Home Technology Data What is Psychographics? How it influenced the US elections?
The Cambridge Analytica data breach shook the sentiments of millions of Americans. Raw data of about 50 million Facebook users was processed to be used in the Trump campaign. So how was data analytics used as a weapon in this outrageous scam? Let me explain you in brief.
The science of psychographic profiling was the major tool that was used to bring out actionable insights. Basically, profiling is a means of measuring an individual's personality in a particular situation. It is not a measure of intelligence or ability – but of behavior. Apart from segmenting voters into groups based on gender, age, income, education, family size, etc. which is called demographics categorization, psychographics measured voters' attitudes, interests, inclinations. This was then used to personalize the campaign by targeting people specifically based on their personality traits and lifestyle variables.
Cambridge Analytica with the assistance of two academics from the University of Cambridge made this possible. Aleksandr Kogan, the first, created an app called 'thisisyourdigitallife' that offered Facebook users personality predictions, in exchange for accessing their personal data on the Facebook. Only about 2.7 million downloaded this app but Kogan received personal data of their friends as well, giving rise to a plethora of information of around 50 million users by considering average 200 friends of each test taker. The results of those personality surveys were then matched to the users' actual likes on Facebook — and the likes of their friends — to build a model predicting personalities based on digital behavior. Kogan's company eventually gave Cambridge Analytica a list of millions of people in the U.S., with their names, locations, genders, ages and predicted test scores.
Kogan improved upon Kosinki's ideas and sealed a deal with Cambridge Analytica. The British Consulting firm then worked meticulously to develop a variety of advertisements on different political themes such as immigration, the economy, and gun rights, all tailored to different personality profiles. Each user was shown individually tailored ads designed to stimulate the desired response. The response expected was whether to vote or not to vote a candidate.
Profiling a person has been around forever. Making a judgment based on how a person looks, his/her interests, interaction is human psychology. Even psychographics is no magic, it is computational mathematics. Given enough data and applying powerful algorithms, for the predictable aspects of your personality, psychographics will probably get it right most of the time but not all the time. The question arises is of the usage; the legality and morality associated with applications of these insights, tarnishing which led to the fallout of Cambridge Analytica.
It is, however, the future of psychographics that has a legitimate potential. It has the power to track individuals with symptoms of depression, fighting racial intolerance, resolving religious conflicts, etc. to make Earth a better place to live.
Rucha is a gregarious person pursuing engineering in Information Technology. She has worked as an editor for college magazines and a freelance technology journalist. She loves to explore technology and elucidate it to her readers from her writing. She believes that if science & technology is made available in lucid manner, it can be perceived as an art by all.
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Room6 has closed the doors on Alexandra Palace for this year, our exhibition 'Missing Elements' was well received …. hope you got to see it , but , if not, then it will be shown at at least two more venues.. 8-11 November sees us at the knit and stitch show in Dublin, and then in Harrogate Knit and Stitch 22-26 November.
Here we are again, a whole year has flown past and Room6 are opening the Granary Studio for the 2018 Hampshire Open Studios. We will be exhibiting with our new exhibition 'Missing Elements' at the Knit and Stitch shows this Autumn. There is a taster wall at the open studios, where each of us has put one piece of work from that exhibition, so you can see the way we are thinking.
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Before getting into the courses, let us have a small peek into the industries/services that have adopted/adopting cloud computing and what CEOs are saying about cloud computing?
Amazon Web Services adopted cloud computing and is long dominated in the field. It announced this Wednesday about adoption to Kubernetes, as a sign of increased competition cloud computing businesses.
Salesforce, one of the largest cloud computing companies says that Indian enterprises are adopting cloud for their core applications at a faster rate.
Sunil Jose, Senior vice-president in-charge of Indian operations says that cloud has become the mainstream. Earlier it was a discussion in the boardrooms and was limited to experiments.
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THE PEDO-FILE: 'The Jeffrey Epstein Cover Up', Pedophilia, Lies, & Ghislaine Maxwell
SM / December 2, 2021
Source – scheerpost.com
-"…Epstein had 11 contact numbers for Donald Trump in his Black Book, and Rodriguez circled Trump's name. Though Bill Clinton's name isn't circled in the Black Book, Epstein had 21 contact numbers for him. Giuffre didn't name either Trump or Clinton as a perpetrator, but Maxwell told a 60 Minutes producer that Epstein had "had tapes of Trump and Clinton."
SM:…The same cover-up that say's CIA & other intelligence agencies are not involved in the drug trade – are actively covering up the fact that CIA & other intelligence agencies run child trafficking networks to entrap &/or blackmail strategic targets…the blackest of the black arts….."
The Jeffrey Epstein Cover Up: Pedophilia, Lies, and Ghislaine Maxwell
Numerous procurers and perpetrators integral to Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell's crimes against children have not been indicted, and current officials are finding new ways to obfuscate the sordid truth.
July 30, 2008 photo of Jeffrey Epstein in court in West Palm Beach. He would plead guilty to a single charge of soliciting prostitution. (AP Photo/Palm Beach Post, Uma Sanghvi)
By Nick Bryant / Original to ScheerPost
This piece originally appeared on ScheerPost on July 18, 2021.
"The worst form of injustice is pretended justice," Plato wrote over two millennia ago. The preceding two decades have witnessed Lady Justice repeatedly eschewing her blindfold to dispense pretend justice to the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell and also to their cohorts. Numerous procurers and perpetrators who were integral to Epstein and Maxwell's crimes against children over the course of 25 years have not been indicted, and the charges against Maxwell, which include only one count of child trafficking, are woefully inadequate and a further miscarriage of justice against her victims.
More recently, a report released by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) on May 10, 2021 superimposed an additional miscarriage of justice on the myriad of injustices that have already been inflicted on the victims of Epstein, et al. The FDLE report concluded that a Florida grand jury that didn't indict Epstein on a single count of child abuse was not guilty of malfeasance.
Although Epstein's crimes against children had been reported to the FBI in 1996, the first law enforcement agency to earnestly investigate Epstein was the Palm Beach Police Department (PBPD), starting in 2005. The PBPD compiled the statements of five minors who had been molested by Epstein. The PBPD also rounded up the statements of several witnesses who corroborated the minors' claims, and the department was aware of 17 additional victims who had allegedly been molested by Epstein. The PBPD drew up an arrest warrant charging Epstein with one count of lewd and lascivious molestation and four counts of unwanted sexual activity with a minor. The PBPD also sought to charge two of Epstein's henchwomen and procurers of underage girls: Sarah Kellen as a principal to Epstein's offenses and Haley Robson with one count of lewd and lascivious conduct. But Palm Beach state attorney Barry Krischer swooped in and snatched the Epstein case from the PBPD. He opted to impanel a grand jury to investigate the child abuse allegations. (Grand juries in Florida are extremely rare unless the crime involves a capital offense.)
Though the phrase "grand jury" has authoritative connotations — like the gods of jurisprudence have issued a decree — the grand jury process has the potential to be seriously flawed. A grand jury makes the initial decision to indict (formally accuse) a criminal defendant to stand trial. But unlike a standard trial, a grand jury proceeding is cloaked in secrecy: grand juries aren't open to the public, and the identity of the witnesses who testify and the content of their testimony are never disclosed. The special prosecutor of a grand jury calls the witnesses, questions the witnesses, and selects the evidence that is shown to the grand jurors, and grand jurors are normal, everyday citizens who have shown up for jury duty and been funneled to a grand jury.
Generally, only witnesses and evidence deemed relevant by special prosecutors are presented to grand jurors, so special prosecutors are in a unique position to manipulate grand jurors' judgments. Indeed, commenting about the influence a special prosecutor has over grand jurors in 1985, Sol Wachtler, a former chief appellate judge of New York state, famously quipped that a special prosecutor could persuade grand jurors to "indict a ham sandwich."
Though the PBPD had the statements of five Epstein victims and was aware of many others, Krischer recalls calling only one of Epstein's numerous victims to testify before the grand jury. Krischer had numerous victims who would've corroborated that victim, yet he opted not call them before the grand jury. In addition to Krishner, the grand jury was overseen by Assistant State Attorney Lanna Belohlavek, and it ultimately served the public a ham and swiss on rye, indicting Epstein on merely one count of soliciting (adult) prostitution, and Kellen and Robson were exonerated of their reported crimes. The prosecutors cited "conflicting" accounts by victims as a rationale for not indicting Epstein on a single count of child abuse. One the conflicting accounts was extremely disingenuous: the prosecutors asserted that one of the victims said that Epstein had deployed a purple vibrator when he abused her, but other victims had said that Epstein deployed a white vibrator during their abuse. Perhaps it never crossed the minds of Krischer and Belohlavek that Epstein used different vibrators when he molested his underage victims?
According to Joe Recarey, the lead PBPD detective on the Epstein case, Belohlavek wanted the charges against Epstein to "go away." He said that she believed that the minors abused by Epstein weren't victims, because they had accepted money from Epstein, even though the Florida statutes explicitly state that it is illegal for an adult to have sex with a minor who is under 18 years old.
"I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone."
— Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida
The PBPD was outraged by the pretend justice orchestrated by Krischer and Belohlavek. The chief of the PBPD, Michael Reiter, characterized the grand jury proceedings as "the worst failure of the criminal justice system" in modern times, and he brought the evidence that was accumulated by PBPD to the feds. But the justice Reiter sought from federal law enforcement quickly became pretend justice. An August 19, 2019 Daily Beast article reported that the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Alexander Acosta, who was responsible for overseeing Epstein's adjudication, disclosed that he had been told to back down from the Epstein case: "I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone," Acosta said.
Acosta and the Justice Department engineered a "sweetheart" deal for Epstein in 2008. After the Justice Department took over the case, Epstein was charged with one count of solicitation of prostitution and one count of solicitation of prostitution with a minor, even though the Justice Department had a list of 32 underage victims. He was sentenced to 18 months in the county jail, where he served 13 months. The assistant U.S. attorney prosecuting Epstein, Ann Marie Villafana, also colluded with an Epstein attorney to ensure that Epstein not only received this deal but a federal non-prosecution agreement that granted immunity to all of his co-conspirators, including procurers and perpetrators.
The Crime Victims' Rights Act mandates that the Justice Department notify Epstein's victims that his case was being adjudicated, but the Justice Department contravened that law: Epstein's victims were notified after his sentence and non-prosecution agreement had been finalized, so they were denied a dialogue with Epstein's prosecutors and/or the opportunity to confront Epstein. In a further glaring injustice, the Justice Department attempted to ensure that the Epstein plea deal would remain forever secret by sealing it.
Unfortunately, the Justice Department now appears to be in the midst of the final Epstein cover up by not indicting his network of procurers and perpetrators. In an August 29, 2019 article, The New York Times names six "alleged" procurers in Epstein's pedophile network — Ghislaine Maxwell, Sarah Kellen, Leslie Groff, Adriana Ross, Nadia Marcinkova, and Haley Robson. The Times notes that Maxwell "has been accused in several well publicized lawsuits regarding overseeing efforts to procure girls and young women…" The newspaper then quotes "two people with knowledge of the investigation": "None of Mr. Epstein's associates have been charged or named as co-conspirators in Manhattan. But federal authorities are eyeing possible charges that include sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy."
The New York Times provided the Justice Department with six individuals who were purportedly complicit in Epstein's pedophilic crimes. But in the subsequent months, none of Epstein's "alleged" procurers were indicted. Several of Epstein's victims — including Maria Farmer, Annie Farmer, Virginia Guiffre, Jane Doe, Jane Doe 1000, Priscilla Doe, Jennifer Araoz, and Sarah Ransome — have accused 57-year-old British socialite Maxwell of being a pimp or perpetrator. Johanna Sjoberg, a college student Maxwell reportedly recruited for Epstein's network, said Maxwell called the girls she recruited "slaves." According to a source cited in an August. 12, 2019 Vanity Fair article by Victoria Grigoriadis, Maxwell had contempt for the girls who became Epstein's victims: "When I asked what she thought of the underage girls, she looked at me and said, 'they're nothing, these girls. They are trash.'" In an August 9, 2019 Guardianarticle, Maxwell is portrayed as particularly vicious:
A butler "witnessed, firsthand, a 15-year-old Swedish girl crying and shaking because [Maxwell] was attempting to force her to have sex with Epstein and she refused," court documents filed by Giuffre's lawyers claim. The girl allegedly said that Maxwell "tried to force her to have sex with Epstein through threats and stealing her passport."
Shortly after Epstein's apparent suicide the following day, August 10, 2019, U.S. Attorney General William Barr pledged that Epstein's child trafficking co-conspirators "should not rest easy." The Justice Department's investigation ostensibly proceeded through September, October, and November without a peep about Maxwell; then, finally, "two law enforcement sources" told Reuters that the FBI was investigating Maxwell at the end of December. Reuters reported that the "probe remains at an early stage."
Though the Justice Department and FBI had law enforcement reports, reams of media reportage, and civil lawsuit documentation linking Maxwell to Epstein's child trafficking enterprise, it seemed odd that the probe into Maxwell was at an early stage four-and-a-half months after Epstein's death, considering the severity of her purported crimes. On Aug. 15, 2019, a week after Epstein's death, an anonymous source sent The New York Post a picture of Maxwell partaking of a burger, fries, and shake at an In-N-Out Burger in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles County. However, a Daily Mail August 19, 2019 article reported that she was holed up in a Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts mansion. A third account, published by Sky News on October 15, 2019, had her relaxing at a spa for the well-heeled in Santa Catarina, Brazil. On January 1, 2020, The New York Post's "Page Six" proclaimed Maxwell is a spy who has been ducking the FBI at Israeli "safe houses." In a February 28, 2020 article, Forbes published innuendo that she may have been barricaded in a Colorado "compound."
In this Aug. 27, 2019, photo, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, center, who says she was trafficked by sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, holds a news conference outside a Manhattan court where sexual assault claimants invited by a judge addressed a hearing following Epstein's jailhouse death in New York. Prince Andrew suffered fresh scrutiny Monday night, Dec. 2, when the woman who says she was a trafficking victim made to have sex with him when she was 17 asked the British public to support her quest for justice. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
By the end of January 2020, three additional women named Maxwell as a co-defendant in lawsuits filed against Epstein's estate. Despite her shell-game whereabouts, Maxwell engaged a phalanx of high-priced attorneys. They had been mum on her location, and attorneys representing Maxwell's accusers had, as a last resort, sent emails with an attached summons to her only known email address. But a response from Maxwell wasn't forthcoming. In Feb 2020, a federal judge even took the unorthodox tack of allowing Maxwell to be served with a lawsuit via an email through her attorneys, to no avail.
On July 2, 2020, the feds finally arrested Maxwell in New Hampshire. She was ultimately indicted on six counts: conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, enticement of a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, conspiracy to transport minors with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and two counts of perjury. Although Maxwell was arrested, her indictments were a travesty of justice and an insult to her victims. Her indictments carried a collective maximum sentence of 35 years in prison. But victims' accounts report that Maxwell was a child trafficker, and she should have been indicted on multiple counts of child trafficking, each count carrying a 15-year to life sentence. At long last, in March of this year, Maxwell was also charged with child trafficking. But Epstein and Maxwell's alleged cohorts, including Sarah Kellen, Leslie Groff, Adriana Ross, Nadia Marcinkova, Haley Robson, etc., haven't been indicted.
Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre has publicly denounced Maxwell as an Epstein perp and a pimp, and Maxwell launched a defamation lawsuit at her. Giuffre countered with a defamation lawsuit against Maxwell, because Maxwell declared that Giuffre was a liar. When the evidence against Maxwell became overwhelming, The Miami Herald reports that Maxwell compensated Giuffre "millions" of dollars to settle the lawsuit.
Maxwell and her attorneys have also waged a war to ensure that the documentation in the Giuffre defamation lawsuit remains sealed. Giuffre's attorneys and The Miami Herald sought to unseal that documentation, but U.S. District Court Judge Robert Sweet quashed their efforts. Giuffre's attorneys and The Miami-Herald then appealed the judge's decision to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Judge Sweet's ruling was overturned. Sweet passed away as his decision wended through the appellate process, and he was replaced by Judge Loretta A. Preska.
As Judge Preska oversaw the case, the appellate court ruled that the "judicial" documents generated by the defamation suit could be released to the public. Judge Preska inferred that judicial documents would be integral to a judge making a formal decision on the defamation lawsuit, and she sanctioned the release of about 2,000 previously sealed documents. The trove of previously unsealed documents were incendiary.
In the defamation lawsuit, Giuffre accused the following men of being among her perpetrators: Alan Dershowitz, Prince Andrew, former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, billionaire Glenn Dubin, former senator George Mitchell, scientist Marvin Minsky, and modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Les Wexner. The rich and powerful men named by Giuffre issued public denials, and that appeared to be the extent of their fates vis-à-vis federal law enforcement. The media has excelled at exhuming salacious dirt on Epstein–like his relationship with Bill Gates–but it does not seem to be particularly interested in investigating Giuffre's latter round of accusations or ensuring that the procurers and perps in the Epstein case are brought to justice.
The men named by Giuffre as her perpetrators appear in Epstein's "Black Book," which is a Who's Who of the Davos elite. I acquired the Black Book in 2012 and eventually shepherded it onto the Internet in 2015. But the prime mover of the Black Book surfacing was Alfredo Rodriquez, a former Epstein house manager. He purloined a copy of Epstein's contacts, their addresses, and phone numbers before leaving Epstein's employ in 2005. The Black Book also contains the names of numerous victims.
In 2009, Rodriquez's grand plan was to hawk the Black Book to an attorney representing some of Epstein's victims in civil lawsuits—his fee was $50,000. The attorney in question reported Rodriquez's hijinks to the FBI, which snared Rodriquez and the Black Book in a sting. The FBI had previously interviewed Rodriquez, but he had said nary a word about the Black Book, so he was charged with federal obstruction of justice. Rodriguez received an 18-month sentence for that offense, the same sentence received by his former employer. Rodriguez, however, had to serve his sentence in a federal prison instead of a county jail.
The assistant US attorney prosecuting Rodriguez was Ann Marie Villafana, and she did not veer from Justice Department's pattern of disingenuousness. Villafana told the judge in Rodriguez's case that his failure to yield the Black Book was a lost opportunity for the government's Epstein investigation. But she neglected to mention that the Justice Department didn't even need the Black Book to prosecute Epstein for pedophilic offenses, because it already possessed a list of 32 Epstein victims.
After the FBI busted Rodriguez attempting to peddle the black book, one of the arresting agents stated in an affidavit that the Black Book had the "names and contact information of material witnesses…" Rodriguez had also circled several names in the Black Book, but the FBI affidavit does not delineate if the circled names are material witnesses. The circled names, however, include that of Ghislaine Maxwell and that of Sarah Kellen, two of Epstein's purported pimps.
Rodriguez also circled the name of Alan Dershowitz, for whom Epstein had 11 phone numbers. In January of 2015, Giuffre named the former Harvard Law School professor and super-star lawyer as a perpetrator in an affidavit filed by her attorneys Brad Edwards and former federal judge Paul Cassell. In the affidavit, Giuffre stated that she had sex with Dershowitz "at least six times." Dershowitz then mounted a scorched earth counteroffensive against Giuffre and her two attorneys. He proclaimed Giuffre was a liar of the first magnitude. Dershowitz also declared that Giuffre's attorneys were deliberately lying and vowed that he wouldn't "stop until they're disbarred." Edwards and Cassell sued Dershowitz for defamation.
In this Wednesday, March 6, 2019 photo, Attorney Alan Dershowitz leaves Manhattan Federal Court in New York. A judge said a lawsuit can proceed to trial that accuses Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz of lying about his sexual history with a woman who claims she was a teenage victim of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking ring. But U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska also on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019 granted Dershowitz's request to disqualify the law firm representing the woman from the case. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
As Dershowitz was trading salvoes with Edwards and Cassell, he gave an interview to The American Lawyer in January of 2015, vindicating himself as a perpetrator: "I've been married to the same woman for 28 years," he said. "She goes with me everywhere. People know that I won't argue a case or give a speech unless my wife travels with me." But Epstein's flight logs show that Dershowitz accompanied Epstein on a December 1997 flight from Palm Beach to New Jersey's Teterboro Airport, and they were accompanied by one unidentified "female," as well as a "Hazel," a "Claire," and Maxwell. A 2005 flight log shows Epstein and Dershowitz traveling from Massachusetts to Montreal with a "Tatianna," et al. Dershowitz's wife is noticeably absent on those flights and others. In the Gawker article I wrote about the flight logs, Dershowitz's steal-trap mind became rather rusty:
As for who else was on those flights, Dershowitz couldn't recall. Hazel? "I don't know." Claire? "I have no idea." Tatianna? "I think that was a woman in her 20s who was Epstein's girlfriend, but I never flew with her." The unidentified female? "That could have been my mother."
Dershowitz was the architect of Epstein's 2008 plea bargain, and his strategy was to firebomb the credibility of Epstein's victims. The New Yorker notes his vicious comments about Giuffre: "…he called her a 'serial liar,' a 'prostitute,' and a 'bad mother,' who could not be believed 'against somebody with an unscathed reputation like me.' He insisted that Giuffre had 'made the whole thing up out of whole cloth,' in search of 'a big payday." When a TV reporter in Miami questioned his characterization of Giuffre, a sex-abuse victim, as a 'prostitute,' Dershowitz replied, 'She made her own decisions in life.'"
In 2018, a second woman, Sarah Ransome, who settled a civil lawsuit with Epstein and Maxwell, said that Epstein directed her to have sex with Dershowitz. Dershowitz skewered her as a "lunatic" and excoriated her ill-fated interactions with the New York Post. In 2016, Ransome told The Post that she had sex tapes of sundry powerbrokers, including Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, but she never produced them. She later divulged to The New Yorker that she had concocted the story on the tapes to focus public attention on Epstein's illicit activities and also to provide a deterrent against retribution by him. In an April 2019 affidavit, Maria Farmer stated that she was sexually assaulted by Epstein and Maxwell. She also stated that it was status quo for underage girls to be ushered to an upstairs bedroom to be interviewed for "modeling" positions and for Dershowitz to "head upstairs where the girls were present."
"She made her own decisions in life."
— Alan Dershowitz, attorney, after calling Virginia Giuffre a prostitute. Giuffre says she was recruited by Ghislane Maxwell to be Jeffrey Epstein's masseuse when she was just 15, while she was working as a locker room attendant at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club .
Dershowitz's zealous stand is ether that of a good man preserving his reputation or that of the vile professor who doth protest too much. The lawsuit in which Dershowitz vowed to have Edwards and Cassell disbarred ended in a stalemate. Edwards and Cassell issued a statement declaring that they continued to believe Giuffre but that naming Dershowitz "became a major distraction from the merits of the well-founded Crime Victims' Rights Act case." While Dershowitz's vow of banishing Edwards and Cassell from the legal profession came to naught, he did express his views on adults having sex with adolescents in a Los Angeles Times op-ed: He proposed that the age of consent should be 15 years old, regardless of the partner's age.
Epstein house manager Rodriguez did not circle Prince Andrew's name. But Epstein had 16 phone numbers for him, and Giuffre named him as a pedophilic perpetrator in her 2015 affidavit. The prince has categorically denied Giuffre's allegations and stated he has "no recollection" of ever meeting her. In her 2015 affidavit, Giuffre swore she had sex with Prince Andrew three times and that one instance involved an orgy.
Her affidavit included the now infamous photograph of a smiling Prince Andrew with his arm around her waist and a smiling Maxwell in the background. Prince Andrew claimed to have no recollection of the photograph. The BBC quoted the prince discussing the photograph. "Nobody can prove whether or not that photograph has been doctored but I don't recollect that photograph ever being taken," he said, adding that "hug[s] and public displays of affection are not something that I do."
Like Dershowitz, Prince Andrew has attempted to disavow his friendship with Epstein. He declared that he and Epstein were "not that close," yet The Guardian reports that "the pair attended several private dinners, parties and fundraisers together, including a birthday party the prince threw for Maxwell at Sandringham House, the private residence of the Queen…" Andrew also flew on Epstein's private plane at least four times.
Feb. 12, 2012: Alicia Arden arrives on the red carpet at the 54th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Arden, one of Jeffrey Epstein's first known accusers, says police didn't take her complaint seriously in 1997 and blew the chance to bring the financier to justice long before he was charged with sexually abusing dozens of teenage girls and women. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
In 2001, Andrew and Epstein were pictured on a yacht off the coast of Thailand surrounded by topless young women; Epstein reportedly footed the bill for the prince's Thai retreat. In 2006, Epstein made an appearance at Windsor Castle for the 18th birthday party of Andrew's daughter, Princess Beatrice. Epstein attended the party afterthe Palm Beach Police Department executed a search warrant on his Florida home and sought to charge him with four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor and lewd and lascivious molestation.
Rodriguez also circled the name of Jean-Luc Brunel in Epstein's Black Book, and Epstein had 16 phone numbers for him. Brunel was the third perpetrator Giuffre named in her 2015 affidavit. Epstein financed Brunel's Miami-based modeling agency MC2, and Brunel was a frequent flyer on the Lolita Express. Palm Beach County jail logs also show that he visited Epstein 67 times when Epstein was ostensibly confined to the county jail for 13 months. The Daily Beast reported that Brunel, like Epstein, was an ethical eunuch: He has been "accused by former models of drugging and date-raping them, and by former employees of recruiting foreign, underage girls to be pimped out of Epstein's New York apartments."
Rodriguez circled the names of Bill Richardson, former New Mexico governor and also President Bill Clinton's Secretary of Energy, and billionaire Glenn Dubin. Epstein had five phone numbers for Richardson and eight for Dubin. Giuffre named both Richardson and Dubin as perpetrators.
Richardson was a visitor to Zorro Ranch, Epstein's spread in the rolling hills outside of Santa Fe, where Epstein reportedly had underage girls delivered. Epstein also contributed $100,000 to Richard's gubernatorial campaigns. When Richardson was governor, Epstein did not have to register as a sex offender in New Mexico, which breached federal law.
Hedge fund billionaire Glen Dubin had a protracted friendship with Epstein, and his model-turned-medical-doctor wife, Eva Andersson (Dubin), had once dated Epstein. In fact, Rodriguez circled Andersson's name in the Black Book, too. After Epstein served his 13 months in the pokey, Glenn and Eva Dubin invited him to their home for Thanksgiving in 2009. Prior to that Thanksgiving, Andersson wrote an email to Epstein's probation officer, stating that she and her husband were "100% comfortable" with Epstein being around their children, including their then-teenage daughter.
Rodriguez also circled the names of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and L Brands potentate and billionaire Les Wexner. Barak and Wexner were also named by Giuffre as perpetrators. Barak frequently lodged at an Upper East Side apartment building owned by Epstein's brother, and he even visited Epstein's private Caribbean island—"Orgy Island." In 2004, Barak received about $2.4 million from a foundation where Epstein was a trustee and major donor. And in 2015, Epstein reportedly invested $1 million in a technology start-up that Barak was launching.
Epstein and Wexner have a rather enigmatic relationship. In 1985, The Evening Standard reports, the talented Mr. Epstein started to orbit Wexner. Epstein then became an increasingly ubiquitous force in Wexner's corporate concerns. By 1991, Wexner conferred Epstein with power of attorney over his vast empire, essentially giving Epstein the keys to his kingdom. Wexner's friends and colleagues were perplexed by their mysterious relationship.
After Epstein's arrest on July 6, Wexner wrote a letter to L Brand employees vowing that he was "NEVER aware of the illegal activity" charged in Epstein's latest indictment. In early 2006, however, Palm Beach police charged Epstein with multiple counts of child molestation, but it took Wexner 18 months after the fact to ostensibly sever his connection to Epstein.
Despite their purported 2007 rupture, one of Wexner's charitable foundations received a $56 million infusion from a trust linked to Epstein in 2011. Also in 2011, the deed to Epstein's Manhattan mansion was transferred from a Wexner-owned concern to an Epstein company based in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Wexner, too, claims that he discovered Epstein embezzled "vast sums" of money from him in 2007, but he never notified authorities.
Epstein had 11 contact numbers for Donald Trump in his Black Book, and Rodriguez circled Trump's name. Though Bill Clinton's name isn't circled in the Black Book, Epstein had 21 contact numbers for him. Giuffre didn't name either Trump or Clinton as a perpetrator, but Maxwell told a 60 Minutes producer that Epstein had "had tapes of Trump and Clinton."
Giuffre named former Democratic Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell and Marvin Minsky, a deceased Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and artificial intelligence pioneer, as her perpetrators. Although the names of Mitchell and Minsky are not circled in the Black Book, Epstein had 13 phone numbers for Mitchell and five numbers for Minsky.
In addition to collecting powerbrokers, Epstein had a penchant for clandestine cameras. When the Palm Beach police executed a warrant on Epstein's home in 2006, they found hidden cameras. An Epstein victim, Maria Farmer, told CBS News that the bathrooms and bedrooms in Epstein's Upper East Side mansion were wired for extensive surveillance by "tiny pinhole cameras." Farmer said that Epstein even ushered her to the "media room": "And so, there was a door that looked like an invisible door with all this limestone and everything," she said. "And you push it, and you go in. And I saw, all the cameras, it was, like, old televisions basically, like, stacked." In that interview, Farmer said that "men" sat before the monitors.
In the Vanity Fair article noting Maxwell's statement that the underage girls being molested were merely "trash," she reportedly said that Epstein's Orgy Island was equipped for extensive surveillance: "Maxwell also said the island had been completely wired for video; the friend thought that she and Epstein were videotaping everyone on the island as an insurance policy, as blackmail." In the same article, Vanity Fair gleaned an Epstein quote via a former "girlfriend": "… I collect people, I own people, I can damage people." Epstein himself boasted to a New York Times reporter that he had "dirt" on the powerful.
In the wake of Epstein's arrest, the New York Times reports on the evidence federal authorities seized from searching Epstein's house: "It included hundreds — possibly thousands — of sexually suggestive photographs of girls who appear underage, as well as hand-labeled compact discs with titles like 'Girl pics nude,' and, with the names redacted, 'Young [Name] + [Name].'"
Epstein appears to have been a blackmail artist, but his marks would never voice that inconvenient truth. Blackmail marks, especially politicians and power brokers, have zero incentive to turn to the authorities if the blackmailer has pictures of their illicit, highly aberrant, or extramarital sexual conduct. Those pictures, released to the public, would doom their careers, probably destroy their families, and reduce their lives to public ignominy.
Epstein, however, as a lone college dropout from Coney Island, could not have blackmailed powerbrokers with impunity. Such men can have access to ruffians, murderers, and even organized crime. Les Wexner is an example of an alleged perpetrator who has had purported ties to organized crime. Wexner is a denizen of Ohio, and his L Brands is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. A 1991 report from the Columbus Division of Police (CDV) implicates Wexner in a 1985 murder and also discusses his possible affiliation with the organized crime. The report focuses on the execution style murder of Columbus attorney Arthur Shapiro whose law firm represented Wexner's clothing empire. Shapiro took two bullets to the back of the head in broad daylight, and the CDV report notes that his murder had the distinct signature of "Mafia" hit. The CDV report that fingers Columbus' most lionized citizen in a Mafia hit was ordered to be destroyed by CDV Chief James Jackson, who would be reprimanded for ordering the report's destruction.
The CDV report describes Walsh Trucking Company, owned by Frank Walsh, as a "major trucking company for The Limited." The CDV report also notes Walsh's connection to the Mafia. A 1987 Women's Wear Daily article states that "Walsh had done in excess of 90 percent of Limited's business," accounting for $73,600,000. And a 1996 article from Bergen County's The Record chronicles Walsh's guilty plea for bribing Teamster officials and mail fraud and that "federal prosecutors" had concluded Walsh was an appendage to the "Genovese" crime family.
Wexner had known sociopathic pedophile Epstein for approximately six years when he handed Epstein the keys to his kingdom. As I mentioned, the mysterious relationship between Wexner and Epstein befuddled his friends and colleagues. In August of 2019, Vanity Fair published an apologetic on behalf of Wexner, "'HE PICKS THE WRONG FRIEND, THEN THERE'S ALL HELL TO PAY': HOW JEFFREY EPSTEIN GOT HIS HOOKS INTO LES WEXNER," which sought to explain the bizarre relationship between Wexner and Epstein. The Vanity Fair article was mind-boggling in either its seismic naivete or disingenuousness: The article determined that Wexner's "loneliness" made him susceptible to being bamboozled by conman Epstein. But according to Virginia Giuffre and Alfredo Rodriguez, their relationship had far more sinister undertones. Although Wexner claims that Epstein embezzled "vast sums" of money from him, he never notified authorities about Epstein's grift. If loneliness drove Wexner to befriend Epstein, then common sense almost certainly dictates that Wexner would request law enforcement intervention to retrieve the "vast sums" purloined by Epstein. But if their relationship was rooted in the claims of Giuffre and Rodriguez, then Wexner's actions, or lack thereof, would be understandable.
Child abuse is among the most heinous of crimes, but state and federal checks and balances that safeguard children from predators have been mutilated in the Epstein case for at least 25 years—from when the Farmer sisters initially approached the FBI in 1996 until the May of this year when the FDLE exonerated Florida law enforcement of malfeasance in the Epstein case. The ultimate question that needs to be asked and answered is why have state and federal authorities protected Epstein and his pack of child molesters for years? Blackmail may be one of the answers, and the evidence implicating Epstein as a blackmail artist is significant:
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Epstein's confession to a New York Times reporter about the "dirt" he collected on the rich and powerful.
The statements he made to a former girlfriend: "…I collect people, I own people, I can damage people."
Maxwell telling a friend that Epstein was a blackmail artist, and his Orgy Island was wired for audiovisual blackmail.
Maxwell divulging to a 60 Minutes producer that Epstein had tape of both Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.
The Palm Beach Police Department found clandestine cameras when it executed a search warrant on Epstein's Palm Beach home.
Maria Farmer telling CBS that the bedrooms and bathrooms of Epstein's New York mansion were wired for audiovisual surveillance, and men, as in plural, were in a secret room overseeing various monitors.
The trove of compact discs seized at Epstein's home with titles like "Young [Name] + [Name]." (Epstein's cache of DVDs seem to have fallen into a blackhole.)
But the most damning evidence of Epstein working for a larger, clandestine network is the abrogation of justice that he left in his wake over the decades. Who or what has the power to order an U.S. attorney to stand down, especially when the Justice Department has a list of 32 underage victims? According to former U.S. Attorney Acosta, "intelligence" has that power. Who or what has the power to make the Justice Department subvert the Crime Victims' Rights Act? Who or what has the power to make the FBI stand down into an investigation involving child sexual abuse? Who or what has the power to protect Epstein's powerful pedophilic perps over the course of three administrations—those of George W. Bush, Barak Obama, and Donald Trump? The puppeteer or puppeteers in the Epstein case apparently transcend the institutions of government and also political affiliations.
In the Epstein case, child sex trafficking has been proven, and the victims have named procurers and perps. The Justice Department's Southern District of New York was able to circumvent Epstein's egregious non-prosecution agreement on two criteria. First, the Southern District of New York wasn't bound by an agreement that was made in the Southern District of Florida. Second, Congress eliminated the statute of limitations on cases of child sex trafficking in 2006, and since the prior 5-year statute of limitations hadn't expired on Epstein's child trafficking crimes, he could be charged with child trafficking dating back to 2002. So, every procurer and perpetrator in the Epstein network who has been guilty of child trafficking since 2002 should be charged with child trafficking.
As a society, we must bring the Epstein procurers and perpetrators to justice. We cannot let children be molested with impunity. If the Justice Department is indifferent to victims in a proven trafficking case, then there is little hope for the vast majority of victims. If the perpetrators in the Epstein case are allowed to go scot free, then all perpetrators are empowered. Moreover, the media has expended profuse ink publishing articles that report on the salacious dirt involved in the Epstein case, but I'm not aware of a single article calling for the arrest and indictment of the perpetrators in Epstein's pedophile network. The mainstream media has also sown a narrative that the girls molested by Epstein and his cohorts were at least 14 years old, but accounts have been published that Epstein trafficked girls as young as 11 or 12 years old.
As I look at the devastation sown by child sexual abuse and its cover up — whether it be by churches, the Boy Scouts, schools, the government, etc. — I'm reminded of a quote attributed to Edmund Burke: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Are there enough good people in the media, the government, and the nation to ensure that evil doesn't triumph in the Epstein case by holding the procurers and perpetrators accountable?
Nick Bryant
Nick Bryant is an author who resides in New York City, and he's been a child advocate for 30 years. His writing has recurrently focused on the plight of disadvantaged children in the United States, and he's been published in numerous national journals, including the Journal of Professional Ethics, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, and Journal of School Health. He is the co-author of America's Children: Triumph or Tragedy, addressing the medical and developmental problems of lower socioeconomic children in America. He spent seven years investigating a coast-to-coast child trafficking network and authored The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse, & Betrayal. He has also investigated the Jeffrey Epstein network, and he published Epstein's "Little Black Book" on the Internet in 2015, four years before the case broke nationally. Bryant has contributed a chapter on child trafficking to Global Perspectives on Dissociative Disorders: Individual and Societal Oppression, a book addressing various facets of dissociative disorders that features chapters from an international panel of psychiatrists and psychologists. He has also spoken about child trafficking at several conferences, including the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation's international convention and the 2020 and 2021 Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Global Summits.
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Clinical evidence in FDA drug approvals varies widely, study finds
Sabriya Rice
Not every new drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has undergone the rigorous clinical testing that physicians and their patients might expect, according to new research.
A study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that the FDA has "flexible standards" for approving of new therapies. Using publicly available information from the FDA drug database, investigators identified 188 novel therapies for treating 206 conditions approved between 2005 and 2012. Of these, 37% were approved on the basis of a single clinical trial, 38% on the basis of two trials and 25% had been tested in three or more trials.
Although most therapies were supported by at least one randomized, double-blind trial—the gold standard for clinical research—there was wide variation in the duration, size and completion rates. Comparative-effectiveness data was available for less than half of the indications.
The purpose of the study, according to its authors, was not to suggest that the FDA is not rigorous in its approach to drug reviews. The regulatory flexibility allows for a customized approach, and the agency can rapidly approve potentially effective therapies for life-threatening diseases and those for which there is no existing, effective treatment, such as orphan diseases, said Dr. Joseph Ross, assistant professor of general internal medicine at Yale University School of Medicine and one of the study authors.
The variability can be problematic, however, because patients and physicians feel the research is the same across all drugs approved, Ross said.
The FDA, in a statement responding to the findings, explained that drugs may be tested in clinical trials that enroll hundreds of participants, while others, particularly those seeking to treat rare diseases, may be tested in trials that enroll only a handful of participants. "In all cases, however, the statutory standards of safety and efficacy must be met in order for the drugs to be marketed in the United States," the agency said.
Whether or not the process has become too lenient has become a topic of debate among advocates.
The Progressive Policy Institute, a center-left think tank, acknowledged in a policy brief (PDF) that the FDA must strike a difficult balance. "If it is too lenient, (the FDA) will allow the sale of drugs and medical technology that could harm vulnerable Americans. Too tight, and the U.S. is being deprived of key innovations that could cut costs, increase health, and create jobs."
Some argue, however, that physicians don't have time to sift through statistical data on every new drug approved, and when they do, there is little information to choose from as they make decisions about the safety of new therapies.
"With new drugs, there is often an exaggeration of the benefits and underreporting of the risks," said Diana Zuckerman, president of the National Research Center for Women & Families, who has testified at several hearings on drug safety. "There's so much emphasis on drugs being the latest, the most innovative and novel—but unfortunately this usually means it's just new, not necessarily better," she said.
Zuckerman conceded that it's a given that the FDA should have the flexibility to provide access to new treatments when there are no available options. "But the FDA shouldn't be rushing studies for diseases that have good alternatives. It's better to have an old treatment that is proven to be safe and effective than a new treatment that we don't know is safe and may not improve health."
"I think we can all agree that if you have a disease for which there are no available treatment options, that is the time to be flexible, although you'd still want the best possible research," she said.
Ross, the Yale researcher who worked on the study, encourages physicians to be more nuanced with how new treatments are presented to patients. When prescribing newly approved drugs that have limited trial data, he said physicians should be clearer with patients about what the research shows. The physician should say, "There are not a lot of options, this drug was just approved, but we don't know if it extends your life," rather than giving the patient the impression the drug does things for which it has not been tested.
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Samples / Art / Edgar Artistic Life
Edgar De Gas was born on July 19, 1834 in Paris. His father was a Frenchman called Auguste and was a banker and his mother was an American from New Orleans He was quite famous for his skills in painting. He was especially interested with the subject of dance and used his skills in draughts to depict dancers. He was academically prepared to become a painter: he went through good training for this purpose. He began the work of painting early in his life. It is said that in his early life he did a lot painting. Degas was influential in organizing a number of exhibitions in conjunction with other artists. The first of such an exhibition is said to be the impressionist Exhibitions which was displayed in 1974. Degas was quite influential in this group and led to its popularity. Internal strife over painting choice and value lead to the eventual break down of the group in 1886. It is reported that later he also developed a keen interest in photography. Degas is not known to have married and it is said that his last days were spent on the streets of Paris.
Edgar' Artistic Life
It is said that Degas emulated, to a great extent, the old masters in the artistic world. Degas is said to have been very enthusiastic in about art works and engaged himself in the collection of various arts. His collection of Japanese arts is said to have influenced his works to a great extent. Degas is popular for a number of painted portraits he worked on of individuals as well as groups.
In the 1953 at the age of 18 years, Degas was given the permission to copy at the Louvre in Paris. In the year of 1954, Degas was able to copy the Raphael paintings at the Louvre. In the year 1855 Degas visits the painter Jean-August-Dominique Ingres's work. Degas is said to have liked the work of the painter. At this time there was much of a rivalry between Jean-August-Dominique Ingres and Eugene Delacroix who laid much emphasis on the role of color on a painting. Degas wisely picked both the skills both of these two artists. Degas travels to and lived in Italy in the year 1856 and returned to Paris in 1859. In 1860 he travelled back to Italy for a brief stay. In 1862 Degas meets Edourd in Lourvre. In 1864 he visited Ingres and the following year he painted Madame Paul valpincon. In the years of 1855 through 1870 Degas was involved at the exhibits at the salon though it is reported that these works have not been given much importance (Deags 2010).
In 1866 Degas painted the collector of prints. In the year of 1868 Degas began getting recognized as an artist. By then he was a frequent visitor of and an influential member of the group who visited the prominent member of a group which frequented the café Guerbois.
Edgar becoming Influential in Art
Edgar was an influential member of the Impressionist who exhibited their works from 1874 to 1886.The group was united by common desire of departing from the official standards and letting artist form their work independently. Degas in leading this group tried to draw inspiration out of their own environment and experiences. They had chosen to call themselves the realists but their free drawing especially that of Degas depicting of ballet dancers and women bathing with his vivid use of color encouraged the use of the word impressionist. Despite the fact that this Degas participated in the same group "impressionists" his work has been reported to have distinguished itself from his fellow artist in the same group. Degas is said to have been very keen on observing, "laundresses, milliners and complex formal structure" (Degas par. 5). It is reported that Degas worked from his memory. It is claimed that Degas sketched from models who posed in his studio.
Degas was inclined to studying the postures of human figures as opposed to painting some landscapes. Degas more often than not painted the, "gestures and poses of human figures in interior settings" (Degas par. 6). His pictures portrayed, "the complexity of human expressions and articulation of everyday experiences" (Degas par. 6) and actually, this is what made him to be considered more of a realist than an impressionist. As time went by Degas is said to have continued gaining popularity particularly for his painting of women both naked and in dance postures. It is said that, "Degas's collection of repeated poses and postures speaks to his preoccupation with texture, color, and form" (Degas, par. 7; Dancers par. 3).
Significance of Degas work
Degas' work has been quite significant because he was influential in changing the formal standards of is time. He motioned in a different wave in the world of art and brought in great new changes and daring modifications which merged different views from different art masters who had differing views. By doing this he brought in a complete new picture to the art world.
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3. We can exhort our children best when we learn their love languages and use them to comfort and inspire them. Coming alongside our children and spending lots of time with them, we learn to know which ways we can best express our love to them. The same is true when it comes to exhorting our children. Gary Chapman, in his famous Love Language books, describes the 5 ways we can communicate love to our kids: words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, and physical touch. When we see an area of life where our children are struggling, discussing it with them and working through it alongside of them can be accompanied by their love language, making the impact of our efforts much more effective. Perhaps your son is struggling with the desire to be involved in sports but is also at an awkward stage of physical development. If his love language is receiving gifts, maybe a DVD the shows the special techniques used by his favorite professional athlete would encourage him. If he responds to physical touch, giving him a back rub as he shares his struggles with you conveys to him your comfort and care of him.
4.	We must be careful to never superimpose our own desires and preferences for their callings in life on our children, instead trusting that the Lord has a very special plan for each child and that it doesn't have to reflect or be the same as ours. One of the most insidious teachings that is coming out of the patriocentric movement within homeschooling circles today is Doug Phillips' and Geoff Botkin's 200 year plan. Rather than encouraging young people to seek the Lord and to fulfill God's calling in their lives, young people are taught that they are created to fulfill their fathers' callings, ones that are predetermined for them, presumably the very ones Geoff Botkin has outlined for them. In contrast to this, while I agree that God does call out and work through families, each of us is accountable before the Lord for fulfilling the callings God gives to us as individuals. Luke 12:48 exhorts us that "unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required." Those of us who have been given the awesome responsibility of parenthood would do well to remember that much will be required of us as it will be of our children to whom this verse is also written.
6. The sense of personal calling on the lives of our children will keep them going during those times of discouragement and difficulty that are certain to come to them and we would do well to prepare them for those times and to come alongside them during them. Early on our children must embrace the truth that God has no plan B for their lives, only a plan A, and that He is bringing that plan to pass in spite of our best efforts or worst mistakes. Sometimes our children sin miserably and, lost in our own grief and disappointment, we forget this truth ourselves. But it is during these very times that we need to fulfill the calling God gave to us as parents to comfort, exhort, admonish, strengthen, and encourage our children, affirming God's forgiveness and watch care. I love reading the story of Jonah, of his refusal to obey the Lord, his recognition that he was in the belly of the fish, the biggest mess of his life, because of his disobedience and that it was God who placed him there. In the second chapter he cries out to the Lord for mercy and deliverance and then makes this profound statement: "Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs." How well Jonah summed up the loss experienced by following other life plans than the one God has for each believer. If our children fail and try to run away from the Lord by sinning against God through disobedience, especially by following a call He has not placed on their lives, they need to know that God may use amazing and painful ways to bring them back to him. They need to understand that God is also a merciful and gracious God who is swift to forgive. We should do likewise.
What a lovely and practical article. I just finished reading this morning in "Assumptions that Affect our Lives" by Christian Overman that the influence of Plato and Aristotle in Christian thought has been so pervasive that it is now almost impossible to separate it out. The idea that there are secular callings and spiritual callings is completely foreign to Hebrew thought. What kind of disservice has this done to so many?
Jersy, I can't tell you how many times I have watched young people struggle with the thought that being a disciple of Jesus meant that they had to be in "full time Christian service" and the result was men who were not at all cut out for the ministry. I can remember one older man who had served as a deacon in his church for decades lamenting the fact that there were so many pastors who really were tremendously gifted in other fields but who had terrible people skills and study skills.
Our kids need to understand that God gives them incredible gifts that are to be used in His service, all to the glory of God. You would probably really enjoy Os Guinness' book the Call. You can chew on a few paragraphs for a while and still think about what you read months later!
As always, excellent article! Number 4 is especially poignant.


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Ponte de Vagos ist ein Ort und eine ehemalige Gemeinde (Freguesia) im portugiesischen Kreis Vagos. Die Gemeinde hatte 1792 Einwohner (Stand 30. Juni 2011).

Am 29. September 2013 wurden die Gemeinden Ponte de Vagos und Santa Catarina zur neuen Gemeinde União das Freguesias de Ponte de Vagos e Santa Catarina zusammengeschlossen. Ponte de Vagos ist Sitz dieser neu gebildeten Gemeinde.

Einzelnachweise

Ehemalige Freguesia in Portugal
Vagos

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Capital Crocus
A Dress For Success
Leona Jarnefeldt
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Lineage : Nemean Lion
Position : Saint of Courage
Faction : The Luminous Covenant
Guild : Silver Wolf [Guild Master]
Cosmic Coins : 115
Dungeon Tokens : 0
Mentor : N/A
Experience : 5,746,029
First Magic: Wind Strike Magic
Second Magic: Wind Summon Magic
Third Magic:
by Leona Jarnefeldt 29th January 2020, 11:58 am
Job Title: C-Rank Free-form
Rank: C
Job Location: Anywhere
Solo Word Count: 1,500 words
Group Word Count: 3,000 words
Additional Requirements: N/A
Job Description: Whatever the player chooses
Enemies: Whatever the player chooses
Reward: 10,000 jewels OR a custom Strong weapon/armor/item - Must specify which when handing in the job
Job Sign-Up: Page 22, Post Number 543
Leona Jarnefeldt | Wind Strike Magic | Wind Summon Magic | Nemean Lion
Golden Lacrima is valid until 10/2/2023. Proof of purchase is here. The General Store: Page 7, Post Number 163
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Re: A Dress For Success
by Leona Jarnefeldt 29th January 2020, 2:01 pm
-Capital Crocus outskirts, midday-
Landing on the Capital Crocus outskirts just she had like a few days ago, Leona dismounted her Winged Lion and dispelled it, then smoothed out her skirt. She wore her usual green, white, and gold outfit, but today she carried no weapons or armor, not even the knife that was almost always concealed in her right boot. She had opted to go without weapons because she was paying a visit to a clothing store called The Elegant Dress and she did not want to frighten people any more than she already did. The Wizard Saint had even left her Argent Gloves back at Silver Wolf Guild Hall, a loss she keenly felt because she wore them everywhere she went and the ability to block magic at a moment's notice was always useful for a mage who was frequently in harm's way.
Leona took off her backpack and fished out the paper catalog with the shop's address on it. Clutching it in her right hand, she waited a few minutes in case there was another bandit gang she needed to stop. After waiting ten minutes she concluded that there was no trouble, so she proceeded to enter Capital Crocus to search for The Elegant Dress.
-Capital Crocus-
Walking through the bustling streets of Fiore's capital, Leona began searching for The Elegant Dress so that she could get an appropriate dress for the auction in two days. While it seemed foolish to spend tens of thousands of Jewels for something that she might wear only once, Leona had money to spare and she wanted to prove to the world that there was more to the Wizard Saint of Courage than being a fighter and explorer.
Making her way through the crowd to a large map of the city posted for the benefit of tourists, Leona began to study it. She consulted the key to the left and learned that different sections of the city were marked in different colors, each color representing a particular service that the city's shops had to offer. Restaurants were marked in yellow, grocery stores in green, and clothing stores in purple. Leona then began to locate her position in relation to the clothing district and found it, then traced her position back to the clothing district. She would be in for a walk of at least 600 kilometers, but that distance was nothing that her travels across Earthland had not prepared her for.
With a rough idea of where she was supposed to go, Leona put the clothing catalog into her backpack and waited for a chance to merge with the crowd before setting out for her destination. Once an opportunity presented itself she seamlessly merged with the crowd and began a slow but steady walk towards the clothing district. Once she reached The Elegant Dress the real challenge would begin. Leona would have to find a dress that was both acceptable to her and acceptable to the Capital Crocus elite who she would be mingling with at the auction. Her definition of acceptable and the elite's definition of acceptable would almost certainly clash due to differences in taste and upbringing.
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-Capital Crocus, twenty minutes later-
After at least twenty minutes spent walking among the bustling foot traffic of Capital Crocus and experiencing eight "accidental" brushes of a hand against her backside by teenage males and an outright squeeze from a particularly brave (or foolish) dark-haired youth in a white Steel Matron t-shirt and blue jeans who wisely walked away before she could, Leona stood in the middle of the road of the clothing district. While she had reached the district that housed The Elegant Dress, she still had to find the shop before she could begin the search for a proper dress. A whole block of shops lay before her and were filled with a steady procession of people streaming in with empty hands and coming out with at least one shopping bag in hand. Leona would be among their number as soon as she could find The Elegant Dress.
It did not take long to locate it. It was the sixth shop to the right of her current position and had a sign with golden letters that spelled out its name. Leona did not expect finding it to be this easy, but she appreciated the lucky break because now she did not have to spend most of the day trying to find it and risk it being closed by the time she finally reached her destination. Merging with the crowd moving down the sidewalk to patronize the shops to her right, Leona walked until she reached the front of The Elegant Dress, then gently pushed open the single glass door that led into the shop.
-Inside The Elegant Dress-
A single bell dinged to announce Leona's entry into the dress shop, which was a small and simple shop as befitting its specialty nature as opposed to a chain retail store. The left wall of the shop was lined with dresses on mannequins and the right wall featured a wooden counter manned by a well-dressed young blonde woman wearing a closed black jacket and a white dress shirt with a long black skirt and black high heels. A small number of customers were perusing the wares on the mannequins and browsing larger catalogs and consulting with other employees to start the process of getting custom dresses made. The young woman looked at Leona and began to greet her when she stopped in mid-sentence once she realized who she was talking to.
"Welcome to The Elegan- wait! You're- you're Leona Jarnefeldt!" She stated in audible excitement.
"I was looking for a dress to wear to an auction in two days." Leona stated the reason for her visit. The young employee almost tripped over her own feet in an effort to help Leona, causing a small scene that made the Wizard Saint uncomfortable. The employee recovered and was soon at Leona's side to aid her in picking a dress. She ushered Leona over to an unoccupied wooden table with an open catalog sitting on it and pulled out a leather-backed metal chair for the Wizard Saint to sit in.
"Now, what kind of dress interests you, Miss Jarnefeldt?" The employee asked her. Leona obligingly sat down and began to peruse the catalog in front of her, looking for something that was modest and would at least be tolerated by, if not meet the approval of, Capital Crocus' elite. She did not want to show up in the wrong dress and be subject to their derision for the entire evening.
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by Leona Jarnefeldt 29th January 2020, 11:33 pm
Leona looked at the thick catalog of names paired with pictures and had no idea of what she wanted other than a dress that was modest and not too costly. She was going to pay five figures no matter what dress she picked, but she did not want costs to get out of control and end up paying far more than she intended. Thankfully the employee was quick to come to the Wizard Saint's aid with some timely questions that would facilitate the process of picking a dress.
"You mentioned an auction earlier, Miss Jarnefeldt. If I may ask, what kind of auction will you be attending?" The employee asked.
"I'm attending an auction for a bottle of a rare wine called Maison D'Everett." Leona answered truthfully. It was no big secret that was to be kept at all costs. The employee hmmm'd to herself, then flipped the catalog to a section of the catalog with dresses that averaged 70,000 Jewels.
"These dresses are in fashion among the women of Capital Crocus' wealthiest families. They cost a lot, but you'll fit in at high-class events like the auction." The employee assured her. Leona was not terribly thrilled with the price tag, but this was one occasion that she could afford to spend some Jewels on a good dress that would be appropriate to wear to a high-class auction. Leona's eyes looked over the pictures and saw that a lot of the dresses had a low neckline, something that she wanted to avoid because she did not want to show off her chest. She was going to the event to bid on the Maison D'Everett, not attract suitors.
"I'd like something modest, if you know what I mean." Leona requested. The young woman took a quick glance at Leona's figure and quickly deduced the meaning of the request. She wordlessly placed a finger on a tab of the catalog page and flipped it to a section featuring dresses with the same price tag but with a more modest design. That pleased the Wizard Saint and she began to peruse the offerings.
"What color would you like the dress to be?" Came the next question.
"What color's typically worn at high-class events?" Leona asked in return.
"Black." Came the answer in a confident voice.
"I'll go with black then." Leona replied. She pointed to a picture of a black dress with half-sleeves that was modest and covered everything that needed to be covered.
"Very well then, Miss Jarnefeldt. If you'll follow me, I'll take your measurements for the dress and we'll begin making it within the day." The employee bade her. Leona was curious as to why she had to do that.
"Do you have anything pre-made that I could buy?" Leona inquired. The young woman shook her head.
"I am afraid not, Miss Jarnefeldt. You see, we don't have anything that can fit your... proportions." The employee answered diplomatically. Leona took a few moments to ponder the meaning and blushed when she finally understood. The Wizard Saint's chest and backside were both kind of big, meaning that she had to have a custom dress. Leona gave the young woman credit for being diplomatic about voicing the concern.
"OK then. I'll follow you." Leona voiced her consent. She stood up and followed the employee to the back, where the pair entered a fitting room for privacy.
-Inside the fitting room-
Leona stood in an austere beige-colored square room with only a six-foot tall mirror in front of her. Beside her was the same employee with a small notepad, a green golf pencil, and a cloth tape measure with which to take measurements. Even though the person taking her measurements was a female, Leona felt uncomfortable for some odd reason.
Leona blushed as she felt the cloth tape measure be wound around her chest. After a few awkward seconds of the measurement being scribbled on the notepad it was moved around her waist and held for a few seconds. Leona heard another measurement being scribbled onto paper and the tape measure moved yet again to her backside. After that was over it moved up to her head and was allowed to dangle on the floor. A final measurement was made and the employee at last took the tape measure back.
"OK Miss Jarnefeldt, I have your measurements. We'll begin making your dress within the day." Came the assurance.
"How long will it take to make?" Leona asked.
"About two days." Came the answer. Leona was not happy to hear that, but it was her fault for taking so long to come here and order a dress. She would just have to grin and bear it.
"OK." Leona replied laconically. Next time she needed an outfit she needed to go in and order it sooner instead of waiting until the last minute.
"Now if you'll follow me to the counter, we'll complete the order." The employee bade Leona. Leona wordlessly followed her back to the front of the shop and to the counter.
-At the counter-
Leona listened and struggled not to wince as the total came to 80,000 Jewels. It was 70,000 for the base price and 10,000 was tacked on for the custom order. Leona felt that she was being robbed, but she had no other choice but to grin and bear it. She fished out the appropriate sum of Jewels from her backpack and placed them in a small bag, which she then handed to the blonde woman who had helped her through the shopping experience. The employee handed Leona a receipt along with a white claim ticket featuring the shop's name printed in gold letters at the top.
"Your order will be ready in two days, Miss Jarnefeldt. Bring this claim ticket along with your receipt to claim your order. Thank you for your patronage of The Elegant Dress!" The young woman thanked the Wizard Saint for choosing this shop for her dress order.
"Is there anything else I need to do before I leave?" Leona asked. The young woman shook her head.
"Everything's been taken care of, Miss Jarnefeldt. Your measurements have been taken and your payment has been received. All you have to do is wait." Came the answer.
"All right then. Thanks for helping me order a dress!" Leona thanked the employee for her time and effort.
"Thank you for patronizing The Elegant Dress, Miss Jarnefeldt! Have a wonderful day!" The employee cheerfully replied. Leona then opened the glass door and left the store. She would wind her way through the shoppers and head back to the town outskirts, where she would summon her Winged Lion for the trip home. Now that the dress was taken care of, Leona would need to find an etiquette teacher for a crash course on high-class manners so that she would not act like a desert bumpkin at the auction and make an idiot of herself. Leona dreaded the etiquette class more than she did shopping for clothing, but she needed to learn how to move in high society circles for both the auction and for future events.
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» Death, Success and Succession.
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The City of Salem Parks and Recreation Department and Q99-FM are set to present the 11th annual "Winterfest Beach Bash" on Friday, February 2, at 7 p.m. at the Salem Civic Center. The legendary "Band of Oz" returns to Salem for an entire evening of beach music classics.
Tickets for the band's appearance at the Salem Civic Center are now on sale at the Salem Parks & Recreation Department, 620 Florida Street. Admission is $10 in advance and $12 at the door or you can purchase a table of eight for just $75. Cash and checks only for this event. Doors will open at 6 p.m. and proceeds from the event will benefit the Penguin Club's community service projects. This event is often a complete sell-out, so be sure to get your tickets early.
In October 2016, "Band of Oz" was enshrined in the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame along with fellow class of 2016 honorees The Avett Brothers, Kelly Pickler and The Carolina Chocolate Drops. The "Band of Oz" has been playing beach music in the southeast since 1967.
No coolers or outside food or drinks are permitted inside the arena. For additional ticket information, please contact the Salem Parks and Recreation Department at 375-3057.


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