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The Early Edition: October 31, 2017
Tuesday October 31st, 2017 at 9:54 AM
Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here's today's news.
TRUMP-RUSSIA
Charges against Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and campaign advisers Rick Gates and George Papadopoulos were announced by special counsel Robert Mueller yesterday, the charges were made as part of Muller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Manafort and Gates surrendered to the F.B.I. yesterday and Papadopoulos secretly pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I. weeks ago and has been cooperating with investigators for months. Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Michael S. Schmidt and Matthew Rosenberg report at the New York Times.
Papadopoulos's plea describes extensive efforts to establish links between the Trump campaign and Russian officials, in a January 2017 interview with the F.B.I. Papadopoulos said that a London-based professor claimed he had "dirt" on Hillary Clinton, including "thousands of emails." Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger report at the Washington Post, revealing how much Trump campaign officials knew about Papadopoulos's attempts to broker relationships.
Papadopoulos's guilty plea is a "small part" of a "large-scale ongoing investigation," a spokesperson for Mueller's office, Aaron Zelinsky, said yesterday, Katelyn Polantz reporting at CNN.
The charges against former Trump campaign officials "has nothing to do with the president," the White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said yesterday in a daily briefing, adding that the indictments do not change the fact there has been no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion and played down Papadopoulos's role in the campaign. Jordan Fabian reports at the Hill.
The indictments demonstrate the wide scope of the Mueller investigation, the charges against Manafort and Gates relate to tax and money-laundering while they were working in Ukraine, and the Papadopoulos guilty plea shows that Mueller has the ability to "flip" people without it being leaked. Joe Palazzalo and Jacob Gershman report at the Wall Street Journal.
Republican senators said yesterday that legislation protecting Mueller is not necessary because they do not believe Trump would fire the special counsel, Jordain Carney reports at the Hill.
The prominent Washington lobbyist Tony Podesta has stepped down from his lobbying group as Mueller's team investigate his connections to Manafort, a source familiar with the matter said yesterday. Mark Honseball and Ginger Gibson report at Reuters.
Trump was "seething" when he found out about the indictments, according to a Republican source close to the White House and the President hit out at the Mueller investigation in a series of tweets yesterday. Jeff Zeleny and Kevin Liptak report at CNN.
Republicans have tried to avoid discussing the Mueller indictments and sought to distance themselves when probed, Karoun Demirjian and Sean Sullivan report at the Washington Post.
The indictments could upset the congressional investigations into Russia's interference in the 2016 election, neither of the intelligence committees have met with Papadopoulos and it is unclear whether Manafort and Gates can engage with Congress. Elana Schor, Kyle Cheney and Ali Watkins report at POLITICO.
Who is George Papadopoulos? Alex Johnson explains at NBC News.
The key questions raised by Papadopoulos's cooperation with the F.B.I. and what we know already are set out by Aaron Blake at the Washington Post.
The campaign officials described in the Papadopoulos plea are explained by Rosalind S. Helderman at the Washington Post.
The unexpected Papadopoulos guilty plea may have significant implications as it relates directly to allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, and the plea revealed plenty of new information. Just Security Editors Kate Brennan and Ryan Goodman set out the key takeaways at Just Security.
A timeline of Manafort's relationship with Trump and the Trump campaign is set out by Joanna Walters at the Guardian.
The charges against Manafort are very likely to relate to Russian intelligence operations through his work for Ukraine's government and his work with the Russia-friendly Ukrainian Party of Regions. Just Security editor John Reed writes at Just Security.
Gates was a former business associate of Manafort and remained part of the Trump campaign after Manafort was kicked out, taking a central role in Trump's inaugural committee and a lobbying group created to advance the president's agenda. Eileen Sullivan provides a background to the campaign adviser at the New York Times.
The views of legal experts on the indictments are set out by Joe Palazzalo and Jacob Gershman at the Wall Street Journal.
What will be the focus of Mueller's investigation following the indictments? POLITICO Magazine sets out the views of eleven legal experts.
The White House should be concerned about the indictments, Trump's links to the unscrupulous Manafort and the Papadopoulos plea indicating that more of Trump's associates should be "afraid of being ensnared in Mr. Mueller's spreading net." The New York Times editorial board writes.
Trump should be worried as Mueller has shown he is willing to use his mandate widely, Betsy Woodruff writes at The Daily Beast.
The Manafort indictment does not involve the 2016 election campaign and relates to his work for Ukraine; Mueller has provided no evidence to back up the claims made in Papadopoulos' plea that the Trump campaign worked with Russian operatives and Congress members should push for the whole story, including the Democrats' role in the Fusion GPS-commissioned dossier on alleged Trump-Russia connections. The Wall Street Journal editorial board writes.
The real investigation on Russia's role in the 2016 election is being carried out by the House Intelligence Committee and its chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), particularly its efforts to uncover the truth behind the dossier alleging Trump-Russia connections, which was compiled by former British Intelligence officer Christopher Steele. William McGurn writes at the Wall Street Journal.
Around 126 million people saw Russia-propagated content on Facebook before and after the 2016 U.S. election, according to sources familiar with the matter, prepared testimony ahead of today's hearing before congressional investigators and a statement by the social media company. Google and Twitter also disclosed further information about Russia propaganda efforts on their platforms, Deepa Seetharaman and Georgia Wells report at the Wall Street Journal.
Russian-backed Facebook accounts organized directly with U.S. activists on divisive issues to sow discord and, according to a review by the Wall Street Journal, this included at least 60 rallies, protests and marches publicized or financed by eight Russia-backed accounts. Deepa Seetharaman reports at the Wall Street Journal.
The Ukraine warned Facebook and U.S. officials in 2015 about Russia's "aggressive behavior" in spreading disinformation on social media, the deputy head of Ukraine's presidential administration said today. Hannah Kuchler and Roman Olearchyk report at the Financial Times.
"Without a single piece of proof, we are as you know being accused of meddling not only in the U.S. election, but also in those in European states," the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency today. Reuters reporting.
A dispute between China and South Korea over the U.S. T.H.A.A.D. antimissile defense system installed in South Korea has been resolved, with both countries releasing a statement today, the repaired relations likely coming as relief to the U.S. as it attempts to deal with the threat posed by North Korea and the crisis on the Korean Peninsula. Jonathan Cheng reports at the Wall Street Journal.
South Korea and China will move to normalize their relationship motivated by a joint desire to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula, according to South Korea's Foreign Ministry. Adam Taylor reports at the Washington Post.
Japan and N.A.T.O. "condemn in the strongest terms North Korea's nuclear tests and ballistic missile launches," the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and N.A.T.O. Secretary General said in a joint statement yesterday following a meeting to discuss security cooperation, also calling on U.N. member states to apply Security Council resolutions "fully and transparently." The AP reports.
North Korean hackers likely stole South Korean warship blueprints by hacking into the Daewoo Shipbuilding Company's database, a lawmaker in South Korea's main opposition party said today. Haeijin Choi reports at Reuters.
AUTHORIZATION FOR THE USE OF MILITARY FORCE
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday on the authorization for the use of military force (A.U.M.F.) yesterday, saying that a new A.U.M.F. should not have time or geographic constraints, that the 2001 A.U.M.F. – which provides the legal justification for most of U.S. military actions abroad – should not be repealed until a replacement has been put in place, and Mattis emphasizing that the 2001 and 2002 A.U.M.F. "remain a sound basis for ongoing U.S. military options." Rebecca Kheel reports at the Hill.
Tillerson and Mattis declined to explain what an "imminent threat" would constitute, but said that the president would not have authority to use military power in North Korea outside of an imminent threat to the United States. Rebecca Kheel reports at the Hill.
"The next step most logically is to attempt to move to a mark up," the Chairman of the committee Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said yesterday, saying that legislation for a new A.U.M.F. would come "fairly soon." Rebecca Kheel reports at the Hill.
The U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has called on Washington's allies in the Middle East to step up sanctions against Iran, Mnuchin said in an interview yesterday, adding that the focus of sanctions would be on activities outside the scope of the 2015 nuclear deal. Ian Talley reports at the Wall Street Journal.
Any future negotiations with the U.S. are unlikely without a "fundamental change" in American behavior, Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson Bahram Ghasemi said yesterday, the AP reporting.
Russia expects "all" terrorists in Syria to be defeated by the end of the year, Russia's head of the upper house of parliament's defense and security committee was quoted as saying yesterday, adding that enough Russian troops would be kept in the country once this has been achieved "to avert a possible repeat of this terrorism." Reuters reporting.
A U.N. aid convey has reached Syrians in eastern Ghouta near the Syrian capital of Damascus, the U.N. said yesterday, the Syrian government has shelled the region which is one of the last remaining rebel-held territories in the country. Philip Issa reports at the AP.
U.S.-led airstrikes continue. U.S. and coalition forces carried out five airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria on October 29. Separately, partner forces conducted three strikes against targets in Iraq. [Central Command]
The deputy head of the Iran-backed and state-sanctioned Popular Mobilization Forces (P.M.F.) militia has rebuffed calls from the U.S. for it to disband, saying that the "future of the [P.M.F.] is to defend Iraq." Susannah George reports at the AP.
Who are the P.M.F.? Farah Najjar explains at Al Jazeera.
The U.S. condemned the Taliban for holding a seriously ill U.S. citizen hostage in such dire circumstances, referring to Professor Kevin King who has been held since August 2016 and the Taliban called on the U.S. yesterday to meet the conditions for his release in light of his deteriorating condition. Craig Nelson and Habib Khan Totakhil report at the Wall Street Journal.
Key details about the Afghan security forces have been kept secret by the U.S. military in a report by the government's Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, Thomas Gibbons-Neff reports at the New York Times.
The Israeli army destroyed a tunnel from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip to Israeli territory yesterday, killing at least seven militants and wounding more than a dozen, Rory Jones reports at the Wall Street Journal.
Officials from the Islamic Jihad militant and political movement vowed to retaliate, Al Jazeera reports.
U.S. forces captured Mustafa al-Imam who is accused of being involved in the attack on the U.S. compound in the Libyan city of Benghazi in 2012, President Trump said yesterday. Barbara Starr and Zachary Cohen report at CNN.
Airstrikes on the eastern Libyan town of Derna have killed at least 15 people, according to local media, no one claiming responsibility for the attack. The AP reports.
The U.S. yesterday pledged $60m to a U.N.-backed antiterrorism force in Africa's Sahel region, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson saying that "these funds will play a key role" in combating extremist groups in the area. Rick Gladstone reports at the New York Times.
The Trump administration's ban on transgender troops serving in the military was temporarily blocked by a ruling by a federal judge yesterday, the judge saying that the claim that the transgender people would have any negative effect on the military had "absolutely no support." Dave Philipps reports at the New York Times.
Trump's comments on the case of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl may impact his sentence, the military judge Col. Jeffrey R. Nance said yesterday, Bergdahl pleaded guilty to desertion and endangering troops when he walked off his army base in Afghanistan in 2009. Richard A. Oppel Jr. reports at the New York Times.
The U.S. and Qatar agreed yesterday to "substantially increasing the sharing of information on terrorist financiers," the comments coming amid the Gulf crisis which began on June 5 when Saudi Arabia, U.A.E., Egypt and Bahrain diplomatically isolated Qatar due to its alleged support for terrorism and its close ties to Iran. Reuters reports.
Prosecutors in the U.S.S. Cole case have asked for a hearing to find the three civilians defense lawyers who left the case to be held in contempt of court, the civilian lawyers walked away over a classified ethical conflict and they refused an order by the military judge to return to the war court at Guantánamo Bay. Carol Rosenberg reports at the Miami Herald.
The claim that Russia obtained "20 percent" of the U.S.'s uranium supply in an Obama administration deal is false. Glenn Kessler fact checks the claims at the Washington Post.
Russia's outreach to George Papadopoulos went just how spies would have done it – The Washington Post
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Palmer Report: Paul Manafort has been arrested, and it sounds like Michael Flynn has cut a deal against Donald Trumpby Bill Palmer
Here's the thing about Donald Trump: he'll throw anyone under the bus. Moments after his campaign chairman Paul Manafort was arrested this morning, Trump dismissively tweeted that Manafort was arrested for crimes that took place before he joined the campaign. When Trump announced last month that he would be helping his associates with Trump-Russia legal fees, he made clear that none of the money would be going to his loyal former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. Now we may know why.
Manafort was arrested this morning on a dozen different charges. One of them is "Conspiracy against the United States" – which is every bit as ugly as it sounds. He was also charged with failure to register as a foreign agent. That's the exact same crime Michael Flynn admitted to when he retroactively registered as a foreign agent after he'd gotten caught. We know Special Counsel Robert Mueller has had a grand jury against Flynn for some time in Virginia. Mueller is intentionally making an example of Manafort, making sure his arrest is plastered all over the TV news in the most humiliating way possible. So where is Flynn's big spectacle of an arrest? Why isn't he being made an example of as well?
It's entirely possible that Michael Flynn will be arrested before the day is over, as the dual arrests of Manafort and Rick Gates – along with today's reveal of the George Papadopoulos plea deal – have made clear that Mueller is going all-in today. But even if Flynn does quietly get arrested today, he'll have been spared the humiliation of having been the prominent first arrest out of the gate. There's really only one reason for Mueller to give Flynn that kind of courtesy.
If Michael Flynn has cut a deal to flip on Donald Trump, he'll still be indicted, charged, arrested, and required to plead guilty, as part of the carrying out of that deal. It's notable that on this day, one of Donald Trump's two key foreign agents got popped before the cameras for all to see, while the other one seems to be getting the kid gloves. Throw in Trump's decision not to help Flynn with his legal fees, and it sounds like even the ever-oblivious Trump knows Flynn has cut a deal against him. Why would the ever-defiant Flynn cut a deal? Simple: to keep his son Michael Flynn Jr out of prison.
Keep in mind that Robert Mueller arrested Trump adviser George Papadopoulos months ago, and formally cut a deal with him weeks ago, and none of us are learning about it until today (link). So it's entirely possible that Michael Flynn has already secretly cut a deal as well. For that matter it's possible Flynn already surrendered himself awhile ago – which would also explain why he wasn't popped this morning. Stay tuned.
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Paul Manafort raked in tens of millions of dollars by secretly working for the Ukrainian government — and blew more than $12 million on shopping sprees, antiques, Range Rovers and housekeeping, according to court documents.
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A former Trump aide now under federal investigation as part of the Russia probe earned millions working for a corrupt pro-Russian political party that repeatedly disparaged America's most important military alliance.
Paul Manafort, who was Trump's campaign chief from May to August 2016, spent nearly a decade as a consultant to Ukraine's Party of Regions and its standardbearer, Viktor Yanukovych.
Backed by Russian-leaning oligarchs, the party opposed NATO membership and spouted anti-Western rhetoric that once helped fuel violence against American marines. Its reign ended when Yanukovych fled to Russia after bloody street protests against his personal corruption and pro-Moscow actions.
Manafort has always said he tried to Westernize the party and steer it towards a democratic model, and denies any part in anti-NATO messaging, but Ukrainian critics and U.S. diplomats who served in Kiev aren't so sure.
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Manafort also earned millions doing private business deals with some of the oligarchs who backed the party.
As NBC News previously reported, federal officials say that the money Manafort earned from both the party and the oligarchs — and what he did with it — are part of what has drawn the attention of investigators. New details keep emerging as U.S. and Ukrainian officials piece together Manafort's contacts and payments in Ukraine from 2004 to 2014.
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Manafort, the son of a wealthy Connecticut builder, had worked as a lobbyist and as an aide for Republican presidents before his stint in Ukraine. He had built a reputation for repackaging controversial foreign leaders for U.S. consumption. Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos, Angolan guerilla leader Jonas Savimbi, and Zairian strongman Mobutu Sese Seko were among his clients.
In 2004, Manafort was hired by clients in Ukraine who needed a similar image overhaul.
Viktor Yanukovych had been governor of Donetsk, a Russian-speaking region close to the Russian border, and then the prime minister of Ukraine. He and his faction, the Party of Regions, were thought by many Western observers to have links to organized crime. As a young man, Yanukovych had been convicted of robbery and assault.
John Herbst, who was U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 2004 to 2006, said the motivations of the oligarchs who ran the party seemed uncomplicated. "My impression of Yanukovych and the others — and I knew most of the senior folks — it was all about getting rich or richer, and maintaining power."
Aided by high-priced Russian political consultants, Yanukovych ran for president of Ukraine in 2004, and seemed to have won.
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But the election was tainted by charges of fraud and corruption — most against Yanukovych and the Party of Regions — and an attempted assassination. A month prior to balloting, someone poisoned Yanukovych's main rival, pro-Western candidate Viktor Yushchenko, and nearly killed him. On Election Day, Yanukovych, who had trailed in polls by double digits, won by three points, sparking accusations of voter fraud.
The government voided the election results and scheduled a do-over.
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Weeks before the December 2004 presidential "re"-election, a pro-Russian Ukrainian billionaire and major Party of Regions donor named Rinat Akhmetov asked Manafort to help with Yanukovych's troubled campaign.
Yanukovych lost the do-over election to Yushchenko, but Manafort won a job he would keep for a decade.
Manafort was hired to prepare the Party of Regions for the parliamentary elections of 2006, in which Yanukovych would try to reclaim the office of prime minister.
By 2006, Manafort and his team were "the principal political consultants in the Party of Regions," said Taras Chornovil, a former Ukrainian Parliament deputy who was a member of the party from 2004 to 2007.
A leaked U.S. State Department cable from 2006 said that Manafort's job was to give the Party of Regions an "extreme makeover" and "change its image from … a haven for mobsters into that of a legitimate political party."
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Manafort allegedly came up with the POR's slogan for the 2006 election, "A Better Life Today." Though Manafort couldn't speak Russian or Ukrainian, he taught Yankovych how to give a speech and how to stay on message.
According to Chornovil, Manafort's campaign tactics that year also included mandating that Yanukovych surrogates wear make-up and Hugo Boss suits during TV interviews. After their TV appearances, they had to return the rented suits to party headquarters, Chornovil said.
When Chornovil complained about Manafort to a close associate of Yanukovych, Chornovil said the man told him Manafort was untouchable — "a big cheese here, in charge of everything."
Manafort was also trying to help Yanukovych expand his base of support.
Ukraine has a sharp political and geographic divide between its pro-Western, Ukrainian-speaking majority and a large Russian minority that looks East.
While other American consultants, both Democratic and Republican, were working on the campaigns of Ukraine's pro-Western "Orange" parties, Manafort was working for a party whose base was in Russian-speaking Eastern Ukraine. Manafort's new bosses were oligarchs friendly to Moscow, and hostile to America's principal military alliance, NATO.
Said Herbst, "They were pro-Russian because that's where their voters were politically and culturally. So they would not have gotten them if they were arguing for NATO — let's join NATO — policies."
Skepticism about NATO had the virtue of appealing to many Ukrainian speakers as well. Nationwide, more than half of the public opposed joining the military alliance.
He could attract pro-Western Ukrainians, meanwhile, by broadcasting his support for European Union membership. Some oligarchs behind the party were eager to do business with Europe anyway.
Bill Taylor, who was U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 2006 to 2009, said Manafort would contact the U.S. embassy and tell them he was urging his client to look West. "[He said] he'd tell Yanukovych, 'You'll do better in Western Ukraine if you orient more toward Europe," recalled Taylor. "'To broaden your base, you should orient toward the EU.'"
For the next eight years, Yanukovych would adjust his positions on NATO and the EU as needed, tacking East or West depending on the electoral winds and his audience.
Sometimes his party's public actions and Yanukovych's private assurances to Western officials were at odds.
"[Yanukovych] was willing to allow all kinds of cooperation with NATO," which the Russians did not like, said Amb. Herbst, "but it's true that [Yanukovych] was organizing rallies against NATO exercises."
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State Department cables show that soon after the Party of Regions helped stoke anti-NATO proteststhat spurred an attack on U.S. marines in Crimea, Yanukovych told the U.S. ambassador he wanted Ukraine to join the military alliance.
Through a spokesman, Manafort says his role with Yanukovych and the POR was "strategist and consultant." Manafort recommended "strategy and messaging," he said, "especially as it related to the campaign and fulfillment of campaign promises." The party's political campaigns, said the spokesman, were "built on a foundation of economic recovery and building a relationship with the West that supported and focused on Ukraine being a part of the European Union."
Critics of Manafort, however, insist his gameplan for the 2006 election was to drive a wedge into the electorate. Chornovil, Serhiy Leshchenko, a Ukrainian lawmaker and former investigative journalist, and Taras Berezovets, who advised one of Yanukovych's main political foes, all say Manafort's strategy was based on polarizing the voting public. They say he wanted to set Russian speakers against Ukrainian speakers, and supporters of Moscow against supporters of NATO.
According to Berezovets, "His idea was to [use] the matter of language to divide the electorate. The whole idea, it really worked."
Along with advocacy of making Russian the second, official state language, Manafort pushed "anti-NATO propaganda," said Chornovil.
Berezovets called anti-NATO rhetoric "one of the key ideas of Paul Manafort."
A former U.S. diplomat in the region said he doubted using wedge issues like NATO was Manafort's idea, but said, "Manafort was not above telling Yanukovych to exploit wedge issues." He also acknowledged it could seem odd for a U.S. citizen to be advising an anti-NATO candidate: "I think he probably distinguishes his personal values from his political advice."
Through his spokesman, Manafort said he never had anything to do with any anti-NATO rhetoric. "Mr. Manafort encouraged the POR to move towards the West and NATO."
The Party of Regions won the parliamentary elections in 2006, making Yanukovych prime minister again.
'I Am Trying to Play a Constructive Role'
Yanukovych had to run for prime minister again in 2007. Accusations of corruption and links to the Putin regime were damaging his client's prospects, so Manafort went back to work grooming his image.
Responding to criticism that he was simply repackaging a flawed candidate, Manafort told the New York Times at the time, "I am not here just for the election…I am trying to play a constructive role in developing a democracy. I am helping to build a political party."
Manafort hired the American public relations firm Edelman to boost Yanukovych's public image in Europe and the U.S. for a monthly retainer of $35,000.
Yanukovych, meanwhile, traveled to Germany as part of a bid for European Union membership. "In public and private statements both at home and abroad," said another leaked cable, "Yanukovych consistently reiterates his government's commitment to Europe."
Yanukovych lost the 2007 race. After the loss, both he and his party tacked East with overt anti-NATO rhetoric, a response to Yushchenko's push for Ukraine to join NATO.
From January through April 2008, the Party of Regions mounted a slick, well-coordinated campaign against Ukraine's NATO membership. The "NATO No" slogan appeared on giant television screens and mass-produced blue signs at rallies where Yanukovych spoke. The same slogan was emblazoned on blue and yellow signs carried by the party's members of Parliament onto the floor of the Parliament in February.
Provided with examples of the messaging, Manafort's spokesman declined to comment.
In 2010, Yanukovych ran for president again, and Manafort again worked for him. This time, Yanukovych pledged to end Ukraine's NATO bid. Ukraine should not be a member of any military bloc, he said, because "this is the view of the Ukrainian people." During a meeting with the U.S. ambassador, he said he wanted to "improve cooperation with the U.S. and NATO, but was also interested in "restoring" relations with Russia.
He was elected president, and this time turned East for good.
"Either Manafort was wrong about his guy, or he just didn't care," said Dan Fried, a former assistant secretary of state for the region under George W. Bush and Obama. "I think Manafort would've preferred his guy be the guy he said he was, but he was okay if he wasn't. He was doing a job for a client. That's it."
A year into Yanukovych's presidency, his administration prosecuted his chief political rival, former "Orange" Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, for allegedly abusing her position during her time in office. She was sentenced to seven years in prison. Many international observers condemned the prosecution as politically motivated.
Manafort again looked to the U.S. to burnish his client's image, and dispel charges that Yanukovych was a corrupt, pro-Putin autocrat. He arranged for Yanukovych's administration to hire the law firm Skadden Arps to do a legal review of the prosecution. The resulting brief pointed out some serious procedural flaws, but was largely approving of the Ukrainian court.
Around the same time, however, the Yanukovych administration began to strengthen its ties to the Putin regime and to further Russify the Party of Regions.
According to Inna Bohoslovska, who was a Party of Regions-aligned member of parliament at the time, starting in 2012, "[Ethnically] Russian candidates were placed in all the strong positions. Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Security Service."
Yanukovych then reversed his position on integrating Ukraine with Europe. Ukraine was about to sign an EU association agreement, making its turn away from Russia and towards the West official, when Yanukovych backed out a week before an official signing ceremony.
Said Fried, "[Yanukovych] broke more than a campaign promise, he broke his compact with the Ukrainian people."
Yanukovych's popularity plummeted. His EU decision ignited massive demonstrations in the streets of Kiev, with some crowds as big as 1 million. Ukrainian police cracked down on protestors, and both police and protestors were killed in street violence that took at least 100 lives.
After three months of demonstrations, Yanukovych was ousted as president in February 2014. He fled to Russia. Activists broke into Mezhyhirya, his ornate presidential palace, and were outraged by its gold-plated opulence. "[Manafort] knew that the president's salary was not enough for the luxury of the Mezhyhirya, so he should have been aware that it was anything but legal money," said a top Ukrainian anti-corruption investigator.
Russian troops invaded Crimea shortly afterwards, citing Ukrainian unrest and Yanukovych's ouster as justifications. Russia has now annexed Crimea.
Manafort's allies have said that Yanukovych stopped listening to Manafort after he became president in 2010, and that Manafort warned him of the consequences of actions like prosecuting Tymoshenko. Manafort's spokesman said Manafort "was not involved in any of the actions taken in the street riots and opposed the use of force."
"If you're going to work for someone like Yanukovych," said Fried, "there's a time to jump ship, and that's when he starts shooting people."
Manafort returned to Ukraine after Yanukovych fled the country. He tried, with limited success, to help remnants of the Party of Regions regain power in the October 2014 parliamentary elections.
Yanukovych remains in Russia. He has been sanctioned by the EU and the U.S. for the Crimea invasion, and is wanted by Ukraine for a long list of charges that have included corruption and murder.
"Yanukovych was so awful," said Fried. "That's not Manafort's fault, but the fact that Manafort helped Yanukovych win an election didn't do Ukraine any good."
Who Paid The Bills?
Manafort says the 2014 election was his last in Ukraine, and he is done with Ukrainian politics.
But he is now facing questions from Congress and federal investigators about how he was paid for his political work, what he did with the money he earned, and what other business relationships he developed while in Ukraine.
A Party of Regions accounting book, dubbed the "black ledger" and obtained in August by Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU), allegedly shows that Manafort was paid $12.7 million in cash by the party between Nov. 2007 and Oct. 2012.
The ledger records what Ukrainian investigators say were off-the-books payments by the Party of Regions to election officials, party functionaries, and members of parliament. Manafort appears as an intended recipient in the ledger 22 times from 2007 until 2012, according to the NABU. The Bureau notes that the entries are not themselves proof that the payments were made.
In March, journalist Serhiy Leshchenko made waves when he said he had obtained an invoice on Manafort company letterhead detailing how Manafort received money from a shell company in Belize for the alleged sale of 500 computers.
The date on the invoice and the amount of money match an entry in the black ledger marked "Manafort." Manafort's spokesman dismissed the invoice and letterhead as fabricated. The shell company, Neocom Systems Ltd., was registered with Belize's International Business Company Registry, but the principal of the firm that registered the shell company told NBC News he had only dealt with its lawyers, and couldn't provide any information about its owners. It was struck from the registry in 2011 and dissolved in 2014, according to the Belizean registry.
Manafort has described the ledger as a forgery. He says any payments he received from Ukraine were legitimate compensation for his work as a consultant, and the payments were lawfully wired to him.
Manafort's spokesman told NBC News that Manafort "has no knowledge of any payment ledger. Mr. Manafort was only paid via wire — not cash — through U.S. institutions, typically using clients' preferred financial institutions and instructions."
The spokesman said Manafort declined to answer whether he had reported to the U.S. government all money and income received from Ukraine.
Ukrainian investigators told NBC News they are now looking into Manafort's role in the Skadden deal, but say Manafort is not a suspect in any of their investigations.
Manafort also did business with several Ukrainian and Russian oligarchs.
In 2008, Manafort and his real estate partners courted a Ukrainian oligarch named Dmytro Firtash, a major Party of Regions backer, in an $850 million plan to redevelop a famous New York hotel, the Drake. The plan never bore fruit.
Fugitive Ukrainian president vows to fight 6:08
Firtash, who acknowledged to the U.S. ambassador that he got his start in business with the permission of a Russian crime lord, according to a leaked cable, is under federal indictment in the Northern District of Illinois for bribery. He is under arrest in Austria pending his extradition to the U.S.
In 2007, Manafort went into business with Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska to invest in Ukrainian and European assets. Manafort's partner Rick Gates "regularly visited" the Moscow offices of Deripaska's representatives to discuss the investments, according to a later lawsuit.
In 2007 and 2008, companies controlled by Deripaska paid $26.25 million in investment capital and management fees to Manafort and his partners for a deal to buy a cable television company in Ukraine, according to a U.S. court filing. According to Manafort's spokesman, all the capital was paid to the seller of the company, but Deripaska's legal representatives alleged the investment was never actually made.
By 2014, Manafort and Deripaska had fallen out over the cable deal, which never materialized.
What did Manafort do with his Ukrainian millions?
He was associated with at least 15 bank accounts and 10 companies on Cyprus, dating back to 2007, according to two banking sources with direct knowledge.
Related: Manafort-Linked Accounts on Cyprus Raised Red Flags
The sources told NBC News' Richard Engel that after certain transactions raised concern, the bank began investigating the accounts for possible money-laundering. Manafort closed some of the accounts in 2012.
A spokesman for Manafort told NBC News that all the accounts were set up at the direction of clients in Cyprus, a common banking center for Russians and Ukrainians, "for a legitimate business purpose."
As NBC News and others previously reported, Manafort also bought four properties in New York City between 2006 and 2013, apparently for cash, and then took out more than $15 million in loans on them between 2015 and 2017.
Related: Ex-Trump Aide Manafort Bought New York Homes With Cash
A source familiar with the matter said New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is taking "a preliminary look" at Manafort's real estate transactions.
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Manafort said his transactions were "executed in a transparent fashion and my identity was disclosed — in fact my name is right there on the documents."
In September 2016, NBC News has reported Manafort took out a mortgage on his home in Bridgehampton, New York, but no mortgage notice was ever filed and no mortgage tax paid, according to Suffolk County records. His name did not appear on any publicly available documents.
Related: Feds Subpoena Records for $3.5 Million Mystery Mortgage on Manafort Home
A spokesperson for Manafort said the mortgage was a bridge loan and was paid off by December. Manafort's lawyer said the mortgage paperwork was rejected because of an error and was never refiled.
Federal investigators have now subpoenaed records related to that loan.
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Q: How to loop through directory and move like files? I have a a directory for each day over the course of a year holding certain files about each day. I want to take one file ...mobile_events_... from each day directory and combine all files in one directory titled "MobileEvents". All files and directories are in my Downloads directory (current working directory), "MobileEvents" destination is on the desktop.
I tried a for loop and while loop but the code just keeps running.
for loop
for *_mobile_events_201* in 201_*; do mv ~/MobileEvents

I am only getting a stall in the program and nothing is being moved. I get a new blank line with '>'

A: Your syntax for a for loop is invalid. A correct for loop in bash would look like this:
for file in *_mobile_events_201*; do mv "$file" ~/MobileEvents; done

An even better solution would be to use a glob as an argument to mv directly:
mv *_mobile_events_201* ~/MobileEvents

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Tokyo Designer Gakuin
Tokyo Visual Arts
Tokyo School of Business
Tokyo Institute of Tourism
Tokyo Cool Japan
Tokyo Adachi Japanese Language school
Osaka Designer College
Osaka visual arts
Osaka Business College
Osaka Institute of Tourism
Nagoya Designer Gakuin
Nagoya Visual Arts
Nagoya School of Business
Nagoya Institute of Tourism
Kyushu Designer Gakuin
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Kyushu School of Business
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Message from the presidents
Principle of Tokyo visual art collegeShinada Machi
Tokyo Visual Arts is a vocational school to aim the entertainment and creative industries.
Technological innovation has developed rapidly, and what has been done by humans up to now can now be done without human resources. So what can you do as a "person" then? Everyone has the experience of being encouraged and healed by listening to music and watching images. No matter how the technology has been advanced, Moving people's feelings can only be done by "people." The entertainment and creative industries can do that exactly. And you can aim at not only domestic but also the world entertainment industry.
For those who dreams for working in the entertaiment and creative industries, Tokyo Visual Arts teachs the "three powers" to be able to play an active in the field immediately. The power is "believing power" "professionalism" "thinking and acting power". In order to educate these three strengths to students, pre-entry support that ensures the power to the industry, conduct of classes where the active teachers active in the field can learn the latest technology and knowledge. We are also supporting for employment.
Do what you like for a lifetime as a job. Let's aim for the entertainment and creative industry together!
Principal of Tokyo Cool JapanKouji Atomura
Tokyo Cool Japan is a two-year vocational school for games, animation, voice actors, and e-sports departments. You can find the profession/occupation you can aim for the future in the subdivided subject/major/course in Tokyo Cool Japan.
Established in 1983, Tokyo Net Wave was reborn as a vocational school for games and animation in 2014, and with the establishment of the voice actor department, the school name changed to Tokyo Cool Japan in April 2019.
Japanese "games" and "anime" have been highly evaluated overseas and have grown into a culture that represents Japan.
While everyone enjoys japanese games and animations, there should be many people who want to create their own creation which can give people excitement.
Tokyo Cool Japan makes that dreams come true. "Basic knowledge and technology"-"State-of-the-art equipment and technology" It will be reborn as a professional in 2.5 years starting from AO Preschool.
Now is the time for everyone to send "impression" to the world.
Tokyo Cool Japan is sensitive to the "now" of knowledge and technology required from the industry, and nurturing many human resources who can be proud of in the world.
First, let's take the first step.
Principal of Osaka Designer CollegeNakao Masaki
Osaka Designers College will celebrate the 58th anniversary of its opening in 2020. Since its establishment, we have been focusing on practical design education including graphic design, product design and creation who can support the industry throughout Japan.
We are proud of the highly specialized basic classes by professional teachers such as those active creators, the introduction of the active learning curriculum represented by the professional practice specialized course, and the professional equipment environment prepared for each student. [A school that fosters designers, not teaching design. ]
We will continue to produce the human resources who inherit the founding philosophy and support the industry of the next generation.
Principal of Osaka Institute of TourismUeda Hiromi
Principal of Nagoya School of Business collegeMaeda Megumi
Our school is a 35-year-old vocational school in Nagoya, the third largest city in Japan.
It is a business general school aiming for employment in Japan,
It is a school that supports each and every one of them about job hunting while studying their majors.
At our school, You can learn all curriculums by Japanese teachers along with Japanese students.
A lot of foreign students specialize in general business, IT business departments. In order to seek employment in Japan, in principle, acquisition of the JLPT Level 2 Japanese Language Proficiency Test is essential.
There an alumni who started running his own company after working for a Japanese company once.
To your dream! Let's do our best together.
"Principal of Nagoya Tourism CollegeKimura Shintaro
The entertainment of "tourism" attracts you and the world.
Tourism and bridal is a representative work of "hospitality" in Japan.
It is a very rewarding work that not only contributes to people and society by creating joy, excitement, and happiness for people, but also helps grow and enrich their lives.
Nowadays, Japanese as well as foreign students are studying in Japan and playing an active part of the tourism industry all over the world.
And the power of tourism and bridal has always given people the power to live, supporting the country and the region.
The tourism industry has been hit hard by the effects of Corona virus.
However, the day will surely be coming when we can shake off this darkness and see the light of the country, region, and people again.
In the near future, Japan will surely regain its brilliance as the center of tourism industry.
At that time, everyone's power is needed. You have the power to make your dream come true.
Please cherish your love and the emotion longing for tourism and bridal.
Let's learn the knowledge and skills that can be used in the real industry, polish our human power, and become a professional who makes people around the world more hapier.
Principal of Kyushu Designer CollegeYayoi Fuji
Kyushu Designer Gakuin was founded in 1968 in Fukuoka, Kyushu, and has produced many graduates for over 50 years.
Now, as a general design school that teachs manga, anime, games, figures, graphics, fashion, and interior, we aim to nurture creators who are active in the world.
Recently, many international students have enrolled in KDG every year.
Most people go on to the background of "For the first I like the work as a hobby, but I would like to lead it to my work!" "I want to learn Japanese culture and working style." The feeling is common to all students, regardless of age or nationality.
At our school, we place great importance on creating an environment where we can raise each student's feelings through the common language of "Do what you like as a job."
Also, in the further evolution of digitalization and the age of AI, I think we need to increase specialized skills as well as invisible power. That is the communication ability required to co-exist with people.
You can improve by understanding the other person, knowing the environment around you, and knowing the culture and society. I hope that everyone will work proactively on our gimmicks, and build on their small experiences little by little. There should be one who has grown significantly after two years. Our school has a system to support everyone's attendance at school, career support, and student life, so you can enjoy a school life with peace of mind.
Why don' you find your job at Adachi Gakuen? We look forward to seeing you.
Principal of Kyushu Visual Arts collegeInami Yosuke
Adachi Gakuen is a vocational school that promotes internationalization and provides world-class education through the establishment of educational institutions outside Japan (Adachi international college) and cooperation with Korean/Chinese universities.
In addition to specialized knowledge and technology, all international students will learn various cultures unique to Japan (hospitality/manufacturing/wabisabi), and Japanese students will have a global perspective while interacting with international students from various countries. We have created a growth environment that is beneficial to both parties by expanding our horizons to the world.
Kyushu Visual Arts became independent from its sister school, Kyushu Designer Gakuin in 1997, and has produced many human resources who are active in the entertainment industry (voice actors, actors, music, video, photography, media, entertainment) in the society.
Currently, international students from the United States, China, and Korea are working hard together with Japanese students from specialized classes to internships with industry companies.
With the arrival of the 5G era, human resources with creative entertainment abilities will be required more and more in the industry society, and companies that are expanding overseas are highly expected to be excellent international students.
We will improve the skills of all students as much as possible to reach out to those who have dreams both domestically and internationally, and we will provide maximum satisfaction and open up your dreams and open up your life.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us through under forms.
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Hoy F. Carman is Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of California, Davis. He received his B.S. (1960) and M.S. (1962) degrees at Oregon State University and his Ph.D. (1964) at Michigan State University. He was an Economist with ERS, USDA (1964-65), Captain, U.S. Army (1965-67), and has been at UC Davis since 1967. While on the faculty, he has served as Economist, Farmers Markets, Inc. (on leave, 1979-80), Associate Dean, College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences (1983-1986), and Chairman, Department of Agricultural Economics (1989-94). Teaching experience includes undergraduate and graduate courses in microeconomics, agricultural and managerial marketing, production management and case problems in management. Research publications include over 100 entries in the areas of agricultural marketing, marketing orders and agreements, agricultural business management, and the economics of taxation. He has served as a consultant to government and business firms and has provided expert testimony in court and at government hearings. He is a frequent participant in international activities including Fulbright Research Fellowship, invited lectures and joint research projects. His membership in professional organizations includes the AAEA, WAEA, IAAE and IAMA. His biography can be found in Who's Who in America.
This page was last updated on July 17, 2016.


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Kelly Drives In Five, Bulls Beat Tides 9-3
Dalton Kelly crushes 26th longball in victory
By Durham Bulls
Bulls first baseman Dalton Kelly homered and drove in five runs, while five relievers combined for five shutout innings in Durham's 9-3 win over the Norfolk Tides on Wednesday evening at Durham Bulls Athletic Park. After the Tides plated single tallies in the second and third frames, the Bulls answered
Bulls first baseman Dalton Kelly homered and drove in five runs, while five relievers combined for five shutout innings in Durham's 9-3 win over the Norfolk Tides on Wednesday evening at Durham Bulls Athletic Park.
After the Tides plated single tallies in the second and third frames, the Bulls answered in the last of the second when Kelly clubbed a two-run double to right in the last of the third. After both teams swapped a run, Kelly smashed a two-run blast to right, his team-best 26th of the year, to make it 5-3. Durham would then extend that advantage to five with a three-run sixth, with Kelly driving in his fifth run with an RBI single. 2B Esteban Quiroz one inning later would cap the scoring with a run-scoring double to right in the seventh.
Kelly (3-5, R, 2B, HR, 5 RBI) paced the Bulls order with his three hits and five RBI, while Quiroz (2-2, 2 R, 2B, 2 RBI) and LF Ryan Boldt (2-5) added multi-hit efforts of their own. Kelly's longball extended Durham's streak of consecutive contests with a home run to ten games dating back to August 28.
After Bulls starter Aaron Slegers (4.0 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 4 K) fired the first four innings, Ryan Sherriff (2.0 IP, K), Phoenix Sanders (1.0 IP, 2 K), Nick Anderson (1.0 IP, H, 2 K) and Joey Krehbiel (1.0 IP, H, BB, 3 K) combined for the final five scoreless frames. Norfolk southpaw Kevin Smith (4.0 IP, 5 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 3 BB, 3 K) suffered the defeat.
The two teams are set to square off again on Thursday evening, with first pitch scheduled for 6:35pm. RHP Shane Baz (2-0, 1.80) is anticipated to get the nod for Durham, while RHP Ofelky Peralta (3-1, 4.94) is expected to toe the rubber for Norfolk. Tickets for that game, as well as all remaining Bulls home games are available and can be purchased at DurhamBulls.com.
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Aaron Slegers
Ryan Sherriff
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Did you know your cell phone emits the same type of radiation as a microwave oven? It's true. The same radiation that cooks your food is continually directed at your brain, one of the most sensitive areas of your body.
Amid a heated and growing debate, it's important to note that many health experts have united in an effort to warn expecting mothers about the danger of cell phone exposure.
"Right now, we are treating our children like experiments in a subject with no controls," says founder of the Environmental Health Trust Dr. Devra Davis, who along with a group of health advocates launched a nationwide campaign called BabySafe Project.
However, there are sound, ethical reasons why studies on live test subjects can't be done.
Says Dr. Davis: "It would be unethical if we were to say 'let's take one group of pregnant women and expose them to cell phone radiation and the other group not.'" Despite these research obstacles, there is widespread and increasing concern among notable experts and advocacy groups.
Perhaps the most significant thing to remember is that a growing number of authorities agree that prolonged exposure to cell phone radiation may have harmful effects. MATRIX 2 is a great way to simplify this problem for people of all ages and genders.
*Percentage of cell phone radiation reduction varies by phone model. Click here to see the SGS report on our website for further information.


National authorities and other institutions in Europe at large and in the rest of developed world are urgently faced with the need to define a set of achievable priorities for reform of their education (learning) systems, together with their health and pension and other social inclusion (welfare) systems, while being currently under severe economic conditions, in the context of the Eurozone and international financial instability. The case of Greece, with its imminent needs to undertake well-documented, focused and relevant human and social capital building actions, eloquently linked to – hopefully – integrated employment and growth supporting policies, corresponds to an emergency situation, asking for immediate and collective EU – as well as international – action.
The much needed human and social capital development policies and corresponding integrated actions, aiming at boosting the capacity of the systems in order to offer reliable lifelong learning and professional development as well as other social inclusion solutions, in a society acutely hit by recession and austerity, comprise the structural reforms of the welfare systems.
It is in such a crisis context, where the European learning innovation legacy is becoming much relevant and where education and social inclusion experts, active at the European level, need to bring up a "Learning and Innovation Task Force" – with long-standing and broad-range experience concerning the evolution of the learning systems in Europe and the evidence-based policy making -, in order to get engaged in this demanding effort.While moving into uncharted waters, one could say that the immediate outcome of this problem setting exercise should be a focused and integrated set of actions aiming (a) at a capacity building, while (b) delivering concrete, short- to mid-term results, in terms of structural reforms, boosting growth, supporting employment and facilitating social inclusion. This set of actions should correspond to increased sophistication and adopt an inter-governance pespective, in order to build and effectively implement highly demanding policy reforms, and to deliver both on a short-term and a long-term basis.
Introduce sophisticated formative evaluation and impact assessment activities in all the reforming actions, thus boosting the implementation capacity of all stakeholders involved, including state and non-government institutions. Certain programmes should better be undertaken with the form of Public-Private partnerships and try to engage European stakeholders, in order to make best use of "good practice, "bench-learning" and consolidate sustainability.
Engage stakeholders in fast-track validation of quality assurance, qualifications and other quality certification schemes; this needs sophistication and open-minded collaborative approaches, with short time schedules. It has to be coupled with well organised and scalable decentralization of decision making processes.
Make all policy reforms (a) relevant to the social inclusion, employability building and growth mandates, and (b) sustainable to deliver on a long-term basis.
Reorientate integrated actions, where appropriate, towards demand maturing and demand-driven initiatives, supporting regional, grass-roots actions, in a broad, pre-defined framework of policy objectives (as in following point).
To this end, maximise engagement of the non-government, private stakeholders, in order to (a) increase relevance of learning across the board towards the social and economic developments and evolutions, (b) facilitate the openness and accountability of all engaged institutions, (c) enhance the innovation and change management capacity and the sustainability of these actors, and (d) introduce co-funding schemes, in the form of PPIs, in order to speed up implementation and performance and provide for long term sustainability and competitiveness of the outcomes.
The above mentioned "territories" of capacity building actions are largely identifying the terms of reference for implementation in certain "Domains of Change/Innovation".


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DC Jail Inmate Dies Amid Concerns About Heat Inside
By Mark Segraves, News4 Reporter and Andrea Swalec	• Published July 15, 2016 • Updated on July 15, 2016 at 7:21 pm
An inmate in the D.C. jail has died as officials struggle to cool the sweltering facility during a heat wave.
Lester Irby, 70, collapsed inside the D.C. Central Detention Facility on Thursday, Department of Corrections (DOC) officials said. According to the paramedics who responded, he appeared to be suffering a stroke.
Irby was taken to a hospital, where he died.
DOC spokeswoman Sylvia Lane said Irby appears to have died of natural causes.
"We have no reason to believe that there is a correlation between elevated temperatures and the recent death of an inmate," Lane said in an email.
But lawyer Deborah Golden, who monitors conditions in the jail, said Irby's death is a reminder of poor conditions inside.
"It's horrible, but it doesn't surprise me. I think it was a matter of time," the director of the DC Prisoners' Project said.
Golden described oppressive heat inside the jail, which houses more than 1,200 people.
"It's a giant brick building. It functions like an oven," she said.
Jail officials acknowledge the cooling system in the aging facility is overworked.
"D.C. Jail is a 40-year-old facility, and with elevated heat levels, the air handling system has much more work to do," Lane said in an email.
The directors of the DOC and the D.C. Department of General Services visited the jail's housing units on Friday and have "engaged a contractor to improve the airflow and circulation systems," Lane said.
In recent days, the jail has set up large industrial fans, offered inmates shaved ice and cool drinks, let inmates take additional showers, and provided accommodations for inmates with special needs, officials said.
Golden said it's not enough.
"The giant fans are helpful in the common areas but they don't reach into the individual cells," she said. "The ice is limited in quantity. It's a small plastic cup of ice to take back to your cell that needs to last 24 more hours. It just doesn't."
An inmate inside the jail called News4 on Friday, after watching a 4 p.m. broadcast, and said officials found that at 5 a.m. Friday, his cell was 87 degrees.
For days, News4 has received complaints from inmates and their loved ones about conditions inside the jail as temperatures have hit the 90s.
D.C. officials have declared a Heat Emergency and encouraged residents to stay in shade or air conditioning.
An autopsy has not yet been conducted to determine Irby's cause of death. He was jailed after he was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, court records show.
Leaks in the jail's roof forced the DOC to close a part of the jail earlier this year, as News4 reported.
Golden called for officials to consider the replacement of the facility.
"It's not repairable," she said. "It's probably time to think about building a new jail and to plan for it."
Irby's lawyer, Paul Signet, said there was "no sign of any physical problem" when they last saw each other.
"Mr. Irby was in good spirit when we met at the jail on Tuesday last. He was also in good spirit at a court hearing on Wednesday last," Signet said.
A story by a man named Lester Irby was included in the 2005 book D.C. Noir, a collection of stories "detailing the seedy underside of the nation's capital." The story, "God Don't Like Ugly," was written while its author was incarcerated.
The editor of the book, George Pelecanos, and a representative for the book's publisher, Akashic Books, both said they fear the Lester Irby who wrote the story is the same Lester Irby who died, but that they have no confirmation.


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The options of the Jaxon requests can be defined in the app.options.classes of the configuration file.
The classes of an Armada application must inherit from the Jaxon\Sentry\Armada class, which provides them with functions to access other classes, and to manage requests, responses, views and sessions.
The instance() method (or its short version cl()) returns an instance of another Jaxon class in the same namespace. It takes the name of the class as a parameter, without the namespace.
For example, the instance of the \Namespace\Subdir\Class class in namespace Namespace will be returned by the following call.
If both classes are in the same subdirectory, this can be omitted, and the class name is prepended with a period.
All instances of the classes registered in a Armada application have access to the same Response object, through their response attribute. This object is automatically initialized by the library, and allows to build the response to a request by calling several methods in one or more classes.
The request() method (or its short version rq()) returns a request to its calling class. It provides a fluid interface that transforms any received call into a request to the method with the same name in the caller class.
The contents of the webpage can be passed as parameters to calls using the Request Factory or the PHP jQuery API, and their global functions rq() and jq().
The jQuery() method (or its short version jq()) adds a call to jQuery into the response.
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Practice stillness between postures to develop your own mental strength and to avoid distracting your fellow students.
Honor the practice and your fellow students by moving quietly during the poses and between postures.
Focus on only yourself in the front mirror.
Drink water only at designated water breaks and between postures.
Do not bring personal items (such as cell phones, purses, keys) into the yoga room other than your mat, towel, and water bottle. The studio is locked during class, and your possessions are safe in the locker room.
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"False sense" of confidence among businesses at risk of cyberattack
Priya Kantaria 3rd October 2018	(Last Updated January 4th, 2019 16:07)
More than two-thirds of businesses believe their network is open to attack from hackers, reports cybersecurity firm Radware.
However, the organisations also report high confidence levels in dealing with cybersecurity, with nine out of ten confident their security model was "effective at mitigating most or all attacks".
Almost half of the companies surveyed had experienced data security breaches in the last 12 months and around 40% of them estimated that it took hours or days to discover a breach.
Most (69%) of data breaches are discovered through using anomaly detection tools and more than half are discovered by reactive notifications from darknet monitoring.
Almost a quarter of businesses have fired IT executives because of a breach and almost a third of companies face legal action from customers.
"Encrypting data is no longer enough"
Companies who had experienced attacks against web applications or web servers in the past 12 months reported that encrypted web attacks increased from 12% in 2017 to 50% in 2018 and more than half reported daily or weekly attacks.
Radware said: "Encrypting data is no longer enough to stop hackers. In the last 12 months, respondents said that the most common types of application or web server attacks they experienced were encrypted web attacks and data security breaches."
Data collection and sharing
About half of the businesses said they only collected various types of customer data for internal use, but did not share it, and under half (43%) shared data about user behaviour, preferences and analytics.
"When extrapolated across the number of websites that most people interact with every day, the possible exposure of sensitive data is massive," said Radware.
Vice president of Security Solutions Carl Herberger said: "While organisations are recognising they are under attack, often they're discovering the breach only after pertinent information has been leaked. With today's evolving threat landscape, organisations still need to be vigilant in equipping themselves to deal with increasing attack frequency and complexity."
False confidence is tackling risk of cyberattack
Radware reported a "false sense" of confidence across businesses in their ability to deal with the constant and growing threat of attack.
It said: "It's just a matter of time before a significant data breach happens."
The cybersecurity firm recommends seven steps, which include encryption and a web application firewall (WAF).
"A good WAF," said Radware, "Needs to sniff out these clandestine cyber assaulters. Device fingerprinting identifies, blacklists and blocks the source machines that are used for attacks regardless of the IP they hide behind."


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Q: How to write an R for loop which uses key-value pairing? I have the following function that I want to run as a for loop in R:
<Term>_summer_UP <- as.data.frame(allGO["<GO.ID>"])

write.table(<Term>_summer_UP,"<Term>_summer_UP.csv",sep=",",quote=FALSE,row.names=FALSE)

rm(<Term>_summer_UP)

I want to use a dataframe as input for the 'term' and 'GO.ID' variables :

How do I write a for loop that will write the data collected from allGO["<GO.ID>"] to the relevant Term (key-value pairing)? Also, how do I get my for-loop to iterate through csv file name? ("Term_summer_UP.csv")

A: I've created a lookup data frame named GO_ID_lookup - please check the column names for your allGO table, as colons are typically coerced to . unless you use check.names = FALSE.
GO_ID_lookup <- data.frame(
  GO.ID = c("GO:0006869",
            "GO:0042157",
            "GO:0010030"),
  Term = c("lipid_transport",
           "lipoprotein_metabolic_process",
           "positive_regulation_of_seed_germination")
)

# without an provided dataset I created this for a toy example
allGO <- data.frame(
  `GO:0006869` = 1:10,
  `GO:0042157` = 21:30,
  `GO:0010030` = 31:40,
  check.names = FALSE
)

mapply(FUN = function(id,term) {
  write.table(
    x = allGO[id],
    file = paste0(term,"_summer_UP.csv"),
    sep = ",",
    quote = FALSE,
    row.names = FALSE)},
  id = GO_ID_lookup$GO.ID,
  term = GO_ID_lookup$Term)


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"Of course, everything we do influences our horse's way of going and it is worth taking on board my primary message to you 'If you get the right response when you ask correctly, it surely follows that if you get the wrong response, you may not be asking correctly".
"… The novice or untrained horse (whatever the age) needs time to develop strength and flexibility to accomplish the desired 'roundness.' It's important that every time you take a walk break, you should give a loose rein and let your horse adopt any frame he wants so that he can relax his muscles. The length of time you ask your horse to work 'on the bit' depends on the individual horse. Always consider his age, fitness, and temperament. Clearly, if you do too much and make your horse sore because he's using his muscles differently, you're not only going to have a sore horse, but also a horse that becomes quirky and resistant. So the trick with anything you do with a horse is to bring him up to the limit, and then take the pressure off. As soon as your horse shows signs of resistance because he's either physically or mentally tired, back off. Build up day by day.
More 'Doing' to come in Chapter 11 when we look at suppling your horse.