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coochiequeens · 1 year

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Stonewall UK is backing a guy suing to be included in women’s sports even though he “maintained a personal blog for a number of years, where he has written about having had a cross-dressing fetish since he was a child, and that this fetish was something that impacted his ability to retain jobs and marriages alike.” This is what I mean when I say the TQ+ community is dragging themselves down by backing these freaking instead of distancing themselves.

A trans-identified male who goes by the Julie-Anne Curtiss is suing England’s Rugby Football Union (RFU) over their decision to ban males from playing in the female category. Curtiss claims that RFU’s policy breaches the Equality Act of 2010 and his human rights.

Last week, the CEO of Stonewall UK, Nancy Kelley, publicly promoted a crowdfunder for Curtiss’ legal fight against the RFU and said, “If you can, support [Curtiss] in her fight for an inclusive rugby game #MakeSportEveryonesGame.”

In the description on his fundraiser, Curtiss shared that he began his “transition” in 2016 and is perceived “as female” by his “female friends, colleagues, loved ones and most relevantly, by [his] female rugby team mates.”

Curtiss writes that: “Trans women come in all shapes, sizes and ability levels, just like cisgender women,” in an apparent effort to compare larger-bodied females to men. He continues, “The new RFU policy has no nuance and instead has decided all trans women to be excluded. It is difficult to see how this broad-brush approach can be ‘necessary.’”

RFU’s policy to exclude males from female sport is described as an “injustice” and Curtiss asks readers for assistance with legal fees and “expert evidence.”

As of the writing of this article, €6,550 (approx. $7,000 USD) of a €20,000 (approx. $21,500 USD) goal has been raised.

Curtiss has maintained a personal blog for a number of years, where he has written about having had a cross-dressing fetish since he was a child, and that this fetish was something that impacted his ability to retain jobs and marriages alike.

In one post, he says that his desire to become a girl could partly be explained by the fact that “the girls’ side of [his] school seemed to me to be more ‘peaceful’ and certainly less overtly aggressive.”

He added that at eight years old he would dress in his sisters’ clothes and “loved the softness and it made me feel something deeply emotional inside.”

In another post, Curtiss says: “I never wanted to have homosexual sex, but strongly desired to have sex with a man, as a woman.”

Curtiss admitted that into his young adulthood, his cross-dressing compulsion was so bad that he would steal his step-mother’s clothing. His step-mother “tried to deal with this by locking her dressing room, which [he] got around by stealing and copying a key.”

Curtiss said “Despite the seeming normality of my life…I just could never shake or get beyond this yearning to be a girl. I was so jealous of the way girls were able to dress. I loved the idea of being able to wear make-up, mini-skirts and long hair. It drove me crazy… I didn’t want to be a man in girl’s clothes… I wanted to BE a girl.”

He continued to share that as an adult when he lived by himself he was pleased to dress however we wanted at home, “…but no matter how hard I tried, I was always consumed by the fact that I was a man-in-drag, not a woman.”

He mentions his exposure to pornography, “Unfortunately all I was exposed to was the weird world of transsexuals through porno magazines and I didn’t identify with that either. It seemed to me that even if I could re-assign my gender, I would forever be on the periphery of society, not able to lead a normal life and still not be considered a real woman.”

In May of 2016, Curtiss started his public display of his “womanhood,” writing on his blog that he “didn’t look particularly convincing, but “… internally I finally felt whole. Since then, rather than being asked to leave my job I’ve been extended 6 times!”

In August of 2022, Curtiss compared trans-identified males not being allowed to play in women’s sport with racist South Africa, writing: “Many have been surprised by my connecting this issue to Apartheid South Africa. Here’s a little history lesson. The Apartheid regime premised their ideology on the ‘fact,’ as they saw it, that people of colour (POC) were sub-human and therefore needed to be treated differently.”

Cutiss quietly deleted the multi-post thread after receiving backlash.

Earlier this year, Curtiss was interviewed by ESPN UK, where he announced his legal challenge to RFU’s ban on male players in the female category.

In a video that has since been widely shared, Curtiss can be seen towering over much younger female athletes. He stated that critics who oppose male players in sports for women and girls “need to be dragged, kicking and screaming if necessary,” until policies favoring gender identity over biological sex are accepted.

It was in July of 2022 that the RFU shared their decision to revise their “gender participation policy” and exclude anyone “recorded male at birth” from participating in female contact rugby.

The organization shared that their extensive review and consultation process of the policy concluded, with peer reviewed research, that the physical differences between men and women are too stark to ignore.

Male “advantages in strength, stamina and physique brought about by testosterone and male puberty are significant and retained even after testosterone suppression,” meant that the RFU could not justify allowing men to compete against women in safety and fairness.

Anticipating controversy, their decision was paired with ample statements regarding the thoroughness of the “research” that went into their ultimate revision of the gender policy.

“The RFU recognises this was a complex and difficult decision and the policy change was not taken lightly or without thorough and full research and consultation.”

Jeff Blackett, RFU President, even released a personal statement with the decision: “I would like to thank everyone for the passion, time and effort that has been put in to consulting with us and informing this policy review. Inclusion is at the heart of rugby values and we will continue to work with everyone to keep listening, learning and finding ways to demonstrate there is a place for everyone in our game. We know that many will be disappointed by this decision however, it has been based on all the scientific evidence available. Our game can be strengthened by everyone who is involved; be it in coaching, refereeing, administration or supporting and playing non-contact forms of the game.”

Curtiss has shared that his solicitors sent a pre-action letter to the RFU “asking it to explain why it thinks its new policy is lawful,” and confirmed that the RFU responded and “seems intent on defending its policy.” The RFU’s response letter wasn’t shared to the public by Curtiss due to confidentiality.

While Curtiss admits that his legal battle against the RFU “has to specifically focus on how the policy has impacted [him] personally,” he hopes that this will “influence the RFU’s approach more generally” for “every trans woman and girl who wants to play contact rugby [with women].”

Earlier this year, World Athletics, the international governing body for the sport of athletics, followed the RFU’s decision to ban males from competing against women. World Athletics’ previous guidelines allowed men to compete in the female division if they had suppressed their testosterone levels below a certain threshold – a standard which critics pointed out was set to as much as five times higher than the average amount of the hormone found in females.

World Athletics since announced that male competitors who have gone through male puberty are not permitted to compete in the female categories of international competitions.

FINA, the international swimming world’s governing body, also voted to ban trans-identified males from elite female competitions if they had undergone male puberty.

Earlier this year, the Scottish Rugby Union also banned trans-identified males from competing in women’s contact rugby, citing the safety of female players.

By Yuliah Alma

Yuliah is a junior researcher and journalist at Reduxx. She is a passionate advocate for women's rights and child safeguarding. Yuliah lives on the American east coast, and is an avid reader and book collector.

#England’s Rugby Football Union (RFU)#equality act 2010 #stonewall UK #A dude compared not being able to play on women’s teams with apartheid South Africa

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newsatsix1986 · 3 years

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The prop department behind this show are incredible.

Not only did they truly make the magazine which Helen and Dale were doing the photo shoot for - the Australian Woman’s Day, they properly wrote an article to go along with the photos.

It took a lot of very close deciphering, but I was able to write down as much of it as I could. I hope it makes sense to you all. It’s adorable and romantic - discussing the first kiss, their Russell Street worries, Helen and Val becoming close that day, and how they knew that they found the other person quite attractive.

Happy reading, friends xoxo

Page One:

Title: Glamour, News and Romance - The Golden Couple of News.

There’s romance in the News At Six newsroom, and everyone is watching.

They are the celebrity couple that has set Melbourne ablaze.

From their luminous first kiss that eclipsed a comet, to chasing the Chamberlains in steamy Darwin, to their love galvanising in the wake of the Russell Street Bombing - Dale Jennings and Helen Norville’s romance has blossomed before our eyes.

We sat down with the golden couple of news to get an exclusive sneak peek into the lovers’ lives.

Every day as Melburnians wake, Dale is already in the newsroom; focused, primed, combing through the latest stories.

As a part of the hard-working News At Six team, he never quite knows what his day will look like, where he might be sent at the drop of the hat.

The one constant of his working life? When Helen Norville strides into his office, his heart skips a beat.

“It’s always an event when she arrives,” Dale tells me, laughing. “Heads turn, every time.”

We’re sitting on spacious lounges on the hot new cafe in Fitzroy, Arrondissement X. Sitting beside him is Helen, carelessly gorgeous in a mauve and teal blouse with puffed sleeves and a pleated grey skirt. She slaps Dale’s arm, bashful, then nuzzles closer to him.

“It’s true!” Dale continues. “There’s a magnetism about her. An energy. She just lights up the room.”

But for Helen, it’s Dale who has that certain je ne sais quoi. And whatever it is, it’s ruined her for other men.

Dale’s unlike any other guy I know,” she says. “He’s warm and kind, but also driven and strong. And he’s a great listener. When you’re talking to him, you feel like you’re the only person in the world.”

The story is legendary now. Dale was Helen’s surprise date for Geoff Walters’ 60th birthday party the night Halley’s Comet passed overhead.

We were denied a good look at the comet, but partygoers received an even more spectacular view.

It was on that balmy February night; rubbing shoulders with Melbourne’s elite amidst a once-in-a-lifetime celestial event, that Dale kissed Helen for the very first time.

“It was a surprise, to be honest,” Helen professes. “I’d invited Dale as a dear colleague, but when he kissed me something just clicked. It felt totally right.”

And despite how picture perfect the moment was - with half of Melbourne’s press just a few faces away - Dale insists it was completely unplanned.

“It was just a spur of the moment thing,” he tells me. “I mean, I didn’t think Helen would go for a guy like me, but she looked so stunning. I thought, “Come on mate, what are you waiting for?”

So began the romance that has captured the hearts of viewers across the nation.

But what events led to that magical moment? To date, Dale and Helen have been cagey about the origins of their romance...until now.

“It really started when Dale was assigned to produce me.” Helen explains. “It’s no secret that I’ve gone through a few producers in my time, blokes who didn’t take me seriously as a journalist. I knew right away that Dale was different. He wanted to work with me, not over me.”

“Helen had really bold ideas for special reports,” Dale adds. “I was drawn to her passion like a moth to a very glamorous flame.”

Page Two

These reports have now become a Monday evening staple - and one of the biggest ratings draw for News At Six.

It’s clear Melbourne can’t get enough of the romantically-entangled reporting duo - a dynamic that crystallised when Dale reporter live from a scorched Russell Street on 27th March.

Viewers the state over shared with Helen’s fear for Dale’s life, and her relief she felt when she saw he’d made it out unscathed.

“It was one of the most stressful days of my life.” Helen says, clutching Dale’s hand in hers. “Not only did we experience an awful attack on our city, there were hours where I didn’t know if Dale was safe. My feelings for him crystallised in that moment. I knew I loved him. Deeply.”

“Absolutely. Same for me,” Dale echoes. He grows solemn and his eyes glaze over - clearly reliving the horrific events of that day. In a strange way, it was the perfect moment for them to say “I love you.” It was the first time Helen met Dale’s mother! “We’d arranged a dinner for that night!” Helen says. “Of course, that got put aside. But she and I grew close that day.”

So how is our newly-minted media royality adjusting to life in the spotlight?

“It’s been strange getting used to it all.” Dale admits. “I get stopped in the street now - not as much as Helen, but blokes recognise me at the pub.”

But for the most part, it’s business as usual.

“We work hard, we’re passionate about what we do, and we’re passionate about each other,” Helen says.

I can’t help but ask Helen, “Is Dale as passionate in private as he is in public?”

She giggles, as Dale goes red. “Let’s just say we have no issues in that department,” she says, winking. It’s enough to bring the temperature in this cool French bistro up a few degrees!

As Helen steals a kiss from her blushing beau, I’m reminded of the couple’s enduring appeal. Who wouldn’t invite them into their living room of the evening?

While Geoff Walters has announced his imminent return to the desk, his recent health scare has shown the veteran newsreader is not as invincible as he previously seemed. I ask Dale and Helen if we might see them together on the desk, someday soon.

“Oh, we haven’t even moved in together yet!” Helen laughs. “Right now, we’re focusing on supporting each other to do good work and keep Melbourne informed.”

The couple are admirably humble about their ambitions. All the while as I wave them goodbye and watch them walk down Brunswick Street arm in arm, it’s hard not to think of them as the future of news; young, smart, totally in love, and with the whole world at their feet.”

Episode Six - Chernobyl (and a sweet magazine article)

Edited to include the full story! Thank you @dontwanderoff for linking me to the full article on Twitter!

#the newsreader #helen norville #anna torv #dale jennings #sam reid #attention to detail #this was so cute and wholesome #helen is freaking stunning #look at that cover photo!! 😍

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little-murmaider · 3 years

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Hi uh 👉👈 Charles or Nathan for the character ask thing?

Let’s do Nathan!

First impression: Well let’s have a gander at THIS tall glass of water! (I’ll be honest I don’t remember a lot of my first impressions for the main bois 2007 was a long time ago and I only have so many braincells.)

Impression now: My Large Son. My Big Boy. My Absolute Unit. My Incredible Indestructible Lad. I love you.

Favorite moment: “Therefore! We are bleach.” “I fucking LOVE my dad.” “I’m eaTING CHIPS!!!” “WE CAN’T DO ANYTHING RIGHT!!!!!” Really any moment when he yells. Also all of Fatherklok he was the ONLY one who was genuinely looking out for Skwisgaar’s well-being hashtag Nategaar rights.

Idea for a story: 10,000 half-formed Nategaar WIPs fall out of my briefcase The WAIWAD spin-off, where Pre-Klok Nathan and Skwisgaar attend an Explosion Family BBQ, is the one getting most of my attention right now and will likely get published first. The Nategaar Manifesto looms over me like the blade of a guillotine. I’ve also always wanted to write a story about Nathan when he was a little kid, when Rose tries to patch things up between Nathan and the kid bullying him. (It ends with Rose keying the shitty kid’s shitty mom’s car.)

Unpopular opinion: Not sure how unpopular this one us but uhhhhhhhh his behavior towards Abigail in Dethdinner sucks! It sucks so bad! There is no coming back from that for me! Also I only recently realized this but I have such a strong negative reaction to Nathan and Abigail as a couple because I’ve also had a colleague repeatedly call me his girlfriend at a professional event where I was just trying to do my job. My situation was much lower stakes (it was my first article for the regional magazine where I worked and he was the assigned photographer who thought getting me riled up was “funny,” not an extremely important dinner party with the highest-ranking professionals in my field) but it sucked really bad dudes! Hated it! I do think Nathan and Abigail will wind up friends but he’s got a LOT of work ahead of him to get there.

Favorite relationship: Nathan/Toki JKJK it’s Nategaar ha ha fooled you! What a prank! I also love his and Pickles’s friendship a lot. And he and Charles are very fun together too.

Favorite headcanon: He’s very well-read! I also saw someone give a HC that he likes to read out loud and will read to the guys whenever they ask and I love that and I’m stealing it.

Send Me a Character and I Will Tell You...

#asks #nathan explosion #thank you!!!!

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jjbakaloskaiagathos · 4 years

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Once-Upon in Morioh-Cho: Welcome to Morioh-Cho 🚏

In the previous chapter:

- What a weird girl.

Sliding the shutters, he sets up to work again.

Chapter 1:

It is seven a.m and Morioh-Cho is being awoken. In the one small house the girl is sleeping and while sunlight is wading through the windows. Solitude is bliss, but a ringing alarm does not care about it.

- Oh my God! Seven o'clock in the morning come to us from truly hell. Damn, my routine has come back again.

Despite the fact that Sophie hates early times of day, she is being excited. After brushing teeth and having breakfast, she has run to the table and opened a laptop, where E-mail was sent.

- Dear Sophie,

We are aware of that you arrived at the town yesterday. We hope your trip was not uncomfortable that is why we ask our new colleague to prepare something. You are a second-year student, a young girl, who can show the readership new “fresh” point of view. Morioh-Cho is admired all over Japan because of its famous people, high standard of living, life satisfaction and lower murder rate. You need to write an article or to interview an interesting person for the thesis “Morioh-Cho > Tokyo”. You must prove that Japan is not only a capital but it includes captivating small towns. Good luck! See you on Monday.

Best regards,

K.G

Sophie was sitting in the classroom, when the teacher approaches her and said that the girl would be sent for practice. She was studying hardly during these two years that is why the university has chosen Sophie. The committee analyzed her personal knowledge in the field of Romance-Germanic languages and they had a decision to improve Sophie’s skills because of practice at radio station. The town of Morioh-Cho became a perfect place to do it.

- An interesting day starts from an interesting challenge. Obviously, I absolutely don’t know this area and people who live here. Perhaps, I should go to the library, where I can find out new information, shouldn’t I?

Morioh-Cho is a charming town, representing as a suburb of the City S. The area is not populous which includes 58 713 citizens. Travelers visit Morioh-Cho to see marvelous attractions like Angelo Stone, Cape Boing Boing, Phantom Alley, Rohan Kishibe’s house and many others. Despite the terrible appearance, Angelo Stone is surprisingly famous as a meeting place for lovers, Сape Boing Boing is admired by many sailors, Phantom Alley scares foreign visitors by the legend about a dead girl and one day Rohan Kishibe’s house was rebuilt due to a fire whose repair cost around 700 million yen. Sophie did not expect that she would be suddenly acquainted with the last sightseeing’s owner.

A Morioh-Cho library is a lovely ancient building which is located in the Eastern part of the town. Benches are set up in the small yard, surrounding by the fragrant apple trees. Sometimes their branches touch windows, making a sense of rustling music.

The books’ house amazes the girl by its variety. There are many shelves of different creative works, representing all kinds of genres: classical literature, science fiction, comics, encyclopedias, vocabularies and tables with fresh newspapers and magazines.

- Smells like my grandmother’s pantry.

As Sophie thinks this place is not very popular among the locals. In the one short novel a Russian writer Checkov mentioned that a library existed because of young girls and Jews that is why there is only one figure here, excepting our second-year student.

It is a handsome man of medium height who has a beautiful slender frame. The emerald eyes is looking at the bright animal encyclopedia, describing types of exotic birds. His sharp features have got the girl’s attention: arched eyebrows, long lashes, a straight nose, a perfect-size mouth and cheekbones look magnetic. His hair is a dark-green colour and hairdo represents as an undercut that is aligned sideways. Obviously, this man has a great taste in clothes because all parts of the look match perfectly. He seems pretty young but at the same time, his face shows good life experience.

- These hands… The fingers are so long and sophisticated. Who knows, maybe he is fond of drawing or playing the piano.

Sophie keeps her gaze on him directly. He is being inspiring the girl that is why she looks again and again. She is being afraid that this charming man will notice her, making an awkward situation for both, but he does not even think about breaking away from his book. It is for a while.

- Please, help us! He is holding a gun!

- Wait, calm down! I call the police!

The man has immediately shut the book and run to the window. His eyes are turning from shining green to dark- swampy, looking at the street with hostility and astonishment. His face is changing, expressing grimaces of fear or confidence. He has gone outside.

- What has happened? What did he see?

The street is crowded. People have frozen in various poses in front of the girl's eyes: someone is lying, pressed to the ground, someone is running away without looking back and others are standing rooted to the spot with faces are full of horror. Finally, it has become clear what happened: an unknown masked man decided to rob a new jewelry store that has opened nearby. The criminal has already managed to take the seller hostage.

- I take all the money, otherwise I will kill him! Do you listen, bastards?! I will shoot his head, if you interfere!

Sophie has realized. There will be no other chance.

- [Mrs. Brightside], teleport me.

Everything happens in the blink of an eye. After a couple of seconds, Sophie is already sitting on wet pavement, holding her hand in the victim's cheek. Distance between them and the robber is enough to be safe.

- Your shoulder… It is bleeding…

Sophie uses her Stand very seldom. He got this ability, when she was a first-year student: someone hit her with the gold arrow, while she had realized that it was her last day when she may breathe and enjoy her life. The girl closed her eyes, which were full of tears, and thought about the darling people, the family. Instead of death [Mrs. Brightside] was arisen.

- Look! The police are driving! Higashikata-san! It is Higashikata-san!

- How are you? Do you need help? - says a woman in white clothes.

- I’m okay. Need to bandage his shoulder, will you? Let me go, I'm in hurry, - says Sophie, looking at her watch. She must get out of here.

- Morning, Rohan, what happened here?

- Josuke, what a “nice” meeting. Another fool tried to steal money and took the person hostage. I used [Heaven’s Door], you shouldn’t be worry. Josuke, I have got something… A weird girl arrived one day ago. I saw her today with the injured seller. She made strange things and I suppose a girl is a Sta…

- Rohan, you’re being paranoid. I don’t want to hear anything about your silly guesses. We have been quiet for more than ten years. Don’t put labels on the person who just achieved our bed town.

- But I see her around the library and then…

- Rohan, the conversation is over.

Sophie has approached the house, wiping sweat from your face.

- Higashikata-san, welcome me to Morioh-Cho!

⬅️ To be continued

#jojo bizarre adventure #jjba #our own story #sophie #rohan kishibe #josuke higashikata

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theladyactress · 4 years

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Anna Cora Mowatt and the Rumor Mill

It is more usual to think of historians as searching for verifiable facts about historical figures and events. Because this research project is focused on scandal and reputation, I am in the unusual position of being engaged in a search for verifiable rumors and documented innuendo.

I have seen traces many Ogden, Ritchie, and Mowatt descendants in my travels on the internet. If you make a stop here, be assured that I am not casting aspersions on your illustrious ancestor. Anna Cora was ruined financially and devastated emotionally by Walter Watts’ crime. Her effort to rebound from this scandal – further complicated by the timing of James Mowatt’s death -- was nothing short of astounding. I am merely plumbing the depths of the pit into which she suddenly found herself plunged without friend or comfort.

To anyone joining us for the first time, here’s a brief rundown of the Watts scandal: After Mowatt’s very successful Broadway debut in 1847 as first a playwright then as an actress, she was encouraged by friends, critics, and colleagues to try her luck on the London stage as many American performers had before her to varying degrees of success. Arriving there, she immediately drew the attention of Walter Watts, the manager of the Olympic and Marylebone theaters. Despite the fact that she was a mere novice, he signed her to a lucrative long-term contract (Even stars players were usually hired only for one show at a time). Watts publicly presented her with expensive gifts and had a deluxe dressing room outfitted for her where he hosted champagne dinners attended by London’s literary and social elite. This jealousy-inspiring treatment came to an abrupt and shocking end in March of 1850 when Watts was arrested for fraud. Watts’ arrest brought to light the fact that he was a clerk for the Globe Insurance Company who had been financing a millionaire lifestyle for over a decade by systematically embezzling from his company. Four months later, Watts hung himself in Newgate prison.

(If you’d like to read more about the scandal and Mowatt’s entanglement in it, this webpage goes into more depth: Touch of Scandal)

The double difficulty in my research into this scandal is that I’m trying to sort out not only what really happened, but what people thought happened. Because of her personal rhetorical approach and the general standards of the times, Mowatt did not directly address the rumors connecting her to Watts. After a certain point in her autobiography, she even ceases to refer to him by name. Her biographers use phrases like, “everyone in London thought” when talking about the scandal, but it now seems like few of those people documented their beliefs. Therefore more than a century later, I am trying to pick up the echoes of a very damaging whisper campaign.

A tidbit I discovered in one of my recent research “finds” is a perfect illustration of the sort of damaging innuendo that may have been being spread tying Mowatt to Watts at the time of his arrest in a manner that did harm to her reputation in England.

The article, entitled “The Forgeries of Walter Watts” appears at the bottom of page 3 in a New Zealand newspaper on November 5, 1892. Walter Watts and James Mowatt had been dead for forty-two years when the article was published. Anna Cora herself had passed away twenty-two years before. Still, this “true crime” story from half the globe away was deemed by the publishers of the paper entertaining enough to devote two columns to -- wedged in between a chapter from a Robert Lewis Stevenson story and a testimonial for the Society for the Cruelty to Animals. This account followed along the general lines of the narrative that I first saw recorded by David Morier Evans in Facts, Failures, and Frauds: Revelations, Financial, Mercantile, Criminal in 1859. The narrative mentions all of what I have come to consider the “major” rumors tying Mowatt to Watts; such as the silver urn, the dressing room, the locket, and the silk scarf. We will devote much time in future blogs dissecting each of these elements at length as they appear in this and other accounts. However among the colorful details this story adds that I have not seen in other accounts, I want to focus here on the following: “(Watts) sent the lady’s husband on a voyage to Trinidad…”

Nothing in my research indicates that Watts funded James Mowatt’s trip to Trinidad or that it was the manager’s idea in any way. According to Mowatt’s autobiography, her husband set sail for the West Indies in October of 1849 on the advice of more than one doctor after a re-occurrence of an unnamed neurological disorder or perhaps a growing tumor that rendered him blind in one eye and would kill him before the end of 1850. She says that the doctors thought the warmer climate and the long sea voyage would be good for him.

I have to enter into the record here that this is the point in Mowatt’s autobiography where she has stopped referring to Watts by name. She wrote her account of the decision for James Mowatt to set sail for the West Indies using a lot of passive voice and vague constructions like “doctors were consulted” and “it was decided.” In the spring and summer of 1849, Watts was presumably still the Mowatts’ friend and great benefactor. She was giving speeches in public talking about how wonderful Watts was and writing glowing dedications to him in the published versions of her plays. Watts was Anna Cora’s employer and had access to much more money than the Mowatts did. If he generously offered help fund a medically-ordered trip to Trinidad for the critically ill James and insisted that Anna Cora stay in London to fulfill her contractual obligations, then how could they refuse?

Also, to look at the scenario from the other side, if I was Walter Watts – embezzler and con man, leading a double life, -- who had convinced James Mowatt, -- ailing, middle-aged, controlling, ex-lawyer husband of my little American princess star actress -- to invest his wife’s life savings in the Olympic theater that I probably had burned down in the spring so I could rebuild with money I was stealing four and five hundred dollars at a time from the insurance company I was secretly working for... You know, I think I could think of a thousand good reasons why I might want him in Trinidad soaking in the sun and slowly dying instead of at a hospital in Germany or Switzerland that specialized in neurological disorders or cancer treatments while I had champagne dinners with his young beautiful wife in her fancy dressing room in London.

Thus you can see that the “(Watts) sent the lady’s husband on a voyage to Trinidad…” statement starts with the firmest foundation of a good rumor. It is plausible. All the characters are behaving in the manner that we imagine that they might—even when we imagine them to be behaving very, very badly.

[In a future blog, I plan to discuss the the aspect of rumor in which the spread of scandal is aided by prior negative perceptions of certain classes of individuals and how being an American actress in London fueled the harm caused to Mowatt by the Watts incident. However, we’ll leave that for now.]

In addition to being plausible, another aspect giving additional power to the Trinidad rumor is the truth of this information is knowable. Unfortunately, I’m not saying that I think that I will ever know the truth of the matter, but it is plausible that there were individuals at that time who knew the truth of about whether or not Walter Watts paid to send James Mowatt to Trinidad. When James left, Anna Cora moved in with her acting partner, E.L. Davenport and his pregnant wife, Fanny. They probably knew. Their children could have known. Members of the theatrical company may have known. Friends of Watts could have known. This anonymous account is written from the perspective of a young man of who Watts befriended.

Thus the “Trinidad” tidbit is succinctly is capable of confirming a willing listener’s most negative suspicions about Watts’ predatory behavior in the Mowatt marriage and Anna Cora’s either passive or active participation in that interference – depending on how negative one’s pre-existing view of her is. Although anonymous and even only ambiguously non- fictional, the narrator gives himself just barely enough credibility to serve as a plausible source for this information.

And so, my friends, forty-two years after the principals are dead, a strong rumor takes a deep, nourishing breath of fresh air.

The presentation chosen for this account leaves me with several questions that I’d like to share with you, dear readers. How seriously am I meant to take this “Page 3” story? It shares many characteristics with Sydney Horler’s “true crime” version of Watts’ story in his 1931 book Black Souls (A million thanks to Christi Saindon for helping me track down this hard to find volume!). Unlike Horler, though, the anonymous narrator claims to have first-hand insight to Watts’ actions and does not identify their version of the manager’s thoughts or words as fictionalizations. Do any of you know anything about New Zealand newspaper publishing conventions circa 1890? Was this section of the paper reserved for light entertainment? Reprints from English papers? Excerpts from books or magazines?

Also, my knowledge of Victorian medical science is thin. Do any of you have more expertise? How valid was the West Indies as a destination for the dying James Mowatt in 1849? I know that neurology was in its infancy and that “the rest cure” was being proscribed for a wide range of psychological and physical disorders of the brain that would be treated with medicine or surgery only twenty or thirty years later, but wouldn’t there be better places in England or Europe to treat someone with something that was exerting so much pressure it was making them lose sight in one eye?

I look forward to your input! Next week – more scandal!

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You’ve Conquered the Escape Room. But Can You Escape the Lab?

URBANA, Ill. — It was 10 p.m., and we were locked in a room at the mall.

It had been a long day. I had woken up at 5 that morning to finish writing an article. Then I had spent a day talking to University of Illinois students and professors. The physics department had invited me and two other science writers to visit, part of an effort to help science and engineering students better explain what they do.

I had had a few glasses of wine at dinner.

And now here I was in a locked room at Lincoln Square Mall, straining to recall my ancient physics education in order to get out.

The four of us — me plus Phillip Schewe, a longtime science writer; David Ehrenstein, an editor at the American Physical Society; and Karin Dahmen, a physics professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — had an hour to figure out everything about a missing scientist.

The fate of the free world was at stake. Of course. This video laid out our mission.

Such “escape rooms” have become popular in recent years — immersive games where you and your friends (or strangers) search for clues and solve puzzles to defuse a simulated danger before time runs out.

Paul Kwiat, another University of Illinois physicist, is the creator of this particular escape room, which is one of the few, perhaps the only one, filled with puzzles that are based on science.

“Science can be fun,” he said. “Normally, people don’t include science and fun in the same sentence.”

Four years ago, Dr. Kwiat, who studies how to harness the properties of light for future quantum computers and encrypted communications, was attending a conference in Switzerland. He looked online for something fun to do in the off hours.

The destination with the highest rating on TripAdvisor was not a hiking trail or something historical or cultural, but an escape room. He and a colleague went. Neither had been in, or out of, an escape room before.

“It was superfun,” said Dr. Kwiat, even though they were unable to solve all of the Sherlock Holmes-themed puzzles in the allotted time. On the same trip, he did another escape room, in Prague. (He’s now done 25.)

He thought that someone ought to devise an escape room with science puzzles, and when the American Physical Society put out a call for “innovative outreach,” he started working on one himself.

For his girlfriend’s birthday, Dr. Kwiat put together a small test version. In the spring semester, he recruited undergraduates in a class he was teaching to refine the puzzles and build more rugged copies of them. He leased space in the mall, a former baby goods store.

He put together a story: The fictional Professor Alberta Schrödenberg has made a breakthrough in quantum computing while working for a government agency, the Disruptive Technology Office. But she was worried that enemy agents were closing in to steal her discovery.

Then she disappeared, leaving behind a secret laboratory with mysteries to be solved.

“For me, the best escape rooms are the ones with a good story line,” Dr. Kwiat said. “There’s a good reason you’re locked in a room, and there’s a good reason why there are puzzles, and there’s even a good reason why there are people giving you hints to those puzzles.”

In January 2017, LabEscape opened. (The $10,000 grant from the American Physical Society arrived four months later.) Some 4,700 people have now passed through. Dr. Kwiat has created a sequel scenario as well as a transportable prequel that he has taken to physics conferences.

Before entering, we were given several sheets describing some basic properties of light. We skimmed over information about different wavelengths of light, including radio waves and X-rays, and the law of refraction describing how light bends when entering a material like water or glass.

Dr. Kwiat said that it was not essential to memorize all of that knowledge, but good to look over and keep in mind.

Into the room we went.

As it turned out, a background in physics does not necessarily help. I’m a former graduate student who left Illinois a quarter century ago without my doctorate after deciding I was better at asking other scientists what the answer was.

Both David Ehrenstein and Phil Schewe finished Ph.D.s before also deciding they preferred the communications side of physics. And Karin Dahmen is a working physics professor.

But we lacked traits of accomplished escape room devotees. That included methodical organization — take an inventory of everything in the room — and focus. Communicate clearly with your teammates; don’t get distracted.

Dr. Schewe, for example, started browsing a stack of old Physics Today magazines in a bookcase. “Phil!” I said, exasperated. “Stop looking for your articles!” (Tip: Do not squander time reading the magazines. But you may want to take a careful look around there.)

In devising LabEscape, Dr. Kwiat came up with sleights-of-vision that seem like computer- generated special effects but instead manipulate phenomena of real materials.

To avoid spoiling the puzzles for future lab escapees, consider instead a plastic tank that once hung in LabEscape’s welcome area.

There, Dr. Kwiat took advantage of the optical alchemy of acrylic and corn syrup.

At first look, the tank was clear and seemingly empty. But put on a pair of 3-D IMAX glasses, and three-dimensional letters spelling LabEscape, fringed in psychedelic colors, suddenly appeared before you.

The tank was not empty, but filled with 18 gallons of corn syrup. The letters, made of acrylic, were also in there. But because the two materials possess roughly the same index of refraction, light passed from one through the other without bending, and the letters were almost invisible.

But corn syrup is also what scientists call “optically active,” because of the shape of its sugar molecules.

Polarized light — where the oscillating electric fields of the photons are lined up in parallel, like airplanes flying in formation — was directed into the tank. As the light passed through the syrup, the polarization rotated. (Think of the planes doing barrel rolls in synchrony.)

Blue light rotates about twice as much as red light. Because acrylic is not optically active, the rays that passed through the letters — and traveled through less of the syrup — had a different orientation.

Your eyes do not perceive polarization, but a polarizing filter in the IMAX glasses turned the invisible colorfully visible.

The sign is no longer there, because Dr. Kwiat overlooked another basic property of corn syrup — it’s denser than water. Under the strain of the extra weight, the plastic ruptured, unleashing a sticky deluge.

The escape room has been a learning experience for Dr. Kwiat in other ways.

One puzzle involves extracting a key to open a lock to get to another clue. Dr. Kwiat designed the solution, but was surprised when a participant figured out an alternative way of getting the key.

Then someone figured out a third way, and someone else figured out a fourth way. Eventually, he stopped being surprised. Now, escape room players have come up with 18 different ways of fishing out the key.

A debriefing after you finish your time locked in the room yields some fascinating tidbits. Did you know your digital camera can capture infrared light that your eyes cannot see? I didn’t.

And there really was a federal agency called the Disruptive Technology Office. Dr. Kwiat even got a grant from it.

But he isn’t expecting people to emerge educated about the index of refraction or how a laser works.

Instead, Dr. Kwiat hopes participants will better appreciate how scientists find beauty and awe in deciphering the universe.

“There’s a great sense of triumph when you overcome one of these puzzles,” he said. “Just as in science.”

Erica Phillpott, a receptionist at a fitness club, took her six children, ages ranging from 10 to 19, into LabEscape. At first, as she was looking at the sheets of science information, she was nervous.

“I just paid this man to add extra stress to my life,” she recalled thinking. “None of us really knows anything about science.”

But Ms. Phillpott and her children made it out of the room. “We saved the world,” she said.

Afterward, her 12-year-old daughter, whose birthday they were celebrating, got more excited about science. She now thinks she would like to study forensics or something similar.

“She really got the most out of it,” Ms. Phillpott said.

Even with the turnover of students at the university, there probably are not enough customers to keep LabEscape in business in Urbana indefinitely.

Dr. Kwiat envisions moving it to a science museum in a larger city and hopes that a company investing in quantum computing research — Google, perhaps, he said wistfully — might sponsor it.

The goal would not be to get people at a science museum to try an escape room, but the reverse: to entice escape room aficionados to visit a science museum.

As for the three science writers and the physicist, we, um, did not solve all of the problems and, when our time ran out, were banished to the “quantum realm.”

But it was fun way to end the day.

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Remote Learning? No Thanks. – The New York Times

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Good morning. Virus hospitalizations are surging. The Trump administration will send more agents into cities. And desperate parents are thinking about home schooling.

The coronavirus is so widespread in the U.S. that many schools are unlikely to reopen anytime soon. Already, some large school districts — in Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, Phoenix, suburban Washington and elsewhere — have indicated they will start the school year entirely with remote classes. Yet many parents and children are despondent about enduring online-only learning for the foreseeable future.

So it makes sense that the topic of home schooling is suddenly hot.

Parents who never before considered home schooling have begun looking into it — especially in combination with a small number of other families, to share the teaching load and let their children interact with others. Some are trying to hire private tutors. One example is a popular new Facebook group called Pandemic Pods and Microschools, created by Lian Chang, a mother in San Francisco.

Emily Oster, a Brown University economist who writes about parenting, has predicted that clusters of home-schooling families are “going to happen everywhere.”

Of course, many middle-class and poor families cannot afford to hire private tutors, as my colleague Eliza Shapiro pointed out. But there is nonetheless the potential for a home-schooling boom that is more than just a niche trend among the wealthy.

Consider that the population of home-schoolers — before the pandemic — was less affluent than average:

Eliza told me that she thought many families, across income groups, were likely to consider pooling child-care responsibilities in the fall. Children would remain enrolled in their school and would come together to take online classes in the same house (or, more safely, backyard). In some cases, these co-ops might morph into lessons that parents would help lead.

As for high-income families, they may end up having a broader effect if a significant number pull their children out of school and opt for home schooling. “We could see a drain on enrollment — and therefore resources — into public schools,” Eliza said.

As Wesley Yang, a writer for Tablet magazine, asked somewhat apocalyptically, “Did public schools in major cities just deal themselves a deathblow?” And L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy, a professor at New York University, recently told the science journalist Melinda Wenner Moyer that any increased privatization of education was likely to “widen the gaps between kids.”

It’s too early to know whether home schooling is more of a real trend or a social-media fad. But the U.S. is facing a dire situation with schools: Remote learning went badly in the spring. The virus continues to spread more rapidly than in any country that has reopened schools. And, as Sarah Darville points out in an article for the upcoming Sunday Review section, the federal government has done little to help schools.

No wonder parents are starting to think about alternatives.

How can school districts respond? Jay Mathews, a Washington Post education writer, has a suggestion: Superintendents should abandon trying to devise a single solution for an entire school system.

“Let principals and teachers decide,” Mathews writes. “They know their students better than anyone except parents, who would just as soon get back to work.” His column includes specific ideas he has heard from teachers.

THREE MORE BIG STORIES

1. The biggest bet yet on a vaccine

The Trump administration announced a nearly $2 billion contract with Pfizer and a smaller German biotech company to produce a potential coronavirus vaccine. The contract is the largest yet from Operation Warp Speed, the White House program to fast-track a vaccine.

The government won’t pay the drugmakers until the vaccine gets F.D.A. approval. “It’s like a restaurant reservation,” explained Noah Weiland, who covers health care for The Times. “You pay for dinner when you eat it, but you’ve got yourself the prime table in the restaurant instead of having to wait in line.” If the vaccine works, individual Americans would receive it for free.

2. Where the virus is under control

No region of the United States suffered a worse virus outbreak this spring than the Northeast — but few places have managed to bring it under such good control in the last couple of months.

“It’s acting like Europe,” Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, said. After cases and deaths surged in Europe and the Northeast, both places responded with aggressive lockdowns and big investments in testing and tracing efforts. Residents have also been willing to follow public health advice — wearing masks, staying out of confined spaces and more.

In other virus developments:

3. Trump sends more agents to cities

The Trump administration says it will send hundreds of additional federal agents into cities to confront a rise in violence. The plan calls for sending about 200 more agents to Chicago, 200 to Kansas City, Mo., and 35 to Albuquerque.

In Portland, Ore., early this morning, federal officers fired tear gas near the city’s mayor, Ted Wheeler, who had joined demonstrators outside the federal courthouse. Coughing and scrambling to put on goggles, Wheeler called the officers’ tactics an “egregious overreaction.”

Media watch: Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and other conservative pundits have seized on the Portland protests as a pro-Trump rallying cry.

Here’s what else is happening

After ordering the Chinese Consulate in Houston to close, the State Department accused Chinese diplomats of spying and attempting to steal scientific research.

China began what it hoped would be its first successful journey to Mars, launching equipment on a voyage that will last until next year.

The House voted overwhelmingly — with 72 Republicans joining the Democrats — to remove statues of Confederate figures and white supremacists. Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, is likely to block the measure.

President Trump again sought to showcase his mental fitness by repeatedly reciting what he said was a sample sequence from a cognitive test. “It’s actually not that easy, but for me, it was easy,” he told Fox News.

Employees of Hearst Magazines — the publisher of Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar and Marie Claire — described a toxic work environment, including lewd and sexist remarks by the company’s president, Troy Young.

Lives Lived: “My analyst told me/That I was right out of my head.” The woman who wrote and first sang those memorable lines was Annie Ross. Best known as a member of Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, probably the most successful vocal group in the annals of jazz, she was also, later in life, a movie actress and a cabaret mainstay. Annie Ross died at 89.

By 2070, the extremely hot zones that now cover less than 1 percent of the Earth’s land surface — like the Sahara — could cover almost 20 percent. Water sources would vanish. Farms would go barren. And hundreds of millions of people would be forced to choose between flight or death.

“The result,” writes Abrahm Lustgarten in a new story for The Times Magazine, “will almost certainly be the greatest wave of global migration the world has seen.”

The Times Magazine and ProPublica have modeled what that migration could look like. “Northern nations can relieve pressures on the fastest-warming countries by allowing more migrants to move north across their borders, or they can seal themselves off, trapping hundreds of millions of people in places that are increasingly unlivable,” Lustgarten writes.

The article is part of The Magazine’s climate issue, which also includes pieces on Argentina’s fearsome thunderstorms; the teenage activists leading the climate change movement; and the Louisiana communities that may be lost in a plan to protect the coastline.

PLAY, WATCH, EAT, MUPPETS

Eat some cheese

Cervelle de Canut — which translates to “silk worker’s brain” and describes a simple cheese spread — is a mainstay in Lyon, France, where the author Bill Buford researched French cuisine for his book “Dirt.” You can whip up the spread in about 10 minutes by blending fromage blanc with chopped shallots and fresh herbs. Serve with a baguette (or just eat it with spoon).

And Pete Wells recently spent more than six hours on a Zoom call with Buford to learn the art of poaching a chicken.

Read something thought-provoking

Zadie Smith — the acclaimed author of “White Teeth” — is back with a timely collection of short essays, “Intimations,” that covers the killing of George Floyd, the class divides exposed by the pandemic and more.

“The virus map of the New York boroughs turns redder along precisely the same lines as it would if the relative shade of crimson counted not infection and death but income brackets and middle-school ratings,” she writes in one essay. “Death comes to all — but in America it has long been considered reasonable to offer the best chance of delay to the highest bidder.”

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One of the world-famous magazines is "Bloomberg Businessweek".

[Huawei, one of the major companies supported by the Chinese government]

The magazine is a US business magazine that is popular for its creative design and quality articles. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where I was studying abroad, many students also liked the magazine and New Yorker magazines.

Business Week magazine published an interesting article in the July 6th issue. The six-page article describes how a major Canadian telecommunications equipment company has been forced into bankruptcy as a result of ongoing cyber attacks by Chinese government hackers.

This is exactly what highlights the actual state of cyber attacks that China is doing around the world. For this case is just the tip of the iceberg, and it's no wonder any company in the world is under attack. Of course, it is not a fire on the opposite bank for Japanese companies, and it is possible that it will happen now or in the near future.

Recently, China has become more and more confronted with Western countries due to the US-China trade war and new coronavirus infections. The author has repeatedly pointed out the Chinese government-related cyber attacks in my book "The Cyber War Now," but I would like to revisit the actual situation based on this Business Week magazine article. There are inspiring lessons that Japanese business people should keep in mind.

Chinese tactics that continued attacking for more than 10 years until bankruptcy

First of all, one of the biggest goals of Chinese government cyber attackers and hackers is to steal financial information such as intellectual property. In addition, personal information may be collected as a stepping stone to steal them. It also aims to steal sensitive information from the military and government. In short, rather than "destroying" the opponent, they are focusing on cyber espionage in fields such as industry and military to gain economic, military, and political advantages.

Moreover, the attack has been going on for quite some time. In the Canadian case reported by Bloomberg, the target was major telecom company Nortel Networks, who had been under constant cyberattack since the late 1990s.

What was stolen from Nortel by a cyber attack is valuable information such as blueprints of US communication network equipment that will later be connected to 4G and 5G, financial status, powerpoint materials used for business negotiations with customers. It was a lot of materials. However, the Canadian Security Intelligence Agency (CSIS), a Canadian intelligence agency, was aware of these attacks, and cautioned the company early on.

Unfortunately, the company did not understand it, did not understand the significance of the matter, and left it alone. This “leaving” is a common mistake that can be seen in the damage of large-scale cyber attacks, even if we look at past cases. For example, in the 2016 US presidential election, the National Committee of the Democratic Party of the United States was stolen a large amount of inside information after being attacked by Russian government-based hackers, but the FBI (US Central Intelligence Agency) detected the attack. I was in contact with the committee early on to be careful. However, the officials left it alone and allowed a historical cyber attack that was said to have influenced the outcome of the US presidential election.

Approximately 2004, China had penetrated deeply to the point where the accounts of Nortel executives were hijacked and sent internal information to computers in Shanghai from there. This is a typical method of cyber attack in China and is called APT attack (advanced and persistent attack). Anyway, the feature is that it steals slowly over time. And since it steals rooting information, the attack was also called the "vacuum cleaner approach."

Leaked to Huawei? ”A rough technique” that takes away both data and human resources

　In the same article, it is not clearly known where these data flowed in China, but on the other hand, he points out: "Many of the people who surveyed this matter said that the Chinese government, which has undermined key Western companies to support Chinese technology companies such as Huawei, a major telecommunications equipment company, I strongly doubt their involvement."

The Huawei side has denied this suspicion. By the way, the relationship between the Chinese government and Huawei is well known, it is said that the government has provided Huawei with $ 75 billion of assistance, and it has set a maximum lending limit of $ 100 billion, US intelligence agency analyzes doing. This is why the US government is angry with Huawei that it is unfairly competing against the Chinese government to unreasonably reduce the value of its products. Furthermore, Huawei is believed to have acquired intellectual property stolen from foreign companies, such as Nortel's case.

▽ In the coverage of the author so far, it was supposed that the cyber attack on Nortel was probably in charge of the PLA General Staff Division, Department 3, 2nd division, which was in charge of the North American region at that time. Later, "61398 Corps," which belonged to this department, was wanted by the FBI because some of the members were involved in cyber espionage operations against North American companies. All faces and names are still exposed online.

In the case of Nortel, the attack lasted until 2009, when the company went bankrupt. On the verge of bankruptcy, Huawei is also in talks with Nortel, which it has weakened, to seek acquisition and support. Weake the other person and help them as if they were a savior.

Furthermore, Huawei has pulled out 20 people who had been developing 5G technology at Nortel before the bankruptcy. The article writes: "Wen Tong, Nortel's most accomplished developer, is now Chief Technology Officer of Huawei's wireless business. From his 14-year career at Nortel in 2009, he was named Huawei. I'm being pulled out with my colleagues.''

It is no exaggeration to say that Huawei has become the world's leading company for current 5G technology with these rough techniques.

The source code was also stolen from Google

With this strategy, the Chinese government was cyber attacking a number of companies around Google in 2010, such as search giant Google, financial giant Morgan Stanley, IT giant Symantec and Adobe, and military giant Northrop Grumman. Is known. This series of attacks is called "Operation Aurora" by cybersecurity experts.

　The remarkable thing about this case is the attack on Google. The Chinese government is known to have hacked into Google's free email, Gmail, hunting for accounts of dissident Chinese. Not only that, but the search engine source code was stolen, a former U.S. military official said in an interview. The technology seems to be flowing to companies in China.

Also, according to the former executive, other than that, Chinese government-based hackers have been successful in stealing weapons and fighter blueprints by invading the US military for many years.

/> From private companies to government, military, infrastructure and educational institutions, the Chinese government is thoroughly stealing various information and data from rival countries through cyber attacks.

And an attack like Nortel can happen even in Japan. It is considered that there are cases in which the information about the damage caused by a cyber attack is not exposed in Japan, where it is difficult to get out of the information. And now that Japanese society and companies are weakened by the new Corona, it is possible that these attacks will be more likely than ever.

Japanese companies vulnerable to corona damage are targeted

Actually, the work may have already begun. The LDP's chairman, Amari Ming Tax System, said in June that "China is flinching to bring a new coronavirus-affected company with poor physical strength into its affiliation." It means that work on Japan has begun. Amari said, "We will prevent foreign companies from acquiring foreign companies that have an influence on companies that possess important technology for security."

There is no doubt that Japan is also targeted. Before proceeding with the acquisition, it is no wonder that people are already working to weaken the company by searching inside information by cyber attack, as in the case of Nortel.

Also, don't forget that human resources are also targeted. For example, China is now focusing on securing human resources in the semiconductor field, which is steadily becoming unavailable due to a trade ban from the United States. Such fields require the most attention.

　It becomes easier to defend if you know what the other person wants. I hope Japanese companies will learn from lessons learned by referring to cases like Nortel.

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Such is life! Behold, a new Post published on Greater And Grander about Top 10 Secrets to Travel

See into my soul, as a new Post has been published on http://greaterandgrander.com/2020/01/top-10-secrets-to-travel/

Top 10 Secrets to Travel

Anthony Bourdain said, “Travel changes you. As you move through this life, and this world, you change things slightly, you leave scars behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves scars on you. Most of the time, those scars - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.”

It’s these scars that help shape us, carving grooves through our mind and our metaphorical soul. They make us stronger by opening up pathways that others have not considered, and viewing the world with a much wider lens.

Even the Dalai Lama stated, “Once a year, go some place you’ve never been before.”

When I ran a BDSM education group called Fetish Noir, I believed that the strength of the BDSM community was through the overall success of its participants, as well-rounded human beings. That meant their emotional stability, economic stability, and overall quality of life. I still believe that to this day. Now, I wish to share a secret I’ve discovered only in recent years.

When I was younger, I was poor, and obsessively focused on my career. Being overworked and lacking resources (as most millenials are) led me into depression. I lost track of what experiences would make me happy and make me a better person. Stop and think about that and ask yourself three questions.

What would make me happy?

What would improve my quality of life?

What would make me a better person?

In my experience, the only answer to ALL 3 questions is travel.

I did not leave my home country until I was 29, but when I did, I made sure I journeyed in such a way that relished the exuberance of life and with a spirit worthy of my attention. I travelled to Paris, ate great food, woke up to a sunrise over French vineyards, travelled via rail, smoked cuban cigars while watching fireworks, attended lavish parties, and talked to everyone I met.

Since then I’ve travelled to exotic cities including Berlin, Hong Kong, London, Abu Dhabi, Atlanta, Montreal, Weimar Germany, and up and down the American West Coast, and I have been all the better for it.

The legendary filmmaker, Werner Herzog, said, “Filmmaking — like great literature — must have experience of life at its foundation… You would be allowed to submit an application [to my film school] only after having travelled, alone and on foot, let’s say from Madrid to Kiev, a distance of nearly two thousand miles. While walking, write about your experiences, then give me your notebooks. I would immediately be able to tell who had really walked and who had not. You would learn more about filmmaking during your journey than if you spent five years at film school. ... All that counts is real life.”

Now, Herzog has also said some troubling things, but his words on travel are sage like. So for the poor and the anxious, I give you this advice on how to travel, and travel boldly.

1. Pack More Than You Need

As Greater and Grander recently published, keep an all purpose travel bag with a variety of items to last you at least 5 days. That way you’ll be prepared for a last minute trip, an emergency, or a spot of wanderlust.

2. Find Your Friends

Thanks to Facebook and several handy apps, you can find where your Facebook friends are living. This will allow you to plan your trips by finding colleagues, tour guides, and possible couches to crash on. You can use these handy apps to get started.

3. Subscribe to a Travel Magazine

Whenever I write an essay, I try to steal at least one item from author, Neil Strauss. So, subscribe to a travel magazine (the best periodical covering a travel topic you know nothing about), because:

Rather than choosing the most popular magazine, select one that offers the most in-depth and interesting coverage... Yes, you could read it all online, but it’s great to have a physical magazine to read when you’re on the subway or on an airplane or waiting in line somewhere.

4. Get a passport if you don’t have one.

Also from Neil Strauss, if your passport has expired, get it renewed now. You never know when that great travel opportunity is going to occur, and you don’t want to get stuck at home while your friends are at some great concert at the Acropolis in Greece. If you’re in America, you can simply go to most post offices with two acceptable photos of yourself, proof of U.S. citizenship, and a valid form of photo identification. You can find more information here: http://travel.state.gov/passport

And, for those of you who’ve read Emergency and QUALIFY for a passport to a second country (if, for example, you have a parent or grandparent who was born in Ireland), take advantage of that opportunity now, before the rules change.

5. SIGN UP

Sign up for US Airway’s E-Saver, Southwest’s Ding, or any other airline program that offers last-minute, low-cost travel options so you can take quick weekend getaways whenever you feel like it. Many tickets can be half price, and you can sign up for international airlines like Cathay Pacific or Air France.

6. FetLife Location

If you're into kinky sex, as I am, you probably have a profile on FetLife.com, the number 1 social media site for BDSM. The Events page has an active calendar of kink-themed events around the world. What you may not be aware is that the display results are based on your profile’s location settings. So, if you're traveling to Albania and want to find all the kink events in your vicinity, just change your profile location settings to the city you're in. You can easily change it back when you return home.

7. Don't use a travel agent, just use Expedia and airbnb

Some lessons you learn the hard way. My partner and I were planning a vacation to Europe for my sister’s wedding. Unfortunately, we were too tired and overwhelmed by the details of traveling to 3 different cities in one week. So, we went to AAA to book the details of our trip. It was only afterwards that we discovered if we had booked through AirBnB and Expedia, then our bookings would have been 60% cheaper. We paid a premium for convenience, and to top it all off, our travel agent was poorly organized and sick, so we didn’t even get our itinerary until 2 days before we were to leave. There are a variety of cheap booking tools. For flights, use Google Flights in order to find the cheapest airfare. For lodging, use AirBnB, and be a courteous guest. If your trip is just in a single city, you could use Expedia to book your hotel, airfare, and car all in 20 minutes. Use these digital tools and take the power of your journey into your own hands.

8. Use google flights to book trips, and book immediately

As I mentioned above, you can use Google Flights to book your trips. Google flights offers several unique tools, including a “cheapest rate” calendar, and a comparison of various airlines. The one trick, and piece of life advice I would give you is this: Don’t hesitate.

When you do a search for a flight, the travel websites register that search, so anytime you view an airline website, they register that in your cache folder and raise the rates the next time you come back. So, don’t hesitate, find the flight you want, and book immediately, so you get the best deal on airfares.

9. Use Free Opportunities To Travel

Believe it or not, there are free travel opportunities all over the world.

• If you're Jewish, take advantage of Israel’s birthright program.

• Apply to the peace corps

• Work on a farm as part of WWOOF.

• Be part of the conservation movement.

There are many ways you could travel for free. Check out this CNN article for more details: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/vounteer-free-travel/index.html

10. Travel to a City During a Work Conference for a Tax Writeoff

Depending on the industry you are in (or pursuing) there are tons of international conferences going on around the world related to your business. For example, I work in the film industry, and was pursuing a career as a film producer. So, I applied for free producer passes to the Cannes film festival, and was accepted. That gave me the opportunity to travel, and I wrote off the entire trip as a tax write off on my tax form schedule C tax form.

Whatever industry you are in, or want to be in, google international conferences for that industry, and apply for free passes or student passes. Once accepted, look at the pros and cons of traveling to those cities, and the pros and cons of your business. Be sure to keep all your receipts, and records of what you did at the conference, so you can explain it as part of any tax claim.

Bon Voyage!

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