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Swihart Orthodontics: Journey to the most beautiful smile
December 21, 2020 Nancy P. Sykes Beside the Point, Features 0
Dr. Corrie Swihart (Photos by Peter Senn Yuen)
"I knew when I was 12 years old that I wanted to be an orthodontist," says Dr. Corrie Swihart, owner of Swihart Orthodontics. "I had problems with my teeth as a child, which made me self-conscious. I wouldn't smile. My sister got braces and I saw her transformation. She became more confident. I wanted the same for me. That experience confirmed my desire to help others. My parents thought I would change my mind, but I didn't."
Dr. Swihart grew up in a small town in northern Indiana and received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Purdue University. She earned her Doctor of Dental Surgery degree, Master of Science in Dentistry degree and Orthodontics Certificate from Indiana University.
Looking for a place to begin her practice, Swihart focused on the East Coast. "I wanted to look at water, not cornfields," she says with a smile. She grew up in a rural area and spent 10 years in Indianapolis earning her degrees. "I was ready for a change," she adds. When her current practice became available for purchase, she came to Virginia for the first time. "It is great here," she says. It's her first practice, which she opened in 2018. There are 10 employees in the practice.
Swihart recommends scheduling children for a consultation before their seventh birthday. Much like dental checkups and physicals are routine to set a baseline and identify potential problems, an orthodontic checkup can discover or uncover issues that can be corrected to avoid future problems. Changes in the mouth can be monitored. "Most dental plans have an orthodontic option, so there's every reason to consider a consultation," says Swihart.
About five percent of Swihart's patients are children six to nine years old. As would be expected, most are teenagers. Of course, an adult smile can also be straightened. "It's never too late," says Swihart.
These days, there are choices in braces. High-grade stainless steel brackets and arch wires are traditional and effective. A clear ceramic version is less obvious. Custom-fit clear acrylic trays that fit over the teeth are another option. These are removable for eating, drinking, brushing and flossing. As teeth move, new trays must be fitted. For younger children, traditional braces are recommended. Older children and teens may prefer the clear trays for cosmetic reasons. Swihart consults with adults and helps them make the best choice. Some prefer the convenience of a removable device.
Swihart also performs surgeries for misaligned jaws, receding or protruding jaws or an open bite.
Swihart likes Virginia. "There's always something different to do," she says. She enjoys kayaking and owns a kayak. She frequently bikes along the Virginia Capital Trail from Jamestown to Richmond. "I also enjoy walking my dogs," she says. They are rescue dogs she "met" while doing volunteer work at an out-of-state humane society. Swihart is married; her husband is a teacher.
Swihart advocates tooth brushing for two minutes twice a day. Braces or other devices should be cleaned after every meal. "Good oral hygiene alleviates problems with braces," she adds.
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Swihart Orthodontics
Address: 12725 McManus Blvd., Ste. 1B, Newport News VA 23602
Contact: Corrie J. Swihart, DDS, MSD
Email: office@swihartorthodontics.com
Website: www.swihartorthodontics.com
Business: Child and adult orthodontist
About Nancy P. Sykes	55 Articles
Nancy P. Sykes has been a Peninsula resident most of her life and has never visited another place where she would rather live. Though she is at the "retirement age," she is not interested in retiring. At this point in her life, she thinks that learning, being with friends and enjoying good health are the important things. She is now in the 18th year of writing for the Oyster Pointer and has met some fascinating people.
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The long onion harvest has just started in the important Koue Bokkeveld area, a mainstay of South African onion production and domestic supermarket programmes. Onion producers in other parts of the country like the Northern Cape and Limpopo are closely watching what Cape producers decide to do during this unique onion marketing year. Increased exports from the Western Cape could mean that other regions can plan for larger plantings the coming season.
The total onion acreage in South Africa, which also exports to Angola and other African countries, is approximately 80 to 90% of total onion plantings in and around the Netherlands.
The European export opportunity this season might very well just be a once-off." He also notes that there appears to be some buyer resistance in Europe to higher onion prices, which is dampening interest in South African onions from elsewhere in Europe.


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What Is the Role of the Spinal Cord in the Central Nervous System?
The central nervous system, which consists of the brain and spinal cord, receives and transmits signals to the nerves in the peripheral nervous system, which is composed of the nerves in the organs and muscles of the body.
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The spinal cord is responsible for transmitting messages to the body from the brain.
Written By: Sandi Johnson
Edited By: John Allen
The spinal cord is an integral part of the body's communication system. Comprised primarily of the brain, spinal cord, and a massive system of sensory receptors, the central nervous system is responsible for processing internal and external communications. In terms of the specific function of the spinal cord in the central nervous system, it is a direct link between the brain and other body systems. Information flows in from nerves throughout the body, traveling along the spinal cord to the brain. Once information is received, the brain processes it and sends out messages along the spinal cord to initiate the appropriate system responses.
To fully understand the role of the spinal cord in the central nervous system, it is necessary to first understand its construction. Inside the spine, the spinal cord is comprised of a bundle of separate nerves, wrapped together like a cable. Measuring roughly 16 inches (40.64 cm) long and less than 1 inch (approximately 2 cm) wide, the spinal cord connects to the brain and extends the full length of the backbone. It is protected by fluid-filled membranes known as the meninges, which are further protected by the backbones that surround the spinal column.
At several points, the spinal cord branches out into nerve pairs that communicate information to and from four separate regions of the body: the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacral regions. These innervated areas facilitate communications from various body parts and systems along the spinal cord, up to the brain, and then back again. For example, the cervical region relays information to and from the head, neck, arms, and hands. Comparatively, the thoracic regions relays information to and from the heart, chest, and other systems within the abdominal area of the body. Without the use of the spinal cord in the central nervous system, the brain would have no way to receive information from these outlying body regions.
Disease or injury to the spinal cord cuts off communications between the brain and body regions, much like cutting a telephone line disconnects a call. When an injury occurs, for example, the role of the spinal cord in the central nervous system is compromised. Severe spinal cord injuries, such as seen in paraplegics, can cause such a disruption in the central nervous system that the brain is no longer able to control various muscles and tendons. While the body systems and the brain may continue to send out the proper signals and messages, the main communication line is damaged so messages cannot get through.
What Is the Relationship between the Brain and Central Nervous System?
What Is Involved in Central Nervous System Development?
What Are the Different Types of Central Nervous System Depressants?
What Is Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma?
What Is the Difference between the Peripheral and Central Nervous System?
What Is the Relationship between the Nervous System and the Heart?
What are the Different Types of Central Nervous System Diseases?

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The BM 62 knife features a D2 Tool steel Weehawk blade with razor sharpness. The handles are skeletonized to reduce weight and sport a polished stainless steel finish. Sandwich style construction with stainless steel back spacers. The 62 Bali also features Zen pins and the classic T latch to secure the knife open and closed. Made in the USA.
The Benchmade 62 knife features a D2 Tool steel Weehawk blade with razor sharpness. The handles are skeletonized to reduce weight and sport a polished stainless steel finish. Sandwich style construction with stainless steel back spacers. The 62 Bali also features Zen pins and the classic T latch to secure the knife open and closed. Made in the USA.


Lara Bingle and Sam Worthington appeared to have colour coordinated their looks for the 3rd Annual AACTA Awards Ceremony held at The Star on Thursday (January 30) in Sydney, Australia.
While he looked very handsome in a classic black Louis Vuitton suit and part-unbuttoned white shirt, Lara wore a black Ellery Pre-Fall 2014 dress.
Not being a fan of Lara's try-desperately-hard style, this black plunging frock with white-lined oversized sleeves has got to be the most sophisticated look she has ever presented on the red carpet.
No ear cuffs, or any other distracting accessories – just a pretty frock, a bold red lip and some sweet arm candy.


No matter where you are traveling in the world, we can all use some great travel tips. In this post, I will outline 58 Top travel tips and advice which will help you with your next trip or vacation.
If you are traveling to a particular foreign country for the first time, then you should do your research about it. You should gather information about the country's culture, learn more about their language, check out the prices of commodities, and more. By gaining valuable data about your destination, you can ensure to have a glorious trip whether it would be for business or leisure.
Booking at the last minute may happen if you are traveling for business purposes. However, if it is for a vacation with your family, then you should book it ahead of time. Booking a trip ahead of time does not only mean saving more money, but it also means that you are able to plan it well.
Some countries may require only a passport, while others would also require visas. It is best that you know your destination's requirements regarding this so that you can prepare them beforehand. Keep in mind that these documents may take some time to acquire or renew. You should keep your documents in a multi-purpose RFID blocking travel passport folder. You can get one for a great price on Amazon by clicking the link.
5. Get vaccinated in time.
There are some countries that may require you to get vaccinated for certain diseases, before granting you access to their land. Thus, it is best if you learn more about them so that you can make the necessary preparations. Get your vaccinations weeks or months before your travel date, so that you won't have to rush.
6. Don't forget to inform your banks about your travel plans.
Telling your banks about your travel plans can prevent you from experiencing something inconvenient when it comes to using your credit or debit cards in a foreign land. This is because, some banks may put a fraud hold on your cards, once they realize that the cards are used overseas. By informing them where you would go, they can put a note on your account, so that you can continue using your cards, without hassles.
7. Bring a small notebook that fits into your pocket.
Bringing a small notebook can come handy when it comes to traveling. With a small notebook or notepad, you can easily jot down important things that you need to remember along the way. You want to make sure that it fits into your pocket so that you won't have to hold it in your hands all the time.
8. Don't forget the numbers.
When you travel, there are lots of important numbers that you want to take note of. Some of which would be your itinerary confirmation number, your flight number, your hotel room number, your flight seat number, as well as a bunch of phone numbers you may need. Write them all down in a notepad or a piece of paper that you can fit into your wallet, so that you can easily refer to it.
9. Double check your health and travel insurance coverage.
Weeks prior to traveling, it is important to check your health and travel insurance coverage. This should be done in order to see whether it can provide you coverage while traveling or not. If it does not, then checking it early would provide you time to look for an alternative option, so that you would be covered just in case. I highly recommend World Nomads Travel Insurance.
10. Bring a carry-on bag with you.
It is better if you can bring a small carry-on bag with you during the flight. When you do this, you would actually be saving some money, when it comes to baggage fees. Aside from that, it can offer you an easier way to keep track of your important documents and other important things, by putting them into your carry-on bag. The best carry on travel bag for airplanes can be found here on Amazon for a great price and meets airline specifications.
11. Don't forget your computer files.
If you have lots of important files on your computer, then you should back them up prior to leaving. This way, you wouldn't be risking losing them while you are traveling. Make sure though that you keep your back up at a safe place, so that no one would be able to gain access to them.
12. Sign up with travel websites.
There are lots of travel websites available today, which you can use to book flights, hotel, and car reservations from. To ensure that you would be one of the first persons to know about their travel deals and promotions, then sign up for their newsletter. By doing that, you are increasing your chances of getting the best deals.
13. Access blogs and sites about traveling.
Accessing more web pages about traveling can provide you with more benefits, especially when it comes to enjoying your trip. Lots of these websites offer important information about certain places you can visit, while you are visiting a particular country. With that, you would be able to plan out your trip better by knowing what attractions to go to, and what places to visit to enjoy sumptuous meals.
14. Sign up with frequent flyer points.
Whether you are a frequent traveler or not, signing up for airline frequent flyer points may provide you with lots of advantages. The more points you would be able to rack up, the more money you may be able to save in your future travel plans. Just make sure that your account is duly updated with your frequent flyer points so that you can take advantage of it soon.
15. Never forget checking the expiry date of your passport.
Embarrassing moments can be avoided if you are able to check the expiry date of your passport. Thus, it is best if you check it at least a couple of weeks prior to traveling, so that you can still have enough time to renew it just in case. Aside from that, keep in mind that some countries may require at least 6 months left on your passport before it expires, in order to allow you to visit them.
When it comes to booking your flights, do not purchase the one that you come across with immediately. Shop around first, until you can find the best deals. Keep in mind that there are lots of travel sites you can book your flights from; and, they are in constant competition against each other, which means that they are trying their best to come up with excellent deals.
17. When to book flights.
Flights are always more affordable when you book it months before you travel. However, you can also save more money, if you schedule your vacation during offseason. Research more about your destination, so that you would know when is the best time to visit it, in terms of affordability.
Red-eye flights are usually more affordable than the regular ones. However, you need to keep in mind that they are called as such since the travel times fall late at night or even at dawn. Thus, if you are traveling with kids, then this may not be something that you want to do unless they are really up to it.
Selecting your flight seats can actually be done days before your actual flight. Although this may depend on the type of airlines you are booking it from, most of them offer seat selection online. Therefore, instead of waiting for the day to take the flight, select your favorite seats online ahead of time, so that you would have the utmost comfort in traveling.
20. Double check the website.
If it is your first time to book online, or at a particular website, don't forget to double check if it is really a legitimate site to purchase an airline ticket from. One way of doing it is to see if its web address starts with "https://" which basically means that it is secure. Aside from that, you should also check out reviews about it.
When booking your travel items online, you will need to have a credit or a debit card on hand. It is actually better if you the card is in front of you when you book it since most sites would ask not just for the credit card number. Sites would actually need the last three digits at the back of your card, the name that appears on your card, its expiry date, as well as your billing address.
22. Using credit or debit card.
Some people like to use credit cards in booking through the internet, while others want to use debit cards. Keep in mind though that when you use a debit card, it will automatically deduct the money from your bank account. Aside from that, you should also check with your bank if your debit card has a daily spending limit, since your online transaction may not go through if it is more than that.
23. Calling the online travel site.
If you want to feel more secure in booking your flight and hotel reservations, you can actually call the hotline number of the site you are looking at. One advantage you can gain from that is the agent may be able to provide you with more options. Aside from that, if you have certain requests for the hotel or flight reservations, he may also be able to process it for you.
24. Take note of the baggage requirements.
Prior to booking your flight reservation, you should check its baggage requirements first. In most cases, international flights usually provide you with more baggage allowance than the domestic ones. Aside from checking on the check-in baggage terms and conditions though, don't forget to read the terms for carry on bags as well.
If you booked your flights through the internet, do not forget to print out your itinerary confirmation for it. If you don't have a printer at your house, you can simply email the confirmation page to your own email address and print it out someplace else. Bring the printed copy of your itinerary, so that you can simply show it to the attendants.
26. Booking through a travel agency.
If you are more comfortable in booking through a travel agency than online, then make sure to check the price difference before making the payment. Aside from that, don't forget to tell the agent about what you want to have on your trip, so that he can set up an itinerary that would suit you best. Moreover, make sure to ask the necessary questions to the agent, since they are usually very familiar about certain vacation spots.
27. While boarding the plane.
When boarding the plane, keep in mind that you can actually carry your mobile phone, wallet, and passport with you. It is actually a better idea to keep them in your pocket so that you can easily pull them out when needed. Don't worry about your mobile phone, since you can always turn it off, just before the plane takes off.
28. Try not to drink alcohol.
When traveling on a plane, it is always better to skip the alcoholic beverages for a while. This is because boarding on a plane, taking care of your luggage, minding the weather, can already provide you with lots of stress for the day. Instead of drinking alcohol, drink lots of water, so that you won't get dehydrated. If you want to avoid Jet Lag, you need to avoid alcohol. Read our 5 Tips for avoiding Jet Lag by clicking the link.
Going overseas usually involves very long flights, which is why it is a good idea to wear comfortable clothing. Aside from that, you should also bring a jacket so that you won't feel cold. Moreover, for women, it is best to wear flat shoes, so that you won't have difficulties in boarding and getting off the aircraft.
30. Book the seats you are most comfortable with.
If your budget allows you to do so, you should book flight seats that you are most comfortable with. For example, if you can afford to upgrade your ticket for a seat that can be folded into a bed, then do it. It is actually better that you are well rested during the flight, since it ensures that you are wide awake when you arrive, instead of feeling groggy.
31. Make safety your priority.
In boarding the plane, aside from listening to the flight attendants presentation in using the life jacket, and such, you should also take note of the emergency exits. Count the rows towards these exits, and determine which ones are nearest to you. Aside from that, you should also check out the safety manual, which you can usually find in front of you.
Keep in mind that when you ride a plane, you would be exposed to other people's germs and such. Therefore, you should boost your immune system, by taking your daily vitamin supplement. Make sure that your supplement contains vitamin C and zinc so that you would be duly protected from infections.
33. Be positive, but be ready about the negatives.
Although it is best to think about positive things when traveling, in order to maximize the benefits from it, you should still be prepared for some setbacks. Some of which may include flight delays, getting sick, getting lost, and such. Thus, you should always carry cash in small amounts, flashlights, medications, and your cell phone.
34. Convert your money into the currency of the country you are visiting.
Days or weeks before you take your trip, it is a good idea to convert some of your money into the currency of the country you are visiting. This way, you won't get stuck with no local money to pay for the first few expenses you would make after arriving. One example of the expense you may incur is paying the taxi cab on your way to the hotel.
35. Booking the best flight schedule.
If you can afford it, it is actually best if you choose a flight schedule that would allow you to arrive in the morning at the country you are visiting. Thus, you should take note of the amount of time it would take for you to get to the other country. By doing that, you can ensure that you would be able to book the best flight schedule.
36. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
In traveling to a country that you are not very familiar with, it is best not to keep all your money in one location. This way, just in case you get unlucky and become a victim of a pickpocket, then it wouldn't hurt so much. Aside from that, make sure not to show too much money in public, since you might become the next target for thieves.
37. The number of nights to stay at a hotel.
If you are not very sure about the hotel that you are booking, then you should not book it for more than two nights, even if your trip runs for 5 days. This way, you are assured that you have a place to stay for the first 2 nights in the country. Aside from that, if you don't like the accommodation, then you will have enough time to find another one.
When you travel, whether you are going on a business trip or not, you may find yourself chatting with the passenger next to you on the airplane or at the airport. Although this is not a bad practice, you must be cautious when it comes to the information that you give away. Make sure not to tell the other person all your plans or where you are staying, since another one may be listening to take advantage of it.
Booking for your hotel accommodations can now be done through the internet. One of the best things about it is that there are several websites, which can offer you fabulous hotel deals. Aside from that, they usually showcase pictures of the accommodations, as well as testimonies that can all help you choose the best one for you.
40. Be mindful of the location.
When you book a hotel, don't just base it on the prices of its rooms or the beauty of its pictures. You should also be mindful of its location. Make sure that it is quite near to places that you are interested in. Aside from that, it should also be near to a restaurant, an ATM machine, convenience store, and a pharmacy.
41. What to do after arriving at the hotel.
Once you have arrived at the hotel, you should take a few minutes to relax, and then head out. Visit the nearest convenience store, and buy some snacks and beverages. Stock some of them in your room, so that you would be able to munch on something, in case you wake up in the middle of the night, and feel hungry.
No matter how short or long your vacation would be, it is always best to pack light. Bring only the necessary number of shirts and pants, and just wash them in case you need to. Just focus on the most important things to bring, anyway, most of the items you may need later on can be bought in your destination. You can use compression packing cubes to help organize and maximize your luggage space. You can find the best deal on compression packing cubes on Amazon by clicking the link.
43. Make a list of things to bring.
Just a week before your trip starts, you should come up with a packing list. Making a list early on can help to ensure that you won't forget anything since you can always add more into it, whenever you think of other items to bring. Refer to your list from time to time, so that you can make sure that you are able to list down all the things you need.
When it comes to packing your clothes, it is always better to roll them instead of folding. This is because rolling your shirts and your pants would prevent too many creases. Thus, it gives you the assurance that you would be able to maximize the space of your bags.
45. Don't forget to check the weight of your luggage.
Checking the weight of your luggage can go a long way, as far as saving up some money from paying airline excess luggage fees is concerned. Therefore, you should make sure that you stay within the limits of the weight restrictions. Use your weighing scale for it, so that you won't have to deal with these fees. I recommend this luggage weigh scale on Amazon. They are very affordable and will eliminate any surprises at the airport with excess luggage fees.
Many travelers have the tendency to change their currency at the airports. Although this is more convenient, you can actually get better rates in other currency changing facilities. Aside from banks, check out other facilities, so that you would be able to compare their rates.
47. There is no need to carry large amounts of cash.
When you travel, there is actually no need for you to carry a large amount of cash. Most countries these days actually have cash machines everywhere, which make it more convenient for you to obtain the money that you need. Just make sure to carry your ATM card, so that you can make a withdrawal anytime you need to.
If you are not a frequent traveler, and you are one of those folks who experience air sickness, then choose your airline seats properly. When it comes to that, choose the seats by the wing, or situate it as near to the wings as possible, since it is where you won't experience too many bumps during the ride. Choose the seats early, so that you would have a good number of them to select from.
49. Be mindful of the airline temperature.
Always remember that each airplane may have a different temperature to another. Thus, you should carry your jacket or sweater with you when you take the flight. This way, you won't have to endure the coldness of the flight, especially if it is a long one.
50. Booking flights with a layover.
When you book flights online, you may have a tendency to disregard the layover time. You would usually know that there is a long layover in between flights when the total duration of the flight is quite longer than the other ones. Thus, keep an eye out for flights with longer layover times, so that you won't be spending too much time in airports.
51. Booking connecting flights together or separately.
In most cases, you would be able to save more money if you are able to book all your flights together. Therefore, if your business trip involves flying from one country to another in just a few days in between, then access a site that allows you to book them altogether. If it gets a bit confusing though, don't forget that they usually have a 1-800 toll-free number that you can call anytime.
52. Bring your own snacks.
Before finalizing your decision about a certain flight, check whether it offers an in-flight meal or not. If the flight does not offer it, then you should bring your own food, such as a sandwich. By doing this, you would be able to prevent yourself from paying exorbitant prices for the meals offered onboard.
53. Book a whole package instead of booking them separately.
is because, most online travel sites offer more discounts when you book the flights, hotel accommodations, and cars together, instead of doing them separately.
54. Book at a site that has the best price offer.
There are certain sites that have the best price offer. This kind of offer simply means that if you find a flight, a hotel accommodation, or even a package, at a different website that is exactly the same but offered at a more affordable price, another site may offer you a cheaper price for it. However, you should take note that, in most cases, this kind of offer can only be availed by calling the toll free line of the site.
55. Being in a country for a shorter period of time.
If you are planning to be at a certain country for just a short period of time, then you should avoid foods that you are not very familiar with. You should also stay away from drinks that can get you feeling sick. This is because you may not have time to recover from it before you have to take a trip going home.
56. Learn more about the local cuisine before visiting a certain country.
Prior to taking a trip to a foreign land, you should learn more about its local foods. This way, you would be able to determine what types of local foods you want to try out. Keep in mind that a trip to a foreign country would not be completed without trying out its local specialties.
If you are allergic to certain things, then you should not forget bringing your own medication for it. Although you can probably purchase antihistamines in the local pharmacies, it is still best if you can bring your own. The reason for this is that it may take you some time to get to the pharmacy. Thus, if you have your own medicine, you would be able to gain relief from your allergies sooner.
58. What to do if you have dietary requirements.
There are certain individuals who may have special dietary requirements. If you are one of them, then you should come up with a list of the foods that you can and cannot eat. With a list, you can refer to it every time you eat outside. If you are not sure, then all you have to do is to show the server your list, so that you can prevent eating foods that do not belong to your diet.
Hopefully, you found these 58 Top travel tips and advice were helpful. There are always many things to prepare for when traveling, the list is endless. But having some great tips can go a long way in helping you plan your trip, and be mindful of events during your trip.


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In the round-up: Mazepin, Schumacher and Tsunoda have a trip into the unknown this weekend in Portugal, and have used different approaches for overcoming their inexperience at a track fairly new in F1.
How F1 rookies prepared for Algarve
None of F1's three rookies have ever raced at Algarve before, and they've taken very different approaches to preparing for this weekend's Portuguese Grand Prix at the circuit.
Ex-Ferrari chief reveals Michael Schumacher watches F1 races in update on stricken icon
AlphaTauri's Yuki Tsunoda, the only of the three to have scored points so far, has kept it simple and done "a couple of sim sessions, which I normally do before the race week". As most drivers tend to visit their team's simulator before racing at a circuit they have little experience at, Tsunoda's frame of reference was so limited that even the Thursday track walk took him by surprise.
"Lots of up-down, I didn't expect that huge difference," he said. "I'm really looking forward to it."
Haas pair Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin both got in real vehicles during the break after the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix at Imola, but of very different kinds. Schumacher tested a Ferrari F1 car, albeit at Fiorano, but he has tested privately at Algarve before.
"I have been here in a GP2 car, 2018," he revealed. "It was obviously before it was resurfaced, so I haven't driven the new, I probably would call it the new bumps here. But it's a very fun track. It still has the same characteristic of those undulating parts and a lot of blind corners. Definitely looking forward to driving it tomorrow."
His team mate Mazepin, meanwhile, spent the last fortnight off-roading in Russia.
"With current regulations of not being able to test unless it's a two-year-old F1 car, there's really not much options of what I could have been doing," said Mazepin. "And then there's also Covid-19 restrictions that only allowed me to go home and see my family and spend a bit of time outdoors and drive something off-road. That was the only thing I could have done. So good for Mick that he did what he did, but I did what I could have done as well."
F1 reaffirms Mexican and US rounds will go ahead
F1 has reassured fans both remaining races in North America will go ahead this year following the cancellation of the Canadian Grand Prix. The race was officially called off on Thursday, with a replacement event at Istanbul Park in Turkey immediately announced in its place.
With the next North American rounds half a year away, F1 has given advanced notice to expect both races to take place. "Regarding the announcement about the cancellation of the 2021 Canadian Grand Prix we want to reassure that the Formula 1 Mexico City Grand Prix 2021 presented by Heineken is confirmed to take place next October," it said in a statement.
Vancouver EPrix gets green light with city council approval (Inside Electric)
"The EPrix, tentatively scheduled for July 2022, will anchor a three-day festival-style event billed as Canadian EFest. This will include a two-day sustainability and climate change conference and an E-Prix round held on a single day which, according to the motion, 'would generate significant economic benefit to the city and support recovery of the gutted tourism sector'."
Fittipaldi comes full circle with series return at Texas (IndyCar)
"To race single-seaters on an oval is very different, especially with the new Aeroscreen. The car has a bit of a different balance from what I was used to (in 2018). Following cars is always difficult, as well, getting used to the experience not only at Texas but also Indianapolis because you can run fast laps on your own in practice and you could be quick in qualifying, but you go out in the race and it's going to be hard to get that experience of following in traffic, timing passes and all that kind of stuff."
KCMG launches driver development project (KCMG)
"The KCMG Driver Development Project will provide top level support for its members, supplying a dedicated driver and performance coach from the team's impressive staff roster for mentorship. Off-track support will also be provided as driver fitness will be handled by an exclusive physiotherapist to ensure participants are performing at their maximum potential."
Dunne and van't Hoff claim poles for Spanish F4 opener at Spa (Formula Scout)
"Driving as a solitary entry for Pinnacle Motorsport – which itself is making its European racing debut after many years competing in Asia – Dunne first showed his hand when he went fastest by more than one second with around six minutes remaining in the first of the two 15-minute sessions."
F1's dull qualifying needs a shake-up – but sprint races risk ruining integrity (The Telegraph)
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New Delhi: After being denied a ticket from the Ernakulam Lok Sabha seat in Kerala, senior Congress leader K V Thomas Sunday said he will work for the party and ensure its candidate, Hibi Eden, wins from the constituency. Thomas, who represents the constituency, was miffed at being denied a ticket, but seemed pacified after top Congress leaders spoke to him and assured him that they would take care of his interests. Sources said he also spoke to former prime minister Manmohan Singh and senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel on the issue.
"I will continue to work for the party more strongly.It was my immediate response... because when all sitting MPs were given tickets, I was denied it (a ticket). "I will not take any steps that would hurt the interests of the party. I owe everything to the party.I will stand by whatever decision is taken by the party," Thomas, who was the Union food minister in the UPA government, told reporters here. He later became the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament. Ernakulam is a Congress stronghold and whoever is the party candidate, will win, Thomas said, claiming that Manmohan Singh had telephoned him. Asked whether Eden will win, he said "100 per cent" "I was pained not because of ignoring seats for me but for the attitude towards me.
While all sitting MPs were given given tickets, I was denied it," he said after his outburst at the party last night for being denied a ticket from Ernakulam. Thomas had also met Leader of Opposition in the Kerala assembly Ramesh Chennithala and Congress general secretary in charge of Kerala Mukul Wasnik, and held discussions, the sources said. Asked about rumours about him joining the BJP and contesting as the saffron party''s candidate, he said he is a Congress man and no one has contacted him. Thomas was upset after he was denied the party ticket from Ernakulam which he currently represents. He has been a five time parliamentarian from this constituency besides being a two-time legislator in the state.
Sources said the party is learnt to have worked out a formula with him to which he has reportedly agreed. Details of this formula are not available.


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Phishing Scams at Boise State – Don't Take the Bait!
Boise State University has received several reports of phishing emails and social engineering attacks in recent weeks, and several of these phishing campaigns are emails appearing to come from Interim President Martin Schimpf.
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Tension in Bujuko on Mityana Uganda after a fuso lorry carrying maize crashed into a commuter taxi killing unspecified number of passengers.
According to police the two vehicles were heading to Kampala from Mityana and the lorry registration number UAM 459M crashed into a taxi and fell into a trench.
The taxi driver identified as Robert Kawuma was confirmed dead on spot after his legs were cut off.
Traffic police spokesperson Charles Sebambulide by the time of filing this story, said traffic police was waiting for a break down to lift the lorry from the taxi and cutting through the wreckage to rescue the would be survivors.


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Matt Difanis Installed as President of Illinois REALTORS
REALTOR® Matt Difanis, ABR, CIPS, GRI, of Mahomet, has been installed as the 2018 President of Illinois REALTORS®. He is a co-owner of RE/MAX Realty Associates, with offices in Champaign, Mahomet and Monticello.
Difanis took his real estate pre-licensing coursework in 1998 while still an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He subsequently worked full-time as a REALTOR® while attending the University of Illinois College of Law and was featured in REALTOR® Magazine's 2004 Class of "30 Under 30." He chose to remain in the real estate industry after earning his Juris Doctor degree and has been involved in all levels of the REALTOR® organization. He has earned the Accredited Buyer's Representative (ABR) and the Graduate, REALTORS® Institute (GRI) designations.
Difanis led the Champaign County Association of REALTORS® as president in 2012 and was honored as its REALTOR® of the Year in 2013. On the national level, he has served on the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) Social Media Advisory Board, Business Issues Policy Committee and is currently a member of the Professional Standards Committee and the NAR Board of Directors.
Within the Illinois REALTORS®, Difanis serves on the Illinois REALTORS®' Board of Directors and has chaired the Strategic Planning Committee, Finance Committee, Digital Messaging & Communications Task Force, Public Policy and Government Affairs Member Involvement Group and the NAR Involvement Subcommittee. In 2018, he will chair Illinois REALTORS®' Executive Committee and lead the state association's Board of Directors.
Difanis has been committed to enhancing professional standards within the industry. He is an ombudsman with the Illinois REALTORS®' Ombudsman Program and has chaired ethics, arbitration and appeals hearings throughout the state. He also is a strong supporter of REALTOR® political advocacy efforts and is a Golden "R" Major Investor in the REALTORS® Political Action Committee (RPAC) and a member of NAR's President's Circle.
Active in his local community, Difanis is a past board president of the Mahomet Area Youth Club and continues to serve on the board's executive committee. From 2010 to 2013, he volunteered as the official photographer for Central Illinois Honor Flight, taking 12 trips with more than 700 World War II veterans as they visited war memorials in Washington, D.C. He has also volunteered as a photographer and sound board operator at his church, Windsor Road Christian Church. In 2015, Difanis was named Central Illinois Business Magazine's "Forty Under 40" Man of the Year. He and his wife, Angelle, live in Mahomet and are the parents of two children, Gabriel and Isabelle. His wife is a nurse practitioner, who treats patients in a convenient care clinic.
Installation ceremonies were conducted at the Illinois REALTORS® Inaugural Gala on Oct. 12 at the Chicago Marriott Naperville in Naperville, Ill. Other 2018 officers installed were: President-elect Dan Wagner, senior vice president for government relations at the Oak Brook-based Inland Real Estate Group of Companies, Inc.; and Treasurer Ed Neaves, managing broker of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Snyder Real Estate in Bloomington.
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Seven reported killed in Syria as Turkey's Gul urges reform
Reuters/Mehmet Emin Caliskan
Syrian security forces killed at least seven people during Friday protests, according to rights groups. Turkish President Abdullah Gul urged President Bashar al-Assad's regime to institute reforms before it is too late.
"I would not want you to look back some day and regret that you acted too little and too late," the Anatolia news agency quoted Gul as saying in a letter. "To be a leader who promotes change will put you in a historic position rather than being swept away by the winds of change."
Turkey, which has enjoyed good relations with the Assad regime in the past, has criticised the repression of recent protests and opened its border to people fleeing the turmoil.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu held talks with Assad for more than six hours on Tuesday, reportedly urging him to change track.
Thousands demonstrated after prayers on Friday but were met with bullets fire by security forces, rights groups report.
The UK-based Syrian Human Rights Observatory reported:
Damascus – a man killed at dawn in the suburb of Saqba, two in Harasta and Douma on the outskirts, five wounded;
Kahn Sheikhun – a woman shot dead;
Hama – one civilian killed, three wounded;
Homs – one man killed;
Deir Ezzor – one man killed.
Two security agents were shot dead by armed agents in Douma, according to state television.
Friday's protests were in response to a call by Facebook group The Syrian Revolution 2011, for mass "no-kneeling" demonstrations after weekly prayers.
"We only kneel before God," the group said.
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Syrian forces kill 10 as crackdown continues, activists report
Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia withdraw Syria ambassadors
Civilian deaths as Syrian tanks enter Deir Ezzor


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Neri Oxman
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Neri Oxman is best known as an Israeli-American designer and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Born in Haifa, Israel, in 1976, she initially studied medicine but soon realized that she was interested in architecture. After studying at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and then at the London Architecture Association School of Architecture, Oxman came to Boston to join the architecture PhD program at MIT in 2005. After finishing her studies, she established and now directs the Mediated Matter research group, which works within the field of material ecology. Operating at the intersection of biology, materials science & engineering, and computer science, the practice augments objects and buildings with biological materials that adapt and respond to the environment. With this approach, Oxman aims to create a new age in design to align the built and the natural world.
Neri Oxman received the 2014 Vilcek Prize in Design.
The Artist;
Gift to the Vilcek Foundation;
Symbiosis II (Log-Fi)
2011 Stanley Ruiz
Neolithic Clock
New Organic Clock
New Organic Bowl
Growth Vase (9 Parts)
Tired G.O.A.T.
2017 Nari Ward
Copper II, G.O.A.T.
American Flag Banner
Wrapped Payphone
1988 Christo
Neri Oxman receives the Vilcek Prize in Design for creating forms that challenge traditional principles of architecture, product design, and fashion, and juxtapose material properties with environmental constraints.
Nari Ward
Nari Ward receives the Vilcek Prize in Fine Arts for a body of found-object assemblage artwork that invites both a public discourse and an intimate dialogue with viewers on topics such as race, poverty, immigration, and the Caribbean diaspora identity.
Nari Ward: Home of the Brave
The Vilcek Foundation hosts a new exhibition featuring works by Jamaican-born artist and Vilcek Prizewinner Nari Ward on view from May 31, 2022 to February 3, 2023.


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Album set for release by Socadisc on May 20th
Hello everyone! I'm proud to announce that my newest album, "Young Bloods, Green Beans, and Spring Chickens" will be officially released by Socadisc/Absilone on all platforms everywhere starting on May 20th!
Everyone around here is getting very excited, as you can see from the video !
If you're in Paris, come and celebrate with the whole band at the CD release party at Sunset Jazz Club on May 21st! …
Help fund the new album!
Friends, family, and fans, lend a hand to help us finish our latest studio album, "Young Bloods, Green Beans, and Spring Chickens"!
Pre-order the album and you'll receive your copy a month before the official release, plus access to my "updates" which will include exclusive videos, mp3 downloads, funny stories, song histories, and lots of other things that won't be available to the general public.
In addition to pre-ordering the album, you can also pledge a bit more and get some interesting "extras," including everything from a signed copy of the CD to a guitar lesson over Skype or even having me write a song for you or a friend. There are even some items that can be wrapped and delivered in time for the holidays!
Have a look at our project page and see what you think. And thanks to all of you for your support!
A tune for a tweet
July 2nd 2015
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CD Release Party !
"A funky sound with Cuban and Brazilian roots, all the finesse of modern jazz, and the lyricism of the great American songwriters" – this is how Paris-based singer-songwriter David Garlitz describes the new direction taken on his next release, the David Garlitz Trio – "Live in Paris," coming on March 6th, 2015.
After the success of his U.S. "micro-tour" in 2013 and the release of his first LP, "A Poor Man's Pocket," in January of the following year, Garlitz found two new partners-in-crime on the Paris jazz scene : drummer Karl Jannuska and bassist Matyas Szandai are two of the most sought-after players in the City of Lights, having played locally, toured internationally, and recorded with the likes of Kurt Rosenwinkel, Brad Mehldau, and Dave Liebman…
I'm Big in Switzerland
It's been just over a month since the release of "A Poor Man's Pocket," and the air-waves and inter-tubes are a-buzz with positive reviews!
The most exciting and unexpected news I received was that SRF Kultur (a branch of Swiss National Radio) had scheduled a 30-minute spot centered around my songs! The piece ran on Friday, January 24th at 4pm. I'm eternally grateful to station programmer Annina Salis, who came across my music via twitter!
You can listen to an mp3 of the spot below (an English translation will be added here soon!):
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"A Poor Man's Pocket" set for release on January 14th
Following the success of his EP in fall 2012 and a mini-tour of the U.S. northeast the following summer, Paris-based songwriter David Garlitz will release his first full-length effort, "A Poor Man's Pocket," on January 14th, 2014. The album features eleven original compositions by Garlitz, as well as a version of Steely Dan's "Your Gold […]
Micro-tour = Macro-smash!
Hey folks! I'm proud to say that my first U.S. micro-tour was a great success! I played 5 shows in three states, did a live radio broadcast, and shot a music video – whew! It was a lot of fun, and it wouldn't have been possible without the help of a lot of people. Thanks […]
Micro-Tour U.S.A.
I'll be doing my first ever solo shows in the U.S. this summer. The "micro-tour" starts with the illustrious Funky Monkey Café in Cheshire, CT, then makes it's way up to New Hampshire for a show in my hometown and a spot opening for the Boogaloo Swamis at the Cocheco Arts Festival!
Buzz for the EP
In just three months since the EP's release this fall, "Ton Petit Bébé" was featured on the Justin Wayne Show, "Luna y mar" was selected for the Young Rebel International Playlist, and the whole EP was picked up by 1Radio.fm and Radio Crystal Blue.
You can help keep the ball rolling! Head over to 1Radio.fm and rate my songs. Make a request for one of my tunes on Radio Crystal Blue. Or, if you know someone who would like the songs, send them to check out the music video on Vimeo.
If you like the songs on the EP, stay tuned! There's more where that came from!
Ton petit bébé Hits the Airwaves
Ton petit bébé was selected for broadcast on episode 172 of the Justin Wayne Show, a radio show and podcast showcasing independent music across genres. The show was broadcast live on Monday, October 15th, 2012, and is currently available to stream and download from Justin Wayne's website : JW Show 172 : Back with All New Tunes.
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The rule of law is something to be treasured. It is precious beyond value. It has been achieved in relatively few countries and times through history. Yet little good comes without it. No real economic development, no great technological innovation, no slow march of prosperity, no public safety, no civic life.
After living in Mexico, it seems to me the rule of law is achieved through culture and a host of attitudes that give rise to prolonged (taxpayer funded) investment in infrastructure and government.
The rule of law is accomplished through facts on the ground, through small things working well. These include courts, prisons, police, civil service, decent public-employee salaries and training, but also parks, street lamps, storm drains, clear title to property, and much more — above all at the local level.
Most of this is what Mexico lacks or has neglected.
Superimposed on that civic weakness, and growing from it, has been the venomous presence of drug traffickers who have lost any discretion they once displayed and now behave with medieval cruelty. But what allowed them to go from hillbillies to national security threats in the span of a few decades is the lack of rule of law and all that I mention above. The result is the difference between 3000 murders in Juarez a few years back while El Paso tallied only 20 or so. On one side are strong civic institutions and well-motivated law enforcement of various stripes working together; on the other, infrastructure has gone begging due to lack of budget, corruption, lack of accountability, and a general belief that local government isn't worth the time.
All that is what got Javier Valdez killed a month ago today.
Valdez, you may have read by now, was an esteemed, brave journalist who chronicled the drug world of Sinaloa in books and his newspaper Riodoce.
He was gunned down by masked men who accosted him as he was getting into his car not far from his newspaper. To make it seem as if robbery was the motive, they took his car, ditching it not far away. The computer and cell phone he was carrying have not been found, according to his newspaper.
I met Javier in 2014. I saw him again in February. We had breakfast to talk about things in Sinaloa. In the meantime, I had provided a promotional quote to the English-language version of his book Los Levantados (The Taken) because, despite knowing him only casually, I admired the work he and his newspaper, Riodoce, did consistently.
The Taken (University of Oklahoma Press), by the way, offers an amazing view of worlds few of us will enter. You should read it. The first story is about a Mayan Indian from Chiapas who fathered six pairs of twin girls and, to support them, was recruited to do some kind of work in Sinaloa, only to find that the work he was hired to do was not in agriculture, but in something connected to drug trafficking, though he never figured out what that was because a battle between cartels consumed the region where he was sent. Just stunning stories.
In the month since Javier's death, we've heard the calls for the government to do more to protect journalists, end the impunity with which the underworld rules many parts of the country. I echo those calls.
But what ails Mexico isn't only lack of political will. It is certainly that, but it is also a systematic neglect of local government that goes far back in the country's long history. So even with the political will to find the killers of Javier Valdez, investigators would be hampered by the lack of tools that their counterparts in other countries take for granted.
There is no way to make good on calls of better investigations without a mighty strengthening of the local and regional public institutions that go into such investigations.
As we examine all the reasons why brave people like Javier Valdez have fallen, Mexico needs to look to its local government and build up its institutions, its capacity, its ability to protect its citizens and the ability to find justice for them when it cannot.
Like all politics, justice, at its root, is local.
Ensuring that would be the greatest tribute to a brave man.
News out of Mexico is that another narcocorrido singer has died.
Ariel Camacho, lead singer of Los Plebes del Rancho, was killed Wednesday in a car accident in Sinaloa. He was 22.
Camacho was part of the Movimiento Alterado, which first grew out of Burbank, of all places, and drafted young singers, doing gigs at wedding parties and quinceneras in L.A. backyards, and transformed them into menacing narcosingers.
The movement has now spread to Mexico and to other record labels. Camacho's label was DEL Records.
The Altered Movement is known for especially graphic lyrics depicting drug violence, and for the praising the powerful, particularly well-known Sinaloa Cartel figures, in very noncorrido form. The corrido has typically exalted the lone, heroic figure – a man going up against power and probably doomed, but worthy of a song nevertheless.
MA, however, has made a fetish of praising powerful cartel leaders, among them Manuel Torres Felix, El Ondeado (the Unhinged), the late head of security for the Sinaloa Cartel.
All in all, narcocorrido singer has to be one of the region's most dangerous profession. Beginning with Chalino Sanchez, whose life I wrote about in my first book and who was murdered in Sinaloa in 1992, numerous singers who followed in his footsteps have been killed. Sanchez's son, Adan, also died in a car crash.
Saul Viera, El Gavilancillo, was shot to death outside a Denny's in Bellflower in 1998. Among others to die are Valentin Elizalde, shot to death in Reynosa in 2006, and El Halcon de la Sierra, Fabian Ortega, in 2010.
The Dept of Homeland Security today announced figures for youths apprehended alone at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The headline: The numbers of detained unaccompanied children dropped in half, to 5,500 in July.
Also fascinating in the DHS report: The monthly apprehension numbers show a huge leap in March and April, up to 7,000+ and reaching 10,000+ in each of May and June.
So most of those 57,000 kids that were reported detained since October actually came since March.
The suddenness of that surge reflected in the DHS figures adds credence to the idea that this was the result of rumors – spread by a Honduran television reporter, according a US official I spoke with – that the time to leave was now or never given pending legal changes in the U.S. So people began bolting.
But it's remarkable that the situation on the ground – both harrowing violence and civic disintegration in Central America, dependence on jobs in the U.S., and the huge numbers of immigrants here — is such that rumors would spark a migration fever like that.
I find the whole furor to be surreal in another way. The surge in apprehended minors is really a sign of how well the immigration system is working. Certainly, total apprehensions, which are barometers of the the size of the flow of people trying to cross, are well down these days.
Years ago, when total apprehensions were always over a million annually, thousands of kids — most of them teenagers between 13 and 17 – came to the United States illegally and many of them were alone. But they were lost in the hundreds of thousands of adults who were also crossing.
But with those numbers down (well below 500,000 a year), the kids stand out more. It's possible too that coyotes are seeing these kids as their last, or maybe a far more important, revenue stream and spreading rumors too. Desperate measures, perhaps reflecting a serious crisis among our friends in the human-smuggling industry.
Not to say that it's a good thing that thousands of kids are streaming north, but it helps to keep some perspective.
I made this video recently when I was in Culiacan, Sinaloa, where I walked the grounds of Jardines del Humaya, the cemetery that is the final resting place of dozens of legendary drug traffickers.
It looks like a mini-Beverly Hills. Some of the tombs have air conditioning, barbecue grills, sound systems, even bulletproof glass. A few are the size of a house or two near where I live.
I've seen much smaller versions of this in immigrant villages. One thing immigrants do with their dollars is build larger burial places. They do away with the iron crosses of their poverty and build themselves sepulchers with a statue of Jesus or the Virgin, maybe an open bible in stone.
But these are modest in comparison to the Jardines del Humaya.
Strange, excessive, lurid. I felt as if dropped into some foreign kingdom. These are the new Pharoahs.
I made this video with the help of my anonymous guide. I hope you like it. Feel free to subscribe to my Youtube channel – True Tales Video.
This appears to be the first corrido written about the capture of El Chapo. Pretty quick. Pretty rough. Reminds me of some old blues song from Mississippi.
As I write, it's been up about 20 hours, from what I can tell.
El Super workers are demanding better working conditions; reduced immigration the cause?
Cal Worthington, legendary car dealer is now dead. Se Habla Espanol!
As a reporter, I don't believe too much in coincidences, especially when it comes to Mexican politics.
So, let's say that the arrest this morning of drug megalord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, coming just as Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto is featured on the cover of Time Magazine, with the headline, Saving Mexico is, well … let's say, it's interesting.
The man flaunted his impunity and could, presumably, have been arrested many times — say, during his well-known marriage to a young girl in the mountains of Durango several years ago.
Guzman's no dummy and he probably should have been ducking when he heard of the Time cover, which is rare territory for a Mexican president. Instead Guzman was at a condo complex in Mazatlan, my favorite Mexican resort town, as it prepares for its nationally famous Carnival, which tens of thousands of people attend. He was captured without a shot fired by the Mexican Navy, which is quickly becoming the country's leading law enforcement agency, having also taken down Arturo Beltran Leyva, among others.
Pena Nieto has been roundly criticized for the way he's waging the drug war. So Guzman's arrest allows him to seriously recover his image, just as this cover hits the stands.
In the past, each Mexican president was supposed to get one kingpin to take down. Carlos Salinas had Joaquin Hernandez, aka La Quina, the oil union boss. Ernesto Zedillo had Juan Garcia Abrego, of the Gulf Cartel, though he tacked on Salinas's brother, Raul, for good measure.
Vicente Fox broke with tradition and had Osiel Cardenas Guillen and the top Arellano Felix brothers. Felipe Calderon, who spent his sexenio mired in this awful war, took down numerous, including Los Zeta's Heriberto Lazcano.
We'll see how many more EPN has in him. After all, the Sinaloa Cartel still has Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada — who is Guzman's partner and co-equal atop the organization.
Cynicism aside, though, the arrest of the man Forbes once listed as one of the world's wealthiest men is only to be applauded. It's very much like the moment when Obama took out Osama bin-Laden.
Mostly, his arrest goes some distance to showing that the old idea of criminals protected by the regime is passing, however slowly, from Mexican political culture. Next up — a few governors, perhaps?
In fact, it opens the question of what comes next. More violence? Very possible, as groups regroup and fight for territories that were once settled issues. After all, this war really dates to the moment Osiel Cardenas Guillen was captured in 2003 and Chapo figured that was a good time to go after Gulf Cartel territory that he thought was vulnerable — incorrectly as it turned out.
Chapo's story is an amazing one, as is the story of all the Sinaloan narcos. He, and most of the rest, grew from the Sinaloan mountains and, especially, the county of Badiraguato, hillbilly kids who rose to control the drug flow through the key points — known as plazas — along some 1400 miles of the 1900-miles border between Mexico and the United States. Sinaloans formed no fewer than three major drug cartels — and they feuded mightily through the years.
I've always thought it was one of the remarkable tales in the history of organized crime anywhere.
Some may say that Guzman will only be replaced by another. That's possible.
Still, I've become a believer in the idea of taking out mafia kingpins.
They're usually kingpins for a reason. They have remarkable organizational talents, great at logistics, and usually combine all that with a psychopathic taste for blood. Managing to smuggle tons of drugs across a well-guarded border using criminals and gang members is a real talent that I suspect few people truly possess. They're not easily replaced.
I once interviewed a trafficker from Tijuana's Arellano-Felix cartel. He said the beginning of the end for that now-fractured group came with the arrest of Ismael and Gilberto Higuera, who ran Tijuana and Mexicali for the brothers. The Higueras were experts at logistics, organization, and murder, he told me. The AF brothers relied on these guys and when they were gone, the organization fell apart. Soon Ramon Arellano Felix was dead and Benjamin was in prison, where he remains today.
We'll see, too, whether this has any effect on the flow of drugs into the United States from Mexico, though I suspect not so much.
Meanwhile, the corrido factories ought to be working overtime as we speak.
In fact, Guzman's power and the barbarism of the drug war he unleashed when he made that fateful move across Mexico to the Gulf states, changed forever the nature of the traditional corrido. It was once a brave genre of music, extolling lonely, heroic men, outgunned and doomed, who nobly faced off against power. Now the corrido is about praising the virtues of colossally rich, well-armed and bloodthirsty men whose power is beyond question. Ads, basically.
Chapo Guzman was a major subject of corridos (ballads) and he appeared to have an army of youtube.com producers churning out videos lauding his achievements.
Photos: Most Wanted poster; Time Magazine cover, Wikipedia map of Sinaloa Plaza bosses.
Last Arellano-Felix brother killed at birthday by clown.
Two Latino gang members from Compton pleaded guilty (Thursday, Oct. 16, 2013) to federal hate crimes in attacks on black youths in a case that showed how much the town had changed.
Jeffrey Aguilar and Efren Marquez, Jr., admitted to violating the federal Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
They each face a maximum of 10 years in prison, said Reema El-Amamy, the federal prosecutor in the case.
Aguilar and Marquez are reputed members of Compton Varrio 155, a small street gang that has feuded for years with a black street gang a couple blocks north. They were arrested in January. Sheriff's officials said at the time that the family they allegedly targeted had no gang association and had only lived on the street for a few months.
I went out to the neighborhood one rainy day after these arrests were announced. The street is working class, with stucco two-bedrooms crowded next to each other.
What struck me was that the gang seemed especially energetic. Their graffiti was everywhere. This is something you don't see so much in Southern California any more. Most gangs don't have the same public presence — largely because of federal indictments and gang injunctions. Graffiti, certainly, is far less common.
The case seemed to me emblematic of many that have taken place over the years and have gone largely unnoticed. They involve Latino street gangs targeting blacks who live in their area.
Beginning in about the mid-1990s, Latino gangs emerged as the leading perpetrators of hate crimes, especially violent hate crimes. This happened all over: San Bernardino, Pacoima, Azusa, Canoga Park, Highland Park, Harbor Gateway, Hawaiian Gardens, Pomona, and so on.
Compton, long a black enclave that gave birth to gangsta rap, has transformed into a majority Latino city in the last 15 years. Nothing showed that more than this case, unless it's the school fields on Sundays that are filled with people playing soccer.
ADDENDUM: By the way, if you go back further — into the 1980s — you find that black gangs preyed mightily on Mexican immigrant kids in much the same way. this coincided with the influx of Mexican immigrants into black areas like South Central, Inglewood and Compton during that decade, which in Mexico was an economic catastrophe.
Tonight at 10pm (9 pmCentral), A&E/Biography is showing a documentary on the Leon-Real family and the Drew Street gang, part of its (perhaps hyperbolically named) series on gangs: Gangsters: America's Most Evil.
Anyway, I helped make this doc, interviewing with them etc. Check it out and let me know how I did. I don't have cable….
Whatever the tone it takes, the story of Drew Street and the Leon-Real family, which I did for the LAT, was one of the most fascinating I've done in LA. I was totally engrossed. A saga of immigration and the underside of the American Dream. How the immigrant enclave can turn toxic.
Most of the folks on that street come from one small town in Mexico: Tlalchapa, Guerrero, which is in the Tierra Caliente, long one of that country's most violent regions. They congregated on tiny Drew Street and the street became known back home as "El Barrio Bajo." (The Low Neighborhood).
As one immigrant told me, "Anyone with aspirations left the street." Most moved to Dalton, Georgia, America's carpet capital. Those who remained turned Drew into a hive of drug and gang activity — one of the scariest in Los Angeles, with Maria Leon, a tiny woman who once sold popsicles and babysat for immigrant mothers, as the matriarch of 13 children.
Several gang sweeps and a federal prosecution have changed Drew Street.
I was just over on Drew Street and it looks better than it has in probably a couple decades at least. People can actually sell their houses there now, which wasn't the case in 2008, at the height of the housing boom. The city seized the family's house and tore it down, in a kind of municipal exorcism. It's now a community garden. So that's nice.


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First-time offenders who have never been to jail are typically shocked when a judge sets bail at several thousand dollars for relatively minor offenses; this is because those unfamiliar with the justice system do not understand the way the bail bond industry works. The true out-of-pocket expense, unless the defendant fails to appear, will be nothing close to the sum the judge orders.
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Most bail bonding agents and companies in Northern Virginia require 10-15%. A failure to appear will result in the full amount due. Sometimes, there is no bail at all. If the offense is minor but the person was arrested nonetheless (taken into custody), if they do not pose a threat to the community and are not deemed to be a flight risk, then the judge may release them on their own recognizance.
No. Sometimes, a magistrate will set bond and if the individual can afford to pay the percentage charged by the bail bonding company, then he or she will get out of jail without having to file a bond motion. But if a judge does not set bond, a formal bond motion is required. In Virginia, we attorneys call this a "Motion for Reduction of Bond," even though sometimes the motion is really to have a bond set.
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How Iraq War Destabilized the World and Why The Neocons Aren't Finished Yet
March 29, 2018 Geopolitics101 7 Comments
The Iraq War architects have been thoroughly rehabilitated and are planning their next adventure, even as the catastrophic ramifications of their crimes continue to reverberate around the world.
Last week marked the 15th anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. April 9 will be the 15th anniversary of the fall of Baghdad. The consequences of these events are still playing out today, from Mali to Niger, to the Philippines. Iraq has never recovered and is only beginning to emerge from the trauma, while American officials plan the next military adventure.
Writing in the New York Times, Iraqi novelist Sinan Antoon observed:
"The invasion of Iraq is often spoken of in the United States as a 'blunder,' or even a 'colossal mistake.' It was a crime. Those who perpetrated it are still at large. Some of them have even been rehabilitated thanks to the horrors of Trumpism and a mostly amnesiac citizenry."
The rehabilitation of the neocons
Indeed, the rise of Trump has provided the cabal of Iraq War architects with a rebranding opportunity. After their utter failure in Iraq, these people were largely disgraced and no longer taken seriously outside of right-wing circles. But Trumpism, and the desire of liberals to oust the current president, has led to an anti-Trump coalition which includes at its helm many of the instrumental figures behind the Iraq invasion. The list includes David "axis of evil" Frum, former speechwriter to President George W. Bush and now a senior editor at the Atlantic, as well as neoconservative think tanker Bill Kristol, and George W. Bush, who is now celebrated as a pragmatic leader – even by nostalgic Democrats who contrast him with Trump.
Trump's victory in the Republican primary on a seemingly isolationist platform, which was obviously a facade, sent many of these neoconservatives running toward Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee. Those who lined up behind Clinton have since been embraced by the Democratic establishment, while the more extreme neoconservative hawks who stuck by the Republican Party have effectively inserted themselves into the Trump administration. The most recent and terrifying of these is John Bolton, former US ambassador to the UN. Bolton played a key role in politicizing the intelligence that was used to mislead the public about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. And now he is Trump's national security advisor.
Bolton is a neoconservative extremist who has never seen a country he didn't want to bomb. On the top of his hit list is Iran and North Korea, though Bolton has expended most of his energy agitating for the US to bomb Iran, which he seeks to hand over to the Mujahedin E Khalq (MEK), a cultish group of Iranian exiles that has received backing from Israeli intelligence and was formerly classified as a terrorist organization by the United States.
In light of the Iraq war anniversary and the recent appointment of Bolton, it's a good time to survey the damage that neocons such as Bolton caused in Iraq. The war left an estimated 1 million Iraqis dead, 4.5 million displaced, 5 million orphaned, some 2 million widowed, and caused birth defects and cancer rates in some Iraqi cities that are significantly worse than those seen in the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan at the end of the Second World War.
But the destruction reaches far beyond just Iraq.
The new Jihad
The irony is that Trump's rise to the presidency is in many ways the fault of the Iraq War architects. Their policies in Iraq, which were recycled in Libya and Syria, led to the rise of Islamic State and the refugee crisis that fueled right-wing populists such as Trump and his counterparts in Europe. The war in Iraq revived a jihadist movement that was dead after the first few months of the war on Afghanistan, opening the floodgates to jihadists and their supporters from around the world.
When the US dismantled the Iraqi state in 2003, instead of replacing it with a functioning government it punished Sunni areas and installed a sectarian Shiite regime comprised of exiles with no popular support in the country. The US essentially created a new category known as the Sunni Arab and, where the state collapsed, it was Al-Qaeda who would fight on their behalf. The inflammation of sectarian fears and lack of security resulted in a power vacuum that opened the floodgates to Al-Qaeda in Iraq and ignited a gruesome civil war. AQI eventually morphed into the Islamic State of Iraq. Before morphing into ISIS, ISI established an Al-Qaeda offshoot in Syria called Jabhat al-Nusra, the strongest and most disciplined armed opposition group in the country.
ISIS and Al-Qaeda groups cultivate and thrive off of stateless zones as well as a Sunni Arab victimhood narrative, which started with the execution of Saddam Hussein and has been propagated throughout the region by popular gulf-funded religious figures and media outlets such as Al Jazeera Arabic.
Beheadings became a hallmark of the Al Qaeda branch in Iraq under Abu Musab al-Zarqawi who, unlike Osama bin Laden began to focus on fighting the near enemy — the Arab dictatorships, secular people and minorities — as opposed to the far enemy of the infidel west. We would later see these beheadings in ISIS propaganda videos aimed at terrifying the west. There was a theory in the past in bin Laden's era that you should fight the far enemy, the west, before the near enemy. But under this new and evolved Al Qaeda, whether in Iraq or Yemen or Mali, we saw local franchises focused on slaughtering their fellow countrymen, with particular genocidal hatred for Shias.
The American occupation of an Arab country fueled this Salafi jihadist movement on a global scale. The occupation led to sympathy for this Iraqi jihad throughout the Muslim world, which meant foreign fighters coming in and a huge amount of funding from the gulf.
This global war on terror framework was also implemented by the US in countries such as Somalia and Yemen and across North Africa as well.
The Iraq War gave us Donald Trump
In spite of America's criminal disaster in Iraq, Barack Obama continued to implement regime change policies in both Libya and Syria by funding and arming right-wing insurgencies made up of none other than Al-Qaeda affiliates, the very ideology the US was supposedly fighting in its global war on terror. Like in Iraq, US intervention led to the rise of a failed state in Libya and in much of Syria.
In Syria, these failed state zones were then filled by thousands of foreign fighters coming in from the Turkish border, which the US tolerated as a means to put pressure on the Syrian regime, hoping the regime would offer concessions, which of course it never did. ISIS eventually took over many of these failed state areas and began kidnapping westerners and the group made millions of dollars in ransom money as a result.
The massive refugee flows which resulted from the US encouraging war and regime change in the Middle East led to the destabilization of much of Europe and to some extent, the rise of Donald Trump, who campaigned on the fear-mongering of ISIS, refugees and Muslims. You can trace all these and other terrible consequences to the US decision to encourage war and state collapse rather than to prioritize stability and order in the Middle East. It all started with the Iraq War.
The ramifications of the Iraq War are still playing out today, having inspired Salafi jihadist movements from the Philippines to Mali and even Niger, where US soldiers were recently killed by jihadists.
Moreover, the war in Iraq, according to the very people who architected it, has strengthened Iran in the region. That isn't necessarily a bad thing given that Iran and its partners, such as Hezbollah and the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), were crucial to defeating ISIS in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. But a strengthened Iran is a nightmare for the US as it threatens American, Saudi and Israeli hegemony in the region. So, the Iraq war planners are using the strong position of Iran – created by neoconservative policies – to push for a war with Iran. They've also expanded their hit list to include Russia, who they're still hoping to escalate against in Syria.
With Bolton as Trump's national security advisor, a war with Iran is now much more likely. For the war industry and the neocons who lobby for it, the Iraq war they started is the gift that keeps on giving.
Rania Khalek is an American journalist, writer and political commentator based in the Middle East
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War is the product of the mascu-LINEAR math taught at the military, fascist ( Shadow, corporate, flat ) institutions called public schools which have a sphere atop the flag pole in front of the main entrance. The sphere advertises the institution is recruiting.
A gold fringed flag advertises a Courts-Martial operating in the Admiralty jurisdiction of Imperial Roman Canon Law – a fascist, corporate dictatorship.
Sadly, but true as policy officers now wear $aturnian black uni-forms and have nearly completely morphed from Police-men to POLICY OFFICERS.
Control over the Earth Grid is key to operating location sensitive portals for ceremonial rituals involving plasma intelligences. Iraq/Iran = Babylon, this isn't a recent phenomena. Earth is a school as life = learning. If one cannot learn mascuLINEAR / femi-NINE balancing one will come back here until one does learn.
You have part of the puzzle…there's more to it than that… once you know the truth about where our world is at and the nature of this place then pieces being to fall into place
Freespirit says:
OWNERSHIP of this Planet and DOMINATION of all upon it is the ultimate GOAL of a CULT consisting of a relatively small group of individuals, The House of Rothschild, House of Windsor and The Vatican, et al., referred-to by several names such as, but not limited to, " ILLUMINATI"
Their main TACTIC is "Divide, Conquer and RULE" via CHAOS. Winning wars, albeit helpful, is NOT the TACTIC -.CHAOS IS !
Out of that massive, pervasive DESTRUCTIVE Chaos, the great MASS of Tired , frightened, ignorant PEOPLE will eventually DEMAND ORDER.
Those same Psychopaths of that CULT,will then OFFER their SOLUTION – SLAVERY, which will happily be accepted, not realizing DEPOPULATION is part of the AGENDA.
It can be stopped, but the mass of PEOPLE dare not contemplate it, even as today they dare not even mention or whisper the names of their OPPRESSORS, for fear of being labelled, falsely, I might add, "ANTI-SEMITE" !
Peace and SECURITY at any cost!
"The Iraq War gave us Donald Trump" – Don't be sidetracked. The Iraq "War", ie "invasion", gave you Barack Obama first. The Big DT is not the problem guys!
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Pres, Trump is having to clean up a total nightmare created by the Globalist neocons as you correctly state. But Trump wants out of all that. He thinks it is all a mistake. Problem is that when He brings in new players that can do some good, the Deep State take them out. He can only think so far down the road with all a Pres, has to do. He did a fairly nice job getting us out of Syria, at least he is getting us out. He will hopefully clean up Iraq and Libya. What a mess. If you were him just exactly how would you go about fixing this mess. He said it perfectly. He inherited the biggest mess anyone could imagine. God is helping him get some of the job done. Bolton will be gone once Trump finds him useless. That will be about the time he finishes fixing the Iran agreement and getting free of this ridiculous Russia Gate that the deep state is using to keep him overly agressive with Russia. Give it time. He has a lot to fix. I pray wisdom for him in this Herculian task.
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