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Dean Becker of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition interviews Judge Pat Lycos, the Republican candidate for Distict Attorney in Houston, Harris County Texas
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Cultural Baggage, May 14, 2008
Broadcasting on the Drug Truth Network, this is Cultural Baggage.
My name is Dean Becker. I don't condone or encourage the use of any drugs, legal or illegal. I report the unvarnished truth about the phamaceutical, banking, prison, and judicial nightmare that feeds on eternal drug war.
Dean Becker: America leads the world in its incarceration rate. Texas leads America. And Houston, Harris County, leads Texas by far. The following discussion about the situation in Texas should serve as an example for others around North America of how far wrong the drug war can go.
You are listening to the Cultural Baggage Show. We have in studio Judge Pat Lycos. She is running on the Republican ticket for District Attorney here, of Harris County. With that I want to welcome you to the studio, Ma'am.
Judge Lycos: Thank you. I'm delighted to accept your invitation.
Dean Becker: As I told Mr. Bradford last week, I am a former law enforcement official, I'm a member of a group called Law Enforcement Against Prohibition and we think the drug war is an absolute fiasco. We work together to bring it to an end.
Judge Lycos: What agency were you with?
Dean Becker: I was in the U.S. Air Force Security Police, mostly guarded nuclear weapons, but I wore the badge and the gun and swore to uphold the Constitution and I think by ending the drug war I'm still working to support the Constitution.
Judge Lycos: Thank you for serving our country.
Dean Becker: Thank you, Ma'am. I know there's a House Bill, 2391, which allows for each district attorney to chose whether they will arrest and jail those who commit a myriad of crimes, minor theft or graffiti, bad checks at under $500, and to stop arresting those with less than four ounces of marijuana. Will you take advantage of House Bill 2391? Will you support citations?
Judge Lycos: Right now, the City of Houston has the option of arresting or issuing citations for offenses, for instance thefts under $50. And I'd like to do an analyses of that to see whether there's a problem of people appearing in court. So, no, I have not made a decision on it.
Dean Becker: Ok, I appreciate that. We have...
Judge Lycos: And also the officers have a discretion too.
Dean Becker: Well, there are many times I've heard that they catch kids with a small bag of pot, they'll pour it in the gutter and give them a talking-to and let them go and I think that's the best solution of all. Personally, I think whether it's a seed or an ounce or a pound or a ton it's just not law enforcement's business dealing with marijuana. But that's another matter, one for the Legislature to discuss. We have had over the last several years some situations where grand juries were put together as friends of the judge or of the district attorney, where people have been excluded from trial juries because of their church affiliation or otherwise. How will you handle that? Will we kind of shake up the way we select our juries?
Judge Lycos: Well, fortunately I have a record on grand juries and under our law the grand jury must be representative of the community. And if you look at the grand juries, and incidentally the grand juries are impaneled by judges, they're not selected by the district attorney's office, and if you look at the grand juries that I impanel they cover all demographics, all geographical areas of Harris County. They're young, they're old, they're male, they're female. All ethnicities and occupations. And that's what the statute intended. Now, if you're talking about selecting a jury, then of course it will be selected according to the law.
Dean Becker: Right. Now, there have been spin-off situations on many of these jury selections over the years, but we won't get into that. Now, our previous district attorney, Chuck Rosenthal, resigned a few months back claiming that he had major problems with impaired judgment because of his drug use and I wonder if you see the irony in that and the hypocrisy.
Judge Lycos: You know, Mr. Rosenthal is gone and he has a family so I don't want to dump on him. But certainly it's a serious issue when someone is impaired by pharmaceuticals, whether they're prescribed or the use is illicit.
Dean Becker: Right. I guess to me, he sent thousands, if not tens of thousands of people to prison for their impaired judgment. I see it as totally hypocritical. Now, there's about a dozen states across America that have passed laws that allow patients to use medical marijuana if recommended by their doctor and about six weeks ago a jury in Amarillo, Texas, declared a man suffering from hepatitis C innocent, I think it was kind of a jury nullification because they understood that it is medicine. How much priority will you give to prosecuting medicinal users who have a doctor's recommendation?
Judge Lycos: I don't know that there are many users here in Harris County that have a doctor's recommendation and that's something that the medical establishment needs to address. Is there another medium by which some sort of palliative can be administered other than using what is now an illicit substance?
Dean Becker: I don't know how much of my shows or even the intro to today's show, but I had a gentleman, his name is Dr. Donald Tashkin, he's one of the lead scientists for NIDA, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and he even admitted that much of the hysteria, much of the reasoning, quote-morals behind the marijuana laws is just not based in science. I guess, again, I'll drop that. Now, marijuana has been used by more than 100 million Americans, about half the population, and there are cities across America, I think some dozen plus now, that have passed laws directing their police forces to make enforcement of the marijuana laws the lowest law enforcement priority. Here in Texas and Houston we have no referendum, no means to place such a measure on the ballot. But the will and the focus of the D.A. and the mayor could make a difference in this regard. What do you think about that?
Judge Lycos: I think it's sort of surreal that on one hand we want to ban tobacco and then legalize marijuana. You've got to admit that that is stunning. Secondly, community sentiment does play a large part in enforcement and, as you mentioned, a verdict over in the panhandle of Texas. The law's the law and, you know, how it's applied--there are all sorts of mechanisms that we can use, one of them is deferred prosecution. Others are diversions from our jail. There's a whole panoply of remedies out there and measures that can be implemented. The important thing is that addiction is bad. And we need to address it and the more treatment we can provide then the better off society will be. I don't think any society wants their people intoxicated regardless of what the source is.
Dean Becker: All right, I'll leave it there. This is a more system-wide question. You've observed the situation, implementation of the drug war here in Houston. We now lead the world in our incarceration rate, primarily for drug charges, primarily young black and hispanics, for minor amounts. I guess the question I want to get to, have we made any progress in the drug war in the last five years.
Judge Lycos: I think the greatest progress in the drug war would be made on establishing social controls and changing the minds and the thoughts of the people. No, I don't think the drug war has been a success. I think we need to go after the money. We need to go after the bad guys. We need to go after those banks and other institutions that are laundering the money. The politicians who may aid and abet this evil trade. I see these, I see the dispensing of drugs in our minority community as sabotage and bigotry and they've destroyed neighborhoods.
Dean Becker: I can't argue with that at all. I think it is a huge conspiracy and I appreciate you mentioning the bankers. They are the ones who benefit most, garnering up to 85% of the profits of the drug sales here in America. And it's them and the media they control and maybe the politicians they control that help keep this all in place. Well, if elected and maybe working in combination with the mayor or state legislators et-cetera, do you think we can make some progress in that regard, into squelching the profiteering, if you will, and/or the harms of the drug war. What can we do in the next five?
Judge Lycos: Oh, there's a lot the district attorney can do. The district attorney is the top law enforcement official in Harris County, Texas. And we need to focus on the kingpins, the really bad guys and bad girls, if you will. And you have to have sophisticated investigations. And this business about sweeping up people with crack pipe residue and so forth, what I'd like to do, and really this is a two-fold question--imagine yourself living in a neighborhood and you have children and you have these people lounging around smoking whatever they're smoking, drugs or whatever, and the children have to step over them, evade them and so forth, it's a quality of life issue. We cannot let that exist in our neighborhoods. We have to have a decent, healthy atmosphere. And so that cannot go on. On the other hand, we spent nine million dollars last year sending inmates to another state when we can divert these people from the jail and put them into treatment centers. Just think of what we could do with that nine million dollars.
Dean Becker: We could help a lot of neighborhoods.
Judge Lycos: You're an educated man and you understand that dangerous drugs change the brain, irreparably.
Dean Becker: Well, I might have to disagree with that, at least in part. They certainly can hurt the brain permanently, but I think done in moderation most of them are relatively safe. I'll bring this up: back in 1913, before the Harrison Narcotics Act, Bayer Heroin sold on the grocer's shelf right next to Bayer Aspirin. Back then, as now, Aspirin kills more people than does heroin, so I think we've lost focus of...
Judge Lycos: But I might remind you that the British controlled China with opium.
Dean Becker: Well, yes.
Judge Lycos: So there are two sides to that story.
Dean Becker: There is, but again, when I can grow opium poppies in my backyard and I can bypass the pharmacy and the pharmaceutical companies I think I'm taking away their profits. And I think it has been a charade that has been perpetrated on us, that we've been fed these lies over the years. About two months ago CBS Houston aired a report that looked at the situation where the U.S. leads the world in its incarceration rate, Texas just took over from California leading the nation and Harris County is leading the world. As you said, our jails are overflowing, there's talk of new prisons, our police force is understaffed as are our jails. I read a report the other day, it's estimated that cops in Texas spend more than one million man/hours digging through ashtrays, under car seats and car trunks looking for that elusive bag of pot or whatever other drugs. Don't we have a better use for these law enforcement officers like solving the increasing number of unsolved violent crimes.
Judge Lycos: Well, you're assuming that I'm accepting this research as accurate.
Dean Becker: Well, OK, but say it's 100,000, say it's a thousand, don't we have a better use?
Judge Lycos: There are more efficient ways to use our resources in law enforcement. One of the things that I intend to do as district attorney is to form a cooperative type project, if you will, because our agencies are operating as silos, and sharing the data--you know we have international organized crime here and they're involved in human trafficking, drugs, auto theft, burglary, you name it. Very serious crimes. And by sharing of data and information then we can go after them and not just the low-level offenders.
Dean Becker: All right. I like that. And I liked what you said earlier about going after the traffickers because it's not the guy with an ounce or a pound, a kilo or even ten kilos. It's the people with the boatloads and the airplanes full that are the problem and, go ahead...
Judge Lycos: And one of the things that users need to understand is that that money that they pay out to a pusher is responsible for the assassinations in Mexico. So, their conduct has these consequences too. There are two sides to that story.
Dean Becker: Yes, Ma'am. And I want to interject this thought about those two sides. One is we have the option of regulating, taxing, and actually controlling these controlled substances for adults, or changing the mindset of hundreds of millions of users worldwide and the millions of growers and traffickers. It seems a whole lot simpler to me to tax and regulate and control.
Judge Lycos: Well, when I was a youngster, the social controls--you didn't have the drug use. It's just only when I became a teenager that it was this 'Tune in, turn on and drop out.' And then you've seen the epidemic. So the thought process has changed. The social controls, and you know the social controls are the strongest of all. Yeah. And we should maximize that. Why inject poison in your body?
Dean Becker: For many people, it is some, sort of, post traumatic stress, abuse as a child, abuse in a war, abuse in the community that leads people to seek solace and refuge through drugs, whether it be alcohol or marijuana or ecstasy.
Judge Lycos: You know a lot of our people who are homeless are people who have mental disabilities and they need treatment. And they're in and out of our jails, they're in and out of our emergency rooms. They don't need to be self-medicating with cocaine. They need to have drugs that address their disease because it is a disease.
Dean Becker: Yes, Ma'am. I want to alert the listeners, you are listening to the Cultural Baggage Show right here on KPFT Houston. We have in studio with us Judge Pat Lycos, the Republican candidate for district attorney here in Harris County.
Judge, we have, we talked about it, how the impact of this drug war in the poorer neighborhoods, how it has impacted them, and I see the situation out in San Diego--75 fraternity/sorority people arrested for selling drugs. They said it was just wide open, no one cared, it was just going on without any worries. If we busted every white kid, every college kid that's selling drugs right now, we would probably end the drug war because it seems to be a pretend situation where it's a black and Hispanic problem. But it's the whites that are the majority users. Your thoughts?
Judge Lycos: I think you have to have an even handed application of the law and of enforcement.
Dean Becker: Yes, Ma'am. OK. There's a big flap in San Antonio where a clergyman and some of his associates are giving out new syringes in exchange for old ones. The D.A. there has threatened to prosecute them, was it the State Attorney General says 'Yeah, it was probably OK to do it.' The legislature and the governor wanted this pilot program. I can point you to hundreds of Houston and Harris County health officials who would desperately like for Texas to become the fiftieth state to allow syringe exchanges.
Judge Lycos: Can we take that step by step?
Dean Becker: Yes, Ma'am.
Judge Lycos: OK. I've read the statute. And the statute, it's a pilot project that would authorize Bexar County as part of a health initiative to reduce HIV and hepatitis and other diseases. However, there is nothing in that statute that exempts people from being prosecuted for possession or distribution of narcotics paraphernalia. So first of all, you have a statute that is not well-written, if you will. And anything that's vague and ambiguous creates a problem. And now you also have, and people will say 'Well, you're putting the imprimatur of the state and you want to give people the means with which to inject themselves with poison, with drugs that they have no idea what's contained in those substances...' It really is a moral dilemma and a quandary. And there's a serious issue as to whether this project and the statute, the way that it's written, it does I think violate the law, both state and federal law. So that has to be reappraised and reexamined.
Dean Becker: Again, we would save millions of dollars per year in decreased numbers of Hep C and HIV encountered and again, the quandary you were speaking of, the fact is we have the choice of either allowing them to use these contaminated needles over and over again or giving them ones that will not perpetuate the cycle of disease.
Judge Lycos: But how do you know that they're not going to use those over and over again?
Dean Becker: Well, it's been shown that in those areas where they allow it for needle exchange the number of HIV cases has actually gone down.
You and I are finding points of agreement. I find similar responses when I talk to state reps or other judges or authority figures, but somehow it always ends up being a bunch of finger pointing. The legislators don't enforce the law and the D.A.'s don't write the laws and the cops don't prioritize the law...
Judge Lycos: I hope you don't think that I'm finger pointing or I'm evading your questions.
Dean Becker: No, Ma'am. I guess my point is though, is that when we say the legislature writes the laws and you have to enforce those laws, can't you reason with them, can't you talk to them, you're creating problems for our communities, you're filling our jails, your system is not benefiting our community?
Judge Lycos: Certainly the elected district attorney has the opportunity to testify before the legislature regarding legislation. And one of our great needs now is to have a revision of our mental health laws so that we can reach out and help those who are incapable of helping themselves. You know, the de-institutionalization of our mental institutions in the late seventies has been an absolute humanitarian disaster. I think you will concede that.
Dean Becker: Right. Do we have Reagan to thank for that one, I believe it was, he kind of set out...
Judge Lycos: No he did not. That was a liberal idea and...with good intentions.
Dean Becker: Hell's paved with good intentions.
Judge Lycos: Absolutely. And the unintended consequences of that, and of course these institutions were never replaced with anything on a local level.
Dean Becker: No. Just jails.
Judge Lycos: Well, and you fought the jails and you fought the criminal justice system but, in reality, they're the only ones dealing with these people.
Dean Becker: No, look, I'm not saying that the jailers are bad, that the cops are bad, any one person is bad. I'm saying the mindset, the moral posturing wrapped around this drug war is totally off base. It's cost us a trillion dollars to fund the drug war and we've given ten trillion to the terrorists, cartels and gangs.
Judge Lycos: Which drugs would you legalize?
Dean Becker: I'd legalize them all.
Judge Lycos: OK.
Dean Becker: I would. I want methamphetamines at Walgreens for adults. I want to judge people by their actions, not the contents of their pockets.
Judge Lycos: Are you aware of the effects of methamphetamine?
Dean Becker: Yes, Ma'am. I was addicted to it for three years. I was able to quit when I learned my first son was going to be born. I am aware. It has its perils. I'm not saying I want people to do them. I'm not saying I want people to shoot up heroin. I'm just saying, we need to judge people by their actions.
Judge Lycos: You may not know but I worked my way through undergraduate school and law school as a Houston police officer. And I will never forget arresting this young girl for assault. And she was about half my size. She turned me every way but loose. I'm not kidding you. It took about six people to get her under control. And she was on PCP. Now we've got enough violence in our society, that's why I ask you, what drugs do you intend to see legalized and if you do legalize drugs then the bad guys, the cartels, are going to come out with designer drugs. You know, more and better...I mean where does it stop?
Dean Becker: (laughter) I think it stops when people's actions, like that girl half your size, her actions deserve her having a trip to jail. Not necessarily the contents of her pocket. You know, we have, over the years the morals of society changes and there are lots of archaic laws on the books. I wanted to talk about a couple of them. And this is something that our friend here at KPFT works on, vibrators are illegal in the state of Texas. You must ask permission to ask someone else's garbage in the state of Texas.
Judge Lycos: (laughter)
Dean Becker: And in Houston, the sale of limburger cheese is prohibited on Sunday. Now, we have, these drug laws were crafted from thin air about a hundred years ago. Mexicans on marijuana were stealing white men's jobs. Chinamen on opium might rape white women. Blacks on cocaine, you couldn't bring them down with a .32, they had to use a .38. It has no rationale to it. As I said, even today, Aspirin and Tylenol kill more than all hard drugs combined. Don't we need to refocus our moral mindset?
Judge Lycos: I think we need to reform our moral mindset but perhaps not in the way you are inferring. I think we have a toxic culture today. I mean, when you see the glorification of aberrant behavior, when you see the degradation of young girls and women in our popular entertainment industry, the video games that glorify the murder of women and police officers, gratuitous violence--yeah, we need a whole mindset change. And all of this, if you look at every great civilization, it's been presaged its decline by this sort of thinking that the aberrant is normal.
You know, there's only one thing in this world that no one can give you and no one can take away from you but you can throw away and that's your honor. And we need to start electing people who have honor.
Dean Becker: Now, as has been demonstrated too horrifically, the criminal justice system is so overloaded and often out of control, the jail overcrowding, the lack of sufficient medical care, and it's led to the repeated abuse of juveniles under county and state control. The drug war eats up hundreds of millions of our tax dollars, thus depriving services in other areas. What will you do to solve the problems of abuse of these juvenile offenders?
Judge Lycos: One of the things that we need to do is review the number of children who are detained and look for alternatives. We have so many children who are abused and who are neglected, I think you will concede that. And we have no facilities to put them in. One of the things we may have to consider is to build group homes where the siblings can be together in some semblance of a family atmosphere. There are all sorts of alternatives to prevent crime, to help reach out to young people, to help give them some sense of normality, if you will, to set them on the right path and I think it's our duty to do that.
Dean Becker: I asked this of...
Judge Lycos: Oh, may I say one other thing?
Dean Becker: Yes, Ma'am. Please.
Judge Lycos: The way we're going to finance this is when we go after the money in the drug trade and seize the assets, forfeitures there, then we're going to use that money to finance these various initiatives to reach out and to prevent crime and to help the youngsters, to help the mentally ill.
Dean Becker: I can certainly agree with that premise if we're talking about the people with the boatloads and the planeloads et cetera, not the guy with the kilo in the trunk.
How many officers would it take to arrest every drug dealer in Houston?
Judge Lycos: I don't know.
Dean Becker: You think it's possible?
Judge Lycos: Well, first of all, you have to define your term 'drug dealer.' Are you talking about somebody on the street?
Dean Becker: Well, everybody from the boatload to the crack rock.
Judge Lycos: Well, first of all, it takes brain power to go after these drug czars and their accomplices. And that's where we need to start, you need to have a strategy, you need to have coordination, you need to have brain power and you need to have the will. We need to cut the head off the snake.
Dean Becker: I like what I'm hear...When will we win the war on drugs? Do you have any idea?
Judge Lycos: Yes. When we have many fewer people who resort to the use of toxic materials like that who poison themselves. You know, we had an actor, not too long ago, a youngster who was all in organic food and the environment...
Dean Becker: Was it Heath Ledger?
Judge Lycos: No, it was River Phoenix.
Dean Becker: Oh yes, yes.
Judge Lycos: …And he ends up dying of a drug overdose. I don't understand how you can eat tofu and then turn around and inject something in your veins and you have no clue as to what's in there.
Dean Becker: And that's part of the problem, Ma'am, is that--I close my program with that thought--that because of prohibition you don't know what's in that bag so please be careful. And that's the point. We had a situation here, three years ago, I believe, this summer where a shipment of cocaine came in, went from the traffickers to the distributors. The distributors sold it on Thursday and Friday evenings and by Saturday morning there were fourteen young people dead here in Houston because the product was not cocaine, it was some 85% heroin and they went home and did their quote-normal dose and it killed them. And it is the policy of prohibition that made those deaths happen.
Judge, we have just a minute left. I want to turn it over to you. You can relay your thoughts to the voters out there and I do so much appreciate you coming here.
Judge Lycos: I appreciate this opportunity. I tell you what, I'm very, very concerned about drug abuse and we have more and more young people using pharmaceuticals where they're raiding their parents' medicine cabinet or their grandparents' medicine cabinet and they pour them all in a bowl and they have no clue as to what's in there. How have we come to this as a society?
Dean Becker: It's a valid point. The 'pharm-parties', you're absolutely right. The truth be told, right now methadone is killing three times as many people as is heroin. We need to re-look at this situation.
Judge Lycos: I agree with you. Methadone is a racket.
Dean Becker: (laughter) Thank you. I like that. Once again, friends, we've been speaking with Judge Pat Lycos, she's running for the District Attorney of Harris County on the Republican ballot. And, Judge, I thank you so much for coming in and being our guest. In order to be fair to Mr. Bradford I've given you thirty minutes here but I do so much appreciate you being our guest.
Judge Lycos: I appreciate this, invite me back. You ask me a question, I'm going to respond to it. And I pledge to you that I intend to be the District Attorney of all the people of Harris County and I'm tough but I'm fair.
This is Dean Becker, hoping you enjoyed our discussion with Judge Pat Lycos and that you'll join us next week when our guest will be Dr. Mitch Earleywine, author of the brand-new book, "Parent's Guide to Marijuana." And, as always, I remind you that because of prohibition you don't know what's in that bag. Please be careful.
To the Drug Truth Network listeners around the world, this is Dean Becker for Cultural Baggage and the unvarnished truth. This show produced at the Pacifica studios of KPFT, Houston.
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Pale Fire
Remembering Dmitri Nabokov, the Novelist's Son and Literary Executor
A collection of Vladimir Nabokov's Selected Poems is being published this month. Brian Boyd, the author of the new book Why Lyrics Last, is best known as the world's foremost expert on the great writer—his definitive two-volume biography was published in 1993. He remembers the novelist's son, Dmitri, who died at the age of 77 in February, who was a bon vivant, car lover, and literary executor of his father's legacy. Plus, Lila Azam Zanganeh on the nights she spent reading to Dmitri.
Wayatt Counts / AP Photo
Dmitri Nabokov liked many things, but few better than playing the host—a disposition he may have inherited from his father's father, like his love of music, of telephones, and of cars, and another sharp contrast with his own father.
I first met Dmitri in December 1979. I'd just spent a month cataloging his father's archives in Montreux for his mother, and was stopping in New York between flights, on my way to see my Canadian girlfriend for the first time in six months.
Meeting Véra Nabokov and then Elena Sikorski for the first time, I'd worn a suit my parents had bought to make me look less disreputable, in their eyes, than the orange or fading purple overalls that had become my second skin. I'd felt and no doubt looked awkward in that alien three-piece, and quickly reverted to, if not the overalls, then jeans, while I was working amid the dusty boxes in the library-cum-lumber-room across the corridor from Véra's living room in the Montreux Palace Hotel. But visiting Dmitri for the first time, I thought I'd better tog up again.
I rang the doorbell on Dmitri's apartment just off Central Park, in the East 70s, and there he was, beaming from on high, booming a deep welcome, crushing my hand with his mountain-climber's grip—and in jeans and T-shirt, before me in my three-piece.
I told him I had something like three hours to spend with him before heading to the airport again. But despite my looking at my watch after a couple of hours, he wanted to keep asking questions of me, even more than I wanted to ask questions of him, and kept doing so as he cooked up a quick but toothsome pasta. I told him I'd miss my plane to Toronto, and my connection to Thunder Bay, but he still wanted to question and answer. I did miss my flights, but he called to arrange new ones—not dreaming that they cost a small fortune for someone who had been a student for 10 years, and had spent the first half of the year without an income, while travelling Nabokov trails in the U.S. Northeast, and was now just a postdoc.
Our matching passion for Nabokov and our otherwise mostly mismatching styles shaped our asymmetrical friendship. For much of the decade after 1979, I worked closely with Véra when in Europe. I would see Dmitri most often, when he visited his mother from Monza, in the corridor of the Montreux Palace. Near one end was his mother's sitting room, and at the other, the elevator and the little former laundry cupboard I had transformed into the Nabokov archive room. The moment he emerged from his mother's, "Hello, Brian" would rumble out like low thunder, while he strode at speed toward me and the elevator, as if he needed to gather momentum for take-off in his Ferrari waiting below.
Headlong haste and hesitation combined oddly in Dmitri. A speedster on the ski slopes, the racetrack and the highway, he could be slow and indecisive as a translator and elsewhere. While working on the biography in Montreux I would often have afternoon coffee with Véra, now quite deaf and rarely on speaking terms with her hearing aids. When Dmitri visited, he would act as a megaphone, relaying to his mother what her ears could not catch of my Kiwi accent. They would often be stumped by a few phrases in a translation, and we would discuss different possibilities, slowly, and reach tentative resolutions. But the next afternoon, and perhaps the next, we would return to the same cruxes, and often assay the same options. The pattern would continue, without Véra, when I stayed with Dmitri in later years.
Dmitri loved participating in interviews and documentaries, and again would bask in the role of generous host. I remember him taking Bronwen and me, and the filmmaker Chris Sykes and his cinematographer and sound recordist, to lunch at his favorite restaurant at Caux, on the slopes above Montreux. He seemed to feel the magnificent terrace 700 meters above Lake Geneva almost part of his demesne, and Helmut, the chef, both part of his staff and a personal friend (Helmut too was an ace skier). A devotee of gadgets and of telephone talk, he would swing his bricklike Motorola resonantly down on the table before he sat down, and a meal would rarely go by—certainly neither of the lunches he hosted for the film crew and us—without his being called by friends from around Europe or the Americas. He happily drove his blue Ferrari from Caux down the narrow cobble zigzags toward Montreux, again and again, until the documentary makers had just the shots they needed.
Just over a year before her death, Véra Nabokov had to move out of the Montreux Palace, and Dmitri advised her to buy an apartment 100 meters above the town, up on the slope toward Caux, with a view matching the one from the Montreux Palace suite, but loftier and more breathtakingly panoramic. After her death he inherited the apartment and made it his home, and his own. He set up his large-scale electric model train to snake through the living room and out into the garden, the freight carriages sometimes transporting a brandy bottle and glasses, and enjoyed his large-scale radio-controlled helicopter while he was also learning to fly a real helicopter. The smaller apartment next door was an extended archive room and guest suite. Another apartment above was for his Italian cook. Not quite "fifty servants, and no questions asked," but again like his grandfather, and unlike his father, who preferred the Montreux Palace precisely because he need not employ his own staff, Dmitri liked an ample establishment.
I had cataloged the Nabokov archive partly for Véra to consult, partly so that a prospective purchaser would know what was there. No serious buyer emerged until the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature at the New York Public Library signalled its readiness to acquire the papers, by now mostly in the basement under Dmitri's apartment. Dmitri again showed his indecision, caught between eagerness to sell and reluctance to let the papers go, especially since he feared—this was the height of Russian publishing piracy—that Russian scholars or scoundrels might copy and print the materials. The New York Public Library brought me over from Auckland to Montreux in July 1992 to help persuade Dmitri to relinquish the papers, and I was able to break the impasse by proposing that Russian-language materials could be out of bounds, without special permission, so long as he still had grounds to fear piracy.
Dmitri's love of phone calls—and the further-flung, the better—was another mismatch with my near phone-aversiveness, and even more with the time difference between Montreux and Auckland. Especially in the early years after his mother's death, Dmitri would occasionally ring, usually at about 4 a.m. our time, to seek advice on some problem: translation, editing, locating a manuscript (for his own reference, and for publishing projects, he had kept photocopies of what the Berg had taken), responding to a publisher or to another affront to the Nabokov name. I would tell him what time it was, but he'd be so eager to talk, and I'd be so wide awake by then, that I'd agree to continue, and try to instil in him again, before saying goodbye, a consciousness of the time difference.
The next time, he would not remember, just as he would not remember that when he gave his time and generously opened his memory and his photo and video collections to those who came to interview him for documentaries about his father, they would always leave the thousands of photographs in chaos. He would still say yes, next time, to the next documentary crew—and perhaps still make the same complaint to me in a new middle-of-the-night call.
Some of the most memorable meals I have ever had have been with Dmitri. He enjoyed the fact that I, unlike practically everyone else he hosted, could eat and drink as much as he: it gave him additional license to enjoy all he wanted. We had three heaped helpings of superb pasta, hardly the lightest of foods, at an Italian restaurant on Montreux's Place du Marché, where again he treated the cook as an old friend and a faithful servant. When Bronwen and I came to stay with him over Christmas and New Year 1994, he had his cook serve up such rich fare that Bronwen fell ill from the intake. Perhaps it was two nights before Bronwen succumbed when Dmitri informed us, looking at his then inamorata, that they were going to announce their engagement in Russia, where they had been imminently invited. The next day I arrived with a bottle of champagne to celebrate the news—and Dmitri looked a little bewildered.
Was it that night, when Dmitri, getting no response from his cook after the first course at dinner, despite his penetrating bass, and realizing she was not in the kitchen or within earshot, dashed from the table as if to her defense? A few minutes later he descended from her apartment, slammed a gun down on the dinner table—he had feared she was being abducted, but she was merely having a row with her ex-husband—with its barrel pointing straight at Bronwen. Bronwen, who had never seen a real gun, let alone had one pointed at her, immediately blanched, and I asked Dmitri would he mind not pointing it at my wife. He was surprised: after all, the safety catch, he assured us, was on.
Two years later the Library of America launched its editions of Nabokov's English-language novels and Speak, Memory with a reading of Lolita from start to finish, from Humbert's famous first "Lolita" to his last, in a gallery in New York's SoHo. Dmitri was to begin the 11-hour reading. Its complex schedule meant it had to start strictly on time. Knowing that Dmitri's penchant for speed did not equate to punctuality, the organizers had arranged for a limousine to bring him from his hotel well in advance. Somehow, between leaving his hotel room and reaching the curb, Dmitri managed not to find the limousine driver, and despite frantic calls between SoHo and the Pierre, Dmitri could not be located. Stanley Crouch had to begin, reciting the first chapter from memory. Dmitri eventually arrived late in the first hour.
These were the years when he was at his fiercest as keeper of the flame of his father's reputation. Before he read out the earlyish substitute passage he had chosen from Lolita, he pulled out a prepared text to extol the Library of America project and to denounce would-be dousers and stealers of the flame. After another hour of readings, I left for lunch with Dmitri and our friends, his agent, Nikki Smith, and her husband Peter Skolnik, an intellectual-property lawyer especially invaluable to Dmitri in those years of Russian publishing recklessness. I was onto my third beer—was I keeping up with Dmitri this time, or was it just that the beer was so good?—when one of the organizers came rushing in to tell me I was on soon. I had thought my passage still more than an hour away; I have never popped up from a table so fast. As it happened, I did have most of an hour before my turn, but I think those beers added an extra relish of sinister glee to the passage I had chosen, the bedroom scene in the Enchanted Hunters Hotel.
The most farcical of all the meals I shared with Dmitri I can date to April 24, 1999, the day after his father's 100 birthday. I had spent the birthday itself in St. Petersburg and at Vyra, after Nabokov centenary and Pushkin bicentenary celebrations in St. Petersburg and Moscow all week, and I wanted to report to Dmitri about Russia, St. Petersburg, Vyra, the Nabokov celebrations and the Nabokov Museum, which I had visited for the first time. Gavriel Shapiro was also staying with Dmitri, and as it was a Saturday the cook had gone out for the night, leaving ravioli ready by the stovetop. For years Dmitri's appetite for life had been making him larger, and he was hot in almost any conditions, often leaving doors and windows in his apartment ajar even in winter, and wearing short sleeves and shorts, or less, whenever he could. He was utterly unselfconscious about his body, including the burn scars on his left hand, head, and back from his near-fatal 1982 accident in one of his Ferraris, and about his new girth, and with only two men for company, he happily pottered around the place in no more than his underpants. We sat and talked about the centenary celebrations, I showed the photos I had taken and the posters I had brought, and we discussed translations for Nabokov's Butterflies. We carried on drinking and talking until at about 10 p.m. we realized we should have some dinner, and moved out to the kitchen to get it ready. Somehow despite Florinda's preparations, and with nothing more complicated than ravioli as the centerpiece, and with someone who had mastered Italian food decades ago uncertainly at the helm, we managed to turn the preparations into an ordeal worthy of the Three Stooges, even if our timing was not quite so sharp.
This millennium I have seen less of Dmitri, working as I have mostly on literature and evolution, and trying not to work on Nabokov. For much of the last decade he was wheelchairbound, plagued by diabetes and the resultant leg infections, and by polymyalgic neuropathy. The heavy doses of morphine he was on for the polymyalgia almost killed him in 2002. I saw him shortly after, recovering at a clinic, and read on his laptop a first fragment of his splendidly eloquent and elegant memoir. I urged him to continue, to give it priority, but as far as I know he was able to write little more. His eyes, long troublesome, were making work still more difficult.
After every visit in these years I left Montreux thinking I might never see Dmitri again. Then next time he would still be there, a little less mobile, but as gracious and hospitable as ever, letting me work at his computer whenever he left it, letting me roam for what I needed in the archives at any hour of day or night. He put at my disposal, and Olga Voronina's, the letters from his father to his mother, which Véra had never let me read. (She had kept them in her bedroom, and only after knowing me for five years did she succumb to my repeated requests to have access to them, albeit indirectly, as with a hoarse cough she read the letters aloud, omitting the endearments and more, into my tape-recorder.)
Because of his health, especially his eyesight, Dmitri by now found it hard to undertake sustained projects, but he still enjoyed translating his father's poems, each its own tough nut to chew on. He hoped to translate all the verse in Stikhi (1979), and although his strength ran out before he could do so, he did translate his father's longest Russian poem, "A University Poem," finding a flexibility, in an intermittent rhyme scheme of his own devising, that makes this perhaps his finest achievement as a translator.
One of the last times I shared the same sonic space as Dmitri was during a 2008 radio interview for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Book Show, along with Ron Rosenbaum and Leland de la Durantaye. Dmitri had been thinking for years of publishing The Original of Laura. In 2001 he had the index cards transcribed and sent the typescript to trusted friends like Stephen Parker and myself. The more I reread it, the less I felt my earlier recoil from the text that Véra had allowed me to read once, in her Montreux Palace sitting room. I now regretted my advice to her and Dmitri, the next time he had come to Montreux, that they should destroy it. Ron Rosenbaum read a 2007 article by Leland de la Durantaye that he took as a new sign Dmitri might soon burn the manuscript, and appealed to Dmitri through his Slate column not to do so. Dmitri enjoyed, if not the dilemma itself, then the attention the dilemma aroused, and his own power of decision, and the opportunity for Nabokovian mystification. On the ABC Book Show he told us, tongue half in cheek, that he had a visitation or vision of his father approving his publishing the book.
The last time Bronwen and I stayed with Dmitri was in February 2011. Judging by reports of those who visited him later, we arrived at a bad moment. He was still determined to play the host, but Parkinson's had added to his other troubles and he was locked into a particularly severe attack. We had drinks before dinner, but he could barely speak. That night or perhaps the next—he was much better by then, if still in a sad plight—I asked him, trying to match his perpetual optimism (he would still tell visitors he hoped to drive once more), did he have other Nabokovian projects lined up? "Death," he answered. He waited for, and savoured, our look of horrified concern. Then, after a pause, enjoying the joke, he explained: "I want to translate Smert [Death]," his dulled eyes still twinkling back and forth from Bronwen to me. All remained intact: the intelligence, the wit, the pleasure of an audience and the pleasure of a host offering what he could to his guests, even this brief glimpse of a free self trapped in a failing body.

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Like so many others, I'm a busy working professional so I'm constantly looking for ways to create efficiencies in my life. I have been able to leverage technology in my personal life to make life simpler… paying bills online, using my iPhone to catch up on emails when I'm away from work, researching home redecorating ideas on Pinterest, keeping up with old friends on Facebook. But at work, the technology was from the Ice Ages. I was frustrated everyday by how much time I spent digging through spreadsheets and how little time I spent doing meaningful analysis. That's why I was so intrigued by Anaplan. The consistencies it provided in its platform created so many efficiencies in the process. I saw this tool taking out the mundane day to day tasks of the excel model and allowing me to expand my role into more of a strategic business partner than a number crunching MS Excel® whiz. I've only been working with the product for a few weeks but am already impressed with its ease of use and ability to take a complicated process and make it look simple.
For the past 5 years, I have worked for a Fortune 100 company as a financial analyst/manager in the FP&A group of one of the many divisions. The company tried several tools such as IBM Cognos® Enterprise Planning and Oracle Hyperion® Planning and Essbase to achieve a consistent and efficient forecasting process. However, with every new tool, came obstacles that the analysts and managers could not overcome to complete their forecast and as a result reverted back to the trusty old MS Excel® model. Financial analysts know that MS Excel® gives them control and flexibility of their own forecast which they lose when every change needs to flow through the IT queue. Unfortunately, MS Excel® isn't a good tool for consolidating data, maintaining consistencies across finance teams, creating dynamic models that can be easily updated, and leaves a lot of room for human error. I worked with about 20 excel models every single forecast… I repeated essentially the same process 20 times for each model. I often spent hours rolling models from forecast to forecast… resolving tie out issues, rolling up files for consolidation and recreating reports for the latest forecast.
After years of jockeying numerous MS Excel® models forecast period after forecast period, I was looking for a better way to manage, model, and analyze my forecast data. In the last year, I was introduced to Anaplan and realized that this platform will revolutionize the way that analysts work and at the same time increase the value of what they can contribute. With MS Excel®, the majority of an analyst's time is spent cleansing data and updating spreadsheets that were outdated the second that the source data changed. In the end there is little to no time to analyze the data and an analyst's role becomes labor-intensive struggles that add time, stress, and frustration to each forecast period. What I observed with Anaplan is that there is an easier way. Anaplan enables analysts to create their own business applications using a development language that is familiar to our MS Excel® skill-sets, using an easy to use interface that enables rapid modeling, and without a single call to IT. I went to the 2 day training course and quickly ramped up on how we could now use the Anaplan data model to combine lists (account, product, department, etc.), time scale, and versions to create dynamic models that take a fraction of the time compared to models in MS Excel®. For example I can now automate an import of an account or department list from our data warehouse and use each list in multiple models. When the account or department list changes I don't need to go into multiple spreadsheets to update- a single list is updated via the automated import and every model is updated. Administrative tasks such as this, is, where I spent a lot of my time when in MS Excel® – in Anaplan I now have time to focus on higher value work like sensitivity analysis around my drivers/assumptions, what if scenarios, and dashboards. The role of the Analyst and the value to the organization is transformed with Anaplan – instantly.
I will share my journey into the cloud with this blog, and help others see why Anaplan could be their ray of sunshine that shifts the day-to-day role of the business analyst from tactical Excel Guru to a strategic differentiator for the organization.
Jill King, President and CEO at Twelve Consulting Group Jill has 9+ years leading Accounting and Finance initiatives within large enterprises including United Health Group, CarVal Investors and UBS Global Asset Management. Jill is an expert in building automated and efficient financial models across a broad set of use cases.


A new imaging tool that rapidly diagnoses bacterial lung infections could help prevent unnecessary use of antibiotics in intensive care units.
The bedside technology can detect whether harmful bacteria are present within 60 seconds, so that patients can be treated with the right medicine quickly.
Accurate diagnosis means unnecessary use of antibiotics can be avoided if an infection is not present, helping to stop the emergence of bacteria that are resistant to the medicines, experts say.
Further development of the technology has received £2million from Wellcome Trust and will receive up to £0.9m (US $1.12m) from CARB-X, a major international initiative to tackle antibiotic resistance co-funded by the US Government and Wellcome.
The rise of antimicrobial resistance is the biggest challenge in modern medicine. The support and mentorship from CARB-X will accelerate development of Proteus technology to be ready for clinical use faster and more widely than previously possible.
Proteus uses chemicals that light up when they attach to specific types of bacterial infection.
This fluorescence is detected using fibre-optic tubes that are small enough to be threaded deep inside patients' lungs. The technology easily reaches parts of the lungs existing tools cannot, the team says.
The approach could revolutionise the way critically ill patients – and others with long-term lung conditions – are assessed and treated. It could also aid understanding of bacterial diseases.
Researchers are initially focused on helping patients with lung infections and intensive care patients with suspected pneumonia who are being ventilated to help them breathe.
Around 20 million patients in intensive care need machines to help them breathe each year.
Up to one third of these patients are suspected as having serious lung infections during their time in intensive care.
Doctors currently rely on X-rays and blood tests for diagnosis, but these can be slow and imprecise.
Patients are often treated with antibiotics as a precaution, which exposes them to potential side effects.
Experts say that a blanket approach to therapy contributes to the emergence of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics.
Drug resistant infection is already a huge global health challenge – and it is getting worse. We need global powers to work together on a number of fronts – from the beginning to the end of the drug and diagnostic development pipeline. CARB-X is supporting projects like Proteus to build a robust pipeline of products to fulfil this need.
The interdisciplinary collaboration – called Proteus – is led by researchers at the Universities of Edinburgh and Bath and Heriot-Watt University.
It has been supported by the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council with additional support from the Wellcome Trust and Medical Research Council.
CARB-X is the world's largest public-private partnership devoted to antibacterial preclinical research and development. It will spend $450 million from 2017-2021 to support innovative products moving towards human clinical trials.
The partnership is funded by the US Government and the Wellcome Trust. It is led by Boston University School of Law. Other partners include the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, MassBio, the California Life Sciences Institute and RTI International.
CARB-X is a bold new approach to developing life-saving treatments for antibiotic-resistant infections. By accelerating promising research into novel drugs, diagnostics and vaccine, it is our hope that we can speed up the delivery of new effective antibacterials, vaccines and rapid diagnostics to patients who need them.


There are two variants of VACUUM: standard VACUUM and VACUUM FULL. VACUUM FULL can reclaim more disk space but runs much more slowly. Also, the standard form of VACUUM can run in parallel with production database operations. (Commands such as SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE will continue to function as normal, though you will not be able to modify the definition of a table with commands such as ALTER TABLE while it is being vacuumed.) VACUUM FULL requires exclusive lock on the table it is working on, and therefore cannot be done in parallel with other use of the table. Another disadvantage of VACUUM FULL is that while it reduces table size, it does not reduce index size proportionally; in fact it can make indexes larger. Generally, therefore, administrators should strive to use standard VACUUM and avoid VACUUM FULL.
In PostgreSQL, an UPDATE or DELETE of a row does not immediately remove the old version of the row. This approach is necessary to gain the benefits of multiversion concurrency control (see Chapter 13): the row version must not be deleted while it is still potentially visible to other transactions. But eventually, an outdated or deleted row version is no longer of interest to any transaction. The space it occupies must then be reclaimed for reuse by new rows, to avoid infinite growth of disk space requirements. This is done by running VACUUM.
The standard form of VACUUM removes dead row versions in tables and indexes and marks the space available for future reuse. However, it will not return the space to the operating system, except in the special case where one or more pages at the end of a table become entirely free and an exclusive table lock can be easily obtained. In contrast, VACUUM FULL actively compacts tables by moving row versions to earlier pages. It is thus able to force pages at the end of the table to become entirely free, whereupon it will return them to the operating system. However, if many rows must be moved, this can take a long time. Also, moving a row requires transiently making duplicate index entries for it (the entry pointing to its new location must be made before the old entry can be removed); so moving a lot of rows this way causes severe index bloat.
Tip: Neither form of VACUUM is entirely satisfactory when a table contains large numbers of dead row versions as a result of massive update or delete activity. If you have such a table and you need to reclaim the excess disk space it occupies, the best way is to use CLUSTER or one of the table-rewriting variants of ALTER TABLE. These commands rewrite an entire new copy of the table and build new indexes for it. Like VACUUM FULL, they require exclusive lock. Note that they also temporarily use extra disk space, since the old copies of the table and indexes can't be released until the new ones are complete. In the worst case where your disk is nearly full, VACUUM FULL may be the only workable alternative.
It is possible to run ANALYZE on specific tables and even just specific columns of a table, so the flexibility exists to update some statistics more frequently than others if your application requires it. In practice, however, it is usually best to just analyze the entire database, because it is a fast operation. ANALYZE uses a statistical random sampling of the rows of a table rather than reading every single row.
Tip: Although per-column tweaking of ANALYZE frequency might not be very productive, you might well find it worthwhile to do per-column adjustment of the level of detail of the statistics collected by ANALYZE. Columns that are heavily used in WHERE clauses and have highly irregular data distributions might require a finer-grain data histogram than other columns. See ALTER TABLE SET STATISTICS, or change the database-wide default using the default_statistics_target configuration parameter.
PostgreSQL's MVCC transaction semantics depend on being able to compare transaction ID (XID) numbers: a row version with an insertion XID greater than the current transaction's XID is "in the future" and should not be visible to the current transaction. But since transaction IDs have limited size (32 bits at this writing) a cluster that runs for a long time (more than 4 billion transactions) would suffer transaction ID wraparound: the XID counter wraps around to zero, and all of a sudden transactions that were in the past appear to be in the future — which means their outputs become invisible. In short, catastrophic data loss. (Actually the data is still there, but that's cold comfort if you cannot get at it.) To avoid this, it is necessary to vacuum every table in every database at least once every two billion transactions.
The reason that periodic vacuuming solves the problem is that PostgreSQL distinguishes a special XID FrozenXID. This XID is always considered older than every normal XID. Normal XIDs are compared using modulo-232 arithmetic. This means that for every normal XID, there are two billion XIDs that are "older" and two billion that are "newer"; another way to say it is that the normal XID space is circular with no endpoint. Therefore, once a row version has been created with a particular normal XID, the row version will appear to be "in the past" for the next two billion transactions, no matter which normal XID we are talking about. If the row version still exists after more than two billion transactions, it will suddenly appear to be in the future. To prevent data loss, old row versions must be reassigned the XID FrozenXID sometime before they reach the two-billion-transactions-old mark. Once they are assigned this special XID, they will appear to be "in the past" to all normal transactions regardless of wraparound issues, and so such row versions will be good until deleted, no matter how long that is. This reassignment of old XIDs is handled by VACUUM.
This implies that if a table is not otherwise vacuumed, autovacuum will be invoked on it approximately once every autovacuum_freeze_max_age minus vacuum_freeze_min_age transactions. For tables that are regularly vacuumed for space reclamation purposes, this is of little importance. However, for static tables (including tables that receive inserts, but no updates or deletes), there is no need for vacuuming for space reclamation, and so it can be useful to try to maximize the interval between forced autovacuums on very large static tables. Obviously one can do this either by increasing autovacuum_freeze_max_age or by decreasing vacuum_freeze_min_age.
VACUUM normally only scans pages that have been modified since the last vacuum, but relfrozenxid can only be advanced when the whole table is scanned. The whole table is scanned when relfrozenxid is more than vacuum_freeze_table_age transactions old, when the VACUUM FREEZE command is used, or when all pages happen to require vacuuming to remove dead row versions. When VACUUM scans the whole table, after it's finished age(relfrozenxid) should be a little more than the vacuum_freeze_min_age setting that was used (more by the number of transactions started since the VACUUM started). If no whole-table-scanning VACUUM is issued on the table until autovacuum_freeze_max_age is reached, an autovacuum will soon be forced for the table.
The "autovacuum daemon" actually consists of multiple processes. There is a persistent daemon process, called the autovacuum launcher, which is in charge of starting autovacuum worker processes for all databases. The launcher will distribute the work across time, attempting to start one worker on each database every autovacuum_naptime seconds. One worker will be launched for each database, with a maximum of autovacuum_max_workers processes running at the same time. If there are more than autovacuum_max_workers databases to be processed, the next database will be processed as soon as the first worker finishes. Each worker process will check each table within its database and execute VACUUM and/or ANALYZE as needed.
The autovacuum_max_workers setting limits how many workers may be running at any time. If several large tables all become eligible for vacuuming in a short amount of time, all autovacuum workers may become occupied with vacuuming those tables for a long period. This would result in other tables and databases not being vacuumed until a worker became available. There is not a limit on how many workers might be in a single database, but workers do try to avoid repeating work that has already been done by other workers. Note that the number of running workers does not count towards the max_connections nor the superuser_reserved_connections limits.
is compared to the total number of tuples inserted or updated since the last ANALYZE.
The default thresholds and scale factors are taken from postgresql.conf, but it is possible to override them on a table-by-table basis; see Storage Parameters for more information. If a setting has been changed via storage parameters, that value is used; otherwise the global settings are used. See Section 18.9 for more details on the global settings.
Besides the base threshold values and scale factors, there are six more autovacuum parameters that can be set for each table via storage parameters. The first parameter, autovacuum_enabled, can be set to false to instruct the autovacuum daemon to skip that particular table entirely. In this case autovacuum will only touch the table if it must do so to prevent transaction ID wraparound. Another two parameters, autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay and autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit, are used to set table-specific values for the Cost-Based Vacuum Delay feature. autovacuum_freeze_min_age, autovacuum_freeze_max_age and autovacuum_freeze_table_age are used to set values for vacuum_freeze_min_age, autovacuum_freeze_max_age and vacuum_freeze_table_age respectively.
When multiple workers are running, the cost limit is "balanced" among all the running workers, so that the total impact on the system is the same, regardless of the number of workers actually running.


So when in this day I see the leaders of nations again talking peace while preparing for war, I take fearful pause. When I see our country today intervening in what is basically a civil war, mutilating hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese children with napalm, burning villages and rice fields at random, painting the valleys of that small Asian country red with human blood, leaving broken bodies in countless ditches and sending home half-men, mutilated mentally and physically; when I see the unwillingness of our government to create the atmosphere for a negotiated settlement of this awful conflict by halting bombings in the North and agreeing unequivocally to talk with the Vietcong–and all this in the name of pursuing the goal of peace–I tremble for our world. I do so not only from dire recall of the nightmares wreaked in the wars of yesterday, but also from dreadful realization of today's possible nuclear destructiveness and tomorrow's even more calamitous prospects.
Before it is too late, we must narrow the gaping chasm between our proclamations of peace and our lowly deeds which precipitate and perpetuate war. We are called upon to look up from the quagmire of military programs and defense commitments and read the warnings on history's signposts.
One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.
Before we mount up to the place of victory in prayer, let us complete the human equation. The Master retreats, and when he returns, his friends on whom he counted and whom he asked to stand sentry for a while, had failed him. Maybe he wanted to have this last little time to get ready and needed to be protected from sudden appearance and surprise attack by his enemies, who were already making their way through the chill night to arrest the Savior of the world.
At any rate, I seem to hear an almost unutterable sorrow rising like a hurt cry up out of the depths of the soul of our Lord. "What, could you not watch with me one hour?" Was that too much to ask? He had comforted them and strengthened them and guided them, and now in his hour of need they failed. Let that question pass quietly among us on this Lenten Sunday morning. Let the presence of this preacher be wiped out, let this voice be lost in another.
Hear your Lord ask you: "Was it too much to ask you to watch with me one hour? Did I ask too much when I asked that you be regular in worship one day a week? Do I go too far in saying, "Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.' Is it too much that I ask you to show a little kindess to my little ones, to those who are old and tired, to those who are sick and in pain, to those who are alone in prison?" "Look," he says now to us, "look at these nail marks. They are there for you. Do I ask too much?" In that piteous cry of our Lord I hear a word from the sixty-ninth psalm, "Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none" (Psalm 69:20).
…What a sermon! Have you ever preached a sermon shorter than your text? And then they engaged in a brief dialogue. I think it was after the sermon. And he started talking about some things. And before the dialogue was over, we would call it a fellowship, he almost got killed just talking about the sermon.
How often have our lives, as representatives of the gospel of Jesus Christ, been threatened for having dialogue about the sermon we had just delivered? We are not in particular danger because we have too often adjusted to this anti-prophetic age. There is no danger in the sermons we preach, no challenge, and no threat to anybody in particular.
But Jesus almost got killed on his first public sermon–perhaps, his first public sermon. And let me say, we ought to remember that the community, the world does not like prophets, and neither does the church. The world does not like prophets. Prophets disturb us. They shake us out of our dogmatic slumber. So we prefer comfort to commitment. The world does not like prophets. Prophets override our creeds and our half-truths. Prophets expose our injustices and our contradictions and put to shame our mediocrity. The world does not like prophets and the church often refuses to celebrate them.


Go to almost any direct selling business meeting, conference or training day and it's not hard to see that this is an industry that attracts women.
According to the Direct Selling Association, women account for around 74% of the direct selling workforce.
We're not telling you anything you don't know when we say that direct selling appeals to women for a number of reasons, most notably its flexibility and its focus on the importance of building relationships.
The opportunity to build a business whilst raising a family, studying, or working a regular desk job is immensely appealing, particularly to women who statistics show are generally earning less in those desk jobs than their male counterparts.
Jeunesse partners that opportunity with exclusive youth-enhancement products, dedicated support and a rewarding lifestyle.
With all that going for us, is it any wonder we have some amazing, strong female leaders across Jeunesse?
Each year in offices, cafes, community centres and homes around the world people come together and acknowledge International Women's Day on 8 March. Each year has a theme, encouraging people to think about specific issues relating to women's equality. This year's theme is Balance for Better.
From social media campaigns to political protests, it's clear that we've entered a period of time where balance and equity are expected.
To quote the International Women's Day campaign, "Balance drives a better working world".
Here at Jeunesse we believe in #BalanceforBetter. One way you can see how we support gender equity is by coming along to our Australia and New Zealand Regional Convention which kicks off on International Women's Day, Friday 8 March.
See you on the Gold Coast this week!


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When you want to make a FaceTime call or send text messages to your friends on iPad, how to transfer contacts from iPhone to iPad?
If you do not want to waste lots of time to transfer the files, here is the right article for you.
It should be time-consuming when you add the contacts one by one with the detailed information, such as the phone number, pictures and address. Is there a way to transfer contacts from iPhone to iPad in a batch process?
The article shares 3 methods to copy contacts from iPhone to iPad with AirDrop, iCloud and other tools. Now you can learn more detailed information from the best solutions in the article now.
If you want to manage all the contacts before transferring, Apeaksoft MobieTrans should be the best solution. It is the alternative but superior to iTunes to transfer contacts from iPhone to iPad. Moreover, you can also manage single contacts or group contacts with ease.
Transfer single, multiple contacts from iPhone to iPad simply.
Sync contacts including phone number, emails, address, name, etc.
Manage iOS contacts on computer directly.
Work with iPhone XS/XR/X/8/7/6/5, iPad Pro, Air, mini, etc.
Download and install iPhone contact transfer, launch the program on your computer. After that, you can you can connect iPhone and iPad to computer with the original USB cable.
Whether you need to transfer all the contacts or the whole contacts list, you should select your iPhone from the device drop-down list, and then click "Contacts" to choose the desired contacts to transfer from iPhone to iPad with ease. Of course, you can preview the contacts first.
Besides the transferring features, you can find other features to manage the contacts information, such as phone number, pictures, address and more others.
1. Export contacts to Vcard for Gmail/Yahoo/Gmail, CSV for Hotmail/AOL, or directly for Outlook, etc.
2. Import contacts from Outlook, Windows Address Book, CSV and vCard to iPhone.
3. Edit contacts information, like adding contacts, edit contact details and deleting the unwanted ones.
4. Detect and remove the duplicate the contacts before transferring contacts from iPhone to iPad.
After that, you can click the Export to Device button to export the contacts from iPhone to iPad. Just open the Contacts app on your iPad to make a FaceTime or send text messages directly.
When you have the same iCloud account for the iPhone and iPad, you can transfer contacts and other information via iCloud. If you turn on iCloud contacts, all contacts information stored on the separate device will upload to iCloud. Just learn more detailed process to transfer contacts from iPhone to iPad via iCloud as below.
Go to "Settings" and choose your name, find the "iCloud" option in the drop down list. If you are using iPhone with iOS 12 or earlier, you can go to "Settings" > "iCloud" to turn on the "Contacts".
Login the iCloud account on your iPad, you can go to "Settings" > "iCloud" to turn on the "iCloud" option. iCloud will transfer contacts from iPhone to iPad within a few seconds.
If you just want to share one contact from iPhone to your iPad, you can use AirDrop instead. Make sure both iPhone and iPad are under the same Wi-Fi environment. After that, you can follow the process to transfer contacts between iPhone and iPad with AirDrop.
Swipe up from the button of your iPhone and iPad, you can go to "Settings" > "General" > "AirDrop" to choose the "Contacts Only" or "Everyone" is checked for both devices.
Step 2. Open the "Contacts" app on iPhone, choose the desired contacts you want to transfer, and tap the "Share" option in the upper right corner. After that, you can choose the iPad that you want to transfer the contact from iPhone to iPad.
Step 3. There is a notification on your iPad to enable the transfer. Now you can get the detailed contact information within your iPad, you can transfer few contacts in the way. But if you need to share all the files, it should be a time consuming process.
However, AirDrop needs your more efforts to transfer contact one by one from iPhone to iPad. What's worse, AirDrop not working is the issue that occurs to many users.
If you just need to transfer contacts from iPhone to iPad, you can simply use the iCloud, AirDrop or other methods via Wi-Fi to transfer the files. But if you want to manage the files before transferring, Apeaksoft MobieTrans should be the ultimate solution you have to take into consideration. More queries about how to transfer contacts from iPhone to iPad, you can feel free to leave more comments in the article.


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Retirement Age Expectations vs. Reality
By Wayne Johnson - Financial Advisor | Featured Articles, News | 0 comment | 3 January, 2023 | 0
47% – Percentage of retirees who retired earlier than planned, with nearly one-third citing an unexpected hardship, such as a health problem or disability. Source: Employee Benefit Research Institute, 2022 Workers typically plan to retire much later than the actual age reported by retirees. In the 2022 Retirement Confidence Survey, 65% of workers said they
By Wayne Johnson - Financial Advisor | Featured Articles, News | 0 comment | 1 December, 2022 | 0
Busy, cash-strapped parents might welcome all the help they can get when saving for college. Building a college fund, even a small one, can help families feel more in control and less stressed during the college research and admission process. Think of a college fund as a down payment. Then at college time, it can
Spending Higher Than Expected for More Retirees in 2022
By Wayne Johnson - Financial Advisor | Featured Articles, News | 0 comment | 1 November, 2022 | 0
65.4% – Percentage of U.S. adults ages 55 to 64 who were working as of May 2022, nearly the same rate as in February 2020 (65.5%) before the pandemic. The rate dropped during the summer of 2022 due to seasonal variation, but this represents a strong and unexpected rebound for this age group. Many economists
By Wayne Johnson - Financial Advisor | Featured Articles, News | 0 comment | 1 October, 2022 | 0
After dropping the benchmark federal funds rate to a range of 0%–0.25% early in the pandemic, the Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve has begun raising the rate aggressively in response to high inflation and a stronger economy. Following 0.25% and 0.50% increases in March and May 2022, the Committee implemented successive 0.75%
The Cost of Borrowing
By Wayne Johnson - Financial Advisor | Featured Articles, News | 0 comment | 1 September, 2022 | 0
5.12 million – Existing home sales in June 2022, down 14.2% from June 2021. Rising mortgage rates and general inflation have cut into purchasing power for homebuyers, while the national median existing-home price reached a record $416,000, up 13.4% from one year ago. A recent increase in homes on the market may help to ease
By Wayne Johnson - Financial Advisor | Featured Articles, News | 0 comment | 1 August, 2022 | 0
Higher taxes could follow in the wake of soaring government spending on pandemic relief measures — a likelihood that shines a new light on the tax advantages of life insurance. Permanent life insurance offers a tax-free death benefit, and a portion of each premium goes into a cash-value account that accumulates on a tax-deferred basis.
The Potential Benefits of Roth IRAs for Children
By Wayne Johnson - Financial Advisor | Featured Articles, News | 0 comment | 1 July, 2022 | 0
Most teenagers probably aren't thinking about saving for retirement, buying a home, or even paying for college when they start their first jobs. Yet a first job can present an ideal opportunity to explain how a Roth IRA can become a valuable savings tool in the pursuit of future goals. Rules of the Roth Minors
GDP Growth Highest in 37 Years
By Wayne Johnson - Financial Advisor | Featured Articles, News | 0 comment | 1 June, 2022 | 0
$23.0 trillion – Total value of 2021 U.S. GDP expressed in current dollars, an increase of $2.1 trillion over 2020. Both real GDP (inflation-adjusted) and current-dollar GDP surpassed pre-pandemic levels. Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2022 In 2021, U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) — the value of goods and services produced in the
Closing the Social Security Funding Gap
By Wayne Johnson - Financial Advisor | Featured Articles, News | 0 comment | 2 May, 2022 | 0
$147,000 – Limit on wages subject to Social Security payroll taxes in 2022 (increased annually for inflation). Proposals to address the Social Security funding shortfall include eliminating the wage cap or maintaining the cap and then reinstating the tax at higher income levels. Proposals differ as to whether benefits would be increased commensurate with higher
Raising Money-Smart Teens
By Wayne Johnson - Financial Advisor | Featured Articles, News | 0 comment | 1 April, 2022 | 0
As teens look forward to summer activities, especially those that cost money, the next few months might present an ideal opportunity to help them learn about earning, spending, and saving. Here are a few age-based tips. Younger Teens In recent years, apps have proliferated to help parents teach tweens and teens basic money management skills.


Hardly anyone in the pop music world knows how to write a longer piece of music. Patrick Moraz, a welcome exception, wrote a stunning album called (The Story of) i, his first solo album and an incredible piece of music. It's broken into seven tracks per side to help the listener figure it out, but really the only break in the music is between side 1 and side 2. (The Story of) i is one piece of music, a true concept album. This is nothing like any pop record you've ever heard. It's incredibly high energy, fiercely dramatic, very complex, full of odd meters and Latin rhythms, with some elements of baroque and romantic era thrown in. It's maybe half instrumental, with only three songs that could pass as pop songs in the usual sense. It's way out there, definitely a record that not everyone is going to like or understand (especially on the first listen), but it gets my highest rating.
Listen to how the themes develop over the album, the incredible synthesis of classical writing and Latin rhythms and catchy melodies, and the furious drive of the band on the uptempo parts. Highlights include the neo-baroque "Intermezzo", the furious "Indoors", the gorgeous ballad "The Best Years of Our Lives", and "Impressions", an improvised cadenza (performed by Moraz on piano) based on themes from the album. Listen to the fascinating combinations of instruments (just look at the credits to get an idea of how many instruments were used on this record). Some neat things to listen for: The vocals at the beginning of "Intermezzo" - French lyrics on the left track, English on the right. The countermelody in the bass under the vocals of "Dancing Now". The collision of musical themes, one after the other, in the climax "Rise and Fall". If any of this sounds even remotely like something you'd like, hunt down (The Story of) i at all costs. You may notice I almost never give my maximum score; that is because I've been saving it for this one.
Good stuff: One of the best conceived albums from a composition standpoint, ever. Also incredible playing and a brilliant mix of styles.
Bad stuff: It's hard to think of negative things here - but I will say that this record is not for everybody. It's extremely intense and complex and is not the kind of music you're going to catch all of the first time around.
- Moraz recorded with Yes for the album Relayer, after which Yes' five members agreed to each make a solo album. This is Moraz' contribution to that effort.
- The idea for the bizarre story of this album came about while Yes was on tour, and, driving through the countryside, they spotted a big, mysterious-looking tower. Jon Anderson and Patrick Moraz discussed what might be in there, and when discussion turned to fantastic speculation, the idea for this record took shape.
- Mr. Moraz was kind enough to include an insert in the album explaining each part of i in detail - the instrumentation, composition ideas, relation to the overall story, etc - all hand-scribbled and photocopied! Find an old copy of the record (not the CD) that has this, it's fascinating.
- I didn't feel it necessary to list it all here, but the jacket lists every kind of keyboard and percussion played by Moraz on this album - a list of 26 instruments!
- According to the actual record album, the title of this album is simply "i". One letter, lowercase (which spell checks hate), written in the shape of the tower. "The Story of i" is a later adjustment of the title.


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Section 30-24-810
LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS
DISSOLUTION AND WINDING UP
30-24-810. DISPOSITION OF ASSETS IN WINDING UP — WHEN CONTRIBUTIONS REQUIRED. (a) In winding up its activities and affairs, a limited partnership shall apply its assets, including the contributions required by this section, to discharge the partnership's obligations to creditors, including partners that are creditors.
(b) After a limited partnership complies with subsection (a) of this section, any surplus must be distributed in the following order, subject to any charging order in effect under section 30-24-703, Idaho Code:
(1) To each person owning a transferable interest that reflects contributions made and not previously returned, an amount equal to the value of the unreturned contributions; and
(2) Among partners and persons dissociated as partners in proportion to their respective rights to share in distributions immediately before the dissolution of the partnership, except to the extent necessary to comply with any transfer effective under section 30-24-702, Idaho Code.
(c) If a limited partnership's assets are insufficient to satisfy all of its obligations under subsection (a) of this section, with respect to each unsatisfied obligation incurred when the partnership was not a limited liability limited partnership, the following rules apply:
(1) Each person that was a general partner when the obligation was incurred and that has not been released from the obligation under section 30-24-607, Idaho Code, shall contribute to the partnership for the purpose of enabling the partnership to satisfy the obligation. The contribution due from each of those persons is in proportion to the right to receive distributions in the capacity of a general partner in effect for each of those persons when the obligation was incurred.
(2) If a person does not contribute the full amount required under paragraph (1) of this subsection with respect to an unsatisfied obligation of the partnership, the other persons required to contribute by paragraph (1) of this subsection on account of the obligation shall contribute the additional amount necessary to discharge the obligation. The additional contribution due from each of those other persons is in proportion to the right to receive distributions in the capacity of a general partner in effect for each of those other persons when the obligation was incurred.
(3) If a person does not make the additional contribution required by paragraph (2) of this subsection, further additional contributions are determined and due in the same manner as provided in that paragraph.
(d) A person that makes an additional contribution under subsection (c)(2) or (3) of this section may recover from any person whose failure to contribute under subsection (c)(1) or (2) of this section necessitated the additional contribution. A person may not recover under this subsection more than the amount additionally contributed. A person's liability under this subsection may not exceed the amount the person failed to contribute.
(e) If a limited partnership does not have sufficient surplus to comply with subsection (b)(1) of this section, any surplus must be distributed among the owners of transferable interests in proportion to the value of the respective unreturned contributions.
(f) All distributions made under subsections (b) and (c) of this section must be paid in money.
[30-24-810, added 2015, ch. 243, sec. 40, p. 868.]


The Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Program at Duke University seeks applications for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor rank in Black Feminism and/or Feminist Studies of Race to begin in August 2018. We are open to a variety of disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and methodological approaches that explore the relationships among gender, sexuality, and race. Teaching feminist theories on both graduate and undergraduate levels is expected.
Applicants should have completed a Ph.D. or expect to complete one by July 1, 2018. The department strongly encourages applications from women and members of underrepresented minorities. The appointment is 100% within the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Program. Please include in your application a letter of application, a CV, a writing sample, and three letters of reference. Submit applications electronically through AcademicJobsOnline.org to Priscilla Wald, Director, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies.
Applications received by October 31, 2017 will be guaranteed full consideration.