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Posted on 06/17/2013 12:18:52 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, who was allowed to travel to the U.S. after escaping from house arrest, said Monday that New York University is forcing him and his family to leave at the end of this month because of pressure from the Chinese government. The university denied Chens allegations.
Chen said in a statement that Chinas Communist Party had been applying great, unrelenting pressure on NYU to ask him to leave, though he did not provide details or evidence to back his claim. Chen said Beijings authoritarian government has more influence on the American academic community than is perceived.
The work of the Chinese Communists within academic circles in the United States is far greater than what people imagine, and some scholars have no option but to hold themselves back, he said. Academic independence and academic freedom in the United States are being greatly threatened by a totalitarian regime.
Chen sparked a diplomatic crisis between China and the U.S. last year when he fled to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing from house arrest. Since last May, hed been a special student at NYUs U.S.-Asia Law institute. He has been working on a book due out later this year.
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I have no doubt that this is true. Follow the money.
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Thomas L. Friedman Wants Us "to be China for a day," to "authorize the right solutions"
Chen Guangcheng, who was allowed to travel to the U.S. after escaping from house arrest, said Monday that New York University is forcing him and his family to leave at the end of this month because of pressure from the Chinese government.
This story cannot be true. Liberals love liberty. They stand like Cincinnatus ready to defend it to the death. Money won't sway them at all. They speak truth to power!
China has the one child policy (population control) and roving hi-tech execution vans -what's not for a liberal/progressive/humanist to love there?
Anbody out there believe NYU?
.....I thought so, me neither.
An anti-communist being forced out by an American university? Gee, who'da thunk it? < /sarc >
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Thousands of people learned how to read and write thanks to the months-long efforts of Seventh-day Adventist Church, its church member volunteers in El Salvador and Hope for Humanity.
More than 2,500 held their literacy completion certificates high overhead during a special celebration held recently in Don Bosco Auditorium in Soyapango, San Salvador, El Salvador.
National Literacy Coordinator for the Ministry of Education in El Salvador Angélica Paniagua, applauded the efforts of the Adventist Church for its partnership and commitment in holding literacy courses throughout hundreds of communities across the Central American country.
"I have no words to express our gratitude on behalf of the Ministry of Education in El Salvador to Hope for Humanity and the [Adventist] church because they are our main partner in the process of eradicating illiteracy in the country," said Paniagua.
"Thanks to your help, the government's partnership and other institutions, we have been able to lower the illiteracy rate from 17 percent to 13 percent earlier in the year," said Paniagua.
The day's celebration was a time to thank the hundreds of volunteers who commit to teaching others how to read week after week, as the United Nations observes the International Volunteer Day Dec. 5 every year.
During his keynote address, Maitland DiPinto of the North American Division's Hope for Humanity, was thrilled to see the fruits of the work of so many volunteers.
"I am so impressed with the commitment of volunteers who invest more than two hours every day, four times per week, eight months every year and then begin the cycle again the following year to help transform lives," said DiPinto. "This is not by chance, this is a real commitment."
"Volunteers have not only been a blessing to people in their classes, but they themselves have grown and developed their leadership skills, as well as experienced satisfaction and joy it brings to change the lives of many people," explained DiPinto.
Literacy is a transforming process of life, emphasized DiPinto. "The person who learns how to read and write has a new vision in life, a new perspective."
Wally Amundson, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) director for Inter-America, who has been overseeing literacy programs throughout the Inter-American Division (IAD) territory in Mexico, Central America, Dominican Republic and Haiti, said that it was the largest group of persons graduated in a single event held throughout the church in Inter-America.
"We are excited because these literacy circles in different communities in El Salvador are like a springboard to merge people into the educational system helping them earn a high school diploma and pursue a national exam," explained Amundson.
More than 6,000 persons have been certified through more than 650 literacy circles led by more than 520 volunteers, according to Juan Pablo Ventura, ADRA El Salvador director.
"The significant accomplishment of the program is the partnership of ADRA El Salvador and the church," said Ventura. "It's been challenging to link both and let the community know that ADRA is not only an agency that comes to the aid when disaster comes, but one that can be seen as an organization that can enable the church in the fulfillment of its social responsibility," he explained.
The Ministry of Education in El Salvador is committed to provide materials, training and accrediting persons for the literacy projects, according to Ventura.
Pastor Abel Pacheco, president of the church in El Salvador, is happy to see that the church has brought programs of this type to the community for the first time.
"This type of service to the community has allowed us to establish ties and be known to communities, government agencies and private entities, as a people who care for their fellowman," said Pastor Pacheco.
Among those who graduated from the literacy program was Fermin Requeno, mayor of the San Juan de la Reyna Municipal district in the state of San Miguel. "Knowing how to read and write has changed my life," said Requeno. Requeno is now among the main promoters of education in his community.
Graduate María Elena González, 70, works at a laundry service in a medical center in the Apopa municipal district and was among a group of 22 people who attended the literacy circle there.
"My family was so poor and I wasn't able to get an education," said González. "I felt so bad every time I went to the bank to cash my check because I didn't know how to write my name, so I decided to make an effort and learn how to read and write."
Carlos Oswaldo Arevalo, 32, who works at a propane gas distributing company, was also among those who graduated. Arevalo only finished first grade and always had difficulty finding a job. "I was never able to get a better paying job much less a professional one," said Arevalo. "My coworkers would laugh at me and make me feel bad. Now no one laughs at me and my boss trusts that I can do all of his paperwork just like he does."
Each graduate was awarded a brand new Bible.
Eradicating illiteracy throughout the territory is still very present in the minds of church leaders, said Amundson.
Although statistics vary from country to country, said Amundson, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras have seen the illiteracy index go down significantly. "We want to explore all the possibilities to reach the illiterate population within the church as well as in the community," he added.
To date, Hope for Humanity has funded literacy programs in nine countries in the IAD. Among the 3.6 million IAD church membership, there are estimates of several hundreds of thousands of church members who do not know how to read or write.
"Literacy is a challenge in the Adventist Church in Inter-America and other parts of the world," said DiPinto. "We say that we are people of the Word, but there are millions of church members world-wide who do not know how to read their Bibles or their Sabbath school lessons."
Literacy is something that the church must talk about it, DiPinto continued. "It is about changing the lives of people." Illiteracy is "not easy to see because people hide it and we must sensitize our church members so that they can become a blessing to those in the church and the community who cannot read or write."
That is exactly why Hope for Humanity and the church have been successful, said Amundson. "Hope for Humanity is the catalyst that helps this literacy program improve and expand."
"Of course literacy is challenging in Inter-America and elsewhere around the world, but we are doing something about it," added Amundson.
IAD wants to implement more programs based in the church, said Amundson. "These literacy programs which are led by the initiative and participation of church members make the program successful because there is an infrastructure available to bring together various ministries of the church to form groups of volunteers."
Pastor Pacheco said the church in El Salvador had set a goal for 2014 to turn every one of its 930 Adventist Churches into a literacy circle for their communities.
So far literacy circles in El Salvador have 175 facilitators, who meet with their students in homes and churches, five regional coordinators and one national coordinator.
Hope for Humanity is the name designated by the North American Division for the annual ingathering programs throughout its churches. The initiative funds literacy programs in many countries around the world including India. Since the year 2000, more than 100,000 people have learned how to read and write thanks to more than 10,000 volunteers.
Hope For Humanity is the new face of one of the longest and most effective humanitarian ministries in the history of Adventism, what used to be called "Harvest Ingathering." For more than a century, Seventh-day Adventists have reached out to their communities to share in the support of the compassionate ministry of Jesus.

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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
3 comments:
- Dave said...
I think that's the great part about living places with seasons. Often I find the weather (snow, rain, humidity, etc) dictates a lot of how I feel. I don't know if it's habit, but something about the cold weather makes me wanna hit the weight pile ala Rocky in Rocky IV.:)
Love the log flip. I found some real nice logs in the woods today that might serve the same purpose. Weights can only take you so far before you reach their limit. Logs, tires, chains...those are ass kickers any day of the week!
- October 26, 2010
- Lucho said...
The log flip is a variation of the tractor tire flip. You can youtube it and see some. Logs are easier to come by ;) This morning I did a circuit of pullups/ log flips/ sledge hammer/ push ups. Sets of 5 as fast as I could but I had to back off on the log and just do one flip because as I weakened I was afraid I was going to drop the damn thing on me! Weights still have huge benefits, but as you said, the log/ hammer stuff is a true ass kicker that gets your HR up. Plus it's FUN! I can't wait to try it in 2 feet of snow.
- October 26, 2010
- Fred (aka ace) said...
Awesome! Real world workouts rock! Always raising the bar. Way to inspire by example. Of course your doing this means I will never agree to workout with you! :) Maybe I could manage a stick flip??
- October 27, 2010


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start-finish: November 18 - 30
DH Karl enjoyed it during his visit home for Christmas.
After that was done, I thought I had the crochet bug out of my system, but I was wrong. It was stronger than ever. So I looked through the "200 crochet block" book and found this simple, single crochet square, which appealed to me at once.
I choose 4 colores and came up with 4 different ways to crochet the squares.
pattern: square # 109, square # 29 for the border, "200 crochet blocks" by Jan Eaton
yarn: Pervian Collecton Highland Wool from elann, 26 balls total
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That leaves me only with one more thing, and than I'm all caught up: These pictures have been waiting for quite some time, to get their turn.
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Co-invented by Assistant Professor Christian Kastrup while a postdoctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the gel is similar to the amino acid that enables mussels to resist the power of churning water. The variant that Kastrup and his collaborators created, described in the current issue of the online journal PNAS [Proceeings of the National Academy of Sciences of the US] Early Edition, can withstand the flow of blood through arteries and veins.
Here's the citation and a link to the article (which is behind a paywall),
Painting blood vessels and atherosclerotic plaques with an adhesive drug depot by Christian J. Kastrup, Matthias Nahrendorf, Jose Luiz Figueiredo, Haeshin Lee, Swetha Kambhampati, Timothy Lee, Seung-Woo Cho, Rostic Gorbatov, Yoshiko Iwamoto, Tram T. Dang, Partha Dutta, Ju Hun Yeon, Hao Cheng, Christopher D. Pritchard, Arturo J. Vegas, Cory D. Siegel, Samantha MacDougall, Michael Okonkwo, Anh Thai, James R. Stone, Arthur J. Coury, Ralph Weissleder, Robert Langer, and Daniel G. Anderson. PNAS, December 11, 2012 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1217972110
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The treatment of diseased vasculature remains challenging, in part because of the difficulty in implanting drug-eluting devices without subjecting vessels to damaging mechanical forces. Implanting materials using adhesive forces could overcome this challenge, but materials have previously not been shown to durably adhere to intact endothelium under blood flow. Marine mussels secrete strong underwater adhesives that have been mimicked in synthetic systems. Here we develop a drug-eluting bioadhesive gel that can be locally and durably glued onto the inside surface of blood vessels. In a mouse model of atherosclerosis, inflamed plaques treated with steroid-eluting adhesive gels had reduced macrophage content and developed protective fibrous caps covering the plaque core. Treatment also lowered plasma cytokine levels and biomarkers of inflammation in the plaque. The drug-eluting devices developed here provide a general strategy for implanting therapeutics in the vasculature using adhesive forces and could potentially be used to stabilize rupture-prone plaques.
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Robert Langer, one of the paper's co-authors, was mentioned here in an Aug. 27, 2012 posting about nanoelectronics, tissue engineering, and medicine.


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1. Call to Order
2. Roll Call
3. Approval of minutes
4. Lisa McClung, Deputy Secretary, and James Martin, Chief, Office of Oil & Gas, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection:
A. Discussion regarding status of anticipated program revisions relating to Marcellus gas wells and utilization of state water resources in the well-fracking process;
B. Other anticipated Marcellus gas well regulatory reforms;
5. Pooling and utilization of well ownership. A. Ted Streit, Former Director of Office of Oil & Gas, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection - Providing historical perspective on common law right of capture and development and use of pooling and utilization for deep wells in West Virginia.
B. Natural Gas Industry's perspective on right of capture versus use of pooling and utilization
i. Scott Rotruck, Vice President, Chesapeake Energy ii. Kevin West, Managing Director of External Affairs, EQT Corporation
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Sprogcenter Furesø is a Danish language school owned by Furesø Kommune and appointed by the Ministry of Refugee, Immigration and Integration Affairs. We offer courses in Danish as a second language for foreigners in Furesø Kommune as well as for foreigners from other municipalities.
In addition to the language teaching programme, including various and frequent mid-term tests and final proficiency tests, our courses also introduce Danish culture, society, labour market, educational system and democratic traditions.
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"This is related to the winter solstice or midwinter festival when the Sun is at the least powerful point in its cycle in the northern hemisphere. They said that on the solstice, our December 21/22nd, the Sun had 'died'. Three days later - the 25th - they said the Sun was born or born again. Thus we have a long line of Sun gods given the 'birthday' of December 25th. The Jesus of the Gospels is a symbol of the Sun and the stories include a host of other Mystery school knowledge and esoteric concepts." -David Icke, "Tales from the Time Loop"
"For three days, December 22nd, 23rd, and 24th, the Sun rises on the exact same latitudinal (declinations) degree. This is the only time in the year that the Sun actually stops its movement northward or Southward in our sky. On the morning of December 25th the Sun moves one degree northward beginning its annual journey back to us in the Northern Hemisphere, ultimately bringing our spring. Anything steadily moving all year long that suddenly stops moving for three days was considered to have died. Therefore, God's Sun who was dead for three days, moves one-degree northward on December 25th and is symbolically born again!" -Jordan Maxwell, www.jordanmaxwell.com
Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, is the star in the East. On Dec. 24th it aligns with the three brightest stars in Orion's belt which are called (and have been called since ancient times) the "three kings." The three kings line up perfectly with Sirius pointing to the exact spot in which the Sun will rise the next morning. The larger constellation in which this takes place was known to the ancients as the "manger" or the "cradle" which is visible just before dawn on Dec. 25th. So the three kings or three magi effectually "follow" the star in the East to the manger, the birthplace of God's Sun at the Winter Solstice. "Easter" also derives from the Eastern Star Sirius. The three gifts of the magi are Frankincense, Myrrh, and Gold. Frankincense is an amber resin that was burned at solar temples, Myrrh was known as "tears of the Sun," and Gold too long represented the Sun in the ancient world.
The recurrent "virgin" theme represents the constellation Virgo, which is Latin for virgin. "The ancient glyph for Virgo looks like an M which explains the M names of "virgin mothers" like Jesus' mother Mary, Adonis' mother Myrra, Buddha's mother Maya, and Horus' mother Isis-Meri. Virgo is also called the House of Bread and the zodiacal symbol shows a woman holding a chaff of wheat, representing the August/September time of harvest.
"No people of the ancient world believed the Sun to be God. That belongs in the disinformation file. In point of fact, every ancient culture and nation on Earth have all used the Sun as the most logically appropriate symbol to represent the glory of the unseen Creator of the heavens. Here it is important to remember two points. First, with the exception of
To ancient man the most dangerous, feared enemy was the unknown darkness of night, thereby making the Sun, the light, heaven's gift to the world. Without its light we cannot see, without its warmth we cannot move, without its energy our food cannot grow. Our very lives depend on the energy emitting from the Sun, making it our life and savior. God so loves the world that he has given his only begotten Sun so that we may have ever-lasting life. That is why in Deut 4:24 and Heb 12:29 God is "consuming fire in heaven."
The Prince of Darkness is the Dark Evil, the D-evil, Devil. God is the Good; God's Sun is the Light of the World, and the Prince of Peace. The Peace he brings is Solace – Solace again from the word Solar, meaning Sun. In the Egyptian personification, the Prince of Darkness was known as "Set" and the Sun was known as "Horus." So every night at Sun-Set the Dark Prince overtakes the world. But every morning the Sun is born again at Sun Rise, Horus is risen on the Horizon. This is where we get the word "Hero," the cheer "Hooray!" and also why an interpretation of the zodiac is a Horo-scope.
"At daybreak this wonderful newborn child, God's Sun is Born Again, Horus is Risen. Even today when the Sun comes up we see it on the 'Horus-Risen' or 'Horizon.' His life was also divided into 12 parts or steps across Heaven each day: 12 Horus = 12 Hours. This is the origin of the modern 12 Step Program. Horus is the (new-born) Sun, or the Bringer of the Light. In Latin, Light Bringer is Lucis, or Lucifer, or Luke … God's Sun brought His wonderful light to the world, and distributed it over 12 months. So it was said, God's Sun had 12 companions, or helpers, that assisted His life-saving work. So it was, God's Sun had 12 apostles (or months) that followed Him religiously through His life. Incidentally, now you know why the American jury system has 12 jurors who help bring the truth to light, with the 'Light of Truth' ... Keep in mind God's Sun symbolically represented the light of truth, but was condemned by His enemies who could not endure the light of truth in their life. When we are confronted with the harsh realities of life, the light of truth, which we do not wish to face, and which runs counter to our views, such truth is judged in your mind, or judged in the temple area of your brain, and put to death in your head! Therefore God's Sun –The Truth and The Light – is put to death at
So your "temples" or at the Golgatha (which means Place of the Skull), God's Sun, the light of truth, is judged and crucified along with the two thieves of past and future. The Sun's corona, the plasma atmosphere around the Sun, is then allegorically used as the Son's (Latin translation) Crown of Thorns.
Cultures all over the ancient world kept track of time and seasons based on the movement of the Sun. They invented circular sundials and sun calendars which recorded daily and yearly time (lunar calendars recorded months). This method of circular solar-based time keeping was used by the ancient Mexicans, Mayans, Incas, Aztecs, Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Celtics, Aryans and more. Out of these circular, pictorial Sun calendars developed the Holy cross. The Sun is portrayed on a cross – a circle with perpendicular lines intersecting in the middle, the horizontal axis representing the Spring and Autumn Equinoxes, the vertical axis representing the Summer and Winter Solstices. This is the reason you often see a circle around Christian, Celtic, ancient and modern crosses.
"Since the Earth experienced 4 different seasons, all the same and equal (in time) each year, the round Sun calendar was divided into 4 equal parts. This is also why we have, in the Bible, only 4 Gospels. Of this point, there can be no doubt. The 4 Gospels represent the 4 seasons which collectively tell the entire story of the life of God's Sun. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John are Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. This is why the famous painting of 'The Last Supper' pictures the 12 followers of the Sun in four groups (of three) the seasons!" -Jordan Maxwell, www.jordanmaxwell.com
The Book of Mark is the Book of Mars. The planet/archetype Mars is the ruler of Aries which makes the Book of Mark, in zodiacal terms, the Book of Aries. The word "arise" comes from Aries, as it is the first house of the zodiac where the sun arises during the spring equinox/Easter. Aries month is April which comes from the Latin "aperio," meaning to open or begin. Just as Aries is the first zodiacal sign, April was (and still is in many cultures) the first month of the calendar year. To the ancients, the spring equinox was a more appropriate calendrical beginning because it is when the day-time hours officially overtake the night-time hours. The Sun is resurrected, its light triumphs over darkness, and Gaia begins to bloom again.
The Book of Luke is the Book of Leo. Luke is Latin for Lucius meaning Light and the House of Light is Leo the Lion. Lions are used the world over to symbolize the Sun and its rays which resemble the lion's yellow face and flowing mane. Christ (the other Sun symbol) is often called the "Lion of Judaea."
"In Celtic
The Book of Matthew or Matt is actually Maat, the Egyptian Goddess. Maat is almost always symbolized blindfolded holding the Scales of Justice which relates astrologically to Libra. Libra was the last sign officially added to the zodiac, which is why Matt was the last of the 12 to join. He is also symbolized by the Eagle in Christian iconography because
"Maat is pronounced Mayat. She is the Mahat of the Brahmins, the Meath of the Celts, the Tiamat of the Skalds, the Maia of the Romans and the Mara of the pagans. Now in the Bible, we read that Matthew was the disciple that the other 11 did not want to accept. The reason for this was that he was a tax-collector, (perfidious company in any age). However behind all the hyperbole, we have a secret concealed. The symbol of the tax-collectors has always been the scales or balances. This is because they did not only want currency, but they took grain and livestock also, and their lackeys would carry large scales around. It is the same today in rural, eastern communities." -Michael Tsarion, Astrotheology and Sidereal Mythology
Finally, the Book of John is the Book of Aquarius. John is for January which is the month corresponding to Aquarius. The symbol for Aquarius is a man carrying/pouring a pitcher of water which is why we have Baptism and John the Baptist. John's death by beheading is another astrological allegory whereby on August 29th, John's (Aquarius') head/star moves just above the horizon, while the rest of his body/constellation remains below the horizon. At exactly this time, on dusk August 29th, the sun sets in Leo (the kingly sign representing Herod) and so Herod beheads John.
"John comes from Jahan or Jahn, which comes from the earlier Ionnes, Oannes (the Fish god). Jahan or Jahn gives us other names, like Jane, Joan, Janus and even Jasus or Jesus. It eventually gives us the word Jahnuary or January … During January (Aquarius), the
"The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun." -Thomas Paine
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from The Guitar F/X Cookbook
1) Electric guitar with a floating tremolo bar that can be pulled up (or back) pretty far
2) A lot of distortion
3) Reverb
This trick will make your guitar sound like an angry elephant about to stampede. Set your amp or distortion box to give you maximum distortion and add some reverb. Set your guitar's pickup selector to the bridge position and turn the volume knob completely off. Now play Fig. 1 by hitting harmonics on the 5th fret of the G string, 7th fret of the B string, and the 12th fret of the high E string. Let all three notes ring together. With your right hand, turn your volume up quickly as you pull up on the tremolo bar with your left hand (below).
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Hooper, Yori Find Booster Shots of Energy
It's Sunday and your team has just crushed Illinois by 19 points in Champaign. You're happy and you know it, but it's really hard to show it because you're tired, worn out and need to hit the refresh button fast. Why? Because spring-semester classes begin the next morning and you need to rejuvenate and recalibrate. You're on an airplane that will arrive in Lincoln at 6 p.m. and suddenly, reality bites – Nebraska's semi-annual all-student-athlete meeting will begin at 8 o'clock that night at the renovated Devaney Center. Forget the good night and good luck factor. Get back home, grab a quick bite and prepare yourself mentally to listen for an hour to a man who wrote The Energy Bus, a New York Times best-seller and a positively charged staple in Jon Gordon's motivational arsenal.
Now it's Tuesday, and I'm diplomatic enough not to ask Jordan Hooper, a senior All-America forward from Alliance, Nebraska, a negative question, especially after she has just supplanted another Alliance native, Amy Stephens – her childhood hero – as the No. 4 all-time leading scorer in Husker women's basketball history. Hooper's 1,990 career points now trail only No. 1 Karen Jennings (2,405 from 1990-93), No. 2 Maurtice Ivy (2,131 from 1985-88) and No. 3 Kelsey Griffin (2,033 from 2006-2010).
Diplomacy is a respectful approach, but here's the deal: Jordan Hooper, a starter on the USA's World University Games gold medal team in Russia last summer, did not need compassion. She drove to her house last Sunday evening, ate a bowl of chicken noodle soup and then headed to her home away from home – the Devaney Center, where she sat down with her teammates and soaked in every ounce of energy that Jon Gordon was sharing. "His message was great," Hooper said. "I'm glad I went and I'm glad I heard it because he was spot on."
Rejuvenated Yori Praises Gordon's Motivation
The 2010 National Women's Basketball Coach of the Year and the reigning Big Ten Conference Coach of the Year agreed with her superstar's assessment. "Our staff all went to hear Jon Gordon the next morning," Connie Yori said. "When I left that meeting, I felt rejuvenated. It was awesome. Jon is one of the best speakers, if not the best speaker, we've ever had here."
Talk about timing. Big Ten Conference basketball is already a grind, and the No. 16-ranked Huskers will host Minnesota Thursday night at 8 in a nationally televised game at Pinnacle Bank Arena. It's only the fourth of 16 conference games this season. But Hooper and Yori are at a point where they need extra energy, and when Gordon came to town, he gave both booster shots of energy and confidence and a chance to clear their minds with motivation and wisdom.
"I thought it was cool when he (Gordon) told us that he was negative until he reached his 30s," Hooper said. "I'm not the most positive person on this planet at all, but he had my attention. I'm sure many people would tell you that I'm not positive at all, but I try to be and I learned some things from the speaker that will help me do what I haven't been able to do."
One-Word Mission Statements Can Be Compelling
Like what? "Simple things, like concentrate on one word that I can use every day for personal motivation," she said. "He (Gordon) challenged us to come up with one word that can help us get better every day. If you put that one word at the top of your mind and work hard to achieve it, you can accomplish your goal."
I asked Hooper if any one word had surfaced yet for her. "Not really," she said. "I've thought of a lot of different words that would help me and make sense, but I'm not going to finalize my word until this weekend. Our whole team is taking this process seriously. Nobody wants to reveal their word yet, but everybody's really working hard at deciding which word will help them the most. Even though it's a fairly simple exercise, I think every player on this team wants to get better, and I think this kind of mindset will help."
So what's the leading word at this juncture for Hooper? "Care," she said quickly. "I need to care more about everything around me and not just school and basketball. I'm like everyone else. I want to make sure the word I choose is going to carry me through the rest of the season and is going to help the team. Jon Gordon told us it's never too late to change your ways, and it's never too late to change who you are."
Hooper Respects Gordon's Honesty, Commitment
"He was very honest when he told us about his wife telling him that if he didn't change, they were done," Hooper pointed out. "I don't know if I could change with an ultimatum like that. But if you love somebody that much and care that much, you can do it. I just respect the man so much for being so honest. I think he motivated everybody who heard him."
Yori agrees. "It's funny," she said. "When Jon Gordon was up there talking Monday, I kept thinking 'That's me! That's me!! Man, that's me!!!' after everything he said. I was talking to our staff after his presentation, and we were all saying the same thing – 'Wow! That's us!!' We could do this better and we could do that better, and it's always good when someone reminds you about what's really important. Why are we doing this? It's all supposed to be about the student-athletes, and we all discussed that for a long time. Every one of us gets stressed out, and Jon's presentation was excellent."
I can't resist asking Yori if she's come up with her own one-word mission statement for 2014. "It's not official. Do I have to share it?" she asked.
"No," I replied, "but I am interested in whatever way you might be leaning."
Yori's Joy + Hooper's Care = Competitive Approach
"I think my word is going to be joy," Yori said. "I want to remember all of the little things and why we're doing what we do…it really is all about the student-athletes, and I'm glad someone reminded us of that. We need that mindset as we finish the season."
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WizardOfOdds needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 86 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
Soho Standardbreds
My client is establishing a standalone presence and requires a logo to use in both a new online and re-badged offline presence. Be assured this contest has a prescriptive brief (confident prize will be guaranteed) and plenty of feedback.
Soho Standardbreds is based in Australia and is a premier stable of standardbred horses - harness racing horses. If you are not familiar with harness racing the attachments should help.
Soho is involved in every stage of a racing career from breeding young horses through to racing and through to the breeding careers. Soho has enjoyed considerable success both on and off the race track.
The target audience for Soho is well defined as those interested in harness racing. Specifically these segments include people generally interested in one or more horses they form an attachment too from either a general or wagering interest; owners of related horses; owners of competitive horses; potential buyers of predominately young horses.
We want a logo that is appealing, professional and reflects their ascendancy towards being the premier operation of its kind
We are looking for a logo to represent the racing and breeding operations - Soho Standardbreds. SoHo is one of the premier stables and facilities in the sport and this should be reflected in the logo.
- SoHo is involved in harness racing from end-to-end including breeding through racing and then back to breeding - hence I'll make the suggestion of depicting a foal (younger horse) and an older horse or multiple horses
- Stable racing colours have 5 orange stars on black (refer attachments). So obviously a black, orange and white logo and I am thinking the stars could be incorporated into a star / comet trail coming off the horse(s)
- Both the image and the typeface needs to be clear.
- From the attachments the logos I like relevant to this are
* Kentuckiana (old and young horse pacing - harness racing)
* Harness Racing ACT (nice and clean - works in colour / b + w)
* NSW Breeders (generations of horses)
The files we will require are colour and greyscale versions:
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James Whitis Bulloch b. 1788 or 1795 in GA or NC
I am looking for the parents of James Witis Bulloch. He married Nancy Horton b. 1800 and they moved to Louisiana then to Texas. They had many children. Thanks, Laura
Harpers: Jacob 1785, Chales Rose, Charles Lee, Marvin Lee, Chess'L 1921
My father, Chess L Harper was born in Burkburnett, TX on 20 SEPT 1920. He was born at home in an old country cabin to Marvin Lee Harper b. 1890 TX (Marvin was the son of Charles Lee Harper b. 1857 in Desota Parish, LA and Frances Roberta Gause) and Beatrice "Blanche" (Thacker )Harper (maiden name was Thacker and she was the daughter of *Albert C. Thacker and Sara Elizabeth "Betty" Bullock ).
Chess L married before he was 21 years old to my mother Etta May Roberts (who was not quite 18 at the time). They had six children. Chess L felt his country needed him and joined the Army/Airforce in 1944 and became a waist gunner. He flew 32 missions over Germany and was shot down and missing in action once.
My father and mother lost their first child in 1943 (still-born) and in 1944 he went to war. The war was hard on my father and he found he could not stay at home and be a dad and husband. In the next 7 yrs he would come and go and he had "stories" to tell anyone that would listen. My father and mother had 6 children (all living) and 4 were born in CA and 2 in OR. During this time after the war my grandfather told us the reason Chess'L was gone so much and left my mother and us kids to work in the fields and sent no money or letters. My father married many times and moved on after 1944.
We are told that we may have many brothers and sisters out there that will never know the truth about his life of families. He had many aliases (Charles Harper, Kenneth Roberts, and others I do not know). He told people that he was CIA and that many things in his life would be top secret. He loved poetry and wrote a poem called "Diamond Lil".
When I was a child he left for good in 1951 and my sister and I traced him and found him married in Phoenix, AZ once and then in Manteca, CA married again to a Maria in 1975. In 1976 he was married to a Shirley Lavern in Troutdale, OR and in 1992 we found him in a nursing home in Yakama, WA (with the help of the Verterns admin) and he was married again to a lady named Flora who we never heard from again. She sent him on a Greyhound to us with a suitcase in his hand (all his worldly possions, his clothes). He said they had a home and a black lab dog, but she was in love with another man and put him in a home and took his money. He had had several small strokes and some serious memory loss and he needed a cane to walk.
Each of us grown kids got to meet our father and visit with him. One day in 1994 he took off and hich-hiked to San Fransico, CA and we found him in a mission down there again. He came back to Oregon and was very sick and went to a nursing home again. We visited him every day and took him on outings and for the weekends. He died in 1997 in a place called Camolott in Forest Grove, Oregon. But I got to know him and we cut down our Christmas tree together and I had a walz with my dad that I will always remember.
So if you are looking for this man about the only way to identify him would be to share a picture. He had changed in his looks so much that I would not have known him, except for his 6'2" heigth and his Texas way of talking. Oh, and that cowboy hat and those boots that he always wore. He could resite poetry like there was no tomorrow.
Charles Rose b. 1824 MO.
+ Susan Bains b. SEPT 1837 VA
Charles Lee HARPER b. AUG 1857 LA
+ Frances Roberta GAUSE b. 13 NOV 1863
2 Marvin Lee HARPER b: 15 OCT 1889 d: 1966
+ Beatrice "Blanche" THACKER b: 16 FEB 1894 d: 1981
3 Alfie HARPER b: abt. 1913 d: abt. 1915
3 Evelyn HARPER b: July 29, 1916
3 Chess L HARPER b: 20 Sept. 1921 d: 13 July 1997
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More Cannonballs: Two cannonballs and an antique firearm were discovered at Kahului (OGG). Now this song is stuck in my head.
Fantasy Knives: Two knives (see photo) were discovered at John F Kennedy (JFK). These knives come in handy when slaying various mythological creatures, but these creatures don't exist on planes or elsewhere for that matter.
No Good Knives In Cancun?: A 7" kitchen knife was discovered in a bag at Denver (DEN). The passenger stated they brought the knife because there are "no good knives in Cancun."
Kukri Knife: Also known as the "Gurkha Blade," this Nepalese knife is used as both a tool and a weapon. While it has been approved for the battlefield, it's not permitted to travel in your carry-on baggage. This particular knife was found at Washington - Reagan (DCA).
Grenades: Two inert grenades were found this week at Colorado Springs (COS) and my old workplace, Cincinnati (CVG). Read here and here for more information on why inert grenades cause problems at checkpoints.
Grenade Launcher: Yes, you read correctly, a grenade launcher was discovered during a search in checked baggage at Seattle Tacoma (SEA). It's not as ominous as it sounds though. There were no grenades with the item. It's not every day you come across a grenade launcher, so I just had to mention it.
Miscellaneous Prohibited Items: In addition to all of the other prohibited items we find weekly, our officers also found stun guns, brass knuckles, realistic replica firearms, knives, knives, and more knives, firearm components, ammunition, and expandable batons and blackjacks.
Firearms: Our officers found 14 loaded firearms and 9 unloaded firearms in carry-on baggage since I posted last Friday. Here's a rundown of the 23 firearms our officers kept off of airplanes this week:
- 2/3: LFT - Loaded .45 w/ round chambered - ABQ - Loaded .380 w/ round chambered - SLC - Loaded .380
- 2/4: MCO - Loaded .380 - FLO - Loaded .38 - GNV - Unloaded .38
- 2/5: ATL - Unloaded .380 - ABQ - Loaded .40 w/ round chambered
- 2/6: HSV - Loaded .380 w/ round chambered - PIT - Unloaded .22 - PHX - Unloaded .380 - MCI - Loaded .380
- 2/7: DEN - Loaded .22 - LAS - Loaded .40 - AUS - Loaded .380 - ATL - Loaded .380 w/ round chambered
- 2/8: OGG -Antique firearm - DAL - Unloaded .38 - IAH - Unloaded .38
- 2/9: IND - Loaded firearm w/ round chambered - TPA - Unloaded .22 - DFW - Unloaded 9mm - RDU - Loaded .38
You can travel with your firearms in checked baggage, but they must first be declared to the airline. You can go here for more details on how to properly travel with your firearms. We also look for explosives and bomb components, but thankfully those are extremely rare and we're happy to keep it that way.
Unfortunately these sorts of occurrences are all too frequent which is why we talk about these finds. Sure, it's great to share the things that our officers are finding, but at the same time, each time we find a dangerous item, the throughput is slowed down and a passenger that likely had no ill intent ends up with a citation or in some cases is even arrested. This is a friendly reminder to please leave these items at home. Just because we find a prohibited item on an individual does not mean they had bad intentions, that's for the law enforcement officer to decide. In many cases, people simply forgot they had these items in their bag. That's why it's important to double check your luggage before you get to the airport.
Including checkpoint and checked baggage screening, TSA has 20 layers of security both visible and invisible to the public. Each one of these layers alone is capable of stopping a terrorist attack. In combination their security value is multiplied, creating a much stronger, formidable system. A terrorist who has to overcome multiple security layers in order to carry out an attack is more likely to be pre-empted, deterred, or to fail during the attempt.
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SLU's Evans Tabbed Candidate for Senior CLASS Award
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ST. LOUIS – Saint Louis senior forward Dwayne Evans is one of 30 men's basketball players in the NCAA selected as a candidate for the 2013-14 Senior CLASS Award.
To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievement in four areas of excellence – community, classroom, character and competition.
Evans, a four-year starter, has helped the Billikens to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances. Last season, he led the team in scoring and rebounding as SLU captured Atlantic 10 Conference regular-season and tournament championships. He was a first-team All-Conference pick and was named to the NABC All-District second team. Evans was named Most Outstanding Player of the A-10 Championship.
A business administration major, Evans was named to the A-10 All-Academic team a season ago. He is active in the community as well, volunteering with the Special Needs Soccer Association (SPENSA) as well as Athletes in Action. This past summer, Evans traveled to Africa on a goodwill basketball tour with AIA.
The list of 30 candidates will be narrowed to 10 finalists midway through the regular season. Those 10 names will be placed on the official ballot, which will be distributed through a nationwide voting system to media, coaches and fans. Together, they will select the one candidate who best exemplifies excellence in the four Cs of community, classroom, character and competition.
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Is marriage more for "financial security" than about love?0
"Do you want someone to marry you for money?
Marriage expert and bestselling author Hellen Chen poses the question at her live seminar.
Kerrigan is 27-years-old and he has not even bothered to look for a girlfriend though being married has been his dream. What is holding him back? Money.
A few years after earning his college diploma, he was laid off during the 2008 recession and took up a job as a part-time security guard. "I am absolutely sure that no girl would look at what I have and consider me a prospect for marriage." said Kerrigan, "I can't give anyone financial security."
His story is among the many singles who postponed marriage because of struggles in finance.
Marriage expert and three-time bestselling author Hellen Chen, whose marital advice has been showcased in over 200 publications, radio and TV interviews in 20 countries worldwide, has a unique viewpoint from her experience as an unorthodox matchmaker. She has helped over 100 men and women to get married regardless of their background.
Chen said, "In generations before us, we do not hear of such reasoning that a guy or a girl needs to have financial achievements in order to marry. Yet, in modern society, 'no money' has been one of the top reasons why someone has delayed marriage."
In one of her bestselling relationship book "Hellen Chen's Love Seminar," which is named after her live seminar event for singles and couples, Chen wrote about the irony of guys "inviting" the ladies to marry them for money by putting earning money and social status first before forming a family.
"You attract like-minded people." said Chen, "But if you are in your early 20s and you have nothing to your name, that is the best time to marry. At least the lady who marries you loves you for who you are."
Amy was 28-years-old and single and had wanted to settle down. But she felt that she did not have the looks nor social skills to attract men, she opted to try dating services.
"I met many guys at dating events. I tried to act naturally as myself but in our meetup sessions, most guys were not interested to know who I really am. They talked about themselves and what they liked — they were looking for some kind of 'ideal women' which I am not." said Amy, who then read about Chen's books and came to attend her Love Workshop.
"I learn what really matters in a marriage." said Amy. "Looks can fade and financial strengths can wane. The only security is the couple working hard to keep the relationship strong and never lose sight of why they marry in the first place."
Amy met Kerrigan at Chen's workshop and at Chen's encouragement as a matchmaker, Kerrigan married Amy and they subsequently have their first child and Amy is now pregnant with a second.
"I have no idea that a married life would bring so much to my life." said Kerrigan, cuddling his one-year-old son,"Amy make my life complete. And with our children, it gave me more motivation to strive harder. I could not ask for more!"
At an iHeart radio interview, Chen shared that there are no "rules" in love. "All these 'rules' and 'conditions' about having to have money first before getting married are laid in for the sake of having security. But if having money is a security in marriage, why are we seeing increasing divorces despite the 'careful selection' of a partner with financial strengths?" said Chen.
Chen will be holding her next live seminar event on July 19th Saturday in Los Angeles, California. The event will be held at the Hilton Hotel in San Gabriel City for singles and married couples.
For more information about Hellen Chen and her work, visit http://HellenChen.com.
Chen's works in family, marriage and personal developments are featured in over 200 media publications in 20 countries. She has been a frequent guest on independent and network radio and TV shows on FOX, CBS, NBC and ABC etc.


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Since the iPad doesn't have a USB port or SSD card slot (can I say "grrrr!' again?) Apple sells a Camera Kit that's supposed to let you plug in your camera or card and transfer your pictures and video -- but also used to work for low power USB keyboards and Skype/VoIP headsets. I say "used to" because with iOS 4.2 that no longer seems to be the case.
Mark Gurman from 9to5mac has done some tests:
The essence of the issue with the connection kit and iOS 4.2 is that connected devices that require power of more than 20mA will no longer work. That means that many USB keyboards (Apple's included) will no longer work with the iPad, as well as USB flash drives. When the user connects a device that is not self-powered and requires more than 20mA of power from the iPad they get the following alert: "The connected USB device requires too much power."
Support for those devices was unofficial but it was useful. Worse news for photographers, power-hungry cameras seem to be having issues as well. And really, what good is a Camera Kit if your camera won't work as you've come to expect? Hopefully this is a bug and Apple will fix it in iOS 4.3 (I'm adding it to my list!)
We spoke about this on the last iPad Live podcast, and we've gotten some angry emails and tweets about it already but if you're having any issues with your iPad Camera Kit, give us the details in comments.


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Prospect of the Week: November 4, 2013
We continue our Prospect of the Week award, an honor (virtually) given to one Tampa Bay Lightning prospect for their recent contributions on and off the ice.
The Prospect of the Week for November 4, 2013 is … Nikita Kucherov, W (Syracuse Crunch, AHL, USA).
Anyone surprised?
Someone should tell Syracuse Crunch rookie Nikita Kucherov it's not supposed to be this easy. Players aren't supposed to average two points-per-game in their first 10 professional games, but after Kucherov averaged three points-per-game last week in three games, that's exactly what he's doing with 20 points (11 goals) in 10 games.
On Monday Kucherov was named CCM/AHL Player of the Week, then on Monday night that award was trumped by our Prospect of the Week award. Last week he won the AHL Rookie of the Month award. Here's hoping he found a Syracuse apartment with a big mantle over the fireplace to put all these awards.
The 2011 second round draft pick had two goals and two assists against both Albany and Rochester last week, then followed that up with "just" a goal in Binghamton on Saturday. He leads the AHL in goals as a rookie and is tied for the league lead in points.
Kucherov projects as a potentially elite scoring line winger at the NHL level. His playmaking and vision are vastly underrated, or rather overshadowed by his Pavel Bure-like shot. He doesn't have Bure's speed, but he's shifty and has a decent burst. He'll do just fine at the NHL level once he fills out physically (he's listed at 178) and becomes a more responsible player – something he's been working on all season when he's not hammering the scoresheet.
We rank Kucherov as Tampa Bay's No. 3 prospect behind Jonathan Drouin and Andrey Vasilevskiy.
2013-2014 Prospect of the Week winners:
October 29: Kristers Gudlevskis, G, (Syracuse Crunch, AHL, USA).
October 24: Henri Ikonen, W, (Kingston Frontenacs, OHL, Canada).
October 16: Nikita Kucherov, W, (Syracuse Crunch, AHL, USA).
October 9: Henri Ikonen, W, (Kingston Frontenacs, OHL, Canada).
October 1: Andrey Vasilevskiy, G, (Salavat Yulaev, KHL, Russia).
September 24: Adam Erne, W, Tampa Bay (NHL) and Quebec (QMJHL)
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The National Bestseller, Featuring a Brand-New Introduction by Karen Santorum
As a mother, Karen Santorum grew frustrated by her inability to find a book of manners that instructed through engaging stories and poems rather than by dull lists of dos and don'ts. She set out to solve the problem.
The result is this wonderfully rich and instructive anthology. A national bestseller, Everyday Graces has become a beloved feature in homes, schools, churches, and libraries across America. It speaks to the fact that manners are seldom discussed anymore—and are practiced even less. Good manners are a prerequisite for the growth of moral character; they are the habits of conduct by which we express in the most ordinary circumstances our fundamental respect for others, whether parents, friends, colleagues, or strangers.
Under such headings as "Honor Your Mother and Father," "Please, Thank You, and Other Kind Words," "Be Considerate at the Table," "Good Sportsmanship," and "Respecting Our Country," Everyday Graces gathers stories and poems that will develop and enrich the moral imagination. This marvelous anthology features classic selections from such well-known authors as Hans Christian Andersen, Beatrix Potter, Mark Twain, Frances Hodgson Burnett, C. S. Lewis, Max Lucado, and Arnold Lobel, as well as forgotten gems that deserve a new hearing.
Find out why Everyday Graces has struck a chord with tens of thousands of families. Both inviting and informative, this book helps instill good manners in our children—and takes a stand against the decline in civility and the coarsening of our common life.
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"Good literature can be an inspiring guide to good behavior. Parents who share this book with their children will thank Karen Santorum for the skill and sensitivity with which she chose its contents. And so will the parents' children when, years hence, they read it with their own children."
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On Nov. 5, 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator signed a notice amending certain requirements of the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule in order to address additional areas of regulatory reform that have been raised by the regulated community.
This rule is effective Jan. 14, 2010.
The November 2009 amendments revise the December 2008 amendments as a result of EPA's review of comments and consideration of all relevant facts. EPA is either taking no action or providing minor technical corrections on the majority of the December 2008 provisions. However, this action modifies the December 2008 rule by removing the provisions to:
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Last year, I wrote about a new book on a Kenyan whistleblower, written by a British journalist. A reader pointed me to Kenyan writer Billy Kahora, who'd also just published a book, locally, about a Kenyan whistleblower – in fact, the man who, as Kahora tells it, exposed Kenya's biggest-ever corruption scandal. The book, The True Story of David Munyakei, is one of the few creative nonfiction books in Kenya, where media is driven by profit and investigative space hardly exists. Hmm... starting to sound familiar?
Kahora is a driver of Kenya's literary scene. He's the managing editor of Kwani?, home to fabulous work by African writers, and wrote the script for Soul Boy, a new film by Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer. He has degrees in journalism and was a 2007 Chevening Scholar at the University of Edinburgh.
I did a Q&A with Kahora, which got lost in the bowels of my inbox. I've just re-discovered it – and just in time to tell those of you near Minnesota (or willing to buy a plane ticket) that you can meet Kahora and other African writers on October 8 and 9 in Minneapolis. Books for Africa is having a terrific conference featuring Kahora, Nigerian writer Uwem Akpan (Say You're One of Them), Somali writer Nuruddin Farah (Sweet and Sour Milk), and Alexandra Fuller (Scribbling the Cat), who grew up in Rhodesia (though I'm told we call it Zimbabwe now).
The conference is free. (Yeah, that's right. The conference is free.) If you're feeling flush, you can donate to Books for Africa and rub elbows with these writers and hear Fuller keynote at a cocktail reception in the evening.
Okay, back to Kahora.
JM: Who is David Munyakei, and how did you discover his story? Why is he considered Kenya's "biggest" whistleblower, and why did he die in obscurity?
BK: I suppose that's why the book was written. To deconstruct the complexity of the character. Anyway, just to give a very brief bio, Munyakei was a Central Bank Of Kenya clerk who found himself right in the middle of the largest financial scandal in Kenya and decided to tell the world about it. The best way to know who he is, is to read the book. It's a bit too complex to give a soundbite.
He won an award and was invited by Transparency International to Nairobi to receive it – and at the same time, they decided to do a documentary of his amazing story; I was also asked to do an extended feature on the guy. I had been trying to sell him the idea of creative non-fiction, which one rarely saw in Kenya at the time and this turned out to be the perfetct story for the form.
Munyakei is Kenya's biggest whistleblower because the scandal was worth a billion USD, the biggest even now, 15 years later, in a space of many a scandal. Nobody wants to touch a whistleblower – they are seen as an anathema to the system. Munyakei died in obscurity because we live in a society where men who do the right thing are a challenge to the status quo -- a system that, in its inherent corruption, is controlled by politicians who know that things cannot stay the way they are, undemocratic and without value, if men like Munyakei are held in high esteem and recognised as heroes. This is also the case with men who fought for Kenya's freedom, and others who have been honest in government.
JM: You first published what is now your book as a feature for Kwani?. What was the reaction to the original feature, from your readers and from the government?
BK: The reaction was overwhelming – this was a long extended feature that had a compelling character at the center of it. It had all the elements of a good story. And anywhere politicians' soundbites are what feeds the media mill, something different and rigorous will get accolades in many a place -- because there are people who are good citizens and who care about their country
JM: Where can people buy the book? Is its availability limited or controversial in any way?
BK: You can buy it at all major bookshops in Nairobi and in one or two places in Mombasa. Availability is only limited to our own ability to market and distribute it.
JM: My readers may be familiar with Michaela Wrong, a British journalist who also wrote about a Kenyan whistleblower. What are the comparative advantages and disadvantages of your experience being a native Kenyan and still living and working in the country whose corruption you exposed?
BK: Advantages: You can get a lot more info as a local. People are not as guarded when talking to you. Also, there are networks that are open to you that are not necessarily of a professional nature that can be very key in this business. An outsider always has to work within a professional purview. There is just so much info that one can get in informal circles. And through friendships and other relationships, and those are better open to the local.
Disadvantages. As a local one takes a lot for granted. And you assume and omit things that you might think as general info. One weakness I hear a lot from foreigners, is that the book does not give a proper contextual description of Goldenberg itself. There is an assumption in the book that every reader knows what it is and was all about. Also, a lot of subliminal and subconscious bias can creep in – there is a lot of anthropological comment that I would now like to do away with because I have traveled more widely in Kenya. An outsider, as long as they are professional, turns up every rock … and this helps in other ways. Because of these two things the book, I can now see, has weaknesses.
JM: What's the investigative journalism scene like in Kenya? And what's going on that no one's yet able to dig into?
BK: There is little investigative journalism in Kenya in the proper sense of the word. Media here is first and foremost commercial – and even if there are no underhand things going on, its imperatives are not that of an investigative space. Investigative journalism thrives where long hours, complex narratives, 50-50 outcomes, the high risk of being sued, highly paid professional journalists are the MO – all these things that are key for a vibrant investigative space are not conducive for profit-oriented media. Media here is about soundbites for higher circulation, and chasing advertising which impacts on content, and is run by marketing types. Newsroom are about circulation and bottom line profits, not Fourth Estate stuff that pushes invetsigative journalism.
JM: What's the narrative journalism scene like in Kenya, and in the other places you've worked? How does the style differ from what you saw in the UK, or what you've seen of American newspapers?
BK: There is really no narrative journalism in Kenya, and when it happens, only in token spaces like Kwani and like-minded institutions. I became enamoured of the form in South Africa when I read amazing writers like Jonny Steinberg and read weekly newspapers, magazines and saw T.V shows that tried to put this kind of thing together. I am a big fan of Tom Wolfe and all the new journalists from the 60s and the 70s I,e Rolling Stone. So, even before talking of style, one must ask where it is in Kenya … I just wish that we could publish two books a year because the stories are there … myriads of them …
JM: What's your next project?
BK: I am editing Kwani, working on a collaborative graphic novel and trying to jumpstart my novel which I started 3 years ago but haven't looked at for almost a year …
-- Jina Moore is a Rwanda-based reporter who blogs at her website.


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The project maps, defines and analyses what limitations people or legal entities in Europe face when conducting a business. It aims to highlight existing legislation and procedures in Member States, identify promising practices, as well as constraints in conducting business (including 'cross-cutting' issues such as non-discrimination and cross-border elements). It also aims to highlight links to related business aspects, such as: entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, and business and human rights.
EU Member States vary in their interpretation of the freedom to conduct a business, and its various components. This project strives to paint a clearer legal picture of the freedom to conduct a business in legislation, policy and/or the case law of EU Member States.
The freedom to conduct a business, as a new right (Art. 16 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights but not an explicit right in other human rights instruments), can also be viewed from the wider perspective of EU developments. This includes the EU2020 strategy; reducing unemployment – including youth; improving integration – making better use of skills and knowledge of immigrants; and possibly even inspiring innovation – ensuring that the freedom to conduct a business is appropriately balanced with other rights, such as access to health and data protection.
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