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"Ode to Psyche" is a poem by John Keats written in spring 1819. The poem is the first of his 1819 odes, which include "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Ode to a Nightingale". "Ode to Psyche" is an experiment in the ode genre, and Keats's attempt at an expanded version of the sonnet format that describes a dramatic scene. The poem serves as an important departure from Keats's early poems, which frequently describe an escape into the pleasant realms of one's imagination. Keats uses the imagination to show the narrator's intent to resurrect Psyche and reincarnate himself into Eros (love). Keats attempts this by dedicating an "untrodden region" of his mind to the worship of the neglected goddess.

Background
Keats was never a professional writer. Instead, he supported himself with a small income that he earned as a surgeon for Guy's Hospital. At the age of 23, Keats left the hospital, losing his source of income, in order to devote himself to writing poetry. He lived with Charles Brown, a friend who collected Keats's poetry while supporting him, during spring 1819 and composed poetry. The early products of this effort included La Belle Dame sans Merci and "Ode to Psyche", the first of a series of odes that he would write that year. It is uncertain as to when the poem was actually completed, but Keats sent the poem to his brother on 3 May 1819 with an attached letter saying, "The following poem, the last I have written, is the first and only one with which I have taken even moderate pains; I have, for the most part, dashed off my lines in a hurry; this one I have done leisurely; I think it reads the more richly for it, and it will I hope encourage me to write other things in even a more peaceable and healthy spirit."

Keats was exposed to a few sources of the Psyche myth. His contemporary sources for the myth included John Lempriere's Classical Dictionary and Mary Tighe's Psyche, an 1805 work that Keats read as a child and returned to in 1818. Keats wrote to his brother George, just a few months before writing "Ode to Psyche", to say that he was no longer delighted by Tighe's writing. Dissatisfied, he turned to Apuleius's Golden Ass, translated by William Adlington in 1566, and read through the earlier version of the Cupid and Psyche myth. After reading the work and realizing that the myth was established during the twilight of Roman mythology, Keats wrote to George: "You must recollect that Psyche was not embodied as a goddess before the time of Apuleius the Platonist who lived after the Augustan age, and consequently the Goddess was never worshipped or sacrificed to with any of the ancient fervour—and perhaps never thought of in the old religion—I am more orthodox than to let a heathen Goddess be so neglected."

Structure
"Ode to Psyche", Keats's 67 line ode, was the first of his major odes of 1819. As such, the poem is an experiment in the ode structure that he was to then rely on for his next five odes. Although Keats spent time considering the language of the poem, the choice of wording and phrasing is below that found within his later works, including Hyperion or the odes that followed. "Ode to Psyche" is important because it is Keats's first attempt at an altered sonnet form that would include longer more lines and would end with a message or truth. Also, he did not want the poem to be based simply around that message, so he incorporated narrative elements, such as plot and characters, along with a preface to the poem. Of these additions, the use of a preface was discontinued in his next odes along with the removal of details that describe setting within the poems; they would only be implied within later odes.

H. W. Garrod, in his analysis of Keats's sonnet form, believes that Keats took various aspects of sonnet forms and incorporated only those that he thought would benefit his poetry. In particular, Keats relies on Petrarch's sonnet structure and the "pouncing rhymes" that are found within Petrarch's octave stanzas. However, M. R. Ridley disputes that Keats favours Petrarch and claims that the odes incorporate a Shakespearean rhyme scheme. Regardless of which sonnet structure was favoured over the other, Keats wanted to avoid the downsides of both forms. "Ode to Psyche" begins with an altered Shakespearean rhyme scheme of . The use of rhyme does not continue throughout the poem, and the lines that follow are divided into different groups: a quatrain, couplets, and a line on its own. These are then followed by a series of twelve lines that are modelled after the Shakespearean sonnet form, but lack the final couplet. The next lines are of two quatrains, with  rhyme, followed by two lines that repeat the previous rhymes, and then a final quatrain, with  rhyme.

Poem
The poem does not describe the plot of the original Cupid and Psyche myth: according to Harold Bloom, the poem "has little to do with the accepted myth". In the original myth, Aphrodite punishes Psyche, a well admired girl, by having Cupid use his power to make her fall in love. Cupid, instead, falls in love with her, but he could only be with her in the cover of darkness in order to disguise his identity. Curious, she uses a light to reveal Cupid's identity, but he flees from her presence. Psyche begins to search after Cupid, and Aphrodite forces her to perform various tasks before she could be united with her love. After nearly dying from one of the tasks, Cupid asks Zeus to transform Psyche into a goddess so the two can be together.

The action of "Ode to Psyche" begins with a narrator witnessing two individuals embracing. The narrator immediately recognizes Cupid and is astonished when he recognizes Psyche:

The third stanza describes how Psyche, though a newer Goddess, is better than the other deities. However, she is neglected while the others were worshipped:

The previous list of what Psyche lacks in terms of religious worship only describes external symbols of worship. In the fourth stanza, the narrator emphasizes the internal when he describes how he is inspired by Psyche:

The narrator, inspired by the young goddess, becomes her priest. His imagination allows him to join with both the natural and supernatural elements of Psyche, and his form of worship is within himself while "Ode to Psyche" the poem serves as a song in praise of the goddess. The narrator becomes the prophet for Psyche and says in the final stanza:

In the conclusion of the poem, the narrator metaphorically says that he will expand his consciousness, which would allow him to better understand both the good and the bad of the world. This will allow the narrator to attain a new sense of inspiration while providing Psyche with a sanctuary:

Theme
The moment that Cupid and Psyche are revealed is an example of "Keatsian intensity" as they are neither in a state of separation nor are they united; they exist in a state somewhere in between in a similar manner to the figures depicted in Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn". The narrator's ability to witness the union is unique to Keats's version of the Psyche myth because the lovers in the original story were covered in darkness. However, the narrator questions if he was able to see them at all or if he was dreaming. This inability of the narrator to know if he was awake is a theme that appears in many of Keats's odes that followed, including "Ode on Indolence", "Ode on a Grecian Urn", and "Ode to a Nightingale". Regardless of the narrator's state of consciousness, he is able to relate himself to Cupid as he believes himself to be in love with Psyche, representing the mind.

Part of the problem within "Ode to Psyche" is in the narrator's claim that Psyche was neglected since she became a goddess later than the other Greco-Roman deities. As such, the narrator serves as a prophetic figure who is devoted to the soul. Worship towards the soul is through use of the imagination, an idea that shows the influence of William Wordsworth upon the poem's themes. In particular, the lines are reminiscent of the description of inspiration and the muse within Wordsworth's "The Recluse". To serve Psyche, the narrator of "Ode to Psyche" seeks to worship her by thoroughly exploring the regions of his mind. However, the temple dedicated to the goddess within his mind does not yet exist.

This reveals that there is a struggle between the acceptance of imaginative experience that exists only within a small part of the mind. This struggle, according to Walter Evert, has "no relevance to the world of external action and perhaps no truth to offer even the visionary dreamer himself." However Anthony Hecht looks at the problem in a different way and believes that there must be a connection between the external and internal worlds for the narrator to even face the problem. Regardless, the narrator never states that this worship of Psyche or embracing the imagination would aid mankind, but the poem does rejoice in exercising the imagination.

In addition to the theme of dedicating one's self to the mind, the theme of reception plays heavily upon the poem's presentation; Andrew Bennett states that the poem, like all poems, is "'heard' both by itself (and therefore not heard) and by an audience that reads the poem and 'hears' it differently". Bennett implies that the word "wrung" in line one contains a double entendre as it also alludes to the "ringing in the ears" involved with active listening. The poem's treatment of the reader as a third-party to the conversation between the narrator and the goddess exemplifies the narrative question common among many of Keats's odes and leads Bennett to question how exactly the reader should regard his place within the poem, or outside of it.

Critical reception
Responding to the poem, Keats's friend Leigh Hunt declared that "When Mr Keats errs in his poetry, it is from the ill management of the good things,--exuberance of ideas. Once or twice, he does so in a taste positively bad, like Marino or Cowley, as in a line in his 'Ode to Psyche'... but it is once or twice only, in his present volume."

Robert Bridges, turn of the 19th-century literary critic, wrote "for the sake of the last section (l. 50 to end), tho' this is open to the objection that the imagery is work'd up to outface the idea—which is characteristic of Keats' manner. Yet the extreme beauty quenches every dissatisfaction. The beginning of this ode is not so good, and the middle part is midway in excellence." Later, T. S. Eliot thought very highly of Keats's work and wrote "The Odes—especially perhaps the Ode to Psyche—are enough for his reputation."

Kenneth Allott, in defending against any possible harsh criticism of "Ode to Psyche", argues that the poem "is the Cinderella of Keats's great odes, but it is hard to see why it should be so neglected, and at least two poets imply that the conventional treatment of the poem is shabby and undeserved". Allott then cites Bridges and Eliot as views that he sympathizes with, and he believes that the poem "is neither unflawed nor the best of odes, but to me it illustrates better than any other Keats's possession of poetic power in conjunction with what was for him an unusual artistic detachment, besides being a remarkable poem in its own right. This may be another way of saying that it is the most architectural of the odes, as it is certainly the one that culminates most dramatically."

Walter Jackson Bate states that the poem has "always puzzled readers ... But finding the poem so elusive, we return to it only after we know the others far better. If we had hope to use them as keys, we discover they do not quite fit the lock. Meanwhile they have given us a standard hard to equal. Hence we either feel a disappointment about the 'Ode to Psyche' or else, remembering the care Keats supposedly gave it, we once more put the poem aside for future consideration." However, he also states that "The modern, respectful attitude toward this ode is deserved. But the itch for novelty has encouraged a few critics to suggest that the poem, in some dark but fundamental way, has more to it as a whole than do the later odes."

To Harold Bloom, the last lines of Keats's ode "rivals any as an epitome of the myth-making faculty". He elaborates further on this when he writes, "The poem Ode to Psyche is unique, and also central, for its art is a natural growth out of nature, based as it is upon a very particular act of consciousness, which Keats arrests in all its concreteness."

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References

 Allot, Kennet. "The Ode to Psyche" in Keats's Odes ed. Jack Stillinger, 17-31. Englewood, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968.
 Bate, Walter Jackson. John Keats. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963.
 Bate, Walter Jackson. The Stylistic Development of Keats. New York: Humanities Press, 1962.
 Bennett, Andrew. Keats, Narrative, and Audience. Cambridge U P. 1994.
 Bloom, Harold. "The Ode to Psyche and the Ode on Melancholy in Keats: A Collection of Critical Essays ed Walter Jackson Bate, 91–102. Englewood, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964.
 Bloom, Harold. The Visionary Company. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.
 Bridges, Robert. Collected Essays Papers. Hildesheim, New York: G. Olms, 1972.
 Eliot, T. S. "Keats" in Keats: A Collection of Critical Essays ed Walter Jackson Bate, 11–12. Englewood, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964.
 Evert, Walter. Aesthetics and Myth in the Poetry of Keats. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965.
 Garrod, Heathcote. Keats. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1926.
 Keats, John. The Life and Letters of John Keats ed. Richard Houghton (reprint). Read Books, 2008.
 Keats, John. . Editor Ernest de Sélincourt.  New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1905.
 Matthews, G. M. John Keats: The Critical Heritage. New York: Barnes & Noble Publishers, 1971.
 Perkins, David. The Quest for Permanence: The Symbolism of Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1959.
 Ridley, Maurice. Keats' Craftsmanship. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933.

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Manassès de Bar était un comte de Bar-sur-Seine, devenu évêque de Langres  et qui participa à la troisième croisade (). Il se pourrait cependant que le comte et l'évêque soient deux individus distincts mais de la même fratrie. Il est le fils de , comte de Bar-sur-Seine, et de Pétronille de Chacenay (fille d' et d'Hombeline (famille d'origine inconnue)).

Biographie
En 1151, à la mort de son frère , il hérite du comté de Bar-Sur-Seine. Mais encore mineur, le comté est administré par sa mère Pétronille de Chacenay.

Fatigué par l'administration de ce comté, il embrasse alors l'état monastique et cède le comté à sa nièce Pétronille, fille du précédent comte . Auparavant, il aide par des dons à la fondation de la commanderie templière d'Avalleur et fait différentes libéralités envers les abbayes de Molesme et de Mores.

En 1166, il est nommé doyen de Langres. Les qualités dont il fait preuve conduise son élévation à l'épiscopat de la cathédrale de Langres en 1179, par le choix libre du clergé.

En 1190, après avoir confié son diocèse aux soins de Pierre, abbé de Saint-Bénigne de Dijon, il participe à la troisième Croisade avec le roi Philippe Auguste et le duc de Bourgogne Hugues, et assiste en personne au siège de Saint-Jean-d'Acre.

Il rentre à Langres vers 1191 mais rapporte de ce voyage une santé fragile. Après 2 années de maladie, il meurt le . Conformément à ses souhaits, il est inhumé à l'abbaye de Clairvaux.

Comte et évêque ?
Qu'il s'agisse du comte ou de l'évêque, le nom de Manassès apparait dans un certain nombre de chartes en qualité de fils de , comte de Bar-sur-Seine (†  1146). On citera a l'appui une charte datée de 1139 où figure le nom de son père et de trois de ses frères et une autre dans l'obituaire de Langres qui mentionne clairement que Manassès, évêque de Langres était son fils.
La charte de 1139 indiquant que  avait comme quatrième fils Manassès, laissant supposer qu'il était déjà majeur (+ de 14 ans). On y trouve également le nom de Pétronille, sa femme.

L'opinion des historiens du  diverge sur la question de savoir s'il s'agit d'une seule et même personne et les ouvrages du siècle suivant ne semblent pas avoir élucidé cette question.

Le premier auteur à avoir consacré un ouvrage traitant de l'histoire de Bar-sur-Seine était Lucien Coutant mais ses recherches généalogiques ont été remises en question par Ernest Petit  et très critiquées par Arthur Daguin.

Cet auteur indiquait que le comte et l'évêque ne font qu'un, qu'il serait né avant 1146, qu'il aurait hérité du comté de Bar en 1151 à la mort de son frère aîné Milon, sous la tutelle de sa mère en attendant sa majorité en 1161. Il le désigne également comme l'auteur des premiers dons qui permirent aux Templiers de fonder la commanderie d'Avalleur vers 1167. Il cède en 1168 le comté à sa nièce Petronille, fille de Milon et qui épouse  du Puiset, pour entrer dans les ordres. Il deviendra doyen du chapitre de Langres avant de devenir duc et évêque de Langres en 1179, jusqu'à sa mort le  après avoir participé à la troisième croisade en 1190. Il fut inhumé dans l'église de l'abbaye de Clairvaux.

Arthur Daguin qui publia ses recherches sur les évêques de Langres quelques décennies plus tard pointe les contradictions de Lucien Coutant et considère qu'il s'agit de deux personnes distinctes. Il s'appuie tout d'abord sur la charte de 1139 qui laisse penser que le premier Manassès serait né vers 1125 puisque majeur en 1138 et surtout sur le fait que la sépulture découverte en 1596/97 dans l'église de Clairvaux contenait le sceau du comte de Bar et non celui de l'évêque. On trouve aussi une charte de Manassès, comte de Bar-sur-Seine dans laquelle il se désigne comme fils de Milon.

Quoi qu'il en soit, les nombreuses chartes de ces comtes et les informations concordantes entre les différents auteurs permettent de confirmer les faits suivants :
  († 1146) a d'abord eu quatre fils, l'aîné Milon qui lui succède, Guillaume († v. 1151/52), Guy († av. Guillaume) et Manassès. Il avait pour femme Pétronille ;
 Milon, l'aîné de cette fratrie ne devient comte que vers 1147/49 à son retour de la deuxième croisade et n'apparait plus à partir de 1159. On trouve une charte dans le cartulaire du prieuré de Jully-les-Nonnains et datant vraisemblablement de 1158/59 qui mentionne Petronille, comtesse de Bar et son fils Manassès comme témoins d'une donation ;
 Petronille, veuve de  assure la régence du comté à la suite du décès de son fils aîné et ce jusqu'en 1161. On ne trouve plus mention d'elle après. Elle avait deux autres enfants, Thibaut et Hermensanne. Agnès, épouse de Milon portait également le titre de comtesse de Bar ;
 vers 1163, le comté est dirigé par un comte du nom de Manassès, fils de  et de Pétronille ou de Milon et Agnès ;
 des chartes de 1165 indiquent que ce Manassès avait un frère puîné du nom de Thibaut qu'il associe à chacune de ses décisions ;
 à partir de 1168, le comté était entre les mains d' du Puiset qui avait épousé Pétronille, fille de Milon et nièce ou sœur de ce Manassès ;
 Manassès, fils de  et de Pétronille était doyen de Langres depuis au moins 1169 ;
 ce même Manassès devient évêque de Langres le , participe à la troisième croisade et meurt le .

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'Died protecting him' | Missouri City man takes in grandson after mother dies in fire
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Ted Cruz called the Jan. 6 riot a "terrorist attack." Now he says he misspoke.
After conservative backlash, Cruz took to a FOX News show — whose host also lambasted him — to backpedal from comments he made during a congressional hearing.
Author: The Texas Tribune
Published: 10:43 AM CST January 7, 2022
Updated: 10:43 AM CST January 7, 2022
TEXAS, USA — After spending a day being slammed by TV pundits and fellow conservatives for describing last year's U.S. Capitol insurrection as a "violent terrorist attack," U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz walked back his comments on Thursday.
The Texas Republican attempted to clarify his intent on FOX News program "Tucker Carlson Tonight," calling his own words "sloppy" and "frankly dumb." Cruz insisted he was referring only to the rioters who attacked police during the breach of the historic building.
"For a decade, I have referred to people who violently assault police officers as terrorists. I've done so over and over and over again," Cruz said Thursday.
He then tweeted a clip of his appearance.
His appearance came one day after Carlson lambasted the junior Texas senator for his choice of words during a Wednesday U.S. Senate committee hearing about the oversight of the Capitol Police during the 2021 riot. During that hearing, Cruz acknowledged the "solemn anniversary" of what he called a "violent terrorist attack on the Capitol where we saw the men and women of law enforcement … risk their lives to defend the men and women who serve in this Capitol."
The mob — made up of President Donald Trump supporters attempting to interrupt certification of the 2020 election — attacked police officers and caused millions of dollars of damage to the Capitol. Lawmakers and staff inside hid in fear for their lives as protesters breached the building carrying zip ties and wearing tactical gear.
Many conservatives have spent the past several months downplaying the seriousness of the Capitol attack, which led to thousands of injuries and five deaths. About 140 officers were injured, and two officers involved in the response have died by suicide, according to a report in the New York Times.
On his program Wednesday, Carlson accused Cruz of echoing Democratic talking points at that day's Senate committee hearing.
"What the hell's going on here?" Carlson said. "You're making us think maybe the Republican Party is as worthless as we suspected it was. That can't be true. Reassure us, please, Ted Cruz."
On Thursday, Cruz said he asked to come on Carlson's show so he could better explain himself. Cruz said he understood why people were angry at his use of the word "terrorist" but insisted that he would never use the same word that "Democrats and the corporate media have so politicized" to describe the "patriots" that were at the Capitol that day to protest the results of the presidential election.
Cruz was objecting to the certification of Arizona's election results at the moment the Capitol was overrun. He was among several Texas Republicans who tried to cast doubt on President Joe Biden's victory over Trump, who continues to peddle baseless claims of widespread voter fraud.
At the time of the breach, Cruz argued, he was asking for Congress to investigate potential voter fraud in accordance with the law.
"It would be ridiculous for me to be saying that the people standing up and protesting to follow the law were somehow terrorists," he said. "I was talking about people who commit violence against cops."
Democrats and the media, Cruz said, "are trying to paint everyone as a terrorist, and it's a lie."
A year ago, on the floor of the Senate, Cruz said he was "not arguing for setting aside the results of the election," but he was objecting because of concerns about how many Americans believed fraud had occurred.
When The Texas Tribune asked this week whether Cruz believed the 2020 election was legitimate, his office did not respond. Nor did he address his opinion on the legitimacy of the election on Thursday.
This story was originally published at TexasTribune.org. The Texas Tribune is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.


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Q: rails model causes server to freeze I'm an amateur programmer working on a ruby on rails application. Up until now, everything has been running smoothly, but now I'm running into a problem. Every time I try to access my 'appointment' model, the server gets stuck and fails to load a page. Here is the index of my controller:
class AppointmentsController < ApplicationController
load_and_authorize_resource
before_filter :get_appointments, :only => :index
def index
    @appointments = Appointment.all
    @months = ["January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August", "September", "October", "November", "December"]
    @appointments = @appointments.select {|appointment| appointment.seller_id == current_user.id }
    @appointments = @appointments.select {|appointment| appointment.completed == false }
    @appointments.sort! { |a,b| a.date_time <=> b.date_time }
end

I don't think the issue is with the view, because I could comment this code out, and then the server would load the page. Here's the model
class Appointment < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessible :buyer_id, :item_id, :seller_id, :location, :date_time
  belongs_to :item

end

Any idea what the issue could be? Help please! Thanks!
Rohan

A: well this is awkward.. there was a problem with the view page. It was stuck in an infinite loop. Problem solved, thanks for your help anyway!

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Four Victoria Police officers have been suspended and another put on different duties over three separate alleged brutality incidents.
Head of Professional Standards Command, Assistant Commissioner Luke Cornelius, took the action on Friday after CCTV footage of the incidents was made public earlier in the week.
Three officers have been suspended over a September 2017 incident in which a disability pensioner was pinned down, beaten with a baton, capsicum sprayed, then hosed down in his Preston front yard.
Another officer has been suspended over the treatment of a man who held up a Preston pharmacy in February 2016 and was kicked and stomped on while handcuffed.
A fifth officer has been reassigned after a March 2015 incident at Bendigo, where an arrested man was thrown into a metal door at the police station.
"These are interim actions only whilst all three incidents are being investigated by IBAC (Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission)," Victoria Police said in a statement on Friday.


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Poo (en asturiano y oficialmente, Po) es un lugar y una parroquia del concejo asturiano de Cabrales, en España.

Tiene una superficie de 10,28 km², en la que habitan un total de 214 personas todas ellas en la misma población.

El lugar de Poo se encuentra unos 158 metros sobre el nivel del mar. Dista 1,5 km de Carreña, la capital del concejo.

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Maxine Waters Fears "Armed Protests" As Oath Keepers Descend On Los Angeles
California Democrat Maxine Waters warned supporters on Wednesday of possible "armed protests" by the Oath Keepers organization, which she described as "an anti-government militia" that has conducted armed protests across the country.
The group, founded by Yale Law graduate Stuart Rhodes, bills itself as an association of non-partisan current and former military officers, cops and first responders and notably provided disaster relief to Texas, Louisiana and Puerto Rican hurricane victims. They also have a policy to physically remove any white supremacists from their rallies - but they do like their guns.
On Tuesday, the group issued a "call to action" against Waters, urging members to prepare for as many as several weeks of protests in the Los Angeles area.
Waters, 79, warned her supporters against being "baited" into confrontations or counter-demonstrations with the group, which she said has a track record of "violent and provocative behavior." She also urged her protesters not to come out on the same date and time as the Oath Keepers planned protests.
"I am requesting those individuals and groups planning a counter-protest to not be baited into confronting the Oath Keepers with any demonstrations in opposition ... Such an occurrence would only exacerbate tensions and increase the potential for conflict."
"The Oath Keepers would like nothing more than to inflame racial tensions and create an explosive conflict in our community," Waters said. "The group is known to protest in military-style clothing while carrying various assault weapons."
Waters ignited tensions last month when she called for supporters to physically confront Trump administration officials when she said: "If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere."
The California Democrat walked back her call to action, telling reporters in June "I believe in peaceful, very peaceful protests ... I have not called for the harm of anybody. This president has lied again when he's saying that I've called for harm."
Waters noted in her statement that the Los Angeles Police Department would be on site Thursday "to ensure safety and security."
"This is the launch of an ongoing protest that may go on for several weeks. Other patriotic groups are welcome to join us," the group said in a statement. "This is both a protest against Maxine Waters' incitement of terrorism, and a stand for ICE and the Border Patrol, as they enforce the perfectly constitutional immigration and naturalization laws of this nation."
Great photo. One of guys, Nick Nesbitt, Iraq Marine veteran & Natalie of famed Natalie's Cakes and More #Oathkeepers pic.twitter.com/4NRR2a3xUG
— Oath Keepers (@Oathkeepers) December 1, 2014
First leg. On my way to LAX. I will be embedded with @Oathkeepers in Florida to report on hurricane Irma rescue/relief efforts. Stream later pic.twitter.com/6gGHPw27wj
— PatriotWarriorMedia-The AntiFa Stalker (@KPikklefield) September 16, 2017
Maxine Waters is lying and trying to stir up her base to cause trouble in her statement. The Oathkeepers are the furthest from being anti-government and being armed is preposterous.
I was extended an invitation to attend this protest which they stated would be peaceful. https://t.co/Xol0CW1RMK
— Kambree Kawahine Koa (@KamVTV) July 19, 2018


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Encouraging children to have hobbies and expand their interests is one of the great joys of parenting. It's amazing seeing your kids become interested in something new and start dedicating their time and energy to their new love. Starting a collection, whether it's of coins or playing cards, can be an excellent hobby for children. Children naturally love to collect things, even if the things they collect don't seem very exciting to their parents!
As well as being fun, they can also learn valuable life lessons from building and maintaining their collection. They need to save money to buy the next item in their collection and learn to look after their possessions. Your child can collect just about anything, and it certainly doesn't need to be anything hugely valuable. Here are some of the best things for children to start collecting, some of which they might even carry on into adulthood.
Children of all ages develop fascinations with rocks. From a young age, kids often pick up rocks they take an interest in and put them in their pockets. Sometimes they like the feel of them, the shape of them or just their general appearance. As they get older, this natural curiosity can turn into collecting rocks that are a bit more special. Encourage your children to look for rocks with special properties, such as agate or a fossil. They might like to display their finds in cases and label them, or they might be happy building a collecting on a spare surface in their room.
Little girls especially often take to collectable dolls. But there are action figures and toys that boys like collecting too. Collecting dolls could be anything from pretty porcelain dolls to more modern plastic ones. China dolls are meant to be looked at, rather than played with, so some doll collectors might prefer something a bit more robust. Unlike some other collections, a doll collection will cost money. But you can encourage your child to hunt for bargains at garage sales and thrift stores.
Since the 1800s children everywhere have enjoyed collecting stamps. Stamp collecting is another hobby that doesn't necessarily require you or your child to spend any money. They can collect the stamps from the letters you receive and even ask friends and relatives to send them mail from their travels.
Toy cars are another item that your child can collect, to either play with or display in their boxes and display cases. Not all children will be happy to leave a car in a box on the understanding that it's more valuable that way. Most will want to play with them, and so they should. But if all they want to do is play with the cars, it's best not to allow them to buy anything too expensive. Most children will be quite happy building a collection of cheap but shiny cars.
Often a child's collection doesn't last too long before they move onto something else. You can encourage them to keep going. But their interests will change, and they won't enjoy collecting if it feels like an obligation.


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The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus | L Frank Baum
This enchanting tale, originally written more than 100 years ago by L. Frank Baum, marries all the magic and fantasy of The Wizard of Oz to the classic Christmas tale.
Nicholas is a mortal child found in the forest and raised by a band of woodland fairies and elves, where he learns to whittle small trinkets and toys from wood. As he grows older, he makes it his mission in life to make children happy by carving and delivering toys. Such traditions like hanging stockings on the chimney, Claus's flying reindeer, and St. Nick's immortality are explained through Baum's colorful narrative thread.
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I started New Years day flying to Istanbul, then the first work day of the year with a Vespa Ride across one of the Istanbul bridges and running around the city with a bunch of happy, curious Finns. I'm not missing organization meetings at all.
Learnt how to make tahini (which is 1 cup of toasted sesame seeds to about 1/3 cup of olive oil). Sandwiches are happier.
and of course I met some special fellow nomads. Check 'em out: from India we have Surya, from Finland, Minna and Marlon from South Africa.
The importance of skill set complementarity. Everyone is good at something but there is no use trying to push something forward if the only people telling you you're good are those who think the same as you do. We all have something to learn from one another and for me it took bringing business savvy folks/web developers/tech dudes/marketing magicians and so on to really appreciate this.
Finland is on the top of a lot of social indexes and rightly so. Open office floor plan versus cubicles = more collaboration, better concentration (less distractions) and a pool table thrown in reminds everyone to take time out, and not take themselves too seriously. A huge kitchen table makes lunch what it should be: social, engaging and a restful pause in the day. More on what we can learn from Finland in a later post.
The private sector ain't so bad after all! My political science genes impounded evil corporations but over the last 3 years or so, I'm meeting more and more folks from the private side of the fence who a) care about making a difference versus the bottom line and b) who are making it happen.
How fun it is to work in small teams without having to go through pages and months of processes and bureaucracy. Ah so refreshing!
Building business: on the train. Mobile office anyone?
and, as always, more to come!


Last night was the last night of meals on the run. The last night of status reports and water cooler conversations. The last night of commuting along the familiar groove in my psyche that shuttles me, 5 days a week, past the recycling dumpster, overflowing on Tuesday nights, through the welcome left turn light at the church, past the bakery whose early morning efforts make me breathe as if breaking the surface after a deep dive, and up the hill alongside students laboring on bikes, their breath forming twisted question marks in the cold, winter air behind them. My easy link from the comfort of cursory encounters with familiar faces and places to my solitary existence in this too big house has been cut.
With the sunset now a recent memory, the front door closed behind me, and yet I lingered there, just inside, with my hand on the knob, surveying the hallways and corners of my future. Protected from the unpredictability of the world outside, my momentary relief morphed into a low-grade dread. There was nothing here in this place either, except for more aloneness. It was as if the warm air around me, so briefly comforting, suddenly filled with dangerous smoke; my vision blurred, sounds disappeared behind walls of cotton balls, my legs itched with the urge to run for my life. I was choking on the quiet.
Today, I am writing to you from inside a jar. A jar I've borrowed for 40 days. I've been here before in this terrifyingly insipid hole. But this time I brought shelves full of books, a blank journal, open eyes, and the promise of an end. I am at the bottom of this empty beaker and I am writing my way out, filling it with my words until I become lighter and lighter and rise to the top like a buoy dancing on adverbs, similes, and past participles, until at last I am the one who is empty and my inner world has spilled over and washed me gently on to your lap.
A stunning metaphor – the spilling of you.
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Should you buy a smart toilet seat?
Potty, loo, commode, porcelain throne. The toilet has many names but only one purpose, until now. Enter the luxury smart toilet.
The future of the bathroom will be automated. Innovative new commodes come with washing and drying functions in addition to a host of high-tech and water-conserving features.
You may have been unaware that since 1989, Japanese plumbing product manufacturer Toto has been selling a line of toilet seats that double as bidets to American consumers. Not just a bidet, but a seat that sprays clean, warm water and provides a gentle drying with warm air. If you're wondering why you're just now hearing about this, join the club.
Maybe you think a toilet that washes and dries your bottom is superfluous, but how do you feel about one with Bluetooth, speakers and ambient colored lighting? That exists in the Kohler Numi. It doesn't come cheap though: It's priced at around $6,000, without the remote. American Standard just got into the act this spring with the AT200. And the Toto Neorest line includes tankless design, oscillating water sprays, adjustable temperature, built-in air purifying system and heated seats.
Innovative toilets are trying to change the potty habits of the well-heeled, and by doing so, encourage regular Americans to expect more from their potty time.
For instance, American Standard is targeting luxury consumers before going after mainstream consumers. Very wealthy buyers have the cash to flush on toilets, first of all, but their globe-trotting lifestyles may have already prepared them for the benefits of full-service commodes.
"(Luxury consumers) probably have more familiarity with this routine and experience," says Margaret Monteleone, director of luxury product marketing at American Standard.
According to Monteleone, American Standard plans to learn what people like and want from bidet-equipped toilets and bring more to the marketplace for the masses.
Bargaining chip in home sales?
Will the fancy toilets help you sell your house? Maybe not. As terrific as they seem, upgraded toilets may not necessarily sway homebuyers.
"I would say specialty toilets would play little into the decision-making process. Considering the application of the item we are discussing, I think most buyers, if they had to, would want to choose their own way to flush," says Jerry Grodesky, managing broker at Farm and Lake Houses Real Estate in Illinois.
Then again, you may not want to actually leave it behind.
"We've even had celebrities tell us,' I sold the house. I took the Neorest,'" says David Krakoff, president of the Americas sales division for Toto USA.
It would be a little bit like buying the house and getting the owner's car in the deal, says Rob Baugher, owner and CEO of Baugher, a design and remodel company.
"This type of toilet is too personal and speaking bluntly, if I had one of those, I would trade it out for a $300 comfort-height toilet and take it with me to my next house," he says. A comfort-height toilet is about 2 inches higher than standard.
Toto has sold bidet-equipped replacements for regular toilet seats since 1989 in the United States.
The manufacturer's suggested retail price on the base model Washlet is $649, but online stores boast sales prices starting around $350.
Similar products sell for as little as $250 to as much as nearly $2,000.
There are some homebuyers who may see a Washlet-style commode and appreciate it enough to consider the toilet experience when buying a home, particularly the elderly or people with limited mobility. But buying the replacement seat instead of the entire fixture may be an option for people who want the experience without the big investment.
"The only alternatives to a Washlet are the bidet — more maneuvering around the bathroom, doubling the space with an extra fixture — or having an assistant perform post-elimination cleanup. And how do you monetize dignity and privacy?" says architect Deborah Pierce of the American Institute of Architects, author of "The Accessible Home" and principal at Pierce Lamb Architects in West Newton, Massachusetts.
"Comparing the price of a Washlet to the price of a personal-care assistant is really the question, along with a year's worth of toilet paper. The Washlet is affordable, hygienic, safe, stylish and easy to use," she says.
According to the paper company Kimberly Clark Corp., maker of Kleenex and Cottonelle, Americans use on average 46 sheets of toilet paper per day. According to Consumer Reports, toilet paper can cost as much as $0.35 per 100 sheets. That can add up to nearly $60 per year on toilet paper per person.
If you require baby wipes as well, that drives the yearly potty costs up. There may be no way to really rationalize expensive bidet-equipped toilets on a purely cost basis, but the replacement toilet seats — those are worth looking into.
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We're not the only ones in the family with a thing for France. When we bought a flat in Paris, we folllowed in the footsteps of Mr A Little Piece of Paris' parents who have owned their own little piece of the south of France for years now. For our Easter holiday, we decided to spend some time there in Sainte-Maxime, and drive into Italy for a couple of days, before taking the TGV to Paris.
When holidaying in France and Italy, it goes without saying that you'll eat some pretty good food. We had fresh seafood in San Remo and the creamiest ice cream. We snacked on deliciously salty parmesan and parma ham while tasting juicy Barolo wines in Piedmont. When the evenings grew cold, we tucked into Provencal stables like rich, meaty daube with fresh pasta, sprinkled with parmesan. But the best meal of the holiday so far, and one so simple that it took us by surprise, was lunch made at home on the barbeque.
We stopped in Sainte-Maxime's covered market, open every day in the off-season months from 08.30 – 13.00, to see what could tempt us for lunch. We picked up fresh baguette from the bakery (we struggled to find a decent baguette in Sainte Maxime, they don't compare at all to the ones on offer in Paris) and a jar of tapenade to snack on as an amuse bouche. At the boulangerie, we were seduced by the tartes tropeziennes – a local specialty with an apparently secret recipe. It's a brioche sponge cake sandwiched with an indecent amount of light buttercream filling. We bought two slices for later.
Then we headed to the butcher's. The butcher counter in France is a sight to behold. Beautiful cuts of perfectly marbled beef are displayed alongside pigs trotters, minced lamb and everything in between. We chose the quintessential French lunch classic – lamb chops, and feeling hungry, ordered three each. I had my ten Euro note ready to pay and gulped when the butcher read out the total of 20 euros and 40 cents. I hadn't even looked at the price. Lamb chops are sold for pennies in French markets. Well, these weren't just any old lamb chops. These were from wild lambs that roam the Haute Var, lunching on lavender and thyme, apparently.
Back home, having politely fished out another ten and paid the whopping amount, we whisked together a quick and simple marinade of olive oil, herbes de provence, garlic, lemon, salt, pepper and a small drizzle of honey. We left the lamb to soak up the flavours for about an hour and sat outside in the sun with a glass of rose wine and nibbled on toasted baguette topped with the tasty olive tapenade.We took a couple of minutes to render the fat of the lamb on a searing hot barbeque before giving them two minutes or so on each side until they were perfectly pink on the inside, and had the charred lines of the barbeque on the outside. We did the same with the baby courguettes we picked up at the market and then tossed them lightly in oil and lemon juice. Glasses topped up, we were ready for lunch.
Now, that lamb. If I had known how melt-in-your-mouth succulent and delicious it would be I would have handed over my twenty euro note in glee. Days later, I can still taste it – sweet and juicy, with a hint of chargrill from the barbeque. Every bite was a joy. The baby courgettes were sweet and tender and brought out the sweetness in the lamb. We had thought that three each was a generous serving, I could have eaten three more. I would have happily foregone the cake for more of that juicy lamb.
The tartes tropeziennes were the perfect finish to the meal. satisfyingly sweet and light.
If you're ever in Sainte Maxime, head straight to the market. Go to the butcher just right of the entrance. Don't dally. Ask for his lamb chops and don't baulk at the price. Swallow the amount and get ready to enjoy the best lamb of your life.


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Scottish Government Continues To Proceed With Caution, And That Will Affect Celtic.
Nicola Sturgeon has announced, this afternoon, that events of 5000 people or more will still require a "permit" and the seeking of an exemption if they want larger crowds and these will be set, by the council, with public safety the uppermost consideration.
This obviously has an impact on Celtic, and our plans.
Look, this is frustrating because it certainly limits our chances of seeing full houses any time soon.
It is hard to imagine that the council will permit 60,000 fans to attend Celtic Park when there is probably clear government advice to the contrary.
But we are, all of us, moving in the right direction.
I think we have reasons to be both optimistic and grateful for where we are right now.
Some of us didn't think we'd see large numbers of fans inside stadiums this year; Celtic will have a half-filled Parkhead for the weekend and that's probably the lowest attendance we'll have in this campaign.
This is a hugely positive step forward, and we can at last see the end in sight.
I don't think we'll see a filled to capacity Celtic Park in 2021, but we certainly will by the time the next campaign gets underway.
Whilst it's not impossible that Glasgow City Council could decide to let us host games in front of full houses right now, it seems pretty unlikely.
We're coming out of this, slowly but steadily, and that's the right approach in my view.
There are still a lot of risks associated with large gatherings, with football stadium concourses and supporter's buses remaining dangerous environments for the spread of this thing and for the establishment of greater chains of infection.
No government that took its responsibilities seriously would ignore that.
The right decisions are being taken for the right reasons, and as frustrating as that is for all of us the priority is, and remains, saving lives.
There's no higher cause than that, and it's why we're all going to have to be careful and patient for a little while longer.


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31 Flavors of Unfair
Because Trump seems to be citing the DoJ and FBI's unfair treatment of people as one of his main reasons for granting pardons, I think it would be wise to attach letters to my pardon petition that highlight just how unfair the DoJ and FBI have treated me. So here are 31 flavors of it. We need to get 31 people to write 31 letters, each laying out and explaining one of these instances of unfairness.
Put the list out there and let people pick the topic they want to explain to Trump. They can do their own research on that particular aspect of my case. If they need help, they can contact me and I'll explain it all in depth. I can also supply people with audio and/or transcripts that document much of this. So they can attach those to their letters. This will leave an impression.
1. When I refused the informant's initial suggestions of violence, the FBI had the Office of Child Services come in and threaten to corruptly take our one and a half year old baby Seth, all to try to motivate me to agree to the informant's violent proposals.
2. When Les and I told Bill Fulton that we had no plans for violence, Fulton attacked us with a hunting knife, held it to Les' throat, and said he would "bleed him out at his feet" if we didn't agree to go on a shooting rampage. The only reason he held the knife to Les' throat and not mine was because I had baby Seth in my arms.
3. A few months after the knife-to-the-throat incident, Fulton issued another death-threat-ultimatum where he said "remind Schaeffer what happened last time when I almost killed Les. Make him remember it! And tell him he better have a plan this time."
4. When we got Fulton's death-threat-ultimatum, we tried to leave the country for our safety. But informant JR Olson chased us down, sabotaged our car, stranded us, then kidnapped me, my wife, and our two young children, and held us in an attic for 21 days using death threats from Fulton to keep us there. This is a crime and it also violates international laws and human rights treaties that say governments must let political dissidents leave the country if they want to.
5. When Fulton first met with me Les and Jeremy at Pikes Landing Hotel in Fairbanks, he recorded the meeting. But that recording showed that I had no criminal disposition and it was only Fulton who was pushing bad stuff. This is key to my defense. So when we asked the prosecution for that recording, rather than give it to us, the FBI gave it to Fulton and instructed him to destroy it.
6. On 2-19-11 FBI agent Patrick Westerhaus filed a perjurious affidavit to get a search and arrest warrant. The affidavit written on 2-18, impossibly claimed to be giving a first hand account of the events of the afternoon of 2-19. So at best it was Agent Westerhaus making a guess about what he hoped would happen on 2-19. At worst, it was just lies he prepared in advance, then carelessly filed in haste BEFORE the period of time he impossibly claimed to be describing.
7. The FBI recorded thousands of hours of my conversations over the period of two years, all with out even getting a warrant. If in those two years they had found anything at all that was criminal, they would have gone straight to the courthouse and used it to get a warrant. But they did not. They just kept spying on the innocent. Collecting evidence that I was a normal, non-criminal guy. Only when I tried to leave the country did they arrest me. And then, the prosecutor filed a motion (DKT No. 311) to ban their own secret recordings of me from trial. They asked the judge to not let ME play the recordings the FBI had made of me! This made it just be my word versus the FBI's word, where as if we played the recordings, it would just show that I was innocent, and the FBI liars.
8. I had an inoperable movie prop replica of a Sten Machine gun. If I had the right tools, all the internal parts, and welded it up, it could have been made into a real gun. As it was, it looked cool, but didn't fire. They charged me with possession of an untaxed machine gun anyway, as if it was real. When I told the jury it was a replica, Skrocki the prosecutor played a video of a real actual working Sten machine gun – one owned by the ATF that looked just like my replica – firing in full automatic glory. He even played it again in slow motion so it looked like Scar Face or something. But the jury was never told that that was not my gun! So it made me look like a liar. They also charged me with possession of "grenades." But those were not real grenades, they were cast-iron replicas. The kind you buy 3 for a dollar at a novelty shop. But they only let the jury see pictures of them. If they had brought in the actual items, everyone would have seen that they were toys. And on top of that, those toys didn't even belong to me. They belonged to an informant, Aaron Bennett. He left them in a cardboard box after a gun show, then dropped them off in my shed when I wasn't home.
9. Long before I was arrested, I went down to the ATF office to buy the $200 tax stamp for any guns I had that might need one. The ATF agent told me that it was a transfer tax, so I only needed to pay it if I ever sold those guns. Then later, when I got arrested, I got criminally charged for not having the $200 tax stamp. We filed a pre-trial motion to throw out that count since I was only following the instructions of the ATF agent. The ATF agent even said, "yah, that's what I told him. I thought that was correct." But the judge denied our motion, telling us that that was an argument for the jury. But then when we got to trial, Skrocki filed a motion (Dkt No. 351) to bar us from making that argument or presenting that defense to the jury. AND THE JUDGE GRANTED HIS MOTION! So I was not allowed to present a defense to that count.
10. Skrocki lied to the jury in his closing arguments, and vouched for the lies his informants had told on the stand, then he told the jury I was lying about trying to leave the country with my family. But we have Skrocki's emails where he talks about how I'm trying to leave the country, and I'm scared for my life, and that I'm saying I want to avoid violence at all costs. So that proves that Skrocki KNEW he was lying to the jury, and coached his witnesses to lie as well.
11. The real prosecutor on my case is named Joe Bottini. He is a carrier crook in the DoJ who has made his carrier out of being a political hit man. He sets up and frames the political opponents of the Democrats and Deep State. His favorite trick is to hide favorable evidence from the accused. This is known as a Brady violation. He's so bad about it that the Alaska State legislature passed a resolution calling for him to be disbarred. He framed my senator, Ted Stevens. And Obama protected him and put him on my case to hide more evidence. He cheats to get convictions on innocent people.
12. The FBI tried to get me to buy some illegal guns from an informant. When I refused, they had the informant tell me that they were actually legal, coming from a licensed class 3 dealer, and "legit." I refused again. So the FBI had one informant sell the guns to another informant, and then charged me as a conspirator to the guns the FBI had just sold to its self, through its informants. They gave me ten years for that. And I didn't even know the fake sale happened. You can read a chapter about it in Fulton's book.
13. The FBI created all these super ridiculous Sovereign Citizen groups and sent in a whole crowd of informants/actors to make this fake Sovereign Citizen group look like a real thing. They wrote up and filed all sorts of crazy stuff just to create a background for all the other stuff the FBI was doing. But none of it was real. It was all just to disrupt what would have otherwise been a powerful grassroots political movement. The FBI's goal was to get patriots to run in circles and look silly, rather than sweep the House and Senate with Tea Party republicans. This is not law enforcement, it's corruption.
14. When I went out to the MP station on ft. Wainwright, the MPs told me that the US Marshals had come out there and said they were planning to come to my house to take baby Seth away, and then just shoot me in the process. And that would "fix the Schaeffer Cox problem." This is a political murder plot, that was testified to by the Military Police, under oath. The MPs told me about it right after it happened. That's another reason why I was scared and leaving the country. The other was Bill Fulton's death threats.
15. The political power brokers in Alaska have a house on Ocean View Drive in Anchorage where they keep little kids and go have kid raping parties. This is a well known thing. Anchorage PD's detective Vandergriff put together a case on it and was ready to raid the place and indict everyone involved. But Joe Bottini, my prosecutor, kept using the power of the US Attorneys Office to stop the child molester ring from being busted. It was a big scandal all over the news. And Eric Holder backed up Bottini on it. And the kid-didlers who did get caught, got let off the hook by DoJ. Holder would not comment beyond saying that "it was not done for corrupt reasons." There is a lot of publicly available material on this. And I was one of the people who said we had put a stop to such sick stuff. Bill Fulton also ran a gay club house out of the back of his shop. Which was in the red-light district of Anchorage. He was likely in on the Ocean View house stuff too. But we may never know, because Bottini shuts down any honest cops who try to put together a case.
16. After I was arrested, they had no evidence of a crime. So they started trying to twist people's arms to get them to give false testimony against me. They went after Coleman Barney. But he refused. So they told him they were going to throw his 7 month pregnant wife in prison if he didn't sign a false statement against me. He's a very honest Mormon and he refused to lie for the Feds. So they went after his wife. They also tortured Mike Anderson and kept him in solitary in an effort to get him to agree to give false testimony. We even have FBI reports that show them giving him altered transcripts to try to distort his memory, and Mike pushing back saying "these transcripts are altered. You are trying to get me to say what you want me to say."
17. Informant Aaron Bennett stole $2,000 in cash from a fund raising event in 2009, and blamed it on me to cause division. Then right before I was arrested in 2010, Informant JR Olson stole $30,000 from me, so I wouldn't have money to fight my trial. Then in 2014 and 2015 the FBI sent in informant Terry Dodd who set up "The Board" and with the help of Maria Rensel, Richard Neff, Stewart Skrill, Ed Snook, and Jim Lueunberger, stole over a million dollars so I couldn't lawyer up and fight my appeal. This is well documented in pending Civil suits. (18-cv-173 and 17-cv-338) And the FBI had the staff at the CMU prison come to me and tell me that I had to leave Terry Dodd in control, or they would punish me here in prison. This violates my right to due process BIG TIME. And is a reason for Trump to pardon me FULLY ON ALL COUNTS!
18. The CMU is an illegal Deep State prison, where they use Chinese psychological torture methods and do test to see how to break political dissenters. I can't talk about this one. You'll have to do your own research.
19. Bill Fulton wrote a whole book called The Blood Of Patriots bragging about how he's a gay pole dancer who gets a boner from doing violence to people, how he despises Christians and Conservatives, and wants to "bash in their heads," and that's why he volunteered to set me up.
20. They put me on the stand but then only let me answer "Yes" or "No" to their questions. I couldn't elaborate. So for example, they would ask "On 2-12-11, did you discus murdering government officials? YES OR NO? JUST YES OR NO?!" To say "no' would be perjury. But to say "yes" is misleading. The true answer is that the informant made the suggestion, and everyone who was not an informant then went into great detail explaining to him how that is a bad idea and why it would be pure foolishness.
21. In his closing arguments and in his sentencing memo, Skrocki said that I believe that God's Law is more important than man's laws, and that I can't be rehabilitated from this kind of a belief, so I need to be sent to prison for forever. He actually put this in writing and on the record.
22. FBI agent Westerhaus was asked by Bill Fulton "why are we going after Schaeffer Cox?" And Westerhaus said "because he's been talking smack about the government." What Westerhaus didn't know was that Bill Fulton was recording the conversation. And we have the recording. This shows they weren't going after criminals, they were out to punish free speech that was critical of the government.
23. Over and over on the recordings that the FBI made of me, when the informants would bring up and push violence, I would say "I'm going to pull a Gandhi, not a Rambo." I said this consistently, dozens of times, over long periods, and I never changed my mind. Yet, Skrocki and Bottini kept those recordings away from the jury, then told the jury I was lying about having said that. But you can hear it for yourself on the tapes we have now made publicly available.
24. The prosecution's theory of the case attaches conspiratorial criminal liability to anyone who believes in the original meaning of the 2nd Amendment. They are saying that my belief that the 2nd Amendment was put in place by the Founding fathers so that We The People would be the final check on government, coupled with my owning guns and ammunition, satisfies the two prong test for a criminal conspiracy: 1. an agreement, and 2. an overt act. The belief in the 2nd Amendment being the agreement, and the owning of guns being the overt act in furtherance of that agreement. Where the Deep State was going with this is trying to set the precedent that you can get a life sentence if you keep an AR-15 and a case of ammo in your closet for if the shit ever hits the fan. And the 9th Cir. upheld it!
25. The DoJ went after a whole swath of conservative political figures in Alaska with the goal of flipping it from a red state to a blue state by way of corrupt prosecutions. Skrocki and Bottini – my prosecutors – were at the center of all of this. Eric Holder and James Comey code named this "Operation Polar Pen." And they did flip the US Senate from being controlled by Republicans, to being controlled by Democrats. This is how they got Obama care to pass. Because US Senator Ted Stevens was not letting it through his committee. They made up a fake case on Stevens and convicted him. He was later cleared of any wrong doing, but then died in a suspicious plane crash. All the other political figures that were prosecuted by Bottini and Skrocki later got out of prison because of Brady violations committed by Bottini and Skrocki. The judge who sat on the Stevens case said the corruption was so bad that he appointed a special investigator – Robert Schulke III – to investigate the prosecutors. When this was announced, one of the prosecutors, Nick Marsh, "hung himself." At least that's the official story. He may have been the weak link and about to tell on the others. Anyway, these are the dysfunctional swamp creatures who prosecuted me. And they always use the same corrupt illegal tactics to get a convictions on innocent people. It's a well documented pattern.
26. The prosecution moved my trial 400 miles away so that I couldn't afford to fly in my witnesses. Then they threatened the MPs to discourage them from testifying, and some of them didn't. They also threatened several other witnesses. What they would do is go interview someone, but not record the interview. The interviewing FBI agent would just "summarize" the interview in his notes and drastically fudged it in the direction he wanted it to go. Then the agent would go back several months later and show his fudged notes to the witness. The witness often would say, "that's not accurate." Then the FBI agent would say, "well, you better agree to come to trial and testify in a way that is consistent with my notes, or I'm going to arrest you for lying to me back when I took these notes, because my notes say what my notes say." What the FBI was really dong was going around passing out scripted false testimony, that people had to come into court and read, or else!
27. Leading up to trail, I knew I was charged with "conspiracy to murder federal officials." We also knew this was a false charge, because I had done no such thing. So we knew that whatever theory the government ended up putting forward was going to be pure bullshit. Nonetheless, we have a right to be given fair notice of what that bullshit is going to be, so we can have time to prepare a defense and collect our evidence to rebut it. But the prosecution would not tell us what conspiracy theory they were planning to use. So we filed a motion for a "bill of particulars," which requires the prosecution to lay out the elements of their case against me, with specific particularity. The judge denied our motion. So we went into trial totally blind. This is not fair. It's trial by circus.
28. Aaron Bennett is an informant. And he's the main figure in this whole case. But the prosecution still won't officially confirm or deny it. We need to pay special attention to the government's BRADY violations surrounding Aaron Bennett and the government's wrongful non-disclosure of his highly relevant role as an informant/provocateur. Bennett being an informant changes everything, and shows that the first trial was completely tainted and fundamentally unfair.
Bennett was the first informant to approach me and therefore sets the starting line before which the government must prove that I had a "predisposition" to commit any charges to which an entrapment defense is raised. As it sits, the government is lying when they say that Olson and Fulton were the ONLY informants, and that they came on the scene when "Schaeffer and his friends" (i.e. Bennett) had already talked about crimes. Not true. Bennett was not my friend. He was an informant who pitched the idea of violence and got told no by me every time. This proves a LACK of predisposition and even a predisposition to NOT COMMIT CRIMES. But thanks to the BRADY violation of not disclosing Bennett, that argument was neutralized.
Bennett dropped off grenade parts, and body armor at my home unsolicited while I was away. I was then charged with possession of these things. Had Bennett been disclosed as an informant, the government would be exposed for planting evidence via Bennett, their stooge. This is the difference between "Cox got those from an acquaintance" and "The government planted the stuff at his house." Again, the prosecution didn't have to get confronted with this fact, all thanks to their BRADY violations surrounding Bennett.
All the recordings of me talking about Bennett are put in a totally different light when it's known that Bennett is an informant. Before, when I would say stuff on the recordings like "Bennett and his pack are just a bunch of violent, dangerous, unstable brawlers who are out to cause trouble and pick fights. So we just need to be polite enough to not set them off and then stay completely away from them;" it was only proof that I had violent bad "friends" well before the government sent in Olson. But in reality those recordings are proof that I had a well established history of rejecting attempts by government coached informants who pushed violence. But once again, the government's BRADY violations surrounding Bennett neutralized this argument. The Bennett BRADY violations go directly to the four prongs of the entrapment defense: 1. WHAT WAS THE DURATION OF THE GOVERNMENT'S EFFORT? 2. WHAT WAS THE SEVERITY OF THE GOVERNMENT'S COERCION? 3. WHO MADE THE INITIAL SUGGESTION? and most importantly 4. DID THE DEFENDANT SHOW ANY RELUCTANCE? But thanks to the Bennett BRADY violations, the government was able to avoid all of those questions at trial.
The search warrants were obtained based on bogus representations that Bennett made to me about weapons and stuff that Bennett falsely claimed to have had. I repeated these Bennett tales, the FBI heard it, and used them to get a warrant. At the suppression hearing Dooly thoroughly debunked the warrants and all the lies they contained. But my repeating what Bennett had said was left standing, the judge pointed to those claims — and those claims alone — as the reason he let the warrants stand. This amounts to letting the FBI get warrants based on their own investigative-feed-back-loop of information they knew to be false. The FBI starts a false rumor, then uses the rumor as grounds for a warrant. We have found FBI emails saying that they knew the stuff I was saying was not real because they recognized it as their own information boomeranging back from their boy, Bennett. But they sure didn't let the judge know that. Again, brought to you by the Bennett BRADY violations! ( BTW, the FBI did this to candidate Trump in the FISA court with the fake pee dossier.)
A key witness in the case, Mike Anderson, was living with Bennett right up until the trial. This is because when he got out of jail his house had been so trashed by the FBI raid that it was not livable. Bennett pumped him full of lies and rumors to color his testimony. This is witness tampering of the highest degree. But again, thanks to the government's BRADY violations on Bennett, that argument was neutralized.
There are dozens more instances of how Bennett is materially relevant to the outcome of the trial. But these 5 are sufficient to show the unfairness.
29. When I was in the Cook Inlet Jail in Anchorage waiting to be taken to trial, the FBI had the jail record all my attorney visits, and all my attorney phone calls. They also intercepted all the legal mail I sent to my attorney, and sent it right to the prosecutor, who kept it until the day trial started and then gave it all to my attorney in a box. They had opened and read it all. And my attorney had not gotten any of the important information I'd been sending him. This violates attorney client privilege. Just recently, the jail and FBI got busted. It was actually the new warden who told on the FBI. It was all over the news and it's a big scandal. You might say "if you are innocent and have nothing to hide, why would it matter if someone is listening to your attorney visits?" The reason it matters is because when the prosecutor is listening to the conversations between you and your attorney, the prosecutor will then know what lies he can get away with. For example, if the prosecutor hears my attorney tell me that we have proof that Fulton and Olson are informants, but we don't have proof that Bennett is an informant, then when the judge asks the prosecutor "how many informants were there, " the prosecutor can lie and say "just Fulton and Olson, your honor," and he will know that we don't have the proof to bust him on the spot. So by spying on attorney/client communications, Skrocki knew better how to cheat. If he had not done that, he would be stuck thinking to himself "well, I could lie. But since I don't know what the defense might have, and since I don't want to get caught in a lie, I better tell the truth and comply with the rules." I didn't have that. And it was not fair.
30. The 9th circuit court of appeals ruled in their 6 page opinion that even when viewing the evidence presented at trial in the light most favorable to the government, "no rational trier of fact could find that the defendant solicited murder, or intended for anyone to commit murder." But then with out explanation, they upheld a conspiracy to murder charge that was based on the exact same evidence. This was a political move. They threw out the government's hoax of a case and all the lame evidence presented at trial, but still left me in prison. It was a way for them to make it look like they did something, while making sure it had no effect. It's not fair. If one murder charge must be thrown out, they must both be thrown out. Because they were based on the same evidence.
31. In 2009 and 2010 Aaron Bennett told me I need to stop focusing on political educational stuff, and just turn violent. This worried me. Then he started getting more and more pushy and threatening with me. He said I was "in the way." I was worried that he might go and do something violent. So I told the Assistant US Attorney in Fairbanks, Steve Cooper, what was going on. Mr. Cooper is a Federal prosecutor, but he was also my friend, and he's a good honest man. I'd trust his advice. So I told him that Bennett was talking about doing some violent stuff, that he had his own set of guys, that they were not moral or principled, that they operated like a gang, and that I had very little influence over them. I told Mr. Cooper that Bennett and his guys were dangerous, and that they were of a different mindset than me and my people. At this time, I did not know that Bennett was an under cover provocateur sent in to promote violence. I just thought he was a dangerous nut who the police needed to keep a close eye on. That's why I went and warned Mr. Cooper. And this shows that I was not violent or a criminal, and that I was not predisposed to be one. We called Mr. Cooper as a defense witness. He took the stand and tried to testify about what I had told him. But the corrupt prosecutor – Skrocki – objected and wouldn't let him tell the jury about how I had turned Bennett in. It was Skrocki at every turn trying to keep the truth from coming out. This is not fair.
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Montesquieu-Avantès is een gemeente in het Franse departement Ariège (regio Occitanie) en telt 227 inwoners (2005). De plaats maakt deel uit van het arrondissement Saint-Girons.

In deze plaats bevinden zich de Grot van Tuc d'Audoubert en de Grot Les Trois-Frères.

Geografie
De oppervlakte van Montesquieu-Avantès bedraagt 16,9 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is 13,4 inwoners per km².

Demografie
Onderstaande figuur toont het verloop van het inwonertal (bron: INSEE-tellingen).

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At the opening of the play, George is seen as Martha's "house boy" — someone who will open the door, mix her a drink, listen to her tirades, and be her companion and her "doormat." During the years since George has taught at the college, he has apparently made no effort to take over and run things. Instead, he has been seemingly content with his life as it is. In fact, at one point Martha tells him that he "married her for it — that is, to be treated exactly as she treats him.
The night depicted in the play is a crucial night for George. Even though there are numerous indications that these types of late parties have occurred for many years and even though the witty dialogue and sarcastic things that are said indicate a highly developed wit, this night is the climax of George's life. Because of the events of this night and after it is over, George (and Martha) will have to develop a different type of existence.
The exact nature of George's background is either conjectured or unknown. If we assume that the novel he wrote (if indeed, he did write one) was based on biographical fact, then George's earlier life could have been bizarre — that is, he could have been the young boy who "killed his mother with a shotgun" and then later, while driving along a country road with "a learner's permit in his pocket and his father on the front seat to his right, he swerved the car to avoid a porcupine and drove straight into a large tree." George told Nick the story of the boy as though it were a remembrance, and said that it took place thirty years earlier. Since George is forty-six years old, this could be evidence that points to George as the subject of the story, and it would suggest why George has never attempted to force himself into the forefront of activity.
Later, Martha reveals that George wrote a novel with the same plot, and she goes on to make a rhyme suggesting that George used his own past as the basis of his novel. She also says that George told her father that the events described in the book really happened to George. Since Martha also refers to George's having at one time liked "bergin," there is convincing evidence for assuming that George and the boy in the story are one and the same.
Knowing this may shed some light on George's preference for the imaginary child over a real one. Certainly an imaginary child could never actually kill his own father, as George possibly did.
For years, George has gone along with and contributed to the myth that they have a child. This illusion is so completely developed between them that every aspect of the child's birth (from labor pains to the color of the eyes) can be described in detail. But until this crucial night, they have never told any outside person about their "kid." In the first act, George warns Martha three times "Just don't start in on the bit about the kid." At this point, George still sees the need of concealing their illusion — he is fully aware of the ridicule they would be subjected to. And since their life is bizarre enough as it is, George realizes the necessity of keeping their illusions to themselves.
After George has been thoroughly humiliated by Martha and after he is fully aware that Martha has talked about the "kid," he realizes that Martha is losing touch with reality, and that for their protection from public ridicule and, more importantly, to keep Martha from living completely in a world of fantasy, he must "kill" the child. On a superficial level, it would at first seem that he kills the child to get revenge on Martha for the humiliation she has subjected him to. If this were true, we would dismiss George as a petty, spiteful, revengeful person of no consequence. Instead, it is his attachment to Martha which prompts him to "kill" the child because he sees the necessity of destroying the illusions and fantasies which are controlling both of their lives and is about to destroy Martha's.
In the final scene, George realizes that they can't continue with their illusion, and even though he is also apprehensive, he realizes that they must attempt to create a new life for themselves. For George and as well for Martha, this is to be a frightening new experience.


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The Cramps Drummer Nick Knox Dead at 60
Written by broebling on June 16, 2018
Nick Knox, longtime drummer for the influential psychobilly band the Cramps, died Friday at the age of 60.
Fellow former members of the Cramps, including the band's second drummer Miriam Linna and guitarist Kid Congo Powers confirmed Knox's death on social media. No cause of death was provided.
Born Nicholas Stephanoff, Knox served as drummer in the short-lived Cleveland protopunk
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: The Cramps Drummer Nick Knox Dead at 60
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