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"time": "2023-10-03", - "rowNumber": 577 - }, { "title": ":desktop_computer: [[Selfhosting]], [[Server Tools|Tools]]: Upgrader Gitea & Health checks %%done_del%%", "time": "2023-10-18", - "rowNumber": 585 + "rowNumber": 586 }, { "title": ":closed_lock_with_key: [[Selfhosting]], [[Server Tools|Tools]]: Upgrader Bitwarden & Health checks %%done_del%%", "time": "2023-12-17", - "rowNumber": 591 + "rowNumber": 592 }, { "title": ":hammer_and_wrench: [[Selfhosting]], [[Server Tools|Tools]]: Upgrader Standard Notes & Health checks %%done_del%%", "time": "2024-01-18", - "rowNumber": 598 + "rowNumber": 599 + }, + { + "title": ":hammer_and_wrench: [[Server Tools]]: Backup server %%done_del%%", + "time": "2024-04-02", + "rowNumber": 577 } ], "05.02 Networks/Server VPN.md": [ - { - "title": ":shield: [[Server VPN]]: Backup server %%done_del%%", - "time": "2023-10-03", - "rowNumber": 285 - }, { "title": ":shield: [[Selfhosting]], [[Server VPN|VPN]]: Check VPN state & dashboard %%done_del%%", "time": "2023-12-18", - "rowNumber": 292 + "rowNumber": 293 + }, + { + "title": ":shield: [[Server VPN]]: Backup server %%done_del%%", + "time": "2024-04-02", + "rowNumber": 285 } ], "04.01 lebv.org/Hosting Tasks.md": [ + { + "title": ":fleur_de_lis: [[Hosting Tasks|Hosting]]: Explore the possibility of webhosting through [[Hosting Tasks#Decentralised hosting|decentralised services]] (Blockchain)", + "time": "2023-12-31", + "rowNumber": 70 + }, { "title": ":fleur_de_lis: [[Hosting Tasks|Hosting]]: [[Hosting Tasks#Backup procedure|backup]] the DB & Files %%done_del%%", - "time": "2023-10-04", + "time": "2024-01-03", "rowNumber": 71 }, { "title": ":fleur_de_lis: [[Hosting Tasks|Hosting]]: [[Hosting Tasks#PHP versioning|Check the php version]] of the website %%done_del%%", - "time": "2023-10-04", - "rowNumber": 74 - }, - { - "title": ":fleur_de_lis: [[Hosting Tasks|Hosting]]: Explore the possibility of webhosting through [[Hosting Tasks#Decentralised hosting|decentralised services]] (Blockchain)", - "time": "2023-12-31", - "rowNumber": 70 + "time": "2024-01-03", + "rowNumber": 75 } ], "04.01 lebv.org/WebPublishing Tasks.md": [ @@ -340,39 +340,39 @@ ], "01.02 Home/Household.md": [ { - "title": "♻ [[Household]]: *Cardboard* recycling collection %%done_del%%", - "time": "2023-10-03", - "rowNumber": 76 + "title": ":bed: [[Household]] Change bedsheets %%done_del%%", + "time": "2023-10-14", + "rowNumber": 87 }, { - "title": "🛎 🧻 REMINDER [[Household]]: check need for toilet paper %%done_del%%", - "time": "2023-10-09", - "rowNumber": 83 + "title": ":blue_car: [[Household]]: Change to Winter tyres %%done_del%%", + "time": "2023-10-15", + "rowNumber": 94 }, { - "title": "♻ [[Household]]: *Paper* recycling collection %%done_del%%", - "time": "2023-10-10", - "rowNumber": 75 + "title": "🛎 🧻 REMINDER [[Household]]: check need for toilet paper %%done_del%%", + "time": "2023-10-16", + "rowNumber": 85 }, { - "title": ":bed: [[Household]] Change bedsheets %%done_del%%", - "time": "2023-10-14", - "rowNumber": 84 + "title": "♻ [[Household]]: *Cardboard* recycling collection %%done_del%%", + "time": "2023-10-17", + "rowNumber": 77 }, { - "title": ":blue_car: [[Household]]: Change to Winter tyres %%done_del%%", - "time": "2023-10-15", - "rowNumber": 91 + "title": "♻ [[Household]]: *Paper* recycling collection %%done_del%%", + "time": "2023-10-24", + "rowNumber": 75 }, { "title": "🛎️ :house: [[Household]]: Pay rent %%done_del%%", "time": "2023-10-31", - "rowNumber": 82 + "rowNumber": 84 }, { "title": ":blue_car: [[Household]]: Change to Summer tyres %%done_del%%", "time": "2024-04-15", - "rowNumber": 90 + "rowNumber": 93 } ], "01.03 Family/Pia Bousquié.md": [ @@ -390,25 +390,25 @@ } ], "01.01 Life Orga/@Finances.md": [ - { - "title": ":heavy_dollar_sign: [[@Finances|Finances]]: update crypto prices within Obsidian %%done_del%%", - "time": "2023-10-10", - "rowNumber": 113 - }, { "title": ":moneybag: [[@Finances]]: Transfer UK pension to CH %%done_del%%", "time": "2023-10-31", "rowNumber": 112 }, + { + "title": ":heavy_dollar_sign: [[@Finances|Finances]]: update crypto prices within Obsidian %%done_del%%", + "time": "2023-11-14", + "rowNumber": 113 + }, { "title": ":heavy_dollar_sign: [[@Finances|Finances]]: Close yearly accounts %%done_del%%", "time": "2024-01-07", - "rowNumber": 122 + "rowNumber": 123 }, { "title": ":heavy_dollar_sign: [[@Finances|Finances]]: Swiss tax self declaration %%done_del%%", "time": "2024-01-07", - "rowNumber": 123 + "rowNumber": 124 } ], "01.01 Life Orga/@Personal projects.md": [ @@ -443,25 +443,25 @@ "06.02 Investments/Crypto Tasks.md": [ { "title": ":ballot_box: [[Crypto Tasks]]: Vote for [[EOS]] block producers %%done_del%%", - "time": "2023-10-03", + "time": "2023-11-07", "rowNumber": 72 }, { "title": ":chart: Check [[Nimbus]] earnings %%done_del%%", - "time": "2023-10-09", - "rowNumber": 82 + "time": "2023-11-13", + "rowNumber": 83 } ], "05.02 Networks/Configuring UFW.md": [ { "title": "🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%%", - "time": "2023-10-07", + "time": "2023-10-14", "rowNumber": 239 }, { "title": "🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list %%done_del%%", - "time": "2023-10-07", - "rowNumber": 277 + "time": "2023-10-14", + "rowNumber": 278 } ], "01.03 Family/Amélie Solanet.md": [ @@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ }, { "title": "🎬 [[Entertainment]]: African territory", - "time": "2023-10-30", + "time": "2024-04-30", "rowNumber": 66 } ], @@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ "01.07 Animals/@Sally.md": [ { "title": ":racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]]: Pay for horseshoes (150 CHF) %%done_del%%", - "time": "2023-10-10", + "time": "2023-11-10", "rowNumber": 131 }, { @@ -676,13 +676,6 @@ "rowNumber": 104 } ], - "00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-05-10.md": [ - { - "title": "13:38 :blue_car: [[@Life Admin|Admin]], [[2023-05-10|Memo]]: Change driving licence at Verkehrsamt", - "time": "2023-05-30", - "rowNumber": 103 - } - ], "01.05 Done/@@MRCK.md": [ { "title": ":birthday: **[[@@MRCK|Meggi-mo]]‘s Mama** (1952) %%done_del%%", @@ -727,7 +720,7 @@ "01.07 Animals/2023-07-13 Health check.md": [ { "title": ":racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]], [[2023-07-13 Health check|Note]]: Check front hoofs healing", - "time": "2023-10-10", + "time": "2023-10-24", "rowNumber": 53 } ], @@ -738,13 +731,6 @@ "rowNumber": 105 } ], - "00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-09-14.md": [ - { - "title": "16:14 :house: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Start checking auction website for opportunities to buy", - "time": "2023-10-15", - "rowNumber": 105 - } - ], "00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-09-15.md": [ { "title": "14:11 :house: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Find a repair shop for toaster", @@ -759,13 +745,6 @@ "rowNumber": 103 } ], - "00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-09-20.md": [ - { - "title": "12:04 :house: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Change address at Verkehrsamt", - "time": "2023-09-30", - "rowNumber": 107 - } - ], "01.07 Animals/2023-09-21 Last ironing.md": [ { "title": "🐎 [[@Sally|Sally]], [[2023-09-21 Last ironing|Irons]]: Organise new irons on front hoofs", @@ -785,11 +764,64 @@ "rowNumber": 104 } ], - "00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-01.md": [ + "00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-02.md": [ { - "title": "10:08 :house: :potted_plant: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Look at plants and aromatic garden", - "time": "2023-10-31", + "title": "22:17 :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]]: Organise a visit to the fields", + "time": "2023-11-01", + "rowNumber": 104 + }, + { + "title": "07:40 :racehorse: [[@Lifestyle|Polo]]: Ask [[Juan Bautista Bossio|Juan]] to buy tacos (2 52; 1 53)", + "time": "2024-01-31", "rowNumber": 103 + }, + { + "title": "22:25 :potted_plant: [[Household]]: Start organising the aromatic garden rack", + "time": "2024-02-28", + "rowNumber": 105 + } + ], + "00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-03.md": [ + { + "title": "14:32 🛞 [[Rex Automobile CH]]: Inspect snow chains for the season", + "time": "2023-12-01", + "rowNumber": 104 + } + ], + "01.08 Garden/Viorne Tin.md": [ + { + "title": ":potted_plant: [[Viorne Tin]]: Re-empotter dans plus grand (curr. 8L)", + "time": "2024-03-31", + "rowNumber": 84 + } + ], + "00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-07.md": [ + { + "title": "17:34 :house: :potted_plant: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Buy a 3rd pot for the upcoming plant", + "time": "2023-10-14", + "rowNumber": 103 + } + ], + "00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-09.md": [ + { + "title": "08:42 :potted_plant: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Buy garden accessories (watering can, bine, secateur)s", + "time": "2023-10-13", + "rowNumber": 103 + }, + { + "title": "08:44 :house: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Buy a desk for the front room", + "time": "2023-11-30", + "rowNumber": 104 + }, + { + "title": "08:46 :speaker: [[@Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]: Re-organise my music in the main room", + "time": "2023-12-31", + "rowNumber": 105 + }, + { + "title": "09:28 :house: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Buy a small table for the sleeping room", + "time": "2023-12-31", + "rowNumber": 106 } ] }, diff --git a/.obsidian/plugins/templater-obsidian/main.js b/.obsidian/plugins/templater-obsidian/main.js index c891a6f6..cdfe6393 100644 --- a/.obsidian/plugins/templater-obsidian/main.js +++ b/.obsidian/plugins/templater-obsidian/main.js @@ -1738,6 +1738,9 @@ function arraymove(arr, fromIndex, toIndex) { arr[fromIndex] = arr[toIndex]; arr[toIndex] = element; } +function get_active_file(app2) { + return app2.workspace.activeEditor?.file ?? app2.workspace.getActiveFile(); +} // src/settings/suggesters/FileSuggester.ts var FileSuggestMode; @@ -3482,7 +3485,7 @@ var Templater = class { this.plugin.registerMarkdownPostProcessor((el, ctx) => this.process_dynamic_templates(el, ctx)); } create_running_config(template_file, target_file, run_mode) { - const active_file = app.workspace.activeEditor?.file; + const active_file = get_active_file(app); return { template_file, target_file, @@ -3505,7 +3508,7 @@ var Templater = class { const new_file_location = app.vault.getConfig("newFileLocation"); switch (new_file_location) { case "current": { - const active_file = app.workspace.activeEditor?.file; + const active_file = get_active_file(app); if (active_file) { folder = active_file.parent; } @@ -5365,7 +5368,7 @@ var Editor2 = class { if (auto_jump && !this.plugin.settings.auto_jump_to_cursor) { return; } - if (file && app.workspace.activeEditor?.file !== file) { + if (file && get_active_file(app) !== file) { return; } await this.cursor_jumper.jump_to_next_cursor_location(); diff --git a/.obsidian/plugins/templater-obsidian/manifest.json b/.obsidian/plugins/templater-obsidian/manifest.json index b28f9ee7..cc3b9216 100644 --- a/.obsidian/plugins/templater-obsidian/manifest.json +++ b/.obsidian/plugins/templater-obsidian/manifest.json @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ { "id": "templater-obsidian", "name": "Templater", - "version": "1.16.1", + "version": "1.16.2", "description": "Create and use templates", "minAppVersion": "0.11.13", "author": "SilentVoid", diff --git a/.obsidian/snippets/folder_4_icon.css b/.obsidian/snippets/folder_4_icon.css index e1025cf9..b76572bb 100644 --- a/.obsidian/snippets/folder_4_icon.css +++ b/.obsidian/snippets/folder_4_icon.css @@ -73,6 +73,11 @@ div[data-path="01.07 Animals"] .nav-folder-title-content::before content: "🐾 "; } +div[data-path="01.08 Garden"] .nav-folder-title-content::before +{ + content: "🪴 "; +} + div[data-path="02.01 London"] .nav-folder-title-content::before { content: "🎡 "; diff --git a/.obsidian/workspace-mobile.json b/.obsidian/workspace-mobile.json index b26ff24f..a538b04a 100644 --- a/.obsidian/workspace-mobile.json +++ b/.obsidian/workspace-mobile.json @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ "state": { "type": "markdown", "state": { - "file": "03.04 Cinematheque/The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (2003).md", + "file": "00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-10.md", "mode": "preview", "source": false } @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ "state": { "type": "backlink", "state": { - "file": "03.04 Cinematheque/The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (2003).md", + "file": "00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-10.md", "collapseAll": false, "extraContext": false, "sortOrder": "alphabetical", @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ "state": { "type": "outgoing-link", "state": { - "file": "03.04 Cinematheque/The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (2003).md", + "file": "00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-10.md", "linksCollapsed": false, "unlinkedCollapsed": false } @@ -239,50 +239,53 @@ "obsidian-gallery:Gallery": false, "obsidian-metatable:Metatable": false, "obsidian-full-calendar:Open Full Calendar": false, - "obsidian-memos:Memos": false, - "templater-obsidian:Templater": false, "meld-encrypt:New encrypted note": false, - "meld-encrypt:Convert to or from an Encrypted note": false + "meld-encrypt:Convert to or from an Encrypted note": false, + "templater-obsidian:Templater": false, + "obsidian-memos:Memos": false } }, - "active": "1f6a6b4151d812b3", + "active": "2d9db1814950ef3b", "lastOpenFiles": [ - 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"00.03 News/Police called her hanging a suicide. 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A literal zoo..md", - "00.03 News/Patricia Lockwood · Where be your jibes now David Foster Wallace · LRB 13 July 2023.md", + "00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-10.md", + "00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-09.md", + "01.08 Garden/@Plants.md", + "03.03 Food & Wine/Msakhan Fatteh.md", + "01.02 Home/@Shopping list.md", + "03.03 Food & Wine/Korean Barbecue-Style Meatballs.md", + "00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-08.md", + "00.03 News/America’s epidemic of chronic illness is killing us too soon.md", + "00.03 News/The Inside Job A crooked cop, a dead man and an $800,000 estate fraud.md", + "00.03 News/In Defense of the Rat Hakai Magazine.md", + "00.03 News/A Young Man's Path Through the Mental Health Care System Led to Prison — and a Fatal Encounter Crime Seven Days.md", + "00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-07.md", + "01.07 Animals/@Sally.md", + "00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-03.md", + "00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-04.md", + "00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-05.md", + "00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-06.md", + "01.08 Garden/Viorne Tin.md", + "01.08 Garden/Hibiscus Syriacus Oiseau Bleu.md", + "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Hibiscus/IMG_3898.jpg", + "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Hibiscus/IMG_3899.jpg", + "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Hibiscus", + "00.02 Inbox/Consent.md", + "02.03 Zürich/@@Zürich.md", + "00.02 Inbox/Template.md", + "00.03 News/The Global Sperm Count Decline Has Created Big Business.md", + "01.02 Home/Bandes Dessinées.md", + "01.02 Home/Entertainment.md", + "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Viorne Tin/IMG_3889.jpg", + "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Viorne Tin/IMG_3890.jpg", + "00.01 Admin/Pictures/ima2787069855116213160.jpeg", + "00.01 Admin/Pictures/IMG_1942.jpg", + "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Viorne Tin", + "01.08 Garden", "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Sally/ima1046640698913285522.jpeg", "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Sally/8db2ca52-4745-49db-8efc-5c0b8795e65d.jpg", "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Sally/ac7647bf-ac03-45fe-a4d5-d0eab35198ea.jpg", "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Sally/ima13927264761198733686.jpeg", - "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Sally/IMG_3710.jpg", - "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Sally/IMG_3716.jpg", - "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Sally/IMG_3711.jpg", - "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Sally/IMG_3367.jpg", - "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Sally/IMG_3149.jpg", - "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Sally/IMG_3152.jpg", "00.01 Admin/Test Canvas.canvas", "00.01 Admin/Pictures/Sally", "01.07 Animals", diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-05-10.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-05-10.md index 67b3647e..53b94fb1 100644 --- a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-05-10.md +++ b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-05-10.md @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ hide task count This section does serve for quick memos.   -- [ ] 13:38 :blue_car: [[@Life Admin|Admin]], [[2023-05-10|Memo]]: Change driving licence at Verkehrsamt 📅 2023-05-30 +- [x] 13:38 :blue_car: [[@Life Admin|Admin]], [[2023-05-10|Memo]]: Change driving licence at Verkehrsamt 📅 2023-05-30 ✅ 2023-10-03 %% --- %% diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-09-14.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-09-14.md index d3180038..45bc4549 100644 --- a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-09-14.md +++ b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-09-14.md @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ This section does serve for quick memos.   - [x] 16:12 :house: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Buy shelves for the pantry 📅 2023-09-30 ✅ 2023-09-20 ^temkxw - [x] 16:13 :house: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Buy furnitures for the balcony 📅 2023-09-30 ✅ 2023-09-20 -- [ ] 16:14 :house: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Start checking auction website for opportunities to buy 📅 2023-10-15 +- [x] 16:14 :house: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Start checking auction website for opportunities to buy 📅 2023-10-15 ✅ 2023-10-09 - [x] 16:17 :house: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Buy lamps for the flat 📅 2023-09-28 ✅ 2023-09-29 - [x] 16:25 :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]]: Print Health certificate 📅 2023-09-20 ✅ 2023-09-18 diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-09-20.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-09-20.md index 9dce5d2c..9bd459be 100644 --- a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-09-20.md +++ b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-09-20.md @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ This section does serve for quick memos. - [x] 11:57 :house: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Change address at the bank 📅 2023-09-30 ✅ 2023-09-21 - [x] 11:58 :house: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Change address for Insurances 📅 2023-09-30 ✅ 2023-09-29 - [x] 11:59 :house: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Change address at Consulate 📅 2023-09-30 ✅ 2023-09-30 -- [ ] 12:04 :house: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Change address at Verkehrsamt 📅2023-09-30 +- [x] 12:04 :house: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Change address at Verkehrsamt 📅 2023-09-30 ✅ 2023-10-03 %% --- %% diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-09-29.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-09-29.md index 86fbc93d..ffa64804 100644 --- a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-09-29.md +++ b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-09-29.md @@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ This section does serve for quick memos.   +🐎: [[2023-09-29 Transport to Field|Transfer]] of [[@Sally|Sally]] to [[Felix Hoffmann]]‘s field + 🍽: [[William's ButchersTable]]   diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-01.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-01.md index 7ebfde52..7f04e885 100644 --- a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-01.md +++ b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-01.md @@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ Stress: 25 FrontHeadBar: 5 EarHeadBar: 20 BackHeadBar: 30 -Water: 2.5 +Water: 3.5 Coffee: 2 -Steps: +Steps: 10370 Weight: Ski: IceSkating: @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ hide task count This section does serve for quick memos.   -- [ ] 10:08 :house: :potted_plant: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Look at plants and aromatic garden 📅2023-10-31 ^fixwhn +- [x] 10:08 :house: :potted_plant: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Look at plants and aromatic garden 📅 2023-10-31 ✅ 2023-10-07 ^fixwhn %% --- %% diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-02.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-02.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2f068142 --- /dev/null +++ b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-02.md @@ -0,0 +1,137 @@ +--- + +title: "🗒 Daily Note" +allDay: true +date: 2023-10-02 +Date: 2023-10-02 +DocType: Note +Hierarchy: +TimeStamp: +location: +CollapseMetaTable: true +Sleep: 7.5 +Happiness: 85 +Gratefulness: 90 +Stress: 25 +FrontHeadBar: 5 +EarHeadBar: 20 +BackHeadBar: 30 +Water: 3.5 +Coffee: 3 +Steps: 13616 +Weight: +Ski: +IceSkating: +Riding: +Racket: +Football: +Swim: + +--- + +%% Parent:: [[@Life Admin]] %% + +--- + +[[2023-10-01|<< 🗓 Previous ]]       [[@Main Dashboard|Back]]       [[2023-10-03|🗓 Next >>]] + +--- + +  + +```button +name Record today's health +type command +action MetaEdit: Run MetaEdit +id EditMetaData +``` +^button-2023-10-02Edit + +```button +name Save +type command +action Save current file +id Save +``` +^button-2023-10-02NSave + +  + +# 2023-10-02 + +  + +> [!summary]+ +> Daily note for 2023-10-02 + +  + +```toc +style: number +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### ✅ Tasks of the day + +  + +```tasks +not done +due on 2023-10-02 +path does not include Templates +hide backlinks +hide task count +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📝 Memos + +  + +This section does serve for quick memos. + +  +- [ ] 07:40 :racehorse: [[@Lifestyle|Polo]]: Ask [[Juan Bautista Bossio|Juan]] to buy tacos (2 52; 1 53) 📅2024-01-31 +- [ ] 22:17 :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]]: Organise a visit to the fields 📅2023-11-01 +- [ ] 22:25 :potted_plant: [[Household]]: Start organising the aromatic garden rack 📅2024-02-28 + + +%% --- %% +  + +--- + +  + +### 🗒 Notes + +  + +🍽: [[Beef Noodles with Beans]] + +  + +--- + +  + +### :link: Linked activity + +  + +```dataview +Table from [[2023-10-02]] +``` + +  +  \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-03.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-03.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c334a3c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-03.md @@ -0,0 +1,138 @@ +--- + +title: "🗒 Daily Note" +allDay: true +date: 2023-10-03 +Date: 2023-10-03 +DocType: Note +Hierarchy: +TimeStamp: +location: +CollapseMetaTable: true +Sleep: 7.5 +Happiness: 85 +Gratefulness: 90 +Stress: 25 +FrontHeadBar: 5 +EarHeadBar: 20 +BackHeadBar: 30 +Water: 4.08 +Coffee: 3 +Steps: 10229 +Weight: 89.8 +Ski: +IceSkating: +Riding: +Racket: +Football: +Swim: + +--- + +%% Parent:: [[@Life Admin]] %% + +--- + +[[2023-10-02|<< 🗓 Previous ]]       [[@Main Dashboard|Back]]       [[2023-10-04|🗓 Next >>]] + +--- + +  + +```button +name Record today's health +type command +action MetaEdit: Run MetaEdit +id EditMetaData +``` +^button-2023-10-03Edit + +```button +name Save +type command +action Save current file +id Save +``` +^button-2023-10-03NSave + +  + +# 2023-10-03 + +  + +> [!summary]+ +> Daily note for 2023-10-03 + +  + +```toc +style: number +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### ✅ Tasks of the day + +  + +```tasks +not done +due on 2023-10-03 +path does not include Templates +hide backlinks +hide task count +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📝 Memos + +  + +This section does serve for quick memos. + +  +- [x] 12:44 :potted_plant: [[Household]]: Buy broom to clean terrace with soil & such 📅 2023-10-17 ✅ 2023-10-07 +- [ ] 14:32 🛞 [[Rex Automobile CH]]: Inspect snow chains for the season 📅2023-12-01 + + +%% --- %% +  + +--- + +  + +### 🗒 Notes + +  + +🪴: Bought the [[Viorne Tin]] + +🚆: [[@@Zürich|Zürich]] to [[@@Paris|Paris]] + +  + +--- + +  + +### :link: Linked activity + +  + +```dataview +Table from [[2023-10-03]] +``` + +  +  \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-04.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-04.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d4ef7ccf --- /dev/null +++ b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-04.md @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +--- + +title: "🗒 Daily Note" +allDay: true +date: 2023-10-04 +Date: 2023-10-04 +DocType: Note +Hierarchy: +TimeStamp: +location: +CollapseMetaTable: true +Sleep: 7.5 +Happiness: 85 +Gratefulness: 90 +Stress: 25 +FrontHeadBar: 5 +EarHeadBar: 20 +BackHeadBar: 30 +Water: 3.5 +Coffee: 6 +Steps: 8614 +Weight: +Ski: +IceSkating: +Riding: +Racket: +Football: +Swim: + +--- + +%% Parent:: [[@Life Admin]] %% + +--- + +[[2023-10-03|<< 🗓 Previous ]]       [[@Main Dashboard|Back]]       [[2023-10-05|🗓 Next >>]] + +--- + +  + +```button +name Record today's health +type command +action MetaEdit: Run MetaEdit +id EditMetaData +``` +^button-2023-10-04Edit + +```button +name Save +type command +action Save current file +id Save +``` +^button-2023-10-04NSave + +  + +# 2023-10-04 + +  + +> [!summary]+ +> Daily note for 2023-10-04 + +  + +```toc +style: number +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### ✅ Tasks of the day + +  + +```tasks +not done +due on 2023-10-04 +path does not include Templates +hide backlinks +hide task count +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📝 Memos + +  + +This section does serve for quick memos. + +  + + +%% --- %% +  + +--- + +  + +### 🗒 Notes + +  + +Loret ipsum + +  + +--- + +  + +### :link: Linked activity + +  + +```dataview +Table from [[2023-10-04]] +``` + +  +  \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-05.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-05.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8da55fe7 --- /dev/null +++ b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-05.md @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +--- + +title: "🗒 Daily Note" +allDay: true +date: 2023-10-05 +Date: 2023-10-05 +DocType: Note +Hierarchy: +TimeStamp: +location: +CollapseMetaTable: true +Sleep: 7.5 +Happiness: 85 +Gratefulness: 90 +Stress: 25 +FrontHeadBar: 5 +EarHeadBar: 20 +BackHeadBar: 30 +Water: 4.15 +Coffee: 5 +Steps: 10859 +Weight: +Ski: +IceSkating: +Riding: +Racket: +Football: +Swim: + +--- + +%% Parent:: [[@Life Admin]] %% + +--- + +[[2023-10-04|<< 🗓 Previous ]]       [[@Main Dashboard|Back]]       [[2023-10-06|🗓 Next >>]] + +--- + +  + +```button +name Record today's health +type command +action MetaEdit: Run MetaEdit +id EditMetaData +``` +^button-2023-10-05Edit + +```button +name Save +type command +action Save current file +id Save +``` +^button-2023-10-05NSave + +  + +# 2023-10-05 + +  + +> [!summary]+ +> Daily note for 2023-10-05 + +  + +```toc +style: number +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### ✅ Tasks of the day + +  + +```tasks +not done +due on 2023-10-05 +path does not include Templates +hide backlinks +hide task count +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📝 Memos + +  + +This section does serve for quick memos. + +  + + +%% --- %% +  + +--- + +  + +### 🗒 Notes + +  + +Loret ipsum + +  + +--- + +  + +### :link: Linked activity + +  + +```dataview +Table from [[2023-10-05]] +``` + +  +  \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-06.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-06.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..dec09ab1 --- /dev/null +++ b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-06.md @@ -0,0 +1,136 @@ +--- + +title: "🗒 Daily Note" +allDay: true +date: 2023-10-06 +Date: 2023-10-06 +DocType: Note +Hierarchy: +TimeStamp: +location: +CollapseMetaTable: true +Sleep: 7.5 +Happiness: 85 +Gratefulness: 90 +Stress: 25 +FrontHeadBar: 5 +EarHeadBar: 20 +BackHeadBar: 30 +Water: 4.25 +Coffee: 5 +Steps: 9917 +Weight: +Ski: +IceSkating: +Riding: +Racket: +Football: +Swim: + +--- + +%% Parent:: [[@Life Admin]] %% + +--- + +[[2023-10-05|<< 🗓 Previous ]]       [[@Main Dashboard|Back]]       [[2023-10-07|🗓 Next >>]] + +--- + +  + +```button +name Record today's health +type command +action MetaEdit: Run MetaEdit +id EditMetaData +``` +^button-2023-10-06Edit + +```button +name Save +type command +action Save current file +id Save +``` +^button-2023-10-06NSave + +  + +# 2023-10-06 + +  + +> [!summary]+ +> Daily note for 2023-10-06 + +  + +```toc +style: number +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### ✅ Tasks of the day + +  + +```tasks +not done +due on 2023-10-06 +path does not include Templates +hide backlinks +hide task count +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📝 Memos + +  + +This section does serve for quick memos. + +  + + +%% --- %% +  + +--- + +  + +### 🗒 Notes + +  + +🚆: [[@@Paris|Paris]] à [[@@Zürich|Zürich]] + +📖: [[Le Camp des Saints]] + +  + +--- + +  + +### :link: Linked activity + +  + +```dataview +Table from [[2023-10-06]] +``` + +  +  \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-07.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-07.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..727a96d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-07.md @@ -0,0 +1,136 @@ +--- + +title: "🗒 Daily Note" +allDay: true +date: 2023-10-07 +Date: 2023-10-07 +DocType: Note +Hierarchy: +TimeStamp: +location: +CollapseMetaTable: true +Sleep: 8 +Happiness: 85 +Gratefulness: 90 +Stress: 25 +FrontHeadBar: 5 +EarHeadBar: 20 +BackHeadBar: 30 +Water: 3.6 +Coffee: 2 +Steps: 9835 +Weight: +Ski: +IceSkating: +Riding: +Racket: +Football: +Swim: + +--- + +%% Parent:: [[@Life Admin]] %% + +--- + +[[2023-10-06|<< 🗓 Previous ]]       [[@Main Dashboard|Back]]       [[2023-10-08|🗓 Next >>]] + +--- + +  + +```button +name Record today's health +type command +action MetaEdit: Run MetaEdit +id EditMetaData +``` +^button-2023-10-07Edit + +```button +name Save +type command +action Save current file +id Save +``` +^button-2023-10-07NSave + +  + +# 2023-10-07 + +  + +> [!summary]+ +> Daily note for 2023-10-07 + +  + +```toc +style: number +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### ✅ Tasks of the day + +  + +```tasks +not done +due on 2023-10-07 +path does not include Templates +hide backlinks +hide task count +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📝 Memos + +  + +This section does serve for quick memos. + +  +- [ ] 17:34 :house: :potted_plant: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Buy a 3rd pot for the upcoming plant 📅2023-10-14 +- [x] 17:34 :house: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Organise a handyman to fix the ceiling lamps 📅 2023-10-13 ✅ 2023-10-09 + + +%% --- %% +  + +--- + +  + +### 🗒 Notes + +  + +🪴: bought my [[Hibiscus Syriacus Oiseau Bleu]] + +  + +--- + +  + +### :link: Linked activity + +  + +```dataview +Table from [[2023-10-07]] +``` + +  +  \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-08.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-08.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2dd8ca28 --- /dev/null +++ b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-08.md @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +--- + +title: "🗒 Daily Note" +allDay: true +date: 2023-10-08 +Date: 2023-10-08 +DocType: Note +Hierarchy: +TimeStamp: +location: +CollapseMetaTable: true +Sleep: 8.5 +Happiness: 85 +Gratefulness: 90 +Stress: 25 +FrontHeadBar: 5 +EarHeadBar: 20 +BackHeadBar: 30 +Water: 3.8 +Coffee: 1 +Steps: 13987 +Weight: +Ski: +IceSkating: +Riding: +Racket: +Football: +Swim: + +--- + +%% Parent:: [[@Life Admin]] %% + +--- + +[[2023-10-07|<< 🗓 Previous ]]       [[@Main Dashboard|Back]]       [[2023-10-09|🗓 Next >>]] + +--- + +  + +```button +name Record today's health +type command +action MetaEdit: Run MetaEdit +id EditMetaData +``` +^button-2023-10-08Edit + +```button +name Save +type command +action Save current file +id Save +``` +^button-2023-10-08NSave + +  + +# 2023-10-08 + +  + +> [!summary]+ +> Daily note for 2023-10-08 + +  + +```toc +style: number +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### ✅ Tasks of the day + +  + +```tasks +not done +due on 2023-10-08 +path does not include Templates +hide backlinks +hide task count +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📝 Memos + +  + +This section does serve for quick memos. + +  + + +%% --- %% +  + +--- + +  + +### 🗒 Notes + +  + +Loret ipsum + +  + +--- + +  + +### :link: Linked activity + +  + +```dataview +Table from [[2023-10-08]] +``` + +  +  \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-09.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-09.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..10f6161b --- /dev/null +++ b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-09.md @@ -0,0 +1,140 @@ +--- + +title: "🗒 Daily Note" +allDay: true +date: 2023-10-09 +Date: 2023-10-09 +DocType: Note +Hierarchy: +TimeStamp: +location: +CollapseMetaTable: true +Sleep: 7 +Happiness: 85 +Gratefulness: 90 +Stress: 25 +FrontHeadBar: 5 +EarHeadBar: 20 +BackHeadBar: 30 +Water: 3.25 +Coffee: 4 +Steps: 15953 +Weight: +Ski: +IceSkating: +Riding: +Racket: +Football: +Swim: + +--- + +%% Parent:: [[@Life Admin]] %% + +--- + +[[2023-10-08|<< 🗓 Previous ]]       [[@Main Dashboard|Back]]       [[2023-10-10|🗓 Next >>]] + +--- + +  + +```button +name Record today's health +type command +action MetaEdit: Run MetaEdit +id EditMetaData +``` +^button-2023-10-09Edit + +```button +name Save +type command +action Save current file +id Save +``` +^button-2023-10-09NSave + +  + +# 2023-10-09 + +  + +> [!summary]+ +> Daily note for 2023-10-09 + +  + +```toc +style: number +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### ✅ Tasks of the day + +  + +```tasks +not done +due on 2023-10-09 +path does not include Templates +hide backlinks +hide task count +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📝 Memos + +  + +This section does serve for quick memos. + +  +- [ ] 08:42 :potted_plant: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Buy garden accessories (watering can, bine, secateur)s 📅 2023-10-13 +- [ ] 08:44 :house: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Buy a desk for the front room 📅2023-11-30 ^rns1zk +- [ ] 08:46 :speaker: [[@Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]: Re-organise my music in the main room 📅2023-12-31 +- [ ] 09:28 :house: [[@Life Admin|Admin]]: Buy a small table for the sleeping room 📅2023-12-31 + + +%% --- %% +  + +--- + +  + +### 🗒 Notes + +  + +🍴: [[Korean Barbecue-Style Meatballs]] + +🍽: [[Msakhan Fatteh]] + +  + +--- + +  + +### :link: Linked activity + +  + +```dataview +Table from [[2023-10-09]] +``` + +  +  \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-10.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-10.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4fb25626 --- /dev/null +++ b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/2023-10-10.md @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +--- + +title: "🗒 Daily Note" +allDay: true +date: 2023-10-10 +Date: 2023-10-10 +DocType: Note +Hierarchy: +TimeStamp: +location: +CollapseMetaTable: true +Sleep: 6 +Happiness: 85 +Gratefulness: 90 +Stress: 25 +FrontHeadBar: 5 +EarHeadBar: 20 +BackHeadBar: 30 +Water: +Coffee: +Steps: +Weight: 89.4 +Ski: +IceSkating: +Riding: +Racket: +Football: +Swim: + +--- + +%% Parent:: [[@Life Admin]] %% + +--- + +[[2023-10-09|<< 🗓 Previous ]]       [[@Main Dashboard|Back]]       [[2023-10-11|🗓 Next >>]] + +--- + +  + +```button +name Record today's health +type command +action MetaEdit: Run MetaEdit +id EditMetaData +``` +^button-2023-10-10Edit + +```button +name Save +type command +action Save current file +id Save +``` +^button-2023-10-10NSave + +  + +# 2023-10-10 + +  + +> [!summary]+ +> Daily note for 2023-10-10 + +  + +```toc +style: number +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### ✅ Tasks of the day + +  + +```tasks +not done +due on 2023-10-10 +path does not include Templates +hide backlinks +hide task count +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📝 Memos + +  + +This section does serve for quick memos. + +  + + +%% --- %% +  + +--- + +  + +### 🗒 Notes + +  + +Loret ipsum + +  + +--- + +  + +### :link: Linked activity + +  + +```dataview +Table from [[2023-10-10]] +``` + +  +  \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/Events/2024-06-08 💍 Mariage Rémi & Séverine.md b/00.01 Admin/Calendars/Events/2024-06-08 💍 Mariage Rémi & Séverine.md deleted file mode 100644 index c498892f..00000000 --- a/00.01 Admin/Calendars/Events/2024-06-08 💍 Mariage Rémi & Séverine.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ ---- - -title: 💍 Mariage Rémi & Séverine -allDay: true -date: 2024-06-08 -completed: null -CollapseMetaTable: true - ---- - -[[2024-06-08|Ce jour]], mariage de Rémi & Séverine - -Contacts: -🏠 -1C Carmalt Gardens -Londres SW15 6NE - -📞 -06 98 11 94 17 - -📧 -severine.remi.2024@gmail.com diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Pictures/Hibiscus/IMG_3898.jpg b/00.01 Admin/Pictures/Hibiscus/IMG_3898.jpg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9aabda71 Binary files /dev/null and b/00.01 Admin/Pictures/Hibiscus/IMG_3898.jpg differ diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Pictures/Hibiscus/IMG_3899.jpg b/00.01 Admin/Pictures/Hibiscus/IMG_3899.jpg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..31688dda Binary files /dev/null and b/00.01 Admin/Pictures/Hibiscus/IMG_3899.jpg differ diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Pictures/Viorne Tin/IMG_3889.jpg b/00.01 Admin/Pictures/Viorne Tin/IMG_3889.jpg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7b9f46d1 Binary files /dev/null and b/00.01 Admin/Pictures/Viorne Tin/IMG_3889.jpg differ diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Pictures/Viorne Tin/IMG_3890.jpg b/00.01 Admin/Pictures/Viorne Tin/IMG_3890.jpg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1a27658c Binary files /dev/null and b/00.01 Admin/Pictures/Viorne Tin/IMG_3890.jpg differ diff --git a/00.01 Admin/Templates/Template Plant.md b/00.01 Admin/Templates/Template Plant.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9d981cb0 --- /dev/null +++ b/00.01 Admin/Templates/Template Plant.md @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ +--- + +Alias: ["", ""] +Tag: ["🪴", ""] +Date: <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD") %> +DocType: "Plant" +Hierarchy: "NonRoot" +TimeStamp: +location: +CollapseMetaTable: true +cssclass: recipeTable +Plant: + SciName: "" + Origin: "" + Size: "" + FlowerColour: ["", ""] + FlowerSeason: ["", ""] + State: + Exposition: + Maintenance: "" + WinterTolerance: "" +banner: + +--- + +Parent:: + +--- + +  + +```button +name Save +type command +action Save current file +id Save +``` +^button-<% tp.file.title %>NSave + +# <% tp.file.title %> + +  + +> [!summary]+ +>Description + +  + +```toc +style: number +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📇 Summary + +  + 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Encounter | Crime | Seven Days + +Published September 6, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. +Updated September 13, 2023 at 10:09 a.m. + +![Mbyayenge "Robbie" Mafuta's yearbook photo - COURTESY](https://media2.sevendaysvt.com/sevendaysvt/imager/u/blog/39042208/crime1-1-8ba7d53afeda25bf.jpg) + +- Courtesy +- Mbyayenge "Robbie" Mafuta's yearbook photo + +H e was being hunted — he was certain of it. Bus passengers studied him from the corners of their eyes. Trucks kept circling the block. Strangers hovered close. He heard shouts and screams, spectral sounds usually shrugged off as urban din. But on this windy December night in 2020, the young man took them as clues that assassins were closing in. + +He hid inside a downtown café and called Burlington police for help. Soon, nurses at the University of Vermont Medical Center were introduced to Mbyayenge Mafuta. Friends knew him by his nickname, Robbie, which he pronounced in an unusual way, ROW-bee, that sounded like the name of the six-inch Bowie knife he'd begun carrying for protection. + +#### about this story + +Our reporting is based upon hundreds of pages of court documents, police reports and interviews with Mbyayenge "Robbie" Mafuta and people who know him. *Seven Days* also obtained Mafuta's medical records from his court-appointed attorneys, with Mafuta's permission. + +Clinicians sketched a profile of the new patient: 19 years old, Black, clean-shaven, no known psychiatric history. He was paranoid, and likely hallucinating. "I am being followed by a group of people unknown to me," Mafuta told a nurse. She escorted him to Room 37, one of two in the emergency department outfitted with retractable metal screens used to shield medical equipment when patients lash out during a psychotic episode. + +A specialist arrived two hours later and began asking questions. The first was easy: Where do you live? + +"In my head," Mafuta answered. + +Over the next two years, Mafuta's name and face would become familiar to doctors, police, correctional officers and residents of a city increasingly anxious about the interlocking problems of mental illness, homelessness and crime. He would return to the hospital again and again and take to sleeping on downtown park benches. He would be tackled and tased during a publicized run-in with Burlington cops, stoking a policing debate that had been ignited by George Floyd's murder. During a heated local election campaign, city officials would deploy Mafuta as a symbol of decaying public safety. + +Then, in a matter of seconds inside a St. Albans prison last December, Mafuta [beat and gravely injured his cellmate](https://m.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/victim-dies-following-alleged-beating-in-vermont-prison-cell/Content?oid=37769211). Mafuta stepped outside their cell that day, dazed and bloody, as prison officers scrambled to save Jeffrey Hall, who subsequently died in a hospital. Last month, Mafuta appeared in a Franklin County courtroom to answer a charge of murder. + +The bare facts of the attack seem to point to a dangerous and volatile defendant whose destructive impulses flared in prison. But interviews with Mafuta and people close to him, as well as a review of police records and hundreds of pages of medical charts, reveal a far more complicated chain of events. + +This more disquieting account is the story of a young immigrant who endured childhood trauma but matured into a gifted and charismatic teen — only to sink into a quicksand of mental illness and homelessness from which an overtaxed, fragmented network of care was unable to rescue him. His descent offers a telling glimpse into the inadequacies of a system that provides limited support during the early stages of psychiatric illness, forcing the machinery of criminal justice to respond when crises result. + +If Mafuta's murder case makes it to trial, his attorneys will seek to convince jurors that he was not guilty because he was insane when he attacked Hall, a finding no Vermont jury has delivered in living memory. Mafuta's future could hinge on what a dozen people in law-and-order Franklin County imagine was going through his mind during a 30-second spasm of violence. + +But the path to the events of Cell 17 travels first, two years earlier, through Room 37 in UVM's emergency department, where a frightened teenager went to feel safe. + + + +--- + + + +### 'I Had to Grow Up Really Fast' + +![Mafuta playing for the South Burlington Dolphins as No. 77 - COURTESY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON DOLPHINS](https://media1.sevendaysvt.com/sevendaysvt/imager/u/blog/39042209/crime1-2-7dabc63d54053d1b.jpg) + +- Courtesy Of South Burlington Dolphins +- Mafuta playing for the South Burlington Dolphins as No. 77 + +Mafuta was suspicious of the man taking notes. Mafuta had been sitting in the emergency department for more than two hours, exposed in his hospital gown, nervously spinning the identification bracelet around his wrist. His eyes checked the doorway. Even here, he did not know whom to trust. + +His interlocutor worked with an [all-hours crisis service](https://howardcenter.org/first-call-for-chittenden-county/) run by Chittenden County's mental health provider, Howard Center. At first, Mafuta evaded the queries. But the therapist, an immigrant like him, specialized in working with young, traumatized adults, and with gentle questioning Mafuta began to reveal some details about his life. + +Again and again, Mafuta had lost people close to him: his biological mother, who lived on another continent; a caseworker who died of cancer; a friend who drowned in Lake Champlain. Now he felt alone and unmoored in the place where he'd grown up. Explaining that to the stranger in Room 37 transported Mafuta to the furthest reaches of his memory, to those of the young child who departed the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the United States. + +Had they come as refugees? He wasn't sure. He knew he was 5 when he'd said goodbye to his mother and boarded an airplane to Indiana with his father, younger brother and stepmother. He was in elementary school when the family later moved to a brick apartment building in Essex, wedged into a suburban neighborhood of mostly single-family houses. + +![Mbyayenge "Robbie" Mafuta' - COURTESY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON DOLPHINS](https://media1.sevendaysvt.com/sevendaysvt/imager/u/blog/39042211/crime1-4-6d3408e9399244e9.jpg) + +- Courtesy Of South Burlington Dolphins +- Mbyayenge "Robbie" Mafuta' + +Mafuta, outgoing and adventurous, wandered into the backyards of neighbors. He knocked on doors to ask for rides to school when he missed the bus. Some neighbors invited Mafuta into their homes to play Xbox with their kids. Others yelled at the Mafuta boys for playing with their family's toys, telling police they thought the children might steal them. + +Inside the family's sparsely furnished apartment, Mafuta's father, Ponda, expected obedience, Mafuta would later recall. Mafuta had chores by the time he was 8 years old, and when he didn't do them, his father punished him harshly. When Ponda came home one afternoon to discover his son playing in the yard, Mafuta ran inside and pretended to sort the laundry, still dirty. The boy's screams reached the downstairs neighbor, Patrick Graziano, who was accustomed to loud noises from above, but nothing like this. + +"You can tell when a child is in fear," he said. + +Graziano ran upstairs, pushed open the Mafutas' door and found Ponda swinging a shoe at his son, who had curled defensively in a ball. Graziano pinned the man to the floor. The police took the father away in handcuffs. + +It was the first of two times Ponda would face criminal charges for hitting his eldest child. The charges in both cases were later dropped, in one instance because Ponda agreed to go to specialized counseling for refugees and survivors of torture. (The elder Mafuta did not respond to interview requests.) + +His son, nevertheless, was taken into state custody. Mafuta recalled moving from "one white house to the next" until he landed at Allenbrook, [a South Burlington group home](https://www.nfivermont.org/services/residential-programs/allenbrook-program/) for teens with behavioral challenges. He'd been diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder, and he saw a youth therapist. + +Allenbrook had its own strictures. The home ran on a system tied to privileges. Residents gained points for doing their dishes, lost points for taking too long in the shower. Mafuta got in trouble for running away. More than once, he turned up at the playground of the Burlington apartment complex where his family had since moved. + +He missed the African dishes his family cooked at home: fufu, pondu madesu. He missed his siblings. Even though Mafuta was scared of his father at times, he missed him, too. + +"I had to grow up really fast," he told a caseworker years later. + +Most of Mafuta's middle school peers in South Burlington had cellphones. He stole a teacher's so he could have one, too. + +![Mafuta with the team - COURTESY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON DOLPHINS](https://media2.sevendaysvt.com/sevendaysvt/imager/u/blog/39042210/crime1-3-f156213f73ea579c.jpg) + +- Courtesy Of South Burlington Dolphins +- Mafuta with the team + +In sports, he found an outlet. The group home connected him to a youth football team, [the Dolphins](https://sbdolphins.com/), and coach Rene LaBerge showed him how to channel pent-up aggression into something positive. "I used football as a way to express myself," Mafuta later recalled. + +By high school, he was a five-foot-10, 215-pound defensive standout and a frequent presence in opponents' backfields, disrupting plays before they began. He was named [all-state defensive lineman](https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2018/12/05/2018-vermont-h-s-football-coaches-all-state-teams/2220504002/) on the [inaugural Burlington-South Burlington varsity football squad](https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2018/08/13/what-know-burlington-south-burlington-football-cooperative/976555002/), the SeaWolves. + +Once Mafuta learned to become a teammate, making friends came naturally. He brought dates to school dances and blew curfew to snack at Al's French Frys. He started making rap music with friends, including North Ave Jax, who now plays sold-out shows. + +Around that time, Anais Carpentier, a junior, was struggling to find her place after moving to Vermont with her family. Mafuta introduced her to his friends and brought her to hangouts. "I got you," he told her. She'd drop him off at Allenbrook, and they'd lose track of time chatting in the parking lot. + +"He's the reason high school wasn't that bad for me," Carpentier said. + +Mafuta's senior classmates voted him as having the "most Wolfpack pride" — and roared when the high school principal called his name on graduation day in June 2019. His parents posed for photos alongside him in his cap and gown. + +His time at Allenbrook was winding down. Mafuta hoped an athletics scholarship would propel him to college, maybe even Yale University. That didn't pan out, nor could he afford prep school. So as friends embarked for college, Mafuta went instead to Kentucky, where his father had found new work, to try to live with his parents again. + +They continued to clash. Just before the pandemic, he moved back to Vermont on his own. + + + +--- + + + +### Assassins and a Tapped Phone + +![Mafuta and Anais Carpentier - COURTESY](https://media1.sevendaysvt.com/sevendaysvt/imager/u/blog/39042215/crime1-8-3cc3dd5e73fed617.jpg) + +- Courtesy +- Mafuta and Anais Carpentier + +The crisis therapist at the hospital in December 2020 wanted to know about those months between Mafuta's return to Vermont and his current, paranoid state. Mafuta, though, was fixated on the previous week. He had been hearing noises inside a recent girlfriend's home, Mafuta explained, but she told him he was imagining them. Then the mysterious troupe began stalking him. + +"Writer doubts that this is the first episode," the therapist noted. "It is more likely that he has not revealed it before." + +Mafuta had been under enormous stress. After returning to Burlington, he stayed with a friend's mother, who kicked him out because, she said, he kept smoking weed in the house. He bounced from couch to couch. The pandemic hit, and Mafuta began staying in state-sponsored motel rooms. He had no car, and the rooms had no kitchens. + +Carpentier visited him in the run-down motels. But he became harder to find, and, at the end of summer 2020, she lost his trail. + +A separate friend picked up Mafuta at Oakledge Park one evening. Taylor Chibuzo had only known Mafuta for a couple of years, but he had become her best friend. She'd look in awe at his journals, full of deft drawings and doodles. On this night, Mafuta seemed agitated. As she drove, he directed her to take abrupt turns because someone was following them. He seemed convinced that her phone was tapped. That night, Chibuzo found him standing in her front yard, staring at nothing but the pitch black. + +It was the first time Chibuzo had felt uncomfortable around her friend. His paranoia made her wonder about schizophrenia, a disease she knew little about. + +It was months before clinicians would deliver such a diagnosis, though [research on schizophrenia](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2021.686666/full) indicates that Mafuta's age, migrant background and history of childhood abuse put him at a higher risk for developing the disease. But psychosis has many causes, and diagnosing an underlying condition takes time. A hospital psychiatrist who assessed Mafuta that December night wondered whether his symptoms might have been a result of heavy cannabis use. The specialist encouraged him to stay at the hospital until his condition improved. + +Mafuta seemed amenable, telling them his assassins would leave his body in a ditch if he returned to the street. Still, just a few hours later, he changed his mind and walked out. + +Over the next few days, Mafuta contacted Burlington police repeatedly to express fear that he was being followed. Then someone called 911 from Lakeview Cemetery to report what they believed might be a body. It was Mafuta, alive but face down in the snow next to the grave of his friend who had [drowned in Lake Champlain](https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2017/07/11/name-oakledge-drowning-victim-released/467961001/) several years earlier. Mafuta refused help but later showed up at the fire department asking for a ride to the emergency room. He left the hospital shortly after, only to return hours later, explaining that he hadn't been in the "right headspace" earlier. He agreed to be admitted to the psychiatric unit. + +That day, Mafuta took his first dose of an antipsychotic medication. Over the week that followed, doctors noted that his paranoia seemed to subside. On December 18, he told them that he'd stopped hearing from a joke-telling "imaginary friend" and assured them that he had thrown away the cellphone he believed was tapped. He asked to be discharged. + +Doctors urged him to stay a few more days so they could discuss a treatment plan going forward. Mafuta said he would schedule follow-up appointments on his own and sleep at a friend's house. The hospital ordered him a cab to help him get there. + + + +--- + + + +### 'Something Must Be Going On' + +![Mafuta with his lawyer Paul Groce - JAMES BUCK](https://media1.sevendaysvt.com/sevendaysvt/imager/u/blog/39042212/crime1-5-a0b3e7308f084f9a.jpg) + +- James Buck +- Mafuta with his lawyer Paul Groce + +Mafuta had reached a critical juncture. One or two psychotic episodes can cost someone a job, damage relationships and prompt encounters with the police. But intensive, ongoing care can, for some people, reverse that trajectory. + +Vermont is the [only state without an intervention program known as coordinated specialty care](https://www.samhsa.gov/blog/new-tool-offers-hope-people-experiencing-early-serious-mental-illness-their-families), which the federal government says is proven to work. It's meant to prevent someone in the early stages of psychosis from spiraling toward deeper trouble. Some Vermont mental health workers, with state support, [have pioneered a similar yet distinct treatment approach](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32152853/) that marshals a team of therapists, family and friends to help a person address their needs. This more collaborative technique is not widely available, however, and most Vermonters do not receive such treatment. Mafuta wouldn't, either. + +In the weeks following his December discharge, he had no further contact with the hospital or Howard Center, according to his medical records. Instead, he tried to solve mounting problems on his own. + +Mafuta went to Goodwill and asked to be hired back for a job he had abandoned weeks earlier. When the manager said no, according to a police report, he knocked over merchandise and was barred from the property. Mafuta told a South Burlington officer who responded to stay "six feet away." The officer placed a written notice of trespass on the ground. + +Soon after, in early January 2021, a Burlington police officer flagged down Mafuta on an Old North End sidewalk while investigating a report that someone resembling him had tried to break into a parked car. Mafuta walked past the officer, who grabbed his shoulder. He told the officer not to touch him. The exchange became heated and turned into a scuffle. Mafuta was [eventually subdued by an electric shock](https://vtdigger.org/2021/02/08/new-footage-shows-moments-before-burlington-officers-shocked-teen-with-stun-gun/). He was booked for assaulting the officer and released. + +Three days later, he showed up at the house of a New North End family he didn't know and demanded they let him inside because, he told them, his phone was dead, according to court records. After they shut the door, he broke into their garage and began smashing items. Police arrested him at gunpoint. + +That prompted the Chittenden County State's Attorney's Office to ask a judge to detain Mafuta while the cases played out in court. He was locked up for the first time in his life. + +Soon, videos of his arrest-by-Taser received extensive news coverage in Burlington. + +State's Attorney Sarah George began fielding calls from acquaintances who'd known Mafuta through their work at South Burlington High School. His recent behavior didn't add up, they told her; something must be going on. The calls surprised George: In her experience, people didn't usually speak up for homeless Black men. + +The prosecutor said she asked the callers whether they knew anyone who could give Mafuta a place to live and watch over him. None came forward, so Mafuta spent nearly three months imprisoned while awaiting trial. "I don't think our intention was ever to have him be in that long," George said. + +Incarceration had a "seriously adverse effect" on Mafuta because of his youthfulness and mental health issues, his public defenders argued in a bid for his release pending trial, which a judge granted in March. They hired a social worker to arrange for a hotel room, provide Mafuta with a cellphone and help him stay on top of his medication. + +Meanwhile, a pair of psychiatrists evaluated Mafuta and determined that he was insane at the time of the January incidents. Prosecutors and his public defender began working out a deal to drop the charges in exchange for community treatment. + +Then he was accused of another crime. + +Mafuta had begun working in the kitchen at Olive Garden in South Burlington following his release but walked off during one of his shifts. When he learned days later that he no longer had a job, he [hijacked a truck in the parking lot with one of its owners still inside](https://www.wcax.com/2021/05/28/milton-man-steals-truck-with-person-inside/) and sped off toward a friend's house. He stopped to let her out, then continued driving until police pulled him over. + +This time, a court-ordered psychiatrist concluded that Mafuta had understood his actions and was mentally fit to stand trial for the carjacking charge. He spent another four months in prison, until October 2021. + +By then, as word spread of his erratic behavior, many peers were writing him off, his friend Carpentier said. She tried to stick by him, but it was growing more difficult. + +Phone conversations with Mafuta devolved into arguments. He cussed her out and accused her of plotting against him. "That had never happened before," she said. + + + +--- + + + +### Trusted Voices + +A second deal with prosecutors sent Mafuta to treatment court, a community-based program for defendants with mental health conditions or drug addictions. It entailed drug tests, therapy and regular visits before a judge. + +He was assigned a caseworker from Howard Center, the county mental health agency. His caseworker tallied Mafuta's strengths: "good energy, trusting, motivated toward change, old soul." For needs, she listed "affection, encouragement." Mafuta said what he needed most was consistency. It had been 10 months and two prison stints since his initial hospital visit. + +Treatment court offered structure and supervision. He sought out new work, joined a cooking class and showed up to mandated court hearings. + +Still, Mafuta's housing situation was precarious, and he strained to make sense of the waves of psychosis that doctors now suspected were symptoms of schizophrenia. + +"I had to be my own father, which is where this voice in my head came from," he told his caseworker. "It is my best friend. I trust this voice more than anything else in the world." + +One of the only people outside the system still keeping tabs on Mafuta was a Burlington barber, Tony Clarke. Clarke had met Mafuta years earlier while working with his father at Magic Hat Brewing and had occasionally joined Ponda on visits to Allenbrook group home. After Mafuta returned to Vermont, he and Clarke grew close. + +Mafuta was desperate to prove that he could make it on his own. In phone calls with his father, he betrayed little of his troubles. He put on a strong face whenever he spoke to Clarke, too. + +Clarke saw through the façade. "I was telling his father, like, 'Yo, shit is *not* good,' and he couldn't believe it," Clarke said. + +When Ponda found out his son was homeless, he flew to Burlington and paid a woman from their former church to put up Mafuta, Clarke said. The arrangement ended because, Mafuta said, he was caught smoking weed at that house, too. Mafuta's struggles were stressful for Ponda, Clarke said, "because he wanted to help him but couldn't." + +Early one morning, Clarke was taking out the trash from his Main Street barbershop, [Kut Masterz](https://www.instagram.com/kutmasterz_/?hl=en), when he heard someone rapping to himself at a bus stop. He rounded the corner and saw Mafuta, who by then was spending nights at a shelter on Shelburne Road. Clarke invited him inside. + +Clarke started swinging by the shelter in case Mafuta needed a ride. Mafuta became a frequent presence at the barbershop, where he could count on food, comfort, conversation and a crisp haircut — usually a flattop or a fade. + +When Mafuta said odd things, such as declaring that the left side of his body "walked with death," Clarke would tell him to "knock the bullshit off, man. I know you; this is not you." He didn't know what else to say. + +Mafuta relied increasingly on doctors, yet the medication gave him tremors that got so bad in January 2022 that he went to the emergency room. A doctor suggested he stop taking the pills and visit his primary care physician in Colchester. + +It's unclear whether he ever followed up. But when Mafuta returned to the UVM Medical Center emergency department again in April 2022, he disclosed that he had not taken his medication in three months. + +Mafuta now said the Ku Klux Klan was following him and that his medications were being used for mind control. He tried to "cast spells" on one clinician and told another he might need to harm her so that she would stop writing things down. + +"Just kill me now!" he screamed. + +He shook the stretcher in his room, slammed a stool on the floor, and ran down a hallway with security and staff in pursuit. + +The doctors decided that his threatening words and behavior were grounds for emergency inpatient treatment, otherwise known as involuntary commitment. + +He spent another night in an emergency room, waiting for a bed. + + + +--- + + + +### 'Swath of Destruction' + +![Mafuta being brought into court by Sheriff John Grismore - JAMES BUCK](https://media2.sevendaysvt.com/sevendaysvt/imager/u/blog/39042213/crime1-6-0d19ef6c22deb30d.jpg) + +- James Buck +- Mafuta being brought into court by Sheriff John Grismore + +Mafuta ended up at the [Brattleboro Retreat](https://www.brattlebororetreat.org/), a nonprofit psychiatric hospital two hours away. + +"Get out," he told the first nurse to enter his room. + +He did not want to be in a hospital. His 21st birthday was coming up. He'd only gone to the emergency department in Burlington because he was looking for someplace to sleep, he told another nurse. Being homeless, he said, made his symptoms worse. + +He struggled to explain the voices he heard in ways that doctors and nurses could understand — or he'd deny hearing anything. Like many people thought to have schizophrenia, he questioned his diagnosis. In time, Retreat staff persuaded Mafuta to try different antipsychotic medicines, which he said helped settle his mind. He went to peer meetings and made snacks using recipe cards. He wrote poetry. + +As his stay neared the one-month mark, Mafuta wanted to return to Burlington so he could take more cooking classes. His treatment team began making plans for his discharge in May 2022. + +One of the providers noted that Mafuta might benefit from residential treatment upon release. They placed him in a short-term crisis stabilization center, [ASSIST](https://howardcenter.org/mental-health/home-and-housing-supports/crisis-stabilization-support/), run by Howard Center. + +During Mafuta's fourth day at ASSIST, house staffers made him take a Breathalyzer test because they thought, incorrectly, that his drink contained alcohol. Mafuta lost control. He thrust his elbow through a wall, causing his arm to bleed, and smashed a window. Employees hid in their offices while the police came. + +The manager said Mafuta had to leave. But, she told police, he was unsafe to be on his own. An officer drove him to the UVM Medical Center. + +Later that night, the hospital discharged him. Mafuta was back on the street — what would become his final, crushing stint. At a homeless shelter, he damaged property and was told to leave. He slept outdoors, usually on park benches, and lost track of his medications. His hallucinations became overwhelming, and he got more criminal citations and made more trips to the ER. "I just want to get my fucking medications so I can sleep," he yelled during one visit, before punching a machine. He was given an injection of a powerful antipsychotic drug. + +Nighttime could be terrifying. He sought out safety in City Hall Park, a popular homeless hangout, only to wake up to the patter of rain and realize that everyone else had left. Mafuta wandered empty downtown streets, panic mounting, wondering where the other homeless people had gone. "I'm hearing people talking to me," he remembered later. "I'm seeing shadows walk across the streets." He huddled near Wi-Fi hot spots so he could listen to music on his headphones until daybreak. + +Feeling suicidal, he jumped in front of traffic on Shelburne Road. He had outbursts at the library and at a pharmacy. He was accused of smashing windows at churches and businesses and of stealing clothes, a phone. + +Burlington residents, meanwhile, were losing patience with the sort of public displays of homelessness, disorder and property crime that Mafuta was coming to represent. Those concerns fueled the August 2022 primary battle for Chittenden County state's attorney, in which George's challenger, backed by the Burlington police union, [pledged to clean up the streets by keeping more suspects behind bars](https://m.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/will-public-safety-worries-end-progressive-prosecutor-sarah-georges-sweeping-reforms/Content?oid=36110678). + +Mafuta's personal crisis crashed into the politics of public safety during the final 72 hours of the campaign. Police again found Mafuta jumping in front of traffic. The next day, he was removed from a daytime shelter after ripping the door handle from a car in the parking lot. + +On the eve of the primary election, Mafuta smashed windows at the bus station downtown, court papers allege. Then, in the early morning hours, he walked to the South End home where one of his former foster families lived. He asked to stay there, but they declined. Mafuta launched rocks through a bedroom window. He went on to damage more than 30 other nearby homes, prosecutors allege. + +Voters awoke on primary day to headlines dubbing the vandalism spree a "[swath of destruction](https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/local-news/vandal-vuts-swath-of-destruction-through-south-end/)." The phrase had been plucked straight from [a press release](https://www.burlingtonvt.gov/Press/south-end-vandalism-spree-arrest-made) sent out by then-acting Burlington Police Chief Jon Murad. The release noted that Mafuta had accumulated more than 100 "police involvements," including one occasion in which he'd asked police to take him to jail so he could get his medication. + +Mayor Miro Weinberger called on authorities to do more to "sustain the peace and safety that this community has long enjoyed." + +George, who won reelection, said the police chief spoke dismissively of Mafuta's struggles during an administrative meeting a few days later. "Everybody has mental health issues these days," George said she heard him say. + +In an email to *Seven Days*, Murad said he didn't recall his exact words. His point, he said, was that most people with mental illness don't harm others, and those who do must be treated in ways that also preserve public safety. Absent effective treatment, prison is sometimes the only option, Murad wrote. For too long, he added, Mafuta "was able to repeatedly victimize others." + + + +--- + + + +### Staring Blankly + +![A cell in Northwest State Correctional Facility - LUKE AWTRY](https://media1.sevendaysvt.com/sevendaysvt/imager/u/blog/39042214/crime1-7-8a09c2a2e9bdf588.jpg) + +- Luke Awtry +- A cell in Northwest State Correctional Facility + +The vandalism spree convinced Superior Court Judge John Pacht that efforts to help Mafuta in the community were not working. + +He ordered Mafuta to be kept at the Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital in Berlin until a psychiatrist could evaluate whether he needed a prolonged hospital stay. A few weeks later, a state psychiatrist found Mafuta fit to stand trial, and he was transferred to Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans. + +"Client will be better served by the correctional facility where he is currently held," a note in his Howard Center file concluded. + +The Department of Corrections deemed Mafuta to have "[serious functional impairment](https://doc.vermont.gov/sites/correct/files/documents/SFIDesignationReport_DOC_09-21-2022.pdf)," a designation for prisoners with debilitating mental illness. Only 40 or so Vermont inmates meet the narrow criteria for the designation at any given time. Most are housed at Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield, which maintains more extensive medical resources, including a residential psychiatric unit. + +Mafuta was one of three inmates in St. Albans with the high-needs designation. He met periodically with social workers and a psychiatrist employed by the state's private medical contractor at the time, [VitalCore Health Strategies](https://vitalcorehs.com/), to plan treatment. + +He was assigned to a general-population unit with narrow cells and a shared bathroom. Fellow inmates said they soon noticed him acting strangely. He told them he could hear their thoughts. Some days he stared blankly at the wall. + +Even so, Mafuta was unusually "genuine," fellow inmate Daniel Mitchell said. The pair sometimes walked circles together around the unit. Mitchell learned that Mafuta didn't have family members who visited or money to buy items from the commissary. He sometimes asked to use other inmates' tablet computers so he could listen to music. + +As winter set in, Mafuta was struggling. He asked Mitchell for help getting a job in prison, but Mitchell said the correctional officers didn't think Mafuta was reliable enough. He asked a psychiatrist for a higher dosage of his antipsychotic medication, but records show he was denied; his dosage had just been increased. + +Some inmates worried. One spoke to a correctional officer, who told the inmate to put his concerns in writing, according to a court affidavit filed by a Vermont state trooper. The inmate wrote that the way Mafuta looked at him and others "has me thinking he's going to hurt someone really bad." But he never submitted the note. + +On December 19, 2022, Mafuta's public defender and a Chittenden County prosecutor told a judge that they were nearing a deal to close his pending cases, so long as they could find him a place to live — typically a condition for release. + +Later that day, Mafuta began screaming and throwing things inside his cell. He was taken to the segregation unit and placed on suicide watch because he said he planned to kill himself. + +Prison officials returned Mafuta to the main unit the following day at his request, despite his refusal to take some of his medications, medical records show. "He was able to process what happened last night and create a plan," a VitalCore therapist wrote in an email to prison officials. + +He was placed in Cell 17 — and assigned a new roommate. + + + +--- + + + +### A Scream for Help + +Jeff Hall, like Mafuta, had fallen into homelessness in the place where he grew up. + +The 55-year-old had attended Burlington High School but did not graduate. He worked for a time stocking shelves at a grocery store but spent much of his adult life in trouble with the law. + +His problems in recent years appeared to be intertwined with addiction. By last December, Hall was awaiting trial on several charges, including allegedly stealing a MacBook, $500 Gucci sunglasses and other items from a parked car. Police met the victim at City Hall Park, where she recovered some of her belongings from a cart Hall pushed around. + +He had a mixed reputation in prison. One former cellmate recalled Hall fondly. The only frustration, the cellmate said, was Hall's insistence on watching every NASCAR race, even the monotonous qualifying laps. "Doesn't make sense to watch the race if you're not gonna watch the qualifier," Hall would say. Others said they knew Hall for his sticky fingers. He once managed to swipe a cup of Red Bull from a correctional officer's desk, Mitchell said, impressed. Hall's family, through an attorney, declined interview requests. + +Prison officials were unaware of any trouble between Mafuta and Hall, according to court records. Four inmates interviewed for this story said the same. + +But inmates said they were alarmed by Mafuta's state of mind following his brief time on suicide watch. As Mafuta walked with Mitchell on December 22, Mafuta's distress was obvious. And for the first time, according to Mitchell, his comments suggested violence. + +"He was like, 'My voices keep telling me to hurt people ... I keep telling them I don't want to hurt anyone; I'm not a hurtful person,'" Mitchell recalled. "He kept trying to hold them back, basically." + +Mitchell gave Mafuta scoops of instant grounds so his friend could make coffee. + +Officers soon came to the unit to perform the afternoon head count, during which inmates are told to wait in their unlocked cells. Hall walked back to the one he shared with Mafuta. Seconds later, a scream for help escaped from behind the steel door. + +Officers scrambled to find the source. Officer David Lumbra headed first for Cell 12, where he had heard the cellmates were not getting along. But the cries were several cells away. + +As Lumbra continued his search, Mafuta walked out of his cell, expressionless, his hands and pants covered in blood, and sat at a nearby table, according to court records and accounts of inmates. The officer looked in, saw Hall on the floor and radioed for backup. + +Mafuta sat quietly until officers handcuffed him and hauled him away. He was strip-searched and placed in a cell outfitted with a security camera. + +Matt Engels, a longtime prison supervisor and trained EMT, shined a penlight into Hall's eyes. They were dilated and unresponsive, a sign of possible brain injury. An ambulance rushed Hall to the hospital, where he was placed in a medically induced coma. He would [die within three months](https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/obituaries/bfp041179). + +State troopers who investigated were escorted by prison staff to Cell 17, which had been cordoned off with evidence tape. They noted bloodstains on the floor and the edge of the metal bunk bed. + +They also noticed a separate, lighter stain nearby — a cup of coffee spilled during the rush to aid Hall. + + + +--- + + + +### 'He's Gonna Get Smoked' + +![Mbyayenge "Robbie" Mafuta' - COURTESY](https://media2.sevendaysvt.com/sevendaysvt/imager/u/blog/39042216/crime1-9-c087a01baf25e06b.jpg) + +- Courtesy +- Mbyayenge "Robbie" Mafuta' + +In the days that followed the episode, Mafuta offered varying accounts that are hard to reconcile. He told a psychiatrist by phone that his voices hadn't instructed him to harm anyone. Instead, he knew Hall had been making disrespectful comments and stealing things from other inmates, "so I decided to handle the situation because I thought it was the right thing to do." + +That conversation, a week after the attack, took place because corrections staff were concerned that Mafuta needed to be hospitalized; he was refusing his medication and had spent hours the previous day speaking to himself in a mirror. "I'm seeing shit and hearing shit all the time ... You are using my words," a security camera recorded him saying. + +Two weeks later, a correctional officer overheard Mafuta speaking to inmates. They were laughing, and Mafuta didn't seem to understand how seriously he'd injured Hall. "What? He's still in the hospital? That's crazy," the officer heard Mafuta say. One of the inmates told investigators that Mafuta said he'd "spazzed out, came to and there was blood all over him." + +Investigators have not offered evidence that Mafuta plotted the attack. No one claims to have seen what happened inside the cell. Mafuta declined to talk to the police, and his attorneys instructed him not to answer questions about the encounter during interviews with *Seven Days*. + +In August, the state charged Mafuta with [second-degree murder](https://m.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/murder-charge-filed-against-man-accused-of-beating-cellmate/Content?oid=38845019). At his arraignment in St. Albans, Mafuta, who had grown a patchy beard and put on weight, looked older than his 22 years. Shackled and dressed in thin, red prison clothes, he sat quietly as his public defenders entered a not-guilty plea. + +This was no longer in Burlington, where prosecutors in George's office had worked with defense attorneys to find ways to limit Mafuta's time behind bars. George had [established a track record](https://m.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/mentally-ill-or-criminal-dismissals-of-murder-cases-spark-firestorm/Content?oid=27715487) of choosing not to pursue murder charges when experts believed the defendant was insane. + +Mafuta was flanked by two public officials who were continuing to enforce the law [despite their own alleged misdeeds](https://m.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/franklin-county-states-attorney-resigns-amid-impeachment-probe/Content?oid=38953384). To his left stood Sheriff John Grismore, whom voters elected even as he faces an assault charge for kicking a handcuffed detainee. To Mafuta's right sat Franklin County state's attorney John Lavoie, who at the time was facing impeachment proceedings before the Vermont legislature over his use of crass, racist and sexist language with his employees. Lavoie [submitted his resignation](https://m.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/franklin-county-states-attorney-resigns-amid-impeachment-probe/Content?oid=38953384) hours after Mafuta's arraignment. On Monday, Gov. Phil Scott appointed [former state prosecutor Bram Kranichfeld](https://m.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/prosecutor-turned-priest-named-franklin-county-states-attorney/Content?oid=39032465) as Lavoie's interim replacement. + +If Mafuta is found not guilty, or has the charges dismissed because of his mental health, the state will then face another, politically charged question: what to do with him next. + +Meantime, other questions surround the case, including whether Mafuta should have returned to general population from mental health watch so soon. The Department of Corrections reviewed its own handling of the matter, including decisions made by its health care contractor, and found no missteps, according to Corrections Commissioner Nick Deml. "There's really nothing in the record that would have led us to a different conclusion," he said. + +Independent investigations are standard whenever someone dies in prison. But none was performed in this case because Hall was no longer in state custody when he died months later. Department leaders could have commissioned an independent report anyway but didn't. + +Mitchell, Mafuta's prison friend, wonders whether Mafuta should have been incarcerated at all, given his need for psychiatric care. Even Deml acknowledges that his agency is relied on a lot — perhaps too much — to care for sick people. + +"I feel like he's gonna get smoked and be in here even longer," Mitchell said, "when he should have never been in here in the first place." + +Mafuta spoke to *Seven Days* for three hours over separate phone calls this summer. He frequently struggled to find his words but discussed his relationship with his father, his experiences at the hospital and the desperation he had experienced living on the street. + +Asked what he needed during that time, he answered in the present tense, as if he were not sitting behind bars and could remain so for a long time to come. + +"I need permanent housing, I need clothes, and I need a way of getting a job so I have money so I can pay for stuff," he said from Southern State Correctional Facility, where he has been held for most of this year in a restrictive unit. "I don't like waking up every day thinking I need to steal or I need to starve." + +Mafuta also seemed to acknowledge, in a way he hasn't always, that if he were freed, he would not be able to rebuild his life alone. + +"I just don't see myself going anywhere," he said, "if I have to do all this on my own." + +A question weighs on his two close friends, Carpentier and Chibuzo: *Could I have done more?* + +Chibuzo now lives in West Virginia with her husband. She still thinks about Mafuta every day. + +"I still would put everything on it that he's not evil," she said. "I just think, clearly, there's something very, very wrong. And I think he's been trying to tell people." + +Carpentier is starting her final semester of college, where she's studying psychology and criminal justice. Her memories of visiting Mafuta in motel rooms inspired her senior thesis: a study of how children in state custody can be better supported into adulthood. + +During their final days together in Burlington, Carpentier said, they would sit in her car and she would try, the best way she knew, to get him to open up. + +"Where's the kid I know, who always smiled and laughed?" she'd ask, encouragingly. + +"Stuff happened, and it changed me," he'd tell her. + +"That's pretty much all he would say." + +The original print version of this article was headlined "From Room 37 to Cell 17 | A young man's path through the mental health care system led to prison — and a fatal encounter" + +  +  + +--- +`$= dv.el('center', 'Source: ' + dv.current().Link + ', ' + dv.current().Date.toLocaleString("fr-FR"))` \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/00.03 News/America’s epidemic of chronic illness is killing us too soon.md b/00.03 News/America’s epidemic of chronic illness is killing us too soon.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..844f097b --- /dev/null +++ b/00.03 News/America’s epidemic of chronic illness is killing us too soon.md @@ -0,0 +1,510 @@ +--- + +Tag: ["🫀", "🇺🇸", "🦠"] +Date: 2023-10-08 +DocType: "WebClipping" +Hierarchy: +TimeStamp: 2023-10-08 +Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2023/american-life-expectancy-dropping/ +location: +CollapseMetaTable: true + +--- + +Parent:: [[@News|News]] +Read:: 🟥 + +--- + +  + +```button +name Save +type command +action Save current file +id Save +``` +^button-AmericasepidemicofchronicillnessiskillingusNSave + +  + +# America’s epidemic of chronic illness is killing us too soon + +The United States is failing at a fundamental mission — keeping people alive. + +After decades of progress, life expectancy — long regarded as a singular benchmark of a nation’s success — peaked in 2014 at 78.9 years, then drifted downward even before the coronavirus pandemic. Among wealthy nations, the United States in recent decades went from the middle of the pack to being an outlier. And it continues to fall further and further behind. + +A year-long Washington Post examination reveals that this erosion in life spans is deeper and broader than widely recognized, afflicting a far-reaching swath of the United States. + +While [opioids](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2019/07/20/opioid-files/?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template) and [gun violence](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2022/gun-deaths-per-year-usa/?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template) have rightly seized the public’s attention, stealing hundreds of thousands of lives, chronic diseases are the greatest threat, killing far more people between 35 and 64 every year, The Post’s analysis of mortality data found. + +Heart disease and cancer remained, even at the height of the pandemic, the leading causes of death for people 35 to 64. And many other conditions — private tragedies that unfold in tens of millions of U.S. households — have become more common, including diabetes and [liver disease](https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2023/nonalcoholic-fatty-liver-disease-kids/?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template). These chronic ailments are the primary reason American life expectancy has been poor compared with [other nations](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/life-expectancy-calculator-compare-states-countries/?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template). + +### U.S. life expectancy is falling behind peer countries + +*\[*[*Compare your life expectancy with others around the world*](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/life-expectancy-calculator-compare-states-countries/?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template)*\]* + +Sickness and death are scarring entire communities in much of the country. The geographical footprint of early death is vast: In a quarter of the nation’s counties, mostly in the South and Midwest, working-age people are dying at a higher rate than 40 years ago, The Post found. The trail of death is so prevalent that a person could go from Virginia to Louisiana, and then up to Kansas, by traveling entirely within counties where death rates are higher than they were when Jimmy Carter was president. + +Choropleth map of death rates by county + +This phenomenon is exacerbated by the country’s economic, [political](https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2023/republican-politics-south-midwest-life-expectancy/?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template) and racial divides. America is increasingly a country of haves and have-nots, measured not just by bank accounts and property values but also by vital signs and grave markers. Dying prematurely, The Post found, has become the most telling measure of the nation’s growing inequality. + +The mortality crisis did not flare overnight. It has developed over decades, with early deaths an extreme manifestation of an underlying deterioration of health and a failure of the health system to respond. Covid highlighted this for all the world to see: It killed far more people per capita in the United States than in any other wealthy nation. + +Line charts showing the percentage increase in income and death rate gaps, along with a death rates of the poorest and richest counties. + +Chronic conditions thrive in a sink-or-swim culture, with the U.S. government spending far less than peer countries on preventive medicine and social welfare generally. Breakthroughs in technology, medicine and nutrition that should be boosting average life spans have instead been overwhelmed by poverty, racism, distrust of the medical system, fracturing of social networks and unhealthy diets built around highly processed food, researchers told The Post. + +[Press Enter to skip to end of carousel](https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2023/american-life-expectancy-dropping/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjk2NDc4NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjk3ODYwNzk5LCJpYXQiOjE2OTY0Nzg0MDAsImp0aSI6ImNjZjUwMDJiLWZlOGMtNDBmOS1hYzY0LTcwOWZkOGExYmVjZSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9oZWFsdGgvaW50ZXJhY3RpdmUvMjAyMy9hbWVyaWNhbi1saWZlLWV4cGVjdGFuY3ktZHJvcHBpbmcvIn0.9b2MXxthi_kDVr53_a1xO71yXfkp_vYAq5CGlQcHb5I&itid=gfta#end-react-aria3220407715-1) + +###### Introducing the storytellers + +1/8 + +End of carousel + +The calamity of chronic disease is a “not-so-silent pandemic,” said Marcella Nunez-Smith, a professor of medicine, public health and management at Yale University. “That is fundamentally a threat to our society.” But chronic diseases, she said, don’t spark the sense of urgency among national leaders and the public that a novel virus did. + +America’s medical system is unsurpassed when it comes to treating the most desperately sick people, said William Cooke, a doctor who tends to patients in the town of Austin, Ind. “But growing healthy people to begin with, we’re the worst in the world,” he said. “If we came in last in the next Olympics, imagine what we would do.” + +The Post interviewed scores of clinicians, patients and researchers, and analyzed county-level death records from the past five decades. The data analysis concentrated on people 35 to 64 because these ages have the greatest number of excess deaths compared with peer nations. + +What emerges is a dismaying picture of a complicated, often bewildering health system that is overmatched by the nation’s burden of disease: + +- Chronic illnesses, which often sicken people in middle age after the protective vitality of youth has ebbed, erase more than twice as many years of life among people younger than 65 as all the overdoses, homicides, suicides and car accidents combined, The Post found. + +- The best barometer of rising inequality in America is no longer income. It is life itself. Wealth inequality in America is growing, but The Post found that the death gap — the difference in life expectancy between affluent and impoverished communities — has been widening many times faster. In the early 1980s, people in the poorest communities were 9 percent more likely to die each year, but the gap grew to 49 percent in the past decade and widened to 61 percent when covid struck. + +- Life spans in the richest communities in America have kept inching upward, but lag far behind comparable areas in Canada, France and Japan, and the gap is widening. The same divergence is seen at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder: People living in the poorest areas of America have far lower life expectancy than people in the poorest areas of the countries reviewed. + +- Forty years ago, small towns and rural regions were healthier for adults in the prime of life. The reverse is now true. Urban death rates have declined sharply, while rates outside the country’s largest metro areas flattened and then rose. Just before the pandemic, adults 35 to 64 in the most rural areas were 45 percent more likely to die each year than people in the largest urban centers. + + +\[[Have questions about our examination into U.S. life expectancy? Send our reporters your questions.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/10/12/questions-answers-life-expectancy/?itid=lk_interstitial_enhanced-template)\] + +“The big-ticket items are cardiovascular diseases and cancers,” said Arline T. Geronimus, a University of Michigan professor who studies population health equity. “But people always instead go to homicide, opioid addiction, HIV.” + +![](https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/VO6BF5IUV67BVOKYEZDU6TFGSY.jpg&high_res=true&w=2048) + +### Loss upon loss + +The life expectancy in Louisville, where this cemetery lies, is roughly two years shorter than the national average, and the gap has tripled since 1990. + +Behind all the mortality statistics are the personal stories of loss, grief, hope. And anger. They are the stories of chronic illness in America and the devastating toll it exacts on millions of people — people like Bonnie Jean Holloway. + +For years, Holloway rose at 3 a.m. to go to her waitress job at a small restaurant in Louisville that opened at 4 and catered to early-shift workers. Later, Holloway worked at a Bob Evans restaurant right off Interstate 65 in Clarksville, Ind. She often worked a double shift, deep into the evening. She was one of those waitresses who becomes a fixture, year after year. + +Those years were not kind to Holloway’s health. + +She never went to the doctor, not counting the six times she delivered a baby, according to her eldest daughter, Desirae Holloway. She was covered by Medicaid, but for many years, didn’t have a primary care doctor. + +She developed rheumatoid arthritis, a severe autoimmune disease. “Her hands were twisted,” recalled friend and fellow waitress Dolly Duvall, who has worked at Bob Evans for 41 years. “Some days, she had to call in sick because she couldn’t get herself walking.” + +![](https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/CGCFBQPDBSOEDJRMUKXLKEMX4M_size-normalized.jpg&high_res=true&w=2048) + +Two funeral programs on a mantel in Louisville attest to the toll of disease in one American family. Dalton Holloway, 30, died in January, after being diagnosed with lung cancer. His mother, Bonnie Jean Holloway, 61, died in May after years beset by chronic illnesses. + +The turning point came a little more than a decade ago when Holloway dropped a tray full of water glasses. She went home and wept. She knew she was done. + +Her 50s became a trial, beset with multiple ailments, consistent with what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found — that people with chronic diseases often have them in bunches. She was diagnosed with emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease — known as COPD — and could not go anywhere without her canister of oxygen. + +Her family found the medical system difficult to trust. Medicines didn’t work or had terrible side effects. Drugs prescribed for Holloway’s autoimmune disease seemed to make her vulnerable to infections. She would catch whatever bug her grandkids caught. She developed a fungal infection in her lungs. + +Tobacco looms large in this sad story. One of the signal successes of public health in the past half-century has been the drop in smoking rates and associated declines in lung cancer. But roughly [1 in 7 middle-aged Americans still smokes](https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/adult_data/cig_smoking/index.htm?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template), according to the CDC. Kentucky has a deep cultural and economic connection to tobacco. The state’s smoking rates are the [second-highest](https://www.cdc.gov/statesystem/cigaretteuseadult.html?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template) in the nation, trailing only West Virginia. Holloway began smoking at 12, Desirae said. And for a long time, restaurants still had a smoking section right next to the nonsmoking section. + +![](https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/MTTGW7N4SXH23PWOIVZHKZZ2D4_size-normalized.jpg&high_res=true&w=2048) + +Desirae Holloway, with her 2-year-old daughter Aliana Starks, attends a volleyball game of her 13-year-old daughter, Ahmya Starks in Louisville in September. + +“Her mother was a smoker, her father was a smoker,” Desirae said. “I think I was the one in the family that broke that cycle. I remember what it was like to grow up in the house where the house was filled with smoke.” + +In June 2022, Bonnie Jean’s son Dalton, known to his family as “Wolfie” — a smoker, too — went to the emergency room with what he thought was a collapsed lung. After an X-ray, he was prescribed a muscle relaxer. The pain persisted. A second scan led to a diagnosis of lung cancer, Stage 4. + +Dalton died in the hospital on Jan. 31. He was 30. + +![](https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/S2QMWE3CEABJVOZ4AZO6RXFEQQ_size-normalized.jpg&high_res=true&w=2048) + +Desirae Holloway sits with her daughters Aliana and Ahmya at Gallrein Farms in Shelbyville, Ky., in September. Her mother and brother died within months of each other this year. + +Bonnie Jean Holloway was in a wheelchair at her son’s funeral. Her health deteriorated after that. When hospitalized for what turned out to be the final time, she was diagnosed with mucormycosis, a fungal infection that, according to Desirae, had eaten into her ribs. A scan showed a suspicious spot in her lungs, but she was too weak by then for a biopsy. + +In her final weeks, Holloway would look into a corner of her hospital room and speak to someone who was not there. The family felt she was speaking to Wolfie. + +One day, she told Desirae she couldn’t hang on any longer. “Wolfie needs me,” she said. + +Desirae felt her mother deserved better in life. “Mom, your life was just not fair,” Desirae told her. + +She died in the hospital on Memorial Day. She was 61. + +![](https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/NOUEOIE6V4ZZYRZNYDSHMAIVWY_size-normalized.jpg&high_res=true&w=2048) + +### A milestone missed + +A concert enlivens the banks of the Ohio River on June 2 in Jeffersonville, Ind., in the shadow of Louisville. + +In 1900, life expectancy at birth in the United States was 47 years. Infectious diseases routinely claimed babies in the cradle. Diseases were essentially incurable except through the wiles of the human immune system, of which doctors had minimal understanding. + +Then came a century that saw life expectancy soar beyond the biblical standard of “threescore years and ten.” New tools against disease included antibiotics, insulin, vaccines and, eventually, CT scans and MRIs. Public health efforts improved sanitation and the water supply. Social Security and Medicare eased poverty and sickness in the elderly. + +The rise of life expectancy became the ultimate proof of societal progress in 20th century America. Decade by decade, the number kept climbing, and by 2010, the country appeared to be marching inexorably toward the milestone of 80. + +It never got there. + +Multiple charts showing rates of different causes of death + +Partly, that is a reflection of how the United States approaches health. This is a country where “we think health and medicine are the same thing,” said Elena Marks, former health and environmental policy director for the city of Houston. The nation built a “health industrial complex,” she said, that costs trillions of dollars yet underachieves. + +“We have undying faith in big new technology and a drug for everything, access to as many MRIs as our hearts desire,” said Marks, a senior health policy fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. “Eighty-plus percent of health outcomes are determined by nonmedical factors. And yet, we’re on this train, and we’re going to keep going.” + +The opioid epidemic, a uniquely American catastrophe, is one factor in the widening gap between the United States and peer nations. Others include high rates of gun violence, suicides and car accidents. + +But some chronic diseases — obesity, liver disease, hypertension, kidney disease and diabetes — were also on the rise among people 35 to 64, The Post found, and played an underappreciated role in the pre-pandemic erosion of life spans. + +Then covid hit. + +![](https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/4BS5FYGGGGSKGEOE6DWOMLMIB4_size-normalized.jpg&high_res=true&w=2048) + +From left, Mike Lottier, Derrick Jones and Langston Gaither gather at a cigar bar in Jeffersonville, Ind., in June. + +In 2021, according to the CDC, life expectancy cratered, reaching 76.4, the lowest since the mid-1990s. + +The pandemic amplified a racial gap in life expectancy that had been narrowing in recent decades. In 2021, life expectancy for Native Americans was 65 years; for Black Americans, 71; for White Americans, 76; for Hispanic Americans, 78; and for Asian Americans 84. + +Death rates decreased in 2022 because of the pandemic’s easing, and when life expectancy data for 2022 is finalized this fall, it is expected to show a partial rebound, according to the CDC. But the country is still trying to dig out of a huge mortality hole. + +For more than a decade, academic researchers have disgorged stacks of reports on eroding life expectancy. A seminal 2013 report from the National Research Council, “[Shorter Lives, Poorer Health](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24006554/?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template),” lamented America’s decline among peer nations. “It’s that feeling of the bus heading for the cliff and nobody seems to care,” said Steven H. Woolf, a Virginia Commonwealth University professor and co-editor of the 2013 report. + +In 2015, Princeton University economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton garnered national headlines with a [study on rising death rates](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-group-of-middle-aged-american-whites-is-dying-at-a-startling-rate/2015/11/02/47a63098-8172-11e5-8ba6-cec48b74b2a7_story.html?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template) among White Americans in midlife, which they linked to the marginalization of people without a college degree and to “[deaths of despair](https://qz.com/583595/deaths-of-despair-are-killing-americas-white-working-class?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template).” + +The grim statistics are there for all to see — and yet the political establishment has largely skirted the issue. + +“We describe it. We lament it. We’ve sort of accepted it,” said Derek M. Griffith, director of Georgetown University’s Center for Men’s Health Equity. “Nobody is outraged about us having shorter life expectancy.” + +![](https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/AKTYH7LBHTVFVWLV2PFNFV4XPQ_size-normalized.jpg&high_res=true&w=2048) + +The Joslin Diabetes Center sits along a stretch of road in New Albany, Ind., dotted with fast-food restaurants. + +It can be a confusing statistic. Life expectancy is a wide-angle snapshot of average death rates for people in different places or age groups. It is typically expressed as life expectancy at birth, but the number does not cling to a person from the cradle as if it were a prediction. And if a country has an average life expectancy at birth of 79 years, that doesn’t mean a 78-year-old has only a year to live. + +However confusing it may be, the life expectancy metric is a reasonably good measure of a nation’s overall health. And America’s is not very good. + +![](https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/VIT5WGNURMKPSWOBAMMYJPWW34_size-normalized.jpg&high_res=true&w=2048) + +### Losing ground + +The Jeffersonville waterfront offers a view of the Louisville skyline. The Louisville metropolitan area includes urban, suburban and rural communities that have health challenges typical in the heartland. + +For this story, The Post concentrated its reporting on Louisville and counties across the river in southern Indiana. + +The Louisville area does not, by any means, have the worst health outcomes in the country. But it possesses health challenges typical in the heartland, and offers an array of urban, suburban and rural communities, with cultural elements of the Midwest and the South. + +Chart showing regional death rate gaps in urban and rural areas + +Start with Louisville, hard by the Ohio River, a city that overachieves when it comes to Americana. Behold Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby. See the many public parks designed by the legendary Frederick Law Olmsted. Downtown is where you will find the Muhammad Ali Center, and the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, and a dizzying number of bars on what promoters have dubbed the Urban Bourbon Trail. + +This summer, huge crowds gathered on the south bank of the Ohio for free concerts on Waterfront Wednesdays. Looming over the great lawn is a converted railroad bridge called the Big Four, which at any given moment is full of people walking, cycling or jogging. + +But for all its vibrancy, Louisville’s life expectancy is roughly two years shorter than the national average, and the gap has tripled since 1990. Death rates from liver disease and chronic lower lung disease are up. The city has endured a high homicide rate comparable with Chicago’s. + +“We have a gun violence epidemic in Louisville that is a public health crisis,” Mayor Craig Greenberg (D) told The Post. + +![](https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/4C4B2CBWCGINNBMFKOGGT56EHU_size-normalized.jpg&high_res=true&w=2048) + +Scott Chasteen, transportation services coordinator for Decatur County Memorial Hospital, transports patient Marilyn Loyd, 70, to her home in rural Greensburg, Ind., in July. Forty years ago, many small towns and rural regions were healthier for adults in the prime of life. + +In 1990, the Louisville area, including rural counties in Southern Indiana, was typical of the nation as a whole, The Post found, with adults between 35 and 64 dying at about the same rate as comparable adults nationally. By 2019, adults in their prime were 30 percent more likely to die compared with peers nationally. + +Rates of heart disease, lung ailments and liver failure all were worse in the region compared with national trends. The same is true of car accidents, overdoses, homicide and suicide. + +And then there’s the rampant disease that’s impossible to miss: obesity. + +![](https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/BAGZHJJYP7HQCVYKSOOUJGBG44_size-normalized.jpg&high_res=true&w=2048) + +### A shadow upon the land + +James Dunbar, 28, left, and Josh Vincent, 29, eat at La Catrina Mexican Kitchen in New Albany, Ind., in June. Both men say there are health issues in their families. + +Every day, the faces of this American health crisis come through the doors of Vasdev Lohano’s exam rooms at the Joslin Diabetes Center in New Albany, Ind. + +Born and raised in Pakistan, Lohano arrived in the United States in 1994, landing in New York after medical school, where he was astonished by what Americans ate. Processed food was abundant, calories cheap, the meals supersized. Most striking was ubiquitous soda pop. + +When Lohano visited a fast-food outlet in Queens, he ordered a modest meal, a hamburger and a Coke. The employee handed him an empty cup. Lohano was confused. “Where’s my soda?” he asked. The employee pointed to the soft drink machine and told him to serve himself. + +“How much can I have?” Lohano asked. “As much as you want,” he was told. + +“Cancel my burger, I’m just going to drink soda,” he announced. + +![](https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/2U2FJBJW6BRLIFR5JBVENF442E_size-normalized.jpg&high_res=true&w=2048) + +Endocrinologist Vasdev Lohano examines Shannon McCallister, 50, at the Joslin Diabetes Center in June. McCallister weighed 255 pounds before gastric sleeve surgery three years ago. “I firmly believe it added at least 10 years to my life,” she said. + +Lohano, an endocrinologist whose practice sits a short drive north from Louisville, says he has “seen two worlds in my lifetime.” + +He means not just Pakistan and the United States, but the past and the present. When he was in medical school in Pakistan, he was taught that a typical adult man weighs 70 kilograms — about 154 pounds. Today, the average man in the United States weighs about 200 pounds. Women on average weigh about 171 pounds **—** roughly what men weighed in the 1960s. + +In 1990, 11.6 percent of adults in America were obese. Now, that figure is [41.9](https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template), according to the CDC. + +The rate of obesity deaths for adults 35 to 64 doubled from 1979 to 2000, then doubled again from 2000 to 2019. In 2005, [a special report](https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmsr043743?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template) in the New England Journal of Medicine warned that the rise of obesity would eventually halt and reverse historical trends in life expectancy. That warning generated little reaction. + +Obesity is one reason progress against heart disease, after accelerating between 1980 and 2000, has slowed, experts say. Obesity is poised to overtake tobacco as the No. 1 preventable cause of cancer, according to Otis Brawley, an oncologist and epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University. + +Medical science could help turn things around. Diabetes patients are benefiting from new drugs, called GLP-1 agonists — sold under the brand names Ozempic and Wegovy — that provide improved blood-sugar control and can lead to a sharp reduction in weight. But insurance companies, slow to see obesity as a disease, often decline to pay for the drugs for people who do not have diabetes. + +![](https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/YIXFD7IDCMW5AOTFPSVPV75GQY_size-normalized.jpg&high_res=true&w=2048) + +David O’Neil, a patient at the Joslin center, lost a leg to diabetes three years ago. + +Lohano has been treating David O’Neil, 67, a retired firefighter who lost his left leg to diabetes. When he first visited Lohano’s clinic last year, his blood sugar level was among the highest Lohano had ever seen — “astronomical,” the doctor said. + +O’Neil said diabetes runs in his family. Divorced, he lives alone with two cats. + +He said he mostly eats frozen dinners purchased at Walmart. + +“It’s easier to fix,” he said. + +Three years ago, he had the leg amputated. + +“I got a walker, but when you got one leg, it’s a hopper,” he said. “I’ve got to get control of this diabetes or I won’t have the other leg.” + +![](https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/TT4H6RVXFXFK4NC5E2AWVFKA34_size-normalized.jpg&high_res=true&w=2048) + +### No simple answer + +Kader’s Market is one of the few food stores in the West End of Louisville. Shopper Fonz Brown noted: “Down here, you have more liquor stores than places where you can actually buy something to eat.” + +What happened to this country to enfeeble it so? + +There is no singular explanation. It’s not just the stress that is such a constant feature of daily life, weathering bodies at a microscopic level. Or the abundance of high-fructose corn syrup in that 44-ounce cup of soda. + +Instead, experts studying the mortality crisis say any plan to restore American vigor will have to look not merely at the specific things that kill people, but at *the causes of the causes* of illness and death, including social factors. Poor life expectancy, in this view, is the predictable result of the society we have created and tolerated: one riddled with lethal elements, such as inadequate insurance, minimal preventive care, bad diets and a weak economic safety net. + +“There is a great deal of harm in the way that we somehow stigmatize social determinants, like that’s code for poor, people of color or something,” said Nunez-Smith, associate dean for health equity research at Yale. And while that risk is not shared evenly, she said, “everyone is at a risk of not having these basic needs met.” + +Rachel L. Levine, assistant secretary for health in the Department of Health and Human Services, said in an interview that an administration priority is reducing health disparities highlighted by the pandemic: “It’s foundational to everything we are doing. It is not like we do health equity on Friday afternoon.” + +Levine, a pediatrician, pointed to the opioid crisis and lack of universal health coverage as reasons the United States lags peer nations in life expectancy. She emphasized efforts by the Biden administration to improve health trends, including a major campaign to combat cancer and [a long-term, multiagency plan](https://health.gov/sites/default/files/2022-04/Federal%20Plan%20for%20ELTRR_Executive%20Summary_FINAL-ColorCorrected_3.pdf?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template) to bolster health and resilience. + +Public health experts point to major inflection points the past four decades — the 1990s welfare overhaul, the Great Recession, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, changes in the economy and family relationships — that have clouded people’s health. + +It is no surprise, Georgetown’s Griffith said, that middle-aged people bear a particular burden. They are “the one group that there’s nobody really paying attention to,” he said. “You have a lot of attention to older adults. You have a lot of attention to adolescents, young adults. There’s not an explicit focus or research area on middle age.” + +An accounting of the nation’s health problems can start with the health system. The medical workforce is aging and stretched thin. The country desperately needs [thousands more primary care doctors](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6450307/?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template#:~:text=Owing%20to%20disproportionate%20losses%20of,%25%20CI%2C%200.0%2D108.6%20per). The incentives for private companies are stacked on the treatment side rather than the prevention side. Policy proposals to change things often run into a buzz saw of special interests. + +![](https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/PO2EXEVRGA2YI3YD2ZOMUH6PMA.jpg&high_res=true&w=2048) + +Anthony Yelder Sr. runs Off the Corner BBQ in Louisville. Yelder, 43, says he has had three heart attacks, starting when he was 36. He blames working too much, a poor diet, smoking and family conflicts. + +Michael Imburgia, a Louisville cardiologist, spent most of his career in private medical facilities that expected doctors to see as many patients as possible. He now volunteers at a clinic he founded, Have a Heart, a nonprofit that serves uninsured and underinsured people and where Imburgia can spend more time with patients and understand their circumstances. + +Health care is “the only business that doesn’t reward for quality care. All we reward for is volume. Do more, and you’re going to get more money,” Imburgia said. + +Elizabeth H. Bradley, president of Vassar College and co-author of “[The American Health Care Paradox](https://amzn.to/48whgob?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template),” said if the nation’s life-expectancy crisis could be solved by the discovery of drugs, it would be a hot topic. But it’s not, she said, because “you would have to look at everything — the tax code, the education system — it’s too controversial. Most politicians don’t want to open Pandora’s box.” + +![](https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/O2YGXIJXBBP2VTYJYO7GXDWWAA_size-normalized.jpg&high_res=true&w=2048) + +### ‘I want to enjoy my pension’ + +James “Big Ken” Manuel contends with chronic illnesses at his home in Louisville. + +James “Big Ken” Manuel, 67, spent four decades as a union electrician, a proud member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. He has a booming voice, a ready laugh, a big personality. + +His life story illustrates a health system built on fragmented and often inadequate insurance, and geared toward treatment rather than prevention. And to the perils of dangerous diets and the consequences of obesity. + +He was born and raised in Lake Charles, La., when Black families like his in the Deep South had to navigate the racism of the Jim Crow era. But Manuel talks of his blessings. Two loving parents who worked hard. Friends who stayed close for life. A deeply satisfying career. + +These days, retired, he has a modest aspiration: “I want to enjoy my pension.” + +For now, it is a challenge to simply get across the room and answer his front door in Louisville’s West End. He needs a walker to get around. Even then, he’s huffing and puffing. + +One day in late May, Manuel was at the Have a Heart clinic in downtown. That morning, he weighed 399 pounds. + +![](https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/2YECMFQT3FRH3ECXHQ6GJYT26Q_size-normalized.jpg&high_res=true&w=2048) + +Manuel receives medical care at the Have a Heart clinic in Louisville. He says paying for his many medications consumes his pension. + +He is dealing with, by his account, diabetes, gout, hypertension, congestive heart failure and COPD. And he has been obese since he entered elementary school, “twice the size of regular kids.” + +“Might not have had a lot of money in the bank, but we had food on the table,” he recalled. “We had all kind of Cajun dishes. Gumbos. Everything with rice. Rice and gravy. Steak and rice. Potato salad. Macaroni and cheese, baked beans. Traditional red beans, black-eyed peas. All that traditional cholesterol, heart-jumping dishes.” + +He remembered a visit to a doctor about 20 years ago, when his weight was on a trajectory to 500: “Mr. Manuel, I’ve never had a patient as big as you and as healthy as you. But it’s going to catch up with you.” + +And it did. + +His insurance was spotty over the years. He wanted bariatric surgery — a proven but costly treatment for morbid obesity — but he said his Louisiana-based union insurance wouldn’t cover it. + +And when he was out of work, he let his insurance lapse rather than pay the expensive fees for continued coverage. Like so many Americans, he paid for medical care out of his pocket. + +After he stopped working about seven years ago, he briefly qualified for Medicaid. But then he began collecting Social Security at 62, and his income exceeded the Medicaid eligibility limit. + +Next, he moved to an Affordable Care Act plan. Bouncing from plan to plan, he negotiated the complexities of being in-network or out-of-network. He eventually found the Have a Heart clinic and continued to go there even after he turned 65 and enrolled in Medicare. + +![](https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/5Z2H3MKC4TG4MVWUHF7OYHUXFA_size-normalized.jpg&high_res=true&w=2048) + +As he seeks better health, Manuel has a modest wish: “I want to be able to enjoy my pension.” + +Manuel drove to the clinic one morning with a bag containing all his medicines. Hydralazine. Torsemide. Atorvastatin. Metformin. Carbetol. Benzonatate. Prednisone. Fistfuls of medicine for a swarm of cardiometabolic diseases. + +“It’s a lot of medicine. And it’s expensive. Eating up my pension,” Manuel said. + +He was desperate to get stronger, because he was engaged to be married in a few months. + +“I got to be able to walk down the aisle,” he said. + +Mary Masden, 60, dated Manuel for years before deciding to get married. + +She remembers when Manuel had more mobility. He could still dance. She is praying he will be able to dance again someday. + +“I want him here for another 20, 30 years,” she said. “I don’t want to worry about him not waking up because he can’t breathe.” + +On Sept. 2, Manuel and Masden were joined in marriage, and he did walk her down the aisle. He thought better of trying to jump, ceremonially, over the broom. He and his bride honeymooned at a resort in French Lick, Ind. The wedding, they agreed, was beautiful. + +![](https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/VFX56ZIL3L457TJ4UAN3RWB5MA_size-normalized.jpg&high_res=true&w=2048) + +### ‘I’m going to put you in a bubble’ + +Janette Kern wears a pendant with a photograph of her son Donnie DeJarnette, who died two years ago at age 25. + +The geography of life and death in America has changed in recent generations, with decaying life expectancy in much of rural America. Janette Kern, 49, grew up in one of those patches of rural America, in the hamlet of Little Bend, in Meade County, Ky., west of Louisville. “The boonies,” she said. + +Today, Kern lives and works at an extended-stay hotel in Clarksville, Ind. Her health is pretty good when she takes her medicine. She has several chronic conditions: hypertension, a thyroid disorder, high cholesterol, and anxiety and depression. + +In Kern’s family, long lives are not common. Both her parents died at 64. Her father, a truck driver, had diabetes, suffered mini-strokes and died after failing to wake up following a surgical procedure. Her mother died when a blood clot came loose, she said. An uncle died at 64, too, and an aunt at 65. + +“My family is in their 60s when they’re passing. It’s because of heart disease, diabetes, cancer,” she said. + +She hopes to break with that family tradition. + +“I would hope that I would at least make it to 75,” she said. + +Recently, she had a rude surprise: Trouble filling a prescription. She fears she has been booted off her medical insurance. + +Millions of people are being purged from Medicaid rolls. Early in the pandemic, states temporarily stopped the usual yearly renewals to determine eligibility for the program, a joint responsibility with the federal government. This spring, [states were allowed to begin](https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/03/29/medicaid-pandemic-benefits-ending/?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template) eligibility renewals again, and Kern hadn’t jumped through the bureaucratic hoops. “I’ve not gotten any paperwork,” she said. + +At the hotel, she is the friendly face at the front desk or smoking a Marlboro Light outside. Guests checking in may notice a pendant around Kern’s neck featuring a photograph of a young man. + +It says, “I never walk alone. Donnie walks with me.” + +Donnie DeJarnette was her firstborn. He was a technician at a car dealership, and had become a father in November 2020. He had long suffered from headaches, his mother said. He had medical insurance but couldn’t afford the co-pays and didn’t see doctors. On Jan. 3, 2021, he was in Meade County when, while talking on the phone with a friend, he collapsed. He died at a hospital hours later from what Kern said was a brain aneurysm. He was 25. + +The loss devastated her. She still went to work, then would go home and just lie in bed. + +“Part of me died. Until you lose a child, you’ll never know,” she said. + +She lost a newborn, Billy, in 1999, to an infection two days after delivery. + +She still has her youngest son, Matthew, who is 23. + +“I tell him, ‘I’m going to put you in a bubble, so nothing can happen to you,’” she said. “I’ve been pregnant five times, I’ve had two miscarriages, I delivered three, and now I’m down to one.” + +![](https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/WRFKYK4OW2OWTAQKKYYQJ3WXRU_size-normalized.jpg&high_res=true&w=2048) + +### Death in the heartland + +Cardiologist Kelly McCants sees patient Tim McIntosh, 57, in Louisville. McIntosh says his parents both had heart issues and his father died at 39. “I’m surprised I made it as long as I have,” he says. + +Across the heartland, countless communities are barely hanging on. This has long been a story described in economic terms — hollowed-out factories, bankruptcies, boarded-up downtown storefronts. But the economic challenges of these places go hand-in-hand with physical pain, suffering and the struggle to stay alive. + +When economies go bad, health erodes, and people die early. + +“The people in our country who are dying are the poor and the marginalized communities,” said Imburgia, the cardiologist. “It’s a money thing.” + +The geographical divide in health can be seen within Louisville and reflects America’s history of racial discrimination and segregation. + +“Cardiovascular disease, cancers, asthma, diabetes, it’s all higher two- to threefold west of Ninth Street,” said Kelly McCants, a cardiologist and head of Norton Healthcare’s Institute for Health Equity in Louisville. He was referring to the unofficial boundary between the West End, whose residents are mostly African American, and the rest of the city. + +A [recent study](https://louisvilleky.gov/center-health-equity/document/2017herpreview-1?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template) estimated that residents in some areas of the wealthier East End of town live on average 12 years longer than residents in parts of the West End. The pandemic, in tandem with the 2020 killing of Breonna Taylor in a no-knock police raid, compelled community leaders to confront disparities in life expectancy, said Greenberg, the city’s mayor. + +“Where you live, where you’re born, unfortunately and tragically has a huge impact on your life expectancy today. We absolutely need to change that,” Greenberg said. + +One of McCants’s recent patients was a young woman with a damaged heart — “advanced cardiomyopathy” — who had a heart pump successfully implanted. But McCants is worried about the patient’s living conditions. + +“I’m limited,” he said, shaking his head. “I can be the best doctor ever. Her surgery went well. We got her through all of that. But now she could be readmitted to the hospital because of the housing situation.” + +Crystal Narcisse, a colleague of McCants’s at Norton, is an internal medicine physician and pediatrician who focuses on the root causes of patients’ ailments. It’s not enough to focus on the hypertension. What is this patient’s life like*?* + +“There’s a reason someone’s blood pressure isn’t under control, or someone’s diabetes isn’t under control,” Narcisse said. “It could be because of depression, or anxiety or \[post-traumatic stress disorder\] or abuse.” + +![](https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/TF4JL2RTSFA6CT2NKIQU2N7F2Y_size-normalized.jpg&high_res=true&w=2048) + +Regina Riley-Smith, center in back, gathers with family in Louisville in June. At 48, she struggles with multiple chronic conditions. + +One of her longtime patients is Regina Riley-Smith, a 48-year-old working at a General Electric factory, putting hinges on refrigerators. She rises weekdays at 3:45 a.m. to be on the line at GE, clocked in, at 5:35 a.m. + +She has transformed herself since a troubled adolescence in Lexington, Ky., where she had a baby at 15 and dropped out of school after 10th grade. The baby went to live with a grandmother while Riley-Smith ran with a wild crowd and became addicted to crack cocaine. Her mother died in 1996, at 64, and her father in 2001, at 65. A few months later, she moved to Louisville, at age 26, and was “re-raised,” as she put it, by an aunt. + +She got off drugs, and life has blessed her since. She and her husband have six children and 13 grandchildren, and live in a cozy home in the West End. + +She has struggled with multiple chronic ailments: type 2 diabetes, hypertension, asthma and rheumatoid arthritis. She could file for disability but, for now, works extra shifts, hoping to pay off debts. + +“She stays on my diet,” Riley-Smith said of her doctor. “I’ve backed off the drinks, the sodas. The main thing she’s working on is stopping smoking.” + +Riley-Smith is down to half a pack a day of Newport Menthol Golds. + +Narcisse, listening to her patient, smiled and said, “I want you to live long. A lot of people are counting on you.” + +Riley-Smith wants the same thing but worries about her long-term prospects. + +“I feel like I’m short-lived,” she said. “That’s why I live life to the extreme every day. I try not to be angry with nobody. Because I don’t know if I’m going to wake up the next morning.” + +![](https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/W3Z2JRFZAUDHDX7IWCL75QBTXY_size-normalized.jpg&high_res=true&w=2048) + +### One last firefight + +Bruce DeArk spent decades as a firefighter in Jeffersonville, Ind. His death from colon cancer was ruled to be in the line of duty. + +A health disaster, like misfortune generally, can strike randomly. Although risky behavior — smoking, eating too much, never exercising — can be a major factor in poor health, sickness can arise without any obvious cause, such as some unseen element in the environment. + +Then there’s the case of Bruce DeArk of Jeffersonville, Ind., who put his health at risk simply by going to work. + +DeArk was the deputy fire chief of Jeffersonville. One day in early 2018, he began feeling nauseated. He thought: the flu? When he began experiencing excruciating pain in his lower abdomen, he suspected appendicitis. He got a scan. + +The diagnosis: Stage 4 colon cancer. + +“I got in my vehicle to go to hospital and I couldn’t move, I just sat there thinking there is no way!” he later wrote, preparing to advocate for earlier colon cancer screening. “I was 49 yrs old at the time and thought of this disease as an older person disease.” + +![](https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/4XTHUIEBH5TZZDY2BFG2VKBTN4_size-normalized.jpg&high_res=true&w=2048) + +The walls in Janet DeArk's house in Jeffersonville, Ind., are covered with photographs of her late husband, Bruce. + +Since 1991, the U.S. cancer death rate has fallen 33 percent, reflecting sharp declines in smoking and new treatments, according to the American Cancer Society. But cancer is mysteriously increasing among people younger than 50, with the highest increase in breast, thyroid and colorectal cancer. + +DeArk had excellent insurance and a huge support network. But early last year, after a four-year battle, and escorted by a fleet of police and fire vehicles, DeArk made his final trip home from the hospital and died four days later. He was 53. + +He had fought a lot of fires over the decades, enveloped in hazardous smoke. The International Agency for Research on Cancer has declared the occupation of firefighting “carcinogenic to humans,” its highest-risk category. Following an extensive investigation, state officials ruled DeArk’s death was in the line of duty. + +“The world has gotten toxic, with building materials, and then you light a match to them,” said his widow, Janet DeArk. “And our food supply has gotten toxic. We just have a very toxic environment.” + +She and Bruce married just four months before his cancer diagnosis. Now at 53, living with four large dogs in a house where the walls are covered with photographs of her late husband, Janet has to figure out the rest of her life. + +“For the first year after he died, I wanted to die. I did not take care of myself at all,” she said. + +She still struggles to get out of bed in the morning, she said, but has no choice — she has four large dogs wanting breakfast. + +![](https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/3L7SHWXUWPVUEIDBFIQLY7JHEQ_size-normalized.jpg&high_res=true&w=2048) + +Janet DeArk, left, and her stepdaughter, Kayla DeArk, prepare for a spin class in June in Louisville. Janet has been exercising more this year as she deals with her grief. + +She is trying to heal herself. She vowed to lose some of the weight she had gained during the four traumatic years of watching her husband suffer. She started cycling at 6 a.m. along the Ohio River, and doing spin classes at night. + +She told herself: “Start eating better. Start exercising. Get back to who you know you are. But that first year, my entire future was gone. Because Bruce was my future.” + +##### About this story + +The Washington Post spent the past year examining the nation’s crisis of premature death by analyzing county-level death records from the past five decades, along with U.S. and international life expectancy data, demographic and voting pattern figures, and excess death projections for the United States and other countries. Learn more about how we did our analysis [here](https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/10/03/life-expectancy-investigation-analysis-methodology/?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template). + +##### Credits + +Reporting by Joel Achenbach, Dan Keating, Laurie McGinley and Akilah Johnson. Photos by Jahi Chikwendiu. Graphics by Daniel Wolfe. Illustration by Charlotte Gomez. + +Design and development by Stephanie Hays, Agnes Lee and Carson TerBush. Design editing by Christian Font. Photo editing by Sandra M. Stevenson. Graphics editing by Emily Eng. + +Editing by Stephen Smith, Meghan Hoyer and Wendy Galietta. 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Can we learn to live with them? + +### Authored by + +Text by +Illustrations by [Sarah Gilman](https://hakaimagazine.com/profiles/sarah-gilman/) + +### Article body copy + +There was a time when we human beings used to put animals on trial for their alleged crimes against us. The earliest of these prosecutions in the Western tradition of law appears to be a case against moles in the Valle d’Aosta, Italy, in 824 AD, and legal actions continued into the 1900s. In the centuries between, a killer pig was dressed in human clothing and hanged in Falaise, France; Marseille put dolphins on trial for crimes unknown; and a rooster—in what must have been a case of mistaken identity—was burned at the stake in Basel, Switzerland, for the witchery of laying an egg while male. + +The classic investigation of this subject, E. P. Evans’s 1906 book *The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals*, finds no evidence that these trials were carried out for comedic effect, or in fact that the litigation was anything but gravely serious. That said, things obviously did get weird. + +In 1522, “some rats of the diocese” of Autun, France, were charged with criminally eating and destroying barley crops. A skilled legal tactician, one Barthélemy de Chasseneuz, was assigned to defend the rats. + +The case is remembered for its procedural twists and turns. When his clients—guess what?—didn’t show up for their day in court, de Chasseneuz noted that the summons had mentioned only “some rats.” But which ones, specifically? The court ordered that a new summons be addressed to *all* the rats of Autun. When the rodents still failed to appear, their nimble lawyer had a second defense at the ready. His clients, he said, were widely dispersed, and for them the trip to court amounted to a great journey. The rats needed more time. + +Again proceedings were rescheduled, and again the rats missed their date with the law. Of course they did, said de Chasseneuz. To arrive at court, the rats faced the twin perils of vindictive villagers and their bloodthirsty cats; his clients needed guarantees of safe passage. This tested the patience of the villagers’ legal team and, with the two sides unable to settle on a fourth trial date, the court decided in favor of the accused by default. The rats won. + +[![](https://hakaimagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/trial2-rats-1200x560.jpg)](https://hakaimagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/trial2-rats.jpg) + +Preposterous? Absolutely. Yet one lesson of de Chasseneuz’s victory is this: if we’re asked to see the world through a rat’s eyes, the results may surprise us. Suppose the trial had continued and a full defense of the rat was heard? + +Some 16 human generations (and many more rat generations) later, I find myself pressed to pick up where de Chasseneuz left off. I do so for two reasons. + +The first is that the charges against the rat have only grown stronger. + +Rats today are widely seen as filthy, thieving vectors of deadly diseases like plague and hantavirus. They raid our food supplies, gnaw electrical wires, invade our homes, and undermine critical infrastructure with their burrows. No one knows how much rats cost people worldwide each year, but the total is likely in the hundreds of millions of dollars—and possibly much more. + +The two most widespread and infamous rat species are the black rat (*Rattus rattus*) and brown rat (*Rattus norvegicus*). The former originally came from India, while the latter expanded out of northern China and Mongolia. Aided by our boats, most dramatically in the age of European imperialism, each species transformed into a peculiar kind of marine mammal, one that stows away to reach distant ports. They now inhabit every continent but Antarctica. + +As an invasive species, rats are voracious destroyers of wildlife. This is especially true on islands—and they have reached 80 percent of the planet’s island clusters, ranging from the subarctic Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic to several subantarctic isles. Rats have been implicated in nearly one-third of recorded bird, mammal, and reptile extinctions, making them the worst nonhuman invasive species on the planet, followed by cats and mongooses. Ironically, mongooses have often been introduced to new lands in the hope that they will eat the rats. + +Rats are better known, of course, as our immediate neighbors in cities, in towns, and on farms. Science defines the rat’s relationship to humans as commensal: an association between two species in which one benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed. The label is awkward, however, since many people feel harmed by the mere existence of rats. When they shuffle and scratch in our walls at night, rats assail our mental health. Some feel physical disgust at the mere sight of rats’ ball-bearing eyes and maggot-colored tails. As one rat researcher recently put it in an interview with the *New York Times*, we tend to place rats in a “special category of things we don’t want to exist.” + +[![](https://hakaimagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/trash-rats-1200x576.jpg)](https://hakaimagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/trash-rats.jpg) + +We have responded with vigilantism. Humans’ relationship with rats is often described as the “war on rats.” But like our wars on drugs and terrorism, the war on rats has proved to be an unwinnable “forever war”—a term popularized, appropriately enough, in a 1974 sci-fi novel about a 1,000-year conflict between humans and an alien species. + +It is a brutal war. A recent comment in an online forum about rat-catching captures the rules of engagement: “Worrying about how to kill rats ethically is of concern only to people who do not have a rat problem.” We do things to rats that most of us would find abhorrent, and would often be illegal, if they involved almost any other animal capable of feeling. We snap them in traps that can fail to kill instantly, leaving the animals maimed. We lure them into pails of water, where they swim until they can’t anymore, then drown. We bait them into patches of glue, where they tear skin and break bones in their efforts to escape, or even gnaw off their own limbs; some glue traps kill by slow suffocation. We use poisons against them that cause death only after days of painful internal bleeding. Online videos of people siccing dogs and minks on rats receive millions of views. + +In a world at war with the rat, a defense of the enemy might seem hopeless. Yet the second reason to mount that defense is that there is new evidence in the rat’s favor. A growing body of research paints a picture of the accused that is far less vile than has been portrayed, and that may even charm the jury. To begin, we must dust off the closed case that marked rats with their original sin again us: the Black Death. + +--- + +Lars Walløe was a teenager in the 1950s when he first read about the raging plague that struck his hometown of Oslo, Norway, in 1654. The dread disease arrived in the summer of that year; before long, the townsfolk needed to add a new graveyard. Nearly 40 percent of Christiania, as Oslo was then called, died. + +Walløe went on to become a polymath scientist, and one of his interests—“kind of a hobby,” he says now—was demography. In the early 1980s, he began computer modeling the population decline in the Middle Ages that occurred in Norway and across most of Europe. He wanted to help solve the mystery of what caused it and why it had persisted across centuries. Walløe suspected that the plague bacterium, *Yersinia pestis*, might be to blame. + +In what is now remembered as the Black Death, plague killed nearly one-third of Europeans between 1347 and 1351. Less well known is that many lesser plague outbreaks, like the one that struck Norway, followed into the early 18th century. All of them, Walløe knew, had the same cause: rats would develop the plague, then die swiftly in large numbers, at which point their disease-carrying fleas—which normally didn’t bite people—would switch to human hosts. This had been known since 1898 when Paul-Louis Simond, a French scientist working in what is now Pakistan, proved that plague was rat-borne during a widespread pandemic in Asia. + +Walløe soon learned, however, that the conventional plague narrative had been questioned. In 1970, a retired British bacteriologist, J. F. D. Shrewsbury, made the case that other diseases, not plague*,* must have been largely responsible for what was remembered as the Black Death and similar later epidemics in Great Britain. The reason, Shrewsbury said, was simple: at the time of those outbreaks, there weren’t enough rats there to spread the disease. + +Walløe was intrigued. It turned out that Cambridge historian Christopher Morris had promptly and convincingly shown that Shrewsbury was wrong about the illness involved: it really was the plague. It was harder, though, to push aside his claim that Britain hadn’t had a lot of rats. + +Brown rats were certainly innocent—they established themselves in Europe only in the past 500 years and didn’t put down roots in the British Isles until the early 1700s. Black rats made it there several centuries earlier, also as stowaways, but by most accounts lived mainly in small, often temporary colonies around ports. This appeared to be true not only of Britain, but of Europe as a whole north of the Mediterranean. + +[![](https://hakaimagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/mugshot-rats-1200x729.jpg)](https://hakaimagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/mugshot-rats.jpg) + +In the warmer countries of Asia, rats visibly suffered from outbreaks of plague. Records from India and China describe delirious rats coming out of hiding, hemorrhaging blood, and dying. A Chinese poet, writing during an epidemic in 1792, made the connection between sick rats and their human neighbors: “Few days following the death of the rats men pass away like falling walls.” + +Shrewsbury believed that rats and plague were inextricably linked, and even his harshest critic, Morris, acknowledged that the bubonic form of plague—which strikes the lymph nodes—required the presence of infected rats. Yet no one in Britain had recorded dead rats falling from roof beams or staggering through the streets. Not even London’s famously meticulous diarist, Samuel Pepys, mentioned mass deaths of rats in London during plague outbreaks, or individual rats behaving oddly in broad daylight. Later, archaeologists rarely found rat bones in digs from that era. If Shrewsbury had been wrong about the bacterium causing plague epidemics in Britain, it appeared he might be correct that rats weren’t to blame for spreading it. + +But if rats weren’t the culprit, what was? + +Walløe widened his research. “I found it quite typical that the English did not read the French literature,” he says. He found studies from the early 1940s in which two French doctors showed that plague could spread person to person through parasites such as lice and *Pulex irritans* (the human flea), both much more common in the past than they are today. He also discovered that by 1960, a leading plague scientist at the World Health Organization had accepted that human fleas played an important role in the transmission of plague in areas where rats were uncommon or absent. + +Even Simond, discoverer of rats’ link to plague in Asia, had written, “The mechanism of the propagation of plague includes the transporting of the microbe by rat and man, its transmission from rat to rat, from human to human, from rat to human, and from human to rat by parasites.” + +In 1982, Walløe published his findings in a Norwegian science journal. His work would ultimately lead to what is now known as the “human ectoparasite hypothesis” of the plague’s spread—meaning that the illness swept across Europe not on a wave of rat fleas abandoning the carcasses of their rodent hosts but via human fleas and lice profiting from our own unhygienic habits and tendency to provide the poor with only squalid, unsanitary housing. Walløe’s paper became something of a sleeper success and, in 1995, was printed in English. That brought his clash with the prevailing narrative to a much wider scientific audience, which reacted more with noise than substantial counterargument. + +“The response was very negative, but it wasn’t very strong,” Walløe recalls. “It was more like, ‘Here is a fool from Norway, and we don’t have to take him very seriously.’” + +Since then, further lines of evidence have supported the human ectoparasite theory. In 2018, Katharine Dean, a Norwegian biologist, published research that modeled plague epidemics in nine European cities where detailed records were kept. They ranged in latitude from Stockholm, Sweden, to the Mediterranean island of Malta, and across time from 1348 to 1813. In seven of the nine locations, the spread of the disease fit best with human fleas and lice as the carriers; the other two outbreaks proved too small to clearly parse causes. A genetic study, meanwhile, found that plague was present in Europe for approximately 1,200 years without the presence of rats. Historical research notes that plague pandemics throughout Europe’s Little Ice Age (roughly 1300 to 1850) and in winter aren’t compatible with large, active populations of black rats or their fleas, both of which struggle in cold climates, not to mention outbreaks of “plague without rats” in medieval Iceland. The theory of rat-borne plague in medieval Europe now suffers in many places from what a 2021 paper published by *The Lancet* described as “the absence of its protagonist.” + +Other recent research tracked the timeline of plague flare-ups in Europe. The scientists didn’t find a match with rat populations. Instead, they synched the pattern to climate-driven irruptions of another plague-carrying rodent—perhaps *Rhombomys opimus*, or the great gerbil, which was abundant along the Silk Road caravan route from Asia to the Mediterranean. In the case of the notorious plague in Europe, the event that forever marked rats as public enemy number one, the animals may be almost entirely innocent. + +“They are sweet, small animals,” Walløe says about rats. “I have nothing against them.” + +--- + +Critics will point out that even if we exonerate the rat for the Black Death, it doesn’t mean rats are not verminous. It remains a historical fact that rats were patient zero in horrendous outbreaks of plague in warmer parts of the world, killing millions of people across centuries. Set aside plague altogether, which modern hygiene and medicine have rendered rare and curable across most of the world, and rats are still carriers of dozens of diseases with the potential to spill over to humans. + +*“*They have this incredible sponge capacity,” says Chelsea Himsworth, a veterinary pathologist and epidemiologist in Abbotsford, British Columbia. “They traverse all sorts of different environments, they come into contact with microbes from humans, different domestic animals, sewage, garbage, et cetera, and then they have the ability to carry these pathogens and potentially transmit them back to humans or other animals.” + +This is not, as it turns out, a blanket condemnation of rats. Himsworth’s interest turned toward the rodents more than a decade ago, as scientists began to focus on the potential disease risks presented by wildlife in environments like rainforests and grasslands. She looked instead at the research into rats and disease, and discovered little contemporary science on the subject. + +“*That* struck me as particularly odd,” she says. “If people are going to come into contact with a wild animal, it’s more likely going to be a rat than something more exotic.” + +In 2011, Himsworth founded the Vancouver Rat Project, a research body dedicated to better understanding the true disease risk that rats pose in British Columbia’s largest city, which the pest control company Orkin has named as Canada’s second “rattiest” metropolis, after Toronto. She has since drawn a stark conclusion about the perception that every rat we meet is a superspreader: “It’s inaccurate from a scientific standpoint,” she says. + +To understand what patterns of disease in rats really look like, we first must confront the myth that rats are swarming invaders, a vision often promoted in books and film (a recent example appears in the Netflix hit *Stranger Things*). In fact, they tend to be homebodies. The Vancouver Rat Project found that, in a typical day, the city’s brown rats stay within the length of a city block. They generally do not cross roads, and research in other urban areas shows that rats even prefer to stick to one side or the other of alleys. + +[![](https://hakaimagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/homebody-rats-900x753.jpg)](https://hakaimagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/homebody-rats.jpg) + +This means, Himsworth says, that even a ratty block of downtown Vancouver could have no diseased rats at all, while on another block every rat might carry sickness. For similar research in Vienna, Austria, published in 2022, researchers captured rats across two years at a popular riverwalk, a touristed square, and a cruise-ship port. They then tested them for eight types of dangerous virus known to be harbored in rats, including strains of hepatitis, coronavirus, hantavirus, and the influenza virus that causes global flu outbreaks. They found not a single rat that carried any of the diseases. The authors noted that studies that *don’t* find the presence of disease in rats are rarely published, and argued that this could lead to a “misconception of the reality”—a false belief that urban rats are all teeming with contagion. + +Misconception is the order of the day with rats. Rats are aggressive, right? Bobby Corrigan, a legendary rodentologist and pest control expert in New York, has said that rats have never attacked him, “and I’ve put myself right in the thick of those animals, as thick as I can get.” But rats are filthy, right? In fact, they are such fastidious groomers, one scientist who researches laboratory animal welfare told me, that when she tried to use “permanent” ink to make identifying marks on rats’ tails, those marks were quickly cleaned away. + +Even more surprising is how little we know about how often rats spread disease to humans. “We have no idea,” says Himsworth. She is, however, prepared to venture an educated guess. “Any rat you meet has the potential to have a disease,” she says. “But know that, in general, the risk—particularly for people in countries like Canada—is low.” Most people in wealthier nations live in sturdy, clean homes and have the resources to respond if faced with a serious rat infestation. On the other hand, a person who is living, say, in poor-quality housing, whose hygiene is affected by mental health struggles, and whose landlord refuses to act as rat problems worsen, is definitely at an increased risk. + +Furthermore, if our main concern is the real (if overweighted) risk of rat-borne disease, then our current tactics may be counterproductive. Killing rats with traps can disrupt their social structures, creating chaos in which rats may spread disease through behaviors such as fighting for dominance. The result can be an increase in sickness among the surviving rats. A study in Chicago, declared America’s rattiest city for eight years running, found that poisoning had a similar effect. Modern rodenticides kill rats in a process that may take five to 10 days. Live-trapped rats that had been poisoned were three times more likely than other rats to carry disease. The poison likely weakens their immune systems, making them more susceptible to illness. + +“The interspecies genocide approach—it’s not effective, it’s never worked. It’s just silly to carry on the way we have been,” says Himsworth. “I also don’t think it’s good for us as people and as communities to be dealing with another species in that manner.” + +The rat, meanwhile, isn’t just another species. It’s one that we might reasonably learn to see as a fitting companion for human society. + +--- + +When it comes to rats winning your heart, let me not hold back: rats can learn to play hide-and-seek with humans. They will do so for no other reward than tickles and fun. And they will laugh. + +This is not woo-woo hearsay but scientific fact. Researchers at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin found that rats can learn, with surprising quickness, how to play both the “hide” and “seek” roles in games against a human experimenter. To ensure that the rats’ motivation was play rather than profit, the animals were not given food rewards when they found, or were found by, their human. Instead, they were “tickled”—given a brief bout of light roughhousing by the researcher’s fingertips, which previous studies had shown that most rats enjoy. + +It was clear, in any case, that rats were engaged by the game. They made eager playmates. When it was time to seek, they scampered out of a lidded box, carried out a systematic search of the game space, then beelined toward their quarry the moment they spotted the hider. When the rats were doing the hiding, some—behaving like human children—took off to hide again as soon as they were caught, lengthening the thrill of the chase. + +The rats teased the humans. They performed *freudensprung*, a German word that means “joy jumps.” They also emitted the kind of ultrasonic chirps that have been linked to what scientists dryly call “positive affective states.” (“You can say it’s laughter, but it’s not sounding really like human laughter,” says Sylvie Cloutier, an ethologist who pioneered research into rat tickling but was not involved in the hide-and-seek study. “They’re more like little happy chirps when you can hear them.”) After the experiment, and rather chillingly, the researchers euthanized the rats that played with humans in order to further study their brains. + +[![](https://hakaimagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/freudensprung-rats-1200x567.jpg)](https://hakaimagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/freudensprung-rats.jpg) + +Paradoxically, much of what we now know about rats’ emotional and intellectual worlds is grounded in the fact that we experiment on them. A cottage industry of breeding brown rats for use in laboratory experiments emerged in Europe in the 1840s, making rats the first mammal to be domesticated mainly for scientific purposes. Industrial-scale production of “lab rats” began in 1906 at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Even today, nearly half of all lab rats descend from the original Wistar colony. They are mainly albinos, favored for their genetic uniformity and calm dispositions. + +At the outset, Wistar researchers Milton Greenman and Louise Duhring sought to make lab rats “contented and happy.” Their animals were “carefully gentled” to human handling and ate a diet that ranged from macaroni to kale to breakfast sausages, or even hot cocoa if a rat was feeling under the weather. The rodents enjoyed abundant direct sunlight—“unfiltered through glass windows”—and fresh air. “Most albino rats,” they noted, “are susceptible to the soothing influence of soft, sweet music, especially the higher notes of the violin.” + +The rats’ cages, as you might by now have guessed, included some amenities. Each was furnished with material the rats could burrow in and had one of those exercise wheels familiar from hamster cages, except that the wheels were the size of bicycle wheels. The rats often spun the equivalent of more than eight kilometers a day in them. + +A century later, modern lab-rat life is defined by what’s known as the “shoebox”—a cage too small for rats to carry out such natural behaviors as burrowing, climbing, or even standing upright. No more hot chocolate—they mainly eat a standardized laboratory rat chow. An estimated three million rats are used in laboratory experiments each year in the United States alone, with about 1.2 million of those experiments classified as painful or distressing. + +Over time, scientists’ use of rats as test subjects began to reveal the possibility that rats, and therefore other animals, have qualities previously thought to be the exclusive domain of human beings. In 1959, American experimental psychologist Russell Church found that rats learned to stop pressing a lever that provided them with a tasty treat when doing so also delivered an electric shock to a rat in an adjacent cage. It was the first study to suggest that rats might recognize when one of their own kind was suffering and alleviate that suffering if they could. + +The debate about whether rats and other animals really care about others or only act in ways that resemble empathy has gone on ever since. But picture this recent study: Rat A is safe and secure. Rat B is distressed, because it’s in a separate chamber where it has no option but to stand in a pool of water. Rat A will release Rat B from that chamber even if liberating Rat B does not provide Rat A with access to the water, or the other rat, or any kind of reward. It becomes difficult to propose motivations for Rat A that don’t involve a capacity to put itself in Rat B’s position. + +Scientists who claim that animals share human qualities like empathy are often condemned for anthropomorphism—the sin of awarding human characteristics to things that are not human. In 2021, two researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina reviewed the numerous studies on empathy in rats and concluded that refusal to recognize the rodents’ empathic abilities now amounted to “anthropodenial.” The term was coined by primatologist Frans de Waal in 1997 to refer to a stubborn tendency to dismiss humanlike characteristics in animals, no matter how convincing the evidence. + +Other laboratory experiments have shown that rats can solve complex puzzles, recognize cause-and-effect relationships, feel regret, make judgments based on perception, and understand time, space, and numbers. In online videos posted by owners of pet rats, you’ll find trained rats completing agility courses, raising tiny flags by pulling tiny ropes with their delicate fingers, and “reading” placards that instruct them either to jump onto a box or spin around. Rats even appear to engage in metacognition, meaning *rats know that they think*. + +Rats have personalities, too. Nearly every researcher I spoke to who had worked directly with the animals recalled individuals whose distinctive way of being in the world stands out in their memories. Lazarus, for example, was a favorite of Kaylee Byers, who captured and released about 700 different rats for the Vancouver Rat Project. As the rat’s name suggests, Byers thought Lazarus was dead when she first found him motionless in one of her traps. It turned out he was simply unusually chill. After being captured that first time, he returned to be caught again and again. He would eat the peanut-butter-and-oats bait, then wait to be released, apparently grasping that Byers would do him no harm. + +If rats have begun to remind you of another animal—you know, the one we increasingly treat with overweening kindness and respect, and rarely hesitate to anthropomorphize—then, well, there’s good reason for that. + +Joanna Makowska, an animal welfare scientist, remembers a veterinarian once sharing with her the advice he gives to people who are looking for a very small dog. “He tells them, ‘Get a rat.’” + +--- + +If the rat was not the bête noire of the Black Death; if it poses a low risk of disease in many places, and, where it is poses a higher risk, is a better reflection of how poorly our societies care for the vulnerable than the real dangers of the animal itself; if the rat is not aggressive or filthy; if the rat is not a shadow of our worst qualities but instead can reflect our best; and if—perhaps most important of all—we cannot win our cruel war against them, then an obvious question remains. What are we to do about rats? + +The surprising answer—one that recalls Barthélemy de Chasseneuz’s demand that the voice of rats be heard—may be this: communicate with them. + +“If we don’t want rats in the area, we should be more mindful of the signals that we’re sending to them, which are like, ‘Hey, there’s a bunch of food that we don’t really care about, and we usually put it out here at this time,’” says Becca Franks, an assistant professor in environmental studies at New York University who has studied rats and once had a wild rat gnaw through the wall of her home. “If we don’t actually want them there, I don’t think that’s the message that we’re sending in a way that they understand.” + +The real, lasting solution to rats damaging our homes and eating our food, Franks says, is “unsexy infrastructure stuff.” Design buildings to exclude rats. Put garbage in rat-proof containers, as New York is only now beginning to require. Pass bylaws that give tenants the right to live in rat-free housing, holding neglectful landlords to account. If the scale of such changes seems overwhelming, history provides inspiration. + +In the days of sail, rats truly *infested* ships, harrowing seafarers’ minds with their scraping and scurrying and sometimes getting hungry enough to lick or bite the hands and feet of crew in their bunks. Anthropologist Jules Skotnes-Brown writes that “their occasional gnawing away at extremities caused spine-chilling discomfort and pain.” Sailors sometimes returned the favor by eating shipboard rats. + +In the 1920s, mariners made a hard turn toward rat-proofing their boats. This required thinking like a rat, said Skotnes-Brown: blocking their runways, storing food in impenetrable containers, and closing out hollows and nooks used for nesting. One early success reduced the rat population on a ship from 1,177 to zero. Through a combination of financial incentives and government regulations, rat-proofed ships were widespread by the mid-1930s, and the use of poisonous fumigants to kill ship rats steadily declined. Rodents are still a part of maritime life today, but a much smaller one than they once were. + +We are relearning how to coexist with other wildlife species that were once dismissed as vermin or “man-eaters,” including wolves and bears, coyotes and beavers. Along the way, we’re finding that, as Aldo Leopold put it, “Wildlife management is comparatively easy; human management difficult.” Bears can be excellent neighbors, but not if they’re hooked on eating garbage from bins they can easily break into. Wolves can live almost unseen alongside us, but not if we feed them by hand to get a good selfie. Rats can be our shadow companions, but not if we openly discard so much food that some rats—and this is true—develop a taste for Chinese over Italian, or vice versa. + +But Franks is prepared to imagine forms of communication that go beyond unsexy infrastructure and antilittering campaigns. + +Franks recalls visiting a researcher who kept her lab rats in a small room—“almost like a broom closet,” said Franks. The researcher closed the door behind them, then opened the rats’ large cage. Scenes that seemed clipped from the film *Ratatouille* began to play out. The rodents, about 15 in all, tumbled out onto a table, then streamed down its legs to the floor. A few climbed one after another up a broomstick to the top, where the uppermost rat suddenly let go, sending every other rat playfully sliding down. The researcher used a bat detector to listen in on the rats’ ultrasonic voices. They could hear them, **“**chittering and laughing and squealing and having just a wild time,” says Franks. + +[![](https://hakaimagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/closet-rats-900x1340.jpg)](https://hakaimagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/closet-rats.jpg) + +Suddenly, Franks realized she had another meeting to get to, and here she was in a room full of free-ranging rats. She couldn’t just open the door and leave—rats would surely escape. But catching each rat and putting it back into the hutch would take forever. + +“I think, you know, we should probably get them back in the cage,” Franks said. + +“Oh, okay,” said the researcher. + +She opened the cage door. The rats streamed back up the table legs and into confinement, where they continued to romp and play. Franks made it to her meeting. + +It was an example of how building relationships and channels of communication with rats might allow us to come to understandings with them. “Rats can be quite responsive to human interests that potentially are not even in alignment with what the rats want,” said Franks. (It turns out that this has been shown in laboratory experiments as well, where rats have been trained to participate in procedures they cannot possibly enjoy, such as tube-feeding.) + +I admit, and so does Franks, that we are entering unexplored territory here. What does it look like to form social relationships with wild rats? Do we hire rat-catchers who tickle rather than kill? Draw hard territorial lines where they’re most important—in homes, offices, restaurants—while accepting rats on a downtown street or in a park in the same way that we do a pigeon or any other commensal animal? + +An idea that seems absurd is sometimes a truth that we haven’t yet accepted. Years after de Chasseneuz represented rats in the court of Autun, one of the strangest animal prosecutions on record gave hints of how the famous lawyer might have fully defended the rats had their trial proceeded. + +The case in question was launched against beetles of the species *Rhynchites auratus*—handsome golden-green weevils—in Saint-Julien, France, in 1587. As with the rats of Autun, the accused were charged with ravaging crops, this time the local vineyards. Again, counsel was appointed to defend the verminous pests. + +The prosecution relied on Biblical passages that give humankind dominion over “every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth”: since weevils surely creepeth, we were free to decide their fates. The defense, meanwhile, made the case that weevils were a part of divine creation, and God had made the earth fruitful “not solely for the sustenance of rational human beings.” + +The trial lasted more than eight months, and at one point the restless citizens of Saint-Julien offered to mark out an insect reserve where the weevils could feed without harming the vineyards. The weevils’ advocates were not placated. They declared the land inadequate, turned down the offer and, as lawyers will, sought dismissal of the case *cum expensis*—that is, with the accusers paying the weevils’ legal costs. No one today knows how the matter was finally decided, because the last page of the court record is damaged. It appears to have been nibbled by rats or some kind of beetle. + +Preposterous? Absolutely. 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Growing up in Oakville, he was the handsome older guy from school she’d see behind the cash at Loblaws when her mom dragged her out grocery shopping. She was the cute girl one grade below he’d call for relationship advice. They jokingly promised that, if they were both single at 35, they’d get together. When they ran into each other in 2011 at the Brant House on King West, the dance floor seething dry ice, ­Konashewych mentioned the pact. By then, they were in their late 20s, and it seemed less like a joke and more like a possibility. “Married, right?” he asked her. She shook her head no. “So,” he said, “I still have a chance?” Dixon was statuesque, with long, gleaming brown hair and arched eyebrows. Mike Tyson once told her she had a body built by Ferrari. Konashewych was tall too, and muscular, with short hair and the shadow of a beard. The pair made their way outside, sat on a bench and talked into the night. + +They started off with marathon phone conversations and slowly got to know each other again. She was an only child, her parents long divorced. He was the shy baby boy of his family, with three older sisters. She’d worked in marketing at MAC Cosmetics. He’d worked security at Woodbine Racetrack. His father, Bob Konashewych Sr., was a long-time Toronto cop, and Robert decided to join the force too. When he struggled to get into the policing program at Sheridan College, his dad made a couple of calls. He graduated in 2008 and took a job as a beat cop at 52 Division, in downtown Toronto. The work was steady and the money was good, more than $100,000 a year. + +Before long, the couple was travelling together. They went to New York, standing alone in Times Square as they watched Hurricane Sandy make landfall. They flew to Turks and Caicos for the annual Dixon family vacation. Dixon had grown up wealthy. Her father, John, is president of M. J. Dixon Construction, responsible for various libraries, schools, fire stations and shelters across the GTA as well as projects for clients such as Air Canada and the Department of National Defence. She handled marketing for philanthropist and socialite Sylvia Mantella and the Mantella Corporation, a real estate development company. Konashewych couldn’t match her family wealth or her high-flying lifestyle, and she didn’t expect him to. She did, however, expect him to move out of his parents’ house in Oakville. A few months after that night in the club, Konashewych moved into the condo Dixon was renting on King West. + +***Related:** [Meet the most charming fraudster in GTA real estate](https://torontolife.com/deep-dives/the-most-charming-fraudster-ontario-gta-real-estate/)* + +She noticed right away that he was bad at managing his money. Konashewych came into the relationship loaded with debt. He’d lived beyond his means for years, clubbing and drinking, travelling and eating out. He spent on penny stocks that fizzled out and watched the savings he did have evaporate in high-risk investment gambles. Still, he didn’t seem overly stressed by his finances. He was used to it: his parents had struggled with money and fought about it endlessly. + +Dixon’s family was confident and loud. Her father was one of six children—his siblings include renowned fashion designer David Dixon and interior designer and HGTV star Glenn Dixon. Konashewych was a quiet presence at gatherings, drowned out by the dozens of cousins and friends around the table. Just once, Dixon recalls her father expressing doubt about her boyfriend, who seemed too passive and dispassionate for his fiery daughter. “Don’t you get tired of always being the boss?” he asked her. But Dixon liked that the pair shared the same sly sense of humour and taste for adventure. She wanted to get married and have children with him, and he told her that he wanted those things too. She liked that they spent a lot of time together but also retained their independence. Her family thought it was strange that she travelled without him, going to Cabo or the Hamptons with her friends. She loved it. They’d grown up together; she felt like he understood her. She used to joke that her boyfriend listened so well that talking to him was like going to confession. “I just felt like he was my people,” says Dixon, now 39. He seemed like someone she could trust. + +In 2014, they began to shop for a condo of their own. The following year, they bought a two-bedroom penthouse near Fort York, overlooking the lake. They split the $631,305 evenly, with Dixon making the down payment and Konashewych paying the mortgage every month. They flew to St. Barts, danced together in clubs and were photographed at charity galas like the Power Ball. They talked about starting a business, a razor subscription service for cops called Blue Line. When they fought, it was usually about Konashewych injecting steroids to get jacked; Dixon hated it, and when she found vials stashed in the fridge at home, she threw them away. + +Sometimes, Konashewych picked up paid-duty gigs at concerts, sporting events or government offices. One of his side jobs was with the Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee, a branch of the Ministry of the Attorney General that most people never hear about—until they need its help. The OPGT is known as the decision-maker of last resort. More formally, it oversees financial, legal and personal care for mentally incapable adults who don’t have family to help them. About half of the agency’s clients collect disability payments from the province. On the first of the month, its office on Bay Street turns into a storefront. Clients arrive to pick up their cheques, and police officers like Konashewych come by to supervise. + +![The Inside Job: A crooked cop, a dead man and an $800,000 fraud](https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2023-09-15-at-12.42.27-PM-1.jpg) + +On one such day in 2014, a staff member on the eighth floor leaned over to her colleague, Adellene Balgobin, and told her that there was a cute officer downstairs. She knew how badly Balgobin wanted to meet someone to start a family with. Balgobin was 26 years old, the youngest of four kids in a close-knit family, the kind of soft-hearted person who would coo over pictures of babies. Born in Trinidad and raised in Scarborough and Pickering, Balgobin was guarded, quiet, composed. After graduating from U of T, she’d signed with a temp agency and landed a job at the OPGT. She’d gone from contract to contract, role to role, since then, making her way up the ladder. + +Balgobin took the elevator downstairs, long dark hair swishing at her waist, and quickly caught Konashewych’s eye. After a little flirting, the pair exchanged numbers. A few weeks later, they went on their first date. There was just one problem: he wasn’t single—and she had no idea. Konashewych ran with a group of cops who drove flashy cars, and he began to take Balgobin out with them, showing off his beautiful new girlfriend. He told his friends that his relationship with Dixon had been toxic from the start, that he stayed with her for the money. With Balgobin, he was in it for the sex. For Balgobin, it was love. + +***Related:*** [*Inside the twisted mind of a serial romance scammer*](https://torontolife.com/city/the-twisted-mind-of-a-serial-romance-scammer/) + +It was easy to keep the women apart. They occupied different worlds within Toronto. Dixon attended high-society balls and charity galas. She travelled broadly and often. Balgobin—whom he always contacted using a burner phone or through ­Snapchat—had modest means and ambitions. She lived in a studio apartment near the Rogers Centre and worked with society’s elderly and most vulnerable. She brought snacks to Konashewych’s office down the street on her breaks. She was dutiful, eager to please. Over time, her position at the OPGT, where she oversaw the ongoing care of clients and their financial decisions, would prove surprisingly lucrative. + +To see Heinz Sommerfeld with his nieces and nephews was to watch him come alive. He had no children of his own. He’d never married; Heinzy, as his mother called him, was quiet that way. Reclusive, even. He’d come to Canada from Germany at age 11 with his mother, stepfather and younger half-brother, Peter Stelter, moving into a home on Gladstone Avenue. Seven years apart, the brothers shared a room until well into their 20s. In all those years, Stelter couldn’t recall his brother bringing home a friend. + +Sommerfeld was an orderly, fastidious young man. His vinyl collection lined his shelf, and Stelter was under strict orders not to mess with his brother’s things. His keen eye for detail led him to a job as a draftsman for the Ministry of Transportation, where he drew intricate maps and worked for 36 years. + +After Stelter got married and moved out, Sommerfeld got an apartment of his own and eventually bought a pink brick house on a quiet Mississauga street called Maple Gate Circle, which he shared with his cat. Stelter could find his brother difficult to talk to; it sometimes felt like he was digging for the tiniest details. Stelter’s children—Nicole, Peter, James and Rebecca—helped keep the family close. Despite being aloof, Sommerfeld was a devoted uncle. “My brother came to all my children’s christenings, first communions, confirmations. Any birthday, any holiday we had, my brother was there,” Stelter says. The family hiked at Rattlesnake Point together on Thanksgiving and went to church together, a Pentecostal service they attended once during the week and twice on Sundays. + +![Heinz Sommerfeld and Peter Stelter with family](https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CROOKED_COP_FINAL09-368x0-c-default.jpg "Sommerfeld Stelter family dinner") + +Sommerfeld (left) with Stelter (centre) and family + +In 1995, Stelter’s wife, Gail, got sick, and caring for her became his main preoccupation. When Sommerfeld suffered a severe bout of vertigo and Stelter didn’t reach out, Sommerfeld grew resentful. The brothers’ relationship fractured. Sommerfeld stopped answering the phone and the door. They lived 15 minutes from each other, and Stelter would drive by on his way home, looking for signs of life—the blink of a blind or the flutter of a curtain. When Sommerfeld’s next-door neighbour Donna Patterson invited him to spend Christmas dinner with her family, he declined but ate the leftovers she brought by. “He was content to be alone,” she says. + +Sommerfeld had a stubborn streak that ran deep. When he decided, after 20 years of carefully preparing his mother’s taxes, that he no longer wanted to do them, the task fell to Stelter, and Sommerfeld could not be persuaded otherwise. Unbeknownst to Stelter, Sommerfeld was suffering from dementia. He likely could no longer make sense of the rows and columns of numbers. When Stelter stopped by the house in 2004 to tell Sommerfeld that his mother was dying, Sommerfeld refused to visit her. By then, Stelter knew well enough not to ask why. It was the last time he would see his brother alive. + +![Heinz Sommerfeld and Peter Stelter's family hike at Rattlesnake Point](https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CROOKED_COP_FINAL10-368x0-c-default.jpg "Sommerfeld and Stelter family hike") + +Sommerfeld and family on a hike at Rattlesnake Point + +Throughout 2005, Sommerfeld retreated further into himself. When his mother died, he didn’t go to her funeral, partly so that he wouldn’t have to socialize with her friends. He had always loved ambling around Osprey Marsh, a swath of forested parkland a few blocks from his home. But his neighbours noticed that he was growing thinner from hours spent walking the marsh. They wondered if he was declining mentally. Once, he left his car in a nearby parking lot, forgot about it and reported it stolen. Before long, they worried that when he went out for walks, he wouldn’t be able to find his way back. + +***Related:** [These three brothers scammed their investors out of $233 million. Then they lived like kings](https://torontolife.com/city/inside-the-international-manhunt-for-josh-cartu/)* + +Sommerfeld grew paranoid and agitated. Knots in the tall pine fence separating his backyard from the neighbours’ became holes he was convinced their six-year-old son had drilled to spy on him. He called the police, but by the time they arrived, he’d forgotten why he called. He was sure his neighbours were shooting light beams into his windows, telling them,“I know what you’re doing with the lasers” and calling the police again. Even his beloved cat seemed lost when it wandered next door and, eventually, away. + +Finally, in September of 2008, Sommerfeld went after a neighbourhood woman with a hammer. When the police arrived, they took him to Credit Valley Hospital under the Mental Health Act. There, a doctor diagnosed dementia caused by Alzheimer’s and declared Sommerfeld incapable of managing his own affairs. By then, he was 69 years old, hard of hearing, struggling to carry a conversation and unable to remember his phone number or birthday. When asked if he had any family, Sommerfeld said no. An answer born of dementia or estrangement or that stubborn streak, it would prove pivotal to the next decade of Sommerfeld’s life. With no recorded next of kin, Sommerfeld officially became a client of the OPGT the following week. That left his fate—his finances and health-care decisions—in the hands of the state. + +The agency sent an investigator to catalogue Sommerfeld’s possessions. The home was sparsely furnished: brown leather couches by the fireplace, empty boxes of cat litter spread out across the basement floor. The investigator sifted through meticulously kept records, the dusty ephemera that make up a life. A German letter Sommerfeld had written as a 16-year-old to his family at the end of his school term. A letter from the Ministry of Transportation congratulating him on a perfect year of attendance in 1988, and another from 1990. A stack of expired passports. What the investigator didn’t find was a will. + +The OPGT assigned Sommerfeld a caseworker, and he was transferred to a senior’s residence in Mississauga. The caseworker visited Sommerfeld in his new home, helping to make arrangements to sell his house. Its sale, along with his considerable savings and pension, would fund his care for the rest of his life. + +That Sommerfeld didn’t have a will or documented next of kin wasn’t unusual—many OPGT clients don’t. But it is rare for someone with substantial assets, and he had an $834,000 estate. A 2018 audit of the agency found that just six per cent of its clients had assets of more than $100,000. That made Sommerfeld a member of a very small group. His medical care and financial decisions would be entrusted to the most senior client representatives at the agency, each overseeing anywhere from 80 to 100 cases at a time. In January of 2017, a new public servant took over the caseload that included Sommerfeld’s estate: Adellene Balgobin. + +Konashewych and Balgobin went to the movies, attended parties with friends, met up at hotels, had sex in his black BMW. She couldn’t get enough of him. When months passed and she’d never seen his apartment, she started asking questions. He confessed that he shared a two-bedroom condo with his ex but claimed that they were no longer romantically involved and were living as roommates. Her friends disapproved. She could be naïve about love. As an undergrad, she’d had a long-distance romance with a family friend who lived in Trinidad. The pair eventually married, but the relationship fell apart because neither would agree to relocate. Balgobin also had a years-long affair with a married colleague at the OPGT. Her friends worried that her new boyfriend, Konashewych, was lying to her, that she’d gotten herself mixed up in another dead-end relationship. They also noticed her beginning to change. She now carried designer handbags and got a part-time job at Saks Fifth Avenue for the staff discount. When Konashewych urged her to get breast implants, she had the surgery. “Hope you like your new boobs,” she wrote in a card for his birthday later that year. + +--- + +##### As hard as Robert Konashewych had worked to keep his girlfriends apart, his two worlds were about to collide + +--- + +  +After a year of dating, Balgobin wanted more out of the relationship. She had a framed picture of the two of them together on her desk at work but had never met his friends or family. He would promise to spend time with her and then cancel when something came up. Suspecting that he wasn’t being truthful with her, she turned to social media. It didn’t take long to track down a profile: Candice Dixon. Balgobin finally had a name to pin to her suspicions. And despite her boyfriend’s assurances to the contrary, Dixon and Konashewych appeared to be very much together: Dixon’s Instagram account was full of pictures of the couple at events around town. This time, when Balgobin confronted him, he didn’t deny it. He was with Dixon, he told her, and he wouldn’t leave her. He couldn’t. His acquisitive lifestyle had driven him deep into debt, and he couldn’t afford to live the same kind of life without Dixon. Balgobin was hurt and upset but still in love. She decided to stay with him anyway. + +Consumed with thoughts of her boyfriend and their love triangle, she confided in her colleagues about her situation, first over weekly after-work drinks and then at the agency on an almost daily basis. One day, she was leaving him. The next day, she was taking him to Punta Cana for his birthday. She texted one friend, “I’m not doing this anymore. I’m ready to move on with my life.” Their affair would last another three years. + +The OPGT has a history of employees exploiting the clients under their care. In 1990, a cache of client gold and jewellery worth $40,000 disappeared from a vault in the OPGT’s Bay Street office. Police couldn’t lay charges because sloppy record-keeping obscured the trail of evidence. By 2004, the agency was handling more than $1 billion in assets for 9,000 clients. An audit by the province found that the OPGT’s fund managers were mismanaging its clients’ money, in one instance making choices so ill-informed that they frittered away nearly all of a client’s $3-million stockholding. In 2007, investigators discovered that an OPGT employee named Preadorshani Biazar had been siphoning money from 52 of her mentally ill, homeless and dead clients over 12 years, forging documents and holding fraudulent debit cards in her clients’ names. She stole a total of $1.23 million, using the funds to pay down the mortgage on her Leaside home, buy a BMW X5, and take vacations to Dubai, Las Vegas, Mont-Tremblant and across Europe with her unemployed husband and their three children. (She pleaded guilty in 2009 and was sentenced to three years in prison.) + +***Related:** [The Bridle Path mansion, the missing millions and the investigation that blew open a massive mortgage scam](https://torontolife.com/city/bridle-path-mansion-missing-millions-investigation-blew-open-massive-mortgage-scam/)* + +Nearly 10 years after that, in 2018, the auditor general released another damning report. The agency still wasn’t safeguarding the interests of its now 12,000 clients. Weak internal controls, especially when it came to tracking clients’ assets, allowed for the possibility that those assets could get lost or misappropriated, the audit found. The agency expected its employees to know how to identify fraudulent ID presented by people claiming to be heirs to estates but never trained them in how to do that. By 2020, a follow-up report found that less than half of the suggestions made in 2018 had been implemented. Faced with a growing client roster of aging Boomers, the OPGT’s needs are increasing, forcing its staff to do more with less and leaving more details overlooked. + +Seniors are among society’s most vulnerable populations, and elder abuse rates are on the rise, according to the World Health Organization. Scammers now tailor their schemes to the elderly, who are often isolated and have money in the bank. And their target base is growing: according to Statistics Canada, seniors will make up almost a quarter of Canada’s population by 2031. It’s no surprise, then, that financial abuse is one of the most common kinds of elder mistreatment. + +By 2017, Heinz Sommerfeld had been in OPGT care for nearly nine years. He’d long stopped having visitors at the nursing home. As the years passed, the list of his diagnoses grew longer: Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, diabetes and possible signs of schizophrenia. On June 19, at the age of 77, he died in his room, alone. + +Sommerfeld’s death set in motion a bureaucratic cascade that occurs each time an OPGT client dies. The staff at the nursing home called Balgobin, the senior client rep responsible for his file, who began wrapping up his accounts: notifying his insurance company, cancelling his pension benefits with Service Canada and arranging his burial with a funeral home. Then, the file was transferred to a colleague in the Trusts Reporting Unit for what’s called the close-out. + +Konashewych and Balgobin saw an opportunity: a dead man’s estate, sitting unclaimed. Konashewych could pose as Sommerfeld’s long-time friend, and the money could help him pay off his debt. It could mean the start of something new for them. + +But, after Balgobin passed along the Sommerfeld file, her colleague in Trusts found a note in the hundreds of pages of records about a possible half-brother named Peter Stelter. The colleague looked him up in the phone book and called. Stelter hadn’t heard from his brother in years. When he confirmed their relationship, she told him that Sommerfeld had died a week earlier. And because there was no will, he’d inherit a substantial estate. Stelter was stunned. He had assumed his brother would live well into his 80s, as Sommerfeld’s father had. When he asked where his brother’s body was, she told him he’d already been buried. + +On June 26, 2017, after learning that her colleague had located Stelter, Balgobin tweaked the plan. She made a note in the agency’s system: she’d received a voicemail, she claimed, from a man who said that he possessed a copy of Sommerfeld’s up-to-date will. He produced the will, which bore the signatures of Sommerfeld and two witnesses named John David William Liminski and Jonathan Steven Aseltine. No one at the OPGT was able to confirm that they were real—the witnesses, names plucked from the sky, didn’t exist. + +Later that day, the Trusts representative called Stelter back. She’d been mistaken, she said; there was a will after all—and he wasn’t in it. A man named Robert Konashewych would inherit the entire estate. Stelter was surprised. “A will just doesn’t pop up after an hour,” he says. He’d never heard of Konashewych, so he and his wife hired a lawyer to look into it. When the lawyer reported that the will looked credible, Stelter figured there was nothing left to do. They’d already spent $2,500 and couldn’t afford to pursue the matter further. He didn’t know anything about the last decade of his brother’s life, he told himself. Sommerfeld must have met someone he cared for enough to leave them his life’s savings and his home. “We decided then that, if the lawyer says it’s okay, it must be okay,” he says. “You have to trust someone, right?” + +The will wound its way through estate bureaucracy. The next step was for Konashewych to apply for probate, the court-appointed analysis and transfer of estate assets. Because no one could track down the witnesses of Sommerfeld’s will, the courts required an affidavit from the OPGT stating that Sommerfeld’s signature was real. Balgobin signed it. She was, she wrote on the notarized legal document, a senior client representative with the Public Guardian and Trustee who had overseen Sommerfeld’s financial affairs when he was alive. She could verify that the signatures matched the ones on the documents she’d accessed before. + +Konashewych began to act as estate trustee for a man he insisted was his friend, all while leaving traces of a friendship that didn’t exist. He signed an affidavit saying that he’d met Sommerfeld back in 2005, when he was 22 and working security at Woodbine Racetrack, and that the next year Sommerfeld, age 66, had given him the will. He’d approved the design of the headstone where Sommerfeld was laid to rest in Meadowvale Cemetery. A Christmas card dated 2008 and signed “Robert” appeared in Sommerfeld’s file. + +The couple thought they’d executed the perfect crime: victimless and profitable. But, as hard as Konashewych had worked to keep his girlfriends apart, his two worlds were about to collide. + +One October morning, Dixon’s uncle David stumbled into a chance encounter at a Yorkville salon. The receptionist—whose husband worked at the OPGT—was insisting that his niece’s long-time partner, Rob, had another girlfriend. When Dixon heard about this possible affair, she was shocked. She went to the salon herself, dragging Konashewych with her, and confronted the receptionist, who began to share details about her boyfriend that a stranger couldn’t possibly have known. She demanded to know the girlfriend’s name, pushing until the receptionist finally said, “Adellene.” Outside, Konashewych denied everything. Dixon grabbed his phone and typed Adellene into his contacts. The search returned only a photo of an old business card, which he insisted he had obtained for work during one of his shifts at the OPGT. Unconvinced, Dixon hailed a cab and the pair headed for the agency, where they demanded to see Balgobin. As they stood at the front desk, Konashewych texted his mistress. “Don’t come out,” he typed. + +![Robert Konashewych with Candice Dixon, his mother and Adellene Balgobin](https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2023-09-15-at-12.49.51-PM-1.jpg) + +Dixon tried emailing Balgobin at work: “I know you know who I am. Please give me a call.” Balgobin wrote back, saying that she couldn’t help her. Dixon wrote again, explaining what had happened at the salon and asking the other woman for the truth. “Rob and I literally spend insane amounts of time together, and when we aren’t together, we are constantly in communication, so it almost seems next to impossible, but I don’t really know after all this,” she wrote. “I wouldn’t be the first person to be taken for a fool, right?” Balgobin didn’t respond. + +Later, Balgobin left a voicemail on Dixon’s cellphone claiming to be a stalker, not a mistress, in an attempt to explain it all away. “I met Rob a long time ago through work. I really liked him. I tried to get him to notice me. I found him online with his family, and I found out he had a girlfriend, and I got more and more jealous. I wanted to date him, and when I saw him on TV, I told people in my office that we were dating, but that was a lie,” she said, the words tumbling out in one long, tearful, high-pitched sentence. “It just became so real. I’m so sorry if I caused you any problems, but I tried to break you up thinking Rob would want to date me and take me away.” + +Konashewych and Balgobin began to panic. If Dixon found out about the affair, she might also discover their fraud. To persuade Dixon that the relationship wasn’t real, Konashewych sent cease-and-desist letters from a lawyer to his own mistress and her colleagues, threatening a lawsuit if they didn’t stop telling people that he and Balgobin were dating. + +To Dixon, the idea of a stalker obsessed with her boyfriend seemed more plausible than what the receptionist had told her: that her partner was in a full-fledged relationship with someone else. She found herself wandering around in a fog, constantly looking over her shoulder for a face she didn’t recognize. If someone was stalking them, she reasoned, shouldn’t they report it to the police? Konashewych demurred, insisting that it would affect his career, and told her he’d have one of his detective friends stake out the OPGT office to take Balgobin’s picture. Then, at least, Dixon would know whom she was looking for. He produced a photo of one of Balgobin’s colleagues, a South Asian woman around her age, saying it was her. Konashewych continued to pit the women against each other in order to keep them apart and his plans intact. “She’s losing her mind,” he told Balgobin. “She won’t stop until she finds you.” Balgobin began to ask her friends to walk home with her at night, convinced that Dixon had hired an investigator to find her. “I’m being followed, I don’t wanna leave my house,” she texted a friend. + +At home, Konashewych and Dixon were fighting about more than a supposed stalker. Dixon was fed up with Konashewych’s lack of ambition and his inability to manage his money. Still, by the summer of 2018, he was shopping for engagement rings with her mother. She was thinking about breaking up. + +On a late-July morning in 2018, Konashewych walked into the OPGT office one last time. He brought a friend with him, a security guard who lived in his condo building, because he needed a witness for what he was about to do. After they signed all the paperwork, Konashewych walked out into the summer sun holding a cheque for $637,474.37, all of Sommerfeld’s money that the OPGT held in its coffers. + +By October, Konashewych had received Sommerfeld’s entire estate from the OPGT—$788,857, after legal fees and other disbursements. He began paying down his debt—almost $92,000 to a line of credit—and dumped the rest, hundreds of thousands of dollars, into a trading account. + +It should have been cause for celebration, but he was wary. His carefully laid plan had run into some bad luck: his victim did have next of kin, and that person had been found. In a final, ­ham-fisted attempt to prove his friendship with Sommerfeld, Konashewych called Stelter. He said he was considering holding a memorial. Would Stelter be interested in participating? “Who are you to my brother?” Stelter asked him. The question hung in the air. Konashewych said he was just fulfilling the wishes of his elderly friend. Stelter knew something wasn’t right and hung up. + +In November, Konashewych and Dixon had another fight, and she finally asked him to leave. He moved out of the penthouse and into Balgobin’s studio apartment. One afternoon, Dixon received a letter at the condo from TD Bank addressed to Robert Konashewych, care of the estate of Heinz Sommerfeld. She thought nothing of it, threw it in a drawer and went to St. Barts for the holidays. + +--- + +##### Konashewych was barred from their shared condo. Security threatened to call the police if he refused to leave. “I am the police!” he yelled back + +--- + +  +In January, Konashewych called and asked her out to dinner. He missed her and wanted to talk about getting back together. When they met, he asked if any mail had come for him. She showed him the envelope from TD and asked what it was. He had no idea, he said. It must be a banking error. He’d never heard of the man. He made a joke about Heinz ketchup and tucked the envelope in his pocket. + +A few weeks later, another piece of mail arrived for Konashewych, this time from a law firm, also addressed to the estate. Dixon opened it. (She says this was an accident. He says it was illegal. Either way, its contents were privileged.) When she saw his mistress’s name, she became incensed. “What is this? Why is Adellene’s name on this?” she texted her ex. “Is this some kind of sick joke? This was the thing you knew nothing about.…You’re doing something illegal.” He responded immediately. “No, the only thing illegal was you opening my mail.” + +For so long, Dixon had been telling herself that the affair must have all been some big misunderstanding, wanting to trust the man she’d spent seven years with. “I just kept thinking, *This can’t be real*,” she says. But, in that moment, the truth finally crystallized. She began to scour the condo. She opened one of their storage lockers, rummaging through boxes of Konashewych’s things. Out came tickets to a Las Vegas nightclub bearing Balgobin’s name, a purple dress, a Christmas card Balgobin had signed “your sex slave.” Back in the penthouse, she found Viagra stashed in a garment bag hanging in a closet and an envelope holding an SD card. She slid it into her laptop, and the screen filled with photos. Pictures of strange women posing with her boyfriend, other women surrounded by friends, women in lingerie. There were dozens of photos documenting what looked to be multiple affairs, spanning the years of their relationship. Only one of the pictures was of her. “My life,” she says, “was a lie.” + +Dixon emailed a smattering of the pictures to Konashewych with the subject line “really faithful.” He showed up to the condo within the hour. The concierge barred him from entering. Security threatened to call the police if he refused to leave. “I am the police!” he yelled back. + +As their separation dragged on, stalled by disagreements over what to do with their condo, the relationship became increasingly hostile. Konashewych left a separation agreement in their mailbox. Dixon posted racist memes on Facebook and Snapchat, taunting Balgobin. In one, she captioned a photo of a South Asian man in a green turban with “Adellene’s St. Paddy’s Look? I can’t help myself.” In another, over a photo of a woman dressed for Caribana with feathers waving from her head, she wrote, “Someone’s Hindu Trini babe” and a crying-laughing emoji. (Asked about this later, Dixon said, “I’m allowed to have feelings.”) Dixon offered to buy him out of their shared condo, and Konashewych refused. He countered with an offer $2,000 higher. “What is $2,000, a Coach purse? Lol, no thanks,” she replied. He accused her of changing the locks. She accused him of changing the password and locking her out of their mortgage account. When Dixon’s elderly mother posted on Facebook, “If you hurt my daughter, I can make death look like an accident,” Konashewych reported it to his boss at 52 Division. + +Incandescent with anger, Dixon began to conduct some detective work of her own. She secured Sommerfeld’s estate file through her lawyer and tracked down Stelter through the Facebook profile of his wife, Gail. She also reached out to one of Balgobin’s cousins on Facebook to learn more about her family. In early March, Dixon gave a statement to the police, and they began building a case. ­Detectives requested access to bank and phone records tying Konashewych and Balgobin together. When Konashewych drove his BMW, registered in his mom’s name, home from a shift, detectives followed him back to the new apartment he was renting with Balgobin on Elm Street. + +On December 14, 2019, police froze Konashewych’s bank accounts, seizing $684,061 from the investment account opened after he’d received the estate. Detectives on the fraud squad served him notice as he finished his night shift at 52 Division. He was suspended, with pay, pending an investigation. Four days later, Balgobin was called into a meeting and also suspended, with pay, from the OPGT. Balgobin hired a lawyer, who advised her to break up with her boyfriend. Again, she decided to stay with him. In July of 2020, they were finally arrested and formally charged: Konashewych with one count of fraud over $5,000 and Balgobin with the same plus a charge of breach of public trust. (Konashewych declined our requests for an interview; Balgobin didn’t respond.) + +This past July, Konashewych and Balgobin stood trial just a few blocks from where they had once spent their lunch breaks together. Their defence teams characterized Dixon as a vengeful ex-girlfriend, a scorned woman who had fabricated a nefarious plot to get even, and reiterated that the will was legitimate. They said that the alleged fraud was a series of simple coincidences, run after run of bad luck. “If I were them, I’d stop going out in the rain,” quipped Crown prosecutor Sam Walker in his closing arguments. It took a jury less than 24 hours to find the couple guilty. Balgobin sank in her chair. Konashewych Sr., in the back row of the gallery clutching his cane, hung his head. Konashewych, his reaction hidden behind a black face mask, stared straight ahead. + +Dixon scoffs at the woman-scorned defence. “Revenge would have been sleeping with a friend,” she says. “Revenge wasn’t making up a crime. Because that implicates you; your life also gets swept up in this process.” She has since relocated to Palm Beach, Florida, with her miniature Labs, Ducky and Dawlin. Last year, she went into business with Konashewych’s now estranged sister Cheryl, opening a beauty salon called This Place Blows. “When Rob and I finally separated, and I walked out of court, I said, ‘I never have to talk to his family again,’” she says. “And now I’m in another type of marriage with his sister.” The day after the guilty verdict, she boarded a private jet to see the yacht that her new boyfriend, a developer, had purchased, and then she sailed to the Hamptons. Meanwhile, still on paid leave, Konashewych will celebrate his 40th birthday in October, two days ahead of his sentencing hearing. + +On the stand in July, Stelter recalled the last time he’d driven by his brother’s house on Maple Gate. He saw a child on a swing in the backyard and knew for certain that his brother was gone. Stelter, a retired tradesman, told the court that he and Gail, a former teacher, lead a quiet, frugal life off a country road in Haliburton County. They skate with their grandkids in the winter and cast fishing lines into the lake in the fall. For so long, he’d been just scraping by. Now, the $684,000 left of the estate would go to him. It was a windfall of fairy tale proportions and rightfully his, but it didn’t feel that way. The years had slipped by so fast. 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[ ] :moneybag: [[@Finances]]: Transfer UK pension to CH %%done_del%% 🔁 every year 📅 2023-10-31 -- [ ] :heavy_dollar_sign: [[@Finances|Finances]]: update crypto prices within Obsidian %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 2nd Tuesday 📅 2023-10-10 +- [ ] :heavy_dollar_sign: [[@Finances|Finances]]: update crypto prices within Obsidian %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 2nd Tuesday 📅 2023-11-14 +- [x] :heavy_dollar_sign: [[@Finances|Finances]]: update crypto prices within Obsidian %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 2nd Tuesday 📅 2023-10-10 ✅ 2023-10-10 - [x] :heavy_dollar_sign: [[@Finances|Finances]]: update crypto prices within Obsidian %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 2nd Tuesday 📅 2023-09-12 ✅ 2023-09-11 - [x] :heavy_dollar_sign: [[@Finances|Finances]]: update crypto prices within Obsidian %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 2nd Tuesday 📅 2023-08-08 ✅ 2023-08-07 - [x] :heavy_dollar_sign: [[@Finances|Finances]]: update crypto prices within Obsidian %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 2nd Tuesday 📅 2023-07-11 ✅ 2023-07-11 diff --git a/01.02 Home/@Shopping list.md b/01.02 Home/@Shopping list.md index ec3af5f3..531285ae 100644 --- a/01.02 Home/@Shopping list.md +++ b/01.02 Home/@Shopping list.md @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ style: number - [x] ☕ Coffee ✅ 2023-07-24 - [x] 🍶 Coke 0 ✅ 2022-03-14 - [x] 🧃 Apfelschorle ✅ 2022-12-21 -- [x] 🍊 Morning juice ✅ 2023-06-17 +- [x] 🍊 Morning juice ✅ 2023-10-07 - [x] 🍺 Beer ✅ 2022-02-06 - [x] 🍷 Red Wine ✅ 2023-06-29 - [x] 🍷 Rosé Wine ✅ 2023-06-29 @@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ style: number #### Snacks & Sweets -- [x] 🍿 Snacks ✅ 2022-12-31 -- [x] 🍦 Dessert ✅ 2022-12-23 +- [x] 🍿 Snacks ✅ 2023-10-07 +- [x] 🍦 Dessert ✅ 2023-10-07 - [x] 🥠 Crackers (Tuc) ✅ 2023-05-29   @@ -100,13 +100,14 @@ style: number - [x] 🍦 Sour Cream ✅ 2022-10-29 - [x] 🥛 Milk ✅ 2023-04-07 - [x] 🥥 Coconut milk ✅ 2023-09-23 -- [x] 🥛 Yoghurt ✅ 2022-12-30 +- [x] 🥛 Yoghurt ✅ 2023-10-07   #### Breakfast - [x] 🥯 Bread ✅ 2023-08-12 +- [x] 🫓 Flatbread ✅ 2023-10-08 - [x] 🍯 Honey/Jam ✅ 2023-09-20 - [x] 🍫 Nutella ✅ 2022-02-15 - [x] 🥚 Eggs ✅ 2023-09-23 @@ -115,13 +116,13 @@ style: number #### Fresh -- [x] 🍎 Fruit ✅ 2023-06-17 +- [x] 🍎 Fruit ✅ 2023-10-07 - [x] 🍌 Bananas ✅ 2023-09-23 - [x] 🍅 Tomatoes ✅ 2022-10-29 - [x] 🫑 Bell pepper ✅ 2023-01-24 - [x] 🥦 Fennel ✅ 2022-10-29 - [x] 🥦 Radish ✅ 2022-10-29 -- [x] 🥦 Broccoli ✅ 2023-06-12 +- [x] 🥦 Broccoli ✅ 2023-10-07 - [x] 🫛 Green beans ✅ 2023-06-29 - [x] 🫘 Red beans ✅ 2023-06-29 - [x] 🧅 Onions ✅ 2023-09-06 @@ -129,6 +130,7 @@ style: number - [x] 🧄 Garlic ✅ 2023-01-19 - [x] 🍋 Lemon ✅ 2023-06-12 - [x] 🍋 Lime ✅ 2023-09-06 +- [x] 🫐 Pomegranate seeds ✅ 2023-10-09   @@ -136,11 +138,11 @@ style: number - [x] 🥩 Cured meat ✅ 2022-12-31 - [x] 🍖 Fresh meat ✅ 2023-04-07 -- [x] 🍖 Minced meat ✅ 2023-06-12 +- [x] 🍖 Minced meat ✅ 2023-10-07 - [x] 🥓 Bacon ✅ 2023-04-07 -- [x] 🐔 Chicken thighs ✅ 2023-04-18 -- [x] 🐔 Chicken breasts ✅ 2023-04-18 -- [x] 🌭 Spicy sausage ✅ 2023-06-12 +- [x] 🐔 Chicken thighs ✅ 2023-10-07 +- [x] 🐔 Chicken breasts ✅ 2023-10-07 +- [x] 🌭 Spicy sausage ✅ 2023-10-07 - [x] 🐟 Salmon fillet ✅ 2022-10-29   @@ -187,7 +189,7 @@ style: number - [x] 🌿 Oregano ✅ 2022-03-14 - [x] 🌿 Herbes de Provence ✅ 2022-03-14 - [x] 🌿 Coriander ✅ 2023-09-06 -- [x] 🌿 Parsley ✅ 2023-04-18 +- [x] 🌿 Parsley ✅ 2023-10-08 - [x] 🌿 Fresh mint ✅ 2023-01-09   @@ -205,6 +207,7 @@ style: number - [x] 🧂 Pepper (black) ✅ 2023-06-15 - [x] 🧂 Pepper (white) ✅ 2022-10-19 - [x] 🥒 Gherkins ✅ 2023-01-10 +- [x] 🥜 Pine nuts ✅ 2023-10-08   diff --git a/01.02 Home/Bandes Dessinées.md b/01.02 Home/Bandes Dessinées.md index 0bbe6cfe..f67b4bad 100644 --- a/01.02 Home/Bandes Dessinées.md +++ b/01.02 Home/Bandes Dessinées.md @@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ style: number 4. Business Blues 5. H 6. Dutch Connection +7. La Forteresse de Makiling   @@ -133,6 +134,8 @@ style: number 3. Sains et Saufs? 4. Amour et Mort 5. Monstrueux +6. Vengeance +7. Dans l’Oeil du Cyclone   diff --git a/01.02 Home/Entertainment.md b/01.02 Home/Entertainment.md index b748be95..8f165ebd 100644 --- a/01.02 Home/Entertainment.md +++ b/01.02 Home/Entertainment.md @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ style: number #### Movies & TV shows - [ ] 🎬 [[Entertainment]]: More American Graffiti 📅 2024-01-30 -- [ ] 🎬 [[Entertainment]]: African territory 📅 2023-10-30 +- [ ] 🎬 [[Entertainment]]: African territory 📅 2024-04-30 - [x] 📺 [[Entertainment]]: Friends 📅 2023-06-30 ✅ 2023-08-08 - [x] 📺 [[Entertainment]]: How I Met Your Mother 📅 2023-06-30 ✅ 2023-08-08 diff --git a/01.02 Home/Household.md b/01.02 Home/Household.md index 01a9ef78..c0761a29 100644 --- a/01.02 Home/Household.md +++ b/01.02 Home/Household.md @@ -73,15 +73,18 @@ style: number #### 🚮 Garbage collection -- [ ] ♻ [[Household]]: *Paper* recycling collection %%done_del%% 🔁 every 2 weeks on Tuesday 📅 2023-10-10 -- [ ] ♻ [[Household]]: *Cardboard* recycling collection %%done_del%% 🔁 every 2 weeks on Tuesday 📅 2023-10-03 +- [ ] ♻ [[Household]]: *Paper* recycling collection %%done_del%% 🔁 every 2 weeks on Tuesday 📅 2023-10-24 +- [x] ♻ [[Household]]: *Paper* recycling collection %%done_del%% 🔁 every 2 weeks on Tuesday 📅 2023-10-10 ✅ 2023-10-10 +- [ ] ♻ [[Household]]: *Cardboard* recycling collection %%done_del%% 🔁 every 2 weeks on Tuesday 📅 2023-10-17 +- [x] ♻ [[Household]]: *Cardboard* recycling collection %%done_del%% 🔁 every 2 weeks on Tuesday 📅 2023-10-03 ✅ 2023-10-02   #### 🏠 House chores - [ ] 🛎️ :house: [[Household]]: Pay rent %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the last 📅 2023-10-31 -- [ ] 🛎 🧻 REMINDER [[Household]]: check need for toilet paper %%done_del%% 🔁 every week 📅 2023-10-09 +- [ ] 🛎 🧻 REMINDER [[Household]]: check need for toilet paper %%done_del%% 🔁 every week 📅 2023-10-16 +- [x] 🛎 🧻 REMINDER [[Household]]: check need for toilet paper %%done_del%% 🔁 every week 📅 2023-10-09 ✅ 2023-10-09 - [ ] :bed: [[Household]] Change bedsheets %%done_del%% 🔁 every 2 weeks on Saturday 📅 2023-10-14   diff --git a/01.02 Home/Life - Practical infos.md b/01.02 Home/Life - Practical infos.md index 75c35cce..a8fdb5fa 100644 --- a/01.02 Home/Life - Practical infos.md +++ b/01.02 Home/Life - Practical infos.md @@ -23,15 +23,16 @@ kanban-plugin: basic ## Services -- [ ] # Cleaner

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> [!info]
> Wednesday every second week

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**Maria**

**Patricia**: [📱](tel:+41765336058) +- [ ] # Cleaner

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> [!info]
> Monday every second week

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**Mariela**

**Patricia**: [📱](tel:+41765336058) - [ ] # Garage

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>[!info]
> 1 tyre: 27.5 CHF
> Storage: 80 CHF per season

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[[Rex Automobile CH|Rex Automobile]] - [ ] # Seamstress

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>[!info]
> Shirt button: 4 CHF
> Small jumper hole: 10 CHF
> Big jumper hole: 15 CHF

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[[Svetlana Danilova]] ## Misc +- [ ] # Kanton Zürich

> [!info] Meldebestätigung
> 105.853.368 +- [ ] # CH login

**User ID**: CH3165360
**Name**: de Villeneuve
**First name**: Melchior - [ ] # Car

Audi Q3
2011

**ZH 176030**

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### Tyres

235/55R17 103V
[website](https://www.reifendirekt.ch/) -- [ ] # CH login

User ID: CH3165360
Name: de Villeneuve
First name: Melchior ## Wealth diff --git a/01.07 Animals/2023-07-13 Health check.md b/01.07 Animals/2023-07-13 Health check.md index 736218d4..b509b9c8 100644 --- a/01.07 Animals/2023-07-13 Health check.md +++ b/01.07 Animals/2023-07-13 Health check.md @@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ style: number [[2023-07-13|This day]], ripped hoof (front right) is healing well –> On track to heal fully by the end of the Summer season -- [ ] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]], [[2023-07-13 Health check|Note]]: Check front hoofs healing 🔁 every 2 weeks 📅 2023-10-10 +- [ ] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]], [[2023-07-13 Health check|Note]]: Check front hoofs healing 🔁 every 2 weeks 📅 2023-10-24 +- [x] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]], [[2023-07-13 Health check|Note]]: Check front hoofs healing 🔁 every 2 weeks 📅 2023-10-10 ✅ 2023-10-09 - [x] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]], [[2023-07-13 Health check|Note]]: Check front hoofs healing 🔁 every 2 weeks 📅 2023-09-26 ✅ 2023-09-25 - [x] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]], [[2023-07-13 Health check|Note]]: Check front hoofs healing 🔁 every 2 weeks 📅 2023-09-12 ✅ 2023-09-12 - [x] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]], [[2023-07-13 Health check|Note]]: Check front hoofs healing 🔁 every 2 weeks 📅 2023-08-29 ✅ 2023-09-01 diff --git a/01.07 Animals/2023-09-22 Vet Clearance.md b/01.07 Animals/2023-09-26 Vet Clearance.md similarity index 77% rename from 01.07 Animals/2023-09-22 Vet Clearance.md rename to 01.07 Animals/2023-09-26 Vet Clearance.md index 14d5e0bc..3ce522bd 100644 --- a/01.07 Animals/2023-09-22 Vet Clearance.md +++ b/01.07 Animals/2023-09-26 Vet Clearance.md @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ id Save   -# 2023-09-22 Vet Clearance +# 2023-09-26 Vet Clearance   @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ id Save   - Clearance of the vet for travel + Clearance of the vet for travel ```toc diff --git a/01.07 Animals/2023-09-29 Transport to Field.md b/01.07 Animals/2023-09-29 Transport to Field.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7c08a56d --- /dev/null +++ b/01.07 Animals/2023-09-29 Transport to Field.md @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +--- + +Alias: [""] +Tag: ["timeline", "🐎", "🐿️"] +Date: 2023-10-02 +DocType: Confidential +Hierarchy: NonRoot +TimeStamp: +location: +CollapseMetaTable: true + +--- + +Parent:: [[@Sally|Sally]] + +--- + +  + +```button +name Save +type command +action Save current file +id Save +``` +^button-20230929TransporttoFieldNSave + +  + +# 2023-09-29 Transport to Field + +  + +> [!summary]+ +> Note Description + +  + + Sally is going to Germany for the winter! + +```toc +style: number +``` +  + +--- + +  + +[[2023-09-29|This day]], [[@Sally|Sally]] left [[Polo Park Zürich|PPZ]] to [[Felix Hoffmann]]‘s place in Germany. + +  +  \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/01.07 Animals/@Sally.md b/01.07 Animals/@Sally.md index 0c06099c..daf1dcab 100644 --- a/01.07 Animals/@Sally.md +++ b/01.07 Animals/@Sally.md @@ -129,7 +129,8 @@ divWidth=100 - [x] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]]: Vet check %%done_del%% 🔁 every 6 months 📅 2023-09-30 ✅ 2023-09-28 - [ ] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]]: EHV-1 vaccination dose %%done_del%% 🔁 every year 📅 2024-01-31 - [ ] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]]: Influenza vaccination dose %%done_del%% 🔁 every year 📅 2024-01-31 -- [ ] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]]: Pay for horseshoes (150 CHF) %%done_del%% 🔁 every month 📅 2023-10-10 +- [ ] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]]: Pay for horseshoes (150 CHF) %%done_del%% 🔁 every month 📅 2023-11-10 +- [x] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]]: Pay for horseshoes (150 CHF) %%done_del%% 🔁 every month 📅 2023-10-10 ✅ 2023-10-09 - [x] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]]: Pay for horseshoes (150 CHF) %%done_del%% 🔁 every month 📅 2023-09-10 ✅ 2023-09-10 - [x] :racehorse: [[@Sally|Sally]]: Pay for horseshoes (150 CHF) %%done_del%% 🔁 every month 📅 2023-08-10 ✅ 2023-08-12 ```timeline diff --git a/01.08 Garden/@Plants.md b/01.08 Garden/@Plants.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..934db27b --- /dev/null +++ b/01.08 Garden/@Plants.md @@ -0,0 +1,141 @@ +--- + +Alias: ["Plants"] +Tag: ["🪴", "🏕️", "🏠"] +Date: 2023-10-03 +DocType: Note +ChildrenType: ["Plant"] +Hierarchy: "Root" +location: +CollapseMetaTable: true + +--- + +Parent:: [[Household]] + +--- + +  + +```button +name Create Note +type append template +action NewFile +id CreateNote +``` +^button-PlantsNewNote + +```button +name Save +type command +action Save current file +id Save +``` +^button-PlantsSave + +  + +# Folder map + +  + +> [!summary]+ +> This note enables to navigate in the 00.02 Inbox section and find any Note in this Vault by Note or Tag + +  + +```toc +style: number +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### Master Navigation + +  + +```dataview + Table Date as "Creation Date" from "01.08 Garden" + where DocType = "Plant" + Sort Date ascending +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### High Level tasks + +  + +```tasks +not done +path includes 01.08 +sort by due +hide backlink +hide task count +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### Notes + +  + +Magasins: +1. Hauenstein +2. Jumbo Pflanzen +3. Hornbach +4. Landi + +  + +Arbustes +1. Kolkwitzia +2. Amandier de Chine (Prunus Triloba) +3. Weigelia + +  + +--- + +  + +### Tag Navigation + +  + +```dataview + Table without id tags as "Tags" From "01.08 Garden" + Flatten file.tags as tags + Group by tags +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### TimeStamp check + +  + +```dataview + Table TimeStamp as "Time Stamp" from "01.08 Garden" + Where TimeStamp > date(today) - dur(100 years) + Sort TimeStamp ascending +``` + +  +  \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/01.08 Garden/Hibiscus Syriacus Oiseau Bleu.md b/01.08 Garden/Hibiscus Syriacus Oiseau Bleu.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8dfccd86 --- /dev/null +++ b/01.08 Garden/Hibiscus Syriacus Oiseau Bleu.md @@ -0,0 +1,113 @@ +--- + +Alias: ["", ""] +Tag: ["🪴", "🌺"] +Date: 2023-10-07 +DocType: "Plant" +Hierarchy: "NonRoot" +TimeStamp: +location: +CollapseMetaTable: true +cssclass: recipeTable +Plant: + SciName: "Hibiscus syriacus marina" + Origin: "India & China" + Size: "Up to 3 meters" + FlowerColour: ["blue", "red"] + FlowerSeason: "July to September" + State: "Seasonal" + Exposition: "Sun, little wind" + Maintenance: "Flower once a week" + WinterTolerance: "-15C" +banner: + +--- + +Parent:: [[@Plants|Plants]] + +--- + +  + +```button +name Save +type command +action Save current file +id Save +``` +^button-HibiscusSyriacusOiseauBleuNSave + +# Hibiscus Syriacus Oiseau Bleu + +  + +> [!summary]+ +>Description + +  + +```toc +style: number +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📇 Summary + +  + +| | | +| ------------------------ | -------------------------------------- | +| 📇 **Scientific Name**: | `$=dv.current().Plant.SciName` | +| 🗺 **Origin**: | `$=dv.current().Plant.Origin` | +| 🌺 **Colour**: | `$=dv.current().Plant.FlowerColour` | +| 📆 **Flowering**: | `$=dv.current().Plant.FlowerSeason` | +| 🔄 **Plant cycle**: | `$=dv.current().Plant.State` | +| 🌻 **Exposition**: | `$=dv.current().Plant.Exposition` | +| 🚿 **Maintenance:** | `$=dv.current().Plant.Maintenance` | +| ❄️ **Winter resistance** | `$=dv.current().Plant.WinterTolerance` | +| 📏 **Growth** | `$=dv.current().Plant.Size` | + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📝 Notes + +  + + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📜 History + +  + +Bought on [[2023-10-07|7th October 2023]]. +Planted in a 8L pot + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📸 Pictures + +  + +```gallery +path=00.01 Admin/Pictures/Hibiscus +imgWidth=100 +divWidth=100 +``` \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/01.08 Garden/Viorne Tin.md b/01.08 Garden/Viorne Tin.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..cbae573d --- /dev/null +++ b/01.08 Garden/Viorne Tin.md @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +--- + +Alias: ["Laurier Tin", "Mittelmeer Schneeball"] +Tag: ["🪴", "🌹"] +Date: 2023-10-03 +DocType: "Plant" +Hierarchy: "NonRoot" +TimeStamp: +location: +CollapseMetaTable: true +cssclass: recipeTable +Plant: + SciName: "Viburnum tinus" + Origin: "Mediteranean Basin" + Size: "Slow growth, up to 3.5 meters" + FlowerColour: ["Pink", "White"] + FlowerSeason: "November to April" + State: Evergreen + Exposition: Sun + Maintenance: "Water thrice a week" + WinterTolerance: "-10C" +banner: + +--- + +Parent:: [[@Plants|Plants]] + +--- + +  + +```button +name Save +type command +action Save current file +id Save +``` +^button-ViorneTinNSave + +# Viorne Tin + +  + +> [!summary]+ +>Description + +  + +```toc +style: number +``` + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📇 Summary + +  + +| | | +| ------------------------ | -------------------------------------- | +| 📇 **Scientific Name**: | `$=dv.current().Plant.SciName` | +| 🗺 **Origin**: | `$=dv.current().Plant.Origin` | +| 🌺 **Colour**: | `$=dv.current().Plant.FlowerColour` | +| 📆 **Flowering**: | `$=dv.current().Plant.FlowerSeason` | +| 🔄 **Plant cycle**: | `$=dv.current().Plant.State` | +| 🌻 **Exposition**: | `$=dv.current().Plant.Exposition` | +| 🚿 **Maintenance:** | `$=dv.current().Plant.Maintenance` | +| ❄️ **Winter resistance** | `$=dv.current().Plant.WinterTolerance` | +| 📏 **Growth** | `$=dv.current().Plant.Size` | + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📝 Notes + +  + +- [ ] :potted_plant: [[Viorne Tin]]: Re-empotter dans plus grand (curr. 8L) 📅2024-03-31 + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📜 History + +  + +Bought on [[2023-10-03|3rd October 2023]] +Transferred into a 8L pot (from 7L) + +  + +--- + +  + +### 📸 Pictures + +  + +```gallery +path=00.01 Admin/Pictures/Viorne Tin +imgWidth=100 +divWidth=100 +``` +```timeline +🐶;Viorne Tin +``` \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/04.01 lebv.org/Hosting Tasks.md b/04.01 lebv.org/Hosting Tasks.md index f8396169..e0b98607 100644 --- a/04.01 lebv.org/Hosting Tasks.md +++ b/04.01 lebv.org/Hosting Tasks.md @@ -69,10 +69,12 @@ Tasks and potential enhancements for the webhosting of lebv.org - [x] [[Hosting Tasks|Hosting]]: Explore the possibility to [[Hosting Tasks#Self-hosting|self-host]] ✅ 2021-09-16 - [ ] :fleur_de_lis: [[Hosting Tasks|Hosting]]: Explore the possibility of webhosting through [[Hosting Tasks#Decentralised hosting|decentralised services]] (Blockchain) 📅 2023-12-31 -- [ ] :fleur_de_lis: [[Hosting Tasks|Hosting]]: [[Hosting Tasks#Backup procedure|backup]] the DB & Files %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Wednesday 📅 2023-10-04 +- [ ] :fleur_de_lis: [[Hosting Tasks|Hosting]]: [[Hosting Tasks#Backup procedure|backup]] the DB & Files %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Wednesday 📅 2024-01-03 +- [x] :fleur_de_lis: [[Hosting Tasks|Hosting]]: [[Hosting Tasks#Backup procedure|backup]] the DB & Files %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Wednesday 📅 2023-10-04 ✅ 2023-10-03 - [x] :fleur_de_lis: [[Hosting Tasks|Hosting]]: [[Hosting Tasks#Backup procedure|backup]] the DB & Files %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Wednesday 📅 2023-07-05 ✅ 2023-07-05 - [x] :fleur_de_lis: [[Hosting Tasks|Hosting]]: [[Hosting Tasks#Backup procedure|backup]] the DB & Files %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Wednesday 📅 2023-04-05 ✅ 2023-04-06 -- [ ] :fleur_de_lis: [[Hosting Tasks|Hosting]]: [[Hosting Tasks#PHP versioning|Check the php version]] of the website %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Wednesday 📅 2023-10-04 +- [ ] :fleur_de_lis: [[Hosting Tasks|Hosting]]: [[Hosting Tasks#PHP versioning|Check the php version]] of the website %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Wednesday 📅 2024-01-03 +- [x] :fleur_de_lis: [[Hosting Tasks|Hosting]]: [[Hosting Tasks#PHP versioning|Check the php version]] of the website %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Wednesday 📅 2023-10-04 ✅ 2023-10-03 - [x] :fleur_de_lis: [[Hosting Tasks|Hosting]]: [[Hosting Tasks#PHP versioning|Check the php version]] of the website %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Wednesday 📅 2023-07-05 ✅ 2023-07-05 - [x] :fleur_de_lis: [[Hosting Tasks|Hosting]]: [[Hosting Tasks#PHP versioning|Check the php version]] of the website %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Wednesday 📅 2023-04-05 ✅ 2023-04-06 diff --git a/05.01 Computer setup/Storage and Syncing.md b/05.01 Computer setup/Storage and Syncing.md index 37411da3..e7fa3dfd 100644 --- a/05.01 Computer setup/Storage and Syncing.md +++ b/05.01 Computer setup/Storage and Syncing.md @@ -172,12 +172,14 @@ For Obsidian in particular [GitHub](https://github.com) is used in coordination The following Apps require a manual backup: -- [ ] Backup [[Storage and Syncing#Instructions for Anchor|Anchor Wallet]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Thursday 📅 2023-10-05 +- [ ] Backup [[Storage and Syncing#Instructions for Anchor|Anchor Wallet]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Thursday 📅 2024-01-04 +- [x] Backup [[Storage and Syncing#Instructions for Anchor|Anchor Wallet]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Thursday 📅 2023-10-05 ✅ 2023-10-03 - [x] Backup [[Storage and Syncing#Instructions for Anchor|Anchor Wallet]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Thursday 📅 2023-07-06 ✅ 2023-07-06 - [ ] :iphone: Backup [[Storage and Syncing#Instructions for iPhone|iPhone]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 2nd Tuesday 📅 2023-10-10 - [x] :iphone: Backup [[Storage and Syncing#Instructions for iPhone|iPhone]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 2nd Tuesday 📅 2023-07-11 ✅ 2023-07-13 - [x] :iphone: Backup [[Storage and Syncing#Instructions for iPhone|iPhone]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 2nd Tuesday 📅 2023-04-11 ✅ 2023-04-11 -- [ ] :floppy_disk: Backup [[Storage and Syncing#Instructions for FV|Folder Vault]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Friday 📅 2023-10-06 +- [ ] :floppy_disk: Backup [[Storage and Syncing#Instructions for FV|Folder Vault]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Friday 📅 2024-01-05 +- [x] :floppy_disk: Backup [[Storage and Syncing#Instructions for FV|Folder Vault]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Friday 📅 2023-10-06 ✅ 2023-10-06 - [x] :floppy_disk: Backup [[Storage and Syncing#Instructions for FV|Folder Vault]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Friday 📅 2023-07-07 ✅ 2023-07-07 - [x] :floppy_disk: Backup [[Storage and Syncing#Instructions for FV|Folder Vault]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Friday 📅 2023-04-07 ✅ 2023-04-06 - [ ] :cloud: [[Storage and Syncing|Storage & Sync]]: Backup Volumes to [[Sync|Sync.com]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 2nd Monday 📅 2023-12-11 diff --git a/05.02 Networks/Configuring UFW.md b/05.02 Networks/Configuring UFW.md index 052aacfd..d1f7d6a6 100644 --- a/05.02 Networks/Configuring UFW.md +++ b/05.02 Networks/Configuring UFW.md @@ -237,7 +237,8 @@ sudo bash /etc/addip4ban/addip4ban.sh #### Ban List Tasks -- [ ] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2023-10-07 +- [ ] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2023-10-14 +- [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2023-10-07 ✅ 2023-10-06 - [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2023-09-30 ✅ 2023-09-29 - [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2023-09-23 ✅ 2023-09-23 - [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2023-09-16 ✅ 2023-09-15 @@ -275,7 +276,8 @@ sudo bash /etc/addip4ban/addip4ban.sh - [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2023-08-12 ✅ 2023-08-07 - [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2023-08-05 ✅ 2023-08-05 - [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]] Get IP addresses caught by Postfix %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Saturday 📅 2023-07-29 ✅ 2023-08-04 -- [ ] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on Saturday 📅 2023-10-07 +- [ ] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on Saturday 📅 2023-10-14 +- [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on Saturday 📅 2023-10-07 ✅ 2023-10-06 - [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on Saturday 📅 2023-09-30 ✅ 2023-09-29 - [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on Saturday 📅 2023-09-23 ✅ 2023-09-23 - [x] 🖥 [[Selfhosting]], [[Configuring UFW|Firewall]]: Update the Blocked IP list %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on Saturday 📅 2023-09-16 ✅ 2023-09-15 diff --git a/05.02 Networks/Server Tools.md b/05.02 Networks/Server Tools.md index f1debafe..0c720975 100644 --- a/05.02 Networks/Server Tools.md +++ b/05.02 Networks/Server Tools.md @@ -575,7 +575,8 @@ List of monitored services:   -- [ ] :hammer_and_wrench: [[Server Tools]]: Backup server %%done_del%% 🔁 every 6 months on the 1st Tuesday ⏳ 2023-10-03 📅 2023-10-03 +- [ ] :hammer_and_wrench: [[Server Tools]]: Backup server %%done_del%% 🔁 every 6 months on the 1st Tuesday ⏳ 2024-04-02 📅 2024-04-02 +- [x] :hammer_and_wrench: [[Server Tools]]: Backup server %%done_del%% 🔁 every 6 months on the 1st Tuesday ⏳ 2023-10-03 📅 2023-10-03 ✅ 2023-10-03 - [x] :hammer_and_wrench: [[Server Tools]]: Backup server %%done_del%% 🔁 every 6 months on the 1st Tuesday ⏳ 2023-04-04 📅 2023-04-04 ✅ 2023-04-03 - [x] :hammer_and_wrench: [[Server Tools]]: Backup server %%done_del%% 🔁 every 6 months on the 1st Tuesday ⏳ 2022-10-04 📅 2022-10-04 ✅ 2022-10-03 - [x] [[Server Tools]]: Backup server 🔁 every 6 months on the 1st Tuesday ⏳ 2022-04-12 📅 2022-04-12 ✅ 2022-04-11 diff --git a/05.02 Networks/Server VPN.md b/05.02 Networks/Server VPN.md index 9d42ba73..fb78ce4c 100644 --- a/05.02 Networks/Server VPN.md +++ b/05.02 Networks/Server VPN.md @@ -283,7 +283,8 @@ Everything is rather self-explanatory.   -- [ ] :shield: [[Server VPN]]: Backup server %%done_del%% 🔁 every 6 months on the 1st Tuesday ⏳ 2023-10-03 📅 2023-10-03 +- [ ] :shield: [[Server VPN]]: Backup server %%done_del%% 🔁 every 6 months on the 1st Tuesday ⏳ 2024-04-02 📅 2024-04-02 +- [x] :shield: [[Server VPN]]: Backup server %%done_del%% 🔁 every 6 months on the 1st Tuesday ⏳ 2023-10-03 📅 2023-10-03 ✅ 2023-10-03 - [x] :shield: [[Server VPN]]: Backup server %%done_del%% 🔁 every 6 months on the 1st Tuesday ⏳ 2023-04-04 📅 2023-04-04 ✅ 2023-04-03 - [x] :shield: [[Server VPN]]: Backup server %%done_del%% 🔁 every 6 months on the 1st Tuesday ⏳ 2022-10-04 📅 2022-10-04 ✅ 2022-10-03 - [x] [[Server VPN]]: Backup server 🔁 every 6 months on the 1st Tuesday ⏳ 2022-04-12 📅 2022-04-12 ✅ 2022-04-11 diff --git a/06.01 Finances/hLedger.md b/06.01 Finances/hLedger.md index 4fe279f5..1c4b4f9f 100644 --- a/06.01 Finances/hLedger.md +++ b/06.01 Finances/hLedger.md @@ -416,10 +416,12 @@ title: To explore - [x] [[hLedger]]: Tax for Investments ✅ 2022-01-22 - [x] [[hLedger]]: Financial forecasting ✅ 2022-01-22 -- [ ] :heavy_dollar_sign: [[hLedger]]: Update Price file %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Friday 📅 2023-10-06 +- [ ] :heavy_dollar_sign: [[hLedger]]: Update Price file %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Friday 📅 2024-01-05 +- [x] :heavy_dollar_sign: [[hLedger]]: Update Price file %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Friday 📅 2023-10-06 ✅ 2023-10-06 - [x] :heavy_dollar_sign: [[hLedger]]: Update Price file %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Friday 📅 2023-07-07 ✅ 2023-07-07 - [x] :heavy_dollar_sign: [[hLedger]]: Update Price file %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Friday 📅 2023-04-07 ✅ 2023-04-07 -- [ ] :heavy_dollar_sign: [[hLedger]]: Update current ledger %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Friday 📅 2023-10-06 +- [ ] :heavy_dollar_sign: [[hLedger]]: Update current ledger %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Friday 📅 2024-01-05 +- [x] :heavy_dollar_sign: [[hLedger]]: Update current ledger %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Friday 📅 2023-10-06 ✅ 2023-10-06 - [x] :heavy_dollar_sign: [[hLedger]]: Update current ledger %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Friday 📅 2023-07-07 ✅ 2023-07-14 - [x] :heavy_dollar_sign: [[hLedger]]: Update current ledger %%done_del%% 🔁 every 3 months on the 1st Friday 📅 2023-04-07 ✅ 2023-04-07 diff --git a/06.02 Investments/Crypto Tasks.md b/06.02 Investments/Crypto Tasks.md index 98ec10aa..adf730b1 100644 --- a/06.02 Investments/Crypto Tasks.md +++ b/06.02 Investments/Crypto Tasks.md @@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ All tasks and to-dos Crypto-related.   %%- [ ] 💰[[Crypto Tasks#internet alerts|monitor Crypto news and publications]] %%done_del%% 🔁 every week on Friday 📅 2022-12-16%% -- [ ] :ballot_box: [[Crypto Tasks]]: Vote for [[EOS]] block producers %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 1st Tuesday 📅 2023-10-03 +- [ ] :ballot_box: [[Crypto Tasks]]: Vote for [[EOS]] block producers %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 1st Tuesday 📅 2023-11-07 +- [x] :ballot_box: [[Crypto Tasks]]: Vote for [[EOS]] block producers %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 1st Tuesday 📅 2023-10-03 ✅ 2023-10-03 - [x] :ballot_box: [[Crypto Tasks]]: Vote for [[EOS]] block producers %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 1st Tuesday 📅 2023-09-05 ✅ 2023-09-08 - [x] :ballot_box: [[Crypto Tasks]]: Vote for [[EOS]] block producers %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 1st Tuesday 📅 2023-08-01 ✅ 2023-08-07 - [x] :ballot_box: [[Crypto Tasks]]: Vote for [[EOS]] block producers %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 1st Tuesday 📅 2023-07-04 ✅ 2023-07-04 @@ -80,7 +81,8 @@ All tasks and to-dos Crypto-related. - [x] :ballot_box: [[Crypto Tasks]]: Vote for [[EOS]] block producers %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 1st Tuesday 📅 2023-03-07 ✅ 2023-03-07 - [x] :ballot_box: [[Crypto Tasks]]: Vote for [[EOS]] block producers %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 1st Tuesday 📅 2023-02-07 ✅ 2023-02-06 - [x] :ballot_box: [[Crypto Tasks]]: Vote for [[EOS]] block producers %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 1st Tuesday 📅 2023-01-03 ✅ 2023-01-03 -- [ ] :chart: Check [[Nimbus]] earnings %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 2nd Monday 📅 2023-10-09 +- [ ] :chart: Check [[Nimbus]] earnings %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 2nd Monday 📅 2023-11-13 +- [x] :chart: Check [[Nimbus]] earnings %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 2nd Monday 📅 2023-10-09 ✅ 2023-10-09 - [x] :chart: Check [[Nimbus]] earnings %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 2nd Monday 📅 2023-09-11 ✅ 2023-09-11 - [x] :chart: Check [[Nimbus]] earnings %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 2nd Monday 📅 2023-08-14 ✅ 2023-08-12 - [x] :chart: Check [[Nimbus]] earnings %%done_del%% 🔁 every month on the 2nd Monday 📅 2023-07-10 ✅ 2023-07-10