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These Are the Richest Women to Ever Appear on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover
Karen Bennett
The annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue is a sexy staple that has launched the career of many a successful model. Most of the women who have scored the coveted spot on the cover are now worth some serious dough, thanks to modeling, acting, and other ventures.
Here we'll look at the richest women ever to grace the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue. See who is considered America's first supermodel (No. 10), who insured her legs for millions (No. 4), and who is one of the hottest recording artists of today (No. 1).
15. Paulina Porizkova
Paulina Porizkova on Dancing with the Stars | ABC
Net worth: $10 million
Born in the Czech Republic, Paulina Porizkova started modeling in the early 1980s and soon became one of the most popular supermodels in Europe and the U.S. She's appeared on the covers of Glamour, Vogue, and Elle.
Porizkova also posed for Sports Illustrated multiple times in the 1980s and 1990s and again in the 2018 "In Her Own Words" shoot at age 52. She was the second woman (after Christie Brinkley) to be featured on consecutive covers two years in a row.
Next: A model who wore body paint
14. Marisa Miller
Left: Marisa Miller's bright smilie and gorgeous blonde locks. | Sports Illustrated, Right: Marisa spending time with her children. | Marisa Miller via Instagram
At just 16 years of age, Marisa Miller (now 39) got her first modeling opportunity after she was spotted walking through a café with her mother in 1994. She went on to pose for Vogue photographer Mario Testino, Victoria's Secret, GQ, Maxim, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Elle, and Vanity Fair.
And you guessed it — she appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated. In fact, she appeared in the magazine's swimsuit issue consistently from 2002 to 2008. In one of her more famous shoots, she wore nothing but body paint.
Next: The Czech Chick
13. Petra Nemcova
Petra Nemcova appeared in the SI swimsuit issue from 2003 to 2006. by Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images
Czech model Petra Nemcova, 38, has earned her net worth as a model, author, and philanthropist. Often referred to as the "Czech Chick," she began modeling at the age of 15 and has posed for beauty and luxury brands like Clarins, Max Factor, Bulgari, and Cartier.
Nemcova has also appeared on the covers of Elle, Harper's Bazaar, and the 2003 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue — from a shoot in Barbados. She also appeared inside the magazine from 2002 through 2006.
Next: One of the most famous faces in the world
12. Kate Upton
Upton is one of the most famous models in the world. | Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for Sports Illustrated
By the time she first appeared on Sports Illustrated in 2011, Kate Upton had already won competitive horseback riding championships and been signed by modeling agencies in Miami and New York. She also modeled for Victoria's Secret, Dooney & Bourke, and Beach Bunny before appearing again on Sports Illustrated in 2017.
Thanks to her modeling, Upton, 25, is now one of the most famous faces in the world. She has also tried her hand at acting, playing roles in The Layover (2017) and The Other Woman (2014).
Next: She drove a convertible in the ocean.
11. Carolyn Murphy
Caroline Murphy and designer Michael Kors, 2017.| Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions
Florida native Carolyn Murphy, 43, rose to stardom as the face of Estee Lauder. During college, she landed modeling gigs in Japan and Paris and appeared on European magazine covers. In 1998, she was named VH1/Vogue's Model of the Year. She was hired to model for Prada and Calvin Klein.
Murphy landed the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue cover in 2005. She also appeared inside the magazine for three straight years. In one photo, she drove a powder blue classic convertible in the ocean.
Next: America's first supermodel
10. Cheryl Tiegs
Left: Cheryl Tiegs in her supermodel days. | Sports Illustrated, Right: Cheryl Tiegs looks amazing today. | Angela Weiss/Getty Images
Cheryl Tiegs, now 70, is considered America's first supermodel. She started out at 17, modeling in a bathing suit ad in Seventeen magazine. She left college to further her modeling career and landed cover shoots with Glamour, Elle, Seventeen, Vogue, and Harper's Bazaar.
Tiegs first appeared on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover in 1970 — and again in 1975 and 1983. She posed in a white mesh one-piece bathing suit and also in a lacy bathing suit under a waterfall.
Next: She posed with an NBA player.
9. Bar Refaeli
Bar Refaeli has been both on the cover and inside the magazine.| Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for Sports Illustrated
Israeli-born model Bar Refaeli, 32, has been the face of Garnier, Escada, Chanel, Subaru, Gap, Samsung, True Religion, Sears, and more. She was voted No. 1 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 list of 2012. In 2013, she appeared in a memorable GoDaddy Super Bowl commercial kissing Jesse Heiman.
Refaeli appeared on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover in 2009. She went on to appear inside the magazine in 2012, posing in a black bikini alongside NBA star Chris Paul.
Next: She was married to a Full House star.
8. Rebecca Romijn
Rebecca Romijn ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, February 16, 1999. | Matt Campbell/AFP/Getty Images
She's known as the former wife of John Stamos and was nicknamed "Jolly Blonde Giant" for her five-foot-eleven-inch frame. Rebecca Romijn, 45, has posed for Victoria's Secret, Miller Lite, Armani, bebe — and twice on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover. For a photo shoot in Kenya, the model donned white and silver metallic swimsuits.
Next: A famous rocker's former wife
7. Rachel Hunter
Rachel Hunter, 1999. | Brenda Chase Online USA, Inc./Getty Images
Perhaps she's best known for her marriage to rocker Rod Stewart, but Rachel Hunter, 48, has graced the covers of Cosmopolitan and Playboy — which reportedly paid her $1.8 million. The New Zealand native may be best known, however, for posing in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue. She appeared in the magazine eight times, including one famous shot in the sand wearing a gold bikini with wet hair.
Next: A model who doesn't seem to age
6. Christie Brinkley
Left: Christie Brinkley in 2000. | George De Sota/Liaison/Getty Images, Right: Christie Brinkley in 2017. | ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images
It's been said Christie Brinkley looks nowhere near her age of 64. The supermodel spent 25 years as the face of Cover Girl and for decades appeared on magazine covers and in commercials. The bulk of her wealth, however, comes from savvy real estate investments in the Hamptons.
The supermodel appeared on three consecutive Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issues from 1979 through 1981. She was again photographed for the magazine in 2017, seemingly covered with nothing but a large straw hat.
Next: The magazine's first African-American model
5. Tyra Banks
Tyra Banks has become a pop culture fixture. | Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
Tyra Banks, 44, began modeling in high school and has worked for some of the world's largest companies. She's been on the covers of Vogue, GZ, Cosmo, and Elle. But she's made most of her money in TV. She created and hosted America's Top Model and The Tyra Banks Show.
She was the first African American model to appear on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue, in 1996. In 2018, she celebrated Danielle Herrington becoming the third African American on the cover. "Go go go, Danielle! Make TyTy proud!" she wrote.
Next: Her legs are insured for millions.
4. Heidi Klum
At 44, Heidi Klum is as high-profile as ever. | NBC
Heidi Klum started modeling at 19 in 1992 and has appeared on the covers of Vogue and Elle. The German and American model was a Victoria's Secret Angel and currently hosts Lifetime reality show Project Runway.
Klum, now 44, appeared on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue in 1998. Her legs are insured: one for $2.2 million and the other for $1 million, because "I have a big old scar on my knee," she told the magazine.
Next: A model who doesn't call herself pretty
3. Elle Macpherson
Elle Macpherson doesn't love her looks. | Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images
Elle Macpherson, 54, started modeling in Australia to pay for law school. However, she had such success that modeling soon became her top priority. By 1986, the supermodel had appeared on the covers of Cosmopolitan, GQ, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, and Elle.
She set a record for being on the most Sports Illustrated Swimsuit covers, having appeared on five by 2006. She shared her interesting perspective on her looks with the magazine: "I'm on the borderline of being ugly and being ok. People that are like that have a lot of range. You'll see. The people that you're not quite sure about are the ones that have the most versatility, rather than the ones that are obviously the most beautiful."
Next: Her products earn billions
2. Kathy Ireland
Kathy Ireland in 1998. | Getty Images
Net worth: $500 million
Kathy Ireland's namesake brand sells $2 billion in products annually. The businesswoman's products include indoor/outdoor accessories, rugs, baby furniture, bedding, wedding gowns, fine crystal, and mattresses.
The supermodel, now 55, shot her first cover for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue in 1989. That has remained the best-selling swimsuit issue of all time. She also appeared on the magazine's covers again in 1992 and 1994.
Next: One of today's hottest recording artists
Beyonce was once a Sports Illustrated cover model. | Clive Brunskill/Getty Images
Beyonce, 36, has accumulated most of her massive net worth from her work as a recording artist. She's also dabbled in acting, appearing in Austin Powers in Goldmember and The Pink Panther. Together with her mother Tina Knowles, she also launched a women's fashion line. Many endorsement opportunities have come her way, most notably for Pepsi.
In addition to singing, acting, and designing clothing, she also scored the cover shot for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue in 2007. For the shoot, Queen Bey posed on a Florida beach in a yellow and pink bikini — one from her own fashion label.
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By: Jennifer Dowling
NEWAYGO COUNTY, Mich. — The Newaygo County Sheriff's Office is still investigating what happened to a little girl that was lost for around 24-hours, then found in the woods.
Amber Rose Smith, 2, was found nearly two miles from her Paris, MI home.
Smith has been recovering at the hospital in Big Rapids since she was found Wednesday afternoon.
She had scratches on her face body consistent with having walked through the woods during her ordeal.
However, investigators want to check every possible scenario to make sure Amber did in fact make the journey on her own.
We're told that Child Protective Services is assisting in the investigation, looking into the family situation at the household.
Although there have been reports that CPS had contacted the family in the past, there were no court files in Newaygo or Mecosta County indicating that any action had been taken in family court if there was an investigation in the past.
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Addressing a press briefing at the Temple Trees, she said that the Magistrate's order to release former defence secretary and the IGP was a historic decision.
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The parliamentarian said authorities those who were responsible for Easter Sunday attack cannot not wash their hands by landing the blame on the IGP and former Defence Secretary.
"Although certain individuals had tried to cover up those who were responsible for the attack, we had seen during the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) proceedings they were pointing their fingers at the relevant political authorities. As the Commander-in-Chief, the Minister of Defence and the Minister of Law and Order, the President has clearly avoided the information received. The evidence of the Defence Secretary and the IGP made them clear during their statements before the PSC" she said.
She also requested the President to appear before the PSC stating the Prime Minister would also appear before it in the future.(Darshana Sanjeewa Balasuriya)
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In Honor Of His 63rd, Putin Plays Hockey And Is Painted As The Buddha
By Corey Flintoff
Published October 7, 2015 at 4:32 PM EDT
The Russian leader, shown here as "Vladimir Vladimirovich Buddha," was depicted as various pop culture heroes and religious, mythical and historical figures at a Moscow exhibition on Wednesday, his 63rd birthday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrated his 63rd birthday Wednesday, amid a controversial bombing campaign in Syria, a weakening economy and tensions with the U.S. and its Western allies. The Russian leader made a point of taking it all in stride — including adulation from his fans.
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Putin holds a trophy at his birthday hockey match, during which he scored seven goals.
He occupied an even more prominent place than usual on Russian state television on Wednesday. Putin was shown receiving a briefing on the Russian military operation in Syria, including the news that Russian warships in the Caspian Sea fired more than two dozen rockets at targets in Syria.
Then, as if to demonstrate that 63 years haven't slowed him down, he was shown taking part in a hockey game, playing alongside Russian stars of the National Hockey League.
In the meantime, Putin's fans arranged tributes, including a song by a pair of popular Russian rappers. It's called "My Best Friend is President Putin."
"This is our destiny," they rap. "Everything for him and freedom flows like a river." The song calls Putin "a tough superhero."
The rappers also remind listeners that the president is no longer married, saying, "All the girls are just crazy about him."
The theme of Putin as a superhero was also promoted at a small art gallery in Moscow's Arbat district, hosting an exhibition called "Putin's Universe."
It features paintings depicting Putin as various leaders and heroes, from Alexander the Great to Batman. One shows Putin as Sherlock Holmes, complete with deerstalker hat and magnifying glass.
"This is an artistic view of Vladimir Putin's personal character," says Milos Kojic, one of the organizers. "Probably the artist saw him as an investigator and brilliant-minded man who can resolve difficult puzzles."
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At Moscow's "Putin Universe" exhibition, a painting depicted the Russian president as Jupiter, god of the skies.
Kojic says the paintings were chosen from the best submitted to the biggest Facebook fan page devoted to the Russian leader.
Portraits are displayed of Putin as the god Thor, as Che Guevara and as the Brazilian soccer star Pele — kicking a ball drawn with the face of President Obama.
Putin is portrayed as a peace hero, too — as Mahatma Gandhi and Buddha.
"Here is Vladimir Putin presented like Martin Luther King," Kojic says. "He was the most famous fighter for human rights. Also, Vladimir Putin is a fighter for human rights and he is protecting his people, especially in Crimea."
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While I was at the exhibit, there was only one other visitor, a 70-year-old pensioner who said no Soviet leader would've allowed himself to be portrayed this way.
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But, Ivanov clarifies: "It's not to make a god of him. He's not God or Stalin or something else. He's president."
Asker and Galina Madmedov, a Moscow couple, say they don't care what people in the West think.
"It makes no difference to us," Galina says.
"When people in the West make same-sex marriages or dye their hair red, we ignore it," says Asker. "This is our business. We love and respect Putin."
Adds Galina: "He is a magnificent man."
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"This is the first data embassy in the world. Its establishment is part of the Estonian general strategy of data management and fundamentally a double guarantee to our data and services. A majority of daily open services of Estonia are digital. Data security and cyber security are generally crucial from the perspective of both people's confidence and the functioning of services. It is also an important part of the so-called daily digital hygiene in increasingly digitizing societies," Ratas said.
According to the Prime Minister, Luxembourg has the technical capability to backup Estonia's data at a high-security level in data embassies.
"Estonia is the world's first country that uses this method to double secure its digital consistency in close cooperation with Luxembourg," Ratas added.


The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) was budgeted for a cut of more than $200 million by 2020 in the recent provincial budget.
The first budget from the provincial Progressive Conservative government included modest increases to health and education budgets, but cuts to most other ministries, including agriculture.
The actual budget for OMAFRA in 2017-2018 was $1.06 billion. The interim budget for 2018-2019 is actually up at 1.1 billion, but in 2019-2020, the budget is for $839 million. The amount of infrastructure funds slated to be flowed through the OMAFRA budget is also expected to be cut by almost a two-thirds.
The Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) didn't put much emphasis on the OMAFRA budget cuts.
It did however, mention several other areas related to rural policy.
One of the key items missing from the budget is the $50 million increase to agricultural risk management programs promised in the 2018 election, although more consultation on risk management programs was mentioned in the budget.
The province has budgeted $315 million to improve access to broadband internet in the province.
Other areas of interested to the agriculture sector includes the mirroring of accelerated capital cost allowance put forward by the federal government, that brings Canadian farmers closer to American farm tax regulations and a focus on reducing Ontario's deficit. The budget also confirmed a pause in the formal Liberal government's proposal to create a high speed rail system between Windsor and Toronto that would have cut through many farms and cut off rural communities from each other.
However, the Ford government didn't cut as deeply in some areas as expected, and the deficit is slated to continue until into the mandate of the next government.
"We applaud the government of Ontario for taking a pragmatic approach to the province's fiscal situation," says Currie.


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Artist Bio: Born in Kanda, Tokyo, in 1878. He was mentored by Mizuno Toshikata, an ukiyoe painter, and exhibited works at exhibitions such as the Bunten. When the Teiten Exhibition was established in 1919, he was appointed juror. He was a member of Geijutsuin (1923) art group and Teikoku Geijutsuin (1929) art group. He is also known for his elegantly flowing essays about days gone by. He received the Order of Cultural Merit in 1954.
Kiyokata Kaburagi was a great artist of Nihonga - traditional Japanese painting. But he was even more influential as an art teacher and promoter of the Shin Hanga movement. Kaburagi had trained such Shin Hanga giants like Hasui Kawase, Ito Shinsui and Shiro Kasamatsu.
Kaburagi initially made his living as an illustrator, producing frontispieces called kuchi-e, illustrating the titles of popular novels. His works were highly praised by noted author Kyoka Izumi, who insisted that his novels be illustrated by Kaburagi. However, Kaburagi's first and foremost interest was in painting. In 1901, he helped create the Ugokai , an art group dedicated to reviving and popularizing the bijin-ga (images of beautiful women) genre. When the government-sponsored Bunten exhibitions were started in 1907, Kaburagi began to paint full time, winning several prizes. In 1915, his work Murasame won first prize at the 9th Bunten Exhibition.
In 1917, together with Hirafuku Hyakusui, Matsuoka Eikyu, Kikkawa Reika and Yuki Somei, he helped found the Kinreisha, a Nihonga association training promising young artists, including Kawase Hasui. When Watanabe Shozaburo started an export woodcut print business, he needed many talented artists to make print designs appealing to western audiences. Kaburagi's group became a recruiting center for Watanabe. Kaburagi organized exhibitions with works of his students and introduced his best students to Watanabe. Next to Watanabe himself, it was probably Kiyokata Kaburagi, who had the greatest influence on the development and promotion of the shin hanga movement. Not only Kawase Hasui, but also Ito Shinsui, Shiro Kasamatsu, Yamakawa Shuho, Torii Kotondo and Terashima Shimei were trained by Kaburagi and then introduced to Watanabe.
When Kaburagi had reached his late 40s, he was well established and a highly respected artist. In 1929 he became a member of the Imperial Fine Art Academy (Teikoku Bijutsuin). His portrait of rakugo actor San'yutei Encho (1930) has been registered as an Important Cultural Property (ICP) by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. In 1938 he was appointed to the Art Committee of the Imperial Household. He received the official position of court painter in 1944. In 1946, he was asked to be one of the judges for the first post-war Nitten Exhibition. In 1954, he received the Order of Culture.
His house in Tokyo was burned down during the firebombing of Tokyo in World War II, and he relocated to Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecure, where he lived until his death. Kiyokata Kaburagi died in 1972 at the age of 93. His grave is at the Yanaka Cemetery in Tokyo. His house in Kamakura has been transformed into the Kaburagi Kiyokata Memorial Museum, displaying many of his works, and preserving his studio.


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8 I am feeble and sorely broken; I groan because of the disquiet of my heart.
18 The LORD is near to those who are of a broken heart and saves those who are of a contrite spirit.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart,4 O God, you will not despise.
15 For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; "I dwell in the high and holy place, with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
2 For all these things my hand has made, and so they have come into being," says the LORD. "But this is the man I will look on [favorably]: he who is of a humble and contrite spirit, and trembles at my word.
12 Before being broken, the heart of man is haughty; and before honor is humility.
13 A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
20 Reproach has broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.
3 He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.


Crown Jewels of the Rocky Mountains!
Strung like pearls along the majestic chain of the Rocky Mountains are America's Crown Jewels: four magnificent National Parks.
Glacier is heralded as the "Crown of the Continent". Here, in this guest book of the eons, is an eclectic collection of the signatures of every force that continental uplifting and the last ice age have inscribed upon the land.
Yellowstone National Park is a looking glass unto Creation, and into the depths of our earth's gaseous and molten core. Yellowstone's millions of enthralled visitors prove that "watched pots" really do boil!
Mountains age in reverse when compared to people. Craggy and wrinkled in their youth, time slowly smoothes and erases their lines. Here in the Grand Tetons is America's newest, most-youthful range -- towering, handsome, exuberant and bold!
Encompassing seventy peaks over 12,000 feet and 40 miles of the Continental Divide, this "Park of Parks" is truly the "Top of the Continent"! Humbling are its magnitude, its solitude, and its majesty.


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The building & its collections
History of the Parliamentary estate
Spencer Perceval
The assassin: John Bellingham
John Bellingham (1769-1812) was the assassin of the British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval. Born in St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, Bellingham was an unsuccessful businessman with a grievance against the Government.
Bellingham was arrested in Archangel in Russia for debt in 1804, and after five years in prison, he returned to England. He was angry at the lack of assistance he had received from the Government and blamed it for his financial difficulties. Appeals to Perceval and his Ministers met with no success.
On 11th May 1812 Bellingham shot Spencer Perceval as he entered the lobby of the House of Commons. At his trial on 15th May 1812 he was found guilty of murder and was executed at Newgate Prison three days later.


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Latest Jazz from NPR Music
Jazz Trumpeter Steven Bernstein
Published November 22, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST
With his quartet, Sex Mob, he's just released a new CD called Diaspora Blues. Last year, the band released a CD paying homage to the music of James Bond films. It's called Sex Mob Does Bond and is the sextet's third album. Bernstein also heads two other groups: Diaspora Soul, which specializes in performing versions of ancient Jewish melodies, and Millennial Territory Orchestra, with which he explores jazz from the 1920s and 1930s. This interview first aired November 21, 2001.
Copyright 2002 Fresh Air


It never fails, twice a year designers produce fashion shows to show off their latest collections at New York Fashion Week. And twice a year I find myself anxiously waiting to see what designer Thom Browne has in store for his attendees.
Known for his extravagant creations, Browne never disappoints and his Spring Summer 2013 (women's wear) collection was just as anomalous as his previous ones.
The location: New York's Public Library. The inspiration: the work of German painter, choreographer and sculptor Oskar Schlemmer. The outcome: complete awesomeness.
The models' makeup consisted of geisha like painted white faces, and the designs included everything from whale prints, structured dresses and seahorses in bejeweled appliques.
To top it all off, the models were transformed into human carrousels as they stood atop spinning disks allowing the crowd to get a full view of their theatrical accoutrements.
When asked about his approach in creating his show, Browne said he wanted to evoke Oskar Schlemmer's Triadisches Ballet from 1922. I can't say that I'm familiar with the latter, but I can say that Thom Browne will forever remain inimitable.


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FDA Guidance on Recalls and Enhancements
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency), the US regulating authority in the sphere of medical devices and other healthcare products, has issued a guidance document dedicated to distinguishing medical device recalls from medical device enhancements.
The current version of the document was published in October 2014. Due to its legal nature, the FDA guidance does not introduce any rules or requirements itself but provides additional clarifications on the applicable legislation, as well as recommendations to be considered by the parties involved. Moreover, the Agency states that an alternative approach could be applied, provided such an approach complies with the applicable regulatory requirements and has been approved by the authority in advance.
Recall Identification
According to the present FDA guidance, a recall is defined as a firm's removal or correction of a marketed device that the Agency considers to be in violation of the laws that it administers and against which the Agency would initiate legal action, e.g., seizure. The FDA additionally emphasizes the "violation," which is the main criterion to be applied in order to distinguish a recall from other actions. Under the current regulatory framework, a recall should take place in cases when a violation of applicable regulatory requirements is present. The purposes of a recall include notifying customers about the risks associated with the medical device in question and also removing the product from the market in order to make corrections necessary to ensure the safety of patients.
The concept of recalls includes:
Voluntary recalls covered by 21 CFR part 7, subpart C either initiated by a firm on its own initiative or in response to a formal request from FDA, and
Mandatory recalls orders by FDA under section 518 of the [Food, Drug, and Cosmetic] FD&C Act and 21 CFR part 810.
In most cases, recalls are initiated by the entity responsible for a medical device in question (e.g., its manufacturer) and later monitored by the regulating authority.
It is important to mention that the scope of the present guidance does not cover mandatory recalls initially initiated by the FDA. Additionally, cases when a new premarket submission is required or when radiation-emitting products fail to comply with the radiation safety requirements also fall outside the scope of the present guidance, together with methodologies for risk management and assessment.
According to the document, a recall constitutes a mechanism allowing the medical device manufacturer to correct medical devices that fail to operate as intended and create a hazard to customers using them or to remove such devices from the market in order to ensure public health protection and safety of customers. In the course of a recall, the responsible entity shall identify the issue that creates ground for a recall, determine whether a recall is necessary, and commence the process. At the same time, in certain cases, it is difficult for the responsible entity to determine whether the grounds for a recall are present, as well as to outline the scope of a recall and notification timeline. The authority states that due to possible misinterpretation of the applicable regulatory requirements by the parties involved, there could be certain delays in notifying the stakeholders and conducting a recall itself.
Moreover, responsible medical device manufacturers continuously improve their products and manufacturing processes and procedures associated thereto. Therefore, changes to the design occurring in the course of such improvements do not require a recall of medical devices already placed on the market by default.
As it is stated by the FDA, the present guidance is intended to:
Clarify when a change to a device constitutes a medical device recall,
Distinguish those instances from device enhancements that do not meet the definition of a medical device recall, and
Clarify reporting requirements under 21 CFR part 806.
The regulating authority additionally emphasizes the importance of a correct categorization of the actions taken with regard to devices already placed on the market in order to determine the proper regulatory pathway to be followed.
First, the present guidance provides the definitions of the most important terms and concepts used in the context of recalls, including the following:
Correction – repair, modification, adjustment, relabelling, destruction, or inspection (including patient monitoring) of a device without its physical removal to some other location;
Device enhancement – a change to improve the performance or quality of a device that is not a change to remedy a violation of the FD&C Act or associated regulations enforced by the Agency. It is important to mention that the present definition is not provided in the applicable legislation but provided by the FDA for the purpose of this particular guidance. The authority also states that a device enhancement should not be treated as a recall.
Stock recovery – a firm's removal or correction of a product that has not been marketed or that has not left the direct control of the firm, i.e., the product is located on premises owned by, or under the control of, the firm and no portion of the lot has been released for sale or use.
Apart from those listed above, the present guidance also provides the definitions of such terms as "market withdrawal," "violation," "removal," "recall," and "routine servicing.
The document further describes the particular approach to be applied by the medical device manufacturer in order to identify whether the planned action meets the definition of a recall and thus should be treated accordingly. The recommendations are provided in the form of questions and answers and cover the most important aspects associated with the recalls and corrections.
In order to make a correct categorization, the medical device manufacturer shall consider the following:
The product in question should meet the definition of a medical device;
There should be planned change to a medical device;
A recall could be initiated only with regard to a medical device that has been already placed on the market and at the time of a recall is available for healthcare professionals and patients.
Differentiating Violative Devices from Non-Violative Devices
As mentioned, a recall applies only when there is a certain violation of applicable regulations in place. If the medical device manufacturer decides to make changes to a product that is fully compliant with the applicable regulatory requirements, such action should be treated as a device enhancement and not as a recall due to the different grounds for the changes. Changes made in order to resolve the failure of a device to operate as intended are defined as recalls. The same applies in case of an increase in the overall failure rate of a medical device in question.
In summary, the present document highlights the most important aspects related to the changes made to the medical devices already placed on the market. The guidance outlines the main differences between recalls and device enhancements conducted in order to improve the overall performance of a medical device that itself is fully compliant with the applicable legislation.
https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents/distinguishing-medical-device-recalls-medical-device-enhancements


It doesn't get any more rustic than this. This custom-renovated, "Adirondack Great Camp Style" cabin is now on the market for $2.4 million. Located in Carmel, in Upstate New York, it looks like the ultimate escape–a gorgeous home decked out with custom-built woodwork and stone fireplaces, located on more than four acres of land. For anybody that's wants the camping experience in truly luxurious settings, this may be the property for you.
The entire house, which spans 3,792 square feet and includes three bedrooms and three bathrooms, is decked out with rustic finishes like wood beams and stone.
The living room boasts its own stone fireplace–and the ultimate bearskin rug.
The formal dining room is a stunner, with views out onto the lake.
A game room comes with its own slate wet bar.
Of the three bedrooms, two have vaulted wood ceilings. The master suite also has custom built-in woodwork with a private balcony that looks out onto the lake.
If that's not rustic enough, the master bathroom has a hammered copper tub alongside the steam shower.
The property is downright stunning, with a woodworking shop, storage, lean-to and fire-pit all tucked into the surrounding woods. This is the camp experience at its very finest!


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Research Article| November 01 2018
1948 and Its Shadows
Beshara Doumani;
Beshara Doumani
Beshara Doumani is a professor of history at Brown University and founder of New Directions in Palestinian Studies. His most recent book is Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Alex Winder
Alex Winder is a visiting assistant professor of Middle East Studies at Brown University and associate editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly.
The 2018 New Directions in Palestinian Studies (NDPS) workshop, from which the articles in this special issue derive, was planned collaboratively by the authors.
Journal of Palestine Studies (2018) 48 (1): 7–15.
https://doi.org/10.1525/jps.2018.48.1.7
Beshara Doumani, Alex Winder; 1948 and Its Shadows. Journal of Palestine Studies 1 November 2018; 48 (1): 7–15. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jps.2018.48.1.7
Seventy years after the Nakba, what does it mean to commemorate 1948? This introduction to three articles drawn from the 2018 New Directions in Palestinian Studies workshop at Brown University, "The Shadow Years: Material Histories of Everyday Life," examines the emergence of 1948 as the primary focus of Palestinian commemorative practices and guiding star of future political possibilities, as well as the promise and limitations of the settler-colonial framework. It argues that widening our lens to include the material histories of everyday life in the context of a generational struggle for survival, contextualizes moments of great trauma and violence within the larger dynamics of Palestinians society, and recasts the time/space architecture of narratives about Palestine and the Palestinians.
Nakba, commemoration, settler-colonialism, everyday politics, material history, Gaza, refugee camps
© 2018 by the Institute for Palestine Studies. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints.


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Na religião gálico-romana, Fagus era um deus conhecido por quatro inscrições encontradas nos Altos Pirenéus. A língua desta região da Aquitânia tem sido ligada à proto-basca, preferencialmente à céltica. Fāgus, em latim, é faia.

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Property Summary: Located in the LATIGO subdivision of Silverado Ranch, this is a Condominium for sale in Las Vegas, NV 89183, listed at $174,900. Current listing information about 2300 Silverado Ranch Boulevard 1077 indicates the property features 3 beds, 2.00 baths, and has approximately 1167 square feet of living space, with a lot size of 0.00 acres, and was originally constructed in 1997. The current price per square foot is $149. The average price per square foot for properties in 89183 is $178. The property has been on the market for 211 days. Average list prices for similar properties for sale is $171,827. To schedule a private showing of MLS#2023986 at 2300 Silverado Ranch Boulevard 1077 in LATIGO, please contact our real estate team.
Located in the SILVERADO CONDO. Condominium Features 2 beds, 2.00 baths, and has approximately 1145 square feet of living space. Price per square foot is $149 with a list price of $171,000.
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CHIPS First Runner-up in CPO Awards
The CHIPS project of mjunction won the first runner up award in "Outstanding procurement solution provider" category at the 4th Edition of the CPO Awards 2016. The CPO Awards recognise and celebrate the collaborative efforts in the journey towards procurement and supply chain excellence.
The award was collected on behalf of mjunction by Mr Soumen Baral and Ms Shivani Dwivedi at the awards ceremony held in Mumbai.


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Deep Freeze!
A Photographer's Antarctic Odyssey in the Year 1959
McCabe, Robert A.
In 1959, Robert McCabe -- a twenty-four year old photojournalist on assignment for the New York Sunday Mirror Magazine -- embarked on a hazardous yet wondrous expedition to the South Pole, an adventure so extreme that it surpassed his sense of reality. He returned from that trip with scores of magnificent photographs that continue to dazzle: the Antarctic landscape (including many startling aerial shots), the young adventurers themselves having the time of their lives, and the wildlife, including regal but surprisingly friendly penguins. Eighty-seven of these vivid black and white photographs are in McCabe¿s latest book of photographs, DeepFreeze! A Photographer¿s Antarctic Odyssey in the Year 1959. Accompanied by a concisely powerful narrative, McCabe has created a book that takes his readers on a vivid emotional journey, one that "will be valued by all who are moved by sublime glimpses of far away places," said Caroline Alexander, author of The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic. DeepFreeze! will be be published on October 1, 2010 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Roald Amundsen becoming the first person to reach the South Pole. About the author: The National Herald called Robert McCabe's photographs "iconic." Mr. McCabe's books of photographs include Greece: Images of an Enchanted Land 1954-1965, Weekend in Havana: An American Photographer in a Forbidden City, and On the Road with a Rollei in the '50s. Mr. McCabe divides his time between New York and Athens. His next book will be a photographic journey through Central Park.
Publisher: [New York] : International Photography Publishers LLC, 2010.
Branch Call Number: 919. 89 MCC
Characteristics: 147 p. : chiefly ill., maps ; 29 cm
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Genesis and Gemini prosecuted for violating stock market laws
The SEC wants to "make it clear to the market and investors that cryptocurrency lending platforms and other intermediaries must abide by the laws of the stock market," its chairman Gary Gensler commented in the press release.
The U.S. securities regulator, the SEC, filed a lawsuit on Thursday against cryptocurrency firms Genesis and Gemini for offering to lend in cryptocurrency without registering with the relevant authorities.
However, the two companies have, through this offering, "raised billions of dollars of cryptocurrency assets from hundreds of thousands of investors," the SEC said in a press release.
An industry under pressure
Other charges related to this story could be announced later, the agency said, which is now trying to demonstrate that it regulates the sector well after the turmoil caused by the bankruptcies of FTX and Alameda Research.
Their founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, is accused of having stolen funds deposited by customers on the FTX platform, to use them, without their authorization, in risky financial transactions through Alameda.
Genesis, a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, presents itself as a cryptocurrency brokerage platform for professional investors.
Founded by the Winklevoss brothers, popularized by film The social network on the genesis of Facebook, Gemini offers the general public various financial products related to cryptocurrencies.
Millions of dollars
According to the SEC complaint, the two companies entered into an agreement in late 2020 under which Genesis would offer Gemini customers the ability to lend out their cryptocurrencies for interest, in a program called Gemini Earn. Gemini has taken commissions along the way, while Genesis has used cryptocurrencies at its discretion.
But Genesis, hit by the bankruptcy of FTX and Alameda, suspended the ability for lenders to withdraw their cryptocurrencies in November.
The SEC says Genesis held about $900 million in cryptocurrencies borrowed from about 340,000 customers.
The agency believes that Gemini Earn is actually similar to fundraising on the marketplaces and as such should have been registered with its services. This process should protect investors by making much information public.
Stocks in green in Europe after US inflation data
The Tokyo stock market falls, held back by the appreciation of the yen


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Hohen Neuendorf (letteralmente: "Neuendorf di sopra", in contrapposizione alla vicina Nieder Neuendorf – "Neuendorf di sotto") è una città di  abitanti del Brandeburgo, in Germania.
Appartiene al circondario (Landkreis) dell'Oberhavel (targa OHV).

Storia
Il 20 settembre 1993 vennero annessi a Hohen Neuendorf i comuni di Bergfelde e Borgsdorf.

Società

Evoluzione demografica

Suddivisione amministrativa
Hohen Neuendorf è divisa in 4 zone (Stadtteil), corrispondenti all'area urbana e a 3 frazioni:
 Hohen Neuendorf (area urbana)
 Bergfelde
 Borgsdorf
 Stolpe

Amministrazione

Gemellaggi
Hohen Neuendorf è gemellata con:

Note

Voci correlate
 Stazione di Hohen Neuendorf (b Berlin)

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Kim Kardashian Is Not Ready For Babies
BY Roberta Ferguson on February 25, 2011 | Comments: Leave Comments
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Previously, Kim Kardashian has hinted on Twitter that she wants to have babies with her boyfriend, Kris Humphries.
Now, she is saying that even though she said all of that, she really isn't ready to be a mother just yet. So she doesn't want to crank our her own moneymaking babies like her mother did?
In a new interview, she revealed that her career is keeping her busy so a family isn't on the horizon just yet. When asked about having kids, she said, "Not anytime soon. But I never know what the future holds."
She has said that she is very happy with her current boyfriend, saying, "I think I haven't found one thing wrong with him, let's just put it like that."
Perhaps she's just waiting for Paris Hilton to announce that she's pregnant, so she can steal the spotlight from her on that? What do you think?
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KABUL - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan strongly condemns the terrorist attack which killed and injured dozens during a military parade in Ahvaz City.
Afghanistan, which has always been on the frontline of combating terrorism and has incured a lot of sacrifices, believes that terrorism is not differentiable and is the common enemy of human society.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses its sympathy and condolence to the people and government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and once again denounces this terrorist attack and wishes quick recovery for the wounded.


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Burgeoning bankers beware—recruiting techniques continue to shift towards the electronic. Financial services giant JPMorgan announced that it will be drastically cutting down its presence at college career fairs and will be moving the entry phase of its recruitment process to a one-way video interview (i.e., pre-recorded, not with a person on the other side) accompanied by games meant to reveal behavioral patterns. I can't speak to the efficacy that games would have in predicting behavior attributes, although I admit to being skeptical. What I can speak to, however, are one-way video interviews.
In short: They're awful. Companies really like them because, instead of spending 30 minutes on the phone with every potential candidate, the candidates submit their pre-recorded interviews on a rolling basis to be watching at the hiring managers' convenience. The format they take for the candidate, however, is an anxiety-inducing nightmare. There is no person on the other end of the line on a one-way video interview—I know, right? So it's less like an interview and more like a virtual, visual questionnaire. You're given a question, given a set time to think about the question (approximately 30 to 60 seconds), and then your camera turns on and you answer. Within a strict time limit (approximately one minute). Oftentimes, with only one take. I'll reiterate: One-way video interviews are awful. But you better get used to them, because they're here to stay. Luckily, I've got some tips to making sure that you make it through in one piece.
A video interview is still an interview—so dress like you're going to one. Although I suppose, if you really wanted to, you could ostensibly wear sweatpants with your shirt and tie, so long as you're shooting from the waist up. I wouldn't recommend it, though. Get your webcam set up and pointed to a spot with a relatively neutral background. (Blank wall or classy painting—probably fine. Dirty laundry piled on your bed—definitely not fine.) I actually place my laptop on a sturdy stack of books to get a better angle, like when you lift your phone up to take a selfie. Make sure you're well-lit but there's no lens flare and that you've kicked your roommate out until you're done. One-way video interviews are usually done on a rolling basis, which means you've got the time to set yourself up right—and work your best angles.
And don't forget to look into the camera, not at yourself! Drag the window with your face in it nearer to the webcam if you can't control yourself. Eye contact is important, even if you're not technically making eye contact with anyone yet.
In my experience, the average time to answer a question on a video interview was about a minute. Considering that time limit accompanied broad questions like, "How do you believe this position fits in with the team at large?"—which also seemed specific for a first round interview—I felt the time crunch hard. And you can't rush through your answer either because the first rule of being on camera is: Speak slowly. Usually, I only had one take to get it right—which is fine in person but, with the clock literally ticking, it felt more like being in 8 Mile. So what's a girl to do if her palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy?
Practice. Write up a series of questions you think you're likely to hear. Ask your friends and family for questions they've been asked in interviews. Check out Vault's sample questions—we're here for more than striking fear into the heart of those facing video interviews, after all. When you've got enough, set a timer for one minute, then rehearse your answers aloud until you have them down pat. Sounding a little scripted and "over-rehearsed" is infinitely better than falling prey to time-induced panic or—worse—getting cut off in the middle of your sentence. The more you practice having to answer questions concisely as opposed to comprehensively, the better you'll get at it.
Crucial advice from the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom. A person can read panic through a video like one might read a book, and hiring managers won't be impressed to see you very obviously freaking out. Being calm in confident in any situation is critical to life in the working world.
My advice? Keep your perspective. Video interviewing is new—the process is unfamiliar, and you're not the only person potentially struggling with it. If you went over your time, shake it off—a dozen other people probably did, too. So many of your fellow candidates were definitely looking at themselves and not the camera, and somebody out there certainly sweated profusely through the entire interview. You should try to avoid mistakes, of course, but almost no one is a pro at video interviews, which means your "huge glaring mistake" will simply be one tree in a forest. Just answer the questions as best you can, and then wow them in person at the call back. This initial interview is less about being perfect and more about letting the company know that you're interested, enthusiastic, and can communicate effectively. So just breathe.


We all have a plethora of online accounts and digital assets: email accounts, social media accounts, financial accounts, cloud storage accounts, digital photo accounts, music accounts, gaming accounts, website management and hosting accounts, dating sites, gaming sites, and so on. Some of these accounts make it easy to deal with the account when you die or become incapacitated – Facebook, for example, has a very nice feature that allows you name a "legacy contact" in the event of your death to manage your account after your death. Another example: Google (e.g., Gmail, Picasa, Drive, Hangout, etc.) has an "Inactive Account Manager" in your Google Account settings where you can name individuals to be notified when your account has been rendered "inactive" for a set number of months (you can choose between 3 months and 18 months) or you can choose to simply have your data deleted after that period expires without giving anyone access.
But for most accounts, until recently, it was difficult to get access to those accounts without the user name and password. Last summer, Michigan passed the Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act which finally embraces the not-so-new reality of how much we use and depend on the internet today. It gives the people you appoint in your power of attorney and your Will or Trust the ability to access your online accounts just as they could access your tangible financial and personal assets.
Who can request access to your digital assets from the digital custodian (i.e., the provider of the account, such as the bank or Facebook)?
Note there is one little trap – the online form filled out on the website of the digital custodian takes precedence over whomever you named in your Will. So if you named X to be your Facebook "legacy contact" and forgot about it when you set up your estate plan documents and named Y, your estate plan documents will not override that.
Grant full access to the account.
Grant partial access to the account sufficient to perform the required duties (for example, providing access to only view your brokerage account statements, not make any trades).
Provide a copy of a digital asset that the user could have accessed if they were alive (for example, forwarding the picture files stored in a cloud account).
What are the legal duties of your digital asset fiduciary? The same duties that apply to those who will manage your tangible personal property and financial assets will apply to management of your digital assets, including the duty of care, duty of loyalty, and duty of confidentiality. The new law also says that the person you name cannot impersonate you. For example, they cannot post things on your Facebook account pretending to be you.
Once I've named my digital asset fiduciaries, what do I do? Make an inventory of your digital assets with password information (which is something you should do anyway if you haven't). For each account, indicate whether you want the digital asset fiduciary to save the content (e.g. such as photos), share the content with others or delete the content. For example, I manage all of my husband's and my online accounts in an old fashioned way: on a password protected Excel spreadsheet – the last column is titled "Wishes" where we specify what we want to happen to the account after we die. As for my personal email account, for instance, I specified I would want it deleted as I am sure there is nothing in it that is relevant after my death and plus it's private. Or for Facebook, maybe I'd want the content shared with only close family and friends (we have lots of pictures of our family on it) and keep it open for a certain period of time. You should keep a hard copy of the spreadsheet in the same place where you keep your estate plan documents.
There are many online password managers you could use instead of a spreadsheet, but they don't go far enough to let you indicate what you would want done with the account. I just recently heard of a company called Everplans in which goes beyond digital assets – you can organize all of your asset information for your digital executor and include all of your estate plan documents on it as well. This is to make it easy for your executor to have everything in one place and all your wishes are made clear here. I don't use this yet so I can't vouch for it, but I plan to look into it for myself. The cost appears minimal.
Do I need a separate digital asset plan? Not necessarily. I will ensure the proper language is included in your estate plan documents to address your digital assets. But you still need to makes sure your digital accounts are organized and that the passwords are readily available to someone in the event of an emergency.


The Kinokuniya book store session on March 12 was great fun and drew a decent crowd captured here by Francis Chan. Old friends, former colleagues and bookshoppers came by.
Cherian George, who must take credit for egging me on to pull my columns together in a book always embarrassed me by saying the best things about some columns I wrote. It was hefty praise from an extraordinary journalism teacher, original thinker and a true bestselling writer. For the back of my book, he said: "Alan's personal stories are pleasurable reads, but also leave you thinking about what it means to live well. Through his gentle tales runs a strong message of being grateful for every gift, open to everyday moments.
I worried that this was too much praise for too modest a collection of personal stories from someone pretty unknown. Through my years as a newsman, I was notorious for saying no to lunch invitations from the PR folk, and turning down invitations that landed on my desk, and did my best to avoid meetings with officials because I had a foot permanently in my mouth and a way of saying the wrong thing to the wrong person. I had lunch from time to time with the veritable Jennie Chua from the days she was the dowager of the Raffles Hotel because she would tell all sorts of people that it was easier for her to have lunch with the prime minister than me and that even after saying yes, I'd stand her up. What can I say. I did my best work in the newsroom with the writers, photographers, artists and sub-editors I worked with and that kept me happiest.
Journalist of the Year 2015 Wong Kim Hoh has been working hard on Good Grief! He wrote a story, appeared at the Shanghai Dolly launch and here he is again. Xie xie! Terima kasih!
Since the book came out, so many people keep saying they've seen more of me in The Straits Times since I left the paper than when I worked there. That's thanks to the big splashes in The Sunday Times by Wong Kim Hoh and Cheong Suk Wai, the otherworldly launch event at Shanghai Dolly hosted by the Singapore Press Club, the Big Read session at the National Library and last Saturday's appearance at Kinokuniya book store on Orchard Road. Publisher Susan Long and her amazing marketing man Ilangoh Thanabalan set things up and are looking at ways to put me on the getai circuit when the Hungry Ghosts Month comes along. I'm truly grateful for the goodwill shown to me by so many of my former colleagues. I've been receiving a lot of very lovely feedback from people I know and people I don't know. There've been so many people turning up at various events, shaking my hand, taking photographs and saying the kindest things. I love it, love it, love it! This hardly ever happened in all the years I was a journalist and newspaper editor absorbing criticism and abuse from all quarters.
Hedwig (second from left) with my best supporters ever, Eddie, Shirley, Mamie, Sock, Pauline and Hun Hoe. Hedwig's classmate Sock married Hun Hoe, my St John's classmate.
Ramesh and Prassana bought two books so they could read without fighting for it, then came to Kinokuniya and got one more for Darshan and Desshna.
Dr Chiang See Ping handed me Nicola after she was born and was our kids' paediatrician for years after. So good of him to come, and he brought his famous sister Claire.
A true honour to have Ann Wee, 89 and doyenne of Singapore's social work community, in the front row and listening to my stories!
Long ago when my columns appeared in The Sunday Times, Emily Lim would write to me sometimes. And then she became the multiple-award-winning children's author.
It feels like Good Grief! has prompted many readers to think about their own lives and reflect on special individuals, places and turning points along their way. This book is not a memoir. But perhaps because the stories start in 1981 and stretch to 2016 and I go from a young man arriving in Singapore all the way to retirement, it strikes some readers as somewhat a memoir. I'm struck by the number of people who tell me that reading these stories from my life is making them nostalgic about stories from the different seasons of their own lives. And some have been looking at their old family pictures and contemplating writing some notes for their children or grandchildren to find one day. Some readers have been taken aback by my writing about being estranged from my family in KL, and are anxious to hear that things are on the mend. I've received offers of help, and my dear friends Agatha and Jessie offered a Mass for me at St Francis Xavier Church in Petaling Jaya, just outside KL. But that part of the book allowed many others to reveal to me that they too have broken family relationships they don't talk about. At the National Library Big Read event, a man meeting me for the first time told me he was convinced his brothers were stealing from their millionaire father's bank account and it had caused a huge rift in his family that was still playing out and eating at him. We suffer this myth of the happy family, when the reality for many is that family relationships can make for plenty of pain and for some, it festers. Most of us just muddle on.
I received an e-mail from a man I did not know, who said he too attended St John's, was a few years my junior in school and, like me, was head boy. He'd read in Kim Hoh's story how I'd described my 13 years at that Christian Brothers school as a game changer in my life, because it provided a firm block of stability after the turmoil at home caused by my father's sudden death at 47. I did not know that this schoolmate was a senior banker because he's done so well staying out of the limelight and I said yes when he invited me to lunch. We met at the Fullerton Hotel's rooftop Italian restaurant with stunning views of Marina Bay and for 90 minutes he told me the story of his life. St John's and the Christian Brothers had proven his game changer too, setting him on a path to success quite unimaginable given his family's humble circumstances. He described his key turning points, the specific individuals who made a difference along the way and how they helped make him the man he is today. His is a story Kim Hoh must tell in The Sunday Times.
So no, I haven't had a chance to be bored.
My nephew and godson Adam Miranda is with upstart ad agency Fishermen, which has been winning big awards. He thinks it's time for a proper Adrian Lim movie.
For the longest time Hedy Mok has been the travel agent sending Hedwig and me everywhere at the last minute because that's how we are, I don't know how she does it.
There is only one Siva Arasu and I got to know her when ST started a copydesk to rewrite news stories. She's been a great friend to have over the years.
Along the way I put out a new edition of Unholy Trinity, the book of the Adrian Lim child killings of 1981. That led to public acknowledgment of the work done by Sister Gerard Fernandez, a Good Shepherd nun and death row counsellor at Changi Prison. If I hadn't left the paper six months ago, I wouldn't have met this remarkable woman who told me her story and described so vividly her gift for giving love and receiving love. That was a precious experience I might have missed. The Adrian Lim book also led to much-needed publicity for PAVE, the family violence agency that will receive the royalties. I've been on PAVE's management committee for several years, keeping my hands clean attending meetings every two months and doing little else. In a moment of weakness I said yes when the social workers asked if I would help facilitate a men's group for men ordered by the family court to attend counselling for violence towards their wives or children. This has proven a whole new and ongoing journey like nothing I've known before and although we meet the men for two hours once a week, there is plenty to read and learn and prep and sweat about before and after! I certainly wouldn't have said yes if I was still in the newsroom.
I was telling the story of a Kelantan lighthouse when my schoolmate Mike Tai took this picture of me with a photo of my father and stepfather in Tumpat, Kelantan in 1952.
Kin Yong drove me to Singapore when I moved here in 1980. And later this week he'll go with me on a road trip to Tumpat, Kelantan, so I can find a lighthouse and take a photo.
And later this week I get to do two things I've been wanting to do for many years. I'm heading to Kelantan in the north-east of the Malaysian peninsula, to look for a lighthouse at the end of the Malayan Railway line. It should still be standing in the tiny town of Tumpat, and it's where my father posed for a photo in 1952 – a year before I was born and four years before his death. I have been fascinated by this photograph my entire life, because I have no memory of my father, and I don't know the sound of his voice or anything significant about the man he was. He is just 43 years old in the photo, and how could he have known that he had just four more years to go. If he had known, what would he have done differently in the time he had left? It's crazy to think about too long, I know. But maybe that's also why I am the way I am, always surprised to wake up in the morning and always impatient to pack in a little living in each day.
My old friend Chin Kin Yong, who goes all the way back to my earliest days at The New Straits Times in KL, heard about my lighthouse quest and said he'll drive with me and we'll be two geezers on a road trip. That's what friends are for. The other thing we'll do is drive across the East-West Highway that cuts through rainforest and promises some priceless sights. Because I want to, lah.
Best of luck, Lim Yi Han, who is moving from journalism to be a Singapore Girl with Singapore Airlines. So good to see her with journalists Danson Cheong and Lim Yan Liang.
Sub-editor Merlene Michael helped make working Saturdays bearable!
In the beginning, there was Iris Koh. She was in the ST newsroom the day I joined and will one day write the only book worth reading about the goings on in that glorious place.
A South African, living in Hong Kong, reading a book about a Malaysian who lives in Singapore! I am loving the book and loving the fact that the world is really so 'small'. Please come to Hong Kong and do book promotion!