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Error code:   DatasetGenerationError
Exception:    ArrowInvalid
Message:      JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 44
Traceback:    Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
                  df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
                  return json_reader.read()
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
                  obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
                  obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
                  self._parse()
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
                  ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
              ValueError: Trailing data
              
              During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
              
              Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
                  for _, table in generator:
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
                  raise e
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
                  pa_table = paj.read_json(
                File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
                File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
                File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
              pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 44
              
              The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
              
              Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
                  parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
                  builder.download_and_prepare(
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
                  self._download_and_prepare(
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
                  self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
                  for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
                  raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
              datasets.exceptions.DatasetGenerationError: An error occurred while generating the dataset

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__label__wiki	0.960418	0.960418	Geoff Gartside Home > History > People > Geoff Gartside Geoff Gartside started racing 500s in 1958 taking second place at Full Sutton in April and a respectable ninth in the Daily Express Trophy, Silverstone in May, against the top drivers of the day. Second again at Full Sutton in July, beating Jack Pitcher, closed the season In 1959, Geoff was fifth in the Empire Trophy at Oulton Park and at Snetterton in April and second to Jack in May. He took a fine fifth in the Commander Yorke Trophy in August followed by a win at Thomaby in September and second at Catterick in September. Geoff won at Rufforth in September to finish the year on a high. In 1960, he finished second to Jack at Rufforth and Silverstone in June, won the York Cup at Linton in July, second in the Commander Yorke Trophy to Gordon Jones, won again at Rufforth in September and second at Snetterton in October to close his 500 cc career. For 1961, like many others he moved to Formula Junior. Except, for Geoff this was not the end. After a visit to the Earl of March Trophy at Goodwood in 2001, he dusted off his original Cooper Mk VIII and returned to the cockpit. Geoff has been a regular racer since but has now handed over the steering duties to his son, Martin. Geoff at the British Grand Prix, July 1958 At Mallory Park in 1959 Geoff in the same Cooper Mk VIII with son Martin and Murray Walker at the Goodwood Revival in 2005.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0099.json.gz/line3
__label__cc	0.744441	0.255559	A Racing Heart and Seeing Stars: Pre-excitation and Syncope in a Young Adult Author: Eric Sulava, MD Naval Medical Center Portsmouth AAEM Education Committee Author: Hannah Harris MD Student Naval Flight Surgeon Naval Aerospace Medical Institute Author: Katrina Destree, MD Staff Physician Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune Chief Complaint “My heart was racing and then everything went grey” History of Present Illness A 21 year old otherwise healthy male, presents to the Emergency Department (ED) following an episode of syncope with forehead laceration. He reports brushing his teeth, when he suddenly had a “wave of anxiety” rush over him. He noticed a few seconds of palpitations and then remembers washing his bloody hands in the sink. When looking at the time, he had lost 4 hours of time. He denies personal or family history of seizure disorders; and did not experience incontinence, tongue biting, or a post ictal period. He currently denies chest pain, pleuritic pain, shortness of breath, constitutional symptoms, lightheadedness, neck pain, headache or any other neurologic sequelae. VITALS: BP: 110/63, Pulse: 104, Temp: 98.6, RR: 20, SpO2: 98% on room air GENERAL: No distress, well appearing male NEURO: Alert and oriented, normal strength (5/5) all extremities, normal sensation, cranial nerves intact, finger to nose without dysmetria, no pronator drift HEENT: Left facial tenderness over a small, linear 2 centimeter forehead laceration. No other abnormalities RESPIRATORY: Breath sounds clear and equal bilaterally CV: Tachycardic, regular rhythm, no murmurs, rubs or gallops ABDOMEN: Soft non-tender, non-distended SKIN: Warm and dry with no evident rash Given the patient’s concerning history of sudden loss of consciousness, a cardiogenic and neurologic syncope workup was initiated. The patient’s complete blood count, complete metabolic panel, thyroid stimulating hormone, troponin, d-dimer, urinalysis, urine drug screen, and computed tomography of the head were unremarkable. The sole abnormality of the initial evaluation, was a sinus tachycardia with a shortened PR interval, and normal QRS. The history of periodic palpitations with syncope led to concern for a recurrent pre-excitation syndrome with decompensation to a non-perfusing rhythm. Cardiology was consulted and further diagnostics were ordered. A holter monitor was placed, which is pending. The patient’s echocardiogram was unremarkable. Neurology completed a brain magnetic resonance image (MRI) and Electroencephalography (EEG), without attributable findings. He is currently pending further EP studies. The term “pre-excitation syndrome” defines all conditions in which ventricular or atrial activation occurs through an anomalous pathway. Although most commonly describing Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW), this term also covers Lown–Ganong–Levine (LGL). WPW is characterized by a short PR interval and a wide QRS complex. This QRS lengthening is due to the “delta wave”, representing atrioventricular node (AV) bypassing through an accessory pathway called the Bundle of Kent [1]. LGL is a clinical syndrome consisting of intermittent tachycardia with the electrocardiogram (EKG) findings of a short PR interval and normal QRS complex. The shortened PR is secondary to a lack of AV nodal blockade, theoretically explained by intranodal or paranodal fibers that bypass all or part of the AV node [2,3]. Lown, Ganong, and Levine conducted a retrospective analysis of 13,500 consecutive EKGs, finding 200 subjects with a shortened PR interval. This study, completed in 1952, showed that the incidence of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) was significantly higher in patients with a shortened PR interval [2]. This clinical description was formed before the development of EP studies, therefore subsequent studies have attempted to attribute a structural anomaly to the clinical syndrome. James fibers (trans- AV nodal fibers), Mahaim fibers (muscular bridges), Brechenmacher-type fibers (atrium to the His bundle connection) have been identified histologically, but have not been uniquely connected to the tachyarrhythmia syndrome of LGL [4,5]. Due to the difficulty with identifying a unique pathophysiologic root for the LGL syndrome, there is little data to further validate association between LGL and sudden cardiac death or SVT. The primary goal of ED evaluation will be stabilization, risk stratification, and monitoring. As mentioned above, a wide differential is warranted in any syncope patient, and all life threats should be initially excluded. Further management of isolated LGL will involve the aid of a cardiologist, to determine the need for non-invasive mapping of the arrhythmia. Like WPW, ED providers should take caution with sympathomimetic agents, which could increase the risk of tachyarrhythmia. Unfortunately AV nodal blocking agents and antiarrhythmic drugs have not been extensively studied in LGL. The effects of beta blockers and calcium channel blockers have varied widely with no official recommendations (6,7). Recently, catheter ablation has become the preferred therapy for various SVT, showing the utility of early involvement from the cardiologist [8]. Pre-excitation syndrome describes both WPW and LGL WPW is characterized by a short PR interval and a wide QRS complex The “delta wave” represents atrioventricular node (AV) bypassing through the accessory Bundle of Kent Historically, SVT is significantly higher in patients with a shortened PR interval Keep a wide differential on syncope patients, to include subtle EKG findings What abnormalities are seen in the above electrocardiogram (EKG)? What are the not-to-be-missed arrhythmias in young adults with syncope? Answers to above Questions Shortened PR interval and normal QRS: suggestive of Lown-Ganong-Levine syndrome (LGL). Long/short QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome, Pre-excitation syndrome (WPW, LGL), arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia, Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (SVT), and ventricular tachycardia. 1. Stapczynski J, Cline D, Ma OJ et al. Chapter 18: Cardiac Rhythm Disturbances. Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 8th edition. McGraw-Hill Education / Medical; 2015. 2. Lown B, Ganong WF, Levine SA. The syndrome of short P-R interval, normal QRS complex and paroxysmal rapid heart action. Circulation. 1952;5(5):693-706. 3. Benditt D, et al. Characteristics of Atrioventricular Conduction and the Spectrum of Arrhythmias in Lown-Ganong-Levine Syndrome. Circulation. 1978: 57( 3):454–465. 4. Mandel W J, et al. Lown-Ganong-Levine Syndrome: A Study Using His Bundle Electrograms. Circulation. 1971: 44(4): 696–708. 5. Durrer D, et al. Pre-Excitation Revisited. The American Journal of Cardiology. 1970:25(6). 690–697. 6. Benditt, D, et al. Chapter 12: AV Node Bypass Tracts and Enhanced AV Conduction - Relation to Ventricular Preexcitation. Cardiac Preexcitation Syndromes. Springer- Martinus Nijhoff Publishing:1986. 7. Seipel L, et al. Atrioventricular (AV) and Ventriculoatrial (VA) Conduction Pattern in Patients with Short P-R Interval and Normal QRS Complex. Cardiac Pacing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg:1976. 8. Yeung-lai-wah JA, Alison JF, Lonergan L, Mohama R, Leather R, Kerr CR. High success rate of atrioventricular node ablation with radiofrequency energy. J Am Coll Cardiol. 1991;18(7):1753-8. I am a military service member. This work was prepared as part of my official duties. Title 17 U.S.C. 105 provides that “Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government.” Title 17 U.S.C. 101 defines a United States Government work as a work prepared by a military service member or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties. The views expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Navy, Department of Defense, or the United States Government. Labels: pre-excitation, Syncope Sapna February 2, 2019 at 2:25 PM Awesome blog. I enjoyed reading your articles. This is truly a great read for me. I have bookmarked it and I am looking forward to reading new articles. Keep up the good work! Catheter ablation Evaluation of Syncope in the Emergency Department 2017-18 AAEM/RSA Medical Student Scholarship Winne... The Opioid Epidemic: Where Are We Now? 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__label__wiki	0.669621	0.669621	Prosecution Case Against Stinson Winding Down Testimony resumed Monday in the reckless homicide and wanton endangerment trial of former Pleasure Ridge Park High School football coach Jason Stinson. The prosecution played a 90 minute audio tape interview of Stinson conducted by police on September 14, 2008, three weeks after the death of PRP sophomore Max Gilpin , who collapsed from heat stroke during practice. Stinson told police that his players were all given mandatory water breaks during the practice, but he did tell a handful of players who had gone to the water station at the end of practice to wait until after a team meeting to get a drink. “None of those guys said Coach, can I go get water, I’m not feeling good, I’m not doing it. None of them said, can I go over there? Max was not one of the four or five guys over there,” Stinson said. Prosecutors say Stinson ran his players too hard in the August heat. Stinson’s attorneys contend the practice was conducted within regulations. Prosecutors were scheduled to wrap up their case Monday. (Photo of Max Gilpin from www.facebook.com) Published September 14, 2009 By Rick Howlett Categorized as Local News Tagged Jason Stinson, max gilpin, Pleasure Ridge Park High School football Civil Rights & Persons Diagnosed with a Mental Illness El Nino Could Bring Mild Winter to Kentucky	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0099.json.gz/line9
__label__wiki	0.604609	0.604609	The Last Seal main \| downloads \| screenshots \| special features\| forum It was the time of the ancient egyptians when unnoticed a dark force oozed out of the ground. It was just called The pure Evil... Eventually revived, it oppressed all human beings and launched a new age of terror. Time of darkness and cruelty spread over the earth. Some religious people saw the future of brightness fade away and appealed to the gods for help. Finally the unexpected happened: Supported by an extraterrestral force the pure evil was brought to a burial chamber that was sealed afterwards with five seals. The age of oppression came to an end. Years went by until two of those seals were taken away by gravehunters who vanished in no time after the theft. In 1853, a scientist rediscovered the burial chamber and again removed one seal. He also disappeared before he could inform someone about his discovery. Again the burial chamber fell into oblivion. Three weeks ago a team of scientists exposed the burial chamber and took away another seal. Now one last seal remains to dam up the evil force. Unfortunately it is not sufficant to restrain the pure evil of getting out. Dark shadows are already crossing the lands and it is just a matter of time until the complete force in all its mightyness can escape from the chamber and commence a new crusade of retaliation against mankind. But this time there will be no divine defense obtainable... In this point-and-click adventure, mainly being developed by 2 people, you take control over our hero called Russ Kimble. While trying to aid an old friend, he, by accident, gets himself involved in an epic science-fiction/fantasy-adventure, uncovering a mysterious threat against humanity that was laying dormant for thousands of years... Visit places no human has set foot on for thousands of years, and discover strange areas nobody knew they'd exist... Fight with weapons in action-sequences against creatures of evil! Take control over two characters during certain passages in the game! Only teamwork will let you survive! The caracter's clothes are being torn and get dirty through external infulences! You will be shocked by what you will see, where blood is only the beginning... ...mankinds fate lies in your hands... Experience one of the biggest GBA-adventures ever produced. Where other classic titles feature about 100 locations, The Last Seal features more than 180 locations split up into more than 500 detailed rendered screens, with character-animations exceeding the magic 1000-frames-barrier! more than 180 rooms, split up in about 500 different screens about 1200 frames of character-animation more than 100 items combinatoric riddles, logic-riddles and action-sequences partially non-linear gameplay control two different characters to achieve your goal copyright © 1997-2006 by Ancor productions	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0099.json.gz/line14
__label__cc	0.629165	0.370835	Business District \| Kebayoran Baru \| Luxury \| Reviews \| SCBD \| Senayan \| South Jakarta \| Sudirman The Capital Residence by Julien \| Jun 7, 2020 The Capital Residence is a luxury residential complex of 3 towers (38 floors each) for a total of 350 units. It has a strategic location in the business district (SCBD), just across the street from the mall Pacific Place. Completed in 2007, it was built by Graha PutraNusa, a joint venture between the Mahaka Group (Erick Thohir) and the Artha Graha Group (Tomy Winata). I visited the property with an agent in June 2019, and this is my full review of it. 1 Location: Neighborhood and Transportation In which neighborhood of Jakarta is The Capital Residence located? Location of The Capital Residence The Capital Residence is part of a prestigious mixed-used development concept called SCBD (Sudirman Central Business District). This 47-hectare area is privately-owned by various shareholders, including the Artha Graha Group of Tomy Winata. It includes famous buildings like Pacific Place Mall, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, the Alila Hotel, District 8, the Equity Tower, the Energy Building, the Jakarta Stock Exchange, etc. It is one of the most modern parts of Jakarta, together with Mega Kuningan. The streets, drawn according to a master plan, are spacious and they have a proper sidewalk. You can walk around without bumping into a street vendor, and you won’t see much garbage. Almost all the buildings are new and high-rise, except for a few blocks that are still waiting to be developed. To summarize, while SCBD is in Jakarta, it isn’t really Jakarta: It just looks like the business district of any large metropolises. This is what you can see near the apartment: Surroundings of The Capital Residence in SCBD The Capital Residence surroundings – Grand Indonesia Mall: 20 minutes – Sudirman Business District: 0 minutes Public transportation and access to highways: – Nearest Transjakarta halt: Polda Metro Jaya (500 meters away) – Nearest MRT station: Istora Mandiri (500 meters away) – Nearest train station: Sudirman Station (3 km away) – Nearest toll road: Jakarta Inner Ring Road (600 meters away). The strategic Semanggi Interexchange is just 5 minutes from The Capital Residence. It allows you to go faster to any directions in Jakarta (including to the airport). The traffic is generally reasonable within SCBD, except during peak hours (8-10 AM and 5-7 PM). Landmarks Nearby Mall Pacific Place is just across the street from The Capital Residence. You can also go there with an underground tunnel. It is a medium-sized luxury mall with a Galerie Lafayette department store, a cinema, a supermarket, a gym, a Kidzania, plenty of restaurants and high-end shops. By car, you can also go in 10 minutes to Senayan City and Plaza Senayan. There is a Kem Chicks supermarket in Pacific Place that has many imported products. A cheaper and larger option is Grand Lucky Supermarket, about 600 meters away (less than 10 minutes by foot). Restaurants and Nightlife: SCBD is one of the best locations in Jakarta for eating out and partying. You will have plenty of options, such as Potato Head, Lucy in the Sky, Cork & Screw, Hard Rock Café, Hakkasan, etc. Two expensive private universities have a campus nearby: Binus and Pelita Harapan. There are no international schools but Al Alzhar and SMA 82 are reputed among Indonesians. For preschool, you can check Apple Tree on Jalan Senopati. Siloam Semanggi, just 10 minutes away by car, is recommended. You can reach Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in about 10-15 minutes by foot. It is suitable for running or walking. The Capital Residence was developed by Graha PutraNusa, a joint venture between the Mahaka Group (Erick Thohir) and the Artha Graha Group of Tomy Winata (via its subsidiary PT Danayasa Arthatama). The latter is the owner of SCBD and it has shares in most of the buildings there, such as Equity Tower, Kusuma Chandra, Pacific Place, Artha Graha Office, SCBD Suites, and the Alila Hotel. Who is the architect? The architectural firm was the Indonesian firm Airmas Asri, which has already worked on several high-end projects like Pakubuwono Signature, Pakubuwono View and District 8. Some other companies were involved: Belt Collins Pt was in charge of the landscape, and Hirsch / Bedner & Associates did the interior design. Who is the contractor? The contractor was PT Adhi Persada Gedung, one of the largest in Indonesia. They have built many properties, including Kuningan City, Seasons City, and La Maison Barito. The towers, thin and elegant, are covered with dark glass windows. They look more like office buildings than apartments: The Capital Residence (Photo from the architect) Architecture of The Capital Residence Entrance and Lobby: With beautiful marble tiles and unique artwork pieces, the lobby feels really exclusive. It is spacious, with several resting areas, including a small café. Entrance to The Capital Residence Entrance to lobby in The Capital Residence Sculpture in the lobby of The Capital Residence Reception desk in The Capital Residence Main lobby in The Capital Residence Sofas in lobby of The Capital Residence Public areas are limited within The Capital Residence. This is not the best apartment building for those who like to walk around in a garden. Landscaping in The Capital Residence Pool area in The Capital Residence The units are all served by a private lift. Lift area in The Capital Residence Lift to apartments in The Capital Residence Private lift in the apartment The Capital Residence Size and Types of Apartments The apartments’ size is approximately the following: 2-bedroom units (2 bathrooms + 1 maid room): 150 m2 All the units have a private lift. These are photos of a 2-bedroom unit that I took during my visit: Kitchen in The Capital Residence Bedroom in The Capital Residence Living room in Capital Residence Living room and balcony in The Capital Residence Bathroom in The Capital Residence Bathrooms in The Capital Residence In common areas: Painting (wall, ceiling): 8 Lighting fixtures: 8.5 Windows: 7.5 Elevator: 7 (Fujitec brand) Pool equipment: 7.5 Artwork: 8.5 Overall Quality: 7.5/10 These are the facilities available within The Capital Residence: Swimming pool in The Capital Residence Pool in The Capital Residence Kids pool in The Capital Residence Gym in The Capital Residence Cardio equipment in The Capital Residence Aerobic room in The Capital Residence Sauna in The Capital Residence Steam room in The Capital Residence Jacuzzi and cold pool in The Capital Residence Massage room in The Capital Residence Many services are available, including ATM, minimarket, laundry, coffee shop. You can also go to Pacific Place Mall easily by crossing the street (or by using the underground tunnel). Are there issues with parking? The lobby was surprisingly very busy. The agent told me the occupancy rate was around 90%, which seems believable considering the strategic location. I didn’t find it noisy. What is the background of the residents (ethnicity, social status)? The residents are a mix of Indonesians (including Indonesian Chinese) and expats. There are not too many damages, even though the property is more than 12 years old. However, most of the apartments I visited had not been refurbished and they looked old. The value for money seemed inferior compared to that of newer luxury properties like District 8 or Anandamaya. Overall maintenance rating: 8.5/10 The cleanliness was excellent. Overall cleanliness rating: 9/10 The maintenance of the garden was good. Overall gardening rating: 8.5/10 – Guards: There are 24/7 guards at the main gate of the property, in the parking area, and at the lobby of each tower. – CCTV cameras: In the lobby, and in the lifts. – Access: You need an access card to reach your unit. Overall security rating: 9/10 Overall hospitality rating: 8.5/10 Prices at The Capital Residence may vary depending on many factors such as the floor, the unit type, the room condition and the furnishings. Be aware that you may also need to pay for additional fees: Service charge, parking fee, electricity and water bills, etc. Here are a few examples of prices and ratios for this property: 2-Bedroom (150m2) – Well-furnished: Rental 1 Year: Approximately IDR 420 million (or IDR 35 million per month) Average buying price/m2: IDR 50 million/m2 Excellent location in Central Business District Connected to Pacific Place Mall Many expat tenants Prestigious building There are still several empty plots of land in SCBD, meaning more luxury apartments will be built nearby in the future. They will probably make The Capital Residence less attractive. Would I buy this property? (On a scale from 0 = “not at all” to 10 = “yes absolutely” ): Jalan Jend. Sudirman No.52-53, Senayan, Kebayoran Baru, Cafe area in The Capital Residence Parking and laundry shop in The Capital Residence Minimarket in The Capital Residence 4 / 5 My Rating {{ reviewsOverall }} / 5 Readers' Rating (1 vote) - Excellent location in the business district of Jakarta (SCBD). - 5-minute walking distance to Pacific Place Mall. - Modern neighborhood, perfect for young expats who enjoy going out and shopping. - Spacious apartments with private lift and luxury finishes. - Large pool, complete gym. - Many apartments are a bit old. - No garden or green areas. - Prices are quite high compared to some similar high-end properties.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0099.json.gz/line28
__label__cc	0.686823	0.313177	Bills Mafia — #BillsMafia A movement created by the fans and embraced by the players. Join the #FAMbase. What is #BillsMafia? Ed Oliver’s arrest will test Bills’ culture Posted on May 17, 2020 by Robyn Mundy Photo of DT Ed Oliver from bleacherreport.com. It took less than one sip of coffee to ruin Sunday morning for BillsMafia after waking up to the news that DT Ed Oliver was arrested Saturday night in the Houston area for driving while intoxicated and carrying a weapon in his car. While it’s understandable any 22 year-old is at risk for going overboard as the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions are lifted across the country with bars and restaurants opening up for the first time in months, Oliver obviously made the wrong choice by getting behind the wheel of his car after drinking alcohol and carrying a weapon. The news must have made Brandon Beane and Sean McDermott cringe, especially because if we weren’t in the middle of a pandemic players would be safely under the watchful eyes of their teammates and coaches going through OTAs and minicamp right now. This situation certainly flies in the face of the culture of accountability they are trying to build in Buffalo. The incident in and of itself suggests a lack of maturity at best and a harbinger of bad things to come at worst for the talented defensive tackle. Of course people on social media jumped either immediately to his defense (boys will be boys) or called for the team to cut him or risk being hypocrites for preaching accountability (tweet wisely deleted). It will definitely be interesting to see how the coaches and front office deal with the repercussions of Oliver’s arrest. I’m much more interested in how Oliver and the Bills handle this than passing judgement on Oliver’s bad choices. At this point, the most important thing is what Oliver learns from his severe lack of good judgment. We’ll never know how McBeane will handle the situation directly with Ed because that will never be made public. Photo of DE Jerry Hughes from buffalobills.com. One person I would hope and expect to immediately reach out to Ed is Jerry Hughes. Jerry lives in the Houston area and can serve as an important mentor for Ed right now. Obviously Ed could use a little advice from an older and wiser teammate who can help him understand exactly what he needs to do to be accountable to his teammates. It’s one thing to deal with the consequences of bad behavior with your coach, general manager and owners… it’s quite another to own up to disappointing your teammates by putting the team in a bad situation should he have to miss time. How he responds to this situation will reveal volumes about his character. We’ve been down this road before, most recently with DT Marcel Dareus and his antics resulting in his shuffling out of Buffalo… released by McBeane after they became frustrated with his lazy attitude and suspensions for violating the substance abuse policy. Now, in NO WAY am I comparing Ed Oliver to Marcel Dareus because they are totally dissimilar in temperament. Photo of DT Marcel Dareus from ESPN.com. My point is when bad things happened to Marcel, he chose to blame others and refused to take responsibility for his actions. Now Ed Oliver has a choice to make; make excuses or be accountable. We are going to see what kind of person Ed Oliver is… wise and learn from mistakes… or full of self-indulgent excuse-making. We’re also going to see just how ‘resilient’ this locker room is. The Bills’ players now must help Ed by supporting him while holding him accountable. Who will be a leader on defense to do this? Jerry Hughes seems to mostly keep to himself. Tremaine Edmunds is a young Captain and might feel uncomfortable in that role. Micah Hyde is another older veteran who might be able to reach out and offer support on behalf of the locker room. Josh Allen as quarterback will no doubt touch base, but he’s also a young captain who may not feel ready to take on that type of leadership issue. If the team is built on the inside as they purport, the players should be able to use this situation as a learning tool to prevent others from making similar mistakes. Just when we thought this team was beyond these sorts of issues. Editor’s babble: Sigh. Here’s hoping Ed didn’t contract COVID-19 in this process :) You might find me on Twitter @RobynMundyWYO… but I’m just as likely to be outside communing with nature. This entry was posted in Bison Droppings, Commentary and tagged BillsMafia, Brandon Beane, Buffalo Bills, Ed Oliver, Sean McDermott by Robyn Mundy. Bookmark the permalink. About Robyn Mundy Robyn Mundy is Editor-in-Chief of the BillsMafia blog at BuffaloFAMbase.com. She's a retired oncology nurse & psychotherapist who loves to write about her life-long passion for the Buffalo Bills, and occasionally something of clinical or social relevance. Robyn lives with her husband Gary and their dogs in the foothills of the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming. Robyn is also a proud founding sponsor. Follow her on Twitter at @RobynMundyWYO. View all posts by Robyn Mundy → 2 Replies to “Ed Oliver’s arrest will test Bills’ culture” Norb on May 17, 2020 at 1:06 pm said: Great article Robyn! The only issue I have is the point about Jerry Hughes…wasn’t he involved with one of Dareus’ transgressions, drag racing near the stadium? It’s possible Hughes has learned from his mistakes, and the big difference is there is now a much stronger locker room culture than there was under Marrone with Dareus. Robyn Mundy on May 19, 2020 at 3:59 pm said: Thanks, Norb! I forgot about Hughes’ little adventure w/Dareus. That might actually give him more credibility to speak with Ed Oliver about why it’s not a good idea to put yourself in vulnerable positions. He can speak from experience. ← Previous Previous post: Michael Jordan and McDermott’s Process Next → Next post: Astro’s Bills Mock Draft — May Edition Copyright © 2021 Bills Mafia — #BillsMafia. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0099.json.gz/line30
__label__wiki	0.893559	0.893559	McKee Family History Exploring history of the McKee Family of Abbeville, SC and Jefferson County, MO ALookThruTime Gilgal Church Greenville Presbyterian Church Popular Springs Baptist Church Genealogical Links McKee Roots Early McKee Ancestors MacKay Clan Book Project Can You Identify Other Family Lines Adam McKee Land Adam Jackson William Seth Michael McKee Land Michael McKee land pictures Michael McKee Craftman Mary Margaret McKay Rebecca Hildebrand Seth Whitney M. A. McKee Matilda Ann McKee Bowie Isabella McKee James Alfred McKee Jane C. McKee Chandler Cornelius Hamilton McKee Frank McKee William Logan McKee Tullie McKee Tullie McKee Family Lizzie McKee Hill Lizzie McKee Hill Family Lillie Mae McKee Stewart Lillie Mae McKee Stewart Family Cleo McKee Driggers Cleo McKee Driggers Family Hattie McKee Wilson Hattie McKee Wilson Family James Douglas McKee Douglas McKee Family Jodie McKee Jodie Mckee Family Minnie McKee Patton Minnie McKee Patton Family Bennie McKee Bennie McKee Family Andrella McKee Thomas Andrella McKee Thomas Family Puckett Puckett Ancestry Witherspoon Descendants Abbeville, SC Look at Abbeville, SC Laurens, SC Williamsburg, SC Jefferson, MO Killyleigh, Ireland Notable Relations Hildebrand Brothers King Duncan I King Malcolm III and Saint Margaret Niall Of The Nine Hostages King Robert the Bruce became one of Scotland’s greatest kings. He was born on July 11, 1274 at Turnberry Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland. He was the first son born to Robert de Brus and his wife, Marjorie. Through his father he inherited a royal lineage to King David I, that would eventually lead to him becoming king. When his mother died in 1292, the eighteen year old became Earl of Carrick. Robert, his father and grandfather all sided with King Edward I of England, over the newly crowned John Balliol of Scotland. In 1295, Robert married Isabella of Mar. Legend states that the couple was very much in love. The couple had a daughter, Marjorie {whose heirs began the Stewart dynasty}. Isabella died on December 12, 1296. Bruce supported the revolt against King Edward in 1297. Robert and John Comyn succeeded William Wallace as Guardian of Scotland within the year. Robert and John soon became enemies. By 1300, Robert had resigned as guardian. Robert was a shrewd diplomat, when reading accounts of his fealty {allegiance} to King Edward and Scotland. one would think that he couldn’t make up his mind in reading the accounts, but most likely he was doing whatever was necessary to keep himself and his family safe. “Robert Bruce as Earl of Carrick and now 7th Lord of Annandale, held huge estates and property in Scotland and a barony and some minor properties in England and had a strong claim to the Scottish throne. He also had a large family to protect. If he claimed the throne, he would throw the country into yet another series of wars, and if he failed, he would be sacrificing everyone and everything he knew.” In 1302, Robert married Elizabeth de Burgh. The couple had four children, three reaching adulthood. Due to his supporting alternate English and Scottish loyalties, there was a lot of distrust in him. He barely escaped arrest and imprisonment by King Edward. Shortly thereafter, Robert and Comyn met in Dumfries. The men came to blows and Robert Bruce killed his Comyn at the high altar of the Chapel of Greyfriars Monastery. His hands were now bound and he had either become king or a fugitive. Robert Bruce then made his claim on the empty Scottish crown. Six weeks later he “was crowned King of Scots by Bishop William de Lamberton at Scone, near Perth on 25 March with all formality and solemnity.” On June 19, 1306, the English army sieged Kildrummy Castle, where Queen Elizabeth, Lady Marjorie and Robert’s sisters were staying. The women were then imprisoned under harsh conditions. They were held prisoner for eight years. With the death of Edward I, Robert the Bruce now had to fight his son, Edward II. On June 23, 1314 the Battle of Bannockburn took place. Today this might be referred to as the War of Scottish Independence. Robert Bruce and his army defeated the British, gaining Scottish independence. In late November 1314, Queen Elizabeth, Lady Marjory and Robert’s sisters were released from imprisonment. Scotland and England still had their ups and downs over the years. In 1320 the Declaration of Arbroath was issued and recognized by the Pope. Frequently quoted is this passage from that document, “…for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” King Edward III signed the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton in May 1328, recognizing Scotland as an independent kingdom. Robert’s daughter, Marjorie married Walter Stewart. “On 2 March 1316, Marjorie went horse-riding near Paisley, Renfrewshire while heavily pregnant. Her horse was suddenly startled and threw her to the ground at a place called “The Knock.” She went into premature labour and delivered the child at Paisley Abbey, surviving the birth by a few hours at most.”Queen Elizabeth died on October 27, 1327. Robert died on June 7, 1329. He’d always longed to go on a crusade and requested that his heart be taken on the journey. His body is buried at Dunfermline Abbey. “In accordance with Bruce’s written request, the heart was buried at Melrose Abbey in Roxburghshire.” Robert Bruce has a number of descendants. All of the Kings of Scotland following him, are his descendants. Upon the Union of Crowns in 1603, all British Monarchs {including the present Queen} are also descendants. Including John Knox’s second wife, Margaret Stewart, is descended down the Stewart line to Robert Bruce’s daughter, Marjorie. 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__label__cc	0.734671	0.265329	Commercial Laminating Narrow Format Laminating Single Side Laminating Wide Format Laminating Specialty Films Sign Mounting Eyelets and Grommets Patch Hole Reinforcement Index Tabbing Mylar Color 3 Hole Drilling Carol Smith was introduced to the printing industry as a member of Lockheed Martin’s printing division. As his knowledge and passion for printing grew, he sought out a way to share his love of printing with others. During the day he worked at Mark Marietta and at night he was able to find the outlet he needed by becoming a teacher at Mid Florida Tech in the Graphic Arts Department. He soon realized to reach his true potential he would need to run his own business in the printing industry, so he saved his money until he was able to purchase his first retail print shop called Wicks Printing. With 8 other printers having shops on the same road (fondly known as “Virginia Drive”)you could say the environment in the sales industry when Carol opened his doors was the literal definition of competitive. Wicks Printing quickly rose to the top on Virginia Drive and decided it was time to grow further by purchasing a bigger, better equipped print shop. One of the advantages of being both a Graphic Arts Teacher and the owner of a business in the printing industry, is having access to students of printing looking to get into the business themselves. As more and more of his students wanted to work at the shop, the company began a transition from the retail side to the commercial side of the industry where it still continues to thrive in Central Florida today. When Carol’s son Bryan turned 13 his father gave him a letter press to run, and from that point on he proceeded to teach Bryan everything he could about the printing industry his young head would hold. When Bryan turned 16 he left his father’s shop and started his own business called Overnight Letter Press. Bryan ran OLP for 3 years before selling it to his younger brother Jerry. Bryan then purchased Busby printing and in 1 ½ years took it from a business wallowing in bankruptcy, into one he was able to sell as a thriving enterprise. His father was so impressed with what he was able to make of himself that he hired him to run Wicks Printing. Starting in 1989 Bryan was proud to be at the helm of his Father’s company until the decision was made to sell of business in 1996. For the next 4 years Bryan expanded his learning to all parts of the printing industry by working as a successful Print Broker. By the time the new millennium was starting Bryan’s desire to go back to a more hands on part of the printing industry was getting stronger. So in 2000, Bryan opened the doors of Clear Choice Laminating, Inc. For over a decade Clear Choice has been providing Central Florida’s printing industry with the finest in Finishing services. We strive to be a complete Finishing partner for all of our clients by offering a wide variety of services. Laminating, grommeting, binding, mounting and gluing. We offer everything you need to insure your customer gets a Finished product. Contact us today for a free quote, or to discuss your Finishing needs. [customcontact form=1] Narrow Format At Clear Choice we know you need your project completed right the first time. Please review our Guidelines section to make sure your job gets submitted with all the necessary information and details. Proud Member of the Printing Association of Florida! Copyright 2000-2013 Clear Choice, Inc. Call Us : (407) 830-6968 Fax: (407) 831-6968	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0099.json.gz/line38
__label__cc	0.743097	0.256903	MacBook, iMac, Apple Watch, and More Great Gadgets on Sale Right Now by admin September 2, 2016 at 10:34 am This week we have some of the best products from Apple at an amazing discount along with a cost-effective all-in-one printer, and more. 1. Apple iMac 21.5-inch Planning to get a Mac on your desk? The 21.5-inch iMac is down to Rs. 73,799 (effective after cashback). That’s a pretty good deal considering the marked price on this iMac is above Rs. 90,000. Use coupon code LIT10 to get a cashback of Rs. 10,000 in your Paytm Wallet. The iMac is powered by Intel Core i5 processor, supported by 8GB of RAM. It comes with a 1TB hard drive and runs OS X El Capitan out of the box. The 21.5-inch Retina Display makes everything else look blurry when you start using it. There are four USB 3.0 ports at the back, along with two Thunderbolt ports. There’s a FaceTime HD camera that’s built right inside the display. At this price, it’s a great way to switch to a Mac-based workstation. Price: Rs. 73,799 (MRP Rs. 91,900) Link: Paytm 2. Apple MacBook If the high-price tag is what’s kept you away from buying the ultra-compact MacBook from Apple, here’s a deal for you. Paytm is selling the 12-inch MacBook at Rs. 73,980 (effective after cashback). This is one of the lowest prices we’ve seen on the MacBook. The MacBook is powered by the Intel Core M dual-core processor, supported by 8GB of RAM. This variant ships with a 256GB SSD, and runs OS X Yosemite out of the box. If you need a laptop with a strict requirement of portability, the MacBook won’t disappoint. It’s not the powerful Mac out there but it can surely get the job done while you’re on the move. 3. HP DeskJet Ink Advantage 4675 The HP DeskJet Ink Advantage 4675 is down to Rs. 7,297 (MRP Rs. 12,172) this week on Flipkart. You can also get two free HP ink cartridges worth Rs. 1098 with the printer. The all-in-one printer can also connect wirelessly to your devices. You can print, scan, copy, and even fax documents. There’s a touchscreen display that lets you access some functionality without having to use a computer. The printer can also print and copy two sides of a page automatically. If you’re in the market for a decent all-in-one that can do the job well, and which doesn’t make you buy highly expensive ink cartridges, the HP DeskJet Ink Advantage 4675 is a great option. You get one-year standard hardware warranty from HP India with the purchase. Price: Rs. 7,297 (MRP Rs. 12,172) Link: Flipkart 4. Lenovo U41-70 laptop The Lenovo U41-70 laptop is down to Rs. 37,500 (MRP Rs. 40,232) this week on Infibeam. Use the coupon code LAPPY to get a discount of Rs. 1500 on the laptop. The Lenovo U41-70 laptop comes with a 14-inch full HD display, and is powered by a fifth generation Intel Core i3 processor, supported by 4GB of RAM. There’s a 1TB standard hard drive along with an 8GB SSD in the laptop. You can use the SSD to store the operating system as well as your most frequently accessed applications to speed up your usage. The laptop runs Windows 8.1 out of the box. The laptop includes a backlit keyboard, an HDMI port, and two USB 3.0 ports. Link: Infibeam 5. Apple Watch 42 mm space grey Paytm is offering a cashback of Rs. 5,000 on select Apple Watch models. Our pick is the 42 mm space grey sport edition which is down to Rs. 26,500, which is one of the lowest price points for the Apple Watch. The first-generation Apple Watch will get the new watchOS later this year, which will bring a ton of new features along with speeding up the existing interface on the Watch. If you are not too keen on spending the full amount on the second-generation Apple Watch which is likely to ship by 2017, this is quite a deal. Of course you’ll need an iPhone to use the Apple Watch. The Apple Watch includes support for full-fledged notifications for e-mails, text, and other supported apps from your iPhone. The Watch is also water resistant which means you can stop worrying about a little rain or a few splashes of water, but just don’t go swimming with it. Harpreet is a technology enthusiast who is obsessed with hunting down great deals on online stores. Disclosure: Paytm’s parent company One97 is an investor in Gadgets 360. ‹ Previous Nvidia on Indian Gamers, the GeForce GTX 1070 and 1080, Pricing, and Availability Next › Turing promises the moon with the 2017 Cadenza: dual Snapdragon 830, 60MP camera, 12GB RAM This Samsung 65 4K TV gets a $300 price cut at Best Buy – today only! 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Twitch will now give Prime users free games each month European Emission Regulations Killed the Ford Focus RS Nvidia's study linking hardware to competitiveness is peak PC gamer elitism Apple Begins Pre-Order for iPhone 12: Here's How You Can Get It for Free Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn How to Shoot Epic Wide-Angle Photos of Trees Cadillac will become lead EV brand at GM, challenge Tesla 3D displays on smartphones could soon become a reality Investigation continues into cause of fire at magnesium products supplier Self-driving cars can easily mimic human drivers Konsus looks to give companies a way to get specially designed documents in under a day Crunch Report \| Facebook Made Us All Dead	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0099.json.gz/line41
__label__cc	0.722129	0.277871	Tall, But Jewish A journal of semantic satiation, travel, politics, language and fitting a big body into an ever-shrinking world ← MINING UNION WINS BONUSES, WAGE INCREASES AT WORLD’S LARGEST COPPER MINE The Plan, Stan (Part 1) → ENRÍQUEZ-OMINAMI PULLS AHEAD OF FREI IN BIG CITIES Posted on October 19, 2009 by Daniel Sen. Eduardo Frei is seeing his second-place standing falter in the country’s biggest cities, according to a poll to determine expected voter behavior in the upcoming presidential election. The most recent poll by conservative daily newspaper El Mercurio and a Santiago-based polling organization, Opina, surveyed 1,200 people across Santiago, Valparaíso and Concepción between Oct. 10-12. Frei, the candidate for the governing center-left Concertación coalition, would beat out rival independent candidate Marco Enríquez-Ominami in the first round of an election, 22.8 percent to 21.5 percent (within a statistical margin of error), but would fare worse in the eventual second round against leading conservative candidate Sebastián Piñera. In such a runoff, either candidate would lose to Piñera, but Enríquez-Ominami would capture more of the vote (40.3 percent) than Frei (38.1 percent). Piñera, who has held the lead consistently in opinion polls, would win a commanding 38 percent of the first-round votes, and would beat out either candidate in a runoff, scoring 42.9 percent against Enríquez-Ominami or 42.5 percent against Frei. Jorge Arrate, from the leftist party Junto Podemos, is polling at 4.9 percent in the first round. Chile’s election laws would mandate a second-round runoff if no candidate receives more than 50 percent in the first round. Polls by the Center for Public Studies (CEP) show that Frei still enjoys leading support in the more rural areas, 38.7 percent, which surpasses the 38.2 netted by Piñera and dwarfs the 9.1 percent promised to Enríquez-Ominami. Enríquez-Ominami has been steadily gaining on his two competitors, rising from just 13 percent of the vote to 17 percent between May and August, according to a CEP poll. The same poll, which measured anticipated voter behavior in August, put Piñera ahead of Frei and Enríquez-Ominami, who each received 37 percent, 28 percent and 17 percent, respectively. The candidates have had several debates since, however, including a contentious televised debate on Sept. 23, in which the three leading candidates traded accusations of misdeeds, ranging from insider trading to a lack of transparency on campaign spending (ST, Sept. 24). The debate, according to Radio Cooperativa, improved the public’s perception of all the candidates but Piñera: 80 percent noted an increase in opinion for Arrate, 63.3 percent for Enríquez-Ominami and 59.5 percent for Frei, with just 44.3 percent for Piñera. SOURCES: EL MERCURIO, RADIO COOPERATIVA By Daniel Zarchy ( editor@santiagotimes.clThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) This entry was posted in Santiago Times. Bookmark the permalink. Two Guys, a Glove, and a Coke Bottle – Episode Two Two Guys, a Glove, and a Coke Bottle – Episode One The Camaraderie of Torture The Host Family and its Discontents I’m Just a Baby in this Business of Blogging andrés velasco asthma bachelet baseball Batman beach bus carabineros Chile CHP climbing CODELCO coffee cold cooking copper Eduardo Frei food Giants ILP Internet journalism La Católica la ligua mapuche Marco Enriquez-Ominami Papudo Peru photos pinochet presidential election reading rocks santiago Santiago Radio Santiago Times Sebastian Piñera sick swine flu Travel valparaíso weather WiFi wine wine is good Cultural Exploration Intensive Language Program Santiago Times	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0099.json.gz/line43
__label__cc	0.547826	0.452174	blog.samseidel.org Kendall Square Meets The Kendall Square Association had its annual meeting this morning, and the energy was infectious. Home to the innovation economy in Cambridge and in Massachusetts as a whole, Kendall Square also has the odd distinction of being the location for the collision of two slogans: "The Future Is Happening Here" and "My God, the 1980s were an awful time for office architecture". The association, known by its acronym KSA, was created in part to encourage the first, and fight against the second. As to the future happening here, the case is very strong. The stats that Tim Rowe, the president of the board of the KSA, and Travis McCready, its executive director, trot out are truly impressive, including the one which says that on a per capita basis the venture capital investment is higher here than even California, and much higher than New York. Of course, that is a convenient rendering of data, and may indeed show that Massachusetts has a higher intensity of VC activity, but California has a 2011 population of 37.6 million people to Massachusetts' 6.6 million people. California undeniably has the bigger pie from which to slice. But I am quibbling here, because regardless the overall story in Massachusetts tells something both fascinating and deeply important. The future really is happening here, and its happening in ways that speak to the dynamism of the people involved, and their gung ho belief in our collective capacity to imagine. Human imagination is seen as the cornerstone of the work ahead, and given its intangible nature, it's quite startling to realize just how much is being perched upon its shoulders. How to support and nurture it seems to be one of the core mission statements of the group. To do this, I see a certain style has developed in this world. Much of it contains a very deliberate looseness and informality to the approach that is based on the perception that people are most creative when they are allowed to let their hair down. The thinking must go: innovation is the heart of what our American economy has to offer the world, and innovation is reliant on people who feel unconstrained to dream, for dreaming is at the heart of many of the most profound innovations. Given the dollar amounts tossed around, it is an amazing model for economic growth. Speaking of economic growth, another telling statistic is the role that start-ups, defined as companies under 5 years old, have in job creation. No surprise, it is the smaller, newer companies that create jobs. It is the older companies that shed jobs. Ergo? Not hard to fill in that blank. This is very interesting stuff, and in my mind it sits in contrast to efforts I had the chance to see in France. France is aware of this innovation culture. Paris, for example, is a university city. Paris has the density, undeniably, and density is one of the golden children of Kendall Square, something both Tim and Travis and the others point to as part of its "special sauce". Density allows the odd happenstance, the random meeting, the unexpected encounter that furthers an idea or fleshes out an insight or sparks a wholly new one, but Paris doesn't seem to have a culture of coordination - perhaps that is the word I am seeking. The lack of coordination means the lack of the random spark that can start off so many new ideas. These are very interesting questions. And we haven't even begun to talk about bad architecture. The Worst Album Covers: Too absurdly funny not to ... John Carter: A Truly Awful Film A Random Walk to Springtime Alice retires A new gist, and some new buildings View From the Road: Kevin Lynch's Day Out A Big Bad Roadway Remembered Making it Real Playing Palin The Politics of Urban Space Election Day in MA Today From Cavett to Cambridge The Challenge of the Return Subscribe and keep up to date © 2018 Sam Seidel. Ethereal theme. Theme images by piskunov. Powered by Blogger.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0099.json.gz/line51
__label__cc	0.553449	0.446551	Bob McCarty Three Days In August The Clapper Memo The National Bet Bob McCarty Weekly Recap: Nov. 8-14, 2015 The past week was full of news about a multitude of events in which many of the participants attached themselves to their own definition of justice. In my weekly recap below, I offer a review of those events and how I followed them Nov. 8-14, 2015. If resignations count as victories, does that mean the Missouri Tigers are bowl-eligible? Click on image above to read about political correctness on campus. Sunday, Nov. 8 On my website, BobMcCarty.com, I shared nothing new. I did, however, share a few things on my Facebook page. The week began with good news and bad news, depending upon who your favorite college football team is. For me, good news surfaced when my two favorite football teams, Oklahoma State and Oklahoma in that order, were ranked #8 and #12, respectively, in the college football playoff rankings for Week 11. For many of my neighbors, bad news surfaced when football players at the University of Missouri went on strike and prompted me — and many others in cyberspace — to ask, “Haven’t the Missouri Tigers been on strike all season? Ahem, 4-5?” I also shared a few political points, including one aimed at Eric Greitens, a former Navy SEAL and Rhodes Scholar who’s running for governor as a Democrat Republican in Missouri. It seems he not only aligns with Al Gore and other liberals in promoting climate change propaganda, but he’s also a big fan of global governance. As a result, I’m siding with a trustworthy Marine, John Brunner, to be the Show-Me State’s next Republican governor. On a more personal note, Sunday marked Day 100 of the fitness regimen I started Aug. 1, and I reported the loss of 17 pounds toward my goal of 30 that will bring me to the “ultimate fighting weight” at which I graduated from Air Force Officer Training School more than 30 years ago. My first article of the week appeared Monday under the headline, GREEN BERET: ‘The next thing you know, it felt like someone put lighter fluid on me and caught me on fire.’ An excerpt from my first nonfiction book, Three Days In August, it casts a light on details of an Army Special Forces Soldier’s brush with death following his conviction on bogus sexual assault charges. Kelly Stewart returns from a mission in Iraq. Among the day’s updates on my Facebook page, I pointed to news about a Jordanian policeman waging an “insider attack” that killed two Americans as a stark reminder of some of the subject matter I covered in my second nonfiction book, The Clapper Memo. In addition, I dubbed The University of Missouri at Columbia “Ferguson West” as protests continued at the school with the football team that’s 4-5. I also wondered, after reading an article about the Pentagon retracting a report on male-on-male sexual trauma, how long it will take before Defense Department leaders come clean and bring an end to the Pentagon’s insane efforts to convict men on sexual assault charges regardless of whether such assaults took place. My second article appeared Tuesday under the headline, Something’s Seriously Wrong When Military Justice System Sides With Psychics, Convicted Felons and Porn Queens. In it, I pointed readers to details about three cases that began with sexual assault allegations made against military men by three unique women: a self-described psychic, a convicted felon and a convicted felon. I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried! My third article appeared under the headline, Someone Else at Mizzou Should Resign or Be Fired ASAP, and actually produced results, though I’m not about to claim full credit. Among the day’s updates on my Facebook page was one that featured a list of questions that came to mind after I read an article in The New York Times about the protests at Mizzou: • What will happen when a journalist calls the campus police at the University of Missouri at Columbia to report students are trampling upon his freedom of the press? • Will the campus police come to the aide of the journalist? • What if the police don’t come to the aide of the journalist? That will make for some interesting reporting. It will also lead to some interesting explanations by the campus police. • How long will it take for Reverend Al Sharpton and his gang of race hustlers to arrive on campus and begin stoking the fires of discontent? • MOST IMPORTANT: Will Mizzou football fans stage a mass boycott of the team’s next home game or will it simply look as if they have taken the drastic step when so many stadium seats appear empty as the Tigers trudge through another forgettable season? So many questions. So little time. Also on Facebook Tuesday, I managed to photograph members of an anarchist group appearing to break the law at my favorite St. Louis-area lake, and I asked a tongue-in-cheek question: Does notching two same-day victories (i.e., getting both the university system president and the chancellor to resign their positions), make the previously 4-5 University of Missouri Tigers football team bowl eligible? Inquiring minds want to know. On Veterans Day, I shared my fourth article under the headline, WW II Soldier About Brothers: ‘We All Came Home Alive!’ The piece includes some of my father’s reflections about his personal experiences during World War II. Click on the image above of my dad in his World War II Army uniform to read my pieces about Veterans Day. I also shared two related pieces, Story of Four Not-So-Famous Brothers Inspires and V-MAIL: World War II Soldier Writes to Parents Back Home, on my Facebook page Wednesday. And there was more: • Related to the student protests at Mizzou, I shared a link to the abstract of the doctoral dissertation, “It’s ‘a good thing’: The commodification of femininity, affluence, and whiteness in the Martha Stewart phenomenon,” completed by Dr. Melissa Click at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst six years before she made headlines for all the wrong reasons at Mizzou; • I observed how the folks at the state’s largest university had scheduled Mizzou Transgender Day of Remembrance on Veterans Day; and • I reminded folks of how at least four Republican hopefuls are ineligible to serve as president, according to a man I trust who served twice as a member of the Electoral College. My fifth article of the week, published Thursday, was more crass commercial message than news, because I asked people to do two things: 1) buy my books; and, afterward, 2) copy Steve Jennings’ example and send me photos of themselves holding copies of my books. Soon after, Ivan Nikolov took the bull by the horns and sent me a photo of himself holding up his copy of The Clapper Memo. Thanks, friend! Facebook friend Ivan Nikolov holds a copy of my second nonfiction book, The Clapper Memo. On my Facebook page Thursday, I shared an excerpt from my first crime-fiction novel, The National Bet, after teasing it with the question, “Ever imagine how horrible it would be if President Obama hijacked your retirement savings?” I also mentioned speaking to an Air Force officer who found himself in the midst of the sexual assault scandal at the Air Force’s Basic Military Training Program and is working on a book about it that I can’t wait to read. Finally, I shared a priceless video (above) that features Fox Business Channel‘s Neil Cavuto interviewing Keely Mullen, Million Student March National Organizer, about her group’s demand that rich people pay for everyone else’s college costs, that all student loan debt is cancelled and that the minimum wage be raised to $15 an hour for workers on college campuses. After watching it, you’ll understand why I prefaced it with the comment, “I thought I heard the wind whistling through her head, ear to ear, as she spoke.” Friday, Nov. 13 On Friday, my final article of the week offered another excerpt from my book, Three Days In August. Appearing under the headline, TDIA Book Excerpt: ‘I Wasn’t Going To Be That Dog,’ it is much like the excerpt I shared Monday’ except for that it describes what went through the mind of the elite Green Beret, whose life is the subject of the book, after he was railroaded by the politically-correct military justice system. Among the items on my Facebook page Friday, I saluted a Medal of Honor recipient, noted the announcement about Gary Pinkel’s plan to retire as the U of Missouri’s football coach (more bad news for Tigers fans) and commented on a variety of other matters, the most important among them being the terror attacks in Paris. Another five-star review of Three Days In August appeared on Amazon Friday, but I didn’t come across it until today; hence, this is the first mention I’ve made of it. Regardless, the review (below) is a good one and appears to have been written by an attorney: I had a court-martial at Fort Benning where the Military Judge was the same judge who was presided over US v. Stewart. Both my client and I bought this book to obtain some G-2 on him. It is a really quick read and an informative look on the evolution of military justice in regards to sexual assault prosecutions, which has only grown worse. Bob McCarty has a keen knack for writing about military justice, and this book is by no means dull, particularly if you are a military justice practitioner, or you would like some insight to what it’s like to be sitting in a chair next to your TDS counsel if you are thrown into the military justice machine. FYI: TDS is the Army acronym for Trial Defense Services (i.e., uniform-wearing defense attorneys). Thanks in advance for reading and sharing the articles above and those to follow. For links to other articles of interest as well as photos and commentary, join me on Facebook and Twitter. Please show your support by buying my books and encouraging your friends and loved ones to do the same. To learn how to order signed copies, click here. Until next time. Click on image above to order Bob’s books. 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Someone Else at Mizzou Should Resign or Be Fired ASAP One day after the resignations of Timothy M. Wolfe, president of the University of Missouri System, and R. Bowen Loftin, chancellor of the system’s flagship campus in Columbia, I realized one more academic affiliated with the state’s largest university should resign or be fired immediately. Her name is Dr. Melissa Click. An assistant professor of mass media who earned her doctorate at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 2009, Dr. Click is living out her “15 minutes of fame” in large part thanks to the video (above). Throughout most of the video’s six and one-half minutes, Dr. Click doesn’t appear in the frame, but her voice can be heard clearly over others in the vicinity of Tim Tai, a Mizzou student and freelance journalist working for ESPN. Repeatedly, Dr. Click demands Tai leave the area student protesters (a.k.a., “Concerned Students 1950”) had designated as a so-called “safe zone” for the purpose of waging protests, sans journalists, against alleged racial inequalities on campus. Only during the final 20 seconds of the video does Dr. Click finally appear, seeming almost apoplectic. A bespectacled redhead dressed in black, she again demands Tai leave the area. When he refuses, she turns away from him and shouts toward a crowd of students a short distance away: “Hey, who wants to help me get this reporter out of here. I need some muscle over here.” Dr. Melissa Click Clearly, the actions of Dr. Click show she has failed to “click” — pun intended — with important elements of our freedom, such as the First Amendment of the Constitution. Likewise, this academic loose cannon’s actions — aimed at preventing a journalist from doing his job — reflect poorly upon the UM School of Journalism — one of the top journalism schools in the country, by the way — where she is listed as a faculty member. See update below! As a result, I hope she takes my advice and resigns before returning to Amherst where, perhaps, she can work on furthering her education. According to her curriculum vitae on this page, her first doctoral dissertation was titled, “It’s ‘a good thing’: The commodification of femininity, affluence and whiteness in the Martha Stewart phenomenon.” I will not, however, hold my breath in anticipation of either her resignation or firing, because I doubt either will happen as “higher education” seems an oxymoron at Mizzou (a.k.a., “Ferguson West”). UPDATE 11/10/2015 at 2:22 p.m. Central: It appears as if the folks at Mizzou might be listening to me. Sort of. According to a new article in the Columbia Missourian, Missouri School of Journalism faculty were voting today to revoke a courtesy appointment for Dr. Click that allows her to serve on the graduate committees of students from the School of Journalism while she teaches mass media in the Department of Communications, part of MU’s College of Arts & Science. Kind of confusing, but it’s a start. The fact she’s not a faculty member of the J-School restores my confidence in that school just a tiny bit. UPDATE 11/11/2015 at 4:54 p.m. Central: Dr. Click resigned her “courtesy appointment” today and apologized. Sort. of. Details. In other news, today was Transgender Remembrance Day at Mizzou. Show your support and help keep these articles coming by buying my books and encouraging your friends and loved ones to do the same. To learn how to order signed copies, click here. 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GROUNDHOG DAY: Missouri Health Department Official Tight-Lipped About Cancer Report Due for 2016 Release “Bob, I am unable to speculate on any potential further updates at this time. As you may be aware, all information released for the department is available here. Thanks, Ryan.” When I read those words from Ryan Hobart, spokesperson for the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, in an email message Tuesday afternoon, I felt like I was in the middle of a serious remake of “Groundhog Day.” Click on image above to visit page Ryan Hobart, spokesperson for the Missouri Department of Health and Human Services, suggested I visit in lieu of providing me with answers. I call it a “serious remake” of the 1993 Bill Murray film, but not because it has something to do with the public health dangers associated with the long-term storage of radioactive waste at a place known as the Weldon Spring Site, located in a once-rural area about 30 miles west of St. Louis. Instead, his message reminds me of “Groundhog Day” because it’s so similar to the correspondence I had received from Hobart’s predecessor two spokespersons removed, Jacqueline Lapine. When I tried, during a nine-month period in 2011, to find out from Lapine when the long-overdue five-year update to the 2005 Weldon Spring Cancer Report would be released by officials at the state agency responsible for keeping citizens in the Show-Me State informed about monitoring efforts at Weldon Spring, she gave me nothing useful. It wasn’t until shortly after 5 p.m. Dec. 29, 2011, that I finally received a copy of the 2011 report, known officially as the Analysis of Leukemia Incidence and Mortality Data for St. Charles County, Weldon Spring and Surrounding Areas December 2011 (Update to April 2005 Report) and unofficially as the “Weldon Spring Update” or “2011 Weldon Spring Cancer Inquiry Report.” It came as an attachment to an email message from Gena Terlizzi, the woman who replaced Lapine who, presumably, moved on to new challenges. To fully understand the issues at Weldon Spring, read this article before continuing. The investigation that led to my first article about Weldon Springs in January 2012 (see screenshot above) began with state health department officials being very tight-lipped about the 2011 Weldon Spring Cancer Report. Read about it at http://bobmccarty.com/?p=1949. In states like Missouri, it can be hard to get a definitive answer to health-related questions. Nonetheless, not everyone has a negative experience. For example, a friend of mine was able to get access to the medical marijuana that she needs quickly and easily after doing some research of her own online. Some people use products like Blessed CBD oil to help, whilst others go for the pure drug in its natural form. Either way, medical marijuana can now be used to manage a wide variety of health concerns such as anxiety, depression, and chronic pain. Although it is now relatively easy to get your Missouri MMJ card online by using telemedicine resources, it is still vital that you do plenty of research to ensure that medical marijuana is right for you. Now, back to Hobart’s message highlighted at the top of this piece. It wasn’t our first exchange. Our online conversation dates back to the morning of Oct. 21 and an email message I sent to Hobart: Dear Ryan: Five years ago, I communicated with your predecessors, Jaqueline Lapine and Gena Terlizzi, regarding the Weldon Spring Site where radioactive waste is stored in St. Charles County, Mo. Because I had read in your agency’s 2005 Weldon Spring Cancer Report that the authors recommended “the Cancer Inquiry Program should continue to monitor the cancer incidence and mortality rates in Weldon Spring and its surrounding areas,” I asked for – and eventually obtained – a copy of the 2011 Weldon Spring Cancer Inquiry Report. Today, I’m repeating the process in hopes of obtaining an update about your agency’s forthcoming release of a 2016 Weldon Spring Cancer Report. With several national news media outlets, including CBS Evening News and the The Los Angeles Times, reporting recently about the inherent dangers of radioactive waste in the St. Louis County neighborhoods along Coldwater Creek colliding with an underground fire at the nearby Westlake Landfill, it’s imperative that your agency be transparent when it comes to testing and monitoring at the Weldon Spring Site. At your earliest opportunity, I would like you to provide answers to the following questions: 1. When do officials at the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services expect to release another five-year follow-up report (a.k.a., “2016 Weldon Spring Cancer Report”)? and 2. Who, within the agency, is in charge of producing the five-year follow-up report? Please let me know ASAP if you have questions or anticipate any delay beyond 48 hours in responding to my questions. Thanks in advance for your prompt reply. After five days passed without an answer, I left a phone message with Hobart Monday morning and followed up by sending another email message: “Are you ignoring me on purpose? I’ve emailed – twice now – and I left a phone message three hours ago.” “Sorry for the delay,” he replied two hours later. “I will be back in touch as soon as I have responsive information to share.” Almost 24 hours later, I responded: “Ryan, As a long-time veteran of public affairs work, I must say that six days is an unacceptably-slow response time and that delaying the release of bad information – if that is, indeed, the reason for your delay – never works out well for the organization behind the delay.” Two more days passed, and I received a mid-Tuesday afternoon message from Hobart: “Bob, I am unable to speculate on any potential further updates at this time. As you may be aware, all information released for the department is available here: http://health.mo.gov/living/healthcondiseases/chronic/cancerinquiry/reports.php#weldon. Thanks, Ryan.” I responded two hours later: “Well, that’s a lame answer, because I’m not asking you to speculate. I’m asking you to tell me whether the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services will be releasing an update on the 2005 Weldon Spring Cancer Report and the 2011 Weldon Spring Update. If public funds are being spent on preparing such a report, it is your agency’s obligation to inform the public as to how that money is being spent and when they might expect to see any official update.” I ended my message by asking Hobart a question and sounding something like a game show host: “Is this your final answer, because it is about to go national. I’ll give you one more chance – 24 hours, to come clean – before the gloves come off.” At 9:24 a.m. today, I asked Hobart one last time if he was going to provide me with genuine answers. He didn’t reply, so the gloves are off. Stay tuned for more developments. For links to other articles of interest as well as photos and commentary, join me on Facebook and Twitter. Please show your support by buying my books and encouraging your friends and loved ones to do the same. To learn how to order signed copies, click here. Thanks in advance! This entry was posted in Environment, Radiation Contamination and tagged 2005 weldon spring cancer report, Analysis of Leukemia Incidence and Mortality Data for St Charles County Weldon Spring and Surrounding Areas December 2011, Bill Murray, Bob McCarty, Cancer, cancer incidence, CBS, cbs evening news, Coldwater Creek, Gena Terlizzi, Groundhog Day, GROUNDHOG DAY: Missouri Health Department Official Tight-Lipped About Cancer Report Due for 2016 Release, Jacqueline Lapine, Los Angeles Times, McCarty, Missouri, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Missouri Health Department, Missouri State Auditor, mortality rate, radioactive waste, Ryan Hobart, St Charles County, St Louis, St Louis County, Weldon Spring, Weldon Spring Cancer Report, Weldon Spring Update, Westlake Landfill on October 29, 2015 by admin. Will Missouri Legislators Finally Decide to Pay Attention to Radioactive Waste Issues Outside of Saint Louis County? Several national news media outlets, including CBS Evening News and the The Los Angeles Times, have reported recently about the inherent dangers of radioactive waste in the St. Louis County neighborhoods along Coldwater Creek colliding with an underground fire at the nearby Westlake Landfill, but none have reported the exclusive story I published for the first time Jan. 23, 2012, and, again, only nine months ago. It’s about radioactive waste impacting the lives of citizens in neighboring St. Charles County Mo., and about a state agency report due to be published in January 2016. Click on image above to read the story I published Jan. 23, 2012, and, again, nine months ago, about radioactive waste issues outside of St. Louis County, Mo., and about a state agency report due to be published in January 2016. I won’t repeat the story referenced above, since you can click this link to read it. Instead, I will republish two related stories that, for reasons beyond my control, went offline a little more than one year ago. The first article was published March 26, 2012, under the headline, Missouri State Legislators Not Inclined to Place High Priority on 2011 Weldon Spring Cancer Report. The text of the article, which put me at loggerheads with my state legislators, appears below with only minor modifications for clarity and most, but not all, of the original links: March has been a miserable month for me when it comes to dealing with Republican Party officials in my own backyard. While most of my interaction about “things Republican” has revolved around the 2012 St. Charles County (Mo.) Republican Presidential Caucus, other interactions have involved GOP members of the Missouri House of Representatives. During the first week of March, I made multiple attempts to contact several of those representatives with questions I had regarding the “2011 Weldon Spring Cancer Inquiry Report,” a four-page document published by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services that was the subject of an exclusive article I broke Jan. 23. The Weldon Spring Site in St. Charles County, Mo., was contaminated during the production of 2, 4, 6 – trinitrotoluene (TNT) and 2, 4 and 2,6 Dinitrotoluene (DNT) by the U.S. Department of Army from 1941 to 1945 and from enrichment of uranium ore and thorium processing by the Atomic Energy Commission from 1958 to 1966, according to an earlier MDHSS document, the 2005 Weldon Spring Cancer Report. Those initial contact attempts, made between March 2 and March 6, involved sending three separate Facebook messages to five state representatives – Kurt Bahr of O’Fallon, Kathie Conway of St. Charles, Chuck Gatschenberger of Lake Saint Louis, Mark Parkinson of St. Peters and Anne Zerr of St. Charles. My goal was to find out what each is doing, or planning to do, to obtain answers for their constituents about the controversial report. To their credit, Representatives Bahr and Conway replied soon after being contacted. Both admitted they were not extremely familiar with the topic, both explained they were very busy with legislative matters in Jefferson City, and both gave me the initial impression that the matter isn’t likely to become a “front-burner issue” anytime soon. Sadly, three of the state representatives – Gatschenberger, Parkinson and Zerr — chose not to reply, leading me to come up with several possible reasons for their failures to respond: • They place a low priority on the health and well-being of their constituents who live in the shadow of the Weldon Spring Site 30 miles west of St. Louis; • They haven’t been asked often enough by their constituents to look into the matter; • They place a low priority on inquiries from non-mainstream media reporters like me; • They don’t want to have their names attached to such a potentially-volatile political “hot potato” during an election year; • They believe ignorance is bliss; or • Last but not least, it’s possible they don’t check their Facebook messages very often. On March 7, I decided to give them the benefit of the doubt regarding the Facebook possibility and send the same basic inquiry to all five state representatives via their official state email addresses. Interestingly, the same two representatives who had replied to my Facebook messages replied to the email, and the same three representatives who had not replied to my Facebook messages did not reply to the email. On the positive side, Representative Conway‘s reply came the same day and seemed to display genuine interest in the issue. Not so positively, Representative Bahr‘s reply came the following day, was copied to all four of his colleagues, and didn’t leave me with a warm and fuzzy feeling. After he labeled me “the expert” on the matter at hand, Representative Bahr demanded I offer a solution before he would devote time to the matter. In a “Reply to All” message, I refused the expert label and went on to share my beliefs that elected and unelected state officials must be responsive and that the issues raised in the report are not the kind to be solved quickly. I closed by explaining what, at a minimum, officials at the state health agency should be required to do. My short to-do list included requiring MDHSS officials to explain how they reached the conclusions they had reached in the report, to answer why they’ve refused to answer any questions from reporters — including Blythe Bernhard at the Post-Dispatch and me — about the report, and to respond to criticism of the report, such as that offered by Washington University Professor Robert Criss in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch article, Report on cancer risk from Weldon Spring site assailed. It was published Feb. 20, four weeks after my initial article. Interestingly, I ran into Representative Parkinson Saturday at the aforementioned caucus (a.k.a., “St. Patrick’s Day Massacre”), a topic about which I’ve written and published nine posts to date (not including this one). He was manning the first chair at a long table of GOP officials processing caucus registrations. When my turn to register came, I asked Representative Parkinson why he had not responded to any of my messages about Weldon Spring. He said he had not seen them and acted like he didn’t know what I was talking about. The conversation continued, and Representative Parkinson asked me to provide details about the issue. I told him it was Weldon Spring, that he should read his email from me and — cognizant of the fact that 300 people were waiting behind me in the long caucus registration line — that “now” wasn’t the time or the place to discuss the matter. As I started to walk away, Representative Parkinson asked if I, as “the expert” on the Weldon Spring matter, would like to discuss it over coffee. I replied by telling him I would prefer to handle the matter more expediently, without wasting more time, via his response to my email message. Later, while waiting for the caucus to begin inside the larger of two gymnasiums at Francis Howell North High School in St. Peters, Representative Parkinson approached me and again assured me that he had not seen any of my messages. In response, I told him I found it odd that he had referred to me earlier as “the expert” – in much the same way Representative Bahr had in his aforementioned email — even though he said he had not seen any of the messages related to me. The conversation ended there, and I went back to my seat in the bleachers. A few hours after the caucus ended, Representative Parkinson sent me the Facebook message below, shown verbatim: Bob…after an exhaustive search of my inbox (mark.parkinson@house.mo.gov) I can not find any correspondence from you on this issue. I don’t check facebook mail often (or at all). Please direct any official correspondence to the above email address. We can discuss this issue when we sit down to discuss the other. My response — “Mark – Perhaps you should look more closely. See screenshot of the message to you from my email “SENT” folder. – Bob” — was accompanied by a screenshot (taken March 18 and shown below) as evidence that Representative Parkinson had received the same message that all of his colleagues received. Is it possible that Representative Parkinson is just computer illiterate? Sure, it’s possible. But I think that’s a stretch. Instead, I believe he received my message but chose to ignore it. My belief is augmented by the fact that my email message sent to the five state representatives did not produce any bounce-back messages like those I received on a handful of occasions in the past after I had used incorrect email addresses when trying to communicate with Missouri legislators. [FYI: As of this publication, I have still not received any email response from Representative Parkinson.] Finally, it’s certainly worth noting that I ran into Representative Conway at the caucus, too. During two brief discussions, she (1) seemed to express genuine interest in the matter, (2) told me she had read the materials to which I had provided links, and (3) gave me the feeling she would follow up on the matter. Then, lo and behold, she contacted me via Facebook message to let me know she had contacted MDHSS and had more questions. So much for that “initial impression” I mentioned early in this piece. Sadly, the other state representatives’ responses and failures to respond raise more questions then they answer. That in mind, I would like to offer a suggestion to readers (1) who live in one of the zip codes (63301, 63303, 63304, 63366 and 63376) covered by the cancer report, (2) who live in a zip code near the Weldon Spring Site or (3) who simply think these state legislators should be interested in this matter. Use the information below to contact them in Jefferson City and let them know: Rep. Kurt Bahr — 573-751-9768 or Kurt.Bahr@house.mo.gov; Rep. Kathie Conway — 573-751-2250 or Kathie.Conway@house.mo.gov; Rep. Chuck Gatschenberger — [Note: He’s no longer in office.] Rep. Mark Parkinson — 573-751-2949 or Mark.Parkinson@house.mo.gov; and Rep. Anne Zerr — 573-751-3717 or Anne.Zerr@house.mo.gov. On March 29, 2012, I published another article — this one under the headline, Missouri Legislators Pass ‘Birther,’ Jumping Jacks and Butterfly Bills While Ignoring Cancer Report — in which I criticized Missouri legislators for what they were doing in lieu of investigating serious public health issues. The text of the first half-dozen or so paragraphs of that article appears below with only minor modifications for clarity and most, but not all, of the original links [Note: I opted to cut out paragraphs at the end of the article that simply rehashed details already shared in the aforementioned exclusive story]: On Wednesday, the 46th day of the 2012 Regular Session, Missouri state legislators tackled at least one important bill which, I predict, will never be signed by liberal Democrat Gov. Jay Nixon. That bill, HB1046, “requires proof of identity and status as a United States natural born citizen for the office of President and Vice President to be submitted with other required certification documents to the Secretary of State.” In addition to the so-called “Birther Bill” which I support, legislators could have done so much more. Before looking at what could have been, let’s look at what was addressed yesterday. The house passed several bills that might eventually receive the governor’s signature. Among them are seven specialty license plate-related measures, eight bills designating portions of several Missouri highways as memorial roadways to honor individuals who had served their country in law enforcement, the military and government and two bills designating days each year to honor veterans — March 26 as “Veterans of Operation Iraqi/Enduring Freedom Day” and March 30 as “Vietnam Veterans Day.” Other bills that might get reach the governor and get his nod are bills advocating recognition for organ donation, Pallister-Killian Syndrome, fibromyaligia, lupus, spinal cord injuries and pancreatic cancer. While I’m not specifically against any of the measures above, I simply think there are more pressing issues with which legislators should be spending their time. Conversely, the ridiculous measures listed below were also pushed forward by legislators: • “Jumping Jacks” as the official state exercise (HB1063); • State Highway 5 between the cities of Ava and Mansfield as the “Missouri Fox Trotting Highway” (HB1107); • The Regal Fritillary (Speyeria idalia) as the official state butterfly (HB1266); and • The month of December as “Pet Breeders Appreciation Month (HB1404).” Sadly, several of the same legislators who spent the day dealing with these “vital” pieces of legislation are the same ones who’ve been “too busy” and seem to have an avoid-at-all-cost attitude when it comes to answering questions about the 2011 Weldon Spring Cancer Report. That report, issued by Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services officials, has remained largely under wraps since it was released to me Dec. 29. Why? For starters, because it reveals troubling findings about leukemia and leukemia death rates among people living in five zip codes near the Weldon Spring Site in St. Charles County, Mo. In addition, they must realize the report’s findings could turn into a “hot potato” political issue far too dangerous for ambitious politicians to tackle during an election year. I ended that story by encouraging readers to learn more about the matter and to contact their state legislators. Today, I suspect state legislators might be more willing to listen to citizens concerns about this “hot potato” issue. No guarantees though, so keep your fingers crossed. UPDATE 10/21/2015 at 10:48 a.m. Central: A few minutes ago, I sent the media query below to Ryan Hobart, MDHSS director of public information: Dear Ryan; FYI: I’ll let you know how he responds — or not — as soon as possible. UPDATE 10-26-15 at 8:27 a.m. Central: After waiting five days for Hobart to reply via email, I called him this morning and left a phone message for him. As the third public information officer in five years at the agency, I suspect he might have been caught unaware on the subject. Then again, he might be an obedient lackey, willing to do whatever he can to keep the subject under wraps. Stay tuned to see if he responds. 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Did Man’s Confession Save Parents Who Failed Polygraph? Four years ago this week, then-43-year-old Shawn Morgan confessed he had suffocated Breeann Rodriguez with a white plastic bag, according to an Associated Press report. Had it not been for his confession, Edgar Rodriguez and Claudia Ramos might have had to face charges for the murder of their three-year-old daughter. Why? Because both reportedly failed polygraph tests administered by investigators trying to crack the case. The little girl’s body was found in a remote area a few miles from the from the family home in the Southeast Missouri town of Senath, population 1,500. The decision to conduct polygraph tests came after investigators decided they needed fast answers about the girl’s disappearance. That’s when, according to the father who spoke about the matter with CNN’s Nancy Grace Aug. 11, 2011, Breeann’s parents were asked to take polygraph tests and, after the tests were completed, were told they had failed. Who, exactly, decided to turn to the polygraph? Dunklin County (Mo.) Sheriff Bob Holder told me the county prosecutor would be able to answer that question. I decided not to call him, however, because I’m not interested in the answer to that question as much as I am in the tests and the consequences little Breeann’s parents could have faced as a result of failing them. Is there an alternative to the polygraph? Yes, and details about it — including a plethora of success stories and reasons why more local and state law enforcement agencies across the United States use it instead of the polygraph — are highlighted throughout the pages of my second nonfiction book, The Clapper Memo. Click here to learn more about the book and read some of the high-profile endorsements it has received. Click here to order a copy of The Clapper Memo. 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__label__cc	0.705525	0.294475	FitSkills: protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomised trial of a community-based exercise programme to increase participation among young people with disability Shields, Nora, Willis, Claire, Imms, Christine, Prendergast, Luke A, Watts, Jennifer J, Van Dorsselaer, Ben, McKenzie, Georgia, Bruder, Andrea M and Taylor, Nicholas F 2020, FitSkills: protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomised trial of a community-based exercise programme to increase participation among young people with disability, BMJ open, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 1-11, doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037153. Shields, Nora Willis, Claire Imms, Christine Prendergast, Luke A Watts, Jennifer J orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8638 Van Dorsselaer, Ben McKenzie, Georgia Bruder, Andrea M Taylor, Nicholas F BMJ publishing group London, Eng. Medicine, General & Internal General & Internal Medicine developmental neurology & neurodisability community child health Introduction There is a need to develop relevant, acceptable initiatives that facilitate physical activity participation in young people with disability. FitSkills was developed to support young people with disability to exercise. The primary aims are to investigate if FitSkills can be scaled up from a small, university-led programme to run as a larger community-university partnership programme, and to determine its effectiveness in improving physical activity participation and health-related quality of life for young people with disability. The secondary aims are to evaluate cost-effectiveness, changes in attitudes towards disability and other health-related outcomes for young people with disability. Methods and analysis A stepped wedge cluster randomised trial using a cohort design and embedded health economic evaluation will compare the effect of FitSkills with a control phase. FitSkills matches a young person with disability with a student mentor and the pair exercise together at their local gymnasium for 1 hour, two times per week for 12 weeks (24 sessions in total). One hundred and sixty young people with disability aged 13 to 30 years will be recruited. Eight community gymnasia will be recruited and randomised into four cluster units to have FitSkills introduced at 3-month intervals. Primary (feasibility, participation and health-related quality of life) and secondary outcomes will be collected longitudinally every 3 months from trial commencement, with eight data collection time points in total. The Practical Robust Implementation and Sustainability Model will be used to support knowledge translation and implementation of project findings into policy and practice. Ethics and dissemination Ethical approval was obtained from the La Trobe University Human Ethics Committee (HEC17-012), Australian Catholic University (2017–63R), Deakin University (2017–206) and the Victorian Department of Education and Training (2018_003616). Results will be disseminated through published manuscripts, conference presentations, public seminars and practical resources for stakeholder groups. Trial registration number ACTRN12617000766314. Trial sponsor La Trobe University. 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037153 1103 Clinical Sciences 1117 Public Health and Health Services 1199 Other Medical and Health Sciences School of Health and Social Development Link to full-text (open-access) Fri, 11 Sep 2020, 15:01:26 EST Sat, 12 Sep 2020, 05:02:24 EST Sat, 19 Sep 2020, 02:33:01 EST Mon, 14 Dec 2020, 05:03:40 EST Wed, 16 Dec 2020, 10:21:27 EST Wed, 16 Dec 2020, 10:23:07 EST Wed, 16 Dec 2020, 15:03:29 EST Filtered Full Fri, 11 Sep 2020, 15:01:26 EST	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0099.json.gz/line64
__label__cc	0.674896	0.325104	Impermanence: Embracing Change By David Hodge, Ha-Jin Kang Hodge Snow Lion Publications It's day five of my computer's meltdown. This morning the dishwasher broke. My husband has no job leads. My doctor emailed me this afternoon, and there are no new answers to my health issues. As my husband flew out the door to another networking event, I couldn’t help a somewhat desperate whimper, "Are we destined for instability?" If we are, we are in good company. In the company of the whole world, according to Impermanence: Embracing Change by married multimedia artists David Hodge and Hi-Jin Kang Hodge. Impermanence focuses on the Buddhist concept of change which teaches that instability, change, impermanence, call it what you will, is a fact of life. Accepting that sands inevitably shift is a necessary path to stability and peace of mind. Impermanence is a valuable way station on this rocky, cliff-hugging journey. While Impermanence is packaged as a book and DVD set, it is so much more. It is an art exhibit you hold in your hand. And view on your DVD player. Its first incarnation was as part of the traveling art installation, The Missing Peace, a celebration of the Dalai Lama’s life and work. The Hodges filmed a diverse group of 108 women and men discussing impermanence. The interviews played on sixteen iPods arranged in a circle and set to play at both timed intervals and simultaneously. Transferred to DVD, the exhibit feels like a friendly cocktail party where the host has banned superficial chitchat and commanded guests to talk only about life’s enduring matters. It starts as a mosaic of faces and a soft cacophony of voices. It is interactive. Let the film take control as it moves between mosaic and individual or click on arrows which arrange the interviews into themes such as "awareness," "message to the world," and "presence." Either way, just like that, you are launched into the exhibit as if you were there. The interviewees each speak for several minutes about impermanence. Is it a source of dread? A harbinger of death and loss? The other shoe dropping? Or is it proof that one is alive? Nature’s way of making us appreciate the here and now? Promise of a better tomorrow? Impermanence is all of this. Several interviewees also emphasize its potential to unite: we all have impermanence in common. In addition, letting go of our own little corner of status quo leaves us open to new connections. The book adds even more depth. It is arranged into the same themes as the DVD, each introduced by an enlightening and thoughtful essay or poem. Photographs of the participants and snippets of their interviews follow. Impermanence is uplifting and depressing, energizing and draining. In fact, it feels a lot like life. While I thought women might struggle more with change as we seem disproportionately affected by it during life events such as marriage, childbirth and divorce, this turned out not to be so. Women and men equally expressed hope and trepidation. Impermanence would have been an even more absorbing experience had it included less philosophy and more anecdote. But its overall message of accepting impermanence without fighting it, of refusing to feel defeated by change even when it's in the wrong direction and of remembering that impermanence allows for the possibility of better times, not just worse, is invaluable. In the time since I began this review, the computer and dishwasher were fixed. And Impermanence has persuaded me to focus on what is, instead of lamenting what will surely be the continuing ebb and flow of life. Written by: T. Tamara Weinstein, April 24th 2009 Tags: book, Buddhism, DVD, philosophy Tania Ketenjian on April 29th 2009 @ 01:20 A fantastic book and art project for anyone seeking the meaning of some of Life's most universal and challenging aspects. Well done David and Hi-Jin Hodge.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0099.json.gz/line70
__label__cc	0.719902	0.280098	By taking a walk through the town centre, visitors can breathe in its nineteenth-century atmosphere, with the urban austerity and architectural severity typical of the period between the two centuries. It is the Conca valley’s benchmark town thanks to its development that has transformed it over the past 150 years into its largest trade and services centre. The town has always had this vocation, proof of which lies in the numerous fairs held here since ancient times; in particular, St. Gregory’s Fair that has always marked the arrival of spring and is still one of the most important in Romagna. The town’s favourable position, at the foot of the hills of Montefeltro, not far from San Marino and at the junction of roads leading to the coast, has without doubt played an important role in its development. The streets in the old town, laid out in chequerboard style, and its austere features make it a great place for a break or for shopping, perhaps in one of its popular street markets, once held daily. In fact, even the Romans chose the area for this reason, building farms and settlements of which some ruins remain. The name of the town itself seems to derive from the Marcia family that built a community here. It was during the Middle Ages that the town really flourished thanks to the Abbey of St. Gregory, the monastery founded by St. Pier Damiani in 1061. It was around this time that the first important markets developed, before transferring to the village built on the hillocks overlooking the Conca. Mentioned in the Codex Bavarus in the 8th, 9th and 10th centuries, it became a “castrum” around 1000, as certified by several documents. It was a rural castle that defended the inhabited village and a place where the territory’s products were collected. It only became a municipality in 1857 when a Papal decree united the territories that had belonged to Montefiore Conca (those to the right of the river) and San Clemente (to the left), to which it had initially been “aggregated”. It was the construction of a bridge over the Conca in 1870 that gave it its role as a link between the Montefeltro, the Conca valley and the Rimini area. This was increasingly consolidated thanks to the growing circulation of people and goods, transforming its agricultural economy into one founded on the services industry. Thanks to the construction of pasta factory, a silkworm farm and a wool mill the population grew and the depopulation of the hills did the rest. It is the seat of the “St. Gregory in Conca” Dante Centre, founded in order to study, raise awareness and diffuse details of the life and works of Dante Alighieri. The centre works mainly in the wider territorial area, in particular in towns in the Conca valley. Patron: Saint Michael Archangel (29th september). Church of San Michele Arcangelo The Conca wildlife and ornithological oasis "Wing Beat" sculpture by Arnaldo Pomodoro Surface: 5,41 kmq Motorway: A 14 "Bologna - Bari" - tollgate "Cattolica" km. 8 Railway: Cattolica railway km. 10 Airport: Rimini Miramare km. 16 Tollgates within 10 km: Cattolica and Riccione Provincial roads:SP 17, SP 44 Railway stations within 10 km: Cattolica, Riccione, Misano Adriatico Municipio/Town hall - Piazza del Popolo, 1 - Phone: (+39) 0541 851911 - Phone fax: (+39) 0541 987581 - [email protected] - http://www.comune.morcianodiromagna.rn.it/ Cyclists, Morciano di Romagna Author: PH. Paritani - Tag: Young people, Sport and wellness fair of St. Gregory, Morciano di Romagna Author: T. Mosconi - Tag: City centre, Events, Markets Author: T. Mosconi - Tag: Events, Markets Conca river, Morciano di Romagna Author: PH. Paritani - Tag: Historic centre, Fun, Events, Young people Author: PH. Paritani - Tag: City centre Author: PH. Paritani - Tag: City centre, Fun, Events Author: PH. Paritani - Tag: City centre, Historic centre, Landscape view of Morciano Author: T. Mosconi - Tag: City centre, Landscape old town, , Morciano di Romagna Author: T. Mosconi - Tag: City centre, Historic centre Municipio/Town hall - Piazza del Popolo, 1 43.91747314120001; 12.652174814819332	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0099.json.gz/line72
__label__wiki	0.911175	0.911175	Colorado Becomes The 11th State To Ban Gay And Trans ‘Panic’ In The U.S. July 15, 2020 Isabelle Lichtenstein Under the ban, these outdated defenses are “irrelevant in a criminal case and [do] not constitute sudden heat of passion in a criminal case.” Colorado has become the 11th state in the nation to ban gay and trans “panic” as a defense in courtrooms. The enactment of this new legal measure comes after Governor Jared Polis signed multiple LGBTQ+-focused bills into law on Monday. The new law, officially called SB 20-221, makes it illegal to use being “afraid” of an LGBTQ+ person because of gender or sexual orientation. Under the ban, these outdated defenses are “irrelevant in a criminal case and [do] not constitute sudden heat of passion in a criminal case.” “It should not be on our books,” Polis said during the law’s signing outside Denver’s LGBTQ+ community center. “It’s offensive to be on our books.” Polis is the first gay man elected to serve as governor of any state in the country. On Monday, he signed three other LGBTQ+ bills into law along with the prohibition of gay and trans “panic.” The other three newly-signed bills include HB 20-1061, which bans insurance companies from preventing the coverage of HIV treatment; HB 20-1419, which adds funding to help low-income state residents have access to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment; and SB 20-166, which makes it simpler for trans, intersex, and non-binary minors to accurately update their birth certificate. The bill reached Polis’ desk after clearing the Colorado House of Delegates with almost unanimous support in June. Representative Brianna Titone, the first openly transgender lawmaker in Colorado, sponsored the law and noted its main purpose was “protecting Black trans women who are really the most vulnerable of the communities that we’re trying to protect here” in a statement. This new law means Colorado joins states like New York, New Jersey, Washington, Maine, Rhode Island, Illinois, California, Nevada, Connecticut, and Hawaii in banning the legal defense. Executive director of local LGBTQ+ organization One Colorado Daniel Ramos says there’s reason to celebrate the laws passing considering everything else the state is currently dealing with. “Although the legislative session took many twists and turns this year, we are proud to see these bills make it through,” said Ramos in a statement. “We are grateful to our legislators and to all Coloradans who advocated to see these bills pass with bipartisan support.” bancoloradogay paniclawslegaltrans panic I Had A Panic Attack At My First Pride. What Happened Next Was Beautiful. Minnesota Court Rules In Favor Of Transgender Student In Locker Room Case October 1, 2020 Isabelle Lichtenstein TikTok Admits To ‘Shadowbanning’ LGBTQ+ Content In Specific Regions And Languages September 14, 2020 Isabelle Lichtenstein Six Polish Towns Have Been Deemed Ineligible For Funding By The EU Over Anti-LGBTQ+ Resolutions	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0099.json.gz/line78
__label__wiki	0.667654	0.667654	At the Library - Sally Holt, librarian Raymond Village Library The Raymond Village Library is now automated and books are being checked in and out at the desk. As time goes by more features will be added so that patrons can put holds on books, check and renew books on their library record and look up books online. An additional computer has been added for patrons to use to use for Internet access and a computer that can be used for looking up books is also available. Libraries have changed a great deal over the last several years in many ways, but particularly in the area of technology. There has been much discussion regarding where libraries are headed. R. David Lankes (2012) says that a great library inspires, challenges and provokes the community and respects the community it serves. The library of the future is about library creation and sharing. What ways will libraries remain the same? They must regularly assess the needs of the communities and develop services and programs to meet those needs. And continue to be warm, welcoming and informational places for people to gather. “Dig into Reading,” was the theme of the reading program this past summer for children and teens and was very well-attended. There were several programs offered throughout the summer with science and math themes. Now, that fall is here baby/toddler story time is back on Mondays at 10:30 a.m. and Wednesday is pre-school story time also at 10:30 a.m. Looking for “wicked good fun”? You are invited to meet the funniest woman in Maine. Susan Poulin has earned this title, first by writing a book titled “Finding Your Inner Moose”, and then by entertaining groups explaining the contents of her book. Susan will be at the Raymond Village Library on Wednesday, October 9 at 6 p.m. This is a free program for the public, so plan to join the fun. As seating is limited, please pre-register at the library, or call 655-4283, or email sally.holt@raymondvillagelibrary.org. In keeping with the spookiness of Halloween, the book group has chosen the novel, Haunted Ground, by Erin Hart. When two farmers were cutting turf in a bog in Ireland and discover the perfectly preserved severed head of a beautiful young woman, an Irish archaeologist and an American pathologist come together to investigate. Other mysteries surface in the small Irish town as the case of a missing wife and child is reopened. The story is set rich with Irish culture, traditional music, folklore and the ever-present link between past and present. We invite all interested readers to join us, at the library on Wednesday, October 30 at 7 p.m. for an interesting discussion. The book will be available at the library upon request. For more information, call 655-4283. RSU 14 Project Graduation 2014 - By Mac Richardson At the Library - Sally Holt, librarian Raymond Vil... Insight - Procrastination - By Michelle Libby Gears - Middle School - By Jeffrey J. Thivierge A way to say you're sorry - by Pam Pattee Foodie Fare - Chocolate and chili - By Brian Rounds Men and oral health - By Dr. Leslie A. Elston, Den... Insights - Remember the victims - By Michelle Libby Holistic health - Power of Positive Thinking - By ... Book Review - A Simple Murder - By Phil Baker Insight - Fit 4 Fall - By Michelle Libby Insights - Route 302 Construction - By Michelle Libby	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0099.json.gz/line86
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__label__cc	0.624398	0.375602	PO Box 1216, Crestone, CO 81131 informedfinalchoices@gmail.com Informed Final Choices IFC History Crestone, Baca Grande and Saguache County Resources Art & Dying: Embracing Mortality through Art Advance Directives Workshop Creating A Community Based End-of-Life Support Group How to Host a Death Cafe Green Burial Workshop Family-Directed Home Funeral: Responsibilities and Practical Skills Request a Workshop Issues You Will Face Home Funeral Choices Disposition Choices Organizations, Associations, and Materials Advance Directive for Dementia Start an End-of-Life Group Contact IFC CEOLP Welcome to Informed Final Choices About IFC – Our Vision & Mission IFC VISION Informed Final Choices (IFC) is a non-denominational not-for-profit service organization standing at the center of end-of-life issues. IFC dedicates itself to a world in which end-of-life choices are well-understood and supported; end-of-life rights are universally respected;… Read More Crestone End-of-Life Project The Crestone End-of-Life Project (CEOLP) is a non-denominational community-based group promoting informed end-of-life choices and supporting their fulfillment for Crestone and Saguache County residents or property owners. Were CEOLP’s service a tree, its visible portion would be our… Read More Informed Final Choices provides workshops, speakers and support to communities, individuals and organizations across the country. This section provides an overview of the types of workshops and hands-on training we provide, and we can customize a presentation, training… Read More IFC/CEOLP Informational Video Series The following short videos provide a brief, clear introduction to the Crestone End of Life Project, its breadth of service and the volunteers who make it possible. Presented by Informed Final Choices, CEOLP’s educational outreach branch, these videos also offer suggestions for end-of-life planning including advance directives and communicating with family and loved ones. This series was produced by Peter Taylor along with CEOLP/IFC volunteers and Crestone community members. Photographic and video material from these videos is not to be used without express permission from the CEOLP and IFC boards. We hope you find them informative and helpful. (Play All Videos here or single videos below) 1. Start Here (link) 1:22 Welcome to this video series on the Crestone End of Life Project, including ways to better prepare ourselves and our loved ones for our inevitable passage from this life. 2. Introduction (link) 3:15 Introduction to the Crestone End of Life Project—how it came to be, the service it offers, and those who make it possible. 3. Planning (link) 5:21 Regardless of our stage in life or health, we can all take steps now to ensure our wishes are carried out at the end of life, and that our values and legacy are known and honored by those we leave behind. 4. Registration (link) 5:13 Everything you need to know about registering with the Crestone End of Life Project. 5. Family Participation (link) 3:11 Meaningful ways that family members can be involved with home funeral, CEOLP’s open-air cremation, or conventional or green burial or cremation 6. Day of Cremation (link) 4:39 What happens on the day of a CEOLP-facilitated open-air cremation? 7. Wider Community Contribution (link) 3:43 Meet some of the Crestone area volunteers, artisans, and other community members that make our service possible. More videos can be found in Recommended Reading and Viewing A Beautiful Dr’s Advice How to Best Thank Those Who Offer Compassionate Care During the Pandemic How to Best Thank Those Who Offer Compassionate Care During the Pandemic When Rosie Eastman, RN joined last month’s CEOLP/IFC monthly Zoom meeting, she spoke about her experience working with COVID ICU patients. Another meeting participant asked Rosie how best to thank those who serve in this way, since most of us have no personal connection with these hardworking healthcare workers. Rosie’s response was simple. Here are some things that would be very appreciated: a kind handwritten note or card sent to a hospital’s COVID floor, a bouquet of flowers, gift cards, or, where permitted, home-baked treats. Also, the opportunity for time away to renew and refresh is important. If you have a second home or Airbnb, you could offer a stay at a discounted rate or without charge. Simply taking a moment each day to consider those on the frontlines of service and sending a warm wish for their wellbeing can be a great gift. A Beautiful Death By Rosie Eastman A Beautiful Death By Rosie Eastman Note: Rosie is an RN at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Joining a recent Crestone End of Life Project meeting via Zoom, she talked about how even in the midst of a pandemic, there can be what she called a “beautiful death.” This essay is her response to someone else in the meeting wondering what might constitute a beautiful death. Dying in the hospital can happen slowly—hours, days, weeks—when people are stuck in the middle, neither getting better nor worse but slowly drifting toward the inevitable. Sometimes we can buy time with machines and blood and drugs and work, but sometimes these interventions only serve to hasten the end. Dying in the hospital can happen slowly, until the tipping point comes where time speeds up at an exponential rate until it’s a blur that leaves only mourners behind. My patient had been dying, glacially, for years. Time and money and effort (so much effort) created a happy life for him. He knew love and laughter and play and rest. When I met him, the clock had already started. He was quiet save for each rasping breath that told us about the fluid in his lungs and the strain on his heart. Outside of his darkened room, a plague raged with nurses and doctors and therapists scurrying frantically, trying to place fingers in a dam that had sprung so many leaks. My patient was unconscious, unaware of the chaos. We knew he was dying. Years prior, his life had been abruptly knocked off track by an accident—a tiny blood vessel in his brain had swollen to bursting and rendered him unable to care for himself. His sister stood at his bedside, holding his hand while I held the other. I wish I could have held her hand, too. His last breaths came slowly, spaced far enough apart that it felt like he knew he had an audience. His sister and I spoke quietly about his life, what he had been like, what had brought him joy. He saw our distraction as his cue to exit, took one more inhale, and then stilled. I always ask those present if they would like to help me wash their loved one and prepare them for their next journey. My patient’s sister paused only briefly to consider before nodding and pulling on a pair of gloves. We talked as we bathed him, not about anything in particular but enough to keep a pleasant rhythm. To care for the dead is a holy privilege, done as much for the living as for the dead themselves. The way we honor them is by caring for them, and the way we care for them is together. The Movement to Bring Death Closer “If death practices reveal a culture’s values,” writes Maggie Jones, the author of today’s Sunday Read, “we choose convenience, outsourcing, an aversion to knowing or seeing too much.” Enter home-funeral guides, practitioners who believe families can benefit from tending to — and spending time with — the bodies of the deceased. On today’s Sunday Read, listen to Ms. Jones’s story about the home-funeral movement and the changing nature of America’s funeral practices. This story was written by Maggie Jones and recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sunday-read-the-movement-to-bring-death-closer/id1200361736?i=1000502995576 How to be a Caregiver: https://www.nytimes.com/guides/well/how-to-be-a-caregiver Dr’s Advice In A COVID-19 Unit. I’m A Doctor In A COVID-19 Unit. Here’s One Vital Step I Wish Everyone Would Take. A Conversation About “A Good Death” “Earlier this year, six Black leaders in the death and dying community joined for a live webinar, Sayin’ It Louder: A Conversation About “A Good Death” in a Racist Society. Whether you were there live or have watched the replay since, this conversation has been the beginning of some pretty exciting things.” Here’s the replay: https://goingwithgrace.us13.list-manage.com/track/click… “Many members of Sayin’ It Louder panel have teamed back up to create an online course”: https://goingwithgrace.us13.list-manage.com/track/click. Support IFC Sign up for the IFC email list to be informed about upcoming workshops, news and other items related to end-of-life choices. We respect your privacy. Your contact information will not be shared outside of the IFC organizations. The Crestone End of Life Project is our community group based in Crestone, Colorado. Poetry & Photography Read poetry about the sacredness of transition from life into death. 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__label__cc	0.608095	0.391905	Jon ALi's Blog Music. Entertainment Giveaway: The Saturdays at XL Nightclub (9.13) September 10, 2012 / 30 Comments It’s all go go go in The Saturdays world right now. The girls flew from LA to New York over the weekend and are currently getting ready to make their east coast debut on Thursday (September 13) at XL Nightclub in New York City. In October, the girls landed a major U.S deal and since the girls have slowly been preparing their official stateside takeover which includes a reality show on E! Entertainment and a new record label. In celebration of their arrival, we are picking 10 lucky fans to attend the event for FREE with a friend. The girls will be performing their brand-new single titled “What About Us” and E! will be in the house taping for their upcoming show. The live performance begins at 11PM and there will be an Open Bar from 10pm – 11pm. Can’t wait to see you all! Find out how to enter below. Comment below with your full name, email, and favorite Saturdays’ song (include why). Follow Me & Tweet: I’m all fired up to see @TheSaturdays with @Jon_ALi at @xlnightclub! http://bit.ly/ROtVrm -Winners will be announced on Wednesday (September 12)!- Full Event Details: HERE GiveawayNew MusicNew York CityThe SaturdaysWhat About Us By JonAli On Track with VINCINT! Jon ALi Interviews The X Factor UK’s Little Mix! Kehlani’s ‘SweetSexySavage’ Is One Of The Best Albums Of 2017 (So Far) – Enter To Win A Copy! my favorite song is Missing you from the saturdays because it’s the first song ever that i’ve heard of them ! since then i have been loyal fan of the, even people say that their previous album sucked ! other song that i love are “move on u”, ” say OK” and “up” !!! I’ll be going there! Got a birthday list so I’m good with admission haha. But yay I cant wait. Legit so excited. All Fired Up gives me life. See you there maybe! Darrick Chan Favorite Saturdays song is Faster from On Your Radar! The production is perfect on that track – so clean. I think if it was a single it could have been really successful. Furthermore, they all sounds incredible on the track (and they all get lines in this one). When Una (my favorite Saturday) sings her line in the bridge, and when she goes ‘Baby you make my heart beat!’ at the end, it hits a really sweet spot. “Not Good Enough” because of the VOCALS, harmonies, and the fact that it’s sitting at #1 on my “Top 25 Most Played” Playlist in iTunes 😛 Jeremy Cabalona AAAAA I CAN’T BELIEVE THEY ARE IN NYC! DYING! My favorite song is My Heart Takes Over because, even though it was kind of a flop, it is the best song to get completely invested in and belt out as loudly as you can. Plus, they shot the video in freaking ICELAND. My Favorite Saturday song is ego because i like it when there all super heroes…. Julian Donahue Though I confess that I have listened to little else but their debut, my favorite song of theirs is “Chasing Lights.” It is deceptively simple in its composition. A few guitar strums and odd beeps here and there and that’s about it but, what is great about the song is not its instrumentation, it is its lyrics, its meaning. I used to listen to this song, and still do, when I know that I need to say no but can’t. It helps give me an extra push and keeps me from chasing lights, an impossible task. (All Fired Up is a close second, just because :D) My Fav Song Is Move On You its Fun cute and i loveee to Dance to it always get’s the party started in my Car LOL Haverly Higher with Flo Rida!! Cesar Gonzalez crgsfc@yahoo.com My favorite Saturdays song is “My Heart Takes Over.” The stunning visuals for the video just made me fall in love with the song. Robert Espinoza Love these girls! They’ve been together for years now, and have been releasing nothing but great-sounding music. “Higher” is definitely my favorite. The version without Flo Rida. Ha! The song gives empowerment to those that just want to break out and feel free! Jump up and down, with your hands in the air…like you just don’t care! 🙂 Jesse Langille Higher – perfect pop tune with catchy melody Recently returned to the States after a few year stint in the UK. The Saturdays were included in so many memories. If I had to choose one, ‘All Fired Up’ is my favourite tune and brings back so many of those amazing times. Sums up all the good times we had bopping about the gay village in Manchester! The Saturdays will always hold a special place in my memories 🙂 x Aureole Cruz With all the great songs that they have it’s hard to choose a favorite; however, if there’s one song of theirs that always seems to get me moving it’s “Lose Control.” It’s one of those songs that when you listen to it makes you feel like a teenager (if you’re in your 20s you’ll know what I mean), flirtatious and hopeful about finding love. Because after all, they’re all great feelings, don’t you agree? 😉 eric chen My favorite song would have to be My Heart Takes Over because it reminds me that no matter how much you like someone, at the end of the day, you have to follow whats true to your heart. Higher – It was the first Saturdays song I had ever heard back in 2010 and was instantly addicted to all their music. Higher is the perfect British pop song and one of the best pure pop songs of the new decade. Douglas Cameron My favorite Saturdays song is Died In Your Eyes from “Headlines”. I am in love with this song, because they convey so much emotion on the vocals and the lyrics are 100% accurate regarding a bad break-up. This song showcases a softer, less radio-friendly, and more evolved sound that can be overshadowed by the huge production we see on songs such as “Work”, “Ego”, and “Set Me Off”. Rather than being too busy, or too slow, this song is the perfection fusion of the trademark Saturdays sound with a newfound vulnerability. The combination is well-delivered and perfectly time. A close second would be “Here Standing” and it would be tied with “Lies”, all of which are in the same vein as “Died in Your Eyes”. I have been in love with this phenomenal group of women since 2008 when they released “If This Is Love”, before slaying me with “Set Me Off”. Kelsey Fink Def has to be Ego because it’s the most empowering and heel-stompin song evaaa. And they looked mega fierce in the video. Who doesn’t love hot bitches dressed up in tight spandex as super heroes? WERK! Lamont Cedric Jones FASTER!!! Is by far my best song from them. The message of the song is about me whenever I go boy crazy! 😉 I play this song for all my girlfriends, and they simply just love it. The beat has our hearts racing, bodies dancing, and we sing out loud with glee. Thanks Sat’s! Thanks Jon Ali! Lamont-Cedric Divya Flowers I live for “Notorious”, I performed it in Drag for a Monthly Test and I won. The first time I heard it it made me feel so alive and sexy. Kyle Ruppert I would LOVE to go to see The Saturdays at XL! I was visiting Europe for the first time last summer and heard The Saturdays on a website my friend and I were checking out to see which clubs were good in the area. We visited London, Paris and Berlin and then back to London. We heard the song Higher (7th Heaven Club Mix) on our first night and blasted it on our phones throughout the entire trip. So, this song has become one of my top 10 favorites and makes me remember all of the fun I had in Europe every time I hear it. I would love to relive all of those fun times by seeing The Saturdays live! =) Fall from Chasing Lights, Deeper from Wordshaker, Missing You from Headlines, and My Heart Takes Over from On Your Radar Melvyn I’m excited for them to finally break the US market. A fantasy album for me would be… THE SATURDAYS: CRASH LANDING 1) All Fired Up 2) Set Me Off 3) Higher 4) Ego 5) Notorious 6) Up 7) Ladykiller 8) 30 Days 9) Missing You 10) Work 11) Turn Myself In 12) Open Up 13) Faster 14) My Heart Takes Over DELUXE EDITION TRACKS: 15) If This Is Love 16) Move On U 17) Not That Kinda Girl 18) Forever Is Over 19) Here Standing Max Markham Forever is Over is my all time favourite song — I listened to it non-stop when I was in Paris and it brings back some of the most vivid memories of the cities and the time period. And the girls vocally sound great on it. Departure from their usual fun mid/uptempo pop songs. Excited to see them at XL!! 🙂 Eddie Torres Omg I didn’t even know they were coming over here officially!!! I’m pretty sure everyone is dying to see them but it would be UNBELIEVABLY awesome if I got on the list. This one is random but I seriously love Work. Obviously I love and listen to all the tracks but Work just gets me in the mood at the gym and to get ready for an evening. The single itself desrved a higher chart placing but then again so did most of their singles. #dreambig Notable Mentions: All Fired Up and Notorious It’s the perfect song to walk to, the video is adorable, and it’s message is sassy! Rob Willoughby “30 Days” isn’t their best by any means, but it was released whilst my boyfriend was in Australia and whilst I was living in Paris. The lyrics aren’t mind-blowing, but I could completely relate to the sentiment of longing which is certainly universal and therefore an effective piece of song-writing. Ethan Hort Ethan Hört emh386@nyu.edu “My Heart Takes Over” will always have a special place in my heart. I got into a relationship in June of 2012. We spent everyday together. Sadly I was going to study abroad in London with NYU once September began. We thought it was just going to be a summer fling. Luckily once I landed in the UK this was one of the first songs I heard. Immediately I registered that ending the relationship was totally wrong and then shared the song. Safe to say we are still together to this day after 14 months 🙂 Brandon Thompson My all time favorite Saturdays song happens to be “Issues” from their album “Chasing Lights”. It’s the perfect song for someone confused in a relationship whether to break up or stay in the relationship because their heart simply has issues. The chorus and hook is very catchy, and the beat is a beautiful melody composed of strummed guitar chords and other beautiful sounds that seduce the listener’s ears. The Saturdays execute this song very well at every performance, and the video that matches the track highlights their natural beauty and the meaning of the song. This song is the perfect remedy for any lover going through a dilemma in a relationship, a fresh breakup, or even the basic motions of any new relationship. “Issues” is a song that can stay on repeat and any listener can relate to it because we’ve all had issues throughout our lives in our relationships. Michael Bernardini michael.bernardini2@gmail.com “Turn Myself In” because I whenever I sing it, I pretend to stand by the bar at a table and be a huge whore that completely fucked up at life. Also, it makes Britney’s “Criminal” look like a Disney song.. that fab. Leave a Reply to Max Markham Cancel reply https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i85LB0tdYcY Play this on loop for the rest of the day for a guaranteed serotonin boost https://t.co/KqYB5IxfHV23 hours ago You gotta mean what you say! Let’s Get Loud!!!! That’s all I needed today. Now Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, Hey, hey, hey, hey!!23 hours ago Jon ALi. Music. Entertainment.2020	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0099.json.gz/line110
__label__wiki	0.696119	0.696119	Future first dog Major Biden, adopted from a shelter, to get virtual ‘indoguration’ President-elect Joe Biden is not the only one getting some fanfare as he enters the White House — his rescue dog, Major, is being honored by the shelter he came from. The Bidens adopted Major, a German shepherd, in 2018 from the Delaware Humane Association (DHA). The shelter and Pumpkin Pet Insurance are now hosting a virtual event to celebrate the first shelter dog in the White House. The shelter is calling it the “largest virtual party for dogs.” The “indogeration” event is scheduled for January 17, three days before Inauguration Day, and will be hosted by Jill Martin of NBC’s “Today.” A $ 10 minimum donation is required to join the Zoom event and all proceeds go to the DHA. Though Major is the first shelter dog in the White House, he is not the first rescue. Before Major there was Yuki, a mixed breed pup abandoned by his owner at a gas station in Texas and rescued by President Lyndon B. Johnson’s daughter Luci. Bill Clinton’s family cat, Socks, was also a rescue. And Major won’t be the only canine in the White House. The Bidens also have Champ, another German shepherd. 'indoguration', adopted, Biden, future, major, shelter, virtual It's just one small part of the sweeping immigration overhaul President Biden is pushing. But the symbolic significance is huge. Biden's proposed bill, if passed, would remove the word "alien" from US immigration la... Why Joe Biden is already thinking about a 2nd term Even before Joe Biden became the country's 46th president on Wednesday, his orbit was sending out signals that he wouldn't be a one-term wonder. "He is planning to run again," Delaware Sen. Chris Coons told Politico... As expected, Biden intends to keep FBI director in his post, an official says President Joe Biden intends to keep FBI Director Christopher Wray in his post, a senior administration official tells CNN, a sign of confidence for the bureau's leader who has more than six years remaining in his te... Former Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton honor Biden as America’s new leader in joint video Washington Former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton honored President Joe Biden Wednesday evening as America's new leader in a joint message that emphasized the new President's call for nationa... Biden names acting agency heads as his Cabinet nominees remain unconfirmed President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced a slate of acting agency heads after taking office without a single one of his Cabinet nominees in place and confirmed by the US Senate. "These individuals, nearly all of ... Whitehouse.gov relaunches to include Spanish language communications under Biden Washington The Whitehouse.gov website was updated on Wednesday to reflect that Joe Biden is the new President of the United States, and it now also includes a Spanish language section which had been removed during Do... The Biden administration has an Easter egg for IT pros on the White House website The White House website has a special message for IT folks who know where to look -- and it could lead to a job with the government. The Biden administration updated the whitehouse.gov website Wednesday once Joe Bid... Trump lays last-minute land mines for Biden on immigration: ‘Anything to make it difficult’ Days from the end of Donald Trump's term, his administration rushed to push through possible legal land mines to make President Joe Biden's goal of immigration reform more difficult. Biden has outlined an ambitious ... Biden was sworn in on a storied 19th century family Bible Washington President Joe Biden was sworn in on a 19th century family Bible on Wednesday, continuing his longtime tradition of using the heirloom during his decades of public service. The five-inch thick Bible feature... What America needs from Biden today This was excerpted from the January 20 edition of CNN's Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers. Click here to read past editions and subscribe. Leave it to Seamus Heaney to encaps... Biden to start fast on immigration with DACA, border wall and travel ban President-elect Joe Biden will kick off his term by rolling out a series of immigration executive actions, moving swiftly to undo many Trump administration policies. Biden outlined an ambitious immigration agenda o... Biden puts Trump’s climate and environmental rollbacks in his crosshairs Among incoming President Joe Biden's Day One priorities: Begin rolling back climate and environmental policies of the Trump administration, many of which were rollbacks of Obama-era or earlier rules. Biden's advis...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0099.json.gz/line111
__label__wiki	0.651371	0.651371	Law and Society Review Welcome to the Law and Society Review Blog The editors of Law and Society Review have started this blog with the goal of facilitating broader dissemination of socio-legal research. We hope that this blog allows us to discuss scholarship and teach issues that may not make it to academic journals quickly. We invite everyone to contribute; we ask all authors to summarize their recent articles. The blog will also allow us to discuss the changing research environment. We’d like to hear more people contribute to pressing conversations around research and publishing. Many of us already have these conversations among smaller groups of scholars. A blog will allow a larger conversation with more participants and, we hope, a greater diversity of views. The questions to weigh in on are many. Professional associations and funding agencies occasion talk about the press for data access in both Europe and North America. What do you think about this issue, in every dimension from ethical to epistemological to administrative? On to Lisbon: Liminal Moments in Law and Society David Trubek University of Wisconsin-Madison https://law.wisc.edu/profiles/dmtrubek In their excellent essay on the early history of the Law and Society field, Conversations in Law and Society: Oral Histories of the Emergence and Transformation of the Movement [1] , Morrill, Edelman, Morrill, Fang and Greenspan draw on oral interviews at the Berkeley Center for Law and Society (CLSA) to trace the early years of LSA. Reviewing talks with the founding generation, the authors show how, amidst the political and cultural turmoil of the 1960s, disparate strands of new thinking about law in the legal academy, social sciences, and humanities evolved into a new academic enterprise. In that liminal moment in the Sixties, when existing structures in the law and universities were being challenged and new legal and intellectual possibilities mooted, a small group of scholars from several disciplines banded together to create the Law a Call for Symposia Due Date: Friday, September 25, 2020 The Law & Society Review seeks proposals for themed symposia to appear in late volume 55 and volume 56, which will appear in print in later 2021 and 2022. The Review is particularly interested in symposia focused around issues of current significance, such as COVID-19, voting rights, the rise of fascism, and struggles for racial justice, as well as a variety of other themes within law and society scholarship and substantive areas of focus. Symposia will feature 3-5 articles clustered around a shared theme, and will be edited by guest editors. Editors may work alone or in teams. Proposals should come from scholars who wish to serve as symposium editors. Proposals will be selected on a competitive basis. Criteria for evaluation will include the significance and potential impact of the collected scholarship, innovation in subject matter or method, and collaborations that seek to include early-caree In Memoriam : Sally Engle Merry In celebration and remembrance of the many contributions to our field of the late Sally Engle Merry, Law & Society Review invites short essays describing her impact as a scholar, teacher, mentor, leader or friend. A selection of these essays will be published in the December 2020 issue of the Review. Others may be published on the Review’ s website. Submission guidelines. The closing date for submissions is Friday, September 25 th . To assist in planning, the Board would be grateful if those intending to submit an essay would notify us as soon as possible by writing to LawandSocietyReview@exchange.asu.edu . Submissions under 2000 words in length are strongly preferred. Authors considering contributing longer pieces should write the Review and describe their proposed submission in advance of submitting. Essays may be submitted through the journal’s general email address, above. In the most recent Law & Society Review Reconfiguring the Deserving Refugee: Cultural Categories of Worth and the Making of US Asylum Policy Talia Shiff Lecturer on Sociology Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program Harvard University @Talia_Shiff Contemporary US asylum policy is characterized by two seemingly contradictory developments: on the one hand, increasing restrictions placed on the admission of immigrants and asylum seekers, and on the other hand a growing acceptance of a new set of asylum claims involving previously unrecognized forms of gender-related harms. In Reconfiguring the Deserving Refugee: Cultural Categories of Worth and the Making of US Asylum Policy, Talia Shiff sets to explain this puzzle: how is it that during a period of growing hostility towards asylum seekers at large, there is an increasingly inclusive approach towards non-conventional gender-based claims such as rape, female genital cutting and domestic violence that do not involve standard forms of government-s Jailing Immigrant Detainees: A National Study of County Participation in Immigration Detention, 1983-2013 Emily Ryo Professor of Law & Sociology University of Southern California Gould School of Law Ian Peacock Ph.D. Candidate University of California, Los Angeles Department of Sociology Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) pays hundreds of county jails in the United States to detain immigrants facing removal proceedings. Removal proceedings are civil proceedings against individuals alleged to have violated immigration laws. Immigration detention therefore presents a striking case of how penal institutions are used for civil confinement purposes. Yet we know very little about what types of counties have come to participate in this arrangement and the predictors of their participation. Using diverse sources of county-level data that span multiple decades, we conducted the first national study of the role of loca On the Radar: Why Immigrant ‘Legality’ Can Feel as Scary as Immigrant ‘Illegality’ Photo by Harrison Truong Asad L. Asad Assistant Professor of Sociology Faculty Affiliate of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity Stanford University @asasad Under contemporary U.S. immigration policy, both “legal” and “illegal” immigrants are vulnerable to deportation. Sociologist Asad L. Asad’s article in Law & Society Review , “On the Radar: System Embeddedness and Latin American Immigrants’ Perceived Risk of Deportation,” asks what this shared vulnerability means for whether and how undocumented and documented immigrants fear deportation. He describes the perceptions and experiences of Latin American families recruited from their residential neighborhoods in Dallas, Texas. Asad’s analysis reveals the perverse incentives the U.S. immigration system creates for immigrants seeking to balance their long-term commitment to this country with a Knowledge is power? Think again. In the most recent issue of the Review , Kathryne M. Young and Katie R. Billings reported on their study of people’s willingness to assert rights in a variety of encounters with police, including interrogations, home searches, and car searches. They found that not only is knowledge of constitutional rights unrelated to rights assertion, [1] but patterns of police-citizen interactions are related to social class. People from modest backgrounds were likely to approach police stops with more willingness to help the police and more skepticism that police would heed their rights assertions. People from upper-middle-class backgrounds, on the other hand, brought a greater sense of entitlement and self-directedness to these interactions, making them more likely to assert their rights. Their findings contravene the U.S. Supreme Court’s long-held assumption that informing people about a constitutional right means they will be empowered to assert that right. Not so —hidden s On toLisbon: Liminal Moments in Law and Society ... Accredited Representatives assault #metoo Conviction Rates Ethncitiy intersectional framework Procedural Justice transactional law transforation Transnational Law	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0099.json.gz/line114
__label__wiki	0.516273	0.516273	Super fund satisfaction increases in October Share This Link on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Email To Share on Whatsapp Finding No. 8598 Topic: Press Release Source: Roy Morgan Single Source Australia, April – September 2020, n = 13,622. May – October 2020, n = 14,192. Base: Australians 14+ with work based or personal superannuation. New data from Roy Morgan’s Superannuation Satisfaction Report shows an overall super fund satisfaction rating of 61.0% in October 20. This is an increase of 0.6% points from a month ago, however still down 3.1% points on a year ago. The most recent ratings cover the period since May 2020 during which time Australians in financial hardship were able to apply to withdraw two tranches of up to $10,000 of their superannuation. Importantly, the monthly increase in Superannuation Satisfaction in October 20 is the first month-on-month increase since the COVID-19 pandemic and appears to represent a turning of the corner for the rating after declining during the worst months of the pandemic. The largest increase by sector was for Self-Managed Funds, which increased 1.5% points to a customer satisfaction of 65.3% in October 20. However, it’s worth noting Self-Managed Funds have had the largest year-over-year decline and dropped by a substantial 10.4% points from a year ago (75.7% to 65.3%). Public Sector Funds increased their customer satisfaction by 1.3% points to 71.5% and for the fifth month in a row have clearly the highest rating in October 20. In May 2020 Public Sector Funds and Self-Managed Funds had an equal highest customer satisfaction of 72.6% and before then Self-Managed Funds had the highest rating for most of the previous two years since July 2018. Also increasing in October 20 were Industry Funds, up 0.4% points to 62.5%, and Retail Funds up 0.1% to 53.6%. The Superannuation Satisfaction Report, with data up to October 2020, shows Unisuper with the highest customer satisfaction rating of the Industry Funds ahead of Cbus, HOSTPLUS, CARE Super, AustralianSuper, First State Super and HESTA. The highest placed Retail Super Fund is BT followed by OnePath, Colonial First State, Mercer and MLC. The report’s findings are from Roy Morgan Single Source, Australia’s most trusted consumer survey, compiled by in-depth interviews with over 50,000 Australians each year. Roy Morgan CEO Michele Levine says the increasing customer satisfaction for superannuation funds in October 20 is a positive sign as Australia looks to recover from the devastating impact of COVID-19 on large parts of the Australian economy during 2020: “Satisfaction with the financial performance of superannuation funds increased across all four sectors in October – the first time this has happened since COVID-19 hit Australia earlier this year. Overall satisfaction with superannuation funds was at 61.0% in October 20, an increase of 0.6% points from September 20, although still down a significant 3.1% points on a year ago. “There has been positive news on the economic front as well as the latest Australian GDP figures for the September 20 quarter showed an Australian economy returning to growth with a GDP increase of 3.3% the largest quarterly increase for more than forty years. The growth in GDP came despite the Victorian economy spending almost the entire quarter in a second lockdown which only ended in late October. “In further positive news the latest APRA figures on superannuation withdrawal requests show fewer than half of the initial 3.4 million applications for a withdrawal in the period to June 30, 2020 have followed up with a second application for a withdrawal since then. A total of $35.3 billion has now been disbursed under the scheme but less than 10% of that money has been paid out since the end of August. “The ASX200 is now comfortably above 6,600 points in early December and up more than 45% since closing under 4,600 in late March as Australia went into the first nation-wide lockdown. The positive news about several vaccines released during the last few weeks suggests 2021 should be a year of recovery and strong growth for both the broader economy and superannuation funds.” Satisfaction with financial performance of different type of super funds Roy Morgan Customer Satisfaction Awards The Roy Morgan Customer Satisfaction Awards highlight the winners but this is only the tip of the iceberg. Roy Morgan tracks customer satisfaction, engagement, loyalty, advocacy and NPS across a wide range of industries and brands. This data can be analysed by month for your brand and importantly your competitive set. Need to know what is driving your customer satisfaction? Check out the new Roy Morgan Customer Satisfaction Dashboard at https://www.customersatisfactionawards.com View the Customer Satisfaction - Financial Performance of Superannuation in Australia Report. For comments or more information please contact: Roy Morgan - Enquiries Office: +61 (03) 9224 5309 askroymorgan@roymorgan.com State of the Nation 25: Spotlight on Financial Risk Locating the Past: Place and Historical Consciousness in Australia - Thursday October 20, 2016 at Old Treasury Building Charles Smythe: Prosecuting Ned Kelly With Patrick Watt, Manager Burke Museum @ Old Treasury Building Roy Morgan launches Auto Industry Future Tracker® Roy Morgan launches a Risk Profiler® - an early warning system for the automotive industry Car-sharing making inroads in Australian cities Related Findings Super fund satisfaction down in May, but still up on a year ago as Australi ... New data from Roy Morgan’s Superannuation Satisfaction Report shows an overall super fund sa... A large majority of Australians (79%) are in favour of allowing people in f ... A large majority of 79% of Australians say people in financial difficulty should be able to access up to $20,000 of their superannuation according to a special Roy Morgan Snap SMS survey of an Australia-wide cross-section of 72... Super fund satisfaction at risk as markets tumble New data in Roy Morgan’s Superannuation Satisfaction Report shows CARE Super with the highes... Tasplan tops superannuation satisfaction, as industry funds continue to lea ... New data from Roy Morgan’s Superannuation Satisfaction Report shows industry fund Tasplan has the highest customer satisfaction rating (73.9%) of any super fund. As a group, industry funds (65.1%) outperformed retail funds (... Superannuation Satisfaction Report This Report provides an independent and reliable measure of customer satisfaction for Industry and Retail Superannuation Funds. Superannuation and Wealth Management in ... With this report you will gain an immediate understanding through the consumer lens of the Australian superannuation and wealth management market in important areas such as which products are sold through financial planners, contributions to superannuation, channels used to obtain, satisfaction and the strengths and weaknesses of the 19 leading superannuation brands. About Roy Morgan Roy Morgan is the largest independent Australian research company, with offices throughout Australia, as well as in Indonesia, the United States and the United Kingdom. A full service research organisation specialising in omnibus and syndicated data, Roy Morgan has over 70 years’ experience in collecting objective, independent information on consumers. The margin of error to be allowed for in any estimate depends mainly on the number of interviews on which it is based. 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__label__cc	0.725681	0.274319	Posted on July 14, 2014 June 17, 2015 by Lola The Blue House S01 E04 “Alright I’m expecting you… bye!” Olayinka disconnected the call. “They’re coming” she said to her friend Solape who had just come back from Dubai with boxes full of children’s clothes, shoes for children and women, bags, perfumes, jewelry and bags. “Are you sure they’ll buy them well and pay on time?” Solape asked worried. “Don’t you trust me? Do I bring poor customers to you?” she asked slightly offended. “I know… I’m sorry, I’m just being a business woman jare, you know how people can be.” She said pacifyingly. “Well I assure you , these ones won’t disappoint.” Some minutes later, Helen and Banke walked in and after the introductions they began sifting through the goods, impressed and tempted by their quality. “You really have nice things, I wish I could take them all!” Banke lamented “Yes, you do! These clothes are not the regular designs that one sees. I’m impressed.” She said holding up a peach coloured chiffon blouse embellished with red sequins. “Thank you…” Solape said pleased, “I like to sell only the best” “I hope they’re not too expensive?” Helen asked “Not at all, that blouse you’re holding is ten thousand naira” “What?” Helen asked stunned “Look at the blouse well, it’s made out of quality material, and look at those sequins. I’m even being very considerate with my pricing. Besides, I spent a lot of money bringing them in.” “Still…” Helen said, suddenly discouraged. Banke on the other hand thought the price was very affordable and said so. “I think it’s okay, the price is very good” she said to Helen. “Trust me if you were to buy this at a boutique they would be asking for so much more.” “Ehn ehn…” Helen said doubtfully, suddenly feeling embarrassed. All eyes on were on her. “Alright I’ll take it” she said reluctantly. Ronke was exhausted. She had been busy all day, going to the market, cooking, doing laundry, delivering snacks to a client and now trying to sort out the goods she intended to sell in the store her brother-in-law (the landlord) had graciously built for her in front of the house. Her relationship with him was one of a kind, he had taken to her from the very first day they met. He thought she was the perfect woman for his hot-tempered younger brother and he always did his best to make sure she was comfortable. She was to him the kid sister he had lost several years ago. “My dear” Dapo said walking into the store where she was seated on a low stool marking a log of her expenditure. “Oh you’re back, welcome” “Thank you. You haven’t finished sorting them out?” “No… I’ve been very busy all day” she said tiredly “You need to get a maid” Dapo said, concern etched on his face. “A maid? With all the things I hear about them?” “Yes, you’re under too much pressure and I don’t think you can handle it. Besides with this store you want to start, I’m sure you’ll just break down. You always look so tired, see you’ve even lost some weight” he said observing her closely. Ronke sighed, her husband was right. She was under too much pressure but she also didn’t want any of the trouble that maids brought. Where would she find a good maid? “I’ll think about what you have said. Let’s go to the dining so you can eat.” She said rising awkwardly from the stool and almost losing her balance before Dapo caught her. “This is what I’m talking about. If you kill yourself I will marry another woman so you better be guided!” This last piece of information made Ronke come to a quick decision, she would call Iya Ibeji, her housekeeper tomorrow about a maid. Obiora was watching the news, the reporter was anchoring the entertainment news and he was as always amused by the activities of celebrities. It seemed they were always trying to outdo each other, in spite of how wealthy they were they ran their own rat race. “Oh just look at that purse!” Helen gushed, her eyes twinkling with desire. Obiora looked at his wife and shook his head smiling, he could never understand women and their fascination with purses and shoes. “Oh that reminds me, i have something to show you!” She said excitedly and leaped off the couch. Obiora shook his head and smiled again. Helen returned a few minutes later with a nylon bag and flopped back on the couch. “So, I got a few things today…” She said happily, unpacking the nylon bag. “Olayinka’s friend came from Dubai with so many nice things, but I could only pick a few items for us all.” Obiora inspected the clothes, nodding his approval. “Not bad at all” “In fact, I was so impressed by the quality of the things she had, I wished I could take more.” “How much are they all?” Obiora asked yawning “Forty eight thousand” Obiora stilled. “Do you intend to resell them?” Helen was surprised. “Resell?… Why would I want to do that? I bought them for all of us!” Obiora couldn’t believe his ears, they had changed their wardrobes just a few months back and here she was with a bill of forty eight thousand naira for a few clothes that weren’t even necessary. “H…how many clothes are these?” He did a quick count. “Helen you bought five clothes for almost fifty thousand when we only just changed our wardrobes?!” “Have you paid for them?” “No… I was…” “Return them” he said firmly “What? No, no… That would be embarrassing” she pleaded, she knew he might be uncomfortable with the prices but she didn’t think he’d react this way. “I”ll pay for them myself” “With which money? We’re trying to gather all the money we can to pay for that land and then you go and do this?” “Obi it’s not as expensive as you think… Banke said it was a good bargain.” She said trying to reason with him. “Of course it would be fair! She doesn’t have your responsibilities and yet you choose to compare yourself with her! Return them before I get back from work tomorrow. Tell them your husband said he can’t afford it!” He said and stormed away. “He was so angry last night, he insisted that I return them.” Helen said to Banke who was picking beans. “Wow” Banke replied, she had bought more things yet Kunle had not dared to ask her to return them. She gave thanks inwardly that her husband was more generous. “So what are you going to do?” “I’ll return them.” Helen said simply “Return them? Sis Olayinka would be offended. Besides, can’t you just pay for them yourself?” “Obi more or less forbade me to” “So you’re just going to return them?” Helen sighed. It would be embarrassing to return them but she couldn’t think of disobeying her husband. “Why don’t you just pay for them and then keep them as Christmas presents?” Helen laughed “Obi would know, I just have to return them” she said solemnly. “Wow, I had no idea your husband was that tight fisted! Kunle would not dare to tell me to return the things I got. Men!” Banke said, laughing. Helen smiled but she wasn’t amused. Ronke grated the okra slowly in a bowl, Iya Ibeji had said she would speak to her cousin about a maid but she wasn’t relieved. She had an uncomfortable feeling about the whole plan. Couldn’t she manage her time better or just get a sales girl for the shop? She sighed and then remembered what Dapo had said about getting another wife if she died. “Everything will be alright” she said to herself. CategoriesSeries One Reply to “The Blue House S01 E04” Hi dear, it s Funmi k. Haven't been here in days n as a matter of fact I'm just starting d Blue House series and loving it. Hope I find sth to critic, otherwise ur writing rocks. Be good girl. Welldone Please Leave A Comment, Let Me Know What You Think About This! Cancel reply Previous PostPrevious The Blue House S01 E03 Next PostNext The Blue House S01 E05 Subscribe and receive notifications of new posts by email. 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__label__wiki	0.547031	0.547031	Lou Gaglia POOR ADVICE AND OTHER STORIES SURE THINGS & LAST CHANCES POOR ADVICE AUDIOBOOK Winner of the 2016 New York Book Festival Award for General Fiction Winner of the 2015 New Apple Literary Award for Excellence in Independent Publishing. Spring to Mountain Press INKTERA PRAISE for POOR ADVICE and OTHER STORIES Lou Gaglia has a knack for taking mundane, everyday tasks—like pumping gas, selling pools, and getting your car repaired—and turning them into the funniest and most damn profound stories you’ve ever read. Don’t let the title fool you. Gaglia’s stories are full of good advice. Just don’t take any of them too seriously or you may find your life in shambles. ─ NATHANIEL TOWER, author of Jealous Wives, Foolish Husbands In Poor Advice and Other Stories, Lou Gaglia puts the entertainment back in literary fiction. Many of his characters seem laughable and misguided in their fumbling ways, especially with regard to their attempts at approaching the opposite sex, but the reader will come to love them for their heart-warming innocence. You will laugh, you will cry, but mostly you will go away remembering his vivid characters, his spot on dialogue, and his varying modes of conveying the stories in this unique collection, all of which reflect the talents of an outstanding fiction writer. — MITCHELL WALDMAN—author of Petty Offenses and Crimes of the Heart “What I like best about the people and places that populate Lou Gaglia’s Poor Advice is that they’re all familiar to me. But this is no mean familiarity. Anything but, in fact. These are the people that you meet in your dreams and the places you’ve visited only in your imagination: people whose correspondence fail to see the big picture, obsess over one random-seeming detail of their daily routine, are occasionally an orca. It’s nice to get to know them better — MATT ROWAN, author of Big Venerable The downtrodden characters that populate Poor Advice chisel away at their blue-collar circumstances and by stories end, without your consent, there’s a fissure splintering your heart. Lou Gaglia is a spellbinding writer who gathers material from the underbelly gutter-stuff and conjures up a bit of hope for the hopeless, a place to call home from the homeless, and a fighter’s chance at love for the lonely strangers who are, after all, a lot like us. — JASON OCKERT—author of Wasp Box “Shake yourself free from the restraints of the ordinary—enter the clever and oh-so-quirky mind of Lou Gaglia and his oddly so, strangely so, poignant cast of characters.” — KATHRYN MAGENDIE—author of SWEETIE His readers will find in Lou Gaglia’s Poor Advice a new voice in contemporary short fiction, a voice mad memorable by its sensitivity to language as it is spoken today, yet expressing the old verities of the human heart. —EARL INGERSOLL, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of English, State University of New York at Brockport. Years ago at a reading, the poet Traci Brimhall signed this reviewer’s copy of her book with a line from one of her poems: “Loneliness is the worst sort of freedom.” It is an unwieldy concept, yet Gaglia’s collection elucidates the freedom that comes from loneliness. Many of Gaglia’s characters are desperately lonely, but their loneliness also grants them the ability to tell their stories unapologetically. They are at once painfully self-aware and reckless in their bravado, making for a nuanced conversation with the reader: these characters may not be the type we go to for good advice, but isn’t there something worth learning from characters who confront ugliness with blind, clumsy hope, relinquishing their pride in the search for grace? The characters of Poor Advice may fumble, but the collection itself triumphs as it deftly slides from the gritty to the surreal, as it holds a mirror to the complex and clumsy machinations of the heart. Catherine Carberry — NECESSARY FICTION In this collection, Poor Advice and Other Stories, Lou Gaglia expertly mixes the absurd and the poignant so that you aren’t overwhelmed by either…Gaglia’s voice is confident and confidential, like a friend of a friend you meet at a party that tells you a couple of stories and you want to hear more. ─ MAIN STREET RAG At first glance Gaglia’s stories are quirky, humorous, and have a wickedly wry ear for human desires. But slipped in between are thoughtful passages about what happens to us, why we do things, and what they mean in the grand scheme of things. And it is not as though the humor detracts from these deep and important questions. Perhaps, like the mocking, good-natured, bocce-playing grandfathers featured in his story “Little Leagues,” Gaglia knows that the hard questions are all well and good during a lifetime, but you aren’t getting much of anywhere without a few good laughs. — AT THE INKWELL Poor Advice is an imaginative collection of stories for purveyors of the short story form as well as for readers who enjoy a new twist to the postmodern take on existentialism, rich and creamy with nostalgia, wit and humor, and surprise much like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates. My advice, dear reader, is not to sample Lou Gaglia’s stories, but rather to read ’em all! — TOASTED CHEESE LITERARY MAGAZINE Although, many of these stories are satirical and/or humorous, such as “Orca (A Madcap Thriller)”, a satire of Jaws, and “Days of Wine and Pratfalls,” about a waitress who infects her boyfriend with her clumsiness as she learns to be graceful by practicing yoga, some stories such as “Little Leagues” and “This Is My Montauk” delve into serious subjects such as the long-term effects of bullying and drugs in their narrators’ neighbourhoods. Both of these stories, due to their realism and candor, are worth the sum of all the humour and entertainment in this book. Poor Advice is a fine, well-balanced, collection of short stories and comes with “A Reader’s Guide” that could facilitate discussion of this book in secondary and tertiary educational settings. It is certainly one that will not disappoint either recreational and/or academic readers. ― AMSTERDAM QUARTERLY REVIEW Poor Advice and Other Stories is a fantastic book of short stories written by Lou Gaglia. I would call these stories “short shorts”, as most of them are only a few pages long, making them very easy to read. The stories run the gamut from funny to sweet to weird to complex, and the cast of characters is delightful. From the carpet cleaner with a grudge to a young man making a trek to Rome to forget a lost love, to a Russian spy and an American priest, these stories and their characters will keep readers entertained. ─ READERS FAVORITE Lou Gaglia Proudly powered by WordPress	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0099.json.gz/line128
__label__wiki	0.939136	0.939136	Biden transition gets govt OK after Trump out of options Published: Tue, November 24, 2020 6:02 AM Updated: Tue, November 24, 2020 6:02 AM President-elect Joe Biden speaks during a meeting at The Queen theater Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government recognized President-elect Joe Biden as the “apparent winner” of the Nov. 3 election, formally starting the transition of power after President Donald Trump spent weeks testing the boundaries of American democracy. Trump relented after suffering yet more legal and procedural defeats in his seemingly futile effort to overturn the election with baseless claims of fraud. Trump still refused to concede and vowed to continue to fight in court after General Services Administrator Emily Murphy gave the green light Monday for Biden to coordinate with federal agencies ahead of his Jan. 20 inauguration. But Trump did tweet that he was directing his team to cooperate on the transition. The fast-moving series of events seemed to let much of the air out of Trump’s frantic efforts to undermine the will of the people in what has amounted to a weekslong stress test for the nation’s confidence in the political system and the fairness of U.S. elections. Those efforts haven’t ended and are likely to persist well beyond his lame-duck presidency. Murphy, explaining her decision, cited "recent developments involving legal challenges and certifications of election results.” She acted after Michigan on Monday certified Biden’s victory in the battleground state and a federal judge in Pennsylvania tossed a Trump campaign lawsuit on Saturday seeking to prevent certification in that state. It also came as an increasing number of Republicans were publicly acknowledging Biden’s victory, after weeks of tolerating Trump’s baseless claims of fraud. The Republican president had grown increasingly frustrated with the flailing tactics of his legal team. In recent days, senior Trump aides including chief of staff Mark Meadows and White House counsel Pat Cipollone had also encouraged him to allow the transition to begin, telling the president he didn’t need to concede but could no longer justify withholding support to the Biden transition. Meadows, late Monday, sent a memo to White House staffers saying that their work was not yet finished and that the administration would “comply with all actions needed to ensure the smooth transfer of power," according to a person who received it. Yohannes Abraham, executive director of the Biden transition, said the decision “is a needed step to begin tackling the challenges facing our nation, including getting the pandemic under control and our economy back on track.” Murphy, a Trump appointee, had faced bipartisan criticism for failing to begin the transition process sooner, preventing Biden’s team from working with career agency officials on plans for his administration. The delay denied the Democratic president-elect access to highly classified national security briefings and hindered his team's ability to begin drawing up its own plans to respond to the raging coronavirus pandemic. Murphy insisted she acted on her own. “Please know that I came to my decision independently, based on the law and available facts. I was never directly or indirectly pressured by any Executive Branch official — including those who work at the White House or GSA — with regard to the substance or timing of my decision,” she wrote in a letter to Biden. Trump tweeted moments after Murphy's decision: “We will keep up the good fight and I believe we will prevail! Nevertheless, in the best interest of our Country, I am recommending that Emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols, and have told my team to do the same.” Max Stier, president and CEO of the nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service, criticized the delay but said Biden’s team would be able to overcome it. “Unfortunately, every day lost to the delayed ascertainment was a missed opportunity for the outgoing administration to help President-elect Joe Biden prepare to meet our country’s greatest challenges," he said. "The good news is that the president-elect and his team are the most prepared and best equipped of any incoming administration in recent memory.” Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said the GSA action “is probably the closest thing to a concession that President Trump could issue.″ Noting that the nation “faces multiple crises that demand an orderly transition,″ Schumer urged Democrats and Republicans to “unite together for a smooth and peaceful transition that will benefit America.″ Murphy’s action came just 90 minutes after Michigan election officials certified Biden’s 154,000-vote victory in the state. The Board of State Canvassers, which has two Republicans and two Democrats, confirmed the results on a 3-0 vote with one GOP abstention. Trump and his allies had hoped to block the vote to allow time for an audit of ballots in Wayne County, where Trump has claimed without evidence that he was the victim of fraud. Biden crushed the president by more than 330,000 votes there. Some Trump allies had expressed hope that state lawmakers could intervene in selecting Republican electors in states that do not certify. That long-shot bid is no longer possible in Michigan. “The people of Michigan have spoken. President-elect Biden won the State of Michigan by more than 154,000 votes, and he will be our next president on January 20th,” Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, said, adding it’s “time to put this election behind us.” Trump was increasingly frustrated by his legal team, led by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whose erratic public performances drew bipartisan mockery in recent weeks. Still, the legal challenges were expected to continue, as Trump seeks to keep his supporters on his side and keep his options open for opportunities post-presidency. In Pennsylvania on Saturday, a conservative Republican judge shot down the Trump campaign’s biggest legal effort in the state with a scathing ruling that questioned why he was supposed to disenfranchise 7 million voters with no evidence to back their claims and an inept legal argument at best. But the lawyers still hope to block the state’s certification, quickly appealing to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, which ordered lawyers to file a brief Monday but did not agree to hear oral arguments. The campaign, in its filings, asked for urgent consideration so it could challenge the state election results before they are certified next month. If not, they will seek to decertify them, the filings said. Biden won Pennsylvania by more than 80,000 votes. Pennsylvania county election boards voted Monday, the state deadline, on whether to certify election results to the Department of State. The boards in two populous counties split along party lines, with majority Democrats in both places voting to certify. After all counties have sent certified results to Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, she must then tabulate, compute and canvass votes for all races. The law requires her to perform that task quickly but does not set a specific deadline. In Wisconsin, a recount in the state’s two largest liberal counties moved into its fourth day, with election officials in Milwaukee County complaining that Trump observers were slowing down the process with frequent challenges. Trump’s hope of reversing Biden’s victory there depends on disqualifying thousands of absentee ballots —- including the in-person absentee ballot cast by one of Trump’s own campaign attorneys in Dane County. Associated Press writers Maryclaire Dale in Philadelphia, Jonathan Lemire in New York, Mark Scolforo in Harrisburg, Pa., Christina A. Cassidy in Atlanta and John Flesher in Traverse City, Mich., contributed to this report. News from The Associated Press, and a taste of the great journalism produced by AP members and customers. Managed 24/7 by these editors: apne.ws/APSocial Read more › CommentsBiden transition gets govt OK after Trump out of options	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0099.json.gz/line133

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