There are many reasons why you should start your profession in Nepal like number of educated people are increasing day by day which has resulted in increase in number of job seekers, people with new innovative ideas, hardworking, enthusiastic people Nepal has capacity in various sectors that helps you to earn billions of dollar. For e.g. electricity, tourism, agro based industry.
Nepal lies between two of the fastest growing economies of the world, India and China As a least developed country, Nepal is entitled to preferential treatment in a number of rich markets. Two other advantages, according to investors already in Nepal, are a low-cost and non-hostile workforce and a small and accessible bureaucracy.
The natural as well as cultural assets of Nepal offer very substantial opportunities to investors.
The country has a range of climatic conditions – from the tropical to the sub-arctic – and a terrain that is mountainous in the north, hilly in the middle and near sea level in the south. Many niche agricultural products can thus be grown in Nepal, medicinal herbs and high-quality tea being but two examples.
There is huge potential for hydro power. About 44,000 MW is thought to be economically feasible, which may be contrasted with about 800 MW currently being generated.
Nepal has not been able to exploit much of its potentiality and the people in Nepal still face severe power shortages. In order to harness and develop hydro power, the government is encouraging private foreign investment in this sector.
In the last several years, the government under competitive basis has been awarding licenses to private sector developers with over 5000 MW of hydro power development in various stages of progress where well known international and domestic firms are involved. This priority sector provides great opportunities for contractors, equipment suppliers, and consultants alike.
Lumbini in western Nepal is the birthplace of the Buddha, while Bhaktapur in the Kathmandu valley is a perfectly preserved medieval town full of Hindu temples. Tremendous opportunities exist in developing tourism / hotel projects and resorts in Nepal.
Other trade opportunities include telecommunications equipment, ICT equipment, water resources equipment, and aircraft parts. The major telecom players are in expansive mode. Other upcoming opportunities also include civil aviation infrastructure, toll fast track roads, and railways Other areas like Software Development; Leather and Textile; Pharmaceutical; Electronic and the Service Industries also carry high possibilities of foreign investment.
Other sectors such as Medicinal and Aromatic Herbs; Flower and Vegetable Seeds; Floriculture and Sericulture; Processing of Spices, Coffee; Fruits and Dairy Products; Vegetable and Mushroom Farming and Tea, also carry high possibilities of foreign investment. Minerals that includes Stone and Limestone; Talc; Silica; Dolomite; Iron-ore; Oil and Natural Gas needs to be further explored.
There are lots of potential business opportunities in Nepal. There is no need to worry about the changing political climate. It is always ups and downs. However, there are many foreign companies working and creating jobs in the country. You can easily establish a business relation with Nepalese entrepreneur who will show you the way how to setup new venture or partnering with existing companies to expand your future business in Nepal.
A. There are crisis all around (electricity, water, fuel, communication, inflation). Remember crisis is an opportunity for an entrepreneur, and for you to become a multi-millionaire while serving fellow Nepali and beyond.
B. High unemployment rates means you can build a team around motivated youths who are desperately looking to stay employed. Plus, you get their goodwill and hopefully loyalty to build a sustainable company in the long run.
C. Youths are leaving to work abroad,(1500 a day in 2014), which means less competition for you.
D. Workers abroad (2.5 million or more) send back more than US $5 Billion a year (2014). Find out how to do a good business catering to them and their families. The market for the poor is huge! Serve these billion dollar customers!
E. Win business from customers by showing your consistently delivering track record and honest intentions! Many of your competitors might be taking the short-cut to success by using corruption.
Take advantage of this unique situation. Learn that they can never compete against you in terms of transparency, honesty (and probably quality also). If your corrupt rivals try to out- maneuver you, challenge them to open their accounts, and get the sensation hungry media on them or the government watchdogs to inspect them!
For example, open a good hygienic 'gudpak' or sweets shops to out-compete with corrupt, shady ones that exist today.
Nepal is fast becoming a consumer driven nation. We buy a lot and throw away a lot. From cloths to recycling there is opportunity. Why do you think there are 1000's of families dedicated to recycling our trash? Why do you think shops after shops are opening in Malls? Serve our consumer driven nation with quality, affordable price and superior customer services.
Industries built right after civil strife or wars can last for a long time as proved by the industries that opened after the Second World War in much of Europe and US. So start now when there is less competition.
High unemployment rates means you can build a team around motivated youths who are desperately looking to stay employed. Plus, you get their goodwill and hopefully loyalty to build a sustainable company in the long run.


Microwave treatment of hazardous wastes like dioxin-contaminated soil potentially fills a great need for a remediation technology which potentially can be applied in-situ: the EPA has concluded from a risk assessment study that it is the excavation and transportation of such wastes that poses the greatest risk. Studies have been carried out on a surrogate for dioxin, namely, 9,10-anthraquinone because it has similar chemical and physical properties but it is not toxic. It was found in microwave treatment studies that, at temperatures attainable in-situ, anthraquinone became non-extractable. A model was proposed which postulated that as water was removed from soil aggregates, anthraquinone adsorbed directly on the humus and clay fractions, and then reacted chemically. This led to spectroscopic studies to determine directly whether or not anthraquinone did undergo a chemical reaction. Those studies were carried out using DRIFT (diffuse reflectance Fourier transform spectroscopy) and ATR/FTIR (horizontal attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform spectroscopy). Bands shifts and formation suggestive of possible chemical reactions were found after microwave treatment of anthraquinone adsorbed on humus and kaolin clay, respectively.
Zhu, Naihong, "Microwave treatment of hazardous wastes : chemical fixation of insoluble non-volatile, chemically non-reactive organics in soil" (1991). Theses. 1307.


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Q: How to profile / identify the slow steps in a tight processing loop? I have some proprietary image processing code.  It walks over an image and computes some statistics on the image.  An example of the kind of code I'm talking about, can be seen below, although this is not the algorithm that needs optimizing.
My question is, what tools exist for profiling these kinds of tight loops, to determine where things are slow?  Sleepy, Windows Performance Analyzer all focus more at identifying which methods/functions are slow.  I already know what function is slow, I just need to figure out how to optimize it.
void BGR2YUV(IplImage* bgrImg, IplImage* yuvImg)
{
    const int height    = bgrImg->height;
    const int width     = bgrImg->width;
    const int step      = bgrImg->widthStep;
    const int channels  = bgrImg->nChannels;

    assert(channels == 3);
    assert(bgrImg->height == yuvImg->height);
    assert(bgrImg->width == yuvImg->width);
    // for reasons that are not clear to me, these are not the same.
    // Code below has been modified to reflect this fact, but if they
    // could be the same, the code below gets sped up a bit.
//  assert(bgrImg->widthStep == yuvImg->widthStep);
    assert(bgrImg->nChannels == yuvImg->nChannels);

    const uchar* bgr = (uchar*) bgrImg->imageData;
          uchar* yuv = (uchar*) yuvImg->imageData;

    for (int i = 0; i < height; i++)
    {
        for (int j = 0; j < width; j++)
        {
            const int ixBGR = i*step+j*channels;
            const int b = (int) bgr[ixBGR+0];
            const int g = (int) bgr[ixBGR+1];
            const int r = (int) bgr[ixBGR+2];

            const int y = (int) (0.299 * r + 0.587 * g + 0.114 * b);
            const double di = 0.596 * r - 0.274 * g - 0.322 * b;
            const double dq = 0.211 * r - 0.523 * g + 0.312 * b;
            // Do some shifting and trimming to get i & q to fit into uchars.
            const int iv = (int) (128 + max(-128.0, min(127.0, di)));
            const int q = (int) (128 + max(-128.0, min(127.0, dq)));

            const int ixYUV = i*yuvImg->widthStep + j*channels;
            yuv[ixYUV+0] = (uchar)y;
            yuv[ixYUV+1] = (uchar)iv;
            yuv[ixYUV+2] = (uchar)q;
        }
    }
}

A: Since you cant share the code I have some general suggestions. First remember profilers tell you what part of code is taking more time and more advanced ones can suggest some modifications to improve the speed. But in general, algorithmic optimizations gain much more speed up than tweaking the code. For the sample code you're sharing, if you google efficient or fast RGB to YUV conversion you will find loads of methods (from using lookup tables to SSE2 and GPU utilization) that improve the speed drastically and I'm sure none of the profilers can suggest any of them.
So once you know what part of the method is slow, you can follow these two steps:

*

*algorithmic optimization: understand what the algorithm is doing and try to come up with a more optimized algorithm. Google is your friend, it's likely someone already has thought optimizing that algorithm and has shared the idea/code with the world. Through, often you should consider the constraints you have. For example, the simplest but the most effective image processing method to speed up the code is to reduce the size of image to the smallest possible. A good rule of thumb is to question every single assumption made in the code/algorithm. e.g., is processing a 800x600 image necessary? or could reduce the size to 320x240 without compromising accuracy? Is processing a three channel image is necessary? or the same could be achieved with a grayscale image? I think you get the idea.

*implementation optimization: some advanced profiling tools can suggest how to tweak the code you can try to find one that's affordable. Some might not agree, but I don't think it's necessary to use such tools. Often image processing exact values are not necessary, a rough approximation of the filter response perhaps by integers, for example, can be used instead of exact computation by double floats. SIMD instructions and more recently GPUs have been shown perfectly suitable for optimizing image processing methods. You should consider that if it's possible to do so. You could always to google how to optimize loops or some specific operations. And after all you can do is done one possibility is to break down your code into smaller logical pieces and change it such that the algorithm or method is not revealed by sharing the pieces. Then you can share each piece on SO and ask other's opinion on how to optimize it.

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Bush's Strong Initiatives on Disabilities Funding
Sept. 8, 2004 12:01 am ET
In his Aug. 19 Politics & Policy column "Halting Progress for the Disabled," Albert R. Hunt presents a partisan analysis of the findings by the National Organization on Disability (NOD). I applaud Mr. Hunt for giving a venue to the important issues regarding independent living for those with disabilities; however, his assertions regarding President Bush and the 1990s under President Clinton lack historical perspective.
It is untrue that President Bush "inexplicably has shown little interest" in the issue of disability. Within days of being sworn into office, before tax relief, before educational reform and before military issues, President Bush presented his New Freedom Initiative for people with disabilities. Surrounded by disability advocates from around the country, President Bush called for increased investment in assistive technologies, independent living, home ownership, and employment for people with disabilities.
Mr. Bush has proposed nearly $900 million to remove transportation barriers for people with disabilities. He has called for swift implementation of the historic Olmstead Supreme Court decision that gives people with disabilities the opportunity to live in community settings rather than being trapped in nursing homes. He also has proposed more than $100 million to allow spouses of people with disabilities to return to work without losing Medicaid coverage and $2.2 billion for projects that promote community-based services. Prior to this administration, the only progress for people with disabilities in the 1990s was the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act in June of 1990 by President George H. Bush. President Clinton's own political appointees with disabilities summed up disability policy in the '90s by saying that disability programs are "underfunded, overly cautious, reactive, and lacking any coherent and unifying national strategy." In fact, during the '90s disability advocates handcuffed themselves to the White House fence to protest the woeful and absent Clinton disability agenda.
Douglas C. Huntt, Ph.D.
Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission Columbus, Ohio

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Ciriaco Lorenzo Tejedor, médico y político español. Licenciado en Medicina y Cirugía. Fue redactor, en 1851, del periódico Anales de medicina homeopática, en Madrid.

El 10 de abril de 1866, Tejedor pronunció ante la Sociedad Hahnemanniana Matritense el discurso De la regeneración física y moral de la especie humana por el triunfo de la homeopatía, en honor del 111º aniversario del nacimiento de Hahnemann.

En 1869, en representación de la provincia de Palencia, firmó el Pacto Federal Castellano.

En 1870,  la revista parisina L' Hahnemannisme: journal de la médicine homoeopathique le rindió homenaje. Estaba en posesión de la Orden de Carlos III.

Obras
Contestación a la carta que dirige a los médicos homeópatas (1862), con Joaquín de Hysern y Molleras
De la regeneración física y moral de la especie humana por el triunfo de la homeopatía (1866)
Discurso Leído en la Sociedad Hahnemanniana Matritense: El Día 10 de Abril De 1866 (1866)

Referencias

Médicos de España del siglo XIX
Firmantes del Pacto Federal Castellano
Homeópatas de España

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HomeEsportsMurder suspect whose alleged crime kicked off Hong Kong protests walks free
Murder suspect whose alleged crime kicked off Hong Kong protests walks free
Hong Kong (CNN) Protests in Hong Kong have affected everything from esports and the NBA to arguments about free speech on Australian university campuses and the US-China trade war.Chinese President Xi Jinping , Donald Trump and basketball star Lebron James have all been pulled in.
But as the global consequences of almost four months of unprecedented unrest continue to be felt, the story that started it all has slipped from the headlines.On Wednesday, one of the central players in that story walked free from a Hong Kong prison on minor charges, after authorities say he confessed to killing his girlfriend but, so far, avoided prosecution for it.Chan Tong-kai was sentenced to prison by a judge in April 2019.Just over one year earlier, authorities say the then 19-year-old admitted to killing his girlfriend, 20-year-old Poon Hiu-wing, while the pair were in Taiwan.Poon would have been about 15 weeks pregnant at the time.Though Chan was arrested in March 2018 and soon confessed to the killing, according to police, that wasn't why he was before a judge in April.Because Hong Kong and Taiwan have no extradition agreement, and do not usually provide cross-border legal assistance — and because they couldn't prove the alleged murder was planned in Hong Kong beforehand — prosecutors in the city were unable to charge Chan with murder.
Instead, he was charged with the more minor offense of money laundering, in relation to cash and other valuables he stole from Poon after allegedly killing her.Chan Tong-kai is transferred from court in April 2019 after being jailed for money laundering related offenses.
An attempt by Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam to plug the extradition "loophole" with Taiwan, and at the same time allow suspects to be sent to China and Macao, led to months of intense anti-government protests , which were initially sparked by fears the extradition law could be used to rendition critics of Beijing across the border to face trial.Read More Chan Tong-kai case 2018 8 February: Chan and Poon travel to Taiwan.
17 February: Chan and Poon argue in their Taipei hotel and he allegedly strangles her to death.
13 March: Taipei police find Poon's body, Chan arrested in Hong Kong, police say he confessed to killing her.
31 December: Chan pleads guilty to charges of money laundering in relation to cash stolen from Poon.
2019 February: Hong Kong government proposes changes to extradition law to allow fugitives to be sent to Taiwan, China and Macao.
29 March: Extradition bill published.
12 April: Chan appears before the Hong Kong High Court on charges of money laundering, but not murder.
29 April: Chan sentenced to 29 months in prison on charges of money laundering (having served over half his sentence).
April-October: Protests escalate and become a weekly occurrence.
23 October: Chan Tong-kai released from prison.
Source: CNN reporting
Those protests show no signs of stopping, and have only grown more chaotic and violent in recent weeks.
But on October 23, Chan — whose lawyers did not respond to a request for comment — walked free, after 19 months behind bars on the money laundering charges.What happens to him now is unclear.The Hong Kong government said Chan has offered to hand himself in to Taiwanese authorities, but how that will exactly take place is hotly contested.Taipei said it had requested Chan be handed into its custody in Hong Kong, along with his alleged confession and other documents relating to the case, but Hong Kong has pointed out Taiwanese police have no authority to operate in the city.
"The authority of Taiwan has no law enforcement power in Hong Kong.Chan is Taiwan's wanted person and his surrender decision is voluntary," Hong Kong's government said in a statement Wednesday."As he will be a free man after released from jail, the (Hong Kong) Government has no authority to impose any restrictive measures on him.He could go to Taiwan accompanied by persons of his choice.Upon arrival, the authority of Taiwan can arrest him." Chan is currently a free man.
Speaking outside Pik Uk Prison on Wednesday morning, he said that "I understand that because of my irreversible wrongdoing, I have caused huge pain." "I am willing to pay the price for my impulsiveness and my wrongdoing, which is to turn myself in to the Taiwanese authority and serve my sentence there," Chan said."I can only say I am sorry.I hope everyone will forgive me, give me a chance to give back to the society." JUST WATCHED Over 200 arrested as violence escalates in Hong Kong Replay More Videos …
Over 200 arrested as violence escalates in Hong Kong 02:14 Death at the Purple Garden Hotel "She was a good daughter.In school, she was a good student," Poon Hiu-wing's mother told reporters in February."What did she do to deserve this? Our family never imagined that such a horrible thing could happen to such a nice girl." According to court documents, Poon and Chan met in July 2017.On social media, Poon shared happy selfies of the two of them together.In one photo, she smiles at the camera, her eyes wide and her face framed by long, dark hair.She's holding Chan's arm as he stares into the camera, his bowl cut hair hiding his eyebrows.He has big ears which stick out from his hair, and a large birthmark under his left nostril.Murder victim Poon Hiu-wing.
Poon was five months pregnant when she was killed by her boyfriend Chan Tong-kai in Taiwan in February 2018.In February 2018, the couple took a holiday to Taiwan.Before they left for Taipei, Poon wrote on Facebook that Chan had described her as "his first and last girlfriend." Surveillance footage from the Purple Garden Hotel, verified by Taiwanese authorities, shows the couple returning soon after midnight on February 17.Chan is walking in front, carrying a large, apparently empty, pink suitcase with one hand.
Poon follows a short distance behind him.According to Chan's confession, as presented in court, that suitcase would be central to what happened next.In a WhatsApp message to her mother, authorities say Poon said they'd be returning to Hong Kong later on the 17th.But while they were packing in the early hours of the morning, they started arguing.
The spat soon turned into a blazing argument.According to Chan's confession, cited in court, Poon told him she was pregnant by her ex-boyfriend, not him.
He says she then showed him a video of her having sex with another man.That's when the situation escalated, the court heard — Chan hit Poon's head against the wall of their hotel room and began strangling her from behind with both hands.They fell onto the floor, where they struggled for about 10 minutes until Poon was dead.
Confronted with the corpse of his pregnant girlfriend, Hong Kong officials say Chan turned again to the suitcase.He stuffed Poon's dead body into the pink case, folding her near in half to make her fit.He then threw her belongings into four plastic bags, according to court documents, and went to sleep.
At 11:25 a.m.on February 17, surveillance footage shows Chan leaving the hotel alone.He's lugging a now apparently very heavy pink suitcase behind him, and it moves awkwardly over the cobbles on the street outside.He has a baseball cap pulled lower over his head, and a black mask over his face.He disposed of Poon's belongings in various trash bins near the hotel, according to court documents, and then dragged the suitcase to a nearby subway entrance.From Zhongshan station, Chan rode the red line north for 15 stops to Zhuwei station on the outskirts of Taipei, according to Taiwanese state media .There he started looking for a place to dump the body, eventually settling on a park, where he clumsily hid her in some bushes, Taiwanese police say.Before he disposed of her belongings, authorities say Chan took Poon's iPhone, her digital camera and an HSBC ATM card.
Prosecutors say he immediately withdrew the equivalent of about US$700, with plans to go on a shopping spree, but changed his mind and caught his flight back to Hong Kong.There he further withdrew the equivalent of about $2,400 from Poon's account, and deposited it to his credit card, according to authorities.While authorities say Chan was enjoying Poon's money, her parents were growing increasingly frantic.Poon hadn't told them she was traveling with a boyfriend, but her mother found a copy of Chan's Taiwan Entry and Exit Permit at Poon's apartment, the court heard in April.On March 5, she filed a missing person report to police in Taiwan, and just over a week later they discovered Poon's now decomposing corpse in the Zhuwei park.Chan was brought in for questioning by Hong Kong police, and he admitted to murdering Poon and hiding her body, prosecutors say.Photos: Hong Kong unrest A pro-democracy protester is detained by riot police in Mong Kok district on October 27 in Hong Kong.Hide Caption 1 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A police van drives past graffiti sprayed onto a pedestrian crossing by protesters in the Mong Kok district of Kowloon in Hong Kong on October 27.
Hide Caption 2 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A protestor throws a tear gas canister on October 27 in Hong Kong.Hide Caption 3 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A couple wearing Guy Fawkes masks watch a rally at Chater Garden in Hong Kong on October 26.Hide Caption 4 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters start a fire in front of the MTR station during demonstration on October 27.Hide Caption 5 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Tear gas smoke is seen exploding over reporters during an anti-government protest in Mong Kok district in Hong Kong on October 27.
Hide Caption 6 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Pro-democracy supporters hold large size letter lights which read "Free Hong Kong" during an assembly of medical professionals in Central district in Hong Kong on October 26.Hide Caption 7 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest High school students take part in a human chain rally outside Kowloon park in Hong Kong on October 25.Hide Caption 8 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Pro-democracy activist and South Horizons community organizer Joshua Wong answers questions from media after requesting to meet returning officer Dorothy Ma at the Southern district office in Hong Kong on October 24.Hide Caption 9 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Police fire blue dye toward protesters in Hong Kong on Sunday, October 20.
Blue dye can be used to stain and identify masked protesters.Hide Caption 10 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters set fire to a shop on October 20.Hide Caption 11 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Police charge during a pro-democracy march in the Kowloon district on October 20.Hide Caption 12 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters scatter as tear gas fills a street in Hong Kong on October 20.
Hide Caption 13 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A protester sets fire to a Bank of China branch on October 20.Hide Caption 14 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A pro-democracy protester is arrested by police on October 20.
Hide Caption 15 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Pro-democracy lawmakers protest as Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam delivers a speech at the Legislative Council on Wednesday, October 16.Lam's annual policy address ended in chaos as pro-democracy lawmakers repeatedly disrupted her speech and heckled her with calls to honor the demands of anti-government protesters.Hide Caption 16 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Lam arrives at the Legislative Council on October 16.Hide Caption 17 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A protester shoots a basketball at a poster of Lam during a rally on Tuesday, October 15.Hide Caption 18 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters set fire to a Bank of China branch on Sunday, October 13.It was the 19th consecutive weekend of anti-government protests in Hong Kong.
Hide Caption 19 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters use the lights on their phones during a rally in central Hong Kong's business district.Hide Caption 20 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A protester attempts to break a tourist bus window on October 13.Hide Caption 21 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters wearing masks in defiance of a recently imposed ban gather at a shopping mall on October 13.Hide Caption 22 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Anti-government protesters set up "The Lady Liberty of Hong Kong" statue, which symbolizes the city's recent democratic movement.
The figure stands a little over 13 feet tall and was carried in pieces to the top of Lion Rock, one of Hong Kong's iconic peaks.Hide Caption 23 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters vandalize a shopping mall restaurant on October 13.Hide Caption 24 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Supporters surround a police bus carrying political activist Edward Leung as it leaves the High Court in Hong Kong on Wednesday, October 9.
Several hundred masked protesters gathered at Hong Kong's High Court for the appeal hearing of Leung, who was sentenced to six years in prison for his part in a violent clash with police.
Hide Caption 25 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Police shine lights at protesters outside the Ma On Shan police station on October 9.Hide Caption 26 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters smash up a Bank of China branch on Monday, October 7.Hide Caption 27 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A woman is treated after police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong on October 7.Hide Caption 28 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Police clear a street as protesters and pedestrians gathered near the Mong Kok police station on October 7.
Hide Caption 29 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Pro-democracy protesters gather in a shopping mall on October 7.Hide Caption 30 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A masked protester stops for a portrait in Hong Kong on Sunday, October 6.Hide Caption 31 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters vandalize the Cheung Sha Wan local government offices on October 6.Hide Caption 32 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Rescue personnel check the bottom of a taxi after the driver allegedly drove onto the pavement, hitting protesters in Hong Kong on October 6.
Hide Caption 33 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A China Construction Bank is seen vandalized in the Causeway Bay area of Hong Kong on October 6.Hide Caption 34 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Pro-democracy protesters set fires in the street in the Causeway Bay area.
Hide Caption 35 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest People protest the ban against masks on Saturday, October 5.Hide Caption 36 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Police detain a protester on October 5.
Hide Caption 37 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest An anti-government protester stands near a fire on Friday, October 4.Hide Caption 38 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters move a statue depicting a protester armed with gas mask, helmet and umbrella on the streets of Hong Kong on October 4.Hide Caption 39 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters set a fire at a China Construction Bank.Hide Caption 40 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Police deploy tear gas outside a restaurant during a protest in the Causeway Bay district.Hide Caption 41 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters spray paint slogans at the entrance to a tunnel on October 4.Hide Caption 42 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A fire is seen in front of a store vandalized by protesters.Hide Caption 43 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A store after being vandalized by protesters.Hide Caption 44 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Pro-democracy demonstrators hold up their hands to symbolize their five demands during a rally on October 4.
Hide Caption 45 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters throw petrol bombs at the gate to the Tsuen Wan police station on Wednesday, October 2.Hide Caption 46 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Schoolmates of a student who was shot in the chest by police place their hands on their chests during a protest on October 2.Hide Caption 47 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A young protester was shot Tuesday, October 1, as violent protests erupted across Hong Kong on the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China.The incident marked a major escalation in violence that could galvanize the protest movement in Hong Kong.Hide Caption 48 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Police detain an anti-government protester on October 1.Thousands of black-clad protesters marched in central Hong Kong as part of multiple pro-democracy rallies.Hide Caption 49 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters stand surrounded by smoke from tear gas shells on October 1.
Hide Caption 50 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Marching anti-government protesters are seen through a window with peeled-off posters on October 1.
Hide Caption 51 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Police tackle and arrest pro-democracy protesters during clashes on October 1.Hide Caption 52 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A protester is seen carrying rocks on a street on October 1.While events in Beijing were being held to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, demonstrators rallied throughout Hong Kong.Hide Caption 53 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters react after police fired tear gas near the central government offices in Hong Kong's Admiralty area on October 1.Hide Caption 54 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Pro-democracy protesters form a "Pepe the Frog" themed human chain on Monday, September 30.
Hide Caption 55 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A man is detained by Hong Kong police during a protest in the Causeway Bay shopping district on Sunday, September 29.Hide Caption 56 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Riot police try to disperse protesters on September 29.Hide Caption 57 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Bus passengers look at a burning barricade lit by pro-democracy protesters in front of the Mong Kok police station on Sunday, September 22.
Hide Caption 58 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Pro-democracy protesters sing songs and chant slogans during a rally inside a shopping mall on September 22.Hide Caption 59 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest An anti-government protester throws a Molotov cocktail during a demonstration near the Central Government Complex on Sunday, September 15.Hide Caption 60 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A pro-China supporter, center, is escorted by police after confronting journalists in Hong Kong on September 15.Hide Caption 61 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Pro-government and anti-government supporters chant against one another at a shopping mall in Hong Kong on Friday, September 13.The sign translates to "Stop violence and curb chaos; safeguard Hong Kong." Hide Caption 62 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Demonstrators hold up their cell phone lights as they form a human chain at the Peak, a tourist spot in Hong Kong, on September 13.
Hide Caption 63 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Police escort an injured man after he attacked protesters outside Prince Edward station in Hong Kong on Friday, September 6.Hide Caption 64 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters burn paper money to pay their respects to injured protesters.Hide Caption 65 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters prepare to clash with police outside the Mong Kok police station on September 6.Hide Caption 66 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A protester is detained by police at the Po Lam Mass Transit Railway station on Thursday, September 5.Hide Caption 67 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A man watches televisions at a store in Hong Kong as Chief Executive Carrie Lam announces the withdrawal of the extradition bill on Wednesday, September 4.
Hide Caption 68 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A woman gets emotional on September 4 while paying her respects to protesters who were injured a few days earlier.Hide Caption 69 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Demonstrators travel through a railway station during a rally on Tuesday, September 3.
Hide Caption 70 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Students wearing gas masks and helmets hold a banner that reads "five major demands are indispensable" at St.Francis' Canossian College in Hong Kong.Hide Caption 71 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters gather in the bus terminal at Hong Kong International Airport on Sunday, September 1.Hundreds of pro-democracy activists attempted to block transport routes to the city's airport.Hide Caption 72 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A passenger walks to the airport on September 1 as pro-democracy protesters blocked a road outside the airport.
Hide Caption 73 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A protester uses a slingshot outside the Central Government Complex during clashes with police on Saturday, August 31.Thousands of pro-democracy protesters held an anti-government rally one day after several leading activists and lawmakers were arrested in a sweeping crackdown.Hide Caption 74 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters light a Molotov cocktail on August 31.
Hide Caption 75 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Police officers move forward during clashes with protesters on August 31.Hide Caption 76 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters take cover as policemen fire blue-colored water on them.
Blue dye can be used to stain and identify masked protesters.Hide Caption 77 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A surveillance camera is covered with white paint during protests.
Hide Caption 78 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest An overhead view shows protesters reacting after police fired tear gas on August 31.Hide Caption 79 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Pro-democracy activists Agnes Chow and Joshua Wong speak to the media after they were released on bail at the Eastern Magistrates Courts on Friday, August 30.They were arrested earlier the same day in a dragnet across Hong Kong.Hide Caption 80 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters clash with police after a rally in Hong Kong's Tsuen Wan district on Sunday, August 25.
It was one of the most violent nights seen in Hong Kong since mass protests began in June.Hide Caption 81 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A police officer aims a gun in front of a protester on August 25.Hide Caption 82 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Some protesters shine laser pointers at police lines on August 25.Hide Caption 83 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters and police clash on Saturday, August 24.Hide Caption 84 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters pick up bricks to be used as projectiles on August 24.
Hide Caption 85 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Police retreat after clashing with protesters on August 24.Hide Caption 86 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest People link hands as they gather at the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront on Friday, August 23.
Protesters formed a human chain across Hong Kong in a show of solidarity.Hide Caption 87 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Cell phones shine from the top of Lion Rock on August 23.Hide Caption 88 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters march under umbrellas on Sunday, August 18.
Hide Caption 89 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Tens of thousands of protesters showed up in the streets on August 18.Hide Caption 90 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A protester participates in a march on Saturday, August 17.His eye is covered with red gauze, referencing a woman who was allegedly shot in the eye with a beanbag round during clashes between protesters and police.Hide Caption 91 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters react after police fired tear gas to disperse a demonstration at the Sham Shui Po police station in Hong Kong on Wednesday, August 14.Hide Caption 92 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters point lasers at the Sham Shui Po police station on August 14.
Hide Caption 93 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A police officer falls over an airport luggage trolley during a scuffle with pro-democracy protesters on Tuesday, August 13.For two days, protesters flooded the airport.Check-ins were suspended and dozens of outgoing flights were canceled.Hide Caption 94 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Police use pepper spray to disperse protesters at the airport on August 13.
Hide Caption 95 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Police and protesters clash at the airport on August 13.The violence came after Hong Kong's Airport Authority announced that all check-in services would be suspended for another night because of terminal operations being "seriously disrupted." Hide Caption 96 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A traveler passes her luggage to security guards as she tries to enter the departures gate.
Hide Caption 97 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A display board shows canceled flights on August 13.Hide Caption 98 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Anti-government protesters stand at a barricade made of luggage trolleys during a demonstration at the airport on August 13.Hide Caption 99 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Medics look after a woman who received a facial injury during clashes on Sunday, August 11.Hide Caption 100 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A pro-democracy protester is held by police outside the Tsim Sha Tsui police station on August 11.
Hide Caption 101 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Police fire tear gas at protesters during a demonstration in the Wong Tai Sin District on Monday, August 5.Hide Caption 102 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A train passenger gestures toward a protester, right, who was preventing the doors of a train from closing on August 5.The protester was trying to disrupt Hong Kong's morning rush-hour commute.Hide Caption 103 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A man lies down on an underground train during a protest on August 5.
Hide Caption 104 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A man comforts his pregnant wife near a train platform after protesters blocked the train doors on August 5.
Hide Caption 105 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A protester stands in tear gas during a confrontation with police in the early hours of Sunday, August 4.
Hide Caption 106 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A Chinese flag floats in water after it was thrown by protesters during a demonstration on Saturday, August 3.Hide Caption 107 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A protester sprays paint on a wall on August 3.Hide Caption 108 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Members of Hong Kong's medical sector attend a protest in Edinburgh Place on Friday, August 2.Hide Caption 109 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest The emblem on the China Liaison Office is protected by plexiglass during a demonstration on Sunday, July 28.Hide Caption 110 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A protester flees from baton-wielding police in the Yuen Long district of Hong Kong on Saturday, July 27.Hide Caption 111 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A protester looks through umbrellas during the clashes with police on July 27.
Hide Caption 112 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Travelers watch as protesters rally at Hong Kong's international airport on Friday, July 26.Hide Caption 113 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters clash with police on Sunday, July 21.Hide Caption 114 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Masked men in white T-shirts are seen after attacking anti-extradition bill demonstrators at a train station in Yuen Long.Hide Caption 115 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Medical workers help a protester affected by tear gas on July 21.Hide Caption 116 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest The office of pro-Beijing lawmaker Junius Ho was trashed by protesters in Hong Kong's Tsuen Wan district.Hide Caption 117 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Police officers use pepper spray to disperse protesters after a rally in the Sheung Shui district on Saturday, July 13.Hide Caption 118 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A demonstrator sprays paint inside a chamber at Hong Kong's Legislative Council building, where protesters forced their way in on Monday, July 1.Hide Caption 119 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest The meeting hall of the Legislative Council is taken over by demonstrators on July 1.
Hide Caption 120 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A protester smashes a window of the Legislative Council building.Hide Caption 121 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Columns of sunlight are cast on a crowd during the march on July 1.Hide Caption 122 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Helicopters carrying the flags of China and Hong Kong fly over demonstrators on July 1.Hide Caption 123 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Pro-democracy lawmaker Roy Kwong rallies demonstrators with a megaphone on July 1.Hide Caption 124 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A police officer uses pepper spray during a clash with protesters on July 1.Hide Caption 125 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A protester wearing a T-shirt with the word "revolution" walks past an inscription on a road that reads "Long Live HK." Hide Caption 126 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Police detain protesters near the government headquarters in Hong Kong on July 1.Hide Caption 127 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest An overhead view shows thousands of protesters marching through a Hong Kong street on Sunday, June 16.Hide Caption 128 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters run after police fired tear gas on Wednesday, June 12.
Hide Caption 129 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters face off with police during the rally on June 12.Hide Caption 130 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest By the morning of June 12, tens of thousands of mainly young people had arrived in the area, blocking streets and bringing central Hong Kong to a standstill.Hide Caption 131 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest A demonstrator holds a sign during the June 12 rally.Hide Caption 132 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Police officers charge toward protesters during clashes on Monday, June 10.
It was a continuation of protests that started the day before.Hide Caption 133 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters hold pictures of Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Sunday, June 9.Hide Caption 134 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Protesters on June 9 waved placards and wore white — the designated color of the rally."Hong Kong, never give up!" some chanted.
Hide Caption 135 of 136 Photos: Hong Kong unrest Students wear chains during a demonstration on Saturday, June 8.Hide Caption 136 of 136 Extradition woes Chan had admitted to the crime, and he'd been caught spending Poon's money, according to authorities.But police could not prove that he had planned the alleged murder in Hong Kong, meaning authorities in the city had no jurisdiction over it.Taiwanese prosecutors issued a warrant but without an extradition treaty, there was little chance of Chan being sent to Taiwan.
Hong Kong officials have described the lack of an extradition agreement with mainland China as a loophole, but a British official who worked on the agreement to hand over the city to Chinese control in 1997 said the building of a firewall with China's legal system was deliberate."The UK made a conscious decision to create a clear divide between the two systems so that the rule of law remains robust," former British foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind wrote in June .
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Decoding the China-Taiwan relationship 02:24 "The question of having a comprehensive arrangement for rendition, sending fugitives to mainland China, has been under discussion for more than 20 years, and of course got nowhere," former Hong Kong lawmaker Emily Lau told CNN .
"And the reason, the main reason, is that Hong Kong and mainland China have two very different legal systems, and we cannot guarantee, and nobody can guarantee, that anyone sent to mainland China, would get a fair trial, because what they have there." According to Washinton-based watchdog Freedom House , China lacks an independent judiciary and fails to protect the right to due process.The conviction rate in China has been widely estimated to be around 98%.Demonstrations began over the extradition bill in April, and hundreds of thousands of people turned out to protest it on June 9.When the Hong Kong government pressed ahead, tens of thousands of protesters successfully blocked the city's legislature from holding a second reading, and in June, Lam agreed to suspend it, but not fully withdraw it.By the time she did announce its withdrawal , in September, it was too late: the protest demands had sprawled and the unrest — by then in its fourth month — showed no sign of stopping.As far as the Hong Kong legal system is concerned, now that he's left prison, Chan is a free man.Last week — after lobbying by lawmakers and religious figures — Chan told the Hong Kong government he would hand himself over to Taiwanese authorities, willing to face justice on the island.This apparent solution was thrown into doubt, however, when Taipei raised concerns about accepting his surrender without full judicial cooperation from Hong Kong, including handing over evidence against Chan.
"The homicide case took place in Taiwan.The body of the deceased, key witnesses, exhibits and relevant evidence were all in Taiwan.Without doubt, Taiwan has jurisdiction over this offence," Hong Kong's government said Wednesday .
"Now that Chan is willing to surrender, Taiwan should receive him, and initiate interrogation, evidence gathering and prosecution on him.Regarding the relevant evidence in Hong Kong, apart from those voluntarily brought with Chan, for other evidence, Hong Kong will, under the legal framework and following the procedures, provide all necessary assistance." Poon's parents have called again and again for justice to be done, but there's not really anything more they can do.Lam has said over and over that the extradition bill is dead.Whether there is another way to send Chan to face justice for his alleged crime remains to be seen..


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Q: linux: adding hosts programmatically? Is there a way to programmatically add hosts to the local name resolver under Linux?
I would rather avoid fiddling with /etc/hosts dynamically...
Example:  add the name foo and bind it to the local port 127.1.2.3
Use Case: I have an application installed locally accessible through a web browser. I'd like the application to be accessible through a local URI.

A:
add the name foo and bind it to the local port 127.0.0.1:9999

What is it that you want?  You can add foo 127.0.0.1 to hosts or do the equivalent in your nameserver, but a connection to foo on port 1234 will always go to 127.0.0.1:1234 -- it's not possible to redirect that to port 9999 based on name, which is lost by the time connect is called.
On Linux you can add IPs to the loopback device (i.e. ip addr add 127.1.2.3 dev lo), and then use iptables to change all connections destined for 127.1.2.3:1234 to instead go to 127.0.0.1:9999, but I can't tell from your question if that the observable behavior you want.

A: If you'll only add hosts, a pretty safe way to do it is
echo -e "ip.add.re.ss\thostname" >> /etc/hosts

Now, if you want to remove them it starts getting hairy. I suspect you also want to remove them.
If this is the case you can use Dynamic DNS, for example, BIND has the nsupdate tool to update zone files:
       $ nsupdate
       > update delete oldhost.example.com A
       > update add newhost.example.com 86400 A 172.16.1.1
       > send

This does the following:

Any A records for oldhost.example.com
  are deleted. And an A record for
  newhost.example.com with IP address
  172.16.1.1 is added. The newly-added record has a 1 day TTL (86400
  seconds).

A: The google search term you want is "DDNS" for "Dynamic DNS".  That's a technology for dynamically adding records to DNS servers, which sounds like exactly what you want.  I'm pretty sure the bind in most lunix distros supports it, but you may need to read up on how to configure it.

A: I'll be going with a recent discovery: multicast-dns using the Avahi package. An example can be found here.


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Transcendental Meditation: An Antidote to Violence?
With Barry Spivack, Patricia Williams &
David Orme-Johnson PhD
What is the potential influence of collective meditation on world peace?
Join three experts on the Maharishi effect for a fascinating exploration of an evidence–based approach to world peace by creating coherence in collective consciousness.
The COVID-19 pandemic has put societies everywhere under extreme stress, and collective stress is often a precursor to outbreaks of violence. Striking features of this global health crisis have been the collective anxiety of the population, the wide variations in the way governments have responded, and the varying degree of their success. High levels of collective anxiety and social tension create systemic incoherence in our collective consciousness.
While there is significant scientific research showing that meditation has a positive influence on the health and wellbeing of individuals, is there any evidence that large-scale meditation can have a similar influence on societies in reducing stress and levels of violence?
"Yes" is the surprising inference from the authors of a new book,  An Antidote to Violence: Evaluating the Evidence,  that provides documented peer-reviewed evidence of its efficacy.
Weaving together psychology, sociology, philosophy, statistics, politics, physics and meditation, the book provides evidence that we have the knowledge to reduce all kinds of violence in society by creating coherence in collective consciousness and thereby neutralising collective stress.
"I was initially sceptical that such a simple solution could be effective. However, after examining the evidence, I changed my mind.  'An Antidote to Violence'  is a serious and well-researched book that offers an unconventional but effective peaceful solution to violence and terrorism." – Lieutenant General Clarence E. McKnight, Jr, Former Director of Command, Control and Communications Systems for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington DC.
Date: Jan 13 2021
Barry Spivack Teacher of Transcendental Meditation
Barry Spivack
Teacher of Transcendental Meditation
Barry Spivack studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University before training as a teacher of Transcendental Meditation. For 25 years he combined working in industry with teaching Transcendental Meditation part time. He currently teaches Transcendental Meditation in Essex, mainly in schools, companies, to patients in the UK National Health Service and is leading a small project in the UK armed forces. His previous book, An Antidote to Violence: Evaluating the Evidence, was co-authored with Dr Patricia Saunders.
David W. Orme-Johnson
David W. Orme-Johnson, PhD is Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Maharishi International University. He is currently the Research Desk of the Maharishi Foundation. In this role, he is the primary person who answers questions about the research on the Transcendental Meditation technique, sending papers, summaries, and charts to TM teachers, writers, and professionals around the world, as well as continuing to conduct original research, publish papers, and represent the research in international conferences. He maintains a website, which answers questions about the research and summarises new results. Dr Orme-Johnson is one of the first and most prolific researchers on the Transcendental Meditation technique, with over 100 scientific papers in the field. Over the last 50 years, Dr. Orme-Johnson has presented the research on TM in over 50 countries.
Patricia Saunders
Patricia Saunders studied music before training as a teacher of the Transcendental Meditation technique. She is now a PhD researcher in the department of Consciousness and Human Potential at Maharishi University of Management, researching into consciousness and Vedic sound from the perspective of the Vedic tradition of knowledge.


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Examining the Evidence, Uncategorized
Part II: Investigating the Slavyansk Crucifixion
Posted by Gleb Bazov ⋅ Aug 9, 2014 ⋅ 8 Comments
Filed Under Anatoly Shariy, Atrocities, Crucifixion, Evgeny Feldman, Fake Pictures, Fakes, Galina Pyshnyak, Inforesist, Julia Davis, Kiev, Owen Matthews, Propaganda, Slavyansk, Slavyansk Crucifixion, The Unwashed Brain, Twitter, Ukraine
Part I: Investigating the Slavyansk Crucifixion
Original: The Unwashed Brain
By @ApathyKills
In Part 1 we've looked at the basic facts of the so-called Slavyansk Crucifixion and the helpful investigations by Anatoly Shariy and Evgeny Feldman, but now it's time to consider the work of the real debunkers.
We've already met Julia Davis through her role in the Fake Picture Scam, but since she's likely to be a recurrent figure in any discussion of media distortion she merits a few words of introduction of her own.
Julia Davis calls herself a 'whistleblower', and so indeed she is – but where others have championed ordinary people against the oppression of the US government, Ms Davis' contribution was to blame the US government for not being oppressive enough. Brave she may have been, victimized she certainly was – but Daniel Elsberg or Chelsea Manning she ain't.
What she is is a matter of public record. She's employed by the US Dept of Homeland Security, and since she spends most working days tweeting and blogging in support of Kiev it's not hard to guess what that job really entails. In fairness we should also say that this is clearly a labour of love. Ukrainian by birth, she evidently shares the nationalist ideals of Svoboda and the Right Sector, and when she's not gloating over the bodies of dead Russians she enjoys little jokes about Moskals and Colorado beetles.
But being an unpleasant person doesn't necessarily mean she's a liar, so we should give her 'debunk' of the Slavyansk Crucifixion the courtesy of proper analysis. Here's how she kicks off:
Strong stuff! Take that, Colorados!! But let's look a little closer.
First claim – 'out of the entire town of Slavyansk, not a single witness'. Seriously? She seems by her link to be referring to the Feldman video, but can she really be saying that the 'entire town of Slavyansk' comprises just these dozen people? Even if we forget the fact that no-one under occupation is likely to confirm this atrocity on camera, no-one can be expected to take this sweeping statement seriously.
And in fact there are already rumours of a second witness. The source is biased – the Novorossiya PR page that posts under the generic name of Colonel Strelkov – but on 11th July a post claimed that a girl from Slavyansk had already written to say a militiaman's child had been killed and a video of the murder sent to the father:
It may be a different murder. The girl who wrote in may have been lying. The girl may not have existed at all, and it's 'Strelkov' who's lying. But it's at least a possible second witness, and it seems rather disingenuous not to mention it. At the very least…
Second claim – 'inspired by the 4th season of The Game of Thrones'. Hmm. I don't personally share Ms Davis' confidence that people undergoing massive bombardment have nothing better to do than watch American pulp television, but it's at least true that Season 4 of this gore-for-entertainment show did indeed air in Europe in April and Galina Pyshnyak might have seen it. But so might other people. If there really is a link between television violence and serious crime, the studies so far suggest that it inspires not fantasists but perpetrators. Did it inspire some Right Sector elements who were bored with burning people alive and wanted to try something new? I have no idea whether it did or not, but the 'Game of Thrones' connection actually makes the crucifixion more likely rather than less.
Let's move swiftly on to the facts.
Third claim – 'There is no Lenin Square in Slavyansk'. Really, Ms Davis? Then what's this from veeoz?
And this from America's own Getty Images?
Or this, also from Getty Images?
The square is bordered by Lenin Street and has a huge great statue of Lenin in the middle – what else would the predominantly Russian-speaking population of Slavyansk call it? The Ukrainian government mark their maps with the less politically odious 'Oktober Revolution Square', the cautiously neutral call it 'the central square', but most genuine locals call it 'Lenin Square' and so does pretty well everyone else. Look at this, for instance, from Canada's StarPhoenix:
Or this from America's Business Insider:
I'm sorry, but there is a Lenin Square in Slavyansk, and Ms Davis' statement is palpably false. All she's proved here is that she doesn't know much about Slavyansk – but Galina Pyshnyak does.
Fourth claim – 'There are no bulletin boards on the main square in Slavyansk.' Well, I've never been to Slavyansk and can't vouch for the accuracy of this, but I couldn't help noticing the caption on this image from a now inactive Slavyansk webcam:
Yes, the 'central square' is indeed the same as Lenin Square (see here, for instance, and here) and if we take a closer look at that object on the right I'm bound to say it looks awfully like a bulletin board.
But let's be fair about this, and consider other options. The second crucifixion anecdote pointed out by Anatoly Shariy in Part 1 refers instead to an 'ad board', a 'sign for advertisements', which doesn't fit so well with this image. The only 'ad signs' in Feldman's video are so high as to be impractical for the purpose, and I think we should be looking for something more like the object in background here.
You'll recognize the benches and bins here, but the pictures are actually stills from that same episode of 'Russian Roulette' we discussed in Part 1, which shows these women collecting food and humanitarian aid – in Lenin Square, Slavyansk.
So much for Ms Davis' facts.
Fifth claim – 'The depravity of the story, allegedly witnessed by the entire town of Sloviansk, is enough to discount it as pure fiction.' Sorry, but – no. Of course it's hard to believe, any decent person would struggle with it, but we've already established in Part 1 that history is full of such depravity and it would be wilful to pretend it doesn't exist. Perhaps Ms Davis thinks with the Right Sector that the Holocaust is fiction too?
Sixth and last claim – Ms Davis' pièce de resistance from which she derives her headline: 'Russia's madman ideologue Dugin scripted fake baby crucifixion in Ukraine'. Her argument is that it was Dugin who first created the idea of a child crucifixion on his Facebook page, and that Galina is merely following his 'script'.
An interesting idea. Aleksandr Dugin is a nasty piece of work whose exhortations to 'Kill, Kill, Kill!' put him in the same murderous league as Yulia Tymoshenko, so if Ms Davis can indeed mark him as the instigator of the crucifixion story then that would certainly be very damaging.
Unfortunately she can't.
For a start, Dugin isn't the first to break this story, and Ms Davis isn't the first to spot the similarities. The version on Dugin's Facebook page is the same already quoted by Anatoly Shariy, and it's time we looked at it in detail.
The story purports to be an eyewitness account given in a garbled manner over the telephone. Here's the key section, with thanks to Marcel Sardo for translating the tricky bit in the middle:
'The Ukrainian forces entered the city, they had information about who is in the militia, they captured a woman, and tied a man by the legs to an armoured transport vehicle and dragged him alive around the square, then threw him all bloodied into the vehicle and took him away somewhere. Then people came to an apartment, took a six year-old boy, brought him to the square and nailed him to an advertisement info board and he was hanging there until the father, who was a militant, was brought there too. When the father came they shot the boy before his eyes. Igor and his daughter watched them do it, the girl had a stress so deep she started stammering, still can't speak properly, and she's twelve…'
This version appears three whole days before Galina's, yet both the main elements are there: someone being dragged behind a military vehicle, and a child being crucified in front of its parent. What does this mean, and what are the implications?
Whatever they are, this is most clearly NOT a 'script' as Ms Davis claims. Here the boy is six, where Galina's is three. Here the witness is the father, where Galina's is the mother. Here the child is shot, where Galina's takes an hour and a half to die. If this Facebook version was intended as a propaganda script, then why on earth did Galina tell such a wildly different story?
There has to be another explanation, and there are at least three to consider:
That neither story is true. Wild rumours circulated among the frightened inhabitants of Slavyansk, and some (including Galina and the source for the Facebook version) pretended to have witnessed them first hand. They might have done this for attention, or in a bid for Russia's sympathy and help.
That both stories arise from the same source, which might have been a real atrocity or perhaps only the threat of one. In that case Galina either decided independently to make it even more heart-rending, or didn't know the details and had to make up her own when she claimed to have witnessed it herself.
That there were two separate incidents. It's actually very rare to find an isolated atrocity of this type, and war crime investigators would typically expect to find others. If it seems strange Galina doesn't mention the first incident in her interview, we should note that her first interview makes a clear distinction between things she knows (the shootings) and the incident she saw herself (the crucifixion).
It would still help to find where the Facebook version originated – but it wasn't with Dugin. Ms Davis is again being economical with the truth when she says he posted on 8th July, since the timestamp on his Facebook page shows 9th July at 14.20 – and other people had already shared the story before that. Like this Yuri Golubev, for instance.
But the biggest irony is that if Ms Davis had actually bothered with real research instead of throwing random mud, she'd have found something quite as damaging as Dugin. I did, and since I'm more interested in truth than partisanship I'm happy to make her a present of it.
Golubev may have been the first individual to 'share' that Facebook story, but the source he linked back to was this, posted 8 minutes earlier:
It's a Russian organization for benefiting the State, and its home page defines their mission as 'to promote a positive image of Russia'. It's a private charity rather than a government body, but its purpose is still essentially propaganda.
That's about as damaging as it gets – but if we actually think about it, it stilldoesn't prove either story is false. Russian propagandists certainly made enormous play with Kiev's airstrike on Lugansk – but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. Such organizations highlight, exaggerate, distort and exploit genuine material all the time, and any story of this kind would have made it into their hands within minutes. They may have invented the Facebook story, they may have simply been told about it, but we can't yet be sure either way.
What we can be fairly sure about is that Galina's story didn't originate from here. If they'd wanted to invent a witness, surely they'd have coached one to say the story already broadcast – not to give a version so different it laid the entire concept open to suspicion. Surely they'd have planned the timing – but Galina's story so obviously took them by surprise that they didn't even have a Channel 1 team on the spot. That whole 'first interview, second interview' business smacks of amateur reality, and not the kind of streamlined affair we'd expect of professional propagandists.
So the jury's still out on Galina's story – but not, I'm afraid, on Julia Davis' attempt to debunk it. She may not be deliberately lying, it may simply be an unbelievably shoddy piece of research, but not a single statement stands up to scrutiny, and the effect of the whole piece is smug, hateful, and pervasively dishonest. She deserves credit for at least posting her opinions under her own name, but her work is consistently unreliable and she can't be recommended as a trustworthy source on Ukraine.
But I'm afraid she's not the worst.
Enter, hatchet in hand, Owen Matthews of the UK's The Spectator, who wants the Slavyansk Crucifixion to flesh out an article with the open-minded title of 'Vladimir Putin's Empire of Lies'. Here's what he makes of it.
Oh dear, oh dear. Let's pass swiftly over his repetition of the 'no Lenin Square' lie and regurgitation of the 'Game of Thrones' link (which at least he has the decency to admit is only rumour) and look at his terrible new accusations.
Most aren't actually accusations at all – merely repetition of known facts distorted to sound like crimes. Galina admitted openly in interview that her husband was fighting in the militia, so this is hardly an astonishing discovery. The fact he was also a former member of Berkut comes directly from the statement of the Kiev Interior Ministry, and the unpleasant slant given by the words 'notorious' and 'disbanded by Kiev' is a travesty of honest reporting. It's true the Berkut were accused of the Maidan sniper killings and disbanded in disgrace – but also true thatsubsequent investigations revealed the snipers were from the protestors rather than the police, and even the Kiev government has finally admitted the Berkut wereinnocent all along.
But what's really unfair is the central plank of this extraordinary attack – the revelation that Galina Pyshnyak from Skavyansk is really an actress from Obukhov called Galina Astapenko, which naturally implies her entire story is a fabrication. What's clever about this accusation is that there's really only one lie in it, but the whole thing is utterly, provably false.
Mr Matthews didn't bother to cite any sources for his revelations, but after completely failing to find any references, images, or IMdb listing for 'actress' Galina Astapenko, I did manage to retrieve an article which might have prompted his misleading statements:
Run this through Google Translate, and you'll see it doesn't actually make any of the claims reported. Galina did indeed used to be called 'Astapenko' – because that was the name of her first husband. Someone should tell Mr Matthews that quite a lot of women change their names when they marry or remarry, and it doesn't actually mean they're pretending to be somebody else.
Quite a lot of women move house too. The Kiev Interior Ministry has already confirmed Galina lived at Nikolayevka outside Slavyansk before she fled to Russia, and Galina already said in her interview that she originally came from the west. All this article does is confirm where she was living at the time of Maidan – and I really don't see anything wrong, criminal, or misleading in that.
But the killer blow would be if Galina were indeed an actress, since the story's strongest point is the power of her performance. But she wasn't. There's no trace of such an actress, and it would take a very eagle-eyed viewer indeed to recognize one who's never appeared in any film or television at all. Literally the only combination of the words 'Galina Astapenko' and 'actress' I could find are in this article, and the translated sentence looks like this:
She 'became' an actress for the story of Yulia Chumakova – the woman suspected of inventing the crucifixion story. In other words, the article only says that Galina is acting in the witness interview, not that she was one by trade or had ever done such a thing before. It is simply another way of saying 'she is a liar'.
The established facts then are these: Galina was married before to a man called 'Astrapenko' and she used to live near Kiev before she moved near Slavyansk. I try to be charitable, but can somebody please explain how an honest journalist could distort those facts into 'But sharp-eyed viewers recognized the 'refugee' as actress Galina Astapenko from Obukhov, near Kiev'?
But there's still one remaining claim – that 'according to recent posts on her social networking page' Galina is enjoying summer with her children. Well, how awful. How shocking to take away traumatized children who've been bombed by their own government for months and try to give them a nice time. But is it even true?
Galina's Vkontakte page is now inactive, but I managed to track down a screenshot of the final entries:
She last logged in on 11th July, the day of her interview. The only legible entry before that was on June 25th and merely shows activity from some online game. Dreadful, of course, for a woman in wartime to try and do anything so normal, but I don't myself see anything about 'enjoying summer' – and certainly nothing from the time she fled to Russia.
But Owen Matthews isn't the only one to exploit Galina's social media as if its mere existence is somehow wrong. Both the podrobnosti article and Julia Davis' piece have plundered it for past photographs, fostering the illusion that Galina Pyshnyak can't be the half-starved refugee she appears to be because the real woman actually looks like this.
It's ludicrous, of course – like trying to discredit a concentration camp survivor by showing happy pictures of them before the war – but there's no doubt the subliminal effect is somehow damaging, and 'damage' is what it's all about.
And that's shocking from The Spectator. Ms Davis has a clear political agenda, butThe Spectator used to be one of Britain's most highly respected publications, and Owen Matthews is an excellent writer whose 'Stalin's Children' I'd have previously recommended. What is going on here? What possible pressures could reduce them to publish something so deliberately and blatantly misleading?
Maybe they just didn't bother to research. They know there's a market for material demonizing Putin and Russia, and any old garbage will do. No-one's going to care enough to check what's written, and a poor refugee is in no position to sue anyway. Why waste time on a ludicrous allegation everyone already knows is a lie?
But they don't know, and that's why it simply has to be investigated. Substantial online debunking has failed to discredit even one single point of this story, and if anything it now looks more credible than before.
Here's what we've now established in the two parts of this mammoth post:
That Galina Pyshnyak is who she claims to be, did live where she claimed to live, and knows Slavyansk well enough to be familiar with Lenin Square – and its bulletin board.
That her husband was indeed fighting with the militia, which would have put her in danger exactly as she claims.
That she spoke the truth about only 'women and the elderly' being left in Slavyansk. That this was not the case when the soldiers first came (as we saw in the Russian Roulette episode) but does appear to be so now.
That the people of Slavyansk are clearly frightened, and very reluctant to say anything about their occupiers.
That other people have also talked (apparently independently) about a child crucifixion in Slavyansk. They may be lying, but they've talked about it – and before they could have seen Galina's interview.
That she has never been an actress, yet has turned in the kind of performance that wins Oscars.
None of this proves anything – except that there's surely enough to warrant investigation. I suspect the only obstacle is the inherent 'unlikeliness' of the story, but as I argued in Part 1 we know there are people in Ukraine more than capable of doing such a thing. In fact we know more than that – we know that they were there.
It's been kept very quiet, and I only stumbled over this one by accident when I was researching Lenin Square. On 8th July the BBC published a report by Steve Rosenberg on the liberation of Slavyansk, and near the end you'll find this one telling paragraph.
That chilled me. It was always hard to believe the ordinary Ukrainian army (many of them reluctant conscripts) would even contemplate such an atrocity – but the Right Sector were there on exactly the right day, and this is just the kind of thing I'd expect them to do.
You don't believe me? Have a look at this video they published way back in April, where they cut the throat of a former Donetsk police chief in his own bedroom – and in front of his own wife. But be warned – it's very graphic.
Maybe it's faked. Maybe. But Odessa wasn't faked, and they did that too. They even filmed themselves throwing molotov cocktails, smashing the doors down, kicking and mocking the bodies afterwards – they did it all without fear because they knew no-one would bother to investigate. The fact that they were right means they must be even more confident now.
If we ignore the Slavyansk Crucifixion then we're emboldening them even further. We're sending a message to Ukrainian forces that they can do whatever they like to the people they 'liberate', and no-one will ever punish them for it. We are giving them carte blanche to commit rape, torture and murder.
We MUST investigate this allegation properly, even if it proves to be false. If we don't – then the next one will be true.
« Part I: Investigating the Slavyansk Crucifixion
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Who will investigate this ?
Who can and who will?
Recall St. Simon of Trent, …. and others….
we KNOW but who can take it on?
Posted by sophiaheidler | Aug 9, 2014, 22:33
"What possible pressures could reduce them to publish something so deliberately and blatantly misleading?"
Well, the Anti-Russian Political Propaganda is working at 90% of the German Press and State Media by omitting, distorting and recomposing the truth, that I have lost all confidence and hope after reading most of the headlines alone. 'Kerry is angry about drunk Separatists at MH17 crash site!' Headlines like that, you know, in the most respected and serious newspaper 'Süddeutsche Zeitung'.
I tell you: something is really wrong on a large scale, right now – and for some time. We just did not notice.
Posted by Historian | Aug 10, 2014, 01:39
This is a brilliant piece of research, and very insightful analysis.
Ever since Galina came out with her explosive accusation of a war atrocity, her opponents have attempted to discredit her. That's okay, that's their job. But they keep changing their story. First they tried to cast doubt on the authenticity of her biography, her family origins in West Ukraine, etc. They said that she did not do a "proper" West Ukrainian accent, and that her mimicking of her mother's Carpathian accent was faked. They implied that she was a complete plant, some kind of Russian mole pretending to be from the Carpathian region.
Then, after they could no longer deny her Carpathian origins or her essential biography, as she told it, they started picking on extraneous matters, like her name change after her second marriage, issues with family problems, etc.
As you pointed out, if Galina's enemies could have proved that she was a professional actress, then they would have had a point.
But that "actress" meme turned out to be a lie, too.
I think Galina is telling the truth about what she saw. If she was an actress, she would have poured on the emotion. The emotional flatness she displays in her interview is exactly right for the victim of a trauma. As she says herself, "I have become a stone."
Posted by yalensis | Aug 10, 2014, 21:15
"The emotional flatness she displays in her interview is exactly right for the victim of a trauma. As she says herself, "I have become a stone.""
Yep, so true, @Yalensis.
TARAS BULBA REMAKE IS SET TO ROLL CAMERA IN CRIMEA
Hollywood Remake of a Ukrainian Hero Story
A late 2010 start date is scheduled for the film that is set to be filmed in the Crimea. Beverly Hills Film Studios is in talks to secure headliners for the lead parts of Taras Bulba, his son Andrei and a Polish Princess Christine. Action director, veteran filmmaker BJ Davis and Eddie Tantoco, VP of Global Finance for Starwood, are developing a slate of projects to be shot in the Ukraine. Davis worked extensively throughout Eastern Europe with his producer, screenwriter wife, Julia Davis – a Ukrainian native, who is set to scribe this epic remake. Julia Davis is an author of an award-winning film and a former stunt double for Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie.
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Filmmaker suing me over bad review
In case you haven't heard, director and producer BJ Davis and his wife Julia Davis want to sue me over a negative review I wrote of the mob comedy Forget About It.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080117055404/http://www.yourvideostoreshelf.com/index.php/20080114/filmmaker-suing-me-over-bad-review/
http://boingboing.net/2008/01/13/filmmakers-use-dmca.html
Review: Forget about it
Written by Ukrainian-born former model Julia Davis and directed by husband B.J. Davis, 20-plus years her senior, Forget About It plays partly like a spin-off of 2000's The Crew, crossed with… I don't know what, The Whole Nine Yards? The wiseguy face-off angles within the movie are stuff that's all been seen before, from True Romance to every rip-off down the line, and the comedy herein just doesn't fire.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fshareddarkness.com%2F2008%2F01%2F25%2Fforget%2Dabout%2Dit.aspx
Posted by ehnyah | Aug 16, 2014, 08:42
I just stumbled into this interview with two Slavyansk refugees who also mention the crucifixion, you might want to check it out: http://www.newkaliningrad.ru/news/community/4036933-v-9-let-u-rebenka-sedye-volosy-kak-zhivut-v-kaliningrade-bezhentsy-iz-slavyanska.html#pic3639851.
Posted by Yvonne Eckermann | Aug 18, 2014, 23:19
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is expected to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Singapore for the development of a high-speed rail (HSR) linking both countries by the middle of 2016, says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
"We expect to sign MoU in the middle of this year with Singapore," Najib said of the proposed HSR link with Singapore.
In his keynote address at the 12th Invest Malaysia (IMKL2016) here on Tuesday, Najib said the development projects under the 11th Malaysia Plan would remain unaffected despite the Government having to revise its Budget and cut spending in response to the drop in crude oil prices.
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BLOOMINGTON — Joy D. Sewell, 95 of Bloomington, passed away at Hearthstone Health Campus on Wednesday, January 6, 2021.
She was born in Brownstown, Indiana on October 20, 1925. Joy was the daughter of Meredith and Margaret (Barkman) Stewart. She married Earl Sewell and he preceded her in death in 2011. Joy worked as a receptionist at REMC during the 1940's for fifteen years and then decided to stay home to raise her family and become a farmers wife. Joy enjoyed being a member of the Brownstown Christian Church where she was the church organist for over sixty years. When she and Earl moved to Bloomington, she joined the Ellettsville Christian Church where she was a faithful member, there every Sunday. Joy spread the word and uplifted many people in the community with her letters and greeting cards she would send out. She cheered many people through good times and bad with these letters and left an indelible mark on so many.
Joy is survived by her son, Matthew Sewell and his wife, Beth of Ellettsville; grandchildren, Joan Miles and her husband, Bret, Jana Chafin, and Joy Sewell.
She was preceded in death by her parents and husband, Earl Sewell.
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Two unidentifiable armed men dressed as security guards on Thursday night robbed the GTT outlet at Giftland Mall of $13.4 million in cash and $6 million in cheques.
The Guyana Police Force's (GPF) Corporate Communications Unit (CCU) said that the robbery occurred at about 21:45h, by the men, who were dressed in uniform used by a private security service that usually uplifts money from the outlet when it closes.
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ADDISON COUNTY — In local high school soccer action earlier this week the Otter Valley girls won, the Mount Abraham girls earned a home tie, while the Eagle and Otter boys came up short on the road.
The Vergennes boys visited Middlebury on Tuesday.
The Commodore and Tiger girls were scheduled to host games on Wednesday after the deadline for this edition.
The Otter girls won at Bellows Falls on Tuesday, 3-0, as high-scoring midfielder Olivia White recorded a first-half hat trick before leaving with what Coach John White described as an ankle bruise. Lauren Konarski set up two of the goals, and Mary Kingsley assisted the third.
The Otters improved to 5-6 with their fourth win in five outings.
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The Daniel Jones Memorial Building, shown here in 1914, was built in 1888 as part of Presbyterian Hospital. Located at Wood Street and Congress Parkway, it is the oldest building on the Rush campus.
Want to know more about Rush's legacy? Contact the Rush Archives!
The Rush Archives is the historical voice of Rush University Medical Center and its predecessor institutions. It is located in the basement level of the Triangle Office Building, and it holds a large collection of papers and artifacts from Rush's past.
Rush Archivists bring Rush's history to the public. There are Rush Archives exhibits in four campus locations. Currently, the exhibit, "Battling for the Honor of 'Old Rush': Sports at Rush Medical College, 1892-1904" is on display in the Rush Library, on the 5th floor of the Armour Academic Center.
In addition, an exhibit of materials drawn by Steven Economou, M.D., is on display just outside of Room 500 in the Professional Building. The hallway outside of the Archives in the basement level of the Triangle Office Building includes an exhibit of postcards from Rush's past, a selection of materials from medical advertisements, and a hallway of photographs featuring scenes from Rush's past.
Leaders of the 1900 Rush Medical College football team. Most material in "Battling for the Honor of Old Rush" was donated by Mary Harding, whose grandfather, John E. Schwendener, is on the left.
The Archives has digitized a portion of its collection. If you would like to see a selection of Rush documents for yourself, you can explore the Archives' growing digital library on the Rush Archives Web site.
The Archives is open to researchers, by appointment, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Archivists Heather Stecklein and Nathalie Wheaton can answer questions about events and individuals associated with this institution since Rush Medical College was chartered in 1837. You can contact the Archives at Rush_Archives@rush.edu or at (312) 942-7214.
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