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SAN DIEGO -- Location, location, location. The bottom line in real estate also applies to Major League Baseball, where the National League West is the place to be in 2013. Membership alone buys you status as a contender.
The Giants traveled south looking and feeling nothing at all like the world beaters who, nine months ago, rallied to subdue the Reds and Cardinals in the playoffs and swept the Tigers in the World Series, conquering their realm for the second time in three seasons.
"Rough," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said Thursday night at Petco Park, where a 4-2 decision against the Padres lifted the spirits of the defending champs. "We've been going through a really rough stretch."
Losses in 14 of 16 games preceding a four-game series against Bochy's former club could have doomed San Francisco if it lived in any division besides the forgiving NL West.
Just three teams in the league -- the Brewers, Marlins and Padres -- own lower winning percentages than the Giants, yet they remain very much alive in the West.
Arizona (48-44) and Los Angeles (46-45) are above .500 in the division, the D-backs having squandered an opportunity to pull away from the pack during a 7-11 stretch. The NL West leaders would be fifth in the American League East, fourth in the NL Central and third in the AL West.
"The way this division is shaping up, you think it's going to be wild -- the wild, wild West," Padres manager Bud Black said. "It could be more than two or three teams involved all the way to the finish. It could be everybody."
The surging Dodgers, coming off a sweep of the D-backs in Arizona, look like the team to beat now with Yasiel Puig and Hanley Ramirez driving the offense and Ricky Nolasco fortifying a potentially dominant rotation.
But who knows where this is going. It wasn't long ago that the D-backs were firmly in the driver's seat. The Rockies also had a nice little run before their struggles began in mid June. Even the Padres, with seven straight wins and a 10-2 stretch, made a move before the wheels came off with 10 straight losses.
"The D-backs probably have been the most steady," Black said. "And the Dodgers obviously are on fire. We've all had our ups and downs."
San Francisco has recent history on its side. The Giants took flight in the second half last season, carrying momentum into the postseason and riding it to the promised land with a fine blend of pitching, defense and clutch hitting.
Those ingredients have been missing this season, leaving Bochy groping for answers.
Injuries have claimed leadoff man Angel Pagan and starter Ryan Vogelsong, and a foot injury has inhibited World Series hero Pablo Sandoval. But reigning NL Most Valuable Player Award winner Buster Posey, Marco Scutaro, Hunter Pence and Brandon Crawford form a solid nucleus along with Sandoval, whose fourth-inning homer on Thursday night was his ninth. Only the Marlins have fewer homers than the Giants' 60.
"Guys do start pressing, trying to pick everybody up and carry the load," Bochy said. "It's been a long enough time to stop saying those things and go out and do it."
A pitching staff that has won so many big games remains essentially intact, searching for the stuff that had made Bochy the envy of 29 peers. The team ranks 11th in the NL in ERA at 4.13, compared to 3.68 last year (fifth) and an MLB-best 3.36 in the 2010 title season.
"We've got to be in the moment, relax a little more," said Tim Lincecum, the two-time NL Cy Young Award winner who owns a 4-9 record with a 4.61 ERA. "Accept it and absorb it and move on. I've taken that approach personally.
"Worrying about the fact we're not scoring runs just compounds the issue. Guys start trying to do too much. We've just got to get back to playing the game with the confidence we've had in the past."
Underscoring San Francisco's offensive problems: the club was 9-for-84 in the past 14 games with runners in scoring position when Kensuke Tanaka lined an RBI single with the bases loaded on Thursday night to tie the game at 2 and end starter Jason Marquis' night.
All-Star Madison Bumgarner claimed his 10th win when the Giants scored twice in the eighth on Gregor Blanco's RBI double and Posey's run-scoring single. Tanaka -- in his third start in left field since getting summoned from Triple-A Fresno -- was the catalyst with a single and steal.
San Francisco showed remarkable character after the break last season when the club lost All-Star Game MVP Melky Cabrera to a ban for performance-enhancing drugs. Scutaro came from Colorado in a deal that had a stabilizing impact, minimizing the loss of Cabrera.
"We took off in the second half last year," Crawford, the sterling shortstop, said. "There's no reason why we can't do it again."


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THERE seems to be a rule that mediums – people who say they can communicate with the dead – must conform to one of two stereotypes.
The first is a flamboyant TV personality prone to histrionics, bad hair and 'possession'; and the second is an elderly person exuding groans and ectoplasm during a front parlour seance.
Then there's Andrew Dee, a 6ft 5ins 47-year-old former RAF officer who says his big spiritual awakening came in the Iraqi desert a few years ago.
On Thursday he appears at the Arts Centre in Swindon, just across Devizes Road from the Spiritualist Church where he gave his first reading while stationed at RAF Lyneham.
At the time his military role was to provide welfare communications to soldiers, sailors and airmen around the globe, so they could contact their loved ones while away on operations.
"However," Andrew recalled, "here I was, a complete novice, about to embark on another journey that involved communications with loved ones, albeit from a higher source."
The meeting was run by church member Jeff Woodhouse, who invited Andrew to describe what he experienced.
Andrew said: "A man called Jim was sitting opposite me and I could see mechanical valves of some description 'overlaid' somehow onto his shirt, if that makes sense.
"There was other information that I passed on to Jim about wanting to bang my foot on the floor because it felt as though it kept going dead through poor circulation.
"To my amazement, Jim was able to confirm all of the things I had picked up about him but especially that he had had heart trouble and he did have poor circulation, but a lot of these things had eased since he had mechanical replacement heart valves earlier that year..."
Andrew is married to Moira, and the couple have two sons. The family lives in Lichfield, Staffordshire.
He was born into a pub and hotel-keeping family in Liverpool and joined the RAF as an airman at 19. Commissioned after eight years, he was to serve for a total of 22 and retire as a Flying Officer in 2009.
His career included everything from aircraft electrical systems to satellite communications. Such a background seems to jar against his current role, but Andrew says he's been experiencing supernatural phenomena since childhood.
"I used to close my eyes and see faces I didn't recognise," he said. "I didn't know what to do about it."
That first reading in Swindon followed a medium friend's urging that he develop what she called his gift, but soon afterwards Andrew was posted to Iraq. It was there, he said, that another event happened to set him on his current path.
Walking near his accommodation he saw what he thought was a ring-pull glinting in the sand, but discovered it to be the ring of a novelty keyring in the shape of a clog.
He was stunned, for a reason he went on to explain: "At that moment, everything in my mind began to swirl and I suddenly felt a rush, almost like I was not in control of my own thoughts.
"For a split second my grandfather – on my mother's side – was with me and had completely enveloped me with his presence.
"What I have not told you is that my grandfather was Dutch – in fact they both were. They settled in Liverpool after World War Two and raised families there.
"Not only that, clogs are very significant for my family. My father had a restaurant named Clogs and even today as I write this, there is a wall in The Pineapple Hotel in Liverpool that has at least 30 clogs hanging up, many of which were souvenirs brought over from Holland by visiting family or from our frequent visits to Holland."
On leaving the RAF in 2009 Andrew worked for the family business while making more appearances as a medium. His Swindon show is part of a national tour.
He welcomes believers and sceptics alike, and even tells a story of encountering a sceptic at a show and telling his grown-up child: "Your dad didn't believe in all this – he thought it was a load of mumbo jumbo and that when you're dead you're dead.
"When he died he said, 'Well, that's me gone then,' but now he's come to say, 'Here I am...'"
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BAGHDAD (AP) - Tens of thousands of Sunni Muslims rallied on Friday in several Iraqi cities to protest what they describe as unfair treatment by the country's Shiite-led government, extending concerns over rising sectarian tension in the country.
Sunnis have staged mass protests since late December. They are demanding that Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki step down, and are calling for the release of thousands of Sunnis they say were rounded up arbitrarily under the guise of counter-terrorism regulations. They also want authorities to rescind policies they say discriminate against Sunnis.
Protestors had hoped to move their demonstrations from predominantly Sunni provinces to Baghdad on Friday, but they backed off that plan after the government rejected their request and imposed tough security measures. Government security forces blocked roads leading from Sunni-dominated provinces and sealed off all Sunni neighborhoods.
In the western cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, former insurgent strongholds, demonstrators blocked the main highway to Jordan and Syria to perform Friday noon prayers. Others gathered in main squares in the northern cities of Samarra, Mosul and Kirkuk. Local residents rallied outside a prominent Sunni mosque in the Baghdad.
'Where is the partnership you are talking about? Sunnis are only seeing genocide and marginalization,' shouted cleric Saad al-Fayadh in front of thousands of worshippers in Ramadi. His speech was interrupted many times by demonstrators who pumped their fists in the air and shouted: 'Allahu Akbar' or 'God is great.'
The cleric accused the Shiite-led government of letting Iranian influence grow in Baghdad, saying Iranian pilgrims can travel to the country easily and Iranian-backed Shiite militias have marched in the streets.
'Am I foreigner? Are we second-class citizens? Are we your enemies? We are Anbar, Kirkuk, Ninevah and Salahuddin,' he said, referring to Sunni provinces in western and northern Iraq.
Some protesters vowed to yet take their rallies to the capital by holding banners read: 'Baghdad, be patient,' and 'Baghdad, not yet.'
To ease tension, the government formed a committee to consider the Sunnis' demands. It has released about 3,000 detainees and is working on clearing thousands of Saddam Hussein-era officials to allow them to take their pensions or sell properties that were blocked after 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
Hours before Friday prayers, three mortar rounds landed in a military base in Fallujah, but there was no word on casualties, according to police and army officers. The officers spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to release information.
Last month, at least five stone-throwing protesters were killed when soldiers opened fire in Fallujah. The government has promised to investigate the incident, which marked the first time protesters had been killed in the unrest. Two other soldiers were killed the same day, and two more were shot to death a day later in apparent retaliation for the protesters' deaths.
The advocacy group Human Rights Watch this week pressed the Iraqi government to complete its probe of the Fallujah shooting and ensure that those responsible for any unlawful killing are prosecuted. The group said it had interviewed witnesses who claimed that the protesters were throwing rocks, but were not otherwise armed and did not threaten soldiers' lives.
Also Friday, thousands of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's followers marched in the streets of Baghdad's eastern Sadr City neighborhood to show support for Shiites in Bahrain as they mark the second anniversary of the anti-government uprising in the Gulf nation. They held flags from both countries and banners that read: 'Yes, Yes for Bahrain,' and 'Iraqi people support the Bahraini people.'
Nearly 60 people have died in two years of upheaval in the kingdom. Bahrain's majority Shiites are pushing for a greater political voice on the Sunni-ruled island.
--- Associated Press writer Adam Schreck contributed reporting.
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Herschel was stationed at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2), 1.5 million km from Earth. This point is theoretically stationary in space with respect to the Earth and Sun, which meant that for Herschel, Earth and the Sun was always in the same general direction.
This provided a stable thermal environment and a good view of the sky. Since the Earth was far away, Herschel was also not disturbed by its radiation belts.
At the same time, the spacecraft's position in space and the resulting temperature extremes made the task of optimising the work environment for the instruments a challenge.
The Herschel spacecraft has heritage from the successful ESA Infrared Space Observatory (ISO). It was been improved and optimized for a more distant and more favourable orbit and its complement of instruments.
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The Herschel satellite was composed of three sections.
First the telescope, which had a 3.5 m-diameter primary mirror protected by a sunshade. The telescope focused light onto three scientific instruments; their detectors were housed in a giant thermos flask, known as a cryostat.
The cryostat provided the interface and cryogenic environment for the instrument focal plane units, and supported the telescope, the solar array and telescope sunshade, and a unit of the Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared.
Inside the cryostat, Herschel's detectors were kept at very low and stable temperatures, necessary for the instruments to operate. The cryostat contained liquid superfluid helium at temperatures lower than –271°C, which made the instruments as sensitive as possible. The instruments detectors and the cryostat made up the second section, the payload module.
The infrared detectors were cooled to extremely low temperatures in order to work, in fact close to absolute zero (–273.15°C or 0 K).
All three Herschel instruments were housed inside and cooled by the cryostat which was filled at launch with more than 2300 litres of superfluid helium kept at 1.65 K, i.e. –271.5°C. Further cooling – down to 0.3 K – was required for the SPIRE and PACS bolometeric detectors. The role of the cryostat was fundamental because it determined the lifetime of the observatory.
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Of course they are. The animal rights organization has sent an impassioned letter to the Chicago Cubs, advising them not to accept a Japanese baseball team's offer of a curse-breaking Kentucky Fried Chicken statue.
Our story so far: Japanese work crews pulled a statue of Colonel Sanders from an Osaka, Japan river on Tuesday, presumably breaking a 24-year-old curse that had prevented the Hanshin Tigers from winning a Japanese World Series. KFC, knowing a great marketing opportunity when it smells one, on Thursday offered to donate the statue to the star-crossed Chicago Cubs.
Not so fast, says People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals. Their claim is that there is probably no greater form of animal abuse than seizing a bird, lopping off its head and deep frying it in 11 tasty herbs and spices. KFC suppliers are also guilty of chicken torture, says PETA, although I think everyone can agree that their coleslaw is delicious. In a strongly-worded letter (PDF) — at which PETA excels — the Cubs are urged not to accept the masonry tribute to hot oily hens. Excerpt:
This is just the controversy Tom Ricketts would like to inherit, I'll bet. Bon apetite, Cubs' fans!
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Well, maybe not free exactly.
It costs $3,695 to attend the show. And as one wag commented, "The chocolate's the better part. You'll get fewer headaches."
Perhaps stung by the contrast between its Windows Vista's tarnished reputation and its flashy "The Wow Starts Now" promotional campaign, Microsoft is sticking to barer-bones marketing work with Windows 7. Microsoft is one of five premier sponsors of the conference, and giving freebies to a few thousand influential IT folks probably makes sense--especially given how many companies just stuck with Windows XP rather than upgrade to Vista.


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On Voting— November 4, 2014
YOU HAVE TO VOTE. OK, it's not up to me to tell you what you "have to" do. But please vote. Like,
This one's a bit late in the telling, but worth mentioning nevertheless: last Wednesday, Ben Domenech of The Heartland Institute, a conservative think-tank, appeared on MSNBC's All In With Chris Hayes to talk post-shutdown politics. In a moment of startling journalistic integrity, Hayes, clearly exasperated after deflecting the usual set of conservative talking points from Domenech, had this to say:
"These hucksters tell you things that are false. They lie to you. Ted Cruz lies to you. Heritage Action lies to you. Everybody lies to you. There is a whole cottage industry before the election to tell you, you are winning the election, they are losing. They tell you, your ideas are popular when they are not. They tell you your party is winning when it is not. They tell you the president is losing this and he looks terrible because people are storming the WWII memorial — At what point do grass roots conservatives stop allowing their leadership to lie to them?"
I've got to hand it to Hayes for taking Domenech to task; the journalists who do are canaries in a coal mine, their career deaths a warning to the others to either turn back or tread lightly. Sadly, his question was asked in the relatively safe, final moments before commercial, failing to leave time for Domenech's even more striking admission to be properly addressed.
"Well, I think that you have to keep in mind, the leadership lies to themselves, as well. They lie to themselves about their ability to control the situation. They lie to themselves about the ability to offer an alternative approach from the senate side that they could take it up by the house at the get-go. I think that essentially you are seeing a lot of people who are lying to each other about the nature of the policies and nature of the political strategy that they are employing."
While his words are somewhat convoluted from a certain degree of backpedaling, their meaning their meaning should be quite clear: the Republican party is built on a foundation of lies, and they lie about everything, even when they don't have to. As a party that defines themselves not by what they are for but what they are against, without their lies, the Republicans have nothing. Nearly every policy position they have advocated for in recent decades has done massive damage to our economy and our prosperity, and caused incalculable human suffering both here and abroad. They cannot ever admit to this, for to do so would seal their doom. This is why conservatives have shifted the debate away from ideas and over to facts in the public square; doing so allows them to maintain an appearance of altruistic productivity, while ensuring that their paper tiger politics continue to have teeth.
Domenech's remarks seem to have gone largely unnoticed in the progressive community. One can never predict what will go viral in the Digital Age, but I believe it's safe to say that, regardless of the level of exposure this nugget of truth receives, his misstep has condemned him to a life of political obscurity henceforward. After all, glitches in the Matrix cannot be tolerated, even minor ones. Rest assured, there's a wide, shallow pool of conserva-clones waiting to take his place, and each one of them in turn will eventually become an aberration to the narrative. But as long as we chronicle those aberrations as they occur, and tack them on to the ceaseless recitation of our grievances, we can, in time, pin the paper tiger to the wall.


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Your roundup of all the hottest hot-stove items of the day (and whatever shit Ken Rosenthal is throwing against the wall). This is ... HOT FUCKING STOVE!!!
• There's apparently a mystery team involved in the bidding for Albert Pujols, much like there was for Cliff Lee. Speculation is that it could be the Cubs or Rangers, though another report says it could be the Orioles. The Cardinals still remain the overwhelming favorites, one report says are they could announce a deal as soon as tomorrow.
• The Dodgers starting pitching options are really, really sad.
• The Brewers have no idea who their shortstop is going to be next season, though it probably won't be Jose Reyes.
• The Martin Prado-for-Delmon Young rumor is picking up a lot of steam, but don't tell Atlanta.
• Dale Sveum will indeed manage a historic franchise known as much for its decades-long title drought as its off-field exploits. We just happened to pick the wrong one.


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You know that feeling you get when a doctor prescribes an opium-based painkiller you're not used to? It's a dull, detached feeling. You're not quite asleep, but you don't really care about much.
That's the feeling I get when I look the 2014 Outlander Mitsubishi unveiled at the LA Auto Show this week. Sure, clean lines and all that, but it doesn't seem to be much more than a Forester-esque crossover box with inoffensive styling and an uninspiring powertrain.
But the new Outlander makes a lot of sense. It's lighter, has an improved 166 hp four-cylinder engine and a continuously variable transmission — which will mean good fuel economy — and it holds seven passengers. That means that it'll appeal to people who need minivans and station wagons but don't want to own up to it. That in turn means that it'll probably sell, which is important to Mitsubishi as is struggles to avoid being edged out by more robust competition from the land of the rising sun.
The GT version will have all wheel drive, a 224 hp V6, and a paddle shifted six-speed, so it probably won't be all that bad to drive.
Whether or not the Outlander achieves Mitsubishi's expressed goal of boosting U.S. sales remains to be seen. Sure it looks boring, but people buy a lot of Toyotas. The interior seems vastly improved from the outgoing Outlander, which was terrible.
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Column: Relationship between athletes and guns deserves closer look
The issue of athletes and guns is as compelling as it is polarizing. As soon as news of an athlete possessing guns in any alleged criminal case surfaces, social media is abuzz with bountiful generalizations chastising athlete behavior.
It's telling that Raymond Felton hasn't been charged with pointing a gun at his estranged wife's face. That being said, until facts of the case are known, everything said about the case is speculative at best.
Felton should have known better considering the strict gun laws in New York, and he's facing jail time if convicted.
Though it's a hollow and lazy point, many will compare his case to that of Plaxico Burress, who served two years for accidentally shooting himself in a Manhattan nightclub in 2008.
In the aftermath, Burress was made a public example by then New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, and there was essentially no way Burress was getting off despite not injuring anyone but himself. That enough should have made every athlete in the country make sure their guns were registered, learn the laws of every state or get rid of them altogether.
Many use these instances to criticize every athlete as if every athlete was a criminal, when it's fairly obvious that a lot of athletes are law-abiding citizens. When it was erroneously reported that Felton pointed a gun at his estranged wife, the conversation shifted and despite authorities stating that Felton wasn't charged with threatening her, the damage in the court of public opinion had been done.
Athletes are then lumped into a generalized category of dumb jocks (or worse), having no business possessing firearms. Fans and media point to the money pro athletes earn and public celebrity as reasons why they would be stupid to even consider owning a gun. Pro league commissioners are swift to protect the brand and, more than likely, punishment is handed out simply to ease public disdain and set precedent.
Commissioners do have a quandary on their hands regarding gun ownership and how it's viewed by a general public who is, in most instances, devoid of context. Is gun ownership for athletes about crime, or protection?
NBA players have been robbed about twice that of the national average, so it's understandable why NBA athletes in particular choose to possess weapons. Numerous cases like Eddy Curry tied up and robbed in his Chicago home, Antoine Walker also robbed in Chicago, Jamaal Tinsley shot at after leaving an Indianapolis hotel night club, Quentin Richardson's brother murdered in a robbery attempt in front of his father or Stephon Marbury having his chain snatched while sitting in a car support an athlete's case for gun ownership.
The question asked, though, is this: Do athletes get in more trouble vs. every day citizens?
Just over 5 percent of NBA players are charged with a crime vs. a 4.2 national average, based on 2010 national crime statistics. So yes, according to those numbers the average is slightly higher but not enough so to knee-jerk some sort of broad-based indictment on NBA athletes. Of course, there is always the bizarre supporting the stereotype.
As was the case of Gilbert Arenas bringing four guns into the Washington Wizards locker room over a bet and disagreement with his former teammate Javaris Crittenton. Arenas was suspended for 50 games by NBA Commissioner David Stern. It was a suspension and stigma in the aftermath that essentially ended a very promising pro career - injuries notwithstanding.
Regarding a need for gun ownership, Washington Redskins All-Pro safety Sean Taylor was well on his way to possibly a Hall of Fame NFL career when he was gunned down in his own home during a robbery attempt trying to protect his family. What if he had a gun? Would he still be alive?
Then of course, as with anything, race is always a factor and even in comedy a negative connotation exists regarding black men and guns.
When I asked NBA forward Elton Brand about the perception of black athletes owning guns vs. their white counterparts he said this during a conversation about the death of Trayvon Martin: "I remember Chris Kaman when I played with him was a big gun advocate. He had all types of guns. AR 15's. He goes hunting. He has big guns. Twitter pics of guns. If I took a Twitpic of a gun it would be a different story, so I think we should show both sides. "
While never absolving any athlete committing a crime using a gun, do yourself a favor and open the discussion a little bit. The point is, while it's rumored that an overwhelming majority of NBA players own guns, instead of policing athlete gun ownership, shouldn't we be asking why they feel a need to own guns in the first place?
Michael Tillery is a contributor for TheShadowLeague.com. He has also contributed to the New York Times, SLAM and Sacremento Magazine. You can follow him on Twitter @michaeltillery.com.


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Iran's charm offensive, culminating at the U.N. General Assembly with a speech by President Hassan Rouhani, is a prime example of how Iran's sanctions-wracked economy is shaping foreign affairs. Brookings Institution senior fellow Dr. Suzanne Maloney discusses on the News Hub.
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I think for us to a right to believe it or something really historic happening here we've seen an unprecedented signals from the Iranians ... really building over the course of the summer since the election of Hassan Rohani ... in culminating though even in the past few days and ... 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Hong Kong (CNN) -- To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing, CNN spoke to several key pro-democracy dissidents, some of whom were among the thousands of student protesters that fateful day on June 4, 1989.
Chai Ling
"I want to offer President Xi a new form of 'China Dream': no 'China Dream' can be accomplished by sacrificing individual rights to further national dream. It has to be done other way round. The only way China can achieve its dream is to protect very basic rights for each individual," activist Chai Ling told CNN's Patricia Wu in an interview ahead of the 25th anniversary of the crackdown.
Chai was one of the most outspoken student leaders during the 1989 protests. Then 23 years old, Chai was shocked when troops moved in on student protesters.
"I grown up in the army, the soldiers were my aunt and uncles, so I can't believe they would turn into monsters using machine guns shooting at innocent students. That was such a shock," said Chai. Both of her parents had served in the army.
Chai fled Beijing, hidden in a cargo box to Hong Kong. She later moved to the United States. Now, 25 years on, she remembers those who sacrificed themselves fighting for their dream of a free and prosperous China.
"Some of us spent months and years in hiding and some spent months and years in prison. We lost much: families, possessions, education, freedom," said Chai.
Political and non-profit work continues to be a part of Chai's life in the United States. A two-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Chai established All Girls Allowed, an organization fighting gendercide in China.
A defining moment for Chai was when she found Christianity in 2009. Her book "A Heart for Freedom" (2011) talked about the effect faith had on her perspective of China's past. She says she now prays for the soldiers and for China's current leaders, especially President Xi, whose father was rumored to be one of the few leaders who opposed using military force.
Wang Dan
"The world needs to believe that from 1989, even Chinese people look forward to democratization. Any time they think they have a chance, they will not hesitate to stand up," activist Wang Dan told CNN iReporter Neal Moore ahead of the 25th anniversary.
Wang was another high-profile student leader of the pro-democracy movement. "He was the one with the big glasses, slight build, and the bullhorn," says Moore.
After the June 4 crackdown, Wang was top of China's "Most Wanted" list and subsequently spent six years in prison. He eventually fled to the United States and is now a politics professor at a university in Taiwan.
iReporter Moore reached out to Wang by email recently and reported the following:
"Will China enter into a dialogue of openness suggested by Deng Xiaoping in 1978? Will it carry out 'political restructuring' as promised by Wen Jiabao at the United Nations General Assembly in 2010? Or will it stay the course and straddle what some observers refer to as a Leninism-plus-Consumerism strategy? According to Wang Dan, the choice is simple. My final question was what he would like to say to the leadership in Beijing today. 'Think about the party's future,' Wang replied. 'There will be only two choices: Democracy, or die.'"
Wu'er Kaixi
"Nobody really forgets, but there are people willing to turn the other way," Wu'er Kaixi told CNN. The activist rose to prominence as a 21-year-old student leader in 1989.
Alongside Wang Dan and Chai Ling, Wu'er became one of the faces of the student-led hunger strikes at Tiananmen Square. He famously chastised former Chinese Premier Li Peng on national television while dressed in a set of blue and white striped hospital pajamas.
For years after the crackdown, Wu'er would wake up in the middle of the night dreaming about the bloody massacre.
The chronic nightmares have stopped, but Wu'er, now 46 years old, cannot shake off the guilt he feels for escaping Tiananmen Square alive.
"This survivor's guilt I will have to carry for the rest of my life," he said.
Twenty-five years later, Wu'er still sees himself as an activist and political dissident. He lives in Taiwan and works as a junior partner at an American financial consulting firm.
In the China that Wu'er left behind in 1989, it was impossible to buy Nike sneakers or have a quiet drink in a bar, he wrote in a CNN.com op-ed in 2009. Now, China has gained a market economy and property rights but they have come at the price of political freedom.
"It's a lousy deal," he said.
Fang Zheng
"Although it was a quarter of a century ago, June 4 is not over for many who witnessed the crackdown that day. The oppressive government that was in place 25 years ago still exists today. It has not apologized for its crimes, victims have not received any compensation and China's human rights record is still deplorable," says Fang Zheng, who lost both his legs on June 4 when a tank rolled over him outside Tiananmen Square.
Fang, then a 22-year-old college senior, joined the student protest to campaign for political reform in China.
"Our aim was simple: we wanted a better China. We saw many problems: corruption, a lack of freedoms," he said in a recent interview with CNN.
At 4 a.m., student leaders negotiated a ceasefire with the People's Liberation Army and agreed to leave the Square. Fang was accompanying a student from his university down Chang'an Avenue when a gas grenade exploded next to her. He pushed her out of harm's way but got knocked over by oncoming tanks.
"I felt my entire body being crushed. In my last moments of consciousness, I looked down and I could see out of the corner of my eye, the white bone sticking out of my thigh," Fang said in an interview with CNN in 2012.
Both of Fang's legs were amputated and he spent the next 20 years living under constant surveillance in China. He moved from Beijing to Hainan, an island south of China, and was forced to sell cigarettes on the side of a road to make a living.
"No matter where we were, we were restricted. Our home was monitored and our phones were tapped," said Fang.
In 2009, Fang emigrated to the United States with his wife and daughter. They now live in San Francisco and recently welcomed a third child. Fang, who trained as an athlete, has found ways to walk and drive.
He is hopeful that the annual candlelit vigil at Victoria Park in Hong Kong to mark the anniversary can educate and remind people about the crackdown's legacy. Fang was greeted by thousands of supporters when he was invited to speak at the vigil in 2012.
"In Hong Kong, not far from China, the candlelight at Victoria Park can shine a light on the darkness in China," he said.
Shao Jiang
"China has become much worse since 1989. I think that the pro-democracy movement and government crackdown was an important historical turning point. Because after that, the government uses violence to create Tiananmen massacres every day," said Shao Jiang, who in 1989 drafted the key demands for the pro-democracy student movement and presented them to government officials.
He now blogs regularly on the Amnesty International website and has been working on human rights campaigns for over 10 years.
For Shao, the student democracy movement started four years prior to 1989, in a university dormitory where he met like-minded students. They smuggled political magazines into the university and criticized corruption in the communist government.
The casual gatherings grew into more organized discussions. Students across China joined the discourse and there were talks about protesting in Tiananmen Square, at the heart of Beijing.
Shao now lives in exile in the UK.
The 1989 movement inspired Shao to focus his political science doctoral research on democracy and globalization. He studied how the process of building communities can allow democracy to flourish.
When asked whether there is a straightforward way for China to achieve democracy, Shao paused before admitting: "It's quite a challenge."
Shen Tong
"There is a collective amnesia. A lot of young people don't know the details, the general population don't talk about it, this is a big terrible secret, a big public lie that people lived through," says Shen Tong, regarding the success of the Chinese authorities' censorship of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Now a 45-year-old father of three who lives in New York, Shen remembers being in shock when the army opened fired on students. He refused to believe that the government would use violence to stop a group of peaceful protesters and civilians.
"I was trying to calm both sides down by standing in the middle between the two groups and telling people that it was only rubber bullets, he told CNN's Kristie Lu Stout. "It was not until someone was shot right next to me -- on her face -- that's when I realized it was real."
A week after the crackdown, Shen escaped to the United States and enrolled as a biology major at Brandeis University in the fall. When he arrived, the scenes of bloodshed were still being replayed on cable news networks.
"As I was watching American TV, the crackdown and the massacre, it started to really sink in," he says.
Shen Tong is now a partner at SOS Ventures, a venture capital firm and innovation incubator. He's passionate about food security and finding solutions to end global starvation.
Zhang Xianling
"It's the 25th anniversary and we're still not allowed to speak. This year, they've actually increased the number of patrols and cars. It's laughable. It's despicable. It's because they're guilty and afraid," said activist Zhang Xianling, referring to the Chinese authorities' attempts to contain her dissent ahead of the 25th anniversary.
Zhang's 19-year-old son Wang Nan was shot in the head on June 4, 1989, while taking photographs of the clash between students and soldiers on Chang'an Avenue.
Almost three decades later, Zhang is still waiting for answers to her son's death.
"The students were peacefully protesting on June 4. They loved their country. However the government is choosing to ignore the facts, using lies to cover the truth," said Zhang, who is now 76 years old.
Zhang co-founded the activist group Tiananmen Mothers with Ding Zilin, another mother who lost her son during the tragic crackdown. Other parents of fatally wounded students quickly joined, petitioning for truth and accountability through interviews and open letters.
The mothers' outspoken beliefs were met with warnings by the government. Zhang and two other members were briefly detained in 2004.
Today Zhang is still under 24-hour surveillance.
In a recent televised interview with Hong Kong media, Zhang said she once had faith she would live to see justice and the CPC owning up to its wrongs. But that hope has since diminished.
For the Tiananmen Mothers, their efforts are now focused on reaching out to their scattered members, to feel a sense of solidarity on another anniversary of their loss.


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Day 2 of the annual Sydney North Region Canyoning Course and yet another canyon I hadn't done before. Awesome!
The track to Deathtrap Canyon used to be an old logging road but it was now well and truly overgrown so the walk in was not straight forward.
Yet another annual Twister and Rocky Creek Canyon expedition with a cast of thousands!
Yep Thousands! By the time we arrived the car park was chockers - I have never seen so many cars here. We had 15 in our group and then with everyone else there would have been about 50 people all up.
Yet another Twister and Rocky Creek Canyon trip. The second this summer!!!
I can't remember how many times I've done this canyon, but I'm always finding something new. This time, it was Tyler who found a new HIGH spot to jump into the big pool. Check out the video for the awesome jumps.
This is the inaugural Tambo Canyoning Trip. The twelve of us set off from the Rocky Creek Car park at 10:30am and after a leisurely stroll arrived at the start of Twister Canyon around 11:00am when Adrian discovered that he'd had a bit of a Senior moment as he'd left his camera in car - Doh!. Good news though - Kim was in training for his marathon, so he offered to run back up the hill to
We originally planned this for the weekend prior but decided to postpone due to a forecast for rain. What a mistake - the Saturday ended up being OK and it rained pretty much continuosuly for the next week. Anyway, the forecast for Saturday was good so we decided to go for it as Twister Canyon at least has a small catchment area.
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Up in the Hills,
Deep in the Forest,
Down by a Stream,
Hidden from the World
Off The Grid is an exclusive homestay in the Western Ghats, on the border of Goa and Karnataka, that offers visitors a genuine break from the going-ons of the world. True to its name, it is a refuge in the forests that is unconnected to electricity, telephony, or the internet. Instead, it invites its visitors to reconnect to the sights, sounds, smells of the natural world- whether it is the gentle babbling of the brook, or the calls of the birds and animals, or the stunning panorama of the star-studded sky.
The Experience
Off The Grid offers a truly special and unique experience. One traverses the thickly-forested and thinly-populated portions of the Western ghats to reach this charming little farm, that has little more than a few comfortable living and shared spaces. But, the bounty of nature is on full display. This place is ideal for people who enjoy communing with nature, being surrounded by nothing but the flora and fauna of the surrounding hills, flowing streams, and towering forests. We find our visitors tend to be bird watchers, star gazers, artists, agriculturists, or simply those who want to experience the peace and tranquility that comes from being connected with the resplendence of nature.
At an altitude of 600 meters, Off The Grid is blessed with a year-round wonderful climate. With Hill Station weather, hot and humid nights are rare and the mornings always start with a chill. Indeed, for most of the year, a campfire is burning in the night to keep you warm, making for merry evenings.
The Habitat
At Off The Grid we use our own basic energy supply which is predominantly solar. We use solar energy for lighting, a waterfall for plentiful year round water supply, and firewood from the forest for cooking with our ovens, grills, and stoves.
The Farming at Off The Grid today is the same as it has been on small farms in these areas for hundreds of years- mainly rice-growing, some fruit trees and of course our vegetables in the kitchen garden.
Every year we try to improve our farming and varieties of salads, herbs, vegetables, and pulses are all coming up.
Though blessed with abundant water, the soil is rocky and challenging for many types of cultivation. Self-sufficiency is still a dream, but being true to the land, we ensure as much as possible of what is cultivated finds its way to the dinner plate.
The Accommodation
We have 3 cozy types of accommodations:
The stream facing cabin can accommodate 3 single beds or a double and a single bed. This room has a sit out overlooking the jungle and stream.
The rooftop rooms are airy and elevated. They offer great views of the jungle all around. Spacious and ideal for families.
The furnished tent is a wonderful, large room for those wanting the camping experience.
Private and close to the wild nature around with an exclusive sit out at the front.Ideal for a family or a romantic night away for a couple.
All our rooms have clean bathrooms, clean linen, blankets, towels. Hot water by the bucket is provided for bathing.
Our speciality resides in our oven-fired pizzas, homemade breads, barbecues and anything that can be grilled or cooked on a wood fire. We offer Indian, Asian, and European dishes with the essence on homely and healthy food using many locally found ingredients, and of course anything grown on the farm.
Meal Timings are as follows:
Breakfast: 8:30 am-10:00 am
Lunch: 1:00 pm-3:00 pm
Dinner: 8:00 pm-9:30 pm
Our menus are planned keeping in mind the dietary needs of all our guests, offering a healthy, fresh spread of mostly vegetarian food. These are served in buffet-fashion at our dining table beside the stream during the day, and by our campfire in the evenings. No Room Service.
The Wilderness around Off The Grid is a natural adventure playground for nature lovers. There are many hidden waterfalls which we visit, one of which is at a stone's throw from the property, and a better swimming pool you could not find.
Wildlife is plentiful, although sightings are rare due to the thickness of the forest. But signs of Indian Gaur (locally known as Bison) and the largest bovine on earth are common, and other animals like Sambar Deer, Sloth Bear, Porcupine, Ant Eaters and, of course, Leopards are always around. We expect our guests to respect this pristine and undisturbed environment so the animals can continue to thrive in it.
Trekking here is ideal and the best way to enjoy the area. The mixed forest and African Savannah like grasslands within close range of the property make short treks very easy.
Many bird watchers also come to see species like the Asian Fairy Bluebird, Rufous Babbler, Great Indian Hornbill, White-bellied Blue Flycatcher, Yellow-browed Bulbul, Grey Jungle Fowl and Flame-throated Bulbul and many more, but sightings may be difficult due to the density of the forest. The forest department organizes a guided treks to the top of Dudhsagar waterfalls.
Workshops:During the season we have a range of workshops for kids, families, adults, potters, clay lovers, cob building enthusiasts, and bird watchers. Please check with us for our upcoming workshops.
There is a new pottery studio with a wood-fired kiln taking shape. People are welcome to try their hand at pottery, but classes are available only on request.
Getting here
By Train
Castle Rock station is in Karnataka and is 10km away.Londa Junction is 35 km away. Trains from Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Mumbai, New Delhi and other places pass through either of these stations. There are also trains from Goa to Castle Rock which offer a spectacular view of the Dudhsagar waterfalls. Please check the train timetable for schedules.
Transport can be arranged from these stations.
By Air
Goa Airport is a 2 and ½ hour drive from Off the Grid. We can arrange transport to and from the airport at a reasonable charge.
By Road
For the intrepid, single traveller a bike taxi can be arranged for short distances. Buses come to Mollem or Anmod from where we can collect you. Most places in Goa are reached within 2 1/2 hours. We can arrange a vehicle to drop you or pick you up. If you are driving from Pune or Bangalore to Goa, Off The Grid is a perfect 16km detour from the highway NH4A. We provide exact directions to the property to avoid getting lost.
Rs.3,750/- (+ 5% service charge) per person per night .
Rs.5,000/- (+ 5% service charge) per person per night for single occupancy.
Board, Food, Trekking
Cycling and Pottery will be charged extra based on availability, upon request.
About us
Off The Grid is owned by Sylvia Kerkar and John Pollard, a wife and husband team. Along with a handful of staff, they run the property tending to a variety of tasks such as trekking, cooking, building, repairing, attending to the fields and other chores.
Sylvia Kerkar is from Bangalore and Goa. She is passionate about ceramics and runs her own pottery studio at Off The Grid and in Goa.
John Pollard is from England and an adventure sports enthusiast. He pioneered white water rafting in South India in 1999 and started running the first Rafting operations in Peninsular India. Known internationally for being the first person, followed by others, to open South India's rivers for recreational white water boating.
Clay Studio
It's not just kids who like to play with mud! At OTG we take mud and clay very seriously.
Sylvia Kerkar has been a potter for the last 17 years. Her studio at OTG runs with kick-wheels and a wood-fired kiln.
Over the years we have tried our hands at building with raw mud bricks and also making finer things with clay and baking them in our kiln.
There is usually some ceramic ware being produced at the pottery as a continuous studio activity, a treat for visitors interested in the process, to observe.
Poppalwadi, Diggi Road,
+91 90490 81097 - Sylvia on Whatsapp
+91 96234 51758 - John on Whatsapp
If the numbers are out of range then we are OffTheGrid, so call or message on these numbers and we will get back to you.
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+91 80880 26853
+91 9561548424
If you cant reach us please be sure to email us. Send a message to the phones we will get back to you.


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MoneyBeat Winners and Losers
As the saying goes, you win some, and you lose some. David Benoit looks at the week's financial headlines and gives the week's winners and losers equal time.
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... it is Friday what we do every Friday here on the MoneyBeat show oversight TV lot information we run down the winners and losers in Deal land with our dear friend Mr David Benoit between Boeing and the area ... I'm pretty capitalism these losers this week that's true there are some bad losers ... than losers let Startup know what sure the without walling start-up financing the losers of the Pittsburgh Steelers owing to ... aam open up their owners it's this one and the Deoleo into yes yes that's a completely on that ... well Robert Citroen's who owns ... the piece the Steelers is having a ... pretty good run ... in in a hedge fund world move by the runs ... offered called discovery Capital Management it's up to fifteen percent this year ... I'm passing a lot of its peers CME has won seven of them a lot of them have a partner cross-examined or are you get breast suggesting that in the ninety s ... in Japan which is honestly ... soaring on the nomics yet so hard to tease me he's the winner gets to the loser will do it doesn't rain it was the next one our next winner is Safeway investors ... grocery store chain had been struggling and it ... was a really clear where was going to suddenly they're up ... nineteen percent this week ... thanks to Jana investment partners ... and why wouldn't they they are the activist hedge fund iconic email said ... BT ... up recycle position in ... a safer responded by putting a poison pill showing their free of freedom these guys and then the other big winners Micra soft yes and and ... yes I know we know that forty two talented young driver for sure ... due to the losers the losers sting are your your mark set of others Larry Summers for him in the first one to dropped out of the race to run the Fed on Sunday ... but ... still wanted talented headwinds in the market for ... the assault and wounded this is an excellent an ex loser JPMorgan with a nine hundred and twenty million dollars in fines for for the London whale for a big blow for quarter for an agency is a huge any wrongdoing is ... doing this got it and still still not signed on to Suppan whose are the ... most big loser this one's ... pretty depressing yet with last very employees I we reported this week forty percent of them forty percent I think even the remaining sixty percent like the losers here ... it certainly OSC four out of every tender or coworkers ... that's in the separation of the company amassed a huge pain and the like that in the cutting jobs are the last twenty years ... certainly there now just looking at salts ... to turn this around ... I believe that day Benoit think you're a much


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Florida: Home to a Diverse Population
After World War II, many soldiers stayed in Florida and persuaded their friends and family to come to the Sunshine State. The railroad was instrumental in the development of cities. As the railroad expanded, so did Florida's cities. The railroad began stretching southward, creating opportunities for further growth in Florida.
People migrated to Florida for a variety of reasons. Some came for health reasons because of the warmth of the Florida climate. Others came to start new businesses or farms, escape hardships, or to find religious freedom. People began pouring in from all around the world.
Danish immigrants founded a town south of Fort Lauderdale that they named Dania. They lived as farmers and grew tomatoes. They shipped the tomatoes by railroad to the northern United States.
Japanese immigrants established the town of Yamato where they grew pineapples. These were also shipped by railroad to the northern United States.
Another group of people that came to Florida were Greeks. Near the town of Tarpon Springs, natural sponges were discovered growing in the Gulf of Mexico. The sponges could not be gathered fast enough to meet the demand, so Greek divers were brought in to help. These divers wore special diving suits that allowed them to walk along the bottom of the sea. Because of this, they were able to work faster, which increased the supply of sponges.
As Florida grew, so did the diversity of the population. Floridians now included ex-soldiers and their friends and families and the many people who had migrated to Florida from all over the world. The Danes, Japanese, and Greeks added variety to the richness of Florida culture.
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Remember Draw Something? Here Comes the Sequel.
Last year's mobile one-hit wonder Draw Something is getting a sequel, per this tweet from OMGPOP CEO Dan Porter. Porter was responding to a tweet by Ryan Seacrest with a Draw Something 2 screenshot depicting "American Idol's" Randy Jackson and Mariah Carey. Zynga acquired OMGPOP last year, but the popularity of Draw Something plummeted shortly thereafter. Zynga had to write down the acquisition by as much as $95 million.


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This post is one of a three-part Asia Unbound series following a recent CFR trip to India and China. See related posts from my colleagues Daniel Markey and Elizabeth Economy.
I just returned from a trip to India and China with my colleagues Liz Economy and Dan Markey, where we had the opportunity to participate in seminars and discussions in both countries focused on U.S. relations with Asia. On a personal note, while I've been visiting India regularly since 1990, I had only visited China once, back in 2001. In the thirteen-year interim it seemed as if Shanghai and Beijing grew even more impressive buildings and many more of them—the infrastructure is just astounding. (Many U.S. cities would benefit from such development.)
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But back to the trip. There's a palpable excitement and energy in New Delhi about the new Modi government, and its intention to revive the Indian economy. The pursuit of economic growth will surely preoccupy New Delhi for the foreseeable future, and rightly so—but it will also have to deal with forging its path in a changing Asia. It will need to do so in the context of a China which has greatly increased its economic and political influence across Asia and indeed throughout the world, especially in recent years.
New Delhi's relations with Beijing appear at first blush very similar to Washington's: both relationships have rapidly growing trade and investment ties, while both have some challenging security differences to manage. Yet this superficial similarity belies a much deeper set of contradictions India faces with China.
On the one hand, modern India feels a sense of solidarity with Asia's other colossus, a solidarity dating back many decades (setting aside for now the longer history of civilizational contact and influences). Despite an unresolved border dispute, and Indian suspicions of China's growing engagement with the South Asian region, this sentiment persists.
At the end of June, for example, India's vice president traveled to China to celebrate the sixty-year anniversary of the Panchsheel treaty, which rooted India-China relations in 1954. The treaty lays out "Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence," later included in the Bandung Afro-Asian conference principles, and then in the Non-Aligned Movement. (Here's a booklet providing some background on the treaty published by India's Ministry of External Affairs to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary back in 2004.) Of course, the Panchsheel vision emphasizing sovereignty, mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, non-interference, equality, and mutual non-aggression hearkens back to a time when neither India nor China were rising global powers. And eight years later, the 1962 India-China border war rudely jolted its ideal-type visions of harmony.
Today, we can see Panchsheel's further inheritance in the formalization of the BRICS multilateral grouping (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa), which held its most recent summit-level meeting on July 14. The summit produced some concrete decisions on the BRICS development bank which has been under discussion for the past two years. This BRICS bank will provide a development finance alternative to the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, obviously providing a greater governance role for the developing world than the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are structured to facilitate. That said, it is not clear if each of the BRICS members will have an equal say. The formal capital contributions will be in equal shares. But despite efforts to create a structure of equality, it also appears that China will provide the lion's share of the additional contingency funding for the bank, financing a full 41 percent—raising the question of how governance will actually function in practice.
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China has also called for another non-Western multilateral grouping, the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia, or CICA, to transition into a regional security organization. It met in Shanghai in May, and indeed on the way to the Pudong airport in Shanghai, a giant building-size mural heralding the CICA gathering greets highway travelers. Since Asia does not have its own NATO analogue, President Xi Jinping has proposed that CICA could perform that role. Less clear, obviously, is what role Asia's other giant, India, would play in the proposed CICA security architecture. India, which has never wanted to play a junior partner role to anyone, is likely asking the same question.
But against the backdrop of mutual bonhomie and the pursuit of new multilateral structures, there's a live territorial dispute returning to the foreground. Much global attention has been paid to China's maritime disputes with Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines—see CFR's interactive guide—but less so the live border dispute with India. The India-China border has been unresolved since 1962. The most recent intensification of China's border claims focuses on an area of India's northeast in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, specifically the Tawang region abutting the actual border.
Just as the Indian vice president was celebrating six decades of peaceful mutual coexistence with China during his trip to China, the Chinese government released a new official map of Chinese territory. China's cartographic claims to this area, which it calls Southern Tibet, have in recent years become more insistent and across domains—whether in online maps created by private companies, in dealing with questions of citizenship and the issuance of visas to residents of Tawang, or now indeed in official representations of Chinese territory as just released. And China's new map leaves no ambiguity on the question, depicting this area as "Southern Tibet" within China. The map set off alarm bells across the Indian media, and India's Ministry of External Affairs responded by saying the map did not change "the reality on the ground." Just weeks earlier and with respect to these concerns, India's Minister of External Affairs had informed her visiting Chinese counterpart that India expected China to respect a "one-India policy."
Leaving apart China's "all-weather friendship" with Pakistan, and its rapidly deepening ties with the smaller countries of South Asia bordering India, it's hard to reconcile the realities of peaceful coexistence and mutual non-interference with territorial claims. Prime Minister Modi and his team will have some difficult strategic decisions in the future to make as they grapple with India's economic growth and trade interests—in which Chinese engagement is a must—alongside their larger neighbor's categorical claims to their own northeast.
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Police investigating rash of thefts known as 'Apple picking'
Thieves targeting smartphones
Thieves were bold enough to steal smartphones from unsuspecting victims in downtown Cincinnati.
Police called the new crime "Apple picking" and said it wasn't limited to only Cincinnati.
Tess Hammons was one victim who had her iPhone stolen.
"I tried to reason with them as I ran after them. 'Come back here, that's all I have, just give it back,'" Hammons said.
She said she never saw the theft coming.
"I was in a state of shock," said another victim, who did not want to be identified.
Both victims were walking in Washington Park when the thefts happened.
But what was surprising about the thieves -- some of them are only juveniles.
"You shouldn't have to look at a kid as being a threat," Hammons said.
She said a group of teens was around her car as she tried to leave the park. Hammons took out her phone to call police when one teen stole it.
"One of them strong-armed me and grabbed my phone out of my hand and took off down Pleasant Street," Hammons said.
Neither victim was injured but police said a third victim was robbed and assaulted on Wednesday. They arrested a 12-year-old suspect in that case.
"It is like carrying a $500 bill around with all your pictures, contacts, work email, passwords and things like that," Hammons said.
Police said the 12-year-old suspect admitted to other phone thefts.