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By Kim Tong-Hylung and Foster Klug
BUSAN, South Korea -
The 14-year-old boy in the black school jacket stared at his sneakers, his heart pounding, as the policeman accused him of stealing a piece of bread.
Guards unload children from a truck in Busan,
Even now, more than 30 years later, Choi Seung-woo weeps when he describes all that happened next. The policeman yanked down the boy's pants and sparked a cigarette lighter near Choi's genitals until he confessed to a crime he didn't commit. Then two men with clubs came and dragged Choi off to the Brothers Home, a mountainside institution where some of the worst human rights atrocities in modern South Korean history took place.
A guard in Choi's dormitory raped him that night in 1982 — and the next, and the next.
So began five hellish years of slave labor and near-daily assaults, years in which Choi saw men and women beaten to death, their bodies carted away like garbage.
Choi was one of thousands — the homeless, the drunk, but mostly children and the disabled — rounded up off the streets ahead of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, which the ruling dictators saw as international validation of South Korea's arrival as a modern country. An Associated Press investigation shows that the abuse of these so-called vagrants at Brothers, the largest of dozens of such facilities, was much more vicious and widespread than previously known, based on hundreds of exclusive documents and dozens of interviews with officials and former inmates.
Yet nobody has been held accountable to date for the rapes and killings at the Brothers compound because of a cover-up orchestrated at the highest levels of government, the AP found. Two early attempts to investigate were suppressed by senior officials who went on to thrive in high-profile jobs; one remains a senior adviser to the current ruling party. Products made using slave labor at Brothers were sent to Europe, Japan and possibly beyond, and the family that owned the institution continued to run welfare facilities and schools until just two years ago.
Even as South Korea prepares for its second Olympics, in 2018, thousands of traumatized former inmates have still received no compensation, let alone public recognition or an apology. The few who now speak out want a new investigation.
Child inmates line up for morning assembly at the Brothers Home in Busan, South Korea
The current government, however, refuses to revisit the case, and is blocking a push by an opposition lawmaker to do so on the grounds that the evidence is too old.
Ahn Jeong-tae, an official from Seoul's Ministry of the Interior, said focusing on just one human rights incident would financially burden the government and set a bad precedent. The Brothers' victims, he said, should have submitted their case to a temporary truth-finding commission established in the mid-2000s to investigate past atrocities.
"We can't make separate laws for every incident and there have been so many incidents since the Korean War," Ahn said.
Former inmates, however, cannot forget. One spent months standing quietly in front of the National Assembly with a signboard demanding justice. Choi has attempted suicide several times and now attends weekly therapy sessions.
"The government has consistently tried to bury what happened. How do you fight that? If we spoke up, who would have heard us?" he asked. "I am wailing, desperate to tell our story. Please listen to us."
"HELL WITHIN A HELL"
Once an orphanage, Brothers Home at its peak had more than 20 factories churning out woodwork, metalwork, clothing, shoes and other goods made by mostly unpaid inmates. The sprawling compound of concrete buildings rose above the southern port city of Busan, its inmates hidden from view by tall walls and kept there by guards who carried bats and patrolled with dogs.
The horrors that happened behind those walls are inextricably linked to South Korea's modern history.
The country at the time was still recovering from the near-total devastation of the 1950-53 Korean War, which followed nearly four decades of brutal Japanese colonization. From the 1960s until the '80s, before democracy, it was ruled by military dictators who focused overwhelmingly on improving the economy.
In 1975, dictator President Park Chung-hee, father of current President Park Geun-hye, issued a directive to police and local officials to "purify" city streets of vagrants. Police officers, assisted by shop owners, rounded up panhandlers, small-time street merchants selling gum and trinkets, the disabled, lost or unattended children, and dissidents, including a college student who'd been holding anti-government leaflets.
Brothers Home in Busan South Korea
They ended up as prisoners at 36 nationwide facilities. By 1986, the number of inmates had jumped over five years from 8,600 to more than 16,000, according to government documents obtained by AP.
Nearly 4,000 were at Brothers. But about 90 percent of them didn't even meet the government's definition of "vagrant" and therefore shouldn't have been confined there, former prosecutor Kim Yong Won told the AP, based on Brothers' records and interviews compiled before government officials ended his investigation.
The inner workings of Brothers are laid bare by former inmate Lee Chae-sik, who had extraordinary access as personal assistant to the man in charge of enforcing the rules. The AP independently verified many of the details provided by Lee, now 46, through government documents.
Lee was sent to Brothers at 13 after trouble at school. His first job was in a medical ward. Twice a day, Lee and four others, none of whom had medical training, would try to care for patients, often dousing their open wounds with disinfectant or removing maggots with tweezers.
"People screamed in pain, but we couldn't do much," Lee said. "It was a hell within a hell. The patients had been left there to die."
Stronger inmates raped and beat the weak and stole their food, he said. Lee attempted suicide after a guard at the medical ward raped him.
A year later, he was made personal assistant to chief enforcer Kim Kwang-seok, who like other guards at Brothers was an inmate raised to power by the owner because of his loyalty. Many former inmates remember Kim as the facility's most feared man. The AP tried repeatedly to track Kim down but could not find him.
Lee said he was present when Kim, a short, stocky man with sunburned skin, led near-daily, often fatal beatings at the compound's "corrections room." Lee accompanied Kim as he compiled a twice-a-day tally of the sick and dead for the owner; four or five daily deaths were often on the list.
A scene recounted by Lee provides a firsthand account of the efficient, almost casually evil way the facility worked. One morning, Kim approached owner Park In-keun on his daily jog to report that yet another inmate had been beaten to death the night before. The boy heard Park order Kim to bury the body in the hills behind the compound's walls.
MONEY FROM SLAVES
The violence at Brothers happened in the shadow of a massive money-making operation partly based on slave labor. The factories were ostensibly meant to train inmates for future jobs. But by the end of 1986, Brothers saw a profit from 11 of them, according to Busan city government documents obtained exclusively by the AP.
The documents show that Brothers should have paid the current equivalent of $1.7 million to more than 1,000 inmates for their dawn-to-dusk work over an unspecified period. However, facility records and interviews with inmates at the time suggest that, instead, most of the nearly 4,000 people at Brothers were subject to forced labor without pay, according to prosecutor Kim.
Another probe at the time, quickly scrapped by the government, showed that "nearly none" of about 100 inmates interviewed received payment. None of 20 former inmates interviewed by the AP received money while at Brothers either, though three got small payments later.
Adults worked on construction jobs, both at Brothers and off-site. Children sometimes hauled dirt and built walls, but mostly they assembled ballpoint pens and fishing hooks.
Some products were tied to other countries. For example, dress shirts made at Brothers' sewing factory were sent to Europe, and inmates were trained by employees at Daewoo, a major clothing exporter during the 1980s to the United States and other markets, according to the owner's autobiography. Park, the owner, said officials from Daewoo had toured the facility before offering a partnership. Daewoo International spokesman Kim Jin-ho said it was impossible to confirm such details because of a lack of records from the time.
Inmates during the 1970s recounted spending long hours tying fishing lines to hooks for packages with Japanese writing on them, for export to Japan.
Kim Hee-gon, an inmate at Brothers for eight years, said he and his colleagues were beaten severely in the early 1970s after thousands of such packages shipped to Japan were returned because they were faulty or missing hooks. Park Gyeong-bo, who was confined at Brothers from 1975 to 1980, remembered sneaker bottoms produced with the logo of Kukje Sangsa, a now-defunct company that manufactured shoes for the United States and Europe in the 1970s and 80s.
The operation thrived because everybody benefited, except the inmates.
Local officials needed somewhere to put the vagrants they were charged with corralling, so each year they renewed a contract with Brothers that required an inspection of how the inmates were treated and of how the facility was financially managed. Brothers got government subsidies based on its number of inmates, so it pushed police to round up more vagrants, the early probe found. And police officers were often promoted depending on how many vagrants they picked up.
Two Busan city officials would say only that the facts are difficult to confirm now because the facility closed three decades ago. Heo Gwi-yong, a spokesman for the Busan Metropolitan Police Agency, said he couldn't confirm any details for the same reason.
The owner of Brothers, Park, received two state medals for social welfare achievements and sat on a government advisory panel. His version of his story even inspired a 1985 television drama about a man's heroic devotion to caring for what were called "bottom-life people."
Park eventually served a short prison stint for embezzlement and other relatively minor charges, but not for the abuse at Brothers. When the facility was at last raided in 1987, investigators found a vault in Park's office filled with the current equivalent of about $5 million in U.S. and Japanese currencies and certificates of deposit.
In his autobiography, in court hearings and in talks with close associates, Park has denied wrongdoing and maintained that he simply followed government orders. Repeated attempts to contact him through family, friends and activists were unsuccessful.
The AP, however, tracked down the former second-highest management official at Brothers, Lim Young-soon, who bristled in a telephone interview at descriptions of corruption, violence and slavery at the facility. Lim, a Protestant pastor now in Australia who is the brother of Park's wife, said Park was a "devoted" social worker who made Busan better by cleaning its streets of troublemakers. He said Brothers' closure "damaged national interests."
Lim acknowledged beating deaths at Brothers, but said they were caused by clashes between inmates. He attributed the facility's high death toll to the many inmates he said arrived there in poor physical and mental health.
"These were people who would have died in the streets anyway," Lim said.
"I DIDN'T LIVE AS A HUMAN"
While Park raked in the money, the death toll mounted and the inmates struggled to survive.
On his second day at Brothers, still dazed from his brutal rape the night before, Choi waited with other children to be stripped and washed. He said he watched a guard drag a woman by her hair and then beat her with a club until blood flowed from her head.
"I just stood there, trembling like a leaf," Choi, 46, said. "I couldn't even scream when the platoon leader later raped me again."
Another time, Choi recalled, he saw seven guards knock down a screaming man, cover him with a blue blanket and stomp and beat him. Blood seeped through the blanket. When it fell away, the dead man's eyes had rolled back into his head.
Death tallies compiled by the facility claimed 513 people died between 1975 and 1986; the real toll was almost certainly higher. Prosecutor Kim interviewed multiple inmates who said facility officials refused to send people to hospitals until they were nearly dead for fear of escape.
"The facility was Park's kingdom, and violence was how he ruled," Kim said of the owner. "When you are confined to a place where people are getting beaten to death every day, you aren't likely to complain too much about forced labor, abuse or getting raped."
Most of the new arrivals at Brothers were in relatively good health, government documents show. Yet at least 15 inmates were dead within just a month of arrival in 1985, and 22 in 1986.
Of the more than 180 documented deaths at Brothers in 1985 and 1986, 55 of the death certificates were issued by a single doctor, Chung Myung-kuk, according to internal facility documents, interviews and records compiled by Kim. Chung, now dead, mostly listed the cause of death as "heart failure" and "general weakness."
Life at Brothers began before dawn, as inmates washed and got ready for mandatory 5:30 a.m. prayers, transmitted by loudspeaker from the facility's Presbyterian church. After a morning run, they ate breakfast and then headed to factories or construction sites.
When city officials, foreign missionaries or aid workers visited, a select group of healthy inmates worked for hours to prepare a sanitized version of Brothers for the guests. Guards locked everyone else in their dormitories. Choi said inmates watched hopelessly as these clueless do-gooders trooped through.
"We were trapped in a prison. But who could help us? No one," Choi said.
Once the doors were locked at 6 p.m., Choi said, the guards unleashed "uncontrolled violence" upon the 60 to 100 kids in his dormitory, including frequent rapes.
A principal at a Busan school who once taught at Brothers acknowledged that inmates were held against their will, and even called the facility a massive concentration camp. However, the principal, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was worried about his reputation, staunchly defended its practices. He said severe violence and military-style discipline were the only ways to run a place filled with thousands of unruly people who didn't want to be there.
Park Sun-yi, who had been snatched by police at age 9 from a Busan train station in 1980, was one of the few to escape.
She had watched as the guards reserved their most ruthless beatings, the kind where inmates sometimes didn't recover, for those who tried to run. But after five years, she said, she became "consumed with the thought that my life might be like this forever and that I might die here."
She and five other girls used a broken saw from the ironwork factory to file away bars on a second-floor window at night, little by little, reattaching them with gum each morning. At last, they squeezed themselves out, scaled a wall embedded with broken glass and fled into the hills.
When she finally walked through the door of her family home in Munsan, she said, her father fainted.
"JUST WAITING TO DIE"
The unraveling of Brothers began by accident.
While pheasant hunting, Kim, then a newly appointed prosecutor in the city of Ulsan, heard from his guide about men with wooden bats and large dogs guarding bedraggled prisoners on a nearby mountain. When they drove there, the men said they were building a ranch for the owner of the Brothers Home in nearby Busan. Kim knew immediately, he said, that he'd stumbled onto "a very serious crime."
On a frigid January evening in 1987, Kim led 10 policemen in a surprise raid past the facility's high walls, imposing steel gates and gape-mouthed guards. Inside, he found battered and malnourished inmates locked in overcrowded dormitories. The inmates gave the unexpected visitors crisp, military-style salutes.
"I remember thinking, 'This isn't a welfare facility; it's a concentration camp,'" Kim, now 61 and a managing partner at a Seoul law firm, said. People lay coughing and moaning in a squalid sick ward, "just waiting to die."
After the owner was arrested, he demanded a meeting with Kim's boss, the chief Busan prosecutor, who then supervised Ulsan. A day later, Busan Mayor Kim Joo-ho, who died in 2014, called Kim to plead for Park's release. Kim said he politely declined and hung up.
At every turn, Kim said, high-ranking officials blocked his investigation, in part out of fear of an embarrassing international incident on the eve of the Olympics. President Chun Doo-hwan, who took power in a coup after Park Chung-hee was assassinated, didn't need another scandal as he tried to fend off huge pro-democracy protests.
Internal prosecution records reveal several instances where Kim noted intense pressure from Chun's office to curb his probe and push for lighter punishment for the owner. Kim had to reassure presidential officials directly and regularly that his investigation wouldn't expand.
Park Hee-tae, then Busan's head prosecutor and later the nation's justice minister, relentlessly pushed to reduce the scope of the investigation, Kim said, including forcing him to stop his efforts to interview every inmate at Brothers. Park, a senior adviser to the current ruling party, has repeatedly denied AP interview requests. His personal secretary said Park can't remember details about the investigation.
Despite interference, Kim eventually collected bank records and financial transactions indicating that, in 1985 and 1986 alone, the owner of Brothers embezzled what would be the current equivalent of more than $3 million. That came from about $10 million of government subsidies meant to feed and clothe the inmates and maintain the facilities. However, Kim said, the chief Busan prosecutor forced Kim to list the embezzlement as nearly half the amount he had actually found so that a life sentence couldn't be pursued under the law at the time.
Kim said his bosses also prevented him from charging the owner, Park, or anyone else for the suspected widespread abuse at the Brothers compound, and limited the prosecutor to pursuing much narrower abuse linked to the construction site Kim found while hunting.
Kim demanded a 15-year prison term for Park. After a lengthy battle, the Supreme Court in 1989 gave Park 2½ years in prison for embezzlement and violations of construction, grassland management and foreign currency laws. He was acquitted of charges linked to off-site abuse. Only two guards received prison terms, one for 1½ years and another for eight months.
After prison, Park continued to earn money from welfare facilities and land sales. The Brothers site was purchased in 2001 by a construction company for what would now be about $27 million, according to a copy of the land sale shown to the AP. One of Park's daughters operated a school for troubled kids that closed in 2013. His family in 2014 sold a home for the severely disabled.
UNFORGETTABLE PAIN
The legacy of Brothers lingers.
It finally closed its gates in 1988. In the 1990s, construction laborers dug up about 100 human bones on the patch of mountain just outside where it stood, according to one of the workers who found the bones, Lee Jin-seob. Blankets covering the bones and the lack of burial mounds made Lee think they'd been buried informally and quickly. It's unclear what happened to the remains.
On a recent trip to the site, which is now covered with tall apartment buildings, ex-inmates Choi and Lee Chae-sik stood on a concrete-covered former water reservoir that they think is the only remaining physical trace of Brothers. Both recalled the sight of guards carrying corpses into the woods.
"There could be hundreds of bodies still out there," Lee said, pointing toward the steep slopes.
Inmates released from the facility ended up homeless and in shelters and mental institutions; many struggle with alcoholism, depression, rage, shame and poverty. Choi, whose back is covered by a large tattoo from his time in a gang after he left Brothers, was imprisoned for assaulting a policeman.
The few former inmates who have begun speaking out want justice: an apology and an admission that officials encouraged police to kidnap and lock away people who shouldn't have been confined.
"How can we ever forget the pain from the beatings, the dead bodies, the backbreaking labor, the fear ... all the bad memories," Lee, who now manages a lakeside motel, said. "It will haunt us until we die."
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This is the surface of waste found in double-shell tank 101-SY at the Hanford Site in eastern Washington State. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and others are working to remediate this waste. The appearance and chemical mixture in each Hanford Site waste tank depends on how the waste was generated and later waste management practices such as liquid evaporation, radionuclide removal, and waste mixing between tanks. The steel pipe was bent during past waste movement during a gas release ("burp"). April 1989 Courtesy: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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AY-102 tank
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I was really pleased by the advent of Civil Partnerships.
Years ago I drove a friend to the station to collect his partner – though they hadn't seen each other for weeks, any demonstration of affection in public was at that time out of the question, so I always approach every civil partnership ceremony with great delight and a real sense of progress.
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Rehoboth Beach police sergeant retires after 30 years
Sergeant Benjamin Mitchell ended his 30-year watch over Rehoboth Beach in March.
Rehoboth Beach police sergeant retires after 30 years Sergeant Benjamin Mitchell ended his 30-year watch over Rehoboth Beach in March. Check out this story on delmarvanow.com: http://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/delaware/2018/04/18/rehoboth-beach-police-sergeant-retires/527603002/
, tgoebel@delmarvanow.com Published 10:06 a.m. ET April 18, 2018 | Updated 12:19 p.m. ET April 18, 2018
Sergeant Benjamin Mitchell of Rehoboth Beach Police Department retired in March after 30 years of service.(Photo: Rehoboth Beach Police Department image)
Benjamin Mitchell started his first shift at the Rehoboth Beach Police Department 30 years ago as a detective and retired this March as a sergeant, according to a news release.
"We want to thank him for his unending service and tireless commitment to serving his community," Chief Keith Banks said.
In 2002, Mitchell was promoted to the rank of sergeant. He said he saw many changes and progress in law enforcement during his time serving Rehoboth Beach.
"What I'll miss most is spending time with the good people I've worked with through the years," said Mitchell.
But the sergeant's retirement won't preclude him from being active in the community.
Mitchell started a police athletic league in 1989. The league, which included a wrestling team, co-ed basketball and flag football grew into the Henlopen Hammers Wrestling Club, which Mitchell still runs.
This fall and winter, Mitchell will work with 302Sports.com to produce and announce high school athletic events throughout the state.
"I'm looking forward to relaxing with my wife, Kristen, and son Trey," Mitchell said. "After years of shift work I will be home for dinner every night with my family."
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Social Integration and Domestic Violence Support in an Indigenous Community: Women's Recommendations of Formal Versus Informal Sources of Support
G. Robin Gauthier, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Sara C. Francisco, Pennsylvania State UniversityFollow
Bilal Khan, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
Kirk Dombrowski, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
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G. Robin Gauthier https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7472-2597
Published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence 36:7-8 (2021), pp 3117–3141
DOI: 10.1177/0886260518768567
Copyright © 2018 G. Robin Gauthier, Sara C. Francisco, Bilal Khan, and Kirk Dombrowski. Published by SAGE Publications. Used by permission.
Throughout North America, indigenous women experience higher rates of intimate partner violence and sexual violence than any other ethnic group, and so it is of particular importance to understand sources of support for Native American women. In this article, we use social network analysis to study the relationship between social integration and women's access to domestic violence support by examining the recommendations they would give to another woman in need. We ask two main questions: First, are less integrated women more likely to make no recommendation at all when compared with more socially integrated women? Second, are less integrated women more likely than more integrated women to nominate a formal source of support rather than an informal one? We use network data collected from interviews with 158 Canadian women residing in an indigenous community to measure their access to support. We find that, in general, less integrated women are less likely to make a recommendation than more integrated women. However, when they do make a recommendation, less integrated women are more likely to recommend a formal source of support than women who are more integrated. These results add to our understanding of how access to two types of domestic violence support is embedded in the larger set of social relations of an indigenous community.
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Editorials, Editorials by Rebecca Redshaw, On the Arts, On the Arts by Rebecca Redshaw, Rebecca Redshaw, Rebecca Redshaw Playwright, Rebecca Redshaw Writer
How many of us remember sharpening a new No. 2 pencil, placing the yellow lined tablet in the center of the desk and staring at the first assignment of the fall neatly scripted across the blackboard?
"Write an essay about what you did on your summer vacation."
Maybe it's different for students now, but my family usually spent a week or two in some exotic location, like Lake Erie, and the rest of my days were occupied by going to the local swimming pool.
With the usual twist of irony, now that I'm actually taking interesting vacations, no one is asking me to write about them. People don't even want to see pictures.
Hiking along foot paths for hours each day in the Yorkshire Dales of England, climbing over ancient stone walls and coming face to face with more kinds of sheep than I even knew existed may not be everyone's ideal holiday, but it certainly worked for me this summer. There's definitely a cleansing of the soul, or dumping of unwanted data from the brain, that happens in the country air. That's made possible by removing all outside stimuli of my city life, even for a brief period of time.
But traveling thousands of miles and spending almost as many dollars as miles traveled just to gaze into Lamb Chop's eyes is difficult to justify, particularly when the path to this pastoral utopia routes through one of the world's most fascinating cities.
London. Trying to experience all London has to offer in three days is like trying to sample all 33 flavors at Baskin-Robbins in one visit. Technically possible, but ultimately unsatisfying.
In 72 hours, excluding a four-hour nap midday attributed to jet lag, I visited two museums, one scenic attraction, attended two musical performances, ate at one chic restaurant, drank at two local pubs and viewed a plethora of significant historic monuments all older individually than the oldest national treasure the United States has to offer, whatever it may be.
Midway through Sunday afternoon while strolling the spacious Tate Modern Museum, I wandered through the Andy Warhol exhibit. As if trapped in a cartoon frame with the obligatory light bulb appearing in a bubble over my head, it occurred to me that I had traveled across the Atlantic and to this museum when all the while Pittsburgh's most notable artist had his work on display practically in my back yard. The last time I was in that building on the North Side, I was purchasing music from a Volkwein's clerk!
With the glibness of an artful — and well-meaning — procrastinator, I had failed to explore the treasures of my home city for years, always mindful that I could "go there" any weekend. Staring at Andy's image of Liz, I made a plan to be implemented upon my return.
The flight home was uneventful and long, allowing me ample to time to plot my cultural Pittsburgh weekend.
A visit to the Warhol would equate quite nicely with my tour of the Salvador Dali Museum that recently opened not far from The Eye, London's massive answer to Pittsburgh's incline. Both The Eye and the incline offer panoramic views of city architecture, but The Eye was broken when I was there. The incline was far more accommodating, and the line was not nearly as long.
The recent touring company of "Annie Get Your Gun" at Heinz Hall was a respectable musical evening, particularly with half-price tickets available, but it will be a long time coming before Pittsburgh sees any musical remotely close to the London production of "Mama Mia." But then again, the tix for that Saturday matinee, far from 10th row center, came to $85 each. It's a tradeoff I can live with.
It seems summer in the cities (at least London and Pittsburgh) is no place for classical musicians. My options to attend "serious" music concerts for both cultural weekends, near and far, were nonexistent.
This is not a tale of two cities. That would be like comparing orange marmalade with apple butter. The point is, there are wonderful places to explore and visit less than an hour from home that cost nothing or close to it. A stroll through local cemeteries sound creepy? Hardly. Who knew that Native Americans were buried in Downtown Pittsburgh? Carnegie Museum's display of a camel being attacked by a tiger fascinated my father in the 1920s and fascinated his great-grandsons, Carter and David, this past weekend.
A thoughtful perusal through the Post-Gazette's Weekend Magazine with a highlighter in hand likely will turn up any number of activities to explore when company comes to town. But don't wait. Treat yourself as well as you do your visiting relatives and vacation without having to pay for a Saturday stay-over.
Next on my list? Paris, possibly Auckland, or Athens. Until those dreams become possible, The Mattress Factory rates a visit, and then possibly Old Economy. I understand even Presque Isle on Lake Erie is a lovely place to explore, speaking of summer vacations.


HOUSTON Stipeche beat Judith Cruz by just 44 votes. Only about 2,000 people cast ballots in yesterday's runoff. HISD held its own election since no other Harris County races had a runoff.
Stipeche will replace Diana Davila, who resigned her position as District VIII trustee. She is expected to be sworn in to the position next Thursday evening.
District VIII includes parts of Rice Military, Montrose, Midtown, the Heights and the East End.


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The Australian Government announced in the 2014–15 Budget that Primary Health Networks (PHNs) would replace Medicare Locals from mid-2015. PHNs are responsible for connecting health services across local communities so that patients, particularly those needing coordinated care, have access to a range of health care providers, including practitioners, community health services and hospitals. PHNs will work directly with GPs, other primary care providers, secondary care providers and hospitals.
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Artissima 2022: pal project's booth listed among the best by ARTnews magazine
After its debut appearance at Artissima, pal project has been listed as one of the 'best booths' at 'Italy's top fair for cutting-edge contemporary art' by ARTnews magazine.
At the booth, the Paris-based exhibition oriented research group La Méditerranée presented their project Zero, which gathered artworks around an invaluable original poster of the Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings 0,10. The exhibition unravelled artworks from established artists, such as Ilya Kabakov, as well as emerging artists Marcella Barceló, Mateo Revillo, and Edgar Sarin.
La Méditerranée was founded in the mid 2010s by artists Mateo Revillo and Edgar Sarin, and art historian Ulysse Geissler. The research group works on exhibitions as a medium itself and aims to theorize an euristic of the exhibition. La Méditerranée has presented group shows in France, Italy, U.S.A, Germany, Russia and Spain. Within each exhibition, La Méditerranée builds an in situ architecture ; forming throughout time a village that will be rebuilt altogether in a few years. La Méditerranée will, this time, build a charcoal bell tower in the middle of the booth. pal project has both exhibited Mateo Revillo and Edgar Sarin in his Paris based gallery and is happy to continue this collaboration with this new project.
Alike a hundred years old chronophotograph, this body of works has the will to express a civilisation's continuance — birth, maturity, expiration —. The thread linking these works follows the conveyance of a utopian idea throughout a modern and then contemporary history, in which total break- up is never fully attained, in which beginning and end are not truly distinct. The 0,10 exhibition — whose poster will be part of the body of works presented — meant a moment for historic rupture, the destruction of the old world, the birth of a modern and radical movement. Kabakov casts a mature philosophical vision towards that heritage. His work is loaded with an existential disenchantment, alike Beckett's. It resumes those ghosted forms, once before heroic. La Méditerranée, with a tower made out of coal blocks sealed with plaster, turns the typology of monuments as memorial elements into a consumed sculpture. The tower fierceness, a sort of symbol for modernity, is here consumed and yet still answers to a constructive will. With it, the work of Marcella Barceló, Mateo Revillo and Edgar Sarin relate to utopian language too. A heritage of forms happens each time, between old and new worlds.
With the support of the Centre national des arts plastiques (National Center for Visual Arts), France
Vue d'exposition - Artissima 2022


Hungarian border police are now accepting 10 asylum-seekers per weekday from Serbia, down from the 20 per weekday accepted previously.
The change to how Hungarian border police use "the list" — a waiting list for crossing the border from Serbia to Hungary – went into effect January 23, UNHCR said.
The change means Hungary will accept 50 asylum-seekers per week from Serbia, instead of the 100 it accepted before.
When people arrive at one of Serbia's asylum centers, they can register to get their name on a list, which was once a paper document (below) but is now reportedly computerized.
The list is shared with the Hungarian authorities, who use it to choose a small number of people who can enter Hungary and apply for asylum there.
People on the waiting list watch as their names move up, or not. If they get close to the top they go to the border to await their turn. Everyone else is out of luck.
Why does the list exist?
Tolerated by Hungarian and Serbian authorities, the list was likely created to prevent large numbers of people from gathering on the Serbia-Hungary border to wait, hoping they can cross.
How does Hungary choose people from the list?
Hungarian border police have not explained their method for selecting people from the list. To many migrants in Serbia, the selection process can seem random.
But in practice, border police usually choose from among the most vulnerable people, including women traveling with children and gravely ill people. They don't usually choose single men traveling alone.
A child waits in Krnjaca camp in Serbia.
Why has Hungary cut down the number of people it is accepting?
Hungary has not said why it made the change, but it does come at a time when Hungarian authorities are introducing new measures to crack down on illegal border crossings, including recruiting a new special force of "border hunters" to stop illegal entry into the country.
What other ways are there to move on from Serbia legally?
If your name is not on the list, it is almost impossible to move on from Serbia. In 2015, Hungary put up a razor-wire fence from west to east across its border. Many refugees have been wounded by the sharp wire.
Those who use illegal alternatives to enter Hungary also face a high chance of being caught or attacked by a ferocious dog on the other side of the border. Many have returned to Serbia with injuries.
Croatian border police are also reporting a strong rate of catching refugees attempting to cross its border illegally.
What happens to people in Serbia while they wait to move on?
More than 7,800 migrants have been counted living in Serbia now, with about 17 percent living outside official camps as the country works to build new facilities to house them.


The Engineering Overview, officially endorsed by the UP College of Engineering, is a career orientation and laboratory tour aimed to help high school students in choosing the suitable engineering course.
The Engineering Overview started out in 2012 as "Overview" and was first held on March 5, 2012. Organizing the event for the third year, UP CREST aims to widen its reach, further promoting the discipline of engineering as a choice of profession.
The project features two sub-events, the Career Talk series and the Open-laboratory Tours. Instructors and professors representing each of the eight diverse departments and institutes gather to give an orientation on engineering, the UP Eng'g student life, career paths leading from engineering, and others. Various laboratories each department/institute boasts are also opened for the students to experience first-hand, handled by instructors and guided by the organization members.
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Q: Assembly descriptor: Unpack-include exclusively? Description
While working through a large multi-module project I discovered a custom Assembly Descriptor file. What I don't fully understand is the following, especially the includes section.
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The includes property documentation of dependencySet states the following:

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Question
Does include work exclusively? Can I therefore expect only the defaults*.properties to be regarded as provided (according to this particular section)?
How do unpackOptions-includes interfer with the basic includes (last section of dependencySet)?

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How do unpackOptions-includes interfer with the basic includes (last section of dependencySet)?

They control two very different things and do not interfere together:

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*Includes in unpackOptions control which files inside the artifact are to be unpacked. In your example, it means that, in every dependency that has the scope provided, only the files matching the pattern defaults*.properties will be unpacked and therefore kept.

*Includes in dependencySet control which artifacts are to be included in this set. In your example, only the artifacts matching ${project.groupId}:[project]-settings will be included in this set.

Finally, the assembly descriptor you have will consider every provided dependency, whose name match ${project.groupId}:[project]-settings. In each of those artifacts, it will unpack all the files matching the pattern defaults*.properties.

Does include work exclusively?

Yes. By default, everything is included. If you override that configuration, what will be included is what you configured in this tag. Similarly, by default, nothing is excluded (and if you override that configuration, note that the exclusions rules apply on what whas previously included).

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London's Oldest Operational Fire Station
Woolwich Fire Station – London's oldest operational fire station
I wasn't aware of Woolwich fire station until recently when the story about the proposed closure of London fire stations was reported, and at about the same time it was mentioned by Peter Guillery in his talk about the Survey of London's new volume about Woolwich. Peter said that it was London's oldest operational fire station, and that it was an architectural gem. He was right, it's a beautiful building, as can be seen in the photograph above, hidden away in Sunbury Street. It was designed by Metropolitan Board of Works' architect Robert Pearsall who was responsible for many London fire stations, including Tooley Street, Bishopsgate, Stoke Newington and the West Norwood fire station which now houses the South London Theatre.
The draft of the Survey of London's volume on Woolwich gives some background to the building:
Hidden away, this is London's oldest fire station still in operational use (an older part of Southwark Station is a museum). Its architect was Robert Pearsall, working under Alfred Mott in the Fire Brigade Branch of the MBW's Architect's Department. The builders were Lonergan Brothers of Plumstead. Few of Pearsall's stations survive, but here his characteristic free-Gothic style still provides a striking profile, pinnacled buttresses leading the eye to tall chimneystacks and the prominent five-storey round watchtower, itself a rare survival. The polychromatic-brick façade incorporates ornamental terracotta spandrels and Portland stone dressings. Internally the engine room is open under composite iron girders, supplied by Archibald Dawnay. The staircase in the tower winds neatly round a matchboard-lined hose-drying cupboard. The upper storeys housed a mess room, bedrooms and apartments – twelve men were stationed here.
The British Listed Buildings web page gives a detailed description of the architecture with its "terracotta diapering in the spandrels" and "five-storey, round tower on an octagonal base". The fire station was once the base for horse-drawn fire engines, as shown in this photograph on Flickr.
Robert Pearsall wasn't just an accomplished architect. He was appointed a life member of the British Museum in recognition of his work as an architect and artist, and served on "The Committee for the Survey of the Memorials of Greater London". He was also a keen genealogist, contributing to a history and genealogy of the Pearsall family.
The current regime of austerity and budget cuts means that our fire services are under threat in south-east London as well as our local health service, and Woolwich fire station is one of up to 31 stations facing closure with the possible loss of 28 jobs. A London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) report models the impact of various options for saving up to £75 million from the London Fire Brigade budget. All the options include the closure of Woolwich fire station.
Since 2003 the number of fires in London has been decreasing each year, as can be seen in the graph below which combines data taken from two London Fire Brigade reports: long term fire trends for Greater London which provides data from 1966 to 2008 and a Quarterly Monitoring of Performance Indicators report which brings the data up to the end of 2011. Ironically part of the reason for this decrease in fires is the safety and campaigning work carried out by the London Fire Brigade.
Closure of Woolwich fire station is particularly annoying for Shooters Hill residents as one of the justifications for closing the Eaglesfield Road fire station was that there was another station just down the hill in Woolwich. If Woolwich is closed our nearest fire stations will be Eltham and Plumstead. Intuitively it would seem safer to have more stations, maybe with fewer appliances, so that the stations were closer to people's homes. The Fire Brigade have a target of getting a first fire engine to a fire within 6 minutes; the LFEPA report indicates that for the Royal Borough of Greenwich, where the Fire Brigade currently get a first appliance to a fire in an average of 5 minutes 28 seconds, the response time would increase by between 14 seconds and 1 minute and 24 seconds in the six closure scenarios modelled, missing the 6 minute target in three of the six scenarios. Some boroughs fare even worse than Greenwich.
Another worry, though not a safety issue, is that Woolwich Fire Station has been identified as a "high value site" in the LFEPA report. I hope that doesn't indicate that they are planning to do anything other than preserve this historic building.
Woolwich Fire Station – five-storey, round tower on an octagonal base
Woolwich Fire Station – note the terracotta diapering on the spandrels
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One Reply to "London's Oldest Operational Fire Station"
Joe Cavilla says:
5th December 2020 at 10:39 am
Fantastic looking station.
Hopefully able to look round it when the time is better.
Love the London stations lots of history.
Stay safe crews.
Much respect from a former Cambridgeshire firefighter.
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Paul Elard Cooley is an American contemporary speculative fiction writer, prolific podcaster and Systems Administrator from Houston, Texas.

Life and work
Cooley has been writing since the age of 12. In 2009, he began producing free psychological thriller and horror podcasts, essays, and reviews available from Shadowpublications.com and iTunes. Cooley is the author of a number of series of stories (many interconnected) including his 'Fiends Tales', 'Garaaga's Children', 'Tony Downs','The Street' series, and 'The Black' published by Severed Press. He has also co-written an episode of Scott Sigler 'The Crypt' audio anthology series as well as the novella, 'The Rider' set in Sigler's GFL universe (to be released).

Cooley's works have been published by Severed Press, via Blue Moose Press, e-published by Dark Overlord Media and self-published. Many works of fiction are also available as digital audio downloads in podcast form.

Cooley co-hosts the Dead Robots' Society podcast, a weekly roundtable discussion podcast examining issues related to writing with a speculative fiction focus and has lent his voice talent to many podcast fiction productions.

Awards
Parsecs

Winner of the Parsec for 'The Black' in 2015 in the category of Best Speculative Fiction Story: Small Cast (Novella & Long Form)

Compete History
In 2010, his short story 'Canvas' and novella 'Tattoo' were nominated for Parsec Awards. 'Tattoo' became a Parsec Award finalist.
In 2013, 'Mimes' and 'Garaaga's Children: Scrolls' were both chosen as finalists.
In 2015, 'The Black' was a finalist and won for Best Speculative Fiction Story: Small Cast (Novella & Long Form)

Charitable works
Cooley donates $2 from each sale of The Street (which Cooley characterizes his 'The Street' series of horror/satire stories as 'dystopian muppet fiction') to the Sesame Workshop.

Cooley contributed the story 'Breakers' to the horror anthology "Dead Ends", a charity anthology with all net proceeds going to
benefit the Office of Letters and Light: http://lettersandlight.org/.

Books in Print
Paul E Cooley (2014), The Street, , Shadowpublications.com
Paul E Cooley (2011), Fiends, Volume 1,  Blue Moose Press
Paul E Cooley (2014), "The Black", , Severed Press
Paul E Cooley (2015), "The Black: Arrival", , Severed Press
Paul E Cooley (2014), "Legends of Garaaga", , Shadow Publications
Paul E Cooley (2015), "Daemons of Garaaga", ISBN, 194-2137036, Shadow Publications
Paul E Cooley (2016), " The Black: Outbreak", , Severed Press
Paul E Cooley, (2016), "Closet Treats", , Shadow Publications

eBooks Available

Paul E Cooley (2014), "The Black", published by Severed Press
Paul E Cooley (2015), "The Black: Arrival", published by Severed Press
Paul E Cooley (2016), "The Black: Outbreak", published by Severed Press
Paul E Cooley (2014), "The Street"
Paul E Cooley (2014) "Garaaga's Children: Ancients"
Paul E Cooley (2014), "Legends of Garaaga"
Paul E Cooley (2015), "Daemons of Garaaga"
Paul E Cooley (2013), "Tattoo"
Paul E Cooley (2013), "The Hunt" (Tony Downs)
Paul E Cooley (2013), "After Image" (Tony Downs)
Paul E Cooley (2013), "Closet Treats"
Paul E Cooley (2011), "Fiendlettes—4 Stories from the Fiends Collection"
Paul E Cooley (2015), "Mimes"
Paul E, Cooley (2015), "Lamashtu"
Paul E Cooley (2017), "The Rider" (forthcoming, with Scott Sigler)

Audiobooks
Paul E Cooley (2015),"The Black"
Paul E Cooley (2015),"The Black: Arrival"
Paul E. Cooley (2016), "The Black: Outbreak (Coming soon)
Paul E Cooley (2015), "Mimes"
Paul E. Cooley (2015), "Lamashtu"
Paul E. Cooley (2015), "Closet Treats"
Paul E. Cooley (2016), "Daemons of Garaaga"

Podcasts
Shadow Publications (RSS)
Dead Robots Society

References

External links
Shadow Publications
Paul's YouTube channel
Goodreads author page
Amazon.com author page

1970 births
Living people
Writers from Houston
American science fiction writers
20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
American male novelists
American podcasters
American horror writers
Novelists from Texas
American male short story writers
20th-century American short story writers
21st-century American short story writers
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers


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Seattle Gay News congratulates the newly crowned Mr. Neighbours David Clark Partridge and Miss Neighbours Tsunami! SGN would also like to thank Mr. and Miss Neighbours 2016/2017, Apollo Dior Black and Deb Leigh Nightshade for a fantastic year!
The 24th annual Neighbours Pageant was held August 27 at the nightclub. Aleksa Manila hosted the event, which featured performances from past Mr./Miss Neighbours drag kings and queens such as Ceasar Hart, Gaysha Starr and "Mom" Mark Finley. Dana Dub served as deejay for the pageant and the judges' panel included Roxy Doll, Tanya Rachinee, Lou Vargas and Kahlua Ice.
Each year, the pageant kicks off the nightclub's anniversary celebration. This year Neighbours Nightclub is celebrating an amazing 35 years in our community. On Saturday, September 2 local drag legend (and the first ever crowned Miss Neighbours) Gaysha Starr hosts an evening celebration during Power Mix, 10pm - 4am, that will feature cake, champagne, and a special performance from recording artist Brandon Lentz.
Neighbours Nightclub general manager surprised Gaysha Starr with a special presentation of the Miss Neighbours crown because, as it was explained to the audience, when Starr won the very first Miss Neighbours Pageant in the early 1990's the crown she received was very small.
Starr accepted the gift to the cheers of the audience and said some wonderful things about what local drag meant to her and the young queens that perform today, explaining that if it weren't for the pioneering work of queens such as Kahlua Ice, the community wouldn't be where we are today.
Kahlua Ice, who is credited for having created the pageant, was also ceremoniously crowned Miss Neighbours in recognition of how the pageant has lasted more than two decades and cultivated some of the best drag queens in the city.


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A Different Type of VC Firm with Eric Vishria from Benchmark
November 10, 2019 |by James Wang, ARK Analyst
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, SaaS, venture capital
On this episode of FYI we welcome Eric Vishria, General Partner at Benchmark. Benchmark is a one-of-a-kind venture capital firm based in San Francisco, opting to operate with a small team of just 5 to 7 general partners and no junior partners or other team members. They have helped to bring to market iconic companies such as Twitter, SnapChat, DropBox and Uber! In our conversation, we talk about why he believes SaaS is larger than ever before. Eric makes a strong argument for low barriers to adoption over low barriers to entry. We talk about Benchmark's recent investments in software and machine learning and get some insight into their work with Cerebras as its first investor! As a venture capital company that does not do a lot of PR, it is all the more exciting to have Eric as our guest to get a peek inside a true industry leader and trendsetter.
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How Benchmark got started and the differences to typical venture capital firms.
Day to day work at Benchmark; meetings, recruiting and maintenance.
The roles at Benchmark and how the agreement processes play out.
The rise of enterprise software and the relationship to infrastructure.
How the lowering of barriers to adoption has influenced the market.
Benchmark's recent involvement with Confluent and Benchling.
The company's hesitation to get involved in life sciences and breaking this mold.
Investments in AI development and the impact of deep learning on cybersecurity.
How Benchmark became involved with Cerebras and backed them.
Getting out of the PacMan world of deep learning and trying to imagine the future!
Market-sizing and why the practices at Benchmark lean away from this.
Public investment in SaaS companies and surprising growth in the market.
The current Benchmarket portfolio and the excitement of finding special early-stage projects.
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A little late in the day, but the USA Film Festival just sent out the schedule for this year's shindig, which runs April 29 through May 3 at the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station. To save us all the trouble of running down this year's highlights, I've posted after the jump the entire eight-page program, where you'll find dates and times for screenings for such titles as Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 noir, the rarely seen-in-the-U.S.A. Made in U.S.A., and, no foolin', 1974's rock-operatic Phantom of the Paradise, the Brian DePalma cult fave screening for the Paul Williams tribute. Another curious offering on the slate is Warriors of the Discotheque: The Starck Club Documentary, which should appeal to anyone who fondly recalls the days of doing coke in a unisex bathroom to the strains of Grace Jones and Stevie Nicks (not me, not me).
The USA Film Festival may seem like an afterthought to some still suffering from AFI Dallas International Film Festival hangovers, but the lineup's actually quite intriguing this year -- a smart mishmash of old (a 50th-anniversary screening of Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life, with Born to Be Hurt: The Untold Story of Imitation of Life writer Sam Staggs in attendance) and new (after seeing the trailer for Must Read After My Death, try staying away). And the list of those being feted at the fest is impressive: Brian Cox (accompanied by a screening of The Escapist), the great M. Emmet Walsh (with a screening of Don McKay, starring Walsh alongside Thomas Haden Church and Elisabeth Shue), Ray Liotta, Oscar-nominated Juanita Moore, ad man and filmmaker Joe Sedelmaier and, yes, Paul Williams. So jump and get ready to buy tickets starting Thursday. Right now, I'd suggest calling (214) 631-8278 for ducats, as the Web site isn't quite there yet.


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Unlike other manufacturers who have designed and built dedicated electric vehicles, BMW have taken a tried and tested icon of the motoring world – the MINI and have made an electric version. It's quite possible you could have seen one of these little dark grey Mini's out and about if you live in the south east of the country and you may be wondering when they will be available to buy.
Well, right now the MINI E is purely an experiment. BMW were one of the first to use the lithium-ion technology in electric vehicles but they feel there are still some teething problems before they bring the car to the market. It seems to be less about the car and more to do with the infrastructure and the fact that they feel running a pure electric car is not yet sufficiently easy (which outside London is really the case but it's changing.
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