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The theme for Memphis Fashion Week 2014 is "I Love Memphis," inspired by the MET exhibit, "PUNK: Chaos to Couture." The series of events celebrates the festive and fashionable Memphis we all know and love, while developing fresh fashion talents and discovering special sites along the way.
At the helm is the enterprising young Abby Phillips (a former FACE of Memphis). What she started as a platform to launch young designers and celebrate designers with local ties has expanded to include a grant program funding classes for the stylish-leaning creative talents at the Memphis College of Art. Budding designers can now learn the basics, as well as more advanced skills, in hands-on courses offered here, instead of having to shuttle off to programs in NYC and other major metropolitan cities. Proceeds from the third year of Fashion Week also will allow Memphis Fashion Fund to grant scholarships to deserving students.
If you are considering attending but want more information, here's the scoop on all of the events, venues and designers. The Memphis Fashion Week Facebook page also has lots of great photos from previous years for wardrobe inspiration. As we celebrate Memphis fashion and the folks who set the stage, we are reminded that the mission of StyleBlueprint really isn't very different — we also seek to celebrate the vibrant, dynamic, visionary people and places that make our city so special.
Wednesday March 26 from 6-8 p.m.
Gossett VIP Preview Party at Wiseacre Brewing Co., 2783 Broad Ave.
The week kicks off with the Gossett VIP Preview Party, 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, March 26, at the new Wiseacre Brewing Co. This event is open to VIP ticket holders, designers, sponsors, models and backstage crew. The EMDP designs (Emerging Memphis Design Project) will be showcased here, giving friends of the event a chance to mix and mingle with designers and models. There will be an open bar with wine and beer, confections from Frost Bake Shop, and Fuel food truck will be on site dishing up made-to-order fare. Cash and cards accepted. This event, like the venue, is fashionably casual.
Thursday March 27 from 6-9 p.m.
Madewell Fashion Fund Party – Shops of Saddle Creek, 7509 Poplar Ave.
Madewell at Saddle Creek is playing host to this fundraising event for the Memphis Fashion Fund, and all Memphis Fashion Week supporters are invited to attend. The Memphis Fashion Fund is a grant program created to support and cultivate local designers and artists in the fashion industry. The Memphis Fashion Fund is responsible for the Emerging Memphis Designer Project and works with local organizations to create opportunities and training for these designers. Shop by for drinks, snacks and shopping, of course! Ten percent of sales during the event directly benefit the Memphis Fashion Fund.
Friday March 28 from 8 p.m. Showtime
Friday Shows – Annesdale Mansion, 1325 Lamar Ave.
Friday Designers:
- Annie Griffin Collection presented by Lavish Boutique
- Byron Lars presented by Kittie Kyle
- Olia Zavozina presented by Maggie Louise Bridal
- Waverly Grey presented by Southern Couture
The beautiful, historic Annesdale Mansion is the site for the Friday night shows. Situated on a hill, Central Avenue dead-ends into Lamar, just beyond the University Club. The gates will welcome you; complimentary valet parking will be provided by Level 9. Doors open at 7:15 p.m. for general admission, 7 p.m. for VIPs. An open bar with beer and wine will be available for all attendees, and VIP ticket holders will have access to an open bar with specialty cocktails, food from Itta Bena and Frost Bake Shop and a private lounge area before the event, as well as during intermissions. Seating for general admission ticket holders will be first come, first serves with some standing-room-only available. VIP ticket holders will enjoy priority seating.
Saturday March 29 – All Day
Boutique Events, various locations
On Saturday, boutiques throughout Memphis invite you to stop by for specials and events in celebration of Memphis Fashion Week. Check the Memphis Fashion Week website for up-to-date listings of store events. Participating boutiques include: Spruce, Joseph, Southern Couture, Oak Hall, Lavish, Kittie Kyle, Eclectic Eye, Maggie Louise, Heather Cosmetic Boutique and Social, to name a few!
Saturday Shows – 8 p.m. Showtime
General DeWitt Spain Airport, 2787 N. Second Ave.
Saturday Designers:
- Hilton Hollis presented by Joseph
- Fluid Sunwear
- Emerging Memphis Designer Project
Because of the proximity of the Saturday shows to downtown Memphis, this wold be the perfect night to make an early dinner reservation downtown, then hop aboard the complimentary shuttle service provided by Level 9, which will be departing from the Carlisle lot at the corner of Beale and Wagner Place beginning at 6:30 p.m. You will be whisked (approximately eight minutes) away to the General DeWitt Spain Airport, where complimentary beer and wine will be available. Seating again, is first come, first served, with the exception of VIP ticket holders who will have priority seating, as well as access to a private lounge with food from Bon Ton Cafe and Frost Bake Shop.
Mark your calendars and map out your girls weekend with us using this handy Google map! Leave the driving to Level 9. In addition to providing valet and shuttle services for the events, they also provide chauffeur service if you would like to reserve a car for the event(s).
It's worth mentioning that VIPs will receive the coveted Memphis Fashion Weekend gift bags full of goodies, in addition to priority seating and an invitation to the Wednesday Night Preview Party at Wiseacre Brewing Co. Remaining VIP tickets are numbered, and all tickets are expected to sell out prior to the events. For ticketing options and more, please visit www.memphisfashionweekend.com. See you at the shows!


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Have you ever wondered if part of human evolution has been to make us more extreme? Or has technology simply made it seem that way? It seems like more and more often I read, hear, or somehow experience extreme reactions to even the most mundane things. Of course, it may be that my Gen X "meh" is just showing. After all, it seems ludicrous to expend so much energy on some of this stuff.
Take Comic Sans for example. People seem to largely have feelings about this font. And their feelings tend to run mighty big. "LOVE IT!" some scream in the style of Wheezy from DragonTales. Others scream just as loudly, "Burn it with the fire of a thousand suns!" like the grumblers they are. The whole thing leads me to say, "It's a font folks."
And yet, the haters are going to hate regardless. Think of the last dinner party or night out at the bar you experienced. Probably within an hour or two things began to get heated, especially if Lindsay Lohan, Duckface, or Jersey Shore came up as conversational gems. The list of things that people feel strongly about has changed over the years. At one time it was basically limited to sports teams, political parties, and if one could safely wear white pants after Labor Day. Now any little thing is enough to set folks off in a rage or at least a snark-fest. Or, perhaps we just hear about these things more now that we are all plugged in and mavens of social media. Back in the day when we used rabbit ears to watch our tvs until the test strips came on, well, we probably just didn't have as much access to other folks with whom to gripe. Or perhaps I just don't remember. Youth was a long time ago, after all.
Take for example this charming, youthful man. Littlest is a first grader now. That means today makes his second annual "Crazy Hat Day" at his elementary school. Normally, hats are forbidden on school property so to be encouraged to wear a hat is a very big deal to Littlest and his fellow school-mates.
Now being Littlest, the key word for him is "crazy" and in his own words, "Can you think of a more crazy hat than a pair of underwear? Well, can you Mom?" Uh, nope.
For two years, this sweet little smile has peeked at the world from under the waistband of a pair of underwear. Of course, this year they are a larger size, but the concept is the same. And folks' reaction is as static.
"You let your kid wear underwear on his head?"
Yep, I'm apparently that mom, the one who embraces free-will. The mom who loves that her child is still confident in his own way that he doesn't care what other people think. And when he gets questioned about his hat choice, he always points out how funny it is. Most people smile at him. But there are the judgers. The people who can't let go of the fact that its underwear on his head. What the hell folks, live a little. They are clean after all.
Would anyone think anything about it if Littlest had a stocking cap on his head? Nope. They probably wouldn't even notice if he had a sweatshirt wrapped around his head, turban fashion. But let a kid wear underwear on his head and welcome to the slippery slope of haters hatin' on his 6 year old funny.
Whatever happened to apathy? Has my generation been somehow co-opted by the Greatest Generation into giving a crap? Did those Baby Boomers give us something to do besides smoke another bowl in our parents' basements?
I suppose we grew up and developed some opinions along the way. Just goes to show you, growing pains are loud folks. And loud folks with pains are loud about their judgements. Fonts or hats, it probably shouldn't matter so much.


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This is what I found in one of the packing boxes (when we shifted house a few months back).
My dad's old Nikon FE10 SLR camera with a Nikkor 35-70mm lens attached to it! It also came with an external flash gun, an Achiever 828.


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Liposuction can provide men and women alike with dramatic results including reduction of excess fat and enhanced body contouring. However, it is critical to take proper care of your body during the period after a liposuction procedure in order to ensure a full recovery and optimal results. Drinking ample water and maintaining a healthy diet are two of the most important considerations when recovering from a liposuction procedure without unwanted after effects. Dr. Michael Whetstone of Las Colinas Centre for Plastic Surgery recommends four key habits to follow when recovering from liposuction.
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Magical moment!
(Local News ~ 05/31/09)
One 4-year-old boy, Nicholas T. Moorehouse Jr., was really excited during the Cumberland Academy/Adult Basic Education graduation ceremony Saturday, yelling, "That's my daddy. He's graduating." After the ceremony, father -- Nicholas Moorehouse Sr. -- was reunited with his son in celebration as wife/mother Angela stood close by with other family members. ...
Food Pantry volunteers give thanks
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/31/09)
To the Editor: The Clay County Emergency Food Pantry would like to express our sincere appreciation and thanks to the mailmen and women, the retired postal employees and their families and all other volunteers that helped with this year's postal food drive...
Workers need to consider free choice act
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/31/09)
To the Editor: Our debt-based economy has been out-of-whack for a long time. It's too bad that it took a financial meltdown on Wall Street for our policitians to realize that working families have been hurting for years. While corporation CEO's and their friends on Capitol Hill traded away our good paying jobs, hardworking Americans have seen their wages go stagnant, health care plans disappear and pensions become the exception, rather than the norm...
Maximize education, minimize cost
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/31/09)
To the Editor: In two recent articles in The Brazil Times, school funding was brought into public focus. One school board member researched the subject and proved that the southern end of the county pays more property tax for its portion of the student population but receives less funding from property tax. However, the corporation's business manager proved that property taxes are only a fraction of the tax dollars that support education and that the total is almost balanced...
Thanks be to 'Sarge'
(Column ~ 05/31/09)
Last week, I attempted to entertain you with the perils of gardening for a first-timer. Only days later, I received a letter from local resident Marion "Sarge" Eveland. In the letter, "Sarge" asked a couple of questions. I wanted to take time to give him a few answers to those questions...
Bridgeton Quilt, Woodworking Show set
(Community News ~ 05/31/09)
BRIDGETON -- The town of Bridgeton will host its fifth Quilt and Woodworking Show Saturday and Sunday, June 13-14 Hours will be 10 a.m.-5 p.m., both days. Admission is free and there will be plenty of parking and food choices available. In the Bridgeton 1878 Barn, see beautiful new and antique quilts and get a family heirloom. Quilts are hand-stitched, machine-stitched and Grandma's heirlooms. See live quilting demonstrations and vote for a favorite quilt...
Events, announcements
(Calendar ~ 05/31/09)
The following is a list of upcoming events provided to The Brazil Times: Deadline extended Habitat for Humanity Clay County is extending the deadline for applications for the home to be built in Clay City this year to June 11. All interested Clay County families may contact 812-448-1159 or write to Habitat for Humanity, Clay County, PO Box 81, Brazil, Ind., 47834...
Skate-A-Thon scheduled by committee
(Local News ~ 05/31/09)
The Clay Community Skate Park Committee has scheduled a Skate-A-Thon for Saturday, June 20. The event is scheduled to take place at Walmart, 2150 E. National Ave., Brazil. Registration for the event is set to start at 10:30 a.m. The skate course will be open from 11 a.m.-5 p.m...
(Local News ~ 05/31/09)
Jeanne Yegerlehner Barnett, a 1969 graduate of Clay City High School, was named the school's 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award winner. Barnett is a professor of Virology at the University of Southern Indiana. On Sunday, she spoke to 2009 CCHS graduates, telling them to following their hearts and their own path...
BCB set for first concert of year
(Local News ~ 05/31/09)
The Brazil Concert Band, under the direction of Matthew S. Huber, will present its first concert of the summer with "Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial," Sunday, June 7, at Forest Park. The concert is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. In case of rain, the event will take place in the park pavilion...
NHS students earn Lilly endowment scholarships
(Local News ~ 05/31/09)
Two students each from Vigo, Clay and Sullivan counties will receive four-year full-tuition scholarships as the 2009 Lilly Endowment Community Scholars for their respective counties. In addition to full tuition to the Indiana college of their choice, each scholar will receive an annual stipend of up to $800 for required books and equipment...
Here's to the Class of 2009!
(Local News ~ 05/31/09)
Clay City High School Valedictorian Orry Heffner (left) and Salutatorian Courtney Rundel spoke to classmates and those in attendance at the graduation commencement Sunday. A total of 58 students received diplomas at the ceremony.
Beauchamp claims first sprint car victory at Lincoln Park Speedway
(Professional Sports ~ 05/31/09)
By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor PUTNAMVILLE -- Nearly perfect weather greeted fans at Lincoln Park Speedway on Saturday evening and with it came a great night of racing. A well prepared, smooth racing surface awaited drivers who unloaded for a shot at taking home the winners' share in each of the four classes...
Johnson wins thriller at Dover
(Professional Sports ~ 05/31/09)
By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer DOVER, Del. -- Jimmie Johnson went from running away from the field to running down Tony Stewart. Johnson nipped at Stewart's bumper, went nose-to-nose, then soared past him on an outside pass on the concrete track. One Cup champion outdueling another in the battle for the checkered flag...
Moyer wins 250th career game for Phillies
(Professional Sports ~ 05/31/09)
By The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA -- Jamie Moyer went six strong innings to win his 250th career game, and the Philadelphia Phillies won their third straight game, 4-2 over the bumbling Washington Nationals on Sunday. The 46-year-old Moyer is the 44th player to win 250 games, and only the 11th left-hander to joint he exclusive list. It was his sixth try at 250 after going winless in his last five outings while allowing 38 hits and 26 earned runs in 24 1-3 innings...
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Marriage – the Competitive Advantage
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U.S. Captain for the victorious 2008 Ryder Cup team, Paul Azinger in an interview on the make-up of his team indicated that he used Mayer Briggs personality tests in assessing the fit for the members on the paired section. Marriages need different strategies in that they require a serious commitment over a long period of time. People change, their income generating status may change, and concessions must be made on both sides. Marriage is not always a "we like each other", and "we can always get a divorce" option. The fact is that it is one of the most sensible and rewarding avenues to engage in companionship, develop oneself, raise a family, invest and increase assets, and pay off debt.
When things are good, with few commitments, even two fools in love can have a great time. The rewards of a sustainable marriage however come with a lot of work, and the sacrifice of personal freedom and time. The mindset of a married couple differs from the mindset of someone engaged in the singles scene. The concept of "being together" requires a much less complicated framework than the concept of "staying together".
It would seem however that there are certain criteria that should be inculcated early in the value system of the young adult. These include,
a) Avoid teenage pregnancy,[1]
b) Get a good education,[2]
c) Stay out of Jail[3]
This simple list is neither extensive nor exclusive, but sometimes children need to hear and see the benefits of following these simple "rules" as they develop their own value system. Ignoring any of the above simply makes for a harder road in life.
In collecting African Tribal Art, and researching the culture of African Tribes (nomadic or otherwise) the singular most common factor is the importance of the institution of marriage. Whether tribes follow matrilineal or patrimonial systems, marriage is extremely important to the sustainable development of the family and the community.
From a resource perspective marriages bring people together, but they also bring families together. It doesn't always happen like that, but one can't blame the system because people fail to take advantage of the opportunities inherent in the system. The Tax code, insurance rules, and even religious organizations offer married couples advantages over single and other civil designations. There are tangible carrots out there, but there are also intangible benefits as well.
[1] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/teenpreg1990-2002/teenpreg1990-2002_tables.pdf#2
[2] http://adulted.about.com/od/goingbacktoschool/qt/highersalary.htm


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Many know the story of the woman in the Bible that had an illness for which she sought treatment from doctor after doctor. She said she suffered for 12 years, spent all she had but she wasn't any better, in fact she was worse. ... There are millions of people who can relate to her story and who know she didn't just spend money at those doctors, she spent energy and hope. She left behind her dignity!
I've started off this post with her story because it's one I know so well and one I was thinking of when I denied treatment from the orthopedic specialist. I didn't tell him I'm not going to do the test, I let him set it up for the 13th of September, I let him set up a follow up test late in September knowing full well I wouldn't present myself. I will go to my medical doctor soon and discuss the issue with him and let him know why I am unable and unwilling to perform the test.
Unable. I'm unable because the test he wants me to do is a needle emg. They'll place needles down my arm and into my hand. HAND. Had they said my back I would have agreed but I can't do needles in my hands, feet or mouth as these are areas where needles were used during abuse. Because of my pain level I would agree to acupuncture anywhere except my hands, face or feet. I wasn't going to try to explain the PTSD issue to Dr. Oh No! because he gets a bit upset when a patient tells him no. So I just shook my head, accepted yet another brace and left.
Unwilling. I'm unwilling to do the test because he wants to see if I have carpel tunnel syndrome. Dude, if I have it what will be the treatment? Not surgery, but braces. Lets skip his wild theory that a year old rotator cuff injury is actually carpel tunnel. Lets skip all of that. Give me the braces. I'll be irritated by it for a bit, wallow in self pity for a minute then get on with it. At least it matches the other braces. I can't go around with mismatched body armor. See why my hair has to look right at all times? It's all I've got! I ...will...not...bling...out...my....braces. I'm not going fabulous with medical gear. Nothing shimmering, nothing with feathers or beads or .... ohhh, huh
I no longer go from doctor to doctor (even those with good intentions) and follow their every instruction and intrusive exam. I am that woman in the Bible and that patient, who numbers in the millions, that has spent all she has going from doctor to doctor only to come out worse.
Dr. Oh No! (Orthopedic Specialist / Surgeon) told me not to join the gym to use the machines because he doesn't think it's a good idea to do more than stretches. Well, over a year ago a zealous doctor (top 400 in Indiana) told me to join a gym. I said I couldn't pay for it. He handed me cash to pay for six months so I can use the very machines Dr Oh No! told me not to use.
Who do I believe? How do I know which way to go? This is exactly what I mean when I say well meaning doctors give advice, but you don't know if you should take it because the next doctor you see will tell you it's wrong. This means I have to know my body very well, know my history and make an informed decision based on MY symptoms, not those of someone on the internet or even a friend. This is my body we're talking about and my well being, physically and emotionally.
I benefited from that two months of physical therapy because I now have the Saunders machine. I've included a funny shot of me in the neck traction machine which is one of the best pain relief machines I've ever used second only to a MMJ vaporizer. Yeah, I went there with weed again. I'm just waitin' for the law, just a- waitin'. Everything I eat will have MMJ in it. Don't come to my house and pour yourself some herbal tea until you verify what kind of herb it is! This house will be the fun house of relief! Okay, I'm back on track now.. gracious.... so .... in two weeks I will see the dental surgeon who will remove a tooth that is infected quite badly. It has not yet entered the sinus area so I dodged a bullet on that one.
Why do I always have a two week wait for treatment? It's always two weeks.


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Craig Williamson speaks to David Beresford
FACING him in his bare little office north of Johannesburg it is difficult to believe that Craig Williamson was apartheid's "super-spy". With the bulk of a trencherman and slightly protruding front teeth, he has the amiable appearance of an overweight Bugs Bunny and is almost as entertaining.
The past is catching up with Williamson.
It is now 17 years since The Guardian blew his cover as one of South Africa's most successful secret agents.
Williamson is a high profile target for inquisition. In an apparent attempt to get on-sides with the ANC he recently "confessed" to them his involvement in some of the worst atrocities of the apartheid "dirty war"—including the murder of Ruth First, the first wife of the South African Communist Party chief, Joe Slovo, who died recently.
At the same time he is outspoken in his criticism of National Party politicians for failing to protect their "foot-soldiers". Recently he engaged in sharp public exchanges with the former foreign minister, Pik Botha, over what, exactly, was the role and responsibility of the National Party cabinet.
Recounting the story of his career as a secret agent, Williamson gives an insight into the perceptions of those who fought in savage defence of the South African pigmentocracy; or, as he would prefer to put it, in the struggle against Soviet hegemony.
He was born in 1949, of Scottish descent, the son of a tyre and rubber dealer. Educated at Johannesburg's liberal-minded St John's College, he discovered his career path when he side-stepped the exigencies of military service by volunteering for the police. After serving for four years he entered the law faculty at the University of the Witwatersrand. His police commanders persuaded him, with promises of financial support, to continue working for them as a spy.
The speed with which Williamson—with his record of police service—rose through the ranks of political activists on the campus was a pointer to the naivety of the South African left where security was concerned. In 1975 he was elected treasurer and then vice-president of the National Union of Students (Nusas), a major thorn in the side of the Nationalist government.
At one point, as acting president, he led a delegation to protest to the minister of police over the detention of fellow members of his executive. "I was told to behave myself when I saw the minister, because my promotion to lieutenant was on his desk," Williamson recalls with a grin.
In 1976 he "fled" South Africa to Europe and joined a key funding agency, the Geneva-based International University Exchange Fund (IUEF), becoming its deputy director. It was a prize position for a South African agent, giving him an insight into the flow of funds from the left, not only within the anti-apartheid community, but to radical causes in Latin America—information bartered with intelligence agencies in those countries.
In addition to intelligence-gathering, he proved adept at manipulation. An example he recalls was a major Unesco anti-apartheid conference in Paris in 1979. Williamson chaired the steering committee. "I blew the whole conference out of the water by insisting in the final resolution that apartheid and Zionism be equated as racism. That was it; the Americans, the British, everyone walked out of the conference. The Soviets thought it was tremendous—equating Zionism and apartheid was part of their foreign policy objectives." His bosses were equally ecstatic.
The story of how Williamson was blown as a spy is something of a comedy of errors. Confusion over financial documents which an ANC courier mislaid led, by chance, to speculation that he might be an agent. He moved to squash it—succeeding, he recalls, in getting a letter signed by the present deputy president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, giving assurances that he was not a spy. But then a Bureau of State Security (Boss) agent, Arthur McGiven, defected in Britain, telling his story to The Observer. McGiven, who had previously worked with Williamson, failed to identify him as an agent, but there was a risk that he would do so. (Williamson discloses that South Africa sent a team of agents to Britain in an unsuccessful attempt to "deal" with McGiven.)
Panicked by these developments Williamson's long-time handler, General Johan Coetzee, who had by then risen to head the security branch, flew to Zurich with Williamson and met the director of the IUEF, Lars Gunnar Ericsson, at a pavement cafe. He bluntly introduced himself as South Africa's spy-boss and Ericsson's deputy as his star agent. "It was a horror story (for Ericsson)," laughs Williamson.
The general used both persuasion and blackmail to try and recruit Ericsson into helping protect his man's cover. He argued that Ericsson, as a social democrat, was essentially on the same side in the "anti-communist struggle". At the same time he threatened to release incriminating documents showing Ericsson had misappropriated IUEF funds. Ericsson defied him and went public, paying heavily for it. The IUEF was subsequently closed and Ericsson died a broken man after the general carried out the blackmail threat, leaking the incriminating documents in Holland.
Williamson returned to South Africa in 1980, becoming the operational head of police intelligence, running the force's domestic and foreign operations. In 1985 he ostensibly retired from the espionage business, but in fact joined military intelligence as a lieutenant colonel.
Williamson has not himself applied for indemnity. He was invited to join the group of some 3 500 police and two former cabinet ministers who made collective application shortly before the April elections, declining on the grounds that it was likely to prove invalid.
He was offered a guaranteed parliamentary seat in the new parliament by the National Party, but refused because of the threat posed to a political career by the looming truth commission. "I was too close to the fire," he shrugs.
He does not believe that the Truth Commission will disclose much that is new. "There may be a few people who they didn't know had died as victims of the system. It might have been thought they had a motor accident," he says. "But basically everybody knows what was done." The unanswered questions relate to who did it. And it is those questions which make him indignant.
The agents of the state believed they were fighting in a global war against the Soviet union and its allies, who were using the anti-apartheid movement as surrogates, he argues. "I didn't do it for monetary gain or because the guy was fooling with my wife," he says. "A psychosis of war developed. When you fight a war the enemy tries to kill you and you kill them."
He wants indemnity, but without confession. The war was fought by the state and the state should take collective responsibility.
But does he have regrets? "Yes. We got so involved that we couldn't see the wood for the trees," he concedes. "I think we did some unacceptable things with hindsight Espionage and intelligence; they call it the big game and it is a game. The problem is it does have some nasty results sometimes."
Outside his office it is a sweltering day. "Do you know why it is so hot?" he asks. "Someone forgot to close the gate when they let Slovo in." It is a sally which says much of the debate on forgiveness and contrition in South Africa.
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Herschella Conyers looked intrigued.
But beyond that, the clinical professor betrayed no emotion—not pride or annoyance or delight, just the patient, measured visage of a woman who has seen a thing or two and knows the value in letting a conversation play out unjudged. She simply listened as the fourteen Law School students in her Life in the Law seminar batted about various hot-button topics—at that moment, it was the ethics of human cloning—jumping in only to offer nuance, challenge assumptions, or prod the conversation in novel directions.
"Why the repugnance?" she asked as words like "Frankenstein" and "unnatural" and "playing God" filtered into the discussion, which had expanded to include abortion, stem cell research, and the destruction of unwanted frozen embryos. The room was buoyant and respectful even though many of the comments were bathed in swells of emotion or tinged with religious conviction.
Conyers paused.
"What is it to be human anyway?" This was the real question, or one of them. And in many ways it's the reason the longtime defense lawyer and director of the Law School's Criminal and Juvenile Justice Clinic teaches a class that, at first glance, appears removed from her usual work. Conyers is one of several Law School clinicians who do this, stretching beyond their core expertise to teach topics that interest them. Clinical Professor Randall D. Schmidt, the Director of the Employment Discrimination Project, teaches Admiralty Law, for instance, and Assistant Clinical Professor Mark Templeton, Director of the Abrams Environmental Law Clinic, last spring taught a two-day session on nonprofit leadership as part of the UChicago-led Civic Leadership Academy.
But in each case, these seemingly disparate endeavors have meaningful connections to, or even have grown from, the clinicians' core work. They don't merely illustrate diverse passions and talents, they stand in tribute to the choose-your-own-adventure nature of true intellectual exploration, monuments to the far-flung places that a set of ideas can take you. Admiralty law, for instance, offers new ways to think about workers' rights—there are special remedies for injured seamen that don't exist in land-based employment law, and this has always been part of the draw for Schmidt. Conyers has long been struck by the complex meaning-of-life questions that ripple through so many aspects of criminal law. And Templeton's Civic Leadership Academy experience was infused with the same themes that have trickled into nearly every corner of his diverse career—his desire to effect change, his willingness to tackle big issues, and his ability to understand and manage risk.
"The University of Chicago Law School has this broad understanding of how we can have an impact—it allows and encourages us to engage in these kinds of opportunities," said Templeton, whose career has included nonprofit, government, consulting, and higher education work.
This openness, imbued so thoroughly into the culture of the Law School, serves as a powerful backdrop for many endeavors; it's all part of the common understanding that there are infinite tributaries to explore in the pursuit of knowledge and understanding.
The popular story about why Schmidt teaches Admiralty is that he's an avid mariner.
And indeed he is: he and his wife own a forty-two-foot sport fishing vessel and recently spent a year, on and off, cruising down the river system to Mobile, Alabama, out to Key West and then up the East Coast to New York City before taking the Hudson River to the Erie Canal and then navigating back to Chicago via the Great Lakes. But the hobby isn't really why he began teaching the class fifteen years ago.
"The myth is that the Law School asked me to teach Admiralty because I'm the only faculty member with a boat," he said, laughing. "I don't disabuse my students of that myth, but it's not true. I do have a boat, but I said I'd teach Admiralty because I was interested in jurisdictional issues and the rights of seamen and injured workers."
Admiralty law, he explained, is a complex and often difficult area that is rooted in centuries-old sea code and contains a mix of federal and state law, as well as federal common law that doesn't exist on land. What's more, maritime law often contradicts land-based rules.
"Even very experienced judges and lawyers, because they don't take the time to really understand admiralty, get it wrong," Schmidt said. "Judges describe this as one of the most difficult areas of law."
In Conyers' Life in the Law seminar, students discuss issues such as abortion, capital punishment, cloning, and assisted suicide.
Early in the quarter, students tend to view cases through a land-based lens, and Schmidt needs to push them to think in admiralty terms. "They'll say, 'This is what I learned in Torts,' but that doesn't necessarily apply in Admiralty," Schmidt said. "And that's where a lot of the class discussion is focused."
The cases that provoke the most discussion are often centered on seamen's rights. In addition to the fascinating complexity, there's a deeply human piece that Schmidt works to impart to his students.
"Sometimes seamen do very stupid things," he said. "The myths we hear about the bad habits of seamen are too often true. But the law protects them from their 'bad habits.' Whether they are falling from a balcony because they've had too much to drink on shore leave or they are injured doing very dangerous work in terrible conditions on the high seas, the law protects them, at least up to a point."
For Schmidt, teaching Admiralty keeps him connected to other areas of the law outside employment. "More than anything," he said, "it keeps the intellectual curiosity going."
For Templeton—who has served as the executive director for the Office of the Independent Trustees of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Trust and worked at Missouri's Department of Natural Resources, the US Department of State, and McKinsey & Company, among other places—the Civic Leadership Academy offered a chance to use his broad experience to help a variety of midcareer professionals move in new directions.
The leadership development program, which was created in part by the University's Office of Civic Engagement, gave twenty-eight rising professionals from nonprofit organizations and local government agencies the opportunity to hone skills in civic innovation, human capital, strategy and management, data analytics, financial planning, and strategic communications over the course of ten, two-day modules that ran from January to June. Templeton's session—which he taught in April with Darren Reisberg, Secretary of the University, and Brian Fabes, CEO of Civic Consulting Alliance—examined the roles of top nonprofit leaders in achieving great missions while managing risks. It was called Leading Boldly, without Sinking the Ship.
"I think it is important that the University is engaging with these people and offering some of our experiences and ideas to try to bring about positive change in Chicago," Templeton said. The students included, among others, the operations director for Austin Coming Together, a group dedicated to improving education and economic development in Chicago's Austin neighborhood, officials with the Cook Country Forest Preserve and Cook County Health System, and the pastor of a North Side church.
"These were midcareer professionals, and they're at a different point—a lot of them could apply what they learned immediately," Templeton said. Many of the participants were working through very specific issues, and Templeton enjoyed the challenge of helping them think strategically. The pastor, for instance, had an enviable puzzle: the church had, somewhat unexpectedly, reaped a large return from an investment—and the leadership needed to figure out the most effective way to spend the money. Should they use it to improve the building? To start a new program?
"They decided to share the good fortune with parishioners, who then used the money to effect good deeds themselves," he said. "I never would have thought of this—and that's what was fun."
Clinical Professor Mark Templeton taught a two-day seminar on nonprofit leadership to 28 rising professionals as part of the University's Civic Leadership Academy.
In this way, the work tapped into the same challenges that drew Templeton to his work on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, when he was tasked with ensuring that BP met its cleanup commitments, and to the Law School's Environmental Law Clinic. It has all been about weighing and thinking through big ideas, often balancing risk with the need to act boldly.
"What is the right balance between protecting the environment and the use of natural resources? What are the incentives? What are the appropriate accountability mechanisms?" he said. "These are timeless questions."
Conyers' questions are timeless, too. These are issues she's thought about as a defense lawyer and clinical professor for years. After all, criminal law is rife with discord rooted in the emotional complexity of how one defines and values human life.
"It has always struck me that the people who oppose abortion say, 'it's a human life' and the people who oppose the death penalty say, 'it's a human life'—they use the same language and rhetoric," she said. "So you would think those two contingencies would come together, but they rarely do. I think life means something different depending on who's saying it. So that made me think: how do we think about life in legal terms, and in the law?"
Abortion and capital punishment bookend her Life in the Law class, which Conyers has taught for four years, with right-to-die, assisted suicide, cloning, and other reproductive issues filling out the middle. Students explore how definitions and valuations of life play out in the law, reading cases, discussing policy making, and debating the impact of social, medical, and religious values in legal analysis. Conyers pushes the students to think past their own beliefs and politics. She pushes them, too, to think about life in terms of race and gender—sometimes difficult areas, but ones Conyers thinks are important to explore.
"People operate under assumptions that we don't even know we're operating under," she said, adding that it's particularly important for future lawyers to confront the underlying beliefs and assumptions they bring to the table. People tend to compartmentalize, and they often believe that their personal views don't impact their work—but that's often wrong, she said.
The course's title, for this reason, has a bit of a double meaning: it is both about how life is viewed and valued in laws, policies, and court cases and about how one navigates the intellectual waters of life as a lawyer. Conyers works hard to remain neutral as the students unpack emotionally fraught concepts.
"For me, the most damning thing that happens in a classroom is you say, 'no judgment' and then everything you do exudes judgment," she said. "So when I say, 'no judgment,' I then have to work on it to make sure there's no judgment."
The exercise in nonjudgment gives Conyers a chance to check in with herself, to examine her own underlying beliefs. And, as with Templeton and Schmidt, her class has given her a chance to connect ideas in a different way—and to teach students to do the same.
"I hope they will live their lives as lawyers with integrity and thoughtfulness and leadership," Conyers said of her students. "Being a lawyer shouldn't be just a job, it should be a worldview about how to have impact."


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I was thrilled that I exercised 5 days in a row last week. Typically if I'm going to do a long run, it's on Saturday. I was tentatively planning to do a 6-mile run on Saturday, but since I'd exercised so much during the week I knew I probably shouldn't push myself if I was feeling too tired or sore.
When I'm sore, I think about The Biggest Loser and how they must be sore 24/7 while on the show and tell myself being sore is ok and I shouldn't be intimidated by it. But then I remember that working out is ALL they are doing. They don't have kids or family there. They have trainers and get iced and stretched and probably sleep 10 hours a night.
So if I need a rest day, I need to take it.
As Friday progressed, I got more and more sore. Especially my hammies and glutes. That Level 2 of 6 Week 6 Pack Abs did a doozy on my legs, not just my abs. I love being sore though. It means my body is changing. By the evening I realized that a rest day would probably be most beneficial to me.
Hence, Saturday was a rest day, although we were active. Cleaning, projects, kids, baseball and softball games. I was sore all day! The hardest part of the day was keeping my calories reigned in since I wouldn't be burning any extra. But I was fairly successful in that, which was a good victory.
I didn't mind having a long run scheduled for today since we were going to a friend's house to celebrate a birthday. Sundays are hard days to run because of my early schedule and long morning, but I was mentally worked up for a run, so it wasn't too hard to get out the door. We had my 4 nieces and nephews over for the afternoon and my awesome husband STILL encouraged me to get out the door and run--leaving him with 7 children! What a man, huh?!
I ran 6 miles in 62 minutes. It took a mile or so to work out the soreness, but once everything loosened up I felt great. The weather was perfect (shorts & tshirt) and the sun was shining.
However, I was supposed to do this run in 66-67 minutes, according to my 10k training schedule. I have a HARD time slowing down when I'm running anything 8 miles and under. My route was a funky one that also messes with my time because miles 2 & 3 have a lot of hills, but then 4 & 5 are mostly downhill and I'm so exhilarated from running downhill that I fly on the straightaway of my last mile.
The lovely ladies on the Run Like A Mother facebook page say it's pretty important to run slower, so I need to work on that. I probably shouldn't do longer runs with that big downhill...it's just the easiest out and back route from my house.
I ended this week with 17 miles and 4 runs--makes me sooo happy!
I am not happy however with the scale. I'm trying to focus on non-scale victories, which 6 days of exercise and logging all my food certainly are. I'm using the myFitnessPal app to track my food and it sets a calorie goal based on my information and how fast I want to lose weight. I stuck with it religiously this week. And the scale showed no loss and maybe even a slight gain.
I am trusting that it's just my body adjusting. That maybe my body felt like it needed to hang on to resources since I was working it so hard this week. I try to not weigh myself too often because I don't want to be obsessed with the numbers, but I do want to make sure I'm making progress, so perhaps I need to track my weight a little more closely. I did take measurements on Friday to track my progress in another way too.
Any thoughts on this?
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It's great to start the new week with something to motivate or that captures and aspect of running. I saw this on Facebook this week and it was just too perfect for mother runners!
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Those days are far gone when the people of India used to look for a job in the newspaper classifieds or run to different offices to find a job opening. Now the youth of India can easily find a job of their choice and liking on various job websites. The dot com boom in India in the late 90's led to the formation of the first ever online job portal – Naukri.com, and since its inception many such online job sites have come up that provide employment opportunities to individuals. These sites have job listings in various industries and fields for freshers, experienced professionals and freelancers alike. Though there is a plethora of websites out there in the digital world that connect individuals to employees but today we have filtered out the top 10 job sites for you. All these websites allow individuals to register themselves by requesting them to enter their personal and professional details and start hunting for their dream job. Also, with social media being an important part of people's life these portals even allow the individuals to create an account within minutes by signing in through their social media accounts. Apart from having web portals these organizations also have mobile applications that communicate the featured jobs or the jobs of the individual's preference to them, with the help of push notifications. So browse through the list to see where all you can find opportunities in the form of a job in today's time.
Website: www.naukri.com
Corporate office: Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Year of establishment: 1997
Naukri.com is the first, the oldest and the most trusted employment portal in India. It has more than 25 million registered job seekers and 80 thousand job listings. It has the biggest network of companies in almost all the fields. The company provides diverse packages to employers for listing their job openings on the site and also caters many services to job seekers, the most popular one being the Resume writing service where they draft your resume to make it look catchy and professional at the same time.
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Corporate office: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
Year of establishment: 1999
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Corporate office: Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Year of establishment: 2004
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Corporate office: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
Year of establishment: 2008
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Year of establishment: 2016
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Corporate office: Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Year of establishment: 2006
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Website: www.careerage.com
Corporate office: Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Year of establishment: 1996
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Website: www.placementindia.com
Corporate office: New Delhi
Year of establishment: 1997
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Corporate office: New Delhi
Year of establishment: 2004
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Corporate office: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Year of establishment: 1998
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I'm feeling more and more anxious as I start this post off because like every other person in this world, I have insecurities about my face (and body, but that's for another post). Plus I've never done this before!
I've suffered from milia since I can remember, a flat, button nose sits squarely in the middle of my face, and my eyebrows? Pfft. I won't lie, I'm too lazy to tend to them on a regular basis.
But just because my face/body don't live up to the society's 'beauty standards' enforced through the unsolicited advice in the media, it doesn't mean I should stop writing my beauty blog (trust me, I've already been told to give up on this "pathetic little blog"), nor does it mean I don't have free reign over what I post on the internet!
Sorry, I went on a bit of a tangent there because I keep thinking about when I had to deal with Chris' psycho ex and the nasty comments she left me. This is just a huge step for me since that whole debacle, but I really need to stop letting the comments of somebody I've never met affect me. It sucks.
Oh well, here goes!
It's a simple look, really. Only because I'm no make up artist, and I have a lot of trouble getting both eyes to look the same!
I started with a wash of 'Vanish' up to the crease from Kat Von D's Monarch Palette, then I added Papilio to the outer v, Entomology on the inner lid and brow bone, and finished it all off with Summerfly in the middle of the eyelids.
I then used Shadow box to tight-line my eyes because why not?
These pictures don't do the Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara any justice though
If you're looking for a matte lip product that's cruelty-free, check out Kat Von D's Everlasting Liquid Lipsticks. They don't dry out my lips at all! I'm wearing Bachelorette in this photo. It looks super pink in the tube, but it wears more red on my complexion.
Foundation – NARS Sheer Glow in Santa Fe (NB. NARS is cruelty-free but owned by Shiseido who aren't cruelty-free)
Concealer – Kat Von D Lock it Concealer
Blush – Rose Gold by Sleek MakeUP
Contour – Face Contour Kit in Light by Sleek MakeUP
So like.. that's it! I'm open to constructive criticism if you so kindly wish to leave me some in the comments
P.S. I am seriously loving that lip colour!!! Go give them a swatch next time you're at Sephora!
Much love,


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Fixes Elude New Orleans' Juvenile Justice System
Fixes Elude New Orleans' Juvenile Justice System
A handful of teenage inmates escaped from New Orleans' only juvenile-detention facility this weekend; five remain at large. Juvenile advocates had hoped that the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina would provide a chance to redesign the much-maligned justice system. But how can the city improve treatment for young lawbreakers when so many city institutions remain broken themselves?
MADELINE BRAND, host:
This is DAY TO DAY. I'm Madeline Brand.
ALEX CHADWICK, host:
I'm Alex Chadwick. Coming up, weight problems in American schools and on fashion show runways.
BRAND: First, in New Orleans, five teenagers remain at large after escaping from the city's only youth detention center over the weekend. It's another setback for a juvenile justice system that was already on the ropes before Hurricane Katrina. Reformers say now is a good time to fix some of those longstanding problems. NPR's Molly Peterson reports.
MOLLY PETERSON: Ashley is a petite girl, 16 and stylish. She fixes her hair to look older than she is. A year ago, she was a repeat runaway in the city's juvenile detention, the youth study center. Katrina took out the power, so Ashley and the other kids were moved to the adult prison.
She says there the walls began to drip with sweat and the smells rose.
ASHLEY (Former Detention Center Detainee): Vomit, manure, urine, cigarettes -because they was smoking cigarettes. The floor was sticky. Everybody walking around with no clothes on, it was that hot. We was hungry. We ain't eat for five days, and plus I was pregnant. We juveniles. None of us was over the age of 16.
(Soundbite of baby crying)
PETERSON: Even with her 9-month-old baby girl Jayla(ph) on her knee, it's hard to take Ashley for a grownup. Evacuating with adult prisoners scared her. Many of those men, pictured on CNN in orange jumpsuits, became lost in the legal system. But kids like Ashley had hearings within weeks after the storm.
Juvenile Court Chief Judge David Bell says that's not an indicator of a healthy system. There were 5,000 juvenile arrests a year before Katrina. He says they clogged and broke his court.
Judge DAVID BELL (Chief, Juvenile Court New Orleans): Playing basketball in a schoolyard is criminal trespass. Standing still on the sidewalk is obstruction of a public passage. Sitting on their neighbor's steps in a housing development is trespass. I don't see how arresting someone for sitting on their neighbor's step reduces crime.
PETERSON: And with a budget that's been cut 85 percent since the storm, Bell says the court must spend the money it has carefully. That's why he and other juvenile court judges have set new guidelines for sentencing kids. Bell says detention, the most expensive of the punishments, should be used less.
Judge BELL: We determine whether to not this child is appropriate for incarceration, whether he poses a risk to the community, a risk to himself, a risk of re-offending, or a risk of failure to appear before the court.
PETERSON: New Orleans police have logged around 700 juvenile arrests in the last year. A huge drop Bell attributes to fewer people and the beginnings of reform. But Lieutenant Jerry Criter(ph) of the New Orleans Police Department says there's a different explanation.
Lieutenant JERRY CRITER (New Orleans Police Department): We don't have anywhere near the juveniles arrested that we had before. You know, but we just don't have the bed space, either.
PETERSON: New Orleans used to be able to hold more than 100 kids, most in the Youth Study Center. Now they've only got space for 20. Criter says officers don't bring in as many kids as they used to.
Lt. CRITER: A lot, a lot of arrests are being released on the street. A lot of them, because officers have gotten the word that we're just not working at, like we did before. We don't have jail cells. We don't have facilities that hold juveniles. When at all possible, they're releasing them on the street to the parents.
PETERSON: Kids accused of aggravated assaults, drug dealing or gun offenses, they go to the Youth Study Center, like Ashley did before the storm. But the city's Richard Winder, whose agency runs the facility, says most of that building is gutted now with no plans to open back up.
Mr. RICHARD WINDER (Director, Youth Study Center): I don't think there's a juvenile crime wave that would require us to open up 100 beds. The quicker you move those beds and empty those beds, it can work.
PETERSON: Winder says he supports the court reforms because they keep kids moving through the system. That way, they don't get too familiar with detention or how to escape it. Last Friday, kids in detention staged a fake fight to distract guards. Ten escaped from custody. The five still at large have charges ranging from possession of a stolen car to heroin and crack possession.
But Winder says, as with anything in this city, change takes a lot of work.
Mr. WINDER: You have to understand the kid a lot better than you did before. You have to do some better evaluation. You know, you just can't just send him out and not give him anything to do. What are you going to give him in lieu of keeping him in the Youth Study Center? What are you going to do for him?
PETERSON: The city's health and school systems are getting back on their feet. And Winder and Juvenile Court Judge Bell both say sentencing reform won't work without stronger social service programs, which they're also pushing for. In recent months, Ashley has been going to court each Monday, taking drug tests, meeting with her probation officer. With her neighborhood and school gone, she doesn't have much else to do.
ASHLEY: I just do whatever they ask me to do. Be home at 7:00. You know, I'm not tripping. I'm supposed to get out when I'm 18. I'm 16 now. Two more years.
PETERSON: Ashley doesn't expect to go to detention again, but if she does, she says she could handle it now if she had to.
Molly Peterson, NPR News, New Orleans.
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Gold prices ended higher this week, as the precious metal's allure as an investment hedge increased after downbeat US economic data poured cold water on hopes of a quick economic recovery.
Spot gold hovered around $1,377.60 (£880.76, €1032.99) an ounce, and gained about 5% in the week ending 17 August. It struck a two-month high of $1,379.60 in intra-day trading on Friday.
US gold futures for December delivery settled at $1,371 an ounce, preliminary Reuters data showed.
On Friday, economic data from the US showed that consumer confidence dropped in August and that retail sales growth remained unchanged from July. Preliminary data from a Thomson Reuters-University of Michigan survey showed that the consumer sentiment index fell to 80 in August from 85.1 in July.
In addition, US residential construction growth missed expectations in July. Housing starts rose 5.9% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 896,000 units. Economists polled by Reuters had expected builders to start work on 900,000 units.
Together, the three sets of data boosted the yellow metal's attractiveness.
Analysts said that Friday's economic data suggested that a recent spike in interest rates, in anticipation of the US Federal Reserve trimming monetary stimulus in September, was starting to have an impact on households.
"Uncertainty is re-entering the economy and making money managers think," Reuters quoted Carlos Perez-Santalla at futures brokerage Marex Spectron as saying.
Physical Buying
Emerging markets buy the most gold [Figure 1]. The demand for gold in India and China, the top two gold consumers, could soar to 2,000 tonnes this year, according to the World Gold Council (WGC).
India's demand for gold jumped 50% in the first six months of 2013 and touched 566 tonnes. Separate estimates from the WGC and the China Gold Association (CGA) peg China's demand at 600 tonnes and 706.36 tonnes.
China, the leading producer of the metal, could surpass India as the world's top consumer this year if India's restrictions on gold imports do end up choking demand.
However, gold continues to be the preferred safe-haven investment option for middle-class Chinese and Indian households, and is an essential part of festivals, weddings and gift-giving in both countries.


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TL;DR: Cartels are making too much profit to police our way out of the opioid epidemic.
Let's talk about the economics of illegal opioids. Why are the cartels diving into selling opioids in the USA like there is no tomorrow? You might be shocked to learn that there is a lot of money to be made. You probably will be shocked to learn how MUCH money there is to be made.
So let's look at the street prices of various illegal opioids:
- oxycontin
- heroin
- fentanyl (Mexican cartel acetyl fentanyl)
- carfentanyl
Let us make some reasonable assumptions:
- the equianalgesic doses of the above drugs are as reported
- street oxycontin is pharmaceutical oxycontin which has been diverted
- a dime bag of opioids contains a total of 100 mg product
- the average purity of street heroin is around 25%
- most cartels are vertically integrated from source to street
- our Hypothetical Addict is now doing 160 mg of oxycontin (two oxy-80s per day )
OK so let's first talk about oxycontin. The street price of oxycontin in the USA is right around $1 per milligram. So our addict is spending $160 /day for diverted oxycontin. Governments have clamped down on providers so the supply of oxycontin, which used to be as abundant as buffalo on the Great Plains, has dried up. No more oxys from your doctor.
Opiods are physically addictive. When you get cut off, your body actually gets sick. Imagine having a really bad case of the flu. Now imagine drinking 8 Red Bulls every 8 hours while you are that sick. Now imagine that for weeks on end. That's dope sick. And you can make it all go away with just another hit. Are you getting the dynamic here?
So our addict asks around and finds enough heroin every day to replace their 160 mg/d oxycontin habit. Do the math and it works out that your average dime bag of heroin at 25% purity will substitute almost perfectly. So our addict's habit is met at $10 per day, not $160 per day. So for 1/16 of the cost, heroin now substitutes for the hard to get and expensive oxycontin that our addict's doctor is no longer providing.
How can anybody stay in business by selling heroin this cheaply? Let's look at the economics of heroin, Mexican cartel fentanyl, and carfentanyl. The price of a kilo of each of these at the source is about US$3000. So our cartel has to move it across the border, distribute it, dilute it down to street strength, make the dime bags, and sell them. So how much money do they make at the final point of sale on the street corner from a kilo of each of our opioids?
Heroin purity at the street in the US averages around 25% (when I was a med student at Detroit General Hospital in the mid 1970s, the average purity of street heroin was 3%. So $10 dollars today buys you over 8 times as much heroin. How's that drug war working guys?). Doing the math, our $3000 kilo of heroin is worth $400,000 which gives us a profit of 133 times. This amount of profit allows everybody at every step of the supply chain to make from 2 to 10 times their investment. But wait, it gets better.
Our friends in the Mexican cartels are now synthesizing acetyl fentanyl, which is about 15 times more powerful than heroin. They cook it up just like they cook up methamphetamine (btw, our War on Meth has led to the Mexican cartels taking over this market, dropping meth prices to 1/6 of what they were. That's not a typo: we are getting way better meth at way cheaper prices as a result of our Drug War). And you don't have to pay farmers, extract morphine gum etc, so there is way lower overhead on the production end for acetyl fentanyl.
So let's do the math for a $3000 kilo of acetyl fentanyl at the source. You only need 1.67 mg of acetyl fentanyl to get the same effect as the 25 mg of heroin in our dime bag above. That's why it's so easy to OD on fent, it is hard for dealers to measure it accurately enough not to kill their clients. Our kilo of acetyl fentanyl made into equivalent dime bags and sold is now worth $5.98 million. That's 1996 times its material cost. Now you understand why the cartels are starting to move fent more than heroin. You make over 10 times the profit per kilo of product moved. But wait, it gets even better.
Carfentanyl is an opioid that was developed for large animal veterinary work: it literally is used to put elephants to sleep. Both China and Mexico are supplying carfentanyl to the US market. Carfentanyl is about 3000 times more potent than heroin. Again, that's not a typo: carfentanyl is three THOUSAND times as potent as heroin.
So let's make up our standard dime bag, this time with carfentanyl as the opioid. It turns out that you need only 8 MICROgrams of carfentanyl to get the same blast that you get from 25 mg of heroin. Carfent has been found in lots of ODs because dealers' scales don't measure micrograms. University science labs are now locking up their hi-sensitivity scales because dealers are paying big cash for them.
So let's make up an equivalent bunch of dime bags of carfent and sell them, shall we? Our revenue from a $3000 kilo of carfentanyl sold as dime bags on the street is now $1.25 billion dollars. Yet again, this is not a typo: that's 1.25 billion with a B . Our multiplier is now a healthy 62,500 times material cost. You can smuggle enough carfentanyl inside a lipstick tube to replace 100 kilos of heroin.
You can lock up as many addicts and cartel leaders as you want. You can interdict as many carloads or even truckloads of product that you want. You can jail as many bankers that launder money as you want (JK: the Wachovia and HSBC bankers that laundered billions of Sinaloa Cartel money had their bonuses delayed 6 months. Human Rights Watch, where are you?) There is so much money in this business that someone else will always be willing to step up.
So let's stop this nonsense talk about our Drug War, shall we? The way we stop this is to decrease demand for these drugs at the consumer level. We know how to do this. It works, even in the USA. We need to demand a real solution to these problems before another generation is lost.


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Having gently skewered the college-application process (Acceptance, 2007), Coll trains her sights on another equally ridiculous tradition among certain upper-middle-class high-school graduates—the weeklong party at the beach.
As Jordan approaches her high school graduation in suburban Washington D.C., her friends start planning to rent a house at the Delaware shore for a week. Jordan, whose family moved East from Omaha her junior year, does not feel completely at home with her new friends and is secretly ambivalent about spending the week partying with them. Her parents, former teacher Leah and urban planner Charles, have been extremely protective of Jordan since her head injury playing soccer the year before and are critical of lenient parenting. Nevertheless, Leah agrees to host a meeting about the proposed rental for the clueless parents of Jordan's friends, partly to prove she's an involved parent, partly to experience Jordan's fun vicariously. Already financially strapped, Charles is less enthusiastic. The beach week becomes one more tension point in an already shaky marriage. Soon all the parents have organized. They write up a pledge of good behavior for their daughters to sign and rent the girls a house assured that it belongs to a respected local author. Actually, the decrepit wreck—the realtor's photos are of the house next door—belongs to the author's ex-husband, whose mental health is questionable. Meanwhile the girls are also busy organizing—who is going to bring which illegal substance. When Jordan announces she wants to spend the week traveling with her new boyfriend, a college student from Tunisia, instead of with her friends, Leah and Charles push "beach week" as a safer alternative. Then they notice one of Jordan's friends in a porn movie and change their minds again. But asked to chaperone, Charles jumps at the chance to do some partying of his own. Mayhem follows.
A little too reassuring (nothing truly bad happens), but Coll can be hysterically funny about parental idiocy.


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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Two days after hinting he wanted to try for the White House, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich decided he would not run for president, his spokesman said Saturday.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will not seek the Republican presidential nomination, his spokesman says.
Rick Tyler said Gingrich realized he couldn't run a political action committee -- his American Solutions group -- and form an exploratory committee to run for president as well.
"He will continue to bring the American people solutions to the challenges America faces through American Solutions, not as a candidate for president," Tyler said in a telephone interview.
Gingrich told supporters in Marietta, Georgia, on Thursday that if they pledged at least $30 million to his campaign over a three-week period starting Monday, he would compete for the Republican nomination.
Gingrich, 64, has hinted for months that he would join the GOP presidential race if he determined no other candidate appeared able to take on the Democrats in 2008.
His hinting has become louder in recent weeks, with his suggestion that Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York is destined to be the Democratic nominee and that he would be the best Republican to debate her.
Gingrich said, however, that he has no desire to personally raise campaign funds.
Tyler said the assessment of whether or not Gingrich supporters could raise the money never began.
Gingrich, first elected to Congress in 1978, became the first Republican speaker of the House since 1954 when he led his party to victory in the 1994 congressional elections. He resigned suddenly from Congress four years after his party lost five House seats in the 1998 elections.
In the nine years since, Gingrich has not sought public office, but he has remained vocal as an author and speaker for hire. E-mail to a friend
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The Ritz-Carlton Company Repeats as Most Prestigious Luxury Hotel Brand in 2006 Survey of the Luxury Institute
For the second year in a row, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C. has been ranked first as the most prestigious brand by The Luxury Institute's Luxury Brand Status Index Survey. The award-winning hotel company took top honors over 18 other hospitality corporations among consumers with a minimum net worth of $750,000.
"At a time when many brands claim to offer their customers luxury, it is very gratifying to see that the truly discerning and sophisticated traveler selected The Ritz-Carlton brand as their number one choice. We are especially pleased that we were rated highest for superior quality and making our customers feel special across all of their experiences," said Simon F. Cooper, president and chief operating officer of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. "It is a tribute to the commitment to our guests from our ladies and gentlemen at our hotels and resorts around the world," he noted.
The Luxury Institute is the uniquely independent and objective research institution that is the trusted voice of America's wealthy.
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This past weekend was a perfect fall weekend! Lots of footbal...the Razorbacks won!!
Parker also had his first play date with his new classmates!
The kids had a blast and I am so excited to get to know all the parents better. Most of us will probably have our kids at this school together for the next 14 years!


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To commemorate the centennial of President John F. Kennedy's birth, some of the nation's leading historians discuss the life and legacy of the nation's 35th president.
The program will also focus on the book, "JFK: A Vision for America," a compendium of Kennedy's most important speeches, with commentary by leading American and international figures. Stephen Kennedy Smith, Kennedy's nephew, and Douglas Brinkley co-wrote the book.
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Kendall Jenner is moving on up in the modeling world! The star walks the NYFW runway, creates and models for her own PacSun clothing line with her little sis Kylie, and is now modeling for Harper's Bazaar!
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Kendall tweeted her enthusiasm for her accomplishment today while she was shooting the pictures. We're excited too, Kendall.
at an amazing photoshoot for Harper's Bazaar …. shooting the COVER and an inside spread! so so excited!… instagr.am/p/WU8KzSjoym/
— Kendall Jenner (@KendallJenner) March 1, 2013
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text: Yesterday we took a little jaunt past our last Chicago apartment. The long, narrow space was as quirky as they come; it had no less than half a dozen doors to the hallway, an honest to goodness dumbwaiter, and plate glass window in the middle of the kitchen. It had a lovely marble fireplace, a claw-foot bathtub and two spacious bedrooms. This apartment was Emma's first home and we filled it with memories before buying our house in Oak Park when she was almost 2 years old. This second story flat may look pretty run-of-the-mill, but is will always hold a special place in our hearts.


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