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October

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Heard

on

All

Things

Considered

NPRs

Michel

Martin

speaks

with

reporter

and

author

Sam

Quinones

along

with

CNN

contributor

Jeff

Yang

about

how

the

opioid

crisis

is

treated

in

the

media

MICHEL

MARTIN

HOST

Finally

today

were

going

to

head

into

the

Barbershop

Thats

where

we

talk

to

interesting

people

about

whats

in

the

news

and

whats

on

their

minds

Today

we

wanted

to

talk

about

how

Hollywood

is

putting

the

opioid

crisis

front

and

center

in

one

of

the

networks

buzziest

shows

And

let

me

just

say

that

we

realize

that

the

tens

of

thousands

of

families

who

are

dealing

with

this

every

day

can

not

stop

thinking

about

it

But

for

others

the

issue

was

brought

forward

in

a

rare

way

as

the

subject

of

the

premiere

episode

of

the

Roseanne

reboot

this

week

Now

you

might

remember

that

ABC

canceled

the

reboot

of

the

popular

show

after

its

star

Roseanne

Barr

tweeted

racist

comments

Then

the

network

decided

to

try

a

spinoff

called

The

Conners

which

premiered

this

week

And

in

it

we

learned

that

spoiler

alert

the

Roseanne

character

died

by

way

of

an

opioid

overdose

SOUNDBITE

OF

TV

SHOW

THE

CONNERS

LAURIE

METCALF

As

Jackie

Harris

I

just

got

a

call

from

a

friend

in

the

coroners

office

The

autopsy

found

that

it

wasnt

a

heart

attack

Roseanne

ODed

on

opioids

JOHN

GOODMAN

As

Dan

Conner

Its

not

possible

We

knew

she

had

a

problem

She

was

only

on

pain

pills

for

two

days

after

surgery

That

was

just

Ibuprofen

Its

got

to

be

wrong

MARTIN

We

wanted

to

talk

about

it

so

weve

called

Sam

Quinones

Hes

the

author

of

Dreamland

The

True

Tale

Of

Americas

Opiate

Epidemic

and

hes

joining

us

from

Los

Angeles

via

Skype

Sam

thanks

so

much

for

joining

us

SAM

QUINONES

Pleasure

to

be

here

Michel

Thank

you

MARTIN

Also

joining

us

from

NPR

West

in

Culver

City

Calif

is

Jeff

Yang

Hes

a

CNN

contributor

and

columnist

for

The

Wall

Street

Journal

online

Jeff

welcome

back

to

you

as

well

JEFF

YANG

Always

welcome

to

be

back

here

MARTIN

And

were

going

to

start

with

you

because

the

critics

had

very

different

reactions

Some

people

thought

it

was

very

well

done

Some

people

thought

it

avoided

some

of

the

kind

of

tough

social

commentary

that

made

Roseanne

Roseanne

How

did

you

see

it

YANG

You

know

its

really

interesting

because

anytime

a

sitcom

has

to

actually

address

issues

that

are

frankly

black

and

dark

and

looming

in

a

lot

of

ways

in

our

society

theres

a

tension

between

the

comedy

aspect

of

it

and

the

harshness

of

the

realworld

circumstances

that

provide

the

insight

right

And

in

this

particular

case

one

of

the

things

that

was

really

strange

to

me

is

that

one

of

the

excuses

Roseanne

gave

when

she

did

that

sort

of

racist

tweet

that

got

her

fired

was

that

she

was

on

Ambien

at

the

time

that

you

know

medication

had

essentially

led

to

this

behavioral

change

So

theres

a

weird

tension

in

some

ways

in

terms

of

what

on

the

screen

and

the

reality

of

her

behavior

medicated

or

not

in

the

real

world

MARTIN

So

as

our

culture

guy

though

what

did

you

think

of

the

episode

just

as

briefly

as

you

can

YANG

Yeah

I

you

know

it

was

actually

I

thought

really

fascinating

I

thought

they

did

a

really

good

job

of

touching

on

the

ways

that

people

use

humor

sometimes

to

push

back

against

the

darkness

And

the

presence

of

the

absence

of

Roseanne

was

powerful

So

I

thought

they

did

a

pretty

good

job

actually

of

addressing

a

very

difficult

topic

MARTIN

Now

Sam

I

know

youre

not

a

critic

but

youre

deeply

immersed

in

covering

this

crisis

OK

And

I

just

wondered

QUINONES

Yeah

MARTIN

If

how

you

felt

about

it

as

a

person

who

knows

a

lot

about

the

realities

of

the

situation

QUINONES

I

thought

it

you

know

I

didnt

see

the

show

As

a

matter

of

fact

I

was

speaking

in

rural

Ohio

when

the

show

was

running

about

this

very

topic

in

various

places

in

rural

Ohio

But

I

thought

you

know

the

use

of

this

as

a

vehicle

for

a

dramatic

or

comic

show

sounds

important

sounds

very

timely

Im

amazed

that

actually

I

have

to

say

more

shows

dont

But

I

think

thats

kind

of

part

and

parcel

of

this

epidemic

This

epidemic

has

always

been

quiet

and

hidden

And

so

its

only

now

that

youre

seeing

it

MARTIN

Tell

me

a

little

bit

about

QUINONES

So

I

think

thats

what

MARTIN

The

quiet

QUINONES

Im

sorry

go

ahead

MARTIN

And

hidden

part

of

it

because

you

know

a

recent

NPR

poll

reveals

that

a

quarter

of

rural

Americans

feel

that

opioid

and

other

drug

abuse

is

the

biggest

problem

in

their

QUINONES

Yes

MARTIN

Local

communities

And

I

take

it

Sam

that

you

feel

that

this

is

a

story

thats

been

overlooked

and

kind

of

hiding

in

plain

sight

Tell

me

why

you

feel

that

way

QUINONES

I

would

that

poll

does

not

surprise

me

at

all

And

I

do

believe

as

you

say

that

this

has

been

the

quiet

one

I

mean

its

the

deadliest

epidemic

in

our

countrys

history

and

its

been

percolating

for

years

and

yet

its

only

you

can

really

say

only

in

the

last

three

years

When

I

was

writing

my

book

Dreamland

I

found

very

little

echo

out

there

a

very

difficult

time

getting

people

interested

in

this

who

didnt

have

anything

directly

to

do

with

it

It

was

very

much

reminded

me

very

much

of

the

early

days

And

I

think

whats

happened

is

that

this

has

been

left

to

fester

and

percolate

all

across

this

country

now

and

a

critical

mass

was

reached

at

a

certain

point

so

now

its

become

come

out

of

the

shadows

But

its

definitely

a

problem

that

has

not

been

recognized

to

the

extent

that

it

ought

to

considering

how

widespread

how

deadly

its

been

MARTIN

And

Jeff

I

know

that

you

feel

that

theres

a

conversation

about

race

that

needs

to

happen

when

it

comes

to

the

way

we

view

both

the

epidemic

itself

and

the

way

drug

abuse

drug

use

the

drug

crisis

is

treated

both

in

the

I

guess

what

the

news

media

and

also

in

entertainment

You

know

talk

to

me

about

what

you

think

about

that

YANG

Yeah

You

know

its

fascinating

to

me

that

this

is

a

quoteunquote

silent

epidemic

that

this

is

something

which

could

have

touched

one

of

four

people

and

yet

nevertheless

not

be

blaring

across

the

headlines

with

the

kind

of

urgency

that

we

have

historically

associated

with

drug

issues

in

say

the

inner

city

right

the

crack

epidemic

of

the

and

so

on

so

forth

And

I

think

it

actually

it

informs

the

tonality

of

how

popular

culture

looks

at

drugs

I

think

even

in

this

episode

we

see

a

very

strong

empathy

with

Roseanne

the

absent

Roseanne

and

But

when

weve

seen

other

kinds

of

depictions

of

addiction

and

of

drug

use

and

abuse

and

dealership

among

black

communities

and

Hispanic

communities

its

invariably

about

the

predatory

influence

of

the

drug

trade

Its

about

the

empowerment

of

drug

dealers

and

how

it

you

know

that

sort

of

invasive

force

harms

not

just

black

and

Hispanic

communities

but

of

course

adjacent

white

ones

as

well

And

that

I

think

thats

a

little

bit

of

a

problem

in

how

this

is

talked

about

in

society

MARTIN

But

Sam

you

know

I

wanted

to

ask

you

like

I

know

you

feel

that

this

is

the

quiet

crisis

as

you

have

described

it

QUINONES

Yeah

MARTIN

And

part

of

me

wonders

whether

its

because

its

in

part

it

started

out

as

a

rural

crisis

and

that

rural

communities

particularly

like

the

rural

media

for

example

has

been

hollowed

out

in

the

way

that

say

local

newspapers

have

been

hollowed

out

Is

that

part

of

it

QUINONES

I

would

say

thats

probably

part

of

it

I

would

say

too

that

the

people

involved

you

know

Im

a

member

of

the

media

Im

a

working

reporter

for

many

years

And

if

you

and

if

the

people

who

are

most

affected

actively

dont

want

to

talk

about

it

if

the

obituaries

that

they

write

are

purposely

obfuscating

or

actual

fabrications

if

you

cant

find

those

people

willing

to

talk

it

is

very

difficult

to

bring

it

to

light

And

that

is

really

what

has

happened

all

across

this

country

It

starts

in

yeah

Appalachia

the

Rust

Belt

areas

spreads

now

of

course

I

think

really

the

biggest

place

you

find

it

really

is

in

the

suburbs

mostly

among

white

people

Id

say

percent

involving

white

people

But

I

would

say

that

a

lot

of

those

folks

this

is

some

horror

that

they

never

imagined

happening

to

their

families

and

so

they

are

very

very

unwilling

have

been

I

would

say

until

the

last

three

years

unwilling

to

talk

about

it

When

you

dont

have

people

who

are

most

affected

I

know

as

a

media

a

member

of

the

media

if

you

dont

have

those

people

most

able

to

tell

the

poignant

story

you

its

very

hard

to

get

traction

on

it

And

also

if

you

dont

have

the

kind

of

I

covered

the

crack

epidemic

That

was

my

first

job

as

a

reporter

in

journalism

many

years

ago

in

the

town

of

Stockton

Calif

And

I

could

tell

you

that

you

could

not

avoid

the

crack

epidemic

not

because

so

much

of

the

drug

but

because

of

the

gang

involvement

In

this

one

youve

seen

overdoses

skyrocket

really

as

crime

rates

all

across

the

country

have

really

dropped

precipitously

And

thats

a

thats

also

a

new

thing

about

this

epidemic

MARTIN

But

your

point

about

obituaries

its

one

of

the

other

interesting

stories

this

week

was

an

obituary

about

a

young

woman

QUINONES

Yeah

MARTIN

You

know

its

such

a

cliche

went

viral

but

it

did

in

part

because

her

QUINONES

Sure

MARTIN

Family

was

so

explicit

about

what

happened

to

her

And

it

was

very

much

a

cry

of

the

heart

you

know

to

people

saying

you

know

educate

yourself

about

this

Jeff

before

we

let

you

go

we

have

about

a

minute

left

Id

like

to

ask

you

as

our

culture

guy

what

would

you

like

to

see

What

would

you

like

to

see

as

in

terms

of

how

we

address

this

issue

from

a

standpoint

of

our

art

Because

anytime

you

know

Hollywood

or

the

artistic

community

takes

something

on

people

always

accuse

them

of

glamorizing

it

or

not

YANG

I

mean

I

think

its

really

interesting

that

the

two

shows

that

we

perhaps

most

associate

with

depictions

of

the

drug

trade

over

our

say

our

generation

Breaking

Bad

is

one

and

The

Wire

is

the

other

right

And

theyre

both

shows

that

are

incredible

shows

you

know

really

great

storytelling

But

Breaking

Bad

almost

has

this

sort

of

it

has

this

blackly

comic

sort

of

satiric

lens

to

it

that

brings

a

different

energy

to

the

thought

about

you

know

what

that

crisis

represents

about

the

human

beings

within

it

and

not

about

an

infrastructure

a

system

a

I

feel

like

a

lot

of

times

we

dont

see

that

that

more

human

individual

perspective

when

you

talk

about

you

know

drug

issues

in

nonwhite

communities

I

guess

Id

like

to

see

more

of

that

more

texture

and

more

humanity

MARTIN

Thats

Jeff

Yang

Hes

a

CNN

contributor

and

Wall

Street

Journal

Online

columnist

joining

us

from

NPR

West

in

Los

Angeles

or

in

Culver

City

Sam

Quinones

is

the

author

of

Dreamland

The

True

Tale

Of

Americas

Opiate

Epidemic

and

hes

joined

us

he

joined

us

via

Skype

Thank

you

both

so

much

for

talking

to

us

YANG

Thank

you

Michel

QUINONES

Thank

you

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8 Voucher OpenFair Market Housing 1 What is Subsidized and ProjectBased Section 8 housing When we talk about subsidized or ProjectBased Section 8 housing we are referring to housing where the resident pays approximately 30 of their income for the rent The remaining portion of the rent is covered by a subsidy This type of housing is especially important to those on very limited incomes Unfortunately all of this housing has waitlists that vary from approximately 6 to 36 months depending on the property and some have closed waiting lists and will only reopen their lists when the lists become shorter Are you seeking Project Based Section 8 Housing in Multnomah County The criteria for these buildings only require that your income is less than 15420yr and some have age requirements There is no disability requirement Unfortunately due to such high demand for this type of housing the wait lists are in some cases are well over 2 years For a list of ProjectBased Section 8 Housing in Multnomah County please click here 2 What is HUD ProjectBased Section 8 Housing If you are over the age of 62 or are disabled you do not have to have a Social Security determination of disability to qualify as disabled for housing You need verification of disability from a qualified medical profession Click here for a sample Verification of Disability form Finally you must have income under 24500 for a single individual If you meet these guidelines you will qualify to apply for HUD subsidized housing Because each property maintains its own wait list the wait lists vary from property to property However at this time the wait lists generally vary from approximately 6 24 months For a listing of HUD subsidized properties in Multnomah County please click here How do you apply for HUD housing Its actually very simple If youre interested in applying all you need to do is contact the building and request an application Please be aware some properties as indicated are for people age 62 only Once you have returned the completed application your name will be place on the wait list You may apply to as many buildings as you like if you meet the criteria HUD subsidized housing does not have any applciation fees Make sure and keep a list of properties that youve applied at and check to see how often you need to check in with the 3 What about the Section 8 voucher program Section 8 is a program administered through Home Forward formerly the Housing Authority of Portland that assists people with paying their rent At this time the program is closed and no names are being taken for a wait list The wait list is not anticipated to open for several years at this time Unfortunately unless you already have a Section 8 Voucher this is not a viable housing resource at this time For more information on how this program works click here Are you seeking affordable housing or do you currently have a Section 8 Voucher There is much discussion about affordable housing but what does it mean for housing to be affordable In the most general terms we define housing as affordable when an individual is paying no more than 30 of their income for rent There are many properties in Multnomah County that were developed using tax credits and other public revenue sources in order to remain affordable to those on lower incomes For these properties rent is based on the area Median Family Income MFI In Multnomah County the MFI for 2015 is 51730 for a single individual This is where it can get a little tricky Depending on the property there may be some units of housing that are dedicated to those earning no more than 80 60 50 40 or 30 of the MFI Lets make this easier though If a property was developed as being affordable and all the units are to be rented to those making 50 of the MFI or less This means that you can not earn more than 25750yr to live at this particular property Your rent would be calculated at approximately 30 of this amount So your rent would be approximately 793month It is not based on your income but rather the area median incomes As the median incomes of the area go up or down your rent would also go up or down accordingly Do you currently have a Section 8 voucher If you currently have a Section 8 voucher our list may be useful in assisting you with locating housing All of these properties accept Section 8 Vouchers and also meet Home Forwards payment standards Effective July 2014 Oregon LandlordTenant Law states that a landlord can no longer deny a Section 8 applicant the right to apply for a rental property The Landlord must allow a Section 8 Voucher Holder the right to apply as a tenant This however does not mean that the property will be affordable to the Section 8 Voucher holder as it may not meet Home Forwards payment standards 4 OpenFair Market Housing Are you seeking information on SROs single room occupancy apartments and hotels SROs are just what the name implies This is housing for a single individual Many times there are shared bathroom and cooking facilities Many of these properties are affordable but the living spaces are generally quite small However they often have more immediate availability For a listing of SROs please click here How do you qualify for affordable housing In order to qualify for affordable housing you may need to meet the particular income guidelines of that property Otherwise qualifying is as simple as meeting the basic income and screening guidelines How do you apply for affordable housing Contact the buildings directly and ask for leasing information These properties will have an application fee and some have wait lists Our listing of Open Market Apartments has many apartment communities that are both affordable and accept Section 8 vouchers This is a good starting place for someone seeking more immediate affordable housing For a listing of affordable housing click here DO YOU HAVE BARRIERS TO HOUSING

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Sunday Book Review Barbara Kingsolvers Artists and Idols By LIESL SCHILLINGER NOV 5 2009 A skinny young boy holds his breath and dives into the mouth of an underwater cave a lacuna swimming toward pale blue light as his lungs scream for oxygen He emerges gasping in a ghostly cenote a sinkhole in the Mexican jungle fringed with broken coral wedged with human bones a place of sacrifice and buried remembrance When the tide rushes out it will take the boy with it dragging a coward explorer back from the secret place sucking him out through the tunnel and spitting him into the open sea Hell paddle to shore and walk home obsessed forever Barbara Kingsolver s breathtaking new novel Lacuna follows this quiet dreamy boy Harrison William Shepherd from 1929 to 1951 When we first meet him hes 12 years old living at a hacienda on Isla Pixol with his selfdramatizing mother Salomé both of them petrified by the howling monkeys in the trees above which they believe to be carnivorous demons You had better write all this in your notebook Salomé tells Shepherd so when nothing is left of us but bones someone will know where we went A year earlier Salomé a slangslinging Mexican beauty had ditched her drab American husband Shepherds father in Washington DC and chased an oilman back to his Mexican estate On Isla Pixol as Salomé sulks over her love life like a bobbysoxer lonely Shepherd befriends the haciendas cook who turns the boy into a souschef while innocently cluing the kid into his sexuality which bobbysoxers will never unleash Shepherds other close companions are the volumes in the hacienda library and his notebook which he regards as a prisoners plan for escape In the short term though its Salomé who escapes Isla His mother is not a puta Shepherd reflects with detached sympathy even as he overhears her bedroom jollyups through thin walls Shes just a romantic woman who yearns for an admirer as she tries to put a roof over their heads Nonetheless while still in his teens the boy embarks upon a different path toward a life unruled by passion People contort themselves around the terror of being alone making any compromise against that he observes later in life Its a great freedom to give up on love and get on with everything else But its a freedom more easily imagined than lived Barbara Kingsolver Illustration by Joe Ciardiello Leaving his mother to her Mme Bovary messes Shepherd parlays his domestic skills into a job mixing plaster for Diego Rivera s murals Its like making dough for pan dulce and joins the Rivera household as cook and typist for Rivera his artist wife Frida Kahlo and later for their guest the exiled Communist leader Leon Trotsky In this incendiary revolutionary household Shepherd keeps mum and lets louder egos roar just as he did on Isla Pixol Baking bread by day he records the daily dramas of this entourage by night along with a draft of his first novel an epic of the Aztec empire But in 1940 when Trotsky is assassinated Shepherd leaves Mexico spooked by the virulent press that denounces his employers and their murdered ward like the howlers on Isla Pixol At the age of 24 he returns to the United States and Shepherd had thought discretion would protect him since his private thoughts were safely interred in his journals Dios habla por el que calla he likes to tell his devoted Asheville secretary Violet Brown God speaks for the silent man But Brown who knows that God doesnt always speak as loudly as Senator McCarthy tells her boss that unlike another local writer Thomas Wolfe he was prudent to set his fiction outside Asheville and America People love to read of sins and errors just not their own she remarks You were wise to put your characters far from here As it Related Coverage How can the experiences of a fictional loner merge with those of largerthanlife figures who played a pivotal role in world politics And what can readers learn from their intersection Those are the questions answered by this dazzling novel which plunges into Shepherds notebooks to dredge up not only the perceptions they conceal but also a history larger than his own touching on everything from Trotskyism Stalinism and the Red scare to racism mass hysteria and the medias intrusion into personal and national affairs More than half a century on names like Trotsky Rivera Kahlo and McCarthy can lose their Frida KAHLO tells Shepherd he has a pierced soul like her own and respects his artistic commitment even as she teases him cruelly for his closeted sexual drives To be a good artist you have to know something thats true she tells him and reputation isnt worth worrying about People will always stare at the queer birds like you and me she says in a spirit of defiance not empathy Coasting on a pleasure boat through the floating gardens of Xochimilco with Trotsky who was briefly her lover Shepherd and Trotskys secretary Van whom Shepherd secretly loves Kahlo buys a trapanovio for catching boyfriends and taunts him to try it on Van Shepherd keeps the toy as a souvenir of a remarkable humiliation Yet Shepherd who learned compassion for others if not for himself at his diva mothers knee soothes Kahlo when Rivera wants a divorce Even in her disconsolate state she looked like a peacock he notices Perfectly dressed in a green silk skirt and enough jewelry to sink a boat Even drowning Frida would cling to vanity Such texture doesnt interest the heavies from the House UnAmerican Activities Committee for whom the names Trotsky Rivera and Kahlo set off Communistmenace alarm bells In 1947 meeting with his lawyer in North Carolina to discuss a letter from J Edgar Hoover Shepherd doesnt understand why the FBI would care about his Mexican past I was a cook he explains Let me just say the lawyer replies these subtleties are lost The Lacuna can be enjoyed sheerly for the music of its passages on nature archaeology food and friendship or for its portraits of real and invented people or for its harmonious choir of voices But the fuller value of Kingsolvers novel lies in its call to conscience and connection She has mined Shepherds richly imagined history to create a tableau vivant of epochs and people that time has transformed almost past recognition Yet its a tableau vivant whose story line resonates in the present day albeit with different players Through Shepherds resurrected notebooks Kingsolver gives voice to truths whose teller could express them only in silence THE LACUNA By Barbara Kingsolver 507 pp HarperHarperCollins Publishers 2699 Liesl Schillinger is a regular contributor to the Book Review A version of this review appears in print on November 8 2009 on Page BR9 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline Artists and Idols Todays Paper Related Coverage

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Morale Allegiance and Drinking How Military Challenge Coins Evolved and Spread Morale Allegiance and Drinking How Military Challenge Coins Evolved and Spread President Barack Obama giving a presidential challenge coin at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in California in 2014 Brendan SmialowskiAgence FrancePresse Getty Images President Barack Obama giving a presidential challenge coin at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in California in 2014 Brendan SmialowskiAgence FrancePresse Getty Images By Emily Baumgaertner April 11 2018 WASHINGTON Scott Pruitt the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a redesign of the agencys commemorative coin an adaptation of longstanding challenge coins exchanged among American troops From a military drinking tradition to civilian government agencies here is how the coins have evolved and proliferated What are challenge coins Military commanders often give pocketsize medallions called challenge coins to service members as a mark of camaraderie A commanders unique coin often copper bronze or nickel carries symbols and mottos denoting the unit or office Coins are usually circular but also can be pentagons spades or even dog tags to be worn around the neck Throughout their service military members use the coins to prove their allegiance when challenged Highranking officers and retirees often display a collection of coins in their offices alongside uniform patches and ribbons as a symbol of pride Advertisement In the military the coins have always been purely about morale and commitment said Tracy English a historian at the Air Forces 37th Training Wing at Joint Base San AntonioLackland in Texas If you walk into a highranking service members office with a big magnet chances are you will die Clockwise from bottom the challenge coins of President Trump Vice President Mike Pence Vice President Joseph R Biden Jr and President Barack Obama Bill OLearyThe Washington Post via Getty Images Clockwise from bottom the challenge coins of President Trump Vice President Mike Pence Vice President Joseph R Biden Jr and President Barack Obama Bill OLearyThe Washington Post via Getty Images Where did this tradition come from Challenge coins were never officially sanctioned so the history behind the tradition is widely debated among military historians A common narrative purports that a wealthy American lieutenant in World War I distributed matching bronze coins to his unit members before they were deployed When an American fighter pilot was captured by Germans and escaped to a French outpost he was assumed to be a German spy until he presented the challenge coin around his neck According to the tale the coin saved his life and earned him a bottle of French wine as reparation Other historians believe the tradition began in an infantryrun bar in Vietnam where patrons were required to present enemy bullets or their challenge coin upon entrance In keeping with either narrative challenge coins still earn service members their share of alcohol Military members often tap their challenge coins upon meeting in a bar shouting Coin check and anyone who either can not produce one or is the last to show it buys the first round of drinks How has it since evolved Challenge coin traditions have climbed to the highest ranks of the military In 2011 Robert M Gates then the defense secretary shook hands with United States troops in Afghanistan passing duplicates of his challenge coin to each of them as a token of gratitude Advertisement All presidents since Bill Clinton have also carried distinctly designed challenge coins to present to foreign dignitaries and military personnel President George W Bush often gave them to injured troops returning from the Middle East President Barack Obama made a tradition of passing them to service members stationed at the stairs of Air Force One Cmdr Mark Vislay then the commanding officer at Air Station Sitka in Alaska giving a challenge coin to Martin Johnson Sr a World War II veteran during a dinner honoring veterans in 2015 James PoulsonThe Daily Sitka Sentinel via Associated Press Cmdr Mark Vislay then the commanding officer at Air Station Sitka in Alaska giving a challenge coin to Martin Johnson Sr a World War II veteran during a dinner honoring veterans in 2015 James PoulsonThe Daily Sitka Sentinel via Associated Press But largely because of customdesign coin companies challenge coins have seeped beyond the military to other government agencies and offices Secretaries of transportation and agriculture have designed their own coins so have senators and even local fire departments How and when that jump to civilian life began we dont exactly know Mr English said Ive seen small companies throughout San Antonio with their own coins I recently got one from a Boy Scout Some consider the proliferation a symbol of solidarity with the American military Others see it as the contorting of an honored ritual for bragging rights in Washington collecting the coins as weighty business cards or displaying them as autographs Who funds the coins Challenge coins can cost 5 to 10 each so agencies can spend thousands of dollars on the tokens each year In some areas of government leaders are said to purchase the coins out of their own personal accounts In the military some units have booster clubs that generate money for challenge coins Other commanders are authorized to purchase morale boosters with government funds Mr English said The Department of Defense did not respond to a request for comment on challenge coin funding If you buy a whole bunch coins and a new Mercedes maybe thats a problem Mr English said Otherwise folks are often supportive of keeping with the tradition Advertisement

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15 Songs in 15 Minutes Inside Tierra Whacks Whimsical Twisted World 15 Songs in 15 Minutes Inside Tierra Whacks Whimsical Twisted World The 22yearold rapper Tierra Whack announced her artistic arrival with Whack World a 15minute video featuring 15 distinct tracks and a whole universe of personalities The 22yearold rapper Tierra Whack announced her artistic arrival with Whack World a 15minute video featuring 15 distinct tracks and a whole universe of personalities By Joe Coscarelli June 6 2018 WHO Tierra Whack AGE 22 WHERE Philadelphia BEGINNINGS Long before Ms Whack announced her arrival with a stroke of pure audacity Whack World an absurdist 15minute album and accompanying music video containing 15 distinct tracks and nearly as many styles and voices she was a quiet insecure child with a knack for poetry After filling composition books with rhymes an uncle urged her to put her spoken word to beats beginning with a freestyle over the local hero Meek Mills In My Bag So began Ms Whacks career as Dizzle Dizz a millionsyllableaminute freestyle rapper in her citys tradition of quicktongued MCs But despite earning an audience with figures like Meek and ASAP Rocky who told Ms Whack she had that Kendrick flow she didnt form an artistic identity until a move to Atlanta near the end of high school 您的瀏覽器目前無法識別任何可用的影片格式 按一下這裡以瀏覽關於 HTML5 影片的常見問題 Dizzle Dizz Goes in for Asap Rocky Video by WERUNTHESTREETS WHAT NOW Reverting to her given name yes she was born Tierra Whack the young rapper learned to combine the theatrical overthetopness of her earliest outré obsessions Busta Rhymes Eminem Missy Elliott Outkast with the grounding essence of her guiding light Lauryn Hill In a test run of singles last year Ms Whack who had returned to Philadelphia toyed with modulating her voice hopscotching between genres and just generally going for it including visually where shes drawn to extremes I like to see people get chainsawed their arms cut off legs cut off as graphic as possible Ms Whack said citing Quentin Tarantino and The Human Centipede 2 Full Sequence as touchstones I love when people overexaggerate Its so funny to me Advertisement Whack World released last week packs those maximalist tendencies into bitesize packages Inspired by the 60second limit of an Instagram video along with the common promotional tactic in hiphop of posting teaser snippets of songs many of which are never released in full Ms Whack made a cohesive minialbum that can also function as a comment on streaming and social media Never miss a pop music story Sign up for our weekly newsletter Louder The video directed by Thibaut Duverneix and Mathieu Léger finds Ms Whack in 15 colorful scenarios decorating a taxidermied dog dancing with sock puppets in a pet cemetery as the music shifts between freeassociative wordplay over booming 808s soulful RB numbers and even a fauxcountry synthpop ditty about her deadbeat dad Over the phone from Philadelphia Ms Whack who works as a condominium doorwoman when shes not recording and says she does not drink or smoke was fittingly loopy interrupting her own remarks with an operalike falsetto and making nearly 20 seconds of tongue noises while thinking about an answer Chatty on every subject except her apparent relationship with Interscope Records Ooh what I dont even know what youre talking about she said coyly Ms Whack was also grateful for the wordofmouth buzz Whack World has received so far including from artists like Solange and Flying Lotus I have so much built up inside Ms Whack said To be able to put what I have in my head into real life is just an amazing thing Here are edited excerpts from the conversation Advertisement What kind of place is Whack World Its down then up down then up Its scary it feels good it doesnt Its crazy its calm Its everything Thats exactly me Like I was just washing dishes eating grapes now Im about to go to the bathroom then Im going to wash some clothes Yeah Its like a rollercoaster ride My mom says I have what is it ADD Cant sit still Philly is known for its freestyle battlerap scene How did growing up there lead you to music Once I got comfortable enough to do my poems with beats it gave me more confidence to want to get out and prove myself in the city It was something that everyone was doing all the guys and I was a girl so I had to work 10 times harder to get better than all the guys It was in the battlerap era but I never was a battle rapper It was like a cypher thing Im jumping in to prove myself Id see a camera a big group of guys and my mom would tell me to show them Did putting words together in a rapidfire way come naturally to you I remember reading Dr Seuss books and hes rhyming so many words together and I just loved the way it sounded It became a challenge for me to put words together that nobody would ever think about putting together I had a rhyming dictionary the dictionary it was just practice and determination Instead of going outside and playing I was staying in the house and writing raps Did you work consciously on developing from someone who could put a lot of bars together to someone who could actually write a song Definitely For some of these street rappers and battle rappers its really hard to think of a hook Listening to Miseducation by Lauryn Hill and Missy and Busta and Eminem Im like these people can rap but theyre also making great hit songs I didnt want to just be a rapper I wanted to be a star When did you start to find your voice I was able to get my first job when I turned 18 at a carwash in Atlanta a popping carwash I washed 2 Chainzs truck TIs car but I missed André 3000 I was able to save up enough money to buy my own laptop to record myself That gave me the time I needed to formulate songs figure out a sound flows and hooks Advertisement What was the germ of the idea that would become Whack World I hope it doesnt sound cocky but Im a lot to take in a lot to handle Well be talking and Ill just see a roach or a dog Im all over the place all the time I just wanted people to get a glimpse Oh she has so many different sides and emotions and styles And my age my generation we get bored so easily I know how I am Ill listen to a new song and I only want to hear 30 seconds of it before I tell you Nope trash I have a really short attention span This is such a vibrant moment for female rappers and yet outside of Cardi B and Nicki Minaj there continues to be a sort of commercial glass ceiling Why do you think we only see a few women making hits at any given moment I think coming up the maledominated industry pits women against each other and were just crazy enough to go with it But Im not crazy enough to go with it I want more females to join in and get the shine and I hope to be part of the reason Nicki and Cardi Rico Nasty all the Dolls Everybody has their own aesthetic It feels like when Lil Kim and Lauryn Hill and Foxy Brown and Missy and MC Lyte were all in their own lane I love it all I really do A version of this article appears in print on June 6 2018 on Page C 5 of the New York edition with the headline My Mom Says I Have What Is It ADD Order Reprints Todays Paper Advertisement

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Argentina Group Identifies 128th Person Taken During Dirty War Argentina Group Identifies 128th Person Taken During Dirty War Estela de Carlotto center right president of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo announced the 128th identification of a person snatched during the countrys dirty war at a news conference in Buenos Aires on Friday Eitan AbramovichAgence FrancePresse Getty Images Estela de Carlotto center right president of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo announced the 128th identification of a person snatched during the countrys dirty war at a news conference in Buenos Aires on Friday Eitan AbramovichAgence FrancePresse Getty Images By The Associated Press Aug 4 2018 BUENOS AIRES DNA tests have identified a person taken from his mother as a baby by Argentinas former dictatorship a rights group said bringing the number of such cases to 128 The group Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo said on Friday that the person who was identified only as Marcos is the biological son of a woman named Rosario del Carmen Ramos In 1976 Ms Ramos was kidnapped by former military and police officials in the northwestern province of Tucumán along with her son who was 5 months old at the time and one of his half brothers Ms Ramos was never found and the two boys were taken to separate homes Marcos now 42 found out about his true identity on Thursday night and met with family members The announcement was made at an emotional news conference attended by two of his half brothers Advertisement It was an emotional shock said Camilo Suleiman one of Marcoss half siblings We want to know his whole life story in 20 seconds This is the restitution of 42 years of love that has yet to be lived Officials during the dictatorship have been convicted of organizing the systematic theft of babies from political prisoners who were often executed About 500 or so newborns were whisked away and raised by surrogate families Several hundred have yet to be accounted for Rights groups estimate that more than 30000 people were jailed tortured killed or forcibly disappeared during the dictatorship which lasted from 1976 to 1983 Advertisement

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China Once Looked Tough on Trade Now Its Options Are Dwindling China Once Looked Tough on Trade Now Its Options Are Dwindling A Chinese trade delegation during a tour of soybean fields in Missouri last month American soybeans are an essential import in China which will have trouble replacing them Dave KaupReuters A Chinese trade delegation during a tour of soybean fields in Missouri last month American soybeans are an essential import in China which will have trouble replacing them Dave KaupReuters By Keith Bradsher Sept 18 2018 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 BEIJING President Trump imposed tariffs in July on 34 billion in Chinese goods China matched them dollar for dollar with its own Then he hit an additional 16 billion in goods in August China matched that too Now Mr Trump has made his biggest move yet announcing 10 percent tariffs starting in a week on 200 billion a year of Chinese goods But this time China cant match them all and that crystallizes a growing problem for Beijing On Tuesday Chinese officials responded to the presidents latest move by following through on an earlier threat to impose tariffs on 60 billion in American goods nearly everything China buys from the United States Chinas responses have so far failed to thwart Mr Trumps trade offensive and with the White House amping up the fight again Chinese leaders arent sure how to respond people briefed on economic policymaking discussions say Advertisement Chinese officials are generally confused said Raúl HinojosaOjeda a trade specialist at the University of California Los Angeles who has been traveling around China speaking with officials businesspeople and workers They dont know what to do he added They worry that the titfortat model is playing into Trumps hands China does not import nearly enough from the United States to target 200 billion in American goods let alone the additional 267 billion in Chinese goods that Mr Trump has threatened to tax A factory worker making socks for export in Huaibei China Because of the trade imbalance China cant match the United States tariff for tariff Agence FrancePresse Getty Images A factory worker making socks for export in Huaibei China Because of the trade imbalance China cant match the United States tariff for tariff Agence FrancePresse Getty Images But Chinas leaders feel they can not back down They have presented the trade war as part of a broader effort by the United States to contain Chinas rise Mr Trump has said as much and did so again at a news conference on Tuesday China has been taking advantage of the United States for a long time and thats not happening anymore he said Advertisement The Chinese public could see any effort to soothe tensions as capitulation Some hardliners want a more aggressive stance Lou Jiwei who retired as finance minister in 2016 but is still the head of the countrys social security fund suggested on Sunday that China could deliberately disrupt American companies supply chains by halting the export of crucial components mostly made in China But Chinese trade experts dismiss that idea as impractical and not the governments position Chinese officials know what they dont want to do They have rejected one idea that would replace the matching tariffs with a more sophisticated system said the people briefed on the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the fragility of the deliberations That response discussed in detail within the Commerce Ministry and other agencies would have led to lower tariffs on American goods in dollar terms which could be seen as a fig leaf to the White House That approach would have recognized a potentially expensive new reality for Beijing The tariffs may be here to stay Mr Trump is suffering from weak approval ratings and could lose influence in congressional elections in November Democrats have opposed most of his agenda but many have supported his attacks on trade with China Even if Mr Trump leaves office in two years there is little guarantee that his China trade policies will be changed In Beijing proponents of the new approach which would scale down Chinas tariffs in dollar terms to reflect the lopsided trade imbalance between the two countries say Chinese leaders could still revisit the idea because it offers them a way to contain the damage and soothe tensions Imported cars at the port in Qingdao China Some of Beijings options beyond tariffs could cause China pain eliminating jobs and damaging its reputation as a place to do business Reuters Imported cars at the port in Qingdao China Some of Beijings options beyond tariffs could cause China pain eliminating jobs and damaging its reputation as a place to do business Reuters Chinas leaders dont really want to engage in a dollarfordollar retaliation said Yu Yongding a prominent economist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Their purpose is to stop this trade war Chinas other options are limited It could punish American businesses that depend on China Already its antitrust officials have effectively killed the 44 billion effort by Qualcomm the semiconductor company to buy a Dutch chip maker China has also pledged to buy soybeans from other countries but replacing voluminous American supplies will be difficult Advertisement Other moves have already served as warnings like delays at Chinese ports Ford Motors Lincoln cars and other goods have sometimes been the subject of unusually lengthy customs inspections this summer although the delays do not appear to have caused much financial harm It is certain that China will have other invisible retaliation against the United States said Mei Xinyu a researcher at the Commerce Ministrys policy research and training academy But more drastic moves like closing factories or encouraging consumer boycotts of American goods could eliminate Chinese jobs They could also permanently damage Chinas reputation as a place to do business and only accelerate corporate plans to look to other countries Its difficult to build a reputation and easy to harm a reputation Mr Mei said China could also guide its currency to a weaker level against the dollar It has already nudged the currency a bit lower making Chinese goods cheaper in the United States and partly offsetting the tariffs But a weaker currency would make Chinas imports more expensive raise the risk of inflation and lead to a potentially damaging flight of money out of the country It could also provoke further American retaliation The trade war has hit only a small part of the Chinese economy for now but the damage could add up Higher tariffs on American goods raise the cost of essential imports like soybeans and microchips China still derives a big chunk of growth from making smartphones clothing chemicals and a raft of other goods and selling them to Americans How Trumps Trade War Went From 18 Products to 10000 The battle began when the United States imposed tariffs on solar panels and washing machines It has led to a global titfortat targeting billions of dollars of goods July 11 2018 Already its currency and stock market have weakened as the trade war has intensified China has taken steps to shore up its economy but they could take months or years to kick in China has offered small concessions to the United States like lowering its tariffs on imported cars from everywhere to 15 percent from 25 percent the United States however charges 25 percent China has also allowed foreign companies to own greater shares of Chinese insurers banks asset management companies and car factories Advertisement The new plan that Chinese officials rejected in recent weeks could have been more warmly greeted by the White House Under that plan the United States and China would each levy tariffs based on proportions of trade rather than dollar amounts people familiar with the discussions said Because the United States imports nearly four times as much from China as it exports that would lead to tariffs at different values For example the United States has already levied tariffs on 50 billion in Chinese goods onetenth of what it imports from China Instead of matching that with tariffs on 50 billion in Americanmade goods China would levy tariffs on onetenth of such goods totaling 13 billion to 15 billion depending on the details Proponents of the plan say letting Washington impose more tariffs than Beijing would actually hurt the United States more because tariffs are ultimately paid by consumers and businesses in the countries that levy them The United States wants to hurt China by imposing tariffs on Chinese exports Mr Yu the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences economist wrote in a journal in July In the end it may be the United States itself that is hurt he wrote But other Chinese trade experts say tariffs on equal fractions of trade would be too big a compromise Its unrealistic its difficult in practice its not doable and its against basic trade rules said Mr Mei the Commerce Ministry researcher Keith Bradsher is the Shanghai bureau chief for The Times and previously served as Hong Kong bureau chief and Detroit bureau chief He covered the creation of the World Trade Organization and North American Free Trade Agreement as a Washington correspondent for The Times in the early 1990s Follow him on Twitter KeithBradsher Elsie Chen and Ailin Tang contributed research A version of this article appears in print on Sept 18 2018 on Page A 1 of the New York edition with the headline China Runs Short of Ammunition in Trade War Order Reprints Todays Paper

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Hollywoods Forgotten Heroes Female War Correspondents Hollywoods Forgotten Heroes Female War Correspondents Rosamund Pike as Marie Colvin and Jamie Dornan as the photographer Paul Conroy in A Private War Aviron Pictures Rosamund Pike as Marie Colvin and Jamie Dornan as the photographer Paul Conroy in A Private War Aviron Pictures By Melena Ryzik Oct 25 2018 The voice has stayed with Rosamund Pike For the new movie A Private War the British actress transformed her posh rounded speech into a distinctive American rasp to play Marie Colvin the Long Islandraised Londonbased journalist who was killed in Syria in 2012 On tough occasions Pike still imagines using her tone It suggests a woman who gets things done That voice along with the patch Colvin wore after she lost an eye to a grenade in Sri Lanka became her calling cards as she catapulted into war zones around the world and wrote deeply felt courageously reported articles for The Sunday Times in London A Private War due Nov 2 aims to realistically portray her struggles and explain why she persisted And it could have scarcely arrived at a more apt and fraught time This movie has all Maries gestures and movements the CNN and PBS anchor Christiane Amanpour who knew Colvin wrote in an email She was killed probably directly targeted for getting the truth out about the Syria war Its especially relevant given the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi this month He too was simply speaking the truth Colvins story her rise as an international correspondent reporting on conflicts in the Middle East the Balkans and elsewhere her bravery going into hostile territory to document the civilian cost of war and ultimately her death while covering a relentless battle in Homs is in some ways tailormade for the big screen She was undeniably gutsy but suffered posttraumatic stress disorder and other psychological and physical ills from witnessing so much trauma She was also witty gregarious and stylish a natural cinematic heroine Advertisement Women like Colvin and those before her like the British correspondent Clare Hollingworth who broke the news of World War II in Europe and pioneering photojournalists like Gerda Taro and Dickey Chapelle have been at the front of conflicts for a century or more delivering rich material with fascinating personal tales And yet A Private War is one of only a handful of Hollywood features that put the focus squarely on female war correspondents in the field perhaps only the third or fourth such film in decades By contrast dozens have followed male journalists abroad said Matthew Ehrlich author of Journalism in the Movies and a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign Accurately reflecting these women in pop culture is massively important Amanpour said Especially since females in the field are often portrayed as frivolous slightly hysterical sexually promiscuous appendages I still feel so bad for Martha Gellhorn the brilliant WWII correspondent whos forever known as Ernest Hemingways third wife The HBO movie about her is Hemingway Gellhorn a second billing she wouldnt have tolerated Marie Colvin a year before she was killed in Syria Sheila MassonAssociated Press Marie Colvin a year before she was killed in Syria Sheila MassonAssociated Press Just like in every other walk of life if you dont have equal representation you dont get the full story Amanpour said Marie and I and all the other women now in this field bring an essential dimension to war reporting In Bearing Witness a 2005 television documentary about female war journalists Colvin described the idealism that drove her War is what happens to people and no one wants it she said then Its what you try to bear witness to That makes me think you can sometimes make a difference attempt to anyway Advertisement In Hollywood Pike said If Marie had been a man her biopic would have been made maybe more easily And there probably would have been many actors raising their hand for the part Playing Colvin left an emotional mark even discussing the production and what Colvin witnessed left her queasy she said I had to be her at all times which meant carrying her in my body and my bones she said She dressed in Colvins clothes and worked with a movement coach to recreate the way the reporter carried tension in her neck In between takes she studiously watched Colvin on tape Authenticity was paramount for the director Matthew Heineman The film for me is both a homage to Marie and a homage to journalism he said Heineman made his name with documentaries like City of Ghosts 2017 about citizen journalists fighting ISIS in Syria and the Oscarnominated Cartel Land 2015 which confronted the Mexican drug trade He served as cinematographer on those films shooting in sometimes dangerous conditions he kept the camera rolling while dodging bullets in Cartel Land So he had a sense of kinship with the way Colvin pursued her subject Having felt those same adrenaline rushes he said that same crazy backwards desire to be in these places to tell these stories and simultaneously feeling that bizarreness of coming home he felt I had to make this film Its based on a Vanity Fair article by Marie Brenner Advertisement A Private War is not just Heinemans first feature it was also his first time on a movie set In the monthslong shoot in London and Jordan where they filmed the war scenes he leaned on his cinematographer Robert Richardson a favorite of Martin Scorsese whose credits also include Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July The cinematographer Robert Richardson left and the director Matthew Heineman on set Keith BernsteinAviron Pictures The cinematographer Robert Richardson left and the director Matthew Heineman on set Keith BernsteinAviron Pictures And he had a guide in Paul Conroy Colvins longtime photographer who was with her when she died and was gravely wounded himself His experiences are also the subject of a new documentary Under the Wire adapted from his book of the same name For A Private War Conroy whos played by Jamie Dornan 50 Shades of Grey was on set daily as an adviser Heineman said Much of the realism came from supporting players in Jordan for scenes set in Iraq and Homs Heineman chose people displaced from there interviewing them to find those whose experiences matched the characters They werent acting he said They were telling their real stories And those tears were real tears Moments like a group of Iraqi women chanting a prayer as a mass grave of their relatives is uncovered were not scripted For Pike it was an agony beyond performance At times I had to walk off set my feelings were churning in my body to such an extreme degree it was unbearable she said Bearing witness is actually unbearable But she added Its a pain that you feel is important because the truth is there The emotional fallout from being a war correspondent isnt always depicted on screen perhaps because male leads are commonly shown as swashbuckling heroes Ehrlich the professor said Heineman though thought of his film as a psychological thriller he said Its getting inside her mind and understanding the damage this did to her he explained Trying to personify PTSD which is something Ive experienced personally and I know a lot of friends whove suffered both as journalists and as vets Amanpour who was both a competitor and a colleague of Colvin during the Arab Spring they collaborated on the last interview with the Libyan leader Col Muammar elQaddafi said that PTSD is the sad and brutal side of what we do The strength of A Private War she added was in not shying away from it Especially today audiences need to know the risks and sacrifices the strength and commitment of reporters like Marie In 2016 Colvins family sued the Syrian government for wrongful death offering a trove of evidence alleging that President Bashar alAssads regime knowingly attacked her and other journalists The government has not responded to the suit Advertisement A Private War ends with chilling statistics in the six years since Colvins death at least 500000 people have been killed in Syria Given the carnage its hard to imagine that one story might have an impact Colvin held on to hope that it would for her final broadcast on CNN hours before she was killed she detailed the death of a Syrian baby boy I think that she believed as I believe that to get people to actually care you need to tell personal stories Heineman said And I think thats also something that plagued her and that plagues me is do people care will people care is it worth it Are my words going to matter A version of this article appears in print on Oct 27 2018 on Page AR 12 of the New York edition with the headline Witnesses to War But Seldom Onscreen Order Reprints Todays Paper Advertisement

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At War With North Korean Threats Looming the US Army Pursues Controversial Weapons With North Korean Threats Looming the US Army Pursues Controversial Weapons American soldiers firing a howitzer in Afghanistan in 2011 Baz RatnerReuters American soldiers firing a howitzer in Afghanistan in 2011 Baz RatnerReuters By John Ismay Oct 30 2018 After the Pentagon scuttled a longstanding pledge to destroy its existing clustermunitions stockpile the Army is moving ahead with renewed vigor to acquire at least three new foreignmade versions of the weapons for its artillery Late last year the Trump administration canceled a Defense Department policy that limited the militarys ability to use cluster munitions which at a conference on Friday in Arlington Va Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan attributed specifically to the threat posed by North Korea Cluster munitions are a type of weapon that distributes smaller weapons called submunitions or bomblets over a targeted area They have been condemned by lawmakers and armscontrol groups for causing indiscriminate harm to civilians even decades after conflicts end The nowabandoned policy drafted in 2008 under Robert Gates the defense secretary at the time required any submunitions used after 2018 to have a dud rate or the percentage of submunitions that dont detonate when they are supposed to of 1 percent or less a standard the Pentagon appeared unable to meet even a decade after the policy was put in Yemenis carrying the remains of what appears to be a cluster bomb during a protest in Sana Yemen in 2016 Yahya ArhabEPA Yemenis carrying the remains of what appears to be a cluster bomb during a protest in Sana Yemen in 2016 Yahya ArhabEPA Get a weekly roundup of Times coverage of war delivered to your inbox Sign up here According to military officials the new generation of weapons the Pentagon is looking to buy is designed to selectively destroy armored vehicles and either selfdestruct or deactivate itself if it does not find an appropriate target making it theoretically less likely than older versions of the weapon to harm civilians But bomb technicians who are trained to always treat an unexploded submunition as armed and capable of exploding say such safety features are inherently unreliable because mechanical and electronic systems built into the submunitions can and will fail The United States military has used submunitions in many conflict zones including Vietnam Laos the Persian Gulf and the former Yugoslavia They were also used early on in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as in naval missile strikes in Yemen Many of these weapons failed to explode and littered the ground with de facto land mines as one Army field manual described them that remained dangerous long after those conflicts ended The weapons have also harmed American forces in almost every war they have used them in In 1991 during the first Persian Gulf war the Army Advertisement In late October a spokeswoman at Picatinny Arsenal home to the Armys weapons and ammunition development confirmed that the service plans to buy 3100 Swedishmade Bonus 155millimeter artillery projectiles from BAE Systems It is also reviewing a similar projectile called SMArt 155 a German munition marketed by General Dynamics according to a representative of the company and an announcement on the Armys website The two weapons are similar in form and function They are fired from a howitzer toward concentrations of military vehicles and eject into the air two submunitions that use sensors to locate vehicles below If the sensors Unexploded clusterbomb ordnance and other debris at a demining facility in Laos in 2015 Adam Dean for The New York Times Unexploded clusterbomb ordnance and other debris at a demining facility in Laos in 2015 Adam Dean for The New York Times Army budgeting documents indicate that the service plans to test a new antipersonnel cluster weapon called the M999 which is offered by IMI Systems an Israeli company At a recent armstrade exposition an official at the company told The New York Times that the shell contains nine submunitions each roughly the shape and size of a soda can and each with a fuse that sends out radio waves to measure how far it is above the ground and to tell the fuse when to detonate The IMI Systems representative also said the submunitions contain selfdestruct features Those features are potentially important to the Pentagon which has faced criticism for the high dud rates of many of its submunitions and for its refusal to join an international treaty that more than 100 other nations have signed to ban the manufacture stockpiling and use of weapons that can not detect and destroy a single target contain more than nine submunitions and do not have a selfdestruct feature The Army declined to release data on the dud rates of the weapons it is pursuing and also declined to say how much it plans to spend on the Bonus rounds Recent armsdevelopment history provides a basis for skepticism on both dud rates and costs In the 1980s and 1990s the Army developed the Search and Destroy Armor Munition or SADARM which ejected two EFP bomblets that searched for targets In 2001 after spending 266 million and building only 348 serviceable rounds of the 47000 that it had budgeted for the Army canceled the program because of the weapons poor reliability The Pentagon had also made bold claims about the reliability of its airdropped CBU97 Sensor Fuzed Weapon each of which contains 40 submunitions in 2006 it claimed that 99 percent One armstrade analyst and proponent of the clustermunition ban Jeff Abramson of the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor said the Pentagon should not field any new submunitions at all Military planners can envision nearly any scenario no matter how unlikely to find a rationale for using or developing a weapon he said The global community has agreed that indiscriminate weapons such as land mines and cluster munitions should never be used John 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Information Bulletins Council Meeting Agendas New Resident Information Building Inspections Parks Recreation Oak Point Economic Development Corp EDC Financial Transparency Open Government May 4 2019 General Election Information Public Hearing Notices Zoning Development Information Planning Zoning Capital Improvements Plan Storm Water Management Program About Our Department of Public Safety Our Vision Statement It is our goal and commitment that Oak Point be a community where people live and enjoy life without fear of crime or oppression Our Mission Statement To reduce crime and the fear of crime through exceptional service to and in partnership with our community Core Values Our core values Continuous Improvement Respect Service to Our Community and Integrity are the soul of how we operate We dedicate ourselves to these values understanding that they are the life of our organization Continuous Improvement We will strive to achieve the highest level of quality in all aspects of our work never settling for the status quo Respect We believe in treating all people with respect and dignity Each member shall act in a manner that ensures a feeling of importance in every member of our community and organization Service to Our Community The City of Oak Point in 1977 established a police department which was later developed into the Oak Point Department of Public Safety DPS Under this concept the Department operates PoliceFireEMS services as one organization allowing us to make the best use of both resources and personnel Many of our employees carry state of Texas certifications in police fire and EMS While some departments believe in their employees playing limited roles in emergency situations we obviously do not The Department provides these services 24 hours a day The DPS currently provides patrol and fire service services to certain areas adjacent Integrity We must demonstrate pride in our profession and ourselves so that we act in a manner that merits the respect and trust of our community We must demonstrate honest ethical behavior in our interactions never showing preference for any race religion or socioeconomic group never contributing to the spread of gossip or strife It is my belief that we can best serve the varied needs of our community by empowering those employees who exhibit these values To these employees we have a duty to assist them to fulfill their responsibilities with knowledge authority and appropriate discretion It is also my Michael Shackleford Director of Public Safety ComplimentComplaint Oak Point Police Department 100B Naylor Rd Oak Point Texas 75068 9722940000 or via email at dpsoakpointtexascom

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