to see one another's humanity in a way that truly incorporates all of those things, we will continue be a people who find ourselves battling across false and one-dimensional dichotomies of race, gender, sexuality, age, ideology, etc.
If you feel comfortable, please feel free to leave your story of mistaken identity as I do think telling the stories of our mistakes and brokenness is one way to help us all move towards some level of forgiveness and healing. Engaging in these conversations about race is certainly not an easy task – community rarely is – but I am convinced and convicted that it is well worth the effort.
*I chose not to publicly call these folks to the extent that I would include the links to their twitter accounts. Many are young folks who I believe are still learning the nuances of social media. My intent is not to bring down the hammer on any one person, but only to point out that issues of race are still in need of addressing in today's society.
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37 responses to "Why Do All Asians Look the Same?"
Crystal Nelson says:
I can tell you why all Asians look the same, because ALL Asians are one and the same people that spread throughout Asia. Even Caucasians are Western Asians, even Native Americans came from different parts of Asia. Yes, there is many looks to the Asian look, but then again there's not, no matter where you go in Asia you can always find similar looks or the same among the people of Asia. Some Asians have the monolid where some don't and this can be found all over Asia, not in one place. Some Asians have light skin and some have dark. Half the world human population is Asians from different parts of Asia and the other half Black. Even the Blacks have mixed with the other races of Asia, so all in all we as humans are all connected. Because there was time on Earth where all the lands were connected.
And no matter how much the Koreans say they are of pure race, they are not, many share the same blood as the Chinese, and Japanese. One group of Japanese came from Southeast Asia, so even the Japanese have connection to all parts of Asia. The Asians of Southeast Asia share a connection Central, and East Asia There are Asians that have flat noses, some with sharp noses, some round and some mix.
PS. Being Caucasian has nothing to do with skin color, because there are dark Caucasians, it has to do with bone structure. All one has to do is do some research. All race can have the monolid. It's not an "Asian" thing.
hellooo..... says:
You know I read somewhere that the physical features of asians from different parts asia differ greatly, more than other ethnicities.
Also, i live in a predominantly white, but raised in an asian family, but i cant differentiate other ethnicities well (indians/middle easterns/natives/ latin americans), perhaps its just your environment and where you live.
This guy is mad 🙂
This makes a lot of sense, the lesser amount of cross breeding of genetic pools. Its more like a purebred, if that doesn't sound offensive. All I wanted was a scientific reason, and meant no
harm in wondering. I DO have Asian friends. Wonderful people. Thank you!
aw man, I was hoping this story would explain why so many of the Asians look alike. I'm not racist at all. I have a good Korean friend, yet I still can't distinguish much between the facial bones and eye size.
yahoo-S3YJDPIC7MDN7F43RFNPXPG5JQ says:
As my lovely Asian wife explains to me on occasion when we are watching a police TV program, it is virtually impossible to put out a "all points bulletin" or BOLO for a wanted person in Asia. What are they going to say? Be on the lookout for a person with dark hair and dark eyes?
K, funny story: I was at a barbecue for new chemistry grad students. One Korean guy approached me, a white American, and asked, semi-slyly, "I have heard that Americans think all Koreans look the same. Is that true?"
Thinking fast, I answered, "Um, some people have said that. I think it's more something people say as a bad joke."
He didn't say anything for a little while, as if thinking to himself, "No, it's okay: We can't tell each other apart either."
(On a related note, I've also heard that the reason girls in Japanese anime have weird-color hair is because otherwise viewers wouldn't be able to tell apart 4 or 6 or 8 characters with the exact same appearance and hair color.)
It's actually a very interesting phenomenon that the faces an infant sees will determine ability to differentiate among faces later on in life. This applies to the ability to tell non-human species apart as well. Famous neurologist Oliver Sachs writes about this. Thus a non-Asian infant brought up by at least some Asians will never have difficulty differentiating among Asian faces. Lack of exposure however creates a limitation that is in fact neurological in origin. It can of course be overcome with practice and effort, just as prosopagnosia (inability to distinguish ANY face) can be overcome to some degree with therapy. In the meantime, it's pure ignorance and stupidity to make such comments.
Keno says:
About two percent of people have prosopagnosia, not complete, but to some extent. I have and have difficulty seeing the difference in many people. ( I am of Japanese origin and am often told I look like Miyagi in "Karate Kid".) There are people (like my primary care physician who is Indian) that I could never recognize outside of the doctor's office, and neighbors I see frequently that I never remember. … Asian, Afro, Hispanic …and white. And when I catch myself in a mirror somewhere else, my first reaction is "who in the hell is that?" Prosopagnosia, called "face blindness" on 60 Minutes … look it up.
gatherroundtheflame says:
Being white means not having to think about it. When white cry "your'e playing the race card" that is code for "you have no right to talk about racism"
The racist picture on the top is photo-shopped to make the racist joke. Now add "it was a joke – you people have no sense of humor" or "some of my best friends are Chinese" (because you are the same – right?) I don't think the "they all look alike" is due to not being able to tell people apart; I think they are just being terrible racist people. I am white and have never had the experience of not being able to tell people apart due to race.
Muneraven says:
I'm a 52 year old lesbian and my partner and I often get asked if we are twins. Her hair is gray, mine is dark. Her eyes are brown, mine are hazel. She has prominent cheekbones, a long waist, a pinkish skin tone while I have dimples, a short waist, and I am heavier than she is. Who asks us this? Young people, as a rule. African-American young women most often.
I don't take it personally. To them, all middle-aged, White lesbians look alike. I can remember thinking that all the little old ladies at church looked alike when I was young. I grew out of not seeing people who weren't part of my demographic. Hopefully they will, too.
Matt Matthews says:
I'm not sure I can speak to this as intelligently as others posting here, I would simply add that Bruce Reyes-Chow looks like Bruce Lee, or Jackie Chan, or Marty Feldman, for that matter, UNTIL I get to know Bruce Reyes-Chow. Relationship, relationship, relationship. That's one way we get beyond the confusion of who's who. There are three sets of identical twins in my congregation. I love and pray from them all. But the only set I can consistently tell apart is the set that I know the best. (The others were college kids when I arrived, I didn't see them regularly, and now they live out of town. When they show up on Christmas Eve, I fumble with their names, and guess God has a sense of humor for blessing me with them.) Relationship engenders civility and respect, and at the least gets us beyond confusing every Asian neighbor with Bruce Lee and every elder black man with Morgan Freeman.
One other note. Humor helps leaven these conversations. There's nothing funnier to me than a bunch of blondes telling blonde jokes, or my gay friends telling me that the problem with politics in America is that there are too many heterosexuals in charge. Once a black friend from Junior High School was trying to recall the name of a mutual friend; he got her confused with somebody else. How could you confuse Abbey with Karen, I wanted to know. His answer?
"You white people all look the same."
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Apparently if you tweet it while pretending to be Robert Downey Jr it is deemed funny and gets over 18,000 retweets?
http://twitter.com/RobertJrDowney/status/230648878091886592
Nope, didn't think so either.
wty says:
I'm not a geneticist, but it seems apparent that we (East-Asians) are more homogeneous in our genetic composition. In other words, we haven't mixed our genetic pool with a whole bunch of other genetic pools thru forced or voluntary interactions. Plus, the nuances of an Asian person's facial features are less apparent to those who have simply not seen many or cared too much to see such faces. Homosapiens, we all are, but caring, thoughtful and enlightened human beings, only some may attain. good luck.
Brooke R. says:
I know that historically it's applied to the non-dominant cultures here. I do know that, I hope you know I know that. My point was that when I heard that I was glad it wasn't just an insensitive white person thing.. because I try to be sensitive but sometimes I'm still hit with the "all y'all [insert racial group here] look alike" thing in my head. The getting to know folks for me is – getting to know them within the context of their racial and ethnic background, especially if it's important to them. For example- the Palestinian-Jordanians -> getting to know them within that context is extremely important to a lot of them, because being Palestinian is so incredibly important to them. If I were to get beyond their ethnic background it would be offensive to many of them.
Denise Falbo says:
Paul, it sounds like those people were identifying you by one salient characteristic – body type. They looked not further. It appears to be the same mechanism at play when people think all Asians, etc. look alike.
Gun Ho says:
My answer to the question raised here is "Because the person who looks does not attempt to see." It is the failure (and even the fallacy) of a mono-cultural, self-centered perspective that refuses to accept the "larger" world made of difference and diversity. We have to admit we people of color have the same tendency. Our young people who are enticed to look at a global world of the sameness need to learn to see the world of difference with care and respect. Maybe the outcome of colonial studies continue to be translated into a daily language. Thanks for your leadership on this matter.
Aaron Minix says:
Is the discussion about people of the same ethnicity or differing Asian ethnicites? I teach English in Korea, and there's no way all Koreans look alike. Some are whiter than I am, while others have darker complexions. But if you lined up a Chinese, Korean and Japanese and asked me to pick who's who, I might get 2/3 if I'm lucky. Tell me their names and it's easy. Also, since this is North Korea we're talking about, they might have forced their players to look alike. North Korea stresses ethnic purity as much as the Nazis did, not to mention total conformity. I don't know since I didn't see the game.
I'm black but for some reason, I've always been able to differentiate among ethnic groups. I think the idea that there is more diversity among whites is disingenuous. The real issue, IMO, is a distinct lack of concern for the "other." I also think white people don't HAVE to be concerned about others b/c for so long, they've been the majority. Henry would shine their shoes. Beulah would take care of their kids. Jose would pick their fruit/veggies. Wong would do their laundry. Minorities were stereotypes; as such, they weren't really LOOKED at.
That said, I think other groups have been subjected (to a lesser extent) to the same thing: lesbians, blondes, preppies, goths, etc.
Joel Gibbs says:
I notice that most the comments relate more to experiences of mistaking one person for another. As others pointed out, we all make this mistake sometimes, and I would hope we recognize it is our mistake. But this is very different from saying that all persons of a racial group look the same, which is the focus of Bruce's article. I think that Jeff, the first commenter, made the most important point: In the context of the predominant white culture in the U.S., when a white person makes the statement that all persons of a particular racial group look alike, there is an implicit statement that the white person's inability is due to a deficiency in the others, rather than themselves. I believe this is another way of labeling the other as an outsider. As a white person who has lived for over 30 years in an Asian/Pacific Islander family, I believe I can speak with some experience. To many white persons, Asians look "foreign." Here's my anecdote: Once when I was walking into a predominantly white church with my 2nd generation Filipina-American wife and our two youngest children, the greeter stopped her and asked if they were the immigrant Vietnamese family the church sponsored. She was a very well-meaning person, but to her, Asians equated with immigrants; i.e. outsiders. While white people may not be able to distinguish other racial groups, and vice-versa, no one makes the assumption that an African American is a foreigner; or white people, or perhaps Latinos to a lesser extent. So when a white person says all Asians look the same, what they are really saying is that Asians or outsiders or foreigners. I believe that, to Asian-Americans, this is a major impediment to achievements in our society.
Hair color and eye color are the two stand-out features that most Caucasians are accustomed to using to catalogue friends and family. And the fact is that there is a much greater degree of diversity in Caucasian hair color and eye color than there is in other ethnic groups (generally speaking). When you grow up with a red haired/grey-eyed aunt, and blond/brown eyed brother and a black haired/blue eyed father, those are the variations you notice first in people. Twenty black haired, dark brown eyed people will – at first- all appear very similar to a Caucasian with little exposure to people of color. As a Caucasian, I've had to grow in the ability to distinguish subtle
features of individuals from different ethnic backgrounds, and it's
embarrassing to recall an earlier time when this was difficult for me.
The only thing that helped me grow in this is being in close
relationships (work, church, roommate) with diverse friends. But, I do
know that this is by no means a one-way street of ignorance…. two
white friends of mine who attended a black church in their neighborhood
were constantly being confused by the mostly black parishioners. We all
know what we know, and we grow in awareness with more exposure to
different groups.
Paul Andresen says:
In my 20's I was a bar manager and mistaken for a guy named Stan. Stan managed the bar three blocks away, had long black hair and full beard while I was had sandy short hair and a clean shave. One night at that time I was congratulated on joining the Knights of Columbus, quite a feat for this Presby boy. Some 20 years later, I grew the goat and and was mistaken for John, the other goateed pastor with sandy hair in the Presbytery.
The one thing we all had in common is we are fat guys. I understand the racial instead of facial ramifications of "you all look alike" (I once mistakenly called one seminary classmate by another's name. It was an honest mistake but still I was both embarrassed and convicted.) but I am left to wonder how "fat guys" fall into the "you all look alike."
It's not the inability to discern differences in people of other races other than your own that is the problem here (something that I am sure is true cross culturally). It's the tone of the comments made by those in the majority that this inability is a deficit on the part of those deemed indistinguishable. None of the tweeters said, "Wow, watching the Olympics, I recognize how little time I spend among Asian people that I have trouble distinguishing differences." The implication in the comment, "All the Korean players look alike" is that there is some deficiency in the Korean players, implying there is no such deficiency among American players. It's not my fault I can't tell them apart, it's their fault for all looking the same!
Laurie McKnight says:
It has to do with taking the time to learn/notice distinctiveness. When I visited a friend in Venezuela, I was interested to note that she could differentiate between other latino ethnic groups. Similarly, my Caucasian cousin married to an Asian man can also distinguish between different Asian ethnic groups. In a seminary lecture hall, I called one African American woman by the wrong name — I was sitting a few rows behind her and was trying to get her attention — from the back, she and another African American woman (same coloring, same build/stature) looked very much alike to me. She wasn't happy about my error, and I was mortified to have made it. I worked very hard to call her by the right name every time I saw her after that.
Kathy Randall says:
I don't know Joey, Neal or Kye, but I met Rodger once, and I've met you once, and you don't look a thing like him. 🙂
Suzanne Harp says:
My partner and I are both 61 year old round, white haired women, and although we look nothing alike (if one is looking beyond older and round) we are often taken for sisters "because we look so much alike". Lesbians are often 'disappeared' in our culture, as are older people. Another side to the same issue.
Maggie Gillespie says:
I once had a young Chinese woman at my house and I introduced her to my four children. Later she told me she couldn't tell them apart and that "Americans all look alike." Sure, I suppose there's some family resemblance among my children, but two are blond, one a brunette, and one a redhead! For me, and I think many white folks, we tend to look at hair color as a distinguishing feature.
Laura Garwood Meehan says:
I think I can most easily pick up on differences in people of races I have spent the most time with. Most of my life, the vast, vast majority of people surrounding me were either white or of Mexican descent. I can't imagine actually believing that people of any given race or nationality were more similar, however, than those of my own race. When people think people from any given race all look the same, they clearly don't know any of them.
In high school, I was often mistaken for my best friend (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150387690519806&set=a.217018809805.130551.534494805&type=3&theater) by people of other races, though to me it was obvious that we were similar but different.
Karen Sapio says:
This can have terrible repercussions,though. I was at a gathering recently where a psychologist who works with law enforcement explained that mis-identification of suspects in police line-ups is at its highest when it happens cross-racially. That means a white person is very likely to wrongly identify a suspect in a line up if there are people in the line-up of different races from themselves. Presumably this would also happen with people of any racy ID-ing people of other races, but that's probably the most common sceanrio.
Amanda Jarratt says:
Caucasian people (and I speak from person experience) are often not taught how to distinguish people of a particular race or ethnic group. And while it seems obvious to a person in that group, what the reverse, all white people look alike statement, makes clear is that ignorance of what is different than us is not necessary a sign that we are racist, but rather just uneducated. Unfortunately, what we are ignorant about we often make fun of or otherwise diminish to avoid admitting our ignorance. And while it now seems stupid to me to say that all Asian people look a like because I have learned to look at people differently and notice elements like their facial shape, skin tone, and the size and shape of their features (which is something that I may not have done when cataloging a Caucasian person in my brain for later reference) there was a time when I would have thought the statement had some validity.
I disagree. Just because a man or woman isn't able to recognize the differences in an ethnicity's physical appearance doesn't mean they don't recognize the broad span of culture. I don't think you should be offended that someone doesn't have the optical/cognitive ability to tell you apart from other Asian peoples. I realize that a man from China looks entirely different then one from Japan, just as a man from Germany is different then one from Ireland. But I don't think you should be offended that someone is able to recognize the physical diversity in your skin-color.
There have been times in my life when I have lived in multicultural settings, and times when I've lived in almost all White settings. I have found that my ability to recognize ethnic and racial differences (including differences amongst individuals) increases when I'm in a multicultural setting and decreases when I'm not. It's a learned skill. I am a white male.
Bruce Reyes-Chow says:
Yes, I do know that it does happen the other way, but historically and even currently the majority of the "you all look the same" comments are NOT directed at White folks. Still, some of the same things apply. Getting to know folks beyond – but not despite – racial ethnic background is important.
I was told by someone of color once that all white people looked the same. It was very comforting to me to know that it wasn't just me as a white person who thought that way about some races. I don't think that anymore. Now that I'm Episcopalian I think all Presbys look the same, but that's another story for another day. *joke* Not about the "all white people looking the same" though.
Conner. I agree, but I usually like to turn that around with folks and as, "if there are only three Asians that someone has to track, shouldn't that be even easier to distinguish between them?" Again, i do think you are right on about why and highlight what I think is a learning area for many of us. Thanks for commenting!
While I normally refrain from commenting on people's blogs, this topic is of particular interest to me. My heritage is Japanese (my father was born in Japan and his mother was entirely Japanese which makes me 1/4). However, I look absolutely Caucasian, and therefore hear comments people make when they don't think anyone who might be offended is present. While sometimes hurtful, I think, for the most part, the issue in the apparent indistinguishability of Asian people stems from the fact that most Caucasian people don't encounter a large enough sample size of Asians to notice the subtle facial features that make it possible to tell people apart. Instead, they notice the most prominent characteristics. I suppose my point is that, while I think it would be wise and sensitive for people to think before they speak in terms that lump groups of people together, the inability to distinguish faces isn't necessarily their fault.


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One of the reasons I love to travel is that I learn a lot about other people and places. A Zimbabwean guide I met in Africa had a mantra he repeated to us: "learning and discovery." Just two months ago I spent a month in Australia and learned some of their history. It bears an uncanny resemblence to American history, especially regarding natives who lived there before the Europeans arrived.
Australia's aborigines are thought to have lived on that continent for as long as 60,000 years. Their artwork is phenomenal and is the oldest continuous art tradition in the world. Here is one such rock painting depicting lightning man:
They adapted to a harsh, dry enviroment and employed nearly every plant and animal for food, medicine or tools. Over time, hundreds of original clans had specific territories. There were many languages as well, many of them now lost. (see http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/map-aboriginal-australia for a map done in 1996 of the language groups' territories.)
Yet when Captain Cook 'claimed' Australia in 1770 and the English later used it as a penal colony starting in 1788, the land was sparsely populated. That along with sheer imperialism led to a legal concept known as ' terra nullius'--land owned by no one. This justified an entire continent's theft. Sound familiar?
Just like our own Native Americans, Australian Aboriginal customs of land ownership were more tribal or clan-oriented. Their concept of land ownership was ancestral, spiritual and respectful. They neither had a written language nor a history evolving from feudal land rights. And sadly, they did not have the weaponry to defend it. As a result, the Aboriginals' lands were taken; their rights ignored; and their basic humanity denied. There were lost generations of Aborigines who were taken from their parents and raised 'white.' (The 2012 movie "The Sapphires" tells one such story.)
Not until 1962 were Aboriginals given the right to vote and in 1967, they were counted in the census. But even in the 1970's, the courts still declined to overrule the medieval 'terra nullius' doctrine. This tragic history is well captured in Thomas Keneally's book, "The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith," also a movie. Finally, in 1992, in Mabo v Queensland the High Court of Australia struck down this insidious rule. It is not easy for Aboriginals to re-claim their ancestral lands but at least the law permits it now.
We visited Kakadu Park, which is east of Darwin in the top end of Australia. We floated on the yellow waters of the misnamed Alligator River watershed (blame a Yank for that one.) The park is now Aboriginal owned and one of our river guides is one. She told us how many of the birds, fish and crocodiles were eaten or used by her people. Later, we camped in the desert lands surrounding Uluru (aka Ayers Rock) and walked with an Abo guide who explained the medicinal value of the seemingly dry and useless plants on her land, values scientists are only slowly studying.
'Learning and discovery:' It is a good thing that the legal rights and ancestral knowledge of the First Peoples of our planet are on the rebound.
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Loaded on Jan. 15, 2009 published in Prison Legal News January, 2009, page 43
Filed under: Sexual Assault, Staff-Prisoner Assault, Cell Searches, Criminal Prosecution, Attorney Client. Location: New York.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that a female prisoner did not waive attorney-client privilege with respect to certain writings in her prison journal.
Nicholas DeFonte, a former guard at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, was facing criminal prosecution for raping female prisoners at the jail. Federal prosecutors intended to call former prisoner Francia Collazos as a witness against DeFonte.
Collazos kept a journal during her confinement, recording incidents involving DeFonte and conversations with prosecutors and her attorney. "The Government became aware of … Collazos's journal when her possessions were mistakenly taken from her cell and transferred to the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut. Once the mistake was realized, the journal was delivered to the United States Attorney's Office."
DeFonte's attorney learned of the journal just before trial and moved for its disclosure.
Collazos moved to intervene and sought "a protective order, arguing that the writings in the journal are protected by the attorney-client privilege." The district court denied the motion, "finding that the documents were not protected by the attorney-client privilege and that Collazos had no expectation of privacy in the contents of her cell."
On appeal, the Second Circuit explained that a prisoner "does not … knowingly waive an attorney-client privilege with respect to documents retained in her cell simply because there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in those documents for Fourth Amendment purposes. Rather, the two inquiries are independent of each other."
The appellate court noted that the attorney-client privilege extends to incarcerated individuals. As such, "it was error … for the district court to rely on the diminished expectation of privacy in a jail cell in concluding that the attorney-client privilege could not be asserted."
Collazos' journal contained two types of entries: memorialized private conversations between Collazos and her attorney, and various events in her daily life, including incidents involving DeFonte and discussions with prosecutors.
The Court found that the former writings were protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege. There was no evidence that Collazos had consented to the journals being taken from her possession, or had shared or intended to share those entries with any third party. Therefore, "absent a finding … that Collazos waived the privilege, her record of conversations with counsel are not subject to discovery by DeFonte." The Second Circuit found the law less clear with respect to the second category of journal writings.
The Court remanded with instructions "to conduct a hearing to decide which of the writings contained in the journal fall within the scope of the privilege," and whether "there were compelling or overwhelming Sixth Amendment concerns involved in its decision[.]" See: United States v. DeFonte, 441 F.3d 92 (2nd Cir. 2006).
DeFonte was convicted in Februrary, 2007 of engaging in sexual acts and sexual contact with a female prisoner, and of making false statements. He was acquitted of two other charges. His convictions were upheld on appeal by the Second Circuit on July 15, 2008. See: United States v. DeFonte, Case No. 07-0516-cr (2nd Cir. 2008); 2008 WL 2740859.
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441 F.3d 92 (2nd Cir. 2006)
United States v. Defonte, 441 F.3d 92 (2d Cir. 03/14/2006)
[1] UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT August Term, 2005
[2] Docket No. 06-1046-cr
[3] 441 F.3d 92, 69 Fed. R. Evid. Serv. 761
[4] March 14, 2006
[5] UNITED STATES
NICHOLAS DEFONTE, DEFENDANT-APPELLEE,
FRANCIA COLLAZOS, INTERVENOR-MOVANT-APPELLANT.
[6] Appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Batts, J.), entered on March 7, 2006, denying intervenor's motion for a protective order and ordering her to deliver documents to defendant.
[7] Mark A. Racanelli, O'Melveny & Myers Llp, New York, New York (Howard E. Heiss, on the brief), for Intervenor-Movant-Appellant.
[8] Joel K. Dranove, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellee.
[9] Per curiam.
[10] Argued: March 14, 2006
[11] Before: JACOBS and WESLEY, Circuit Judges, and KOELTL,*fn1 District Judge.
[12] VACATED and REMANDED.
[13] I.
[14] Francia Collazos was, at one time, an inmate at Metropolitan Correctional Center ("MCC"), a Manhattan correctional facility where defendant Nicholas DeFonte was employed as a guard. The government plans to call Collazos as a witness in the trial of DeFonte, which commenced today, on various crimes allegedly committed in the course of his employment as a corrections officer. Collazos kept a journal during her time of incarceration, recording, inter alia, incidents involving DeFonte and conversations with both her attorney and government prosecutors. The Government became aware of the existence of Collazos's journal when her possessions were mistakenly taken from her cell and transferred to the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut. Once the mistake was realized, the journal was delivered to the United States Attorney's Office.*fn2
[15] Shortly before commencement of the trial, DeFonte's lawyer became aware of the existence of the journal. DeFonte's lawyer requested that the journal be disclosed on the grounds that it constitutes a witness statement under 18 U.S.C. § 3500, as further defined by Giglio v. United States, 405 U.S. 150 (1972). Collazos moved to intervene for a protective order, arguing that the writings in the journal are protected by attorney-client privilege.
[16] The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Batts, J.) denied the motion, finding that the documents were not protected by the attorney-client privilege and that Collazos had no expectation of privacy in the contents of her cell. Because we disagree with aspects of both findings, we vacate the decision and remand for a hearing consistent with this opinion.
[17] The matter comes to us on today's motions calendar to stay the district court's order pending an expedited appeal. On consent of the parties, we have considered the merits of the parties claims without further briefing.
[18] II.
[19] A.
[20] The district court's decision rested in part upon the conclusion that "Collazos cannot have intended her journal entries to remain confidential because the law affords her no reasonable expectation of privacy in her cell." It is true that, in the Fourth Amendment context, the law affords considerably less recognition to an inmate's subjective expectation of privacy. See, e.g., Willis v. Artuz, 301 F.3d 65, 68 (2d Cir. 2002). An inmate does not, however, knowingly waive an attorney-client privilege with respect to documents retained in her cell simply because there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in those documents for Fourth Amendment purposes. Rather, the two inquiries are independent of each other.
[21] Incarcerated or detained individuals do retain the attorney-client privilege. See Davis v. Goord, 320 F.3d 346, 351 (2d Cir. 2003) (noting that "courts have consistently afforded greater protection to legal mail than to non-legal mail"); see also Sallier v. Brooks, 343 F.3d 868, 874 (6th Cir. 2003) (recognizing "heightened concern" with allowing prison officials to open and read mail that "has import for ... the attorney-client privilege"); Gomez v. Vernon, 255 F.3d 1118, 1133 (9th Cir. 2001) (finding that prisoners retain right to keep privileged documents confidential where not inconsistent with legitimate penological interests). It was error, therefore, for the district court to rely on the diminished expectation of privacy in a jail cell in concluding that the attorney-client privilege could not be asserted.
[22] The parties did not address, and the district court may consider on remand, whether (without regard to the mere fact of detention at the MCC) Collazos treated the notes in question in such a careless manner as to negate her intent to keep them confidential. Cf. In re Horowitz, 482 F.2d 72 (2d Cir. 1973) (holding that privilege was waived where client had willingly turned documents over to party other than attorney).
[23] B.
[24] In our view, there are two types of writings contained in the journal. First, Collazos memorialized certain private conversations between Collazos and her attorney. Second, Collazos also recorded various events in her daily life, namely incidents involving DeFonte and discussions with prosecutors. Collazos claims that the second group of entries were made for the purpose of later discussions with her attorneys. The attorney-client privilege issues are different as to each group.
[25] "Confidential disclosures by a client to an attorney made in order to obtain legal assistance are privileged." Fisher v. United States, 425 U.S. 391, 403 (1976). The purpose of the rule is to is "to encourage full and frank communication between attorneys and their clients and thereby promote broader public interests in the observance of law and administration of justice." Upjohn Co. v. United States, 449 U.S. 383, 389 (1981).However, "since the privilege has the effect of withholding relevant information from the fact-finder, it applies only where necessary to achieve its purpose." Fisher, 425 U.S. at 403.
[26] The memorializations of private conversations Collazos had with her attorney are protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege. Collazos claims, and we have reason to believe, that she never consented to the journal being taken from her possession. Furthermore, there is no evidence that she shared or intended to share those entries with any third party. Thus, absent a finding upon a further hearing that Collazos waived the privilege, her record of conversations with counsel are not subject to discovery by DeFonte.
[27] As to the second group of entries, the law is less clear. Collazos relies on two district court cases from this Circuit in asserting privilege. In the first case, Clark v. Buffalo Wire Works Co., 190 F.R.D. 93 (W.D.N.Y. 1999), a client had taken notes in order to facilitate discussions of matters with his attorneys; the notes had been turned over to the attorneys; and an opposing party sought them in discovery. Id. at 94. The district court held that the notes were privileged because, although the attorneys did not read them contemporaneously with their creation, the notes amounted to a confidential communication between client and attorney for the purposes of legal representation. Id. at 95-96. Central to that decision, it appears, was the fact that the information contained in the notes was in fact communicated by the client to the attorney. Id.
[28] The second case, Bernbach v. Timex Corp., 174 F.R.D. 9 (D. Conn. 1997), was factually very similar. The district court concluded that notes taken by a client in anticipation of her meeting with her attorney were privileged because she had actually communicated the information in those notes to her attorneys. Id. at 10. That is, while opposing counsel may inquire into the underlying facts, he or she "is precluded from inquiring into what [the client] communicated to her attorney about the facts underlying her allegations." Id. at 10 (citing United States v. Cunningham, 672 F.2d 1064, 1073 n. 8 (2d Cir.1982)).
[29] Central to the finding of privilege in both decisions, it appears, is the fact that the notes were communicated by the client to the attorney. Such a requirement comports with the language of the rule -- i.e., that there be a communication by the client -- and makes sense from a policy perspective. A rule that recognizes a privilege for any writing made with an eye toward legal representation would be too broad. A rule that allows no privilege at all for such records would discourage clients from taking the reasonable step of preparing an outline to assist in a conversation with their attorney.
[30] It is undisputed by the parties that the journal was never delivered to Collazos's attorney. The district court took that fact to be dispositive in determining that the journal was outside the cloak of the privilege. Collazos argues that delivery of the journal itself is not necessary as long as the journal's entries did serve as an outline for an attorney-client conversation. Certainly, an outline of what a client wishes to discuss with counsel - and which is subsequently discussed with one's counsel - would seem to fit squarely within our understanding of the scope of the privilege.
[31] III.
[32] In light of the district court's error in defining the scope of the privilege and of Collazos's "expectation of privacy," we believe a remand of the matter is in order. A remand will allow the district court to conduct a hearing to decide which of the writings contained in the journal fall within the scope of the privilege as discussed above. We also note that the district court did not decide that there were compelling or overwhelming Sixth Amendment concerns involved in its decision, nor did those concerns play a role in our determination. Therefore, we VACATE the order of the district court and REMAND the matter for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
Opinion Footnotes
[33] *fn1 The Honorable John G. Koeltl of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, sitting by designation.
[34] *fn2 Apparently, the journal has been kept in the possession of an Assistant United States Attorney who is not involved in the case, thus successfully screening the prosecutor.
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Michelle Obama and John Kerry present an "International Women of Courage Award" to an anti-Semitic 9/11 fan
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"On Friday March 8, Michelle Obama will join John Kerry at a special ceremony at the State Department to present ten women the Secretary of State's International Women of Courage Award." One of their honorees is Samira Ibrahim, who uses Twitter to publicly broadcast her virulently anti-Semitic views: "On July 18 of last year, after five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver were killed a suicide bombing attack, Ibrahim jubilantly tweeted: "An explosion on a bus carrying Israelis in Burgas airport in Bulgaria on the Black Sea. Today is a very sweet day with a lot of very sweet news."… Last August 4, commenting on demonstrations in Saudi Arabia,she described the ruling Al Saud family as "dirtier than the Jews." Seventeen days later she tweeted in reference to Adolf Hitler: "I have discovered with the passage of days, that no act contrary to morality, no crime against society, takes place, except with the Jews having a hand in it. Hitler."… As a mob was attacking the United States embassy in Cairo on the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, pulling down the American flag and raising the flag of Al Qaeda, Ibrahim wrote on twitter: "Today is the anniversary of 9/11. May every year come with America burning."
Yes, you read that correctly: The First Lady and Secretary of State are presenting an "INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE AWARD" to a person who celebrates the 9/11 terrorist attacks and praises Hitler.
Update: Thanks to public outcry, "The State Department announced Thursday the administration will not present an Egyptian political activist with an award until reviewing anti-Semitic and anti-American statements made by the activist on Twitter."
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Ohhh how much difference a week makes, after demolishing an asbestos garage and jack hammering the floor all week and 2 15 hour shifts at the weekend to look forward to i took some 'me' time and went on the Irwell at the bend i was last. Unfortunatly the hogweed is growing and the japanese knotweed so i know very very soon i will not be able to get this way, need to ask the farmer soon. Anyways, went further down and equipped my sinking line reel as nothing was showing, decided to fish towards a fallen tree, with some good casting going on as i now knew the roll cast (i'd been double hauling since day 1 oops) and that was working brilliantly. 20yard or so roll casts. moved upstream to a riffle i was above 3/4 across the irwell on a higher bit dropping it into a pool behind some riffles. again nothing showing. so went back the the spot i saw a trout jump last time. switched reels to my floating line and put on a fly with a foam ball back. just as i was finishing tying the hook a fish jumped. literally on the rock causing the riffles. so i crept on down, i was above 25 yards away, and could only get about 1/2 way across at this point as it was majorly deep and very slippy on the river bed. i was having to cast across the current and give line out to get to the riffle. the fish jumped again. i edged closer almost falling several times. i got about another 5-10 yards (felt like a mile when you slip on every rock when your waist deep and you can't swim) did a roll cast on to the riffle, it went over the rock the line dragged across the current and the fish jumped at my fly. just missed! i pointed the rod down, pulled the line taught, and roll casted on to the riffle, it skipped along, then i saw it, wasn't a massive take just a peck off the surface, and seeing my line shoot across to the far side of the river i struck up, i felt the fish, nothing big, but it was my first trout i'd hooked. i'd stalked it and hooked it. now stuck waist deep, without a net (as i snapped it wading down the river) i was stuck in 2 minds. do i go to shore or do i fight it here. it didn't matter, i felt the line go slack. i laughed, the adrenaline was pumping even though i'd lost the fish. It didn't matter i'd actually done well enough to hook it from spotting it. i reeled the line and then it hit me. the blood knot i'd put on the hook had come loose. i must of hurried it when i seen the fish jump first. that was a kick in the ballsack. knowing my own mistake not the equipment had cost me the fish. i waded back to shore and put on another floating fly. added some floating liquid on it to help it and tried the same spot. nothing showing, nothing moving it had gone. it had started to rain at this point but i said to myself 5 more minutes. i moved back to the pool and had a few casts, nothing, then seeing some farm girls near the river with the horses in the distance i contemplating asking about passage through the farm to the river, then a fish jumped 10 yards away, i cast (a very low double haul) under a tree, the fly wasn't good enough for this fish after 20 minutes or so. i decided to pack up and go back, the 500m wade up a deep river with hogweed on the sides was tough, but determined not to get stranded should the river level rise i made it back quite quickly. after climbing the hill and over the wall of the horse bridge, i sat for a moment and laughed. this was the start of something, i'll learn from my mistakes and make sure every knot is perfect (and to be fair i did pull on the hook to test it and it held) so next time who knows, 3 times i have been to that spot and 3 times fish have been there, no wonder, without farmers permission the chances of fishing there again are very very slim.


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Did they check for trouble codes stored in the electronic brake traction control module (EBTCM)? Engine controller doesn't store ABS trouble codes.
Got into an old 78 Cadillac and the chime was an actual bell or what sounded like a key off a xylophone...not an electronic pizo buzzer.
GM's 5 divisions CPOBC in that order each had their own features unique things for ages. Not to beat this thread up but BUICK again had mechanical traction control so long ago it isn't funny! Yup - one wheel would switch power to the other and no clue how they did that. Was cool when you would see one done a long burn out leaving marks on the road one side then the other!


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Genre – Romance. Playwright – A. R. Gurney. Director – Nishant Shah. Venue – Gallery Sumuka. Staged – October 28, 29 & 30, 2004.
Love Letters, the Pulitzer Prize winning play was staged at Gallery Sumukha as an Installation Art, where a play, painting exhibition and music concert were together integrated. Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Melissa Gardner, both born to wealth and position, are childhood friends whose lifelong correspondence begins with birthday party thank-you notes and summer camp postcards. Romantically attached, they continue to exchange letters through the boarding school and college years. As they grow apart, they continue to stay in touch through letters, and share their life events with each other. However Andy's last letter, written to her mother after Melissa's untimely death, makes it eloquently clear how much they really meant, and gave to, each other over the years—physically apart, perhaps, but spiritually as close as only true lovers can be.


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Heina es un distrito del municipio de Morschen en el distrito de Schwalm-Eder del estado de Hesse.

Historia
La mención escrita más antigua que se conoce de Heina es de 1299 bajo el nombre de Indagine en un documento del Kloster Breitenau.
Otras menciones aparecen debajo de los topónimoss (entre paréntesis el año de la mención): Indagine (1316), Hayn (1346) y zum Heine (1465).

El pueblo pertenecía a la corte de Morschen, que pertenecía al Monasterio de Haydau. Desde la Reforma, Heina perteneció al Amt Spangenberg.

Reforma territorial
El municipio de Morschen se formó en el curso de la reforma territorial en Hesse el 1 de enero de 1974 en virtud de la ley estatal mediante la Gemeindefusion de los municipios hasta entonces independientes de Altmorschen, Heina, Konnefeld y Neumorschen. Anteriormente, los municipios de Binsförth (el 1 de abril de 1972), Eubach (el 1 de julio de 1971) y Wichte (el 31 de diciembre de 1971) fueron eingemeindet en el municipio de Altmorschen. Altenmorschen se convirtió en la sede de la administración municipal. Simultáneamente con la fusión para formar el municipio de Morschen, éste pasó a formar parte del recién creado distrito de Schwalm-Eder.

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Bill Eisen.Manhattan Beach Unified School candidate
PUBLISHED: July 10, 2008 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 29, 2017 at 1:50 a.m.
Bill Eisen, a Manhattan Beach school board member, came a step closer to being recalled this week, when organizers turned in more than 5,000 signatures calling for his ouster.
Eisen has been a thorn in the side of the board since being elected in the fall of 2005. He routinely accuses his colleagues of violating the open meetings law, and of conspiring to sell off surplus district property.
Board members say he has also divulged closed session information to the opposing side in a litigation matter, and has been disruptive at school sites. Eisen was censured by the board in January, and was encouraged to resign.
"One of the toughest questions is why he does what he does," said Gerry O'Connor, who is leading the recall effort. "You can't explain the criminal mind."
Apart from his behavior on the board, Eisen has a checkered personal history. For the past 20 years, he has routinely filed for bankruptcy to stave off his creditors and avoid losing his home. He has been accused of fraud and forgery, and was ordered to vacate his house in February so that it could be sold to pay off his debts.
Also in February, a committee organized a recall campaign against him. With a core group of about eight people and up to 100 volunteers, the Committee to Recall Bill Eisen set a goal of putting the measure on the November ballot.
To do that, the group needed to gather valid signatures from 20 percent of the district's registered voters – or 4,650 people. O'Connor said that signature gatherers found that residents were split into two camps: those that knew nothing about the situation, and "those that know all about him and couldn't sign the petition fast enough."
The organizers submitted about 5,400 signatures to the county Registrar-Recorder's Office on Monday.
The petition gatherers have already checked their signatures against the county voter rolls, and believe they have at least 200 more valid signatures than the threshold.
The county has 30 days to check the signatures and decide whether there are enough to call an election. If there are sufficient valid signatures, the school board must certify the election by Aug. 8 in order to get it on the November ballot.
Eisen was not available for comment on Thursday. A supporter of his, Olivia Stinson, said that the recall proponents were seeking to get "payback."
"He is not doing any damage to this district at all," she said. "I think it's a smokescreen for what they're really doing. These are not valid reasons to recall anyone – just because you don't like him."
But Amy Howorth, the board president, said the problems with Eisen go beyond mere differences on issues.
"I don't care if someone has a different opinion than me," she said. "He has hampered our ability to get our job done."
Dave Wachtfogel, another proponent of the recall, said he is concerned that Eisen could interfere with the board's efforts to hire a new superintendent, or scare away qualified candidates.
"There are a variety of ways for a husband or a wife to screw up a marriage," Wachtfogel said. "This is like a marriage."
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Risk Management 2013 -2018
Archives of the revision of ISO 31000
The Chairman February 2018
WG 2 Core Risk Management Standards
WG 5 Management of Legal Risk
Published Standards
Standards under development
Ad-hoc and Study Groups
Projects Cancelled
Mirror Committes in Participating Members
Delegates Amman Meeting
Interviews with key players in the TC 262 community were published here:
The ongoing revision of ISO 31000
Prof. Dr. Bruno Brühwiler is the Convenor to ISO/TC 262 WG 2. He has been involved with OSO 31000 since its very beginning in 2005 when ISO TMB (Technical Management Board) established a working group which was asked to write the standard. He was actively engaged in Austria's creation of their standards in risk management and published some renowned books on risk management. He talks about his background and the highlights and challenges in risk management and as a Convenor of WG 2 as well as the work done at the last meeting of WG 2 in Sunnyvale.
Interview (2017-07-17)
Coordinating the revision of ISO 31000
Rodolphe Civet is the Secretary to ISO/TC 262 WG 2. He is head of »Management, evaluation, fundamental disciplines, services (B to B)« at AFNOR, the French national standardization body. His focus is Risk Management and quality management. He explains his background and professional career, the highlights in coordinating the work of TC 262 WG 2 and his biggest challenge as secretary to TC 262 WG 2. Also, he gives some insight on the accomplishments of the working group.
Risk Management and TC 262
Following TMB approval on February 7th, 2017, Jason Brown, who had been nominated the new chairman of TC 262 by BSI, took office. He succeeded Kevin Knight. Jason is a corporate director in Thales in Australia with a range of global responsibilities and extensive standards experience. He talked to isotc262.org about his career, his journey to risk management and his views on the future of TC 262.
Risk Management and Manage-ment System Standards in ISO
José Alcorta is ISO Technical Program Manager for TC 262. He has been involved in standardization since 1995. In 2011 he joined ISO at the Central Secretariat. He participated at the TC 262 meeting in Amman in October 2016 and talked with isotc262.org about his role as Technical Program Manager and about ISO Management System Standards and the role of Risk Management in in this context.
Kevin W. Knight on heading into well-deserved obscurity
Interview with Kevin W. Knight AM on October 21st, 2016 in Amman where TC 262 honored the Ambassador of Risk Management to become their symbolic »Honorary Chairman« at the end of the last Plenary Meeting chaired by him. Kevin gave an insight into his life and what he thought were the highlights and disappointments in risk management and in security and resilience for him and what were his biggest challenges. As one of the plans of Kevin and his wife for the near future is a river cruise in Europe a suitable guidebook was given to him as a tool for practical risk management for planned travel experiences.
Julia Graham on General Questions regarding Risk Management
On November 13th, 2015 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Marcelo Baêta Chaves, analyst with ANS, the Brazilian National Regulatory Agency for Private Health Insurance and Plans (ANS), interviewed Julia Graham, deputy CEO and technical director for AIRMIC, the United Kingdom Association for Insurance and Risk Management professionals, and UK expert delegated to TC 262. They were talking about general Risk Management Questions.
Next step:
ISO 31000:2018 was published on February 15th, 2018 and ISO/TC 262 WG 2 disbanded.
Next meetings:
The TC meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan has just been closed.
For more information contact the secretary to ISO/TC 262
Nele Zgavc.
Standards are developed by the people who need them – that could mean you. If you want to help shape future standards in your field, contact the national standardization organization in your Country. For more information contact the Secretariat,
Nele Zgavc
ISO 31000:2018 published today 2018-02-15
ISO 31000 – Moving forward into 2018 continued (part 4) 2018-01-21
ISO 31000:2009 translated into Arabic available 2018-01-13
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Germar Rudolf was born on October 29, 1964, in Limburg, Germany. He studied chemistry at Bonn University, where he graduated in 1989 as a Diplom-Chemist, which is comparable to a U.S. PhD degree. From 1990-1993 he prepared a German PhD thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in conjunction with the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Parallel to this and in his spare time, Rudolf prepared an ...
Smith's Report
No. 211 (December)
Half a Century of Rebellion
Germar Rudolf Interviewed
By Germar Rudolf
This document is part of a periodical (Smith's Report).
No. 202 (February) No. 203 (March) No. 204 (April) No. 205 (May) No. 206 (June) No. 207 (July) No. 208 (August) No. 209 (October) No. 210 (November) No. 211 (December)
Q: Thanks first of all that you have agreed to this interview.
A: You're most welcome.
Q: And then, of course, happy birthday! How does it feel to be half a century old?
A: Thanks, well, not good. But then again, I don't really care. After 50 years we all are of the same age. And a year is a pretty arbitrary time span, cosmologically speaking, so it really has little meaning in the larger framework of the universe. That's how I try to look at it.
Q: That's quite a perspective to have. But let's keep it simple. Here on earth, and that's what counts for us humans for now, a year is an important time span. Looking back at your first fifty years on this planet, what strikes you most?
A: How much I have changed. When I grew up in Germany, I could never even imagine living elsewhere and speaking other languages as if they were mine. And now here I am, doing exactly that. I am also a little ashamed of the narrow mindset I used to have when I was young, and I can only imagine how ashamed I will be of my current mindset, should I ever reach 100 and be able to look back with some wits left. I've grown mentally and matured, and the mere fact that I can recognize this is perhaps the good thing about turning 50. But I can also see that there is a lot of room left to grow and mature in the future.
Germar Rudolf – a fine lad.
(Before revisionism.)
Q: Talking about growth and change, when I look at your own website at www.GermarRudolf.com, it seems that the site has been static ever since your last posting of February 2013. There doesn't seem to be any growth or change going on there. What is going on?
A: I simply don't have the time to keep the website up to date. I have collected a number of items here at home, about which I would like to write about on my website, but I simply have other priorities.
Q: What are these other priorities?
A: Family, plain and simple. In early 2013 my wife and I got licensed as foster parents, and in April of that year two foster children were placed in our home. Ever since it's been an emotional roller coaster ride for all of us, in particular for me, the primary care giver.
Q: So you are taking care of these kids?
A: Yes, these two foster kids and our own biological daughter, plus the household coming with it. You know: house cleaning, lawn mowing, cooking and so on. My wife and I, we have what you might call inverted gender roles, if you take the usual gender roles as the norm where mommy stays at home and takes care of the kids and daddy pursues a career and provides financial security. My wife has a career she does not want to give up, and I had mine destroyed early in my professional life and little to resort to. So the choice came naturally. As a matter of fact, we had already decided in 2004, when we were expecting our daughter, that I would stay at home and take care of her.
Q: For most of your professional life you have been an author, editor and publisher of your two outlets, Castle Hill Publishers and Theses & Dissertations Press. And I might add that as such you had quite an impact. Wasn't that a career worth continuing?
A: No, not really. After I had been arrested and deported from the US back in 2005, my small publishing company got into serious trouble, as there was nobody at the helm with the required skills. By the time I got out of prison in 2011, there was little left that could provide financial security for a family.
Q: But you had started from zero before while being a family father, back in 1996. Why didn't you try this again in 2011?
A: True, I had built up that small publishing company against all odds, which also meant, though, that I was sacrificing my first family in the process. My first wife left me and filed for divorce, not the least because I was putting my work before my family. When I got a second chance with my second wife, my priorities had changed. I am simply not putting my family in jeopardy anymore for the sake of publishing controversial material. Especially not my kids. It did hurt tremendously when I had my first two kids taken away from me. I don't want to go through this trauma again. Apart, I love being a daddy. That is therefore my primary passion in life for the time being.
Q: Did prison change you after all? I remember reading letters you sent out of the German prisons where you were held for your writings. They sounded quite belligerent and rebellious. And even afterwards, in 2012, you published a book titled Resistance Is Obligatory that followed the same line. What has changed?
A: Well, what do people do when they are scared in the dark? They pretend to be courageous by whistling a song or talking loudly and proudly. That was part of it. You need a certain amount of rhetoric to get through rough times. Plus, I really didn't know back then what exactly I would do after my release. My wife and I decided to go the foster route only in late 2012 when our attempts at having another child of our own weren't going anywhere. I wasn't even sure I wanted another baby. Going a third time through the diaper things seemed a little too much for me. So starting with kids that were a little older seemed logical.
Q: And, do you regret this decision?
A: Sometimes yes, when the drama is peaking and frustrations wear me down. But usually I do not regret it, even if times are rough. The children of other parents who have gone through a lot of trauma of their own early in life are quite a different challenge than your own children. If you are a decent parent, your own kids have no trauma to deal with. Foster kids, however, usually come with so much emotional baggage that it really is a struggle to take care of them. And from my wife's experience, who has worked with troubled children for more than two decades, I know that sometimes these children remain scarred for the rest of their lives. No matter how loving and caring you are as a foster or adoptive parent, some of them will never be emotionally fully balanced and might never reach their full potential. And that is so sad to see.
Q: Is that what you are going through with the two kids you have taken on?
A: Well, when they came into our home, they were an emotional mess. They have come a long way ever since, but they both still have lots to work on. So it's an ongoing drama. On the other hand, I love children, and I want these children to be loved. So that's what I do. Then, after lots of tender loving care, of nurturing and guiding discipline, we started recognizing the progress they are making, how they are flourishing now, compared to what we first saw. And that is so rewarding. It simply makes me happy. More than anything else I could ever do. Plus I also see our own daughter grow emotionally when she does her part to help these two younger foster siblings become better persons. My daughter is absolutely amazing in this regard. She is an awesome role model for them.
Q: So are you out of revisionism for good then?
A: No, but I do more of an assisting job with various projects in the background. I have a lot of experience and knowledge in the field, and I want others to benefit from it on their way to making a difference. For now it's simply time for me to step back and let others do what needs to be done.
Q: I take it from this that your views and emotions about revisionism have not changed?
A: No, not at all. Well, maybe marginally when it comes to revisionism's role in the world. But not about its scholarly approach and contents.
Q: What do you think about revisionism's role in the world?
A: I've become more of a purist. I think revisionism ought to be an academic enterprise and should avoid any entanglement with social or political groups. At this moment, there is no chance that revisionism will have a considerable breakthrough anywhere. We need a major paradigm shift in the Western world for this to happen. So for now, all we can do is collect evidence and prepare it in a way for posterity to see and understand, once the time has come.
Q: Hasn't that always been your position?
A: Well, I may have had that insight, but I myself was acting against it at times, because I thought for many years that a breakthrough is imminent. I don't believe in breakthroughs anymore.
Q: Any examples you care to give about such an entanglement of revisionism with politics?
A: That's a question I hate, because no matter what I say, there will be people resenting it, and I've had it with resentment. So I take the 5th.
Q: You have given David Duke several interviews over the past three years. He's very political in his approach, is he not?
Q: Doesn't that count as a case of entangling revisionism with politics?
A: No, because first of all Germar Rudolf is not revisionism. When I talk to David Duke or anyone else, I am talking as an individual, not as a representative of a school of historiography. In addition, even if I were talking as a representative of something, talking to people is a profoundly human activity which should never be curtailed. I therefore reserve the right to talk to anyone who talks to me in a decent way. What I was referring to was entanglement on an organizational level.
Q: Will we see you again as an openly active revisionist at some point in the future?
A: Maybe. I keep my options open. It all depends…
Q: What's your most important wish for your 50th birthday?
A: Apart from the usual wishes – happiness and health for me and my loved ones?
Q: Let's focus on revisionism.
A: Well, I still wish for a breakthrough. But it doesn't come by itself. It needs a lot of work and dedication, perseverance and circumspection.
Q: Well, this won't happen for your 50th, I'm afraid. Maybe something smaller. What would you wish from our readers?
A: An understanding for my current priorities in life, and if they think revisionism is important, I'd hope they'd chip in wherever they think they can.
Q: Thanks a lot for this interview
A: I'm the one who has to be grateful for giving me your audience
Author(s): Germar Rudolf
Title: Half a Century of Rebellion, Germar Rudolf Interviewed
Sources: Smith's Report, no. 211, December 2014, pp. 1f., 6f.
First posted on CODOH: Dec. 21, 2014, 6 p.m.
Revisionist Personalities
Rudolf, Germar
GermarRudolf.com


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Q: На каких языках пишутся информационные системы? Знаю, что можно написать, используя 1C:Предприятие, ещё знаком с C# в Visual Studio, где сразу визуально можно окно сделать. Интересует именно как приложение, а не через web используя браузер.

A: @user394501 Delphi с RAD Studio (он же Borland Developer Studio) - в своё время была топовой вещью, если не ошибаюсь именно с неё пошло формошлёпство в массы.
Крайне советую скачать Delphi 7 Lite (очень урезанная версия до 70-80мб, есть на rutracker) и потыкать её.
Сейчас уже сильно устарела и в основном существует за счёт легаси-кода (имхо).
Перешла в режим "умирания" ещё до 2010 года из-за большой задержки в развитии (COBOL тоже умирает но всё никак за 60+ лет помереть не может), в сравнении с набирающими тогда популярность C#, Java, C++/Qt и фреймворками для них, а так-же с бурным развитием Web'а, первую половину начала 2000х большинство формошлёпов сидели в Delphi (в том числе и под плюсами) и горя не знали.
Теперь же весь этот зоопарк различных информационных (не только бухгалтерских, есть программы для управляющих компаний, соцслужб, логистики, и им подобных, и не только) систем надо поддерживать, вот и сидит где-нибудь в тюмени отдел полубородатых дядек TПрограммистов за 50 и за пару копеек всё это дело обновляет. А всё почему - они в вёб не захотели =(
Новые приложения тоже пилятся на дельфях, но только по следующим причинам: основной язык группы программистов, формочки, есть готовая платформа/библиотеки/куски кода от предыдущей задачи.
А вовсе не потому, что: Delphi требует намного меньше памяти в сравнении с Java или C#, есть проверка выхода за пределы массива (можно включить/отключить) по скорости сопоставим с C++ (под Win, не кидайте тапками, там простые тесты), и имеет превосходную обратную совместимость - писал под винду до XP - запускай на Win10, и это без всяких JRE/.NET/C++Redist, итд...
PS Мобильные приложения в новой среде RAD Studio то-же как-то клепают.

A: Местные программисты пишут нам ИС на Qt5.  Там есть визуальный редактор.
Визуальный редактор также есть для  Gtk. Но в gtk почти нет ничего для старта кроме окошек.
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Ещё до сих пор некоторые пишут учёт на Foxpro.

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Vatican is to investigate Cardinal George Pell over sex abuse conviction
Christian Today staff writer Thu 28 Feb 2019 11:42 GMT
The case of jailed Australian Cardinal George Pell is to be investigated by the Vatican, a spokesman said yesterday.
Pell was jailed yesterday following the announcement of a verdict in his trial for sexually abusing children. He is due to be sentenced on March 13 on five charges relating to offences against two 13-year-old boys in the 1990s when he was archbishop of Melbourne.
Cardinal George Pell was found guilty of child sexual abuse.Reuters
Pell has continued to maintain his innocence and plans to appeal against the verdict.
He is a former head of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy, though his term ended on February 24.
The interim director of the Vatican press office, Alessandro Gisotti, said: 'After the guilty verdict in the first instance concerning Cardinal Pell, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will now handle the case following the procedure and within the time established by canonical norm.'
While a final verdict in Pell's case will not be given until the result of his appeal is known, possible penalties include dismissal from the clerical state and a life of prayer and penance.
Pell's conviction is the latest in a string of abuse scandals to hit the Church, coming closely after the dismissal of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.


British youth sailors Sophie Weguelin and Sophie Ainsworth scooped a double honour at the 2007 29er World Championship, becoming Ladies World Champions and Under-19 World Champions on the same day.
Only six months after swapping their 420 for a new 29er, Sophie Weguelin and Sophie Ainsworth, both members of the RYA Youth Squad, earned a top honour two times over, and bring two gold medals from the Argentinean-hosted World Championship held from 21-27 January.
The 2007 29er World Championship marked the first international competitive event this newly paired-up crew have sailed together and with only a winter's worth of training behind them they have proven they can already hold their own among the world's best.
A member of the 2006 Volvo RYA GBR Youth Worlds team, Lymington's Weguelin has changed class in anticipation of the 2007 Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship due to be held in Kingston, Canada in July which will see the 29er replace the 420 as the double handed class.
Weguelin, 17, combined forces with former rival Sophie Ainsworth, also 17, from Ashford and the duo are now campaigning for the 2007 ISAF Youth Worlds together.
A home advantage seemed to pay on the Buenos Aires waters, with seven Senior Argentinean teams taking the top seven places. Weguelin and Ainsworth finished the event in eighth place overall becoming the highest placed non-Argentinean boat and the highest placed British boat in addition to World Champions in two categories.
GBR also has good showings from the other nine RYA funded youth teams that made the journey to South America with James Ellis and Rob Partridge, former 29er Under19 World Champion, finishing in 11th and current European Champions Huw Humphreys and Max Todd finishing just behind in 12th from the 50 boats competing.


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