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Josué Mejía
The work of Josué Mejía addresses the relationship between technological development and the political projects in which it is framed, analyzing - from a critical perspective - the processes that have given priority to certain production of technologies, generating precarious living conditions and asymmetrical social developments .
His current research focuses on the revision of technological updating projects within the Mexican territory - in its condition of processes ascribed to an economy of underdeveloped order -, directed towards a global dynamic, as well as in the use of certain processes cultivated in the counterculture, as the "do it yourself" or the technological appropriation within the hegemonic logics. The results of the developed process take shape in disciplines such as video, methodologies related to industrial design, among others.
The projects are conceived as proof of concept where the design, construction and implementation of devices - through an interdisciplinary character - allow the reflection on their operational possibility. These artifacts are the starting points for other narratives and fictions, where the latent failure in the possible insertion of said objects within the hegemonic structures allows us to observe their fissures and think about their unfortunate potential.
Wendy Cabrera Rubio
Works mainly with the discursivity of the scientific stories, as well as its consequences in the economy, industry and aesthetics. She has a particular interest in research, insertion in specific communities and collaboration with third parties. Her projects are developed in different media such as installation, video and didactic theater.
She completed her undergraduate studies at the ENPEG "La Esmeralda" and later entered the SOMA Educational Program. Her work has been presented at the MUCA, Karen Huber Gallery, Lodos, Anonymus, Biquini Wax EPS, Ex-Teresa Arte Actual and the National College.
Wendy is a member of LADRÓNgalería, an independent platform for the production, discussion and exhibition of contemporary art in Mexico City.
Fallen Fruit (David Burns & Austin Young)
Fallen Fruit is a collaborative art project that began in Los Angeles with creating maps of public fruit: the fruit trees growing on or over public property. Fallen Fruit uses cartography and geography as an indexical tool to create serialized and site-specific works of art that often embrace public participation. The work of Fallen Fruit includes photographic portraits, experimental documentary videos, public art installations, and exhibition projects. Using fruit as a method of interrogating the familiar, Fallen Fruit investigates urban space, ideas of neighborhood, and new forms of citizenship. From protests to proposals for new urban green space, Fallen Fruit's work aims to reconfigure the relationship of sharing and explore understandings of public and private. We learned that fruit can be many things; it's a subject and object at the same time it is aesthetic. Fruit often triggers a childhood memory; it's emotional and familiar. Everyone's an expert on the flavor of a banana. Much of this work is linked to ideas of place and family, and much of these works echo a sense of connectedness with something very primal – our capacity to share with others. Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work. Fallen Fruit uses fruit as a common denominator to change the way you see the world.
Ana Gabriela García
Ana Gabriela García (1994, Mexico) is an art historian. Her research addresses archive policies and visual culture. She has co-curated photography and archive exhibitions at Laboratorio de Arte Alameda and Centro Cultural Border. She was a researcher for the project M68: Ciudadanías en movimiento at the Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco. She is currently associate editor of the magazine Terremoto, as well as curator of the archive exhibition program of Terremoto: La Postal.
Sebastián Terrones
Through interdisciplinary research processes, Sebastián Terrones explores the socio-environmental consequences caused by aesthetics, narratives, axes of control and ordering of the modern civilizatory system, elaboration of specific and counter-narrative events, media, media, and fictions.
Alyssa Nitchun
Alyssa Nitchun is an independent global art, design, and culture consultant
specializing in strategic development and production. Alyssa is driven by how creativity can make our lives richer and make us better citizens of the world. From 2012 - 2018 Alyssa was with the public art organization Creative Time in a variety of positions,
most recently as Acting Executive Director, where she worked closely with the Board of Trustees to oversee the group's many initiatives as well as short and long-term organizational growth.
Prior to Creative Time, Alyssa oversaw Institutional Giving for
StoryCorps, the public media organization archiving diverse oral histories at the Library of Congress. Alyssa has also been Director of Development for the CUNY Graduate Center's Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies and has held a variety of creative positions
in the worlds of art, fashion, and music. Alyssa received a Masters degree in Gender Politics from NYU.
Ben Lee Ritchie
Nicodim Gallery's Global Director is Benjamin Lee Ritchie Handler. While earning a Masters degree in Library and Information Science at UCLA, Ritchie Handler toured internationally with a rock band and worked at a number of
art institutions including The Hammer, LACMA, and MOCA. In 2011, he landed at Gagosian and facilitated a number of interactive installations including a courtroom that archived its own proceedings in an obsolete language with Piero Golia, a functioning kitchen with Urs Fischer and his chef, Mina Stone, and a panopticon-cum-record store with Kim Gordon and Feeding Tube Records. He curated FLASH FLASH FLASH: An Exhibition As Tattoo Parlor, which appeared at the 2016 New York Art Book Fair, the 2017 Los Angeles Art Book Fair, and the 2017 SFMOMA Anniversary Gala, providing limited-edition, hand-numbered permanent tattoos by a diverse set of artists ranging from Kenneth Anger to Genesis Breyer P—Orridge to Henry Taylor. Each edition of tattoos sold out quickly, and bootleg, unnumbered editions began appearing instantly. At Nicodim, Ritchie Handler has curated the critically-acclaimed group exhibitions Homeward Bound (2017), Formal Encounters (2018), BioPerversity (2018), and The Adderall and the Ecstasy (2018), and implemented INFLUENCES, a series of events exploring the relationships between art and psychoactive substances in a gallery setting.
S. Beckett Gookin
S. Beckett Gookin's investigations are on how biomimicry is slowly becoming interconnected to biohacking as we begin to understand the intricacies of our own bodies and can even hack into them and monitor them. He talks conceptually on how society could potentially be impacted as a result of these changes and what developments could stem p "Biomimicry, biohacking, and how it pertains to the arts." from these discoveries. He uses as evidence, the works of contemporary researchers and some of his personal observations in the field of biomimicry, such as a green fluorescent protein which was first discovered in jellyfish and can be cloned into bacteria and then used in a number of medical procedures and as well as in bio-art.
Invasorix
AKI AORA 2018
Unx (Colombian, b. 1986), Liz Misterio, and Nabil Yanai (Mexican, b. 1991) all based in Mexico City
INVASORIX is a collective currently consisting of Nina Hoechtl, Maj Britt Jensen, Liz Misterio, Una Pardo Ibarra, Naomi Rincón-Gallardo, Nabil Yanai and Adriana Soriano. Invasorix is interested in songs, music videos, publications, tarot readings and performative presentations as a form of queer-feminist protest. Through a continuous dialogue among themselves and with their imaginative friends, such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Pina Bausch, bell hooks, Pedro Lemebel, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, María Sabina, Patti Smith and Annie Sprinkle, they question gender roles and the intentions of artists, reflect on precarity and dream about alternative and/or utopian ways of living and being.
Their video "Macho intelectual" won the 1st prize in the category ACTIVISMO in the FEM TOUR TRUCK Festival Internacional de Videoarte Feminista. Other recent exhibitions include Sonic Futures at ICA San Jose, USA (2017), Women in Work. Mujer, Arte y Trabajo en la globalización at the Sala de Exposiciones de la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, ES (2017), SOUND GENDER FEMINISM ACTIVISM SGFA 2016, London, UK (2016) and FEM TOUR TRUCK
Festival Internacional de Videoarte Feminista in Spain, Portugal, Ecuador and Colombia (2016).
Ahmet Ögüt
Turkish-Dutch, b. 1981 in Diyarbakır, based in Amsterdam and Berlin
With an eye for daily encounters and moments of improvisation his works address topics such as structural inequality, state suppression, censorship and forms of resistance. Singular acts of non alignment or collective struggles against militarized powers equally tend to inspire the aesthetic and thematic reflections that occur in Ahmet Öğüt's work just as the way he operates in the institutional ecology surrounding his practice. He works across a variety of different media often picking up on an urban environment. He had solo shows among others at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2015), Chisenhale Gallery, London (2015), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2012), Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2011) and SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul (2011). He has participated in group shows such as the 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016), Manifesta 11 (2016), "Museum On/OFF" at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2016), the 13th Biennale de Lyon (2015), "Political Populism" at Kunsthalle Wien, the Kyiv Biennial (2015) and many more.
Taus Makhacheva
Russian, b. 1983 in Moscow, based in Makhachkala and Moscow
She holds a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London and an MA from the Royal College of Art, London. Selected solo exhibitions include: 'A Walk, A Dance, A Ritual', Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany (2014) and 'Story Demands to be Continued', Republic of Dagestan Union of Artists, Makhachkala, Russia (2013). Selected group exhibitions include: 'Love me, Love me not', Collateral exhibition, 55th Venice Biennale (2013); 'Re: emerge – Towards a New Cultural Cartography', Sharjah Biennial 11 (2013); 'City States – Makhachkala, Topography of Masculinity', 7th Liverpool Biennial, (2012), 'Rewriting Worlds', ArtPlay Сentre, The Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, (2011); 'Greater Caucasus', PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm (2011); 'Affirmative Action (Mimesis)', Laura Bulian Gallery, Milan (2011); 'Practice for Everyday Life', Calvert 22, London (2011); and 'History of Russian Video Art', Volume 3, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2010).
In 2014 Taus Makhacheva won the Future of Europe prize at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, and in 2012 she received the Innovation Prize, the Russian state award for contemporary art in Moscow, the 'New Generation' category, for her project The Fast and The Furious.
German, b. 1975, based in Berlin
Hendrik Weber, better known as Pantha du Prince, Panthel and Glühen 4 is a German producer, composer and conceptual artist for Electro, Techno, House, Minimal and Noise affiliated with Hamburg's Dial music label and British label Rough Trade.
Due to his integral approach, he manages to unite different areas of cultural production such as popular music, performance and fine arts to one artform. His installations coalesce sounds, architecture and objects into a transcendental space.
Rogelio Sosa
Mexican, b. 1977, based in in Mexico City
Located in between the boundaries of music and art, the work of Rogelio Sosa develops in the fields of experimental music and sound art.
Using sound as the main creative platform, his work explores a wide range of aspects that deal with sound morphology, structures of auditory reference, and performativity, questioning at the same time the contemporary notions of "noise" and "music". His projects include improvisations, sound actions, sound interventions and sound installations that make use of electronic media most of the times.
Generating situations of exceptional hearing through the transformation and transgression of stable sound entities, as well as the intensification of the acoustic space, his artistic proposal seeks to find new ways to perceive, understand and conceptualize the sound phenomenon.
He has presented his work in more than 50 cities in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chili, Cuba, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, Peru, The United States and Venezuela.
Interspecifics
Interspecifics (Leslie Garcia and Paloma Lopez)
Multispecies nomad collective and independent artistic re-
search bureau founded in Mexico City in 2013. Our current lines of research are focused on the use of sound and Artificial Intelligence to understand the bioelectrical and chemical signals of different living organisms and its geometrical patterns as a nonhuman form of communication. For this purpose we've developed a collection of experimental research and educational tools we call Ontological Machines. Our work is deeply shaped by the Latin American context where precarity enables new forms of creativity and ancient technologies meet cutting edge forms of production. We think about this as a methodology for creation, where one is always looking for
the most suitable way to produce in terms of social inclusion,
cross-disciplinary practices and open knowledge.
http://www.interspecifics.cc/
Mario Garcia Torres
Mexican, b. 1975 in Monclova, Mexico, based in Mexico City
Mario García Torres describes himself as a conceptual artist who makes work about the history of conceptual art. He uses several media—including photography, film, performance, and printed matter—to reprise or respond to past works of other artists. As he explains, "my work doesn't really become a remake of the conceptual story but more like a second rehearsal." For example, in the aptly titled exhibition "Until It Makes Sense" (2013) at Dublin's Project Arts Centre, Torres presented pieces based on works by Robert Barry, John Baldessari, Alighiero Boetti, as well as his own former projects.
DJ Spooky
USA, b. 1970, based in Vancouver and Berlin
DJ Spooky aka Paul D. Miller is a composer, multimedia artist, editor and author. His DJ MIXER iPad app has seen more than 12 million downloads in the last year. In 2012-2013 he is the first artist-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC starting this fall. He's produced and composed work for Yoko Ono, Thurston Moore, and scores of artists and award-winning films. Miller's work as a media artist has appeared in the Whitney Biennial; The Venice Biennial for Architecture, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany; Kunsthalle, Vienna; The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and many other museums and galleries. His book Sound Unbound, an anthology of writings on electronic music and digital media is a best-selling title for MIT Press. He has been featured everywhere from Elle to CNN to SyFy.
Mariana David
Mexican, based in Mexico City
Mariana David has been coordinator of the alternative art space La Panadería, director of MUCA Roma, UNAM, where she developed the Program The Right to the City, and as a freelance curator, launched an artist residency at the Northern border town of Cd. Juárez. She participated in the recently published Art and the Global Economy (University of California Press) edited by John Zarobell, She currently works on a documentary on the relationship between journalism, politics and spectacle in Mexico, and is coordinator of the Education Program at Museo Tamayo.
Nika Chilewich
Nika Chilewich is a curator and arts writer from Los Angeles who lives and works in Mexico City. She holds a B.A. in Latin American Literature from Bard College in New York, and a Masters in Art History and Curatorial Studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM, where her thesis The Role of Authorship in Fernando Palma's Meteorological Serpent received honorable mention.
Her curatorial works includes Sabroso Veneno by Radamés 'Juni' Figueroa and Discovery by Casey Jane Ellison at Anonymous Gallery in 2017, The City is Out There at the Tlatelolco University Cultural Center in Mexico City, 2016-2017, and Juan Acha: Por una Nueva Problemática Artística with Los Yacuzis at the Modern Art Museum of Mexico, MAM, 2016-2017.
Her writing has appeared in Excelsior Newspaper, Terremoto, and Vice ID. She is a founder and co-editor of Erizo: A Journal of the Arts, a bilingual journal of poetry and art from the Americas published annually.
She is a member of the subcritical studies collective Los Yacuzis since February, 2016.
1975, based in Berlin
US born artist John Arnold has shown in Berlin, NY & Paris. With his meticulous approach to research, he creates thought provoking work that touches on alternative forms of diplomacy and reconsiderations of history.
Sally Montes
1981, based in Mexico City
Aki Aora's founder and curator, Sally Montes is interested in the abstraction of material or immaterial data and/or information as an agent for social change. Her work often deals with disappearing languages and researching new ways to smuggle information.
Paloma Contreras
Lomas' art embraces political irony as a tool for rebellion.
Jacob Kirkegaard
1975 based in Berlin
Danish artist Jacob Kirkegaard looks for the hidden music in nature and the physical world, creating tonal spaces to get lost in.
Baby Vulture
With a fine art background and tastes ranging far beyond the average DJ, Baby Vulture carves her own worlds and stories from the interplay of her disparate influences.
Robin Kahn
1961, based in New York City
Artist, curator and author. The talk will cover art practice and activism, specifically in relation to her work dealing with refugees from Saharaui desert at Documenta 13 in 2012, as well as her work for the exhibition "The Value of Food" in New York.
Jose Rodrigo Garcia
An active member of Mexico City's Biquini Wax EPS collective, Jose is a graduate of the SOGEM writer's school, as well as the co-editor of publishing houses Libros Caballo and Libros Fantasma.
Blake Shaw
Blake Shaw is a media artist who works at the intersection of video, software, public space, and telecommunication technology. His project, The Bridge, seeks to allow collaboration between artists separated by the military occupation of Palestine.


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Court strikes down anonymous sperm-donor law
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BY KEITH FRASER, THE PROVINCE, MAY 20, 2011
A B.C.-born woman has won a long-running battle to strike down a law that prevents her -and thousands of others -from learning about their biological parents.
Olivia Pratten fought for more than 10 years to find out the identity and other information about her biological dad, an anonymous sperm donor.
T h e B . C . g ov e r n m e n t blocked her efforts, so Pratten, a 29-year-old journalist who now lives in Toronto, took her case to court.
On Thursday, a judge found that the Adoption Act, a law that applies to anonymous sperm and egg donors, is discriminatory.
"I'm thrilled, I'm really happy," said Pratten. "It's definitely the right thing. It just feels really good to know that what we've been saying about the law for years is validated."
Pratten added that she had always known that the files about her biological dad were "probably destroyed" and doesn't know if she'll ever find out. "I just know that my experience, which was not good for me, will help people for the future," she said. "The government has been, at the provincial and federal level, absolutely appalling, that's why I had to go to court."
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Elaine Adair found that the Adoption Act was unfair because it allowed adopted kids to find out information about their biological parents, but prevented donor offspring such as Olivia from finding out anything about their parents.
"In my view, the evidence in this case provides strong support for the conclusion that the circumstances of adoptees and those of donor offspring with regard to the need to know and have connection with one's roots, are closely comparable," said the judge.
The judge suspended her decision to strike down the law for 15 months to give the B.C. legislature a chance to pass a new law in compliance with the Charter of Rights.
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Oracle President Safra Catz ready to talk settlement with Google in court -- Google wants to send Andy Rubin
Shortly before the holiday weekened, Judge William Alsup, the federal judge presiding over Oracle's patent and copyright infringement lawsuit against Google, communicated his inclination to order "the top executive officers" of Oracle and Google to participate in a mediation effort, spending one or two full days in court before a Magistrate Judge.
The court can't force them to settle on any particular terms, but the court may have the authority to require them to make an effort.
The deadline for the parties' responses it today at 12 noon local time. Oracle's reply came in more than a half-hour before the deadline, and I updated this post after Google's reply became available.
Here's Oracle's position:
Oracle concurs with the Court's view that an additional attempt at settlement of the case through mediation before a United State Magistrate Judge is warranted. Oracle has found previous efforts at settlement, including private discussions between the parties, frustrating for lack of follow-through, and believes that those efforts have not exhausted the possibilities for resolving the case.
As suggested by the Court, Oracle considers it essential that both parties bring top-level executives. Accordingly, Oracle's executive representatives in the mediation before the Magistrate Judge will be Safra Catz, President of Oracle Corporation, and Thomas Kurian, Executive Vice President of Oracle Product Development.
Oracle will strive to make its representatives available as necessary and proposes that the mediation occur before the end of September.
This is a smart move by Oracle. It's constructive and the judge will like it. It's obvious that Oracle isn't afraid of a trial but would rather get Google to pay before. A trial always comes with some degree of uncertainty even though Oracle's case appears pretty strong. Also, there's no certainty right now as to the exact timing of the trial. After all, Oracle can always say no if Google doesn't offer enough.
In my post on Judge Alsup's note, I already said that Oracle wasn't likely to send CEO Larry Ellison (though he would probably be a tremendous negotiator) but would probably send one of the two presidents of the company, and I mentioned Safra Catz.
I expected that Google was also going to respond constructively. In late July, Google blinked and for the first time -- after previously dismissing this lawsuit in its entirety -- indicated a willingness to settle. And looking at the latest revelations, such as a Google engineer's admission of "likely" having copied Java code into Android, Google would probably be well-advised to accede to Oracle's demands.
This is Google's answer to the court:
Google welcomes the Court's suggestion that the parties participate in a mediation of this case before a Magistrate Judge. Google does not object to participating in a mediation before a Magistrate Judge who is not otherwise involved in this case.
Google recognizes the importance of having top executives of the parties attend the Court-ordered mediation. Google proposes that Andrew Rubin, who is Senior Vice President, Mobile and reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer, attend for Google together with Kent Walker, Vice President and General Counsel of Google. Mr. Rubin's executive responsibilities include all of Google's mobile business, of which the Android business is a part. Mr. Rubin is knowledgeable regarding the issues in this case and he is fully empowered to resolve this matter on reasonable terms.
Google also understands from counsel for Oracle that they propose that Safra Catz and Thomas Kurian attend on behalf of Oracle -- and Google agrees with this choice. Ms. Catz is one of two Presidents of Oracle who, like Mr. Rubin, reports directly to Oracle's Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Rubin and Ms. Catz were involved in previous discussions involving the subject matter at issue in this case.
Some comments on this one -- I believe it shows Google isn't prepared to spend serious money on a settlement at this stage.
Google's concern about a Magistrate Judge who might be involved with this case must relate to Magistrate Judge Donna Ryu, who (to the extent I can tell as an observer) appears to do a great job on discovery disputes in connection with this case. But she ruled against Google on the important, incriminating Lindholm email. Apart from that experience, Google may just generally be uneasy with a mediator who knows too much about the case because with a certain level of knowledge, one can hardly reach any other conclusion than "willful infringement".
The choice of Andy Rubin and Google's General Counsel Kent Walker is very questionable. While Google can't be penalized for the fact that it doesn't give anyone the title of "President", those two executives are clearly not at a level with Safra Catz.
The current version of Google's list of "Executive Officers" on the Management page of its website does not include Rubin, nor Walker. By the time I write this, the six persons listed there are Page, Schmidt, Brin, Arora, Drummond, and Pichette. Rubin may report directly to Page, but he's apparently not among the top six executives. And Walker is not even the top lawyer: that would be David Drummond.
I'm sure Judge Alsup will figure this out and draw his conclusions. Maybe he'll even take a decision that the proposed negotiators are not at the level at which they should be from his point of view.
[Update] Oracle complained about these appointments and raised points similar to the ones I made. I wrote a follow-up post on Oracle's request that the Court require Google to appoint someone more senior than Rubin, and on Oracle blaming Rubin for the mess. [/Update]
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Q: Salesforce Marketing Cloud Mobile SDK with Firebase Anyone of you have experience implementing Salesforce Marketing Cloud Mobile SDK with Firebase?
We are using FCM and have tested Marketing Cloud Push SDK version 5.5.0 with Google Play Service SDK version 11.8.0
The developer has followed the implementation guideline on how to handle multiple-push-sdks solution: http://salesforce-marketingcloud.github.io/JB4A-SDK-Android/trouble-shooting/multiple-push-sdks.html
However, there is still duplicate notification shown while we sent the push from firebase console even we've the implementation according to the guideline.
As Salesforce is not supporting Firebase, not sure if you know provide any solution/workaround for that.

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Lightning strikes twice: Two Air Guard pilots are forging the future of the F-35
By Niceville on	 February 3, 2017 MILITARY
As the skies over Valparaiso, Florida, play host to numerous aircraft from multiple branches of the Department of Defense, pilots from the Florida Air National Guard (FLANG) are training aviators on the Air Force's F-35A Lightning II fifth-generation fighter.
The 33rd Fighter Wing at Eglin Air Force Base has been the home to this remarkable air frame since the program's inception in 2009, making it the first base to have F-35s within the DoD.
Following the arrival of the F-35 at Eglin, two members of the Florida Air National Guard (FLANG) have been helping the DoD establish the curriculum for the implementation of the aircraft, as well as train pilots how to fundamentally fly the F-35. The mission of fielding a fifth-generation fighter aircraft and training pilots to fly it may seem like a daunting task, but the FLANG has been on the forefront of this exact type of mission for more than 10 years starting with the F-22 at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida.
"We bring the knowledge gained from active duty through the F-15 Strike Eagle and the F-22 Raptor to the F-35 and as Florida Guardsmen, we provide a permanency and continuity to the program," said Air Force Lt. Col. Scott "Gaucho" Charlton, F-35 instructor and the 33rd Fighter Wing's Chief of Wing Weapons and Tactics. "I think Florida is a perfect location for the F-35. We have a fifth-gen state of excellence already established through the F-22 training at Tyndall and the F-35 here at Eglin, plus the airspace and integration opportunities here are hands-down better than anywhere else in the country."
Charlton was selected as part of the initial instructor cadre for the program in 2010. His current position as the chief of wing weapons and tactics ensures the training and implementation of regulations, tactics, techniques and procedures for the F-35 are consistently updated and adhered to by the Air Force.
"For the past six years, we have been laying the groundwork for the largest DoD program on record. The F-35s will be deployed globally well into the 2040s," said Charlton. "It's a great opportunity for the total-force integration model that the DoD is striving to achieve."
One of the team members integral to bringing the F-35 program to new heights is Air Force Maj. John "Rocky" MacRae, F-35 instructor and the 58th Fighter Squadron's Assistant Director of Operations. As a previous active-duty F-22 pilot, he brings a level of experience with fifth-generation aircraft that allows him to help shape the program.
"There was a need for fifth-generation F-22 experience within the F-35 program," said MacRae. "My active duty commitment was up and this seemed like a perfect fit for me to provide the F-22 experience and start something new."
As a testament to the outstanding performance with the F-35 program, Rocky has been selected to attend the U.S. Air Force Weapons School's initial F-35 validation class as one of only two F-35 pilots throughout the entire Air Force F-35 community. The school is the equivalent of the Navy's Top Gun, where pilots are taught to master the art of air-to-air combat.
"It's amazing how quickly this program is advancing and to be a part of it is extremely rewarding," said Rocky. "There's no doubt this aircraft is the future and will keep the Florida Air National Guard relevant in the fighter business."
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Record number of 101 new cases filed with the Finland Arbitration Institute (FAI) in 2020
In the year 2020, the FAI received a record number of 101 new requests for arbitration. This translates into a growth of 50 percent in comparison to 2019 (67 RfAs) and 25 percent in comparison to the previous record year 2013 (80 RfAs).
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Six Questions to Tero Artimo
Six Questions to Tero Artimo, Partner at Artimo & Co, FAI Board Member
What is the most enjoyable part of your work?
Independence and autonomy: Having both control and freedom within the job. My clients set the goals but I get to select the strategy and means. Variability and diversity: every assignment is different and presents a new challenge, which enables one to learn and evolve professionally.
What is most challenging in your work?
It seems I still give too much time and resources to work at the expense of my family and personal well-being. Adjusting the workload to a balanced level is anything but easy. Continue reading →
The 6th edition of Finnish Arbitration Academy was completed by 35 participants
The Finnish Arbitration Academy is a programme organised by the FAI to ensure that the pool of qualified arbitration practitioners will continue to grow in Finland. More than 180 lawyers have already completed the Academy.
COVID-19 Pandemic and FAI Arbitrations
The COVID-19 pandemic has an impact on the daily life of all businesses and citizens in some way. Further, the pandemic also affects arbitral proceedings, as traditional practices and agreed timetables may prove difficult to adhere to.
In these exceptional circumstances, it is increasingly important that arbitration offers an expeditious, flexible and reliable way of resolving disputes and providing access to justice. Speed and efficiency are important in already ongoing proceedings, but also in new disputes that may arise as a result of contractual disruptions in a difficult economic and business environment.
The FAI continues to be fully operational
The FAI continues to manage its ongoing proceedings and ensures the management of new proceedings without undue delay. Already prior to the pandemic, the FAI administered its disputes mainly electronically.
Erkko Meri appointed as a Case Manager at the FAI
Erkko Meri has joined the FAI team as a Case Manager as of 15 April 2020.
Prior to joining the FAI, Meri was working as a Lawyer at the Entrepreneurship and Business Environment Team of the Finland Chamber of Commerce. He has experience as an in-house lawyer at Signom Ltd and also as a legal trainee at law firm Hästö & Co. Mr Meri speaks professional English and Swedish, in addition native Finnish.
"I'm looking forward to deepening my understanding of dispute resolution at the FAI. Effective dispute resolution is, in the end, what makes rights and contracts relevant. I'm sure I will enjoy the inspiring and energetic spirit at the Institute and I hope that I will be able to contribute to its growth", Meri says.
Tanja Volanen started as a Case Manager in the FAI Specialisation Programme for Arbitration Lawyers
Tanja Volanen has started as a Case Manager at the FAI. Ms Volanen is the first case manager to join the FAI Specialisation Programme for Arbitration Lawyers, a two-year programme completed whilst working as a Case Manager at the Institute.
In addition to case management work, as part of the FAI Specialisation Programme for Arbitration Lawyers Ms Volanen will participate in the Finnish Arbitration Academy which will be organised starting in October 2020, as well as in other national and international FAI events. In the FAI Specialisation Programme, Ms Volanen will be supported in developing her expertise in arbitration, creating her network in the arbitration community and also publishing in arbitration.
A Review of the FAI's Year 2019
The year 2019 was full of action at the FAI. The FAI Arbitration Rules and Rules for Expedited Arbitration were revised, entering into force on 1 January 2020. Mr Santtu Turunen was appointed as new Secretary General to head the FAI Secretariat. New Finnish and international Board members began their terms. In May, the FAI hosted the 15th IFCAI Biennial Conference in Helsinki. The FAI launched a specialisation programme for arbitration lawyers.
The key statistics were positive: The new filings increased by 10 percent compared to the previous year, reaching 67 cases by the end of the year. The median duration of FAI arbitration remained at an excellent level of 8 months after transfer of the case file to the tribunal, and at 3 months in FAI expedited arbitrations.
Please find below some brief comments on selected highlights of the FAI statistics and a brief account of the highlights of FAI activities in 2019. Continue reading →
Six Questions to Toomas Vaher
Six Questions to Toomas Vaher, Partner at Ellex Raidla, FAI Board Member
Building strategy for an anticipated dispute and achieving results without the need to start one.
To adapt to bending the rules and causing delays in an otherwise simple proceeding. Over-regulation of matters.
Updated dates for 9th DIS Baltic Arbitration Days 2020
The FAI continues as the Media Partner of the DIS Baltic Arbitration Days. The 9th edition of the BAD will be organised both online and on site in Riga, Latvia, from Sunday 16th to Monday 17th of August 2020. The topics of the conference are arbitration in transport related disputes, arbitration and IT, third party financing in arbitration disputes in CEE and an update on investment arbitration. The focus countries are Israel, Russian Federation, Switzerland and Ukraine. The program and link to registration are available here. The registration is kindly required even if you plan to participate online.
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Revised Arbitration Rules of the Finland Chamber of Commerce to enter into force on 1 January 2020
The Arbitration Rules and Rules for Expedited Arbitration of the Finland Chamber of Commerce will enter into force on 1 January 2020 (the "2020 Rules"). The 2020 Rules contain individual improvements to the well-functioning 2013 Rules, with the aim of speeding up and streamlining the arbitration process. Key changes include wider possibilities to deliver documents by electronic means and more flexibility in the choice between standard and expedited arbitration proceedings.
Arbitration Rules of the Finland Chamber of Commerce 2020
Expedited Arbitration Rules of the Finland Chamber of Commerce 2020
Revision of Rules to increase speed, efficiency, and flexibility
The FAI Arbitration Rules and the Rules for Expedited Arbitration were fully revised in 2013. This comprehensive revision implemented best international practices, shortened the duration of arbitral proceedings and improved cost-efficiency.
Since the implementation of the 2013 Rules, FAI arbitration proceedings have proved very competitive in terms of speed and cost-efficiency. Arbitrations conducted under the 2013 Rules have thus been a reliable, efficient, and credible option for the resolution of commercial disputes both domestically and internationally.
The purpose of the 2020 Rules is to improve the efficiency and speed of FAI arbitrations even further. In addition, the 2020 Rules aim to offer more flexibility to enable the parties and tribunals to take into account the specificities of each individual dispute.
The revision was prepared by a working group chaired by the Vice Chair of the FAI Board, Marko Hentunen. The working group collected feedback and proposals for the development of the 2013 Rules from a broad group of stakeholders domestically and internationally. Their input was used as a source of inspiration in preparing the revised Rules.
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Clarkston is located in northwest Georgia. Clarkston is part of Dekalb County. Clarkston has 1.09 square miles of land area and 0.01 square miles of water area. As of 2010-2014, the total Clarkston population is 7,717, which has grown 6.72% since 2000. The population growth rate is much lower than the state average rate of 21.03% and is lower than the national average rate of 11.61%. Clarkston median household income is $33,151 in 2010-2014 and has has shrunk by 11.45% since 2000. The income growth rate is much lower than the state average rate of 16.28% and is much lower than the national average rate of 27.36%. Clarkston median house value is $98,200 in 2010-2014 and has shrunk by -0.41% since 2000. The house value growth rate is much lower than the state average rate of 33.09% and is much lower than the national average rate of 46.91%. As a reference, the national Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate for the same period is 26.63%. On average, the public school district that covers Clarkston is worse than the state average in quality. The Clarkston area code is 404.
Population 7,717 (2010-2014), rank #117
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Book of Virtues
By Lisa Schwarzbaum
July 08, 1994 at 04:00 AM EDT
The '70s manuals about how to have more sexually thrilling marriages were burnt years ago as fireplace kindling. The '80s manuals about how to become ninja business warriors are yellowing on the shelf. You're feeling bruised and compassless in the '90s, and you're looking for self-help advice that will fit into your leather backpack.
You and everyone else. Best-seller lists are plump with inspirational titles about how to be better human beings — not richer, not more alluring, just better. And the great genius of the genre is that you can read one, underline passages you're sure will change your life, write "How true!" in the margins, put the thing down (nearly finished) on the stack where you keep your Cosmo's Bedside Astrologer, and promptly forget everything you've just taken to heart.
Fattest of these babies is The Book of Virtues, which is subtitled "A Treasury of Great Moral Stories," and which was compiled, with commentary, by William J. Bennett, Secretary of Education under Ronald Reagan. The book is organized by desirable character traits — responsibility, loyalty, perseverance, and so on — and within each category are assembled historic and traditional poems and short stories, fables and speeches, letters and doggerel. But what's more striking than Virtues' significance as a textbook of Trad Value Lit is its pursed and hectoring subtext, particularly in Bennett's schoolmarmish little introductions: "To feel another's anguish — this is the essence of compassion," he lectures before Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl." Or, "Of all the vices, lust is the one many people seem to find the most difficult to control," he reports before a retelling of the biblical story of David and Bathsheba. "Hey, Bennett, what about the deadly sins of pride and vanity!" I find myself writing in the margins. "Can't you leave me in peace to learn for myself?"
I go on about this sobersided publication because it is representative of a current strain of humorless conservatism in inspirational teaching. For relief, I turn to Soul Mates and Care of the Soul, two forays by Thomas Moore into the spiritual side of human relations — an equally contemporary phenomenon that has nothing to do with mastering new sexual positions. Moore counsels as a therapist, although his training is in theology. And by thinking of the soul as an entity as familiar to a reader as the concept of codependency, his advice is as soft and Clintonesque as Bennett's is hard and Reaganite. "Friendship doesn't ask for a great deal of activity, but it does require loyalty and presence. After all, what the soul wants is attachment," he writes soothingly, like a politician feeling our pain.
The Road Less Traveled has been on charts for years now — it was first published in 1978, when readers were still trying to be their Own Best Friends. But because psychiatrist M. Scott Peck's writing is so clear, and because he was ahead of his time in his integration of the spiritual self with the psychiatric self, his words are comforting without sounding dated or stale. Read it with Bernie S. Siegel's Love, Medicine & Miracles, a surgeon's take (first published in 1986) on the importance of love in the "miraculous" healing of sick patients; the two promise to take care of body and soul.
Add to this list the handful of new books by folks filling the shelves with reports on their near-death experiences, and you may find yourself writing, "How miraculous! Why doesn't this stuff happen to me!" in the margins. After which you may find yourself dozing-and awakening to forget everything you've read, except, perhaps, that Cosmo says Virgos are in for some turbulent times in July. Book of Virtues: C-
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Texas Authority, CH2M Hill Say They Are Talking to Settle Toll-Lane Dispute
Richard Korman
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CH2M Hill and the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority are "in active, productive discussions," focused on "resolving issues and completing" an important toll-lane project in the Austin area, according to a joint statement issued on Feb. 4.
The relationship between the authority and CH2M hit a low point on Dec. 17, when the authority issued a notice of default to the contractor and hinted that it would file a surety claim if the contractor did not provide in 60 days a plan to complete the project in a satisfactory time frame.
The notice of default is considered an interim step required before a company can be formally defaulted or terminated from a project. Sometimes the notice sets the stage for a negotiation of disputed facts and funds.
The authority, created in 2002 to alleviate traffic congestion in Williamson and Travis counties, has a number of substantial projects in different stages of planning and construction. One of them, the MoPac Improvement Project, will add toll lanes in both directions to an 11-mile stretch between downtown Austin and Parmer Lane. The total project budget was set at about $200 million, and CH2M Hill's contract was for $137 million.
In February 2013, CH2M Hill won the best-value design-build contract, beating out two short-listed joint ventures: JD Abrams LP and The Lane Construction Corp. and Dan Williams Co. and Sundt Construction.
At the time it issued the default notice, the authority said in a statement that it already had assessed CH2M Hill more than $1 million in contractually specified damages related to alleged unauthorized lane closures. According to the authority, CH2M's total possible damages are capped at $20 million.
Also, the authority stated, CH2M was submitting delay claims that the authority maintained, until then, it had "not found justification" to compensate CH2M for the claims or to extend the completion deadline.
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Deputy Editor Richard Korman, who has edited ENR's Risk Review newsletter since 2012, helps run ENR's business coverage, selects ENR's commentary and op-ed viewpoint submissions and oversees editorial content on ENR.com. He recently completed a fellowship on drone safety with the McGraw Center for Business Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. In 2015 he won the Timothy White Award from American Business Media for investigations of individual surety fraud and workplace bullying. Richard's freelance writing has appeared in the Seattle Times, the New York Times, Business Week and the websites of The Atlantic and Salon.com. He admires construction projects that finish on time and budget, pay before the earth completes its annual orbit of the sun, record zero injuries and assign risk to parties who control an activity or willingly finance the risk.
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Delbar and her family of eight fled war in Afghanistan's Faryab Province almost a year ago and their home district is currently under the control of Taliban militants. They now live in tents in the snow in the city of Sheberghan in neighboring Jawzjan Province and say they don't have enough food.
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Afghan Troops, Police Abandon Nearly 200 Checkpoints To Taliban
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Special Investigative Committee Releases Phase 2 Saint Nicholas Report
By TNH Staff October 22, 2018
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at the World Trade Center. (FILE Photo by TNH/Kostas Bej)
NEW YORK – The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America released information concerning the report on St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine. The full text of the news release follows:
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, keeping with her on-going commitment to transparency and accountability, has posted on its website, the results of Phase II of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services LLC ("PwC") investigative report (the "Report") regarding the rebuilding of Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine ("St. Nicholas").
On October 16, the Special Investigative Committee (SIC), authorized by the Archdiocese to conduct an independent review of the St. Nicholas project, released Phase II of the Report to the Archdiocese along with a summary communication based on the Report. (See below for links)
As reflected in the Report, after extensive investigation, it has been determined that:
There is no evidence that St. Nicholas funds were improperly paid to any individuals employed by or associated with the Archdiocese.
There is no evidence or allegation that fraud was committed in connection with the St. Nicholas project.
The SIC has recommended that the St. Nicholas rebuilding effort be spearheaded by a new legal entity, which will do the fund-raising and overseeing of the project, that may be affiliated with, but is independent from the Archdiocese, with separate bank accounts and an appropriately qualified board. Incorporation documents for a new legal entity, the "Friends of St. Nicholas," have been prepared and will soon be filed. More information on the Friends of St. Nicholas will be available in the coming weeks.
His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America expresses his enormous gratitude to the members of SIC and to Mr. George Stamboulidis of BakerHostetler, counsel to the SIC, and Mr. David Daly of PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services LLC for their tireless efforts in compiling this Report.
Please see these links:
The results of the Phase II Report
The SIC's summary communication regarding Phase II, is available at this link.
The earlier Phase I Report is posted at this location.
So if everything is so rosy, why isn't the church open for worship? Who authorized all the funds to be diverted to other accounts? I don't think this report answers everything.
Anthony I don't think this report answers anything! Who authorized the diversion of the funds? Where did the money go? What recompense are the guilty parties making? More smoke and mirrors by the GOA Organized Crime Family. I am not wealthy but I sent $1,000 for this project. I don't want my money back but I want answers!! And truth!!
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What are the left funds amount, and their location, bank, in an account etc.
If there's still money why is not being used to finish the project? Your right Michael no answers just more questions…should have been separate all along, board overseeing every penny, This must come to a close the building must be done…if any wrong doing, it can be dealt with as the hammer start swinging again…its been 17 years no more wasting time…Greek time, drink an energy drink step it up…
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Pedaresty lawsiuts
* This was an expensive summary of very little and paid for by the client/archdiocese. hardly neutral investigator. Like Hillary investigating her own emails.
* There was no discussion of the money trail, current balances, or anything forensic
* Demetriou, his deputy, SKANSKA refused interviews
* PwC, the authors, specifically state their product cannot be relied on
* The report contradicts what Demetrios has been saying for a year
* It sure look like a lot of Related Party fees were paid
Altogether, not very helpful or transparent. Raises more questions than it answers.
The games continue. The faithful continue to be played for suckers but, strangely, continue to pay the bills of these shiesters.
Steve Stratakos says:
Dear GOA
I'll just wait for the ACTUAL report that will detail the breadth and scope of this debacle – the one that the US Attorney's Office is writing – and not this written flatulence you've produced.
Steve Stratakos
Prove Me Wrong says:
The Attorney General's report will be the same… there NEVER was any intention to expose the truth… this is the usual "process" they follow… deny, delay, distort, deceive and eventually destroy. More damage has and will be done to the loyal than the guilty (they usually receive praise and awards). It's probably just a coincidence that EVERY time anything like this occurs, the results are the SAME!!! If nothing changes THIS TIME, the GOA will soon be DOA… Prove Me Wrong…
I think de facto the GOA is DOA. Disappearance of about $100M, no leaders at all, rapidly declining members, Russian-Greek quasi excomminications, no strategy, no plan, no reform in procedures and practices, no branding or marketing, and recently, a big uptick in gay demands. It's all collapsing.
Philly Greek says:
Spiro, your comments resonate for those of us who see the truth. Look at every organization associated with the churches, they are collapsing right in front of our eyes. Look at all the societies, the average age is 60+, lack of engagement, stale idea's, the young generation have not time for the hypocrisy. I am a firm believer the time is now for the rise of a new, independent Greek Church here in the US. One that is not tied to the falsified delivery of "the word of God" to promote personal financial advancement, one that is focused on Christian values 1st, Hellenic values 2nd. The elitist have to go, especially this so-called group of "archons". If Jesus were walking the earth, the last thing he would do is give preferential treatment to a group of people that give excessive amounts of money for special access. Every church in this region has declining membership. This group has no plan, so why are we wasting time talking about it, why not unite for a better cause.
Niko Seretis says:
Wrong Architect and wrong design. This architect has never met a budget. In fact, his projects end up costing double his projected budget and more. I know the Archbishop thought by attaching a famous name to this design it would bring more tourists to the church just out of curiosity. The church when finished will bring in millions in revenues every year. I hope those in charge will be competent and honest but I'm not optimistic. The church needs to be finished and opened to the world. Everyone should read the report that came out first before they comment and pass judgement. When you've actually read it your opinions will actually be backed by facts. The Attorney Generals office or any other agency investigating this matter has nothing to gain by lying and covering for whoever may have stolen funds from the St Nickolas project.
repanidi1908 says:
"…..will bring in millions in revenues every year….". How? By charging admission?
Lower Manhattan Cynic says:
Does everyone understand some additional basics? It's not our land, it's leased. It will require $3-5M in yearly upkeep to set standards and requires mandatory security, not to mention a "marketing" plan that isn't emanating from the GOA's illiterate press office. The Shrine has special security concerns because it sits atop critical communications and power hubs in lower Manhattan and Freedom Plaza. It's not going to be a walk-up and peruse deal. And we expect that "The Gang who Couldn't Shoot Straight" to be able to not screw this up, again? It needs to be returned to the Port Authority and losses cut. At this point, they are chasing bad money with good.
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Safas Cotoumbas says:
George was Giuliani's mafia prosecuting right hand
Yeah, and they ran to him because they needed advice on the articles of incorporation….right?


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Barbara G. Tucker
Reflections on Virginia Woolf
"Now, in the passages I have quoted from JANE EYRE, it is clear that anger was tampering with the integrity of Charlotte Brontë the novelist. She left her story, to which her entire devotion was due, to attend to some personal grievance. She remembered that she had been starved of her proper due of experience—she had been made to stagnate in a parsonage mending stockings when she wanted to wander free over the world. Her imagination swerved from indignation and we feel it swerve. But there were many more influences than anger tugging at her imagination and deflecting it from its path. Ignorance, for instance. The portrait of Rochester is drawn in the dark. We feel the influence of fear in it; just as we constantly feel an acidity which is the result of oppression, a buried suffering smouldering beneath her passion, a rancour which contracts those books, splendid as they are, with a spasm of pain." (From A Room of One's Own, p. 60-61)
A few years ago I read Virginia Woolf's work on writing. There was much that resonated with me, especially this passage about women writing in anger. I have tried to let it influence my writing. This morning I tried to write poetry, on the theme "Closure" (it was for a local contest, and I rarely even try to write poetry), and while there were some good images and real feeling, I felt I might be falling prey to what she writes here about Charlotte. Not sure that resulted in any more than a self-serving slosh of driveling words.
Bridgerton: Trashy Take on Jane Austen
True confessions: I binge watched this show, that is, its first "season." (Seasons doesn't mean what it used to.) It was three hours of content stretched to eight hours of viewing. It was sex scene af
The Sacred Veil
https://www.charlesanthonysilvestri.com/the-sacred-veil The music of this musical composition is something I am still exploring, but the poems/lyrics moved me unspeakably.
DUNE: Yes, DUNE. A must read.
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I think is Ali Stephens... For me, remember her!!!
Weird pose, weird expression, weird cover.
Verão Briliante would mean there are S/S 10 clothes inside, non?
She kinda looks like Ali Stephens. I wonder who she really is.
that's a weird picture, what the point for putting that on a cover?


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Kongmin (1330-1374) est un des plus grands rois du royaume de Koryo en Corée. Il s'est aussi adonné à la peinture.

À sa naissance, Koryo était un État vassal de l'empire mongol des Yuan.  Entre 12 et 22 ans, il passa dix ans à la cour des Yuan en tant qu'otage. Après son mariage avec la princesse mongole Noguk, il est installé sur le trône de Koryo en 1351. Il entame immédiatement une politique anti-mongole, reconquiert les territoires du Nord avec l'aide des généraux Yi Seong-gye et Choi Young et fait face aux incursions des Turbans rouges.

Cependant, sa femme meurt en 1365 et il perd son soutien. Il s'oriente dès lors plus intensément vers le bouddhisme et passe sous l'influence du moine Shin Don. Il tente de lancer des réformes et de faire libérer les esclaves mais se heurte à la résistance de l'aristocratie. Il est assassiné par ses gardes du corps en 1374. Son tombeau a été classé en tant que trésor national de Corée du Nord .

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