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me-myself-and-my-fos · 3 years

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Platonic f/o list

Last updated: Jan. 24, 2023

Young Justice Invasion/Outsiders

Artemis Crock

Tag: #archery partner; #super team family

Wally West

Tag: #speedy buddy; #super team family

Dick Grayson

Tag: #vigilante bud; #super team family

Kaldur’um

Tag: #atlantean friendo; #super team family

Conner Kent/Kon El

Tag: #clone bro; #super team family

M’gann Morz

Tag: #martian bff; #super team family

Overwatch

Mako Rutledge/Roadhog

Tag: #hog wild friend

Lena Oxton

Tag: #tea and crumpets friend

Jesse McCree

Tag: #friendly neighborhood gunslinger

Hana Song

Tag: #gamer friend

Angela Ziegler/Mercy

Tag: #have mercy

MCU

Tony Stark

Tag: #iron friend

Steve Rogers

Tag: #super soldier bud 1

Bucky Barnes

Tag: #super soldier bud 2: winter-boogaloo

Thor Odinson

Tag: #god of thunder and friendship

Natasha Romanoff

Tag: #world’s best spy friend

James Rhodes

Tag: #rhodey buddy

Happy Hogan

Tag: #Happy buddy

Fandral

Tag: #warrior friends

Loki Odinson

Tag: #my best friend the trickster

Hogun

Tag: #warrior friends

Lay Sif

Tag: #warrior friends

iZombie

Don E

Tag: #team z

Liv Moore

Tag: #team z

Ravi Chakrabarti

Tag: #team z

Clive Babineaux

Tag: #team z

Major Lilywhite

Tag: #team z

Murder in the First

Terry English

Tag: #sfpd fam

Hildy Mulligan

Tag: #sfpd fam

Edgar Navarro

Tag: #sfpd fam

OUAT

Snow White/Mary Margaret

Tag: #princess friend

Prince Charming/David Nolan

Tag: #too charming for his own good

Emma Swan

Tag: #the savior

Killian Jones

Tag: #a pirates life

Ruby Lucas

Tag: #

Belle French

Tag: #book club bestie

Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold

Tag: #

Geppetto/Marco

Tag: #

Pinocchio/August Booth

Tag: #

Detroit: Become Human

Leo Manfred

Tag: #

Carl Manfred

Tag: #

Hank Anderson

Tag: #

Connor

Tag: #

Harry Potter

The Marauders and Lily Evans/Potter

Tag: #

Harry Potter

Tag: #

Hermione Granger

Tag: #

Oliver Wood

Tag: #quidditch pro bro

Angela Johnson

Tag: #

Nymphadora Tonks

Tag: #

Kingsley Shacklebolt

Tag: #

Fantastic Beasts

Tina Goldstein

Tag: #goldstein girls

Queenie Goldstein

Tag: #goldstein girls

Jacob Kowalski

Tag: #baking buddy

Arrowverse

Brainiac 5/Querl Dox

Tag: #brainy brother

Nia Nal

Tag: #best friend of my dreams

Winn Schott

Tag: #the nerdiest of friends

Mon-El

Tag: #daxamite bud

J’onn J’onzz

Tag: #martian mentor

Clark Kent

Tag: #super cousin in law

Lois Lane

Tag: #my friend the journalist

Mr. Mxyzptlk

Tag: #imp bestie

Cisco Ramon

Tag: #nerd brother

Barry Allen

Tag: #speedster bro

Caitlin Snow

Tag: #doctor bestie

Martin Stein

Tag: #uncle professor; #legends fam

Jefferson Jackson

Tag: #football bud who explains football to me; #legends fam

Mick Rory

Tag: #pyromaniac partner; #legends fam

Sara Lance

Tag: #my friend is the captain; #legends fam

Nate Heywood

Tag: #historian best friend; #legends fam

Amaya

Tag: #amulet wielding friend; #legends fam

Rip Hunter

Tag: #not a timelord; #legends fam

Oliver Queen

Tag: #you have saved this city

Felicity Smoak

Tag: #tech support

John Diggle

Tag: #the sane one

Laurel Lance

Tag: #songbird

Lucifer Morningstar

Tag: #the devil you know

DC comics

Supernatural

Jodie Mills

Tag: #mom friend

Charlie Bradbury

Tag: #dnd friend

Crowley

Tag: #king of hell frienemy

Star Trek (AOS)

Jim Kirk

Tag: #starfleet fam

Nyota Uhura

Tag: #starfleet fam

Hikaru Sulu

Tag: #starfleet fam

Leonard “Bones” McCoy

Tag: #starfleet fam

Spock

Tag: #starfleet fam

Pavel Chekov

Tag: #starfleet fam

Keenser

Tag: #starfleet fam

Jaylah

Tag: #starfleet fam

The World’s End

Andy Knightley

Tag: #my boys 👏

Peter Page

Tag: #my boys 👏

Steven Prince

Tag: #my boys 👏

Oliver Chamberlain

Tag: #my boys 👏

Sam Chamberlain

Tag: #girls night 🎉

Netflix’s Daredevil

Karen Page

Tag: #Page me when you need me

Matt Murdock

Tag: #Speak of the Devil

BBC Sherlock

John Watson

Tag: #calling doctor hedgehog

Anthea

Tag: #number 1 personal assistant

Star Wars: The Bad Batch

Hunter

Tag: #experimental best friends force 99

Wrecker

Tag: #he’s gonna wreck it!; #experimental best friends force 99

Echo

Tag: #experimental best friends force 99

Crosshair

Tag: #shootin’ straight; #experimental best friends force 99

Omega

Tag: #the brains and heart of the group; #experimental best friends force 99

Captain Rex

Tag: #captain Jane’s husband 💙

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy Summers

Tag: #slayer kids

Willow Rosenberg

Tag: #slayer kids

Xander Harris

Tag: #slayer kids

Anya Jenkins

Tag: #slayer kids

Tara Maclay

Tag: #slayer kids

New Amsterdam

Max Goodwin

Tag: #New Amsterfam

Helen Sharpe

Tag: #New Amsterfam

Iggy Frome

Tag: #New Amsterfam

Vijay Kapoor

Tag: #New Amsterfam

Floyd Reynolds

Tag: #New Amsterfam

Lauren Bloom

Tag: #New Amsterfam

OCs

Bob Cooper

Tag: #ex henchman in law

John Humphreys

Tag: #neighbor rival

Timothy Worthington

Tag: #husband’s work friend

Nancy Harolds

Tag: #heart that shines like glitter and gold

Friends with Benefits

Arthur Ketch [Supernatural]

Tag: #British Boytoy

this is currently an incomplete list

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recommendedlisten · 4 years

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An introduction to Dougie Poole, a cosmic country city crooner for today’s culture climate, is where this week began, and far out it went from there. Moses Sumney and his latest recommended listen græ blessed us in isolation. Chicago post-punks Dehd gave us a lesson in learning on lonerism while Aussie rockers the Beths excitedly ripped through their fear of imposter syndrome. In even darker realms, it’s also in fans of Touche Amore’s best interest to give listen to rising Los Angeles hardcore collision course ENTRY, considering it features TA guitarist Clayton Stevens, and disciples of Chelsea Wolfe to kneel at the alter of she and drummer Jess Gowrie’s new band Mrs. Piss.

Here’s the best of the rest from the week of May 10th, 2020…

The 1975 - “Guys” [Dirty Hit / Interscope Records]

At the end of next week, the 1975 will finally release their oft-delayed fourth studio effort Notes On a Conditional Form. The album cycle for this one has felt like it’s been going on forever, starting last year and carrying well into this one with standout singles like “People”, “If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)”, and its obligatory meta title track. Those self-titled tracks are never about the band itself, though. That’s where “Guys”, the album’s final advance listen comes in. It’s ironic that in this case the listen acts as the album’s closer, and will undoubtedly act as a lovely epilogue to whatever precedes it. “You guys are the best thing that ever happened to me,” Matty Healy sings over and over a soft-lit blur of synthetic pop-rock. Reminiscing in real time.

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Deerhoof - “Damaged Eyes Squinting Into the Beautiful Overhot Sun” [Joyful Noise Recordings]

Deerhoof have always been a band for our times yesterday, now, and tomorrow. With their upcoming 15th studio effort Future Teenage Cave Artists, the noise-pop iconoclasts are making music that ponders the human fate in all directions, with its early previews in its title track, “The Loved One”, and “Farewell Symphony” piecing together fragments of our culture being lost, be it to our culture of consumerism or self-destructive habits. The album’s fourth single “Damaged Eyes Squinting Into the Beautiful Overhot Sun” continues in a key of dirge, as it poetically dances in the clustering haze of a global warming end times. If you’d like to learn this wistful theme for when our current civilization is bygone, the band’s guitarists John Dieterich and Ed Rodriguez have put together a tutorial for it for Guitar World’s Sick Riffs series as well.

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Kitty - “Baby Pink” [Pretty Wavvy]

It was last year where Soundcloud rap originator Kitty returned as a hyper experimental pop maximalist with her album ROSE GOLD. Since then, she’s started her own label Pretty Wavvy to foster outside thoughts beyond today’s poptimist trends through her own work and her partner Sam Ray’s work as Ricky Eat Acid, among others, and on June 5th, she’ll release a much different follow-up to ROSE GOLD with Charm & Mirror. The album is described as an effort in “learning 2 sit still,” and judging by its first single “Baby Pink”, it does just that as Kitty’s bright neon energy chills up nicely in bed next to a Tame Impala zone out session. In its self-directed visuals, Kitty, Sam Ray and their pup Clover offer a cozy night in through an influencer aesthetic.

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Self Defense Family - “Make Me a Pallet Fire On Your Floor” / “Local Clerics” [Run for Cover Records]

The transformative post-hardcore collective Self Defense Family have spent the last several weeks of quarantine rummaging through unreleased music and sharing it with listeners through the singles “Florida Trip”, “Tissue Thin”, “Jesus of Nazareth”, “Secular Trust”, and “Lust for Nuke". Given the band’s track record in being prolific, it’s really saying something when even the lost songs are on par with what originally made it through the other end of the tunnel. The latest share includes the double singles “Make Me a Pallet Fire On Your Floor” and “Local Clerics”, with the former being a song that sorts through the broken bones of a dead relationship over a subtle organ hum and the later hearing frontperson Patrick Kindlon retreating to familiar ground at cracking open small minds. Both beg the question: Does anyone know if Kindlon has ever listened to the band Wilderness?

Make Me A Pallet Fire On Your Floor b/w Local Clerics by Self Defense Family

TG - “Honeybrains” [House of Feelings]

At the end of April, we were reintroduced to Todd Goldstein, the former guitarist of Harlem Shakes and frontperson for the Brooklyn baroque indie outfit ARMS, and his latest moniker TG. The project focuses on ambient textures, jazzist percussion, and experimental art rock layers to exude a density of emotional weight, hence its debut album’s title Memory Foam. With the album’s lead single “Agree2Disagree”, we heard Goldstein merge smoldering electricity and helium synths into a kinetic confusion. The second preview “Honeybrains” is lighter in its texture, with a cool vapor of synths and a trickling guitar leading the six-minute-plus instrumental into a journey where the sky seemingly opens and discovers new wonder each step further it takes. It’s a sweet one to get lost in space with.

Varsity - “Shaking Hands” [Run for Cover Records]

Chicago indie-pop outfit-on-the-rise Varsity are readying the release of their Run for Records debut full-length Fine Forever, set for the May 29th. We’ve already danced and dazzled in their opposite ends of romantic want and escape with the album’s first two singles “Runaway” and “Reason to Run”. Its latest preview “Shaking Hands” isn’t so much about loving anyone or anything at all (nor is it a quarantine-themed warning on what to do,) but it does find a dreamy corner in the search of the self within proximity. “And I walk around this shitty old town / And I ain’t got much to do,” sings vocalist and keyboardist Stef Smith. “And I wonder and I wonder / If I’m ever going under / And I ain’t got much to prove.” James Thacher created its crayon-animated visuals.

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#songs #the best of the rest #the1975 #deerhoof #kitty #self defense family #tg #varsity #new music & videos #new music and videos

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soughtout · 5 years

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i’m almost me again, she’s almost you ..... .... i laugh like me again, she laughs like you

Merlin’s beard, what is ( CHO CHANG ) doing out at this hour? For a ( HALF BLOOD ) who is ( 17 ) years old, ( SHE ) really ought to know better. You know, I hear that they’re aligned with ( THE ORDER ), but that could be just a rumor. I do know that ( SHE ) is ( CIS FEMALE ) and a ( RAVENCLAW ) alumni though. They’re very ( RESOLUTE ) and ( KIND ) but also quite ( RUTHLESS ) and ( DISTANT ), which could be why they remind of ( FALLING ASLEEP UNDERNEATH THE STARS, SLOWLY REALIZING THAT THE WORLD HAS NEVER BEEN KIND, A GLIMMER OF HOPE IN THE DARK AND THE WAY YOU ALWAYS SMILE, EVEN THOUGH YOU’VE NEVER FELT MORE ALONE THAN YOU DO RIGHT NOW. ). Some people say they’re the spitting image of ( MING XI ), but I’ve never heard of them.

BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS.

Cho was born in Kinsale, Ireland, to a muggle father and a witch mother. They divorced when Cho was four years old, but remained on amicable terms, for Cho’s sake.

Her parents originally came from China, but they came to the UK during the 1960s as children (along with Cho’s grandparents) due to the economic regression and the famine that took place. Cho has visited her parents’ birth place a couple of times, but she has never lived there herself. Cho’s parents also never met while living in China.

They lived in a small cottage in the middle of the town. Her father was a shopkeeper, selling herbs, antique books and candles to the locals. Her mother was a mediwitch as well as a registered nurse, and tended to both the muggles and the wizards of their little town.

Cho is an only child, technically, but her mother was in the habit of taking in foster kids when Cho was growing up, so their house was always full. Cho considered and considers some of the ones that stuck around for longer periods to be her siblings, and refer to them as her sisters and brothers. If anyone asks if she has any siblings, she will say yes.

She spent a lot of time playing Quidditch growing up, and was always careless, reckless. Bruised knees, scratched skin and black eyes were common occurrences. Cho was always ‘one of the boys’, and was eager to prove herself. Often a little too much. She’d push herself too far, and have to run home to her mother, to get stitched up.

HOGWARTS YEARS.

She shows up at Hogwarts and gets immediately sorted into Ravenclaw. No one in her near vicinity is surprised. It makes sense, and she’s relieved. Cho likes when she can make sense of things, when she can understand. When things add up.

But the truth is, Cho would have done just as well in any other house, like a true chameleon.

During her second year at the school, she joined the Ravenclaw Quidditch team, as their seeker. From that moment, she lived and breathed Quidditch. It was her lifeblood, the thing that motivated her. She constantly pushed herself harder than she ought to, and kept ending up in the hospital wing. But she played a good game.

Was very popular while at the school. Cho was known as easy going, and kind. She was sweet-natured, bright, optimistic, always smiling, never went looking for a fight, softness personified. So what if she was slowly becoming a walking, breathing stereotype of a girl? She was all too aware of that, too. But it was a comfortable thing to be ---- well liked, well protected, well looked after.

She would change, during her fifth year at the school. It would be the best and worst year of her life ---- she’d fall in love, but she would also let other people to destroy her, piece by piece, little by little.

So, Cedric Diggory was her first love ----- and like all first loves, it was intense, electric. Cho would have done anything for him.

But would never be allowed to. And his death left a hole in her heart, a sliver of ice in her soul. Some of that inherent kindness, that warmth that came so naturally to her, was extinguished that day.

She went home for the summer, spent most of it in despair. Refused to leave the house. Not even Quidditch excited her, anymore.

But Cho Chang had always been a girl of determination and resolution -- so she picked up the pieces, tried to put herself back together. Went back to the school for the autumn. To find out that everything had changed.

The people who she had thought were her friends, the people who were supposed to have her back, be there for her ( like she had always been, for them ), barely seemed to notice her, anymore. They stopped saving her a seat in the cafeteria. Made plans without inviting her. Whispered behind her back ( ‘ why is she still crying, like all the time? ‘ ). Pretended not to see her when she waved at them from across the room. A few people remained in her corner, but her former girl gang (most likely NPCs) wanted little to do with her, now that she was such a downer.

So Cho sought comfort elsewhere. Tried to find new friends. Buried herself in books. Wondered where the hell her popularity went.

So she entered a relationship with Harry Potter. Her feelings for him were chaotic, tumultuous. Unsorted. Throughout their short relationship, her feelings were clouded by guilt, by sadness, by the way other people whispered behind her back, confirming all her worst fears.

Mostly, Cho just longed for closeness, for comfort. For hope.

During her sixth year at the school, her grades and her Quidditch performance suffered terribly. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t concentrate. But she pulled through, by the skin of her teeth.

She still joined Dumbledore’s Army, mostly for Cedric’s sake. And in the room of requirements, she found some of that hope she had been looking for, so desperately !!!!! She came alive again, little by little.

But then someone who had remained loyal to her, throughout everything, was thrown out. And everything was turned on its head once again.

So she came back for her seventh year, right? At this point, she was kind of bitter, and less trustful of people. She kept everyone at an arm’s length. She no longer cried, no longer woke up screaming from nightmares. So her old friends let her back in, as if nothing ever happened. As if Cho could ever forget, what they did to her.

That year, Cho was mostly just fueled by a silent rage. She had never played Quidditch as well as she did that year, and she had never been quite as ruthless on the court ( or off the court, for that matter.... ) as she was then.

She had learned something about loyalty the year before. It’s earned. So Cho didn’t feel particularly bad about backstabbing several of her classmates, that year. If they’re cheating on their exams, that’s hardly her fault. Or if she just happened to know who’s cheating on who, and somehow just happened to have that leaked to someone she knew couldn’t keep their mouths shut. But who would suspect Cho? She had always been a shoulder to cry on, a sweet voice, a warm hug.

Was kind of.... fucked up..... by the way she was frozen out during her sixth year at the school. Refused to cry at anything. Was always smiling and laughing, trying to emulate the old Cho, the trope that she had once been unable to shake, but was now desperate for the comfort of.

AFTER HOGWARTS.

Cho graduated with good grades and with talent scouts from two major Quidditch teams showing interest in her and her talents. So on graduation day, she signed with Tutshill Tornadoes, and became their new aspiring seeker.

She moved into a flat in London and adopted two cats and a toad.

Spends a lot of time painting, and probably isn’t particularly good at it, but she finds it peaceful. It quiets her mind, makes her less tense.

Joined The Order on a whim. It’s not really the type of thing one should do on a whim, of course. But Cho has always had a bleeding heart, one that’s made of gold, and as the war became more and more imminent, Cho could hardly sit by and do nothing. So despite her reluctance towards using violence, Cho is now a member of The Order.

PERSONALITY / PERSONAL STUFF.

Let’s talk about the duality of Cho Chang !!!! On one hand, she is so so soft, so sweet, so kind. One of the nicest people you’ll ever meet. But then there’s the other side, that probably shouldn’t be there. The determination that had once been selfless has been poisoned, become entirely selfish, entirely self serving. Cut throat. Ruthless. She has been thrown under the bus enough times to know how to do it right.

On the one hand, Cho is loyal to a fault. The ride or die kind of loyal. The would die for you if you asked me to, kind of loyal. But only if you return the favor. If not, she’s fickle.

Knows that she has a pretty face and a sweet demeanor, and isn’t afraid to use it to get what she wants.

Kind of in the bad habit of keeping people at an arm’s length these days. Reveals little information about herself that’s of any real importance and is always questioning other people and their motives, even if she technically knows, deep down, that she can trust them. A seed of distrust is rooted deeply within her.

So so brave, but also so so tired of having to be !!!

Has never killed anyone and suspects that it would ruin her, if she had to. Cho always tries to disarm, disarm, disarm.

Her patronus is a swan and I love that for her !!!!!!

Hasn’t cried in almost a year !!!!! Just can’t !!!! Do it !!!!

Bad at visiting her parents but thinks of them a lot and sends them weekly owls !!!

Feels the most alive when she’s up in the skies, flying.

Would fight a man for her friends.

Mostly finds comfort in books and art. Finds equal comfort in poetry and pretty words as she does in facts and knowledge.

Very bisexual !!!!! Has also found that she prefers girls to boys, these days.

Kind of sarcastic?

Pitch black humor. Gallow’s humor always.

Speaks with a slight Irish accent !!

CHARACTER INSPO.

sansa stark, izzie stevens, meredith grey, every song written by hozier tbh, taryn duarte, willow rosenberg, queenie goldstein, elena gilbert.

SOME CONNECTIONS ( i’ll elaborate on this tomorrow ).

a roommate !!!!!

quidditch rivals???

old quidditch team mates!!!

a couple of best friends !!

ex girlfriends !!!

enemies !!!

ex friends !!!

#potter intro #injury tw #divorce tw #hospital tw #death tw #depression tw #bullying tw #✦ ° • ☆ ◣ ▽ ┊STUDY • remember: softness is a honey trap. it will tear you open and toxic the wound. )#im too tired to proof read this but i want to !!! post !!! it !!!!

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your-dietician · 3 years

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Drug Overdoses on the Rise as Top 10 Diagnoses Unveiled

New Post has been published on https://depression-md.com/drug-overdoses-on-the-rise-as-top-10-diagnoses-unveiled/

Drug Overdoses on the Rise as Top 10 Diagnoses Unveiled

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Did Strength of Thai Baht Affect Number of Arrivals from UK in 2019? Interview with TAT

On 24 August 2015 the GBP/THB was at 56. Almost exactly one year later the Baht was at 45.53, and on 3 September 2019 travellers to the Kingdom of Thailand could get just 36.96 Thai Baht for 1 GBP. Despite the strength of the Thai Baht many would argue that Thailand still represents excellent value for money as a destination, and with approximately 39.77 million people visiting the country in 2019, the numbers seem to suggest that many agree. So how has the strong Baht, Brexit and other UK-related issues impacted Thailand's tourism industry?

That's just one of the questions that Steven Howard of TravelNewsAsia.com puts to Chiravadee Khunsub, Director of the Tourism Authority of Thailand - UK, Ireland and South Africa, in this exclusive interview. Filmed at TAT's office in London on 8 January 2020, Khun Chiravadee tell us how the UK market was affected by the strength of the Thai Baht in 2019 and what she expects for 2020. We discuss visitor arrival numbers and tourism revenue from the UK in 2019, what targets TAT has for 2020, and what trends Khun Chiravadee is seeing. With so many airlines now flying directly to secondary destinations within Thailand, and from secondary destinations in the UK, we also talk about how that is changing the tourism sector and which airports in the UK Khun Chiravadee would like to see have more direct flights to Thailand. We talk about emerging destinations within Thailand, especially Isaan, and what lessons can be learned from Buri Ram's success with sport tourism. We also talk about the demographics of visitor arrivals, tourism revenue and whether Airbnb distorts those numbers, how TAT plans to market Thailand to the UK market this year and which market segments they are going after the most. All that and much, much more in the FHD video and podcast below.

Thailand Tourism Industry Interview with Chiravadee Khunsub

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Goldman Sachs' new managing-director list is out — and it's the largest class in the firm's history (GS)

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Goldman Sachs announced its largest-ever class of managing directors.

Of the 509 promoted, 44% are millennials.

The firm announces managing-director promotions every two years.

It's one of the most coveted positions on Wall Street, a step below partner at the premier investment bank.

Goldman Sachs just announced a new class of 509 managing directors — the largest class in the firm's history.

The position is one of the most coveted on Wall Street, one step below partner at the prestigious investment-banking firm. The firm now has 2,148 managing directors, making up 7.1% of the company's workforce.

It's also one of the youngest classes the bank has promoted — 44% are millennials, up from 30% in 2015.

Other headline stats about the class:

66% started their careers as analysts or associates at Goldman Sachs.

24% of the class is women, down from 25% in 2015.

130 were promoted in the securities division, up from 102 in 2015.

101 were promoted in investment banking, up from 97 in 2015.

52 were promoted in technology, up from 38 in 2015.

Eight were promoted in consumer and commercial banking — the division that houses the bank's online-lending business, Marcus — compared with zero in 2015.

Here's the full statement:

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) today announced that it has selected a new class of Managing Directors, effective from January 1, 2018, the start of the firm's next fiscal year.

"Our new Managing Directors have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to our people, clients and culture during their tenures at the firm, and we wish them continued success as they take this important next step in their careers," said Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs.

The following individuals have been promoted to Managing Director:

Gregg Abramson Sanjay Acharya Khalid Albdah Amal Alibair Karthikeyan Anbalagan Rolf Andersson Volker Anger Jonathan Armstrong Ken Ashley Lavanya Ashok Sebastian Ayton Jonathan Babkow Julio Badi Amitayush Bahri Soren Balzer Robert Barlick Jr. Philip Barreca Santiago Bau David Bauer Oksana Beard Lee Becker Virender Bedi Stuart Beer Christian Beerli Amanda Beisel Yumiko Bekku David Bell Pierre Benichou Andrew Benito Marco Bensi Laura Benson Stephen Bergin Daniel Berglund Greg Berry Shital Bhatt Dipanjan Bhattacharjee Anu Bhavnani Carissa Biggie Vineet Birman Daniel Bitel Anne Black Richard Blore Emmanuel Bodenstein Timothy Braude Sean Brenan Hugh Briscoe Nathaniel Bristol Leo Brito Troy Broderick Levee Brooks Eric Brothers Robert Bruns III Anthony Bunnell Meg Burke Susan Burt Sean Butkus Russell Byrne Edward Byun Adam Cahill Alessandro Calace Cristiano Camargo Ken Cawley Swapan Chaddha Patrick Chamberlain Richard Chambers Daphne Chan Lily Chan Ben Chance Ginger Chang Vikram Chavali Alex 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Steven Pinker & Rebecca Goldstein Debate the Value of Reason in an Animated Socratic Dialogue http://bit.ly/2XyFsAW

Academic power couple Steven Pinker and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein probably need no introduction to Open Culture readers, but if so, their lengthy and impressive CVs are only a search and click away. The Harvard cognitive psychologist and novelist and philosopher, respectively, are secular humanist heroes of a sort—public intellectuals who have dedicated their lives to defending science and classical logic and reasoning. So, what do two such people talk about when they go out to dinner?

The TED-Ed video above depicts a date night scenario, with dialogue recorded live at TED in 2012 and edited into an “animated Socratic dialogue." The first scene begins with a defensive Goldstein holding forth on the decline of reason in political discourse and popular culture. “People who think too well are often accused of elitism,” says Goldstein, while she and Pinker's animated avatars stroll under a Star Trek billboard featuring Spock giving the Vulcan salute, just one of many clever details inserted by animation studio Cognitive.

Pinker narrows the debate to a dilemma—a Spockean dilemma, if you will—between the head and heart. “Perhaps reason is overrated,” he ventures (articulating a position he may not actually hold): “Many pundits have argued that a good heart and steadfast moral clarity are superior to the triangulations of over-educated policy wonks.” The cowboy with a six-shooter and a heart of gold depicted in the animation bests the stereotypical eggheads in every Hollywood production.

The “best and brightest” of the eggheads, after all, says Pinker, “dragged us into the quagmire in Vietnam.” Other quagmires advocated by other policy wonks might come to mind (as might the unreasoning cowboys who made the big decisions.) Reason, says Pinker, gave us environmental despoliation and weapons of mass destruction. He sets up a dichotomy between “character & conscience” on the one side and “cold-hearted calculation” on the other. “My fellow psychologists have shown that we are led by our bodies and our emotions and use our puny powers of reason merely to rationalize our gut feelings after the fact.”

Goldstein counters, “how could a reasoned argument entail the ineffectiveness of reasoned arguments?” (Visual learners may remember the image of a person blithely sawing off the branch on which they sit.) “By the very act of trying to reason us into your position, you’re conceding reason’s potency.” One might object that stating a scientific theory—such as the theory that sensation and emotion come before reasoning—is not the same as making an Aristotelian argument.

But this is a 15-minute debate, not a philosophical treatise. There will, by nature of the forum and the editing process, be elisions and some slippery uses of terminology. Still, when Goldstein dismisses the critique of “logocentrism” as an allegation of “the crime of letting logic dominate our thinking,” some philosophers may grind their teeth. The problem of logocentrism is not “too much logic” but the underlying influence of Platonic idealism and the so-called “metaphysics of presence” on Western thinking.

Without the critique of logocentrism, argues philosopher Peter Gratton, “there is no 20th-century continental philosophy.” Handwaving away an entire body of thought seems rather hasty. Outside of specific contexts, idealized abstractions like “reason” and “progress” may mean little to nothing at all in the messy reality of human affairs. This is the problem Pinker alludes to in asking whether reason can have moral ends if it is mainly a tool we use to satisfy short-term biological and emotional needs and desires.

By the time the check arrives, Pinker has been persuaded by Goldstein’s argument that in the course of time, maybe a long time, reason is the key driver of moral progress, provided that certain conditions are met: that reasoners care about their well-being and that they belong to a community of other reasoners who hold each other accountable and produce better outcomes than individuals can alone. Drop your assumptions, watch their stimulating animated dinner and see if, by the final course, you are persuaded too.

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A Summary of Bad Things Trump Did This Week, 4/9/17-4/15/17

Ahhh! Life is crazy and busy, which I’m sure is the case for everyone reading this. We at Bad Things Trump Did Today definitely want to bring you accurate and timely news about the doings of the Trump administration and Congress in general, however we can be limited by our own personal time constraints. We absolutely appreciate everyone’s understanding, and without further ado here’s the summary of Bad Things Trump Did This Week!

This summary mainly includes the bad things Trump and Congress did this week, as well as some news that’s important to note.

Monday, April 10, 2017

Republican leaders avoid town halls after House health care vote

Source: USA Today

The migration away from public forums has been going on for months, despite complaints from constituents and local media. There have been roughly 30 recent newspaper editorials slamming lawmakers for avoiding town halls and calling on members to face their voters, not only in bluer portions of the country like New York but also in critical battlegrounds like Pennsylvania’s 6th and 7th districts[...]

Trump on track to surpass 8 years of Obama’s travel expenses in just 1 year

Source: CNN

Trump's frequent weekend travel makes it all but certain the 45th President will surpass Obama's spending in his first term, likely within months.

The spending comes as Trump asks the federal government to slash non-defense spending by $54 billion, including deep cuts to the State Department, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Environmental Protection Agency and the wholesale elimination of other federal programs. The proposed cuts, which are unlikely to be adopted in total, will correspond with $54 billion in increases to defense spending.

As CNN reports, Trump’s expenses for his Mar-a-Lago trips has already surpassed a fifth of what Obama spent on travel in his entire 8 years as presidency. Obama’s expenses included both personal and work trips.

Sessions orders an end to forensic science commission and suspension of policy review

Source: The Washington Post

The commission was a partnership started in 2013 between the Justice Department and independent scientists. It’s purpose was to evaluate and elevate the standards of forensic science in the U.S., and Session’s decision has led to criticism from members:

Several commission members who have worked in criminal courts and supported the input of independent scientists said the department risks retreating into insularity and repeating past mistakes, saying that no matter how well-intentioned, prosecutors lack scientists’ objectivity and training.

U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff of New York, the only federal judge on the commission, said, “It is unrealistic to expect that truly objective, scientifically sound standards for the use of forensic science . . . can be arrived at by entities centered solely within the Department of Justice.”

In suspending reviews of past testimony and the development of standards for future reporting, “the department has literally decided to suspend the search for the truth,” said Peter S. Neufeld, co-founder of the Innocence Project, which has reported that nearly half of 349 DNA exonerations involved misapplications of forensic science. “As a consequence innocent people will languish in prison or, God forbid, could be executed,” he said.

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Two members of extreme anti-immigration groups hired in high-level advisory roles

Source: CNN

Jon Feere, a former legal policy analyst for the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), has been hired as an adviser to the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Meanwhile, Julie Kirchner, former executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), has been hired as an adviser to the acting Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection. Both CIS and FAIR are both anti-immigration groups representing the extreme far-right, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center:

"CIS has published articles that labeled immigrants 'third world gold diggers' and that blamed Central American asylum seekers for the 'burgeoning street gang problem' in the US, while Dan Stein has said that many immigrants that come to the US hate America and everything the country stands for," said Heidi Beirich, director of Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, which oversees the center's yearly count of anti-immigrant groups. "We take these designations very seriously, and CIS and FAIR are far-right fringe groups that regularly publish racist, xenophobic material and spread misinformation about immigrants and immigration."

Despite claims from anti-immigration groups that they are willing to enter discussions with immigration rights groups and the government, many immigration rights organizations fear what these appointments could mean:

"This isn't exactly the same situation as having Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, both in the same room," countered one pro-immigrant advocate. "The fundamental difference is that their agenda is driven by a nativist white supremacist approach to policy. So, to sit together in a room, not only does it have a chilling effect, but I think that many of the advocacy organizations, including ours, fear that we would be normalizing the nativist agenda as it gets into the halls of our government."

Spicer claims that Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons while discussing Assad’s use of such weapons in Syria

Source: The Hill

“We did not use chemical weapons in World War II. You had someone as despicable as Hitler who did not even sink to using chemical weapons,” Spicer said. “If you are Russia, ask yourself, is this a country and regime that you want to align yourself with?”

Given an opportunity to clarify his comments, Spicer misspoke again by trying once more to draw a distinction between Assad and Hitler, whom the press secretary said did not gas “his own people.”

“When it comes to sarin gas, [Hitler] was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Assad is doing,” Spicer said to audible groans from some reporters. He also referred to concentration camps as “Holocaust centers.”

Spicer’s remarks, made during Passover, have drawn criticism from numerous groups, including the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect:

“On Passover no less, Sean Spicer has engaged in Holocaust denial, the most offensive form of fake news imaginable, by denying Hitler gassed millions of Jews to death,” said Steven Goldstein, executive director of the Anne Frank Center.

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Trump switches sides on four policies over the course of a day, backing away from some campaign promises

Source: The Hill

Trump swapped positions on the future of NATO, naming China a currency manipulator, the Federal Reserve chairwoman, and the Export-Import bank. The Hill provides a breakdown in their article above.

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Trump signs law allowing states to choose to defund Planned Parenthood

Source: NPR

This law was one of a number that was passed using the Congressional Review Act, which allows the house to overturn legislation made during the last 6 months of the previous President’s administration. The legislation overrules the regulation put in place under Obama that protects federal funds from being withheld by individual states:

Now that the rule has been repealed, states can effectively block Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers from funds associated with the Title X Family Planning program, which was established in 1970 to subsidize organizations that offer services related to contraception, pregnancy care, fertility and cancer screenings primarily for low-income people.

Breaking: US drops America’s largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan

Source: CNN

The bomb drop, which targeted an ISIS cave and tunnel complex, has never before happened in combat:

The US military dropped America's most powerful non-nuclear bomb on ISIS targets in Afghanistan Thursday, the first time this type of weapon has been used in battle, according to US officials.

A GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), nicknamed the "mother of all bombs," was dropped at 7:32 p.m. local time, according to four US military officials with direct knowledge of the mission. A MOAB is a 30-foot-long, 21,600-pound, GPS-guided munition.President Donald Trump called it "another successful job" later Thursday.

The bomb was dropped by an MC-130 aircraft, stationed in Afghanistan and operated by Air Force Special Operations Command, Pentagon spokesman Adam Stump told CNN.

Friday, April 14, 2017

Concrete evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia has reportedly been handed to the investigation

Source: The Independent

The official investigation into relations between Donald Trump and Russia now has "specific, concrete and corroborative evidence of collusion", it has been reported.

New evidence proves discussions took place “between people in the Trump campaign and agents of [Russian] influence relating to the use of hacked material,” a source allegedly told the Guardian.

The developments come as it has emerged that Britain’s spy agencies were among the first to alert their American counterparts to contact between members of Mr Trump’s campaign team and Russian intelligence operatives.

The Secret Service has spent $35,000 on gold cart rentals since inauguration

Source: The Hill

The Secret Service has spent over $35k on gold cart rentals at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort since January 20. This information, first reported by CBS news, came as Trump settles in at the resort over the holiday weekend:

CBS' new report comes as Trump spends the full three-day Easter weekend at Mar-a-Lago. No senior staff took the Air Force One flight to Florida, according to a report.

Saturday, April 15, 2017

Trump says that he can’t be sued for inciting violence at rallies because he won election

Source: The Washington Post

Trump’s team rebuffed a suit filed by protesters claiming that Trump incited a riot against them in May of last year at a rally in Louisville. According to his team, Trump is immune to lawsuit since he is the President. The Washington Post reports more:

Trump's team challenged the accusations — negligence and incitement to riot — on many other grounds, too.

But a federal judge already rejected their attempt to have the lawsuit thrown out earlier this month.

And in another new filing in the same case, a Trump supporter accused of assaulting protesters agreed with the plaintiffs that Trump wanted a riot — while denying he actually harmed anyone.

Alvin Bamberger, who was seen in a video pushing a protester through a jeering crowd at the Louisville convention center, “would not have acted as he did without Trump and/or the Trump Campaign’s specific urging and inspiration,” Bamberger's lawyer wrote.

Bamberger denied “shoving … and striking” anyone, as the lawsuit accuses him of. But he admitted to touching plaintiff Kashiya Nwanguma, a 21-year-old college student who had gone to the rally with a protest sign.

And he accepted as true her claims that Trump's speech “was calculated to incite violence” against the protesters.

Trump continues hiring lobbyists without input from the Office on Government Ethics

Source: Propublica

Despite claims during his campaign that he would be willing to ban lobbyists from his administration, Trump has hired lobbyists from over 300 different corporations:

One striking case involves Michael Catanzaro, an appointee on the National Economic Council whose portfolio includes energy and environmental issues. Catanzaro was formerly a lobbyist for oil and coal companies that strenuously opposed the Obama administration’s clean power regulation. Three industry sources told the Times that Catanzaro is now working on that same issue in the Trump administration.

Even under Trump’s weakened ethics rules, former lobbyists like Catanzaro are not supposed to work on issues that they formerly had lobbied on.

Still, under Trump’s executive order, he can issue waivers at any time to staffers, Catanzaro included, for any reason, and never disclose it.

Even the federal government’s top ethics official, Walter Shaub, who runs the Office of Government Ethics, is being kept in the dark.

“There’s no transparency, and I have no idea how many waivers have been issued,” Shaub told the Times.

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Building a More Resilient, Sustainable Global Economy at #Ceres2020!

The coronavirus pandemic has not only dramatically changed our world and our way of life, but it is shining a light on our universal interconnectedness and our vulnerability to the seismic risks that have rocked our current capital market systems. Whether it be a deadly virus or the climate crisis, we are experiencing first hand the need for collective action and mass mobilization.

Tune in to the Ceres 2020 Digital Program to learn how we can build a more resilient, sustainable global economy and help prevent future crises. Upcoming sessions:

Transforming US Capital Markets Wednesday, April 29 12pm EDT

The climate crisis is causing negative financial impacts on companies, investors, and even financial markets overall. As US financial regulators play ever larger and consequential roles in buttressing the economy in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, their role in keeping in mind how climate change fits into their responsibilities and the climate impacts of their actions is more important than ever. In this session, participants will: - Assess how climate risk fits into the current mandate of key federal financial regulators - Evaluate current actions being taken by US financial regulators and legislators on climate change - Explore what U.S. financial regulators can—and should—do to integrate climate change into their prudential and supervisory roles.

Speakers

Steven M. Rothstein, Managing Director, Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets

United States Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D- Rhode Island)

Carlos Curbelo, former U.S. Republican Congressman, and Principal at Vocero LLC

Sarah Bloom Raskin, Former Governor, Federal Reserve and former Deputy Secretary, US Dept of Treasury

Climate Strategies and Opportunities: Asset Managers’ Perspectives Tuesday, April 28 12pm EDT

Many asset managers are acting to manage climate risks and capture low-carbon investment opportunities. Yet given the scale and urgency of the climate crisis, much more action is needed by asset managers worldwide to align their investment portfolios with the Paris Agreement’s goals of net-zero global greenhouse gas emissions.

In this plenary session participants will:

Examine actions asset managers are taking on climate change in the four areas of The Investor Agenda: investment, corporate engagement, investor disclosure and policy advocacy

Explore how asset managers are collaborating via the Climate Action 100+ initiative to persuade companies in their portfolios to align with the Paris Agreement’s goals

Identify opportunities asset managers are pursuing in low-carbon, clean energy technologies

Speakers

Jack Ehnes, CEO, California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS)

John Goldstein, Managing Director and Head of the Sustainable Finance Group, Goldman Sachs

Roelfien Kuijpers, Head of Responsible Investments and Head of the Global Client Group for Ireland, Scandinavia and the United Kingdom, DWS

Peter Mennie, Global Head of ESG Integration and Research, Manulife Investment Management

Limiting Temperature Rise to 1.5 Degrees: Roles for Investors, Companies, and Policymakers Tuesday, May 5 12pm EDT

With new awareness of the systemic risks if global temperatures rise above 1.5℃, investors, companies and policymakers have begun making commitments to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

In this session, participants will:

Explore how major asset owners decided to commit to net-zero portfolios

Compare corporate strategies to set and meet ambitious carbon reduction goals

Evaluate the critical role of policymakers in enabling deep carbon emissions reductions

Speakers

(Moderator) Steven Clarke, Ceres Director Corporate Clean Energy Leadership, Ceres

Cynthia Cummis, Director of Private Sector Climate Mitigation, WRI SBTi

Michael Frerichs, Illinois State Treasurer

Jeff Hanratty, Applied Sustainability Manager, General Mills

Conservative Case for Climate Action and Clean Energy Wednesday, May 6 12pm EDT

Conservative voices are powerful allies in the effort to pass climate legislation in the United States, and our political systems effectively require bipartisan cooperation to enact major policies. In this session, participants will: - Discuss the conservative case for clean energy and climate action - Build a better understanding of the universe of conservative efforts on climate and clean energy policy advocacy - Explore specific examples of conservative policy engagement

Speakers

(Moderator) Martha Newell-Kinsman, Ceres

Mark Fleming, President & CEO, Conservatives for Clean Energy

Heather Reams, Executive Director, Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions

Corey Schrodt, Legislative Director, Rep. Francis Rooney (FL-19)

State Leadership Amidst the Climate Crisis: Innovations and Collaborations Thursday, May 7 2pm EDT

Whether dealing with COVID-19 or the climate crisis, states across the U.S. are stepping up to tackle our world’s biggest public health, environmental, and economic challenges head on. On climate change, leading states are developing innovative solutions, learning from each other and working collectively to reduce GHG emissions and scale up clean energy and clean transportation investments. Already, state policies such as Clean Energy Standards, the Advanced Clean Cars Program, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and more are transforming the economy. Hearing from leaders across the country, we’ll discuss the many opportunities to scale up solutions—and shield our economy from the looming climate crisis—at the state and regional level. During this session, participants will: - Learn about innovative new policies that states are pursuing to reduce emissions, while protecting the economy and impacted communities - Explore the economies of scale when states work together to address and invest in climate solutions. - Hear about success stories and lessons learned to date - Identify opportunities for advocacy and growth of clean energy policies in 2020

Speakers

(Moderator) Alli Gold Roberts, Director, State Policy, Ceres

Chris Bast, Chief Deputy, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality

Julie Cerquiera, Executive Director, U.S. Climate Alliances

Zach Pierce, Climate and Energy Advisor, Office of Colorado Governor Jared Polis

Martin Suuberg, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and Chairman of RGGI

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Tuesday round-up

This morning the justices have two oral arguments on their agenda. The first is in Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a high-profile constitutional challenge to the structure of the CFPB. Amy Howe previewed the case for this blog, in a post that first appeared at Howe on the Court. Gabrielle Kanter and Joseph Grosser have a preview for Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute. At Subscript Law, Michael Hollingsworth provides a graphic explainer. Nina Totenberg reports at NPR that “the Trump administration is seeking to make it easier for the president to call in the heads of the nation’s independent agencies and say those words he was famous for on TV: ‘You’re fired!’” The editorial board of The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) writes that “[i]f the current Court is serious about reviving the original meaning of the separation of powers, the CFPB is an ideal opportunity to send a shot heard ’round Washington.”

Next up is Liu v. Securities and Exchange Commission, which asks whether the SEC can seek disgorgement of profits as a judicial remedy for violating the securities-fraud laws. Ronald Mann had this blog’s preview. Cornell’s preview comes from David Relihan and Jingyi Alice Yao.

Yesterday the justices issued orders from Friday’s conference, adding three cases to their docket for next term, including the latest challenge to the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, California v. Texas. Amy Howe covers the ACA grant for this blog, in a post that first appeared at Howe on the Court. For The New York Times, Adam Liptak and Abby Goodnough report that “[t]he case was brought by Republican state officials, who argued that when Congress eliminated the law’s requirement in 2017 that most Americans obtain health insurance, the law became unconstitutional[; t]he Trump administration sided with the state officials, arguing that the rest of the health care law could not survive without the requirement.” At Politico, Susannah Luthi reports that “[t]he justices said they would hear the case, likely later this year, after turning down an earlier request from Democrats to fast-track a ruling by June.” At Vox, Dylan Scott “run[s] through the big questions” about the case. Additional commentary comes from Ian Millhiser, also at Vox, and from Lisa Soronen at The NCSL Blog.

Amy Howe covers the rest of the order list here for this blog, and here at Howe on the Court. At Bloomberg Environment, Ellen Gilmer reports that, by agreeing to hear U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service v. Sierra Club, about the scope of the “deliberative process” exemption in the Freedom of Information Act, the court “is taking up the Trump administration’s legal quest to keep certain Endangered Species Act records from the public eye.” Dominic Holden reports at BuzzFeed.News that the court “won’t hear a case from gun rights activists challenging a federal ban on bump stocks, which were prohibited after being used in a 2017 Las Vegas shooting where 58 people were killed.” At Reason, Damon Root writes that in a statement respecting denial of cert in the bump-stock case, Guedes v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, “Justice Neil Gorsuch threw a little shade at the Trump administration for unilaterally rewriting federal gun laws.”

Kal Golde reports for this blog that a group of Democratic lawmakers introduced a bill in the House of Representatives on Friday aimed at increasing transparency and ethical standards throughout the federal judiciary, including at the Supreme Court, which would be required to “make same-day audio of oral arguments available within a year, and live audio available within two.” At The National Law Journal, Jacqueline Thomsen reports that the bill “would add a code of ethics for the U.S. Supreme Court, require justices to say why they recused themselves from cases and make online access to court records free for most users.”

Jennifer Chacon analyzes yesterday’s argument in immigration case Nasrallah v. Barr for this blog. At Bloomberg Law, Jordan Rubin reports that during oral argument yesterday the court “weighed a patchwork of laws, decisions, and what Justice Neil Gorsuch called the government’s ‘metaphysical’ position in a dispute over whether courts can review administrative findings involving claims of torture when noncitizens are deported.” Jess Bravin reports for The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) that “Gorsuch appeared likely to play a pivotal role in an area that often divides the court into conservative and liberal camps.”

For The Washington Post (subscription required), Robert Barnes reports that during oral argument yesterday in a second immigration case, Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam, the court “appeared divided along predictable ideological lines … when considering whether an asylum seeker who failed his initial screening has a constitutional right to judicial review.” At NPR, Nina Totenberg reports that “[a]t the heart of the case is the right of habeas corpus, embedded in the Constitution, which guarantees that people who are held by the government have the right to go to court asking to be released.” At Crime & Consequences, Kent Scheidegger questions Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s statement about the amount of time that passed between the enactment of two constitutional provisions.

Bill Mears reports at Fox News that “[t]he Supreme Court this week gets a fresh look at its recently decided ruling on abortion access, a challenge to a controversial Louisiana law that will now be decided anew in the middle of a presidential election year,” with the justices scheduled to hear oral argument tomorrow in June Medical Services v. Russo. For the Los Angeles Times, David Savage reports that June Medical, “the court’s first abortion case since President Trump’s two appointees took their seats, … could mark the first step in a gradual retreat from Roe vs. Wade.” Steven Mazie writes at The Economist that if the abortion providers lose, “the consequences could be profound, emboldening anti-abortion legislators in many states to pass new laws squeezing access to abortion.” At Take Care, Gretchen Borchelt weighs in on the case, arguing that “[t]he Supreme Court must strike down the anti-abortion Louisiana law at issue and in so doing reaffirm that women’s equality is fundamentally connected to the right to abortion.” Rosemary Westwood at The Guardian recounts the story of “Tiffany Pennywell[, who] may be one of the last women to have an an elective abortion in Louisiana.”

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At CNN, Dan Berman reports that Chiafalo v. Washington, a constitutional challenge to a “faithless elector” law that threatens to fine electors who vote contrary to how state law directs, “adds another hot-button political issue to the Supreme Court’s docket in the middle of the presidential election.”

At American Greatness, Rachel Bovard suggests that Google v. Oracle America, a dispute over the copyright status of application programming interfaces, “has the potential to force tech giant Google to finally start playing by the rules.” [Disclosure: Goldstein & Russell, P.C., whose attorneys contribute to this blog in various capacities, is among the counsel to the petitioner in this case.]

At the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin (subscription required), Daniel Cotter looks at some recent decisions and dissents in divisive cases.

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胡佛研究院發布蔣經國日記美國前國務卿坐輪椅全程參與

美國史丹福大學胡佛研究院美西時間17日舉行蔣經國私人日記的公開發布會，美國前國務卿舒茲及多位重量級台灣問題專家親臨出席，凸顯蔣經國日記的公開在歷史與學術研究的重要性。

近百歲的舒茲（George Pratt Shultz）坐輪椅全場參與，演講時說，「香港與台灣人在奮鬥的自由，是為我們（世人）奮鬥的自由」。

有3位美國權威學者共同見證這場發布會，哈佛大學費正清中心台灣研究小組召集人戈迪溫（Steven M. Goldstein）、加州大學柏克萊分校社會學教授高棣民（Thoams B. Gold）與羅得學院榮譽教授康培莊（John F. Copper）。

蔣經國日記原本預定2010年就要公布，延後9年到今天正式呈現在世人眼前。儘管蔣經國日記的歸屬權爭議尚未落幕，相關的法律訴訟仍分別在台灣與美國的法院各自審理，國史館館長陳儀深表示，蔣家後代與各方的合作才有今天的發布會。

駐舊金山台北經濟文化辦事處處長馬鍾麟說，日記的公布讓外界了解蔣經國的內心世界，能有助於學術研究。

胡佛檔案館東亞部主任林孝庭告訴記者，蔣經國日記在60年代末期與70年代初期，轉而重視台灣政治、經濟的發展，明顯與蔣介石日記同期記載仍心念著反攻大陸不同，顯示出兩蔣父子在想法上的逐漸分歧。

胡佛研究院典藏公布的蔣經國日記跨越了43年，從1937年5月開始記錄、到1979年12月停格，從蔣經國由蘇聯返回中國開始，寫到來台之後的經歷。其中1948年日記佚失，1937至1940年及1945至1949年日記為謄抄本，其餘皆為蔣經國親筆原件。

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Epstein Offers Mansion and Jet as Bond to Avoid Jail Before Trial https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-bail.html

Epstein Offers Mansion and Jet as Bond to Avoid Jail Before Trial

Prosecutors have argued that the financier, who is accused of abusing dozens of underage girls, posed “an extraordinary risk of flight.”

By Benjamin Weiser | Published July 11, 2019 | New York Times | Posted July 11, 2019 |

Jeffrey Epstein, the financier facing sex-trafficking charges in New York, has been described by prosecutors as a man of enormous wealth: He owns a $77 million mansion on the Upper East Side, a $12 million estate in Palm Beach, Fla., a private island in the Caribbean and a private jet, they said.

And on Thursday, Mr. Epstein, 66, asked a federal judge to allow him to use some of his wealth to stay out of jail while he awaits trial, filing a detailed bail proposal with the court.

Mr. Epstein asked the court to release him on substantial bond and pledged to put up his palatial Manhattan townhouse and his private jet as collateral. He also proposed he be allowed to remain under house arrest in his Upper East Side house, and said he would agree to electronic monitoring of his location. He said he would surrender his passport and ground his jet.

In addition, his lawyers proposed that Mr. Epstein would hire private round-the-clock security guards who would “virtually guarantee” that he would not flee his house and would show up for court.

A handful of superrich defendants have sought and occasionally obtained, over sharp objections from the government, similar bail provisions that allow them to finance a kind of personal jail rather than being held in a government lockup.

Such bail packages have prompted intense debate about their fairness. The judge in Mr. Epstein’s case, Richard M. Berman, rejected a similar proposal in 2016 from a wealthy Turkish-Iranian gold trader in a money laundering case.

At the time, Judge Berman wrote that the proposal was “unreasonable because it helps to foster inequity and unequal treatment in favor of a very small cohort of criminal defendants who are extremely wealthy.”

Prosecutors had said on Monday after the charges were announced that they would ask to have Mr. Epstein held in jail until his trial. They said in court that he posed “an extraordinary risk of flight and danger,” and that he had “nearly infinite means” and “tremendous incentives to use those means to flee prosecution.”

Judge Berman of Federal District Court in Manhattan is scheduled to take up Mr. Epstein’s bail proposal at a hearing on Monday.

Mr. Epstein was arrested Saturday night aboard a private jet at Teterboro Airport after arriving from Paris. He has been detained at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, a high-security facility in Lower Manhattan where accused terrorists, mobsters and, most recently, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, have awaited trial.

If convicted, Mr. Epstein faces up to 45 years in prison on sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges. The indictment unsealed on Monday by Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States attorney in Manhattan, said that between 2002 and 2005, Mr. Epstein recruited dozens of underage girls to engage in sex acts with him, after which he paid them hundreds of dollars in cash.

The indictment also accused Mr. Epstein of encouraging some of his victims to recruit other underage girls that he could then abuse, and paying his “victim-recruiters” hundreds of dollars for each girl that they brought to him. “In so doing, Epstein maintained a steady supply of new victims to exploit,” the indictment said.

In the bail memorandum, Mr. Epstein’s lawyers made it clear their client would fight the charges and gave a preview of what his defense might be. They argued that even though the government may have witnesses — some younger than 18 at the time — who said Mr. Epstein had paid them for sexual massages, prosecutors could not prove he had committed the federal crime of sex trafficking. They contended that Mr. Epstein should have been prosecuted in New York State court.

“There is no indication in the indictment that Mr. Epstein trafficked anybody for commercial profit; that he forced, coerced, defrauded, or enslaved anybody,” the lawyers, Reid Weingarten, Marc Fernich and Margin G. Weinberg, wrote. “No one seeks to minimize the gravity of the alleged conduct, but it is clear the conduct falls within the heartland of classic state or local sex offenses.”

Mr. Epstein’s team also argued an agreement Mr. Epstein had reached with federal and state prosecutors in Florida in 2008 covered the crimes charged in the new indictment, even allegations that he sexually abused a minor in his Manhattan residence.

In Florida, the then-United States attorney in Miami, Andrew Acosta, agreed not to prosecute Mr. Epstein on federal sex trafficking charges if he pleaded guilty to two state prostitution charges and to register as a sex offender. Mr. Epstein served 13 months in jail, but was allowed to leave each day for 12 hours to work, except Sundays.

The lawyers said Mr. Epstein understood that agreement to be “a global resolution of any charges arising from the alleged conduct at issue here, including conduct in New York.”

The lawyers accused federal officials in Florida of trying to circumvent that plea agreement by encouraging Mr. Epstein’s victims to pursue prosecutions in other districts, including New York.

Jeffrey Epstein’s Fortune May Be More Illusion Than Fact

By James B. Stewart, Matthew Goldstein, Kate Kelly and David Enrich |

Published July 10, 2019 | New York Times | Posted July 11, 2019 |

When federal prosecutors announced sex-trafficking charges against Jeffrey Epstein this week, they described him as “a man of nearly infinite means.” They argued that his vast wealth — and his two private jets — made him a flight risk.

Mr. Epstein is routinely described as a billionaire and brilliant financier, and he rubbed elbows with the powerful, including former and future presidents. Even after his 2008 guilty plea in a prostitution case in Florida, he promoted himself as a financial wizard who used arcane mathematical models, and he often dropped the names of Nobel Prize-winning friends. He told potential clients that they had to invest a minimum of $1 billion. At his peak in the early 2000s, a magazine profile said he employed 150 people, some working out of the historic Villard Houses on Madison Avenue.

Much of that appears to be an illusion, and there is little evidence that Mr. Epstein is a billionaire.

Mr. Epstein’s wealth may have depended less on his math acumen than his connections to two men — Steven J. Hoffenberg, a onetime owner of The New York Post and a notorious fraudster later convicted of running a $460 million Ponzi scheme, and Leslie H. Wexner, the billionaire founder of retail chains including The Limited and the chief executive of the company that owns Victoria’s Secret.

Mr. Hoffenberg was Mr. Epstein’s partner in two ill-fated takeover bids in the 1980s, including one of Pan American World Airways, and would later claim that Mr. Epstein had been part of the scheme that landed him in jail — although Mr. Epstein was never charged. With Mr. Wexner, Mr. Epstein formed a financial and personal bond that baffled longtime associates of the wealthy retail magnate, who was his only publicly disclosed investor.

Mr. Epstein’s firm, Financial Trust Company, has released no audited financial statements or performance reports to back up his claims of investment prowess. In a 2002 court filing, Mr. Epstein said he had 20 employees, far fewer than reported figures around that time. Six years later, he lost large sums of money in the financial crisis. And friends and patrons — including Mr. Wexner — deserted him after he pleaded guilty to prostitution charges in 2008.

Mr. Epstein, 66, is doubtless very rich: His real estate alone — one of Manhattan’s largest private mansions, a Palm Beach estate, a Paris apartment, his own Caribbean island and a huge New Mexico ranch — is worth more than $200 million. His investment firm reported having $88 million in capital from its shareholders in 2002.

He appears to have been doing business and trading currencies through Deutsche Bank until just a few months ago, according to two people familiar with his business activities. But as the possibility of federal charges loomed, the bank ended its client relationship with Mr. Epstein. It is not clear what the value of those accounts was at the time they were closed.

A lawyer for Mr. Epstein, Reid Weingarten, did not respond to messages seeking comment.

Early Influences

Mr. Epstein’s big break came when he was teaching math at the Dalton School, a prestigious Manhattan private school, in the mid-1970s. He had tutored the son of Alan Greenberg, the chairman of the mighty investment bank Bear Stearns, and ended up joining the firm.

He left after a few years. Mr. Epstein told Securities and Exchange Commission lawyers in an insider-trading investigation that there were three reasons, according to a 2003 Vanity Fair article. He had been disciplined over lending money to a friend to buy stock, and there were irregularities with his expense account and rumors he was having an affair with a secretary. (Mr. Epstein testified that he had known nothing about any insider trading, and neither he nor anyone else at the firm was charged.)

In 1981, he struck out on his own. He founded his own advisory firm, Intercontinental Assets Group, which he ran out of his apartment on East 66th Street. In 1987, he met Mr. Hoffenberg, then the chief executive of Towers Financial Corporation.

Mr. Hoffenberg said in an interview that he had met Mr. Epstein in New York at the height of the 1980s takeover boom, when Ivan Boesky’s “Merger Mania” was a national best seller. Towers Financial was buying unpaid debt from hospitals, nursing homes and phone companies and trying to collect it — a distinctly unglamorous niche. Mr. Hoffenberg hired Mr. Epstein as a consultant for $25,000 a month, and the two men refashioned themselves as corporate raiders.

Two takeover efforts were spectacular failures. They made a run at Pan Am, and a news release issued by Towers in November 1987 listed their advisers as John Lehman, a former secretary of the Navy; John N. Mitchell, the attorney general during the Nixon administration; and Edward Nixon, former President Richard M. Nixon’s brother. But the bid collapsed after a jetliner exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, which sent Pan Am into bankruptcy.

Mr. Epstein and Mr. Hoffenberg also made a run at Emery Air Freight — an “epic failure,” according to an affidavit filed by Mr. Hoffenberg in a 2018 lawsuit against Mr. Epstein, which was brought by investors defrauded in Mr. Hoffenberg’s Ponzi scheme. The suit was dismissed.

One takeover bid involving Mr. Epstein met with success: He told Vanity Fair in 2003 that he had invested $1 million, including $300,000 of his own money, in a raid on Pennwalt, a chemical processing firm in Philadelphia. Pennwalt eventually accepted an offer from a French company that was nearly double the price at which the investor group began acquiring shares, giving Mr. Epstein a profit.

A Rapid Rise

In 1988, when Mr. Epstein was still working for Mr. Hoffenberg, he formed the investment firm that would be the nexus for his connections to powerful people: J. Epstein & Company. One of those people, Mr. Wexner, would become the apparent foundation of Mr. Epstein’s riches.

Mr. Epstein met — and evidently charmed — Robert Meister, the vice chairman of the insurance giant Aon, on a flight from New York to Palm Beach, Fla., according to an account by the novelist James Patterson in his nonfiction book “Filthy Rich.”

Mr. Meister, who could not be reached for comment, introduced Mr. Epstein to Mr. Wexner. There appears to have been a near instant rapport.

Robert Morosky, who had been the vice chairman of The Limited, was surprised Mr. Wexner took to Mr. Epstein so readily. “Everyone was mystified as to what his appeal was,” Mr. Morosky said. “I checked around and found out he was a private high school math teacher, and that was all I could find out. There was just nothing there.”

At the time, Forbes estimated Mr. Wexner’s net worth at $1.8 billion, placing him 52nd on its billionaires list. Managing his money would be a lucrative business, but Mr. Epstein did more than that: A corporation controlled jointly by the two men bought a mansion on East 71st Street in Manhattan in 1989 for $13.2 million, at the time the highest price ever paid for a Manhattan townhouse, according to property records.

Mr. Epstein was also closely involved with Mr. Wexner in a corporation that oversaw the transformation of New Albany, an Ohio suburb near The Limited’s Columbus headquarters, into a manicured, neo-Georgian utopia. In 1998, they appeared as co-presidents on the New Albany Corporation’s Ohio registration. Both men owned mansions in the community.

“I think we both possess the skill of seeing patterns,” Mr. Wexner told Vanity Fair in 2003. “But Jeffrey sees patterns in politics and financial markets, and I see patterns in lifestyle and fashion trends.”

By 1998 — the year he bought Little St. James, a 70-acre island off St. Thomas — Mr. Epstein had renamed his firm Financial Trust Company and moved it to the Virgin Islands. Mr. Epstein said he had told clients that he accepted only investments greater than $1 billion.

A corporate disclosure form from 2002 portrays a less impressive picture. Thomas Volscho, a sociology professor at the College of Staten Island who has been researching for a book on Mr. Epstein, recently obtained the form, which shows Financial Trust had $88 million in contributions from shareholders. In a court filing that year, Mr. Epstein said his firm had about 20 employees, far fewer than the 150 reported at the time by New York magazine.

There were clients other than Mr. Wexner. Mr. Epstein performed some services for the Johnson & Johnson heiress Elizabeth Johnson, showing up as a co-trustee on 14 parcels of land owned in Dutchess County, N.Y. Most of the deeds were recorded in 1998, but Mr. Epstein resigned as a trustee for Ms. Johnson’s revocable trust at the end of that year, according to a document reviewed by The New York Times.

It was also in 1998 that Mr. Epstein took sole possession of the 71st Street mansion. Mr. Wexner conveyed his interest in the corporation that owned it to one controlled by Mr. Epstein for $20 million, according to a person familiar with the transaction.

By 2003, Mr. Epstein had the means to pledge $30 million to Harvard University to fund a program in evolutionary dynamics, seeded with a $6.5 million gift.

A Stunning Fall

But the financial crisis cost Mr. Epstein some of his fortune, and allegations of sexual abuse with teenage girls cost him some of his friends.

Bear Stearns — the bank that had given Mr. Epstein his start — was still among his investments when the crisis hit. According to a lawsuit he later filed against the bank, Mr. Epstein controlled about 176,000 shares of Bear Stearns, worth nearly $18 million, in August 2007.

Mr. Epstein sold 56,000 shares at $101 each that month. He sold the remaining 120,000 shares in March 2008 as the firm was collapsing — 20,000 at $35 and the rest at $3.04, losing big. He also lost about $50 million in one of Bear’s hedge funds.

By the time Bear Stearns came apart, Mr. Epstein was at the center of his first abuse case. He pleaded guilty to prostitution charges in 2008, receiving a jail sentence that allowed him to work at home during the day but also required him to register as a sex offender.

A spokeswoman for Mr. Wexner said he “severed ties” with Mr. Epstein 12 years ago. But not everyone immediately abandoned Mr. Epstein after he was charged in 2006.

Mr. Epstein was an investor in Environmental Solutions Worldwide, a maker of emission-control products, in 2011 with several people close to Leon Black, the billionaire founder of the private equity firm Apollo Management, including Mr. Black’s four children. It was for that company that Mr. Epstein’s company filed its lone S.E.C. disclosure form.

The company’s current shareholders are not publicly available; it no longer trades on a registered exchange, and does not have to make public filings.

Mr. Epstein was also listed as a director of the Debra and Leon Black Family Foundation until 2012, although the foundation said he had resigned in 2007. “The inaccuracy was discovered and corrected,” the foundation said in a statement.

In recent years, Mr. Epstein was a client of Deutsche Bank’s private-banking division, which caters to ultrawealthy individuals and families. The bank provided Mr. Epstein with loans and wealth-management accounts, as well as trading services through its investment banking arm, according to two people familiar with the relationship. At one point, compliance officers at Deutsche Bank raised concerns about transactions by Mr. Epstein’s company, because he posed reputational risk to the bank, the people said.

Deutsche Bank managers overruled their concerns, the people said. They noted that there was nothing illegal about the transactions and that Mr. Epstein was a lucrative client.

Earlier this year, the bank ended its relationship with Mr. Epstein.

Sapna Maheshwari and Emily Steel contributed reporting.

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AIA elevates 115 members and nine international architects to the College of Fellows

WASHINGTON– The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is elevating 115 member-architects to its prestigious College of Fellows, an honor awarded to members who have made significant contributions to the architecture profession.

The fellowship program was developed to elevate those architects who have achieved a standard of excellence in the profession and made a significant contribution to architecture and society on a national level. Prospective candidates must have at least 10 years of AIA membership and demonstrated influence in at least one of the following areas:

· Promoted the aesthetic, scientific, and practical efficiency of the profession;

· Promoted the science and art of planning and building by advancing the standards of architectural education, training or practice;

· Coordinated the building industry and the profession of architecture through leadership in the AIA or other related professional organizations; or

· Advanced the living standards of people through an improved environment.

Fellows are selected by a seven-member Jury of Fellows. This year’s jury included Chair Mary P. Cox, FAIA, Virginia Commonwealth University; Peter Bardwell, FAIA, Bardwell + Associates, LLC; Mary A. Burke, FAIA, Burke Design & Architecture PLLC; Philip Castillo, FAIA, Jahn; Mary Johnston, FAIA, Johnston Architects, LLC; Paul Mankins, FAIA, Substancearchitecture; and Nancy Rogo Trainer, FAIA, Drexel University.

The newly elevated members and their AIA component affiliations are listed below. For complete details and images, visit the fellows directory.

Terry Lee Allers, FAIA (AIA Iowa)

Norman R. Alston, FAIA (AIA Texas Society of Architects)

Raya Ani, FAIA (AIA New York State)

Ruth Baleiko, FAIA (AIA Washington Council)

Mara Baum, FAIA (AIA California Council)

Bruce Redman Becker, FAIA (AIA Connecticut)

Raymond Beeler, FAIA (AIA New York State)

Kai-Uwe Bergmann, FAIA (AIA New York State)

Janette S. Blackburn, FAIA (AIA Massachusetts)

Joseph Brancato, FAIA (AIA New York State)

Kim D Bretheim, FAIA (AIA Minnesota)

John H Britton, FAIA (AIA California Council)

Peter Brown, FAIA (AIA Texas Society of Architects)

Robert Bullis, FAIA (AIA Texas Society of Architects)

Michael Burch, FAIA (AIA California Council)

Joseph P. Caprile, FAIA (AIA Illinois)

Stephen Cassell, FAIA (AIA New York State)

Yung Ho Chang, FAIA (AIA Massachusetts)

Jeanne Chen, FAIA (AIA California Council)

Leo Chow, FAIA (AIA California Council)

Lisa M. Chronister, FAIA (AIA Oklahoma)

Robert Condia, FAIA (AIA Kansas)

Robert Cozzarelli, FAIA (AIA New Jersey)

Brandon Dake, FAIA (AIA Missouri)

Manoj Dalaya, FAIA (AIA Virginia)

John R. DaSilva, FAIA (AIA Massachusetts)

Jeffrey L. Day, FAIA (AIA Nebraska)

Timothy E. de Noble, FAIA (AIA Kansas)

Roy T. Decker, FAIA (AIA Mississippi)

Jared Della Valle, FAIA (AIA New York State)

Melissa DelVecchio, FAIA (AIA New York State)

Bruce D. Eisenberg, FAIA (AIA New York State)

Thomas Fowler, IV, FAIA (AIA California Council)

Wyatt J Frantom, FAIA (AIA California Council)

Craig S. Galati, FAIA (AIA Nevada)

Mark Gangi, FAIA (AIA California Council)

Pete Ed Garrett, FAIA (AIA Texas Society of Architects)

Nicholas Garrison, FAIA (AIA New York State)

John P Gering, FAIA (AIA New York State)

Anzilla R. Gilmore, FAIA (AIA Texas Society of Architects)

Martin A. Gold, FAIA (AIA Florida)

Jordan Goldstein, FAIA (AIA Washington, DC)

Jeffrey Gunning, FAIA (AIA Texas Society of Architects)

Tushar Gupta, FAIA (AIA Texas Society of Architects)

Sharon Helene Haar, FAIA (AIA Michigan)

Todd R. Hanson, FAIA (AIA New Hampshire)

John Harrison, FAIA (AIA Washington Council)

Dominique M. Hawkins, FAIA (AIA Pennsylvania)

David B. Hill, FAIA (AIA North Carolina)

Kevin M. Holland, FAIA (AIA California Council)

Thomas L. Hoskens, FAIA (AIA Minnesota)

Aaron Jon Hyland, FAIA (AIA California Council)

Thomas Lee Hysell, FAIA (AIA Minnesota)

Darren L. James, FAIA (AIA Texas Society of Architects)

Thomas C. Jester, FAIA (AIA Maryland)

Michael W. Johns, FAIA (AIA Pennsylvania)

Bill Johnson, FAIA (AIA Missouri)

James Kalvelage, FAIA (AIA Oregon)

Mitra Kanaani, FAIA (AIA California Council)

Brian Kowalchuk, FAIA (AIA New Jersey)

Alison G. Kwok, FAIA (AIA Oregon)

Joseph Dye Lahendro, FAIA (AIA Virginia)

Samuel M. Lasky, FAIA (AIA Massachusetts)

Tracy Lea, AIA, FAIA (AIA Louisiana)

Michael N. Lykoudis, FAIA (AIA Indiana)

William T Mahan, FAIA (AIA California Council)

Michael S. Martin, FAIA (AIA California Council)

Michael McCulloch, FAIA (AIA Oregon)

Debi McDonald, FAIA (AIA Massachusetts)

Sandra McKee, FAIA (AIA New York State)

Louis A. Meilink, Jr., FAIA (AIA Pennsylvania)

Christine Mondor, FAIA (AIA Pennsylvania)

Julia Monk, FAIA (AIA New York State)

Nick Noyes, FAIA (AIA California Council)

Brandon Pace, FAIA (AIA Tennessee)

Jeffrey Paine, FAIA (AIA North Carolina)

Patrick Panetta, FAIA (AIA Arizona)

Richard I. Pigford, FAIA (AIA Alabama)

Burchell Pinnock, FAIA (AIA Virginia)

Jack Poling, FAIA (AIA Minnesota)

Bradford J. Prestbo, FAIA (AIA Massachusetts)

Tina Marie Reames, FAIA (AIA New Mexico)

Richard Renner, FAIA (AIA Maine)

Patricia Rhee, FAIA (AIA California Council)

Lyn Rice, FAIA (AIA New York State)

Francisco Javier Rodrígue, FAIA (AIA International Chapters)

William T Ruhl, FAIA (AIA Massachusetts)

Mary Elizabeth Rusz, FAIA (AIA New York State)

Constantine Nicholas Sak, FAIA (AIA Arizona)

Lee Salin, FAIA (AIA California Council)

Joel Sanders, FAIA (AIA New York State)

Mark Schatz, FAIA (AIA Texas Society of Architects)

Thomas J Schoeman, FAIA (AIA Nevada)

Bart Shaw, FAIA (AIA Texas Society of Architects)

Steven Shinn, FAIA (AIA California Council)

Daniel Simons, FAIA (AIA California Council)

Murat Soygenis, FAIA (AIA International Chapters)

Marc B. Spector, FAIA (AIA New York State)

James G. Spencer, FAIA (AIA California Council)

Karl W. Stumpf, FAIA (AIA Washington, DC)

Janet Tam, FAIA (AIA California Council)

David Thaddeus, FAIA (AIA North Carolina)

Jimmie E. Tucker, FAIA (AIA Tennessee)

Ursula Twombly, FAIA (AIA Wisconsin)

Nicholas E. Vlattas, FAIA (AIA Virginia)

Dennis Wedlick, FAIA (AIA New York State)

Andrew Whalley, FAIA (AIA New York State)

Jim Whitaker, FAIA (AIA North Carolina)

Jan Willemse, FAIA (AIA Oregon)

William K. Wilson, FAIA (AIA Oregon)

Dan Worth, FAIA (AIA Nebraska)

Brian T. Wurst, FAIA (AIA South Carolina)

Gregory A Yager, FAIA (AIA International Chapters)

RIchard C. Yancey, FAIA (AIA New York State)

Robert E. Yohe, FAIA (AIA Florida)

The AIA Honorary Fellowship program honors international architects for their exceptional work and contributions to architecture and society on an international level. Nine honorary fellows are being elevated this year by the 2019 Jury of Honorary Fellows. This year’s honorary fellows are:

Emre Arolat, Hon. FAIA (Istanbul, Turkey)

Sandra Barclay, Hon. FAIA (Lima, Peru)

Alberto Campo Baeza, Hon. FAIA (Madrid, Spain)

Nathalie de Vries, Hon. FAIA (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

Jane Duncan, Hon. FAIA (Little Chalfont, United Kingdom)

Amanda Levete, Hon. FAIA (London, United Kingdom)

Esa Mohamed, Hon. FAIA (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Pei Ing Tan, Hon. FAIA (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Jacob van Rijs, Hon. FAIA (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

AIA Honorary Fellows are selected by a nine-member Jury of Honorary Fellows. This year’s jury included Chair Lester Korzilius, FAIA, EllisWilliams Architects; Mary P. Cox, FAIA, Virginia Commonwealth University; Peter Bardwell, FAIA, Bardwell + Associates, LLC; Mary A. Burke, FAIA, Burke Design & Architecture PLLC; Philip Castillo, FAIA, Jahn; Robert Forest, FAIA, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture; Mary Johnston, FAIA, Johnston Architects, LLC; Paul Mankins, FAIA, Substancearchitecture; and Nancy Rogo Trainer, FAIA, Drexel University.

New fellows will be honored at a ceremony on June 7 at the AIA Conference on Architecture 2019 in Las Vegas.

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