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Reimagining Kaiseki Through the Lens of Three Award-Winning LA Chefs
By Lesley Balla July 1, 2019
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L.A. is buzzing with kaiseki right now—the tradition of serving multi-course meals to celebrate the seasons with exacting technique and local ingredients. By definition, this could describe about half the menus around town, characterized as Italian, French, or "Los Angeles" cuisine. But in Japan, kaiseki is a true art form: everything from how a chef prepares a piece of fish to when it's served and even how it's served, is a precise decision. In fact, in its truest form, kaiseki might be too stuffy for our free-wheeling, relaxed way of dining out. That's not stopping some of the city's best chefs, like Brandon Go, Niki Nakayama, and David Schlosser, from borrowing the tenets of kaiseki to create a winning formula at their restaurants.
At Hayato, a diminutive seven-seat restaurant hidden in the concrete maze of ROW DTLA, Go utilizes five basic techniques of Japanese cooking—sashimi, grilling, steaming, frying, and simmering—for his 10-course menus. Featuring mostly Japanese seafood and locally grown vegetables, each dish is a study in minimalism. But dishes like tender abalone with a dollop of liver sauce, and seared spot prawn served cold with vinegar jelly, show the depth and complexity behind each preparation; It takes a lot of effort to get something quite complicated to taste that simple.
"So much work goes into each dish," says the chef. "It's like learning about really special wines. You know it's not just about the flavor—you have to know why Chablis is the way it is. You have to know terroir and technique."
Owan at Hayato. Owan is the Japanese word for lidded bowl, an essential component of a kaiseki or Japanese tasting menu. Photo Credit: Dylan + Jeni.
Growing up working in his father's sushi restaurant and training under some of Japan's best kaiseki chefs in Tokyo, Go knew he wanted Hayato to be a meaningful dining experience. The chef began by offering lunchtime-only bento boxes; now, with a full-service restaurant, the elaborate bentos are only available on Fridays and Saturdays. For his dinner menus, Go searches for unique ingredients— things he fell in love with in Japan, like blackthroat seaperch, or produce local farmers grow in small quantities.
"As much as I'd like to use local seafood, we import almost all of the fish. I'll use local crab, abalone, and spot prawns, but blackthroat sea perch, or nodoguro, is considered by many to be the best fish for grilling in Japan." Go adds: "It's always on my menu—my favorite fish to use. We get most of our produce from a farm in Oxnard."
Hayato. Photo Credit: Dylan + Jeni.
With some omakase menus, a server or chef might simply deliver a dish and quietly recite a few ingredients. At Hayato, Go presents that night's offerings with as much detail as you and the other diners in the room desire—from where the ingredients were sourced, to the techniques used to prepare them. It must be working: Hayato was awarded one star by Michelin, a feat for a restaurant that's only one year old.
"The first year at Hayato has been an incredible ride," he says of the designation. "More than anything, we're just happy to be able to make our living making food that we are proud of."
Across the city, in Palms, Niki Nakayama's 26-seat n/naka is probably the restaurant most associated with kaiseki cuisine in L.A. Featured widely in the press, including her own episode of Chef's Table, chef Nakayama's crown jewel has received countless awards—like two stars for n/naka from Michelin, the first female chef to get the designation in L.A.—and gobs of praise for her exquisite tasting menus at the zen-like restaurant.
"People understand kaiseki a lot more now," adds Nakayama. "My first experience with it was so profound in Japan; the unveiling of little gifts in every dish, is what I hoped to capture when we opened in 2011. To have gratitude toward these wonderful ingredients that nature provides, that's a wonderful platform to grow from." But even Nakayama admits that her style is not traditional kaiseki.
Scallop tartate at n/naka. Photo Credit: Zen Sekizawa.
"Kaiseki to me means using the best ingredients found closest to you—very seasonal—and present[ing] them in ways so that too many things don't overshadow [them]," says the James Beard award-winning chef. "Local ingredients alone don't make it kaiseki—you have to plate a certain way, place in a certain direction, [use] certain colors [as] part of the meal. We try to adhere to that philosophy and tradition but be mindful that we're not in Japan—we want to represent California as well."
Nakayama and chef de cuisine Carole Iida-Nakayama (also Nakayama's wife) grow a lot of their own ingredients at their Culver City home—things like cucumber, squashes, shishito peppers, Japanese eggplant, tomatoes, Szechuan buttons, passionfruit, citrus, and herbs. They work closely with local farmers for a lot of produce as well, and while they use much locally caught wild seafood and shellfish, they also import different varieties from Japan.
Dishes on the 13-course menu change per availability, but the cooking techniques and order of what's served remains the same. For instance, the saki zuke course, "a pairing of something common and something unique," might be sazae conch with sweet potato or roasted konbu soup, dashi foam, and caviar. Another, the zukuri, "a modern interpretation of sashimi," will feature kanpachi with bell pepper and jalapeno gelees, and an avocado sauce. With cherries in season, Nakayama pickles them and serves with wild vermillion rockfish grilled over binchotan.
Like Nakayama, Shibumi chef David Schlosser relies on California produce to serve dishes rooted in kaiseki principles, but without the rigidity. As a California native, Schlosser doesn't think locals will support a true kaiseki experience—one that strictly follows the seasons, presents plates and dishes in a certain and precise order, and serves them in a private room; it's too formal. So, while the vision and execution behind each of Schlosser's dishes is rooted in kaiseki, the service and style of dining is not.
His 42-seat kappo-style restaurant offers a more relaxed experience: "A kappo in its purest form is like pared-down kaiseki," the chef adds. "The menu is based on kaiseki rules, but with a little less formality. It's much more approachable." The ingredients are pristine, plateware is selected to showcase them, and specific cooking techniques are implemented; but unless it's an omakase menu, there isn't much order to how things are served. In short: All of those "stuffy" traditions go out the window.
After working with Michelin-starred restaurants in Japan, Schlosser—who himself was awarded one star for his Downtown L.A. spot—created his gem of a restaurant to blend sensibilities from both east and west. Even the decor splits the difference: The requisite kappo counter, a gorgeous piece of natural cypress, is a stark contrast to the urban industrial ducts and high ceilings overhead.
The menu goes through seasonal changes, subtly adjusting the offerings. As we move from spring to summer, Schlosser serves wakatake, or simmered bamboo with wakame. Bamboo is the ultimate spring vegetable, but the seaweed gives it a briny hint of summer; in this way, the dish expresses being on the cusp between the two seasons—in an utterly gorgeous and delicious way.
Schlosser also serves mochi flavored with mugwort, a mystical and aromatic plant used for thousands of years. With a slightly bitter flavor and sage and basil notes, it's a nice herbal end to the meal. But mugwort isn't something you see on many L.A. menus; Schlosser serves it because it's something you'll see at many traditional kaiseki restaurants in Japan in May or June. "In some Japanese restaurants, you would be shunned if you didn't serve certain ingredients at certain times of year," explains the chef.
"Eventually we'll see kaiseki-style of restaurants in every major city," Schlosser he says. "It's a natural progression of things, just like we have Italian and French chefs serving tasting menus. People will just gradually get used to eating that way."
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Olu Oguibe, Composition with Blue, Red and Yellow, 2019, mixed media, dimensions variable.
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The works in Olu Oguibe's "Cuba Project," 2019, which developed out of a visit to a steelworks in Matanzas, Cuba, in February 2019, were made mainly out of discarded metal elements left over from the factory's manufacturing process. In this exhibition, the artist presented them as he found them, without any modifications, albeit in carefully calculated groupings that suggested he has a scholar's taxonomic instincts. It was not by chance that his introduction to the show was a display case, Untitled (all works 2019), filled with small rusty objects, salvage on a miniature scale, which he also preserved as painted images in watercolor on paper.
For the most part, however, Oguibe lent the objects he had collected new life through the multiplication of identical elements, often in site-specific installations where the exhibition context contributed to their formulation. Form in Arrangement of Twelve, for example, consisted of twelve rusty basins, perhaps parts of gas tanks, each resting on a cylindrical metal base. Composition with Steel Discs covered the floor with more than forty disks, arranged in no apparent order, while in Form with Steel and Wood, a series of steel rings placed upright on the floor, some painted white, others brown with rust, were supported by a wooden beam to form a ramshackle, stretched-out cylinder. Other smaller rings made up Composition with 24 Steel Rings, in this case hung one next to another on the wall, in an orderly and elegant grid.
While Oguibe's materials brought to mind Arte Povera installations, the serial organization of the works recalled Minimalism. The artist's statement was revealing: "Beside form which was my primary focus, I was interested also in the broad spectrum of color possibilities in industrial steel that do not require additional intervention. Even the range of rust is fascinating, and certainly suggests that the monochrome tendency of much minimalist sculpture is perhaps mannerist and unnecessary." In fact, what interests the artist when he rummages through piles of discarded metal forms is the morphology of the found material, and above all "the potent resonance of form." He finds the essence or potential of this resonance when he observes what passes through his hands, even by chance, and it is strongest when such found objects are installed as artworks in an exhibition.
"Cuba Project" also included more self-contained works that have a powerful iconicity. Altar (for Olabisi Silva) consisted of a skeletal steel cylindrical structure that served as the pedestal for a basin of the same material; the rust that pervaded the entire structure allowed the viewer to think of it as an archaic tribal object connected to some long-forgotten ritual. Forms with Blue Tower evoked an urban landscape, juxtaposing two low, misshapen objects with what seemed to be an old blue furnace with several large holes in it. Composition with Blue, Red and Yellow was a grouping of four elements on a shelf; two containers with residual traces of yellow and red paint were positioned in front of a blue vertical metal sheet pocked with holes and abrasions. In keeping with the modernist-style title of the work, the assembled objects assumed the immobile composure of a Giorgio Morandi still life.
Translation from Italian by Marguerite Shore.
— Giorgio Verzotti

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That is another awesome carving to add to all the awesome carvings you has posted here. Not only is you carving some of the best I have seen, but you also are a master of painting them.
Another great carving, I like it.
PaulDoug, you are very kind :) Thank you very much, Oldrivers!
It's very creative and a fine carving.
Not sure, why you don't have more comments and views. Your are a heck of an Artist/craftsman. I Know post a shop jig! With a sprint carved into it? Excellent as always!


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Attacks on Christian Churches Nearly Triple in Last Four Years
'This happened during the protests and concurrent riots related to George Floyd's death in May 2020 and following the leak of the Dobbs decision in May 2022... '
By Dmytro "Henry" Aleksandrov
Abortion terrorists vandalize a church. / IMAGE: @PatrickMaryOP
(Dmytro "Henry" Aleksandrov, Headline USA) During the last four years, as leftists raged in violent and deadly protests across the country, attacks on Christian churches soared, nearly tripling, according to new data released by the Family Research Council.
The FRC's 84-page report found that 397 separate American churches were attacked 420 times between Jan. 2018 and Sept. 2022, according to Breitbart.
The types of attacks included vandalism, arson, gun-related incidents, bomb threats, and more. There also appeared to be an increase in frequency over the course of the reporting period, between January 2018 and September 2022.
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— Family Research Council (@FRCdc) December 19, 2022
"Vandals regularly smashed crosses, statues and headstones in cemeteries; vandalized carvings of the Ten Commandments; set fire to a Nativity scene; and smeared feces on a statue of the Virgin Mary," according to the FRC's Washington Stand recounting of the report.
The mayhem continued, fueled by everything from two drive-by shootings at Denver's Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church, to a Bible being torn up and an American flag desecrated in a Primitive Methodist church in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
"Smashed windows and spray-painted doors became ubiquitous," FRC reported. "The number of assaults peaked this May through July but has remained elevated compared to historical figures, which usually number in the single digits."
The report also noted that each act of violence and vandalism may cost tens of thousands of dollars to repair.
The FRC also documented that churches were attacked in 45 states and in Washington D.C. Many congregations from various Christian denominations were targeted, including other religious groups like Unitarian-Universalists and Mormons.
"The first nine months of 2022 saw more than double the number of reported acts of hostility against churches than occurred in the entirety of 2018," Arielle Del Turco, assistant director of the Center for Religious Liberty at FRC, said. "When looking at recorded acts of hostility per month from 2018 to September 2022, it is notable that a spike in church attacks seemed to follow rises in political tension."
"This happened during the protests and concurrent riots related to George Floyd's death in May 2020 and following the leak of the Dobbs decision in May 2022," she wrote in the report.
In the first nine months of 2022, radical abortion terrorists executed at least 57 attacks on Christian churches, a "1,140 percent increase over the past four years."
"By contrast, only five incidents between 2019 and 2021 were abortion-related," according to the report.
Aside from abortion lovers and Black Lives Matter communists, the report showed other groups who targeted the churches included LGBTQ activists, COVID-19 fanatics, atheists, Satanists, radical Muslims and America-haters.
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'Come on Irene': How Capitalism Corrupts Love
August 4, 2019 August 8, 2019 Gerald Cajayon
The Philippines is marred with an immense unemployment problem. According to 2018 data from the Philippine Statistics Authority, 21.7% of Filipinos are unemployed or underemployed. Add this to poor working conditions and an insufficient wage system and it's no wonder a fair lot of Filipinos engage in informal jobs to make ends meet. In writer-director Keisuke Yoshida's film adaptation of a 1990s manga series by Hideki Arai, we see just how people from industrialized countries like Japan exploit these third world conditions, resulting into a phenomenon of sex tourism, prostitution, human trafficking, and other forms of criminal acts.
Come On Irene, more than anything, is an exploration of romantic disillusionment in the time of capitalism. We follow the two lead characters, 42-year-old pachinko worker Iwao Shishido (Ken Yasuda) and family breadwinner Irene (Natileigh Sitoy) develop an artificial romance through an arranged wedding: for the former, it is his last resort to find a wife with whom he can spend the rest of his life with while for the latter, it is a necessary sacrifice to support her family that she left back in the Philippines (Iwao paid a handsome amount of P30,000 for the wedding and promised to give monthly remittances to Irene's family). The idea of romantic love is discarded for the sake of mere carnal and financial motivations. And though Iwao and Irene can be observed to have developed feelings for each other as the film progressed, the capitalist and patriarchal foundation of their relationship remained the same.
Eventually, the film goes to even more complicated territory involving yakuzas, infidelity, and an obnoxious, control freak mother, but Yoshida never really explores human trafficking–in this writer's opinion the film's main conflict–to its full extent. He instead dances around the topic, even making Irene insist that she sees her marriage with Iwao as only a part of her job and that she is not a prostitute because she "hasn't sold her soul yet." But try as he might, no amount of sugar-coating can hide the emotional and physical abuse that Irene experienced as Iwao's wife. She was treated as a commodity, a sexual object whose only purpose is to satisfy her husband's pent-up sexual desires. Fortunately, the film didn't portray her as a completely powerless character. There are times when she resists Iwao's sexual advances and asserts her control in their relationship. Furthermore, Sitoy delivers the film's most memorable performance, showing grit and conviction behind a woman struggling to overcome the miserable conditions she had found herself in.
Perhaps the film's main problem lies in its insistence to draw sympathy for both Iwao and Irene, while their power relations have been clearly shown to favor the former. No matter how manipulative and abusive Iwao had become, and even though he never apologizes for his inappropriate deeds, it forces the audience to evoke pathos because he "just wants love." By the end of the film, he had never really done anything to redeem himself or own up to his flaws and mistakes. Yoshida forces a victim narrative into him, which considering what Irene had gone through, felt severely undeserved. And perhaps this is not merely a fault in characterization but in the overall writing of the film as well. Yoshida never finds the right rhythm to tell the story. The adapted screenplay is weighed down by the structure borrowed from its source material, with most sequences spliced together in a jarring and clunky manner, resulting into an unfocused storytelling with as minimal thematic coherence as possible.
Ultimately, Come On Irene is a missed opportunity on expanding the discourse surrounding illegal interracial marriages and human trafficking. It exposes social realities but does not give them enough thematic and emotional depth to warrant a stimulating response from its viewers.
[All photos from Come On Irene/Viva Entertainment]
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Lawyer Kirk Tousaw calls Health Minister Rona Ambrose utterly ignorant about medical cannabis
by Charlie Smith on June 11th, 2015 at 2:11 PM
It's been a busy day for B.C. lawyer Kirk Tousaw.
He's been doing many media interviews after winning a landmark marijuana case in the Supreme Court of Canada.
And when he contacted the Georgia Straight, he fielded questions on a range of legal issues ranging from dispensaries to the impact of the ruling on other cases before the courts.
But his most colourful quotes came in response to Health Minister Rona Ambrose's comment that she's "outraged" by the Supreme Court of Canada decision.
"I think what's outrageous is to have a health minister of this country that is utterly ignorant on the topic of medicinal cannabis," Tousaw declared.
He claimed that Ambrose doesn't even believe that cannabis is medicine.
This is the case even though she's responsible for overseeing Canada's medicinal-cannabis program.
"[She] is busy blaming the courts when she should really be looking at her own office instead of vitriolicly condemning a unanimous Supreme Court of Canada decision with a bunch of justices that her boss [Stephen Harper] appointed to that court," Tousaw said. "Maybe go back to the drawing board, listen to patients for a change, and come up with a system that is going to work."
The case was about legal standing
Lawyer Kirk Tousaw says the court ruling could have far-reaching implications.
Much of the media coverage has focused on why the court overturned a federal ban on consuming edible forms of marijuana for medical purposes. But Tousaw emphasized that his client, Owen Smith, achieved more than that.
"It has to do with standing," Tousaw said. "The Crown suggested that Mr. Smith ought not to be able to challenge these laws because he himself wasn't a patient."
Smith had been charged with trafficking for baking cookies with marijuana extracts for a compassion club. In this decision, Tousaw noted, the court reconfirmed a long-standing legal principle.
"If the law is unconstitutional for one person, it's unconstitutional for every person," he said. "And no one can be convicted for violating an unconstitutional law. That is a pretty important takeaway."
Dispensaries could benefit from decision
He also suggested that the Supreme Court of Canada ruling could provide a "legitimate defence" for marijuana dispensaries if they're charged criminally for selling edible products.
"They're really stepping into a supply void created by an unconstitutionally restrictive government program," Tousaw said. "Factually, the Supreme Court [of Canada] has accepted the decisions of the courts below finding that edibles are essentially relatively safe substances. And that they provide patients with treatment options that are necessary, effective, and possibly safer than smoking."
He added that the Supreme Court of Canada ruling could also have an impact on dispensary regulations being developed by the City of Vancouver.
City still wants ban on cannabis edibles
Meanwhile, the chief medical health officer of Vancouver Coastal Heath, Dr. Patricia Daly, has argued that the city should ban the sale of baked goods containing marijuana. That's because they haven't been tested by food inspectors.
Tousaw, however, opposes the city's proposal to prohibit dispensaries from selling edible products containing cannabis.
"When you have the City of Vancouver talking about an absolute ban on edibles based on sort of fear of harm—fear of harm to health—the factual findings of the Supreme Court of Canada seem to undermine that concern fairly significantly," he noted.
City staff have recommende that council ban edibles.
After today's ruling was issued, the City of Vancouver issued a statement reiterating staff's recommendation to ban cannabis in food. The city claimed that "wider availability of these products is causing increased poisonings in children" in the U.S.
The city's proposed ban on cannabis-laced food products does not apply to the sale of edible oils in sealed containers.
"The sale of oils allows individuals to create their own edibles and the proposed regulations do not compromise the individual's right to access edible medical marijuana," the city stated.
Court declaration is significant
Tousaw pointed out that in previous cases the Supreme Court of Canada has given the federal government a one-year reprieve. This occurred perhaps most notably with assisted-suicide and prostitution,
This gave Parliament time to rewrite a law to bring it in compliance with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Tousaw said that in today's cannabis ruling, however, the court did not provide the government with any grace period.
"The decision goes into effect immediately," he states. "So patients that went to bed last night criminals for possessing cannabis cookies wake up this morning, and they're no longer criminals. That's a pretty important step forward because it doesn't let the Harper government weasel out of complying with this decision."
Stephen Harper has not been given a grace period to rewrite the law.
Tousaw also noted that the ruling is not confined to the old Medical Marihuana Access Regulations. They were replaced with a new set of regulations in 2013 called the Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations.
"It also applies to the MMPR—or really any legislated scheme—because the declaration was in relationship to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, not any of the exemption schemes the government has come up with under that act," Tousaw said. "That has a pretty important effect on the development of future jurisprudence in this area."
That's because the ruling stated that sections 4 and 5 of the act "are of no force and effect" with regard to prohibitions on those with medical authorization from possessing cannabis derivatives.
In fact, Tousaw added, it could have a "ripple effect" on other cases before the courts, including those known as Allard and Garber.
The Allard case involves the right of people to grow their own marijuana for medicinal purposes. As the law currently stands, people must buy medicinal cannabis from companies licensed by the federal government and only with a prescription from a medical doctor.
The Garber case deals with non-dried forms of marijuana, including oils and resin, which are not approved under the MMPR.
"The ban on edibles caused harm and prevented the use of essentially safer and more effective treatment options for patients," Tousaw said. "That's arbitrary."
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Don't be fooled by Stephen Harper's spin campaign on marijuana
City of Vancouver debates how to regulate marijuana trade
MatthewE
Jun 11, 2015 at 3:23pm
The city claimed that "wider availability of these products is causing increased poisonings in children" in the U.S.
Whereas it would never occur to a toddler to drink a bottle of cooking oil, or a homemade cookie made the cooking oil, or eat a bottle of children's aspirin, or drink a bottle of grape-flavoured cough syrup.
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Beatnuck
'The city claimed that "wider availability of these products is causing increased poisonings in children" in the U.S.'
How can you get poisoned by a non-toxic substance? Well, if you smoke 30,000 joints within 15 minutes you have a 50 per cent of dying. So I guess I should reframe the question, how are children in the United States able to ingest enough marijuana to cause a toxic effect???
I think it's a bunch of bull shit. No children are getting poisoned by pot. It's the same old attribution error. Drinkers are (wrongly) certain that pot is equivalent to alcohol, so people must be getting poisoned and dying from overdoses. Funny!
J. Frank Parnell
Aren't all members of Conservative party utterly ignorant about just about everything? Other than being experts in nasty politics, that is...
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Children also overdose on other prescription medicines all the time.
Does Ambrose or the city ban those medicines? No!
They have education programs to teach patients proper storage and handling. That's what the government should do with medical marijuana. This is not rocket science.
Beatnuck: the claim you are refuting is that children are ingesting marijuana edibles accidentally and getting sick, not dying. I'm on your side, but straw-manning their arguments is not the way to defeat their fallacious claims. Children are no more likely to be sickened by marijuana products than they are by any other poisonous substance in their homes, of which there are many. But you should be aware that while all toxic substances are poisonous, not all poisonous substances are toxic.
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I think I should also point out that while marijuana edibles may be only one of many poisons typically found in a household, I think that if any parent had to choose which poisonous substance in their homes they'd prefer their child to be poisoned with, if that child had to be poisoned, they would all choose marijuana over alcohol, drain cleaner, etc, as unlike all the other household poisons, marijuana poisoning results in no known permanent effects.
Carri Jump
Jun 11, 2015 at 10:14pm
If I am commercially kitchen trained and I have my Food Safe, and/or related certification, I see no reason why my food is any less safe than any other commercial food distributor. This is a simple regulation standard all ready in place -that can be extended to all cannibis cooks. Problem solved.
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Renegade98
Jun 12, 2015 at 9:42am
Conservative's as usual show their ignorance with an opinion that can't be backed up by facts or even based in evidence.
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Loren Blair
Anyone caught using marijuana without a prescription should be jailed or fined 10000.00 that would settle the dispute.
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Immigrant entrepreneurs in Trump era argue, 'The greatness of America comes from collaboration'
Published Fri, Jan 27 20172:07 PM EST Updated Fri, Jan 27 20172:44 PM EST
Kate Rogers@KateRogers
Francisco Garcia was born in the U.S., but raised in Mexico until age 10. He now runs Modern Architecture Services in San Diego and is disappointed by the rhetoric now- President Trump used while campaigning while discussing Mexican immigrants, and in his recent executive order to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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About a year ago, Francisco Garcia decided to launch a new business drawing from his years in architecture and design. The name of his San Diego-based company is Modern Architecture Services, or MAS for short.
"When I came up with my new business name, I came up with it because it describes what we do: 'modern architecture services,'" Garcia, 42, says. "And the acronym of that, MAS, means 'more' in Spanish.
"I was concerned, seriously, about how that could sway potential clients because of having a Spanish name. It's a hesitation I didn't have before."
The businessman's concern comes as President Donald Trump wraps up his first week in office, with an executive order signed Wednesday to compel the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump campaigned on the promise of building that wall; he also made disparaging remarks about Mexican immigrants when kicking off his campaign, referring to many of them as "rapists" and "criminals."
The President is also expected to take more executive action to revamp U.S. immigration policy, which may include a temporary ban on refugees and immigrants from certain Muslim-majority countries. On the campaign trail, he proposed and then walked back plans for a "Muslim ban."
Immigrants come with, I believe, American values.
founder of Modern Architecture Services
Garcia calls himself an "anchor baby." Born in the U.S., he was raised in Mexico just outside of Guadalajara until age ten. His parents then applied for residency in the States, seeking opportunity in America.
He and nine of his siblings, along with his parents, traveled for three days by bus in 1985 to settle in Escondido, Calif., about an hour north of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Now a business owner with five employees, Garcia is disappointed in Trump's anti-Mexican and anti-immigrant rhetoric.
"Immigrants come with, I believe, American values," Garcia says. "Hard work, accountability, perseverance and loyalty to one's family and employees. Fairness to others is how we work together. The rhetoric is an oversimplification of complicated issues."
It's hard to overstate the contribution immigrants like Garcia have made to the world of entrepreneurship, especially in the last year. Data from the Kauffman Foundation's 2016 Index of Startup Activity finds that immigrant entrepreneurs account for 27.5 percent of all new entrepreneurs in America, nearly doubling the rate from 1997 and close to a two-decade high of 29.5 percent in 2011.
They are also nearly twice as likely as native-born Americans to launch new businesses, at a rate of 0.53 percent and 0.29 percent respectively. New entrepreneurs overall launched some 550,000 ventures per month last year, according to Kauffman.
There is a new majority in America and it's an ethnic majority.
Adnan Durrani
CEO of American Halal and Saffron Road
Pakistani entrepreneur Adnan Durrani emigrated to the U.S. at age five and today is CEO of the Stamford, Conn.-based food company American Halal and the brand Saffron Road, which sells frozen natural and organic entrees as well as other healthy snack foods in stores nationwide, including Whole Foods.
The Muslim businessman says he expected some controversy in launching his Middle Eastern-inspired brand. In 2011, he found himself in the news thanks to an "unfounded rumor" about customers objecting to his products being sold in Whole Foods, which Durrani says turned out to be a "complete fabrication."
In the end, the controversy helped him: Durrani says his sales shot up as customers of all races and religions rushed to support Saffron Road.
"I went on CNN during Ramadan, the holy month for us, and let everyone know that the Ramadan promotions at Whole Foods were still intact and that mobilized a lot of consumers who were excited about the diversity at Whole Foods," he says.
"There is a new majority in America and it's an ethnic majority."
Saffron Road strictly sells and manufactures domestically and employs 28 people. Durrani says he takes solace in knowing the country is increasingly diverse. He's hopeful Trump will pivot away from some of his more extreme proposals.
The entrepreneur also expects the President will get push back from both the technology and food industries, which are filled with immigrants.
We want to contribute, we want to lead and we want to integrate.
"I'm very proud to be an American Muslim and I'm very proud of the contributions we make to America," Durrani says. "Obviously it's troubling that [Trump] would make comments to stoke xenophobia, hate and fear to take advantage of that during his campaign. But politics can be dirty and this is America — politics is very much alive and vibrant in this country.
"The greatness of America comes from collaboration."
In the meantime, Durrani says he is maintaining optimism about the potential for increased funding for the Small Business Administration along with tax credits and breaks for small business owners under Trump. His concerns lie with the younger generation of Muslims in America and how they may be "stuck with certain xenophobia or hatred directed towards them."
Back in San Diego, Garcia says he is hopeful that one day he will one day get to meet and speak with the president. For now, he has one message for Trump.
"Immigrants take a hand up — we do not take a hand out. If an opportunity is handed to us, we are going to use our values, our history and apply that," he says.
"If we come with experience of hardship or of fleeing violence or war, we will take those moments of adversity and remember that we've just come from a hard place. We want to contribute, we want to lead and we want to integrate.
"We're going to persevere."
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I learned this word from a teacher in San Francisco.
I understood it as "If you live with Less things, the life is more precious".
My boyfriend is such a person.
He uses his TV for 16 years and his car for 15 years.
After when my computer has broken, he is using it only the part still usable.
Most of his T-shirts and socks have some holes, but he still wears them. Sometimes he sew them by himself.
He buy few things in his life. He uses all of his goods in a polite way.
I like his style, even though I like shopping. I'm trying to use things for long time, like him.
When we traveled around California, his father came to visit us.
He wanted to go to Las Vegas. But we didn't.
Because for us, it's not an attractive city. We don't like any gambles.
But he has already a ticket from Las Vegas to Japan, so we went there.
Actually, we never liked the city.
Because it's a city of casino. It's all for casino.
Hotels there are really cheap to stay. We had to pay only 40 dollars or so a night.
But it's for let us spend money on casino.
We had to walk through the casino floor many times.
Because the reception is in the end of casino.
And to access everywhere (restaurant, parking, or outside) from our rooms, we had to across the casino floor.
Further more the casino floor is very complicated. There is no floor map. The sign board is not good enough. So we walked a lot in casino.
Also, the outside is really hot. We cannot walk a lot outside of hotels. But the main street, the Strip, is huge so when we want to go to other hotels or shopping center, we have to walk a lot.
When we tried to buy a bottle of water, it costed 3 dollars a small bottle. But if we sit at slot machine, we can get any drinks at 1 dollar.
But we never sit there, because we don't like the way that they do.
In one of our hotels, we found a signboard written "Less is not more. More is more".
It's the advertisement of the buffet of the hotel.
It's only the city that we didn't like in this trip. Maybe we have hard heads, we are strange.
But we couldn't get used to the city.
Mai! We totally understand!! We also have never been interested in that city. Glad you are back home!!!
Less IS more that's why we live in a tiny town! Thanks for sharing!!
I'm happy you agree with me. The teacher who told us this word is a really good guy. He taught us a lot.
Thank you so much for your comment! I'm happy to know you.
I wanna see your quilt!!!!


I love plain text. But I also love me some checkboxes.
Listary is a very cool app with a simple purpose: Add checkboxes to plain text lists stored in Simplenote.
For me, Listary solved a very specific and very persistent problem. At irregular but recurring moments, I need to create checklists when I'm away from my Mac.
Of course, I would love to do it all in OmniFocus, but I don't know of a way to paste a text list into OmniFocus on my iPhone and have it become checkbox-atized.
When my wife emails me a grocery list, I copy it into a Simplenote file called 'groceryx'1. I used to check off items by putting an "x" in front of each item.
This system worked sorta okay for short lists, but longer lists required hair pulling and damning inanimate objects, specifically my iPhone.
I had to position the cursor carefully to type an "x", words often got overwritten, re-ordering items was tedious, and it didn't hide checked off items.
The beauty of Listary, of course, is that it adds a nice checkbox UI on top of a plain text file. Since everything stays in plain text, you can edit it anywhere—like in nvALT, Simplenote, or any of the other bazillion plain text apps for iOS and OS X.


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Devils waive Cory Schneider, will send him to AHL team
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The New Jersey Devils waived veteran goaltender Cory Schneider.
Schneider, 33, cleared waivers on Tuesday and will be assigned to Binghamton of the American Hockey League.
Schneider, in his seventh season with New Jersey, has struggled to start the season. In six games, he's 0-4-1 with a 4.59 goals-against average and .852 save percentage.
MacKenzie Blackwood, 22, now becomes the unquestioned No. 1 goalie.
"We addressed it with our players, and unfortunately this is part of the business, but this isn't the end of the road with Cory," coach John Hynes told reporters after Schneider's release. "It's an opportunity for us to try and help him get his game to where it needs to be.
"We had a similar situation with him last year where it worked out really well where he went down to Binghamton and played, got some footing for himself and his game back and came back and played well for us later in the year."
Schneider last played on Nov. 8 in a loss to the Edmonton Oilers. He allowed four goals on 32 shots in the 4-0 defeat.
"Mackenzie has been consistent and he's played well and been able to manage himself and mange his workload," Hynes said of Blackwood. "That was part of the decision-making process. It wasn't the complete part of the decision, but it was a small part."
In 14 games this season, Blackwood is 7-4-3 with a 2.79 GAA and .904 save percentage.
Schneider started his career with the Vancouver Canucks, who selected him with the No. 26 pick in the 2004 NHL Draft. New Jersey acquired him in a June 30, 2013, trade with the Canucks.
In his career, Schneider has a 167-157-57 with a 2.43 GAA and a .918 save percentage.
To take Schneider's spot on the roster, the Devils recalled goalie Louis Domingue from Binghamton.


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Home Opinions Ganduje: the video, the science and the law – By Ibraheem...
Ganduje: the video, the science and the law – By Ibraheem Dooba, Ph.D.
We've heard and read truckloads of debates on the authenticity of the series of videos published by the Daily Nigerian showing Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State receiving some money. Many have argued that it is fake, others contend that it is real. Even foreign organisations have been cited about the authenticity.
However, beyond the torrents of opinions, to my knowledge, no discussion has delved into the science of how it can be real or fake. If something is real, it invites no further discussion. If it's fake however, it elicits questions about how it can be fake.
Therefore, that is the gap I want to fill. Since I have a PhD in information technology and have been a student of machine learning, I intend to use this controversy as a teachable moment on what is possible. And warn the nation that it could be worse.
Yet, it's not the duty of this column to tell if the videos are fake or real. I don't know. This is also not a comment on Jaafar Jaafar's plucky journalism; which I believe is a breath of fresh air.
Therefore, let's go straight to the meat of the matter. There's a new technology called Deepfake which used to be in only the hands of highly skilled experts and university researchers, but which is now available to the general population.
What DeepFake does is to take a handful of videos and pictures on any individual and feed them to the computer
Deepfake is associated with fancy terms like neural networks, deep learning and artificial intelligence. Except that DeepFake is not a joke.
What DeepFake does is to take a handful of videos and pictures on any individual and feed them to the computer. The computer will then be instructed to learn everything about the person; the sound of their voice, the picture of the face, any particular ticks, the colour of the skin, the texture of the skin, etc.
After that, they can be made to say anything. Do anything; such as dancing or performing oral sex.
In April this year Supasorn Suwajanakorn started his TED Talk with this question: "Look at these images. Now tell me which Obama here is real."
He then showed four videos of President Obama all saying the same thing simultaneously. Seconds later, Suwajanakorn surprised the audience by declaring: "The answer is none of them."
A layman could have sworn that all of them were real. I could have sworn that all of them were real.
Last month in its Moving Upstream show the Wall Street Journal did a deep dive into DeepFake and how the technology is being used for good and bad.
The anchor of the show, Jason Bellini, interviewed experts including Hany Farid, professor of computer science at Dartmouth College and UC Berkeley, who has been investigating doctored images for two decades. Farid said: "You can literally put into a person's mouth anything you want. If you can change visual images, you can change history. There's something very powerful still about seeing something about changing people's beliefs."
Now almost anyone can use Deepfake. "We've democratised access to a very powerful software," Professor Farid said, "that's a game changer."
It can be used for good such as in movies. This actually has been done before; for example in Forest Gump, Tom Hanks was shown shaking hands with President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy was never part of that movie because at the time of production, he was already dead.
In education we can use it to cast a great teacher who is no longer available to teach a subject in any language. For instance, other than being a Nobel winner Richard Fienman was seen as the best teacher in America. Now that he is dead, you can cast him to teach physics to any audience.
We can get Sarduana to talk to our contemporary leaders in the north about good leadership. Or we can get Chinua Achebe to teach literature.
You can use it to listen to the soothing words of advice from long gone grandparents.
It can also be used for bad. In fact it's already being used for ponorgraphy. Noell Martin was 18 years old when she fell victim to what is called morphporn where you put the face of an innocent person on to the form of a porn star.
"I just can't explain the level of violation and shame that I felt." Martin said.
In the last six years, she continues to see many fake videos of herself in varied pornographic positions but she doesn't know who is responsible. "Now I don't even want to look," she said, "because I know there are new ones," she told Wall Street Journal.
Celebrities are the main targets. Angelina Jolie and Emma Watson (of Harry Proter) have fallen victims. But now, it appears that anyone can be a target.
Can it be stopped?
Hany Farid is trying to do that. Farid understands that the world quickly needs a way to tell Deepfakes from real videos. He gave a scary scenerio where someone could produce a video of President Trump saying that he had launched a nuclear attack against North Korea. North Korea would see this but before they realise it's fake, they might have retaliated.
That's why Supasorn Suwajanakorn told the TED conference that he and his colleagues were working on a software you can plug into your browser that will automatically detect Deepfakes. If only we had that software now, we could determine whether the person in the video was actually Governor Ganduje.
But for now the only thing the governor need to get the charge thrown out of the court, if he ever finds himself in court, is this article.
The courts operate on the principle of "beyond reasonable doubt" to convict.
This is the reasonable doubt.
For more information, watch Supasorn Suwajanakorn's TED Talk at TED.com and Wall Street Journal's "Deepfake videos are getting real and that's a problem" on YouTube.com.
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Yesterday I popped into the Kauai coffee bar at my local gym, and tried their "floo fighter" hot beverage. It consists of Twinings Peppermint tea, fresh ginger, fresh lemon juice, Cayenne pepper and honey.
"I just read your quick spiel on Defraggler before. You said that you've never come across a program that could analyze any faster than Defraggler.
"I am sorry but this is highly untrue….
"We analyze a drive 432% faster than defraggler or in other words in 23% of the time – less than a quarter. When you minimize our display – we actually analyze that same drive in 33 seconds.
"I can assure you that with 3 years of perfecting our analysis routine – it's as overhead free as you could get by all coding standards.
"Please note also that with UltimateDefrag – Fragmented Files Only (FFO) …. We can get you from program start to completely defragged much faster than Defraggler since we save all that time on analysis and you don't need to select files manually. Of course one feature of UltimateDefrag is that we can defrag individual files or just all files in a folder for that matter. So while we have all of our advanced features – the most simple of all defrags – Fragmented Files Only – is there too.
"One "secret" about our Fragmented Files Only routine is that for this most basic of all defrag routines, our algorithm functions in the favor of promoting consolidation of free space. In FFO mode we defrag files in LCN order – meaning it finds the first fragmented file towards the outer tracks and puts it in the nearest available free space. If the space is now cleared then the next fragmented file, if it fits will be placed in an earlier space – so it's always, where it can, tending towards the outer tracks and filling free space from outer to inner.
"There's not much we haven't thought about with our product – any true purist will see that our product does much much more than initially meets the eye and for defragging is as close to the holy grail for defragging as you can get. Our list of to-be-included features stands at around 86 more features to be added at this point."
In fairness to Defraggler, it is the quickest utility currently installed on my laptop, and I only have two 30GB partitions. I have noticed that it is slower on other drives. However my experience of UltimateDefrag 1.52 in June last year was not good: it took over 14 minutes to analyse my drive, because there was a large (>4GB) compressed file on the drive. I wrote to Robert about this, and was told to try various options, but he was unwilling to admit that this might be a problem. I plan to do some tests to see if the problem has been fixed.
UltraDefrag gave an error, and PuranDefrag doesn't have a separate "Analyse" option.
Column "A" refers to the analyse times (in seconds) of the drive with a several large files, including a 9GB data file. Column "B" refer to the analyse times with the same files, but an additional copy of the 9GB data file, this time stored as a compressed file, containing 123235 fragments.
This confirms the behaviour mentioned in the UD1.52 review, but not nearly as bad as before: 3 minutes compared to 14 minutes.
Update 2: I noticed during the tests above that some programs took longer to load than others, so I did some timing (see comment 1).
These numbers are not particularly scientific, since it isn't easy to measure with any degree of accuracy, but it does confirm my feeling that UD2008 and PD2008 are larger, slower apps than the other smaller ones listed. Bigger is not always better.
This is not a typo: UD2008 took nearly 22 minutes to analyse the drive. It takes 20 seconds to load the program on my machine, partly because it takes time to draw a picture of the drive.
As soon as I deleted the 6GB file, UD2008's load time dropped to 8 seconds, and the analyse speed dropped to 18 seconds.
Political correctness has now gone too far: it's all very well talking about Xenophobia and anarchy, but why is the government so scared of calling the rioting what it is: racism!?
These people are being killed because they are "foreigners", and therefore we call it Xenophobia, only because it is politically incorrect to call it racism. Normally Mr Mbeki is quick to use the race card, but I suppose because there are no whites involved he can't see it for what it is. What an idiot! People are suffering and dying while the leadership dithers and keeps silent.
If they do nothing for much longer then we can refer to the process as "ethnic cleansing", another traditional SA sport.
Update: On Wednesday 21rd May, nearly 2 weeks after the attacks started (they haven't finised) the President called in the troops, before leaving the country.


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Q: how to shuffle a letters of array in android? String arrAnimal[] = {"cat","dog","parrot","fish"};

I need to shuffle each word and set it to TextView, when click button wanna go through each element(see Shuffeled elements).

A: Complete working code,
String[] animals = {"cat","dog","parrot","fish"};
for (int i = 0; i < animals.length; ++i) {
    List<Character> letters = new ArrayList<>(animals[i].length());
    for (char c : animals[i].toCharArray()) {
        letters.add(c);
    }
    Collections.shuffle(letters);
    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
    for (char c : letters) {
        builder.append(c);
    }
    animals[i] = builder.toString();
}
System.out.println(Arrays.toString(animals));

Outputs: [tca, ogd, roptar, sifh]
EDIT: To print line by line, change the last line to,
for (String s : animals) {
    System.out.println(s);
}

A: Get the random word:
private var currentWord = getRandomWord()
ArrayList to store the data:
val dashboardList: List<String> =
    listOf("den",
        "music",
        "podcast",
        "library",
        "gallary",
        "work")

Creating a separate method to get the random word from the ArrayList:
  private fun getRandomWord(): String {
        val word = allWordsList.random().toCharArray()
        word.shuffle()
        return String(word)
    }

A: Use Collections.shuffle( )
ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
list.add("cat");
list.add("dog");
list.add("parrot");
list.add("fish");

Collections.shuffle(list);

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Q: Add external component using Unpkg to Angular project I want to add an external component written in React to Angular.
I added the unpkg script to index.html
 <script
      type="module"
      src="https://unpkg.com/custom-component@latest/dist/lib/index.js">
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How would I use <custom-component></custom-component> in app.component.html ?
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Liz Cheney: Can 'Absolutely Win Reelection — Vote Against Me Is a Vote in Allegiance to Trump over the Constitution
Trent Baker
During an interview that aired Sunday on CBS's "60 Minutes," Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) declared she could "absolutely" win reelection despite impeaching former President Donald Trump.
Trump has endorsed attorney Harriet Hageman in the race to unseat Cheney, who was removed from her House GOP leadership position after voting to impeach the former president for his role in the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Cheney emphasized the importance of her race, adding that a vote against her in favor of a Trump-endorsed candidate was a vote for "somebody who's put allegiance to Trump above allegiance to the Constitution."
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Spring is a time of rejuvenation – who can't help but feel energized by all the beautiful flowers and trees in bloom at this time of year? And the concept of rejuvenation applies to your own creative process as well. It can be all too easy to become distracted or sidetracked by leaky faucets, the laundry, or even a leisurely stroll.
Though, an important distinction with the last example of a leisurely stroll is that it can become a catalyst for creativity. A walk in the park or around the neighborhood at this time of year offers multiple opportunities for mindfulness, moving the walk from the ordinary into the extraordinary realm of moving meditations.
For many people, traditional meditation feels too foreign or rigid to be rejuvenating because of the difficulty of getting into or keeping up the practice. But a simple walk can serve the same purpose by taking your mind off chores while grounding you in the moment. By paying attention to your surroundings, the lovely spring breeze, the beautiful scent of lilacs and the rich colors of early flowers in bloom, you are transported away from the mundane "to-do list" into the fertile field of immediate experience. Being in the moment leads you into a wonderful balance between sensory awareness and receptivity to creative ideas. Releasing yourself from the constraints of daily chores – even for a few minutes – allows you the freedom to explore new possibilities within your life by letting go of worry, anxiety, or negative thoughts.
And once you become more adept in being able to experience the immediacy of the moment, you are also able to "practice" that state of mindfulness at will. The walks become a starting place for being able to manage stress, inviting creativity into your life, and enjoying a general sense of well-being. Experience spring – and rejuvenate your creative goals!


The Rundwon: Another entry in the Playmates 9" Mirror Universe crew: Captain Kirk! This one's got some good going for it...and some definite bad.
I dig the head sculpt here! It's the same used on all the 9" Kirks, but it's looking especially sharp on this Mirror Universe version! The only thing that I can slightly nitpick are the lips. They have a weird dark highlight that almost gives the appearance of lipstick. Still, not too detrimental to an otherwise pretty darned good head.
An all new Mirror boot problem! If you've followed my blog, you may have read my comments on the other male Mirror Universe crew figures. They were all given black vinyl sections on their pants to simulate the thigh-high boots worn in the epsiode. The effect is somewhat strange, but really what else were they gonna do about it? I'll tell you what else! Ignore the boots entirely like they did with Kirk here! Yep, they totally left out the thigh-high boots. A real shame because even with the tunic flaws, this one would have been my fav of the bunch... But the lack of an attempt at accurate boots bums me out.
Accessories: The same as the other 9" Mirror Universe crew- a display stand (not pictured), a phaser, a dagger, and an agonizer.
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6)	The Orchid House has a dual narrative, set in past and present. Discuss and compare the lives of Olivia and Julia. Do you think the modern woman's comparative freedom has made our lives happier?
7)	Loyalty is another theme for The Orchid House. How did this impact on the storyline? Is it always best to tell the truth, or to tell a lie to protect?
8)	The Orchid House has a redemptive ending. Do you feel that this was realistic? Can the past ever be forgiven and forgotten?


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When a student chooses a language to take for their high school credit, the first options that come to mind are Spanish, French, or perhaps German or Mandarin. Some particularly passionate musicians even consider music a language, though the school board doesn't.
American Sign Language has been overlooked, mostly because there aren't many, if any deaf kids at Boise High and most students don't even consider it. It may seem like learning sign language is as useless as learning Ancient Egyptian, but we aren't always going to be stuck here where we don't often come into contact with people who speak it.
Therefore, it seems students should at least have the option to learn to sign. Imagine if the whole world could speak it- language barriers would be instantly eradicated.
It's not a useless skill to learn either. According to 360 Translations, more than 17 percent of Americans deal with hearing-loss. Thus, it's likely you will come into contact with someone who speaks it or could learn to. The possibilities are endless- elderly with hearing loss and babies alike could use it to communicate.
The reasons for learning it don't end there, however. National Association of the Deaf says "…there's always a demand for skilled interpreters who can sign fluently and read another person's signing well." Interpreters are being used in a variety of new environments like schools and workplaces. So, if sign language doesn't just expose you to a whole new community, it could potentially lead to a career path.
Fateme Mousavi moved here from Turkey several years ago along with her parents and younger sister, Zahra. Learning English wasn't her only obstacle; she had to learn to sign more officially in order to communicate with the students and teachers in her deaf program. Born deaf in both ears, Fateme had grown up signing to her parents and also deaf sister, in a sort of made up sign language.
While both girls were lucky enough to receive cochlear implants from St. Luke's here in Boise, their hearing problems aren't completely gone. They can hear better but not fully. While learning English doesn't help talking much, as speaking is difficult, signing is their main way of communication. They both speak Farsi natively, though are working to keep learning English. It's hard enough that they had to move away from their homes, and now have to deal with 2 new ways of communicating. Doubtlessly, both girls would feel less foreign and alone moving here to find there were other teens who could sign with them.
Overall, it's pretty clear that the reach of sign language goes further than you'd think. Learning it opens up many doors, broadens your mind to a community that is often overlooked, and offers empathy to those with hearing problems.
Great article, Georgia! One time when I was a hospital volunteer in a big county hospital in Dallas, I "signed in Spanish" using the sign language alphabet. I wish I knew American Sign Language. I helped instruct a man on getting his bus pas and medicines from the pharmacy, and told him how to take his meds. That may be the most helpful I've ever been! I just wish I hadn't been wearing that embarrassing peach pinafore! JK, it was fun.


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Guarding Against Privilege Waiver in Federal Agency Investigations, Part 2
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Rule 502(b): Weaker Protections in Cases of Inadvertent Disclosure
Subject matter waiver protections aside, Rule 502 does not provide the same level of comfort as to the consequences of inadvertent disclosure. The effect of inadvertent disclosure of privileged information in federal proceedings (including in cases where the disclosure was made to federal agencies) is governed by Rule 502(b) and potentially by parallel agency regulations governing the waiver as to the agency investigation itself. The Rule provides that "[w]hen made in a federal proceeding or to a federal office or agency, the disclosure does not operate as a waiver in a federal or state proceeding" if (i) the disclosure was "inadvertent," (ii) the holder of the privilege took "reasonable steps to prevent disclosure" and (iii) "the holder promptly took reasonable steps to rectify the error."
For one, Rule 502(b) does not define, and the comments to the Rule do not clarify, what "inadvertent" means. Inadvertence should mean the opposite of the "intentional" standard set by Rule 502(a). But not all courts agree, with some injecting a reasonableness inquiry as part of the inadvertent element. Judge Grimm has argued, in contrast, that a reasonableness inquiry ought to belong only to the second element — the one concerning the reasonableness of precautions.[1] Second, Rule 502(b) purposefully does not define what "reasonable steps" means — an understandable necessity in order to provide flexibility in application by the courts.
For the seasoned litigator, this lack of clarity can be easily circumvented, for Rule 502(b) represents but a fallback provision for those who have not taken advantage of the "Get Out of Jail Free Card" under Rule 502(d), or at the very least entered into a well-drafted voluntary agreement governing waiver with the opposing party under Rule 502(e).
Unfortunately, the potential for inadvertent disclosure does not bode that well for parties producing to a federal agency. In most cases, agencies serve not only as the requesting party, but also as the judge, the fact finder and the initial appellate forum, thereby placing them in a position to make the fact-intensive analysis as to whether an investigated party has taken reasonable steps to prevent disclosure. While one may have the option to raise the issue in federal court, few may choose to air it in a public forum due to the confidential nature of most investigations and the fact that investigated parties often take a highly cooperative posture during the investigation phase. This may lead investigated parties to continue down the path of using the most conservative (read: expensive) approach to privilege review with the hope that the steps it takes will be deemed reasonable by the requesting agency.
Rule 502(e): Privilege Waiver Agreements with Government Agencies
Litigants may circumvent the inherent ambiguities of Rule 502(b) by entering into a Rule 502(e) agreement: it provides a vehicle for parties making disclosures in a federal proceeding or to a federal office or agency to enter into voluntary clawback agreements, which generally are binding only on the parties to the agreement.[2]
But as before, the scope of Rule 502(e) does not extend to agency investigations. This limitation could be easily cured by the federal agency itself.[3] Yet some government agencies, even those who have adopted the provisions of Rule 502(a)-(b) as part of their own investigative process,[4] may choose not to enter into privilege clawback agreements,[5] potentially forcing investigated parties instead to rely on the fuzzier "reasonableness" standard set under the agency rules mirroring Rule 502(b), if at all promulgated.
Such reluctance is out of step with the drive toward risk mitigation in light of inevitable mistakes that plague modern-day discovery. If agencies are concerned about the time and cost of complying with a government subpoena, they should freely enter into clawback agreements with the same eagerness and frequency as litigants do in civil litigation. Forcing parties to rely exclusively on the protections of Rule 502(b) and any applicable agency equivalent should be the exception and not the rule.
It may appear on the surface that any federal agency inherently lacks the incentive to enter into clawbacks: (i) document productions in investigations roll only on a one-way street, unlike in litigation, (ii) the agency is in the unique position as a requesting party to determine whether the investigated party has undertaken reasonable precautions against inadvertent disclosure and (iii) investigated parties are often highly cooperative anyway.
Yet agencies are not entitled to receive privileged information in the course of their investigations, and privilege clawback agreements should be viewed as a default win-win: the investigated party (i) saves on resources that were previously directed at refortifying permeable barriers to guard against the inevitable and (ii) redirects part of those resources to speed up the document production efforts without obsessing over privilege issues, ultimately speeding up the agency's investigation.
Rule 502(d) and Government Investigations: Stuck in Jail
Perhaps the biggest disappointment of them all is that investigated parties have little chance of being dealt the "Get Out of Jail Free Card." Rule 502(d) provides, "A federal court may order that privilege … is not waived by disclosure connected with the litigation pending before the court — in which event the disclosure is also not a waiver in any other federal or state proceeding."
The theoretical protections here are much greater than those afforded by an agreement between the parties under 502(e), for the court order is effectively binding on any party and in any proceeding. But yet again, the reality is that investigated parties often take a cooperative posture during an investigation and would rarely consider seeking a court order during the course of a nonpublic investigation.
In many government investigations, the most meaningful protections against privilege waiver may be beyond reach. If available, the optimal protections may be afforded by a carefully drawn clawback agreement: the agency benefits in receiving the documents more quickly, the producing party minimizes risk and review cost and the confidentiality of the investigation is not jeopardized by seeking a court order. But if the investigative agency is unwilling to consider a clawback agreement, a cooperative party may be left with only the default protections provided by agency-specific rules (if promulgated).
In such a suboptimal scenario, the responding party may need to memorialize the minimum steps that it plans to take to review documents for privilege and perhaps whether the agency, if willing to opine, considers the planned steps to be reasonable precautions in preventing disclosure of privileged information before document production begins (vs. in hindsight after privileged documents are inadvertently produced). But in the absence of such an acknowledgment, a cooperative party may have to consider engaging in a full and expensive linear privilege review (assisted by technology, of course), despite the fact that such efforts could still result in the disclosure of privileged information.
At this junction, the key is communicating early and often. Investigated parties have ample opportunity to discuss and negotiate e-discovery challenges and parameters early during the meet-and-confer conference with agency staff.[6] Quite simply, the issue of privilege waiver ought to be raised as early as possible in order to gauge the agency's expectations up front and calibrate the privilege review process accordingly. In the end, one might find that an agency is willing to mirror the cooperative posture of the investigated party.
[1] Paul W. Grimm, Lisa Yurwit Bergstrom & Matthew P. Kraeuter, Federal Rule of Evidence 502: Has It Lived Up to Its Potential?, XVII RICH. J.L. & TECH. 8, 30 (2011), http://jolt.richmond.edu/v17i3/article8.pdf.
[2] Fed. R. Evid. 502(e).
[3] It remains unclear whether Rule 502(e) will resolve a circuit split as to whether a voluntary clawback agreement with an agency protects the party against privilege waiver as to third parties in future litigation in the absence of a court order. See e.g. In re Natural Gas Commodities Litig., 232 F.R.D. 208, 211 (S.D.N.Y. 2005) (acknowledging circuit split and noting that "courts in this district have held [under the minority view] that voluntary disclosure to government agencies pursuant to an explicit non-waiver agreement does not waive the attorney or representative work product or attorney-client privilege.")
[4] See 12 C.F.R. § 1080.8(c).
[5] See http://www.law360.com/articles/619051/doj-chiefs-share-the-wrong-way-to-respond-to-a-subpoena (quoting a senior DOJ lawyer, "the DOJ is not in the business of granting mulligans to lawyers who have failed to cover their bases and are hoping to negotiate a clawback agreement…. 'Sometimes the government will entertain them, sometimes they won't, but the terms of those clawback agreements are closely looked at because there may be other investigations going on that you don't know about, . . . [s]o in many instances we may not be amenable to having our hands tied in that respect, and making sure that you're doing your due diligence on the front end and looking at your processes before privilege flies out the door is very important.'")
[6] See Caitlin M. Kasmar, The Butterfly Effect: eDiscovery in Government Investigations and Why Small Tweaks May Have Great Impacts, Digital Discovery & e-Evidence, Bloomberg BNA (2016).
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