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The Road in the Garden – Story One
Written by Blue Jay
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"The Road in the Garden"
Story One
Despite never having a great affinity with planes, as it was required by simply being the royal attendant, Filippe Haas still had to accompany his highness the prince for business.
Well, business was probably a bit too farfetched. While it technically could be called that, it was more akin to a banquet held by royalties inviting other royalties in order to establish positive relationships based on attendance, outfits, manners and what not else. So much stuff for a single attendant to worry about, especially with how stupidly prideful the one he served could be at times…
Regardless, thankfully the flight was short and both Filippe and his highness arrived safely at their destination, coupled with being welcomed and settled in their temporary rooms. By perhaps coincidence, their rooms were also right by each other, which in many ways could be interpreted as the high value the prince held for Filippe for the attendant to be on the same level as him.
"Do you think this blue or that blue suits me better?" Filippe's somewhat distressed train of thought regarding planes was quickly interrupted when the other man in the room spoke.
Absolutely perfect jawline, flawless skin, crystal clear hazel eyes, and honey-coloured medium-ish length hair, coupled with a smirk and a body many could only dream of, that was his highness, prince Engelbert Faust. Somehow the best genes from both of his parents had combined to create an almost perfect man, whose single gaze could make dozens of regal ladies' hearts melt.
Currently, the man was standing in front of a mirror, almost fully dressed up except for the accent collar brooch on which he apparently couldn't decide. The choices were two very similar looking brooches, one of which was decorated with a generous amount of perfect little sapphires, and the other with the much darker but larger gold-speckled lapis lazuli.
It was such a minor thing to fuss over, perhaps a little detail most people would naturally skip over, but nobles were not of that sort. Gossip, little talk and thorough dissection of other noble's outfits consisted about seventy percent of their talk, and it was also from those chatty mouths that rumors and bad stories made their way around the higher levels of society. A little blemish or one different button could be magnified to the scales of national disasters and riots and rebellions, with no mercy whatsoever once it has gone that high.
"The lapis lazuli one, Your Highness. It complements your natural features and works better with the embroidery on your vest. The sapphire would stand out too much to be a seamless addition to your outfit," the response, as usual, came quickly, Filippe's observation making Engelbert nod in agreement.
He put down the sapphire as his fingers carefully put the lazuli brooch in place. Engelbert always insisted on putting the last of his clothes himself. As long as Filippe had known him, Engelbert had always liked to do the finishing touches himself. It was unknown what brought on this peculiarity on his side, but it had proved to be quite charming.
Not that Filippe would ever say that. It was not in his line of work nor would he allow emotions to influence his thought process.
"Let's go, Filippe." Engelbert smiled in his typical flamboyant fashion, ran a hand through his hair and led the way, with Filippe following right behind him.
The walk to the ballroom wasn't that long, at most a few minutes. The two walked a bit slower than usual, with Engel commenting on the decorations of the building and Filippe demonstrating his extremely expansive knowledge by responding with what inspired certain parts or why they were the way they were. Naturally, half of the information entered through one of Engel's ears and exited through the other, but the two visibly had a very friendly aura, clearly built on years of trust and perhaps even as far as growing up together.
The ballroom itself was grand. Built during the so-called baroque era, it was ridiculously over-decorated, with gold, silver and gem gilding everywhere to be found, and a myriad of large silver mirrors polished to perfection opposing just as many windows made from crystalline glass.
Extravagance to its finest.
Not that Filippe really approved of it, despite technically being one of noble disposition himself.
As soon as the two entered the door, a page quickly announced their arrival over the music without a second of delay.
"Prince Engelbert Faust and royal attendant Haas have arrived!"
The voice echoed through the room, making a majority of the poshly dressed gentlemen and ladies look over to the entrance as the duo entered.
With so many gazes on them, the difference between the two was obvious.
Engel looked dashing and flamboyant, a proud smile perked on his lips and a seeming sparkle in his eyes. There was nothing bad one couldn't say about the way he looked, as Filippe had turned out right indeed with the lapis lazuli brooch.
But the contrast with Filippe was incredible. Despite having been to such a ball, Filippe had dressed himself rather simply, with barely any decorations on his almost pure black outfit. The single light thing on his outfit was some simple white embroidery around the sleeves and that was it. Well, aside from Filippe himself.
The main reason many eyes even went to look at him despite his unassuming outfit was the fact he was an albino man. He had long, almost pure white hair, tied rather loosely at the lower half of his neck with a ribbon, and coupled with those eerie red eyes, he was rather eye-catching.
Regardless, the main attraction of the show was the prince, not a mere attendant, so eventually, the attention shifted and Filippe finally could be left alone as he left the prince on his own devices and moved to sit down at one of the small tables to the side.
Taking a thin glass of champagne from a nearby server, he sat down, glancing at the sparkling drink occasionally but mostly observing Engelbert.
From the moment of entering the ballroom, the prince was the center of attention. Practically swarmed by both noble men and ladies, Engel showcased his refined manners by managing to speak to all of them, remembering their names and titles with barely any effort. Though Filippe knew that all of that came from years of studies, many of which it was he who taught.
Sipping his light champagne, Filippe leaned on one of his hands and watched as Engel asked one of the noble ladies for a dance.
"My fellow noble ladies, do not fret," the prince said when he noticed the other women's disappointment and little sounds of sadness. "I will dance with all of you tonight, I assure you."
Engel smiled, the beautiful face instantly mellowing out many of their hearts as he walked over to the other dancing pairs and bowed gracefully, beginning the dance.
A waltz, elegant and light, was the most popular type of dance in the current times. That is, in the uppermost circles of society. One could find about anything else were they to just look into the different tiers.
Naturally, as one of the representatives of a nation, Engel knew many dances to perfection. Not all of them, but plenty to rarely be caught in a situation where he wouldn't be able to showcase his skills.
As most things, Filippe had been the one who taught them to the prince. It might not look like it but he and the prince had almost a decade in age difference. While his highness Engelbert was barely in his twenties, Filippe was nearing his thirties.
Thirty and still unmarried. Truly a rarity amongst nobles, but not unexpected considering who he was and especially how he looked.
Not that he seemed to care much about that, in fact, it barely even crossed his mind. The only reason he even bothered to think about it was the other nobles sitting around him discussing among themselves. Filippe ignored them and took another little sip from his champagne.
His eyes never once left the prince, who had at this point finished the first dance on the beat the music ended.
"Thank you for this wonderful dance, milady," Engel smiled, taking the noble's hand and placing a gentle peck on it before letting go. A refined set of bows followed before the prince was once again swarmed by the flock of women.
"My noble ladies, I promised and I wouldn't break my promise. But I would have to excuse myself for a moment," Engelbert smiled, about to free himself from them to get himself a drink and perhaps even have a word with Filippe he felt a grip around his right arm.
"Are you sure you wouldn't like to dance with me, my prince?" A voice just like the most over-saturated perfume entered Engel's ear, making him turn back around, making eye contact with perhaps truly the most over-perfumed woman.
Her black hair was lifted in the most elaborate hairdo possible, with dozens of realistic fake flowers adorning her head. The lashes surrounding the dark eyes were covered in makeup, and so was her face, her lips as red as blood and curved in a confident smirk.
Red was her extravagant outfit as well, almost swallowing and washing out the other women's dresses, making her the center of attention. She was like a blood-red ruby, with a gaze that not many could resist.
Despite Engelbert's intentions to leave, with her pressed against his body so tightly, there was no way he could free himself from her grasp as easily as he intended to. So, he smiled just as dashingly as usual, his gaze warm and calm.
"Milady Boivin, I never said I wouldn't take this dance with you. In fact, would you like to dance right now?"
With this sentence, Engel offered her a hand, a clear gesture of offering to lead them on a dance. He seemed so dashing, so perfect as he did this, completely unperturbed by the fact that he could feel about all of her curves pressed against him.
"My, why would I decline such a gracious offer, your highness," the lady chuckled, a laugh that felt like thick overly sweetened syrup compared to Engel's class. But with that, she finally unglued herself from him, at least for the most part, as she let him lead her to the dance floor.
Well, "letting him lead" was a lie, she was the one that seemed to be truly leading him. With every step and turn to the music, her appearance seemed to gobble up everything around her, somehow including the prince himself, pulling all the attention on her and her only. She was like an exquisite gem, sparkling in all tones and shades, and with every turn her smirk seemed to get deeper and deeper.
"Your highness, I believe you are free for the rest of the evening, am I correct?" Her eyes felt like bottomless pits, her question seemingly innocent and to her satisfaction Engel as if fell into her trap.
"Milady Boivin, your intuition is very keen," Engel's smile was so dashing as both of them quickly spun around. "I was originally planning to spend it alone, as you predicted."
Her eyes narrowed. Bingo.
"My prince, doesn't that mean you wouldn't mind some company tonight? It must get lonely to be all alone all night…" Imperceptibly, she had gotten even closer to him, her chest almost touching his, her perfume beyond smoldering both of them.
One idea closer and their lips would have probably touched.
Engel seemingly didn't notice any of it as he remained as dashing as ever. His hands lightly moved around the woman, once more both of them spinning around before he spoke once more. "If you would like to accompany me for a walk in the gardens afterwards?"
"Well, I wouldn't deny such an honor, your highness," lady Boivin's smile spoke of so much satisfaction of having gotten her way that Filippe, who had witnessed the whole thing, almost felt like vomiting.
Disgusting. How could such a viper even get close to his prince? While it was true that nobles were a bunch of venomous snakes in pretty outfits, some were much more dangerous than others. Including this lady Boivin.
Annoyed as Filippe was, his expression, aside from a barely hidden glaring gaze at the two, remained neutral. He finished his champagne in a quick swoop before grabbing a glass of deep red wine from a passing by server and just as quickly finishing that one as well. He was so irritated he didn't even notice he had finished a third glass of alcohol by the time the quick waltz was over.
"Milady, I assume I will see you later tonight then?" the prince smiled charmingly, kissing the back of the woman's hand with just as much elegance as before, even going as far as lightly looking at her from below.
"My, my, but of course, your highness," she chuckled almost sounding like thick smoldering syrup, glancing down at those pure hazel eyes of Engel with something akin satisfaction.
There was nothing that could satisfy her more than the fact that the young man was so naïve to be trapped in her poisonous spider web. She felt victorious, and that filled her with such haughty pride that once the prince finally left to get himself a drink, her smirk as he looked down on the other noble ladies likened her to a fox.
Filippe, despite his incredible disgust from witnessing his prince play along this all, said nothing. The almost snowy knuckles tightened around the half empty fourth glass of wine spoke otherwise.
Engel took himself a thin, elegant glass of rose before sitting down next to Filippe.
"Why don't you join in and dance? There's plenty of women to choose from," Engel sounded amused as he took a sip from his drink. "You can't be a bachelor forever, Filippe."
In return to his joking teasing, Filippe almost gave him a glare, but it looked more annoyed than anything. "I'm staying a bachelor even if it means dying alone."
"Oh, don't be like that," Engel laughed as he watched Filippe finish the glass of wine and then lean back on the chair, close his eyes, and cross his arms.
"I'll never marry a viper," he stated, sounding like a stubborn old man in his sixties. The type that were so stuck in their ways that a small raise in their electricity bill brought on insurmountable amounts of rage and anger.
Engel smirked to himself in amusement, also leaning back and sipping on his wine. He always found it amusing how Filippe reacted, reminding him of an old tutor more than a man merely ten years older than him. Then again, they were very different as people so it wasn't too unexpected.
Eventually, Engel finished up his wine, not trying to make any more small talk considering Filippe kept his eyes closed and that stubborn expression on his face. Regardless, he was still very entertained by his attendant's behavior, the playful sparkles from his eyes never once fading.
As if on a timer, the moment Engel stood up and moved back towards the center of the room, the swarm of nobles appeared again, with the red-dressed lady Boivin in the lead.
For the rest of the evening, once he opened his eyes that is, Filippe watched as the woman was as sticky as a dust devil, barely even letting Engel take a break once more or dance or talk with anyone else. She was so possessive over the man, and yet Engel didn't seem to either notice or care, being as accommodating and warm as ever. He always smiled and looked dashing, listening and letting the woman do as she pleased, making her feel completely victorious and haughty.
Filippe just felt more and more disappointed and disgusted the longer this went on. But the worst part was that it wasn't new – he had seen Engel do the same before.
This behavior, the prince seemingly being led on by the nose by a woman in their attempt to gain something, was nothing new. Engel had always had it happen more than once, with many different people, and he always let them lead, playing charmed and innocent. But it was also a behavior Filippe greatly disapproved of, because in his eyes the prince was never serious enough.
If he wasn't careful – which Filippe didn't think he really was, – many problems could arise from such behavior. Endless rumors, bad reputation, questionable behaviors were just the start of it, not to mention the hundreds of desperate love letters Filippe dealt with every week. Absolutely horrid. Every time he saw one he felt like dying.
By the end of the evening he had unknowingly finished about an entire bottle of alcohol just by himself. And wine wasn't the lightest of drinks, especially red one. Yet he didn't look drunk by the time the ball ended and him and Engel finally left the ballroom. Filippe was a lucky man to only have a very light rosy flush to his usually absurdly pale cheeks.
Walking down the corridor, Filippe kept his hands clasped behind his back, eyes mainly focused on the floor and mind focused on walking straight and without wobbling. He didn't look drunk at all, but the considerable amount of alcohol he had finished was taking its toll.
"Well, I'm going to head to the walk with lady Boivin, Filippe," Engel gestured lightly, catching the white-haired man's attention and making him look up.
What met him were the cheerful eyes of the prince, seemingly unabashed about the whole thing with the possessive woman. It was something Filippe couldn't stand, and while he normally would have simply nodded and remained silent, this time he was too drunk to think that rationally.
"Why do you do this?" He muttered, his red gaze narrowed at Engel. His eyes looked somewhat tired and bleak, as if he didn't really realize what he was saying.
Engel raised an eyebrow. "Do what?"
Usually whenever Filippe questioned him, he would adddress him with "Your highness", yet now there was none of that. Despite Engel repeatedly trying to get Filippe to drop the honorifics as he considered him a very close friend and trusted partner.
"The whole fake flirt thing," Filippe walked a bit closer to Engel, their eyes on the same level. He was actually merely one centimeter shorter than the prince. "Why do you even bother to talk to them, lest listen to their requests? You know what type of people they are."
His gaze, as tired as it looked, at the same time appeared quite aware of what he was doing. As aware a drunk man would be.
Engel's eyebrow went a bit higher and then he just laughed, brushing his hand through his hair.
"Why does it matter? It's not like any damage is done, you know. They get some of their fantasies fulfilled, I get some amusement for the moment they realize they aren't getting anywhere," shrugging as he spoke, looking beyond carefree.
"It's not hurting anyone nor does anyone seem to care. Plus, you know that I don't have any feelings towards them," he cheerfully spoke, a smile on his face.
The more Filippe listened, the more his expression seemed to darken. Clearly, the answer wasn't satisfying him one bit, something Engel actually knew quite well. Filippe before had expressed disappointment in his actions, just never sounding this curt.
"Not hurting anyone? Nobody cares? Listen to yourself! Do you have any idea how many rumors, how many fake articles, how many love letters get written to your name every day because of your actions?"
The more Filippe spoke, the more disappointed he seemed to get. Despite not raising his voice a single notch, he sounded somehow desperate, perhaps desperate to shove some sense in the head of the idiot prince in front of him, or desperate in some other sense.
"Do you have any idea just how much weight your actions carry? You're the future king of a nation, a single hand gesture of yours could be enough to spiral a war!"
He could have been exaggerating, but at this moment, Filippe felt more than correct.
Despite his words startling Engel, the prince wasn't bothered much at all. In the end, he was aware that Filippe held very heavy disapproval of his actions. And for the most part he saw those actions as his attendant needlessly worrying for him.
"Filippe, it's fine," he smiled warmly, patting the older man on the shoulder. "It really doesn't matter. Plus, I'm still a prince. I mean, who's going to be hurt from a single kiss? I bet that's what she wants now, and she's not getting a step further than that. It's no big deal."
At this point, Filippe couldn't help but look as if he were going to cry any second. He had spent so much time trying to teach this royal that his actions held consequences, that he shouldn't behave so frivolously and show some restraint.
Desperation had welled up in his heart to the point of sorrow, and normally, Filippe would have held his composure and not start the conversation to begin with. But the alcohol running through his body was muddying his mind, making his emotions for once in a blue moon get out on the surface.
But it wasn't just desperation and sorrow finding its way up there, there was something else as well, something Filippe had done everything he could to never show the man in front of him.
"'Who's going to be hurt from a single kiss'…?" Filippe repeated the words, sounding beyond distressed, looking away for a second.
Then, without any warning, his hand moved forward, grabbing Engel by the shirt and pulling him to himself, their lips pressing together for a long, seemingly endless second, catching the prince completely off guard.
In the end, once that second was over, Filippe quickly let go, his hand barely staying on Engel's chest for a moment as he looked down, tiny tears beginning to well in his eyes as the sorrow finally overtook him.
"It does matter…"
And then he moved away, finally glancing at the usually flamboyant prince, who was now staring at him, eyes wide in shock, not quite comprehending what had just taken place.
"Go ahead with your walk in the garden. Go give her what she wants… Enjoy yourself," Filippe muttered quietly, the look in his eyes resembling some sort of sad longing as he turned around and left, leaving the prince alone in the corridor, still stunned.
He hadn't even bothered to wipe away the first tears on his skin.
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Friday News Dump: A-Rod and J-Lo Are No-Mo'
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What else is there to live for?
On Friday, Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez announced they are calling it quits. They are ending their four-year relationship and two-year engagement.
According to People, the ultimate source on celeb gossip, "[t]his has been a long time coming,"
What a shame.
J-Lo, an experienced veteran at being engaged, has butted her way out of another relationship and engagement. She's walking out the backdoor, and onto bigger and better things. It appears the enthusiasm for the relationship has been plugged up, the foundation has cracked, and got wedged in a bad place. This is obviously the bottom for the power couple, and it has reached the hind end. It this relationship were a train, this is definitely the caboose. J-Lo took the hearts of all of her and A-Rod's fans and totally wrecked 'em.
Speaking of A-Rod, a total change has been injected into his life. Being newly single, his business performance will definitely be enhanced. With more time to focus on his business ventures, he'll definitely come into meetings with bigger balls, not shrunken ones. One can assume he's really going to be ready to flex his huge business muscles and be ready to rage all over anyone sitting across the negotiating table.
With J-Lo putting A-Rod in her rear…view mirror, all we can hope is that both parties have truly amicably split, both remain happy, and find love down the road.
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This is a digital copy of the exhibition postcard for John Dilg: Sources in Another World. This exhibition was featured in Clough-Hanson Gallery October 26 - December 5, 2012.
This is a digital copy of an exhibition postcard for Team Shag: Collaborative Paintings by Amy Sillman, David Humphrey, and Elliott Green. The exhibition was featured in Clough-Hanson Gallery January 22 - February 17, 2010.
This is a digital copy of the exhibition postcard for The Solid Matter of a Celestial Body: Jillian Conrad. It was featured in the Rhodes College Clough-Hanson Gallery October 19 - December 5, 2007.
This is a digital copy of the exhibition postcard for Bruce Tapola: The Velvety Cloak of Twilight. It was featured in the Rhodes College Clough-Hanson Gallery January 21 - February 19, 2005.
This is a digital copy of an exhibition postcard for Learning to Love You More, which was featured in the Rhodes College Clough-Hanson Gallery November 12 - December 8, 2004.
This is an exhibition postcard for Cynthia Thompson: Recumbent. The exhibition was featured in the Rhodes College Clough-Hanson Gallery February 27 - March 24, 2004.
This is a digital copy of the exhibition postcard for Construciton: Cedar Lorca Nordbye. This exhibition was featured in the Rhodes College Clough-Hanson Gallery September 5 - October 15, 2003.
This is a digital copy of the exhibition postcard for a Clough-Hanson Gallery exhibition titled Charles Juhasz-Alvarado. The exhibition dates from February 8 - March 20, 2002.


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Q: Confusion about the definition of upper bounds of a set I am confused about upper bounds of a set.
Consider a set:
$A = ${$1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7$}
How many upperbounds are there?
Does the upperbound need to be in the set?
Also about supremum. What is the difference between a supremum and an upper bound?

A: An upper bound is any number $U$ with the property that $a\leq U$ for each element $a$ of $A$.
For example, $10$ is an upper bound for your $A$ because $1\leq 10$, $2\leq 10$, $3\leq 10$, $4\leq 10$, $5\leq 10$, $6\leq 10$, and $7\leq 10$.
Obviously, if you find one number $U$ that is an upper bound for $A$, then also every number greater than $U$ is also an upper bound. That's because if $V>U$, then $a\leq U$ implies $a\leq V$.
But, among all of the  upper bounds, there will be a smallest upper bound (assuming the set $A$ is not empty). That number is called the least upper bound of $A$. The term supremum is just another word for least upper bound. You will see this written variously as $$\sup A$$ or $$\operatorname{lub} A$$
In your case, the least upper bound is $7$. Any time a set has a maximum, this maximum coincides with the least upper bound. For example, every finite nonempty set has a maximum.
But if the set is infinite, the maximum value might happen to be missing from the set. For example, the set of numbers $$\{0.9, 0.99, 0.999, 0.9999,\cdots\}$$ contains elements that get arbitrarily close to $1$, but $1$ itself is not in the set. $1$ is an upper bound for the set, and it is the least upper bound for the set, but it is not the maximum for the set. Technically, the maximum of a set must belong to that set.


From a DevOps perspective having a historical record of application logs can aid immensely in tracking down bugs, responding to customer questions, or finding out when and why that critical piece of data was updated to the wrong value. One of the biggest grievances with the built-in log handling of Google App Engine is that historical logs are only available for the previous three days. We wanted to do a little bit better and have logs available for a 30 day time period. This article outlines a method we've developed for pushing App Engine logs to an elasticsearch cluster.
A side benefit of this approach is that if you have multiple App Engine projects, all of their logs can be searched at the same time. This provides an immediate benefit when tracking down systems integration problems or parsing API traffic between applications.
The solution we chose for this problem revolves around the MapReduce API. If you need a refresher on this API please check out my MapReduce tutorial series.
The gist of this solution is to run a MapReduce job that reads data from the App Engine Logs API using the LogInputReader, converts the data to a JSON format for ingestion into elasticsearch, and finally write the parsed data to the elasticsearch cluster using a custom MapReduce OutputWriter.
We execute this MapReduce job on a timer using cron to push logs to elasticsearch on a specific schedule. In our case, we run this job every 15 minutes to provide a relatively recent view of current operational data.
The following diagram presents the architecture of our solution.
The majority of the solution is contained in a MapperPipeline. The following code illustrates how to setup the MapperPipeline. What's remaining is to write a custom MapReduce OutputWriter that pushes data to elasticsearch and a function that converts a RequestLog object to JSON suitable for elasticsearch.
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WFP welcomes funding from the United States to support refugees in Rwanda
January 19, 2023 WebDesk
KIGALI – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of US$7.2 million from the United States (through USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance) to provide life-saving food assistance in the form of cash transfers and treatment for malnutrition including social and behavioral change initiatives for 113,500 refugees living in all five camps in Rwanda.
"This contribution from the United States comes at a time when we need it most. With the recent arrival of over 100 new refugees every day from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and rising costs of food, energy and transport, refugees are now, more than ever in need of assistance to enable them to progress towards self-reliance," says Ahmareen Karim, WFP's Acting Country Director in Rwanda.
WFP uses cash transfers to empower people with choice to address their essential needs in local markets, while also helping to boost local economies.
Despite this generous funding, WFP is still not able to provide full rations to meet the minimum food requirements for refugees in Rwanda. WFP, in partnership with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, introduced a needs-based targeting approach in May 2021 – a system under which refugees are given food rations according to their levels of vulnerability.
Due to funding shortfalls, the most vulnerable refugees currently receive 92 percent of a full ration and those deemed moderately vulnerable receive 46 percent of a full ration. This ensures that the most vulnerable refugees are prioritized for food assistance while the least vulnerable refugees are supported to become more self-reliant.
This contribution is in addition to US$9.5 million received from the United States in 2022 in support of WFP's refugee operations in Rwanda.
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.
Source: World Bank
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Lucy Jones wanted to be the program's centerpiece prior to college. This year, she fits the role.
Coming into her freshman year at Temple University in 2017, Lucy Jones was worn down.
Jones is from Leicester, England, where the cross country season typically ends around late July or early August.
Now, she's off an all-conference 2017 season. She started this year by placing third at the Temple Invitational on Aug. 31 at Belmont Plateau in West Philadelphia with a time of 23 minutes, 32 seconds in the 6,000-meter race.
Jones wants to build on her all-conference season after playing a major role in the women's third-place finishes at the American Athletic Conference and Eastern College Athletic Conference championship meets last season.
Jones didn't compete at the Temple Invitational last season. She first competed in the Rider Invite on Sept. 15, 2017 and finished fifth with a time of 22:55.37. She then placed 55th with a time of 18:22 at the Joe Piane Invitational, a 5,000-meter race hosted by the University of Notre Dame.
Jones improved her results after that meet, starting with a 20th-place finish at the Princeton Invitational with a time of 22:09.4. She then earned all-conference honors after finishing in the top 15 at the American Athletic Conference championships with a time of 22:04.4.
She had another top-15 result at the ECAC championships, leading the team to another third-place finish with a time of 18:19.5.
Snyder began recruiting Jones during her senior year at Our Lady's Convent School in Loughborough, England. Snyder looked at her meet results online, then reached out to her via social media. He said that Jones never actually took an official visit to Temple, but through conversations over Skype, Jones was convinced that Temple was the place for her.
"One of the things that stood out in our recruiting process of Lucy was that she was someone who wanted to help build a program and be a centerpiece of a group," Snyder said. "We both thought that was something she could do here at Temple.
This season, Jones has higher expectations for her teammates, coaching staff and herself. But that doesn't intimidate her because she has been in that position in the past, she said.
Feyonda Fitzgerald was a second-round pick by the Indiana Fever in April's WNBA Draft, but didn't make the final roster after she was waived by the team.
Temple beat Navy and George Washington University on Saturday and Sunday to improve to 5-2 this season.
After Saturday's 1-0 loss to Central Florida in Orlando, Temple's three-game winning streak is over and it must win its final game to make the American Athletic Conference tournament.


Here I am going to list to you Nike shops in Kenya. Previously, I wrote about Adidas shops in Kenya and I thought it fit also to write about Nike.
However, before we can look at Nike shops in Kenya, let us look at a brief history of Nike.
Nike was founded in 1962 and is is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, in the Portland metropolitan area . By then it was called Blue Ribbon sports. It officially took the current name of Nike, Inc in 1971. The company adopted the name Nike after the Greek goddess of victory. It markets its products under its own brand name and other brand names.
It is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing and worldwide sales and marketing of footwear, apparel, equipment, accessories and services.
The company today employs more than 50,000 people and is ranked among the top 100 companies in the United States by total revenue.
Having looked at a brief history of the company. Let us look at Nike shops in Kenya, places you can buy Nike products and accessories.
Here are the top Nike shops in Kenya, let us explore them one by one.
Nike Shop at The Junction is located at The Junction along Ngong Road, Nairobi. The Shop deals in products, goods, merchandise, services and activities related to Shoes and Footwear.
TRM stands for Thika Road Mall. TTHika Road mall is located along Thika Superhighway Exit 11, opposite Moi International Sport Centre, Kasarani. Tha mall open daily from 8.00am and 10.00pm.
At the shop, you will find several Nike merchandise.
You can also buy Nike products from online stores or websites that is if you often buy items online. The problem would be if the products that are shipped are genuine or not. Let us leave that story for another day.
Nike is brand that is much sort after by most of us. At the shops list above you can fine Nike products and accessories.
You too can share this article to people who are looking for the very shops.
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It's easy to feel confused when you hear the terms: celiac disease, non-celiac wheat sensitivity, wheat allergy. What do they mean? What are the differences between them?
A lot, it turns out. But the one thing they do have in common is they are medical issues that can be treated through diet. Whether it's an eating plan that eliminates gluten or wheat will differ by diagnosis. Here's a guide to help you better understand the differences between these conditions.
Approximately 1 out of 100 people have the genetic autoimmune condition known as celiac disease. There is currently no cure. A lifelong avoidance of any foods containing gluten must be strictly adhered to, as the body's reaction to any ingested gluten causes a flattening of the cells lining the small intestine. This in turn leads to nutrient malabsorption and other serious health issues. Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye, as well as any products or hybrids made from these grains.
There are more than 300 identified symptoms associated with this disease, including behavioral changes, stunted growth, anemia, infertility, and gastrointestinal issues (bloating, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and constipation). With such a large number of associated symptoms, diagnosing this disease can be challenging--combined with the fact that a significant amount of those with the disease may have few or no symptoms.
According to the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University Medical Center, "Anyone who suffers from an unexplained, stubborn illness for several months should consider celiac disease a possible cause and be properly screened for it." Approximately 83 percent of those with celiac disease remain undiagnosed.
Non-Celiac Wheat Sensitivity
Neither an allergy nor an autoimmune reaction, non-celiac wheat sensitivity (NCWS) is a not-well-understood condition in which a person experiences intestinal and extra-intestinal symptoms triggered by gluten ingestion.
In 2012, an internationally recognized group of celiac disease experts classified the condition as being separate from celiac disease. Some studies indicate that wheat components other than gluten may cause symptoms, so the term non-celiac wheat sensitivity has been suggested as opposed to non-celiac gluten sensitivity.
Depression, bloating, abdominal pain, diarrhea, constipation, headaches, chronic fatigue, and bone or joint pain are symptoms of both celiac disease and NCWS. Symptoms generally appear hours or even days after gluten has been consumed for those with NCWS. When gluten is removed from the diet, the person improves and symptoms resolve.
Although many of the symptoms are similar to those of celiac disease, individuals with NCWS do not test positive for celiac. There are no biomarkers or tests to identify NCWS. Celiac disease, wheat allergy, and any other possible reasons for symptoms are first ruled out. A gluten-free diet is then followed and if improvement is observed, gluten sensitivity may be the diagnosis.
It was once believed that those with NCWS did not experience intestinal damage. However, in July 2016, researchers at Columbia University Medical Center published a study confirming that wheat exposure for those with NCWS triggered a systemic immune reaction and accompanying intestinal cell damage. It's believed that the number of people affected by this condition is equal to or may even exceed the number of those with celiac disease.
An immune reaction to any of the multitude of proteins found in wheat, a wheat allergy occurs when the body's T-cells deliver immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies to "attack" any ingested wheat. The rest of the body receives an alert that there is an issue. Symptoms ensue within minutes to hours, and can include nausea, abdominal pain, itching, swelling of the lips and tongue, breathing issues, hives, or anaphylaxis--a life-threatening reaction.
Those with a wheat allergy must eliminate all forms of wheat from their diet. They can, however, eat gluten from nonwheat sources.
A diagnosis for wheat allergy is conducted through skin prick tests, a food elimination diet, and a wheat-specific IgE blood test. A child diagnosed with a wheat allergy may outgrow it, but an adult with the allergy tends to have it for life.
"Celiac Disease, Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity or Wheat Allergy: What Is the Difference?" Gluten Intolerance Group, www.gluten.org, 2017
"Non-Celiac Wheat Sensitivity," Celiac Disease Foundation, www.celiac.org, 2017
"Response to Different Wheat Genotypes in Not-Celiac Wheat Sensitivity," https://ClinicalTrials.gov, 1/17
"What Is Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity?" www.BeyondCeliac.org, 2016


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US Court Rejects Bid to Dismiss Puerto Rico Insolvency Case
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A massive setback for the holders of Puerto Rico's delinquent debt, a US federal court has ruled that Congress' oversight of the island's finances is constitutional and will continue – meaning strict austerity for the struggling US territory for years, if not decades, to come.
Kristian Rouz — A federal judge ruled Friday that Puerto Rico's bankruptcy would proceed, as the process of appointing members of its fiscal board was not improper. The ruling comes in response to a lawsuit filed by Aurelius Investment — a major holder of Puerto Rican bonds, which claimed that appointments to the island's main fiscal body had contradicted US law.
US 'Democracy Lessons' Not Learned? Puerto Rico Calls for Self-Determination
District Judge Laura Taylor Swain reaffirmed that the oversight of Puerto Rico's finances by Congress does not violate the Constitution. Judge Swain said that the direct appointment of fiscal board members by the Congress is legal, as Puerto Rico is not subject to the constitutional Appointments Clause — as the island is a US territory, not a state.
The board is appointed under a 2016 federal law — known as PROMESA — to oversee and improve Puerto Rico's finances. Under the PROMESA law, the board can seek restructuring, refinancing and bankruptcy on certain types of Puerto Rico's liabilities.
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Aurelius had alleged that Congress' action to impose strict fiscal discipline on the struggling territory constituted a federal overreach and that the bankruptcy case under PROMESA is therefore void. But Judge Swain ruled otherwise.
"The oversight board's statutory objectives and scope of authority thus mark its character as territorial rather than federal," the court ruling read.
Judge Swain also said that Puerto Rico's fiscal board members are not federal officials, but rather territorial officers appointed by Congress in line with the Territorial Clause. This means, the ruling said, that the process of appointments does not fall under the Appointments Clause.
"Under the premise advanced by Aurelius, Congress is incapable of both creating and filling a territorial office or entity. Rather, the only officers who may be considered 'territorial' are those who are popularly elected by the residents of a federal territory," Judge Swain said. "Popular elective authority in territories of the United States derives from Congress, which explicitly states in PROMESA that it has exercised its own power to create a territorial entity."
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The ruling is a major setback to Aurelius and other holders of Puerto Rico's delinquent debt, including the Irrigation & Electrical Workers Union. The island's fiscal problems started back in 2015, when the territorial government failed to service its huge debt, accumulated over previous years of mismanagement, elevated social and utility spending, and shrinking budget revenue.
Puerto Rico bond holders have hoped for a federal bailout, but the GOP-dominated Congress decided that the island should not solve its fiscal problems at the expense of US taxpayers. The PROMESA law established a clear and market-oriented pathway to fiscal health for Puerto Rico, even though it could mean years or even decades of strict austerity.
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The Congress-appointed fiscal board consists of seven voting members, as well as the Governor of Puerto Rico as a non-voting member. The board's mission is to improve the island's finances by cutting budget expenditures, liquidating its assets and decreasing its debt burden.
With its dismissed lawsuit, Aurelius had targeted specifically the bankruptcy case involving the island's $120-billion pension debt. The fiscal board determined back in May 2017 that Puerto Rico is effectively in default on its pension liabilities, triggering the ongoing Title III bankruptcy.
"As stated in Judge Swain's opinion, PROMESA empowers the Oversight Board to 'approve the fiscal plans and budgets of the Commonwealth and its instrumentalities' and 'override Commonwealth executive and legislative actions that are inconsistent with approved fiscal plans and budgets,'" the fiscal board said in a statement following the court ruling.
However, Puerto Rico's fiscal policies are far from full austerity, as rife mismanagement and corruption continues to plague the once-flourishing island. A Bloomberg report earlier this month found that Puerto Rico's bankrupt utility company, Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), had hired a new CEO with an annual salary of $750,000.
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This comes as PREPA is mired in bankruptcy proceedings over its $9-billion delinquent debt.
The report triggered public outrage and a massive scandal, resulting in the resignation of PREPA's CEO, which left the company leaderless.
Meanwhile, both policymakers and observers are predicting a strict governmental austerity for the years to come, whilst the US Congress is working to further tighten its oversight of Puerto Rico's finances and overall economic governance.
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MASINDI – The Resident District Commissioner (RDC) for Masindi Godfrey Nyakahuma has asked the Uganda Communications Commission to ban a song he claims is preaching hatred to the population.
The song titled, "Mwije Turumbe," was authored by local singer Figo West, a resident of Hoima district.
"Mwije Turumbe" literally means, "Come and we attack" in the Runyoro language.
According to Nyakahuma, the song which calls upon the Banyoro to fight against land grabbers, will incite violence amongst the masses if it is left to continue playing on the airwaves.
Nyakahuma made the call during a regional broadcasters' forum organized by the UCC at Country Inn hotel in Masindi over the weekend.
"Media practitioners need to be reminded of their responsibilities and limits sometimes. We cannot allow anyone to incite the public with songs that preach hatred,"Nyakahuma said.
"I therefore request the Uganda Communications Commission to ban that song from being played on the airwaves because it is misleading the public,"Nyakahuma said.
Kaggwa , who promised to follow up the RDC's matter, said the media should uphold the main roles of educating, informing, sensitizing and entertaining the public but not inciting them to do wrong.
Earlier this year, UCC temporarily shut down about 23 media stations for allegedly promoting witchcraft through advertorial messages and hosting people falling in the category of traditional healers.
Kaggwa cautioned media practitioners against promoting such acts on their stations.
"If we get you when you are still doing the vice, we shall just withdraw your license,"Kaggwa said.


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Kalateh Mollaei, E., Jahed, H. (2012). Load Controlled Fatigue of AZ31B. Journal of Mechanical Research and Application, 4(2), 41-47.
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With the expanding demand on application of magnesium alloys in automotive and aerospace industries, robust methods in fatigue characterization of commercially available magnesium alloys with high specific strength is anticipated. In this paper, rotating bending load controlled tests has been studied on specimens machined from an extrusion piece of AZ31B. Due to asymmetric and anisotropic behavior of AZ31B, methods of transferring the load controlled results into stress-life results are lacking. Using the approach of variable material property (VMP), the load-stress relation in fully reversed test is derived. To apply the proposed method to AZ31B, the cyclic behavior of the material is required. Fully reversed step-loading of AZ31B over a wide range of strain amplitude was carried out on a servo hydraulic fatigue rig and was reported in the literature. The stabilized cyclic behavior at half-life was obtained for different load levels. Also, the cyclic tension and the cyclic compression curves were obtained. Using the proposed load-stress model and the actual cyclic behavior of AZ31B, an elastic-plastic solution over the whole domain of cross section was obtained. An energy based fatigue model was then employed to predict the life. The predicted and experimental lives agree well. The proposed method is recom-mended for correlating the load controlled test with stress and/or strain controlled tests.


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"That's Crazy!!!" – More Chronicles from the VA Chapter 6
I promised a follow-up article after Chapter 5; it took me the better part of 48 hours to cool down sufficiently to write coherently to effect an update. On 18 March 2002, I wrote about an appointment with my Primary Care Provider (PCP) being tardy, unprepared, and bureaucratese in supposedly holding a phone appointment with me. 01 April 2022, not an "April Fools Joke," at 0731 hours, lasting 9 minutes, my PCP called me to get my approval to have me changed from her PACT team to another provider's team. Apparently, in the highly red taped world of PCPs at the El Paso VAHCS, there must be an hour-long handoff call when a provider initiates a change of PACT team. I have my doubts and smell designed incompetence!
Let me pause here for a moment. I generally need two hours to write an article after conducting research. 18 March 2002, it took a bit longer to draft that one due to the need to blow off steam with some choice words and choke down the urge to beat a few brick walls with my fists. I am generally a very controlled person, and the fact that this PCP was so stunningly incompetent, rude, and HIPAA clueless, I admit I lost my cherub-like demeanor! That the patient advocate was able to get my secure message, upload the comments into the electronic medical record, and contact the provider before the provider had even logged the patient notes, speaks volumes about the ineptitude of the PCP. Worse, in the call on 01 April, the PCP was still on speakerphone, still disregarding HIPAA security, and quoted lines out of context from my message to the patient advocate. Speaking volumes about the processes and procedures of the patient advocate's office to investigate patient claims without breaching confidentiality. Another topic for another day entirely!
28 March 2022, I received the following from the patient advocates office, quoted completely:
"We have received your secure message addressing your concerns. I will be sending a Patient Advocate Tracking notification with your concerns to our Primacy Care Service for review. They will be contacting you via telephone to discuss your concerns."
I never heard anything from this mysterious "Primary Care Service" group/team. 01 April 2022 was the first response, and that was from the PCP. Sourcing the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Office of Inspector General (VA-OIG), the PCP is the second most important member of the Patient-Aligned Care Teams (PACT) at the VA; the patient is the essential member and an actively engaged and knowledgeable patient is preferred. I promise the VA-OIG has not even scratched the surface of the problems with recalcitrant, snowflake, and bureaucratic PCPs endangering patient health with the VA. Not my first run-in with an inept PCP; I sincerely hope it is my last!
In returning to the 01 April call, we find another interesting piece of data. The PCP affirmed that abdominal pain could radiate from, say a hernia, to other parts of the abdomen, but this is for a specialist to diagnose, not a Family Practitioner. Get that; the PCP is directly reversing all the published documentation by the VA and the VA-OIG by declaring that a specialist is the only person who can adequately decipher and detail why pain is occurring—putting all the PCPs in the VA Health Administration under the bus as merely button pushers and drug dealers. Then the PCP has the temerity, nay the chutzpah, to suggest a trust deficiency existing between myself and the PCP. Is it any wonder that people are detested, forlorn, melancholy, madder than a wet chicken with a raging case of hemorrhoids with the care they receive from VA healthcare providers?
Again, I repeat, only for emphasis, when any updates arrive on this issue, I will publish them in their entirety to allow the VA the opportunity to rebut, refute, or explain. Like the ongoing saga with VISN 22, the Phoenix VAMC, and being arrested and injured three times by the VA Police, I am not holding my breath and awaiting a logical response. If this were the only problem in the two weeks since the PCP shenanigans, the VA would be in pretty good shape. Alas, we know, dear readers, that the VA is in dire condition, and the elected leaders need to be scrutinizing the VA a LOT more closely than they are.
We begin the latest chapter of VA-OIG reports with yet another physician bilking the government:
"Robert Clay Smith, a Louisiana physician, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, wire fraud, and illegal remunerations (taking kickbacks). According to court documents, the scheme, which ran from 2013 until 2017, involved individuals associated with a medical supply and billing company recruiting Smith to dispense pain creams and patches to his workers' compensation patients by offering him a split of the profits. The company acted as the billing agent for Smith, handling all the paperwork and submitting the allegedly fraudulent claims to the US Department of Labor, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, and private insurers. In exchange, the company paid Smith 50 to 55 percent of the profits collected from successfully billing insurers, at markups of 15 to 20 times what the medications cost."
Plus the following:
"Robert Schneiderman of Langhorne, Pennsylvania, admitted to participating in a massive compounded-medication kickback scheme that he and others ran out of a pharmacy in Clifton, New Jersey. Schneiderman pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and one count of conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute. From 2014 through 2016, Schneiderman and his coconspirators used Main Avenue Pharmacy, a mail-order pharmacy with a storefront in New Jersey, to run a fraud and kickback scheme involving compounded drugs like scar creams, pain creams, migraine mediation, and vitamins. Schneiderman was the president of Main Avenue Pharmacy and was a founder and CEO of its corporate parent. Main Avenue Pharmacy received over $34 million in reimbursements from healthcare benefit programs on compounded medications alone. Approximately $8 million of that total was paid by federal payers. Schneiderman himself earned over $400,000 through the course of the scheme. This case was investigated by the VA OIG, FBI, Department of Defense OIG, Defense Criminal Investigative Service, and Department of Health and Human Services OIG."
Don't forget this one:
"Dr. Harry Doyle, a psychiatrist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and his wife, Sonya Doyle, have agreed to pay $3 million to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act. The alleged violations include submitting false billing to the US Department of Labor Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP) for psychiatric services that were not provided and upcoding and double-billing patient claims. The Doyles have also agreed to be voluntarily excluded from federal healthcare programs for 25 years as part of the settlement. This is the largest recovery against a single psychiatrist in the history of the OWCP. A multiagency investigation of Dr. Doyle's practice revealed that from January 2013 through April 2021, the Doyles allegedly billed for services not rendered, some of which occurred when they were not physically present in the United States. This case was investigated by the VA OIG, the Department of Labor OIG, and the United States Postal Service OIG."
More is coming on this one:
"Ten Texas doctors and a healthcare executive have agreed to pay more than $1.68 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations involving illegal remuneration in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law. According to a multiagency investigation, from 2015 to 2018, the doctors allegedly received thousands of dollars in illegal remuneration from eight management service organizations (MSOs) in exchange for ordering laboratory tests from Rockdale Hospital doing business as Little River Healthcare, True Health Diagnostics LLC, and Boston Heart Diagnostics Corporation. Little River funded the illegal remuneration to the doctors in the form of volume-based commissions paid to independent contractor recruiters, who used the MSOs to pay numerous doctors for their referrals. The MSO payments to the doctors were disguised as investment returns but were based on and offered in exchange for the doctors' referrals. As part of their settlements, the defendants have agreed to cooperate with the Department of Justice's investigations of other parties involved in the alleged law violations. To date, 17 doctors and two healthcare executives involved in this scheme have agreed on settlements totaling more than $2.7 million. The civil settlements resulted from a coordinated effort between the VA OIG, Department of Health and Human Services OIG, Defense Criminal Investigative Service, and the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Texas [emphasis mine]."
Elected officials, the next time you are asked about the incredible amounts of fraud in government-provided healthcare and insurance, do not buy the media talking points that the fraud is minimal, contained, or anything but designed incompetence on the part of the bureaucrats to act as a jobs program for investigators! The same investigators who are refused sufficient tools to investigate shenanigans by employees in the Federal Government adequately.
Frankly, all of these cases need the government workers to be held accountable, and the myriad of red tape loopholes CLOSED! I remember an election; I forget who and the exact when, but a significant election plank in the platform was healthcare reform, promising to clean up the swamp and bring accountability to Washington and the government. The public is still waiting, and I know enough of you have run on this topic from both parties to repaper the walls (inside and outside) of the White House.
Yet, even if only outside providers and executives were scheming, the VA might not be in too bad a condition. Except for the employees of the VA, VHA, and VBA, which continue to be caught up in ethics violations at a minimum:
"The VA-OIG conducted an administrative investigation that included a congressional request to look into allegations that Charmain Bogue, former executive director of the Veterans Benefits Administration's Education Service, committed ethical violations arising from her spouse's consulting work for Veterans Education Success (VES). VES is a nonprofit advocacy group that regularly had business before the Education Service. The allegations also pointed to possible incomplete financial disclosures by Ms. Bogue concerning her spouse's consulting business. In their work, investigators uncovered evidence of other potential conflicts of interest and related misconduct by Ms. Bogue [emphasis mine]."
VA-OIG finding:
Bogue participated in Education Service matters involving VES without considering whether it raised an apparent conflict of interest and acted contrary to the ethics guidance she received from her supervisors.
Bogue sought résumé feedback from the president of VES to aid in her search for career advancement without considering whether this raised apparent conflict of interest concerns in subsequent VES matters. VES also endorsed Ms. Bogue for presidential nominee positions.
Bogue provided insufficient detail about her spouse's business in 2019 and 2020 public financial disclosures; VA ethics attorneys had found them compliant. She remedied the subsequently identified deficiency in her 2021 disclosure.
The OIG found that Ms. Bogue refused to cooperate fully in the OIG's investigation by refusing to complete her follow-up interview. Her husband and VES president also refused to participate in OIG interviews, and the OIG lacks testimonial subpoena authority over individuals who are not VA employees. Bogue resigned from VA in January 2022.
UPDATE: 14 April 2022 – Sen. Grassley was hoodwinked by the VA on this issue and The Daily Signal (linked) has more of this report. I covered this before, I repeat only for emphasis, when you are discharged from the VA, you lose your ability to be a "whistle-blower." As a point of fact, this is how the VA is able to hide a lot of their shenanigans, get rid of the person rocking the boat, invent the paperwork, cover the whole incident over as a "bad-apple" and keep you collective heads down and mouths shut until the VA-OIG investigation concludes. The VA's ability to abuse whistle-blowers is further compounded by Federal Attorneys who cherry-pick the cases they know they can win. Which further protects the VA's shenanigans and disheartens and mystifies those who have been wrongly terminated. The Daily Signal reflects this pattern of corruption perfectly citing the records obtained by Empower Oversight.
Some commentators have claimed that blaming elected officials for not scrutinizing or not providing tools to investigate entirely is unduly unfair to the congressional representatives. Really?!?!?! The VA-OIG conducts an investigation, the people being investigated refuse to comply, and the VA-OIG is toothless to enforce a full and complete investigation to initiate Attorney General and FBI investigations and actions to recompense the defrauded taxpayer. Ms. Bogue and the VES have invalidated any trust the taxpayer should have in their respective activities, but this, like so many other investigations into VA employees, will die of apathy before anyone is held accountable. Even though a congressional representative demanded an investigation, nobody is being held liable. Nobody is forced to compensate the defrauded taxpayer, yet the taxpayer is still expected to elect the same old representatives to their jobs. Blaming the congressional representatives (legislative branch) for not scrutinizing the executive branch, one of only two jobs these people have, is somehow unfair? NO!
Remarkably, between the 18 March disaster with the PCP and 01 April's compounding idiocy, the VA-OIG published an ironically titled investigation report.
"Improved Governance Would Help Patient Advocates Better Manage Veterans' Healthcare Complaints."
Imagine that, more designed incompetence negatively impacting the veterans seeking care at a VA medical facility, stating the obvious by the investigators. Who on earth would be responsible for seeing that regulatory agencies had the tools needed to scrutinize and demand corrective action? Calling all elected officials, did you notice that one of the prima facia tools a veteran has to report problems, conveniently called "patient advocates," does not have the sufficient authority, adequate oversight, and tools to execute their jobs? The VA-OIG reports the following:
"The Patient Advocacy Program helps advance the Veterans Health Administration's (VHA) efforts to improve customer service, support veterans' access to quality care, and provide a mechanism to resolve healthcare issues. Patient advocates document veterans' concerns, communicate the resolution, provide follow-up and feedback, and identify trends for potential opportunities to improve medical facilities. In FY 2020, VHA tracked about 162,000 serious complaints in its patient advocate tracking systems."
On a side topic, VA-OIG, how do you define a "significant complaint" and separate it from other types of complaints? Honest question, the information was, to quote my PCP, "remarkably" missing from your investigation report! Would the VA-OIG like to know why so many veterans' complaints have risen to a "serious" level? You reported the exact problem:
"A complaint is considered resolved when the complainant communicates the outcome, and the record is closed in the tracking system."
Maybe, the VA-OIG merely overlooked the logic problem, but complaints increase when the solution pushed down the throats of the veterans does not fix the actual situation. Honest question, no sarcasm involved. Is a "serious" complaint one where significant harm or death to the patient has occurred? Is a serious complaint one that breaks federal laws, EMTALA, comes readily to mind?
Having had "solutions" forced down my throat, speaking only for myself, I am thoroughly sick of having the patient advocates bureaucratize my complaint, then fail to act, and then compound the problem by quoting policy to me as a reason to close the complaint, when the VHA never have written policies and procedures! Maybe, you might want to look into the root causes of some of those "closed" complaints and ask root causation questions!
What did the VA-OIG find when they investigated the patient advocates?
VHA lacked adequate governance of the Patient Advocacy Program.
VHA did not effectively issue and implement adequate policy, monitor complaint practices, and provide guidance to medical facility directors responsible for local program management.
Patient advocates did not always enter complaints into the system.
Even though complaint records generally appeared to be closed on time, patient advocates did not always document the communication of the outcomes to the complainants.
The VA-OIG substantiated an inadequate program policy to identify clear expectations and responsibilities.
The VA-OIG found that they (patient advocates) did not always adhere to the documentation requirements to show full complaint resolution.
At the local and VISN levels, responsible personnel did not consistently analyze patient advocate tracking system complaints about trends.
Feel free to read the complete abomination of designed incompetence for yourself. Essentially the VA-OIG concluded that the VHA has been burning taxpayer money in a patient advocacy program, and the designed incompetence is so apparent it can be tracked from L2, where the James Webb telescope is located! Worse, you won't need the James Webb telescope to see the designed incompetence!
Unfortunately, I could have guessed the first three findings without looking. Every VA program is designed so ineptly, reprehensibly led, criminally incompetent, and with such dastardly deceptive doings that fiction writers' storylines have to be written better to sell books. You cannot make this stupidity up and make a profit. Hollywood would run screaming into the night if they made a true story about the ineptitude found at the VA!
Elected officials, where are you? The VA-OIG presents copies of their findings to you, and I have yet to witness a single one of you holding the VA Leadership criminally responsible for the failures at the VA. Even when the VA is killing hundreds of veterans, the US Congress refuses even to act upset, let alone scrutinize for a change! Remember how many veterans were intentionally killed in Phoenix waiting for treatment? How many VA employees lost their jobs and pensions or were forced in front of a judge for murder? It is a fair question, where are the elected officials in the legislative branch working to end the criminal "fraud, waste, abuse," and designed incompetence in the executive branch?
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