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The April 5, 2021 Lost Horizons Newsletter
...where real knowledge-- and actual solutions-- intersect with real Americans!
Why Gretchen Whitmer Sent Sick People Into Nursing Homes Last Spring
No, it was NOT just an act of stupidity or panic...
"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt
ON APRIL 15, 2020, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer issued "Executive Order 2020-50", under the terms of which people infected with respiratory illnesses declared to be 'COVID-19' (C19) were transferred from hospitals into nursing homes across the state. Those nursing homes, of course, were filled with residents especially vulnerable to fatal outcomes from exposure to such dangers due to age and co-morbidities typical to the elderly.
The transfers were engineered despite the fact that normal overall hospital capacity was never "overwhelmed" by C19 cases. What's more, dedicated field hospital facilities had been built (at enormous expense) to provide enormous additional capacity where the infected seniors could be cared for properly while being prudently isolated.
Those field hospitals were essentially ignored. They never saw more than a couple of dozen beds occupied, and even that little use was just for show, and not because the pre-existing hospital inventory was overtaxed. But they were there and available.
No credible reason of need existed for the transfer of the infected people into nursing homes like an army of Typhoid Marys. Nonetheless, that's what happened.
As was entirely predictable, large numbers of affected nursing home residents proceeded to die of respiratory illnesses-- every one of which was reported as being a C19 fatality. As of mid-June, 2020, the reported deaths in nursing homes comprised at least 34% of the total deaths ascribed to C19 in Michigan by that point.
In fact, that percentage may be even higher. Serious questions remain as to the possible low-balling of that nursing home fatality figure due to quirky rules about how designated nursing home residents outside of the facilities for some reason after becoming infected (such as hospitalization) are accounted for by the state, and because of Whitmer's unexplained intransigence on the release of data.
SO WHY DID WHITMER ISSUE (and renew in mid-May) an order which caused pre-mature deaths to so many Michigan citizens? Well, in light of Whitmer's steady refusal to talk about the matter, scorn of all related FOIA requests from any quarter, being shielded from investigation by her partisan comrade Attorney General Dana Nessel, and her having paid hush-money to her former Director of Public Health upon his departure from office not long ago, I can't answer that question definitively.
But I can throw out some facts and do some spitballing...
"Universal Mail-In Ballots" Are The Perfect Set-Up For Election Fraud
Those who pooh-pooh such concerns thereby mark themselves as guilty.
ELECTION FRAUD under conditions of "universal mail-in ballots" is the simplest thing. Here's how it can be done:
A given election district (precinct, city, county, etc.) has x voters on the rolls. X-- especially in urban districts-- is heavily-padded with the unpurged dead and otherwise departed, and with folks who have registered but never bother to vote. The names of everyone in x are in a computer database.
By the end of election day, a portion of x who we'll call y1 have requested and been sent absentee ballots (and probably have mailed them in)-- but in theory, everyone has been sent a ballot for mail-in voting, whether requested or not. Another portion of x (we'll call them y2) have cast ballots at the polls.
The names of everyone in both y1 and y2 are in a computer database by the end of election day.
NOW, WITHIN A FEW BUSY HOURS after the polls have closed and the number of extra votes needed has become apparent-- say, by 3:00AM to 4:30AM the next day-- y1 can be added to y2 and the total subtracted from x, yielding z-- the number of fraudulent ballots that can be tossed into the pot, all marked for the fraudster's candidate, without exceeding the theoretical (or plausible) maximum for the district.
Every one of these fraudulent ballots can even be associated with the name of someone on the voting rolls who did not cast a conflicting ballot, with this being especially easy if the signed envelopes in which these ballots are supposed to have been mailed to the district clerk are trashed. And all this can be done by a very small number of conspirators in the right places.
The tell-tale sign would be a spike in vote totals for the fraudsters' favored candidate(s) in those early hours of the day after, like this, for instance:
Other Voices (followed by an important afterword)
Cancel Public School
If we took the future of the nation seriously, we would end public schools tomorrow.
by Dan Gelernter
A friend who volunteers at a Sunday school in Harlem for low-income children called me the other day, greatly upset: She had been working with a pair of students who failed to learn the assigned reading, which was a short psalm or a prayer. She thought perhaps the fourth graders, a boy and a girl, weren't applying themselves. The truth was much worse: The two children turned out to be illiterate.
Their public school teachers had passed them, grade by grade, into the fourth, and no one had ever taught them how to sound out words. Their teachers graded spelling tests and assignments—they knew they were passing kids who couldn't read.
The two fourth graders didn't understand words like "will" or "firm." They couldn't read them, and they didn't know what they meant. Yet these children were intelligent. They were eager—touchingly, pathetically eager. And by the end of the hour with my friend they had made tangible progress. But what is one hour, compared with 35 hours every week in public school?
The New York City public school system spends $28,800 per student per year—more than anywhere else in the world. A brand-new public school teacher with a master's degree and zero prior experience starts at $65,000 a year, plus benefits. And the children can't read.
It's little wonder that children become disaffected, bellicose—what we popularly call "troubled." Little wonder that they turn to drugs and gangs and crime. When material isn't taught well, and when the children can't understand, they often blame themselves. They feel stupid, then resentful. Before long they've decided that education isn't for them, and soon they'll be lost forever—their potential to live happy, decent, productive, and socially healthy lives is destroyed. Their teachers and the school system are the destroyers.
"I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves...too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: 'Our country, right or wrong!' They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: 'Our country--when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.'"
-Senator Carl Schurz, October 17, 1899
Please don't leave me just preaching to the choir!
We both want to restore liberty and the rule of law in our lifetime, so share, share, share!


North Midlands claimed their first Crossfield Cup since 2005 with a narrowest of victories over Potteries on a cold and blustery Sunday afternoon.
In a remarkable final both sides won twelve games each, with two of the victories away, and had wins of over seventy points at their home venues. In the end it came down to a narrow two points which sent the trophy south to the home of BCGBA President Phil Brown.
I was at the picturesque Dilhorne Recreation Bowling Club where buoyant Potteries home crowd watched their heroes dominate a high class away side. Nick Tideswell led the way as the home team claimed a thirty-one lead after four games but this was eclipsed by the North Midlands home first four who, had two single figures wins, had a thirty-seven point lead. Mark Burdett narrowly taking the honours over Jamie Dunn.
Both away sides claimed their first away win in the middle-four as Adam Jackson won on the tricky Haunchwood and Paul Ward battled his way to a win on Dilhorne for the North Midlands men.
The middle-four at Dilhorne saw Potteries increase their lead to fifty-two points but North Midlands home team had, by this point, put themselves sixty-three points ahead as British Senior Merit champion Darren Plenderleith and Ben Percival displayed their mastery of the Haunchwood green.
This match was just getting better and better. An away win at Haunchwood and a stunning performance by Anthony Lloyd at Dilhorne put the Potteries men in front. The North Midlands men responded to lead by a couple, thanks to a man of the match performance by Stuart Perry, before the momentum swung the way of Potteries men again as Mark Melvin and Richard Clay defeated high quality opposition. This meant Potteries led by three with one game left at Haunchwood.
The teams were gathered around a mobile phone each as the action from the last few ends of the last game was broadcast to all who could listen. Richard Burdett had to play the winning bowls to claim the cup and he responded magnificently. A 21-16 win with a lead toucher last end saw the trophy won by a jubilant North Midlands team and their supporters went wild.
Please check the Bowls Observer page on Facebook for more photos from the day.


I took Max for a walk the other day to Riverside Country Park..it is about half an hours walk away, but only 5 minutes in the car…Max loves the car, he likes to sit on my lap and breath in the air from the window…Bless!
I took my camera with me, as it was such a nice day and took these pictures to show you how nice it is down there..!
He barked at the birds and sniffed all the new smells…and got a bit too friendly with a blackberry bush, for which he got stuck literally and I had to pull him out…silly billy!
I kept the lead on him as I didn't want him to drown, but i think next time, I could let him of, as he loved it.
Of course Max had to have some refreshment after his swim and I was rather parched too!
Love your house and little Max is so adorable. Walking the dog really lifts the spirit.
Oh that just looked like an absolutely perfect walk. Beautiful pictures. Max is sooo cute!
What a lovely place for a walk Happy..Max is one lucky pup..Thank you for sharing this walk with us!!
What an amazing nature….I love your dog!!!
That looks like such a lovely place and look at how cute Max was having his little swim! Thanks for sharing!


Even before her commercial breakthrough at 28, the enigmatic sides of her personality were being realised: years of classical training at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, singing in clubs and bars from the age of 13 and, then, fronting synthpop band Y Kant Tori Read. A taste for pushing limitations and stretching her talent and imagination had already been planted.
Although her signature remains swelling, filigreed piano rock, she has experimented with different musical styles and instruments over the last twenty years, from the baroque dusk of Boys for Pele (1996), the electronic experimentalism of From the Choirgirl Hotel (1998) and To Venus and Back (1999) to her return to the classical world with the classically inspired song cycle Night of Hunters (2011). She managed to achieve the rarely possible with a successful concept album (American Doll Posse, 2007) and an acclaimed Christmas record (Midwinter Graces, 2009) while retaining her artistic integrity. Her 13th studio album, 2012's Gold Dust, was a varied selection of works from her songbook all newly arranged for vocals, piano and orchestra, recorded with the Metropole Orchestra for Deutsche Grammophon/Mercury Classics.
Amos, never one to shy away from the reality of life in her lyrics, has tackled the breadth of life's subjects over the last two decades. Although her writing is confessional and she has famously put her own experiences, both positive and harrowing, into song, the way she does it leaves the door open for the listener to join in.
All of Amos's albums have been layered with symbols, history and dimensions – elements that make them stand out as true works of art. The Beekeeper (2005) circles around topics of death, loss and adultery; Scarlet's Walk (2002) maps and re-calibrates the American psyche after 9/11 seen through a prism of the writer's Cherokee roots; Abnormally Attracted to Sin (2009) is accompanied by a set of short films, each a visualisation of one of the albums songs, whilst Boys for Pele, her first self-produced album, is a virile feminist totem through which she binned the patriarchy and snatched back her independence.
Now, having turned 50 in summer 2013, Tori Amos is an artist working at the height of her powers. October of that year saw the opening in London of The Light Princess, a stage musical co-written by Amos and developed with the National Theatre. Amos first had the idea for the project in 2008, inspired by the 1864 story by Scottish author George MacDonald.
Working with a large creative team and cast, she was energised by the experience – a transformation that is apparent on Amos's 14th studio album. Unrepentant Geraldines (released in May 2014) is the sound of a singer-songwriter returning with elevating vigour to the intimate songwriting craftsmanship that marked her out as a special talent two decades ago.
And that vigour, and passion, show no signs of abating. In spring 2014, Tori Amos embarked upon an 80-date world tour. Just her, her piano, her songs and her voice. And her ever-bewitching talents.


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August Shuffle – Rebecca Travers
Date: August 29, 2017Author: splendidfred 0 Comments
Well, it's that time again readers. It's time to delve into my musical archives via itunes to see if this is the month it wants to humiliate me or whether it makes me look endlessly cool with unusual indie bands. Probably the former. Let's dig in!
Song 1: Don't stop the party – Pitbull
Oh wow. Thanks shuffle. Let's start this with an embarrassing cracker! Yes this is the only Pitbull song I have on my ipod. I promise. But who doesn't suddenly become an instant Pitbull fan the minute an alcoholic beverage hits the spot? This song came out the week before my 21st birthday so I remember it being absolutely everywhere and being endlessly played on the radio. I downloaded it especially because I was eagerly planning my birthday and hoping that I wouldn't want to 'stop the party' on the night. Needless to say, this was played at my birthday after I'd had a few brandies, and yes, Pitbull, I did 'get funky.' And then I looked up the release date for this and realised it was 2009 and then I instantly felt weird about time.
Song 2: Black & Blue – Paloma Faith
I absolutely love Paloma's voice. And her dress sense, despite it being utterly bonkers. And her as a person: she's so put together and elegant when she sings, but when she's just being her she giggles and kicks back and I just love it. This is from her debut 2009 album Do you want the truth or something beautiful? And this has got to be one of my favourites on the album. I really don't think I've enjoyed any of her subsequent albums as much as I liked this one. This track is all about how we are different as human beings and that who we are on the surface, on the outside, hides many inner demons and hidden secrets: which is a sentiment that I can wholeheartedly understand. Never judge a book by its cover and all that.
Song 3: Better than love – Hurts
It took me a while to figure out what this was; it's from Hurts' Radio 1 live lounge session back in 2011. The gentle violin and the soaring vocals made me realise who this was. I really like Hurts and have their 2015 album Surrender on vinyl, which is a wonderfully upbeat yet melancholic album. Their music is a mix of beautiful lilting lyrics and ballads, with an edge of 80's synth pop that instantly reminds me of legends like Japan and Duran Duran. I guess listening to Hurts makes me feel not so bad for listening to the same music as my parents because it's modern, even though it sounds similar. But then again, who doesn't love the 80's? Better than love was Hurts debut single back in 2011 and I pretty much followed them since then. This live version still sounds great, even 6 years on. Oh and they're a British duo.
Song 4: Honey Whiskey – Nothing but Thieves
Oh this takes me back to Uni instantly. I discovered Nothing but Thieves while writing my masters dissertation back in 2015. After hearing them on the radio I simply had to find out who they were. I downloaded their debut album and totally fell for this song. Not only because at the time of listening I really was drinking a fair amount of honey whiskey (I was writing my dissertation, it was required) but because of those lyrics! 'I think I'd better go before I try something I might regret' has got to be a sentiment we have all felt, right? I just love the vocal on the chorus and the bassline to this. I remember having this and Ban all the music on repeat walking to lectures. Their debut track Itch instantly had me hooked and lead me to finding this gem on their debut self-titled album Nothing but Thieves which was released in 2015. The internet informs me they have another album due out this September, entitled Broken Machine. Oh and they're an English artist too, I sense a slight theme this month shuffle. Pitbull ruined it.
Song 5: Pumped up Kicks – Foster the People
Oh I knew this from the opening chords but Foster the People as a band name just never sticks in my head. I looked up the lyrics to this and was utterly surprised to learn how dark it actually is for such a surprisingly upbeat song. I mean, it has whistling in it! But no, it's all about angry parents and a guy who may or may not kill people: 'better run, better run, faster than my bullet.' Blimey. And it was released in 2010. Perhaps this months' shuffle is to highlight how old my music is?
Well readers, I almost survived. Trust my shuffle to only get to Fall Out Boy for song 6 and put Pitbull right up there first. Cheers. Anyway, as ever I aim to highlight the diversity in all of our music tastes by allowing you to judge just how random mine is. You're welcome. My shuffle and I will see you again next month, hopefully with less Pitbull.
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The two boys stand beneath the tree canopy and try to place-read. It feels like an unvisited, dilapidated park with its picnic tables beneath the oaks, but the picnic tables are interspersed with corroded cannons mounted on white concrete. It feels like the first phase of a tacky tourist place no one would ever visit, the first phase grown terribly old and undeveloped. On the other side of those trees are several consecutive rows of semi-trailers parked in sand. On the other side of the trees in the opposite direction is a trailer park. In fact, the two teenage boys, with their deep Southern accents and their camouflage jackets, think of these picnic tables between cannons as a good place to drink cheap beer at noon. They live in nearby trailers. This place is Central Park for the trailer park. They've never really thought about why the cannons are here. They've never paid much attention to the memorial marker. They've never noticed what it says about this place.
They've never noticed the marker calls their trailer park Central Park a "Confederate earthworks," never noticed the marker claims General Robert E. Lee designed it. They certainly have no idea of historians who doubt that assertion. They haven't noticed the marker's statement that Yellow Bluff Fort was one of several fortifications built along the St. Johns River. They've never noticed the marker claims to have been placed by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1950, Robert E. Lee Chapter.
Confederates built Yellow Bluff Fort in 1862 and the corresponding fort at St. Johns Bluff on the south side of the St. Johns River. September 1862 was a constant exchange of fire between the two forts and Union gunboats in the river.
Within the next two years, Federal troops took over the fort and the all-black 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry populated Yellow Bluff. They built rifle pits, stockades, and a signal tower. No group of soldiers occupied Yellow Bluff for long, and several companies used it for very brief periods. Then the Civil War ended and what one Union report had called "almost impenetrable jungle" once again grew quickly over the battlements and smothered them into the 20th century.
The fort was never a fort. Yellow Bluff was always only an earthworks. It's a great word: earthworks sounds more natural, more ancient, more real, as though the earth itself offered itself up. Yellow Bluff was never a big artificial edifice, always a place dug and shaped into the earth. If Frank Lloyd Wright were to have designed a Civil War battlement, he would have created the idea of place that harmonized with and grew from and was part of the earth. He would have created Yellow Bluff. Yellow Bluff was the Fallingwater of Civil War stations. Or something like that. Now, it's a good place for two teenage boys to break beer bottles on cannons the way people once broke champagne bottles against the hulls of new ships. Yellow Bluff was never only a fort. Yellow Bluff was always an earthworks.
Nobody knows when Yellow Bluff was abandoned. It's harder to see its usefulness as a defense on the river now. The bluff and its embattlements have been covered for a century in dense growth of weeds and vines and trees and palmettos. The jungle thrives on the obsolete battle stations. The channel of river flowing between Yellow Bluff on the Dames Point peninsula and Blount Island and Quarantine Island has been altered by engineering at its mouth and dredging and the creation of jetties. The rifle pits and earthen powder magazines no longer show the possibility of strategic warcraft.
If this part of the rural Northside can be called the city, it can be called the city inasmuch as so much of this city is not city at all, and that, so it happens, is a good way of defining this particular city.
Past the small trenches in the earth and the cannons on white concrete and the picnic tables and the semi-trailers and the trailer park are this path and that path into sudden woods that are followed by wide sandy fields randomly punctuated with their own intermittent woods. In the fields are camps and recent campfires and sand mounds and small territorial territories.
Behind the supposed site of the fort, but before the reach of the river, through weeds and wildflowers and tall grasses, several broken and busted chairs encircle the site of a recent fire. Empty gin bottles lie in palmettos. The daytime charcoal of the night's fires of nearby fallen limbs offers no clues to who comes here. Several such camps, several such hobo-jungles, occur at random distances in the woods-interrupted fields like a constellation of castoffs invisible in the daytime, congregating at night.
In the old days, hobo jungles were located near railroad access points for easy train hopping and migration to seasonal labor. In the early 21st century Yellow Bluff hobohemia, the coming and going of strange men in the dusk and the night and dawn is less connected to travel, certainly not to railroad migration. The immigrations to and emigrations from these field camps have less to do with work too. The camps have more to do with who knows who might have access to beer or gin or pot or meth. Even the lack of daytime population feels sinister. You feel an absence here, a positive absence, a present absence. The people whose camps these are know these spottedly-wooded fields better than you do. They know how to breathe and see in this medium. They have eyes in the briars, but you see nothing.
Somewhere on the other side of these fields, two teenage boys drink a lot of cheap beer. Somewhere on other side of these fields, black soldiers from the North built entrenchments and a signal tower in the land of slavery. Somewhere on the other side of these fields, Timucuans harvested shellfish. But right here, in these fields themselves, on the other side of day, several campfires burn at random intervals, each a transitory homeless home to the men inhabiting hell here. Even the river has distanced its circuit from Yellow Bluff.
When January begins, with its face looking forward and its face looking back, an old man drags two Christmas trees, one at a time, from the curbs where they had been placed by mobile home residents for garbage pickup, past the cannons, through the paths in the woods, into the fields, and lays them like crossties on last night's fire. That night, none of the four men who sit in broken chairs around this particular campfire thinks anything about how much sap they smell on the trees. When they light the Christmas trees, flames gather and combust and shoot 15 feet up into the air, fueled by the sap that had glistened all over the trees. Three of the men fall backward out of the chairs. One man stays in his chair, singed, staring vacantly into the tower of flame. The trees don't burn long; they burn themselves up and out.
But the Christmas tree flames lap up the hard fronds of the solitary palm tree that stands over the camp, and everything above the branchless stalk of the palm tree rages with fire.
The men in two other camps look through the night at the roaring. They see a fire palm in the short cold distance. They see a fire balanced on the top of a tall stalk. The palm fronds at the top of the tree burn like a giant demonic whirligig stuck into the battered earth. The top of the palm burns like a nimbus, a halo, the Burning Bush that spoke to Moses, a mad holy vision, a light in the night, a lighthouse, a long obsolete god burning in the jungle fields, or a tall woman alone in the distance whose imagination and intelligence is lit up on fire in the crossings and recrossings of its electrical neural circuits.
Though what the fire palm mostly inspires is a speechless and thoughtless awe.


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A: Bradley Grainger who made a comment on the question was right. The event handlers don't support retrieving binary data from standard out. Had to switch over to using a main loop and pulling data from standard out using the read functions.

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Le Colin-Maillard (c.1750-1752)
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La Brioche (1870)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Brioche (The Brioche) 1870 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 81 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Le Dormeur téméraire (1928)
Magritte, René (1898-1967) Le Dormeur téméraire (The Reckless Sleeper) 1928 Oil on canvas, 116 × 81 x 2 cm Tate Britain, London A figure sleeps in a wooden alcove above a dark cloudy sky. The way into this space is barred…
L'éventail (c.1919)
Laurencin, Marie (1883-1956) L'éventail (The Fan) c.1919 Oil on canvas, 30.5 × 30 cm Tate Britain, London The Fan is painted in Marie Laurencin's typically restrained palette of blue, rose and grey. It depicts two women staring at the viewer from…
Portrait of Margaret Gainsborough holding a Theorbo (c.1777)
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Portrait of Margaret Gainsborough holding a Theorbo c.1777 Oil on canvas, 90.2 × 69.9 cm National Gallery, London This unfinished portrait of Thomas Gainsborough's youngest daughter, Margaret (1751–1820), playing a theorbo (a kind of lute) unites two particularly personal…
The Artist's Daughter Margaret (c.1772)
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) The Artist's Daughter Margaret c.1772 Oil on canvas, 75.6 × 62.9 cm Tate Britain, London Gainsborough's younger daughter, Margaret, was in her mid-twenties when her father painted this portrait. At the time she was still living with her elder…
San Bartolomeo (c.1497)
Pinturicchio (c.1454-1513) San Bartolomeo (Saint Bartholomew) c.1497 Tempera on wood panel, 59.6 x 51 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Flayed and crucified for spreading Christ's word through Armenia and India, the apostle Bartholomew was represented horrifically, holding his own skin,…
Dans le jardin de Maurecourt (1884)
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Dans le jardin de Maurecourt (In the Garden at Maurecourt) 1884 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65.1 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo As one critic wrote in 1880, "Berthe Morisot handles the palette and brush with a…
Blowing the Horn at Seaside (1870)
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Blowing the Horn at Seaside 1870 Oil on canvas, 48.9 x 34.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Compare: Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) The Dinner Horn c.1870 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) The Dinner Horn 1870 Art Institute…
At the Window (1872)
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) At the Window 1872 Oil on canvas, 57 × 40 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton


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The endothelium of the capillaries is covered with negatively charged proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans. The glomerular basement membrane connects the capillaries and the surrounding Bowman's capsule. It is made up of a dense meshwork that forms a fine mechanical filtration barrier, and like the capillary endothelium, it is covered with proteoglycans and is thus negatively charged. The cells of the visceral layer of Bowman's capsule are called podocytes, whose processes also form a kind of meshwork.
Because of this tight meshwork, large molecules or even cells cannot find a way into the primary urine. In addition, the negative charge prevents the filtration of anions like albumin.
Image: Diagram of renal corpuscle structure: A – Renal corpuscle B – Proximal tubule C – Distal convoluted tubule D – Juxtaglomerular apparatus 1. Basement membrane (Basal lamina) 2. Bowman's capsule – parietal layer 3. Bowman's capsule – visceral layer 3a. Pedicels (Foot processes from podocytes) 3b. Podocyte 4. Bowman's space (urinary space) 5a. Mesangium – Intraglomerular cell 5b. Mesangium – Extraglomerular cell 6. Granular cells (Juxtaglomerular cells) 7. Macula densa 8. Myocytes (smooth muscle) 9. Afferent arteriole 10. Glomerulus Capillaries 11. Efferent arteriole. By M.Komorniczak, License: CC BY-SA 3.0
If, however, this filtration barrier is damaged, then these kinds of elements (cells, albumin, macromolecules) can filter into the primary urine and get excreted. With ongoing damage to the glomeruli, the kidney will lose its ability to produce urine – eventually resulting in renal insufficiency. Glomerular defects can have a variety of causes.
An important distinction is to be made between glomerulonephritis and non-inflammatory glomerular disease. In the present article, the focus is on the description of glomerulonephritis. Further discussions of non-inflammatory causes, such as mechanical (e.g., hypertensive nephropathy), metabolic (e.g., diabetic nephropathy), or vascular (e.g., thrombotic microangiopathy) factors, can be found in their respective articles.
There are various autoimmune causes of glomerulonephritis:
IgG antibodies against the Goodpasture antigen of the basement membrane cause an inflammation reaction that is mediated by antibodies. The Goodpasture antigen is also found in the alveolar basement membrane.
Immune complexes are formed due to an infection or an autoimmune disease attach to the capillary walls.
Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) interact with components of the neutrophil granules and produce glomerular damage.
All immune mechanisms start a pro-inflammatory immune cascade with a subsequent inflammatory reaction. This inflammatory reaction eventually leads to damage of the glomerular capillary wall. This causes bleeding into the Bowman capsule and thus into the primary urine. The renal corpuscle then becomes necrotic and loses functionality. The more glomeruli that are affected, the more overall kidney function is lost with a decreasing glomerular filtration rate.
Note: Urinary sediment is typically notable for mild, unselective proteinuria, microhematuria with dysmorphic RBCs (acanthocytes), and RBC casts. This constellation is referred to as nephritic sediment!
Urinalysis and kidney biopsy:
Hematuria: In a urinalysis, the urinary sediment is examined, and a distinction is made between hematuria, hemoglobinuria, and myoglobinuria. A count of > 5 RBCs/μL of urine without any red coloration of the urine is considered microhematuria. When there is any red color in the urine, it is considered macrohematuria. RBCs may look dysmorphic in the sediment. Abnormal shaping is formed when the cells travel through the tubule system and are exposed to osmotic pressures. An example is acanthocytes – RBCs that resemble a 'Mickey Mouse' face.
Proteinuria: Typically, only small amounts of protein are in excreted urine. A protein excretion of > 150 mg/d is considered proteinuria. The amount of pathological protein excretion can be an indicator of what is causing the disease.
Amount of Protein Type of Protein Possible Cause
20–200 mg/L Albumin Microalbuminuria as a sign of early nephropathy; e.g., as part of hypertensive or diabetic disease
≤ 1.5 g/day Small-molecule proteins:
Large-molecule proteins: Tubulopathy
Glomerulopathy
1.5 g/d–3.0 g/day Small- and large-molecule proteins Chronic glomerulonephritis, a transplanted kidney
> 3.0 g/day Large-molecule proteins Nephrotic syndrome
Based on: Herold. G und Mitarbeiter, Innere Medizin, 2014
Important note for the clinical practice: The dipstick only detects macroalbuminuria of > 200 mg/L. For more specific issues (e.g., when suspecting Bence-Jones proteins or microalbuminuria), more specific quick tests or electrophoretic analyses are required.
Glucosuria: An adult person excretes not more than 60 mg of glucose per day. Pathologically increased glucose content in the urine occurs when the glucose threshold (about 160–180 mg/dL) is exceeded. This might occur due to diabetes mellitus. Glucosuria with normal blood glucose can occur during pregnancy or in tubular kidney disease.
Casts: Casts are cylindrical structures that are formed in the tubules and thus point to their renal origin. Hyaline casts are the most common type of casts and can be seen in healthy individuals as well as in individuals with glomerular disease. This makes them a rather nonspecific indicator. The presence of RBC casts is strongly indicative of glomerulonephritis. WBC casts are indicative of (chronic) pyelonephritis.
Immunology: Testing for various antibodies is helpful for the etiological classification of glomerulonephritis. The specific antibodies will be mentioned below for each type of glomerulonephritis. For economic reasons, not all of the antibodies should be determined right away when glomerulonephritis is suspected.
Imaging: Color duplex sonography is a non-invasive technique and provides many insights for renal assessment. Further structural information can be gathered from CT scans and MRIs. Often, these procedures are combined with angiographic methods.
Histology: The definitive typing of glomerulonephritis can only be achieved with a kidney biopsy, especially when immediate findings are needed to administer correct treatment due to the rapid progression of the disease. Here, a kidney biopsy will often be a life-saving method.
The various types of glomerulonephritis can usually be divided into proliferative or non-proliferative types. The proliferative types of glomerular disease lead to a nephritic syndrome, while the non-proliferative types of glomerular disease lead to a nephrotic syndrome:
Proliferative: acute, post-infectious glomerulonephritis, IgA nephropathy or Berger's disease, granulomatosis with polyangiitis or Wegener's disease, microscopic polyangiitis, Churg-Strauss syndrome, Goodpasture syndrome or anti-GBM disease, Alport syndrome, thin basement membrane disease, rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (RPGN), and lupus nephritis.
Non-proliferative: Minimal change disease, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, membranous nephropathy, membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (can present with both nephrotic and nephritic syndromes), diabetic nephropathy, AL amyloidosis, light-chain deposition disease, and lupus nephritis.
The most important types of glomerulonephritis are explained below.
IgA nephropathy is the most common primary glomerulonephritis worldwide. Its etiology is usually idiopathic, but it is also associated with diseases such as celiac disease, Crohn disease, Henoch-Schönlein purpura, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, or IgA gammopathies. IgA nephropathy can also be preceded by a non-specific infection.
Pathophysiology and Clinical Manifestation
The IgA immune complexes accumulate in the mesangium of the glomeruli and provoke an inflammatory response. Other accumulation patterns may also develop which can result in rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (RPGN)(subendothelial deposits) or nephrotic syndrome (subepithelial deposits). Typically, the affected patients have micro- (or macro-) hematuria. Sometimes, they present with hypertension, and, in rare cases, with side pain. RPGN and nephrotic syndrome exhibit different clinical manifestations (see below).
Diagnosis is made with a kidney biopsy to identify IgA complexes.
Treatment and Prognosis
Generally, IgA nephropathy has a good prognosis with regular spontaneous remissions. Nevertheless, the risk of a progressive loss of kidney function with imminent end-stage renal failure increases with the extent of glomerular damage. Treatment approaches are based on symptom manifestation and proteinuria:
Proteinuria < 1 g/day and normal creatinine: no treatment necessary. Possible hypertension should be treated with ACE inhibitors.
Proteinuria > 1 g/day: here, treatment with ACE inhibitors is imperative.
Proteinuria > 1 g/day and increasing renal insufficiency: stopping the immunological processes are attempted by administering glucocorticoids or possibly azathioprine/cyclophosphamide in order to prevent irreversible damages.
Hereditary Glomerulonephritis
There are various glomerulonephritic conditions with a familial predisposition, which are notable for microhematuria. With ongoing persistence, proteinuria develops and eventually presents with increasing renal insufficiency.
Benign hematuria: Thin basement membrane disease
Alport syndrome: Hereditary nephritis
Children in countries with poorly equipped health systems are particularly affected by acute post-infectious glomerulonephritis. In developed countries, this disease has become rare.
Etiology and Pathophysiology
This disease is immune complex-mediated nephritis that occurs after infection (usually group A beta-hemolytic streptococci). Endocapillary proliferative glomerulonephritis develops due to the production of antibodies against the glomerular structures.
Clinical Manifestation and Diagnosis
The presence of a possible streptococcus infection has to be determined (pharyngitis, erysipelas, tonsillitis, impetigo, etc.). After these symptoms have subsided, 50% of patients report ill health again. This might be non-specific (flu-like symptoms) or characterized by hematuria, hypertension, and edema.
The urinary sediment has to be examined. ASO titer and anti-DNAse-B titer indicate a previous streptococcal infection. The complement consumption of the immune complexes leads to a reduction of C3 complement. For the assessment of renal function, urea and creatinine should be checked regularly during the course of the disease.
Besides physical rest and a low-salt and low-protein diet, antibiotic aftercare of the infection with 10 days of penicillin is necessary. Hypertension or edema should be treated symptomatically.
Children usually make a complete recovery. Adults frequently experience a persisting impairment of kidney function. Often, some urine anomalies such as proteinuria or hematuria persist. Long-term follow-up should be conducted in order to identify any possible late renal damages.
RPGN is rare. It causes a marked decrease in renal function with imminent renal failure and is highly lethal.
Etiologic Types
Presenting in about 10% of cases, type 1 is the rarest variant: here, antibodies against the Goodpasture antigen of the basement membrane are formed. Since this antigen is also a part of the alveolar basement membrane, severe damage to the kidney and lungs with hemoptysis occurs. This disease frequently affects young males.
Type 2 makes up about 40% of cases. Here, immune complexes accumulate on the basement membrane. These immune complexes may be post-infectious or caused by an antibody-producing underlying disease (e.g., SLE, Henoch-Schönlein purpura).
With about 50% of cases, type 3 is the most common type, and ANCA-associated vasculitides are the cause. Histologically, there are no accumulations. The antibodies are directed against enzymes (e.g., myeloperoxidase for pANCA or antiprotease 3 for cANCA). This antibody production is precipitated, for instance, by granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener's disease) or by microscopic polyangiitis. Another possible cause is Churg-Strauss disease.
Diseased individuals are exhausted and pale. Often, hypertension can occur. Strong proteinuria with corresponding symptoms (see below) can develop. In most cases, however, nephritic sediment can be found. Pulmonary symptoms have to be taken into account. A kidney biopsy should be performed if this disease is suspected. Histologically, there is an extracapillary, proliferative inflammatory reaction with Demilune formation of the glomeruli.
Image: Fine tissue slice of RPGN. By KGH, License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Treatment is based on the underlying cause and severity of the disease. Standard treatments include glucocorticoids in high dosages (1 g/day IV) and cyclophosphamide. For Goodpasture syndrome, plasmapheresis can additionally be used over the course of 2–3 weeks in order to eliminate the antibodies. After the treatment with glucocorticoids and cyclophosphamide has been tapered off, aftercare consists of the administration of azathioprine for 6–12 months. Type 2 and type 3 RPGN have to be treated longer and with more regularity, because they tend to recur.
If treatment is provided early and correctly, renal function can be improved and recovered.
Nephrotic syndrome is defined by:
Severe proteinuria of > 3 g/day
Hypoproteinemia
Hypoalbuminemia-related edema
Hyperlipoproteinemia (especially cholesterol and triglycerides)
Nephrotic syndrome develops due to a disturbed glomerular filtration barrier which makes the glomerulus abnormally permeable. The filter no longer acts selectively, yet the glomerular perfusion in itself remains functional. This results in a large amount of large-molecule proteins in urine.
Note: Severe proteinuria develops with initially normal GFR and creatinine parameters and without hematuria. These urinary findings are described as nephrotic sediment.
These forms are the most common:
Minimal change disease: Minimal lesions of the glomerulus, which can only be made visible under an electron microscope, are the most common cause of nephrotic syndrome in children (> 90% of cases). This disease is idiopathic. It causes diffuse damage to the podocytes.
Membranous glomerulonephritis: This is the most common cause of nephrotic syndrome in adults and is due to the formation of immune and complement complexes. These complexes either have an idiopathic origin or develop in relation to infections (hepatitis B virus, HIV, syphilis, malaria), autoimmune diseases, or pharmaceuticals. Histology shows deposits of complexes on the glomerular basement membrane.
Note: Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis or focal segmental glomerulonephritis can also cause nephrotic syndrome. Other non-infectious, systemic diseases can also cause nephrotic syndrome. One very frequent disease that should be kept in mind is diabetes mellitus. Other diseases include amyloidosis or a plasmacytoma.
Clinical Manifestations
Image: Plasmodium falciparum nephrosis edema. By Patho, License: Public Domain
In cases of a mild dysfunction, the liver can usually compensate for any protein loss. If the filtration dysfunction becomes too severe, certain protein deficiencies will become noticeable, which directly relate to clinical symptoms and are therefore easy to remember:
Immunoglobulin loss leads to increased susceptibility to infections.
Antithrombin-III loss results in increased susceptibility to thrombosis (e.g., pulmonary embolism, renal vein thrombosis, or cerebral vein thrombosis).
Albumin loss (+IgG and ATIII loss) causes the colloid osmotic pressure to decrease and edema develops. For differential diagnosis, it is helpful to remember that this edema is caused by a protein deficiency, not gravity (e.g., cardiogenic edema), so it can be found anywhere on the body (anasarca).
In an advanced stage, renal insufficiency can occur.
Serum electrophoresis reveals a characteristic loss of albumin and gamma fraction with a relative increase of the alpha-2 and beta fraction. The gold standard for diagnosis is a kidney biopsy.
Treatment includes glucocorticoids and immunosuppressives (cyclosporine, cyclophosphamide). Physical rest and a low-protein and low-salt diet are recommended. Increased risk for thrombophilia has to be taken into account and be counteracted with thrombosis prophylaxis. Thromboembolic complications must be managed with effective anticoagulation (antithrombin-III deficiency does not respond to heparin).
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"Children of the Geese." Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry, July 2016. 32 lines.
"The Lies You Learned." Liminality, March 2016. 118 lines.
Reprinted in The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 11: Trials by Whiteness, edited by Jaymee Goh, June 2017 from Aqueduct Press.
"Consistencies." inkscrawl, December 2015. 8 lines.
"Particularities." inkscrawl, December 2015. 10 lines.
Beauty and the Beast Girl. Adaptation of 『ぼっち怪物と盲目少』 by Neji. Seven Seas Entertainment, February 2019. 162-page graphic novel.
"The Love Letters." Translation of 《情书》 by Peng Simeng (彭思萌). Clarkesworld 146, November 2018. 1,900 words.
"Möbius Continuum." Translation of 《莫比乌斯时空》 by Gu Shi (顾适). Clarkesworld 132, September 2017. 4,400 words.
"Speechless Love." Translation of 《不会说话的爱情》 by Yilun Fan (范轶伦). Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation, edited by Phoebe Wagner & Brontë Christopher Wieland, August 2017 from Upper Rubber Boot Books. 2,400 words.
Excerpt reprinted in International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme: English A: Language and Literature Course Companion (2e) by Brian Chanen and Rob Allison, January 2019 from Oxford University Press.
"The Person Who Saw Cetus." Translation of 《看见鲸鱼座的人》 by Tang Fei (糖匪). Clarkesworld 128, May 2017. 5,500 words.
"Chimera." Translation with Ken Liu of 《嵌合体》 by Gu Shi (顾适). Clarkesworld 114, March 2016. 17,900 words.
Hugo Award long list, 2017.
Reprinted in The Long List Anthology, Volume 3: More Stories from the Hugo Award Nomination List, edited by David Steffen, November 2017 from Diabolical Plots.
"Fat, And." The (Other) F Word, edited by Angie Manfredi, forthcoming fall 2019 from Abrams/Amulet Books. 2,000 words.
Interview: S. Qiouyi Lu on "At Your Dream's Edge." F&SF blog, April 2019. 750 words.
"Poetry Introduction." Uncanny: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! September/October 2018. 900 words.
"In the Darkly Humorous All My Colors, a Jerk Rewrites a Novel Only He Can Remember." Review of All My Colors by David Quantick, April 2019 from Titan Books. Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog, April 2019. 600 words.
"The Poppy War Is a Dark Fantasy Steeped in Powerful, Painful Historical Fact." Review of The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang, May 2018 from Harper Voyager. Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog, May 2018. 1,000 words.
"Must-Watch TV: Into the Badlands." Review of Into the Badlands season 1. People of Color Take Over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, June 2017. 1,100 words.
"An Outcast Romance Facing the Apocalypse." Review of All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders, January 2016 from Tor Books. The Cascadia Subduction Zone 6(2), April 2016. 900 words.
"Southeast Asian Retrofuturism." Review of The SEA Is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia, edited by Jaymee Goh & Joyce Chng, November 2015 from Rosarium Press. The Cascadia Subduction Zone 6(1), January 2016. 1,000 words.
"The Persistence of Memories." Review of Jennifer's Journal: The Life of a SubUrban Girl Vol. 1 by Jennifer Cruté, May 2015 from Rosarium Press. The Cascadia Subduction Zone 5(4), October 2015. 1,100 words.
"A Complex Filament of Light" by S. Qiouyi Lu. Cast of Wonders, June 2017. 27 minutes.
"Curiosity Fruit Machine" by S. Qiouyi Lu. GlitterShip, February 2017. 6 minutes.
"The Slow Ones" by JY Yang. GlitterShip, February 2017. 20 minutes.
"The Gold Silkworm" by Tony Pi. PodCastle, July 2016. 33 minutes.
Poison Kiss by Ana Mardoll. June 2016 from Acacia Moon Publishing. 8 hours 46 minutes.
"Just a Little Spice Will Do" by Andrew Wilmot. GlitterShip, May 2016. 32 minutes.
"Minghun: Unlikely Patron Saints, No. 5" by Amy Sisson. GlitterShip, October 2015. 17 minutes.
"Seventh Day of the Seventh Moon" by Ken Liu. GlitterShip, September 2015. 44 minutes.
Arsenika, issue 0–present. Fiction and poetry.
Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! Special issue published by Uncanny, 2018. Poetry.
"Deep Dive Into Neopronouns." Writing the Other. November 3–11, 2018.
Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship. Granted by The Carl Brandon Society, 2016.


I can't tell you much about the Steampunk community in Denmark. I am writing this in Copenhagen on my way to a wedding gig in Sweden. I had sort of forgotten that Copenhagen wasn't actually in Sweden, so am delighted to find myself in Denmark by accident*. I can tell you this though; the Danish Steampunks have to wrap up warm. It's cold enough to freeze your cogs off out here.
Absolutely brilliant. And as far as I'm concerned – his summation of the American Steampunk scene is 100% spot on.
The link again . . .
Professor Elemental – Cup of Brown Joy . . .
No kidding. In fact the American Steampunk synopsis at last explains some things that had mystified me about our sudden departure from… another website where we all met.
That place is the gathering spot for all the too serious aspects of the scene.
And unfortunately, since the owners are that… "committed", lets say… to the stodgy reality of their fake world the more boisterous, ironic and just plain silly adherents tend to get shoved out in the cold once their predilection for fun becomes manifest.


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30/10/2013�� I mean, I'm pretending I had an emotional affair and told my boyfriend, who now is having trouble trusting me, understandably. and I think if I truly regretted it and wanted to make him feel better, I'd probably just allow him whatever access to my life he wanted for a little while while we rebuilt trust?... 30/10/2013�� I mean, I'm pretending I had an emotional affair and told my boyfriend, who now is having trouble trusting me, understandably. and I think if I truly regretted it and wanted to make him feel better, I'd probably just allow him whatever access to my life he wanted for a little while while we rebuilt trust?
26/10/2013�� I admit to being wayyyy to dependent on my boyfriend, but I didn�t relate to any of these. I make my own decisions, and we aren�t attached at the hip.... However, your example story sounds more like your boyfriend is a mean drunk than you are. Telling someone drunkenly of a surprise ahead of time doesn't really count as mean. It ruins the surprise, sure, but I fail to see how that is a "barb" to hurt him. I think his response was a lot meaner to be totally truthful, and I'd probably react like you did. Drunk or sober.
25/08/2015�� It takes away your freedom because then you can't have guys you're friends with or flirty with in your life (just because you're in a relationship doesn't mean you're dead inside).


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Saving the Southwest Museum
July 2, 2009 Marc Haefele	2 Comments
The Times' veteran Bob Poll had the story a day late. I was surprised, having watched the regular City Hall reporters walk away from the Tuesday event. Maybe they were knocking off early to prepare for the big Inaugural the following day. OK, it was their call.
It goes without saying that the meeting was quite important. What was at issue was a fairly technical matter of granting the Gene Autry Museum the right to double the size of and rebuild its Griffith Park exhibit hall. In fact, the outcome appeared to resolve a long- unresolvable city cultural affairs conflict dating back some 25 years. Which had to do with saving that wonderful 95-year-old Mount Washington resource known as the Southwest Museum. Founded by LA's great eccentric historian-pioneer Charles Lummis, by the early 1980s, the institution was hanging on for dear life. A trusted and beloved executive had been caught selling off artifacts. The collection, most of it stuffed into the landmark tower that juts over Arroyo Parkway, was succumbing to water and vermin damage. The attendance was down, the antique elevator wasn't working a lot of the time. If you weren't a school kid on a compulsory class trip, there was almost no chance you'd ever visit it.
And yet this museum, on its 12-acre landmark site, contains the greatest assortment of Native American art and artifacts in all of North America, maybe the world. Of course, that too was part of the problem… Nowadays, Native American culture and arts receive a broad appreciation. But just a generation ago, they were mostly of interest to native peoples and collectors. Then, the SW Museum received a suitor–the freshly minted Gene Autry Museum of the American West. Which had the fiscal resources of a major defense contractor along with, the Culture Vultures claimed, the aesthetic sensibilities of a daily cartoon.
From the beginning, the museum's resident neighbors smelled a rat. Gene Autry was a movie cowboy. Cowboys and Indians, right? Would we now be turning the native treasures over to the Native Americans' natural enemy? And what would happen to the landmark if the Autry moved the collections to its Griffith Park facility? What kind of durable cultural entity could replace the museum in its unique fortress? An accordion studio? Or would the lovely old tower become an abandoned, graffiti infested public horror?
All good points. But the fact was that the SWM was on the verge of failing. If it did so, the entire collection would be sold off, lost. In 2003, a deal was made. Autry promised to move part of the collections to its proposed newly expanded museum in the Park. It also proposed to somehow keep the landmark viable. For six years since, the neighbors, now mustered out in their new neighborhood councils, remained hotly opposed. In the meantime, the Autry fulfilled some local fears by closing the museum, except for its gift shop, for renovations.
But the renovations (you may recall seeing the tower swathed in its protective covering for a few months) took place. The collections were preserved and restored. And the Autry folks did an end run around local opponents by getting the state's Native America community very solidly behind their efforts. You suspected that, under the Autry's overslick "issues management" of the crisis, it might just be doing the right thing.
One never knows. But I do know, having covered this issue since 1984, that the SWM was never close to big enough to display all its collections. There are enough pieces in storage (90 percent of the entire collection) to fill two museums, at least. And that is now what is going to happen. The original museum has some accessibility advantages. ( One of which is its Gold Line light rail station. Even New York's museums haven' t got their own subway stops). And it's a major part of the city landscape.
But assuring that the Autry will do what it's said it will do is the tricky part. And this is where the LA City Council came in. Local, state and national government have been getting such a bad rap lately — particularly in Sacramento — that it's almost embarrassing to have to note that sometimes–like last Tuesday– it can do the right thing..
Jose Huizar of the 14th District proposed an amendment that made the granting of the museum expansion contingent on an enforceable vow to keep the old museum up and running. It sounded like a perfect answer to the problem, even if I do wonder just how such an amendment would be enforced–would it require the Autry to tear down its extension if it closed the old museum? But until I see what the lawyers come back with, I'll give the city the benefit of the doubt. While the Legislature and the Governor continued to battle mindlessly on our budget, with little fanfare, our own stumbling leaders may have actually solved a decades-old problem for the city.
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Lucinda Michele says:
Kudos to Huizar and the City Council–let's hope this works. I want to see the SWM–I've never been.
"great eccentric historian-pioneer Charles Lummis"
And white supremacist. Don't forget white supremacist. Just as most of Los Angeles' cultural elite were in the late 19th/early 20th centuries.


GLENDALE—On the weekend of September 14-16, over 50 Armenian Youth Federation delegates representing fourteen chapters from across the western United States convened at AYF Camp Big Pines for the organization's annual three day conference in order to set the goals and direction for the upcoming fiscal year.
During the course of the convention, delegates evaluated and expanded the organization's ongoing programs and initiatives, such as the AYF Youth Corps program, Haytoug Magazine and the With Our Soldiers Campaign, a year-long effort to raise money to assist the medical needs of injured veterans of the Artsakh war. Delegates also assessed and engaged in critical discussions about the state of the AYF, the importance of enhancing community activism and developed innovative recommendations about strengthening the organization's presence in the homeland.
Additionally, the Convention set aside special agenda items to discuss the developments and solutions surrounding the crisis of Armenians in Syria, as well as the fast-approaching 100th commemoratory year of the Armenian Genocide. The meeting came to the agreement that the AYF will put immediate priority on doing everything in its power to partner with its sister organizations in raising monetary efforts and public awareness about the detrimental situation facing the Syrian Armenian community today.
Joining the delegates were invited guests and representatives from the AYF Juniors Central Council, the AYF Camp Management Board, the ARF Youth Board and select ARF Executive members. The AYF Executive Director Serouj Aprahamian, and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Western Region Central Committee representative Shant Baboujian also attended the meeting.
The Convention concluded with the election of the organization's new Central Executive. This year's body will consist of seven members from across California, whose function is to govern the administrative and organizational aspects of the AYF.
The regional administrative body will consist of the following elected members; Chairperson Avo Shanlian, Secretary Verginie Touloumian, Treasurer Tamar Sadorian, and Advisors Aleena Sivazlian, Carina Khanjian, Levon Abrahamian and Raffi Senekeremian.
This seven-person team looks forward to setting in motion the course for the 2012-2013 fiscal year outlined by the Convention and effectively combat the critical issues faces the community and the homeland.
Founded in 1933, the Armenian Youth Federation is the largest and most influential Armenian American youth organization in the United States, working to advance the social, political, educational and cultural awareness of Armenian-American youth.
How can I get involved, seems to be such a magnificent organization which takes on a lot of work and is the fore front of all positive change inside Armenia and outside amongst the diaspora.
Visit http://www.AYFWest.org or call the office at 818.507.1933 to get information about the AYF chapter closest to you..bring your friends too!


Drake Bell could be facing jail time.
The former Nickelodeon star was officially charged with driving under the influence of alcohol on Wednesday after his Dec. 22 arrest in Glendale, California. It's allegedly his second DUI offense within the last 10 years, after Bell was previously convicted of a DUI in 2009 in San Diego, California.
According to a court doc obtained by ET, Bell refused to take a chemical test at the time of his most recent arrest and therefore could be subject to additional punishment. The actor is set to be arraigned on March 21 and could face up to a year in county jail if convicted. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles District Attorney's office tells ET that, if convicted, a second DUI would carry a mandatory minimum sentence of 96 hours in county jail.
At the time of Bell's arrest, Glendale police said they pulled him over around 2 a.m. after seeing his car swerving and speeding after abruptly stopping at a red light. An officer also claimed to smell alcohol coming from the vehicle.
Bell's arrest came just after ETonline broke the news that he would be guest-starring on Fox's Grandfathered in an on-screen reunion with his former Drake & Josh co-star, Josh Peck.


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Geraldo To Fox And Friends: 'You Want Your Kid To Live In A Gas Mask?'
Guest Gerald Rivera battles with Fox and Friends co-hosts over Trump pulling out of the Paris Accord on Climate change.
By John Amato — June 2, 2017
Geraldo Rivera, argued with the three climate change denier co-hosts of Fox and Friends, asking them if they want their kids "to live in a gas mask" or "swim when I go to the deli."
As you'd expect, Fox and Friends was all in on Trump's decision to ditch the Paris agreement. because, "Amerika First, Beatches!
Geraldo, who actually loves Mike Pence and Donald Trump, didn't understand what America and the so-called president gain from yesterday's action, especially since almost the entire world has signed on and "dirty coal" is not what it once was.
When Geraldo asked what this deal is for, co-host Pete Hegseth said, "American sovereignty."
Geraldo, "At what cost, Pete?'
Pete, "Our country!"
Geraldo, "You want your kid to live in a gas mask?"
Pete replied, "I don't want an international bureaucrat in Brussels telling me what regulations I have in Pennsylvania."
Geraldo replied, "I don't want to have to swim when I go to the deli. I want the world to be as, at least as clean as it is now for my children..."
An agreement to curb life-threatening emissions for the entire planet somehow destroys U.S. sovereignty. Have you felt less sovereign lately?
This agreement was negotiated so it's not Brussels telling America how to live, Pete. The agreement is non-binding and furthermore, the US gets to set its own standards for emissions.
Oye...
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