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Richard Kraemer
Richard Kraemer (@RichardKraemer7) directs the Balkans program at the European Values Center for Security Policy in Prague, Czech Republic. His research there focuses on malign foreign interventions by Russia and China in Central and Southeastern Europe. He is also non-resident fellow for the Frontier Europe Initiative at the Middle East Institute. As board president of the US-Europe Alliance, Richard works to inspire Americans to advocate for a robust and cooperative transatlantic community.
Previously, Richard managed the National Endowment for Democracy's program portfolio on Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey. Richard previously oversaw programs in those countries at the Center for International Private Enterprise. Living in Kabul for two years, he helped establish the country's first independent chamber of commerce. Richard also taught law and conducted research at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. He is an affiliated expert of the Public International Law and Policy Group, where he advised the governments of Georgia and Montenegro.
Richard's works and analysis have appeared in numerous international and U.S. media including Newsweek, Washington Post, New York Times, Al Jazeera, Agence-France Presse, El Pais, Radio Free Europe and Wiener Zeitung. A member of the New York State Bar Association, Richard holds a JD from American University and a BA from the College of William and Mary. He is professionally proficient in Polish, Farsi, and Dari.
The Noxious Nexus of Money and Politics Takes Another Turn in Central and Southeastern Europe
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Beware a China-Russia Nexus in Central Europe Amid US-EU Neglect
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As Russia and China Seek a Beachhead in the Western Balkans, a U.S.-U.K. Push Could Avert an Authoritarian Turn
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Diane Sawyer is interviewing Mitt and Ann Romney on Monday—their first double interview. She asked her Twitter followers to suggest questions she should ask using the hashtag #askromney. What follows are the results of this request.


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I REFER to the statements made by a federal minister and a Sarawak assistant minister about local government elections in Malaysia, as published in The Borneo Post on Aug 1 and 2.
Minister of Housing and Local Government Zuraida Kamaruddin, answering a question relating to the said subject, told Parliament that before such elections could be held, a detailed study should be made of the legal and economic implications of such a move.
Instead of supporting the move, Assistant Minister of Local Government Datu Dr Penguang Manggil cautioned his federal counterpart against rushing into reinstating the elections for Sarawak's local councils.
For the advocates of local council elections, however, any step taken to restore those elections is regarded as an important reform of the election system of the country. The fact that it was brought up recently in Parliament means that the matter merited serious discussion at the highest law-making body.
In the July 2018 meeting of the State Legislative Assembly, Datuk Tiong Thai King was complaining about Sibu Municipal Council not having planning authority. He cited several cases to substantiate his claims of poor coordination between a local authority and the 'higher authority' (to use YB Tiong's term). For example, in one case, approval was given by the higher authority for a shophouse to be built on an existing road without the council knowing it. This was obviously an extension to an existing commercial house, which required approval from the SMC but was apparently bulldozed through by another authority – a superior power.
Obviously, the problem of overlapping powers in our present local government system need to be fixed or sorted out between the higher and the lower levels of power, if the Sibu councillors, being local planners knowing better, are to do their job well.
In an elected council, a bureaucratic 'bulldozing' like this by the higher authority could not have happened without prior and full consultations and deliberations with the lower authority. Such power once belonged to the local authority but is now in the hands of the Sarawak government.
Local authorities in Sibu are not the only councils having lack of power. About two years ago, I discovered to my surprise that the Kuching South City Council and the Padawan Municipal Council had no power and authority to handle a problem relating to the occupation permit for a house built in the 1950s. The house was sold to another person in 1979 without an OP – just a letter written 25 years ago from the Kuching Rural District Council's Secretary to say the house was ready for occupation and all the rates assessed must be paid.
It is my guess that in Kuching there may be many houses built in the 1950s which did not require an OP as a condition for sale or purchase. Please tell me that I'm wrong.
An elected council could have made its own bylaws to do away with an unnecessary bureaucratic impediment of this kind. The minister in charge of local government in Sarawak would be in a strong position to argue in the cabinet for a quick solution to the problem faced by one of the councils under his purview. As it is, he has to toe the line of the superior authority or else he may get into some hot soup.
It is submitted that this system (non-elective) is not working very well as claimed, as we have seen in several important cases. Isn't reform of the system necessary so as not to deprive owners of houses built in 1950s, for example, those built in Kuching and in other cities, the right to sell their property without having to deal directly with the cabinet? Dealing with the local authority nearest to you would be good enough.
Basically, it is only the bank which requires the OP for the purpose of processing a loan application. Such a requirement might not have been compulsory in the 1950s. I don't know.
A problem of this nature can easily be solved within the four walls of the council room by means of bylaws. Of course, consultations with the minister of local governments in Sarawak are necessary. The minister based in Kuching needs full details of any proposal to strengthen his hand at bargaining in the cabinet room. A good minister knows where his support lies; it lies at the grassroots level. A proposal carries more weight if it comes from an elected councillor or from a group of such elected councillors, especially those from an influential political party. That party may well be the minister's own party.
For Sarawak, it's a question of restoring the local government elections, not a novelty. In preparing Sarawak for self-government and eventual full independence, the then colonial government had introduced in 1948 the Local Authorities Ordinance and the Local Government Elections Ordinance. The Kuching Municipal Council held its elections first, and in 1963, councillors had to be elected to the District Councils; from the District Councils to the Divisional Councils and eventually on to the Council Negri itself. In between, the Divisional Councils playing the roles of the electoral colleges in turn had elected the Divisional Councillors to the Council Negri at Kuching.
The famous Stephen Kalong Ningkan became the first Chief Minister of Sarawak after having won all these elections at all stages. No other chief minister of the state has gone through this process since then.
Therefore, it's a matter of restoring the District Council elections, the Divisional Council elections having been abolished. We now have direct elections to the State Legislative Assembly.
What's the real reason for abolishing local government elections?
The claim that it would be too expensive to hold local government elections doesn't hold water, as shown above. Nor is it difficult to amend laws to enable those elections to be held. I think there was something else that nobody wanted to talk about.
I think there was an elephant in the room. It was a political strategy of a governing party then to prevent councillors from an opposition party from having political clout. Local governments run by elected councillors would be a potential threat to the Sarawak government if they did not belong to the same coalition.
I once asked the late Datuk Amar James Wong if it was probable that SNAP would win many seats if elections were held for all the 52 district councils. He smiled. That certain smile spoke volumes. But now SNAP, the elephant, is dead and safely buried – so why the fear of restoring the elections?
All human-made laws are meant to be amended from time to time. It is the duty of the government of the day to make amendments to existing laws or to introduce new legislation to cater for the needs of the prevailing conditions in the country. I cannot rationalise the reluctance of the ruling politicians to reinstate local government elections with the need for reform to the electoral system for the purpose of sustaining democracy. Are we thinking of another ideology?


Good game last night, and a very big win for the Tigers. Seems like it may have been Pyrrhic, though. More injuries to an already banged up line up. It might be curtains for the Tigers before they can get it back to Texas. They'll take the next step one way or another at 4 today.
In St. Louis, though, the Cardinals are trying to become the big surprise team of the year. Series tied one all, in their home ball park, and the power of the Rally Squirrel is behind them. The team is giving out Rally Squirrel towels, and various shirts and dolls have popped up. The one pictured here is called the "official" version by CBS in St. Louis. He's got his own Wiki page, too. Combined with Torty and, of course, Fredbird, this year's Cardinal team might be the most animal-mascot-laden team in history.
Will they be able to keep an awfully powerful Brewers team at bay, though? The Brewers were absolutely dreadful in Arizona last round. And through the year, they were markedly better in Miller Park than on the road. Combine that with the Cards stealing the last game, and things seem to bode well for St. Louis. Also throw in Carpenter is starting tonight, and I might be worried if I were a Brewer fan.* On the other hand, you know Milwaukee is going to score runs with those hitters, and if there's any pitcher on the staff who can get one on the road, it's Yovani Gallardo. He's gone eight and six innings in his postseason starts this year and given up all of two runs and ten hits. He's also paired his three walks with fourteen strikeouts. Averaging a strikeout an inning isn't too shabby. He's got better numbers through this postseason than he did in 2008, and he only pitched seven innings then.
*Presumably I am, but actually watching the games, I have a hard time really picking a favorite. I'm really happy either way.
To pick a winner, though, I'm going to have to go with the Cards tonight. Carpenter is darned good. I know, his first start against Philly didn't go so well. Three innings, four runs, three walks, only two strikeouts. Actually, over three innings, two strikeouts isn't bad, but the rest wasn't so great. But it should also be noted that the Cardinals messed around and won that game. Then the CC that's still in the playoffs got to lock horns with arguably the best pitcher of this generation (and former teammate) Roy Halladay. All Carpenter did was throw a complete game shut out, giving up only three hits.* I've got a feeling he's going to repeat that sort of performance. I don't know if I'm ready to pick St. Louis for the series just yet, but I'm picking them tonight.
*Halladay, it should be noted, only gave up one run in eight innings, which turned out to be the only run of the game. Not too bad himself, but it doesn't matter if your team doesn't score a single run.
As of today, I'm still picking the Rangers over either of these teams, but if the Cardinals can ride their status as the hottest team in baseball all the way to another World Championship, they would break an ugly pattern, as shown below. Sadly, it's much better than the Cubs' pattern.


We shared about joining The Food Bank Juniors Club previously in which Junior Foodbankers (ages 5 to 12) will get the opportunity to volunteer at the warehouse, host food drives, help out with creation of appreciation cards, go on excursions to local farms and food production/wastage facilities, and be an ambassador of food wastage and hunger issues in Singapore. This is an invaluable learning experience for the little ones.
Now, many of us have received our bonuses, went for Chinese New Year shopping and stock up many goodies at home. All ready to usher in the Year of Monkey and preparing for celebrations. As we celebrate, remember that there are some people in our community who are not as fortunate as us. If you have any excess Chinese New Year goodies and wondering where to discard them, why not donate them instead?
GoGoVan Singapore has partnered with The Food Bank Singapore to save you the hassle of transporting food donations during this festive season. A booth was also set-up on 26 and 27 January at NUS to raise this awareness to the public to get involved in this social causes.
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Katy Perry accused of sexual assault
by Fox News
13th Aug 2019 9:52 AM | Updated: 11:25 AM
A MODEL in Katy Perry's Teenage Dream music video alleges she exposed his penis to an entire party of people, which he says amounts to sexual assault.
Josh Kloss, who appeared in the megahit video with the singer, wrote on Instagram that Perry, now 34, was cold to him when others were around but warm and friendly when they were alone. He also said she invited him to a strip club, but he turned it down, Fox News reports.
Katy Perry and Josh Kloss in the Teenage Dream video.
Kloss claims he and Perry ran into each other several times after her divorce from Russell Brand, and that's when she allegedly committed sexual misconduct.
"This one time I brought a friend who was dying to meet her," Kloss recalled. "It was Johny Wujek's birthday party at Moonlight Rollerway. And when I saw her, we hugged and she was still my crush. But as I turned to introduce my friend, she pulled my Adidas sweats and underwear out as far as she could to show a couple of her guy friends and the crowd around us my penis."
Kloss says he felt "pathetic."
"Can you imagine how pathetic and embarrassed I felt? I just say this now because our culture is set on proving men of power are perverse. But females with power are just as disgusting," he wrote.
Kloss claims he made about $A1000 from his work in the video, even though it appeared on her tour and DVD.
I was supposed to minimize myself and stay PC to protect her "image" I listened and was a good boy. The fear sticks with you, when you are censored to protect someone else's image. But in return treated like a prostitute and exposed in front of a group of her friends and other random people. Then you are shocked and you block it out, because you watch the face of children being uplifted by positive music she sang. And your mind is stuck trying to do your job and protect her bs image or be honest and help the global dialogue about power and abuse. And you hear over and over a million times that Males are the great evil on this planet. Meanwhile you know the truth POWER empowers what is corrupt in people, regardless of their gender. Folks I am putting us both out on display to increase and enlighten everyone. I don't want money for this, Many of you project your own ambitions. I don't want fame from this, that is why I stomached it and kept working, and kept supporting the "teenage dream" image. And this anniversary, and time elapse made me realize hey now is the time to let it out and let it go. Not one more day of hearing "How was Katy Perry?"
A post shared by Joshkloss (@iamjoshkloss) on Aug 12, 2019 at 6:21am PDT
"I was lorded over by her reps, about not discussing a single thing about anything regarding Katy publicly. And a couple interviews they edited and answered for me," he alleged.
"So, happy anniversary to one of the most confusing, assaulting, and belittling jobs I've ever done. Yay #teenagedream.
"I was actually gonna play the song and sing it on ukulele for the anniversary, but then as I was tuning I thought, f-k this, I'm not helping her bs image another second."
The pair played lovers in the video for the hugely successful single.
In an Instagram post, he published what he claimed was a screenshot of communications between himself and Perry's team about an interview, writing, "I was supposed to minimise myself and stay PC to protect her 'image.' I listened and was a good boy. The fear sticks with you when you are censored to protect someone else's image. But in return treated like a prostitute and exposed in front of a group of her friends and other random people. Then you are shocked and you block it out because you watch the face of children being uplifted by positive music she sang. And your mind is stuck trying to do your job and protect her bs image or be honest and help the global dialogue about power and abuse."
Katy Perry on the cover of her Teenage Dream album. Picture: Supplied
Kloss, who also complained about his ex and mother of his daughter in his missives, then launched into a tirade about the perils of the #MeToo movement on men, writing, "And you hear over and over a million times that Males (sic) are the great evil on this planet. Meanwhile you know the truth POWER empowers what is corrupt in people, regardless of their gender."
Representatives for Perry did not respond to Fox News' requests for comment on Kloss' claims.
The Never Really Over singer has a somewhat difficult recent history of accusations of crossing boundaries with others.
She was accused of "forcibly kissing" an American Idol contestant in 2018. In 2017, Perry was accused of grabbing then-17-year-old singer Shawn Mendes' derrière on a red carpet without his consent, though he later back-pedaled on the allegations.
This article originally appeared on Fox News and was reproduced with permission
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A fully assembled Falcon 9 rocket has been rolled to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base for the first time in over two years for Sunday's planned launch of the U.S.-European Jason-3 Oceanography Satellite. Liftoff is expected at 18:42:18 UTC during a half-minute window and the Falcon 9 will be tasked with a 56-minute ascent mission that will again see an attempt to return the first stage booster to a floating platform deployed to the Pacific Ocean.
The mission is the final launch of the Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket that made its maiden launch from the West Coast Pad in September 2013 and is now making way for the Full Thrust version of Falcon 9 that offers a 30% increase in performance through the use of up-rated engines and densified propellants. Looking back at its career, Falcon 9 v1.1 so far checked off 13 successful missions in 14 launches and began paving the way towards SpaceX's ambitious goal of re-using first stage boosters. SpaceX hopes to add another successful mission to the vehicle's record and possibly close out its career with a successful landing.
The Jason-3 satellite was installed atop the Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday following the successful completion of the rocket's Static Fire Test on Monday that saw the nine Merlin 1D engines on the first stage soar to life for a seven-second burn to gather performance data. Reviews of data collected during the full-countdown and brief ignition showed that Falcon 9 and the ground systems at the launch pad are ready to support Sunday's operations.
Jason-3, looking back at a lengthy road to launch, completed a final set of checkouts and battery charging operations before being installed atop its ride into space. Rollout of Falcon 9 occurred on Friday ahead of Falcon 9 going vertical on Saturday to be ready for countdown operations on Sunday, set to pick up several hours before the short launch window. Final clearance to head into launch operations was given by a clean Flight Readiness Review on Friday.
Weather will not get in the way on Sunday as forecasts show a 100% chance of acceptable weather conditions with only a high cloud layer obstructing the view of the ascending Falcon 9 rocket. For the first stage return, sea swell may be up to three to five meters which could become a challenge for the drone ship. In case of a launch delay on Sunday, a backup slot is available at 18:31 UTC on Monday with a 70% chance of cooperative weather as concerns associated with clouds and disturbed weather arise.
Getting ready to catch a Falcon 9 is the Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship "Just Read The Instructions" that will be stationed almost 300 Kilometers due south of the launch site. A boost-back to a landing at the new landing zone at Space Launch Complex 4W is not possible on this mission as environmental assessment work is still ongoing to clear Falcon 9 to overfly a wildlife preservation on its inbound leg. The Drone Ship departed Long Beach early on Friday along with its support vessel and was expected to arrive at the designated landing zone sometime on Saturday for a final set of preparatory steps.
Countdown operations will be initiated around ten hours ahead of launch with the power-up of the Falcon 9 for an extensive set of testing activities and preparatory steps. At the pad, teams will work through final close outs of the rocket and ground systems before the launch team is polled for a go/no-go for propellant loading at L-4 hours. Range instrumentation will be prepared and controllers will begin watching over corridor clearance around the same time.
Loading of Kerosene propellant into the two stages of the Falcon 9 will commence before supercold Liquid Oxygen is loaded into the vehicle starting around three hours prior to liftoff. In total, Falcon 9 will receive over 480 metric tons of propellant plus nitrogen attitude control system propellant and helium tank pressurant gas.
Going through a final set of steps before launch, Jason-3 will switch to battery power and the launch team will complete the Go/No-Go poll to enter the critical automated countdown sequence at T-10 minutes – a highly choreographed set of steps to pressurize the rocket's tanks, retract the Strongback structure, chill the engines for ignition and put the flight computers in charge of all vehicle functions.
Lifting off under the power of its nine Merlin 1D engines, the 68-meter tall Falcon 9 will rise vertically with a total thrust of over 600 metric-ton force before pitching and rolling onto a southerly trajectory. The vehicle will pass through Mach 1 just over a minute after launch with Maximum Dynamic Pressure following shortly thereafter.
Shutdown of the first stage is expected two minutes and 34 seconds after launch with stage separation three seconds later. For the second stage, the flight begins with a burn of over 6 minutes to head into an elliptical parking orbit for a coast phase of 45 minutes to climb up to apogee so that the second burn can serve as a circularization maneuver.Fairing separation occurs three minutes and 12 seconds into the flight.
The second burn, occurring 54 minutes into the flight, will also facilitate an adjustment of the the orbital inclination. Jason-3 will be separated 55 minutes and 48 seconds after launch and aims for an operational orbit of 1,328 by 1,380 Kilometers, inclined 66.05°.
After spacecraft separation, the second stage will perform a targeted deorbit burn, igniting its MVac engine for a third time to set up destructive re-entry over the Pacific Ocean one orbit after launch.
For the first stage booster, the adventurous return to Earth begins immediately after separation with a maneuver out of the plume of the second stage. Sill ascending, the stage will flip around to face its engines towards the direction of travel and make use of its cold gas thrusters to settle the propellants inside the tanks for a partial boost back maneuver starting at T+4:25 to aim for the location of the Drone Ship.
Heading back towards the atmosphere, the booster will deploy its four aerodynamic grid fins to provide guidance during atmospheric descent. A short re-entry burn using a subset of the Merlin 1D engines will begin to slow the vehicle down and protect the booster from the extreme aerodynamic environment occurring during entry. What follows will be a fast descent through the atmosphere during which the grid fins are actuated to modify the angle of attack of the booster to control its downrange travel distance.
Firing up its center engine just around half a minute prior to touchdown, the booster will home-in on the SpaceX logo painted on the drone ship platform, deploy its four landing legs and hopefully come to rest upright on the ASDS around nine minutes after liftoff. Should the landing succeed, teams will conduct a remote survey of the booster and safe its propellant systems before engineers can return to the ASDS and secure the first stage for its return to shore. Whether the recovered booster would return directly to Vandenberg or be brought back to Long Beach for offloading has not been specified.
Arriving in orbit, Jason-3 will begin its initial steps of acquiring a stable orientation, starting communications with the ground and deploying its two power-generating solar arrays around two minutes after separation. Teams will begin working a multi-day campaign to put the spacecraft through initial testing and commissioning activities before heading into instrument commissioning taking a period of weeks.
Jason-3 weighs in at 525 Kilograms and sets out to continue a record of ocean surface topography measurements, started by the Topex/Poseidon satellite in 1992 and continued through Jason-1 launching in 2001 and OSTM/Jason-2 that has been in operation since 2008. The ocean altimetry measurements are of vital importance when following the global circulation patterns, sea level changes and climate implications in a constantly warming world. Long-term and continual data of changes in the oceans is essential for both, operational applications and scientific research.
The primary instrument on the Jason-3 mission is a radar altimeter that can measure variations in sea level over the global oceans with a very high accuracy of 3.3 centimeters. Also installed on the satellite is an Advanced Microwave Radiometer to deliver data for correction of active altimeter data as well as a Joint Radiation Experiment to study the effect of space radiation on modern electronics.


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British weeks in Bulgaria start on May 26
Written by The Sofia Globe staff on May 12, 2013 in Bulgaria, News - No comments
British Weeks in Bulgaria is a series of events, organised by the British embassy in Sofia with various partnering organisations. That includes GREAT events that highlight the strong ties between the UK and Bulgaria, a statement from the embassy said.
The first British Weeks will take place from May 26 to June 11 2013 and will celebrate culture, music, creativity, heritage, business and more.
"For more information about events follow us on Twitter and Facebook: UKinBulgaria, and look out for the adverts in a metro station near you."
May 26 – "Sport is GREAT Britain": Vassil Levski National Stadium, 3pm.
Charity football match: Aston Villa Old Stars team versus Bulgaria Legends 1994. The match is in aid of "Support Stan" campaign to raise money for the "Charity Fund for the Children of Bulgaria". The British embassy will host a private reception at the ambassador's residence before the match.
Tickets 10 leva, National Stadium, Eventim
May 26 to 28 – "Music is GREAT Britain": Famous Canticum Choir concerts in Sofia and Plovdiv
Canticum is one of the most musically versatile chamber choirs in the UK. Now in its 22nd season, it is praised for accomplished performances of major works and for exploring contemporary repertoire. Canticum performances will start in Sofia as part of Sofia Music Weeks 2013. Their second performance will be a charity event jointly with Embassy singers, hosted by the British ambassador. All proceeds from the evening will go to Phoenix Inspire- charity organisation supporting underpriviliged youth in the Vidin region. Canticum concert in Plovdiv is co-organised by Plovdiv Municipality.
May 26, 7.30pm, St Joseph's, Roman Catholic church in Sofia, entrance free;
May 27, 6pm, Museum of Unification, Plovdiv, entrance free;
May 28, 6.30pm to 9.30pm British Residence Sofia, tickets 20 leva
May 29– "Creativity is GREAT Britain": "This House", a new play by James Graham, Cinema City, Mall of Sofia, 7pm.
Biting, energetic and critically-acclaimed play strips politics down to the practical realities of those behind the scenes who roll up their sleeves, and on occasion bend the rules, to manoeuvre a diverse and conflicting chorus of MPs within the Mother of all Parliaments.
Tickets 12/15 leva, Cinema City
May 30 – June 12 – "Food is GREAT Britain": British Food and Drinks Weeks in Piccadilly stores
Demonstration on May 30 by top British chef Alan Coxon in Piccadilly store, Serdika centre
Official opening by Ambassador Allen, May 30, 5pm
A variety of British food and drinks will be available in Piccadilly stores for 14 days. Live demonstration will be held throughout the first day by the chef Alan Coxon. He is an international culinary consultant, presenter and food archaeologist. He has worked in Michelin star restaurants in Monte Carlo, and as head chef opened the largest 4 star hotel in Europe.
Entrance free
May 30 – "Technology is GREAT Britain": Exclusive launch of the new Jaguar F-Type and the new Range Rover, British Residence, in partnership with Moto-Pfohe
June 1 – "Heritage is GREAT Britain": British Residence Open Day, 36, Vassil Levski bld, 10am to 4pm
The British Ambassador's Residence is one of the most beautiful and interesting residential buildings in Sofia. Visitors will be able to see the main representational areas – Ballroom, Dining room, Drawing Room, and learn interesting facts about them. The Residence garden will also be open to the public, where information about the plants will be on display.
Guests will have the opportunity to taste traditional English tea and cakes, and photographer Blaga Dimitrova will be offering pictures from her project "Bez granici". All proceeds will go to Bulgarian charity projects.
The event will be hosted by the British Ambassador Jonathan Allen and his wife, Liz.
June 2 to 8 – "This is GREAT Britain": Competitions in different media
Find out interesting facts about the UK and the strong ties between Bulgaria and the UK. This will also include the opportunity for you to win GREAT British prizes, through competitions on the internet and radio.
June 3 to 11 – "Food is GREAT Britain" – British Bio Week, Balev Bio Market, the Mall, Sofia
Official opening by Ambassador Allen, June 3, 5pm
Visitors will have the opportunity to find out more about gluten free flours and other organic/bio products from the UK. Margaret Marriage from Dove's farm – a leading British organic flour producer, will make live demonstrations. Come and taste Margaret's bakery specialties!
June 4 – "Business is GREAT Britain": British Business Lunchtime event on energy with British Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce
Three Britons working in Bulgaria will share perspective on energy, followed by a networking lunch.
Further information on BBCC website: www.bbcc.bg
June 4 – "Technology is GREAT Britain": Screening of "Wings over Everest", Polish Cultural Institute, 6pm to 8.30pm
Address by Ambassador Allen
Douglas Douglas-Hamilton was chief pilot on the first flight over Mount Everest in 1933. It was also the first detailed and scientific survey of the Himalaya region.
"Wings over Everest" is a 1934 British short documentary film directed by Geoffrey Barkas and Ivor Montagu. It won an Academy Award in 1936 for Best Short Subject.
Tickets, Polish Cultural Institute
June 5 – "Culture is GREAT Britain": Screening of the film "Portrait of a Quest", British Residence, 6pm to 8pm
"Portrait of a Quest" by Ekaterina Dimitrova is a short history on the Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander housed in the British Library. The Gospels is the outstanding treasure of a cultural and spiritual Renaissance in the 14th century Bulgaria. It contains 367 miniatures, among them an outstanding portrait of the Tsar himself and his family.
Ekaterina Dimitrova is also the author of the book "The Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander", published by The British Library.
June 6 – "Creativity is GREAT Britain": "Void Story" performance by forced entertainment, Lumiere Cinema, Sofia, 7pm
Void Story follows a beleaguered pair of protagonists on a rollercoaster ride through the decimated remains of contemporary culture. Void Story takes place between live dialogue, recorded sound effects and collaged images attempting to visualise the narrative.
Tickets 6/10 leva, Lumiere Cinema
June 6 – "Business is GREAT Britain": Speech by the British Ambassador at the International Nuclear Forum, Varna
The conference will take place within the period June 5 to 7 2013, focusing on national, regional and world energy security.
"For the whole of Europe, we need to be thinking hard about how to improve our cross border interconnectors to drive forward dynamic electricity markets. In the UK, we have considerable financial, project management and cost consultancy experience. We have some of the world's best companies in this area."
Further information: www.bulatom-bg.org
June 6 – "Business is GREAT Britain": British Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce reception, Varna
As honorary president of the BBCC, Ambassador Allen will host a reception for BBCC members and leading members of the Varna business community. This is a great opportunity to meet the Embassy's UK Trade and Investment and understand the advantages of Chamber membership.
Further information at www.bbcc.bg
June 7 – "Creativity is GREAT Britain": FameLab Finals – live, British Council, 7, Krakra str., Palaveev room, 8.30pm
FameLab is an exciting competition to find the new voices of science and engineering across the world.
It was started in 2005 in the UK by Cheltenham Science Festival. Since 2007, thanks to a partnership with the British Council, FameLab has gone global, with competitions now held in 20 countries across Europe, Asia, Africa and the United States.
Twenty national finalists will come together in Cheltenham for the International Grand final which is broadcast live on the internet.
Free entrance, RSVP: booking@britishcouncil.bg
June 7 – "Music is GREAT Britain": Concert by Swindon Choir, British Residence, 36 Vassil Levski bld, 18:00-20:00
Swindon Male Voice Choir has over 55 members who enjoy singing and harmonising to produce a beautiful sound. The choir is led by a very experienced Director of Music, Max Brockman-More, and supported by Kate Lock, Deputy Director of Music and Francis Couldridge, full time Accompanist.
Free entrance, RSVP: BritishEmbassySofia@fco.gov.uk
June 8 –"Creativity is GREAT": "Void Story" performance as part of Varna Summer Theatre Festival
Tickets, Stoyan Buchvarov" Theatre, Varna
June 10 – "This is GREAT Britain": Consular Campaign Launch, Sunny Beach
The British Embassy in Bulgaria is launching a campaign aimed at Britons visiting the Bulgarian Black Sea resorts this summer to provoke and trigger some common sense steps to protecting themselves and their property.
For British nationals preparing for travel abroad, visit www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice
Plovdiv mayor pledges not to cut street lighting, as bills skyrocket
Bulgaria's 2021 census: Sofia's population has risen to 1.48M – initial data
Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Sofia reclassified from dark red to red zone


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Breaking: Iran Finally Admits It "Unintentionally" Shot Down Ukrainian Airplane Because Of "Human Error"
"The Islamic Republic of Iran deeply regrets this disastrous mistake."
(Infowars) – After multiple denials, and demands for proof from foreign entities – accusing them of spreading "psychological warfare" lies, President Hassan Rouhani has admitted Iran accidentally shot down the Ukrainian jetliner that took off from Tehran's international airport amid this week's tensions.
In a pair of tweets, Rouhani admitted that "Armed Forces' internal investigation has concluded that regrettably missiles fired due to human error caused the horrific crash of the Ukrainian plane & death of 176 innocent people," adding that "The Islamic Republic of Iran deeply regrets this disastrous mistake."
My thoughts and prayers go to all the mourning families. I offer my sincerest condolences. https://t.co/4dkePxupzm
Probably now is the time to remove the Iran flags from your profile. https://t.co/1OpA02jsJz
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) January 11, 2020
The Iranophiles will probably invent a new conspiracy to explain this.
https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1215860002176544774
1 week ago, some people were crying over the killing of Soleimani, freaking out over 'World War 3', & putting Iranian flags in their profile.
1 week later, the only developments are Iran firing symbolic missiles which killed nobody apart from 83 of their own citizens.
The army said Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was flying close to a sensitive Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps military sitewhen it was downed because of "human error," adding that the "culprits" would be identified and referred to judicial authorities.
"Iran's armed forces went on high alert following U.S. threats to target Iranian sites," the army said in the statement.
"Under such highly sensitive and critical circumstances, the Boeing Flight 752 flew close to a sensitive IRGC military site at an altitude and angle that made it appear as a hostile target. The plane was hit due to human error and unintentionally."
In the aftermath of the incident, Rouhani arranged for "compensation" payments to the victims' families, and ordered reforms of the country's air defense system to prevent similar disasters in the future.
Iran will reportedly send the black boxes of the crashed jet to France as it lacks the technology to decode them, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif blamed "human error at time of crisis caused by US adventurism" for the disaster.
Military officials will elaborate on the crash on state media on Saturday. There has been no response from The White House yet.
infowars.com/in-stunning-reversal-iran-admits-accidentally-shooting-down-ukrainian-passenger-jet/


"Today, and into the foreseeable future, we must pay greater attention to challenges posed by state actors. They increasingly have the capability to contest regional freedom of movement and threaten our homeland," according to the National Military Strategy for 2015.
The report specifically talks about threats from North Korea, Iran, Russia and China, which has continued aggressive land grabs in the South China Sea that violate international law.
"None of these nations are believed to be seeking direct military conflict with the United States or our allies. Nonetheless, they each pose serious security concerns which the international community is working to collectively address by way of common policies, shared messages and coordinated action.
Future conflicts for the U.S. military will likely be lengthier and will have to be fought with diminished resources, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote in a foreword to the report.
Attacks, especially on communications systems or other cyber networks, will be "unpredictable, costly and difficult to control." The report specifically references a cyberattack from North Korea that caused "major damage" to a U.S. company. North Korea launched a cyberattack on Sony Corp. late last year over the release of "The Interview," a fictional movie about a plot to assassinate the country's leader, Kim Jong-un.
These increasing issues, among others such as proliferation of ballistic missiles, weapons of mass destruction and unmanned systems, are threatening America's place as a top country in defense.
"The United States is the world's strongest nation, enjoying unique advantages in technology, energy, alliances and partnerships, and demographics. However, these advantages are being challenged," the report says.


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Хага́куре ( «Листям приховане») або Хага́куре Кікі́гакі яп. 葉隠聞書 — «Записи про Приховане в листях») — один з найавторитетніших трактатів присвячених бусідо — неписаному кодексу поведінки самурая, що став результатом процесу кристалізації системи моральних цінностей японських воїнів протягом кількох століть. Автором цього трактату, який став свого роду «святим письмом» для самураїв, був Ямамото Цунетомо — «самурай, який десять років прослужив даймьо Нобесіма Наосіге, а після його смерті став буддійським ченцем».

Після смерті свого сюзерена, рішенням сьогунату Токугава, Цунетомо було відмовлено в здійсненні сеппуку (ритуального самогубства). Цими обставинами і був зумовлений відхід Ямамото від світського життя. Сам трактат написаний не Ямамото Цунетомо, а самураєм Цурамото Матадзаемон Тасіро, який прийшов до Ямамото за настановами і записував протягом семи років те, що йому розповідав про Шлях воїна знаменитий Дзьоте. Коли книга з висловами була завершена, Ямамото наказав спалити рукопис, однак Цурамото Тасіро не послухав вчителя і зберіг книгу, з якої після його смерті почав робити копії. Книга швидко поширилася серед самураїв провінції Сага (однак протягом кількох десятирічь вона була майже невідома самураям інших провінцій), які дуже високо її цінували. Особливий інтерес до «Хагакуре» проявився на початку XX-го століття, і в 1930 році воно стало найзнаменитішим зразком ідей бусідо в Японії.

Хагакуре також відоме під назвою «Збірка Набесіма» або «Збірка Хагакуре». Варіант, що дійшов до нас, складається з 11 книг (1300 коротких історій) і заключної частини під назвою "Думки вголос вечірньою порою". Трактат датується 1716 роком. Цю дату одностайно сприймають усі історики, що вивчають «Хагакуре», а ось дата початку створення трактату викликає деякі дискусії: 1709 або 1710 рік.

Композиція і зміст збірки ретельно продумані. Книга Перша і Книга Друга є вченням Ямамото (самурая з провінції Сага), що і є ядром трактату. Книги Третя, Четверта і П'ята містять вислови і діяння Набесіма Наосіге, Набесіма Кацусіге, Набесіма Мицусіге і Набесіме Цунасіге (клан, якому був вірний Ямамото, — майстер Хагакуре). Книги з Шостої по Дев'яту присвячені традиціям клану, а також висловам і діянням його прославлених самураїв. Книга Десята описує життя самураїв інших провінцій, а Книга Одинадцята є доповненням до попередніх десяти книг.

Надавши своїй книзі назву «Хагакуре», Ямамото Цунетомо підкреслив, що шлях, яким йде воїн, прихований від більшості, що ним йде меншість і сутність його дано пізнати не кожному. У своєму творі автор виклав безліч принципів, які вчать самовдосконаленню, самодисципліні, такту, рішучості, честі й гідності. В «Хагакуре» відображається ідея служіння і вірності самурая своєму сюзерену, міститься багато норм і правил поведінки, яких самураєві слід дотримуватися в суспільстві, як в мирний час, так і воєнний.

В «Хагакуре» не вказується, що бусідо — це кодекс честі самурая, хоча саме цьому присвячена дана книга. Її автор говорить: «Я збагнув, що шлях самурая — це смерть» . Як бачимо, термін бусідо пояснюється як ідеалізація смерті, оскільки шлях самурая полягає у тому, щоб померти на полі битви. Для японських воїнів така смерть вважалася справою честі. Ямамото Цунетомо, звертаючись до самураїв, закликав їх шукати свою дорогу в житті: «Відкинь думки про минуле й майбутнє і не живи повсякденними турботами… тоді Великий шлях буде відкритий перед тобою. Шлях лежить у більш високих вимірах ніж праведність. Шлях самурая — один, це прямий шлях, який не допускає зволікання, і тому головне — діяти відразу» .

Ямамото Цунетомо зазначав, що «не добитися своєї цілі і продовжувати жити — це боягузтво. Померти, не досягнувши цілі, — означало собачу смерть і фанатизм. Але в цьому немає безчестя. В цьому сутність Шляху самурая. Якщо, зміцнюючи своє серце рішучістю щоранку та щовечора, людина зможе жити так, наче тіло її вже померло, шлях буде для неї вільний. Все її життя буде бездоганне, і вона досягне успіху на своїй дорозі» . В трактаті наголошувалося на тому, що кожен самурай повинен мати мету у своєму житті. Упродовж життя, щодня, він повинен просуватися вперед, стаючи більш вмілим ніж вчора, більш вмілим ніж сьогодні. Цей шлях ніколи не закінчується. Добиватися цілі потрібно навіть в тому випадку, якщо знаєш, що приречений на поразку. «Самурай повинен прагнути до того, щоб його називали самураєм» . Він мусить виконувати свій обов'язок перед сюзереном і постійно самовдосконалюватися, його поведінка в будь-якій ситуацію має бути зразком того, як слід діяти на шляху воїна.

Трактат містить багато порад стосовно виховання дитини в самурайській сім'ї. Так, ще з ранніх літ у ній заохочували сміливість, прищеплювали благородність та старалися сформувати прямоту. Наголошувалася увага на тому, що ніколи не потрібно дразнити і залякувати дитину, бо якщо вона «змалку звикне боятися, то пронесе цей недолік через все своє життя» . Підкреслюється необхідність такого відношення до хлопчика, при якому він виросте безстрашним. Цунетомо проповідує виховання, яке спрямоване на формування сильної особистості, яка б не опускала рук при перших невдачах, не гнулась під впливом несприятливих обставин, а завжди зуміла б гідно вистояти перед випробуваннями, які поставить перед нею життя.

Стійкість, загартованість, витривалість — саме такі якості характеризували справжнього самурая, воїна, який незважаючи на перешкоди, завжди йшов до цілі, воїна, чий бойовий дух був такий же незламний, як і його меч. В «Хагакуре» говориться про те, що самурай завжди має бути твердим у своїй рішучості, а на полі бою не повинен думати про перемогу чи поразку, він мусить «необдумано кидатися вперед — на зустріч неминучій смерті» . З цих слів ми можемо зрозуміти, що в «Хагакуре» виховувалася фанатичність, зневажливе ставлення до смерті та нігілістичне відношення до життя, яке Ямамото Цунетомо вважав лише простим сном, ляльковою виставою. Для нього «все в цьому світі — всього лиш театр маріонеток» .

Виховання фанатичності в самураїв було ідеальним засобом добитися від них цілковитої віддачі на полю битви, виконання обов'язків перед сюзереном, незважаючи на небезпеку померти в будь-яку хвилину. В «Хагакуре» вказується, що «золота середина — це еталон всіх речей, однак у військовій справі людина завжди повинна прагнути перевершити інших» . Самурай зобов'язаний проявляти мужність під час поєдинку і бути наполегливим, «кидатися назустріч важким ситуаціям з хоробрістю і радістю», «зціпивши зуби, йти вперед, не звертаючи увагу ні на що».

Воїн не може говорити про свою слабкість: «Навіть у випадковій розмові самураєві не слід жалітися. Він має слідкувати за тим, щоб ніколи не вимовляти слів, які свідчать про слабкість»,. Адже за одним сказаним словом можна судити про справжню сутність людини. Істинний самурай ніколи не повинен розслаблятися і падати духом, його голос завжди має бути впевненим, дух сильний, а дії рішучі. Він має сміливо йти вперед, начебто нічого не може зупинити його на шляху до цілі. Адже той, хто впадає у відчай чи падає духом перед обличчям невдач, ні до чого не придатний. Дуже важливо ніколи не проявляти розчарування і втоми. Людині властиво стомлюватися і бути пригніченою, і самурай в цьому сенсі — не виняток. Але мораль закликає японських воїнів робити неможливе. Самурайська етика спрямована на те, щоб перебороти смуток і апатію, не показувати їх іншим. Вважається, що виглядати здоровим важливіше, ніж бути здоровим, здаватися сміливим і рішучим — важливіше, ніж бути таким. Недарма говорять, що «самурай скористується зубочисткою, навіть не поївши. Всередині — шкіра собаки, зовні — шкіра тигра».

В трактаті Ямамото Цунетомо говориться, що існують два різновиди характеру: «Зовнішній і внутрішній, і людина, у якої бракує першого або другого, нічого не варта. Це, наприклад, як лезо меча, яке слід добре заточити і потім вкласти в піхви, час від часу виймаючи з них і хмурячи брови, як перед сутичкою, витираючи лезо і потім знову вкладаючи його в піхви. Якщо меч постійно відкритий, то людина стане розмахувати ним; інші будуть боятися до неї наближатися, і вона втратить союзників. Якщо меч постійно знаходиться в піхвах, він заіржавіє, клинок затупитися, і люди будуть відповідної думки про його власника».

Особливу увагу в «Хагакуре» присвячено розгляду такої моральної якості як честь, яку самураї цінували більше ніж життя. Якщо самурая образили чи над ним насміялися, то його обов'язок полягав у тому, щоб відплатити, бо «якщо він промовчить, то це свідчитиме про його малодушність». Образа честі самурая іншою особою сприймалася дуже гостро і нерідко призводила до відплати смертю. Однак Ямамото Цунетомо застерігає самураїв уникати надмірної жорстокості, оскільки занадто агресивна реакція на образу сама по собі ганьбила самурая. Він повинен проявляти терпіння та поблажливість. Такі якості свідчили про врівноваженість та самоконтроль, що особливо цінувалося в характері воїна. Якщо ж честь самурая була забруднена ганьбою з його вини чи він вирішив доказати свою невинність, то воїн вважав за необхідне покінчити життя, здійснивши сепукку — ритуальне самовбивство шляхом розрізу живота. Сепукку здійснювалась також в знак протесту проти будь-якої несправедливості для збереження честі чи як жертва в ім'я ідеї, або ж після катакі-уті — помста тим, хто завдав честі самурая ганьби. Адже в бусідо сказано: «Самурай може втратити життя, але не честь». Воїн мав здійснити сепукку, коли усвідомлював, що відповідно до бусідо, його душа більше не може залишатися в тілі. Цей обряд ритуального самовбивства не пов'язаний з релігійними переконаннями (синтоїзмом, буддизмом чи конфуціанством) японських воїнів, хоча беззаперечним залишається і той факт, що кожна з цих релігій залишила свій відбиток на філософії Шляху воїна. Сепукку — феномен притаманний виключно бусідо — шляху, яким йде самурай. Для японських воїнів типове уявлення, що загинути на полі битви і здійснити ритуальне самовбивство — однаково гідно. «З різних видів смерті — смерті від хвороби чи в бою, сепукку або обезголовлювання — ганебною вважалася лише безславна смерть».

Обряд сепукку є малозрозумілим для європейців. Це головним чином зумовлено тим, що християнська мораль, на якій у великій мірі базується європейська цивілізація, забороняє людині здійснювати самовбивство, вважаючи це гріхом. Слід звернути увагу й на те, що відношення до життя і смерті у самураїв було, в порівнянні з європейцями, також відмінним, про що вже говорилося вище. Для того, щоб збагнути дане явище потрібно не тільки відчути дух епохи, в якій жили самураї, але й проникнути у внутрішній світ японських воїнів, зрозуміти їх світоглядні переконання та систему моральних цінностей.

Самураїв не слід розглядати лише як воїнів, навчених досконалому володінню бойовими мистецтвами. Велику увагу вони приділяли вивченню літератури, історії, каліграфії, етики, а не лише військової теорії та володінню бойовими мистецтвами. У японських воїнів виховувалася жага до знань, до інтелектуального збагачення. Ямамото Цунетомо, говорячи про інтелектуальний розвиток, підкреслював, що потрібно завжди собі повторювати: «Цього недостатньо», оскільки «недобре задовольнятися досягнутим розумінням». Не слід покладатися на ту ступінь розуміння, яка тобі відкрилася. Адже досягти успіху можна лише у тому випадку, коли постійно працюєш над своїм розвитком: духовним, розумовим та фізичним. У спілкуванні з людьми Цунетомо бачив хороший спосіб збагатити свої знання, оскільки, «вислуховуючи думки інших, ти розвиваєшся», а «часте спілкування з людьми, — на його думку, — це перший крок, щоб перевершити інших». Поряд з цим він гостро засуджував вихваляння перед іншими та наголошував на тому, що самурай повинен бути скромним.

Ямамото Цунетомо дає корисні поради про те, як краще поводитися в повсякденному житті. Так, «в дружній розмові чи при офіційній зустрічі самураю слід дивитися в очі співрозмовникові і в жодному випадку не говорити, опустивши погляд, оскільки це свідчитиме про неповагу до співрозмовця». У спілкуванні з людьми важлива неупередженість. Вважається, що запитувати, коли знаєш, означає поступати ввічливо, а запитати, коли не знаєш, — абсолютно необхідно. Позіхати в присутності інших — ознака поганого тону. Те саме відноситься і до чихання: «Людина, яка чхає в присутності інших, виглядає безглуздо». Неприродний сміх свідчить про відсутність самоповаги в чоловіків і про розпущеність у жінок, тому потрібно завжди контролювати свої емоції. Цунетомо вчить, що самурай повинен кожну допущену помилку виправляти одразу ж, не роздумуючи, бо якщо спробувати її приховати, то вона ще більше кидатиметься в очі, а сліди виправленої помилки швидко зникнуть. Також в «Хагакуре» підкреслювалася необхідність виховання в собі такої риси характеру, як самостійність: «Якщо потрібно щось зробити, то краще всього робити це самому». У всіх справах самураю слід покладатися лише на власні сили. Це зумовлено тим, що іноді нам доводиться звертатися до кого-небудь з проханням, а якщо це робиться неодноразово, то перетворюється на настирливість по відношенню до цієї людини і тому така поведінка може показатися нетактовною.

Самураї поважали в людині такі риси характеру, як прямота і чесність, а брехня для них була ознакою боягузтва і сприймалася як ганебний прояв слабкості. Слово самурая вважалося достойною гарантією правдивості будь-якого твердження. Коли одного самурая попросили поклястися перед богами на знак підтвердження своїх слів, він сказав: «Слово самурая міцніше металу. Якщо самурай щось твердо вирішив, навіть божества і будди не в змозі змінити цього». Тоді було вирішено, що клятва непотрібна. «Слово — квітка серця. Це не просто порожній звук». Для самурая, коли б він не говорив, важливе кожне слово. Адже одне слово дає можливість сказати про військову доблесть. В мирні часи слова виявляють сміливість людини, а в неспокійні часи — говорять про силу і малодушність. Благородне слово воїна було настільки вагомим, що обіцянки, як правило, давали і виконували без всяких письмових угод і клятв, оскільки самурай сам вважався «втіленням свого слова».

Також «Хагакуре» повчає, що щирість — важлива складова частина людських відносин. "Прислів'я говорить: «Якщо хочеш заглянути в серце людини, захворій». Коли ви хворі, або у вас труднощі, багато хто з ваших друзів чи знайомих відвернеться від вас. Якщо людина захворіла, або опинилася в скрутному становищі, слід обов'язково дізнатися, як у неї справи, відвідавши особисто або надіславши якийсь подарунок. І ніколи в житті не варто забувати про те, хто вам допоміг. Так можна багато дізнатися про те, як ставляться до тебе інші люди. Адже у цьому світі багато таких людей, які розраховують на інших, коли самі опиняються в скрутному становищі, а потім навіть і не згадують про них. За тими випробуваннями, які доля ставить перед людиною, неможливо визначити хороша вона чи погана, успіхи і невдачі залежать від долі. Хороші і погані вчинки — це Шлях людини. А відплата за добро і зло — це просто етика, призначена для виховання моральності".

Як бачимо, «Хагакуре» увібрало в себе основні принципи та ідеї бусідо — кодексу, що являв собою особливу систему поглядів, норм і оцінок, які стосувалися поведінки самурая, формування і зміцнення його моральних якостей, способів виховання самурайської молоді і відносин між представниками середньовічної японської еліти. Кодекс честі, попри те, що залишався суто становою мораллю, відіграв важливу роль в історії Японії в той час, коли правління в ній зосереджувалося в руках самураїв. Та навіть сьогодні, коли самураї як панівний військовий та політичний стан країни відійшов у минуле, ідеї бусідо не згасли, вони зберігають своє значення, хоча вже в дещо іншій формі. Кодекс бусідо здійснив вагомий вплив на формування світогляду, філософії та життєвих принципів не лише самураїв у період сьогунату, але й мав подальший вплив на розвиток японської нації, її культури та ідеології. В «Хагакуре» ми знаходимо унікальне розуміння людської природи і мудрість, яка, будучи написаною в далекому минулому, не втратила свого значення і сьогодні.

Джерела

1. Книга самурая. Юдзан Дайдодзи Будосесинсю. Ямамото Цунетомо «Хагакуре». Юкио Мисима Хагакурэ Нюмон. Перевод на русский: Котенко Р. В., Мищенко А. А. СПб.: Евразия, 2000. — 240 с.↓
2. Кодекс Бусидо. Хагакурэ. Сокрытое в листве. — М.: Эксмо, 2008. — 432 с.

Посилання

 Хагакурэ
 Hagakure: Book of the Samurai
 «The Hagakure Kikigaki», стаття про Ямамото Цунетомо та його книгу
 Книга самурая. Бусідо  Юдзан Дайдодзи Будосесинсю. Ямамото Цунэтомо Хагакурэ. Юкио Мисима Хагакурэ Нюмон. Перевод на русский: Котенко Р.В., Мищенко А.А. -- СПб.:Евразия, 2000. ISBN 5-8071-0005-0
 Ямамото Цунетомо Хагакуре

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The Making of a Caregiving Crisis
By Allison K. Hoffman
Allison K. Hoffman (@allisonkhoffman) is Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
This post continues a symposium on Gabriel Winant's The Next Shift. Read the rest of the posts here.
The past two years have made painfully clear the problems with undervaluing care work. As COVID-19 has torn through nursing homes—one in ten people living in a nursing home has now died of COVID—it has also exacerbated labor problems caused by decades of neglect. Daily news stories describe shortages in nursing staff, caused by burn out, illness, or nurses taking traveling jobs with considerably higher pay. By January 2022, hospitals were so understaffed that some were telling workers to show up even after testing positive for COVID, blessed by crisis guidance from the Centers for Disease Control.
The Next Shift helps readers trace this result backwards through time to some of its root causes. In a story that starts with the growth of the steel industry and ends with a massive industrial health care complex that rests on the shoulders of low-wage workers, Gabriel Winant leads readers through an intricate tale of the incremental steps that produced our low-wage health care workforce. The more a job focused on the so-called "custodial" aspects of care—like nursing aids and nursing home workers—the lower the work was paid and more likely it was held by women, especially black women. The book shows how the caregiving crisis we are witnessing today was produced by policies and markets, as they fed off each other to create a gradual accretion of power and money for some, and diminution for others.
What I most appreciated is how this book thoughtfully connects labor and healthcare history with regulatory policy to show the interplay between the two. By telling the stories of the people and places of Pittsburgh's Mon Valley (even mapping, literally, the shift from steel mills (29) to hospitals (249)), Winant links historical moments that are often studied discreetly. Yet the interaction between these different historical pieces can be almost dizzying at times—like a Rube Goldberg machine, each piece sets the next in motion.
I first offer a simplified recounting of what stood out to me as critical moments in the complex interactions among unions, labor and health care policies, and private and public health insurance that built today's oversized health care complexes, as well as the low wage workforces that keep them running. I then consider what conclusions, if any, we should draw from this history about the development of U.S. healthcare policy, and whether a more a promising future could be possible for health care workers, especially those focused on caring.
Health Care's Rube Goldberg Machine
Workplace benefits: the initial domino in Winant's story falls with the adoption of workplace healthcare benefits. Employer-based healthcare benefits began at Baylor in 1929 with the creation of a prepaid plan that provided local teachers up to 21 days of hospital care for $6 per person a year. This idea evolved into Blue Cross, which, as he describes, made it to Western Pennsylvania in 1937, just as steelworkers won union representation. In 1943, the National War Labor Board allowed labor to bargain collectively for benefits, including health benefits, which the steelworker unions won in efforts from 1949 to the mid-1950s.
Hospital revenues surge: as steelworkers and their families began to use those benefits, hospitals saw a flood of business and revenue. Winant describes that from 1948 to 1953, Blue Cross payments to hospitals in the area grew 2.5 times (141). Just prior, Congress had passed the Hill-Burton Act to support new hospital construction in lower-income areas with growing demand. Flush with revenue and aided by Hill-Burton, hospitals grew like weeds. They also began providing more sophisticated care, which allowed them to charge more for their services.
Enter Medicare: Here is where the pieces start to tumble quickly, with the interplay between private and public health benefits. Steelworker negotiations to slow this inflationary cycle stalled out (145-156). High prices left most people without job-based benefits unable to afford care and spurred the need for federal intervention that eventually resulted in the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. With public and private insurance reimbursing care generously, hospitals hired more healthcare workers, but many were low-paid jobs held disproportionately by women of color. Unlike steelworkers, they lacked the protection of labor laws to use to organize for more (152-157).
(As I've written elsewhere, the passage of Medicare and Medicaid also cemented long-term care's place at the margins of health care financing, excluding it from Medicare, covering it only partially under Medicaid, and, in effect, relegating much of it to friends and family.)
Steel recedes and health care balloons: Through a set of especially interesting stories, Winant shows that as steel work began to disappear, workers, retirees, and their families retained health benefits and used a massive amount of health care, especially hospital care. Winant's first description of this trend veers close to economic "moral hazard" territory, explaining that hospitals "offered a service their workers and their dependents did not have to buy, for which they could find many uses" (158). He later, however, probes more deeply to explain that people turned to the health care system to fill gaps in mental health care and other community supports. To accommodate this need, hospitals expanded even more and, as Winant describes, "absorbed social problems dislocated from other sectors of the economy that lacked access to public support" (169).
Consolidation & Erosion: To perhaps oversimplify from there, health care spending skyrocketed though the 1970s and into the 1980s, and Medicare responded with payment reform. Hospitals, instead of being reimbursed for their full costs of care, were paid a fixed amount per encounter (e.g., normal newborn delivery, pneumonia, etc.), based on the average costs of those encounters. This prospective payment system squeezed hospitals (229). The most prestigious and specialized hospitals, especially academic centers who received extra reimbursement, continued to thrive, while the community hospitals that were providing more of the hands-on social supports to communities struggled. Eventually, the specialized institutions gobbled up struggling community hospitals, producing the consolidated system we have today. In Pittsburgh, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) was the main gobbler. UPMC, like its supersized brethren across the country, uses its heft to demand higher prices from insurers and lower wages of workers, as Winant describes in the first pages of the book. UPMC has drawn antitrust scrutiny, resulting in several settlements in recent years but no major structural changes – a common picture among mega hospital systems.
The Inevitability of Health Policy and The Post-Pandemic Future
Scholars often describe U.S. health policy as predestined from the moment when the U.S. chose an employer-based system over a national health insurance system. In recent debates over Medicare for All, this story of path dependence suggests major reform is now impossible because structural factors are all pitted against fundamental change. In some ways, Winant's book confirms this hypothesis. The creation of a rich system of employer-based health benefits for some catalyzed not only a fragmented health care financing structure but also, over time, an extremely powerful and consolidated industry that now resists changes to that structure.
However, it also undermines this theory by showing just how many discreet parts were necessary to pave the current path. Imagine that just one piece shifted, the constellation of power could be quite different than it is today. What if Medicare were enacted initially with checks on inflation, dampening the initial expansionary push? What if Medicare included high reimbursement for long-term care and mental health care? What if Hill-Burton placed more thoughtful constraints on hospital expansion? What if health care labor had full organizing rights? If any of these factors were different, today's health care delivery system could look quite different.
This thought experiment raises the question of what might transform what we see today: powerful health care systems and marginalized workers. Winant concludes with this question, wondering whether a rebound in collective action in the 2010, including among health care workers, might foretell change. When workers are willing to walk away, it seems that structural changes might be in store.
The Next Shift went to press just as the major problem it illuminates was about to become more relevant than ever. Over the course of the pandemic, our lives came to depend on marginalized workers. Given prevailing conditions, low-wage heath care workers—including nursing home workers, custodians, nursing assistants, and others profiled in this book—may be better positioned than ever to demand the wages and security they deserve.
A pandemic silver-lining could be political momentum to pass much-needed policies that have long proven elusive, like long-term care payment reform. Yet, two years into the pandemic (and a year into the Biden Administration), I'm increasingly circumspect. Whether or not Build Back Better passes, one of the first pieces abandoned was proposed funding for long-term care; efforts by nursing home workers to organize continue to fail even in settings most ripe for action, largely due to the lack of labor protections; and health care workers who put their lives on the line and who have worked tirelessly have received little or no hazard pay. We are learning how deeply difficult it will be to change the structures that, as Winant artfully describes, have been a century in the making.
The House Always Wins: The Algorithmic Gamblification of Work
By Veena Dubal


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UIC Proposes Custom Residential Infill in The Grove, Seeks Tax Abatement
November 29, 2016 Alex Ihnen Development & Preservation, Featured 6 comments
UIC, the design-build company best known for its transformation of the Botanical Heights, continues to build outside that original footprint. The company is proposing a custom home with first floor apartment at 4401 Gibson Avenue in Forst Park Southeast north of Manchester. The company has previously completed six homes in The Grove (Avant Grove and custom homes on Gibson and Hunt Avenue).
Proposed for the corner lot is a site plan that seeks to mimic the historic corner building form, with the facades built near the sidewalk line instead of set back. Initial plans show the home and apartment entrances on the south facade, fronting Gibson Avenue, a design echoing entrances on adjacent corner buildings.
The inclusion of a one-bedroom apartment is similar to UIC's first custom home project in The Grove, which included an apartment as well. Adding an income generating component to what is otherwise a traditional single-family home, is a smart way to help secure financing. The building form also adds housing diversity and density to the city. As co-generational living becomes more popular in the US, we may see projects like this more often.
The vacant corner lot, and lot immediately to the west, were long owned by the City of St. Louis. In 2015, 4403 was acquired by Houlihan Development (AKA Homes With Limits). Houlihan was the developer for 4448 Chouteau, a universal design and energy efficient home nearby. In July of 2015, a $250K construction permit was issued for Pagano Land Development, to construct the single family home there today. The corner lot is owned by the 4403 homeowner.
Existing lot and adjacent new home:
4401 Project Description (via Park Central Development):
The proposed project is a single-family, 2-story home with an apartment in the lower level. The home is approximately 2000 sq ft with 2 bedrooms and 2 baths and a rooftop deck. The interior of the home will be an open floor plan, with 9' ground floor ceilings, and a double-height space in the back. The homeowners will manage a small 1-bedroom apartment in the lower level that is approximately 700 sq ft. It will be accessed from the front of the building through a naturally lit "atrium" stair.
Finishes will include Kynar coated metal siding, aluminum clad or aluminum clad wood windows, painted insulated steel fulllite style doors, and sealed wood or wood-look siding. The rear elevation is a sealed wood or wood-look siding with aluminum clad wood windows. The west elevation will be a rated wall since it is less than 3' from the western property line and will be a combination of metal siding and cement fiber lap siding with 7" exposure.
Anticipated Cost and Timeline: Acquisition: $20,000, Pre-development Soft Costs: $15,000, Construction Cost: $405,000, Total: $440,000. Site Control: November 2016, Construction Start: Spring 2017, Construction Complete: Fall 2017, Occupancy: Fall 2017. Developer is requesting 10-year tax abatement.
Adjacent corners to 4401 Gibson (first: northeast, second: southeast, third: southwest at Chouteau):
In September, UIC announced it would renovate 110K sf of the Liggett-Myers Tobacco building at 4140 Park Avenue. That project will become the third office for UIC since opening at McRee and Tower Grove in 2006. The company's work in the Botanical Heights area is coming to a close with Phase 3 plans including the construction of 17 single-family homes and the redevelopment of 25 additional buildings as apartments and commercial space.
Phases I and II of Botanical Heights included 40 single-family homes, 34 apartment units, City Garden Montessori charter school, restaurants Olio + Elaia, Union Loafers, Old Standard, and La Patisserie Chouquette, and company headquarters for UIC, GadellNet, and SLAM! Agency.
UIC has recently proposed a multi-building residential infill project in the city's Skinker-DeBaliviere neighborhood, though it has yet to break ground. The company has two homes under construction on the south side of Manchester in The Grove at Boyle and Norfolk, and recently completed a custom home on Hunt Avenue in the neighborhood. Currently under construction and rehab is the 72-unit project on Detonty Street.


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San Diegans raising money to reduce cancer risks for firefighters
Goal is $50,000
By: Steve Fiorina
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - The images of our firefighters putting their lives on the line are striking; any time of the day or night and often just inches from raging flames, working to save us and our property.
They sometimes pay a price.
San Diego Fire-Rescue Capt. Dan King told reporters, "I just want to give perspective on what it's like to be a firefighter and to have cancer. Unfortunately, that's me. Two years ago today. I was in the middle of chemotherapy and radiation; pretty extensive treatment. For me, the treatment was very long and very painful."
His remarks were during a news conference about a fund-raiser to upgrade the equipment at Firehouse 21 in Pacific Beach Tuesday.
Imagine the health risks — every day.
"Firefighters can experience a lifetime of environmental exposures in a compressed period of time. It may happen at just one fire or, in many cases, chronic exposure over the course of a long career," Firefighter Kurtis Bennett, part of The Cancer Awareness and Prevention Program, said.
To fight that the Pacific Beach Town Council wants to raise $50,000 to augment city funding.
San Diego City Council leader for District 2, Lorie Zapf, told the crowd, "I wish we had more revenue, more money so we could take care of all these equipment needs."
Firehouse 21 would benefit directly. The hope is that other stations will, too, down the road.
"Their wish list has a health and safety theme; driven by the fact that 65 percent of firefighters develop some form of cancer," Denise Friedman, co-chair of the fundraising event, said.
Capt. Rich Marcello showed 10News a specialized vacuum inside the station. He said it's a huge help to address immediate concerns.
"This extracts diesel particulates from the apparatus floor, which we're in quite a bit of the time and it hooks up to the exhaust system, extracts particles out and gets it out of our air," Marcello said.
One hope is that other neighborhoods will find ways to reduce cancer risks for their firefighters as well.


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A good newspaper, like a good mind, is a terrible thing to waste.
That's right, I'm talking about our crinkly, old friend that so long ago would leave ink on our fingers, before we dropped it like, well, yesterday's news and jumped into this 21st century screenapalooza. Stay with me here, kids, because there is a point.
With AWS re:Invent 2015 its full Vegas throes, I'm reminded of an image that sticks in my mind from a previous life calling on Wall Street clients in New York 20 years or so ago.
In the well-appointed office lobbies of these big banks and brokers, I would often see multiple copies of the Wall Street Journal just sitting on coffee tables, lonely and unopened and, likely, just tossed in the trash at the end of the day. Why?
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With our new Accenture Cloud Platform, which we announced Oct. 6, we feel we're tackling the capacity question head-on. We're particularly proud of how the platform provides the tools to achieve greater cost efficiency and IT optimization. Ultimately, that shows up on the bottom line.
The way we get our news, like a lot of things, has changed greatly over the past couple decades. But money is still money. As you map out your cloud path, remember, the bill comes every month anyway. To borrow an economist term, the cloud is "elastic;" my wallet is not.


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