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Interview with Gail Simmons
Gail Simmons, an ICE alumna, is the special projects director at Food & Wine, a judge on Top Chef and Top Chef Masters, and the host of the upcoming Top Chef Just Desserts. As part of her role for Food & Wine, she acts as a spokesperson for the magazine to the media and represents it around the country at different events.
April 1, 2010 by ICE Staff
Before Food & Wine, she worked for Daniel Boulud's Dinex Group as management consultant, and spent two years as research and recipe assistant to Vogue's food writer Jefffrey Steingarten. The Main Course sat down with her this winter to talk about her career and current projects.
You had a feature in the January issue of Food & Wine, "rescuing" failed Top Chef recipes. Is that part of your special projects duties, to write?
Yes and no. I had been writing before, left magazines, and then came back, so it's something I love to do. My job changed a lot over the last couple of years. I write when I have time and when ideas come up that are fun and we can figure out how to make it work. I always love to write for the magazine, but there's not always the chance to do so.
Would you be on television if not for Food & Wine?
It never occurred me to do television until I came to Food & Wine. That was the path that it took. When I worked for Daniel Boulud, I did all of his PR and so I was working on everything that he did on television. It had never really occurred to me to get on television myself. I don't know. It's hard to know where you would have gone if you didn't take this path.
How did you get to be picked as the person from Food & Wine who would be on Top Chef?
When I first started at Food & Wine, the person whose job I took, who was leaving, had done a bit of television for the magazine. [Editor in chief] Dana [Cowin] can only do so much television and doesn't really cook on TV. There weren't that many people who were comfortable being on camera and cooking and who had a culinary background and culinary training. So, when I started working in marketing, they asked me if I would get some media training, because I had the culinary skills, and see if I could kind of fill that gap that had been left by him. I started doing small news segments, like the Today Show or the Early Show or NY1, whenever people wanted a food expert to do a cooking demo or talk about Easter menus, wine bargains for spring, or outdoor entertaining.
About a year into doing that, Bravo came to Food & Wine with this show idea and said that they were looking for a marketing partner to help, to give them some of the culinary background and credibility and also to work with them on the marketing program for the show. Part of that deal was that if Bravo liked one of our editors, that person could be on the show representing the magazine.
But it wasn't a given—they wanted to screen test us. Food & Wine said "Okay, we'll send you a bunch of people and if you like one of them then that would be fantastic; we would be able to have one of our editors on the panel of judges." We had no idea if food reality TV would be good at all. There had been no great breakout reality food show at the time. Four or five editors auditioned at Bravo and a couple weeks later they called and said they'd chosen me. Two weeks later I was in San Francisco shooting our first season. And that's it. The rest is history, I guess.
Do you need to know hands-on cooking in your role at Top Chef?
Not at Top Chef. But my role in everything I do, certainly. I don't think I could have gotten my job on Top Chef if I didn't really understand food. Many viewers think that judging is just people being flippant, it's what I like or I don't like, and it's all personal. Judging food is actually very scientific: knowing if meat is cooked to the correct temperature, knowing if the knife skills are correct, knowing if the vegetables were julienned the right way and consistently, seasoned well. All the factors that you look for really do take a deep understanding of the science of cooking.
So, yes, I guess on Top Chef, too, it certainly helped. Could someone judge the show without a culinary background? Absolutely. We have guest judges who aren't professional chefs. Padma Lakshmi, our host, has no culinary training. But the fact that I do and that Tom Colicchio does allows other people to not have it. So, yes, I think it certainly gives me legitimacy. Tom obviously comes from a chef perspective. I'm not. I'm more of an educated diner, a professional diner. I look for things that a regular diner might not look for.
Both views are valid but you need all of those views to make up the judges table. I guess my answer would be yes, that my purpose is there because I have a knowledge of food and culinary training for sure. And everything I do at Food & Wine as well: I do a lot of cooking demos, I do a lot of press now as part of my job, I do a segment once a month with CBS's the Early Show, I also do a lot of cooking demos at events all over the country.
That educated diner approach is what you bring to the table as a judge. But is there anything else that you uniquely bring, would you say, that no one else can?
I guess there's a reason that they keep me on. [laughs] I don't know. I think that I'm very approachable. I make the chef world a little more approachable to the regular diner and to the viewers. I'm sort of that halfway point. People can look to me to trust me because they know that I have a professional background and that I take what I do seriously. But I'm not speaking in this chef-y language that some people can't understand and I'm not bogged down in some of the really technical details that a chef might be. I talk about food from a very emotional experience and as an idea, from a place that people can relate to no matter if you are a professional or if you're just a viewer who likes to eat or just wants to watch the show.
The show has gained a lot of credibility among professional. Has that changed the way you work on the show or the way the show is conceived?
Absolutely. I think it was our biggest fear. Tom and I talked about it a lot at the very beginning when we first started shooting. What if the industry laughs at us? What if the show doesn't have the integrity that we think is so important? What if it's not taken seriously? What if the food isn't good? What if the contestants aren't professional enough? We were so worried that it would be a show that wasn't serious about the food industry. That's not to say that we don't want it to not be fun.
But being fun and being serious about food can go hand in hand and we wanted to make sure that they did. It was a big relief and also a big credit to our producers when the show came out that they really understood the industry and the relationships in the food world and how important they are to us. They wanted to make a show about real culinary professionals and I think that it was the first show to really do that. All the greatest chefs from around the country, and really, around the world, are now coming to us because they want to be on the show and they want to be a guest judge. Because they've, number one, seen the power of the show from a marketing perspective and from an exposure perspective: the opportunities that come out of that show for the chefs, for the judges, have just been incredible.
But also because it's a show that really takes pride in our contestants. I think that's, at the end of the day, why the show is as successful as it is: because it's about the contestants. It's not about us grandstanding. It's not about us being snarky or mean. It's really about the food and about these young chefs and how talented they are.
How has food television positively or negatively impacted the industry, from your perspective?
I don't know if I'm the authority to answer that question. Ultimately, I sincerely believe it's positive. Certain pieces of it get a bad rap. Certain consequences of it have been difficult for the industry. Mostly—and I can imagine that culinary schools see this lot—that every kid coming out of culinary school thinks they're a chef and think that being on TV is what being a chef is, and the two are actually not related at all.
First of all, when you graduate culinary school you're not a chef; you're a cook. It takes many years of practice to become a chef and to lead a kitchen. But on the whole, I think that our show, and food television in general, have given people a window into an industry that they otherwise never see the back door of. The life of a kitchen is a very secret life that, until recently, no one really knew about.
You go to a restaurant and you sit in the dining room but you don't really think about who prepares your food and the work that goes into preparing it. It's never discussed; it's just assumed and taken for granted. Food shows, and especially our show, have not only opened up people to the knowledge of what goes into being a chef, the hard work that's involved in being a chef, the hours, the stress, the talent and skill required, but also have given America a vocabulary about food that it just didn't have before.
Having been put in such a public space now—for the show but also for the magazine—have there been things that have affected you negatively, in print or in blogs for example?
There are. I don't read them. You can spend your whole life in a dark room crying about what people think of you. But that doesn't make your life very productive. There are blogs about every single person who's ever done anything public in their lives. You're never going to be loved by everyone. I don't let it come into my space. Yes, I've put myself out there in a public way and you make mistakes, sure, and you learn from them and you don't have the luxury of learning from them in private any more. It has changed my life, for sure, in ways I never imagined and in many ways I wasn't ever prepared for.
Because there are so many things about being recognizable that you don't think about until you're recognizable. Things like people looking in your grocery cart when you're trying to do your groceries, or stopping you on the subway when you've had a really bad day and you're running late and they want to take a picture with you but you are late for a meeting and you know have someone yelling at you and your phone's ringing. Or things like that. But at the end of the day, I can't complain about any of those things because on the whole, the response to the show and for the most part, the response to my work is really positive.
Are there things that you do now, though, that you didn't do before? Do you not leave the house without make-up? Do you think about what you're wearing when you go to the grocery store?
I'm not wearing much make-up right now—this is what I wear every day. Certainly, when I have to go out to more public events I'm much more conscious of what I wear. I know that my picture will probably be taken and it wasn't taken before. So I have to think about that. But those are trivial things, superficial things. I'm a pretty low maintenance person in general. I try to just live my life the same. I don't think much has changed in my personal life. My husband is really protective and a really amazing support. We've been together for ten years so we were together long before I was on television and he knows me better than anyone.
Tell me about the new show, Top Chef Just Desserts.
I'll be hosting the show, as well as being a judge. Amazingly, I don't know that much about it. My understanding so far is that it will be just like Top Chef but for pastry and baking, more or less. It will all be filmed in one location I think. But otherwise, same format. We're starting off with fewer episodes to just kind of get our feet wet, see how it goes. It's really giving pastry chefs the credit they deserve, because pastries have gotten a bad rap on our show.
For so long there's been an outcry from our viewers but also from pastry chefs, saying "Come on, guys, let us show you how it's really done. We want people to see beautiful desserts and show how creative we can be." So, finally, we were able to do it. I'm really excited because I'm not a pastry chef. I did the culinary program at ICE and all the cooking I did in professional kitchens was always on the culinary side. But I love desserts. I'm sort of mystified by desserts, because to me, they're very magical. It's really chemistry. You put it in an oven looking one way and it comes out completely transformed.
Do you have any input on the format, the content of the shows?
For this show I will, yes. I'm a consulting producer on the dessert show. That was part of our discussions in being part of it. I've been speaking with them about it at length. I can't get involved in too many details because I have to do my own role, but we're all talking about how to best make it work. I have less say on Top Chef and Top Chef Masters, but Tom consults a lot to make sure that the challenges are good and the contestants are up to par. But we also don't want to know too much because we don't want to learn too much about the contestants or the challenges. We want to be surprised. We want to make sure that we come to every challenge with a clean palate, so to speak.
Another big thing that you do is the Aspen Food & Wine Festival, right?
I was the director for four years but I'm no longer the director. I only am one human being. [laughs] I transitioned it to someone else on my team. I'm still there to oversee and guide them and answer questions, and I'm still going to be there this year, but I physically cannot be in so many places at once any more. I'm on three television shows and at the magazine. The festival is so massive—it takes a full-time team of four or five people. When their leader is gone for three or four months throughout the year, it just kind of doesn't make sense.
You chose the media route a long time ago. How did you decide to make that the focus of your career?
When I graduated college I loved writing. My first job was for a magazine. I found myself drawn to the food editor and the food side, and I kind of decided that I loved the two together. That was before television came into it. Really, writing was how it started. I went to culinary school because I knew that I could write, but I needed to know the subject I wanted to write about. From there I went to work for Jeffrey Steingarten at Vogue, researching and testing recipes.
I love magazines and books and media, and when the media changed to TV and online, I just kind of changed with it and was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. I've always been fascinated with media. It can take so many shapes. I just did another project with AOL, where I'm doing a cooking series. That's something I'd never done before: really short online cooking videos. I don't know if I want a traditional cooking show, but I love to cook and AOL came to me with an opportunity where I could really cook just my own recipes, which were accessible to people but also a little bit elevated. Sort of that same role I play on Top Chef, where I am the professional but I can bring food to people's homes in a way that's a little more accessible.
You're obviously very savvy in moving to these media that are not print. Where do you think we are we going with magazines and with books?
The last few years have been very scary for magazines in general. Gourmet closing was no different than so many other magazines that closed. I don't think it actually had anything specifically to do with the food industry. Gourmet had been on a decline for many years from a revenue standpoint. Food & Wine's been really lucky. I work with an amazingly bright group of people and they've been really smart about capitalizing on opportunities. But publishing is changing. I would like to think that the glossy, beautiful magazine is here to stay because that's where my heart is, but I think that people are going to consume their information differently. But it's still going to be the same information.
I don't think Food & Wine is ever going to go away that same way. It might take more of its content online, and that's kind of what everyone's doing. Everything's getting online because everyone wants to be mobile. It's all about convenience. I want to make sure that I keep up on all my information while at the same time getting it in the easiest way I can, because I don't have time for it otherwise. Except that what magazines do, which Twitter and online headlines don't do, is literary reporting, is long-format reading. You can't get that anywhere else. There's no other format where there's extraordinary writing, in-depth researching. There's always a need for that information. The world can't function on 140 characters. People have forgotten that real research, real recipe testing, real development of a story is still an important thing. Although I'm all for Twitter—it serves my purpose from a convenience standpoint.
What do you use it for?
To get my top headlines, to find out what my friends are doing, what people I respect are doing at the moment, to disseminate information. But to me, it doesn't take the place of a magazine.
Who are you favorite people to follow on Twitter?
There are a lot of good people that I really like following. Frank Bruni—I like what he has to say. I follow a young director in Hollywood named Ruben Fleischer. He made a movie called Zombieland. Peter Lindberg is a travel writer that I like. I follow a lot of my friends, my Top Chef friends, contestants and the judges, Padma Lakshmi, Gael Greene, Tom Colicchio, of course. I follow the Today Show. I follow a lot of chefs. One of my favorite food writers is John T. Edge; I follow him. The New York Times. CNN.
What is your biggest strength as a writer?
I think that my empathy for my subject is a big strength. Subject being food and subject being people I write about. Having been a cook for a short amount of time in my life made me really understand and be empathetic to cooks and chefs. Part of my job at Food & Wine is to cultivate relationships with chefs around the country and maintain those relationships.
It was part of the reason I was hired by Food & Wine in the beginning, because I had come from working with Daniel [Boulud] and so many other great cooks and chefs whom he works with, so I had a really great network of relationships with chefs. I'm certainly not a chef and I never claim to be one. But I empathize with them. I am motivated by them, inspired by them. I understand their lifestyle. I understand how excited they are about the product and the skill that it takes to do what they. Writing well, really, comes from understanding your subject and wanting to tell that story.
Do you see yourself continuing on the path you are now, with Food & Wine and Top Chef?
Who knows? I could have never known I would come this far. You just have to leave the door open. I would never have thought I would do this but I kind of took a chance and Food & Wine supported me and Bravo has been really supportive of me. And so, I'll ride it out and see what's next. Hopefully, by the time this ends there'll be something that I'll be really excited about. I'd love to do more TV, I'd love to do more book projects. There are so many great projects out there in the universe, and I don't think that food is going anywhere. We all have to eat, right? I don't want to close myself off to anything, as long as it has to do with good quality food and people that I like to work with. I've just been so lucky because that's such a big part of it. I really love the people that I work with at the magazine and Bravo. We've had the same crew on Top Chef, Top Chef Masters, and Top Chef Just Desserts, and everyone is so smart and young and dedicated.
What advice would you give to someone who wants to be on TV?
I didn't just get this job because I smiled and thought I knew about food. I worked in kitchens for a long time. I got my ass handed to me. I did five internships, three externships. Then I worked for two years as someone's assistant, doing whatever I had to do, whether it was testing recipes or making photocopies or picking up dry cleaning. And then I worked for three years under someone. There's no shortcuts. That's something that you should feel free to stress. You need to really master your skill in order to be on TV. There's no way to fake it. There are too many critics out there who will call you out if you're trying to fake it.
The most important thing is just really understanding and learning what sets you apart from the hundreds of other people who also want to be on TV and also want to be a celebrity. Because being a celebrity is actually not at all the goal. Being famous was never my goal. Loving food and being part of something new and interesting and serious about food was my goal. The part of being on TV is a great surprise. I think that's part of the reason that it went so well. I don't have advice for people to be on TV. Be true to yourself and do something that's a quality project. Find people to mentor you who are really good at what they do and work hard for them and put in the hours and learn from great people.
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Organized by the World Mass Media Research Foundation, the 30th Ankara International Film Festival will bring 120 films to the screens between April 18 and 28.
Eleven films will be in the competition of the festival. The prizes for the national competitions will be 50,000 Turkish Liras for Best National Feature Film, 10,000 liras for First National Feature Film, 20,000 liras for Best National Documentary Film, 10,000 liras for Best National Short Film, as well as 30,000 liras for the best project selected in the National Feature Film Project Development Support Competition.


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Two novels by Maristan Chapman titled, The Happy Mountain (1928) and Homeplace (1929), offer insights into the manners and mores of southern mountaineers who struggled against approaching change in their secluded land. She lived in the southwestern portion of the Cumberland Mountains just over the Tennessee state line.
Chapman's objective in writing the books was to educate outsiders about her people whose remote existence was widely misunderstood. Almost overnight she became an authentic interpreter and historian of southern mountaineer culture. She told her story in fictional novels that was historically accurate, making them both entertaining and educational. The Literary Guild of America was so duly impressed with The Happy Mountain that they endorsed it.
To the average "outlander," a designation used by mountain country folks to describe city dwellers, the diet of the hill people was believed to consist only of fundamental and bland food that was as unvarying as the hills and mountains themselves. But according to Maristan, mountain people not only enjoyed plenty of first-rate food, they also knew how to make it palatable – both wholesome and mouth-watering.
Breakfast consisted of cereal, fried eggs, some cold bread left over from supper the night before, coffee and preserves. Fruit was never eaten for breakfast; instead, it was eaten between meals as snacks.
Dinner generally consisted of a variety of meat, fried eggs, tomatoes, beans and potatoes. Tomatoes were frequently fried with bacon or stewed with rice. Preserves or fruit butters were almost always present at the table. It was eaten with hot bread and butter; no meal was considered complete without them.
Supper was somewhat of an extension of dinner. Whatever was left over from the midday meal was served again in the evening along with hot bread and buttermilk. Usually, a homemade pie was added to the menu "to sweeten the stomach." Staple bread was made of cornmeal in a variety of forms such as from the humble pone of meal and water that was baked crisp in hot ashes of an open hearth. Another delight was the fluffy and succulent Sally Lunn, a type of yeast bread lightly scented with lemon that originated in England. It was traditionally sliced horizontally, spread with butter or whipped or clotted cream and reassembled for the meal.
Biscuits were made with sour milk and soda. The mountaineers never used baking powder because they believed it was tainted "fetched-on stuff" supplied from the towns. Their biscuits were large and distinctly browned, each one resembling a small loaf of bread.
Bread products were eaten piping hot. They were covered with white unsalted butter that was similar to clotted cream or consumed with one of the many preserves or fruit butters on hand. Sometimes the biscuits were eaten cold, made into sandwiches containing a slice of cold meat or overstuffed after butter has been spread within them.
According to Mrs. Chapman, southern mountain folks worked hard and were rewarded handsomely with appetizing food on their rustic dinner tables. I ordered both books and am currently reading them.


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Sennheiser Group introduces new Executive Management Board
Following the realignment of the company with a focus on the professional audio business, the Sennheiser Group is entering 2023 with a newly formed management team. The audio specialist's new Executive Management Board includes representatives from the three business units: Pro Audio, Business Communication and Neumann, as well as Supply Chain, Corporate Functions and Development. Together with Co-CEOs Daniel and Andreas Sennheiser, the board members will implement the strategic goals of the Sennheiser Group.
The operational business of the Sennheiser Group will now be managed by a team of six: The new Executive Management Board (EMB) includes Greg Beebe (executive vice president professional audio), Ron Holtdijk (executive vice president business communication), Ralf Oehl (CEO Georg Neumann GmbH), Steffen Heise (CFO), Dr. Andreas Fischer (COO) and Markus Redelstab (CTO). Peter Claussen and Thomas Weinzierl, who were previously COOs responsible for Professional Business and Supply Chain, will also remain on the EMB before their respective retirements in the course of 2023 and 2024. In the intervening period, they will gradually hand over their operational tasks and extensive knowledge to the new EMB. In the future, Co-CEOs Dr. Andreas and Daniel Sennheiser will primarily focus on corporate management and strategy development and devote more time to customers, while the other EMB members will manage the operational business. Yasmine Riechers and Mareike Oer complete the leadership of the Sennheiser Group as an extended management team, representing the Corporate Development Office and Brand & Corporate Communication.
"With the integration of the business units into the EMB, our customers are moving even more into focus," explained Co-CEO Andreas Sennheiser. "In the future, their very different needs will be represented at the highest management level and included in all decisions, enabling us to act even closer to the market." The inclusion of product development into the direct scope of the EMB also reflects the great importance of this area and the associated efforts to align innovations and new technologies even more closely with customer needs. And by dovetailing all central functions with the business units, the different perspectives will be brought together in a new, strong management team.
"With this step, we are adapting our management structure to our new corporate positioning with a focus on the Professional Business," explained Co-CEO Daniel Sennheiser. "At the same time, we are further developing our leadership culture – in line with our corporate culture." The Co-CEOs have already been leading the family-owned company in a dual leadership as part of a management team since 2013. The new set-up, whose introduction was accompanied by Claussen, is also shaped by this management philosophy: "We are firmly convinced that rigid hierarchies in corporate management are outdated. Just as we as Co-CEOs share overall responsibility for our family-owned company, we will also shape the path for Sennheiser in the expanded management team," said Andreas Sennheiser.
He concluded: "After all, the most important guarantor of our future success is the people who work together worldwide under the umbrella of the Sennheiser Group. Our shared culture and our passion for what we do unite us. With the new EMB setup, we are also reflecting this ethos in our corporate management."
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Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Files Registration Statement for Initial Public Offering
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., November 20, 2009 - Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to the proposed initial public offering of shares of its Class A common stock. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not yet been determined.
The joint book-running managers of the proposed offering will be J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC. The co-managers will be BofA Merrill Lynch and Wedbush PacGrow Life Sciences.
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55 people died in military detention centre in Maiduguri in 5 months—Group
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A human rights group, Global Amnesty Watch Foundation, has disclosed that 55 people died during the course of investigation of their alleged link with Boko Haram at the Giwa Barracks detention facility in Maiduguri between December 2016 and April 2017.
Amnesty International has however described Giwa Barracks as a place of death where they accused Nigerian military of arbitrarily detention of Boko Haram suspects causing the death of over 240 people including about 29 children.
The army has since denied the report. In a fact finding mission of human right violation by troops of Operation Lafiya Dole, the Country Representative of Global Amnesty Watch Foundation, Helen Adesola, in a press briefing in Maiduguri disclosed that 55 people died at the military detention camp in Maiduguri.
According to her, those deaths occurred before 593 Boko Haram suspects were cleared and handed over to the Borno State government for rehabilitation at Bulumkutu rehabilitation centre. Mrs Adesola noted that their findings resulting to the causes of the death was as a result of "heat wave" instead of meningitis as was reported in the media.
"Medically, the treatment and prevention for heat waves is the exposure of the detainees to fresh air and proper hydration. This the centre is doing as the detainees are being brought out into the open to sit under trees and adequate drinking water is being provided
"The detention facility, like many other communities dealing with this kind of issues requires additional intervention to ensure that authorities are able to better cater for sick inmates," Adesola explained She called on the Borno State government to be in the driver's seat in the rehabilitation of over 593 cleared detainees who are mostly citizens and residents of the state, stressing that, "The Borno State government must not abandon them even though they are being held on the suspicion of their linkages with Boko Haram terror group," .
The Foundation, unlike Amnesty International which sees Nigeria military as huge violators of human rights at Giwa Barrack said the Nigerian Army, is doing all within its power to ensure the wellbeing of detainees in custody, but however express need for an improvement.
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Hackett on Politics: Book on presidency champions bipartisanship
RAY HACKETT
When Lyndon B. Johnson ascended to the presidency upon the death of John F. Kennedy, he inherited a nagging problem known as Vietnam.
For Johnson, Vietnam was a distraction to his domestic social agenda of building the Great Society, and a political hot potato in trying to avoid appearing as if he was soft on the spread of communism. He also desperately wanted to avoid any military blunders, such as the one his predecessor suffered with the ill-conceived Bay of Pigs fiasco early in his term.
But Johnson had no clue what to do, so he sought out the advice and guidance of the only man in the world who understood what it meant to run a war, and who appreciated the enormous burdens of the presidency — Dwight David Eisenhower.
The Johnson-Eisenhower relationship is one of the many fascinating insights into the presidency in the book "The Presidents Club," written by Time magazine editors Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy.
The Presidents Club — which really exists and even has its own "clubhouse" across from the Executive Office Building — is the most exclusive fraternity in the world. At no time has its membership exceeded six (Bill Clinton's first term) and has dropped as low as one (Richard Nixon's abbreviated second term).
Truman and Hoover
The club was formed by Harry S. Truman, who, like Johnson, found himself unexpectedly sitting in the Oval Office and who, like Johnson, faced a daunting challenge and was in need of the assistance of someone uniquely qualified, with specific experience and understanding.
That person was Herbert Hoover, who, upon leaving the presidency 13 years earlier, was the most hated man in America. He was so hated because of the Great Depression that at the end of his presidency, his motorcade was frequently pelted with rotten fruit.
But Hoover was the exact — and the only — man Truman needed. He had the experience to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.
At the conclusion of World War II, tens of millions of Europeans were in grave danger of starving to death. Hoover, who made his fortune as a mining engineer, made his reputation as Woodrow Wilson's food czar at the end of World War I, when a similar crisis existed, and is credited with saving millions of lives — twice in a lifetime.
And he, too, understood the burden that Truman shouldered, having also experienced the same burdens during his own time in the Oval Office. Both men also understood there are moments in history when partisanship needs to be put aside. From that, the club was born.
Preserved at all cost
The guiding principle of the Presidents Club is that the Office of the Presidency is to be preserved at all cost. No individual or political philosophy that drove him to seek the office was more important than the office itself.
That's not to say there haven't been disagreements among members. But the personal and political feuds that were formed through partisan battles of the past evaporated over the years, giving way to honest and endearing friendships formed in the name of service to one's country.
Considering the partisanship that blankets the Capitol today, it's refreshing and encouraging to know that there are leaders in Washington who serve and continue to serve daily — all in the best interest of the nation.
"The Presidents Club" should be mandatory reading for every member of Congress and every candidate in this year's elections.
Ray Hackett is The Bulletin's editorial page editor. He has more than 20 years of experience covering Connecticut politics. He can be reached at (860) 425-4225 or rhackett@norwichbulletin.com.


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Q: What are some applications for minimizing a convex function on a box with a non-convex constraint? I am trying to find examples of applications for the problem
$$\min_{x \in \Omega} f(x)$$
Where $\Omega = \{x \in [a,b]; h(x) = 0 \}$, with $f:\mathbb{R}^n \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ strictly convex (it has to be strict), $h:\mathbb{R}^n \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^m$ non-convex (it can be convex, for example sake, but preferably not) and $a < b \in \mathbb{R}^n$.
For example purposes $m=1$ should be fine.
Where can I find some examples of this kind of problem that have some practical applications?

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On Saturday, April 16, Boston Celtics' second-leading scorer, Avery Bradley, fell to the floor in the fourth quarter of Game 1 of the series against the Atlanta Hawks, apparently because of a hamstring injury.
Bradley could be back soon or out for the rest of the series. USA Today reports the Boston guard would go for a test Sunday [April 17] morning. He also anticipated having treatment through the night.
"I just want to get treatment and take it day by day and hopefully I can be back by next game," Bradley explained. "I'm not worried at all, I have faith, I know my teammates and people are praying for me."
Bradley left the game after scoring 18 points in 33 minutes in Boston's 102-101 loss to the Hawks. He was not, however, the only one injured last night. Boston guard Marcus Smart returned to the court with a black wrap on his left hand. Big man, Kelly Olynyk, had his shoulder dinged and played just 12 minutes.
"We took one with Avery, the rest of those guys will be ready to play, we don't know about Avery," Jae Crowder stated to the media. "Hamstring is nothing to play with. He's a fast type of guy, so he needs his hamstring as much as possible."
It's unclear if Bradley's injury will be a deciding factor for the fate of the Celtics in the series. The team may need to rely on reserve guards Evan Turner and Smart. Turner made four of 13 shots in Game 1 while Smart made five of 10.
Game 2 is Tuesday, April 19 at Philips Arena.
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Au baseball, retrait () est un mot désignant une statistique défensive. Il s'agit de l'action, pour un joueur en défense, de compléter un retrait.

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Voici les situations les plus courantes où un joueur en défensive est crédité d'un retrait :

 Toucher le coureur avec la balle (ou le gant contenant la balle) alors qu'il ne touche pas au coussin d'un but.
 Attraper une balle frappé par un frappeur ou lancée par un coéquipier en défensive et toucher un but pour enregistrer le retrait.
 Attraper une balle qui n'a pas touchée le sol après que le frappeur ait fait contact (attrapé de volée).
 Récupérer une troisième prise échappée ou non-attrapée et ensuite, soit toucher le frappeur pour le retirer, soit relayer la balle au premier but avant que celui-ci n'y arrive.

En outre, le joueur sera crédité d'un retrait en ces occasions moins fréquentes :
 Être le joueur placé le plus près d'un coureur retiré pour interférence.
 Attraper une balle et toucher à un coussin lors d'un jeu d'appel.

Les retraits sont intimement liés à une autre statistique défensive, l'assistance. Par exemple, lorsqu'un frappeur cogne la balle en direction du joueur de troisième but et que celui-ci, après avoir attrapé la balle, la relaie au joueur de premier but pour effectuer le retrait, le joueur de troisième but est crédité d'une assistance et le joueur de premier but d'un retrait. Cette action correspond au deuxième exemple mentionné plus haut.

Les assistances et les retraits sont des statistiques nécessaires pour calculer la moyenne défensive d'un joueur de baseball.

Voir aussi
 Lexique du vocabulaire du baseball
 Moyenne défensive
 Assistance

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 Règlements officiels de la Ligue majeure de baseball

Terminologie du baseball

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A while back I hurt my shoulder a bit falling off the flying trapeze. It wasn't a bad injury, but it was noticeably uncomfortable for a few months. I knew I should take it easy. My compromise was to stop catching tricks out of lines. Catching them in safety lines, yes. The discomfort wasn't enough to make me give that up. But catching things out of lines adds another level of risk.
If a catch is good then it doesn't matter much if one is in lines or not, the stresses on the shoulder are about the same. But if the catch isn't quite right then the flyer tends to drop down towards the net rather than swing through a nice arc. The drops can be tough on sore shoulders. Or if the trick involves spinning, it's easy to spin a bit too far or not quite enough, and then there is some sideways stress as well at the moment of the catch. If the flyer is using safety lines the instructor "pulling" the lines can do a lot to take this unwanted energy out of the system.
So I threw everything to the catcher in safety lines for several months. Looking back I think it was the right decision. But one side effect is that the lack of regular practice allows the fear to creep back in. I knew this, I could feel it happening.
A few nights ago I started with that same trick and went through 3 or 4 others. Four of the more simple tricks I know how to do, but out of lines to the catcher. Nothing fancy, but a lot of mental content.
I remembered the fear, and knew I would have to deal with that. But I had forgotten the *fun.* I had to stop for a while and then come back to flying to realize this. It's not just adrenaline, or overcoming fear, of accomplishing something that makes flying great. It's all of that. But it's also just fun. Moving through the air, being high above the ground, the solidity of the catcher's arms at the moment of a good catch, hanging comfortably in space as the trapeze bar swings back to me, knowing that the end-game is perfectly set up. It's a great feeling. And one that just isn't the same in safety lines. The sense of being tied to something through the safety lines is unconscious for me but it's there. I notice it when the lines come off: once I stop being so afraid, the experience is much better.
I happened to be flying to a catcher who is really good at helping flyers get lift as they leave the catcher. Lift is important because one needs to be high enough to get the trapeze bar on its return swing and then high enough to return to the starting platform. So even though I was out of practice, I was still really high leaving the catcher, maybe higher in the air than I've ever been at that point. Did I have fun. I can hardly wait for more. And mostly, I'm trying to keep the sensation of that much fun in my mind so that I don't forget it's out there waiting, if only I push myself to go find it.


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Endy Chávez
Endy Chávez Explained
Team: Somerset Patriots
Position: Outfielder
Birth Date: 7 February 1978
Birth Place: Valencia, Venezuela
Bats: Left
Throws: Left
Debutleague: MLB
Debutdate: May 29
Debutyear: 2001
Debutteam: Kansas City Royals
Statyear: 2014 season
Statleague: MLB
Stat1label: Batting average
Stat1value: .270
Stat2label: Home runs
Stat2value: 30
Stat3label: Runs batted in
Stat3value: 266
Teams:
Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals (–)
New York Mets (–)
Seattle Mariners (–)
Endy de Jesus Chávez (; born February 7, 1978) is a Venezuelan professional baseball outfielder for the Somerset Patriots of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals, Montreal Expos, Washington Nationals, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets, Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers and Baltimore Orioles.
Minor league career
Chávez made his Minor League Baseball debut in 1996 with the Mets, a rookie-level affiliate of the New York Mets. In his first season with the team, he hit .354 in 48 games. He played the next four years in the Mets organization with the Kingsport Mets, Gulf Coast Mets, Capital City Bombers, and St. Lucie Mets.[1] On December 11, 2000, Chávez was claimed by the Kansas City Royals in the 2000 Rule 5 draft.[2] On March 30, 2001, Chávez was returned to the Mets and then traded to the Royals for minor league outfielder Michael Curry. He played for the AA Wichita Wranglers and the AAA Omaha Royals before making his major league debut with the Royals on May 29, 2001.
Major league career
Montreal Expos / Washington Nationals
In the winter of 2001, Chávez was waived by the Royals and then claimed and waived by both the Mets and Detroit Tigers before being claimed by the Montreal Expos[3] where he played in 309 games over three years (2002–05) while splitting time at AAA Ottawa and Edmonton. Playing full-time for the Expos in 2003 and 2004, Chávez batted first in the lineup and started in center field, stealing 18 bases in 2003 and 32 in 2004. On October 3, 2004 Chávez recorded the final out in Montreal Expos history in their 8–1 loss to the Mets at Shea Stadium. In 2005 Chávez played in only seven games in the majors for the now re-located Washington Nationals before being traded to the Philadelphia Phillies for fellow outfielder Marlon Byrd. During his tenure in Washington, Chávez was given the mocking nickname of "Inning Endy" by Nationals fansites due to his tendency to swing away rather than work the count to his favor which often resulted in groundouts and popups to end the Nationals innings.[4] [5]
Chávez spent the rest of the 2005 season with the Philadelphia Phillies and appeared in 91 games with 107 at bats and hit only .215. At the end of the season, Chávez became a free agent for the first time and signed one year, $500,000 contract with the Mets signed on December 23, 2005.
During spring training, Mets manager Willie Randolph worked with Chávez to improve his hitting. Chávez's speed and his modified batting style sparked a 90-point jump in his batting average over the previous season (hitting .306 in 353 at bats) as the Mets fourth outfielder (often as an injury replacement for regular left fielder Cliff Floyd). His improved hitting and excellent defensive skills contributed to the Mets winning the National League East.
Chávez's signature moment came at Shea Stadium in Game 7 of the 2006 National League Championship Series. In the top of the sixth inning, with the game tied 1–1, Cardinals third baseman Scott Rolen hit a pitch off Mets starter Óliver Pérez. Leaping over the 8feet-high left field wall, Chávez caught the ball with the tip of his glove to rob Rolen of a two-run home run. Chávez then threw to cutoff man second baseman José Valentín, who threw to Carlos Delgado at first base to double off Cardinals center fielder Jim Edmonds for an inning-ending double play. The catch was named the top post-season moment in the 5th annual This Year in Baseball Awards. On July 13, 2007, American International Group (the company whose left field advertisement was where Chávez made the catch) sponsored a special Bobblehead Doll day to commemorate the catch. The Left Field entrance gate of the Mets' current ballpark, Citi Field, features a metal silhouette of a baseball player making a leaping catch similar to the one Chávez made in the 2006 NLCS.
Chávez's playing time decreased dramatically in 2007 when he only saw time in 71 games, primarily splitting time with regular left fielder Moisés Alou, due to left hamstring issues which landed him on the disabled list twice. That winter, he reinjured the hamstring and injured his right ankle while playing winter ball in Venezuela for Navegantes del Magallanes.[6]
In 2008, Chávez again saw time as the Mets' fourth outfielder and hit .267 in 270 at-bats. On September 28, the final day of the 2008 regular season and the final game at Shea Stadium, the Mets played the Florida Marlins. With an NL wildcard spot at stake for the Mets, Chávez made another terrific catch in the outfield during the top of the seventh inning. After a ball was hit to left field by Jorge Cantú, Chávez made the catch for the final out of the inning. Despite his defensive play, the Mets lost to the Marlins 4-2 and failed to qualify for post-season play.
On December 11, Chávez was involved in a three-team, 12-player trade in which he was sent, along with pitcher Aaron Heilman and several minor leaguers, to the Seattle Mariners.[7]
On June 19, 2009, while trying to catch a pop-up, Chávez collided with shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt and suffered a torn ACL in his right knee which ended his 2009 season.[8]
On February 15, 2010, Chávez agreed to a minor league free agent contract with the Texas Rangers and spent time with the Rangers' Rookie League team, the AA Frisco and AAA Oklahoma City while coming back from his ACL injury. In 2011, he batted .301 with 5 home runs in 256 at-bats[9] and helped the Rangers to the 2011 post season.
On December 18, 2011, Chavez signed a one-year, $1.5 million contract with the Baltimore Orioles.[10] Chávez again saw major time on the disabled list (suffering intercostal muscle hamstring injuries) appeared in only 64 games, batting .203 with 12 RBIs and two home runs.[2] On August 4, he was designated for assignment to make room for Nate McLouth and spent the next month with AAA Norfolk. He was recalled by the Orioles in mid-September.
On December 31, 2012 Chavez signed a minor league contract with the Kansas City Royals,[11] but was released on March 22, 2013. On March 24, Chavez signed a minor league contract with the Seattle Mariners and appeared in 97 games for the Mariners hitting .267.[12]
Bridgeport Bluefish
On March 8, 2016, Chavez signed with the Bridgeport Bluefish, in the Atlantic League.[13] Chavez was very successful in his first season with the Bluefish, batting .345 and winning the league batting title.[14]
Pericos de Puebla
On March 9, 2017, Chavez signed with the Pericos de Puebla of the Mexican Baseball League.[15] He was released before the start of the 2018 season on January 23, 2018.
Somerset Patriots
On February 26, 2018, Chavez signed with the Somerset Patriots of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.[16]
Venuezuelan Professional Baseball League
Chavez has played for 19 seasons in the LVBP (Venezuelan Professional Baseball League), all of them with Navegantes del Magallanes.
List of Major League Baseball players from Venezuela
Venezuelan Baseball League
Article on the catch
Video of the catch
Another video of the catch MLB.com
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Web site: Cassavell. AJ. Royals sign Tejada, Endy to Minor League deals. MLB.com via KC Royals official team website. 31 December 2012. 1 January 2013.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/chaveen01.shtml
Web site: Inning-Endy?. March 1, 2005. DC Hardball. April 1, 2008.
News: Up First for the Nats: Chavez. March 1, 2005. The Washington Post. April 1, 2008. Barry. Svrluga.
Web site: Chavez injures ankle, hamstring in winter ball in Venezuela. January 13, 2008. ESPN. January 14, 2008.
Web site: Anthony Castrovince / MLB.com. Three-team blockbuster gets Mets Putz. Mlb.mlb.com. April 23, 2008. October 4, 2011.
Web site: Chavez suffers 'devastating injury'. Sports.espn.go.com. June 21, 2009. October 4, 2011.
Web site: Endy Chavez Statistics and History. Baseball-Reference.com. October 4, 2011.
Web site: Kubatko. Roch. Orioles reach agreement with Endy Chavez. masnsports. 2011-12-18.
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/12/royals-agree-to-sign-endy-chavez.html Royals Agree To Sign Endy Chavez
News: Seattle Mariners - TeamReport. July 31, 2014. Reuters. Chicago Tibune. March 30, 2013.
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http://bridgeportbluefish.com/news/?article_id=1967
https://www.lvbp.com/4508_endy-chavez-se-unio-a-los-pericos-de-puebla
Web site: Somerset Patriots Land 13-Year MLB Veteran Endy Chavez. Somerset Patriots. February 26, 2018.
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This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of a combination regular classroom reading and reading reteaching approach to teaching reading to pre-literate 3rd-grade students who were determined to be below proficient readers (n = 14) compared to the effectiveness of regular classroom reading instruction alone provided to 3rd-grade readers ( n = 14) determined to have barely proficient pre-literate skills. Barely proficient and below proficient reading level designations were determined by psychometrically derived cutscores developed in order to minimize classification error. This study found that although students on both sides of the cutscore made achievement gains in reading, gains were not all statistically significant and the students determined to be barely proficient receiving regular classroom reading instruction alone experienced greater reading achievement progress than their peers who were determined to be below proficient and received reading reteaching in addition to regular classroom reading instruction. With additional research in effective reading strategies, evaluation of the effectiveness of building level programs, additional individualized reading instructional support, and one robust reading intervention, not two separate activities--regular classroom reading plus reading reteaching--for students correctly identified as below proficient, consistent gains should be expected.
Copyright 2008 Jon T. Lopez.
Lopez, Jon T., "Reading Outcomes of Pre-Literate 3rd-Grade Students after Two Years of Combined Reading Classroom Instruction and Individualized Intervention or Classroom Instruction" (2008). Student Work. 33.


Eugène Delacroix, "Liberty Leading the People"
The idea of property redistribution, like the Phantom Of The Opera, still haunts the hearts and minds of those in power.
Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov has voiced support for this trend, calling on the government to confiscate businesses from Russia's super-rich.
At a meeting of the ruling United Russia party, Luzhkov said, "the government should take away businesses" in order to sell them on the market "when the crisis ends," 'Kommersant' newspaper reported. The speech was met with a burst of applause by party members.
Luzhkov stressed that Russian businessmen "have borrowed US $570 billion from foreign banks" in order "to buy yachts and football clubs" and now the government has to clean up the mess.
To note, Elena Baturina, Yury Luzhkov's wife, was the only Russian in Forbes magazine's list of Europe's super-wealthy women. Russia's richest woman's worth is estimated at $US 4.2 billion, up from $US 3.1 billion in 2007, $US 2.3 billion in 2006 and $1.1 billion in 2004.
Some of the officials, however, are more inclined to return to ideas of social responsibility.
In another development, a deputy from Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, called on Russia's super-rich to assist the country in this period of economic crisis.
Mikhail Starshinov was quoted by Obshchaya Gazeta as saying that "persons regularly appearing on Forbes ratings" should follow the example of a pensioner from the Siberian Kemerovo region.
Talgat Sirazetdinov, now retired, approached the region's governor, Aman Tuleev, with an offer to use his pension to combat the economic crisis.
Not that rich any more?
Meanwhile, the ongoing crisis has also harmed some Russian tycoons.
The total wealth of the 10 richest Russians has decreased 66 per cent due to the crisis, according to a 'Finans' magazine report due to be published.
The magazine reports their cumulative wealth is estimated at US$ 75,9 billion, which is 145,1 billion less than the figure in 2008.
Oleg Deripaska, the owner of Basic Element aluminum group, was named the richest Russian in 2008 by the magazine. Back then, his wealth was estimated at US $40 billion.He was followed by Roman Abramovich, whose wealth was believed to be US $23 billion.
However, according to Smart Money magazine, the value of Deripaska's assets have fallen by US $28,4 billion due to the crisis while Roman Abramovich losses have reached US$15,1 billion.


For the first time in half a century, the boilers of a World War II-era ship will be fired up, and it's happening at Vallejo's California State University Maritime Academy, school officials announced.
The school's 500-foot Training Ship Golden Bear recently returned to the campus and departed for dry dock maintenance, leaving the pier at Cal Maritime's campus available to accommodate the SSRed Oak Victory, the last surviving ship built at the Kaiser Richmond Shipyards during World War II, according to the announcement.
The ship is scheduled to be docked at the campus until early August, officials said.
During the visit to campus, the all-volunteer crew will light the historic ship's boilers for the first time in 50 years, campus spokesman Robert King said.
Penn, a retired computer/electronics guy who spent 22 years in the U.S. Air Force, has volunteered with the ship for 12 years, he said. He enjoys the sense of accomplishment, the work brings him, he said.
"Bringing something old and making it new and working again; like bringing history alive," Penn said.
The SSRed Oak Victory will return to its regular berth in Richmond when the mission is complete, Penn said.
King said that in the years he's been at the school, there's never been a historic ship docked there.
"I'm not saying it's never happened, but it hasn't happened in the last five years," he said.
Students are befitting by having the opportunity to volunteer on board the Red Oak Victory to assist in the efforts to preserve the ship, he said.
The Red Oak Victory is a U.S. military cargo ship, originally active during the Second World War, according to richmondmuseum.org. She currently serves as a museum ship at her normal berth in Richmond — part of the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park.
The ship was one of 414 Victory cargo ships built during World War II, but one of only a few to be transferred from the merchant marine to the United States Navy. The ship was also active during the Korean and the Vietnam wars.
In 1998, the ship was saved from the Naval Reserve "mothball" fleet in Suisun Bay, and since then it has become one of the Bay Area's more interesting cultural venues, according to richmondmuseum.org.
Cal Maritime, the ship's temporary home, educates future leaders for the maritime and related industries — including offering degree programs that also lead to the United States Coast Guard license for professional mariners, according to the announcement.
CMA's President Thomas Cropper, said he considers it an honor to have the historic vessel at the school.
During the ship's time in Vallejo, tours will not be available to the public. However, those interested in touring the Red Oak Victory in Richmond may find information at www.redoakvictory.us.


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Missing Interpol Boss - WHY China arrested the President of Interpol ..The mystery of the missing Mr Meng
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Some clues on why China arrested the president of Interpol
Officials say Meng Hongwei is suspected of taking bribes. His case has the smell of politics
AT A gathering in Beijing last year of Interpol, the body that promotes co-operation between police forces from different countries, the group's Chinese president, Meng Hongwei (pictured, above left), warned of "political black-swan incidents" that were plaguing the world. He was probably not thinking of his own organisation. But in late September Mr Meng disappeared from public view. Not until days later did China confirm that he had been arrested at home on suspicion of taking bribes and inform Interpol that Mr Meng had resigned. It may be that the cop himself has been caught up in a political storm.
The Chinese government has released no more details of Mr Meng's alleged crimes. But the way it has handled his arrest suggests that there may be more to it than a suspicion that he was involved in corruption. The Ministry of Public Security, for which Mr Meng still technically works as a vice minister, issued a statement on October 8th saying its Communist Party committee had held a pre-dawn meeting that day. Apart from condemning Mr Meng's alleged graft, participants stressed the need for "absolute loyalty" (to the party, presumably) as well as "resolute support" for the country's leader, Xi Jinping. It was agreed that attendees must "maintain a high level of conformity with the political stance, the political direction and the political principles of the party centre with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core." Had Mr Meng erred in this respect, too?
There was no sign of it two years ago when Mr Meng became the first Chinese citizen to be appointed as Interpol's president. That was regarded by Chinese officials as a welcome affirmation of China's growing global power, and as an opportunity to secure greater international support for China's efforts to secure the return of corrupt officials who had fled abroad—an important part of Mr Xi's anti-corruption campaign. At last year's Interpol gathering in Beijing, Mr Meng stood next to Mr Xi for the official group photograph. It was as strong a declaration of the party's confidence in Mr Meng that he could have received.
In April, however, there was a hint of possible trouble. It was announced that Mr Meng was no longer a member of his ministry's party committee. Last month, after he flew back to Beijing from France where Interpol is based, his wife, Grace Meng, received a three-character message from his WhatsApp account: "Await my call". And then four minutes later, an emoji popped up from the same sender. It was of a dagger. Ms Meng told reporters in France that she interpreted this as a sign that her husband was in danger. She heard no more. Ms Meng and the couple's two children are now under French police protection.
If the case does involve murky politics in Beijing, there is little to suggest of what kind. At the public-security ministry's meeting, there was a possible hint in a reference made to the need to "eliminate the pernicious influence" of Zhou Yongkang, a retired security chief who was jailed for life in 2015 for corruption and abuse of power. Mr Zhou's case clearly involved more than just graft. Referring to him and other high-ranking jailed officials, Mr Xi said in 2016 that senior people in the party had engaged in "political conspiracies".
Mr Meng was promoted to vice minister in 2004, when Mr Zhou was the minister. But if the two men had had close personal links, it is unlikely that Mr Meng would have been put forward by China for the job at Interpol after Mr Zhou's imprisonment. Grace Meng has said that she, too, is keen to find out more. "From now on, I have gone from sorrow and fear to the pursuit of truth, justice and responsibility toward history," she told journalists. "This is political ruin and fall!" she said in a text message to the Associated Press, a news agency. Overseas Chinese-language media are awash with speculation about what secrets she herself might know, and whether she might use them to bargain with the party for lenient treatment for her husband.
What is certain is that Mr Meng's case is in the hands of politicians. It is the party's leaders who decide which senior officials to jail. "These are the best of times, and the worst of times," Mr Meng said at last year's Interpol gathering, loosely quoting Dickens. His worst have probably just begun.
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Hyundai app security blunder allowed crooks to 'steal victims' cars'
Remote locate, unlock, and start vehicles – using a fixed encryption key... ouch
By John Leyden 25 Apr 2017 at 23:27
Hyundai has patched its Blue Link smartphone app to stop it blabbing private info that could, it is claimed, be used to break into and steal people's cars.
The now-updated software, available for iOS and Android, leaked sensitive personal information about registered users and their vehicles, including usernames, passwords, PINs, and GPS location records.
Essentially, versions 3.9.4 and 3.9.5 of the app transmitted this private information back to Hyundai using plain old HTTP albeit encrypted using the fixed key "1986l12Ov09e" – this key can be easily extracted from the application's code. Any man-in-the-middle attacker eavesdropping on the app's network connections – such as by snooping on Wi-Fi traffic – can grab this data and decrypt it using the key. Hyundai seemingly collected this information as telemetry for its app usage.
After being alerted to the botched encryption in February, the South Korean automaker quietly updated its software to shut down the disclosures, and offered a new version, 3.9.6, to people's handsets in early March. Now that folks have had enough time to install the update, the independent security researchers who discovered the design blunder have gone public with their findings.
William Hatzer and Arjun Kumar warn, via Rapid7, that the vulnerabilities could be exploited to find, unlock, and start a victim's car.
The Blue Link software is available for Hyundai vehicles sold in the US from 2012 onwards. According to Rapid7, the vulnerable features were introduced in version 3.9.4 on December 8, 2016, and fixed by Hyundai on March 6, 2017 with the release of version 3.9.6, which halts data transmissions.
The automaker claims no vehicles were set upon by crooks exploiting the vulnerability. The biz told us in a statement:
Hyundai Motor America was made aware of a vulnerability in the Hyundai Blue Link mobile application by security researchers. Upon learning of this vulnerability, Hyundai promptly launched an investigation to validate the research and took immediate steps to remediate the issue.
Hyundai released mandatory updates to the Android and Apple app stores that mitigated the potential effects of the vulnerability. The issue did not have a direct impact on vehicle safety. Hyundai is not aware of any customers being impacted by this potential vulnerability.
The privacy and security of our customers is of the utmost importance to Hyundai. Hyundai continuously seeks to improve its mobile application and system security.
The security research serves to illustrate that basic slip-ups – such as insecure or absent encryption and password insecurity – continue to bedevil connected car as well as other IoT deployments. ®
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Russian Money in Silicon Valley
The Paradise Papers tell a story about the Kremlin's evolving methods of manipulating the internet—and how it exported them.
Julia Ioffe
Maxim Shemetov / Reuters / Andreas Rentz / Getty / Shutterstock / The Atlantic
A new trove of leaked documents, the so-called Paradise Papers, have revealed that Yuri Milner, a Russian businessman with extensive investments in Silicon Valley, used funds from two Kremlin-controlled—and now U.S.-sanctioned—banks to make large investments in Facebook and Twitter. Both stakes have been sold off, but Milner's path to Silicon Valley, where he continues be a power player and lives in a $100 million compound, was paved with the Kremlin's money and a mutually beneficial relationship.
Milner's story illuminates the very beginnings of Moscow's efforts to establish a foothold in Silicon Valley, back in the days when the American president was pushing a thaw with Russia. It was a moment that set the conditions of the current one, in which the Russians' use of social media and other digital tools to undermine America's election has driven U.S.–Russia relations to their lowest point in decades. And it's revealing of the Kremlin's evolving methods in learning to control and manipulate the internet to advance its own interests—first at home, and then abroad.
Back in 2009, when I was first reporting on Milner in Moscow, his investment fund, called Digital Sky Technologies, was buying up shares in seemingly every company in Russia's burgeoning tech sector. DST raised eyebrows at the time for several reasons. First, it had a very unusual approach: It invested in competing companies. It bought stakes in VKontakte, the Russian Facebook analog, as well as in Odnoklassniki and MoiMir, two other Russian social-networking sites. "If an industry is in the early stage with no obvious leaders, we want to sponsor all potential leaders," Grigory Finger, DST's co-founder, told me at the time. This strategy allowed DST to corner the Russian web market almost completely. By 2010, the company was publicly bragging that 70 percent of Russian page views—and 50 percent of the time spent by Russians online—originated on DST-funded properties. (Milner would not comment on the record for this story.)
Second, DST had been founded in 2005, just three years before the 2008 world financial crisis laid waste to many Russian fortunes. Yet by 2009, Milner and Finger were going on a shopping spree that included some $500 million to buy 5 percent of Facebook as well as a chunk of the American online gaming company Zynga. Where did they get all of that money? Milner and Finger had started DST with their own funds, and the returns on their early investments, though very successful, were just a fraction of those sums, pocket change compared with the money they were throwing around by 2010. (At the time, a banker close to DST, who wished to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to speak on the record, told me that the returns on DST's other investments "haven't been sufficient to cover the Facebook and Zynga deals.")
The funds, it turned out, came largely from Alisher Usmanov, an Uzbek-born billionaire who made his fortune in the mines of Central Asia. Usmanov, who owns a stake in the English football club Arsenal, was then-president Dmitri Medvedev's patron; Usmanov had advised Medvedev when he served as head of Gazprom, and had been one of the first oligarchs to support Medvedev's succession. A recent exposé by the opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, said that Usmanov bought luxury villas for Medvedev. (Usmanov sued Navalny for defamation in a Moscow court, and won.) Usmanov also had a fearsome reputation. He was known alternatively as "the hard man of Russia" and a "devourer of websites." His biography includes a jail sentence from the 1980s for fraud and embezzlement, though a Soviet court later overturned the conviction, as well as a lawsuit in the United States, later dismissed, in which DeBeers claimed that Usmanov was part of a scheme that cheated it of $800 million in profits.
More importantly for the Kremlin, however, Usmanov had a long track record of buying properties—including paintings, publishing houses, and gas fields—on behalf of Kremlin interests. This time, Usmanov bought a 35-percent stake in DST, and was, by all accounts, Milner's cash cow. "Usmanov's stake is completely passive," the banker told me in 2010. "He provides all the cash."
DST made some legitimately lucrative investments for Usmanov. He reportedly made $1 billion on the $200 million he invested in Facebook. The Russian companies that DST invested his money in also did quite well, but that was only half the point. The other half was to give the Kremlin a way to control these new and very influential companies, to make sure there was a receptive person there when the Kremlin called with a demand.
"What is DST? DST is the main government internet company," said one Russian tech executive, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of government reprisals, when I put this question to him in 2010. He was not the only one. In the tech community, another Russian executive told me at the time, "Usmanov"—and, by extension, DST—"is interpreted as a person who, on the Kremlin's instructions, buys up various Russian [internet] properties." Interviews with other prominent players in the booming Russian tech sector—local executives as well as Western investors—revealed that this was the near-unanimous understanding of DST's role in the Russian tech marketplace; people's equally unanimous reluctance to go on the record showed the sincerity of their belief. According to these insiders, DST's links to the Kremlin, though close, were less than transparent. "It's just not clear who, exactly, they represent and so not everybody wants to have them as an investor," said one American investor I interviewed in 2010.
But it wasn't that DST operated purely at the Kremlin's behest. In 2009, it was rare to find a Russian businessman who would buy an unprofitable business for the Kremlin's sake—nor would the Kremlin ask him to. (This was before the days when an oligarch would be "asked" to build an Olympic stadium at Sochi or a bridge to Crimea at a massive loss for the sake of the glory of the state.) This was the age of the Kremlin and all its attendant power structures making money wherever and however they could. The web was an objectively attractive investment. At the time, the internet audience in Russia was growing faster than anywhere in Europe, and Russians were spending more hours on social media than any other nationality. "We don't have a single unprofitable company in our portfolio," DST partner Verdi Israelian told me then. Facebook and Zynga's audiences were also growing rapidly, and investing in popular Silicon Valley companies made good business—as well as PR—sense. The Russian elite was integrating its money into Western markets and their children were settling there. Investing in popular Western companies, moreover, put distance between them and the way they earned their money in the often bloody privatization battles of the 1990s.
For its part, the Russian government was starting to recognize the strategic value of the internet and wanted to establish some measure of control over such an influential space. Until Medvedev became the titular president, Vladimir Putin was preoccupied with reestablishing Russia's stature abroad and drowning in revenues from oil and raw materials at home, and he largely ignored vibrant world of the Russian web, particularly its blog-like centerpiece, LiveJournal.
Putin didn't use a computer and thought that the information war had been won. When he first came to power, he took a clever approach to monopolizing the mass media: Instead of simply censoring the programming of a television channel, Putin just had his wealthy allies or government-connected firms like Gazprom Media buy them. Despite the outcry at home and abroad, the tactic worked. Once-independent stations were technically still free to broadcast what they liked, but they wouldn't dare, because enough calls had been made, and enough people replaced, that editorial knew where the red lines lay. Ownership, in other words, had replaced censorship. A similar pattern unfolded in print media, but the web was left largely untouched.
But by the time Medvedev took office in 2009, the picture had changed. Medvedev made a big show of being tech savvy. Under the aegis of the Obama administration-led "reset" of relations between Russia and America, the two countries touted technological exchanges. Russia, reeling from a financial crisis that hit it harder than most because of its reliance on commodities and extraction, seemed committed to diversifying and modernizing its economy, with investments in high tech and even nanotech. Heady with optimism, the Obama administration believed that helping Russia on this road and integrating it into the high-tech global economy would keep Russia from backsliding into its historical adversarial, anti-Western posture. American tech executives and venture capitalists—including Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and CEO of Twitter—traveled to Russia in 2010 to meet with Russian tech entrepreneurs and Kremlin officials. Medvedev made a famous trip to Silicon Valley, where, beaming in Twitter's headquarters, he started his own Twitter account and wrote his first (misspelled) tweet.
It was all cheerful cooperation, but the Russians had a different agenda. Petrified by the grassroots mobilization of the Ukrainian Orange Revolution of 2004-2005, the Kremlin realized the tactical importance of the web and began to make inroads into the free spaces of the Russian internet. The loss of the information war online during the 2008 with Georgia only cemented the Kremlin's resolve to get serious about the web. Unlike the Chinese or Iranian governments, however, the Russians took more supple approach—at least initially. There were no firewalls in Russia, and it was still rare for the government to block unfriendly sites. Instead, the Kremlin has made sure that it had the option of getting a sympathetic listener on the line at any internet company if there was, say, a war or a political conflict in which its side was portrayed unflatteringly. "Here you have a more complicated situation where perhaps the government theoretically could exert power but hasn't yet," another Western investor active in the Russian tech industry told me in 2010.
And while the Kremlin was eager to attract Western investors, it didn't want them everywhere. In the spring after his election as president, Medvedev announced that the Kremlin would keep a close eye on foreign investment in "strategic" internet firms. "The arrival of foreign investors … is unavoidable on one hand. But at the same time—I hope this doesn't sound too conservative—this needs to be watched closely because it is a security issue," Medvedev said in April 2009. It was at that point that the Russians began honing at home the model of influence that's currently preoccupying the West.
Led by Vladislav Surkov, the savvy Kremlin strategist who was a generation younger than Putin and understood the web, the Kremlin began to recruit loose, untraceable armies of pro-government bloggers and commenters. It also cultivated ties with private new media companies in Russia that professed a more government-friendly point of view. Surkov, for instance, reportedly organized private funding for an internet publishing venture by then 28-year-old Konstantin Rykov, a fiery and openly pro-Kremlin blogger in 2007.
This was a key moment: With Surkov's guidance, the Kremlin had shifted to a very clever tactic. Instead of allowing itself to be seen as openly calling the shots—as it had been when state companies took control of the independent news media—the Kremlin hid from view almost completely. As a result, a much more wholesome picture emerged: Here was a young tech entrepreneur, a poster boy for Russia's well-deserved reputation as a scientific and technological powerhouse, attracting private investment on his own. The Kremlin's involvement was impossible to prove, but its influence was beyond a doubt.
Yuri Milner and DST, which in just a couple years had nearly consolidated the Russian web by purchasing strategic stakes in just about everything, allowed the Kremlin another way to exercise that power. It became yet another example of the symbiotic relationship business and politics in modern Russia.
Furthermore, it seems that the Usmanov-DST partnership was facilitated with the Kremlin's blessing—or orchestration. Though no government money seems to have been involved, the deal looked much like the one with Rykov. There was Alisher Usmanov, the requisite favored funder with a close relationship to Medvedev. Then there was DST, the favored private company which could be a trusted lever of control if the need arose. Milner was known to people in the Russian tech industry as a "government guy" and served on Medvedev's Commission for Modernization, where he promoted government subsidies for broadband expansion in Russia, which would provide a huge boost to DST portfolio companies. "They made Milner an offer he couldn't refuse," said an industry executive in 2010 who was also not authorized to speak to the press.
After the pro-democracy protests of 2011-2012, which had been organized mostly through social media, the Russian government ditched this softer, nebulous approach. It started blocking a growing list of sites, and passed a raft of restrictive laws regulating the internet. One would force Western media companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter to keep their data on Russian users on servers inside and Russia, and to hand them over whenever the Russian authorities request them. So far those Western companies have hemmed and hawed, and the Russian government has dragged its feet on implementing the law.
Milner, meanwhile, has been of no help, in part because American companies don't work like Russian ones. After taking Mail.ru, one of his Russian internet companies, public in late 2010, Milner sold off the rest of his Russian assets just as Moscow was erupting in anti-Putin protests, and moved permanently to California just as the Russian parliament was passing all those draconian laws. A spokesman for Milner told me he hasn't been back in Russia since 2014, and that he has not a single Russian investment left. The Russian government had found new owners to exercise control over Russian social-media companies like Vkontakte, which it would do as the protests in Kiev started gaining steam in 2013, causing the company's young founder Pavel Durov to eventually flee Russia. According to Durov, when the Kremlin began to pressure VKontakte to delete posts about the EuroMaidan, it did so through the stakes owned by Usmanov, and later, Igor Sechin, the second-most powerful man in Russia. By this point, though, Milner was long gone, having used the Russian government to vault himself—and his new billions—safely out of Russia and away from that very government.
Julia Ioffe is a former staff writer at The Atlantic.


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S. Firlik, Z. Wielgosz, S. Pawlowski, L. Tokarz, J. Stasinski, K. Suwala/
S. Firlik, Z. Wielgosz, S. Pawlowski, L. Tokarz, J. Stasinski, K. Suwala
Influence of 2,4,6-trimethylphenol on the yield of synthesis and properties of poly(phenylene oxide) (in English)
The influence of 2,4,6-trimethylphenol (2,4,6-TMP) — a by-product of 2,6-dimethylphenol (2,6-DMP) preparation — on the process of poly(phenylene oxide) (PPO) synthesis is presented. Synthesis of the polymer was carried out with solution and precipitation method. 2,4,6-TMP was used in the amount up to 2.2 wt % in both processes. The molecular weights (Mn and Mw) and the dispersity (Đ) of the polymers obtained were determined by gel permeation chromatography (GPC). Thermal properties using (DSC, TGA), and the mass melt flow rate (MFR) were also determined. In contrast to the precipitation method, it was found that 2,4,6-TMP had a strong effect on properties of PPO obtained by solution polymerization. Addition of 2,4,6-TMP to the monomer solution caused a decrease in molecular weight of polymers. A change of Đ value and thermal properties were also noticed. An addition of 2,4,6-TMP up to 2.2 wt % to the reaction in the solution polymerization caused increase in MFR, whereas alcohol used in the precipitation polymerization of 2,6-DMP strongly determined properties of the polymer obtained.
Key words: poly(phenylene oxide), poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene ether), oxidative polymerization, 2,6-dimethylphenol, 2,4,6-trimethylphenol
e-mail: sebastian.firlik@ichp.pl
S. Firlik, Z. Wielgosz, S. Pawlowski, L. Tokarz, J. Stasinski, K. Suwala (185.5 KB)


The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman details the various ways in which people display love to one another and how individuals prefer to have love shown to them. The deeper I read into this book, the more these concepts seemed almost common sense, and yet the divorce rate is still astronomical, and I am a member of that sad statistical group. Reading this was like having a bright light shone onto the dark recesses of my past failures, but it also provided hope that with my new understanding I now have the tools and ability to better love a future mate. Anyone who is serious about their marital relationship would do well to read this book.


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The 2nd CARDS Tour de...
The 2nd CARDS Tour de Arbitration
Simran Sahni
4 Sep 2017 3:53 PM GMT
The Centre for Advanced Research in Dispute Settlement (CARDS), DSNLU invites you to participate in the second CARDS Tour de Arbitration in Singapore from 13-17 December 2017.The event is generously supported by the ICC, MCIA and Young ICCA. Their knowledge partner is Nishith Desai Associates, India, and hosting partner is the National University of Singapore.About CARDS:CARDS is a...
The Centre for Advanced Research in Dispute Settlement (CARDS), DSNLU invites you to participate in the second CARDS Tour de Arbitration in Singapore from 13-17 December 2017.
The event is generously supported by the ICC, MCIA and Young ICCA. Their knowledge partner is Nishith Desai Associates, India, and hosting partner is the National University of Singapore.
About CARDS:
CARDS is a student-run institution based out of D.S. National Law University in India, focusing on the promotion of international arbitration through research and conferences. Earlier this year, CARDS organized its first Tour de Arbitration in London, which saw speakers from Ashurst, Debevoise & Plimpton, Keating Chambers, Lalive, Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler, Volterra & Fietta, Shearman & Sterling, White & Case, and WilmerHale, among others.
Venue: Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore and offices of different international law firms.
The confirmed speakers are:
Kabir Singh, Partner, Clifford Chance,
Daryl Chew,Managing Partner, Shearman & Sterling,
Yujin Tay,Partner, Mayer Brown JSM,
Sapna Jhanjiani, Partner at Clyde & Co.,
Darius Chan, Of Counsel at Ascendant Legal,
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Yuet Min Foo,Director, Dispute Resolution, Drew & Napier LLC,
Christine Sim,Centre for International Law, NUS.
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The attached brochure contains further information about CARDS and its activities.
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