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'Proud Boy' Attorney Jason Van Dyke ORDERED To Appear In Federal Court – To Be Questioned Under Oath About Death Threats To Opposing Parties!!!
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Denton, TX attorney Jason Lee Van Dyke
Good day, eh. Sending people death threats across the internet is good fun and games – as many of you, our teeming MILLIONS of readers, listeners, and supporters, all know. In fact, we here at the BV Files are big believers in the power of the 'Death Threat' to "win friends and influence people."
It's hard to believe now, but there was once a time when anonymously threatening to kill someone was hard work. Scaring victims required glue, scissors, countless magazines, stamps, envelopes, and more patience than most would-be murderers could muster. Just getting your death-threat supplies was exhausting if you weren't already a kindergarten teacher!
Today, claiming you're going to end the life of a fellow human being without actually putting your name on the threat is as simple as typing "ur ded" and hitting "enter."
CHECK IT OUT!!
Murder Kate Gosselin and win "something on a stick"?
So what do you do? Call the cops, the FBI??
It's the Federal Bureau of Investigation, not the McGibney Bureau of Investigation. Don't be selfish.
Sorry, but the FBI is not your personal army!
Attorney Jay Leiderman
Of course, you could always do what Ventura, CA attorney Jay Leiderman does when he is the victim of death threats – he wraps it up in a motion and tells US District Court Judge Beth Freeman about it. CHECK OUT THE AUDIO RECORDING!!
http://www.viaviewfiles.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Leiderman-cries-death-threats.m4a
Jay Leiderman's home address, in case anyone is curious
Real-life death threats, even those made in front of witnesses by habitual abusers, are carried out successfully all too frequently. For whatever reason, the law just hasn't been able to figure out how to stop a person who swears they're going to murder you from actually murdering you.
The horrifying truth is that if some drooling maniac wants to murder someone, a restraining order (the first — and often only — step in obtaining protection) is not likely to stop them. The police are unfortunately inconsistent in their enforcement of protective orders, sometimes picking up offenders as late as 48 hours after a report is made. (That's more than enough time to murder somebody, it turns out.)
Temporary restraining orders have also been known to increase volatility in existing abusive relationships. In a study of 55 homicides, the victim had filed a restraining order against their eventual killer in 20 percent of them.
Really, the most effective way to get the justice system involved is to wait for a person to actually try to murder you, hope that they slip up somehow, and then call the police.
This is what our American Hero & Honorary Admin of the BV Files Thomas Retzlaff recently did. He waited until Jason Van Dyke actually made an attempt upon his life before he called the police, which has been documented below in these court records, FREE OF CHARGE, for you, our teeming MILLIONS of readers, listeners, and supporters.
And now this evidence is in the hands of State Bar investigators and law enforcement. CHECK IT OUT!!
Van Dyke was also kind enough to contact Retzlaff's attorney, American Hero & Honorary Admin of the BV Files Houston attorney Jeffrey Dorrell, and also make death threats against Retzlaff, too, to Mr. Dorrell!!
FUN FACT: Sending your opponent and his attorney death threats is a sure-fire way to winning your $100 million defamation lawsuit, right?
SO WHO ARE VAN DYKE AND RETZLAFF?
Check out this article that kind of explains things:
Now that Van Dyke has officially – and irrevocably – gone On-The-Record with these statements, the federal judge that is overseeing his $100 million lawsuit against Retzlaff has taken an interest and his instructed Van Dyke to personally appear in federal court on August 9 where Van Dyke will be questioned under oath. CHECK IT OUT!!
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Van Dyke v Retzlaff - Order for Injunction Hearing
We are sure that everything will work out just fine for Van Dyke, and that, no matter what, he won't be hauled away in handcuffs – 100% VERIFIED!!
Of course, how he expects a jury to hand him a $100 million verdict based on his track record and violent attacks against Retzlaff is bizarre!
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IN OTHER NEWS….
As many of you, our long time readers, will recall, our website shares hosting space with an ISIS blog that also features zoo-porn, warez, and pirate movies. From time to time our unruly neighbors get a little, well…, unruly. So in order to keep the Muslim hordes at bay, we throw them a bone from time to time by reporting on a story here that is of interest to members of the Islamic community. Below is just one recent example. We would urge you, our teeming MILLIONS of readers, listeners, and supporters, to please CHECK IT OUT!!
MAYADEEN, Syria — ISIS recruit Abdul Mourad stuffed a live goat into an amnesty box early yesterday morning, sources familiar with the incident say.
The young goat could be heard baying by men who slept in sweaty tents near the desert in Eastern Syria.
"Good lord, someone's going to town on that thing," someone murmured, rolling over, hoping to catch a few minutes more sleep before another day of intensive training began.
ISIS training is notoriously rigorous and entrants are expected to disavow "earthly" pleasures, including those associated with the idyllic farmyard. In recent months, ISIS senior command has complained about lax discipline and, according to sources familiar with the matter, a scarcity of prime breeding goats for themselves.
"One of the perks of leadership," complained an ISIS battlefield commander who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Is to have your pick of brides, of land, of livestock, of slaves. When I was a young recruit, I spent my days wiring and rewiring my standard-issue suicide vest; I spent my nights dreaming of martyrdom. This slovenly lot they pass onto us now, they are deviants and fornicators already without having earned these privileges!!"
Among the men, opinions were mixed on what is referred to dismissively as "the old guard's" mentality about afternoon barnyard delight.
"These pigs," said one enlisted recruit. "They've fatted themselves on the conquest of weak, westernized regions. When they were on the ground, they took Damascus. They would raid Starbucks for breakfast and then raid a sushi bar for dinner. Today, we fight Russian FSB and American CIA in the dust and rubble like men."
"Of course, we take their goats," he added, spitting. "They better watch out that we don't start taking fat-bellied commanders who whine like goats."
In response to complaints about discipline, ISIS command has instituted harsh penalties for contraband materials, which includes all manner of farm animals.
"A goat is a biggie. That would result in immediate execution by decapitation. We have performed three already this week, unfortunately," said another anonymous ISIS commander, while thumbing distractedly through goat pictures on his iPhone.
But, in an effort to ease rising anxiety among recruits of the terrorist group, ISIS command has installed several Amnesty boxes, boxes in which recruits can anonymously drop off contraband material without fear of punishment, on training grounds. Amnesty boxes are checked frequently, even twice hourly, by a command eager to instill discipline in the beleaguered ranks.
At press time, there was a line of grinning officers who rubbed their palms together and licked their lips as they waited for Mourad to finish depositing the goat into the amnesty box.
There was a recent news article detailing allegations of dog-human sexual relations between Nederland, TX based private investigator Philip Klein. This update here has nothing to do with that.
This update is all about how Klein and his attorney, John Morgan of Beaumont, Texas, keep beating their collective heads against a wall in their repeated efforts at getting certain court records sealed from public view – records pertaining to allegations of child sex trafficking / pedophilia supposedly involving local Democratic big wig / attorney Wayne Reaud, and matters of judicial corruption involving 60th District Court Judge Justin Sanderson (whom Klein claims on his blog will be indicted August 19th or thereabouts).
Four times now Klein and Morgan have tried to get those records sealed, and four times the trial court has denied them.
ADMIN NOTE: Yes, we know that this is only the first of four motions to seal filed by Morgan. But since all the other motions were cut & paste jobs of this first one, we won't waste your time by repeating them all here.
Wayne Allison Reaud, date of birth Sept 29, 1947
So what are the records that Morgan and Klein are so intent upon keeping from you, our teeming MILLIONS of readers, listeners, and supporters? CHECK IT OUT!!
Sealed Exhibits 4 - 7
Since Morgan has been repeatedly stymied by the trial court, he decided to take his traveling circus on the road to the Beaumont Court of Appeals in the form of this steaming pile of horse shit he laughingly calls a Petition for Writ of Mandamus.
What role does this man have in the political corruption / child sex trafficking scandal?
And this is the final ruling from the trial judge on Morgan's repeated attempts at getting those court records sealed. CHECK IT OUT!!
And here is Morgan's newest and bestest attempt at relitigating a matter that has already been decided – a hallmark of SLAPP litigation tactics, we are sure will impress the Beaumont Court of Appeals.
Klein's Pet for Writ of Mandamus
As of this date, no response has been filed with the court of appeals.
SUPPORTER OF REVENGE PORN, ATTORNEY MARC RANDAZZA, HAS BEEN RECOMMENDED FOR DISBARMENT BY A NEVADA DISCIPLINARY PANEL!!
Marc Randazza is a BIG supporter of revenge pornography and has been heavily involved in the sexual blackmail of little girls (and some men!) due to his repeated legal representation of James McGibney (who we don't like) in several lawsuits that were filed against McGibney for…. revenge porn, extortion, defamation, and blackmail, and for his role in filing a series of lawsuits for McGibney as a part of McGibney's SLAPP schemes.
If it were not for Randazza and his guiding hand, the revenge pornography empire that is ViaView, Inc. and James McGibney would not exist today.
(The only reason it does not exist today is because of the hard work and efforts of a few good women / "grandmothers" and some men!)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2585756/Maryland-doctor-sues-Cheaterville-website-wrongly-identifying-cheater-ruining-marriage.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2401151/Happily-married-couple-sue-Cheaterville-com-finding-photos-malicious-posts-online.html
We can now confirm that it is 100% VERIFIED that Randazza has just filed an appeal with the Nevada Supreme Court of a disbarment recommendation made by the Southern Nevada Disciplinary Panel based upon a grievance filed against Randazza by Some Random Person We've Never Heard Of Before.
The disbarment recommendation came after the Disciplinary Panel found "true" allegations of violations of Nevada Rules of Professional Conduct 1.4 (Communication), 1.7 (Conflict of Interest: Current Clients), 1.8 (Conflict of Interest: Current Clients: Specific Rules), 1.10 (Imputation of Conflicts of Interest), 1.15 (Safekeeping Property), 1.16 (Declining or Terminating Representation), 2.1 (Advisor), 5.6 (Restrictions on Right to Practice), and 8.4 (Misconduct).
Randazza's Opening Brief is due August 22, 2018.
FUN FACT: This is not the first attorney related to McGibney that has gotten into serious trouble with their local state bar as a result of complaints filed by Some Random Person.
In case anyone is curious, this is the house that was bought and paid for by Randazza's revenge porn monies from McGibney and other gay porno trolling activities:
We would not be surprised to hear that this house is on the Aryan Brotherhood's Pizza Delivery route!
According to sources close to the investigation (that consist solely of the voices in our head), complaints have been filed with the Florida, Massachusetts, Arizona, California, and Washington State Bar associations, too, and investigations have been launched in each of these states against Randazza.
Looks like CNN and Fox News will have to start looking for another "legal commentator." Hopefully they can find one who is not a piece of human garbage, a thief, and a liar.
Recall that Randazza started McGibney down the path of SLAPP suits with the one that was filed against Hunter Moore.
July 27, 2018:
We were just about to publish this article when a very special update in the Nazi attorney Van Dyke lawsuit just happened Friday at about 5pm CT. An interlocutory appeal to the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals was filed by Retzlaff and his attorney Jeff Dorrell!!
Retzlaff - Notice of appeal
What caused this appeal to be filed is the fact that the district court had until July 20, 2018, to make a ruling (one way or the other) on Retzlaff's previously filed anti-SLAPP motion to dismiss under the Texas Citizens Participation Act (the 'TCPA'). Because the judge failed to rule on or before July 20, the TCPA motion was denied by operation of law – meaning it was automatically denied because it was never ruled upon within the required deadline.
In light of what happened Friday, this May 9 Press Release from Senior Partner Jeffrey L. Dorrell of the Hanszen Laporte Law Firm will never not be funny.
Jeffrey Dorrell – Hanszen Laport Law Firm
These two are victims of a terrible group of neo-Nazis
Tom & Brittany Retzlaff
However, in an effort to clarify the issues on appeal, and to help Retzlaff out, on July 24, Judge Mazzant signed a Memorandum Opinion and Order outlining the reasons why he feels that the Texas Citizens Participation Act (a state procedural law) does not apply in federal court. CHECK IT OUT!!
Order denying TCPA motion
Jason Lee Van Dyke
Shortly after that order was filed, Van Dyke sent Retzlaff and Dorrell the below settlement offer. Here it is in its completely unredacted form.
From: Jason Van Dyke <[email protected]>
Subject: Settlement
Date: July 24, 2018 at 10:13:54 AM CDT
To: Jeffrey Dorrell <[email protected]>
Cc: Alan Taggart <[email protected]>
Mr. Dorrell:
My last offer for a straight dismissal is, by this correspondence, rescinded. However, in light of the ruling on various motions by Judge Mazzant this morning, I am willing to give Mr. Retzlaff one last chance to listen to reason. We can all stop spending money and focus on moving on with our lives under the following conditions:
1. Agreed judgment in favor of me and against Mr. Retzlaff;
2. Nominal damages in the amount of $10.00;
3. A permanent injunction enjoining and restraining Mr. Retzlaff from the following behavior:
a. Having any contact with me whatsoever, either through himself or a third party;
b. Having any contact with any members of my family whatsoever, either through himself or a third party;
c. Having any contact, either through himself or a third party, with any person with whom I have (a) an employer-employee relationship; (b) an independent contractor relationship; or (c) an attorney-client relations
4. He will immediately send a request to the State Bar of Texas requesting to withdraw his frivolous grievance filings against me. However, it will not constitute a breach of the agreement if the State Bar of Texas declines to honor his request.
The third party prohibitions above shall not apply to persons licensed to practice law who are contacting me or an employer for reasons that are permissible under applicable rules of civil or criminal procedure.
Hanszen-Laporte employee Thomas Retzlaff
And what was Retzlaff's response to this settlement offer, you ask? CHECK IT OUT!!
Sent: July 24, 2018 12:09 PM CDT
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Fwd: Settlement
Mr Dorrell,
Please tell Jason Van Dyke that he can suck my cock, he can suck my cock long, and he can suck my cock hard.
Nazis, especially violently racist Nazis, don't get to be lawyers in Texas. Or any other state for that matter.
I absolutely do not mind spending money, LOTS of money, on this. (That's one of the nice things about having a rich family!)
Thus, I am formally giving you and the Hanszen Laporte law firm a blank check so as to prosecute any and all appeals of the denial of my TCPA motion – and other matters – to the fullest extent possible.
Any money you guys need shall be immediately provided, as per the agreement.
Fuck Van Dyke.
By the way, I understand that there will be a hearing on August 9 on Van Dyke's request for an injunction, and that the federal judge is requiring Van Dyke's personal appearance. I am instructing you to make certain you question Van Dyke under oath about all of his death threats he has made against me and my family, and the death threats he has made against my good friend Ken White (the former U.S. Attorney with the Dept of Justice from Los Angeles), as well as the murder threats Van Dyke made against NYC rap artist Talib Kweli. Remember how Van Dyke went on YouTube and said he was going to skin Mr Kweli alive and put his skin on the living room floor?
Mr White will appear. I'm not sure yet on Mr Kweli.
I also want you to issue federal subpoenas to various folks at the State Bar, too, regarding the disbarment lawsuit that they have just filed against Van Dyke and get ahold of all of their documents and investigation materials, too.
Van Dyke has threatened to murder people at the State Bar, too, recall.
So all of that stuff is relevant to whether or not this Nazi Proud Boy cocksucker needs an injunction. Clean hands and all that good shit, right?
Oh, and how soon till you get the subpoena served on Gavin McInnes, the Proud Boy founder? FYI – he just settled a federal lawsuit filed against him in Michigan yesterday over his role in falsely accusing two people of being involved in the Charlottesville VA murder and race riots that the Proud Boys started.
So get your people on that, too, please ASAP.
Bottom line – there will be no settlements with the Nazi. No way, Jose.
So suck it, Van Dyke.
Tom Retzlaff
(Many thanks to Some Random Person We've Never Heard Of Before for sending us these documents and emails!)
Wow! Just wow. We here at the BV Files are left completely and utterly speechless!
4. He will immediately send a request to the State Bar of Texas requesting to withdraw his frivolous grievance filings against me.
FUN FACTS: Van Dyke's demand that Retzlaff dismiss his bar complaint as a condition of Van Dyke settling his $100 million lawsuit against Retzlaff for just $10 is a violation of:
Rule 4.04(b)(2) (presenting civil charges as a way to prevent Retzlaff's participation in the bar disciplinary proceeding);
Rule 8.04(a)(4) (obstruction of Justice).
According to sources close to the investigation (which do not consist solely of the voices in our head), the disbarment lawsuit against Van Dyke should be resolved by August 20.
With regards to the appeal to the U.S. COurt of Appeals, when reached for comment, Van Dyke had this to say:
I am willing to take this case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if I have to.
Unfortunately for Van Dyke, his Erie claims of the TCPA being a procedural rule have been repeatedly dealt with and overruled by many, many federal courts. In fact, ever since 1996, the US Supreme Court has specifically stated that:
Under the Erie doctrine, federal courts sitting in diversity apply state substantive law and federal procedural law.
The case against Retzlaff is a "diversity" case. See, e.g., Henry v. Lake Charles Am. Press, L.L.C., 566 F.3d 164, 168-69 (5th Cir. 2009) ("Louisiana law, including the nominally-procedural Article 971 [(Louisiana's anti-SLAPP provision)], governs this diversity case."); Williams v. Cordillera Commc'ns, Inc., 2014 WL 2611746, at *2 (S.D. Tex. June 11, 2014) (explaining that state anti-SLAPP statutes "are enforceable in federal courts sitting in diversity jurisdiction" by virtue of the Erie doctrine).
So why was Retzlaff's attorney, and close & personal friend, Jeffrey Dorrell, so insistent that the Henry case applies? It is because the Henry court reasoned that, even though the Louisiana anti-SLAPP statute was built around a procedural device—a special motion to dismiss—it nonetheless applied in federal court under the Erie doctrine because it was functionally substantive.
WOW! And if you were a good attorney who graduated from a Top Tier Law School, who worked for an AV "Preeminent" rated law firm, you would know good shit like this!
FUN FACT: In the law of the United States, diversity jurisdiction is a form of subject-matter jurisdiction in civil procedure in which a United States district court in the federal judiciary has the power to hear a civil case when the amount in controversy exceeds $75,000 and where the persons that are parties are "diverse" in citizenship or state of incorporation, which means that the parties differ in state and/or nationality.
Diversity jurisdiction and federal-question jurisdiction (jurisdiction over issues arising under federal law) constitute the two primary categories of subject matter jurisdiction in U.S. federal courts.
DOUBLE FUN FACT: The Erie doctrine is a fundamental legal doctrine of civil procedure in the United States which mandates that a federal court sitting in diversity jurisdiction (or in general, when hearing state law claims in contexts like supplemental jurisdiction or adversarial proceedings in bankruptcy) must apply state substantive law to resolve claims under state law.
The doctrine follows from the Supreme Court landmark decision in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins (1938). The case overturned Swift v. Tyson, which allowed federal judges sitting in a state to ignore the common law local decisions of state courts in the same state, in cases based on diversity jurisdiction.
There are two main objectives of the Erie decision: (1) to discourage forum shopping among litigants, and (2) to avoid inequitable administration of the laws.
Broadly speaking, the second objective is sometimes referred to as "vertical uniformity" and is rooted in the idea that in a given state, the outcome of the litigation should not be grossly different just because a litigant filed a claim in a state court rather than a federal court or vice versa.
The Erie doctrine today applies regardless of how the federal court may hear a state claim. Whether the federal court encounters a state law issue in diversity jurisdiction, supplemental jurisdiction, or bankruptcy jurisdiction, the federal court must honor state common law when deciding state law issues.
In effect, when the U.S. Constitution does not control and Congress has not legislated (or cannot legislate) on a topic, then the laws of the states necessarily govern and state judge-made rules are equally binding on the federal courts as state statutes.
According to sources close to the investigation (which consist solely of the voices in our head), because the district court is exercising jurisdiction over Van Dyke's claims pursuant to diversity jurisdiction, the Erie doctrine is applicable.
Stay tuned for further updates throughout the week!
MCGIBNEY GANG MEMBER DERIC LOSTUTTER CASE SETTLEMENT….
Deric Lostutter – drug addict and convicted felon
Several years ago one of the employees of James McGibney (who we don't like), Deric Lostutter, filed a LOLsuit against some lady in Ohio. Today we here at the BV Files wish to announce that this LOLsuit has been settled. CHECK IT OUT!!
Lostutter settlement agreement
As you will recall, Lostutter was the subject of an actual FBI investigation (as opposed to all of the pretendy FBI threat hoaxes McGibney and Klein claim involve Retzlaff, Dorrell, and Rauhauser, et al.).
Lostutter's employment with McGibney worked out really well for him as he got over 24 months in federal prison for computer hacking and lying to the FBI!
TEXAS STATE JUDGE LAYNE WALKER….
Judge Layne Walker
Here is an interesting video. This very interesting in light of very recent developments in federal court.
FURTHERMORE… We now have proof, 100% verified, that Philip Klein is working in the Jefferson County District Attorney's office at night to supplement his income. In concert with the FBI crime lab and the forensic team at Interpol, we have now confirmed that the DNA of the person who has been urinating on the toilet seats in the men's rooms matches that of Philip R. Klein to a certainty of 99.9999999982%. Sources close to the investigation have reported that Klein is seemingly so fat he cannot either see or reach his tiny, wormlike penis, so he is seemingly forced to just pull his pants down and spray urine randomly in the general direction of a nearby toilet. This is why his wife, Inga, seemingly will not let him use the bathrooms in their home.
April 3 2018 memo from the Dist Attny to all employees – don't pee on the floor!
So. How was your week?
Jeffrey Dorrell & Tom Retzlaff – BIG VICTORY IN TEXAS!!!
anti-SLAPP, Deric Lostutter, Jeffrey Dorrell Hanszen Laporte, KYAnonymous, Neal Rauhauser, Thomas Retzlaff Hanszen-Laporte Law Firm, Tom and Brittany Retzlaff, ViaView
Well the case in Texas is over with… and James McGibney (who we don't like) has lost.
Bullyville Founder James McGibney Gets Bullied By Texas Court Of Appeals – 100% VERIFIED!!
…Funny, but James Alex McGibney of San Jose, California, is a revenge pornographer AND a pedophile!!!
#TangoDown!!!
Some Random Person We've Never Heard Of
And James McGibney got beat by Dorrell and Retzlaff
We have just updated the article to include a copy of the entire opinion from the court of appeals. CHECK IT OUT!!
Here is the entire 43 page decision from the Fort Worth Court of Appeals. You can read it yourself. But there is no victory in here for McGibney.
Nothing that will vindicate him
Nothing that will restore ViaView
Nothing that will return all of his lost advertisers
Nothing that will restore the celebrity sponsors who fled
Nothing that will bring back all of his investors and their money
Nothing that will allow McGibney to claim that he won
When asked for comment, American Hero & Honorary Admin of the BV Files Thomas Retzlaff had this to say:
You know this is no different than if you get sick and go to an Emergency Room. The hospital sends you a bill for like $200,000 worth of shit, and then Medicare or Blue Cross goes through the bill marking shit out or saying we are only going to pay "x" amount of dollars for that bed pan and stuff like that.
In the end, the hospital is still going to make its profit.
In the end, we still won this lawsuit and Mr. Dorrell and Hanszen Laporte is still going to be awarded a decent amount of money. Remember – pigs get fed, hogs get slaughtered. The Court of Appeals just felt we were being a bit of a hog here. But you know that Judge Cosby will give our side every benefit of the doubt when it comes time to do this shit over and he won't let Stone fuck around and make it a circus. Yes, McGibney is tweeting and acting like today was a "big win" for him. But it's not. He still lost, he just didn't lose by as much.
The bottom line is that the Court of Appeals totally did not buy into McGibney's arguments about whether or not Rauhauser actually had to pay or if this hybrid-contingency agreement was legit or not. They acknowledged the TCPA is a fee shifting statute. But they pointed out the dangers about attorneys getting greedy on other people's money, so attorneys fees need to be properly proven up.
So, should this decision stand and it ends up going back to the trial court, that is what will be done. Does anyone here think that Judge Cosby is a friend to Evan Stone and James McGibney? No, of course not!
Plus, if McGibney really is as 'indigent' as he claims, what difference does it make if the sanctions award is $250,000 or even $175,000? If he ain't got no money, he ain't got no money.
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McGibney v Rauhauser #2 Opinion - 4-19-2018
During oral arguments in this case, which were recorded by Retzlaff, one of the Justices was actually seen by Retzlaff paging through his brief and the Cheaterville 'exhibits' that were attached in support of the claim that James McGibney is a revenge pornographer and a serial SLAPP filer.
As you, our teeming MILLIONS of readers, listeners, and supporters know, a picture is worth a thousand words. In this case, though, these pictures are worth $450,000!!
BullyVille founder James McGibney taken into police custody following an assault on opposing party Tom Retzlaff after a court hearing in Ft Worth on June 13, 2017, before the Second Court of Appeals after oral arguments in the Texas LOLsuit in which McGibney was ORDERED to pay victims of his revenge porn over $450,000!!!
Below are a series of screen captures taken off the various video feeds of the security cameras placed all around the Tarrant County courthouse in Fort Worth, Texas. McGibney is in the white, long-sleeve shirt with the black backpack. He is following American Heroes & Honorary Admins of the BV Files Houston attorney Jeffrey Dorrell and Thomas Retzlaff.
McGibney stalking opposing party and his attorney from the elevators.
McGibney stalking the opposing party and his attorney through the court house lobby.
Unbeknownst to his victims, McGibney follows them out the door, close at hand, with violence on his mind.
After the attack, as Sheriff's Deputies approach the scene of the crime, McGibney runs down the sidewalk trying to evade arrest and flee the area!!
Three Sheriff's Deputies are SHOUTING at McGibney, ordering him to stop running and to return. But he is surrounded by other officers at the bottom of your screen. So he has no choice but to give up.
McGibney taken into police custody, getting searched. Notice Deputy with his hand on his gun on the left hand side of your screen. Two other Deputies are off to the side – one with his Taser out in full view!!
McGibney being taken back to the holding cells for questioning and processing. Funny how a man who claims to be an "anti-bullying advocate" is such a violent person out in public! But then again, he does run a revenge porn website who makes his monies off the sexual blackmail of little girls!
But keep coming back as further updates will be posted throughout the day.
McGibney – Just remember, destroying you, your ViaView company, and your family, was all done for the lulz – 100% VERIFIED!!!
Someone special says: Go Fuck Yourself, McGibney.
In other news today, Deric Lostutter, employee of San Jose revenge porno perv James McGibney (who we don't like) and the sexual blackmail company ViaView, just got his ass handed to him by a federal judge in North Carolina. Lostutter filed a LOLsuit against Alexandra Goddard claiming that she said mean things about him on Twitter that hurt his feelings.
As out long times readers know, Lostutter is doing hard time in a federal prison in Virgina for lying to the FBI and computer hacking. His attorney was none other than Jay Leiderman!!!
Anyways, Lostutter wanted to have subpoenas served on investigators with the federal prison on account of people have been making complaints against Lostutter which have resulted in his cell being searched and being placed on Lock Down for deviant sexual behavior. CHECK IT OUT!!
REVENGE PORN IN TEXAS….
Future Cheaterville "star" – thanks to James McGibney
In other news, Revenge Porn is now legal once again in Texas – for which James McGibney (who we don't like) ought to be breathing a sigh of relief right about now.
In a case litigated by a very close and personal friend of Some Random Person We've Never Heard Of Before, Houston attorney Mark Bennett, Ex parte Jones, the Tyler Court of Appeals earlier today reversed the trial court below and held that the statute was facially unconstitutional.
As has been argued from the day Mary Anne Franks began her efforts to create a criminal revenge porn statute, it clearly implicated the First Amendment's prohibition against laws infringing on free expression, to which she merely screamed her denials and did her best to deflect by creating a fantasy interpretation of the First Amendment. The court made swift work of it.
In the instant case, Section 21.16(b) proscribes the disclosure of certain visual material, including any film, photograph, or videotape in various formats. Because the photographs and visual recordings are inherently expressive and the First Amendment applies to the distribution of such expressive media in the same way it applies to their creation, we conclude that the right to freedom of speech is implicated in this case.
The court then held the statute to be content-based, and therefore subject to strict scrutiny. It thus had to fit within a categorical exception to the First Amendment.
Content-based restrictions on speech have been permitted, as a general matter, only when confined to the few historic and traditional categories of expression…
The State argues in its brief that the expectation of privacy and the nonconsensual nature of the disclosure causes any visual material covered by Section 21.16(b) to be unprotected speech because it is contextually obscene. We disagree.
The contention, relying upon Franks' and Danielle Citron's "legal" arguments, was that it fell within a new concept of obscenity, "contextually obscene." Except there is no such category outside of their imaginations, nor can anything be found obscene except by a jury.
For more than forty years, the issue of whether a matter is obscene, and, thereby, constitutes unprotected speech, has been a determination to be made initially by the trier of fact.
Here, Section 21.16 does not include language that would permit a trier of fact to determine that the visual material disclosed is obscene. Moreover, if, as the State argues, any visual material disclosed under Section 21.16(b) is obscene, the statute is wholly redundant in light of Texas's obscenity statutes.
After offering a hypothetical* to demonstrate how wildly problematic the law was, the court noted that the law failed to make any effort to narrow its prohibitions, which was a fundamental tenet of the Franks approach to criminalizing revenge porn lest anyone get away with it.
We remain mindful that content-based regulations are presumptively invalid. See Thompson, 442 S.W.3d at 348. At the very least, Section 21.16(b)(2) could be narrowed by requiring that the disclosing person have knowledge of the circumstances giving rise to the depicted person's privacy expectation. But because Section 21.16(b) does not use the least restrictive means of achieving what we have assumed to be the compelling government interest of preventing the intolerable invasion of a substantial privacy interest, it is an invalid content-based restriction in violation of the First Amendment.
The court, in an excess of caution, went on to address the statute's overbreadth problem despite having already held it facially unconstitutional.
Today, a person can share a photograph or video with an untold number of people with a mere click of a button. The daily sharing of visual material, for many, has become almost ritualistic. And once the act of sharing is accomplished, it is highly questionable whether that act ever can be completely rescinded. But assuming that the visual material is not otherwise protected, these persons are acting within their rights when they share visual material with others.
Sharing may not be caring as far as Franks is concerned, but it's constitutionally protected.
Section 21.16 is extremely broad, applying to any person who discloses visual material depicting another person's intimate parts or a person engaged in sexual conduct, but where the disclosing person has no knowledge or reason to know the circumstances surrounding the material's creation, under which the depicted person's reasonable expectation of privacy arose. Furthermore, its application is not attenuated by the fact that the disclosing person had no intent to harm the depicted person or may have been unaware of the depicted person's identity. Accordingly, we conclude that the criminal prohibition Section 21.16(b) creates is of "alarming breadth" that is "real" and "substantial."
Neither of these holdings will come as any surprise, as the issues have long been raised here and elsewhere, and the absurd efforts of Franks and other supporters of revenge porn laws to twist First Amendment law into some sham of rhetorical relativity as if they could talk their way out of clear, settled law and make the flagrant unconstitutionality of their cries disappear.
But then, it's different to have a court dismiss their arguments so handily, even accepted in dicta for the purpose of argument that there is such a thing as an "intolerable violation of privacy." In other words, this was as accommodating of the Franks contention as could be, and it was quickly rejected.
*This is the hypo used by the court:
Adam and Barbara are in a committed relationship. One evening, in their home, during a moment of passion, Adam asks Barbara if he can take a nude photograph of her. Barbara consents, but before Adam takes the picture, she tells him that he must not show the photograph to anyone else. Adam promises that he will never show the picture to another living soul, and takes a photograph of Barbara in front of a plain, white background with her breasts exposed.
A few months pass, and Adam and Barbara break up after Adam discovers that Barbara has had an affair. A few weeks later, Adam rediscovers the topless photo he took of Barbara. Feeling angry and betrayed, Adam emails the photo without comment to several of his friends, including Charlie. Charlie never had met Barbara and, therefore, does not recognize her. But he likes the photograph and forwards the email without comment to some of his friends, one of whom, unbeknownst to Charlie, is Barbara's coworker, Donna. Donna recognizes Barbara and shows the picture to Barbara's supervisor, who terminates Barbara's employment.
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SciFi Vision | Interviews | Cast and Director of List of a Lifetime Talk Bucket Lists & More
Cast and Director of List of a Lifetime Talk Bucket Lists & More
In the film List of a Lifetime, premiering tonight on Lifetime as part of Lifetime's Stop Breast Cancer for Life campaign, after being diagnosed with breast cancer, Brenda Lee (Kelly Hu) searches for the daughter, Talia (Sylvia Kwan), she gave up for adoption years ago. After finding her, Talia convinces her to make a bucket list that she will help her complete, meanwhile keeping her a secret from her adoptive parents Diana (Shannen Doherty) and Marty (Jamie Kahler).
Cast members Doherty, Hu, and Kwan, as well as the director of the film, Roxy Shih, recently talked to the press during a video conference about working on the movie.
The cast talked to SciFi Vision about what is on their personal bucket lists. Both Hu and Kwan said they have very long bucket lists. Kwan's list is adventurous. "I definitely want to backpack the Chilkoot Mountains. Mount Whitney is on my bucket list. I was supposed to do it last year but didn't get to do it. Sky diving, I want to go sky diving."
Shih was planning a trip, but didn't get to go. "I wanted to go to Iceland with my best friend for our ten-year friendivarsary, but then COVID hit, and then that didn't happen. I really want to see the aurora borealis. I like anything that just sort of helps us appreciate nature and all the amazing gifts that she allows us to see in certain moments at the time and to take care of our environment. So that's probably my biggest one yet."
Doherty, a breast cancer survivor, told the SciFi Vision that she doesn't have a bucket list. "I think, for me, I just think a bucket list is odd in my particular situation, because it means that I'm sort of trying to check things off before my time runs out. So, I'm very much like there's no bucket list, because I'm going to be the longest living person with cancer. So, I guess it would just be, if I had to say one, it would just be living. That's the only thing that's on my list at this point."
Be sure to check out the full transcript below and watch List of a Lifetime, tonight on Lifetime.
Zoom Panel
List of a Lifetime
Shannon Doherty, Kelly Hu, Sylvia Kwan, and Roxy Shih
SCIFI VISION: What I wanted to know, and this is kind of, I guess, the obvious question, but what's on your bucket list for all of you?
KELLY HU: Oh. Mine is literally pages and pages long. I've been acquiring a bucket list for over thirty years now, so it would take up days to tell you about it.
SYLVIA KWAN: I definitely have a lot on my bucket list, too. I think Kelly and I are very similar in that way. I definitely want to backpack the Chilkoot Mountains. Mount Whitney is on my bucket list. I was supposed to do it last year but didn't get to do it. Sky diving, I want to go sky diving. I want to make a movie. Oh, I just did.
ROXY SHIH: Yes. Get it, girl.
SYLVIA KWAN: Yeah.
ROXY SHIH: I wanted to go to Iceland with my best friend for our ten-year friendivarsary, but then COVID hit, and then that didn't happen. I really want to see the aurora borealis. I like anything that just sort of helps us appreciate nature and all the amazing gifts that she allows us to see in certain moments at the time and to take care of our environment. So that's probably my biggest one yet.
SHANNEN DOHERTY: I have no bucket list. I think, for me, I just think a bucket list is odd in my particular situation, because it means that I'm sort of trying to check things off before my time runs out. So, I'm very much like there's no bucket list, because I'm going to be the longest living person with cancer. So, I guess it would just be, if I had to say one, it would just be living. That's the only thing that's on my list at this point.
QUESTION: Kelly, I've seen you in a lot of shows where you're a very strong, literally a kick ass woman, and you're very passive in this show, at least for --in this movie for a long time. Was that difficult for you? Or how did you go about processing that?
KELLY HU: I think it really was. It was definitely a different kind of character for me. I never get to play these kind of characters. I think everybody always sees me as, you know the martial arts girl kicking butt, but kicking cancer's ass, I think, is the hardest role that I've had to take on so far. I mean, this was really--It was a role that I had the most difficulty preparing for, and it had the biggest payoff at the end. It was absolutely amazing and so thankful to be able to do something like this.
QUESTION: Shannen, this was such a labor of love and a personal story, actually, probably close to your heart since you did have breast cancer. Were there any emotional moment for you while you were advising the stars, or maybe when you were behind the camera?
SHANNEN DOHERTY: Well, first, Roxy was our wonderful, amazing director and leader for "List of a Lifetime," and I didn't have to give anybody advice because between Roxy and these beautiful ladies who did such an amazing job with their own preparation process. They knew their characters. They knew the story. They did cancer proud, because they did all their due diligence. I had the easiest job. I got to show up for four days and be a part of their world. So, I really I did nothing. They did everything.
KELLY HU: No. Shannen, you showed up. Oh, my God. You were amazing.
SHANNEN DOHERTY: So, I mean --thank you, and we all showed up. And, honestly, it's, for me, this was truly like an unbelievable pleasure to be a part of, and I was blown away every second that I got to work with these amazing ladies.
QUESTION: Shannen, that weekend, this kind of bundles "Dying to Belong" in also, that is quite a weekend for you in many ways, and it kind of represents everything Lifetime is: serious, socially-minded dramas, also the content you directed to go along with that, plus also what we more technically call a Lifetime movie with "Dying to Belong," that type of film. Can you talk a little bit about running the gamut of what Lifetime is in a single weekend among all these projects?
SHANNEN DOHERTY: I mean, I think what's amazing about Lifetime is that they really support women, and they do support social issues from this movie about breast cancer to my other movie that's really about bullying and like what society, the pressure that society can put on young people today, and I think working with a company like Lifetime and a studio like Lifetime is that you feel very supportive and very, very, very nurtured and, more importantly, you feel heard, and I think women all around the world who tune in also feel heard. It's their movies connecting with people at the end of the day. I had no idea I was doing two Lifetime movies, and I'm really honored that they both ended up on Lifetime. I couldn't be more thrilled to be a part of this family.
QUESTION: With List of a Lifetime, the content that you directed following it, did those kind of come hand-in-hand or did your directing come about once you started filming "List of a Lifetime"? Were they both originated at the same time?
SHANNEN DOHERTY: No. So, the special content it was sort of broached to me later if I would want to direct it, and the response was absolutely as long as this amazing group of women are comfortable with me directing them, and they were and they were amazing. Every single one was easy to direct, even Roxy, my director.
ROXY SHIH: I was so awkward.
SHANNEN DOHERTY: She took direction perfectly. Like it was a really—
ROXY SHIH: The roles were reversed. It was amazing.
SHANNEN DOHERTY: It was, right? I felt weird, like --but you took it so well. I mean, everybody did. It was one day, and as I posted on my Instagram, I was like this is like one of the best days of my life, and it really was. I just had such a good time, and everybody made it very easy because they're all pros.
KELLY HU: I just have to say before anybody else talks that this was such a sisterhood. Seriously, this project was really the best project I have ever been on. Everyone was absolutely amazing, and the sisterhood, the bonding that happened during this project was like no other project that I've ever worked on, seriously.
SHANNEN DOHERTY: I agree, and we're missing our other --you know, we're missing Autumn, our producer who, you know, just-- And Patricia. Like, yeah, I agree with you. Out of, I've worked on, obviously, a lot of projects, and this is probably one of my favorites because it was just a big bonding --And you guys welcomed me in, because I came a little later. It was pretty fantastic, a phenomenal cast, phenomenal crew. Our director was okay.
QUESTION: Roxy, did you feel it was important to have strong AAPI representation behind the camera for this movie?
ROXY SHIH: A hundred percent. I feel like the rise in inclusive storytelling that has been happening over the past few years as well as the rise of female stories being authentically represented by female filmmakers is just such a game changing sort of movement that's happened for all of us, but not only is that important, it's like we see the shift happening behind the scenes as well. Just because it's happening in one aspect doesn't mean that it shouldn't be happening in all aspects, as well. So I think with this one I think everybody on here can also say, as well, it was important to me that I had inclusive, diverse key crew, also women and queer people of color and just, you know, it was really just a --and these are all my friends also, so I think that's what made it really comfortable just because it's a safe space for me to feel supported on the schedule like this. But, in all essence, I think that change does need to happen in our industry, and it's happening by that, like, happening as well. So, I just think if one person starts doing it, if it's just that one decision, allows more space at the table rather than fighting for that one seat.
QUESTION: It was just really great to see women of color in front of and behind the camera. Can you talk about that? And just sort of just I'm hoping this is the upward trend that keeps happening. It was just great to see your story.
SYLVIA KWAN: Absolutely. I definitely think as more stories get told, especially with Shang-Chi coming out, which was amazing, like I love seeing –
ROXY SHIH: You looked so hot, yeah.
SYLVIA KWAN: Sorry. I was like what? No. It definitely is incredible, and it definitely was such an incredible space. Like even on Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year, sorry, we all wore red, which was so special. It's something that I've never really experienced being on a set. I got a little emotional that day. I got to say, when I walked in and everyone was wearing red I was like, all right, this is different, you know. So, I think it's so important, and I love that this project had so much diversity behind the camera as well as in front of it. So, I was just really, really grateful to be part of that and kind of part of the change like Roxy was talking about.
KELLY HU: And, this, I have to say, this was Sylvia's first film, and we kept teasing her, like don't get used to this because it doesn't happen like this. Like being on set with this kind of love and sisterhood and positivity was so unique, but hopefully there will be more like that. Maybe, hopefully, Hollywood will be changing and there will be more projects like this where people can come together and really bond the way we did.
QUESTION: Shannen, your career has been so colorful. Was there ever a time when you wanted to just give it up?
SHANNEN DOHERTY: [laughs] Every day. No. I wouldn't say give it up. And, thank you, it has been colorful. I'm going to take that as a big compliment, because I would hate to think that I was beige, so knowing that my career's been colorful is --I'd like to think that I've chosen projects that are relatable but that are different that challenge me as an actor. And there were times where it got a little rough as far as the press goes, and that can feel --you can feel a bit defeated, absolutely, but that hasn't been in so long. I think, I mean, it's like thirty years ago, so. I haven't felt that in probably like thirty years, and now I just sort of look at like there's all these new chapters and new opportunities for my career hat I'm super excited about and just ready to keep charging forward.
QUESTION: Shannen, you've popped up a lot on shows that have to do with cancer. I know you've had your struggles with it, I have as well. Have you gone through any point in your life that says I don't want to hear the word? I don't want to watch anything? I just want to ignore it for the time being?
SHANNEN DOHERTY: I think this is the first acting thing I've done about cancer, because I've been pretty careful about bringing the acting into that world. But, again, when I read the script, and I found out who all was involved, and I felt like I had to be a part of it, and I was super honored to be a part of it and, again, like what Kelly has been talking about, like, the sisterhood, that made this film even more special. Like, yes, the topic is special, and everybody's performances are special, but the sisterhood behind the scenes sort of blows everything else out of the water for me, personally. And, no, I mean, I don't--I feel like I have a responsibility in my more public life, which I separate from my acting life, I feel like I have a responsibility to talk about cancer and to perhaps educate people more to let people know that people with stage four are very much alive and very active and more than capable of working, and just to sort of raise money and spread awareness. So, I don't really get sick of it and in my very close-knit quarters it doesn't really come up. My husband says that you would never know that I had cancer. I don't ever complain. I don't really talk about it. It's just it's part of life at this point.
QUESTION: Who wrote the movie? And do you know why she named the main character Brenda Lee? I just noticed that as I was watching.
ROXY SHIH: Yeah. The script was written by Jessica Landry. Jessica and I haven't connected. Like basically the script was given to me by Autumn, our amazing producer, and I read the script. I was really burnt out at the time. I read like fifteen pages into it, and I'm like I just have to do this. So, I connected with her and I'm just like, "Yo, girl, really great job on this. Hey, we shot it. It was amazing." And I think that we're going to connect in the future, but I think the Brenda Lee thing was probably super random.


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The UCLA Academic Senate's Committee on Teaching has selected Dr Jennifer Casey for a 2019 Distinguished Teaching Award for Non-Senate Faculty.
"Jennifer stands shoulder to shoulder with other exemplary UCLA teachers and is truly deserving of this prestigious award" said Department Chair Professor Catherine Clarke. "In every class, whether she was teaching it for the first time or the fifth, more than half the students gave her the highest evaluation possible. These evaluations tell only a small portion of her distinguished teaching performance. In the classroom she practices active-learning techniques that engage all students in the learning process, she fosters confidence even in the most timid of students by encouraging one-on-one meetings with her, and she serves as a de facto role model for young women. Behind the scenes she is a leading force in the department for bringing about evidence-based change to our lower division instruction for the Life Science majors."
Dr. Jennifer Casey teaching her General and Organic Chemistry Laboratory II (Chem14CL) class.
Among the highest honors given by the Academic Senate, the Distinguished Teaching Award recognizes academically and professionally accomplished individuals who bring respect and admiration to the scholarship of teaching. Recipients are selected from nominations received by colleagues and leaders across the campus.
Casey is one of three non-senate faculty campus-wide who will be honored during the annual Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching ceremony in the fall, an event co-hosted by the Academic Senate and the UCLA Office of Instructional Development.
A native Californian, Casey attended California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) as a Presidential Scholar where she conducted research in organic chemistry with Professor Kensaku Nakayama and in physical chemistry with Professor Brian McClain. She received her bachelor's degree in chemistry with a minor in mathematics from CSULB in 2007.
After graduation, Casey joined the group of Professor Benjamin Schwartz at UCLA as a physical chemistry graduate student where she investigated the structural properties of the hydrated electron using mixed quantum/classical molecular dynamics simulations. During her graduate studies, Casey served as a teaching assistant for many quarters and received the department's prestigious Hanson-Dow Excellence in Teaching Award in 2009. She also participated in a year-long NSF-funded project in which she designed and implemented new inquiry-based laboratory experiments for teachers interested in incorporating hands-on chemistry in their high school classrooms.
After receiving her Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 2014, Casey accepted a visiting-assistant professor position at Sonoma State University in Northern California where she helped create a Foundational-Level General Science Waiver program in an effort to increase the number of qualified instructors in California secondary schools. In 2016, when her husband was offered a position in Los Angeles, Casey was eager to return to UCLA and was offered a lecturer position in the department. She also lectured briefly at Loyola Marymount University and participated in their Center for Teaching Excellence Credential Program.
Casey speaking with students during her office hours.
Since returning to UCLA, Casey has continued assisting future teachers through her involvement in the department's team-taught Chem 192A practicum—a stepping stone for aspiring science high school teachers. Casey is an active participant in the weekly seminars and welcomes the students into her teaching assistant (TA) meetings and lab sections where they shadow and assist the TA's. She observes, advises, and mentors the students in the laboratory and gives them extensive feedback on their emerging teaching skills, helping to empower future teachers.
In addition to teaching, Casey also conducts chemical education research in collaboration with Dr. Arlene Russell, Senior Lecturer in the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and the UCLA Department of Education.
"Casey's passion for and commitment to excellence extends beyond her own courses and interactions with her students" said Russell. "I would characterize her impact on the lower division instruction not a ripple effect, but a groundswell. Casey is a truly impressive educator. Her teaching extends beyond her students, to her colleagues, and to future teachers. She is truly deserving of recognition."
Casey's popularity with students was clearly evident as she was being photographed during her office hours. When told that Casey had been chosen for a UCLA teaching award, one student said enthusiastically "I love Dr. Casey! She is the best teacher I have ever had!".
Casey has two UCLA Major Instructional Improvement (IIP) grants described below:
Utilizing application-based science education videos in an undergraduate chemistry laboratory course for Life Science majors (Major IIP Grant #18-21) (with Dr. Roshini Ramachandran)
As instructors, we expect our students to intuitively apply the topics learned in courses focused on theory, however, many topics in chemistry can be challenging for students to apply in a different context. This problem is particularly prevalent in laboratory courses, where students often do not make the intended connections and therefore blindly follow experimental procedures with little to no insight. Our goal is to bridge the gap between lecture and lab by incorporating Application-Based Science Education videos in the lab courses. Since these videos connect concepts and practice by highlighting real-world applications of experimental techniques, they may provide an effective way to highlight the intention behind an experiment, therefore providing context in order to make the material more relevant and meaningful.
Creating valid, reliable pre- and post-assessment tools to assess students' abilities to retain, transfer, and apply acid-base chemistry concepts in general chemistry, organic chemistry, and biochemistry (Major IIP Grant #18-20) (with Dr. Heather Tienson)
Much of the background content required for Chem 153A is taught throughout the Chem 14 series, which consists of six general and organic chemistry courses designed for life-science majors. While many of the concepts introduced in the Chem 14 series are expanded upon in Chem 153A, a topic of particular interest is acid-base chemistry since it is well known that students struggle with this threshold concept. It is difficult to determine why background deficiencies exist by considering each course individually; our goal is to examine each course in the broader context of the series. This is being done through the creation of pre- and post-assessment tools.
Article and photos by Penny Jennings, UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, penny@chem.ucla.edu.


This episode of Your Mom's House is truly… amaze. Before our guest, Brad Williams (About Last Night Podcast), joins the mommies, Tom Segura and Christina P run through a couple topics. Like this dad who can barely get through a joke and reminds a lot of us of Top Dog. Then the mommies get onto Tiger Woods and how crazy his life is to be as successful and dominant as him at golf, but still meet up with ladies of the night at hotels.
That brings Tom to a thought about what Casey Anthony and OJ Simpson's passion look like. respectively. Do they make crazy confessions at the climax? Why is Tom laughing so hard? After settling down, the mommies get onto a "Would You Rather" where you have to choose between sating Forrest Gump or Slingblade. Is it morally reprehensible? Is Jenny a complete piece of garbage?
Then the mommies get into bad dates and unwanted suitors. Tom talks about the lady who aggressively picked him up in a dimly-lit bar only for Tom to be too nice to end the date early. What would you have done? Then there was that girl that Tom never called back during Summer which made her hate him. Then Christina shares a short-lived romance dating someone with a gigantic language barrier. Turns out she still checks in with him every once in a while. Should Tom be worried? Also, puke clips!
Then Brad Williams joins the Mommy Dome to talk about hoarders, casting movies with people on the sexual spectrum, like Scarlett Johansson who received so much backlash for considering a movie role, she had to back out. How does Brad feel about able bodied actors being cast as dwarves in Lord of the Rings? He then sheds a lot of light on dealing with his dwarfism, in terms of people approaching him on the street or heckling him on stage.
That leads the topic of discussion to Hungary leading the way in abolishing gender studies, animal protestors protesting a vegan shop, questions about how to raise a dog from a Spanish neighborhood, people talking on speaker phones.


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Kenneth Dufour
Ken Dufour ('85, '89, WW)
Chairman, Student Life Committee
Development and Flight Safety & Education Committees
Ken Dufour's portfolio includes a wealth of avionics experience and knowledge pertaining to various flight deck systems in numerous aircraft, including corporate, air transport, regional airline, and military applications. Dufour's avionics experience includes conceptual and systems design, flight operations, Federal Aviation Administration certification, and marketing/sales of these systems. These systems include Inertial, Omega, GPS Long-Range Navigation System, Reactive and Forward Looking Windshear, TCAS I & II, CNI, ACARS, and SatCom, as well as Flight Management Systems.
Dufour has been involved in several business expansions and corporate re-engineering programs, and has a leadership record of exceptional performance results. His contribution to these programs has been in the development and program management of key corporate initiatives, including market analysis and forecast, new product introduction, product-line expansion, budgeting, staffing, and business development programs. He is the owner of Aviation Management Consulting Inc., whose latest ventures are UAS Solutions and Value$, a drone-appraisal company, and Aircraft Engine Protection Corp.
He has been recognized for excellence in business development, customer growth, sales achievement, and customer support throughout his career.
Dufour previously served on the Board of Directors of the National Aircraft Finance Association and is now an active member of that organization.
An alumnus of Embry-Riddle, Dufour earned a Bachelor of Science in Professional Aeronautics in 1985 and a Master in Aviation Management in 1989.
Hatching a Plan
It was a twist of fate that brought Louisiana native Dufour to Embry-Riddle's back door in the early 1970s. At the height of the Vietnam War in 1969, Dufour, a student at Northeast Louisiana State University, and two of his cousins wanted to serve their country but didn't like the idea of ground combat.
The three hatched a plan to enlist in the U.S. Air Force and become air traffic controllers (ATC). It worked, but not for Dufour. While his cousins received ATC billets, Dufour was trained as a paramedic and assigned to the hospital at MacDill Air Force Base, near Tampa, Florida.
"I was in the Air Force for three-and-a-half years in Tampa, in the middle of Vietnam. What was good is that it brought me to Tampa, and from Tampa I came to Daytona to finish my degree at Embry-Riddle," he said.
Recent Memories
Today, the Daytona Beach Campus is nearly unrecognizable compared to what it was like when Dufour attended classes. There were very few buildings at the time and trailers were used for administration, he said, so his fondest memories of Embry-Riddle aren't from his days as a student, but of his last 18 years as the longest currently seated member of the Board of Trustees. The recently constructed buildings and those coming into shape are developments that he's proud to have been a part of throughout his career, he said. "Those are my favorite memories of Embry-Riddle. That and what we're trying to do for the future."
In 1998, after a term as an alumnus-at-large member of the Board, Dufour was elected as a general member and asked by then-president Dr. George H. Ebbs to chair the Student Life Committee, which Dufour continues to lead to this day. And he takes this role seriously: "We're here to change students' lives," said Dufour.
The students are the lifeblood of the university, Dufour said, and are his inspiration for volunteering to serve on the Board. "The real bonus for me is to see young men and women receive their education, develop in their careers, go into the aerospace industry and other offshoots of the industry, and become leaders around the globe," he said.
In 2016, Dufour experienced one of those "bonuses" when an acquaintance updated him about her son, a young man who wanted to fly. Dufour talked to him about opportunities at Embry-Riddle and set him up with a tour and information, he said. "Now here we are, five years later, and his mom is showing me a picture of her son in his officer's uniform in front of an airplane simulator because he just got a job with a regional carrier and she said, 'He is the happiest man on the planet and I'm the happiest mom.'"
But it's not thanks to him, Dufour said. "That's what we do here at Embry-Riddle. We produce graduates made for success."
Bringing the Worldwide Campus to Rockford, Illinois
Embry-Riddle's Worldwide Campus is also a focal point for Dufour. "I was the impetus for bringing Worldwide to Rockford, Illinois," he said.
Today, Rockford touts an expanded Worldwide Campus and boasts an Embry-Riddle aerospace academy at one of its high schools. "I'm proud of that," said Dufour, a longtime Rockford resident. His interest in the Worldwide Campus isn't unfounded. It was at Embry-Riddle's Extended Campus, the predecessor to today's Worldwide Campus, that Dufour finished his degree.
Back at the Daytona Beach Campus in the 1970s, the careful balance between work and school finally tipped. "I ran out of everything: money, altitude," he said. "I was a flight instructor making $5 to $6 an hour."
He took a position at a Piper aircraft distributor in Sarasota, Florida, and withdrew from Embry-Riddle with just about a dozen credit hours left to finish. About 10 years later, Dufour completed his bachelor's degree in Professional Aeronautics via correspondence courses. Later he earned a master's degree in Aviation Management at the Worldwide Campus in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
"I had a new job, a new wife, a new baby, and a new degree," he said. In 2013, that baby, Kristina, now 28, completed an M.S. degree in Management from Embry-Riddle's Worldwide Campus in Rockford. And Dufour was there to hand her the diploma. He also conferred the degrees at the commencement ceremony held in Daytona Beach.
Appraisal Niche
Dufour has led a varied career, holding positions such as regional vice president, area manager, and regional marketing manager at Gulfstream Aerospace, Honeywell, BF Goodrich Aerospace, AlliedSignal, and Litton Aero Products.
In 1992, he opened his own business, Aviation Management Consulting Inc., and developed a niche: aircraft appraisals. Located in Rockford, the company provides management, marketing/sales, and technical skills to the aerospace marketplace. Dufour is an Accredited Senior Appraiser for the American Society of Appraisers.
Aviation Management Consulting recently launched a new division called UAS Solutions and Value$. A response to the increasing needs of the booming $90 billion commercial drone market, the new venture specializes in aviation valuation and appraisals. Dufour further has launched Aircraft Engine Protection Corporation, an engine maintenance program that offers extended maintenance and warranty protection.
While he said he enjoys consulting, his passion is Embry-Riddle. "It's part of my family and it always has been, ever since I got out of the Air Force. And, as Tom Cruise's character is told in the movie Top Gun, 'You never ever leave your wingman.' Albeit that's Hollywoodish, it's true. Embry-Riddle's been my wingman and I'm Embry-Riddle's wingman."


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Joan Sutherland, the Australian tailor's daughter acclaimed as "La Stupenda" during a nearly 40-year operatic career and rated by many critics as the most powerful and technically perfect diva of the 20th century, has died. She was 83.
Sutherland died Sunday at her home near Geneva, Switzerland, after a long illness, her family announced.
Sutherland achieved stardom in 1959 with a celebrated turn in the title role of Gaetano Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" at London's Royal Opera House. By then she was 32 and had been with the company for seven years, making a name for herself in a wide assortment of roles until the perfect one came along. She had been performing professionally since she was 18, and from the age of 16 she had steadily devoted herself to broadening her vocal scope and perfecting her technique.
Her most important teacher was Richard Bonynge, a pianist she met when they were teenagers in Australia — and who would become her husband and regular conductor.
Sutherland's triumph as Lucia spurred a return to prominence for the "bel canto" style for which she became famous. Building on the achievements of Maria Callas, Sutherland went on to re-establish the long-neglected bel canto (Italian for "beautiful singing") repertoire of the 18th- and 19th-century composers Donizetti, Rossini and Bellini. Beverly Sills and Sutherland's close friend, Marilyn Horne, were among those who subsequently took advantage of opera companies' renewed interest in the style, in which composers lavished their music with trills, extreme high notes and other musical ornamentation intended to showcase the singer's brilliance.
Sutherland's "magnificent voice," interpretive strength and revival of "bel canto works that had nearly been forgotten" together "ensure a permanent place for her in the history of our art," opera star Placido Domingo said in a statement Monday.
He recalled first working with her in "Lucia di Lammermoor" in 1961, and "being amazed by her technique but also grateful for her and Richard's simplicity and kindness.... We will all miss her very much."
Sutherland's voice, wrote Winthrop Sargeant in a 1972 New Yorker profile, was "as large as that of a top-ranking Wagnerian soprano. It had a range that stretched from A below middle C to F, or even to F-sharp, above the staff. It also had the sensuous, womanly quality that proclaims the great diva. But the most glorious thing about it was its astonishing agility and its uncanny accuracy."
Times critic Martin Bernheimer wrote of her 1966 concert debut at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion: "One never ceases to be astounded by the way Miss Sutherland manipulates a basically large vocal instrument as if it were as slender and inherently flexible as the coloratura sopranos." It was "even rarer," he added, that she wielded it not to overwhelm, but with unstrained ease, musicality and taste. Sutherland's only flaw, for most critics, was what Bernheimer called "her mushy … diction."
She was born Nov. 7, 1926, in Sydney, Australia. Her musical journey began when she was a small girl, seated on the piano bench alongside her mother, Muriel Sutherland, a highly regarded amateur contralto, as Muriel did vocal exercises. Her father, William, a Scottish immigrant, died when Joan was 6. The family moved in with her grandparents, and her mother and older half-siblings from William's previous marriage went to work.
After high school, Sutherland worked as a typist, but she was able to pursue voice training, thanks to lessons she'd won in a contest. Victory in another local competition brought her a series of bookings in small towns in New South Wales. There she met Bonynge, her sometime accompanist. Those earnings, and a larger cash prize from a national voice contest, bankrolled Sutherland's move to London, where she lived with her mother, studied at the Royal College of Music and began auditioning for the Royal Opera at Covent Garden. She made it on her third try, in 1952.
By then, Bonynge, who also had pursued musical studies in London, was coaching her; they married in 1954. Later, some critics were less than enthralled that Sutherland and Bonynge remained joined at the hip professionally. Recalling a 1972 recording of Puccini's "Turandot" Sutherland made with Zubin Mehta, conductor-musicologist Will Crutchfield, then a critic for the New York Times, speculated in 1986 whether that disc's virtues might have been repeated more often had she gone in for more outside collaborations. "Her singing there is tremendously vivid, charged with a relish she has rarely shown for music so far away from her home base of bel canto virtuosity," he wrote.
But Sutherland was happy to stand by her man: "For me he is the perfect conductor," she told the New Yorker. "He knows how to allow for breathing, and he has a complete knowledge of how I feel and what I am capable of." She and Bonynge (pronounced Bonning) continued to tour together until 1990, when Sutherland retired at 63.
One of her signature recordings is "The Art of the Prima Donna" (1960), but Sutherland was known for doffing the prima donna mantle when she left the stage. Music journalists often noted her down-to-earth personality, her typically good-humored disposition and her ability to negotiate an operatic career with a minimum of backstage conflict and drama. She preferred to go straight home after performances, rather than basking in the after-hours limelight.
"I'm a mum," she told the British newspaper, the Guardian, in 2002. "I never thought of becoming a diva. I just wanted to sing the roles and get on with my work. I used to come to the theater in a taxi, not in some Rolls-Royce. I didn't have time to do all that silly stuff."
She was made a Dame of the British Empire in the late 1970s.
While her career was long, it wasn't always easy. From her days as a company member with the Royal Opera during the 1950s, Sutherland coped with dental woes, severe sinus problems and chronic back distress.
But when caught up in the exultation of performance, she told the Australian newspaper the Advertiser in 1979, there was no pain. "When one is singing high and loud it's as though one is in light air, high up on a mountain. I feel a lightness and a dizziness. Exhilaration, too," she said. "I've never smoked marijuana, but I fancy it might be the same sort of feeling."
She is survived by Bonynge; their son, Adam, and two grandchildren.


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Spectrum Internet, TV, Login, Customer Service, Plans And Packages
Spectrum is one of the many internet service providers (ISPs) available right now. Among the reasons why it is this popular is because of the good packages that it offers as well as the ease of getting any plan without needing any form of contract. Also, the services that it offers are broad enough to cover things like Internet packages, Cable TV, mobile plans, and much more.
Before now, Time Warner Cable and Spectrum are separate companies, but they now operate together as one following the acquisition of Warner by Spectrum.
Charter Spectrum offers an excellent internet service that is as much as 20 times faster than DSL, making it ideal for streaming and other things like playing online games. In addition to that, the plan comes with free internet modem and good connectivity.
Interestingly enough, there is only one internet-only plan, which means that you do not get many options in case you want something different. The singular package comes at $49.99 each month for 12 months. It has a speed that starts at 100 Mbps and it doesn't have modem charges or any extra fees or data caps. More so, there is also free online protection. After the first 12 months, the charges go up to $54.99/mo.
There is also the Spectrum internet & TV Select which goes for $88.98/mo. The package comes with over 125 channels, TV streaming App, Spectrum DVR that allows you to store up to 780 hours video, free mode, and free online protection. The download speed also starts at 100Mbps.
Plans And Packages
Spectrum comes with so many packages apart from its internet plans for TV, internet, and phones:
Triple Play Select
This package comes with TV, Internet, and Voice. It has over 125 channels with free HD and just like the internet plans you get with the ISP, the speed that starts at 100 Mbps. For the voice package, it allows for nationwide calling and it has many more features that include blocking unwanted callers and managing home phone from anywhere.
The plan costs $99.97 each month for the first 12 months.
Triple Play Silver
Just like the first package, this comes with free DVR service, although it has more channels, going higher than 175 that include premium networks. It also has TV, Internet, and voice packages in it, with the internet also starting at 100 Mbps. The call features are the same as the previous package.
The plan starts at $119.97 per month for the first 12 months.
Triple Play Gold
This is the topmost package that you get, also delivering TV, internet, and voice packages. It has over 200 channels with free HD. It includes most channels in the Silver package and some more premium networks. The internet speed is also starting at 100 Mbps while there is also unlimited nationwide calling.
Giving more than the others, the package costs $139.97 per month for the first 12 months.
TV Select and Internet
Other packages include the TV Select and Internet from $59.99 per month for the first 12 months and $22.99 per month for the first 12 months for the TV select and Internet respectively. The package offers over 125 channels and DVR service that can be added to 4TVs giving up to 780 storage hours. The internet has 100 Mbps starting speed free modem and online security.
Internet and Phone
While the internet package is $39.99 per month for the first month and has similar features as all the rest, the phone starts at $19.99 per month for the first 12 months. You get unlimited calls, easy phone management, and free 411 calls among other things.
One more thing that is popular with spectrum apart from its internet service is the Cable TV service that you get. More than what you get with most other providers, it gives free HD and over 200 channels in its plan which will costs you $44.99 per month for the first 12 months of your subscription.
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This package includes things like on-demand contents through the Spectrum TV app, live streaming TV, and again, you also have the option of having the DVR service which will give you as much as 780 hours of streaming and can be added to 4 TVs.
Spectrum Internet Login
Before the login in, you will need to create a Spectrum account and after that, you can decide to create as much as 7 usernames for your family members.
To do this, simply go to spectrum website and select Create Username.
You may need to put in your Zip code
Next, verify your account information by entering the last name associated with the account and then choose the method of verification.
Confirm that you are not a robot
Put in your information and then accept the Terms & Conditions.
Click to Create Username and then select Finish. You will be signed in automatically.
To log in to your Spectrum account, here are the processes involved:
Go to the Spectrum website
Put in your username and the password.
Confirm that you are not a robot and then click on Sign in.
Spectrum has a very good customer service that can be reached at any time thanks to the 24/7 service it offers online. On the support, you can access how-to videos, manuals, and other things. One can also reach customer service for issues and things like online ordering.
Spectrum customer center number: 1-855-707-7328
Website: Visit via this link
Offline: One can as well decide to visit any of its offline stores.
How much is Spectrum Internet service only?
The spectrum internet service costs $44.99 /mo for the first 12 months. This is the only internet service that it has.
Is a 100 Mbps Fast Internet?
The internet speed provided by Spectrum is as high as 100Mbps which is the fastest internet connection. The speed you get with most wifi is only between 5 to 10Mbps. Which makes 100Mbps superfast.
What devices are compatible with Spectrum TV app?
The devices that are compatible with Spectrum TV are Samsung Smart TV, Apple devices using iOS 9.0 and anything higher, Android OS 4.2+, all Roku players and TVs with the exception of those in the first generation, and Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HDX with the exception of the first generation Kindle.
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This listing is courtesy of Gretchen Brasch from Briggs Freeman Sotheby's Int'l.
Fantastic opportunity on the idyllic winding Labron Ave in Shorecrest Estates. Recently updated 3-2 with large open kitchen-den-dining – so hard to find! Granite+stainless kitchen, pretty hand-scraped hardwoods, wbfp, master with raised ceiling, spacious bath, walk-in closet. Separate, easily leasable guest house or home office with open LA, 1 bedroom, 2 full baths, + second laundry room. Approx 80x152 landscaped lot...a beautiful property!