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Underscoring the longtime instability of the Haitian government, the sentencing came the same day that the State Department announced sanctions against Laurent Lamothe, a prime minister under former President Michel Martelly, over allegations that Mr. Lamothe misappropriated for private gain at least $60 million from the Haitian government's PetroCaribe investment fund.
President Jovenel Moïse was killed on July 7, 2021, in an attack at his private residence on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince.
Murder Investigation: The United States, which assumed a leading role in investigating the death, has charged a former Colombian commando, a Haitian businessman and several other men, including three Americans, with the assassination.
He also "Provided funding to bribe certain Haitian officials who were responsible for providing security" for Mr. Moïse, according to the proffer, so the assassins could "Obtain access" to the president.
Mr. Moïse, 53, died after being shot 12 times when a team of Spanish-speaking commandos stormed his home outside the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, in July 2021.
Continue reading the main story Prosecutors say the plot against Mr. Moïse evolved over time, from an audacious plan to kidnap the Haitian president and escape the country via airplane to the assassination that was ultimately carried out.

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Here's my poor attempt to sell myself like a bad infomercial. My social circle is pretty much limited to people I work with or short conversations with customers. I live in the US on the East Coast but grew up on the West Coast. I have two high-energy dogs, an Australian shepherd mix and huskie mix. I have a 1 year old son. I do enjoy cooking and making new dishes, but I am by far the worst baker. My favorite TV show is the office, please don't say parks and rec is better. I've had many random jobs in the past, with even random stories to go along with. I'm a bit of a nerd, I have a comic collection and random Star Wars collectibles, but I'm not ashamed. I have a few tattoos that have no meaning at all, and I plan on getting more soon. My music taste is stuck in the early 2000s rock, punk, and screamo. I'm just trying to make a friend outside of work.

Living here is basically equivalent to living in a war zone. I hate how I can't afford anything else. I feel like I'm surrounded by poverty on a daily basis and wish that could live in a cool vibrant area like a story in queens, upper East side and Manhattan, Bushwick in Brooklyn

It wasn't the first time the proposal was brought up, but it was the first time in a long time had the wherewithal to refuse.
The Adrati Brotherhood was a militantly monotheistic culture that vied for galactic dominance neither through war nor diplomacy. The Human concept of evangelism paled in comparison to their efforts to convert literally every sapient being to their theocratic way of life.
They weren't a threat, of course, they were simply really fucking annoying.
Still, Human Councillor Graham stared at the Adrati Councillor with a look that was a mixture of sheer bafflement and exhaustion as the Adrati proceeded to filibuster. The Council was designed in such a way that anything less than a unanimous decision couldn't pass, it was a necessary bit of bureaucracy that ensured no singular species gained control of the Hedron.
The Adrati took advantage of this, and for the past three days had been filibustering each time ceaselessly, with stamina only a zealot could muster. In spite of the rest of the Council pleading with Graham to approve the tax and just move on with life, Graham refused.
Graham, back on Earth, had been part of the American Republican Reformist Party, which was distinct from the now-defunct 'Grand Old Party', a term which to this day was remarked on with some derision. While the R2P had long since divorced itself from the political party that it shot off from, there were a few tactics it still employed to this day.
"Friends of the Council." The Adrati started.
"Motion to have every species on the Council pay a non-believer tax for every religion they're not part of." Graham spoke. The Adrati was caught off guard by the Human's immediate interruption, had it not aligned with their goals, he would have complained.
"Human Councilor Graham, please explain." The Canician Councilor, Grahim, asked.
"It's simple." Graham replied. "If the Adrati can force the issue of a non-believer tax, so can I." He regarded the Adrati. "You currently demand a ten percent tax for anyone who doesn't believe in your religion, correct?"
"That is correct." The Adrati replied.
"I propose a one percent tax to be paid to any religion, to be waived at any time by a Councillor without need for Council approval." Graham stated. "I am willing to allow the Adrati to keep their ten percent. Is that agreeable, Adrati Councilor Gheiza?"
The Adrati was too caught up in his victory, he fervently nodded.
"Does the rest of the Council agree?"
Grahim stared at Graham for a few moments, then his eyes widened slightly. "I find this proposal agreeable." He said. "I would urge the Council to agree as well."
Humanity had a reputation for lateral thinking and taxes, the rest of the Council, more curious as to what he had planned, agreed. The vote was unanimous, and Gheiza flaunted his victory.
"First and foremost, I would like to waive any and all taxes my fellow Councilors have to pay, except the Adrati." Gheiza froze at the Human's words. "I will now proceed to list off every Human religion on and off the planet Earth. Starting with the East Asien religions, there is Confucionaism, Shinto, Taoism-"
"Wait, Human, what are you-?"
"Do not interrupt the Human Councilor." Grahim said with a (very accurate) wolfish grin. "Continue, Human Councilor Graham."
Graham nodded. "Benzhuism, Bimomism, Chinese Ancestral Worship..." Graham could filibuster like nobody's business, given the chance, and with each religion listed, he pulled up a well-researched and collated page dating back hundreds of years. "Onmyodo, Shugendo, Ainu..." With each religion added onto the list, the Adrati shriveled ever so slightly.
"Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Buddhism; of which there are several sects such as Mahayana, Tiantai, of which there are several sub-sects..."
Graham hadn't even strayed from East Asia, and had already listed dozens of religions, far more than any other species had developed. Such a fractious species, Humanity had warred over many things, and religion had been a major contender for most destructive, of which the debate over which sport was best was a close second.
"Moving on to the Abrahamic religions, starting with Judaism, the Baha'i faith, Christianity..."
By the point that Graham had listed the hundredth religion, the Council had shifted from amusement, to barely restrained mirth, to concern, and then finally to horror as one percent times one hundred was still one hundred percent, and even then, Graham continued to list more.
"C-Councilor Graham..." Vagraxi Councilor Ressa-Gashari. "You've listed over one hundred religions."
"I have." Graham replied. "I'm not even a fourth of the way through." He regarded the Adrati, who was trembling in his seat. "Adrati Councilor Gheiza, your entire species not only owes Humanity one hundred percent of your profits to Humanity, but you've accrued a debt so massive, the only way you could possibly pay it off is in slavery." The word was uttered casually, but the Council balked at the words.
Humanity despised slavery, it was one of the few things that guaranteed war with them. To hear a Human causally mention it was shocking. "Which is why I am willing to personally revoke that debt, if the Adrati Brotherhood agrees to never demand a non-believer tax on anyone ever again."
"I will comply." Gheiza said softly.
Graham clapped his hands together and smiled. "Excellent. Your understanding is vastly appreciated, I pray to all our myriad gods that we continue forward in peace." He regarded the Council, his expression serious. "Now, we have several days of backlog to go through, I've taken the liberty of collating everything into a handy resource, and request we all convene one week from now to address everything. I request we adjourn."
The request was granted.

Now analyzing a video of some shoplifters made me think: That's supposedly wrong, because that's what I've been conditioned to believe all my life. Abuse of the private property of Others (whether individuals or organizations) is wrong, even if they themselves do not take care of it at all. This made me connect with a police television program from my country, in which in a particular chapter the outcome was that the captured criminal suffered from "Antisocial Personality Disorder". At the moment of the interrogation in which he was caught with irrefutable evidence and understood that he was going to be sentenced, he said something like: "Por qué no iba a quedarme con ese dinero, si lo cuidaba tan poco que pareciera que lo estaba regalando" (Why wasn't I going to keep that money, if she took such little care of it that it seemed like she was giving it away). The officer looked at him with disgust in her facial expression and said "Tú estás enfermo" (You're sick).
My bottom line is that she couldn't give him any objective argument why he shouldn't/couldn't do what he did, they just captured him and forcibly locked him up because they could. I live in Cuba (a state that is a tyranny) and I have seen people jailed with 30-year sentences for simply saying what they think about the Communist Party or government leaders. If the only limit is force, and it doesn't matter if you "follow the law" or not, what's the point?

My partner is about to finish her residency and applying to fellowship, so we figured we'd try and get one last trip in before fellowship as this is the last time she'll be able to take off for 2-3 weeks at a time for a while.
I have opened up so many cards to accrue points literally just for this purpose (it did help that we had that wedding last year so I wasn't spending anything I wasn't going to).
So this is the situation, I have 300k MR and 227k MB right now and will have 100K UR by the end of July.
I'm trying to get to get at least J to and from East Coast of the US to TYO.
I looked at ORD, NYC, and IAD for ANA and they all have just 1J/1F open at 9PM EST.
I am willing to fly out of the west coast, I would just prefer east coast since if a flight gets delayed or canceled, there are at least more likely for me to make another flight rather than the west coast to get there. There's not that much wiggle room for the flying out date of 5/31/2024 but a good amount of wiggle room for the return date of mid to mid/late June .
What would be the safest strategy to approach this to get 2?

1. I just book a J/F round trip ORD on ANA and just hope a when T-14 opens up on the same day?
2. Try to just book the 2J/F on west coast on ANA? Unsure if this is viable since I only ran across this post for ANA award info a couple of days ago and haven't actually confirmed the 2 seat availability for myself (did not know you could set it to both Japan region and English at the same time). This just worries me a bit since if I transfer my points and I can't make this happen, I would've just lost all of it. Also, I have a question with this strategy, if 2 seats become available for NYC or ORD, how easy is it to change the ticket?
3. Some other airline/award strategy that I'm unaware of. I considered JAL, but considering I have very little AA points left and none in Alaska Airlines, I didn't think this was the way to go.

Any advice or guidance is appreciated! If I left out anything necessary to facilitate effective evaluation of my situation, I do apologize.

This is going to be yet another "woe is me" story. Feel free to skip.
I graduated with CS undergrad degree from a top Uni in India in 2021. My research interest is in ML which is super competitive and I didn't have much in the form of a profile except 2 pubs in Indian conferences. So I spent the next ~1.5 years beefing up my resume. I took up a full-time job at a startup while also working remotely as a research assistant. During this period I was easily working 80hr weeks, and was extremely burnt out. But it all paid off when I got a Neurips pub. I thought that with 3 pubs, with one of them in Neurips, and 3 more papers under review, I will easily get a PhD. Armed with this confidence, I left my job in November and started sending out applications.
Reality hit in January when I got a single interview out of my 11 applications. And that single interview was from my undergrad thesis advisor at Harvard, so I only got it because he knew me (he was also one of my LoR writers). Unfortunately he had a single opening and almost 200 applicants (got to know this from a postdoc at the lab), and I didn't get through. By March I had 11/11 rejects, with $1000+ down the drain.
I didn't want to get another job, so I thought, I will try again after improving my profile for a year. Now the bulk of my application is already set in stone. My GPA is kind of low (8.72/10), can't fix that anymore. My LoR writers will be the same, can't change that. The only thing I can do in a year is add more papers, so that's where I focused my efforts. Back in November, when I had quit my job, I started working with LAION, an open source research group on discord, run by volunteer researchers. I became one of the core contributors for one project and that led to another paper submitted to Neurips this year. In the meantime, out of my 3 under review papers, 1 got accepted to another top conference. Apart from this, I also got an ex-postdoc from my Harvard lab, who is now a Professor, to give me an RA contract.
For my open-source project I was working with a postdoc at Princeton. He said that for his PhD (he is from a bio background) he met with all his potential PIs beforehand and recommended me to reach out to profs as well. Now I had heard this advice before but didn't really pay heed to it because most CS profs have it clearly mentioned on their profiles to not contact them regarding admissions. The way around this is to apparently meet them at conferences, but that is prohibitively expensive for me (going to Neurips would have cost me $2500 when factoring in visa+flight+living costs). Since the Fall '24 deadline is quite a bit away, I thought I would reach out to potential PIs anyway and offer to be an RA at their labs, while clearly mentioning my intent to do a PhD with them. Basically giving PIs an option to try me for ~6 months before committing... except I got 0 responses from my cold emails. But hey, you only need one admit right? So I asked the Princeton postdoc about his lab. He said that the lab was indeed looking for PhDs and asked me to email his Prof with my interests and details about our previous work together. But, my mail was met with a one liner response asking me to apply directly to CS/ECE PhD programs.
It is now beginning to set in that literally nothing will change for me by the end of this year, except having 1-2 more papers, meaning the upcoming application cycle will not be any different. Cold mails are a shot in the dark, getting an answer is like winning a lottery. But even with warm intros, which take months of (unpaid) work to setup, I am being told to fuck off.
So here I am, burnt out, kinda depressed and with no sense of direction, coming to terms with the possibility that academia may not be for me. On top of that my field keeps moving at an unforgiving pace. Oh you are doing self-supervised learning? Diffusion models are the new cool thing. You mastered diffusion models? Too bad we moved on to LLMs. I am dreading writing a new SoP for this year. You are expected to portray a happy and hopeful image in SoPs, how you are going to change the world with your research... I am way too jaded to pull that off. I could also apply to lower tier colleges, but I really need an EB1-B visa after I graduate and for that you have to prove to the US Government that you are "an extraordinary individual". Kind of hard to do if you are going to a low-tier college. Also after the amount of work I put in, I really don't want to apply to Profs who have fewer pubs than I have. At that point it might be better to sell my soul go back into industry. At least I will have money.

Now that the Government has suspended Regulation D indefinitely (https://www.federalreserve.gov/supervis ... stions.htm) -- this is the regulation that used to limit withdrawals to 6 per month on savings accounts -- I'm wondering if banks encouraging use of savings accounts as primary accounts will become more popular over the next few years.
M1 Finance seems to already be doing this with their 5% savings account with up to 5 million in FDIC insurance and Unlimited transactions.
If you think about it, the only benefit checking accounts offer are debit cards and check, neither which apply to many people these days. I haven't written a check in ages, and I don't use debit cards as I prefer responsible use of credit card points. Pretty sure you can attach a good old ATM card to a savings account, so banks who want to offer ATM access and/or ATM refunds will still be able to do so (albeit without a debit card).
I'm actually thinking of switching my primary account to M1's savings account for both direct deposit and ACH withdrawal of bills. I have about ~10 bills per month when all is said and done. I know the Fidelity CMA and/or brokerage account have similar features if you enable checks, debit card, etc. but for me, the interface makes it really challenging to filter out certain transactions.
Curious what others think. Is anyone planning on using their M1 savings account as their primary "checking" account?

I recently got married and will be pcsing soon. My wife has to settle a few family affairs before moving with me so I want to know how does the BAH situation work?
Will I receive BAH in order to set up a household for us? Does it start from the day we got married… if so what zip code would I start it for since my wife won’t be moving with me for a few months.
I read this
“A member with dependents (except for a member paying child support) serving an unaccompanied overseas tour, is eligible for BAH at the with-dependent rate, based on the dependent's U.S. residence zip code, plus Family Separation Allowance (FSH) at the OCONUS PDS, if the member is not provided Government housing overseas.” But It doesn’t say when would my BAH start or if I would even be eligible since I don’t PCS for another few months and since she won’t be moving with me immediately.

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