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Category Archive 'Charlottesville'
Good News: Judge Rules Confederate Statues Protected By State Law
Charlottesville, Removal of Confederate Monuments, The Law
Statue of Lee removed from Charlottesville, VA park.
CBS19:
Charlottesville Circuit Judge Richard Moore has ruled that the statues are war monuments, which are protected under state law. That likely means the city doesn't have the legal right to take them down.
In his nine page ruling, Moore cites the fact that both Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are depicted in their military uniforms and on horses associated with their time in the Civil War.
"I believe that defendants have confused or conflated 1) what the statues are with 2) the intentions or motivations of some involved in erecting them, or the impact that they might have on some people and how they might make some people feel," Moore writes. "But that does not change what they are."
Moore finds the issue to be so clear-cut that "if the matter went to trial on this issue and a jury were to decide that they are not monuments or memorials to veterans of the civil war, I would have to set such verdict aside as unreasonable…"
The lawsuit was filed after Charlottesville City Council voted to remove the statue of Lee in early 2017. City councilors Mike Signer, Kathy Galvin and Wes Bellamy are named individually for their roles in that vote, as are former councilors Bob Fenwick and Kristin Szakos.
While legal analysts have said this ruling could sink the city's defense, Moore notes that this ruling doesn't guarantee the plaintiffs will prevail.
He still has several other motions under consideration.
Plaintiffs spokesperson Buddy Weber says plaintiffs are pleased, but also cited the remaining motions as questions that still need to be answered.
In an email, city spokesperson Brian Wheeler says the judge now has to decide whether the city has to pay damages and attorneys fees and whether that question will go to trial in September.
In his ruling, Moore writes that he hopes to rule on remaining motions in the next month.
Charlottesville: The Left, not the Alt-Right, Was to Blame
Charlottesville, Identity Politics, Racial Politics, Removal of Confederate Monuments
No police intervention occurred even when black ANTIFA counter-demonstrators used aerosol flame-throwers.
My various left-wing correspondents are all energized by the violence in Charlottesville, and are demanding that those of us on the Right take the blame, apologize, and get busy denouncing all those racists and White Supremacists.
It's sad to see left-right violence, including pepper spray and baseball bats, on American streets, reminding us all a bit of Weimar Germany. But it was obviously not the Conservative Movement, not even the Alt-Right, that brought about these kinds of poisonous national divisions, that fostered all the chauvinistic identity politics, and that provoked the violence.
Our friends on the Left are demanding that we denounce all the demonstrators protesting the removal of the Lee Statue and that we agree to identify all of them as "White Supremacists" and dismiss their motivations as "racism." There were clearly some fringe group crazies participating in the demonstrations and some unsavory people were present, but that doesn't make everyone who demonstrated a Nazi, a Klan member, or a White Supremacist.
I don't recall any time I have ever heard our friends on the Left denouncing the most extreme communist radicals responsible for violence. Actually, they offer excuses, blame the anger of their radical extremists on America and the rest of us, and when their bomb-building murderers get out of jail, they give them teaching positions at universities.
So, sorry, I have no intention of identifying the generality of demonstrators as White Supremacists. I think they were mostly normal people defending their regional and cultural identity, who had been at last pushed too far, who were finally fed up with being insulted and marginalized.
I don't think most people there had any connection at all to the crazy person from Ohio who drove his car into the counter-demonstrators or to the zanies carrying Swastika flags. And it seems obvious to me that left-wing local and state government took a partisan role, instructing state and city police to stand aside and let ANTIFA thugs intimidate and rough up the demonstrators trying to defend the monument.
The Left, today, is playing its usual propaganda games, trying to stigmatize and shame the opposition, but I think they fail to understand that they've been using the same tactics and techniques too long. The Alt-Right is reading Saul Alinsky, too. Their pet media has lost credibility with much of the country, and a lot of us are just completely tired of having the Left play the Race Card.
Police Took Leftists' Side in Charlottesville
Charlottesville, Police Misconduct, Political Violence, Removal of Confederate Monuments, The Alt-Right
Erection of Lee Monument in Charlottesville, Virginia, 1924
VDare claims the police were on ANTIFA's side.
[T]he police did not protect demonstrators from Antifa and did little to prevent confrontations. Attendees of the demonstration, rather than walking a clear path to the park, were instead forced to walk through a line of screaming protesters. Liberal clergyman and elderly women held signs about "peace" and "love" and smiled benevolently—as violent Leftist protesters attacked from the crowd. They are as culpable as the Antifa themselves for the violence unleashed.
But that was not close to the worst. Demonstrators did not need protection from Antifa. All the police would have had to do to ensure a safe demonstration was simply go home—which is what happened in Berkeley. Patriots equipped with shields, inured to Antifa tactics of throwing bricks and spraying mace, had secured Lee Park (excuse me, "Emancipation Park") and may indeed have outnumbered both Antifa and counter-demonstrators in terms of pure numbers. Several were armed, and the city fathers should be offering Unite The Right activists tearful tributes for the latter's saint-like restraint in not opening fire despite more than justified provocation.
If police had done nothing, the public would have been safer. Instead, unforgivably, the police attacked (not dispersed—attacked) the legal demonstration, threatening attendees with arrest if they stayed in Lee Park.
Then activists, totally unprotected by police, were deliberately funneled into a gauntlet of attacking Communists, in a kind of Kill Zone. Injuries on both sides were predictable. (Of course, much like cuckservatives who bow and scrape to the Main Stream Media, the police were then insulted by the Communists for their trouble.
This could have been a relatively stable situation: a patriot demonstration protected by its own shield wall (and ideally, by police who actually did their job) along with a separate group of Leftist protesters, with both groups enjoying the right to free speech supposedly guaranteed them by the Constitution.
Instead, the police precipitated a running battle which engulfed all of Charlottesville. The result: Antifa running wild and chasing down isolated pockets of Unite The Right attendees as the latter defended themselves as best they could, with bystanders were caught in the melee. Police showed no interest in doing anything other than threatening patriots with arrests for "unlawful assembly."
In contrast, of course, Leftists were free to disobey the laws and marched merrily down the streets, many chanting "Black Lives Matter!", causing chaos as they went. As Rebel Media's Faith Goldy reported, this was an absurd "double standard." Anarcho-Tyranny was the order of the day in C-Ville.
I don't look upon VDare as an unimpeachable source, but we are not going to find a lot of descriptions of yesterday's violence sympathetic to the demonstrators trying to defend the statue. It does make sense that the police would be on counter-demonstrators' side, they are working for the same City Council that renamed the park and that voted to remove the statue of General Lee.
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October was a rough month for the stock market, proven by the decline of the NASDAQ and Dow Jones Industrial Average into clear correction territory, while the S&P 500 halted its own slide just shy of that mark. It was enough to put a lot of investors and analysts on edge and start to wonder if the good times were finally coming to an end.
What a difference a week makes! After closing out the worst October, and one-month period in a decade, the market has rebounded strongly over the last week. The Dow is up a little over 6.6%, the NASDAQ 8.3%, and the S&P 500 6.7% in that time. This week may have provided an unexpected catalyst for the market to push back and retest the all-time highs set in late September. Mid-term elections on Tuesday left Democrats in control of the House of Representatives, while Republicans kept their spot in the driver's seat in the Senate.
Depending on your political view, a divided government may not be a good thing; major reforms or initiatives from either side of aisle become more difficult without one party in control of both houses of government. It isn't unreasonable to suggest that one of the reasons President Trump could afford to be as confrontational as he has, with a consistent, "my way or the highway" attitude about everything from tax reform, trade and most certainly his major staff advisors and political appointees is because Republicans controlled Congress and the Senate. That usually meant that even if a lot of Republicans and conservatives criticized his approach, the party at large generally fell into line behind him.
As an investor, it's not always easy to separate investing discipline and objectivity from political opinion and preference. That becomes harder when politics have a clear and direct impact on economic progress and market behavior. The Tax Reform Act at the end of last year is a good example; the tax savings that became available almost immediately to corporate America were certainly a catalyst for the market's recovery from its first correction at the beginning of the year. In that light, the impact that midterm elections has on the market now could come from the government's likely inability for the next couple of years to push any major changes.
I've always believed that if there is anything the market really doesn't like, and is most likely to react negatively to, it's change. Investors like predictability, and we rely on measurements that offer a certain level of reliability to guide investment decisions. The status quo means that the things we use to drive our decisions remain relatively constant, and we don't have to worry as much about changing our method or our approach. When something threatens to change the investing landscape, investors naturally get nervous.
After eight years of a long, sustained bullish run that made a lot of investors think the easiest and best way to make money way in the stock market was to buy a passive index fund and just let it ride – "invest it and forget it," if you will – the market rediscovered volatility this year. A big part of that was influenced by openly aggressive and confrontational politics from the Trump administration. Tariffs imposed every one of America's largest and most important trading partners may indeed prove to have been the right move in the long run, but the tensions that came from seeing those long-standing trade relationships continue to keep the market on edge. A split government may not be able to put the cat back int the bag of things the Trump administration has already put back in place, the lack of consensus is also likely to make continued progress and changes that much harder to come by. The hope that the market seems to be keying on right now is that a natural check from a split House against the Oval Office could help restore the status quo and give investors a return at least some kind of predictability that can help keep the stock market's bullish trend in place.
Assuming this happens, it's entirely possible that the market could stage yet another broad-based rally to a new set of all-time highs. Which are the sectors that might be the biggest beneficiaries? I think there are two; here they are.
While a divided House may blunt many of the reforms and initiatives the Trump administration still has plans for, one of the things that both sides seem to agree on is the need for improved infrastructure. A major spending bill may be hard to come by, but any progress on this front should act as a positive for this sector. Consider also that tariff and trade concerns have put major pressure on the sector throughout the year; even with the sector's rebound since the end of October, which is about 10% from October 30th to now as measured by the SPDR Industrial Sector ETF (XLI), it remains down by a little over 10% from its 52-week highs. That gives the industry lots of room to rally even more, with increased chances that the absence of political complications could contribute even more.
This sector has been one of the biggest underperformers throughout the year, as pricing and supply pressures among chipmakers have pushed stocks lower. A major argument for the President's aggressive trade stance towards China has centered around the semiconductor industry and concerns about intellectual property protections and even theft. Many of the pricing pressures that have pushed semi stocks lower may not abate quickly. I also think, however that a changed political reality could force the Trump administration to try to make a trade deal with China more quickly than it might do otherwise; and I would expect that to provide at least an emotional reason for investors to start making new bets on a sector that has been beaten down by almost 15%, based on the Ishares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX) from its 52-week highs.


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Then, I want to show something like this only if the variable is not empty.
I am not sure what the best way to do it.
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Is this correct?
Thanks!

A: I'd code it like so, with the assumption that $multi_images is an array of images.
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A: Are you calling a variable or a function?
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Each one is different. If you want to validate a response from a function you'll use:
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on a variable:
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to check that the response is not empty. You'll want to use the exclamation mark !  so it'll be:
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Sometimes you can find something beautiful just outside your home. This little mushroom was on a broken tree only a few steps away from where I live.
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Driftwood totem pole at Ohope, Eastern Bay of Plenty.
Totem in driftwood. One of the special driftwood logs that have been crafted into magnificent maori carved poles at Ohope towards Ohiwa.


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Finally exam had ended…I remembered the day I was reading and memorizing History facts, I thought I would get a C soon, because things simply couldn't get into my mind. Well I knew that I couldn't concentrate on Bio, Chemistry, Physics and History test when something bears me in my mind. That's why I didn't do well in these tests especially Chemistry =.= how sad…I finally realized that the scolding was true --- I really didn't put all my effort in it, since it is just a test after all. Or I am more concerned in other things than this exam? My heart simply knew it better than me myself.
A day after exam, some results were out =.= since when the teachers became so efficient? And to my surprise, my result for History is the one that I satisfied the most. But…with those silly mistakes I have made, I felt kinda regretted… Anyway things had passed and this is not any important case I would say here =X.


Music appreciation is something I struggle with teaching. I am thankful Mrs. Washburn and I crossed paths a couple of months ago! She offered our family the opportunity to review her comprehensive, open-and-go, music appreciation curriculum Beethoven Who? Family Fun with Music. She is also offering one of my readers a free PDF copy of Beethoven Who? As an added bonus, Mrs. Washburn is offering, Teaching Your Family to Play the Recorder, PDF to anyone who purchases Beethoven Who? by Saturday, Sept. 22. ~Details under Pricing and Giveaway at the end.
What is Beethoven Who? Family Fun with Music?
Beethoven Who? is an open-and-go PDF resource. You can plan ahead as to which element you'd like to study or just open and decide on the spot what you'd like to learn. It is extremely flexible. I believe this curriculum could take at least two years to thoroughly complete! I can see using this resource multiple times throughout the elementary and even into the middle and possibly the high school years as well.
I also appreciate that she gives many ideas on how to use her curriculum. There is no wrong order or wrong way to introduce the material ~ find what is interesting and go with it. I found her curriculum easy to apply in our homeschool.
Additionally, I love the way Mrs. Washburn writes. She is down to earth and explains everything in simple, easy to understand terms for the average, non-musical parent like me.
This pdf ebook is over 300 pages long. It's massive. I found myself needing over a week to become acquainted with the ebook.
· Unlock the mysteries of musical notation.
· Grow comfortable using the vocabulary of music.
· Find appealing classical, traditional, folk, patriotic, and sacred music.
· Enjoy fun hands-on activities with your children as you explore music together.
· Tie in music with other subjects and interests.
· Share your music with others.
I began by introducing the children to the composer of Carnival of the Animals, Camille Saint-Saëns on page 92. We then clicked on the musical link that directed us to a you tube video of that piece with beautiful paintings of the featured animal during 'their' piece. As we listened, the children were compelled to dance and act out the animal parts. This is suggested by Mrs. Washburn and I was pleased that the little ones automatically did this on their own. We listened for the elements Mrs. Washburn recommended such as staccato and lento, which are also defined and explained. We tried activities such as count how many lion roars we hear in "Royal March of the Lion".
She offers three pages of hands on activities for this musical piece and links to a squiddo of even more activities. We took a full week and a half to slowly enjoy and explore the many elements of Carnival of the Animals. Mrs. Washburn encourages parents to tailor the lessons to the individual family.
Next, I jumped to Action Songs. We have enjoyed this section immensely also! If you don't know the motions to Mulberry Bush, Farmer in the Dell, PawPaw Patch, Pop Goes the Weasel and so many more - no problem. Mrs. Washburn does an excellent job explaining how to perform these timeless action songs. (There's usually a little history on the piece included as well.) Our kids love music combined with movement. These activities are always a hit!
From here on out, we've been jumping around finding elements that apply to our current studies. For example, C8 is playing a Mozart piece in piano. We found Mozart in this curriculum and did the music appreciation activities that pertained to him. I see this program lasting through many years of study.
Why Should I Teach My Children Music? p. 7 ~ This section inspired me and got me excited to teach music. I love the Christian references Mrs. Washburn uses to encourage and inspire. She talks about artistic expression, intellectual benefits, discipline that gives way to contentment and satisfaction, physical coordination, emotional release, and social benefits.
Section II: Reading Music ~ this section also includes activities to teach pitch, rhythm, form, dynamics, tempo, musical terms, etc.
Marcia Washburn holds a Master's in Music Education. She taught public school music for eight years prior to the birth of their oldest son. She has operated several businesses including a profitable piano studio. She and her husband homeschooled their five sons in rural Colorado for nineteen years.
This ebook is on sale for 19.99. Regular price is 29.99. ~ If you are eager to get started right away, you don't have to wait to see if you are the winner of this giveaway. You may buy it here. Mrs. Washburn will refund your money if you are the winner!
Also, from Mrs. Washburn ~ "In addition to the special price, anyone who orders Beethoven by Sat., Sept 22 may write me at marcia@marciawashburn.com and I will send them a free copy of my 33-page ebook, Teach Your Family to Play the Soprano Recorder. Even non-music readers can use this proven method."
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Disclaimer: I received a copy of Beethoven Who? Family Fun with Music in exchange for my honest review.
This would be a great resource for us! It's nice to have a ready to go set for music appreciation!
I've been looking for a resource to use for music appreciation, I'd love to win this!
I could sure use some help teaching this area myself. This looks like a great resource!
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I really need some sort of guide to help my kids with music appreciation and theory. I am so lost!!
I'd love to win b/c music is often overlooked in our house (despite having many musically talented people in our family).
We need more music appreciation -- and understanding the notation, etc. in our homeschool. I was a band geek in high school, we listen to various composers of classical music, but I feel incompetent to do much more. We need this!
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The Luckless (Second Age of Retha #1)
Available in: Kindle, Paperback
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Stuck in a brutal MMORPG as the worst character ever…
Welcome to Retha, the full submersion video game where you can be the hero of your own adventure. Unfortunately for Kit, it only takes one moment to turn the game into a nightmare.
When Chronicles of Retha experiences a software malfunction, Kit—a disenchanted veteran player—is stuck in the game without a way to log off. Even worse, she's trapped playing as the most defective character possible, an elf dancer that was meant to be a prank.
Thankfully, she receives word that there is a way out. But the only escape route is to defeat the game's ultimate villain. Kit, in her joke character, must fight her way through some of the worst Retha has to offer. Her only help is a party of low-leveled players just as powerless as she is, and the occasional act of mercy from one of the best players in the game, the taciturn (and aloof) Solus Miles.
Can Kit and her new friends finish the quest, or will Retha be their end?
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Frank Gu, Shengyan Liu, Lyndon Jones; Long-lasting eye drop delivery platform for targeted ocular delivery applications. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2013;54(15):1074.
Purpose: Common topical formulations, such as eye drops or ointments, suffer from low ocular bioavailability due to rapid drainage through the naso-lacrimal duct, nearly constant dilution by tear turnover, and low drug permeability across the corneal epithelium. As a result, topical formulations are normally administered multiple times daily in order to achieve therapeutic efficacy, resulting in a higher potential for side effects and lower patient compliance. Our study aims to design nano-scaled drug carriers to overcome the rapid clearance of current eye drop solutions thereby improving drug retention on the corneal surface.
Methods: NPs composed of poly(D,L-lactide)-b-Dextran (PLA-Dex) surface functionalized with a mucoadhesive ligand, phenylboronic acid (PBA), were developed as drug carriers. Using Cyclosporine A (CycA) as a model drug, CycA molecules were encapsulated within PLA-Dex using emulsification. Controlled drug release and biocompatibility studies were performed in vitro and in vivo.
Results: We showed that the nanoparticle carrier can be used to release CycA in vitro and in vivo. The average size of NPs were found to be in the range of 25 and 28 nm. The NPs showed encapsulated up to 13.7 wt% CycA and exhibited sustained release for up to 5 days in vitro at a clinically relevant dose. We fine-tuned the PBA density on the NP surface to maximize the mucin-NP interaction without compromising the particle stability in vitro. We showed that the NP formulation did not significantly affect the transparency or the solution viscosity, which improves patient compliance. The surfaces of the nanoparticles have a defined number of ligands capable of targeting the corneal surface, allowing drugs encapsulated in the particles to effectively circumvent the tear turnover mechanism, and significantly improving their corneal retention.
Conclusions: The surface of the nanoparticle formed from a linear block copolymer poly(D,L-lactide)-b-Dextran was modified with PBA to form a mucoadhesive nanoparticle for topical ocular drug delivery application. The simplicity of NP design suggests it can deliver a wide range of bioactive agents including both hydrophilic and hydrophobic compounds. These results suggest the potential of our nanoparticle approach can be used as a platform technology to provide long-lasting delivery of therapeutic agents to treat anterior eye diseases.


"Implementation of new disclosures should not be an afterthought".
Those are words to read and heed, members of the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Standards Board suggest. And read them again, and act, please—soon—for the good of your going concern, standard-setters urge.
So will investors, who likely will be ready to pore over the newly prescribed enhanced disclosures on how revenue is booked.
A One-Hour Primer and Advice Manual.
In the Sept. 15 webcast's one hour, members of the FASB and IASB, as well as revenue mavens on the staffs of each board, offered a comprehensive primer and advice manual on the jointly written standards that were issued more than two years ago. The rules' original 2017 effective date was deferred a year to give companies more time for a smooth transition to them.
In their on-line presentation, FASB Vice Chairman James Kroeker, IASB member Mary Tokar, senior staff accountants Cullen Walsh (FASB) and Henry Rees (IASB) and the FASB staff's Mary Mazzella, supervising manager of the revenue recognition project, cut to the essence of things even while drilling down into issues and going through illustrative examples.
There Will Be Judgment: The new rules and the five-step revenue recognition process t will require judgment, but "that isn't boundless judgment," said the FASB vice chairman.
Disclosures are Huge: Today's typical footnote reporting on revenue is seen as incomplete and not especially illuminating, so the two boards prescribe beefed-up disclosures related to the revenue reporting process—and companies shouldn't wait to the last minute to get ready for those, IASB's Tokar said.
Disclosures Should Tell a Story: Footnote reporting requirements shouldn't be treated as a checklist, but should be regarded as an opportunity for a company "to tell its story about its different sources of revenue and how it has applied the principles" in the rules to its particular lines of business and types of contracts, Tokar added.
Big Effects of IDing Performance Obligations: Of the rules' prescriptions, having to identify performance obligations in revenue-generating contracts —a critical step in the accounting—seems to be affecting many companies the most, according to a webcast polling question.
The FASB may or may not hold a meeting in November of the advisory Transition Resource Group for Revenue Recognition. Implementation questions submitted to the TRG that have gained traction are fewer and further between – a good thing as the 2018 effective date draws nearer, Kroeker suggested.
As company CPAs roll up their sleeves and start tilling the new soil of revenue, they likely will benefit from spending some quality time with the Sept. 15 webcast. Accountants, financial executives and auditors will have a chance to tune into the archived recording of the webcast for 180 days by going to http//src.bna.com/iDF.


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2018 Candidate News
Meet Michael Sussman, Legendary Civil Rights Attorney and Attorney General Candidate
I think Michael Sussman is the best kept secret in this year's statewide elections.
He is — by far — the most experienced lawyer running, having litigated historic civil rights cases that impacted countless lives.
He has the independence from the big party political machines to investigate public corruption wherever it leads.
Sussman has over 40 years experience in the fields of civil rights, environmental law, special education law, sexual harassment, police brutality, and public corruption.
He has litigated hundreds of cases at every level — local, state, and federal — right up to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Representing the Yonkers Branch of the NAACP between 1981 and 2007, Sussman won more than $400 million from the City of Yonkers, HUD, and the State of New York to repair the damages they caused by promoting school and housing segregation in Yonkers. His fight was depicted in the HBO miniseries, "Show Me a Hero."
Sussman was the lawyer who won $45 million from the State of New York for Black and Latino civil service workers who suffered discrimination in promotions due to biases in civil service tests.
Sussman won a $6 million settlement for the family of DJ Henry, a Black student at Pace University killed by a white village cop in Westchester County in 2010. The District Attorney would't prosecute. Sussman asked Governor Paterson to appoint a special prosecutor, but Paterson refused. So Sussman sued civilly and won. He continues to advocate for a state law requiring independent prosecutors because DAs and local law enforcement have an inherent conflict of interest in police brutality cases because they work so closely together on a daily basis.
Sussman has far more experience in the courts than all of the candidates running for AG combined, including all the Democratic primary contenders.
Being independent of the both corporate parties, he will investigate Trump AND Cuomo.
The corporate media, acting as state media for the two-party state, isn't telling you about Michael Sussman.
Come and find out for yourself.
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In 1996, during sessions for their third album, Radiohead recorded a track called Lift. Like much of their new material, it had first been performed during a disastrous American tour that same year, supporting Alanis Morissette. But unlike the other new songs Radiohead had played, Lift had gone down well. Listening to it on the 20th anniversary reissue of OK Computer, you can see why: it is blessed with an immense, air-punch-inducing chorus. The thing is, Lift is on the second disc, the one filled with B-sides and outtakes. Knowing they had a huge, self-evident hit on their hands, Radiohead deliberately left it off the album they were making.
Such was the curious, peevish atmosphere in which OK Computer was created. Since its release, it has been held up as a game-changing state-of-the-world address, a critique of globalisation and consumerism. An album created in a world where the internet had yet to take off, it eerily prefigured the themes of alienation and information overload that everyone would start discussing the minute it did. But its origins are substantially more prosaic: OK Computer feels like a reaction to the band's experience of promoting its predecessor, 1995's The Bends. Indeed, it may be history's most brilliantly disguised example of an old musical tradition: the successful rock band moaning about the day-to-day business of being in a successful rock band. For all the camouflage – the lyrics are elliptical enough to make scrolling through the various interpretations online a matter of days rather than hours – its roots keep showing through. The opening of Let Down reads suspiciously like a retelling of the Morissette support-slot imbroglio. The ingratiating glad-handing depicted in Electioneering; the longing for suburban normality on No Surprises; the fretful obsession with travel, underlined by the sound of an airport tannoy on B-side A Reminder; the cast of ghastly, coke-fuelled characters on Karma Police and Paranoid Android: all of it feels like the product of months spent traipsing around the midwest. Even the lyrical tone of overheated chippiness ("We hope you choke"; "When I am king you will be first against the wall") seems to speak of endless hours cooped up on a tour bus, endlessly picking things over in your mind.
The fact that OK Computer continues to feel like substantially more than rock stars moaning about being rock stars has as much to do with the music as Yorke's lyrical ability to turn his personal bugbears into something more universal. OK Computer was thick with memorable tunes, and a few songs as straightforwardly beautiful as Lift slipped through the net, not least Let Down. But in an era when their peers were striving for uncomplicated mass appeal, OK Computer was dense and clotted and experimental. Stuffed with knotty guitar riffs, shifts in tempo, clashing time signatures, bursts of fuzzy electronics, percussive clatter and Mellotron strings, its sound appears to be as much about information overload as its lyrics. There's a lot going on at any given point: even the robot-voiced interlude Fitter Happier arrives augmented with studio chatter, strings, feedback and a mournful piano backing that sounds not unlike Sonic Youth's Providence. Indeed, for all that it seemed fresh and brainy in the teeth of Britpop's lowest-common-denominator pandering, OK Computer wasn't without precedent. You can hear the Pixies in Electioneering's distorted white-knuckle din. While Radiohead were apparently irked by being described as prog rock, when confronted by, say, Paranoid Android – six and a half minutes long, in four episodic parts with a section in 7/8 time and a title inspired by a sci-fi novel, which began life clocking in at more than 14 minutes, replete with a lengthy Pink-Floyd-esque organ solo – the desire to call a spade a spade becomes overwhelming.
Prog or not, it proved hugely influential, and not just on Muse, who built an entire career on the moment 2min 45sec into Paranoid Android, when the distorted guitar riff kicks in. It says something about the length of the shadow OK Computer cast over subsequent rock that one track from the reissue's bonus disc, I Promise, has been playlisted on Radio 2 and 6Music as if it were a new single ; 20 years old, it doesn't sound out of place amid the latest releases by Grizzly Bear, Alvvays and the National.
But, at least initially, the influence OK Computer had was slightly different from the one its makers might have hoped for. Subsequent artists alighted not on its experimentation, but its doleful don't-get-your-hopes-up tone; the octave leaps in Thom Yorke's vocals, rather than his elliptical, political lyrics; not the thrillingly chaotic sound of Electioneering, but the mid-tempo piano-led chug of No Surprises. Worse, they blended these with the music you suspect Radiohead saw as OK Computer's diametric opposite, the plodding, scarf-waving, Hey-Jude-aping balladry of Oasis's Don't Look Back in Anger – here was the cocktail that gave the world Coldplay, Keane, even James Blunt. What no one, including Radiohead, did was make another album that really sounds like OK Computer. Which is another reason why it doesn't appear to have dated at all.


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Pakistani Christian woman forced to marry Muslim kidnapper wins freedom in court
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Pakistan, April 17, 2017: A Pakistani Christian mother of three who was abducted, raped, and forced into an Islamic marriage over two years ago has finally won her freedom after a court granted her a divorce from the man whom she was forced to marry.
The London-based charity British Pakistani Christian Association has announced that 31-year-old Fouzia Bibi, a bonded laborer in Pattoki who was kidnapped by her 61-year-old boss, Muhammed Nazir, in July 2015, was granted an official separation after a Lahore family court heard her testimony late last month.
As previously reported, Bibi and her family lived as bonded laborers at a brick kiln owned by Nazir. After Nazir's wife died, he began making sexual advances toward Bibi.
On July 23, 2015, Nazir asked Bibi to provide cleaning services at his home. After Bibi didn't return home in the next two days, her family grew concerned and was later told by Nazir that Bibi had converted and accepted Islamic marriage.
Although her family was able to help her escape from Nazir's home in early 2016, Nazir and his family filed a police report against Bibi, alleging that Bibi stole jewelry from his home. According to the BPCA, police officials went to Bibi's family home and threatened to arrest another member of the family if Bibi was not returned to Nazir.
Although BPCA offered to hide Bibi, her brother and sister in a safehouse inside Pakistan, it was reported in March 2016 that the family reluctantly returned Bibi to Nazir to prevent the family from suffering further persecution.
After spending several months more as Nazir's slave, the BPCA announced that it helped the family rescue Bibi last October. Bibi had been given shelter and aid at a BPCA safehouse.
"I thought God had left me and wanted to end my life. I stopped praying and hated myself. I thought I was evil and had done something to make God hate me," Fouzia told BPCA, adding that Nazir made her cook, clean and fulfil his sexual desires. "I felt dirty and unclean all the time, the monster made me do things I am so ashamed of. But I had no choice. It made me angry that God was blaming me."
After BPCA learned about a new law that stiffens punishments for perpetrators who force minors and religious minority women into marriages in Pakistan, it persuaded the family to seek a legal divorce in court. After hiring a lawyer named Naiz Aamer, a divorce case was filed with a family court in Lahore on Feb. 13.
BPCA reports that Nazir failed to show up for their hearing on March 17. Then on March 27, Bibi recorded her testimony for the the court and detailed her horrifying experiences living as Nazir's sex slave. Bibi was later granted the divorce from Nazir.
"Fouzia's freedom will hopefully be a trigger for more escapees. Thousands of Christian girls are trapped in forced Islamic marriages and they are all praying for their emancipation," BPCA Chairman Wilson Chowdhry said in a statement shared with The Christian Post. "This judgement is a leap toward a more just Pakistan but our work has only started. We are making it an ultimate priority of our group to continue to free these poor girls."
Since the court's ruling, Bibi's family has fled from Nazir's brick kiln. Instead of working as bonded laborers, the family has been set up with work in a factory.
According to a 2014 report from the NGO Movement of Solidarity and Peace, anywhere between 100 to 700 Christians girls are abducted, raped and forced into Islamic marriages every year.
"We have set up a series of safehouses for this specific purpose and are engaging with communities to ensure previously hopeless families know that help is on the horizon," Chowdhry said. "Christians in Pakistan need to remember resolutely that their God is a mighty God who conquers all."
The BPCA is accepting online donations that will go to help other families like Bibi's who are facing severe persecution in Pakistan, which ranks as the four worst country in the world when it comes the persecution of Christians by Open Doors USA.


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Changes to Football Games
Gabrielle Villanueva
Kevin Fielder, Staff Writer
Following a shooting at a Palm Beach Central football game, the Palm Beach County School District announced changes that will take effect this week and for the rest of the 2018 season.
The changes that affect Santaluces games, including the home opener Friday against Forest Hill include:
Games will begin at 6 p.m. for all high school football games.
No spectators will be allowed entry following the kick-off of the third quarter. Spectators also will not be allowed re-entry if they choose to leave the game at any point during the duration of the game.
No purses or backpacks will be allowed into the game; only bags that are clear. All bags are subject to search. Spectators are also subject to search and a metal detector security wand will be used at the entrance.
The shooting at Palm Beach Central involved two gunmen outside the stadium, left two injured, and forced the Kickoff Classic game between Palm Beach Central and Dwyer to end in the third quarter.
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Sr. Marie Eugene Charbonneau , OP, entered eternal life on Thursday, June 25, 2009, at the age of 83 after 63 years of religious life. Mass of Christian Burial was on Monday, June 29, 2009, at 4:00 PM, :at Dominican Chapel/Marywood. Evening Prayer with Rememberingwas held on Sunday, June 28, 2009, at 7:00 PM, at Dominican Chapel/Marywood.
"We come to different callings, doing the will of God. God didn't do just one thing. Why should we?" This was Sister Marie Eugene's comment when she retired after 52 years as an elementary teacher. Her teaching career was one of constant growth.
Before fulfilling that wish, Jeannette worked as a secretary for the Algo Shutter and Manufacturing Company. In September of 1945, she entered Marywood as a postulant. At reception she took the name of Sister Marie Eugene of St. Joseph . At the time of her profession in 1947 there was a shortage of teachers and like many of her classmates she was sent out to teach without further training. After three years at Holy Family, Saginaw , she helped open St. Mary's School in Alma and she taught there for nine years. One of her second-graders and a life-long friend was Danny Goggin, who years later entertained audiences with the comedy Nunsense.
Sister Marie Eugene also taught for eight years in New Mexico at St. Francis, Ranchos de Taos and St. Anthony, Penasco. On her return to Michigan she taught at St. Joseph , Pewamo and then in 1978 with Sister Mary Alvesteffer on Beaver Island . They were the last in a line of Dominicans who had served the parish and the public school since 1899. They left the Island in 1991. From there Sister Marie Eugene responded to an invitation from the sisters and pastor to teach at St. Michael's, Brunswick . The pastor, Fr. Donn Tufts, gave her Bailey, a large Newfoundland/Black Labrador mix, who moved freely around the school, the convent and the church.
In January 1999, Sister Marie Eugene taught her last class in Brunswick , intending a low-key departure. But the Muskegon newspaper ran a lengthy illustrated article on her years in the classroom over the half-century. Included were memories by Dan Goggin, who named the off-stage nun in the play after her. "She was a funny nun. She was a wonderful character . . . and certainly part of the whole sense of humor that grew out of growing up Catholic." She was regarded as a master teacher with the ability to motivate children to achieve beyond their grade levels. Other tributes to her include the Third Annual Woman Educator of the Year award from Delta Kappa Gamma Society ( Boyne City ) in 1982 and the Salute to Educators Award from the Fremont Area Foundation in 1997.
After her retirement from teaching, Sister Marie Eugene moved to Marywood, where she engaged in volunteer ministries in the mailroom, dining room and Dominican Center .
On Sunday mornings she rose early to receive the morning newspapers. She was quiet, unpretentious and optimistic. Sister Marie Eugene enjoyed reading and playing cards. She was skilled in many handicrafts and provided the Marywood Health Center gift shop with several beautiful crocheted items.
In the spring of 2009 Sr. Marie Eugene was diagnosed with advanced cancer and chose to go on Hospice care. Residing at the Marywood Health Center she inspired both patients and staff with her peaceful and cheerful acceptance of each day of life. Mid-afternoon of Thursday, June 25 she peacefully and quietly left this life for eternity with the God she knew so well.
These wonderful birds are congregating in the open hay fields on Sloptown Road. As they began to land in the field, a decision needed to be made. Which way should we go? A little confusion was quickly ended as the decision was to go right back underneath the same tree as last week's sunny picture showed.
It's vacation time! If the sun doesn't shine, who cares? Fun can be had even in the cooler, dreary weather!
Thinking that the pictures that were taken were of eagles, the level of excitement grew and grew. There seemed to be a pair of golden eagles in the dead tree out at Gull Harbor. "Where's the good camera?" was exclaimed loudly. The little camera could not zoom in close enough to get a proper identification. Neither could the zoom lens on the better camera. Research on the Internet confirmed that this pair was not and eagle pair, but a pair of turkey vultures instead.
The soaring of the bird, the color of the wings in the sunshine, and desire to make this an eagle would not make it an eagle. The red head gives this eagle look-alike away.
On the evening of Saturday, June 27, 2009, the Beaver Island Community Center was sold out for the performance of Claudia Schmidt and the Jump Boys. Claudia referred several times throughout their performance to her wonderful times operating the Old Rectory. She mentioned that some members of the current group were stranded by fog on the Island for three days and had an opportunity to play music day in and day out. The guitarist even wrote a song about this situation appropriately named the "Beaver Island Blues."
Singing the "Beaver Island Blues"
The B-25 did a fly-over of Paradise Bay at approximately 3:40 p.m. on June 26, 2009.
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In an article published in the Bronson healthcare news at the link posted below, Kristen Russell is recognized for her excellent treatment of a trauma patient. BICS retired teacher Joe Moore introduced Kristen to emergency medical assessment and treatment in the Allied Health courses that Kristen took at BICS. The program was sponsored by BIEMS, offered through BICS, and met the requirements for a Michigan Department of Education vocational program.
"Kristen took the medical first responder program as a required course for all tenth grade students. She went on to take the EMT program and the Kellogg Community College paramedic program. Kristen's family, including Mike and Bev Russell, was a very important part of the history of EMS on Beaver Island helping BIEMS become an Advanced Life Support Agency. I am very proud to have been a part of Kristen's education," stated Joe Moore retired BICS teacher.
"On a cold winter afternoon this past January, road conditions were good for business for 55-year-old tow truck company owner Victor Potter. Roads were slick and conditions hazardous, and Potter was busy towing vehicles involved in slide-offs. While unhooking a car from his tow truck that had slid off the highway near Marshall , Michigan , he did not notice a car coming up behind him. Potter was struck by the car he had towed out of the ditch after it was rearended at an estimated speed of 45 miles per hour. Witnesses immediately called for help, and Marshall Area Fire Fighters were quick to respond. Paul Crim, EMT-B, and Kristen Russell, EMT-P, promptly responded to the scene, where they found Potter leaning over the tow bar. Upon first assessment, vital signs were stable. Spinal precautions were taken with the placement of a cervical spine collar and backboard. Oxygen was administered via non-rebreather mask and intravenous access was obtained. Fluids and pain medication were administered. An obvious deformity to the left leg was noted. When Potter started complaining of difficulty breathing and asking repetitive questions, the decision was made to transport him directly from the scene to Bronson Methodist Hospital 's Level I Trauma Center. Marshall Area Fire Fighters pulled into Bronson's ambulance bay a little more than an hour from arrival time…….. "
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The ocean's creatures have always fascinated me, and the threats to the animals of the world like industrialization has always stood in the spotlight in my mind. I, Blobfish started when I first discovered the blobfish online. The fish's 'frown' and 'nose', and strange look in all made me want to find out more about the blobfish. I soon found out that they were endangered, which led to me making blobfish 'save the blob' T-shirts'.
The T-shirts featured a blobfish character who looked similar yet quite different to the 2018 I, Blobfish character. It, too, wore a top hat, and that became the similarity between it and all following blobfish characters. The T-shirts were a hit, and the idea of a website to save endangered animals created the first I, Blobfish website.
The first website's design was almost nothing like the one today, although the blue and white I, Blobfish logo stuck. It was devoted to saving all endangered animals, which was a very serious topic, but a year later I realized that what my website was missing was some sort of fun. And so I started to write and draw comics.
First came a book that I was going to call 'Blobfish', an adventure book about a blobfish's journey to defeat a television god. It was pretty good, but the characters and plot didn't work out too well. Then I started making science-themed stand-alone blobfish comics in a notebook, which I had thought would turn into a small series of books about science. But then I realized that they would lead me away from the topic of the website: saving endangered animals, and so that idea was gone. However, I had perfected the blobfish character, so I kept him for ideas in the future, and he has hardly changed.
I began to look through other comic books, like the Smurfs, and Garfield. That was when I realized that stand-alone comics would be best. I started to doodle small comics, featuring animals on land and underwater. But that didn't work, because blobfishes are strictly marine creatures. So, the new ocean-themed I, Blobfish comics were born.


>> British soldiers arriving in Estonia as part of a NATO mission to deter neighboring Russia. Almost 130 troops landing at the Amari military base, 25 miles southwest of the capital Tallinn, late on Friday. The first of 800 to come, a part of a strategy agreed by NATO leaders last July in a move to reassure member states, once part of the Soviet bloc, now alarmed by Russia's seizure of Crimea from Ukraine.
We are welcoming the first part of the British troops to Estonia. And it is very important that we are understanding that it's not a question about protecting Estonia, it's a question about protecting NATO and EU eastern boarder. We know, as well, that Russia acting aggressively, Russia is still violating international law.
>> NATO planning to move around 4,000 troops into Northeastern Europe on a rotational basis, focusing on Poland and the Baltic States that fear Moscow could destabilize them.>> We're obviously here to reassure our NATO allies, trained in a multi-national battle group, along with the Danish, the French. And obviously underneath an Estorian brigade as well, and get some real good multi-national training.


The longest running superhero show on TV will come to an end this fall. Oliver Queen actor Stephen Amell took to Twitter to announce that the next season of Arrow will be its last.
The timing of the show's exit from The CW will likely coincide with this fall's crossover, Crisis on Infinite Earths. Late last year during the Elseworlds event, it became clear that Oliver Queen's time in the Arrowverse may be coming to an end as he made an offscreen deal with The Monitor to save the lives of Barry Allen and Kara Danvers.
What was your favorite moment on Arrow? Let us know in the comments below!
Arrow airs Monday nights at 8/7c on The CW.
The show stars Stephen Amell, David Ramsey, Emily Bett Rickards, Colton Haynes, Katie Cassidy, Rick Gonzalez, Juliana Harkavy, and Kirk Acevedo.


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Dewar 'not considering' leadership run, says party needs to rebuild from the bottom up
by Kyle Duggan (feat. Paul Dewar)
iPolitics
Former NDP MP Paul Dewar says he hasn't had time to think about whether he wants to launch another bid for the NDP leadership since his unexpected defeat by the Liberal wave in Ottawa Centre last Oct. 19.
Though he won't rule out a run to succeed Tom Mulcair, Dewar says he's not sure what's next on his horizon.
He's spent his time since he left the House traveling – Lebanon, Texas, Ukraine – working with a local refugee group in Ottawa, and is a fellow at the Global Affairs Institute.
"It's something I'm not considering right now. I've had people ask me, but I've said 'look, I'm going to focus on some other things.' I actually haven't had any time since the election.
"As I joke with my wife, I haven't figured out what I want to do with my life yet."
As the NDP wades into a serious soul-searching journey over what exactly it should forge itself into against a charismatic Prime Minister leading a party that outflanked them on the left in the election, Dewar points to one lesson digested from that defeat: letting the party base take greater control of direction.
The LEAP Manifesto, a left-wing policy prescription called radical by some that has already divided the Alberta and federal wings of the party over fossil fuels, will be debated by party rank and file over the next two years. A recent EKOS poll showed that 50 per cent of Liberals and 54 per cent of NDP voters say they support it, pointing to a looming, potentially painful debate in the shadow of a governing party that's left the NDP with not much room to maneuver.
Dewar, who became the party's senior transition adviser and worked on its election post-mortem following his defeat, said what he takes from that is that people are searching for new ideas.
"That's a message to all politicians. They want vision and they want leadership and if you have ideas, that's what people are looking for."
"People are thirsty, we should quench their thirst."
For the party not to go through the briar patch debating Leap would be to not learn from the last campaign, in which they were "too cautious," says Dewar. Whether the controversial document promises to protract the party's identity crisis, he had a wait-and-see attitude – and deferred to the rest of party membership to sort it out.
The debate will inevitably return an age-old question for the party — does it act as a voice of conscience, or spend its efforts on winning and forming government?
Dewar, whose NDP pedigree as the son of the late Ottawa mayor and NDP MP Marion Dewar is powerful, calls that a false dichotomy. "We can do both," he said.
"Look, if you want to actually have your ideas and your values represented, I think you shouldn't shy away from the fact you want to become government. But within that frame you should also acknowledge that it needs to be a value and not just about…'we'll throw this policy aside or not engage on that issue' because it's too controversial because it will affect our electability."
The same poll said most Canadians see a role for the NDP — they just don't know what it is right now. Dewar said the party needs to take that question back to its base and answer it before it worries about electoral math.
For young and active NDPers looking to veteran NDP MPs for guidance on reshaping the party, Dewar's advice would be for them to turn to each other in search of ideas and direction, rather than have veterans like him act as a lighthouse leading the party into the future.
Dewar's own diplomatic, if somewhat vague, overall vision for the party isn't so much based on a particular political direction as it is a push for bottom-up reform and giving "a voice to the people who haven't been involved in politics who just got involved."
"That's a vision about being a party really about grassroots," he said. "And we weren't that, in the end. We lost our way with that."
In the short term, he backs Mulcair staying on as interim leader, saying the party will need a strong presence in the House as it figures out next steps while the Conservatives go through the same leadership motions.
"The fact that he's staying on is more of an indication of his character than anything. He could have easily said 'OK, that's enough', left and stayed on as an MP. It's an important indication from him, personally, that he was ready to stay on…and seems to be accepted as a good thing."
The next leader, he says, needs to be fired up and ready for a tough job retooling, but he shrugged off the suggestion that the challenge of redefining the party could be hindering any big name party vets from stepping forward yet, noting the position has "never been a guaranteed joy ride."
"It's never been an easy task, and it will be a big challenge, but whoever takes this on will have to have that fire in the belly to look towards the future."
Dewar does miss his time in the House of Commons, minus watching some cynical political plays, but is currently enjoying a much quieter life.
"I loved it," he said. "But there's always other things to do. I never planned my life to be an MP forever… It can be quite hard on your personal life."
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Q: How to proof the intersection of two closed convex cones is a closed convex cone? Let $C$ and $D$ be closed convex cones in $R^n$. I am trying to show that $C\cap D$ is a closed cone.
I started with
Take any point $x_1 \in C$  and $x_2 \in D$ with $\theta_1,\theta_2\geq0$ and $\theta_1+\theta_2=1$.
After that I do not think I am doing it right. I think I am suppose to let $x=\theta_1x_1+\theta_2x_2$ and show that $x\in C\cap D$? Am I on the right track?

A: Start with $x_1,x_2 \in C \cap D.$ Now, this means that $x_1,x_2 \in C$. Because $C$ is a convex cone, we know that for any $\theta_1,\theta_2>0$ that $$\theta_1x_1+\theta_2x_2 \in C.$$ Similarly, $$\theta_1x_1+\theta_2x_2 \in D.$$ Hence, $$\theta_1x_1+\theta_2x_2 \in C\cap D$$ hence $C \cap D$ is convex. Now, just show it must also be a cone. Simply show that $\alpha > 0, x_1 \in C \cap D \Rightarrow\alpha x_1 \in C \cap D.$ This is straightforward.

A: To show that $C\cap D$ is a convex cone, you should start from $x_1,x_2\in C\cap D$.
The intersection of any two closed sets is always closed.