From more magic mushroom research, microdosing and retreats – to a profusion of superpower mushrooms infused in foods, drinks and beauty products
The 2017 Global Wellness Summit kicked off with a serious dose of…mushrooms.
Award-winning filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg’s opening talk sneak-previewed his extraordinary new film on the unappreciated power of mushrooms: from their crucial role in Earth’s ecosystem to the mounting medical evidence that they’re uniquely effective human medicine. Largely hidden from our eyes (mushrooms only come to the surface to “fruit”, i.e. spread their spores) the kingdom of fungi – neither vegetable or animal, but somewhere in between – is actually the largest set of organisms on the planet. A vast underground network (like the “Internet” of nature), mushrooms are Earth’s main decomposers and their constant “munching” makes possible soil – and all plant, animal and human life. And while most westerners only toss a few white button mushrooms into their spaghetti sauce (unlike Asian cultures that embrace so many mushrooms as food and medicine), Schwartzberg detailed the surging medical evidence for so many mushroom breeds: From lion’s mane’s ability to regrow nerve cells and prevent dementia to strong evidence that turkey tail mushrooms help our immune system fight cancer.
Schwartzberg also analyzed the ancient history, and eye-opening new clinical evidence, for that most “underground” variety of all: psychedelic magic shrooms, those 200 species containing psilocybin that alter the mind by forging new neural pathways in the brain. For thousands of years magic mushrooms were used in cultures worldwide: from the Ancient Greeks (yes, Plato and Socrates) to the Aztecs. And, in the 1960s, leading medical institutions like Harvard undertook studies indicating magic mushrooms’ serious promise for things like depression and addiction. All of which came to a crashing, counterculture-fearing halt when many countries, like France (1966), the U.S. (1970), and the UK (2005), made them (and other psychedelics) highly illegal drugs, putting the kibosh on this important research for decades.
Well, now the research is again on fire, with dozens of studies coming out of top universities like Imperial College-London, NYU, UCLA, the University of Zurich, and Johns Hopkins (with its dedicated Psilocybin Research institute) on magic mushrooms’ too-powerful-to-be-ignored impact on everything from nicotine and alcohol addiction, PTSD, headaches, OCD – and especially depression and anxiety…often with a single dose, and with the positive effects lasting months. As Roland Griffiths, PhD, one of the top U.S. psychopharmacologists and lead psilocybin investigator at Johns Hopkins, put it, “It’s a Rip Van Winkle effect—after three decades of no research, we’re rubbing the sleep from our eyes.” Important research is just ahead: Compass Pathways (with high-profile investors like Peter Thiel, Mike Novogratz and Christian Angermayer) is about to start major clinical trials testing magic mushrooms’ impact on depression in eight European countries in early 2018 – the largest clinical trial of psilocybin ever. Non-profit Usona is also in the development stages for new studies on psilocybin’s impact on depression and anxiety.
So, if Louie Schwartzberg’s opening presentation at the Summit on the unique “magic” that mushrooms deliver to our brains and bodies may have at first seemed far out, it’s anything but.
Because the rediscovery and creative uses of mushrooms – in mental wellness, as true superfoods, and in beauty products (and more) – will be a top wellness trend in 2018 and beyond. “Brain resetting” magic mushrooms will start to emerge from underground: more people will microdose them as creativity and brain boosters (a Silicon Valley “start-up” practice now spreading around the world). And, yes, magic mushroom retreats (like MycoMeditations) will keep popping up in places where legal (whether Jamaica or the Netherlands), where the “trip” gets combined with increasingly luxe wellness experiences. And we’ll see movement on the legalization front, making this magic mushroom moment reminiscent of the early days of the cannabis-as-wellness trend.
And as medical evidence also ramps up showing that non-magic mushrooms are magical for human health (with adaptogenic, anti-aging and other powers), we’ll see a new world of mushrooms like reishi, chaga, lion’s mane and cordyceps get worked into so many more foods and drinks, from coffee to chocolate – as well as a growing profusion of shrooms in beauty products. And on both the psychedelic and non-psychedelic fronts it’s a trend driven by new medical studies…how welcome in an era with so much “evidence-free” wellness.
FUELING THE MAGIC MUSHROOMS TREND
Roland Griffiths, professor of psychiatry and neurosciences at Johns Hopkins University, is one of the world’s leading researchers investigating magic mushrooms’ eye-opening impact on everything from depression to anxiety to nicotine addiction to end-of-life distress.
Johns Hopkins, University College (London) and NYU are the leaders now researching the wide-ranging effect of psilocybin, and a raft of studies show its positive impact on alcohol and nicotine addiction, OCD, depression, anxiety, and as powerful treatment for those facing end of life. What these conditions have in common, researchers argue, is that brain circuitry may have become “stamped in,” and what they’re finding is that a single dose of magic mushrooms seems to uniquely reset the brain…and not just during a trip, but for months. Using brain-scanning tools (like fMRI) they’re discovering what happens to the brain on psilocybin. First, parts of the brain that are typically hyperactive (the ego or “orchestrating centers” that, say, make you worry) shut down. At the same time, other brain regions that normally don’t communicate suddenly strike up conversations, eliciting new emotions, memories, wishes, etc. – essentially returning us to the state of a child (or long-term meditator). Which is why people report such a sense of connection with the world and other people and a new ability to see the “big picture.” And psychedelics knock down old brain patterns and jumpstart new ones by acting on the too-little-studied serotonin 2A receptor (while commonly prescribed SSRIs only activate the serotonin 1A receptor).
As lead researcher Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris at Imperial College put it, magic mushrooms essentially “shake the snow globe” and benefit people that suffer from disorders involving excessively rigid patterns of thinking – as well as unlocking creativity.
This Mechanism Underpins Why Studies Have Been So Exciting for:
Depression: A headline-grabbing 2017 Imperial College study revealed clear changes in brain activity and significantly reduced symptoms for treatment-resistant depressives lasting weeks after a single dosage. The findings proved so exciting that the researchers are undertaking more robust studies testing psilocybin against a leading antidepressant in 2018.
End-of-Life Distress: Many psilocybin studies focus on patients with a terminal cancer diagnosis to measure impact on end-of-life anxiety. The results: powerful. In NYU/Johns Hopkins studies 80% of cancer patients showed dramatic reductions in anxiety sustained seven months after a dose. Two-thirds of participants rated the magic mushroom experience as one of the top five most spiritually significant experiences of their lives; a third ranked it #1. As Roland Griffiths at Johns Hopkins put it, “I don’t want to say mind-blowing…but to a scientist, that’s just incredible.”
Addiction: Studies reveal brain-resetting psilocybin’s impact on various addictions. One small study showed that after two psilocybin treatments 80% of long-term heavy smokers had still quit six months later, while another indicated that a couple of mushroom doses had a significant effect on reducing drinking at eight months for the alcohol-dependent.
Deepening Spiritual Life: Because mystical experiences are at the heart of most religions (Moses saw that burning bush…), NYU and Johns Hopkins are now studying clergy to investigate the neurobiology of both mushroom and religious experiences. And while the study isn’t yet published, the researchers report very similar brain states with a psilocybin dose and what religious leaders have experienced at meditation retreats.
Improving Personality: While research has long indicated that after age 30 your personality is pretty much a done deal, studies show that a single psilocybin dose has a positive, maybe even permanent, effect on people’s personalities: making them more open-hearted, creative and curious.
This new evidence is so unexpected that a year ago, nearly the entire issue of the Journal of Psychopharmacology was devoted to the impact of magic mushrooms (14 studies). Because many studies are small (true for most wellness studies that aren’t funded by the deep pockets of Big Pharma), the familiar chant is “more, larger, high quality studies are needed.” Agreed. But as Professor Craig Blinderman of Columbia University noted in his commentary in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, “If these findings are confirmed in large randomized controlled studies…the classification of psilocybin as a Schedule 1 drug should be challenged, for this would represent a treatment unlike anything in psychiatry: a rapid sustained reduction in depression and anxiety with a single dose of a psychoactive compound.” Professors at Ivy League universities don’t often fling these kinds of statements around. The pace of research is seriously quickening in 2018, and it’s the research that will determine whether laws banning their use – and consumer attitudes – get a reset.
Safest Recreational Drug
The 2017 Global Drug Survey (examining data from over 50 countries) concluded that magic mushrooms are the safest recreational drug in the world: dramatically less likely to require post-usage medical treatment than alcohol, LSD, cocaine or opioids like OxyContin. Studies also show that there are no significant abuse concerns: they’re non-addictive and non-toxic to the body’s organs. And while psilocybin’s effects are similar to LSD, it’s less strong and long lasting, and doesn’t carry the negative cultural baggage. And crucial to many wellness consumers: They’re natural, rather than concocted in a lab. However, very few would argue that this should be seen as license to “try a pile of shrooms at home” as the positive effects in clinical trials have much to do with correct dosage, setting and supervision.
Movement on Legal Front
The legal status of magic mushrooms varies complexly worldwide. The UN categorizes them as Schedule 1 drugs, so most countries regulate or prohibit them – but with much selective enforcement. However, they’re legal in countries like Spain, the Czech Republic, Jamaica, Costa Rica and Austria; and while technically illegal in the Netherlands, a loophole means the sale of “magic truffles” is rampant. Some interesting legalization action is now underway: a measure to decriminalize them in California has cleared the first hurdle for the ballot in 2018, and there is a push to put them on the Oregon ballot in 2020 (for use in organized clinics, not at home). We know that with cannabis legalization where California went, so went much of the U.S. And when you wrap your mind around how fast and radically laws and attitudes toward cannabis have recently changed, you can see how a safe, evidence-backed psychoactive like magic mushrooms might soon see a similar legal and mindset shift.
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Microdosing: Straight Outta Silicon Valley
Psilocybe azurescens: One of about 200 species of psilocybin-containing mushrooms. Magic mushrooms have been used for centuries, possibly millennia, within some cultures in structured manners for healing or religious purposes. [Image by Paul Stamets]
Microdosing psilocybin (and other psychedelics) means taking very small amounts (maybe 1/10th of a dose) every few days over several months. It doesn’t cause a consciousness-altering trip, but is designed to be large enough to affect thinking, creativity, problem solving, connection to others, and anxiety. It’s all about cognitive enhancement – a biohacking of the brain – so it’s no surprise it was pioneered among Silicon Valley professionals, whether engineers or artists. Popularized by Ayelet Waldman’s 2017 book A Really Good Day, microdosing is now spreading around the world, attracting white-collar professional experimenters far beyond some “druggie” fringe.
YouTube tutorials and Reddit groups on how to microdose mushrooms are spawning. Tech entrepreneur, Paul Austin, a professional microdosing coach, offers Skype consulting sessions and an online course through his website The Third Wave – and is building a Microdosing App that will track people’s progress and experiences. And if no formal studies have analyzed the science behind microdosing, that will change in 2018 as UK-based nonprofit the Beckley Foundation undertakes the first research.
A New Kind of Wellness “Trip” – Magic Mushroom Retreats
It’s striking that when a psychiatrist like Julie Holland imagines the future of psychedelic experiences she envisions a place that’s “a cross between a spa/retreat and a gym…where they can be experienced in a safe, supportive environment.” And it’s a fitting model: an expert-led, sensory-focused retreat where a psychedelic “trip” happens within a wellness trip (as psilocybin, unlike cannabis, is hardly an everyday drug). We’ve had ayahusaca retreats in South America for years (and the media had delighted in chronicling these spiritual journeys favored by the hip and famous). But now all-inclusive magic mushroom retreats in countries where psilocybin is legal (like Jamaica, Costa Rica and Holland) are on the march and quickly getting more luxe.
MycoMeditations is a pioneer with weeklong retreats on a private Jamaican bay, with airport pickup, lovely food, guided hikes and massages, and evening by-the-fire-and-ocean group mushroom sessions. Last month MycoMeditations’ founder and comedian Shane Mauss teamed up for a luxury mushroom retreat on the island. The exclusive Alquimia Centre of Healing Arts in the Colombian jungle (that accepts guests who receive one of their much-sought internships) serves up serious education on Amazonian medicine and enlightenment through expert-led natural psychedelic experiences like magic mushrooms. Paul Austin’s The Third Wave has begun full-blown magic mushroom retreats in Costa Rica, the British Virgin Islands, Jamaica and the Netherlands. Sites like OpenMindTrips.com aggregate psychedelic and mushroom retreats worldwide, and while there are far more hea
Non-Psychedelic Shrooms Bloom in Food-as-Medicine & Beauty
Non-trippy mushrooms, which have played a starring role in traditional Eastern medicine for millennia (and are part of an everyday food-as-medicine philosophy in places like Japan, China and Russia), are now getting overdue global recognition as equally “magic” functional foods – and are wildly proliferating in foods, beverages and beauty products. Global Wellness Summit keynote speaker Dr. Andrew Weil (in conversation at the conference) noted that people outside Asia are finally grasping the “phenomenal” health benefits of so many kinds of mushrooms for medicinal purposes: “With such a great range—mainly Asian mushrooms—that enhance immunity, protect us from cancer and infections…and have all sorts of remarkable qualities.”
The remarkable qualities of different mushroom varieties would be impossible to chronicle here: mushrooms contain polysaccharides and beta-glucans that jumpstart the immune system; they’re a massive natural source of Vitamin D; they stabilize blood sugar and fight inflammation. And some varietals, like reishi, cordyceps, chaga, lion’s mane and maitake, are adaptogens (a concept buzzed about in earlier trends reports), which means that they have a unique power to help our bodies resist the biological, chemical and emotional stressors that attack us every single day. And it’s not just supermarket, but also beauty aisles, that are experiencing a great mushroom invasion. They’ve long been a key component in Asian beauty products and now mushrooms are hitting global skincare, cosmetic and haircare lines for their unique powers: as super-hydrators, antioxidants that repair skin cells, collagen boosters and skin tone eveners.
New processes make it much easier to extract the active nutrients in mushrooms so they can be snuck into tonics, powders, bottled drinks, snack bars, chocolates, coffees, cocoas, teas, broths and oils. Yes, they’re trendy: you can grab a mushroom latte from Melbourne to Miami. And we join other trends forecasters in spotlighting mushrooms as a fast-moving functional food and beauty ingredient (Whole Foods named them a top-ten food trend for 2018, MindBodyGreen for 2017). What’s important is that this rediscovery of mushrooms-as-medicine is not only trendy…it has the virtue of being backed by evidence.
FUELING THE TREND
Mushrooms ARE Medicine
Mushrooms are at the root of many modern pharmaceuticals, from penicillin (which has saved more human lives than any medication) to anticancer drugs. And evidence for their body and brain benefits just keeps mounting. Example: A new Penn State University study reveals that all mushrooms (but especially delicious wild ceps or porcini) are the #1 source of two important anti-aging antioxidants, ergothioneine and glutathione, that protect the body against cancer, coronary heart disease and Alzheimer’s disease, while keeping the brain healthy. Researchers speculate that that’s why countries like Italy and France (who eat more mushrooms) have much lower rates of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s than countries like the U.S. Hitting Italian levels isn’t hard: just 5 button mushrooms a day.
Plant-Based Diets Boom
While mushrooms aren’t “plants” they’re benefitting from one of the biggest global wellness trends: more people moving to less- or no-meat diets. Consider: The number of vegans in the UK skyrocketed 350% in the last decade, and 42% are aged 15-34. In the U.S., veganism jumped 500% since 2014.
Examples of Trend
Innovating Mushrooms in and as Food
Companies are busy developing technologies that infuse more mushroom-medicine into foods. M&S has developed Ireland-grown Active Health mushrooms with a 100% daily dose of Vitamin D and vitamin B5 to fight fatigue. MycoTechnology’s new vegan mushroom protein PureTaste has raised $35 million in funding (and a big investment from Kellogg) – a clear sign that innovating mushroom infusion into foods is going mainstream. The nutritionally complete food brand Soylent has launched Coffiest (a caffeinated alternative for the breakfast skipper) packed with vitamins and L-theanine, a stress-relieving, brain-enhancing nootropic derived from mushrooms.
Mushrooms Everywhere: From Powders to Coffee to Chocolate
Mushrooms – especially the stress-effect-fighting adaptogenic breeds like reishi, cordyceps, chaga and maitake – are being infused and brewed into everything imaginable.
Mushroom-mad company Four Sigmatic (brainchild of a Finnish chemist) serves up a whole range of adaptogenic mushroom-packed coffees and hot chocolates. Gaia Herbs recently rolled out a whole line of mushroom supplements targeting everything from brain to liver health. Mushrooms are the star ingredients in Choice Organic Teas’ Wellness Teas collection. And before you say “blech,” companies are working overtime to make them delicious. Rebbl’s reishi chocolate milk blends up cocoa and coconut milk with reishi, while Love Grace’s new mocha drink whips up adapatogenic mushrooms with cold-brewed coffee, coconut milk, cacao and cinnamon. And yes, there’s chocolate: both Freaky and Wild Alaska chocolate brands are infusing a host of healing mushrooms.
Many mushrooms are skin and hair superfoods so they’re on the serious rise in beauty products. Chaga mushroom is a natural antioxidant and anti-irritant with zinc and melanin that helps repair skin cells and eliminates free radicals that cause wrinkles; Chinese cordyceps is known for creating cellular energy necessary for the skin’s protective barrier; tremella mushrooms are prized for their antioxidant and deep hydrating benefits.
Mushrooms are skin superfoods and are blooming in beauty products – like Dr. Andrew Weil for Origins Mega Mushroom Collection, blending supershrooms like chaga and reishi.
Too many products to name: Dr. Andrew Weil’s “Mega-Mushroom Skin Relief Collection” blends chaga, reishi and more. Korean beauty companies have been pioneers in the use of mushrooms as a skin elixir, and tremella extract is found in K-beauty brands like Earth’s Recipe lotions and potions. Makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury’s products use shiitake mushrooms in their ingredient “Fermiprotect” which appears in products like her Magic Foundation. Kerstin Florian’s Correcting Brightening Facial Treatment is loaded with Chinese mushrooms to attack skin inflammation and hyperpigmentation – and there is an entire “Mushroom Collection” from Prana Spaceuticals. And more hair care is mushroom-powered, like ANUVA’s Tonifying Shampoo with reishi or Beauty 4 Ashes’ Maitake Healthy Hair Growth Shampoo.
More Shroom Foraging & Cuisine at Wellness Retreats
Foraging is of course a buzzword in the food and hotel industry: Not only do chefs handpick wild mushrooms and herbs, now more properties let guests experience that sense of place and nature with more mushroom foraging and unique mushroom cuisine. For instance, at Emerson Resort & Spa in upstate New York, guests can opt for summer “Mushroom Walk” packages where the local “Mushroom Man” leads them in mushroom foraging while educating them about each breed’s healing powers. And at the amazing Stanford Inn (Mendocino Coast, California), the first vegan resort in North America, there’s mushroom foraging experiences and a cool, ongoing “Medicinal Mushroom Breakfast” that not only serves up mushrooms on the plate it educates diners on their medicinal impact.


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In a final exercise of hope I’m sent to assist my father in procuring more photographs for sorting. I stand at the foot of the pull down latter ready to receive whatever time capsules descend from the darkness. I hear my name and turn my face upward to be met by a rain of latent images. As I stoop to gather the scattered photos I stop to ponder how the molecular structure of a photograph could ever hope to compare to the molecular experience of a memory.
Just before we leave for your memorial I ask why only one of your sons will be in attendance. The answer startles me and I’m inundated with the heavy sense of your humanity twenty-eight years too late. On the ride home I soothe my disappointment by reflecting on the events at home; these were your true memorial not half an hour of gospel.
I awoke to find my mother had gone already to the home you’ve just left behind. She had a list of things she intended to fetch before the home is dismantled, parceled and relegated to memories. I took the lima bean green tea pot from the windowsill, that night I was there and I couldn’t sleep. I wrapped it in my night shirt and tucked it in my bag. By that time, though, I’d noticed things had already been rifled through, boxed, and lost to the world. What was it like to spend your last days in a home that had already begun to breakdown? Did you really need a literal reminder that you were moving on?
I called my mom and asked for a piece of your jewelry I’d admired since I was a child. It was nothing special, nothing expensive, just smart: a string of black and white micro-beads in a candy cane pattern. I breathed a sigh of relief when she called to tell me it was there. When she returned and handed it to me, I was overwhelmed by the scent of roses and I shivered. I understand ghosts smell like roses. But I know you were fond of having little parfum packages tucked in your dresser drawers.
I’m sad now. I claim we were never close and yet I begin to recall the minutest of details, your subtlest idiosyncrasies and every home you’ve lived in that I’ve ever known. I remember in great detail the floor plans, the décor, and the smells distinct to each. I remember the constants: the bread machines, the afghans, the stockings hung to dry in the bathroom, the blaring televisions playing murder mysteries and you. And now, as I sit weeping, I can’t think of single thing more finite than death, an event lonelier than dying, or an emblem more poignant than an empty home.
One evening my sister and I tussled about on the big bed–the single bed not attached to our bunk beds. Elizabeth, more recently known on occasion as ‘Hulk Beth,’ pulled me down and flipped me over her leg. I remain convinced that it was some fancy Judo move she just happened to improvise. I flew off of the bed and struck my head on the jagged corner of the electric heater. Immediately I felt dizzy and then I was bleeding. But, I was relatively coherent so I didn’t panic. We put an ice pack and a rag over my gash…
No, it didn’t happen that way. The way my sister tells the story, I launched myself over top of her, my temple aiming directly for that rusty corner, and I never made a sound. Even after I put my hand to my head and felt the wetness that was my blood, I didn’t speak…
No, what really happened is the story of two little girls who were rough housing when gravity decided to join in. Once gravity had thrown one of the girls a twist, literally, skin took offense and blood felt the need to comfort it.


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What a wonderful weekend I had, wanna know why? Because I spent it with my family! I didn’t work, shop or have a photo shoot, nope, I just spent it hanging with my boys: I caught my son’s last baseball game of the season then took him to see How to Train your Dragon 2 (great film) Sunday we took daddy for brunch and explored our wonderful revitalized Downtown (ok busted I did shop a little, we checked out the monstrous Zara which just opened) then got some fresh brewed Kombucha at the Grand Central Market and got a tour of the historic Bradbury building (my husband has had the privilege of shooting a few films there) lastly we hung out at this amazing little secret park that overlooks the LA city center, such a cool day with my awesome guys!
I would also like to take a moment to wish my beautiful and supportive mamma a Happy Birthday today, she is the biggest fan of my blog and is always an inspiration to me and my outfits; It was her after all who hooked me on fashion as a very young girl! As much as I love clothes it really is all about family and friends isn’t it?… but hey who says we cant cherish them both?
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‘They Tell Me a Demon Lives Inside Me’
A young man targeted in Chechnya for being gay discovers Europe offers no safe haven from his tormentors
By Simon Shuster | Photograph by Billy & Hells for TIME
One night in late November, three men walked up to Room 503 at the refugee shelter in Eisenhüttenstadt, a town at the eastern edge of Germany, and started hammering on the door with their fists. They called out the name of the asylum seeker inside, Movsar Eskarkhanov, a 28-year-old from the Russian region of Chechnya, who had just finished his evening prayers.
Thin and frail from the stress of his travels, Eskarkhanov had come to Germany and applied for asylum, first in the summer of 2013 and again in the fall of last year, to escape the persecution he faced back home for being gay. When he opened the door, he saw that one of the three men was wearing a mask and carrying a knife. But the other two looked familiar; they also hailed from Chechnya, and as they barged into the room, a thought flashed through Eskarkhanov’s mind: They’ve come to kill me.
Since early April, a wave of attacks against homosexual men has been reported spreading across the region of Chechnya, a deeply conservative part of Russia that is predominantly Muslim. The details were gruesome; local police had allegedly rounded up dozens of men and tortured them in secret prisons until they divulged the names of other homosexuals, who were then subjected to the same cycle of violence, according to an April report in independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta. Several of the victims had been beaten or tortured to death, the paper claimed.
The reports, later confirmed by Human Rights Watch, drew condemnations from Western leaders and marked a dark turn in Russia’s official campaign of homophobia. That campaign started in the summer of 2013, when President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning “gay propaganda” among minors. The punishments were not severe, but the legislation effectively gives LGBT people in Russia the status of outcasts, barred from openly defending their rights to equality. “It officially declares that gays and lesbians are inferior beings,” says Elena Klimova, a gay rights activist in Russia who was convicted under the law in 2014. At the time, she and her colleagues in the human rights community warned that the law would open the door to a campaign of violence.
The experience of Eskarkhanov suggests that they were right. By the time he agreed to tell his story in July, the cycle of attacks had not only chased him out of Russia, it also followed him to Germany, suggesting that the violence has reached deep into the European countries now offering protection to the victims. As Western governments and human rights groups have tried to resettle these men, they have run into a problem few of them expected: Chechen immigrants inside Europe were often ready to continue the purge that authorities in Chechnya had started.
“It’s been a big concern of ours,” says Kimahli Powell, the executive director of Rainbow Railroad, a Canadian advocacy group that helps resettle gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people who face persecution around the world. “There is a close knit Chechen diaspora in Europe, and so there are also places in Europe where individuals could be at risk.”
The reason comes down to the rules of tribal loyalty and pride that govern Chechnya, a mountainous republic whose landscape and people are still scarred by the two wars for independence they fought against Russia in the 1990s. Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader Putin installed to rule Chechnya after the wars, has sought to impose elements of strict Sharia law even when it contradicts the Russian constitution. With the Kremlin’s blessing, he has cast himself as a kind of spiritual father for all Chechens, regardless of whether they reside in Russia or in exile.
His campaign against homosexual men has reflected his mission to turn Chechnya into an obedient and fiercely patriarchal society, one defined by a code of conduct that Kadyrov enforces according to his whim. In his televised remarks, Kadyrov has even referred to the expulsion of gays as a kind of national bloodletting. “We don’t have any gays,” he told HBO in an interview filmed in one of his palaces in Chechnya and aired in mid-July. “If there are any, take them away to Canada. Praise be to God! Take them far away from us. To purify our blood, if there are any of them here, let them be taken away.”
Eskarkhanov watched that interview over and over again from his refugee shelter on the outskirts of Berlin. Other Chechens, he says, kept sending him links to it, along with threats and insults. “They tell me that a demon lives inside me,” he told me a few days after Kadyrov’s interview aired. “It’s getting worse here,” he added. “Before somebody kills me, I want to tell my story to the world.”
A demonstrator holds a sign depicting Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov during a protest in Paris on April 20 to denounce the anti-gay campaign. Ian Langsdon—EPA
A few days later Eskharkhanov, who often goes by his nickname, Mansur, agreed to meet me in a safe house for Chechen exiles in Berlin. With a pair of headphones hanging from his ears, he looked pale and emaciated, but flashes of anger and pride cut through his recollections. “Everything I’m going to tell you, I would say it all to Putin’s face,” he began, without wasting a word on pleasantries. “I don’t care anymore.”
His first run-in with the police in his Chechen homeland took place in the summer of 2011. He was in bad financial straits at the time, living in Grozny with his elderly foster mother, and in order to get out of debt he posted a notice online offering to sell his kidney. Messages of sympathy then flooded his inbox, and he began corresponding with one of the well-wishers, who claimed to be a truck driver of Chechen descent then residing in Moscow.
With time their correspondence became more intimate. They exchanged photographs and, one day that August, agreed to meet in person in Chechnya. But the rendezvous was a set-up. Eskarkhanov says that when he arrived, a group of men bundled him into a car and drove him to a nearby forest, where they forced him to film a “confession” saying that he is gay. To keep the video a secret, the men demanded 200,000 rubles (about $7000 at the time), and they posted the video online when he failed to come up with the money two days later. His only choice after that, given the ostracism he faced in the region, was to go north and try to survive in Moscow and other Russian cities, he says. He took odd jobs, among them as a shepherd in the region of Stavropol, and only returned to Chechnya the following year to visit his ailing foster mother.
On his way to a prayer service one day after his return, Eskarkhanov says he was detained at a roadside by Chechen police on suspicion of being a terrorist sympathizer. Under questioning, he told them the story of his extortion the previous year. One of the officers responded by taking him to another room and, Eskarkhanov says, sexually assaulting him. Two of his male relatives were then summoned to pick him up and “deal with him.”
That alleged assault was impossible to confirm independently. The Chechen police did not reply to requests for comment on the incident, and Eskarkhanov’s relatives did not want to be interviewed. But his recollections seem to match those of other gay men detained by authorities in Chechnya and later interviewed by human rights workers.
In many cases, after torturing men for days in their makeshift prison in the town of Argun, Kadyrov’s troops would reportedly give the victims back to their families, expecting male relatives to finish them off in order to wash away the stain on their bloodlines. “It’s really this concept of honor killing that makes the situation so dangerous,” says Powell of Rainbow Railroad. “Not just in Chechnya, but also in the diaspora,” whether in Europe, North America or anywhere else Chechen communities take root.
For the year after his assault by the police, Eskarkhanov feared that the men in his foster family might kill him. His sexual orientation was by then an open secret in their community, and the family’s name had been tarnished, he says. He was even afraid that the food his family fed him would be poisoned. There was little choice in his mind but to emigrate, and in the summer of 2013, he traveled through Eastern Europe until he reached the German border.
Hundreds of Chechens were traveling this route at the time to escape Kadyrov’s regime. But their applications for asylum usually wound up near the bottom of the pile, according to German and Chechen experts on the asylum process. Especially since 2015, when Germany allowed hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan to enter the country, asylum cases from these warzones have taken precedence over those from more stable regions like Chechnya. As one legal adviser in Berlin put it, “The only way a Chechen can prove he needs protection is to arrive with his head cut off.”
Eskarkhanov’s application was duly rejected in 2016, and he wound up at the shelter in Eisenhüttenstadt to await deportation to Moscow. He was relieved at first to find that many of his neighbors in the facility were Chechens; at least he had someone to talk to in his native language. One of them, a 14-year-old boy, even turned out to be a distant cousin of Eskharkanov’s, related to him through his biological mother, who had abandoned him soon after birth. It was a strange reunion, and word spread quickly through the shelter that the boy had a homosexual in his family tree. “Maybe I should have kept my mouth shut about it,” says Eskarkhanov. But it was too late. The boy’s male relatives were furious.
A few nights later, the three men showed up at Eskarkhanov’s door just as he was preparing for bed. One grabbed him by the throat and demanded he follow them into the street. Instead Eskarkhanov began to scream, and the commotion brought another group of asylum seekers – mostly from Africa – running to his room to help. They managed to scare off the intruders and call the police, who took Eskarkhanov to their station for questioning.
Andreas Carl, a spokesman for the police in the region of Brandenberg, confirmed that the incident took place. “Three unknown and masked men threatened the refugee M.E. with a small knife and left his bedroom without harming him,” Carl wrote in an email, using Eskarkhanov’s initials in keeping with German privacy rules. (In the victim’s recollection, only one of the men wore a mask.) “The police took the asylum seeker to a police station and then for his own safety to [an] asylum center in Brandenburg with no Chechen people there,” Carl wrote.
An activist stands in a mock cage during a protest in Berlin on April 30 that called on Putin to end the persecution of gay men in Chechnya. John MacDougall—AFP/Getty Images
The German authorities have long been concerned about such conflicts within the Chechen diaspora, and recent media reports have painted a damning and perhaps misleading picture of the situation. A documentary aired in February on ZDF, one of Germany’s leading public broadcasters, claimed that the Kremlin had sent spies to Germany disguised as Chechen refugees. In late May, an article published by Meduza, a Russian-language news outlet based in Latvia, suggested that an organized group of around 80 Chechen immigrants has been seeking to impose elements of Sharia law in Germany, in some cases threatening violence against Chechen women and assaulting their male friends.
“This is nonsense,” says Ekkehard Maass, a German rights activist who devotes much of his time to helping Chechen refugees get asylum. “There’s no Chechen morality police going around Berlin.” But he concedes that Chechens do bring their moral codes with them to Europe, and Kadyrov’s security services have also managed to plant agents or win sympathizers within the Chechen diaspora. “So the fear that exists in Chechnya now exists here too,” he says.
At his new asylum shelter in a suburb of Berlin, Eskarkhanov now lives with that fear. He spends a lot of his time sitting in bed and scrolling through the threats and insults he receives online from other Chechens. He says he has considered suicide. But what frustrates him most is that many of the threats he receives online come from Chechen migrants who have been granted refugee status in Germany. “This is the mistake of Mrs. Merkel,” he says.
His final appeal for asylum was turned down in early September, and the German government has ordered him to leave the country or risk forcible deportation. His best hope for the future, he says, is to move to a country with a better-integrated community of Chechens, or none at all. “I never wanted to go against my own people,” he says, his tone of defiance shifting toward remorse. “But for gay Chechens it doesn’t matter where we go. We can go to Mars. If there are other Chechens there, they will never let us live in peace.”


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By Lisa Miller, Special to CNN
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, and Bible publishers are ostentatiously commemorating the landmark by producing an abundance of gorgeous doorstops. Leather bound Bibles. Two-volume sets. Replicas of the 1611 version complete with “original” illustrations.
The hoopla is entirely justified, since the King James Bible revolutionized Bible reading, bringing Scripture into a common vernacular for the first time for the English-speaking world.
It is not too much to say that the King James Bible – mass produced as it was, thanks to a new technology called the printing press – democratized religion by taking it out of the hands of the clerical few and giving it to the many.
Today, another revolution in Bible reading is underway – one that has nothing to do with gilt-edged paper. If the King James Bible brought the Bible to the English-speaking masses, today’s technology goes a giant step further, making Scripture – in any language and any translation – accessible to anyone on earth with a smartphone.
Just like the 500-year-old Protestant Reformation, which was aided by the advent of the printing press and which helped give birth to the King James Bible, changes wrought by new technology have the potential to bring down the church as we know it.
In the face of church leaders who claimed that only they could interpret the Bible for the common people, Reformation leaders like Martin Luther taught that nothing supersedes the authority of the Word itself.
“A simple layman armed with Scripture,” Luther wrote, “is greater than the mightiest pope without it.”
In that vein, digital technology gives users the text, plain and simple, without the interpretive lens of established authorities. And it lets users share interpretations with other non-authorities, like family members, friends and coworkers.
With Scripture on iPhones and iPads, believers can bypass constraining religious structures – otherwise known as “church” – in favor of a more individual connection with God.
This helps solve a problem that Christian leaders are increasingly articulating: that even among people who say that Jesus Christ is their personal Lord and savior, folks don’t read the Bible.
For growing numbers of young people, a leather-bound Bible sitting like an artifact on a stand in the family living room has no allure. It’s not an invitation to exploration or questioning.
Young people want to “consume” their spirituality the way they do their news or their music. They want to dip and dabble, the way they browse Facebook.
Thus the almost-insane popularity of Youversion, a digital Bible available for free on iTunes and developed by a 34-year-old technology buff and Christian pastor from Oklahoma named Bobby Gruenewald. He conceived of it, he told me, while on a layover at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, wishing he had a Bible to read.
“What we’re really trying to address is, how do we increase engagement in the Bible?” he said.
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For those who don't know the history involved, let me give a condensed version.
1. Before Robert Lucas, macroeconomists used mostly "aggregate" models - stick labor and capital and money etc. into some equations, and out pop GDP and inflation, or something like that.
2. Then Robert Lucas came along and said "These equations might look like they fit the data, but as soon as you try to actually use the equations to make policy, people will see what you're doing and change how they behave. And then your equations will stop working completely." Some people resisted this idea, but eventually it won, and people stopped using the old style of models. (Lucas got a Nobel for this, and for insisting that people use "rational expectations" models...see #3.)
3. People asked Lucas, "OK, so what do we do instead?" Lucas said "Your models have to be based on things that won't be changed by policy. What people want to consume, for example, or the technology that we use to produce things. Those things can't be changed by the government, right?" And everyone said "Uhhh, no, guess not." So Lucas said "OK, base all your models on those things, and you'll be OK. Also, you should assume that people have 'rational expectations'." To which the world replied "Uhhh, OK." Of course, this sort of modeling required the use of microfoundations.
4. The first to take up this challenge was Lucas' friend Ed Prescott. He made a model where the business cycle was caused by changes in technology - if we invent more stuff than usual we get a boom, if we invent less than usual we get a recession. Also, he allowed for business cycles to be caused by changes in people's desire to work - if people suddenly got lazy, we could have a recession. Lucas gave this model his unofficial stamp of approval. (Prescott's model, called the "RBC" model, won him a Nobel.)
5. However, some people came along and said "Wait a second, Prescott's model doesn't fit the facts. In this model, a recession is basically just a big shortage of everything; in a shortage, inflation should go up. But in the past, especially the Great Depression, inflation often goes down in a recession. Recessions must be caused by some kind of general glut, not a general shortage. In other words, there must be some kind of 'aggregate demand shock'." To which the RBC people replied: "Oh yeah? Let's see you put that in math!"
6. So the people who wanted to model aggregate demand shocks thought of some plausible ways that a "general glut" could happen. Greg Mankiw, for example, came up with the idea that "menu costs" could keep people from changing prices. Other people focused on contract theory, money illusion, and other "frictions" that could cause general gluts. But these ideas, though probably pretty realistic, were all very very hard to put into the type of model that Prescott had used (called a "DSGE" model).
7. Then came along a guy named Guillermo Calvo, who thought of a fix: Just assume that some magical force (the "Calvo fairy") keeps people from changing their prices, and voila! Aggregate demand shortage! This mechanism, although obviously a fantasy, was very easy to put into DSGE models. So a bunch of people started doing that. Mike Woodford, for example, used the idea to make models of how monetary policy could stabilize the economy, canceling out shocks to aggregate demand while also guarding against inflation. These models came to be known as "New Keynesian" models, since Keynes had also argued that aggregate demand was what caused recessions. They were also called "saltwater" models, because they were made primarily by people on the coasts, especially at Harvard.
8. The RBC people, who were also called "New Classicals" or "freshwater" (since many worked at the University of Minnesota and the University of Chicago), fought back, deriding the New Keynesians, or saying that the new Calvo-based models didn't satisfy the Lucas Critique.
And here we are today. Wow, OK, that took slightly longer than I thought, but anyway, let's go on.
The 2006 paper by Mankiw about "scientists vs. engineers" should be seen in this historical context, as an attempt to make peace between New Classicals and New Keynesians. If you read it, especially after reading the earlier Robert Barro "good guys and bad guys" diss paper, you'll see it's a very political document. It's basically saying "Look, you New Classical guys are like scientists; you're trying to understand how the world works on a deep level. We New Keynesians are more like engineers; our models may not match what's really going on at the micro level, but they fit the big macro facts, so they're useful for policymaking." Very politic...remember, scientists are generally thought to be smarter than engineers. In fact, Mankiw's distinction reminds me very much of Stephen Jay Gould's attempt to get anti-evolution folks off his back by dividing science and religion into "separate magisteria".
By defending New Keynesian models as "engineering", Mankiw was - I think - essentially admitting that the New Keynesian movement had not really satisfied the Lucas Critique. The DSGE structure of the models was a head-fake in the direction of microfoundations, but by including things like Calvo pricing, the New Keynesian models were really more in the spirit of the old, pre-Lucas "aggregate" models. But the "scientists vs. engineers" idea was also a kind of defense of that old "aggregate" approach - it said "For the purposes of short-term policy making, all you really need is a model that fits the macro data; you don't need something that really represents what's going on at a deep level." In other words, it was very, very similar to the stuff that Simon Wren-Lewis writes on his blog all the time.
But I do not like Mankiw's "scientists vs. engineers" distinction, because although I think it gets the "engineers" part right, I don't really think what the New Classical folks do is especially similar to what actual scientists do. (Mankiw is trying to be a nice guy, a uniter instead of a divider. I am a different sort of guy, for whom dissent and argument are a natural part of the truth-finding process. So don't be surprised if I am less politic than he.)
The whole idea and the whole appeal of New Classical models is that they are microfounded on things that don't change with respect to policy - human tastes and preferences, and technology. The New Classical macroeconomists do often try to match the parameters of these microfoundations to micro data (this is called "calibration"). But rarely if ever do they bother to see if the equations themselves are an accurate description of how economic agents behave. As a result, as I argue in these old posts (Post 1, Post 2), the microfoundations in RBC-type models are almost certainly terribly misspecified descriptions of microeconomic behavior and markets.
As my advisor (and Greg Mankiw's advisee) Miles Kimball tweeted today when we discussed this topic: "the 'micro foundations [used by New Classicals are] usually not very serious, they're often more like imaginary engineering than science."
Note that if the microfoundations are misspecified, it doesn't matter whether a model satisfies the Lucas Critique or not. Even if "tastes and technology" really are policy-invariant things, if tastes and technology don't really work the way the model says they work, the model will not give you useful advice about policy.
Now, terrible microfoundations might not lead to a terrible model. But if by some lucky happenstance, crappy microfoundations produce a model that matches the macro facts, then it might as well be one of those "aggregate-only" models that Greg Mankiw labels "engineering". In this case, RBC has no theoretical advantage over a New Keyneisan model.
So basically, I charge that the New Classical/RBC/freshwater macroeconomics paradigm is not really science, and not really like science...not yet, anyway. In science, evidence rules all; if a model doesn't fit the evidence you toss it out. And I don't think the microfoundations we have seen in freshwater models pass muster (yet). Until they do, I think that "engineering" - the aggregate models of VARs, or the Calvo-pricing New Keynesian models, etc. - are all we've got.


Howie's Naughty Times in Ogdensburg is the latest contributor to the upcoming Wounded Warriors fishing derby, planned for June 4 on the St. Lawrence River at Ogdensburg. Dustin Smithers of Howie's presented a check for $300 to St. Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Pat McKeown on Thursday. The chamber, through its FISHCAP program, is hosting the June 4 derby, timed to coincide with the visit of the "Moving Wall" Vietnam memorial to the city. Shown here from left are Director McKeown, local fisherman and veteran Bob Giordano, and Smithers. For more information about the event or to volunteer to help with the activities, contact the chamber at 386-4000.


Until recently, it would have been hard to imagine The Wall Street Journal as a wartime newspaper. But since Sept. 11, that’s exactly what the paper has become. Over the past seven weeks, the staff of the 112-year-old Journal -which evacuated its World Financial Center headquarters during the World Trade Center attack-has functioned as a kind of guerrilla army, scattered across the city as well as in … South Brunswick, New Jersey.
Editorially, The Journal has soldiered on since Sept. 11., scoring news breaks on Larry Silverstein’s decision to rebuild and Mohamed Atta’s Miami runway joyride, among others, and aggressively chronicling terrorism’s economic impact. But inside the Journal newsroom, questions abound concerning the future, as the recovery effort becomes a rebuilding one and some of the news operation remakes itself across the Hudson.
It’s no secret that The Journal is a battered shop. The paper was more closely impacted than any other news organization on Sept. 11. A sizable portion of the staff were unexpected eyewitnesses to the attack-there was a brief moment where some worried that managing editor Paul Steiger might be buried in the rubble-and the
paper’s downtown headquarters remains uninhabitable. Those offices will eventually reopen, but the psychological impact is immeasurable.
Still, many Journal staffers feel that despite the turmoil, the paper has weathered the worst, and that the difficult circumstances since that fateful Tuesday have brought out the paper’s true spirit. “There’s a lot of pride,” said the Journal ‘s editorial-page editor, Paul Gigot. “There’s a renewed sense of mission here, to deliver our readers our message: free people, free markets and free expression.”
But, The Journal continues to face the hearty challenge of publishing despite having top editors reshuffled to South Brunswick, N.J., and a staff of displaced reporters in Manhattan. After a brief sojourn in Jersey, Mr. Gigot is now working out of the former Seventh Avenue offices of Work.com, a failed dot-com that was owned by Dow Jones, The Journal ‘s parent. But Mr. Steiger and his four deputy managing editors-along with graphics and copy-desk people-are still trying to put the paper together from the heart of the heart of the country.
“Some of us have moved down here,” said WSJ foreign editor John Bussey, who stays in a nearby hotel four days a week. “It just makes sense, rather than commuting.”
The WSJ ‘s New Jersey campus feels very far from its real home in Manhattan. It actually looks like one of those faceless colleges they advertise on television; alongside box-like limestone buildings, geese waddle in and out of a lake with a fountain. Inside the doors, “Customer Satisfaction Priority 1″ banners hang in spots. The color teal is everywhere.
Here, on the inside, The Journal begins to feel like an emergency bunker, albeit a pretty nice one. Six weeks ago, there was nothing in those rooms. But now there’s a mild hubbub emanating from the paper’s national, foreign, marketplace and investing editors’ desks, as well as computers that Dow Jones bought from local stores when the airlines shut down and mail order was impossible.
This commingling represents a change from The Journal ‘s old setup downtown, where these news desks were segregated. “In a way, the newsroom setting has fostered communication between the different desks because they’re all together,” said The Journal ‘s deputy managing editor, Stephen Adler, as he sat with his legs folded in his cube. “Because of the way our old office was set up, you didn’t get that.”
It’s all make-do and patchwork, of course-no one suggests that this is how things will look a couple months from now. Many editors end up spending four days here in New Jersey. Story meetings, held at 11 a.m. and at 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday and at 11 a.m. on Fridays, now consist of the South Brunswick folk phone-conferencing with section editors in New York as well as the other bureaus. Mr. Steiger, who attended last Friday’s meeting via phone while sitting in the back of a car, said the only problem with the arrangement is “when the phone cuts out. It can be a little embarrassing.”
Meanwhile, weekends-once a dead time for a paper with no Saturday or Sunday edition-have suddenly found new meaning. A 45-minute Sunday editor’s meeting, held via conference call, has been added. The front page, whose three major stories were usually finished by Friday, now are more often worked on through Sunday night.
“There’s definitely an urgency on Sundays now,” Mr. Adler said. “You’re seeing a lot more reporting done on the weekend.”
When asked if anything could have been done differently since Sept. 11, Mr. Bussey said he liked the way the phone-conferencing had gone, but noted: “I would have rented some space uptown for the office. You have your entire editing structure an hour and a half away.”
Clearly the geographic resettling is an inconvenience for some. Mr. Steiger put it this way: “Before all this happened, if I left work at 7:30 or 8:00, I’d be home in 20 minutes. Now, I’m home in two hours. That is a pain, and if I had my druthers, I’d rather not do it. But it’s not as if people in ordinary life don’t have commutes like this.”
All of this is kind of a dry run. Many of Mr. Steiger’s staff will eventually have to deal with this shift on a permanent basis. On Oct. 16, Dow Jones chief executive Peter Kann announced that 250 people-including the copy desk and the overseas copy desk for the international editions-would stay in South Brunswick. In exchange, employees would get a bonus of 50 percent of their base salary, with a minimum of $25,000 and $50 per week for a year for commuting expenses. The move sparked anger and resentment amongst the WSJ staff, and sources say petitions to keep it from happening are being signed by everyone. “They don’t want to go,” one Journal source said. “And you can understand that. Some of them will just have to quit. There’s certainly a lot of bad feeling about it.”
Mr. Steiger himself said that such moves had been discussed prior to Sept. 11 on a “very high level.” Once the tragedy took hold, he said, he began thinking about those whom it didn’t make sense to return to New York. He said he endorsed the steps even though “I knew it would be challenging, even painful to the people affected.
“It’s a practicality issue,” Mr. Steiger said. “In a perfect world, where economics is not a factor, you’d have everyone at the same location. But you save millions and millions of dollars having people in South Brunswick, where the office costs are essentially zero. That’s the equivalent of hundreds of reporters’ jobs each year.”
Not surprisingly, Mr. Steiger doesn’t see New Jersey as an isolation booth; he sees an emergency-proof, two-pronged newsroom.
“After Sept. 11, I understood the importance of having two different platforms running on separate power grids,” Mr. Steiger said, “so that it’s possible to produce a paper at either location. That doesn’t mean you can just have a bunch of computers sitting around in a room. You need people who actively work with them, who really know the drill.”
Still uncertain is when the paper can return to its World Financial Center home. In a memo on Oct. 18, Mr. Kann said that the company had found five of 24 dust samples taken to contain asbestos levels above E.P.A.-acceptable levels. Then, on Monday, Nov. 5 , Mr. Kann said that results from a second round of tests came back with all samples being clear, but that the company would do more tests beneath things like wood panels and the carpet. He wrote that the company expected to be back at the W.F.C. by the end of the year.
In the meanwhile, reporters have been meeting amongst themselves to talk about air quality.
“People are worried,” said one WSJ source. “I think people have legitimate concerns about their health.”
Said another WSJ source: “Do I want to go back? No, not really. But we have to suck it up, deal with it. The copy people want to go back. But given the choice of the World Financial Center or South Brunswick, I’d choose World Financial.”
Both Mr. Steiger and Dow Jones vice president Steven Goldstein say The Journal , Dow Jones corporate and Barron’s won’t return to the W.F.C. until it’s safe.
“The thing I keep telling people,” Mr. Goldstein said, “is that we have to work there, too.”
And heightening concerns about The Journal ‘s workplace safety is the condition of deputy national editor Rich Regis, who’s currently hospitalized with vasculitis. Doctors told Mr. Steiger that Mr. Regis’ illness might have been the result of something inhaled when he was caught up in the massive debris storm of Sept. 11, or may be completely unrelated.
“From my understanding,” Mr. Steiger said, “it’s a massive allergic reaction. He and I were standing right next to each other and were covered in the same debris. Rich is a person everyone loves and is concerned about. It seems that his case seems to be extremely unusual.” Mr. Steiger said that Mr. Regis remains in stable condition. “He’s better, but not out of the woods.”
Amid these heightened circumstances, there is a paper to write and edit. Currently the WSJ has 130 people working the international part of the story. The Mexico City and Rio bureau chiefs have split time in Pakistan, while the paper’s man in Rome has made his way through Yemen, Oman and Saudi Arabia. Different editors have been assigned to handle the paper’s coverage of the aftermath, overseeing such new beats as “the money trail” and “health and anthrax.”
“It’s been especially challenging,” Mr. Adler said, “because we don’t ordinarily do street reporting. We don’t hover around the ground zeros of the world. But in reporting the aftermath, we’re at a particular advantage here. The fallout came into the specific industries-airlines, for one-we cover, so we’ve had a base to build on.”
But in the face of it all, Mr. Bussey feels the paper has persevered rather well. “We’ve devoted our front page almost exclusively to this topic. It’s happened before-in the Gulf War, the Asian financial crisis,” he said. “But has it changed The Wall Street Journal ? Has it changed the mission of the story? How we report and edit the story? No. You’re just seeing The Journal ‘s approach to the story.”
There’s more belt-tightening at Talk . Tina Brown recently thinned her masthead by not renewing the contracts of three editors and one writer. The editors let go include senior editors Jennifer Krauss and Lee Smith and editor-at-large Monica Crowley. Ms. Krauss and Mr. Smith handled much of the arts-and-letters coverage at the magazine. Ms. Crowley joined Talk at the beginning of the year, after writing two books on Richard Nixon (just out of college, Ms. Crowley went to work for the former President just before he died in 1994). Also cut loose is former Business Week writer Leah Nathans Spiro, whose biggest scoop at the magazine came earlier this year, when she tagged Bill Clinton with playing golf at a country club accused of racism and anti-Semitism.
The spokeswoman for Talk said the staff cuts were all made to save money: “There was an economic reason behind this.”
Editorial director Maer Roshan said he hoped to continue working with all four as writers for the magazine. “I have nothing but the highest regard for all of these people. Like everyone else, we have to engage in certain belt-tightening.”
In addition, on the business side, the magazine has lost creative-services director Sona Hacherian Hofstede. She was replaced by Kevin Belden, whose last job was associate publisher for marketing at Time Inc.’s InStyle . He’ll have the same title at Talk .
All is not completely gloomy at Talk , the spokeswoman said. The November issue with Rudy Giuliani on the cover is selling well enough to rival the debut Hillary Clinton cover-back when Ms. Brown’s fights with Mr. Giuliani made for front-page news-as the magazine’s best-seller. And, so far this year, the magazine claims, ad pages are up 6.3 percent and ad revenue is up 26.3 percent. “Ad pages are up and revenue is up,” the spokeswoman said, “but we’re still in a difficult economic climate.”


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8 S.Ct. 1324
127 U.S. 390
32 L.Ed. 249
ST. LOUIS, I. M. & S. RY. CO.1
May 14, 1888.
[Statement of Case from pages 390-393 intentionally omitted]
Clinton Rowell, for plaintiff in error.
John F. Dillon and Winslow S. Pierce, Jr., for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice GRAY, after stating the facts as above, delivered the opinion of the court.
The right of this plaintiff to be carried upon the defendant's train, without paying additional fare, does not depend upon his having been received as an ordinary passenger, or upon any representations made by a ticket seller, conductor, or other officer of the company as to his right to use a ticket, but wholly upon the construction and effect of the written contract, signed by him, upon the face of the ticket (of the kind called 'tourist's' or 'round-trip' tickets) sold him by the defendant for a passage to Hot Springs, and back, by which, in consideration of a reduced rate of fare, he agreed to the following terms: By the fifth condition the ticket 'is not good for return passage unless the holder indentifies himself as the original purchaser to the satisfaction of the authorized agent of the IIot Springs Railroad at Hot Springs, Ark., within eighty-five days from date of sale; and, when officially signed and dated in ink and duly stamped by said agent, this ticket shall then be good only five days from such date.' The clear meaning of this condition is that the ticket shall not be good for a return passage at all, unless, within 85 days from its original date, the holder not only identifies himself as the original purchaser to the satisfaction of the agent named, but that agent signs, dates, and stamps the ticket; and that, upon such identification and stamping, the ticket shall be good for five days from the new dat. The sixth condition, by which the ticket is to be void if the plaintiff does not sign his name, and otherwise identify himself, whenever called upon so to do by any conductor or agent of either of the lines over which he may pass, is evidently intended as an additional precaution against a transfer of the ticket either in going or in returning, and not as an alternative or substitute for the previous condition to the validity of the ticket for a return trip. The twelfth condition states that the plaintiff understands and expressly agrees that no agent or employe of any of the lines has any power to alter, modify, or waive any of the conditions of the contract. By the express contract between the parties, therefore, the plaintiff had no right to a return passage under the ticket, unless it bore the stamp of the agent at Hot Springs. Such stamp was made by the contract a condition precedent to the right to a return passage, and no agent or employe of the defendant was authorized to waive that condition. The plaintiff contends that, as there was no agent at the office at Hot Springs, to whose satisfaction he could identify himself, and by whom he could have his ticket stamped, when he presented himself with his ticket at that office, within a reasonable time before he took the return train, he had the right to be carried from Hot Springs to St. Louis under his ticket without having it stamped, and may therefore maintain this action against the defendant for the act of its conductor in expelling him from the connecting train upon the defendant's road. If this defendant had been the party responsible for not having an agent at Hot Springs, the question thus presented would have been of some difficulty, although we are not prepared to hold that, even under such circumstances, the plaintiff's remedy would not be limited to an action for the breach of the implied contract to have an agent here, and to the expense which he thereby incurred. But this case does not require the expression of any opinion upon that question. By the first condition of the contract contained in the plaintiff's ticket, the defendant is not responsible beyond its own line. Consequently it was not responsible to the plaintiff for failing to have an agent at the further end of the Hot Springs Railroad. The agent who was to identify the passenger, and stamp his ticket there, was the agent of the Hot Springs Railroad Company, and is so described in the ticket, as well as in the petition. If there was any duty to have an agent at Hot Springs, it was the duty of that company, and not of the defendant. The demurrer admits only the facts alleged, and does not admit the conclusion of law, inserted in the petition, that by reason of the facts previously set forth, and which do not support the conclusion, the defendant and its agent failed and refused, without just cause or excuse, to identify the plaintiff as the original purchaser of the ticket, or to sign, date, and stamp it. Hitchcock v. Buchanan, 105 U. S. 416. The omission to have an agent at Hot Springs not being a breach of contract or of duty on the part of this defendant, the case is relieved of all difficulty. The conductor of the defendant's train, upon the plaintiff's presenting a ticket bearing no stamp of the agent at Hot Springs, had no authority to waive any condition of the contract, to dispense with the want of such stamp, to inquire into the previous circumstances, or to permit him to travel on the train. It would be inconsistent alike with the express terms of the contract of the parties, and with the proper performance of the duties of the conductor, in examining the tickets of other passengers, and in conducting his train with due regard to speed and safety, that he should undertake to determine, from oral statements of the passenger or other evidence, facts alleged to have taken place before the beginning of the return trip, and as to which the contract on the face of the ticket made the stamp of the agent of the Hot Springs Railroad Company at Hot Springs the only and conclusive proof.
The necessary conclusion is that the plaintiff cannot maintain this action against the defendant for the act of its conductor in putting him off the train. Townsend v. Railroad Co., 56 N. Y. 295; Shelton v. Railway Co., 29 Ohio St. 214; Frederick v. Railroad Co., 37 Mich. 342; Bradshaw v. Railroad Co., 135 Mass. 407; Murdock v. Railroad Co., 137 Mass. 293, 299; Railroad Co. v. Eleming, 14 Lea. 128. Judgment affirmed.
Affirming 17 Fed. Rep. 880.


||In twelve client matters, Respondent converted for his own use over $35,000.00 in fees and costs belonging to Respondentís former employer, in violation of Rules of Professional Conduct 1.15(a), 1.15(b), and 8.4(c). Respondentís misconduct took place from January 22, 2003 through July 31, 2006.
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Canvas, the cafe and art gallery opened by local artist James Pizzimenti at 348 6th Street, just off 5th Avenue, recently closed after less than a year in business. A sign posted in the window says “Japanese crepes and fresh juice,” potentially named 348 Crepe & Juice, is coming soon to the space.
We reached out to James, who opened Canvas as a place to showcase art and allow neighbors to have a drink or a bite to eat while they enjoyed the work, about the closure.
“I would like to thank all the patrons that did support Canvas and came to enjoy the great wine list and original art and atmosphere which I put my heart and soul into building,” he said. “Both me and Danielle made some great friends while we were there who we will miss.”
He says he plans to “reincarnate Canvas in a new Brooklyn location in the near future,” and hopes to include a full kitchen in the next version of the space.
To keep posted on that, and to find out more about James’ artwork and shows, you can find him on Facebook.
And we’ll keep an eye on this new space — apparently Japanese crepes are a thing, but from what we understand, they’re not much different from French crepes, though it does look like they’re super portable.


In a move that roughly parallels global capitalism’s quest for domain over the heavens since the late 1950s, Pirate Parties are now suggesting taking to the sky via balloon or satellite as a means of ensuring access to culture without the hindrances of territorial law. Basically a hi-tech, sci-fi redux of the British pirate radio pioneers of the 1960s. Here, here, here, and here.
Capital is driven to expand as it seeks ever more opportunities to intensify surplus value. In the last 200 years we have seen it expand from regional mercantilism, through colonialism, the expansion of the factory, and recently into globalised trade and manufacturing. It also took to the sky in the late 1950s as the “space race” was cast in terms of the cold war between “free” markets and state socialism. In a palpable sense, it was surmised that whoever got into space first would thus prove the superiority of their economic system. The Soviets got there first, followed soon after by the Americans. It is of no small significance that the purpose to which space was put was principally that of communication. And for years we have taken for granted that a) space is no longer contested, reinforced by international scientific cooperation aboard MIR and the ISS and (b) that it is there solely to be put to use by the ever expanding needs of capital, reinforced by the now current fascination with private citizens funding their own space exploration, by renewed dreams of space tourism, and tellingly by continued threats to the public funding of NASA.
It is within this scenario that those who are concerned with cultural freedom and intensified legal restrictions on the reuse of cultural work are now speculating on the use of space for goals that resist those of capital, at least at the level of IP. I think it’s also of some significance that resistance to intellectual property law – to be sure a law of the abstract and ethereal – is in this case literally taken to the ether. It’s also suggestive of the long history of space as the domain of the imagination, “out there” where anything is possible. Space is the place of dreams. In this way, it is refreshing to see discussion that takes place in the realm of speculation and the imagination rather than in the often dry and procedural arena of copyright law and international trade negotiations.


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Abstract In his dissection of the 1998 tobacco settlements, W. Kip Viscusi provides a window on how the ostensibly liberal public philosophy behind the modern American regulatory state betrays its foundational commitments. Animated by a moralizing concern with preventing harm to self, and a leftist antagonism towards corporate capitalism, ?progressive liberalism? at first foundered in its war against the tobacco industry in the face of traditional liberal counterarguments about individual autonomy, knowledge of risk, and choice. Only when progressive liberals translated their paternalist impulses into science?centered arguments about ignorance and addiction, which involve barriers to autonomous choice and harm to others, did they succeed in turning the legal and regulatory tide against smoking. This dynamic raises questions about the future of individual autonomy in a science?centered, progressive?liberal modern polity.
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NEW JERSEY ADMITS 199 AS ATTORNEYS; These Are Successful Out of Class of 430 Who Took State Examination in October. 64 COUNSELORS NAMED 192 Were Tested for Appointment-- 60 From Newark Win Permit for Practice--24 From Jersey City.
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Four out of five East End towns, including Riverhead, saw a decrease in Peconic Bay Community Preservation Fund revenues for 2011, according to information released this week by New York State Assemblyman Fred Thiele’s office.
The revenue, generated through a 2 percent real estate transaction tax, is used to fund preservation of open space, historic landmarks, recreational facilities and farmland.
Riverhead’s CPF revenue decreased 15.7 percent, collecting $1.93 million in 2011, according to the data. Southold brought in $3.62 million in 2010.
Shelter Island’s CPF revenue decreased the most, down 39.7 percent to $820,000 in 2011 from $1.15 million in 2010. He said Southold’s decreased 7.5 percent from its 2010 totals, taking in $3.35 million last year
Despite the decreases, overall revenues collected by the CPF increased by .01 percent with $58.85 million generated in 2011.
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Sometimes you just have to pull over on the side of the road and hurry up and get the camera out. Hurry. cause the daylight is scant. You see something – want to make a note of it. Driving home from Indiana PA last Saturday night, I saw this scene on the horizon at dusk. Limits of photography, the photograph can’t capture the expansive and open feel of the country, the space. This plant touts the third tallest chimney in the world. I went and read about it. I discovered it isn’t a nuclear plant. Those big coolers made it look nuclear to me. Flip a switch, turn on a burner, twist a faucet. We use energy daily. Don’t think much about the source, how it gets to us. You can read about it on Wikipedia. Here’s my visual.


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It's time to dive back into the madness and the mayhem of time travel that hinges on how a hot tub does or does not properly perform, because the first trailer for 'Hot Tub Time Machine 2' is here, and it's sudsy and silly as all get out.
Though the film was not the runaway hit hoped for when released in 2010, 'Hot Tub Time Machine' has proved popular enough on home video that MGM is exploring making a sequel to the time-travel comedy. And right now they're talking to everyone but star John Cusack.
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