text: Apple publicly names its overseas suppliers. A New York Times article blasts working conditions there. CEO Tim Cook angrily rebukes the charges in an internal memo. Consumers call for a boycott of Apple products.Sound familiar?Americans go through a series of hand wringing about overseas labor practices every few years. I remember covering this very topic in the late 1990s when apparel giant Nike was getting wrung over the coals for perceived child labor violations in its Indonesian factory. At the time, global technology integrators operating in China told me they were getting nervous. Nike was quickly becoming the poster boy for corporate greed, thus putting crosshairs on any American company doing business internationally. The term "global economy" was yet to catch on.But the issues run deeper than merely denouncing China's working conditions, which seem deplorable through the lens of American standards. And it's wrong to wag a disapproving finger at American companies taking advantage of cheap overseas labor.For starters, we're to blame for most of it. American companies are also responsible but in a good way. Lastly, the New York Times article portrayed Apple's Chinese supplier, Foxconn, in a harsh light, but I'd argue the opposite is true: Foxconn is an example of how far China has come.Wanted: A Few Dollars MoreOscar Wilde once observed that people "know the price of everything and the value of nothing." The price of a product, it seems, is the only thing that truly matters to Americans. We expect an airline, for example, to offer stellar customer service even though we're quick to change airlines to save a few bucks.When Apple delivered the iPad to the world two years ago, you might recall Apple fans cheering the low price. Apple had hit the $500 price point of the cheap netbook, even though most tech analysts thought the iPad would debut closer to $1,000. Like the netbook, the iPad has lit the fuse of a pricing war. Hewlett-Packard's ill-fated TouchPad didn't start selling out until HP held a fire sale, slashing prices from $400 to $100. Amazon reportedly takes a loss on every $200 Kindle Fire it sells. The iPad 2 came out with the exact same pricing as the original iPad despite a boatload of new features: dual-core A5 chip, camera, thinner, lighter, etc.We are a society fixated on price more than features, which is why American companies are forced to outsource manufacturing overseas to places like China where labor is cheap. And yet we cry foul over the horrible labor conditions there and hold American companies here accountable. This sanctimonious stench wafts from time to time, allowing us to hold our noses in the air and feel good about ourselves. Then it evaporates just as quickly. "Unfortunately, I don't think the China issue will make a huge impact" on Apple sales, says Andrew Eisner, director of community and content at Retrevo.com, a consumer electronics shopping site. "We've done surveys in the past about recycling and environmental friendliness, and the response wasn't too encouraging, either."Shareholders of publicly traded companies like Apple also know this. Improvements cost money but don't lead to sales. That's why Apple likely won't make real changes to improve working conditions among its Chinese suppliers. Shareholders are the ultimate price watchers and lack a conscience. They are us.Nike, Child Labor and Corporate GreedCritics might argue that blaming the consumer detracts from the real tragedies taking place in overseas sweatshops. They will point to the public outrage of the late 1990s aimed at Nike. The apparel giant was employing 14-year-olds at its Indonesian factory, even though this was lawful under Indonesian labor laws. The bad publicity swayed CEO Phil Knight to raise the worker-age minimum to comply with U.S. laws.The Nike case also had a lot to do with price point but in a different way. Nike could not use the tech industry's claims that cheap overseas labor is necessary to survive a pricing war. Nike shoes were being made overseas for a few dollars while retailing in the U.S. for over a hundred dollars. (Cue the aforementioned Wilde quote.)Nike's margins were outrageous, making the company look greedy in the face of child labor.At the time of the Nike debacle, global tech integrators told me that American companies operating in places like Indonesia and China should be celebrated, not vilified. It would be tragic for the people there if American companies pulled out their investments, they said. (These executives requested anonymity out of fear public backlash over Nike might turn toward them.)The thinking goes that the only real way to improve labor conditions is the accumulation of capital. In other words, the reason 14-year-olds work in Indonesia lawfully is because they need to help put food on the table. That is, Indonesia's economic condition requires its people to work at a young age. As a country becomes more prosperous, working conditions and salaries will ultimately improve. Foxconn: Best Places to Work in China?This is true even in communist China, albeit change happens more slowly because of the political climate. Think I'm crazy? Just compare working conditions at Chinese manufacturing plants a decade ago with Foxconn in the New York Times article this month.In the article and accompanying photos, Foxconn looks much nicer than depictions of Chinese factories of yesteryear. I attribute a big part of this improvement not only to Apple's extensive supplier code of conduct but to years of investment by American tech companies. While we shake our heads at Foxconn's brutal 60-hour work week, double shifts, low pay, suicides, and cramped housing, the article does little to put this into context with the rest of China. Foxconn employs some 1.2 million workers. Its suicide rate is below China's national average. Heck, it might be the dream job destination.Sure, the article leads with accounts of gruesome accidental deaths at Foxconn that most likely could have been prevented under better safety precautions. But aluminum dust explosions can and do happen everywhere. The article also points out similar deadly accidents that occurred recently at U.S. factories.Bottom line: A case can be made that Apple and other tech companies have improved working conditions in China. Could Apple do more? Probably. But vilifying Apple for not doing more\u2014even calling for a boycott of Apple products\u2014is the height of hypocrisy.\nIf you really want to facilitate change, then make your donation to The Student Advocacy Committee, or SACOM, a non-profit organization whose mission is to improve labor conditions in China. Consider it a premium on your next consumer electronics purchase. Or else you can do what we always do and shelve your outrage for another year. After all, the iPad 3 is coming out soon and I know what you're thinking: Come on, Apple, keep the price the same.Tom Kaneshige covers Apple and Networking for CIO.com. Follow Tom on Twitter @kaneshige. Follow everything from CIO.com on Twitter @CIOonline and on Facebook. Email Tom at firstname.lastname@example.com


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With the release of the AirSelfie2, that flight time has now doubled (so you get 5 minutes instead of 2 or 3) and the camera's seen a resolution increase to 12MP. The larger photos also mean that the internal storage gets a bit of a bump, too, going from 4GB to 16GB.


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Are Christians retreating into shells of secluded irrelevance?
Jonathan Rauch describes himself as a homosexual atheist. He is the author of six books, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C., and winner of the National Magazine Award, the magazine industry's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. He recently wrote a very thought-provoking column warning Christians that our refusal to engage in activities we consider immoral is turning us into "social secessionists" and making us irrelevant to the culture.
In his essay, Rauch agrees that "religious liberty is the country's founding freedom, the idea that made America possible." He also believes that "the faithful have every right to seek reasonable accommodations for religious conscience." However, he warns that our stands on issues such as same-sex marriage comes across to secular Americans, especially the young, as discrimination. He believes that we must change our approach lest we become even more marginalized in the future.
So Rauch wants Christian photographers to take pictures at same-sex weddings, "but with a moral caveat and a prayer." He affirms "a missionary tradition of engagement and education, of resolutely and even cheerfully going out into an often uncomprehending world, rather than staying home with the shutters closed." He thus encourages evangelicals to participate in unbiblical activities, but with an evangelistic spirit.
Reading his thoughtful essay, I was left with a conundrum. Rauch is right: irrelevance is our enemy. When asked why they don't attend church, the most common answer secular people give is the perceived irrelevance of church to culture. At the same time, his prescription would seem to lead Christians to endorse what the Bible opposes.
So I asked myself, What would Jesus do? He went to the home of Zacchaeus, a tax-collector whose graft and corruption made him a notorious sinner. He spoke with a Samaritan woman whose sexual immorality made her a moral leper in her culture. No one would describe his earthly ministry as irrelevant.
But he didn't help Zacchaeus collect taxes. He didn't meet with the Samaritan woman in her bedroom, but at a public well. He connected with the culture, but never endorsed what the Bible refuses.
So here's a third option: build relationships in ways that do not encourage unbiblical activities. For instance, as an evangelical pastor, I wouldn't officiate a same-sex wedding, since most would interpret my actions as endorsement. However, I would be honored to go to the couple's home for dinner. If I were a doctor, I would not perform an abortion except to save the mother's life. But I would remain friends with the mother, whatever she chose to do.
When Jesus went to Zacchaeus's home, "they all grumbled, 'He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner'" (Luke 9:7). But his gracious initiative led Zacchaeus to repent publicly and repay his victims (v. 8). As a result, Jesus could say joyfully that "salvation has come to this house" (v. 9).
Who is your Zacchaeus today?
Publication date: August 5, 2014
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It is widely expected that Samsung will launch its own cloud service, S-Cloud, alongside the Galaxy S3 during its Samsung Mobile Unpacked event on Thursday 3 May. However, LG has beaten its South Korean rival by announcing its own cloud solution a full four days beforehand.
The beta version of LG Cloud will open for public use tomorrow, 1 May. And the company says it will be the first service that allows users to "manage and consume all types of content on three screens", including its Android smartphones, PCs and smart TVs.
It will be offered as a series of applications for each device, each available through Google Play or their respective LG SmartWorld app stores. The service then synchronises the content on your smartphone across all of your LG devices. Photos and video can be viewed on a PC or TV, or videos on a PC can be uploaded to the cloud to view on your phone, for example.
One clever aspect is that you don't have to worry about incompatible video, picture or audio files, LG has its proprietary Real-time Streaming Transcoding technology working away in the background so that they will be streamed to whatever device, without the user having to worry about installing codecs. The manufacturer says no other cloud service can make the same claim.
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The 2nd Int'l Symposium on Water Resources Management and Pollution Control (WRMPC 2019) Conference Date: November 22-24, 2019 Conference Venue: Guilin, China Website: http://www.novevents.org/conference/WRMPC2019/ Online Registration System: http://www.novevents.org/RegistrationSubmission/default.aspx?ConferenceID=1154 Email: [email protected] If you wish to serve the conference as an invited speaker, please send email to us with your CV. We'll contact with you asap. Publication and Presentation Publication: Open Access Journal,please contact us for detailed information Index: CNKI and Google Scholar Note: If you want to present your research results but do NOT wish to publish a paper, you may simply submit an Abstract to our Registration System. Contact Us Email: [email protected] Tel: +86 15172330844 QQ: 3025797047 WeChat: 3025797047 Conference Topics Topics: The conference is soliciting state-of-the-art research papers in the following areas of interest: Water Management and Planning Water rights and Accessibility Water Markets Economics and Policies Sedimental Soil Erosion Irrigation Water resources in Arid Regions Ground Water Urban Water Management Hydraulic Engineering Water Quality and Pollutant Control Water Quality and Health River Basin Management Flood Risk Management Hydroinformatics GIS and Remote Sensing Trans-boundary Water Management Water, Food and Energy Socio-economic Aspects Water Resources Strategies Innovative Technologies Water and the Community Integrated Water Analysis Wetlands as Water Sources Storm Water Management Other Related Topics
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Week of 15 June 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court finds that an employer who fires an individual for being gay or transgender engages in unlawful discrimination which violates the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia)
Gerald Bostock had been an official in Clayton County's juvenile court (in Atlanta, Georgia) since 2003. In 2013, he joined a gay softball league and was later fired for "conduct unbecoming a county employee." This case was consolidated with Donald Zarda's case, who was fired from Altitude Express after he mentioned he was gay, and Aimee Stephens' case, who was fired from R. G. & G. R. Harris Funeral Homes after Aimee, hired as a man, informed her employer she planned to "live and work full-time as a woman."
On 15 June, the U.S. Supreme Court found, in its landmark case Bostock v. Clayton County, that it was illegal for employers to discriminate based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Title VII of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 makes it "unlawful . . . for an employer to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual . . . because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin." Up until this decision, it was still legal in over half U.S. states to fire workers for being gay, bisexual or transgender. This decision comes five years after the U.S. Supreme Court established the right to same-sex marriage (in Obergefell v. Hodges)
Of particular note, this ruling was penned by Justice Gorsuch, Mr. Trump's first appointment to the court (joined by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan).
206 companies representing over 7 million employees had filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting federal anti-discrimination protections for LGBT workers. These companies noted that their "commitment to equality is violated when any
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Grand narratives appear to make sense of the world, but the world doesn't hang together as neatly as all that. Rather than honor and applaud a sum total work of art or culture, I'd rather tip my hat to the explosive detail, a move that proposes a possibility outside itself, and throws down the gauntlet to others. Some of the most vivid to me from 2017:
YOU MUST HATE BLACK PEOPLE AS MUCH AS YOU HATE YOURSELF. These words emerged from — or were otherwise drowning in — the inky blackness of the great artist Kara Walker's canvas "Storm Ryder," one of many gut-punchers in her fall exhibition "Sikkema Jenkins and Co. is Compelled to Present the Most Astounding and Important Painting show of the fall Art Show viewing season!" The damning word in that sentence: you, unnamed, unspecified. Standing before her work, no one is exempt from the poisoned tines of hatred — of black people, of oneself, each a mirror for, and measure of, the other.
Choreographer-slash–human hurricane Sarah Michelson shattered the quiet of West 19th Street as she welcomed her audience to the Kitchen for her performance October2017/\ by pointing at each of us and shriek-shouting "HELLO! HELLO! HELLO! YEAH!" as we took our seats. Her relentlessness smartly sharpened the edge between rah-rah enthusiasm and look-at-me desperation, taking aim (for one) at art and artists — performers and performances — for whom attention-seeking might in fact be their only real talent.
Total silence seized the audience in the moments before Doreen Garner's harrowing performance Purge on November 30, part of her exhibition "White Man on a Pedestal" with Kenya (Robinson) at Pioneer Works. It felt as though all were held in suspended animation, not unlike the spirit of J. Marion Sims, "father of modern gynecology," a statue of whom was — at the hands of Garner and her assistants — about to experience a taste of his own medicine: a vesicovaginal fistula, which he performed without anesthesia on Anarcha, an enslaved black woman, more than thirty times between 1845 and 1850. (The man remains honored here in New York City for his contributions to science with a public sculpture.) Garner's re-enactment of his violence wasn't healing so much as it was the long-overdue reopening of a wound that demands to be tended to properly.
Laura Owens's hare-brainy clock paintings that hang high on the wall at her outstanding retrospective at the Whitney Museum sound no tick-tocks as the hands spin at their own pace, keeping no time except their very own. (Another possible punchline: The power of painting, like comedy, is all in the timing).
The Wooster Group at once found and lost the momentum of Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker's radioactive 1971 documentary, Town Bloody Hall, which recorded an unwieldy and almost unthinkable public debate on the subject of feminism between Jill Johnston, Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, and Diana Trilling, moderated by Norman Mailer. The aim of the Wooster's deconstruction was off, but shimmered for a moment with the appearance of Greg Mehrten as the literary critic Trilling. His eyes round and tired like hers, a haughty bun pinned to the back of his head, he embodied both her nobility and her vulnerability — her snoot, her self-possession — even as she was held up to the audience for comic relief.
"Everywhere I go I see losers. Misfits like myself who can't make it in the world," wrote the singular artist and writer and performer Constance DeJong in her iridescent 1977 novel, Modern Love, which was republished this year. She wrote then not about the well-documented world of men, but of a world with men, reimagining the romance novel by mapping the magnetisms that push people together, then pull them apart, in time and out of time, in characters who collapse into one another all around the I of the storm.
Joan Didion, too, in a few sentences and with a candor that was somehow surprising if not at all unexpected of the iconic woman of letters, rewrote the genre of the love story. "I don't know what 'fall in love' means," she said of her marriage to John Gregory Dunne in the tender documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold. "It's not part of my world. But I do remember having a very clear sense that I wanted this to continue. I liked being a couple. I liked having somebody there."
"Of all stupid art, the poem is the most stupid," quipped poet Lisa Robertson at the symposium Never the Same: what (else) can art writing do? hosted by Contemporary Calgary. There, Robertson read a passage from a titillating work-in-progress titled "The Baudelaire Fractal," in which she imagines waking up one morning to realize that she is in fact the author of the complete works of Baudelaire. Poetry, like stupidity, obeys no outside rules, bending history and good sense to its own agenda, its own desires: another reason to pick up a pen, twist it, and see what spills out onto the page.
Or the grass. After her father's death, performance artist Michelle Ellsworth launched Manpant Publishing. Instead of using paper and ink, she spells the 111 words of each of her commissioned texts with her dad's trousers as well as other pairs from the Salvation Army, laying them out on a beautiful clearing by a river in Colorado, and recording it all by tapping into a live weather cam. To think of absence as a new alphabet with which to write and circulate the words of others seems a most generous use of grief.
In conversation with the New Yorker's David Remnick and playwright Tony Kushner one evening before a recent performance of A Room in India at the Park Avenue Armory, the French theater director Ariane Mnouchkine talked about the responsibilities of being an artist. "I am not paid to be desperate. I am not paid to be blind," she explained, her current production in part mocking ISIS as inhuman and ungodly, while also taking us all to task for the fear that holds us back from the risks inherent in the creation of wonder, beauty. What is an artist to do in these harrowing times, then? "To continue to have faith in people," she said, giving much-needed instructions on how to best rise from the ashes.
Poet Eileen Myles places her faith not in God, but in dog — right-minded creatures who allow the world to be what it is, without heaviness, just following their noses from moment to moment to moment. Her exquisite slapstick tragedy Afterglow is a radical memoir about and for and by her now-deceased but forever-beloved pitbull Rosie, who the poet believes is a dead ringer for her dead father. Myles's words of goodbye — to her, to him — are simultaneously a hello to her own unknown future.
"Travel well, I said. All the seeds of you; and the dream of you, the rot.
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An implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is a small device that is implanted under the skin to help control abnormal heart rhythms. When the ICD picks up abnormal, rapid ventricular heart rhythms, it reacts by sending a series of rapid paced beats called anti-tachycardia pacing, or by delivering an electric shock to the heart. Both of these actions are designed to quickly restore a normal heart beat. The ICD can also be used to regulate a heart that is beating too slowly. Here, it can work like a pacemaker to send mild electric pacemaker signals to help your heart beat at a normal rate.
Ventricular arrhythmias are rapid heartbeats in the lower chambers of the heart. Two types of fast heart rhythm are ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ventricular fibrillation (VF). Both of these arrhythmias can be life threatening because they prevent the heart from keeping the blood circulating throughout your body.
The main purpose of an ICD is to regulate harmful heart rhythms and provide immediate intervention to restore a normal heart beat. An ICD may be also implanted in patients deemed at high risk for sudden cardiac death due to cardiomyopathy.
Every year, thousands of people in Canada receive an ICD. Most people who have ICD implants return to their normal active lives.
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- Before you go for your implant, the doctor will come and meet you in the Day Unit. This will be a good time to ask any questions you may have.
- Once you are in the Day Unit, the final preparations for your procedure will start. You will change into a hospital gown. You may have a small intravenous tube placed in your arm. The implant area will be clipped of hair and cleaned.
- You will be taken by stretcher to the Electrophysiology Lab for your procedure.
- Your chest area will be washed with a cold solution and sterile sheets will be placed over you.
- During your procedure, you will receive medications in your intravenous that will make you feel very relaxed. You might even fall into a light sleep.
- A local anesthetic will be administered to the area below your collarbone to numb the area where the ICD will be inserted.
- Once the anesthetic has taken effect, the doctor will make a small incision. The ICD leads will be threaded into your heart through a vein in your chest. You will not feel any pain, but you may feel some pressure as the veins are entered. The device is then put into place just under the skin.
- Once the procedure is finished, the incision will be closed with special stitches.
- After your procedure, you will be taken back to the Day Unit on a stretcher or bed. You may be hooked up to a heart monitor that will keep track of your heart rate and your blood pressure. Shortly after your procedure, you will go for a chest X-ray to check your ICD placement.
- Once you are feeling better, you will be able to go home.
- Only one friend or relative will be able to sit with you while you are waiting because space is limited.
- You must have someone pick you up at the hospital and drive you home.


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(pictured above: Alan Andrews (center) and Carrie Vickery (second from right) with (from left): Andrews' son Evan and wife Lynne Fuller-Andrews and Vickery's husband Phillip Skipper Jr. (right).)
Lawyer-to-lawyer kidney donation story will warm your heart
At first glance, Carrie Vickery and Alan Andrews have little in common.
She's petite, Caucasian and young – 27 to be exact – while he is tall, African American and more than 20 years her senior. Nevertheless, the two share the most intimate of bonds: Vickery's kidneys.
"Carrie and I apparently have all of this commonality, and we're just coincidentally two people who work on the same street," said Andrews, a deputy attorney for the City of Winston-Salem. "I would never have thought that. It's actually proved in my mind that we are all the same beneath our skin."
The two attorneys' unlikely story begins in January, when they briefly crossed paths at a Winston-Salem Bar Association meeting honoring the late Judge Roland Hayes. As luck or fate would have it, less than a year later, Vickery, an attorney at Holton Law Firm, would be offering up her kidney to Andrews over lunch.
"At first, I was like, 'She must not have really understood what I said because she just said something crazy to me,'" related Andrews, a native of Robersonville. "…But from the moment she said, 'I'm willing to donate an organ to you if it works out,' she's never wavered. She's been, as people say down my way 'true blue,' and it's been the most refreshing thing."
Both Vickery, a member of Reynolda Presbyterian, and Andrews, a member of United Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church, believe divine intervention brought them together at an opportune time.
"The timing was so perfect that you know that it's nothing else but a spiritual intervention of some sort that made this happen," Vickery said.
In the spring, Andrews had invited Vickery to join a committee for the Children's Museum of Winston-Salem. When he called to invite her to lunch, Vickery said she assumed he wanted to discuss the most recent meeting, which she had missed to be with her grandmother, Joan Daniel, who was in the last days of her battle with kidney failure. Instead, Andrews revealed that he was ill and had begun a nightly regimen of dialysis.
"He starts telling me about how he's been sick and has been on the transplant list and on dialysis," related Vickery, an Elon University School of Law alumna. "I said, 'Oh you need a kidney?' and he was like, 'Yeah,' and I was like, 'Oh, do you want mine?'"
Vickery's offer was made with one condition. She had recently been tested to see if she was a viable kidney donor for her new husband, Phillip "Skip" Skipper Jr., who was born with only one kidney. Vickery wanted to be able to help her husband if his remaining kidney ever failed and had told Andrews she would give him a kidney only if she and her husband were not a match, which turned out to be the case.
"All this stuff just came together so perfectly, so that when I found out my husband and I weren't a match, I was like, 'I know this is going to happen,' because it all fell into place so perfectly," said Vickery.
Though he had suffered from kidney disease caused by hypertension for more than a decade, and had shed 90 pounds since being added to the transplant list in 2010 in hopes of improving his outcome as a transplant recipient, Andrews, a married father of an 11-year-old son, was just beginning to reveal his condition to the public at the time of his lunch with Vickery.
"Being in a position like this, it's very lonely," he said. "Suddenly, your life is filled with things that are unassured. You don't know how long you're going to be on dialysis, you don't know how long you're going to live, and you've got to approach that soberly with your family and with yourself. It's a scary, lonely feeling."
Andrews likens the incredible fortune of finding a living donor to hitting the lottery.
"She is the most giving person I have ever met in my life. It means everything to me. It's restored my belief in the immense capacity of humans for giving selflessly," he declared. "…I've got somebody who's under no obligation, who, for no other reason than just godly kindness, is willing to do this for me, my little sister for life. We've got a bond now, for sure, forever."
Vickery said she too was feeling blessed as the two prepared for surgery on Monday.
"It's been exciting for me," she declared. "I feel extremely lucky that I'm healthy enough to be able to donate an organ."
Andrews affectionately refers to his and Vickery's unusual kinship as "the world's great story." It is a story he plans to tell over and over again, in hopes that others will find the courage to step up as Vickery has and give of themselves in order to save another.
"Going forward, as much as I can, I want to inform people, educate people," he said, speaking of the importance of organ donation. "It'll be my testimony, my gift back to humanity for this gift that has been given to me."
From the moment she made the commitment to Andrews, Vickery says she has never looked back.
"I'm still excited. I've been excited," she declared. "Every single time I got a call that says you passed (the next phase of testing to become a donor), I felt like I'd won something."
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The first surrenderee, alias Jun is a member of Militia ng Bayan (MB) of the New Peoples Army (NPA-MB) in Barangay Budlingin, Alegria, while the latest, alias Ted is a 22-year-old native of Surigao del Norte and member NPA Guerilla Front 16. The true name of the said NPA members is temporarily withheld for security reasons.
The two also brought with them an AK47 and M16 rifle, magazines and several live ammunition.
According to 2nd Lieutenant Jonel Castillo, the Spokesperson of 30IB, alias Jun is an active NPA supporter before the NPAs issued him an AK47 rifle and was tasked to spy on the government forces to conduct sniping, harassment and other tactical offensives in the said barangay.
Meanwhile, alias Ted accordingly surrendered because he could take anymore the terroristic activities, discrimination, and unending extortion of the NPAs while failing to fulfill their promises and continues to punish the poor.
In the message of Lieutenant Colonel Allen Tomas, the Commanding Officer of 30IB, he said that there are many benefits from the Government awaiting the returnees which why they should realize how the government wanted peace with them.
"Yesterday, alias Jun surrendered and today, alias Ted. It is a sign that many of them wanted to go down and lay their arms in order to live a peaceful life," he added.
Lieutenant Colonel Tomas also urged those who are still with the "terrorist organization" as it is "not yet late." He said that the Government is open to their return and assistance is waiting if they choose to embrace a peaceful life with their families.
The said surrenderors are now in the custody of the 30IB for proper disposition.
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If Nuclear Iran Is So Scary, What About Israel?
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As the web indulges in polemics on Iran's Preliminary Nuclear Deal, I'm seeing a lot of tweets and statuses asking why Israel succeeded in developing its nuclear capabilities without making the rest of the world nervous enough to prompt a forced inspection of its nuclear installations or threaten it with sanctions — while Iran (and Iraq, and Libya) failed to do so.
This question was also asked among many readers of my recent Forward article, "Revealing Israel's Nuclear Secrets," which cited the top-secret report that was declassified by the Pentagon in February, exposing for the first time the actual depth of the military cooperation between the United States and Israel. The report contains details about the development of Israel's nuclear infrastructure and states that in the eighties, Israeli scientists were reaching the capabilities to employ hydrogen fusion.
So, why did Israel succeed while Iran failed?
The main difference between the two is that Iran's nuclear program makes headline news, while Israel's nuclear capability remains hidden in the shadows. The Israeli bomb lies in "the Basement." It's intended to be a weapon of last resort, the silent guarantor of the country's existence in the face of hostile neighbors. Iran does not need a weapon of last resort because it is not currently intimidated or threatened by any of its neighbors. This is the basic distinction between the two.
Another important difference is that Israel is not a party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran is. Signing the treaty forbids the signer to be engaged in proliferation and production of nuclear weapons. And of course, Israel does not threaten to wipe any country off the map. Iran does.
Israel succeeded where many other states have failed mainly because, at an advanced stage of its nuclear program, Israel preferred to coordinate its development with the United States. Israel was always careful to meet the conditions set by the U.S. It made the purpose of its nuclear capability purely defensive, presenting the world with a display of nuclear ambiguity. Never — even in days of dire emergency, like the tense days in October 1973 following the surprise attack on Israel by Egypt and Syria — did Israel's leaders warn enemies that it possessed nuclear capabilities.
You might say that Israel actually managed to convince everyone that it had at its disposal that amorphous entity known as "nuclear capability" and that it intends to use it only to achieve effective deterrence, without making the rest of the world anxious, while countries like Iraq and Libya and Iran failed to do so.
Practically, Israel's founders began developing a nuclear-weapons capability in the 1950s. I believe that the primary idea originated during a visit David Ben-Gurion paid to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in occupied Germany in the autumn of 1945, two months after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The existential fears aroused by the Holocaust certainly played a major role in the construction of the Dimona reactor and the other facilities that enabled Israel to build its nuclear capacity. All the architects of the project were haunted by what had happened to the Jews in Europe during the Second World War. Ben-Gurion's scientific adviser, Ernst Bergmann, summed it up: "I am unable to forget that the Holocaust took the Jewish people by surprise. This nation cannot permit itself to be so deluded again."
Surprisingly, it wasn't the U.S. but France that helped Israel build out its nuclear option. During the fifties, the two countries — France and Israel — had a common adversary: Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Israel watched with fear how the Soviets equipped Egypt with weapons, and France faced an Egyptian-aided rebellion in its North African colony of Algeria. Israel provided France valuable intelligence about the rebels in Algeria and agreed to team up with France and Britain in the 1956 Suez war — the crisis that evolved after Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal. Israel joined the initiative to regain French-British ownership of the canal, and in return France provided Israel with a package of nuclear facilities that enabled it to build Dimona.
Once Israel's nuclear program was exposed, the U.S. opposed it, but eventually was convinced to endorse it — so long as it remained secret. And without the approval of the American administrations, Israel could not have achieved its nuclear capability.
The controversy between the U.S. and Israel on the future of the Israeli nuclear project was the main issue in the relations between the two countries for more than two decades. The Kennedy Administration opposed it and President Lyndon Johnson approved it only tacitly. The big change was made by President Nixon's administration — better to say by his Foreign Secretary, Henry Kissinger — when they made an historical secret decision to grant legitimacy to the Israeli nuclear plan.
An Israel that possessed the nuclear option was a more valuable asset to the defense of Western interests in the Middle East than an Israel without such an option. The indications of that policy were twofold: President Nixon ceased to press Israel to join the NPT and dropped the surveillance of Dimona. In exchange, Israel committed itself to maintain an official ambiguity about the program.
That policy remains in place until today.
Michael Karpin is an Israeli journalist and author of "The Bomb in the Basement — How Israel Went Nuclear and What That Means for the World" (Simon & Schuster, 2006).


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Guiding the Reopening of American Business: Real-World Lessons
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America has initiated its economic reopening, yet businesses and citizens alike lack clear and consistent guidance on how to take action and resume regular activity safely and responsibly. The U.S. Federal Reserve identified September 2020 as the point when data and results would provide more clarity on the future of the American economy. Meanwhile, business owners will grapple with the immediate public health and economic ramifications of reopening throughout busy summer months.
This eBriefing, the second in our "Guiding the Reopening of American Business" series, features experts sharing their hands-on experience in reopening and real-world lessons learned to date. Moderated by Stefanie Ilgenfritz, Coverage Chief for Health & Science and Editorial Director of The Future of Everything at The Wall Street Journal, the panel of public health and business leaders discussed working on the front lines helping communities, businesses, and workers develop and implement robust and effective plans and procedures for reopening.
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- With the public health emphasis placed on the need for contact tracing and testing to contain the virus, what responsibilities do businesses have to protect their own employees, customers, and suppliers?
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- What lessons have experts from a variety of industries learned regarding supply chain and logistics, HR, and the use of new technologies?
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Meharry Medical College
Union Pacific
NSF International
James E.K. Hildreth, PhD, MD
Meharry Medical College
James E.K. Hildreth, Ph.D., M.D. is the 12th president and chief executive officer of Meharry Medical College, the nation's largest private, independent historically black academic health sciences center. A native of Camden, Arkansas, Dr. Hildreth began his undergraduate studies in 1975 at Harvard University and was selected as the first African-American Rhodes Scholar from Arkansas in 1978. He graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in chemistry in 1979. Dr. Hildreth enrolled at Oxford University in England, graduating with a Ph.D. in immunology in 1982.
He attended Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, taking a one-year leave of absence from medical school for a postdoctoral fellowship in pharmacology from 1983 to 1984. In 1987, he obtained his M.D. from Johns Hopkins and joined the Hopkins faculty as assistant professor. In 2002, Dr. Hildreth became the first African American in the 125-year history of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to earn full professorship with tenure in the basic sciences.
In October 2008, he was honored for his contributions to medical science by election to the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences, the most prestigious biomedical and health policy advisory group in the U.S. In August of 2011, Dr. Hildreth became dean of the College of Biological Sciences at University of California, Davis. He was the first African-American dean in the university, which was founded in 1905. He was also appointed as a tenured professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology as well as professor in the Department of Internal Medicine in the UC Davis School of Medicine.
Lance M. Fritz
Union Pacific
Lance M. Fritz is Union Pacific chairman, president and chief executive officer. He became chairman of the board effective October 1, 2015. Fritz became president and chief executive officer February 5, 2015, when he also was elected to the corporation's board of directors.
He previously served as president and chief operating officer of Union Pacific Railroad, a position he had held since February 2014, after serving as executive vice president Operations and vice president-Labor Relations, respectively. He began his Union Pacific career in July 2000 as vice president and general manager-Energy in the company's Marketing and Sales department.
Before joining Union Pacific, Fritz worked for Fiskars Inc., Cooper Industries and General Electric. He is a graduate of Bucknell University and earned a master's degree in management from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Fritz is a member of the board of directors for the Association of American Railroads. He is chair of the Business Roundtable trade and international committee and serves on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce board and executive committee, the STRATCOM consultation committee and the Georgia Institute of Technology president's advisory board. Fritz is deeply involved with organizations in his local community. He is the immediate past chairman of the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce board of directors. He is also a member of the board of directors for Nebraska Medicine and Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium.
Paul Medeiros
NSF International
Paul Medeiros directs NSF International's Consulting and Technical Services team, providing unparalleled service to North American clients. He is responsible for all the strategic and operational aspects of the business.
Paul has more than 25 years of experience including several years of senior management experience in consulting, technical and retail audit services and he has a wealth of knowledge and expertise in risk management and quality management. Paul is a Certified Manager of Quality and Organizational Excellence with ASQ and a Certified Public Health Inspector (CPHI(C)). Paul has a B.Sc. in Environmental Health from Ryerson University and a M.Sc. in Food Safety and Quality Assurance from the University of Guelph.
Elizabeth Pinkham
Elizabeth Pinkham is responsible for Salesforce's global real estate strategy, overseeing the company's real estate portfolio and workplace design, as well as creating one-of-a-kind experiences for Salesforce's employees, customers, partners, and the community.
Under Ms. Pinkham's leadership, ten Salesforce Towers have been unveiled at the company's headquarters across the globe in San Francisco, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Dublin, London, Tokyo, and Sydney. Bringing her brand influence to the workplace experience, she introduced the Ohana Floor, an open flexible hospitality space located at the top of the company's towers. Typically a space for executive offices, Pinkham took a unique approach to designing these floors by opening them up to the community. During the day, the space is available for employees and their guests and on weeknights and weekends, the Ohana Floor is open to non-profits and education groups to host events at no cost.
A Salesforce veteran of over 19 years, Pinkham was previously responsible for global strategic events. She oversaw a wide range of brand and event experiences, including management of the company's annual Dreamforce event in San Francisco since its first program in 2003 to Dreamforce 2016, which drew 171,000 registered attendees and 16 million plus online viewers.
Before joining Salesforce, Elizabeth held marketing positions at Oracle and Sybase. Ms. Pinkham holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.


text: down Go Back to Point of View Press Release: Jobs for the Future Applauds the Announcement of a Dual Enrollment Experimental Site for Federal Pell Grants Published jan. 27, 2015 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share via Email The announcement is an important step toward increasing college completion rates nationwideBoston, MA – Jobs for the Future (JFF) applauds President Obama's recent announcement of a dual enrollment experimental site for federal Pell grants. Across the country, 1.4 million students participate in dual enrollment, which enables high school students to enroll in college courses. However, Pell grants—the most important source of federal financial aid for low-income students aspiring to a college education—are not available to students who are still in high school. This experiment will help identify new approaches to enrolling more low-income students in early college and other dual enrollment programs. Early college designs, and other models that combine college and high school in a rigorous and supportive environment, have proven for over 10 years to significantly increase low-income students' chances of college success, providing an effective pathway to college completion.At a time when postsecondary education is critical to the economy, but only 9 percent of those born in the lowest family income quartile attain a Bachelor's degree by age 25 (compared to 54 percent in the top quartile), we need to dramatically increase the numbers of low income students gaining early exposure to college through dual enrollment."We and our partners strongly believe that this announcement will help give our nation's low-income students access to effective career pathways programs that empower them to complete college successfully and pursue in-demand careers," said Joel Vargas, Vice President of Jobs for the Future. "JFF has always advocated for expanding Pell grant access, and we strongly believe that the proposed experimental site has the potential to bring to bear smart and effective uses of Pell for dual enrollment that will result in persistence through college and credential completion."JFF works closely with our partners, which include Bard College, EDWorks, Middle College National Consortium, the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships, and the Ohio Early College Association. These partners have worked closely with over 10,400 dual and concurrent enrollment programs, early college high schools, and their postsecondary partners across the country, with many more currently in development across the nation. We stand ready to work collaboratively with the Administration to ensure an effective and informative dual enrollment experimental site.About Jobs for the FutureJobs for the Future works to ensure that all underprepared young people and workers have the skills and credentials needed to succeed in our economy by creating solutions that catalyze change in our education and workforce delivery systems. Working with our partners, JFF designs and drives the adoption of innovative and scalable education and career training models and systems that lead from college readiness to career advancement. We also develop and advocate for the federal and state policies needed to support these solutions.


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Last Fall, I didn't get to attend any out-of-town Women's Tourneys. One event in November, I *could* have attended, knowing my Mom was being taken care of in the hospital and was in good condition.
'Good condition' means she is awake, doing well, and just still not 100% back on her feet from her emphysema.
A few friends told me, "I know your Mom is still in the hospital, but we want to see you and she is doing okay. AND, it will be good for you."
While I completely agreed, I knew in my heart I wouldn't compete well. Then it dawned on me: I didn't really care about how I would finish in the tourney (even though I did care about how my year ranking would end), but I also knew deep down in my heart seeing friends might be a good thing for my mind and soul. It had been a tough few months and seeing friends would have been awesome, and I wouldn't have cared how I finished in the tourney to be honest.
I didn't go to that tourney, though. Out of town, almost 6 hours away from Mom.. ugh. I didn't want to not see her even one day while she was in the hospital, even though she was doing okay. Her next step would be physical rehabilitation to get walking again (being in bed for 8 weeks at her age, leads to legs not wanting to work properly).
But I still didn't go.
Then in Prevention Magazine I read in the section "Smart health habits can extend active, joyful midlife indefinitely." Specifically, one piece says: ""Friends Save Lives."
"(snip).... Surrounding yourself with cheerful companions can be especially beneficial. In a surprising report last year, James H. Fowler, PhD, an associate professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego, (gotta put his credentials) showed that happiness spreads though social networks, affecting not only friends but also friend of friends. "Our research showed that a person is 15% more likely to be happy if a close contact is happy and well, " he explains.""
I think I already knew that. I knew a weekend away from stress would be good for me, but I *just* *couldn't* *leave* *Mom* no matter how many of my friends, my gut, and (and Dr. Fowler) said I should.
But... if you can get away from stress and get near your friends.... then be like Nike and JUST DO IT!


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Robots and abandoned plot.
Unlike other mecha shows where the main character wins on superior technology, in this series, they win on superior tactics. It's very satisfying to see how every victory can be justified, in this sense it's similar to Kenshin. The mecha bits alone are totally worth watching at least once.
Mecha bits aside, the story felt abandoned by its creators. The first few episodes felt like it could be interesting, but then it more or less just dragged on until everybody died in episode 12... or so we thought. The series turns out to be 24 episodes long and the second half is not that much better in turns of story, but at least there is more mecha action, and there is a bit of closure at the end. Hard to say whether it's worth watching all 24 episodes.
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Donna Mae Lydon (Reilley), of Wilmington, passed away on September 8, 2015, at the Care Dimensions Kaplan Family Hospice Home in Danvers, MA, after a courageous 13-year battle with tongue cancer. She was surrounded by her family. Her faith in God carried her through this long ordeal.
Donna was born in Lynn MA on September 5, 1942, the only child of James and Catherine (Williams) Reilley. Donna's parents died in a car accident when she was 7 years old and she was raised in Arlington, MA by her godmother, Elizabeth (Williams) Poirier and her husband, Paul Poirier, along with her new loving sister, Carol Poirier.
Donna graduated from Arlington High School in 1960 and Boston State Teachers College in 1964. She married the love of her life and best friend, Ken Lydon, on August 22, 1964. Donna taught school for three years in Quincy MA before retiring from teaching to raise her four wonderful children. She and Ken, along with their two sons, Christopher and Russell, moved to Wilmington in July 1969. The family was then blessed with the addition of two daughters, Catherine in 1969 and Jennifer in 1971.
Throughout her life, Donna loved to garden, care for all the family and neighborhood pets, and cook. Her favorite saying was, "if you can read, you can cook." She treasured her grandchildren and made each moment she spent with them magical. Donna was very active in her community, especially with the Cub Scouts with the Greater Lowell Scouting Councils and Camps. In 1983 she was awarded the Boy Scouts' prestigious Silver Beaver Award. Donna worked as a substitute teacher in the Wilmington Public Schools and was active with the PAC at the Woburn Street School, where she initiated the annual pumpkin fair, which continues on today. Donna was a communicant at St. Thomas of Villanova Church for 47 years. She was a member of the Wilmington American Legion Post 136 Ladies Auxiliary, serving as the recorder for many years. She was also a waitress at Stelio's Restaurant. This allowed her to be at home to raise her four children and meet many people who became her long-lasting friends.
Donna loved to travel with her husband, Ken. Together they went to Ireland, Hawaii, and on many trips to other parts of the country. They loved skiing at Bretton Woods and spending summers at the beach at Seabrook NH.
Donna is survived by Ken Lydon, her loving husband of 51 years; son Christopher, his wife Pam and grandson, Jack of Marietta GA; son Russell, his wife Patty, granddaughter Delaney and grandson Nick of Clifton Park NY; daughter Kati and Jim Murphy and grandsons Russell and Matthew Murphy of Billerica; and daughter Jennifer, husband Sean Theodos, and grandson Sean Paul Theodos, Jr. of Wilmington. Donna is also survived by her sister, Carol Fairchild of Amherst MA, along with many sisters- in- law, cousins, nieces, nephews, and dear friends.
Family & friends will gather at the Nichols Funeral Home, 187 Middlesex Ave. (Rte. 62), Wilmington, on Monday, September 14th at 10:00 a.m. followed by a Mass of Christian Burial in St. Thomas of Villanova Church, 126 Middlesex Ave., Wilmington, at 11:00 a.m. Visiting hours will be held at the Funeral Home on Sunday, September 13th from 3:00-7:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Kaplan Family Hospice House, 78 Liberty St., Danvers, MA 01923.


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blind to risk management or even disdainful of it when things are going well. Moreover, we like and are grateful for risk management when the markets are choppy (or worse), but regret the hedge when markets take off. Perhaps worse, we generally don't even know how our investments have performed in the past and often think we did better (and are better) than is supported by reality.
I agree with what Mr. Buffett wrote, "Nevertheless, both individuals and institutions will constantly be urged to be active by those who profit from giving advice or effecting transactions. The resulting frictional costs can be huge and, for investors in aggregate, devoid of benefit. So ignore the chatter, keep your costs minimal, and invest in stocks as you would in a farm."
If you want your advisor to pick winning stocks and sectors above all else, you will almost certainly be disappointed. Beyond a bit of help "around the edges' (e.g., factor tilting), you shouldn't expect your financial advisor to improve your nominal investment performance.
What a good advisor/financial planner can do is seek to lower your risk profile without lowering expected returns, more closely match your investment portfolio with your goals and life plan, suggest financial planning options to make your financial life more efficient and productive, and help you stick with your plan when the markets aren't being cooperative. It shouldn't be a surprise, then, that the Vanguard study I linked above (and link again here) is focused on precisely the sorts of things that can add real value for consumers and comes to the conclusion that such advice is worth (not "costs" or "should cost") roughly three percent per year.
For example, are you aware that to help mitigate the combined income-and-estate-tax effect, the Internal Revenue Code allows for an Income in Respect of a Decedent deduction under Section 691(c)? Claimed by the beneficiary of an inherited IRA to the extent of any estate taxes that were caused by the account, the deduction can be material as much as 40 percent of the value of the account. The IRD deduction applies not only to inherited IRA accounts, but also other employer retirement plans, inherited non-qualified annuities, employer non-qualified stock options, deferred compensation, employer NUA stock, and more. A good financial planner knows that and will advise you accordingly.
Your mileage can and will vary, of course. Some of that "advisor" value is available to diligent DIYers. But professional expertise and experience matter too.
The problem, of course, is that you have no way of knowing whether returns will be higher with paid financial advice.
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How much more would the investor have in their retirement funds after 35 years? $0.00
How much more would the advisor have in their personal retirement funds after 35 years? ~$2,000,000.00?
Of course, I am assuming the advisor would invest their 3% fee income in the same index fund.
There is a very long list of important financial planning issues that apply to relatively few investors. Knowing about them -- as a good financial planner does -- can be crucial for those impacted but almost impossibly arcane to even a dedicated DIYer. Moreover, not all apply strictly to the wealthy. For instance, with respect to Social Security alone, an unmarried person over the age of 62 with a prior marriage that lasted at least ten years may be eligible for divorced spouse benefits, retirees over the age of 62 who have any children under the age of 18 should know about extra retirement benefits for such children, and those who have (or had) a job where s/he did not participate in the Social Security system need to know about future retirement benefits potentially being reduced under the Windfall Elimination Provision.
If my experience is at all normative, the percentage of DIYers who understand these provisions (and others like them) is roughly 0.1 percent. You may not benefit from such knowledge. But if you don't check with an expert, you won't know and will potentially miss out.
IMO, Mr. Thomas had a sound buy & hold strategy in his first post on this thread...
After your reply, Mr. Thomas next post showed him thinking about trying to time the market....
Of course, that was not your fault and you immediately told him that was a bad idea. However, I think you're much more ethical and capable than most advisors. Do you disagree?


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Momo Okabe's body-shock images pull no punches. We discover a cult photographer transfixed by gender, identity and modern chaos
Taken from the Summer 2014 issue of Dazed:
Only a few lucky collectors got their hands on Japanese photographer Momo Okabe's first official US monograph, Dildo, when it was published last year. The handmade photobook, which was limited to just 55 copies and is now virtually impossible to get hold of, tells in painful detail the story of Okabe's romantic journey with lovers Kaori and Yoko as they struggle with gender identity disorder.
To the uninitiated, it's a chaotic mess of genitals, sex and surgery. Photos of intimate operations, bandaged breasts and naked bodies are jammed in with the broken debris of everyday life. But the shock value of Okabe's explicit images quickly melts away. What at first looks provocative soon seems sympathetic as the book builds up a heart-wrenching picture of alienation, sorrow and deep affection. Her unflinching honesty is completely compelling.
Recently, there's been an explosion of interest in Japanese photobooks, such as with the intense visceral collages of Rinko Kawauchi and Lieko Shiga. Yet the hyper-sexual nature of Okabe's work means she's been overlooked by the mainstream. Miwa Susuda of her publisher, Session Press, thinks the world isn't ready to appreciate her. "Many people are prejudiced and conservative," she says. "They see labels and stereotypes rather than individuals. I had hesitations (about publishing Dildo) because the work is not for everyone, but I believe in the power of her photography and admire her full confidence in expressing sexual realities."
Okabe describes her photobooks as "psychological landscapes" put together from her own memories. She remembers the four years of infancy she spent abroad as a whirlwind of colour, isolation and confusion. "I spent my early years in France, where I couldn't speak the language," she says. "We travelled all over Europe by car. We went to museums where I didn't know what I was looking at and watched TV programmes I didn't understand. I couldn't communicate with anybody so I started living in my own fantasy world. When I looked through the viewfinder of the camera, everything in front of me turned into something magical. I just wanted to live in the world realised through the camera lens. Actually, I still feel that way."
"When I looked through the viewfinder of the camera, everything in front of me turned into something magical. I just wanted to live in the world realised through the camera lens. Actually, I still feel that way"– Momo Okabe
Her style is greatly influenced by experiences from her childhood, she says. "I often come back to one particular incident in Paris. On the way to the cinema to watch Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, I was hit by a car. I wasn't hurt, but I was really freaked out and I couldn't help feeling scared and shaky. But at the same time I felt fully alive while I was watching the movie in the dark. I vividly remember the rich colours and all the details of the plot. I feel now as if my memory of the movie is turning into my own childhood reality."
Working alone in a darkroom she built in her Tokyo apartment, Okabe allows the colours and chaos of her past to spill into her current work. It is clear that she has known great pain – the trauma in her work is palpable. But photography provides a sanctuary. "I take photos in order to change the sad reality into a happy ending through the camera," she says.
"It's easy for me to live in a utopia that is made by me through my photography."
In the early 00s, while studying at Nihon University's College of Art, Okabe met photographer Kohey Kanno in the colour-printing lab. "Ever since I met Okabe at art school I've had a crush on her very subjective photos," he says from Brooklyn, where he now lives. "She creates a very close personal world and has a pure soul." The pair collaborated on a zine called Ropeway that Kanno edited. Then, in 2012, they created Unseen/Tsunami, an astonishing photobook project that intersperses shots of their friends, loves and lives against the backdrop of the 2011 Fukushima tsunami.
"I went to the northern part of Japan one month after the tsunami hit," Okabe says when asked how the remarkable work came about. "Everything was destroyed by that tragedy, but I also felt energy arising out from the zero state. My intimate work was made around the same time I was taking photographs of the site, so I thought that there must be some connection between the two. I realised that my sexual experiences are just the same as the fear, despair and anger of facing death caused by the tsunami. It seemed so similar to the violent energy arising from the bottom of my body." The unforgettable juxtaposition of sexual experience and tragic devastation makes for an incredibly emotional work.
A year later, Session Press published Dildo, which begins with images taken during Okabe's three-year relationship with Kaori, a woman with gender identity disorder whom she met when she was 24 years old. After their break-up, it follows her relationship with a new lover, Yoko, eventually documenting their trip to Thailand for sex reassignment surgery during which Yoko has her uterus removed. Dildo is a potent record of sadness, joy and intimacy.
"I made Dildo because I truly loved my two boyfriends," Okabe says. "I really wanted to cherish the time we spent together. I wanted to take photos just like everybody makes a family album. I wanted to preserve fun memories of dates with people I really love. So my work can be compared with a precious family album, just like everybody has at home."
Paris-based curator and writer Marc Feustel discovered Okabe's work through Dildo. "The (nature of the) object, essentially a photo album of tipped-in photographs, gives the book a familiar, diaristic quality," he says, "and yet Okabe's experiences make this a highly unusual diary. The edit of the book is surprising, disconcerting even, as she shifts from the most anodine images of empty rooms, urban debris, portraits and skylines to graphic images that serve as evidence of a startlingly direct, unflinching gaze. Her greatest strength lies in her ability to use and weave together an extraordinarily diverse vocabulary of images in order to create a narrative. One which – much like her own identity – seems profoundly unresolved, but all the more compelling for it."
Okabe isn't concerned with technical brilliance in her photos, and believes she doesn't have a logical mind. For her, photography is pure expression, a way of recording feelings and other ephemeral qualities she doesn't want to forget. Her rough and ready style creates an intimate connection. "I don't consider myself to be an artist," she says. "I just want to be very honest and sincere to the people I make my portraits of."
Despite this attitude, Okabe's work has been highly acclaimed, lauded by legendary Japanese photographers Nobuyoshi Araki and Masafumi Sanai in the New Cosmos of Photography 1999 and the Epson colour imaging prize in 2009 respectively. And despite remaining underground, her work creates a strong bond with its admirers. "Okabe's photographs may seem sexually explicit and uncomfortable at first, yet they reflect her own fragile world and sexual sensitivity," says New York-based collector Olga Yatskevich, the proud owner of a copy of Dildo. "Her photographs are deeply emotional and honest. Her work forces us to reassess our own sensitivity and opinion of the banal and relate to the wider concept of society."
"I realised that my sexual experiences are the same as the fear, despair and anger caused by the tsunami. It was so similar to the violent energy arising from my body" – Momo Okabe
Okabe's second US monograph, Bible, has just been published by Session Press. "Bible compiles all my recent works, including many unpublished photographs taken in Tokyo, Miyagi and India between 2010 and 2013," Okabe says. "I took photos in that period without any real reason for doing so. However, last summer I met a new man and things changed dramatically. He used to go crazy and commit crimes, but I didn't think he was evil or bad inside. Whenever I was with him, I felt tremendously sad but I could take a lot of beautiful photos. I felt that I could finally become free from my history. Bible is not a record of memories but a mental landscape that people can attain only after a long dark struggle in their past. It is an elegy for people who have experienced pain. When I finished compiling the work, I felt like I had been reborn. I felt I could finally become myself to the world appearing in front of me."
The incredible power of Okabe's work lies in this transformative property. In Bible she pushes the approach she developed in Dildo even further, pairing disparate images, at times making playful links, at others painful. Each photograph imbues another with new meaning. Her signature jewel-like colours bring softness and sentimentality to difficult subject matter. It's a truly revelatory, affecting publication. Thankfully, Session Press has promised a larger print run this time so more of us can experience her work first-hand.
As Okabe's reputation spreads outside Japan, younger artists are becoming increasingly fascinated by her approach. "I admire her ability to capture the tenderness of the in-between, fleeting moments of one's daily existence," says the emerging San Francisco-based photographer Grace Gloria Denis. "As she contrasts the decay of natural terrain with the transformation of the human body, she unravels the ultimately entropic nature of both environmental and human landscape."
The Chinese-born, London-based artist Echo Morgan shares Okabe's fascination with making work in response to her past. "Dildo awakened my internal emotions on the subject of sex and death," she says. "I cherish the aloneness and honesty which expands between the pages. I share the close relationship the artist has with her lover's body and her own. The desire to create an ideal body and the horror of facing the abandoned and scarred one left behind."
Among the moments of devastating sadness and alienation, there are glimmers of hope in her work. Shafts of light, big skies and rich hues provide relief from cruel reality. "I am positive about the future," she says. "Life has a lot of struggle, but I try to believe that the future is not too bad." Perhaps Okabe's work can help transform prejudices and preconceptions. Her sensitive touch highlights the complexity of the individual human experience, reminding us that we're all connected in our deepest emotions.


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If someone else causes an accident and hurts you, if he doesn't have enough insurance to cover your lost wages or physical and emotional injuries, you will be out of luck if you don't get UIM/UM. UIM and UM kick in if the other person didn't have insurance at all or if he didn't have enough insurance. These forms of insurance are not expensive at all and they can make all the difference in your life. In addition, if you have more than one policy, you should "stack" it. Stacking increases the amount of insurance available.
We cannot stress enough the harm that limited tort does to people who suffer what is considered to be not serious enough. If you have limited tort insurance and do not suffer a serious injury, you won't be able to get any money for pain and suffering. Only your medical bills and the damage to your car will be covered. Unfortunately, when you are laid up for a week or two and suffer a back injury that lasts for months, the insurance company won't consider that injury serious enough for limited tort to be defeated. As a result, you won't be able to obtain any compensation at all, despite your pain and suffering. If you do have an injury that is serious, your lawyer will have to fight to prove that it is serious enough to defeat the limited tort threshold so you can receive a fair settlement against the person who hurt you. The cost savings for limited tort versus full tort are simply not worth it.
It is entirely too common for people who don't have enough insurance to find themselves in a very bad position. If you don't have health insurance on top of not having enough car insurance, you could find yourself going bankrupt due to someone else's negligence. Please, protect yourself. Get full tort, UIM/UM insurance (stacked.) And, please make sure you don't limit yourself to the minimum required in Pennsylvania. It simply isn't enough for the average car accident.