It is time to make up the balance after being abroad for more then 300 days. However, in this article I want to reflect on the inner journey instead of the actual trip. Where there any spiritual or mental changes during these 300 days? Can I speak of inner growth? Was it a good idea to exchange the safe harbor for an unpredictable sea? Am I happier when I travel or when I stay home?
It is important to reserve some time for reflection during long journeys. At such moments, I advice you to write an overview of your thoughts and experiences. What are the benefits of your current lifestyle, and what are the problems that you encounter? What better way is there then to write it all down. Here are some personal growth lessons, which I gained during my 300 days abroad.
A traveler needs to learn to be patient. The challenge to be patient provides itself in many forms. For example, traveling often means waiting. At airports, at bus stations, at border crossings, during flights etc. The real challenge starts when you finally arrive at your new destination. Already on boiling point, you often have to deal with all kinds of people that want or need something from you. They can greatly increase the patience challenge.
I did my fair share of waiting and dealing with annoying people (who, at their turn, can be very patient in slow cooking your remaining sanity). I can still be impatient but long term travelling numbs that feeling. You start to accept that it is part of the deal. I say this to myself every time I am about to lose my mind. Sometimes it works, sometimes I end up in a police cell..
A roof above your head. A bed under your body. Healthy and rich food on the table. Friends and family members who care about you. A place you can call home. The longer I travel the more I start to realize how important these things are in a person's life. I might not give them much thoughts when they are present, but I think about them a lot when they are out of reach.
I often say it to myself with a slight feeling of disbelief, am I really doing it? Yes, I am really doing it! I am following my dream of traveling around the world and living abroad. It puts a smile on my face every time I think about it. Now I feel really lucky and blessed that I have the opportunity to live this kind of life. I truly appreciate this amazing gift.
Trips to less developed and poorer countries always make me appreciate what I have. I am able to travel the world. I have a lot of free time, and I can use that time to do fun things. Not everybody receives those opportunities. I often realize how blessed I am when I see people who have to work for pennies everyday of the week, or really poor beggars who have to live on the street.
I used to nag a lot back home, but really, I have nothing to complain about. I am living an amazing live. However, I try not to brag about it to much. During my travels, I am often confronted with the hardships of less fortunate people. Seeing them suffer made me decide to create charity projects in the countries that I visit. I also try to become a more humble person.
I thought we had to work hard in the Netherlands. That our lives where tough and that we did not earn enough money. I used to open my mouth about those "problems", and out of my mouth came complaints. In Thailand, I got a much needed lesson in humbleness. Life in the Netherlands was not so bad after all. I learned to listen instead of to talk. To give instead of to take.
As you might have noticed, a lot of my inner reflections are focused on confrontations with poverty and the hardships of other people. I guess coming from a "rich" and western country, it can sometimes be a shock and an eye opener to learn about the daily reality on the other side of the world.
Personal growth will emerge from that knowledge. You learn to be humble and appreciate what you have. You learn to care for others and to be more patient. Combine these positive changes with feelings of freedom and you know why you have to make that inner journey. That is why I encourage people to travel and why I will continue to write about it.
How did you mentally change while traveling? Which great insights, skills and abilities did you gain during your trip?
Mythic stories and inner growth: A great article from Jonathan Young. How adventure stories and mythic tales show us the important challenges of the journey. During our journey we change and gain knowledge. We leave, learn and eventually return as a wiser person.
My charity project: I made it my goal to start a charity project in every country that visit for a longer period. On this page you can read about my current charity efforts in Thailand.


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Irish Seedsavers Association - This conservation organisation dedicated to the preservation of Ireland's special and disappearing varieties of fruit, grains and vegetables, provides background information, details of projects, membership and sponsorship notes, and event and contact data.
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Irish Triathlon Association (ITA) - Supports Ireland and Northern Ireland triathlon, duathlon and multisport events and athletes though race calendar, events and results, photos, news, photo gallery.
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These Bull's Heads #5 , #7 and #9 will be on display this Friday night at Bike Culture: A Creative Riding Event. The Lemon Drop Gallery, 416 West Commercial Street, First Friday's Artwalk.
Bull's Head #9, #7 and #5 will be on display Friday night, Bike Culture: A Creative Riding Event at the Lemon Drop Gallery at 416 West Commercial Street for First Friday's Artwalk.


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Preston's Jack Armer heads out on loan to Lancaster
Preston handed a professional contract to defender Jack Armer at the end of last season, feeling he has a bright future.
A Scotland Under-17 international, Armer has been a regular in North End's youth setup. A centre back or left back, there are hopes that Armer can eventually push towards the first team at Deepdale.
For now though, Armer needs playing time. The 18-year-old won't be featuring for Alex Neil's side this season, so getting him out on loan was always likely to be a priority.
Now, it seems that Armer is heading down to the seventh tier of English football, joining Lancaster City on loan. This is of course the same move Josh Earl made in 2017 before becoming a first-team player.
Lancaster City strips hanging in the home dressing room. (Photo by Colin McPherson/Corbis via Getty Images)
Lancaster boss Mark Fell has spoken to the Lancaster Guardian about the move, revealing that Armer played as a trialist for the club against Barrow on Tuesday.
Fell has confirmed that a three-month deal has been done for Armer, having branded his trial display 'brilliant'.
"Jack played as a trialist on Tuesday night, he played at left-back and was brilliant," said Fell. "He is a young lad who we have taken on loan from Preston. That deal has been done," he added.
Armer's crossing ability was praised too, with striker Jason Walker suggesting he hasn't received such quality service in years.
Hopefully Armer gets plenty of playing time at the Giant Axe, aiding his development. It seems Fell – a former North End academy coach – is excited about Armer, which can only bode well for Preston.
Kyle Lafferty leaves Rangers, a year since Alex Neil allegedly wanted him at PNE


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Researchers Generate Long-Lasting Blood Vessels from Reprogrammed Human Cells
The ability to regenerate or repair blood vessels could make a crucial difference in the treatment of cardiovascular disease…and other conditions caused by blood vessel damage, such as the vascular complications of diabetes.
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have used vascular precursor cells derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to generate, in an animal model, functional blood vessels that lasted as long as 9 months. In their report, the investigators describe using iPSCs – reprogrammed adult cells that have many of the characteristics of embryonic stem cells – from both healthy adults and from individuals with type 1 diabetes to generate blood vessels on the outer surface of the brain or under the skin of mice.
"The discovery of ways to bring mature cells back to a 'stem-like' state that can differentiate into many different types of tissue has brought enormous potential to the field of cell-based regenerative medicine, but the challenge of deriving functional cells from these iPSCs still remains," says Rakesh Jain, PhD, director of the Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology at MGH and co-senior author of the study. "Our team has developed an efficient method to generate vascular precursor cells from human iPSCs and used them to create networks of engineered blood vessels in living mice."
The ability to regenerate or repair blood vessels could make a crucial difference in the treatment of cardiovascular disease – which continues to be the number one cause of death in the U.S. – and other conditions caused by blood vessel damage, such as the vascular complications of diabetes. In addition, providing a vascular supply to newly-generated tissue remains one of the greatest barriers facing efforts to build solid organs through tissue engineering.
Several previous studies have generated from iPSCs the types of cells required to build blood vessels – endothelial cells that line vessels and connective tissue cells that provide structural support – but those cells could not form long-lasting vessels once introduced into animal models. "The biggest challenge we faced during the early phase of this project was establishing a reliable protocol to generate endothelial cell lines that produced great quantities of precursor cells that could generate strong, durable blood vessels," says co-senior author Dai Fukumura, MD, PhD, also of the Steele Lab.
The MGH team adapted a method originally used to derive endothelial cells from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). But while that method used a single protein marker to identify vascular progenitors, the researchers sorted out iPSC-derived cells that expressed not only that protein but also two other protein markers of vascular potential. They then expanded that population using a culture system that team members had previously developed to differentiate endothelial cells from hESCs and confirmed that only iPSC-derived cells expressing all three markers generated endothelial cells with the full potential of forming blood vessels.
To test the capacity of those cells to generate functional blood vessels, they implanted onto the surface of the brains of mice a combination of the iPSC-derived endothelial precursor cells expressing the three markers with the mesenchymal precursors that generate essential structural cells. Within 2 weeks, the implanted cells had formed networks of blood-perfused vessels that appeared to function as well as adjacent natural vessels and continued to function for as long as 280 days in the living animals. While implantation of the combined precursor populations under the skin of the animals also generated functional blood vessels, it required implantation of five times more cells, and the vessels were short-lived, an observation consistent with the team's previous studies of vessel generation in these two locations.
Because patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D), which can damage blood vessels, could benefit from the ability to make new blood vessels, the researchers wanted to determine whether iPSCs derived from the cells of such patients could help generate functional blood vessels. As with cells from healthy individuals, precursors derived from T1D-iPSCs were able to generate functional, long-lasting blood vessels. However, the researchers note, different lines of the T1D-iPSCs – including different lines derived from the same patient – showed differences in cell-generating potential, indicating the need to better understand the underlying mechanisms.
"The potential applications of iPSC-generated blood vessels are broad – from repairing damaged vessels supplying the heart or brain to preventing the need to amputate limbs because of the vascular complication of diabetes," says co-lead author Rekha Samuel, MD, formerly of the Steele Laboratory and now at the Christian Medical College, Vellore, India. "But first we need to deal with such challenges as the variability of iPSC lines and the long-term safety issues involved in the use of these cells, which are being addressed by researchers around the world. We also need better ways of engineering the specific type of endothelial cell needed for specific organs and functions."
Illustration: Laser microscopy image shows iPSC-generated endovascular cells in green, connective tissue cells in blue and red blood cells in red. –PNAS/doi/10.1073/pnas.1310675110.
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[On screen text: All members in this video are proudly serving the Canadian Armed Forces. The missions, operations and tactics are all real. "From core stems agility" – Colonel Jeannot "Butch" Boucher]
[Various clips of CH-146 Griffon and CH-147F Chinook in action. Quick flashes of a soldier looking up at a helicopter flying by, soldiers and aircrew in the back of a helicopter, a door gun and aircraft flares.]
I'm an Aviation Systems Technician. My job is to fix tactical helicopters in the Canadian Armed Forces. It's been said "If you love what you do you'll never work a day in your life" - well I love what I do and wake up every morning grateful I get to do what I love; and that's serving my country. A man once asked me "What is it that you do all day?! I mean Canada isn't at war? So what do tactical helicopters really do?"
It's true, most people don't know what we do or how we do it. I mean how does one go about protecting the second largest country in the world!? Well that's the role of 1 Wing Tactical Aviation!
Responsible for all Canadian Forces Tactical Helicopter Squadrons across Canada, 1 Wing is the central nervous system of it all.
1 Wing provides reconnaissance, mobility and firepower in support of both domestic and international operations.
Headquartered in CFB Kingston, 1 Wing is made up 7 highly distinguished and elite helicopter squadrons.
[Map of squadron locations]
400 Squadron Borden, Ontario
403 Squadron Gagetown, New Brunswick
408 Squadron Edmonton, Alberta
427 Squadron Petawawa, Ontario
430 Squadron Valcartier, Quebec
438 Squadron St-Hubert, Quebec
[Various clips of CH-146 Griffon and CH-147F Chinook in action.]
Combining regular and reserve forces, 1 Wing represents 1,625 personnel.
In order to be a leader, one must always prepare its members physically, mentally and professionally to meet the highly anticipated challenges in the complex world we live in.
The threat to global peace, security, and stability is not only constantly evolving, but also expanding.
Recognized as a vital instrument within the Canadian Armed Forces. 1 Wing Command Staff continuously develop new strategies to support ongoing military and humanitarian missions around the world. Collaborating with allied nations to ensure Canada stays on par with today's growing needs.
[CH-146 Griffon helicopter flying over rice paddies.]
Optimized for maximum capabilities – 1 Wing relies on 2 types of helicopters to best serve its country's defence: the Griffon CH-146 and the Chinook CH-147F.
Both used at home and abroad for;
Combat Airlift
Logistical Transport
Firefighting Support
[Various clips showing the capabilities of the Griffon CH-146]
The Griffon CH-146 is a Utility Tactical Transport Helicopter whose primary role is tactical transportation of troops and materials. While deployed in Afghanistan, the Griffon played a key role in many large scale operations, helping to reduce the risk of exposing personnel to life-threatening ambushes, land mines, and improvised explosive devices.
The Griffon can also be equipped with:
Night-Sun
Aircraft Survivability Equipment
Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare Suite
WESCAM MX15 electro-optical/Infrared Sensor
and Air Weapons Suite
A variety of self-defence weapons can also be fitted for deployed operations. The aircraft can carry up to 15 people (two pilots, a flight engineer and up to 12 passengers) and has a maximum aircraft gross weight of nearly 5,400 kilograms. The Griffon can reach speeds up to 260 kilometres per hour.
[Various clips showing the capabilities of the Chinook CH-147F]
The CH-147F Chinook is an advanced multi-mission helicopter with medium to heavy-lift capabilities. Used to transport equipment and personnel during domestic and deployed operations, the CH-147F has increased internal fuel capacity, allowing it to fly twice as far as previous models.
These impressive workhorse helicopters are a dramatic improvement from the earlier models, reaching maximum speeds of 315 km/h and a total carrying capacity of 38 people, giving a total gross weight of 24,500 kg. The versatility, capacity, and extended range of the Chinook make it ideal for operating in challenging environments.
At home the F-model Chinooks provide logistical and mobility support to the Canadian army, law enforcement, Special Forces, and civil authorities.
[360˚ view of the F-model Chinook while on the ground]
Equipped with enhanced self-protection capability, including:
Advanced Anti-Missile Protection Systems
Radar and laser Warning Systems
Self-Defence Machine Guns
Advanced Electro-Optical and Infrared Sensors
[Various clips of technicians working on CH-146 and CH-147F]
Our technicians work hard around the clock to meet the high demands of operations, striving to keep every aircraft airworthy and safe, paying very close attention to each detail, while fully-aware of the responsibility resting in their hands.
Our teams include
Aviation Systems,
Avionics Systems,
Aircraft Structures and
Air Weapons Systems.
Regardless of rank or trade, all-members must go through rigorous levels of training. This is a critical step to becoming a qualified professionals in their respective fields, always ready to respond at a moment's notice on behalf of the nation.
[CH-147F Chinook helicopter flies overhead.]
[Various clips of pilots in training]
Pilots are trained by military and civilian instructors following one of the world's most comprehensive training programs for the Chinook helicopters. Our new training facility includes advanced simulators which help prepare Chinook aircrew-members handle any situation.
[Screen goes dark, followed by the green image of night vision goggles.]
Covert missions are sometimes conducted under a blanket of darkness.
Pilots, Flight Engineers, Load Masters and Door Gunners are suited with state-of-the-art night vision goggles, giving them the ability to fly in pitch black conditions. Once airborne these helicopters become an agile, responsive, concealed airpower over the enemy.
[Screen goes dark. Then an image of a shoulder badge on a uniform and a helicopter starting in a desert camp.]
[Various clips of CH-146 Griffon and CH-147F Chinook in action and soldiers preparing for deployment.]
Before every deployment, mission or operation - people wonder what we think about or what goes through our minds just before stepping out, onto that airfield. I'll tell you what we think about we think about, our friends, our families, that little league baseball game or ballet recital we wish we saw.
A successful mission means we get to go back home to those who mean the most to us.
For some people we're brave, for others we're loyal, even heroes!
For Canada we are 1 Wing Tactical Aviation!
[Badge and photos of two fallen crew (Master Corporal Pat Audet and Corporal Martin Joanette). The badge says "Jo Pat Je me souviens."]
[On screen text: Dedicated to Master Corporal Pat Audet and Corporal Martin Joanette National Defense logo
This has been a Royal Canadian Air Force production
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"What do you think about this," said Jack, directing my attention with his index finger to some point of a folded-up page of a newspaper.
I wasn't sure what he was driving at so I said "at first glance, I'd say you have recently cut them, and I don't see any dirt under your fingernails, and ..."
"Cut the crap," said Jack. "Read the article."
So I started to read. It was a puff piece about a society event to benefit some charity. A couple of pictures of elegantly dressed men and women, and along-side, in bold, the names of some prominent folk.
I said "Jack what do you want me to say?"
Jack said "Don't you think it's kind of ironic that these people are spending a lot of money just to dress up and be seen? Think of all that extra money they now spend on the hall and the dinner and the dancing, to say nothing of all the new dresses the women are wearing. If they'd skipped all that, the charity would have been a lot richer!"
"Jack," I said, "You're right, I'm sure. But I'm equally sure that if there had been no dinner, no dancing and no photographs, and no prospect of an article in the newspaper, the charity wouldn't even have got the money it's now getting. Big-time charity is part show business and a good measure of ostentation. And think of some of the other spin-offs of a charity ball: think of all those people that were employed to stage that event -- the cooks, the waiters, the musicians, the cleaning staff. It all helps keep the economy going. I guess Ronald Reagan would have pointed out the "trickle-down effect".
Jack said: "I betcha all those trickles don't add up to the cost of one of those fancy dresses."
I said: "You're probably right.
Jack said: "Actually, what I find most galling about charity is the naming of a building after some affluent member of society. Here is so-and-so giving, say, two million dollars and he gets a hospital wing named after him, when you and I and a few million other plain folks have to cough up the remaining 198 million for that building. The least I'd expect is that some overt acknowledgment be given to the huge public participation. Much the way PBS, after listing its high-profile corporate sponsors, says that the particular program was also made possible by 'viewers like you'. On the other hand, as someone said -- and I wish I could remember who -- "there's no end of good you can do if you don't insist on taking credit for it". Those are the best donors, the anonymous ones."
I said "Still, any charitable gift is better than no gift at all."
Jack said "And who said that?"
I said "You heard me. You want to hear another good quote?"
"Sure," said Jack, "if it isn't going to cost me any money."
I said "This one I remember from ... oh, it must have been in the late fifties or early sixties. It was a little blurb under the masthead of MAD magazine. I can't recall it exactly, but it went something like this: 'when a rich man give some of his money to charity, he is called a philanthropist; if he gives back all of it, he's called a reformed crook.'"
Jack said "That takes care of a lot of the world's great industrialists who made their money by less than ethical means," and he proceeded to list some of the great names of the North American establishment. He shook his head in dismay at the thought.
There was a long pause, as Jack and I attended to the more mundane matter of consuming our lunch, thereby playing our picayune part in keeping the economy going.
"Remember one time," said Jack, "we were going into The Bay downtown, when that smiling panhandler opened the door for us, as if he was a doorman at the Chateau Laurier?"
I said, "Yes, I remember."
"It's always nice," said Jack, "when you can give a few coins to someone who actually tries to earn it. The fellow who opened the door for us probably didn't have any marketable talent, I suppose; couldn't sing, couldn't dance, couldn't play an instrument ... at least he was smart enough to figure out something by which he could earn some change. But what about those poor souls, who don't have the mental wherewithal to figure out that kind of little scam?"
I said "I guess, they need help even more, although I'd think that most people would think otherwise."
"You've hit the nail on the head," said Jack, who is probably the most charitable person I know. You deserve an 'attaboy'.
I said "an ATTABOY?"
"Yes," said Jack, "An 'attaboy'. That's the amount of praise you've earned to get you a tap on the head, a slap on the back, or, if you're a football player, a pat on the behind. But only on the football field, and only if you're wearing one of those nice tight-fitting uniforms. And only if there's a large crowd. Otherwise people might get the wrong idea."
Neither Jack, to my knowledge, nor I have ever played football, and we're too old to start now. Jack tapped me on the head.
I said "Jack, that 'attaboy' reminds me of something I came across a long time ago. It was the definition of "a troy".
"Well," said Jack, "what is a 'troy'?"
I said "A 'troy' is the amount of beauty required to launch one ship! I've also heard it referred to as a milliHelen."
It took a beat or two but then Jack said "I get it -- Christopher Marlowe."
I said "Atta boy!"
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FRANKFURT — In a tiny booth at the book fair here, the German publisher Heinrich Berenberg, a gray, slender, cheerful man, was chatting with Thomas Geiger, a middle-aged colleague in sweater and jeans. Berenberg Verlag publishes literary memoirs and biographies, about seven or eight a year. It is a four-year-old firm. Mr. Geiger oversees programming for a society called the Literary Colloquium in Berlin. He was recalling his childhood in a West German industrial town.
Drugs for the body. Books for the mind and soul. If you want proof that a cultural divide separates Europe and America, the book business is a place to start. In the United States chain stores have largely run neighborhood bookshops out of business. Here in Germany, there are big and small bookstores seemingly on every block. The German Book Association counts 4,208 bookstores among its members. It estimates that there are 14,000 German publishers. Last year 94,716 new titles were published in German. In the United States, with a population nearly four times bigger, there were 172,000 titles published in 2005.
Germany's book culture is sustained by an age-old practice requiring all bookstores, including German online booksellers, to sell books at fixed prices. Save for old, used or damaged books, discounting in Germany is illegal. All books must cost the same whether they're sold over the Internet or at Steinmetz, a shop in Offenbach that opened its doors in Goethe's day, or at a Hugendubel or a Thalia, the two big chains.
What results has helped small, quality publishers like Berenberg. But it has also — American consumers should take note — caused book prices to drop. Last year, on average, book prices fell 0.5 percent.
Now this system is under threat from, of all people, the Swiss. Just across the border, the Swiss lately decided to permit the discounting of German books — a move that some in the book trade here fear will eventually force Germany itself to follow suit, transforming a diverse and book-rich culture into an echo of big-chain America.
If you're a skeptic, you might associate fixed pricing with a German impulse toward conformity and an aversion to traditional haggling cultures. A German will stare blankly at you if you even suggest such a thought. Instead they will stress the special place books have in society.
The fixed-price system is not unique to Germany. France had it, gave it up and reinstituted it after finding that discounting hurt small booksellers. But in the German-speaking book world, the system has long been a source of special pride until Switzerland jumped ship this spring.
Despite vigorous lobbying from German and Swiss publishers and independent booksellers, the Swiss government sustained a ruling by the Swiss Competition Commission to overturn the fixed-price law and allow discounting there.
It's still early, but some Swiss prices have since gone up. Discounts for best sellers are forcing Swiss booksellers to raise the prices for other books.
Are they right? I asked.
It's what nearly everybody here told me. "This is existential to us," said Arnulf Conradi, a retired publisher, who founded Berlin Verlag.
French publishers offset Swiss discounting by charging Swiss booksellers more than French ones, a move that German publishers might emulate.
Meanwhile, opinion is divided about what the Swiss decision will mean in Germany. Michael Naumann, a longtime publisher and editor, now running for mayor of Hamburg, as Germany's culture minister some years back won a battle with the European Union to protect Germany's fixed-price system. He's not too worried, he said.
"The fixed book price has worked for more than a century and has provided us with the most competitive book industry, something the market ideologues don't quite understand," he said.
But Elisabeth Ruge sounds fearful. She runs Berlin Verlag, the German publisher of Richard Ford and of the English-language edition of the most recent "Harry Potter," which has sold more than one million copies here. It's not just the Swiss market, she said, but especially the growth of the German chain stores that troubles her.
"Small literary bookshops here sell our books and other literary books," she explained. "The chain stores don't even see our sales reps anymore." Her representatives visit 2,600 independent bookshops in Germany, three times every year.
That's what any American publisher would say, but here, Germans as a nation believe publishing quality books to be a cultural obligation.
I stopped at Marga Schoeller's shop in Berlin. Thomas Rodig, a tweedy, soft-spoken man, helps run it. The store was founded in 1929, then became the first bookstore to reopen in West Berlin after the war, the place where Auden, Beckett, Eliot, Mann and Hesse came to read and hang out. It's now a quiet rabbit warren, catering to loyal patrons in the neighborhood.
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My fellow attendees walked out of the cinema with grins on their faces — "a superb black comedy!" "uplifting!" "they were resilient!" — while I left in a fug of depression, convinced both families were locked into their respective prisons (one gilded, one grimy) doomed to fight their private battles in the tight limitations of capitalism. It seems Bong had ambitions of provoking both responses, a serious commentary and a work of farce. Clearly he has succeeded. But, as you may also feel about the cultural appropriation of native American tropes near the end, I have reservations.
PARASITE's key shortcoming is its failure to properly engage with the poor family's poverty. They are so hard up as to have had all their phones disconnected, and so beaten down by their situation that they lie around their semi-basement in a stupor. Then, when the plot-driving opportunity to tutor a rich student presents itself, they suddenly have access to a hair and wardrobe department — actually, the daughter's locks are fabulous from the first scene — and the iron confidence of high-stakes scammers. At that benighted level of society, tasks like getting a new phone contract take on Herculean impossibility, let alone showing up at a prospective employer's workplace with a suit, a tie, and a memorised script to convince the rich man you belong in the support structure of his world.
I never believed their situation was as desperate as it looked because they were able to extract themselves from it so easily. When they do literally lose everything, they are back on their feet within hours. It's too convenient.
Pity, because so much about this film is compelling. I could almost feel the impersonal chill of that art gallery of a home, the expensive fabric draped around the rich mother's shoulders — who, incidentally, is the most complete and consistent character, also in a stupor when introduced. The schemes to establish the illusion are superbly executed. A scene in which a character smokes a cigarette on a toilet achieves a rare and ugly beauty. The film's final lines beautifully express the fantasy of overcoming poverty while also addressing how much easier it ought to be.
I just wish it had tried harder to examine the reality of life in the underclass, especially as it tosses the rich family to the curb in its final act. Which suggests Bong, himself a rich man, is on the side of the poor, disinterested in telling the full story of what our society does to the wealthy, desperate to present how it keeps so many people down, but not sufficiently motivated to tackle the paralysing breadth of their predicament.
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Even if guilty of contempt, Tesla's Elon Musk unlikely to get harsh penalty, experts say
SEC likely wants Tesla CEO's violations for the record — and for potential future penalties
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DETROIT — For about four months, Elon Musk behaved, adhering to the terms of a court settlement that required his prolific posts on Twitter to be approved by a lawyer if there were a chance they could mislead investors.
Then came 13 words on Feb. 19 saying that Tesla would produce around 500,000 vehicles this year — a tweet that wasn't blessed by the person in charge of baby-sitting Musk's Twitter account.
U.S. stock market regulators noticed the inaccurate post, and discovered that Tesla's "disclosure counsel" summoned Musk to the company's California factory to help write a correction four hours later. The company would make vehicles at a rate of 500,000 per year, but it wouldn't produce a half-million in 2019.
On Monday, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a motion asking that Musk be held in contempt of court for tweeting without approval. Now, the Tesla CEO and his lawyers have some explaining to do. A federal judge in New York has ordered Musk to file a legal brief by March 11 explaining why he isn't in contempt for violating the court-approved settlement in the tweet to his 25 million followers.
Experts who follow the SEC say there's little doubt that Musk violated the terms, approved Oct. 16 by District Judge Alison Nathan in New York. She'll decide if Musk disobeyed the judgment and if he should be punished further. Musk and Tesla each paid $20-million fines for previous tweets about taking the company private when Musk didn't have the funding locked up to do it.
Legal experts who follow the SEC say it's unlikely that Musk will be punished severely, even though he antagonized the agency in tweets Monday night and Tuesday that have since been deleted. "Something is broken with SEC oversight," one of the deleted tweets said.
Still, the SEC, according to experts, merely wants to get on the court record that Musk violated the terms and prepare for future violations.
"They're looking at this as strike two," said Peter Henning, a law professor at Wayne State University in Detroit and a former SEC lawyer. "If he were to do it again, then they would go after him much more strongly," possibly by seeking to bar him from being CEO and a company officer, Henning said.
Although it's up to the judge, jail time for civil contempt isn't likely, but Musk could be fined again, the experts said. But the SEC likely doesn't expect anything other than a "humiliating hearing and a scolding," said James Cox, a professor of corporate and securities law at Duke University. "My guess is the judge is not going to throw the book at him, but she's certainly going to throw a lot of heavy words at him."
The errant Feb. 19 tweet isn't egregious enough to bring severe punishment, and it's clear the SEC isn't seeking a huge penalty because it didn't seek to void the agreement and prosecute Musk, said Jay Dubow, a partner with Pepper Hamilton LLP and co-chair of the law firm's financial services enforcement group.
"At this point they're only asking for a finding of contempt," he said.
Before the SEC filed its motion, Musk's New York attorneys sent a letter to the SEC denying that Musk violated the agreement. Musk believed his tweet said the same thing as subject matter approved by the lawyer for Tesla's Jan. 30 earnings release, the lawyers wrote. Plus, the Feb. 19 tweet was posted at 7:15 p.m. Eastern time and corrected later, all when markets were closed, they wrote.
But the SEC motion said Tesla's lawyers confirmed that the tweet had not been pre-approved. Moreover, Tesla's policies require Musk to re-confirm any approval for communications that take place more than two days after the initial blessing. Musk's Feb. 19 tweet came 20 days after the lawyer approved the company's earnings release. "Musk's admission that he failed to seek or obtain pre-approval is clear and convincing evidence of the violation," the SEC lawyers wrote.
While the tweet was posted and corrected after U.S. markets closed, regulators won't care much because stocks are traded nearly around the clock these days, Cox said. Tesla's stock rose by just $1.10, or less than 1%, the next day.
The contempt proceedings are a possible explanation of why Tesla's top lawyer left the company the day after the Feb. 19 tweet and after only two months on the job, Cox said. General Counsel Dane Butswinkas returned to a Washington, D.C., law firm, another in a long string of executive departures from the company. Tesla and Butswinkas declined comment on Tuesday.
Experts say Musk is within his First Amendment rights to criticize the SEC, as long as his tweets don't influence the stock price.
It's clear, though, that the SEC notices Musk's comments. It included in the contempt filing that Musk showed disdain for the agency in a Dec. 9 interview with CBS' "60 Minutes."
The SEC pointed out that during interview, Musk declared: "I want to be clear. I do not respect the SEC," although he did say he would obey the settlement out of respect for the justice system.
Musk's behavior is an indicator that he'll likely run afoul of the SEC again, regardless of any finding by Judge Nathan, said Erik Gordon, a law and business professor at the University of Michigan. "Musk just will not constrain himself," Gordon said.


When Uday Challu noticed a growing dissatisfaction with avenues for technical support, he was inspired to create a better way for people to get help with their tech troubles. So in 2007 he founded iYogi.com, India's first direct-to-consumer remote technical support company. Founded on a belief in good karma, iYogi aims to mitigate frustrations with technical products and services by delivering a high-quality customer service experience.
iYogi provides round-the-clock, 24-hour service on a wide variety of technical products and issues, in Australia, Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. Uday uses Google AdWords to reach these international customers.
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SEC Charges Cognizant and Two Former Executives With FCPA Violations
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Washington D.C., Feb. 15, 2019 —
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation has agreed to pay $25 million to settle charges that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and two of the company's former executives were charged for their roles in facilitating the payment of millions of dollars in a bribe to an Indian government official.
The Securities and Exchange Commission's complaint alleges that in 2014, a senior government official of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu demanded a $2 million bribe from the construction firm responsible for building Cognizant's 2.7 million square foot campus in Chennai, India. As alleged in the complaint, Cognizant's President Gordon Coburn and Chief Legal Officer Steven E. Schwartz authorized the contractor to pay the bribe, and directed their subordinates to conceal the bribe by doctoring the contractor's change orders. The SEC also alleges that Cognizant authorized the construction firm to make two additional bribes totaling more than $1.6 million. Cognizant allegedly used sham change order requests to conceal the payments it made to reimburse the firm.
"Bribery to further corporate goals is an illusory path to long-term success. While always the wrong choice, it is particularly egregious when senior executives chart that course for those they lead, as our complaint alleges here. We are committed to holding them accountable for their actions," said Charles E. Cain, Chief of the SEC Enforcement Division's FCPA Unit.
The SEC charged Coburn and Schwartz with violating anti-bribery, books and records, and internal accounting controls provisions of the federal securities laws. The SEC is seeking permanent injunctions, monetary penalties, and officer-and-director bars against Coburn and Schwartz.
The SEC's order as to Cognizant found that the company violated Sections 30A, 13(b)(2)(A) and 13(b)(2)(B) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which are anti-bribery, books and records, and internal accounting controls provisions of the federal securities laws. Without admitting or denying the allegations, the company agreed to pay disgorgement and prejudgment interest of approximately $19 million and a penalty of $6 million.
The Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey today announced the indictment of Coburn and Schwartz on criminal charges of violating and conspiring to violate the FCPA's anti-bribery and accounting provisions.
The SEC's investigation was conducted by Michael K. Catoe, Paul W. Sharratt, and M. Shahriar Masud of the FCPA Unit under the supervision of Robert I. Dodge. The litigation will be led by John Bowers. The SEC appreciates the assistance of the Justice Department's Fraud Section, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.


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I like Windows 7: Why should I pay to move to Windows 10?
With Windows 7 security upgrades about to go poof in less than a year, there are still some Windows 7 diehards who refuse to upgrade. Here we explain that free Windows 10 upgrades are still available, counter some upgrade objections, and provide a great list of resources for upgrading your machines to Windows 10.
Written by David Gewirtz, Distinguished Lecturer
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In addition to hosting the ZDNet Government and ZDNet DIY-IT blogs, Distinguished Lecturer David Gewirtz is an author, U.S. policy advisor and computer scientist.
Posted in DIY-IT on February 11, 2019 | Topic: Windows 10
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I'm still getting used to living in a small town. This time, it's the neighbors. I've lived in much bigger cities where I never even met my neighbors during my entire residence there. Here, the neighbors are more sociable, sometimes bringing cookies or fudge, sometimes complaining about Windows, and sometimes offering tips on my power tool posture when fixing my porch.
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It's kind of delightful, in a "How did this happen to me?" kind of way.
In any case, one neighbor came over to say "Hi" when I took Pixel pup outside, and then a guy from down the street who was walking by also decided to meander over for a visit. Neighbor One had asked my plans for the day, and I explained I was about to go in and start testing a review product using a Windows 10 VPN.
That got him started on a rant about Microsoft, Windows, Amazon, Jeff Bezos' peccadillos, the President, whether Tilly is getting too much screen time on Star Trek, and then all the way back to Windows 7. He doesn't want to upgrade to Windows 10.
This comment seemed to light a fire inside Neighbor Two, who resented Windows 10 "being shoved down our throats." That's a direct quote. It turns out that the crux of the objection was, "I like Windows 7, why should I pay to move to Windows 10?"
You (probably) don't have to pay
Because Microsoft did a big push to get folks to upgrade to Windows 10 by July 29, 2016, many people mistakenly believe that the only way to upgrade to Windows 10 now is to pay.
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As it turns out, that's not true -- for individuals, anyway. If you have a machine that's compatible, and if you have a valid Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 license key, you can still upgrade to Windows 10 for free. Microsoft just doesn't actively promote that fact.
As with many things Microsoft, the confusion is understandable. On Microsoft's Windows 10 page, it lists the price of Windows 10 at $139, an amount that clearly offended both Neighbor One and Neighbor Two.
I explained to them that if you initiate the update on a currently valid machine and follow these instructions, you can probably do an in-place upgrade to Windows 10 without spending a penny.
That's for individuals. If you're at a larger company, your costs will depend on your Windows contract with Microsoft.
Our conversation continued. Even after I showed that they might be able to upgrade their older Windows 7 machines for free, they had objections. Since they're objections you also might have, I'm sharing them with you here.
"Name one thing that I actually care about that Windows 10 will do for me."
There's one key feature that makes Windows 10 a must-do upgrade: Security. Windows 10 has far better intrinsic security features than Windows 7. This makes sense, because when Microsoft introduced Windows 10, it had six years more experience fighting off cyberattacks than it had when Windows 7 was introduced.
Also: Windows 7 versus Windows 10: Here comes the final showdown
Patches have closed up some Windows 7 weaknesses, but Windows 7 (even patched) is nowhere near as secure. Mainstream support for Windows 7 ended a few years ago. Microsoft will stop issuing free Windows 7 security updates in less than a year.
Some corporate installations can pay (an ever increasing price, actually) for ongoing Windows 7 security updates, but Microsoft is neither making it easy nor cheap -- and it's not available for consumers and small businesses.
I explained that identity theft is a billion-dollar problem and that the cost, time, and stress involved in recovering from identity theft can be overwhelming.
I also shared some of Ed Bott's salient points about the cost to businesses: Recovering from ransomware or regulatory violations as a result of poor security can result in big loses and even bigger fines.
Windows 10 was designed with a much deeper level of security in mind. Windows 10 is very different internally from Windows 7. Windows 10 was developed for the modern computing world, with all the threats and issues we face every day. Windows 10 has a huge number of architectural features that improve security. That's not patches. That's core design.
Clearly, it's time to move to Windows 10. Microsoft built a lot into Windows 10 beyond security. The entire OS was built with a tremendous number of performance improvements, better memory management, and far fewer crashes.
Microsoft catalogs a whole bunch of other Windows 10 benefits, including Cortana, Windows Ink, and even the Edge browser (which they're replacing, so go figure). Microsoft calls it the best Windows ever, which although is as generic a marketing answer as you can get, is actually true. Windows 10 is an exceptional OS.
"But, I don't go to dangerous websites. I'm smarter than that."
My discussion of improved security prompted this objection. But the world has changed and threats are more universal.
Ten years ago or so, it was the case that pretty much only sketchy websites were rife with malware. But that's no longer the case. Fully legitimate websites can be penetrated and attacked with malware.
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Some of them quietly download trojans to visitors' machines, to be activated later or just run in the background. Some sites get infected when they run their normal upgrade process and a component of the site, like a plugin, has been infected and that infection is downloaded via the automatic update.
As a user, your personal care about which sites you visit is no longer a reliable protection against malware. You now need to be sure to run a fully patched operating system. Since Windows is the biggest target for malware, and since enemy actors have become intimately familiar with Windows 7's flaws, running it leaves a big, gaping security hole on your computer.
It's bad, very, very bad.
"My machine works perfectly now, if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
If you're running Windows 7, your machine ain't "ain't broke." It's a wide open giant malware-sucking vacuum. You are bound to get p0wn3d. Upgrade.
Also: Microsoft will stop supporting Windows 7 one year from today CNET
Beyond that, if you're running a machine designed for Windows 7, it's at least seven years old. That's like 50 years in dog/computer generation years. Every element in a modern PC, from storage to CPU, memory, network, chipset, and graphics have been subject to Moore's law for all those years.
A low to middle-of-the-road 2019 PC that costs $500 will blow the doors off that seven-year-old Windows 7 PC. It well might be worth the cost of the upgrade.
"I know new hardware won't be supported on Windows 7, but I have no intention of adding new hardware. My machine is perfectly fine as it is."
Quite frankly, this was where I was when Windows 10 first came out. I had a number of very carefully tuned, highly optimized machines that, after years of tweaking, finally worked like a dream. I did not want to mess with perfection.
But... they were connected to the internet. I've had to clean up my share of viruses and malware over the years, had to get credit cards reissued after credentials were stolen, and helped others clean up identity theft and ransomware attacks. It's just not pretty.
Also: How to prepare your organization for the end of Windows 7 support TechRepublic
If I could have guaranteed those machines would be permanently air-gapped from the internet, maybe then I could have turned them into museum exhibits of a bygone OS era, but everything I use connects online. So, yes, I upgraded. You need to, too.
"I don't even know if Windows 10 will work on my machine."
This is a legitimate concern. Windows 10 does have some issues with ancient hardware, but so does Windows 7. In the next section, I'll include a bunch of great articles that will walk you through the process of finding out if your machine can support Windows 10.
There is, of course, another option: Getting a new machine. I know that can be costly, but there are actually a number of under-$200 Windows 10 notebooks available on Amazon with modern processors, and even a free year of Office 365.
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I'm not including the link to these machines, because they change constantly. If you're looking, go to Amazon, select the Computer section, then Laptops, then Windows 10, and enter between $100 and $200 for your price.
If your current hardware won't support Windows 10, it's bound to be a lot slower than even low-end modern hardware that does. This might be a good time for a cheap, higher-performance upgrade in your gear.
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JPSS Satellites Provide Unique Perspective of Hurricane Laura
[Written by NOAA] About two hours after Hurricane Laura made landfall last month on August 27th, hammering the Louisiana and Texas coasts with 150 mile-per-hour winds and an "unsurvivable" storm surge, the VIIRS instrument on the Suomi-NPP satellite captured the above image of the storm. The infrared image shows intense circulation and a clearly defined eye just north of the Gulf coastline and east of the Texas border. This corresponding nighttime Day-Night Band image below, also captured by VIIRS at 2:51 am CDT, shows a lightning streak in the Gulf and some lights still on in parts of Lake Charles, La., and Beaumont, Tex. Nearly a million residents of Texas and Oklahoma ended up losing power from Laura.
By the afternoon of August 27th, Laura had been downgraded by the National Hurricane Center to a tropical storm, with maximum sustained winds at 65 miles per hour and water levels still elevated along the Gulf Coast. Since slamming into the coast, the storm destroyed buildings, blown windows out from high rises, downed trees and power lines, and ripped the top off a bridge. 42 people lost their lives in the U.S. from Laura.
The Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) on Suomi-NPP, provided "a glimpse into the inner structure of the storm, showing well-defined circulation with convection completely surrounding it, with the coldest cloud temperatures centered on the northeast side of the eye," according to William Straka III, a researcher for the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
This is also where the most intense rain rates were found by the Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MiRS) Rain Rate product, which is derived from ATMS, and part of the Climate Prediction Center morphing method (CMORPH2), a NOAA product that provides precipitation estimates from satellites.
The following animation shows the temperature differences between the core of the hurricane and its surrounding atmosphere, as observed by ATMS on the Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 satellites as the storm gathered strength and intensified. This kind of warm core is typical to the structure of a hurricane, as described in this article from the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The larger the area of the core and the higher the temperature difference between the warm core and the area surrounding it, the more precipitation is produced.
According to NOAA, the peak coastal storm surge was measured at 12 to 21 feet, inundating many areas along the coast.
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