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The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation (Hardcover)
By Rosemary Sullivan
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Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept...
Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international team—led by an obsessed retired FBI agent—has finally solved the mystery that has haunted generations since World War II: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why?
Over thirty million people have read The Diary of a Young Girl, the journal teen-aged Anne Frank kept while living in an attic with her family and four other people in Amsterdam during World War II, until the Nazis arrested them and sent them to a concentration camp. But despite the many works—journalism, books, plays and novels—devoted to Anne's story, none has ever conclusively explained how these eight people managed to live in hiding undetected for over two years—and who or what finally brought the Nazis to their door.
With painstaking care, retired FBI agent Vincent Pankoke and a team of indefatigable investigators pored over tens of thousands of pages of documents—some never before seen—and interviewed scores of descendants of people familiar with the Franks. Utilizing methods developed by the FBI, the Cold Case Team painstakingly pieced together the months leading to the infamous arrest—and came to a shocking conclusion.
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation is the riveting story of their mission. Rosemary Sullivan introduces us to the investigators, explains the behavior of both the captives and their captors and profiles a group of suspects. All the while, she vividly brings to life wartime Amsterdam: a place where no matter how wealthy, educated, or careful you were, you never knew whom you could trust.
ROSEMARY SULLIVAN, the author of fifteen books, is best known for her recent biography Stalin's Daughter. Published in twenty-three countries, it won the Biographers International Organization Plutarch Award and was a finalist for the PEN /Bograd Weld Award for Biography and the National Books Critics Circle Award. Her book Villa Air-Bel was awarded the Canadian Society for Yad Vashem Award in Holocaust History. She is a professor emeritus at the university of Toronto and has lectured in Canada, the U.S., Europe, India, and Latin America.
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Photographers that offer custom photography have many different options available to you that fit your style. Most custom photographers have a very distinct style that helped you decide to chose them. They have the ability to make your experience tailored just for you as opposed to the chain store time limits and crowds.
Imagine getting your family dressed and ready for your portrait session. Usually that is the most stressful part of any of my sessions. Then you come and meet me and I am ready to go. With family sessions, we are usually done in less than an hour. I have had many dads tell me that was pretty painless and thank me for making it sooo easy and not stressful. Mainly, this is because we have talked before the session and I know what direction we want to go and have it mentally planned out.
Custom photography requires a level of commitment, an investment in time, money, and planning on the part of the client and requires a larger time commitment for the photographer as well.
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The decade of bin Laden politics
George W. Bush responded to 9/11 with a binge of hubris that shaped American politics for years to come
Check out this article! https://www.salon.com/2011/05/03/bin_laden_decade/
Steve Kornacki
May 3, 2011 4:01PM (UTC)
It was three years before 9/11 that Americans first met Osama bin Laden, back in 1998, when their summers were (briefly) interrupted with news that a terrorist group called al-Qaida had launched deadly attacks on two U.S. embassies in East Africa. The domestic reaction consisted mainly of fleeting expressions of sadness and concern, nothing more.
When President Clinton, days after admitting that he had, in fact, had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky, launched airstrikes on targets linked to bin Laden in Sudan, the press responded by obsessing over whether Clinton was taking a page from the movie "Wag the Dog" -- in which a president manufactures an overseas crisis to distract attention from a sex scandal back home.
This was the extent of bin Laden's role in American politics -- and in American life -- right up until 8:45 in the morning on Sept. 11, 2001, when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower. Within hours, three more hijacked planes would crash, nearly 3,000 Americans would be dead, and the country's politics would be radically changed.
It was out of this tragedy that the Bush presidency was truly born. And it was out of the response of Democrats to the Bush presidency -- a response that was frustratingly slow to develop -- that Barack Obama ultimately emerged.
Public apathy had defined the previous year's presidential race, with neither George W. Bush nor Al Gore stirring much passion among voters. ("Gush and Bore," they were sometimes derided as.) To many Americans, Bush was still a joke eight months into his presidency -- a lazy son of wealth and privilege who'd taken four decades to grow up and who owed his "victory" to voter confusion, a friendly Supreme Court, and the archaic Electoral College system. But he was the only president they had, and as the reality of 9/11 sunk in, they instinctively looked to him for comfort, reassurance and leadership.
At first, Bush dropped the ball. News of the attacks reached him while he was taking part in an elementary school reading lesson in Florida. The footage would haunt him for years -- seven minutes of sitting, staring, fidgeting and flipping through "The Pet Goat" after hearing what had just happened from Andy Card, his chief of staff. Was it a display of poise, a president taking care not to project panic? Or was it proof that he was in over his head, shocked into paralysis by news he didn't know how to process? That it was even an issue underscored the lack of moral authority Bush carried into 9/11. He seemed steadier in a televised address to the nation later that day, but still unsure of himself, a man struggling to convince his countrymen that he meant the words others had written for him.
"These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat," Bush declared. "But they have failed."
The turning point finally came three days later, when Bush faced a skeptical, maybe even dismissive, crowd of rescue workers at ground zero. He recited his prepared remarks and they talked over him and told him they couldn't hear him. He raised his voice and ad-libbed: "I can hear you! I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!" With one confident, unscripted and eloquent line, Bush had won over the men and women of ground zero -- and across the country.
Just before the attacks, Bush's approval rating had hovered around 50 percent, the lowest it had been during his first eight months in office. He'd taken some heat for governing as if he'd received a mandate in the '00 election (when Gore had actually received more popular votes), alienating a moderate Republican senator, Vermont's James Jeffords, who left the GOP and handed control of the chamber back to the Democrats. The Bush agenda had been focused on domestic policy: tax cuts, the "No Child Left Behind" bill, limits on stem cell research, and industry-friendly energy policy. International affairs had barely been an issue in the '00 campaign, with Bush promising a "humble" foreign policy and no "nation-building."
But now, Bush felt emboldened. His approval rating soared to 95 percent -- a few points better than the record-shattering mark his father has set in early 1991. But Bush 41's high mark had represented a collective national sigh of relief -- the successful end of Operation Desert Storm, which had evicted Saddam Hussein from Kuwait (and defied widespread predictions that it would result in another Vietnam quagmire). Bush's 43's poll numbers represented the nation's profound, unprecedented anxiety; Americans weren't celebrating his achievements -- they were expressing their support as they waited for him to make a move.
Bush didn't have to choose the path he took. But in the hours, days and weeks after 9/11, he was won over by those in his administration who had long advocated aggressive, military-led efforts to overhaul the Arab and Muslim worlds. Bush embraced the concept of a "war on terror," vowing to confront not just bin Laden and his lieutenants, but the government in Afghanistan that had supported them -- and any government anywhere that made a home for any element that might post the same kind of threat to the United States as al-Qaida.
Speaking to a joint session of Congress nine days after the attacks, Bush offered an ultimatum to Afghanistan's Taliban leaders: Give up bin Laden and his men or face an invasion. Then he went further: "From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime."
Today, this kind of language would set off all sorts of alarms. But not in the America of 2001. That fall, as the Bush doctrine formed, Americans went about their lives convinced that the next deadly attack was just weeks, days or even hours away. They sat glued to cable news channels, where the bottom-of-the-screen "news crawls" -- which popped up in the frantic hours immediately after the 9/11 attacks and never disappeared -- kept them updated on the latest Anthrax case. The best that Tom Ridge, Bush's newly appointed Homeland Security czar, could tell them was that the U.S. mail was safe -- "by and large." Polls found that wide majorities of Americans believed the question was when -- and not if -- al-Qaida would strike again, a sentiment that leaders from both parties stoked.
This overwhelming fear left little room for debate. Days after 9/11, Bush asked Congress to authorize "all necessary and appropriate force" against anyone who -- in Bush's determination -- had anything to do with 9/11. The vote in the Senate was 98-0. In the House, it was 420-1. The lone dissenter, California Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee, received a flood of death threats.
On television, Bill Maher -- whose "Politically Incorrect" show was airing late nights on ABC -- tried to make a philosophical point about the 9/11 terrorists, arguing that "we have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." Ari Fleischer, Bush's press secretary, responded that, in the wake of 9/11, "people have to watch what they say and watch what they do." Maher's show was canceled soon thereafter.
On Oct. 7, Bush announced that the invasion of Afghanistan had begun. On the same day, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made it clear that this was just the start. "Our aims are much broader," he said. Three weeks later, the Patriot Act sailed through Congress, by a vote of 357-66 in the House and 98-1 in the Senate. The nation continued to find enormous comfort in its president, who now carried himself with a confidence and swagger that had previously been absent. The whole country, it seemed, cheered for Bush when he was called to throw out the first pitch of Game 3 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium on Oct. 30 -- and delivered a perfect strike.
By 2002, the campaign to roll the "war on terror" into Iraq was well underway. In his State of the Union address at the end of January, Bush -- with Dick Cheney sitting behind him, the first time since 9/11 that the president and vice president had appeared in public together -- told Americans that "our war against terror is only beginning" and singled out three new potential targets: Iran, Iraq and North Korea, "the axis of evil."
"For too long," Bush said, "our culture has said, 'If it feels good, do it.' Now, America is embracing a new ethic and a new creed: Let's roll."
Bush's approval rating was still over 80 percent -- and support for invading Iraq was nearly as high. The case was easy to make to most Americans, who had spent the previous decade being exposed to one story after another about how Hussein represented the second coming of Hitler. Sure, there was no proof that Saddam and Iraq had had anything to do with 9/11, but to Americans who badly, dearly wanted to avoid another attack on their homeland, it didn't take much convincing to satisfy them that they'd be safer without this bad man running a Middle East nation.
Moreover, the popular consensus was that toppling Saddam would be an easy operation. The example of the '91 Gulf War, when victory was achieved quickly and American casualties were tiny, was still fresh in the public's mind. And Afghanistan seemed to be going well, too (even if bin Laden had managed to elude capture in the late '01 battle for Tora Bora). The hubris that Bush and his team were feeling was shared by most Americans.
This was not a climate conducive to the opposition party playing its role. In the run-up to the first Gulf War, most Democrats in Congress had sided against George H.W. Bush's request for military authorization, warning Americans that engagement in the Gulf could lead to massive casualties -- the next Vietnam, many suggested. In that war's aftermath, they'd all eaten crow (and some of them stayed off the 1992 presidential campaign trail because of their "no" votes). As Bush and his team ramped up their push for war with Iraq in '02 -- first subtly, then blatantly -- many Democrats in Congress resolved not to make the same mistake twice. The economy still seemed fragile; if Bush was going to be vulnerable in 2004, they reasoned, it would be because of that -- not his post-9/11 foreign policy.
When Bush asked Congress in the fall of '02 to authorize action, the two top Democrats on Capitol Hill -- Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt -- lined up with him and predicted smooth passage. Both were eyeing runs for president. Bush's popularity was still comfortably over 60 percent -- much higher in red states. Georgia Sen. Max Cleland, a decorated veteran who lost three limbs in Vietnam, learned this the hard way when his '02 Republican opponent launched an ad highlighting Cleland's votes against the Bush White House -- implying that the senator had sided with bin Laden and other terrorists.
The war resolution cleared both chambers with ease: 297-131 in the House, and 77-23 in the Senate (where a majority of Democrats supported it, too). In the November midterms, Bush's Republicans actually gained seats in the House and Senate -- only the second time since the Depression that a president's party had actually picked up seats in a midterm.
That U.N. weapons inspectors still couldn't find any of the weapons of mass destruction Bush and his team had assured Americans were in Iraq didn't matter: The invasion began on March 19, 2003, the U.N. be damned. It had been 18 months since 9/11, and Bush's popularity had yet to drop below 60 percent -- and in the weeks after the invasion, as Baghdad fell, Saddam fled and his statue was toppled, it climbed back over 70 percent. Democrats despaired: Even a plurality of their own voters didn't want the party's budding presidential field to challenge Bush's leadership on Iraq. The president who had come to office a widely ridiculed man had guided the country through one of its darkest hours, turning a terrible tragedy into an opportunity to assert America's might like never before, and to reclaim its pride and dignity in the process. Oh, and he'd also thoroughly marginalized the opposition party.
That, I suppose, is how the story of the Bush presidency would have been written if history had frozen on May 1, 2003 -- the day Bush dressed up like a pilot, landed on an aircraft carrier and delivered his "Mission accomplished!" speech. But time plowed forward, and as it did, it steadily revealed the ugly consequences of Bush's 18-month hubris binge. America was totally unprepared for the post-invasion phase in Iraq. Sectarian violence flourished, a civil war broke out, American casualties mounted, and the administration tried to dismiss it all with excuses and empty promises.
Meanwhile, Democrats found their voice: first in the form of Howard Dean, who emerged in the spring of '03 as the only major presidential candidate in the party to oppose Iraq from the start. On paper, Dean never should have gone anywhere, but as the bad news from the battlefield mounted, Democratic voters struggled to digest the explanations from John Kerry, John Edwards and Gephardt for why they'd supported the war in the first place. After putting a profound scare into the party's establishment, though, Dean collapsed and Democrats settled on Kerry, betting that his decorated Vietnam service would inoculate him from the GOP's foreign policy attacks. It was a bad bet: There was just enough fear left for Bush to pull out a three-point victory. A late-campaign cameo from bin Laden, in the form of a videotaped message released the weekend before Election Day, may have helped tip the scales.
But Bush's '04 win merely prolonged the inevitable. The worst was yet to come in Iraq, and the president's poll numbers sunk ever lower in 2005 and 2006. Why did we ever listen to this guy in the first place? Americans seemed to wonder. Democrats stormed back in the 2006 midterms, reclaiming the Senate for the first time since '02 and the House for the first time since 1994. Then they set out to elect a new president, and the same base that had rallied around Dean in '04 quickly found its candidate: Barack Obama, whose keynote speech had been the '04 Democratic convention's brightest note.
It's fitting that it was Obama who announced the killing of bin Laden on Sunday night. It was a moment that Bush and his team had planned -- and yearned -- to enjoy themselves. But it was Obama who'd built his own campaign around a critique of Bush's original post-9/11 sin: the decision to pursue an ill-defined, borderless and resource-exhausting "war on terror" -- instead of focusing on finding the one man who really was at the heart of America's darkest day.
Steve Kornacki is an MSNBC host and political correspondent. Previously, he hosted "Up with Steve Kornacki" on Saturday and Sunday 8-10 a.m. ET and was a co-host on MSNBC's ensemble show "The Cycle." He has written for the New York Observer, covered Congress for Roll Call, and was the politics editor for Salon. His book, which focuses on the political history of the 1990s, is due out in 2017.
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Alice Phoebe Lou's fiercely independent approach to her music has given the singer songwriter a creative confidence that shines through in her captivating vocals and stripped back music. Alice released her debut album "Orbit" in the US in March last year. She did so independently. The album received stellar reviews and saw her nominated for best female artist at the German critics choice awards in Germany.
In promoting her album she played 86 shows and festivals throughout 2016; toured with Sixto Rodriguez, Allen Stone, Crystal Fighters and Boy & Bear as well as her own headline tours. She also created an audio-visual show at Berlin's planetarium which was sold out 8 times
In autumn she recorded a stripped down 9 track EP ("Sola") which she self-released exclusively via her web site on the 2nd of December. On that same date she performed a sold out headline show at the magnificent Funkhaus in East Berlin; 1000 capacity venue built in East Germany in 1951 where they used to record orchestras.
Alice is releasing her next official single, "She", on the 23rd of February 2018. The song is synched to the credits of the film-documentary "Bombshell" (Reframed Pictures).
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Now, I like Justin Bieber and certainly this story is newsworthy, but stories like this lead people to think that he's on his way to being a better performer than Michael Jackson.
Justin Bieber is NO Michael Jackson and I confidently doubt he ever will come even close to achieving the success of MJ.
In late 2010, Forbes reported in its article, The Rich Afterlife of Michael Jackson, that Beyonce, Jay-Z, Lady Gaga and Madonna each raked in over $50 million, but the late, great Michael Jackson made over $275 million – more than all four artists combined! WOW!
In addition, Forbes ranked Michael Jackson the richest dead celebrity in 2010 because Brand MJ earned more money than all of the artists on the list combined and more than any living artist or group.
Again, not to take anything away from the "Biebs," but when he makes that kind of loot when he's dead and buried, then maybe you'll have an argument.
Similarly, before and throughout the NCAA men's basketball tournament, comparisons between BYU's Jimmer Fredette and LSU's Pistol Pete Maravich were constantly being discussed. And, similar to my statement above, Jimmer Fredette is no Pistol Pete Maravich.
Don't take my word for it, read ESPN's Rick Reilly's story here.
The point of my Blog post is not to slam or hate on Justin or Jimmer – I like and respect them both a ton – my rant is more about people and brands being obsessed with comparisons to each other and to competitors.
You need to enjoy your own success and respect others too. And, to achieve long lasting success you can't rest on your laurels and you should simply work hard at being better than YOU used to be – not how someone ELSE is/or used to be!
Focus your BRAND YOU efforts on improving YOU and maybe read this book too.


Subject: Just clean your stuff!!
There's already way too much folklore. And people tend to draw conclusions about cause and effect when sometimes, things just happen coincidentally. (For instance, I just read about someone who tried bleach on their rash, and because their allergic reaction spread and grew within a couple days, now they are reporting that bleach spreads poison ivy. Not True.
The only thing more maddening than getting a bad case of poison ivy/oak/sumac is the seemingly impossible task of getting rid of all the hidden urushiol in your home ... and knowing that you probably will miss some, and you'll break out again ... in a week, or a month, or a year? Fantastic.
Heck, if some guy's dog gets it on it's fur, and then the guy pets his dog, and an hour later the guy pats his buddy on the sleeve of his coat, and then I brush against that buddy's coat two days later while I'm in the grocery store --- WHAM. Another day later, I've got it ... and of course, I've got NO IDEA how. Because in the previous 4-24 hours, I've touched perhaps hundreds of things, many in public places. For some of us, it's literally impossible to identify how we got it. Those of you who always know -- you're the lucky ones.
And the kicker for some of us who are very sensitive to it is this: we get it, and it's miserable, and we get paranoid and *try* to clean everything and wash everything (which is no small matter). And somehow, we miss something. And unknowingly, we touch that thing, and we get it again ... but before we find out we got it again, we usually spread it around our newly cleaned house again.
It seems bizarre to me that we don't have a medical "solution" to this yet. Only treatments -- no cures.
I get it on a regular basis, at a couple times a year; some years just a couple of minor cases, but sometimes covering most of my body, and I haven't personally been near a poison ivy/oak/sumac plant in over a decade. But that wacky oil is around here somewheres ... I'm ready to go all "young John Travolta" and be the boy in the bubble. Seriously.
There is a pretty strong medical/physical argument AGAINST the notion of a systemic reaction to urushiol. Now, I am NOT saying that our bodies aren't breaking out in hives or something similar, and perhaps as a direct result of the stress of dealing with the allergic reaction to the urushiol, but from a purely physical standpoint, urushiol probably cannot be absorbed into the bloodstream (I say probably because I'm unable to find anything which says it's impossible, ... but I am also unable to find anything regarding the transport of urushiol in blood), and even if urushiol WERE absorbed into the bloodstream, I think it's reasonable to assume that we would experience some difficulties with our internal organs as well as having rashes over large portions of our body ... and in fact, wouldn't it be fairly safe to say that a 'systemic' case would result in an ENTIRE body being covered with the allergic reaction, fairly uniformly (if the blood were carrying it around, and then delivering it to previously uninfected skin)?
I know people want to believe in systemic cases (I wanted to also, for years ... I thought my body was harboring it somewhere, and would just bring it back out for me on special occasions, haha), but I think it's much more reasonable to consider the very real possibility that it's just really easy to spread trace amounts of it around on ourselves, while we move throughout the day, and while we sleep.
Perhaps I am misguided. But by assuming a reaction is systemic, we allow ourselves to ignore the likelihood that there is still some urushiol on something in our home or workplace ... and blaming it on our blood isn't nearly as effective (for preventing further reactions) as cleaning our stuff.
And for goodness' sake, anyone who recommends eating the leaves of the plants as a way of gaining immunity should seriously be charged with reckless endangerment and wanton disregard for life, and locked up forever with no access to post anything on the internet. I'm not joking. I've read it in more than one place, and it's not even funny.


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One Year Later: Papua in the Wake of Indonesia's Terrorist Designation
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Blog Post — July 7, 2022
By Hazen Williams
April 29 marked one year since Indonesia's coordinating minister for political, legal, and security affairs Mahfud MD announced that "organizations and people in Papua who commit mass violence are categorized as terrorists." Although they were not mentioned by name, the separatist movement in Papua, the Organisasi Papua Merdeka (OPM), was de facto assigned the label as a terrorist organization, making Indonesia the only country to designate OPM in this way. One year later, this designation has done little to reduce separatist violence in the region.
In 2018, Indonesia amended its Anti-Terrorism Law, granting the police more latitude to detain suspected terrorists. The law's broad legal definitions set a low threshold for what actions the government can prosecute as acts of terror. Prior to the designation last April, OPM members had been arrested on treason charges under the Indonesian Criminal Code. The more recent shift to arresting OPM members under counterterrorism laws broadened the resources Indonesian security forces can access to suppress OPM.
Since Mahfud's designation announcement in April 2021, Densus-88—the Indonesian police force's special counterterrorism squad—has been able to pursue OPM. The Indonesian military's Joint Special Operations Command, Koopssus TNI, is also in Papua for what is described by Indonesia's then-coordinating minister for political, legal, and security affairs Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno as an expanded security role. The Indonesian security force presence in Papua was already significant; however, the terrorist designation for OPM preceded the deployment of 500 additional Koopssus TNI and Densus-88 personnel to Papua. Commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) General Andika Perkasa also announced the construction of an additional two outposts from which to pursue the "Armed Criminal Group"—the term the TNI uses to refer to OPM—following a separatist attack on a TNI outpost in January. This expansion, according to the Papuan police chief, was intended to "wipe out" OPM members.
In October 2021, helicopters and drones dropped 81mm mortar rounds on eight villages in the Kiwirok District of Papua. Serbia had sold the mortars to Badan Intelijen Negara, Indonesia's spy agency, in February 2021. Serbia has verified that the lot numbers on the shells match those of the purchase, indicating that the counterterrorism response in Papua extends beyond the police and military's counterterrorism forces.
OPM's attacks on Indonesian security forces, which started as a slow-burn insurgency against the Indonesian government in the 1970s, have been orchestrated through OPM's military wing, the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB). As recently as March 28, 2022, TPNPB-OPM has claimed responsibility for several lethal attacks in Papua. The continuation of OPM attacks shows that the new terrorist designation has not deterred the organization from continuing separatist violence even though they lack the organizational capacity to seriously threaten Indonesia's authority in the region at this time.
Despite this, Indonesia perceives OPM as a threat to national security. Ethnic separatism undermines Indonesia's claim to be a unitary state governing diverse populations under its national motto of "Unity in Diversity." Indonesia is also unwilling to lose Papua because it is a critical part of the Indonesian economy. The Grasberg gold mine in Papua's Mimika regency alone is expected to produce $1.94 billion in revenue in 2022. Largely out of these economic concerns, in 2000, Indonesia tried to quell separatism by granting Papua special autonomy through the Special Autonomy Law, but despite these efforts, separatism in Papua continues. The #PapuanLivesMatter movement, which took inspiration from Black Lives Matter protests in the United States in calling out Indonesian society for racist tendencies against Papuan people, brought the Papuan situation to Indonesian and global headlines, making the situation more sensitive for Indonesia.
In addition to trying to eliminate separatism militarily, on April 6, 2022, Indonesia's House of Representatives approved the presentation of three bills to propose the division of Papua and West Papua into five provinces on the Dutch colonial model. Indonesia's parliament passed these bills on June 30, 2022. Papua perceives this political move—ostensibly infrastructure development purposes—as a divide-and-conquer tactic and a manifestation of the Indonesian government's multifaceted approach to suppress separatism in Papua, which has further fueled separatist violence. There have also been concerns that this decision will invite an expansion of the security apparatus presence in Papua through new military bases and outposts. Since the legislation's proposal, consistent Papuan protests have prompted a crackdown by Indonesia's security apparatus. In March, one such protest led to the deaths of two Papuan protestors who the police claim burned a storefront during the protest. There are disputes, however, over the timeline of the protestors' deaths and the burning of the store. Another round of protests occurred in May, showing that the proposal has undermined efforts to reconcile Papua with the rest of Indonesia.
The dispute over the timeline of the shooting of the March protestors demonstrates the information constraints concerning violent events in Papua. The Indonesian government does not allow non-governmental organizations and foreign press into the region. In 2014, Indonesian president Joko Widodo mentioned opening Papua to foreign press during his presidential campaign; however, the policy has not changed. The information scarcity that this creates complicates pinpointing specific causes of individual instances of violence in the region. What information is available is filtered by the government or comes from messages Papuans themselves manage to convey to international sources—a tactic that the Indonesian government undermines by cutting off access to the internet, especially during TNI military operations against separatists throughout Papua and West Papua.
Drawing on the limited information coming out of Papua, several Pacific Islands nations have become Papua's most vocal advocates on the international stage. Since 2017, the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) has used a "constructive engagement" approach to the West Papua issue following a series of protests by a group of Samoans at the Pacific Forum Summit hosted in Samoa that year. Indonesia simply disregarded the PIF's concern as "arrogant." Vanuatu followed up on this, openly calling for Indonesia to address human rights violations in West Papua in both its 2020 and 2021 speeches at the United Nations General Assembly. The 2021 speech did not mention the terrorist designation for OPM. Indonesia responded by requesting that countries respect Indonesia's national sovereignty and territorial integrity. Vanuatu has also raised this issue in the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG), where it presses for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua to be promoted from observer status to full membership and for Indonesia's associate member status to be withdrawn. Vanuatu also continues to be vocal against Indonesia's financial contribution to the MSG because of the West Papua issue.
After Indonesia designated OPM as a terrorist organization, in September 2021, Australia signed a new counterterrorism agreement with Indonesia. The United States has also continued its financial support for Indonesia's counterterrorism initiatives, including $5 million from the U.S. Agency on International Development in 2020. Despite its stated emphasis on human rights, the Biden administration has made no statement on the situation in Papua. In a time of increasing geopolitical competition between China and the United States, the United States is focused on building the U.S.-Indonesia bilateral relationship on shared cooperation and may not want to force issues that could strain that relationship. As the United States and Australia continue to support Indonesia's sovereignty and territorial integrity in Papua, both administrations are unlikely to take bolder stances. International action in the situation is likely to remain limited to the Pacific Islands for the foreseeable future. Indonesia's decision to label OPM as terrorists has not achieved its desired end of eliminating separatism in Papua. Instead, separatist violence, having shown its resiliency to Indonesia's attempts to control the region, is thus likely to continue.
Hazen Williams is a research intern with the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C.
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Bart Verbruggen (Utrecht, 15 mei 1988) is een Nederlandse alpineskiër. Hij is een van een drieling die werd geboren toen zijn moeder 26 weken zwanger was. Na de geboorte bleek dat Bart twee hersenbloedingen had gehad, waardoor hij linkszijdig spastisch is.

Verbruggen wist zich, door tijdens de wereldkampioenschappen alpineskiën vierde te worden op de afdaling, te kwalificeren voor de Paralympische Winterspelen 2014 in Sotsji. Vier jaar eerder was het hem net niet gelukt zich te kwalificeren voor de Spelen in Vancouver.

Externe links
 officiële website Bart Verbruggen
 profiel Bart Verbruggen op Nskiv.org
 profiel Bart Verbruggen op Paralympisch.nl

Nederlands alpineskiër
Nederlands paralympisch deelnemer

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Q: Do you agree with the idea of learning through internship as opposed to a five day class schedule, if so, what made you switch to City As as opposed to a regular high school environment?
A: Yes, agree with the idea of having an internship experience, the students and parents job is to figure if this fits the students need, however regular classes are also beneficial. I worked at another transfer high school with students from 17-21 in a more traditional model. I came to City As School in order to look for a new opportunity in my teaching practice.
Q: How long have you worked at City As School?
Q: What subject area do you teach and if you are a resource coordinator what area do you cover?
A: I teach English and Social Studies.
Q: If you worked at a previous high school before City As, how would you compare the learning experience, would you say students learn faster in internship or in a regular classroom environment?
A: Learning here is a lot richer and more relevant to the experiences that young people are going through, a lot of the work you do in a traditional high school simply teaches you to learn what's on the regents and not much beside that. Teachers can come up with materials that the students can think about, less testing, and the teachers can make their own material as opposed to what would be on statewide exams like the regents.
Q: Side hobbies or things you enjoy doing?
Q: What type of college degree do you have and from where?
A: Master's from penn state in latin american history, masters in science and special education from LIU.


Developers and other tech companies already make considerable use of the cloud, but TIG's customers tend to come from sectors like legal, finance, accountancy and insurance, where cloud adoption is not yet so widespread. Many firms in these sectors continue to run critical apps on their own premises, often because of concerns about the security, availability and physical location of their data. TIG needed a data centre provider that could offer robust physical security while meeting recognised international standards for information security and continuity management. It was also vital that the selected data centre was well connected and carrier-neutral, enabling TIG to host its own fully managed multi-site cloud platform.
Our customer's trust us to help them transition to the cloud in a smooth and secure manner. Working with Interxion's secure, highly connected data centre helps cloud computing become a reality.
"Colocating our primary cloud platform at Interxion London gives our customers peace of mind: many are based near the City and like to know their data is physically close by in a secure facility, which they can access 24/7 if needed" says Lekerman. To enhance resilience, TIG replicates its cloud platform at another data centre elsewhere in the UK. This enables the company to offer a 100% availability SLA, while allowing its customers to meet regulatory requirements or corporate policy on data residency.
Another key concern for many of TIG's customers is how to integrate the cloud with their current IT environment. Working with a managed services provider like TIG makes the process as straightforward as possible. TIG's cloud platform is VMware vCloud Powered® and can connect easily to most virtual environments, making it quick to integrate a customer's on premises infrastructure with TIG's cloud platform in order to create a hybrid cloud. A hybrid cloud lets a customer with high compute power requirements, such as a hedge fund, conveniently extend its processing capacity; or a customer that needs to store a large amount of historical information, such as a law firm, safely archive it.
Another typical use for a TIG hybrid cloud is to provide a backup or disaster recovery capability that's more cost effective and faster to access than a hardware-based solution. If a customer needs to recover its data, it can rapidly restore it from the cloud or use the cloud version as a secondary site, and so minimise the interruption to its business.
In all these scenarios, network connectivity is key: "It is vital that our customers can access their clouds," says Lekerman. Excellent connectivity is one of the main reasons TIG chose Interxion: "Interxion's carrier-neutrality and central London location means there's a wide choice of connectivity providers already present in the data centre, including many Tier 1 carriers. This makes it easy to provide our customers with the reliable, high-speed connections to our cloud platform that are vital to making efficient use of cloud services." As well as being carrier neutral, Interxion is also cloud neutral. Lekerman identifies this as a significant advantage: "With a thoroughly neutral data centre operator like Interxion, there's complete clarity about what they do and don't do," he says. "Being cloud neutral means they don't compete with us. Quite the opposite, in fact — they actively support their customers in developing their business by creating communities of interest and putting like-minded companies in touch with each other." Within just a few months of TIG starting to colocate with Interxion, the two companies had developed a strong working relationship. "Interxion is a very collaborative partner, and always willing to help us in any way they can. It's been a consistently positive experience and we see lots of potential for the future," concludes Lekerman.
Customers rely on TIG to help them make the smartest technology investments and to provide support for their business infrastructure. TIG offers award-winning cloud services, unified communications and infrastructure solutions. Its breadth of professional services supported by their 24/7 managed services are what sets it apart, helping customers shape their IT strategy with peace of mind, and creating the strongest technology platform for their business.


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Immigrants Act. 31 Jan 2017
Houstonians gather to honor BBVA Compass chairman, other immigrant leaders
Kimberly Tabor
BBVA Compass Chairman Manolo Sánchez, who immigrated to the U.S. from Spain, was honored last week in his adopted hometown with an Arrival Award from the University of Houston Law School's Immigration Clinic.
The clinic bestows the award in recognition of the successes of notable immigrants who call Houston home. Nearly one in four of the area's residents, more than 1 million people, are foreign-born. They have helped fuel the city's growth, and own fully 31 percent of its businesses. Sánchez is among the elite of the city's business class. As CEO of BBVA Compass during the financial crisis and the years directly after, he oversaw the bank's steady growth in Houston, where it now ranks No. 4 behind only the much larger Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Chase.
#Immigrants have helped fuel the #Houston area's growth, and own fully 31 percent of its businesses.
It was against this backdrop that Houstonians gathered Jan. 25 at the stately River Oaks Country Club to honor Sánchez and two of the city's other top business leaders. Proceeds from the evening's event go to the Immigration Clinic, which has provided pro bono legal services to those in need since 1999.
Sánchez began by talking about his arrival in the U.S., which came in 1982.
"I was 16, and the year before, there had been a failed coup in Madrid," Sánchez said. "As a teenager, I learned all too well that freedom cannot be taken for granted. Through the work of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Houston Law Center, we get to share our freedom with other individuals who currently have none. Thanks for what you do."
"As a teenager, I learned all too well that freedom cannot be taken for granted. Through the work of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Houston Law Center, we get to share our freedom with other individuals who currently have none
Sánchez was honored along with Roberto Contreras, president and CEO of private equity and real estate investment firm St. Christopher Holdings, and Pershant Mehta, an entrepreneur and arts patron with a longstanding relationship with the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Previous Arrival Award honorees include Renu Khator, the dynamic president of the University of Houston, former U.S. Ambassador Eduardo Aguirre, and Farouk Shami, an entrepreneur of Palestinian descent who started the beauty-products empire Farouk Systems.
At the gala, Sánchez's comments were a mix of the poignant and humorous.
"When I came to the U.S., I lived in New England and Latino culture was not as well-known as it is today," Sánchez said. "I tried really hard to be called by my first name, Manolo, but it was often mispronounced as 'Manilow' or 'Minolta' or, worse, 'Manola.' And so I settled for Manny. I am grateful for 'Sex and the City,' which made a shoemaker by the name of Manolo Blahnik popular. Since then, I've been able to use my preferred identity."
BBVA Compass Chairman Manolo Sánchez, right, oversaw the bank's steady growth in Houston, where it now ranks No. 4 behind only the much larger Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Chase. - Jared Jarvis
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With the traditional Scottish celebration of Burns Night falling on Sunday, you still have time to pick up all the tableware and decorations you need to put on the perfect supper for all your friends and family. Celebrated in Scotland and all over the UK, Burns Night is the annual celebration of the life and works of Scottish poet Robert Burns.
Earlier in the week we were on the hunt for delicious Scottish inspired treats you could make as pudding for your guests this weekend. But you have to serve your guests at an appropriately decorated table to enjoy the experience in full!
We've picked out the essential items you need to get into the spirit of the evening and set your table ready for a Burns Night supper. From the disposable plates and forks (meaning minimal washing up to do later on!) to the balloons and flags no Burns Night celebration would be complete without.
5. Red, Orange and Yellow Balloons at £1.79 for a pack of 6.
All these Burns Night tableware and decorations are available now at Flingers Party Shop in time for January 25th. Including some comical Scottish inspired fancy dress to get your guests into the celebration spirit of the evening!
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Vice Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea Ri Su-yong headed a DPRK delegation to pay a visit to the Dan Hoai Cooperative's orchid planting model in Hanoi's Dan Phuong district.
High-ranking officials of the Workers' Party of Korea paid a working visit to the northern province of Hai Duong on February 28.
A high-ranking delegation of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) led by its Vice Chairman Ri Su-yong on February 28 visited the Vietnam Agriculture Science Institute in Hanoi.
A delegation of the Workers' Party of Korea, led by Vice Chairman Ri Su-yong visited Vingroup's Vinfast factory in Hai Phong city on Feb. 27.
The State media of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on February 27 reported that the country's leader Kim Jong-un will pay an official friendship visit to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on March 1 and 2, following the DPRK-USA Hanoi Summit.


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Neal Anderson
Neal Anderson is a Certified Advanced Rolfer™ and Rolf® Movement Practitioner in practice since 2003. His Rolfing work has been deeply informed by ongoing study with Rolf Institute Advanced Faculty, his teaching, and visceral and craniosacral study. He currently practices in Loveland, Colorado.
In Neal's words: It is very important to have work that is fun and evokes laughter. For me, this is true of both my Rolfing practice and my Rolfing teaching. I love engaging with clients and students to help bring them to a higher level of function and living on this planet.
Valerie Berg
Valerie Berg trained in 1987 with Peter Melchior and Nicholas French. She is a big proponent of teaching the classical Ten-Series to beginning students, as this is where a lot of our thinking and development occurs that takes us deeper into the work. The nuances and advanced work come later developing out of knowing the territory of the ten series work. She worked in Guatemala for five years in the '90s and was exposed to the trauma of war and violence thus began studying Peter Levine's trauma work.
Valerie developed a workshop called Structural Aging which came from feeling the results the first time she was Rolfed at 25 years old. The joy of moving our bodies with freedom and no pain is what gives us the sense of being alive and young, not our age. Over the years she has focused on all the patterns that break us down to make us feel or look old.
She has been teaching for 20 years and received her bachelor's degree in Education and Modern dance. She is also a Rolf Movement Practitioner trained by Hubert Godard.
She has been practicing full time in Albuquerque, NM for 32 years and now travels to San Diego and has a part time practice there.
Tessy Brungardt
Tessy Brungardt received her BA in Environmental Biology in 1976 from New College in Sarasota, FL. In her studies and career afterwards, she enjoyed exploring the interface of observing the natural world and the the science of how things worked. Once she was introduced to Rolfing® Structural Integration in 1979, she was inspired to take this exploration into the human realm. She became a Certified Rolfer™ in 1985 and a Certified Advanced Rolfer in 1988. Tessy completed her Rolf Movement® Certification in 1994. She also became certified to teach for the Rolf Institute in 1994 and became an Advanced Instructor for the Rolf Institute in 2002.
Rebecca Carli
Rebecca Carli-Mills became interested in somatic movement studies while pursuing B.A. and M.F.A. degrees in dance performance and choreography. She earned certification in Rolf Movement Integration in 1987 with Janie French and Annie Duggan. She became a Certified Rolfer in 1989 and a Certified Advanced Rolfer in 1992. In 1994, Rebecca graduated from the Pennsylvania Gestalt Center for Psychotherapy and Training and joined the Rolf Movement faculty of The Rolf Institute.
Rebecca's understanding of gravity and human movement potential has been enriched by her long-time studies with Hubert Godard. Godard's work provides the chief theoretical and practical foundation that inspires her teaching. Additionally, she draws from her interest in the work of Laban/Bartineff, Charlotte Selver, Julio Horvath and in various forms of yoga. Rebecca believes that embodiment is a life long process, essential for somatic practitioners.
Rebecca is a past Chairperson of the Rolf Movement faculty and ISMETA board member. She has taught somatic movement courses at several universities. Currently, Rebecca lives in Chevy Chase MD, where she maintains an active practice in Rolfing SI and Rolf Movement Integration.
Phoenix DeLeon
Phoenix L. Quetzal DeLeón is a Board Certified Structural Integration Practitioner, a Certified Advanced Rolfer™ and Rolf Movement® Practitioner, as well as a NCBTMB and CAMTC approved Massage Therapist. She has had a private practice in Santa Cruz, CA for the last 13 years. Currently, Phoenix is a graduate student at the California Institute of Integral Studies in the Somatic Psychology program, where she is academically pursuing her interest in psychobiological inquiries.
Libby Eason
Libby Eason first experienced the transformative effects of Rolfing Structural Integration in 1975. She trained as a massage therapist in 1986, and practiced that profession for 12 years. In 1992, Libby graduated from the Rolf Institute. She completed her Rolf Movement certification in 1994, and advanced training in 1997. She became an assistant instructor in 1998, and became a faculty member in 2005.
Libby continues to explore the continuum of Structure - Function - Energy as it applies to the art of Structural and Movement Integration. She serves on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Structural Integrators® as the Chair of Law and Legislation. In that capacity, Libby is active in legislative matters in efforts to preserve the distinct identity of the profession of Structural Integration.
Lisa Fairman
Lisa Fairman is a Certified Advanced Rolfer™ and Rolf® Movement Practitioner in practice in Helena since 1998. Known for her gentle hands and clear touch she approaches her work from a perspective of evoking change and eliciting curiosity and ease. She has specialized training in trauma work and in visceral work and manipulation.
In Lisa's words: My teaching, and my practice, are influenced and supported by my previous profession - wildlife biology and ecology; love for nature and adventure; dance and yoga background; and fundamentally, who I am as a person. I teach from a place of kindness and patience.
Kevin Frank
Kevin Frank is a Certified Advanced Rolfer™, Rolf Movement® Practitioner and Rolf Movement® Instructor at RISI. He has worked with the Godard-derived Tonic Function Model since 1991 and has written on this topic from 1995 to the present. Kevin views structural integration as a form of somatic education, and advocates for an "information system" view for doing and teaching this work so as to bring the field of SI into congruence with modern understanding of motor control and perceptive/coordinative processes. Kevin is the co-author (with Caryn McHose) of the book, How Life Moves, Explorations in Meaning and Body Awareness (North Atlantic 2006).
Ellen Freed
Ellen Freed has been a member of the Rolf Institute since 1990. Since then, she has maintained a private practice in Delaware. She loves this work, her practice, her life, and the classes she is fortunate enough to teach.
Per Haaland
Per Haaland is a Certified Advanced Rolfer™ and Rolf Movement® Instructor. He received his basic Rolfing® training in 1989 and completed his advanced training with Jan Sultan and Jeff Maitland in 1994. Per has also trained in visceral and neural manipulation and is a certified biodynamic craniosacral therapist. Studies with Hubert Godard and Kevin Frank shape his understanding of structural integration as interactive somatic education, highlighting perceptual and coordinative processes. In his approach to Structural Integration and Movement Education, Per also draws extensively from his background as a professional dancer and choreographer.
As a teacher, Per is patient, approachable and thorough, helping his students reach deeper levels of embodiment while gaining sophisticated manual therapy skills and a solid understanding of the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of SI. Per lives in Santa Cruz, CA and maintains a private practice there and in Los Gatos, CA.
Sally Klemm
Sally Klemm is an internationally recognized Rolf Institute instructor who teaches worldwide while maintaining a private practice in Honolulu, Hawaii. Native of Berkeley, California, Sally is a graduate of UC Berkeley's College of Letters and Science.
After a 4-year sailing voyage around the world, Sally was introduced to Rolfing Structural Integration by Stacey Mills, who convinced her to stop trimming sails and start aligning bodies. Having followed Stacey's good counsel, Sally has called Honolulu home since 1983, where her private practice includes the Hawaiian Healing Arts and Visionary Craniosacral Work©, as well as Rolfing Structural and Movement Integration.
Sally's extraordinary ability to blend an organized cognitive style with deeply intuitive understanding reflects her fascination with the unity of the psyche and the soma. Sally joined the Rolf Institute Faculty in 1995.
Larry Koliha
Larry Koliha started his career in bodywork in the mid-90s, training in various types of energetic bodywork and attending college classes in anatomy and physiology. Rolfing SI created such a meaningful shift in his own life, that he left his first career as a mechanical manufacturing engineer and immersed himself in the world of structural integration.
Larry completed his basic training in 1999 with instructors Ray McCall and Liz Gaggini, and six years later, became an Advanced Rolfer under the tutelage of Jan Sultan, Tessy Brungardt, and Sally Klemm. He certified in Rolf Movement Integration with Lael Katherine Keen in Brazil. Other mentors who have strongly influenced his work include Rolfers Til Luchau and Jane Harrington.
Larry's teaching style comes from his corporate engineering background. Students appreciate his clear, knowledgeable, good-natured teaching style. Larry presents a simple, structured and fun approach to learning the classic basic ten-session recipe. Emphasis is placed on developing sustainable body use, appropriate touch and pacing, and the ability to incorporate movement work in each session.
Larry was an avid trail runner and volleyball player in Colorado where he had his first Rolfing practice but now practices in the Raleigh/Durham area in North Carolina.
Jonathan Martine
Jonathan Martine was certified as a Rolfer™ in 1992 and completed his advanced Rolfing® certification in 1997. He is a Registered Movement Therapist, Rolf Movement® Teacher, Pilates Instructor and Rolf Institute® Faculty member since 1993. In addition, he has studied therapies that treat the fascial systems of the viscera (organs), neural (nerve) system, vascular structures and the cranium as well as movement rehabilitation from various sources. He has been in private practice since 1992. During this time he has practiced in Chiropractic offices, Physical Therapy clinics, a Pilates studio, a medical based pain management clinic, and various integrative health practices. This experience has offered a useful perspective on the vast potential of complementary approaches to health and personal transformation. He finds it valuable to see how Rolfing® and Structural Integration fit into the larger health field and identify the unique offering Rolfing® holds. Jonathan continues his study of Rolfing® and allied health fields to serve his clients and students and to share the "stories" that science holds. He is fascinated with these "stories" as they may clarify aspects of the mystery of transformation; while holding strong to the magic that occurs when the practitioner and client are present and aware of the environment in which we live.
Ray McCall
Ray McCall has 38 years experience as a Rolfer. As a DIRI Advanced faculty member he teaches basic, Advanced and Continuing Education classes both in the States and Abroad. His particular interest is the energetic taxonomy and how change occurs: how we more fully become and express who we are. Ray trained to instructor level in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy.
Kevin McCoy
Kevin is a faculty member of the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute. He trained under all six of Dr. Rolf's originally appointed faculty. He has enjoyed being a practitioner of the art and science known as Rolfing for over 30 years. Kevin is a licensed Physical Therapist and was employed by the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation where he provided Rolfing to individuals in a chronic pain program. He served on the Dr. Ida Rolf - Board of Directors serving as the Board Chair for five years. Kevin is passionate about Rolfing as a traditional and evolving healing art form.
Adam Mentzell
Adam became a Certified Rolfer in 2002, and an Advanced Certified Rolfer in 2007 and practices in Boulder, CO. He regularly travels to Rincon, Puerto Rico where he has a part-time practice. He serves as the current Chair of the Phase I program and has been on the faculty of DIRI since 2011. Prior to Rolfing Adam had a long career as an exercise physiologist and health educator. He holds a B.S. degree from Temple University in Integrative Exercise Physiology. A former Ironman distance triathlete, Adam has a diverse practice which includes top endurance athletes and active people of all ages. He finds joy in helping people to live more comfortably and happily in their bodies.
Patrice Naparstek
Patrice Naparstek trained as a Rolfer® in 1993, finishing her Advanced Training and her Movement Certification in 1998. Her interest in embodied and expressive movement has been the foundation for her study from the very beginning, including certification in Laban Movement Analysis, an MFA in performance and Choreography and a BA in Dance Movement Therapy.
She has taught movement practices for 30 years in academic and community environments with the intention of uniting didactic information with an embodied sense of what it means to move.
She currently works in Madison, WI where she is discovering that not everyone wants to fly over the mid-states.
Aline Newton
Aline Newton has been a Rolfer™ since 1984. In 1990 she began studying with Hubert Godard, and continues to be inspired by his perspective on Rolfing® and movement to this day. She served as Chair of the Rolf Institute Board for many years. In addition to her private practice in Cambridge, MA, she teaches Embodied Anatomy at Berklee Conservatory's Alexander Institute. She has written extensively and lectures on embodiment, perception, breathing, core stabilization and other concepts that underlie Tonic Function.
Suzanne Picard
Suzanne Picard, MFA, has been part of the Rolf Institute® Faculty since 1995 as a leader in the Foundations program, and presently acting Chair of the U.S. Rolf Movement® Faculty. Her studies include extensive Movement training, Visceral and Neural Manipulation, and Cranial Therapy. Her personal practices include continuum and yoga. Suzanne's passion is embodied anatomy, perception, and the increased vitality and development that this supports.
Michael Polon
After almost 20 years of study, Michael Polon still has the same beginner's excitement when it comes to exploring the art, science, theory, and practice of his work. Michael began studying at The Rolf Institute in 1998 and has been in the classroom ever since. He started teaching in 2001 and completed his first Advanced Training in 2003.
Through consistent teaching and continuing education, Michael learns more about what's possible with this work each year. His enthusiastic curiosity of how things work fuels his passion for understanding how anatomy/physiology, movement/posture, pain, therapeutic alliance and healing potential come together with Rolfing.
Michael Salveson
Michael Salveson was trained as a Rolfer™ by Dr. Ida P. Rolf in 1970. In 1972 he was asked by Dr. Rolf to assist her in training classes and was certified as a Rolfing® Instructor by Dr. Rolf in 1973. He has been in active practice in the San Francisco Bay Area for 38 years and an Instructor for the Rolf Institute's Advanced Training for 22 years. Michael Salveson was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Rolf Institute from 1976-1979 and President of the Rolf Institute from 1979 to 1982.
Michael has been instrumental in developing theory and techniques useful in releasing restrictions in the body's ligamentous-articular system. He has studied extensively in the traditions deriving from osteopathy and works closely with inherent motion in the body. He is a 20 year student of Taoist Chi Gung and an avid fly fisherman.
John Schewe
John Schewe has been a Certified Rolfer since 1987, completing his Advanced Rolfing Training in 1991. He taught anatomy and physiology, structural kinesiology, and deep tissue technique classes for the Blue Cliff School of Massage in Kenner, Louisiana from 1990-1996. John has been part of the Rolf Institute Anatomy Faculty since 1995 and is currently Chair of the Life Sciences Group at the Rolf Institute. Though his academic background is in geology (MS, Louisiana State Univ., 1979), John has had a keen interest in the biological sciences as they pertain to bodywork in general and Rolfing Structural Integration in particular. He brings a fresh perspective to this material and his desire is to make the study of anatomy and physiology interesting, informative, and enjoyable.
Russell Stolzoff
Russell Stolzoff has always been attuned to the beauty of integrated movement. He was first introduced to Rolfing® Structural Integration in 1983 as a classroom client while completing his BA at University of Colorado. The deep physical and psychological impact of that experience led him to pursue training as a Rolfer. He became a Certified Rolfer™ in 1989, and an Certified Advanced Rolfer™ in 1998. He completed his Rolf Movement® Certification in 2000, and became a Rolf Institute instructor in 2002. Russell has also completed extended studies in Somatic Experiencing and Biodynamic Analysis, a Danish method of body psychotherapy. Since 2010 Russell has worked extensively with professional athletes. He lives and practices in Bellingham, Washington.
Jan Sultan
Jan Sultan's initial encounter with Ida Rolf was in 1967 as her client. In 1969 he trained under her, and after having assisted several classes, was invited by Dr. Rolf to become an instructor in 1975. After further apprenticeship, Dr. Rolf invited him to take on the Advanced teaching. He currently teaches Basic Trainings, Continuing Education, and Advanced Trainings for the Rolf Institute. He feels strongly that his responsibility as an instructor goes beyond simply passing on what he was taught, to include the refinement and coherent development of the ideas and methodology taught by Ida Rolf. Jan lives in Northern New Mexico, and practices in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Juan David Vélez
Juan David Vélez has been practicing as a Rolfer and Rolf Movement Practitioner since 1995, first in his native Colombia, and for the last ten years in Portland, Oregon. Juan David is guided by the belief that mastery is the place where logic, knowledge and intuition converge. As a practitioner he combines a rigorous scientific understanding of the discipline with an open-minded, intuitive approach. As a teacher, he builds a strong framework of the science, theory and philosophy of Rolfing Structural Integration, and encourages students to investigate and master these concepts through play and personal exploration. Juan David has a particular interest in neuroplasticity, the seemingly limitless ability of the brain to change the body, and to respond to the body by changing itself. In his spare time, Juan David enjoys painting and ecstatic dance, a good cup of tea and a serious game of chess.
Thomas completed the Basic Rolfing training in 1987, the Advanced Rolfing Training in 1993 and has been on the faculty since 2004. He has extensive training in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and integrates its subtle evoking with the direct contact of Rolfing SI. His main goal in class is to have every student be successful. Thomas creates a safe learning environment, helps students identify and enhance their learning and perceptual styles, teaches how inner process affects perception and how shifting inner awareness affects tissue response.
He enjoys teaching students how to integrate the body's innate self ordering as expressed through inherent motion into the touch skills necessary to accomplish the goals of the Rolfing process. He lives, practices, skis, bikes, and plays in Steamboat Springs, CO.
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What a spectacular piece, superb craftsmanship - solid cedar. Have a look at the details in this mask. The Starfish is lined with copper ropes, the face of the Komokwa is adorned with the traditional cedar bark, the eyes are inlaid with copper, the face itself is adorned with copper rope (and we know that copper plays a very important role in the First Nations culture). The painting is so powerful and gives it such a dominant and strong expression. It's just mesmerizing and HUGE, the hands are attached through lining, no screws or nails needed for them. Genius!
The Legend: The Komokwa was the king of the undersea world, master and protector of the seals who were a symbol of wealth. His name means "wealthy one" and he ruled from a great rich house under the water. The house contained great wealth in blankets, coppers and other treasures. Many humans of legendary history attempted to reach this kingdom. Those who achieved their goal became wealthy and powerful, returning to their home village with magical boxes full of treasure. The Komokwa is the master of the seals. The posts and beams of his house are living sea lions. Sometimes he appears on the surface of the sea, but his head is so big that it looks like an island. He is responsible for the rising and ebbing of the tides, as well as the riches these tides deposit on beaches, and those claimed by the vagaries of sea weather, both material and human lives. Komokwa has the power to see into the future, heal the sick and injured, and bestow powers on those whom he favours.


An increase in an activity's overall benefit that is caused by a unit increase in the level of that activity, all other factors remaining constant. Also called marginal benefit.
Would there be any more marginal utility in adding just 2 more custodians; truthfully, the building would be cleaned just the same with the count we have now.
Sometimes you will see a big jump in your sales due to a marginal utility that you never could have predicted happening.
Sometimes one small thing will change that will have an effect on the marginal utility of your product in a positive manner.


I have actually done a lot more costume's then could ever be shown in this gallery. Sadly I never got images of most of them even though I have done so many. I hope to one day have a huge gallery of personal costume's to show all of you. I just need to start creating more cosplays!
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Bernard James Mullin (born 3 May 1949) is a published author and the former Chief Executive Officer of Atlanta Spirit. He is currently a director of The Aspire Group.

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Mullin was born 3 May 1949 in Liverpool, England. He attended Coventry University and graduated with a B.A. in business studies.

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Buying Guide: Kawasaki Z650
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In 1968 Honda launched the CB750. Jaws dropped, particularly at BSA-Triumph HQ, because the recently released three-pot Trident and Rocket lll had just been comprehensively upstaged. Meanwhile, according to lore, Kawasaki's plans to put their own 750 four on the market are shelved while they set to work on a bigger engine. In 1972 the dohc, 903cc, Kawasaki Z1 burst onto the scene making everything else look staid and boring. Honda has temporarily forgotten about bikes to concentrate on cars. By coincidence, the Gold Wing appears a couple of years later and Suzuki decide that two-strokes have had their day, waste a huge amount of money on the RE-5 rotary, and plan a range of four-strokes instead, saving time by basing them on the Z1. GS550 and GS750 fours duly arrive in 1976. Simultaneously, Kawasaki prove they weren't content to rest on their laurels by launching the Z650, injecting new life into a shrinking-capacity class. It would probably have been possible to make a 650 engine out of the 900, but they didn't. Despite a superficial family likeness, the new Zed was all new.
There are a couple of reasons why this might have happened. The Z1 motor used a built-up crankshaft with roller bearings, a bit like the bottom ends of the two strokes that Kawasaki had been associated with in earlier days (and going back further still, the 650 BSA clones inherited from the takeover of Meguro). Built-up cranks are expensive and tend to make a lot of noise, both being characteristics that persuade manufacturers to use a one-piece forging running in plain bearings instead. After a long history of roller bearing singles and twins, Honda had gone the plain bearing route from the beginning on the CB750 and succeeding fours. In many ways the bottom half of the Z650 engine was like the CB500s, with an inverted tooth chain primary drive leading to a crossover gearbox, alternator and ignition on the ends of the crank. The two parted company design-wise at the point where the central cam chain went upstairs. Honda stuck with low-tech sohc right up until the new CB750KZ/9OOFZ series arrived in 1979, but the Z650's lid included twin cams, just like the Z1.
Also like the King, the lobes prodded open a pair of valves directly, the difference being in the position of the adjusting shims in relation to the buckets. On the larger engine they were on top, so they could be fished out easily to set the clearances, while on the 650 they were underneath the bucket, which meant the cams had to come out to do the same job. Although this was obviously an extra hassle, in practice the clearances rarely needed adjustment, the advantage being that it was impossible for shims to be spat out, as sometimes happened on over-stressed Z1s.
In most other respects the Z650 was like a scaled-down Z900. A steel double-cradle frame housed the engine, with conventional telescopic forks and swingarm suspension. Spoked wheels of the usual 19in front, 18in rear size carried a set of squidgy high-walled tyres that were reckoned to be treacherous in the wet, as per the popular perception of Japanese rubber. A single disc looked after front braking (twin discs were an option), while the rear was an ordinary sls drum.
Opinions were divided about the looks. Standing alongside the new Suzuki GS750 opposition in its metallic green meanie colours, the Z650 looked quite small, dainty and somehow less butch; which it was, being four inches shorter and 40lbs lighter than the GS.
Kawasaki messed around with the Z650 quite a lot in the early years, while keeping the basic engine. The B2 of 1978 was a mild update, the most obvious change being the colour schemes available. Under the skin, the swingarm had proper bearings instead of bushes (a la Suzuki GS), and the cam chain was now automatically tensioned. If you were lucky. The Z650C (Custom) was quite different visually, immediately recognisable by its cast-alloy wheels, twin front discs and silver paint. It looked smart, but as with most late-70s bikes fitted with 'mag' wheels made out of heavy chunks of aluminium, this model was probably worse in most ways from a functional point of view. The SR650 (coded D) came in 1979 and was more of a custom bike than the Custom. The main giveaway was the obligatory 16in rear wheel, a regrettable trend started by Kawasaki on the 900LTD. Also of note was an exhaust system that grouped its pipes in such a way that the cylinders helped each other to breathe. It looked odd, but it worked. Although the 650 carried on until 1983, after 1980 it had effectively been replaced by the Z750, which spawned the GPz750 and GT750, not to mention all those smaller fours in 400, 500 and 550cc guises. Few people noticed, but the 650 engine was updated with later technology, including alloy wheels across the range, better brakes, electronic ignition, and 32mm CV carbs instead of 24mm slides. In sympathy with the 750, the kickstarter lever was also deleted.
Despite the capacity disadvantage, the Kawasaki was almost as fast as the Suzuki GS750, its deadly rival. The 650 made a claimed 64bhp at 8500rpm, only a handful of paper horses down on the GS.
Depending on which road test you read, both did about 120mph and clocked standing quarters in around 13 seconds. However, there were some unaccountably slow results from Z650s, and I remember a theory going around that Kawasaki had changed something in the engine or carburettors during production of the first B1 model, cutting power. Still, whatever the specification sheets said, the proof of the pudding was in the riding. From the pilot's perch, the Z650 felt nothing like a GS750. Subjectively, the K-bike was faster (unless you got one of those allegedly detuned models, of course), the plain bearing engine having an infinitely smooth, revvy nature. In contrast, the GS felt a bit stodgy and rumbly. The same was true of the handling. Where the long-wheelbase Suzuki was stable to the point of being slow steering, the Kawasaki was much more responsive. Overall, l'd say the Kawasaki was more fun to ride than the Suzuki. If you think I'm biased, let me point out that I owned a GS750 when the Z650 was in its heyday.
As with the Z1, Kawasaki got the design of the 650 right first time in most respects. From the beginning, the engine worked reliably and was simple enough for anyone to fix and maintain with a few basic tools. Ironically, later versions with automatic cam chain tensioners were probably weaker, because it seemed to take many attempts before the mechanism was made dependable. The enemy of any engine with plain bearings is dirty oil, or an interrupted supply, which will wreck everything in seconds. Unfortunately, after 30 years there aren't many bikes around that have a full service record, so you have to rely on your ears and eyes to spot trouble. Watch and listen for smoke, knocks, rattles and zizzes. Z650s should make a bit a of a whistle, but not much else, although if all four cylinders aren't firing properly the primary drive and clutch will kick up a racket. That noise will go away when the engine is running smoothly. However, worry if it doesn't.
Even the gearbox, a slightly weak feature of the Z1, is generally good on the 650, but everything wears out eventually, so check for loud whines and/or slipping out of mesh under power or on the overrun. Engines and gearboxes are always fixable, assuming the barrels haven't welded themselves to the studs and you wreck the crankcases trying to prise them apart. If all else fails and originality isn't an issue, parts from other fours in the same family can be used.
Increasingly with older Japanese bikes, the tricky problems are caused by all the bits that were once never given a second thought. When breakers were full of Z650s and other Kawasakis of similar vintage, you had a good chance of finding spares off the shelf. Now that things likes frames, swingarms, wiring looms, mudguards, instruments, wheels, etc, are expiring through old age, you need luck and patience, and possibly plenty of money, because rarity and expense go together like BSAs and oil leaks.
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For quite some time, I've been saying, that "annual inflation throughout 2016 would remain well below the official FED target of 2% but we are getting closer and it is possible that December could tip the scale above 2%." And that is exactly what happened… annual inflation finished the year at 2.07%!
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the data for the month of December on January 18th. They also adjusted four months of data from May through August 2016 due to some faulty data relating to Prescription drug prices but it had no visible effect on the published inflation rates and was only visible if you extended the calculation out to 3 decimal places.
Annual Inflation was negative (Deflation) back in April 2015, from there it tried to rise but then fell back negative in September. But then it only took a few months to reach 1.37% looking like it was going to quickly return to previous levels in the 3% – 5% range. But in spite of the FED setting a target of 2% the inflation rate hovered between 8/10 ths of 1% and just over 1% for the next 7 months. This was primarily due to a collapse in oil prices. Oil went from $38.41 in September 2015 to $39.40 in October but then it began falling reaching $23.58 in February. From there it rebounded to $41.69 in June before falling to $37.98 in September and then rising again to $45.19 in December. So although the correlation isn't perfect we can see that falling oil prices had an effect on taming inflation for a while.
From our Annual Inflation Chart we can see that the long term trend since 1989 has been down although there have been periods of counter trend rallies such as the period from 2002 through 2006 in which it would have been hard to believe that inflation was trending down. It is very possible that we have seen the bottom during the crash of 2009 and inflation will work its way upward again but first it has to decisively break through the long downward channel.
However, if the Moore Inflation Predictor is correct and inflation drops off toward the end of 2017 inflation could remain inside the channel and the long term trend would remain intact.


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CHAUVET Nimbus Review
On the DJzone Bench today we have the CHAUVET Nimbus. The Nimbus is a low-lying fog machine that takes old technology and makes it new again to give DJs another great weapon in their wedding arsenal.
Back in the late seventies during the disco age, clubs used to use dry-ice foggers that were huge 100 gallon barrels filled with water and equipped with heating elements. The heating elements would bring the water to a boil and then some brave soul would drop 50-100 pounds of dry ice into the barrel creating a fog that would cover the dance floor for about 20 minutes. These units were huge, heavy, messy, and took a dedicated 220 plug and someone to man them.
What Is Old Is New
Moving forward 30+ years, CHAUVET has taken all the good features of the old style disco-age fogger and created a light weight portable unit that is aimed to create a once in a lifetime look and feel to a Bride's first dance. The Nimbus, though based on old tech, has come a long way from the days of huge oil barrels filled with boiling water. Looking at the Nimbus, you see a small black box with a round outlet on the side. It stands only 2 feet tall and to most people, looks like an ottoman you would have in your living room. Made of a strong composite plastic, the Nimbus is easy to carry into an event.
So we have a black plastic box with a hole in the side. What's so special about that? The box itself may be compact, but it houses some well thought out technology. Opening the top metal door, you will see a stainless steel basket that is raised and lowered by a lever on the outside of the unit. Looking beyond that basket, you will see two small highly efficient heater elements.
On the outside of the unit is a smallish black box with two lights, a neutrik powercon, and a power cord. This is the brains of the Nimbus. The one cord is to power one heating element and attaching the extra cord to the neutrik powercon allows you to super charge the heating process by powering up the second heating element. The two lights show power and one will change from red to green confirming your Nimbus is ready to go.
Our first test was to fill the unit with cold water from a hose (about 5 gallons) and time the heating process. It took just under 45 minutes using both heating elements to reach operating temperature. We then dropped a 5lb hunk of dry ice into the basket and lowered it. This gave us a very lackluster effect, nothing like the photos we have seen. In a later test with cold tap water and one element it took about 1.5 hours to reach operating temperature. This time we took 5lbs of dry ice and using a hammer, we crushed it into chunks, then filled the basket with it. Bamm! We had the effect we were looking for. It filled the warehouse with a cloud of fog. Pulling the lever and setting it on the mid setting, we had fog flowing for about 5 minutes, more than long enough for a first dance.
First stop was to the local grocery store and to pick up 15 lbs of dry ice ($14 total cost). There are many places you can find dry ice. It comes in chunks and in pellets. CHAUVET suggests the pellets, but the chunks work fine if they are crushed down into small pieces. Always use gloves when handling the dry ice. I will say that once again… use gloves. Dry ice is so cold even the smallest piece will burn you. It is not a toy and every precaution should be taken to prevent injury.
We took CHAUVET's advice and found a hot water source at our venue to facilitate the heating of the water. It was in a janitor closet and the water was steaming hot. We were told some DJs have found sources in venue kitchens, but the janitor closet did not require us to get permission like the kitchen most likely would.
The Nimbus does draw a lot of power, so we found two dedicated circuits prior to the setup day during our initial walkthrough and used them for power. Within 10 minutes, we had a green light and were ready to roll.
With the Nimbus pointed at the dancefloor and a green light glaring at us, we felt like it was Christmas morning and the presents were just sitting there. The lights dimmed, the Bride and Groom took each other in their arms and started to dance. The green light switched to red. We were in one of those should we or shouldn't we moments. We dropped the dry-ice in the basket, prayed, and dropped the basket into the steaming water. With a silent whoosh, the lower half of the couple was engulfed in a cloud and then it settled into a nice layer that sat about a foot off the ground. You could hear the guests gasp as the couple danced on this ethereal cloud. It was magical. All eyes were on the dance floor.
We had nothing but raves about the first dance from the couple, their families, the guests, and the venue that night. It made what was a memorable moment at their reception, unforgettable. The up-charge was $300 and total profit was $286.
We took the Nimbus on the road with us to see what other DJs thought of it. Greg and Jerri Wallace from Elite Entertainment in Manteca caught up with us at the One Stop DJ Shop in Modesto. Some of the concerns they had was the ability to find dry ice. With a few clicks on my phone I located 3 places in and around their area that had dry ice. Another concern they had was what to do with the hot water when the event is over with. At our test wedding, we used a small flat cart we had purchased at Costco to push the Nimbus around on after it was filled with water. We showed them that two people can carry the unit outside and just dump the water out of the side port where the fog comes out.
Greg and Jerri also questioned us if this unit will set off life safety systems (AKA Smoke detectors). Since the Nimbus produces low-lying fog that is comprised of water molecules that dissipate quickly and are not detected by even the latest detectors. Short of placing it on a ladder and shooting it directly at the detector you will be fine.This low cloud will NOT set off a fire alarm because it is not hazer or fog which rises. The dry ice cloud keeps 24 inches from the ground then dissipates. TIP: When presenting to a banquet coordinator make sure you refer to it as "cloud" not "fog". As you know, they don't like the "F" word in catering halls. Water molecules… doesn't this mean the floor will be slick? We tested both the floor in the dry climate and the humid climate and there was little to no water residue on the floor. Lastly, they said some of their venues are lucky enough to have one circuit for them to plug into, where are they going to find the extra two plugs? Using hot tap water and just one plug, we were able to achieve an operating temperature in the store within 30 minutes. You basically use two when you really really need it to be hot now.
One thing we noticed in our Modesto visit was that the humidity of the location you use the Nimbus in plays a huge role in the fog production. Our original test was in a dry climate and it did well. It gave us a respectable cloud for our couple. On this humid day in Modesto, the fog production was over the top. We set the lever on the side to the lowest setting and it produced fog for around 8 minutes using 15lbs of broken up dry ice.
Here's a website to help you find dry ice via zip code: http://www.dryiceideas.com/WhereToPurchase/
The Nimbus is a keeper. Be it a little awkward to get setup, it produces an effect that will be huge with your bridal clientele. It will work as an up-sell or as an add-on to close the deal.
TIP: Since it's an easy upsell when brides see pictures or videos of the effect Chauvet has something to help. http://www.chauvetlighting.com/nimbus.html page has a downloadable bride groom dance on the cloud graphic you can put your logo on and use it to upsell the "Dance On The Cloud".
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