tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54146580552114874992024-03-18T02:47:56.990-07:00John Brown's Notes and EssaysJohn Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408381085180641019noreply@blogger.comBlogger5203125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414658055211487499.post-32217869219937531442019-06-01T08:23:00.001-07:002019-06-01T09:01:53.007-07:00[Russica] -- Dating back 200 years ago: The old PH-Russia ties<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">MANILA</span> -- This week marks the 43rd year of establishment of diplomatic relations between the Philippines and Russia.</div>
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It was on June 2, 1976, when the government of the Philippines forged formal diplomatic ties with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).</div>
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In 1999, the Russian Federation assumed all the responsibilities and obligations arising from the Philippine bilateral relations with the USSR. And for more than four decades, the relationship continues to grow and prosper with the increasing number of high-level exchanges between the two states.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">First Russian Consulate in Manila</span></div>
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Some 202 years ago, Peter Dobell, the first Russian Consul in Manila, was appointed to the Philippines in 1817.</div>
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He was dispatched to Okhotsk in March of the same year. He resided in China from 1801-1808 before moving to Manila in 1808.</div>
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In 1812, he arrived in Petropavlovsk with a shipment of foodstuff and began his trans-Siberian journey from Kamchatka in 1812, Perm in 1813, and St. Petersburg in 1814 where he submitted his report to the Russian American Company.</div>
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His report noted that Manila was more than willing to trade with Russia because of shared objections to the presence of the East India Company.</div>
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He proposed to establish a permanent consul for the Okhotsk-Manila trade to learn more of the market in Guangzhou and to promote trade between Manila and Kamchatka with Manila supplying maintenance products needed in the Russian colony in the east.</div>
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Dobell, in effect, suggested a triangular trade between Kamchatka, Manila, and Canton.</div>
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He wrote: "as soon as this trade begins, the Chinese will bring to Manila everything that they can sell to the Russians so that Russia can make use of all the benefits of their trade."</div>
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When the first Russian brig, the Rurik, captained by Lieutenant Kotzebue arrived in Manila in December 1817, no mention was made of the Russian Consulate in Manila, nor Peter Dobell, during the 1817-18 visit.</div>
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It is understood that when the ship left Russia in 1815, Dobell had just completed his proposal to the Tsar a year earlier. It was not until early 1817 when the proponent of the plan was himself appointed.</div>
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As he was dispatched to Okhotsk, it was very likely that he was a non-resident Consul in Manila, or was traveling between Manila and Okhotsk considering he had two official secretaries assigned to watch him in Okhotsk and he owned a house in Kamchatka.</div>
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He did maintain his house in Manila which was eventually destroyed during the chaos in 1820. His nephew maintained the house while he was away.</div>
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Another reason why the Consulate was a non-resident was the Spanish government's position of not granting recognition to a formal Russian mission, reducing it to unofficial capacity.</div>
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In 1820, Dobell brought out a proposal for joining the Hawaiian archipelago by means of an armed expedition. This proposal, however, was not given serious attention. The Consulate was terminated de facto in 1820 and de jure in 1826.</div>
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Aside from the opening of the Consulate in 1817, the year also witnessed the first arrival of a Russian ship in Manila.</div>
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The Rurik was a Russian brig on a voyage of discovery into the Bering Straits for the purpose of exploring a north-east passage. The voyage was at the expense of the Grand Chancellor of the Russian Empire Count Romanzof.</div>
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In command of the expedition was Otto von Kotzebue, a Lieutenant in the Russian Imperial Navy who, as a cadet, made his first travel around the world with Commodore Adam Johann von Krusenstern on board Nadeshda in 1803-06 (the second ship of the same expedition, Neva, passed the Bashee Island 27th November 1805 from the Mariana on its way to Macao).</div>
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It was the Commodore who recommended him to Count Romanzoff as eminently qualified for the purpose.</div>
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Rurik has the distinction of being fitted for repairs in Cavite.</div>
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Since the 20th of December, some 100 men were tasked to do quick and extensive work on the Rurik. Her sails, tackling, boats, masts, pumps and even water-butts were found to be unserviceable. Her copper-sheathing, too, was in need of replacement with her bottom gnawed by worms.</div>
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With permission from the Governor, Rurik was fitted with a new copper cover. By 14th January, the ship was rigged and ready to continue her journey around the world.</div>
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Kotzebue came to the Philippines again during his new voyage around the world under the appointment of Emperor Alexander I in 1823-26. The Russian frigate Predpriatie and her crew of 145 arrived in Manila on 8th November 1825 and had the frigate repaired in Cavite. She left 10th of January 1826.</div>
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The third and final Russian visit was headed by Frederick Lutke (Fedor Petrovich), in his voyage around the world in 1826-1829 under the order of Emperor Nicholas I.</div>
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His main ship, the corvette Seniavin and its accompanying ship, the Moller under Captain Stanioukovich, dropped anchor on 13 January 1829, with Moller in Manila much earlier. Both ships left on the 30th of January.</div>
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It took more than two decades before another Russian vessel docked in the Philippines. By then, Russian expeditions in the Pacific have ended.</div>
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A new era in Asia was emerging with the forced opening of Japan and the Western domination of China.</div>
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Both the Philippines and Russia underwent revolutions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and were caught in two world wars and the ideological war after.</div>
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It was at that period when the two countries extended the hand of partnership and forged a relationship that endures until today. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">(Geronimo Suliguin)</em></span></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">(About the author: Geronimo Suliguin took his postgraduate course in historical studies at the Oxford University and is currently taking Diplomatic Studies at the Lincoln College, Oxford University. Suliguin served as the Acting Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs-Office of Public Diplomacy)</em></div>
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John Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408381085180641019noreply@blogger.com46tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414658055211487499.post-54470324308435078192019-06-01T02:02:00.001-07:002019-06-01T09:02:52.119-07:00Image for the day: The Rough Riders<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">A 1898 cyanotype portrait of Rough Rider officers, including Theodore Roosevelt, left of center, under a tent in Montauk, on the eastern end of Long Island.Credit Frances Benjamin Johnston/Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. From <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/31/opinion/sunday/spanish-american-war-power.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage">The New York Times</a> (May 31, 2019)</span></div>
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John Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408381085180641019noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414658055211487499.post-5886463546690360072019-05-31T01:41:00.000-07:002019-05-31T05:55:57.452-07:00Sanctimonious, faux shrink, ex police reporter D. Brooks repeats the word "people" only eight times in his latest NYT column ... but he's doesn't fail to add a similar meaningless word! (See below)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The word is "person" (repeated four times) ...<br />
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David Brooks, "When Trolls and Crybullies Rule the Earth: How technology reshapes consciousness." <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/opinion/online-trolling-empathy.html">The New York Times</a>, May 30, 2019; see also, on Brooks's categorization of individual human beings as nameless "people": <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.8px;">(</span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/opinion/welfare-community-uk.html" style="color: #de7008; font-size: 17.8px;">1</a><span style="font-size: 17.8px;">) (</span><a href="https://johnbrownnotesandessays.blogspot.com/2019/05/ex-police-reporter-d-brooks-at-his.html" style="color: #de7008; font-size: 17.8px;">2</a><span style="font-size: 17.8px;">) (</span><a href="https://johnbrownnotesandessays.blogspot.com/2019/05/fear-and-david-brooks.html" style="color: #de7008; font-size: 17.8px;">3</a><span style="font-size: 17.8px;">) (</span><a href="https://johnbrownnotesandessays.blogspot.com/2019/04/breaking-news-david-brooks-mentions.html" style="color: #de7008; font-size: 17.8px;">4</a><span style="font-size: 17.8px;">) (</span><a href="https://johnbrownnotesandessays.blogspot.com/2019/05/ex-police-reporter-d-brooks-at-his.html" style="color: #de7008; font-size: 17.8px;">5</a><span style="font-size: 17.8px;">)</span></span></span><br />
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Over the past several years, teenage suicide rates have spiked horrifically. Depression rates are surging and America’s mental health over all is deteriorating. What’s going on?<br />
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My answer starts with technology but is really about the sort of consciousness online life induces.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">When communication styles change, so do </span><b style="background-color: yellow;">people</b><span style="background-color: white;">.</span> In 1982, the scholar Walter Ong described the way, centuries ago, a shift from an oral to a printed culture transformed human consciousness. Once, storytelling was a shared experience, with emphasis on proverb, parable and myth. With the onset of the printing press it become a more private experience, the content of that storytelling more realistic and linear.<br />
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As L.M. Sacasas argues in the latest issue of The New Atlantis, the shift from printed to electronic communication is similarly consequential. I would say the big difference is this: Attention and affection have gone from being private bonds to being publicly traded goods.<br />
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That is, <span style="background-color: white;">up until recently most of the attention a </span><b style="background-color: yellow;">person</b><span style="background-color: white;"> received came from family and friends and was pretty stable. But now most of the attention a </span><b style="background-color: yellow;">person</b><b style="background-color: white;"> </b><span style="background-color: white;">receives can come from far and wide and is tremendously volatile.</span><br />
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Sometimes your online post can go viral and get massively admired or ridiculed, while other times your post can leave you alone and completely ignored. Communication itself, once mostly collaborative, is now often competitive, with bids for affection and attention. It is also more manipulative — gestures designed to generate a response.<br />
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<b style="background-color: yellow;">People</b><span style="background-color: white;"> ensconced in social media are more likely to be on perpetual alert</span>: How are my ratings this moment? They are also more likely to feel that the amount of attention they are receiving is inadequate.<br />
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As David Foster Wallace put it in that famous Kenyon commencement address, if you orient your life around money, you will never feel you have enough. Similarly, if you orient your life around attention, you will always feel slighted. You will always feel emotionally unsafe.<br />
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New social types emerge in such a communications regime. The most prominent new type is the troll, and in fact, Americans have elected a troll as the commander in chief.<br />
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Trolls bid for attention by trying to make others feel bad. <span style="background-color: white;">Studies of </span><b style="background-color: yellow;">people</b><span style="background-color: white;"> who troll find that they score high on measures of psychopathy, sadism and narcissism</span>. Online media hasn’t made them vicious; they’re just vicious. Online has given them a platform to use viciousness to full effect.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Trolls also score high on cognitive empathy. Intellectually, they understand other </span><b style="background-color: yellow;">people</b><span style="background-color: white;">’s emotions and how to make them suffer. But they score low on affective empathy.</span> They don’t feel others’ pain, so when they hurt you, they don’t care.<br />
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Trolling is a very effective way to generate attention in a competitive, volatile attention economy. It’s a way to feel righteous and important, especially if you claim to be trolling on behalf of some marginalized group.<br />
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Another prominent personality type in this economy is <span style="background-color: white;">the crybully. This is the </span><b style="background-color: yellow;">person</b><span style="background-color: white;"> who takes his or her own pain and victimization and uses it to make sure every conversation revolves around himself or herself.</span> “This is the age of the Cry-Bully, a hideous hybrid of victim and victor, weeper and walloper,” Julie Burchill wrote in The Spectator a few years ago.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">The crybully starts with a genuine trauma. The terrible thing that happened naturally makes the crybully feel unsafe, self-protective and self-conscious to the point of self-absorption. The trauma makes that </span><b style="background-color: yellow;">person </b><span style="background-color: white;">intensely concerned about self-image.</span><br />
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The problem comes from the subsequent need to control any situation, the failure to see the big picture, the tendency to lash out in fear and anger as a way to fixate attention on oneself and obliterate others. Crybullying is at the heart of many of our campus de-platforming and censorship outrages.<br />
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Trolling, crybullying and other attention-grabbing tactics emerge out of a feeling of weakness, and create a climate that causes more pain, in which it is not safe to lead with vulnerability, not safe to test out ideas or do the things that create genuine companionship.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">The internet has become a place where</span><b> <span style="background-color: yellow;">people</span></b><span style="background-color: white;"> communicate out of their competitive ego</span>: I’m more fabulous than you (a lot of Instagram). You’re dumber than me (much of Twitter). <span style="background-color: white;">It’s not a place where</span><span style="background-color: yellow;"> <b>people</b></span><span style="background-color: white;"> share from their hearts and souls.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Of course, </span><b style="background-color: yellow;">people</b><span style="background-color: white;"> enmeshed in such a climate are more likely to feel depressed, to suffer from mental health problems</span>. Of course, they are more likely to see human relationship through the abuser/victim frame, and to be acutely sensitive to any power imbalance. <span style="background-color: white;">Imagine you’re 17 and </span><b style="background-color: yellow;">people</b><span style="background-color: white;"> you barely know are saying nice or nasty things about your unformed self</span>. It creates existential anxiety and hence fanaticism.<br />
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Two words loom large in this moment: trauma and equity. Trauma is living with the aftershocks of a bad event — or, more important, it is having no place to go where the aftershocks can be healed because the public conversation is unsafe. Equity is the dream of a world in which all are given equal attention and dignity. The dream is still out there, but it’s receding with every vicious attack done in its name.<br />
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John Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408381085180641019noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414658055211487499.post-24952642903222270902019-05-31T00:30:00.002-07:002019-05-31T02:45:08.714-07:00An electric scooter caught fire in downtown D.C. [or, "Come on Baby, light my fire."]<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It’s unclear what caused the Skip device to burst into flames, but the fire appeared to be concentrated around the battery.</h2>
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A Skip e-scooter burst into flames near Franklin Square in downtown Washington on Thursday morning.</div>
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The scooter caught fire near the corner of 14th and I streets NW in front of a Compass Coffee shop. Employees at the shop said that a woman came in to tell them the scooter was on fire but that they did not see how it started.</div>
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The cause of the fire is not clear, though it appears to have started around the battery pack while the scooter was parked. A Washington Post reporter saw four other Skip scooters parked at the same corner an hour after the incident.</div>
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Skip Scooters said that the company is investigating the incident and that it is not ruling out the possibility of foul play. The company said that it thinks this was an isolated case and that its other scooters are safe to ride.</div>
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“We take these issues seriously,” the company said in a statement. “We are happy that there were no injuries. The incident was limited to the external battery and only caused minor damage to a nearby wall. We currently have no reason to believe that this affects any other vehicles in our fleet. We are investigating all potential causes of the incident, including foul play.”</div>
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Terry Owens, a spokesman for the District Department of Transportation, which regulates the scooter services, said that the agency has been in contact with Skip and that the incident is under review.</div>
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“We are not aware of any other fire incidents on scooters operated within the District,” Owens said, noting that Lime issued a recall of some of its devices across the country last year because of battery-safety concerns.</div>
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The operating permit issued by the city requires that all scooters meet a standard for electrical systems for personal e-mobility devices or equivalent safety protections, Owens said.</div>
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“Vendors are responsible for the safety and safe operation of their vehicles,” Owens said.</div>
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A scooter on fire in the District. <a href="https://t.co/UUZZ2Fo8mP" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c6cb4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">pic.twitter.com/UUZZ2Fo8mP</a></div>
— Teddy Amenabar (@TeddyAmen) <a href="https://twitter.com/TeddyAmen/status/1134120091879137282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1955a5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">May 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Marc Barnes, the owner of the Park at Fourteenth, which is nearby, put the fire out with a fire extinguisher.</div>
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“It’s one of the first hot days. I don’t know whether these batteries are going to do well in the sun,” Barnes said.</div>
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Barnes added that he doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with the scooters’ batteries. He said he sees people “abusing those scooters” all the time and suggested that misuse might have led to the scooter fire.</div>
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One person tweeted in response to photos of the fire on social media: “instant album cover.”</div>
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A fire engine responding to the 11:30 a.m. calls about the burning scooter arrived two minutes later to find the small electric battery on fire, D.C. fire department spokesman Doug Buchanan said. No one was injured and the fire was extinguished within minutes, he said.</div>
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Buchanan said he could not recall other reports of scooter fires in the city.</div>
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Scooters can be found all over downtown Washington and are also available in Alexandria and Arlington. Montgomery County is planning to allow their use in that jurisdiction starting Saturday. The District this month announced the expansion of its program, which allows nearly 5,000 dockless devices, including bicycles and scooters, to be in operation.</div>
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Six scooter companies operate in the District: Bird, Jump, Lime, Lyft, Skip and Spin.</div>
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The ubiquitous devices have made other headlines in the city recently, having been used as getaway vehicles and causing delays after being abandoned on Metro tracks.</div>
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Reports of rental scooters being used to flee from or arrive at crime scenes are becoming more frequent. On May 18, two people on scooters in Northeast demanded property from a person and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/two-thieves-on-scooters-rob-victim-of-purse-in-dc/2019/05/18/3f4f7df2-79ce-11e9-b3f5-5673edf2d127_story.html?utm_term=.cbd410c10518" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c6cb4; font-size: 18.1398px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">fled with her purse</a>. In late April, a person carried out two armed robberies on Capitol Hill, according to D.C. police, and used a scooter to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/photos-of-alleged-capitol-hill-robber-show-rental-scooter-use/2019/04/30/0be96ef0-6b00-11e9-be3a-33217240a539_story.html?utm_term=.5ef5011df41f" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c6cb4; font-size: 18.1398px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">flee</a>.</div>
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On Wednesday, Metro said <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2019/05/29/red-line-trains-single-tracking-after-scooter-left-track/?utm_term=.13c8153e48c9" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c6cb4; font-size: 18.1398px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">a scooter abandoned on the Red Line tracks</a> slowed the homeward journeys of thousands of commuters. Metro had to single-track trains while the scooter was removed.</div>
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There also are increasing reports of injuries — and some deaths — related to scooter use in cities including the District, Los Angeles and Dallas.</div>
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Lime, one of the world’s largest scooter companies, urged riders in February to take precautions while operating its scooters, citing a technical “bug” that can cause “sudden excessive braking during use.” Last year, the company also pulled scooters out of California after discovering that a number of them may have been carrying batteries with the potential to catch fire.</div>
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It is unclear whether Skip has experienced similar problems.</div>
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John Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408381085180641019noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414658055211487499.post-83625187126362581362019-05-30T12:03:00.002-07:002019-05-31T15:40:25.688-07:00How ‘Reset’ Man McFaul Helped Torpedo U.S.-Russia Relations<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</b> <b>To get a sense of why Putin meddled in our elections one need go no further than the Obama administration's hijinks.</b><br />
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Scott Ridder, <a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-reset-man-mcfaul-helped-torpedo-u-s-russia-relations/">The American Conservative</a>, May 28, 2019; <a href="http://exiledonline.com/mikey-mcfaul-and-the-three-bears-a-review-of-russias-unfinished-revolution/">see</a> also, for a "left"/so-called "loony" left on McFaul); on Ritter, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter">see</a><br />
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President Obama is briefed by U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul during a flight to Moscow, Russia, July 5, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)</div>
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Post-Mueller report insanity has gripped the nation. In between Presidential proclamations that the report provides proof of his exoneration, and Democratic declarations that the report contains evidence of crimes deserving of impeachment, lies the reality of U.S.-Russian relations, and the fact that these two nations live in a world where their combined nuclear arsenals can eliminate humanity as we know it.</div>
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While President Trump struggles to gain traction for his campaign promise to better relations, his political opponents are stuck in a time warp that has them reliving the 2016 Presidential election and its allegations of Russian interference.</div>
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Americans have every right to be concerned about the prospects of Russian interference in elections which serve as the foundation of American democracy. However, in seeking to find a solution to the problems that plague the relationship, it is imperative that the American people understand how we got to where we are today. You can’t solve a problem without first accurately defining the problem, and as such any examination of the Genesis of the he-said/she-said aspects of alleged Russian interference in 2016 must take into account the fact that, if anything, the Russians were reacting to a lengthy history of U.S. interference in their internal affairs since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991.</div>
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One of the key players in this interference was Michael McFaul, a Stanford professor who, while serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014, oversaw a policy of engagement with Moscow on behalf of the Obama administration and, when that policy failed, facilitated U.S. interference in the 2012 Russian Presidential election in an effort to keep Vladimir Putin out of office.</div>
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In October 2006 <a href="https://thepolitic.org/an-interview-with-michael-mcfaul-u-s-ambassador-to-russia/" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(161, 174, 215); color: #27338d; text-decoration-line: none;">Michael McFaul was approached by people</a> close to Barack Obama to join a circle of experts who were advising the Illinois Senator on foreign policy issues in preparation for an anticipated presidential bid in 2008.</div>
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McFaul, who at that time was working as a professor in political science at Stanford University, agreed, and quickly became Obama’s go-to expert on Russian issues. Following the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Obama picked McFaul as the special assistant to the president and senior director of Russia and Eurasia affairs at the National Security Council.</div>
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One of McFaul’s first tasks was to formulate and implement a “reset” in U.S.-Russian relations. There was widespread acknowledgement among Russia observers that, as of 2008, relations between Washington, D.C. and Moscow were at an all-time post-Cold War low. The goal of a “reset”, <a href="https://thepolitic.org/an-interview-with-michael-mcfaul-u-s-ambassador-to-russia/" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(161, 174, 215); color: #27338d; text-decoration-line: none;">McFaul believed</a>, was to “find cooperation with Russia on common interests” and “develop a multi-dimensional relationship with Russia” inclusive of “societal contacts” that would be pursued through a policy of “active engagement.”</div>
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For McFaul, however, the Russian “reset” wasn’t about U.S.-Russian relations as much as it was about <a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0518/russia_mcfaul_essay.php3" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(161, 174, 215); color: #27338d; text-decoration-line: none;">building strong ties between the Obama administration and Dmitry Medvedev</a>, the former prime minister who had assumed the Russian presidency in 2008 from Vladimir Putin. Putin, who had succeeded Russian President Boris Yeltsin in 2000, had finished out his second term (the Russian Constitution forbade a president from serving more than two successive terms.) Putin became the prime minister, effectively trading places with Medvedev.</div>
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Obama’s secretary of state at the time, Hillary Clinton, was scheduled to meet with her Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in Geneva in March 2009. McFaul advised that it would be a good idea to publicly draw attention to the “reset,” and a State Department staffer came up with the idea of presenting a symbolic “button” that would be symbolic of the occasion. The staffer approached McFaul who, as the resident Russian expert in the NSC, <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/the-campaign-spot/infamous-reset-button-stolen-hotel-pool-or-jacuzzi-jim-geraghty/" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(161, 174, 215); color: #27338d; text-decoration-line: none;">provided the translation for the word “reset” (<i>peregruzka</i>) and the correct spelling</a>. When Clinton presented the “reset button” to Lavrov, however, <a href="https://sputniknews.com/world/201903061073007622-clinton-lavrov-reset-anniversary/" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(161, 174, 215); color: #27338d; text-decoration-line: none;">he pointed out</a> that <i>peregruzka</i> did not mean “reset”, but rather “overload”, referring to putting too much power through an electrical system, leading to blown fuses, or even a fire.</div>
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While the embarrassing gaffe did not sink U.S.-Russian relations (this would happen on its own volition), it did underscore a level of amateurishness at the highest levels of American policy making by someone who was purported to be an expert on all things Russian.</div>
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McFaul’s <a href="https://michaelmcfaul.com/sites/default/files/documents/McFaul-CV-3-2019.pdf" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(161, 174, 215); color: #27338d; text-decoration-line: none;">academic credentials and training as a Russian specialist</a> are impressive. McFaul graduated from Stanford in 1986 with a B.A. in International Relations and Slavic Languages, and went on to get his master’s degree, also from Stanford, in Russian and East European Studies, before heading off to Oxford, England, where he pursued his Doctorate in International Relations as a Rhodes Scholar. McFaul returned to the Soviet Union in 1990 as a visiting scholar at Moscow State University, where he finished up his doctoral dissertation (he was awarded his Ph.D. the next year.)</div>
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It was during his time as a visiting scholar that McFaul began to blur the line between pure academia and policy activist. In 1990, McFaul signed on as a consultant with the <a href="https://www.ndi.org/who-we-are" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(161, 174, 215); color: #27338d; text-decoration-line: none;">National Democratic Institute (NDI)</a>, self-described as “a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nongovernmental organization that has supported democratic institutions and practices in every region of the world.”</div>
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The NDI was founded in 1983 as an action arm of the National Endowment for Democracy (NEC), created by Congress under the eponymously named National Endowment for Democracy Act. The congressional action was in response to an executive decision on the part of President Ronald Reagan, promulgated under <a href="https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/National_Security_Decision_Directive_77/" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(161, 174, 215); color: #27338d; text-decoration-line: none;">National Security Decision Directive-77</a>, to promote so-called “public diplomacy” operations in furtherance of U.S. national security interests. McFaul dual-hatted as a visiting scholar and as NDI’s official Field Representative in Moscow.</div>
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As the NDI’s representative in Moscow, McFaul actively supported “Democratic Russia,” a coalition of Russian politicians led by Boris Yeltsin, the president of the Russian Federation, even though the official U.S. policy at the time was to support Mikhail Gorbachev, the president of the Soviet Union. McFaul likened Yeltsin to the <a href="https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/978-0-8179-4632-6_273.pdf" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(161, 174, 215); color: #27338d; text-decoration-line: none;">“catalyst for the Cold War’s end.”</a> While recognizing Yeltsin as “the unquestioned leader of Russia’s anti-Communist movement,” McFaul noted that Yeltsin’s embrace of Democratic Russia was more a byproduct of the realization that such an alliance was needed to defeat the Soviet regime, rather than a genuine embrace of liberal ideas.</div>
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This realization seems absent, however, from McFaul’s later apologia about the decade of corrupt, ineffective governance that defined Yeltsin’s time as the president of Russia.</div>
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McFaul had become enamored with the concept of Russian “democracy” but he could not define it with any precision. In his 2001 book, <a href="https://amzn.to/2WpuwZi" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(161, 174, 215); color: #27338d; text-decoration-line: none;"><i>Russia’s Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin</i></a>, McFaul throws the term “democracy” around freely, only acknowledging (in a footnote) that, in the context of Russia, it may not exist. The reality was that Yeltsin, far from an idealistic paragon of democratic virtue, was little more than the hand-picked puppet of the United States.</div>
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In 1999, Yeltsin, his health ravaged by alcohol and his legacy haunted by a decade of corruption and mismanagement, stepped aside (“peacefully and constitutionally,” according to McFaul) in favor of his hand-picked successor, Vladimir Putin. Within a period of less than two years (Putin assumed power on New Year’s Eve in 2000, and <i>Russia’s Unfinished Revolution</i> was released in 2001), McFaul declared that the former KGB officer had “inflicted considerable damage to democratic institutions” in Russia. There were, however, no genuine democratic institutions in Russia to inflict damage upon when Yeltsin stepped aside—Russia’s first president had seen to that by destroying the Russian Parliament in 1993 and rigging an election (with extensive American support) in 1996. It was everything Putin could do upon his accession to the presidency right the Russian ship of state, let alone reinvent something (Russian democracy) that had never existed to begin with.</div>
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McFaul’s problem with Putin centered not on what he had <i>done</i> as president as much as the fact that he <i>was</i> president. There was an inherent inconsistency between McFaul’s theory of Russian “democracy” and the reality of Putin. Putin viewed the collapse of the Soviet Union as “a major geopolitical disaster of the century.” He had stood next to Yeltsin as he <a href="https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2018-10-02/clinton-yeltsin-relationship-their-own-words" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(161, 174, 215); color: #27338d; text-decoration-line: none;">debased himself and Russia in conversations with President Bill Clinton</a>. If one thing was for certain, Putin would never allow himself to behave in a similar manner.</div>
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McFaul’s “reset” policy was intended to reassert American influence into the Russian body politic in a post-Putin Russia. As such, when Putin announced in 2011 that he would again run for president, McFaul’s “reset” policy collapsed. Under the “reset,” the Obama administration, at McFaul’s urging, provided funding through the auspices of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the NED, NDI, and other non-governmental organizations to Russian civil groups that had coalesced into a political opposition to Putin’s 2012 presidential ambition. McFaul also encouraged Secretary of State Clinton to speak out in support of the Russian opposition. “We are supportive of the rights and aspirations of the Russian people,” Clinton stated in December 2011, “to be able to make progress and realize a better future for themselves.”</div>
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/dec/08/vladimir-putin-hillary-clinton-russia" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(161, 174, 215); color: #27338d; text-decoration-line: none;">Putin and the Russian government responded by accusing Clinton</a> of interfering in the domestic political affairs of Russia. When McFaul was appointed by Obama to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Russia in late 2011, <a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/mcfaul-burns-rights-activists-985/" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(161, 174, 215); color: #27338d; text-decoration-line: none;">one of his first actions was to invite</a> the leaders of the various Russian opposition groups to the U.S. embassy to meet with him. After Putin won his bid for election in March 2012, he immediately set about to <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2015/07/30/why-russia-shut-down-ned-fronts/" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(161, 174, 215); color: #27338d; text-decoration-line: none;">ban foreign funding for Russian non-governmental organizations</a>. USAID, the NED, NDI, and other organizations used to channelling U.S. money to Russian political entities were evicted from Russia.</div>
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McFaul, whose entire ambassadorial persona was built around the kind of societal engagement produced by these NGOs, never recovered. In February 2014, McFaul <a href="https://russia-direct.org/analysis/end-us-russia-reset-us-ambassador-mcfaul-steps-down" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(161, 174, 215); color: #27338d; text-decoration-line: none;">announced his resignation as U.S. ambassador</a>, declaring that it was time for him to return to Stanford and resume his previous life of academia.</div>
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Since leaving Moscow, McFaul has become one of the leading critics of Putin, writing prolifically on the topic, and frequently appearing as a talking head on television. Putin’s Russia has provided McFaul with plenty of material to work with, including the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the military intervention in Syria in 2015, and the alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.</div>
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A staunch supporter of Clinton, McFaul has turned his sights on Trump, <a href="https://sputniknews.com/world/201712161060049816-mcfaul-trump-putin-call/" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(161, 174, 215); color: #27338d; text-decoration-line: none;">strongly criticizing Trump’s own efforts</a> for a new “reset” with Russia as misguided. By McFaul’s telling, the abysmal state of U.S.-Russian relations is the fault of Putin and Putin alone, and Trump’s efforts at normalizing relations only plays into Putin’s hands.</div>
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But it was McFaul’s role in the U.S. interference in the Russian 2012 election that put in motion everything that followed. Perception makes its own reality, and the Russian perception is that McFaul and the Obama administration purposefully put their thumb on the scale of Russia’s presidential election to keep Putin from winning. McFaul has been banned from traveling to Russia, and in 2018 Putin approached Trump for permission to have Russian intelligence officers question McFaul about alleged illegal activities conducted while he was ambassador. While the Russian claims are unsubstantiated allegations, and their request facially absurd, the fact remains that when it comes to apportioning blame for the sorry state of U.S.-Russian relations today, one need look no further than Michael McFaul and his decades-long effort to create Russian “democracy” from whole cloth as laying the foundation for failure. </div>
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For McFaul to today condemn the Russians for their alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election is like an arsonist seeking to assign blame for a blaze sparked by the embers of his own handiwork. </div>
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John Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408381085180641019noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414658055211487499.post-7834075315619292962019-05-29T05:17:00.000-07:002019-05-29T10:55:55.705-07:00What is hell?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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John Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408381085180641019noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414658055211487499.post-76937599139436780482019-05-28T17:37:00.000-07:002019-05-29T04:16:42.336-07:00 Blast from the Past: Options for Ukraine (2005)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Ukraine should seriously consider the option of working with all parties involved in its current crisis–including the European Union, Russia, and the United States–in taking possible steps toward its nonviolent dismemberment in a manner acceptable to its variegated population.</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The tense political situation in Ukraine may find a peaceful solution. But, at this critical juncture, efforts to maintain Ukraine as currently configured could turn out to be dangerously counterproductive. Ukraine should therefore seriously consider the option of working with all parties involved in its current crisis–including the European Union, Russia, and the United States–in taking possible steps toward its nonviolent dismemberment in a manner acceptable to its variegated population. The possibility of such a peaceful, democratic, and internationally acceptable geographical rearrangement of Ukraine should at least be put on the table before it is too late to prevent an unpredictable situation from falling out of control from increased regional, ethnic, economic, cultural, and linguistic conflicts.</span><br />
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Ukraine as it exists today is a failed state for several reasons. First, since its independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it has not succeeded in significantly improving the well-being of its population. Second, its ingrained political structures have not allowed democracy and a free press to develop. Third, as recent events demonstrate, it has clearly proved incapable of bridging the complex divide between its Russian-oriented, Orthodox eastern part and its westward-looking, Catholic area. Ukraine’s most significant achievement in the past decade was to dispose of its nuclear missiles, but this did more to ease tensions with Russia and the United States than to ameliorate the lives its ordinary citizens.<br />
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Regrettably, changing the ruling regime in Ukraine to a more European-oriented, democratic one is unlikely to provide a satisfactory, long-term solution to its enormous endemic problems. These stem in large part from the fact that the area, as a former Soviet republic with nearly 50 million people, is essentially a geopolitical construction of the USSR, not a country with sufficient national identity or self-governing experience in its history to develop as a viable economic and political entity. Ukrainian émigré nationalists will disagree with this view, but they cannot ignore the fact that prior to 1991 Ukraine–the name in its original meaning means borderland–in its entire past was “independent” for only a very short period after World War I. And it certainly was never a model of democracy, even if the Cossacks of the region earned a reputation for disregarding authority.<br />
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There are two options for the next ruling party in Ukraine. The leadership–be it composed of the current opposition or those struggling to remain in power–can try to keep the country geographically as it is. Perhaps this is possible, and provides the comforting panacea of not rocking the boat, on the surface at least. But, from a longer-term perspective, preserving Ukraine as it is could increase tensions between its ethnic groups and regions, as demands for autonomy from Russian-speaking areas already suggest. Dangerously, maintaining Ukraine as one unit at all costs could lead to greater internal conflicts leading to a bloody, Balkans-like dissolution of the country–and possible Russian intervention ostensibly to protect ethnic-Russian areas. One must not forget that modern Ukraine is not foreign to civil war, having experienced a horrid one less than a hundred years ago. In such a situation, democratic and economic reform would be all but impossible.<br />
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A second option for the Ukrainian leadership, whatever its political colors, would be the Czech and Slovak solution. After the end of Communist rule Czechoslovakia’s parliament decided to split Czechoslovakia in two–the Czech Republic and Slovakia–for a range of reasons, many of which were far from noble. But not a shot was fired during the separation, and although the “velvet divorce” has not turned the two sections of the former country into economic miracles, it has prevented tensions between them. As separate entities capable of keeping track of their own individual needs, they should play a role in NATO and the European Union more beneficial to their local populations than as smaller parts of a larger “Czechoslovakia.”<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">There are no models for the future of Ukraine, only options. A peaceful division of the area would be a complicated, time-consuming process requiring extensive international involvement and patience. A reconfiguration process would face great challenges, including determining the exact nature of the new entities.</span><br />
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Three significant challenges would face such a process. One is to effectively discourage pre-21st century romantic notions of national identity. These images, often propagated by the Ukrainian diaspora, bear little resemblance to the country in which it does not live. This “long-distance nationalism” suggests that Ukraine as it now appears on the map is bound to play a unique role in world history because of its size and location. Two, Great-Russia imperialists, who hold expansionist illusions, would also have to be held in check. Finally, Poles who want a large buffer state between themselves and Russia would have to be reminded that the well-being of the people in Ukraine, not imaginary realpolitik, is what matters most.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">If the tense political situation in Kiev gets worse and if the status quo–i.e., Ukraine as currently configured–is maintained, separatist political groups and nationalities could resort to violence. Given such dire possibilities, Ukrainian leaders should look beyond a priori concepts of how the continued existence of today’s Ukraine is in the best interests of its long-suffering population or international stability. All options, including the geopolitical reinvention of Ukraine itself, deserve consideration. This could lead to a real Ukraine –not the artificial prolongation of “the” Ukraine forced upon its people during Soviet times.</span><br />
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John Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408381085180641019noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414658055211487499.post-41679325967542097572019-05-28T01:04:00.001-07:002019-05-28T01:14:32.528-07:00Breaking News! Ex-police Reporter D. Brooks ("I the people") Repeats the Meaningless Word "People" only Eight Times in his latest NYT Magnum Opus/Sermon!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Welfare State Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It.<br />
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Ella is a British woman who grew up in a broken home and was abused by her stepdad. Her eldest son got thrown out of school and ended up sitting around the house drinking. By the time her daughter was 16, she was pregnant and had an eating disorder. Ella, though in her mid-30s, had never had a real job. Life was a series of endless crises — temper tantrums, broken washing machines, her son banging his head against the walls.<br />
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Every time the family came into contact with the authorities, another caseworker was brought in to provide a sliver of help. An astonishing 73 professionals spread across 20 different agencies and departments got involved with this family. Nobody had ever sat down with them to devise a comprehensive way forward.<br />
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In her mind-shifting book, “Radical Help,” the British social entrepreneur Hilary Cottam tracks how one of the social workers in Ella’s case spent his days. Roughly 74 percent of his time was spent on administrative matters — recording data, making referrals to other agencies and meeting with other agencies. Only 14 percent of the social worker’s time was actually spent with the family he was meant to be serving. And that face-to-face time was mostly with a clipboard, checking off boxes on the forms that went back to central administration.<br />
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The administrative system around Ella and her family costs roughly 250,000 pounds per year.<br />
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Cottam asked the government workers involved in Ella’s case if they could recall a time when they’d transformed a family so it no longer needed government help. They couldn’t think of one.<br />
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I met Cottam in London last week and she made the point that welfare systems are often designed to manage needs, but they are not designed to build capabilities so that families can stand on their own.<br />
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Moreover, most Western systems were not designed to confront the kind of poverty prevalent today. When these systems were put in place in the 1950s and ’60s, unemployment was more often a temporary thing that happened between the time you got laid off from a big employer and the time you got hired by a new one. Now, economic insecurity is often a permanent state, as <b><span style="background-color: white;">people</span> </b>patch together different jobs to make ends meet. Health issues for <b style="background-color: white;">people</b> in the welfare system are often chronic — obesity, diabetes, many forms of mental illness.<br />
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Our legacy welfare structures are ill suited to today’s poverty.<br />
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Cottam has spent the past decade or so helping local authorities across Britain build new welfare programs. Her programs start by shifting power to the former “recipients” of services. The programs ask, What sort of trajectory would you like to be on? Then the programs build social networks around the families to help them achieve their goals.<br />
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For example, Ella was asked if she would like to lead a “life team” that would help her family turn around. She agreed. She was given the power to select the eight <b style="background-color: white;">people</b> from across agencies who would comprise the team. She chose <b style="background-color: white;">people</b> from social work, the housing authority and the police force.<br />
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Members of the team spent 80 percent of their time with the family and only 20 percent on administration. Ella and the team worked together to stabilize her most immediate issue — negotiating away eviction notices. Then the team worked to improve inter-family dynamics so there wasn’t so much violence and screaming.<br />
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After a family is stable, the team and family work on building skills and telling stories of success. By 18 months, many of the families involved in the Life Team program no longer need the team. Ella got her first office job and assumed more responsibility for her family. Her kids were back in mainstream schooling.<br />
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In the old welfare model, social workers are detached professionals and overwhelmed, bound by bureaucratic rules and often slipping into emotional permafrost. At Life Team, it’s about relational accompaniment, giving social workers the discretion to do what they think is best.<br />
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Cottam has designed other programs with a similar collaborative ethos. Backr is a program that takes <b style="background-color: white;">people</b> who are detached from the labor force and helps them join extended social networks where they can connect one another to job openings and develop skills. Circles is a program for the elderly. It brings together lonely seniors into small groups that are part social club, part concierge service and part self-help cooperative. Wellogram is a similar social structure for the chronically ill.<br />
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Basically, Cottam’s programs create villages within the welfare state. Her systems are not designed around individual clients, but around relational networks.<span style="background-color: white;"> <b>People</b> </span>tend to have better outcomes when they are held accountable by a network of peers. Three-quarters of the smokers in Wellogram successfully quit, 44 percent lowered their blood pressure, 64 percent started work or went back to school.<br />
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The old legacy welfare programs were designed for<b><span style="background-color: white;"> people</span> </b>enmeshed in thick communities but who had suffered a temporary setback. Today many<span style="background-color: white;"> <b>people</b> </span>lack precisely that web of thick relationship. The welfare state of the future has to build the social structures that<b> <span style="background-color: white;">people</span></b> need to thrive. This is one way government can build community.<br />
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John Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408381085180641019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414658055211487499.post-81841311936609210652019-05-27T06:37:00.000-07:002019-05-28T06:37:22.339-07:00Trump as a "useful idiot"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In fact, it’s Trump who has been taken over. He campaigned as a different kind of Republican, and his infrastructure promise was a major component of his antiideological image. But on all the things the ideologues and right-wing business interests care about — <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nytimes.com_2018_12_27_us_politics_trump-2Dtax-2Dcuts-2Djobs-2Dact.html&d=DwMFAg&c=RAhzPLrCAq19eJdrcQiUVEwFYoMRqGDAXQ_puw5tYjg&r=jqn318d_bZQvm9INf6I_JfJrtmessGkv_WKSx0uI4Uk&m=Eb3wAb00r_5pXW1KSDsDCn7TwNNV-cTlyGQjYfYdmhc&s=RBnqOyltN9AscYnAvRHSHVcmGOEjraQ8Oc5d6I4IEp8&e=" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c6cb4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="urldefense.proofpoint.com">tax cuts</a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/leonard-leo-federalists-society-courts/?utm_term=.af9731118334" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c6cb4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="www.washingtonpost.com">corporatist judges</a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/usda-to-shift-some-inspector-tasks-to-pork-plant-workers--in-everything-but-name/2019/05/23/9808cc50-66af-11e9-82ba-fcfeff232e8f_story.html?utm_term=.8ad9487895e5" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c6cb4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="www.washingtonpost.com">deregulation</a> — Trump caves in.</blockquote>
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John Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408381085180641019noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414658055211487499.post-10260177011314183362019-05-26T08:48:00.001-07:002019-06-01T12:48:27.799-07:00Updated 5/30/2019: DC Litter Near-daily Pick-up (the LPU initiative) in the Imperial Capital! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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to Porter Street; up Porter Street to Connecticut Avenue; jog ends at the Van Ness/ UDC metro station) I do my "citizen's thing" and pick up litter.<br />
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FYI, I jog (when I do jog rather than stroll, very slowly) with a bag (yes, I plead guilty: ... a plastic bag) in hand where I place the litter.</span><br />
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As I stretch my aging muscles, have taken a special interest in picking up plastic water bottles left empty/half empty along my strollin'/joggin' way.<br />
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(Some of the plastic bottles, btw, are filled with urine, as I've noticed on several occasions on the east side of Tilden Street leading downhill to Rock Creek Park.)<br />
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May I note that the plastic bottles are not the only form of trash I pick up. The waste ranges (aside from its plastic bottled incarnations) from empty aluminum cans/glass bottles to used plastic prophylactics (which I delicately place in my trash bag with the aid of a branch found on a [thank God!] tree-filled environment).<br />
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FYI, below my accounting of yours truly's encounter with human-made "let's throw 'em out, wherever/whatever, even if the shit is homo 'sapiens' objects."<br />
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Pardon the gory details, but here's the trash/litter/junk I find (and pick up, whenever I physically can) on a near-daily basis on the streets/Rock Creek park of our glorious nation's capital:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Receipts/bills; paper/paper "tissues": napkins (evidently from from fast-food joints); paper bags containing the remains of "junk food"; "colorful" wrappings from candy manufacturers; cellophane plastic wrap</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dumped-wherever-on-the street/sidewalk, no longer "reusable" disposable coffee cups (sorry: I don't know: what are they exactly made of, hardened paper with a touch of plastic?) Here's the answer I found <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/disposable-coffee-cups-how-big-problem-environment-landfill-recycling-incinerate-export-rubbish-a8142381.html">on</a>: </span></li>
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<li><span style="background-: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Circular plastic lids punctured, in the middle, for use with plastic straws for "soft" drinks, cold coffee (?), etc.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Plastic straws (related to the above): Yes, they're still out there -- lonely motionless plastic worms in our wide open American spaces, often stuck into the ground/trash-infested mud -- despite the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/on-patrol-with-an-enforcer-of-dcs-plastic-straw-ban/2019/01/28/511e7bcc-1511-11e9-90a8-136fa44b80ba_story.html?utm_term=.12e7ecb43baf" style="color: #de7008;">DC gov's efforts to limit their use</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Plastic zipper bags (I suspect from super markets/grocery stores), mostly empty, but often containing crumbs from the consumed food they enveloped</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Cans (mostly for so-called "soft drinks"/beer), often flattened by street traffic and found mostly on curbs</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Glass bottles (again, mostly for beer, but also for "hard" alcohol); Corona appears to be a favorite, often with empty bottles left on Tilden Street (past Connecticut Avenue) in a six-pack cardboard container slightly hidden in its sidewalk/wooded area</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Remains from junk food bags/containers: plastic knives/forks/spoons; ketchup/other food additives (to give the "food" taste) in relatively small white plastic (not always) rectangular receptacles (half the size of my thumb) with a "slip-off" cover</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Other miscellaneous plastic/elastic objects: combs, ballpoint pens, used /slimy prophylactics, credit cards, rubber bands</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Newspaper pages, in whole on in part, left/dumped on the street/sidewalks (many of which are evidently unread)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Cardboard, often the largest litter in term of individual size. (Do we have Amazon to thank for this influx of oversize cardboard in our relatively "open" spaces of the imperial capital?)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Empty cigarette packs, mostly of the "menthol" type; my bad: I don't pick up cigarette butts</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gloves: A real litter discovery for me! Amazing how many gloves (many of them, often "single," are made of plastic)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190507110452.htm" style="color: #de7008;">Scooters</a>: <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I not-so-gently push these unregulated atrocious "affordable transportation" gimmicks, exploiting (tax-free?) off </span></span>pedestrian space; btw, in urban spaces, it's called a side<i>walk, <b>not</b> a </i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">side</span><i>scooter</i></span></li>
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<li><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">Excuoooose me, but I consider scooters steel/iron/rubber litter, especially if not unregulated on park trails/sidewalks. Their drivers are violently -- yes, mentally violently (I can't think of another word) and narcissistically (correct spelling?) me-me-me first. The mentality behind the free-wheeling scoots: Just leave my groovy "thing" behind wherever/whenever on trails/sidewalks; in other words, to put it violently (if I may interpret the mentality) - f...k you (pointing the finger), I'll leave my thing wherever/whenever I f...kin' feel/like. (Note, BTW, are not where the scooters "ride" on tax-payer funded sidewalks/parks, where the scooters-riders abandon their tax-free things on D.C. streets/trails?; also their travelling gadgets (and how really "safe" are they?) are dumped free of charge in parks in pedestrian areas called trails -- complete eye-sores in a "God-bless-pristine Mother Nature setting."Various car parts, left near/on a sidewalk/curb (especially car wheels, hard to fit in a city trash bin)</span></i></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dog shit (pardon my language, I meant pooh) in (usually green) plastic wrappings left "wherever" by evidently well intentioned animal masters who don't want to be accused of leaving shit behind without the proper plastic embellishment</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>I initially refused -- for health reasons -- to pick up this plastic-covered shit, but broke down and am now putting the plastic-covered poo in my plastic litter bag. BTW, I recently bumped into an evidently cultivated lady of a certain age on my near-daily trash adventure in our so-called "upscale"neighborhood who said, when I saw her picking up dog shit, "If I don't pick up this pooh, who will?" </i></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">[Note: Given my failing memory, I may be missing, in the below numerical assessment, a plastic water bottle or two.]</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Needless to say, the plastic water bottles in NW DC I stumble upon end up in the public garbage receptacles in the National Park/along Connecticut Avenue.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">BUT NOW THE SERIOUS PART!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>5/7--6</b> <b>(including one half-filled bottle on the roof of a car parked in Rock Creek Park; and an empty Perrier plastic bottle -- vive la France! -- along Porter Street)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>5/11 -- 10!!! The most bottles found since 4/22! ) Porter Street wins with the most plastic bottles!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">4/22-5/18--81.5 empty/half empty H</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span><span style="font-size: small;">0 plastic bottles picked up in the NW section of the Imperial Capital! A </span></span>World Record!!! (hah, hah, hah)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(<span style="font-size: small;">Please correct my math, unprofessional reporting)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">No wonder USA is no. 1! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="text-align: left;">5/19--1 (One plastic water bottle found during a stroll on Connecticut Avenue)</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>5/26--11! Another record plastic water bottle pick-up day!!! 11!!! [see April 11, which held the previous record -- 10] Eleven plastic empty/near empty water bottles picked up (including one, <i>nearly full of urine</i>, on the Tilden Street divider as it leads down to Rock Creek east past Connecticut Avenue!) </b></span><br />
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</b></span> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>5-27--4 Including a Perrier plastic bottle (again, vive la France!) and the first such plastic "water" bottle found by your favorite scavenger: <i><a href="https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/5-reasons-why-vitaminwater-is-a-bad-idea#section1">vitamin water</a></i>)</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>5/30-- 8 plastic water bottles found! I could hardly contain my joy (no, I won't say disgust) at such an exciting discovery ...</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times, times new roman, serif;"><b>6/1---9 pwbs found -- all on Connecticut Avenue (including four in a brown paper bag)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> P.S. But look at these statistics on the bright side: We Americans are now evidently drinking a source of life, water (or so it's labelled by some liquid-peddling corporations), rather than sugary soda bubbly once-canned "drinks" (Hey, people, listen: things don't always go better with Coke or beer) ... And we (the fair sex included) don't need public toilets to urinate from our water-filled kidneys, just use 'em empty plastic water bottles!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>[<a href="https://www.liveabout.com/can-women-pee-in-a-bottle-backpacking-1766192">See</a>: "Can Women Pee in a Bottle While Backpacking?... Believe it or not, urinating in a bottle is your best solution, regardless of the situation. Although most of us don't have quite the aiming capability that guys do, with a little practice we can develop pretty good control over our urine stream—enough to pee into a wide-mouth water bottle if we can get it up close to us."]</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now, if we could only gastronomically chew on our omnipresent dumped-over-everywhere plastic items in a family-friendly restaurant, tastier than can ever be imagined if spiced with a popular Heinz ketchup, if your stomach can stand it ...</span></div>
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Are gig companies between a rock and a hard place? A tightening U.S. labor market, with unemployment at a half-century low, is spiriting away workers, <a class="attributed-text-hyperlink" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-a-tight-labor-market-gig-workers-get-harder-to-please-11556942404" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0073b1; font-weight: 600; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal reports</a>. Many switch between gigs quickly, never staying for more than a few months or only working part-time to supplement incomes. Meanwhile, loss-making companies like Uber and Lyft are hard-pressed to improve pay and benefits, especially as they go public.</div>
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In fact, some gig economy startups could have a turnover rate as high as 500% per year, </span></span><a class="tap-target feed-shared-text-view__mention ember-view" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/2282/" id="ember84" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><span data-entity-hovercard-id="urn:li:fs_miniCompany:2282" data-entity-type="MINI_COMPANY" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Wall Street Journal</span></a><button aria-expanded="false" aria-label="See more about The Wall Street Journal" class="entity-hovercard__a11y-trigger" data-entity-hovercard-id="urn:li:fs_miniCompany:2282" data-entity-hovercard-trigger="click" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: none; border-width: initial; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; flex-shrink: 0; font-family: inherit; height: 1px; line-height: inherit !important; opacity: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; width: 1px;"></button><span class="ember-view" id="ember88" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> reports. Yet for those who continue to use Uber and Lyft for full-time employment, pay can be as low as $15,000 a year. That's why many drivers have planned a massive strike on May 8 to protest low wages and little job security. "With the IPO, Uber's corporate owners are set to make billions, all while drivers are left in poverty and go bankrupt," executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance said in a release. Follow </span></span><a class="tap-target feed-shared-text-view__mention ember-view" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/683279/" id="ember92" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><span data-entity-hovercard-id="urn:li:fs_miniCompany:683279" data-entity-type="MINI_COMPANY" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Business Insider</span></a><button aria-expanded="false" aria-label="See more about Business Insider" class="entity-hovercard__a11y-trigger" data-entity-hovercard-id="urn:li:fs_miniCompany:683279" data-entity-hovercard-trigger="click" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; 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<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I love the question and answer posed in the article. ‘Have you guys ever considered you may burn through the entire available labor market of people interested in or willing to do roles like this?’ and they did not have an answer for that.</span></div>
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The reality is that so many organizations are in fact using some form of Gig employees and this trend is showing no signs of going away. 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For 76,670 jobs as of today, there are 2.02 million workers competing for work. </span><a class="hashtag-link ember-view" data-control-name="update_hashtag" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=%23alternativedata" id="ember726" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><span class="hashtag-a11y ember-view" dir="ltr" id="ember727" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="visually-hidden" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px !important; box-sizing: inherit; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px) !important; display: block !important; height: 1px !important; line-height: inherit !important; margin: -1px !important; outline: 0px; 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box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="visually-hidden" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px !important; box-sizing: inherit; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px) !important; display: block !important; height: 1px !important; line-height: inherit !important; margin: -1px !important; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden !important; padding: 0px !important; position: absolute !important; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap !important; width: 1px !important;">hashtag</span><span aria-hidden="true" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">#</span><span class="hashtag-a11y__name" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">freelancing</span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<a class="feed-shared-actor__container-link display-flex flex-grow-1 app-aware-link ember-view" data-control-id="Ych9bBBsRnuZ3DhX4Fb9DA==" data-control-name="original_share_actor_container" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/3066266/?miniCompanyUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniCompany%3A3066266" id="ember738" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; display: flex !important; flex-grow: 1 !important; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px 12px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><span class="feed-shared-actor__description t-12 t-black--light t-normal" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.6); display: block; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.33333; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;"></span></a><br />
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<a class="feed-shared-actor__container-link display-flex flex-grow-1 app-aware-link ember-view" data-control-id="Ych9bBBsRnuZ3DhX4Fb9DA==" data-control-name="original_share_actor_container" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/3066266/?miniCompanyUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniCompany%3A3066266" id="ember738" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; display: flex !important; flex-grow: 1 !important; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px 12px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><span class="feed-shared-actor__description t-12 t-black--light t-normal" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.6); display: block; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.33333; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3,446 followers</span></span></a></div>
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John Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408381085180641019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414658055211487499.post-27863685884272147182019-05-23T08:25:00.001-07:002019-05-23T08:26:26.025-07:00What Is Europe? Freedom, Slavery, Austerity or Nothing at All<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>As Europeans go to the polls in a Continental election, a New York Times reporter set out to find out what Europe means to Europeans in 2019.</b><br />
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Katrin Bennhold, photographs by Andrew Testa, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/world/europe/europe-election-parliament.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage">The New York Times,</a> May 22, 2019; original article contains additional illustrations/links<br />
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In his front yard in Poland, Jaroslaw Kurski flies the European Union flag, blue with a circle of yellow stars, and he carries one during street protests against a nationalist government that has chipped away at his country’s young democracy.<br />
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“The European flag has become the symbol of resistance,” said Mr. Kurski, the deputy editor of Gazeta Wyborcza, a liberal newspaper based in Warsaw.<br />
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In northern France, Guy Fünfrock and fellow Yellow Vest protesters at a rainy traffic roundabout talk about resistance, too, but defiantly fly the French tricolor. To them, Europe embodies everything they have come to hate: shuttered factories, stagnating wages and a young banker-turned-president who champions deeper integration.<br />
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“This Europe serves big business, not the little people,” said Mr. Fünfrock, a retired carpenter.<br />
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I met Mr. Kurski and Mr. Fünfrock on a 10-day journey through the European Union before the Continent votes from Thursday through Sunday for the European Parliament. I wanted to know: What does Europe mean to Europeans today?<br />
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The election has shaped up as a battle for the soul of Europe — between those who want more Europe and those who would water it down. The decades-old project of unity has rarely been more precarious.<br />
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The European Union has grown in successive waves for different reasons — democratizing and developing new members, always with the idea that prosperity and shared values would enhance security for all.<br />
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Today that expansion has left the bloc laboring under the weight of its own ideals and ambitions.<br />
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I retraced its origin story, starting at the French-German border, where it all began after World War II. Then to Italy, the country where the founding treaty was signed by just six members. I ended in the post-Communist east, where Europe’s newest members, and many of its poorest, joined after the Cold War, eventually bringing the group to 28.<br />
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By the end, I felt disoriented, and realized many Europeans did, too. “Freedom,” a German professor said, when asked what the European Union meant to him. “Slavery,” an Italian grandmother said. “Nothing at all,” a French electrician said.<br />
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But almost no one wanted their country to leave the European Union, even if almost no one was happy with how it was working.<br />
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Hope competed with disillusionment, I found. The balance almost invariably depended on opportunity — whether the idea of Europe had opened doors to prosperity, or let in unwanted threats in the form of new states, new values or new people.<br />
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In the sleepy Tuscan town of Cascina, Italy, I met a Catholic priest who fretted that Europe had lost its way.<br />
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“We’re living a big crisis,” the Rev. Elvis Ragusa, 36, said, sitting in an office next to his small church.<br />
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As a child, he watched an Italian television series called “Europe Is Us.” There was also a game show that offered up to 1 million lira to the first person to call in and shout “Europa, Europa!” live on air.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">It was the 1990s and Europe meant prosperity. “I grew up with that idea that Europe was our future,” Father Ragusa recalled.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">But for a new generation, Europe has become synonymous with austerity and the perils of open borders.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Father Ragusa’s town had voted for the left for seven decades. But three years ago, it became the first Tuscan town to switch allegiance to the hard-right, anti-immigrant League party of Matteo Salvini, Europe’s most flamboyant populist leader.</span><br />
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The priest took a small plastic globe off his bookshelf and spun it to show a flagrantly outsized Italian boot protruding from Europe. This is how Italians like to think of Italy today, he said.<br />
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Nationalism is winning. “It could be very dangerous,” he said.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">His words came back to me in Arezzo, Italy, where an engineer recalled his shock when his 16-year-old daughter gave the thumbs up after she heard on the news that a hundred migrants had drowned.</span><br />
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“Good,” she had said, “that’s a hundred less coming to Italy.” Then, seeing her father’s face, she added: “Look, Dad, don’t be so shocked, everyone thinks this.”<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">A French teacher from Normandy told me how his students started describing immigrants as “rats” during the 2015 migrant crisis.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">After that, he started signing them up for a European exchange program, Erasmus. I met him and his students on the plane to Gdansk, Poland.</span><br />
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“I thought: What can we do at our level to open these kids up to humanist ideas, to the idea of Europe?” the teacher, Mathieu Le Parquois, told me. His grandmother had been deported during World War II, but that was ancient history for his students.<br />
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“Not even their grandparents experienced it,” he said.<br />
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The place where I still found abundant idealism was in Strasbourg, France, on the border with Germany, where people did remember that history.<br />
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There, I met Rita Lemmel, the daughter of a German prisoner of war, who married a French factory worker. Their daughter has both passports, speaks both languages, lives in France and works in Germany. All three dream of a United States of Europe, American-style.<br />
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“We should have a president, and governors in each country,” said her French husband, Bruno Lemmel.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">But more often, I found that the European Union had become a proxy for big abstract things that people feel threaten their way of life: Migration in Italy. Capitalism in France. Liberal secular values in Poland.</span><br />
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Some were contemplating liberal democracy itself.<br />
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“Is it the best system we have? And for whom?” asked Wit Nirski, a 36-year-old advertisement strategist I met on the train from Warsaw back to Berlin. “Is it the best system for growth, is it the best system for people?”<br />
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“If people were happy,” he added, “why would the populists gain?”<br />
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Nowhere did the conversations feel as raw as in Poland, where freedom is both recent and fragile.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Gdansk — the city where World War II started; where the Solidarity union that brought down Communism was born; where Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, was born, too — was still reeling from the fatal stabbing this year of its mayor, Pawel Adamowicz.</span><br />
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His widow, Magdalena Adamowicz, is running in the European elections after her husband’s murder because, as she put it, Europe means “tolerance.”<br />
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Both of her grandmothers survived Auschwitz, she told me. “If you set people against each other, then you can have the same story as before,” she said. The week before I was with her, Polish state television showed images of Mr. Tusk next to images of Hitler and Stalin.<br />
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Mr. Kurski, the editor, told me that his paper faces some 30 lawsuits, several from the nationalist government.<br />
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The European Union and the European Court of Justice are important allies, Mr. Kurski said. “Without the European Union,” he said, “Poland would be an authoritarian state.”<br />
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Yet <span style="background-color: white;">in the small Polish town of Swiebodzin, whose claim to fame is a giant statue of Jesus, several people told me that Europe stands for diktat and secularization.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">“The E.U. is dictating conditions to Poland,” said a local resident named Borzena, 59, as she stepped out from an evening Mass. Gay marriage and gay adoption were not welcome here, she said.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Opposite the church, a nationalist election poster showed the campaign slogan of the governing Law and Justice party: “Poland is the heart of Europe.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Poland’s nationalists do not want to take Poland out of the European Union. They want to take the European Union out of Poland.</span><br />
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“We are Polish and we want to stay Polish,” Danuta Bialooka-Kostenecka, a local politician in the north, told me.<br />
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Everywhere people wanted their own nation “first.” Especially in Italy.<br />
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I spent a day on the campaign trail with Susanna Ceccardi, a 32-year-old rising star of the League, who says Europe is at risk of being Islamized.<br />
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As mayor of Cascina, she has instructed the police to remove immigrant hawkers, hired private security guards outside schools and handed out pepper spray to Italian women in her town. She was distributing fliers one recent Saturday, promising to fight “bureaucrats in Brussels.”<br />
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Like on that Tuscan square, where the League was the only party campaigning, in Kehl, a contented western German town where the streets are clean, the cars are big and unemployment is low, the only campaign stall I saw belonged to a far-right party, Alternative for Germany.<br />
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Its slogan — “Secure the Borders!” — made me think of all the times I had crossed borders on this journey, while barely noticing.<br />
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I walked across the Rhine, once a front line between France and Germany.<br />
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I took the train from Poland back to Germany, crossing the Oder, another river name associated with a front line.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">But where physical borders have melted away, other borders have risen. Borders between cities and countryside, borders between young and old and, above all, between rich and poor.</span><br />
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Those borders have grown taller, said Jeremy Klein, one of the Yellow Vest protesters on the roundabout of Thillois, outside of Reims, France.<br />
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An electrician, Mr. Klein works 60-hour weeks and still struggles. He blames Europe. It was after the former Soviet bloc countries joined the European Union that things got tough in France, he said.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">“We have sold our know-how to Europe and now we are in competition with workers who are paid less than us,” he said. “We’re just competing with Europe. It is not a fair Europe. I don’t feel European at all. I am French, only French.”</span><br />
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The Kleins have never voted and do not plan to vote in the European elections. “What’s the point?” Mr. Klein said.<br />
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After 10 days on the road, my main takeaway was this: Europe cannot be taken for granted. But neither can its demise.<br />
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As Father Ragusa put it in Tuscany, Europe is a choice Europeans need to make over and over again.<br />
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He spoke of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor who was killed by the Nazis and had written about the role a toxic combination of economic hardship and ethnic hatred played in the rise of fascism. What he had written about Germany during its ascent could have been written today, Father Ragusa said.<br />
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The question Europe ultimately faces is the same, today as always, he said: “What values do you want to follow? You have a responsibility to decide.”<br />
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<i>Christopher F. Schuetze contributed reporting from Berlin and Joanna Berendt contributed reporting from Warsaw.</i></div>
John Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408381085180641019noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414658055211487499.post-84079959625755932292019-05-21T13:30:00.001-07:002019-05-21T13:32:00.033-07:00Image for the day: Ukrainian/Russian "Reconcialition"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</span></em>To mark the country’s WWII Memorial Day on May 8, Ukraine’s President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy posted this picture of his meeting with former Soviet naval captain Ivan Zaluzhniy and Ukrainian Insurgent Army veteran Paraskeva Zelenchuk-Potiak along with the message: “The key to peace today is unity among all Ukrainians." Courtesy photo<br />
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It could provide a natural shelter in which to build a future lunar base, according to a NASA astronaut in a <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/reddit/index.html" id="mol-309525b0-7b03-11e9-8ebf-ffbbf0022366" style="color: #003580; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.01em; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Reddit</a>-based Q&A.</div>
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These lava tubes are long, tunnel-like structures formed after the surface of a lava flow hardens before hollowing out. </div>
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The cave structures would provide a shield against both the moon's temperature fluctuations and harmful solar radiation — thereby cutting down on building costs. </div>
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NASA geoscientist Daniel Moriarty and colleagues discussed the possibility of future moonbases during a Reddit 'ask me anything' session on May 16, 2019. </div>
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NASA astronauts could one day take live inside lava tubes (pictured, an artists impression of the end of a tube being discovered) just beneath the moon's surface, which would provide a natural shelter in which to build a future lunar base</div>
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The online Q&A session was focused on the upcoming 2024 moonshot — to be dubbed 'Artemis' — which the US space agency is working towards.</div>
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Questions turned, however, to the possibility of moonbases in the future and the steps that would be required to prepare the lunar surface for human inhabitants</div>
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'I don't think we're going to be able to change anything about the surface of the moon much,' Dr Moriarty wrote in response.</div>
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'Instead, I think it makes sense to work within some of the structures and resources that are already there.</div>
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'It could be interesting to set up shop within a pre-existing lava tube,' he added.</div>
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Setting up a base within an extinct lava tube, Dr Moriarty said, 'could provide astronauts with some shielding from temperature variations and incoming solar radiation.' </div>
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Lava tubes are long, tunnel-like structures formed after the surface of a lava flow hardens and then its inside is emptied out, leaving a hollow behind (Pictured: a view of a 328-feet-deep crater in the Moon's Mare Tranquillitatis, which may connect to a lava tube)</div>
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Lava tubes are long, natural caves that are left behind by past volcanic activity. </div>
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They are formed when the surface of a lava flow cools to form a hard crust above the molten rock moving beneath.</div>
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When the volume of the flowing lava depletes, the tubes can drain and leave behind a hollow tunnel.</div>
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The presence of lava tubes underneath the moon's surface is often revealed when part of the tunnel roof collapses, leaving behind a circular hole referred to as a 'skylight'.</div>
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Lunar lava tubes can reach up to 1,600 feet (500 metres) in width before they become unstable and liable to collapse under their own weight.</div>
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Tubes can also collapse as a result of seismic activity, or meteorite bombardment.</div>
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Lava tubes are not the only one of the moon's resources that could be useful to develop a future lunar base, however.</div>
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In fact, this is the very plan of the China National Space Administration, which announced in April its plans to establish an international base near the moon's ice-rich south pole within the next decade.</div>
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The announcement of China's timeline for space exploration follows its first soft landing of a spacecraft, Chang’e-4, on the far side of the moon, back in the January of this year.</div>
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NASA had publicly announced their intention to have astronauts return to the moon back in March 2019. </div>
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'This time, when we go to the Moon, we will stay,' NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has said.</div>
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The space agency, he added, plans to use 'innovative, new technologies' to explore 'more locations across the lunar surface than ever before'.</div>
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'We will use what we learn as we move forward to the Moon to take the next giant leap – sending astronauts to Mars.'</div>
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These plans were accelerated in late March after US Vice President Mike Pence announced that the Trump administration wanted to see NASA sending astronauts back to the moon in five years' time.</div>
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Mr Pence made the comments during a speech at the fifth meeting of the National Space Council in Huntsville, Alabama. </div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.01em;">In the Reddit question session, the NASA scientists said they were confident about achieving these goals, despite the accelerated time frame.</span></div>
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If successfully delivered, the upcoming moon landing will be the seventh manned US lunar expedition, following its previous excursions between 1969 and 1972.</div>
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The space agency is used to 'big challenges', with recent provisions in the US budget making the endeavours 'doable', the scientists added.</div>
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The 2024 Artemis mission will send the first woman to the moon's surface and aims to be the first crewed mission to land near the lunar south pole.</div>
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The full exchange between the NASA scientists and members of the public can be read on <a class="class" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/bpdget/were_nasa_experts_working_to_send_humans_to_the/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #003580; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.01em; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Reddit</a>. </div>
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Twenty years into a marriage that included children, a minivan and three cats, my husband announced the following:</div>
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He meant to say “settlement,” but he’s a finance guy, and that’s the kind of lingo they use.</div>
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In reaction to the divorce that followed, I came up with the idea of taking five lovers over the course of a year. This was not the typical response for a woman about to turn 50, a matron rejected by her husband who had been married for most of her adult life. But I knew I could not rebuild my self-esteem on a diet of yoga and middle-aged friends commiserating about the scarcity of decent partners.</div>
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What I needed is embarrassing to admit because it sounds egotistical, but it is the truth, and it went deeper than ego: I wanted men to desire me. The problem was, after two decades off the market, during which time I had focused on raising our children and rarely worn anything but socks and flannel pajamas to bed, I was clueless about where and how to find available men, whether they would like me, and which of them, if any, I would want to keep for good.</div>
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I lost 20 pounds, straightened my hair and started wearing lipstick. Despite some graceless early attempts, finding applicants was easier than I thought. But here is the key (millennial women take note): I had to take the initiative every time.</div>
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First, I met an explosives expert in an airport, a man 20 years younger who looked like a combination of an Abercrombie & Fitch model and every country music star on my Apple playlist. I was elated Mr. Blue Eyes did not run away screaming when he saw my naked body with cellulite across my belly.</div>
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“You have nothing to be embarrassed about,” he promised. He went on to explain certain men fantasize about older moms, which was good news for me.</div>
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Although here is a secret: Our lovemaking was as tense and fumbling as you would expect from two virtual strangers. It did not matter. I was overjoyed to be having sex again, even awkward sex. And it made me regret all those times I ridiculed divorced older men who rebuilt their self-esteem by sleeping with younger partners.</div>
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It may not be a recipe for a healthy partnership, but as a surefire boost to a crumpled ego, it worked awfully well.</div>
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No. 2 was Gorgeous Yoga Man, a muscular single dad who I chatted up when he took my spot at vinyasa. A few dates in, after long talks about poetry and parenthood, he confessed he had had a heart attack and said he could not have sex. We kissed all night instead, and I whispered good night to him believing we would meet again the next day. Eight months passed before I heard from him. We remained friends, but if I wanted a man who ignored me, I would have stuck with my husband.</div>
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No. 3 was an adorable 30-year-old professional acquaintance with razor stubble who flirted shamelessly whenever I had meetings in his office. At age 15 or 25, I would have found it gross, or possibly traumatic, to encourage this brazen male attention. But now, there was no reason for alarm; this man-boy could not deny me a promotion or pressure me into sex. And he wanted me. <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Me. </i>Our flirtation turned into sexting, which transmogrified into a wildly erotic daytime tryst.</div>
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Two hours after leaving my bed, he sent me the following text<i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">: Babe, that was incredible. Totally mind-blowing. You are unforgettable. But . . . I have a girlfriend. I don’t want to ruin it with her. So, I think this has to be a one-time thing. Are you okay with that?</i></div>
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That was the first time he mentioned his girlfriend.</div>
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Then in another airport, I gave my card to No. 4, a tan, uber-fit Marine devastated by a recent divorce. We rendezvoused in different cities and texted avidly during hockey games despite living 400 miles apart. <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nota bene</i>: Airports are a heck of a good places to meet interesting men. Much better than bars or online dating sites, which I tried only once, because once was enough. But airports? My pulse races thinking about the men lining up for TSA PreCheck.</div>
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Finally, along came No. 5. He had been a high school boyfriend, painfully shy at 16, a unicorn who had never married or had kids. My therapist cautioned that the first serious relationship following divorce can outshine the marriage itself, because you are flooded with hope that the new romance will make up for everything you lost. She was right.</div>
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I fell in love like slipping off a cliff, free-falling into the intimacy and adventurous sex I had craved for decades. Then, after months declaring his eternal love, that same sweet boy who had been my friend for over 30 years snuck into my computer, broke up with me because he thought I was cheating on him and confessed he was the one actually cheating.</div>
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It was really quite a year.</div>
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You might think five dead-end boyfriends in 12 months would turn me off men, or off dating after 50, at least. That I might join those women who, perhaps logically, declare <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">there are no men out there</i>. Not so.</div>
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Even though I remained single, the year transformed me. Despite my tears, I got what I needed most: hope that I could love again. More fabulous sex than I had had in the 30 years prior. Who would not be grateful for hope and great sex, at 50 or at any age?</div>
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Post-divorce, these transient men showed me the naked truth that I am comfortable in my skin, even if it is not smooth any longer. I can, in middle age, own what my feminist self could not in my 20s or 30s: I have always loved men. I am not suggesting all women need men in this fashion. But in my case, feeling wanted by a man has revitalized how I view parenting, work, money, death, sex and myself as a woman.</div>
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Negative cultural messages decrying the lack of “good” men capable of valuing me as a woman convinced me, ironically, to settle for subpar matches. But the problem has never been a dearth of men. There are men everywhere. (And women, too.) At every age of our lives. On sidewalks, in airports, supermarkets and yoga studios.</div>
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Every man I dated taught me something fundamental. That life deepens and scars all of us. That I can feel beautiful and sensual at any age. That no matter how much I enjoy boy chasing, the true relationships that nurture me most profoundly hinge on my children, my friends, my relationship with myself and my work.</div>
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While it may seem contradictory, my year of the five boyfriends also reinforced the folly that one idealized partner would complete me permanently. In the end, finding true love is rarely a good measure of how much you deserve it. That gift, you give yourself.</div>
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<i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This piece was adapted from Leslie Morgan’s latest book, “</i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/150117410X?ie=UTF8&tag=washpost-20&camp=1789&linkCode=xm2&creativeASIN=150117410X" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c6cb4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Naked Truth: A Memoir</i></a><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">,” which will be released this week. She is the author of the New York Times best-selling memoir “</i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Crazy-Love-Leslie-Morgan-Steiner/dp/0312377460/ref=as_sl_pc_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=thewaspos09-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=4TQNLOA26IULYWCL&creativeASIN=0312377460" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c6cb4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Crazy Love</i></a><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">” and also “</i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812974484?ie=UTF8&tag=washpost-20&camp=1789&linkCode=xm2&creativeASIN=0812974484" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c6cb4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mommy Wars</i></a><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.” Morgan lives in Washington, D.C. and New Hampshire.</i></div>
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John Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408381085180641019noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414658055211487499.post-84058727905314048602019-05-20T05:50:00.003-07:002019-05-20T17:52:08.271-07:00Quotation for the Day (machines vs. philosophy)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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John Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408381085180641019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414658055211487499.post-84272099050625501552019-05-20T04:47:00.000-07:002019-05-20T04:47:02.028-07:00For Teens, Romances Where the Couple Never Meets Are Now Normal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>A generation that lives online is redefining dating; ‘We only met for 20 minutes and that was the first and last time we ever saw each other</b><br />
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<span class="wsj-article-caption-content" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Online relationships that bloom before the two parties ever meet are becoming more common.</span> <span class="wsj-article-credit article__inset__image__caption__credit" itemprop="creator" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wsj-article-credit-tag" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ILLUSTRATION: </span>JOHN KUCZALA; ISTOCKPHOTO (4)</span></div>
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If we’re looking for an explanation of why today’s teens are having less sex than previous generations, there’s this: Many of them spend months or even years dating without ever meeting face to face.</div>
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When Nicole Nguyen was 16, she met her first serious boyfriend for the first and last time—after they’d broken up. They had 20 minutes. They hugged once. It only happened because that day, they just happened to find themselves in the same state.</div>
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Yet for an entire year, they spent almost every waking moment texting each other, talking on voice-chat <span class="intexthighlight" id="MCQRP" phasehl="km:en-US" style="animation: 0.9s ease 0s 1 normal none running; border-bottom: 1px solid; border-left: none; border-radius: 0%; border-right: none; border-top: none; color: #1a75ff; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-size: inherit; line-height: 27px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow: visible; padding: 0px 0px 0.065em; position: relative; vertical-align: inherit;">apps</span>, and even communicating over webcams through Skype and Oovoo. Ms. Nguyen, 24, is now a pre-kindergarten teaching assistant living in Brooklyn Park, Minn. To this day her parents have no idea they ever dated in the first place.</div>
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They might sound unusual: online relationships that bloom, reach a <span class="intexthighlight" id="WjjFW" phasehl="km:en-US" style="animation: 0.9s ease 0s 1 normal none running; border-bottom: 1px solid; border-left: none; border-radius: 0%; border-right: none; border-top: none; color: #1a75ff; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-size: inherit; line-height: 27px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow: visible; padding: 0px 0px 0.065em; position: relative; vertical-align: inherit;">fever</span> pitch of teenage intensity and—possibly—even wither before the two parties ever meet. But they’re becoming more common than ever. Ask any teenager—if they haven’t been in a relationship like this themselves, they can probably name friends who have.</div>
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Liking someone’s Instagram is the modern-day equivalent of smiling at them across a crowded room. Every online service eventually becomes a chatroom—be it TikTok, Fortnite or any of the other countless distractions that allow people to connect.</div>
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Expectations of that eventual physical encounter can become so great, the couple fears their first in-person meeting could be a disappointment.</div>
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The technologies that make it so easy for young people to connect with others all over the world have yet to give them the ability to teleport their bodies as easily. It’s possible to find someone who happens to <span class="intexthighlight" id="wwqog" phasehl="km:en-US" style="animation: 0.9s ease 0s 1 normal none running; border-bottom: 1px solid; border-left: none; border-radius: 0%; border-right: none; border-top: none; color: #1a75ff; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-size: inherit; line-height: 27px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow: visible; padding: 0px 0px 0.065em; position: relative; vertical-align: inherit;">share</span>one’s particular combination of tastes—but what are the odds they go to your school or even live in the same town?</div>
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While there is little or no research on the phenomenon of long-distance-only relationships among young people, it’s not surprising that it’s happening, say experts. It’s one of the ways teens and twentysomethings are adapting to a combination of two demographic trends—earlier puberty and later marriage—using the technology at hand, says Stephanie Coontz, emeritus professor at Evergreen State College and the director of research and public education at the <a class="icon none" href="https://contemporaryfamilies.org/about/?mod=article_inline" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 30px 30px; color: #0080c3; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Council on Contemporary Families</a>, based at the University of Texas at Austin.</div>
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“So you have a period of life of 15 to 20 years where people have to manage their sexual, romantic and intimate needs in ways that are more flexible than they used to be, and young people are experimenting with how to handle that,” she says.</div>
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“The way me and my boyfriend met was very strange,” says Katelyn Bobbitt, 20 years old and living in Providence, R.I. “We originally met through a YouTuber who was streaming <span class="intexthighlight" id="eJpnE" phasehl="km:en-US" style="animation: 0.9s ease 0s 1 normal none running; border-bottom: 1px solid; border-left: none; border-radius: 0%; border-right: none; border-top: none; color: #1a75ff; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-size: inherit; line-height: 27px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow: visible; padding: 0px 0px 0.065em; position: relative; vertical-align: inherit;">Minecraft</span>.” What followed wasn’t exactly a whirlwind romance—more of a modern-day version of “Pride and Prejudice” involving chaste encounters in group voice chats on the popular <span class="intexthighlight" id="irfnm" phasehl="km:en-US" style="animation: 0.9s ease 0s 1 normal none running; border-bottom: 1px solid; border-left: none; border-radius: 0%; border-right: none; border-top: none; color: #1a75ff; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-size: inherit; line-height: 27px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow: visible; padding: 0px 0px 0.065em; position: relative; vertical-align: inherit;">gaming</span> chat app Discord, and, instead of coy glances at the ball, joint play sessions on a shared Minecraft server.</div>
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“I started getting more and more out of my shell, which is something I did not do in <span class="intexthighlight" id="tCqnh" phasehl="km:en-US" style="animation: 0.9s ease 0s 1 normal none running; border-bottom: 1px solid; border-left: none; border-radius: 0%; border-right: none; border-top: none; color: #1a75ff; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-size: inherit; line-height: 27px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow: visible; padding: 0px 0px 0.065em; position: relative; vertical-align: inherit;">real life</span>,” says Ms. Bobbitt. “I became closer to these people online than I did with my friends I had in high school.” Eight months into their online friendship, Ms. Bobbitt and Jacob Ribeiro declared themselves boyfriend and girlfriend, though they still had yet to meet.</div>
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A year after they first struck up a conversation in a <span class="intexthighlight" id="SSMJj" phasehl="km:en-US" style="animation: 0.9s ease 0s 1 normal none running; border-bottom: 1px solid; border-left: none; border-radius: 0%; border-right: none; border-top: none; color: #1a75ff; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-size: inherit; line-height: 27px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow: visible; padding: 0px 0px 0.065em; position: relative; vertical-align: inherit;">YouTube</span> chat thread, Ms. Bobbitt, then 19, told her parents she was in love and that she was getting on a plane to meet a boyfriend they didn’t know existed.</div>
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“I just straight up told them I’m doing this and you can’t tell me no,” says Ms. Bobbitt, who had saved money to pay for airfare. “But my dad was just like, ‘You better call me... You better tell me where this boy lives.’”</div>
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Now Ms. Bobbitt and Mr. Ribeiro live together.</div>
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The online environments that allow some people to cultivate more intimate relationships can also become a burden, however. Expectations of that eventual physical encounter can become so great, the couple fears their first in-person meeting could be a disappointment.</div>
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That’s what kept Seyar Tahib, a 21-year-old <span class="intexthighlight" id="DXWWz" phasehl="km:en-US" style="animation: 0.9s ease 0s 1 normal none running; border-bottom: 1px solid; border-left: none; border-radius: 0%; border-right: none; border-top: none; color: #1a75ff; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-size: inherit; line-height: 27px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow: visible; padding: 0px 0px 0.065em; position: relative; vertical-align: inherit;">college student</span> living in Fremont, Calif., from meeting up with his girlfriend, he says, even though they’d talked online on and off for a year, and had even begun “dating” without even hearing one another’s voices. Finally, they worked up the courage to meet, and everything turned out fine.</div>
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“We were just scared we wouldn’t feel the same after we met each other,” Mr. Tahib says.</div>
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Fear that people we know only through the internet might not be who they seem—or even claim—is perfectly rational. In the most extreme cases, people will create fake online personas, known as “catfishing,” to defraud the lonely.</div>
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In Ms. Nguyen’s case, both of the online-only relationships she had from age 14 until she was 16 ended when she discovered that the attentive, always-online boys she was dating were busy also dating other girls, online... and in <span class="intexthighlight" id="QJVCL" phasehl="km:en-US" style="animation: 0.9s ease 0s 1 normal none running; border-bottom: 1px solid; border-left: none; border-radius: 0%; border-right: none; border-top: none; color: #1a75ff; cursor: pointer; display: inline; float: none; font-size: inherit; line-height: 27px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow: visible; padding: 0px 0px 0.065em; position: relative; vertical-align: inherit;">real life</span>.</div>
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Tiffany Zhong is chief executive of Zebra IQ, which gathers insights on the behavior and tastes of Generation Z, usually defined as people born since 1995. She runs an app and online community, of which Ms. Nguyen, Ms. Bobbitt and Mr. Tahib have been participants. Another respondent told Ms. Zhong that when she was 16, she had a brief online-only relationship with a boy two years her senior. Two years later, after she had ended the relationship, she discovered that he was in jail for assaulting a female relative.</div>
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Even when things are going well, there are other challenges.</div>
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“Long-distance relationships don’t give you the physical touching, which is so important in terms of what it does for people’s immune systems and their health—not just sexual touching but affectionate touching,” says Prof. Coontz.</div>
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Research connecting this change in behavior to other changes in the habits of young people is virtually non-existent, but it’s at least plausible that one reason America’s young people are engaging in less risky behavior than previous generations is simply that they are <a class="icon none" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-generation-z-live-chilling-replaces-hanging-out-in-person-1487519134?mod=article_inline" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 30px 30px; color: #0080c3; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">hanging out online instead of in person</a>.</div>
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For example, the percentage of Americans age 18 to 29 who report not having had sex in the past year was <a class="icon none" href="https://gssdataexplorer.norc.org/?mod=article_inline" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 30px 30px; color: #0080c3; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">23% in 2018</a>, where in the early 1990s the figure was about half that.</div>
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But America’s “sex drought” is not, in itself, a bad thing, says Prof. Coontz. Finding creative ways to address their psychological and physical needs with technology is just what young people do, she points out. On one hand, there’s a hookup culture enabled by apps such as Tinder, while on the other hand, there’s the emergence of online-only relationships.</div>
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“It used to be that getting into a steady relationship was how you started your life, now it’s what you do when you have all your ducks in a row,” says Prof. Coontz.</div>
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John Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408381085180641019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414658055211487499.post-11548022222096521312019-05-20T04:24:00.002-07:002019-05-20T04:24:46.810-07:00‘Playing Catch-Up in the Game of Life.’ Millennials Approach Middle Age in Crisis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b> New data show they’re in worse financial shape than every preceding living generation and may never recover</b><br />
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Janet Adamy and Paul Overberg, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/playing-catch-up-in-the-game-of-life-millennials-approach-middle-age-in-crisis-11558290908?mod=hp_lead_pos5">The Wall Street Journal</a>, May 19, 2019 2:35 p.m. ET; original article contains links, charts, and photographs</div>
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American millennials are approaching middle age in worse financial shape than every living generation ahead of them, lagging behind baby boomers and Generation X despite a decade of economic growth and falling unemployment.<br />
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Hobbled by the financial crisis and recession that struck as they began their working life, Americans born between 1981 and 1996 have failed to match every other generation of young adults born since the Great Depression. They have less wealth, less property, lower marriage rates and fewer children, according to new data that compare generations at similar ages.<br />
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Even with record levels of education, the troubles of millennials have delayed traditional adult milestones in ways expected to alter the nation’s demographic and economic contours through the end of the century.<br />
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Millennials helped drive the number of U.S. births to their lowest levels in 32 years. That means fewer workers in the future to support Social Security and other public programs for the ballooning population of retirees.<br />
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Social Security last month estimated that in 2035, after nearly all baby boomers retire, there will be 2.2 workers per beneficiary. Last year, there were 2.8. The current birthrate of around 1.8 children per woman is expected to create a Social Security deficit of nearly $2 trillion over the next 75 years.<br />
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Prospects for a quick turnaround aren’t good. Men and women in their 30s are marrying at rates below every other generation on record.<br />
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“We’ll have to rethink a lot of things about taxation and how social programs are funded if fertility is really on a more permanent decline,” said Anqi Chen, assistant director of savings research at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.<br />
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Growth in property values and the stock market this past decade helped older households regain ground since the recession. Millennials, though, have made little headway.<br />
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“If I can’t afford a home, I definitely can’t afford kids,” said Joy Brown, 32 years old. She is a renter who is single and earns $75,000 a year. She also owes $102,000 in student loans and $10,000 in credit-card debt.<br />
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“Myself and a lot of my peers still feel like we’re playing catch-up in the game of life,” said Ms. Brown, a compliance officer for the city of Chicago.<br />
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More than half the 72 million American millennials are now in their 30s. The oldest will turn 38 this year, when their generation is expected to surpass the number of baby boomers.<br />
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Their slow start has been well-documented in the first years after the recession. New data show that millennials may never catch up with the generations of Americans that preceded them.<br />
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“Their economic fundamentals are fundamentally different,” said Christopher Kurz, an economist at the Federal Reserve.<br />
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Mr. Kurz and his colleagues last year analyzed income, debt, asset and consumption data to figure out how millennials compared at similar ages with Generation X, people born between 1965 and 1980, as well as baby boomers, those born from 1946 to 1964.<br />
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They found that millennial households had an average net worth of about $92,000 in 2016, nearly 40% less than Gen X households in 2001, adjusted for inflation, and about 20% less than baby boomer households in 1989.<br />
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Wages didn’t look much better. At the same ages, Gen X men working full time and who were heads of households earned 18% more than their millennial counterparts, and baby boomer men earned 27% more, when adjusting for inflation, age and other socioeconomic variables.<br />
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Among women, incomes were 12% higher for Gen Xers and 24% higher for baby boomers than for millennials, using the same measures.<br />
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One explanation for their slow progress is bad luck. Economists have found that entering the workforce during a downturn yields lower earnings for life.<br />
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Till von Wachter, an economics professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that Americans who entered the labor market when unemployment rates rose by five points—about the same as in the 2007-09 recession—saw their cumulative earnings fall by 10% over the first decade of a career.<br />
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“The effects have health and lifestyle consequences well into middle-age,” said Prof. von Wachter. He reviewed four decades of earning data in his study, which was conducted with Hannes Schwandt of Northwestern University.<br />
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The disappearance of manufacturing jobs, which in postwar years paid middle-class wages to high-school graduates, is another misfortune. Those who lack a college degree are at the biggest risk of falling behind.<br />
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Median household income last year was about $105,300 for millennials with a bachelor’s degree or higher, more than twice that of households headed by high-school graduates, according to the Pew Research Center.<br />
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Many millennials couldn’t afford to buy houses or invest in the stock market early enough to profit from the sharp escalation of prices over the past decade, said William Emmons, an economist at the Center for Household Financial Stability at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.<br />
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About one third of millennials owned homes in 2016, compared with half of Gen Xers at similar ages in 2001, and just under half of baby boomers in 1989, according to Mr. Kurz’s findings. Even if millennials close the gap as they age, “asset prices are so high,” Mr. Emmons said, that their expected return on real estate is lower.<br />
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Losing out on a decade of gains in the stock and housing markets hurt the financial standing of millennial households. Between 2010 and 2016, Gen Xers, baby boomers and the older silent generation all recouped some of their recession losses, while the average family headed by someone born in the 1980s fell further behind the older groups, in relative terms.<br />
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The St. Louis Fed found the median wealth of a family headed by someone born in the 1980s was a third below the level that they would expect, compared with earlier generations at the same age and adjusted for inflation.<br />
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The regional Fed bank concluded that people born in the 1980s are at risk of becoming America’s lost generation, Mr. Emmons said, men and women who feel an almost insurmountable burden to catch up financially.<br />
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Millennials, as a group, are better educated than any generation before them. About four in 10 ages 25 to 37 hold at least a bachelor’s degree compared with about a quarter of baby boomers, and three in 10 Gen Xers when they were the same age.<br />
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Those college diplomas have come at a high price. The average student-loan balance for millennials in 2017 was $10,600, more than twice the average owed by Gen X in 2004, according to Mr. Kurz and his Fed colleagues.<br />
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Tasha and Joseph Cochran, at home in Maryland with their children. The couple put off getting married when they realized combining their salaries could drive up their income-based student loan payments.<br />
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'If we had zero student loans we'd be married.' The Cochrans wear wedding rings and built a life together.<br />
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Mr. Cochran and his 3-year-old son. The Cochrans are working to pay off $377,000 in student debt.<br />
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For the Cochrans, the price was personal. Joseph Cochran, a real-estate manager, proposed to Tasha Brown in 2012. She said yes. Then Ms. Brown, a consumer finance attorney, realized that combining their salaries as a married couple could drive up their income-based student-loan payments.<br />
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They ditched their wedding plans but forged a life together. Each wear wedding rings. Ms. Brown, 36, legally changed her name and became Ms. Cochran. The couple run a financial-advice website, whittling away at their combined student debt of $377,000.<br />
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“If we had zero student loans we’d be married,” Ms. Cochran said. “We have to be far more strategic and creative in order to try to fit everything in around our student loans.”<br />
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Their strategy included moving from Philadelphia to Maryland four years ago. Ms. Cochran struggled to get pregnant, and the couple chose a state that mandated insurance coverage of in vitro fertilization, she said. The Cochrans now have a 3-year-old son.<br />
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Ms. Cochran also has a 17-year-old daughter from a previous relationship and has promised to pay for college as long as the teenager studies at an in-state school. Last fall, the young woman enrolled in community college to get a head start.<br />
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Her teenager “likes the idea of being able to graduate without having any student loans,” Ms. Cochran said.<br />
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The family takes a more practical view of higher education, based, in part, on hard-won experience with jobs and school loans. “We tell her to think a lot about how much is a given major going to pay,” Ms. Cochran said.<br />
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The financial strain faced by many American millennials is driving shifts in their political views, reflecting a “feeling that as a citizen the system is not really operating as you expect it to,” said Mohamed Younis, editor in chief of Gallup.<br />
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A Gallup poll last summer found that millennials were the only generation that favored socialism over capitalism by a slight margin. The survey didn’t include Generation Z, people born in 1997 or later, and who are mostly too young to vote.<br />
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Tough times for millennials struggling to reach a more comfortable middle-class life have triggered support for populist candidates and promises of universal health care and free college education.<br />
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Tony Mancilla, a 31-year-old hospital maintenance technician in American Falls, Idaho, voted for Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, in 2016. Now, he is interested in Sen. Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, a self-described democratic socialist.<br />
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Mr. Mancilla, who earns about $35,000 a year, said he can’t afford the more than $600 a month it costs to insure his wife and two children on his employer plan. His children rely on a publicly subsidized plan. His wife is uninsured.<br />
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These health-care worries pointed Mr. Mancilla to Mr. Sanders’s Democratic Party primary campaign and “his way of looking at health care, trying to get that for everybody, taxing the rich,” he said. “He might have the best interest for the American people rather than just one class.”<br />
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As millennials approach middle age, more are asking for help from their employers. Ford Motor Co. two years ago expanded its financial-planning services after internal surveys found that the top monetary concern of millennials was saving for retirement. Ford’s planning services include one-on-one reviews of employee investments. All 80,000 U.S. workers are eligible.<br />
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“A good number of them are in their 30s and are thinking about longer-term planning,” said Julie Lodge-Jarrett, chief talent officer at the Dearborn, Mich., auto maker. “While they want to save, and they inherently get the importance of saving and planning, they don’t know how to do it.”<br />
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Zillow Group Inc., the Seattle real-estate company, earlier this year began offering a student-loan repayment program, contributing $25 a month toward the employee’s balance. The benefit was initiated after workers asked for help tackling college debts, said Dan Spaulding, the company’s chief people officer.<br />
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About 580 workers have signed up, the company said, and they carry an average loan balance of about $28,000.<br />
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Mike Maughan, head of global insights at Qualtrics in Provo, Utah, which researches millennials, said the financial picture of the generation is rosier than it appears: “Millennials are much scrappier than we give them credit for.”<br />
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Employers have told Mr. Maughan that the desire of millennials for on-the-job feedback shows they are eager to improve their skills.<br />
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One other bright spot: Millennials are entering their prime earning years just as baby boomers retire. That should fuel demand for their skills and lift their earnings. “The job market is so much better, so much stronger than it was 10 years ago,” said Mr. Emmons, of the St. Louis Fed. “That’s a huge benefit.”<br />
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<i>Write to Janet Adamy at janet.adamy@wsj.com</i><br />
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<i>Appeared in the May 20, 2019, print edition as 'Millennials Near Middle Age in Crisis.'</i><br />
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John Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408381085180641019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414658055211487499.post-67222553343163049542019-05-19T16:25:00.001-07:002019-05-20T17:56:04.344-07:00Image of the past year: A Powerful President -- A Powerful Russia!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Via SL (spasibo!); <a href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/05/17/who-russians-think-will-succeed-putin-in-2024-a65621">from</a>; my takesome would say that a proper translation of sil'nyi is "strong"; but I prefer the "stronger" emphasis ... "powerful," an adjective bound to appeal to the powerless masses.<br />
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John Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408381085180641019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414658055211487499.post-50899727754658798902019-05-19T02:02:00.000-07:002019-05-19T02:28:45.605-07:00I oversaw the U.S. nuclear power industry. Now I think it should be banned.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>The danger from climate change no longer outweighs the risks of nuclear accidents.</b><br />
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By Gregory Jaczko, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/i-oversaw-the-us-nuclear-power-industry-now-i-think-it-should-be-banned/2019/05/16/a3b8be52-71db-11e9-9eb4-0828f5389013_story.html?utm_term=.70093ba0419c">The Washington Post</a>, May 17<br />
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<i>Gregory Jaczko served on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 2005 to 2009, and as its chairman from 2009 to 2012. The author of "Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator," he is the founder of Wind Future LLC and teaches at Georgetown University and Princeton University.</i><br />
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Nuclear accounts for about 19 percent of U.S. electricity production and most of our carbon-free electricity. Could reactors be phased out here without increasing carbon emissions? If it were completely up to the free market, the answer would be yes, because <span style="background-color: white;">nuclear is more expensive than almost any other source of electricity today. </span>Renewables such as solar, wind and hydroelectric power generate electricity for less than the nuclear plants under construction in Georgia, and in most places, they produce cheaper electricity than existing nuclear plants that have paid off all their construction costs. ...<br />
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This [nuclear] tech is no longer a viable strategy for dealing with climate change, nor is it a competitive source of power. It is hazardous, expensive and unreliable, and abandoning it wouldn’t bring on climate doom.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">The real choice now is between saving the planet and saving the dying nuclear industry. I vote for the planet.</span></blockquote>
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John Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408381085180641019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414658055211487499.post-27066779693272033122019-05-19T01:35:00.000-07:002019-05-20T16:57:37.420-07:00Updated 5/20/2019: Breaking News!!! On DC Litter Record Pick-up (the LPU initiative) in the Imperial Capital!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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See also: <a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190507110452.htm">an encouraging article</a> under the title: "Plastic Gets a Do-Over: Breakthrough Discovery Recycles Plastic From the Inside Out." See also (<a href="https://www.wsj.com/video/plastic-the-scourge-of-cities-becomes-a-resource/203D8FFF-6BAE-4E00-BC84-E615BE5523E0.html?mod=trending_now_video_1">1</a>)<br />
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to Porter Street; up Porter Street to Connecticut Avenue; jog ends at the Van Ness/ UDC metro station) I do my "citizen's thing" and pick up litter.<br />
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FYI, I jog (when I do jog rather than stroll, very slowly) with a bag (yes, I plead guilty: ... a plastic bag) in hand where I place the litter.<br />
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As I stretch my aging muscles, have taken a special interest in picking up plastic water bottles left empty/half empty along my strollin'/joggin' way.<br />
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(Some of the plastic bottles, btw, are filled with urine, as I've noticed on several occasions on the south side of Tilden Street leading downhill to Rock Creek Park.)<br />
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May I note that the plastic bottles are not the only form of trash I pick up. The waste ranges (aside from its plastic bottled incarnations) from empty aluminum cans/glass bottles to used plastic prophylactics (which I delicately place in my trash bag with the aid of a branch found on a [thank God!] tree-filled environment).<br />
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FYI, below my accounting of yours truly's encounter with human-made "let's throw 'em out, wherever/whatever, the shit is" objects.<br />
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Pardon the gory details, but here's the trash/litter/junk I find (and pick up, when I physically can) on a near-daily basis on the streets/Rock Creek park of our glorious nation's capital:<br />
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<li><span style="background-color: white;">Receipts/bills; paper/paper "tissues"</span>: napkins from fast-food joints; paper bags containing "junk food"; left-over pages from newspapers, probably unread; "colorful" wrappings from candy manufacturers; cellophane plastic wrap </li>
<li>Dumped-wherever on-the street/sidewalk no longer "reusable" disposable coffee cups (sorry: I don't know: what are they exactly made of?)</li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Circular plastic lids </span>punctured, in the middle, for use with plastic straws for "soft" drinks, cold coffee (?), etc.</li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Plastic straws</span> (related to the above): Yes, they're still out there -- in our wide open American spaces -- despite the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/on-patrol-with-an-enforcer-of-dcs-plastic-straw-ban/2019/01/28/511e7bcc-1511-11e9-90a8-136fa44b80ba_story.html?utm_term=.12e7ecb43baf">DC gov's efforts to limit their use</a>.</li>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Zach Rybarczyk, who works for the D.C. Department of Energy and Environment, inspects restaurants in Union Station on Jan. 8 to see whether they are still using plastic straws after the city’s ban went into effect this year. Cava passed its inspection. (Calla Kessler/The Washington Post)</span></i></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: white;">Plastic zipper bags (I suspect for SuperMarkerts)</span>, mostly empty</li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Glass bottles</span> (mostly for beer); Corona appears to be a favorite, often with empty bottles left on the street/sidewalk/wooded area in a six-pack container</li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Remains from junk food containers</span>: plastic knives/forks; ketchup/other food additives (to give the "food" taste) in relatively small white plastic (not always) rectangular receptacles (half the size of my thumb) with a "slip-off" cover</li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Other miscellaneous plastic/elastic objects</span>: combs, ball point pens, used prophylactics, credit cards, rubber bands</li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Cardboard</span>: Hard to tell the origin, but probably from packages sent by "buy on the internet, we'll deliver to you at your home."</li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Empty cigarette packs,</span> mostly of the "menthol" type; my bad: I don't pick up cigarette butts</li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Gloves</span>: A real litter discovery for me! Amazing how many gloves (many of them, often only one glove, made of plastic) are left behind ...</li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190507110452.htm">Scooters</a> [I gently push these unregulated atrocious gimmicks, exploiting (tax-free?) public space, off sidewalks -- not to speak off trails in Rock Creek Park)</span>: Excuoooose me, but I consider scooters litter in a national park and especially if not unregulated on park trails/ sidewalks. Their drivers are violently -- yes, violently (I can't think of another word) and narcissistically (correct spelling?) me-me-me first. The mentality behind the free-wheeling scoots: Just leave my groovy "thing" behind wherever/whenever on trails/sidewalks; in other words, to put it violently (if I may interpret the mentality) - f...k you (pointing the finger), I'll leave my thing wherever/whenever I f...kin' feel/like. (Note, BTW, are not where the scooters "ride"on tax-payer funded sidewalks, where the Scooters abandon their thing (tax-free?) on D.C. streets; also in parks in pedestrian areas called trails</li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Various car parts</span>, left near/on a sidewalk/curb (especially car wheels, hard to fit in a city trash bin)</li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Dog shit </span>in (usually green) plastic wrappings left "wherever" by evidently well-intentioned animal masters who don't want to be accused of leaving shit behind without the proper plastic embellishment. I initially refused -- for health reasons -- to pick up this plastic-covered shit, but broke down and am now putting the plastic-covered poo in my plastic litter bag.</li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Kids' toys</span>, usually minuscule and made of plastic -- Is that not the most unacceptable litter "left behind"? Poor kids</li>
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<span style="background-color: white;">A self-portrait (just discovered in Rock Creek Park by yours truly -- not in a trash can, but on a plastic-bottle/other litter filled sidewalk) by Leonardo da Vinci (just kiddin')</span><br />
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[Note: Given my failing memory, I may be missing, in the below numerical assessment, a plastic water bottle or two.] <br />
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Needless to say, the bottles I stumble upon end up in the public garbage receptacles in the National Park/along Connecticut Avenue. <br />
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<b style="background-color: yellow;">BUT NOW THE SERIOUS PART!</b><br />
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<b>5/7--6 (including one half-filled bottle on the roof of a car parked in Rock Creek Park; and an empty Perrier plastic bottle -- vive la France! -- along Porter Street)</b></div>
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<b>5/11 -- 10!!! The most bottles found since 4/22! ) Porter Street wins with the most bottles!</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: large;">4/22-5/18 --81.5 empty/half empty H</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span><span style="font-size: large;">0 plastic bottles picked up in the NW section of the Imperial Capital! A </span></b></span><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">World Record!!</span><span style="background-color: yellow;">!</span><span style="background-color: white;"> (hah, hah, hah)</span></b><br />
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">(</b><b><span style="font-size: large;">Please correct my math, unprofessional reporting)</span> </b><br />
<b style="font-size: x-large;">No wonder USA is no. 1! </b><br />
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P.S. And look at it on the bright side: We Americans are now evidently drinking a source of life, water, rather than sugary soda bubbly canned "drinks" (Hey, people, listen: things don't always go better with Coke) ... Now, if we could only gastronomically chew on our omnipresent plastic in a family-friendly restaurant, tastier than ever if spiced with a a popular Heinz sauce ...<br />
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John Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11408381085180641019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414658055211487499.post-25502633139251557992019-05-19T01:28:00.000-07:002019-05-20T17:32:34.733-07:00[Americana:] After 3 tours in Iraq, Appalachian Trail victim Ronnie Sanchez had set out to ‘find peace’ through nature<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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After 16 years in the Army and three tours in Iraq as a combat engineer, it took the 43-year-old veteran years to emerge from a cloud of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder that had kept him locked up in his house in Oklahoma City and avoiding other people. </div>
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But he did it, little by little, slow and determined, by rediscovering his love of the outdoors. He biked. He raced dragon boats. He learned how to ride horses. And in February, Sanchez decided to take on another challenge in a life full of them.</div>
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He would attempt a “thru-hike” of the Appalachian Trail — all 2,192 miles from Georgia to Maine — beginning the journey earlier than most because his pace would be slow. Of the 5,000 hikers who would register this season, Sanchez was No. 21 on the list. Partway in, problems with his knees and shoulders — the subject of repeated surgeries after years in the military — forced him off the trail for weeks. </div>
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“If you get discouraged, it’s hard to come back from that,” said hostel owner Colin Gooder, who persuaded Sanchez to take a break and work for him at his North Carolina shelter — a rest that gave Sanchez the strength to continue hiking.</div>
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Sanchez adopted the trail name “Stronghold.” And by early May, he had made it to southwestern Virginia — 545 miles into his odyssey.</div>
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Then, sometime early on the morning of May 11, a man who had frightened others along the trail with his erratic behavior allegedly invaded the camp that Sanchez and three others had set up in Wythe County. The man threatened to burn the hikers’ tents, and they decided to leave, the FBI said. But as they tried to leave the campsite, the man confronted the group with a long knife, and eventually stabbed two of them, killing Sanchez.</div>
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The suspect, James Louis Jordan, 30, of Yarmouth, Mass., was charged with murder and assault, and ordered held for a psychiatric evaluation. Sanchez’s family, friends and the hiking community were left mourning.</div>
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“His heart was really big,” said Sanchez’s ex-wife, Elizabeth Sanchez, who said she had remained good friends with him even after their separation. “He would help anybody. He was excited to get to Maine.</div>
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“It’s so devastating he died like this,” Sanchez said, “after all those deployments.”</div>
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Ronald Sanchez Jr. was born and raised in Garden Grove, Calif., near Anaheim, along with three brothers and one sister, his ex-wife said. He graduated from Santiago High School in 1994 and entered the Army in April 1995, Army records show. He deployed to Iraq in 2003, 2005 and 2007, the Army said, and left the service in 2011. In Iraq, he worked on bridges and construction projects and was also tasked with driving top commanders around the country, Elizabeth Sanchez said.</div>
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After he left the Army, he lived in Missouri and fell into a deep depression. His ex-wife said he spent his days sleeping and his nights watching television and playing video games. Sanchez told the Oklahoman last year that he rarely went outside and did so only late at night to avoid being around people. “I sat around and ate junk food,” he said.</div>
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But Veterans Affairs suggested that he should move to Oklahoma City, where VA administers many recreation programs for recovering vets. He began cycling, and he told the Oklahoman, “These programs at the VA just kind of opened it up for me.” He had just finished a 64-mile ride, and Elizabeth Sanchez said he also had become involved with dragon boats, in addition to the hiking he had always done with his family and his ex-wife.</div>
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Elizabeth Sanchez said that in addition to hiking the Appalachian Trail, “he really wanted to ride a bike across the U.S., to raise veteran awareness. It meant a lot to him to help veterans.”</div>
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Gooder, owner of the Gooder Grove Adventure Hostel, said he was surprised by the number of veterans he’d encounter on the trail.</div>
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“When I first started operating a hostel, there were a number of veterans that came through that were trying to heal wounds,” he said. “The trail helps them heal. Nature deserves all the credit for that.”</div>
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Sanchez was no exception. The pain was intense when he first came to the hostel, and he was not sure he could continue. But Gooder said he wouldn’t let Sanchez give up. He offered Sanchez a place to stay in exchange for helping him run the place for a few weeks.</div>
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The hostel had only three rules: “Be kind. Be kind of clean and just be,” he said.</div>
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Sanchez helped Gooder turn over rooms. He said Sanchez took meditative walks to test his legs as he recovered. Gooder taught him some tai chi techniques he had learned to help him align his knees correctly when he hiked. But there were other problems that required more time.</div>
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“He was looking to find peace because he had what we call the ‘monkey mind’ in tai chi,” Gooder said. “He couldn’t shut his brain off and the memories kept coming through.”</div>
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After a time fortifying his mind and body, Sanchez set out again. </div>
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They spoke for only a few minutes, but hiker Dawn Maxwell won’t soon forget her passing encounter with the veteran. It was Feb. 25, and Stronghold was pushing north. His build and gait signaled to Maxwell that he was ex-military. The braces on his knees told her he was suffering. And a soft smile beneath the black scruff of his mustache telegraphed the contentment of a man who had overcome.</div>
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On that sunny, unseasonably warm winter day, he was the only person on the trail. Maxwell, a Chicago attorney known as Tinkerbell on the trail, was headed south. Sanchez was going in the other direction. When he saw her, the Army veteran moved to the side to let her pass and she stopped to talk.</div>
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“He was just a real gentleman,” Maxwell said. “I had a 15- to 20-minute conversation, and I just remember thinking it was a beautiful day and I was having the most pleasant conversation with this man.”</div>
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Sanchez confessed he was in pain. They talked about the terrain, the weather, what to expect next on the trail and shuttles he could catch to a hostel. It occurred to Maxwell to connect him to another hiker and soldier also suffering from PTSD.</div>
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“It happens all the time on the trail,” Maxwell said. “People really open up to other hikers. People get lonely out there. And I’m a real talker, and he was very open.”</div>
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Other hikers who met Sanchez along the trail were effusive in describing his compassion and kindness. They posted their remembrances on the Hiker Yearbook Facebook page, echoing memories of a man who they imagine tried to protect those around him when the group was ambushed.</div>
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“If God had asked for someone to raise their hand to volunteer and save everyone else on the trail from being hurt or killed, Ron would’ve been the guy to raise his hand,” Gooder said. “It almost makes sense that it was him. He was that selfless.”</div>
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Elizabeth Sanchez said her ex-husband was an experienced camper and calm in dangerous situations. During one trip in California, a bear wandered into their campsite, taking food and making eye contact with him. It then turned and walked away.</div>
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“He was really cautious,” she said, noting that he carried a knife but never a gun on the trail. “He felt safe out there.”</div>
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Elizabeth Sanchez said she believed the woman who was also stabbed during the incident, who survived, was a recent acquaintance who had just met Sanchez. Canadian media have described her as being from Nova Scotia.</div>
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“You can’t help but try to picture it,” she said. “I just picture him telling the guy, ‘Get out of here, just leave us alone.’ ”</div>
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The FBI said in an affidavit that Sanchez, an unidentified woman and another man and woman were in the process of packing up their campsite to escape the threatening hiker when he attacked. The man and woman fled into the woods, and the man chased them but did not catch them, the affidavit said. Then the man returned to the campsite and repeatedly stabbed Sanchez while the unidentified woman fled, the FBI alleged. </div>
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The attacker then tracked down the woman and stabbed her until she lay down and pretended to be dead, authorities said. She then fled into a neighboring county.</div>
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Local authorities said Sanchez had managed to send an SOS signal from his phone. But when sheriff’s deputies found him he was dead, with a 20-inch knife near his body. A short distance away, they found Jordan in bloody clothes.</div>
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The traumatized trail community — or the “AT tramily” — plans to gather this weekend to honor Stronghold in a vigil that will bring hundreds of hikers to Damascus, Va., for the annual Appalachian Trail Days Festival. </div>
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Matthew “Odie” Norman is a trail angel — someone who helps hikers along their way — who met the suspect in early May, gave him a ride and bought him a bus ticket to get him away from the trail. On May 15, Norman posted a black-and-white photo on his well-read “Hiker Yearbook” page of three pairs of feet he said belonged to the survivors of the attack: “They are all doing well, a little broken, but no where near defeated.”</div>
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When tragedy strikes the Appalachian Trail, it is tradition for fellow hikers to find ways to continue the journey for those who can no longer walk. Sometimes, they carry a photo of their comrade. Sometimes they take a piece of gear to the peak of a mountain as a memorial. But there is only one true way to honor an Appalachian Trail hiker, they say.</div>
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