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Summer institute to focus on societal perceptions and self-views of veterans
The names of Virginia Tech alumni who have died while in military service are carved on the university's War Memorial Pylons. The pylon in the foreground represents the university's motto, Ut Prosim (That I May Serve).
What does it mean to be a military-service veteran in the United States?
Virginia Tech's College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences and University Libraries will join the National Endowment for the Humanities in hosting a summer institute to explore that question and, ideally, build a foundation for veterans studies as an academic field of inquiry.
"Societal perceptions of veterans are incomplete, reflecting a general lack of understanding about the small minority of citizens who serve on active duty," said James Dubinsky, an associate professor of rhetoric and writing in the Department of English. "To help categorize veterans, people often use such labels as 'hero' or 'wounded warrior.' While there are veterans who fall into each category, such stereotypes leave out the nuanced stories, affect veterans' self-views, and fail to capture the richness and depth of what soldiers and their families endure."
Dubinsky, a retired U.S. Army officer, will co-direct the institute from July 10 to 29, along with Bruce Pencek, Virginia Tech's librarian for social sciences and history. They both lead Veterans in Society at Virginia Tech, an initiative that has sponsored three national conferences as well as the upcoming institute.
The Summer Institute on Veterans in Society: Ambiguities and Representations will be held principally on the Blacksburg campus, with visits to several Civil War sites, the Library of Congress, Arlington National Cemetery, and the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia.
"There have been veterans for as long as there have been wars, and in as many places," Pencek said. "We want to bring historically rich, culturally informed scholarship into the conversations about veterans – and not just limited to American veterans of recent wars. Insights about veterans of other eras and other societies should have lessons here and now about how civilians and veterans can understand one another. Insights about recent, U.S. veterans can reveal new meanings in those older or 'foreign' narratives."
The organizers hope the institute will serve as a catalyst for building a national, interdisciplinary network of scholars.
"We see students who have served several tours in combat environments, and they're wrestling with questions of identity, with fitting in, with finding answers to issues that concern them and their families," Dubinsky said. "We thought, what better university than Virginia Tech, with its strong devotion to the military and its service-oriented motto, to gather people together to tackle these challenges?"
The university's motto, Ut Prosim, translates to That I May Serve.
"Veterans represent a category of diversity at Virginia Tech, and even at such an enlightened university, questions of identity exist, often because of a lack of understanding," Dubinsky added. "Our goal is to focus a range of disciplinary lenses on the issues that veterans face. We want to humanize the discussion, to demonstrate how the arts and humanities can play a role not only in documenting veterans' stories, but also in helping to provide solutions to the issues at the heart of those stories."
A dozen experts will present at the institute, including Jonathan Shay, a celebrated psychotherapist who has used Homer's Iliad and Odyssey to help traumatized combat veterans and to explain their needs and experiences to the public; Benjamin Busch, a combat veteran, actor, director, poet, and author of Dust to Dust: A Memoir; and Carlton Kent, the first African American to serve as the Sergeant Major of the U.S. Marine Corps, which is the highest non-commissioned officer in the Marines.
The National Endowment for the Humanities – a U.S. government agency that provides grants to support research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities – is underwriting the institute as part of its prestigious lineup of summer programs for school and college educators who are drawn from a nationally competitive pool.
Race and Mental Health in History and Literature
Virginia Tech was the only institution chosen nationally to host two National Endowment for the Humanities summer programs in 2016. The other program, on race and mental health in history and literature, will take place July 10–30.
Virginia Tech has a long-standing tradition as one of the nation's top military schools – and as a major supporter of veterans.


NEW YORK (AP) A charmed October for Eric Hosmer and the Kansas City Royals ended with one more comeback. Now, a win in November and they'll be World Series champions.
Second baseman Daniel Murphy's error on Hosmer's grounder in the eighth inning keyed another rally by the tenacious Royals, and Kansas City startled the New York Mets 5-3 Saturday night to take 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven matchup.
''There's just a belief amongst the guys that it doesn't matter what the score is, what the lead is, what the deficit is. The guys just believe that they're going to find a way to get it done,'' Kansas City starter Chris Young said.
Edinson Volquez returned Saturday from his father's funeral in the Dominican Republic and can pitch the Royals to their first crown in 30 years. He faces Matt Harvey in a rematch of Game 1, when Volquez went six innings just hours after his dad died.
Seemingly spooked by the raucous New York crowd early on Halloween, the Royals rallied for the seventh time in 10 postseason victories this year, this one from a 3-1 deficit.
The Royals set a major league record with their sixth postseason comeback from at least two runs down, STATS said.
''What they did tonight, is what they've been doing the whole playoffs,'' Royals manager Ned Yost said.
''It's a group of guys that have the utmost confidence in themselves. I don't think at any point these guys thought that they were going to lose tonight,'' he said.
Neither did a pocket of KC fans who clustered behind the Royals dugout after the final out, chanting loudly for their team.
Rookie Michael Conforto homered twice as the Mets built a lead, helped when right fielder Alex Rios lost track of the outs on a sacrifice fly.
But as the calendar was an hour from flipping to November, Murphy's amazing month slipped away. So did the Mets' best chance at evening the Series, done in by another Royals' late surge.
''We certainly talked about it before, they truly don't ever stop,'' Mets manager Terry Collins said.
With runners on first and second on a pair of one-out walks by Tyler Clippard, Jeurys Familia relieved. So steady in his new role as closer this year, Familia had allowed Alex Gordon's ninth-inning, tying homer in a Game 1 loss.
This time, he came on with a 3-2 lead and got Hosmer to hit a soft grounder toward Murphy as 44,815 fans stood, waving their orange towels in hopes of an inning-ending double play.
But the slow chopper sneaked under the glove of the NL Championship Series MVP as he charged in. Murphy, who would've only had a play at first, appeared to glance at the runner and failed to get his mitt down. The ball rolled and rolled toward right field, and Ben Zobrist raced home from second base as Familia crouched on the mound.
Surely no one in the silenced Citi Field stands expected this scary ending. It got worse for the Mets in a hurry, too.
Mike Moustakas and Salvador Perez followed with RBI singles to break away.
Ryan Madson pitched a perfect seventh for the win, and Wade Davis worked two scoreless innings for his first save. Clippard took the loss.
Not known for his defense, Murphy still made every play look easy in the NLCS and almost single-handedly slugged the Mets to their first World Series since 2000 with seven homers in nine playoff games. He's lost his power in the Fall Classic but had a one-out infield single in the ninth.
Yoenis Cespedes followed with another single, but he was doubled off first base when Lucas Duda hit an easy liner to third base and Moustakas tossed it to first to finish off another incredible comeback for the Royals.
Kansas City looked as if it was under a spell in the first few innings, though, in falling behind 2-0 in the third.
Alcides Escobar started off this game much the same way he has all postseason - with a hit - albeit on the fourth pitch from Mets hometown rookie Steven Matz.
But Escobar was then ruled out on batter's interference when Zobrist was fooled by a sinker for strike three, his swing carrying him in front of catcher Travis d'Arnaud, who was trying to throw to second base as Escobar was attempting a steal.
The Mets had about as much success against their former teammate Young for the first couple of innings as they had in Game 1, when the 6-foot-10 Princeton grad held them hitless for the final three of the Royals' 14-inning win.
Conforto changed that with the first swing of the third inning, sending a drive the first pitch deep into the second deck in right field for his third hit in 23 at-bats this postseason.
Things got weird after that.
Wilmer Flores singled, advanced to second on Young's 55-foot pitch in the dirt and went to third on Matz's sacrifice. Curtis Granderson lifted a fly to shallow right and Rios caught the ball. But he took several steps toward the dugout before center fielder Lorenzo Cain shouted at him as Flores tagged. Rios' throw was late, the Mets led 2-0, and Rios stood frozen with a hand on his hip in right field.
The Royals challenged the run, saying Flores left early. Replay review umpire Bill Welke ruled the call stood.
Things took a turn for Kansas City - didn't it always seem to this October? - when Alex Gordon singled home Perez in the fifth to get a run back.
Conforto pushed the lead back to two runs in the bottom half with his second long ball, a drive off Danny Duffy into the Mets' bullpen. Conforto became the first rookie to connect twice in the World Series since Atlanta's Andruw Jones did it at Yankee Stadium in 1996.
The Royals, though, merely needed a little grounder to change the Series momentum.
Royals: Volquez said he played catch Friday while in the Dominican Republic and played catch in the bullpen when he returned to New York.
Mets: For all the talk about his innings limits after returning from Tommy John surgery, Harvey has thrown 208 innings overall this year.


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Q: Java - static constructor Hey there Stackoverflowers,
I just started programming in Java and encountered a strange problem concerning printing an object. When a new object of type gast is created the user has to enter his or her birthday. This al works fine, however, if I try to print it out I returns 0-0-0. Why is that? By the way, if I create a new datum directly with the parameter constructor it works fine. Wherein lays the problem? I just can't figure it out. I hope you guys can help me out.
Thanks in advance!
public class Datum {
    private static String patroon = "\\d{2}-\\d{2}-\\d{4}";
    public int dag;
    public int maand;
    public int jaar;

    Datum(int dag, int maand, int jaar) {
        System.out.print("constructor: " + dag);
        this.dag = dag;
        System.out.println(", dag: " + this.dag);
        this.maand = maand;
        this.jaar = jaar;
    }
    Datum() {
        newDatum();
    }

    /*  */
    public static Datum newDatum() {
        String input = Opgave5.userInput("Geboortedatum gast");
        boolean b = input.matches(patroon);

        if (b) {
            String[] str = input.split("-");

            int dag = Integer.parseInt(str[0]);
            int maand = Integer.parseInt(str[1]);
            int jaar = Integer.parseInt(str[2]);

            Datum datum = new Datum(dag, maand, jaar);
            System.out.println(datum);
            return datum;
        }
        else {
            return new Datum();
        }
    }

    public String toString() {
        return this.dag + "-" + this.maand + "-" + this.jaar;
    }
}

Second class:
Gast() {
    this.firstName = Opgave5.userInput("Voornaam gast");
    this.lastName = Opgave5.userInput("Achternaam gast");
    this.geboortedatum = new Datum();

    System.out.println("gast: " + this.geboortedatum); // <--- this prints out 0-0-0

}

public String toString() {
    return this.firstName + " " + this.lastName + " " + this.geboortedatum;
}

A: I think you don't understand constructors in Java. You are merely ignoring the result of newDatum() in the constructor. Also, if it did have the expected effect, it might recurse infinitely in the constructor invocation inside newDatum(). Use something like this; allowing newDatum() to edit the instance will work:
Datum() {
    newDatum(this);
}

public static void newDatum(Datum instance) {
    String input = Opgave5.userInput("Geboortedatum gast");
    boolean b = input.matches(patroon);

    if (b) {
        String[] str = input.split("-");

        int dag = Integer.parseInt(str[0]);
        int maand = Integer.parseInt(str[1]);
        int jaar = Integer.parseInt(str[2]);

        instance.dag = dag;
        instance.maand = maand;
        instance.jaar = jaar;
        System.out.println(instance);
    }
    else {
        new Datum();
    }
    // ^^ Above code may be buggy, see my answer above code
}

A: This line:
this.geboortedatum = new Datum();

Is using the default constructor.  This will set no values.  Try to pass the parameters in via constructor like this:
this.geboortedatum = new Datum(1, 2, 3);

If you want to take advantage of the static method you wrote (which is where you ask for user input), then do the following:
this.geboortedatum = Datum.newDatum();

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Kyung Ae, Jean Yves blondeau, went with Christophe Lebedinsky, the favorite photographer of Jean Yves to have a photo session at the Bourget Lake. The lake is not far from the house of Jean Yves. It is a beautiful place. The light is winter, but the sun is there to reveal the colors of blue and pink BUGGY ROLLIN armor.
We had the visit of a local journalist alerted by passersby. He had an insistent way of imposing himself during the shooting. It is nevertheless with pleasure that Jean Yves lent himself to the impromptu interview. The article appeared in the newspaper Le Dauphine immediately after. We can say that the journalist did a good job.
One more nice day, and good Photos cession at Lac du Bourget with Rollerman !


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Name: Solution Date: Instructor: Course: (3) Sum-of-the-years'-digits: Year 2011 $400,000 $400,000 [(5/15) × $1,200,000] 2012 320,000 720,000 [(4/15) × $1,200,000] 2013 240,000 960,000 [(3/15) × $1,200,000] $960,000 (4) Units-of-output: Year Cost $1,260,000 2011 12,000 $288,000 $288,000 Salvage value 60,000 2012 11,000 $264,000 552,000 Depreciable value 1,200,000 2013 10,000 $240,000 792,000 Expected life output 50,000 2014 9,000 $792,000 Unit depreciation expense $24.00 2015 8,000 Total units 50,000 General MACRS method: (Values taken from the MACRS rates schedule.) Total Cost 2011 1,260,000 × 14.29% = $180,054 $180,054 2012 1,260,000 × 24.49% = 308,574 488,628 2013 1,260,000 × 17.49% = 220,374 709,002 $709,002 Optional straight-line method: Total Cost 2011 1,260,000 × (1/7 X 1/2) = $90,000 $90,000 2012 1,260,000 × 1/7 = 180,000 270,000 2013 1,260,000 × 1/7 = 180,000 450,000 $450,000 Depreciation Expense Accumulated Depreciation Expected Output Depreciation Expense Accumulated Depreciation (b) Which depreciation method (MACRS or optional straight-line) would minimize net income for income tax reporting for the 3-year period ending December 31, 2011? Determine the amount of accumulated depreciation at December 31, 2011. Ignore present value considerations. MACRS Rates (%) Depreciation Expense Accumulated Depreciation Depreciation Rate Annual Depreciation Accumulated Depreciation The general MACRS method would have higher depreciation expense ($709,002) than that of the optional straight-line method ($450,000) for the three-year period ending December 31, 2013. Therefore, the general MACRS method would minimize net income for income tax purposes for this period.


I have been on propecia for 6 yrs now with awesome results till this year…my crown is thinning out since sept 07 but i think the propecia is wearing off…should i up my dosage…i am taking the regular prescribed amount of milligrams…what should i do? Will increasing it cause more sides? will it make a difference to my hair loss? any regrowth??
In my case, upping the dosage did all of this. Decent regrowth but severe sides… And once you've a finger in the pie,… So, try the naturals first. Give it 6 months.
» first. Give it 6 months.
yeah thats what i thought…im afraid of the sides…but the regrowth…was it enough to cover up the see through areas that arent bald…like the thinning areas…?? can the naturals thicken up the thinning areas??
Does our body overtime built up a tolerance for Propecia? I also took it with great results for 4 years, and then all of a sudden, it stopped working as well. What happened?
» sides? will it make a difference to my hair loss? any regrowth??
Yes, naturals can definitely thicken up thinning areas. Especially if the thinning process is recent.
» thinning process is recent.
Nettle roots and maca give me good results so far.
» Nettle roots and maca give me good results so far.
» » Nettle roots and maca give me good results so far.
Saw Palmetto is causing me to shed more hairs and my hair line is thinninh up bad!!! Should i go to my docter and up the dosage from 1mg to 1.5…would that stop the shedding and regrow some of the hair line back…??? anyone with experiece please respond!!
» » » Nettle roots and maca give me good results so far.
» with experiece please respond!!
» » » » Nettle roots and maca give me good results so far.
» » that stop the shedding and regrow some of the hair line back…???
» » with experiece please respond!!
I am afraid now to try any other natural…id rather just up my propecia dosage and see what happens with that…i know that works for me…i just hope it can regrow what i lost in the past year…can it do this?? any one have any experience with it??
» » » » » Nettle roots and maca give me good results so far.
» » » that stop the shedding and regrow some of the hair line back…???
» » » with experiece please respond!!
» have any experience with it??
Hair growth may be seen up to 2 years after starting propecia. After that there may not be any active hair growth due to it.


Many photographers who want to upgrade their tripod are stuck choosing between high-end aluminum tripods and low-end carbon fiber models. These two types of tripod tend to be similar in price, which makes the decision even more difficult. I have been trying out the carbon fiber Oben CC-2461 tripod over the past few months, along with the accompanying BE-126T ballhead. This review covers my experiences and recommendations for photographers trying to decide on a tripod at this price point.
Buying photography equipment for the first time is a daunting task. Useful guides exist to help beginners choose a good camera, but few newcomers realize that the camera itself is only the first of many pieces of equipment necessary to create a full setup for photography. In this guide, I will suggest a complete kit — everything from lens cloths to computer monitors — that will provide a beginner with high quality images (and room to grow) for a price of around 2000 US dollars.


This book reveals what it means to engage in the practice of inquiry as a spiritual path: its principles, its challenges and its rewards. Almaas explores basic elements of the practice including the open-ended attitude, the focus on direct knowledge, the experience of not knowing, and the process of questioning. He also describes the recognition and experience of inner guidance, which he calls Diamond Guidance, and much of the book he devotes to investigating this richness and how it can be realized.
"This book is designed to open you up to the nature of this most mysterious and personal journey. It is not a travelogue of magical and exotic places but an awakening to the capacities and possibilities in your soul for participating in the inner unfolding of your Being. What follows will orient your self-exploration so that you can recognize and encourage the implicit guidance that arises as you travel your own inner space. And as the journey continues and your awareness deepens, you will learn to appreciate the subtleties, the richness, and the intimacy that is yours as you follow the path of inquiry."
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The presentation of his understanding of intelligence is followed by in-depth dialogues with his students on the various barriers to recognizing and embodying this essential quality. In particular, an unresolved relationship with one's father is found to shape the experience of Brilliancy. Using a Socratic method that draws upon techniques of body-centered, Gestalt, psychodynamic, and cognitive psychologies, Almaas helps participants work through their defenses and conflicts surrounding this issue and then, diverging from pychotherapeutic practice, guides them in discovering their own Brilliancy.
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The hidden richness that rests in our life, in our heart, in our experience is here—not over there, in some better life, in some other house, in some other career, in some other relationship or country or spiritual school. One time, perhaps, we actually knew that—and then we forgot. From time to time, we are reminded by others of that richness, or we rediscover it ourselves. But over and over, we forget.
When we lose touch with the fullness of who we really are, when we ourselves cannot recognize or appreciate it, when it is invisible to us or seems inaccessible, the knowledge that we are the location and source of what we are seeking is only abstract information, irrelevant to our personal situation. It cannot affect who we are or how we live if we can't find this richness in our immediate experience, can't feel it or taste it or sense it directly. In fact, what we find is that most everything in our life works against our turning that knowledge into the currency of personal inner richness.
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CPL 2016 Playoff 2 STZ vs TKR 5th August 2016 Live Streaming Ball By Ball Highlights :- The Hero Carribean Premier League has reached the knockout stages and is just a few days away from getting the champion of its fourth season.
This team is one of the in-form team of this tournament and won last 5 matches out of the 6 matches. Johnson Charles has been the highest run getter for his team and he will hold the key in this important final match.
Meanwhile, Shane Watson , Andre Russel, and Darren Sammy are the other names who have contributed to their all round performance. Also, the bowling department of this team have the solidity as the likes of Jerone Taylor, Shane Watson, and Delorn Johnson are not only taking the wickets, but they are also very economical.
Darren Sammy-led side got everything that a team needs to be the champion and they just need to play at their potential to win this match.
David Miller, Grant Elliot, Darren Sammy (c), Mike Hussey, Gidron Pope, Delorn Johnson, Shane Shillingford, Jerome Taylor, Johnson Charles, Andre Fletcher (wk), Shane Watson.
Dwayne Bravo's led side has won 5 matches and lost 5 matches in this tournament and somehow managed to reach the playoffs. Hashim Amla and Colin Munro are the main guns for this team as they are topping the batting charts for their team.
In the bowling department Sunil Narine and Dwayne Bravo 13 and 19 wickets. They both have played brilliantly with the ball in the hand.
This team has everything that plenty of match-winners in their squad and they all just needs to fire.
Anton Devcich, Kevon Cooper, Sunil Narine, Nikita Miller, Ronsford Beaton, Hashim Amla, Brendon McCullum, Colin Munro, Umar Akmal, Dwayne Bravo (c), Denesh Ramdin (wk).
St. Lucia Zouks are favorite to win this match.


Fat popular in the rough.
Seems like someone didn't learn her lesson about milling and wide stock.
Lay with my panel gauge.
Making sure it fits under the bench.
Once stock is cut to size and the top is sloped it should fit fine.
… and makin' sure it fits under the bench where it will live.
A while back I found some nice wide popular at the lumber yard, so I scooped it up for this project. It's just under an inch thick and 15″ to 16″ wide. I'll be making the Dutch Tool Chest from this wood which is the same chest in the October 2013 Popular Wood Working Magazine. My plan is to have it live under the end of my bench.
I'm hopin' this will be a quick project, but I have a way of turn short project into epic journeys so we'll see.
Good start! Get to the chopping!
A bit of milling first and then on to chopping! Tally ho!
Awww, cool! I was just thinking about building something like this after my bench is wrapped up. And the stained glass for the sconces. And the driveway gate.
That's not a bad spot. This one is on my to-do list as well but I was thinking of having it mounted like a Krenov cabinet so I can remove and take on the road. Any thoughts on something like that?
That would be a great idea assuming its still low enough for you to get to the top of it and lift out the tools. It would create, I assume, a small space underneath for some other storage?
That spot works for storage, but I guess you will have to roll it out to access the top? I'm considering building one of these as a next project. I like your thought of making it deeper since you are putting it on wheels. You should finish before I get started, so I'll be glad to learn from your build.
Yes, lots of things move around my shop so that they can fit (small shop space). I'll probably roll it out in the am, open the lid and roll it back under like a drawer.
I'm about to reorient the workbench and I think it'll make more sense once that's done.
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New F4 U.S. car has first test in Carolina
By dizbizroundupMar 29, 2016, 10:16 AM EDT
Photo: F4 U.S. Championship
The new car for the F4 U.S. Championship had its first test last week, at Carolina Motorsports Park. The full series release is below:
On the track for its first official test drive last week, the car for the new Formula 4 United States Championship powered by Honda exceeded all expectations as the series prepares for its debut in May.
The F4 U.S. Championship, organized and sanctioned by SCCA Pro Racing, conducted the official test with two test drivers (Dane Cameron's helmet is pictured above) at Carolina Motorsports Park, a 2.23-mile road course in Kershaw, South Carolina.
The developmental test marked the first time the F4 U.S. Championship car took to the track. It featured a Honda Racing/HPD engine and Pirelli tires mounted onto a Crawford Composites chassis.
"After attending the first track test, I was very impressed with the car," said Derrick Walker, President and CEO of SCCA Pro Racing. "This car is just what we needed as an entry-level formula car, and it was another milestone toward our first race on May 27 at Lime Rock Park."
Over the course of the testing, adjustments were made to the ride height as well as wing, shock and spring adjustments, allowing the car to improve its performance each lap.
"The test was a howling success," Crawford Composites President Max Crawford said. "The car ran flawlessly for two days and got better and better with each adjustment."
The F4 series will consist of 15 races at five classic tracks when it kicks off at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Connecticut, on May 27-28 and is scheduled to wrap-up Oct. 8-10 at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida.

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In China body organs are taken from executed prisoners, and for a fee, are then implanted in patients from the West.
When Beijing attorney Han Bing published his latest blog on December 6, 2012, he must have known he was placing himself at serious risk. His report spread like wildfire via the Chinese wire service Sina Weibo. "On this very morning," Han reported, "a frightful execution took place." A prisoner sentenced to death was reportedly executed although the highest Chinese court, a few days before, had ordered the case to be reexamined. Apparently, for the responsible parties, this was too long a wait. The prisoner's body organs were needed and had to be in the best possible condition. There was no other explanation for why the execution took place in a clinic, according to the attorney's report. "These unscrupulous judges and doctors are transforming a hospital into a place of execution – a marketplace for the organ trade," Han wrote.
The attorney reports that the condemned man was forced to sign a document affirming his "voluntary" consent of the organ harvesting. His family members were not allowed to see him for a final visit although it was their right to do so. "We plan to appeal," the attorney announced on behalf of the surviving dependents.
Han's account was forwarded more than 18,000 times within a single day, and more than 5,600 people posted comments. Then the blog was erased.
This example of an anonymous execution victim is not an isolated case. Statistically China is second worldwide, just behind the USA, for numbers of organ transplants. It is an accomplishment that fills the regime with pride. Every year more than 10,000 kidneys, livers, hearts and lungs are transplanted in China, as reported last year by Vice Minister of Health Huang Jiefu – himself a transplant specialist – in the medical journal The Lancet. His statistics indicate that more than 60 percent of these organs are taken from executed prisoners. The frankness of the report is astonishing. Until a few years ago, the government rejected all foreign reports on China's questionable transplant practices as propaganda.
A person dies just in time to permit another person to continue living. This is possible in the Chinese transplant system. In the name of progress, in the name of money – including Western money, as will be seen.
The number of persons executed in China is a state secret. It is estimated that approximately 4,000 executions of prisoners take place in China per year. Those convicted are killed by a bullet to the head or by lethal injection. Insiders report that transplant clinics cooperate with prisons and send out their own teams for the organ removal. It is quite possible that physicians take part in executions.
Elsewhere in the world, such reports trigger outrage. But there is one thing that scarcely anyone knows: The west is deeply implicated in the unethical Chinese system. Patients in western countries have to thank Chinese execution victims for their new kidneys, livers and hearts. Pharmaceutical firms supply the Chinese market with anti-rejection drugs, and conduct research on transplantation practices that in all likelihood have come from the use of organs from executed prisoners. Western clinics and doctors support China's transplant centers, no questions asked. Western consultants to the Chinese government claim to be encouraging change in transplant practices, while at the same time they pursue business interests in China. Vehicles from the West are converted into mobile medical execution units. A Chinese car dealer, for example, offers a European-brand vehicle with medical monitoring equipment and infusion devices for sale on the Internet – a grisly symbol for the hand-in-hand work between executioners and doctors.
The various participants of China's transplant industry and the physicians who violate the most basic ethical principles of their profession and prefer to stay silent, and cross the moral line between cooperation and complicity, make up the basis for this story. The question is: What is the impact of deteriorating medical ethics, the impact of ambitious research for personal gain and the impact of financial profit? And where must the West draw the line to avoid complicity, to avoid the guilt?
Attorney Han Bing and his clients do not know who received the organs from the man who was executed in December, but there are patients who do come forward and speak of their transplant surgery in China. Mordechai Shtiglits lives with his wife in Petach Tikwa, near Tel Aviv. At age 63, despite his 120 kilos, he is a healthy man who loves steaks and is the happiest when spending time with his family. While his wife serves coffee in the living room, he pulls a photograph album out of a drawer. It documents his trip to China, one that for Shtiglits could have been his last.
In November 2005, when he was pushed on board an airplane in a wheelchair, Shtiglits could scarcely put one foot in front of the other. His wife and elder daughter accompanied him to Shanghai. On the day they arrived, Shtiglits was brought to Zhongshan Hospital, one of the largest transplant centers in China. He was given a room in the modern wing, reserved for foreigners and wealthy Chinese patients. There, Shtiglits met patients from Canada, Australia and Hong Kong. Like him, they were waiting for a life-saving operation.
Shtiglits's own heart was failing, and he was facing the end of his life with just 10 percent functional capacity. With luck, that was just enough to keep him alive. Shtiglits suffered from frequent near fatal cardiac arrests, but each time he was able to be revived. He spent some nights sitting in an upright position in an effort just to breathe.
But that, the family believed, was time that Shtiglits did not have. Therefore the choice fell on China. Since the state has drastically curtailed its subsidies to hospitals in China, many of them shore up their budgets with organ sales. In China you can receive a new heart within two or three weeks. If you are lucky, like Mordechai Shtiglits, the process can go even faster.
That is extremely unlikely. It's true that more than 60,000 persons die in road accidents each year in China. But even Chinese doctors do not know in advance when someone will die in an accident. And so far there is no central distribution system in the country for quick organ distribution.
The history of this gruesome practice is thought to have started in the 1980s. At that time the Chinese transplant system was still in its infancy. But then a marked uptick began. Vice Minister of Health, Huang Jiefu, documented this trend in a presentation he made in Madrid in 2010, stating that the number of transplanted kidneys rose between 1997 and 2005 from 3,000 to 8,500 annually, while the figure for livers increased from 2,000 to about 3,000 a year. The prerequisite for this boom was new and improved anti rejection medications. These are medications that came from the West.
Cyclosporin A, a product of the Swiss Sandoz Corporation, is essential to the survival of transplant patients and has been supplied to China since the mid-1980s. Later, other Swiss firms, Roche and Novartis began to supply life sustaining transplant drugs. Today the owners of Sandoz, as well as the Japanese Astellas Corporation, sell their anti-rejection drugs in the People's Republic of China. Since 1994, at the latest, these firms would have known about these accusations against China. At that time, the non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch had published a detailed report.
The Chinese government has no such inhibitions. Citizens, on the other hand, are anxious. They show scarcely any willingness to donate organs voluntarily. Between 2003 and 2009 only 130 organ donors were registered in the entire country. Many Chinese distrust the health care system. They are afraid of being declared dead too early or of being abused by the organ business by donating their organs.
The Western pharmaceutical industry shares responsibility for scientific research in China. Research records list nine clinical studies in China with about 1,200 transplant patients, with whom Wyeth and Pfizer from the USA, Novartis and Roche from Switzerland, and Astellas from Japan have all tested their transplant drugs. Altogether the corporations have cooperated with 20 hospitals in China for these studies.
Die ZEIT asked the pharmaceutical companies how they ensured that no organs from executed persons were included in these studies. A few companies did not respond at all, while others avoided the concrete question. Roche and Pfizer only affirmed that the standards of the World Health Organization (WHO) had been met.
The WHO requires that organization and performance of transplant operations must be "transparent and accessible to scrutiny." Human rights organizations have often complained that China consistently violates these rules.
Shtiglits spends his afternoons in a small shop at a tennis center where he and his wife sell drinks and sports equipment. While Shtiglits talks about his illness, his 2 1/2-year-old grandson romps around on a toy horse.
Mordechai Shtiglits's old heart was removed on November 22, 2005, as is stated in the skimp discharge document issued to him by the doctors of Zhongshan Hospital. It contains only Shtiglits's clinical condition upon his admission, a few laboratory figures along with data on the administered and recommended medications. Not a word about the donor or the transplanted organ, as is customary in such documents. By the year 2011, 300 hearts had been transplanted at Zhongshan Hospital. In an inquiry from Die ZEIT asking what institutions the hospital collaborated with in organ transplants the clinical leaders did not reply. This is not medical practice that is "transparent and accessible to scrutiny," as required by the WHO.
In fact, a few of the large Chinese transplant centers have medical outcomes today that are comparable to those of Western hospitals. But, as Vice Minister of Health Huang stated in the journal Liver Transplantation, "success was not quick and not easy." Huang, who expresses himself willingly and often in professional circles, left questions from Die ZEIT unanswered. He specializes in transplant surgery in the complex field of liver transplantation. "Entire transplant teams from the People's Republic have been trained abroad," he writes. He burnished his skills in Australia.
This could be expressed differently. In Germany, Chinese doctors are receiving the skills that allow them to transplant organs from executed prisoners in China. Skills used for human rights violations.
Surgeon Liu Zhongmin is among the physicians who have worked for several years in Berlin. Today he is executive director of the Chinese-German Heart Institute in Shanghai, which was founded in 2000 by the German Heart Center and Shanghai East Hospital. The hospital is the closest cooperative partner of Germans in China. Liu's qualifications can be found on the Heart Institute's website. He is said to be responsible for clinical research for heart transplants, artificial hearts and combined heart-lung transplantation.
How many hearts in total have been transplanted at the Chinese-German Heart Institute? Where do these organs come from? To these questions submitted in writing by Die ZEIT, Liu has given no response.
Weng, who has represented Hetzer for many years and is senior chief physician at the German Heart Center, is, like the surgeon Liu, an executive director of the Chinese-German Heart Institute. He travels to China several times a year. He directed the operation in which China's first artificial heart was implanted in 2001. Like Hetzer, Weng failed to respond to Die ZEIT.
Jacob Lavee, who is Mordechai Shtiglits's physician, considers it unethical even to raise this question. It is a question, he believes, that a doctor may not want to ask himself. But then, one day in the autumn of 2005, Lavee opened the door to a hospital room at the Sheba Medical Center that was occupied by his critically ill patient.
After Shtiglits returned from China, Lavee continued to treat him as a patient. The heart specialist is happy about the progress Shtiglits is making. At the same time he is beginning to campaign politically against other patients receiving heart transplants from China.
An unusual situation in Israeli precipitated Shtiglits's journey to China. The costs of all foreign transplant operations were, at the time, assumed by medical insurance up to the customary rates in Israel. Shtiglits said that in his case the entire package had cost about $170,000 in U.S. dollars including the first-class flight with his wife and daughter, hotel costs in Shanghai, an interpreter and a personal guide for the duration of the six-week stay, the medical treatment and medication.
$170,000 is not a great amount in the organ market line – and China is among the cheapest suppliers in the field. But Shtiglits alone could scarcely have raised such a sum. Even the $65,000 for a kidney would not have been affordable for most of the 250 Israelis treated in China. Lavee decided that the reimbursements must come to an end.
He published articles in medical journals that were picked up by the Israeli press. He took part in televised discussions with Shtiglits, always on friendly terms as patient and physician, but irreconcilable on this subject. He organized a conference under the auspices of the Israeli Transplant Society. And Lavee succeeded. The Israeli transplant law, which took effect in 2008, forbids cost reimbursement for foreign transplant operations if organ purchases are involved. At the same time, the law includes provisions to help increase Israeli citizens' chances for getting an organ in their own country. Anyone possessing an organ donation pass receives preferential treatment from now on if he or she should need a transplant.
Lavee reports that since the law took effect not one more Israeli patient has traveled to China for a transplant. In such a small country, a specialist such as he can have a good overview of the matter. In Internet forums, Lavee is now attacked as a physician who blocked patients' access to China.
"It's an accusation I'm very proud of," Lavee says.
Yet, his mission is not complete. The international problem of organ tourism continues, even as the Chinese leadership officially strives for reforms, and more needs to be done.
generating actions occur. In August 2012, for instance, in a raid against alleged organ dealers, Chinese police arrested 137 persons including 18 doctors. Yet at the same time, websites like chinahealthtoday.com, placidway.com and novasans.com openly court transplant clients from all over the world, with ads like: "Heart transplantation overseas – Clinic managers and medical tourism facilities in China." And the government? For the most part, it lets the hospitals that are behind these messages continue their efforts.
Organ trade is tolerated by the Chinese government. Executions supply organs and materials for transplant operations. This is frightful, but it's not the whole story. There is another suspicion, which is even worse: Forced organ harvesting from spiritual prisoners of conscience. You might dismiss it as a fantasy by an author of thrillers, doing a remake of the shocker known as Spare Parts (Fleisch, Meat, in German), if it weren't for the Canadian attorney David Matas and Canada's former Secretary of State, David Kilgour. Both men were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010. With painstaking care they have been collecting facts and reports since 2006. The results of their efforts were considered by the U.S. Congress last autumn.
Matas and Kilgour's material suggests that in China prisoners from labor or reeducation camps are also killed. Their research involved practitioners of Falun Gong, who practice Buddhist meditation techniques – people not sentenced to death but who allegedly must die because their organs are suitable for a patient.
Is this possible? It's a fact that practitioners of Falun Gong are persecuted in China. It's also a fact that the Falun Gong movement answers every bit of propaganda from the Chinese government with smart counter-propaganda, especially overseas. This is why the two Canadians, Matas and Kilgour, tried to keep their research independent from statements from Falun Gong practitioners. They not only collected material on Falun Gong prisoners who were subject to medical examinations while in custody, but also those who disappeared without a trace from camps, or whose bodies were found to be missing certain body parts. They also interviewed non-Chinese patients who received a kidney or liver transplant in China. They even succeeded in questioning former co-perpetrators about organ removal from Falun Gong prisoners. They documented telephone calls from investigators who presented themselves as patients or relatives and inquired at Chinese transplant centers about organs from Falun Gong practitioners. Falun Gong practitioners are considered especially suitable donors due to their general good health, while criminal inmates are often infected with hepatitis B.
The two Canadians' accusations are "well researched and very decisive," says Manfred Nowak, Professor of Civil Law at the University of Vienna, and former (2010) United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture. One important clue is that the strong rise in transplantation figures in China coincides with the dates of the persecution of Falun Gong in particular. In the name of the United Nations, Nowak called upon the Chinese government and in U.N. jargon, "made urgent appeals" for precise data on the sources of all transplanted organs. Novak reports that the People's Republic of China always dismissed all charges as propaganda, but never rebutted them.
In Millis' waiting room, photo albums testify to the chief's enthusiasm for China: Son Andrew diving in China, father and son at a Chinese hospital, the whole family in a group photo with the Vice Minister of Health. Millis, his son and Huang have co-published articles together in the medical journal The Lancet.
Millis believes that important steps have already been taken. Since organ sales are forbidden in China, transplantation centers require a license from the Ministry of Health. However, military hospitals go their own way and are subject to scarcely any controls even by the party and the government. Meanwhile, Vice Minister of Health, Huang, calls the removal of organs from executed prisoners an "ethical problem." It is not clear whether he is speaking here simply from conviction or if international pressure has grown too big. In any case, he does not want to completely ban the use of organs from executed prisoners. The Chinese government merely wants to reduce the dependency on donations from prisoners – in fact, the number of executions has been decreasing for the past few years. Therefore, a pilot project was started with the Chinese Red Cross to encourage voluntary organ donations.
And chief transplanter Millis? He has business interests in China. Millis is a member of the board of directors of Vital Therapies Inc. He wants to see the company put an artificial liver on the market. The so-called ELAD System is supposed to stabilize people with liver failure until their organ has regained function, or a new one can be transplanted. A pilot study for ELAD began seven years ago in China with 49 patients, and the year after that Vital Therapies applied for licensing in China. The potential market there is huge: 300,000 patients in the final stages of liver disease.
In July 2012 Michael Millis paid a visit to Berlin. The 24th Congress of The Transplantation Society was taking place there. More than 5,000 visitors from all over the world exchanged information on the latest developments in transplantation medicine. Roland Hetzer, medical director of the German Heart Center, was also present. Falun Gong practitioners were also there and had set up a stand in front of the International Congress Center. An attractive Asian woman offered flyers to visitors. Her name was Liu Wei. Flyers, she recalled, were also what caused her much trouble back in September 2001 in China. Then it was leaflets of her Falun Gong group, which she had forgotten to conceal that led to her arrest. She spent 16 months in custody. Liu states she was beaten and tortured by sleep deprivation in the prison camp. Now, at age 40, she had been employed at the Company for Technical Cooperation (CTC) in Beijing.
One day during her time in custody Liu Wei tells of how a team of ten doctors and ten policemen entered the prison to examine her and other prisoners. "Only Falun Gong practitioners were called up," she says. They took a blood sample from her and her internal organs were subject to ultrasound scanning. The doctors asked about previous illnesses in her family. Such examinations occurred, she says, five or six times. She never heard anything about the results.
While Liu distributed leaflets outside, the Congress president, Peter Neuhaus of the Charité University Clinic, opened the press conference.
He was especially pleased that 160 Chinese colleagues have found their way to Berlin. Asked by a journalist about organ removal from executed prisoners in China, Neuhaus replied, "There is no question that this was the case." However, he said that China's Vice Minister of Health had assured him two or three years earlier that the state wanted nothing of this kind to occur again.
The Chinese government is "seeing to" many things – including the disappearance from the Internet of reports like the one by Beijing attorney Han Bing.


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HomeSports BettingDraftKings Launches New Leagues Feature
DraftKings Launches New Leagues Feature
August 17, 2016 Sadonna Price Sports Betting 0
In anticipation of the upcoming football season, DraftKings has announced a new feature for members to enjoy titled 'Leagues'. The new option became available this past Tuesday and will allow users to gather a group of individuals together to take part in private DFS contests. Players will create and compete in such contests that will only be available to those who received an invite. The new Leagues feature will have a leaderboard which will help members of the group to see how well they are competing against other players.
The idea behind the Leagues feature came from member feedback. In speaking with Legal Sports Report, Paul Liberman, the co-founder and COO of DraftKings, stated that the brand heard a lot from members when DraftKings was started saying that the product was cool but it was hard to play with friends. It took some time to consider what could take place and what was needed to allow friends to compete together. The overall goal, according to Liberman, was to create an almost private version of DraftKings for groups of friends.
With the new Leagues feature, there are certain functionalities. Leagues are not necessarily limited to single sports but can be if the group so chooses. Individuals can play and track any sport that DraftKings provides within the same league. The contests within the Leagues can be customized as the players would like, be it free or paid entry.
Members of the league have the option to choose an individual contest or not as contests are made available to anyone who is in the league. There is a recurring contest mode which will allow the league to run the same contest each week without having to set up the contest each time. Invites to a league within DraftKings can be sent on Twitter, Facebook, text messaging or email.
With the new feature being released just in time for the upcoming NFL season, it will be interesting to see if players respond well to the new option.
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Recherche Publications RasGAP-associated endoribonuclease G3Bp: selective RNA degradation and phosphorylation-dependent localization
RasGAP-associated endoribonuclease G3Bp: selective RNA degradation and phosphorylation-dependent localization
Tourriere, H.; Gallouzi, I. E.; Chebli, K.; Capony, J. P.; Mouaikel, J.; van der Geer, P.; Tazi, J.
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Mitogen activation of mRNA decay pathways likely involves specific endoribonucleases, such as G3BP, a phosphorylation-dependent endoribonuclease that associates with RasGAP in dividing but not quiescent cells. G3BP exclusively cleaves between cytosine and adenine (CA) after a specific interaction with RNA through the carboxyl-terminal RRM-type RNA binding motif. Accordingly, G3BP is tightly associated with a subset of poly(A)(+) mRNAs containing its high-affinity binding sequence, such as the c-myc mRNA in mouse embryonic fibroblasts. Interestingly, c-myc mRNA decay is delayed in RasGAP-deficient fibroblasts, which contain a defective isoform of G3BP that is not phosphorylated at serine 149. A G3BP mutant in which this serine is changed to alanine remains exclusively cytoplasmic, whereas a glutamate for serine substitution that mimics the charge of a phosphorylated serine is translocated to the nucleus. Thus, a growth factor-induced change in mRNA decay may be modulated by the nuclear localization of a site-specific endoribonuclease such as G3BP.
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Steve Peterson included a note that read "Thanks for my health back" with his recent donation to Virginia Mason — marking the triumphant end to an ordeal that started 10 years ago.
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Aled Jones found fame at the tender age of 15 with 'Walking in the Air' – and he has since released multiple albums, appeared on several TV shows and presented on Classic FM since 2002.
1. When is Aled Jones' birthday?
Aled Jones was born on December 29th 1970 in Bangor, near Llandegfan in Anglesey where he was raised.
2. Is Aled Jones Welsh?
Llandegfan, where Aled grew up, was a small Welsh-speaking community, and consequently Aled didn't speak a word of the Queen's until he was six years old.
3. Who is Aled Jones' family?
When Aled was a chorister in Bangor Cathedral, his mum used to turn up with a ghetto blaster and record his performances. Strangely, neither of Aled's parents were musical at all - goodness knows what they thought when they heard him sing for the first time…
4. Is Aled Jones married?
Aled married his wife, Claire Fossett, in 2001, and the pair have two children together, Emilia and Lucas. Emilia looks set to follow in her father's footsteps, and has appeared in the stage version of Shrek in the West End.
5. Aled Jones sings 'Walking in the Air'
Aled is still perhaps best-known for being the voice of The Snowman - the song 'Walking In The Air' was the highlight from the enduring animated classic, and even though the original recording was sung by Peter Auty, it's become known as Aled's song after his version of it topped the charts in 1985.
6. Aled's voice broke at 16
When Aled's voice broke aged 16, it was only a temporary blip in his career - even though he was advised to rest his voice for several years, soon afterwards he was studying at the Royal Academy of Music and began his adult recording career.
7. What is Aled Jones' net worth?
Aled has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
8. Who is Aled Jones' son?
On his album 'One Voice: Believe', Aled was joined by his 12-year-old son Lucas, to duet on one of Aled's favourites hymns, The Lord is My Shepherd, composed by Howard Goodall. Aled said of the duet: "He's never wanted to sing and has never had a single lesson, but fancied having a go before his voice breaks. Who am I to stop him – and the resulting duet melts my heart!"
9. Aled Jones on Classic FM
Aled became a national radio presenter when he joined Classic FM in 2002. He returned after a short hiatus in 2013 to present Classic FM's Sunday morning show, from 7-10am. His show reaches nearly a million listeners – quite an achievement for weekend breakfast listenership.
10. Aled Jones on Daybreak
In September 2012, Aled joined ITV Breakfast where he presented Daybreak (2012–2014), alongside Lorraine Kelly and Kate Garraway. This varied post even led to Aled interviewing Justin Bieber - a fellow teenage music icon (though we reckon Aled does a better 'Walking In The Air'). Aled has also appeared on Escape To The Country and Cash In The Attic.
11. Aled Jones on Songs of Praise
Aled joined Songs of Praise in 2000 and has presented hundreds of programme since, including the 50th anniversary concert at Alexandra Palace in 2011.
12. Aled Jones on Strictly Come Dancing
Aled appeared as a contestant in the second series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2004, partnered with Lilia Kopylova. His appearance on the show brought him to the attention of a wider audience, increasing demands on him as a broadcaster.
13. Aled Jones MBE
Aled received in MBE in 2013 for services to music, broadcasting and charitable services. "I never expected to be honoured for anything I've done… it's a bonus. A massive bonus," he said on learning of the honour.
14. Aled Jones in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Aled's also had a varied stage career - memorably he appeared as Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Wales Millennium Centre, as well as landing the lead in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.
15. Aled turned down Johnny Carson
He's no stranger to success in the US, but Aled was once approached to appear on the Johnny Carson Show, one of the country's biggest TV showcases. Sadly, not knowing what the show was and with the prospect of missing a football match he was playing in back home, he turned it down.
16. Aled Jones on Facebook and Twitter
Aled can be found under @realaledjones on Facebook, and @realaled on Twitter. He can be found tweeting about classical music, and his recent attempt at 'Wing Walking'.
17. Aled Jones and Russell Watson
On 9 November 2018, Aled Jones will unite with fellow classical star Russell Watson to release 'In Harmony', their debut duet album. The album will include well-known hymns like 'Ave Maria', as well as modern classics such as 'You Raise Me Up'.
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The Swiss Federal Tribunal has rejected an appeal lodged by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) against the Court of Arbitration for Sport decision regarding Russian cross-country skier Alexander Legkov.
In a statement, the IOC said it was "disappointed" with the decision and has now decided against proceeding with appeals against the remaining 27 cases.
Legkov was one of 28 Russian athletes implicated in the country's doping scheme who were cleared by the CAS prior to the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.
The Russian, who has since retired from the sport, was initially stripped of the Olympic 50 kilometres gold and relay silver medals he won at Sochi 2014 before his results were reinstated because of the CAS ruling.
The IOC had declared themselves "dissatisfied both by the decision and the motivation", leading to the organisation lodging an appeal with the Swiss Federal Tribunal.
The Swiss Federal Tribunal have the power to overturn CAS verdicts if they believe the legal process was abused, although this is considered very rare.
The IOC have now expressed their disappointment after their appeal was turned down.
"The IOC received the first reasoned decisions from CAS in late April 2018, and it was decided to appeal the first of the 28 CAS decisions that did not confirm the IOC Disciplinary Commission decisions before the Swiss Federal Tribunal," an IOC statement read.
"It was felt that, even if the chances of winning might not be high, given the specific circumstances of the cases, it was still important to appeal the cases to exhaust all possible avenues in order to protect clean athletes.
"The reasons for the decision to reject the IOC appeal in this case have not yet been disclosed, but since the 28 reasoned decisions by the CAS are similar, the IOC will not proceed with appeals for the remaining 27 cases.
The decision from the Swiss Federal Tribunal was welcomed by Legkov's lawyer, Christof Wieschemann, who claimed the athlete had been "finally cleared of the accusation of doping at 2014".
Legkov can now claim "my medals are clean", Wieschemann added in a statement.
The reasoned decision from CAS in the Legkov case was published in April and the remainder now due to be published this month.
He was one of 28 Russian athletes cleared by CAS, which stated that "the evidence collected was found to be insufficient to establish that an anti-doping rule violation was committed by the athletes concerned".
A further 11 athletes had sanctions partially upheld, but the CAS ruled that lifetime Olympic suspensions were unenforceable.
The athletes were consequently prevented only from competing at Pyeongchang 2018.
Legkov was successful in his appeal as CAS ruled they were unable to prove any of the "factual allegations" made by the IOC.
"It is insufficient merely to establish the existence of a general sample-swapping scheme; rather, the panel must be comfortably satisfied that the athlete was personally and knowingly implicated in particular acts that formed part of, and facilitated the commission of, the substitution of his urine within that scheme," the CAS decision stated.
"In short, therefore, there is no direct evidence that establishes either that the athlete provided clean urine with the knowledge that this would be used for the purpose of urine substitution or that he did not fully close the sample bottles."
The CAS ruling on Legkov deemed the presence of "multiple T marks" on his sample bottles, and being named on the infamous Duchess List, as insufficient to prove wrongdoing.
The Duchess List was drawn up by former Moscow Laboratory head turned whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov and consisted of athletes who supposedly had positive drugs tests destroyed or tampered with before and during Sochi 2014.
An athlete featuring on the Duchess List was substantial enough for CAS only when "viewed in conjunction with other relevant probative evidence".
By contrast, Alexander Zubkov failed in his appeal to CAS, leading to the bobsleigh athlete being stripped of his two gold medals from Sochi 2014.
CAS ruled his sample had "physiologically impossible" salt levels and that he provided clean urine before Sochi 2014 "for the purpose of enabling the subsequent sample swapping".
"His samples at the Games were in fact subsequently swapped, with salt being added to the substitute urine in an effort to conceal the existence of the substitution," the conclusion added.
Several of the athletes to overturn their sanctions earned medals at Sochi 2014, including men's skeleton gold medallist Alexander Tretiakov.
Elena Nikitina won bronze in the women's event.
Cross-country skier Maxim Vylegzhanin secured three silvers, while Nikita Kryukov and Alexander Bessmertnykh both earned one silver medal.
Speed skater Olga Fatkulina and luger Tatyana Ivanova secured silver medals at the Games, as did Albert Demchenko, who finished second in both the men's singles and mixed team luge.
The Swiss Federal Tribunal decision and the IOC's assertion they will not launch further appeals unless further evidence arises suggests these athletes will keep their medals.
The cases involving Russian biathletes Olga Zaitseva, Olga Vilukhina and Yana Romanova at CAS were suspended last year.
It was claimed the cases had been suspended after agreement from all parties, with the expectation that they will be heard after decisions on other remaining cases.
CAS has confirmed that "none of the parties have requested their procedure be resumed", with the cases remaining suspended.
May 2018: Nick Butler: IOC appeal on Russia is ambitious but can cases still be built against individual athletes?


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Rian Johnson Gives (Unnecessary) Blessing to Retcon Rey's Parentage in 'STAR WARS: Episode IX'
Posted by JJ Goodman | Apr 6, 2019 | Latest News & Rumors, Movie News, Star Wars | 2 |
When it comes to The Last Jedi, there are controversies aplenty. Aside from the film's treatment of Luke Skywalker, no subject was more controversial than that of Rey's parents. With Rey being so powerful in the Force, the expectation was that she came from a lineage also strong with the Force. JJ Abrams set the stage for that with Rey's vision in The Force Awakens. Conversely, Rian Johnson then subverted that expectation by having Kylo Ren claim Rey's parents were "nobody". Now, the divisive Star Wars director says he's okay with ret-conning Rey's parentage in Star Wars: Episode IX.
Rey (presumably) watches her parents fly away in The Force Awakens.
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Rian Johnson created discord among the Star Wars fandom before The Last Jedi even began production. He declared that he would not be utilizing the story arc JJ Abrams already created. Instead he'd create his own film, with his own vision. Part of that was establishing Rey as a nobody herself, and demonstrating that anyone can be strong in the Force. But that's not what a majority of fans seem to have wanted. In recent statements, Johnson appears to be backtracking on his former position.
Rian Johnson Gives Blessing to Retcon Rey's Parentage
Speaking to MTV News recently, Rian Johnson had this to say when asked his opinion on Abrams retconning Rey's lineage:
I want to let go of all my expectations… sit back… be entertained… to be surprised… thrilled. I want [J.J. Abrams] to do stuff I wasn't expecting him to do and just go along for the ride. For me, that's why I go to the movies, you know?"
Rian Johnson directing Daisy Ridley (Rey)The Last Jedi. (Image: Disney/Lucasfilm)
There's a lot loaded in that statement. First and foremost, Rian Johnson is applying his own logic to how Abrams may treat Episode IX. While he (Johnson) may want Episode IX to deliver unexpected things, that's not the general consensus. This statement rings more true of a justification for his own actions than an endorsement for Abrams to do the same.
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In any event, it's not like Johnson's blessing is needed. Abrams is a capable and talented writer, director and producer. Rumors of a Terminator C-3PO aside, I have full confidence that Episode IX will be everything fans want it to be. Plus, Abrams' take on Rey's parentage wouldn't even be retcon. Kylo Ren was trying manipulate Rey into joining him. What better way than to lie and convince her she had no other direction in which to turn? In that instance Rey's parentage can remain exactly as Abrams first envisioned it without any retcon whatsoever.
Rey closes the door on Kylo Ren and ponders her future in The Last Jedi.
Star Wars Celebration is next weekend. We're sure to learn more about Episode IX at the event. In the meantime, perhaps Rian Johnson should just focus on Knives Out and leave Episode IX to Abrams.
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Quentin on April 7, 2019 at 3:59 am
With the April Fools from before and this article, I'm now pretty much convinced that you people are extremely biased against Rian Johnson. Worse still, that you keep fanning the flames and exploit the toxic fans' hatred to rack up ad revenue. A journalist is supposed to relay information in an objective and unbiased way without taking any sides, and yet you went and wrote "Unnecessary" in your title (which is an opinion) and implied in a thinly-veiled way in your sentence about JJ being a "capable and talented writer" that Rian isn't. Unprofessional, biased and, dare I say, childish.
You didn't like the way Rian wrote the movie because it didn't fit your egotistical definition of Star Wars and because you didn't get your fanfiction. The movie came out sixteen months ago. GROW UP AND GET OVER IT.
JJ Goodman on April 8, 2019 at 10:22 am
Quentin: Thanks for your comments. If you regularly follow our Star Wars coverage, you would know that, in addition to reporting news, a great deal of our content is editorial in nature. That's the case with this piece. You're absolutely correct that the article is biased – as an editorial opinion piece about Rian Johnson and his comments, it was intended to be. If you have more opinions on this subject, or on Star Wars in general, we'd love to hear them and publish them.


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Later Imperial Roman vs the Hun
356 AD benchmarks the Hunnic presence in book II of the DBA Army lists. Beginning with the eastern portion of the empire it is toward the last quarter of the 4th century that western field armies come into contact with them. The Hunnic list given below predates the rule of Attila leaving the majority of Huns classed as light horse with a small quantity of nobles classed as heavy cavalry.
Rome is initially defending their provinces and therefore make use of arable terrain; BUA (hamlet) is compulsory with difficult hills and forest used as optional terrain features.
Huns are attacking and have caught Rome on an open plain with the scant protection but for a small hamlet. The Huns deployed their cavalry in two major groups, both set to work on the open left flank of Rome.
To the surprise of the Huns, Rome quickly moved forward to keep the Huns bottled in the limited area offered by the difficult hills. The Huns respond by sending their furthest column forward to threaten the Roman cavalry.
The Huns of the central group were ably contained between the hills by the legion and auxiliaries and this means the Roman equites would have to take the brunt of the Hunnic attack approaching the left flank.
Hunnic arrows were finding their targets and in quick succession the clibanarii and half the legion were broken.
Roman units were quickly sent to fill their places, but the Huns were quick to take advantage of the gaps and isolated units. Score 4 – 1 for the Hun.
Caught for the second time in an exposed position, the Roman force deployed closer to camp. As before, the Huns deployed in two groups with the majority of their cavalry positioned on the extreme right.
Taking advantage of the time needed for the flanking column to reach battle, the army moved its infantry to seize the heights and form a new battle line.
The legion and auxilia were not averse to taking the action to the Hun and those infantry on the left were able to repel the Hunnic cavalry. Meanwhile, Roman cavalry quickly dispatched two units to the 'afterlife'.
Caught off balance, the Huns were steadily losing ground such that their chieftain made a desperate attempt to turn the battle around. Unfortunately, this was not to be as a further two units were destroyed ending the battle. Score 4 – 0 for the LIR.
Rome was now on the offensive and took advantage of the terrain offered to secure their flanks on the difficult hill and hamlet. The majority of the equites were positioned on the left flank to foil any attempt by the Huns to turn that part of the battle line.
As expected, the Huns did probe the Roman left, but the equites deployed for that event quickly moved to counter the enemy threat.
Confident that Roman light horse and auxilia could contain the Hunnic threat on the left, a unit of Roman heavy cavalry returned to the centre in time to see the Huns assail the centre and right flank.
Well aimed bow and javelin by the Huns destroyed two auxilia sending shivers down Roman spines. The gap created left the Roman general temporarily isolated.
A second gap appeared on the Roman flank and seeing his light horse fleeing on the left forced the Roman commander to call a general retreat. Score 4 – 0 for the Hun.
II/80d Hunnic 356 – 570 AD Terrain type: Steppe, Aggression 3
1 x general (Cv), 11 horse archers (LH).
Timurilank 13 February 2018 at 06:20
Using LH with a supporting second element does have its risks.
In combat, both elements are in an enemy's threat zone (TZ) and in some situations have moved the supporting element out of the TZ so as to move elsewhere on the following turn.
In addition, if forced to flee, the moving element (LH) cannot interpenetrate the supporting element and is destroyed.
Cavalry armies are fun to use, but be prepared for the occasional loss.
Scott MacPhee 15 February 2018 at 23:10
Another rough day for the Romans!