Home improvement star Zachery Ty Bryan says his arrest for domestic violence in Oregon has been a “wake-up call” as he tries to rebuild his life.

The former child star, now 41, claimed in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that the physical altercation began in October 2020 because his then-girlfriend Johnnie Faye Cartwright was upset that he was “leading a double life” and still married — though he had announced his divorce two weeks earlier.

He later pleaded guilty to two counts of threats and fourth-degree assault and was sentenced to a three-year suspended sentence, participation in a violent intervention program, and orders to have no further contact with the victim.

Bryan says he’s trying to stay away from alcohol now, but he and Cartwright are still together and are now raising three children of their own.

Meanwhile, the star faces further investigation for allegedly stealing his friends’ and investors’ money in a fraudulent scheme.

Zachery Ty Bryan, 41, was arrested in Oregon in October 2020 for domestic violence. He was accused of strangling his girlfriend at the time

Bryan had announced just two weeks earlier that he was divorcing his longtime wife, Carly Matros. The two are pictured together in 2016

Bryan rose to national fame in the 1990s as the eldest child on the series Home Improvement, which also starred Tim Allen and future teenage heartthrob Jonathan Taylor Thomas.

After the series ended in 1999, Bryan turned to film roles, earning guest spots on television shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

He then went on to executive produce independent films and married his high school sweetheart, Carly Matros, in 2007.

They had four children, who they raised together in a multi-million dollar home in Newport Beach. The youngest, a son, was born in March 2019 and was joined by three daughters – including a set of twins.

In recent years, Bryan has made a name for himself as a conservative commentator on platforms such as FOX News and The Daily Wire.

But in September 2020, Bryan announced that he and Matros were getting a divorce — almost verbatim plagiarizing Arnie Hammer’s divorce announcement.

Now he admits to The Hollywood Reporter, “I was just in party mode — making movies, traveling, drinking.” I didn’t live the way I was raised, you know what I mean?

“I wasn’t a faithful husband and I wasn’t my best,” he continued. “I figured I could go out there and do whatever I wanted, have fun, come home and be a family man with my kids.” “That’s not how the real world works.”

Just 16 days after the announcement, in October, Bryan was arrested in Oregon and charged with strangulation, fourth-degree assault, coercion, threats, harassment and obstructing the preparation of a police report.

The most serious charges, including the crime of strangulation, were later dropped and he pleaded guilty to two counts.

Bryan was subsequently sentenced to three years probation, participation in a violent intervention program and orders to have no contact with the victim.

He was also banned by the court from “buying, possessing or consuming alcoholic beverages” or from being in places where alcohol is sold or served as its primary purpose.

It was his second arrest of 2020 after being charged with drunk driving in Orange County in May. He also pleaded guilty to that count and was sentenced to five years probation and 18 months in a multi-offender alcohol program, pending further arrests for drink driving in 2004, 2007 and 2017.

Bryan rose to national fame in the 1990s as the eldest child on the series Home Improvement, which also starred Tim Allen and future teenage heartthrob Jonathan Taylor Thomas

After the series ended in 1999, Bryan turned to film roles and received guest appearances on television shows. He is pictured here at Home Improvement with Tim Allen

In recent years he has become a conservative commentator on FOX News and The Daily Wire

According to Oregon police files obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, Cartwright claimed that Bryan, with whom she had been “sexually intimate” for two years, woke her up the night of the alleged assault and demanded to know what happened to his Mobile phone charging cables.

She claimed he “pulled her hair” and slapped her across the face multiple times.

The two then fell onto a flight of stairs, after which Bryan “grabbed Cartwright by the neck with both hands and choked her for about 45 seconds,” according to the police report.

Responding officers said they saw multiple injuries at Cartwright, who claimed Bryan had become abusive a month earlier.

But Bryan claimed Cartwright woke him up and bit him on the groin.

He claimed she self-inflicted her injuries to set him up because she “wanted to ruin his career” after he said he wanted to break up and stop paying her rent.

“I heard her tell dispatchers, ‘That’s the guy from Home Improvement. He’s the famous guy,” Bryan reportedly told officers at the scene.

In retrospect, he says the arrest was “so disproportionately hyped” by the media and claims it wasn’t as physical violence as the police report says.

He explained that he and Cartwright started dating while he was still married and that there were times when she got upset about his “double life.”

And despite announcing his divorce, Bryan claimed the argument escalated that night because they both “drank too much.”

“We weren’t even really physically examined,” he said. “We got really loud. We screamed and because we were in a townhouse that had done it [thin walls]everyone could hear it.’

He went on to tell Cartwright, “I was really upset about my situation at the time.”

And he claimed, “At the end of the day [the police] accuses you of a lot of charges because they ultimately want you to plead something,” noting that police called him “Country Club Zach” and seemed to mock his fame.

“I could have fought that … but that’s more stress and drama,” Bryan explained. “I got two offenses and broke up.”

But he said he thanked God for his arrest now, describing it as a “wake-up call”.

“I went through a situation that I think a lot of people around the world are going through with their partners, and that was a learning experience,” Bryan said.

He admitted he was “definitely”. [has] “a problem with drinking” but doesn’t think the term “alcoholic” applies to him.

“Dude, I started drinking when I was 14,” he said. “Back then I used to go to nightclubs and they just let me in because I was the Home Improvement boy.”

Now, he says, he’s trying to stay away from alcohol, explaining, “I don’t go out and set myself on fire, and that takes away a lot of my problems.”

Bryan continues to face criticism for his role as a token seller for an agritech company that never materialized

He and Cartwright are still together.

In November 2021, just a year after his arrest, Bryan announced that he and Cartwright were engaged.

Based on the timeline of his now-private Instagram account, The Hollywood Reporter found out that Cartwright was already pregnant with a girl at the time.

He announced the birth in spring 2022 on the social media platform.

In November of that year, Bryan also announced that he and Cartwright were expecting twins and that she gave birth to a child in May.

But the actor/producer continues to face criticism from some who consider him one of their closest friends.

In 2018, they explain, Bryan partnered with Producers Market, an ag-tech startup focused on farmers and the global food chain.

The company aimed to empower farmers by eliminating the middleman and investing profits more directly into their tokens using a QR code that allowed them to tip farmers.

It explored the use of tokens to fund growth and brought in Bryan — who had made millions in Bitcoin’s early days — as an advisor to help build relationships within the crypto community.

He then invested the money in the company and urged others to do the same.

However, plans for a token scheme never materialized and in 2019 the company officially decided to end Bryan’s role as an advisor.

Just a year later, executives learned that Bryan was selling the nonexistent tokens to other investors.

‘Mister. “Bryan has misrepresented our company without our knowledge, involvement or permission,” a spokesman said. “When we found out about this, we immediately issued a cease and desist order to him.

“This activity is unacceptable and does not reflect our mission to support the well-being of farmers and our food systems.”

But Bryan denies he “made a shady scam deal — that’s just not me.”

“What people don’t understand is that you take risks, nothing is certain,” he said, promising that if the company ever goes public, he will personally distribute his Producers Market shares to those who do still waiting for their money.

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Another boat arrived at a port in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands on June 22 after being rescued at sea.

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Dozens of people are feared drowning after a refugee boat sank near Spain’s Canary Islands on Wednesday, according to Spanish officials and aid organization Walking Borders.

Authorities have recovered two bodies, including a young boy, but the true number of people on board is unknown.

Helena Maleno, the founder of Walking Borders, told CNN that her group received frantic calls from relatives of migrants on board on Tuesday afternoon, saying the boat was drifting after losing all engine power. The organization alerted the Spanish authorities and requested a rescue operation.

The Spanish Sea Rescue Service tweeted on Wednesday that two bodies had been recovered from the sunken boat that had left Morocco. It was said that a Moroccan patrol boat rescued 24 other people alive.

Maleno told CNN that one of the bodies recovered was that of a four-year-old boy whose body was taken to Spain. She added that her group believes 37 other people drowned on the same boat, based on phone conversations with relatives and people on board the boat before the sinking.

As recently reported by the Spanish Interior Ministry, a total of 5,914 migrants have arrived by boat in the Canary Islands this year as of June 15, down 31% compared to the same period last year.

Maleno said there had been a noticeable increase in attempted migrant crossings to the Canary Islands in recent weeks.

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On Thursday, the Spanish government’s maritime services rescued 227 other migrants from four boats off Lanzarote and the Gran Canaria islands, part of the Canary archipelago off the west coast of Morocco.

The incident raises more questions about Europe’s response to migration after an overcrowded fishing trawler – reportedly with 750 people on board – capsized off the coast of Greece last week, killing at least 82 people and leaving hundreds more missing.

Brave knights, outstanding scholars or lawless soldiers? The samurai were all of these at the same time, but not necessarily at the same time… One of the most famous of them, Kusunoki Masashige (1294-1336), whose statue now adorns the promenade of Tokyo’s Imperial Palace, was a warrior of humble birth in Japan of fire and blood this time. He perfectly embodies the cardinal virtue associated with these ancient warriors: loyalty. Kusunoki, liege lord of Emperor Go-Daigo (1288-1339), performs feat after feat to place effective power in the hands of his supreme commander… Up to the point of sacrificing his life when the Mikado, the imperial palace, was sent to fight losing battle on the banks of the Minato River.

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But if this warrior has gone down in history, it’s also because of a much less chivalrous skill: cunning. In the spring of 1333, the restless Go-Daigo in exile on the Oki Islands, a small archipelago in the Sea of ​​Japan, appealed to him. The emperor’s attempts to wrest power from the decadent Kamakura shogunate had indeed failed. Kusunoki was his last chance. The samurai was surrounded by a thousand brave men. Opposite him were the troops of the shogun Ashikaga Takauji (1305-1358) 100 times more numerous. But Kusunoki was a brilliant strategist. He lured his opponents onto collapsed bridges, buried them under falling rocks, and feigned surrender to deceive his opponents… The snares concocted by this devil of a man ensnared the enemy for months, giving him much time with the Kaiser returned to seize power.

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Bushido valued the practice of martial arts and the arts in general

Betrayals, murders… Is the soul size of the Japanese equivalent of our knights in armor just a myth? Partly because the image of the samurai has been frozen in our latitudes, thanks to a treaty made when they stopped fighting, or almost: the hagakure (literally “hidden in the foliage”). Japan was at peace for a century when Yamamoto Tsunemoto (1659-1719) dictated to a young scholar the maxims and ideas that make up the eleven chapters of this treatise. From 1603 to 1868, during the Edo period, the Tokugawa clan ruled the country with an iron fist, and although samurai were still allowed to wield long swords (katana) and short swords (wakizashi), a duel was threatened with the death penalty.

The Hagakure was therefore less a treatise on war and more a handbook of ethics (one must prioritize loyalty to one’s supreme commander, maintain control of one’s emotions, and present impeccable dress) and philosophy nourished by Zen (the way of the samurai, the End). resulting in death). This text is considered the basis of Bushido (the way of the warrior), which valued the practice of martial arts as highly as that of the arts in general. From the age of 13 and the genpuku ceremony where the young samurai was shaved and given his adult name and swords, his entire training has been designed to respect this balance. The good samurai had to be able to read and calligraph perfectly, have the basics of mathematics, compose poetry and master the tea ceremony like dancing …

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The samurai, a very hierarchical social class

Representing 2 million people during the Edo period, the samurai social class was extremely hierarchical. The hatamoto (standard bearers), direct vassals of the Tokugawa shogun, were the ruling officers of the regime. They administered the great cities, were general inspectors and in charge of finances… Then came the Kotaiyoriai, Hatamoto without official functions but enriched by owning the best lands. The Gokenin (Liemen) were officers who led groups of samurai. When the Tokugawa took power, the ji-samurai, landowners, at the bottom of the ladder had to choose between the prestigious but poorly paid status of samurai and that of peasant. Eventually, the ronin who did not own land or were attached to a lord were banished from this caste.

Thanks to their remarkable adaptability, which evolved from warrior to administrator, the samurai were able to rule Japan for seven centuries until the restoration of imperial power in the Meiji era in 1868. Led by the samurai Saigo Takamori, who is originally from the island Kyushu, young warriors were at the forefront of the battles that brought about the end of the Tokugawa shogunate and the rise of Emperor Mutsuhito (Meiji).

But once victorious, these noble fighters had no place in Meiji-era Japan, which was modernizing, industrializing, and trying to catch up with Western nations. In 1876, eight years after the Imperial Restoration, an edict banned the carrying of sabers, which were henceforth reserved only for officers of the regular army. Saigo Takamori and the warriors loyal to him, holed up in their fortress of Satsuma, then rose up against the new regime they helped establish. They were massacred there by Imperial troops and the last samurai committed seppuku, a ritual suicide, on September 24, 1877.

Curiously, Saigo Taka mori was not forgotten after his death: he too has his statue in Tokyo’s Ueno Park, three kilometers from Kusunoki Masashige’s. The idealist and the cunning, the believer and the rebel: two samurai models, each as legitimate as the other.

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The United Nations Human Development Index, the Human Development Index (HDi), For thirty years, it has been measuring the quality of life in different countries not only on the basis of per capita income, but also taking into account the level of education and length of life. HDI was perfected over two years to accommodate that as well pressure that each nation exerts on the balance of the planet, This includes a per capita measurement of both CO2 emissions and the so-called material footprint, i.e. the net withdrawal of natural resources. The new index for sustainable development is called Planetary Pressures–Adjusted Human Development Index (Phdi).

After a first experimental ranking As published by the United Nations in the 2020 Human Development Report, the Phdi was updated with more recent data on environmental variables in the subsequent 2021/2022 report and the results are surprising and striking in many ways. According to 2021 estimates, several well-placed advanced nations in the traditional HDi rankings are falling many places in the Phdi rankings. Among them, well behind are the USA, Canada, Australia, but also Ireland, the Netherlands, Finland and Switzerland: all countries that exert very high pressure on the planet’s environmental balance. On the contrary, the European Mediterranean countries climbed several places in the ranking, notably among them Spain and Italy, whose environmental indices are among the best of the more developed countries.

The 2021 Sustainable Development Rankings drawn up by the UN completely revolutionize traditional standards for measuring the quality of life. As a matter of fact, First up is the UK, which was already well positioned in the HDi but gains 15 places thanks to the adjustment factor for planetary loads; In second place is Spain, which gains 24 places; And In third place is Italy The improves its ranking by 25 places. Furthermore, in the Phdi 2021, France is in seventh place with a 21 place improvement, Greece moves up to tenth place with a 22 place improvement and Portugal jumps to eleventh place with a 27 place improvement. Overall, therefore, the five major European Mediterranean countries distinguish themselves as economies characterized by balanced development in relation to the need to preserve the environment and natural resources.

Always in the top ten In the Phdi Ranking 2021 we find Germany (fourth), Denmark (fifth), Sweden (sixth), Switzerland (which however falls from first to eighth place and loses 7 places compared to HDi) and Japan (ninth). Far behind and due to their strong global pressures are the Netherlands (twenty-seventh place), Finland (thirty-eighth place), the United States (fifty-fifth place), Canada (sixtieth place), Ireland (sixty-fifth place) and Australia (ninetieth place). -First).
Among the EU countries, the economies with the best environmental adjustment factors are Portugal, Italy and Spain. France is ninth. Germany is only tenth.

Although these indices speak clearly about the sustainable development of the major countries of our continent, The European Commission is increasingly urging Europe towards a kind of productive “suicide” in the name of dogmatic environmental protection and the goals of ecological transition. placed at the table without regard to technological neutrality and completely detached from reality. While other areas of the planet continue to pollute at full speed.

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