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To Those Fortunate Enough chapter 36:

@burned-lariat

"You're sure about this?"

"Absolutely."

"It's just you against them."

"So? Nothing I haven't dealt with before."

Alexis sighed, frowning at her daughter. They both stood on either side of the door to Alexis's office, Sam pointing her handgun at the door.

"It's fifteen against one," Alexis pointed out.

Me: Alexis you should know by now that your daughter is a baddie.😌 *Plays hey sexy lady*

"All I'm doing is getting the office back. Then you can go in and fix the system Victor's likely ruining."

"I just want you to be careful."

"I will," Sam sighed, "Now, on the count of three. One…two… three!"

The door flew open as Sam kicked it in. She charged into the room, gun aimed at the main desk. The adrenaline she felt quickly wore off when she saw the room minion-less. She slowly made her way to the left, checking the nook in the corner. No one was there.

Me: *record scratch* Oop...well at least Sam lives to fight another day🤷

"Mom," Sam called, "it's clear. There's no one here."

"Really," Alexis walked in, swiftly closing the door behind her, "so much for your ambush."

"Seems like Victor has a story for me to put out," Alexis gestured for Sam to approach her. The woman got to her feet, walking around the desk, "He put in a whole exposé on Wallace."

"He really doesn't like the guy."

"Clearly. I mean, look at all this information: mob dealings, assassinations in Germany, ties to Helena's schemes. He wants to nail the man."

"Some of this stuff seems exclusive and confidential," Sam observed, "How would Victor know any of this?"

"...Crap," Alexis swore, clicking onto the internet. She pulled up her browser history, shuffling through the most recent tabs, "Of course."

"What?"

"Victor used my journalism credentials to access records. Wallace's rap sheet, health information, all of that he used my key to get."

"Yep," Sam read the screen, "German police reports, hospital forms, even some looks at citizenship."

Me: I feel like every post I have to give Victor a shout out on being thorough and making moves. He's a delusional person but he's a thorough delusional person!

"Victor was thinking of getting Wallace deported?" Alexis looked at her daughter, her eyes narrowed and her eyebrows scrunched together.

"I guess he didn't want to kill him," Sam shrugged.

"Deportation wouldn't have worked. Look: Wallace was given citizenship in 2002, and so was Dex by extension."

"Yeah, but the article, somehow, notes that it was forged for both him and Dex."

"...Victor wouldn't deport his own grandson, would he?"

"If he cares about the family unity, he wouldn't."

Me: Victor believes he has killed dex I can say with certainty he did not care about that boy.😂😭

For what, Eileen? For his family? For his ambitions? He murdered his grandson, he's trying to further wound his heartbroken daughter. And when it comes to you, once he has no use for you, you'll be dead as well."

"Says you," Ashby snapped, "You don't know anything."

This popped in my head and I immediately started giggling:

"And after today, neither will you," Laura crossed her arms, "Effective immediately, your work as the deputy mayor of Port Charles is done."

"You can't do that-"

"Oh, but I can, and I did. You no longer have access to the resources and contacts you used to, the materials you used to further Victor's agenda. You're lucky I'm not having you arrested."

Ashby blinked, unsure of what to say. Laura stepped closer, getting in the woman's face.

"Eileen, don't let Victor put you down the way he had Irina do Wallace," she said, "Save yourself. Leave…and don't come back."

Ashby stood still for a moment, taking her words in before turning and leaving the hotel.

Me: A better fate than canon😂

"...Damnit."

"What?"

Dante studied Robert's posture, noting the disappointment on his face as he looked at his phone.

"It's Laura," Robert replied.

"Is she okay?"

"She's fine. It's just some bad news."

"What is it?"

"Wallace is out," Robert showed Dante the text.

"...Damn," Dante swore, running a hand down his face, "That's bad, that's really bad."

"The man was supposed to play decoy and create a diversion, not succumb to a bullet wound."

Me:

It's such a Robert thing to say.🙈

"Victor's dead…" Laura said slowly, "He's finally gone. We did it."

"We helped. Wallace did what had to be done, and Dex's plan to out himself worked. We did our part, yes, but if anyone's getting credit for taking Victor out once and for all, it's the Heller men."

Me:

"Wallace killed Victor?" Ava questioned, her mouth hanging open, "Is he okay? What about Irina and Dex and-"

"I don't know how they're doing, I just know Victor is gone."

"Damn…" Spencer swore, "that's…that's huge."

"Yeah. He dies and we're left to clean up his messes."

Me: I just LOVE how everyone is either like "Fucking finally" or "I mean cool but damn we got a mess to clean up" in reaction to victor's death.😂

"Spencer," Ava cut in, "can you give your father and I some space? There's something pressing he should know about."

"...Okay," the young man huffed, turning and leaving the great room.

"What's the issue?" Nikolas asked. Ava gave him the papers, watching as his face went pale the more he flipped through them, "...You're divorcing me?"

"And this time, I'm committing to it."

Me:

Ava divorcing Nikolas will always be a moment loved by me. We just love to see it.

"Do us both a favor, Nikolas," Ava said softly, "Let us be free of this marriage. There's nothing left for us."

"I love you, Ava. I'm not giving up on you."

"You did that when you decided to sleep with Esme, love. There's no getting me back. I'm not going to stay in a relationship with someone who chose to hurt me."

"Please…please don't leave me…"

"It's for the best," Ava began to walk away, "I'll give you some space to sign them and to deal with Cassadine Industries; I'll be back later."

"Ava!" Nikolas called out. The woman stopped for a moment before turning back around, a wicked grin on her face.

"Freedom comes to those fortunate enough to pursue it," she said gently, "and I am seizing that opportunity. I'm sorry, Nikolas. It's over."

Me:

SHE SAID IT!!!!

Nikolas stood in shock as she turned the corner, his phone in one hand and the documents in another. His mind was blank, unsure of his next move. Once the shock wore off, he considered the tasks at hand, and part of him wasn't sure where to blame his uncle, his soon-to-be-ex-wife, or himself for what has happened, what just happened, and what could happen in the near future.

Me: Ah Nikolas is once again looking to blame someone for his own mess.🥴 That man will never change.

#to those fortunate enough #general hospital

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sanjosenewshq · 2 years

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Boris Johnson Jets Again To UK Amid Rumors Hell Run To Reclaim Former Job

LONDON (AP) — The lightning-fast race to exchange Liz Truss as British Prime Minister bought even wilder Saturday as former chief Boris Johnson jetted again to the U.Ok amid hypothesis he’ll run to reclaim his former job. Johnson was ousted by a collection of ethics scandals simply three months in the past, however boarded a flight again to London from his trip within the Dominican Republic, days after the dramatic resignation of his successor, Liz Truss. Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives at Gatwick Airport in London, after travelling on a flight from the Caribbean, following the resignation of Liz Truss as Prime Minister, Saturday Oct. 22, 2022. He stays a divisive determine amongst fellow Conservative lawmakers. Former Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, mentioned Saturday morning that it was “tough to see” how Johnson might develop into prime minister once more when he’s “absorbed and distracted” by an ongoing inquiry into alleged events at Downing Avenue whereas the remainder of the nation was observing COVID-19 lockdown guidelines, and Johnson’s statements to parliament afterward. The brand new prime minister is meant to be in place by Oct. 28. Even so, Johnson has the general public backing of a number of different former Cupboard colleagues, together with former Dwelling Secretary Priti Patel, who tweeted Saturday: “Boris has the mandate to ship our elected manifesto and a confirmed observe report getting the massive choices proper.” Johnson wants the backing of 100 lawmakers earlier than 2 p.m. Monday to be on the poll paper. Johnson’s former Treasury chief, Rishi Sunak, who precipitated Johnson’s ouster by resigning in protest at his former boss in July, is one other possible runner. Sunak misplaced to Truss in a vote of Conservative Occasion grassroots members simply over seven weeks in the past, however he was strongly supported by his social gathering’s lawmakers. The BBC estimates he has already reached the required threshold of help to be formally declared a candidate. Sunak’s warning to Truss in the course of the earlier management race that aggressive tax cuts would devalue the pound and ship rates of interest hovering was proved proper earlier this month, and he’s being pitched as a protected pair of fingers who can shore up monetary markets. The Truss authorities was later pressured to reverse virtually all the unfunded cuts that it introduced. Conservative lawmaker Helen Grant tweeted that she is backing Sunak once more due to his “financial and organizational competence”. Home of Commons chief Penny Mordaunt is the one candidate to publicly declare she is working to exchange Truss, saying in a tweet Friday that she represents “a recent begin.” Mordaunt, a straight-talking 49-year-old Royal Navy reservist who briefly served as U.Ok. protection secretary in 2019, is the bookmakers’ third favourite. Outdoors of Conservative circles she is probably finest identified for showing on the 2014 actuality TV diving present “Splash!” during which contestants study to dive. Johnson has thus far gained the help of six Cupboard ministers, together with revered Protection Secretary Ben Wallace. However he was lagging behind Sunak in publicly declared help, Saturday, as was Mordaunt. Bookmakers make Sunak the more than likely subsequent chief. The management uncertainty comes at a time of weak financial development and as tens of millions wrestle with increased borrowing prices and rising costs for groceries, gas and different fundamentals. A rising wave of strikes by prepare and postal staff, legal professionals and others has revealed mounting discontent as a recession looms. Truss give up Thursday after a turbulent 45 days, conceding that she couldn’t ship on her tax-cutting financial package deal, which she was pressured to desert after it prompted turmoil in monetary markets. Originally published at San Jose News HQ

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✨ John Lewis ✨

One of the "Big Six" leaders of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, John Lewis continued to fight for people's rights since joining Congress in 1987.

John Lewis, in full John Robert Lewis, (born February 21, 1940, near Troy, Alabama, U.S.—died July 17, 2020, Atlanta, Georgia), American civil rights leader and politician best known for his chairmanship of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and for leading the march that was halted by police violence on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in 1965, a landmark event in the history of the civil rights movement that became known as “Bloody Sunday.”

Lewis was the son of Alabama sharecroppers. He attended segregated schools and was encouraged by his parents not to challenge the inequities of the Jim Crow South. As a teenager, however, he was inspired by the courageous defiance of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., to whose attention Lewis came when he indicated his desire to desegregate Troy State College (now Troy University). Dissuaded from doing so by his parents, Lewis instead was educated in Nashville at the American Baptist Theological Institute and Fisk University (B.A. in religion and philosophy, 1967).

There Lewis undertook the study of nonviolent protest and became involved in sit-ins at lunch counters and other segregated public places. In 1961, while participating in the Freedom Rides that challenged the segregation of Southern interstate bus terminals, Lewis was beaten and arrested—experiences he would repeat often. In 1963 he was elected to replace Chuck McDew as the chairman of SNCC, a position he held until 1966, when he was succeeded by Stokely Carmichael, as the organization took a more-militant direction. Also in 1963 Lewis played a key role in the historic March on Washington. Indeed, by that point, Lewis, though still in his early 20s, had already become such a prominent figure that he was considered one of the civil rights movement’s “Big Six” leaders, along with King, James Farmer, A. Phillip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young. In 1964 Lewis headed the SNCC’s efforts to register African American voters and organize communities in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer project.

On March 7, 1965, Lewis played a pivotal role in one the most important events in the history of the American civil rights movement when he and King lieutenant Hosea Williams led some 600 peaceful demonstrators on a march in support of voting rights that departed from Selma, with the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, as its destination. At the beginning of the march, while still in Selma, as they attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama River, the protestors were confronted by a large force of sheriff’s deputies, state troopers, and deputized “possemen” (some on horseback) who had been authorized by Alabama’s segregationist governor George Wallace to “take whatever means necessary” to prevent the march. Given two minutes to disperse, the marchers were almost immediately set upon. They were quickly doused with tear gas, overrun by horses, and attacked with bullwhips and billy clubs. As a result of the brutal assault, more than 50 marchers were hospitalized, including Lewis, whose skull was fractured but who spoke to television reporters before going to the hospital, and called on Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson to take action in Alabama. Millions of American television viewers witnessed the event, which became known as “Bloody Sunday,” and within 48 hours demonstrations in support of the marchers had taken place in some 80 American cities. The resulting heightened awareness would contribute mightily to the passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act , which was signed into law by Johnson on August 6, 1965.

After leaving the SNCC, Lewis, who had made his home in Atlanta, remained active in the civil rights movement, most notably as the director of the Voter Education Project. In 1977 a fellow Georgian, Pres. Jimmy Carter, put Lewis in charge of ACTION, the umbrella federal volunteer agency that included the Peace Corps and Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA). Lewis entered elective office as an Atlanta city councilman in 1981 and in 1986 began representing a district that included Atlanta in the U.S. House of Representatives.

In addition to numerous other honours he received, Lewis was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize in 1975, the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in 2001, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s (NAACP) Spingarn Medal in 2002. In 2011 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His memoirs are Walking with the Wind (1998; cowritten with Michael D’Orso) and the March trilogy (2013, 2015, and 2016; all cowritten with Andrew Aydin and illustrated by Nate Powell), a graphic novel series for young adults that was based on Lewis’s experiences in the civil rights movement. The final installment in the series received numerous honours, including the National Book Award (2016), and Lewis and Aydin shared a Coretta Scott King Book Award (2017). The documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020) chronicles his life and career.

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In July 2020, after a battle with pancreatic cancer, Lewis died. Called the “conscience of Congress,” he became the first African American lawmaker to lie in state in the rotunda of the U.S. capitol. At his funeral at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta (King’s home parish), Lewis was eulogized by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, pioneer of nonviolent resistance James Lawson, and three former U.S. presidents: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. Obama, for whom Lewis was an inspiration and a hero, called Lewis a man of “unbreakable perseverance” and said that he embodied “that most American of ideas— that idea that any of us ordinary people, without rank or wealth or title or fame, can somehow point out the imperfections of this nation and come together and challenge the status quo and decide that it is in our power to remake this country that we love until it more closely aligns with our highest ideals.”

At Lewis’s request, on the day of his funeral, The New York Times published a valedictory essay in which Lewis lauded the Black Lives Matter movement and provided marching orders for future activists, saying in part:

Though I may not be here with you, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe. In my life I have done all I can to demonstrate that the way of peace, the way of love and nonviolence is the more excellent way. Now it is your turn to let freedom ring.

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strain And Infertility

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buddyxcollyhollis · 4 years

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@writervega once upon a time ago you commented on a Drabble about just how Buddy and Helene got to the aftermath of losing Colleen. This finally came to me. The ending storm came from my father’s passing, I’d like to think God sent the rain to bring him home. There’s also a side tidbit about our dear Col, she was born during a rain storm. Could be why she loves the sound so much.

All Ends Have a Beginning { When I’m gone verse }

“Ruth…you seen my gloves?”

Humming softly to herself behind the morning paper she thought for a moment. Stretching her legs for a moment Buddy caught a glimpse of long lean dancer’s legs and he smiled. Sitting there in the morning light, hair mussed and slightly curled and back lit by early summer sunshine his wife was a vision to his eyes.

“They should be out in the tool shed where you left’em, Bud.”

He felt her cool green eyes all but pin him to the spot. Her mind a steel trap as she took in his attire. Chaps and protective over vest and old beat up hat. He had gotten a call from his older brother last night about helping him to break a bronco and maybe putting his name back in the hat. One last ride as it were before closing that chapter on the book of his life. His life could be exponentially shorted judging by the looks his beloved bride was shooting his way. She was off like a shot towards the mounted phone on the wall before Buddy could even blink.

“Clyde Nemual Hollis I’m just about fixing to come on down there and castrate you myself. Did you get Boaz to out his name into the hat?”

Boaz. She very rarely used his given name unless they were intimate or he found himself in a whole heaping helping of trouble and seeing as there wasn’t a bed or a hay pile in sight he guessed he’d better brace himself for her wrath because it was coming. He watched as her face softened for a moment. Clyde must have told her that it was just a bronc he needed help with. It was the truth and his Ruth respected his brother and the truth. Why would Clyde lie to her? He’d never had reason to before this and she’d known damn near twenty-two years at this point.

“He hasn’t had anything to do with broncs since I quite racin’ barrels. You promise me you’ll keep him safe. But as long as it’s just bronc busting that you need help with. He so much as even looks at that bull I’ll be on you like white on rice you hear me?”

She hung up the phone and turned to him the sleeve of her cotton night dress had slipped off one of her slender gently tanned shoulders and she studied him just as intently.

“How badly do you want this?”

Pulling her close he smiled and didn’t hesitate to answer.

“As bad as I want you right now. This’ll be the last time, Ruth. I swear.”

Plucking the hat from his head she kissed him gently.

“Alright, I’ll get you a new set of gloves from Danver’s Supply. I’ve got to go into town for a few things anyway today. You’ll watch Abel today?”

It wasn’t unusual for her to venture into town on her own every now and then. It was the least he could do to keep their toddler entertained for a short amount of time.

“ ‘Course. Cae said he’d be by with those picnic tables you wanted for the fourth. I think between the two of us along with my Clyde Abel’s going to be kept highly entertained until you get back.”

Satisfied she hugged him and took off upstairs to get ready for the day and check on a still slumbering Abel.

The rest of the day was spent weeding the garden and repainting the chicken coop. Abel had just been fed and Colleen had just gotten off the phone with her mother when Buddy found himself with enough time to catch a second wind.

“Looks like I’ve got to go into Wallace for a few things. Daddy’s got something going on with one of the hunting dogs and Mama can’t leave Granny at the moment. I’ve got to stop by Doc Hatcher’s the pharmacy for Granny’s medicines and then I’ll be over to Danver’s and down to the Publix. You’re sure that you’re okay to make dinner tonight? You look beat.”

It was true, all that time spent hunched over in the garden and then getting a call from their neighbor down the road to help with a calf birthing had taken it out of him but he persisted. He watched her watching the sky for any sign of rain. She had been watching weather forecasts and a drought was nearly called. Leave it his wife to worry about just about everyone and everything, even her own garden.

“I’ll be fine ‘sides it’s only a little after one. I’ll be ready to go by the time Cae and Clyde show up and I’m just reheating what you made. I’ll make sure Abe’s cleaned up afterward. Drive safe and I’ll see you ‘bout…”

“Shouldn’t be any later than five or five thirty. Unless Mama needs help getting Granny cleaned up. I’ll call you either way.”

In a flurry of movement she did the usual little swing dance with Abel around the kitchen before depositing a kiss on the toddler’s chubby little cheek and putting him down to scamper off in search of the family dog. The song on the radio changed and before Colleen turned he grabbed her and gave her a twirl around the kitchen floor like he used to do when they went out on Friday nights. Clint had never sounded so good to their ears.

I never liked the rain until I walked through it with you

Every thunder cloud that came was one more I might not get through

But on the darkest day there's always light, and now I see it too

But I never liked the rain until I walked through it with you

“Even the damn radio’s mockin’ me and my poor water deprived garden. Hopefully we’ll get something.”

“Your garden’ll be fine.”

“It’s not just the garden I’m worried about. I miss the sound of it at night. There’s nothing like the sound of a summer storm to help you sleep.”

He never would understand why his wife liked the rain or summer storms so much. Maybe one day he’d figure her out.

She kissed Buddy as gently and sweetly as she always did before snagging his hat again and she was gone with a smile.

“Love you.”

“Love you too.”

He watched as she climbed behind the wheel of her truck. She honked her usual shave and a hair cut honk and away she went. He didn’t know that that would be the last time he’d see her.

Two o’clock rolled around and true to his word Buddy had gotten his second wind. Clyde came by as did Caleb and between the three of them they got the picnic tables set up for the gathering of the clans as Colleen had taken to calling their annual fourth of the July barbecue. Clyde had forgone bringing the bronc anywhere near the Hollis farm and when asked about his he just shook his head.

“Colleen mentioned snippin’ me so Waco can wait another day. Stop on by next week, Buddy. We’ll figure somethin’ out.”

Abel had taken to situating himself atop his uncle Caleb’s shoulders while winding down for an impromptu nap. Three o’clock came and went as did four and then five. Dinner had been warmed up and the men had eaten and just gotten Abel to eat at least three big bites until the boy had become virtually inconsolable. Buddy figured it was just a case of being overtired and got the boy into the bath and ready for bed by six forty five. By seven Helene stopped over to see Colleen and was perplexed as to why she wasn’t home yet. A phone call from Col’s mother however worried each of them as Abel was passed around from person to person each trying his or her best to get him to settle.

“What do you mean she didn’t stop by? She’s not home yet here. She said she’d be back home around 5:30 at the latest. Maybe she ran into traffic or the truck was giving her some trouble?”

An hour later a vehicle pulled up into the side driveway and footfalls could be heard on the front porch. Jim Walker, a long time friend of both Buddy and Colleen and his deputy Red Gilley were the ones to break the news before the hospital even had a chance to call.

“There’s been a bad accident and…Buddy it’s best that you come with us.”

Clyde had offered to stay with Abel while Caleb and Helene made the drive with him to St. Gabriel’s Hospital a county over. They met her parents there and joined at her bedside. A whirl of activity and Buddy couldn’t understand a single word spoken to him. She had been an organ donor so there were papers to sign. Her body shutting down slowly, she wouldn’t make it through the night. Her Mama and her best friend combed out her long dark hair as Caleb and her father contacted the local minister. Buddy, never left her side and instead he sang to her. Softly, quietly and without shame.

Precious Lord, take my hand

Lead me on, help me stand

I am tired,

I am weak,

I am worn

Through the storm, through the night

Lead me on to the light

Just as he finished the first verse a thunder clap could be heard before great drops of rain pattered against the double paned glass of the hospital room.

“You got your wish, baby. Go with the rain. I love you, Ruth.”

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Pioneer Architects XII

Pioneer Architects is at the hundred anniversary of the Bauhaus dedicated to all women architects and educators who became role models with their pioneer work influenced by the movement.

Research in development of universal type by Herbert Bayer (1927). | Photo via Harvard Art Museums; Busch-Reisinger Museum

According to Walter Gropius Bauhaus school need to be open to “any person of good repute, regardless of age or sex.” In this time women couldn’t receive a public education in many fields, so he meant this with good intentions.

Unknown student in Marcel Breuer Chair. | Photo by Ursula Mayer

Bauhaus school was creating a nucleus of interdisciplinary innovation, which combined craft and design. Rather than utilizing the traditional model of teacher student relations, Bauhaus fostered community as the foundation of learning. Part of this ideology was also the integration of women artists in this community.

But Gropius also believed that men and women’s brains operated differently, men had the capacity to think in three dimensions while women not. Therefore many of women artists of the Bauhaus movement stuck to practices commonly regarded as women’s work, textiles and weaving. Men, on the other hand, become architects, sculptors and painters.

Otti Berger was a textile artist and weaver. | Photo by Julia Moholy-Nagy (1927)

A core member of the experimental approach to textiles, Otti Berger, experimented with methodology and materials during the course of her studies at the Bauhaus to eventually include plastic textiles intended for mass production. Along with Anni Albers and Gunta Stözl, Berger pushed back against the understanding of textiles as a feminine craft and utilized rhetoric used in photography and painting to describe her work. During her time in Dessau, she also wrote a treatise on fabrics and the methodology of textile production, which stayed with Gropius and was never published. Berger is the only designer from Bauhaus who sought patents for her textiles and became a deputy to designer Lilly Reich in the textile workshop at Bauhaus.

Otti Berger and Atelier Dessau by Lotte Beese (1930). | Photo Jeanine Fiedler

Not allowed to work in Germany under Nazi rule because of her Jewish roots, Berger closed her company down in 1936 and fled to London, where attempts to emigrate to United States to work with her fiancee Ludwig Hilberseimer and other Bauhaus professors failed.

Otti Berger’s Tactile Board (1928). | Image © Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin

One of the first women who join the Bauhaus Department of Architecture in 1927 and the first to study with Hannes Meyer and Hans Wittwer was german architect and urban planner Lotte Stam-Beese. She worked on the reconstruction of Rotterdam after World War II.

Lotte Beese built Pendrecht, the first car-free street in Rotterdam as well the Netherlands (1947). | Photo via Architectureguide

After the second World War the influence of Bauhaus developed in the US. One of the pioneering designer and entrepreneur who created the modern look of America’s postwar corporate office was Florence Knoll Bassett. She studied under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Eliel Saarinen and worked with leaders of Bauhaus, including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and Wallace K. Harrison.

Florence Knoll promoted the Modernist merger of architecture, art and utility in her furnishings and interiors, especially for offices. | Photo © Knoll Archive

The Hairpin Stacking Stool designed by Florence Knoll. | Photo © Knoll Archive

The influences of Carl Koch, Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe are evident in many of Gertrude Kerbis's designs. In 1954 she received her master degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Peterhans.

Gertrude Kerbis was a couple of decades ahead of her time; a woman in a sea of men wearing white shirts and ties. | Photo via Vimeo

Kerbis began her career when women at architecture firms were receptionists or secretaries. To change that she founded the Chicago Women in Architecture in 1973. She played a leading role in designing several major examples of American modernism, including the Lustron houses, the US Air Force Academy and the O'Hare International Airport Rotunda.

The dining hall’s interior of US Air Force Academy was column-free with a roof of steel trusses supported by sixteen columns. | Photo via Docomomo

Marianne Brandt, a strong and independent New Woman of the Bauhaus, was one of few women who distanced herself from the fields considered more feminine at the time such as weaving or pottery.

Brandt's designs for metal ashtrays, tea and coffee services, lamps and other household objects are now recognized as among the best of the Weimar and Dessau Bauhaus. Further, they were among the few Bauhaus designs to be mass-produced during the interwar period, and several of them are currently available as reproductions.

Coffee and tea set by Marianne Brandt (1924). | Photo by Lucia Moholy

The modern women Alexa von Porewski, Lena Amsel, Rut Landshoff, unknown before 1929. | Photo by Umbo and Paul Citroen, Berlinische Galerie.

#pioneer architects #women in architecture #pioneerarchitects

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A Chance at Happiness

Pairing: Deputy!Dean x Reader; Dean Winchester x Reader

Warnings: Infertility, abandonment, language

Summary: One call could change everything.

This is part of my Occupational Heroes series! I do not have a Series Masterlist at the moment but you can read the previous and first fic here. A reminder that while some of what I have written is actual information, other is pure fiction.

Dean Winchester had just walked up to the one-story brick building, fixing to scan his county issued badge that allows him access into the Smith County Sheriff’s Department in the city of Lebanon Kansas to begin his shift when he heard it, the slight whimper of an infant. Dean looked around at the parking lot and towards the empty street, seeing nothing but rows of streetlights as far as the eye could see.

He rubbed his eyes and shook his head, thinking that maybe the stress of everything in his personal life was making him hear things. He pulled up the badge once again that hung with the keys on his duty belt, placing it onto the sensor by the door when he heard another whimper.

“Sheriff’s Office” he commanded turning around as his right hand undone the snap of the holster on his duty belt, pulling out his gun “Is there someone out here?” he asked, pressing the button for the flashlight.

The light illuminated the small concrete covered porch, showing the potted plants by the door, a medium sized cardboard box, the mailbox hanging on the brick and mortar…

‘Wait…’ Dean thought as he quickly moved the light back to the box, taking small precision steps forwards.

“Dispatch. This is 803, I need back up at the Sheriff’s office. Send me an ambulance.” He spoke urgently into the radio on his left shoulder.

“803. Back-up is en-route can you describe the situation?” The feminine voice spoke on the other side.

Dean knelt onto the concrete, holstering his gun as he lifted the flaps of the box, reaching into the box gently, pulling out an infant swaddled in a pink blanket.

“Hey, little one. What are you doing all alone out here?” he spoke softly, pulling her closer to his chest. “Looks like someone dropped you off huh?” Dean said, moving the baby around, looking for some kind of note attached to her clothes or in the box.

The infant began to stir more, opening her blue eyes as Dean was able to spot some writing on one of the box flaps, thanks to the rising sun.

“Aren’t you just a cutie?” he cooed, gently rubbing a hand over her head of brown hair, cautiously bouncing the baby.

“Winchester! Everything all right?!” someone yelled across the parking lot as they shut their patrol car door, quickly approaching the scene.

“Everything’s 10-4! Med unit on their way?” he asked turning around.

“Is that…” the person spoke.

“She was in the cardboard box next to the plants. She was whimpering in her sleep or else I would have never of seen her.” Dean said as the infant began to squirm, her arms flying out of her blanket as she stretched before relaxing into Dean’s hold.

“Box says she’s only a few days old, but it doesn’t give a name.” The other deputy said as the ambulance pulled up.

Dean smiled, swaying back and forth as she began to whimper. “Shhh… It’s ok baby, we will figure this out and get you a clean bottom and a full belly.” He promised.

Twenty minutes later and Dean was sitting on a hospital bed in the Emergency Room, bottle feeding the now clean and sleeping infant in his arms.

“Are you sure you don’t want me to feed her?” a nurse asked as they check in on them.

“When they took her for blood work and a newborn checkup, she screamed bloody murder until she was in my arms again. I don’t think I want to subject Mrs. Wallace three curtains down to that again.” He joked as he placed a burp cloth on his shoulder, before moving the infant into an upright position, gently patting her back.

“Looks like you’ve done this before.” The nurse smiled.

“Yeah, my brother.”

“Well Social Services will be by soon, I’ll leave you two be.”

Dean nodded his head in appreciation, continuing to burp the baby before he began moving around. laying her down onto the bed in between his legs. Dean sighed as he laid back onto the bed, pulling out his phone.

‘Hope your having a better morning than I am babe.’ Your message read.

Dean took a picture of the scene in front of him. ‘You could say that…’

“Alright Mr. Winchester looks like she is a perfectly healthy nine-pound eight-ounce baby,” Dr. Baker said as she pulled back the privacy curtain. “and judging by her height right now, she is going to be one tall little girl. Unfortunately, since we know nothing about the mother or father, we can only guess about certain things until the blood work comes back and even then, what we will know will be scarce.”

“When will the blood work be back?”

“I put a rush on it but they are testing for multiple things so it should be back tomorrow evening. I can tell you that she is not suffering from any withdraws and appears to have been full term.” She told him, observing the baby on the bed. “It makes your heart break doesn’t it? Wondering how someone could throw someone so innocent out like that…”

Dean took a second to speak the right words “Sometimes it takes heartbreak in order to get happiness. We don’t know what the mother’s home life is like, they could have killed her or done something so vile it would be hard to wrap our heads around but they chose to give her a better chance.”

“You sound like you’ve been through some heartache before Deputy.” The doctor observed.

“My wife and I… Let me just say the past few years haven’t been easy.”

“Maybe this could be your chance at happiness.” She said as before walking away.

Dean had just gotten up to stretch his legs when his cellphone rang.

“This is Dean.”

“You would not believe the case I was handed today.”

“Hey Sammy.” Dean smiled.

“This could be a career maker. I am talking making partner.”

“That’s great Sam. What’s the case?”

Sam spent the next few minutes telling his brother what he could about the case, “How’s things up North? You and [Y/N] good?” Sam asked as he was currently employed at an office in Oklahoma.

“Yeah, were good. [Y/N] has been running around like a mad woman trying to get everything in place before the get together this weekend and I’m babysitting.”

“Babysitting?”

“I found a baby safe havened at the department this morning. I’m waiting on Social Services to show up to tell me what I need to do and all that shit.”

“Have you thought about-“

“Yes. And I’m not doing anything without discussing it over with [Y/N] first.”

“Well if you need me to look over any paperwork or write something up, I should be there tonight.”

“Thank you Sammy.” Dean acknowledge as the curtain moved, a frazzled woman standing there. “I have to go, I believe Social Services just got here.”

“Dean Winchester?” the woman asked, glancing down at her paperwork.

“That would be me.”

“Clara Eden, Department of Social Services.” She said, extending her hand. “Apologies for running late, when you get woken up earlier than normal and have to remove a three year old from a home, it throws the rest of your day off. Now,” she said glancing towards the sleeping infant on the bed. “Who do we have here?”

“Well, she has no official name, but they are calling her Baby Girl Main. She was safe havened sometime around three this morning at the Sheriff Office.”

“I assume you have security footage on the premises?” She asked, taking a seat on the doctor’s stool next to the bed, pulling out a pen and notebook.

“Yes, and from what I’ve been told the mother walked down from Maple Street onto East Main, holding the box before placing it under the covering of the building before walking on down East Main onto Roswell.”

“Any identification on who the mother ir or maybe?” she asked, jotting down the information into the book.

“No, she wore a hoodie and kept her head down. We believe that she was late teens, early twenties.”

“So, there’s no way to identify her… Well Kansas as you mentioned is an infant safe haven for babies up to forty-five days after birth. Do we have an approximate date of birth?”

“Five days ago according to the information that was written on the box. We’ve sent the baby’s description to all local and surrounding county hospitals and clinics, but we have reason to believe that this was either an unexpected pregnancy or an at home birth.”

“What kind of information was on the box?” she asked as the infant on the bed began to squirm and cry.

Dean walked over to the bed, picking up the baby, placing her onto his shoulder, gently bouncing her up and down. “There was the date of birth and an apology.”

Clara looked up. “An apology? That’s unusual. What did it say?”

“Ok, somewhat of an apology. It just said, ‘Take Care of Her.’” Dean sighed, now rocking the baby back and forth, a smile appearing on the infant’s face as she fell back asleep. “What will happen to her?”

“Well Mr. Winchester, I will have to speak to the doctor or pediatrician before making any permanent moves but it seems as though she will be placed into emergency foster care.”

“Foster care? Is there not another option?”

“I’m afraid not Mr. Winchester, not knowing any of her immediate family, the only other option this short notice is emergency foster care.”

Dean sighed again, being tossed around from foster house to foster house was definitely not what he wanted for the child.

“Who would the foster family be?”

“I’m afraid I can not tell you that because I do not know myself, it would be whoever is next on the list.” She told him, standing up.

“What… What about another option?”

“Dean… I’m sorry but I just-“

“No. Me and my wife. We… we’re looking at fostering, we’ve taken the classes, had background checks and house inspections, we passed it all with flying colors. You can check. I promise.”

“Mr. Winchester-“

“Please… just… just give us a chance.”

The social worker studied him for a moment before letting out a sigh. “I will see what I can do. Since it seems as though she has already formed an attachment and you were the one that found her, your odds might be greater BUT I am making no promises.”

“Thank you, whatever we need to do, we will do it.”

“I will have to take it to my superiors, you should know something by this afternoon.” Clara told him, as she packed her belongings. “Here is a business card with the number I will be calling you from.”

Dean grabbed it, looking at the number before sticking it in my pocket. “What are we supposed to do in the meantime?”

“The doctor will probably release her within the next few hours. I suggest you get prepared and talk to your wife.” She smirked before walking past the curtain.

‘Oh shit.’ He thought.

*Readers POV*

You had just walked in the door from work when your phone in the bottom of your bag began to ring. You quickly dug through, not paying attention to the number of the caller.

“Hello?”

“Hey babe.”

“Hey! I was just fixing to call and see what you wanted for dinner tonight, I have that pot roast in the crockpot but I’m honestly not even in the mood to fix anything else.”

“About that… I need you to come down to the hospital.” He spoke softly.

You heart dropped, thinking the worst as the wife of a police officer. “What? Why? Are you ok?”

“Yeah, I am. Will you just come, please?”

“I will be there in fifteen.”

“[Y/N] don’t panic ok, it’s nothing bad, I promise.”

“Ok. Love you.”

“Love you too.” He said as you ended the call.

You drove to the hospital, going only ten over the speed limit to get there, pulling into the parking lot ten minutes later. You parked, going through the sliding doors just outside of the emergency room. “Hi, I am looking for my husband, Dean Winchester?”

A woman behind the desk smiled. “He’s behind the first curtain on the left as you walk through the door.”

“Thank you.” You told her as you adjusted the purse on your shoulder, walking through the sliding doors that led you to the emergency department.

“Dean?” you asked pushing back the curtain.

“[Y/N] Hey.” He said standing, giving you a kiss on the lips.

“What’s going on? Are you ok? You’re not injured are you?”

“Babe calm down, I am fine. I am here for a whole different reason. Did you get my message from earlier?”

“I wasn’t able to check it, it was so busy after I sent you the first message that-“ you were saying as you were interrupted by a crying infant.

Dean turned, walking over to the bed sitting down.

“Dean?”

“Yes?”

“There’s a baby on the bed.”

“Yes.”

“Where did… where did she come from?”

“Well you see [Y/N] when a mommy and daddy really- Ow! What was the hell was that for?!” he said rubbing his shoulder.

“Not what I asked dumbass.”

“Better wash your mouth out honey, there is a child around.” He laughed.

“Dean? Back to the story.”

“I found her this morning. She has no one.”

You sat down on the other side of the bed, looking at the infant in front of you.

“What’s her name?”

“She doesn’t have one.”

“Well someone needs to give her one… Where does she go from here?”

“Well… about that… I kind of said we could take her.”

You stared at him. “Freeze. Rewind. You done what now?”

“I told the social worker how we’ve been through the classes and everything that’s needed to become foster parents and volunteered us.” He sheepishly spoke.

“Yeah, ok.” You said understandingly.

“Wait. You’re not mad?” Dean asked in surprise.

“Dean honey…” you told him cusping his cheek. “I could never be mad about this. You know how long we’ve tried and failed to have one of our own and here opportunity is, knocking at our door. Who are we to ever turn down a challenge?”

“I Love you so much.”

“I know.” You laughed.

“We’re doing this?”

You nodded your head, “We’ve got so much to do. We’ve got to buy a crib and clothes and bottles and bids and a rocker and-“

“Breath honey. Let’s take it one step at a time.” Dean said, reaching for the infant on the bed, cradling her. “Step number one. Get the hell out of here.”

“Are we allowed to leave or are you just wanting to go because you hate hospitals?”

“All she has to do is pass the car seat test and we are out the door.” He smiled.

“Hey Dean?”

“Yeah?”

“You don’t happen to have a car seat in your back pocket, do you?”

“Son of a Bitch.” He grumbled. “Step number one, you need to go shopping.”

*That weekend*

“[Y/N]!” Dean yelled from the second floor of your home.

“Dean Winchester if you wake her up, I swear to God!”

“I need some help!” he yelled again.

You rushed up the stairs, walking down the hallway to the second door on the right. “What’s the prob- Oh my god what is that smell?!”

“Call the fire department, I need fresh air.” He said gagging, used wipes and a crying, naked baby laying on the changing table. “Oh my god what have you eaten! I will pay you money to stay still!”

“This. This is all on you Dean.” You said looking at your husband, slowly backing out the door.

“[Y/N]! Get back here!” he yelled as you hurriedly walked back down the hall, the doorbell ringing.

You began greeting your guests, your family, Dean’s family, some family friends of both, getting concerned when Dean had yet to show up. “Hey Sam, I’m going to go check on Dean and the situation from earlier.”

You took the stairs again, two at a time. “Babe? You ok?” you asked, checking the makeshift nursery finding nothing, heading to your master bedroom. “Dean?”

“Yeah?”

You pushed open the door, finding Dean in a different outfit, towel drying his wet hair, the baby laying on your bed in a new onesie, sucking on her pacifier, taking in her surroundings.

“Sorry we both had to take a shower, it was all over her, all over me. I’m pretty sure I used a whole package of wipes.”

“Well, you both smell better.” You joked reaching down onto the bed, picking up the infant. “And you missy, you are definitely giving us a run for our money.”

“Ready to do this?” asked Dean.

“Ready if you are.” You smiled, brushing a finger over her cheek.

Dean walked down the stairs in front of you, him reaching the bottom before you began your descent.

“Nice of you to finally show- Oh my God! No!” you heard Dean’s mother Mary say from the living room causing everyone to turn.

“Guys, we’d like you to meet someone. Say hello to Daniella Faith Winchester, Dani for short.” You smiled, even though her legal name at the moment is Baby Girl Main because of where she was found, you and Dean had both decided to give her an actual identity.

“You were pregnant!?”

“She’s so cute!”

“Why did no one tell me you were expecting?”

Dean cleared his throat. “She’s not ours, well biologically speaking. Not to get too personal but we are unable to have a child of our own. We- I found her earlier this week while on the job and most of you know we had just completed becoming certified foster parents, I guess you could call her our chance at happiness.”

“Are you going to adopt her?”

“Maybe someday, right now we are just taking it one step at a time.”

#dean winchester x reader #dean winchester x you #fanfic #supernatural fanfiction #occupational heroes #dean x reader

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siliquasquama replied to your photo: nycnostalgia: South Bronx, 1970s

I was going to guess Berlin 1945

Jonathan Mahler, The Bronx is Burning:

In April 1976 the Yankees came home to the South Bronx. It was, more or less, the same place that the team had left two years earlier, but it bore no resemblance to the South Bronx in which Martin had played twenty-three years before that. Back then the neighborhood’s main thoroughfare, the Grand Concourse, had been known as New York’s Champs-Elysees (with Yankee Stadium as its Arc de Triomphe). Now metaphorists referenced Dresden, not Paris, when describing the area. The old Concourse Plaza Hotel, a stately building of red brick, had been shuttered after a brief and ignominious run as a welfare hotel. The South Bronx itself was losing ten square blocks, or five thousand housing units, a year to arson fires. Rows of private houses, apartment buildings, and small businesses had been gutted, leaving only blackened hulks in their wake. In the area surrounding the stadium, more than twelve hundred buildings had been abandoned. Empty lots were covered with shoulder-high weeds. Ten blocks from the ballpark, an unfinished five-million-dollar low-rise housing development, abandoned for lack of funds in 1972, was a thriving heroin den. When Charlayne Hunter-Gault, the first Harlem bureau chief of The New York Times, visited the Samuel Gompers Vocational-Technical High School in the South Bronx, she was confronted by charred classrooms and broken blackboards. Students passed around a bottle of wine during class. “It’s very difficult to generate enthusiasm,” one teacher told her, “when you feel everything is terminal.”

Deborah Wallace and Rodrick Wallace, A Plague on Both Your Houses:

Testifying in 1976 before the New York State Senate Subcommittee on Police and Fire Protection in New York City, newly retired Deputy Chief George Freidel called the fires “a metastasing cancer on the City.” In 1970, Neil Hardy, the Assistant Commissioner of Housing, had viewed housing abandonment as a spreading epidemic: “If it isn’t stopped, now sound neighborhoods will become ghost towns.” In the 1970s, the language of the civil servants charged with housing preservation borrowed words and phrases from disease medicine and epidemiology. By 1980, op-ed writers also cast their fears in disease and epidemiologic metaphors, although germ and cancer cells were not the triggering mechanism. To these writers and civil servants, fires and abandonments had become contagious, facilitating each other as HIV-infection facilitates tuberculosis.

Fires have always been contagious, but, before 1968, an“immunization program” kept epidemics at bay. Fires became virulently epidemic in 1968. Before then, a large fire ushered in a period of lower-than-average fire incidence in that area because fire-prevention activities by municipal agencies focused there. Still, citywide, the number of structural fires per year grew consistently (figure3-1). After 1968, fire damage failed to trigger targeted agency action. The damage instead marked the area as neglected and negligible, and fire disease infected the area, eroding the housing stock.

The fire epidemic crested in the 1975—77 period and ebbed because the density of susceptible housing in the path of the fire wave had fallen below critical threshold. What could burn did burn, leaving behind vast stretches of charred hulks and abandoned shells. The estimates of housing loss in the 1970s range greatly, depending on who makes the estimate and the assumptions on which it is based. The Bureau of the Census developed a data base on housing units in 1970 and in 1980 and mapped the loss between the two decadal censuses. In figure 3-6, the blackened areas are those census tracts losing at least 500 housing units during the 1970s. Each contiguous black area contains many census tracts. According to this map, hundreds of thousands of housing units were lost in these areas of concentrated housing loss, housing stock which had been stable and had served New Yorkers since before 1915.

Joe Flood, The Fires:

The urban planner Robert Moses, now retired to his Long Island beach house, but still an influential writer for The New York Times and a bevy of magazines, wanted to blacktop the whole South Bronx—with the buildings burned down and the land abandoned, most of the heavy lifting was already done. City planning commission studies from the late 1960s had recommended the same thing, taking advantage of the burnout to acquire abandoned lots on the cheap and redevelop them. Roger Starr, the head of the city’s housing department in the mid-1970s, had actually proposed a policy of “planned shrinkage,” closing hospitals and fire, police, and subway stations in places like the South Bronx and pushing out whoever was left living there. A few years later, a friend of Vizzini’s from the union recounted an interesting conversation he had with a high-ranking mayoral aide about the fires and how the city hadn’t done anything to stop them, had, in fact, encouraged the destruction with all the cuts. “Well, you can always look on the bright side,” the aide had said. “The city got rid of a million and a half undesirables.”

Kim Phillips-Fein, Fear City:

A few months earlier, in the spring of 1975, a woman named Lyn Smith wrote a letter to her senator, the liberal Republican Jacob Javits. Smith described the housing conditions in a South Bronx neighborhood near her home. The city, it seemed to her, had stopped making any effort to demolish burned-out buildings, despite their dangers. “When a house burns down they don’t destroy the frame, they leave it standing—you never know when it’s going to fall. A little boy I know or knew named Ralfy lives in the South Bronx he was playing in one of the broken down houses and he fell through the floor he’s dead now but if that building had been torn down he wouldn’t be dead.” Smith’s tone—flat, apathetic, resigned, quietly bearing witness but hardly even launching a protest—is perhaps the most haunting aspect of her missive. “I don’t know why I wrote this letter you’ll probably never read.”

#siliquasquama

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SCP-3001: Red Reality

SCP-3001 is a hypothesized paradoxical parallel/pocket "non-dimension" accessible through the creation of a momentary Class-C "Broken Entry" Wormhole.1 While believed to be an infinitely extending parallel universe, SCP-3001 is almost completely devoid of any matter and has an extremely low Hume Level of 0.032,2 contradicting Kejel's Laws of Reality with the relation between Humes and spacetime. This phenomenon causes matter inside it to decay at an extremely low rate, and damage that would otherwise prove fatal does not impede any biological/electronic function; simulations suggest an organism can lose more than 70% of their body's tissue and still operate normally, as long as at least 40% of the brain remains. However, prolonged exposure will cause said matter to gradually approach SCP-3001's own Hume Level, resulting in severe tissue/structural damage as the matter's own Hume Field begins to disintegrate.

SCP-7000: The Loser

SCP-7000 is a progressive randomization of probability factors and anomalous fortuity on the planet Earth, and potentially beyond. The effect is not total — a comprehensive karmic failure would in quick succession terminate consensus normalcy, the SCP Foundation and the human race — but instead piecemeal. Each factor is randomized to a different extent, for a different length of time, and often with a different geographical radius of effect, corresponding to no obvious logical pattern. Nevertheless, the cumulative impact of many nonsensical and high-profile outcomes to formerly predictable actions is degrading the Veil of Secrecy at an alarming rate and jeopardizing containment efforts worldwide. SCP-7000-1 is Dr. William Wallace Wettle, a white male 54 years of age presently serving as Deputy Chair of Replication Studies at Site-43. His relationship to SCP-7000 is classified Level 4: Secret.

#tournament poll #SCP Tournament Round 4 #SCP-3001 #SCP-7000

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US Ramps-up Oil Imports From Russia, Pursues Own Interests at Expense of European Allies Amid Ukraine Crisis

— Wang Wenwen and Hu Yuwei | April 04. 2022 | Global Times

An oil pump is seen in Almetyevsky District, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. File Photo: CFP

In a contrasting move to its pressuring of European allies to not buy Russian oil against the backdrop of the ongoing Ukraine crisis, the US increased crude oil supplies from Russia by 43 percent, or 100,000 barrels per day, over the past week, Russian Security Council Deputy Secretary Mikhail Popov told Russian media on Sunday, with critics pointing out that the US pursues its own interests at the costs of its European allies.

According to the Russian official, Europe should expect similar "surprises" from the US.

"Moreover, Washington allowed its companies to export mineral fertilizers from Russia, recognizing them as essential goods," Popov added.

The US and European allies have been exploring banning imports of Russian oil since Russia-Ukraine conflict started, despite the fact that Europe relies on Russia for crude oil and natural gas.

Europe faces pressure from both the US and the UK to impose a ban on Russian oil. Britain has announced that it would phase out Russian oil imports by the end of the year.

Meanwhile, US Treasury has set deadline to end deals on oil and coal imports from Russia until April 22.

Cui Heng, an assistant research fellow from the Center for Russian Studies of East China Normal University, told the Global Times that the US policy toward Russia is centered on two aspects - one being liberalism to counter Russia's political system and collective ideology and the other being pragmatism to serve US national interests.

"Out of the need to ideologically confront Russia, the US woos allies to sanction Russia, while out of the need of reality, the US buys Russian energy at a cheaper price and sells them to Europe at a higher price to serve the interests of domestic oil interest groups. In the end, Europe becomes the victim - European wealth flows to the US and helps consolidate the dollar's advantage against euro," Cui said.

US liquefied natural gas exports rose nearly 16 percent last month to a record high, according to preliminary Refinitiv data, with shipments to Europe continuing to dominate.

US biggest spoiler of Ukraine situation, European security

US LNG is in high demand as European countries try to cut gas imports from Russia after its military operation in Ukraine, while also looking to rebuild diminishing inventories.

Local media reported that Europe has been the top importer of US LNG for four consecutive months, taking about 65 percent of US exports.

In a joint agreement, the US announced on March 25 to provide at least 15 billion cubic meters more of liquefied natural gas to Europe this year, seeking to end the bloc's dependence on Russian energy exports. These additional volumes of LNG are expected to increase going forward, the White House said in a statement.

Mick Wallace, a member of the European Parliament, tweeted a video of his parliamentary speech, saying that Europe should indeed wean itself off its dependence on Russian energy, but must not replace it with "filthy fracked Gas" of the US, which has invaded other countries more than any other country in the world, according to media reports.

Analysts said the biggest beneficiary from Russia-Ukraine crisis and ban on Russian oil is the US while some netizens mocked the US move as ensnaring its European allies.

"I believe the target of the US [in sanctioning Russia] is not Russia at all, but European countries," commented one Chinese netizen.

By buying oil from Russia and reselling it to Europe, the US can make a profit, said some Twitter users.

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"Combating Terrorism : Reflections over the Generations"

Conversation with Ambassador (Ret.) Gustavo de Aristegui

February 9, 2018

Gustavo de Aristegui was born on June 6, 1963 in a diplomatic family – father, two uncles, grandfather, and great-great uncle were all diplomats. He studied Law at Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE) and then spent a year in the Spanish Diplomatic Academy. He served in the European Division, in the Africa and Middle East Division as Deputy Head of Middle East Affairs in the time of the first Gulf War (1990-91), as Deputy Chief of Mission of the Spanish Embassy to Libya (1991-1993) where he was Charge D’Affaires (Acting Ambassador) for well over a year, and as Deputy Chief of Mission of the Spanish Embassy to Jordan (1993-96). From his post in Jordan he was also in charge of the Embassy in Iraq. In May 1996, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Spanish Ministry of Security and Home Affairs. In March 2000 he ran as a member of the People’s Party (PP, Center-right) for a seat in the Spanish Parliament representing his home province of Guipuzcoa and was subsequently reelected to Parliament two more times for a total of 12 years. In Parliament he was the leader of the Majority for Foreign Affairs for four years, and then leader of the Minority for Foreign Affairs for another eight years. From April 2012 to January 2016, he was Ambassador of Spain to India and Ambassador of Spain concurrently to Sri Lanka, Nepal, the Maldives, and the Kingdom of Bhutan.

The seminar was moderated by Professor Yonah Alexander (Director, Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies and Senior Fellow, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies). Opening remarks were made by General Alfred Gray, USMC (Ret.) (Twenty-Ninth Commandant of the United States Marine Corps; Senior Fellow and Chairman of the Board of Regents, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies) and comments were provided by Professor Don Wallace, Jr. (Chairman, International Law Institute).

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Atlanta shootings: Some officials call for hate crime charges in the Georgia spa shootings that left 8 dead Robert Aaron Long, 21, is being held in connection with Tuesday’s shootings at a massage spa in Georgia’s Cherokee County and two in Atlanta. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are expected to visit Atlanta on Friday, in part to discuss the events with leaders in the state. They are expected to meet with Bottoms, as well as Asian American and Pacific Islander leaders, according to Georgia state Rep. Bee Nguyen. Long claimed responsibility for the shootings, according to sheriff’s office in Cherokee County, where he faces four counts of murder and a charge of aggravated assault. He also has been charged with four counts of murder in Atlanta, police there said. The suspect, arrested Tuesday night in a traffic stop 150 miles south of Atlanta, told police he believed he had a sex addiction and that he saw the spas as “a temptation … that he wanted to eliminate,” Cherokee County sheriff’s Capt. Jay Baker said. But Atlanta Police Chief Rodney Bryant has said it is still too early to know a motive, and Cherokee County District Attorney Shannon Wallace said the investigation is ongoing and appropriate charges will be brought. When asked whether Long could face hate crime charges, Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Reynolds said Thursday that investigators will follow the evidence. While FBI Director Christopher Wray said the attacks don’t appear to be racially motivated, advocacy groups have argued that it is too soon to make that determination. And shootings don’t have to be racially motivated to constitute a hate crime in Georgia. “Sex” is a hate crime category under Georgia law. If Long was targeting women out of hatred for them or scapegoating them for his own problems, it could potentially be a hate crime. Long had previously frequented the two Atlanta spas, and he bought the gun used in the shooting the day of the incident, Atlanta Deputy Police Chief Charles Hampton Jr. said Thursday. The communities and the nation grapple with fear and grief Flowers have lined the businesses that were the scenes of the violence, but as increased hate impacts Asians and Asian Americans, the emotional toll has been felt across the nation. Anti-Asian hate crimes have more than doubled during the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. The violence has surged amid racist rhetoric during the pandemic — some popularized by former President Donald Trump. Many Asian Americans have been subjected to vitriol about the “China virus” or the “kung flu” — even those who have never been to Asia. “Such vicious, unconscionable acts of violence cut at the very core of our country and the values on which it was founded,” former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said Thursday. “As we await the findings of a thorough investigation, the critical work to combat the haunting rise of hatred against the AAPI (Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders) community must intensify with the immediacy this latest tragedy commands.” Reynolds, the Cherokee County sheriff, visited a candlelight vigil Thursday outside the site of the first shootings — Young’s Asian Spa near the city of Woodstock. Reynolds told reporters he attended to let the Asian American community know that “we have them in our hearts and our prayers and we’re so sorry for the loss of life.” A vigil was also held Thursday outside of one of the other shooting sites, Gold Massage Spa in Atlanta. When Biden and Harris visit Atlanta on Friday, community leaders will urge the shootings be considered a hate crime against Asians and not dismissed as the suspect having a “bad day,” Nguyen said. Biden ordered flags at the White House and other federal grounds to be flown at half-staff Thursday to honor the shooting victims. The US Embassy in Seoul also lowered flags, Chargé d’Affaires ad interim Rob Rapson said on Twitter. “Our hearts go out to the loved ones of those we lost and our nation mourns with you,” he said. Victim’s husband says he heard gunfire from a separate room The names of all eight people slain have been released. Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33, of Acworth; Paul Andre Michels, 54, of Atlanta; Xiaojie Tan, 49, of Kennesaw; and Daoyou Feng, 44, were fatally shot at Young’s Asian Massage in Cherokee County. Elcias R. Hernandez-Ortiz, 30, of Acworth, was also shot but survived. Yaun’s husband, Mario Gonzalez, told the Mundo Hispanico newspaper that he and his wife were at the spa to get massages, and she was in a separate room when the shooting started. “About an hour in … I heard the shots. I didn’t see anything, only I started to think it was in the room where my wife was,” he told the newspaper. “(The shooter) took the most valuable thing I had in my life,” Gonzalez said. “He left me with only pain.” Victim’s son mourns his ‘strongest influence’ About 30 miles away and within an hour of the first shooting, four Asian women were killed in Atlanta — three at the Gold Massage Spa, and one at the Aroma Therapy Spa across the street, authorities said. The four Atlanta victims were: Soon C. Park, 74; Hyun J. Grant, 51; Suncha Kim, 69; and Yong A. Yue, 63, according to the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office. Of those four, three died of gunshot wounds to the head, and one died of a gunshot wound to the chest, the medical examiner’s office said. Grant was a “single mother who dedicated her whole life to providing for my brother and I,” her son Randy Park wrote on a GoFundMe page. “She was one of my best friends and the strongest influence on who we are today,” Park wrote. The GoFundMe page, set up for Grant’s two sons, had raised $550,000 from about 14,000 donors as of Friday morning. GoFundMe told CNN the page is verified; Park did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment. The page says the donated money will pay for food, rent and other monthly bills. It says the brothers now only have each other in the US, with every other relative in South Korea. “Losing her has put a new lens on my eyes on the amount of hate that exists in our world” Park wrote. CNN’s Jason Hanna, Holly Yan, Amir Vera, Gisela Crespo, Amanda Watts, Audrey Ash, Casey Tolan, Nicquel Ellis, Nicole Chavez, Raja Razek, Jamiel Lynch and Gregory Lemos and Paul P. Murphy contributed to this report. 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Victims of the spa shootings highlight the vulnerability of working-class Asian women as more Asian Americans get attacked

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Victims of the spa shootings highlight the vulnerability of working-class Asian women as more Asian Americans get attacked

“This one fact alone highlights the vulnerability, the invisibility, and the isolation of working-class Asian women in our country,” Nguyen said at a Thursday news conference.

“When they go missing, or when they die, the loss of their lives will not incite the same kind of rage. And they won’t even be treated with the same humanity,” she said.

“And in this case, they’ve been characterized as a problem that needed to be eliminated.”

Authorities have not yet confirmed a motive for the shootings at three Atlanta-area spas, which killed eight people — including six Asian women. A suspect is in custody.

Atlanta Deputy Police Chief Charles Hampton Jr. said Wednesday the suspect, Robert Aaron Long, frequented the two Atlanta spas and bought the gun used in the shooting the day of the incident.

President Joe Biden ordered flags to be flown at half-staff Thursday to honor the victims. Biden also plans to visit Atlanta on Friday to meet with Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, as well as Asian American and Pacific Islander leaders, according to Georgia State Rep. Bee Nguyen.

Among the issues they will bring up is the concern that the shootings be “taken seriously” and seriously considered as a hate crime against Asians and not dismissed as the suspect having a “bad day,” Nguyen said.

Shootings part of hostility toward Asian Americans

Across the US, Asian Americans are riddled with fear as unprovoked attacks against them intensify.

Anti-Asian hate crimes have more than doubled during the pandemic, according to the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.

The violence has surged amid racist rhetoric during the coronavirus pandemic — some popularized by ex-President Donald Trump. Many Asian Americans have been subjected to vitriol about the “China virus” or the “kung flu” — even those who have never been to Asia.

Asian American communities are on edge after Tuesday’s deadly shootings.

“I feel like that just took it to a whole other extreme,” said Hanna Kim, a teacher from Novi, Michigan.

Nguyen said as a public official, whenever anyone disagrees with her opinion or policies, the first thing they do is criticize the country her parents came from and, second, her gender.

“I have experienced a lot of targeted misogyny, targeted xenophobia, messages of going back to your own country, even though I was born here, raised here, I’ve lived in Georgia almost my entire life. It is very real,” Nguyen said.

Actress Lucy Liu told Appradab’s Erin Burnett on Thursday that she believes race relations will get worse before they can get better.

“I think culturally, we are not a people that speak out and talk about being victims and I think that’s something that we learn” from previous generations, Liu said.

Bottoms told Appradab that nowadays “there seems to be permission now to be hateful.” She’s spent the past days reaching out to members of the Asian community in Atlanta “to make sure we have all of the information we need to make sure that our communities are protected,” adding the dialogue will continue.

“There seems to be a permission that I’ve not seen, at least in my lifetime,” Bottoms said. “It does predate Donald Trump, but he certainly has given permission and done his part to elevate the hatred.”

Kim, a 24-year-old Korean American, said she often feels like she has a target on her back. Last year, she said a parent wanted to remove one of her students from her second-grade class because Kim was Asian.

“Are people going to say things to me?” Kim said she often asks herself. “Are people going to avoid me because they think that for some reason I’m going to be the one that’s spreading the virus?”

Yet despite outrage over the shootings, attacks against Asian Americans continue.

An Asian man and woman were assaulted Wednesday by the same suspect in separate attacks, San Francisco police said. Investigators are trying to determine whether bias was a motivating factor in the attack.

“While we’re relieved the suspect was quickly apprehended, we’re certainly not at peace as this attack still points to an escalating threat many in the Asian American community feel today,” said Margaret Huang, president and CEO of Southern Poverty Law Center.

What we know about the victims

Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33, of Acworth; Paul Andre Michels, 54, of Atlanta; Xiaojie Tan, 49, of Kennesaw; and Daoyou Feng, 44, were all fatally shot at Youngs Asian Massage in Cherokee County.

Elcias R. Hernandez-Ortiz, 30, of Acworth, was also shot at the spa but survived.

Three more victims were found dead at Gold Massage Spa in Atlanta, and another victim was found dead across the street at the Aroma Therapy Spa.

The names of those four victims have not yet been released by authorities.

Three of the victims were 52, 75 and 64 years of age, according to birth years listed in an Atlanta police incident report.

“We need to make sure we have a true verification of their identities and that we make the proper next of kin notification,” Hampton said Wednesday.

What we know about the suspect

Long, 21, faces eight counts of murder and one count of aggravated assault.

Long was on his way to Florida, possibly to take the lives of more victims, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said, citing investigators.

The suspect told police he believed he had a sex addiction and that he saw the spas as “a temptation … that he wanted to eliminate,” Cherokee County sheriff’s Capt. Jay Baker said.

But Atlanta Police Chief Rodney Bryant said it is still too early to know a motive.

It’s not clear whether any of the three businesses offered sexual services in addition to massages. But authorities have given no indication the three businesses were operating illegally.

Capt. Jay Baker on Tuesday said Long “was pretty much fed up and had been kind of at the end of his rope. Yesterday was a really bad day for him, and this is what he did.”

Baker is no longer the spokesperson for the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office’s case investigating the spa shooting, the Sheriff’s Office confirmed to Appradab.

Appradab has reached out to Baker for comment.

Sheriff Frank Reynolds said in a statement Thursday he has known and worked with Baker for many years and his comments “were not intended disrespect any of the victims, the gravity of this tragedy or express empathy or sympathy for the suspect.”

How the attacks unfolded

Shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday, deputies were called to Youngs Asian Massage between the Georgia cities of Woodstock and Acworth after reports of a shooting, Cherokee County sheriff’s officials said.

That shooting left four people — two Asian and two White — dead and one person injured, Baker said.

About an hour later and 30 miles away, Atlanta police responded to the Gold Massage Spa on Piedmont Road in Atlanta. Police said they found three people dead.

While there, police received another call of shots fired across the street at the Aroma Therapy Spa, where they found one person dead, Bryant said.

The names of those four victims have not yet been released by authorities.

Investigators found surveillance video of a suspect near the Cherokee County scene and published images on social media.

Long’s family saw the images, contacted authorities and helped identify him, Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Reynolds said Wednesday.

“(The family members) are very distraught, and they were very helpful in this apprehension,” Reynolds said.

‘It would be appropriate’ if the suspect was charged with a hate crime, mayor says

Long has claimed responsibility for the shootings at the spas, the Cherokee County sheriff’s office said.

He is facing four counts of murder and a charge of aggravated assault, according to the county sheriff’s office. He also has been charged with more four counts of murder, Atlanta Police Department said.

A law enforcement source told Appradab that Long was recently kicked out of the house by his family due to his sexual addiction, which, the source said, included frequently spending hours watching pornography online.

Bottoms, the Atlanta mayor, told Appradab’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday she thinks the shootings were a hate crime.

“It looked like a hate crime to me,” she said. “This was targeted at Asian spas. Six of the women who were killed were Asian so it’s difficult to see it as anything but that.”

“Sex” is a hate crime category under Georgia’s new law. If Long was targeting women out of hatred for them or scapegoating them for his own problems, it could potentially be a hate crime.

The shootings don’t have to be racially motivated to constitute a hate crime in Georgia.

Cherokee County District Attorney Shannon Wallace released a statement Thursday saying “we are acutely aware of the feelings of terror being experienced in the Asian-American community.”

“We hear your concerns and want it to be known that these victims will receive the very best efforts of this office,” Wallace said. “We anticipate beginning to meet with the impacted families in the near future, and earn their trust, as we continue to develop our case against the defendant.”

Correction: An earlier version of this story misspelled Xiaojie Tan’s last name based on information provided by the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office.

Appradab’s Amanda Watts, Stephen Collinson, Audrey Ash, Casey Tolan, Nicquel Ellis, Nicole Chavez, Artemis Moshtaghian, Raja Razek, Jamiel Lynch and Kevin Liptak contributed to this report.

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Perseverance lands on Mars

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Perseverance lands on Mars

WASHINGTON — NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars Feb. 18, completing a nearly seven-month journey from Earth and beginning a years-long exploration of the red planet.

Perseverance touched down at Jezero Crater on Mars at 3:55 p.m. Eastern, seven minutes after the rover, encapsulated within a heatshield and backshell, entered the Martian atmosphere. The entry, descent and landing appeared to go according to plan, punctuated with a “Touchdown confirmed!” call in mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The $2.7 billion mission, known as Mars 2020, launched July 30 of last year on a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5. Now on the surface, it will operate for at least one Martian year — nearly two Earth years — and likely for far longer, barring any technical issues.

Perseverance is NASA’s fifth Mars rover, dating back to the Sojourner rover flown on the Mars Pathfinder mission that landed in 1997, and is by far the most sophisticated. While similar to size to the Curiosity rover that has been on Mars since 2012, the 1,025-kilogram Perseverance is about 100 kilograms heavier and has a payload of science instruments and technology demonstrations 50% larger.

Most of that payload will be devoted to studies of the landing site and surrounding region, looking for evidence of past Martian life. Scientists will also use the rover’s instruments to characterize the planet’s geology and climate.

A key aspect of that science mission will be to collect samples of a wide range of Martian rocks, including those that scientists believe contain biosignatures, or evidence of past life. Perseverance will cache those samples, either in selected locations on the surface or on the rover itself, to be returned to Earth by two later missions that will launch no earlier than 2026 as part of the broader Mars Sample Return campaign NASA is conducting in cooperation with the European Space Agency.

Scientists hope that either the instruments on Perseverance, or the samples brought back to Earth for analysis in terrestrial labs in the 2030s, will turn up evidence of past life. But they also acknowledge that the samples might find no evidence of such life. If that happens, “it would suggest that not all habitable environments that exist are inhabited,” said Ken Farley, Mars 2020 project scientist, at a Feb. 17 briefing. “We just can’t assume that everywhere that is habitable has had life originate and thrive in it.”

“I don’t necessarily think it would be the end of exploration on Mars and looking for life on Mars,” added Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s planetary science division. “We would need to keep looking, and look harder, maybe in other places.”

Besides looking for evidence of past life, Perseverance is also a step toward future life in the form of human missions. One payload on the rover, called MOXIE, will test the ability to convert carbon dioxide in the atmosphere into oxygen for life support and propellant. The rover will also deploy a small helicopter, called Ingenuity, that will attempt the first powered flight in the Martian atmosphere. Such vehicles could serve as scouts for astronauts on future missions.

“This rover has a substantial amount of feed-forward technology on it,” said Matt Wallace, deputy project manager for Mars 2020, at a Feb. 17 webinar by the National Academies’ Space Studies Board. He worked on NASA’s four previous Mars rovers, from Sojourner to Curiosity. “This is really the first one that I think of as a human precursor mission.”

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