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In a research that was conducted to establish the lexical and affective prosody in children with high functioning autism, several things were found out. In this research, three experiments were done to find out about lexical and affective prosody in children with high functioning autism (HFA), Grossman et al. (2010). The first experiment looked at people's perception of affective prosody; the second one looked at the lexical stress perception while the third on e looked at production of lexical stress. In these experiments, it was found out that people with HFA were able to determine affect from filtered sentence constructions and disambiguate lexical items on the basis of lexical stress. People were found to produce appropriately differentiated lexical stress patterns with long productions which show lower ability in normal prosody productions. The results show that children with HFA are capable of performing receptive tasks of lexical and affective prosody just like their normal children but they have problems in using prosody to disambiguate syntax, Grossman et al. (2010).
There are different descriptive statistics that were reported. In the experiment, 21 people with HFA and 22 developing control participants of the ages ranging between 11 and 19 were used. The age range was to allow for comparison with previous studies. All participants used were native English speakers and they were taken through a language and hearing evaluation. Language functioning ability was examined through a receptive language index, Grossman et al. (2010). The inferential statistics used in the study are that prosody indicated the right response in the places where there were ambiguities in sentence constructions.
More so, inferential statistics shows that when using prosody, it is possible that syntactic processing becomes a more complex process that can be learnt later in language development. There is a probability that the results of the study occurred by chance. This is because researches conducted have shown that people with HFA have no fluency in prosody production. More so, the production of stressed lexical items is determined by age hence the results that there were no differences between prosody production of people with autism and those without could haven occurred by chance. The question of whether there is lexical and affective prosody in children with HFA has been answered well in this research. Children with HFA are found to find no difficulties in disambiguating sentences with lexical stress. Such children usually have a reduced ability in normal prosody productions.
One of the themes that the authors drew from the data is that age determined the production of lexical stress words. The theme here shows that children were found to differ in the production of prosody with those of adults. The other theme is the theme of social communicative difficulties. In this theme, the research found out that unusual prosody production becomes a barrier to social acceptance. Those people who have problems with prosody productions find it difficult to be accepted in the society. The descriptive statistics that were used is about the number of people who were used in the study. The study shows the age of the people used and their number.
The reason for reporting these statistics is to show the age of people used in the study to make a comparison with the previous researches that used adult people. The results are comprehensive and representative of the study but they are somehow excessive. This is because they show that children with autism may even not be able to fully use prosody till they pass adolescent stage. The research tries to explain whether there is a similarity in lexical and affective prosody in children with high functioning autism. This research makes it clear that children with autism have problems with prosody production and this only affects them at their young age, Grossman et al. (2010).
In the research, the authors made the conclusion that, children with HFA were able to perform receptive and lexical affective tasks just as were their normal peers. Prosody productions were also found to be long in children with HFA although the children had a good differentiation between lexical patterns. The findings of the research imply that prosody impairment in autism may not be specific to affective processing. Another implication of the findings is that children with autism have problems integrating the information from prosody with other aspects of language for example language structure. More so, the findings also imply that frontal areas involved in the integration and interpretation of information could be implicated in prosody processing deficits in autism, Grossman et al. (2010).
There are limitations that arose in the course of this study. One of these limitations is that in both control conditions, performance was very high. This made it difficult to determine whether or not deficits in these contrast conditions were masked because they were not sufficiently difficult for comparison. The conditions were matched in difficulty in the control group thus increasing the possibility that any group differences could have been as a result of psychometric artifact. More so, the comparisons used did not contain any ambiguity, Grossman et al. (2010).
For the purposes of further research, the authors suggests that researchers should examine the role of interpreting incongruent cues from prosody and other aspects of language or context. They also need advance understanding of how prosody is processed in the brain so as to comprehend how it is disrupted in individuals with autism. Prosody processing and production ought to be the center of the future studies in children with autism. There should be improvement in the daily use of prosody to help in the interpretation of speech in autism, Grossman et al. (2010).
One of the strengths of this study is that it used a sample whose age was different with the age of the participants of previous researches but the weakness is that they only used a small sample that could not have fully represented the whole group. Another weakness of the study is that there was a bias in the verb phrase and this requires to be changed in the coming studies. The strengths in this study is that it came up with adequate psycholinguistic data that will live to help people understand language development in children.


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Since July 1991, the University Mall Theatres has operated as a popular, second run, Fairfax community movie theater.
"[I like going there because] the employees are nice, the price is cheap, and the popcorn is really good," Mason student Sean Cummings said.
Mark O'Meara, the owner of University Mall Theatre and Cinema Arts on Main St., opened the theater thinking he could reach a cheaper movie market.
The movie theater is the last second run theater in the Washington area, which means once the area theater's "lose" the film, University Mall Theatres is able to show it. Some movies will show as early as five weeks after the release date.
On Aug. 30, University Mall Theatres' "Save our Butts!" campaign was successfully funded. The goal was to reach $100,000 to replace the theater's seats, but they surpassed the pledge and raised $131,758.
The theater has never had new seats as they were always bought used from old theaters.
O'Meara felt that it was a perfect time to purchase new seats in light of the 15-month University Mall renovations. He and Daniel Collings, the General Manager for the theater, raised the money through Kickstarter.com.
Kickstarter is a crowdsourcing website in which backers can donate to thousands of creative projects ranging from making potato salad to the "Dr. Who" rap album. Each fund also has gifts attached to them. Which each donation, a reward is given by the backer.
However, a little less than half of the projects reach the goal the creator sets, which means the project gets nothing in the end.
To help the project be successful, Collings decided the length of the campaign should be less than 30 days.
"Campaigns that are 30 days or less are 43% more likely to succeed," Collings said. "Something about the urgency about 30 days or less causes people to be excited and ones that are longer are less likely to be successful."
With the money, O'Meara plans on purchasing 500 new seats. He hopes to use the remaining money for other projects, including replacing the carpeting, adding a handicap lift and sprucing up the theater's entrance.
O'Meara and Collings realize they have one challenge they must face: giving backers their rewards.
"So we were talking about how to do the rewards," O'Meara said. "We haven't figured out how to do that logistically. [For example,] there's 1033 people that get a free combo. Two free combos actually. So how am I going to do 2066 combos."
Free popcorn is a small price to pay for the successful campaign.
O'Meara remembers one customer coming into the theater and saying, "'You guys have been in the community for 23 years and there hasn't been a way to say thank you until, now.' Which is why I think we hit our [Kickstarter] goal."
O'Meara feels that their customer service, prices and their popcorn, which is coined "the best popcorn in the known universe" is what keeps people coming back.
University Mall Theatres is able to reach a market of all ages, those who are busy and those who do not want to pay too much to see a movie.
"I like [the theater]," Mason student Natasha Raja said. "Especially for the value and the price. Also, the movies aren't too old, you get the movie theater experience without breaking the bank."
New seats may be an added reason for locals and students to go to the theater and may help to enhance the community feel that O'Meara finds integral to the movie watching experience.
"I am all about movie promoting; I want people going to the movies," O'Meara said. "Because I don't want people watching movies on their phone. I just worry about that. I mean it's easy and it's convenient but I don't want that to become the mainstay. You can't beat the communal feel. I don't think that will ever change."
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Interesting timing with US Department of Transportation releasing this handy toolkit about how to influence and/or stop bad infrastructure projects.
The Department of Transportation releases a plain-language toolkit to help citizens weigh in on all kinds of projects—so they can thwart the bad ones
CityLab: How to Stop a Highway (13 December 2016)
The Department of Transportation releases a plain-language toolkit to help citizens weigh in on all kinds of projects—so they can thwart the bad ones.
So, let's say your state department of transportation wants to widen the highway in your neighborhood. It's a horrendous idea—more noise, more pollution, and a bigger tear through city streets.
But how do you tell them so? The project's draft analysis is thousands of pages long, full of technical verbiage you'd need degrees to understand. The public forums are cage fights between cranky neighbors and engineers with jargon-studded retorts for every possible complaint. Besides, what's the point? The highway's coming, whether you pipe up or not. That's what always happens. Right?
The secret report Napthine won't let you see
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Much work went into the preparation of a state-based reform agenda, so why has it never been released?
A report into a state-based reform agenda has not been released to the public.
Within months of becoming treasurer, Kim Wells commissioned a report. He asked the Victorian Competition and Efficiency Commission to deliver "a state-based reform agenda" – a user manual for boosting Victoria's economic growth.
It had been abysmal for two years. High population growth was masking "dwindling growth in productivity and in per capita GDP – the main determinants of growth in living standards". And the Australian dollar was set to remain high, "threatening the competitiveness of Victorian exports".
Wells knew the problems. He wanted Victoria's strengths benchmarked against those of other states and he wanted a list of options that would "yield the greatest potential benefit in light of Victoria's relative competitive strengths and weaknesses".
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Actress Sunny Leone posts video of prank gone wrong
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Sunny Leone took to Instagram on Friday to post a video of a prank going wrong on the sets of her show "Splitsvilla".
In the video, the team is on a lunch break when Sunny suddenly enters the dining area and asks what they were doing there as lunch break was over and that they needed to be back to work.
However, they don't take Sunny seriously.
"Prank gone wrong #SunnyLeone #SplitsvillaX3 @mtvsplitsvilla #OnSets #BTS," she wrote.
Sunny is all set to make her digital debut with the web series "Anamika", helmed by Vikram Bhatt. The actress will engage in action sequences in the series. The series co-stars Sonnalli Seygall.
She is currently in Kerala shooting for the upcoming psychological thriller film "Shero". Directed by Sreejith Vijayan, the film is slated to release in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and Malayalam.
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Singer Esha Gaur, who has sung title tracks for TV shows, is all set to make her Bollywood debut with Vikram Bhatts '1920: Horrors of the Heart', which stars Avika Gor in the lead role.
Sharing this information, Esha acknowledged that it was her mother who discovered her singing talent when she was very young, and credits her for the way her career has shaped up.
"My biggest work achievement till date is '1920'," Esha noted.
"I am from a doctor's family; my father, brother and grandfather are doctors," Esha said, adding: "My mother had an inclination towards singing and she figured out the singer in me when I was four-year-old, and because of her my musical journey came out so well. I have done Master's in music."
Esha is well-known for singing the title tracks of TV shows such as 'Ek Aastha Aisi Bhi' as well as 'Guddan Tumse Na Ho Payega' in 'Lakeerien' and 'Rangrezz' in 'Apna Time Bhi Aayega'.
Talking about her first break, she said: "I performed in the Sangam Kala group in 1994, where I won the first prize. Kalyanji-Anandji called me after looking at my performance and that was the biggest achievement in my singing career."
Asked who her favourite singer is, she shared: "Asha Bhosle, as she is so versatile which is what I like the most. Also, I think everybody should choose to be low profile as it's the best thing you could give yourself."


Prospect, KY (May 20, 2002) - Victims Assistance of America, Inc (VAA) -- VAA is now finished with the tedious set-up phases. Core personnel are in place waiting to hear that funding is available for their salaries so that they can get working on the mission of Identity Theft.
If you know of anyone who funds this type of national organization, please contact us and let us know what we need to supply at our end. Most organizations have some type of filing system that we need to adhere to.
If you are a foundation or corporate sponsor, feel free to download a press kit from the site. If you need further information please feel free to contact us. We have had problems with our mail, phone, and receipt of e-mails since news has gotten out what it is we are working on. If you don't hear from us within 24 hours of contacting us – please be persistent! One of the first things we will need to do as funding comes in is to secure our phone lines etc against identity theft issues ourselves. This is the nation's #1 crime – you should have figured we'd have a problem. Please help us get over this part of the hump!
If you are a book writer/movie packager, John Grisham's agent wanted this story a few years back. Ms Steimel was a single parent with her boys still at home. As a victim, you fear acceleration of the problem should you speak of it so she would not for fear for her children. Now that they are all out of the house (and older), not only does she not fear speaking about it, she'd like to sell the story to help fund the national organization. The agent who contacted her has since died. She would rather see it go out at a true-life suspense. If you know of a producer who should see this – please pass it on. Thank you.


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Q: Angular Firestore Collection Query & Order By I am performign a simple query and then want to order by date.
This works perfectly fine:
this.afs.collection('orders', ref=> ref.where('orderStatus', '<', 7));

This throws an error when I want to filter orderStaus < 7 and then order it by date.
this.afs.collection('orders', ref=> ref.where('orderStatus', '<', 7).orderBy('date', 'desc'));

Here is my error:
You have a where filter with an inequality (<, <=, >, or >=) on field 'orderStatus' and so you must also use 'orderStatus' as your first Query.orderBy(), but your first Query.orderBy() is on field 'date' instead.

How can I achieve getting all ordersStatus < 7 AND then sort the orders by date?

A: Cloud Firestore requires you to first order by the field on which you are applying the range filter on and then order by any other field of your choice.
Reference: https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/query-data/order-limit-data
You can achieve this by creating a compound index of range filter field and the field you want to order next for the collection you are querying.
So in your case you need to create a compound index for the orders collection with orderStatus DESC and date DESC.
Reference: https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/query-data/indexing
Hope this is useful.

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WHAT A STUNNING SETTING… The Beats & Eats event returns this year at the stunning location at Dubuque Bed & Breakfast homestead in Numurkah. Photo: Supplied.
ARE you a lover of great live music, delicious food, stunning settings and good chill vibes? The excellent 'Beats & Eats' event is taking place next weekend, affording locals and visitors the chance to bask in all the creativity, culture, community and chilled out relaxation.
Held at Dubuque Bed & Breakfast, a stunning homestead and romantic getaway circa 1887, the event promises to offer a unique musical experience to enjoy amongst friends in a relaxing garden setting.
The event will take place on Sunday, April 28 from 1pm until 5pm and is a strictly no BYO event. Tickets for 'Beats & Eats' are $50 and will include finger food plus one free drink. To purchase tickets to this extremely limited event, visit www.trybooking.com/490061 or you can purchase tickets in store at McPherson's, 52 Melville Street, Numurkah.
All profits raised for the event will be donated to the local, award-winning event Numurkah Food Bowl. 'Beats & Eats' is presented in conjunction with Café Mierlo and The Butlers Pantry Catering. For more information about Dubuque Bed & Breakfast, visit their Facebook page '@dubuquebedandbreakfast' or give them a call on 0407 095 948.


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Chernobyl kids see a different side of life with visit to Swords
by Sylvia Pownall 18/07/2019
written by Sylvia Pownall 18/07/2019
A group of young adults from Chernobyl were invited to Specsavers during their annual summer visit to have their hearing and eyes tested.
The Swords branch played host to Ksenia, Denis and Sasha from the Vesnova Orphanage in Belarus who are spending time here as respite from institutional life back home.
Denis and Sasha first visited the store in 2018 where they were provided with hearing aids.
On this visit, Denis' aid was updated and he was given a remote control for the volume as well as cleaning equipment and batteries for one year.
Sasha's hearing aids were also updated to ensure they work to their full ability.
Ksenia had an eye test and was provided with glasses of her choice, fitted with the appropriate lenses to aid her vision.
Denis and Sasha also received eye tests and it was discovered they too needed glasses, which were provided for them by Specsavers Swords.
Hearing aid expert at the Swords store Lynn Byrne said: "The chance to not only provide these services but to also conduct check-ups on hearing aids prescribed last year is terrific.
"It's great to see the improvements these have made to their quality of life."
Volunteers with Adi Roche's Chernobyl Children International (CCI) are hosting the young adults who have been on numerous days out since their arrival.
One of the highlights was the Flavours of Fingal county show at Newbridge House & Farm in Donabate, where the rest and recuperation group enjoyed every minute of their weekend.
A CCI spokesperson said: "Our young adults got to see lots of animals, take part in many events from dancing to cycling to ziplining, and listen to some great musical entertainment.
"We met so many kind people along the way. Everyone was amazing."
CCI was founded by Adi Roche in 1991 to alleviate suffering and protect generations of children and young adults affected by the Chernobyl disaster.
In the past 28 years, more than 25,000 children have visited Ireland on holiday and have received optical, dental and medical treatment.
Specsavers Swords store director Matthew Richards said it was a pleasure to welcome the young adults from Belarus once again.
He added: "Regular hearing and eye checks are a very important part of their healthcare routine. We jumped at the chance to provide these services which are not available to them at home."
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The Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune is published by Sound Publishing which publishes several community newspapers throughout Washington State.
Regarding Bill Slusher's Nov. 15 letter. To start, why do I claim the question "what could I do before Bush that I cannot do now" is irrelevant. The situation is analogous to the lottery. If I win the lottery, it may well change my life. If I don't win, it will not impact me in any way.
Sixth Grade: Daniela Capote, Savannah Clinedinst, Brisa Leep, Norma Ramos and Kjeld Williams.
Seventh Grade: Katelyn Antuna and Addison Salzman.
Eighth Grade: Nicolette Flores, Adine Johnson, Cayla Monroe, Desiree Peterson, Katy Smith and Anthony Verhasselt.
He was born May 10, 1927 to Newton and Anna Wilson in San Diego, Calif. He was raised in Los Angeles and finished school there. He then joined the Navy and was stationed in Hawaii during World War II.
Mae Kirkendall, 98, of Riverside, passed away on Nov. 14, 2007 at Wockner Hospice Center, Kirkland, Wash.
She was born at Sprague, Wash. on Aug. 1, 1909. Her parents were Halley Howe and Ada Pierce Howe. She was preceded in death by Charlie, Kenneth and Bill Howe and five sisters, Grace Giffing, Pansy Blankenship, Daisy Finley, Rose Cotton and Eva Rogers.
OROVILLE – The Oroville City Council discussed a preliminary 2008 budget that is $92,505 more than the amended 2007 budget and still doesn't include several items like city hall expansion, sewer improvements and a hoped-for airport grant.
As I drove to work yesterday Paul Harvey was on the radio. In years past this would have been the bastion of the conservative right. I know the times are a changing however, when Paul himself is questioning the moral compass of our nation. When he is questioning whether there is any liberty left for citizens.
I wanted to extend a special welcome to your new reporter Amy Veneziano. I have met and talked with her on two different occasions and she seems to be a very eager and attentive reporter. I am looking forward to working with her in the future, especially with our events at the Community Cultural Center of Tonasket.
I guess its time to defend myself once more. Cynthia Dickerson, I am sorry if my last letter offended you, or any of your family. That was never the intent. You read a message meant for the masses and took it as an attack on your grandson. Re-read the last paragraph, this time with emphasis on the words "this" and "still." I was not referring to your grandson; I was referring to those who refuse to learn from such tragedies.


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It's Hollywood for our performing arts champs!
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The Namibian Championships of the Performing Arts (NATME) awards ceremony ended in Hollywood style with a dazzling variety show last Saturday night.
Top award contestants took part in the world-class talent contest held at the National Theatre of Namibia. A full three days of judging from Thursday, 9 May, to Saturday, 11 May, in six different categories showcasing namely dance, vocals, instrumental, acting, modelling and visual art, kept 100 Namibian contestants on their toes, in age categories ranging from five to 30 plus.
The panel of five qualified judges, which included three from South Africa, one from Zimbabwe and one Namibian, selected 30 talented gold medal Team Namibia winners who qualify to perform in the 2020 World Championships of Performing Arts to be held in Los Angeles.
This feast of dancing, singing, modelling, acting and visual art was the third official NATME event staged and organised by Lomine Brynard. The aim is to grow, develop and showcase Namibia's variety of talents in a competition that is affiliated to world-class standards.
Brynard pointed out that NATME highlights the creative skills and stand-out performances presented to a panel of highly qualified judges of the arts. It was also mentioned that by holding the event at the NTN Theatre, she aimed to keep the standard on an international level, by adding a Hollywood atmosphere to the competition and inspire the contestants for what lies ahead.
"It is surprising that most of our contestants taking part in the competition, don't have formal training and yet come onto the stage so gifted, and with such natural talents," said Brynard, adding that she is very proud of all the contestants who took part.
Brynard said this platform offers the local performing artists exposure opportunities to competitions such as the World Championships in LA, which is referred to as the Olympics of performing arts, where performers from around 60 countries come together. She also said that Namibians who have taken part in the World Championships previously have shone so brightly, scooping top accolades.
This year, the incredible acro dancer Job Le Clue from Windhoek, who also received gold for his performance at the last World Championships, took the 2019 Senior Grand Champion title. The Junior Championship title was awarded to Jamie Oosthuzen, while the Triple Threat trophy went to multi-talented Anri Brynard, who over the three days participated in dancing, modelling, acting and visual arts.
"NATME will continue to create this platform for Namibia's performing arts talents and to help more young people believe in themselves with the hopes of reaching for the stars. This is not a performing arts competition that is just about winning medals, but one that can change your life and help fast track our Namibian girls and boys to make their dreams come true on international stages," explained Brynard.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #91: Meghan Lamb
By Christina Wood Martinez
Author Meghan Lamb's new novel, Silk Flowers (Birds of Lace, March 2017), is a book that cuts to the core of disturbance. In it, a woman is struck by an inexplicable and undiagnosable illness that renders her immobile and takes away her ability to speak. Her husband must become her caretaker, living with a woman who is and is not his wife, newly alone but living still in an unsettling domestic companionship that is uncannily unchanged. For both husband and wife, memory haunts and disquiet seeps in and spreads.
Here, we discuss writing about illness and the body, traversing boundaries of fiction and memoir, and what it's like to return to and revise a text written by your younger self.
Meghan Lamb is from Chicago, Illinois. She holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, where she served as an editorial assistant for Dorothy, a publishing project. In addition to Silk Flowers she is the author of the novella Sacramento (Solar Luxuriance, 2014). Her fictions and essays can be found in DIAGRAM, Redivider, Nat.Brut, The Collagist, The Rumpus, Passages North, PANK, and elsewhere.
The Rumpus: As the biographical note for Silk Flowers states, you wrote the novel during a nine-month period wherein your left leg mysteriously stopped working. The female protagonist of the novel, identified as Wife in the opening list of characters, also suffers from a mysterious illness. The wife's illness is not yours—you eventually received a diagnosis (peroneal neuropathy) and your leg recovered, while the wife remains undiagnosed and her illness eventually consumes her. But the biographical note does gesture toward an element of memoir in the novel. Were you consciously adhering to or sidestepping any genre boundaries as you wrote?
Meghan Lamb: Silk Flowers definitely gestures toward memoir in the sense that it incorporates some of the strange, estranging physicalities of my own experience, electric pains, reverberating auras, stuff that's difficult to describe, let alone explain, because we don't really have the language for it. But even more so than my own, direct experience, the book revolves around my anxiety of imagined, potential experiences, around questions I couldn't help but ask myself when the neuropathy was an active force in my body. Will this get worse? Will my marriage dissolve, if this gets worse? Will I get to the point where I can't communicate something that needs to be communicated?
That last question was constantly on my mind, as someone who'd worked as a Certified Nursing Assistant for the elderly and a caregiver for individuals with disabilities. I'd worked with people in the late stages of Tay-Sachs, Alzheimer's, Multiple Sclerosis, Huntington's, ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). I was intimately acquainted with the effects of these degenerative disorders, not only on the people who experienced them, but the partners and family members who absorbed them by proxy. This shadowy process of absorption—the desire to communicate through the separateness of bodies, through the fog of illness—is something I really longed to capture in Silk Flowers.
So, in that sense, this book is all about "boundaries," observing them, avoiding them, attempting (and failing) to traverse them, and the genre of "memoir" (the specter of a human being's precisely articulated story) is certainly one of those critical boundaries.
Rumpus: Could you talk about the actual process of writing the book?
Lamb: To begin with, I wrote this book from the spaces where I spent almost the majority of those nine months, on the couch and in my bed. It was a bizarre liminal stage of my life (even though, at the time, I had no idea it was liminal) where I had to quit my physically demanding caregiver jobs and work from home. My writing sustained me in a very literal way, in the sense that it was literally the only thing I was doing outside of eating, sleeping, mundane couch-based work tasks, and being ill.
Maybe that's too simplistic of an image to offer. I was able to walk around a bit after a few months, when I had a leg brace made for me, but the plastic rim of the brace curved right into the damaged nerve, and if I walked too far, it made things worse. So, in that sense, every walk I took felt like a shady bargain with my own body, trading one need for another
Writing the book felt a lot like that, too.
The editing process of this book was equally unusual, but ultimately befitting its interests. To make a long story short, it changed hands (between editors/publishers) and that was a fairly redacted process. By the time I sat down to re-edit the text of Silk Flowers, five years had gone by. I was no longer ill. I'd gone through a divorce. I'd remarried. I'd lived in four separate cities.
It was an amazing experience, re-visiting and editing these words I'd written in an altered state at the age of twenty-four, a rare opportunity to converse with the thoughts and the language of a past self. There were plenty of moments where my own voice and perceptions were recognizable to me as myself, but there were also a great number of moments that made me think, W.T.F.? What version of me wrote this? But in a book that's so invested in the experience of disassociation from yourself, from your own body…I think that sensation was really generative, helped its performative tensions to resonate more authentically (at least from my own admittedly distorted vantage!)
Rumpus: Silk Flowers is beautiful, lush, and sensually written, but it's also pretty frightening. We watch the wife's body and mind succumb to her illness, and both she and her husband, in interweaving sections, are haunted by memories of loss. I'm curious to know if you consider Silk Flowers to be a work of horror, and more generally what your relationship to horror is?
Lamb: Many of the women writers I admire—the Brontë sisters, Edith Wharton, Muriel Spark, Daphne du Maurier, Shirley Jackson, Anna Kavan, Joyce Carol Oates—spent much of their careers skirting along the margins of horror, masterfully examining the dark edges of human experience. Or, maybe more to the point, a lot of their writing is concerned with deconstructing the elements of horror fiction, slyly gesturing to the reader's perception even amidst eerily embodied sensory description. That peculiar tension between embodied physical detail and the reader's disembodied observance was definitely something I was interested in channeling with Silk Flowers. I wanted to enmesh the unsettlingly visceral with the arguably even more unsettling sensation of looking on and watching.
I wanted Silk Flowers to feel, at turns, like a play, or even a "bad" horror film, and there's a whole other book I could write about my relationship to the genre as it pertains to film and theater. Specifically, the erotics of sparse, stagey dialogue, how it weirdly augments the horror of an overwhelming situation. A person repeatedly shouting the stupidest, most obvious statement they could be shouting. Oh no! What's happening? Look! What! Help! A name called out, again and again, until that name—the person attached to it—is defamiliarized.
That defamiliarization is what speaks to me the most in horror, which is, by its most basic definition, "an intense feeling of shock or disgust." What could be more horrifying than an unknown force manifesting itself within your own body, or the body of someone you feel you should be close to? Even more horrifyingly, this is something almost everyone necessarily experiences at some point in their lives (or knows—at least on some level—they have yet to experience): the absence of a partner or family member who is nevertheless, still, physically there.
Rumpus: I'm always struck by how you write the body. Your characters, in some ways, are so embodied, so acutely aware of their own sensations: "Her skin rises and falls, a fluid shimmer. It feels almost pleasant, now a part of her, this energy, familiar as her heart, her lungs, her liver." But there's a way, too, in which your characters feel entirely disembodied and absent from themselves, like people observing a performance of themselves from the outside. This seems especially true for the wife in Silk Flowers, who must experience and also bear witness to her own body's illness. Would you call it an othering of the self? How do you navigate your characters' relationships to their bodies as you write?
Lamb: I would absolutely call it "an othering of the self." Thank you for giving me those words! And I wish I had a more satisfying answer for your amazing question, namely because this is something I spend a lot of time thinking about (though not in such precisely expressed terms). For now, all I really have to offer is my desire to write around absence, these gauzy vacancies—"a fluid shimmer"—meant to serve as a kind of shorthand for the rifts into which our words fall, these weird dead zones of language. And I can only imagine I navigate these dead zones in the ways everyone else does, by circling around them, gazing fearfully.
Rumpus: What are you working on now?
Lamb: I am working on a nearly finished full-length short story collection called Significant Others that (fittingly enough) revolves around the aforementioned concept of "othering of the self" (specifically, the collection explores this self-othering as an unspoken or unspeakable tension within relationships.) I am also working with Spork Press on a soon-to-be-published illustrated novella called All of Your Most Private Places that features call girls, the desert, an unnamed city, and an atomic museum based around the weird mannequin houses used in the 1950s and 1960s on the Nevada Test Site. I'm about halfway finished writing an art book entitled New Years Eve at the Pine Burr Inn and a novel entitled Failure to Thrive, both which explore life in the Pennsylvania coal region from very different lenses.
And I'm always working on numerous shorter projects: short stories, essays, reviews, etc. Blind Spot by Harold Abramowitz, In a Dream, I Dance by Myself, and I Collapse by Carolyn Zaikowski, The Sky Isn't Blue by Janice Lee, Dust Bunny City by Bud Smith, The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan, and The Disintegrations by Alistair McCartney are some of the wonderful books on my roster (which is to say, everyone else should also read them!)
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Christina Wood Martinez is Assistant Editor of Dorothy, a publishing project, and Junior Fellow for Fiction at Washington University in St. Louis. Her fiction and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in The Literary Review, Puerto del Sol, and The Spectacle. More from this author →
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The Gaia Foundation (Gaia) has over 25 years experience working with partners in Africa, South America, Asia and Europe to regenerate cultural and biological diversity. In collaboration with partners on the ground, particularly through the African Biodiversity Network, The Gaia Foundation works with communities who are committed to regaining their seed, water and food sovereignty. Together, Gaia and partners have pioneered the Climate, Seed & Knowledge (CSK) programme, which supports the revival of indigenous seed diversity and related knowledge through tools such as eco-cultural calendars. These were developed through Gaia's work in the Amazon in the 90's with Gaia Amazonas. In the 90's, when the first GM crop was shipped from USA to Europe, without any public debate, Gaia helped to initiate a broad-based coalition of civil society groups in the UK calling for a moratorium on genetic engineering (GE) in food and agriculture. This later became what is now known as the GM Freeze campaign, the first of many to fight against GM across Europe and beyond.
The African Biodiversity Network (ABN) is a regional network of individuals and organisations first conceived in 1996 in response to growing concerns over threats to biodiversity in Africa. As the agendas of global agri-business turned their attention to Africa, the need to develop strong African positions, a united African voice and the legal instruments to oppose these threats became increasingly important. This advocacy work is rooted in ABN'S work to revive ecosystem and community resilience, by focusing on the regeneration of indigenous knowledge and ecological agricultural practices. The Climate, Seed & Knowledge (CSK) programme emerged out of the work with communities, to recuperate their traditional seed diversity and related knowledge. This is the foundation of climate change resilience, and in turn food and seed sovereignty. ABN is one of the founding partners of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), which was initiated in 2009, bringing together a number of African regional networks working on issues ranging from farming and agro-ecology, to indigenous peoples' rights and related advocacy.
MELCA Ethiopia (Movement for Ecological Learning and Community Action) was founded in 2004 by a group of environmental practitioners and lawyers with a shared concern regarding the erosion and destruction of biodiversity and culture in Ethiopia. MELCA aims to work for the revival and enhancement of traditional ecological knowledge and to protect the rights of communities across Ethiopia. In November 2010 MELCA hosted a learning exchange for ABN partners and community leaders involved in pioneering the Climate, Seed & Knowledge (CSK) programme, in the Wollo region of Ethiopia. The process involved community leaders sharing experiences in reviving seed and knowledge, using eco-calendars and dialogues to animate the process. It was out of this that Seeds of Freedom film first emerged. Since this process, MELCA have continued to work with these communities to build confidence around traditional farming practices and to revive the indigenous seeds which have been threatened in the area. MELCA has been working with Dr Melaku Worede, an Ethiopian geneticist who developed the Ethiopian Genebank, which he dedicated to supporting small farmers to enhance their indigenous seed diversity. He received the Right Livelihood Award for his pioneering work.
Navdanya means nine seeds, representing India's collective source of food security. It is a network of seed keepers and organic producers spread across 16 states in India. Navdanya has helped to set up 65 community seed banks across the country; trained over 500,000 farmers in seed and food sovereignty, and sustainable agriculture; and helped setup the largest fair trade organic network in the country. This effort has seen Navdanya so far successfully conserve more than 5000 crop varieties. As a movement, Navdanya promotes a non-violent agriculture that respects small farmers, biodiversity and the Earth. Navdanya runs a continuous campaign and movement for seed sovereignty, and will be launching a report entitled Seeds of Freedom later this year. This will follow on from their 2011 report The GMO Emperor Has No Clothes: a global citizens report on the state of GMO's – false promises, failed technologies. The founder and director of Navdanya, Dr. Vandana Shiva is recognised globally for her contribution to the field of agricultural justice and seed protection.
GRAIN works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggle for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems. GRAIN offer this support through independent research and analysis, networking at local, regional and international levels, and fostering new forms of cooperation and alliance-building. GRAIN's recent work includes the programme Struggles for life: supporting people's movements on agriculture, food and biodiversity, which showcases local communities struggle for food sovereignty. GRAIN have also just published a new book The Great Food Robbery (2012) which looks at the corporations behind the crisis, the ways they organise and control food production and distribution, and how this destroys local food systems. In 2011 GRAIN received the prestigious Right Livelihood Award, or "alternative" Nobel Prize, for its work in getting the issue of land-grabbing onto the international agenda.


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Memorial Tribute
Jerry L. Whetstone
May 26, 1954 ~ September 29, 2017 (age 63)
Jerry Lee Whetstone, age 63 of Fishers, Indiana died on September 29, 2017 at Community Heart and Vascular Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana at 8:41 a.m.
He was born on May 26, 1954 in Warsaw, Indiana to Lowell D. Whetstone and Loa Jean (Horn) Whetstone. Jerry graduated from Akron High School in 1973. On October 7, 1978, Jerry was married to Beth Ann Harris by Rev. Claude Fawns.
Jerry served in the United States Navy where he was a welder. He then was employed as a millwright at Bhurt Engineering in Warsaw, Indiana. Changing his career from there, he worked as a correctional officer at Miami Correctional Facility where he retired.
Some of Jerry's interests included being a racing fan of Jeff Gordon and watching the Chicago Bears. He loved spending time with his granddaughter that he cherished. Jerry was a "happy man that never met a stranger".
Surviving Jerry is his wife: Beth Ann Whetstone of Fishers, IN; his daughter: Amber Shae Peters (spouse Scott and their daughter, Cadence Ann Peters) of South Whitley, IN; his brother: Leon Whetstone (spouse Marlene) of Silver Lake, IN; his sister: Darlene K. Reese (spouse Dan) of Oswego, IN; sister-in-law: Pamela Prater (spouse Jeff) of Rochester, IN; brother-in-law: Marvin Harris (spouse Tina) of Huntsville, AR; father-in-law: Richard Smith of Rochester, IN
Preceding Jerry in death were his parents and mother-in-law Judy Smith.
Viewing and visitation will be Tuesday, October 3, 2017 at the Earl-Love Funeral Home, 811 East Rochester Street, Akron, Indiana. 4:00-7:00 p.m. The funeral service will follow visitation with Pastor Derrick Harris of Olive Branch Church officiating.
For those who wish to honor the memory of Jerry, memorial contributions may be made to the family c/o Earl-Love Funeral Home, P.O. Box 503, Akron, IN 46910
The staff of Earl-Love Funeral Home considers it a privilege and an honor to care for the family of and friends of Jerry Whetstone.
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| 811 E. Rochester Street / P.O. Box 503
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The Little (Photo)Shop of Horrors
Name that Scammer!
Ramon Olorunwa Abbas

Flashy Nigerian Instagrammers 'caught with $40m in cash'

Flashy Nigerian Instagrammers 'caught with $40m in cash'

mrwoodberyOlalekan Jacob Ponle, known as "mrwoodbery" to his Instagram followers, flaunted his wealth.

The day after his 29th birthday in May, Olalekan Jacob Ponle posted a picture on his Instagram standing next to a bright yellow Lamborghini in Dubai.

"Stop letting people make you feel guilty for the wealth you've acquired," he admonished, wearing designer jewellery and Gucci clothes from head to toe.

A month later, the Nigerian, who goes by the name "mrwoodbery" on Instagram, was arrested by Dubai Police for alleged money laundering and cyber fraud.

The most famous of the dozen Africans nabbed in the dramatic operation was 37-year-old Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, "hushpuppi" or just "hush" as he was known by his 2.4 million Instagram followers.

Police in the emirate say they recovered $40m (£32m) in cash, 13 luxury cars worth $6.8m, 21 computers, 47 smartphones and the addresses of nearly two million alleged victims.

Mr Abbas and Mr Ponle were both extradited to the US and charged in a Chicago court with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and laundering hundreds of millions of dollars obtained from cybercrimes.

The two have not yet been asked to plead and are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

"I think there's probably a certain arrogance when they believe they've been careful about maintaining anonymity in their online identities, but they live high on the hog and get careless on social media," said Glen Donath, a former senior prosecutor in the US Attorney's Office in Washington, DC.

It is a spectacular crash for the two Nigerian men who extensively documented their high-flying lifestyle on social media, raising questions about the sources of their wealth.

They unwittingly provided crucial information about their identities and activities for American detectives with their Instagram and Snapchat posts.

They are accused of impersonating legitimate employees of various US companies in "business email compromise" (BEC) schemes and tricking the recipients into wiring millions of dollars into their own accounts.

On Instagram, hushpuppi said he was a real estate developer and had a category of videos called "Flexing" - social media lingo for showing off. But the "houses" were actually a codeword for bank accounts "used to receive proceeds of a fraudulent scheme", investigators allege.

"Our value system in Nigeria needs to be checked, especially the emphasis we place on wealth, no matter how you got it," the economist Ebuka Emebinah told the BBC from New York.

"It's a culture where people believe that results speak for you. We don't place as much emphasis on the process and this has built up over time."

English Premier League team targeted

In April, hushpuppi renewed his lease for another year at the exclusive Palazzo Versace apartments in Dubai under his real name and phone number.

"Thank you, Lord, for the many blessings in my life. Continue to shame those waiting for me to be shamed," he captioned an Instagram picture of a Rolls-Royce just a fortnight before he was arrested.

"Abbas finances this opulent lifestyle through crime, and he is one of the leaders of a transnational network that facilitates computer intrusions, fraudulent schemes (including BEC schemes), and money laundering, targeting victims around the world in schemes designed to steal hundreds of millions of dollars," the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) said in an affidavit.

In one case, a foreign financial institution allegedly lost $14.7m in a cyber-heist where the money ended up in hushpuppi's bank accounts in multiple countries.

The affidavit also alleged that he was involved in a scheme to steal $124m from an unnamed English Premier League team.

The FBI obtained records from his Google, Apple iCloud, Instagram and Snapchat accounts which allegedly contained banking information, passports, communication with conspirators and records of wire transfers.

About 90% of business email compromise scams originate in West Africa, research from American email security firm Agari shows.

'Yahoo boys'

The complaint against Mr Abbas and Mr Ponle describe tactics that resemble what the company calls Vendor Email Compromise tactics, where scammers compromise an email account and study communication between a customer and a vendor.

"The scammer would gather contextual details, as they watched the legitimate email flow," explains Crane Hassold, Agari's senior director of threat research.

"The bad actor would redirect emails to the bad actor's email account, craft emails to the customer that looked like they are coming from the vendor, indicate that the 'vendor' had a new bank account, provide 'updated' bank account information and the money would be gone, at that point."

Mr Ponle, known online as "mrwoodberry", used Mark Kain in emails, according to the FBI.

He is accused of defrauding a Chicago-based company into sending wire transfers of $15.2m. Companies in Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, New York, and California are also said to have fallen victim.

The cash trail allegedly disappeared after his accomplices, called money mules, converted the money into the cryptocurrency bitcoin.

Email scams have become so prevalent globally, and so deeply linked to Nigeria, that the fraudsters have a name in the country: "Yahoo boys".

They try to convince a recipient to wire money to the other side of the world or they go "phishing", stealing a user's identity and personal information for fraud.

The FBI warns against the Nigerian letter or "419" fraud - emails promising large sums of money, called advance fee scams. The "Nigerian prince" trope has become shorthand for deception.

How Nigeria suffers

Last month, the US Treasury Department blacklisted six Nigerians among 79 individuals and organisations in its Most Wanted cybercriminals list. It accused them of stealing more than $6m from American citizens through deceptive global threats like BEC and romance fraud.

Ayo Bankole Akintujoye - founder of Nigeria-based Bootcamp, a start-up incubation initiative - faults the international attention on Nigeria alone.

"A lot of Nigerians are doing fantastic things all over the world, but they don't get as much media mileage as the guys doing bad things. It affects all the guys doing legitimate stuff especially in the tech space," he said.

"A lot of foreign companies don't ship to Nigeria, many payment platforms don't accept payments from us because it has ruined our image."

In its internet crime report for 2019, the FBI said it had received more than 460,000 complaints of suspected cyber fraud, with losses of more than $3.5bn reported. More than $300m was recovered, it said.

However, many online fraudsters don't get caught and even fewer end up going to jail.

Mr Donath says the cases are challenging because they happen overseas and tend to be quite sophisticated.

"They're time-consuming, highly document-intensive, and in many federal criminal cases, you have the difficulty of walking a jury through a chronology of relevant facts," said the partner at law firm Clifford Chance.

If convicted, Mr Abbas and Mr Ponle could be locked up for up to 20 years.

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The most famous of the dozen Africans nabbed in the dramatic operation was 37-year-old [B]Ramon Olorunwa Abbas[/B], "hushpuppi" or just "hush" as he was known by his 2.4 million Instagram followers. Police in the emirate say they recovered $40m (£32m) in cash, 13 luxury cars worth $6.8m, 21 computers, 47 smartphones and the addresses of nearly two million alleged victims. Mr Abbas and Mr Ponle were both extradited to the US and charged in a Chicago court with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and laundering hundreds of millions of dollars obtained from cybercrimes. The two have not yet been asked to plead and are presumed innocent until proven guilty. "I think there's probably a certain arrogance when they believe they've been careful about maintaining anonymity in their online identities, but they live high on the hog and get careless on social media," said Glen Donath, a former senior prosecutor in the US Attorney's Office in Washington, DC. It is a spectacular crash for the two Nigerian men who extensively documented their high-flying lifestyle on social media, raising questions about the sources of their wealth. They unwittingly provided crucial information about their identities and activities for American detectives with their Instagram and Snapchat posts. They are accused of impersonating legitimate employees of various US companies in "business email compromise" (BEC) schemes and tricking the recipients into wiring millions of dollars into their own accounts. On Instagram, hushpuppi said he was a real estate developer and had a category of videos called "Flexing" - social media lingo for showing off. But the "houses" were actually a codeword for bank accounts "used to receive proceeds of a fraudulent scheme", investigators allege. "Our value system in Nigeria needs to be checked, especially the emphasis we place on wealth, no matter how you got it," the economist Ebuka Emebinah told the BBC from New York. "It's a culture where people believe that results speak for you. We don't place as much emphasis on the process and this has built up over time." [SIZE=5][B]English Premier League team targeted[/B][/SIZE] In April, hushpuppi renewed his lease for another year at the exclusive Palazzo Versace apartments in Dubai under his real name and phone number. "Thank you, Lord, for the many blessings in my life. Continue to shame those waiting for me to be shamed," he captioned an Instagram picture of a Rolls-Royce just a fortnight before he was arrested. "Abbas finances this opulent lifestyle through crime, and he is one of the leaders of a transnational network that facilitates computer intrusions, fraudulent schemes (including BEC schemes), and money laundering, targeting victims around the world in schemes designed to steal hundreds of millions of dollars," the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) said in an affidavit. In one case, a foreign financial institution allegedly lost $14.7m in a cyber-heist where the money ended up in hushpuppi's bank accounts in multiple countries. The affidavit also alleged that he was involved in a scheme to steal $124m from an unnamed English Premier League team. The FBI obtained records from his Google, Apple iCloud, Instagram and Snapchat accounts which allegedly contained banking information, passports, communication with conspirators and records of wire transfers. About 90% of business email compromise scams originate in West Africa, research from American email security firm Agari shows. [SIZE=5][B]'Yahoo boys'[/B][/SIZE] The complaint against Mr Abbas and Mr Ponle describe tactics that resemble what the company calls Vendor Email Compromise tactics, where scammers compromise an email account and study communication between a customer and a vendor. "The scammer would gather contextual details, as they watched the legitimate email flow," explains Crane Hassold, Agari's senior director of threat research. "The bad actor would redirect emails to the bad actor's email account, craft emails to the customer that looked like they are coming from the vendor, indicate that the 'vendor' had a new bank account, provide 'updated' bank account information and the money would be gone, at that point." Mr Ponle, known online as "mrwoodberry", used Mark Kain in emails, according to the FBI. He is accused of defrauding a Chicago-based company into sending wire transfers of $15.2m. Companies in Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, New York, and California are also said to have fallen victim. The cash trail allegedly disappeared after his accomplices, called money mules, converted the money into the cryptocurrency bitcoin. Email scams have become so prevalent globally, and so deeply linked to Nigeria, that the fraudsters have a name in the country: "Yahoo boys". They try to convince a recipient to wire money to the other side of the world or they go "phishing", stealing a user's identity and personal information for fraud. The FBI warns against the Nigerian letter or "419" fraud - emails promising large sums of money, called advance fee scams. The "Nigerian prince" trope has become shorthand for deception. [SIZE=5][B]How Nigeria suffers[/B][/SIZE] Last month, the US Treasury Department blacklisted six Nigerians among 79 individuals and organisations in its Most Wanted cybercriminals list. It accused them of stealing more than $6m from American citizens through deceptive global threats like BEC and romance fraud. Ayo Bankole Akintujoye - founder of Nigeria-based Bootcamp, a start-up incubation initiative - faults the international attention on Nigeria alone. "A lot of Nigerians are doing fantastic things all over the world, but they don't get as much media mileage as the guys doing bad things. It affects all the guys doing legitimate stuff especially in the tech space," he said. "A lot of foreign companies don't ship to Nigeria, many payment platforms don't accept payments from us because it has ruined our image." [URL='https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2019-internet-crime-report-released-021120']In its internet crime report for 2019[/URL], the FBI said it had received more than 460,000 complaints of suspected cyber fraud, with losses of more than $3.5bn reported. More than $300m was recovered, it said. However, many online fraudsters don't get caught and even fewer end up going to jail. Mr Donath says the cases are challenging because they happen overseas and tend to be quite sophisticated. "They're time-consuming, highly document-intensive, and in many federal criminal cases, you have the difficulty of walking a jury through a chronology of relevant facts," said the partner at law firm Clifford Chance. If convicted, Mr Abbas and Mr Ponle could be locked up for up to 20 years. [/QUOTE]


Despite short-term fluctuations, China will stick to its pledges to continue to promote opening up in the financial sector as the nation has sound economic fundamentals, according to senior officials.
Speaking at a panel discussion on Sept 18 during the World Economic Forum in Tianjin, Fang Xinghai, vice-chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, said he is quite upbeat about China's efforts to continue promoting the opening up of the financial sector at the time when there are no systematic risks in China's capital market.
Foreign investors look to China's long term economic fundamentals, rather than short term fluctuations, according to Fang.
His remarks came after China announced a number of measures to ease or remove limits on foreign ownership in China's financial sector, which have raised some concerns over possible shocks to China's domestic financial market hit by possible large amount of capital fluctuations.
Liu Shijin, vice-chairman of China Development Research Foundation and a central bank policy advisor, said efforts to promote opening up can be facilitated a little, because China is capable of cushioning external shocks.
"External challenges would pose a limited impact to the Chinese economy," he said.
The US government has announced additional 10 percent tariffs on about $200 billion worth of Chinese goods starting from next week, pointing to escalating of trade frictions between the two nations.
"The direct impact on the Chinese economy from trade friction is rather limited. Major negative hit is about expectations, reflected by recent fluctuations in the A-share market and currency market," Liu said, adding the key is to pursue high quality growth.
The new tariff measures are expected to have a negative impact of around 0.3 to 0.5 percentage points on China's GDP growth over the next year, but fiscal and policy easing will largely offset these effects, leaving China's real GDP growth estimation unchanged, at 6.6 percent in 2018 and 6.4 percent in 2019, according to Lillian Li, a vice-president at Moody's Investors Service.
Helen Zhu, head of China Fundamental Equities with BlackRock, said people are looking to opportunities in the Asian market that are not necessarily available elsewhere.
Foreign buying of Chinese stocks via the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect reached 399 million yuan last week, and funds via the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect reached 395 million yuan ($57.5 million) during the period, data from Wind Infor showed.


While US giants like Novell are betting the farm on uptake, just 13 per cent of the 1,000 biggest UK companies have installed intranets compared with 63 per cent of large US companies, according to data supplied by Durlacher Multimedia, a division of Durlacher Ltd. dedicated to hi-tech investment. The original market research was conducted with UK market research firm Romtec.
Companies contacted said they were not deterred by the costs of installing intranets but pointed to a "lack of perceived benefit" according to Durlacher. The report concludes that intranet software developers are doing a poor job of communicating the advantages of intranets.
The findings are part of a 149-page report, The Durlacher Intranet Report 1997. The report costs £395.