Imagine a world where every child made choices based on a mindset of compassion for the self, compassion for others and compassion for the planet… how different our world would be.
Compassion for the self, goes hand in hand with self-love, as when we truly love ourselves we can do no harm to others.
Here is a fun class activity to reinforce self love in young minds.
Sit children in a circle with a jigsaw puzzle, ask the children to put the jigsaw puzzle together.
Once the puzzle has been completed, engage with the children and ask them what they think the purpose of the exercise was.
Many will say teamwork, great, acknowledge this and thank everyone for their feedback.
Now remove two pieces from the completed puzzle.
Ask children if the pieces are the same……..discuss the fact that they are different shape, sizes, colour etc.
Now observe the puzzle with the class and discuss the fact that without these two pieces the puzzle is incomplete.
Then discuss with group, using the jigsaw puzzle as your visual aid the importance of each piece to make the puzzle complete.
Then progress to explain in the puzzle of life, each person is unique and special and of equal importance to make the world complete.
As each piece of the jigsaw puzzle has a unique role of equal importance to its completion, so in life each child has a unique role of equal importance to complete the world.
The session can be ended with the children sitting and taking a moment to acknowledge in the their own mind that they are unique and special and of equal importance to the world and giving themselves a love filled hug of gratitude for the wonderment of themselves.


For a person who is diabetic, it is important that such a person take good care of the body or else it will result in serious health issues. The same goes for the people who are trying to lose weight but still not compromise their health. People having diabetes will need to be careful about their sugar levels in a body during any weight loss timeframe. You will need to limit too much intake of sugar and carbohydrates. This is where that 1200 calorie diabetic diet was invented. There is the need to understand wholly how this diet works before actually using it.
Most people will want to skip some meals when trying to lose some weight. We cannot say the same for diabetic people. They are not allowed to skip meals since it can lead to dangerous drops in the levels of sugar in the body. This will make such a patient have hypoglycemia, which is not good for their health. You will need a well-balanced meal or snack every few hours. When a person is supposed to have constant snacks, it means that they might have to consider the low-calorie foods to prevent exceeding the 1200 calories per day.
A person needs to have a controlled carbohydrate intake for this type of diet. Carbohydrates are known for promoting high levels of sugars in the body. The 1200 calorie diabetic diet will have the recommended foods that will provide the optimum sugars without affecting your weight. Always talk to your nutritionist if it seems impossible to find the best carbohydrates to use for the condition. Many people who end up having high levels of sugars will suffer from hyperglycemia. When this is not controlled for a long time can lead to some serious damages to the body.
Fats always seem impossible to consume them. They are always in the different types of food that we all love. However, we also need to determine the different types of fats that your body needs. There are those important fats and there are fats that can make the body look unhealthy. Diabetics are not advised to consume foods that have both saturated and Trans fat. The two types of fats can be easily found in foods like butter, fast foods, and pastries. The body needs plant based fat products such as olive oil, walnuts, and avocado. You cannot expect to have any problems with such a meal.
You need to understand the basic serving for a person who has diabetes. The nutritional content of the food is important for the body. For a meal that contains carbohydrates, make sure to eat an approximate value of 15g. This should be sufficient to provide the energy you need to keep on going for more hours. As a diabetic person, always be in constant contact with your doctor to make sure that you do not end up having serious health issues. A 1200 calorie diabetic diet will help many people not just those who are diabetic, to lose weight. Always be consistent with the program to see good results.


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Wrzący Garnek (także: Wrzący Kocioł, ang. boiling pot) – fragment Wodospadów Wiktorii znajdujący się na granicy Zimbabwe i Zambii.

Wrzący Garnek znajduje się naprzeciwko głównej ściany wodospadów, dokładnie naprzeciw skały o nazwie Fotel, rozdzielającej od siebie Wodospad Tęczowy i Wodospad Wschodni. Wody z obu tych wodospadów łączą się w Garnku - skłębione masy wodne wciskają się do wąskiej na 30-40 metrów bruzdy. W okresach suchych głębokość wody w Garnku wynosi zaledwie około 17 metrów, jednak w czasie przyborów ulega podwojeniu. W takich porach woda przepływa przez kipiel z prędkością do 150 km/h.

Środkiem Garnka przebiega granica państwowa. W 1905 zbudowano nieco poniżej Garnka most kolejowy bez podpór pośrednich. Obiekt na linii Livingstone - Bulawayo ma 200 metrów długości i znajduje się około 110 metrów nad średnim poziomem wody.

Przypisy

Geografia Zambii
Geografia Zimbabwe

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Updated Google Analytics jQuery plugin to version 2.0 and it now is the only jQuery plugin that supports full tracking API of Google. Apart from enhanced loading of ga.js file, there is a lot more that users can now do with this plugin.
As discussed in the above-mentioned article, API is almost permanent and once distributed, should not be modified. You have got one chance to make it right.
In my years of experience in programming, I have observed that certain performance 'tweaks' work best for certain languages. This is mostly due to the nature of the interpreter ((Interpreters are programs that execute codes one line at a time. See: Interpreter in Wikipedia))/compiler ((a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language. See: Compiler in Wikipedia)) involved in executing a particular piece of code.


NHS Expo 17: The decade of patient power?
Team IC was out in force at the Health and Social Care Innovation Expo 2017. What did our specialists make of the announcements from the stage?
The UK is on the verge of the 'patient power decade', where patients will have the information at their fingertips to control and transform their own care.
That was the prediction from Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt when he took to the stage at last week's Health and Care Innovation Expo.
With 150 exhibitors and 5000 delegates, the Expo is a major event in the healthcare calendar and IC Senior Consultants Natalie Lanyon and Ruth Devlin went along to see it for themselves.
Mr Hunt's keynote speech focused firmly on the future for the NHS. He told his audience he wanted to move beyond this year's 70th anniversary celebrations and look ahead to when the NHS is 80.
His big prediction was that the next ten years would be the 'patient power decade'. His headline pledge was that by the end of 2018, all of us would be able to access our own medical record via an app.
This might sound far-fetched to some, but it was quite familiar to the healthcare team here at Intelligent Conversation. Our client EMIS Health pioneered just this technology three years ago, and it is proving increasingly popular with patients.
EMIS Health technology was also the first to make it possible for patients to book appointments and request repeat prescriptions online – two further key targets for all patients outlined in Mr Hunt's speech.
Over two million prescription items ordered online are dispensed each month. But Mr Hunt wants to increase this and made reference to a new campaign that NHS England will be launching at the end of the year, focused on using online services to reduce medication error.
Another pledge was that patients will be able to manage their record sharing preferences online. There has been a lot of debate about how patients should be asked for consent to data sharing, and this makes perfect sense – put it in our hands and let us decide. The technology already exists to make this possible.
Other items on Mr Hunt's 'to do' list for online health services were: managing organ donation and other end-of-life preferences, and a suite of apps to support patients with long term conditions – an initiative that EMIS Health already has in hand.
Mr Hunt stressed that there would also be telephone or face to face versions for those who prefer not to use online services. And he announced investment in a further 20 digital inclusion hubs, which have so far helped 400,000 older people to get online. Wi-Fi across the NHS estate will be improved to facilitate his plan.
None of us would disagree with this move to speed up the NHS's progress into the digital age and to put more power by into patients' hands.
But we did feel there should perhaps have been a little more recognition that the technology on its own isn't the whole answer. For example, we know from our own experience in this area that gaining the wholehearted support of clinicians and managers is vital for success.
We applaud Mr Hunt's ambitious vision but we know that it will take major resource – and we don't just mean money – from our hard-pressed NHS to get there.
The decade of patient power is welcome news, but it still feels like there's a long way to go before we can all enjoy a truly digital healthcare experience.
There's little doubt that the traditional media landscape has been changed beyond recognition by wave upon wave of digital disruption.
How can we solve the future challenges of the NHS? Senior Consultant Natalie Lanyon reports back on a high-profile lecture from the man at the top.


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Q: Forwarding UIPanGestureRecognizer to next responder Basically, I have 2 UIScrollView.
The 1st one takes the whole screen and contains the 2nd one.
When I do a Pan gesture in the 2nd UIScrollView, I want it to be recognized as a Pan gesture ONLY if the horizontal velocity of the gesture is at least 4 times bigger than the vertical one.
If it's under, I want the gesture to be forwarded to the next responder (the 1st UIScrollView).
I tried overriding gestureRecognizerShouldBegin(gestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer) -> Bool on the 2nd UIScrollView and check the velocity there but if I return false, the pan gesture is not recognized (which is what I want) but it's not forwarded to the next responder either.
How can I make this happen?

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12:00pm Jackson Institute for Global Affairs: "
2:30pm Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Humanitarian Responses: " "Impacts of a Refugee Shelter Program: Experimental Evidence from the Syrian Refugee Life Survey"
3:00pm Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies Program: "From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature & Cinema Between the 2nd & the 3rd World"
12:00pm South Asian Studies Council Brown Bag Seminar: "Intertidal Fishing in a Port Entangled Ecology in Western India"
12:00pm Council on Southeast Asia Studies Brown Bag Seminar: "A Conversation on Botany, Empire, and Environmental Humanities in the Philippines and Beyond"
12:00pm "Reassessing the Nature of Perceived Differences between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Public," Lilla Orr, Yale Ph.D. Candidate
12:00pm "An Organizational Theory of State Capacity," Erik Snowberg, UBC
12:00pm European Studies Council: "Slavenka Drakulić on Café Europa Revisited: How to Survive Post-Communism"
12:00pm Gilder Lehrman Center: "Learning from Lived Experience: Survivor Knowledge from the Holocaust, Antebellum Slavery, and Contemporary Slavery"
12:00pm "The Political Consequences of Green Policies: Evidence from Italy," Yotam Margalit, Tel Aviv University
12:00pm Council on Middle East Studies Yale Turkey Webinar Series: "Teaching the "Turkish Islam" in Africa South of the Sahara: Educational Policies and Sufi Pedagogies"
12:00pm "Behavior Change," Angela Duckworth, UPenn
1:00pm Council on African Studies: "The African Studies Symposium"
4:30pm William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale University: "A Conversation with Paul Ryan"
9:30am Yale Economic Growth Center, the South Asian Studies Council at Yale MacMillan Center, and the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs: "Climate Change and Global Development: Net-Zero after Covid-19?"
5:00pm MacMillan Center: "Ensuring an Equitable Response to COVID-19 and Beyond"
12:00pm South Asian Studies Council Brown Bag Series: "When Documents Fail: Exploring Landed Landlessness in Adivasi Life, Telangana (India)"
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12:00pm International Conference for the Study of Political Thought 2021 Annual Conference: "Democratic Representation: Acts, Aesthetics, Institutions"
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8:00am Council on East Asian Studies 6th Ewha-Yale Conference: Connected Things in and beyond Asia. "Gold, Glass, and the Tree of Life: Towards a Korean Silk Road Narrative"
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9:00am Yale University, Respublica and the European Climate Foundation: "Toward Citizen-Legislators? The Case of the French Citizen' Convention for Climate (2019-21)" Day 1.
12:00pm "The Karen Effect: Racial Threat, Calls for Service, and the Maintenance of Racialized Policing," Amy Lerman, UC Berkeley
3:30pm Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies Emerging Voices in REEES Colloquium: "TBA"
12:00pm Council on Middle East Studies: "COVID-19 in Humanitarian Settings: Syria, Somalia, Yemen and Morocco"
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Als Stendaler Wahlbetrug wird die Fälschung der Kommunalwahlen am 25. Mai 2014 in Stendal bezeichnet. Dabei wurden für die Stadtrats- und Kreistagswahl mehr Briefwahlunterlagen an bevollmächtigte Personen herausgegeben als erlaubt. Zudem wurden Vollmachten gefälscht und Briefwahlunterlagen von Dritten ausgefüllt. Bei der Wiederholung der Briefwahl der Stadtratswahl wurden erneut Unterlagen manipuliert. Der Stadtrat entschied deshalb, die Wahl des Stendaler Stadtrates in Gänze zu wiederholen. Die Wiederholungswahl fand am 21. Juni 2015 statt. Der Kreistag des Landkreises Stendal erkannte hingegen das Ergebnis der Kreistagswahl als gültig an. Gegen die Wiederholung der Stadtratswahl wurden erneut Manipulationsvorwürfe erhoben.

Verlauf
Vor der Wahl wurden gefälschte Vollmachten auf den Namen der Suppenfabrikanten Antje und Wolfgang Mandelkow und zwei weitere Personen ausgestellt, in denen diese angeblich ermächtigt wurden, die Briefwahlunterlagen für den Ausstellenden abzuholen. Mitarbeiter der Firma holten die Wahlunterlagen aus dem Rathaus und gaben sie an den damaligen Stadtrat Holger Gebhardt (CDU) weiter, der die Unterlagen zu seinen Gunsten ausfüllte.

Bei der Stadtratswahl am 25. Mai 2014 konnte die CDU über fünf Prozentpunkte im Vergleich zur Wahl 2009 zugewinnen und erreichte 40,7 Prozent. Bei der Bekanntgabe der genauen Ergebnisse im Juni 2014 wurde festgestellt, dass CDU-Kandidat Holger Gebhardt, laut Volksstimme "im Stendaler Stadtrat eher ein Hinterbänkler", mit 837 Stimmen den vierten Platz unter allen CDU-Bewerbern erreichte. Auffällig war, dass Gebhardt bei der Briefwahl 689 Stimmen erhalten haben soll, was einem Anteil von mehr als 11 Prozent aller per Brief abgegebenen Stimmen entsprechen würde. In den 37 Wahllokalen, die von über 80 Prozent der Wähler genutzt wurden, erhielt er hingegen nur 148 von rund 29.000 Stimmen.

Stadtwahlleiter Axel Kleefeldt (CDU) behauptete am 3. Juni 2014 vor dem Wahlausschuss, die Wahl sei ordnungsgemäß abgelaufen. Drei Wochen später räumte er jedoch ein, dass Mitarbeiter der Stadtverwaltung nicht beachtet hatten, dass ein Wahlberechtigter nur bis zu vier Vollmachten einreichen darf. In Stendal hatten zwölf Bevollmächtigte insgesamt 179 Unterlagen für die Stadtrats- und die Kreistagswahl abgeholt. In einem Fall waren es sogar mehr als 30 Unterlagen.

Am 3. Juli 2014 erklärte Carsten Wulfänger (CDU) vor dem Kreistag des Landkreises Stendal, dass "eine Verfälschung des Wählerwillens nicht erkennbar" sei. Wolfgang Kühnel, Kreisvorsitzender der CDU, verteidigte im Kreistag die betreffenden Bevollmächtigten, denen unerlaubt viele Briefwahlunterlagen ausgehändigt wurden, verschwieg jedoch, dass er selbst zu diesen gehörte. Der Kreistag beschloss anschließend die Gültigkeit der Kreistagswahl.

Bei der Sitzung des Stendaler Stadtrates am 7. Juli 2014 hingegen erkannten nur CDU und Grüne, die eine gemeinsame Fraktion bildeten, das Briefwahlergebnis der Stadtratswahl an. Die Mehrheit aus Die Linke, SPD, FDP und Piraten stimmte hingegen für eine Wiederholung der Briefwahl. Der Vorsitzende der CDU-Stadtratsfraktion, Hardy Peter Güssau, sprach sich in der Debatte gegen die Wiederholung der Briefwahl und einen Sonderausschuss zu Aufklärung der Wahlfälschung aus und bezeichnete die Wiederholungsentscheidung als "Politmobbing". Stadtwahlleiter Kleefeldt (CDU) sprach sich dafür aus, die Wahl für gültig zu erklären. Der Landeswahlleiter hatte hingegen eine (Teil-)Wiederholung empfohlen.

Zuvor hatte am 3. Juli der Wahlberechtigte Florian M. eidesstattlich erklärt, dass seine Unterschrift unter der ihm im Briefwahllokal vorgelegten Briefwahlvollmacht nicht von ihm gezeichnet worden war. Der Stadtwahlleiter stellte daraufhin Strafanzeige gegen Unbekannt wegen Urkundenfälschung und Wahlbetrugs. Florian M. gehörte zu den zehn der 189 vermeintlichen Briefwähler, die am Wahltag ins Wahllokal gingen, um zu wählen. Dort wurde ihnen die Stimmabgabe verweigert, da für sie ein Sperrvermerk bestehe, weil sie angeblich bereits per Briefwahl gewählt hätten.

Im Juli 2014 bestätigte sich bei einem Termin bei der Polizei, dass auch die Unterschrift von Christine T. auf der Vollmacht gefälscht wurde. Da die vermeintlichen Briefwähler eine Teilnahme per Brief bestritten, wurden die in ihrem Namen eingegangenen Briefwahlunterlagen aufbewahrt und bei der Auszählung nicht berücksichtigt. Später konnte so von der Polizei eine Zuordnung der vom jeweiligen Wähler abgegebenen Stimme vorgenommen werden. Auf den vermeintlich von T. ausgefüllten Stimmzetteln waren Stimmen für die CDU abgegeben worden. Christine T. war beim Jobcenter registriert. Dort arbeitete damals auch CDU-Stadtrat Holger Gebhardt, delegiert von der Stadt Stendal. Gebhardt wurde Ende 2011 durch Oberbürgermeister Klaus Schmotz (CDU) in der Stadtverwaltung eingestellt – ohne interne oder externe Ausschreibung, die sonst überwiegend üblich ist. Inzwischen liegt deswegen eine Strafanzeige gegen den Oberbürgermeister wegen Amtsmissbrauchs und Vorteilsgewährung im Amt vor.

Zahlreiche der 189 Wahlberechtigten, für die die zwölf Frauen und Männer im Rathaus Unterlagen abgeholt hatten, wurden in den Wochen danach von der Polizei befragt. Bei etlichen von ihnen gab es ebenfalls eine Verbindung zum Jobcenter. Anfang November 2014 wurden Durchsuchungen des Arbeitsplatzes von Holger Gebhardt und der CDU-Geschäftsstelle durch die Polizei durchgeführt. Insgesamt ermittelte die Staatsanwaltschaft gegen mehr als zehn Personen, darunter auch gegen CDU-Kreischef Wolfgang Kühnel und eine Mitarbeiterin der CDU-Geschäftsstelle.

Am 8. November 2014 erklärte Holger Gebhardt seinen Austritt aus der CDU und seinen Rücktritt vom Stadtratsmandat. Später kündigte ihm auch die Stadt fristlos das Arbeitsverhältnis.

CDU-Landesvorsitzender Thomas Webel erklärte auf einem Landesparteitag im November, dass es sich nur um einzelne "schwarze Schafe" gehandelt habe. Innenminister Holger Stahlknecht (CDU) stellte jedoch wenige Tage später fest, der stellvertretende Leiter des in der Sache ermittelnden Stendaler Polizeireviers sei CDU-Kreistags- und Kreisvorstandsmitglied. Stahlknecht veranlasste deshalb, dass die Ermittlungen von der Polizeidirektion Magdeburg weitergeführt wurden.

Bei der Wiederholung der Briefwahl am 9. November 2014 büßte die CDU 9 Prozentpunkte ein. Da auch die Nachwahl von den Folgen der Wahlfälschung überschattet wurde, musste am 21. Juni 2015 der Stadtrat komplett neu gewählt werden. Der CDU-Stadtvorstand bezeichnete den Skandal als "Vorgänge, die ein Einzelner verübt" habe.

Einer Mitarbeiterin der Stadtverwaltung wurde gekündigt. Sie soll an der Wahlfälschung beteiligt gewesen sein.

Im März 2017 wurde Gebhardt wegen Wahlfälschung in rund 300 Fällen vom Landgericht Stendal zu zwei Jahren und sechs Monaten Haft verurteilt. Das Gericht kam zu der Überzeugung, dass er auf Druck von Hintermännern gearbeitet habe. Der CDU-Kreisvorstand trat daraufhin geschlossen zurück. Gebhardts Anwalt legte gegen das Urteil Revision ein. Im August 2017 verwarf der Bundesgerichtshof die Revision in weiten Teilen. Er erkannte lediglich auf weniger Fälle der Urkundenfälschung, setzte das Strafmaß aber nicht herab. Das Urteil des Landgerichts ist damit rechtskräftig.

Zeitgleich wurde bekannt, dass die Staatsanwaltschaft Vorermittlungen wegen einer möglichen Wahlfälschung bei der Landratswahl im Herbst 2012 aufnehmen wird. Zudem wurde während des Wahlfälschungsprozesses deutlich, dass es zuvor bereits bei der Kommunalwahl 2009 Fälschungen gegeben hat. Diese werden allerdings nicht weiter verfolgt, da sie inzwischen juristisch verjährt sind.

Manipulation der Wiederholungswahl

Im Vorfeld der Wiederholung der Stadtratswahl am 21. Juni 2015 kam es erneut zu Manipulationen. Die eingereichte Liste der FDP enthielt mehr Bewerber und mit anderer Reihenfolge als durch die Nominierungsversammlung beschlossen. Dies wurde durch Einsprüche eines Rechtsanwaltes sowie des AfD-Kandidaten Tom Klein bekannt. Marcus Faber, Stendaler Kreisvorsitzender und stellvertretender Landesvorsitzender der FDP Sachsen-Anhalt, der auch Spitzenkandidat seiner Partei zur Wiederholungswahl ist, bezeichnete die Manipulation der Wahlliste als "dummen Verfahrensfehler", der "umgehend behoben" worden sei. Nach der Volksstimme vorliegenden Dokumenten wurde Faber, der bei der Listenaufstellung als Schriftführer fungiert hatte, jedoch bereits Wochen zuvor von einem FDP-Mitglied diesbezüglich angesprochen. Der Stadtwahlausschuss strich in der Folge zwei Kandidaten von der Wahlliste der FDP, die somit trotzdem zur Wiederholung der Stadtratswahl am 21. Juni 2015 antreten konnte.

Gegen die Wiederholungswahl wurde vor dem Oberverwaltungsgericht Einspruch durch Tom Klein erhoben. Er bemängelte, dass die FDP trotz nachgewiesener Manipulation ihres Wahlvorschlages zur Wahl zugelassen worden sei. Zudem hätten SPD und FDP bei der Aufstellung ihrer Kandidaten den Grundsatz der geheimen Wahl verletzt. Außerdem sei der FDP-Spitzenkandidat Marcus Faber nicht wählbar gewesen, da er nach eigenen Angaben seinen Lebensmittelpunkt nicht in Stendal, sondern in Berlin habe. Der Einspruch wurde am 17. Oktober 2017 abgewiesen und sämtliche Klagepunkte von Klein gegen die Stadt Stendal und das Verfahren bei der FDP und den Wohnsitz ihrer Kandidaten verworfen. Die Wiederholungswahl bleibt damit gültig.

Landtag
Die Wahlfälschung in Stendal war auch Gegenstand einer Debatte im Landtag von Sachsen-Anhalt. Dabei kam es zu heftigen Vorwürfen gegen die CDU Sachsen-Anhalt. Der SPD-Abgeordnete Tilman Tögel, dessen Wahlkreis Stendal ist, schrieb in einem Facebookkommentar, die Stendaler CDU solle doch überlegen, sich in "Camorra von der Uchte" umzubenennen, und warnte, dass "Sumpf, Filz und kriminelle Aktivitäten" erhalte, wer CDU wähle.

Im Zusammenhang mit dem Wahlbetrug trat Hardy Peter Güssau von seinem Amt als sachsen-anhaltischer Landtagspräsident am 15. August 2016 mit Wirkung zum 21. August 2016 zurück.

Der Landtag von Sachsen-Anhalt richtete im April 2017 zu dem Betrug einen Untersuchungsausschuss ein. Nach 31. Sitzungen konnte im April 2021 der Abschlussbericht vorgelegt werden. Der Ausschuss hatte 85 Zeugen gehört und Dutzende Aktenordner der Justiz durchgearbeitet, Es konnte nicht zweifelsfrei belegt werden, inwiefern der später verurteilte Wahlfälscher wissentliche Hilfe bekommen hatte. Allerdings konnte Behördenversagen auf verschiedenen Ebenen festgestellt werden.

Juristische Aufarbeitung
Das Landgericht Stendal verurteilte im November 2020 in einem Zivilverfahren den verurteilten Wahlfälscher Holger Gebhardt sowie den langjährigen Chef der CDU im Landkreis Stendal, Wolfgang Kühnel, zu Schadensersatz in Höhe von rund 49.000 Euro. Die Stadt Stendal hatte wegen der Wiederholungswahlen zum Stadtrat (Briefwahl 2014 und Stadtrat 2015) das Geld eingeklagt. Gebhardt akzeptierte das Urteil, Kühnel ging dagegen in Berufung. Im Juli 2022 wies das Oberlandesgericht Naumburg die Berufung zurück.

Weblinks
 Umfangreiche Darstellung des Falles durch die Volksstimme

Siehe auch
 Wahlfälschungsskandal von Dachau

Einzelnachweise

Geschichte (Stendal)
Kommunalwahl 2014
Kriminalfall 2014
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Politische Affäre in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
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The Omen #30DaysOfFright
An American diplomat's wife loses her baby in childbirth; he is replaced by an orphan baby. A series of strange and deadly accidents occur around the family, could the spoutings of a mad clergyman be correct, can five year old Damien Thorn really be the son of the devil? Having initiated the switch at birth his father now teams up with a photographer to discover the horrific truth. Can they stop the forces of evil before they become another accident?
The devil had already become something of a movie star in Hollywood, thanks to Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist, The Omen saw him reach a box office high. I've always had a fascination with The Omen since I bought the trilogy as part of the Fox All Time Greats collection in 1987 from Woolworths in York.
We were on holiday there over Easter (irony) and what made that trip all the more memorable is that we also visited Fountains Abbey in Ripley, Yorkshire, which is where the finale of The Final Conflict takes place. Those VHS tapes took a serious hammering and I read the original books and the two further book sequels that followed.
These continue directly after the ending on the third film and were entitled Omen IV: Armageddon 2000 and Omen V: Abomination, both penned by Gordon McGill, who also wrote the adaptation of The Final Conflict.
The Omen has been a part of my life since I was at least 11 and, save for Jaws, is my favourite horror-related film. Like Jaws you could say that it taps into the disaster movie genre that was so big at the time with the likes of The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake and The Towering Inferno.
Post-Watergate it's also akin to the conspiracy thrillers of the period such as All the Presidents Men, Klute, Three Days of the Condor, Capricorn One and The Marathon Man. It probably shares most of all with The Parallax View as Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck) uncovers something so vast it is almost hard to comprehend, and like Warren Beatty's character in Parallax, everyone he comes into contact with comes to a sticky end. You could even say that in many ways the endings are very similar.
It is a fantastical idea and one that is writ large. The Exorcist was about a girl in her bedroom and set in one house, this is about the man who could be the next President of the United States. It's something referenced by Kathy Thorn when she hears her husband has got the job of US Ambassador to Great Britain, a position once held by none other than JFK.
The Omen is set in the heart of the world of politics and takes place in London, Rome, Israel and er Windsor Zoo. It's practically the James Bond of horror with its globetrotting. I guess The Da Vinci Code and their sequels do the same sort of magical mystery tour thing today.
Whether you believe the story that 2000 years after the birth of Christ a comet that shines in the opposite place in the sky to that of the star of Bethlehem heralds the birth of the anti-Christ is one thing but the one thing you do believe is the performance of Gregory Peck. We follow it because he does, we share his idea that it is preposterous and then the slow realisation that this is all true.
The discovery in an abandoned graveyard that his son was murdered at birth and that the mother of the child he is raising is a jackal is compelling and heart wrenching. It's all the more poignant as the year prior to filming Peck had lost one of his own son's to suicide, something which he blamed himself for not being able to stop. Peck is of course an incredibly gifted actor and carries a huge amount of gravitas and that amazing voice. He is Abe Lincoln, he is Atticus Fitch, we will believe in him. With an actor of less stature it simply would not have worked.
The key moment where he receives a call to say that his wife has died, that phonecall he receives after she has gone out the window is crippling. He really has nothing to lose. All is lost.
And then there is that cold, numbed reciting of the "when the Jews return to Zion" poem as he lays motionless on the bed.
Peck is ably supported with former Dr Who, Patrick Troughton, in a fantastically memorable part as Father Brennan, David Warner as the photographer was something of a hero when I was younger and he's great in this. And then there's Mrs Baylock, if Damien is the anti—Christ then she is the anti-Poppins, no one had arranged for her to arrive either. She exudes quiet menace and malevolence at first; her final scenes raise the shock level to their peak.
The film also looks amazing in its widescreen which is used to brilliant effect utilising it to its full advantage and creating some mesmerising imagery that really set it apart. As well as the frame impressing so does the action taking place within in.
Director Richard Donner constructs some still impressive set pieces; it must have surely secured him directorial duties on Superman: The Movie two years later, in fact the Daily Planet helicopter incident could have come straight from The Omen.
First there is the nanny, played by Jack Palance's daughter, taking a rope-assisted dive from the Thorn mansion during Damien's fifth birthday party, the way she falls and snaps back into that glass is horrible.
A suddenly windy day will always evoke thoughts of Patrick Troughton prior to getting spiked by a church spire; this was probably the only decent scene in the 2006 remake, Troughton's role played with vigour by Pete Postlethwaite.
Kathy Thorn's fall from the balcony whilst pregnant is also fantastically taut, and the scene is brilliantly executed, along with the goldfish. The effect of the camera following on the way down is still amazing. It's my favourite single shot after the reverse zoom and simultaneous dolly shot on Chief Brody in Jaws.
And of course the decapitation by sheet of glass, with David Warner doing his own version of the head spin. You think you see more than you do the blood you think you see is pots of paint. For such a film with so many nasty deaths it's surprisingly devoid of any real blood.
I also really love the set for the cemetery, it's like a grandiose set from a classic universal horror film, it looks fantastic, gothic and moody. And then the devil dogs attack, as a scene it is relentless, as is the Goldsmith score which kicks into high gear. It's Hound of the Baskervilles turned up to 11, is dripping with menace and quite frankly is absolutely knackering. Not that there is much time to get our breath back for the remainder of the film.
Like Jerry Goldsmith's score, the only one he won an Oscar for, the film just continues to build into a crescendo, become more frenetic and consuming. That's what it does to Thorn and us; it needs to do that to convince us that he should kill a child.
Would we be able to do the same if we knew he was the son of the devil, even Peck hesitates as the child pleads "please, daddy, no!" It was always a difficult watch, even more so having a daughter around Damien's age.
Peck is armed with the daggers of Megiddo, which have to be the coolest weapons of all time, I'd so pay to see Indiana Jones and the Daggers of Megiddo. But they do him no good, he is stopped with a policeman's bullet, it's downbeat but masterful.
We can hardly believe that Gregory Peck has failed. Or has he? We then see two coffins, one for Robert Thorn and his son, Damien? No, the camera slowly pulls back to reveal a small boy is holding the hand of the president. The little boy turns with a smile that breaks across his face, it is Damien.
The film may have dated a little but there is still no denying the power of The Omen, even after all these years, it's still devilishly good.
And the story goes that if The Omen had not been the success it had been for Fox then they wouldn't have been able to spend extra money on bailing Star Wars out. That's what you call the real power of the dark side.
All the Presidents MenAtticus FitchCapricorn OneChief BrodyDaggers of MegiddoDamien ThornDavid WarnerDr WhoEarthquakeFather BrennanGregory PeckHound of the BaskervillesJack PalanceJawsJerry GoldsmithKathy ThornKluteMrs BaylockOmen IV: Armageddon 2000Omen V: AbominationPatrick TroughtonPete PostlethwaiteRichard DonnerRobert ThornRosemary's BabyStar WarsSuperman: The MovieThe Da Vinci CodeThe ExorcistThe Final ConlictThe Marathon ManThe OmenThe Parallax ViewThe Poseidon AdventureThe Towering Inferno
Poltergeist #30DaysOfFright
October 7, 2016 loxley1975	Leave a comment
A young family finds they have paranormal activity within their home, it's a poltergeist (meaning noisy spirit in German).What starts off as something playful soon descends into terror as the children are attacked in their rooms. The daughter, Carol Anne, is taken by the spirits and makes contact via the television – in the film's most iconic moment – can she be saved and can the family stop themselves being dragged to the afterlife?
What sets Poltergeist apart from most haunted house movies is that it is set in a nice house, in a nice neighbourhood and everything looks normal. There is no Scooby-Doo haunted mansion vibe, no evil eyes like the Amityville house. It could be our house or yours, and that is its power.
We are the Freeling family and that is what Spielberg does best, take an ordinary person or family and put them in an extraordinary situation. Just look at Chief Brody from Jaws, Roy Neary from Close Encounters or David Mann from Duel.
To many Poltergeist was Spielberg's darkness to E.T.'s light, they both came out in the same month in the US in 1982. He served as writer on this and Executive Producer, although it has oft been mooted he had a closer hand in direction as well, rather than Texas Chainsaw-helmer Tobe Hooper. But that is a whole other blog entry.
All horror films should of course be watched with the lights off but Poltergeist loves the darkness, especially when the strobing effects kick-in. Fittingly, it really drags you into the television.
The good thing is that since the advent of 24 hour television, whether that be rolling news or rolling balls around a roulette wheel, you will never again wake up with a Poltergeist television. There'll never be that snow dancing shadows madly across your walls.
So the original Poltergeist seems more nostalgic and further away than ever. The film starts on that typical Spielberg world of safety and harmony, the suburbs, and actually the first half has plenty of sunny and light moments. Even the Poltergeist activity is initially treated as a joke and something to have fun with, the moving kitchen chairs for instance. Carol Anne states it is the TV people; I certainly never had that problem with Radio Rentals!
But that is what is great about this film, haunted houses don't have to be scary and there doesn't have to be fork lighting. Their home could be our home and that is what makes it so effective, and it's the same with the more recent haunted house films, such as Insidious and The Conjuring.
There are signposts aplenty though, even the remote control cars that cause the man hulking beer to come off his bike in the opening scene are a precursor of things to come with toys coming to life and causing chaos. The dead budgie, Tweetie, even in its coffin cigar box it warns us of the shape of things to come when it is unearthed by a digger for the swimming pool.
There are even clues on the television, in an early scene the old Spencer Tracey film A Guy Named Joe plays on TV, there are already ghosts in the machine as it's about a man who dies and comes back as a ghost. It was of remade by Spielberg seven years later as Always.
Robbie and Carol Anne's room is cool, full of Star Wars posters and toys, although I'm not sure about the Alien poster. The film really taps into those childhood terrors of open closets, things under the bed, thunderstorms, clowns and ominous trees tapping on your window. Ten fold, it could also be seen as an extension of a similar scene in Close Encounters when Barry's toys come to life as aliens – and again some glorious light, a Spielberg staple – envelop the room and also bring toys to life.
A bit like the spirits at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, at first they beautiful, the spirit from the television that dances round the room before leaving its ectoplasm all over the bedroom wall is as haunting as it is enchanting.
This is echoed in the sublime score by Jerry Goldsmith, beautiful but creepy, magically dark, especially the haunting dips in sound.
But then the spirits turn with fearful effect. That ruddy tree outside the bedroom window though, the impending thunderstorm marching closer not further away, it still gives palpitations. Then, the tree grabs the son, it's startling and surreal, but it's just misdirection so that Carol Anne can be sucked into the closet and to the other side. From here on in as ludicrous as things get, by and large you go with it simply because you are wrapped up in the emotion.
Crucially, it's the performance from the mum and dad that really ground it and their efforts to do anything to get their daughter back, it's the little things like her mum, JoBeth Williams, thrilled to be smelling her daughter after a blast of air travels through her and Craig T. Nelson (Patrick Wilson being a great substitute in the very Poltergeist-like Insidious) forced to get angry with Carol Anne to tell her to do as she is told or he'll be forced to spank her. Amid all this supernatural fantasy is real, heart-wrenching drama
about a family with a 'kidnapped daughter', it just happens to be by a ghost. They are the emotional core of the film.
And when they finally get Carol Anne back it is less smoke and mirrors and more wind machines and fantastic lights displaced by fish tanks. It's dizzying, effective and so simple. This rescue is headed up by movie-stealing Zelda Rubinstein, who played Tangina, the spirit guide who pronounces the house is clean; she isn't in the film half as much as you think she is. It is only for about ten minutes duration, but she leaves a lasting impression on both the family and the audience.
After that rescue the Freelings prepare to move out, of course, it turning out that the whole estate had been built on a graveyard, the headstones had been moved but not the bodies and Carol Anne – a beautiful and natural performance by Heather O'Rourke – was the focus of the spirits as she had been born in the house.
After all that went before, they and we think it is all over, and as they pack and play in their rooms they discover it is not. A great ending to the film, complete with mum being dragged up her bedroom wall and ceiling Fred Astaire style and some unwelcome guests in the unfinished pool, but I don't buy the family not just leaving, and even if I did I certainly wouldn't be letting my kids play in the room where one of them went missing and another was attacked by a tree. It was the clown that got him this time.
As the dead explode from the ground in their caskets, to great effect, the Freelings do escape; thankfully complete with dog, E Buzz, by the way is a great dog actor as well with some brilliant expressions. Checking into a motel, this time they aren't taking any chances and leave the TV outside. It's a wryly observed ending to a satisfying and emotionally exhausting tour de force of emotions and effects.
Whether it's a product of the publicity machine or not, Poltergeist came with that horror film staple, the curse. They said it happened with The Omen, with The Exorcist and now this.
Rumours were rife that actual skeletons were used in the swimming pool scene and the murder of one of its stars prior to release didn't help matters, nor did major players dying after parts 2 and 3. The remake seems to have bucked that particular trend – unless you count its death at the box office.
You know what though; I enjoyed the updating, such as the family having little choice in moving to the once aspirational suburbs. It didn't add anything particularly new or did anything better but I certainly found it suitably creepy if not as visually memorable as the original.
A Guy Named JoeAlwaysAmityvilleCarol AnneChief BrodyClose EncountersCraig T NelsonDavid MannDuelE.T.FreelingHeather O'RourkeInsidiousJawsJerry GoldsmithJoBeth WilliamsPatrick WilsonPoltergeistRaiders of the Lost ArkRoy NearyScooby DooSpielbergTanginaThe ConjuringThe ExorcistThe OmenTobe HooperZelda Rubinstein
Happy Birthday Jaws, you're still top of the blockbuster food chain
June 20, 2015 loxley1975	Leave a comment
Today may be 40 years since Jaws took a massive bite of the 1975 box office but after a lifetime of seeking to view the film on the big screen I finally got the chance to see a newly spruced up print of the classic Spielberg thriller on the big screen back in June 2010, as part of the 35 anniversary celebrations. And yes, I bought it again, adding it to my pan and scan CIC VHS copy, my widescreen VHS copy and both the 25th and 30th anniversary DVDs.
My journey to see Jaws, my all time favourite film, on the big screen has been quite literally a lifetime in the making as I blame my mum for getting me hooked. I may not have been born until October 1975 but she had eagerly read the serialised version of the book in The Sun newspaper, clearly it had quite the impact on me. Cue lots of pre-teen years of being terrified of even stepping into the bath.
The closest I had previously got to seeing Jaws writ large was back in 2002 after travelling down to Neuquay to see a screening on the beach, alas it got cancelled the day before it was scheduled to be shown. I had to wait until 2010 then for the experience I had been chasing, and after all that time, all those viewings, it didn't disappoint. Put simply it was Jawsome.
Jaws of course is having several 40th birthday screening across the states and It is somewhat fitting that Jaws had been re released as part of the centenary celebrations of Universal Studios in June, smack bang in the middle of the summer blockbuster season, as Jaws is the granddaddy of them all, the first film to have such a large (at the time) opening, and the first to hit that magic $100 million mark. In more ways than one it is the big fish.
Four decades have passed since Jaws first swam onto our screens but it still more than holds its own against today's output, in fact it is the filmic equivalent of what Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) calls the shark, 'the perfect eating machine'.
As a piece of cinema Jaws was always the near perfect piece of cinema and now, cleaned up frame by frame and looking like it was practically shot last week, this lean mean thriller machine became the closest to cinematic perfection it has ever got.
Put simply, you can forget your Star Wars, forget your toying with special effects, nipping, tucking or even adding here and there (yes you Mr Cameron, Mr Lucas – sounds like Are You Being Served – and Mr Scott), this is cleaned up but otherwise untouched, and still has the same shark and still has that primal fear in buckets, along with the chum.
Spielberg has clearly learnt from his 'radio' meddling with E.T. and left Jaws exactly as it was, save for giving it a fresh lick of paint and thankfully modification free.
It may sound obvious but never having seen the film on the big screen the first thing that hit me was that it all looked so big, from the (thankfully) old fashioned Universal logo to each and every character introduction, counting the fictional Amity Island in that.
With such a large canvas, that had also expertly been cleaned up, we are able to feel even closer to that (really rather sunny and bright for the most part) world and see and notice so many small things in the background that I hadn't done before. It was practically like seeing the film for the very first time.
Jaws still packs a punch (or should that be bite radius) of a juggernaut. The opening Chrissie attack sequence has never looked so uncomfortably clear, her nakedness making you almost feel voyeur like – making it even closer akin to the shower scene it Psycho in that respect – right up until that moment of impact when the John Williams score and sound effects really kick into high gear. If anything its heightened more than ever with the Alex Kintner lilo attack, which in many ways seemed even more powerful.
It's not the 25 foot shark, all three tonnes of it, that dominates the film though, each and every piece of the film he is in is dominated by Robert Shaw as Quint. Scheider and Dreyfuss are no slouches for sure and the way the threesome ping off each other is a joy to behold (the script coupled with the beauty of the extra rehearsal time due to operating problems with the shark et al but Quint has never been so dominant, so alive. He chews scenery like the shark chews his boat, the Orca, at the end of the film and his eyes, his eyes are just so piercing a blue that they make Daniel Craig's look practically dull in comparison. It confirmed to me that more classic Shaw films should be viewed on the big screen but also left a genuine feeling of loss, for the man, Shaw died only three years after the release of Jaws, and for cinema generally, as he carved such an impression up their on the big screen, seen as he should be and not on a box – no matter what its size – in the corner of the room.
Jaws never puts a foot wrong, it still has fantastic pace, still thrills and scares a little in all the right places and also makes people laugh in all the places that it is meant to do. Rubber shark or no rubber shark it, like Alien after it, which after all was pitched as Jaws in Space, still taps into that primeval fear and when each and every person bringing that to life is working at the top of their game you can't go wrong, critically,commercially or for longevity.
The wait was well worth it, and I'm pleased that Bruce, as the shark was nicknamed by Spielberg, came back for his noon feeding to mark the then 35th anniversary of Jaws, it mattered not that most of us in that small screening room had seen it hundreds of times, knew exactly what shot or line of dialogue came next, we were all in awe of the remastered Jaws.
And to paraphrase Chief Brody at the end of the film as he blows the great white shark out of the water as it races toward him, we were all smiling like sons of bitches.
I may not be sat enjoying it on a big screen for its birthday but will be celebrating with lots more Jaws fans in a tweet along, safety in numbers and all that, although try telling that to the crew of the SS Indianapolis!
#Jaws40Alex KintnerAmity IslandChief BrodyJawsMatt HooperOrcaQuintRichard DreyfussRobert ShawScheiderUniversal Studios
DEATH BECOMES THEM: TOP TEN DEATHS IN JAWS (AND ITS SEQUELS)
Jurassic World has taken a bit of a beating in some quarters over some of its horrible deaths, but then the previous films in the series didn't exactly skimp on that either and neither did the Jaws series. Before Freddy, before Final Destination and (just) before The Omen, that is what we wanted, inventive and exciting death scenes. The Jaws series has them aplenty.
They say that Hollywood has a habit of chewing up and spitting out talent, little wonder then that Spielberg 'fondly' nicknamed the first films creature after his Lawyer, 'Bruce'. Such a phrase has not been truer when looking at Jaws and its three sequels, all with deaths aplenty. The sequels have all taking a bit of a bashing, certainly they don't a candle to the original, but they still hold a fondness and even Jaws the Revenge has its moments, well okay then maybe that should be singular.
Anyway 'Open Wide!' and 'Smile, you sons of bitches!' as we celebrate the best Jaws deaths…ever!
Is yours below? If not, which is it and why?
JAWS (1975) AKA THE ORIGINAL AND BEST
Chrissie Watkins
The opening night time attack is up there with the shower seen from Psycho and even after all this time packs a punch like a train. It's the perfect opener for a movie (indeed Spielberg even copied it himself of sorts in 1993 in the opening of Jurassic Park). It effectively sets the shark up as a Jack the Ripper like monster. The noise, the screams and the music all blend to still create a sense of dread in the pit of your stomach. Also one of the most iconic, and oft-imitated, poster images ever. She was the first…
Pippet the retriever
You may scoff but one moment this dog was happily jumping around the surf, the next we see a floating piece of wood, which can't be good. Showed that anyone could be next and that this fish didn't care who it devoured. It takes someone with balls to have an animal die on screen.
Estuary victim
As a child this death haunted me when I closed my eyes. A man in a row boat comes to help Michael Brody and chums on their boat when the unfortunate soul is tipped from his boat and seen hanging to the side of his upturned craft to only have the open mouthed shadow of the Great White sweep up to him and drag him sinking beneath the waves, For me, at that moment I certainly don't see a mechanical shark.
Only his leg is left, which can be seen drifting to to the bottom of the ocean floor. I used to try and convince myself that perhaps he survived but I think his estuary victim credit tells me what really happened…
Ben Gardner
We might not see him meeting his maker but we join Matt Hooper in the fright of his life when his head comes bob, bob bobbing along. Even now you know it's coming but just not exactly when. This moment was captured in the safety of Editor Verna Fields' swimming pool due to the film needing a jump moment. It certainly got it.
Ironic as Quint is roughly translated as five in Italian and he is the fifth human victim of the movie. Early he and the crew of the Orca drank to their legs so it was only fitting that this was the way he went, legs first. Nice blood explosion in the mouth as well before he is dragged to his watery grave.
Well I say watery grave as he exploded with the shark several minutes later. A master stroke of tension as the Orca slowly sinks with Brody and rifle on its mast, which if you notice is ticking down to his 'death' like the second hand of a clock. Smile you son-of-bitch indeed.
JAWS 2 (1978) AKA THE ONE WITH THE ANNOYING TEENAGERS ON BOATS
Water skier
Also the poster girl for Jaws 2. A technically brilliant scene that showed that even those on water skies were not immune to the jaws of doom. The photography and tension in this scene is one of the highlights and showed how much more versatile the shark models and special effects were only three years later. Clearly lots of lessons had been learnt. It's two for one on the deaths front here as the boat manages to pour petrol all over herself and then fire a flare at the shark blowing herself up and scarring the shark, just to make her all the more sinister (boo, hiss). We do get another payoff though as the corpse comes in one the tide straight into Chief Brody's arms.
Boy on boat
Much of the film is spent routing for the shark to pick off the annoying teenagers, something of a pre-curser to Halloween and Friday the 13th as the shark is basically stalking and slashing (or should that be gnashing) them. The best death from these has to be that of Eddie Marchand who is dragged (echoing Chrissie in the first film) across the water and slammed into his boat – he hangs on for dear life and even pulls part of his boat with him as he is dragged under leaving his now hysterical girlfriend alone.
Hey we are safe! Don't count you chickens yet kids. Shark Vs quite frankly rubbish 70s helicopter and kills pilot with a quite frankly lame beard. In the original we never see what happens but on the Jaws 2 DVD there is great footage of him under the water as well. Worth checking out.
JAWS 3D (1983) AKA THE ONE AT SEA WORLD
Philip FitzRoyce, played by Simon MacCorkindale
A shame TVs 'Manimal' couldn't change into a fish as he might have escaped this monster. Notable as we see and hear him being crunched up inside the shark's mouth and then have him dangling like a piece of food stuck between his teeth. Was nice they tried something different with a death.
Now I know this film has been slammed but I actually really like the concept, essentially Jurassic World of sorts in many ways, and the ending to the movie. It's a variation on the original but I like the original way they tried to do it. I certainly found it tense and exciting. I even like the 3D explosion – the blood and guts quota is certainly all here – and even have a soft spot for the upper and lower 3D jaws.
JAWS THE REVENGE (1987) AKA THE ONE WITH MICHAEL CAINE AKA THE ONE THAT'S NOT MUCH COP…REALLY IT ISN'T
Sean Brody
A film of little note, this could be included alone for the death of the franchise. It does have its moments in places though and none more than the death of the youngest Brody, Sean, who is now a cop in Amity like his old dad was (Scheider decided against this one so they killed his character off screen – as shameful as the whole Alien 3 Newt death – what a waste). Still Sean Brody is worth a mention as one of the main original characters to kick the big yellow barrel, juxtaposed with Christmas Carols and sepia shots of the original, just to remind us how crappy this film is.
#Jaws40Ben GardnerBrodyChief BrodyChrissie WatkinsEddie MarchandFinal DestinationJawsJaws 2Jaws 3DJaws the RevengeJurassic ParkJurassic WorldMatt HooperMichael BrodyMichael CaineOrcaPippinPsychoQuintSean BrodySimon MacCorkindaleSteven SpielbergThe OmenVerna Fields


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A Better Method to Pack and Prepare Your Wheel Bearings
Jeff HuneycuttWriter, Photographer
OK, we get it: Wheel bearings and bearing maintenance aren't exactly the sexiest topics when it comes to racing. But just like paying your taxes, going to see the dentist and eating your vegetables; ignoring proper wheel bearing maintenance in your race car may be tempting, but you know you are going to pay for it in the long run.
We've done stories before about how to pack wheel bearings with grease and set hub endplay with crush sleeves, but like just about all things in racing, technology continually marches on. In particular, DRP Performance Products has developed a few very unique systems that caught our eye. We wanted to take a closer look at them to see how they can help racers be both more precise and efficient when packing and cleaning wheel bearings.
Specifically, we are talking about DRP's Low Drag Hub Parts Kit, which includes REM-polished Timken bearings, an ultra-low drag inner hub seal and--best of all--DRP's proprietary bearing spacer (which replaces a traditional crush sleeve). We also took a close look at a couple of tools DRP's engineers have developed for use when packing your hubs. This includes a very trick tool to help measure and set bearing preload as well as a grease gun built specifically to pack the bearings with precise amounts of grease with practically no mess. At first, a grease gun may sound like no big deal, but we found out in practice that it really does make a racer's life much easier as you will see in the photos below.
This story is part of a larger install project we are working on with Crate Dirt Late Model racer Chris Hargett. Hargett allows us to use his car as a rolling test bed of sorts for the magazine. Hargett swears by DRP's bearing spacer and uses the tools himself, which we noticed while working on a story installing an also innovative Bulldog quick change rear end from Diversified Machine. That story will be coming up very soon in Circle Track, but there was so much cool information we wanted to bring you concerning DRP's systems for wheel bearings, we decided to break it out into a separate story.
Wheel bearings may not sound like a big deal--just put 'em in and move on to the next thing on the to-do list. But consider the amount of abuse they receive on the race track and how much you depend on them to minimize the chassis' horsepower-eating rolling resistance. While working on a different story with Crate Late Model racer Chris Hargett, he showed us DRP's Low Drag Hub Parts Kit which he swears by. It includes two Timken bearings which have already been REM polished for minimal drag, an ultra-low drag hub seal, and DRP's patented aluminum bearing spacer. After digging deeper into DRP's innovative systems, we felt they were worth a story on their own.
Here, you can see Hargett has prefit the inner wheel bearing and bearing spacer on Diversified Machine's Bulldog quick change rear end. At first glance the bearing spacer may look a lot like a traditional crush sleeve, but it is actually so innovative that DRP has been able to patent it. The spacer is adjustable to allow you to precisely set bearing preload. And its length can also be locked with a set screw, eliminating the tedious process of setting bearing preload every time you clean and repack your wheel bearings. But on the track is where the difference really shines. DRP says that the precision of the threaded spacer (versus compressing the metal of a crush sleeve) means racers typically see a 200 to 500 percent increase in hub free spin--a difference you can actually feel when pushing the car.
DRP's bearing spacer works well on its own, but it really shines when used alongside this tool, DRP's Hub End Play Gauge. Instead of the old-school method of setting bearing preload by "feel," the End Play Gauge brings a little more science into the process by allowing you to measure exactly how much free play you have in your hub down to 0.0005 of an inch.
With Wide 5 hubs like you see here, DRP recommends starting with the bearing spacer threaded out to 3/4 of its maximum length. Assemble the hub components up to the spindle nut, but the lock ring or hub cap isn't necessary. Also, there should be no grease on the bearings. There should be a few thousandths of an inch of movement at the hub in and out (parallel to the axle). If not, disassemble the hub, adjust the spacer so that it is longer, and reassemble.
The Hub End Play Gauge screws right onto the spindle. Next, slide the arm down until the end of the dial indicator contacts the hub. Lock down the arm and zero out the dial indicator and you are ready to go.
You can measure the hub end play (which helps you set the correct bearing preload) by simply moving the hub back and forth and measure the end play on the dial indicator. DRP includes a chart in the Hub Bearing Kit with recommended end play for a wide variety of hub styles. For Wide 5 hubs you need between 0.0005 and no end play. The trick is to bring the end play down to practically nothing without going so far that you create any drag on the bearings. This is why you always want to start with some endplay and work your way down. By the way, you can also spin the hub and use the tool to measure hub runout.
Once you have measured the end play at the hub, disassemble and set up the bearing spacer on a fixture like you see here. We just have a dial indicator on a stand set on a small granite surface plate so we know we have a truly flat surface. You can also use a pair of dial calipers, but generally it won't be as accurate. So if you measured 0.003 end play on the hub, set the spacer up on the indicator, zero it out, then spin the spacer so that it reduces the length until it is 0.0025 to 0.003 shorter.
Now reassemble the hub being very careful not to spin the threads on the bearing spacer to change its length. Remember, if you set up the End Play Gauge and it measures zero end play, that doesn't automatically mean you are good to go. If the bearing spacer is too short there will be no end play because there is too much press on the bearing. Spin the hub by hand. If it spins free with no drag you are set. If it spins and stops relatively quickly, that means there is drag and the spacer will need to be lengthened. Once the bearing spacer length is correct, you can pull the hub apart one last time to prepare it for final assembly. The bearing spacer has a set screw which now should be tightened to lock the length.
This is DRP's Precision Bearing Packer, which is designed to apply precise amounts of grease between the rollers of the wheel bearings with zero mess or waste which is a big deal when a tube of ultra low-drag bearing grease can run 150 bucks or more. Packing a bearing with grease by hand, or even using a traditional bearing packer, works but it puts way too much grease in the bearing, which actually adds drag. Many bearing manufacturers say you only need 30 to 50 percent of that amount. This tool eliminates that issue while also being quite a bit quicker.
The genius of the system is this plate. The aluminum disc is the bearing seat, which holds the bearing in place. You can actually buy different seats to work with different bearing sizes. Also notice the needle to the left of the seat. That injects the grease from the gun right into the cavity between the bearing rollers.
Chuck the Bearing Packer up in a vise to help free up a hand. Hargett says you need to use one hand to hold the bearing down against the seat to ensure accurate placement of the grease. Simply squirt grease in until you see the grease reach the top of the roller, then rotate the bearing so that the needle is between the next void between rollers. For most applications, especially dirt track racing, you want a bit of grease between all the rollers. But we have heard of some asphalt teams that only put grease in every other void. That reduces drag even further, but you will need to clean and repack your bearings more often.
Here's the bearing after it has been packed with grease. Old school racers will have trouble believing that this is enough grease to properly protect the bearing, but if you use a quality grease for racing, it will be fine.
Since we are at last ready to install the hubs on the Bulldog quick change for the real, it is time to install DRP's ultra low-drag seals (we're big fans of that "Made in the USA" too). By the way, check out the trick lightweight rotors from a company called QTM. We'll have more info on them soon.
As tempting as it may be to go ahead and knock the seal in with a hammer, resist the urge. A good hub seal is important not only to keep grease in the hub, but also to keep water out when you are washing your car. Use a properly sized seal driver to provide even pressure all the way around when driving the seal into place.
Because the bearing spacer is designed to maintain its shape unlike a crush sleeve, the hub nut can be torqued to a full 20 to 40 ft/lbs. By the way, this should be done every time to ensure consistency, even when assembling the hubs just to measure end play.
This time when installing the hub, don't forget the lock ring to keep the hub nut from backing off. For dirt track racing, the hubs generally will need to be torn down, cleaned and repacked with grease every six to eight races. But as long as you use the same bearings and hubs, the bearing spacers should allow the assemblies to drop right back together with the correct end play every time. So by investing a little time to get everything set up correctly the first time with these tools from DRP, you can save tons of time while properly maintaining your wheel hubs and bearings during the season.
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It is manifest, therefore, that the jury must judge of and try the whole case, and every part and parcel of the case, free of any dictation or authority on the part of the government. They must judge of the existence of the law; of the true exposition of the law; of the justice of the law; and of the admissibility and weight of all the evidence offered; otherwise the government will have everything its own way; the jury will be mere puppets in the hands of the government; and the trial will be, in reality, a trial by the government, and not a "trial by the country." By such trials the government will determine its own powers over the people, instead of the people's determining their own liberties against the government; and it will be an entire delusion to talk, as for centuries we have done, of the trial by jury, as a "palladium of liberty," or as any protection to the people against the oppression and tyranny of the government.
The jury are also to judge whether the laws are rightly expounded to them by the court. Unless they judge on this point, they do nothing to protect their liberties against the oppressions that are capable of being practised under cover of a corrupt exposition of the laws. If the judiciary can authoritatively dictate to a jury any exposition of the law, they can dictate to them the law itself, and such laws as they please; because laws are, in practice, one thing or another, according as they are expounded.
The question, then, between trial by jury, as thus described, and trial by the government, is simply a question between liberty and despotism. The authority to judge what are the powers of the government, and what the liberties of the people, must necessarily be vested in one or the other of the parties themselves—the government, or the people; because there is no third party to whom it can be entrusted. If the authority be vested in the government, the government is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with. If, on the other hand, that authority be vested in the people, then the people have all liberties, (as against the government,) except such as substantially the whole people (through a jury) choose to disclaim; and the government can exercise no power except such as substantially the whole people (through a jury) consent that it may exercise.
Lysander Spooner was one of the most radical legal theorists of the 19th century. At one stage he argued that the principles of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Amendments to the Constitution (the Bill of Rights) clearly prohibited slavery as a matter of principle and equal rights before nature and the law. When this proved to be a losing proposition in the 1850s he turned to arguing that the U.S. Constitution had no authority over free men and that it should be ignored or undermined. One powerful way to do this was "jury nullification", i.e. the ancient right of juries going back to Magna Carta to determine the justice of any law which might be applied to a case, to determine the rules of evidence, and to thus act as brake on central government power. He wrote this tract in 1852 arguing along these lines. Needless to say, he was unsuccessful in changing the course of the growth of government power but his arguments linger on.


Here's a nice idea for your nice brunch, breakfast potluck, or social gathering.
It's paleo-friendly, low-carb, and very easy to make. It takes under 30 minutes. All you need in terms of appliances and tools is an oven and either a set of muffin cups or a muffin tray.
Lightly pan fry the bacon strips on a skillet.
Place strips onto a paper towel and gently blot to remove excess oils.
Spray muffin cup pan with coconut oil cooking spray.
Line one slice of bacon along the side the a muffin cup. Repeat with the remaining slices.
Crack an egg into the center of the muffin cup. Repeat will the rest of the eggs.
Sprinkle a little bit of salt and pepper on top of each egg cup.
Sprinkle a bit of the chopped chives on top of each egg cup.
Put muffin tray into the oven and let it cook for about 15-20 minutes or until egg appears to be set (slightly firm but not dry).


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Dr Hinds: Vaccine won't be enough to stop Covid-19 in T&T
Fayola Bostic Wednesday 25 November 2020	Health, Wellness Leave a comment
A third Covid-19 vaccine is seeing positive clinical trial results. The vaccine, developed by the Oxford University and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, is said to have a 70-90% efficacy. It does not need to be stored at freezing temperatures; it can be stored between 2 and 8 degrees. And it is both easier and cheaper to produce than either of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
Despite this good news, with a vaccination strategy to immunise one-third of the population, no vaccine that is finally approved for use in Trinidad and Tobago will stop the virus by itself.
Photo: Man being vaccinated (by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from Unsplash)
Epidemiologist Dr Avery Hinds said at the Ministry of Health's Covid-19 media conference on 25 November 2020: "The vaccination strategy that is being employed is not one that is aimed at generating population-wide herd immunity."
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 60-70% of the population would need to be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity.
Instead, in Trinidad and Tobago, two main groups will be vaccinated: individuals with a high risk of becoming seriously ill or dying from Covid-19, such as the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions, and those with a high risk of exposure to the virus, like frontline workers and medical professionals.
So those hoping to toss their masks or attend large gatherings again once a vaccine is found could find themselves disappointed.
Dr Hinds said that the vaccine would be an additional tool against the spread of the virus.
"It's going to support the testing, the tracing the isolation and quarantine, and it's going to support the measures we all take as individuals to reduce our risk by having the physical distancing, the mask-wearing, the hand sanitisation and hygiene, the avoidance of gatherings when we're ill," he said. "So, it's another layer; it does not in any way replace the need to do all of these things in order to reduce risk. But what it should do, hopefully, is reduce the potential for some of the surges in either deaths or cases based on our protection of targeted groups."
Globally, Dr Hinds reported that there was an uptrend in new confirmed cases of the virus in every territory, except the African territories. Locally, there has been a gradual increase in the rolling 7-day average over the past 21 days. The daily average is now about 33 cases per day.
Globally there have been 58,900,547 confirmed cases and 1,393,305 deaths due to Covid-19. In T&T, 6,503 Covid-19 cases have been confirmed since March. With another fatality reported today, the death toll is now 116.
There were 15 new cases of infection reported today. One of these new cases comes from the prison system. There are 175 inmates quarantined in the prison system.
The total number of active cases in the country is 732. Forty-five patients are in hospital, 30 in step-down facilities and 142 in state quarantine facilities.
Photo: The novel coronavirus.
The Ministry of Health reminds members of the public to adhere to the 'new normal' and:
Wear a mask over your nose and mouth when you go out in public;
Keep your distance from others (six feet);
Stay home if you are ill;
Clean then sanitise surfaces, such as tabletops, doorknobs and cell phones;
Wash your hands often with soap and water or use an alcohol-based sanitiser;
Cough into a tissue or the crook of your elbow;
Avoid touching your face.
Persons are urged to call Covid-19 hotline numbers: 877-WELL, 87-SWRHA or 877-3742 (Trinidad) and 800-HEAL (Tobago) if they feel unwell; or they can report a possible breach of Covid-19 regulations by calling 555, or sending messages—inclusive of photographs and videos—to the Police App or via WhatsApp to 482-GARY.
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Aeglea BioTherapeutics Appoints Alison Lawton to Board of Directors
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Aeglea Biotherapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:AGLE), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a new generation of human enzyme therapeutics as innovative solutions for rare and other high burden diseases, today announced the appointment of Alison Lawton to its Board of Directors. Ms. Lawton previously served as president and CEO of Kaleido Biosciences.
"We are pleased to welcome Alison to the Aeglea Board at this pivotal stage of the company's growth. As we move closer to becoming a commercial-ready company, it is important to have a breadth of experience and diversity of perspective to help shape our strategy and accelerate our progress," said Anthony Quinn, M.B Ch.B, Ph.D., president and chief executive officer of Aeglea. "We believe that this addition complements our Board's skills and experiences and strengthens our ability to bring impactful medicines to people living with rare metabolic disorders."
"This is an exciting time to be joining Aeglea with a late-stage human enzyme therapeutic being investigated to treat Arginase 1 Deficiency and a second, clinic-ready program for Homocystinuria," said Ms. Lawton. "I look forward to working with the leadership team to advance these clinical programs and support additional candidates emerging from the Company's human enzyme therapeutics platform to make a positive impact for patients in need."
Ms. Lawton is an executive leader with more than 30 years of experience in biopharma. Prior to Kaleido Biosciences, Ms. Lawton served as chief operating officer of Aura Biosciences and OvaScience and worked at various positions of increasing responsibility at Genzyme, and subsequently at Sanofi-Aventis, including as head of Genzyme Biosurgery and prior senior vice president of Global Market Access. Ms. Lawton currently serves as independent director for X4 Pharmaceuticals and ProQR Therapeutics and has served on the Boards of Directors of Verastem, CoLucid until its acquisition by Eli Lilly, and Cubist Pharmaceuticals until its acquisition by Merck & Co. She is past president and chair of the Board of Regulatory Affairs Professional Society and past FDA Advisory Committee member for Cell and Gene Therapy Committee. She earned her BSc in Pharmacology, with honors, from King's College London.
About Aeglea BioTherapeutics
Aeglea BioTherapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company redefining the potential of human enzyme therapeutics to benefit people with rare and other high burden diseases. Aeglea's lead product candidate, pegzilarginase, is in a pivotal Phase 3 trial for the treatment of Arginase 1 Deficiency and has received both Rare Pediatric Disease and Breakthrough Therapy Designation. In the second quarter of 2020, the Company initiated a Phase 1/2 clinical trial of ACN00177 for the treatment of Homocystinuria. ACN00177 has also been granted Rare Pediatric Disease Designation. Aeglea has an active discovery platform, with the most advanced program for Cystinuria. For more information, please visit http://aegleabio.com.
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Equitas Health
Business Spotlight | Fall 2018
Equitas Health: Offering LGBTQ health care & confronting disparities
How Equitas Health transformed its mission to deliver more comprehensive care to the LGBTQ community and those living with HIV/AIDS
By Brooke Bilyj
Equitas Health wants every patient, of any gender identity, to feel welcome. As a result, its registration forms don't just ask for patients' legal name and sex, but also which pronouns they prefer.
"Things like that are not common in everyday practices, but those things go a long way to ensure that patients feel like health providers understand them and their needs," says CEO Bill Hardy. "Our providers take time to understand all aspects of an individual's well-being, so we can deliver the most culturally competent care."
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) individuals often experience health care disparities; a Kaiser Family Foundation study published in 20161 found that LGBT individuals report poorer health, more chronic conditions and higher rates of mental illness than heterosexuals. Many LGBT individuals also report negative experiences when seeking care—ranging from lack of awareness to disrespect to denial of services.
Because of these disparities and social stigmas, "a lot of LGBTQ individuals don't 'come out' to their medical providers," Hardy says, which can impact health care outcomes—especially considering that this population is predisposed to certain illnesses, sexually transmitted infections and HIV.
Equitas Health began as multiple social service organizations around the state, most of which were founded in 1984. At the time, it focused solely on HIV prevention, care and treatment. By expanding its mission to deliver more comprehensive care to the underserved LGBTQ community, Equitas Health has transformed into an inclusive health care system committed to its tagline of "care for all."
Bill Hardy, CEO, Equitas Health (right), and a colleague (Credit: Jeffry Konczal)
Expanding the mission
In 2011, the organization was still known as AIDS Resource Center Ohio (ARC Ohio). The transformation began in July that year, when ARC Ohio merged with the Columbus AIDS Task Force, expanding the organization's regional footprint and laying the foundation for growth. At the time of the merger, it was operating with about 70 employees and a budget of $6.5 million.
Then in 2012, the organization moved from social services into health care delivery for people living with HIV, through its Short North Medical Center in Columbus.
"Instead of being the middleman, we decided to provide the care that we knew patients needed and deserved, with a wrap-around model that assesses all aspects of an individual's health care to create a one-stop shop for people living with HIV," Hardy says.
Within six months, the Short North facility exceeded its first-year goals for patient enrollment and pharmacy revenue. When the Dayton Medical Center opened in 2014, it similarly met its first-year enrollment goals within five months.
"As we expanded, we were able to capture better health outcomes for HIV-positive patients," Hardy says. "Our viral suppression rate – or the percentage of HIV-positive patients living with such low levels of HIV that it's practically undetectable and untransmittable – is currently 87 percent. The national average is 49 percent2. That's a testament to the success we've experienced with this model."
Yet, the organization's leadership realized that the nonprofit couldn't sustain itself financially by focusing only on HIV. So it expanded again.
"We made the transition from an organization solely focused on the disease state of HIV/AIDS, to one focused on population health for the LGBTQ community," Hardy says. "Broadening our mission helped us remain sustainable financially by diversifying our revenue streams, but it also enabled us to deliver more expansive services to address more health disparities."
In 2016, ARC Ohio rebranded as Equitas Health, with an expanded mission to provide an inclusive health care experience to LGBTQ individuals, those affected by HIV/AIDS and other medically underserved communities.
We made the transition from an organization solely focused on the disease state of HIV/AIDS, to one focused on population health for the LGBTQ community.
Bill Hardy
CEO, Equitas Health
Now with 17 locations, the Equitas health system encompasses primary care, behavioral health services, medical case management and dentistry. To support these services, Equitas also operates its pharmacies as a social enterprise.
Today, with 350 employees and a budget of $75 million, the nonprofit has grown into one of the largest community-based health care systems of its kind. Although Equitas specializes in LGBTQ health and HIV care, anyone can access its services – which are priced on a sliding fee scale, based on patient income.
This year, the organization will serve more than 67,000 patients in Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky. And thanks to the support of its donors and community partners, Equitas Health continues to grow.
Last year, Huntington financed Equitas Health's second Columbus location, the King-Lincoln Medical Center, located in an underserved neighborhood on the inner east side.
"Huntington is helping facilitate health care access in a community that had been dubbed 'a health care desert,'" Hardy says. "We're grateful for Huntington's support of our mission so we can continue meeting the health care needs of this community."
Sustained by social enterprise
Equitas Health is a "federally qualified health center look-alike," which means although it's recognized by the federal government for providing primary care services in underserved areas, it's not eligible for federal grants. Instead, the organization relies on fundraising to support its mission. (Its biggest biennial fundraiser, Art for Life, raised more than $630,000 in 2016 and this year took place at the Columbus Museum of Art on Sept. 15, 2018.)
To help support its services, Equitas Health operates its community pharmacies as a social enterprise, so profits are reinvested into the organization. As a look-alike, Equitas Health can purchase discounted medications through the 340B Federal Drug Pricing Program, which helpsp subsidize the cost of its health center sliding fee scale.
"Our pharmacy is not only a revenue generator but also a key component of our care model," says CEO Bill Hardy. "It supports our mission to provide care to folks who may not be able to cover the cost of our services. And since our pharmacy is open to the public, anyone can support our work just by using our pharmacy."
For more information, visit www.equitashealth.com
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1 Jen Kates, Usha Ranji, Adara Beamesderfer, Alina Salganicoff, and Lindsey Dawson, Health and Access to Care and Coverage for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals in the U.S., the Henry J. Kaiser Foundation, updated May 2018, http://files.kff.org/attachment/Issue-Brief-Health-and-Access-to-Care-and-Coverage-for-LGBT-Individuals-in-the-US, accessed May 7, 2017
2 www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/2017/2017-HIV-Continuum-Press-Release.html
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