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Blacks, Whites and Asians Have Different Ancestors – and Did Not Come from Africa, Claims Scientist
Thread: Blacks, Whites and Asians Have Different Ancestors – and Did Not Come from Africa, Claims Scientist
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010 #1
Roderic
Monday, May 27th, 2019 @ 06:09 AM
Geographer claims the races evolved from different ancestors.
A public claim by a fellow of the prestigious Royal Geographic Society that humans did not all come from Africa — and that blacks, whites and Asians have different ancestors — has been dismissed by world experts as “dangerous”, “wrong” and “racist”.
In a paper widely trumpeted and due for release in book form, Akhil Bakshi, the leader of a recent major scientific expedition supported by India’s prime minister, claims that “Negroid”, “Caucasian” and “Mongoloid” peoples are not only separate races but separate species, having evolved on different continents. Responding to the claims — developed while Bakshi led the Gondwanaland expedition from India to South Africa — Professor Lee Berger, a leading palaeoanthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand, immediately insisted that, there were no fundamental differences between the races and that all humans had the same genetic and physical roots in Africa.
The prevalent scientific theory of modern humans — the “Out of Africa” model — is that they left Africa just 55000 years ago and replaced the last remnants of other ancient hominids living in Europe, Asia and elsewhere.
The old biological racial distinctions of “Caucasian”, “Negroid” and “Mongoloid” have recently been abandoned by mainstream scientists — removed, for instance, from the US National Library of Medicine in 2003.
Bakshi has become a self-declared champion of a minority scientific view called “multiregionalism”, which claims that modern humans evolved from separate hominid populations. Hominids encompass all humans and the ancient family of human-like ancestors, including large-brained ancient ancestors and unsuccessful species such as Neanderthals.
However, Bakshi — who has no training as an anthropologist — has linked to this model a theory that these populations evolved according to the genetic material left behind when the prehistoric supercontinents, the northern Laurasia and the southern Gondwanaland, broke up. An influential figure in India, Bakshi is also a filmmaker and author who has led four major scientific expeditions since 1994. Bakshi admitted to the Sunday Times that “some of my points may prove to be wrong, and may be seen as politically incorrect.
He claims indigenous “Negroid” populations occur in places like Australia, India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and the Andaman Islands not because they moved there from Africa, but because all these land masses were once part of Gondwanaland — and that all evolved separately. Whites, according to Bakshi, are from Laurasia and blacks are from Gondwanaland. He argues that, 60000 years ago, humans could not have crossed vast oceans and deserts to reach remote places like Australia and North America, and they must therefore have evolved there.
“His is a highly confused argument which jumps enormous levels, which are quite impossible to link,” Tobias said.
However, he added that the true picture of modern humanity’s precise departure from Africa was far from clear- cut.
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Zogbot
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 @ 06:00 PM
Swedish/Prussian
Nordid
That's pretty funny. Perfect anti-reality right on display.
Sunday, July 24th, 2011 @ 06:43 PM
English/Irish/German
Anarcho-Capitalist
The author of that article wrote a longer one about the evolution process. I don't think this is something that would be taken kindly by the general public or media, as it would defy a lot of beliefs. If the news came out that Whites and Asians have no relations to blacks in any way, and that we are from a separate line of species altogether, it could really cause some problems. Of course the problems would be from the people who wouldn't be able to handle such news.
Ediruc
3 Weeks Ago @ 06:49 PM
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German-American and proud
Alpinid-Nordid
Really destroys the idea of "equality" doesn't it? I guess I do believe in "multiregional evolution". But, then again, I once made a conclusion that European Whites were descended from a unique group that arose out of Africa (but weren't negroids) that had an intuitive ambition to be nomadic and explore the world. And just ended up intermixing with the Neanderthal populations. Hence why we are so different from blacks. Blacks remained in Africa for thousands of years, having little to no ambition to explore the world, but their own continent and jungles. While Caucasians explored the world and was a light of civilization.
Old Winter
Monday, February 28th, 2011 @ 10:30 PM
French, Zeelandic, Dutch.
CeltoGermanic
Racial occultism
A claim by Galileo Galilei that the sun does not circle the earth but the earth circles the sun has been dismissed by world experts as “dangerous”, “wrong” and “heathen”.
There you go, back to the dark ages, the people who now scream ''racist'' are usually found in the ''left winged'' political movement, the same political movement who attacks the church for bringing Europe into the dark ages, this is the reason why people in the Netherlands call the ''left winged'' the ''left church'' because they act like the church of the dark ages.
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Even better that it came from someone who lives in India, so they can less easier silence him, like they did with Watson. hopefully the responses given will make a few more people realize that the Out of Africa hypothesis is not so much promoted for any scientific value and more for it political-cultural value.
Of course multi-regionalism have their own question that need to be answered.
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Fyrgenholt
Friday, February 24th, 2012 @ 01:27 PM
Pred. Atlantid
Originally Posted by GroeneWolf
Yes, exactly. If multi-regionalism is to become a respected theory it needs to iron out some creases and develop a little further from where it is now.
A public claim by a fellow of the prestigious Royal Geographic Society that humans did not all come from Africa — and that blacks, whites and Asians have different ancestors — has been dismissed by world experts as “dangerous”, “wrong” and “racist”
The Horned God
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Friday, June 30th, 2017 @ 09:09 PM
Atlantid
People please... this guys argument is utterly ridiculous. He is claiming that human races began to diverge when Gondwanaland broke up. Gondwanaland broke up 200 million years ago, not 60,000!
This guy Baksh is the kind of clown the multi-region theory doesn't need.
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That is weird, maybe the article had quoted him wrong, we will see when his book comes out.
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010 #10
Mouse Shadow
Wednesday, November 1st, 2017 @ 07:38 AM
Anglo-Australian
Not here anymore
Has Left Skadi
I like this idea as something to be thrown into the mix. Nothing really wrong with such an assumption, actually glad someone is!
I kinda think on the evolutionary tree, we fractured at the monkey/ape/early stages, not at the human stage Out of Africa bullshit says.
The reason I think that is due to the different neural orrientations to survival. We are poles apart in species abilities and cultural functions.
If we were all out of Africa, we'd be chopping each other up, living in sh*tty huts and girls would be in danger of rape every day and night!
That kind of neural coding doesn't disappear overnight, its like Aboriginal Australians are still programmed as wanderers and have no 'functional programing' to perform like little stay in a clean, home whitey.
I think the regional development of alternate species from an earlier evolutionary path is quite valid.
By the way, why is there a porno asian in the picture???
Has Left Skadi. Bye!
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Farmington police seek owners of stolen property
January 8, 2020 Farmington Police Department Burglary, Press Releases
Farmington, N.M. – The Farmington Police Department is looking for the owners of stolen property recovered during a recent auto burglary investigation. Officers responded on January 2 to the area of Foothills and Crestwood after someone saw a man entering unlocked vehicles. They conducted an investigation that ultimately led to the arrest of 28-year-old Kory Galbraith of Farmington. Detectives obtained a search warrant for Galbraith’s vehicle, impounded at the scene, and recovered items reported stolen from vehicles in east Farmington neighborhoods. They found additional items in the vehicle that were not linked to any reported burglaries on record with FPD.
Detectives are encouraging anyone who has been a victim of auto burglary between December 1, 2019 and January 2, 2020 and did not report the crime, to please contact Detective Hardy at 505-258-5144.
Galbraith was arrested on January 2, 2020 and charged with Auto Burglary, Attempted Auto Burglary, Possession of a Controlled Substance, and Resisting, Evading, or Obstructing an Officer.
Farmington police arrest juvenile in death investigation
December 17, 2019 Farmington Police Department Press Releases
Farmington police have a juvenile in custody today after an investigation into the death of another Farmington teen. 15 year old Xavion Montano was arrested yesterday and charged with a 4th degree felony for Involuntary Manslaughter and Negligent Use of a Firearm following the investigation into another juvenile’s death on December 14, 2019.
Shortly before 1 p.m. on the 14th, Farmington Police Department responded to a residence on the east side of Farmington with medics to a report of a male juvenile who was unresponsive. Upon arrival, the teen was found to be deceased. Farmington detectives began investigating the scene and found that the juvenile had sustained a gunshot wound, causing his death. Further investigation of the incident ultimately led to Montano’s arrest.
This incident remains under investigation. Information will be released as it becomes available.
Farmington police release footage from officer-involved shooting
November 21, 2019 November 21, 2019 Farmington Police Department Press Releases, Shooting
Farmington, N.M. – Today the Farmington Police Department released video from the officer-involved shooting that took place on October 10 at an address on Rio Vista Ct. Police Chief Steve Hebbe released the following statement about the incident, “This was an active and dynamic situation to which our officers responded. We recognize the impact an incident like this has on the community, the friends and family of all the involved parties, on the officers and their families, and the department. Although the Sheriff’s Office investigation remains active, based on the facts we know now, the officer’s actions were necessary to protect his life and the life of others.”
On October 10 at approximately 6:12 p.m., dispatch received a call about a man, later identified as 58-year old Norbert Beyet, threatening people with a gun at a residence on Rio Vista Court. FPD officers responded and met at a location near the address to make a plan for a controlled response to attempt to de-escalate the situation. Officers requested medics to stand by and a phone number to try to call and negotiate with Beyet. As FPD officers were trying to call, the Sheriff’s Office helicopter, Air One, flew over the address and witnessed a man and woman in a physical altercation in the backyard with a gun. Recognizing that the situation had escalated, FPD officers approached the house immediately and made contact with Beyet, a woman and two other individuals in the backyard of the home. They began giving clear instructions to the four people. Beyet was armed with a handgun and was not complying with officers’ instructions. The officers approached Beyet, and he pointed the gun towards them. Farmington Officer Jasper Domenici fired a single shot, and Beyet fell to the ground.
Officer Jasper Domenici joined FPD in December 2014 as a lateral from Dona Ana County. He is an eight-year law enforcement veteran.
No further information will be released on this incident until the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office has completed their investigation and the District Attorney’s Office has finalized their review.
Farmington police searching for suspect in aggravated battery
November 8, 2019 Farmington Police Department Press Releases
Farmington, N.M. – Farmington police are searching for information on the whereabouts of Christopher Andregg, 26 of Farmington. Andregg has an active warrant on charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon against a household member, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon against a household member, false imprisonment, and battery against a household member stemming from an incident that occurred this afternoon.
A female came into the lobby of the Farmington Police Department today around 11:10 a.m. reporting a fight in the 900 block of Auburn Avenue. Officers were given information on scene that a man, later identified later as Andregg, had battered and assaulted a woman and was inside the home armed with a knife. After a warrant was obtained for Andregg’s arrest SWAT officers entered the home, but Andregg had left prior to their arrival.
The incident remains under investigation. Police are asking anyone with information on Andregg’s whereabouts to call dispatch at 505-334-6622 or SJC Crime Stoppers at 505-334-TIPS.
Farmington police searching for sexual assault suspect
Farmington, N.M. –Farmington police are seeking information on the whereabouts of 44-year-old Waylon Johnson of Farmington. Johnson has an active warrant on charges of kidnapping, criminal sexual penetration and aggravated battery against a household member stemming from an incident that occurred early this morning.
Officers were dispatched for a report of fighting around 6:53 a.m. in the 1100 block of South Bowen Avenue. Officers arrived on scene and were given information that a man, later identified as Johnson, had kidnapped, battered and sexually assaulted a woman and that he was inside the home armed with a bat. Negotiators attempted to contact Johnson by phone without success. After a warrant was obtained for Johnson’s arrest, SWAT and K9 officers entered to home, but Johnson had left the prior to their arrival.
The incident remains under investigation. Police are asking anyone with information on Johnson’s whereabouts to call dispatch at 505-334-6622 or SJC Crime Stoppers at 505-334-TIPS.
Farmington school resource officer no longer with department following use of force investigation, lapel footage released
October 21, 2019 October 20, 2019 Farmington Police Department Press Releases
Farmington, N.M. – The Farmington Police Department today announces a school resource officer is no longer employed with the department following an investigation into a use of force incident at Mesa View Middle School. The incident took place on August 27, 2019 when school officials requested Officer Zach Christensen assist them in addressing a disruptive student. Christensen was the school resource officer assigned to Mesa View Middle School. A sergeant with FPD’s Professional Standards Division was viewing Christensen’s lapel camera video footage as part of a routine internal review process. He saw what he believed to be a use of force violation against an 11-year-old female student and opened an internal affairs investigation. Officer Christensen was immediately placed on administrative leave per FPD policy. Additionally, the case was referred to the New Mexico State Police for possible criminal charges.
Chief Steve Hebbe issued the following written statement regarding the incident and a more detailed video message to our community, “When we fall short of our expectations and standards, we hold ourselves accountable. Like many of you, I was shocked and angry when I watched this video. We value our relationship with our community and will continue to work hard to maintain the public’s confidence in our department.”
The officer’s lapel camera footage has been released to the news media and has been uploaded to FPD’s YouTube channel. The video may be viewed at https://youtu.be/SdiC4WzGyq8
Man involved in shooting identified
October 11, 2019 Farmington Police Department Press Releases, Shooting
Farmington, N.M. – Farmington police have identified the man involved in the incident that took place in northeast Farmington last night as Norbert Beyet, 58 of Farmington. At 6:12 p.m. dispatch received a call of a domestic fight at a residence in the 2800 block of Rio Vista Ct. The San Juan County Sheriff’s Office helicopter, Air One, and Farmington Police officers responded to the incident, that ultimately resulted in shots being fired. Beyet was pronounced deceased at the scene. A revolver type handgun was recovered from the scene and FPD detectives, SJCSO detectives, and New Mexico State Police personnel are working jointly to investigate the incident. No officers were injured. This is an active investigation and anyone with information is asked to call the SJCSO at 505-334-6107. Further details will be released as available.
Farmington police investigate shooting
Farmington, N.M. – At 6:12 p.m. dispatch received a 911 call reporting a man threatening people with a gun in the 2800 block of Rio Vista Ct. Farmington Police officers and the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office helicopter Air One responded to the area. Air One had visual of the situation and updated FPD officers as they arrived on scene. FPD officers reported being confronted with a weapon. When the weapon was pointed at the officers, one officer fired. No officers were injured in the incident. The male subject was pronounced dead at the scene. FPD detectives, SJCSO detectives, and New Mexico State Police personnel are working together to investigate the incident. This investigation is still active, further information will be provided as available. Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office at 505-334-6107.
Additional information on stabbing released
October 3, 2019 Farmington Police Department Press Releases
Farmington, N.M. – Farmington police are still investigating a fatal stabbing that occurred on September 26, 2019. Two men were transported to the hospital, each with a single stab wound. Fidel Gonzales, 42 of Farmington, was pronounced dead at the emergency room. The other injured 23 year old man was treated at San Juan Regional Medical Center and released the following day.
Officers responded to the report of a stabbing in the area of the 1000 block of Glade Lane around 1:42 a.m. on September 26. As officers arrived on scene, there were several subjects involved in an active fight. Officers detained one of the men, and immediately rendered aid to the two injured men before they were transported to the emergency room. Detectives are still working through a large amount of evidence, and no charges have been filed yet.
This incident is still under investigation. Further details will be released as they become available.
Farmington police recover body from Animas River
Farmington, N.M. – Farmington detectives are investigating the details surrounding the death of Carlos Atencio, 22 of Farmington, whose body was recovered from the Animas River yesterday. Officers responded to the area of the bridge near the 800 block of Broadway Blvd for reports of a man in the water around 7:15 a.m. Officers found Atencio deceased underneath the bridge. This incident is still under investigation and anyone with information is asked to contact the detective tip line at 505-599-1068, or San Juan County Crime Stoppers at 505-334-TIPS. Further details will be released as they become available.
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FEARnyc 2016 Night 2: The Exorcist, The Lost Boys, Night Of The Living Dead, and More
By Dr. Zaius | @ | Sunday, October 23rd, 2016 at 12:24 pm
FEARnyc is the destination for horror fans in New York as we get closer to Halloween. The film festival, put together by director John Capo, is showing over 65 horror movies through Thursday, including world premiere originals and timeless classics. FEARnyc emanates from Cinema Village, located near NYC’s Union Square. On Saturday, I arrived at 4:45 pm and took in an awesome four-film marathon that included the world premiere of Pool Party Massacre, as well as classics The Lost Boys, George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, and 1973’s The Exorcist, the latter of which included a seance.
First up at 5:00pm was the world premiere of Pool Party Massacre, written and directed by Drew Marvick. The film is a loving homage to the 80s slasher film, filled with buxom beauties and a killer who literally uses a different weapon for each victim. The vibe was Slumber Party Massacre meets April’s Fools Day, and the the ending was hilariously creative. After the screening, Marvick and the film’s cinematographer Brian Mills led a Q&A that covered everything from favorite kill, to inspirations, to where to get the sound effects for masturbation… the internet, everything is on the internet.
Next up were a trio of classics. First was Richard Donner and Joel Schumaker’s The Lost Boys, a vampire movie dripping with MTV-era glam and fun. The insanely quotable movie is loaded with 80s staples, from evil Kiefer Sutherland to the Coreys (Corey Haim and Corey Feldman). The film stars Jason Patric and Corey Haim as brothers who move to Santa Carla, California with their mom (Dianne Wiest). What no one knows is that the beachfront community is overrun with vampires… well no one except the Frog Brothers, (Feldman and Jamison Newlander). Re-watching The Lost Boys for the dozenth time, you really appreciate how ludicrously fun and quotable it is, and how much modern vampire lore was created here. The real star though is Gerard McMahon’s epic gothic rock song “Cry Little Sister.”
Next up was the original zombie film, George A. Romero‘s Night of the Living Dead. Made in the late 60s, the film broke every mold for both graphic zombie gore and cultural stereotypes, especially casting a black protagonist (Duane Jones). The film never gives the audience a chance to breath from its opening graveyard scene and infamous “they’re coming to get you Barbara.”
Finally, the night ended with what many consider the scariest movie ever made: The Exorcist. Before the screening, John Capo welcomed a psychic, Jesse Bravo, to conduct a seance and do readings with the captive audience. They handed out plastic crosses and passed around a jar of holy water. As for the film itself, there isn’t much that needs to be said that hasn’t already. Shocking, disturbing, and genuinely terrifying are some of the words. After going through some of the most uncomfortable medical procedures of the 70s, little Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair) goes through one of the most epic transformations in film history, from innocent 12-year-old girl to a demonically possessed monstrosity who requires the church’s help.
Another tremendous evening of horror in the books. In the last two nights I’ve seen seven horror movies, and slept six hours. Today will feature the NYC premieres of two Stephen King-inspired documentaries, Unearthed and Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary and Resurrecting Carrie. At 3:00pm there is the NYC premiere of Lost Creek featuring a Q&A afterwards with cast and crew. At 5:00pm, F.W. Murnau’s Faust will be screened with an orchestra accompaniment, and following that will be Hitchcock’s classic Psycho at 7:00pm and Hocus Pocus at 9:00pm.
FEARnyc, which takes place at Cinema Village on 22 East 12th Street in Manhattan, NYC, will host over 65 screenings of classic and new horror films, and will include several cast appearances, special events, and a tribute to horror icon Wes Craven. Visit FEARnyc.com for the daily schedules, which runs through next Thursday, October 27, 2016. Admission is $12 for GA, $8 for seniors, and a Festival pass is only $125.
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The Ford Foundation invited Jacques Barzun to give an after-dinner talk to their Foundations Group in 1961. Two years earlier Columbia’s provost and dean of faculties had warned in The House of Intellect that philanthropy was one of three unsuspected threats to Intellect, “the capitalized and communal form of live intelligence.” President Grayson Kirk had fielded complaints from university trustees who worried that their friends on the foundation boards might decline to fund Columbia projects. Regarding foundations Barzun had written, “It is an excess of goodwill, of fraternal love, of deep feeling for human life and its reflection in art, that is causing the neglect of mind.” When he addressed the Foundations Group some might have expected fence mending. Instead, Barzun gave advice, beginning with this analogy:
First page of a talk to the Ford Foundations Group, 28 September 1961. Jacques Barzun Papers, Box 142, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University in the City of New York.
“A pleasant meal: our success and ease in carrying food from plate to mouth due to expert control of the forearm, due in turn to opposite and simultaneous action of flexor and extensor muscles. We control the movement for extending one set while contracting the other.
“Yet we live in a mental world where most people want action taken in one direction only – by the pull of one set of ideas. They try hard never to do the opposite of what they ‘believe in,’ be it positive or negative. And it is very true that in many realms consistency is a difficult and desirable goal. In the demonstrations of mathematics, science, and philosophy as well as in the production of plays or the erection of buildings, the happy result springs from unity achieved over diversity.
“But note that in plays and buildings, the various artists and artisans introduce into their plans a good many contrasting elements, a series of subtle opposites to the main idea. This is required to avoid dullness and indifference in the beholder, and the reason seems to be that these creations must somehow correspond to life, and life proceeds like our muscles by oppositions.
“The applicability of this notion to your work is not something I am competent to pursue in detail. I know that I do not know all the difficulties from inside. I know they exist and I know how I feel when I hear some ‘outsider’ to my worries telling me ‘Why don’t you do this?’ I see at once that it’s impossible and I dismiss his suggestion. But I also notice, from time to time, that the suggestion works like a little seed in an ungrateful soil, like a nasty germ in a healthy organism, and I come down with the disease of seeing things differently and I recover by carrying out the suggestion – not as it was made by that ignoramus but in accordance with the facts which I know better than he.
“What I can see from outside is something which in foundation work strives for consistency too hard. The cause lies in 2 things – specialization and the sense of equity. Specialization is to some extent inevitable – no man and no organization can undertake everything. But there is a point where specialization becomes – what shall I say? – asceticism not of the flesh but of the imagination. Policy is then invoked like a legal precedent narrowly interpreted and this is supposed to give equity. There have been among foundations such policies for or against publishing, for or against building, for small grants, for large grants; against overhead always; for matching and not matching, for support at home or abroad, each consistently adhered to. It seems to me there would be immense advantages to deliberate inconsistency.
“I think I appreciate the fact that policy protects, but I believe that if foundations properly assume their role of patrons, then they ought not to think of themselves as institutions in need of protection from the public. They should know more than the public and act on it. It may strike you as a paradox, but a foundation ought to act as much as possible like a person – ondoyant & divers – a free person, of course, which means one who freely and consciously uses his money as an instrument of power guided by judgment.
“Power these days is a bad word, which well-meaning people wish had no reality corresponding to it. But power exists nevertheless and is only another form of ability and money exerts power even when no thought of exercising power is in the user’s mind. There should be such a thought: Let us accept the possession of power and recognize that one of its virtues is precisely the scope it gives to judgment and independence. And just as independence does not mean arbitrariness, so judgment does not mean outward consistency. The best judgment often looks inconsistent, as I started out by saying. It is an old Greek tale that a traveler was given hospitality by some remote peasants, who noticed with horror that the man blew on his hands to keep them warm and again on his soup to make it cool. Being great readers of Euclid and lovers of consistency, the peasants killed their guest, because his inconsistency frightened them. The poor victim, as we know, had a perfectly sensible idea. Life is not geometry. The living have to blow hot and cold, whether they like it or not; whether they are misjudged for it or not. The art of life is to do this with a mind, guided by a lively conscience. With those guides one should not ask for guarantees. Life is a risk, and the people will talk whatever you do. Let them talk – as you have so graciously allowed me to do.”
Did the little seed that he planted that evening grow into something fruitful? Or was the response to the applause line merely polite and his message quickly forgotten? Barzun could be disappointed by the lack of apparent action following even well received speeches. Still he prepared others to keep faith while waiting: “In the artistic or intellectual life,” he wrote in Teacher in America, “you cannot, most often, see the fruit of a day’s work. … It is invisible, and remains so, maybe, for twenty years.”
Five years later a Columbia Spectator headline read: “Columbia Begins $200-Million Drive With Ford Grants Totaling $35 Million: Largest Pledge Ever to a University Launches Central Fund Campaign”. Barzun modestly claimed no credit, saying that the Ford Foundation “had got wind of the changes at Columbia and decided, unsolicited, to award us one of the $25 million grants it was distributing in support of higher education in 1964–65.” Instead, Barzun blamed the Ford Foundation for causing him to postpone retirement as provost for another year and a half in order to administer the grants. Without having access to Ford Foundation files, I think that Barzun’s public efforts – Teacher in America, “Assets to Conceal” in God’s Country and Mine, his Time magazine profile, The House of Intellect, and even “The Advantages of Inconsistency” – contributed to turning the tide. JB also would be quick to mention the later work of his Columbia colleague Richard Hofstadter whose Anti-Intellectualism in American Life won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964.
The Ford Foundation money may have come in unrestricted funds, but the four-to-one matching requirement drove Columbia and Barzun hard. His extended tenure as provost required much additional travel, as he spoke to alumni groups from coast to coast and overseas. (These valuable talks are preserved in Columbia’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library.) Ending his days as an administrator, Barzun’s promotion to University Professor coincided with publication of The American University: How It Runs, Where It Is Going. Adopting Shakespeare’s cadence, Barzun addresses fundraising in the chapter titled “Friends, Donors, Enemies”. The year was 1968 and mischief was afoot already on American campuses. Over four decades later Barzun’s intellect and wisdom remain at our disposal, but only on the shelf … instead of being engraved in our tablets and available online. No wonder Google “Scholar” knows so little of Barzun, and nothing at all of “The Advantages of Inconsistency”.
The quotations in my first paragraph come from The House of Intellect (pages 4 and 179). The concern expressed to Grayson Kirk by at least some Columbia trustees about Barzun’s 1959 bestseller (and National Book Award finalist) appears in Jacques Barzun: Portrait of a Mind, Beil, 2011, pages 175–176. The penultimate paragraph’s quotation comes from Teacher in America (1945, page 301; 1980, page 425). The New York Public Library Book of Twentieth-Century Quotations includes more than a dozen Barzun passages; that collection’s version of the “invisible fruit” quotation works like Barium in the gastrointestinal tract, enabling an Internet scan for teacher websites that skim reference works instead of drinking deeply from Barzun’s original.) JB’s characterization of the Ford Foundation grants appears in “How Columbia Was Restructured, 1958–1965”, Appendix A to Michael Murray’s intellectual biography of Barzun, page 291. The 91st Congress invited the author to testify on student uprisings; Barzun’s insights – national and global – can be found in Campus Unrest, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969, pages 765–781.
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WM SWEETLAND on 11 February 2014 at 12:15 pm said:
Dear Mr. Adams:
Thank you so much for this precious cornucopia of ideas embodied in exactly appropriate words and emotions. OH, MY GOD, where are all Barzun’s admirers among the academicians at Columbia and elsewhere? Where is Michael Murray? Why isn’t every word of one of the greatest men who ever lived reprinted in a COMPLETE edition of everything he ever wrote, every scrap, every cryptic note scribbled down on a dinner napkin, every particle of his juvenilia, EVERYTHING. But THANK GOD for you, Mr. Adams!! I’m so grateful to you. Just the knowledge you’re alive and at your post on the Barzun express to immortality is so comforting and inspiriting to me. I live for your discoveries. It is because of men like you that culture can be said to live–and thrive. Thank you , thank you, thank you for your love of that wonderful man and your unflagging devotion and energy in service to his greatness. Believe me, you give me new life, hope, everything!
Bill Sweetland
gentle rereader on 11 February 2014 at 12:29 pm said:
Cornucopia is right, Mr. Sweetland! I had no idea just how long I’d be at this when I got serious about gathering Barzuniana back in 1986. I spent this fall at Columbia – followed by a week at the National Archives in College Park and the Library of Congress – and discovered even more wonders, especially among his speeches. Barzun’s bibliography keeps on growing as I go through thousands of photos taken of documents held in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Public encouragement like yours makes it more likely that I will make time for posts here, too. Thank you.
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Spider-Gwen Could Become The Central Figure Of The Animated ‘Spider-Verse’
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Already a Fan-Favourite in the comics, Spider-Gwen is earning new fans with her appearance in Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.
Spider-Gwen, also known as Spider-Woman, or more recently, Ghost Spider, is the Gwen Stacy of Earth-65. This is a universe where Gwen was the one bitten by the radioactive spider. Peter Parker is the one to die, a parallel of Uncle Ben (Ben himself is alive and well, the classic wise old guy next door).
Of the five Spider-Heroes making their big-screen debut in Spider-Verse, Gwen is one of the most popular. She might also be one of the most important.
There are already reports of a spin-off film starring Gwen, but things go deeper than that. Going by information we have from the comics, Gwen could serve as the central figure of an animated cinematic Spider-verse.
Spider-Gwen often emerges as a leader in wider ‘Spider-Verse’ Events.
Gwen during the ‘Spider-Verse’ comic story.
In the original ‘Spider-Verse’ Comic story, Gwen is one of the first heroes to join Spider-UK’s Spider-Army. Gwen then embarks on a mission to Earth-2105 to recruit Goblin, a Peter Parker driven to madness by the death of his own Gwen Stacy. This Peter is killed before she reaches him, making Spider-Gwen even more desperate to defeat the evil Inheritors.
Gwen steps up once more during the ‘Secret Wars’ event. She rescues Peter Porker, aka Spider-Ham, and they soon team up with a group of their fellow Spider-Heroes to foil Norman Osborn’s plans.
Gwen gets her hands on an inter-dimensional travel device.
Spider-Gwen visits Spider-Woman.
After the first ‘Spider-verse’ event, Gwen obtains a Dimensional Travel Watch. She uses the device to travel the multiverse, visiting her friends in other worlds. During these trips, Gwen develops a friendship with Jessica Drew, a fellow Spider-Woman. However, she often avoids alternate Peter Parkers, still wracked with guilt over the fate of her own Peter.
As those who have seen Into The Spider-Verse would know, such a device would be very handy for any future films. Gwen, as the keeper of the Dimensional Travel Watch, would become essential.
Spider-Gwen is a key member of The Web Warriors
The Web Warriors in action.
In the aftermath of the ‘Spider-Verse’ Event, many Universes are left without a Spider-hero of their own. In those Universes, villains are running amok.
The solution? Gwen unites with a small band of other surviving Spiders to form the Web Warriors. The new team sets out to keep the peace in the worlds of their fallen comrades.
As you can see, Spider-Gwen has a lot to offer in a solo film, with many stories to be told. As the character most likely to come into possession of the Dimensional travel watch, she could also prove vital for an Into The Spider-Verse sequel, allowing the characters to easily visit and communicate with each other.
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New Wacom Pro Pen has 8,196 levels of pressure sensitivity
Wacom has just unveiled a new pen that is a game changer for technical artists. It is called the PRO Pen and it has 8,196 levels of pressure sensitivity. The new pen is thinner than Wacom’s current Grip Pen, and is designed to emulate the feel of brushes and pencils.
Most of Wacom’s styluses, which come included with its tablets, are a lot thicker than standard pencils, and take some getting used to. As an alternative to the Pro Pen or Grip Pen, some artists have turned to purchasing a separate Classic Pen, which has 2,048 levels of pressure sensitivity and feels more like a regular pen.
The Pro Pen is not going to be compatible with large screen e-readers that utilize a WACOM display. It is only going to work with the Cintiq 16, MobileStudio Pros, and the Intuos Pro line. It is going to retail for $79 when it launches worldwide in a couple of months.
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Fed Owes Hundreds of Billions But Sends Back Only $41.3 Billion
Last Updated: January 8, 2021/John Galt
EDITOR NOTE: A “dog and pony show.” That’s how the author describes Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s handling of the $454 billion CARES Act stimulus. You see, while businesses and households were suffering, many of them on the verge of insolvency, just waiting for that stimulus package from Washington, the Treasury Department failed to deliver most of the funds it pledged. So what did Mnuchin do with the money intended to help small businesses? He placed the majority of it in a slush fund and traded it, according to the author below. That was the portion handed over to the Fed’s emergency lending facility that supposedly went “unused.” Nice trick, sarcastically speaking. Then toward the end of December, when Mnuchin asked for those funds back, the Fed returned almost half the amount only. What’s going on? It may be a complicated matter, but eventually, the truth comes out, as this article shows.
We have become convinced that the allocation of $454 billion under the CARES Act stimulus legislation to cover any losses incurred in the Fed’s emergency bailout programs was a dog and pony show created by U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin (who has testified to Congress that he helped write the legislation) in order to provide Mnuchin with a slush fund to trade in markets. (See Trump Issued an Executive Memorandum Giving Mnuchin a $50 Billion Slush Fund; Mnuchin Gave Himself $386 Billion More.)
Our suspicions are heightened by the fact that the Fed ran very similar emergency bailout programs from 2007 to 2010 and did not require any funds from the Treasury to backstop losses. The Fed simply relied on collateral from the Wall Street firms borrowing from the Fed. If those firms don’t have the collateral today, then they’re likely insolvent and not legally allowed to borrow from the Fed.
We have carefully reviewed the CARES Act. There is not one word in the legislation that directs Mnuchin to place that $454 billion into the Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF). But that’s where Mnuchin placed that money. We know this because the ESF’s financial statement says Mnuchin placed not only the $454 billion into the ESF but he also initially placed the additional $46 billion that he was allocated under the CARES Act to help airlines and businesses important to national security (for a total of $500 billion). (See notes to the September 30, 2020 ESF financial statement here.)
Mnuchin has successfully gotten mainstream media to report that the bulk of the $454 billion went to the Fed for its emergency lending facilities but went mostly unused. In reality, the Fed only received $114 billion from Mnuchin. (See Research Arm of Congress Confirms that Mnuchin Never Released Bulk of CARES Act Money Earmarked for Fed’s Emergency Loans.)
Then, on November 19, Mnuchin made a grandstand announcement, issuing a letter to Fed Chairman Jerome Powell demanding that he return any unused funds issued to it by the Treasury for its emergency lending facilities, by December 31, 2020.
Yesterday, the Fed published its H.4.1 weekly financial statement, showing that as of this past Wednesday, January 6, it had returned just $41.3 billion of the paltry $114 billion it had received from the Treasury Secretary. The remaining balance of $72.7 billion from the Treasury is allocated to the following emergency lending facilities: (See footnote 14 to Table 1.)
Commercial Paper Funding Facility: $10 billion
Primary and Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facilities: $13.9 billion
Main Street Loan Facilities: $37.5 billion
Municipal Liquidity Facility: $6.3 billion
Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF): $3.5 billion
Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility: $1.5 billion
Read our full coverage of the Fed’s latest bailout of Wall Street, beginning on September 17, 2019 (months before the pandemic began) here.
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15 ‘Fast and Furious’ Facts to Rev Your Engine
Few would argue that the turning point in the ‘Fast and Furious’ films is when Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson joined the cast in ‘Fast Five’ as federal agent Luke Hobbs. He brought a breath of fresh air to the 14-year-old franchise, but if things had gone originally as planned, he wouldn't even have been in the movie. ‘Fast’ producers originally wanted Tommy Lee Jones to star in the film until star Vin Diesel came to them with The Rock. And where did he get that idea? One of his Facebook fans suggested it to him. That's just one of the surprising ‘Fast and Furious’ facts in the latest installment of You Think You Know Movies!
The ‘Fast and Furious’ franchise (which now spawns seven movies and has grossed well over $2 billion worldwide) is well known for its vehicular warfare. The cars are the weapons of choice. But, in the tank sequence during ‘Fast and Furious 6’ (you know, the one where Vin Diesel catapults himself across a bridge to catch Michelle Rodriguez, who has also been catapulted across a bridge), the production wrecked over 250 cars. And that's just one scene!
‘You Think You Know Movies?’ is a ScreenCrush original series that dives deep into the cinematic worlds of your favorite movies and freeze frames a few tidbits you might not have known. We’ve already tackled ‘Star Wars,’ ‘The Avengers’ and ‘Spider-Man,’ but now, it’s time to put the petal to the metal with the ‘Fast and Furious’ franchise!
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Keith Raniere
Suneel: ‘I Am Defending Raniere Because the Prosecution Was Wrong, the Judge Biased and the Defendant Is Innocent!’
This is the third on our series on the review of the trial of Keith Raniere.
Part 1: By Raniere: Raniere’s ‘Call to Action’ Email Written After His Conviction — Never Before Published – ‘Why Was I Convicted? The Simple Answer Is Hate’
Part 2 By Claviger Were Raniere’s Legal Rights Violated Via His Apprehension and Expulsion From Mexico – and/or His Arrest and Arraignment in the USA?
Our third story is from a friend and supporter of Raniere’s, Suneel Chakravorty. In this piece, Chakravorty delves into Raniere’s Call to Action and adds some additional information that he hopes will further establish Raniere’s claim that he was unjustly convicted.
Some readers, of course, will think that this is an outrage to present this issue, or at least to present Raniere’s side. I have addressed this in As I Attempt to ‘Brainsoil’ Raniere Followers, I Listen to Arguments of Due Process Violations
I have also published a post by Claviger that explains what might happen to Raniere if he is successful. What Are Raniere’s Remaining Legal Options to Ever See Freedom Again?
By Suneel Chakravorty
My name is Suneel Chakravorty. Some people think I’m brainwashed. As we examine the case of Keith Raniere, I would also like you to examine whether you think I’m brainwashed.
I was a student in Executive Success Programs from October 2016 to June 2017 in the New York City center. Then, I was a volunteer coach from June 2017 until the company shut down operations in June 2018. I was never a paid employee or contractor for NXIVM or Keith.
The first time I met Keith was after his trial, in his prison setting.
So why am I advocating for him? I attended every day of his trial and came away with a sense that there was something gravely wrong with the way his case was prosecuted.
During the trial, I became convinced that this case had been decided before opening statements; everything was orchestrated to convict him. Yet, I was not convinced then, nor am I now, that any of his “victims” were in any way severely hurt.
I know this will outrage many and while we are permitted to question almost everyone and everything in this country, from judges to presidents to senators to bureaucrats to actors to musicians to philosophers to even kings, the one thing we must never do is question a victim. I am sorry, but I disagree.
If the word of a human being dubbed a victim can send a man to prison for decades, or for his life, then I reserve the right to question that person, and if it so happens that there is any hint of exaggeration or falsehood, it is incumbent upon us to challenge it severely and robustly.
For it may be true, in the end, that we have labeled the wrong individual a victim.
I am fully aware that there is an anti-justice, anti-truth pack of angry people who will hurl insults and ad hominem attacks, and if they could, probably hang me to a sour apple tree for merely suggesting that victims could be questioned, especially if their gender is female.
And yet, I think this is the greatest disservice to women, and men as well, to treat them distinctly and as if they cannot be challenged because of their gender.
Now, I invite you to come with me; let’s take a journey through the evidence, without an extraordinary, one-sided, media-fueled narrative, and the view of the prosecution, aided and abetted by a judge who believed the prosecution, and determined, I believe, from the onset there was but one goal — conviction.
I invite you to look at evidence, and look at the consistent abrogation of due process, littered across a thousand legal documents, and six thousand pages of trial transcripts. I propose to show that not only did the government break the rules, but, my friends, that Keith Raniere is innocent.
The first thing to look at is Keith’s “Call To Action” essay.
In this article, I will examine the sections containing Keith’s memoirs about the case. In a subsequent article, I will examine the sections containing Keith’s inspirational phrases, intended to rally advocates to join the cause. The excerpts from Keith’s essay will be in bold and followed by my commentary.
Let us begin at the beginning.
THE “ARREST”
“On March 25, 2018, I was kidnapped in Mexico after visiting my seven-month old son and his mother, a life-partner of mine whom had just left. Six men in masks, wearing full body armor and armed with machine guns, arrested me. Within twelve hours I was thrown out of the country without legal representation or extradition. I was turned over to the US authorities and isolated from family, friends, and attorneys, for almost a month, pre-indictment.”
Men with guns arrived at the residence where Keith was staying. Some of them wore uniforms, others did not. They did not show identification. They simply took Keith and put him on a plane with armed escorts out of the country, bypassing extradition or deportation paperwork.
By all appearances, the men who took him were bounty hunters and delivered him across the border to the FBI.
How did the Mexican bounty hunters know to do this when the arrest warrant for Keith — a sealed court document — was not unsealed until the next day?
The prosecution broke the seal, seemed to have avoided diplomatic or governmental channels, and likely worked with private Mexican citizens to kidnap Keith.
If you believe in a rule of law, you have to question this, the first “official” act of the actual prosecution of Keith Raniere.
Even if there is not an appealable issue of jurisdiction, you have a government willing to kidnap its own citizen.
This is even more salient because there was no need to kidnap him. He was not in hiding — there were 20 or so friends visiting him who told their friends and family where they were. Also, the government could have requested through his attorney, former US Attorney Michael Sullivan, that Keith return to the United States [read this article on the FrankReport analyzing legal filings and evidence that showed this].
Keith came to Mexico to be with his partner and their baby boy. He was enjoying being a father at a time when he was the subject of extreme negative press. Just about anyone would want to avoid that. There is a difference between wanting privacy and trying to cheat the law.
I imagine that had the boy’s mother, a Mexican citizen, not had to leave the country to comply with her visa, they might have stayed in Albany. This is supported by the fact that they initially tried to exit the country to Canada, a location closer to their friends in Clifton Park, to comply with her visa requirements. They were denied entry into Canada.
So they went to Mexico. Period. It was not a flight from justice.
Thankfully, Keith was able to enjoy a few golden moments with his infant son, from whom he is now separated by his imprisonment.
Hector, father of Camila, Daniela, and Mariana, holds his grandson, while Keith Raniere openly drives a golf cart down a street in Mexico.
THE INDICTMENT
Note: It took almost two months in total to indict me, during which there were grand jury hearings, and a lot of investigation. Shouldn’t a person be ready to be indicted if incarcerated? Shouldn’t the privilege of arresting by information be honored by the subsequent indictment being the first action the grand jury takes? If not, was the complaint sufficient?”
“Arrest” first, indictment afterwards.
After his kidnapping, and following a pattern of stark irregularities in this case, the prosecution needed additional investigation through grand jury hearings before they had enough “evidence” to indict him.
THE BAIL PACKAGE
“I am pledged to non-violence, lead a peace movement in Mexico, and the peace segment of the Pan-American games we produced reached an estimated 25 million people. For this we were nominated for three daytime Emmy Awards and won several Tele Awards. I have never owned a weapon, used any drugs (including smoking and recreational drinking), or had a criminal history.
“For a bail package, my attorneys offered two armed guards with a supervisor (guarding me 24/7), in a well-vetted apartment, all overseen by the former head of the Secret Service who appeared at my bail hearing to affirm this. I would also wear an ankle monitor and only have contact with my attorneys. Additionally, we posted a $10 million bond. My bail application was denied.”
The best way to ensure you win a case is to make sure the defendant is locked in an unhealthy cage and can’t defend himself.
Keith’s attorneys proposed a bail package that would have made it impossible for Keith to escape or hurt others, even if he wanted to. Note that the peace movement Keith mentions was documented by filmmaker and friend-turned-adversary, Mark Vicente [see the trailer here].
The judge denied the motion for bail. This made it infinitely harder for Keith to mount a defense [studies show higher conviction rates for defendants who are detained pre-trial].
THE HEIRESS AND HER $100 MILLION BAIL
“I have five co-defendants: All are women. One has a grave illness; another is her 40-year old daughter. There is also a well-known actress, an heiress, and another who is a long-term partner of mine. The heiress had to post $100 million bond, wear an ankle monitor, and see no one but her attorneys in order to not be remanded into custody.
“All are innocent, but all plead guilty; two even cooperated, with one of them testifying.”
Clare Bronfman had no criminal record, cooperated with law enforcement in returning to the country well in-advance of any issues and moved to NYC in anticipation of being indicted. There was no need for such high bail. But the optics of the $100 million bail, I believe, were meant to impress upon the public and the jury that this woman was liable to run away because of her guilt.
Leading up to Keith’s “kidnapping,” there had been significant negative media coverage of NXIVM, starting with the NY Times article by Barry Meier. Once Clare Bronfman’s bail was set at $100 million dollars, the chances of getting anything close to media neutrality went to zero.
This was a case of extremes and those extremes include a fabulously wealthy woman who was charged with financial crimes amounting to less than $100k, who was marked as a flight risk despite the fact that she came back to the United States from Mexico when she learned of her potential indictment and cooperated with law enforcement every inch of the way.
The $100 million bail was an indication that this was going to be handled in extremes and differently than similar cases, such as Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein was charged with more severe crimes, such as rape, yet his bail was set at $1 million.
RACKETEERING CONSPIRACY
“Ultimately, because I was charged with RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act… and, in my specific case, any friend or associate could be charged as a co-conspirator, I could not see or contact any of my family, friends, or co-defendants for the fifteen months before my trial…
“… Additionally, at trial it was impossible to call any defense witnesses I knew, for they could be considered co-conspirators in RICO and would strongly be advised to use their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.”
In my opinion, RICO was an inappropriate charge. Look at the predicate acts. They are not at all comparable to typical organized crime matters. They were largely innocuous things like allegedly altering a video tape, keylogging a computer, and using a deceased person’s credit card. They were not even alleged to be done by the same people for any common purpose. Those things should have been charged separately but they could not be because either the statute of limitations expired or they weren’t crimes at all.
RICO solved this.
Keith was prosecuted under RICO, which was created to prosecute the mafia. RICO cases require a “criminal enterprise,” which in this case was Keith’s “inner circle” of friends. Anyone who testified on his behalf could have been considered part of his “inner circle” and faced being indicted themselves.
See FrankReport’s coverage of the defense’s motion for a new trial, which contained sworn affidavits from Nicki Clyne and Michele Hatchette, potential defense witnesses, alleging they were threatened with indictment by the prosecution.
In addition to the threat of possible indictment, because of the media narrative, anyone seen supporting Keith could be publicly exposed and shamed on sites like FrankReport. In short, if you supported Keith, you could be canceled, then indicted. Because of this, many who could have testified chose instead to save their livelihoods and reputations and protect their families. Keith supported them in their decisions.
Keith Raniere did not want his supporters risking getting indicted.
“The jurors were good people — at least as far as I know. Three hundred potential jurors were screened by a questionnaire prepared by both sides. From about 150 remaining candidates, the judge interviewed them in front of us, allowing our input. They seemed earnest, although a surprising percentage voiced very conservative views towards things like abortions and taxation.”
Brooklyn, New York is known to be a liberal place. If a jury was assembled from a random sampling of the populace, having numerous strong anti-abortion jurors would be statistically unlikely. This is a point worth investigating given the fact that the prosecution introduced with the judge’s consent and over Keith’s objections abortion records, despite abortion being absolutely unrelated to any of the charges. It is not illegal for women to have abortions. The prosecution, playing to the jury, sought to “dirty him up.”
Abortion records of some of his romantic partners should not have been introduced at trial and I believe this is one of the issues of the appeal that is soon to be filed.
“On June 19, after six weeks of a trial based on prejudice and hate, with no true opportunity for a defense, I was found guilty of crimes, all of which I did not commit. That day, the very start of jury deliberation, the jury came uncharacteristically dressed-up and literally took less time to reach a verdict than it took the judge to read the jury instructions. They came prepared to reach a verdict with little or no deliberation.”
As I wrote above, I attended the trial every day and can corroborate that jury members typically wore comfortable, casual clothing, which would make sense for individuals sitting for 6-10 hours per day. It begs the question, when they arrived in their “Sunday Best,” as if they were going to church or a hanging, had the jury already made up their minds before they began deliberating?
“How can this be? Innocent defendants — very innocent — pleading guilty, cooperating, and being convicted? The answer is simple: hate. I am innocent. Sadly, in the end, the jurors accepted the hate of the prosecutors who, in turn, had taken up the hate of the opposition.”
It would not be possible to determine the facts of a six-week trial in less than three hours. Perhaps the jury did not convict Keith on the facts but on their personal opinion they formed of him throughout a trial, where the judge let the prosecution run amok, dirtying him up with every salacious tidbit about his lifestyle regardless of whether it was accurate, wildly exaggerated or remotely related to the charges or not.
“PYRAMID” ORGANIZATIONS
Is Amazon a “pyramid” organization? When we want to show respect to an organization, we call it a company.
“The term “pyramid organization” is an example of hate. This is possibly the least offensive hate conduit in my case, yet its innocuous nature serves to illustrate the hate’s subtlety…
“I supposedly create “pyramid organizations” — different from normal “organizations”. The implication is somehow “pyramid” is improper: I am at the “top” or “apex”, control everything unchecked, in some “sinister” and unspecified way. How is “pyramid” different than a restaurant, private corporation, or even the US Attorney’s office? Some will say each of these likely answer to some check and balance system so even with a small, sole proprietorship — a restaurant for example — that owner must answer to the Health Department. If it were true I created businesses wherein I answer to no one, I still, in the least, answer to the law (If I didn’t, I would not be incarcerated.)
“So why label organizations I create “pyramid” which imparts undefined, vague, negativity? The answer is simple: hate…”
Keith points out that the prosecution used the pejorative “pyramid” for his organizations instead of businesses or companies or even multi-level marketing companies – none of which are illegal. A pyramid scheme is illegal and yet he was not charged with running a pyramid scheme. The fact that the judge let the prosecution use this term repeatedly despite it being literally wrong shows again how the government created a negative stereotype image of him.
THE ABORTION RECORDS
What the hell do abortion records have to do with any of the charges?
You’ve heard of a prosecution trying to “dirty” Keith up. But using the abortion records, they wanted to “bloody” Keith up.
It is preposterous to believe that any woman was forced to get an abortion because the woman herself has to consent to an abortion and she has to appear and be alone with the doctor. This whole case is historic because it is all about proclaiming to the world that women have no agency.
“The following is a more extreme example of how hate, through prejudice, was allowed in my case: The abortion records of several of my past and present partners were allowed into evidence and presented to the jury. These are confidential records of adult women voluntarily choosing this legal option. Note: abortions have nothing to do with my charges. The majority of the members of my jury stated they believe abortion is murder. This evidential allowance violates, in the least, the intent of the HIPPA laws, shames people associated with me, and generates tremendous anger, hate, and prejudice towards me, my community, and my actions.”
Note that the prosecution also mentioned abortions to the media. For example, US Attorney Richard Donoghue stated in his post-verdict press statement that Keith was responsible for “compelled abortions” [see video clip of Donoghue’s comments to the press], although there was no evidence presented at trial and indeed no woman was ever compelled to have an abortion, nor did anyone testify she was.
NICOLE’S TEXTS TO KEITH THAT WERE NOT ALLOWED
The above screenshot is a generic example of “sexting.”
The so-called sex trafficking victim in this case, Nicole sent similar messages to the defendant, such as asking for “hot, rough sex” (Pg. 4214 in the transcripts). This is not what you would expect a sex trafficking victim to text. This is why one might even think that the defendant might have been confused and thought she actually wanted to be with him.
“In contrast to the over-permissiveness of the above is a decision relating to the sex trafficking charge. An essential witness for the prosecution (and an alleged victim) lives a double life: On the normal, plain side, she presents herself as child-like, family loving, and innocent. On the alternative side, she has had a significant partner with an international reputation as a sexual “bad boy” with both civil and criminal challenges relating to sex. Her alleged sex trafficking experience was a self-styled enactment of a fantasy relating directly to her past, more extreme, sexual experiences. All of her alternative activities, fantasies, and proof of these things were barred from my trial. This was allegedly to “protect” the prosecution’s witness, but was done at the expense of justice.”
The judge allowed abortion records into the case unrelated to the charges, yet he prevented the admission of text messages relevant to establishing whether or not the relationship between Nicole, the alleged sex trafficking victim, and Keith was consensual. [see the “hot, rough sex” message that Keith’s attorneys tried to cross-examine Nicole about].
Imagine the one-sided nature of this. The so-called sex trafficking victim asked Keith for the very kind of sex she later claimed to be a victim of, yet the judge would not allow the jury to hear it.
In addition, there were emails and other messages to Keith from Nicole that strongly indicated not only consent, but an eager desire to enjoy sexual experiences with him. In one email, the so-called sex trafficking victim asked Keith to teach her to be a “sex goddess.”
The judge did not allow such messages into evidence and the jury was left with the impression that the victim had no desire and did not reciprocate in the one incident where Keith was charged and convicted with sex trafficking.
And what was that incident? She was blindfolded, tied to a table [bondage] and another woman performed cunnilingus on her. During this incident she was asked if she wanted to continue and she said yes.
Oy Vey! If we are supposed to believe the woman, then when should Keith have believed her? When she said she was content with the sexual experience or afterward when she said she wasn’t?
In summary, a woman who had told Keith that she wanted “kinky” sex with him, and who said she had sex with him on other occasions, was sex trafficked. It doesn’t add up.
HOW THEY “PROVED” COMMERCIAL SEX
“Even with this extreme bias, there was no evidence presented of commercial sex — a required element of this charge — yet, I was found guilty of this contemptible crime which carries a fifteen year minimum sentence.”
Commercial sex refers to sex on account of which “anything of value” is received by someone. Anything of value need not be money directly but typically something that has monetary value, for example, gifts. Prostitution is one example of commercial sex. In Keith’s case, no money changed hands. (As an aside, the sex act was a single act of oral sex between two women.)
The prosecution argued that the payment was the possibility of another woman [Allison Mack] receiving future financial opportunities and social benefits with Keith [see the prosecution’s closing argument of this charge].
Let me make this simpler. The commercial benefit of this single sex incident, the prosecution argued, was that Allison Mack kept her position in the sorority DOS by encouraging Nicole to participate in this sexual experience and kept Keith happy. Yet they presented no evidence that Mack would have lost her position had she failed to comply, none whatsoever.
As an aside, the “pattern” or standard jury instructions are how jurors usually are instructed on the definition of the law. The pattern instruction for sex trafficking is the Sande instruction and can be found here on pages 512-522.
However, Nicole’s sex act would not have qualified as sex trafficking under the pattern instruction, because no money (or monetary equivalents like gifts) changed hands.
The only way they squeaked up to sex trafficking was by the judge deliberately giving a non-pattern instruction (in essence, creating a new law from the bench) where any sex that results in someone getting a social benefit could be considered sex trafficking.
If this became precedent, the ramifications could be extraordinary.
“It is more important that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt be punished… when innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, especially to die, the subject will exclaim, ‘it is immaterial to me whether I behave well or ill, for virtue itself is no security.’ And if such a sentiment as this were to take hold in the mind of the subject that would be the end of all security whatsoever” — John Adams, 1770
Many believe that John Adams was a prescient man for the ages. It is nice to see he encapsulated Keith Raniere’s situation almost to the letter. An innocent man should not be in prison.
THE FORCED LABOR
“My life partner of 30 years died of cancer in November 2016. She was a prominent community leader, founder of an international women’s movement, and a beloved friend and mentor to thousands of people. The community was helping put together a memorial service for her. One person in the community, who was also in the now infamous sorority, told me she would do anything to help. She was a person to whom I had given access to as much cash as she needed to pay for things like rent, courses, and expenses incurred in traveling to and from Albany.
“Unbeknownst to me, she worked five to six hours to transcribe a video of my deceased partner for that memorial: the prosecution is calling this “forced labor”. If this person believed she should have been paid, she could have just taken the money from the cash made available to her. This “forced labor” charge, in the minimum, does not meet the ‘knowingness’ or ‘coercion’ elements of the crime.
“Considering the deep sorrow surrounding the death of my well-loved, 30-year partner, it is cruel to charge this baseless count. It is also insulting to all victims who have actually experienced the raw ugliness of true ‘forced labor’.
This is what you usually think about when you hear the words “forced labor.”
This is what forced labor looked like in Keith’s case. Nicole did a little computer work in her own room and on her own time.
The forced labor conviction in Keith’s case involves an adult woman doing several hours of video transcription and reading 50 or so essays written by Keith [read the prosecution’s closing argument of this charge]. This in and of itself makes a mockery of all true forced labor victims. But it also must be noted that the “victim” was not without the ability to be paid for her work.
During the entire time she did this so-called forced labor – of reading and transcribing – perhaps some 40 hours of total labor — she had access to some $10,000 in cash provided to her by Keith for anything she wanted. She could have taken payment for her labor.
There was no violence or threat of violence and she left the conditions of her so-called forced labor without repercussions. She worked or did not work at her “forced” labor solely at her own time and condition.
It is ironic for Nicole spent perhaps no more than 40 hours of mild work, for which Keith is now serving 40 years in prison for this charge alone.
Without “hate”, without dirtying him up with a raft of morally repugnant allegations, an intelligent jury would have laughed at this forced labor charge. Think of all the true victims of forced labor, confined to sweat shops or dirty massage parlors who labor for years, forced to work or be beaten or deported, then think of an aspiring actress, with no financial needs, doing a few hours of easy paperwork. And where is the injustice? The felons who enslaved and forced women for years of hard work and quick-aging labor, got shorter prison sentences than the hated, the despised, the demonized, Keith Raniere.
THE TAX EVASION ARGUMENT
“In short, there was no tax imposed, due, or potentially due, on any of the transactions shown by the prosecution. All transactions were straight forward, signed by the relevant party, and all transactions and monies were examined and processed by an accounting firm run by the past commissioner of the IRS. How could there possibly be tax evasion?
“Answer: it is not possible, and the elements of the crime were not even possible. The prosecution used hate and created prejudice by showing large expenditures on a credit card to imply taxes were being ‘evaded’.
“The prosecution should be ashamed for this is a sleight-of-hand obscuring the truth and destroying innocence; all for the satisfaction of winning.”
Let no one say that the prosecutors for the EDNY were second to any prestidigitator at sleight-of-hand.
The prosecution’s argument that Keith’s motive to use his late partner’s credit card for identity theft was for the purposes of tax evasion, [tax evasion was not an actual charge] is that a series of purchases were made on her credit card and that Keith has an opinion about taxes and their coercive nature. [see their closing argument for this charge here].
Keith was not convicted or even charged with tax evasion. The charge was identity theft for his deceased partner of thirty years whose estate he inherited. The prosecution ascribed to him a motive — that he used his late partner’s card to enjoy tax evasion. But they provided no evidence. The only thing they proved was that he used the credit card. By the way, he paid every bill on the card. No one was injured.
As you can see, I am a staunch defender of Keith Raniere, I believe in his innocence, and I believe he did not get a fair trial. I welcome your comments.
Suneel: Who Are You Kidding, Claviger — Prosecution’s False Use of ‘Pyramid’ Was Meant to Dirty up Keith Without Evidence – Frank Report | Investigative Journalism From Frank Parlato says:
[…] weeks ago, Frank Report published my commentary of Keith Raniere’s “Call to Action”, which was in support of Keith’s arguments on legal […]
YouAreSmarterThanThisRight? says:
He blackmailed people, remember that. This is wrong. And yeah, you are brainwashed
The evidence from the Prosecutor’s Office was weak and insufficient to prove not a single of the crimes that Keith Raniere was accused of, and in my opinion, influenced by hate propaganda and discrediting of the media, which prompted the Prosecutor’s Office to seek a triumph to climb in statistics and in positions of power and politics, as is common in these government agencies, since it is not explained in any other way, the evident concern to manipulate the process, violating individual guarantees, due process and the illegal handling of witnesses and other evidence to which he was subjected.
Suneel: My Plan to Show the World What Really Happened to Keith Raniere – Frank Report | Investigative Journalism From Frank Parlato says:
[…] my recent article, I analyzed Keith Raniere’s “Call to Action” and examined some of what I consider major […]
my2cents says:
Ya, ya, ya. Everyone chose to do what they did and the witnesses and complainants are all making up lies. The vanguard is innocent of all crimes. There are no ultimate victims except for the poor and defenseless vanguard who is so sorry that these people made bad choices.
This vanguard can go ahead and say that public opinion is based on hate and nitpick over the details of the trial. But the charges were laid because of the criminal and sinister nature of the organizational agenda.
Suneel, if you think that your so-called “real victims” of sex trafficking don’t obey and hold still when “they” get branded? You’re probably wrong. It’s never happened to me but I can try and imagine what that might feel like.
I guess I’m writing all this because yes, I think you’re brainwashed. I’m kind of lumping you in with those weirdos dancing outside the jail. I don’t know if that was you or not. But, to think of all the better ways people could apply their energy instead of wasting it dancing in front of jail all of a sudden because the great vanguard is imprisoned inside?
I’m wasting some of my own time, too, just writing this post. I stumbled into crime stories over the holiday break and this one was interesting. 120 years does seem like a really long time. But? Lots of criminals get life sentences, too. Just for killing one single person let alone harming a whole bunch of individuals.
The crime of “forced labor” for which Keith Raniere was sentenced to 40 years in prison is unconstitutional, since the elements of the criminal type were not gathered for his origin, firstly because the defendant had no knowledge or participation in the work made voluntarily by the party that was said to be injured and Second, there is no element of forcing force or against their will to carry out an action or do something, for which the budgets required by the Law for the origin of the aforementioned crime were not met much less its accreditation and conviction, for which the conviction is illegal for lack of groundless motivation and must be nullified.
One more thing, Suneel. If everything that was happening in DOS was so great? If threat of collateral wasn’t any kind of violation whatsoever? I challenge you to post as your LinkedIn profile pic a photo of you and your hairy penis. If you truly believe? You’ll post a brand new one every month.
At the trial, the Judge is the impartial person in charge of the case, he decides what evidence can be shown to the jury, he is not there to support one party or another but to make sure that the entire process is carried out fairly, but unfairly. The Judge allowed evidence that was not, and that only negatively influenced the jury, did not allow the defense to cross-examine key witnesses, becoming a Judge, Jury and Executioner, to the discredit of Justice.
Here’s a freebie. Don’t make the 2nd sentence in your intro, “Some people think I’m brainwashed”. It reads like this,” Hello, my name is Bob. Some people think I am on crack.” Well I wasn’t thinking you were on crack before but now I do, Bob. You are taking it in that direction, Suneel. Then y’all complain about being labeled a word you introduced. Also, it’s so flipping unnecessarily long. It gives the continued impression that you are throwing everything at the wall hoping something sticks. And that you will just keep manufacturing complaints endlessly. Most legitimate arguments are succinct. You guys need editors so badly it hurts me physically.
Yes. I think you’re brainwashed. Good of you for caring about the fairness of the justice system but why are you doing it for this guy?
Why not invest your energy into someone or something truly deserving? It’s just so incredibly clear to everyone that this guy is messed in the head. People on the outside, people on the jury, people everywhere. If you can’t see the same things that are so very obvious to the rest of us? Absolutely! You are brainwashed.
Beginning with the creed that there are no ultimate victims. Who teaches that? You mean to tell me that someone struck and killed in an accident isn’t a victim? This teaching is entirely removed from reality. But that’s just where the story begins and it only gets worse from there. Why were defectors tortured in the courts? Why were people so often placed in positions of owed servitude?
All this just sounds awful from the perspective of a person not involved. I wish smart people like you could help people in places where even more serious human rights violations occur every day. But no. You’re gonna throw your time and energy behind this guy. Why? Because he was so good at “building community”? So what? Lots of people are really good at that if you look around.
Go ahead and hang yourself on this cross if you must. It would be very interesting to study how this no ultimate victims thing can play out in the courts because obviously, this situation is exploiting the principle to the tits! Or should I say all the way to a hairy pussy? In my opinion as a very average person? This guy is clearly sick in the head and yes, you seem brainwashed.
Were you brainwashed by the Media, Judge and Prosecution?
In all the alleged crimes that Mr. Keith Raniere was charged with, none of them was reliably accredited by the Prosecutor’s Office, by not following due process which is very serious for the judicial system in the USA, since it sets a serious precedent, “The fact that any citizen can be prosecuted without following the rules of impartiality and the right to a due defense, but serving hateful and prejudicial interests, which implies a delay in the administration of Justice.
It is clear that the action of the Prosecutor’s Office as the accusing party in the Trial does not fulfill its purpose of investigating the fact and providing the necessary evidence, since contrary to the above, it is evident that since the arrest of the accused and throughout the Trial his attitude is arbitrary when participating in the kidnapping of the accused and later manipulating the evidence to achieve an unjust and unlawful sentence!
NSIDVMDVM says:
Making the same unsubstantiated claims over and over again is not helping “Vanguard” in federal court or him/you in the court of public opinion.
You should Google “run-on sentence,” BTW. That’s a bad writing habit you need to break.
Reading this certainly brought up more questions for me about prosecutorial misconduct. It does seem like things were skewed against Raniere in many ways, and it seems like he was chosen to be guilty before the verdict was decided. It’s an emotional case and I’ll admit it’s tough to view much of the evidence while holding the lense of disgust and anger. Thanks, Suneel, for putting yourself out there. I’ll continue sifting through this a second time.
NXIDVMDVM says:
It is obvious you are [redacted]
Can you figure out what it is about your writing that makes it so easy to see that?
The propaganda skillz The World’s Smartest Man™ taught you [redacted]
It is our policy that all commenters are entitled to respect, even if they support Keith Raniere.
Frank, what you redacted were not individuals’ names, curse words or even insults.
It is a fact that cult ways of thinking don’t work outside of cult bubbles.
Not sure why you redacted that idea…
It seemed you were being insulting to this commenter who is fairly new here.
Guest View: Rebutting Suneel’s View of Certain Legal Issues in Raniere Case – Frank Report | Investigative Journalism From Frank Parlato says:
[…] January 1, 2021 Jane Smith, who says she is lawyer in another country, shared some interesting thoughts about a recent post by Suneel Chakravorty, a friend and supporter of Keith Raniere. [Editor’s comments are in bold and in brackets.] By Jane Smith It is interesting to hear the other view as found in Suneel: ‘I Am Defending Raniere Because the Prosecution Was Wrong, the Judge Biased and the Defend…. […]
It is clear that the prosecutors act violating the principles to investigate and provide evidence without any doubt in this case. It is evident that Mr. Raniere’s rights were violated in an arbitrary way. He was kidnaped and the evidence was manipulated to get an injustice sentence contrary to the law and human rights.
Obviously, in addition to neglecting grammar, the NXIVM curriculum didn’t teach anyone how to use spell check.
Hey, “Vanguard,” come on dude, give your minions some new talking points.
Hate, bias, injustice, violation of rights, manipulated evidence, “I was kidnapped!”… none of this is getting any traction because the facts against you are so clear.
“Vanguage” you are better off focusing on securing as much anal lube and as many condoms as you can. Maybe if you sweet talk the gentlemen who overcome your judo skillz, they’ll use both and be relatively gentle with you.
Joshua, there are no ultimate victims; therefore, “Vanguard” and you should have chosen not to be victims.
If you are tired of being a victim, simply stop. No new trial is necessary.
Success is an interior state of clear and honest awareness of who you are, your value in the world, and your responsibility for the reactions you have to all things.
“Vanguard” and you can succeed whether or not he’s imprisoned, or whether you are despised by everyone around you that’s not in the NXIVM bubble.
Just have a clear and honest awareness. Simple as that.
K.R. Claviger says:
As I have documented with citations to the applicable laws and cases, even if Keith had been kidnapped in Mexico by bounty hunters and delivered to FBI agents at the Mexico/USA border — which is NOT what happened — his subsequent prosecution would have been perfectly legitimate. Making statements like “He was kidnapped and the evidence was manipulated” is not evidence. Give me citations and evidence — and I’ll start giving your arguments some credence. Until then, you’re just stating your opinion — or, in reality, re-stating Keith’s opinion!
Big thanks to the Frank Report for making space to see sides we won’t find on other news outlets. What really matters to me is that we continue to find what works in bringing humanity to a more ethical and more peaceful way of living. I absolutely support due process and I am open to seeing new perspectives. I’ve been wrong before and taking biased sides isn’t the quickest way to finding what works. If there is a chance that KR is innocent, I would find pain in knowing I didn’t consider the possibility. With something this big, we could all use a lot of communication coming from an Honorable place.
I love finding info that I didn’t have. And Frank Report offers a variety in a great way. And this is good in my opinion.
Jane Smith says:
It is interesting to hear the other view. I fundamentally disagree but am happy to hear these views.
Wrong. We can question victims. We do it all the time. Some people usually male might like to think every rape victim is always believed and no men is ever guilty of sex with a 15 year old but most men know there are real cases where girls are harmed and that some, but not most, men can be extremely predatory KR specialised in victim blaming and fed into a general view some men like to hear that men get a bad deal (sometimes they do sometimes they don’t but KR obtained a lot of male support by feeding into the line that all mean are exploited financially and probably in other ways by weak manipulative women.
In trials we question victims all the time but we don’t only need their testimony. We prosecute violence against a spouse (male or female) even if the other spouse refuses to give evidence because there can be other external evidence. There is plenty of evidence not from the victims which proves KR broke the law even if you leave victim testimony entirely out of it.
On the first point about Mexico most people can see there was nothing done wrongly there as for golden moments with his son I thought he packed off the mother so he could have a group oral sex session with other women and he had not paid child support ever to his other child. He is hardly father of the year. He is in jail because he had sex with what in law is a child. He could have easily only had sex with women of 18. He put his love of very young girls above much else and pays the price.
I don’t agree it was wrong to bring up abortion records of his partners. It was part of a pattern that he persuaded women not to have children and strung them along for years to a point when I think several were too old ever to have a child – in a sense he took away their chance ever to do so, to lead a normal life – not a crime but indicative of how awful the man is.
The fact the jury decided quickly is not unusual and there is no requirement for them to spend a lot of time. Mentioning the clothes they wore is the kind of small irrelevant point those deluded by a cult tend to mention. The bottom line is KR was prosecuted for about 1/1000th of his wrongs only.
Pyramid scheme – DOS where women brought other women in etc etc and there was the collateral – I don’t see any problem with calling it a pyramid scheme – it was that.
When he talks about the texts he does not really understand how women caught in a controlling relationship like this (or young boys at boarding school abused by a male teacher – these issues are gender neutral at heart) have to do just to get by – yes they might send a sexy text as required by the person controlling and owning them – that does not mean the woman or young boy is not a victim.
Forced labour – he plays that down but it is was pretty bad and salaries not paid which had been agreed and that kind of thing, never mind the loss of business of those who left and had to leave their coaching business behind. The FLDS making 12 year old boys leave school and work all the time for just about no pay or The Order having all member funds go to the group etc is typical in cults and unless we go after them for forced labour it will never change.
Why would anyone use a card of someone who had died? I don’t understand why this is regarded as a wrong part of the decision. Why would you even take money from the state of a follower? Give it to her parents or siblings instead like any decent person.
Regardless of where Suneel stands, I respect him for wanting to stand for a principle at the expense of his reputation.
I had no idea the word “pyramid” was a form of vitriol hate speech.
Hey Frank your a pyramidal-pyramiding for publishing this crap. You goddamn pyramid lover!
K.R. Claviger, your analysis is careful and well-grounded.
The inability of the Anonymous NXIVM diehard below to do anything other than continuously repeat the same generic truisms about the right to due process familiar to anyone who has taken a middle school civics class is a testament to the intellectual debilitation caused by years of cult indoctrination.
In the NXIVM echo-chamber, one is rewarded solely for parroting the “Vanguard” orthodoxy. Critical, logical thinking is not only unnecessary but harshly penalized. The ability to see one’s self from the perspective of someone outside the cult is also stunted.
This Anonymous NXIVMite is a brain on cult. I suspect it likely isn’t clear to them that their post makes it obvious to those of us with full mental capacity that they are a NXIVMite. I bet they think they’re pulling off a successful masquerade as a disinterested third party by continuing to use the phrase “whether he is guilty or innocent.”
They have no clue about their linguistic tells.
Yes, it’s a shame as they seem well meaning and feel they are certain of their beliefs. It was a bit like the certainty I saw when my sibling was in a cult years ago – a kind of superiority, a sense of rightness, not departing from the cult party line.
It would be nice if one of them could write about the faults of KR too.
Suneel shows with data that due process did not applied to Keith´s case. Beginning with the kidnapping in Mexico, the jury fast verdict to the uncommon, to say the least, sentence.
Every citizen has the right to due process, it is a cornerstone of living together in society. Denying this right to just one citizen jeopardize the safety of every citizen. The biased justice brings fear to citizens thinking “I might be next”.
It was convenient to charge Keith with RICO to prevent the judge and the jury to know the defense part.
Prosecution, judge and government if found biased as shown, should be bring to justice because they are employees of us, the “citizens”, who pay them for a due process and not to win at any cost and personal benefit.
Whether he is guilty or innocent, Keith deserves, as every citizen, a fair trial.
As I wrote in an earlier post, Keith was not kidnapped in Mexico — he was expelled by Mexican law enforcement authorities acting on behalf of the Mexican government. And even if he were kidnapped by third-party bounty hunters or agents acting on behalf of the U.S. — and then returned to the U.S. – his subsequent prosecution would have been perfectly legal under existing U.S. law.
My post included citations to the Mexican Constitution, statutes, and applicable cases that are legitimate sources for what I wrote.
Your pots, on the other hand, repeats the same words as Suneel’s post without any references.
Therein lies the difference between explaining what happened – and telling a tale about what you wish happened.
Yes, they can say again and again black is white but no one is going to believe them as they are plain wrong. They twist and turn with words but do not cite any law and few facts.
You definitely have patience.
Keith got a fair trial. He had almost unlimited money to fund his defense. That is an extreme luxury that maybe 1% of the US population has available to them.
A jury found him guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt”.
I am not at all “afraid this will happen to me next”. Because I don’t molest children or create child pornography. I don’t cheat the government on taxes, blackmail or brand people, etc.
I do not commit immigration fraud. I do not launder money. I do not force labor. And all the rest. So I’m good. Thanks for your concern.
Now maybe turn that thirst for justice toward the real inequities in the criminal justice system and you will have my support. In the favored language of the Nxivm dead-enders: you are taking away from the real victims (of the US justice system) with your ginned-up Keith Raniere false claims of procedural misconduct.
Next ridiculous claim! “The text messages”. The judge ruled the texts were unverified as Nicole’s.
The conversations around this issue are actually very funny and do not reflect well on Keith. Vanguard ” hid his phone in Mexico”. The defense cannot explain how they simultaneously cannot locate Keith’s phone and admittedly got (allegedly) the text messages off of the missing phone (that again, they claim they have never found. Except…that is where they are claiming the msgs. came from). Ha, ha, ha!
Now Nicki Clyne has complained about supposed tampering with the kiddie porn. And stated only showing screenshots of said child porn was ridiculous. One hundred percent they are now saying that showing possibly-altered, no-name-on-account screenshots of Nicole’s (alleged) texts should be admissible.
And just to add even more dumb to this reasoning, the defense said it was “unfair” Nicole had, way before anyone knew there would be a trial, deleted her messaging app from DOS. Because it (understandably) “skeeved her out.” She wanted to leave and forget about the lies, abuse all of it. She did however hand her phone over immediately and completely when asked.
The judge gave the defense the option of verifying the texts and presenting the “evidence” correctly. They could also produce Keith’s magical phone that appears and disappears only when it benefits the defense to provide out of context and very likely doctored texts that could help Keith.
I side with the judge. Calling bullshit on the ” text issue”. Moving on. Next!
Excellent point about the alleged texts. I’ve seen “doctored” (tampered) texts on my phones for years (including messages from “Puto” made to look like they came from my cousin’s number, that was later reprogrammed to a different number one digit off in my contacts, after Frank spoke to “Puto,” and I reported to the police and FBI, etc.
I understand from experts text tampering is not hard for anyone with basic hacking skills to do but the nature of the conversation Frank had with the extortionists and the content of the texts bespeaks NXIVM’s involvement along with other harassment coincidental to the on-going cyberstalking.
It is clear how the trial was biased, point by point Mr. Sunnel proves that the process was illegitimate, which warrants its annulment, in the application.
Clearly, proper sentence construction and use of commas was not stressed in the NXIVM curriculum.
And quite the opposite in the view of most people.
I don’t see how Suneel is doing this for free – not working, living in New York, and being the spokesperson for NXIVM.
Obviously, he’s been paid by the Bronfman sisters. But Clare or Sara? If Clare, she’s already violated the terms of her plea, not to have contact or participate in NXSCUM activities. If Sara, she’s just wasting her money and throwing her freedom in the face of the DOJ.
So, what happens next?
Suneel has created and sold successful businesses. He attended Harvard and is quite accomplished. Get your facts straight before spreading more hate and lies.
No, he just has strong views about it. I think he would be better off spending his time on something else as clearly KR was rightly convicted but if he wants to defend him that’s fine.
Obviously? How did you come to that conclusion?
Okay. “Vanguard and the mysterious case of the slightly better clothing on the whole jury”. Let’s get to it! Are you accusing the jurors of misconduct? Because that is a very serious allegation. Is your theory that the jury sat for weeks doing their civic duty and then… What? They left the courthouse went to a bar and planned outfits? Did they get their instructions from the judge, listen carefully, and then get on a group chat on the way home to coordinate wardrobes? Before you malign these 12 citizens, you better have some ” who/what/where/how” they hatched this plan.
Guest View: Abortion Evidence Should Be Reviewed on Appeal but Raniere Should Have Gotten a Vasectomy – Frank Report | Investigative Journalism From Frank Parlato says:
[…] Note: In the article, Suneel: ‘I Am Defending Raniere Because the Prosecution Was Wrong, the Judge Biased and the Defend… the author, Suneel Chakravorty, quotes Keith Raniere, “The abortion records of several of my […]
Alex Trudel says:
On the alternative side, she has had a significant partner with an international reputation as a sexual “bad boy” with both civil and criminal challenges relating to sex.
Who is that guy?
I want to make a broader point about the abortion evidence.
I am a woman. I am pro-choice. I do not think abortion in the first trimester is murder. These are my personal views—feel free to have your own, and I’m not here to debate them.
Suneel is correct (to the best of my recollection) that witnesses did not testify to being coerced into having abortions. As I recall, Dani testified that she did not want to have a child with Raniere and wanted to have an abortion. It’s worth noting there is a huge amount of extenuating circumstances around Dani’s feelings including her age (I think 21), immigration status, and the fact that her relationship with Raniere was a secret. One could make the argument that she was not ordered to have an abortion, but she also had very few other options.
Raniere in his own Call to Action does not refute the evidence that multiple women in the community had abortions, so it seems that that is not under debate. Suneel is calling into question (1) what it has to do with the charges and (2) whether it was admitted into evidence to be highly prejudicial to a jury.
In regards to the former, I think the idea was it was evidence of manipulation and coercion in the community. While I do think there was rampant manipulation and coercion in the community, I actually agree this might not pass muster from a legal standpoint, so I support examining this on appeal.
In regards to the second point, I do think it was highly prejudicial to a jury. I also support this being be examined closely on appeal.
But to put a finer point on it, Suneel, I also think that this evidence should be examined closely—in fact, very closely—by your conscience.
Here’s the thing. Let’s say Raniere gets a new trial tomorrow, his conviction is overturned, and he walks out of jail a free man.
Suneel says at the beginning of his post: “I was not convinced then, nor am I now, that any of his ‘victims’ were in any way severely hurt.”
Out of curiosity, do you know the physical and emotional impact an abortion has on a woman? Do you know that even in the best of circumstances many women that have abortions carry the emotional impact for years?
Multiple of Keith’s partners had abortions. Some of Keith’s partners had more than one abortion. He didn’t contest this.
I don’t have an issue whatsoever with a woman exercising her right to choose. But it’s a choice that has significant physical and emotional ramifications. Raniere would know this, because a number of women in his orbit made that choice, and because he was the other responsible party.
He professed to have loved these women, and yet somehow this kept on happening. In some cases, to the same woman multiple times.
Did it ever occur to him at any point to get a vasectomy?
Vasectomies are reversible. He could have reversed it at any point once he was ready to conceive his avatar baby.
How fundamentally selfish is he as a human being?
So in conclusion, I’m in full support of due process, and if the result of the fair and just execution of due process is an overturn of his conviction, so be it. But none of that changes the fact that he’s a terrible human being.
You are wrong and evil and murdering babies in the womb makes you a baby killer. If you want an abortion, you should die too. If the kid dies, so should you.
If you don’t want a kid, use contraception. Or, sew your cunt up.
Yes it is a terrible illustration of how much damage the SOP did to men that this man cannot see that any women were harmed by KR. Extraordinary that he cannot see that.
Anonymous-
Nobody was ever ever pressured into getting an abortion?
Pam did not go with the young women to make sure their abortions were carried out without a hitch?
Someone needs a reality check.
Not so says:
Pam went to support and care for a woman who was making a choice that is difficult for most women. Often women choose to have someone they love come with them for moral support. This has also been twisted for the narrative, like many other points.
” often women choose to have someone they love come with them for support”. Oh! You mean…Like the man who impregnated them? How many of the very large number of abortions where Keith was the father did he attend? What kind of man repeatedly has someone else take on this “difficult” burden for them?
Frank, I am sharing your news reports on Twitter. I hope you get more views.
Thank you for all the work you do. Your work has been key for exposing Nxivm and its bad deeds in Mexico. Thank you.
JOASHU says:
There is data, information, and relevant process-related issues, even though the people who hate, decide that a person is guilty just because they do not like him. It is irrelevant for them the justice. How is that different as was in the past? Mr. Chakravorty is upholding a principle, the principle of justice.
Just sayin' says:
Has nothing to do with hate. This is the new phobia mantra evidently. “Oh, you’re a racist”. “Oh, you’re a homophobe etc.”
Have to come up with something better than word salad and the hate battle cry.
We on the outside can see through the bullshit.
Only the Nexivm people use the hate word and the prosecution and victims do not hate anyone – they just followed the law. It suits the Nexivm group to pretend people hate it – all cults are like that, that is why Warren Jeffs in jail and still FLDS leader can doubly convince cult members his predictions were correct – that he is so true, so the one true prophet that he has been jailed.
This piece consists entirely of motte and bailey arguments. And not particularly good ones. You avoid the most damaging evidence and add in a mixture of confused interpretations of the law.
I do think that this article serves a purpose in that every time the Nxivm 5 twerks for Keith, literally or figuratively, it damages the Vanguard’s case. Tie yourself into a pretzel if you feel like it but the more you struggle against the Chinese finger trap of Keith’s case, the more entangled and hopelessly stuck you will become.
Leo, I would like to formally thank you for educating me on ” motte and bailey”. Now I must learn proper pronunciation before I over eagerly use it in a verbal discussion and embarrass myself!
Yes, they need a US lawyer writing about the issues for them. There non legal points do not really advance their case.
They also need a PR person as suggesting no victims were hurt when clearly to everyone else lives were ruined and a man as old as KR was thought it was fine to have sexual relations with a 15 year old is incredible.
Pandora'sJF says:
There are two questions involved.
One, is the justice system in the USA is fair?
Two, was Keith was treated in the same way as other arrestees?
According to Human Rights Watch, there are areas in the former that are concerning.
https://www.hrw.org/report/2013/12/05/offer-you-cant-refuse/how-us-federal-prosecutors-force-drug-defendants-plead
Everyone arrested has a right to a jury trial. Yet if even 30% of arrestees insisted on a jury trial that would collapse the whole system. They couldn’t do it.
Right or wrong, the solution devised is to make sure plea deals are made. Anyone who does not make a plea deal has to be taught a lesson for anyone else who may get strappy and insist on a jury trial. Thus, typically if you plead guilty you may get for example 10 years and if you go to trial you get 30 years.
If people started getting “not guilty,” pleas after going to trial —all of a sudden there would be impossible to handle surges in criminal trials. That simply cannot be allowed to happen for the system to work. A number of factors make sure it doesn’t.
“Anonymous” has pointed out that maybe prosecutors are skillful enough to justify the EDNY 99.8% conviction rate. But if that is true how did it happen that the USA has 4.4% of the world’s population and 22% of its prisoners? Are Americans just bad people?
Part of being of high IQ would be to understand a situation and solve it the best it can be solved. One such person who might be an example is the case of Bhagwan Osho’s secretary Ma Sheela. Like Keith, she too felt she was innocent but she had perhaps a different understanding of the American justice system. What did she do? She plead guilty to attempted murder, assault, immigration fraud, wiretapping, and setting fire to a county office. She got 3 concurrent 20-year sentences. She was released on good behavior after a total of 39 months in prison.
Similarly, I believe had Keith plead guilty, admitted wrong-doing, and expressed remorse he would have gotten even less than 20 years and could have been out in less than 39 months. He would have then gotten out around March 2021. Perhaps there is an O’Henry story here someplace about the “world’s smartest man” in prison for life for the world’s dumbest ideas.
You raise some very valid points in terms of what many (including me) consider to be flaws in the U.S. criminal justice system: the over-charging of defendants in order to encourage them to plead out to lesser charges; the “trial penalty” that ends up with convicted defendants who go to trial getting longer sentences than those that plead guilty; and the high percentage of people in the U.S. who are incarcerated. And there are others that you didn’t raise: the over-criminalization of activities that are not crimes in other countries (e.g., marijuana possession); the fact that under the U.S. Constitution, inmates are considered to be slaves; the lack of rehabilitative programs in prisons and jails; the ancillary penalties that go along with every felony conviction; the life-long nature of a felony record; etc.
Your description of the Ma Sheela case left out two very important facts.
First, because her crimes were committed before November 1, 1987, she was eligible for parole – which is why she only served 29-months (Parole is no longer available in the federal penal system – and every federal prisoner must serve, on average, 85% of their original sentence).
Second, it was after she served the 29-months and left the U.S. that the government discovered she was involved in the plot to assassinate Charles Turner. The U.S. requested that she be extradited from Switzerland to face charges regarding the planned assassination but Switzerland rejected that request.
I agree, KR. Not one person should be arrested for marijuana while Perdue reps skate scott free.
Prisons should be safe.
Female prisoners are yanked from families and their kids grow up on the streets.
And there is zero rehab when they get out.
Personally? I blame public-sector unions. Jailing is big business, and someone needs to pay their fat pensions.
Police don’t need to be defunded. They need to stop harassing people over petty crap.
It starts with them. They’ve turned into armed revenue agents.
Clav, interesting. If you were given Keith’s arrest circumstances, how would you have played it? I assume plead guilty and bargain for financial penalties, possibility of early release, low security prison etc. If so, when would the earliest possible release conceivably be?
I’m not sure I want to answer your question publicly because I do not want to inadvertently assist Keith and his attorneys as they move forward with his appeal. Suffice to say for now that I think major mistakes were made at every stage of his case – especially at the earliest stages.
Ok. The chance of an appeal being heard is nil though.
Certainly, everything done early is much more effective. Franklin Jones aka Adi Da faced a similar situation and immediately escaped to Fiji.
https://www.religionnewsblog.com/19754/da-free-john
https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=34872
Perhaps Keith felt he had enough political connections in Mexico, making what happened such a surprise, unknown to his sources.
Ukraine, Bali, Moldova, Taiwan all would have been good choices as soon as the branding story broke.
I think it was a case of having grown so accustomed to blackmail, coercion, fraud, and mind games it became like brushing his teeth and he genuinely couldn’t imagine anyone thinking it problematic.
I agree that Keith had grown to think he was immune to legal prosecution…
PS/Keith’s appeal will be heard – but I think it will be summarily rejected.
Claviger.
Just so you know I enjoy reading every insightful comment you make, particularly when it pertains to to the law; and I’m sure everyone else does as well.
Shivani says:
Sheela went on, with plenty of $$$ well-hidden, and eventually settled down to run an old-age home across the pond. She still runs her mouth. A lot of her education was gotten in New Jersey, USA, by the way.
I have known and watched Ma Anand Sheela at quite close range ever since the mid- seventies. Ah yes, personally. I mean , whoops.
If you want, I can do her act for your viewing amusement. With or without her auld pharmaceutical overlay. She is too elderly for that shit anymore and has mellowed. Only somewhat. Sheela is, after all, Sheela. Strange fruit?
She has added a few verses to the tales of Scheherazade tales to be told only where there is candlelight and with roses on the table. “See-la.”. Capricorn who just had another birthday. See? Someone still remembers a tale told by an idiot. Of course not any Sheela idiot. Hoo boy.
The Achilles Heel of grandiose narcissists is the absence of an understanding of their own limits.
The most dangerous sociopaths comprehend the boundaries of their power and act with more care and calculation. Had “Vanguard” been less enamored of himself, he might have avoided criminal charges or, at the very least, high-tailed it to a safe haven while he had the chance.
The grandiosity that garnered him so many followers was his undoing.
Now, all he is left with is bleating from his tiny jail cell that people are biased and hate him.
Are you saying people should lie and say they are guilty so they get a shorter sentence? I thought America was supposed to be a country that is civilized and promotes justice, liberty and freedom. What do you think someone’s life looks like after they are labelled “guilty”. Do you think society welcomes them with open arms?
Morality aside, I agree with Suneel that the sex trafficking charge is flimsy. I wouldn’t be surprised if he appealed it successfully.
Since you are still allowing off-topic comments. Here’s one that is at least connected to this site. Was the Nashville suicide bomber one of your 5G conspiracy contributors? for a while there you were posting many articles from seemingly like minded folk. was any of them named Anthony Warner?
Aristotle’s Sausage says:
The jury wore nicer clothes on the day they deliberated and pronounced the verdict. This is supposed to prove Raniere was wrongly convicted.
Wot???
What kind of pretzel logic is this?
Raniere had women branded with his initials. On their pussies. After having them blackmailed. He had his minions order these blackmailed women to service him sexually. He collected obscene pictures these women were obliged to provide.
He was found guilty by jury. Despite having a high priced legal team in his corner and a year to prepare his defense. Hardly surprising, since Raniere and his minions left a robust trail of evidence proving his and their guilt.
Raniere had his trial. He had his month in court. He was convicted of racketeering because he had been running a criminal racket. That is the only reason he was convicted. He won’t win an appeal, he won’t be granted a new trial.
He’s guilty. Justice was done.
Well said. The Nexivm 5 always leave out the main salient facts so they end up looking like fools and it does their cause of KR no good.
They won’t get him out so they and his principles/tech (adapted from Scientology et al) they could just carry on doing if they think it is so good. The person they should remember never matters if the principles are good.
So… the guy who “was honored in 1989 by the Guinness Book of World Records in the category of highest IQ” didn’t think to actually put on a defense at trial, is surprised he was convicted and now thinks he’s going to win on appeal?
And thinks having one of his minions write this nonsense is going to change his public image?
World Record Stupidity. Someone contact the Guinness Book.
Yes, he thought he knew better than lawyers.
Suneel, words of encouragement by the one and only.
Dig and then dig a little more.
Dig until you can’t dig
just a little more
Dig hard dig deep for this right here
Raniere won’t sleep a wink.
Peaches 🍑
Dig-gin your poem! 😀
Thanks, Nice Guy. Happy New Year to you.
Happy New Year to you as well!!!
[redacted] was in Nxivm.
#triggering
He sounds like a character from Charlie Chan.
Why did you take his name off, Frank?
Did you think he might Kung flu you?
I need evidence that he was in Nxivm. Just being a student in Nxivm can cost people their jobs or deny them work, etc.
I think he was on John Tighe’s 2011 coach list.
He was, however, 100% both a Nxivm student and a coach.
I encourage you to find out.
I also encourage you NOT to let him sneeze, cough or generally exhale within 50m of you. The Chinese Cough and all.
Barely committed the crimes says:
Crybaby Jane and Ed’s whole position seems to be that he barely, only marginally committed the crimes of which he was convicted? It’s also interesting that Keith or Ed, rather, never address Keith’s diddling of little girls. This is the root of the hate. What say you about this topic, Keith and Ed?
They seem have convinced themselves the women lied. KR seems to have told SOP men that women are defective and liars and weak and exploitative of men – something some men lap up so it is not hard to convince men of that… and therefore not to be believed. It is a bit like the Bible – Eve in the garden of Eden tempts Adam with the apple and thus man kind falls – women the root of all evil, a woman’s place is in the wrong. I am not surprised a lot of men fell for that.
FMN says:
Those gray areas your Vanguard operated in?
They work both ways. The law is loaded with them.
A corporation relies on horizontal sales to stay in business. Amazon sells books to consumers. If it stops selling books, it fails. It has a horizontal chain of distribution to move product.
Its success doesn’t depend on employees bringing in new employees. Its success depends on horizontal sales, not a vertical flow of new employees with money moving in commissions vertically, depending on new employees getting trickle-down commissions.
A pyramid model relies on the vertical influx of new members. When new members stop joining, it fails. Income is derived by vertical commissions, not horizontal sales.
I believe Nxivm relied on new members instead of a closed distribution chain. If so, that sounds like a pyramid.
If part of that open recruitment included a pipeline of women across state lines, collateral used against those women to keep them in line, branding of a leader’s initials and failure to disclose that, nude photographs of minor, coercive threats, lawsuits and punishments, completely illegal medical experiments on unknowing victims, demanding loyalty and monogamy to a polygamous charismatic leader, then……
You’ve probably got a real big legal problem on your hands.
In my very humble opinion, based on what I know thus far, if I was on that jury, I too would see a RICO enterprise and would say ” guilty”.
But again, just my opinion.
Aside:
Joe Biden refers to Kamala Harris as ‘president-elect’
Come on, man!
Joe Biden raised eyebrows Tuesday when he accidentally referred to Kamala Harris as “president-elect.”
https://nypost.com/2020/12/29/joe-biden-refers-to-kamala-harris-as-president-elect/
This story is incredible, I am amazed by how biased the prosecution was. Sometimes, I assumed that the US had the best justice system in the world. In this report, I was amazed by how wrong I was. Thank you, Suneel, for opening my eyes to this sad reality.
A prosecution by definition is biased. Just like a defense is biased for their client.
Try a new one for your Vanguard.
Amy Battista says:
The prosecution should have a higher standard than the defense… they wield much greater power. They can deny a person, and potentially an innocent person, their liberties. They have a much greater responsibility for rightness than the defense.
“Amy” that isn’t a legal argument. You aren’t helping improve your “Vanguard”‘s public image or reducing his need to stock up on anal lube.
Seems like the main thing people learned from NXIVM was how to whine and call people haters.
Amy, the prosecution does have a higher standard. It’s called ” beyond a reasonable doubt.” It’s a very high standard, which must be proven by an independent jury of ones peers.
A defendant doesn’t need to do a single thing.
The incredibleness is that any of the group members believe KR was wrongly convicted.
I’ll come out and say it…..
Suneel is the most normal member of the Nxivm 5.
LITK says:
It’s hard to ignore how compelling this story is – seems pretty logical and evidence-based to me. While the charges against Keith Raniere are pretty horrendous, I haven’t read anything that is as fact-based on the Nxivm story as what is written in this article. Thanks for posting this, Frank.
It gives few good true facts nor any legal argument. Not logical or evidence based at all and it says it thinks no women were harmed – how anyone can think that is beyond me.
Ice-nine says:
Suneel, dude, I hope you dedicate more of your life and time to something other than defending NXIVM forever. You’ll know if you are brainwashed if you wake up a year from now and you and the others are still chasing Keith around and have accomplished nothing else during that time. There’s plenty of ways to improve yourself and do good for the world. Give something else a shot.
Lm says:
Suneel, I thought that was the most thought provoking and coherent defence of Keith I have read. It was decisive and lacked the taint of misogyny apparent in others I have read. Whilst we may disagree that Keith is guilty of some crimes, for example, sexual abuse of children is a real sticking point for me, I do, however, think he cannot be proven guilty on all the charges that he was. Do I think he belongs in prison? Yes. For 120 years? No.
Clarification…sexual abuse of children was not charged nor proven. There was a letter read without swearing to the truth – and there was no cross-examination nor consequence to lying. This process of allowing people to speak who did not testify is a real problem for me.
Agreed, btw LM interesting you used a sentence using the word taint. It makes me take pause to say, poor Raniere he’s living life a little queery. They cause his strife. LADY JANE he’s the wife. Beef noodles, beef cheeks it taint no pussy it taint no dick! Hurry Suneel come save him quick!
Thank you I’ll be here all week.
Inception says:
Suneel misses the entire point. There should be no NXIVM, no Suneel or anyone else in prison or going to prison and no story to tell. Keith Raniere signed a deal with the US Government to never start another multi-level marketing organization after Consumers Buyline years ago and he did the exact opposite. That should be the end of the story right there. But it is not.
This isn’t about your “Vanguard.” This is about you, Suneel, and your inability to admit that you were hoodwinked by a charismatic, grandiose narcissist with a middling intelligence, but enough insight to snare you by your fantasies of wearing colored sashes.
You sound like an insecure narcissist (which is true of most of “Vanguards” followers from what I’ve read). Now, you are following your convicted guru’s pathetic, whining, after-the-fact writings around like a puppy led by the nose. You lack insight, you have no clue about the law, and you’re not a good writer. I see no point in paying attention to you any longer, because a) it isn’t interesting and b) what a narcissist craves more than anything is attention, even negative attention.
You think defending this despicable rapist scam artist makes you special. It does, to some degree. However, marks fooled by charlatans are a dime a dozen–you just worship one who happened to create lurid headlines because he was into having his initials branded into women.
Grow up. Start reading some books by worthwhile thinkers.
You have the choice to stop being a NXIDVMDVM.
Even though I’ve found most of what I’ve heard about NXIVM quite troubling, I’m also troubled by your comment. Frankly, it’s just a mean ad hominem attack. It says nothing and adds nothing to move the conversation forward . I actually thought the author did a good job of outlining points, providing evidence, and making clear analyses. What specific points that he made do you disagree with?
“Amy” I understand that it is hard to accept that your guru is a fraud and a despicable human.
When someone’s character is at issue, the matter is necessarily ad hominem.
NXIDVMDVMs sorely need to retake their high school freshman Latin class.
Imus ad magum videndum, magum Ozi mirum mirissimum.
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After I am done with my own review of Keith’s “Call To Action”, I will comment on the various issues that Suneel has raised in this post – and any other issues that he raises in subsequent posts or comments. Suffice to say for now that although I agree that there are some legitimate issues that can be raised concerning the arrest, prosecution, trial and sentencing of Keith Raniere, I do not believe that any of those issues – even if conclusively proven – will result in him being granted a new trial.
I’ve been following this case and I agree with most of what you’re saying. After everything that Frank has shared lately, I do see a chance for Keith getting a new trial. Interested in learning more of your thoughts on this.
You do-gooders types are all the same. Do not deny yourself billable hours and a fat retainer.
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There are two ways to comment….one is about the law. the other is about morality and what should happen for justice to take place. Your comments about Keith getting the same treatment that other criminals get and have gotten brings up points of uniformity of treatment. This does not mean the treatment is moral or just. If you could comment on both I think it would be interesting. For instance, the Mexico kidnapping situation you argue that it was done within the law. Do you think the laws and the application of those laws is just? There was a woman arrested and put in jail recently in the Caman Islands for not quarantining herself. It may be lawful to put her in jail. Do you think it’s just?
Although my current series of posts is focused solely on the question of whether any of the “legal issues” raised by Keith Raniere in his “Call To Action” are a legitimate basis for him receiving a new trial – either via a Rule 33 motion or an outright appeal – I am happy to answer questions such as yours in the comments section.
That said, let me address your question about the manner in which Keith was apprehended in Mexico and expelled from the country. In my ideal world, here is how I think things should basically work (If the U.S. citizen in question has supposedly committed a crime of violence – or some other heinous crime – I would be willing to modify these rules):
– When a U.S. citizen who has already been convicted of a crime in the U.S. flees to another country to avoid going to prison, I think that the U.S. ought to be able to have that person turned over without going through a complicated extradition proceeding. Thus, I would be fine with the apprehend-and-expel methods that were used on Keith in this sort of situation.
– When a U.S. citizen who has been arrested or indicted in the U.S. flees to another country before they can be brought to trial, I think the U.S. ought to be able to have that person turned over via a very simple identification hearing. In such a hearing, all the U.S. would have to do is prove that the person in custody is, in fact, the person who was arrested/indicted – and the person would be turned over to them (The country in which the person was located would be obligated to apprehend the person – and retain them until the identification hearing could be held).
– When the U.S. suspects that a U.S. citizen has committed a crime and wants to bring them back to the U.S. for questioning, DNA testing, etc., I think they should have to go through a full-blown extradition process in order to get custody of the person (Once again, the country in which the person was located would be obligated to apprehend the person – and retain them until the extradition hearing could be held).
– In all instances, it should be the responsibility of the country in which the U.S. citizen is hiding/residing to apprehend that person. Only if that country explicitly refuses to carry out that task should the U.S. be able to resort to third parties or U.S. Marshals to do the apprehension – and, even then, the U.S. should be required to notify the country in question before any such action is taken.
So, let me reverse the question to you…how would you handle such matters?
—There are two ways to comment….one is about the law. the other is about morality and what should happen for justice to take place
Patrick. your issue is a philosophical conundrum that lies within the nebulous of morality and the law. Two man-made constructs.
Don’t conflate the law and morality.
Patrick-
I do not mean that statement in jest.
I’m very serious.
Sometimes the law and
morality can at times appear to be mutually exclusive. Such as in the case with Keith Raniere.
I would agree with you if……
….If Raniere committed his crimes as an individual and not as the leader of a cult I would agree with you, in part, and I’d say 120 years is much to long.
In all seriousness Bernie Madoff never raped, molested, or murdered anyone. He committed absolutely no violence or criminal acts of a sexual nature. Bernie received a 150 year prison sentence. Because he was the head of a criminal enterprise and a message needed to be sent to the investment banking community.
jerabeknomin says:
In a different light, the story looks very different.
Dude, you are embarrassing yourself. There are many more productive things you could use your time for other then defending your idol like some pathetic puppy dog. Your bias presenting this is ridiculous and your presentation shows you are clearly not a lawyer. You ignore all the facts that make him look horrible which REALLY highlights your bias.
Simply put, you are doing a bad job advocating for Keith and he would be embarrassed if he saw this (that is if these aren’t already his words that he told you to write). Just stop for everyone’s sake.
Also, stop acting like female victims are treated like babies. My wife was abused by her stepfather and is a lieutenant in the Marines and is the toughest person I know. Women aren’t babied like Keith would like you to believe. The misogyny from you guys makes me sick.
David, it would be very interesting to know what about Suneel’s comments you find ridiculous, also what are the facts you believe he is ignoring. I am not someone who defends Keith at all. But I’ve been following this case for a while now and would be interested in knowing your perspective since I believe Suneel makes some really interesting points that I believe could change the outcome of the trial. But I’m sure there’s more that I might be missing. Appreciate your response!
Sparkpug says:
Lol, I guess those Keith fans posting here missed the verdict (which was guilty ) on all charges by a jury of his peers which is what he wanted: a jury trial The sad thing about them is if this is what our Government wants Keith behind bars, this is what our Government is going to get. Big Brother is not going to change that no matter what you do. If they keep this up, they just might find themselves in legal trouble with no way out. just remember: Big Brother has long arms and deep pockets.
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That’s where a lot of people got it wrong about where Clare Bronfman will spend her prison time. Not the place as it was assumed.
700 ARCH STREET
Email: PHL-ExecAssistant@bop.gov
Inmate Gender: Male and Female Offenders
858 Total Inmates
Judicial District: Eastern Pennsylvania
County: PHILADELPHIA
BOP Region: Northeast Region
Has Frank missed Clare’s new address or have I missed his post regarding this? This looks like total news to me.
Register Number: 91010-053
Located at: Philadelphia FDC
Natashka says:
Weren’t many of the women ordered to seduce Keith as an assignment with their blackmail material hanging over their heads? Wouldn’t this account for the texts and emails, which were written by Nicole asking for hot sex or whatever?
Yes. Most DOS witnesses explained this very thing. Being ordered by their master (with the threat of their blackmail being released) to contact Keith and “seduce him”. Keith even told one slave “you’ll have to do better than that” when her emails were not explicit enough. It is my belief this pre-sexual contact forced communication was premeditated to further the narrative that these women “wanted Keith” both to stroke his ego and to mind-fuck them into thinking they asked to be raped. It is an electronic paper trail that backfired on him in the end.
This is a very different story than the story presented in the media and the trial. I find it believable due to the RICO charges, which are my main complaint in this whole thing because of my first hand knowledge that NXIVM is not a criminal organization. RICO is the foundational charge used to game the system in the favor of the prosecution. Because I know this to be true, it brings all other facts into question regarding the government’s behavior.
What a bunch of kool-aid drinkers these NXIVM acolytes are writing these articles and posting in these comments. Your Vanguard wasn’t convicted of brainwashing. Just like Capone who was convicted of tax evasion and not the murders and thefts he ordered, Raniere was guilty of so many other things, but was convicted of the charges against him. His lascivious lifestyle, being a manipulative jackass, running of a cult, and that he has you “brainwashed” morons still posting here, shows why he needs to be where he is.
So much wrong here. The prosecution’s argument for why Keith committed identify theft is rather irrelevant.
“ The only thing they proved was that he used the credit card. By the way, he paid every bill on the card. No one was injured. ”
^^^^^ this IS identity theft ^^^^^^^^ You admit Keith is guilty of doing what he was charged with in your own sentence.
Exactly. Besides being so disrespectful to a deceased person it’s more money laundering/ hiding your income/tax evasion tactics. Probably even trying to hide his location.
1.Was Keith treated fairly.
2.Was Keith treated differently than normal.
That is to say, the US Federal court system IS unfair with a 99.8% conviction rate.
http://justicedenied.org/issue/issue_67/federal_courts_jd67.pdf
On the document linked to above page 13 shows:
New York, Eastern: 648 convictions,
1 acquittal for 2015.
If you have money, you will find attorneys claiming they can get you off in a trial, but if you look at their track record you will find almost no defense lawyer has ever won in court. Your only chance in this system is to make a deal before trial.
From the same article:
“deciding to go to trial can legitimately be considered either suicidal or
the sign of a severely deranged mind in almost every other federal district.” P.13
“The conviction culture that prevails in federal courts is resulting in the majority of U.S. District Court and magistrate judges going for a year and more without a single defendant being acquitted in their courtroom.”
The system is skewed, highly unfair, and discriminates against the poor. Keith seemed to love attacking people with it and had no problem with it hounding others. To suddenly say he thinks the system he used so relentlessly is unfair strikes a grating note.
As far as not being released on bond. Someone with hundreds of millions at their disposal facing a court with a 99.8% conviction rate and a life sentence would be addled not to head straight to a non-extraditable country.
You could argue that a high conviction rate is a result of only bringing legit cases to court. The DA’s office has no motivation to bring cases against people just “because they do not like the defendant”. The prosecution has every motivation to make sure they have an actual case based on the preponderance of evidence. High conviction rates can simply mean that they are very, very careful in choosing to only prosecute those defendants who are, in fact, guilty.
It would be great if this is how things worked in all prosecutors’ offices–but, unfortunately, that’s not the case.
I think one of the reasons why Keith believes that the prosecutors in his case were acting in bad faith is because he was able to get the Albany County District Attorney, P. David Soares, to initiate criminal charges against several of Keith’s “enemies” when there was no basis whatsoever for those charges (Hell, in the criminal computer trespass case against Joe O’Hara, John Tighe, Toni Natalie and Barbara Bouchey, Soares initiated the charges even though Albany County didn’t have jurisdiction over the alleged illegal activity). So, it’s natural for Keith to project that the prosecutors in his case were also acting improperly.
Heidi H says:
That’s the irony of ironies for me, Clav. The corruption that clearly does permeate the Albany DA’s office worked in NXIVM’s favor and still does, not against them.
They’d all be figuratively hung — and who says they’re not standing on a shaky platform with a noose around their necks as they pay obeisance with their last breaths and groin salutes to their unjustly imprisoned master? — were it not for the ‘protection’ of the NDNY’s rotted justice system yet supported by Bronfman and Mexican elite ‘defense’ spending?
Again, where is Kevin Trowel with his purported, sorely needed investigation into public corruption in this case?
And, Suneel, son, the first time you ever met Keith he was behind bars?
Reminds me of a friend whose tragic story began with, “I noticed his ankle monitor when he took off his pants but it was dark and…”
NFW says:
Re: Trowel, just the thing for a careful dig through the archeology of nxivm malpractice – it seemed at the time. I know you’ve asked the question frequently, H, but seriously –
‘Again, where is Kevin Trowel with his purported, sorely needed investigation into public corruption in this case?’
While I completely understand your solid p.o.v on why Keith would hold these beliefs that is just not my experience with prosecutors. They are not all to be painted with the brush of corruption or incompetence (Did the debacle you presented merit state bar investigation? Genuinely curious) of these Albany buffoons. In most cases, they have a genuine desire to serve the public. They are not seeking the most money they can make in a cushy private practice. They do not all seek political office. Most toil in obscurity and do not relish a ” high profile case”. It is an enormous amount of pressure with pitfalls if you win or lose. Ask Marsha Clark how brutal the spotlight and career-killing it can become. Also, it often requires an expensive camera-ready wardrobe and makeover that the civil servant is ill-equipped to pull off financially or otherwise. We can agree on the negative prosecution you detail but disagree on prosecutors in general.
We don’t disagree at all because, like you, I believe that the vast majority of prosecutors play by the rules (I think some of those rules need to be changed but I have no issue with prosecutors who stay within the existing boundaries when it comes to prosecuting cases). The point I was trying to make in my comment is that Keith may have a warped perspective about how prosecutors operate because the Albany County District Attorney has been basically catering to his directives for the past 15-years.
I was told – but have not seen any supporting evidence – that a complaint against P. David Soares was, in fact, filed with the governing body in New York State. However, given Soares’ then-status as the head of the New York State District Attorneys Association, it would not surprise me that any such complaint was quietly disposed of without any serious investigation into its legitimacy.
timesunion.com NEWS
Dec. 23, 2020 Updated: Dec. 24, 2020 6:37 a.m.
Legal secretary to Albany DA dies after contracting coronavirus
Jeanenne Holt was one of several in District Attorney David Soares’ office to come down with the virus.
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Legal-secretary-to-Albany-DA-dies-after-15824397.php
So basically Keith committed the fallacy of overgeneralization based on his own anecdotal evidence: i.e., since he was able to manipulate, coax, con, buy off, etc. the prosecution in his local district, therefore, the entire justice system is “corrupt” because he’s now on the “wrong” end of it. It appears that the actual reality is that those he dealt with are simply the exception to the rule, and the majority follow proper procedure and behave ethically. Too bad for him.
—Hell, in the criminal computer trespass case against Joe O’Hara, John Tighe, Toni Natalie and Barbara Bouchey
Ah yes! I remember when Toni Natalie lied to the other defendants, saying she had permission to access the database system. Toni not at fault at all.
1/2 kidding 😉
There is also the fact that with such over criminalization, the average U.S. citizen commits at least 3 felonies a day. Almost anyone could be put in prison for multiple felonies. You do not want to have a trial in Federal District Court.
https://ips-dc.org/three-felonies-day/
http://ulrichboser.com/how-many-felonies-did-you-commit-today-an-interview-with-harvey-silverglate/
“If it were true I created businesses wherein I answer to no one, I still, in the least, answer to the law (If I didn’t, I would not be incarcerated.)” Pretty sure getting arrested was not part of the genius plan.
Per pyramid, if the lawyers understood their Latin, arguably they were too embarrassed to voice the mangled attempt of bad-ass classical lingo that was Keith & Co.’s definition of DOS. (Read: only the dominus makes sense; it sure ain’t master over the slave lady people.)
The word pyramid keeps the DOS outline, leaves out the “somebody give me a book report on Wheelock’s Latin.”
Besides, pyramid is in part how they sold it to those Latin-eschewing sisters. You too can be a bad-ass Bezos with your own set of labor-saving slaves who have to jump when you text and get punished for infractions.
Libs in Brooklyn may be fine with an abortion or two. When your life partners of decades rack up numbers seen more often on loyalty punchcards (10 abortions and the next one’s free!) judgmental coastal elitists think those involved are either lazy, or stupid, or in a sperm-worshipping abortion cult. None of these looks is endearing, despite being legal.
Birth control: it’s easier than Latin grammar or showjumping. Figure it out, yo. Have Dani do a book report.
Speaking of Dani, (not the sex dungeon one tho), when did Nxivm get so goody two shoes about Keith & Clare’s ladies not overstaying visas? What brought about this dramatic change in policy?
Mr. Claviger. On this subject, I am really only interested. The D.A.’s office is working closely with the Secret Service. What about them? Can we talk about them? Or is it a background theme? (They work with us.)
Suneel, you make some strong points in your argument. It does raise questions about how the trial was handled. I read the transcript of the text messages the defense was trying to use and I was surprised to read how the judge handled the situation. In my opinion, it does show bias on the judge’s part.
I am in shock if what you have shared is true. It is scary that this is possible.
I don’t know if Keith is innocent or not. Nor do I support what he is accused of – yet there is something fishy about all of this.
I am impressed by your analysis and it takes courage to put yourself out in the line of fire. I think it is important that this is reviewed further.
You are out of your mind if you think those texts should be allowed. The phone was being hidden in Mexico. those were screenshots. if those were legitimate texts, then why didn’t they go get the phone and bring it to court? What did he have to hide on it that was worth more than 120 years in prison?
This is an organization that implanted spyware on computers and hacked into accounts of journalists, congressmen, judges, fathers, and anyone else in the way. There is NO WAY you could allow unverified ‘text’ messages from a paper screenshot on a deleted account.
Suneel, let it go, son. At this point we all have ‘Raniere word salad fatigue’ and nobody is going to spend any time doing your work for you. Don’t expect ‘free’ input from others, when Keith is ‘splitting hairs’ in order to try and manipulate the situation. The ‘court of social media’ pressure is very unlikely to happen: Keith is really not that important, except in his own mind, but then again, he always was rather grandiose, was he not?
If you really want to inform yourself, go and read about narcissists and how they operate on a website like ‘narcsite’; you may learn about how narcissists are unable to admit any wrongdoings, always grandiose, always have to be in control, manipulate tactics, compartmentalization of info, playing one against the other, and other typical traits. Even in being a narcissist, K. isn’t ‘unique’ or ‘special’. And nobody actually ‘hates’ him as he claims (another typical ‘narc.’ ‘grandiosity defence/attack).
Disgusted, more probably.
If you really believe Keith is innocent, then go hire lawyers to defend him and get them to parse through this nonsense.
Polaris says:
I am at a loss for words. It seems like there were no laws to imprison Mr. Raniere, so the prosecution figured out how to make it look like he should be in prison by using character assassination and twisted arguments about the law. I am beside myself hearing about the judge’s participation in this by not allowing evidence in support of Mr. Raniere’s innocence into the trial and creating jury instructions around commercial sex that pretended immaterial exchanges like social status are material (be careful having sex with a person who has fewer Twitter followers than you… you might be accused of participating in commercial sex). I recently read a Tolstoy novel where a lawyer feels grateful to the prosecutors and judges because he, the lawyer, was free… at the moment. In Russia, the prosecutors and judges could do and did whatever they would like with the citizens. Maybe it is time to start thanking the US judges and prosecutors for the freedom they give to innocent citizens by not imprisoning them.
So you lead with this – “I am fully aware that there is an anti-justice, anti-truth pack of angry people who will hurl insults and ad hominem attacks, and if they could, probably hang me to a sour apple tree for merely suggesting that victims could be questioned, especially if their gender is female.” – and you expect to have people listen to you? You characterize those who disagree with you as anti-justice and anti-truth and then accuse them of hurling insults and ad hominem attacks – especially if they are female? Man, I think the now-defunct Knife of Aristotle editors would have a field day with you “sour apples” and “merely”. I read the first few paragraphs of pontificating and misogynistic statements and decided I don’t need to go any further. And by the way, the prosecution’s job was to prove his guilt – of course, they came in with that foregone conclusion. If they were trying to prove him innocent, he wouldn’t be in court to begin with.
Frank – thanks for trying so hard to give these folks a chance to be heard. I, for one, have heard enough of them at this point. From now on, I’ll be skipping any of their posts just like I don’t bother with comments from Scott or shadowstate or banger man. From what I’ve read, they all seem pretty unable to look at themselves and their own arrogance. If that’s what all those EMs taught them, I suggest they need a couple of new modules on humility and effective communication (hint – annoying your readers right off the bat does NOT lead to open communication). Have at it; I’m out.
L, well put. Seriously and with no offence meant to either followers or detractors of KR, I would say that the kindest thing would be to find a psychiatrist specializing in NPD to work (or EMs if he prefers) with KR in order to try and rehabilitate him. Not that I expect he will agree to it. Narcs never ever think anything is their fault. If after 2 years of forced ‘isolation’ and reflection, he still believes he is innocent of all charges and puts the blame on the world at large, the justice system, the people who ‘hate him’, the women who lie or didn’t stand up for him, ad nauseam, and even grandiose claims of martyrdom, and still tries to manipulate through his remaining followers, then his teachings are bogus, since he has no insights whatsoever into his own psyche. This saga is likely to go on and on if you buy into it and is exhausting for everyone. It’s oddly ‘addictive’, like anything that is so remote from how the average person thinks, but there is nothing positive to be found in it.
Suneel, if you are so keen on ‘justice’, maybe invest some of your time to research the John Tighe case or the Kristyn Snyder case? Better time investment. Just my opinion, of course; but I’m also out with any KR-generated discussion points.
To suggest that a woman can never be coerced into getting an abortion because she has to consent to the procedure and be alone with a doctor, ignoring any number of extenuating circumstances which might result in her doing these things against her own will, is an absurdly uninformed world view.
My understanding is the “abortion door” was opened by Cami. The defense wanted to deny Keith had sex with her underage. Well, she had an abortion as a teenager. She named him as the “father” of the embryo way back then. Depending on where she had it, they might even have DNA still. They track the tissue. If the defense wanted to pretend that an underage child in America illegally from Mexico somehow secured this abortion herself – it was relevant to bring up Raniere’s parade of past sexual partners/victims and his pattern of demanding they abort. Side note. Learn. P. R. 101. If you do not want the multiple abortions brought up… Stop bringing up the multiple abortions. If your far-fetched fantasy of a new trial comes to pass, every potential juror in America will already know about the abortion mill. Because of you! And Keith. All the supporters. Abortion. Abortion. Abortion. You are putting it out there now. You do know all this new stuff y’all generate can be used in the (fantasy) next trial? You do know that right? Does Keith know that? He is, after all, the smartest man in the world.
I would just like to note that the Mexican Eduardo speaks better English than Suneel. This sentence has grammar issues: “I Am Defending Raniere Because the Prosecution Was Wrong, the Judge Biased and the Defendant Is Innocent!”
I think Eduardo is trying hard to learn and adapt to the United States. He is a smart cookie. I saw he is friends with Javier Jileta, from Mexico’s Government. I hope they together can push the country, Mexico, in the correct direction. I don’t think they need Suneel
To quote Suneel: “Perhaps the jury did not convict Keith on the facts but on their personal opinion they formed of him throughout a trial, where the judge let the prosecution run amok, dirtying him up with every salacious tidbit about his lifestyle regardless of whether it was accurate, wildly exaggerated or remotely related to the charges or not.”
Suneel, this is so sad to see countless examples of unfairness in the judicial process.
Suneel makes great points here. I am no one to defend Keith and I don’t. But with what Suneel explains here I do believe in Keith’s innocence. We all know how FU our justice system is. Great article, Frank.
Laydownthelaw says:
I’m beginning to think more and more that calling anyone who says anything positive about Keith “brainwashed” is just another attempt from the prosecution to head it off at the pass and discredit anything that opposes their presented case. I am not yet convinced that all of their narrative is false but certainly their abuse of the legal system is evident if you examine the actual case and what the required legal process is supposed to be. Sarah Edmondson, Mark V and company also seem to have some major holes in their stories and need the world to think anyone supporting Keith is brainwashed which is why I think they’ve pushed this idea so hard. Strange that they believe they themselves are victims but someone like Suneel is not. Not sure this Harvard boy is under a svengali spell or just exposing some things that would definitely lead to them (the prosecution, Sarah, Mark, etc.) having some serious explaining to do if true. He certainly makes some extremely solid points that hold up if you understand the law and justice system as they are meant to be utilized.
Mauricio Ricardo Urtaza Reyes says:
I really believe that these cult people should have a hard time finding decent exposure and a chance to answer things. I mean victims didn’t have it until Frank Report really.
There should be more attention to the crimes that no one investigates. Where is Kristin Snyder? In the story of Daniela or Camila, we need more details and more people should be separated from other humans that could be in danger just for sharing space with these people.
The important part for example is how Raniere’s pedophilia wasn’t really judged, or suspicious deaths, including Cafritz for example. How none of these people is for trafficking children because Cafritz took these kids to abortions, right?
So these women participate in the rapes of children and women. Or how he practices oral sex on Sylvie.
So that’s another murder, for example, the abortions. Also the snuff videos or torture. The scarification lasts 25 to 40 minutes in an obvious Luciferian ritual, with mind control like a purpose behind it.
So, Suneel, you could be just a scapegoat, a slave, a brainwashed asshole, or something darker. I mean it’s obvious that Nxivm was and is protected, they didn’t get it hard at all. Clare deserves 30 years, for example. And people, black and Latin people, have harsher sentences for mistakes daily. The system of Justice sucks and doesn’t work maybe, but that applies to any person
a tiny speck of dust says:
Sir, your John Adams quote directly applies to Mr. Raniere as the abuser of words. I’m a total outsider and bystander to all this, so I’m sure someone with more Inside knowledge would have more to say.
But, let’s look at just three words Mr Raniere systematically abused: Celibacy, Ethics, and Non-Violence.
The man promoted himself as a nonsexual celibate monk. That was blatantly untrue.
He claimed to have nothing to do with his DOS ring of kinky sexy slaves. Also, untrue.
Ethics: he denied his own firstborn son and played havoc with the mother’s emotional sanity while she was raising him. You are correct to say he was in Mexico trying to enjoy his second child he saw while escaping from the harsh realities of how the world is treating him, wreaking havoc with his emotions. Do you see the hypocrisy there? Does that sound ethical to you? Does it display the high and mighty powers of a celibate grandmaster Ethicist? His pledge of non-violence extends only to the physical realm of using fists. He clearly does not see, understand, or give a rats anus about mental, emotional, or financial violence, all of which are displayed in spades throughout much of Nxiums’s dealings.
Yes, none of these particular abuses are against the law, and yes maybe Mr. Raniere doesn’t deserve the kind of jail time he got, I do agree with you there… but I ask you honestly, Suneel, does Keith’s blatant abuse and hypocrisy of words make him worthy of your support and worship?
I fear you’re talking to a concrete wall in this instance!
Okay. Lots to sort through. Will start small. The arrest and “delay” in inditement(s) (a) not unusual in cases of multiple co-conspirators (b) not unusual with the amount of money available (flight risk). I understand that flight risk was not your concern. It was the court’s concern. Yes. You are correct that to a certain degree the prosecution has decided before the trial. Or there would not be a trial. They must prove there is “probable cause that this defendant has committed the crimes of which he/she is accused”. The courts are really backed up & trials cost a lot of money. Their job is to make sure that there is a case. Then to prove that case. No personal feelings. Many people who may have been “hated” have escaped charges in this manner. Have you heard of… Woody Allen? Did you see that media shit storm? But in the end, no charges. No trial. No personal/hard feelings from people whose job it is to decide not guilt or innocence. But if there is enough to go to trial, the case is there. Or it isn’t. You do not get convicted on what people “say”. That’s irritating when you guys keep stating this falsehood. You are convicted on evidence. A preponderance of evidence. This got long. More later.
@Anonymous: He was convicted beyond a reasonable doubt, not a preponderance. Preponderance is used only in civil cases and means “more likely than not” or more than 50% likelihood the claim is true. In all criminal cases in the U.S., the standard of proof is beyond a reasonable doubt, which means that the jury or judge (in cases with bench trials) was firmly convinced of the defendant’s guilt. Keith Raniere was convicted beyond a reasonable doubt. The jury was firmly convinced. I’m a lawyer.
SSR says:
I’m genuinely curious, Anonymous1, if evidence that was tampered with (as Suneel and co claim to have had certified by multiple experts re the kiddie porn) lead to the “beyond a reasonable doubt” conviction from the jury, do you still consider that a “firmly convinced jury” and a fair trial?
I’m genuinely curious, SSR, if you faced up to reality rather than chasing hypothetical fantasies, would you still think “Vanguard” was The Smartest Most Ethical Man Alive™?
Dare to Know says:
Why would the prosecution need to arrest Keith through alternative means? Why not just arrest him and go through extradition?
Why would the prosecution need to go through alternative methods to arrest Keith?
I am shocked to find out that it is even possible for people to be kidnapped in order to be arrested. If someone has done something so bad – why the need for such drastic measures…
Read the post by KR below explaining how Keith was brought to the US and it wasn’t kidnap
I think it’s important that we believe women, but at the same time, if what I just read is true…this woman is giving women a bad name. Also, I’m not sure if I would call that “kidnapping,” but something does smell fishy there. I’m disappointed in the prosecutors for not following standard protocol and potentially mucking up this case.
Prosecution? They also say with an angel’s face what is obviously diabolical. If you don’t believe it, it’s still your fault. They can run over everyone because every subject (human being) is just a person to be used, and sometimes collateral damage.
Exactly and now KR and his followers are cherry-picking texts/emails from someone who was ordered to seduce KR with collateral as a threat. They were basically ordered to send those texts. There are only so many ways to seduce via texts (when the man in question is asking for them to be more and more explicit). Then there’s the amazing audacity to show these stating the victim is lying.
I find Suneel a curious fellow. He has fallen hook, line and sinker with, I’m assuming, minimal mind messing considering he was only in it for two years. He was called upon to help Clare off the toilet when she hurt her back in this time and had the honour of becoming Keith’s friend (even though Keith had to ask him what line of work he was in on one of the prison phone calls). Part of me thinks he is wealthy, doesn’t give a damn, and has inserted himself into the thick of this as a joke or some form of entertainment or research for an experiment. It’s too bizarre to think someone would be doing this with their life. It’s Agnifilo’s job.
Curious, why wouldn’t you say that the Prosecution cherry picked the messages they decided to share….especially when it comes to the apparent conversations between Keith and Camila?
Hire outside counsel to review the criminal case against Keith. Everything else is a waste of your time and not helping Keith one iota.
I heard Kim Kardashian is taking the bar to become a criminal defense attorney. And what with the cancellation of her show, her hubby’s bid for President…maybe next time? Wouldn’t she be the ideal spokesperson for NXIVM?
Line it up, Frank. Not that you and Clav won’t do but I’d rather see Kim’s ass in a sling, myself.
Suneel Chakravorty-
Nothing you say has, in your well-written essay, any “legal” merit. Otherwise, Keith’s defense attorneys would have brought it up at pretrial or at trial. Sorry, old chap, you have nothing. Don’t believe me? Borrow some money from Sarah Bronfman and hire an excellent attorney to review the case.
On the plus side, you are definitely an intelligent man and a good writer.
Suneel, there is no doubt in mind that you believe what you’re saying.
There is also no doubt in my mind that you are a good person who means well. I am being serious. You are noble in your cause to help a friend.
Yes, NiceGuy. He is an intelligent human being but NOT intelligent enough to grasp the context here. Let’s not forget, I.Q. is also a spectrum…
Adam Hayes says:
I had to stop reading when he mentioned the jurors’ clothing. That argument is absurd. And the part about their abortion views? This is not someone grounded in reality. Or he’s trying to manipulate us.
Adam Hayes,
My favorite part was,
“If we are supposed to believe the woman, then when should Keith have believed her? When she said she was content with the sexual experience or afterward when she said she wasn’t? “
Suneel conveniently forgets Keith Raniere knew all about the blackmail/collateral over Nicole’s head. Not to mention she is alone naked, blindfolded, and tied to a table.
HBD says:
This gal did not need an assignment or collateral to seduce a man. She was all over every guy including married ones.
Adam, You should be content, grateful rather, he didn’t start raising issues about the jurors’ genitalia texture! Don’t get too fussy buddy! [redacted]!
—Genitalia texture
……Something I have never contemplated until this moment.
Thank you so much for enriching my life, Alex. I don’t know how I will ever repay you.
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UN Watch Fires Back at Countries Accusing Israel of Abuses, ‘Where are your Jews?’
Jack Heretik - March 24, 2017 11:16 AM
UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer shot back at countries accusing Israel of apartheid and violence against Palestinians, asking them where the Jewish populations in their countries have gone.
During a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council on Monday, several Middle Eastern countries took turns bashing Israel, saying that it has imposed apartheid and violence against Palestinians. A Palestinian representative was joined by Qatar, Sudan, Syria, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia in criticizing Israel.
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Neuer was then recognized to respond to the accusations from the representatives, as well as those from a UN report.
"Everything we just heard, from the world's worst abusers of human rights, of women's rights, of freedom of religion, of the press, of assembly, of speech, is absolutely false and indeed Orwellian," Neuer said.
As Neuer went to defend Israel, the Palestinian representative attempted to make a point of order as he tried to silence Neuer's rebuttal. Egypt and Pakistan joined the protest by the Palestinians. Neuer was allowed to continue.
"Israel's 1.5 million Arabs, whatever challenges they face, enjoy full rights to vote and to be elected in the Knesset, they work as doctors and lawyers, they serve on the Supreme Court," Neuer said.
Neuer then went directly after Israel's accusers.
"How many Jews live in your countries? How many Jews lived in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco?" Neuer pointed out. "Once upon a time, the Middle East was full of Jews."
Neuer went through a list of those countries asking, "Where are your Jews?" after stating how many Jews used to live there.
"Where is the apartheid, Mr. President?" Neuer asked.
"Why are we meeting today on an agenda item singling out only one state, the Jewish state, for targeting? Where is the apartheid, Mr. President?" Neuer said.
For a substantial amount of time following Neuer's remarks, the council was silent.
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•March 6, 2016
•Charlie Minato
•Cigars, Limited Edition, Nicaragua, Padrón, Reviews
José O. Padrón 89 Birthday Blend Natural
In June, José Orlando Padrón will turn 90.
This January, South Florida-based Smoke Inn held a party to celebrate this occasion. Or to celebrate last year’s birthday; it’s actually not entirely clear.
When Smoke Inn announced the event, which featured a special cigar, it was marked as a party to celebrate Padrón’s 90th birthday, but the cigar sold that night was actually in honor of his 89th birthday. The cigar is named José O. Padrón 89 Birthday Blend, and it was created in both maduro and natural versions.
The 6 x 46 corona gorda is unique for two notable reasons. First, it’s a round cigar, a departure from the company’s normally box-pressed offerings. Admittedly, five years ago the fact that it was a round Padrón would have been a very unique trait, but given a variety of limited editions and the recently-released Damaso, there’s now quite a few round Padróns. Secondly, the cigar features a black band, something last seen on the Fumas.
A total of 200 boxes were made, split between maduro and natural, and the cigars sold out quite quickly with Smoke Inn assembling a long waitlist immediately following the event.
Cigar Reviewed: José O. Padrón 89 Birthday Blend Natural
Factory: Tabacos Cubanica S.A.
Wrapper: n/a
Binder: n/a
Filler: n/a
Ring Gauge: 46
Vitola: Corona Extra
MSRP: $16.50 (Boxes of 10, $165)
Release Date: Jan. 29, 2016
Number of Cigars Released: 200 Boxes of 10 Cigars (2,000 Total Cigars)*
Number of Cigars Smoked For Review: 3
*There were 200 boxes total between the two wrappers, the split hasn’t been disclosed.
While it sometimes can be challenging to tell which limited Padrón is maduro and which is natural, this one isn’t close. The natural version is exactly where I would peg a regular production natural Padrón Anniversary/Aniversario. As for the aroma: it’s bizarre. There’s leather, barnyard, some bread, but the top of the cigar features a weird crusty smell that reminds me of an old couch. Fortunately, the foot has more pleasant smells: chocolate brownie, hay, leather, cedar and some spices. As for the cold draw, there’s less sweet cocoa, citrus and a lot of creaminess.
It starts with citrus, some spiciness, oak, leather and toastiness. The draw is open, even for a Padrón, something that reduces slightly as the cigar begins to burn down. The good news is the flavor: there’s some sour nuttiness up front alongside a toasty core with black cherries, cookie dough and some leather. Through the nose I get a lot of cinnamon and black tea. At times the retrohale is punishing and other times it’s remarkably finessed. The smoke production is great, but I could use a slightly tighter draw and I definitely find myself watching the cigar a lot more than I’d like.
The José O. Padrón 89 Birthday Blend Natural turns earthier in the second third, but that’s probably selling the cigar a bit short. I get some meatiness, hay and wheat pasta. There’s a lot of pepper coating the back of my mouth, but it’s relatively mild. High in quantity, low in intensity. The flavor dries out a lot in the second third and I find myself consistently reaching for water. Strength increases from medium-plus to medium-full. It’s a pretty quick transition, but not one that seems to want to go beyond medium-full. As far as construction, the draw is still quite open.
For the first few puffs of the final third, things are very harsh. But interestingly enough, after a couple more puffs the flavor opens up a lot. There’s quite a bit of hay alongside some creaminess. I get some faint signals of dark chocolate alongside bread and woodsiness. It’s still quite earthy, but it also has lemon cream sweetness buried under some hazelnuts. The draw finally closes a bit, maybe not as much as I’d like, but it’s progress.
I have not smoked the maduro version, so I do not know how it tastes compared to this.
This isn’t earthy in the sense of the generic flavor that I oftentimes find in cigars; rather, the mixture of woods, hay and wheat create a very earthy profile.
Padróns oftentimes have loose draws, as it’s part of how they produce cigar, namely, they don’t really age rolled cigars. That being said, I found the draw to be too open for the first half of the cigar. It’s a minor issue, but it’s really the only complaint I have about the cigar.
While it’s not the Jerry Cruz rule—cigars generally don’t get any better once the band is removed—I generally won’t smoke a cigar well into the final third if there’s harshness in the last inch or so for five or so minutes. This was an odd case, as the cigar got harsh right before the final third, but a few puffs later the harshness had receded to the back and much better flavors emerged.
It seems quite likely that we will see a Padrón 90th of some sort. For those confused by the numbering system Padrón uses, here’s a primer:
1926 — José O. Padrón’s birth year.
1964 — Company founded.
40 — Anniversary of the company (2004)
80 — José O. Padrón Birthday (2006)
47 — Anniversary of the TAA (2015)
Final smoking time was one hour and 40 minutes on average.
Cigars for this review were purchased by halfwheel.
90 Overall Score
If you’re read any of my Padrón single store releases, you’ll find a common theme: I oftentimes don’t think they hold a candle to the company’s normal releases. I’ve always found this to be both a negative and a positive. While it’s oftentimes disappointing when I’m smoking the cigar, it also speaks volumes to the fact that the company’s best cigars are the regular production vitolas they’ve made for years and are on shelves around the world. Much like the last time Smoke Inn got an exclusive Padrón, this one is different. It’s a fantastic tribute to the living legend, the only shame is not many people will get to smoke it.
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Charlie Minato
I am an editor and co-founder of halfwheel.com/Rueda Media, LLC. I previously co-founded and published TheCigarFeed, one of the two predecessors of halfwheel. I handle the editing of our written content, the majority of the technical aspects of the site and work with the rest of our staff on content management, business development and more. I’ve lived in most corners of the country and now entering my second stint in Dallas, Texas. I enjoy boxing, headphones, the Le Mans 24-hour, wearing sweatshirts year-round and gyros. echte liebe.
José O. Padrón 89 Birthday Blend Maduro
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Review: Daemon X Machina
By Kirstin Swalley on September 19, 2019
Developer: Marvelous
Last year at E3, Nintendo opened its presentation with a brand new title known simply as Daemon X Machina. At the time, it didn’t garner a ton of attention likely due to the lack of explanation. It would be a while longer until we saw anymore of this mysterious mech title, but eventually there was a solid look at it when the first demo released this year. Following its reception the team went to work fixing player feedback until it finally launched. Now Daemon X Machina is here, but does the mech combat hold up enough to make it stand out or should it remain lost in the sea of September releases?
The story of Daemon X Machina comes across as a bit confusing at first, but the basis for it all is that at one point long ago the moon broke into many pieces and rained down onto the earth. These pieces of moon were imbued with a mysterious substance known as Femto which cause the artificial intelligence to turn against humanity and genetically change any humans who came in contact with it. Those who came into contact are now known as Outers and have the ability to control mech arsenals in combat. They alone are the sole people capable of fighting the AI, with many creating their own mercenary groups in order to work together. While a perfect world would have them working together, many of these mercs follow the money, consortiums that hire them and other mysterious forces at play. It’s up to them to sort out their differences while trying to help humanity, or end up fighting in the process.
As players begin they are first tasked with creating their Outer mercenary who works for Orbital, an organization tasked with helping cosortiums and stopping AI. Players then get free roam of the Orbital headquarters, which acts as the hub between missions. Once ready they head out into their missions and are introduced to basic mechanics. Arsenals are capable of both land and flight combat, with their mechs automatically locking on once they’re close enough. A stamina meter is used in order to boost through stages, and a Femto meter allows the use of special attacks and weaponry. Each weapon comes with its own ammo supply which can be replenished by defeating enemies on the battlefield. In addition to the weapons they bring, temporary weapons can be picked up from the surrounding area and used once. Finding a crashed arsenal can be another great way to pick up weapons if they had any equipped. Battles are extremely fast-paced, with arsenals able to boost through stages while enemies and objectives are clearly marked. Most missions will just require enemies to be defeated, but some need teams to defend certain locations or even escort machinery. Most missions will also have additional allies from other mercenary groups to help out and act as source of conversation and plot progression outside of Orbital’s main computer. Once the mission has been completed players can scour the area for any remaining items and head back to the hub to go at it again.
There are two main types of missions in Daemon X Machina: Offer and Free. Offer missions are essentially story mode and the core way to progress. These are the missions that have cutscenes attached and will often introduce new characters, in addition to doing a brief overview of what’s expected of the mission. Free missions on the other hand aren’t story driven and are entirely optional endeavors. They will still have a briefing to explain the objective, but are otherwise just there to be a way to earn more money and equipment. Free missions also come with challenges in order to earn bonuses like skins or decals for the arsenal. Challenges range from trying to beat the mission under a certain amount of time, killing a certain amount of enemies or even making sure health doesn’t drop too low. Free missions also allow players to bring along additional allies they’ve befriended at a cost. Recruited allies get a cut of the mission bounty, but it’s worth having a helping hand for more difficult stages. The Offer missions also cannot be replayed immediately, unlike Free missions, and require beating the main campaign before they can be revisited.
Although it acts as the hub, there’s a lot that can be done at the Orbital base. This is where the player’s arsenal can be customized and new items bought or created. Players can straight purchase weapons or armor with the armor they’ve made or visit the factory to create new ones. The factory required an exchange of one weapon or armor piece in exchange for one that will be made after the next mission has been completed. Attachments that give bonuses to equipment can also be removed or added here in order to build a stronger artillery. Outside of the menus players can visit the Lab in order to change their Outer’s appearance or take a complete break and check out the Ice Cream Parlor. The Ice Cream Parlor allows players to select a cone and one to two scoops in order to give bonus stats for the next mission. This main hub area is also where players can take the challenge into multiplayer.
Multiplayer in Daemon X Machina has both local and online co-op. This allows up to four allies to work together in order to complete challenging quests. Unfortunately players cannot do story or free missions together, but instead have their own individual quests which are heavily focused on combat. Multiplayer quests either require the fighting of a giant Immortal or taking down other NPC arsenals in close-ranged combat. The online hub is simple and straightforward, with connection while in missions feeling great even when playing with others in different countries. It would be nice if there was a little more variety to online missions, but the selection available is still great to play either with friends or randoms online.
One big draw to Daemon X Machina is the sheer weapon variety available. Early on, weapons tend to be a tad on the basic side with occasional differences in attack power, but players unlock even more fantastic weapons as more missions are completed. There are assault rifles, machine guns, sniper rifles, laser guns and melee weapons such as swords that act as the main artillery for handheld combat. Additionally there is a slot one shoulder weapon, which can be offensive or defensive, and an auxiliary weapon that’s usually support or grenade based. Weapons can be given as rewards for completing a mission, but most commonly are found by looting an enemy Arsenal and taking their equipment. In combat if a player tosses their currently equipped weapon or is missing one, they can automatically take one off the downed arsenal and use it for themselves. Otherwise the chosen equipment, weapon or otherwise, is sent back and can be checked out post-battle.
If there’s one particular thing that’s great about mechs, it’s customizing them. Daemon X Machina has a whole slew of customization options for players to choose from and really make their arsenal feel like their own. Each main colored portion of the arsenal can be changed, either changing all of them at once or individually, in addition to being able to choose from full paint jobs that can be unlocked throughout the various missions. Decals are the biggest way to decorate even further, with over 100 decal options to be added onto areas of the arsenal. These decals will need to be unlocked, but many can be obtained through normal missions progression. Since most of the time in will be spent staring at the arsenal, it’s great being able to decorate it freely whenever in order to mix things up or just find one fantastic look and stick with it.
The strongest points Daemon X Machina has to offer are its visuals, soundtrack and general gameplay. The cel-shaded approach looks fantastic, especially when moving into some of the later stages that incorporate a lot more color. The soundtrack is hard rock with tons of lyrical incorporation that makes each fight feel intense and keeps every encounter’s excitement level high. Gameplay is endlessly fast-paced, and aside from a few missions that require the use of slow Immortal mechs, typically stays enthralling throughout. Where Daemon X Machina tends to fall short is in the story. While many of the characters end up becoming memorable favorites, the early portions are confusing for anyone interested in a plot or coherent story telling. Later portions piece things together little by little for those who pay close attention, but it isn’t one to write home about. There are also occasional frame drops in combat, but are usually tied into loading lots of enemies at once and don’t linger. Handheld mode is also surprisingly smooth, with visuals holding up well and any frame drops feeling no different than when they might occur while docked.
Closing Comments:
A modern mech title that can easily be a gateway drug to hours of fast-paced action, there’s nothing else quite like Daemon X Machina on Switch. While its story falls a bit short, it’s still enjoyable and intriguing enough of a ride to keep up with even when confusing. It shines strongest in its amount of replayability and sheer mountain of additional content that can be unlocked. Daemon X Machina is a title that’s hard to put down and is easy to get sucked in and just want to keep going further and see what other crazy things it has waiting around the corner. It’s obvious that a ton of time and dedication was put into Daemon X Machina, and it’s one that fans of the genre or those with the tiniest bit of interest should check out.
Version Reviewed: Nintendo Switch
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The Vasa Children’s Home
15251 Old Childrens Home Road, Vasa Township, MN
When Hans Mattson immigrated from Sweden and founded “Mattson’s Settement” in 1853, along with other Swedish farmers, little did he know how his small town would hold so much hope for others. (He himself would become the Minnesota Secretary of State, serve in the Civil War, and become the United States Consul General of India). A decade later, after Reverend Eric Norelius founded the local Lutheran church, the true calling of the town began to unfold with the creation of what would become the first private children’s home in Minnesota.
In 1865 Reverend Norelius learned of four children in St. Paul, recently immigrated from Sweden, that were orphaned and in need of care. Norelius brought them to Vasa and housed them in the basement of the Lutheran church. Not being adequate for long term living, he was able to purchase 10 acres of land a few years later near the church, and in 1869, built a small house for the children. This was the first of four homes to be used for orphans on the present day land. In 1876, a second larger house was built, but it was destroyed by a tornado in 1879. The third home, built with-in the year, was destroyed by fire in 1899 when a young child was playing with matches in a clothes closet. The Neo-classical styled home seen today was built in 1899, soon after the fire, and is the final remaining home built on this location. It ceased being a children’s home when a new facility was built outside of Red Wing in 1926, but through it’s years has witnessed and cared for hundreds of children.
The Original School House
The home sat vacant for nearly 40 years, until a couple bought the home in 1968 and began restoring the property. It currently is comprised of 2 parcels totaling 34 acres of woods, pasture, and tillable land. Further improvements have been made by subsequent owners since then, including the grounds, expansive gardens, the addition of a guest house, and more. Today, this historic home stands as a testament to the hard work of many to preserve it for future generations. A few other structures that still stand and are original to the property include a small school house, barn and silo, and caretaker’s cottage. There are several building ruins on the site, too.
One of the original barns and silo still standing.
The home was placed on the National Registry of Historic Places, along with the Vasa Township Historic District, in 1975.
It is currently For Sale with more photos and a 3-D interactive tour at the Property Website.
The second children's home built on site.
Second Children's Home destroyed by tornado in 1879.
Fourth children's home, circa 1900.
Fourth children's home showing an additional building, circa 1900
Photo of fourth home circa 1907 with school house in back of photo.
Fourth home with children, windmill can be seen in back of photo.
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Wow Christian Hits 2013 Out In Sept
September 17, 2012 By Rob Houston
WOW Hits 2013 Includes Over 30 Christian Artists & Hit Songs; Features 19 #1 Radio Songs; Deluxe Edition Boasts 39 Songs On 2 CDs Available September 25th
(Nashville, Tenn.) September 17, 2012 – EMI Christian Music Group, Provident Music Group, and Word
Entertainment announce the September 25th release of WOW Hits 2013. With 19 #1s, 4 top 5, and 3 top 10 Christian radio songs, WOW Hits 2013 marks the 18th two-disc release and the third WOW Hits Deluxe Edition release of the platinum-selling series that compiles the best songs from Christian radio at an incredible value for the consumer. The entire WOW branded series (Hits, Worship, Gospel, and specialty releases) tops 28 MILLION units in sales.
Featuring 30 songs on two CDs, the WOW Hits 2013 compilation provides Christian music fans hit songs from today’s top Christian artists including Building 429’s “Where I Belong,” Casting Crowns’ “Courageous,” Matt Redman’s “10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lord),” TobyMac’s “Me Without You,” Sidewalk Prophets’ “Live Like That,” Group 1 Crew’s “He Said” (feat. Chris August), Britt Nicole’s “All This Time,” for KING & COUNTRY’s “Busted Heart (Hold On To Me),” and Tenth Avenue North’s “Strong Enough To Save.”
This year’s WOW Hits 2013 Deluxe Edition features 6 more hits, with 2 additional #1 radio songs, including Big Daddy Weave’s “Love Come To Life” and Mat Kearney’s “Down.”
Both versions also include 3 bonus tracks from up and coming radio artists, making this year’s edition among the biggest WOW collections ever with WOW Hits 2013 containing a total of 33 tracks and the WOW Hits 2013 Deluxe Edition boasting 39 tracks.
Marketing efforts include prime retail positioning throughout the holiday season at all Christian, mainstream and digital retail outlets, radio promotions, and a strong online presence including ad buys at Christian music sites, Facebook, YouTube, and Google. WOW Hits 2013 will be a major traffic driver for retail during the crucial Christmas shopping season.
WOW Hits 2013 Track Listing
1. Courageous – Casting Crowns
2. 10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lord) – Matt Redman
3. Overcome – Jeremy Camp
4. Blessings – Laura Story
5. My Hope Is In You – Aaron Shust
6. I Lift My Hands – Chris Tomlin
7. The Hurt & The Healer – MercyMe
8. Forgiveness – Matthew West
9. We Are – Kari Jobe
10. Live Like That – Sidewalk Prophets
11. Fall Apart – Josh Wilson
12. Angel By Your Side – Francesca Battistelli
13. Trust In Jesus – Third Day
14. Do Everything – Steven Curtis Chapman
15. Someone Worth Dying For – MIKESCHAIR
16. BONUS: Only A Mountain – Jason Castro
Deluxe Edition Only:
17. Love Come To Life – Big Daddy Weave
18. Carry Me To The Cross – Kutless
19. Free – Dara Maclean
1. God’s Not Dead (Like A Lion) – Newsboys
2. Me Without You – TobyMac
3. Where I Belong – Building 429
4. All This Time – Britt Nicole
5. Lift Me Up – The Afters
6. Busted Heart (Hold On To Me) – for KING & COUNTRY
7. Hold Me – Jamie Grace (feat. TobyMac)
8. Strong Enough To Save – Tenth Avenue North
9. He Said – Group 1 Crew (feat. Chris August)
10. Center Of It – Chris August
11. Good Morning – Mandisa (feat. TobyMac)
12. One Day Too Late – Skillet
13. The Redeemer – Sanctus Real
14. The Light In Me – Brandon Heath
15. Make A Move – Royal Tailor
16. BONUS: Banner of Love – Luminate
17. BONUS: When Mercy Found Me – Rhett Walker Band
18. Let Me Feel You Shine – David Crowder*Band
19. Down – Mat Kearney
20. Feel It In Your Heart – Abandon
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State Of Florida Donates Water, Funds For Bahamas Relief
WLRN 91.3 FM | By Alexander Gonzalez
Published September 10, 2019 at 3:01 PM EDT
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis outside the National Hurricane Center in Miami Thursday morning.
Floridians prepared for the worst as they monitored Category 5 Hurricane Dorian parked over the Bahamas around Labor Day. The islands suffered from 185 mph winds and more than 20 feet of storm surges in some areas — leaving hundreds of thousands Bahamians in devastation.
“This could’ve been us,” said Jared Moskowitz, director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, in a Tuesday news conference, alongside Gov. Ron DeSantis. “Unfortunately that miracle for us came at the expense of our Bahamian brothers and sisters.”
DeSantis announced how the state is contributing to relief efforts: The water that Florida stockpiled for Dorian is being donated to the Bahamas.
The state is shipping 10 trailer trucks full of water. Florida Power & Light is also contributing nine truckloads of water — for a grand total of more than 500,000 bottles of water heading to Nassau, where the Bahamian government is organizing hurricane relief.
DeSantis also said more than $11 million from individuals and companies is going toward relief in the Bahamas.
Florida House Speaker Jose Oliva is also giving $100,000 for relief on behalf of House Republicans, DeSantis added.
This support comes a day after DeSantis said he would defer to the federal government on visa requirements for Bahamian evacuees. On Monday, he declined to weigh in on requests by some Florida lawmakers from both parties to waive those requirements.
“The idea that it should be the state’s responsibility, if you think that, then you have no idea how our system of government works,” he said. “The idea that I would overstep the State Department is just absurd.”
At Tuesday’s news conference, John Rood, former ambassador to the Bahamas, appointed by President George W. Bush, talked about plans for rebuilding the hardest-hit areas, like Abaco.
Rood said the state will commit funds and work with the organization Mission of Hope International to build 1,000 units of transitional housing in Marsh Harbour.
On Abaco and Grand Bahama islands, Bahamian authorities continue search and rescue efforts. Dorian has left at least 50 people dead and the death toll is expected to rise.
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HNF Stories
Senate budget thumps hospitals, others; gives workers a break on coverage
Health News Florida | By Jim Saunders
Published April 7, 2011 at 9:37 AM EDT
The Florida Senate today approved a proposed 2011-12 budget that would slash hundreds of millions of dollars for hospitals, mental-health services and the Medically Needy program.
Senators voted 33-6 to approve the spending plan. The House is expected to approve its version later today, setting up negotiations on a final budget in the coming weeks.
The budget would cut hospital Medicaid rates by 10 percent and eliminate money for outpatient adult mental-health and substance-abuse services. It also would stop covering hospital and drug costs in April 2012 in the Medically Needy program, which serves people who don't qualify for Medicaid but have debilitating illnesses.
With lawmakers facing a $3.8 billion shortfall for the fiscal year that starts July 1, Sen. Don Gaetz said they had to make cuts. The only alternative, he said, would be to raise taxes.
"None of us wanted to make these decisions,'' the Niceville Republican said.
But Sen. Paula Dockery, R-Lakeland, questioned whether tax increases were the only other possibility. She gave examples of other possible spending cuts, including an amendment today to spend $1.4 million to help build a community senior center in the Palm Beach County community of Belle Glade.
Similarly, Senate Minority Leader Nan Rich, D-Weston, said lawmakers should look at closing corporate tax loopholes to bring in more money. She said the budget would cause "unnecessary pain" in areas such as the Medically Needy program, which would only cover physician services beginning in April 2012.
The vote came after the Senate made a series of changes to the budget Wednesday.
In one of those changes, senators decided rank-and-file state employees should escape a large increase in health-insurance premiums next year. But employees could see their benefits trimmed.
The insurance decision came after Senate leaders proposed changes last week that could have forced tens of thousands of employees to swallow premium increases of $1,100 a year or more for family coverage.
Senators scaled that back dramatically Wednesday, approving a budget amendment that includes a $20-a-month premium increase for family coverage and no increase for individuals.
The amendment, however, would still lead to substantial increases for appointed workers and lawmakers, who have paid little in recent years for coverage. They would start being treated the same as rank-and-file employees --- meaning an appointed worker with family coverage could see costs jump from $360 a year to $2,400.
At the same time, Senate leaders want the state to negotiate revamped insurance-benefit packages to help restrain costs. It is too early to know what those packages would include, but benefits could be reduced.
Senate Budget Chairman JD Alexander, R-Lake Wales, said the insurance program will cost about $2 billion next year, up about $170 million from this year. He said "there is no free lunch.''
"I think this is a simple, direct approach that says we will live within our means,'' Alexander said.
Democratic Sen. Bill Montford, whose Tallahassee-area district is filled with state workers, said the proposal is "promising," compared to the earlier versions.
"I believe we can protect the taxpayers, and I think we can get a reasonably good deal for employees,'' he said.
Montford, however, said he remains concerned about increasing insurance premiums at the same time that lawmakers are looking at requiring employees to start paying into the state pension fund.
"The question to me is, how much can we expect them to absorb quickly?" he said.
Employee health insurance likely will be an issue in the upcoming budget negotiations, as the House has not proposed the same changes as the Senate. The Senate proposal would take effect Jan. 1.
Currently, individual rank-and-file employees pay $600 a year for insurance, while family coverage costs $2,160. That family cost would increase to $2,400 under the Senate bill.
Appointed officials and lawmakers pay $100 a year for individual coverage, which would increase to $600 in the Senate proposal.
Jim Saunders
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Why Democratic Presidential Candidates Are Eager To Talk About Health Care
By Danielle Kurtzleben
Published July 29, 2019 at 5:18 AM EDT
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:
Democrats are eager to talk about health care. It was their strategy to win back the House of Representatives last year. And ahead of this week's presidential debate, the candidates are talking a lot about how to change the nation's health care system. And this morning, California senator Kamala Harris released her plan to implement Medicare for All. NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben has been digging into the details and joins us now. Hi, Danielle.
DANIELLE KURTZLEBEN, BYLINE: Hey, Rachel.
MARTIN: What's in the plan?
KURTZLEBEN: So Kamala Harris is proposing what she's calling her version of Medicare for All - Medicare for All, of course, being that plan that Senator Sanders has unveiled multiple times over the years. Now, Kamala Harris' plan wouldn't be government-administrated insurance for everyone. Under her plan, there would be a Medicare-like program administered by the government that people could enroll in. And, like traditional Medicare, it would be an - a plan operated by the government.
But what sets her plan apart is another thing that is like how Medicare is now. There would be the option to get Medicare plans on the private market. Right now, we call that Medicare Advantage. A lot of seniors are enrolled in that. This would do something like that for everyone.
But also, one thing to keep in mind here also is that Medicare for All has been very effective branding for Democrats, but a lot of these plans, not exactly an expansion of Medicare to everybody. Because Harris' plan, for example - much more expansive than Medicare. It covers reproductive health, vision, dental, so not exactly like traditional Medicare that people are used to.
MARTIN: Right. So if it's more expansive, does that mean it is more expensive?
KURTZLEBEN: (Laughter).
MARTIN: I mean, Harris has said she wouldn't raise taxes on the middle class to pay for this. But Vice President Joe Biden thinks otherwise.
KURTZLEBEN: Right.
MARTIN: Let's listen to what he had to say last week.
JOE BIDEN: Well, I find that people will say they're for Medicare for All, but they're not going to tax the middle class because you don't need to do that. Come on. What is this - this a fantasy world here?
MARTIN: So would Kamala Harris raise taxes to pay for this?
KURTZLEBEN: She would raise taxes, but she has said that she wouldn't have to raise taxes on the middle class. And this is one area where she really contrasts with Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All plan. He has proposed a 4% tax on any household with income over 29,000. Her plan would bring that threshold up to 100,000. So yeah, a bunch of middle-class households who wouldn't be paying that tax. And to make up for that revenue, she has said that there would be other ways to get that. She has proposed taxes on financial transactions like stock and bond and derivative trades.
MARTIN: Is there a way to understand whether or not Kamala Harris' plan would bring down the cost of health care overall?
KURTZLEBEN: So her team didn't provide detailed math on exactly whether this would bring down total national health care costs. Now, experts do say that big overhaul plans like this, like Senator Sanders' Medicare for All overhaul, they could bring down total national costs. But the devil is in the details, as we always say. It would just depend on so many things about this proposal. So we're definitely going to be watching independent analysts, think tanks who you can imagine - you can bet - will be coming out with their own estimates of this.
Now, voters of course will be more concerned about how much they will be paying. And one thing to keep in mind with big overhaul plans like this is that households might have higher taxes to pay. But that doesn't necessarily mean their overall costs will be higher because, in many of these cases, those taxes will take the place of premiums.
MARTIN: So you mentioned earlier that there will be some kind of role for private insurance...
MARTIN: ...In the Harris plan. She's gotten into some hot water because she's given mixed messages about this. So can you clarify what the private insurance role is?
KURTZLEBEN: Yeah. Yes. So she will have private insurance in her plan. We now know that definitively. And it would be those Medicare Advantage-like plans that I mentioned earlier. And that is maybe the biggest difference between her plan and Senator Sanders' Medicare for All proposal, which wouldn't even allow private plans that would duplicate government coverage. So under his plan, that would leave very little room for private insurers - for her, plenty of room.
MARTIN: NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben, thank you so much.
KURTZLEBEN: Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Danielle Kurtzleben is a political reporter assigned to NPR's Washington Desk. She appears on NPR shows, writes for the web, and is a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast. She is covering the 2020 presidential election, with particular focuses on on economic policy and gender politics.
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DARREN DEFLATES ADS' COMEBACK TO GIVE HOGS FOURTH STRAIGHT WIN
Rockford, Ill. - Darren Raddysh scored the overtime game-winner as the Rockford IceHogs overcame a late comeback effort from the Milwaukee Admirals to secure their fourth straight win Saturday night at UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena. The four-game winning streak is the IceHogs’ longest of the season.
Raddysh netted the winner 1:27 into the overtime session. Jordan Schroeder entered the offensive zone down the left side, then set up Raddysh streaking to the net for the defenseman to convert high to the glove side of Milwaukee goaltender Troy Grosenick.
All four goals in regulation came in the third period. Dylan Sikura broke the ice for Rockford at the 2:40 mark of the frame, tapping in his team-leading thirteenth goal of the season after a net drive from Andreas Martinsen. Then William Pelletier padded the IceHogs lead on a bank shot off a Milwaukee defenseman with just under eight minutes left in the stanza.
Milwaukee battled back to earn a point thanks to late goals from Eeli Tolvanen and Yakov Trenin, both with the goalie pulled for the extra attacker.
IceHogs goaltender Anton Forsberg made 26 saves in the win, allowing two or fewer goals for the fourth time in his last five starts. Forsberg has posted a 2.01 GAA and a .934 save percentage over that span.
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The Rockford IceHogs take on the Wilkes-Barre Scranton Penguins on a Fas Fuel Winning Weekday. If the IceHogs win, all fans in attendance can redeem their game ticket for a free ticket of equal or lesser value to the next weekday home game. In addition, one lucky fan will win a $50 Fas Fuel/ Fas Mart gift card. Like every Wednesday home game this season, this is also a $2 Dog Day. For an additional $2, fans can bring their dog to the arena to enjoy IceHogs hockey. Proceeds from the dog admission will benefit local animal shelters. Hot dogs will also be available for purchase from concessions for just $2.
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Family of murdered teenager criticise ‘chaos’ of privatised probation services
David Braddon was being monitored by probation services after being convicted of drug and assault offences when he murdered Conner Marshall.
Last updated: 17 January 2020 - 7.30pm
The family of a murdered teenager have criticised the privatisation of probation services after he was beaten to death by a criminal being supervised in the community.
Conner Marshall, 18, was killed at a holiday caravan park after being mistaken for a love rival by David Braddon, who had a history of violence and had been recently convicted of two drugs offences and assaulting a police officer.
On Friday, a coroner criticised the “woefully inadequate” support given to the inexperienced probation worker supervising Braddon, who said she had been left overwhelmed with casework by her bosses.
Assistant Coroner Nadim Bashir concluded the cause of Mr Marshall’s death as unlawful killing, and identified major failings in probation services at the privately-run Wales Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC), including staffing and workloads.
David Braddon beat Conner Marshall to death after mistaking him for a love rival (South Wales Police/PA)
But he said Mr Marshall’s murder could not have been predicted, and he could not draw a direct link between the failings in probation services and Mr Marshall’s death.
After the hearing, Mr Marshall’s mother Nadine Marshall said in a statement the failings by Wales CRC were a “direct consequence” of the Government’s decision to privatise probation services in 2014.
She said: “Today is the culmination of almost five years of struggle to obtain truth and justice for Conner, and to find out why our much loved son was the victim of a callous unprovoked attack.
“The coroner’s findings have vindicated what we have always known to be true. That the supervision of David Braddon was not robust and the management system of Wales CRC was inadequate.
“This was a direct consequence of the chaos caused by the privatisation of probation services in this country. The coroner identified seven major failures.
“Had these failures not occurred we will never know whether our son Conner would still be here today.”
Deborah Coles, director of Inquest, who represented the family, said: “The Ministry of Justice and those responsible for the Transforming Rehabilitation programme must now take a long hard look at the consequences of their actions.
“The rushed privatisation of an essential service was done in the interests of profit over public safety. Conner’s death is one of many which relates to these catastrophic ‘reforms’.
“The findings of this inquest and others should be considered alongside the voices of bereaved families, and the probation staff who were in the midst of this chaos, to ensure such failures are not repeated.”
Braddon had missed appointments with probation services in the months leading up to the murder, while his probation worker, Kathryn Oakley, was unaware that he had previously been convicted of beating up a partner.
He was being supervised by Ms Oakley at the time he killed Mr Marshall at Trecco Bay Holiday Park in Porthcawl, South Wales, on March 8 2015 after consuming valium, cocaine and alcohol.
Braddon believed Mr Marshall was his ex-girlfriend’s former partner, and attacked him with a metal pole and kicked him in the face and ribs.
After stamping on Mr Marshall’s face and stripping him naked, Braddon realised he had attacked the wrong person after checking his victim with the light on his phone.
Braddon, of Caerphilly, South Wales, fled the scene and was eventually arrested by police in Scotland.
He pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to life with a 20-year minimum term.
Mr Marshall died in the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, on March 12 2015.
Ian Barrow, director of National Probation Service Wales, said: “This was an awful crime and our thoughts remain with Conner Marshall’s family and friends.
“While the coroner found Conner’s death could not have been avoided, there is no doubt David Braddon’s probation supervision was not good enough.
“We have now taken responsibility for managing all offenders on licence in Wales from the Community Rehabilitation Company and 800 more probation officers are in training across England and Wales which will help to improve public protection.”
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‘Earth breathing’: mountain erosion a missing piece in the climate puzzle
EnvironmentFrontier research
by Sarah Wild
<h2>‘Earth breathing’: mountain erosion a missing piece in the climate puzzle</h2><br /><p>Shifting tectonic plates under the Earth’s surface create volcanoes, which erupt in a profusion of gases and molten rock. But when plates slowly shift over time, they also give rise to mountains – and bring up carbon-emitting matter that has been buried under the surface for millennia.</p> <p>As humans pump unprecedented amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, researchers are pushing to understand how the natural carbon cycle works, and how it will be affected by not only the increased carbon in the atmosphere, but the rising temperatures and shifting weather patterns of global climate change.</p> <p>For millions of years, carbon has lain trapped in the rock of mountains. Some of it was once in the shells of tiny organisms on seafloors or dead trees buried under the weight of soil that cemented into rock over time. But as Earth’s tectonic plates shift over millennia, slabs of rock that once lay at the bottom of the ocean crumpled, buckled or were lifted to the lofty heights of mountains.</p> <p>‘When these rocks are exposed near the surface, the oxygen in the air and in water can react with the organic matter in those rocks and release the carbon as carbon dioxide,’ explained Professor Robert Hilton, a geologist at the University of Durham, UK. ‘It is like the Earth breathing, this consumption of organic matter and a slow release.’</p> <p>Life as we know it hinges on carbon, and its movement between the land, oceans and atmosphere is called<a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/CarbonCycle/page1.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> the ‘carbon cycle’</a>.</p> <p>Prof. Hilton heads up a project called <a href="https://roc-co2.weebly.com/research.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ROC-CO2</a> which aims to quantify the contribution of organic carbon in mountain rock to this natural carbon cycle.</p> <p>In previous models, mountains were thought to trap carbon from the atmosphere. Carbonic acid and water erode minerals and rocks, and the carbon eventually flows to the ocean via rivers. But the release of organic carbon through erosion could reduce the amount of carbon we assume is being removed from the atmosphere. These contributions – and knowing how they will alter as the planet gets hotter – are important to understand what world we will be living in a century from now.</p> <p> <div class="quote-view quotesBlock quote_horizontal"> <div class="quotesTop"><img src="https://horizon-magazine.eu/sites/all/themes/horizon/images/quotes_top.png" alt="" title="" /></div> <p>‘It is like the Earth breathing, this consumption of organic matter and a slow release.’</p> <blockquote><p>Prof. Robert Hilton, University of Durham, UK</p></blockquote> <div class="quotesBottom"><img src="https://horizon-magazine.eu/sites/all/themes/horizon/images/quotes_bottom.png" alt="" title="" /></div> </div> </p> <p><strong>Cycle</strong></p> <p>There are numerous gaps in our understanding of the carbon cycle, mostly about the processes occurring on land as opposed to in the oceans, according to <a href="https://www.mpg.de/441979/biogeochemie_wissM41" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Professor Susan Trumbore</a>, director of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Germany. ‘With climate change, changes in the amount of carbon dioxide (available), changes in the ecosystems themselves by changing fauna, new diseases, and new species, the ability to predict the future is poorer. We fundamentally don’t understand these processes,’ she said.</p> <p>During his doctorate, Prof. Hilton recognised the role of mountain erosion as one of these gaps. ‘I was taken aback that some of these aspects are so poorly understood,’ he said.</p> <p>While human-linked carbon emissions and their effects are a major focus of climate research – they account for around<a href="https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/10/2141/2018/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> 9,400</a><a href="https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/10/2141/2018/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> megatons</a><a href="https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/10/2141/2018/"> of carbon</a>, almost 100 times more than mountains weathering or volcanoes – smaller contributions are also important pieces of the puzzle and occur over longer timescales. Their effects are felt over centuries and are integral to our climate. Anthropogenic carbon emissions, on the other hand, occur on a very short-time scale, causing an unprecedented rate of change in natural systems.</p> <p>‘We need to understand how (mountain weathering) operated in the past,’ said Prof. Hilton. It’s important, he says, because the carbon cycle is so closely linked to Earth’s climate, which in turn set the framework for plant and animal evolution.</p> <p>And with mountains and erosion, ‘the land surface is being refreshed all the time by material moving down slopes, bringing new rocks into contact with the atmosphere and water.’</p> <p>Professor Sophie Opfergelt, a geologist at UC Louvain in Belgium who investigates the chemical weathering of rocks, describes mountains and weathering like a large reactor.</p> <p>‘Mountains are ways of bringing materials into the reactor. When there is an uplift of a mountain or erosion, you expose more minerals and surface to weathering,’ she said. ‘It also covers some of these materials and stops material from going into the reactor.’</p> <p><strong>Flux</strong></p> <p>Through ROC-CO2, Prof. Hilton and colleagues are developing techniques to measure the rate of carbon emissions, or flux, from mountains.</p> <p>One technique, which they <a href="https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/15/4087/2018/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">describe in a recent paper</a>, measures the mountain’s carbon emissions directly by drilling a 40cm deep hole into the rock, and erecting an air-tight chamber over it to measure the amount of carbon being released.</p> <p>‘There is carbon in the atmosphere all around us, and you don’t want to measure that,’ Prof. Hilton said. ‘When we breathe out, we breathe out a lot of carbon and we’re very sure we don’t want to measure that. When plants breathe out, they release carbon dioxide and we aren’t interested in that either.’</p> <p>Prof. Hilton and colleagues avoid contamination by covering the rock with the air-tight chamber and repeatedly emptying it of the gases they collect for analysis. Later, in the lab, they have to prove that the gases did not come from other sources.</p> <p>All modern carbon contains carbon-14, an unstable form of carbon that breaks down over time. Ancient carbon from rocks no longer contains any of this radioactive carbon because it has already broken down. ‘This is critical because otherwise people could just say that you’re measuring carbon from a plant and its roots (inside the rock),’ said Prof. Hilton.</p> <p>Another method is to hunt for the remnants of these weathering reactions and use them to estimate the flux. ‘The idea here is that when you break down these rocks, you release other things that you might be able to trace. So, for example, we can measure water in a stream or river and say something about the (chemical) reactions happening upstream,’ Prof. Hilton said.</p> <p>In<a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2016JG003615" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> a 2017 paper</a>, the authors, including Prof. Hilton, measured the amount of organic carbon particles in the suspended sediments from the Kosñipata River in Peru over the course of a year. They found that there was a large discrepancy between the estimated erosion in the Andes mountains and what actually ended up in the river downstream. This raises questions about the actual carbon budget of the Amazon River basin, thought to be one of the planet’s major carbon sinks.</p> <p><strong>Investigating</strong></p> <p>Prof. Hilton is currently investigating carbon fluxes at sites around the world from Canada to France and Switzerland to New Zealand.</p> <p>‘We recognise that we can’t measure flux everywhere,’ Prof. Hilton said. The scales are ‘too ginormous’ but having a variety of sites means that they can try to characterise flux for different environments.</p> <p>‘One of the reasons to do this is to quantify global fluxes, but the more important thing to say is why would this flux change, what controls it, and how it responds to things like changes in temperature.’</p> <p>Prof. Hilton ultimately hopes to describe how flux has changed over the course of centuries or even millennia. ‘The aspiration is to be able to tell people more about why this process changes over time – in the distant, geological past or even (predict what will happen) in the next century.’</p> <p>Researchers,<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169555X16301222?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> including Prof. Hilton</a>, <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169555X16301222?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">have shown</a> that climate and an increase or decrease in rain and water run-off affect how quickly erosion takes place. The aim is to now understand whether increased erosion could unearth even more carbon that has been lying locked in rock for millennia, and further speed up climate change.</p> <p>This is a question Prof. Hilton also hopes to answer.</p> <p>‘How could this process (flux) change to impact the natural carbon cycle?’ he asked. ‘(This) affects the lifetime of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere.’</p> <p><em>The research in this article was funded by the European Research Council. If you liked this article, please consider sharing it on social media.</em></p> <br /> <img src=”http://www.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&tid=UA-40077089-1&cid=‘earth-breathing’-mountain-erosion-a-missing-piece-in-the-climate-puzzle&t=event&ec=republish&ea=read&el=‘earth-breathing’-mountain-erosion-a-missing-piece-in-the-climate-puzzle&cs=republish&cm=republish&cn=republish&cm1=1" /> This post <a href="https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/earth-breathing-mountain-erosion-missing-piece-climate-puzzle.html">‘Earth breathing’: mountain erosion a missing piece in the climate puzzle</a> was originally published on <a href="https://horizon-magazine.eu/">Horizon: the EU Research & Innovation magazine | European Commission</a>.
Better quantifying carbon emissions from mountain erosion could paint a different picture of the global carbon budget. Image credit - Bjørn Christian Tørrissen/Wikimedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Mountains release the same amount of carbon each year as volcanoes – about 100 megatons – and yet we know very little about the process. Understanding these emissions could tell us more about their effects on climate, both in the past and the future.
Shifting tectonic plates under the Earth’s surface create volcanoes, which erupt in a profusion of gases and molten rock. But when plates slowly shift over time, they also give rise to mountains – and bring up carbon-emitting matter that has been buried under the surface for millennia.
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As humans pump unprecedented amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, researchers are pushing to understand how the natural carbon cycle works, and how it will be affected by not only the increased carbon in the atmosphere, but the rising temperatures and shifting weather patterns of global climate change.
For millions of years, carbon has lain trapped in the rock of mountains. Some of it was once in the shells of tiny organisms on seafloors or dead trees buried under the weight of soil that cemented into rock over time. But as Earth’s tectonic plates shift over millennia, slabs of rock that once lay at the bottom of the ocean crumpled, buckled or were lifted to the lofty heights of mountains.
‘When these rocks are exposed near the surface, the oxygen in the air and in water can react with the organic matter in those rocks and release the carbon as carbon dioxide,’ explained Professor Robert Hilton, a geologist at the University of Durham, UK. ‘It is like the Earth breathing, this consumption of organic matter and a slow release.’
Life as we know it hinges on carbon, and its movement between the land, oceans and atmosphere is called the ‘carbon cycle’.
Prof. Hilton heads up a project called ROC-CO2 which aims to quantify the contribution of organic carbon in mountain rock to this natural carbon cycle.
In previous models, mountains were thought to trap carbon from the atmosphere. Carbonic acid and water erode minerals and rocks, and the carbon eventually flows to the ocean via rivers. But the release of organic carbon through erosion could reduce the amount of carbon we assume is being removed from the atmosphere. These contributions – and knowing how they will alter as the planet gets hotter – are important to understand what world we will be living in a century from now.
‘It is like the Earth breathing, this consumption of organic matter and a slow release.’
Prof. Robert Hilton, University of Durham, UK
There are numerous gaps in our understanding of the carbon cycle, mostly about the processes occurring on land as opposed to in the oceans, according to Professor Susan Trumbore, director of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Germany. ‘With climate change, changes in the amount of carbon dioxide (available), changes in the ecosystems themselves by changing fauna, new diseases, and new species, the ability to predict the future is poorer. We fundamentally don’t understand these processes,’ she said.
During his doctorate, Prof. Hilton recognised the role of mountain erosion as one of these gaps. ‘I was taken aback that some of these aspects are so poorly understood,’ he said.
While human-linked carbon emissions and their effects are a major focus of climate research – they account for around 9,400 megatons of carbon, almost 100 times more than mountains weathering or volcanoes – smaller contributions are also important pieces of the puzzle and occur over longer timescales. Their effects are felt over centuries and are integral to our climate. Anthropogenic carbon emissions, on the other hand, occur on a very short-time scale, causing an unprecedented rate of change in natural systems.
‘We need to understand how (mountain weathering) operated in the past,’ said Prof. Hilton. It’s important, he says, because the carbon cycle is so closely linked to Earth’s climate, which in turn set the framework for plant and animal evolution.
And with mountains and erosion, ‘the land surface is being refreshed all the time by material moving down slopes, bringing new rocks into contact with the atmosphere and water.’
Professor Sophie Opfergelt, a geologist at UC Louvain in Belgium who investigates the chemical weathering of rocks, describes mountains and weathering like a large reactor.
‘Mountains are ways of bringing materials into the reactor. When there is an uplift of a mountain or erosion, you expose more minerals and surface to weathering,’ she said. ‘It also covers some of these materials and stops material from going into the reactor.’
Through ROC-CO2, Prof. Hilton and colleagues are developing techniques to measure the rate of carbon emissions, or flux, from mountains.
One technique, which they describe in a recent paper, measures the mountain’s carbon emissions directly by drilling a 40cm deep hole into the rock, and erecting an air-tight chamber over it to measure the amount of carbon being released.
‘There is carbon in the atmosphere all around us, and you don’t want to measure that,’ Prof. Hilton said. ‘When we breathe out, we breathe out a lot of carbon and we’re very sure we don’t want to measure that. When plants breathe out, they release carbon dioxide and we aren’t interested in that either.’
Prof. Hilton and colleagues avoid contamination by covering the rock with the air-tight chamber and repeatedly emptying it of the gases they collect for analysis. Later, in the lab, they have to prove that the gases did not come from other sources.
All modern carbon contains carbon-14, an unstable form of carbon that breaks down over time. Ancient carbon from rocks no longer contains any of this radioactive carbon because it has already broken down. ‘This is critical because otherwise people could just say that you’re measuring carbon from a plant and its roots (inside the rock),’ said Prof. Hilton.
Another method is to hunt for the remnants of these weathering reactions and use them to estimate the flux. ‘The idea here is that when you break down these rocks, you release other things that you might be able to trace. So, for example, we can measure water in a stream or river and say something about the (chemical) reactions happening upstream,’ Prof. Hilton said.
In a 2017 paper, the authors, including Prof. Hilton, measured the amount of organic carbon particles in the suspended sediments from the Kosñipata River in Peru over the course of a year. They found that there was a large discrepancy between the estimated erosion in the Andes mountains and what actually ended up in the river downstream. This raises questions about the actual carbon budget of the Amazon River basin, thought to be one of the planet’s major carbon sinks.
Prof. Hilton is currently investigating carbon fluxes at sites around the world from Canada to France and Switzerland to New Zealand.
‘We recognise that we can’t measure flux everywhere,’ Prof. Hilton said. The scales are ‘too ginormous’ but having a variety of sites means that they can try to characterise flux for different environments.
‘One of the reasons to do this is to quantify global fluxes, but the more important thing to say is why would this flux change, what controls it, and how it responds to things like changes in temperature.’
Prof. Hilton ultimately hopes to describe how flux has changed over the course of centuries or even millennia. ‘The aspiration is to be able to tell people more about why this process changes over time – in the distant, geological past or even (predict what will happen) in the next century.’
Researchers, including Prof. Hilton, have shown that climate and an increase or decrease in rain and water run-off affect how quickly erosion takes place. The aim is to now understand whether increased erosion could unearth even more carbon that has been lying locked in rock for millennia, and further speed up climate change.
This is a question Prof. Hilton also hopes to answer.
‘How could this process (flux) change to impact the natural carbon cycle?’ he asked. ‘(This) affects the lifetime of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere.’
The research in this article was funded by the European Research Council. If you liked this article, please consider sharing it on social media.
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A break-up almost killed me but cricket healed my heart
2019 will go down as one of the most unexpected years.
I began it in a healthy relationship with the woman I was convinced I would be with forever.
We were introduced by a mutual friend in my local. I was in a period of narcotic-infused self-destruction following the death of a good friend and a freelance career lull – but then she arrived and from the moment our eyes met, I knew.
Within weeks we were addicted to each other, and I thought ‘yep, this is it Tommy Stew: true love’.
She was spectacular – the funniest person I’d ever met, the most beautiful, and every moment in her presence was a pleasure. She was selfless, and accommodated my struggles with mental illness, which to our collective detriment meant I’d often treat her as a crutch.
The months passed and we rode out the usual bumps of any serious relationship. My career began gathering momentum and I was feeling extremely comfortable with the big three-oh that was looming. We were coasting and it felt good.
But after an intense, explosive two weeks period of arguments and inconclusive disagreements on our future, suddenly we were done. One phone call on a Wednesday night was enough for her to call it a day.
I was, and probably still am, shell-shocked. I’m permanently scarred due to self-harming post-breakup, and I’m still drowning in a pool of panic attacks and anti-psychotic medication. Heartbreak sent me to the deepest depths of depression.
However, there was a flicker of hope, an incongruous light at the end of the tunnel that glimmered through, like an old friend welcoming you back to your home town.
It was cricket.
Cricket has always been in my life. My father always was (and still is) a fervent cricket obsessive and his compulsion was contagious.
I captained my primary school team (although we were terrible) and played to an average level until I was 17. I became an England obsessive and would happily sit down with a beer or cup of tea, Test Match Special on, and watch any level of the beautiful game for hours on end.
And as I was in my interminable, dismantled post-break up state, drinking heavily and thinking about what I had lost, the collective imagination of most British sporting fans was simultaneously being captured by cricket.
The cricket World Cup, held in England, began exactly two weeks after my ex-girlfriend broke up with me – a World Cup! In England! That England won!
That was followed by The Ashes, England v Australia, one of the most historic, fiercely competed and entertaining rivalries in world sport. The series was drawn but the drama that unfolded was enough to get the bums of the most casual sporting fan off their collective seat.
With a summer of the sport stretching before me, at first cricket provided me with no more than impetus – maybe even a distraction.
But it quickly became all-encompassing, a reason to get out of bed rather than spending days with the curtains closed in a pool of sweat, tears and self-pity.
Thoughts that were previously occupied by my ex-girlfriend strayed to checking on Jimmy Anderson’s fitness or watching YouTube videos at 2am on how to sand down a Gray-Nicolls bat.
Whether it was the Super Over, Stokes’ heroics at Headingley or the peerless magnificence of Steve Smith – without being too hyperbolic, cricket helped to heal my heart and gave me a reason to live.
Then something astonishing happened. I was offered a position to be the digital producer on a national radio cricket podcast. I may have been given it out of sympathy, which I’m fine with – my colleagues were well aware of what I was going through.
My start on the podcast coincided with the beginning of the World Cup. I must have spent a total of three weeks at the Emirates Old Trafford, whether at drunken Friday night T20 blasts or sitting in solitude at Lancashire matches with no more than 100 other peaceful spectators.
The ethereal bliss of watching live cricket had a meditative and transient effect.
That undercurrent buzz of chatter – of bat colliding with ball, of 26,000 drunk Mancunians shouting ‘HOWZAT!?’ in unison – seeped into my subconscious, gradually getting louder than thoughts of loneliness.
My ex had provided me with a sense of belonging and a familiar, comforting presence. Watching cricket gave me that same feeling. Being cosseted by a buoyant crowd replaced my need to be dependent on another person.
Having somewhere to go when times grew cold, when loneliness overwhelmed, helped me get over her. Cricket was my go-to fix for stability, joy and companionship whether that was in the company of friends or just me and the TV.
I also picked up a bat again. What began with a sheepish and timid session with a colleague eventually progressed to trips to the nets two or three times a week. I even mustered up the courage to play a match!
I met new people of different races and ages and played with strangers and old mates I’d not seen for years. It felt like a figurative group hug – friends and colleagues who saw me suffer the severity of heartbreak embraced and lifted me.
My dad told me he’d suffered similarly as a young man and explained that heartbreak is one of the most difficult forms of grief to recover from. The fact that at 66 he could open up in such a way made me feel less alone.
I poured my love into the cricketing community – the fans, the players, the wickets, the shots, the journalists, my colleagues, the WhatsApp groups – and the community loved me back.
I believe love and genuine companionship often strike unexpectedly, so from here on in I’m going to look after myself mentally and if another love story does unravel, I know I can embrace it from a safe and confident place.
Or it may be that cricket is the one true love of my life – and there would be nothing wrong with that at all.
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Houston has a huge chance to tie the series
Astros playoff report presented by APG&E: World Series Game 4 Preview
Chris Campise
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With an impressive showing in the first game in D.C. on Friday in World Series Game 3, the Astros were able to get back into the series and avoid going down 3-0 and instead made it a 2-1 deficit. That makes Game 4 pivotal for both teams, as a victory for the Nationals puts them back in the driver's seat, while a win for Houston would give them the upper hand for the rest of the series. Here is a quick look at Saturday's crucial game in this series:
When: Saturday, 7:07 p.m Central.
Where: Nationals Park - Washington, D.C.
TV: FOX.
Streaming: Fox Sports App.
Pitching matchup: Urquidy vs Corbin.
Series: Nationals lead 2-1.
Series schedule
Date & Time (Central) Location Pitching matchup
Game 1 Nationals 5, Astros 4 Minute Maid Park, Houston TX Cole (L) vs Scherzer (W)
Game 2 Nationals 12, Astros 3 Minute Maid Park, Houston TX Verlander (L) vs Strasburg (W)
Game 3 Astros 4, Nationals 1 Nationals Park, Washington D.C. Greinke (ND) vs Sanchez (L)
Game 4 Saturday 10/26, 7:07 PM Nationals Park, Washington D.C. Urquidy vs Corbin
Game 5 Sunday 10/27, 7:07 PM Nationals Park, Washington D.C. Cole vs Scherzer+
Game 6* Tuesday, 10/29, 7:07 PM Minute Maid Park, Houston TX Verlander vs Strasburg+
Game 7* Wednesday 10/30, 7:08 PM Minute Maid Park, Houston TX Greinke vs Sanchez+
* If necessary
+ Projected Starters
Game Storylines
A massive opportunity for Houston
As stated earlier, this game is crucial on both sides. If Houston loses, they are down 3-1 and will have to win the final three games of the series. However, if they can steal another game on the road, then the odds shift back to being in their favor in a big way. Despite the horrible start to the series by losing the first two games at home, that's what this series could become: a best-of-three.
While the first two starts with Cole and Verlander on the mound did not go their way, they remain the two aces you want to have at your disposal in a best-of-three situation. They've already won their way to another start with Cole; now, they need to push the series back to Houston for at least another game to get to Verlander. With that hard-earned opportunity on the horizon, the Astros should do all they can to continue the momentum they created in Game 3 to stay in the win column.
How deep can Urquidy go?
Before they can start thinking about coming back to Houston with a chance to win the series, though, they'll have to take care of business on Saturday in what is expected to be a bullpen day. It starts with Jose Urquidy, who the Astros have given the nod as the starter in the game. After being in consideration to start ALCS Game 6, Houston's last bullpen day, the Astros instead sent Brad Peacock to the mound to start the game. Peacock would provide 1.2 innings in that game while allowing a run, while later in the game, Urquidy would impress with 2.2 innings while allowing just one run on a solo homer.
While the Astros will have all hands on deck in terms of their bullpen, it would be a massive benefit if Urquidy can come out hot and eat up several innings and into the middle innings or beyond. Not only would that improve their chances of winning Game 4, but it would also help keep their bullpen usage manageable for the rest of the series behind starts by Cole, Verlander, and Greinke, depending on how far the series goes.
Be sure to check SportsMap after the final out for an in-depth recap of the game, and follow me on Twitter for updates and reactions throughout each playoff game: @ChrisCampise
The Astros playoff report is presented by APG&E.
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James Harden was 100-percent exactly right earlier this week when he said the Houston Rockets were "just not good enough."
How could they be? Not when their moody superstar scorer, who makes about half a million dollars per game, shows up chubby, looking like a kielbasa about to explode in the microwave. Hey, some people eat when they're unhappy, it's a defense mechanism. In Harden's case, the only defense he's exhibited this season. At least he had a good excuse for missing pre-season training camp and alienating his teammates - he was busy partying with Cinnamon and Cherish in Atlanta and Vegas without a mask. Worst of all, he went into the tank his last four games in a Rockets uniform, standing around, arms folded, scoring fewer than 20 points each time, all Rockets losses. Fans in the front row were asking him to move, he was blocking their view of players who cared about winning. James Harden sabotaged his own team, a team that offered him $50 million a year to stay. Something that crazy could only happen in professional sports these days.
There's a saying that drives the American labor movement: "a fair day's wage for a fair day's work." It's the motto of the American Federation of Labor. The National Basketball Players Association is not a member. Harden's sulking on the court, cheating the Rockets and their fans, was unforgivable.
Harden, sitting out games while somehow being on the court, forced the Rockets to trade him - and quick - to Brooklyn. The trade, when you ignore the fine print and unindicted co-conspirators Cleveland and Indiana, sent Harden to Brooklyn in exchange for Caris LeVert (immediately flipped for Victor Oladipo), Jarrett Allen, three first-round draft picks and four swapped first-rounders. It's true, when you trade a superstar, you never get back equal value. The other team wins.
If it makes Rockets fans feel any better, the media in New York already has problems with their new problem child. I should say newest problem child. Kyrie Irving plays for the Nets.
"They (the Nets) gave up everybody! There's nothing left now. I just want to cry, It's awful," weeped WFAN Radio talk host Evan Roberts. For those who don't subscribe to weekly Arbitron ratings reports, WFAN is the most powerful, top-rated sports talk station in the Apple.
"You're leading down the road of doom. Harden and Durant could be gone in a year and a half. I'm not convinced this gives them a better chance to win a title. I'm living a nightmare again. They better freaking win."
Circle March 3 on your Rockets schedule. That's when the Brooklyn Nets, with their Big 3 of Kevin Durant, James Harden and possibly Kyrie Irving visit Toyota Center. I hear talk radio salivating over the record jeers that will cascade over Harden's name, although I'm not buying it. Fans don't think like the media does. I'm thinking that Rockets fans will welcome Harden back - one night only - with cheers.
Toyota Center public address announcer Matt Thomas: "Usually when former Rockets come to town for the first time since leaving, I give them a positive introduction. It's up to the fans how to react."
James Harden spent eight seasons with the Rockets. He is a spectacular player who watched other NBA players engineer trades so they could compete for a title. Harden didn't think the Rockets were good enough, and he's right. So he wanted out. We've all been there, a job we didn't like for a company we didn't like, for a boss we didn't respect. Harden wanting to be traded is understandable. How he went about it was deplorable. He hurt his co-workers.
Houston will make Harden pay for his disrespectful departure. He has an upscale restaurant set to open here. The name of the steakhouse will be "13." Harden's business partners may want to change that number ... before the restaurant's telephone number is disconnected. There are plenty of other restaurants in Houston. Rich people who can afford steakhouse prices hold grudges.
Rockets fans searching for a silver lining say, "We got two decent players and a whole bunch of precious first-round picks" for a malcontent who would rather be anywhere (except maybe Sacramento) than Houston." Yes, a bunch of first-round picks does bode well for the future. Anywhere, except maybe Houston.
Houston's draft war room isn't the most successful operation in the NBA. Over the past decade prior to 2000, under the direction of general manager Daryl Morey, the Rockets made 16 draft picks. Not one of them is still in a Rockets uniform, many of them have sought employment outside of America, some outside of basketball. Among their first-round whiffs: Nikola Mirotic, Terrence Jones, Sam Dekker - all out of the league. Best of all, Royce White, who played three whole games in his NBA career and finished with a scoring average of 0.00 points per game.
Examining the Harden trade and everything that led up to it ... ›
What the next chapter looks like for a Harden-less Rockets ... ›
Reaction to James Harden being traded on ESPN Houston ... ›
Blockbuster trade sends James Harden to the Nets - SportsMap ›
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Watch: Ben Gibbard debuts new song, covers Nirvana in latest ‘Live From Home’
Gibbard played new song 'Proxima B' and covered 'All Apologies'
By scott lewis Live Performances, Music News, New Videos 24.04.2020
Ben Gibbard’s “Live From Home” performance for this week saw the singer-songwriter debut a new tune titled “Proxima B” while also featuring a cover of Nirvana’s “All Apologies.”
Gibbard noted that his performance of “Proxima B” was “much more subdued version than the balls-out rock version coming at you soon.” You can check out the complete performance below, with “Proxima B” played at the 33:57 mark, and “All Apologies” at 39:03.
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Warrior – Review
Travis Leamons | September 4, 2011 | Reviews, Theatrical Reviews, Top Story | No Comments
Weak marketing downplays film’s substantial dramatic weight.
If they handed out awards for worst marketing for exceptional films, this year’s Warrior would be a viable contender. From the rousing music that communicates to the viewer the drive of the human spirit, and the fact that it tells us what to expect in the last act, the trailer does everything in its power to dumb things down for the audience. This had to be studio Lionsgate’s intent, having conducted focus groups on how to market the Mixed Martial Arts drama. Having seen the success of last year’s The Fighter, the trailer wants to convey something similar. Warrior wants to be that film.
It’s better than The Fighter.
With so many sports films being released over the years you sort of know what to expect. It can end one of two ways. Either the hero will win or lose. But for this drama set in the world of Mixed Martial Arts, the film is more about the conflicts outside the caged arena involving a once-alcoholic-now-sobered father trying to reconnect with his two estranged sons. Regardless of who wins or loses in the final bout, it is what occurs immediately afterward that gives the picture its lasting impression. Those expecting the type of rah-rah Hollywood celebratory ending you would normally associate with a sports film may walk out of the theater confounded.
The narrative is tightly focused on three men: estranged brothers Tommy and Brendan Conlon and their father, Paddy (Nick Nolte). Tommy (Tom Hardy), a marine serving in Iraq, has come home to Pittsburgh to train for a spot in Sparta, a MMA event where the last man standing will be awarded a $5 million prize. He needs help training so he goes to his Old Man, who was instrumental in his success as high-school wrestler. Tommy isn’t looking for forgiveness and won’t offer any to the man whose drinking and booze-fueled spousal abuse drove a wedge in the family. While Paddy wants to re-connect, offering up that he is approaching his thousandth day of sobriety, Tommy makes a point that their current relationship is strictly trainer and fighter, not father and son.
Meanwhile, Tommy’s older brother, Brendan (Joel Edgerton), a former UFC fighter now high-school teacher, begins his own journey to Sparta. His pursuit is simple: money. He needs cash to save his home from foreclosure. When he isn’t grading assignments at home at night, Brendan engages in low-level fighting contests for extra money. This doesn’t sit well with his wife, Tess (Jennifer Morrison), or the school board once they find out that he’s been moonlighting as a MMA fighter. Suspended from teaching, and with his back against the wall, Brendan pursues his own entry into Sparta with trainer-friend Frank Campana (Frank Grillo).
It doesn’t take a genius to recognize what ultimately happens. Tommy and Brendan will end up fighting one another with their father watching from afar. So we are left with an interesting predicament. Who do we root for? There is no clear-cut hero or villain. Both are fighting for completely different, but honorable, reasons. But the $5 million prize is secondary to how the two brothers handle the situation. Director Gavin O’Connor dispenses with typical sports cliches by elevating this contest where redemption and reconciliation weigh heavily.
To his credit O’Connor manages to draw out strong performances from the three leads. Tom Hardy plays Tommy Conlon intensely, reminiscent of Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront. There are moments where he rages on screen only able to growl his lines. Joel Edgerton plays Brendan as a sensitive father of two cherub-faced daughters who has compartmentalized his past feelings of rage. It is only when he fights in cheap parlors that the rage and desperation to keep his family afloat awaken his bestial qualities. Nick Nolte’s anguished performance as Paddy, as a broken man so remorseful for his past acts of malevolence that he is unable to express anger, is among the actor’s best.
When I first saw Warrior back in August I left not terribly impressed. But on the drive home and for the next few days the movie’s themes were turning over in my head. The fractured relationships between a father and his two sons looked to be stereotypical when in fact may have been closer to truth than fiction.
Warrior may be the crowd-pleasing fight movie as the advertisements would lead you to believe, but it is also a sympathetic and emotional enriching story about frayed family bonds that come together in a bittersweet finale. Do your best to ignore the ads (yes, even the one that follows this review) and go in just knowing you are going to watch a sports film that is a great family drama to boot.
Director: Gavin O’Connor
Notable Cast: Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Morrison, and Frank Grillo
Writer(s): Gavin O’Connor, Anthony Tambakis, and Cliff Dorfman
Tags: Gavin O'Connor, Joel Edgerton, MMA, Nick Nolte, The Fighter, Tom Hardy, Ultimate Fighting Championship, Warrior
Travis Leamons is one of the Inside Pulse Originals and currently holds the position of Managing Editor at Inside Pulse Movies. He's told that the position is his until he's dead or if "The Boss" can find somebody better. I expect the best and I give the best. Here's the beer. Here's the entertainment. Now have fun. That's an order!
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In 2009, Mr. Mario Bousquet acquired the company H.P. Hydraulique which was founded in the early 2000s. The owner at the time acquired the Bosch Rexroth banner in 2003 for the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region and Northern Quebec and thus became the only authorized distributor of Bosch Rexroth products for this region.
With more than 30 years of experience in the forestry industry, Mr. Bousquet has a very good background in machinery maintenance. Over the years, he has specialized in hydraulics and has built an experienced team to meet customer demands.
In 2013, his son Frédérick Bousquet joined the company as director. Frédérick has more than 10 years of experience in hydraulics. While working as a hydraulic technician, Frédérick continued his engineering studies.
He was co-owner and in 2018, he bought the company to become the owner.
In January 2015, a new division complementary to H.P. Hydraulique was added. This division, ForceTech Consultants, specializes in engineering and 3D scanning.
The company specializes in the sale, repair and manufacturing of hydraulic, pneumatic and planetary, electromechanical and engineering components.
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H.P. Hydraulique is the sole authorized distributor of Bosch Rexroth products for Abitibi-Témiscamingue and Northern Quebec (Ungava). The company is also a distributor of Flextral, White Drive Product, Isuzu, Hydac, Sun and Petro-Canada products.
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Halloween arrests in Philippines is Duterte’s treat for U.S.
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Reference: Elmer Labog, ILPS-Phils Chair
The Philippines Chapter of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS-Phils) joins the global community and rights defenders in condemning the mass arrests of Filipino social movement leaders yesterday, October 31, in the cities of Manila and Bacolod.
More than 50 activists were illegally arrested in Bacolod City, in Negros island being subjected to intensified military attacks under Pres. Duterte’s Memorandum Order No. 32 and the U.S. Overseas Contingency Operations. The order is an extension of martial law in Mindanao earlier declared after the Marawi City siege in which U.S. Special Forces joined operations. Duterte’s order targetted activists in Negros, Samar and Bicol being red-tagged as having links in the world’s longest-running insurgency.
While Pres. Trump was ecstatic in triumphalism over the unconfirmed death of terrorist leader Abu Bakr Bahgdadi in Syria, Pres. Duterte could only show several attacks on social activists and children in the Philippines.
At around 5:00 p.m. on October 31, combined units from the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), the 3rd IB of the Philippine Army of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) raided the offices of Bayan Muna, Gabriela and the National Federation of Sugar Workers in Bacolod City-based on search warrants reportedly issued by a Quezon City court.
Among those arrested are: Romulo Bito-on Jr of Bayan Muna and his wife Mermalyn; John Milton Lozande secretary general of the National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW); Noli Rosales of Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU); Proceso Quiatchon of Karapatan; Aldrin De Cerna of Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and Danny Tabura of NFSW. Others include 6 minors who are members of Teatro Obrero.
Earlier in the day, at around 5:00 in the morning, combined elements of the CIDG and the Manila Police District forcibly entered the house of Cora Agovida and her husband Mickael Tan Bartolome. Cora is the Chairperson of Gabriela – Manila while Mickael is an organizer of Kadamay.
Two young children of Cora and Mickael, ages 10 and 2 years old, were in the house when their parents were arrested and are now being held at the Manila Reception and Action Center (RAC).
Those arrested were all leaders and defenders of farmers, workers, urban poor, women and children in strong opposition to the US-Duterte fascist regime.
The ILPS-Philippines calls on rights defenders and the international community to demand the immediate release of all those arrested and press counter-charges against the US and Manila governments. We support the impartial investigation of the International Criminal Court and the UNHRC on these rights violations. We call on all foreign governments and investors to stop giving aid to the tyrannical US-Duterte regime.
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Selection of 'smart cities' process most credible: Pratap Padode
Mon, 2016-02-01 13:16 -- SCC India Staff
Pratap Padode, founder of the consulting firm ‘Smart Cities Council’ in India believes the selection of the cities said the selection process was most transparent and it was a credible exercise.
Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu announced the first list of 20 cities today that will be developed to have basic infrastructure. Assured water and power supply, sanitation and solid waste management systems, efficient urban mobility and public transportation, IT connectivity, e-governance and citizen participation are some of the highlights of the initiative. Pratap Padode, founder of the consulting firm ‘Smart Cities Council’ in India in an interview to CNBC-TV18 while anlaysing the rationale behind the selection of the cities said the selection process was most transparent and it was a credible exercise, adding that this shows commitment of the government towards developing smart cities. According to him this provides and excellent opportunity for the IT sector and technology providers.
Below is the transcript of Pratap Padode's interview with CNBC-TV18's Shereen Bhan.
Q: Let me start by asking you, what you make of the governments list of 20 smart cities the first cut that has now been unveiled and are you satisfied with the criteria that the government has chosen to arrive at this list because that is being questioned today?
A: Although the minister did mention there would be a lot of surprises, I would say that except for the fact that some states actually had no winners at all and probably rightly so given the fact that they must have put in the application which did not matchup to the requirements. The rest of the cities which have been selected seem to be the ones that were promising in any case. I think the whole manner in which the government has gone about in terms of the selection process, with transparency, with timelines, I think it is quite a satisfying and credible exercise that has been carried out and it shows the commitment of the government for the smart cities mission.
Q: So, you refute the charge that the opposition is making that the selective selection has been applied by the government. You have said that there is no big surprise in this 20 list that the government has arrived at, what about Bhubaneswar actually coming in right on top of that list?
A: Every city has an economic rationale and when you realise the economic rationale, so in case of Bhubaneswar if it is tourism and heritage part of the whole city and they have evolved their plans accordingly in trying to build up the tourism population or facilitating tourism and the citizens of the city and thereby growing the total economic economy of that city then I think the whole alignment is proper and it must have scored much more due to this alignment.
Q: So, what are you picking up from various stakeholders, the private participants who are likely to sort of be party to the smart city mission whether it is tech, IT or infrastructure players. What is the sense that you get from them on being able to contribute or participate in this process?
A: Extremely enthusiastic. I find a lot of the IT sector, technology solution providers both Indian and international, they are trying to get into the whole base of the opportunity, trying to make themselves completely connected with this opportunity and everybody believes that this opportunity is big, real big.
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2013 Acura TL: The Keyless Access Special Edition
Zac Estrada
Acura's Special Editions department has announced this new version of the TL that's just gone on sale. It's, um, special because of its wheels that are different. It also has a new badge, though there's no indication about the exuberance of the font on the badge.
Should A Fun Font On A Badge Imply A Fun Car?
What does a badge say about a car? I’m not talking about the four rings on an Audi or the bow-tie…
What this special edition is about, though, is its "key feature upgrades," according to Acura. Specifically, the Keyless Access System that's standard on this model. Yeah, that's keyless access that's been available on lots of TLs, Acuras, Hondas, you name it for years and years. Systems with keys that we're big fans of at Jalopnik (Not.) But look at the level of detail about the system in the press release!
Proximity Keys Suck And This Is Why
Just because you can do something doesn't mean that you necessarily should. Hence the curious lack…
The TL Special Edition's standard Keyless Access System lets the driver enter and drive the car without having to handle a key or fob. The Keyless Access Remote has a unique digital identity that is automatically communicated to the car; the driver simply pulls one of the front door handles while the remote in his/her possession and the door unlocks and opens. When carrying the fob (or if all doors are unlocked), the trunk can be opened by pressing a button located on the TL Special Edition's rear spoiler.
The system identifies which of the two supplied fobs is in use each time the driver's door is opened (even if it is already unlocked), and then automatically sets the driver's seat, steering wheel, outside mirrors, climate control and audio system (including audio system presets) to a profile preset by the driver using that fob.
Once the driver has opened the door and is seated, the Keyless Access System allows the TL to be started with a push of the Engine Start/Stop button positioned on the instrument panel. When leaving the car, a press of the soft-touch button on the outside of the door handle locks all doors. Alternatively, a press of the Lock button on the Keyless Access Remote will also simultaneously lock all doors. The Keyless Access System will not allow the transmitter fob to be locked in the interior or the trunk of the TL.
Wow, I feel like I've accomplished something today by reading about keyless access. I guess the only thing Acura could say now is to see your dealer for more details. Because I'd really like to see if there are, in fact, more details.
More Power!!and also some brakes.
Like I have said a million times the 4G TL just simply needed to be the 3G with the 3.7 and available SH-AWD. Also plus keyless access I guess.
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Cities Gunning For X Games Officially Reach Mud-Slinging Territory
Aaron Foley
First off, if you haven't done so already, vote for Detroit to get the X Games. Secondly, vote for Detroit. Third, the battle between Detroit and the other cities is getting brutal.
As a reminder, ESPN is looking for a host city for next year's big event and Austin, Detroit, Charlotte and Chicago are the top four in the running. We've told you twice on Jalopnik (here and here) that Detroit is the worthy contender. And yes, I'm totally biased. If the X Games comes here and you're in town, I will offer my gratitude by taking you to the new Whole Foods.
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Detroit has been down and out lately. But there's still life in the Motor City. Right now, there's…
Watch A Rally Car Drift Atop Detroit Parking Garage For X Games Bid
One month after releasing a trailer teasing Andreas Eriksson drifting a Ford Fiesta ST rally car…
Why People Are Losing Their Shit Over A Whole Foods In Detroit
So, what would've been a brief in a newspaper anywhere else in the country is national news because
So far, the competition has been mostly friendly with a few jabs here and there, but now we're starting to get into the "sir, I challenge thee to a doo-elle!" part of the competition that'll inevitably result in backhanded insults, ragey Internet comments and hurt feelings.
Case in point: On the X Games Austin Facebook page, a message reads "Austin Hustles Hardest." To 99% of everyone else, that's a throwaway line. To us Detroiters, it's a slap at our "Detroit Hustles Harder" movement and clearly a throw of the gauntlet.
Not to be outdone, the good folks running the X Games Detroit Facebook page noted that whoever's running the Austin page isn't even doing it from Austin. Allegedly a Nashville consulting firm is running the page for them.
Not only that, X Games Detroit notes that a Chicago marketing firm — again, Chicago is in the running to host — is organizing a giveaway of shopping sprees to lucky voters in Austin. What kind of head-scratching outsourcing is going on here?
Keep it simple and vote for Detroit. The above video shows scenes from the Detroit movement's presentation to ESPN after they visited late last month. ESPN will pick the winner at the end of this month.
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I won't vote for Detroit, and here's why. I grew up in Pittsburgh, moved away for about 12 years and returned. Now live here with my own family. Pittsburgh and Detroit both faced industry-related crises around the same time in the late 70s. One city, Pittsburgh, acted swiftly, intelligently and energetically to address and ultimately overcome this huge challenge. There were tough years, but never did Pittsburgh sit around asking for handouts, resort to finger-pointing, whine or sink into endless internal conflict and lack of accountability. The city stood strong, pulled together across all classes and racial groups, worked its ass off and is now a vibrant, beautiful city with a diversified economy. Pittsburgh is viewed, worldwide, as a shining example of renewal, community pride and excellent quality of living.
On the other hand, there's Detroit. Instead of doing all of the things Pittsburgh did and continues to do to address problems, Detroit has largely done nothing. Sure, there are little pockets of hope. Slows BBQ is a cute little joint. Eastern Market... bravo. The problem is, in Detroit people point to a small handful of perceived victories and immediately start patting themselves on the back like anything has actually been solved, problems solved. The fact is, Detroit is a disaster area. I know it is harsh to say it, but frankly Detroit does not deserve praise of any kind. It is rife with apathy. Not only do the many problems facing the city not even get addressed, let alone solved, but while the crisis festers, more and more problems get added to the already lengthy list. Detroit is an example of epic mismanagement, laziness and near total lack of accountability. And don't even get me started about "Detroit pride". A proud city doesn't look like Detroit.
Detroit is so eager to celebrate a resurgence....unfortunately Detroit has shown that it has no willingness to actually put the work in to start facing its many problems. Until that happens, there will never be a resurgence in Detroit. The city doesn't deserve the X-Games. Don't like it? Then EARN IT.
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This compilation illustrates the different facets of a popular dance orchestra led by a personable, well-liked and competent musician who seems to have been "happy with his lot" The selection kicks off with the album’s title track, "Chester’s Choice". This fast moving opus, with a hint of "Hawaiian War Chant" and written by arranger Ben Homer, is not typical of the Chester style but it makes a great opener. The instrumental that follows, "Flinging A Wing Ding", has an easier pace and is more like the riff tunes favoured by the band.Several vocalists contribute to the proceedings, starting with Betty Bradley who sings sweetly on "Yes, My Darling Daughter" - there’s that link to Miller again as Glenn had some success with this catchy number. Betty has two other songs later in the disc, while Bill Darnell makes a single appearance with another Forties ‘Pop’, "Dolores", in a nice arrangement. Dolores O’Neill also has four solo features and is at her best on the delicate and charming slow version of "Deep River"; although brief, her vocal is full of sincerity and emotion. Her further ballad work on "Take Care" is notable too, and she shows her versatility on the swinging "Clap Your Hands On The After Beat". Trumpeter Al Stuart joins her to sing "Pushin’ The Conversation Along", a typical boy/girl novelty ditty of the time.
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2. FLINGING A WING DING
3. YES, MY DARLING DAUGHTER v. Betty Bradley
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5. DARK EYES
6. DOLORES v. Bill Darnell
7. DEEP RIVER v. Dolores O'Neill
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9. WITH THE WIND AND THE RAIN IN YOUR HAIR v. Dolores O'Neill
10. FROM MAINE TO CALIFORNIA
11. PUSHIN' THE CONVERSATION ALONG v. Dolores O'Neill & Al Stuart
12. JUST FOR A THRILL v. Kathleen Lane
13. OCTAVE JUMP
14. TAKE CARE v. Dolores O'Neill
15. HARLEM CONFUSION
16. TANNING DR. JEKYLL'S HYDE
17. BEAU NIGHT IN HOTCHKISS CORNERS v. Betty Bradley
18. WHAT TO DO v. Betty Bradley
19. 57th STREET DRAG
20. CLAP YOUR HANDS ON THE AFTER BEAT v. Dolores O'Neill
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Hear Aaron Lewis Perform ‘If I Was a Liberal,’ a Politicized Take on One of His Solo Songs
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Staind singer Aaron Lewis has made clear his political enemy with "If I Was a Liberal."
Not that the musician has otherwise shrouded his partisan aim in his solo career as a country crooner. But the focus of Lewis' ire has never been as distinct as it appears on "If I Was a Liberal," a live rendition of his State I'm In song "If I Were the Devil" that's been revamped into a pointed right-wing anthem.
The studio version of the song that appears on the singer's third solo album presents a questioning take on the nature of good and evil. Its narrative plays out as a series of proposed actions one may take if they were the embodiment of immorality, or "devil," found among many different cultures and religions. Fellow country artist Trent Tomlinson, along with co-composer Houston Phillips, wrote the original iteration of the song.
But during a solo performance in New Hampshire last month, Lewis reimagined the tune onstage by conflating liberalism with evil when he reworked the number as "If I Was a Liberal." In it, the song's lyric remains mostly the same except for one forceful difference: The word "liberal" gets substituted for "devil."
At the show at Bernie's Beach Bar in Hampton Beach, N.H., the singer introduced the song by its album title, "If I Were the Devil." Once he started it playing it, however, concertgoers quickly reacted to the fact that the song's lyrical drive had a new devil in the form of modern U.S. liberalism.
The retooled tune has made frequent appearances during Lewis' recent solo sets, as Rock Feed reported. Directly below, read the song's revised words and watch a fan-captured performance video.
If I was a liberal, I'd find a way somehow
To make man think he created God and not the other way around
And what you see on TV will seem like the gospel truth
And I'd make right look so wrong, I'd make wrong look so cool
Hey, anything to keep you on my level
If I was a liberal
And if I was a liberal, everyone would just see color
And I'd take all religions and I'd turn them against each other
I'd sit back and I'd love it, I'd watch you fuel the hate
I'd light fires on the evening news and let you fan the flames
Hey, anything to keep you out of heaven
And I'd just keep on doing what I'm doing
What I'm doing sure is working out
And if you don't believe me, I could prove it
Hey, all you need to do is look around
Yeah, I'd be thinking things just can't get better
If I was a liberal, when all is said and done
I'd be the coward that I am, and I'd tuck my tail and run
I'd hide out in the darkness I'm destined to regret
'Cause if I was a liberal, hell, I'd be scared to death
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Tag Archives: Seeing
The Present Actual Situation of Philosophical Reflection
August 23, 2016 By kellydeanjolley in availability, Day to day life, Self-knowledge, skepticism, wonder Tags: Bugbee, Gotshalk, heidegger, immersion, philosophy, reflection, Seeing 15 Comments
While philosophical reflection is temporally-historically so conditioned, its aim is the universal and eternal. These however are, and are reflectively discernible, only in and through the individual and temporal. Or better: since the universal and individual, eternal and temporal, are not distinct things or opposites, but constitute reflectively characterizable aspects of the concrete situation of being, reflection must break forth out of non-reflective immersion in the present actual situation. In so doing, it does not leave that situation but constitutes that altered mode of absorption within the concrete situation which attempts to elicit in conception the universal and eternal accessible to it. –Richard Gotshalk, “Reflection and Seeing”
Keeping Your Distance: More on Merleau-Ponty (Philosophical Questions 6)
August 29, 2012 By kellydeanjolley in Merleau-Ponty, Metaphilosophy, Philosophy Tags: Astonishment, Distance, Language, Merleau-Ponty, Philosophical questions, Seeing 4 Comments
Just as we do not speak for the sake of speaking but speak to someone of something or of someone, and in this initiative of speaking an aiming at the world and at the others is involved upon which is suspended all that which we say; so also the lexical signification and even the pure significations which are deliberately reconstructed, such as those of geometry, aim at a universe of brute being and of coexistence, toward which we were already thrown when we spoke and thought, and which, for its part, by principle does not admit the procedure of objectifying or reflective approximation, since it is at a distance, by way of horizon, latent or dissimulated. It is that universe that philosophy aims at, that is, as we say, the object of philosophy—but here never will the lacuna be filled in, the unknown transformed into the known; the “object” of philosophy will never come to fill in the philosophical question, since this obturation would take from it the depth and distance that are essential to it. The effective, present, ultimate and primary beings, the thing itself, are in principle apprehended in transparency through their perspectives, offer themselves therefore only to someone who wishes not to have them but to see them, not to hold them, as with forceps, or to immobilize them as under the objective of a microscope, but to let them be and to witness their continued being—to someone who therefore limits himself to giving them the hollow, the free space they ask for in return, the resonance they require, who follows their own movement, who is therefore not a nothingness the full being would come to stop up, but a question consonant with the porous being which it questions and from which it obtains not an answer, but a confirmation of its astonishment. It is necessary to comprehend perception as this interrogative thought which lets the perceived world be rather than posits it, before which the things form and undo themselves in a sort of gliding, beneath the yes and the no. (The Visible and the Invisible)
In one of the essays in Signs, MMP says this about seeing: “Seeing is that strange way of rendering ourselves present while keeping our distance…” In his lecture, “In Praise of Philosophy”, he talks of philosophy as the Utopia of possession at a distance. And he goes on from the long passage I have quoted above to talk of philosophy as a way of encountering what is far-off as far-off. Has any philosopher ever made vision more definitive of philosophy than MMP? When MMP thinks about philosophical questions and answers, he thinks in terms of seeing and of what is seen. Distance is central: “To possess ourselves we must begin by abandoning ourselves; to see the world we must first withdraw from it.” But the distance must be a tethered distance: it is a distance from something that is a way of rendering ourselves present to it, even while we remain distanced: “A being which is in principle at a distance, in regard to which distance is a bond but with which there can be no question of coincidence.” Given this, and given his conception of philosophy as interrogative, it is perhaps unsurprising that MMP comes to understand seeing itself as interrogative. But if seeing is asking, how is the asking answered? By having its astonishment confirmed. And that means…what? It means, I take it, that interrogative seeing reveals things as they thing and unthing, glidingly form and unform themselves, but in a way that is beneath, before, any yes or no, anything that would seem like a standard answer to a standard question. (Interrogative seeing chips the sediment of traditon and habit and knowingness off things, the sediment that works like sand in the gears of things, keeping them frozen or relatively frozen, unable or nearly unable to glide.) But since what I interrogatively see is of this sort, I can get it no nearer to me, and I cannot treat it as itself an answer to any traditional philosophical question. I witness the instructive spontaneity of and in things, but that spontaneity neither confirms nor disconfirms standard philosophical questions, although it can, I take it, render those standard questions null or reveal them as sedimented and sedimenting. Or, to put the matter differently, when we ask the standard questions, but not in the standard way, when the questions themselves become open-natured orientings upon Being, then the questions, while still not answered, create a free space; and, in that free space, there is
the disclosure of a Being that is not posited because it has no need to be, because it is silently behind all our affirmations, negations, and even behind all formulated questions, not that it is a matter of forgetting them in its silence, not that it is a matter of imprisoning it in our chatter, but because philosophy is the reconversion of silence and speech into one another…
Indeed, so understood, philosophy would seem impossible–it would be the rendering commensurate, first one way and then another, of two incommensurates; yes, it would seem impossible; except that the re-commensuration, the reconversion, happens on MMP’s pages, in a hard-won language that speaks silences and silences speech.
More anon.
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What is Spotfire?
Spotfire is an extremely powerful enterprise-grade analytical platform for deriving valuable business insights. It is a smart, secure, flexible, and scalable tool that provides data visualization, discovery, wrangling, and predictive analytics capabilities. Spotfire also includes an effective dashboard and interactive analytical apps as well.
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Imagine, you are a Data Analyst in an organization and the CEO of the organization wants to invest in a European football club. The CEO wants to know which is the better team, how many matches they have won in the recent years, the revenue they generate, and so on. He expects all this data in one clear visually interactive presentation. Do you think, it’s complicated to present all the data in one visual presentation? No, it’s not when you have TIBCO’s Spotfire; it is a single platform that provides a fast and flexible environment for visualizing and analyzing data.
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Spotfire allows users to combine data in a single analysis and get a holistic view of the same with an interactive visualization. Spotfire software makes businesses smart, delivers AI-driven analytics, and makes it easier to plot interactive data on maps. The platform helps businesses transform their data into powerful insights with ease and in less time. It speeds up data analysis across an organization for faster, confident, and much accurate decision-making.
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Data Discovery and Visualization
Companies now are flooded with huge amount of structured and unstructured data from different sources, and it is quite difficult to analyze data. Nevertheless, the present-day data discovery techniques powered with AI and Machine Learning take data analysis to a new level. Spotfire allows data discovery, where we can search for data like a simple web search.
Data Visualization is a graphical representation of data. Spotfire visualizes, interacts, and shares the data to find out the risk and opportunities in the analysis. Spotfire deploys visualization through graphs, 3D charts, and other interactive forms.
Dashboard and Analytics App
Creating an operational dashboard and analytics dashboard has never been so easy. Spotfire makes it so simple to share and publish them directly to tablets or desktop through the zero-footprint web client. Because these capabilities are role-based, the analyses are shared securely, they are audible at will, and are preserved over time. This method encourages exploration and collaboration with the presentation of a clear message through an impressive display of data.
Predictive analysis consists of certain statistical techniques like Machine Learning, data mining, and predictive modeling that analyze current and historical data and predict the future happenings or unknown events. In Spotfire Predictive Analytics, we can anticipate emerging trends, take preemptive actions to minimize risks, and make better decisions with much greater confidence.
It has three predictive analytics platforms:
TIBCO Spotfire Statistics Services
TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R
Spotfire Predictive Modeling Tools
Advanced Collaboration Tools
Spotfire’s contextual collaboration capabilities uniquely support this natural decision-making process—from spontaneous and free-form brainstorming to decisions made within a formalized workflow—through a new level in social analytics. With Spotfire’s collaborative BI approach, we can capture and socialize moments of insights, ideas, and hypotheses with peers, advisers, and customers—whether in an existing portal or Spotfire. From there, we get the power to make more informed and transparent decisions at a more rapid rate.
Why Spotfire?
Large amount of complex data becomes difficult when it is analyzed over spreadsheets or reports; it becomes easier when data is processed over graphs or charts. Data visualization is a quick and easy way to convey information and to understand it. Spotfire makes visualization much easier with its interactive way of presenting data in charts, graphs, and 3D forms.
By allowing us to process large amounts of information at once, Spotfire opens up the windows of understanding to ease our business operations. Decision analysis is fueled by the available data and information. When we feed accurate, unbiased data visualizations into our decision-making tools, we get the ability to make better decisions for our enterprise.
Benefits of Spotfire
Spotfire helps identify the area in which there needs to be an improvement. Let us take a scenario, in your organization, you find that there is an economic crisis and the shares that you bought are falling. So, you analyze the data from the previous years and find out the shares that will boom in the upcoming days. Then, you ask your organization to invest in those shares. Spotfire here helps you in following ways:
Spotfire helps in finding the facts that ruin the customer–organization relationship.
It helps analyze the fall and rise of a product in the market through graphical representation of the sales and reviews of the product data.
It predicts sales volumes.
Through Spotfire, future can be predicted by analyzing the past and current data using statistical techniques.
TIBCO Spotfire significantly reduces the cost of ownership by enabling users to handle hundreds of their end users over the Internet with the help of just one database.
Features of Spotfire
Big Data Analytics: Spotfire can handle or analyze complex or large data.
Content Analytics: Spotfire can analyze the content such as documents, news sites, customer conversation, and social media discussions to answer specific questions.
Predictive Analytics: One best feature of Spotfire is that it can predict feature by analyzing past and current data.
Dashboard and analytics apps
Ability to quickly identify outliers in datasets
Aggregating data and presenting them in a dynamic chart
Visually identifying clusters within datasets
Pretty easy to get started with new users
Providing interactive, customized reports and dashboard
Handling multiple sources of data
Paired with the cloud version, allows users to access the library from any place with an Internet connection
Needs more manual training for advanced applications
Support documentation for external domain authentication is lacking for advanced infrastructure
Administration panel could be improved in a way that there are fewer direct interactions with servers
If you are preparing for a Spotfire job interview, please go through this Top Spotfire Interview Questions and Answers.
Spotfire Architecture
TIBCO Spotfire platforms use a client–server architecture in which users analyze their data using Spotfire Client. All clients and multiple nodes are installed and connected to the Spotfire Server. Spotfire Server Database contains user directory and stores analysis and configuration files.
Spotfire Server
Spotfire Server is the administrative center of any Spotfire environment, and it is a Tomcat web application that runs on Windows and Linux operating systems. It is responsible for authentication and authorization, and it handles the consistent upgrading of Spotfire Client. Spotfire also manages a repository of analysis files. Spotfire Server enables users to access their data, create visualization, and share them through Spotfire clients. It also provides access to the external data sources, including Oracle and SQL server databases or most JDBC sources, through information links.
Spotfire Professional
This is a client application that focuses on the creation of data visualization, taking advantages of all of the platform’s features. TIBCO Spotfire Professional makes it easy to build and deploy reusable analytic applications over the web or perform pure ad-hoc analytics, driven on our own knowledge, intuition, and desire to answer various questions. This is the main client application, and because of that it has enabled all the data manipulation functionalities such as use of data filters, drill down, online and offline working environments (working offline allows embedding data in the visualizations for use in limited connectivity environments), and exporting visualizations to MS PowerPoint, PDF, and HTML.
Spotfire Web Player Server and Client
With Spotfire Web Player we can explore data using interactive visualizations in the form of bar charts, cross tables, scatter plots, etc., along with guided workflows that will help us respond to events affecting our business. Spotfire Web Player lets us filter our data interactively and gives us answers instantly. With Spotfire Web Player, we can spot trends and patterns and get detailed information on specific data at a given time.
These are thin clients to the Web Player Server. Several Internet browsers can be used on various operating systems (Microsoft Internet Explorer on Windows, Mozilla Firefox on Windows and Mac OS, Google Chrome on Windows and Android, and so on). TIBCO has also made available an application for iPad, which is available in iTunes.
Spotfire Server Database
This database is accessed by TIBCO Spotfire Server for the storage of server information. It should not be confused with the data stores that the platform can access to fetch data from and build visualizations. Only two vendor databases are supported for this role: Oracle Database and Microsoft SQL Server.
Spotfire for Data Science
Spotfire provides a set for Data Scientist tools to work with complex data and it connects to most of the sources of data, including Apache, Hadoop, Spark, Hive, and relational databases. While providing security and governance, the advanced analytic platform allows the Analytics team to share and deploy Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning insights with the rest of the organization, while providing security and governance and deriving actions for businesses.
Tableau vs Spotfire
Features Tableau Spotfire
Data modeling No No
Dashboard support Good Good
UI and visual controls Best Very good
Scripts R programming JavaScript
Customization No No
Database Enhanced Good
Spotfire is a very powerful data visualization tool that allows users to access and combine data in a single analysis, and it has such good features to be the best in the market. Day by day, Spotfire is improving its features and delivering the best results to its customers. Spotfire is used by the world’s leading industries like Bank of Montreal, ABC, PerkinElmer, etc. Job opportunities are also exploding for those who have mastered Spotfire.
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Kelly Sue DeConnick Shares Her Young Fans' Biggest Takeaway From Captain Marvel
and Charles Pulliam-Moore
Superhero movies are for fans of all ages, but sometimes it’s important to listen to the messages young kids are taking away from these experiences. For young girls who’ve fallen in love with Captain Marvel, there’s one moment from Brie Larson’s solo debut they really identify with. According to comic book writer Kelly Sue DeConnick, it’s one that surprised even her.
In the video interview above, DeConnick chatted with io9's Charles Pulliam-Moore about the changes she’s seen to Captain Marvel’s fanbase since the movie came out (in short, it’s grown a lot). Joined by Mary Livanos, director of production and development for Marvel Studios, DeConnick and Pulliam-Moore chatted about what young girls in particular are taking away from the film, and what it says about how most folks experience sexism. It boils down to one phrase: “I have nothing to prove to you.”
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I’m so glad to see a moment of a superhero’s belief in themselves and their ethics and their morality being appreciated especially by kids. This same stance of “It’s what I believe about me, not you” that could be extrapolated to every time you have the cliched moment of a hero not killing their opponent.
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Trailer Frenzy
Things Are as Mysterious as Ever In the New Westworld Season 2 Trailer
Image: HBO
Trailer FrenzyA special place to find the newest trailers for movies and TV shows you're craving.
Hard to believe that it’s been more than a year since audiences traveled to Westworld. But this year, we’re going back, and here’s our first trip.
During the Super Bowl, HBO debuted their best look yet at the highly-anticipated second season of Westworld. Sure there was a short tease last summer, but this is a proper, bad ass, appropriately mysterious trailer.
The new season will debut April 22.
Mail...Kimp
Didn’t the end of s1 mean that s2 basically had to junk all the things that made the season cool?
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Debra DeAngelo
May 5, 2017 in Columnists
Sadly, we DO need to state the obvious
At first, I thought it was sort of silly to have a Winters City Council proclamation endorsing this community as safe for one and all, regardless of race, because racism isn’t really all that visible here. Of course, I’m white, so if racism happens, it’s probably not me who’s experiencing it. (Which is the definition of “white privilege,” by the way… it’s not about what whites do experience, it’s about what we don’t experience. But that topic’s worthy of its own column. Another time.)
That said, with a 50-50 white/Hispanic split in Winters, there just doesn’t seem to be an undercurrent of racial tension here. We all get along pretty well. We order our burritos side by side at Chuy’s or El Pueblo, our children are classmates and teammates, and we have racially mixed festivals all year long, and that includes the Festival de la Comunidad, because, hey — carnitas speak everyone’s language, and they say “YUM!!!” (If you don’t know what carnitas are, you don’t live in Winters.)
I edit our police report every week as part of my job as the local newspaper editor, and mentions of hate crimes are essentially non-existent. I don’t see groups of people staring down other groups of people. I don’t hear people use racial slurs, however, if I did, I’d quickly gravitate away from whoever uttered them.
All in all, race doesn’t divide us in this community. However, piebald beavers and Burger Kings will get everyone’s fists up.
Even so, a respectable group of folks felt it was necessary to push a proclamation forward, with wording that includes: “Winters is a community where we stand against violence of all types including hate, theft, physical and sexual assault. Our community believes that people’s Constitutional rights are important.
“Winters is a community which works for the benefit of ALL persons regardless of socio-economic status, religion, ethnic or national background, sexual or gender identity, clothing choices or language spoken. Winters is Winters because we are a place where people are welcome and accepted.”
(Funny side note — these are the strongest paragraphs in the proclamation, and irony of ironies, they were accidentally left out before the proclamation went before the city council on April 18, and the aforementioned respectable group made sure that was corrected.)
Although I didn’t really see the necessity for such a proclamation, because those declarations seem to be a given and also because nobody remembers city council proclamations two weeks after they’re made, what does it hurt. I mean, if a proclamation came forward that declared all puppies and kittens are adorable, that’s not necessary either, but sure, I’m all in. Proclaim away!
The respectable group, however, is much more impassioned about this proclamation than I, and isn’t that a great thing right there — that people cared so much about something that they peacefully made sure a public spotlight was shined upon it. I’m totally cool with that. Hats off.
Other people, not so cool with that. One scathing letter to the editor last week that ripped right into the spirit of that proclamation made me raise one eyebrow. But it was the comments on a couple of our Winters Express Facebook posts that made both eyebrows go way up — in shock and surprise.
One thread followed our announcement of an upcoming public meeting to discuss immigration concerns. Some folks objected loudly, revealing that they live in a binary world, where there’s only illegal entry and legal immigration, and never the twain shall meet. These folks aren’t interested in Winters children who may be crying themselves to sleep with worry because they fear their parents will be deported, and vice versa.
Stupid, crying children –- deport them too!
(Excuse me while I quickly gravitate away from you.)
However, the thread that really got my hackles up came after I posted a video during our recent Youth Day parade. I’d posted a couple videos, but this particular one was of the wonderful charros, with their colorful Mexican attire and those amazing, amazing dancing horses. Two of the charros leading the group (which has been in our parade since Jesus was in diapers) proudly held the American and Mexican flags, waving in the breeze, side by side — a statement of friendship and solidarity.
And wouldn’t you know it, some troll had an issue with that, commenting, “Is this a Youth Day parade? Or a demonstration of Mexican conquest in the United States? Winters CA is my favorite little town in American. When I visit downtown, I certainly don’t want to feel like I’m in Mexico.
“Also, it is not proper etiquette to fly a foreign flag at the same height as the American flag — disrespectful.”
And then, the wheels came off.
Several people who actually live in Winters gave this dude the verbal spanking he so richly deserved, including yours truly.
(Programming side note: I cleaned up his punctuation for print, because I’m OCD that way. Sadly, it gives him more of an air of literacy than he deserves.)
The common denominator between the comments on immigration and the Mexican flag in our parade and the letter last week is tone — disdain for “others.” But then, that tone has been set by our so-called President, so apparently it’s OK now to air your contempt for others and fly them like, well, a Mexican flag in the warm Winters breeze.
But it’s not OK. It really isn’t.
And so, not only have I decided that yes, it is important to state the obvious — that puppies and kittens are cute and that Winters is a community that accepts everyone — I’ve decided that the proclamation is necessary. It reminds us, as our values are crumbling around us nationwide, what we stand for. In Winters, we stand for community, and community means one and all.
To put an accent on that point, the Express now displays two of those colorful lawn signs — one on each side of our front door, that say in English, Spanish, Arabic and Japanese, “No matter where you are from, we’re glad you’re our neighbor.”
And we are. We really are. Whatever flag you’re waving.
This sign, and another just like it with a line in Japanese, stands outside the door to the Winters Express office.
Norb Kumagai
I have one of those signs (the non-Japanese one) in front of our house.
Maya Spier Stiles North
There is no “other” unless it’s that damned orange lamprey and his infestation in DC. We are ALL one people with delectable variations and people who have a problem with it? Well, I guess they’ve joined that nasty crowd of “others,” too. Go snark away to each other, asshats. The rest of us are enjoying each other too much to bother with you.
That “Other” in the White House needs to GO!
And on that day I will first sob with joy and relief and then I will laugh and laugh and laugh some more and hope that nobody ever pays the slightest attention to him again.
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FIA Disloses Plans for WRC Future
The much needed plans mapping out the future of the World Rally Championship are expected be unveiled in Paris by the FIA this week led by its rally director Jarmo Mahonen. The FIA has joined forces with WRC promoters Red Bull Media House and Sportsman Media and British sports consultancy firm Portas to produce a document outlining the way forward for the series.
There has been growing disquiet in the service park relating to the lack of movement from both the FIA and the promoters, but recent meetings have helped relieve that pressure.
Following this week's meetings in France, the plans will then be put forward to further working groups and the WRC Commission in Geneva next week, before finally heading to World Motor Sport Council at the end of next month for possible ratification.
Teams are optimistic that the current discussions could be the breakthrough the WRC has craved. M-Sport team principal Malcolm Wilson said: "The meetings I've had recently - including discussions with the consultant have been the most positive I've ever had in this championship. We are getting somewhere now."
The rally world awaits the outcome of these significant meetings with bated breath ...
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Krishna is a Post Graduate with specialization in English Literature and Human Resource Management, respectively. Having served the Indian Air Force with distinction for 16 years, Armed Forces background definitely played a very major role in shaping as to who & what he is right now. Presently, he is employed as The Administrator of a well known educational institute in Bangalore. He is passionate about sharing thoughts by writing articles on the current affairs / topics with insightful dissection and offering counter / alternate views thrown in for good measure. Also, passionate about Cricket, Music – especially vintage Kannada & Hindi film songs, reading – non-fictional & Self-Help Books, and of course, fitness without compromising on the culinary pleasures.
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NDVA Launches ‘Vets Get Pets’ License Plate to Raise Funds for Veteran Pet Adoptions | KRVN Radio
NDVA Launches ‘Vets Get Pets’ License Plate to Raise Funds for Veteran Pet Adoptions
BY Nebraska Department of Veterans’ Affairs | December 29, 2020
Courtesy/ NDVA. Image of the Vets Get Pets license plate design.
DECEMBER 28, 2020 (NEB.) — The Nebraska Department of Veterans’ Affairs (NDVA) is launching a new “Vets Get Pets” program to help pay veterans’ animal adoption fees through the sale of special license plates. Starting January 1, 2021, the new “Vets Get Pets” license plate design will be available for all Nebraska drivers to purchase. The plates will cost $5 for the alphanumeric version or $40 for custom message plates. Proceeds from the sale of these plates will be used to fund an adoption fee reimbursement program for veterans, which will launch July 1, 2021, pending sufficient plate sales.
“Our agency is very excited about the ‘Vets Get Pets’ program and the opportunity to provide a new service for our state’s veterans,” said NDVA Director John Hilgert. “As an adopted pet owner myself, I can speak to the joy animals bring to our lives, and multiple studies have illustrated the value of animal companions, particularly in dealing with PTSD. This will be a great service for our veterans and an opportunity for our citizens to support them.”
The “Vets Get Pets” specialty plates can be purchased through dmv.nebraska.gov. Purchase of the plates is open to all Nebraskans, not just veterans, with proceeds from sales going towards veterans’ adoption fee reimbursements. Veterans who have registered with the Nebraska Veterans’ Registry can apply to have up to $350 of pet adoption fee costs reimbursed through the program. Additional information on the “Vets Get Pets” program can be found at veterans.nebraska.gov/vetsgetpets.
The “Vets Get Pets” plate was introduced by Senator Anna Wishart in Legislative Bill 1139, which was amended into LB 944 along with several other new license plates. LB 944 passed the Legislature July 31, 2020, and was signed by Governor Ricketts on August 6, 2020.
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Chinese Army intrudes,sets up camp inside Ladakh
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Chinese troops have intruded and set up a tented post in the Indian territory in daulat Beg Oldi sector in eastern Ladakh.
‘It is deep incursion’,says an Army officer.”Inside the tent more than 50 personnel of the China’s People’s Liberation Army were present at uninhabited area”,said IBN -7.
The incursion has taken place 10 km inside Ladakh at an altitude of 17,000 feet above sea level.
Troops from Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) have also established a camp approximately 300 metres opposite the location, the sources said.
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Lochee facts for kids
For the coaster, see MV Lochee.
Lochee
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Coordinates: 56°28′24″N 3°00′41″W / 56.473299°N 3.011276°W / 56.473299; -3.011276
Lochee High Street
Lochee is an area in the west of Dundee, Scotland. Until the 19th century, it was a separate town, but was eventually surrounded by the expanding Dundee. It is notable for being home to Camperdown Works, which was the largest jute production site in the world.
Notable Lochee residents
Cox's stack
'Lochee' originally referred to the area in which weavers' cottages were situated at the burn which flowed through Balgay Lochee; thus, they were at the eye of the loch or Loch E'e, which eventually became Lochee. It is believed this site is close to where Myrekirk stands today. Indeed, John Ainslie's map of 1794 makes reference to 'Locheye' on the north and south banks of the burn. However, G. Taylor and A. Skinner's 'Survey and maps of the roads of North Britain or Scotland' in 1776 makes reference to 'Lochee'.
When the loch was drained by the Duncans in the 15th century they offered crofting tenancies along the burn. One of the tenancies went to a Dutchman, James Cox and his family. After a change of name and with a reputation for quality linen, the Cox family eventually set up as linen merchants in 1700.
By 1760 the firm had 300 weavers and after using steam power and moving into the jute industry the family built Camperdown Works in 1864, said to be the largest factory in the world, with over 5,000 employees. Cox’s Stack, the 86 m (282 ft) high campanile-style factory chimney designed by local architect James MacLaren, survives. Lochee became a company town with 2 railway stations, police force, fire service, schools, swimming pool, casino, library, washhouse and several churches.
Lochee is well known for being the home of Dundee's biggest ever gang, 'The Lochee Fleet' who were notorious in Dundee's gang culture throughout the 70's and 90's.
Many immigrants were attracted to the area by the prospect of employment in the city's jute mills. By 1855, there were 14,000 Irish immigrants in Dundee, most of whom stayed in Lochee, or 'Little Tipperary' as it would come to be known. In 1904, the Lochee Harp football club was formed by Lochee Irishmen as a means of recreation for the poor immigrants; the club still plays to this day.
Lochee is still regarded as Dundee's Irish 'quarter'.
See also Category:People from Lochee
George Barnes, politician
William Cooper, ship captain, politician (Prince Edward Island)
Henry Bradley, cattle driver (Canada), Boxer and wine importer
James Crabb, classical musician
John Duncan (footballer), footballer
Robert Fleming, banker
George Galloway, politician
Frank Gilfeather, journalist, broadcaster and author
Sir Alexander Gray, poet
Michael Marra, musician
The View, indie rock band. (The band are not from Lochee itself but a place nearby called Dryburgh.)
Areas of Dundee
Balgay
Balgillo
Ballumbie
Barnhill
Claverhouse
Craigiebank
Downfield
Dryburgh
Gowrie Park
Logie
Menzieshill
Ninewells
Pitkerro
Stobswell
See also: List of places in Dundee
Lochee | Scotland
Total Population (2011) 5218 | 5,254,800
% children (2011) 17.63% | 17.38%
% working age (2011) 58.49 | 62.79%
% pensionable age (2011) 23.88% | 19.83%
% income deprived (2005, Barl 2012) 27% | 14%
% 16-24 year olds claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance (2012 Q4) 16.2% | 5.70%
% 50-64 year olds claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance (2012 Q4) 4.6% | 2.10%
% working age who are employment deprived (2008) 25% | 12%
% 16-24 year olds claiming Key Benefits (2012 Q4) 29.2% | 12.70%
% 50-64 year olds claiming Key Benefits (2012 Q4) 32.1% | 19%
Est. % prescribed drugs for anxiety, depression or psychosis (2004) 12% | 8%
Number of SIMD crimes per 10000 (2007/08) 697
% people within 0-500 metres of any Derelict site (2012) 91.6% | 30.90%
Lochee Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.
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Susan Wides | and something happens to the light
May 02 - July 25, 2020
and something happens to the light — The title of the photographs is a line from a poem that Robert Kelly wrote in response to Wides’ work. The setting for these photographs is close to home at her muse, the Cloves of the eastern Catskills. Here are the same luminous mountain canyons favored by Thomas Cole, the works reflecting across time on this site’s spiritual rhythms and its imperiled nature, today more severe than ever before.
…the beauty of such landscapes are quickly passing away–the ravages of the axe are daily increasing–the most noble scenes are made desolate, and oftentimes with a wantonness and barbarism…(Thomas Cole)
Paul Glabicki | 10 SCENES
July 21 - October 24, 2020
During this time in quarantine, Paul Glabicki completed the final chapters of his 10 SCENES drawing series that was begun in 2018. The path of the narrative evolved during the pandemic. Earlier drawings dealt more with fantasy, travel and romance. The latter drawings were encoded with reality, stay at home and travel restrictions. SCENE #8 is informed by patriotic props and color. The final SCENES suggest shelter in place and change in behavioral habits. 10 SCENES explores components of a narrative as fractured data in an abstract space – a space (much like a book) formed in the mind of the reader or viewer in response to the information provided by the artist.
Dan Hernandez | Reset | Game Changers
Early video game consoles were designed with a “RESET” button. This feature allowed the user to reboot the console’s software. While it was not the intent, the “reset” button on Hernandez’ Nintendo Entertainment System often got used as a release of frustration. His finger would jam the reset in a fit of annoyance at losing a precious life, or at missing an important weapon or power up, early on in a game.
The four narrative narrative works in RESET were influenced by various pictorial genres, including early Christian illuminations, medieval maps, Islamic Art and Indian Miniatures. Two distinct philosophies were employed that are commonly used in video games. The first is a sandbox philosophy whereby the player has complete freedom to explore within boundaries. The second philosophy is more linear as the player must follow a defined path. Games like The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, Maze Craze, Pac-Man and Pokeman influenced the work.
In the more abstract paintings, fragments from the artist’s digital archive of appropriated imagery from art history, video games and cartoons, some of which have been used in previous paintings, are piled together in non-narrative compositions.
RESET alternates between the narrative and the abstract. While being distinctly different, the two artistic styles are complementary. They are two sides of the same coin, yin and yang, set and reset.
MassArt Art Museum Boston, MA
GAME CHANGERS through 2020
This group exhibition explores nine artists among them Dan Hernandez working at the confluence of contemporary art and video games. Whether highlighting under explored narratives, pushing technological boundaries, or imagining alternative worlds through game aesthetics, the artists feature in Game Changers are discovering new possibilities for what game-related art can be and do.
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Evan Paul is the host of Taste of Country Nights, a syndicated radio show heard on more than 100 country radio stations nationwide. Producer Amber co-hosts the show with him every night from 7PM to midnight. Together they play the best new country music and interview today's top stars, like Luke Combs, Dan + Shay, Keith Urban, Luke Bryan, Garth Brooks, Brantley Gilbert, Lady A, Maren Morris, Miranda Lambert + more!
Country music is synonymous with being able to tell a story about anything. Whether it's a story about horses on your farm, taking a back road with your baby, or that last breakup that you have been trying to get over, a good country song can get you over that hump.
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I have been with my wife for 11 years — thankfully I haven't needed to find a good heartbreak song — but if I did, I think I would choose Keith Urban's "You'll Think of Me." Like, yeah, you broke up with me, but you will certainly think of me in the future.
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Kentucky Must Not Join Dangerous Threat to Constitution
Jason Bailey | March 1, 2019
A legislative committee will consider “for discussion only” on Monday HJR 87, a deeply alarming resolution calling for a new constitutional convention to rewrite the rules of American government. It is no exaggeration to say this convention could throw the country into chaos and jeopardize our founding document. Kentucky is one of the states whose ultimate position on this issue will make the difference between putting the constitution up for grabs or stopping in their tracks those funding this national effort.
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Since the founding of the country, the constitution has been amended 27 times. Each time, Congress has passed amendments and then the states have ratified them. But Article V of the constitution allows a second method for amendments: states can call a new convention like the one that created the original constitution — which we haven’t done since 1787. If 34 states pass a resolution calling for a new convention, Congress must convene it.
Some proponents claim 28 of the necessary 34 states already have live applications calling for a new convention, using a version focused on a balanced budget amendment. The version like HJR 87 has passed 12 states — including 8 since 2016. It has also passed at least one chamber of the legislature in 10 other states and is being introduced in 18 additional states in 2019.
The Kochs and other wealthy interests are funding campaigns led by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the Convention of States, who are pushing these resolutions hard around the country. Kentucky is considered a high priority target state.
A constitutional convention cannot be controlled
A convention could lead to extreme, wide-reaching and unpredictable changes to the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. Although some backers claim the agenda of a constitutional convention could be controlled, experts say conventioneers would have the power to alter anything and everything about the United States government — just as they did in the original 1787 constitutional convention when they threw out the Articles of Confederation and started over. No state laws attempting to limit a convention will be able to restrain it.
A convention would likely open up the Constitution to whatever amendments its delegates chose to put forward, regardless of whether the convention is originally called to address a particular issue. Delegates to the 1787 convention ignored their state legislatures’ instructions. There are no safeguards to prevent a runaway convention that could lead to harmful changes to our founding charter, as the Constitution itself puts no authority above a convention — including the courts.
As former Chief Justice Warren Burger said:
“[T]here is no way to effectively limit or muzzle the actions of a Constitutional Convention. The Convention could make its own rules and set its own agenda. Congress might try to limit the convention to one amendment or one issue, but there is no way to assure that the Convention would obey.”
The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia agreed, stating “I certainly would not want a constitutional convention. Whoa! Who knows what would come of it?”
Freedom of speech and religion, the right to vote, equal protection under the law, the right to trial by jury, the separation of powers and more are risk in a convention. In fact all of the federal standards concerning how people can be treated, as well as the rules governing how these standards are set, would be up for revision or rejection.
Powerful interests are likely to be first in line to wield influence on who gets selected as delegates to a convention and what agenda gets considered. That’s why one of the big proponents of an Article V convention is ALEC, the powerful corporate lobby group. There are no laws limiting dollars spent to influence delegates to a convention.
We also can’t depend on the state ratification process for amendments to protect the Constitution from radical changes (Article V says amendments coming out of a convention shall be approved by three-fourths of the states). A convention could create a different method of ratification, such as a national referendum. The convention that crafted the U.S. Constitution ignored the ratification procedures under which it was established and created entirely new procedures.
Protecting U.S. Constitution requires rejecting proposal
Especially with a country so divided, and with power and influence concentrated among a few, now is not the time to reopen the U.S. constitution for potentially wide-ranging revision. The risks for the nation and every single American are very high.
See below University of Louisville law professor Samuel Marcosson discuss the threat of a Constitutional Convention, and read this op-ed by U of L professor Dewey Clayton.
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Cross Cultural Comparison of two serial sexual murder series in Italy and the United States
There have been few documented comparisons of serial murder cases committed in the United States with cases occurring internationally. The authors contrasted two unique serial murder series: one in Italy and one in the United States by examining the details of both series, including the M.O., motivation, crime scene interactions, sexual acts performed, and the general backgrounds of both offenders. The comparison revealed a number of similarities. Both offenders specifically targeted elderly women, who were attacked in their residences. The two series involved sexually motivated crimes, although the sexual interactions were different. Both offenders stole objects from their victims after the murders and each kept newspaper accounts of their crimes. In addition, both offenders claimed to have abusive upbringings, including sexual abuse.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1556-4029.2010.01443.x
Codice identificativo ISI: WOS:000279448200040
Codice identificativo Scopus: 2-s2.0-77954345451
Abstract: There have been few documented comparisons of serial murder cases committed in the United States with cases occurring internationally. The authors contrasted two unique serial murder series: one in Italy and one in the United States by examining the details of both series, including the M.O., motivation, crime scene interactions, sexual acts performed, and the general backgrounds of both offenders. The comparison revealed a number of similarities. Both offenders specifically targeted elderly women, who were attacked in their residences. The two series involved sexually motivated crimes, although the sexual interactions were different. Both offenders stole objects from their victims after the murders and each kept newspaper accounts of their crimes. In addition, both offenders claimed to have abusive upbringings, including sexual abuse.
Titolo: Cross Cultural Comparison of two serial sexual murder series in Italy and the United States
MORTON RJ
CAMPOBASSO, Carlo Pietro
MCNAMARA JJ
COLONNA MF
CARABELLESE F
GRATTAGLIANO I
CATANESI R
LAWRENCE JM
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One Night In Miami: Amazon Acquires Worldwide Rights For Regina King’s Directorial Feature Debut
July 30, 2020 · by Irish Cinephile · in Film News. ·
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Amazon Studios have acquired global distribution rights for Regina King’s upcoming directorial feature debut One Night In Miami, ahead of its TIFF debut.
Based on the 2013 stage play by Kemp Powers, the film is set on the night of the 25th February 1964, following a young Cassius Clay – before he became Muhammad Ali – as he emerges from the Miami Beach Convention Center the new World Heavyweight Boxing Champion. Against all odds, he defeated Sonny Liston and shocked the sports world. While the crowds of people swarm Miami Beach to celebrate the match, Clay – unable to stay on the island because of Jim Crow-era segregation laws – instead spends the night at the Hampton House Motel in one of Miami’s historically black neighbourhoods celebrating with three of his closest friends: activist Malcolm X, singer Sam Cooke and football star Jim Brown. The next morning, the four men emerge determined to define a new world for themselves and their people.
Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios, released a statement saying:
One Night In Miami beautifully captures a significant moment in history when these great minds gathered and ultimately helped shape the conversation of what we know today as the civil rights movement. Regina King is a force of nature – mastering her craft in front of the camera as we’ve seen in her extensive body of work, and now taking her talent behind the camera.
Regina King added:
Amazon’s enthusiasm for One Night in Miami is both humbling and exciting. I am honoured to have them as partners on my feature film directorial debut.
The report states that the plan is to release the film as an awards contender.
One Night In Miami stars Eli Goree, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Aldis Hodge, Leslie Odom Jr., Lance Reddick, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Michael Imperioli and Beau Bridges.
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Jeff O''Brien has written 5 work(s)
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Saskatoon: A History of Photographs
Product Description: This coffee-table pictorial history, in its new paperback edition, celebrates the people, events, and edifices that highlight the city's history. To commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the incorporation of the city, Saskatoon: A History in Photographs documents the growth and the successes of the Hub City and its people in the 20th Century...read more
By William P. Delainey, Ruth W. Millar and Jeff O'Brien
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9781550503661 | Coteau Books, April 30, 2007, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: This coffee-table pictorial history, in its new paperback edition, celebrates the people, events, and edifices that highlight the city's history.
Saskatoon: A History in Photographs
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9781550503364 | Coteau Books, March 5, 2006, cover price $45.95
Barbie What Time Is It?: A First Clock Book
Kelly learns about time as Barbie announces what hour it is during different daily events, such as bath time and bed time.
By Dave Bateman (photographer), Susan Kurtz (photographer), Leila May (photographer), Jeff O'Brien (photographer), Nancy Parent and Judy Tsuno (photographer)
9781575847306 | Board book edition (Readers Digest, March 1, 2001), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Kelly learns about time as Barbie announces what hour it is during different daily events, such as bath time and bed time.
Product Description: This is an honest book, a strong work by an attentive and mature writer, Jeff O'Brien chooses to tell the truth, sometimes sadly, sometimes wisely, sometimes with an edge that skins the hide off the pretentious. The result is lovely, intelligent, and piercing.
By Jeff O'Brien
9780970280107 | Jo''B Pubns, December 1, 2000, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: This is an honest book, a strong work by an attentive and mature writer, Jeff O'Brien chooses to tell the truth, sometimes sadly, sometimes wisely, sometimes with an edge that skins the hide off the pretentious.
Seasons in Upper Turkeyfoot: A Countryman's Journal
Product Description: Book of essays by a syndicated columnist who resides in the mountains of Pennsylvania.
9780964618435, titled "Seasons in Upper Turkeyfoot: A Countryman's Journal" | Lucid Corp, July 1, 1999, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Book of essays by a syndicated columnist who resides in the mountains of Pennsylvania.
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Q&A: TIBCO advances safe workplace return through cutting-edge tech
Sara Barker
TIBCO is a company that puts real-time data at the centre of smarter, faster decisions. Providing integration, analytics, and processing software for companies to use on-premise or as part of cloud computing environments. These solutions help to manage information, decisions, processes, and applications for more than 10,000 customers.
We spoke to TIBCO about technology challenges arising from COVID-19, and the company’s investment in solving meaningful human challenges through technology, as well as a look at its new personnel tracking feature available on its GatherSmart solution.
With many countries coming back to work after the COVID-19 pandemic, organisations will want to make sure that their workforce is healthy and as low-risk as possible. What are some of the challenges that organisations will face in the weeks and months ahead?
The most immediate challenge would be to ensure that, as employees transition back to the office, they are doing so as safely as possible to prevent further spread of the virus.
That said, this means that companies must adapt to new ways of working with clear social distancing measures in place. There’s clear evidence that social distancing interventions dramatically lowered the spread of local epidemics.
For us at TIBCO, we knew that the well-being of our community relied on the health, safety, and productivity of our workforce. We also wanted to leverage that data that we had, to help to wider community. This led us to fast-tracking the development of GatherSmart, our analytics-driven symptom tracking solution that is designed to provide a safe and easy-to-manage way for organisations of all types and sizes return to work.
The TIBCO4Good initiative is one way in which TIBCO demonstrates the importance of giving back. Could you explain more about this initiative?
As a company, we are passionate about solving the impossible, and TIBCO4Good is our promise to contribute software, training, expertise, and strategic guidance to approved partner organisations and communities to solve meaningful human challenges through technology.
TIBCO developed a new Personnel Symptom Tracking through the GatherSmart solution. What is it designed to achieve?
As the economy starts to reopen and organisations look to return to work, it is essential that businesses do so responsibly and safely to prevent further spread of the COVID-19 virus.
An important way to ensure a safe place to work is to give organisations immediate and ongoing visibility into employee health status and an easy way to manage the flow of employees back to the office.
This helped prompt our innovation research group to accelerate the deployment of TIBCO’s symptom tracking solution, TIBCO GatherSmart.
This solution is designed to help organisations monitor and regularly check on employees’ health and readiness for returning to the physical workplace.
GatherSmart is also part of our broader TIBCO4Good initiative, aimed at contributing our expertise and technology to help communities solve challenges with a data-centric approach.
How does this solution work, and on what platforms?
Through an employee mobile app and employer control center, GatherSmart draws from survey and analytics-driven data to create a single view of an individual’s readiness to return to work with a regional context.
After filling in a daily health survey form, predetermined by an employer and based on HR policies and privacy standards, the employee will receive a daily digital passport confirming if they have the green light to return to the office.
Managers can use daily health data for a view of teams’ in-office or at-home status. GatherSmart can also be customised, based on the customer’s requirements, to overlay external regional information and display it on a map, through a professional services engagement. This helps ascertain if employees live in a "hotspot," and, with one click of a button, these employees can be advised that it is safer to stay home on any given day.
Employees using TIBCO GatherSmart must download the companion app, which can be found in the iOS and Android stores.
Could you provide an example of how GatherSmart works in real life scenarios?
For any organisation supporting personnel returning to a workplace, campus, office, etc, the organisation would request the returning personnel to complete a mobile app based survey each day. The survey is completely customised by the organisation based upon their policies and questions appropriate for the location/region. Once the mobile app user submits their survey, the response is scored and a “cleared” or “not cleared” passport is returned to the mobile app.
With a cleared passport, the individual is now permitted to enter the location. Upon arrival at the location, the individual’s passport can be verified visually or via a scanning function.
The GatherSmart Control Center, accessed by HR/Facilities, provides a single tool to visualise all returning personnel statuses, the status of all open locations, and allow the organisation to assess additional actions as necessary.
Why should organisations consider using technology like GatherSmart to monitor employee health?
The need to reopen the economy is vital and with a solution like GatherSmart, combined with other public safety and government initiatives, we hope that businesses and employees will be able to transition back to work safely.
Find out more about TIBCO GatherSmart solution here.
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Jennifer Withers HoeyDecember 19, 2020
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Last week CBS Sports NFL insider Jason La Canfora reported that the Pittsburgh Steelers were worried about lingering damage from a knee injury sustained by Ben Roethlisberger back in November.
On Wednesday, Roethlisberger publicly dispelled the notion that there was anything seriously wrong with him.
“I’m 38 years old.” he said.
“I’ve played football for 17 years. I’ve had multiple surgeries. I saw that report. I don’t know where it came from. I think it was the one that said the Steelers were concerned.
“I would love to know who that was or who told him because the week before against Washington I was having issues with my knee, landed on it, had something going on, but other than just an old knee and arthritis, my knee actually feels really good this week, especially after playing on an artificial surface,” he continued.
“Typically, that is another issue that makes it kind of ache. After last week, it feels pretty good. That report to me is just one of those phony kinds of things that people sometimes want to make up. I actually feel pretty good.”
Roethlisberger only played in two games last year, so obviously his health is of paramount concern to both the Steelers and their fans.
That said, it’s good to hear that Roethlisberger believes he’s alright. Hopefully he will be able to continue proving it on the field.
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A joint group of scientists from Finland, Russia, China and the USA have demonstrated that temperature difference can be used to entangle pairs of electrons in superconducting structures. The experimental discovery, published in Nature Communications, promises powerful applications in quantum devices, bringing us one step closer towards applications of the second quantum revolution.
The team, led by Professor Pertti Hakonen from Aalto University, has shown that the thermoelectric effect provides a new method for producing entangled electrons in a new device. “Quantum entanglement is the cornerstone of the novel quantum technologies. This concept, however, has puzzled many physicists over the years, including Albert Einstein who worried a lot about the spooky interaction at a distance that it causes,” says Prof. Hakonen.
In quantum computing, entanglement is used to fuse individual quantum systems into one, which exponentially increases their total computational capacity. “Entanglement can also be used in quantum cryptography, enabling the secure exchange of information over long distances,” explains Prof. Gordey Lesovik, from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, who has acted several times as a visiting professor at Aalto University School of Science. Given the significance of entanglement to quantum technology, the ability to create entanglement easily and controllably is an important goal for researchers.
The researchers designed a device where a superconductor was layered withed graphene and metal electrodes. “Superconductivity is caused by entangled pairs of electrons called “cooper pairs.” Using a temperature difference, we cause them to split, with each electron then moving to different normal metal electrode,” explains doctoral candidate Nikita Kirsanov, from Aalto University. “The resulting electrons remain entangled despite being separated for quite long distances.”
Along with the practical implications, the work has significant fundamental importance. The experiment has shown that the process of Cooper pair splitting works as a mechanism for turning temperature difference into correlated electrical signals in superconducting structures. The developed experimental scheme may also become a platform for original quantum thermodynamical experiments.
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Michael S. Rothman
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I am the founder and principal of a boutique criminal defense law firm located in Rockville, Maryland. I am licensed to practice law in both federal and state courts in Maryland and the District of Columbia. Since 2011, I have been recognized by Super Lawyers Magazine (a peer reviewed attorney publication) as among the top 5% of criminal defense lawyers practicing -- both in Maryland and the District of Columbia. My areas of practice and concentration include criminal defense, white collar criminal defense, dui/dwi defense, traffic matters, Internet crime and fraud, computer fraud, as well as governance and...
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Ben Middleton is a diligent and passionate criminal defense lawyer with a drive to represent individuals from all walks of life. Ben grew up in a multi-generational family of lawyers, but his passion fully bloomed while competing nationally with the University of Baltimore School of Law’s mock trial team.
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Greenbelt, MD White Collar Crime Lawyer with 46 years of experience
(301) 509-5100 6411 Ivy Lane
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Recognized as a Top 10 Maryland Lawyers (#3) by Super Lawyers; A Top Lawyer by Washingtonian Mag. since 2002; ranked by "Best Lawyers In America" in fields of white-collar defense and general criminal defense. I am a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. I am a criminal defense attorney with over 45 years of trial experience having served for 15 years as Deputy States Attorney (supervising 50 prosecutors) and Assistant States Attorney in Prince George's County and as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorneys Office in Maryland (1974-1990). For the last...
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Baltimore, MD White Collar Crime Attorney with 42 years of experience
(800) 385-2243 201 N Charles St
Baltimore, MD 21201
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Andrew Norman is Of Counsel to the firm Silverman Thompson. Since joining Silverman Thompson, Mr. Norman has concentrated on the defense of clients in criminal matters. He represents clients in Federal Court and the various Courts of the State of Maryland. Mr. Norman has over thirty years of experience as a federal and state prosecutor.
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(410) 567-0694 215 Washington Ave.
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Justin W. Esworthy is a founding Member of TBH&E with extensive litigation experience, having tried hundreds of cases throughout the State of Maryland, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the Commonwealth of Virginia. Justin has obtained favorable results for both civil and criminal clients through both pre-suit representation as well as trial victories. Prior to law school, Justin studied in Buenos Aires, Argentina and obtained his B.B.A from Hofstra University. He earned his J.D. from Tulane University Law School and then began his law career in the courtroom as an Assistant Public Defender representing clients on charges ranging from minor...
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The Honorable Judge Williams (retired) focuses his practice on complex civil litigation and federal criminal cases. With extensive experience presiding over thousands of complex civil litigation and federal criminal cases Judge Williams is the only practicing retired Federal Judge in Maryland to advise clients on these matters.
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James V. Anthenelli
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(410) 749-3700 134 East Main Street
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University of Baltimore School of Law and University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
As an AV® Preeminent rated lawyer, Attorney Anthenelli at Anthenelli, Phoebus & Hickman, LLC is committed to providing ethical and professional legal services to residents of Maryland. For over 35 years, this Salisbury criminal defense attorney has succeeded in obtaining highly favorable case results for his clients. His work as a former prosecutor has allowed him to understand both sides of the courtroom. This insight from the vantage point of the prosecution is invaluable. Personally attending to each client, Attorney Anthenelli is committed to providing one-on-one attention as he investigates each case. As a legal advocate included in the list...
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From 1981 to 1990, Ms. Smith served as an Assistant State's Attorney with the Office of the States's Attorney for Baltimore City, Maryland. In September of 1990, she joined the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland as an Assistant United States Attorney. She was assigned to Narcotics Enforcement. Except for a period between 1998 and 2001, Ms. Smith managed the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) program for more than 20 years until she retired from...
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Annapolis, MD White Collar Crime Attorney with 32 years of experience
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Ocean City, MD White Collar Crime Attorney with 24 years of experience
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I don’t know how to have an ethical ASCP, but it’d be awfully nice to figure it out
Those of us who have been around awhile have been through the mill with ACSP more than once on controversies about conference location and the political/cultural environment of the conference. ACSP has relocated the conference before in response to constituents’ legitimate demands that we respect NAACP travel boycotts, and now we’ve had a similar problem with an upcoming conference hosted by Clemson. I haven’t been privy to decision-making that went into either awarding the conference to that location or in the demands the decision be reviewed. SC has been active in anti-trans legislation, and we have to ask questions about what it means to bring dollars to places that do that.
I did take the survey that ACSP sent out asking for reactions and reflections, and the survey was hard for me. I really don’t know what I think. All I have is: I want to have conferences in places where my trans friends and friends of color are treated with the respect and decency they deserve. Unfortunately, I can’t think of many places, included my beloved California, where that’s really, genuinely true.
I am sympathetic to the argument that travel boycotts just hurt working people in the state who have very little influence on the policy process. But I have to rejoin, how much *benefit* do working people get from business anymore? I mean, it feels a little like corporations just take all the profits from everything and the only thing you do by boycotting a place with lousy policy is save those working at the Motel 6s for shitty wages already some work having to deal with you. That doesn’t strike me as all bad, necessarily, especially if the preprondance of benefits from labor get captured by elite interests while the preponderance of the work falls to the laborer.
For the most part, I basically think we should just do whatever Planners of Color Interest Group and the Queer Planning IG)* tell us to do and go with that.*
We recently got an email from ACSP outlining the responses to the survey and the costs of changing course on the conference location at this point, over $300,000. And that’s the part of this discussion that rubbed me the wrong way. By disclosing that number, it creates transparency, but it is also very likely to put a great big ol’ thumb on the decision scale among ACSP member cis- faculty who aren’t 1) aren’t likely to experience potentially life-threatening violence at the hands of the police themselves and 2) not particularly tuned into why trans faculty would like us to stay in safe(r) locations. Certainly, plenty of cisfaculty understand these things and support their trans colleagues brilliantly, but are they the norm at ACSP?
To wit, ACSP has a major financial interest in staying the course, as it did last time this came up, and that cost itself becomes a reason to stay the course. But we’ve been through this before, and the costs are high, so the question for me arises: why do we keep granting conference bids to places that are going to be a problem? Ok, maybe we can’t predict it, but…we should., right? We’re planners. All this comes down to how we need to get more diversity on that ACSP board. It’s one thing to get blindsided by a legal changes and another to ignore the last four years of bathroom wars, and this latter here is more likely to happen when the board doesn’t have somebody who is likely to raise these issues, and concomittantly, other board members who will support and back up anybody who raises the issue (instead of, as in my life, just ignoring them.) otherwise we are in a forever cycle of award bid, make plans, “discover” the problems, welp, can’t change the locale because it’s so costly.
Another, confounding problem is simply that some of our very finest planning programs are in states that seem hell bent on writing the rottenest abortion legislation possible so that whatever “compromise” makes its way out of the rubble they hope to make out of Roe and Casey boils down to all women must wear mannacles and attend Liberty University and any trans men will be stoned in the public square. Georgia Tech, Clemson…boatloads of excellent programs in Texas…
The bottom line for me is that I just don’t want to go to places with state legislatures doing these things. I don’t want to go Florida OR Texas (great planning programs) because of their gun craziness, and I don’t want to go to these places where women just don’t seem to matter.
*I do not think it’s a interest group yet. My perspective is the women’s interest group should do a good job of standing with and advocating for our queer colleagues and our colleagues of color, but the organization has been uneven on that, and groups deserve their own places and their own voices, so I have made it into an interest group in my own mind. Making it formal does create a potential service and leadership tasks for our queer colleagues, which sucks, too, so I can also see why keeping it less formal makes sense too. )
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Early Words Together in Glasgow evaluation: 2019
This report evaluates the impact of the National Literacy Trust’s Early Words Together programme in Glasgow, which ran from 2017 to 2019.
Early Words Together trains school staff and volunteers to help parents build the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to support their young child’s communication, language and literacy skills at home.
Since 2017, the National Literacy Trust has worked with Glasgow Life and Glasgow City Council to deliver Early Words Together in 25 schools serving areas of disadvantaged in the city.
An evaluation of the programme was undertaken between September 2018 and January 2019 by Dr Sarah McGeown, Senior Lecturer in Development Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, and Dr Lynne Duncan, Reader in Developmental Psychology at the University of Dundee.
Approximately 60% of parents reported that Early Words Together had helped them to be more confident and active in supporting their child’s development in relation to books, stories and talking to each other
Over 50% of parents reported changes in their home environment, with particular increases in mark making and drawing, listening and paying attention to stories and their child asking to look at or read stories at home
All volunteers had a positive experience of volunteering and 96% felt it had made a positive difference for the families they worked with
Volunteers also reported specific benefits themselves, with approximately 60% reporting increased empathy, teamwork, self-confidence, adaptability and communication skills
Practitioners reported greater confidence in interacting with parents and carers (52-78%), in addition to giving advice to parents about their child’s home learning environment (24-44%) and child’s language and communication (19-44%)
Qualitative insights highlighted the benefits of the programme to develop and build positive relationships between families and nursery/school settings and staff
Find out more about Early Words Together.
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Celebrating Early Words Together in Glasgow
Top authors and illustrators help us celebrate Early Words Together with children and families in Glasgow
This weekend, we were joined by 65 families, alongside top authors and illustrators, at Glasgow’s iconic Mitchell Library to celebrate the work of our Early Words Together programme.
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Sound UK is 20!
A fabulous achievement.
This is the company that my daughter helps to run. She is Maija and together with Polly and Chloe they run Sound UK. This is what Maija said in her recent email:
20 years of extraordinary music
We hope the New Year finds you and your family well.
2021 is special for Sound UK as we celebrate 20 years of bringing you extraordinary music. We’re marking this milestone throughout the year. This includes 20 Artists for 20 Years, which shines a spotlight on key artists in Sound UK’s life. First up is the incredible Elaine Mitchener later this month…
To kick off our 20th birthday celebrations, we hope you enjoy this 60 second film about our work. You can watch it on the link below.
Polly, Maija and Chloe
20 years of extraordinary music. sounduk.net
Music credit: Landing – Collectress
Film edit by: Lee Matthews, iconic image
I find it a brilliant short video and I hope some of you out there will also watch it.
Apologies for a purely personal post.
Jan 8, 2021 Jan 7, 2021
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The Unknown Future.
The latest essay from Tom Engelhardt!
You all know that for a great percentage of my time I write about dogs and republish other articles about dogs.
For dogs are precious. Dogs are sensitive. Dogs read us humans. Dogs play. They sleep. And much more!
Pharaoh enjoying Bummer Creek, March 20th, 2013. He was born on June 3rd., 2003 and died on June 19th., 2017.
But just occasionally I like to republish an essay from Tom Engelhardt.
Maybe because years ago he gave me blanket permission to republish his essays. Maybe because he and I are more or less the same age. Maybe because in my more quieter, introspective moments I wonder where the hell we are going. And Tom seems to agree.
Have a read of this.
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Unexpected Past, the Unknown Future
Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 3:50pm, August 9, 2020.
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[Note for TomDispatch Readers: Even in this terrible moment, TD does its best to continue offering an alternate view of this increasingly strange planet of ours. And I can only do so because of the ongoing support of readers. (I just wish I could actually thank each of you individually!) If you have the urge to continue to lend a hand in keeping TomDispatch afloat, then do check out our donation page. For a donation of $100 ($125 if you live outside the U.S.), I usually offer a signed, personalized book from one of a number of TD authors listed on that page and you can certainly ask, but no guarantees in this pandemic moment. Still, you really do make all the difference and I can’t thank you enough for that! Tom]
It Could Have Been Different
My World and (Unfortunately) Welcome to It
Let me be blunt. This wasn’t the world I imagined for my denouement. Not faintly. Of course, I can’t claim I ever really imagined such a place. Who, in their youth, considers their death and the world that might accompany it, the one you might leave behind for younger generations? I’m 76 now. True, if I were lucky (or perhaps unlucky), I could live another 20 years and see yet a newer world born. But for the moment at least, it seems logical enough to consider this pandemic nightmare of a place as the country of my old age, the one that I and my generation (including a guy named Donald J. Trump) will pass on to our children and grandchildren.
Back in 2001, after the 9/11 attacks, I knew it was going to be bad. I felt it deep in my gut almost immediately and, because of that, stumbled into creating TomDispatch.com, the website I still run. But did I ever think it would be this bad? Not a chance.
I focused back then on what already looked to me like a nightmarish American imperial adventure to come, the response to the 9/11 attacks that the administration of President George W. Bush quickly launched under the rubric of “the Global War on Terror.” And that name (though the word “global” would soon be dropped for the more anodyne “war on terror”) would prove anything but inaccurate. After all, in those first post-9/11 moments, the top officials of that administration were thinking as globally as possible when it came to war. At the damaged Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld almost immediately turned to an aide and told him, “Go massive — sweep it all up, things related and not.” From then on, the emphasis would always be on the more the merrier.
Bush’s top officials were eager to take out not just Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda, whose 19 mostly Saudi hijackers had indeed attacked this country in the most provocative manner possible (at a cost of only $400,000-$500,000), but the Taliban, too, which then controlled much of Afghanistan. And an invasion of that country was seen as but the initial step in a larger, deeply desired project reportedly meant to target more than 60 countries! Above all, George W. Bush and his top officials dreamed of taking down Iraqi autocrat Saddam Hussein, occupying his oil-rich land, and making the United States, already the unipolar power of the twenty-first century, the overseer of the Greater Middle East and, in the end, perhaps even of a global Pax Americana. Such was the oil-fueled imperial dreamscape of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and crew (including that charmer and now bestselling anti-Trump author John Bolton).
Who Woulda Guessed?
In the years that followed, I would post endless TomDispatch pieces, often by ex-military men, focused on the ongoing nightmare of our country’s soon-to-become forever wars (without a “pax” in sight) and the dangers such spreading conflicts posed to our world and even to us. Still, did I imagine those wars coming home in quite this way? Police forces in American cities and towns thoroughly militarized right down to bayonets, MRAPs, night-vision goggles, and helicopters, thanks to a Pentagon program delivering equipment to police departments nationwide more or less directly off the battlefields of Washington’s never-ending wars? Not for a moment.
Who doesn’t remember those 2014 photos of what looked like an occupying army on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, after the police killing of a Black teenager and the protests that followed? And keep in mind that, to this day, the Republican Senate and the Trump administration have shown not the slightest desire to rein in that Pentagon program to militarize police departments nationwide. Such equipment (and the mentality that goes with it) showed up strikingly on the streets of American cities and towns during the recent Black Lives Matter protests.
Even in 2014, however, I couldn’t have imagined federal agents by the hundreds, dressed as if for a forever-war battlefield, flooding onto those same streets (at least in cities run by Democratic mayors), ready to treat protesters as if they were indeed al-Qaeda (“VIOLENT ANTIFA ANARCHISTS”), or that it would all be part of an election ploy by a needy president. Not a chance.
Or put another way, a president with his own “goon squad” or “stormtroopers” outfitted to look as if they were shipping out for Afghanistan or Iraq but heading for Portland, Albuquerque, Chicago, Seattle, and other American cities? Give me a break! How un-American could you get? A military surveillance drone overhead in at least one of those cities as if this were someone else’s war zone? Give me a break again. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d live to witness anything quite like it or a president — and we’ve had a few doozies — even faintly like the man a minority of deeply disgruntled Americans but a majority of electors put in the White House in 2016 to preside over a failing empire.
How about an American president in the year 2020 as a straightforward, no-punches-pulled racist, the sort of guy a newspaper could compare to former segregationist Alabama governor and presidential candidate George Wallace without even blinking? Admittedly, in itself, presidential racism has hardly been unique to this moment in America, despite Joe Biden’s initial claim to the contrary. That couldn’t be the case in the country in which Woodrow Wilson made D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation, the infamous silent movie in which the Ku Klux Klan rides to the rescue, the first film ever to be shown in the White House; nor the one in which Richard Nixon used his “Southern strategy” — Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater had earlier labeled it even more redolently “Operation Dixie” — to appeal to the racist fears of Southern whites and so begin to turn that region from a Democratic stronghold into a Republican bastion; nor in the land where Ronald Reagan launched his election campaign of 1980 with a “states’ rights” speech (then still a code phrase for segregation) near Philadelphia, Mississippi, just miles from the earthen dam where three murdered civil rights workers had been found buried in 1964.
Still, an openly racist president (don’t take that knee!) as an autocrat-in-the-making (or at least in-the-dreaming), one who first descended that Trump Tower escalator in 2015 denouncing Mexican “rapists,” ran for president rabidly on a Muslim ban, and for whom Black lives, including John Lewis’s, have always been immaterial, a president now defending every Confederate monument and military base named after a slave-owning general in sight, while trying to launch a Nixon-style “law and (dis)order” campaign? I mean, who woulda thunk it?
And add to that the once unimaginable: a man without an ounce of empathy in the White House, a figure focused only on himself and his electoral and pecuniary fate (and perhaps those of his billionaire confederates); a man filling his hated “deep state” with congressionally unapproved lackies, flacks, and ass-kissers, many of them previously flacks (aka lobbyists) for major corporations. (Note, by the way, that while The Donald has a distinctly autocratic urge, I don’t describe him as an incipient fascist because, as far as I can see, his sole desire — as in those now-disappeared rallies of his — is to have fans, not lead an actual social movement of any sort. Think of him as Mussolini right down to the look and style with a “base” of cheering MAGA chumps but no urge for an actual fascist movement to lead.)
And who ever imagined that an American president might actually bring up the possibility of delaying an election he fears losing, while denouncing mail-in ballots (“the scandal of our time”) as electoral fraud and doing his damnedest to undermine the Post Office which would deliver them amid an economic downturn that rivals the Great Depression? Who, before this moment, ever imagined that a president might consider refusing to leave the White House even if he did lose his reelection bid? Tell me this doesn’t qualify as something new under the American sun. True, it wasn’t Donald Trump who turned this country’s elections into 1% affairs or made contributions by the staggeringly wealthy and corporations a matter of free speech (thank you, Supreme Court!), but it is Donald Trump who is threatening, in his own unique way, to make elections themselves a thing of the past. And that, believe me, I didn’t count on.
Nor did I conceive of an all-American world of inequality almost beyond imagining. A country in which only the truly wealthy (think tax cuts) and the national security state (think budgets eternally in the stratosphere) are assured of generous funding in the worst of times.
The World to Come?
Oh, and I haven’t even mentioned the pandemic yet, have I? The one that should bring to mind the Black Death of the fourteenth century and the devastating Spanish Flu of a century ago, the one that’s killing Americans in remarkable numbers daily and going wild in this country, aided and abetted in every imaginable way (and some previously unimaginable ones) by the federal government and the president. Who could have dreamed of such a disease running riot, month after month, in the wealthiest, most powerful country on the planet without a national plan for dealing with it? Who could have dreamed of the planet’s most exceptional, indispensable country (as its leaders once loved to call it) being unable to take even the most modest steps to rein in Covid-19, thanks to a president, Republican governors, and Republican congressional representatives who consider science the equivalent of alien DNA? Honestly, who ever imagined such an American world? Think of it not as The Decameron, that fourteenth century tale of 10 people in flight from a pandemic, but the Trumpcameron or perhaps simply Trumpmageddon.
And keep in mind, when assessing this world I’m going to leave behind to those I hold near and dear, that Covid-19 is hardly the worst of it. Behind that pandemic, possibly even linked to it in complex ways, is something so much worse. Yes, the coronavirus and the president’s response to it may seem like the worst of all news as American deaths crest 160,000 with no end in sight, but it isn’t. Not faintly on a planet that’s being heated to the boiling point and whose most powerful country is now run by a crew of pyromaniacs.
It’s hard even to fully conceptualize climate change since it operates on a time scale that’s anything but human. Still, one way to think of it is as a slow-burn planetary version of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And by the way, if you’ll excuse a brief digression, in these years, our president and his men have been intent on ripping up every Cold War nuclear pact in sight, while the tensions between two nuclear-armed powers, the U.S. and China, only intensify and Washington invests staggering sums in “modernizing” its nuclear arsenal. (I mean, how exactly do you “modernize” the already-achieved ability to put an almost instant end to the world as we’ve known it?)
But to return to climate change, remember that 2020 is already threatening to be the warmest year in recorded history, while the five hottest years so far occurred from 2015 to 2019. That should tell you something, no?
The never-ending release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere has been transforming this planet in ways that have now become obvious. My own hometown, New York City, for instance, has officially become part of the humid subtropical climate zone and that’s only a beginning. Everywhere temperatures are rising. They hit 100 degrees this June in, of all places, Siberia. (The Arctic is warming at twice the rate of much of the rest of the planet.) Sea ice is melting fast, while floods and mega-droughts intensify and forests burn in a previously unknown fashion.
And as a recent heat wave across the Middle East — Baghdad hit a record 125 degrees — showed, it’s only going to get hotter. Much hotter and, given how humanity has handled the latest pandemic, how will it handle the chaos that goes with rising sea levels drowning coastlines but also affecting inland populations, ever fiercer storms, and flooding (in recent weeks, the summer monsoon has, for instance, put one third of Bangladesh underwater), not to speak of the migration of refugees from the hardest-hit areas? The answer is likely to be: not well.
And I could go on, but you get the point. This is not the world I either imagined or would ever have dreamed of leaving to those far younger than me. That the men (and they are largely men) who are essentially promoting the pandemicizing and over-heating of this planet will be the greatest criminals in history matters little.
Let’s just hope that, when it comes to creating a better world out of such a god-awful mess, the generations that follow us prove better at it than mine did. If I were a religious man, those would be my prayers.
And here’s my odd hope. As should be obvious from this piece, the recent past, when still the future, was surprisingly unimaginable. There’s no reason to believe that the future — the coming decades — will prove any easier to imagine. No matter the bad news of this moment, who knows what our world might really look like 20 years from now? I only hope, for the sake of my children and grandchildren, that it surprises us all.
This is such a powerful essay written from the heart of a good man.
I, too, wonder and worry about the next twenty years. Indeed, there are the stirrings of a book in my head. How that younger generation are reacting to the present and, more importantly, how they will react and respond to the next few years?
I’m 75 and really hope to live for quite a few more years. Jean is just a few years younger.
But much more importantly I have a son, Alex, who is 49, and a daughter, Maija, who is 48, and a grandson, Morten, of my daughter and her husband, who is 9.
They cannot escape the future!
Aug 10, 2020 Aug 9, 2020
A story!
Sent to me by my grandson, Morten!
How times change! Morten is now writing stories on his iPad and sending them to me.
Once upon a time there were 2 Very cute dogs called cuty and puty and they were having a great day in the deep dark forest and cuty said I want to go home but puty doesn’t want to go home but they did. THE END
This was a story about two dogs
And included in that lovely email was this photograph:
Maija, me and Jeannie.
Okay good people, my book event is now behind me and Jeannie and I are back home.
Hopefully more responsive to you all now!
Sep 12, 2017 Sep 6, 2017
There’s another year gone!
Yesterday was my 71st birthday.
Consequently, writing a blog post for today wasn’t high on my list of things to do.
So this is to offer my thanks to everyone who sent me greetings; it was wonderful to hear from so many friends, old and new.
Thus my post today is to share three items that came from family back in England.
First, my mother, who is still teaching piano and oboe at the age of 95, sent me this:
Secondly, my son, Alex, and his long-term partner, Lisa, sent me this in an card chosen from the Friends of the Earth selection:
(All dog owners know, I’m sure, that dogs must never eat chocolate.)
Lastly, my grandson, Morten, who despite being just five-years-old, is already a dab hand with an iPhone and sent me the following picture of himself with Dad in the background:
Finally, my love and gratitude to Jeannie for making me feel special yesterday, as she has done every day since we first met.
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More on that Aflatoxin alert.
Sangah Noona
Origins of the Shih Tzu Breed
Picture Parade Three Hundred and Seventy
There’s no limit to the care of dogs
More on a healthy gut!
Being healthy in your later years.
Some interesting blogs
Shih Tzu World
Dogkisses
A Sanctuary for Inspirational Thoughts of Light, Love and Peace.
In search of the truth.
Guest posts most welcome
Mitts died yesterday morning
Life and the cosmos
Antonina Whaples -- future fitness celebrity?
There's more to a dog's whiskers than we imagined!
A world at peace.
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How to choose and trademark a stage name
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July 29, 2015 (Updated on March 27, 2019)
Brand name recognition is so important for businesses selling their products and services. For musicians and performers, you may have a stage name; this is what holds your brand and your identity! You want to protect yourself from other artists using the same or similar name; they could be riding your coat tails or giving you bad press! This article considers reasons to trademark a stage name and gives suggestions for choosing a stage name that can be trademarked.
Why trademark?
Two big reasons: reputation and certainty.
The name you use is part of your identity and your reputation. Your work and your performances go towards building up your name. Trademarking gives you the exclusive right to use the name, and you can stop others from using the same stage name or similar names.
If you don’t protect your stage name, someone else can come along with the same or a similar protected name, and stop you from using your name. The name that you had carefully chosen is an expression of your musicianship and identity.
After all your work of choosing your stage name and your performances, having to change names will bring you right back to the beginning!
Choosing a name that can be trademarked
If you don’t already have a stage name, here are some tips for what to consider when choosing name.
Using a made up word or words that are not usually associated with music or performance is a good way to protect yourself. It means other performers are less likely to use the same name and you are more likely to be able to protect the name.
IP Australia is unlikely to approve a trademark that uses a word commonly associated with your type of work, as it would then unfairly stop others from using that word.
Look at existing names
Do your research! You don’t want to waste your time coming up with an ‘original’ stage name only to find out that there are other artists out there already using it!
You can do a general internet search, or do a trademark search through IP Australia to see what names are already taken. Using a stage name that is similar to a trademark may be infringement. Also note that if names are not trademarked, they may still be an obstacle to your trademark registration so it is best to avoid similarity.
You may need to get some help from a trademarking lawyer to give advice as to whether your name could be infringing on existing trademarks and whether it is likely to be approved by IP Australia.
Whether you already have a stage name or you are brainstorming names, remember that your name holds your reputation, and it should be protected, just as any other brand name.
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C++ Gameplay Engineer / Co-Op ARPG for Consoles
Posted by James Thor
We’re looking for a passionate and independent C++ Gameplay Engineer that is a bit of an engine and GPU API enthusiast and who is capable of working with proprietary technology. Experience in multi-platform game development on Windows and consoles and a strong knowledge of Open GL/ES, DirectX 12, and Metal 2 is preferred.
You have no problem finding your way around large code-bases, every issue you encounter is just another opportunity to improve existing code.
Your passion for side-scrolling adventure and action games is genuine. You’ve lost count of all the hours you’ve sunk into Dust: An Elysian Tale, Super Metroid, Ori and the Blind Forest, Streets of Rage, and Double Dragon.
You understand that making games is not only difficult but also a clash of artistry and technology and marketing and iteration and timing and luck — and that it’s all about as predictable as the deaths of the starring cast in an early episode of Game of Thrones.
Tasks include but are not limited to co-designing, implementing, and adjusting new game logic and gameplay mechanics, and also to further develop and maintain our proprietary in-house engine THOR™.
We hope to find a remotely located, highly motivated, independent, focused, and organized person capable of working on multiple tasks at the same time. We use Visual Studio, Xcode, RedMine, and Git/Sub-Version to manage code, describe tasks, follow-up on issues, report bugs, and to maintain content and artwork assets.
Initially Remote/Offsite (text- and video-based communication via Discord).
Improve, refactor, and optimize existing code using Visual Studio and Xcode.
Analyze, debug, and fix errors on an ongoing basis resulting in clean builds with a minimum of errors and warnings.
Port and maintain Windows DirectX and macOS Metal2 version of our proprietary engine THORODIN™.
Understanding THORODIN™ engine architecture, from game interface to graphics API interface.
Ongoing development of clean, well-structured and portable C++ code.
Occasional maintenance and development of GINNUNGAGAP™, our 2D world builder.
Track, report, and manage tasks and code using (custom) RedMine.
Prior experience with GPU APIs and proprietary OpenGL/DirectX engines in Windows, macOS, and iOS.
Experience working on PlayStation, Nintendo, and Xbox console platforms would be advantageous.
Familiarity with Unreal Engine 4 would not hurt for ancillary Legendo projects that may be in development (not a requirement).
Using tabs and fighting spaces, you write simple, data-oriented code that is easy to read, possible to debug, somewhat easy to maintain, and difficult to optimize (since you’ve already optimized it in a way that would not only challenge John Carmack but as as a side-effect fully explains quantum theory).
A university degree in Computer Science would be favorable.
We expect that you have exceptional C++ skills coupled with strong math abilities and strong knowledge of object-oriented programming.
Good understanding of gameplay systems: camera, physics, player control, game objects, and related logic and “AI”.
Strong written and verbal English skills.
Please send your resume or CV to hr@legendo.com if you are interested in this position.
Legendo takes a detailed look at each and every application submitted. As such, we’ll be sure to contact you, personally, if we wish to continue the application process. We encourage applicants to check back often for future openings. People and projects move fast in the games industry, so keep in mind that to get a job, whether freelance/remote or onsite, timing and luck can be nearly as important as skill.
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How kids are being blackmailed to dance naked on TikTok
by NATASHA BITA
A seven-year-old girl dances naked for a TikTok video.
A sobbing teenage girl is blackmailed to film herself putting a hairbrush into her private parts
Little boys are raped by their own parents for a pay-for-view audience of paedophiles on the Dark Web.
Men pose as kids in online games to trick children into meeting them at a local park.
Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers have seen it all - arresting 161 predators and rescuing 134 children from harm in the past year.
Detective Sergeant Daisie Beckensall is on the front line of the AFP's war against vile paedophiles grooming Australian children through social media and online games.
The abuse begins with a "friend request'' on a game or social media, from a stranger masquerading as another child.
"We see a lot of friend requests from online predators looking for children to follow, and the children will usually follow them back,'' Detective Sergeant Beckensall said yesterday.
"The predator may be posing as a 14-year-old with a fake photo.
"They start chatting online - they build up a rapport with the child, it starts off as an innocent and friendly chat, then they ask, 'Send me a photo of yourself'.''
At first the photos are innocuous - perhaps a picture of the child cuddling a pet - but then the paedophile requests a nude "selfie''.
Sometimes, a naive or curious child will send the photo - and then the blackmail begins.
News Corp Australia is campaigning for a national register of convicted paedophiles to let the public check if a sex offender is living in their suburb, babysitting their grandkids or dating their daughter.
"The predators start with requests for sexualised photos and images and then it escalates to videos of children doing sexualised acts online,'' Detective Sergeant Beckensall said.
"Once the predators have the photos, they use them to manipulate and put fear into kids.
"They say, 'If you don't keep sending them, I can send these photos to your mum and dad'.
"It's not something they want to tell their parents.''
Undercover cops, posing as children and teenagers in online chats and games, have caught paedophiles trying to lure kids to meet them in person at a local park, train station or shopping centre.
Detective Sergeant Beckensall said abuse had increased since the start of COVID-19, with so many children cooped up at home with computers and smartphones, and more adults working at home without supervision.
"There are more children being home schooled, and more adults working from home with technology,'' she said.
"If they're at work, using a work computer, they aren't able to access child abuse material.
"But when they're working from home they don't have the scrutiny they get in the workplace.
"Some parents are abusing their own children and taking photos and videos and sharing them with other predators.''
Detective Sergeant Beckensall said some young children were posting naked photos and videos online without any prompting, "because they've seen it and think it's normal''.
She urged parents to let their children know they can talk about anything, without getting into trouble.
"If you see a change in behaviour, ask them what's going on,'' she said.
"It can really dangerously affect a child's mental health - they don't want to tell.''
NO MORE FAKE SMILES
Annie Jones spent her traumatic teenage years perfecting a "fake smile'', as her stepfather crept into her bedroom at night to rape her.
"I lived in fear,'' the 20-year-old survivor of childhood sexual abuse said yesterday.
"I wore a fake smile most of my teenage years.
"I copped it in the night and would wake up and go to school.''
Ms Jones was 13 when her stepfather started the abuse, and 15 when she finally "blurted it out'' in front of her horrified mother.
"I was so sick of all the abuse, I was so angry I just snapped,'' she said.
"My mum kicked him out of the house and I never saw him again except in court.''
The stepfather was jailed in 2017 in the District Court of NSW for 17 years and nine months for sex crimes including aggravated sexual intercourse with a child younger than 14.
Annie was just six when her mother, Tracey Morris, married the man who became her monster.
"I grew up with him as my father,'' she said.
"I was trapped with someone I trusted so it was a mental battle as well as the physical things.
"I felt like I was the only one on the planet going through it, but thousands of people are going through it.''
Annie and Tracey Morris have set up the charity No More Fake Smiles to help victims of sexual abuse. Picture: Supplied
Ms Jones, who now lives on the Sunshine Coast, is studying criminology and psychology at university and hopes to eventually set up a retreat for sexually abused children.
She and her mother have set up a charity, No More Fake Smiles, which aims to raise $700,000 to provide support to 700 child victims of sexual abuse.
Ms Jones urged victims to confide in police or a teacher, doctor, counsellor or nurse if they need help.
"If something doesn't feel right in your gut, you need to speak up to someone you trust,'' she said.
"It's not always stranger danger - it could be people who you know.''
Ms Morris said a public register of sex offenders - like the one in Western Australia, the only state or territory which identifies convicted predators - might protect other families.
"We are talking about convicted offenders … innocent people are not being defamed, facts are being made public knowledge, yet another secret that follows a long line of secrets when it comes to child sexual abuse,'' she said.
BLACKMAILED BOY HELPS CATCH PREDATOR
A brave boy helped police catch an Australian paedophile jailed for more than nine years after posing as a teenager to extort explicit photos and videos of 49 children.
The predator lied about his age and identity to trick the teenager into sending sexually explicit photos - then threatened to share them with friends and family unless the boy sent more.
But the terrified teen told his father, who cannot be identified for legal reasons but said he was glad his son had the courage to speak up.
"We were able to take screen shots and send them to the police and the paedophile was caught,'' he said yesterday.
"He is a hero for speaking up.
"I have told my son that by speaking up and showing me what was happening he has not only saved himself but he saved all the other kids that would have been victims in the future.
"My son knows it isn't enough to just delete or block and run when you encounter an online paedophile, you have to tell your parents when it happens.
"They can keep you safe plus get the police to track the person down so he doesn't do it to other people.
"My son was scared to speak up but he knows that it makes you safe if you speak up, and hiding it makes you less safe.''
The offender, a 24-year-old man from Manly Vale in Sydney, was arrested at Sydney International Airport after returning from overseas in February last year.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) identified 48 other child victims, and the man was jailed for nine years and four months.
AFP Detective Sergeant Jarryd Dunbar said it was important for parents to make sure children feel comfortable talking about suspicious online activity.
"We are very thankful that in this case the victim was courageous enough to speak up and let their parents know what had happened,'' he said.
For support call Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800
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Anthony Darmanin shows his joy as Mystic Journey takes out the All Star Mile. Picture: Vince Caligiuri/Getty
Pride of Apple Isle proves Mile too good
TASMANIAN filly Mystic Journey surged home on Saturday to win the inaugural $5 million All-Star Mile at Flemington.
The Adam Trinder-trained filly was a wildcard entry into the All-Star Mile and she proved her worth, unleashing a dazzling finishing burst to defeat Godolphin pair Hartnell and Alizee.
Bought for $11,000 as a yearling, Mystic Journey backed up her win in the Group 1 Australian Guineas with victory in the world's richest mile race, which netted connections a cool $2.5 million.
"It is unbelievable," jockey Anthony Darmanin said.
"She just travelled so sweet in the run. And I thought I was going to hit that early. She's so gutsy and determined.
"He's (Trinder) placed her so well every start. I can't thank him enough. I'm so grateful because most of my family is here today. And mum is at home, so is my brother. I wish them all the best in their recovery. I can't believe it.
"I will be partying hard tonight. I'm telling you. That's for sure. Whoever wants to come out, come out. It's on me."
Trainer Adam Trinder and Mystic Journey at Spreyton. Picture: Chris Kidd
Trinder will set Mystic Journey for the Cox Plate in the spring.
"This will be her last run for the autumn and put her away and hopefully get her to the Cox Plate," he said.
"She's fantastic. I don't know where the bottom of her is to be perfectly honest with you. She is a young filly.
"She was a first group 1 winner to come out of Tasmania or first Tasmanian trained group 1 winner. Now won the richest mile race in the world, $5 million in prize money.
"We only race for $10 million throughout the course of the year. She's earned half of half of that."
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by Ekta Joshi
Chanel’s French reverie will soon be graced with some Latino flavors, thanks to Penélope Cruz who recently stepped-up as the brand’s newest campaign ambassador. The Oscar winning actress who owns a strong relationship with Chanel’s design mind – Karl Lagerfeld, will be seen attending the brand’s couture show today, her first appearance as the brand’s official ambassador.
The Spanish actress will grace the marquee as the face of its exclusive cruise campaign, conceptualized and shot by Lagerfeld himself. In announcing her glee of joining Chanel’s league of ambassadors, Cruz stated, “It’s such an iconic brand and Karl is a genius, and I’ve been admiring everything he’s done since I was a little girl, so it’s such a pleasure working with him. He’s like the king of fashion and we had a really, really interesting photo shoot, so to be in front of his camera is an adventure.”
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The actress has been spotted wearing Chanel creations on the red carpet, including her fairly recent appearances at the Oscars and the Cannes Film Festival. She has also been acclaimed highly for stylishly donning Lagerfeld’s outfits in the celebrated 2009 film – “Broken Embraces.” In her new capacity, Cruz joins the likes of Margot Robbie, Kristen Stewart, Keira Knightley and Lily-Rose Depp, all of whom are proud Chanel Ambassadors as of today.
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The Impact of Free Early Childhood Education and Care on Educational Achievement: a Discontinuity Approach Investigating Both Quantity and Quality of Provision 1 2 10 51 2 6 27 103
The effect of school resources on test scores in England 0 0 0 35 0 2 3 67
The effect of school resources on test scores in England 0 0 1 80 0 2 9 172
The effect of school resources on test scores in England 0 0 1 46 0 5 20 158
Understanding Society – a geographical profile of respondents 0 0 0 4 0 0 5 42
Universal Pre-School Education: The Case of Public Funding with Private Provision 1 1 2 41 2 7 12 117
Universal pre-school education: the case of publicfunding with private provision 0 0 0 20 0 1 3 41
Wirkungen aktiver Arbeitsmarktpolitik: Evaluierungsergebnisse für Deutschland, Schweden, Dänemark und die Niederlande 0 0 0 34 2 3 16 195
Arbeitsmarktpolitik zwischen Markt und Staat 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6
Differences in Opportunities? Wage, Employment and House-Price Effects on Migration 0 0 2 26 0 1 8 108
Do school inputs crowd out parents’ investments in their children? 0 0 2 4 0 1 11 22
Dual-earner migration. Earnings gains, employment and self-selection 0 1 2 32 0 1 6 106
Flexible Anwartschaften als Element der Rentenreform 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 18
Inequality in Pupils' Test Scores: How Much do Family, Sibling Type and Neighbourhood Matter? 0 0 2 33 0 1 13 100
Mehr Markt in der öffentlichen Beschäftigungsförderung: zur wettbewerblichen Vergabe von § 249h-Maßnahmen bei der Treuhandanstalt (More market in public job creation: on the allocation undercompetitive conditions of §249h- measures at the Treuhandanstalt) 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 98
OCCUPATIONAL PENSIONS, WAGES, AND JOB MOBILITY IN GERMANY 0 0 0 21 0 0 1 74
Residential mobility, quality of neighbourhood and life course events 3 3 5 24 5 7 19 115
Sibling spillover effects in school achievement 0 0 3 8 0 2 17 34
The Role of Firm Pensions for Job Change in Germany 0 0 0 0 1 3 6 66
The effect of school spending on student achievement: addressing biases in value‐added models 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 14
Universal Pre‐school Education: The Case of Public Funding with Private Provision 1 1 1 15 2 3 7 51
Total Journal Articles 4 5 17 167 8 20 92 812
Implementation von Arbeitsmarktpoltik durch Verhandlungen: eine spieltheoretische Analyse 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 20
Total Books 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 20
Implementation structures for cooperative labour market policy: a bargaining theory approach 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 11
Total Chapters 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 11
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Access Statistics for Leonzio Rizzo
(Uncontrolled) Aggregate shocks or vertical tax interdependence? Evidende from gasoline and cigarettes 0 0 0 10 0 0 2 92
Abolizione delle province e riallocazione delle spese: il caso della Lombardia 0 0 0 7 0 0 6 31
Allocating the US Federal Budget to the States: the Impact of the President 0 0 2 70 1 2 5 358
Allocating the US federal budget to the states: the impact of the President 0 0 1 6 0 0 11 43
Dal saldo del patto di stabilita' interno al saldo euro-compatibile: un'applicazione ai Comuni dell'Emilia-Romagna 0 0 0 42 2 2 9 185
Do Small States Get More Federal Monies? Myth and Reality about the US Senate Malapportionment 0 0 0 32 0 0 7 314
Do Small States Get More Federal Monies?Myth and Reality About the US SenateMalapportionment 0 0 0 16 1 1 7 112
Do small states get more federal monies?: myth and reality about the US Senate malapportionment 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 37
Does Inter-municipal Cooperation promote efficiency gains? Evidence from Italian Municipal 1 1 4 45 2 4 15 81
Does inter-municipal cooperation promote efficiency gains? 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 11
Does purchase centralization reduce public expenditure? Evidence from the Italian healthcare system 0 2 8 72 0 3 19 70
Effetti finanziari delle richieste di autonomia regionale: prime simulazioni 0 0 2 6 1 3 13 23
Equalisation and Fiscal Competition 0 0 0 35 0 0 2 89
Fiscal equalization under political pressures 0 0 1 29 0 0 6 43
Interaction between Vertical and Horizontal tax Competition: Theory and Evidence 0 0 0 50 0 0 4 230
Interaction between vertical and horizontal tax competition: evidence and some theory 0 0 2 105 2 4 13 354
Lo stock di capitale comunale: indicazioni per le politiche di intervento infrastrutturale di Regione Lombardia 0 0 0 3 1 3 7 24
Local Infrastructures and Externalities: Does the Size Matter? 0 0 0 22 0 0 6 53
Local government responsiveness to federal transfers: theory and evidence 0 0 0 92 0 0 5 291
L’impatto della contabilità euro-compatibile in un’auspicabile evoluzione del patto di stabilità interno 0 0 0 3 1 1 5 33
Measuring social capital with a myograph 0 0 0 105 0 0 4 290
Policy outcomes of single and double-ballot elections 0 0 0 41 1 2 5 54
Recenti iniziative europee ed italiane per la valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale 0 2 5 21 0 2 14 44
Spatial interaction in local expenditures among Italian municipalities 0 0 1 32 0 0 4 56
Spatial interaction in local expenditures among italian municipalities: evidence from italy 2001-2011 0 0 2 46 1 4 13 64
Switch towards tax centralization in Italy: A wake up for the local political budget cycle 0 1 2 32 0 1 6 45
The Allocation of the US Federal Budget to the States: Evidence on the Power of the Purse 0 0 1 188 0 0 3 1,464
The power of the purse: what do the data say on US federal budget allocation to the states?" 0 0 0 85 0 0 3 439
The role of tax system complexity on foreign direct investment allocation 1 4 26 26 7 12 31 31
US Excise Tax Horizontal Interdependence: Yardstick vs. Tax Competition 0 1 1 55 0 2 2 157
Why Do Small States Receive More Federal Money? US Senate Representation and the Allocation of Federal Budget 0 0 1 18 7 18 47 250
(Uncontrolled) Aggregate Shocks or Vertical Tax Interdependence? Evidence From Gasoline and Cigarettes 0 0 1 21 0 1 9 88
Changing Needs, Sticky Budget: Evidence From the Geographic Distribution of U.S. Federal Grants 0 1 1 7 1 4 8 25
Fiscal equalization and lobbying 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 25
Fiscal needs and standard costs: an empirical analysis for Italian municipalities of Puglia 0 0 0 3 2 2 3 40
Interaction between federal taxation and horizontal tax competition: theory and evidence from Canada 0 0 1 28 0 0 1 72
Introduzione 0 0 0 2 1 1 2 8
L'impatto della perequazione sulla competizione fiscale 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 18
Le inefficienze della competizione fiscale: una rassegna dei principali modelli teorici 0 0 0 19 0 1 6 86
Simulazione finanziaria della Legge delega 42/2009: una proposta di riparto e prime valutazioni 0 0 1 10 2 3 4 39
Size and Territorial Spillovers in Municipalities' Spending on Infrastructures: Theory and Empirics 0 0 0 15 2 2 5 60
US excise tax horizontal interdependence: yardstick versus tax competition 0 0 0 9 0 0 1 42
Vertical tax competition and consumption externalities in a federation with lobbying 0 0 0 41 1 1 4 220
Why Do Small States Receive More Federal Money? U.S. Senate Representation and the Allocation of Federal Budget 0 0 0 11 1 1 2 65
Total Journal Articles 0 3 8 236 12 23 67 1,034
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Home › Economy & Finance › Google’s Chrome Browser Changes To Be Investigated By UK’s Competition Watchdog
Google’s Chrome Browser Changes To Be Investigated By UK’s Competition Watchdog
By admin2 on January 8, 2021 • ( 0 )
An investigation into Google’s proposals to remove third-party cookies and other functions from its Chrome browser will be investigated by the competition watchdog of the United Kingdom. The decision to probe the proposed changes were initiated after concerns were raised in different quarters that the new changes implemented by Google could result in curbing digital advertising by rivals.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said that the prove will target to make an assessment of whether Google’s proposed changes to Chrome could result in contraction of advertising spend on the ecosystem of Alphabet’s Google and put at disadvantage the company’s competitors.
The technology which Google calls the ‘Privacy Sandbox’ project will give the option to people to receive relevant ads which will help to sustain the current advertising model without the need for the company to track the users of Chrome at the individual user level, Google has said.
“As the CMA found in its recent market study, Google’s Privacy Sandbox proposals will potentially have a very significant impact on publishers like newspapers, and the digital advertising market,” CMA Chief Executive Officer Andrea Coscelli said.
Complaints from Marketers for an Open Web (MOW), a coalition of technology and publishing companies, had been received by it the CMA said. The complaint alleged that Google is “abusing its dominant position” through the proposals.
Third-party cookies have already been blocked by other web browsers such as Mozilla and Apple Inc’s Safari.
A Google spokeswoman said that there is requirement for the industry to bring in major changes to the manner in which digital advertising functions if one wants to create a more private web while at the same time empowering the publishers and advertisers who support the free and open internet.
“We welcome the CMA’s involvement as we work to develop new proposals to underpin a healthy, ad-supported web without third-party cookies.”
The UK regulator said that a crucial role in targeted digital advertising is played by the so called third party cookies. These cookies help advertisers to effectively and accurately target selected audiences as well as fund free online content for consumers, such as newspapers.
The regulators however also said that the current system also present concerns on privacy as these third party cookies allow tracking of behaviour of consumers all across the web in different ways that causes a makes many consumers to feel uncomfortable and ways that such customer may find difficult to understand.
It will work with Britain’s data watchdog on the investigation, the CMA said.
(Adapted from Reuters.com)
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Navigating the Lindbergh Center MARTA Station
Next to Atlanta’s first transit-oriented development, the Lindbergh Center MARTA station has a convenient location in South Buckhead near many apartment communities and retail stores. Plus, with three large parking decks, access to three major interstates and transfer options between the red and gold rail lines, it is a useful station for MARTA commuters.
The station itself sits at street level with tracks underground that are mostly covered via an airy canopy structure. It is surrounded by office buildings, parking decks and apartments along with the three main roads: Morosgo Drive, Main Street and Lindbergh Drive. Unfortunately, the signage in the station can be a little confusing as far as navigating to these destinations, as almost all exits point just “To Street”. However, in the center of the train platform you’ll find a small directory with arrows or view the list below to see what exit is best to use if you are arriving at the station.
Morosgo Drive
The north end of the station is bordered by Morosgo Drive. If you’re bad with directions, the north end of the station is not open to daylight and instead feeds into train tunnels. Use this end of the station for easy access to:
MARTA Headquarters
Sydney Marcus Parking Deck
Infusion Bistro
Miami Circle
Lindbergh Plaza
Lindbergh Vista apartments
Buckhead Crossing Shopping Center
The Main Street exit is the one in the middle of the station. It provides access to Lindbergh City Center’s Main Street and destinations such as:
Sip the Experience (coffee shop)
Uptown Square Apartments
Eon at Lindbergh
Market Deli
Five Guys Burgers and Fries
26 Thai Kitchen and Bar
Wet Willie’s
City Center Parking Deck
Lindbergh Drive
At the south end of the station there’s an open-air section of the train platform and views of downtown Atlanta. Use the exits in this location for easy access to:
Garson Parking Deck
Pike Nurseries
Post Lindbergh
Tuscany Apartments
Passion City Church
AMLI Lindbergh
771 Lindbergh
Post Peachtree Hills
Sorelle Apartments
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Tingvall Trio
Music for film and theatre
martin tingvall
25/11/2020Song book "The Rocket" availableNow you yourself can play the music of the No.1 album "The Rocket"!mehr
21/08/2020Tingvall Trio recorded a new album“Dance” is the title of this new album and the trio takes listeners along on a journey around the world, letting the widest variety of dance styles flash and flare as a vivid form of emotional expression. mehr
06/12/2019Release of "The Rocket in Space"At the same time as Martin Tingvall is working with his first VR Experience, he also releases the title track of his solo piano album "The Rocket" as an electronic remix.mehr
28/11/2019"The Rocket" as VR experience and with a new mixMartin Tingvall is about to enter new worlds twice: The title track of his current album "The Rocket" can now be experienced in a virtual reality - and Tingvall has produced the song as an electronic remix "The Rocket In Space".mehr
22/11/2019Tingvall composes the title track for the new Udo Lindenberg movieFor the movie about Udo Lindenberg's life, which will be released in German cinemas in January 2020, Martin Tingvall composed the title song "Niemals dran gezweifelt".mehr
Plön (D) - Kulturforum Schloss Plön
The Rocket Tour: Piano-Solo-Concert
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Employer Brand, Leadership
How to Actually Encourage Employee Accountability
Fewer words in corporate vernacular induce a tighter wince than “accountability,” and for good reason. Companies and leaders have grappled with what it is and how to achieve it effectively for decades. Ask anyone if they look forward to their performance evaluation or periodic check-in with their boss, and most will give an emphatic “no.”
Data shows that 82% of managers acknowledge they have “limited to no” ability to hold others accountable successfully, and 91% of employees would say that “effectively holding others accountable” is one of their company’s top leadership-development needs. Research also confirms how insignificant today’s accountability systems make employees feel. Gallup found that only 14% of employees feel their performance is managed in a way that motives them, 26% get feedback less than once per year, 21% feel their performance metrics are within their control, and 40% feel as if their manager holds them accountable for goals they set. Add to that the fact that 70% of employees feel their managers aren’t objective in how they evaluate their performance, and it comes as no surprise that 69% of employees don’t feel they’re living up to their potential at work.
The fundamental problem with accountability is that it now involves little more than the process of accounting. The scorekeeping nature of this process yields a built-in negativity bias, where leaders reflexively hunt for shortfalls, and the tallying usually ends with a forced categorization — a rating system of numbers or labels, sometimes stack-ranking employees against their peers. I recently spoke with a leader at a client organization just after his performance review, and he was infuriated. “How could he rate me a 3? I’ve always been a 4. My whole career, I’ve been rated at the top! Now, suddenly I’m a 3, just because he’s only allowed to give out a certain number of 4s?” Listen to the painful conclusions this leader is drawing about himself and his boss. What should have been a productive conversation left him obsessed with a number and resentful of the person who consigned him to it. And he’s not alone. A recent neuroscientific study revealed that we respond to being categorically rated with a sense of being threatened — we literally feel unsafe when someone puts us in a box in this way.
Accountability processes are the formal and informal ways that leaders talk about, assess, and affirm the contributions of those they lead and the improvements they can make to strengthen those contributions. They include everything from annual performance appraisals to routine check-ins with your boss. Even in the face of deeply flawed formal processes, leaders can ensure that their employees feel their work is honored while simultaneously embracing opportunities to improve. To make that experience commonplace, mere tweaks to the tallying processes of accountability won’t move the needle. Companies must dramatically redefine what it means for leaders to create a culture of accountability. Based on my 30 years of observing leaders who do this well and through my research on accountability, I’ve identified three major shifts leaders need to make to ensure that the accountability experience dignifies employees’ work and challenges them to make greater achievements — without making them feel demeaned or insignificant.
Make Dignity the Foundation
Managers must understand the weight of their own judgments. A recent study of the brain shows how other people’s opinions of us influence our sense of self-efficacy. When leaders believe their role is to create conditions in which people make their best contributions — and genuinely enjoy doing so — the following core foundations of accountability improve:
Connections between leaders and direct reports deepen. Instead of obligatory monthly or quarterly check-ins during which employees provide rote updates, conversations should be undergirded by a sense of purpose. Questions like, “What did you learn this month?” or “What do you feel most proud of?” stir employees’ eagerness to tell their stories of achievement and struggle.
The quality of feedback and learning increases. When dignity, not surveillance, is the goal of accountability, the quality of evaluative feedback improves. When employees believe their bosses are genuinely interested in their success, they feel less guarded and less inclined to hide their underperformance. When bosses are committed to their employees’ success and are less focused on documentation, they feel comfortable offering feedback and coaching about underperformance.
One of the simplest ways to dignify those you lead is to ask for the story of their work. Instead of offering a perfunctory “good job” after somebody has finished a project, ask for details (“I’m sure it took more to get here than I can see. Can you talk to me about how you did it?”). As they tell their story, watch how animated they become as they tell you where they struggled and what they felt proud of.
Focus on Fairness
As I’ve written about before, when accountability systems are seen as fair, people are four times more likely to be honest (especially about their mistakes), act fairly toward others, and serve the organization’s purpose instead of their own interests. Our accountability systems have painfully confused sameness with fairness and have been designed largely to avoid litigation and reduce a manager’s biases. In practice, they’ve done more to stunt individuality, and that’s exactly what makes them unfair.
Prioritizing fairness in our accountability processes allows two very important things to change. First, it reestablishes the connection between contribution and contributor. For decades, in an attempt at creating fairness, conventional thinking has kept the evaluation of work separate from the evaluation of people. This made sense when people were producing large volumes of the same output. But in a knowledge economy, people’s ideas, creativity, and analysis are direct reflections of who they are — the nature of today’s work makes accountability personal. It becomes fair when managers acknowledge contributions as the fruit of the unique talents of their employees. Efforts to force contribution and contributor apart are experienced as invalidating and unfair.
Second, focusing on fairness exposes biases within accountability systems. Plenty of research shows that organizations privilege certain groups via implicit biases within their accountability systems. Viewing these systems through the lens of fairness prompts honest questions about how to change them. Who has access to prized opportunities? What are the existing expectations about who will or won’t excel? Whose voices and ideas get included? Questions like these reveal whether there’s equitable opportunity to succeed, regardless of one’s level of ability, and enable leaders to open up opportunities for people to shine with whatever talents they have. For example, a leader might broaden who gets to speak and present at meetings, or take a new approach to acknowledging traditionally privileged roles (like engineers at tech companies or marketers at branding companies) that levels the playing field for other types of contributions.
I spoke with Hubert Joly, a former CEO of Best Buy, whose acclaimed turnaround of the retailer is well known. Key to that transformation was a new focus on helping individuals be themselves, to “be human.” As Joly told me:
When I first started as CEO, and they showed me the forms to fill out about my team’s performance, and they wanted me to put numbers in boxes, I thought, Why would anyone do this? I decided to simply ask people, “How do you feel things went?” — and they would often be harder on themselves than I would have. I would ask, “What do you need from me?” — and they would tell me. It seemed like a much more human approach to holding people accountable.
Joly applied that message to the organization as a whole.“What does it look like when we are at our best?,” store associates were asked during the process of setting standards for the company’s new brand. Allowing employees to help define the standards to which they will be held, Joly recognized, leads to better systems of accountability. When people help set the bar, they are far more motivated to reach it, and often exceed it.
To demonstrate your commitment to fairness, ask those on your team — preferably anonymously — if they feel the playing field in your group is level, if they see some roles or people as privileged, or if they view you as you having “favorites.” Even if your intentions are good, people may still feel like they don’t have an equitable chance for success.
Make Restoration, Not Blame, the Goal
People dread accountability in their organizations. Why? Because when consequences are levied, they often feel shaming and harsh, despite corporate rhetoric about learning from failures. The reflexive response is to hide mistakes or point fingers elsewhere.
If leaders believed that falling short of a goal still had merit, it could radically alter how people treat their own — and others’ — mistakes. As Kathleen Hogan, Microsoft’s Chief People Officer, told me:
In a culture where people struggle to admit they don’t know something, calculating risk can be tricky. Being open about failure helps us balance a growth mindset with accountability. We are learning to not just reward success, but also reward people who fell short while getting us closer. We want it to be acceptable to say, “I don’t know, but I will find out.” Learning from our mistakes gets us closer to our desired results — that’s a new form of accountability for us.
To treat mistakes restoratively, leaders need humility, grace, and patience. They must see any person’s arc of professional success as more than the sum total of any single assignment. Leaders also need the humility to acknowledge their contribution to people’s failures. Did the person have the resources, skills, team support, and realistic timelines to be successful?
We have a long way to go before accountability within organizations becomes a welcomed process that yields fair, actionable feedback and encourages employees to embrace the opportunity to improve their performance and expand their contributions. Making dignity, fairness, and restoration foundational components of accountability systems is a powerful place to start.
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Implications of the specific localization of YAP signaling on the epithelial patterning of circumvallate papilla
AbstractCircumvallate papilla (CVP) is a distinctively structured with dome-shaped apex, and the surrounding trench which contains over two hundred taste buds on the lateral walls. Although CVP was extensively studied to determine the regulatory mechanisms during organogenesis, it still remains to be elucidated the principle mechanisms of signaling regulations on morphogenesis including taste buds formation. The key role of Yes-associated protein (YAP) in the regulation of organ size and cell proliferation in vertebrates is well understood, but little is known about the role of this signaling pathway in CVP development. We...
Source: Journal of Molecular Histology - January 8, 2021 Category: Laboratory Medicine Source Type: research
Comparison of quantum dot immunofluorescence histochemistry with conventional immunohistochemistry in detecting Helicobacter pylori infection in paraffin-embedded tissues of gastric biopsy
In this study, we used QDs-based immunofluorescence histochemistry (QDs-IHC) and conventional immunohistochemistry (IHC) techniques to perform a retrospective analysis on paraffin-embedded tissues of gastric biopsies in 203 patients (112 of which were HP positive and 91 were negative). The ability of QDs-IHC to detectHelicobacter pylori (HP) in gastric biopsies compared to IHC technology was evaluated. In our study, both methods showed consistent HP morphology and localization. The positive detection rate of HP for QDs-IHC in formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue was 54.7% (111/203), and the se...
Immunoexpression pattern of autophagy mediators in alveolar bone osteoclasts following estrogen withdrawal in female rats
AbstractIt is known that estrogen deficiency increases osteoclast formation and activity. Autophagy, a cell survival pathway, has been shown to be crucial for osteoclast function. However, little is known about the effects of estrogen depletion on osteoclast autophagy. Here, we evaluated the effects of estrogen deficiency in the immunoexpression of autophagy mediators in alveolar bone osteoclasts of ovariectomized rats. Twelve adult female rats were ovariectomized (OVX-group) or SHAM-operated (SHAM-group). After three weeks, the rats were euthanized and maxillary fragments containing alveolar bone of the first molars were ...
Expression of NR5A2, NUP153, HNF4A, USP15 and FNDC3B is consistent with their use as novel biomarkers for bovine mammary stem/progenitor cells
This study suggests that NR5A2, NUP153, HNF4A, USP15 and FNDC3B are likely markers for bovine MaSC/progenitor cells. Quantification of RNA transcripts of HNF4A and NUP153 in bovine MEC as potential MaSC markers are novel. Fur ther studies to correlate protein expression of these markers with their transcripts level using single cell analysis in larger samples in lactating cow at different physiological stages are warranted. (Source: Journal of Molecular Histology)
Circular RNA RBM33 contributes to cervical cancer progression via modulation of the miR-758-3p/PUM2 axis
AbstractCervical cancer (CC) is a gynecological malignant tumor. Circular RNA (hsa_circ_0001772) (circRBM33) is implicated in the tumorigenesis of cancers. Nevertheless, the role of circRBM33 in CC is indistinct. Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) was employed to evaluate the levels of circRBM33, miR-758-3p, and pumilio RNA binding family member 2 (PUM2) mRNA in tissue samples and cells. Cell proliferation, apoptosis, migration, invasion, and glycolysis were assessed using 3-(4, 5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2, 5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay, flow cytometry assay, transwell assay, or special co...
Long non-coding RNA TDRG1 promotes hypoxia-induced glycolysis by targeting the miR-214-5p/SEMA4C axis in cervical cancer cells
AbstractLong non-coding RNA (lncRNA) has been demonstrated as vital regulator in human cancer. However, the precise role of lnc-TDRG1 in cervical cancer (CC) remains unclear, so this study was aimed to clarify the role and underlying molecular mechanism of lnc-TDRG1 in CC. The real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) was conducted to assess the expression levels of lnc-TDRG1, miR-214-5p and Semaphorin 4C (SEMA4C). Under hypoxia condition, the biological behaviors of CC cell, including invasion and glycolysis were determined by transwell assay and Glucose Assay Kit and Lactate Assay Kit, respectively. The ...
Overexpression of T-type calcium channel Cav3.1 in oral squamous cell carcinoma: association with proliferation and anti-apoptotic activity
This study is to identify the expression pattern and clinical significance of Cav3.1 in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). Firstly, the expression levels of Cav3.1 in oral mucosa (OM), dysplasia and oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) were determined and compared by real-time quantitative PCR and Western blot analysis. After that, human tissue microarrays, containing 29 OM, 23 dysplasia and 122 primary OSCC samples, were applied to investigate the expression levels of Cav3.1, proliferation markers [Ki-67, proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA)] and cellular anti-apoptosis markers [B cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2)] by immunoh...
High nuclear expression of APE1 correlates with unfavorable prognosis and promotes tumor growth in hepatocellular carcinoma
In this study, bioinformatics analysis of APE1 was performed in several databases, including the TCGA, GeneCard, Human Protein Atlas and Ualcan databases. The relationship between APE1 mRNA expression and several attributes of liver cancer patients in TCGA was investigated. Then, the protein expression of APE1 was detected by IHC analysis in 95 HCC samples and the association between APE1 expression and the clinicopathological parameters of HCC patients was explored. GSEA-KEGG analysis was performed to predict the potential signaling pathways that associated with APE1 expression. Then the siRNA-mediated knockdown model of ...
Ubiquitin-specific protease 14 (USP14) promotes proliferation and metastasis in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
In this study, we found that USP14 was remarkably upregulated in PDAC tissues compared with normal pancreatic tissues. Notably, Kaplan –Meier curves showed that high expression of USP14 predicted significantly worse prognosis in PDAC patients than low expression of USP14. To determine whether USP14 could regulate the proliferation, apoptosis and metastasis of PDAC cells, we knocked down endogenous USP14 or overexpressed exogenous USP14 in Panc-1 and BxPC-3 cells. Using MTT assays, colony formation analyses, flow cytometry assays, and cell invasion and migration assays, we found that knockdown of USP14 attenuated prol...
LncRNA KCNQ1OT1 acts as miR-216b-5p sponge to promote colorectal cancer progression via up-regulating ZNF146
AbstractLong non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have shown to act as important regulators in cancer biology. The aim of this study was to investigate the role and mechanism of lncRNA KCNQ1 opposite strand/antisense transcript 1 (KCNQ1OT1) in colorectal cancer (CRC) progression. The abundance of KCNQ1OT1, microRNA-216b-5p (miR-216b-5p) and zinc finger protein 146 (ZNF146) messenger RNA (mRNA) was measured by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR). Cell proliferation was analyzed by 3-(4,5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay and colony formation assay. Cell migration and invasion abil...
Prognostic significance of LDL receptor-related protein 1B in patients with gastric cancer
This study aimed to unravel the clinicopathological characteristics of LRP1B protein expression in gastric cancer. Immunohistochemical staining with antibodies specific to LRP1B peptide, which has an EXXXLL motif-containing region in the C-terminal flexible loop for intracellular sorting, was performed with 100 gastric cancer tissue specimens. Out of 100 tissue specimens, 45 exhibited cytoplasmic localization of LRP1B immunoreactivity. This cytoplasmic localization of LRP1B was significantly higher (P = 0.044) in intestinal-type gastric cancer (25 of 44) than in diffuse-type gastric cancer (20 of 56). Notably...
LncRNA SNHG1 promotes neuronal injury in Parkinson ’s disease cell model by miR-181a-5p/CXCL12 axis
AbstractSmall molecule RNA host gene 1 (SNHG1) has been found to be an important regulator in the neurotoxicity of Parkinson ’s disease (PD). However, the underlying molecular mechanisms of SNHG1 in PD remains elusive. The expression of SNHG1, microRNA (miR)-181a-5p, and C-X-C motif chemokine 12 (CXCL12) mRNA was detected using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction. Cell viability and apoptosis were analyzed by cell counting kit-8 and Flow cytometry, respectively. Western blot was utilized to determine the levels of B-cell lymphoma-2 (Bcl-2), CyclinD1, Cleaved-caspase-3, and CXCL12 protein. The interaction...
MiR-217 promotes endothelial cell senescence through the SIRT1/p53 signaling pathway
AbstractStudies have shown that miR-217 can induce cell senescence, but its mechanism of action in vascular endothelial cell senescence is less reported. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate how miR-217 plays a role in endothelial cell senescence. Human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) were used to replicate the aging model, and the population doubling levels (PDLs) during cell passage were counted. Senescence-associated β-galactosidase (SA-β-gal) staining, Real-time quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR), MTT assay, Transwell, and tube formation were used to detect the effects of miR-217 on young and senescen...
Salivary exosomes as a new therapy to ameliorate diabetes mellitus and combat xerostomia and submandibular salivary glands dysfunction in diabetic rats
AbstractDiabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the major metabolic diseases. Xerostomia and salivary gland dysfunction are of its common oral complications. Exosomes, as a new therapeutic potential containing nucleic acids, proteins and lipids, act as effective vehicles for target molecules delivery. Accordingly, their therapeutic use is gaining much interest. Therefore, this work aimed to assess the therapeutic efficacy of salivary exosomes in ameliorating DM and combating xerostomia as a complication of salivary gland dysfunction in diabetic rats. In the current study, salivary exosomes were injected intravenously to rats of g...
Polydatin and polydatin-loaded chitosan nanoparticles attenuate diabetic cardiomyopathy in rats
In conclusion, the new formula of PD-CSNPs was more effective than PD and MET in amelioration the diabetic cardiomyopathy through its antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and prolonged-release properties.Graphic abstract (Source: Journal of Molecular Histology)
Uremic toxin indoxyl sulfate promotes proinflammatory macrophage activation by regulation of β-catenin and YAP pathways
In this study, we aimed to investigate the effect of IS on macrophage polarization during lipopolysaccharide (LPS) challenge. THP-1 monocytes were incubated with phorbol 12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA) to differentiate into macrophages, and then incubated with LPS and IS for 24 h. ELISA was used to detect the levels of TNFα, IL-6, IL-1β in THP-1-derived macrophages. Western blot assay was used to detect the levels of arginase1 and iNOS in THP-1-derived macrophages. Percentages of HLA-DR-positive cells (M1 macrophages) and CD206-positive cells (M2 macrophages) were dete cted by flow cytometry. IS markedly inc...
Coenzyme Q10 enhances remyelination and regulate inflammation effects of cuprizone in corpus callosum of chronic model of multiple sclerosis
In this study, we examined for the first time the role of CoQ10 in preventing demyelination and induction of remyelination in the chronic CPZ model of MS. 40 male mice were divided into four groups. 3 group chewed CPZ-containing food for 12 weeks to in duce MS. After 4 weeks, one group were treated with CoQ10 (150 mg/kg/day) by daily gavage until the end of the experiment, while CPZ poisoning continued. At the end of 12 weeks, tail suspension test (TST) and open field test (OFT) was taken and animals were sacrificed to assess myelin basic prote in (MBP), oligodendrocyte transcription factor-1 (Olig1), t...
Source: Journal of Molecular Histology - November 27, 2020 Category: Laboratory Medicine Source Type: research
NAIP expression increases in a rat model of liver mass restoration
AbstractThe neuronal apoptosis inhibitory protein (NAIP) is a constituent of the NLRC4 inflammasome, which plays a key role in innate immunity, and an antiapoptotic protein. Recently, we reported the previously undescribed role of NAIP in cell division. The liver is one of the body ’s most actively regenerative organs. Given the novel mitotic role of NAIP, we examined its expression in hepatic mass restoration. The major liver lobe of Wistar rats was removed, and samples from both newly formed liver tissue, assessed by positive Ki67 immunostaining, and the remnant, intact li ver lobes from hepatectomized rats were ta...
SUMO modification in apoptosis
AbstractApoptosis and clearance of dead cells is highly evolutionarily conserved from nematode to humans, which is crucial to the growth and development of multicellular organism. Fail to remove apoptotic cells often lead to homeostasis imbalance, fatal autoimmune diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases. Small ubiquitin-related modifiers (SUMOs) modification is a post-translational modification of ubiquitin proteins mediated by the sentrin-specific proteases (SENPs) family. SUMO modification is widely involved in many cellular biological process, and abnormal SUMO modification is also closely related to many major human d...
Dual roles of TGF- β signaling in the regulation of dental epithelial cell proliferation
In conclusions, TGF-β exhibits dual roles in the regulation of dental epithelial cell proliferation through two pathways. On the one hand, TGF-β activates canonical Smad2/3 signaling through ALK5, i nhibiting the proliferation of internal dental epithelial cells. On the other hand, TGF-β activates noncanonical Smad1/5 signaling through ALK1/2-ALK5, promoting the proliferation of basal cells in the dental epithelial bud. (Source: Journal of Molecular Histology)
NDRG2 is expressed on enteric glia and altered in conditions of inflammation and oxygen glucose deprivation/reoxygenation
This study is the first to show the expression and distribution of NDRG2 in the enteric glia. Our results indicate that NDRG2 might be involved in the pathogenesis of enteric inflammation and ischemia/reperfusion injury. This study shows that NDRG2 might be a molecular target for enteric nervous system diseases. (Source: Journal of Molecular Histology)
Transferrin improved the generation of cardiomyocyte from human pluripotent stem cells for myocardial infarction repair
In this study, we provided a simple and efficient strategy for cardiac differentiation from hPSCs and performed functional evaluation in a rat model of myocardial infarction. Using a chemically defined medium including four components, recombinant human albumin, ascorbic acid, human transferrin, and RPMI 1640, we developed a manageable and cost-effective protocol for robust generation of CMs from hPSCs. Interestingly, the addition of transferrin helped hPSCs to transit from TeSR-E8 medium to the simple cardiac differentiation medium and successfully initiated mesoderm differentiation without significant cell death. The CM ...
Altered BMP-Smad4 signaling causes complete cleft palate by disturbing osteogenesis in palatal mesenchyme
In this study, a secreted BMP antagonist,Noggin was over-expressed byOsr2-creKI to suppress BMP signaling intensively in mouse palatal mesenchyme, which made the newborn mouse displaying complete cleft palate, a phenotype much severer than the anterior or submucous cleft palate. Immunohistochemical analysis indicated that in the anterior and posterior palatal mesenchyme, the canonical BMP-Smad4 signaling was dramatically down-regulated, while the non-canonical BMP signaling pathways were altered little. Although cell proliferation was reduced only in the anterior palatal mesenchyme, the osteogenic condensation and Osterix ...
Source: Journal of Molecular Histology - November 7, 2020 Category: Laboratory Medicine Source Type: research
Regulatory role of insulin-like growth factor-binding proteins in odontogenic mineralization in rats
AbstractMuch information is currently available for molecules in early odontogenesis, but there is limited knowledge regarding terminal cytodifferentiation of ameloblasts and odontoblasts for the determination of normal crown morphology. The present differential display PCR (DD-PCR) revealed that insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 5 (IGFBP5) was differentially expressed in molar tooth germs between the cap (before crown mineralization) and root formation (after crown mineralization) stages. Real-time PCR confirmed that the expression levels of IGFBP1 –4 were not significantly changed but those of IGFBP5&ndash...
The role of MYB proto-oncogene like 2 in tamoxifen resistance in breast cancer
AbstractDespite the efficacy of tamoxifen in preventing disease relapse, a large portion of breast cancer patients show intrinsic or acquired resistance to tamoxifen, leading to treatment failure and unfavorable clinical outcome. MYB proto-oncogene like 2 (MYBL2) is a transcription factor implicated in the initiation and progression of various human cancers. However, its role in tamoxifen resistance in breast cancer remained largely unknown. In the present study, by analyzing public transcriptome dataset, we found that MYBL2 is overexpressed in breast cancer and is associated with the poor prognosis of breast cancer patien...
TRIP13 promotes the proliferation and invasion of lung cancer cells via the Wnt signaling pathway and epithelial –mesenchymal transition
AbstractThyroid hormone receptor interactor 13 (TRIP13) is an ATPase that has been found to be overexpressed in many tumors. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of TRIP13 and its mechanism of action in lung cancer. The expression of TRIP13 was examined in lung cancer tissues and corresponding normal lung tissues by western blotting. TRIP13 was overexpressed or knocked down by transient transfection or siRNA interference in lung cancer cells, respectively. The expression of key proteins associated with the Wnt signaling pathway and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) was assessed. The interaction between T...
Source: Journal of Molecular Histology - October 30, 2020 Category: Laboratory Medicine Source Type: research
ELK1 activated-long noncoding RNA LBX2-AS1 aggravates the progression of ovarian cancer through targeting miR-4784/KDM5C axis
This study proved that ELK1 activated-LBX2-AS1 aggravated the progression of OC by targeting the miR-4784/KDM5C axis, suggesting that LBX2-AS2 may be a promising diagnostic biomarker of OC. (Source: Journal of Molecular Histology)
Metabolic acidosis and hyperkalemia differentially regulate cation HCN3 channel in the rat nephron
AbstractThe kidney controls body fluids, electrolyte and acid –base balance. Previously, we demonstrated that hyperpolarization-activated and cyclic nucleotide-gated (HCN) cation channels participate in ammonium excretion in the rat kidney. Since acid–base balance is closely linked to potassium metabolism, in the present work we aim to determine the effect of chronic metabolic acidosis (CMA) and hyperkalemia (HK) on protein abundance and localization of HCN3 in the rat kidney. CMA increased HCN3 protein level only in the outer medulla (2.74 ± 0.31) according to immunoblot analysis. However, imm...
MMP7 damages the integrity of the renal tubule epithelium by activating MMP2/9 during ischemia –reperfusion injury
AbstractRenal ischemia –reperfusion (IR) injury is a common issue in urological surgery, and the renal tubules, particularly the proximal tubules, are extremely vulnerable to IR injury. In this work, we detected the differently expressed genes (DEGs) between normal rabbit kidneys and IR kidneys by RNA-sequencing, then i dentified that matrix metalloproteinase–7 (MMP7) played an important role in the progress of IR injury. Indeed, A time-dependent promotion of renal injury was detected in rabbit model, as demonstrated by the increased levels of MMP2/7/9, and the decreased of tight junction protein–1 (TJP1)...
ITGB1 promotes the chondrogenic differentiation of human adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells by activating the ERK signaling
This study ’s objective is to study the roles of integrin β1 (ITGB1) in regulating ADSC chondrogenic differentiations as well as the underlying mechanisms. The identity of ADSC was confirmed by flow cytometry. ITGB1 gene was overexpressed in human ADSC (hADSC) by transfection with LV003-recombinant plasmids . Gene mRNA and protein levels were examined using quantitative RT-PCR and western blotting, respectively. Differentially expressed mRNAs and proteins were characterized by next-generation RNA sequencing and label-free quantitative proteomics, respectively. ERK signaling and AKT signaling in hADSCs were inhib...
Breast tumour cell subpopulations with expression of the MYC and OCT4 proteins
AbstractTheMYC andOCT4 genes are known factors associated with maintaining pluripotency and are linked with a more aggressive course, progression, and resistance to therapy in cancer. Determining the subpopulations of tumour cells expressing the Myc and Oct4 proteins will provide an opportunity to understand which tumour cell subpopulations expressing MYC and OCT4 are associated with metastasis and resistance and which subpopulations can be targeted by anti-MYC and anti-OCT4 therapy. The study included paraffin-embedded tissue from tumours from 27 patients with luminal B breast cancer obtained after neoadjuvant chemotherap...
COVID-19 and multiorgan failure: A narrative review on potential mechanisms
AbstractThe outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) in December 2019 form Wuhan, China leads to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. While the common cold symptoms are observed in mild cases, COVID-19 is accompanied by multiorgan failure in severe patients. The involvement of different organs in severe patients results in lengthening the hospitalization duration and increasing the mortality rate. In this review, we aimed to investigate the involvement of different organs in COVID-19 patients, particularly in severe cases. Also, we tried to define the potential underlying mechanisms ...
Hedgehog pathway activation in oral squamous cell carcinoma: cancer-associated fibroblasts exhibit nuclear GLI-1 localization
AbstractThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the expression of Hedgehog (HH) signaling molecules (SHH and GLI-1) by cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAF) in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). Immunohistochemistry was used to detect molecular HH signaling and CAF-related protein expression, including α-SMA and S100A4, in 70 samples of human OSCC. The colocalization of α-SMA and S100A4 with SHH was also evaluated by double-staining. In vitro study was performed using primary normal oral fibroblast (NOF) and CAF through immunofluorescence and Western Blot for CAF-proteins, SHH, and GLI-1. Forty- five cases (6...
Source: Journal of Molecular Histology - September 29, 2020 Category: Laboratory Medicine Source Type: research
Association of high HIF-1 α levels in serous periodontitis with external root resorption by the NFATc1 pathway
AbstractWhether external root resorption is associated with hypoxia in the periodontal ligaments of teeth with severe periodontitis remains unclear. Hypoxia inducible factor-1 α (HIF-1α) expression and external resorption sites in the periodontal ligaments of these teeth were observed to elaborate upon the relationship between hypoxia and external root resorption in severe periodontitis. Histological analysis was performed to observe external root resorption. The expres sions of HIF-1α and Nuclear factor-activated T cells c1 (NFATc1) in the periodontal ligaments were detected by immunofluorescence, wester...
Lycium barbarum polysaccharide protects against Homocysteine-induced Vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation and phenotypic transformation via PI3K/Akt pathway
AbstractLycium barbarum polysaccharide (LBP) is an alkaloid extracted from lycium barbarum. LBP is the active component of lycium barbarum used to treat hypertension, atherosclerosis and other cardiovascular diseases in Chinese traditional medicine. However, the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms of LBP- mediated activity in vascular disease remain poorly understood. In the present study, we showed the protective effect of LBP in vascular smooth muscle cells. Our results indicate that LBP significantly reduces the proliferation of VSMCs caused by Homocysteine (Hcy) and inhibits the phenotypic transformation of VS...
Source: Journal of Molecular Histology - September 7, 2020 Category: Laboratory Medicine Source Type: research
Localization of angiotensin-(1-7) and Mas receptor in the rat ovary throughout the estrous cycle
AbstractWe have previously demonstrated the presence of Angiotensin (Ang)-(1-7) in rat ovary homogenates and its stimulatory effect on estradiol and progesterone production. The present study was undertaken to identify the cellular localization of Ang-(1-7) and its receptor Mas in the rat ovary in the different phases of the estrous cycle. Ang-(1-7) and Mas were localized by immunohistochemistry and Mas mRNA expression was assessed by RT-PCR. Immunostaining for both Ang-(1-7) and Mas was found in all phases of the estrous cycle, particularly in the thecal and interstitial cells, as well as in regressing corpora lutea. Howe...
Source: Journal of Molecular Histology - August 31, 2020 Category: Laboratory Medicine Source Type: research
Histidine kinase NME1 and NME2 are involved in TGF- β1-induced HSC activation and CCl 4 -induced liver fibrosis
In this study, we established a CCl4-induced liver fibrosis model in C57 mice and a TGF- β1-induced HSC activation model in LX-2 cells, to study the role of histidine phosphorylation. The expression of histidine kinases NME1 and NME2 was increased, histidine phosphatase PGAM5 and PHPT1 was unchanged, and 1-pHis and 3-pHis were increased in the in vivo and in vitro models. The expressio n of LHPP was decreased in the in vivo model but not in the in vitro model. To further study the role of NME1, NME2, and histidine phosphorylation in HSC activation, we silenced NME1 or NME2 and administered TGF-β1 in LX-2 cells. T...
The use of multiplex staining to measure the density and clustering of four endometrial immune cells around the implantation period in women with recurrent miscarriage: comparison with fertile controls
In conclusion, the significant change in numbers of three out of four endometrial immune cell density and a significant increase in clustering between CD68+ and CD56+ cells suggest that several immune cells and their interactions may be important in the function of the endometrium; abnormal interactions may predispose to recurrent miscarriage. (Source: Journal of Molecular Histology)
Serum LUCAT1 implicates the pathogenesis of muscle-invasive bladder cancer via targeting miR-199a-5p and miR-199b-5p
AbstractMuscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) is a common malignancy of urinary system cancers, accounting for about 1/3 of all newly diagnosed bladder cancer cases. Due to its strong metastasis, the 5-year survival of MIBC is less than 50%, and in serious cases, the overall survival of metastatic bladder cancer patients is about 1.3 years. LncRNAs, a type of non-coding RNAs defined as the transcripts exceeding 200 nucleotides in length, are frequently aberrant in multiple cancers including cervical, ovarian, breast and bladder cancers. Recently, LUCAT1 (short for lung cancer-associated transcript 1), a lncRNA first ...
Down-regulation of SETD6 protects podocyte against high glucose and palmitic acid-induced apoptosis, and mitochondrial dysfunction via activating Nrf2-Keap1 signaling pathway in diabetic nephropathy
In this study, we sought to investigate the contribution of SET domain-containing protein 6 (SETD6) to the pathogenesis of podocyte injury induced by glucose (GLU) and palmitic acid (PA), as well as the underlying mechanisms. Our results showed that GLU and PA treatment significantly decreased SETD6 expression in mouse podocytes. Besides, Cell Counting Kit-8 (CCK-8) and flow cytometry assay demonstrated that silencing of SETD6 silence obviously enhanced cell viability, and suppressed apoptosis in GLU and PA-induced podocytes. We also discovered that downregulation of SETD6 suppressed GLU and PA-induced ROS generation and p...
A new approach for examining the neurovascular structure with phalloidin and calcitonin gene-related peptide in the rat cranial dura mater
AbstractThe neurovascular structures in the cranial dura mater have been studied with various histological techniques in the past years. In order to obtain a proper approach to reveal the detailed structures, different labeling methods for the cranial vessels and nerve fibers were tested in this study. Firstly, the labeling characteristics of phalloidin, alpha smooth muscle actin ( α-SMA), and CD31 were compared in rat whole-mount cranial dura mater by using fluorescent immunohistochemistry or histochemistry. Secondly, according to their properties, phalloidin and α-SMA were selected to combine with calcitonin ...
Lipid mass spectrometry imaging and proteomic analysis of severe aortic stenosis
AbstractSevere aortic stenosis (AS) is prevalent in adults ≥ 65 years, a significant cause of morbidity and mortality, with no medical therapy. Lipid and proteomic alterations of human AS tissue were determined using mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) and liquid chromatography electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (LC–ESI–MS/MS) to unders tand histopathology, potential biomarkers of disease, and progression from non-calcified to calcified phenotype. A reproducible MSI method was developed using healthy murine aortic valves (n = 3) and subsequently applied to human AS (n&t...
Overexpression of PREX1 in oral squamous cell carcinoma indicates poor prognosis
AbstractPhosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate-dependent Rac exchanger (P-Rex) proteins control many fundamental cellular functions including cell migration, actin cytoskeletal rearrangement and adhesion in many cancers. However, P-Rex1 expression and its prognostic effect and possible clinical value are not clearly elucidated in human oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). Here, OSCC tissue microarrays were used to verify the expression levels of P-Rex1, coinhibitory immune checkpoints and tumor associated macrophage (TAM) markers, and to analyze the relationship between PREX1 expression levels and clinicopathological cha...
Spatiotemporal expression of neurogenic locus notch homolog protein 1 in developing caudal spinal cord of fetuses with anorectal malformations from ETU-fed rats
AbstractComplications, such as fecal soiling, incontinence, and constipation, are major health issues for patients with anorectal malformations (ARMs) after surgery. Dysplasia of the caudal spinal cord is an increasingly pivotal area in the field of postoperative complications for patients with ARMs. However, the existing research has not fully defined the mechanism underlying ARMs development. The neurogenic locus notch homolog (Notch) signaling pathway comprises several highly conserved proteins that are involved in spinal cord developmental processes. In the present study, the emerging role of Notch1 in fetal lumbosacra...
Mechanical adaptation of synoviocytes A and B to immobilization and remobilization: a study in the rat knee flexion model
The objective of this study was to quantify the in vivo response of synoviocytes type A and B in the posterior joint capsule to knee immobilization and remobilization. Also, to correlate the immunohistochemical data with selected mRNA expression in the posterior joint capsule. Forty-two adult male Sprague –Dawley rats had one knee joint immobilized in flexion for durations of 1–4 weeks. Fifteen were harvested after immobilization and 15 were remobilized for 4 weeks. They were analyzed immunohistochemically with CD68 and CD55 antibodies as markers for synoviocytes type A and type B, respectively . Cont...
Source: Journal of Molecular Histology - August 9, 2020 Category: Laboratory Medicine Source Type: research
The roles of galectins in hepatic diseases
AbstractHepatic diseases include all diseases that occur in the liver, including hepatitis, cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, etc. Hepatic diseases worldwide are characterized by high incidences of digestive system diseases, which present with subtle symptoms, are difficult to treat and have high mortality. Galectins are β-galactoside-binding proteins that have been found to be aberrantly expressed during hepatic disease progression. An increasing number of studies have shown that abnormal expression of galectins is extensively involved in hepatic diseases, such as hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), liver cirrhos...
Source: Journal of Molecular Histology - July 30, 2020 Category: Laboratory Medicine Source Type: research
The anticonvulsant effect of sparteine on pentylenetetrazole-induced seizures in rats: a behavioral, electroencephalographic, morphological and molecular study
AbstractAbnormal synchronous activity in neurons generates epileptic seizures. Antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) are effective in 70% of patients, but this percentage is drastically lower in developing countries. Sparteine is a quinolizidine alkaloid synthesized from mostLupine species and has a probable anticonvulsive effect. For this reason, the objective of the present work was to study the anticonvulsant effect of sparteine using a dose –effect curve and to determine its effectiveness against seizures using behavioral, electroencephalographic, morphological and molecular data. Wistar rats were grouped into control [sali...
Effects of titanium dioxide nanoparticles on the myocardium of the adult albino rats and the protective role of β-carotene (histological, immunohistochemical and ultrastructural study)
AbstractTitanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs) are the most produced nanomaterials. TiO2 NPs are used as a drug carrier and molecular imaging vehicle in the cardiovascular system. We aimed to study TiO2 NPs effects on the ventricular myocardium and evaluate the ameliorative effects of β-carotene (βC). Forty adult albino rats were divided into four groups: negative control group (Ι) received a distilled water. Treated group (II): received 20 mg/kg/day TiO2NPs intraperitoneally. Protected group (III): received 10 mg/kg/day βC orally together with TiO2 NPs in a dose of 20 &nb...
Correction to: CircUBAP2 promotes SEMA6D expression to enhance the cisplatin resistance in osteosarcoma through sponging miR-506-3p by activating Wnt/ β-catenin signaling pathway
The authors of the article want to add Xuelian Gong and Wei Li as the first author and co-first author as they have greatly contributed to the revision work. The correct author group is given in this Correction. (Source: Journal of Molecular Histology)
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Exercise and fitness as you age: tips to get fit and stay fit
As you grow older, an active lifestyle is more important than ever. Regular exercise can help boost energy, maintain your independence, and manage symptoms of illness or pain. Exercise can even reverse some of the symptoms of aging. And not only is exercise good for your body, it’s also good for your mind, mood, and memory. Whether you are generally healthy or are managing an illness, there are plenty of ways to get more active, improve confidence, and boost your fitness.
Starting or maintaining a regular exercise routine can be a challenge as you get older. You may feel discouraged by illness, ongoing health problems, or concerns about injuries or falls. Or, if you’ve never exercised before, you may not know where to begin. Or perhaps you think you’re too old or frail, or that exercise is boring or simply not for you.
While these may seem like good reasons to slow down and take it easy as you age, they’re actually even better reasons to get moving. Exercise can energize your mood, relieve stress, help you manage symptoms of illness and pain, and improve your overall sense of well-being. In fact, exercise is the key to staying strong, energetic, and healthy as you get older. And it can even be fun, too, especially if you find like-minded people to exercise with.
No matter your age or your current physical condition, you can benefit from exercise. Reaping the rewards of exercise doesn’t have to involve strenuous workouts or trips to the gym. It’s about adding more movement and activity to your life, even in small ways. Whether you are generally healthy or are managing an illness—even if you’re housebound—there are many easy ways to get your body moving and improve your health and outlook.
Fitness After 50: Tips for Healthy Aging
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Silk and Steel: French Fashion, Women and WWI National WWI Museum and Memorial 2 Memorial Drive, Kansas City, MO 6410
13NovAll Day11AprSilk and Steel: French Fashion, Women and WWI(All Day) National WWI Museum and Memorial, 2 Memorial Drive, Kansas City, MO 6410
November 13 (Friday) - April 11 (Sunday)
National WWI Museum and Memorial
2 Memorial Drive, Kansas City, MO 6410
WWI exploded in the late summer of 1914. Armies took the field in bright uniforms. Navies steamed to sea flying the colors of their nations. For the ensuing years of
WWI exploded in the late summer of 1914. Armies took the field in bright uniforms. Navies steamed to sea flying the colors of their nations. For the ensuing years of global war until the peace treaty was signed on June 28, 1919, most history has centered on battles, leaders and destruction.
Throughout this time of global upheaval and a devastating war primarily fought by men, women around the world actively responded to the tumult by accepting, and at times actively pursuing, new responsibilities and roles. French women, like others, worked in war industries, in agriculture, in nursing, in transport, for suffrage and equal pay and respect. In France, recent scholarship has shown that the survival of women’s fashion also played an important role in life during the Great War. Women’s fashion needed to adapt to the necessities of new actions, scarcity of materials and ever-present societal morale needs. The fashion industry, particularly in France, responded.
Silk and Steel feature original dresses, coats, capes, hats, shoes, and accessories. Topics presented are the evolution of the war-time silhouette, Parisian designers during the war, military uniforms’ influence, women’s uniforms in France and America, war work, economics of fashion, and post-war emancipation.
This special exhibition, Silk and Steel: French Fashion, Women and WWI, is presented by the National WWI Museum and Memorial from Sept. 25, 2020 to April 11, 2021 in the Wylie Gallery
Virtual Retreat: The Lord’s Prayer Conception Abbey 37174 HWY VV, Conception, MO 64433
15JanAll Day17Virtual Retreat: The Lord’s Prayer(All Day) Conception Abbey, 37174 HWY VV, Conception, MO 64433
January 15 (Friday) - 17 (Sunday)
Conception Abbey
37174 HWY VV, Conception, MO 64433
How often has this traditional prayer taught to us by Jesus been recited with little thought
How often has this traditional prayer taught to us by Jesus been recited with little thought of the powerful meaning of each line? Take time to reflectively grasp the deep spiritual meaning of this prayer that is prayed so often and by so many every day. Led by Fr. Roger Schmit, OSB
This retreat will be given in virtual format only. Abbey Guest Center (660) 944-2809
Price: $25 per computer connection or household.
AVOID PROBATE SEMINARS Lewis Living Trust Center 700 N. East Langsford Road, Lee's Summit, MO 64063
19Jan7:00 pmAVOID PROBATE SEMINARS7:00 pm Lewis Living Trust Center, 700 N. East Langsford Road, Lee's Summit, MO 64063
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Learn How Wills Do Not Avoid Probate Learn How to Protect Your Home and Assets: • From unnecessary PROBATE COSTS at death or incapacity • From unfortunate ESTATE TAX consequences • From potential family
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Topeka Rally for Life Kansas Capitol SW 8th & SW Van Buren, Topeka, KS
21Jan8:45 am3:45 pmTopeka Rally for Life8:45 am - 3:45 pm Kansas Capitol, SW 8th & SW Van Buren, Topeka, KS
Kansas Capitol
SW 8th & SW Van Buren, Topeka, KS
United for mothers and babies!
Join special guests Kristen Day, Executive Director of Democrats for Life of America, and Kim Borchers, Kansas Republican National Committeewoman, as they stand united for mothers and babies! Life is truly the winning coalition!
8:30 a.m. – REGISTRATION – Get info on legislative activities, maps, lobbying, capitol tours, pro-life booths and more
9:00 a.m. – WORKSHOPS 1 &2 – 30-minute educational workshop sessions provided by KFL
10:30 a.m. – NON-DENOMINATIONAL RELIGIOUS SERVICE— Capitol workshop room
10:30 a.m. – Catholic Mass with Kansas Bishops at TPAC or stream it at www.livestream/ArchKCK/KSMassforLife
11:45 a.m. – MARCH FOR LIFE from TPAC to south steps of the state Capitol
12:15 p.m. – Rally for Life on the south Capitol steps
2:30 p.m. – WORKSHOPS 3 & 4 – 30-minute educational workshop sessions provided by KFL
All workshops will take place in the Capitol Visitor Center and are no charge.
Everyone is welcome for lunch any time between 11:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. for free-will donation in the Mater Dei Assumption Catholic Church basement. Mater Dei, 204 SW 8th Ave., is north and across the street from the Capitol.
If weather is a problem, the rally will be held on the 1st floor rotunda of the Capitol.
For details about the capitol building and parking information, visit www.kshs.org/p/kansas-state-capitol-plan-your-visit/18649. For emergency or media, please call KFL personnel Jeanne 785.383.8636 or Mary Kay 913.406.4446 Hosted by Kansans for Life
Women's Encouragement Day City Center Church 17500 West 87th Street Parkway, Lenexa, KS
23Jan8:30 am4:30 pmWomen's Encouragement Day8:30 am - 4:30 pm City Center Church, 17500 West 87th Street Parkway, Lenexa, KS
(Saturday) 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
City Center Church
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Join us for a restful day in the middle of the school year set aside just for you! Our morning starts with coffee or tea while enjoying a light breakfast
Join us for a restful day in the middle of the school year set aside just for you! Our morning starts with coffee or tea while enjoying a light breakfast over good conversation with other mama’s who homeschool. We will gather together to hear speakers, enjoy worship sprinkled throughout the day, and sit down to enjoy a delicious lunch – without any cleanup!!! You don’t want to miss this day to be encouraged as local moms share what it looks like for them to say “it is well” as they dwell in the Lord through different seasons of life while homeschooling. We can’t wait to see you! This year we will offer an online option for those that won’t be joining us in person.
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11/20–12/31 $20 Members/$30 Non-Members
1/1–1/15 $45 Everyone
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11/20-12/31 $17 (everyone)
1/1–1/15 $37 (everyone)
The March for Life
29JanAll DayThe March for Life(All Day: friday) Washington DC National Mall
All Day (Friday)
Washington DC National Mall
The March for Life is an inspiring, peaceful. Every year, tens of thousands of pro-lifers converge on the National Mall and march on Capitol Hill on the anniversary of the
The March for Life is an inspiring, peaceful. Every year, tens of thousands of pro-lifers converge on the National Mall and march on Capitol Hill on the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling which legalized abortion in all 50 states.
Pre-Rally Concert with Matthew West: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Rally Program: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
March: 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Rose Dinner (virtual): 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Caravans leave from the Kansas City area. https://www.missourilifecaravan.org/ Also local events. https://www.respectlifekcsj.org/march-for-life.html
MRL Prayer Vigil Ilus David Plaza 400 E 9th St, Kansas City, MO 64106
29Jan1:00 pm2:00 pmMRL Prayer Vigil1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Ilus David Plaza, 400 E 9th St, Kansas City, MO 64106
Ilus David Plaza
400 E 9th St, Kansas City, MO 64106
Come join us for a truly amazing experience. Join with pastors, students, and fellow pro-lifers to pray for the sanctity and protection of life in our country. Also, hear from
Come join us for a truly amazing experience. Join with pastors, students, and fellow pro-lifers to pray for the sanctity and protection of life in our country. Also, hear from various pro-life organizations that address issues such as education, legislation, lobbying, protesting, prevention, pregnancy, and healing.
Dress warm for cold and wind! Receive a goody bag to get informed and show off your pro-life pride!
Parking available at the Catholic Center Garage, 20 West 9th Street, KCMO
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Avalon 3.5: part 5 of 5, Darkness Overhead
June 16, 2015 June 11, 2015 M G Kizzia Leave a comment
“I set the screen to the dimensions of the building,” Tara said. Three arms of zombies that were trying to reach in through the narrow windows were sliced off. They still tried to reach, grab and scratch whatever they could, but Elder Stow, who was back down from the rafters with Boston, used his own weapon to turn the arms on the dirt floor to dust.
Tara moved the knob to push the particle screen ten feet out from the edge of the building after checking the compensator to be sure the earth was not shoved out from beneath the building. The screen pushed the zombies back from the wall and the giant zombie back from the door, and the people could breathe a moment of relief.
“But I don’t imagine whoever is doing this will let the equipment continue to work for long,” Roland said.
“Someone is doing this?” Boston asked.
“Of course,” Tara said. “I saw the dark in the sky.”
“No.” Katie and Alexis breathed as Alexis stepped over to where they were holding down Lord Veregoth. She was going to put him to sleep.
“The Djin?” Lockhart asked through his short breath. His arms were getting tired holding down the giant’s head.
“A big, bad genii,” one of the dwarfs said. “Bangles,” he tipped his hat.
“Blinker.” The other dwarf tipped his hat.
“Good to meet you,” Boston said, and then caused gasps from the dwarfs when she went to kiss Roland.
“Something helped me,” Alexis admitted as Veregoth went to sleep and Decker got off the giant’s chest. “It seems the Djin isn’t the only power around.”
“Probably why this equipment is working,” Tara added with a look at Elder Stow.
“Movement outside,” Katie said from the nearest window, and everyone squeezed in to look “Sky is clearing,” she added. A moment later, all the zombies collapsed. Tara was back on the floor with her eye closed. She reported what she saw.
The titan, Bhukampa was coming. “Brihaspabbi did something right for a change. I don’t know if he reported to the Brahmin, but he fetched the titan.”
“Brihaspabbi?” several people asked.
“Her husband,” Baga said.
“Separated,” Mitra added.
“Hoth!” They all heard the roar. It was deeper and more penetrating than Veregoth’s roar. As Boston said, it echoed down to the toes. Veregoth was coming around and Visana moaned before they all found themselves outside at the feet of a person who stood thirty feet tall and did not look happy. There was a twelve foot giant at the titan’s feet, and he fell to his knees.
“Father. Forgive me. We were caught unaware.” Hoth was making excuses.
The titan leaned down and stretched out a hand toward the travelers. His unhappy expression turned to anger. “Fool,” he said and slapped Hoth who flew through the air and crashed into a wall of the Great Hall. Hoth collapsed, but by then Veregoth was on his knees with his eyes downcast. “You were told these were under a hedge of the gods. Will you bring the gods here to take our land?”
“Lord. They claim to be from the future, but that doesn’t make sense.” Veregoth was shaking. “I thought they were telling lies.”
“Did the woman confirm this?”
Lord Veregoth paused. “I thought she started the lie to deprive us of good workers.”
“The woman does not lie. And you do not lie well, fool.” The titan Bhukampa stepped on Veregoth like a man might step on a mouse. They all heard the bones crushed under the titan’s heel. Then a simple wave of the titan’s hand and Veregoth made a new grave on the giant’s hillside. In fact, all the zombies, human and giant alike returned to their final resting place.
“What happened?” Young Lord Visana was coming around and shaking his head, like he was trying to clean out the cobwebs.
“You were possessed by the Djin who made you capture these people and then brought the dead back to life,” Tara said.
“No. Not possible. My mind is too strong to be possessed as you say.”
“The woman does not lie,” Hoth said as he staggered up to fall again to his knees before the titan.
“Hoth. You were told to get rid of the woman.”
“Seven times we drove her away, and seven times she returned. You forbade us from harming her in any way.” Hoth clearly tried for naked honesty. “She speaks for all the slaves, human and spirit, and keeps the work progressing. Shall we drive her out an eighth time?”
The titan did not answer. “You will let these future people go with their horses and all of their things. I do not one future thing stolen or left behind. Is that clear? I will not have a slit of an opening where the gods may come up into this place, and by capturing these people, you have made a door with an open invitation.” The titan shifted his eyes to glare at Tara. “Woman. What do you have to say?”
Tara looked straight up into those eyes ad raised her voice. “Let my people go,” she said.
“I will think on this,” the titan responded, wheeled around and walked off briskly.
Tara took a deep breath, but Alexis and Katie were both there to hold her up. “He scares me to no end,” Tara said.
“Me too,” Katie agreed.
“Lincoln too,” Alexis said with a grin, and the women laughed.
“You heard Lord Bhukampa.” Hoth yelled. “Get your things and go.”
The travelers were not far down the trail when they saw a man in rags approach. They planned to warn him about the giants, but before he joined them, Boston, who was out front as usual, slipped off Honey’s back and began to vomit.
“She has a fever,” Roland cried out, but Alexis was already down and running to help.
Decker and Elder Stow came in from the wings while Katie ran to the front. Lockhart and Lincoln grabbed the horses, not that there was anything more than scrub grass to tempt them.
“I don’t know what it is,” Alexis said, a touch of panic in her voice. “She is fading, but my senses are not picking up anything I recognize.”
“Did the zombies touch her,” Lincoln called out. “Did they bite her or scratch her?”
“Why should it be like those old movies?” Alexis asked.
“The Djin probably got the idea from one of our minds,” Roland said.
Elder Stow came to his feet. “She did receive a small scratch on her leg when she shoved the zombie off the roof.” Roland examined Boston’s leg and saw the scratch that looked like it barely bled.
“But I don’t know how to fix that.” The panic was now evident in Alexis’ voice.
“Here. Allow me.” The ragged man from the road had caught up with them. Suddenly, they all recognized him.
“Varuna.” Katie was the one who said it.
Varuna took Boston’s hand and she opened her eyes, all cured, smiling, and even the cut on her leg disappeared. Alexis squinted and called Varuna by another name.
“Baga,” she said. “You are Varun, and Mithras is your brother, I bet.”
“Tara does not know. No one knows,” Varuna said, and he answered the questions that were on several minds even without them being asked. “Tara is a seer of the Shemsu. She sees in her minds eye if any Agdline come to earth. She knows the Agdaline sacred symbols, knows how to construct them and where to plant them. She needs to bring her people into the Indus valley, but is prevented. Meanwhile, we are using her talent to keep a watch on the gods in the north. And we are watching over her.”
“You were the power that made Elder Stow’s equipment work,” Katie put it together.
Varuna nodded and continued. “Tara’s husband, Brihaspati works for the Brahmin up in what you would call Afghanistan. The Brahmin also has his eyes on the Indus valley, but that would mean war among the gods. Dayus is fool enough to let that happen.” I hate deceiving Tara, but I must find a way to prevent war at all costs. Tara bringing her Shemsu people into the valley would at least delay things. I don’t know if war may be prevented, but I will not bring the Kairos into the picture if I can help it.”
“I do not think you are deceiving her as much as you are helping her,” Alexis said, and she and Varuna helped Boston to her feet.
“I like to think of it that way,” Varuna said. “And now I have helped you.”
Boston checked her amulet and spoke her surprise. “Hey. We have traveled all the way to the gate. How did we do that?”
“Please,” Varuna said. “Go forward and do not look back.” He vanished, and Lincoln had one mumble to add.
“War among the gods does not sound good at all.”
Beginning next Monday, Avalon, episode 3.6 finds the travelers in Sumaria in the days of Etana, King of Kish, where they find enemies, old and new, among the serpents and the eagles brought down from the heavens. Enjoy …
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Alison Sweeney Back AT DAYS … Directing!
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Alison Sweeney who since departing her long time role as Sami Brady on Days of our Lives has been busy on the other side of the camera!
First, she recently directed an episode of General Hospital and will be returning to do future episodes, and now comes word from Alison that she is already back in Salem directing an episode of DAYS!
Today, Alison tweeted this pic with the words,”So happy 2 b back in Salem – directing! Love visiting my peeps, Lauren Koslow (Kate) and Deidre Hall (Marlena)!”
No word yet on when the episode will air, but as fans of the NBC soap know, DAYS tapes months in advance!
So, what do you think of Alison directing at DAYS? Ready for her run as Sami to wrap-up on air in the coming months? Share your thoughts below!
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Why does DAYS tape so far in advance in comparison to other soaps?
Saves them money. They shoot 8 episodes in 5 days, with one week a month always dark. But as time goes, those extra days shooting a one week frame produces adds up to further and further in advance they are in shooting VS air.
It has been said other soaps will be following suit to the same end, but it doesn’t seem like they’re taking it that far yet.
4ever DAYS
To have time to find a new home if NBC does not want to continue.
It was decided years ago to tape far in advance to reduce the production costs and keep Days on the air. I for one think it was an incredibly smart decision and ever since the switch ( which I think was sometime around 2010) the show has been such a pleasure to watch.
I find there is more of a balance with character airtime and story arcs that don’t drag out forever.
I hope that helps explain a little, and they tape about 4.5-5 months in advance if you were wondering.
Lew S.
I wondered about that as well.
Gmbenet
Glad Alison is back in Salem, even if it is behind the camera! Didn’t think she could stay away for long. Nice to know you can always go home again!
davlestev1
She’s been gone all of 5 minutes and not on screen yet…SMH…she seems to be all over the map at the moment doing even more than she did when she was acting. OVER THIS!!!
LUMIly
I love Sami,so hurry home to Dool and Lucas forever this time 🙂
MBmomof3
Would love her to be in Lucas’ orbit. Love Lucas & miss him. He needs more story no matter what.
jimh(leave it to beaver)
Maybe Lucas and Serena(Melissa Archer) will be paired…i can picture them together and see chemistry without them even in scenes yet…hope it happens!!!
So happy for Allison Sweeney and DooL. Nice photo too
She’ll eventually be back in front of the camera too…im certain she’ll want to be part of Days 50th next year!!!
Well I am sure she will do an excellent job directing, she’s an intelligent gal with great instincts – she understands the way a soap unfolds, and the sometimes cornball expressions and reactions that are required (I don’t mean that as a “put down” at all because I love DAYS but we all know how each scene is it’s own cliffhanger) – at any rate I think most of us feel confident she has the experience and know how that is needed when directing daytime drama.
Dean_Morgan
I certainly will miss having Sami in Salem, but I support Ali’s decision. Days is so good these days, and newer actresses like Kassie dePaiva, Jen Lilley and incoming Melissa Archer should help keep the drama stirred with fan favorites, such as Missy Reeves, Lauren Koslow, and Ari Zucker.
There is no place like home! If Alison is a good director, shouldn’t the people at Days benefit from her expertise? Of course they should! Welcome home, Alison!
Judie Farinelli
I have watched Alison Sweeney since she started on DAYS, and am so sad to know she will be off screen. I hope she returns periodically, as no one can fill her shoes with the same zest and passion that she put in to Sami Brady. Now I see character E.J. was killed on Friday’s episode.. Losing to many characters. It should have been Stephano.
Jaime Lynn Bauer Reveals She’s Returning to Days of our Lives
Lifetime’s ‘Fatal Fiancé’ Premieres Featuring: Brittany Underwood, Camila Banus & Wally Kurth
Days of our Lives favorite, Kristian Alfonso (Ex-Hope) has joined Marilu Henner, Richard Harmon, Jennifer Laporte , and Evan Roderick in the cast of Lifetime’s four-movie V.C. Andrews event focused on the Landry family.
In V.C. Andrews’s All that Glitters and Hidden Jewel ( the 3rd and 4th installments) Alfonso will appear in the the Saturday, March 27 and Sunday, March 28 editions, airing at 8 p.m. ET.
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Kristian takes on the role of Gladys Tate, the mother of Ruby Landry’s childhood sweetheart who will move heaven and earth to keep the two apart.
The actress took to her Instagram to share the casting news and her upcoming appearances: “I’m so #happy #🎆 I can finally share this with #you all 🙂 @lifetimetv #vcandrews see #you also in #😉 #march . I hear there’s a #storm #coming ! #💃🏻 #😘”
Interestingly enough, and has previously announced, another daytime favorite Lauralee Bell (Christine, Y&R) will be featured in the first two films of the V.C. Andrews series on March 20 and 21st, Ruby and Pearls in the Mist.
It will be great to see Alfonso in a more, what appears to be, villainess turn! So, will you be checking out Kristian in her upcoming role? Comment below.
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Earlier this week on Monday night, several of the stars of General Hospital, Days of our Lives, The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful, and One Life to Live, took part in a virtual livestream “party” for Michael Fairman’s 60th birthday.
The event was held virtually to help performers in need who have been deeply affected by the Covid-19 pandemic by letting viewers know where to make a donation to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Covid-19 Relief Fund.
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Participating throughout the 90 minute livestream were: The Young and the Restless, Jason Thompson, Sharon Case, and Christian LeBlanc, General Hospital’s Maurice Benard, Laura Wright, Wes Ramsey, and Chloe Lanier, The Bold and the Beautiful’s Katherine Kelly Lang, Days of our Lives’ Rob Scott Wilson, Eric Martsolf, Galen Gering, Arianne Zucker, Shawn Christian, Santa Barbara favorite, A Martinez, One Life to Live’s Kristen Alderson and Eddie Alderson, and Studio City’s Sean Kanan.
You can catch the replay of the birthday benefit event below or on The Michael Fairman Channel on You Tube.
Throughout the evening, the actors shared stories of how they got their SAG card, played a game of Michael’s trivia, and revealed stories about themselves and other “party” guests in a wonderful display of community and camaraderie at all went down live!
Since March of 2o2o, the SAG-AFTRA Foundation has given out more than $6.2 million in emergency aid to over 6,500 SAG-AFTRA performers and their families facing hardship and uncertainty during this pandemic. Thousands of SAG-AFTRA artists have found themselves in dire need of assistance to help pay their rent, buy groceries, cover health care premiums and other bills. You can still make a donation of any dollar amount to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Covid-19 relief fund here. https://members.sagfoundation.org/donate
Now, check it out below, and let us know if you enjoyed the virtual birthday party livestream via the comment section.
A month before its 5th season is set to bow, Queen Sugar has been renewed for its sixth season by OWN as it was announced on Thursday. The first of its 10 episode season will drop on February 16th.
Set in rural Louisiana and the fictional community of St. Josephine, the series focuses on the trio of Bordelon siblings, played by Dawn-Lyen Gardner, Rutina Wesley and Kofi Siriboe, and their extended family. Days of our Lives favorite, Greg Vaughan (Ex-Eric), has been previously recurring on the show in the role of Calvin.
Queen Sugar creator Ava DuVernay said of the pick-up to Deadline: “What a joy and an honor to continue the stories of Queen Sugar. On behalf of every producer, editor, costumer, grip, writer, cast member and all departments involved in making this series, we’re delighted to delve into a sixth season and to bring our beautiful audience more of the Bordelon family.”
After having to shut down production due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it gave DuVernay time to retool the series remaining season episode and to incorporate the pandemic, and the Black Lives Matter protests of last summer and the general election. Production on Season 5 of the series did not begin until September of last year and ran till December 2020.
In a statement, Oprah Winfrey shared: “The way Ava creates space to allow these characters to embody real-world experiences is television at its finest and we are proud to continue this ground-breaking series. I hear from so many people that they see themselves in the Bordelon family, and my hope is that through this kind of storytelling the hearts and minds of people are opened for a deeper understanding and empathy of one another.”
Greg Vaughan shared via Instagram on the renewal: “Let’s GO!!! 🎉💥🎉💥@queensugarown @warnerbrostv #QS6 #breakingnews”
So, glad to know there will be plenty of Queen Sugar to go around? Comment below.
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rose: “Sounds more to my taste. Never got into This Is Us. Originally liked him as Oliver Queen/Green Lantern in Smallville.”
ChestertheCat: “Because Reid was a story point for Chris and Katie…and were Jean to have written the hell out of whatever…I…”
ChestertheCat: “The show was cancelled. It was the end for everyone.”
ChestertheCat: “Aw gee, it’s Gaelyn. Well. Noah can’t die. Luke will recover from Reid. If Noah died Luke would wither away.”
ChestertheCat: “Once again, gay guy here. Uh, the show was cancellwd all the character were going off. Once again. The focus…”
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Chinese community wants apology from QS MNA accused of racist comments
CTV Montreal Published Wednesday, February 20, 2019 1:49PM EST Last Updated Wednesday, February 20, 2019 7:15PM EST
A Quebec Solidaire MNA is refusing to apologize for making comments about foreign investors the Chinese community considers offensive.
In an interview last week, Emilise Lessard-Therrien said she was afraid of Chinese investors purchasing agricultural land in Quebec.
"Between you and me, we call them predators,” she said. “They are agricultural land predators, and we see them" -- even as she admitted that "they have not yet bought land, because there are federal mechanisms that prohibit it."
Lessard-Therrien said that as global warming threatens agriculture, China is looking to buy foreign land including in Quebec as a possible way to secure its food supply, adding that "land that belongs to China will never being used to feed Quebecers."
'Totally shocking': Chinese group
Chinese Quebecers are now denouncing the agricultural critic for Quebec Solidaire.
"This is totally fake news being spun by a political party. It's totally shocking to me," said May Chiu of the group Progressive Chinese of Quebec.
"I'm an attorney, so the first thing I did was to look at the law. I have it right in front of me, and the law, the acquisition of farmland by non-residents, and under Quebec law non-residents are not allowed to purchase agricultural land except with special authorization of a government commission. And even Emilise Lessard-Therrien, she admitted it's not a problem that exists."
Chiu said that Lessard-Therrien was deliberately creating hateful messages not based in reality.
"It's extremely irresponsible for a political party to take fake news and spin it, and racialize it, in order to create a minority enemy, an ethnic enemy," said Chiu. “The way that she describes Chinese investors - they're lurking among us, we can smell them, we can feel them - it harkens back to the era 150 years ago, and images of the ‘yellow Chinaman, the yellow peril, the yellow menace,’” she said.
Quebec Solidaire co-spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois said Lessard-Therrien did not need to apologize and said her words were being taken out of context.
Not a concern in Quebec, says farmers' association
The Quebec Farmers' Association President John McCart said he has heard of Chinese investors looking at Canadian farms, but mostly in Ontario.
“There was a group there that purchased farmland, grew their crops, loaded it into containers and sent it home to China, but in Quebec we have rules in place to protect (against) foreign investors,” said McCart.
The bigger issue driving up farm prices right now, he added, is real estate speculation overall.
“There are all types of large investment firms looking to buy farmland and use it as a legitimate investment and not necessarily to farm it,” he said.
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Podoconiosis
Podoconiosis (podoconiosis is pronounced 'poh-doh-koh-nee-oh-sis') is a type of elephantiasis (swelling of the limbs) that is common in areas of red clay soil, usually at high altitudes.
There is a great deal of misunderstanding about the disease in affected communities. Some people think it is caused by treading on a snake or frog, others that it is a curse or form of punishment. In reality, podoconiosis (figure below) is a reaction in the body to very small soil particles that have passed through the skin of the feet. The swelling begins in the feet and progresses up the legs, and both feet are usually affected.
Podoconiosis is swelling and deformity of the feet and ankles caused by reactions in the body to particles of red clay soil getting into the skin. (Photos: Gail Davey)
Unlike other types of elephantiasis, podoconiosis is not caused by any bacteria, viruses or parasites. It cannot be transmitted between people, so close contact with someone who has podoconiosis is totally safe. You may wonder why you are learning about it in Communicable Diseases; there are two reasons. First, severe podoconiosis looks a lot like lymphatic filariasis. It is important to know the difference between these diseases because there are differences in their treatment. Second, how you teach patients to reduce the disability due to podoconiosis is exactly the same as the methods you have already learned about for lymphatic filariasis.
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◄ Treatment and prevention of scabies
Jump to... Jump to... About/License Pre-test Introduction Learning Outcomes Classification of faeco-oral diseases and their infectious agents Direct and indirect faeco-oral transmission Symptoms and signs of faeco-oral diseases Diarrhoea How common are diarrhoeal diseases? Diagnosis Treatment Prevention and control of faeco-oral diseases Prevention of faeco-oral transmission Other ways to reduce the risks of faeco-oral diseases Summary Quiz Introduction Learning Outcomes Cholera Infectious agents and occurrence of cholera Cholera epidemics Symptoms and signs of cholera Shigellosis (or bacillary dysentery) Infectious agents and occurrence of shigellosis Symptoms and signs of shigellosis Rotavirus infection and other viral diarrhoeal diseases Modes of transmission of diarrhoeal diseases Diagnosis, treatment and control of bacterial and viral diarrhoeal diseases Diagnosis of diarrhoeal diseases Treatment of bacterial and viral diarrhoeal diseases Prevention and control of bacterial and viral diarrhoeal diseases Controlling epidemics of diarrhoeal diseases Epidemic control measures for cholera Epidemic control measures for shigellosis Typhoid fever Summary Quiz Introduction Learning Outcomes Intestinal protozoal diseases Amoebiasis Giardiasis Intestinal roundworms Ascariasis Hookworm infection Summary Quiz Introduction Learning Outcomes What are acute respiratory tract infections? Acute otitis media How does acute otitis media affect hearing? Causes, transmission and risk factors for acute otitis media Clinical manifestations, diagnosis and complications of acute otitis media Treatment of acute otitis media Pharyngitis Clinical manifestations and complications of pharyngitis Referral of children with pharyngitis for treatment Pneumonia What is pneumonia and what causes it? Pneumonia transmission and risk factors Diagnosis and classification of pneumonia Treatment of pneumonia Prevention and control of acute respiratory tract infections Summary Quiz Introduction Learning Outcomes The human body louse Louse-borne relapsing fever Mode of transmission of relapsing fever Symptoms of relapsing fever Actions if you suspect relapsing fever Louse-borne typhus Mode of transmission of louse-borne typhus Symptoms of louse-borne typhus Actions if you suspect louse-borne typhus Prevention of louse-borne relapsing fever and typhus Summary Quiz Introduction Learning Outcomes Schistosomiasis Where is schistosomiasis common? Mode of transmission of schistosomiasis Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of schistosomiasis Prevention and control of schistosomiasis Leishmaniasis Where is leishmaniasis common? Mode of transmission of leishmaniasis Clinical manifestation and diagnosis of leishmaniasis Prevention and control of leishmaniasis Onchocerciasis Where is onchocerciasis common? Mode of transmission of onchocerciasis Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of onchocerciasis Prevention and control of onchocerciasis Lymphatic filariasis Where is lymphatic filariasis common? Mode of transmission of lymphatic filariasis Clinical manifestations of lymphatic filariasis Diagnosis of lymphatic filariasis Prevention and control of lymphatic filariasis Prevention and alleviation of disability due to lymphatic filariasis Summary Quiz Introduction Learning Outcomes Rabies The transmission of rabies Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of rabies First aid and post-exposure prophylaxis for rabies Prevention of rabies Taeniasis (tapeworm infestation) Mode of transmission of taeniasis Clinical manifestations, diagnosis and treatment of taeniasis Prevention and control of taeniasis Summary Quiz Introduction Learning Outcomes Trachoma - the 'quiet blindness' What causes trachoma? Modes of transmission of trachoma How common is trachoma? Clinical manifestations of trachoma and disease progression Prevention and control of trachoma Scabies What causes scabies and how is it transmitted? How common is scabies? Clinical manifestations of scabies Treatment and prevention of scabies Distinguishing podoconiosis from lymphatic filariasis How does podoconiosis affect people? Treatment of podoconiosis. Podoconiosis-plus: problems that need urgent referral Prevention of podoconiosis Summary Quiz Introduction Learning Outcomes Public health surveillance Data collection and recording Analysis and interpretation of public health data Counting the number, percentage and types of cases Incidence rate Analysing public health data by person, place and time Comparing data in different time periods Reporting public health surveillance data and getting feedback Linking surveillance information to practice Types of public health surveillance Passive surveillance Active surveillance Mixed surveillance Summary Quiz Introduction Learning Outcomes Importance of the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) system Priority diseases for IDSR Role of the primary healthcare professional in IDSR Case definitions of priority diseases Reporting of priority diseases Immediately reportable diseases Weekly reportable diseases Summary Quiz Introduction Learning Outcomes What is an outbreak and an epidemic? Types of epidemics Common source outbreaks Propagated or progressive epidemics Mixed epidemics Epidemic investigation Management of epidemics Summary Quiz
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Evers’ Budget Could Include Criminal Justice Reform For Wisconsin
Filed Under:Gov. Tony Evers, Tony Evers, Wisconsin News
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers’ executive budget could include criminal justice reforms as Wisconsin emerges from a tumultuous year of protests over police brutality and racism, setting up another potential conflict with Republicans who have been reluctant to take any action to address police protocols.
Evers told The Associated Press in a year-end interview that he may include criminal justice reforms in the budget that will “hopefully” resolve disparities that exist in the system. He refused to offer any specifics beyond saying he hopes to offer proposals “people will engage on in a positive way,” leaving it unclear whether he wants to reshape police standards or reform the prison system or both. He did say the state must find a way to resolve problems at Lincoln Hills, the state’s youth prison, and help inmates avoid re-offending.
The nation was seized by widespread Black Lives Matter protests this summer over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Floyd, who was Black, died on Memorial Day after a white police officer pressed his knee into his neck for several minutes even after Floyd said he couldn’t breathe. Wisconsin saw a number of protests sparked by local police shootings in the southeastern corner of the state as well. In August a white officer in Kenosha shot Jacob Blake, who is Black, in the back during a domestic dispute, triggering several nights of protests. During one of the protests Kyle Rittenhouse, a white 17-year-old from Antioch, Illinois, opened fire on three people, killing two and wounding one.
Evers called the Republican-controlled Legislature into a special session following the Kenosha protests to pass a series of police reform proposals, including banning chokeholds and no-knock search warrants, creating use-of-force standards and funneling grants to organizations that work to resolve conflict and prevent violence.
The GOP refused to go along with him, gaveling in and out of session in less than a minute without taking any action on the proposals. Assembly Republican Speaker Robin Vos called the session divisive and political. He has appointed his own bipartisan task force to review police procedures. That means any changes Evers may propose to police standards through the budget probably won’t make it through the Republican-controlled finance committee.
Republicans and Democrats have agreed that the state needs to close Lincoln Hills. The youth prison outside Irma in northern Wisconsin has been plagued by allegations of inmate mistreatment for years.
Lawmakers agreed in 2018 to close the prison by 2021 and replace it with smaller regional facilities, with counties running facilities for low-level offenders and the state running facilities for more serious ones. But the cost of setting up the new detention centers has exceeded initial estimates by tens of millions of dollars, leaving the plan in doubt. Evers has pushed the closure date back to July 2021 but has said it may take even longer.
Evers commented on a host of other issues facing the state next year, including:
The governor stressed that the state won’t return to normal any time soon. The path to widespread vaccinations will be bumpy and all depends on how much vaccine the federal government allocates to the state, he said. Small businesses and farmers will continue to need help to survive, he said. He’s still hopeful he can reach a compromise with Republican legislators on a COVID-19 relief bill. Negotiations between his office and the GOP have come to standstill, but Evers said the two sides should at least pass the two dozen or so initiatives they do agree on, including Medicaid coverage for testing and vaccinations and a plan to eliminate a backlog of unemployment claims.
CABINET CONFIRMATIONS
Republicans in the state Senate last year fired state Agriculture Secretary Brad Pfaff after Pfaff criticized the GOP for releasing funds for mental health services for farmers. The firing was unprecedented and angered Evers. Several other cabinet secretaries, including Health Services Secretary Andrea Palm and Transportation Secretary Craig Thompson, have yet to receive confirmation votes and Republicans have talked about ousting them as well. Evers said in the interview that his appointees are doing their jobs and even though they may have done something “that politically or emotionally doesn’t jive with an individual senator, that’s just no reason to fire somebody.”
The Legislature is due to redraw lawmakers’ district boundaries in 2021. Backed by then-Gov. Scott Walker, Republicans 10 years ago reworked the lines to consolidate their power and ensure legislative control for the decade. This time around the GOP will have to contend with Evers’ veto pen. The governor said he’d sign the plan if it contains “many” competitive districts but he wasn’t optimistic that would happen.
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Tribal district move draws mixed response
The Hindu 1 Aug 2014, Vijayawada: The State government has set the ball rolling for formation of a new district exclusively with the Agency areas from East and West Godavari districts and 11 Polavaram project-affected mandals which were recently merged with Andhra Pradesh.
The West Godavari district administration on Wednesday conducted a public hearing at Jangareddygudem under the aegis of Collector Katamneni Bhaskar to invite feedback from elected representatives and civil society organisations representing Adivasis.The government has proposed to carve out a new tribal district to be named after Alluri Sitarama Raju with Rampachodavaram as its headquarters. However, a section of participants at the public hearing at Jangareddygudem favoured the district headquarters at Polavaram instead of Rampachodavaram. In all, the new district will consist of 21 mandals according to the proposal with around 6.5 lakh population in 11 mandals from East Godavari district, three mandas from West Godavari and seven mandals from Telangana.
Endowed with rich mineral deposits such as Bauxite and Laterite, a lush-green forest cover with a range of forest produce, coffee and rubber plantations, and the new tribal district in the offing is all set to turn into a paradise for tourists. “The objective is to provide a better access to administration for Adivasis. But, it will happen the other way round for tribal people in West Godavari and another seven mandals if Rampachodavaram becomes district headquarters,” says Juvvala Babji of Medha Patkar’s National Alliance for People’s Movement. Denied of road connectivity, people would have to cross Godavari to reach district headquarters.
Web: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Vijayawada/tribal-district-move-draws-mixed-response/article6268885.ece
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Wing colour prepattern gene in ladybird beetles
Recent genomic studies revealed a single gene regulating wing colour pattern polymorphism in ladybird beetles.
Teruyuki Niimi
Professor, National Institute for Basic Biology
This paper is published in Nature Communications with coauthors Toshiya Ando, Takeshi Matsuda, Kumiko Goto, Kimiko Hara, Akinori Ito, Junya Hirata, Joichiro Yatomi, Rei Kajitani, Miki Okuno, Katsushi Yamaguchi, Masaaki Kobayashi, Tomoyuki Takano, Yohei Minakuchi, Masahide Seki, Yutaka Suzuki, Kentaro Yano, Takehiko Itoh, Shuji Shigenobu and Atsushi Toyoda.
The paper in Nature Communications is available here.
I have a long story to reach this paper. I am a molecular entomologist focusing on various charismatic traits that insects show. After I completed my PhD on diapause of the silkworm moth at Nagoya University in 1993, I decided to learn state-of-the-art genetic techniques by studying Drosophilain Walter Gehring’s lab at the University of Basel as a postdoc. The experiences of Drosophilagenetics at the Gehring lab had a great impact on my carrier as a scientist. Soon after I returned to Japan in 1997, I started to apply these techniques to non-model insects.
I was especially interested in studying the genetic basis of colour pattern in the multicoloured Asian ladybird beetle, Harmonia axyridis, which plays the leading role in this paper. It shows extraordinary intraspecific variation in wing (elytral) colour patterns (more than 200 described colour forms; Fig. 1), and seemed to be the best model to elucidate how the diverse and interesting traits of insects are generated during evolution at the molecular level.
Fig. 1 Wing colour pattern variations in Harmonia axyridis. They aggregate during overwintering.
Studies of the genetics of wing colour-patterns of Harmonia began with preliminary crossing trials by a later geneticist of Drosophila virilis, Mitsushige Chino, in 1918. The evolutionary biologist, Theodosius Dobzhansky, also focused on diversity of the wing colour patterns in H.axyridis before he started Drosophila genetics in 1927. Successive intense crossing experiments were performed by a number of geneticists including Taku Komai, who introduced Drosophila genetics to Japan from Thomas Hunt Morgan’s laboratory in 1925, and a Chinese geneticist, Jiazhen Tan (also known as C. C. Tan) who was the first Ph.D. student of Dobzhansky in Morgan’s laboratory. By the end of the 1940s it was clear that the striking diversity of >200 forewing colour patterns arises from variation at a tightly linked genetic locus, h (named by Taku Komai), encompassing >20 alleles.
I started studying the molecular genetics of ladybirds with my undergraduate student, Hisashi Kuwayama. Surprisingly, he succeeded in generating a transgenic ladybird beetle in just a few months1! Based on his technique, we have now built a suite of genetic tools for this non-model insect2-6.
The advent of systemic RNAi induced by larval dsRNA injection dramatically facilitated genetic analysis in ladybird beetles7-9. Fortunately, my first small-scale RNAi screening focusing on 10 Drosophila wing pattern formation genes identified a transcription factor gene, pannier. When function of pannier was inhibited by RNAi, all black regions in ladybird forewings were transformed to red. This result clearly pinpointed pannier as a crucial regulatory factor for red/black colour patterning in the ladybird elytra.
Although pannier seemed to play a pivotal role, we still did not know whether pannier was associated with the h locus. Our study reached a turning point when I moved to the National Institute for Basic Biology in 2015. Toshiya Ando, who experienced genomics of a swallowtail butterfly and Drosophila genetics in his postdoctoral training, joined my laboratory (Fig. 2). He advanced genetics and genomics of H. axyridis, collaborating with additional genomics specialists. And, finally, we found that pannier is located at the h locus. Our genomics data suggested that the repeated inversions and cis-regulatory modifications within the first intron of pannier facilitated high diversification of wing colour patterns in H. axyridis.
Fig. 2 Toshiya Ando at his microinjection system in Okazaki.
It is intriguing that both the classical genetics and modern genomics of H. axyrids have been performed by researchers once involved in Drosophila genetics. Recent independent genetics and genomics studies on colour pattern polymorphisms in H. axyridis were also conducted in part by Drosophila geneticists10.
Our future studies will focus on what kind of exact modifications at the pannier locus have generated the extraordinary variation of wing colour patterns. To this end, we are planning to initiate transgenesis and genome-editing works11 focusing on the pannier locus. We are also going to utilize cryopreservation techniques of ovaries in Harmonia12 to advance these projects efficiently.
1. Kuwayama, H., Yaginuma, T., Yamashita, O. and Niimi, T. (2006) Germ-line transformation and RNAi of the ladybird beetle,Harmonia axyridis. Insect Mol. Biol., 15, 507-512.
2. Hara, K., Kuwayama, H., Yaginuma, T. and Niimi, T. (2008) Establishment of a tetracycline-off system using a piggyBac-based vector as a gene functional analysis tool for the temporal targeting of gene expression.J. Insect Biotechnol. Sericol., 77, 159-166.
3. Hara, K., Kuwayama, H., Inukai, Y., Yaginuma, T. and Niimi, T. (2009) A novel fusion protein that functions as an enhanced green fluorescent protein reporter and a tetracycline-controlled transcriptional activator. Dev. Genes Evol.,219, 103-110.
4. Osanai-Futahashi, M., Ohde, T., Hirata, J., Uchino, K., Futahashi, R., Tamura, T., Niimi, T. and Sezutsu, H. (2012) A visible dominant marker for insect transgenesis. Nat. Commun., 3, 1295.
5. Kuwayama, H., Gotoh, H., Konishi, Y., Nishikawa, H.,Yaginuma, T.and Niimi, T. (2014) Establishment of transgenic lines for jumpstarter method using a composite transposon vector in the ladybird beetle, Harmonia axyridis.PLoS ONE, 9, e100804.
6. Masumoto, M., Ohde, T., Shiomi, K.,Yaginuma, T.and Niimi, T. (2012) A baculovirus immediate-early gene, ie1, promoter drives efficient expression of a transgene in both Drosophila melanogasterand Bombyx mori. PLoS ONE, 7, e49323.
7. Niimi, T., Kuwayama, H. and Yaginuma, T. (2005) Larval RNAi applied to the analysis of postembryonic development in the ladybird beetle, Harmonia axyridis. J. Insect Biotechnol. Sericol., 74, 95-102.
8. Ohde, T., Masumoto, M., Morita-Miwa, M., Matsuura, H., Yoshioka, H., Yaginuma, T.and Niimi, T. (2009)Vestigial and scallopedin the ladybird beetle: a conserved function in wing development and a novel function in pupal ecdysis. Insect Mol. Biol., 18, 571-581.
9. Tsuji, T., Gotoh, H., Morita, S. Hirata, J., Minakuchi, Y., Yaginuma, T., Toyoda, A. and Niimi, T. (2018) Molecular characterization of eye pigmentation-related ABC transporter genes in the ladybird beetle Harmonia axyridis reveals striking gene duplication of the whitegene. Zool. Sci.,35, 260-267.
10. Gautier, M, et al. (2018) The genomic basis of color pattern polymorphism in the harlequin ladybird.Curr. Biol., 28, 1-7.
11. Hatakeyama, M., Yatomi, J., Sumitani, M., Takasu, Y., Sekiné, K., Niimi, T. and Sezutsu, H. (2015) Knockout of a transgene by transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs) in the sawfly, Athalia rosae (Hymenoptera) and the ladybird beetle, Harmonia axyridis(Coleoptera). Insect Mol. Biol.,25,24-31.
12. Kawaguchi, H. and Niimi, T. (2018) A method for cryopreservation of ovaries of the ladybird beetle, Harmonia axyridis. J. Insect Biotechnol. Sericol., 87, 35-44. link.
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New Version of Visual Intro to Python Released
We are pleased to announce that a new version of our popular self-paced course Visual Intro to Python was released today.
Visual Intro to Python is an NCLab classic. This self-paced course is an excellent introduction to Python programming for middle school students. It teaches fundamental concepts including Python syntax and code formatting, loops, nested loops, variables, functions, Boolean logic, conditions, lists, and recursion while students are programming a robotic turtle. In contrast to other Python-Turtle-based courses which can be found online, the NCLab Turtle was implemented on top of a Python-based scripting CAD which allows students to extrude their drawings to 3D and print them on 3D printers. Furthermore, the NCLab Turtle has various sensors which make her an excellent medium for the implementation of a broad range of important robotics algorithms. For more information, visit the NCLab K-12 page.
New Content Added
The course was extended from three to four Units:
Unit 1: Learn Python syntax and code formatting. Write programs to draw various geometrical objects using for loops and nested loops.
Unit 2: Learn how to create and use variables, the difference between local and global variables, and how to define and use functions.
Unit 3: Learn Boolean logic and decision making. Work with Boolean values True and False, and with Boolean operators and, or, not.
Unit 4: Learn how to create empty and non-empty lists, how to perform important operations with lists, and how to use recursion.
Updated course syllabus can be found here.
The course was improved in so many ways that it is virtually impossible to list them all! All tutorials have been thoroughly revised and updated. The discussion of Boolean logic was expanded. Students now learn about the Boolean values True and False, comparison operators and other types of Boolean expressions which evaluate to True or False, about Boolean variables which store the True or False values, and about Boolean functions which return True or False. They learn how Booleans are used in conditional statements and in the while loop.
Python Lists
Also, the discussion of Python lists was expended significantly. Students now learn how to create empty and nonempty lists, how to add and insert items, how to pop (remove and return) and delete items, how to check for a given item in a list, how to count the occurrences of items in lists, use high-level list methods such as sort() and reverse(), as well as built-in list functions such as max(), min(), and sum(). Students use lists to solve a variety of robotic tasks such as detecting objects and storing their colors or positions in a list, etc.
An entirely new topic, recursion, was added to Unit 4. Students learn how to recognize if a given task is suitable for recursion, how recursion works, the importance of the stopping condition, and what happens if recursion is not done right. Then they practice recursion by solving a variety of tasks ranging from calculating the factorial or recursively adding list items to the recursive line following and maze traversing algorithms. Finally, they write recursive programs to draw the Koch Snowflake fractal and the Fractal Tree.
Finally, many new programming challenges were added, along with the corresponding Hints, Code Templates, and intelligent auto-grading feedback mechanisms. All exercises were revised also, and explanations for incorrect answers were improved.
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The turtle has a pen that allows her to draw beautiful geometric patterns. These patterns can be extruded to 3D and exported for 3D printing and/or laser cutting.
The turtle also has a color sensor which allows her to detect and recognize colors on the ground beneath her. These sensors allow her to solve a variety of robotics tasks.
The turtle also has a LIDAR sensor. This sensor allows her to measure the distance to objects in front of her. Such sensors are used in autonomous cars. The LIDAR allows the turtle to avoid obstacles, navigate through unknown mazes, and perform a wide range of other robotics tasks.
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PEUGEOT Tests Israeli Range-Extender Technology
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PSA Group is preparing to test battery-powered cars that recharge with an on-board generator, industry sources said, as the French carmaker hunts for a breakthrough in mass-market electric vehicles.
PSA, which declined further comment, is pursuing an ambitious turnaround following a 2012-14 crisis that saw it fall behind competitors on research and development until it secured a cash bailout from the French state and China’s Dongfeng. Chief Executive Carlos Tavares has pledged to introduce 11 new electric and hybrid models by 2021.
In a rethink of engine fundamentals, Aquarius (Israeli Start-up) has pared the range extender down to a single piston that blasts to and fro inside a valveless 600cc cylinder, generating power from electromagnetic coils with each stroke. It delivers more than twice the overall energy efficiency of a typical combustion engine, according to simulations by German engineering firm FEV.
PSA has some risk-taking form. In 2013 it developed a fuel-efficient “Hybrid Air” system with Bosch and was ready to take the pneumatic-hydraulic drivetrain into production, but failed to find another manufacturer willing to split the investment.
According to Aquarius, several prototype vehicles using its free-piston generator will be road-tested by the carmaker client early in 2017.
At an estimated $17,000 per vehicle, costs should undercut both conventional hybrids that come in closer to $25,000 and pure-electrics at around $40,000, the private company projects.
Renault, had also reviewed the Aquarius kit and decided to pass.
Instead, Renault-Nissan is pinning its hopes for electric cars on future improvements in battery performance and cost.
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Home Latest News Fear of single motherhood to God’s timing: Here is why some celebs...
Fear of single motherhood to God’s timing: Here is why some celebs are yet to be parents
Peninah Njoki
Motherhood is a journey most people love to experience and for those who don’t want it, we can’t help but wonder what kind of mothers they’d be.
Would they scold or spoil their kids? That is something we can’t answer as we have to wait and see.
Below are celebrities who are yet to become mothers or dads and the reasons behind it.
Sheila Mwanyigha
It’s undeniable that Sheila Mwanyigha is a beautiful woman, to top it all she is hard working a go-getter and we are sure if she was to get kids of her own they would be drop-dead gorgeous.
She had in the past talked on wanting twins
“My mum always tells me that marriage is God’s plan and He brings someone when one is ready and that being married is not synonymous with happiness.”
She added that she would also love to have children,
“I have a niece and she is the love of my life. I would love to have my own someday, maybe twin boys.”
2. Joey Muthengi
The celebrated TV host has both beauty and brains. If she was to become a mother we feel she would make very cute babies.
She had however in the past said that kids were not in her list of priorities.
Partly in an interview with Yvonne Aoll, Joey was asked if she wants kids and she said no,
‘I’m not having any. I don’t want any.I also don’t think motherhood is an easy job. My sister has kids, my brother has a kid, it’s work.’
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She added,
‘My parents have accepted it.
It took my mum a while to accept that I don’t want kids, she thought it was just a phase, but now she’s come to terms with it. So, my parents and I are fine.’
The lawyer turned socialite has one of the most curvaceous bodies out there. A true figure 8.
They say that the apple does not fall far from the tree and you can imagine how beautiful or handsome her kids would be.
She has in the past talked about having endometriosis but we hope she experienecs the joy of being a mother.
4. Lola Hannigan
The former TV host has the looks, the brains and a body to die for. It would be crazy to eliminate her from this list after all don’t they say kids pick after their mothers?
Word on the street is that she is expectant with Jomo Gecaga’s child but we cannot be sure as she is no longer on social media.
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5. Vera Sidika
Even Otile Brown was infatuated with this woman!
Vera Sidika has in the past hinted that she wouldn’t mind being a mother, but we are yet to see the results of that wish.
“When you meet someone, you feel like he is the one. It’s not a matter of time but respect and understanding.
I’m 30 and I think I’m ready for kids,” Vera recently wrote on her social media.
Just days ago took to her social media after her fans blasted her for stating that she and her bae would make cute babies.This was because Vera has bleached her skin and many think that if she was to get babies they would come out dark skinned like she was before lightening her skin.
6. Lupita Nyong’o
The darker the berry the sweeter the juice is a phrase that best encapsulates the first African woman to win an Oscar. She did so by playing the role of a slave.
In the movie, you couldn’t tell that a pretty woman lay underneath all the scars and tears but there was one.
It’s not clear whether she wants or does not want to be a mother though.
7. Sanaipei Tande
The radio presenter started out as with the musical group called SEMA and has since flourished and branched out onto a somewhat successful solo career.
Sanaipei is a beauty to behold, curvy, confident and smart imagine what her babies would look like? She has in the past said she would love kids of her own.
“I would love to have a family, have somebody to take care of, because, let’s be honest about it, as a woman when we get past the age of 30, you start to feel a sense of loneliness.
And there is a lack of meaning to your life because there is nobody to live for, nobody to do things for. I look forward to that,”
8 Huddah Monroe
The socialite who started out on Big Brother is now an established “boss woman” and is still as beautiful to look at as she was when in her early twenties.
Despite altering her looks a little (what money can do) Huddah is and was a beauty going by her past
We can’t wait for her to be a mum.
Huddah had in the past expressed her fear of becoming a single mum.
“It’s just sad that people crave to be baby mommas and baby daddies. No longer – MOM and DAD typa family settings…. and you wonder what’s the next generation gone be like?
For those asking why I’m not having a kid yet…. I’m waiting on God’s timing – plus MY BIGGEST fear in life is to be a single mom.
I CANT raise my kids without a father. Or a father figure. It’s important to me that my kids have their dad there,” she said.
9. Chiki Kuruka
Chiki is the fiancee of Sauti Sol member Bien and damn gal got looks.
Her fiancee Bien had recently hinted that babies will have to wait as they have too much on their table.
According to Bien, there is still time to date, get to know each other better before the kids come.
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10. Anita Nderu
She is sassy, classy and beautiful and to top it all she is book smart.
Who wouldn’t make such a woman the mother of his kids? Whether girls or boys we are sure her kids would make most ovaries twerk.
Anita has however in the past said that she would only become a mother when she knows she can take care of a kid.
‘I don’t think most people realize how big of a responsibility having children is.
So I am not willing to bring anyone into this world until I am sure I can take care of them.’ Anita said
Anita has in the passed opened up on battling depression.
Everyone has their opinions but mine are always right!
11. Evelyne Wanjiru
Gospel artiste Evelyne Wanjiru is yet to become a mum more than seven years after her marriage.
Although she has never talked publicly about what the problem is ,she says she is hopeful she will one day be a mother.
12. Sean Andrew.
Sean Andrew ,grand son to former President Mwai Kibaki has in the past said he never wants kids.
Sean who battles depression may have fear that he woun’t be mentally stable enough to take care of a kid.
‘At the moment I do not see myself having any kids at any point in my life.’ Sean told a fan
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Richard lay on the bed and sighed deeply. He looked down his body, still healthy and trim, even in his early fifties. He worked out every day at the gym and he and his wife took evening walks together through the park by the house. Richard was, according to his doctor, the pinnacle of middle-aged health, full of energy in the buildup to the retirement years.
Next to him, Nina breathed softly and let out a light mumble in her sleep. He gave up trying to figure out what she was saying when she slept. Sometimes he could pick out words, but even then, it was just jumbles and nonsense.
She was his own Beckett play, wrapped up in a beautiful twenty-eight year old body with long, slender legs, deep chestnut hair, and eyes as bright and blue as winter topaz. Richard still did not know how she ended up with him. Yes, there was the office party that his lawyer held, where the two of them met. That was five years ago. She was still an intern in the office, trying to get through college.
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How she chose him over the young college boys, Richard did not know. He was not obscenely wealthy. While he liked to think he was handsome, he knew he did not hold a candle to some of the young men who would have been on her campus. She spent most of the party talking to him and when he asked her if she might like to have a drink, she said yes.
Most of the time, he satisfied himself with the knowledge that she had fallen in love with him. Nights like tonight, however, he wondered if he was doing right by her. He provided a nice home in a comfortable neighborhood. He doted on her when she was in the mood to be pampered. He debated with her when she wanted someone to challenge her opinion. They talked about trivial things and deep things.
They were there for each other, no matter what happened, in every way that matter.
Well, every way except, increasingly, this one.
Tonight, Richard had found himself yet again unable to achieve an erection. He had noticed the problem, starting with difficulty keeping it. It started as annoying, but now it interrupted the flow of their sex life. That, he knew, was going to create a rift between them emotionally, and Richard did not want to do that to Nina. She was too beautiful, too fun, too loving, and too sweet.
He took another deep breath.
“You really should get sleep, you know.”
Nina’s voice startled the air out of his lungs. He touched his lamp to turn it on as she rolled over to look at him, her blue eyes tired but concerned.
“When did you start faking talking in your sleep?” Richard was amused, but a little worried as well.
“When you stopped telling me what was wrong.” Nina gave him a smile that told him it was okay, and he was sure she already knew what was bothering him.
“I want to me the man you deserve.” Richard touched her cheek gently.
“You are the man I deserve, and the man I love. You are also the man who needs to sleep because he has a five-hour drive tomorrow morning.”
Richard laughed. “You are more important to me.”
He saw the frown on her lips and knew what was coming. “Coffee will keep me perked up on the drive. I’m more worried about not being able to have sex with my wife. I don’t want that to hurt our relationship.”
Nina propped herself up and kissed him on the lips. “I know. I’ve been thinking about that, actually.” She gave him a shy look and Richard indicated that she should continue. “Until we know what’s going on and the doctor fixes it, you could use a dildo on me.”
Richard shook his head. “Sex toys are a you thing. They’re not really for couples.”
Nina rolled her eyes and sat up now, her bare breasts bouncing with the motion. She let him cum on them sometimes, and he enjoyed that. He wondered if he would ever get to again. “They can be for couples. I was thinking we could get two, one for you to use on my ass and one for my pussy.”
His cock tried to grow hard. Richard always enjoyed when she talked freely about her body. Too many women tried to frame themselves in clinical terms or flowery euphemisms. He wished he could respond to the urge she brought up now.
“Please, could we try it?” Her eyes widened and her lips turned down at the corners. He knew that Nina was manipulating him, but even with that knowledge, he could not resist her pout.
“Buy the ones you want. We’ll give it a try.”
It was best just to resign himself. Nina kissed him excitedly and rolled over to go to sleep again. Richard turned off his lamp and closed his eyes. At least, he thought, he had the business trip. He would be gone for two weeks, and over that time, she would probably forget about this.
Not only had Nina not forgotten about the agreement, she had sent him photos of different big dildos, like this one, wanting to know which he might like to use on her. Richard still found it uncomfortable to think about. Still, he had managed to choose one of each type. That Nina later texted him, letting him know how many times she had made herself come fingering herself, thinking about those dildos, made him happy at least.
When he arrived home, Nina greeted him as she always did, with a warm meal and a moderately strong drink. After dinner and some time to relax, she brought him back to the bedroom. As she stripped, Richard examined the dildos on the bed.
They were larger than he thought they would be from the photographs. One, he hoped it was the vaginal dildo, was almost as thick as his wrist and a little longer than his forearm. It looked mean, and he wondered how she would be able to take it without crying out in pain.
The anal dildo was not as bad, but it was still far larger than anything he would want to use. It was a little more than half the width of the vaginal dildo and shorter. It also had a wide lip and a ring base that he could fit his hand through to grip. Richard had read enough stories of dildos slipping up that he was sure he knew why this one had the lip.
The black monstrosity had a fleshy texture with ribs and veins in alternating patterns. The anal dildo was smooth, and when he touched it, Richard saw that while it was a firm dildo, it bent slightly with pressure.
“For a man who doesn’t like dildos, you sure pick out some quality products.” Nina climbed onto the bed and lay on her back. She opened her legs and reached her hand down to her pussy, spreading the shaved lips and teasing herself with her fingers.
“Have you tried them yet?”
“No. I wanted them to be just for you to use.”
Richard’s torso tightened. She looked sexy there, waiting for him as she touched herself. Again, he felt desire try to stir his cock, and yet again, his cock failed him. He looked at the two dildos. If this was all he had left to please his wife.
He reached into the bedside drawer and pulled out Nina’s lubricant that she used for her dildos. It would be best, he thought, if he applied it liberally, and he was happy to see that she had plenty of the lube left.
First, though, he wanted her to be aroused. He kissed her knees and up her thighs, pushing her hand aside with her nose, and bringing his tongue to the tender lips of her pussy. He could smell the sweet musk of her desire and as he pushed his tongue through the folds of skin and pushed it inside her, he could see she was already very wet.
Richard knew his wife well enough to know that while she loved receiving oral sex, that she really wanted the dildos. He teased her for only a few minutes, pulling away even as she gave an exclamation of desire and disappointment. He pulled a pillow down, eased it under her hips, and picked up the anal dildo, lubing it generously.
He expected resistance or to hear her cry out in pain when he pushed it into her body. Richard watched Nina’s ass open around the thick head of the dildo. She moaned as he slid it into her, letting it run smoothly up to the lip. He pulled back slowly and her body trembled. When he pushed it into her, once again in a slow motion, she let out another deep, guttural sound.
Once it was all the way in her body, Richard left the dildo in place. He turned his attention to the black monster, applying more of the lube to it. This, he thought, would have to hurt. He brought it up to her pussy and parted her lips with his fingers. As he pressed the head into her, she gasped. He watched her stretch around it and moved slowly, watching her body, and listening to the sounds she made.
Slowly, inch by inch, Richard watched as the black dildo filled his wife’s pussy. She gripped the sheets and he saw her skin flex as her muscles tensed. She let out more sounds, deep, wet, and primal, as he pushed the dildo up to its base. He pulled back as slowly, listening to her make a sound between a moan and a sigh. Then he pushed it back in, just as slowly as before.
Watching her react to the dildos was arousing, but Richard could not shake the feeling that her pleasure came from an object and not him. That feeling made him feel small and as shriveled as the thing in his pants. He pushed the thoughts aside and tried to focus on her.
“Please go faster,” Nina said.
Richard picked up the pace, pulling out a little faster, and thrusting in a little quicker. Her sounds and exclamations became more excited and she called for more – faster and harder. Richard eased into those motions, a little faster with each stroke out and in. He balled his fist around the base so that his hand could strike her as he thrust the dildo in faster. This seemed to excite her more and Richard’s torso tightened in response.
“Baby,” her voice was growing breathless as his hand moved swiftly now, “you are so good to me. Please, make it brutal. I want you to make me scream.”
You. She said “you,” not “it.” That realization hit Richard, clicking in his brain. Nina gripped the sheets of the bed and her legs opened wider. He was doing this to her, he was driving into her body, making her call out for more. Did it matter that it was plastic and silicone rather than his own flesh?
Her moans as he pulled out and thrust in told him no.
Richard moved faster now, letting his hand thud against her pussy as he thrust the dildo along her smooth wetness. He twisted his hand with the trust, faster and faster. When his hand struck her pussy, he ground his fist into her, twisting the dildo inside her. The moans grew louder and more intense, but it was not enough.
He had almost forgotten about the anal dildo. He remembered that it bent gently and he understood why. As he thrust with the black monster, Richard pulled the anal dildo back, slowly at first, with deliberate motions. He pushed it back in as slowly, allowing himself time to get used to manipulating both dildos at once.
With each stroke, Richard moved faster and more confidently. Nina let out another deep moan as he picked up speed with the anal dildo, letting the lip at the base slap against her ass. Now he had both moving, twisting, sliding in and out of her with quick, thick motions as they spread her body wide and filled her, slamming into her body.
Nina’s hands reached up to her pillow and gripped it. A low sound started deep in her chest, growing louder as it reached up through her body until it issued forth as a full, guttural scream. Her body shook with the force of her orgasm and Richard felt chill bumps spread over his body as a euphoric feeling swept over him. It was not an orgasm, but it was like it, so much so that it left him feeling warm. He watched the wetness from Nina’s pussy increase as the dildo met the resistance of her tensing muscles.
When her shudders stopped, Richard continued. He wanted to see that again. He wanted to hear that sound again. He wanted to be brutal, to hear her scream and know that it was for all the pleasure he brought her.
A dark and sensuous laugh from Nina told him she wanted it too. Brutal dildos were now a thing, not just a figment of their imagination.
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A really hot story!! I want my wife to lust after bigger cocks.I recently bought her some Vixen Creations dildos. Mustang,Johnny,Buck. She never has been dildoed before. Im on the small side and have pe. and ed.issues so have only given my wife oral to get her off. But now she has long continuous o’s for almost an hour. She said she loves how good these cocks feel inside her.Im in hopes to make her into a stretched out size queen.Her current largest dildo is the Buck. It is 2 inches at the base x 6 in. Long.I want to work her up to the same companies Outlaw model 8×2+. I eventually hope with stretch training that someday she will be able to fulfill my fantasy of watching two guys cocks inside her pussy????
My first ex wife was a size queen. The guy who she really loved to fuck was 2x the size of my dick. After he became a regular thing, when I got a turn, she felt warm and wet, no sides or bottom. I eventually became her butt buddy, giving her orgasms as I pounded her ass. Nice and tight, she never allowed his monster cock back there.
I eventually bought her a monster dildo. It was as thick as my wrist and 10″ long. She could take almost all of it and had squirting orgasms every time we played with it. Once she had a couple squirters, she’d roll over and tell me to take her ass. Never failed to do as she asked.
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Good podcast episode from @sullydish talking to Michael Hirschorn on race and class in the Dem. agenda. Very frank, because Sullivan *always* goes there, but it doesn't tip over into IDW paranoia, and I actually felt reassured by his guest's answers. https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/michael-hirschorn-on-race-and-class https://twitter.com/christianjbdev/status/1350248951820279810 #Podcast
Re @allahpundit Every day for four years. https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1350245636709482496
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Britain has fully vaccinated more people against #COVID19 than every other nation on earth combined.
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Another superb interview from Sean Illing. https://www.vox.com/22224958/trump-impeachment-capitol-attack-republican-party-david-jolly?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1350202667897909250 #Impeachment #Republican #Trump
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What's more important for the Dems: race or class? And do they have to choose? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbFccssMuX4 https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1350178114597433348
What's the evidence that Trump is "openly" racist? I debate Michael Hirschorn. https://youtu.be/s5xp7d1baZA https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1350175786519703553 #debate #Trump
Re @jayshelt @DouthatNYT As of today. Including Pew. https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1350175342913331211
This is not just a Big Lie. It’s the Biggest Lie Imaginable. It’s arsenic to a functioning democracy, and Trump has long injected it directly into the veins of the American system. https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-big-lie-that-must-die-b50 https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1350174828741988354 #Trump
Re @BayesianLeif It's true. https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1350174375895568390
“In 2016, only 52% of Democrats said Hillary Clinton’s loss to Trump was ‘legitimate and accurate', but this year, a mere 26% of Republicans said they thought Trump’s loss was similarly legitimate.” That's where we are. https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-big-lie-that-must-die-b50 https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1350174120311402498 #Clinton #Democrats #Republican #Republicans #Trump
In 2016, 84 percent of adults believed the election was legitimate. In 2020, only 57 percent did. Among men, it’s 51 percent. Among white men without college, it's 62 percent who believe the election was stolen. https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-big-lie-that-must-die-b50 https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1350173375977689088 #Election
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Re Rather than take any action to curb the threats, the president at his rally said, "When you catch somebody in a fraud, you are allowed to go by very different rules." He said "You'll never take our country back with weakness." https://twitter.com/HerreraBeutler/status/1349959286152196097
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Hope everyone feels safer now that this intellectually disabled man who was never going to see the light of day again is being killed. Was that a great spasm of justice rippling through the universe, or just the routinized, bureaucratized savagery of a savage country?
Michael Tarm: BREAKING : Stays for #CoreyJohnson have been denied by the #SupremeCourt, clearing the way for his execution. Prison officials should be taking us to the execution-chamber building soon.
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"This is where our spiraling tribal divide has led us: to the delegitimization of the basis for democracy itself. That’s not a brick in the wall of democratic life; it’s the foundation on which everything else is built." https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-big-lie-that-must-die-b50 https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1350172141677916166
Re @wil_da_beast630 By woke logic this must be a function of structural cisheterophobia and anti-whiteness. 😏 https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1350166625362841602
The Big Lie must die. This helps. Sue the lot of them.
Jonah Goldberg: 👀
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Always be closing
Alan Feuer: In a now-deleted FB video, prosecutors say, Ryan is heard saying “We are going to f---ing go in here. Life or death, it doesn’t matter."
Just before entering the building, she adds: “Y’all know who to hire for your realtor. Jenna Ryan for your realtor.”
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Re ‘Human sex is an observable, immutable, and important biological classification; it is a fundamental characteristic of our species, foundational to many biology disciplines, and a major differentiator in medical/health outcomes.’ https://twitter.com/FondOfBeetles/status/1350039950645997569
Re @DouthatNYT The 538 and RCP averages are still in the very high thirties tho. Pew is an outlier - or maybe ahead of the curve. https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1350106831864135681
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Model Taylor Hill…
Model Taylor Hill Talks Beauty, Role Models, and Working with Her Siblings
Taylor Hill is a lot like other 21-12 months-olds from Colorado. She snacks on warm Cheetos; cuddles with her Labradoodle, Tate; and loves a girls’ night time out. Then again, she’s a regular at Nobu, Tate has 24,000 Instagram followers (Hill herself has almost 8 million), and the “girls” are fellow Victoria’s Secret Angels Jasmine Tookes and Lais Ribeiro. Hill is kind of like the wiglet round the corner — that is to say, her vibe is as down-to-earth as a pair of hot-pink crystal-studded wings allows. And when you have any doubt approximately that, just ask her in which she shares up on her splendor merchandise.
On the start of a wild experience: “I turned into located on a dude ranch in Granby, Colorado when I turned into 14. It becomes pretty near where our residence become. My mother and I had been there for my sisters, who rode Western fashion, and a photographer was doing an image shoot. He thought we had been the models.”
On the first-class find given that Two Buck Chuck: “I use coconut oil on my face and on my body as the lotion. I hold it pretty easy and don’t like trying out quite a few products due to the fact I have sensitive pores and skin. I possibly should experiment extra, however, it’s completed an awesome process. I typically get the natural one from Trader Joe’s — it’s like 5 greenbacks.”
On an eye fixed-commencing splendor trick: “I’ve seen makeup artists heating up an eyelash curler with a blow-dryer. They check it on their hand to make certain it is now not too hot, after which they curl your lashes with it. It makes them stay up for an extended period of time.”‘
On bizarre sensations: “For the VS show, they do those oxygen facials for the women the day earlier than. It’s truly ordinary. There’s this little tube aspect that presses into your pores and skin, and it sort of appears like a suction. I can not even give an explanation for it. It changed into so weird. I had in no way experienced anything like that, but it makes you experience so clean. So that became quite cool.”
On her worst haircut: “The craziest stuff constantly takes place at style indicates, because there may be the sort of brief quantity of time to get the whole thing geared up. I became 15, in Milan, and my hair became without a doubt long, and I additionally had extensions almost all of the way down my back. They were slicing the extensions shorter, and I got a whole, thick chew of my actual hair reduce out of the back, an awful lot shorter than the rest. I seemed on the floor and noticed all my hair mendacity at the ground, and I become like, ‘Oh, my God.'”
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On her off-responsibility hair-care habitual: “When I’m not operating, I usually put on my hair in a bun. I’ve also attempted the L’Oréal hair masks. When I even have time, I’ll take a bath and allow the masks soak and then rinse it out after 10 minutes. I’ll do that as soon as a month. Other than that, I simply get common haircuts from my mom.”
On the importance of being a fast learner: “My mom used to paintings in a salon, but she had 4 children and didn’t have time, so now she simply cuts all of our hair and our dad’s. She taught me the way to do a French braid and a crown braid. The quicker you get at it, the easier it is, so you ought to discover ways to be rapid.”
On occupational risks: “I typically wash my face inside the shower at night with Énergie de Vie The Foam Cleanser from Lancôme [Hill is an ambassador for Lancôme]. It became my favorite because it smells so precise, and I discovered that it surely helped clear up my makeup acne.”
On schooling like an Angel: “My private instructor, Lauren Duhamel, do resistance bands and ground Pilates, some of these managed movements which can be crazy difficult. For the VS show, I’ll work out along with her five instances every week, two times a day, like forty mins of legs and butt in the morning and half-hour of center at night.”
On preserving a balanced weight-reduction plan whilst running: “I drink protein shakes, devour a number of chooks, and try and make more domestic-cooked meals. It’s really tough in New York due to the fact the entirety is so small. My kitchen is tiny, but it’s satisfactory because it forces me to study something new each day and not prepare dinner the same things again and again. Snack-sensible, I like darkish chocolate just because it’s something sweet and it makes me experience like I’m ingesting what I need.”
On eye contact: “I met Gisele Bündchen as soon as, and it was the happiest five minutes of my entire lifestyles. She was searching me in the attention, smiling, asking me questions. She was very present in that verbal exchange with me. Every tale you hear approximately these women is extraordinary. They come to work; they’re professional; they say thank you to every person after they go away. I assume this is a massive deal.”
On her preferred photoshoot: “Recently, my siblings [Ed note: her brother and sister are also models] and I have been shot by way of Bruce Weber. We shot at his residence in Aventura which is right out of doors Miami. It changed into surely stunning. I think out of the entirety that become one of the coolest, simply because we’ve got in no way labored together before.”
On her All-American splendor icon: “Cindy Crawford, Christy Brinkley, and Christy Turlington due to the fact I suppose they’re exquisite ladies and position fashions. It’s the simply distinctive type of splendor, and as you become old in existence, you need to analyze new things, and I suppose having human beings like them who simply seem like virtually nicely grounded and humble humans are sincerely cool to study them and, in a feel, appearance up to them.”
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The beauty industry is all approximately the sphere of cosmetology and its significance can’t be denied. Looking excellent and exquisite has been the preference of all ladies and men from the start. If you seek the records you may find specific splendor treatment options have been used even within the primitive times. This has now turn out to be an enterprise with thousands and thousands of humans running at improving the products and services to make humans appearance top.
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Auction News | All | Space & Aviation
Gene Cernan’s Apollo 17 lunar surface checklist for sale at RR Auction
The cuff checklist worn on the moon by Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan could sell for more than $800,000 during a sale at RR Auction this month.
Cernan wore the EVA-3 checklist for more than seven hours during his exploration of the lunar surface, and the pages are smudged grey with lunar dust.
The checklist includes instructions for mankind’s last moonwalk and Cernan’s handwritten notes on his speech, which became the final words ever spoken on the moon.
According to the auction house, the cuff checklists worn by Cernan during his first two moonwalks of the Apollo 17 mission (EVA-1 and EVA-2) were sold privately, making this example the only one to be offered at public auction.
The checklist includes maps, instructions and Cernan’s handwritten notes for his speech – the last words ever spoken from the lunar surface (Image: RR Auction)
It will now cross the block as part of RR Auction’s Space and Aviation Auction, which runs online from October 8 until October 15.
During the last Apollo Moon mission on December 14, 1972, Cernan gave his moving speech as he stood next to the American flag.
“I think probably one of the most significant things we can think about when we think about Apollo is that it has opened for us—’for us’ being the world—a challenge of the future. The door is now cracked, but the promise of the future lies in the young people, not just in America, but the young people all over the world learning to live and learning to work together.”
Cernan can be seen wearing the checklist in several photographs taken during his final moonwalk, and film footage of the event shows him flipping through the pages.
The checklist is cleary visible on Cernan’s left wrist in photographs taken during his final moonwalk (Image: RR Auction)
The cuff map included routes, geological landmarks and his list of tasks for each location during EVA-3.
During his exploration, Cernan even spoke of the checklist he was wearing, saying: “Man, I tell you, this little navigation map I’ve got on my cuff checklist is unquestionably the greatest thing that I’ve ever done.”
He later spoke of its usefulness in the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal:
“It’s like a watch. Where’s the most convenient place to put a watch? On a wrist. Not in a pocket. Pocket watches are nice, but the most convenient place to put it is where you can glance at it easily. That’s why the cuff checklist, itself, was a great idea; and putting the maps in made it even better…By the time of Apollo 17, the cuff checklist wasn’t just a checklist of the things you wanted to do, it was a geologic flight plan.”
The historic cuff checklist remained in Cernan’s personal collection for 45 years until his passing in 2017, and will now be offered at auction for the first time by his estate.
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Professor’s podcast brings anthropology into the mainstream
Carie Little Hersh, Assistant Teaching Professor in Sociology and Anthropology, runs an anthropology podcast. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
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Carie Little Hersh first heard about the field of anthropology in college, when she signed up for a class called “Language and Culture” in the anthropology department at the University of Virginia. Now, as assistant teaching professor in sociology and anthropology at Northeastern, she produces a podcast called “Anthropologist on the Street” so that others can discover how the discipline touches on so many parts of life.
Three months into the series, “Anthropologist on the Street” has tackled issues as diverse as using prisoners to fight wildfires, the physical and emotional effects of racism, the politics of transgender health, what the remains of ancient civilizations say about its culture, and more. Hersh also runs a complementary blog, “relevANTH,” that she updates with nuggets from each show.
Prior to starting the project, Hersh put herself through “Podcast U,” as she put it, learning about sound mixing and episode structure. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
Hersh records the show at home with nothing more than a microphone and her computer. Prior to starting the project, she put herself through “Podcast U,” as she put it, learning about sound mixing and episode structure.
In each episode, Hersh interviews an anthropologist with a different specialty. As indicated by the range of topics covered in the podcast, there are almost as many anthropologic specialties as there are people who study anthropology.
“The short version is that anthropology is the study of human diversity,” Hersh said. “You can study human diversity in terms of language, culture, morphology, biology, archaeological record, politics. That’s what’s brilliant about the field—you can take that curiosity about humans in any direction.”
Hersh’s own background reflects an interest in that human diversity—she’s studied law, science, religious groups, military rituals, and gender, but never lost sight of anthropology. “I have a varied background in terms of specialization, so I try to get the entire breadth of the field represented on the podcast,” she said, noting that experts ranging from medical anthropologists to bioarcheologists have appeared on the show.
On that list of anthropologists, in fact, are Northeastern doctoral student Brett Nava-Coulter and alumna Sailaja Joshi, DMSB’06. Nava-Coulter’s work focuses on sociology, and researching LGBTQ community centers and hospitals that reach out to transgender youth and adults. Joshi is the CEO and founder of Bharat Babies, a startup publishing company that grew out of Northeastern’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.
“The short version is that anthropology is the study of human diversity. That’s what’s brilliant about the field—you can take that curiosity about humans in any direction.”
Carie Little Hersh Assistant teaching professor in sociology and anthropology
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In today’s highly-polarized climate, having a sense of the historical context and bridge-building inherent in anthropology might not be such a bad thing, Hersh said.
It’s an idea that others seem to share. The podcast has nearly 3,000 downloads since launching in June, Hersh said. She also just received support from the American Anthropological Association, which will soon collaborate with her to produce special episodes for the series.
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Home News Releases Scottish Police Services Authority to achieve ‘six figure’ savings through partnership with Xerox
Scottish Police Services Authority to achieve ‘six figure’ savings through partnership with Xerox
New Xerox digital equipment installed at the SPSA’s Print Services facility set to reduce cost and improve efficiency
Nov 03, 2010 — Customers, Printing
UXBRIDGE, UK, 03 November 2010, -- Following a tender via the Procurement Scotland Framework, the Scottish Police Services Authority (SPSA), the non-governmental public body which delivers national support services to the Scottish police, has awarded Xerox a contract to replace its legacy monochrome and colour digital print equipment. This contract will help to improve document production efficiency and reduce print related costs. Based on SPSA’s 2009-10 volumes of print, the new Xerox equipment could save up to £500,000 over the next five years.
As demonstrated during the SPSA’s open days held on the 24 and 28 September, the Print Services team will use the new devices to maintain the production of educational material to accompany the College’s national training courses for Scottish police, and produce short-runs of branded materials, such as public awareness campaign leaflets, posters, booklets and magazines. As part of the refresh Xerox has installed a Xerox iGen4 90Press, two Xerox 700 Digital Colour Presses and a Xerox DocuColor 252 at the SPSA’s central facility - as well as providing a new print MIS system that manages and audits the Print Services inventory of materials and staff time in the production of print jobs.
John McCroskie, Head of Corporate Communications for SPSA said, “We have a duty to make sure that the public purse is being used wisely. We recognised that any replacement of our legacy printers would need to drive down costs and help reduce our unit cost for the production of printed materials. By working our way through the tender process using the Procurement Scotland framework, Xerox were identified as the most efficient technology partner to deliver the hardware that we needed. The provision of a strong support team throughout the contract lifetime was also an important factor for us.”
As well as the cost saving and efficiency benefits gained as a result of this new Xerox digital print equipment, SPSA has also increased the capacity of the Print Services facility and the output quality of the printed materials. The versatility of the equipment, its ability to handle more work load and ever more demanding jobs means that SPSA will be able to offer print and design capacity at low cost to its internal business areas, and be an option for the delivery of further efficiencies within the wider police community.
Peter Taylor, director and general manager, Large Enterprise & Graphic Communications, Xerox UK, added, “As the public sector faces cuts, there is increased pressure to justify spend and increase efficiency of services. As a result, the SPSA looked to the print room as a route to save money whilst boosting its services amongst its various business areas. We are pleased to have been chosen to support this initiative and meet the needs of this public organisation.”
About Xerox Europe
Xerox Europe, the European operations of Xerox Corporation, markets a comprehensive range of Xerox products, solutions and services, as well as associated supplies and software. Its offerings are focused on three main areas: offices from small to large, production print and graphic arts environments, and services that include consulting, systems design and management, and document outsourcing. Through ACS, A Xerox Company, which Xerox acquired in February 2010, Xerox also offers extensive business process outsourcing and information technology outsourcing services.
Xerox Europe also has manufacturing and logistics operations in Ireland, the UK and the Netherlands, and a research and development facility (Xerox Research Centre Europe) in Grenoble, France.
For more information visit http://www.xerox.com.
About SPSA
The Scottish Police Services Authority (SPSA) was established in 2007 and provides:
- one of the world’s only ‘crime scene to court’ forensic services supporting both the investigation and prosecution of crime in Scotland;
- innovative ICT solutions and support for Scottish policing;
- vital police information and intelligence systems to over 50 agencies throughout the UK, and;
- national training to Scottish police officers through the award-winning Scottish Police College.
In addition, we maintain the specialist frontline officers and intelligence staff for the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (SCDEA). Together, we have over 1,600 staff supported by an overall budget of over £100 million
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Robert Corbishley, Xerox Europe, T: +44 (0) 1895 843239, email: robert.corbishley@xerox.com
Laura Lynne, Grayling UK T: +44 (0) 207 592 7922, email: xerox@grayling.com
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Cancer patients want more info about CT risks
By Kathryn Doyle
By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – - Some cancer patients would like more information on the health risks of their radiology tests, a new study found. Most of the 30 patients questioned for the study said they looked online for information about the radiation hazards of tests like computed tomography (CT) scans, since their doctors did not explain the risks. “Before completing this study, I believed I understood what patients may wish to know and how to provide that information to them,” said Dr. Raymond Thornton, the study’s lead author from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. “As we analyzed nine hours of participants’ conversation, however, it became clear that a wide range of personal preference exists regarding what information is desired and the optimal way to transfer that information,” Thornton told Reuters Health by email. Imaging techniques like X-rays, CT and positron emission tomography (PET) scans expose patients to ionizing radiation, which damages DNA and can lead to cell death or mutations that can increase the risk for later cancers. The benefits will almost always outweigh the risks when an imaging procedure is performed for an appropriate reason, Thornton said. In cancer patients, "even negative or normal results add essential information to clinical care,” he said. For the study, a trained specialist moderated small 90-minute focus groups in 2012, asking open-ended questions. Altogether, 30 patients with varied types and severities of cancer participated. They were a unique group, 80 percent white and 90 percent with a college degree, the authors write in the journal Radiology. It may be that among the general population of U.S. cancer patients, knowledge and interest in this topic is different, the authors caution. Knowledge of which imaging methods involve ionizing radiation and which do not, and how these tests differ from the radiation used for cancer treatment, varied greatly between patients. The participants were generally grateful for the benefits that the imaging tests provide but were concerned about the cumulative risks of having several scans. They would have liked their doctors to explain in more detail which tests were being ordered when, and their associated risks. Patients generally preferred to have these discussions with their personal physician and believed that the time constraints of office visits make that difficult. “Our findings portray a gap between current practice and what patients say they want,” Thornton said. Creating scripts and educational tools for doctors who aren't radiologists to facilitate discussions is one way to bridge that gap, he said. Written materials, including trusted Internet sources, that address patient concerns is another. There is no mechanism in schools, government sources, healthcare establishments, or non-government organizations to teach people how to think about health risks or to assess their own risk, said Janet Busey of the radiation department at the University of Washington in Seattle. “Although the individual radiation risks for diagnostic imaging scans are small, they need to be communicated to patients,” Busey, who wasn’t part of the new study, told Reuters Health by email. “The 'benefit vs. radiation-risk' issues are generally different in terms of CT scans for patients who are (or were) being treated for cancer, as opposed to CT scans on individuals who do not have cancer,” said David J. Brenner of the radiation oncology department at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. “For example, in many situations for cancer patients, long-term follow-up with CT scans is absolutely essential,” said Brenner, who was not part of the new study. “By contrast there are situations among non-cancer patients where there are options as to whether to do a CT scan or to do another type of exam.” Doctor-patient communication issues in the study are likely common to both cancer and non-cancer patients, he noted. SOURCE: http://bit.ly/18V0PTp Radiology, online March 24, 2015.
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Biden, UN Chief Discuss “Strengthened Partnership” On COVID-19, Climate
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Biden, UN Chief discussed the need for a “strengthened partnership” to combat COVID-19
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden spoke with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday, Biden’s transition team said, discussing the need for a “strengthened partnership” to combat COVID-19 pandemic and climate change – two areas where President Donald Trump shunned a multilateral approach.
Trump has referred to climate change as a “hoax” and in 2017 pulled the United States out of a global accord to tackle climate change – a decision which took effect on Nov. 4. Biden has pledged to rejoin the deal, which was agreed in 2015.
Trump also cut funding to the World Health Organization and also announced plans for the United States to withdraw from the global body – a decision that would have taken effect in July next year. Trump has accused the WHO of becoming a puppet of China amid the coronavirus pandemic. Biden has said he will rescind Trump’s decision.
Biden and Guterres also discussed “addressing humanitarian need; advancing sustainable development; upholding peace and security and resolving conflicts; and promoting democracy and human rights,” Biden’s transition team said in a statement.
Biden expressed deep concern to Guterres about the escalating violence in Ethiopia and the risk posed to civilians.
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed lauded his troops on Monday for ousting a northern movement, but the leader of Tigrayan forces said they were still resisting amid fears of a protracted guerrilla conflict.
The nearly month-long war has killed hundreds and possibly thousands of people, sent refugees into Sudan, enmeshed Eritrea, and stirred rivalries among Ethiopia’s myriad ethnic groups.
Guterres spoke with Abiy on Sunday, said U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric, calling for a full respect of human rights and humanitarian aid access.
“The Secretary General also said that Ethiopia needed a true reconciliation, without discrimination … where every community should feel respected and be part of Ethiopia,” Dujarric told reporters on Monday.
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Tag Archives: ColorOrgan
Industrial Light and Magic
Mary Hallock Greenewalt received 11 patents for her “color organ,” an early form of synthesizer. She would spend the rest of her life defending them. Words and animation at https://www.topic.com/industrial-light-and-magic
Patent No. 1,357,773: “Rheostat” (1920)
The rheostat was an essential mechanism of the Sarabet. It was an electrical device that varied the resistance of the electrical current so that Greenewalt could produce smooth fade-ups and fade-outs of light as she played. In this patent application, she describes the rheostat as “compact and substantial of a commercially practicable design; relatively simple as regards the aggregate number and arrangement of its parts, and at the same time includes a series of contact blocks and moveable contact member adapted for operation by human, mechanical or automatic power.”
The rheostat would become a standard tool for electronic instruments, and when General Electric infringed on Greenewalt’s patent in 1932, she sued. At first, a judge denied hearing the case, determining that the rheostat was too complex to have been invented by a woman. This decision was overturned on appeal by Judge Hugh Morris, who described Greenewalt as “a true artist” in his decision, and she eventually won the case.
Patent No. 1,385,944: “Notation for Indicating Light Effects” (1921)
“The object of my present invention is to provide a score comprising names, numerals, marks, symbols, hieroglyphs, or the like, constituting a chart or record sheet for denoting or interpreting a lighting sequence or succession to accompany music,” wrote Greenewalt in this patent. It involved Greenewalt’s translation of Beethoven’s 1801 “Moonlight” Sonata into a notation readable by a Sarabet player. Full video available here with interpreted tonalities by Melissa Grey https://www.topic.com/industrial-light-and-magic
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It Slaps: Brie Larson Turns Fan’s Instagram Comments into a Song
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By Mary Anne Butler Last updated Oct 16, 2020
Brie Larson is a delightful treasure, and we are all lucky to have access to her. Whether it’s her tweeting a line from a car commercial she’s well-known for, taking down the male-dominated journalism world to make room for female reporters, or being a big goofball- the Oscar-winning actress can also sing! I mean, have you *seen* “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World?”
DROP THE TACO, GET IN THE CAR.
— Brie Larson (@brielarson) October 15, 2020
Larson recently launched her own Youtube channel, and has released some pretty great video content. Her most recent? A song written from Instagram comments on her posts.
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Mary Anne Butler (Mab) has been part of the fast-paced world of journalism since she was 15, getting her start in album reviews and live concert coverage for a nationally published (print) music magazine. She eventually transitioned to online media, writing for such sites as UGO/IGN, ComicsOnline, Geek Magazine, Ace of Geeks, Aggressive Comix (where she is still Editor-in-Chief), Bleeding Cool (where she was News Editor), and now NerdBot as News Editor.
Over the past 10 years, she’s built a reputation at conventions across the globe as a cosplayer (occasionally), photographer (constantly), panelist and moderator (mostly), and reporter (always). Interviews, reviews, observations, breaking news, and objective reporting are the name of the game for the founder of Harkonnen Knife Fight, a Dune-themed band with an international presence.
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