AXESS International Network (AXESS), the leading Japanese global distribution system (GDS) owned by Japan Airlines (JAL), and Travelport, a global Travel Commerce Platform, providing distribution, technology, payment and other solutions for the global travel industry, have today jointly announced they are on schedule to roll out a new, superior agency desktop in Japan. The upgraded agency desktop, which will be powered by Travelport, will be made available exclusively to AXESS-connected travel agents and will be known as AXESS CREA Advance. It will replace AXESS' current CREA desktop.
The partnership between AXESS and Travelport was first announced in April 2012 when Travelport was selected as a technology partner on account of its alignment in strategic thinking with AXESS. Since then, the two organizations have been working in close collaboration to assess the needs of the region's resurgent travel industry and have gone from strength to strength designing a new, enhanced Japanese GDS to meet the demands of Japanese travel agents and travelers.
The new AXESS desktop will be powered by Travelport Smartpoint, Travelport's award-winning point of sale technology. Travelport Smartpoint offers extensive air, hotel and car content as well as a broad range of user-friendly merchandising features all designed to enhance the customer selling experience. Specifically, Travelport has received a number of industry accolades over the past year for its pioneering air merchandising solutions, including Travelport Rich Content and Branding, which allows airlines to display and promote their entire product range, including their ancillary products and fare families, in exactly the same way as they do on their own websites. Travelport also offers an unrivalled B2B hotel inventory of over 650,000 hotel properties as well as a pioneering B2B payments solution offered through its payments partner, eNett. Once migrated onto the new desktop, AXESS CREA Advance-connected agents will immediately benefit from the additional content and technology.
The overall AXESS GDS platform will continue to be hosted as part of Travelport's state-of-the-art technology infrastructure in its Atlanta (US) data center.
Seiji Soekawa, President and CEO for AXESS, said: We are delighted to announce the delivery of our new AXESS desktop as well as our new corporate booking tool designed specifically for the Japanese business traveller. AXESS understands that the travel industry business is a dynamic one and continues to change, and, as part of our technology partnership with Travelport, we are well place to evolve our offering to Japanese agents, ensuring they have the very best content and tools to empower them to offer superior customer service.
It has always been our motto to be Japan's best GDS partner.
Mark Meehan, President and Managing Director for Travelport Asia Pacific, added: "Launching a new agency desktop for AXESS with all of the benefits it offers Japan's travel trade, represents a great milestone in the technology partnership between AXESS and Travelport and opens the pathways for further opportunities in the future. Travelport prides itself in having the most balanced footprint globally. This partnership combines the best in international travel content with the most in-depth knowledge of the Japanese travel trade into one powerful platform. "


Now, there could be a dozen or so reviews that I have done on Ipoh's bean sprouts chicken outlets, so you must be wondering when is the next post or rather, where will the next stall be?
Although once again, the hankering was more for Cowan Street's version, but knowing full well that they choose to close for what seems to be 3/4 of the year and from past experiences, they should still take routine, weekly breaks on Mondays and Tuesdays, I would rather save myself the heartbreak.
Venturing slightly off the mark towards Station 18 in Pengkalan area of Pasir Puteh, there are a couple of 'nga choy gai' (which means bean sprouts chicken) stalls along the main road, located on the right side of the main road after passing by the crossroad traffic lights.
It could be our culture or how we were brought up believing that salads are appetizers and can never be a proper replacement for a satisfying, protein and carb-laden feast. Hence, we found ourselves at the constant mercy of nasi lemak mak cik's, nasi kandar sellers and occasionally, succumbing to temptation (and to some extent, convenience) of fast food outlets whenever we want a quick lunch within walking distance from the office.
Salad bars were almost unheard of in the Klang Valley, let alone in Ipoh. But few years back, I was introduced to The Salad Bar in Damansara Uptown, a daring plea to change the way the corporate lunch crowd think and do something about healthy eating.
It was going in the right direction, where the place was not only packed during lunch, but still see a healthy (pardon the pun) dinner crowd on weekdays. Although there's a change in the management team behind the brand (the previous owners sold the business off, in pursuing different goals in life possibly … but they did make an impression with TSB, no less), traffic was still healthy the last I checked.
This article was first published in Crave section in The Malay Mail Sunday edition. Read it HERE.
One of the perks, if you can call it that, of living in Ipoh is the abundance of great spots for breakfast on Sunday mornings.
Aside from the usual suspects ie. dim sum restaurants, white coffee specialists in Old Town and the super-crowded curry mee (Xin Quan Fang) and hakka mee (Paris Restaurant; formerly Yin Yau Kui) stalls situated a few shops apart on Hugh Low Street in town, there are a few lesser-known names tucked away within the neighbourhood. The kopitiam that introduced me to, and subsequently left me in awe and completely head over heels in love with, pulut kaya is this resilient humble coffee shop named Keng Nam at the end of Cowan Street.
Pulut kaya or steamed glutinous rice served with coconut jam (or kaya, the quintessential Asian jam) was a crowd puller at Keng Nam back in the late 80s up to the early 90s, and still is enticing new fans and loyalists after all these years. I mean, it's not hard to see why.
The ability to steam the glutinous rice to a perfect texture; neither too hard or soft and sticky is a tricky skill to master but the old lady has never faltered when it comes to sustaining the quality.
And the spoonful of golden, creamy kaya on top of every serving is the icing on the cake. The coconut and egg jam has quite an intense fragrance from the screw pine leaves (pandan) and just the right level of sweetness that leaves one craving for seconds after mopping up a plate in record time. But really, the portion is meant for a light snack than actual breakfast, so feel free to ask for a second helping. Or a third.
No one will judge you.
And it is not particularly hard to imagine why I was so enamoured by the taste when I was a kid back then. Sweet, creamy kaya paired with chewy bits of sweetened glutinous rice. A dream come true for the sweet-toothed, no doubt.
After a lengthy period of hiatus between visits to Thum's Western Food stall, the sweet memories of munching on their freshly deep-fried, crispy onion rings and chewing on chunky cuts of pork cutlets marinated with a dash of pepper, worchestershire sauce and probably a pinch of 'passion' came washing over me.
If you ask me where to go for classic, no-frills, locally-interpreted and somehow modified Western fares, then Ipoh Garden South should be your playground.
I previously wrote about Thum's, Alan's and Scotch Pub's; all three stalls in the same league of cheap Western cuisine situated within walking distance from one another.
And hence on a rainy Saturday evening, when the entire family was not in the mood for adventurous food excursions (read: lazy to venture far), we settled for Sun Weng Fatt; the corner shop housing Thum's in Ipoh Garden South.
But then again, you need to remember that Thum's does NOT start operating until well after 7pm. 6.45pm if you're lucky or they feel like it. And we arrived early about 6pm.
But this kopitiam is more than mere one trick pony. We shall see what Motormouth had despite the initial disappointment of not able to satisfy his insatiable appetite for sweet onion rings.
I received an email from a long-time reader recently, a friendly reminder on the urgency for Motormouth to restore his initial passion to share new eateries in Ipoh rather than dwelling on the same old hawker favourites that should have been public knowledge by now. In short; stop writing again and again about Lou Wong, Foh San, Sin Eng Heong, Xin Quan Fang and Sin Yoon Loong.
Point taken, and thank you for the email. However, allow me to defend my selection of topics recently.
Since moving away from Ipoh to Kuala Lumpur almost 4 years back; and subsequently to Singapore few months ago, there is nothing more rejuvenating and inspiring than paying a visit to the old timers in Ipoh; the surviving decades-old establishments that you could argue having been immortalized as legends anyway and need not another review.
If you can call my ramblings that, anyway.
But to me, revisiting the same old favourite haunts since childhood days was a never chore. Or a bore. And the stories never got old when retold from different perspectives or stages of life.
The selection of tea at Tea And Tattle is astoundingly rich; almost 120 types (!) of black, green, floral or wellness tea, categorized into various groups suited for almost any time of the day, any mood and even any ailment.
It could be the fact that most of the newer cafes or restaurants that have mushroomed since the recent year or two have been paltry affair; with nary more than a handful of noteworthy ones deserving repeated visits. Or introduced to foodies from the outer states, or even international holiday makers.
I for one, would never thought of doing a café hop in Ipoh when there are multiple replicates of them back in Klang Valley, Penang or even Singapore.
This article was first published in The Malay Mail. Read it HERE.
Nestled within the centre of what has increasingly been acknowledged as the tourist hub of the city where you can literally walk to famous food outlets like Lou Wong Bean Sprouts Chicken, Sin Eng Heong kaya puffs, Aun Kheng Lim salted chicken and Funny Mountain Soya Bean, is this decades-old coffee shop named Loke Wooi Kee (LWK).
The name might sound unfamiliar to those not born and bred in Ipoh; the looks of the unassuming corner lot may not seem appealing at first glance, but this establishment has definitely stood the test of time and outshines so many other newer kopitiams or food courts that came up in recent years.
I still remember how our family used to visit LWK back in the early 90s for the Hor Hee stall. I was brought up tasting my first bowl of the comfort food at this shop, before gradually learning about the existence of other outlets serving the same, e.g: See See Heng at Embassy Restaurant and Hotel along Chamberlain Road, Li Heng Fatt in Old Town etc.
We discussed for numerous times about the invasion of coffee culture in Ipoh since a year or so back, spearheaded by the Ipoh old town rejuvenation exercise and influence from neighbouring cities like Penang and Kuala Lumpur perhaps.
Earlier this year, we witnessed a paradigm shift in our 'yum cha' marathon; an extremely common practice during Chinese New Year. Youngsters and even families flocked to cafes instead of modern kopitiams (eg. the Old Town White Coffee outlets) or hawker spots. But then again, what can you do in Ipoh aside from continuous eating/drinking/catching up sessions, and where else to go but air-conditioned establishments to avoid the heat?
Fast forward ten months later, and I admit that I am a bit surprised to see that most (if not all) of the new blood in Ipoh café scene still possess a resilient staying power; amidst my initial reservations on sustainability and survivability against the Ipoh hawker heroes.


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March is always an exciting season for the basketball fans of the world because of March Madness. March Madness is a time where friendships are ended and cash is lost. When two friends compare brackets and say they will make a "friendly" bet on who will come out on top, plan on those two friends never speaking to each other again after the month is over. Throughout the month of March, sixty-eight teams from around the nation play head to head for bragging rights and more money than anyone at Wade Hampton would know what to do with. Of course, this is not the NBA March Madness, it is for the NCAA. Right now, the four teams left on the bracket are Auburn, Virginia, Texas Tech, and MI State. The next game is on Saturday, April 6, a decisive day that will determine which teams will play in the championship game which will be on April 8. This is also the day everyone will be going broke and losing all of their friends.
In the end, March Madness is truly as it is described: madness. It is not hard to see why. Junior Jake Liptak had the following to say about March Madness: "I usually don't watch a lot of basketball it doesn't really excite me, but I see why other people do get over-hyped about it. Now if this was football season, maybe I'd be interested. But as long as that's not the case I'm not too hyped."
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California's authorized marijuana financial system started on January 1 of this yr after voters handed Prop 64 in 2016. The state subsequently shaped the BCC to manage all hashish companies within the state. All business hashish corporations should get hold of a license from the state in an effort to function legally.
Most of the warnings despatched by the BCC, almost 400, went to companies within the Los Angeles space. Of the entities with a listed handle, 64 % have been from the LA metropolitan space. Almost 100 extra went to the San Francisco Bay Area.
Alex Traverso is a spokesman for the BCC. He informed native media that the bureau despatched a lot of the warnings to hashish retailers and supply providers. He additionally stated the letters and subsequent follow-up appear to be efficient.
"It's slow going, but so far, we're relatively encouraged by the number of people who received the letter and said, `OK, I'm going to get my application in,"' he added.
But it's potential the state might already be getting forward of itself. The BCC has despatched no less than a few of the letters to companies that have already got licenses. Others are at present navigating the regulatory course of.
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Russian President Vladmir Putin said the strikes will only make things worse for civilians in Syria.
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One of my latest pieces entitled 'The Aussie Hotel'. Painted with acrylic on regular wrapped canvas.
Comes with a Certificate of Authenticity from the artist. And is signed on the front.
Inspired by the humour and the red outback of the Australian desert. With the owners of the Hotel as Koalas.


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Similar to the widely acclaimed £25,000 Tattersalls October Book 1 Bonus, participating owners will receive a £15,000 bonus if their 2019 Craven Breeze Up purchase wins a Class 2, 3 or 4 two year old Maiden or Novice race in Britain or an 'Open' two year old maiden in Ireland. The cost to enter the £15,000 Craven Breeze Up Bonus will be a single payment of £1,000 and the number of qualifying British and Irish maiden and novice races is expected to number around 300 races.
The new £15,000 Craven Breeze Up Bonus will run alongside the hugely popular £25,000 Tattersalls October Book 1 Bonus scheme which has already rewarded owners with well in excess of £3 million in bonuses. All two year olds, sold, bought in or failing to meet their reserve at the 2019 Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale will be eligible for the £15,000 bonuses.
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Glorious Forever crosses the line in front of fellow Lanwades Stud-bred full-brother Time Warp (3rd) and a fast-finishing Deirdre (2nd) in the Group 1 Longines Hong Kong Cup (photo: Racingfotos.com).
It is a rare occurrence for a thoroughbred breeder to hit the racing headlines in Hong Kong.
With all of the territory's racehorses imported from overseas jurisdictions, the focus subsequent to a horse's transfer to Hong Kong is very much upon the local trainer and owner.
Where and how the horse's story began is, naturally, not as widely noted and appraised as it is in countries such as Britain or Australia, where the racing industry goes hand in hand with a breeding industry.
From personal experience, conversation between winning connections in Hong Kong may quickly turn to the sale at which the horse was acquired, or indeed the previous owner if the sale was a private one, yet rarely will it extend to the brains behind the mating plans that produced said horse and the hands that nurtured it during its first few months of life.
It is therefore both remarkable and significant that one of the big stories to come out of this year's Longines Hong Kong International Races concerns Kirsten Rausing, the breeder of the last two Group 1 Longines Hong Kong Cup champions: Time Warp and Glorious Forever.
Of course, the story of Glorious Forever's following in Time Warp's footsteps was made all the more remarkable given that the two are full-brothers. The fact that Archipenko died suddenly in the wake of Time Warp's victory in 2017 added a further layer of poignancy to the tale. While we can hope for plenty of future half-brothers and sisters out of the dam, Here To Eternity, no further progeny will possess the unique mix of genes that has proved so potent in this most prestigious of international contests at Sha Tin.
Miss Kirsten Rausing with Here To Eternity, dam of Time Warp and Glorious Forever, at Lanwades Stud near Newmarket (photo: GBRI).
I visited Rausing at her Lanwades Stud just outside Newmarket with the TDN just ten days before flying out for this year's Longines Hong Kong International Races.
"I've been associated with this family since 1976, and I have owned the two brothers' fourth dam since circa 1990", Rausing recounted, with a glint of well-earned pride in her eye. "Having sold her for a seven-figure sum in US dollars, I bought her back some ten years later as a barren mare. She was very kind to me. She repaid me by giving me four filly foals in four years, and one of them was the third dam of Time Warp and Glorious Forever.
Lanwades Stud has been in Rausing's care since 1980. Her acquisition of the property, which along with adjacent satellite stud St. Simon where the pregnant mares live now covers 2.3 square kilometres, was not as facile as one might expect.
Since then, Rausing has grown into a world-renowned breeder of quality bloodstock, with Ascot Gold Cup winner Fame And Glory being perhaps the best known of the Group 1 winners in recent years to carry her name as a breeder.
For Lanwades, 2018 has been a record-equalling year, with 116 winners and six individual Group 1 winners bred by the operation.
The stud's stallion roster, which in 1981 began with Niniski, a son of Nijinski, is also in rude health. As well as 2006 Epsom Derby winner Sir Percy, it now boasts exciting recruits Bobby's Kitten and Sea The Moon, the latter of which made a particularly strong impression as his first crop of two-year-olds took to the track this year.
Sea The Moon: The son of Sea The Stars is a leading European first season sire (photo: Lanwades Stud).
As for our two high-class sons of Archipenko in Hong Kong, their story had already captured the minds of the racing public well before the build up to December's showpiece international meeting.
Glorious Forever, who departed from Ed Walker's yard at the end of his three-year-old season in 2017, did not wait long before asserting his credentials in his new environment, landing a brace of impressive wins at Sha Tin at the back end of the 2017-18 season. In the latter of these races, he smashed the track record set by none other than Time Warp just five months previously.
A similarly authoritative display in his first race of the 2018-19 season in October was to be his warm-up for the first in a series of brotherly duels seen once in a blue moon in Hong Kong.
Experience triumphed over youth in this first encounter in the Group 3 Ladies' Purse, as Time Warp held Glorious Forever at bay with a characteristically gutsy front-running display. With Glorious Forever's connections confident that their horse could only be seen to best effect if similar front-running tactics were deployed, it soon became clear that they would not be so forgiving in round two, which was to be held a mere two weeks later in the Group 2 Jockey Club Cup.
This second encounter proved an exercise in futility for both brothers. Jockeys Zac Purton and Joao Moreira set frightening fractions in a stubborn refusal to cede in the battle for the lead. The pair finished a combined 31½ lengths off eventual winner Eagle Way.
Evidently, neither horse would win the Hong Kong Cup if they engaged in similar antics. Yet which would concede the early battle to preserve his chance of winning the war?
As fate would have it, the barrier draw proved to be a deciding factor. While trainer of Glorious Forever, Frankie Lor, had freely told the media that he would be content for his horse to be given a tow into the race, Britain's three-time Champion Jockey, Silvestre De Sousa, had other ideas. Once Glorious Forever had been handed barrier one and Time Warp barrier seven, the game was on for De Sousa.
The final of the four international races at Sha Tin begins less than 200m before the field begins the right hand bend out of the home straight. The break is therefore crucial if a horse is to secure a handy position. With tactics expected to play a big part in early proceedings, the tension as the horses stood in the gates was palpable. Would Purton really be able to roust Time Warp into an early lead from the outside barrier?
As the gates flew open and De Sousa urged the young pretender to take the plum spot on the rail, it quickly became clear that the race was Glorious Forever's to lose. With Time Warp being forced to settle for second, De Sousa was able to dictate proceedings and deliver a front-running masterclass at sensible fractions, leaving enough horse under him to power home in the closing stages and secure historic back-to-back Cup victories for Lanwades-bred progeny of Archipenko. Time Warp, caught in the final stride of the 2000m contest by Japanese filly Deirdre, finished a gallant 3rd.
The atmosphere amongst the 96,000 strong crowd was electric. The new kid on the block had overturned the reigning champion in the most fascinatingly tactical of contests, securing a clean sweep for Hong Kong trainers. The script could hardly have been more compelling.
Glorious Forever pursued by full-brother Time Warp in the final metres of the Hong Kong Cup (photo: Racingfotos.com).
The nature of the Hong Kong International Races meeting – that is to say, the local team taking on the world on the biggest and richest stage that Hong Kong offers – means that captivating stories are sure to be served up year in, year out. The biggest headlines after the 2018 renewal were undoubtedly the aforementioned clean sweep of wins for Hong Kong's trainers, Lor training two of the four champions, and the repeat victories of Beauty Generation and Mr Stunning in their respective contests.
And yet amongst these trainer-centric headlines, this year's Hong Kong International Races also delivered a tale seldom told in Hong Kong: that of the breeder. The poignancy and rarity of two brothers fighting it out in an international Group 1 brought into focus this crucial cog within the racing machine, a cog that can often be overlooked in Hong Kong.
The remarkable story of the Lanwades-bred champions should be celebrated with gusto, for without the breeder we would have no horses to race. For Rausing herself, the achievement should not be underestimated. To breed two individual back-to-back winners of one of the Hong Kong International Races is a feat that may not be repeated for decades to come.
And delighted were we lucky few present at Sha Tin to witness each brother's moment of glory.


The first time I heard the word, Umami, it was in the context of a burger joint that was across from my hair salon, in Santa Monica.
The word, though, goes back much further than the restaurant.
According to Wikipedia, Umami is a savory taste which is one of the five basic tastes, together with sweet, sour, bitter, and salty; a loanword from the Japanese umami meaning "pleasant savory taste".
So can something be considered Paleo that's also a rich Umami food?
Yes; but proceed with caution.
Because soy sauce is a rich source of glutamate, which is used all too often as a meat tenderizer and flavoring, if the Umami recipe you're considering calls for it, you'll have to nix the soy as it's a legume and it's not Paleo. In addition, this is the very same sneaky little devil you'll find in MSG, which is known to be a trigger for Migraine Headaches.
Not to worry, though, as you can experience Umami in other foods that are soy-free.
The Umami Information Center lists the following Paleo-friendly foods as being rich in Umami- so enjoy!
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Man accused of raping a Dixie State University student in 2017 still awaits trial
Evidence filed in the case against a St. George man accused of raping a DSU student reveals more accusers from BYU and other areas of northern Utah.
Man accused of raping a Dixie State University student in 2017 still awaits trial Evidence filed in the case against a St. George man accused of raping a DSU student reveals more accusers from BYU and other areas of northern Utah. Check out this story on thespectrum.com: https://www.thespectrum.com/story/news/2019/07/09/man-accused-raping-dixie-state-student-2017-still-awaits-trial/1684712001/
Emily Havens, St. George Spectrum & Daily News Published 3:50 p.m. MT July 9, 2019
Samuel Heber Butler (Photo: Washington County Sheriff's Office)
A St. George man who was arrested in 2017 and charged with raping a Dixie State University student has yet to receive a trial, pending arguments about whether or not evidence from prior sexual assault and rape allegations he was investigated for in northern Utah will be admitted into evidence.
Samuel Heber Butler, 24, was arrested in Washington County in 2017 and charged with one count of first-degree felony rape in connection to an incident that involved a DSU student.
Butler was also investigated but not charged in Utah County for two cases involving forcible sex abuse and sexual battery, which occurred in 2014 and 2016, respectively. One of those women was 20 weeks pregnant at the time, according to the incident report.
In each statement to police, the alleged victims claim they met Butler through online dating apps, such as Tinder and Plenty of Fish.
Court records also indicate in 2015 Utah Highway Patrol officers responded to reports that Butler was suicidal and walking along Interstate 15 near Spanish Fork, and he admitted to police he had raped three women.
Butler is not in custody.
Trial dates pushed back
Deputy County Attorney Ryan Shaum said — although Butler's case in Washington County has been in limbo for two years — the trial was pushed back due to scheduling conflicts with other cases set for trial around the same time.
"The trial got bumped because there was an in-custody defendant whose trial had priority over ours," Shaum said. "(Butler) is out of custody, so it had a lower priority even though it is a 2017 case."
Additionally, Butler received a new defense attorney earlier this year, Michael Petro, an attorney based in Utah County.
According to Shaum, he and Petro have been speaking in detail about evidence in the case.
Petro filed a motion to exclude evidence that includes the incident reports in the cases of sexual assault from Utah County that were investigated but not prosecuted. Shaum subsequently filed a response in rebuttal to the motion.
Judge Jeffrey Wilcox heard oral arguments regarding the suppression of evidence on June 18. Court records indicate Wilcox is taking the briefs and oral arguments under advisement, and both parties are still awaiting a response. If Wilcox denies Petro's motion to exclude evidence, several exhibits detailing previous allegations Butler faced will be included in the trial.
"We're hoping to get another trial date," Shaum said.
The Dixie State student's testimony
During a preliminary hearing in August 2017, the alleged victim in the DSU case testified as the only witness during the hearing. She recounted her version of events that allegedly transpired between her and Butler in January of that year.
The victim's testimony was similar to the probable cause statement filed in 5th District Court: Her and Butler met on a dating app, they agreed to get coffee together, Butler allegedly drove her to his apartment instead, and the victim allegedly told Butler "no" during several advances.
Through their conversations online via Tinder, the victim told Butler she did not want to have sex with him on the first date, but they had been flirting in their messages back and forth.
"(Butler) had mentioned stargazing, and I counter-suggested going to a coffee shop first," she testified.
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During cross-examination, defense attorney Doug Terry briefly asked the witness about the clothes she was wearing in the photos on her Tinder profile, including if she had photos of herself in a swimsuit or underwear.
The witness said she was fully clothed in her photos, and also answered questions from Terry that detailed the amount of clothing she was wearing on the first date and also if she had consumed alcohol or drugs that evening.
According to witness testimony and the probable cause filed in the case, Butler picked the witness up at the parking lot of Campus View Suites on Jan. 9.
Instead of driving to a coffee shop, however, Butler instead drove to his apartment near DSU's softball diamonds. According to the witness, Butler allegedly took her into his room, started kissing her, and proceeded to remove her clothing.
Deputy County Attorney Ryan Shaum asked the witness how she was feeling and what she was thinking while she entered Butler's home.
"I felt a little nervous," she testified. "I had never met him before, and I was alone in his home."
According to the alleged victim, she attempted to thwart Butler's advances by pushing him away and telling him "no," but within five minutes or less, Butler allegedly forced her to lie on a mattress on the floor while he proceeded to have sex with her.
During this time, the witness testified, she was "frozen."
After intercourse, the witness testified Butler draped a leg and arm over her while they were laying on the mattress, so she was unable to leave.
She asked Butler to take her home, at which point the witness testified that she reported the assault to her resident assistant in the dorm.
Shaum asked why the alleged victim wasn't sure if she wanted to pursue charges at that time, to which she replied, "I was scared."
DSU campus police officers arrested Butler, and the probable cause statement indicates they gathered information from the Logan Police Department, the Orem Police Department, and the Utah County Sheriff's Office as well.
Those agencies had investigated Butler in prior sexual assault complaints, according to the document; however, court records indicate Butler has not been convicted of a prior sex crime in the state of Utah.
"This department learned that the suspect has been listed as a rape suspect in other cases where the suspect forces himself upon the victim," the probable cause states.
Butler was charged on April 16, 2017, in this case. He pleaded not guilty on Sept. 5, 2017.
Two additional women report to police
Utah County Sheriff's Office authorities met with a woman who alleged Butler had sexually assaulted her while the two were on a drive together up Provo Canyon in February of 2016.
According to the incident report, the woman was unable to meet with police for several days because she was experiencing physical pain after the assault occurred. She was 20 weeks pregnant at the time.
The alleged victim told police she had met Butler through Plenty of Fish, and the two had spoken for approximately one week prior to meeting in person. Butler picked her up, the report states, and drove her up the canyon.
Police say the woman said she "did not want anything more than a friendship" with Butler, the incident report claims. However, according to the document, Butler began touching her legs during the drive. She told police she thought this was "creepy," the report indicates.
Butler pulled the vehicle over and told the alleged victim his car was overheating. The woman told police Butler asked her to move items off of the back seat of the car, so she got out of the passenger seat. According to the incident report, she and Butler ended up sitting together in the back seat of the vehicle and continued talking.
"Then he became really aggressive," the woman told police, according to the report.
She explained Butler began "kissing her aggressively" on the lips and put his hands on her chest and touched her vaginal area on the outside of her pants, the document states.
The alleged victim told police she tried to push back, but she was pinned against the car door, and the report claims the woman told police she began telling Butler to "please stop" and began sobbing. She then told police, according to the report, that Butler stopped and asked her if she was OK.
"(The woman) told Butler she was just emotional due to being pregnant," the report reads. "(She) was afraid Butler was going to rape her, so she tried to 'play it off' like she was emotions (sic) from the pregnancy."
According to the report, Butler eventually dropped off the alleged victim several streets away from her home. She told police she was afraid of her safety and the safety of her unborn child, according to the document.
"(The woman) is concerned Butler could be doing this to other women and believes he is a threat," the officer wrote in the incident report.
Butler was interviewed by police regarding the incident in Provo Canyon, during which he said he stopped kissing her because he had "crossed boundaries with a girl a couple of years back, and although she never told him to stop, he felt bad for making her feel uncomfortable," according to the report.
At the time the report was filed, the officer was unable to make contact with the alleged victim again. The report states the Utah County Attorney's Office would not file charges.
Prior to these allegations, a separate woman met with Brigham Young University Police Department officers to report a sexual assault near the Orem Police Department's gun range in 2014.
According to the incident report filed in this case, the alleged victim said she met Butler on Tinder, and she was using Tinder to meet friends. She told officers she and Butler agreed to meet in person, the report states.
The report claims the two walked around for some time, and the woman told police Butler told her he was addicted to pornography. Butler "briefly kissed" the woman before they returned to his vehicle, according to the document.
Once inside the vehicle, the woman told police Butler continued to kiss her and began to touch her breasts, the report states. According to the document, she told police she tried to move Butler's hands away but continued kissing him.
This progressed, according to the document, and Butler removed the alleged victim's shirt and ejaculated onto her stomach.
"(The woman) stated things went further than she had planned and was upset because Butler pushed himself on her," the officer wrote in the report. "(She) wanted to pursue any possible criminal charges against Butler."
The report states the officer contacted the Utah County Attorney's Office and the Orem City Attorney's Office, and neither of which were willing to pursue charges against Butler for sexual battery.
Police: Butler claims he is suicidal, has raped others
According to an incident report filed in June of 2015, Utah Highway Patrol officers responded to reports of a suicidal man walking along I-15 near Spanish Fork.
Officers made contact with Butler, and he told police he "needed to go to jail for incidents that happened several years ago that had not been reported," according to the document.
Butler told police he had sexually assaulted three young girls nearly eight years ago and had not reported it to authorities, the officer wrote in the report.
The report states Butler also told police he had recently broken up with his girlfriend and wanted to commit suicide.
According to the report, the officers made contact with three separate law enforcement agencies regarding the incidents Butler claimed happened eight years ago. The agencies obtained copies of the incident report and said they would follow up on the claims, according to the document.
Court records indicate Butler has not been charged with any additional crimes related to any of the above allegations and admissions.
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I've read the story that I published in my last post several times in the past week. The last time I read it, I approached it differently, in a new light.
I wonder if I've been getting it wrong the whole time. I wonder if our perspective is mislead and wrong. We pray for missionaries, we pray for martyrs. We can't imagine what they go through, especially the martyrs. Think of Paul, think of the apostles, think of Christians all over the world who are being killed, burned and tortured for their faith. "Poor people," I think to myself, "Giving up everything to follow Jesus. Giving their children up and their lives and their comfort and being in pain to follow Jesus." They're being tortured everyday just for believing.
But what about the people ones who are torturing? What do the communists, what do the guerrillas, what do the secret police, what do the terrorists suffer? Ugh. I can't even imagine. As they beat people, as they throw them in prison, as they burn houses along with families down, as they plan to set off bombs and destroy lives. I wonder if guilt penetrates their hearts, driving into the deepest parts of their souls. Or maybe they've become so familiar with pain, with grief, with loss that they're numb to it. Maybe they think they're too far gone, too evil, too lost to ever turn around or do anything different. I bet they're filled with desolation.
And I wonder. Because yes, I see that our brothers and sisters in Christ are suffering to share Jesus, and yes, I should pray for they would be courageous, that they would be fervent in the Lord. Yet they have joy that comes from Jesus. Oh, such joy! Sometimes I wonder if they have more joy than I do. They have hope. They have peace. They have Jesus.
What about the rest? My heart aches for them. What terror, what uncertainty, what emptiness they must feel! How horrible I am to before have felt hate and anger towards ones who persecute my brothers and sisters.
God loves them. He loves them as much as he loves me. I am not any better than them. I am, oh so blessed to know Jesus, to have this hope. Now it is my turn to share it with everyone -- everyone.
ps// sorry I haven't updated you all much the past several days. everything is going well! just busy learning and learning some more.
pps// the picture of the little girls is from when we had a few ladies over, that we met in the market. we've been visiting and getting to know them the past few weeks. more on that later!
Ah, this is so true. Thank you for sharing this--I felt like it was a fresh cup of water handed to me. Definitely perspective changing.
Thank you for sharing. I know how it is to be without Christ in my heart and when I am treated badly by those who know it or don't, I pray for them to know Jesus. He hung around with the worst.
Thank you so much for sharing this! Because of the love of Christ shed abroad in our hearts, the persecuted can love those who hurt them. Thank you!
My heart aches too...this is a fallen world, but at least we have the hope of Jesus. I'm not sure how I'd live without that, knowing all the stuff that goes on.


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Comparative, Prout
The PROUT Paradigm
(PROUT Globe) – O.M. Markley, principle author of the Stanford Research Institute's landmark study Changing Images of Man, identified the core assumptions that prevail in the Marxist-capitalist "industrial state era". These are:
~ The idea that progress is synonymous with economic growth and increasing consumption;
~ The notion that humankind is separate from nature, and that it is the human destiny to conquer nature—to use the natural environment as a resource for fulfilling human wants; and
~ The view that economic efficiency and scientific reductionism are the most trustworthy approaches to fulfilment of humanity's goals.
According to Markley, western civilization derived these assumptions from value premises which arose in the Renaissance and its aftermath. The principle value premises of western civilization which Markley's study identified are:
Rationalism is the only valid source of truth. Revelation, intuition and feeling are to be rejected as subjective and unsubstantiable.
Individualism is the reality of social life. The sense of interdependency in the seamless web of being is a mark of primitivism.
Secular progress is the measure of human attainment. Faith in the power of science, not in spiritual realization, is the path to happiness.
Human is master, unique and apart from nature. It is our destiny to control and dominate the natural environment. Materialism is the measure of human wealth. Those who are materially successful are to be accorded high social status. Natural law, in its economic form, dictates that society as a whole will be benefited when every one pursues their own self-interest for material gain.
Others, who have looked at the core values of western civilization, add to this list "mechanistic outlook," which envisions a universe that is linear, mechanical, atomistic, and rigidly deterministic.
These complimentary and inter-meshing premises have shaped the western worldview, and this worldview has in turn spawned the civilizational leviathan that is destroying the balance of planetary life.
Emergence of a New Paradigm
It is just this task which has occupied some of our most visionary social thinkers. Marilyn Ferguson, in her book The Aquarian Conspiracy, surveyed the emergence of new paradigm thinking in diverse social disciplines. Fritjof Capra, in articulating a theoretical base for green politics, consciously grounded his thinking in a matrix of new paradigm premises. And Mark Satin, looking beyond the traditional liberal-conservative, socialist- capitalist dichotomous political framework, reported evidence of a coalescing "third force"—a political constituency which holds a decentralist-ecological-human growth perspective.
Ecophilosopher Arne Naess proposed two "ultimate norms" as cornerstones for the needed antithesis to the dominant ideology. These are: Self-realization and bio-centric equality. The Self- realization norm is derived from the central message of perennial philosophy—that the fundamental purpose of human existence is to realize our fundamental nature. Indian seer-philosopher P.R. Sarkar termed this our "human cardinal purpose" and explains its importance in these words:
"There is in the human being a thirst for limitlessness. It is impossible for limited objects to quench this thirst. The Great (Brahma) is the only limitless entity, so establishment in its bearing alone puts an end to all thirsts and cravings."
From the stance of the Self-realization norm, materialism is fundamentally flawed, due to its inherently inability to satisfy deeper human longings. The perennial philosophy, by contrast, supports attainment of the Self-realized state, with its promise of profound fulfilment. Humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow, in his study of peak experience, found that seers and mystics from many times and cultures report that the state of transcendence, of Oneness, experienced by Self-realized individuals brings deep peace and contentment.
The Self-realization norm also has relevance to social transformation. The purification and spiritual elevation of individuals is necessary if we are to create lasting social progress—a liberated society can only emerge from the liberated consciousness of individuals.
The second cornerstone of the post Marxist/capitalist worldview which Naess advocates is "bio-centric equality." Poet Robinson Jeffers expressed the essence of this norm in his poem, "The Answer": "Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe. Love that, not man apart from that . . ."
Sarkar developed an analogous concept to bio-centric equality, which he termed "neohumanism." Sarkar conveys the sentiment behind neohumanism in these words:
"Is humanity the summum bonum of existence? No, no, no, certainly not. The universe does not consist only of human beings; other creatures, other animals and plants, also have the right to live. Our universe is not only the universe of humans, but the universe of all—for all created entities, both animate and inanimate."
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Prout for Parivartan (Change)
Only Prout Brings Full Self-rule
PROUT's Vision of True Human Society
Prout, a Guarantee Against Totalitarianism
The Regulation of Wealth
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Comparing Prout with Participatory Economics
Comparing Prout to Marxism and Communism
A Proutist Response to Land Value Capture
The Radical Nature of PROUT
The Politics of Understanding PROUT
PROUT and Workers Security
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Prout Compared with Capitalism and Communism
Capitalism, Marxism and Neohumanist Economics
A Brief Introduction to the Progressive Utilization Theory (PROUT)
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Sarkar: Why the Prout Philosophy Has Been Created
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Capitalism, PROUT and Deficiencies of Democracy – III
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Studebaker. Never seen one before, very pretty indeed, but menacing at the same time.
599 GTO, complete with flying butresses. Nice to see it out and being used.
quite a line up. Roush Mustang at the end is really rare in the UK too.
Ferrari FF and vans, just your normal paddock carpark.
The day did not stay this warm and sunny, sadly.


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Q: is it possible to make c++ standard sort stable using custom comparators and if i does not want to use stable_sort? problem link
I was solving this problem and I created a custom comparator to the first sort based on the length and then on basis of the index to sort it stable using standard c++ sort. But this custom comparator does not sort with stable order. and when I used stable_sort it got accepted. I am curious why a custom comparator can't be used to sort stabily.
  class Solution {
 public:
    string arrangeWords(string text) {
    stringstream ss(text);
    string word;
    vector<pair<int,int>>v;
    int ind=0;
    unordered_map<int,string>temp;
    while(ss>>word){
        int n=word.length();
        transform(word.begin(), word.end(), word.begin(), ::tolower);
        v.push_back({n,ind});
        temp[ind]=word;
        ind++;

    }
    auto cmp=[](pair<int,int>a,pair<int,int>b){
        if(a.first==b.first){
            return a.second<b.second;
        }
       return a.first<b.first;
    };
    stable_sort(v.begin(),v.end(),cmp);
    //   for(auto elem:v){
    //     cout<<elem.first<<" "<<elem.second<<"\n";
    // }
    string res="";
    for(auto x:v){

        res+=(temp[x.second]+" ");
    }
    int n=res.size();
    res.erase(res.begin()+n-1);
    res[0]=toupper(res[0]);
    return res;

   }
};

this work but if I use a custom comparator with just standard sort it does not preserve order even after writing in custom comparator which is
static bool cmp(pair<int,int>p1,pair<int,int>p2){
    if(p1.first==p2.first){
        p1.second<p2.second;
    }
    return p1.first<p2.first;
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Have a Video Conference App? How to Set Your Workplace Up for Success
Vonage Staff
From "Star Trek" to "The Jetsons" to those wristband holo-communicators the Power Rangers used, popular media has long been infatuated with video conferencing. The shows and movies of yesteryear, however, didn't do a great job exploring the etiquette behind successfully using a video conference app. Mr. Spacely never chided George for using home office video conferencing to chat with an important sprocket-buying client from a cluttered office, and we never saw Picard using a lint roller on his Starfleet uniform before hailing from the bridge.
Things are a little different in the real world. The rise of video conferencing apps has brought with it a new set of rules — not to mention spoken and unspoken etiquette — many of which center on the environment from which you're calling. Whether you primarily call from your desktop or frequently employ a video conferencing app on your phone or tablet, here are a few things to consider as you set up your conferencing area.
Test Your Call Before It's Important
Your video conferencing hardware and software are easily the most important parts of your calling space. Microphones, cameras, phones, tablets, PCs, and even the video conference app itself are all potential gotchas — you definitely don't want to have to reschedule a call when your camera fails two minutes before showtime.
If you're setting up a new home office video conferencing area, make sure all the equipment works and that your video conferencing software is up to date. If your home office is already set, make frequent testing part of your monthly routine, and check again a few days ahead of important calls.
Get Your Lighting on Lock
If you want to look good during a video call, ditch the overhead lighting. Instead, use a natural light source behind your camera to provide the right atmosphere. If you're primarily a mobile video caller, this effect may be harder to achieve. Even then, pay attention to how the lighting makes you look by experimenting with some test calls.
While you're at it, make sure your camera angle is on point. Unusual camera views can be distracting during a video conference, so make sure your camera is at eye level and that you appear in the center of the screen. Look directly at the camera — rather than the screen — as you are speaking, too. That way, the folks on the call will feel like the conversation is happening naturally and that you're fully engaged.
Spouses and Roommates and Kids, Oh My!
Other people — particularly those who might walk through in their pajamas or in a T-shirt proclaiming their love of pizza — are just as big a no-no on a video call as they would be in a real office setting. If you're calling from home, be sure to have a chat with your co-dwellers about the importance of steering clear of your calling area. If you're at the office, always carry out calls behind a closed door.
If you don't ward off this potential problem beforehand, you could find yourself in the same shoes as Robert Kelly, whose very serious BBC interview on North Korea was crashed by his chipper daughter. Although the interruption became instant comedy gold, as The Guardian pointed out, it probably isn't what the suit-clad political science professor had in mind.
Ambient Noise Is the Enemy
Similarly, conversations in the next room or even kids playing quietly are almost certainly audible to your calling partners. The same thing goes for your cubicle mate's atrocious talk radio and Mike across the office's inane chatter about what he bought at the grocery store last week — how can one person's voice carry so far?
Whatever your ambient noise challenges, make sure you squelch them, or even better, find a place where they're inaudible. One good rule of thumb is to mute your microphone while you're not speaking. That way, random sounds have a much smaller chance of barging into the call.
Patterned, colorful accoutrements can pull your co-callers' eyes away from you, which can be a real problem in sales, marketing, and other calls where people should be paying attention to you.
The Background Is Bigger Than You Think
Is frantically cleaning your calling area a key part of your pre-conference ritual? If so, make sure you give the camera a wide berth. More of the area may be visible than you think, and the last thing you want are piles of papers and assorted boxes cluttering up the edge of your co-worker's or client's screen. Again, a test call can work wonders here, as can a directed effort to keep clutter fully behind the camera's eye.
Mind Your Mobile Environment
On the topic of backgrounds people don't want to see, here are a few more: a crowded bus. Your bedroom, with the (made or unmade) bed directly behind you. Your car, particularly when it's in motion. In other words, a video conference app can definitely help manage an on-the-go lifestyle, but try to find a suitable environment for your calls all the same.
To some degree, a bland background is preferable when using a video conference app. Even if you don't want to go full-on boring, make sure there's nothing too visually grabbing about your background. That trippy wall painting, your beloved mug collection, and other patterned, colorful accoutrements can pull your co-callers' eyes away from you, which can be a real problem in sales, marketing, and other calls where people should be paying attention to you. While they aren't technically part of the background, the same can be said for excessively flashy jewelry or clothing. In most cases, muted, solid colors are preferable to bright colors or patterns.
Video conferencing, according to Lifewire, offers numerous benefits for small and enterprise businesses alike, from binding mobile employees to humanizing conversations. But with every new tool comes new rules and new etiquette to follow. Now that you have these tips, you're ready to make the most of your video conference app.