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Health authorities in Hong Kong on Friday were scrambling to trace some 200 fellow passengers of a Korean national believed to be infected with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus who landed in the former British colony earlier this week aboard an Asiana Airlines jet.
The 44-year-old man became China's first suspected case of MERS, which causes a severe respiratory illness with a 40 percent mortality rate, and for which there is no vaccine or treatment.
China's National Health and Family Planning Commission said the man arrived in China for a business trip on Tuesday.
"He has family members who are infected and had close contact with them back in Korea," the official Xinhua news agency quoted the ministry as saying.
The man began running a fever on Monday and landed in Hong Kong on Tuesday, before traveling across the internal immigration border to neighboring Guangdong province by cross-border bus, it said.
Chinese health authorities are now holding the man under observation in an isolation ward, and notified the World Health Organization on Wednesday, the report said.
Hong Kong is on high alert for the virus, which is in the same family of coronaviruses such as the SARS virus, which killed 299 people in the city in 2003.
Twelve quarantined
The city's Centre for Health Protection said it is now tracing people who may have come into contact with the man, including 158 passengers on board the Asiana flight.
"Among them, 80 were in the same cabin, including 29 who were sitting within two rows of the MERS patient," the center said in a statement on the official government website.
Twelve people have already been sent to a quarantine camp for a two-week observation period, while around 10 are known to have left Hong Kong, the statement quoted center chief Leung Ting-hung as saying.
The center will also be looking for other passengers on the flight and cross-border bus service, with a view to placing them under medical surveillance, Leung told reporters.
Hong Kong's health chief Ko Wing-man said the authorities have set up a hotline to enable anyone who had contact with the man to come forward.
"I am very concerned about the outbreak of MERS because the transmission (of the disease) has never been stopped since it occurred more than two years ago," Ko said. "Reports of sporadic cases and clusters of cases continue."
Ko said Hong Kong's alert level has remained high since the emergence of MERS in Saudi Arabia in 2012.
"The most important thing for us now is to concentrate our efforts to search out the passengers on the same flight who have been identified as close contacts," Ko said.
Others sought
U.S.-based medical doctor Jin Fusheng said the mainland Chinese health authorities would be making similar efforts to track down the patient's contacts.
"The relevant departments in Guangdong still need to find and place under observation every single person who has had contact with this person," Jin said.
He said it was lucky that the man had informed the Chinese authorities when he did.
"Some patients aren't public-spirited enough [to put themselves in quarantine], but at least the South Korean government informed the Chinese authorities," Jin said.
"Patients sometimes need to be told that the virus they have is infectious, and that they are being placed in quarantine and ...that they can't leave until they are fully recovered," he said.
He said MERS is a particularly deadly disease, compared with SARS.
"Doctors usually regard a 10 percent mortality rate as very high, so a mortality rate of [more than 40] percent is extremely high," Jin said.
He said the MERS virus, like SARS, is able to flourish in a variety of conditions.
"Depending on the climate, and other factors like the air, it can alter the proteins on its surface to mutate," Jin said, adding: "Generally, anyone showing symptoms must be held in isolation."
Procedures under scrutiny
China's public health procedures have come under intense scrutiny since an official attempt to cover up the extent of the deadly SARS epidemic of 2003 was exposed by a military doctor in Beijing.
The doctor was detained for several months in 2004 at an undisclosed location, while editors at a newspaper in the southern province of Guangdong that broke news about the SARS virus were also harassed and detained.
The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) spread from Guangdong to other Asian countries and by the summer of 2003, when the disease was contained, more than 8,000 people had been infected, and more than 900 had died, according to the World Health Organization.
Reported by Xi Wang for RFA's Mandarin Service and by Wen Yuqing for the Cantonese Service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.
North Korea concealed a collision between a Russian submarine and one of its own patrol ships as well as fishing boats that occurred nearly a year ago in coastal waters off the northeastern port city Cheongjin, resulting in 19 deaths, sources inside the country said.
The accident occurred when a Russian submarine in the East Sea of Korea (Sea of Japan) quickly surfaced to disentangle itself from an abandoned fishing net and collided with and overturned several fishing boats and a North Korean naval vessel, sources from North Hamgyong province where Cheongjin is located recently told RFA.
There were 14 people on the fishing boats eating dinner together and 32 on the naval vessel in the coastal area when the incident occurred at around 11 p.m. in early July 2014, one of the sources said.
"Several fishing boats from the Cheongjin fisheries cooperative association and North Korean navy patrol Ship No.679 carrying out sea surveillance crashed against the Russian super-submarine and then sank into the sea," he said.
Eleven Navy sailors and eight fishermen were killed, and the Russians on board the submarine rescued the survivors, another source in the province told RFA.
"Particularly, this accident is not yet known to residents in Cheongjin," he said.
The reason why North Korea tried to cover up the accident was because leader Kim Jong Un wanted to get crude oil and food aid from Russia instead of China, he said.
The isolated nation has been at odds with its neighbor over Chinese pressure concerning North Korea's nuclear situation and Pyongyang's increasingly insular outlook.
North Korean authorities hastily covered up the accident by reassigning the Navy sailors who had survived to different locations such as Rason on the country's northeast tip, and relocating families of the deceased fishermen to other areas, sources said.
The sailors were interred at the Heroic Warrior Cemetery in Pyongyang, which is owned by Kim Jong Un, one source said.
Many North Korean fishermen are involved in fatal accidents because their boats ate too small and too old to withstand collisions with larger vessels, sources said.
Reported by Jieun Kim of RFA's Korean Service. Translated by Yunju Kim. Written in English by Roseanne Gerin.
An editor working for a web portal with close ties to the ruling Chinese Communist Party is under investigation for blackmail, according to a media report that was later deleted from the country's tightly controlled Internet.
Xu Hui, a deputy editor at People.cn, is under investigation amid allegations that he approached various companies and threatened to publish negative news stories about them if they didn't buy advertising on the site, according to a news story that appeared on the NetEase news portal late on Wednesday.
An employee who answered the phone at the People.cn website said Xu is still officially in his post as deputy editor of the website.
"Yes, what of it?" the employee said. Asked if Xu was in the office on Thursday, the employee said: "I'm not sure. He's not in the same department as me. You should ask someone else."
The NetEase story was deleted from a number of news and social media sites by Thursday, according to Hong Kong's South China Morning Post newspaper.
The report came as the Communist Party's disciplinary arm in the northwestern region of Xinjiang announced it would probe a former party chief and chief editor of the Xinjiang Daily newspaper, Zhao Xinwei, for "disciplinary violations," the paper said.
Last September, Chinese authorities in Shanghai and Shenzhen detained eight people linked to the 21st Century group's news website and two public relations firms on suspicion of extortion.
The site's editor and deputy editor, as well as a number of marketing and editorial employees, and public relations employees were accused of extorting large sums money from dozens of Chinese companies, using positive or negative news stories as leverage.
Liu Kaiming, who directs the Institute of Contemporary Observation in the southern city of Shenzhen, said the People.cn case may be getting special treatment by China's censors.
"The scandal at 21st Century was widely reported, and yet this story at People.cn isn't being reported," Liu said. "I think that's very strange, because they have made a huge fuss in the past about instances of corruption in the media."
"So why aren't they reporting it this time? Has he been detained? If so, why don't they dare to report it? Everyone is concerned that a double standard may apply," he said.
'Corruption in media is rife'
Independent journalist Zhu Xinxin, who is also a member of the writers' group Independent Chinese PEN, said corruption in China's media is rife despite ever-tighter state controls over what may be reported.
"We see this sort of thing a lot," Zhu said. "A friend of mine works at the Hebei bureau of a national news organization and has told me in private that they have suppressed stories they had in hand about complaints from local people against local officials, and used them to squeeze various benefits out of local officials."
He said the problem exists across China's media industry.
"It doesn't matter whether the organization is big or small; journalists everywhere are trying to solve their financial problems, so it's hard to prevent people from finding loopholes to serve their personal interests," Zhu said.
"The most important factor here is that the media doesn't have an independent status, and has no freedom of debate or information," he said. "So, all people can do is put all their energies into using their professional position as a way of making money."
"Media is simply an add-on to the different levels of state power, and it has become very strongly tainted by it," Zhu said.
Earlier this month, China's powerful cyberspace regulator further tightened controls on syndicated online content with an official whitelist of 381 media organizations that are permitted to syndicate online news content.
The move, according to the Cyberspace Administration, was part of a campaign by Beijing to stamp out "false information" online.
More than a quarter of the places on the list are given to media under the direct control of party or government departments, including People.cn, it said.
Cutting-edge media like the Guangzhou-based Southern Metropolis Daily newspaper and the 21st Century Business Herald didn't make the whitelist.
Reported by Xin Lin for RFA's Mandarin Service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.]]>
Authorities in northwestern China's troubled Xinjiang region shot and killed two young Uyghur minority men who launched a crude bomb attack on a police patrol, sources said Thursday, and have ordered local residents to join a search for four others who fled the scene.
A young Uyghur woman who lives with her family in Zawa township, in Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture's Qaraqash (Moyu) county, told RFA's Uyghur Service that the attack occurred "four or five days ago" in Zawa.
"I heard that several young men attacked a police patrol and two of them were shot dead on the spot by police, but four others fled," she said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The young woman said that the Qaraqash county public security bureau had posted photos of the four others and notices of their arrest warrants on local streets, and that an announcement of the news had been made on the county radio station.
"The streets are strictly controlled by the police. People still cannot move freely between the Qaraqash county bazaar and Zawa township," she said.
"There are checkpoints everywhere, and most of the men in our township have been forced to help in searches for the four attackers who fled."
A Uyghur man who runs a butcher shop at the Zawa bazaar confirmed the attack had taken place and that local men were being conscripted into search teams to find the suspects.
"The attack occurred in Zawa around midnight between Monday night and Tuesday morning, and involved six young Uyghur men," said the butcher, who also declined to provide his name.
"Police shot two of them dead on the spot and the other four attackers fled. They are hiding somewhere within Zawa township. I heard that two of them are from Igiz'eriq village and the other two are from Bashaqchi and Toghiya villages."
The butcher said that two of the suspects were named Abdurahman Abduhelil and Nebi Abdullah, according to notices posted by police, but said he was unable to remember the names of the other two. All four are between the ages of 20 and 26, the notices said.
"I heard that they used homemade bombs to attack the police patrol," he said.
"The authorities didn't inform us whether there were any police deaths or casualties."
No information was provided about possible motives for the attack, he said, but exile groups have suggested that similar acts of violence are expressions of resistance to Beijing's policies in Xinjiang, where Uyghurs complain of pervasive ethnic discrimination, religious repression, and cultural suppression by China's communist government.
RFA was unable to reach staff at the Zawa government office or township police station to confirm the incident.
Search operation
The butcher told RFA that after the attack, Qaraqash county and Zawa township authorities directed the police to search for the four suspects, while the Zawa township committee of China's ruling Communist Party had ordered all men between the ages of 18 and 60 to join the operation.
Of Zawa's 50,000-60,000 residents, township authorities had mobilized "most of the farmers and government staff" to take part in the search.
"They organized a people's net to check everywhere, include farmland, forests, orchards, personal property and cornfields," he said.
"The farmers' wheat, corn and vegetables have been destroyed underfoot. The people don't have time to engage in their agricultural labor—they have all been forced to take part in the hunt."
The butcher said he had just finished his forced guard duty at a checkpoint on the main road in Zawa, which he had performed for each of the past four nights.
"If anyone refuses to help, they will be arrested for political disloyalty to the party and government, so I have been forced to join in the search operation and serve my duty as a night guard," he said.
"I heard that dozens of farmers from Igiz'eriq village were detained because they refused to take part in the hunt," said the butcher, adding that the search had mainly focused on the three villages police believe the attackers come from.
"I don't know if the hiding suspects will be arrested or killed. Everyone knows that if the police discover any suspected attackers, they are authorized to shoot on sight."
Hotbed of violence
Hotan prefecture in southwestern Xinjiang has been a hotbed of violent stabbing and shooting incidents between ethnic Uyghurs and Chinese security forces, with attacks coming amid a string of assaults and bombings across the region.
Two successive suicide bombings on May 11 and 12 at a security checkpoint station in Hotan's Lop (Luopu) county killed three attackers and three police officers, and wounded four other policemen, according to local authorities, who said the incidents were likely "politically motivated."
And sources recently told RFA that the ethnic Han Chinese head of Hotan's Layqa township was stabbed to death earlier this month by a young Uyghur man, prompting a security clampdown in the area.
Rights groups accuse the Chinese authorities of heavy-handed rule in Hotan and elsewhere in Xinjiang, including violent police raids on Uyghur households, restrictions on Islamic practices, and curbs on the culture and language of the Uyghur people.
Reported by Eset Sulaiman for RFA's Uyghur Service. Translated by Eset Sulaiman. Written in English by Joshua Lipes.
Uyghurs from all parts of northwestern China are relying on networks of Chinese smugglers to take them across the border into neighboring Southeast Asian countries en route to their final destination Turkey, according to those who have been caught and detained in Thailand, a key way station.
Nearly 370 Uyghurs — Turkic-speaking, ethnic Muslims from China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region — are being held in four refugee detention centers in Thailand after they were picked up by authorities there for illegally entering the country. The centers are located in the cities of Bangkok, Rayong, Trat and Padang Besar.
During the last couple of years, Uyghurs have been leaving China in droves to escape persecution and repression by authorities who consider them separatists and terrorists and have cracked down on their religion and culture. Chinese authorities have blamed an upsurge of violence in Xinjiang since 2012 on terrorists and Islamist insurgents seeking to establish an independent state.
The Uyghurs detained in camps in Thailand are from Urumqi (in Chinese, Wulumuqi), the capital of Xinjiang, and the prefectures of Turpan (Tulufan), Kashgar (Kashi), Aksu (Akesu) and Hotan (Hetian), according to Seyyid Abdulkadir Tumturk, a representative of the Turkey-based Uyghur organization the East Turkestan Culture and Cooperation Association in Thailand.
"They first go to Chinese cities," he told RFA's Uyghur Service about the Uyghurs who have fled Xijiang. "The Chinese smugglers take the Uyghurs to Cambodia, Vietnam and other bordering countries. The Chinese have connections, so when the Uyghurs are taken to a certain destination, the smugglers then hand them over to other smugglers, and they continue to smuggle them all the way to Malaysia, from where the Uyghurs to go to Turkey."
Uyghurs detained in Thailand and ones who have made it to Turkey told Tumturk that they were "forced to abandon their homeland, memories, lives and loved ones" and risk everything to escape persecution in China.
"It is certain that Uyghurs are risking everything because of the persecution that the Chinese government has brought upon them," he said. "It's getting impossible for the Uyghurs to have human rights there."
About 70 Uyghurs have been detained in a government-run refugee detention center in Padang Besar in Songkhla province's Sadao district, southern Thailand, since March 2014 in cramped and unhygienic conditions, sources there told RFA.
Many have complained of worsening conditions and poor food quality, and held a hunger strike in January to demand authorities improve the situation at the facility. One ethnic Uyghur boy detained there died last December after contracting tuberculosis.
The 300 others are being held at the other detention facilities.
The detainees have remained in limbo more than a year into their detention, with Beijing demanding they be repatriated to China.
Nabbed in Thailand
One Uyghur who was detained in a police station in Thailand told RFA that he, his pregnant wife, and three children were arrested in February in the southern part of the country near the Malaysian border while they were traveling without passports en route to Malaysia and then to their final destination Turkey.
"Before we embarked on this journey, we talked to the Chinese people who agreed to take us out of China. We paid them money. There are Chinese human smugglers there. We didn't know them, but some people put us in touch with them to take us across the Chinese border."
It took his family 10 days to travel from the Chinese border to Thailand via Myanmar and Laos before they were arrested in Thailand, he said. Most of the time, they traveled by car, but had to use small canoes between Laos and Thailand.
"We walked on foot from the Chinese border to Myanmar where prearranged people picked us up and took us to the Laos border and to Thailand," he said. "I cannot tell you how much [money we paid], but the rest of it was going to be wired after we made it to our final destination."
When Thai officials arrested them, the Uyghur told them that he and his family were Turkish citizens.
"They brought two Chinese interpreters, but I told them that I wasn't Chinese, so they left," he said.
The family took such a huge risk because of "the endless suffering, hardships and layers upon layers of pressure and persecution heaved upon us" by Chinese authorities in Xinjiang, he said.
"We [Uyghurs] were deprived of our rights to protect our women, our children, culture, our nationality and people," he said. "Simply put, were not treated as humans."
China's heavy-handed rule in Xinjiang
Uyghur exiles and rights groups have criticized Chinese authorities' heavy-handed rule in the region — including police raids on Uyghur households, restrictions on Islamic practices, and curbs on the culture and language of the Uyghur people — which they say has forced many to flee overseas, often through Southeast Asia.
"If China calls them [the Uyghurs] criminals, then it should call the ones who are taking the Uyghurs' money to take them out of China criminals," Tumturk said.
Ismail Madadam, head of Islamic center of Songkhla province, who is helping the Uyghur detainees, told RFA that the people in the refugee detention centers are not terrorists.
"They might be people who are seeking justice," he said. "There is a very narrow line between someone seeking justice and terrorists. When they fight for justice, someone is going to say they are terrorists."
Abdul Aziz Pitakumpol, one of the most prominent Muslim leaders in Thailand, agreed.
"The Uyghurs here are not terrorists," he told RFA." "They are the people who are looking for freedom to practice their religion."
Thai Immigration authorities are in the process of verifying the identities of the Uyghurs in the detention centers, who claim to be Turkish citizens, said Choosuk Panutumpron, deputy commander of Immigration Division 6 at the Thai Immigration Bureau.
He said the detainees are not victims of human trafficking, despite the fact that people smugglers brought them into the country.
"Since there is not slavery, prostitution or other exploitation involved in their cases, we cannot call it trafficking in humans," he told RFA. "They are the people who wanted to travel by paying human smugglers."
A Turkish diplomat based in Bangkok, who declined to be identified, said the ball was still in Thailand's court regarding what to do with the Uyghurs.
"Turkey's position on Uyghur case is not going to change," he said, referring to the country's efforts to relocate the Uyghur refugees to Turkey.
Turkish officials would continue to discuss the issue with the Thai government through diplomatic and other channels, he said.
Right to choose their citizenship
Chalida Tajaroensuk, director of Thai civil society group People's Empowerment, pointed out that Thailand is not a signatory to the 1951 U.N. Refugee Convention and does not have a formal national asylum framework, so anyone who comes there to seek refuge is considered an illegal migrant.
"They have been put in detention centers, and after their citizenship has been determined, they will be deported back to their countries," she said. "But when it comes to the Uyghurs, there is big problem between China and Turkey [because] both countries claim that the Uyghurs are their citizens. So, it is very difficult for the Thailand to make decision."
But Tajaroensuk noted that under the U.N.'s International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which Thailand ratified in October 1996, the Uyghurs have the right to choose their citizenship.
"The Uyghurs want to go to Turkey, so they should be allowed to leave," she said. "Thailand should respect all the articles of the covenant, [but] it is putting its diplomatic relationship with China ahead of them. It's not fair."
The Uyghurs ended up in Thailand because their human rights were being violated and they were subject to racism in China, Tajaroensuk said.
"If the people are not happy living in that county, and the policy of that county does not respect human rights, religion or culture, … they have the right to leave the country to search for a better life," she said.
Reported by Mamatjan Juma of RFA's Uyghur Service. Translated by Mamatjan Juma. Written in English by Roseanne Gerin.]]>
Authorities in Shanghai are holding an outspoken artist and street photographer after he posted satirical images of China's president online, his lawyer told RFA, amid concerns that a permanent change is taking place in the level of state control over individual expression.
Artist Dai Jianyong was held under criminal detention by the Changning district police on Wednesday, on suspicion of "picking quarrels and stirring up trouble," according to a copy of his detention warrant seen by RFA.
Dai had recently widely published a digitally altered photograph of Xi with a puckered up facial expression and large mustache on T-shirts and soda cans.
An officer who answered the phone at the Changning district police department declined to comment on Dai's case, however.
"If you want to find out about this, you'll have to come here and inquire, with your ID card," the officer said.
"We don't have a telephone inquiry service here, and we don't answer external queries, sorry."
However, Beijing-based rights lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan confirmed the detention after speaking with Dai's wife on Wednesday.
"[The charges are] picking quarrels and stirring up trouble," Liu said. "His relatives will probably hire a lawyer locally to meet with him."
"To judge from what his wife said, it looks as if a meeting can't happen until Monday."
Unflattering images
The inclusion of the mustache has led some to speculate that Dai intended a resemblance to Adolf Hitler, although the mustache lacks the narrow, boxy appearance of Hitler's facial hair.
Online activists in China have made the link in the past, by substituting the first character in the Chinese transliteration of "Hitler," Xi Tele, for Xi's actual surname.
According to the Shanghaiist blog, the puckered-up expression is known to Dai's followers as "chrysanthemum" face, an Internet slang reference to the anus.
"The fact that Xi is making a similarly unflattering 'anus face' in the offending image certainly isn't helping the matter," the blog commented.
Dai's friend and fellow artist Wu Tun said the police reaction was "too much."
"He's a photographer and he usually shoots a lot of different things," Wu told RFA. "He did a satirical portrait of Xi Jinping, merging his own face with Xi's in Photoshop."
"He was probably detained because of this."
Wu said he had discussed the possibility of official retaliation with Dai shortly before his detention.
"We talked about it in the morning, and by the evening he had been detained," he said.
"That was so unnecessary; it's like saying nobody is allowed to get a haircut like Xi Jinping's," Wu added. "It hasn't broken any rules."
Challenge to authority
Beijing-based lawyer Chen Jiangang said such a thing could only happen in an authoritarian regime such as China's.
"In a dictatorship, national leaders have an untouchable authority, and their dignity mustn't be infringed; you're not allowed to joke about them," Chen said. "Hitler, Mussolini, Mao Zedong, and Stalin were all the same way."
"In Taiwan ... when Chen Shui-bian was president, people would piss on his photograph during demonstrations," he said of the democratic island, which has been governed separately from the Chinese mainland since 1949.
A 2013 directive from China's Supreme People's Court paved the way for the use of public order charges like "picking quarrels and stirring up trouble" in the case of Internet speech.
According to the overseas-based Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) website, draft national security legislation would formalize this process still further by "ratchet[ing] up Internet censorship."
"Without adequate safeguards called for under international law protecting free expression, law-enforcement bodies in China could charge those peacefully expressing their opinions in cyberspace with more serious crimes by prosecuting their speech as threats to "national security," the group warned.
The group called on the ruling Chinese Communist Party to withdraw the draft national security law, saying it would further entrench a crackdown on freedom of expression begun by Xi's administration since it came to power in November 2012.
"President Xi has orchestrated some of the most strident crackdowns on China's civil society since the early 1990s," CHRD said in a statement on its website this week.
The group said nearly 1,000 rights activists were detained in 2014, the same number as were held in the previous two years combined.
"Chinese authorities have already been manipulating the law and the legal system to silence and punish activists, lawyers, journalists, and dissidents," it said.
Reported by Yang Fan for RFA's Mandarin Service, and by Ho Shan for the Cantonese Service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.
Thousands of people have taken to the streets in a township near the northern Chinese city of Tianjin in recent days in protest at alleged carcinogenic pollution from a nearby iron and steel plant, residents said on Wednesday.
The protests continued on Wednesday amid a strong security presence outside the gates of the Rongcheng Iron and Steel plant in Tianjin's Gegu township after several thousand angry local residents clashed with police on Tuesday.
"They have sent in a lot of security forces to our neighborhood, who injured some of the local people because they were protesting," a Gegu resident surnamed Cheng told RFA.
"Two people were beaten up in clashes that started after a kid running through the factory gates fell and got hurt," he said. "The police came running up and there was a fight and somebody got a bone broken, and they're now in hospital."
A local resident surnamed Xue said around half the township's population of some 8,000 people had turned out in recent days to protest.
"This has been going on for several days, but not one official has come out to deal with this matter on behalf of local people," Xue said.
"We want to live, and yet our children and grandchildren have been affected by pollution," he said.
'Poisonous smell'
"There is pollution in the air and pollution in the ground ... The iron and steel plant is too close to our homes," Xue said.
"There is a horrible smell coming out of it which is probably poisonous," he said, adding: "We have a cancer rate of around 20 percent here."
He said he had been told the figure by doctors at the Tianjin Tumor Hospital, one of the leading cancer hospitals in China.
"We all go there for treatment, and there is a particular tumor that they say comes from [Gegu]," Xue said.
Another Gegu resident, who declined to be named, said the plant had been in operation for more than 20 years.
"Every household has somebody in it who has cancer now," the resident said.
"But the Rongcheng plant is a big taxpayer, so the government is supporting it ... everyone with any money, senior management and officials, have all left town," he said.
"The only people left here are farmers, and we can't leave here. Where would we get the money to buy a place to live?"
Repeated complaints
A protester surnamed Zhang said the Rongcheng plant had had a severe impact on the local environment, but that nothing had been done in spite of repeated complaints from local people.
"There has been a lot of smoke emitted recently that smells very strongly of gas, and it has made local people very angry," Zhang said.
"The government hasn't responded to the local people, and hasn't paid any attention to their requests," she said.
"All we are doing is calling on them; nothing has got heated or out of hand."
She said the Rongcheng plant is still under normal operation, in spite of the protest.
"There is still smoke wafting out over the residential area," Zhang said. "I live very close to the the iron and steel plant, and I smell this acrid smell every day."
"Everyone wants better air quality. There is a primary school nearby and the smell is very strong there, too," she said.
"People want to know what it's going to take to get a better environment."
An employee who answered the phone at the Rongcheng plant on Wednesday declined to comment on the allegations.
"It's not convenient for me to talk about this, sorry," the employee said.
Government 'investigating'
Li Zhanpeng, an official who answered the phone at the Gegu township government, said local leaders were currently in a meeting to manage the situation.
"The government is investigating this matter, and we are currently in a meeting, so you'll have to contact us later," Li said.
The government on Tuesday issued an open letter to local residents pledging to set up a task force to look into the pollution allegations.
"We hope that local people will remain within the limits of the law, or the police will deal with them according to law," the letter warned.
China has an impressive set of environmental legislation, but campaigners say local vested interests ensure that it is rarely enforced on the ground.
Decades of rapid economic growth have led to skyrocketing pollution levels in China's air, water and soil, sparking a huge increase in mass environmental protests across the country.
Reported by Yang Fan for RFA's Mandarin Service, and by Wen Yuqing for RFA's Cantonese Service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.
A Tibetan woman living in northwestern China's Gansu province set herself ablaze and died on Wednesday in the second self-immolation protest this month challenging Beijing's rule in Tibetan areas, sources said.
Sangye Tso, aged about 36, staged her protest in the early hours of May 27 outside Chinese police headquarters in Chone (in Chinese, Zhuoni) county in the Kanlho (Gannan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, sources in exile said, citing local contacts.
"Chinese police and other officials then came to her house to conduct an investigation," one source said.
Tso, whose charred body was quickly removed from the protest site by authorities, is survived by her husband Tamdrin Wangyal and by a son named Tsering Dondrub and a daughter named Khatso, sources said.
Tso's burning brings to 141 the number of self-immolation protests in Tibetan areas of China since the wave of fiery protests began in 2009, and was the second to occur this month.
On May 20, Tenzin Gyatso, aged 35 and a father of four, set himself on fire and died in the Khangsar township of Tawu (Daofu) county in Sichuan province's Kardze (Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, sources said in earlier reports.
Local Tibetans believe that Gyatso, who is survived by a wife and four children, had become upset when security forces were sent to Khangsar to prevent celebrations of the 80th birthday of exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, one source said.
Speaking on Wednesday at a prayer service held in Dharamsala, India, Tibetan exile political leader Lobsang Sangay described Gyatso and Tso as members of a new generation of Tibetans now sacrificing their lives for Tibet.
"Over and over again, they send messages to us in the outside world that the Dalai Lama should return to Tibet and that Tibet should be free," he said.
Reported by Lobe Socktsang for RFA's Tibetan Service. Translated by Karma Dorjee. Written in English by Richard Finney.
The ethnic Han Chinese head of a township in northwestern China's Xinjiang region was stabbed to death earlier this month by a young minority Uyghur man, prompting a security clampdown in the area, local residents and officials said Wednesday.
The head of Layqa township, in Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture's Hotan county, was killed on May 15 in an attack by a knife-wielding Uyghur, who was apprehended by authorities later that night, the sources told RFA's Uyghur Service.
A staff member of the Layqa government's electricity management office said the township head, who was surnamed Wang, was targeted just after 5:00 p.m. as he left his office to eat dinner at a local restaurant.
"Suddenly, a Uyghur youth appeared and attacked him with a knife," the staff member said.
"Wang died on the spot, and the Uyghur youth fled. I heard that he was detained by the police that night between 12:00 a.m. and 1:00 a.m."
The staff member said that according to local residents, the attacker was a 20-year-old single man, though he and others who spoke to RFA said his motive was unclear.
"I don't know why [the Uyghur man] attacked the township head," he said, directing further inquiries to the local police station.
According to the staff member, "police and security forces are strictly patrolling Layqa" since the attack occurred, while "the local authorities have organized night guards to protect the security of Han Chinese government staff and residents."
"The township party secretary ordered every government staff member to serve 24-hour shifts since the incident—I am just now serving my duty as a guard this evening," he said.
"Neither government employees nor local farmers have any time to relax these days."
Other accounts
A Uyghur officer who answered the phone at the Layqa police station confirmed that the stabbing incident occurred, but refused to provide details.
"The attacker has already been detained, but we cannot give any detailed information," he said, adding that officers "have no right to speak with journalists" and referring further inquiries to either the station chief or the Hotan county public security bureau.
A second call to the Layqa police station was answered by a young Uyghur auxiliary officer who confirmed that the attacker was "a Uyghur boy named Qeyyum Abla," who had already been arrested, while the victim was "a Han Chinese man … [who] worked as a high official in the township government."
The auxiliary officer also said he was not permitted to speak about the incident with anyone outside of the police force and declined to provide further details.
A young Uyghur resident of Layqa town center also confirmed the attack and said news of the incident had spread quickly through the region.
"Yes, I know about this event—everyone knows what happened recently in our township," she said, speaking to RFA on condition of anonymity.
"A Han Chinese man—the head of the township government—was killed. I heard the attacker had already been detained by police, but I don't know his motive."
Repressive policies
Washington-based Ilshat Hesen, vice president of the Uyghur American Association, told RFA that the attack was likely an expression of resistance to Beijing's policies in Xinjiang, where Uyghurs complain of pervasive ethnic discrimination, religious repression, and cultural suppression by China's communist government.
"Uyghurs are continuously struggling against the Chinese regime because of Beijing's high pressure policies affecting their religious beliefs and culture … [and] Hotan is one of the most strictly-controlled and closed areas of the Uyghur region," he said.
"Township heads or party secretaries are the main power brokers under the county government, so to attack and kill a Han Chinese township head clearly indicates the level of resistance the Uyghur people feel towards China's repressive policies."
Hotan prefecture in southwestern Xinjiang has been a hotbed of violent stabbing and shooting incidents between ethnic Uyghurs and Chinese security forces, with attacks coming amid a string of assaults and bombings across the region.
Two successive suicide bombings on May 11 and 12 at a security checkpoint station in Hotan's Lop (Luopu) county killed three attackers and three police officers, and wounded four other policemen, according to local authorities, who said the incidents were likely "politically motivated."
Rights groups accuse the Chinese authorities of heavy-handed rule in Hotan and elsewhere in Xinjiang, including violent police raids on Uyghur households, restrictions on Islamic practices, and curbs on the culture and language of the Uyghur people.
Reported by Eset Sulaiman for RFA's Uyghur Service. Translated by Eset Sulaiman. Written in English by Joshua Lipes.
The ruling Chinese Communist Party's propaganda department has ordered the country's tightly controlled online media to delete an editorial hitting back at a recent open letter from overseas Chinese students to their counterparts in Chinese universities detailing the 1989 military crackdown on the student-led Tiananmen Square democracy movement.
The May 26 editorial ran in both Chinese and English versions of the Global Times tabloid, which has close ties to party mouthpiece the People's Daily, and said the letter showed that "hostile overseas forces" are trying to turn Chinese people in their 20s and 30s against the party.
"All websites must urgently delete the Global Times commentary "Overseas Forces Attempt to Incite Post-80s, 90s Generation," (May 26, 2015)," the China Digital Times website, which monitors propaganda directives to the Chinese media, said.
The letter, authored in early May by U.S.-based Chinese student Gu Yi and signed by 10 other named overseas Chinese students, calls on Beijing to allow greater transparency around the events of June 3-4, 1989, when the People's Liberation Army (PLA) deployed troops with tanks and machine guns to clear democracy protesters who had paralyzed central Beijing for several weeks.
"Twenty-six years ago on June 4, a group of young students like us in the full bloom of their youth, who harbored a precious dream for their country, were mown down in the streets of Beijing by the guns of the people's army," the letter said.
"This piece of history has been so extensively deleted and carefully edited, that people of our age group know very little about it."
Events described
The letter goes on to detail some of the events of the night of June 3, 1989, when long columns of PLA tanks thundered down the major boulevards of the city, firing on protesters and bystanders, and crushing students.
It hits out at the official government verdict of the crackdown as a necessary response to rebellion, saying that the problems of corruption and close ties between government and business highlighted in 1989 have become far worse today, while anyone who tries to speak out about the massacre is sent to jail.
"Not only has the Chinese Communist Party not published reliable figures about the number of deaths and injuries in this crucial historical event; it has described it as 'putting down a counterrevolutionary riot,' or 'political turmoil,'" the letter said.
"It has deliberately set out to erase people's memories [of the event] ... and June 4 is a date so sensitive that nobody can talk about it," it said.
The letter doesn't call for a reappraisal of the crackdown, but for the perpetrators—"this murderous regime"—to be brought to justice.
"We do not forgive or forget, until the continuing persecution is halted and justice is done," the letter says.
'New targets'
The Global Times' English version of the editorial, which was still available online on Wednesday, said the letter was "insulting," and recalled the rhetoric of earlier pro-democracy activists.
"Those young people have been brainwashed in foreign countries," the editorial said, blaming "a small minority" of pro-democracy activists exiled in the Western countries in the wake of the crackdown.
"Most have detached themselves from politics while a minority of the minority are stuck with the old stance, financially aided and manipulated by overseas hostile forces to upset China," the paper said, adding that the lack of debate of the June 4 crackdown was the result of a "consensus" in Chinese society.
"Students born in the 1980s and 1990s have become the new targets of overseas hostile forces," it said, accusing the letter-writers of "trying to drag up history in an attempt to tear apart society."
China bans public debate or memorial activities marking the "Beijing Spring" of 1989, and has ignored repeated attempts by victims' group the Tiananmen Mothers to win a reappraisal of the bloodshed, including compensation for lost loved ones.
Dozens held
Last year, authorities arrested dozens of high-profile activists including prominent rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang and veteran political journalist Gao Yu, after they organized a seminar to discuss the event ahead of the 25th anniversary.
Gao was jailed for seven years last month for "leaking state secrets overseas," while Pu faces up to 10 years' imprisonment for each of the two public order and ethnic hatred charges against him.
In Hong Kong, the only Chinese city which still holds an annual memorial event typically attended by tens of thousands of people, activists plan to gather for a candlelight vigil in the city's Victoria Park as usual next week.
But a discussion with Beijing on Hong Kong electoral reforms that sparked the pro-democracy Umbrella Movement in the city last year has been called by Chinese officials on the same day, forcing pan-democratic legislators— who are among the event's key organizers—to choose between the two.
Reported by RFA's Mandarin and Cantonese Services. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.


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Scott Parsley
|Scott Parsley
|South Dakota State Senate, District 8
|In office
|January 13, 2015 - present
|Term ends
|January 9, 2017
|Years in position
|Minority Whip, South Dakota State Senate
|Minority Whip, South Dakota House of Representatives
|Base salary
|$6,000/session; $129/day for interim committees
|Per diem
|$110/legislative day
|Elections and appointments
|Last election
|November 4, 2014
|First elected
|November 4, 2014
|Next general
|November 8, 2016
|Term limits
|Four terms (8 years)
|Prior offices
|South Dakota House of Representatives, District 8
|High school
|South Dakota State University
|Assistant General Manager, electric power cooperative
|Office website
|Campaign website
Parsley served in the South Dakota House of Representatives, representing District 8 from 2012 to 2015. While in the House, Parsley served as Minority Whip from 2014 to 2015. Parsley did not seek re-election to the South Dakota House of Representatives in 2014.
Parsley attended Brookings High School and earned his bachelor's degree from South Dakota State University. He is the assistant general manager of an electric power cooperative.
Parsley also ran for the South Dakota House of Representatives in 2008.
Committee assignments
2015 legislative session
At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Parsley served on the following committees:
|South Dakota Committee Assignments, 2015
|• Appropriations
|• Joint Appropriations
In the 2013-2014 legislative session, Parsley served on the following committees:
|South Dakota Committee Assignments, 2013
|• Commerce and Energy
|• State Affairs
The general elections for the office of South Dakota State Senate took place on November 4, 2014. A primary election took place on June 3, 2014. The signature-filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was March 25, 2014. Scott Parsley was unopposed in the Democratic primary. Incumbent Chuck Jones was unopposed in the Republican primary. Parsley defeated Jones in the general election.[2][3][1]
|South Dakota State Senate, District 8, General Election, 2014
|Vote %
|Scott Parsley
|Chuck Jones Incumbent
|Total Votes
|Source: South Dakota Secretary of State
Parsley won election in the 2012 election for South Dakota House of Representatives District 8. Parsley ran unopposed in the Democratic primary on June 5 and won election in the general election, which took place on November 6, 2012.[4]
Campaign donors
Comprehensive donor information for Scott Parsley is available dating back to 2008. Based on available campaign finance records, Scott Parsley raised a total of $36,012 during that time period. This information was last updated on September 26, 2013.[5]
|Scott Parsley's Campaign Contribution History
|South Dakota House of Representatives, District 8
|South Dakota State Senate, District 8
|Grand Total Raised
2012Scott Parsley won election to the South Dakota House of Representatives in 2012. During that election cycle, Scott Parsley raised a total of $0.
|South Dakota House of Representatives 2012 election - Campaign Contributions
|Top contributors to Scott Parsley's campaign in 2012
|Total Raised in 2012
|Source: Follow the Money
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- South Dakota State Legislature
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- South Dakota Senate Committees
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External links
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- Profile from Open States
- Official campaign website
- Biography from Project Vote Smart
- Scott Parsley on Facebook
- Campaign contributions from Follow the Money: 2012, 2008
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 South Dakota Secretary of State, "Current Candidates for Primary Election," accessed May 2, 2014
- ↑ South Dakota Secretary of State, "Primary Election - Official Results," accessed June 4, 2014
- ↑ South Dakota Secretary of State, "Official General Election Results - November 4, 2014," accessed November 12, 2014
- ↑ Office of the South Dakota Secretary of State, "2012 Primary Election Candidate List," accessed April 9, 2012
- ↑ followthemoney.org, "Parsley, Scott," accessed September 26, 2013
|Political offices
|Preceded by
Chuck Jones (R)
|South Dakota House of Representatives District 8
| Succeeded by
|Preceded by
Mitch Fargen (D)
|South Dakota House of Representatives District 8
| Succeeded by
Mathew Wollmann (R)
- Current member, South Dakota State Senate
- State senators first elected in 2014
- Former member, South Dakota House of Representatives
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Updated: 05/13/2010 - The Green Bay Packers tailgate tour made its final stop in western Wisconsin this morning at Osseo-Fairchild high school.
Updated: 05/13/2010 - The Green Bay Packers tailgate tour made its final stop in western Wisconsin this morning at Osseo-Fairchild high school.
Updated: 05/12/2010 - The Green Bay Packers held a tailgate party at the Northern Wisconsin State Fairgrounds Wednesday evening. A chance for their adoring fans to meet their heroes up close and personal.
Posted: 05/12/2010 - The Wisconsin men's basketball team will play North Carolina State at the Kohl Center on December 1st, part of the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.
Posted: 05/12/2010 - The Milwaukee Brewers bullpen was roughed up Wednesday afternoon at the Atlanta Braves completed a three-game sweep of the Brewers at Miller Park.
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Posted: 05/11/2010 - Behind a top-10 performance from junior Andy Smith, the UW-Stout men's golf team turned in a team score of 304 to notch a tie for sixth place in the opening round of the NCAA Division III Championship meet.
Posted: 05/11/2010 - The UW-Eau Claire men's golf team struggled during the opening round of the NCAA Division III Championship meet Tuesday, combining for a score of 327 to tie for 26th place after the first day.
Posted: 05/11/2010 - The UW-Eau Claire women's golf team got off to a strong start in Tuesday's opening round of the NCAA Division III championship meet, posting a score of 331 to tie for second after the first day.
Posted: 05/11/2010 - The Minnesota Twins placed shortstop J.J. Hardy on the 15-day disabled list with a sore left wrist Tuesday and called up infielder Matt Tolbert from Triple-A.
Posted: 05/11/2010 - Milwaukee Brewers slugger Ryan Braun is not in the starting line-up for Tuesday game with Atlanta after suffering a bruised left elbow after being plunked by the Braves' Tommy Hanson Monday night.
Posted: 05/10/2010 - The Milwaukee Brewers opened a six-game homestand Monday night with an 8-2 loss to the Atlanta Braves.
Updated: 05/10/2010 - Local Scores for Monday, May 10, 2010
Posted: 05/10/2010 - Behind an impressive performance from ace Greg Button, the Eau Claire North baseball team won intracity bragging rights with a 2-0 win over Eau Claire Memorial Monday night.
Updated: 05/09/2010 - UW-Stout rebounded nicely after a 13-6 loss in the first of two games by defeating UW-Stevens Point, 5-3 in their final WIAC game of the season, Sunday afternoon at Nelson Field.
Updated: 05/09/2010 - After picking up with two wins on day one, the UW-Eau Claire softball team was unable to score a run Sunday, and was knocked out of the WIAC Tournament in Oshkosh.
Posted: 05/09/2010 - Tim Clark finished off a record 36-hole comeback at the TPC Sawgrass with a 5-under 67 on Sunday to rally from seven shots behind on the weekend and win The Players Championship over hard-luck Robert Allenby of Australia.
Posted: 05/09/2010 - Chris Narveson gave up three hits pitching into the sixth inning and drove in a run, three Milwaukee players homered and the Brewers beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-1 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.
Posted: 05/09/2010 - Nick Blackburn threw seven strong innings, Denard Span had his third three-hit game of the month and the Minnesota Twins beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-0 Sunday to earn a split of the four-game series.
Posted: 05/08/2010 - Jody Gerut hit for the cycle and drove in four runs, and Ryan Braun also had four RBIs as the Milwaukee Brewers pounded the Arizona Diamondbacks 17-3 Saturday night.
Updated: 05/09/2010 - The Menomonie Thunderhawks semi-pro football team shut out the Northern Terror 38-0 Saturday at Williams Stadium.


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There have been big changes over at the world's No. 1 Linux distributor, and some of them are already showing up in the product.
Red Hat has opened up its development process, letting third-parties participate more actively in what was formerly a private testing system. It will also gradually become easier for outsiders to get their software into Red Hat now. And, since the company has abandoned the retail "shrinkwrapped box" market (with its inventory issues) -- while also creating a separate, slow-changing "enterprise" distribution -- it can add new goodies to its desktop offerings far more quickly.
The first of these changes are visible in Red Hat Linux 10. It's worth the upgrade -- especially if you didn't have time to jump to RHL9. Of course, to make the most of RHL10, you'll need a great book. Consider Red Hat Linux Bible, Fedora and Enterprise Edition.
Christopher Negus's RHL Bibles have long stood out for their focus on real-world tasks -- and for their breadth. Inside these pages is all you need to find and run applications, set up a network, connect to the Internet, provide email and other services -- even burn CDs and play networked games.
What's more, this book also contains a three-CD-ROM copy of the Red Hat 10 distribution. Not just the standard "Publisher's Edition," but an enhanced version with hundreds more packages.
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It's 'cash only' for Vatican as bank halts electronic payments
It's "cash only" now for tourists at the Vatican wanting to pay for museum tickets, souvenirs and other services after Italy's central bank decided to block electronic payments, including credit cards, at the tiny city-state.
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VATICAN CITY— It's "cash only" now for tourists at the Vatican wanting to pay for museum tickets, souvenirs and other services after Italy's central bank decided to block electronic payments, including credit cards, at the tiny city-state.
Deutsche Bank Italia, which for some 15 years had provided the Vatican with electronic payment services, said Thursday that the Bank of Italy had pulled its authorization after Dec. 31.
The Corriere della Sera newspaper reported that the Italian central bank took the action because the Holy See has not yet fully complied with European Union safeguards against money laundering. That means Italian banks are not authorized to operate within the Vatican, which is in the process of improving its mechanisms to combat laundering.
The Vatican says it is scrambling to solve the problem for thousands of visitors who flock to its very popular Vatican Museums, which include highlights like the Sistine Chapel. The Holy See had no immediate comment on the Bank of Italy's reported reasons.
Tourists in the long lines Thursday that snaked around Vatican City walls were not happy about the inconvenience.
"It's certainly a disadvantage," said Giuseppe Amoruso, an Italian. "Credit cards provide a useful service, which needs to be accessible to everybody, everywhere."
"A lot of tourists don't have cash on them, so they have to get euros and don't know where to get them," said Fluger William Hunter, an American tourist.
The central bank said a routine inspection found that Deutsche Bank Italia hadn't sought authorization when it first started providing services at the Vatican. When it finally did, the Bank of Italy turned it down because the Vatican's banking norms, including measures to combat money laundering, didn't meet Italy's more stringent criteria of recent years, a central bank official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because there was no official statement on the case.
The Vatican has been striving to upgrade its measures to detect and discourage money laundering, hiring a Swiss expert just a few months ago. Last summer, the Holy See passed a key European financial transparency test but received failing grades for its financial watchdog agency and its bank, formally called the Institute for Religious Works.
The museums, with their entrance fees and popular souvenir shops, are a big money-maker for the Vatican. Other Vatican attractions, such as tours of the Vatican's ancient underground spaces, also charge admission.
Giulia Saudelli from Rome contributed.
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I enjoyed watching the semifinal on Saturday (which I believe you can still watch on the life university website). BYU showed a lot of grit hanging in there against a very good team. It was funny that nearly every time something awesome happened the cameraman watched intently on his own while failing to move the actual camera, so we were in the dark until we heard yelling or the cameraman would realize his error and adjust the view. Does anyone know if/where the finals match will be televised?
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RICHFIELD — During a special meeting Aug. 13, the Revere Local Schools Board of Education accepted the resignation of transportation supervisor Nila Ellis.
Ellis' resignation was effective at the end of the school year, according to the resolution.
Also at the meeting, the board moved to hire Dave Tomei as interim transportation supervisor for the coming school year with a salary of $48,000.
The board also approved the employment of Brian Rizzo as a half-time music teacher for Bath Elementary and Revere Middle schools.
In addition, the board agreed to move the date of its regular meeting because of school open house events. The next meeting will take place Aug. 28 at 6:30 p.m. in the Revere High School Library, 3420 Everett Road.
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STVM's Board of Trustees Executive Committee announced earlier this year its decision to transition to the president-principal model for administering the high school. Board Chairman Patrick Hart announced the appointment of Carone, effective July 1.
Carone will serve as president while David Rathz, who will retire after the 2013-14 school year, continues as headmaster in the academic area. Carone and Rathz are working together on the transition into the new model for STVM, school officials said.
Carone, a 1977 STVM graduate, received a bachelor's degree in accounting from The University of Akron. He worked at MACtac in Stow for 18 years and served as vice president of operations at Spunfab in Cuyahoga Falls.
Carone and his wife, Darla, have two daughters: 2002 STVM graduate Nicole and 2006 STVM graduate Heather. They are West Akron residents and longtime members of St. Vincent Parish, school officials said.
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AKRON — FirstEnergy Corp. is offering education grants of up to $500 for creative classroom projects planned for the 2012-13 school year.
The Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Classroom Grants will be awarded for creative individual classroom projects in prekindergarten through 12th grade, according to FirstEnergy officials. The grants are available to educators and youth group leaders located in communities served by FirstEnergy's 10 electric operating companies, or in communities where the company has generating plants or does business.
"Our goal is to encourage creative classroom learning in the STEM subjects; to support teacher professional development in these critical areas; and to expose both students and teachers to the career possibilities in the STEM fields of study," said Delores Jones, manager of community initiatives. "The students who benefit from these programs could become FirstEnergy's future engineers, scientists, accountants, information technologists and electricians."
STEM grant applications must be submitted by Sept. 17. The application and more information about grant criteria are available at www.first energycorp.com/community/education/educational_grants.html.
Grants will be awarded based on the recommendations of the FirstEnergy Education Advisory Council, and winners will be notified by Oct. 8, according to FirstEnergy officials.
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gustienordic wrote:I don't have enough faith in Coquard to beat Lutsenko or Dennis
You can pick your ten best neos here.
Hugo Koblet wrote:Sorry Maaaaaaaarten, I overlooked your message.
So Vino and Maaaaaaaarten we have a three way deal? What about you, gustienordic, you want in on it with Coquard as well?
The winner choses an avatar for the losers for how long?
Ryo is of couse welcome as well, but I don't expect it to happen.
gustienordic wrote:I don't have enough faith in Coquard to beat Lutsenko or Dennis
Pentacycle wrote:Clement Koretzky seems quite a good rider. I'm surprised he didn't sign at a French WT team, although he'll get more chances at Bretagne, together with Sepulveda.
And what about the first Algerian on a PCT team, Youcef Reguigui?
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