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1. Vladimir Sedov and Svetlana Samodelova article headlined "Horrible son" says the teenager who has opened fire in his school in Moscow, was the son of a man working in secret services and had access to weapons; pp 1-2 (841 words).
Queen to meet Pope Francis for first time on Vatican visit in April
Queen to meet Pope Francis for first time on Vatican visit in April by Lizzy Davies
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Queen and Duke of Edinburgh to have private audience with pontiff after meeting Italian president Giorgio Napolitano
The Queen is to meet Pope Francis for the first time on a visit to the Vatican in April, the British embassy in Rome has announced.
The encounter – the first between the supreme governor of the Church of England and the leader of the Roman Catholic church since 2010 – will take place as part of a wider visit to Rome.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will have a private audience with the Argentinian pontiff in the Vatican on 3 April, a statement said.
Beforehand they will meet the Italian president, Giorgio Napolitano. The Queen was supposed to meet the 88-year-old head of state last year shortly before the end of his seven-year mandate, but the visit was postponed because she was unwell.
However, after he became the first Italian president to be re-elected for a second term, the two have another chance to catch up.
The Queen last met a pope in September 2010 when emeritus pope Benedict XVI, who resigned last year, visited England and Scotland.
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Rivers run dry as corruption claims surround Romania's hydropower boom
Green tariffs are driving development in the Southern Carpathian mountains, but with ecological and legal consequences
Deep into the wilderness of Romania's Southern Carpathian mountains, Bogdan Binescu, an avid angler and environmental campaigner, stops by the white waters of a mountain stream. "This river used to be the only route back to civilisation," he says. "But now civilisation has caught up."
A few kilometres on, his meaning becomes clear. Where beech trees had previously risen from the banks of the River Capra, a grey concrete building sits on muddied earth, housing the turbines of a small hydropower plant. Beyond, the river has all but disappeared, its bed of shattered rock and compacted earth now exposed. Between 80 and 90% of the river now flows through a thick metal pipe, carried here from a dam five kilometres upstream.
This is one of more than 500 "micro" hydropower plants operating or in various stages of construction and planning in the largely protected mountains. Together, they will produce less than 4% of the country's energy.
Often subsidised by European funds and with profits boosted by up to 500% from green tariffs – a subsidy drawn from a tax on energy consumers – micro hydropower has quickly become a favoured form of investment.
As profits are highest where the rivers run fast, investors are drawn deep into the mountains, in many cases to state-owned nature parks, protected under EU and domestic law. Binescu says: "Many of these projects are illegal on so many levels that only the powerful and well-connected have access to them." It is this, as much as the ecological impact of the power plants, which has drawn public protests throughout the Carpathians over the last year, in Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria.
Here in the Southern Carpathians, the power plant to which Binescu has taken us is one of 10 recently constructed by the retail company Imob Expert Consulting, owned by the self-declared "two top businessmen" in the county, one of whom, Gheorghe Badea, recently ran in the local elections. In partnership with them is the fiancée of the daughter of the Romanian president, Radu Pricop, a lawyer and local MP whose private law firm carried out all the legal operations involved in the investment.
Funded with €2m of European rural development funds, the investment will see a return of €1.2m a year. Of this, €1m will come directly from government-issued green tariffs, guaranteed annually for at least the next 13 years.
Without the political connections of the investors, opponents say, the project would be impossible. Spread across three rivers, the power plants all lie within an European protected Natura 2000 siteand on state-owned land. Environmental regulations deem the project unlawful on three counts, it is claimed, while to rent the land from the state would cost, at rates set by the National Forestry Department, around €1m a year.
Yet the company engineered a straight land swap with the state, exchanging the 24,000 square feet of mountain land necessary for the power plants for a similar-sized area of arable land it owned. It drew up its own environmental impact assessments, critics say. When construction began, video footage allegedly recorded violations of environmental law on multiple counts.
At first, the Romanian government agency, the National Guard for the Environment, urged action, declaring the project and environmental forms "absolutely illegal". Two days later, officials had changed their minds and refused to "talk any more about it." The European commission, however, is set to visit the site next month to assess its legality.
Badea told the Guardiant: "The projects have been made with all the necessary approvals, authorisations and they function like all the other projects for micro hydropower plants in Europe. But there are some sick people who don't have anything to do, so they invent things about these projects."
Over the last few months the opposition to micro hydropower in the region has grown. Backed by a petition signed by 20,000 Romanians, WWF Romania and the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River have drawn up a protocol to create areas protected from hydropower development.
However, government support for the industry is strong and Diana Popa, a policy officer with WWF who worked on the protocol, sees a tough fight ahead. A state report has identified 4,000 locations to be potentially exploited for hydropower. Meanwhile, president Traian Băsescu recently blocked a well-supported government proposal to reduce green tariffs for micro hydropower by 24%.
"The political connections in this industry are everywhere," says Popa. "Because of the green tariff scheme, many politicians have big interests in hydropower. They think they can get away with what they want as it comes under the 'green category'."
Attila Andras Nagy, a freshwater marine biologist with the Romanian wildlife protection organisation Milvus, explains. "We are talking about the loss of thousands of kilometres of river. Tens of thousands across the whole mountains range. The habitat fragmentation this creates severely affects the populations of countless fish species, many of them protected. Then consider the animals that feed from the water – the otters, European dipper birds and more. The impact is cumulative and ends far from the rivers."
• Bogdan Binescu's name has been changed at his request.
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Russia Says Syria Will Resume Peace Talks, Hosts Opposition Leader
Russian officials say they expect the Syrian government to resume peace talks with the opposition next week, following an opening round of negotiations in Geneva that ended Friday with little progress.The statements Tuesday came as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hosted Syrian National Coalition President Ahmad Jarba for a meeting in Moscow.Lavrov said Russia wants to keep regular contacts with the opposition, and is working with all sides to find a political solution to the Syrian...
Karzai Arranged Secret Contacts With the Taliban
KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has been engaged in secret contacts with the Taliban about reaching a peace agreement without the involvement of his American and Western allies, further corroding already strained relations with the United States.
The secret contacts appear to help explain a string of actions by Mr. Karzai that seem intended to antagonize his American backers, Western and Afghan officials said. In recent weeks, Mr. Karzai has continued to refuse to sign a long-term security agreement with Washington that he negotiated, insisted on releasing hardened Taliban militants from prison and distributed distorted evidence of what he called American war crimes.
The clandestine contacts with the Taliban have borne little fruit, according to people who have been told about them. But they have helped undermine the remaining confidence between the United States and Mr. Karzai, making the already messy endgame of the Afghan conflict even more volatile. Support for the war effort in Congress has deteriorated sharply, and American officials say they are uncertain whether they can maintain even minimal security cooperation with Mr. Karzai's government or its successor after coming elections.
Frustrated by Mr. Karzai's refusal to sign the security agreement, which would clear the way for American troops to stay on for training and counterterrorism work after the end of the year, President Obama has summoned his top commanders to the White House on Tuesday to consider the future of the American mission in Afghanistan.
Western and Afghan officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the private nature of the peace contacts, said that the outreach was apparently initiated by the Taliban in November, a time of deepening mistrust between Mr. Karzai and his allies. Mr. Karzai seemed to jump at what he believed was a chance to achieve what the Americans were unwilling or unable to do, and reach a deal to end the conflict — a belief that few in his camp shared.
The peace contacts, though, have yielded no tangible agreement, nor even progressed as far as opening negotiations for one. And it is not clear whether the Taliban ever intended to seriously pursue negotiations, or were simply trying to derail the security agreement by distracting Mr. Karzai and leading him on, as many of the officials said they suspected.
As recently as October, a long-term agreement between the United States and Afghanistan seemed to be only a few formalities away from completion, after a special visit by Secretary of State John Kerry. The terms were settled, and a loya jirga, or assembly of prominent Afghans, that the president summoned to ratify the deal gave its approval. The continued presence of American troops after 2014, not to mention billions of dollars in aid, depended on the president's signature. But Mr. Karzai repeatedly balked, perplexing Americans and many Afghans alike.
Peace Contacts Fade
The first peace feeler from the Taliban reached Mr. Karzai shortly before the loya jirga, Afghan officials said, and since then the insurgents and the government have exchanged a flurry of messages and contacts.
Aimal Faizi, the spokesman for Mr. Karzai, acknowledged the secret contacts with the Taliban and said they were continuing.
"The last two months have been very positive," Mr. Faizi said. He characterized the contacts as among the most serious the presidential palace has had since the war began. "These parties were encouraged by the president's stance on the bilateral security agreement and his speeches afterwards," he said.
But other Afghan and Western officials said that the contacts had fizzled, and that whatever the Taliban may have intended at the outset, they no longer had any intention of negotiating with the Afghan government. They said that top Afghan officials had met with influential Taliban leaders in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in recent weeks, and were told that any prospects of a peace deal were now gone.
The Afghan and Western officials questioned whether the interlocutors whom Mr. Karzai was in contact with had connections to the Taliban movement's leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, whose blessing would be needed for any peace deal the group were to strike.
Though there have been informal contacts between Afghan officials and Taliban leaders since the very early days of the war, the insurgents' opaque and secretive leaders have made their intentions difficult to discern. Afghan officials have struggled in recent years to find genuine Taliban representatives, and have flitted among a variety of current and former insurgent leaders, most of whom had only tenuous connections to Mullah Omar and his inner circle, American and Afghan officials have said.
Western Outreach
The only known genuine negotiating channel to those leaders was developed by American and German diplomats, who spent roughly two years trying to open peace talks in Qatar. The diplomats repeatedly found themselves incurring the wrath of Mr. Karzai, who saw the effort as an attempt to circumvent him; he tried behind the scenes to undercut it.
Then, when an American diplomatic push led to the opening of a Taliban office in Qatar, Mr. Karzai lashed out publicly at the United States. Afghan officials said that to them, the office looked far too much like the embassy of a government-in-exile, with its own flag and a nameplate reading "The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan." Within days, the Qatar initiative stalled, and Mr. Karzai was fuming at what he saw as a plot by the United States to cut its own deal with Pakistan and the Taliban without him.
In the wake of the failure in Qatar, Afghan officials redoubled their efforts to open their own channel to Mullah Omar, and by late autumn, Mr. Karzai apparently believed those efforts were succeeding. Some senior Afghan officials say they did not share his confidence, and their doubts were shared by American officials in Kabul and Washington.
Both Mr. Karzai and American officials hear the clock ticking. American forces are turning over their combat role to Afghan forces and preparing to leave Afghanistan this year, and the campaigning for the Afghan national election in April has begun. An orderly transition of power in an Afghanistan that can contain the insurgency on its own would be the culmination of everything that the United States has tried to achieve in the country.
"We've been through numerous cycles of ups and downs in our relations with President Karzai over the years," Ambassador James B. Cunningham said during a briefing with reporters last week. "What makes it a little different this time is that he is coming to the end of his presidency, and we have some very important milestones for the international community and for Afghanistan coming up in the next couple of months."
Mr. Karzai has been increasingly concerned with his legacy, officials say. When discussing the impasse with the Americans, he has repeatedly alluded to his country's troubled history as a lesson in dealing with foreign powers. He recently likened the security agreement to the Treaty of Gandamak, a one-sided 1879 agreement that ceded frontier lands to the British administration in India and gave it tacit control over Afghan foreign policy. He has publicly assailed American policies as the behavior of a "colonial power," though diplomats and military officials say he has been more cordial in private.
Mr. Karzai reacted angrily to a negative portrayal of him in a recent memoir by the former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, and he is still bitter over the 2009 presidential election, when hundreds of thousands of fraudulent ballots were disqualified and, as he sees it, the Americans forced him into an unnecessary runoff against his closest opponent.
Domestic Interests
In some respects, Mr. Karzai's outbursts have been an effort to speak to Afghans who want him to take a hard line against the Americans, including many ethnic Pashtuns, who make up nearly all of the Taliban. With the American-led coalition on its way out and American influence waning, Mr. Karzai is more concerned with bridging the chasms of Afghan domestic politics than with his foreign allies' interests.
If the peace overture to the Taliban is indeed at an end, as officials believe, it is unclear what Mr. Karzai will do next. He could return to a softer stance on the security agreement and less hostility toward the United States, or he could justify his refusal to sign the agreement by blaming the Americans for failing to secure a genuine negotiation with the insurgents.
Mr. Karzai has insisted that he will not sign the agreement unless the Americans help bring the Taliban to the table for peace talks. Some diplomats worry that making such a demand allows the Taliban to dictate the terms of America's long-term presence in Afghanistan. Others question Mr. Karzai's logic: Why would the insurgency agree to talks if doing so would ensure the presence of the foreign troops it is determined to expel?
The White House expressed impatience on Monday with Mr. Karzai's refusal to sign the agreement. "The longer there is a delay, the harder it is for NATO and U.S. military forces to plan for a post-2014 presence," said Jay Carney, the White House press secretary. "This is a matter of weeks, not months."
The military leaders expected to attend the planning conference at the White House on Tuesday include Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the commander of American forces in Afghanistan; Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, the former Iraq commander now serving as head of the United States Central Command; and Adm. William H. McRaven, head of the United States Special Operations Command.
In recent statements, Mr. Karzai's office in Kabul has appeared to open the door to a resolution of the impasse over the security agreement. The presidential spokesman, Mr. Faizi, has said that if one party is obstructing the American efforts to get talks going, the United States need only say so publicly.
"Once there is clarity, we can take the next step to signing" the agreement, he said.
Russia: 3 Jailed in Anti-Gay Case
A court in Russia's Far East on Monday found three men guilty of murdering a man in an attack that prosecutors said was motivated by homophobia. The three men were convicted of stabbing and beating the man, Oleg Serdyuk, to death in a forest near the village of Ust-Bolsheretskii in the Kamchatka region in May, and then burning his body in a car. Prosecutors said the defendants had killed Mr. Serdyuk because they believed he was gay. The men received sentences ranging from nine to 12 and a half years in a labor camp. Advocates for gay rights in Russia have claimed that the number of homophobic attacks has risen since the introduction of a law last year banning "gay propaganda" among children.
World Briefing: Russia: 3 Jailed in Anti-Gay Caseby By PATRICK REEVELL
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A court in Russia's Far East on Monday found three men guilty of murdering a man in an attack that prosecutors said was motivated by homophobia.
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Italy's justice minister announced an investigation into comments made to the Italian news media by the judge who read the guilty verdicts against Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito.
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Governor Chris Christie refutes alleged evidence that he knew anything about the George Washington Bridge lane closures.
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Chris Christie said Monday he may have heard about congestion on the George Washington Bridge last fall but it didn't register as anything more than regular traffic jams because he wasn't aware his aides had ordered lanes blocked, apparently for political retribution.
Christie also acknowledged during an hour-long radio call-in program that his office has been subpoenaed by federal law enforcement officials conducting a criminal investigation into the bridge scandal. Christie said his office would fully comply with the document request.
The Republican governor and possible 2016 presidential candidate fielded questions for the first time in three weeks about a scandal that has engulfed his administration and threatened to upend any political ambitions.
Christie, 51, reiterated during the radio show that he did not know about the planning or execution of the lane closings near the bridge in Fort Lee. He disputed the account of a former loyalist, who said Friday there was evidence the governor knew about the closings while they were happening over four days in September, which is earlier than Christie has acknowledged.
Christie said an email from Patrick Foye, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the agency that runs the bridge, made him realize the traffic gridlock may not have been routine. That email was forwarded to a top Christie aide on Sept. 13, the day Foye ordered the lanes reopened.
"I know prior to (the Foye email) there were press accounts about traffic issues up there, and if I read that or someone said something ... it wouldn't have been meaningful to me because I didn't know there was any problem up there because I didn't know we had actually closed lanes up there before that," Christie said on TownSquare Media's "Ask the Governor" show.
"Nobody has said I knew about this before it happened, and I think that's the most important question," he said.
Christie has been asked before when he learned of the lane closures, which has cost five people close to the governor their jobs. During a Dec. 13 news conference, he said, "It was certainly well after the whole thing was over before I heard about it."
Monday was the first time Christie took questions since David Wildstein, Christie's No. 2 man at the Port Authority before he resigned amid the scandal, contradicted the governor's accounting of the lane closings. Christie referred to the dispute over what he knew when as "a game of gotcha."
Meanwhile, a former Christie aide who set the lane closings in motion with an email to Wildstein has invoked her right not to incriminate herself and is refusing to cooperate with a subpoena from a legislative committee looking into the scandal and trying to unravel how high up Christie's chain of command the lane closing order went and whether the operation was meant to punish a Democratic adversary.
The lawyer for former Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Kelly sent a letter Monday to the committee's lawyer saying she would not comply because the information demanded "directly overlaps with a parallel federal grand jury investigation."
Christie fired Kelly last month after learning of her email saying, "time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee" less than a month before the lane closures.
Former Christie campaign manager Bill Stepien made a similar argument last week and is also not complying with a subpoena.
The special legislative investigative committee said Monday that it had begun receiving documents it requested in response to 20 subpoenas it issued last month.
Assemblyman John Wisniewski, the co-chairman of the joint legislative panel, told The Associated Press that some deadline extensions were granted. The requests of others who were asked to produce documents on a rolling basis were also being accommodated.
Christie's campaign on Monday sought to exceed New Jersey's election spending cap to pay for lawyers dealing with subpoenas stemming from the scandal.
In a request to the state Election Law Enforcement Commission, Christie's campaign organization asked for permission to raise more money and to spend it on lawyers handling subpoenas issued by both legislative investigators and the U.S. attorney's office.
The campaign has already spent all but $13,000 of the more than the $12.2 million limit for Christie's re-election. Without more money, the campaign said it would not be able to answer the subpoenas.
Neither subpoena suggests the campaign "has engaged in wrongdoing," the campaign's lawyers said in their request.
A hearing before the election commission was set for Feb. 11.
Mulvihill reported from Haddonfield, N.J. Associated Press reporters Ken Thomas in Washington andTom Beaumont in Iowa contributed.
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California educator accused in YouTube video charged with sex abuse
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Feb 3 (Reuters) - A California educator who resigned after a woman accused her in a YouTube video of abusing her when she was a 12-year-old student has been charged with 16 counts of felony child abuse, local prosecutors said on Monday.
The former teacher, Andrea Michelle Cardosa, was charged with abusing two girls over a 13-year-period while teaching at schools they attended in Riverside and Perris, both suburbs east of Los Angeles, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Riverside County District Attorney's office.
Cardosa had not been arrested as of late Monday, but Hall said a warrant had been issued. The case grew out of a video posted on YouTube earlier this month in which a woman confronted Cardosa and accused her of abuse, he said.
Cardosa could not immediately be reached for comment. Her attorney was also not immediately available.
Officials for the Alhambra Unified School District, where Cardosa had been working as a high school assistant principal, said they received an email with a link to the YouTube video and immediately notified police.
On the YouTube video, 28-year-old Jamie Carillo confronts a woman, identified as Cardosa, with sexual abuse allegations and tells her she ruined her childhood. Carillo claims the abuse took place over several years in Riverside, east of Los Angeles.
In the video, the woman expresses regret and says the abuse was not anything she had intended. (Reporting by Sharon Bernstein; Editing by Edith Honan and Andre Grenon)
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Senior officials said they would try to assemble an aid package intended to help a new government, though one led by an opposition leader or a technocrat.
Woody Allen: Dylan Farrow letter 'untrue and disgraceful'by Catherine Shoard
The director Woody Allen has rebutted claims of abuse alleged by adopted daughter Dylan Farrow, and urged people to remember 'no credible evidence of molestation' was found when the case was originally investigated
The director Woody Allen has issued a statement in response to theopen letter by Allen's adopted daughter, Dylan. The letter, posted, on a New York Times blog, reiterates accusations of sexual abuse that were dismissed from court in 1993.
On Sunday, Leslee Dart, a publicist for Allen, 78, said:
Mr Allen has read the article and found it untrue and disgraceful. He will be responding very soon. In the meantime, it is essential that your coverage make the following facts clear.
At the time, a thorough investigation was conducted by court appointed independent experts. The experts concluded there was no credible evidence of molestation; that Dylan Farrow had an inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality; and that Dylan Farrow had likely been coached by her mother, Mia Farrow. No charges were ever filed.
Cate Blanchett also responded to Dylan's accusation that the actor had acted thoughtlessly in working with Allen. Blanchett wrote:
It's obviously been a long and painful situation for the family and I hope they find some resolution and peace.
Likewise, Blanchett's co-star Alec Baldwin appeared to call for an end to the public nature of the row, terming Dylan's allegations "this family's personal struggle".
On Saturday, Allen's adopted daughter Dylan Farrow spoke out for the first time independently over allegations that the director sexually assaulted her when she was seven.
In an open letter published on a New York Times blog, the 28-year-old, now known as Malone Farrow, renewed the claims and blamed Hollywood for exacerbating her torment by "turning a blind eye".
All allegations were denied by Allen at the time, who then called them "an unconscionable and gruesomely damaging manipulation of innocent children for vindictive and self-serving motives". Following an investigation in 1993, no charges were brought.
Farrow's letter alleges sexual abuse by Allen, in particular at the family's holiday home in 1992, during which time he was fighting his former partner Mia Farrow for custody of their two adopted children, Dylan and Moses, as well as their biological, son Ronan.
The couple, who were together for 12 years but maintained separate houses, split up after she discovered his relationship with Soon-Yi Previn, then 19, whom Farrow had adopted with former husband André Previn.
Dylan Farrow alleges she was led to a "dim, closet-like attic" and instructed to lie on her stomach and play with her brother's train set while Allen sexually assaulted her. Other abusive behaviour, skilfully hidden from her mother, and continuing for years, was also alleged.
The prosecutor at the time of the incident said he lacked evidence to prosecute but suspected abuse occurred. After the publication of Dylan Farrow's letter, former Litchfield county state attorney Frank Maco confirmed that the statute of limitations on the accusations had expired many years before.
Dr John Leventhal, who led the investigative team and conducted repeated interviews with Dylan, said at the time that he and his colleagues discredited her testimony because they felt she "was coached or influenced by her mother".
In her letter, Dylan Farrow describes suffering eating disorders and self-harm after her traumatic childhood, but is now married and living in Florida. Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn married in 1997 and adopted two girls, who are now teenagers.
In the letter, Farrow explains her motivation in speaking up as guilt over her fears Allen could abuse others, and disgust at what she sees as the film industry's defence of a "predator".
"That he got away with what he did to me haunted me as I grew up," she wrote. "I was stricken with guilt that I had allowed him to be near other little girls … Woody Allen is a living testament to the way our society fails the survivors of sexual assault and abuse."
She went on to name actors with whom Allen has recently worked – such as Louis CK and Scarlett Johansson – and ask them to examine their consciences. "What if it had been your child, Cate Blanchett? You knew me when I was a little girl, Diane Keaton. Have you forgotten me?"
The notion that Hollywood's continued embrace of Allen may make the industry culpable for alleged abuses was the logic offered by Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, on whose blog the letter was published. In an introductory paragraph, he explains that he sees it as a continuation of the debate about the propriety or otherwise of giving Allen a Golden Globe award. In a separate article, he says he is a family friend of Mia and Ronan Farrow. Some have voiced disquiet about his potential conflict of interests.
When Allen was awarded the Cecil B DeMille Golden Globe for lifetime achievement in January, the Farrows took to Twitter to voice their disgust. When the director's tribute started, Mia Farrow wrote: "Time to grab some ice cream & switch over to #GIRLS." Ronan, an activist lawyer and now a TV news host, added: "Missed the Woody Allen tribute – did they put the part where a woman publicly confirmed he molested her at age 7 before or after Annie Hall?"
It was in an interview last October in Vanity Fair magazine that Mia, Ronan and Dylan – the latter then breaking a long silence – first returned to the claims of abuse.
"I have never been asked to testify," said Dylan, whose initial allegations were only via video. "If I could talk to the seven-year-old Dylan, I would tell her to be brave, to testify."
Her letter has led to heated debate on Twitter over the allegations, although the Farrows themselves have remained relatively silent, with Ronan simply tweeting tweeted "I love and support my sister and I think her words speak for themselves."
Many, including Girls creator Lena Dunham, have tweeted support for Dylan, while others have pointed to a blog from last week by the director Robert Weide, who made a documentary about Allen and who seeks to debunk some of the misapprehensions about the case.
In a long piece on the Daily Beast, he also revealed that Mia Farrow had granted permission for her image to be used in film clips honouring Allen during the Golden Globes, and expressed surprise at her Twitter reaction.
Allen is nominated for an Oscar for best original screenplay at the Academy Awards next month, forBlue Jasmine, his most critically acclaimed film in many years, with Blanchett up for best actress and Sally Hawkins best supporting actress. The film tells the story of a wealthy New York socialite and pathological liar whose inability to control her rage on learning of her husband's infidelity leads to the whole family's downfall.
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Russia cracks down on 'militants'
Russia demands "militants" in north Caucasus republic stay home during the Olympics. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports.
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NEW YORK —- The U.S. abortion rate declined to its lowest level since 1973, and the number of abortions fell by 13 percent between 2008 and 2011, according to the latest national survey of abortion providers conducted by a prominent research institute.
Sexual slavery in Mexico – a pimp tells his story by Jo Tuckman
Sex trafficking entraps thousands of Mexican women every year. A jailed pimp, who claims to be reformed, explains his role
Pedro's life as a sex trafficker began when he offered a sweet to a pretty young domestic servant out on a Sunday stroll in a provincial city in central Mexico. "Once I got her laughing, I knew I was in with a chance," he recalls. "Then I got the sun, the moon and the stars down from the sky for her."
A week later he was roasting a pig at the home of her poverty-stricken family to celebrate their non-existent forthcoming nuptials. Within a month she was working an alley in a northern border city to raise money to help him pay off an imaginary debt. "The merchandise," he says, using the jargon of the Mexican sex-trafficking business, "had been activated."
After many years of largely ignoring the problem, federal deputies approved a people-trafficking law in 2012 that was supposed to spur a nationwide crackdown. So far, however, only Mexico City has responded with any gusto, ratcheting up the number of raids in the name of rescuing victims and arresting traffickers.
"Sexual exploitation is a modern form of slavery," says Juana Camila Bautista, the head of a special prosecutor's office set up last May to focus on the issue. "We are doing battle against this horror."
But the new official concern about sex trafficking in the capital has sparked controversy. Some say the raids have left many important traffickers untouched. Instead the authorities have been rounding up prostitutes and accusing them of complicity.
"If they want to criminalise all sex work they should come out and say it," says Elvira Madrid of the combative NGO Brigada Callejera (Street Brigade), which works with prostitutes in the capital. "Trafficking is one thing, sex work is another."
Another problem is that even well-directed stings in Mexico City rarely dismantle the much broader sex-trafficking networks often generated in other states where the authorities continue to turn a blind eye. It is a problem that some estimate sucks in thousands of women every year.
"At least where I come from, it is seen as a normal job," Pedro says of the collection of towns in the central state of Tlaxcala where he grew up, which are famed for producing pimps the way others produce artisans. Pedro, who was detained in a raid on a hotel in the capital in 2009, adds that the influence of pimps in his home state would almost certainly have protected him from facing justice.
Tlaxcala pimps dominate sexual slavery in the capital, as well as in several other Mexican cities – and the odd US one as well, including New York. And, according to Pedro, there are ever more of them. "When I was a boy, there were a few renowned local families involved," he says. "Now every young man seems to have a brand new car they couldn't have got through any other means."
Pedro became one of them 15 years ago, after a short stint working in a US factory as an illegal immigrant took the shine off the American dream.
To get started, he sought out veterans who had retired and laundered their profits in a string of legal businesses while also keeping their oar in the old trade by initiating younger relatives and eager pupils like Pedro.
"They said it wasn't a game and that there would be lots of problems with the police and the girls, and with other pimps who might want to kill me or who I might have to kill. And they asked me if I was conscious of that," he recalls. "I said yes, but the truth was that I was 19 and not conscious of anything other than that I wanted to make money and this was the only option I had."
Pedro's pimping godfathers advised him on how to ensnare poor and lonely Mexican women, often from troubled families. They told him to limit his initial "investment" when going after potential targets to a week, in order to avoid wasting his time.
They also played an active part in his first conquest, the one that started with a sweet. Posing as his uncles, they helped convince the girl's family that Pedro was a hard-working young man with good intentions. Once she was well and truly hooked, they helped him organise a move to the border city of Tijuana, where they ran hotels.
Even so, it was up to Pedro to cajole her into prostitution in the name of paying off a debt, while keeping the dream of a wedding and future happiness alive.
That was in 2000. When he was arrested nine years later, she was still seeing dozens of clients every day, entirely for his profit. By then, Pedro says, he had entrapped about 30 women in similar ways, and usually had six working for him at the same time – each earning $300-$400 a day. "I never had any problem activating my girls," he boasts, before giving a lesson in the language of trafficking that labels women as "furniture" and "merchandise", and talks about new recruits as "fresh meat for the lions".
He never gave his women any of their earnings, though he insists he sometimes took them to dinner or to the cinema and reserved violence for extreme circumstances such as an escape. "I knew lots of pimps who drugged and beat their women all the time," he says. "I knew pimps who kept them near starved and kept their children hostage, but that wasn't the school I was taught in."
This was the nightmare that Veronica lived for years. She met her pimp while working in a brothel just outside Mexico City when she was 15. He approached her as a client, treating her with a kindness she had never known, and promising to take her away to a life of love and security. By the time she discovered that his family owned brothels in the state of Michoacán, where she was expected to work, it was too late.
"They are all the same. They talk to you nicely and they treat you well at first because they see the profit in you," she says. "They look over your face and your body and have sex with you to see if you have potential, and then they start with their rap about how pretty you are and little by little you are pulled in. And when you fall, you are stuck."
Things got even worse for Veronica after a failed escape attempt prompted her pimp to move her to the capital, where she was allowed only an hour's sleep a day between seeing about 40 clients.
The pimp's fear that a rival was trying to steal Veronica, or the merest hint of insubordination, prompted vicious beatings. But, Veronica says, what really kept her in line was his family's control of her two children, whom they rarely allowed her to see.
Eventually Veronica did escape, with the help of the activists from Brigada Callejera, who also helped her snatch back her daughter in a daring raid on her pimp's family home. "I tried to save my son but couldn't," she says. "Maybe they will tie him to the business as well. That's the way they do it, the father passing the title to the son."
Veronica laid low for a while until, penniless and with no education, she returned to prostitution, though at least she was keeping her earnings.
A few months ago her trained eye spotted an obvious pimp honing in on her daughter, and the terror came flooding back. "For the first time I told her everything that had happened to me, to make her understand what she was getting herself into," says Veronica, who took her daughter into semi-hiding.
Veronica's pimp was not from Tlaxcala, and nor was the man hitting on her daughter. According to Pedro, this shows that while Tlaxcala pimps may abound, they are not particularly territorial. After all, the supply of vulnerable young women in Mexico can seem close to endless. "This is a free market," he says. "As long as you don't steal another pimp's girls there is no problem."
Pedro insists he is a reformed character with no intention of returning to the business when he is released from jail in a few years, though his expressions of regret appear to be tinged with nostalgia.
"I am sorry I hurt them. Sorry I broke their dreams and illusions," he says at one point. "It was really easy for me," he muses at another, a discreet smile at the memory just visible on his lips.
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Justin Timberlake was asked, point blank, whether he's bringing on any big-name musicians during his Super Bowl halftime performance.
His answer to that question, posed at a press conference in Minneapolis on Thursday?
"Well... no."
Many have speculated that he'll reunite with Janet Jackson after their infamous Nipplegate performance from 2004. Others predicted that he'll bring back 'N Sync. And there was the thought that he'll duet with Chris Stapleton, who appears on Timberlake's new Man of the Woods album.
But Timberlake shot down those rumors.
"To be honest, I had a ton of grand ideas about special guests... There's a whole list I think Vegas has a lot of odds on it, I heard, from 'N Sync to (Jay-Z) to Chris Stapleton to Janet (Jackson). But this year, I'm just excited. My band The Tennessee Kids, they're my special guests, and I'm excited this year to rock the stage," he said.
And he wouldn't reveal anything else about his show, except, that "the odds are good that I may have a little Can't Stop the Feeling in the show."
He said, "That's all I'm giving away. I'm not giving away anything else, so don't even try it!"
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Meet: Spencer Walle '10
Name: Spencer Benjamin Walle
Hometown: Bedford, Massachusetts
Current location: Malmö, Sweden
What were you involved with at Princeton? I studied Near Eastern Studies with a certificate in South Asian Studies. I also worked at Public Safety, was a member at Princeton Tower Club, and proudly led with Outdoor Action.
What's your favorite memory of Princeton? Hard choice - either late meal at Frist with my best friend, or having the privilege of studying Persian literature under Michael Barry
What have you been up to in the seven years (!) since graduation? What are you currently doing? What has your path been like since college? What's next?
Ah! I spent my first year after graduation working as a project manager at a translation agency in NYC. I went on to quit to strike it out on my own as a freelance translator, which is still my job today. In 2013 I chose not to renew my lease and instead spend some time traveling - I ended up falling in love in Iceland and living there for two years before we moved to Sweden in early 2016. We live in Malmö, across the water from Copenhagen, where I'm immersed in at least five different languages in my daily professional and personal life. Despite all this moving around, my professional life has been pretty narrow: translating technical texts from Japanese and German to English. I'm taking advantage of free education here to learn some more languages and maybe expand my repertoire, and I'm hoping to add a side career in programming perhaps a few years down the road.
What about your life now would your sophomore-year self be most surprised by? I was always too timid to take the plunge and study abroad, even for a semester or summer, so I think I'd be shocked that I live abroad now. Sweden was also nowhere on my radar — sophomore Spencer would probably have picked India or China.
What's a lesson/belief/idea/skill you've learned since graduating? Hm, I went from barely being able to prepare spaghettios to being a pretty enthusiastic plant-based cook at home. That, and a bunch of vague things like "having perspective" and "learning to believe in myself" that adults do.
Anything else you want the class to know? Let me know if you're ever passing through Copenhagen – I'm always happy to catch up
Meet: Laura Hankin '10
Hometown: Washington, D.C.
Current location: New York City
What were you involved with at Princeton?
I was big into the theater scene (Triangle, PUP, Intime, PSC, etc...), plus Tower.
What's your favorite memory of Princeton?
The first thing that comes to mind is Dean's Date--staying up all night in Frist with friends, getting loopy as we tried to write 20 well-researched pages in 10 hours, then trooping over to Tower for breakfast sandwiches to celebrate. (It's probably a lot more fun in my memory than it was at the time.)
What have you been up to in the six years (!) since graduation? What are you currently doing? What has your path been like since college? What's next?
When I graduated, I moved to NYC to be an actor. I got to do some really cool shows (as well as some very strange ones, like a site-specific play in an actual graveyard...), but I soon realized how much I wanted to make my own work. So I started writing. I co-created a web series, Emergency Contacts, which is basically live-action female Bert & Ernie. Fellow 2010er Dominique Salerno and I started making feminist comedy videos with our sketch group Hurdy Blurdy (favorites include a trailer for a Ghostbusters reboot starring Hillary Clinton, and a "Santa Baby"-themed plea to Saint Nick to help us freeze our eggs.) And last year, I published my first novel, The Summertime Girls, with Penguin Random House, which was a crazy, dream-come-true experience. Hopefully the future holds more books and more fun creative collaborations, and maybe even being able to support myself solely through my artistic endeavors instead of having to work a bunch of random day jobs. (I've sung to so, so many babies.)
What about your life now would your sophomore-year self be most surprised by?
I think my sophomore-year self would be surprised by how uncertain my whole career still feels. If I told her that I had published a novel and been in a movie, she'd do a big happy dance and be like, "Okay so you're a movie star/famous author now! Cool, SET FOR LIIIIIIIFE!" And then when I told her that wasn't true that all--that I still had to work all sorts of day jobs, and deal with plenty of rejections--her naive little face would fall, and she'd look into switching her major, and then ultimately decide to go into the arts anyway.
What's a lesson/belief/idea/skill you've learned since graduating?
I've learned to play guitar, kind of! (Like on the level of a fifth grader at a school talent show.) But I've also learned a little more about how to stand up for myself and my ideas, instead of trying to please everyone all the time. (Is this a good enough answer? I hope you like it!)
Meet: Andrew Usoro '10
Name: Andrew Usoro
Hometown: Katy, TX
Current location: (Just moved to) Boston, MA
Varsity Track and Field (100m/200m dash); Outdoor Action Leader Trainer; Cap and Gown Club Treasurer
Sophomore Year Halloween (for a variety of reasons), Cap and Gown Pick Ups, various shenanigans with the C&G officers senior year
What have you been up to in the five years (!) since graduation? What are you currently doing? What has your path been like since college? What's next?
Since graduating in 2010, I found myself in Singapore with the Princeton-in-Asia program teaching high school Inorganic Chemistry. I ended up extending my post by another year and lived in Singapore from 2010-2012. Participating in PiA has absolutely been one of the single best decisions I've ever made. I've made incredible friends through the program, learned about an entirely different part of the world, and got to travel quite a bit.
After (sadly) leaving Asia, I started at Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC in 2012. I had a wonderful 4 years there and every year got better as I became closer and closer to being a real doctor. I ended up deciding to specialize in orthopedic surgery and will be completing my residency at Massachusetts General Hospital with the Harvard Combined Orthopedic Residency Program. I start in June 2016 and I can't wait! I'll also be co-residents with fellow '10 Tiger Vinnie Murthy who is two years ahead of me in residency as I took two years off before going to medical school. My residency will five years long so I'll be in Boston for a while!
That I spent two years in Asia and have gotten to travel so much! My sophomore self never thought I'd do Princeton-in-Asia in a million years and probably didn't know what Princeton-in-Asia even was.
You can't escape Princeton. I knew this while I was a student, but didn't really get it until graduation. Princeton somehow found me in Asia and continues to find me wherever I move. I have run into alums in the streets of NYC, in the mountains of Peru, on top of temples in Cambodia, etc. It's actually insane.
Anything else you want the class to know?
See you at Reunions!
Meet: Andrew Kilberg '10
Name: Andrew G. I. Kilberg
Hometown: McLean, VA
Current location: McLean, VA
Tower Club (Vice President), Model Congress (Executive Director), College Republicans (President), Delta Kappa Epsilon (Vice President)
This might be the hardest question anyone has ever asked me. The answer probably is sitting on the bar in the Tower tap room on the night of our graduation, recalling all the time I'd spent in that basement.
What have you been up to in the five six years (!) since graduation? What are you currently doing? What has your path been like since college? What's next?
In late September 2010, I flew across the Atlantic to attend the University of Cambridge (St. Catharine's College). I received my M. Phil in Historical Studies the next summer. From there, I moved to Charlottesville, VA, to go to law school at the University of Virginia. UVA Law is likely as close to a twin of the Princeton ethos as one can find. No wonder that quite a few Princetonians find their way to the law school and the Darden School of Business, which is literally next door. Princeton alumni always field their own team in the law school softball league. I stayed in Charlottesville for a year after graduating from law school to clerk for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. During that year, I married Julia Osellame '09. After that yearlong clerkship ended, I moved back to McLean, VA, outside of Washington, DC, and started another yearlong clerkship, this time with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court. The year has been fun, challenging, and extremely busy -- all the more so on account of the birth of our daughter, Alice, on March 17 of this year. My clerkship with Justice Kennedy ends in July, and Julia and I plan to stay in the DC area.I likely will accept a job with a law firm in town doing a mixture of appellate and trial litigation.
How little hair I have left.
(1) The second draft is always better than the first. (2) When someone tells you that having a kid completely changes your life and your perspective, (s)he's telling you the truth. (3) It becomes increasingly difficult to keep up with old friends, but that makes weddings even more exciting because they turn into mini-reunions. (4) Princeton is still the best damn place of all, but Charlottesville gives it a run for its money.
Meet: Nikhil Pereira-Kamath '10
Name: Nikhil Lawrence Pereira-Kamath
Hometown: Newton, Massachusetts
Current Location: Kigali, Rwanda
What were you involved with at Princeton:
I was involved with the Princeton Wrestling Team (which only got really good when I left... coincidence?) and Tiger Inn with a brief couple of stints with eXpressions.
What's your favorite memory of Princeton:
Forbes. Given we were essentially in a different area code than the rest of campus in the Addition, all of us were extremely close. We celebrated "Forbes Friday" which basically involved chilling in a dorm room and enjoying each others company and mindless board games - our motto "Go Hard, Stay Home".
What have you been up to in the five years since graduation? What are you currently doing? What has your path been like since college? What's next?
I took a pretty typical path for the first five years post graduation - did Healthcare Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley for 2 years followed by a move to Boston (my city!) to work as an Associate in Berkshire Partners' Private Equity arm. While I was working at Berkshire Partners - as a side passion project - I worked with an Entrepreneur from Burundi to establish the first dialysis clinic in the country. This was my come to Jesus moment and I learned quickly that the operating side was more attractive to me than investing. Thus, after the 4 years of finance, I decided a break was necessary and I joined Harvard Business School in the fall of 2014. While I was there I began the long process of beginning to formulate a business plan for establishing a professionalized chain of dialysis centers across East Africa and from that "Africa Healthcare Network" was born!
Africa Healthcare Network ("AHN") aims to establish the first dialysis chain across Sub-Saharan Africa, providing high-quality, life-saving dialysis at an affordable cost. AHN brings world-class technical expertise combined with developing world practical operating experience to a region in dire need of quality dialysis treatment. The net result will be increased access, higher quality and lower cost to patients, delivered through a sustainable business model. AHN's vision is to bring access, quality, and affordable dialysis care to Sub-Saharan Africa. While we are unable to provide care to the entire population, by offering high quality care at ½-⅔ prevailing rates, we expect to expand the addressable patient population. As we scale, we will educate physicians and hospitals to ensure early detection in order to prolong life, and provide additional social services including, Dialysis Olympics and free-testing holidays, similar to what is done in India & the U.S.
This summer, I was fortunate enough to move to Rwanda to launch my business, The business accelerated quickly and I am proud to say that within four months, I have established the organization and will be launching our first center in two weeks with a follow-on center in January in Rwanda. Unfortunately, passion drives performance and leaving would lead to the demise of the Company and, as a result, I decided to withdraw indefinitely from Harvard Business School to concentrate 100% of my time on making this venture a success. I will be back at school at some point, but for now, I am laser focused on my mission of improving healthcare in Africa. It has been quite an adventure! As it stands, I have no plans on leaving any time soon, this is likely a 3-5 years project at a minimum so if anyone needs a place to stay in Rwanda - shoot me a note!
On the Rwanda side, I am in love with this country. The people, the flora and fauna, and the pace of life have me, for the first time in ages, relaxed! It is truly amazing how far the country has come post genocide twenty one years ago. For those who do not know, I would recommend that you read up on the Rwandan Genocide. Having visited the Genocide Memorial, I left with extreme sadness at the events that occurred (a powerful quote that has stuck w/ me: "When they said never again for the holocaust, was it meant for some people and not for others?") and disappointment in the U.S., Europe and the U.N.'s complete inaction. It is both depressing reflecting on the events of 1994 and also inspiring at how the country has been able to move forward and unite. I could write for hours on this topic, however, it is an emotional topic which I prefer to speak about in person.
1. I live in Rwanda. I always thought I would end up moving back to Boston after a few years in NYC as that's where my family is - East Africa was never on my radar. But having a truly eye opening experience! I'll be back to Boston in 5 years (self promise)!
2. I don't work in the financial services industry. I was an economics and finance nerd in college and lived an breathed finance for my first few years. Frankly I burned out and wanted to have direct control on what I was doing in life.
3. I have two dogs! Layla and Jackie - they are the two women in my life who keep me sane.
What's a lesson/belief/skill you've learned since graduating?
My cultural awareness was awful. In five months here I have had my eyes opened on how there are differences in essentially every way of operating in Rwanda and unless you are fully aware of how people operate and the slight nuances, you can turn off a number of people. Relationships are the key to success. I am learning new things every day - it has been quite enjoyable.
To quote The Truman Show, "In case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening and good night!"
Meet: Josephine Wolff '10
Name: Josephine Wolff
Hometown: Cambridge, MA
Current location: Rochester, NY
I was maybe a little bit (too) involved with The Daily Princetonian; I'm pretty sure I signed up for other things at the freshman activities fair but the Prince slowly subsumed them all. I was also an undergrad fellow at the Center for Information Technology Policy and worked for the Office of Information Technology.
I have very vivid memories of the first snowstorm freshman year when it was so cold and miserable out that my roommate and I both ended up pretty much unwilling to leave our waffle-ceilinged dorm room in the old Butler quad for an entire day. Even though neither of us really liked the other (it's perplexing, I know-- who wouldn't want a roommate who spent most of her waking hours agonizing over the intricacies of real analysis theorems?), since we shared about 180-square feet of space there was no way to avoid each other that day and we had an hours-long conversation about all sorts of random and highly inappropriate topics. We ended up living together through the end of college.
I pretty much dealt with graduating by never, ever leaving school. I finished my PhD at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Labs last spring, and this fall I started a position as an assistant professor in public policy and computing security at the Rochester Institute of Technology. I also do some cybersecurity journalism for Slate, The Atlantic, and a few other publications. Basically, I've kept doing many of the things I enjoyed most at Princeton (research, classes, journalism, agonizing about real analysis) so, if I had to guess, the future probably holds more of the same...
Either the fact that part of my job involves teaching and advising students or the fact that I love that part of my job.
I've learned a lot about how to buy and sell stolen information on the black market. And maybe a dozen or so different techniques for gaining access to someone else's email.
I don't actually read other people's email. Or buy and sell stolen information. And when I do, it's always in the name of research and the greater good.
Meet: Matt Westmoreland '10
Name: Matt Westmoreland
Hometown: Atlanta, GA
Current location: Atlanta, GA
The Daily Princetonian, Mock Trial, Chapel Choir
4am walks home from the'Prince' newsroom
After graduation, I joined Teach for America as a Corps Member in Atlanta. In 2013, I got elected to the Atlanta Board of Education, where I serve as chair of our budget commission and liaison to the Georgia General Assembly. I'm also the assistant director of Horizons Atlanta, an education non-profit focusing on preventing summer learning loss.
That I actually enjoy beer.
"Truth without hope is failure, and hope without truth is fantasy."
Only countdowntoreunions.com days till Reunions
Matt "makes green" with a kindergartner at Atlanta's Cleveland Avenue Elementary School during a visit there in March 2014.
Meet: Jasmine "Jazzy" Ellis '10
Name: Jasmine "Jazzy" Ellis
Hometown: Union, NJ
Xpressions, TapCats, Sympoh. Chapter President of NAACP. Black Student Union. Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.
What is your favorite memory of Princeton?
My favorite memory of Princeton is graduating. When a day comes that you weren't sure would ever come, it's exciting.
After graduating college, I was still going through the motions and doing what I thought was expected of me. I applied to 18 medical schools before coming to terms with the fact that I was looking for a different kind of life than that of an MD. I moved to New Orleans and became a teacher while I figured things out. I taught Spanish, Math, and Special Education, among other things. All the while, I was dabbling with pageantry. I placed in many regional pageants, including 2nd Runner Up in Miss New Jersey USA, Miss Orleans USA, and Miss Congeniality at the Miss Louisiana USA pageant. That helped me transition into modeling, which helped me transition into acting and stunts. I have been a SAG-AFTRA stunt performer for film for two and a half years. I've done stunts on Selma, NCIS: New Orleans, Terminator: Genisys, Vacation, Under the Dome, and Gotham, among others. (Check them out here: https://youtu.be/_JrqeeYqx-4) I plan on continuing with stunts until my body gives out on me. I am also an independent film producer, and I'm currently producing social justice films, sci fi films, and horror films. I love the film industry, so as long as I can spend my life being involved in some way with movie magic, I'll be happy.
Sophomore year Jazz (as I was known then) thought she would become a family doctor in a small quiet town somewhere..... I'd say my ability to have a new and exciting adventure everyday is surprising.
Since graduating, I learned to not care about what other people want for my life, and instead to guide myself on my own personal and professional journey. It's been working out pretty well for me, I think.
Jazzy Ellis - Stunt Double for Kylie Bunbury on Under the Dome
Jazzy Ellis - Stunt Double for CCH Pounder on NCIS New Orleans
Meet: Carolyn Edelstein '10
Name: Carolyn Edelstein
Hometown: Toronto
Current location: Boston (Somerville, if we're getting technical)
Theater! I miss it! Also environmental groups, OA, and the international relations council
This question prompts a summer camp-style slideshow montage in my head, complete with Green Day soundtrack: sitting in my common room at 3am giggling at my roommates, sitting backstage in a dark theater, giggling again, Tower dinner, more laughs... I don't even know if these scenes actually happened.
One thing I'll never forget, mostly because Alex Satty will never let me, is the time I sent the most freshman-esque email out to all five hundred students in ECO100, two weeks into first year. Harvey Rosen emailed an Economist article to the class over Blackboard, illustrating a point he'd made in lecture that day. I replied all with a message that went something like "By golly, Professor, it's just so special that we can already apply some of the wisdom that you've been imparting to real events happening in the actual world. Thanks! Carolyn E." Yep. That was me. Oh god, why am I telling you this.
To this day, Satty will still sign her emails to me "Thanks! Carolyn E."
1. I became a sketchy grad student. Right after graduation, when it seemed like everyone else was off teaching English in Borneo or becoming an adult in New York, I moved across the golf course into the Grad College. It felt awfully anticlimactic, but it kicked off a couple of my favorite years on campus. I stayed to get a Master's in Public Affairs at WWS as part of the SINSI (Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative) program, which helps position students to work in the federal government (other alums from our year are Will Wagner, Rashad Badr, Simonne Li, and Andrew Kim).
2. I became a DC bureaucrat. Also through SINSI, I spent two years, mostly in DC (a little in Delhi) working for Development Innovation Ventures at USAID. DIV evaluates and funds promising ideas in international development based on their cost-effectiveness and potential to scale. I spent a lot of time learning about amazing things people are doing around the world to try and chip away at poverty, some of which is working really well. (One of our early grantees was Dimagi, an organization where Danny Roberts has been working for many years.)
3. My cousin got sick. While I was at DIV, my cousin got sick with C. difficile, a terrible, nasty gut infection that people most often pick up in healthcare settings. (It's the most common healthcare-acquired infection in the U.S., and makes about a half million people sick every year.) His life was on pause as he tried to beat it, but 18 months and seven rounds of very strong antibiotics later, he was just getting sicker. That's when he tried a fecal transplant.
4. I ship poop to hospitals. Fecal transplants are exactly what they sound like: stool from a healthy donor is infused into the intestines of the patient, and the bacteria in the healthy person's stool outcompetes the infection. Patients are usually better within the day.
Back in 2011, my cousin (who has politely asked that I refrain from using his name) couldn't find a physician who would perform the treatment -- it was not as well understood, and it was also a logistical nightmare to find and screen a donor, get set up to process the stool, and then hope that the day of the procedure the donor could perform on command. So, he ended up doing the transplant at home, by himself, using his roommate's stool.
My boyfriend, Mark Smith '09 was working on a PhD in microbiology at the time and heard this story over a thanksgiving dinner with my family (brave man). He thought it was insane that anyone had to do this at home. To make the logistics of fecal transplantation easier for everyone, in 2013, he and James Burgess started OpenBiome, the first stool bank. I helped. Today, I cover our public comms, policy, and our expansion overseas. So far, we've sent out about 6800 treatments to ~450 hospitals in 6 countries. Next, we'll be launching poop pills!
5. _____?. I don't know what comes next! I feel like this is one of those brain teasers where you have to use some pattern from the first four numbers to predict what the fifth one should be. I was never very good at those.
TL; DR: I'm at OpenBiome, a stool bank that sends doctors frozen stool preparations for use in fecal transplants.
I own a Mac.
I don't think I would have ever expected "poop bank" to be on the list of activities, but I probably wouldn't have found it wildly out of character.
I've claimed to have learned to play the ukulele, but that's a vast over-exaggeration. I've learned to drive, which has proven useful, if terrifying. I've learned that a very rewarding way to travel is to pick a place, any place, that looks crazy beautiful on Google Earth and then sort out how to get there.
If you ever want to come check out the poop lab, it would be great to host you! We're in Medford, which is one of the many suburbs that thinks of itself as part of Boston, just behind Tufts University.
Inside OpenBiome: Mary Njenga processing samples
Meet: Jacob Kosior '10
Name: Jacob Kosior
Hometown: Indianapolis, IN
Current location: Chicago, IL
While at Princeton I was a member of BodyHype, Triangle, and Tower.
Senior year I served as Class Social Chair, which entailed running booze all over campus for 2010 Happy Hours. That ended up being great training for planning Reunions!
It sounds cliche, but too many to count. BodyHype initiations and tech week will always hold a special place in my heart, as will the final Triangle show during Reunions. Nights at Tower with the Old Gang and playing croquet on the Tower lawn after turning in my thesis are also great memories.
The memories I enjoy most are from freshman year, meeting new people and running around campus not knowing what we were getting ourselves into. Those memories were a lot like life when I first moved to Chicago with two of my best friends from Princeton, Zach Zimmerman and Halcyon Person. We had this whole big city in front of us and didn't know what to expect. It was like freshman year all over again... just without the free food and booze.
After graduation I moved to Chicago where I completed a two-year Project 55 Fellowship at Center on Halsted, Chicago's LGBT community center, where I served as the organization's Director of Special Events & Volunteers.
In 2012 I enrolled in graduate school at the University of Illinois-Chicago to study urban and regional planning. I graduated in 2014 with my Masters in Urban Planning & Policy with a focus on economic development and real estate finance.
I now work in multifamily real estate in Chicago and serve as both a Senior Consultant with AMG Real Estate Advisors and the Director of Operations & Business Development for our brokerage, Luxury Living Chicago Realty. We provide consultative services for multifamily developers in Chicago including floor plan review, pro-forma analysis, and market reporting, and leasing.
Basically I get to help developers plan their residential high-rises in downtown Chicago!
Time will tell what's next for me. I'm very lucky to have a great group of Princeton friends in Chicago, a very supportive partner in my boyfriend, Paul, and a job that allows me to continually get involved in new projects.
Surprised isn't the right word... but my sophomore-year self would probably be disappointed that my pop music career never took off as planned.
Other than that, sophomore year Jacob would be surprised that life after college moves even faster than our time spent on campus.
In the 5 years since we graduated I have worked 4 jobs, appeared on a reality TV show, got a dog, got rid of said dog, lived with my best friends, lived with my boyfriend, saw both of my siblings get married, earned a Masters degree, welcomed my first niece, and bought a condo in Chicago.
Cramming all of that into 5 years makes me feel like college life was actually pretty slow and reminds me to appreciate the day-to-day a bit more.
My mantra has always been that "everything happens for a reason" and since graduation that motto has become even more true.
In 2005, I wasn't sure where I wanted to go to college and what passions I wanted to pursue, so I took a year off and ended up with the Class of 2010 instead of the Class of 2009. I attribute a lot of things in my life to that one decision, none of which I could have predicted at the time.
I left my post-college fellowship without another job lined up and briefly worked as a temp for my current company, not knowing all of the opportunities that would open up for me down the road. I wavered on going to graduate school and turned down all of my offers, not knowing that doing so would prompt an even better offer from a great program that kept me in Chicago.
Most of all, there are some truly amazing people who came into my life both in and after college who remain with me today and I still believe there is a reason we met and became friends.
I really enjoyed serving as the Reunions Co-Chair for our Class. I think Brendan would agree that it was difficult at times to work a 50 or 60 hour week and have to fit in Reunions planning late at night or in the middle of a work day, but it was all worth it in the end. Serving as Reunions Co-Chairs was a great opportunity to stay engaged with our classmates as well as the on-campus team who make Reunions happen.
I hope that everyone had a great time on campus and visiting with friends during our 5th. And I'm sorry I didn't get to talk to more of you!


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Source of the quotation, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."
Judging from his authentic letters, Paul seems to have known little about – or thought it unnecessary to mention – many details about Jesus' life and teachings. Direct quotations were very few. But in Acts 20:35, the author reported that Paul said to the 'elders of the church' of Ephesus:
"In everything I showed you that by working hard in this manner you must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'" (NASB)
Commentators often note that these reported words of Jesus do not appear in our canonical gospels. Are there any non-canonical sources that include these words, attributed either to Jesus or someone else? Do critical scholars consider this an authentic Jesus saying in Acts? Does it have similarity to anything else in Paul or 'Luke'?
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A related question. – Lucian Aug 16 '17 at 13:54
Why is it being assumed that it was ever written down before Acts? – Sola Gratia Jan 6 at 14:37
Luke 6:38 (NIV) "Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." It is more blessed to give, because when you give you will receive more than what you would if you only wanted to receive. Paul mastered the art of mental acrobatics. – Constantthin Jan 18 at 3:12
John Ashton says in 'History and Theology in New Testament Studies', published in The Nature of New Testament Theology, page 8, that this is a saying of triply dubious authenticity, but does not go on to explain what 'triply dubious' means.
John J. Kilgallen says ('ACTS 20:35 AND THUCYDIDES 2.97.4', published in the Journal of Biblical Literature) It is evident that no document, within or outside of the NT, corroborates, except possibly in the most general way, the Acts claim that Jesus said, "It is better to give than to receive:"
Kilgallen says one option is to accept the Acts citation as an accurate, but otherwise unknown, wisdom saying of Jesus. Alternatively, he refers to this quote from Thucydides that some scholars think might have inspired the author of Acts:
The Peloponnesian War 2.97.4 For there was here established a custom opposite to that prevailing in the Persian kingdom, namely, of taking rather than giving; more disgrace being attached to not giving when asked than to asking and being refused ...
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I'm convinced of this general "wisdom saying of Jesus" approach based on specific instructions that Messiah gave about giving & receiving, e.g., Matt 10:8, 19:21; Lk 6:27-30, 38, 41, 12:33. Also, notice in Kilgallen's "option" an example of how pagan cultures had sayings which captured an idea in the negative what Scriptures quote in the positive. The prime example is Confucius' "Don't do unto others what you don't want done to you." (This is known as the "maxim of reciprocity," and can be found stated in some manner in all cultures with any kind of ethical foundation.) Compare to Prov 28:27, Lev 19:9-18, 25:35-38 and to Lk 6:31.
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My knitting mojo is back and doing its thing.
Could this be related to the fact that I've eaten food for the past three days and not vomited not even once that whole time and you couldn't make me touch a smoothie with a ten foot pole but I have all this energy and pleasure in life again?
I give you Aviatrix Baby Hat, by Justine Turner. And really, I think a fair amount of my knitting pleasure must be attributed to the yarn. Some delicious handspun, in Rhubarb, was a gift, and this pattern showcases it so well (I'm also working on a shrug for Baby Roo, but the yarn looks better in the hat). The color changes are lengthened, and the thick/thin is emphasized. I love this little hat.
But back to the knitting. I've also resurrected Coachella from my desk at work (where obviously no work was getting done on it).
This yarn, Knitpicks Cotlin, has tried to be many, many things, and has failed at all of them. I didn't buy enough to make a textured tunic by Stefanie Japel, nor do I have enough to make Buttercup by Heidi Kirrmaier, though I did give it a good shot because I'm stupid like that.
There is in fact too much for Coachella, and I have no earthly idea what the rest will be--there's only so much you can do with bright red linen, and after all those burp cloths I made for Roo, I don't think dishcloths are in the cards--but at least this will make a dent. And it is a fine yarn, and it's been mournfully waiting to be used.
I went down a needle size, and am making a Size 34--it seems there were stretching issues, and I'm hoping this will take care of that. I think it will be a Christmas gift for my sister Puanani--she lives in Southern California, and goes to a lot of pool parties (or at least, I imagine her doing so). I just hope it fits.
Thanks for the Material Whirled link; I haven't heard of them before, but I recognize some of those names from Ravelry. They're talented spinners.


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