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5 edition of Indian New England, 1524-1674 found in the catalog.
Indian New England, 1524-1674
a compendium of eyewitness accounts of Native American life
Published 1999 by Branch Line Press in Pepperell, Mass .
Indians of North America -- New England -- History.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 15-17) and index.
Statement edited by Ronald Dale Karr ; illustrations by Emilie Renée Karr and Jeannine Marie Karr.
Series Heritage of New England series
Contributions Karr, Ronald Dale.
LC Classifications E78.N5 I53 1999
Pagination 160 p. :
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Italy's 2019 budget wins Senate approval amid outcry
Published: December 24, 2018 10:42:18 | Updated: December 26, 2018 14:00:40
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Italian Economy Minister Giovanni Tria attend a debate at the Senate in Rome, Italy, December 19, 2018. Reuters/File Photo
The Italian government won a gruelling vote of confidence on its 2019 budget in the upper house in the early hours of Sunday, as it races to get the package approved before a year-end deadline.
The budget now has to be approved by the lower house of parliament by December 31 so it can take effect from the start of the new year.
The government of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and the right-wing League won the vote 167-78, with three abstentions.
Last Wednesday, the European Commission reached a deal with Italy over its 2019 budget after months of verbal sparring, avoiding disciplinary steps against Rome.
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"The budget law is a joke," former Prime Minister and PD member Matteo Renzi said on Saturday.
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Chapter subpages, Fire and Ice, The Prophecies Begin arc
Fire and Ice/Chapter 14
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"Over and over, one thought echoed in Fireheart's mind. How could Graystripe love Crookedstar's daughter, but remain loyal to ThunderClan?"
— Fireheart's thoughts about Graystripe in Fire and Ice, page 158
Fireheart
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Below contains in-depth information for chapter fourteen of Fire and Ice. If you are looking for a shorter summary of the entire book, please check the main article.
Chapter Number: 14 (of 30)
Page Numbers: 155-161
Fireheart watches Graystripe as he and Silverstream share their affection. Fireheart starts to wonder how Graystripe could be so stupid, as he is breaking every other part of the warrior code meeting Silverstream. Fireheart calls to Graystripe, which causes the two to face him. Graystripe is startled by Fireheart's appearance, and accuses his friend of following him. Fireheart ignores him, and asks him what he is doing, and asks him if he knows how dangerous it is. Silverstream speaks up, and tells him that a RiverClan patrol wouldn't be around until sunset. Fireheart asks her how could she know that, and tells her that she couldn't know all her Clan's movements. Silverstream tells him that her father is Crookedstar, the leader of RiverClan. Fireheart turns to Graystripe and asks Graystripe what he is playing at, commenting if he could have possibly chosen worse. Graystripe meets his friend's eyes, then tells Silverstream that he has to go. Silverstream reaches over and brushes her muzzle across Graystripe's cheek, and they sit still. Fireheart starts to become alarmed as Silverstream whispers something to Graystripe, then stares defiantly at Fireheart, and slips back to the river.
As the two warriors approach the ThunderClan camp, Fireheart tells Graystripe that he has to stop seeing Silverstream, but Graystripe replies that he can't stop seeing her. Fireheart tells Graystripe that he doesn't understand how he could see Silverstream after the death of Whiteclaw. Especially because of what Leopardfur said about Whiteclaw and that the matter wasn't just a border dispute anymore.Graystripe tells Fireheart that he doesn't know Silverstream, and that there is no need to remind him of Whiteclaw, and asks Fireheart if he thinks it is easy knowing that he is responsible for his death when he was Silverstream's Clanmate. Fireheart impatiently listens to Graystripe as he continues, he tells Fireheart that Silverstream understood that it was an accident. He says the gorge was no place for a battle, and any cat could have fallen. Fireheart paces around Graystripe and tells him that it doesn't matter what Silverstream thinks. He asks Graystripe about his loyalty to ThunderClan, as Graystripe is breaking the code by seeing Silverstream.
Graystripe asks Fireheart if he thought he didn't know that, and if he doubted his loyalty to ThunderClan. Fireheart replies that he couldn't see Silverstream without lying to the Clan. He asks Graystripe what he would do if the two Clans fought, and asks him if he thought about that. Graystripe tells him that Fireheart worries too much, and adds that it won't come to a battle, and explains that Brokenstar was gone and WindClan was back so the Clans would be at peace. Fireheart points out that RiverClan hadn't been acting very peacefully, as they were hunting on Sunningrocks. Graystripe impatiently tells Fireheart that RiverClan had been hunting at Sunningrocks since he was kitted. Fireheart paces, and asks Graystripe what he would do if a RiverClan patrol caught him. Graystripe explains that Silverstream wouldn't let that happen.
Fireheart exasperatedly asks Graystripe if he was even worried about anything happening. Graystripe stops washing and looks at Fireheart, and tells him that he didn't get it, and explains that StarClan must have planned the meeting. Silverstream wanted to see him even after Whiteclaw's death. Graystripe explains to Fireheart that they shared the same thoughts, as if they were born in the same Clan. Fireheart soon realizes that it was pointless to argue with Graystripe, and tells Graystripe that they should get back to camp before he is missed again. As they head toward the camp, Fireheart begins to wonder how Graystripe could love Crookedstar's daughter and still be loyal to ThunderClan. As they approach the camp wall, Fireheart starts to feel angry towards Graystripe. They enter through the nursery, and Whitestorm confronts them. He tells Graystripe that he should be resting, as his cough had already started to spread, and explains that the Clan didn't need the cough to reach the nursery. Graystripe only nods, and heads back to the warriors den. Whitestorm then turns to Fireheart, and asks him if he was supposed to be training his apprentices.
Fireheart explains that he had come back to get something for his belly-ache from Yellowfang. Whitestorm tells him to hurry up and get it, and after that, to make himself useful and find some prey. He comments that it was leaf-bare and the Clan couldn't afford to have the younger warriors hanging around the camp doing nothing. Fireheart heads towards Yellowfang's den, and finds her busy mixing herbs. He remembers ThunderClan's past medicine cat, Spottedleaf, and wishes it was her instead of Yellowfang. She notices him, and tells Fireheart that her supplies were running low, and that she might need help restocking them. He starts to wonder if he should confide in her, but she tells him that there was two cases of whitecough in the camp. Fireheart asks if one of the cases was Swiftpaw, but Yellowfang replies that Swiftpaw just has a cold, it was Speckletail's kit and Patchpelt that had whitecough. Yellowfang tells him that it wasn't serious, but they needed to concentrate on getting the Clan strong, as leaf-bare brings the threat of greencough.
Yellowfang asks him what he wanted, Fireheart replies that it was nothing, just a belly-ache, and that it really didn't matter if she was busy. She asks if it was bad, and he replies that it wasn't. Yellowfang tells him to come back when it was bad, then asks him to make sure Graystripe stays in the warriors den. She notes that he was a strong warrior, should have been better already. Fireheart wonders if she had guessed Graystripe was sneaking out of camp, and he pads away from her. As it was getting dark, Fireheart notes that he was running out of time for hunting, and he quickly catches some prey. He is too distracted by Graystripe, and decides to talk to Silverstream. Fireheart stashes his prey and heads towards Sunningrocks. He scents Silverstream through the rain and follows it to her and Graystripe's meeting place. Fireheart stops at the edge of the river where he scents RiverClan warriors. He drops to a crouch and spots Silverstream and two other warriors. Fireheart begins to wonder if the RiverClan warriors had picked up his scent.
Fireheart[1]
Graystripe[1]
Silverstream[1]
Whitestorm[2]
Crookedstar[1]
Whiteclaw[3]
Leopardfur[3]
Swiftpaw[5]
Speckletail's kit[5]
Patchpelt[5]
Two unnamed RiverClan warriors[6]
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Revealed in Fire and Ice, page 155
↑ 2.0 2.1 Revealed in Fire and Ice, page 158
↑ Revealed in Fire and Ice, page 157
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The ship in which Rodney Horgen, 62, and Judy Lemieux, 66, of Deer River, Minnesota, were traveling on was struck by a massive storm and rocked by huge waves and 50-mph winds in an incident that they have likened to "being on the Titanic." The couple was among several hundreds of passengers who had to be rescued from the Viking Sky, a 12-day luxury cruise that goes along the coast of Norway, according to The Daily Mail.
Horgen said that the winds were so strong that many passengers believed the vessel was going to turn on its side, adding that all sorts of objects were being thrown about, including tables, utensils, and china. Before the cruise ship managed to stabilize and request for a rescue team to evacuate everyone, around 20 people on board were injured.
Here's what it was like on board the Viking Sky cruise ship after it became disabled in rough waters off the western coast of Norway.
Lemieux also described the shocking moment, saying when a wall of water broke through the window of the restaurant and that its sheer force sent her flying.
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The pair, who are retired doctors, were lucky enough to be among some of the first to be evacuated by helicopter. They admitted that one of the hardest moment for them was to be airlifted to safety before other passengers.
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More than 400 people had to be rescued after the Viking Sky had an engine problem amid the massive storm. It sent a mayday request at about 2 p.m. on Saturday, and search and rescue teams spent hours airlifting elderly passengers one by one from the deck. Other rescue ships and tugboats went to help the vessel, and it eventually arrived safely into port that day.


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(Palo Alto, CA) September 8, 2004: An extensive website featuring a wide range of photographs, maps, flight logs and other memorabilia has been launched to honor Captain Roy M. "Butch" Voris, USN (retired) founder of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels Flight Team. The website, which features a "retro" design motif, is located at www.FirstBlueAngel.com. The Web site is being launched in conjunction with the official introduction of Voris' biography. Written by award winning author, Robert Wilcox, with a forward by renowned astronaut James Lovell, "First Blue" will be published by St. Martins Press in mid September, 2004.
The mission of the site is to generate funds for The Navy Marine Corps Relief Fund and the Naval Academy Foundation. This will be accomplished by selling autographed copies of "First Blue". All costs for operating FirstBlueAngel.com have been underwritten by members of Butch's family, all net proceeds from the sales of "First Blue" and the Blue Angels photographs will be donated to the Navy Marine Corps Relief Fund and the Naval Academy Foundation.
"First Blue", the story of WWII Ace Butch Voris and the creation of the Blue Angels is the rollicking saga of a true American hero—part Rocket Boys, part military history, part the Right Stuff. According to Jim Lovell, Commander of multiple Apollo Lunar Missions, this book should appeal to anyone who has felt the thrill of aviation in their veins. With a great story to tell, Wilcox has crafted a stirring naval action narrative that often reads like an adventure novel covering Voris' remarkable life. The story ranges from heroic, tragic and humorous to inspirational, but is always spellbinding.
Anyone can enjoy the extensive Blue Angels memorabilia on display at FirstBlueAngel.com, acquire an autographed copy of "First Blue" and support a good cause all at the same time.
The official launch event for "First Blue" will take place at The California Air Show in Salinas, California October 2d and October 3d (www.salinasairshow.com). He will also be feted at the Jacksonville NAS Air Show October 30-31. Photographs for publication and interviews with Butch can be scheduled by contacting hank@firstblueangel.com.


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Charity runners clock up £12,000 for Bluebell Wood – and there's no stopping now
Charitable Chesterfield trio the Purple Shooting Stars just keep on running…
Since 2014 the women have raised over £12,000 and clocked up thousands of miles, all to help Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice give care and support to families across North Derbyshire and beyond.
Nicola Yeomans who lives in Heath, her twin sister, school dinner lady Alison West from Holmewood, and their friend Joanne Clarkson, a special needs teacher from Duckmanton, have no plans for stopping.
Nicola, 40, a Chesterfield Borough Council Benefits Officer, said: "I got involved with Bluebell Wood when the council made the hospice its Charity of the Year in 2013.
"I had never been a runner, but I bagged a Bluebell Wood place in the Great North Run, got the bug and started running eight miles a week with my sister and we both completed the Chesterfield Half Marathon for the hospice.
"Joanne also joined us and we formed The Purple Shooting Stars running group, named after the hospice colours."
Since then the women have taken part in numerous races and half marathons and organised fundraising fashion shows, market stalls and quiz nights for the hospice.
By the end of 2016 they had raised £7,500 and came up with the idea a yearly mileage challenge. In 2017 they ran the equivalent of Lands End to John O'Groats and raised £1,938, and a year later they clocked up 1,254 miles, the equivalent of running from London to Bulgaria's capital city Sofia, bringing in £2831.97 for the hospice.
Their grand total is now £12,270 and there is more to come…
This summer Nicola, mum of three Alison and mum of two Joanne have the equivalent of several Olympic Triathlons to complete.
They will each tackle a 1.5km swim at Sharley Park Swimming Pool in Clay Cross , a 10k run and are aiming to clock up 40km of cycling on exercise bikes and rides in Derbyshire.
They are hoping Nicola's council colleagues will join them on a Mighty Hike around Derwent Edge on Saturday July 13 and on top of that, there is the Great North Run to tackle in September and the Worksop Half Marathon in October.
Said Nicola: "You don't realise how much you've raised until you add it up. We are really so grateful to our workmates, families and friends who keep on sponsoring us. They call me the Council's Charity Queen now!
"We do an event every other month and would never want to fundraise for any other charity. We have visited Bluebell Wood several times and been so impressed at the incredible work its people do to support children and families during some of the hardest times they will ever face. We're really aware just how much the hospice relies on the support of people like us."
Bluebell Wood gives care and support to children with a shortened life expectancy, both in their own homes and at the hospice in North Anston.
Services cover all of South Yorkshire, North Derbyshire, North Nottinghamshire and parts of North Lincolnshire.
Rachael Dawes, Corporate Fundraising Manager at Bluebell Wood, said: "We're so grateful to Alison, Nicola and Joanne for their continued commitment and energetic fundraising.
"Every penny they raise helps us to provide more of the services our families need, from music therapy, arts and crafts and sibling support to counselling and end of life treatment and care."
To sponsor the Purple Shooting Stars, go to www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Al-Nic-Jo-Stars2019
Published: 2nd July, 2019
Author: Robert Langley
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An inspirational local mum is taking on Bluebell Wood's Mud Madness race for the second year in a row in memory of her daughter who died days before her 10th birthday.
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"Agua Mala" / "Antipas"
"Agua Mala"
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"Agua Mala" (season 6, episode 13; originally aired 2/21/1999)
In which there's an octopus monster that's actually living water, and… sigh
"Agua Mala" is a famously bad episode of The X-Files. When I mentioned I was watching it on Twitter, I immediately got a response from someone who said it was the only episode of the series they were unable to watch in full. While I wouldn't go that far, "Agua Mala" is definitely somewhere in the bottom 25 X-Files episodes, and it's the kind of mess that a good TV show can only turn out around this point in the season, when everybody's tired, and everybody just wants to be done with the season already. On the other hand, the worst thing about "Agua Mala" is that it comes so very, very close to working that it's frustrating to see just how little it actually does.
As it turns out, writer David Amann didn't initially begin the script that would become "Agua Mala" by setting it during a hurricane. Originally, he wanted to do a story about a monster in an abandoned gold mine, which would presumably kill those who stumbled into its domain. Executive producer Frank Spotnitz didn't like that idea much, but he did like the idea of a monster killing people in an enclosed space, and Amann somehow went from that to the idea of an apartment building during a hurricane, which would be menaced by a sea monster who had been blown onshore by the storm. Honestly, that idea isn't bad, or at least, the idea of people in an apartment building being picked off one by one by a monster isn't. It's basically just a variation on season one's "Ice," but it's amazing how rarely the series returned to that bottle show setup when it needed to save costs.
The problem is that the episode isn't content to simply tell the story of Mulder and Scully battling a weird tentacle monster in an apartment building isolated by a hurricane. That's a story with stakes. That's a story you could build on. No, the episode lurches all over the place, going out of its way to incorporate several elements that don't really belong. The first is former FBI Agent Arthur Dales, the man who was the first X-Files agent back in the day. Now, he's living in Florida, where he's presumably retired, and he's the one who calls Mulder down to save the day. Reportedly, Amann was made to work Darren McGavin, whom the producers wanted to bring back (for obvious reasons), into the script for the episode. That likely explains why he feels so tangential to the proceedings, since Dales turns up at the start to make fun of Scully, pops up randomly in the middle when he's listening in on a radio, then comes back at the end to tell Mulder and Scully about how the world is full of weird shit and would they like a drink of water? It's a glorified cameo, and it's a broad, hammy one at that, with the script turning Dales into the kind of old man who stands on his porch and yells about the good old days to the neighborhood kids.
The story of the episode is also very oddly structured. It takes forever to isolate Mulder and Scully in that apartment building, and once it does, it doesn't have nearly enough time to establish the people who live there, so they're simply turned into broad stereotypes. (The worst in this regard is a Latino couple, complete with spitfire pregnant woman.) The show works as hard as it can to make these people into more than monster chow, and Gillian Anderson, in particular, does her level best to make the characters seem like the sorts of fascinating people Scully might enjoy shooting the shit with in other occasions. But it's simply unable to do much of anything with these characters when it most counts. There are too many of them and too little time to flesh them out. So, inevitably, they just become the monster food Amann's script so desperately wants them not to be.
Here's the thing: I'm not so sure this needed to be a problem. If the script had eliminated Dales entirely and gotten Mulder and Scully to the condominiums right away (say, by having the initial family the monster attacks live there), that would have streamlined things enough to give time to fill out the characters living in the complex beyond their stereotypes. Hell, if Dales had just been living at the complex, that would have cut out much of the episode's loginess right there and made better use of McGavin, who really does deserve better than sending our two heroes on their merry way. Normally, when a script of this episode is poorly structured, the flaws aren't as obvious as they are here. In this episode, it's remarkable just how easily everything would be fixed by condensing the events.
In spite of all of this, the episode might have been at least a little interesting if it had a memorable monster. Instead, it has one that's far too convoluted. Amann's original idea of a sea monster washed up on land might have felt stupid, particularly if he tried to go with the usual sea serpent look, but what he came up with instead is even more bizarre. The idea of living water is just a strange thing to wrap one's head around, and since it comes up so late in the episode, the mechanics of how it all works are rather hand-waved away by David Duchovny saying a few things about how there are weird, weird things at the bottom of the ocean. Water somehow forming into a solid and garnering tentacles is something that's interesting but also something that makes less and less sense the more you think about it. How would this even happen? And why, exactly, would fresh water be the thing that would defeat it, in a disappointing resolution?
The effects for the tentacle living water monster also let the story down. The show has usually been able to use its budgetary restrictions to its advantage when making low-budget monsters, but here, it can only get so much mileage out of suggesting tentacles via writhing shadows and little bursts of movement from out of nowhere. When we have to actually take a sustained look at the monster, it's laughable. To its credit, the episode goes out of its way to avoid having us do this all too often, and in the process, it does come up with the image of the writhing tentacle in the overhead lamp (which is the one good thing here). But for the most part, the effects are as bad as everything else here. This is the rare X-Files episode where nothing—story, characters, technical aspects—works.
Grade: D-
Okay, I guess the look of the episode is pretty nice. It's kind of a throwback to the earlier seasons of the show, with all of the water everywhere and the chronic darkness. The series also nicely evokes a hurricane via blowing water and flickering lights.
God bless her, Gillian Anderson is giving it her all in that scene where Scully delivers the baby, even though she's never done such a thing before. It's such a transparent ploy to up the stakes of the whole thing, a desperate hail Mary pass in an episode that had already fallen apart long ago. But Anderson is doing her best to make it all play, even as Duchovny seems like he'd rather be anywhere else.
This episode has a surprisingly large number of folks who would turn up on other shows in the near-ish future. There's Joel McKinnon Miller, who would later play Don Embry on Big Love, as the hapless deputy. And there's Silas Weir Mitchell, of Prison Break and Grimm, as the looter, Dougie.
Okay, so how does the water monster convert its prey into water? And how, exactly, would this be advantageous to it? I've watched Mulder's explanation for this a bunch of times, and it makes less sense every time.
Hurricanes are uniquely well-suited to creating drama on a TV series. They're large and slow-moving, and they wreak plenty of destruction. Plus, since you always know they're on their way, it gives characters a chance to all get closed up in the same space. I wish this episode had done more with this.
"Antipas" (season 3, episode 13; originally aired 2/12/1999)
In which Lucy Butler returns and… HOLY FUCKING SHIT!
"Antipas" is that rare TV thing: a camp classic that's legitimately entertaining. Usually, camp classics fall under the broad umbrella of "so bad, it's good," and while I'd hesitate to call "Antipas" great TV, it's also not bad TV. Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz take credit for this episode's script, and it wanders far afield of this season's serial killer and crime-solving shenanigans in favor of crazy, crazy bullshit. We're back in the world of angels and demons and supernatural occurrences, and even if it doesn't make much sense how we've gotten here—a sign of how this series was made in an earlier age of TV serialization—I've always preferred this version of the show to the interminable serial killer episodes. So I'm glad to be here, even if it feels like we've briefly wandered into another television show entirely.
Right away, the teaser lets viewers know that they're in for something different from the season's usual. Two adults argue about the husband's political future while paying occasional attention to their daughter, who appears to be here with her nanny/governess Lucy Butler. (The way the camera lingers on her and the score plays several sting chords lets those just tuning in for the first time know that this woman is both important and evil.) When the girl seemingly disappears, the two fear that their arguing has made her run off. They spot her at the entrance to a hedge maze and give chase. She races to the maze's center, where she spots… a giant snake wrapping itself around a tree branch. Cut to the parents chasing after the girl (named "Davina," we discover). Cut to the snake. Cut to the girl's troubled eyes. Cut to the snake devouring the prone body of the girl. Then cut to the parents coming to the maze's center and seeing Lucy standing, hands resting gently on Davina. It's a teaser designed almost entirely to say, "Hey, I don't think I've seen that before." That's roughly what the whole episode ends up being.
Again, this is all a little campy and more than a little weird. Frank determines that Lucy is calling for him… somehow, and he takes the case of a dead gay man that Lucy killed by shape-shifting into a male lover for him off the plate of Hollis, pretty much just because he can. On the one hand, I like the way that the episode immediately escalates the stakes by having this old villain of Frank's return to his life. On the other hand, it feels more than a little abrupt, and if you're not up on your Lucy Butler mythology (and, remember, she hasn't appeared since somewhere in the middle of season two), it all feels as if it comes out of nowhere. Indeed, when I first saw Lucy in the episode's opening moments, it took me a second to recognize that, yes, that was really her, and, yes, we were going to head back into the show's more religious, mystical elements.
Everything after Frank decides to take the case, though, is just the right mix of bizarre and suspenseful. This is the first episode this season to be genuinely creepy here and there, and if it sometimes feels like Carter and Spotnitz are throwing everything they can think of at the wall to see what sticks, well, that's not the worst thing in the world sometimes. The episode has creepy kids, random murders, dog attacks, and Lucy Butler appearing in the middle of the night to mount Frank and then morph into a demon. (No, really.) It's a sequence that's surprisingly sexually explicit for the time, and it's one that plays off that fear of the person you've gone to bed with abruptly turning into an utter monster. Lance Henriksen and Sarah Jane-Redmond have an eerie chemistry, and this episode makes the most of that.
Throughout, Carter and Spotnitz take the story in unexpected directions. Take, for instance, when Frank finally convinces Hollis and local law enforcement to lock Lucy up for the murder of Davina's mother. Sure, he doesn't have a lick of evidence, but he's Frank Black, dammit. He's always right. Yet once Lucy's in the jail, her lawyer comes in, blustering about how she's been tortured and raped by the authorities. Hollis is angry about this accusation, as she would be, until the lawyer tells her that not only was Lucy raped, but she's pregnant… with Frank's baby. Once the lawyer starts talking about rape, it seems obvious which way this is all going to go, but it's still surprising to see the story twist in this way. Lucy is, in every way, the nightmare Frank can't put behind himself, and the more he tries to run from her, the closer she'll get.
It's really too bad that Lucy wasn't on the show more often than she was. She's a good villain for Frank to go up against, because her logic doesn't really play by human rules. As some sort of demon, she's got her own agenda that's never immediately understandable, and her battle with Frank seems driven less by logic than by some strange desire to bring about Armageddon. It's never immediately clear just why she's so intent on making sure that Davina ends up on her side (to the point where Davina starts screeching about Lucy being her mother after her actual mother dies), though it's possible to speculate about what she really wants, mostly stemming from the story of her dead daughter. Lucy Butler episodes tend to start out in fairly normal places, then take left turns into complete, batshit insanity. This one starts out there, then takes a left turn and keeps getting weirder. By the time Lucy is taking the form of Frank and yelling at Hollis in the hedge maze, it's easy to forget that this will probably just go back to the usual crime-solving in the weeks to come.
"Antipas," again, isn't great TV. It's probably too off its axle to be that. Great TV requires a certain steadiness to it, and "Antipas" is constantly threatening to fly off the road and plunge down the side of the mountain. But it's resolutely fun TV, and it makes me wonder if the series wouldn't have been better received all around if it had started out as some sort of Biblical X-Files, as a show that kept digging into the weird world of Christian esoterica, if there had been an elaborate story about Frank looking for the lost kingdom of Prester John or something. I don't really know what such a show would look like, but episodes like "Antipas" suggest everybody involved in the series could have come up with something fascinating. That they didn't bother to is a pity.
The long-haired man that Lucy sometimes appears as feels like a low-rent version of Killer BOB from Twin Peaks. This still works surprisingly well.
Points off: Rachel Victoria, who plays Divina, is a startlingly irritating child actress. The scenes where she's screaming for seemingly no reason are borderline unbearable.
I'm not sure that Hollis needed to be in this episode, but as a way to get her introduced to the show's more mystical side, it's not bad. I don't really know if she gets dragged further into this world in the episodes to come, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.
Lucy's threatening of Jordan at episode's end is appropriately chilling. It would have been great to see where the show would have gone with all of this in a fourth season (since Lucy seemed to be the kind of character who only dropped around every once in a while).
The series gets a lot of mileage out of great, eerie settings, and the Anitpas Manor in Wisconsin is a great one. The majestic building, the hedge maze, the weird lake… it all adds up to a memorable location.
Next week: Zack keeps repeating himself on a "Monday," then takes a trip back in time with "Matryoshka."
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LANGUAGE WEAVER ANNOUNCES SECOND STRATEGIC INVESTMENT AND Contract From In-Q-Tel
Just one year after Language Weaver, Inc., announced an initial investment and contract from In-Q-Tel, Inc., the company announces a follow-on contract and equity investment from this private venture group funded by the Central Intelligence Agency. Language Weaver is a software company developing statistical machine translation software (SMTS) for the automation of human language translation.
There is a critical need for translation by government organizations that are dealing with a glut of foreign language text documents that need translation into English in a timely manner. The additional contract and investment from In-Q-Tel is aimed at enhancing interoperability between Language Weaver's SMTS and other natural language processing and analytical tool applications. Language Weaver takes a statistical approach to natural language processing, correlating words and word groupings to produce the highest probability of a correct match.
"Language Weaver is an important strategic partner for In-Q-Tel," Gilman Louie, CEO of In-Q-Tel, said. "Its breakthrough approach to machine translation creates unprecedented opportunities for our government customers to translate and digest massive amounts of foreign language information. Language Weaver continues to enhance its technology, mature its business, and prove that it can deliver products quickly to customers."
This new investment and contract from In-Q-Tel comes immediately on the heels of Language Weaver's announcement that it has raised a Series B financing round of $4 million from venture capitalists, and just after it has been awarded a $2 million Advanced Technology Program award from the U.S. Department of Commerce's NIST agency.
According to Bryce Benjamin, CEO of Language Weaver, the commercial viability of its technology overlaps national security needs. "Automated language translation is a crucial enabling technology not just for government customers, but also for multinational companies competing in a global marketplace," Benjamin said. "Language Weaver's technology can save companies both money and time in getting their information out into the worldwide marketplace."
About Language Weaver, Inc.
Language Weaver was founded in 2002 to commercialize a unique approach to automatic language translation using proprietary statistical translation algorithms that resulted from 20 person-years of invention and development at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI). Its resulting product, statistical machine translation software, provides the highest quality output to date from machine translation. The company has 15 patents pending on its SMTS technology. Bidirectional language pairs available include: Arabic/English, Chinese/English, French/English, and Spanish/English; unidirectional languages include Somali to English and Hindi to English, with others coming soon. Language Weaver's software is available as licensed software in client server and stand-alone versions. Website: www.languageweaver.com.


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Knox knows craft beer – and how to make it
Tom King March 28, 2019 Farragut, Inside 640, On the Grow
Dr. Todd White in a classroom at the Brewing + Distilling Center (Photos by Shannon Cox)
The Brewing + Distilling Center (BDC) in Knoxville is fast becoming a destination training center for beer makers around the country. It opened in 2017, and already 120 of its graduates are spread across the country brewing craft beers. And 25 of those grads are practicing their trade here in town.
The craft-beer business is exploding around the country, and Knoxville is part of the trend, with 19 craft-beer businesses operating today. According to Dr. Todd "Doc" White, we're about to add about four more in the next few months. White is the founder of the BDC and is its president. He teaches and loves to drink beer, but he does not brew beer. Why not? "It's too damned complicated," he says.
Matt Lillie is head brewer at Elkmont Exchange Brewery & Eating House, where students from the Brewing + Distilling Center often come for training.
The center is in the North Central District at 130 Bearden Place near downtown. White says a number of the craft breweries are within walking distance of the center. What qualifies as a craft brewery? White says any brewery that produces less than 6 million barrels a year is a craft brewery. The very popular Samuel Adams in Boston is still classified as a craft brewery because it makes right at the 6-million-barrel limit, White says.
In 1978, the U.S. had 89 craft breweries. When 2018 ended, there were more than 7,000 around the country. Tennessee has more than 80 breweries and Knoxville has 19 breweries, the most of any Tennessee city or town.
White, who was a Maryville veterinarian for 20 years, recently spoke to the Rotary Club of Farragut about the center and the craft-beer and distilling scene in town and its rapid growth. The center is authorized for operation as a post-secondary education institution by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission. White and his team of instructors, brewers and distillers have been helping people reach their goals and acquire great brewery and distillery jobs all across the United States for more than six years – four years at South College and now at their own center.
White also is a founding board member of the very popular Tennessee Winter Beer Fest.
The basic brewing course is 13 weeks (154 hours), and every day the brewers in training have to taste what they're making – hour by hour. "It's one of the few jobs you can have where you can drink on the job," White says. He says he has a lot of veterans taking the courses, and next fall they will be able to pay using the GI Bill. The 13-week course costs $8,500 in standard tuition.
Making beer requires four ingredients, he says: water, hops, barley and yeast. The color of the beer is based on the color of the barley and to what degree it has been roasted. The hops are used for "bittering" and otherwise creating flavors in the beer. The fermentation period for a tank of beer is four to seven days.
He explains that there are two basic kinds of beer – ales and lagers. "Which one it becomes is determined by the yeast," he says.
What has caused this craft-beer business to grow so rapidly here?
"First, Knoxville is a great place to be with a lot of resources, and it's no surprise the breweries are coming to downtown and this area. There are a lot of low-priced but valuable properties available downtown that have been abandoned, and the breweries are helping rebuild the neighborhoods," he says.
The resources he mentions include the customers. "The age range of people who enjoy craft beer is from about 24 to 38," he says. "It's the millennials and the young millennials. Being right here close to the University of Tennessee is a big part of this, too."
Many of the small breweries do not prepare and serve food at their facilities, and this has helped another small business in Knoxville blossom – food trucks. "People like to drink, and so the food trucks pull up and sell the food outside the breweries and it works great for everyone."
Until the center opened, the primary brewing schools were in Chicago and at the University of California-Davis. "We didn't have one in the South, so I decided to open the center," he explains. "I basically burned out as a veterinarian after 20 years and decided to get going on teaching people how to make beer. I throttled back and love what I am doing now."
White says in his heart he is an entrepreneur. "I like being my own boss and don't like being told what to do and when to do it. I like the buck stopping at my desk. That, plus I love helping young people reach their goals."
In 2008 he opened his own craft-beer store in Maryville and called it "The Market." That introduced him to the craft-beer crowd – the people who wanted to brew and the people who drank it. "These people are fun to hang around with. They're smart, passionate and hard working, and people with those characteristics are people I like to be around."
For those interested in brewing beer at home, the center offers a two-day class for home brewing. The course costs $295, and he teaches both brewing and bottling. People can also take an Advanced Home Brewing All-Grains Class for $150.
The center is hosting its Winter 2019 Open House from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 4. Beer sampling will be offered along with cocktail samples from Knox Whiskey Works and PostModern Spirits. There will be drawings for T-shirts, hats, a seat at a home-brewing class and discounts on classes. White said parking is "anyplace you can find close to the center."
To learn more about the center, click here or call 865-622-7511.
If you're interested in exploring membership in Farragut Rotary, drop me an email or call (865) 659-3562. We meet at 12:15 p.m. each Wednesday at Fox Den Country Club.
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The Role of Avoidance from the Cases of Danger in Delaying the Time of Death with an Emphasis on the Verse 154of Al Imran
Razavi University of Islamic Sciences
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Commentators have offered various views on the Quranic sentence: "Say: Even though ye had been in your houses, those appointed to be slain would have gone forth to the places where they were to lie. On the well-known view, those killed when fighting are killed in their own death time. The question here is whether killing in war is an unavoidable fate for the victim. Does avoidance from the cases of danger play any role in delaying death? On the findings of the study, the verses 2 of An`am and 39 of Ra`d and the related verses under them concerning the division of the time of death into inevitable death and evitable death are the key for resolving the issues related to the verse in question and accordingly, murder may not be necessarily taken as the inevitable death; it is usually evitable and suspended. Therefore, avoiding the battlefield and other danger positions can be effective in delaying death. Both types of death, however, are divinely destined and may be taken as "kutiba `alayhim ulqatl". The assumption of "inevitability" in all murders challenges elements such as the value of sacrificing one's life for the sake of God, preventing one`s self from being destroyed, expounding retribution and its benefits, and advising caution would be incompatible with a range of Quranic teachings. Other related verses can also be interpreted in the context of this analysis.
Keywords: Verse 154 Al-Imran, Time of Death, Predestination, Authority
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(4) This enactment is also made to establish a mechanism for the appointment, compensation and payment of reasonable litigation expenses of competent counsel in state post-conviction proceedings brought by indigent prisoners whose convictions and sentences have become final for state law purposes, to provide optimal standards of competency for the appointment of such counsel and otherwise to satisfy all requirements and conditions of the Act of Congress officially designated as Public Law 104-132, Title I, Section 107, April 24, 1996, 110 Stat. 1221, and any amendments that may thereafter be made thereto.
(b) The Lieutenant Governor shall appoint one (1) member and whose initial term shall expire on December 31, 2000.
(c) The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall appoint one (1) member and whose initial term shall expire on December 31, 2000.
(d) The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi shall appoint one (1) member whose initial term shall expire on December 31, 1999.
(j) The Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, or his designee, and the Chairman of the House of Representatives Judiciary En Banc Committee, or his designee, shall serve as legislative liaisons and nonvoting members.
(3) Such selections and appointments shall be made by the respective appointing authorities not later than July 1, 1997. Vacancies on the commission shall be filled by the respective selecting and appointing authorities. In the event that any selection or appointment is not timely made, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Mississippi shall make such selection or appointment, and any commission member so appointed shall serve the remaining unexpired portion of the term for which he has been appointed.
(4) To the extent he may do so consistent with the provisions of Sections 5 and 6 of this act, each district defender shall have and may exercise within the district which he serves each and every duty and power given to the commission by Sections 5 and 6 of this act; moreover, each district defender shall assist and cooperate with the commission and/or the executive director in its exercise and discharge of the duties and powers set forth in Sections 5 and 6 of this act.
(5) In the event of conflicts, the commission may appoint a private attorney who is competent in the defense of criminal charges and/or is included in a list of volunteers who have agreed to accept such appointments as provided in Section 5(m) of this act and who shall be compensated and be reimbursed for expenses as provided in Section 99-15-17, Mississippi Code of 1972.
(7) If the court finds that an indigent person is in a case of such a nature that he cannot be properly represented by the commission or district defender alone, the court may appoint additional counsel to assist the defender as provided in Section 99-15-15. In such cases, the attorney so appointed shall be compensated and be reimbursed as provided in Section 99-15-17, Mississippi Code of 1972.
SECTION 15. (1) An inquiry to determine financial eligibility of an accused for the appointment of counsel shall be made whenever possible prior to the initial appearance and by such persons as the court may direct.
(2) At or before the initial appearance, or whenever any person shall be taken into custody upon suspicion of a felony, then the arresting authority and, thereafter, the presiding judge at the initial appearance, shall afford such person an opportunity to sign an affidavit stating that such person is an indigent and unable to employ counsel. Upon the signing of such affidavit by such person, the commission and a district defender shall represent said person and shall have authority to act for said person, unless the right to counsel be waived by such person. In addition thereto, the alleged indigent person shall give a statement, under oath, listing all assets available to the indigent for the payment of attorney's fees and legal expenses, including the ownership of any property, real or personal, and setting out therein the alleged indigent's employment status, number of dependents, income from any source, the ability of his parents or spouse to provide attorney's fees and legal expenses, and any other information which may be prescribed by the commission and which might prove or disprove a finding of indigence. The affidavit and statement shall be a part of the record in the case and shall be subject to review by the appropriate court. Based on review of the affidavit, statement or other appropriate evidence, if the appropriate court finds that the defendant is not indigent, said court shall terminate the representation of the accused by the commission and district defender. The ability to pay any part of the cost of adequate representation at any time while the charges are pending against an accused shall not preclude the appointment of counsel for the defendant.
SECTION 16. (1) If the accused does not already have an attorney, one (1) shall be appointed no later than the time of initial appearance, and, once appointed, counsel shall continue to represent the accused on all matters arising out of the transaction or occurrence, or series of transactions or occurrences, as may have given rise to the original charge or charges, until permitted to withdraw by proper order of the court.


Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) alumni (L to R) Sujay Patel, 2014; Georges Nkamicaniye, 2006; Shelly Gasperine, 2006; and Nicholas Stannard, 2006; shared their career and life advice with a group of current IST students who traveled to New York City to meet and network with them in early October.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- When Nicholas Stannard, Shelly Gasperine and Georges Nkamicaniye graduated from the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at Penn State in 2006, they didn't have a large alumni network to draw from. The college, which opened its doors in 1999, had graduated its first class just three years earlier.
Today, the three alumni, along with fellow IST alumni Sujay Patel, 2014, are enjoying successful careers and want to pay forward their wisdom and knowledge to the next generation. In early October, they met with a group of current IST students who traveled to New York City to network with them. The trip was facilitated by the college's office of career solutions and corporate engagement.
The students spent the day asking questions about career paths after college in an alumni panel; interacting with the alumni one-on-one during a lunch mixer; and touring LinkedIn's New York office, where Stannard serves as manager of customer success.
While the participating alumni all graduated from the College of IST, they are now working in vastly different domains. Stannard is with LinkedIn, while Nkamicaniye works for a large financial institution and Patel and Gasperine work for EY and PwC, respectively.
A group of College of Information Sciences and Technology students traveled to New York City in October, where they met with a panel of college alumni who are working in a variety of industries and also toured LinkedIn's New York office.
While much has changed in the College of IST since the alumni panelists graduated, many things remain the same – including the curriculum's focus on group projects. The panelists stressed the importance of this coursework and how it is applied in the real world.
Patel said that he was thankful for the holistic curriculum through which he learned everything from programming to how to package a product.
Recognizing that the industry is rapidly changing, Gasperine said that she also aimed to convey the importance lifelong learning for the students in attendance.
"I want to make sure that students continue to raise their game at every level of their career, because it's a competitive marketplace," added Stannard.
Being in the workforce for a number of years, the panelists say they clearly see how the unique skill sets they gained in the College of IST have driven success in their careers.
The IST students who traveled to New York also benefited from this exclusive networking experience.
Sydney Wehn, a second-year student majoring in applied data sciences, wants to live in New York City after she graduates and now, after taking this trip, wants to work for a company that is mission driven and will enable her to use her skills to help others.
"I want to continue to grind and work as hard as possible to be able to work at a prestigious company like those that were part of the panel," she said.
In the end, the panelists hope that the current students feel like they are supported and have a strong alumni network to draw from.
For Nkamicaniye, the experience served as a platform for him to give back to Penn State.
One thing is for certain: the alumni are proud to be a part of the IST community.


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OXFORD STUDENTS TACKLE MARINE PLASTIC
Credit: Seychelles Islands Foundation
Working with the Seychelles Islands Foundation, a group of students will clean up an island
Author: Ruth Abrahams
A group of Oxford graduate students will spend five weeks taking part in the Aldabra Clean-Up Project – an ambitious collaboration between the University of Oxford and the Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF). The five-strong team supported by The Queen's College, Oxford, and spanning the Departments of Plant Sciences, Zoology, and Materials Science will be united with seven Seychellois volunteers to achieve an ambitious goal – the cleaning up of Aldabra Atoll in the Indian Ocean, which is badly affected by plastic pollution.
A dead turtle, ensnared around its neck by rope
Credit: Rich Baxter
Aldabra Atoll is one of the largest atolls in the world and is home to unique species, including 150,000 Aldabra giant tortoises. But, despite its isolation and protection, this UNESCO World Heritage Site has not escaped the menace of marine plastic debris.
Large amounts of rubbish have accumulated along the coastline, including everyday items, such as toothbrushes and flip-flops. This obstructs endangered marine turtle nesting sites and pollutes coastal grasslands where giant tortoises graze.
Aldabra from the air
Credit: Photonatura
Seychelles team member Ivan Capricieuse said: 'People in the Seychelles have always seen Aldabra as unspoilt and they are shocked when I show them pictures and videos of what is on Aldabra's beaches.'
The project will clean up Aldabra in the only way possible; by hand, with hard work and determination. The teams will deploy to remote field camps and move along the coastline, compiling the plastic at designated sites, to be collected by chartered barge. They will also make systematic surveys of the rubbish and attempt to discover its origins, aided by ocean current modelling. The terrain is challenging but the team is well prepared and have spent the last year fundraising, conducting outreach activities and developing specific research aims that will inform the management of this threat to Aldabra and other remote islands.
Volunteers will wrestle with a massive task, given the size of the atoll
April Burt, project co-lead, who is studying for a DPhil at The Queen's College said: 'Aldabra is proof that with enough willpower we can save Earth's special places. But the ongoing plastic threat shows us that we must act as a truly global community.'
Associate Professor, Lindsay Turnbull, a trustee of SIF and a Fellow of The Queen's College, who co-founded the project, said: 'The project offers an incredible opportunity for Oxford graduate students, who are deeply concerned about the state of the environment, to work in partnership with brilliant young people in Seychelles, who are equally committed. I hope this partnership inspires young people everywhere to realise that they can do something to make a real difference. The challenges facing the natural world are enormous, but we can't be put off by the scale of the problem.'


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Caleb Cain: Former far-right extremist says 'no one has a strategy' for ongoing threat
The 27-year-old maintains that reframing the conversation around online extremism is crucial.
By Sarah Gough, US news producer
Thursday 25 February 2021 21:13, UK
Sky News Investigates: Radicalised by the far-right
Caleb Cain used to think like a white nationalist.
"Literally anyone can be radicalised," he says, speaking from his own experience as someone who fell down the alt-right's online "rabbit hole".
The 27-year-old says it was like being "groomed into a cult", and it wasn't until he watched extreme violence unfold that he decided to get out.
After dropping out of college in 2012, Cain says he initially went online for "self-help" material. He then became entranced by alt-right commentators on YouTube.
Cain was watching thousands of videos about "male supremacy, racial supremacy, and cultural supremacy... anti-feminism, the dangers of Muslim immigration or the dangers of liberalism".
Referring to the content as "propaganda", Cain says he was lured in by the "epic drama" of it all.
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"It was like I was in this whole other world. It was like a soap opera... and that's what I was watching, I was watching a movie on a screen."
Mental health struggles played their part. Cain was living with ADHD, anxiety and depression - and crucially, wasn't receiving treatment for any.
He says his vulnerability was a key aspect of his descent into the alt-right's world.
Image: Cain now researches ways to disrupt the far-right
"I was being told that in order to get... all the things that I wanted in life - the stability, the happiness, that solid ground - that this was the pathway to doing that."
The content Caleb was consuming started to manifest itself in his personality. He says he became more "abrasive, argumentative and increasingly more angry and negative". These traits were already within him, he says, but the far-right messaging online was amplifying these traits.
Then an alternative perspective popped up into his online sphere: the Twitch streamer known as "Destiny", whose modus operandi is to openly debate and contest the ideas of far-right personalities. Cain says it was this "counter-messaging" that made him start to question his newfound beliefs.
Image: Brenton Tarrant murdered 51 people in Christchurch
Escaping from the far-right movement became more urgent, Cain says, when two mosques were attacked in Christchurch, New Zealand, in May 2019.
"I thought, well, this isn't just some internet thing. This is going to keep happening. And that event… is the logical conclusion of a belief system as heinous as white nationalism."
Cain was so affected by events, he decided to visit and meet Muslim community leaders in New Zealand, and credits his travel with a mentality shift.
"This very narrow world view that I'd been given, I realised that it was a lot more complicated, and that I had a lot more allies in places I didn't expect."
Having left the far-right movement, Cain now researches ways to disrupt it, and is concerned about its potential for violence.
"It's almost like your country is full of sleeper cells, and that's really, really, really, terrifying," he says.
Image: Donald Trump's supporters launched the attack on 6 January
Extremism, disinformation and conspiracy theory were forced into the limelight on 6 January when pro-Trump protesters stormed the US Capitol.
The mugshots of those charged present a multi-faceted picture: far-right extremists; QAnon followers; militia group members; individual Trump supporters swept up in the moment.
In the wake of the attack, the Biden administration ordered an urgent review into the US violent extremism threat, and the Department of Homeland Security has said it plans to expand grants for studying and preventing online radicalisation and disinformation.
The most "terrifying" thing 6 January demonstrated, Caleb Cain says, is "this sort of broader tent that this [far-right] ideology is creating".
"This fake populist, directionless movement, which riles people up and turns them against their governments and takes it basically to where a democracy can't function."
Cain says more research and intervention programmes are desperately needed. "No one has a strategy," he says. "There's a lot of tactics, there's a lot of plans, there's a lot of ideas… but the professional fields are underfunded.
"The activist fields are completely in disarray, underfunded and understaffed, and volunteers online are not mobilised."
Image: The FBI has identified more than 400 suspects over the riots
After the events of 6 January, two other former far-right members - Tommy Robinson's former producer and director Caolan Robertson and coordinator of Identity Evropa, Samantha - approached Cain to brainstorm a creative solution to the problem.
They have now founded a group called Future Freedom, which pitches itself as a community, a place to talk when you're deep in the "rabbit hole", aiming to "bridge the gap" between extreme movements and authorities.
They state: "We're not counsellors, we're just young people who went through it ourselves, who understand the push and pull factors that led you there." A big "talk" button is featured on their website, where users can anonymously share their stories.
Cain maintains that reframing the conversation around online extremism is crucial, advocating a move away from vilification, and towards empathy, "because if we keep approaching it from this very offensive, direct... calling people racist or trying to cancel people or push people out of society, it's not going to work anymore".
He says it's not just young white men getting radicalised into this; it's not just people out in the country; it's not just Republicans; it's not just the uneducated.
He says it's literally everyone.