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On May 12, 2008, Hu Shuli, the founding editor of the biweekly magazine Caijing, was hosting a ceremony for scholarship recipients at a hotel in the mountains west of Beijing. When a text message informed her that a powerful earthquake had struck the province of Sichuan, she leaned over to the man next to her, a veteran editor named Qian Gang, who had covered previous quakes, and asked him for a rough prediction of the damage. At least it hadn't struck while everyone was asleep, he figured. He soon realized, however, that school was in session and "the casualties among students would be enormous."
Hu set off for downtown Beijing, working the phone and e-mailing from the back seat of a car, directing her staff to rent a satellite phone and get a crew to Sichuan. Petite, voluble, and pugnacious—"a female Godfather," one of her reporters thought upon first meeting her—Hu was determined to cover the story even though in China reporting on a disaster of this scale could be politically hazardous. When the country suffered its previous huge quake, in 1976, the government suppressed news of the death toll for three years.
But Hu had made her name divining the boundaries of free expression in China. In the decade since she founded Caijing—the name means "finance and economics"—she had sharply defied the image of China's somnambulant press, and become, as David Ignatius, of the Washington Post, put it to me, the country's "avenging angel." Hu had endured as editor long after other tenacious Chinese journalists had been imprisoned or silenced. She was often described in the Chinese and foreign press as "the most dangerous woman in China," and she was still in business.
Within the hour, the first Caijing journalist was on a flight to Sichuan, followed by nine more. While Xinhua, the state-run news service, was emphasizing that the earthquake "tugged at the heartstrings of the Chinese Communist Party," Caijing was ferreting out estimates of the numbers of the dead and wounded and noting that "many disaster victims have yet to receive any relief supplies."
Schools lay in heaps of concrete and rebar, and the Central Propaganda Department, a government agency with the power to remove editors and shut down publications, banned coverage of rescue efforts at the schools. Several Chinese newspapers questioned why so many schools had collapsed anyway, producing poignant stories of construction errors and the human toll. (At least fifty-three hundred schoolchildren are believed to have died.) Hu had heard that local authorities were criticizing papers that continued to report on the schools' collapse, but she believed that Caijing could find a way to write about it. She thought that a story could be published if it carried the right tone and facts. "If it's not absolutely forbidden," she said, "we do it."
On June 9th, Caijing published a twelve-page investigative report that was cool and definitive. According to the report, heedless economic growth, squandered public funds, and rampant neglect of construction standards had led to the disaster. The story detailed how local cadres cut corners, but it stopped short of assigning responsibility by name. When I asked Hu about the government's reaction, she said, "They got angry. Very, very angry." But she and Caijing were never punished.
In the world of Chinese journalists, or "news workers," as they are known in Party-speak, Hu, who is fifty-six years old, has a singular profile. She is an incurable muckraker, and in 1989 was suspended from a reporting job because of her sympathy for the Tiananmen Square demonstrations, yet she has gone on to cultivate first-name familiarity with some of China's most powerful Party leaders.
Five feet two and slim, with a pixie haircut and a wardrobe of color-coördinated outfits, she is usually heard before she is seen. In the newsroom of Caijing, a sleek and open gray brick space on the nineteenth floor of the Prime Tower, in downtown Beijing, her arrival is heralded by the urgent click-clack of heels down the hallway. She sweeps through the newsroom, spouting decrees and ideas, and then heads out the door again—"as sudden and rash as a gust of wind," said Qian, who is now a researcher at the University of Hong Kong.
More than one person I know likens the experience of chatting with Hu to being on the receiving end of machine-gun fire. Some have less appetite for her intensity. Wang Lang, an old friend of Hu's and an editor at Economic Daily, a state-run newspaper, has repeatedly declined her offers to work together, because, he said, "Keeping some distance is better for our friendship." Depending on the point of view, being with her is either thrilling or unnerving. Her boss, Wang Boming, the chairman of Caijing's parent company, the SEEC Media Group, told me, half jokingly, "I'm afraid of her!"
Since 1998, when Hu established Caijing, with two computers and a borrowed conference room, she has guided the magazine with near-perfect pitch for how much candor and provocation the regime will tolerate. That has meant deciding what to cover—rampant corporate fraud, the government cover-up of the SARS virus, case after case of political corruption—but also what not to cover (Falun Gong, the Tiananmen Square anniversary). At a time when the American print media is in decline, the Chinese press is growing, and Caijing is the first Chinese publication with the prospect of becoming a world-class news organization. "It's different from everything you see in China," Andy Xie, a former Morgan Stanley economist who writes a column for Caijing, said. "Its existence, in a way, is a miracle."
Caijing has the glossy feel and design of Fortune. It is heavy with advertising, for Cartier watches, Chinese credit cards, Mercedes S.U.V.s. The writing can be purposefully dense, and even élitist, but China's propaganda officials are more likely to clamp down on television and mass-market newspapers, which have audiences in the millions, than they are on a magazine that sells only two hundred thousand copies. But those copies go to many of China's most important offices in government, finance, and academia, giving the magazine extraordinary influence. In recent years, it has begun to expand that reach, through a pair of Web sites, in Chinese and English, that are loosely modelled on nytimes.com. Together, the sites attract some 3.2 million unique visitors every month. Hu writes a widely quoted column for the print edition and the Web. She also oversees a conference series that attracts the economic leadership of the Communist Party. Caijing's newest project, yet to be unveiled, will take direct aim at the likes of Bloomberg and Dow Jones: an English-language wire service, in partnership with the Hong Kong tycoon Richard Li Tzar-kai, that will distribute stories by Caijing reporters.
The first time that Sam Popkin, a political scientist at the University of California at San Diego, who, along with his wife, the China scholar Susan Shirk, has known Hu for many years, watched Hu report a story, it reminded him of the portrait of the Times reporter R. W. Apple in "The Boys on the Bus," when "Apple used to make something like a hundred calls a day," Popkin said. "She is always figuring out who in the system really has the power to know what's going on." Popkin added, "She is a human USB drive. You fill her drive, and she goes on to someone else." Inevitably, her competitors' memories are the clearest. Nearly two decades ago, Lin Libo, then a reporter for a leading business newspaper, struggled to match her coverage of a round of closed-door negotiations. He recalled, "She even had the menu!"
In 1992, as the international editor at China Business Times, one of the country's first national business papers, Hu began covering the work of a small number of Chinese who had trained in Western finance and, returning from overseas, were promoting the Chinese stock markets. Many of them were her age and were the children of powerful Chinese leaders. The group called itself the Stock Exchange Executive Council, and rented a cluster of rooms at Beijing's Chongwenmen Hotel. The members pulled out the beds and set up an office. At one desk was Gao Xiqing, who had earned a law degree at Duke and worked at Richard Nixon's law firm in New York before returning to China. At another was Wang Boming, the son of a former ambassador and vice-foreign minister; Wang had studied finance at Columbia and worked as an economist in the research department of the New York Stock Exchange. They enlisted the support of rising stars in the Party, such as Wang Qishan, who was the son-in-law of a vice-premier, and Zhou Xiaochuan, a reform-minded political scion.
"I decided to interview all the top financiers in China," Hu recalled. She called it her "homework," and James McGregor, then a Wall Street Journal reporter in Beijing, began noticing Hu "working all these people, pumping them for information like a graduate student talking to esteemed professors." Hu ended up with a string of scoops and, eventually, an incomparable Rolodex of names destined for China's highest offices: today, Gao Xiqing is the head of China's two-hundred-billion-dollar sovereign-wealth fund; Wang Qishan is a vice-premier and a top economic policymaker; Zhou Xiaochuan runs China's central bank.
Many people in Beijing wonder how much those early connections have protected Hu. But she insists that people overestimate her proximity to power. "I don't know their birthdays," she said, of high-ranking officials. "I'm a journalist, and they treat me as a journalist."
Hu's connections seem to serve a more subtle function. By positioning herself on the border between insider and outsider, between Communist history and the capitalist present, between protecting China's interests and embracing the world, she has become an invaluable interpreter. When, in the weeks before the 2008 Olympics, the Chinese government was wound so tightly that it had begun to look thuggish, she used an editorial to condemn clashes between the police and reporters. She preached "self-confidence, open-mindedness, friendliness." "To use an English expression," she added, referring to Chinese organizers, "they should take it easy." It is a delicate role. Once, Hu had to choose the cover photograph for a high-profile year-end edition. Editors had narrowed the choices: a staid collage of newsy images or an edgy shot of a woman shouldering into a sandstorm, her face shrouded in a scarf. Hu favored the provocative picture, but at the last moment she hesitated. "Could it get us into trouble?" she asked, according to someone who was present. "Is it too negative about China?" Others argued that it showed China's best side—its determination—and Hu smiled. "I can explain that," she said.
The Chinese press is no longer cowed into complete compliance, but it is also not yet as free as other parts of a raucous economy. Caijing and its news values are a minority. Last September, Xinhua published a story on its Web site detailing how China's Shenzhou VII rocket made its thirtieth orbit of the earth. The story had plenty of gripping detail—"The dispatcher's firm voice broke the silence on the ship." Unfortunately, the rocket had yet to be launched. (The news service later apologized for posting a "draft.") Of China's two thousand newspapers and eight thousand magazines, Caijing and several business newspapers are among the few publications with independent voices and private funding. (All Chinese media are required to have a government-affiliated sponsor, though the level of interference varies. The SEEC Media Group, which is traded on the Hong Kong stock exchange, is controlled by fifteen individual investors.)
The Chinese leadership has been especially wary of press reform ever since Tiananmen Square. "Never again would China's newspapers, radio, and television be permitted to become a battle front for bourgeois liberalism," President Jiang Zemin vowed, according to internal Party documents collected by Anne-Marie Brady, a specialist on Chinese media at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Chinese journalists do not face the kind of gangland killings that beset reporters in Russia, but Reporters Without Borders, in its most recent global index of press freedom, ranks China a hundred and sixty-seventh out of a hundred and seventy-three countries—just behind Iran and ahead of Vietnam. Article 35 of the Chinese constitution guarantees freedom of speech and the press, but it is no match in court against a web of laws on libel and on revealing state secrets. The Committee to Protect Journalists 2008 report counted twenty-eight reporters in Chinese jails, more than in any other country. (Earlier this month, Iran overtook China, for the first time in ten years.)
The Central Propaganda Department, as it's known in Chinese, operates in semi-secrecy, with no sign on its headquarters and no listed phone number. It issues directives to editors and publishers that outline the latest recommendations of dos and don'ts. Some boundaries are fixed; taboos include the military, religion, ethnic disputes, and the inner workings of government. But others are flexible. In the fall of 2005, editors enjoyed a free hand to report on a catastrophic chemical leak in the Songhua River. Weeks later, news sites were ordered to stop reporting the case of a surgeon who had spoken on the phone during surgery and paralyzed a patient's face. (Even revealing the contents of a directive can be dangerous for a Chinese reporter. Shi Tao, a contributor to the Contemporary Business News, is serving a ten-year sentence for describing a directive from his local propaganda authorities in an e-mail that he sent abroad.)
A publication's first offense usually draws a warning "yellow card," as in soccer. Three yellow cards in one year, journalists say, and a paper or magazine is shut down. (In 2004, three hundred and thirty-eight publications were suspended for printing "internal" information, according to a report in the state press.) But it's up to editors themselves to guess how far they can go and compute the risk of exceeding an undefined limit—an approach to censorship that the China scholar Perry Link, a Princeton emeritus professor, has likened to "a giant anaconda coiled in an overhead chandelier." "Normally, the great snake doesn't move," he wrote in the New York Review of Books in 2002. "It doesn't have to. It feels no need to be clear about its prohibitions. Its silent constant message is 'You yourself decide,' after which, more often than not, everyone in its shadows makes his or her large and small adjustments—all quite 'naturally.' "
The first time that I took a cab to visit Hu at home, I was sure that I was lost. Unlike many of the reporters and editors on her staff, she does not live in one of Beijing's new residential high-rises. She and her husband, Miao Di, a film professor at Beijing's Communication University of China, share a three-bedroom apartment in a concrete housing block with a view of an overgrown garden. In the nineteen-fifties, when the building was a privileged residence for Party cadres, the government assigned space in it to Hu's father. The neighborhood is China's old-media stronghold, home to the headquarters of the state radio and to China's film-and-television censors.
Hu's drive to work takes twenty minutes, and whisks her from one century to another; by the time she reaches the Caijing offices, she is next door to the Beijing bureau of the Wall Street Journal. Heading to work one recent afternoon, she was running late for an unusual appointment: Hu had decided that her top editors needed new clothes, and she had summoned a tailor. As Caijing grows in prominence, her staff is spending more time in front of crowds or overseas. "Foreigners always wear suits this way," she said, approvingly pulling her jacket tightly around her, as she hastened to her car. She had offered her editors a deal: Buy one new suit and the magazine would pay for another. The tailor carried an armful of suits into a conference room, and the staff filed in for a fitting.
"Doesn't it look baggy here?" Hu said, tugging at the underarm of an elegant gray pin-striped jacket being fitted to Wang Shuo, her thirty-seven-year-old managing editor. With his boss prodding at his midsection, he wore an expression of bemused tolerance that I had seen several times on a dog in a bathtub.
"It is rather tight already," Wang protested.
"He feels tight already," the tailor said.
"Hold on!" Hu said. "Think about the James Bond suit in the movies. Make it like that!"
The change implied by Hu's flamboyant internationalism runs deeper than aesthetics. A well-meaning American professor once advised her, "If you stay in China as a journalist, you will never really join the international mainstream." She seems determined to prove him wrong.
On her mother's side, Hu comes from a line of Communist Party journalists and intellectuals. Her grandfather Hu Zhongchi was a famous translator and editor at Shen Bao, a Shanghai paper. His elder brother Yuzhi founded a publishing house that produced collections of Lu Xun, one of modern China's leading writers and a family friend, as well as Chinese translations of Edgar Snow and John Steinbeck.
Hu's mother, Hu Lingsheng, was a senior editor at Workers' Daily in Beijing. Her father, Cao Qifeng, studied English at a missionary school before becoming an impassioned underground Communist and taking a mid-level post in a trade union. They named their younger daughter Shula, for a Soviet war martyr. In the nineteen-seventies, she changed her name to Shuli, a more popular name for women.
Hu has an acute understanding of China's fickle regard for intellectuals. Her great-uncle Yuzhi was a deputy minister of culture before the Cultural Revolution. "But we were told never to say that to others," Hu told me. Her forthrightness at times worried her parents. "I was not very disciplined. I always spoke about what I was thinking." She attended Beijing's élite 101 Middle School, which had once educated many offspring of Party cadres. Students had privileged access to a smattering of banned foreign literature, including translated volumes of Kerouac, Salinger, and Solzhenitsyn, printed in limited batches for Party élites. Hu would also take books from her family and hide them under her pillow until she could swap them with friends.
The Cultural Revolution engulfed China when Hu was thirteen, and her classes were suspended. As a prominent editor, Hu's mother was criticized at her newspaper and placed under house arrest. Her father was shunted into a backroom job. Like others her age, Hu became a Red Guard and travelled around the country. As the movement descended into violence, she sought refuge in books, trying to maintain a semblance of an education. "It was a very confusing time, because we lost all values," she said. A month before her sixteenth birthday, she was sent to the countryside to experience the rural revolution.
"It was ridiculous," she said of what she found. Farmers had lost any incentive to work. "They just wanted to stay lying in the field, sometimes for two hours. I said, 'Should we start work?' They said, 'How can you think that?' " She went on, "Ten years later, I realized everything was wrong." Hu's sister, Cao Zuyoa, who was in a nearby village, later wrote a book, "Out of the Crucible," about how the rustication campaign forever changed members of their generation. It "buried their Communist utopian dream," she wrote.
After two years, Hu joined the Army—which led, several years later, to membership in the Communist Party—and she was assigned to a remote hospital in a rural northern area of Jiangsu Province, where she spent the next eight years. She worked in the dining room, fed pigs, helped on the wards, and ran a tiny broadcast booth that played music and announcements. When colleges resumed classes, in 1978, Hu secured a coveted seat at People's University in Beijing. The journalism department was not her first choice, but it was the best that the school offered. She was a conspicuous figure on campus: the department's only freshman girl in a military uniform. "There was not a person in our class who didn't know who she was," Miao Di, a history major from a Beijing military family who met Hu in an English class, said. He, too, had been sent to the countryside, and they shared a sense of disaffection. They married in 1982.
After college, Hu joined Workers' Daily, and, in 1985, after some early investigative projects, she was assigned to a bureau in the southeastern coastal city of Xiamen. The area had been designated as a laboratory for the growth of a free market. There she developed her skill for networking, meeting everyone in city hall—including the mayor, with whom she played bridge. Among those she interviewed was a promising young cadre who was the city's vice-mayor: Xi Jinping, the son of a Politburo member. Xi was a Party loyalist with pro-market sensibilities, whose building of a successful theme park had earned him the nickname the God of Wealth. Today, Xi is China's Vice-President and is regarded as the heir apparent to the President.
In 1987, Hu won a fellowship from the Minnesota-based World Press Institute to spend five months in America. The experience was a revelation. "I spent the whole night reading the St. Paul Pioneer Press" and marvelling at the size of it, she said. (Workers' Daily, at the time, was four pages.) She met investigative reporters at the Philadelphia Inquirer and interned at USA Today. She returned to China, and in the spring of 1989 the Tiananmen Square movement energized the Beijing press. For weeks, papers revelled in a holiday from censorship. Many journalists, including Hu, joined the demonstrations. As soldiers cracked down on the night of June 3rd, Hu recalls, "I went to the street, then went back to the office and said, 'We should cover this.' " But the decision had already come down: "The newspaper decided we weren't going to publish a word about it." Her involvement was costly. Many reporters who had spoken out were fired or banished to the provinces. Miao Di thought that Hu might get arrested, but, in the end, she was suspended for eighteen months.
She used the time to write "Behind the Scenes at American Newspapers," the first Chinese book to examine the relationship between the American press and democracy, with descriptions of Watergate and the Pentagon Papers. It was a must-read among Chinese news workers, and in it she posed a challenge: Who among them "could take the initiative and do something akin to what American news organizations have done?"
In 1998, Hu received a phone call from Wang Boming, one of the hotel-room founders of the Stock Exchange Executive Council; he was starting a magazine and he wanted her to run it. She had two conditions: Wang would never interfere in her newsroom, and he would give her a budget of two million yuan—about a quarter of a million dollars—to pay for serious reporting trips and salaries that were high enough to prevent reporters from taking bribes. Wang agreed. It was no charity: he and his reform-minded allies in the government saw the magazine as an extension of their determination to modernize the economy.
"You need the media to play its function to disclose the facts to the public, and, in a sense, help the government detect evils," Wang told me recently, in his large, cluttered office downstairs from Caijing's headquarters. He is a classic type of the generation that received an American education and returned to China—a chain-smoker with a thick brush of gray-flecked black hair, Ferragamo eyeglasses, and a bilingual sense of humor. When he talks about Hu, a weary look crosses his face that suggests he has got more than he bargained for. "We didn't know that this level of risk would come along with it," he said. But Wang also betrays a keen sense of Hu's significance to China. "When I was studying in the States, I needed to make some money to pay my tuition, so I was working for a newspaper in Chinatown—the China Daily News," he said. As a cub reporter, he relished the chance to follow a trail wherever it led. He had felt like "a king without a crown."
Caijing established its tone right away. Its inaugural issue, in April, 1998, featured an explosive cover story detailing the case of Qiong Min Yuan, a real-estate company whose share price had quadrupled before it was charged with overstating profits. Caijing revealed that, while legions of small-time investors lost millions, insiders had been tipped off in advance and unloaded their shares. Regulators were incensed; they accused Caijing of flouting press restrictions, and Wang's executives had to troop to the regulators' office to make self-criticisms.
Each story refined Hu's calculation of how far she could push. In 2001, a twenty-five-year-old Caijing reporter, thumbing through customs records, discovered that Yinguangxia Holdings, one of China's largest listed companies, had posted online a falsified claim of eighty-seven million dollars in profits. The political stakes were high, because a parade of top leaders had already visited the company to praise it. Wang Boming was so worried that Caijing would be shut down if it went with the story that he did something he said he has never done again: he called a high-ranking Communist Party official for approval before publishing. "He said, 'Is that story really true or is there any doubt?' " Wang recalled. "I said, 'The story is definitely true, but there is political implication there.' He said, 'If it's true, then go ahead.' " Hours after the story appeared, the company's stock was suspended from trading; eventually, its executives went to jail.
The defining moment in Caijing's emergence, however, came two years later, when the reporter Cao Haili, arriving in Hong Kong, noticed that every person on the train platform seemed to be wearing a surgical mask. What the hell is that about? she thought, and alerted Hu. The Chinese press had been running reports of a mysterious new virus, but health officials had promised the public that it was contained. Newspaper editors in Guangdong Province had been privately instructed to publish reassuring stories about the virus, and some were even told what typeface to use, one editor at the time recalled. But these restrictions did not extend to editors outside Guangdong. "I bought a lot of books about breathing diseases, infections, and viruses," Hu said, and her staff began to find errors in the government's statements. Meanwhile, Caijing editors tracked the Web site of the World Health Organization, which tallied a steadily growing number of SARS cases in China, even as the government continued to deny it. The tone of the coverge was serious and questioning without actually accusing the government of lying.
Over the course of a month, Caijing produced a series of weekly supplements on SARS in addition to its regular issues. In the end, the magazine brushed up against the limit. "Caijing was planning another issue that was going to look back on the lessons of SARS," David Bandurski, a researcher at the University of Hong Kong's China Media Project, said. "And the government essentially sent the message 'No—this is not going to happen. This stops now.' "
Hu has cultivated her sense for the precise moment when a sensitive subject is safe to publicize. "You can feel her making adjustments," Wang Feng, a former Caijing editor, told me. "For example, at Monday's editorial conference she might aim at something, and the editors and reporters go ahead and do it. And by Wednesday's editorial conference she will say, 'You know what? I've got more information on this and we should not say that. Maybe we should aim lower.' " In political-corruption cases—which are acutely sensitive—Caijing's investigative reporters often collect information for weeks or months while they wait for an opening. In many cases, once Xinhua makes a brief announcement of an official being arrested, Caijing is ready to publish a full story. When, on June 8th, Xinhua issued a one-sentence report saying that the mayor of Shenzhen had been detained in a corruption probe, Caijing posted an in-depth piece twenty-nine minutes later.
After SARS, Caijing never entirely retreated to the confines of business journalism, though today it benefits from the perception that it is simply policing the economy. As Caijing's scoops mounted, banking regulators began calling reporters, looking for tips, instead of the other way around. Even more satisfying, Western media had no choice but to follow and credit Caijing's leads. At a certain point, the magazine's success and bravado had become self-reinforcing: it had gone so far already that conservative branches of the government could no longer be sure which other officials supported it.
And then Caijing had its first lesson in what happens when it goes too far. In January, 2007, its cover story "Whose Luneng?" described how a group of investors had paid a pittance for control of a giant conglomerate, with assets ranging from power plants to a sports club. The conglomerate, Luneng, was valued at more than ten billion dollars, but a pair of little-known private companies had paid just under five hundred and fifty million dollars for ninety-two per cent of the company, Caijing reported. State regulators had received no notification of the sale—which was ordinarily a legal requirement—and a tangle of overlapping boards and shareholders seemed designed to obscure the identity of the new owners and where their money originated. Nearly half of the purchasing capital came from an untraceable source, Caijing discovered.
After Caijing attempted to publish a brief follow-up, authorities ordered the story removed from the Web site and the newsstands. The staff in Caijing's Shanghai office are said to have torn up issues by hand. "Everybody felt humiliated," a former editor said.
Since then, Caijing has referred occasionally to its Luneng investigation, but Hu is not eager to discuss the case; she considers that run-in with the government the magazine's "largest disaster." A person who is involved with Caijing and is familiar with the story said that revealing the attempt to profit wildly from the privatization deal had come too close to implicating the children of senior Party leaders—a taboo that trumps even reformists' desire for a more open press.
In 2007, the Nieman Foundation, at Harvard, gave Hu an award for "conscience and integrity." The award was well deserved, but it placed her in slightly awkward company: previous winners included a publisher in Iran who was repeatedly summoned to court for her magazine's reporting and an editor in Zimbabwe who had been arrested and tortured by the military.
Hu does not live the marginalized life of a samizdat editor or sign dissidents' communiqués. For all her skepticism and intensity, her writing is notably short on outrage. When she criticizes, either in her column or in her editing choices, she uses the language of loyal opposition. Following the conviction of a high-level official in a pension-fund scandal that erupted in 2006, she didn't challenge the moral peril of one-party government but argued that China's weak asset-disclosure laws let officials' relatives and colleagues profit. In a column from 2007 entitled "Yearning for Reform," she declared that "the public's top concern is the rampant corruption and an imbalanced power system." She went on, "Some argue that pushing forward with political reform will be destabilizing. Yet, in fact, maintaining the status quo without any reform creates a hotbed for social turbulence." In other words, political reform is the way to consolidate power, not lose it.
In her office one afternoon in June, shortly after the anniversary of the Sichuan earthquake, I asked Hu why she thought that other publications had been punished for covering the collapsed schools, while Caijing had not. "We never say a word in a very emotional or casual way, like 'You lied,' " she said. "We try to analyze the system and say why a good idea or a good wish cannot become reality."
If a Chinese paper dwells on the names of specific officials who allowed the construction of unsafe schools, it might be scoring a point for accountability, but the investigative coup also leaves the paper vulnerable to petty political retribution. Hu said, "We try not to give any excuses to the cadres who don't want to get criticized." Ultimately, she said, the important question is not "which person didn't use good-quality bricks fifteen years ago" but something deeper. "We need further reform," she said. "We need checks and balances. We need transparency. We say it this way. No simple words. No slogans."
That approach appeals to reformers in the government who might genuinely want to solve problems but don't want to give up power to do so. Some Chinese journalists say that Hu's greatest skill is playing interest groups against one another, whether by amplifying the central government's effort to round up corrupt mayors or by letting one wing of the government thwart a rival wing's agenda. Allow the most powerful group to endure, the theory goes, and you can do real—even profitable—journalism. The danger, however, is that, as Caijing's profile and financial stakes grow, the magazine can afford to take fewer risks. A reader recently posted a comment on the Web site saying, "Caijing has become increasingly mainstream. . . . The flavor of critical thinking is gone, replaced by things designed to appeal to the interests of readers and subscribers, but lacking soul."
Caijing has proved to be attentive to the Chinese government's views on what is unmistakably off-limits. As ethnic violence erupted in the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi last week, the magazine sent two reporters, whose spot-news coverage described the violence and damage but, in their early reporting, did not venture into examining underlying causes of the unrest. Likewise, in the fifteen months since an uprising in Tibet had exposed a well of explosive discontent facing Chinese authorities in some of the nation's ethnic regions, Caijing had largely steered clear of the story.
I had lunch not long ago with Cheng Yizhong, a former editor-in-chief of the Southern Metropolis Daily, one of China's liveliest papers. He became famous in China for publishing an investigation into the death, in 2003, of Sun Zhigang, a young graphic designer who died in police custody after a beating. Sun, reporters discovered, had been transferred to a shourong, or "custody and repatriation" station. Ostensibly designed to process vagrants and runaways, the shourong system was widely resented; it gave police the right to ask people on the street for identification and residency papers and to detain them, with little cause. Those who were unable to pay fees could earn their release by working at prison-run farms and factories. Sun, it was later discovered, had been stopped on the street by police who detained him even though he insisted that his papers were in order. The newspaper's report had triggered a wave of public outrage over the shourong system. Followup articles that ran in the Southern Metropolis Daily and other newspapers revealed that the system was profitable for local police and had spawned a nationwide network of seven hundred detention camps; in at least one area, it was reported, stations bought inmates in order to maximize revenues. In August, 2003, the scandal prompted the central government to abolish the system, an astonishing case of the Chinese press influencing national policy. But within a year Cheng had been detained, and two of his colleagues arrested on charges of illegally distributing bonuses awarded by the editorial board. The charges were widely considered as retribution for the newspaper's reporting on the Sun case and also for its previous coverage of the SARS virus. Cheng spent five months in a detention center and now works in a low-profile media job. His two colleagues were sentenced to long jail terms.
I asked Cheng why he and Hu had fared so differently. Caijing, he said, had achieved a stature that put it out of reach of lower-ranking bureaucrats. But he also drew a distinction between his campaign for radically curtailing police powers and Caijing's focus on raising government performance. "Caijing's topics haven't affected the fundamental ruling system, so it is relatively safe," he said, adding, "I am not criticizing Hu Shuli, but in some ways Caijing is just serving a more powerful or relatively better interest group."
Unsurprisingly, Hu sees it slightly differently: "We don't think about one group or another—we think about the whole system and whatever can achieve reform."
The strategy of acknowledging the authority of the system and then fighting prudently to improve it defines Caijing's brilliance and its limitations. Qian Gang, the former editor, told me, "A flood is ferocious, but it solves no problems. In Chinese, we say that you can bore a hole in a stone by the steady dripping of water."
Hu prefers a noisier metaphor. Caijing is a woodpecker, she says, forever hammering at a tree, trying not to knock it down but to make it grow straighter. ♦


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KDHE samples recreational bodies of water for blue-green algae when the agency is alerted to a potential algae bloom. When harmful algal blooms are present, KDHE, in cooperation with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) and other lake managers where appropriate, responds by informing the public of these conditions.
KDWPT reminds visitors that when a lake is under an Advisory or Warning, marinas, lakeside businesses, and park camping facilities remain open for business, although swim beaches will be closed. Park drinking water and showers are safe and not affected by the algae bloom. Also, it is safe to eat fish caught during a harmful blue-green algae outbreak, as long as consumers clean and rinse the fish with clean, potable water; consume only the fillet portion; and discard all other parts. People should also wash their hands with clean, potable water after handling fish taken from an affected lake.
A Public Health Warning means high levels of toxic blue-green algae have been detected, indicating that water conditions are unsafe and direct water contact (i.e., wading, skiing and swimming) is prohibited.
public waters currently under "Warning" status:
When a Warning is issued, KDHE recommends the following precautions be taken:
● Don't let people, pets and livestock drink untreated lake water
● Water contact is prohibited. Avoid swimming, wading or other activities with full body contact of lake water, including skiing or using jet-skis
● Clean fish and rinse with clean water, consume only the fillet portion, and discard all other parts
● Do not allow pets or livestock to eat dried algae
● If lake water contacts skin or pet fur, wash with clean potable water as soon as possible
● Avoid areas of visible algae accumulation
A Public Health Advisory means harmful levels of blue-green algae have been detected, indicating that a hazardous condition exists. Water activities like boating and fishing may be safe; however, direct contact with water (i.e., wading, swimming) is strongly discouraged for people, pets and livestock.
public waters currently under "Advisory" status:
Health effects from exposure to blue-green algae can vary. The most common complaints after recreational exposure include vomiting, diarrhea, skin rashes, eye irritation and respiratory symptoms. Blue-green algae toxins can also cause deaths in pets.
KDHE will continue to monitor these public waters and will update statements as conditions warrant. More information on algae and algae blooms, including up-to-date Advisories and Warnings, can be found at online at kdheks.gov/algae-illness.

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Lurita Doan Assumes Role as GSA Administrator
May 31, 2006
May 31, 2006
Contact: Katherine Uhre
Washington, D.C. – Today, Lurita Doan took the oath of office, becoming the 18th Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). Mrs. Doan is the first woman to hold this position.
President George W. Bush nominated Mrs. Doan on April 6, and the Senate confirmed her nomination on May 26. U.S District Court, Federal Judge, the Honorable Richard W. Roberts administered the oath of office at GSA headquarters with Mrs. Doan's husband, Doug, daughters and other family members, friends and GSA employees in attendance.
"I am honored that President Bush asked me to take on such a critical role in his Administration," said Mrs. Doan. "I share his vision to make GSA now and for the future, the premier source for cost-effective, timely and compliant property management and government procurement. "
Following the official swearing-in, Mrs. Doan addressed the GSA audience and discussed her plans for the agency.
"Together we will restore GSA's leadership as the premier contracting and service provider. To be the best, we are going to need to improve all of our services and better understand and anticipate the requirements of our customers. But we can do it," said Doan. "GSA can provide purchasing services quantifiably better, faster, and save taxpayer's dollars. GSA must do a better job of proving this and enable government agencies to refocus scarce management and contracting resources on their core issues."
Mrs. Doan, a native of New Orleans, La., was, until July 2005, the President, CEO and founder of New Technology Management, Inc. (NTMI). NTMI provides installation and integration of border surveillance technology to the Federal government. Before entering the field of computer technology, Mrs. Doan taught at several colleges in the Washington, D.C. area and in Louisiana.
Most recently, Mrs. Doan has been serving on the search committee to select Vassar College's 10th President, the Steering Committee for the Women's Majority Network founded by Senator Elizabeth Dole, and the Steering Committee for the soon-to-be-built Shakespeare Theatre Company's Harman Center for the Arts.
In addition, Mrs. Doan provides support to the American Red Cross, the National Women's Business Center, the D.C. Rape Crisis Center, the United Negro College Fund, the American Women's Business Centers, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and the Whitman Walker Clinic among other groups.
Boards she serves on include: Board of Trustees, Vassar College and the Shakespeare Theatre of Washington, D.C. She has also been actively involved with the Committee of 200, Council on Competitiveness, National Association of Women Business Owners, National Association of Female Executives, Women in Technology International, Minority Business Network, and the Northern Virginia Technology Council.
Mrs. Doan holds a bachelor's degree from Vassar College and a master's degree in renaissance literature from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.


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Keith Wright became Harvard's all-time block leader Saturday night, but the Crimson fell, 55-54, to Penn (photo courtesy Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard men's basketball team controlled much of the second half, but Ivy League rival Penn scored 15 of the last 20 points to stun the Crimson, 55-54, in front of a sold out crowd at Lavietes Pavilion on Senior Night Saturday. The Quakers' Zack Rosen hit two free throws with 23.2 seconds left to give Penn a one-point advantage, which Penn held in the final moments
Kyle Casey scored 12 points for Harvard and Wesley Saunders added 10. Penn (17-11, 9-2 Ivy) was led offensively by Rosen, who had 20 points on 6-of-14 shooting. Harvard shot 16-of-36 (.444) for the game and concludes the regular season 11-1 at home, as the Crimson's 28-game home win streak was snapped.
The Crimson remain in first place of the Ivy League, a half game ahead of Penn. The Quakers have three games remaining on its schedule, while Harvard has two. The Crimson will visit Columbia Friday, March 2 at 7 p.m., before facing Cornell Saturday, March 3 in Ithaca, N.Y. Penn hosts Brown and Yale next weekend and finishes its Ivy slate March 6 at Princeton.
Keith Wright became Harvard's all-time leader in rejections, as he blocked the 148th shot of his career, surpassing Brian Cusworth '07.
McNally gave Harvard a 3-0 lead with a triple early and added a free throw with 16:57 left to make it 5-2. After Penn tied it, 7-7, Kyle Casey went to the line and sank both, giving the Crimson a 9-7 advantage. Penn scored the next four points to grab an 11-9 lead and then extended its advantage to four points, 13-9, with 11 minutes remaining. Casey connected on a jumper to end the 6-0 run for the Quakers, getting Harvard back within two, 13-11.
Moments later, Casey sent a pass to Laurent Rivard, who buried a triple to put Harvard in front, 14-13. With just under nine minutes left, Brandyn Curry sent an alley-oop pass to Steve Moundou-Missi, who finished with a layup under the hoop, as Harvard led, 16-15. With 4:51 to go, Wesley Saunders hit a tough shot in the paint to give the Crimson a three-point edge, 20-17.
Saunders added a tip-in off his own miss, keeping Harvard in front, 24-20, with just over three minutes to play in the first. With 1:27 left, McNally buried a jump shot before the shot clock expired, 26-22. Saunders connected on a bucket after driving the paint, as Harvard extended its lead to 30-22, in the final seconds of the first half. Harvard carried a 30-24 lead into the break and was led offensively by Laurent Rivard , who had eight points at the break. The Crimson shot 58.8 percent (10-of-17), but the team turned the ball over 11 times in the first 20 minutes.
Keith Wright made to foul shots to open the second half, stretching the lead to eight, 32-24. Wright added two more free throws, giving the Crimson a 10-point cushion, 34-24. After the Quakers got back within four, 37-33, Penn drained a triple to get even closer, 37-36.
Casey ended the run for Penn, as he connected on a basket in the paint, as Harvard led, 39-36, with 12 minutes to play. With 11:04 left, Wright hit a layup after being fouled and made the free throw, putting the Crimson up eight, 44-36. Curry dribbled through the lane and finished with two points with just over nine minutes left, as Harvard maintained a lead, 46-40.
With 5:17 left, Curry set up Saunders for a two-handed jam, as Harvard continued to hold an advantage on the scoreboard, 51-44. The Quakers cut the deficit to two, 51-49, and then got within a single point, 52-51, with 2:23 to go. With Harvard leading, 54-53, with 35.7 seconds left, Penn inbounded the ball in the Crimson's zone. Penn's Zack Rosen was fouled with 23.2 seconds left and hit both as the Quakers went ahead, 55-54.
With 5.7 seconds on the clock, Harvard inbounded under its own basket to Casey, who drove baseline and banked in a shot, but it was waved off as the junior was called for an offensive foul. Penn ran out the remaining seconds with two passes before Harvard could foul.
Prior to Saturday's game against Penn, McNally, Wright and Andrew Van Nest were honored in a pre-game ceremony on Senior Night.


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A survey of financial investors showed that Wall Street believes at least 4 million Americans will sign up for health insurance through the newly created online exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act. That estimate, however, is less than the 7 million Americans the Obama administration expects to sign up once the exchanges open on Oct. 1.
Investors see 4 million signing up for Obamacare in 2014: survey (Reuters)
- Investors expect 4 million Americans to sign up for health insurance under the new online state marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act, according to a survey released Monday.
- The expectations of the 56 investors surveyed by Citigroup fall short of the Congressional Budget Office's forecast that 7 million Americans will sign up for subsidized health insurance when open enrollment begins on Oct. 1. Americans have six months to sign up for coverage in 2014.
- Wall Street is closely monitoring the progress of enrollment as health coverage means more new paying customers for insurers and hospitals.
Obamacare customers may show up in fits and starts (Reuters)
- Officials involved in implementing the Affordable Care Act anticipate a fairly busy start of the healthcare open enrollment on Oct. 1, followed by a drop-off for several weeks.
- A small uptick could occur just before Dec. 15 – the deadline for buying a policy before coverage begins on Jan. 1, 2014. A final rush is expected ahead of March 31, the last day to buy coverage and avoid a penalty.
- The Obama administration expects at least 7 million people to sign up via the exchanges, but needs that number to include about 2.7 million young, healthy participants for the program to work financially.


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It's been two years since Mick Harvey's complexly catalysed 2009 split from the Bad Seeds, and aside from contributing to PJ Harvey's Let England Shake, it's been largely quiet from the 52-year-old Australian. But Sketches from the Book of the Dead is a project that's been slowly maturing since long before Harvey quit his day job - not that I'm about to knock him for the delay when Harvey is, by his own admission, 'not a songwriter by vocation', and this is his first fully self-penned record. It was interesting, whilst wading through the relatively humble amount of web-space dedicated to Harvey's lengthy career, to find him drawing parallels between Sketches from the Book of the Dead and Let England Shake. The two are, after all, both 'concept albums' – Let England Shake a record on the subject of the First World War, while Sketches... is an 11 song requiem for friends, family and colleagues.
Clearly then, the album deals with a portion of Harvey's life that's predominantly characterized by death, and is conceptually unified by its dealing with mortality, inspired by the recently departed characters from Harvey's life (including Rowland S. Howard of Harvey's former post-punk troupe The Birthday Party). I say 'characters' not particularly because of Harvey's portrayal of different personalities, but because of his taste for melodrama. The album develops like a piece of dimly-lit theatre, each signaling a new scene, a new character, and a new story.
Opening pair 'October Boy' and 'The Ballad of Jay Givens' sit heavy with a sort of mistreated snarl, but they're soon replaced by the atmospheric bleeding of 'Two Paintings', a transition that seems to repeat itself between the couplet of 'The Bells Never Rang' and 'That's All, Paul', and the pastoral reflection of 'How Should I Leave You?'. But while musically, the moodily evocative guitar, piano and double bass led songs seem to split into the two categories of gnarling minor-key tension and a floating contemplation, they're definitely distinct in both lyric and narrative, each a separate character study in its own right.
The melodramatic overtones are further propelled by Harvey's voice – his bottomless baritone often balancing on the boundary between sung and spoken, even overdubbed with a graveled whisper on the brief 'To Each His Own'. At times, this theatre makes me want to believe that Harvey's retelling an old myth, rather than recounting more recent experiences. Distorted fairytale gestures such as "every door is barred with gold/and opens but to a golden key" on 'A Place Called Passion' and "wish I may, wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight/which little finger did it bite, this little finger on the right" on 'Rhymeless' hardly help to diminish the mystique of his dark storytelling.
If you can get on board with Harvey's uniquely theatrical songwriting style, then there's a prismatic world of life, love, indulgence, abandonment, betrayal, and ultimately, death in this record. Sadly, for those of you happier to be six months clear of pantomime season, it's maybe a struggle to appreciate these songs as much more than histrionic fiction.
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Boomer! Sooner! The athletic tradition of the University of Oklahoma is one of the most phenomenal in the nation. OU participates in the Big 12 Conference and has won 18 NCAA championships, including 7 football national titles. However, despite this gung-ho athleticism and fandom, the students of OU have no idea really what a Sooner really is. The mascot comes in the shape of a horse, but it's really a nickname that was given to an early settler back in the day. Anyway, beyond athletics, Oklahoma offers hundreds of bachelors, graduate, and post-grad programs, including 152 majors. The OU campus also houses two museums with Impressionist art, has 350 student organizations on campus, and hosts a variety of intramural sports that are just as fun as NCAA leagues to play in and watch.
All freshman students of OU are required to live on campus, but after the first year, many opt to find their own apartments. Since Oklahoma has a relatively low cost of living, students would be saving a lot of money if they choose to live off-campus. Another great thing is that Norman, Oklahoma has recently seen an increase in apartment development. Only 33% of the school lives on campus, and the rest, you'll find scattered in Norman, as well as in the nearby cities of Moore and Oklahoma City. There's a variety of apartment units and condos available in our listings as well as single-family homes if you are willing to pay more or live with a large group. Read our apartment hunting tips to aid you in your hunt for the perfect place!
Oklahoma students comment on the warmth of Norman's small-town feel. It's a college town, that's for sure, and there are plenty of activities for students to participate in outside of the classroom. The Campus Corner is a popular spot in the city where many of favorite shops and restaurants are located, and the ideal place to bar-hop with friends. But if Norman just doesn't cut it for you anymore (especially when you've been out and about in the same places for four years), Oklahoma City is just a half hour away. Notable Alumni: Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise and Apollo 13 actor Ed Harris


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To my friend Jessica, who was killed in the Aurora theater shooting:
This is going to have to be quick. I literally am sick to my stomach as I write this, trembling a little at the keyboard and in total shock.
Among the victims of the tragic shooting early this morning at an Aurora theater was a friend of mine — Jessica (Redfield) Ghawi. Just yesterday, just freakin' yesterday, I was swapping Twitter direct messages with her about possible internships she was looking at, asking my advice about them, asking if the Denver Post had one I could maybe help her out with.
Jessica was a blogger and worked as an intern for a local radio station. She came to a lot of Avalanche games, gathering sound from players after games and things like that. She was a regular part of the media crew that were at a lot of games.
I got to know her and gave her advice about the business. I guess I kind of took her under my wing a little. For one thing, us gingers stick together, and she looked a lot like my kid sister. I knew that she was very ambitious and wanted to advance along into the world of sports journalism, and I always like seeing young people like that. It's a great way to relieve one's own youth, remembering how I was the same way once.
A couple months ago or so, Jessica was in Toronto, where her boyfriend lived. They had a long-distance relationship, so she went out there. She was in the food court of a Toronto mall when a gunman opened fire, and a few people were killed and injured. When she came back to Denver, we DMed back and forth a little bit about what it was like there. She was in shock still, but still wanting to push on with her journalism career, or maybe working for a sports team.
I suggested we meet at one of my favorite hangouts— the 1Up arcade right down by Coors Field. There, we talked for probably a couple of hours, mostly me either talking about the business and giving advice, telling stories of my getting into it, things like that.
We also talked about the shootings in Toronto. She said what she saw would never leave her. She said something to the effect that if she'd been in a certain spot just a minute before, she likely would have been one of the victims. She talked about how lucky she was. She wrote a moving blog post about it.
She talked about moving into a new apartment soon from the Capital Hill area to a more affordable place in Aurora, and how excited she was for that – because she would be living in her very own place with no roommates. She talked about how well things were going with her boyfriend. I felt like a big brother to her. She was very smart and very funny. Just a nice person. She definitely would have made it in the sports media business.
That's the way I will always know her and remember her. I hope you're somehow in a better place Jessica. Your time here was far too short. My deepest sympathies to her family.


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In July, 2014 Pamela (Pam) established Powers CPA, LLC and currently serves as owner and managing member. Powers CPA, LLC provides internal audit, consulting and assurance services to state and local government and non-profit entities. Since leaving the Oregon State Lottery in February, 2014 Pam has performed audit work at Oregon Department of Revenue, the Oregon State Fair, Oregon Military Department, and Keizer Community Library. She has 18 years cumulative experience in external and internal auditing at state agencies. Pam currently serves as a member of the State Board of Education's Audit Committee.
Pam also is an Instructor for the Institute of Internal Auditors. During her career with the state she provided training on various topics including ethics, risk management, and auditing. She currently serves as a voluntary instructor for the Institute of Internal Auditors, providing training for audit professionals globally.
Prior to starting her own firm, Pam served as the Chief Audit Executive (CAE) for both the Oregon Lottery and the Department of Administrative Services (DAS). Her role as CAE at DAS included both managing the internal audit function as well as providing support and leadership to the internal audit community across the State of Oregon; in part by coordinating the Statewide Audit Advisory Committee and co-facilitating the State's Chief Audit Executive Council.
Prior to her position at DAS, Pam began a single-person internal audit function for the Oregon Department of Forestry where she managed the program for three years. Before that, she spent four years as a Senior Internal Auditor with the Oregon Department of Transportation. She began her career auditing for the State of Oregon with four years at the Secretary of State's Audits Division where she performed external audits of several State agencies including the Department's of Human Services, Transportation, Revenue, and the Oregon State Fair. While in college, Pam worked in several accounting and administrative functions for Garten Services, a rehabilitation center for mentally handicapped adults.
Pam earned her Bachelors degree in Accounting from Western Baptist College in 1995. She also holds Certifications in Public Accounting, Internal Auditing, and Risk Management Assurance. She is a graduate of Leadership Oregon, has earned the designation of Competent Toastmaster, and most recently graduated from Willamette University's Certificate of Public Management program in June 2011. She is currently enrolled as a student in Atkinson Graduate School of Management's MBA for Professionals program, with an anticipated graduation date of December 2015.
Pam is an active member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and currently serves as a subject matter expert for the IIA' s Global Academic Relations Committee (ARC). She previously served as a member of the Global ARC and in several leadership positions on the Salem Chapter IIA board for five years. Her positions with the Chapter included President for the 2004-05 chapter year and three years on the planning committee for the Western Regional Conference held in Portland in 2007. She is also a member of the Oregon Society of Certified Public Accountants and has participated in the Society's mentorship program.
In her off-hours Pam enjoys spending time with her family. When time allows she enjoys scrapbooking, reading or running with her black lab. Pam is an active volunteer in organizations her children are involved with such as Sprague Band and Colorguard, Sprague Choir, Panthers Softball and Willamette Girlchoir.
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In film and in literature, medieval life seems
heroic, entertaining, and romantic. In reality, life in the
Middle Ages, a period that extended from approximately the
fifth century to the fifteenth century in Western Europe,
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But first, some latest empiricism from the BBC: Nato contractors 'attacking own vehicles' in Pakistan
First Watch Operation Gladio
Top Secret: There may be times when host country governments show passivity or indecision in the face of Communist subversion ... US Army Intelligence must have the means of launching special operations which will convince host country governments and public opinion of the reality of the insurgent danger ... US Army Intelligence should seek to penetrate the insurgency by means of agents of special assignments, with the task of forming special action groups among the most radical elements of the insurgency. --- "I never heard such a thing" William Colby, Director of CIA 1973-1976
Here are some straightforward definitions
War on Terror: 'Might defines right' leads to "Hegemony is as old as mankind", which in turn leads to If we don't have real enemies then we have to create or imagine some, and in either case yell 'we are being attacked' in order to a) justify "imperial mobilization" and all its barbarianism upon the "terrorists"; and b) motivate an unwilling peoples into sacrificing for the agendas of achieving world government in the pretext of fighting terrorists in a perpetual Global War on Terror. To understand this visually, watch how Oceania is in perpetual war with the murdering barbarian armies of Eurasia, and compare with George W. Bush ushering in the perpetual war with "either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists".
So, how to do this in perpetuity in order to maintain police-state in perpetuity? Because, "World government could only be kept in being by force."!
Insurgency and counter Insurgency: The American agenda for Pakistan is not a state-secret. Rather, it is only thinly disguised as perpetually fighting the "insurgents" in a lifetime of war, the World War IV. [4] Whereas, in reality, both the "insurgency", and the "counter-insurgency", are entirely designed and fabricated in the USA as part of the evolving tactics of Hegelian Dialectics. They are enacted on the ground by various two-bit errand boys and expert trigger pullers. The already well-known existence of black-ops assassination squads in Pakistan/Afghanistan, known to the local peoples for years as the real prime-movers behind the heinous local terrorist acts, belatedly confirmed by NYT, WP, and NYT, in August 2009. [5] See these two December 2008 reports on the Mumbai terrorist Act as reportedly orchestrated by ALI BABA from his perch in the Hindu Kush. [6] The arrival of the black-ops in the region is not recent, albeit the public disclosures might be.
Out of uniform and In-uniform forces: To put this ominous presence of soldiers of freedom and fortune on Pakistani soil in full black-ops context of NATO and the Western Alliance, of diabolically manufacturing and sustaining the very pretexts out of uniform tickling insurgency to enable the in-uniform forces to pursue counter-insurgency in the perpetual mission of fighting World War IV, it is sufficient to look at what is transpiring in IRAQ for lessons to wisely apply to one's own predicament in order to avoid a far worse one. Excerpted from The Decapitation of Pakistan by its own Military.
But when you ask about this today of any among the "Massa" and their plentiful "House Negroes" around the world, like William Colby quoted above in the context of Operation Gladio of yesteryear, all only incestuously reinforce the white man's theme song of 9/11, that "Islamofascism" of Osama Bin Laden and the Talibans/Al-Qaeeda is the enemy.
The House Negroes further rush to clarify the distinction between "good Muslim" and "bad Muslim" ostensibly to distance themselves from the "enemy', but in actuality only lending further credence to the existence of the enemy and its threat in full service to the "Massa". The Hegelian Dialectic Militant Islam vs. Moderate Islam will surely go down in history as among the greatest enablers of war and manufactured consent, rivaling and perhaps surpassing both Communism vs. Fascism and Communism vs. Capitalism of the twentieth century. It is their legatee for the twenty-first century. It is already called "World War IV" (see Ex-CIA director: U.S. faces 'World War IV').
This is all what you hear on all media sources as consent is continually engineered for sustaining "imperial mobilization". That's principally all there is to it.
The rest is merely the narrations of the 1001 puppet-shows built on this core-lie. Its narrators are all murderers – their hands are as soaked in blood as those who press the triggers – but only the victor's justice can ever prove that in court.
As Hitler had observed at the peak of his own hubris: "The victor will not be asked afterward whether he told the truth or not. In starting and waging a war it is not the right that matters, but victory."
For ordinary people to see all this truism only requires that they overthrow their own self-interests as the House Negroes of Empire. The ubiquitous indoctrinating mantras are only as potent as people's own self-interests in believing what they are told. If not for self-interest, Realityspeak trivially nullifies Newspeak. All human beings are capable of thought. Try it.
But not all are capable of giving up their self-interests.
When self-interest trumps morality, in Dante's colorful rendition: "the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
All you pious peoples better believe it!
Zahir Ebrahim
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thanks, but I am no flame ...I have actually found the whole hiring thing very arbitrary.I got another judicial internship today without any interview. The acceptance letter just arrived via email. And it's from a fed. judge of NY.
I just did an interview today,and got a call 3 hours later. But I did not carry my cell phone with me and the person left no voice message. It was past 5pm. I checked my email and found the secretary asking me if I got a phone no by which they could reach me.Could it be a rejection phone call? have you got any rejection calls before? damn, it must be embarrassing. If it was an acceptance I wonder why they did not just send me an email.


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UPDATE: Natural gas leak in Orange County
Orange County residents displaced due to a natural gas leak at a well site at the end of Gulf Road off FM 408 in the Orangefield area are still waiting to get back into their homes while crews work to make the area safe for their return.
Throughout the night and morning, workers and equipment arrived to the scene of the gas leak, Orange County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Clint Hodgkinson reports. Equipment is being placed and work has begun in an effort to cap off the leak. Officials are unsure of an exact time frame of when to expect the leak to be repaired, but say it could take several more days.
Entergy was asked to shut off electricity in the area of Gulf Road. All precautions are being taken to protect the personnel working on the leak and those living around the area. The only areas evacuated at this time are Gulf Road and Scales Lane. Residents who were evacuated from that area will continue to be displaced until an all clear is given, and it is safe to return home. Plans are in place to make notifications to surrounding residents should a larger area need to be evacuated in an emergency.
The Orange County Emergency Management has set up an incident command post on site. Local officials with the Orange County Sheriff's Office and Bridge City Fire Department, along with state officials from the Texas Railroad Commission and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality are also on site overseeing the operation.
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William Walker (guest star Tom Skerritt) dies unexpectedly at a family birthday celebration. Now his family will be forced to face some new life realities. Kitty's (Calista Flockhart) radio success has led to a TV job offer in Los Angeles, but her New York boyfriend has just proposed. Down to earth Thomas (aka Tommy) (Balthazar Getty) has joined forces with his sister, Sarah (Rachel Griffiths), in an effort to fix the family business, which is in deep financial trouble. Sarah also struggles to balance her business responsibilities with meeting the needs of her husband and children. Attorney Kevin (Matthew Rhys) is gay and would like to find a romantic partner. Justin (Dave Annable), an Afghanistan War veteran, suffers from addictions which keep him from moving forward in his career and love life. These siblings are about to find out that, underneath the idyllic family facade, lie many secrets that threaten to either tear the family apart or bring them closer together.
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Fortune Valley Hotel & Casino in Central City is on the block.
Indianapolis-based Centaur, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Saturday, hired The Innovation Group in August explore a possible sale, said Centaur chief financial officer Kurt Wilson.
Wilson said Centaur wants to focus on its core business, which is operating racinos – race tracks that feature casino-style gambling. Fortune Valley is a pure casino and is the largest in Central City.
A sale is not imminent as regulatory approvals could take six to 18 months, Wilson said. He wouldn't disclose how much Centaur is seeking for Fortune Valley.
The company would use proceeds from a sale to pay down debt. Centaur has $584 million in assets and $680 million in debt, Wilson said.
He said Fortune Valley would operate as usual as Centaur navigates its way through bankruptcy.


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In today's fast-changing and dynamic healthcare environment, successful healthcare systems like ours must focus on providing the right care at the right time in the right place and in the right way. One way we achieve this is by partnering with other businesses that bring unique expertise to caring for patients.
In non-legal terms, a partnership is a business agreement in which SCL Health and another organization come together to serve our patients in some way. Such agreements can come in many forms, depending on the details. Common examples include joint ventures, joint operating agreements, affiliations and definitive agreements. These agreements govern important decisions about which name or brand to use, how costs and earnings are shared, and which entity employees work for, among many other items.
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In 2014, SCL Health partnered with National Jewish Health to collaborate on clinical operations at our Denver-based hospital, Saint Joseph Hospital. National Jewish Health is renowned for its work in treating lung disease and other complex issues. Together, we've created one of the most advanced adult cystic fibrosis programs in the country and elevate care in a number of ways.
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SCL Health has come together with Doctor On Demand, a company that provides video visits with doctors from the convenience of your mobile device or PC, any time of day. We have partnered with Doctor On Demand to offer this valuable service to patients and employees in the communities we serve because we recognize the growing importance of providing innovative, inexpensive ways for consumers to get the care they need.
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Fiano Vineyard at Montefalcione (Photo ©Tom Hyland)
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I recently returned from a two-week trip to Italy that included three days in Campania. As the majority of my trip was in red wines zones of Tuscany (Montalcino and Scansano), I needed to head to a region that produces great whites, so I squeezed in some time in one of my favorite wine territories, the province of Avellino, also known as Irpinia.
Avellino is most famous for two white wines: Greco di Tufo and Fiano di Avellino. The wines are quite different with Greco tending to be lighter and a bit more reserved, with slightly higher acidity. Fiano on the other hand, tends to be most lush and ripe, being a bit more approachable upon release, while the finest examples of Greco tend to need a year or two after release before showing their best. Generally, Fiano, as it is a bigger wine, tends to age longer.
There is a third white grape planted in Avellino called Falanghina that is also planted throughout the Campanian region. Falanghina has vibrant acidity that is a trademark of the variety. It is an ancient variety that was almost forgotten over the last 30 years, but several producers in the region have made an effort to craft notable offerings from this grape. Many of the best examples come from the Sannio district in the province of Benevento, situated north of Avellino.
Ilaria Petito, Donnachiara (Photo ©Tom Hyland)
A small producer that has become one of the most critically acclaimed for its whites is Donnachiara, headed by the engaging Ilaria Petito. Her first vintage for this project was only in 2006, so for her to gain as much attention as she has to date tells you the qualilty of the fruit she is working with along with the care in the cellars. For her new releases, it is the 2011 Fiano di Avellino that is a standout, with pear and quince aromas alongside those of toasted almond and hay. Medium-full, the wine has excellent ripeness and a lengthy finish with lively acidity. This should offer optimum drinking for 3-5 years, perhaps longer.
A quick word here about 2010 and 2011 in Campania. 2010 offered wines that were beautifully balanced with very good acidity; while not a powerful vintage, the wines offer very good typicity and are excellent representations of their types. 2011 was a warmer vintage and the wines are definitely richer on the palate and more forward. Yet this is not a flash in the pan vintage, but one that yielded excellent wines from many producers. Of course, some of the best estates have not yet released their 2011s, but based on what I've tasted so far, 2011 is clearly a successful vintage for white wines in Campania, with impressive depth of fruit as well as overall balance.
Cutizzi Vineyard of Feudi di San Gregorio, planted to Greco (Photo ©Tom Hyland)
One of my favorite estates – not just in Campania – but in all of Italy – is Feudi di San Gregorio, situated near the town of Sorbo Serpico. Proprietor Antonio Capaldo has done a marvelous job at this winery, producing offerings that lead the way for the region's wine stature. One of my favorite wines from Feudi each year is the Greco di Tufo from the Cutizzi vineyard in Santa Paolina in the heart of the DOCG zone. The 2011 is medium-full with excellent concentration with aromas of pear, melon and kiwi. The wine is a bit plump on the palate and there is a lengthy finish with excellent persistence and very good acidity. This is a Greco di Tufo that reveals greater complexities with time, so look for this wine to be at its best in another five years.
The 2011 Falanghina "Serrocielo" is one of the best releases to date of this wine. This is a single vineyard Falanghina, something you don't see to often; this planting is situated in the Benevento province. The aromas on this wine – stone fruit (peach and pear) along with notes of honey – are delightful and there is excellent weight on the palate and a nicely structured finish. This is a pleasure for current consumption and will improve for another 3-5 years.
The finest white from Feudi I tasted this trip was the 2010 Campanaro, a blend of Fiano and Greco. This wine is always released one year after the other Greco and Fiano bottlings, a wise choice, as the wine needs time to come together and show its finest characteristics. The 2010 has beautiful floral aromas (geranium, magnolia) to go along with its notes of Bosc pear, melon and lemon; medium-full, the wine offers excellent complexity. This is an outstanding wine that will drink well for 7-10 years.
I've always enjoyed visiting Matroberardino, the grand patriarch of all Campanian producers. My first visits, some ten years ago were with Antonio Mastroberardino; today I meet with his son Piero, a thoughtful individual who caries on his father's work with great tact and skill. His new 2011 whites are beautifully made, from the simple, refreshing Lacryma Christi del Vesuvio – made entirely from the Coda di Volpe variety – to the single vineyard and selezione wines. The 2011 Greco di Tufo "Nova Serra" has yellow flower and lemon peel aromas, impressive weight on the palate and a beautifully defined mid-palate and a lengthy finish with distinct minerality; in short, this is a Greco di Tufo of excellent typicity.
As for Fiano di Avellino, I am very impressed with the Radici offering (radici meaning "roots"), which has expressive aromas of quince, Bosc pear, yellow flowers and chamomile. There is a rich mid-palate and excellent persistence and the wine is very clean and flavorful. There is excellent complexity and this year, a bit more ripeness, which only adds to the wine's appeal. This is delicious and a great example of how beautiful the whites wines of Campania are for food, be it shellfish (especially with Greco di Tufo) or lighter poultry, veal and pork dishes, which are best paired with Fiano di Avellino.
In Part Two of this study of 2010 and 2011 Campanian whites, I will discuss the wines from some of the finest small estates of Avellino, including Villa Diamante, Vadiaperti and Pietracupa.


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Vlieger, de, family
De Vlieger, a Mennonite family in Hamburg, Germany, where this family is found at least from the early 17th century: in 1611 the Mennonite Symon de Vlieger was married to Maria Koen(en). A man of importance was Carl de Vlieger, d. about 1702, married in 1666 to the widow of the preacher Werner Jansz Colombier and in 1681 to a daughter of Elder Gerhard Roosen. Carl de Vlieger took part in Greenland whaling from 1674 on by equipping his own ships, as did also his sons and his grandsons. The de Vlieger family became very wealthy. Carl de Vlieger contributed liberally to the building of the meetinghouse at Altona in 1674, as did his widow in 1716, when a new church was to be built to replace the former, which was burned down during the war in 1713. Many members of the de Vlieger family were deacons, and some served as preachers; one of these was Gerrit Vlieger from 1765. It could not be ascertained whether Karl de Fleger (Vlieger), who in 1652 published a Mennonite hymnal with a confession of faith (see de CL Psalmen), belonged to this family. Some members of the de Vlieger family, temporarily living at Amsterdam, were members of the Zonist church. The Hamburg de Vlieger family died out in the early 19th century.
A Mennonite de Vlieger family, emigrants from Waarschoot in Flanders, Belgium, was living at Aardenburg in Dutch Zeeland Flanders in the 17th century. One Jan de Vlieger (1700-32), apparently a descendant of this branch, lived at Zierizee. Some de Vliegers were members of the Amsterdam Lamist church in the 18th century. The relationship between this family and de Vliegers of Hamburg and Aardenburg could not be determined.
Church records of Aardenburg and Amsterdam.
Dollinger, Robert. Geschichte der Mennoniten in Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg und Lübeck. Neumünster, 1930.
Roosen, B. C. Geschichte der Mennoniten-Gemeinde zu Hamburg und Altona I. Hamburg, 1886: 37, 39, 46, 48, 57, 58, 61, 64; II Hamburg, 1887: 6, 16, 49, 55, 82, 84.
Oesau, Wanda. Hamburgs Grönlandfahrt. Glückstadt-Hamburg, 1955: 143-45.
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Born: Upper Sandusky, OH 2/2/62
Currently Resides in: Medina, Ohio
Primary owners: Doug Neely, Charlie Mull, Ed Mullinax, Mario Caponi
Green, Gold and black, 265 Lbs., 6'4"
Although he rarely drives anymore, Clabaugh is a successful conditioner of raceway horses and is an expert at classifying them where they belong. His partnership with Neely put him on the map, and he has begun to pick up horses from other owners as well. His reputation as a great rehabilitator of horses with injury or lameness issues probably has to do with the fact that they spent a lot of time "down on the farm," just being horses.
Born: Cincinnati 9/30/1965
Currently Resides in: Stow, Ohio
Primary Owners: Self, Don Shafer, John Allen, Jr., Charles Ferrette,
Ehrhardt has a reputation for having a sharp eye, often picking up horses at "bargain" prices and turning them around. Among the top horses in the barn are Open Trotter Lucca's Revenge, claimed for $3,000 several years ago and Coastal Wind, an Open class horse who has battled back from a number of ailments. He is an astute judge of horseflesh and regulars know "first-time Ehrhardt," is just about money in the bank.
Born: Garfield Hts.,OH 4/3/1979
Currently resides in: Northfield, OH
Colors: Gold, Red and White 5'10" 185 Lbs.
The son of Wall of Famer Bill Irvine and nephew of Don Irvine, Jr., is a regular top-five driver at the Flying Turns. He drives first call for D.J. Millner, which has helped his stats, as well as often picking up drives for his dad, William, and his aunt Janet, as well as Kevin Ehrhardt and John Perrin. Wyatt should hit the 1,000 win plateau later this season.
Born: Cuyahoga Falls, OH 6/30/1978
Currently Resides In: Northfield, OH
Gold/White/Cardinal Red 160 Lbs. "A-Rod "
Son of longtime regular Lanny Merriman came into his own at Northfield after winning driving titles at Raceway Park. Aaron won his first local driving title in 2006, edging Greg Grismore on the final weekend of the year. He repeated in 2007, 2008 and 2009 and seems assured of a five-peat this year, despite splitting time between Northfield and The Meadows. He currently leads ALL North American drivers in wins and recently won the $109,000 Courageous Lady Pace with Sand Windsor.
Born: Millersburg, OH 10/18/63
Currently Resides: Northfield
Blue/Gold/Light Blue 190 Lbs. 6'1"
Miller has been driving for over thirty years, and semi-retires early this century, but returned to driving full-time in 2008. 2009 was the best year of his career, as he won 152 races. He is approaching 1000 career wins, with a third of that total coming in the last three years. Miller drives first call for Buck Hollar, Rosy Weaver and several smaller stables.
Born: Medina, OH 3/11/85
Currently Resides In: Litchfield, OH
Primary Owners; David Slyman, Todd Rosenberg, Prestige Racing, David Phoeniz, Melinda Kash
Blue, Orange, 170 Lbs., 5'10"
Dennis recently earned his Provisional driving license, but with over 300 wins in just two full years of training, he may not be spending a lot of time in the sulky. He is currently managing a huge operation for his brother-in-law, Keith Kash., Jr., and is having success both at Northfield Park and Buffalo Raceway. He works with a number of hands-on owners, including Dan Berdysz (Prestige Racing) who manage their own stables and posts his numbers on volume. Just 25, he has a great future ahead of him
Born: Cleveland, OH 8/28/1957
Currently Resides in: Aurora, OH
Primary Owners: Martin Yoder, Team Bendis, Al Melega,
Oliverio, a perennial top-ten Northfield trainer with raceway horses, has expanded into the colt business in the last several years with great success. Known as a hard worker who keeps his racehorses going and is adept at dealing with rehabilitating well-bred horses with soundness problems. He also works a shuttle arrangement with Meadows trainer Randy Bendis, allowing the two to find the best possible spots for all their horses.
Born: Toledo, OH 10.29/62
Currently resides in: Independence, Ohio
Primary owners: Jim Koran, Daryl Sherman, Burke Racing
Green, white and orange 160 Lbs., 5'10"
Sherman is an expert at classifying raceway horses, but also is a talented trainer of young stock, especially trotters. Although he has started to race at other tracks due to the tough state of Ohio racing, he continues to win races on a regular basis at Northfield, with support from father Daryl, a former OHHA President and booster of Ohio racing. Sherman has a similar shuttle agreement with Burke Racing to John Oliverio's arrangement with Randy Bendis, assuring his horses are raced appropriately at any of a half-dozen tracks.
Born: Willard, OH 3/16/1978
Currently Resides: Republic, Ohio
Red and Gold 180 Lbs. "Win 'em All Stahl"
A second generation horseman and all-around athlete in high school Stahl went over the 1,000 career win mark early in 2007 and has been a top three driver at Northfield ever since. That summer, he picked up his first track record, steering Hello Yankie to victory in $20,000 Ohio Sires Stake. Ryan is getting first call from a number including Kent Sherman, Eric Hamlet and Pat melloy, Jr.. He also owns a small stable of his own horses under the tutelage of Kent Sherman and Alan Smith.
Born: Bowling Green, Ohio 10/03/69
Current Residence; Polk, Ohio
Green, Gray & White, 170 Lbs. 5'8"
A third generation horseman from one of the first families of Ohio racing, Kurt is a throwback-- a driver trainer who has conditioned world champions Dunkster and Blastaway Sahbra, and is also a perrennial top-ten driver in the local standings. Best known for his work with trotters, he has also campaigned outstanding pacers for Dean Davis and others
Born: Conneaut, OH 9/27/1956
Currently Resides in: Sagamore Hills
Primary Owners: Kennedy Sports Corp, Umholtz Racing Stable, Ngaire Umholtz, T.M. Saunders
Blue and Gold, 180 Lbs, 5'10"
An Ashtabula county native, Umholtz has started more horses at Northfield Park than any trainer in the track's history, averaging 450 starts a year for the past 20 years! He is a member of Northfield's Wall of Fame and is considered a patient conditioner of young horses. He has over 1200 driving wins and nearly as many training wins (a stat that has not been kept as long).
Born: Mt. Eaton, OH 2/11/1986
Currently Resides In:Dundee, Ohio
Blue/White "J.D." 5'8" 145 Lbs.
From an Amish upbringing, Johnnie D has become is one of the top young drivers in Ohio and has traveled to drive in stakes races in New York and Pennsylvania as well. An aggressive pilot who is also an adept judge of horseflesh, Wengerd drives and trains several of his own and drives first call for a number of trainers including Andy Coblentz, Ernie Smith and several from Holmes county. He has recently branched out, racing at Hoosier Park and Scioto Downs, as well.